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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
kinu of the PenQuins.

The emperor" penguin, one of the
discoveries of Capt. SCOTS recent
antarctic expedition, was the subject
of an interesting illustrated lecture
by DR.. Wilson before the recent orni-
biological congress in London. The
bird stands about four feet high,
weighs eighty pounds or more, and
with it's black coat and erect posture
has, when seen at distance, a truly
startling resemblance, to a dwarf
man. These "emperors" Of the pen.
guin world live upon the great girdle
of pack ice which surrounds the ant
arctic continent, and seem to depend
daily for their food on crustaceans
caught in the crevices of the ice.
The female lays solitary egg,
which is caught on the great web
feet, so that it never touches the ice,
and is held there covered with the
mothers body until Matching occurs.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Many Kinds of Fiery Liquid That
Titillate Mans Interior Re-
sions-The Old Sporting Drinl.
That Killed Father.

The following is partial list of the
varieties of whisky now in stock in
Tombstone:
Common whisky, the kind that kill
ed father at the tender age Of ninety
three.
Sporting whisky, the kind that
makes the game rich and the player
go the limit.
Business whisky, the kind that
makes a fellow who never had any
business in his life hold you up at
every corner and submit $1,000,000
scheme.
Mysterious whisky, the kind that
causes your neighbor to lead you away
around behind the Gragoon mountains
with an air of profound secrecy, then
confide something to you that was all
over the town the day before.
Social whisky, the kind that causes
man who has known you for ten
years and has never spoken to you to
single you out and make confidant
of you.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Quilting Bee Gabfests INDICATED
by Truth Regarding Predilec-
ton of Men to Talk About
Their Fellows-An Instance.

They accuse women of being the
prize gossipers," said the man who
observes many things, "but / have
known men who for gossiping had any
women l ever knew beat to death.
The way in which they would pick up
things and exaggerate them made me
sick. Ordinarily they were real nice
chaps, but when they got together
they spent many hours picking other
peoples regulations to pieces. A story
told by them without exaggeration
didn't go in that society worth a cent.
1t would have to be wildly exagger-
ated and, strange to say, the wilder
the exaggeration the more they cred
tied the story. / remember an in
stance where a young bank cashier
when called upon to cash a check dis
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Help for the Poor consumptive.

The following appeal to philanthro-
pists, in the fifth revised edition of
the Illinois State Board of Health's
circular on the Causes and Prevention
of tuberculosis, has attracted wide
attention:
Simple as may seem the directions
to the sufferer from consumption;
plain as may be the course by which
be may find health and may be given
a new lease of life, it must be remem-
bered that there are, among the five
million people of the great state of
Illinois, hundreds of sufferers who
are unable to avail themselves of
even these simple means of cure.
Fresh air, sunlight, proper methods of
living and reasonable rest are not
available to the man who struggles
night and day for the mere necessar-
les of life. The hard-worked woman
with helpless children depending upon
her must labor in the dark and dingy
sweatshop and live in the stuffy tene-
ment, although she may know that in
such surroundings consumption is
upon her. The poor consumptive
must live.
mo better opportunity for practi-
cal charity ever existed no greater
privilege was ever offered than is
held out to him who would provide
the means for the poor consumptive
to regain his health and face the bat
tie for life and for existence on an
equal footing with his fellows. Those
who are giving fortunes for the adj
vancement Of education, of science, of
art and even of religion, will do we'll
to pause and consider if saving the
life Of our fellow man and restoring
him to the helpless ones dependent
upon him is not nobler and a better
thing than the elevation of culture to
its highest plane or the carrying of
learning to the natives of foreign
shores"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Cock Fighting Once Famed in England

arch had cockpit built in Whitehall,
so that he himself might indulge in
the pastime. But no edicts could put
an end to cock fighting, and it flour
ished under the Stuarts, though Crom-
we'll prohibited it. There is an inter-
esting record of the sport in the reign
Of Charles H. Cosmo, grand duke of
Tuscany, while paying England Wis
1t, went in state to the theater ap-
propriated to cock fighting. common
amusement of the English, who even
in the public streets. take a delight
in seeing such battles, and consider
able bets are made on them"
Cock fighting in England reached its
zenith early in the last century At
that time distinguished visitors were
treated by each corporation to cock
fights instead of fireworks and music
by the local band. Every sporting no.
bleman had his own strain of game
fowl. The numbers that were killed
in the ring were immense. In sim
gle season in one town 1000 cocks
persisted. In the Easter week of 1922
in one pit 1873 cocks fought each other
and $50, 900 changed hands in wagers.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
The Maid Of Other Days.

Oh vanished maids of grandma's day,
What darksome lives were those yot
led!
Obliged in youth to pick your way;
Uncertain paths to keep and tread;
No experts had you to advise,
To counsel, caution or direct
Your maiden steps; no mentors wise,
Or faithful watchers circumspect
When grandpapas a-calling came,
No chats with girls were yours to tell
The judgment of some worthy dame
The time to sound the curfew bell;
And all in vain you sought the truth
They tell ii now-if twas sin,
When after dark a comely youth
Had seen you home. to ask him in.
You never learned-oh. vanished fair!-
You could not, had 1t been your wish
The latest way to best prepare
Your luncheon in q chafing-d dish.
And cen perhaps you never read
The fact that hungry companies
Would rather starve than not be fed
From Mrs. Cookem's recipes.
You could not TELL I'll wager now,
or countless things the etiquette:
In spite OF which, somewhere, somehow
You got your start; and yet-and yet
1t really is a problem quite
To find what saved you from the bad;
You had no Hints" to guide you right;
Your mothers. they were all you had.
Arthur H. Folwell in The Sunday Mag
azine.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Must Face Mother To-Day

AT runs a switch-engine, day out and
day in,
Ands got to make hay while ne can
It's a dangersome job I'll admit-but see
what
A fine-furnished home at he's already
got
And Pink-w'y, the girl wuz jist pinin'
away
So what could her old father do
When he found her, hid-like. I'm a loose
load OF hay,
But jist to drive on clean into
The aidge of the city where-singalar
thing!-
Wade switched us away to the Squire,
jingi
Nova leavin' me here-they've driv off,
with q cheer.
On their weddin' trip--which Is to drive
Straight home and tell Mother,-and toll
her back here
And surrender me- dead er alivei
So I'm waitin' here-not so blame overly
gay
AS I wuz-'cause L got to face Mother
to-day!
james whitcomb Riley in The Reader.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Ancient History Of Fighting Poul-
try Known a. Dorkins-Caesar
Finds Ono Breed of Poultry
A Royal Sport.

That breed of fighting poultry
known as Dorking has an ancient his
tory. The Romans introduced it into
England and taught the Britons to
breed it for the table. But Caesar
and his legions found one breed Of
poultry already domiciled in that
country, imported by even earlier Wis
itors, the Phoenicians. These fowls
were kept for pleasure and diversion
that is, for cock fighting-and the
breed was already many centuries old
when the Romans came. The Phoe-
nicians and the Greeks knew all about
the game fowl they drew their knowl-
edge of the sport from the Persians,
while in India, nearly 5000 years ago,
the fighting cock fought and flour
ished as it does to this day.
Cock fighting was royal sport in
England, though now and again edicts
against it were promulgated. King
Edward III. issued one, and so did
Henry VIII, though the latter mon
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Men Beat Women at the Gossiping Game

covered that the name had been
forged. He so reported to his man.
agement. The result was that the
fellow who tried to cash the check
was arrested. Though the thing was
kept quiet, one of the members of this
reputation destroying society got wind
of it, and he told 1t to his crowd with
a little establishment. They in turn
touched it up in repeating it and in a
very short time it was noised about
that the young cashier had been guilty
of forgery and had been arrested. The
young cashier heard of it and traced
all the stories down. All of them he
learned came from members of the
gossiping club, and having had deal
ings with this crowd before, he pro-
ceeded to give every member the
d-mdest licking he had ever had. 1t
did them good. Whenever you want
a conservative story Of something that
has happened go to one of those men,
bers and you'll get it,"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14

{ CARE OF THE BODY
How to Acquire and Retain the Priceless Posses
sion of Good Health

MIX as a source Of Injection.

The Anti-Tuberculosis Society OF
Battle Creek, Mich, gave an interest
ing exhibition recently at the Santa
rum In that city. The state inspector
of milk, assisted by the local health
officer and the superintendent of the
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich, has
been investigating the condition OF
the dairies that supply milk to the
people Of the city, and the results OF
the investigation, as shown by stereop-
ticon views, afforded an object lesson
that must certainly be effective.
Photographs were taken of the barns
and stables where cows are kept, and
OF the barnyards, and pictures of these
were thrown on the screen. The farm
ers around Battle Creek are certainly
as enterprising as those in any other
section of the country, and conditions
there may be taken as fair average;
yet the dairy inspector for this dis
trict stated that there were but few
dairies where the conditions were
strictly sanitary and proper, while
there were many which were decided
ly the reverse. Views were then
shown upon the screen, from photo
graphs recently taken of dairy barns
and yards, some showing extremely
bad conditions-stables full of filth
and barnyards where cows stood in
ponds of manure water which could
not fail to contaminate their drinking
water supply. Dirty cows can give
only dirty milk, and such milk is I'M
fit for human food. Other pictures
showed proper cooling facilities where
the milk was cooled as soon as it was
taken from the COW, and without con-
,taminatiOn from stable Odors, and
where the cows had clean, light and
well ventilated stables. Photographs
were also shown of various cultures"
as affected by diseased milk, as they
appeared under the microscope. First,
a photograph of culture" from pure
milk was thrown on the screen. 1t
showed merely blank space. Then
samples Of the grOwths in the ordinary
milk were exhibited, and all manner
Of germ colonies were revealed-ty-
phoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis and
others. 1t Is safe to say that few
who saw the exhibition will hence
forth use milk without knowing def
nitely the conditions under which it
was produced. 1t was encouraging,
however, to know that the dairymen
show commendable alacrity to i'm
prove conditions.
No human being could live where
the majority Of cows are stabbed
without speedily contracting fevers
and consumption; and Investigations
have shown that cows are no less sus-
ceptible. In this one item Of milk, we
have the source of vast deal of tu-
berculosis and typhoid, which is who'll
ly preventible. This being the case,
the continuance Of such conditions is
crime. Let every community or
ganize itself into health society, and
demand, for one thing, pure milk
supply, and the good results will
speedily be manifest.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Whisky Both Peculiar and Plentiful

Knowing whisky, the kind that
swells the absorber thereof until the
wise guy Solomon is on the bum.
Roaring whisky, the kind that sud-
denly sets the quietest fellow in town
to vociferating and swinging his arms
in unoffending space.
Fighting whisky, the kind that sud-
denly overcomes its victim with every
conceivable species of pathos and
makes of him a pitiful spectacle.
Bad whisky, exceedingly scarce, the
kind that makes man quiet, sullen
and dangerous.
Loving whisky, the sort that causes
him to draw near, put his arm around
your neck and emit a breath in your
face, that would drive a turkey buzz
card away from a dead coyote.
There are several other varieties
in Tombstone, conspicuously honest
whisky, which causes a man to pay
his debts when under it's influence,
then kick himself about it when he
gets sober; then the brand that causes
him to do the agreeable to everybody
he meets on the streets, then go home
and lick his wife until the neighbors
interfere.-Tombston Prospector.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Bold Snake Captures Pretty Milkmaid

leak she. looked full into it and at
temp -. 10 raise 1t. when she was hor-
rified by the discovery that a monster
snake had its head in the pail, the
weight of the reptile making it diff
cult to raise the pail from the ground.
The snake had evidently been drink
ing the milk about as fast as 1t poured
into the pail.
Greatly frightened by the discovery,
Miss Czerney gave a scream, sprang
to her feet and made dash for her
home. But she had taken only few
steps when she made the further dis
covery that instead of her ankle be-
ing entangled in the picket rope, it
was the snake which was entwined
around her ankle. The reptile was
coiled so tightly and was of such
weight that the young lady was
thrown violently to the ground.
Finally gaining her freedom from
the monster, which she was able to
shake off only after superhuman eff
forts, she continued her flight toward
home.
In her haste she stepped on rusty
nail, which penetrated the flesh to the
depth of about two inches. Blood
poison set in and only by the hardest
kind of work was the life of the young
woman saved.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Meat Is Unpopular.

'T never knew meat to be so unpop-
ular as it has been this summer" said
prosperous butcher. "Of course al
ways expect the meat sales to fall off
in the warm weather, but this year |
have sold only one-half as much as |
did last summer. One customer-a
landlady, who has twenty-five board
ers-tells me that she can hardly get
her boarders to touch the meat dishes,
and she is rejoicing. Even ham, the
old standby, which is generally in good
demand even in the most scorching
weather, is frowned upon, and the beef
trust would soon go to pieces If it's
produce were no more popular the
year round than it has been this sum-
mer.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Woman's Secret Wish.

Miss Frances Willard was a great
lover of what she called the big,
blessed, inspiring Outdoors" I'VE
women" she said, shall never rest
until we rest once more in our para
disc regained. | wonder If this is not
a secret wish in every woman's soul.
It astonished and amused me not a
little, though there was really untold
pathos in it, when bright young
friend of mine responded to my ques-
ton, What do you think l should
really enjoy most Of anything on
earth? with the astonishing state
ment, We'll. in spite of your demure
ways and devotion to philanthropy,
really believe you'd like best of all
to put on a gymnasium suit and climb
q tree"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
The Dress of Women.

The old Greeks had proverb ex-
pressing their belief that the mother
should be strong and vigorous in or
der that the sons might be brave and
mighty in battle; accordingly, in the
palmiest days of Greece, laws existed
which required every woman to en-
gage in the practise of gymnastics and
to give minute attention to all the re-
quirements Of hygienic laws, not that
she might be able to enter contests
in the arena or to fight battles in de-
tense of her country. but that her
sons might be victorious in all the
conflicts of life, in peace as well as in
war. To be the mother of sons who
were noted for strength, vigor and en-
durance was the highest honor any
Grecian woman could enjoy.
Do all mothers think of these things
when they treat their bodies very
much as they do mass OF dough in
making bread, molding it into such
shape as may happen to suit the fancy
of the reigning queen of fashion, with
out considering that the artificial
shape produced may be in the highest
degree incompatible with the physical
health and conduce to no small extent
to the constitutional feebleness which
their unborn sons and daughters must
hereafter endure?
Babies are simply buds; hence they
must share the character of the par
ent stock. A weak-waisted mother
transmits to her son or daughter a
predisposition to kindred feebleness
of structure. The mother whose liver
and stomach are so carried out OF
place that they cannot perform their
functions in proper manner, if the
does not actually transmit to her sons
and daughters a displacement of the
stomach and liver, gives to them a
predisposition to deformities of this
sort.
That a large responsibility rests
upon women because of their neglect
to care for their bodies, and because
of the homage they pay to fashion,
cannot be doubted. The woman who
starts out in good earnest to learn to
live one hundred years, and who de-
sires that her sons and daughters
shall follow her in such a laudable un.
dertaking, will certainly give this mat
ter the careful consideration which
will lead her to take her stand with
thousands of other intelligent women
who have declared their emancipation
from the tyrannous letters of fashion
and who believe it their inalienable
right to accept what civilization has
so long denied them-the God-given
freedom to breathe and move without
restraint.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
For a Girl to Know.

Some one has suggested few
things that every girl can learn before
she is IL. Not every one can learn
to play or sing or paint well enough
to give pleasure to her friends, but the
following Accomplishments" are
within everybody's reach:
Shut the door and shut 1t softly.
Keep your own room in tasteful or
der.
Have an hour for rising. and rise.
Never let button stay off twenty.
four hours.
Always know where your things are
Never let a day pass without doing
something to make somebody com
Portable.
Learn to make bread as well as
cake.
Never go about with your shoes un-
buttoned.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
QUEER CRADLES.
What Children Are Rocked In-Just
as Happy.

do TIdppys
When a baby is born in Guinea all
sorts of funny things happen to it. It's
mother buries II In the sand up to its
waist, so 1t cannot get into bad mis-.
chief, and this is the only cradle II
knows anything about.
The little Lapp infant is Graded in
a shoe-his mothers. This is big
affair covered with skin and stuffed
with soft moss. This can be hung on
a tree or covered up with snow while
mamma goes to church or any place
where babies are not invited.
The baby of India rides in a basket
which hangs from it's mothers head
or from her hip, or In hammock. In
some parts the baby's nose is adorned
with a nose ring, and in others its
face is wrapped in veil like its
mother.
The Chinese baby is tied to the back
of an older child.
The Mongolian infants travel about
in bags slung on a camers back.
In some countries the mothers lay
their babies where a stream of water
falls on their heads. This is to make
them tough, which 1t does unless the
babies die as result of this treat.
ment. Another mother covers her
baby's head with paste, while the Tar.
tar baby Is covered with butter. The
Turkish baby is salted-perhaps to
keep it sweet-while the worst fate
of all falls to the lot of the newly born
children in Bulgaria. Their mothers
put hot omelette on the little ones
heads to make them solid and protect
them from sunstroke. The Bulgarian
baby doesn't like it any better than
you would. He makes a great howl
about it, but it is not bit of use. His
mother thinks she knows better about
some things than he does, so he has tc
submit, which he does with very bad
grace indeed.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Holds the Frightened Girl While
He Drinks His Fill of Tactical
Fluid - Escapes but Injuries
Her Foot.

Aoh~ oSoPSo Dat AAIoA 90
Her Foot.
Miss Marie Czerney, daughter OF
prominent residents of Bon Homme
county, had thrilling adventure with
a monster snake, as the result OF
which she narrowly escaped death by
blood poison, by stepping on rusty
nail while trying to escape from the
snake.
The young woman, with pail in
her hand, went to her favorite Jersey
for the purpose of doing her evening
milking. During the day the animal
had been picketed in a tame grass
plot, and at the time of milking still
bore the picket line. The Jersey APP
peared to be greatly annoyed by flies
and mosquitoes and changed her po-
sition a number of times.
AS the cow changed position Miss
Czerney would follow it up, and dur
ing this operation her ankle became
entangled as she supposed in the pick
ct rope. The COW seemed to grow
quieter and after milking steadily for
several minutes Miss Czerney became
concerned at the small amount of
milk in the pail.
Fearing that the pail had sprung a
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Which IL TO Drive Straight Home
and Tell Mother and Surren-
der Me Dead or Alive-So I'm
Waitin' Here.

L got to face mother to-day. fer a factl
L got to face mother to-day
And jst how I'll dare TO, an how she
will act.
Is more than a mortal can sayl
But L got to face herr got to! and so
Here's a old father clean at the end Of
his row
And Pink and wades gone to the farm
fer her now
And I'm keepin' house fer 'em here
Their purity, new house-and-all paid feri
But how
Am / goin' to meet her and clear
Up my. actchully heppin' Fem both to
e-lope?-
CCause Mother .wuz set-and wuz no
other hoped
1 don't think it's Wade she's so biased
ag'in,
But his bizness,--a railroadin' man
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14
Snuff Boxes AGAIN In Use.

After having been on the semi-re-
tired list for many years, the SNUFF
box Is once again in evidence in the
shops. Even cigar stores had not
not been showing sneeze-producer
holders in recent seasons. The con-
sumption OF snuff is considerably
greater in winter than in summer.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14

A few days ago a man was sentenc-
ed to two months in Jail for pounding
his horse on the head with a brick.
This took place in Baltimore, but
there is just as much pleasure in re-
cording the incident as IL 1t had hap
pened nearer home.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14

The Pennsylvania man who pre-
scribed matrimony as a cure for ner-
vousness prescribed it for somebody
else. Matrimony cures nervousness
by taking all a mans nerve to COM
NIT it.-Exchange.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14

A Staten Island girl complains that
she was forced to marry at the front
end of a pistol. There's some question
as to whether that is a worse way
to capture a girl than by giving up
smoking and drinking-until the knot
ls tied.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-10-14

A Chicago professor has made the
discovery that women are increasing
in numbers much faster than men,
This tends to bear out the assertion
that the world is getting better all
the time.