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The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25
MEALS AND EMOTIONS.
An Odd Difference That Exists Be-
tween Men and Women.

I cannot understand the difference
between men and women about eat
ing 1t is such a radical difference and
there doesn't seem to be any reason for
it. It gave rise to the old saw, THE
way of mans heart is to his stom-
ach," and many maidens have profted
thereby-if gaining a permanent posi-
ton as cook is to be regarded as profit.
| have seen men at the time of
great crisis, when their faces were
white with emotion, when life, or
fortune, or q name-or woman was
hanging in the balance, answer din
ner call with alacrity, and eat. eat
heartily. | have seen chatting dish
tempt a man from an important bust
ness engag cement, and a cup Of tea
even make him sacrifice train. The
man who comes home nervous wreck,
cross, irritable, taciturn, after meal
to his liking is q creature to conjure
with, so great is the change wrought.
1t is an established fact that criminals
eat we'll when awaiting trial and even
execution. Men in destitute circum-
SId1cSS w III SdCIlllCC CNSit tllhS IoA
the sake Of three hearty meals a day,
where with women clothing, or, in
rarer instances, reading matter, is a
first consideration.
Men in distress go and eat-and feel
better; If women attempt it they feel
worse, The very thought of food re-
pels them, it chokes them, and actually
does them more harm than good. To
eat in a time Of grief seems to them
sacrilege. They cry out against the ne
cessity after days Of fasting and yield
only in degrees. Women cannot suf-
fer and eat at the same time. Men can.
And that is the difference | cannot I'M
derstand.-BroWn Book.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25
PRESENCE OF MIND.
The Way Two English amen Captured
Four Hundred Prisoners.

Toward the close of the peninsular
war 400 prisoners were captured by
John Coborne, afterward Field Mar
shall Lord SeatOn. COlbOrne, who was
wounded at Talavera, had been dis
abled for some time, but in 1913 he
was in active service again, and when
Weilington's army crossed the frontier
into France he performed what was in
deed the most amazing feat Of his ca
reer.
When riding, with no comrade but
the famous Sir Henry Smith, separated
from his column, he saw 400 French
soldiers passing along ravine below
him. THE only way was to put a
good face on the matter" he wrote.
$50 | went up to them, desiring them
to surrender. The officer thinking, Of
course, the column was behind me, sur
rendered his sword, saying theatrically
'Je vous rends cette epee, qui ben
fait son devoir.' Il surrender this
sword, which has done its duty Well)
The 400 followed his example" Sir
Henry Smith used to declare that he
had never seen such cool presence Of
mind as Colborne displayed on this oc
casiOn.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25
THE WORK OF NOvICES.
Inventions That Have Worked Won
Gers In G1assnaaking.

In 1877 a carpenter of Sandwich.
Mass. wanting piece of glass of
particular size and shape, conceived
the idea that the molten metal could be
pressed into any FORM much the same
as lead might be, writes William r.
Stewart in the Cosmopolitan. Up to
that time all glassware had been
blown either offhand OF in a mold, and
considerable skill was required, and
the process was slow. The glass man
but he vent ahead and built Il press,
and now the United States is the
greatest pressed glassware country in
the world.
In 1890 a novice in the plate glass in
dustry, Henry Flcckner of Pittsburg,
whose only knowledge of glass had
been acquired in a window glass fac
tory. invented an annealjng "lchr," the
most important single Improvement
ever introduced in plate glass manu-
facture. In three hours by the lehr the
same work is done which under the old
kiln system required three days
About the same year Philip Argobast
of Pittsburg, also a novice in glass
making, invented q process by which
bottles and jars may be made entirely
by machinery, the costly blow oven
process being avoided and the expense
of bottle making reduced one half.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25

The Old Egyptians. Made Theirs of
Highly Polished Metal.


Wilkinson shows that we are i'll
debted for our mirrors to the ancient
Egyptians. At first they were made
of metal, so we'll compounded and pol
ished that some recently dug up from
ThebeS have regained a wonderful lus-
ter after burial for thousands of years.
Oval in shape, they were fastened to
carved wooden handles. References
are made to such looking glasses in
Exodus and Job. The Greeks and Ro-
mans made similar mirrors Of silver.
Pliny says that the earliest glass
mirrors We're made of black volcanic
glass. Through the middle ages glass
backed with thin metallic sheets came
into use, and ''bullseyes," or glass
globes into which while hot a metallic
mixture was blown for backing.
At Murano near Venice, in the thir-
teenth century, the republic protected
the trade and jealousy guarded it's Sc
crets, securing a lucrative business for
century and a half. Mirrors were
then made from cylinders of glass fiat
tened on stone, carefully polished, bev-
eled at the edges and silvered by an
amalgam.
Don't Judge a man by his failures In
life, for many a man fails because ne
80 4ao hanncf RI c11capp6
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25
His Reason.

Judge--You let the burglar go to ar
rest an automobilist? Policeman
Yes. The automobilist pays fine and
adds to the resources of the state. The
burglar goes to prison, and the state
has to pay for his eep.-Fliegende
Batter.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1904-08-25

Don't Judge a man by his failures in
life, for many man fails because he
is too honest to succeed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

Iron the Philadelphia Record.1
Love is blind. but never hopeIessly so.
1t doesn't take an incubator to hatch a
plot.
The cheap cigar with a bad wrapper is
"a sort of rank outsider.
Blobbs-"So you patronize the races,
ehE Dir you ever go broker" Slobbs-
No, but I've come home that way"
Some people count their chickens be-
fore they are Matched, and some even be-
fore the eggs are laid.
No. Maude, dear the captain of a canal
boat doesn't have to consult a chiropodist
about his towS.
The chronic kicker is often surprised
to find that some clam-like individual has
stepped in and reaped the fruits of his
labors.
Fanny Footlights-'Why don't you have
Lawyer Smoothboy attend to your di-
vorce?', Polly Pinktights-''Not for mine.
He advertises to get them without pub
licity."
Mrs. Muggins-''Afrs. Skinfiynt says that
when she goes to the butchers she al
ways gets the best of meat" Mrs. Bug
gins-"Yes, and dare say she gets the
best of the butcher"
The farmer cometh into town.
And says he feeleth very dry,
A load of hay he bringeth down
And taketh home a load of rye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lFrom the Chicago News.
Life is a game of promise and take.
1t is easy to begin loafing, but it's
hard to STOP
A hitch in a love affair often pre-
vents a matrimonial affair.
Some men find it easier to dodge
an obligation than to meet it.
Fortune is the only knocker that
a man likes to see at his door.
Some men think more than they say
and some say more than they think.
People who look over the affairs of
others are very apt to overlook their
own
Men who imagine the world owes
them a living try to collect it a loaf
at a time.
If a man is hard on his children he
is usually an easy mark for his grand
children.
A garrulouS man never knows
enough about any question to put I'D
an interesting argument.
A young married couples first quar-
rel usually begins with an argument
about how to avoid quarrels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29

mately became a sign by which the Re
publicans conquered. To them it has
been the inveterate foe of Indifference.
which loses party battles. The bugles
sound and there is a rush toward the
front. The onset gains force at the
polls.
We have been told more than once
that the campaign of 1896 was won
only after Senator Hanna had journey
ed east, uttering woeful predictions in
to the ears of every capitalist he en-
countered. If we mistake not, the SEN
ator, during his lifetime. expressed to
more than one intimate friend that the
trend toward Bryan was sufficiently
strong by September of that year to
convince the Republican leaders he was
bound to win. But the leaders girded
themselves, party workers were alarmed,
and. as the coin jingled out ofoverladen
pockets, the campaign started with re-
newed energy. In the congressional
campaign two years later there was
somewhat similar incident along in Oc-
tober. but the cohorts formed again,
with like result. The campaign of
1900 also gave the Republicans an oc-
casfonal bad quarter of an hour.
Now. while the campaign of 1904 is
40 It's Stages ana WnlIe the DOM
inant party is exultant over figures of
states sure to go Republican, we are
told that the elements of a bad scare
are gathering. Secretary Shaw's Col
lege Point speech was heard by an in
different audience of only 1000 people |
who received tine opening gum with so |
little enthusiasm that the secretary |
himself was grumpy when he returned |
TO New York. That is only one pointer, |
Tor it is said that the Republican pro-
sramme has been attended everywhere |
With apathy. The Chicago convention /
vas not bowling success in enthus-
asm, albeit there was a very respect
lble outburst for the president. BUSH
less men everywhere are lethargic |
They will not serve on campaign COM
nittees. The passing of the hat pro-
'okes no scampering to lift the covers
Il strong boxes. So, in grave tones, say
he men at the helm of the Republican
a bad scare is coming, and
ii in all they are very glad of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
BuRRow is BUSY.
Sending the Amendments to Chosen
Newspapers.

The two constitutional amendments
which Attorney General Coleman has
decided can be submitted to the voters
at the coming election are being sent
out by Secretary of State Burrow to
the newspapers over the state which
he has selected to publish them. The
law says that they must be published
for thirteen weeks prior to the cleo
ton, which means that publication
must begin early in August.
These two amendments are the
Francis proposition to give the COVER
nor the power to veto any item or
items in the miscellaneous appropria-
ton bill without vetoing the whole
bill; and the Kennedy proposition to
make the state printer elective by the
people instead of by the legislature.
Tt has been figured that the legal
rate for printing the first proposition
for the thirteen weeks will be $3.50,
and for the last one $16.6S. If the
newspapers that get it try to charge
the legal rates they get for county
printing. however, they will get cut
down. The legal rate for state print
ing is SO cents per square for the
first insertion and 25 cents per square
for each subsequent insertion, which
is just half the legal rates on county
printing.
The law requires that the PROPOSE
tons shall be published in at least
one paper in each county in the state,
which would be 105 papers. Mr.. Bur-
row will publish them in about ESQ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
A New Profession.

A new profession has been made nee
essary by the changed conditions Of
modern industry. The social secretary
serves as a point of contact between
master and men. 1t is his Cor herr bus
mess to know the employees personally
as their employer cannot know them, to
know whether the conditions under
which they work are wholesome phySi-
cally, mentally and morally. and to
know how to improve them, if they are
not what they ought to be- The head
of a department store which employs
500 girls says that his social secretary
has been worth to him in cash three
times as much as her service has cost
him. She has given the girls talks on
hygiene, thus improving their health
and their physical effectiveness. She
has organized literary clubs among
them, thus stimulating them mentally
and improving the social atmosphere of
the store. She has mothered the girls,
many of whom are daughters of immi-
grants. and who in our public schools
have enjoyed opportunities which their
mothers never have. These girls accord
ingly, at the most critical age, MAXI
the perilous discovery that they must
know more than their mothers do. The
social secretary is one whose knowl-
edge and position they respect, and one
to whom they can go as a friend. And
if she is what she ought to be, she ac-
quires an influence over them which is
as valuable to the girls as it is to their
employer.-Josiah Strong in Social Ser
wire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Harper is swift enough to support two
bowling alleys.
Nine courageous Neodesha girls are 60
Ing to organize a baseball team.
The ''old stone barn." long an eyesore
TO Winfield, is being taken down.
There's a dearth OF bran at Pratt and
the cows are giving SKINNED milk.
Abilene has a tree trimming campaign
on The BARRIERS desire to add a proviso
of 'whiskers.'
To the shame and sorrow of Kansas, a
Nebraska name was first out of the draw
ing at Rosebud.
A recent horsetrace at Pratt was pull
ed up rather than pulled off. avow the
boys who bet on the wrong nag.
The wrong COW driven from pasture
and slaughtered, has caused almost as
bitter a feud at Holton as the congress
ional contest
A broken down dray has been allowed
to remain so long on the public streets
ming to nest therein.
The Cottonwood river is proving good
for something besides overfiows Two
Emporia boys laSsoed 80 frogs from it's
sullen depths one day this week
Lightning rang up a Kansas phone the
other night, but the master of the house.
not desiring further acquaintance with
Old ST. NICK. refused to answer.
The baby telegraph operator of the
state is youth at Winfield. Although
only Il years old, he can send or re-
ceive message rapidly and correct.
Concordia boy of 10 years. who drives
home the cows from the pasture, is said
to have a more variegated assortment of
oaths than a Chinese pirate. Where he
but that he has them in stock ali resi-
dents along his route agree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
LEWIS GETS A CLAIM.
Son of Topeka Physician Is No. s3s at
Rosebud.

Charles w. Lewis. son of DR.. ]. p
Lewis, of Topeka, drew No. S3S in the
government land lottery at Rosebud,
South Dakota.
Mr.. Lewis is the first Topekan to
draw claim in this lottery, although
a great many. Kansans have been
successful Mr.. Lewis went up to
Dakota on Wednesday, July 20, and
returned home last Sunday.
He is the state agent of the Patri-
otto Legion of America. Mr.. Lewis
was married last January at Parsons.
Kas., and lives at 1913 West Tenth
street. He is % years old.
Mr.. Lewis called at the State Jour-
nal office at o'clock today to make
inquiries in regard to the names of
those who drew claims. The infor-
nation that he drew No. S3S came
over the Associated Press wires
within five minutes after he left the
Office.
No. S3S should give Mr.. Lewis
very good claim. 1t has been gen.
orally understood that all those who
drew claims in the first 100 would be
able to get farms worth from $4,000
to $4,000.
Mr.. Lewis has not decided whether
he will go to South Dakota to live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
QUARANTINE FOR SMALLPOX.
w. Myers, an Adventist Printer, Is in
Quarantine.

w. Myers, a printer employed at
the office of the Seventh Day Advent
list printing department, in the church
at Fifth and Western avenue, is quar-
antined at the church parsonage, the
next door east of the church, with
smallpox. This Is another of the cases
suppressed by City Physician Storrs,
whose duty is to cover up everything
possible connected with his official
record.
Mr.. Myers was placed in quarantine
three days ago. He states that he
contracted his disease in Marion
county, where he was visiting a short
time ago. He also says that the dis
ease similar to that which he has is
very prevalent in Marion county, but
that nobody thinks it is smallpox and
it is allowed to take care of itself. DR..
Storrs, however, is absolutely certain
that it is smallpox. 1t seems that doc
tors disagree.
The case is similar to nearly all
the others which DR.. Storrs has
placed in quarantine. The patient is
not sick at all, but has a slight erup
ton. He has had the eruption for
three days before he suspected any
thing was wrong with him, as he was
not confined to his bed. When he be-
gan to fear that he had some con-
tagious disease he sent to DR.. Storrs
himself and reported the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29

kodak picture with nothing to denote
why or where it was taken. The scene
depicts Billy Mailman in a white alpine
hat standing at the base of a waterfall
200 feet high. This, we suppose, is Billy
discovering the elixir of life in Colo
RADIO. Three other gentlemen. who look
like athletes, are standing close by to
back Billy up in the great discovery.
Now, if the cascade in the picture is
the fountain of youth, it is a peach and
no miStake. Billy should live at least
one thousand years and play the game
of his life each season. The falling
from the springs
wide and deep, and where the elixir col
lects in pool at the base of the cliff
there is enough of it to battle and re-
juvenate all the athletes in America.
How Billy happened to discover the
spring is not mentioned in the letter. 1t
is too good thing to give away. We
have an idea the astute Mailman is
waiting to buy the land, put up bot
thing works and send out line OF de-
livery wagons. Should the elixir do
for others what Billy claims it has
done for him. the chance is open for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
ALASKAN BEAR STORY.
Two Men of Nome Have Desperate
Encounter With Giant Grizzly.

Probably the most remarkable escape
from death on record in Alaska was that
Peterson. who ran the Nugget roadhouse,
across the Nome river divide, These
d hase' b IN a66dtl0n the tn Ho
stake creek at the base of the Sawtooth
On the morning of May 80 they started
for their customary prospecting, when
they were surprised to see the tracks of
a monster pair of bears, different from
any they had ever seen before. After a
tedious '-mush'' of several miles they en-
countered a grizzly, the largest of the
bear family and the most ferocious ami
NAL in the world. Peterson fired and the
bullet struck. but not in a vital spot, and
with a growl of rage and pain the wound
ed bear sprang over the cliffs and rolled
almost to the bottom, some 800 feet below,
where she regained her equilibrium and
vanished among the rocks
Chagrined at the failure, Peterson turn
large grizzly about twice the size of the
other, spring upon his partner, Mr.. King,
bered that his was the only available gun,
and as the magazine was out of repair
could only be reloaded by removing the
empty shell by hand The bear sprang at
his foe but King, with the habitual pres
ence of mind inherent in the back woods
hunter. thrust his weapon into the face OF
his assailant In the twinlxling of an eye
the bear had grasped then muzzie OF the
barrel like so much wood. Towering two
feet higher than King, the latter reaI1zed
that the only hone for him was to pull the
trigger and maybe stop the beast until
they procured safety in flight. loud re
port and the bear gave spring high In
the air and fell to the ground
The men beat a quick retreat, ana aIte 6
were surprised to see the bear was still
lying en- the spot where 1t had fallen.
They waited for a few minutes, in the
meantime reloading the rifle, the shotgun
being broken at the stock and the muzzle
left in the mouth of the bear. After
throwing several rocks at a safe distance
they ventured farther, and. unreal and
marvellous as it may SEEM they Iouno the
bear stone dead.
Upon finding the bear was killed, the
men went back for a sled and after sew
eral hours managed to get the bear to the
bottom of the cliff. where they loaded 1t
on the sled. after disemboweling it. they
took it to the Nugget roadhouse and then
started for Nome with nine strong dogs
to draw the heavy load 1t took them
three days to reach the Sour Dough road
house. where the bears remains We're put
in cold storage. The big brute was
brought to town on June and placed on
exhibition at the Golden Gate MOTEL II
IS a perfect specimen of the grizzly and
the skin is a beautiful one. The bear,
weighs nearly 900 pounds
The skin was sold for sl25 and the meat
was purchased by local restaurants at IL
a pound.-Seattle PoSt-1ntelligence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
LULING WAS POISONED.
He Ate Some Fish Infected With
PtOmaine.

c. H. Luling. superintendent of in
surance. is back at his desk in the
state house, after a weeks sickness at
his home in Wichita. He just got
out of bed yesterday, but he immedi-
ately came to Topeka to look after
his work here. He was taken on
Wednesday of last week with an at
tack of ptomaine poisoning, which he
thinks he contracted from eating fish.
For a time he was very sick, and is
still hardly able to be around.
Mr.. Luling returned last week from
st. Louis. He says that Kansas is fur
nishing, far more visitors for the
worlds fair than any other state.
Even Missouri does not begin to have
as many people there as Kansas. The
Kansas commission has thus far pur-
chased $4,000 Kansas buttons and
they are nearly all gone. A large
proportion of the people on the
grounds are from Kansas. On the
recommendation of President Francis,
other states are now taking up the
button idea that Kansas started and
the buttons of other states are now
appearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
'homas Bass and His High School Horses
MAGIC ELIXIR OF LIFE.
Billy Mailman Tells Secret of His
Great Playing in the West.

One story has it that Duffy will ex-
hume Herman Long, once the premier
shortstopper of the realm. OF late Her
man has not done well. He drifted
away from Detroit, and tried it for a
time at Toledo There his grand right
mored, and the last heard of him he
was dallying with a pie crust league
somewhere in the middle west.
Still, if what they say of his arm is
true, Long is the man for Du1ty. VIVA
those Phillies require is phenom at
third who cannot make three-baSe wild
throws past first. Put Herman on third
and let him roll the ball across linen
should 1t deviate from the true course,
the pitcher can step in and correct the
ball OF stop it entirely and save the
extra bases
Managers are seldom accorded proper
credit for the efforts they make to
strengthen the team. Some one 1nVarl-
ably hobs up with knock when boost
is the ideal thing to help the. game
along. But here is one instance where
a move is made in tn right direction,
and any man who tries to block 1t EaS
not the welfare of the team at heart
If those Phillies are determined to
probe among the ruins of Pompeii In
search of fossils with which to brace
the team why not give Billy Mailman
another chance That venerable actor
never failed to deliver the goods on any
part of the diamond stage, and Billy
can bat with one hand as good as the
best of them, and better than some
who use two in swinging the blud-
geon.
There are reasons why Billy should
come in out of the west. He is now
idol at Denver and should prove
a bigger favorite than ever in the east,
now that he has found the elixir OF
life. That Billy is up against the per-
petual fount is proved by glad conduct
on the ball field and a picture of him
self in the act of discovering the feun-
tain of youth.
In a recent letter the former Phill1e
utility man said he felt no more than
eighteen years of age. and was hit
ting the ball on the stitches. In his
own handwriting Billy said: Talk
about the elixir of lifei / believe L
have discovered it, and if you could see
the old noss caper around you would
think him his own grandson. / am
playing better ball now than for many
years past.
Inciosed in the letter was q small