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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
HOMEMADE MEDICINE CHEST.

ming it all around with a narrow,
fancy molding. and closed it with u
little hook and eye at the side. The
whole chest was then treated to first
a coat of paint and then cherry enamel.
For decoration, says Handy Andy, in
the Farm and Home, my wife pasted
on the front of the door a handsome
picture of a Red Cross nurse, which
she had cut out of some magazine.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

Kidney Pills relieve
and cure it.
Fl. B. Mccarver,
Of 2o1 Cherry St.,
Portland, Ore, in
spectes Of freight
for the sans-Con-
tinental CO.. says:
81 used Doan's Kid
ney Pills for back
ache and o til or
symptoms of kid
ney trouble which
had annoyed me for
months. I think q
cold was response
BILE for the whole
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
THE ENCHANTED WALNUT.
After-Dinner Trick Which VIII Gre
ate Few Minutes Of Pleas
ant Diversion.

Here is an amusing after-dinner trick.
Take walnut between the thumb and
the second and third fingers, as shown
in the illustration. so that the pointed
end of the walnut is on top and your
thumb and fingers touch the groove be-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
Purchase in Maine.

A lady entered a Fort Fairfield grocery
store one day and told the clerk that's
wanted to buy an empty barrel Of flour
as she wished to make @heneoop for he'
dog. ''-Aroostook Republican.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
A MEDICINE CHEST.
Convenient Household Article Which
May Be Easily and Cheaply
Made.

A medicine chest of ones own MAX
ing. l used a shallow box for this Is
by 10 by. 20 and sandpapered the whole
thing until ii got it pretty smooth. Then
I put il three shelves. fitted door
to it with brass hinges, first trim
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
Colorado Mica Mines,

The mica mines of Colorado promise
to be more money making than the
gold mines Colorado.s mica is said to
be the finest and best for commercial
purposes in the world
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
VELVET SPECIALLY POPULAR
The Fabric That This Winter Has
Proven Leader of All the
Fashionable stuffs.
Velvet. velvet. velvet.

The thing is being oVerdone, but the
mania will endure throughout the sea-
son, and there is always distinction
and elegance in the well-made velvet
gown of good quality. As for the cheap
velvet gown, it is sure to be seen on
every side, and the women wha will
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
Work of Fiction.

Did you ever read He Fell in Love
with His Wife,
No: aud | amt goin to read no such
fool thing. either. Houston Post.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11


tween the two parts Of The she'll.
Squeeze the nut very hard until the
shells separate slightly at tfepoint and
stop squeezing. The shells, as they come
together again, will pinch between them
tiny fold of the skin of your forefinger-
Now you may open your hand wide and
show the walnut hanging from your
forefineer by the invisible fold OF the
sEzin-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
American Farm Machine Supremacy.
Last year 1.o6e 600 harvesting ma
chimes were sold in the United States,
and OF this number 225, 600 We're binders.
They went to every wheat producing
country in the world. for the sun never
sets oE American farm machines But
most Of them are being used in the Unit
ed States, Our agricultural expansion
las followed the path OF the farm ma
china.-Worldss Work
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

The best sign of a mans ignorance of
language is habit of useIessly Introducing
certain commonplace expressions from it
Democrat.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
American Farm Machine Supremacy.
Another Test.

Is he really great fnaneier2"
Well. he has piled up a billion or Sc
Of dollars. But he has never written
anything for . magazine Washing
ton Star.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
The Latest Bath Fad.

A lemon bath is the Iatest fad geY.
eraI lemons are sliced into the water and
allowed to lie for half an hour. A re.
markable sense of refreshness is giYeG
to the skin By the calculated water.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

The flowers that bloom in the spring,
ira la, cut very poor figure in com
parison with the high-priced buds that
bloom all the year around in hothouses
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

A Guaranteed Gre for Piles.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist via refund money If PAzo
OINTMENT fails TO cure IN 6 TO Ia days. Soc.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

half SO evenly that there will not be one
jagged place in the entire circle Of the
break
But OF what use is this bit of appar-
entity superfiuous knowledge? Well.
suppose, for instance. the glass stopper
in your cologne bottle Gf you are a GRID
got stuck and refused to bulge. says the
Chicago Inter Ocean. All you have to
do to aislodge the stopper is TO wind a
heavy cord around the neck. get some
one to pull one end taut take hold OF
the other end yourself. and work the
neck mildly to and fro in the string.
just as you did IN the first experiment.
This continued friction will cause the
neck of the bottle to become so hot that
it will expand and the glass stopper will
be 1oosened enough 70 allow it 10 be
pulled out without further trouble.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
CONSTANT ACHING.
Back aches all the time.

appetite, wearies the body, worries the
mind. Kidneys cause II all and Doan's
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11
An Odd Cure.

Darkness is said te be a cure for ma
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IT'S Reading Room and the Thousands
of Books 1t Contains.

of Books 1t Contains.
LII the reading room of the British
museum desks are crowded with stu
cents all day long. and in addition to
the books of reference, some 10000
i'll number, which fill the open shelves
of the room, from three to four thou
sand volumes are given out every day.
Theology in wide sense, Including the
Bible, Biblical literature. church his
tory and works on the religious rites
and ceremonies of all races and creels.
is easily at the head of the list. with
about 300 volumes. Topography comes
next, with about twenty fewer. and Of
these books on London amount to a
quarter, books on English topog.I ply
to another quarter. the other half =,
ing for the rest of the world His
tory and biography come next. Eng
ilsh history being mostly III demand,
| and books on France and the French
provinces second. ESs, vs.. criticism
and miscellaneous literature take the
fourth place and are followed by fic-
| tiOn-not less than five years old
moral philosophy, poetry and the fine
arts, the drama. law ANA ph.lology
political economy and 50 on down 10
politics, mt thematics ana chemistry
which have about forty volumes apiece
and, lastly, works on naval and mill
tary subjects, which seldom have more
than three or four volumes each II
is a curious list and throws usefu
light on the sort of studies taken uI
by the readers in the museum.-Londor
| Globe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
The DOGS EYE.
Watch That, Not the Mouth, For
Symptoms of Hydrophobia.

Watch That, Not the Mouth, For
Symptoms of HydrOphobia.
AS dogs do not perspire, the only re
lief they seem to get when overheated
is from inhaling cool air through their
wide open mouths in short, puffy
breaths. The friction between tongue
and lips caused by their rapid, labOri-
Gus breathing produces saliva, which is
sometimes ignorantly diagnosed as
foam, one of the symptoms of hydro
phobia. Many innocent victims have
lost their lives Oh account of such stu
pidity.
If your dog should feel ill., sick with
some ordinary ailment, he will wag
welcome to you with a sad, pitiful ex-
preston, looking up inquiringly as if
asking for help and relief. If it has
come to the worst and he feels by in
stinct the germs of the dreaded disease
in his frame, his action will be entirely
different. You will find him with low
welcome, hardly noticing or glancing
at you.
II your eye meet his, the restless,
nervous, strange expression will star
tie YOU The dog, feeling his doom, is
conscious of approaching danger and
would like to prepare and warn you
These unmistakable and easily recOg-
| nized signs should be watched closely
and always needed. Corner the dog at
once and with the help of broom OF
barn fork, keep him at safe distance
until locked up.-Country Calendar
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
CORPULENCE AND SANITY.
The Gospel of Fat AS Applied to the
Mentally Afflicted.

The Gospel of Fat as Applied to the
Mentally Afflicted.
Are the majority of folk of weak in
tellect? Is insanity on the increase?
Are we all preparing ourselves for lu-
matte asylums? These startling Ques
lions have occurred to me after read
ing an article in a medical journal on
the gospel of fat as applied to the
treatment of mental disease" 1t seems
that the more you fatten up the men
tally afflicted the saner they become,
but of course the difficulty lies in pro-
viding the lunatic with adipOSe tissue,
as there is nothing like brain disease to
cause too, too solid flesh to melt
The aim of most of us nowadays is to
keep down what our transatlantic
friends, with their genius for using the
ugliest word for everything, uncom-
promisingly call flesh" We battle, we
massage, we diet, we fly to these and
those waters, we try all manner of
cures and put ourselves into various
kinds of straps and pastes and take
violent exercise with the aim of filming
ourselves down and keeping stoutness
at bay
Does this decided disposition on the
part Of men and women to avoid cor
pulence and the successful thinning
down. that we notice on all sides por-
tend increase of Iunacy? If so, dieting
and the taking of waters and massage
ought to be forbidden by act of parlia-
ment. By the way, Hamlet was fat
and scant of breath, but he was GER
tainly far from sane-LondOn World.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
German Emiarants Guaranteed.

New York, Sept. 21.-Having been
passengers on three different steamers
to which they were successfully trans
ferred, 1922 persons arrived here in
the steamship Graf Walderze, these
passengers were the first party of emf.
grants to be subjected to the Cholera
quarantine, which was recently applied
to steerage passengers, leaving Ham.
burg, and the enforcement of these
precautions caused their numerous pas.
sengers to be transferred. They EN-.
barked originally at Hamburg on the
steamer, Molke, but disembarked at
Cuxhaven, where they went aboard the
steamer Bulgaria, and were detained
on that ship for eight days. Finally.
the Bulgaria transferred them to the
GrafvorZee.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
THE SCOTS GRAYs.

Regiment of Dragons Famous Since
the Time of Charles III.
Second to none" is the proud motto
of the gallant and famous regiment,
the Second Dragon guards, or Royal
Scots Grays. 1t is a happily chosen
motto, for the fame of the regiprhe i
worldwide. It's brilliant 9o'-.eS elilell L.
on the field of battlc~yfdFihg TWO cen
f,tries its stril<aflg and historic name
~ orond lid imposing uniform have
made fne Royal Scots Grays, as an in
dividuaI corps, there is no gainsaying,
the most widely known and familiar
of all the regiments of the British
army.
Since the regiment was raised, in the
reign of the second Charles, the dra-
goons have borne themselves well in
many a famous field, but want of space
forbids us to note the exploits until
''earth shaking" Waterloo came on the
glory roll of the gallant grays. Here,
with the English Royals" and Irish
''Inniskillings," they formed the IA
nous union brigade which made the
never to be forgotten picture of the
Eight For the Standard" That wide
ly known picture shows a man of the
grays, Sergeant Ewart, capturing the
eagle of a very famous French corps,
the Forty fifth of the line.-Scottish
American
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
VICE PRESIDENT KING.
He Took the Oath of Office Abroad
but Did Not Live to Serve.


but Did Not Live to Serve.
William Rufus King, born April 6,
1856, died April 10, 1853, was vice
president of the United States who
never served in that capacity and one
who took the oath Of office on foreign
soil, something which can be said of
no other executive officer who has ever
been elected by the peeple Oh TINS coun-
fry King vas an invalid, but his
friends ICED him to take second place
ON ,4He ticket with Pierce in 1852
Both were elected, but Mr. Kings
health failed SO rapidly that he was
forced to go to Cuba some two months
before Inauguration day. Not having
returned to the United States by
March 4, congress passed special act
authorizing the United States consul
at MatanZas, Cuba, to swear him in
as vice president at about the hour
when Pierce was taking the oath of
Office at Washington.
This arrangement was carried out to
dot, and on the day appointed, at
a plantation on one of the highest hills
in the vicinity Of Matanzas, Mr.. King
was made vice president of the United
States amid the solemn ''Vaya vol con
Dios" God will be with YOU of the
creoles who had assembled to witness
the unique spectacle. Vice President
King returned to his home at Cahaw.
ba, Ala, arriving at that place April
II, 1858, and died the following day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
A QUAINT OLD CITY.
Bruges, the Chief Industry of Which
Is Lace Making.


Is Lace Making.
Bruges lace has been made in the
converts of Bruges by old women
whose hands have grown stiff clicking
the bobbins back and forth, who learn
ed when they were children from other
old women, who in turn had learned it
from other old women, and so on back
for hundreds of years Lace making Is
the chief industry of this city of Bel
GUM, the capital of the province OF
West Flanders, but that lit has not
made for the prosperity of the place
is attested by the fact that in q popu-
lation of something like $4,000 there
are $4,000 paupers. 1t Is very quaint
old city, the corporation of weavers of
Bruges having been celebrated In the
time of Charlemagne. 1t reached the
height of its prosperity in the fifteenth
century, when it was one Of the great
commercial emporiums of the world
and was famed far and wide for it's
tapestries The great prosperity, how
ever, led to such extravaganza habits in
dress and social life that Charles V.
was obliged to pass stringent Eumptu-
airy laws. Complications between sub
sequent rulers and the people led to
the removal of all trade to Antwerp
and the ruin of Bruges as CONNER
cial center, but the name and fame of
it's lace have been imperishable.-New
York Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
pEITlEs OF The ANCIENTs.
How the VestaI Virgins Were Hon
ored by the Romans.

How the Vesta1 Virgins Were Hon.
ored by the Romans.
The principal wind delties were
Boreas, the north windS Zephyrus, the
west: Auster the south, and Eurus, the
east wind. The first was remembered
chiefly on account of a love scrape.
He fell in love with a nymph, but
could not speak softly and found him
self unable to sigh at ALL Knowing
that it was impossible to make love
without soft speeches and signs, he
was about to give up lovemaking as a
bad job and go back to his regular
business of blowing, but took advice
of an expert, who recommended him
to carry off the girl. He did so. She
soon got used to his blowing, and they
lived happily ever afterward.
Vesta was the goddess of life and of
home. Her altar stood on every
hearthstone; her fire. burned on the
floor Of every public building Emf
grants when leaving their country al
ways carried with them fire from the
public hearth. The Vestal virgins
spent thirty years in service--ten in
learning their duties, ten in practicina
them, ten in teaching novices. After
this term had expired they might, II
they chose, leave the service of their
divine mistress or marry, but few die
so. Honors were showered upon them
They rode in chariots, a privilege il
Rome accorded only to royalty. The
best seats in the amphitheater were
reserved for them. They pardoned o.
condemned the gladiators. II crini
nal led to execution met a Vestal b,
was instantly released, no matter wha
his crime
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23

We have the richest language that
ever a people has accreted, and we use
it as if it were the poorest. We hoard
up our infinite wealth of words be-
tween the boards of dictionaries and in
speech dole out the worn bronze coin
age of our vocabulary. We are the
misers of pathological history, and
when we can save our pennies and
pass the counterfeit coin of slang wa
are as happy as if we heard a blind
beggar thank us for putting a pewter
Rixpence into his hat.-'Morals of Mar
U1s Ordeyne."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
Russian Cruiser RefInatad

Seoul, Sept. 21.-Admiral Arai who
refoated the Russian protected cruiser
Variag, was given an audience by the
emperor and decorated before he sail
ed for Japan on Tuesday last, Sept
10. 1t is probable that he has been
recalled to raise the Japanese battle
snip Mdkasa, sunk in the harbor al
oaSepo. The Russian cruiser Variae
was SUNK by the Japanese feet at Che
mulpo on Feh. 10. The Russian cruis
er Korietz was aisa sunk at the same
time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23

The jawbones of a whale are some
times twenty feet in length, and the
mouth, when wide open, is IL by 1S
feet. The throat, however, is so small
as scarcely to admit hens egg. The
whale gets his living by straining the
anm3lculae and small fish out of the
water he takes into his capaclous
mouth. 1t must be slow work, but
then he has plenty of time and nothing
else to do, SO he attends to his eating
SO regularly that he often accumulates
a ton of oil in his bulky system.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
rDur NntIona

Practical idealism takes with the
German chiefly the form of devotion to
duty. In the Russian 1t is a readiness
to sacrifice everything to his inward
feeling. In the Anglo-Saxon it is the
stalking of the whole person for a CON
crete. palpable and distinctly fixed puE
pose. In the Frenchman it is general
idea which carries him away to great
deeds.-Baron f. Won WrangelI In Con-
temporary Review.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
bL0A Ter
MACKEREL..
There's nothing better for breakfast,
Fat, Juicy and Fine,
Pulled Rice, the rev ctttal food
Creamery Butter, Egse, Freth
Vegetables every morning
Sparks Store
Laundry Machines for Sale.

We have several laundry machines in
our an Try plant now in operation for
sale, and will deliver same to purchaser
as soon as our new building is complet-
ed aud thoroughly equipped with mod
ern lAaLd. > machinery. The machines
offered for sale are as modern as any gas
heated machines and suitable to handle
the business satisfactorily in city of
1O, 900 Inhabitants. Address
New AMERICUs STEAM LAUNDRY.
lin Americns, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
EARLY Rising RoxnItv

According to the following entry in
Pepys' diary of March Z, 1869, ROYALTY
rose somewhat eagfier In the day than
is the custom now for the purposes of
witnessing sport. Pepys says, Il hear
that the king Charles ID and the
Duke Of York set out for Newmarket
by 3 in the morning to see some foot
and horse races"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-23
Baron Komura sim III

New York, Sept. 21.-Baron Komu-
ra, the Japanese peace plenipotentiary
though still lconfned by illness to his
apartments in the Waldorf-Astoria. is
better.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-06-30
RECIPES.

Steamed Riee.-Look over and thor
cughly wash one cup of rice. Drain,
spread lightly on a shallow dish and
dry in the oven. Even should 1t be-
done. Introduce the rice into two
cups of boiling water. place the dish
containing it in a steamer, and allow
it to cook one hour without stirring.
Serve with sauce prepared by rub
bling well-cooked dried apples through
a colander, and afterward evaporat.
ing. If necessary, to the consistency
of marmalade.
Graham Bread.-Take a little less
than one-fourth cake of compressed
yeast, dissolved In little milk, and
add new milk. scalded and cooled to
lukewarm, to make one pint. Add one
pint of white flour, beat very thor
light, add three and one.half cupfuls
of sifted Graham flour, or enough to
make q dough that can be nodded,
Knead well for half an hour. Place
in a clean, slightly oiled bread bowl,
cover, and allow 1t to raise. When
light, shape into loaf; allow it to
raise again, and bake.
Cream crisps.-Into two and one.
half cups of cold cream or rich milk
sprinkle slowly with the hands, beati
ing meanwhile to incorporate air, four
cups of best Graham flour, sifted with
one.half cup of granulated, sugar. Add
-four to. knead about two and one.
fourth cups will be required. When
well kneaded. divide into several Dor.
tions, roll each as thin as knife
blade, cut into squares, prick well with
fork. and bake.
Ribbon eandwlehes.-Spread sew.
eral; slices. Of bread with butter and
some dark colored filing Pile on top
Of one another and gently press to.
gether,. With very sharp knife GU,
rather thin slices from top to bottom.
4here win be'a striped appearance
and q decided pa!atability.
The Holly chieftain., 1905-06-30

doing they only involve themselves
still more deeply. and thereby inden-
niIeiy postpone the day for their. de-
HVerance. and often make their deliv-
cry altogether impossible.
Whether the CALLING yoke of disease
manifests itself in the form of slavery
70 some drug habit, or as neurasthen-
Ia. or in some terrible form of indiges.
tion. or many Of the various nerve dis
orders. 1t cannot be juggled away by
SIMPLY swallowing few drops of med.
icine from some mysteriously labeled
oo.tie. such an individual must re-
pent SO ehectually that it will lead
MN TO adopt radical changes in all
the habits OF his life. He must un-
uef.ahe 10 earn at least a part of his
Dread In the divinely appointed way
by the sweat Of his brow.
Instead of trying to induce nature
70 convert dietetic wood, hay, and
snbbie into good, wholesome blood,
the business man who wishes to live
as long as his country cousins must
negin to cultivate taste for whole
some and nutritious foods. He must
aiscard pernicious drinks, whether
tney are served over the bar In the
form OF whisky. or in his own home In
lhe form OF tea and coffee. He must
recognize as an inspired truth that
every tobacco user Is warning against
ms own interest, and If he instructive
~ realizes that he is approaching
.Rnysicai disaster. he must earnestly
and, energetically endeavor to give up
Misunderstanding habits no matter
now dear they may be to him.