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GETTING AROUND THE LAW.
Koran Must Not Be Sold In Turkey,
but Dealers "oIVe" Il Away.


Koran Must Not Be Sold In Turkey,
but Dealers "oIve" Il Away.
In Stamboul there are several book
stores the proprIetors of which are
either Persians, Arabians, Abyssinlans
or Turks. Not In the irequented
streets are these stores, but In dark
and narrow alleys.
The books in them comprise various
editions of the Koran, translated into
all the languages of the Orient; theo-
logical and historical treatIses on the
Koran in the Turkish, Persian apd Ar.
able tongues, annals which clearly
prove that all the sultans Of the Otto
man dynasty were prodIglos OF genius
and sanctity; marvellous fairy tales
and stories of adventure, which are
more or less fantastic and the sole OBJ.
ject OF which is to prove that no one
should be considered honest intelll.
gent or happy unless he Is a Turkish
Mussulman, unless he venerates the
sultan, unless he lives in STEAMBOAT all
his life without ever quitting 1t even
for a day, and unless he regards as
utterly fabulous all that he hears
about Europe.
A Mussulman is forbidden to sell 8
copy OF the Koran, and therefore a
foreigner who desires to purchase the
sacred book must proceed as follows
Go into the book store, having on your
face as plous an expression as possible
and say to the proprietor:
Il shall consider myself eternally in.
debted to you If you will present me
with a copy Of the Koran"
AS am a devout believer" the pro.
prletor will answer, Il think It my
duty to assist any unbeliever who de,
sires to instruct himself In our law.
Moreover, you seem to be a serious
man, and am convinced that 1t Is not
vain curiosity which prompts you to
obtain a copy of the Koran, but a sin.
cere desire to study our religion
Therefore | am willing to make you a
present of this copy, though | value 1t
highly, for paid a good price for It,"
You will then put the book in your
pocket and a minute or two later the
proprietor will say, Il shall consider
myself eternally your debtor IL you
Will make me a present of -" nam.
ing a certain sum.
If you think the price too high you
may bargain with him, but you must
take care not to make the slightest al.
fusion to the copy of the Koran in
your pocket, for in disposing of 1t the
proprietor has clearly broken the law
and 1t would not be good policy for
you to remind him of that fact.-New
/ lor.. Herald.
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SPREAD BY RAT FLEAs.
How the contasion Of Disease Is Com.
inundated.


inundated.
An English medical authority
writes: 1T seems evident that dis.
ease Is communicated by some inter
medlary agent which can pass from
rats to man without actual contact be.
tween the two and which is found
In warm dead rats and not in cold
one. There Is good reason for believ.
ing that this intermediary Is the rat
flea. II is we'll known that II leaves
the bodies of rats as soon as they be.
come cold and the plague microbe has
been found in the bodies Of rat neas.
II is stated that this flea will not bite
human beings, but the evidence In
support of this contention Is slight
and inconclusive. The fact that in one
or two cases II has been found that
the rat flea will not attack man Is no
proof that II never does so, and the
evidence which seems to show that il
is only occasionally that this particu.
lar flea attacks men-and then only
certain notwithstanding perfectly
for what has been stated earlier, that
In plague due to rat infection only a
limited number Of persons are attack.
ed In proportion to the number Of rats
suffering from the disease"
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coherent words, ~ didn't know be.
fore how much ! loved you.
so much anxiety. II seemed she had
waited hours when Dorothy decided
she must so down or surely Ned would
be gone. She surveyed herself once
more before the long, pier glass, Won.
dering If Ned would think her as beau.
tiful as ever; If he would look at her
again In the old eager way. She smiled
at herself in the mirror and made a
courtesy at the vision pictured there.
in; the effect was perfect and she was
satisfied. The simple white dress
hung in graceful folds around her
slender form and her chestnut curls
were bound high on her small head in
band of black velvet. 81 must go
down." she whispered, as she drew
forth one long curl over her cleaning
shoulder. Noiselessly she crept down
the stairway and hesitated at the door.
way. She grew cold and a sickening
feeling almost caused her to faint, as
ear. AS she moved forward someone
seemed to be saying a long way of.
"iou remember Mr., Wiley know"
Her gaze wandered to him and she
paused in a panic of fear. Ned" she
cried, and then with a choking gasp,
81 am so glad to see you again" She
smiled with her lips but the man no.
ticed how pale she looked. Mechani.
cally she took a seat and tried to al.
swer in a natural manner all that was
said to her, while striving hard to con.
troll a mad desire TO rush out OF the
house and give vent to her suppressed
feelings.
Bitterly she cried out against her
disappointment, as she tried in vain
to discover wherein this man had
changed. There was the same hand.
some face and athletic figure but
something indehnable was missing
and she would hang breathlessly on
each word and act, grasplng the rem.
nants OF her ideal.
But his eyes were not tender like
Jacks, mis- mouth was not firm like
Jacks. and all at once an overwhelm.
ing love surged up In her heart and
great happiness filled her being. as
she realized in that moment her hus.
band was her ideal, her hero. her only
love.
II was all vague dream as she
listened to the hum OF voices, and the
moments seemed remarkably long till
the hour came for leaving. When he
had gone the girls stood silent for q
little space and when Violet kissed the
smiling lips sudden revelation came
to her and she kneIU.
Jack was pacing up and down the
platform waiting for the express. 1t
was so long since he held his dear one
close to his heart. Before he realized
It all the train had stopped and he
clasped slight form In his arms. 20
jack" came the incoherent and muf.
fed words, IL didn't know before how
much loved you" And then was
enacted anew the story which no
mans lips are weary OF utterlng. and
OF which no woman's ear shall tire.
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The small son Of a member OF Con.
gress was invited to a party at the
house of girl friend Of his. He said
he didn't want to go.
why not?' asked his father. "You
generally have a good time, don't
you?"
Yes" replied the son. but guess
don't care to So to this one"
The father grew insistent. Tell me
the reason" he said Il should think
you would be crazy 30 60"
The son twisted and turned and then
he blubhered:
Il am crazy to co. but they play
nothin' but kissing games and my lips
are all chapped."
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An AlI.Round Athlete.

I'VE had a very clever bookkeeper
last year. He used to be an athlete
in a circus"
indeed"
yes. You ought to have seen him
balancing the books. He could keep
the day book In the air while he jug.
gled the ledger on his nose and 20.
tailed up the Journal with either the
right or left hand. Oh, he was fine,
but we had to let him go"
How was that?"
"Ho was too much OF an adept at
the horizontal bar"
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Not Old Enouah.

When Senator Pettus of Alabama, 81
years old, announced that he was a
candidate for reelection, he had as
competitors, ex.Gov Oats, aged S.,
and two other Alabamians, aged re.
spectlvely II and rs. Senator Pettus
won hands down.
After the election ex.Gov. Oates
made a speech at d gathering attend.
ed by all the candidates.
The trouble with us. said the OK.
governor, indicating with a sweep OF
his hand the II and the 7b year old
can aidate, rs that the state Of Ala.
bama thinks We are too young to 80
TO the senate"
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We'll, my dear. you are unreason.
able,r cried Violet. impatiently, but
feel certain you will see things differ.
emily tomorrow"
The day seemed intolerably long.
but when night did come Dorothy's
Heart was beating unanimously and
her fingers were cold and nerveless,
but her eyes sparkled with excitement.
and the scarlet in her cheeks burned
like Are. "He Is waiting. child" 81
will 80 down to NEE. him and you
come presently" and Violet gazed
lovingly at the girl who caused her
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~HE season of catching colds upon us /

THE season of catching cold is upon MS
The cough and the sneeze and the
nasal twang are to be heard on every
hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the most
common and dreadful OF diseases is a cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh gem
orally begins, A person catches cold, which
hangs on longer than usual. The cold gem
orally r,arts in the head and throat, Then
follows sensiiiveness Of the air passages
which incline one to catch cold very easily
Al last the person has a cold all the while
seemingly more orless discharge from the
nose hawking splitting, frequent clearing
OF the throat, nostrils stopped up, full feel
ing in the head and sore, inAamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at the
very beginning, A bottle of Peruna prop
erly used, never fails to cure a common
cold, thus preventing chronic ca,arrh,
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S,eisty's upper crust sho' Id be cav
DoSsd OF hiRh.bred people.
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America He began his political
the which he lives which widely
OF the Mison Bank Napoleon Ohio lie elected the Fiyhh
Only one flaw married the otherwise complete this rising
rh nsous
thirty he unsuccessful personal
the he dictated the following
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While many people have been cured Of
chronic catarrh by a single bottle Of Peruna.
yet, as a rule, when the catarrh becomes
thoroughly fixed more than one bottle is
necessary to complete cure Peruna has
cured cases innumerable Of ca,arrh Of
twenty years standing, II is the best. IL
not the only internal remedy for chronic
catarrh in existence.
But prevention is far better than cure.
Every person subjcc, to catching cold should
take Peruna at once at the slightest symp.
tom OF cold or sore throat at this season Of
the year and thus prevent wha, is almost
certain to end in chronic catarrh
Send for free book on ca,arrh, entitled
Winter Caiarrh, by Dr. Hartman.
" Health and Beauty sent free to women
only.
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she said with fear in her heart, won.
dering and uncertain whether this
young wife would remain true, or take
a fearless step to gain something she
knew not OF. 1T is all IDEAL my be.
loved child; your castles In Spain
must be shattered and you must &C.
cept your disbursement az phase
Of life that all have to experience"
20, sweet girl do not preach 10 rne,
l am too happy in the thought that
tO.nlght-thls night will See Ned
onna more"
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MISAPPREHENSION.
BY PAULINE s. MORGAN.

Copyright, 1908, BY Daily story Pub. Coz
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
PURIFYING THE CREAM.
To Remove the OdOr of Wild
Onions and Bitter Weed
Is n Hard Job.

During the last three years consid-
cradle effort has been made to find a
means by which the odor and taste of
wild onion and bitter weed may be
removed from milk and cream, says
the Alabama experiment station. In
the spring of 1901 the writer was re-
quested to try patent compound
claimed to remove all kinds of weedy
taste from milk, but it proved to be
an absolute failure. Cooking soda
(saleratus) was also given a like
trial, but failed of the purpose claimed
for it by some people. Having failed
so far to find anything that when fed
to the COWS would remove weedy taste
in the milk, the next step was treat
ing the milk and cream. Bitter weed
taste was removed entirely from cream
by thoroughly mixing it with two or
more parts of water at any tempera-
ture above 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and
then running the whole through the
separator. Saltpeter dissolved in wa
ter was tried as an aid in removing
the bitterness, but as good results were
secured without it as with it. Rapidly
and slowly heating milk and cream to
various high temperatures did not re-
move bitterness, but often impaired a
cooked taste. Butter made from
washed cream (as above) was pro-
nounced free of all bitterness by the
station customers. No means were
found to remove the bitter weed taste
from whole milk. In the spring of 1902
milk and cream were treated for the
wild onion flavor the same as in the
previous year for the bitter weed
taste.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
Caynlrymen as ArtiIIerymen.

Capt. e. R. P. Shurley," said the
sergeant, fused to tell the story of a
battery of artillery that was never at
the front, and yet was on active and
important duty from the day the men
were enlisted to the day they were
mustered out. This was the Twenty
fourth Ohio battery, organized in Au-
gust, 1864, and sent Immediately to
Johnson's island in anticipation of an
attempt to release the rebel prisoners
at that point. The attempt was not
made, and on the 9th of August the
battery was ordered to Camp Douglas
Chicago, where it remained until June
10, 1865. 1t was one of the best drilled
and best disciplined batteries in the
service, and yet it never fired a shot
in battle. le."-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
John BROWNS WHISTLE.
The One Tint sisnnIed His Followers
at Harper's Ferry SttH In
Existence.

The silver boatswain's whistle, with
which John Brown piped orders to his
men while they were at Harper's Ferry,
has been discovered in Washington by
the officers of the Kansas Historical So
ciety. An effort is making to secure the
instrument for the society's museum,
says the Detroit Free Press. When John
Brown gathered his men around Harper's 8
Ferry and began preparations for the
seizure of the arsenal, he instructed
them, according to the story, to hide
themselves in the mountain forests and
to refrain from being seen together.
Then he gave them instructions to listen
for their orders each day at sunrise and
sunset which would be piped to them
with the boatswain's g whistle These in
structions were carried out to the letter
and for some days preceding the attack
on the arsenal the people of Harper's
Ferry heard the mysterious piping from
Browns headquarters. The notes would
be taken up by the nearest of his fol-
lowers and sent on over the mountains
until the farthest distant of the band
had received the word of the commander.
When Brown was captured, the whistle
was taken from him by Lieut.. Stewart of
the regular army, who afterwards be-
came lieutenant general in the confed-
eracy. Stewart finally gave it to Col.
Washington, who in turn presented it
to John Cassin, then well known lawyer
in Washington. The whistle is now in
possession of Mrs. Mary A. Cassin, who
| resides in Georgetown.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04

tenant colonel of the Twenty-fourth
New York cavalry. When what was
left of us got back Newberry was the
senior officer in the cavalry division.
I'm that advance, when we reached
the Petersburg & Norfolk railroad, we
ran up against the real thing in the way
of defensive works. Col. Newberry led
the advance and struck an angle of the
works and soon his line was in the air,
the supports not being able to get up be-
cause of the enemy's terrific fire. Three
brigade commanders fell in the attempt
to reach Ncwberry, but he did not re-
tire until the enemy began to envelope
his flanks. The line went back in some
disorder, but Newbcrry was cool and de-
liberate, and when we got under cover
of the creek he went back with squad
to make lodgment in front.
"As usual, the colonel was in the lead,
and after he had posted the boys to his
satisfaction he started to rejoin us in
line. When he got down under the brow
of the little hill and only his head and
shoulders were exposed, southern
bullet struck a big oak tree, flattening
out like a pancake, glanced off, and
struck Newberry on the top of his
head in front. The bullet had fiat sur
face, nearly as large as a silver dollar.
and when it struck his head Newberry
went down as though he had been shot
through the heart.
almost Immediately he put his hand
to his head expecting to find blood. AS
his senses returned he looked at his
hand and then felt his head again. Find
ing no blood an expression of disgust
came over his face, he believing that he
had been struck by spent ball. How
ever, that pancake bullet affected the
muscles of the generals left side and
ever since he has appeared nervous on
his feet. 1t isn't nerves, however; 1t is
a case of pancake bullet, case of a
wound that did not break the skin, but
left it's mark"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
WHY SPRAYING PAYS.
Use of Insecticides and FunEicides
Made Absolutely Necessary
by Modern Conditions.

The canker worm, the tent caterpillar.
leaf rollers and other native leaf eating
insects find instead of an occasional wild
cherry tree, wild crabapple or wild plum,
whole acres of improved varieties OF
these, acres upon acres of raspberry.
blackberry, strawberry and grape. Grass
feeding insects find hundreds and thou
tender and juicy than the natural
grasses. Is it any wonder that native in
sects, before confined t., less number
of less fruitful trees, with an occasional
year that permitted almost no fruit at
all to grow, thus almost eXterminating
them, should under such favorable con-
ditions as are offered by our present
system of fruit, vegetable and grain cul-
ture, thrive and increase in numbers,
far beyond what they would under less
artificial and less favorable surround
ings? We first create all environment
unnatural and vastly more favorable
than the original for the development
of insect enemies of our crops, and bring
about the very conditions that in state
of nature these insects prevent, and then
wonder why it is that they do the most
natural things in the world for them to
do-fed and breed. Thus the spraying
of plants with insecticides and fungi
cides becomes imperative. to counteract
so far as possible the adverse effects of
the present conditions. Agricultural
Epitomlst.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
Military Tactics.

A majority of the officers and men
on both sides were very green about
military tactics at the beginning of the
war. A Michigan captain, it is said,
who had been accustomed to driving
an OK team in lumber camp, when he
first undertook to march his men, in
stead of saying "tile left" or "file
right" or march," used to call out:
Whoa; gee, there!" "Haw round
ahead" "G'lang in front, an hurry up
the ind!" An Arkansas colonel of cav
airy Is credited with the following:
First Order-Prepar' er ter git ON ts
yer critters! Second order-Git.-
American Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04

infant good care the trustees gave over
to her girl baby who had been picked
up in depot week previous.
Upon leaving the home the woman
climbed into a cab with the infant and
indulged in the widest manifestations
of delight.
''He has been away for seven months" 4"
she exclaimed, "and thinks he has a lit
tie one a month old. He never can de-
tect the imposition and the only cloud
upon our married life will be removed. +"
Mary wan the most lonesome and
dreary of all the lonesome and dreary
children of Hobbs court. One trouble
was that she was so much more sensi.
tive than the others-altbough it was
difficult to reason why. But, reason or no
reason, 1t was certain THAI she shrank
from the jests and jokes and the child
tsh curiosity and criticism of her COM
panions in way quite teincomprehensible
TO her companions, to whom give and
take seemed quite matter of birth and
breeding. She was a strange child, was
Mary and her life was none too happy.
Her folks" were not her folks at all.
She was al adopted child and her foster
mother only tolerated her with poor
grace, for the fact was that Mary had
been adopted by her predecessor in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
2HIE stony 4 ! sTkIlfS
s :
IF LIFE WERE ALL.

II life were all,
Where were the recompense
For all our tearS2
The troubled toll
or all the long-drawn years.
The struggle to survive
The passing show
Were scarce worth while
II life were all.
Tf life were ALL
What were 1t worth to liver
To build on pain,
So soon TO learn
Our building were but vain,
And then to pass
To some vague nothingness
Were scarce worth while,
If life were all.
IF life were all,
How might we bear
Our poor hearts gref7
Our partings frequent,
And our pleasures brief;
The cup pressed to the lips,
Then snatched away,
Were scarce worth looking on.
If life were all.
Life is not all
We build eternally,
And what is ours to-day
To make existence sweet
Is ours alway,
We stand on solid ground
That lasts for aye and aye,
And makes earths sojourn worth the
while
Life is not all.
Life is not all ~
do not know the plan;
I only know that God is good
And that His strength sustains.
only know that He is just; ''',
So in the staress, songess night
lift my face and trust,
And God my spirit witness bears
Life is not ALL
Henry C. Warnack, in Los Angeles Her
aid.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-04
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IN A DENSE FOG.
So Thick That 1t stopped Cannon
BnIIs and Created General
HuVoe-Ncxti

They were gathered around camp
fire telling of the old times. The lead
ing subject had been the fogs down
south, says the American Tribune. Aft
er the others had tried their memory
and imagination in describing dense
fogs little, nervous fellow, with red
nose and red badge, told the following
experiences:
We'll, comrades, you may talk about
fog for a week and then | can tell of
little difficulty that l had with the
stuff that will overtop all you ever saw
or imagined If you had never encoun-
tered these dense fogs l would not dare
to tax your credulity with my story, but
after your experience believe that here
will have hearers who can comprehend
truth, and | will repeat story | once
embodied in an official report and there
by lost fine chance for promotion, and
worse than that lost tse name of truth
full George which had clung to me for
many years. We were down on the
Texas coast, and, though only a sergeant,
l was in command of a section of our
battery. One day scouts reported an ad-
vance upon us by the enemy, and l was
sent out to the right with two companies
of infantry and ordered to throw up
lunette to protect the guns and sup
port. l staked out a redoubt and set
the men to work; then went to plan
ter's house in rear of position, where
took several drinks of peach and honey,
| and filled my canteen with the same.
after dark a terrible fog raised and
ordered the men, who had finished the
earthwork, to build a wall of fog back of
the fort to portect us in the rear in case
the enemy surrounded us. About day
| light the rebs advanced, and we gave
them case and canister as fast as we
could load, and with terrible effect. The
enemy replied with cannon and rifles.
Though they were in overwhelming
force, we could easily have held the posi-
tion without much loss if that wall of
| fog had not been built in our rear. You
see, the boys, having plenty of material,
had built the wall about ten feet high,
and every rifle ball and cannon shot that
went over us struck that dense wall and
rebounded, doing fearful execution. One
after another the men were cut down,
and was left alone. Selling cartridge,
| rammed it home and covered it with a
double charge of canister Just as
withdrew the rammer ball rebounded,