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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-17
LIFE.

The happiness of home life depends
largely on the health of the wife and
mother. When her strength is unequal
to the daily cares and duties of home,
the evening hour finds her utterly worn
out, too tired to talk, too weary to read
At first even she is glad to have her
husband go out for the evening. She
wants rest and quiet at any price. And
so the foundation for marital misery is
often laid in ill-health.
But when the housewife is healthy
and strong she finds in her days duties
only sufficient outlet for her energy.
She looks forward all day to the evening
hour spent with her husband over a
book, or passed in quiet conversation
And every evening so spent draws the
wife nearer to the husband and knits
together the twain who are zone flesh :"
IN the higher unity of one mind
Every woman should know that the
general health depends on the local
womauly health. 1rregularity, weaken
ing drains, Inflammation, liberation and
female weakness are disorders which sap
the woman's strength and destroy her
happiness with her heath.
In ninety-eight cases in every hundred
the use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scriptiou will effect a complete cure of
womanly diseases. 1t is a reliable Tegu-
lator. It dries the drains which enfeeble
women. 1t heals inflammation and ul-
ceration and cures female weakness. II
makes freak aC0meH strong and sick
soo1gen nell.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DR.. Pierce, by letter, free. Ali
correspondence IS held as sacredly con-
fdential and woGnanly condolences are
guarded by strict professional privacy.
Address DIR. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
In a little over thirty years, assisted
by his medical staff of nearly score of
physicians, DIR. Pierce, chief consulting
physician to the Iuyalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N. ", has
treated and cured more than half mil
lion women.
There is no similar offer of free con-
sultation by letter which has behind it
a physician of DIR. Piefce's eminence and
fame such as the Invaliis' Hotel and
Surgical Institute of Buffalo, N Y.
Write to DIR. Pierce and obtain a
specialists opinion absolutely without
Fs,rs
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-17
BISHOP RETURNS AFTER VISIT.

Bishop P. j. Donahue. of the Wheel.
ing diocese of the Catholic church, re-.
turned to Wheeling Saturday morning
after short visit in this city. He
visited the Catholic church here on mat
tiers pertaining to the church and the
diocese. .1z
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-17
STOUT GETS DAMAGES.

Tho jury in the Ross +. Stout case
against the Fairmont & clarksbms Elec
tric Railroad Company brought in a
verdict il eircui; court Saturday morn
ing for $500 ana costs in favor of tho
plaintiff.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-17
FOIey's kidney cure.

VIII cure Brights Disease.
win cure Diabetes.
Sill cure Stone in Bladder.
win cure kidney and bladder diseases.
VIII cure any case of kidney and
bladder disease not beyond the reach or
medicine. No medicine can do more
For sale by sturm & Co., Stone & Aier.
Ger and X. J. Criss.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-17
BANK FAILS
And Is Now in Hands of Assignee-1s a
Private Institution With Capital of
sss,ooo-NO Statement AS Yet.
By Associated Press.

North Manehe.ter. Ind, June 1.-THE
band OF Sort, Manchester failed to
open today and a notice was posted say
ing the afai,s Of Ike bank were in the
hands OF an assignee The bank is a
private Institution with capital oi
So, 900. owned by d. W Kri,her ami
the Harter family. No statement ha'
been issued
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Silver PLATING LIQUID.

A liquid by means OF which articles
of brass, copper, ETC., may be plated
with silver without the use of bat
terry is prepared thus: Dissolve one
ounce of nitrate of silver in crystals
in twelve ounces of soft water, then
add two ounces of cyanide of potas-
SUM. Shake the whole together and
let it stand till it becomes clear
Have ready some half ounce bottles
and fill them half full of Paris white
or fine whiting. and then fill them up
with the liquid, and it is ready for
use. The metal to which it is ap-
piled must be perfectly free from
grease, otherwise it will not hold. If
the articles are at all greasy they
should be boiled in lye, then washed
in pure water. In any case the coat
ing obtained with this liquid is not
as tenacious to the metal as when de-
posted by means Of a battery. The
liquid is very poisonous and should
be handled with great caution.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Bitter.

The late William Weightman, the
millionaire chemist of PHILADELPHIA.
took deep interest in the army and
navy. He did not particularly approve
the seniority rule Of promotion, but he
held that, as long as this rule was in
force, it should be adhered to, and<in-
stances of it's overriding angered him.
On the occasion of an unusually
young soldiers installation into CAP
taincy over dozen older men, Mr.,
Weightman said with a smile:
''This case reminds me of my friend,
Lieut.. Blank. Blank was in the navy.
and he was getting to be pretty old
man. There seemed no chance of his
promotion, though.
AT lunch one day, some one called
attention to his badness. =
"*You are very bald, Blank the
man said. I never saw so bare a
head. What is the cause Of your bald
ness?" '.f
1T is DUE Blank answered. to 50
many junior officers stepping over nv
head" :. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

spade in the following extract from
1.-THE Accomplished Lady's Rich Closet
of Rarities or Ingenious Gentlcwom-
ans Delightful Companion:
"A gentlewoman being at table
abroad or at home must observe to
keep her body straight and lean not
by any means with her elbows, nor by
ravenous gesture discover a voracous
appetite. Talk not when you have
meat in your mouth and dc not smack
like pig, nor venture to eat spoon
meat SO hot that tears stand in your
eyes. Which is as unseemly as the
sentlewoman who pretended to have
as little stomach as she had a mouth
and therefore would not swallow her
peas by spoonfuls, but took them one
by one and cut them into two before
she would eat them. 1t is very TN
comely to drink so large a draft that
your breath is almost gone, and are
forced TO blow strongly to recover
yourself; throwing down your liquor
as into a funnel is an action filter for
a juggler than a gentlewoman'
Codrington, in his book on "Instruct-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
TACT OF A HUSBAND,
Big Thing Is Knowing When to Let
His Wife Crv.

His Wife Cry.
Another thing the tactful husband
does is to let his wife cry. I don't
mean that he drives her to crying, or
that he let's her weep while he stands
unsympathetically by with his hands
in his trousers pockets, his feet apart,
and grinning sardonically. L mean
that when an emotional woman needs
a good cry, he realizes that it will re-
lieve the tension. He does not get
up and rage about and kick footstools
out of the way and say, "Oh, for
heavens sake! stop crying, or you'll
drive me to drink"
No! He goes and pats her shoulder
sCothingly, and says:
There, little woman! I'm sorry the
cook has left and your new gown
hooks up crooked, but cheer up! Let's
go out and have jolly little dinner,
and tomorrow I'll write that tailor a
letter that will make his hair curl"
Then she looks up through her
tears and thinks how handsome and
big and strong and glorious he is,
and before the dinner is over she
has thought up two ways in which
to economize, and so, pay for the
extravaganza of his order to the
waiter. For the common purse is not
elastic, and she knows it.-Harper's
BaZar. r:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Chemical for Destroying Wcodchucks.
C. R.-Some time ago I read of a
method of destroying skunks and
woodchucks by the use Of chemical
placed in their burrows. Please name
the chemical and describe it's USE
The chemical used for killing wood
chucks, etc., is the same as for de-
stroying bugs in peas, viz, carbon BIZ
sulphide. This is a liquid which read
lily evaporates into gas which is neav-
Ter than air. To kill woodchucks or
skunks in burrows, about two or three
ounces of the chemical should be
poured on to a piece of cotton waste
or rag which should be thrown down
the hole. The hole should then be -
quickly filled In with earth and we'll
tramped down. The gas will settle to
al sections of the burrow and destroy
the. inmates. This chemical is very
inf1ammable, SO that no fires should
be brought near it when exposed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
the waist line and the appetite.

the waist line and the appetite.
Before the era of large waists it was
held that maiden should appear to
live on the smallest amount of food
and drink that would sustain life and
that she should display such dainty
capriciousness about this trif1e as to
suggest fairy slipping dew from the
flower cups. Eagerness for food was
considered indecorous, for she was
presumed to be creature of so much
delicacy that the needs Of the inner
woman were the very last thing she
thought of.
Indeed, at the slightest mental dis
turbance she usually refused to eat
altogether, and never remembered the
lack of food until she swooned away
from hunger. This was all extremely
interesting, but when big, strapping
girls became the fashion it was neces-
sary to pack away in lavender the no.
ton of a genteelly delicate appetite.
The young athletes were obliged to.
have fuel for vigorous frames, and it
soon became quite permissible for
fashionably mannish girl with
straight front figure to take a truly
masculine interest in her food. Now
adays she is frankly hungry, and eats
straight through meal OF any num-
Der OF courses with much enjoyment
and with no great amount of conven-
tionality as to table manners.
But if fashion demands waists re-
duced by many inches the appetite
will surely have to- be curtailed by
many courses-and what true woman
would allow the pleasures of the table
to interfere with an eighteen-inch
waist? Did not the comfortable daugh-
tiers of the dark ages sacrifice their
flowing robes and buxom outlines to
become heroines of chivalry, ethereal
creatures, part angel, part fairy prin-
cess and of an elegant slimness of
shape?
All the quaint old courtesy books
required that well-bred damsel
should eat but little, and her table
manners were regulated with all pos
sib]e nicely, especially when fingers
took the place of forks. Barberino, an
Italian poet OF noble family of the
early fourteenth century, tells how a
bride should conduct herself at table
on her wedding day
"Ieet her have washed her hands
afCretime so that she may not great
ly bedim the water. Leet her not
much set to at washing in the basin,
nor touch mouth or teeth in washing,
for she can do this afterward in her
chamber. Of the savoury and incest
viands leet her accept but little and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

tween themselves and death in the
shape of winter draughts.
But soon the long. small waist came
to its own again, and extreme delicacy
was a more popular fad than ever be-
fore. Miss Amory's admirer was
asked what he would say about her
when her back was turned.
''Say!" says Pen. Say that you
have the most beautiful figure and
slimmest waist in the world,
Blanche!"
Now the cynical author asserts that
when nobody was near our little
Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner
more than six grains Of rice of Anime,
the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian
Nights. was most active with her knife
and fork, and consumed very sub
stantial portion of mutton outlets, in
which piece of hypocrisy it is believed
she resembled other young ladies of
fashion, favorite masculine fallacy,
by the way, for neither Thackeray
nor his male admirers quite knew
their little Blanche.
A girl with anything under eighteen
inches of waist to live up to would
then or at any time cheerfully subsist
on six grains of rice in order to pre-
serve it. When it comes to that, fa-
nous dandies of the Byronic type have
left shining record of literal starva.
ton, for fear Of losing the small, trim
waist of early youth.
Perhaps it is a sign of the times
that there was observed recently at a
fashionable summer hotel young
man whose elegantly attired figure dis.
played waist as slim as a girls.
His breakfast consisted of half a
glass Of orange juice, a peach and a
cup of coHee.-New York Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
To Fasten a KICKING Cow.

A dairyman describes his method OF
tying the hind legs of COW to prevent
kicking while being MIXED, as fol-
lows:
The method I shall describe is eff
fective and humane, and generally
only a few lessons are necessary to
convince the most unruly COW that
she must stand still while being
MIXED. l take a hame strap from a
harness, which is one inch wide and
about two feet long. Standing on the
right side of the COW, the strap is
taken by the buckle end on the left
and passed around the cows left hind
leg just over the gambrel; the end of
the strap is brought back between the
turns around itself. It is then passed
in front of the right leg, brought
around and securely buclzled tight
enough so it cannot be pulled down
over the joint, but not tight enough tC
prevent the COW from standing com
fortably as long as she behaves her
self
The COW is not so badly frighten-
ed with her legs confined in this way
as she is with one tied TO the floor:
and it is impossible for her to kick
or lift either foot sufficiently to dis
turb the mixer. If no harshness is
used she soon finds that being milk,
ed is not such an awful hardship
after all, and gracefully submits"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

IMPROVEMENT. FOR THE HALL.
Arrangement That Sis Both. Useful
and Ornamental. #

Arrangement That is Both Useful,
and Ornamental. -
The. halls certainly more seen
than other part of the house,
:incet notEGnly can no room be gained
Without going through it, but the &C.
:asional visitor who gets no further
las also to be reckoned with.
One difficulty to contend with is
he harmless necessary hat and coat.
These are serious handicap to 8
pretty hall, yet We. must admit that
is part Of its duty to harbor them.
: They are generally tucked away in
the darkest corner, and only dimly
1iscerned as a bullying, unsightly
mass, those in least frequent use hav-
ing a fine opportunity of collecting
dust.
But at very small outlay an arrange
ment can be made to hide and pro-
tect the hats and coats, and afford an
incident pleasing rather than other
wise in the hall. Two shelves about
twelve inches wide are the founda-
ton of the affair; they are connected
with a back and two sides, and the
top one is fitted in front with a small
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Valuable Scientific Tests.

The public which gathers around
this testing plant to see locomotive
which, while it is standing still, is
doing it's carefully measured work
of hauling a large or small train at
low or high speed, as the investi
gators require, thinks that this is all
being done that it may see the
wheels go round" The engineer and
the railway man see in it a new era
of technical study. Over the pant
ing, Juggling locomotive twenty-five or
more men are engaged in observing
what is going on inside of it. what
work it is doing for the fuel con-
sumed, what weaknesses it is devel-
oping and what good points When
their computations are completed
they can say with accuracy what the
locomotive can do and at what cost
They are gaining informant ton which,
expressed in technical terms. is in
valuable for the locomotive designer
of the future. 1t means in it's ulti-
mate results the obtaining OF the
greatest amount of work for the least
expenditure, and consequent reduc-
ton in the cost of transportation.
This kind of scientific investigation
is of the utmost economic value. The
greatest technical societies are assist
ing through advisory committees, and
the results of the tests will therefore
meet with universal acceptance
Twelve of the most important types
Of recent locomotives are to be tested
during the exposition and the results
published to the world-W. A. Smith
in the World To-Day. 80
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Measures Powers Of Motors.

Col. Renaud, of army aeronaut and
automobile celebrity, has just per-
formed another service for automo-
bilism. There has been laid before
the French Academy of. Science an
il genious continuance invented by him
for measuring the power of motors.
1t is an apparatus which is attached
to the axletree of the motor, and as
the action developed is in proportion
to the cube Of the speed, it is enough
to register the number of revolutions
Il order to determine the speed, and
Strengthening tablets are provided
10 obviate all necessity for making
calculations. The apparatus is capa-
] le of registering up to $50 horse
poWer. =. g.. j.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
THE POINT OF SIMILARITY.
kentuckian Had Line on Name of Ros-
ton Suburb. u

kentuckian Had Line on Name Of Bos-
ton Suburb. i
Zone of the thousand suburbs of
Boston is called Jamaica Plain" said
Anthony Buck, Bostoner. You
know Boston is noted for it's suburbs.
It's got them to burn. Four burned
this summer already.
well, one of your Kentucky gentle
men-one of those BY CAD, sah,' gen
tlemen-visited friends in this little
suburb. The first day he was there
he went into Boston.
when he had tasted of the various
ready to go back to his friends home,
he found himself in the embarrassing
position of having forgotten the name
Of the suburb. He scratched his head,
he looked at the stars, he kicked his
feet together, but nowhere could he
find the name of that COMPOUNDED little
suburb.
Finally, in sheer disgust, he went
into a. hotel and inquired of the clerk
there if he could tell him where he
lived
"The clerk laughed at that hard one,
but amused at,,the way the strange
looking gentleman put the question, he
asked if he couldn't give some inkling,
some idea, or some facts which might
suggest the name Of the place to him
the clerk. 49,. ~: r. N =, ~
"'well, sah,' he said, 7 can't exactly
recall the name Of that Internal place,
but. sab, it strikes me that it was
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
:, Z :;
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VE;:NnQN
Eonvenient Trunk,

fa37 :
q Every body has helped to pack a
trunk at some time or other, and the
most inconvenient and troublesome
part of it all is the insertion of the
tray, which most all trunks contain,
INTO its proper position. 1t is prac-
tically impossible for one. person to
do this alone without vexation and
hard work. and often two have strou.
BILE enough.
Il all trunks were constructed ike
the one shown herewith all this in,
convenience would be done away with
and the packing simplified. The tray
is supported by four bars or levers,
two on, each side, so arranged that
when the lid of the trunk is opened
the tray is elevated simultaneously
with the raising of the lid. BY the
insertion of number of Tugs to con-
meet with the levers the tray, when
>nce elevated, is held firmly in that
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

the Panada" this nourish-
ing compound is composed of crackers
and water with little sugar. and
gives them warnings against Fat
Meat" Yet he is SO far from insinu-
ating that the Maids and Borders"
are greedy that he kindly admits that
they are For the most part not sub
ject to the least Excess, unless it be
of the Sugar.Plum or the Macaroon;
and for this they are too often pun
ished by the discomplexion and pain
of their teeth
During the comparatively brief
reign of the Empire gown the vigilant
suppression of the appetite was Sc.
cretly much relaxed, there being no
delicate waistline to preserve, and a
course of high feeding seemed to be
the only bulwark which these nymphs,
half clad in muslin, could put be-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

avoid eating many. Leet her not in
stervene to reprehend the servitors,
nor yet speak unless : occasion re-
quires.5 sLeet it appear that she hard.
ly minds any diversion, but that only
timidity quenches her pleasure. But
leet her in eating SO manage her hands
that in washing the clear water may
remain. Leet her drink be but small.
I approve a light collation., eating lit
tie, and in likewise at supper leet her
avoid comfits and fruits. Leet her
make it rather slight than heavy"
In seventeenth century English cour-
tesy maxims have not quite so stately
a tone, and spade is frankly called
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

An Alabama 'spellbinder got married
between trains while on his way to
deliver a speech in New York. It
would have been better advertising if
he had had the ceremony on the plat.
form right after his speech.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to the Young Women's Christian
Association of Cleveland. The mem.
bers must resemble the biblical vir-
\ gins who also had oil in their lamps.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Raises the Tray Automatically.


position and cannot slip, but must be
released by the hand. When the lid
is closed the bars still hold the tray
in position and no stationary support
is necessary within the body OF the
trunk. Often, when it is thought that
the trunk is packed, it is suddenly re-
membered that some needful article
has been forgotten, and what job to
haul the tray out in order to put it
in some corner! This will occur a
half-dozen times, which means
whole lot of trouble. With this de-
vice the opening and closing OF the
lid, with the consequent raising Of
the tray, can be done easily and
quickly.
Peter Steiger of Baltimore, Md, is
the patentee
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

It's noble in those Menominee
(Mich.) girls who will wear on their
silk stockings notices in praise of
the town. But, name of Venus!
What of the classical proportions of
ankles so constructed as to afford
advertising spaces New !. York
World. ~ &ljG%s pr - :,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Western civilization is permeating
China. In another generation it will
not be considered a disgrace for
Chinese woman Of high rank to stand
On broad footing.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Two Buffalo women fought with
crow-bars for the possession of a
clothesline. The loser is about to
make business for the undertaken and
the winner is being sought by vaud-
eville manager.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Speaking about discipline, an edu-
cational expert urges the school
teacher not to let bad boys know they
annoy her. Just smile joyously when
the bent pin strikes home.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Experts in education aver that the
wonderful Berlin horse, Hans, shows
real power of mental concentration.
Hans must be related to some mules
We have known.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12

Maybe the reason why the japanese
soldiers get As cents month pay, in
stead Of half dollar. is that the JAP
arese war department doesn't do any
thing by halves.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-11-12
Dame Fashions Edict Is That Waists
81 Are to be Smaller; Girls. Go Hungry!

Just how the big, substantial girl
with tho waist Of tie Venus OF Milo
Is to be pared down into the sylph-
like, wasp-waisted, creature which
fashion now demands it is hard to
tell; but one thing is certain, that
there is an intimate relation between