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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11

tells his experience in the following
words: He says, Sometime In Septem-
Der was taken with a duh aching pain
across the small of my back, directly
over the Kidneys. / paid small attention
to this at first, thinking 1t would pass
Off. But instead OF getting better 1t
became worse and in a short time the
pain centered through my left hip and
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11

their speedy and
certain action.
Early Indications
OF kidney trouble
come from two
sources, the back
and the bladder.
The back becomes
weak and lame be-
cause the kidneys
are sick, and re-
lief from backache
can only be COM
plete when the
kidneys are set
right.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-11-11

P. N. U. 45, 'O3
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
A PATHETIC LETTER.

A pathetic letter was recently
written to the editor OF the Chicago
Tribune by a broken-hear mo.
Their. In this letter this woman
wrote: 81 forgot my station in
life and came to Chicago to spend
day with my son. He had for.
gotten me or tried to forget me.
He sent me from his office with
his Office boy to dine. He prom.
ised 10 meet us; came late and re.
proved me because | had not clio.
sen "A more secluded seat. he
tried TO hide when he saw any of
his friends. He reproved mo for
looking around Finally he said ::
Mother, if you had not come |
could have gone to the opera. |
left him then and am now writing
from the rest room Of a store. tired
out and sick, | am going back to
the farm. | cannot forget the boy
who wore jeans clothes, bot the
man who wears broadcloth wants
to forget his mother" There is
in the makeup of a nan some.
thing decidedly out of gear when
he can offer slight to the woman
who gave him birth. The man
who wants TO forget his mother"
although lie may not know it. is
making rapid strides toward the
precipice.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW.

After all, il is the little things,
the PIN pricks, that come to annoy
us daily, t. make up our lives
Many trials can be avoided, how
ever, by acquiring a knowledge of
how to do most successfully the
things that must be done.
To wash windows and mirrois
in winter, dip cloth in coal oil
and wipe them off. They will be
beautifully clean.
To clean and brighten oil cloth
wash with sweet milk instead OF
water.
For taking fruit, wine OF coffee
stains out of table linen pour wa
ter through the spots, running
the water through several times,
then cover with a paste of pow
dered borax and dry in the sua.
To clean brass cooking vessels,
scour with salt and vinegar.
To keep lemons fresh for sever
al weeks, cover with cold water,
Gran berries may be kept in the
same way.
To keep fresh meet from spoil.
ing in dry weather sprinkle freely
with powdered borax and stand in
a cool, dry place.
To prevent red table cloths and
napkins from fading in washing,
add borax to the water, wash
quickly and dry in the shade.
SCOT can be easily removed from
a carpet when freshly fallen, by
scattering salt over it. The SCOT
adheres to the salt and both NAV
be brushed off Farmers Home
journal.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
STRANGE METALS,
In the Meteor Which Fell Near
Hopkinsville.
Regarding the meteor purchas

Regarding the meteor purchas.
eddy Prof, Ulrich an account Of
which appeared in the Press last
week, the Washington Post says:
"a. remarkable meteorite, weigh
ing $50 pounds, has arrived at the
National museum. The new Wis
itor from the skies was recently
found on a farm in Christian coun
ty, Ky. a member of the geolog.
ical survey, who was sent to veri-
fy its genuineness, says the rock
contains combinations of elements
that could never have come into
existence on the earth.
In addition to this fact, while
the meteorite measured barely a
foot and half in length or bredth
1t is 80 heavy that it took several
men to carry it. Scientists be-
lieve it was dropped from the tail
of a comet, passing within the
earth's orbit, aud they consider it
a wonderful specimen, because at
least three-fourths of the falling
meteorites are consumed in the
atmosphere before reaching the
earth's surface, or are broken into
fragments. n-.
In appearance the rock is very
rough, being covered with gran
ules held together by metallic &C.
ment. 1t is mainly made up of
the native iron, characteristic only
of ultra.terrestrial objects. 1t al
so contains a substance called lau-
rencite, which oxidizes so rapidly
in our atmosphere that it can not
be perceived after a few minutes
exposure This is considered an
additional proof that the big stone
tone time belonged to a body in
the solar system, whore atmosphe.
ric conditions differ from ours.
This particular meteorite is
called Pallisite, after a similar one
found in Siberia in the year 100.
The curator proposes to cut the
new exhibit in half, and polish one
side of it, that visitors may have
an opportunity to see the peculiar
elements which compose this
sometime inhabitsnt of space.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
SENSATIONAL.
Wife's Husband Pulls Gun on
Her Brother, who RetaIiates.

Reports reached Paducah few
days ago through parties from
Smithland of tho sensational oc-
currenoe which happened there,
when the husband of a woman
tried to shoot her brother.
Some years since Jas Chandler,
of Birdsvi.le, married Miss Bum
of the same place, aud they have
since continued to live together.
Connubisl happiness having pro-
badly terminated Mrs. Chandler
several days since came down
from Birdsville to Smithland for
the purpose of fling a divorce
suit against her husband and she
was accompanied by her brother,
Mr. Bum, who came along to as.
sist her in lodging the suit through
her lawyer. Chandler heard of
what was going on and HE'D him
self to SmithIand also. After get
ting there he started out to look
for his wife and her brother, and
found the latter before long. They
had no sooner come together than
they began to quarrel, and both
quickly pulled guns and were pre-
pairing TO shoot Bystanders
rushed hurriedly upon them and
separated the men, who were also
disarmed. Finally they we're led
from each other and then things
quoted down.
Afterwards Mrs. Chandler fled
her petition aud 1t is now pending
in the circuit court il having bsen
drawn by Lightwood d Yontz, of
that city, and the defendants pro-
perty, amor nting to about eight
thousand dollars, was Immediate
ly attached.
The affair between the hus-
band and brother created much
excitement, as all are we'll known
people of prominence. --Paducah
Register.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
BIRTH RATE Low.
College Graduates Fail 10 Repro
duce Themselves.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE declaI-
alton of Charles w. Eliot, of Har-
ward University, that education
reduces the reproduction Of the
human species, and the publiea-
tion of a group of statistics to prove
his assertion, has startled the col
lego world. Careful research in the
field of vital statistics by eminent
psychologists in this city confirms
Prof. Ellot's findings generally.
While Harvard's President has
ascertained that college men failed
to reproduce themselves, falling
% per cent short of it, q vastly
more astounding ond ition is
found in the case of college wo-
men.
Only about one half Of the
American girls who graduate from
colleges marry, and in one in
stauce that is now "A matter Of STA
tistical record and is here made
public for the first time, one child
was the net production in Ii years
of class of 26 women graduates
from Bryn Nawr College, 10 Of
whom married.
This was the class OF -, anl the
child is Margaret Rhoades Lsdd,
the daughter Of Mrs. VIM. Coffin
Lldd, Of Haverford, Penn, who
married five years after her giHd.
uation. Margaret is now four
years old Strangely contrasting
with this, 1t is pointed out, are the
Government statistics which show
that nine out of every ten average
American women marry, aud IN
1900 An average Of Al children had
been born to each wife.
Prof Edward Thorndikc, head
of the department of psychology
in the Teachers College OF Colum.
bia University, founded by stats.
tics gathered at the New York
University, that about seven eighls
as many college men marry as do
native born males. He also discover
ed the fact that the ratio of college
women who marry, 10 the average,
is as -four or five to eight"
1T cannot be denied that fewer
highly educated people marry
than do the average, and that the
production is less"
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
WHAT LEMONS WILL DO.

These are some OF the things
lemons co do for you:
Squeezed into glass Of water
every morning and drank, it will
keep your stomach in the best Of
order and will never let dyspepsia
get into it.
If you have dark hair and it
seems to be falling out, rub slice
of lemon on your scalp, and it will
stop that little trouble promptly.
Squeezed into quart of milk
it will give you a mixture to rub
on your face night and morning
and give you a complexion like a
princess's. ...
Ii you have a bad headache, rub
slices Of lemon along the temple.
The pain will not be long in dissp-
pearing, or at least in growing
easier to bear.
If a bee or insect sting you, put
few drops of lemon juice on the
spot.
If you have troublesome corn,
rub it with lemon after taking a
hot bath, and cut away the corn,
Besides all this, it is always
ready for the preparation of old.
fashioned lemonade. Altogether,
the lemon is an article few can
afford to get along without
Health.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
ELECTRICAL DEVICE
Locates Water and 0utdoes the
Old Witch Hazel Wand.

Electricity has pu. the witch
hazel wand and other methods OF
determining the presence OF water
under ground out OF the business
Experts have patented a little cleo
trical device which tells surely OF
the proximity of water. When its
needle begins TO show vibrations
it can be stated positively there 10
water beneath.
Officials Of the Geological Sur
vey have become - impressed
with the invention that they are
giving it thorough test. The
new water detector is something
like the seismogrsph used for de-
,ermining earthquake disturban-
ces.
By its vibrations the presence
of subterranean streams are not
only determined. but the volume
and direction Of the bow are also
accurately recorded.
This instrument will be OF great
value to the irrigator and farmer,
as it will enable him to drive his
wells where he will find water.
frequently immense sums Of mon
ey are expended in drilling arte-
sian wells, which after being Dor
ed hundreds Of feet are found to be
dry.
In tests made with the new cleo
trical device steel rods are driven
a sh Jrt distance into the earth and
attached TO the machine. There
is an attachment something like
the telephone receiver by which
the vibrations are converted into
sound waves. The device will not
work satisfactorily III regions
where there are volcanoes.
The officers Of the Geological
Survey believe eventually the de-
vice can be used to indicate the
presence Of oil. but the vibrations
caused by oil are not SO great as
those set up by water
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
COLE YOUNGER PAR00NeD.

The board of psrdUns of Min
nesots on February ith granted
to Cole Younger a full pardon aud
permission to leave that State up.
on condition that he should never
return. 1t is further conditioned
that he shall not exhibit himself
at any public performance, thea.
ter. circus OF museum TO satisfy
the morbid curiosity Of the pee.
pie.
Younger served 25 years in the
state prison of Minnesota but has
been out on limited parole for a
year or more, he greatly desired
to revisit Missouri aud other pln.
Cas- in the west to meet old friends
and see again the scenes Of his
younger days, but under the parole
he was prohibited from leaving
Minnesota. The petition for the
pardon was largely signed and in.
huences Of an almost overx helm.
ing nature were brought TO bear
upon the board of pardons to So
cure its favorable consideration.
Younger is now an old man, made
prematurely 80 by hard life on the
road and a guerrilly warfare he
led about the time of the war be.
tween the States, and twenty five
years confinement since. We can
imagine that the old prisoner has
conjured up a picture OF his re.
turn TO the old scenes and old
friends which will be disappoint.
ing in its realization after all the
years of hoping and planning.
The old scenes will be found vast
ly changed, unacceptable most
likely. The old friends will be
found dead or gone, with possibly
few exceptions and the air about
those that are left may be chilly,
for conyicts are seldom received
into the bosom Of a mans family,
whose fair name has never been
brought into question-if Young.
or can boast of ever having had
that kind Of friends at any period
OF his career.
However, the tender hearted
world is glad that by mercy of the
board of pardons this man, who
ha' paid a heavy penalty for his
crimes, is to be permitted at last
to have his drea n out - Clinton
azette.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
$32.85 TO CALIFORNIA.

Daily, from Feb 18th to April
Both, ithe Illinois Central railroad
will sell tickets from Evansville
to all California common points
for $3.50; tourist sleepers every
Tuesday and Friday from Prince
ton, Ky, to Los Angeles, San
francisco and intermediate points.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
Mysterious Circumstance

One was pale and swallow and the
other fresh and rosy. Whence the diff.
ferenceS She who is blushing with
health uses DR. Kings New Life Pills to
maintain it. BY gently arousing the
lazy organs they compel good digestion
and head of constipation. Try them.
Only 25c at b X Woods & Co.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-19
Crime in Union County.

Sam Carter, aged nineteen, shot
and killed Ben Shaffer, agen ten,
at Uniontown. He took the gun
from the boy, who was hunting in
the woods, and fired at him. He
resisted arrest and was shot in the
arm by officers. He confessed
his crime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
The Man in His Work.
Philadelphia Press

L HtldutlpHid fTeSS.
The observations of this paper on por-
traits in fiction, made couple of weeks
ago, have moved correspondent to ask
whether cit Is not true that, after all, the
best Misunderstanding of even the greatest
novelist must be, in one sense, "a portrait
of the artist by himself" The questioner
makes, in short, the point that Nordau
made when he declared that all writing was
autobiographical, and concludes with the
following query: "Of course it is true that
cal traits of this or that character in the
real people with whom he comes in contact
in the world about him, but even then he
must interpret them through his own per-
sonality. is 1t not truer that when he
comes to reading the minds of his puppets
and to interpreting their very souls he is
really only giving us gimpses of his own
mind and his own soul?'
The distinction here implied is delicate
one, but to the broad question an affirma-
tive answer is obviously correct. Extreme
cases of dual personality no longer battle
science, and the force of Stevensons ia
nous example has been somewhat lessened
by the psychologists statement that a
double identity is rare only because a YER
liable multitude of selves is far more COM
mon. Granting, then, such limitless posi-
bilities In every human being, it is almost
as convincing as 1T is amusing to speculate
upon what company the imaginative and
retrospective being may find within him.
list, when he makes the discovery and por-
trayal of that company the source of his
bread and butter-or at least of his coffee
and cigarettes-he is certainly justifying
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

New York Evening Sun.
We are thoroughly tired of the able bodied
hero. The human interest of The Con-
LESSONS of a Wife" turns upon the opium
habit In Felix" by Robert Hichens, the
pathos is dependent upon morphine. In
avery" Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Wards three-part story, the dentist ad-
ministers gas to the hero. The results OF
this literary ruse are even more instructive
than in good, old Jacob Abbot's Little
Dreamer" a didactic fantasy Tor juvenile
minds of q generation ago.
Mrs. Avery had made science or WIFE
hood, and applied it with a delicate art
Yet when it comes to her husbands going
on a vacation after strenuous law case
Mrs Avery objects, although family
"Guns-and boats-they're like snakes You
are going on boat?
seWell YES a sort of boat
'And guns?''~ she whispered There Will
be guns? 49,
He cannot deny it. In fact, not until
after the gas-induced nightmare, which oc-
cupies Part III and overlaps into Part Ill
of the story, perhaps he had numbering,
masculine notion of doing the best thing
for her" But he energies with Mrs. WARDS
point of view. He shivered a little as he
came in sight of the club. A sick distaste
for the very building overcame him:
And do you mean to tell me- he demands
of the dentist, 81 never went on that &C
cursed cruise with fool gun-to murder
ducks?"
Meanwhile ST don't want DR.. Thorne-I
can't afford the doctor SO Often" Mrs. Az
cry had explained to the housemaid. But
fortunately DR.. Thorne had come and the
very blankets and hot water bags seemed
to obey him like sentient things. In con-
clusion the hero is assured. by this deus ex
of Mrs. Wards, that Mr.. Avery's perma-
nent presence will restore Mrs. Avery's
permanent health.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

New York Tribune.
The spring publishing season will have
opened in a very short time. More than
one list of announcements has already ap-
peared. and it is plain that we are to be
vouchsafed appalling number of new
books. Meanwhile each week brings for
ward a sufficient number Of publications,
sufficient for the weary reviewer we are
sure and not improbably for the reader who
has no responsibility in the matter, but
can read what he chooses and read when he
likes. The reviewer might thoughtlessly be
accused of taking too interested a view of
the question, but we believe-and our be-
lief is shared by n1any--that a readjust-
ment of the publishers seasons that
there might be plenty Of new books all the
year round and never too many at any
one period would be for the benefit of all
concerned, including the publishers. Prob
ably the change will not be made and critics
on both sides of the Atlantic will continue
to deplore their sad lot. They have had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

our correspondents assumption. ACCORDING
to this theory. the writer~of Action may
lack the creative ability requisite, Tor the
projection of a character, SO to speak, from
the void: he may even be utterly waning
in the observation necessary to kidnap the
man he wants from the real world ana
transport him to the printed page Tor Ire,
but IL he Is only interpretive enough ne
may live like St. Simeon Stylites, ON pit
lar, or like ST. Anthony of Alexandra, In q
desert, and, by merely looking into MS own
soul. Realistically repeople the world.
= Yet, seriously enough, The theory Is more
or less a true one. The great artist Is,
without doubt, he who can literally put
himself in the place of each one OF MS
haracters-gbjectivey or subjecuvely. as
the unity of his whole composition may
demand-and he can do this best only Wheh
he completely realizes that, in given CIR
cumstances, he himself might very Wen De
any one of them In such discussion one
clearly bars from consideration the gro
tesque of Dickens and the avowedly auto
Geographic work that one finds, Tor ih-
stance, in portions of "Pendennis, put one
sees clearly that il Is as little TO the us
credit of the man as IL * TO the creull oI
the artist that it can be said that tnere IL
something of Thackeray in both Coionei
Newcome and Captain Costigan sometnlns
of Tostoi in both Kutuzov and Nasiiy
Andreich.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Women as Authors.

London Mall.
The correspondence in our columns re-
garding women as authors discloses dell
mite objection to distinguishing them as
such from men. 1t is argued that since
both men and women write they should be
judged as authors simply, without reference
to their sex. In the same way, 1t is known
that strenuous opposition has been faiseu
on behalf of women to the employment OF
the word ''poetess." I'VE know what poei
is" say the complainants, but Whai Is
poeteSS?" Well, poetess is certainly not
a pretty word, but its use is quite defen-
sible.
Nevertheless, it is certain that women
have from time to time assumed men men
names in order to escape the condemnation
or prejudice which they imagined Wouid at
tach to their frank declaration OF sex; Con-
spicuous examples are, OF course Geoi Ge
Eliot, George Sand the BronteS, ana III
more modern days sundry other Georges
Why is George the favorite feminine ahas
At the same time these writer's need not
have been so foolish as to imagine tnat oiie
assumption of a male pseudonym would
conceal their sex AS well might the os-
trich conceive that he Is disguised py pury-
ing his head in the sand. The tact remains IN ;
land is beyond the region of disputel that
feminine traits are unmistakaDle ana can
not be denied. With all its strong paTpaIic
qualities, who would take W utherins
Heights for the work of a man! 1t Is on
another footing, or plane wholly dlstlnct;
for woman is not undeveloped man, but
diverse" and nothing can hide the fact
One imagines, however, that lew women
araSreally anxious to do so. II 1T be true
that no woman has written great novel,
or painted a great picture, or created any
thing really great (Which is marc sayIn IT, !,
it is certainly true that women accomplish
certain forms of work which men cannot
adventure. The impress of sex must abide
on artistic work, particularly literary work
And after ALI. why not? And who assumes
feminine work as necessarily inferior!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Inated br AM InllananoIis Woman WHO

mated by an indianapolis woman WHO
saved n lot 5fsNhite cotton strips. and after
sewing them together had them woven upon
warp OF blue thread. This rug is three
Yards in length and fringed with the blue.
In this day. when every one has more
10 do than time TO do 1t I'm. the sewing and
cutting UP of rags seems a great waste of
time. and many women who have been in
tending To prepare material for the making
of-rag carpets and have saved great bags
filed with pieces OF various kinds of cloth
Tor years and years, viii find the method
recently adopted by young society wom-
an OF his city very easy one, and will be
Surprised 10 see how quickly their object
may be accomplished. After collecting her
pieces the woman in question kept them in
drawing-room closet, and whenever a
friend came in to pay visit she brought
forth the rags, and. with scissors and Thin
that it requires almost no attention what
ever to do it, and thus it interfered in no
way with her conversation. In almost. no
time her pieces were all cut into strips and
Joined together. for it invariably happened,
as on that memorable day when Mark
Twain's Tom Sawyer whitewashed his
mothers fence, that the visitor became en-
in the work-a request that was readily
granted. The promptness with which the
hostess produced another needle and thim-
BILE showed that she was not altogether I'M
prepared for such an emergency.