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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-30

appalling mortality young quoted told by
aive and reliable authority that years the of human
lite and the that OF those who fail to attain
ths goodly age overeatng And still
hougess continue to pride upon
foctng myousy and wonderfully made dishes tae the pal
ate and tempt their children and husbands hat only be called
suicide The mistaken weighed down by her of
the household will bndy making for herself and
harmful work by creating and cooking enough food one day to s
her family much health for three She will by
the kind of foods which require cooking and which besides
less work her eahful that be
cured to dress the flesh of dead animals fancy guse that
beyond recognition Not that meaeang injurious authorities
differ that and there much the multitude OF
ad and cults pretending dictate what should and should
the trouble lies the character of food but in the
tty housewives deliberately tempting
appetite of both adults children II her family u
nt appes enjoy radshe lettuce berries and
otte fruits then they should until they have such hunger
Gey should be coaXed eat through the medium and
spices and disguses OF seasoning.
eating place proportion with lygienc
the socia life of small communities assemblies at the
home OF friend and although having supped at home but few
hours before served with elaborate the midst
OF the evening only to go home and suffer with eePne while the
congratuatng herself the of her white cake and
upon appreciation accorded her jelly nothing e
strong. which everyone parook of to his
England beyond America in this social feature there,
offered of evening unwolesome outlay of food
m Of coffee or of tea with light wafer perhaps usually comprises
the eehmen guests Though be in their
day life the British be held examples
The responsibility correcting the general
housewives she who takes such pride her service
individual culinary science Only when her pretty boauness
amounts actually shortening of life OF her kind will she begin
TO be truly sopisay scientific Women know perhaps,
with what amount OF food they be
sustained that has pleased the paragaPhers OF
papers, living together alone without about
themselves than meal day is
their desire to brothers and that they
guilty OF themselves Men, to the
arv are more habit than they accustomed
ito doing hearty and the
of them habtuaory
Inconvenience only
That people when they hungry always and eat
until hunger completely appeaed quite erroneous Diseased
often produce unnatural hunger and diseased
NERVES other such state be-
Again should think OF leaving the table
would safety and safety invariably
Is harmful physically and mentally Instead OF spending
much learning how be accomplished cooks the real kind
ness of learning cook little and
5udcious as possible be the kindness of mothers
and
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ier, and soon became deeply interest
ing. Neither player gave any intima-
tion of backing down and at q critical
moment the jeweler turned his cards
/ face down on the table, excused him
self, walked over to the clerks office
and returned with a shotbag full of
gold. Another bet and the Weston
man visited the clerks office and also
came back with shot bag full of
gold. The bets proceeded in regular
order until $4,000 In yellow metal was
stacked upon the table.
Thousands in the Pot.
Neither one of the players seemed in
the least excited. They were cool and
apparently as calm as though they
were playing for jack pot of few
dollars. There was the gold, however,
In Mexican doubloons, $40 California
quinquangular slugs and United States
half eagles and double eagles.
Possibly there were seventy passen-
gers gathered around that table. The
silence was so intense as to be painful.
The Weston man made the last bet and
called the jeweler, and that indi-
vidual laid down an invincihle hand.
as the game was played in that day.
The Weston man smiled, threw his
cards face down on the pack and re-
marked, "The money is yours.
No one ever knew exactly what cards
he held, but it was believed that, next
to the hand that won, it was the best
that could be picked out of poker
deck.
The jeweler gathered up the gold, re.
placed it in the shotbags and both
We're returned to the clerks office, the
contents being now the property of
Oue man. instead of two
The saddest of all incidents that
ever occurred on the Missouri was that
which happened to the steamer Haidee
in 1859. The boat left st. Louis, having
on board company of California emf
grants, consisting perhaps of 200 peo-
pie. At Jefferson City the cholera
broke out on the boat. She was tied to
the bank, the crew deserted her, and as
far as the writer can recall the cir
cumstances. not over half a dozen per-
sons escaped the ravages of the dread
disease. The emigrants buried their
own dead, as far as they could, the
last of them being left dead on the boat.
In due time the boat was fAlmigated,
an attempt made to again put her into
commission. but without success.
A Chapter of Disasters.
The A. B. Chambers, named after one
VI the EouIuSIS Vi the Olu 81. LOUIS
Republican, was bought out by Capt.
Bowman in the fall of 1855, and for
three years was one of the most popu-
lar boats ON the Missouri. She met her
fate in the spring of 1858 at Atchison.
Kan. In rounding into the wharf at
that place she was caught in the eddy
just above the town and driven onto a
snag with such force as to hardly leave
any two of her tinbers hanging to-
gether.
The wreck, in view of it's being so
sudden and so complete, was remark
able, from the fact that not life was
lost, Notwithstanding she had very
heavy passenger list from st. Joseph,
which place she had left only few
hours before.
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morton, a young quaker fresh from
home en- route to Council Bluffs to take
charge Of a school, was watching the
dealer throw his cards. The thing
looked so easy he made UP his mind
that if the fellow was determined to
lose his money he might as well have it
as any one else. He, however, had
conscientious scruples against taking
money on sure thing, so he took the
dealer aside and said to him, Il can
turn up the right card every time, but
do not want to take thy money with
out warning thee"
The gambler was willing to take the
risk and the young quaker, just to
show that he could do so, laid down a
small bet and turned the right card.
Again and again he tried, gradually in
creasing his bet, each time winning.
At last he said, my friend, thee
seems determined to make thyself still
greater fool, SO between thee and me we
will end the game" Taking out his
wallet he counted therefrom every cent
of money he possessed-something
over $400-and laid it on the table. The
gambler put up an equal amount,
threw the cards, invited the quaker to
turn, and. 10! when he did so, it was
the wrong card and the money went
into the gamblers pocket. The quaker,
with rather a CHASTITY smile, as he
turned away, remarked: My friend,
between thee and me, thou arn't such
a fool as I took thee to be-"
To the gamblers credit, he gave the
young quaker money enough to carry
him through to Council Bluffs ON the
stage coach from Weston, and to hold
him up until the receipt of his first
months salary.
Great Game of Poker.
In 1851, on the steamer Ell Paso, was
witnessed one of the most thrilling
poker games ever played on the Mis-
souri, The game started early in the
evening and reached it's elimination
after midnight. Four men sat down to
the game; one prominent jeweler, of
st. Joseph, who died in st. Louis only
few years ago; one a leading mer-
chant, of Weston, who afterward oe-
cupied prominent state position in
ST, Louis, and died in ST. Joseph about
/ ten years ago, the third son of one
of the wealthy men of the Platte pur-
chase, and the fourth the representa-
tive of one of the heaviest mercantile
houses of st. Louis.
The bets. to start with, were modest
and the game attracted little attention
In fact, there were other tables in
which the spectators evinced greater
interest. Gradually, however, the 9th
er players ceased and the passengers
gathered round this particular table.
Hands We're dealt, bets made, lost and
won; bluffs run, jack pots taken in,
and up to the very last hand no one
of the four men seemed to have lost or
won any considerable amount In the
last hand the Weston man dealt. The
St Louis man drew two cards, the
Platte purchase man one, the jeweler
three and the dealer stood
pat. After the ante the first
TWO threw down their cards,
leaving the jeweler and the Weston
man in the game. The bets started on
modest scale, gradually became heav-
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"Oh, no; I don't think it is worth
bothering about" said the landlord,
putting philosophieally at his damp
pipe. Il have been here for twelve years,
and it has never rained before. Likely
enough it won't rain again in my life
time"
Rain would be greatly valued in Gu
racao if it only would come, for there is
no place ON earth where fresh water
is searcer. There is not a single run
ming stream anywhere in the island,
nor even stagnant brook. There are
wells, it is true, and plenty of water
may be found by digging, but it is
all so salt that it is no more fit to
drink than the sea water that sur
rounds the island.
How, then, do you manage to live?"
an English merchant resident in Wal
lemstad was asked.
''Well,' he replied, Eve are somewhat
in the position of those French peas
ants who complained to Marie Antoi-
nette that they were starving because
they could get no bread to eat. You
remember, the queen told them to go
and eat cake. We can't get water to
drink, but we can get any amount of
whisky and seltZer by importation, and
the Dutchmen receive all the gin they
want from Holland.
8 1t is not really so bad as that, how
ever. Most houses have a cistern or
water tank, which is filled periodically
with water imported, at considerable
expense from the Venezuelan coast. 1t
goes without saying that the precious
fluid is used most economically. The
CuracaOns, like the inhabitants of their
mother country, are models of cleanIi-
ness in their persons and their houses,
but exceedingly few of them own bath
rooms. They do not bathe; they wash.
"A daily tub bath would be the widest
kind Of extravaganza in their queer
little community.
e-- Ice, which seems such a necessary
luxury in the tropics is even rarer than
water. 1t has to be brought all the
way from Boston or New York, and the
retail price is terrible Often there is
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no ice to be had for love or money. The
starting of an ice making plant has
been often mooted. but the scarcity of
water has rendered it impossible
1t might be supposed that this ex-
traordinary lack of water would seri-
ously affect the health of the people.
but it does not. On the contrary, they
assert that it makes them much health
Ter.
The atmos phere is so dry and the
climate is so arid" said a Dutch officer
TO the writer, that we never suffer
from neuralgia, rheumatism, ague con-
sumption and other diseases common in
the damp countries of the north. As Il
matter of fact, Curacao is one vast
sanitarium-the healthiest place on
earth. Doctors say that our climate is
the best on earth for cases of nervous
dyspepsia. People have come down here
from America perfect physical wrecks.
and become as well as ever they were
in the course of a few weeks"
The curacao of commerce is really
made in Curacao. The principal ele-
ment in its manufacture is tiny sour
orange indigenous to the island, and
said to grow nowhere else. There are
two or three manufactures of this cor
dial in the island, but the bulk of the
curacao" sold in the worlds markets
is made in Amsterdam from oranges
imported from Curacao. Experts say
that the locally manufactured article
is far superior. which is likely enough.
as the oranges would naturally be
freSher.
Hardly anything grows on the island
except this orange and a fruit called
the "nispera." The soil is mainly of
coral, dry and arid
Some of the Dutch women struggle
heroically to make gardens and grow
tulips, as they used to do in Holland.
but they never seem to have any luck.
Even fiower-pot civilization is usually
a failure What can be expected when
the soil, as well as the water, has to
be imported from Venezuela? And it
seems a crime to- use water merely to
crafty the lust of the eye.
Copyright, 1903, by William Thorp)
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NEW ACID GIVES LIFE
Makes the Old Young and Re.
stores Bloom of Youth.

"Over in London there is a man who
cd by which men may live for 500 years,
and he declares this to be mans nat
ural age limit" said a man who keeps
up with the curious things of the day,
"and he tells rather interesting story
of how he became acquainted with the
secret of it all. The man who claims to
be in possession of this marvellous Sc
cret is E. J. Kibblewhite. Here is the
way he said he found out all about it,
He told me that he had discovered that
old age and it's ills may be traced to
the clogging of the skin by the insolu-
bic residues of the food taken into the
system, the lines and other heavy
alkalis. He had discovered an acid
which restored the skin to the appear
ance of early childhood and which, he
said, would extend the life period in
definitely. He had treated his entire
body but had left his face untouched
He left me intending. he said, to under
take the treatment of his face with the
acid he had used upon his body, but I
never saw him again. He told me of
the nature of the acid he used how
ever, and, carrying his discoveries fur
ther, | discovered a combination of
other reagents Which form compound
even more effective than that used by
him. l do not know definitely that
can prolong life for 500 years, but / be-
heve 1 can. This do know, that can
restore the appearance of the flesh of
age to that of youth. can make the
hands of laborer like those of a baby
restoring the flesh to it's original
plumpness and freshness. There is no
telling but that in the immediate after
while we may learn to live as long as
some of the old fellows of an earlier
time in history. Maybe we can all live
as long as some of the men who are
mentioned in the Bible-there's no tell
ing, you know. New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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Those islands were the favorite re-
sorts of Bolivar, Miranda and other
South American patriots before Co
lombia and Venezuela "broke the bar
of Spain" Today Willemstad is full
of liberal exiIes who are out of favor
with the ruling powers at Bogota, and
with the supporters of Andrade and
Matos, who failed in their recent effort
to overthrow President Castro of Ven
ezuela.
when a Venezuelan Statesman fs
out of job said w. L. Scruggs, late
United minister to Colombia and
Venezuela, "he goes to Willenstad to
mature his plans before deciding
whether his country needs his personal
services, so that the hotels and board
ing houses of that place are usually
more or less crowded with generals
out of commission, and doctors with
out patients, all anxious to Serve their
country"
The shreWd Dutch merchants will
often do a good stroke of business
with these revolutionists, selling them
arms, ammunition, schooners and
boats; and sometimes even going the
IeLSln OI arranging ICIle HllDuSJeT-
ing expedition on their behalf. But
the Dutchmen always insist on pay
ment in advance. Some of them have
made considerable fortunes in this un-
orthodox line of business. The Dutch
officials wink at it; they are more
concerned about bringing money into
the colony than in strictly enforcing
the neutralitv laws
When Guzman Blanco ruled Vene-
zuela he set the fashion of establish
ing spies in Wfllemstad to watch the
revolutionists and detect their plans
He had lived there himself. as a refu-
gee and hatched his plots, SO he knew
the ropes. Ever since then every
Venezuelan dictator has followed the
example. When Guzman Blanco fell
from power he went back to WfIlem-
stad to live, and he soon found that
he was logged by spies wherever he
went
One day he turned around and seized
sneaking, hang-dog fellow ''Why,
you rascal" he exclaimed 'T know
your face. Where have 1 seen you
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Missouri few days ahead, with in
structions to board the Kansas at a
certain woodward in the garb of a
"hayseed." He was furnished with Il
goodly roll of money, the intention be-
ing to get him to touch with Sharp.
The plan succeeded. The .'havseed,
displayed his money and on the very
first night that he boarded the boat
Sharp went to the wheel a e.busted''
man. even to the last cent he had, in
eiuding his trip salary.
1t was said that old Sharp never
again sat down to poker table.
One of the games played that day
was 'three-card monte" recently in
troduced from Mexico. 1t was on a
par with 'thinble rig in which now
you see the little joker and now YOU
don't" The game was played openly
on the cabin tables, and usually a
crowd surrounded the player, there al
ways being two or more 'cappers" who
were allowed to win more often than
they lost.
Quaker Was Taken In.
| One day on the Genoa. Capt. Throck-
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n URACAO is known TO most Amer
" leans only as the name Of an
a. fter dinner cordial, but to the
travelled man it has a different
meaning. 1t brings to his mind
a. charming little bit of Holland cut
out from the mother country and
dumped down in the blue waters OF
the Caribbean, off the coast of Ven
ezuela.
FNowhere else in the world is there
ascolony so much like a miniature of
itA mother country. When English
men. Americans and other white men
20 to the tropics they adapt their
mode of. living to the climate. They
live in a different kind of house to
that which they would choose at home;
tlaey wear different clothes, eat differ
ant food. and drink different drinks;
they alter their hours of work, and
hEperceptibly change their habits in
thousand ways.
mot so the Dutchman who goes to
live in his West Indian colony of
Curacao. When he lands at Willem-
stad he is delighted to find himself in
al small replica of old Amsterdam.
Blue tiles, yellow dormer windows, old
fashioned gables, tiny tlat-roofed
shops, and massive. gloomy ware
houses are to be seen on every hand,
just as they would be in q Dutch city.
The people in the streets wear blue
smocks, wooden shoes and other char
acteristic garments of old Holland.
They drink gin, though it is very bad
for them in tropical climate, and
they smoke long Dutch pipes, while
smokes cigars. They are slow and
conservative in their business affairs,
conducting large commercial transac-
tions according to the methods of the
burghers of Leyden in the days of
William the Silent. They have no use
for such new tangled things as the
typewriter, the stenographer and the
telephone. But they are scrupulously
honest and upright, and so shrewd
that the most up-to-da drummer
fails to get to the weather side of
them.
One of the industries of this tight
little island is the Matching of revo-
lutions. 1t is a convenient Jumping
off place for the exiIed sons of Co.
lonbia and Venezuela who yearn to
liberate their respective countries.
Nearly every Venezuelan revolution
during the past century has been hatch
ed either in Cuarcao or in the neigh
boring British island of Trinidad.
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OLD DAYS ON THE MISSOURI
Big Games of Poker Were PLAYED and Fortunes Made and
LOst-$1000O In Gold at Stake in Jack Pot

CT. LOUIS, Mo-, jan 23.-In the ear
- ly navigation of the Missouri
gambling was almost universal among
the passengers, and many thrilling as
we'll as laughable events were wit
messed.
Old Jim" Sharp was pilot on the
steamer Kansas-spelled .'zas''-and he
was not only persistent gambler, but
generally a successful one His game
was poker, and there was hardly a
night, when off watch, that there was
not a ''set-to" in his room in the texas.
1t was not sport that the old fellow
was after, but the jackpots, large or
small.
During one of his trips from Weston
to st. Louis his winnings were unus-
ually heavy, and some of his fellow
officers made up their minds to give
him costly, if not a lasting lesson.
While in port at st. Louis they picked
up one of the most expert poker play
ers who ever threw a card on the lower
Mississippi river, and sent him up the
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before? Why do you follow. me about
everywhere"
Your excellency saw me, at the Yel-
low house in Curacao three years ago.
the man replied. You sent me here
to watch DR.. Rojas Paul. When he
became president in your place, DR..
Rojas Paul told me to stay here and
watch YOU"
President Castro at present main
tains several spies in Willemstad to
watch the movement of the Matos and
Andrade parties. Andrade was the late
president of Venezuela, and wants to
get back; Matos is the man who de-
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sires to be president, but still more
keenly wishes for vengeance on Castro
for having had him dragged from bed
one night and paraded through the
streets Of Caracas dressed only in a
blanket.
Curacao is known throughout the
West Indies as the place where it never
rains. In this respect it differs greatly
from the other islands, in which torren-
tial showers that turn a dry gully into
a mighty river within five minutes are
of frequent occurrence. An American
consul who went there was told of
this characteristic, but ON the day he
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them, till this woman had at twenty
six a third full equipment of very
white, strong teeth. A man came to
me two years ago to show me a front
tooth, a third one, that was growing
in behind a second tooth I pulled out
the second tooth, and the third, after
little persuasion, came forward and
took it's place. One after another, in
this way. this man got eight third
teeth. To get third teeth, therefore,
is not an absolutely unheard of thing,
though it is uncommon. The cutting
of third teeth, by the way, is attended
with great pain. n."-PhiladeIphia Rec
ord
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arrived at Willemstad the rain came
down in torrents. The tile roof Of the
fapfdated one-story hotel in which he
had put up did not seem to be much
in the way of the downpour," as he
quainty expressed it; and in short
time every room Of the house was
flooded.
Why don't you repair the reof?" he
asked the lanlord Indignantly.
TT rains too hard" replied the
phlegmatic Dutchman.
"Of course I don't expect you to do
it now! But I suppose you'll go to
work on it when the rain stops?"
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These "reminiscences would be incon-
plete in the absence of any mention of
the great fire at ST. Louis in 1S49, in
which a large proportion of the then
business center of the city was de-
stroyed, together with a great number
of the finest steamboats, at that time
navigating the several rivers centerfng
here. Still more would they be in
complete without the account of the
fearful disaster inflicted upon the
steamboat interests by the breakup of
the ice in the spring of 1856. Several
boats were sunk outright, many badly
damaged and quite number, among
them the Nebraska, one Of the largest
of the New Orleans packets, were
crowded by the ice high up on the
wharf, from which positions they were
only released by the erection Of launch
ways under them.
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Cuts Third Teeth.

"To cut third set of teeth at the
age of ninety-th is a remarkable
occurrence" said a dentist, but such
things have happened. Samuel Crox-
all, the translator of Aesop's Fables,
died at ninety three from a fever that
the cutting of his third teeth occa-
stoned. I used to know Manayunk
woman who began to lose her second
teeth at the age of twenty three. She
let them go, and, as one by one they
went, one by one others succeeded