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A FARCE ISLAND HEADLAND.

all the other Faroese houses, is set on
walls about four feet high. 1t was beau
tifully clean inside, and is said to be 800
years old. AS with most other buildings
in Farce the roof is of turf. On the raft
ers is laid a covering of bark, and on
that very thick turf Is placed, the whole
being held together till it is living
mass. The typical Farce village and
church are built and rooted In the same
way. The picturesque little town of
Thorshaven is the seat of the governor,
and residence OF the British consul, Mr..
Villiers.
The day before we landed, a large num-
Der of Gazing whales had been driver.
ashore and slaughtered at Vaaga, and the
custom is that every family in the islands
gets share of the flesh, which is con-
sidered very good. The creel by means
of which the carrying business of the
island is done is slung by means of a
broad band across the forehead, and this
bears all the stress
Whale flesh, which has the appearance
of beef, is cut into strips and hung up to
dry in small buildings, the ends of which
are of stone, while the sides are of lat
tice-work. and through these the sea-
breeze blows. In October, practically
all the male lambs in the islands are
killed, flattened out, and hung up in such
sheds. They require no other curing
and get no further cooking. We saw a
ram that had been killed year ago, and
there was not suspicion of faint about
it. Of course, there are no flies about,
and the sea breeze is laden with salt
With regard to the coast scenery, one of
our party expressed the opinion it was
more magnificent than anything to be
seen in Scotland. The Faroese detest the
trawlers that poach in their waters, and
there is arising very considerable feel
ing against the whaling operations. In
the report forwarded to the foreign Office
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JOSEPH SMITH.
CIead of the Mormon Church and Father
Of Worlds Largest Family
her home as his 'Official' residence. The
woman to whom he was last united"
Mary, is said to be Smiths fayorite wife,
and, as if in confederation of the report,
she lives in the finest and costliest Of
the five mansions.
He married wife number one 80 years
ago; so that in 80 years he has become
the father of his extensive family. His
"favorite wife" just referred to-the one
he married last-has borne five children,
the smallest number Of all the six wives
except the first one, who had only two
Thirteen chtldren-the largest number
of all-were born in, and live in, the
mansion of wife number four. Alice. the
fifth wife, who said she was a plural
wife and glad of it, has eight children;
while of the two sisters married stimuli
taneously, one has borne her master II
children and the other six.
Smith has of late months exported"
a large number of Mormon families from
Utah to Mexico, establishing there a
colony, with the idea that it may ulti-
mately become the new headquarters of
the Mormon church, safe from the laws
of the United States.
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OWING OLD GRACEFULLY
No Woman Can Do This Who Has
Permitted Her Mirror to Be- Sc
r. come Her Tyrant. sz..*.

To great many women the time
they devote before the mirror be-
comes in a. way a period Of supreme
torture. Whether long or short. this
time spent in peering into her glass
and searching there for signs Of age,
care or worry in her face is not only
time wasted, but put to- the worst
possible use. .
have in mind, says writer in the
San Francisco Chronicle, a woman Of
80 odd., in the heyday of her beauty,
who daily scans her mirror for traces
Of the first wrinkle or the first gray
hair. The day when she makes the
discovery-and it will be long before
anyone else does-will be day of
misery for her, for she firmly believes
that youth, beauty and happiness are
bound up in the, preservation OF an
unlined brow and raven hair 1870,
Her apprehension is so great that
she worries so that age should take
her unawares that she is really incapa-
BILE Of fully enjoying her youth and
good looks. r 80 80
No one can get the best out of life
who lives in constant dread of what
the mirror will reflect. Every woman
wants to be as pretty as possible, and
every woman should do all in her
power to preserve her charms But to
make tyrant of the mirror is to give
it power and influence which does
not rightly belong to it.
We see in others what we wish to
see in them, and this is particularly
true of the reflections in the looking
glass. -.
If We scan it for traces of oncoming
years, for wrinkles and lusterless eyes,
we see, or think we see, the signs of
age approaching. If one looks at it
convinced that it will reflect the vigor
and splendid maturity which one feels
there will be no disappointment.
A wrinkle, gray hair does not
mean age. The haHdsomest woman I
know is a grandmother, and the years
may possibly point to 40, but when she
looks into the glass she does so fear
lessly, knowing that she will see there
the image of face full of charm, good
cheer and sympathy, and she is never
disappointed.
She uses many outward means Of
preserving her looks and attends to
her hair and complexion persistently,
but she has learned the secret that 1t
is her spirit and notzthe lotion that
keeps her looking and feeling young
She does not think Of herself as old,
nor speak of the approaching years
with dread. Her mind is filled with
interest for all things, her heart with
sympathy for all people, and she has
found the secret of youth. - !,
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his beloved writing. After assured sue
cess was his as a writer, he entirely
gave up the practice Of medicine, and
Immediately began evolving the career
of Sherlock Holmes.
Though Conan Doyle-Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, If you please-has won
most unusual fame and at an unusually
early age, it should be borne in mind
that the fame was hardly won, that
there were years and years of strug-
gle against odds that would have dis
couraged aught but the Quickest, that
often must have made the striver doubt
whether after all it were we'll to keep
up faith in himself, If he better not
surrender the effort and settle down to
plodding
For ten years he wrote and sent off
MSS. to publishers, and never in that
time made so much as. $500 year. But
all the time he kept steadily to his
ideal of thoroughness and infinite
painstaking, kept on sending out his
wares, returned manuscripts coming
back only to be sped on anew. Of this
period he thus humorously writes:
Fifty little cylinders of manuscripts
did send out during eight years,
which described irregular orbits among
publishers, and usually came back, like
paper boomerangs, to the place they
had started from"
In 1886, the Christmas Annual pub
lished "A Study in Scarlet" which
when later issued in book form passed
into numberless editions. In this,
which may be called his first novel,
Sherlock Holmes is introduced to the
reader. Always fond of history, the
author presently set to work on gath
ering material for a novel that should
give a vivid picture Of the time under
consideration, and for Micah Clarke
he read diligently for IL months; then
spent another half-year in writing the
story. 1t went from publisher to pub
Usher, was dubbed uninteresting. mac
curate, impossible. But the reckless
publisher" at last was found, and mi.
cab Clarke" saw the light of day. In
less than year it passed through i've
editions.
~"The Sign of the Four" helped on his
fame and then "The White Company ~
Now came the climax of his career
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holiness u
and the pampered public showed won
derful interest. sherlock Holmes" is
In everybody's mouth-has been for
years and will be for years-grown
men and women, schoolgirl and boy,
people Of all classes and degrees know
the creation of the man that tells 4
rafting good tale, A. Conan Doyle.
.-.. KATHERINE POPE
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HAS A BIG NIL Z.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT or MoRMoNs.
The Husband Of Five Wives and the
Father Of Forty=FiveC Chill dren-
HAS Been Married Six 7, :
Times. ~ r.

Salt Lake City.-The man with the
biggest family in the world is Joseph
Smith. Smith is. the president Of the
Mormon church, for upon him fell the
mantle of the Mormon church president
OF worldwide fame, Brigham Young.
President Smith has five wives-plus one
divorced-and4 As children and $50 grand
children. The only man whose record
in the matter of children beats that of
Smiths was that of Brigham Young
himself, who left Sc children.
Smiths wives and unmarried children
live in row of detached mansions in
Salt Lake City. The married children
and grandchildren live in various
houses all over the city. Smith supports
all the inmates of his five mansions, but
his married children and his grand
children have to support themselves.
This proud father of As children is very
rich. His estimated income available
for supporting the five establish
is 100000: The estimate is made from
his known salaried appointments as di-
rector of 20 different corporations,
banks, and factories.
His first wife was his cousin Lavinia,
with whom he fell in love as boy
After he had been married to Lavinia
a few years he married the two Lam
son sisters, Julina and Edna. This one
man married these two sisters on the
same day and by the one ceremony Of
marriage, an event that caused shud-
der in the breasts of all citizens outside
of Utah.
But the first wife objected to Smiths
second and third wives. and so she went
to California and obtained a divorce. No
sooner had she secured her decree of
divorce than Smith promptly married a
fourth woman-Sarah. Then came the
fifth, Alice, and, later, Mary, the sixth
None of these objected to being mere
fraction of a wife, so these are the FIVE
wives whom Smith supports in the five
mansions to-day. Alice, the fifth in the
Smith matrimonial succession, said not
long ago: Il am plural wife and am
proud of it,
Smith now calls one of the sisters re-
kerred to his legal wife" and designates
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EN- GLANDS NEW SEA LORD
Sir John Fisher g . Strong Mar
Equal to Any Elmer
s % gency. $5.# sS 5Sssz

London. October q was the day on
which England celebrated the ninety
ninth anniversary Of the battle Of Traf-
algar, and 1t was an appropriate date fol-
Admiral Sir John Fisher to take of1ce al
senior naval sea lord. # f&:st%S 3.s
The British navy thus enters upon {
new regime. Admiral Fishers appoint-
ments has given universal satisfaction
and it's results are looked forward to
with hopeful anticipation. ~
Anaval correspondent of the New York
Herald writes: 1T is at once opposite
and suggestive that these two events
should have taken place simultaneously
namely, the celebration of the culminat-
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/ UF on RISE.


Sometimes the busy woman when
walking wants TO be Eburdened with
nothing heavier than q small purse
but very seldom, does she want to e.
abroad unattended by the ubiquitous.
spowder-puff It stands to reason sha=
cannot carry one Of the bulky bought.
pun in the limited compass OF 70
purse. so q homemade contriyancs.
here comes into play gives need
ed suggestion for Christmas novelty.
Models for these ara not numerous,
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Kopak.

Kopak is 2 new product of the Philip
pine islands and those adjacent, which
is attracting much attention. It is q
sort OF yellow wadding which makes
fine mattresses, life preservers, etc. Nat
urally it is the covering of the seeds of
certain trees. Ten and half ounces
Will support q man in the water, and
one small mattress will support several
men. 1t is expected that all ship mat
tresses will be made of kopak. .~
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CONAN DOYLE WEARY '|:||lI'
TO RETIRE FROM LITERARY Ia
BORIS TO COUNTRY PURSUITS.
Some Interesting Incidents Of the Life
" and Work Of the Creator Of
MISCELLANEOUS Char
acter.

Shel -ock Holmes is tired and is to
make his final farewell to the public
next month. AS he says of himself:
For long time he has nursed the
idea Of country lie, with it's simple
delights. He will take little place
and 60 in for Bookkeeping"
A Conan Doyle is but As years old,
youthful age at which to retire, but
after a little rest and country quiet
perhaps the author will again take up
his pen and re-resurrect our old friend
of much vitality, Sherlock nolmes. Mr..
Doyle, though scarcely elderly. has
written for many year, being but q
youth of IL when he began his literary
career At that time he was studying
medicine, but found leisure to turn out
considerable work, having 60 short
stories to his account before his popu-
larity was noticeable and demands
made for his work.
It was while studying medicine he
got his idea for Sherlock Holmes. One
of his Edinburg professors was a re-
markedly keen observer, and the al
= AAOoI uACdAAJ way III AC NOuAu
read the students before him made a
lasting impression on at least one Of
them. Dr. Doyle says Sherlock Holmes
is the literary embodiment of his men,
DRY of this professor, "who would sit
In the patients waiting room, with a
face like red Indian and diagnose the
people, as they came, before even they
had opened their mouths. He would
tell them their symptoms, give them
details of their lives, and he would
hardly ever make a mistake"
Mr. Doyle was born and raised in
Edinburg and it may be this had some
thing to do with his admiration of
Scotland's great romancers, and his
fondness for stories Of adventure and
for the historical novel. The authors
father was an artist, but the son was
appointed to follow the medical profess
sion rather than the call of art, and for
considerable time practiced this pro-
fession: in the small leisure of a med
ical student stealing time to work at
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-18
Why Varnish Turns White.

1t has often been wondered why paint
and varnish turn white for a while after
a heavy rainstorm. This is probably
due to- molecules of moisture being
driven into the minute divisions of the
paint or varnish, and thus giving them
the color that We see on foam on the
water. The natural color of the paint
or varnish can be quickly restored by
rubbing on little fine oil, which takes
the place Of the vapor in the paint. .
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health AND BEAUTY NOTES

The afternoon nap is beneficial TO
those who would; gain flesh. ~ <Ss
After the shampoo, il the hair is stiff
and dry, rub olive oil into the roots.
Highly scented soaps are often in.
furious, as the scent is added to conceal
rancid ingredients. -
In dieting to reduce flesh drink no
liquids at meals and no water until an
hour at least after the meal. Eas
A glass of warm or hot milk taken
just before or Immediately after arising
will prove flesh producer. - -
For enlarged pores the ;camel's hair
brush and constant scrubbing with pure
soap is the quickest and surest cure. s
: Thin people who wish to gain flesh
should eat q light luncheon before retir-~.
ing; an. empty stomach feeds upon the
flesh of the body. <s~~s ~. s.sg# ,zz
II the finger nails are filed daily, little
cutting is needed. This is an excellent
plan to follow when the nails are brittle
and break in the cutting. " L*
A bad figure and poor carriage are
often due to laziness. Walk with the
shoulders back, the chest. elevated and
the hips back If good carriage is de-
sired.
To help remove dandruff from the
calp rub or massage every night with
the tips of the fingers; this stimulates
the scalp and helps to loosen the dan
druff.-ChicagO Daily News. ~-s&ss*
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New Constructive Treatmn, AMI /,

Prof. Jacob, Of Berlin, has developed
2 new method of treating consumption
which promises great results. Here
tofore the trouble has been to reach the
seat of the disease. He makes the
trachea and larynx insensible by CO.
game, introducing q thin rubber tube
and injects Prof. Koch's tube7culine. In
this way he has succeeded in making
the baciln disappear u from four to
eight weeks. < $500
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Electric Traction in Coal Nine

Electric traction is used in at least
one coal mine. Two locomotives OF
80 horse power each handle the 500
tons daily output. They are seven
feet long and three feet high, running
In headings too low for the use Of
mules. A single 50 horse power motor
is used with Its armature geared to
two driving sprockets; one on each
axle. The gradients are from l In Is
to I IN & ..@. . .s.s5.. .+.=. i =
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DOWIE's NEW TEMPLE.

(To Be Erected at Zion City, ILL.,. at . Cost
Of $600,0O0.)
. "
trance. Marble will be freely used in its
construction. 1t will cost 100000.
The site selected for the new temple
is northeast Of the present place Of wor-
ship, called Shiloh tabernacle, which
will be torn down when the new build
ing is completed. DR.. Dowie is anxious
to found a college at Zion City, and says
that after the structure has been used
as "a place of worship for five or six
years he proposes to build much larg-
er building for that purpose and devote
this one to college purposes. ~
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To Remove Scorches,

If anything hot has been accidentally
PLACED upon polished wood it may DO
removed.by first painting the spot care
fully with spirits of nitre and then
rubbed Immediately with sweet oil.
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Largest lighthouse.

Victoria, B. G.. is soon to operate
the largest lighthouse II America. Il
viii be Of 750. 900 candle power and
Visible fbr Is miles.
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Appearances Deceitful.

Appearances Deceitful.
'Your yard is pretty full of dogs" said
the caller. "Are they all yours?"
NO." replied the man of the house,
flushing with resentment. I'm not so
burned poor as that. "-Chicago Tribune.
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His Status.

McGuyer-There goes one Of our bes,
known men of letters:
McGaWk-Indeed? A novelist, pre-
sumo?
McGuyer-No; he's q >sign-painter.-
Judge.
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The Ice Bills Succession. }~-.sz
The coal bill is just now the frenzied
finance with the festive householder.-
Chicago Chronicle. -; T. . !. 5 IS T .
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but mention will be made of two thai
have proven good ones. 5.z=s ss 81
The first is mode of two crocheted
mats Of soft wool about three inches
In diameter. A loosely-sewn, circular.
fat case Of white material holding the
powder, is placed between the wool
mats, the latter then fastened together
around the edges by crocheted bor-
der having open-work through which
q ribbon is run. The loose case al
lows the powder to sift- out at the:
slightest pressure, and the soft wool
is more pleasant to the face than the
ordinary chamois skin. 1,x
The second purse puff is made Of q
circular bit of thin silk. three or four
inches across, and about an inch from
the pinked edge q baby ribbon lis
shirred in. A tiny lambs wool bagsis
put In the center, the lambs wool.
holding the POWDER, and also acting
as puff The draw-strings pulls a pro-.
tecting case about the white. puff.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY NOTES.
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PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS WASH
frgtop D. c., August Is. 1904.-SEALED PRO-
POSAIS will be received at this ONCE until IL m.
August 30 1904. for erecting wooden fences around
site OF the Takoma School Building, Takonm Park,
d. C. Blank forms and information may be oh.
taIned at the office of the Inspector Of Buildings.
H. b. F. MCFARLAND. II. L. WEST, CHESTER
HARDING acting. Commissioners. d. C. au25-4t
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS. D. O..
Washington d. c.. Aug. IS. I904.-Sealed Propos-
O'CLOCK NJ, SEPTEMBER TWELFTH, 1904 for
constructing portion Of the Sewage Disposal sys-
tenn AZ Street High Level Intercepting Sewer in
the District OF Columbia Specihcat lions and blank
forms of proposal may be obtained at this ONCE.
The right Is reserved reject any and all bids OF
parts of bids. HENRY b. +. MCFARLAND.
JAY J. MORROW tActing). Commissioners, D. q
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AUL CO., 7TH & L NV.
1886 sth NV, Or, W. Is. 90
GIG X NV, Or. w...IS.aO
502 Fla av NV Or, b. 1850
Az n NV. 5r, b (col). .15. 90
1927 Duncan ne, Or. b. 10. so
1858 II ne, 8r. I'd d..l5.3O
400 n Cap, Ar, fat..l5.OO
l349 9th nw,sto&cel. IL. 90
I1S 9th ne, store. 1900
452 d NV. Office rs. .$7&SS
1124 N Cap. Or, I'd f.7.50
Il6 p NV. 2r. I'd f.. 100
Rear SOS 18th NV. 3. wa 30
W, steam heat. au2O-tf
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II & WiLCOA.
ma. ave.
2223 st Paul's ct,4,wl1.50
STORE.
1900 II. 1r, W. b. So. 90
1917 Pa av, 1r. eel. 80. ~
200 10th sw .3r. cellar15. so
21l0 L, lr. Gel. w...l5.00
FLATS.
THE CARLISLE, 1918 N,
non-housekeeping-
3r and b. .35. so
2r and b. .16. 80
3012h U. 2fi. 5r. b. rs. 90
301S U, 20, 5r, b. Us. 90
3040is y 3fi.5r, b. %. 80
sos A 23d. Or, b. 20. so
$50 Goth, Ar, b. -. 1880
952ia 4 Goth, Ar, b. 1870
052 26th. LIST u. 4r,b.17.30
2526 F, flats, 3r, W. 900
OFFICE ROOMS.
4S2-466 La nv. heated
rms. So. $40. $12.60.$20
STABLES.
1912 G. rear.2s.c Evils. 90
lOuses and fats apply at
au2O-tf
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