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chosen by eligible bucks has not iosi rs
popularity. At sufficiently frequent intervals
these dances are called They are usually
suIlnws take their seats in a circle. silently
smoking Presently the younger Indians
come H. The bucks are arrayed IN all ne
nnery that civilization has left them. All
the maTriageable maidens enter the tent
with coverings over their heads. These are
gorgeously made, and rattle At every step
"A The signal from an old Indian the younger
ones begin to dance. 1t il an unconth step,
possessing no charm for the white man
With a peculiar rhythm Of movement the
maiden. lifting up their coverings and looking
nt the faces underneath. When al last the
buck has found his Indy love he marches on
with her Under the native customs the
marriage Ia concluded when the Indian takes
Lis br !ue TO his tepeo.
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see. it,s the agent himself: he lives right
above you.
Another time, was showing lady.
from the country these flats. She had
never lived in anything but house and she
was saying that she didn't see how 1t was
possible to live 80 near other peope-people
YOU didn't know and didn't want to know.
son. | says, soothingly-you see, it's my
business to be soothing you'll not be
troubled by em. After day or two you
won't know but you're the only people
here ~
me, a voice came floating through the win
dow and the words were as distinct as those
I'm telling you. They were ! am the
resurrection and the life, and after a
moment something about eternal life.
What's that?' said the woman from
the country.
think for a minute and then says, oh, yes;
it's the janitors family next door; they're
having funeral
I'VE looked down through the court and,
sure enough, there was little crowd OF
mourners and childs coffin outside and
young minister reading the funeral service
The woman began to cry.
Isn't It awful? she murmured. Think
Of being so near to people, 80 near to death
and birth that you can touch it and yet not
| to know or carel New York Ia a terrible
place. isn't it? believe I'll try and per-
suade my husband to stay in the country.
In the journey for flat-hunting expert
ences the interviewer came across three
men Of widely different type:
| How is it," was asked, that trio 50
! dissimiiar are fiat mates?'
4When a man." said the spokesman, is
determined on matrimony and can't get
what he wants he takes what's coming his
way. It's the same with finding fat mate.
When you want companion to share your
troubles and expenses, you usually find
that all the congenial people, all the soulful
affinities, have liens on them, so you settle
! down with some one with whom you have
not one idea in common, except, perhaps,
to elude paying your rent as long as posi-
hle
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wild life their respect for their own Social
laws dwlndled. II Mas not long before MANI
were living in utter Disregard oi the fanny
obligations Bucks deserted sIhH"s anu
suuawI took on new husbands without any
tOrmality and without any reason except
their whims Blgamy was erased from tle
tribal OFF fences IL was TO remedy inns eNii
that the Government officials and the churCh
missionaries demanded that the Indians pe
married according to the south dakota lhW
Now that they have found pat about the d.
yOrces they have returned TO their Old Tree
life through the divorce avenue.
The Indian marriage OF to-day If curious
mixture OF civilized methods and tribal rere-
monies InWuIug to give up their trhdI-
tiOnal customs the Indians ar" now using
both trlbai ana civilized laws. ! h" young
buck chooses his sduaw m the manner o. thr
Sioux then is married by "A Justice OF the
peace or q missionary clergyman.
The dance ~ which squawA are publicly
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THE THERMOMETER SCALE
How 1t Happened TO he Divided in N
Apparently Spnseless Way
From the American Inrertor.


Why should the freezing point be marked
So degrees and tn. boiling point 2l2 degrees
on the Fahrenheit thermometer scale! Most
students know that Its inventor divided
the space between these points into $50 de-
grees instead of the simpler 90 degrees used
In the centIgrade system. but few UNDER
stand how this numb'r came 10 be chosen.
writer thus explains the matter:
The thermometer was really, invented
by Sir lsaac Newton. He started his scale
as his instrument glass tube filed with
linse.d oil, The lowest figure on the scale
was the freezing point ana III" highest point
boiling water. The starting point of this
scale, mentioned. was the heat of the
human body. which he alrI by the round
number -. as the duodecinal system vas
psrature oil the body into IL points, and stated
that the boiling point Of water would b" about
80 a. the temperature must b" nearly three
times that OF th" human body.
Mhen Fahrenheit took up the subject a
few years later he used he Newton instrll-
ment but. finding Tia" scale not fine enough.
divided each degree INTO two parts. and SO
mad. the measure between the freezing and
boiling points - parts instead Of II? Fahren
h,It then discovered he could obtain lower
degree of cold than freezing, and taking
a mixture OF ice and salt for q starting point.
he counted - points up 10 body heat: BY
ing point and % for the boiling point His
scale now read Zero freezing, :, body heat,
-. and boiling water. 80 u Will b" noticed
that this seal" is idcnrically that Of New
ton = only starting lower and having the
numbers doubled
II was with this scale which Fahrenheit
worked for a long time. hnt finally finding
the trmperatlr" divisions SIN TOO large, he
divided each d"grc" into tour parts. Multi
plying the numbers Just given by four, the
thermometer scale now ia Ms" results
The chnn"" choice Of Newton Of the figure
~ to rprses'nt the body heat determined the
present Thermometer scale, even ~ th. ynrd.
feet and inches m"asur' on yirally cAme from
measures of parts Of N, human body, and
as the width Of III" railroad carriage WIS
determined by the truuk winch, " iurn. was
determined by IN" Wlt,l between H." cart:
wheels necessary to bear load which 0UHld
comfortably be drawn by . mule.
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But even the hot blooded Sioux has been
tanned to submission to the civilized marriage
law. When the sacred dance IL concluded
church Justices of the peace IN ta'omd
have been visited by as many as thirty couples
mt the same time, all demanding immediate
marriage The Episcopalian missions are
proving most popular. however The Indians
are mystfed and charmed by the elaborate
ceremony Of the Episcopal marriage. so they
now look up these churches to finish TIA" elhb-
Ornte tribnI custom of choosing wives and
husbands, they want to be married by
high church form. They think this more IN
keeping with their own ceremony than the
few Informal words in d iingy Justices
office,
AS many OF the Indian marriages must be
performed through interpreters so the d.
yorce proceedings are carried on largely
through Intermediates. II II novel rlKht
" witness copper hued Sioux Indians. triGeS-
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Indians as one Of the heritages Of civilization.
The Indian officials have been trying for
twenty years to induce the Indian to be mar
riei according to the whit. mans law.
NOW they have almost succeeded But
the same law has taught them the interest,"
ino fact that they can change wives or hus-
hands. They fail 10 understand That the
divorce law is anything but II means to OBTAIN
the Injury Of an unlimited number Of mar
r;,,,ss Many bucks and sulIaws who know
rni n word OF English and bcnr no marx
NJ oyiliz1tion except that Of clothes come
to the ATTORNEYS offices ana ask '2r a.
yOrCns when they nay" no reason put
desire to form u new marriage lhey POM
tn mihrr Indians who nave had many wives
and ask why they cannot when the Ia" pro-
~ hen the Indian tribes were placed on
res.rvatious and cut u from their NATIVE
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plumbing and dumbwaiters and elevator
service and light, too. It's asking too
much; altogether too much.
One of the interesting characters met
with in a days wanderings among the
flats to let is the historian. or loquacious
janitress, who has a remarkable memory
for details and rattles off experiences, of
shop.
# don't know why it is" she said. mod
eetly, "but people are always coming to me
with their fiat troubles. We had a nice
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NO, don't object to women. I'd rather
rent these apartments to women than
men"
How is that?' was asked in surprise,
as the general opinion is that women are
not desirable tenants.
Its the terbaccer,' she admitted. Il
can't stand the sight OF terbaccer. 1t gets
in the curtains and in the carpets and it's
all over the house, and even percolates into
the kitchen. Why, I'd rather have ten
women than one man with a pipe
And speaking of pipes. said the man
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All the people who have lived in Central
Park West, its nearby streets or in Har-
lem and have risen by subway explosions
instead Of alarm clocks, are now looking
for apartments in the neighborhood of
Washington Square, while those who have
breakfasted and supped where the arch
rises and where the Fifth avenue stages
still give an appearance of bucolic ease
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visitor in a bachelor maids apartment re-
It's FIJI length and terminated in a bowl
like space called the "salon"-the owners
we're very artistic--"tell me, how do you
clean this placer DO you run straw
through it,"
Walking through Soubrette Row the
interviewer witnessed a strange sight.
They were young couple, with all the
external marks OF country life. They had
been looking at fats and apparently ap-
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girl and her mot her here last year. One
day the ro"ng woman comes to me and
says, says she
1 II ten YOU and she sat down and
poured out her tale of woe. Every night
I'm walked up by some man falling 'ainst
my door. hear him come stumhlinr up
the stairs. Then ny heart almost stops
beating for "A minute or two. Then comes
that awful thump, and then he picks him
self up and goes up another flight. That
has happened three times lately I've
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we" he continued, ARE more fortunate
than most We have one bond 81 sympathy.
We arc all fond Of the contents OF 3 sids-
board When we de"iied To live together.
we Immediately went and bought side
board big enougn for three, give you
my word there isn't bottle or glass made
that won't find place there
after we had bought the sideboard we
tried to find fat to fit it Perhaps you
think that Is easy You just try II, If you
do"
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INDIANS AS DIVORCE FIENDS.
They Regard Separation as One OF the
Ileritagps Of civilization.
From the Washington Erenin0 Star.

From the Washington Erenin0 Star.
The Indians have discovered the beauties
OF the Dakota divorce laws and arc taking
advantage OF them" said Gen Andrew A.
Burt TO newspaper man at Fort Myer re-
Gently.
divorce mill Of South Dakota in five years
will become more expensive than the ready
m lde divorce factories for Easterncrs Wnllr
sn Indian divorce was an unhrari Of tnlng
half u decade ago. sixteen petitions for legal
separation have been filed AZ Oscoml during
shs last year by full blooded Sioux bucks
aud squaws. Divorces have come " LIE
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Said visiting Englishman recently
New Workers change their apartments
every time they disapprove Of the color Of
the janitors hair.
Perhaps the Englishman was right.
Anyhow. lots Of people are fiat hunting
just now.
The streets are full Of them. You can
tell them blocks OF, for they all wear wor-
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No Disreputablr Prisoners.

From the Phiiddeiphid Rrcori
For almost thirty years the lookup at
Nantucket was unused by any prisoner.
During the past summer some Philadslphian.
visited the Jail. having heard that a prisoner
had been taken An old woman. who proved
to ba the "Jail0ress, greeted the visitors,
Nv here's the prlsonTTP asked one Of the
party Il jest sent him down 70 the village
on IN crrand was the reply. j shouldn't
think that would be wise, veutured the
summer boardrr He might not come
back" Young man, exclaimed the Jailor-
-Es somewhat testify. I'D have you Under
stand thot We only have respectable prisoners
beEsI
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are looking for apartments abovs l2sth

are looking for apartments abovs 125th
street.
But between these two classes is an
indeterminata class who don't know where
they want to go and are not addicted to
extremes when it comes to choosing a
yearly home. This class Is composed Of
brides and bridegrooms, Of suburbantes
who are tired OF chasing incoming and
outgoing trains, Of the flotsam and jetsam
of metropolitan life who are seeking the
unattainabe, the perfectly appointed home
most of them demanding it on an inn
perfectly appointed salary.
! The matter of leases is an important one
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reached my limit. I'm going to see the
Seems to me I wouldn't says I. sooth-
ingly. s, -
peremptory. II the agent doesn't put that
man out I'll leave.
Seems to me wouldn't says again.
at will. Why notP
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ried looks. as II no one loved them or wa
over going to. Stern determination is
printed on their faces, too.
The fat hunters are divided into two
Glasses, the uptown fiat hunters and the
downtown fiat hunters. 1t is easy to dis
tinp1Iish them
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men with those who slew tlIStrrn army.
sitting about a courtroom aud Watching Nth
solemn mrn ia. red tape Oi d mo ierE court
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-19

chase awnings for the Kimball Public
library building. At the next meeting
musical program will be given under
the direction OF John L. Hutchinson.
The Valentine party in Williams hall
Friday evening had an attendance OF
about 10, students OF the High school and
their friends, among the latter being
Messrs. Chedel, Swan and Morse OF Dart
mouth college. Refreshments were served
from table tastefully and appropriately
decorated with hearts, and valentine
games furnished entertainment for the
young people, who had with them Princi-
pal and Mrs. F. +. Prichsrd and one of
the High school assistants, Miss M. Luz
GINA Saxton, the other assistant, Miss
Mary 5. Dubois, being prevented by ILL.,
ness from joining the pleasures Of the
evening.
At the home Of Mason Battles in Brain
tree last Thursday evening, Lincoln's
birthday, the Ladies' society of the Baptist
church held sociRble and entertainment.
A series of such sociables is being held
this winter to raise money to build horse
sheds at the church. There was a very
large number present and an excellent
program rendered and fine refreshments
served. There was a well stocked fish
pond and as there seemed to be no game
laws in operation the pond was soon fished
out at five cents nibble. Some very good
fish were caught and some real ones also.
There were tableaux and gramophone Sc
lections by Herbert Snow, singing by Rev.
and Mrs. Brown E. Smith, Mrs. Densmore
Battles, Miss Button, and Rotations by
Blanche Bacon, Roxy Battles, Eva Priest,
Clifford Battles, Ruby Battles and Deafy
Battles. number OF children also gave
quotations about Lincoln's life. The
receipts Of the evening were 80.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-19
Echoes from the Sugar Convention.

At the 10th annual convention Of the
Maple Sugar Makers association IN Mont
pelier last week. Hon. v. /. Spear, pres-
dent OF the association, stated that the in
come from maple sugar in Vermont
amounts to over s1,00O,0O0 a year with a
large net gain, only the cost Of labor and
handling coming into consideration.
He urged the farmers TO make syrup in
stead OF sugar as there is great demand
for good unadulterated syrup.
= He also spoke OF the Randolph sugar
market whose business has nearly doubled
every year during the four years OF its ex-
istence. The first year, 1893, between two
and three thousand dollars worth of sugar
was handled. and the next year between
four and five thousand dollars worth; in
1901 the business amounted TO about 5000,
and last year to $4,000, eight hundred
customers being supplied and maple sugar
in some form being sent to every state in
the Union. Orders already received for
the coming season promise that 1908 will
be as prosperous year for the market as
any in its history.
menced the first OF February to act as
travelling salesman for the market, whose
wares appeal naturally to the first palate
TO which they are introduced, taste for
maple sweets being acquired with the first
bite.
H. w. Vail was one OF the speakers al
the convention and said that 100000
pounds OF sugar was provided in Vermont
YEARLY and that an industry Of this kind
should be fostered and developed. He
mentioned the danger OF overlooking the
market with the first run OF sugar and in
that way lowering the price of the article.
He urged the producers to ship their prod
net in small quantities and in that way to
check the deterioration of the sugar from
improper storage in stores and cellars.
sugar making in Vermont he said is
profitable industry as there is little COM
petition and not enough OF the first class
article to supply the demand. Over one
third OF all the sugar produced in this
country comes from Vermont.
Hon. V. i. Spear was elected president OF
The association, ~. w. Vail treasurer and
NJ. III. Miller OF Pomfret auditor.
The business meeting of the Randolph
maple sugar market was held at the close
OF the regular business session and the
report of manager and treasurer V. l. Spear
showed profit OF ss671 during the past
wear. A three per cent annual dividend
was voted on the stock for the company
and these officers were elected; Pres, II.
NJ. Miller Of Pomfret; vice pres, z. B.
Smell of Bradford, Mass; clerk, +. L.Bass,
Randolph; treas. and manager, v. Spear,
Randolph; auditor, II. W. Vail, Randolph.
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Valentine Party.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Bass entertained
about fifteen of their friends Friday even
ing at a valentine party, which was one
of the pleasantest of social affairs.
One Of DIR. f. o. Blanchard's patients,
with most likely sense Of recent injury
and a sore jaw, delivered his wounded
feelings in verse as follows:-
o, Dr. B., Wen an agree
You're just as careful az can be.
But when you get Us In your chair
Distraught with fear and grim despair
To draw q mOlar, root or prong
That's made our life burden long,
And see you grab your fOrceps dire,
or feel your ground with pointed wire,
We often wish in our distress,
We had you where you have us-yes,
Wed give you gas that wouldn't gas you,
And then we'd DO our best To pass you
Right 20 the fortunes that we feel,
The dreadful dread the touch Of steel
on sore canine, moiar or
Iucisur, Cuspld-cuspidor,
Laug- racked by pain and ulcered III
a sight o. strike the heart with chill.
Wed feel around until you grew
So nervous that you almost flew
Into the middle ~ next week
And then we'd polse you high hi air,
Your head thrown back upon the chair,
Your mouth wide open % the breeze,
Your hands elasped tight sharp drawn
your knees.
We'd be as slow as we could be
With outward eaim-wlth inward joy,
just rs We know you Oft employ.
And when you'd almost lost your senses,
We'd turn and twist and take our chances
OF pulling on your upper law,
Unless a tooth or two showed flaw
And yielded piecemeal 20 our wrenching,
or furreps spped-a slight mischancing,
A. you would put tt-more we feel
when sudden twist parts tooth and steel
And If By some odd sip Of mind
We made a slight mistake Of kind
Like those no doubt you too have made
when lapsng thought with fancy played,
And We should draw the wrong tooth quite,
Leaving the other IN It's plight,
We'd do as you would certainly.
Bow head 10 mock apology
And with a twinkle Of the eye
Say TO YOU, Pardon. Doctor, try
And calm yourself; wetl here agree
To draw the other molar Free
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-19

Mothers can safely give Foley's Honey
and Tar to their children for coughs and
colds. for it contains no opiates or other
poisons. Frank G. Bachelor, Braintree;
+. j. Prince, So. Randolph.
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Miss S. /. Parish has resumed work at
her rooms atE. +. Fish's, Prospect Ave.
Ladies wishing dressmaking or fur work
invited to call. 3w
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Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.
Objects Of Hero WorshIn.

Our grand heroic Washington
We faithfully revere.
And everywhere In this broad land
Is Lincolnis memory dear.
Mckinley, who could plead for that
Base wretch who struck him down.
Enshrined himself within All hearts =
And wears martyrs crown.
But ructuous, rustlfng Teddy. who
Is quickly on his feet
To lick lumpy motorman
Or willy trust % beat.
He Is the spirit OF the land
NO tnap 70 OFeFruu-
And 70 the heart Of Yankeedom
A rather favorite son.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-07-16
wAgDEN HAWK OUT.

The following from Atlanta, Ga,
regarding the case OF Col. S. Hawk,
will be read with interest;
! The Federal prison trouble, grow.
ing out of the alleged tamperine
with the mail of Congressman Liv
ingston, and the friction between
the officials, eliminated in the sum.
mary dismissed by Attorney Gener-
al Knox of every officer The fol
lowing officials were removed; War
den A. Hawk, Deputy Warden Brad
ford Dawson and Assistant Deputy
Warden Moses Petty.
Warden Hawk. who came here
from West Virginia as soon, as the
prison was completed, was as.
founded by his removal. He claims
that he thought everything had been
satisfactorily explained to the De
partment of Justice.
Warden Meyer was not notified
of his appointment until June 40,
six days ago. Warden Hawk, was
not notified of his removal until the
arrival in Atlanta of the new war
den, as he knew nothing absolutely
of the contemplated change until
Warden Meyer arrived at the pri-
son and presented his credentials.
Warden Hawk, in a statement,
said that he did not know why he
had been removed. "But the Fed
eral authorities don't always give a
very lucid reason for removing a
man from an office such as / held
he said. "Almost any old reason
imaginable will do most of the
time"
Warden Meyer, the newly APP
pointed head of the prison, is one
of the best known men in the coun-
try. He has been special examin-
er of the Department of Justice for
eight years and has been in the gov
eminent employ for the past thir-
teen years. He has in his capacity
as special examiner visited every
state and territory in the union and
most Of the lnsular possessions.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-07-16
TROTTER WILL NOT ACCEPT.

Prof. Frank B. Trotter, of Buck
harmon, who was elected principal
of the Fairmont Normal School,
has in letter to a friend in this
city, stated that he cannot accept
the Office. He gives no particular
reason for his refusal beyond the
fact that his new home in Buckhan
non is finished and he has just NOV.
ed into it, and that he has so long
been connected with the Seminary.
While he has not officially notified
the Board OF Regents Of his deci-
sion in the matter, he intends to do
so in few days. This makes il
necessary to select another man
from the numerous applicants for
the place. 1t was thought at time
of the appointment of Prof. Trotter
that the increased salary would be
enough to cause him to accept.
However, ne has been connected
with the Seminary since its begin
ming and is no doubt Ioath to
leave. He was given higher salary
at that school in order to hold him.
1t is to be regretted that Prof. Trot-
ter cannot accept the place as he is
a fine educator and was well fitted
for the position.-Free Press.