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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
A LUCKY SHOT.
Exciting Moment I'm n Buffalo Hunt
In south Africa

Atrhca
A hunter I'm South Africa tells the
following story OF an adventure with n
buffalo: Il was I'm the act OF descend
ing the bank when PrinslOo. n Dutch
hunter. who was lower down the slope.
saw the dark outline OF the buffalo
standing nj bay behind the screen OF
reeds. Next instant, seeing il about to
charge, he shouted, 'Daar kom hijr
C'There he comcs,O and fired. rather at
random. ! am afraid. Then. rushing
down the path 10y which he had ad-
vanced, he threw himself . eadlong in
10 the reeds ON the left. This all hap
pened i'm 4 few moments. but ! had
sufficient time to raise my rifle TO my
shoulder and fire as the enragcd bull
rushed straight Mt ~mc through the
reeds, with nose thrown forward and
horns back. AS fired l cndcavored to
jump aside to escape the charge, but
my feet got entangled in the matted
grass. and | fell on my back. luckily,
however. retaining my hold on the
stock OF my rifle. My first shot SEEM
ed TO check him for a moment. but the
next he was rushing ,up the slope at
me- 1 shall never forS,t the look in
his fierce eyes. 1t was but moments
work to draw back the bolt OF my
Mauser and 10 close IL again. thus
pushing another cartridge into the
breech. l had no time TO raise the
rifle 10 my shoulder. There was barely
time. just before ne was within strik-
Ing distance. to pull the trigger, with
the stock under my armpit. while l
lay on my back on the top OF the slop-
ing ground. Without so much as a
groan he fell in his tracks and rolled
over into the muddy water two yards
below with 4 great splash, shot through
tho broin
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
THE FOURTH DIMENSION.
Plato'S Early Efforts TO Define This
IntnnEible Qualify.


Intangible Quality.
In Harper's Magazine c. IL. Hinton
writes on the much debated question
Of 'The Fourth Dimension" In open
ing his article he cites Plato as an
early exponent OF this idea.
plato. at the beginning OF the sew
enth book OF the Republic. describes n
set OF prisoners who are held i'm chains
before the mouth Of a great cavern.
bound SO that they cannot turn their
faces in any other direction than look
ing straight into the cavern.
"On the wall in which the cavern
ends they see their shadows projected
by the sun. Their only experience Of
objects is derived 10y watching these
shadows. II passers 10y traverse the
roadway behind them all they see is
the shadows OF these passers 10y on the
wall. If an object strikes them what
they see is the shadow OF that object
striking the shadows OF themselves
plato draws the conclusion that they
would identify themselves with their
shadows. Since events occurring among
these shadow forms are the invariable
Accomplishments OF all their sensations
they would think that they themselves
were those shadows and lived and
moved in n shadow world.
NOW the shadows can only move on
the surface OF the wall. They cannot
approach and recede from it; hence the
prisoners think OF themselves as hav-
ing two dimensional existence only.
And. says Plato, as these prisoners
think OF themselves as less than they
really are, SO we in our turn think OF
ourselves as less than we really are.
His philosophy was an effort TO find
that greater which we really are"
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
MONEY MADNESS.
The Evils of the Mania For Getting
Rich I'm "A rrurry

The mania for getting rich-the mad,
false idea that we must have money
has played worse havoc among ambi-
tious people than war or pestilence. A
member OF the Chicago board OF trade
SAYS that the men and women OF this
country contribute S1OOOOO.oOO n year
20 the sharpers who promise 20 make
them rich quick. They work the same
old scheme OF a confidential letter and
shrewd batting until the victim parts
with his money. Thousands are plOd-
ding along I'm poverty ana deprivation,
Chagrined and Inundated because they
have not been able TO get up i'm the
world or to realize their ambitions. for
the reason that they succumbed 10 the
scheme OF some smooth promoter who
hypnotized them into the belief that
they could make a great deal very
quickly out OF n very little.
The great fever OF trying TO make
dollar earn 81 is growing more and
more contagious. We see even wOh.cS
secretly going into brokers offices and
bucket shops" investing everything
they have i'm all sorts OF schemes,
drawing their deposits out OF the
banks. sometimes pawning their jew
elry-evcn their engagement rings
and borrowing. hoping 10 make a lot OF
money before their husbands or fami-
lies find il out and then to surprise
them with the results. but in most
cases what they invest is hOpelessly
lost
Thousands OF young Americans are
so tied mp by financial or other entan-
clements even before they get fairly
started in their life work that they can
only transmute n 1.-THE into that which
will count in their lives. \ large part
of It is lost on the way up. as the en-
ergy OF the coal is nearly all lost before
IL reaches the electric bulb.-Orison
SWEET Marden in Success.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
CHEER UP.
There Are Millions of People Much
Worse on Than You Are.


Worse on Than You Are.
Cheer up. The world is taking your
photograph. Look pleasant. OF course
you have your troubles, troubles you
cannot tell the policeman. A whole
lot of things bother you. OF course.
Business worries or domestic sorrows.
it may be. or what not. You find life
rugged road whose stones hurt your
feet. Nevertheless cheer up.
1t may be your real disease is sell
fishness-ingrown selfishness. Your life
is too self conferred. You imagine your
tribulatiOns are worse than others
bear. You feel sorry for yourself-the
meanest sort Of pity. 1t is n pathetic
illusion. Rid yourself Of that and cheer
up.
What right have you 10 carry a pic
ture OF your woebegone face and fu-
nereal ways about among your fellows.
who have troubles OF their own? II
you must whine or sulk or scowl. take
car and so 10 the woods or TO the
unfrequented lanes.
Cheer UP. Your ills are largely i'm
aginary. II you were really on the
brink Of bankruptcy. or IL there were
no thoroughfarc through your sorrows.
you would clear your brows. set your
teeth and make the best OF II
Cheer up. You are making a hypo-
thetical case out Of your troubles and
suffering from n self inflicted verdict.
You are borrowing trouble and paying
a high rate Of interest
Cheer up. Why. man alive, in n ten
minute walk you may see a score OF
people worse OF than you. And here
you are digging your own grave and
playing pallbearer into the bargain.
Man alive. YOU must do your work
Smile, even though IL be through your
tears, which speedily dry. And cheer
up.-AiilNvaukee Journal.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
Eternity.

Eternity is incomprehensible. When
the LATEST snail has carted every drop
OF water in all our oceans and every
grain OF sand in all our lands TO the
farthest away star and brought il all
back again, stopping for century
rest at each planet on the way both
ways, then will we see the first rays
OF the sunrise OF eternity's endless day
in the east of the beginning
This being the case, il is suggested
that we don't cram ourselves with this
worlds foods and drink so much OF
earthly water that it will take half OF
the everlasting 10 get our systems in
shape TO enjoy what's left OF eternity
-Hayfield Mower.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24

To make "a good paste for labels mix
together with cold water until they
form a smooth cream four ounces OF
-four and an ounce and n half OF brown
sugar. Then pour in boiling water.
stirring all the time till the right con
sistency is obtained. Add five or six
drops OF carbolic acid 10 keep the
paste from becoming sour. and when it
has been well stirred in the compound
will be fit for use.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
A NerRo and EnrIIsb

You are almost an octogenarian.
sah," said the semieducatcd young
yellow negro pompously.
"Wha-what's dat yo' sayf8 snapped
the venerable but unlettered darby
Il specified, sab, that you are almost
an Octogenarian."
well, don yO' do il ag'in, boy, or
I'll done bust yo' head wild my stick
Yc> heahs my prognostificationf' New
York Tribune
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
Fresh Groceries
Select Hardware
Hardware Line is C0IDIGta

and any article | can't furnish you from
stock will be promptly ordered.
feoo y" u. II. JONES
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
strenuous Times since.

Pa-Now, don't ask me any more
questions. l don't see why your his.
tory lessons should bother you so
They didn't bother me when i was a
boy. Willie-Well, there wasn't 50
much history made when you was a
Exchange
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
Nothing Dull About IL.

Its funny the way poets speak OF
dull care isn't it,
why. what's funny about that"
well. every care ever had was
most awfully sharp" - Philadelphia
Ledger
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
The Worst Kind of Thief.

Chief Justice Start, Of the Supreme
Court of Minnesota, makes the follow
ing timely suggestions to young men
in general in connection with the case
of a young man who had betrayed the
confidence and trust of his employer:
The commercial crime, that of viola
ton of business confidence, is becom-
ing too common of late, and no ex-
ample should be set which will tend to
create feeling among men that they
can take their employers money with
impunity, even while they have the in
tention of,ultimately replacing it.
" The man who steals from you when
you trust him with your money is more
of a scoundrel than the thief who robs
you at the point of a revolver. The
embezzler is guilty of two crimes, only
one Of which is punishable, but the
other Of which is equally degrading.
TO violate the confidence of man
who trusts you is more serious otfense,
as far as morality is concerned, than
merely to take sum Of money from q
man whom you have not led to have
confidence in you. q.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
n. N. q. Encampment.

Minnesota N National Guard will go in
to camp as usual this summer at Camp
Lakeview, instead Of taking the con-
templated trip to the st. Louis ex-
position.
The expense of the St. Louis trip, fig
ured at $4,000, was toe much for the
guard. The legislature permitted the
trip to be made, but gave no additional
appropriation, and left it to the guard
and Governor Van SAINT to decide.
The governor hoped that the trip could
be taken, but did not urge it, leaving
it to the judgement of the gaurdsmen.
Adjutant General Libbey issued or
ders Saturday announcing the dates for
the regular regimental encampments
at Camp Lakeview, as follows:
Third infantry, Colonel Charles A.
Van Duzee, commanding, June FL to
80.
Second infantry, Colonel Arthur w.
Wright commanding, and First batta-
lion of artillery, Major George G. Lam
bert commanding, July 5 to July ID.
First infantry, Colonel C. Nee. Reeve
commanding, July 18 to July e..
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
GlRDLED APPLES TREES

Instructions as to How They Should
be Treated.
F. E. Cutting in Rochester Post and Record.
A large number OF fruit trees have
been injured during the past winter by
rabbits and mice, and if the trees are
to be saved they must be attended to
in the spring preferably about the mid
die Of april.
If the injury does not extend entirely
around the tree and is near the ground
it should be banked up with dirt,
which will prevent the exposed wood
from dying out and will probably save
the tree. If the wound is some dis.
tance from the ground cover with graft.
ing wax or clay and wrap a cloth
around it. j.
When the tree is completely girdled
a different method of treatment is neces-
sary, and if the tree is not attended to
it will be dead before fall. If trees
have been planted bnt one OF two years,
the most satisfactory way, although
rather expensive, is to dig up the injur-
ed trees and replace them with new
trees. "A somewhat slower but veng
good way is to cut off the tree at the
wound and sprouts will start from near
the ground. Leave the strongest shoot
to form the new trunk, cutting off the
the others. If you have grated trees,
and they were properly planted several
inches deeper than they stood in the
nursery, the sprouts will be of the
same variety as the original trunk OF
the tree.
Another method which is especially
useful in treating larger trees is to
bridge over the wound by springing in
scions long enough to connect the
sound inside bark above and below the
injury. The scions are. prepared by Sc
curing twigs Of last years growth from
any apple tree and cutting them a little
longer than the wound, then cut the
ends to point by making a slanting
cut on one side. Shove these under the
bark and cover the wound with graft.
ing wax or clay. These scions will in.
crease in size until they close up and
make covering as good as the origi.
nal bark. Use from two to six scions
according to size of the tree.
Trees can be easily protected from
mice and rabbits by wrapping with
wood veneer protectors, which are
made for this purpose. Burlap OF
building paper can be wrapped around
them and will protect from rabbits il
the snow does not get SO high thai
they can reach the lower branches
Mice can usually be kept away by
tramping the snow around the trees
but they sometimes gnaw the bark be
fore the snow falls.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
Every Town Has.

AVSAy 1V"h AAoSs =
A liar. i.
A sponger. +
A smart alec. s
A dirty hypocrite. s
A girl who giggles. !
A weather prophet. !
A neighborhood feud.
A woman who tattles. !
A man. who-knows-it-all. ~
One Jacksonian Democrat. :
More loafers than it needs. :
A boy who cuts up in church. :
A few meddlesome old women.
A ''thing'' that stares at women. 3
A stock law that is not enforced. j
A widowsr who is too gay for his age
Some men who make remarks aboui
women. ..:
A preacher who thinks he ought Il
run the town. .,..
A few who know how to run the af
fairs Of the country.
A grown young man who laughs ev
cry time he says anything.
A girl who goes to the postottice ev
cry time the mail comes in.
A man who grins when you talk an(
laughs after he has said something.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
GAMBLING IN GRAIN.
An Albert Lea rlan Loses Over 10000
Gambling in the Board of Trade.
From Albert Lea Times:


The commission houses or bucket
shops which operate in this city arc to
have their day in court. Casper w.
Ayars has commenced proceedings,
through his attorneys, Dunn & Knatvold
against A. j. Cummings, commission
man, to recover $4,000 lost by Ayars
gambling in wheat on the board of
trade. 1t is understood that Mr.. Ayars'
losses amount in all to about $500 and
that he will shortly bring other suits
to recover. Still other plaintiffs than
Mr.. Ayars may come into the open
later if it his suit thrives. 1t is under
stood that a large number of our
citizens, some Of them business and
Office men, have been attempting to get
rich quick by gambling in wheat and
other articles. Many and perhaps all
of them have been losers, for it is al
most the invariable rule that the man
who CANDLES, if he wins a little at first,
will plunge in still deeper risking his
pile from time to time until it is swept
away, as it is sure to be in the end.
One other Of our citizens is understood
to have lost about $4,000. Still others
have lost nearly as much and many
are out a few hundred dollars as a re-
suit of their attempts to buck Armour,
Gates and the millionaire spectators
of the big center.
Naturally business men who gamble
, in options are as secret about it as
possible and are mostreluctant to come
out into the open for it. is sure to i'm
pair their credit and to lose them
standing commercially. The public
therefore hears little of operations Oh
: tho board and much Of the buying and
, selling is done by telephone, the pa
irons of the bucket shop not caring to
be seen on it's premises or in company
with it's representatives Those who
lose take their medicine and few, even
of the heavy losers, care to commence
suits to recover, except in, unusual
cases like that of Mr.. Ayars who is re-
tired from business and who desires to
| get his money back at all hazards. @1
Il hefatal fascination that gambling
has for some men is we'll illustrated
by the experience Of the present plain
tiff against the Cumming commission
house. Mr.. Ayars has spent his life
on farm. He has made money and
has been regarded as a man who saved
and accumulated his earnings and not
one to squander or to risk them on a
game OF chance.
Now he has reached middle life and
retired from active labor, he has allow
ed himself to be led into gambling
chuck luck, chance game, called in
polite language dealing in options OF
buying and selling on the board OF
trade. He risked first his dollars, then
his hundreds of dollars and finally end
ed up with a total loss of about $500
a small fortune in itself. The Ayars
and Cummings suit will come up fo1
trial at the session of the district court
next month.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27

l wonder if anybody knows within
gun shot of how much is lost in grain
gamblin' and snide investments every
year. I see that it is put at a hundred
millions but probably that amt high
enough. 1t does beat all how many
suckers there is born every minute and
two sharpers is born at the same time
to snare 'em. I see that May options
hav dropped twenty cents from what
they we're a!month ago. That means
thet the suckers that bet that May
wheat would rise away above a dollar
and put their money up to margin it
are now dropped down, down, down,
until it will take years for some of
'em to catch up even where they was
few short weeks ago. It's the other
fellows game the suckers alwus play
and they amt any more chance of win
MIN in the long run than expectin', to
pick gold off of apple trees. I'm in
formed that there are lots OF young
suckers up to Austin that are buckin'
the grain option market and their
daddys and guardeens might we'll be
lookin' out to see where the money is
comm from. l hate to have these bad
notions get into the heads of the young.
There's no use Of expectin' to get rich
honestly without hard work ana econ
omy, and the quicker they get down to
business the better. These investment
snides and gamblin' schemes are no
good. They demoralize and dishon-
estize. d. ~s.~~.=..:,
! FARMER BEN.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
FARMER BEN.

Take the children to Bishop 213
Main, street and have their pictures
taken. The best is cheapest. We can
please you. . sr5 I5
Timothy and Clover seed, Seed
Corn, and all kinds Of bulk Seeds.
+ Decker Bros. ...
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
Notice to the Public.

Notice is hereby given that we have
this day given to our son George Mu.
solf, a minor, his time and will not
hereafter be responsible for any debts
or obligations which he may contract
and will not claim any wages that may
be his due. CARL MUSCLE
.s.s y. @ EMILIA MUsOLF.
Sergeant, Minn. April 10, 1904
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
FARMER BEN'S COLUMN.

The New Jersey w. CT. u. are
takin' hand at the sea bathin' opera
tions where the men and women and
boys and girls tumble about in the
water together like so many hogs with
out any sense of decency. No wonder
they call it vile and revoltin' and cor
rupt. Why, one English W. G. T. U.
woman that gazed on the sight got such
shock that she may never get over it.
She says that just such carryin' on with
out modesty and reserve and propriety
and shame is responsible for film the
streets with girls who hav painted
faces and shameless hearts. tell you
there's lots in it. Human natur and
common sense teach us that this is
true as geometry. 1t don't do to get
boys and girls away from those strict
idees of modesty and reserve that is
like down on a peach and blush on a
apple. When it once come off, you
can't put it back. I calkerlate from
what I've read about the bathin' shows
at Atlantic city and Coney Island that
the w. G. Il. U. women amt bit too
strong in their language about the
carryin's on. It's high time that some
body rebuked 'em. Some of the shows
they hav in the theatres [ reckon amt
bit more modest. That Iroquois
show at Chicago, when 600 people that
ought not to hav been there were burn
ed up, was a corker from what the
papers said, regular leg show with
out one bit of modesty. Think OF
takin' boys and girls to be eddicated by
such indecent and horrible things.
Folks look at so much that is indecent
nowadays that they lose decency their
selves.
My wife and our gal Sarah was up
last week and had their pictures took
and I'm glad of it. 1 tell you there
amt any tellin' what might happen
and when your folks are gone from
you it's lots of comfort to hay their
likenesses to keep and look at. There's
lots of differ between havin' pictures
took now and the old daguerreotypes
thay took before the wal. [ carried
one of those all through the war and
tell you we thought they were i'm
mense but now you can get took inea all
sorts Of shapes and it don't take but a
second either. Our gal Sarah says
that when every body gets a phono'
graph and keeps the voice and Ian
guage of our friends after they are
gone it will cover the whole ground
L tell you there's no use tryin' to keep
up with the advance OF modern science
Our gal Sarah has now got kodak
and it beats all how she can just snap
at anything you want and it takes it
She takes lots of comfort at it and if
the fad don't prove the ruination of us
OH account of developin' negatives and
such know I'll like it. She is bringin
in views of so many things at the old
farm that l reckon we can sit down at
home stormy weather and get quite
idees of things there. But Pm glad
that my wife and Sarah has had their
own picturs took. They may be in
estimable treasures some time.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27

4 If you have had the grip or feel run
down. from any cause you Will hnd g
sure health restOrer in Coles BludMbllder. q 9.
5Itis q purely vegetable blood p9rlher :
and perfect spring tonic. $1.O y al
druggists. g.,
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
Convention, Y. M
.., = ~ l.. A. - &.-.-5. !

At Buffalo, N. Y, May 18th and 10Th.
Tickets on sale via Nickel Plate Road,
May 10, II and IL, at one fare plus 70
cents for the round trip. Good re-
turning May 23rd. For full particulars,
call on your nearest agent, or address
John Y. Callahan, General Agent, ll3
Adams St. Room 298, Chicago, LII. .
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
Sfnnc fha Tr,1pr1,

ar Stops the Cough =
and Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo- Quinine Tablets cure cold in
one day. No Cure, no Pay. Price 25 cents.
Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27

All 1925 pattern goods for. ..$1.1(
All $1.5O pattern goods for: 81 3;
A mixed Suiting, 60 inches wide
being sold for $125 and $1.5O. .$1.O(
Black Goods.
80 inch Black, 25c quality for. go. 19t
40 inch Granite, soc quality for. 39t
42 inch Voil, Csc quality for. %. 59t
IS inch Voi], $1 quality for. -. 89t
46 inch Voil, Armure, seeded
cloth, faxed Herring bone stripe
with seed, other new WeaVes
just out, all $1.25 quality. ....'. $1.O(
$l.98 Alsacian for. .$1.7{
Dress Trimmings.
All Dress Trimmings in Applique
Silk and Cotton Bands, Cluney Laces
and all other Laces at Is per cent off.
A Great Millinery Oppor-
tunity.
The most practical hats for the least
money can't be duplicated in this vicin
ity. Special reduction on Street Hats
Full line of Children's Hats from 75c
up. Dress Hats at prices never heard
OF in this locality considering quality.
Ladies' Muslin
Underwear.
We have got the best line of Under
muslin, there are| made without any
exception and here is a chance to sup
ply yourself.