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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-20

perfect hearing again and I lay 10 these who have
thrJSn away their money on cheap apparatus. salyes.
air pumps. washes. douches and the list Of innumerable
trash thar i offered The public through flaming adver-
rseGienfs. I can and viii cure you 10 STAY cured. Task
no money. Nv treatment method j. one that i 50
simple it can b" used in your own home. You can
investigate fully. ABSOLUTELY free and you pay for II
only after y~u are thoroughly convinced that it Will
cure You. a. il has Others. II seems to make No
difference with this marvellous new method how long
You have been deaf nor what cau--d your deafness.
thi- new treatment will restore your hearing quickly
and permanently. No matter how many remedies
have failed yOu-nn matter how many doctors have
pronounced your ease hopeless. this new magic method
Of treatment will cure YOU. I prove this to your
entire satisfaction before you pay q cent for It. Write
today ami I will send Won fun information absolutely
free by return mail. Address pr. Guy Clifford Powell.
1F5 Auditorium Building. Peoria. III. Remember. send
no EIonry-simp!y your name and address. YOu will
rece- .. an Immediate answer and fun Information by
return rail
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'tlttleu- ON bdtliCl'I
and moi be burdened with a wife or chill
drcn. 1t ism the FIRST time YOU have SAID
as much. And that too before Your own
dear little children ~ho-Sammy. what
Is that Won are saving. Any more such
talk aS that ard Il b. out there Don't
let me hear another such word from your
hips while YOU i've and breathe sir,
II don't see whcre YOU children get
Your quarrclsomc WAYS from Not from
my side OF thu hous that's certain.
But what can lie ezpected from the
children OF q father who says ont; and out
that M wishes h. hai never married
and that he has nothing to he grateful
for. That IS my rc.afd for nearly
fifteen wears al slavery and irving
to do my duty Any other men with
a devoted wife and SIS little children
would-lN One out there and slipper
the whole lot g: YOU II you don't stop
that ~wrangling children,
If | was Il woman who belonged
to forty clubs and who played whist
six afternoons - week and neglected
her family like plenty and plenty o.
women | could name. San Sharpe.
You might have some cause to complain.
and ! might as well he that kind of a
woman for all the thanks | get from
YOU. | wouldn't have vou- sense Of IN
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Deaf people cheerful and comfortable. because
such people can talk with tor friends without the
friends having to shout back at them. They can hear
without stralring. Ii IL the straining that puts such
a queer, anxious look on the face of a deaf person.
Wilson'S Ear Drums make all the sound strike
hard on the center of the human ear drum, instead
of spreading It weakly all over the surf ce. II
thus makes the center of the humln ear drum
vibra;e { IN times as much as If the 81 sound -tru. K
drum That carries sound to the hearing Nerves.
When We make the drum vihraie ten times a. much
We make the sound ten times a. loud and ten times
as easy to understand.
This IL why people who had not in years heard a
clock strike can now hear that same clock tick any
where in the room. while wearing Wilson'S Ear
Drums.
Deafness, from any cause. earache. buzziug
noises in the head, raw and running ears. broken
ear-drnm-, and other ear troubles. are relieved and
cured (cven after Ear Doctors have given M the
ca=e=. by the use of these comfortable little ear.
Testers and sound magnitiers.
A sensible book. about Deafness. tells how they
are made. and has printed in it letters from hun
dreds of people who are using them.
tlergymen. Lawyers. Ph sicians. Telegraph
Operators. T%rllnmen. Workers In 10 er hops a-d
FOundries-fcur hundred people Of all ranks who
were Deaf. tell their experience in this free book.
They tell how their hearing was brought back to
them almost instantly. by the pr pc use Of wilson's
Ear Drums.
some Of these very people may live near You.
and be well known to you. What they have 10 say il
mighty strong proof.
This book has been the means of making $500
Deaf people hear again. 1t VIII he mailed free to you
If you merely write a post card for 1t today. Don't
put on getting back your hearing. Write now. while
you think of it. Get the free book of proof.
Write for 1t today to the Wilson Ear prum Co.
1851 Todd Building. Louisville. Ky.
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hi; r-tr. friend
Ann, Tdc who
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ton and profit 9f a. proper birthday
md considering that /, the SAID Robert
Louis Stevenson. have attained an age when
oh. We never mention it-4nd that | have
now no further VS. Tor q BIRTHDAY II any
description;
Have transferred. and 10 hereby transfer.
TO the said Annie II Idle Ill and whole mv
rights and privilege "a the thirteenth LAY oi
November, formerly uv birthday now
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By Lee Holm

WIS. scIidI pc ~
her husband in a tone OF severe reproof
as they sat at the breakfast-table.
What did YOU say. Sam Sharpe You
don't know that YOU have ANYTHING in
particular to be thankful for. You ought
to bc ashamed OF yourself. Sam Sharpe,
| declare I'm ashamed for YOU. And
right before the children tool
If YOU haven't anything to be crate
full for ! don't know who has. Here
you have a nice home and SIX lovely
children and-stop that racket. children
Stop il or | shall come ont there and
make YOU, Next time you've got TO
stay at the table until we are all through.
The idea. Sam Sharpe, Of your saving
that-if I come out there III make
YOU stop hat fussing, Johnny and
Henry! Us | was saving. Sam Sharpe,
here You have a wife who slaves steadily
for YOU and does everything under the
shining sun to make a happy home
for YOU, and here YOU have six lovely
children who-children. ii YOU don't
make less noise you'll wish YOU had,
| can't hear myself think. Now I'm not
going to speak to YOU again about it.
Yes, Sam Sharpe, you have a lovely
home. lovely children. a devoted wife.
and YOU as good as tell me that YOU wish
YOU hadn't married me. That's afcc-
ton, That's gratitude now. isn't ii:
You didn't say anything OF the kind:
You said YOU had nothing to be thank
full for this Thanksgiving, and that's
the same as saving what | say YOU SAID.
isn't it. MANY and many a man with
4 wife and children and q home like
yours would-what are YOU CRYING for.
Josie. Willie. THAT did YOU hit Josie
for Shame on YOU to strike your little
sister. Il Won knew the meaning OF
the word gratitude, Sam Sharpe. YOU
would Ct down on Your bcndcd knees
and offer up thanks ior-but no. YOU are
lust like 50 MANY men. YOU don't know
the meaning of the word gratitude Where
was it that | read l,1st the other day
Blow. blow. thou winter wind.
Thou art not So unElni
Us mans iugratitudc :
| thought OF YOU when | read It; but
| didn't think that at the very Thanks
giving season. when even a stole has
some sense OF gratitude. YOU would sit
at Your own trcakfast-table and growl
and grumble about having nothing
TO he thankful for. | suppose you'd
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-20
Send Me No Money Simply Write Me About
Your Case and I Send You the Secret
by Return Mail Absolutely Free.

After years Of research along the lines Of the
deeper scientific mysteries Of the occult and lnvfs!.
bic of Nature forces l have found the cause and
cure Of deafness and head noises. and | have been
enabled by 'h!- zane mysterious knowledge and power
10 give TO many unfortunate and suffering persons
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-20
Rest and Health TO Mother and Child.

MRS. WISSLows SOOTHING SyRrP has leen usei for
over SIXTY YEARS hy MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for
their CHILDREN WHILE TFETTING with PERFECT
SUCCESS Il SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTFNS tie GUNS.
ALi-AYS all PAIN. CURES WIND collie AMI IS the heSf
remedy for DiARRHFA. Sold hy Druggists in every part q
the world. BE sure and ask for :" Mrs winSiow'S Soothing
Syrup. and take no other kind. Twenty I've cents Cd letre-
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Deaf People Now
Hear Whispers
Listening Machines Invented
by a Kentuckian.
Invisible, When Worn, but Act
Like EYEGLASSES.
Ever see a pair of Listening Machines,

Ever see a pair OF Listening Machines!
They make the beat hear distinctly.
They are so soft In tho ears one can't tell they
are wearing them.
And. no one else can tell either. because they
are out of sight when worn. Wilson's Ear Drums are
70 weak hearing what spectacles are TO weak sight.
Because, they are sound magnifers, just AZ
glasses are sight. maEnifers.
They rest the Ear Nerves by taking the strain off
them-the strain Of trying to hear dim sounds. They
can he put into the ears, or taken out, IN a minute.
ut as cDmfortablya s spectaclr- c1n be put IN and of.
And, they can be worn for weeks at a time, be.
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Deafness
Can Be Cured

1 Have Made the Most Marvellous
Discovery for the Positive Cure
of Deafness and Head Noises
and Give the Secret Free.
With This Wonderful, Mysterious Power
Have Made People Deaf for Years
Hear the lick of a Watch in a
Few Minutes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-04

Fresh water bathing a feature on the
Heights
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-04
Drawing Rooms.

How different is the drawingroom
| now from that of a generation ago
even of half a generation! Writers
in the women's newspapers in England
| are commenting on the fact with keen
| appreciation of the change, and in this
country it is even more in evidence
| than across the sea.
| THE wax fruits, the woollen anti
macassars of the last generation pass
| ed away with the stuffed birds and the
wealth of artificial orange blossoms
| under glass cases long ago. The
present generation has almost forgot
ten them.
1t does remember better the chenille
monkeys that used to climb over the
gas fixtures on the walls, the yards
upon yards of art muslin that used to
be turned over chairs and flower pots,
and the sofas that came in when the
hersehair period expired. And it re-
grets them and the array of japanese
plates on the wall even less.
That period of eccentricity in deco
ration has passed.
THE modern drawingroom,' said
man interested in the development of
domestic art the other day. sis, under
proper auspices, now a picture of re-
fined simplicity, an epitome of art and
a real haven of rest.
THE furnishers and decorators have
combined with housewives of more de-
veloped tastes ana better ideas than
their predecessors to make it So
They have borrowed from the past all
the best ideas it, had, and they have
added them to the conveniences of the
present.
Take the taste in wall coverings
Crudely colored, gaudy papers, display
ing impossible flowers and grotesque
semi-conventional designs, have been
abandoned in favor of self-colored
papers, striped ones showing variants
of one color. silken hangings, tapes
tries and stencilled sackcIoth arranged
in panels after the old method
Then the carpets. Where beautiful
rugs, the highest development of the
weaver's art, have not replaced them
we have velvet pile, with a border
repeating the main color in many
tones.
and for chair coverings we have
kept the old-world chintzr redoIent of
an age when women wore white, laven-
der or cinnamon, pale blue and simple
pink, and dressed their hair in ring
lets.
And never has there been a day in
which cultivated women have been
more keenly alive to the beauty of
coed wood than they are now They
collect satinwood. walnut, oak and ma
hogany, and will not suffer an inch
of table cloth to hide the exquisite
sheen Of their favorite pieces of fur
niture.
Taking the drawingroom as indica-
ting the artistic sense of the period.
surely We have every reason to be
proud of the progress of art in the
home."-N Y. Sun
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New Years Advertiser ready for mail.
ing at SC each to be had at the office.
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PANAMA AND
MOSQUITOES

Now that il IS practically decided
that a Canal to divide the continents
of North and South America, viii be
built, it may not be out Of place TO
consider the probable effects of this
undertaking from sanitary point OF
/ view In the first instance, it would
seem certain that the building of an
| isthmian canal will be attended by
| greateloss OF life, unless measures are
| enforced to render the conditions in
4 the regions through which the water
! way must pass less inimica1 to health
| than is the, case at present. The dis
| trict bordering on the proposed Pam
anna route is, perhaps, one of the most
VIGOROUSLY unhealthy in the world.
This fact was conclusiYely proved by
the mortality and sickness among the
laborers on the portion of the Panama
canal built by the Lesseps Company.
White men were unable to live for any
length of time in the locality, and the
mortality among the Chinese and to a
lesser extent among the negroes, was
frightful
Sir Patrick Manson, in a paper read
before the archaeological Society of
Great Britain, February 25, of this
year, 6oresha dowed sthe possible dan
ger of invasion by yellow fever of
Asia as the consequence of the digging |
of the Panama" canal He pointed out |
that shiploads of laborers would soon |
be plying between Panama and the
seaports of Asia. and that unless ex- |
traordinary precautions were taken the |
inevitable result must be that the mall /
ady would be conveyed and spread |
among the seething multitudes of the I
Far East. In the Journal of Tropical |
Medicine, August Is. 1903, DR.. St
George Gray, Sierra Leone, returns to
this subject and discusses the sanitary |
measures necessary to prevent intro /
duction of yellow fever into Asia from
Panama He is of the OPINION that
these may be divided into (a) measures
to be adopted at the point of depart
IRE, i. e., at the Central American
port, and (b) measures to be adopted
at the port of arrival-the Asiatic port
The writer takes it as absolutely
proven that mosquitoes are the sole
cause of yellow fever, and suggests
that an international sanitary board
should be appointed by the govern
nents having interests in the Far East,
and that they should be especially 4
nave power to frame such quarantine
'r other regulations as may be deemed
necessary and to enforce these regu-
ations by means OF penalties which
should be sufficiently heavy to insure |
heir being carried out by the most /
careless and Indifferent of captains
The sanitary board should make sure
hat no vessels which have not been
thoroughly cleared of mosquitoes
cave the isthmus for any of the
Asiatic ports. The final clearing
4 mosquitoes should take place at an 4
to be selected for the pur-
'ose at least 800 yards away from the :
earest shore, and once the funiga-
ion is completed the vessel should. not
,pproach the shore again, but pas
engers, mails and cargo from open
lighters could be received aboard
Iedical Record
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WHAT IS A COUGH?

|. A spasmodic effort to expel the fnhcus
from the bronchial tubes. A cold causes
a more abundant secretion of niucus,
and when the lungs and bronchial tubes
are inf1amed, they are extremely sensi-
tive to the irritation. Unless care Is
taken, the cold may result in pneu-
monia, which is swift and deadly. If
the cold is a lingering one, the more
leisurely but equally fatal consumption
may set in. Do not neglect a cold or
cough. Take Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. Tt always cures and cures
quickly. Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd.
Wholesale Agents sell it.
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The residents of the English counties
have nicknames the meaning and ORR
gin of which are not always obvious.
Why the inhabitants of Liverpool
should be called ''Dicky Sans" is not
very clear. But nearly all the counties
have their distinctive nicknames. A
Cornishman is Cousin Jack" to the
natives of the adjacent counties; the
Glaswegians are "Kee1ies;" the Lam
cashire men are Tim Bobbins;' while
the Lincolnshire folk have long been
called yellow Bellies after the frogs
which once abounded there. York
shiremen, again. are everywhere
''Tykes,' a nickname the etymology of
which is not easy to trace; nor is it
less difficult to say why the inhabi-
tants of Suffolk should be designated
"Dumplings," those OF Kent Hogs
or the Isle of Wight people Calves"
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OF CURRENT INTEREST.
NO CHARGE FOR ADVICE.

w. K. Vanderbilt gave committee
of Long island ministers a cold douche
the other day. The ministers called up
on him at his country seat, Idle Hour,
and asked for a contribution. How
many people are there in the communi-
ty where your churches are located p
he asked. About 3,000,'' replied one of
the ministers. And how many church.
es have you there?' Seven, of various
denominations" TOO many, altogeth-
err said Mr.. Vanderbilt. You are
overburdened with churches. I advise
you to reduce the plumber and cut down
on the salaries of ministers and learn
to be self-supporting. Try the scheme.
If you find it works, I won't charge you
for, the advice. Good morning
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SPENCER AND GUNTER.

Archibald Clavering Gunter and Her
bert Spencer had points in common re-
calls Victor Smith in the New York
Press. Both We're civil engineers IN
early life Both drifted into authorship.
Spencer could find no publisher willing
to take risk on his first book, there
fore he published it himself. Gunter
had precisely the same experience
But Spencer had accounts which
brought him in a stated income; Guntcr
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New Years Advertiser ready for mai
ing at Sc each to be had at the office.

Vice Admiral Togo. who has lust
succeeded Admiral Tsuboi in command
of the standing japanese squadron. the
force which would probably be engaged
first in case of war, is one of the pop
uIar heroes of Japan. He is a young
officer, as flag officers go. in the prime
of life, and has had a taste of what
modern warfare under the present con-
ditions means. In 1894, when the Jap
anese wiped OUT the Chinese fleet,
admiral Togo-he was only captain
then-struck the first blow.
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of considerable revenue to the Territory
before the law was declared Invalid.
The new license law goes into effect
today and counties will enjoy the bene-
fit of the tax now unless it is again
declared to be Illegal and void by the
courts.
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| had few dollars he had saved in min
ing and railroading. Spencer issued ~
copies of his book. gave a few IVA
and sold the rest in fourteen years
j Gunter, we are told, got out many edi-
| tons Of his, and sold 100000 copies IN q
year and half. Spencer had TO be n:
own publisher of his second book, tbs
! edition, like the first, being $50 copies
which he was twelve and a half years
| in disposing of. Gunter's profits veg
| so large that he was enabled to estab-
| lish publishing house of his og..n,
| Both were natives of England. As %
style and matter-some folk like Spea-
Ger and others take to Gunter some
prefer Synthetic Philosophy and otli-
ers Mr.. Barnes OF New York" s
ELECTRIC LIGHTS BAD ON EYES?
Il have customers of all ages-from 4
years to 90 said New York optician.
The very aged have better eyes than
the infants. That old fellow going out
of this shop told me a few minutes ago
that he learned his lessons by the light
of pine knot. He had to lie on the
floor by the fireplace and study at
night. His eyes are as clear and strong
today as any you can find in New York
But all o. his grandchildren wear glass
es. Strange? 1 should say So But too
much light, seriously, is worse than too
little Lord Kelvin, bar Edison, is the
foremost electrician of the age, and he
viii not eat or read by his own light.
His eyes are good.
UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES |
The rapid rise of labor unionism in
America is traced by W. T.. Ripley,
professor of economics at Harvard. |
When English unions have increased. |
in nine years, from 100000 to 1900, 009 |
those of the United States have grown |
from 100000 to 100000. The causes for |
this growth have been in the main
for trust or combina ton
idea, the coal strike, and the labor
natural growth The fu-
ure of the unions will depend, Profes
;or Ripley thinks, on the continued
of the country. and on the
administration of the unions.
Up in Frankfort Pa, there is man
Who believed horse and carriage
would help him in his business. He
Fought an apology for a steed and a
,ox on wheels and set out to save car
are. "A druggist VINO Knew MIN oiIeI-
d him large bunch of excelsior,
linking that the horse would at least
ave a soft bed About week later
he horse owner came back to the store
nd asked: Say, doctor, have you any
1ore of that curled wood ?" why, no;
ut what did you do with the last lot?" I
Oh, the horse ate it, said the unfor-
innate beasts owner. Unfortunately, {
lst about the time the animal became j
ccustomed to the "curled wood diet |
died, and valuable statistics on the 6
peration of cheap foods were lost.
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The Maui police are cheerful lot of
men. They celebrated the loss of their
jobs with a Iuau. Eo
The Newtown bee., 1904-11-25
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
SHERMAN

sOCIABLE AND ENTERTAINMENT. A sociable and entertainment was held on Friday evening, at the resi-. dence of George A. Durgy, for the benefit of a library for the Coburn and Greenwoods school. About 70 were present. The following interesting program was carried out:
 Song, Thanksgiving Song, "School. Recitation, "Grandmother's Story," A. Elinor Durgy.
 Song, "Robin Redbreast," Eleanor Briggs.
 Recitation, "What I'm Thankful For," Elvin Burch, Ernest Erickson, George Woodward.
 Song, "Mr Duck and MT Turkey" School.
 Song, "Father We Thank Thee for the Night," School.
 Song, "All for Baby," the little chil- dren.
 Recitation, "What a little child may have,''s Lucy Woodland, Alice Woodland, Ernest Fuller, John Porwit. ski.
 Recitation, ''The Brothers," John Blantin.
 Recitation, "The Hired Man," Err nest Blantin.
 Recitation, IA Thanksgiving Les son." Harold Turner.
 Recitation, "Getting Ready for Thanksgiving, John Blantin. Recitation, "Winter Jewels" Axel Erickson.
 Song, "Mr Squirrel" Greenwood school.
 Recitation, ''The Best of Little Girls" Eleanor Briggs.
 Recitation, "The First Thanksgiv- ing," Amy Judd.
 Song, Thanksgiving Draweth Near," Alice Burch, Elinor Durgy.
 Recitation, "There's Time in Each Year," Alice Burch.
 Song, Sail On," Eleanor Briggs.
 Recitation, "The Old and the New," Willie Teater.
 Song, "Giving Thanks,'' Alice Burch and Elinor Durgy.
 Recitation, "The Puritan Girl" Rose O'Connor.
 Song, "Good-night, School.
 The two districts have raised $2O, $10 for each, which will enable each school to get the state appropriation and so have S20 library in each school.
 Mrs Emily A. SuuireS, who has been