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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-06-10
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hNNM IN NNAh
In every age, throughout every ma
ton. each great and lasting thing has
been the result of a definite purpose
faithfully executed. To bear out this
statement let us look at a few instances
in the history Of the world. First OF
all. is not our government-that won
derful piece Of mechanism-a proof Of
this fact2 Every American heart
swells with pride for our country
How happens it that our system Is so
far in advance of foreign powers? Have
they not lived, and are they not living
in the same time a. we? Have they
not sufficient wealth? The explana-
| ton Of our success may be found IN
these three words which are the lead
ing characteristics Of the United States
of America. namely: Energy, purpose
and perseverance. A result of what
lOfindolence and indifference on the
mart of those who are LOW living ano
of those who have lived before US? No
A thousand times no; it Is the fruit O
a grand purpose and Of great effort eA.
pended by them in its accomplish
ment. They saw the need Of and has
as their aim, a government which
should give greater freedom, peace an'
happiness, and it has been wrough
through much labor. They knew thei
work and they did it.
Why did the colonies revolt? Dl'
they have a purpose What wa
the nature oft? Was it a right ant
lofty one2 Indeed it was. Oppresse'
beyond endurance by the mother cour
try, they struggled for their rights
They knew for what they were hgh'
ing and they did not withdraw fror
D the battle because Of defeats. The
labored under great difficulties an
met with many reverses, but nothin
daunted, they pressed the fight, labo.
, ing with heart a. well as hand unit
= victory was theirs and the foundation
were laid upon which has been bui
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
COSTLY STICKS OF TIMBER.
Some Mahogany Logs Bring as Much as $50iOOO-Mexic the Chief
 Source of Supply.

Sydney H. Shadboldt, of Washington, largely interested in 13O, ,000-acre tim- Der and plantation tract in the state of Vera Cruz on the Coatzacoalcos river, is familiar with all phases of the timber trade, and for several years his attention has been given largely to the purchase and marketing of mahogany, says the Mexican Herald. Speaking of ma- hogany generally, he said:
 Mahogany has been esteemed very valuable wood for more than 200 years, and during all that time the world has had substantially it's whole supply from Mexico, Honduras, Cuba and Santo Do- mingo. Up to within about ten years the proportion secured from these districts was about 60 per cent. from Mexico, 30 per cent. from Honduras, and 10 per cent. from Cuba and Santo Domingo combined. Now comparatively little is obtained from Cuba, and practically none from Santo Domingo. The prod uct of all of the four districts belongs to the same species, but there are marked differences in the fibre of the wood from West India islands and that from the mainland. The Mexican and Honduras growth is of a better grade than any oth- CT The mahogany of Mexico is worth in the United States and Europe from SSO to $100 thousand feet, on the aver age. The value of individual logs, how ever, is occasionally very high, single sticks bringing as much as $5,000."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
THE PALMIsTRY BUSINESS.
Quick Profits Realized at Coney Is- land by Fortune Tellers-Argu-
 ment of Sorceress.

Somebody is going to make money out of the palmistry business, and why shouldn't I be that person?" said the Egyptian sorceress who came from Ala bama, and who supported her sick hus- band and her poor children by the pro- ceeds of her Coney island stand, ac- cording to Frank Leslie's Monthly. q said to myself: I'll go into this,as a seri- ous business, and I'll go into it the right sort of way. I'll be the executive and I'll hire experienced people to do the rest I started in with only $500. and I've got S5,000 worth of fittings alone now. I don't know anything else I could have taken up that I'd have been able to get along so we'll at I'm able to pay my people good wages, too, which I couldn't have done if I'd taken up dressmaking or anything else I'd have to employ girls in. I start them in at eight dollars g. week and I raise them as high as $15 when they prove to be quick and clever at reading character"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
JUSTICE FOR A usURER.
Novel Judgment Entered by English Jurist Against Debtor = Adopt
 ed ssSmall Payment" Plans.

In all lands the usurer is held in contempt and people of all classes in- wardly chuckle when one of the class gets the worst end of a bargain. An English paper records a peculiar de- cision in the suit of usurer against poor woman. The man had lent the woman money in such way that it was to be paid in installments and with monthly usurious interest The woman was unable to pay the amount due.
 The judge satisfied himself that the woman was honest and honorable and that what she had already paid in in- stallments would cover the original loan and reasonable interest.
 Twill you accept G5 in discharge? ?'' asked the judge of the plaintiff; "you will then have had ten per cent. on the loan
 The plaintiff would accept nothing less than the full amount to which the law entitled him.
 Then said the judge, although I cannot invalidate the agreement, can make an order which, Iethink, will fit the case. I give Judgment for the full amount, to be paid at the rate of six pence month";
 This was the .'installment system'' with vengeance, for at this rate of payment the usurer would be 75 years in getting his money.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

Charles Town, suppressing it in the hope that 1t might reach her more gradually and with less terrible effect than if he told it, but now that he knew that she knew it the blessings which are shed abroad by the disap- pearance of the wicked affected him also, and he brightened. There were no functions for Kate, but she bright ened, striving with all her soul to have this so for her own sake as we'll as that of others. AS for Mir Delaplaine, Dame Charter, and Dickory, they frightened without any trouble at all, the disappearance of the wicked having such a direct and forcible effect upon them
 Dickory Charter, who matured in a fashion which made everybody forget that Kate Bonnet was eleven months his senior, entered into business with MT. Delaplaine, and Jamaica became the home of this happy family, whose welfare was founded, as on rock, upon the disappearance of the wicked.
 CHAPTER XXXVII.
 rov1 3sTTSrr DoTo ToTTyreS TrIJE0 CtASE
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
Finest Choir in World.

The cathedral of Alexander Nevskoi, St. Petersburg, is said to have the finest choir in the world. It is com posed of about thirty of the best voices in the Russian monasteries Whenever a novice with an exceptionally good voice is entered he is sent to the mon astery of Alexander Nevskoi, where he is trained as carefully as an opera singer, and remains there doing noth- ing except assisting at the music at mass in the morning and vespers in the afternoon until he becomes aged, when he is retired on pension.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

k&gY MSiB @M town lay the gOOQ DrlS King and Queen, just arrived from Jamaica. On her deck was an impatient young gentleman, leaning over the rail and watching the approach of boat with two men rowing and a passenger in the stern.
 This impatient young man was Dick ory Charter, that morning arrived at Bridgetown and not yet having been on shore. He came for the purpose of set ting some business affairs, partly on account of Miss Kate Bonnet and part ly for his mother.
 As the boat came nearer, Dickory recognized one of the men who were rowing and hailed him.
 "Heigho! Tom Hilyer," he cried, T am right glad to see you on this river again. I want boat to so to my mothers house; know you of one at liberty?"
 The man ceased rowing for mo- ment and then addressed the passenger in the stern, who, having heard what he had to say, nodded briefly.
 '.Well, well, Dick Charter," cried out the man, "and have you come back as governor of the colony? You look fine enough, anyway. But if you want a boat to go to your mothers old home, you can have a seat in this one; were going there, and our passenger does not object"
 The man in the stern was fairly young, handsome, sunburned. and well dressed in a suit of black When Dick ory thanked him for allowing him, to share his boat the passenger in the stern nodded his head with q jerk and an air which indicated that he took the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
Seat Sale Starts April IA, at 9O'cIOck
Amer,can sugar.

A leading newspaper of Austria cona& plains that under the reciprocity treaty with Cuba the consumption of sugar in the United States will be fully covered by the home production and Cuban crops. The consumption in the United States is estimated at 100000 tons a year. Out of this Cuba, where the crop is this year nearly s35o, ,00o tons larger. than last year, will deliver the Hons share say 1 100000 tons. The raw su- gar production of Louisiana and Florida contributes 300, 900 tons. the Philippines ,100, ,000 tons and the United States proper turns out 250, ,0S0 tons of beet sugar.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

she was brave girl and she did it.
 Tn this work of her life-a work which if not accomplished would make that life not worth the living Kate was much helped by Dickory; and he helped her by not saying word about it or ever allowing himself, when in her. presence, to remember that there had been shadow or a stain.
 Even the Governor frightened He had striven hard to keep from Kate the news which had come to him from
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

E=1---A--4 -4--e5 ter came before Ben Greenway arrived in Spanish Town. He had had hard time to get there. having but little money and no friends to help him;- but he had strong heart and an earnest, and so he was bound to get there at last; and, although Kate saw no visitors. she saw him. She was not dressed in mourning; she could not wear black for herself
 She greeted the Scotchman with earnestness; he was friend out of the old past, but she gave him no chance to speak first.
 Ben she exclaimed, ''have you a message for me?'
 No message he replied, "but hae somethin' on my heart wish to say to ye. I hae toiled an laboured an hae striven wi mony obstacles to get to ye an to say it.
 She looked at him, with her brows knit, wondering if she should allow him to speak; then, with the words scarcely audible between her tightly closed lips, she said: Ben, what is it?"
 Tt is this. an no more nor less" replied the Scotchman; The was never fit to be your father, an it is not fit now for ye to remember him as your father I was faithful to him to the vera last, but there was no truth m him. It is an abomination an wick edness for ye to remember him as your father!"
 Kate spoke no word, nor did she shed "a tear.
 It was my hearts desire ye should know it. said the Scotchman, "an' came Iaony 8 weary league to tell ye so.'
 "Ben,' said she. T think I have known it for a long time, but would not suffer myself to believe it; but
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16

now, having heard your words, l am sure of it.
 Uncle" said she an hour afterward, T have no father, and never had one'
 And the Wickedness which had so long shadowed and stained the life of Kate Bonnet was now removed from it. It was hard to get away from the shadow and to wipe off the stain. but
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
Art Talk.

Character is typography"
 What do you mean?"
 Reputation is painted on; charaoa ter is burned in. ."-Cincinnati Commer- cial-Tribune.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
xxxvI.

THE BLESSINGS WHICH COME FROM THE DEATH. OF THE WICKED.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
Speak Kindly of the Living.

If all would speak as kindly of the living as in epi5aphs they do of tha fg lead, censorious gossip would soon De q stranger in the world. Bulwer
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
Sunshine on the Hair.

Direct sunshine gives gloss. to hair of any shade: but fair hair it renders like burnished gold,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
An Unexpected Illustration.

The Trout-Dear me! I've heard of the worm turning but never thought 1t would be like this! IN. |. sun.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-16
AN1igfy Play. Tss ss %9 sfsss Impressive Bsss,yt. q

2 lower floor s2 balance hs $15O; balcony gallery admission oc box seats s2 $2 Matinee p8ca Railroad Excursions Seat Sale Starts April at 9OCOck be
 
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
No Room for Fence Posts in Japan.

No Room for Fence Posts in Japan.
In Japan, when farmer permits
a telegraph or telephone pole to be
erected on his land he has made a
great concession to modern reform,
says Harold Boice in the Booklovers'
Magazine. Only the exceedingly rich
have fences around their farms in ia
pan, not because of the cost of the
fence, but because of the value of
the square inches the posts and pick
cts would consume. If border is de-
sired around field it is customary to
plant mulberry trees. The total area
of ground in Japan thus devoted to
the silkworm tree, which otherwise
would be taken up with fences,
amounts to about 100000 acres. This
has no reference to the mulberry
farms and groves, the area for which
is over three times as much. The
fact that a Japanese farmer is forced
to figure On the amount of ground a
fence post would occupy and the in
teresting fact that the government, in
its statistical enumeraions, has had
the areas covered by individual null
berry trees on farm boundaries care.
fully computed, demonstrates the
great value of arabic land.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
ParIor Maq1c-

70 fill with smoke two apparently
empty bottles-Rinse out one bottle
with hartshorn and another bottle
with spirits of salts; next, bring the
bottles together, mouth to mouth;
both will at once be filled with white
| vapors. The vapors in question are
composed of sal ammoniac-a solid
body, generated by the union of two
| Invisible gases
| To obtain fire from water-Throw a
small quantity of potassium on the
surface of little water in basin.
Immediately rose-colored flame will
be produced. Any chemist will supply
the quantity for several of these ex-
periments for very small sum.
To give a party a ghostly appear
ance-Take half pint of spirits and,
having warmed it, put a handful of
salt with it into basin; then set it
on fire, and it will have the effect of
making every person look hideous.
This feat must be performed in
| room.
| To make a card jump out of the
| L
any one draw any card that he may
choose and afterward put it in the
pack, but so that you may know where
to find it at pleasure; then take a
piece of wax and put it under the
thumb nail of your hand and fasten
hair to your thumb and the other end
of the hair to the card; then spread
the pack of cards upon on the table
ard say Come forth!' and the card
will jump out of the pack.
Magic breath-Half fill a glass tum-
bier with lime water; breathe into it
frequently, at the same time stirring
it with piece of glass. The fluid,
which before. was perfectly -transpa-
rent. will presently become quite
white, and, if allowed to remain at
rest, real chalk will be deposited.
To produce instantaneous light up
on ice-Throw upon ice a small piece
OF potassium, and it will burst into a
bright fame.
To light lamp with piece Of ice
Attach a piece CT potassium of the
size of small shot to the wick of a
lamp; have also ready piece of ice,
with which, when you touch the 20
tassium. the lamp will blaze immedi-
ately. To perform the experiment,
place the lamp upon the table before
the audience. Question the ladies as
to what means they generally employ
to light their lamps. II they answer
in the usual way, you may respond
that you know much better plan.
Raise the lamp, that they may per
ceive that it is not lighted; then take
the ice and touch the potassium,
which will blaze instantaneously Ad-
wise the ladies to try the experiment
at home when they wish to light their
lamps. Diamond.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
S G1xMkmm6 Adlwpnnd & & 11rqa OF QQ1d6 a1Jl
when we do strike it. We're not min.
ing for our health.

when we do strike it. We're not min
ing for our health.
"And"-Miss Picker lowered her
voice to whisper-"we've got a town
site scheme working and summer
resort proposition under our hats.
why, do you know, l thought I
never should get used to this sort of
life when we first began it. And
Grace now I'm going to tell it
cried for three days and two nights
because she didn't hear from home,
and on the third evening she got a
letter. Say! It was pretty hard to
String on two lonely girls-but that
letter told how Fanny Kirk had been
having the gayest time of her life go
ing QUIT was her first season-and
here we were, up under the Dome,
with not so much as ball gown with
in miles of us, and feeling like two
chickens without any protecting wing.
''Bnt we have stuck to it, although
thought I should have to give up
when my shirt waists all got soiled
end I had nothing to wear. Then we
took to leather skirts, leggins and, at
times, even to boots.
Il don't mind saying Miss Picker
went on, that one of the reasons we
have kept working hard here is to
live down a mean joke. Someone,
perhaps not intending that the thing
should go too far, spread a report that
wa had ctrTol, oo1d r,1nnino OK mn a
ton. Indeed, some of our samples
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08

sent to the assay Office were loaded
with pure gold by the joker. The as
say was all right, but, sad to say, our
mine was not. Running $4,000 ton!
Think Of it! And we're not running
anything yet.
But we will strike it if it's here.
We are down 200 feet now and are
trstling with the help Of the two
hired men, And we will keep at it,
regardless Of appearances or gossip
Just then Miss Kepford, in leather
skirt and boots, came up out OF the
| shaft and Joined in the chat. She
vouched for the determination of Miss
| Picker and herself to "see the thing
through" and mot to cry" if the claim
! should prove worthless.
Every evening, when sunset tints
| St. Peters Dome, the girls quit the
| shaft together and go over to their
camp. After setting the kettle to boil
they shift clothes and get ready for
| supper-Eacon and eggs, coffee, jam,
perhaps some biscuit, Ofttimes baked
ky themselves.
Now and then neighbor or visit
ing prospector chances to blow into
Camp and is introduced. He's made
welcome right away, even asked to
share luncheon or supper. If the
evening is fair. the little company sits
outside the storage tent-the dining
room''-round a rough board table,
covered with q strip of oil cloth-out
III the open, under great pine trees,
and no more conviyial party could be
! imagined.
After supper, as the shadows creep
| round the camp and the embers of
the fire sputter and glow, and then
moon comes out of the blackness of
the night, the girls take up mando.
Inns and pick them tinklingly. the
while softly humming some bits of
opera or a lullaby they used to sing
to their own true friends at home.
So much for the gold mine," and
the singularly strange and plucky ca
reer these girls have chosen. But,
| with all the romance of the environ
ment and their lonely vigil and labors,
they have set themselves against a
1ainy day in a businesslike manner.
Of course, they know that a line to
their parents at any moment would
bring a check. but they wish to t"make
good" with their. venture. So they
have taken over a lot of granite prop
Iserty, and it is sad. to be q find. z
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
SHE DIDN'T GET A KITTEN.
Young Woman's Disappointment Nc
Fault Of the Butcher.

Young Woman's Disappointment No
Fault Of the Butcher.
She is such sweet little thing, a
bride of only four months, that the
Harlem butcher with whom she was
taking her first lessons in marketing
was delighted to see her come into
the shop. He waited on her himself
and never, so he says, took advan-
tage of her inexperience. If he was
busy she stroked the fine Maltese cat
stretched lazily in the window and
waited for him.
when this cat has Kittens" she
said to him one morning, twill you
be kind enough to let me have one OF
them. I am so fond of cats"
"When that cat has Kittens" sail
the butcher, ''you certainly shall ha
your pick of them"
She waited few weeks and the
mentioned the subject to him again.
Nothing doing yet, lady" he re-
piled.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08

week. said lady living in second
s1ocy' fiat, when something flew
swiftly past me, almost within reach.
Startled, I glanced up just in time,
to see beautiful robin alight under
The caves of the house opposite. A
long straw in his mouth. showed me
he was busily at work building nest.
AS sat watching, his mate hoped
IN sight from under the hidden roof,
and seemed most interested in the
building process, to which in the
mean time the builder had added bits
of wool and straw. Much pleased.
with his progress, my little friend
hoped upon a branch of maple
tree close by and poured forth a short
strain
"Suddenly a small boy stroiled
along and, espying the bird, stepped
into the road and gathered a few peb-
bles~ Advancing stealthily, he crept
closer to the little songster, and in
breathless anxiety l watched him
fling the stone. o, happy chance! A
breath of air at that moment lifted
the branch, and the stone went wide
o. its mark. The little nest builder,
startled by the missile, flew off into
the distance; but, after sailing in
mid-air for moment or two, he re-
turned and lit upon neighbocins
roof.
again the boy took aim, and again
I awaited in breathless suspense; but
this time the aim proved too true!
There was fluttering of little wings
and all was still.
alas! thought I, for the snug little
Ealf-built nest under the caves which
was never to be completed, and, alas!
for the mother bird that would wait
| III vain for her mates return
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08

guest takes one of the tiny ribbons
hanging at the side of the bowl and
they give q quick pull all together,
which scatters the leaves in all direc-
tons, leaving them dangling in the
hands of those who hold the ribbon at
the other end. s.%.-
The notices may be comic or senti-
mental. In either case they afford
plenty of fun, as they must be read
aloud.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08

A week or two afterward she ex
pressed some Impotence to the cash
Ter. Il shall be gone from the neigh
borhood," she said, before I get that
kitten he promised me-
IF you wait until that cat has kit
tens" said the cashier, with a smile
you'll wait until sausages grow il
strawberry beds.''
The bride started. and her face
grew scarlet She left the shop in q
hurry and has not been back SINCE
New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
A $40 Chill.

Tomp1ins met Bell, who owed hin
some money. Bell was subject at in.
tervals to shaking chills, which racked
him in a terrible manner.
Hello, Bell! How are your" said
Tompkins.
bad, old man, bad! Worse than
ever"
Indeed! When do you expect to
have another chill?'' -I&E -.
Il can't tell. Why do you ask me %
:'Well, thought I'd like to be
around to see if you wouldn't shake
cut shat ten dollars you owe me-. . - --
Chicago Record-Herald.