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The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

In the place of training to remove
superfiuous flesh. as do the athletes
of other lands. the wrestlers Of Japan
eat to put It on. Great size and
weight do not appear to interfere
with their agility. Instead 1t is one
of the principal means of overcorl-
ing an adversary.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

In Germany. when a person breaks
down with consumption. he is sent
to government sanatorium, where
he is kept until he RECEIVERS or dies.
In the meantime his family receives
a weekly pension from fund to
which the patient himself contributed
when he was in good health. By this
means the risk of spreading the dis
ease is avoided.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

In West Africa the natives hiss
when they are astonisbed; in the New
Henrides when they see anything
beautiful. The Basutos applaud pop
ular orator in the assemblies by hiss
ing him.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04
Corn Birds wIIl Mot ao,hsr.

A well known farmer says he vets
his seed corn with coal oil before
planting it. and as a result the birds
and insects do not bother 1t before 1t
comes up. The oil does not injure
the germ and keep 1t from sprouting.
This has been proved by experience.
as he has never had to replant.-Fil-
more MOI Lever.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The first exposition was in Paris In
1898; the first in England In 1928. and
In America In New York. in 1858.
These were not international like the
Worlds Fair. The first of these was
IN London in 1851.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

sweden's supply of peat seems In
exhaustible. In the province OF Norr
botten alone there are s.64s.000 acres
of moss land. and the total quantity
of peat is estimated to equal supply
for two centuries of the present coal
import to Sweden.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

F. II. Glew of London has calculated
the time of a lightning fash to be one
nineteenth of second He obtained
this result by means of a photograph
made with n Migrating lens. which In
dicated the multiple image taken and
the rate of vibration of the lens.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Swimming Harder Than Climbing.
An Austrian physician, DR.. F. Muel-
Ter, has made experiments which dem
onstrate that swimming is harder
work than mountain climbing.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Leather shoes are seldom worn in
Algeria by the natives of Arabian de
scent. Their footwear consists of
pieces of camel's hide bound on the
feet with thongs. or of sandals OF
braided Irvine.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Babies are often fed. or rather
starved. said Miss May Yates to the
British women's Temperance associ'
alton, ON cheese. fried fish. timed
salmon. pickles. gin and beer.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04
stamps Mot HISTORICALLY corree.

On some of the postage stamps Of
st. Kitts-Nevis. England. the authori-
ties have depicted Columbus gazing
intently through big telescope. AS
a matter OF fact. telescopes were not
invented till over 100 years after
Columbus was born.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

As - advertisement of its thread
well-known firm has. after several
attempts, connected Europe and Asia
across the Bosphorus with 1850 yards
of cotton
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Under new management. Newly
Furnished. Table maintained on high
est plane OF excellence. Popular
prices. Headquarters for mining men.
sstockmen and merchants. Have your
,niail addressed care OF THE Albany"
Take Seventeenth street car at Union
Depot
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Tamalpais is Spanish for THE Ia
NAL country" The mountain CT that
name was so called because 1t is in
the country that was at one time occu-
pied by the Tamal Indians.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The chairman of a well-known
South African gold-mining company
greatly amused the shareholders at
meeting by announcing that certain
resolution was carried unanimously
with one dissent"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

How near the ridiculous may come
to the sublime would have been aptiy
Illustrated. IL tradition speaks true
as to the title which Hood first de-
vised for the poem by which he is
best known. He is said to have called
1t 1.-The Tale of Shirt"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The Oldest tree in the world is on
the Island OF Kos. lying OF the coast
of Asia Minor. The trunk is thirty
feet in circumference. A wall of
masonry surrounds 1t and supports
the, two main branches. 1t is believed
to be more than 1000 years old.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The mortality curves in London rise
in proportion to the density of the
fogs and consequent exclusion of sun
light. which is the deadly foe of dis
ease germs.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Bronchitis is the most fatal disease
in England, next consumption. and
then heart disease. pneumonia and
scarlatina.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The "tallow tree" of Malabar yields
from the seeds of its fruit by boiling
an excellent tallow. which serves as a
valuable illuminant, both as oil and
by candles which are made from it.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

One of the Hamburg liners WINS
used as a hotel ship in the harbor OF
Kiel during the recent races. The
rates for meals and lodging were
from IS to so day.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

A sign of politeness in Tibet or
meeting person in Tibet is to hole
up the clenched hand and stick out
the tongue.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

English is in the future to be an
optional subject in all public schools
in Saxony on the ground that 1t is
the most widely used civilized Ian
guage in the world.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04
EnterprIslna English rarber.

Owing to the war of rates on At
lcntic steamship lines a barber N
Dover, England. has the following ad-
vertisement: From the - Toilet
Saloon to New York for e2. Shave
included. Trains pass the door"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Nineteen Beers. who organized
colonr on socialistic 'teetotal lines ir
Java, had to abandon the enterprise
after three months.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Most of the black hair used in wigs
ard switches" comes from the con-
vents of Italy and Spain, while the
fair and red hair comes mainly from
the heads of Russian, Swedish. Ger
man and Danish peasant girls.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Coal is dearer in South Africa than
in any other part of the world. 1t is
cheapest in China.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The japanese word of parting is
not so long" or See you later" but
"Sayonaro'-"if 1t must be So
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

At the burial of South London
man his six dogs. draped in black. fol-
lowed the cortegc
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

No chromos or cheap premiums. but
= better quality and one-third more
81 Defiance Starch for the same price
Of other starches-
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

''Is II true that the order requiring
the Igorrotes to wear pants has been
lrescindedY" Yes. the naked truth"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

The roots of plants are found tc
have higher temperature than the
soil, but only while growing.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

A map of Jerusalem in mosaic over
1900 years old has been found in
Palestine
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This In why Defiance Starch
Is taking the place OF all others.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Tact is the art of adjusting the
relationships between ourselves and
Others.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

Immense billboards will be used to
advertise the Worlds Fair. but small
board bills would BIO more efficacious
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-08-04

When a girl is asked to sing who
can't she always explains that she has
a cold.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Tomato Vine as Tall as Tree.

The skyscraper stage has been
reached in the development Of the
tomato in southern California. One of
the latest prodigies in that succulent
vegetable is a group Of three 90-foot
vines that have borne fruit at all sea-
sons and under all sorts of climatic con
ditions. These remarkable growths are
in the gardens of F. G. Case, in Pasa-
dena 1t is necessary to use an 18-foot
ladder to harvest the tomatoes, for the
vines have covered a trellis 20 feet in
height, where they have tangled them
selves into a thick, compact mass OF
greenery. The seeds of these wonder
ful plants were grown in May, 1903, and
have been growing and bearing fruit
ever since; in fact, the vines are always
filled with bloom and both green aud
ripe fruit.-Los Angeles Times.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
UNCLE SANS FORESTERS.
REQUIRE Education as Well as Cour-
age and Wonderful Stock
of Endurance.

The making of plans for forests
management requires a decidedly even
combination Of mathematics, cool head
ed nerve and endurance, says Outing.
Besides the education of professor, the
forester must have courage and ability
to roam the forests, such as character
iZed the leather stockings Unless
he is able to follow half distinguish
able trails for miles upon miles
through woods he has never seen be-
fore he will be fortunate often to get
pine boughs for a bed instead Of lylnS
out upon a damp and inhOspitable
granite ledge The tendency of men i'll
town TO imagine good weather con-
tinuous forest state and to dwell en-
tirely on the bright side OF outdoor lie
results in applications from great
number Of young men OF imperfect
constitutions for places as students oi
forestry. Now and then one Of these
stays and is benefited. But in genera!
one week of rainy weather is enough.
They live two in a tent and gather
morning and evening at the cook .ent
for meals. A sandwich carried in the
pocket serves for lunch. They leave
camp at seven o'clock in the morning
and return at five IN the afternoon.
Their food is as good as can be had
in camp. There is ham and bacon,
rice, oatmeal and hominy. For vege-
tables are potatoes, beans and onions.
The cook has a way Of making good
stews from canned beef and appetiz-
ing desserts from dried fruits. | noted
a dozen contrivances for making the
tents more comfortable. One man had
manufactured a sleeping bag from 2
tarpaulin and blanket. Another had
invented a stove made of stones, clay
and piece of tin. There were three
or four patterns Of writing desks and
tables. Garments that need washing
were tied to a rope and anchored in
Ct
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06

THE other day the child OF friend OF
mine illustrated this, as we'll as the in
born cruelty of youth. He wanted to
play game.
"'All right said his mother What
is the game?
Why, you'll be poor, little, blind,
lame lamb and I'll be a flock of tigers
But why continued the literary
man. was he wrong? Why should We
have to speak only of q host of angels,
a shoal Of porpoises, a herd OF buffa-
loes. q troop Of soldiers, covey or
partr;dges, a galaxy of beauties,
horde OF ruffians, heap of rubbish, a
drove of oxen, a mob of blackguards,
a school of whales, congregation or
worshippers, corps of engineers,
band of robbers, swarm OF locusts
and a crowd of people?
81 remember how a Frenchman,
friend of mine, once pointed seaWard
and remarked: See what flock OF
ships | told him that a flock O. ships
was called a fleet, and added for his
guidance that flock of girls is called
a bevy, that bevy of wolves is called
a pack, and that pack of thieves is
called a gang"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
THE UNHEALTHY TRADES.
Fatalities of the Various Callings and
Industries-ConsumptionI
Most Common.

For centuries the tailor has been the
subject of jesting pity because his trade
was supposed to make him physically
weak. while the stOnecutter has been
usually represented as the image OF
strength. So sailors and miners are
supposed to follow. dangerous trades, as
indeed they do, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, if the chances OF external INJURY
alone be considered, while bookkeepers
and statesmen are supposed to be in lit
tie danger from their occupations.
Disease, however, kills scores where
accidents kill one, and of all diseases
consumption kills the most adults. And
with regard to deaths from cOnsump-
ton a life insurance expert has recently
prepared a chart, from official mortality
returns, which upsets many popular no.
tions as to the relative healthfulness or
unhealthfulness of various trades. 1t
covers 80 leading trades, and shows
the percentages of deaths from con-
workers in each.
In the middle stand the painters and
grocers, with percentages of 23.4 and
PAP From grOcers the figures rise
through liquor dealers, molders, long
shoremen, potters, cigar-makers, silk
workers, hatters, statesmen, plumbers,
bookkeepers, braSsworkers, glasSWOrk-
ers, printers, and stoneworkers, OF
whom 45.1 per cent. die of consump-
ton.
From painters the figures go down
through brewers, bakers, policemen.
weavers, iron and steel workers, ma
sons, butchers, carpenters, tailors,
blacksmiths, merchants. sailors, brake
men and miners. Of wnom only GA per
cent die of consumption.
1t is certainly something of sur
prise TO learn that the most widely fatal
of maladies is less likely to kill the pro-
verbally weak tailor than the proven
bially strong butcher, and that sailors.
who must endure the most sudden and
violent changes of temperature, are less
subject to consumption than printers,
VITO can hardly work at all except In
reasonably even temperature.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that large employers of labor are
being convinced with increasing ease
and rapidity that provision of clean,
we'll ventilated, and properly heated and
lighted shops is an investment that pays
good dividends by increasing the con-
tentment and preserving the health OF
their employees, and that in this manner
the mortality of even the unhealthiest
trades may be sensibly diminished.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
THE BEAUTIFUL AFTERWARD.

In the beautiful. beautiful afterward.
When all of this life is Ger
And we have left this world of care,
And reached the other shore,
Well find the friends We mourn for here,
The loved ones gone before,
They'll meet US at the pearly gates,
And ne'er be parted more.
In the beautiful, beautiful afterward,
Wen pass through the pearly gates;
Well walk the streets Of brightest gold,
To the throne where Jesus waits.
Wen meet Him then thus face TO face,
Who helped our burdens bear,
Well join the throng around the throne,
And rest forever there.
In the beautiful, beautiful afterward,
The mists shall be swept away.
And we shall see how Christ's own hand,
Is guiding US here to-day,
Well many things then understand,
Which now to US hidden lie,
But we shall know it all that day,
In the afterward-on high.
May Everett Clover, in n. Y. Observer.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06

times she was homesick enough to die.
Cheerful company in SO much as 1t en-
livened her was therefore grateful.
But she had to confess that there were
moments spent in the society of Louise
which she would rather have spent
alone.
Louise sat down and swept her hand
across her eyes.
Il feel more like crying" said she.
"Why?"
He is married"
"He? Who?"
Gilbert"
Judith put down her work.
How did you find it out?" interro-
gated she.
81 asked him accidentally, never for
a second thinking he could be, and he
told me he was"
It's a mighty good thing" rumi-
mated Judith, that you accidentally
asked him.
"Why?" quickly.
Judith turned upon her.
"You wouldn't be going about with
a married man, would you?" she de-
manQed 10 KNOW.
Without answering directly. Louise
fell to dreaming aloud.
He is so charming" she murmured.
I'VE are SO congenial."
unmarried people are always con-
genial put in Judith.
I'VE have so much in common, both
water color artists"
"If you were married you would be
Jealous of one another"
Il should never be jealous Of him, :"
Indignantly. He is SO far above me-
And how could he be jealous of me.
so far beneath!"
Marriage seems to change the cur
rent of peoples lives declared Judith
land people"
Louise gave a sigh SO deep as TO fill
the studio
Il don't know what I shall do with
out him." she lamented. Il don't. He
is so helpful. Did you see that morn
ing how he showed me about the col
ors? How to lay them on. What to
do. That is a most unusual thing In
an artist Most of them wouldn't give
you a hint if you died for it. but he!
| don't know what in the wide world
I am to do without him
Here she buried her face in the pill
lows and Judith looking on was
shocked to see that her shoulders
shook
She left her work, took a seat in
the rocking chair. and sat there for
some time silently endeayoring, to the
best Of her ability, to express her SYM
pathy through the medium Of mental
telepathy, since she failed to find
words
Bye and bye Louise, lifting herself
weariedly up, took out her sidecombs,
combed back her hair. put them in
again and began to talk.
"Of course" hesitatin2ly, Il must
do without him." she said.
considering the unhappiness YOU
might cause his wife" she decided. Il
should think you must"
Louise got up and walked the floor
for space. not very far this way or
that. for there wasn't room.
Presently:
"Why will these men marry?" she
exclaimed.
Before they have seen u.s." finished
Judith. 'It is just as well. If we were
their wives they would soon find some
other little artists around in studios
that they would like better"
The subject had grown in interest.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Wasn't Taking Chances.

"Have you any children" asked the
landlord of man who was looking for
a fiat
"Only one little boy" was the reply,
'.but he's sickly and would not cause
any annoyance"
Cant let you have it, them" said the
heartless owner. "Some of those sickly
children linger a long time, and I'm
not taking any chances. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Perplexinp.
III III y .
Globe.

Boy-Mamma, can people leave part
of themselves in different places of
the country?
Mcther-Why, no, where did you get
that ridiculous idea?
Boy-Uncle Tom said he was going
to Denver for his lungs and Auntie
June said she thought she would go to
the Hot Springs for her heart.-Yon-
kers Herald.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
,he concluded to give 1t her undivided

She concluded to give 1t her undivided
attention.
"How would you like to be his
wife," she asked and some day come
down and find yourself in his studio?"
Louise stopped walking and stared.
Find myself in his studio?" she
questioned Imply.
II mean find some other girl" Ju-
dith hastened to explain.
Il shouldn't like il" she declared.
Then passionately:
"It would kill mel"
at perhaps affects his wife in ez-
actly the same way" remarked Judith
calmly "She wouldn't be woman IL
it didn't Go on, though, if you must.
Then some fine morning she'll discover
you. She'll find you in his studio and
him gazing at you with those dreamy.
shifting artist eyes of his and drop
dead in her tracks. And it will be
you finally. that will be afther hav-
in that death TO answer for, as Philip
would say"
Philip was the Irish janitor.
All the laughter had gone out Of
Louise. Her eyes were sad. Slowly
she walked to the door and opened it.
I'll give him up" she promised.
adding reminiscently and with SEEM
ing irrelevance, "the lovely little dim
ners he took me out to-"
Judith observed her in surprise, only
half cOmprehending.
But" she added quickly. "I'll give
him up. | promise you," and the door
shut on the word.
AS Judith looked out the window at
the heartening view of blackened CHM
ncys, she thought:
'An honorable, straightforward girl.
that | like her"
What was her amaZement then to
see the girl on the following evening
dressed in her best, going down in the
elevator with Gilbert, going down
blithely and out to dinner with him at
some cafe: for she heard him say so.
She smiled across at Judith anxious
~, propitiatingly; but she resolutely
turned her back, refusing to speak.
1t vas late that night.
Judith had come home from her SOL
itary dinner at little cafe. brushed
her hair, made her preparations for
sleep. robbing the couch Of its varie-
gated day covering and turing it into
a WHITLEY counterpaned bed; and was
lying on it, half doing in the dark
when she heard light footstep in the
hall and skirts brush against her door.
There came a hoarse voice whisper
ing outside 1t was the voice of Louise.
= u-hjc
and waited.
Judith lay quite still Not getting up
and asking her in to sit on the side OF
her bed and talk awhile, as she would
formerly have done. Just lying there.
Under the circumstances, said she.
after a time, Il think | would rather
starye."
Then back came the voice from the
dark of the hall to the dark of her
room in cry revealing depths in the
life of the girl which happily Judith
had not sounded.
But you have never been hungry
yet" it said. repeating. "but you have
never been hungry yeti"
Judith sat up and gazed into the
dark, which seemed all at once to her
frightened eyes to be filled with skele-
ton fingers ready to clutch her, with
the relentless fingers Of poverty, bony.
mercless and grim.
"Oh. no." she whispered back, her
own voice hoarse as that Of Louise In
her fright, Il have never been hungry
yeti"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
Many Ways of Expressing Number
Which Battle Children and
Foreigners.

"What a pewildering number OF
nouns of multitude we have in our Ian
guage!" remarked the literary man as
he sat yesterday in the Franklin Inn
club, says the Philadelphia Press.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Up-to-Date,

(Time, eight p. m. He calls. They
meet)
jack"
"Jessie!"
MY ounce of radium!"
MY liquid sunshine!"
(They clinch.)-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
To Dig an Acre.

A man turns 10000 spadefuls of
earth in digging an acre and moves in
all a weight of $50 tons.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Catgut for Stringing Beads.

The best thing for striuglng beads,
gold or coral. as well as glass bead
chains, is catgut. Next to that dental
floss is to be preferred. Never use
thread.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-05-06
Adopt American System.

johannesburg is remaining its streets
ION the American SYSTEM" by numbers.