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Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

We'll, dear, tell your friend that it is
women-nice, clean women-who talk
about Swapping their fingers at the
worlds conventions Men don't take
much stock in it, They know too we'll
what it means" He paused, then went
on measuredly:
ITO be sure, Sylvia, if your friends
husband were a beast, or brutal to
her, or didn't support her, she might
get divorce in conventional order
For myself, I'm not in for divorces;
though that's a matter of taste, may
be. But if she leaves him and runs off
with another man-why, do you real
ize what that would mean to a nice
woman?"
What would it mean?" Sylvia be-
gan nervously to punch holes in the
sofa cushion with her scarfpin.
THAT for the future her friends
must be among a set Of people who
really are what she is merely called;
that the man for whom she sacrificed
everything couldn't sacrifice enough
for her to point out to her that duty
was stronger than love. Love isn't
everything, dear"
There was a certain big, caressing
tone in his voice which unconsciously
made Sylvia bark back to the old
honeymoon days before she had dis
covered that marriage with him was
"a mockery" She took out her hand
kerchief ridiculous bit of lawn and
lace, and touched her eyes furtively.
That's from the worlds viewpoint"
he continued. Then, there's the hus-
band. l judge from what you say he
isn't wholly a rum lot. Perhaps
even if he hasn't very fine. poetic
tastes-perhaps he also realizes that
he bores the woman he loves. Maybe
he does love her in spite of his blunt,
ordinary brusqueness. Maybe he thinks
all day at the Office how, if this or
that deal goes through, it'll mean
more dainty luxuries for her. Maybe
he hurries home after business hours
so that he can put on his dinner
clothes, knowing that pleases her fas-
tidious tastes and makes him a bit
more congenial to her. Perhaps, even
if he does pick up his newspapers,
and doesn't read poetry to her, it's a
kind of paradise merely to have her
! in the room with him. Some men are
made like that, you know"
There was another furtive mop with
the ridiculous little handkerchief. Why
did her husbands voice, when it was
tender, always have that mastery over
her?
"And some evening"" pursued that
| masterful voice, when he has hurried
home, perhaps he finds pinned to one
o. his ties a note saying it's all been
a mistake; that at last she's found a
man 'congenial' to her and has run off
with him. And while the cook, all un-
suspecting, is about to serve the din.
ner for two he stands there cold and
stunned-turned out of paradise! The
worst of 1t is Jack added. beginning
to pace slowly up and down the room,
"the worst of it is, he'll never get rid
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
TALK ON ADVERTISING


Some thoughtful man might say that
IL what you manufacture has merit,
once you get a trade established peo-
pie will continue to purchase, even If
the advertising is stopped, but to act
on that conclusion would be fatal
mistake, for there are always bright
men on the lookout to steal your APP
pies, and if you give them the chance
they will come in and take the fruit,
sure. Right here let us drive nail,
not a single nail but forty penny
spike. Your article must have merit,
far and away beyond the ordinary u5(
advertised thing. 1t should be the
very best that human intelligence and
ingenuity can produce. Then you have
a. foundation to build upon that will
not slip out from under when the
building grows heavy There are per-
sons ignorant enough to believe that
a poor article can be advertised into
9. success. 1t cannot and any one who
tries the experiment will pay heavily
for his experience. Critically examine
any we'll known and advertised article
that has been years on the market and
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Oldest Naval Veteran,

William Maccabee, Americas old.
est naval veteran and an inmate OF
the sailors home near Philadelphia
has been celebrating his one hundred
and first birthday. The old man who
was born in Baltimore, Sept. %, 1903
entered the navy as an apprentice
boy on the frigate Constitution. His
birthday anniversaries in recent years
have been memorable events. Last
year Attorney General Moody, then
secretary of the navy, was in Phila
delphia, and made 1t special point
to congratulate the old man. BILLY
is still nimble on his feet, and on his
birthday danced couple of steps
of the sailors hornpipe, to the un
measured delight of his aged fellow
inmates.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

it will be found to possess exceptional
merit
In ancient days newspaper publish
ers considered an advertisement an
evil but necessary evil, and that it
should be hidden away as carefully
as possible, so that no one would dis
cover that the paper was trying to
make little money by inserting pub
lie announcements. A paper run that
way to-day would fail.
The most successful opponents of
the new plan of doing business with
ink and paper are using every posi-
bic means to make the announcements
attractive and sought after by the
readers.
1t is safe to say that thousands of
women read the newspaper-not the
telegraphic page, but the pages con-
tanning announcements of bargains in
stockings, skirts, hats, gloves, pianos,
furniture, food for the table, etc.
You have been invited to visit Bat
tie Creek for the purpose of viewing
one Of the most unique advertising
buildings in the world, also to look
over a large business built up, sus-
taired, nourished and kept active by
sunshine, and, at the same time, have
an opportunity to see one of the most
thrifty, active and prosperous towns
Of it's size in the world, built up large
ly by the same kind of sunshine,
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
GAMBLE ON RULERS LIVES.
English People Make Practice of This
Form of Insurance.


Policies, I'll wager, are already
being taken out in London on the life
of little Alexis, the new heir to the
Russian throne" said an insurance
agent. "The English gamble horribly
in life insurance, and Alexis must APP.
peal to them as wonderful risk.
They will pay high for him, though.
"The insurance rates on all royal
lives are a tribute to the power of
the nihilsts and anarchists, for they
are SO huge as to be almost prohibi.
tive. The rate on the King of Eng.
land is enormous, and among mon.
archs his is the lowest rate of any.
That on the Russian czar is the high.
est. The car is bad risk. Many
companies would not insure him on
any consideration.
But Lloyds, the great London con.
Germ, would insure anything or any
body-Prof. Langley going up in one
of his flying machines, Japanese spy
about to enter Port Arthur, Russian
battleship going into battle. And hence
Lloyds is willing to insure the poor
little Russian heir, and certain class
Of men, taking advantage of this fact,
are procuring policies upon the baby's
life.
Gambling on lives is a CHASTITY
form of sport. and l believe that it is
practiced nowhere but in England. 1t
ought not to be practiced there. The
law ought to prohibit it. At Lloyds,
however, it is always going on. Poll.
cies at Lloyds are continually being
taken out on persons OF eminence all
over the world"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
n1IRS 6 USbAnES
Dill ddVfCe9
fS3&kS{SI BY EZE- III NE"

In the beginning Sylvia had com
planned to her husband one evening
as he slipped on his top coat:
Il don't Gee why you won't ever
wait and see Bert. Do you know, we
have a great deal in common; we are
very much alike"
"As a woman, Sylvia, you're a po-
en-" replied Mr.. Browne, picking up
his stick. GAS man, you'd be tame
cat For myself, l don't like cats"
Unfortunately, Mr.. Browne was kept
extremely busy at his office these
days, and so Bertram, with his fine,
distinguished airs, his poetical tastes,
his immaculate grooming, was able
to make his innings. From the early
discovery that they were affinities, it
wasn't great step to prove to Sylvia
that the laws of God and man were
interfering things at times and upon
proper provocation could be set aside.
Great love, like yours and mine" "
he announced to her one day, "is born
of the vastness and loneliness of the
sea, and makes human conventions
utterly pointless."
Mrs. Browne was very unhappy and
miserable in spite of this uplifting an
nouncement. One morning at break
fast, as she was dangling cherry by
its stalk just above her pretty lips
and making little snaps at it, her eyes
somehow fingered admiringly upon
her husbands chin. 1t was such a
MI chin nnd aftnr oil
was such an undecided, dependent
sort of little body, she sighed to her
self. Yes, she would ask mis- advice
about the momentous question that
was knocking at her door for decis-
ion.
Jack" she began, gulping down her
cherry, 81 want your advice about
BILE, and II don't know exactly what
to tell her to DO. You don't mind my
not mentioning her name, Jack?"
Much rather you didn't" said he.
He laid down the paper he was read
ing with the disappointed air of man
who has left the stock market unread
and began slipping his coffee. O..
How blunt and uncouth he was!
But then, for the matter of that, even
in the old, dear, sweetheart days,
hadn't he always been that? What
could have been more blunt than the
way he had told her first that she was
the prettiest girl he'd ever seen? Syl-
via tried to compare the remark I'M
flatteringly with Bert's way of telling
her that "her eyes were pools Of pur-
pie, her mouth scarlet thread"
well. Sylvia, what about your
friend?" Her husbands voice fetched
her back to the matter in hand. She
hesitated, pushed her mullins aside,
drew a deep breath and plunged
why, Jack, she's married, you see,
and she's utterly miserable. Her hus.
band and she have scarcely a taste in
common. She's really going to leave
him, think; but she's asked my ad.
vice"
Hes a beast, l suppose?" com.
mented Mr.. Browne, meditatively bal.
anclng q fork on his finger. knocks
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
BY NE Ii HyZE'

on herr Besides, you see, there's
another man who loves her in the
way she wishes to be loved, and SO
they're going to find happiness to-.
gether and snap their fingers at the
worlds conventions"
Sylvia had risen from the table, and
now flung herself with an air of dain.
ty, defiant bravado on a couch in the
corner Mr.. Browne began stroking
that firm chin of his in a way that
signified nothing to his wife, but even
the clerks in his Office knew it to be a
sign of deep perpleXity.
"And that's what you want my adj
vice about?" he said slowly, at last
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Railroad Building in Africa.

At the half-yearly meeting of the
Rbodesia railways it was stated that
321 miles of line had been opened
for traffic. The trunk lines south of
Zambesi were thus finished, and the
Gweto, Selukwe and Matoppo
branches had also been completed.
Tie total railway system open for
traffic was now 1900 miles. The
bridge over the Victoria falls was be.
ing erected, the construction of the
extension north of the river had be.
gun and the permanent way material
was being carried across by a cable.
way concurrently with the building OF
the bridge.-London Engineer.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

her up against the furniture-no? He
drinks, them"
Noon, mol" Sylvia's tone gave
the impression that any of these
things would have been Insignificant
trifles. "But they're thoroughly uncon.
genial. He loves his business and his
cigars and newspapers, and she loves
poetry and romance and-and the
finer things of life" She gave a
vague, comprehensive little gesture
with her left hand.
Under such conditions, marriage Is
such a mockery," she went on, hur.
riedly. (The argument was one OF
Bert's. and had made an impression
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
No Hurry.

A remarkable story is told of a
clergyman abiding in a southwestern
suburb of London, who, concluding a
sermon, said: Yes, my brethren.
there is a hell" and then, drawing
out his watch, added, "but we will not
go into that Just now"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Many Children Are sicklv.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children,
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Chik lens
Home, Now York, cure Summer Complaint,
Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles,
Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At
all Druggists, 25c. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

rs mercury VIII surely destroy the of smell
and completely derange the whole system when
entering 1t through the mucous surfaces Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip-
lions from reputable physicians, as tn damage they
Will do Is ten fold TO the good you possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
b. +. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.. contains mer-
curry and Is taken internally acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally and made in Toledo.
Ohio, by +. j. Cheney q Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 15c. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Greatest Living Botanlst.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the
greatest living botanist, has just pass
ed his eighty-seventh birthday. He
was the lifelong friend of Huxley
Some of his most interesting work
has been the result of his studies in
Utah. Colorado, California and the
Rockies.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

The knowledge of the most value to
us Is that which we gain so insensibly
and gradually as not to perceive we
have acquired it until its effect be-
The new woman was a failure be-
cause there We're no new men to match.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.-WN.
o. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05
Urban Population Grows.

Half a century ago little more than
one-half of the population of England
lived in towns. To-day the rural pop
ulation Is only one-fifth of the whole.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

You will never be trusted If you do
more to gain an enemy than to serve
n friend.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

1t is easier for an orator to make a
speech than 1T is for the speech to
make him.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

Murine Eye Remedy cures sore eyes,
makes weak eyes strong. All druggists, Soc.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

The fattery of 6os friends is re-
quired as n dram to keep up ones
spirits against the injustice of ones
enemies.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

T Wont Homo to Die from GrRvel Trouble.
Doctors failed. DIR. David Kennedy's Favorte Remedy
cared me-" Mrs. G. w. Brown, Petersburg, N. v.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

When a man fiatters you put on your
spectacles and look around for the ak
he has to grind.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

mans success depends on what he
does with his failures.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

No, Cordelia, an indulgent husband
doesn't always come home early Some
times he's too full to get home.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-11-05

Hrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces IN
hammaton, aays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-02
THOSE CURIOUS FRENcHmER.

I HE FRENCH are a curious people.
They seem to want a thing very
badly indeed and then when they are
i'm a fair way to get it they suddenly
conclude that they don't want il go
badly after all. This reflection is in
duced by a telegram from Paris reIa-
tive to the gymnastics of the French
hnanciers over our 40.Q90 900 Of Pan
anna canal money. That is it is our
just as soon as they can make up their
minds to take it, or rather, can decide
how they want TO take it.
We are told that the French moueyed
men are a unit i'm the belief that to
dump S40O00000 on them in Jump
would cause a disturbance" whatever
that may mean. Therefore" says the
dispatch, cit has been considered ad-
visable TO make thee payment so far
as possible, by trade bank balances,
thus avoiding the shipment of $4,000
600 I'm COIN" That seems TO us d very
curious view 90 take Of the matter. If
either country is 90 DO any worrying
about that $4,000. 600 it should be the
country out of which il is to be dumped
instead of the country into which it
is to be dumped.
The Freuchmcn think that If $4,000
600 is dropped on them all at the same
time il viii cause a disturbance.
Well, are they laboring under the i'm
preston that the money viii be stacked
up on the street corners for crowds
TO scramble after? Is that what they
mean when they say they fear a dis
turbauce? We grant that such a pro-
ceeding would cause a considerable
disturbance i'm any country, 1t might
even cause a riot on a small scale in
salt Lake. but FOR our part we are per-
fectly willing TO take the risk.
Therefore, we submit this PROPOSE
ton to the Frenchmen: Just I'm order
to be good fellows. we suggest that
they order our government to send
$40 600, 600 of the money to Salt Lake
at once to be thrown around the
streets or distributed in such other
manner as may be agreed on. We
would like To have committee OF
Frenchmeu present when the money
arrives in order that they may judge
for themselves whether or not it Gre
ates a disturbance. If it does they
viii doubtless be willing to send US the
other $50 00O,000 and extend US copious
gratitude into the bargain
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-02
UHIoH OF NooDLERs.

THE LATEST THING in the organ
L lied labor line IS a union of noodle
makers. This union was formed in
Ohio some days ago and its power is
likely TO be felt i'm some circles before
many weeks have passed. We may be
compelled to pay more for the noodle.
which is both luscious ana succuIent,
or we may be obliged to go uoodIeless.
Either prospect is little short Of a
calamity, in view of the hard times
and the average appetite for the prop
erly prepared noodle.
People who only know in a general
way what noodles are are likely TO
scott at the notion that there is enough
skill in the making to warrant a union
of those who make them. Now q noodle
may be a JOY forever, if not a thing Of
beauty. or it may be a shiny, slippery
string of tough dough. Everything de-
ponds upon the maker. You remem-
her. of course, the noodles mother used
10 make. And say. they We're all right,
too.
Tt took YOU long time to elevate a
noodle with a soup spoon from your
plate 10 your mouth properly. In the
beginning you deposited them on your
bib, on your eating tray, on the table
cloth, on the floor, anywhere except
the place for which noodles were i'm
tended. There is a knack about the
eating OF noodles that only comes with
long practice, but somehow If you
know good thing when you get hold
of il You never get tired practicing.
We don't know that we ever tasted the
noodle Of commerce. Nor do we be-
Heve il can possibly be as tasty as the
home grown product. But we wish the
union a fun measure Of success.
IL it doesn't do anything more than
propagate a widespread love for
noodles i'm the American breast it will
have accomplished something worthy.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell
thinks he has solved the alrship prob
lem with a kite. The obvious diff
Guilty about a Kite dier is the difncuIty
of alighting when the desired time
comes An airship that has a rope at
tached to it with the other end Of the
rope around a viudIass can never be
Of much practical value.
-s-Eas--
AT the funeral of a Pennsylvania
man the other day "Bedelia" was
played in response 10 an ante norton
request He probably wanted to be
glad he was dead, but we don't eN-
sctly understand how he got any sat-
isfaction out of inhicting the air on
Ihe m0urneTs.
The natives of Hawaii are learning
American methods very rapidly. S. Me-
hUela, clerk of the territorial house of /
has just been found
guilty of destroying expense vouchers
to save his friends.
--1-esz--s--
Those 1899 Japa who were lost while /
crossing the Talu some time ago seem /
TO have been found i'm time to take a I
part I'm the big battle that has been
reported from Kaupang TIE, Mauchu-
ria.
If the men who are so eagerly 1
knocking our baseball team would 4
put up a few dollars each toward its /
support there would soon be no longer (
an excuse for knocking"
tit is too much to hope that Chairman
Of the county commissioners
win want the light turned on all couu- 4
ty affairs as well as on the road be- 4
tween salt Lake and Murray.
There's the Rub.
philadelphia PTess)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-02
ANOTHER MODEST HERO

uERD IS A LITTLE STORY Of a
II hero who didn't show his bravery
on "a batueship. a bloody battlefield
or any other place where lhe limelight
beats HeTceIy. He was just d private
citizen, an ordinary, every day man
who bore his cross bravely through
many weary, weary years of misery
such as falls, fortunately, to the lot Of
only few. The man is OWington
Shock of Versailles, Kentucky.
twenty-five years ago SIR. Shock
reached Kentucky on a journey from
the east. In Versailles he met a Blue
Grass belle and fell I'm love with her
His affection was returned and, after
a brief courtship. tine two were mar
r.ed. For few years they lived hap
PLY together. Then came a cloud tn
their sky. The wife began to show
evidence of mental arrangement. Fin
ally her mind became completely over
cast She was helDIesslys hopeIessIy
insane.
Kentucky has cruel law that makes
insanity a ground for divorce. Shock
could have taken advantage Of it., but
he had loved his wife when she was
sound iH mind and health. he loved her
stH though she was insane and an
invalid Instead OF sending her to an
asylum he gave up a business that
kept him away from home a good deal
and devoted himself TO the care of his
wife Tor twenty years he nursed her.
uursed her as tenderly as a mother
cares for an afflicted child. No flicker
of returning reason rewarded him.
Shock, as far as outward appearances
went. was no more TO his wife than
any stranger. She never knew him.
Now the end has come. A few DAYS
ago the doors OF the Eastern Kentucky
insane asylum swuug open TO admit
two patients. One was Mrs. Owmgton
Shock. The other was her husband.
The constant strain entaiied by twenty
years Of association with a luuatic had
unhinged his mind To his wife De
had given all that he had to give, more
than his life. was there ever a truer
herog
Is not the life Of Shock a sufficient
against insanity as cause