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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-09-19
Gov. HerrIck Made an Address.

Lima, O., Sept. 15-Gov. Herrick ad-
dressed 10000 people at the Allen
county fair today.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
CUPTD'S MISSIVES

Something new is doing this year
in the way OF valentines. The old
style of thing, in the line of Cupid's
missives appropriate to the season,
has gone out rather suddenly, and has
been succeeded by an entirely novel
fashion.
In the first place, the long familiar
comic Valentines have gone OUT
entirely. OF course, one may buy
them at the penny stores on alley
corners, and, in all probability, SINH
lar ones will be sold in such places
centuries hence. But they are only for
the vulgar-and the very vulgar at
that. The verses printed on them are
usually abusive and often nasty, and
persons who send them through the
mails are commonly inspired by mo-
tiveS of malice.
The new style of humorous valentine
appeals to the taste of decent people
1t is really funny, and not calculated
to injure anybody's feelings. Their
only purpose seems to be to engender
cheerfulness and merriment and such
verses as. accompany them are not
turned in a spirit of ridicule. They
make no fun of the old maid-favorite
object of the old-fashioned comic
and aim no envenomed shaft at the
physical popularity or moral weak
| ness of this or that recipient.
Loves kilograms" are decidedly a
novelty in the line of valentines They
are got up much after the style of
real kilograms, and a printed warming
at the top state, that if there be any
doubt as to the accuracy of the mes
sage, cit can be repeated verbally by
the sender on receipt of ten kisses. -
A figure of Cupid carrying a pen
| thrust through pair of hearts adorns
the telegram, which is, as a matter of
course, written in verse, for example:
To NV Valentine:
Wire date-can't wait-be quick;
Love-sick-no joze-heart broke
Quite asAamusing in its way is the
valentine passport, which is got up in
the style of the documents issued by
the department Of state in Washington
for the convenience of American citi-
zens going abroad. The seal on it
bears the words, Department of
Love-" with pair Of hearts thrust
through by an arrow This kind of
passport is granted by the Union of
Hearts, and is addressed to 'AIy Sweet
Valentine" It is signed by Hymen,
! and reads as follows:
81, the undersigned. secretary of
state of the Union of Hearts, do here
by request and require, in the name
of St. Valentine, that you allow
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

(blank) TO pass freely through the
realms of Love; also that you afford
to her Cor him) every protection and
encOura cement in the furtherance of
her Cor hisl Objects"
If the character of the comic valen-
tines has changed, the pretty and rela-
lively serious ones are equally differ
ent from what they used to be. Fill
gre paper and other long familiar in
cidentals of the old-style designs have
disappeared and have been replaced
by really artistic bits of color printing
and decorative work. The old themes
remain, but are illustrated" as one
might say, in a new manner.
In one of the prettiest of the new
valentines for this year a cupid is
shown in the act of unlocking with
a big key heart which takes the
form of a large paddock. 1t is
dainty conception, implying a hope
on the part of the sender that his
particular key will prove a fit An
other winged child is riding on the
back of a dove, which carries in its
beak an arrow. The paint of the
arrow is inscribed, Sweetheart, be
ware!" and on the other end are the
words: Thy charms are many, my
merits few; yet 1 venture to offer my
homage true
4 valentine is hardly complete,
whatever its design may be, without
n cupid. L one of the new ones Love
is playing on a mandolin and looking
up at two doves billing In another
the winged god is painting a picture
on a heart-shaped plaque. Above his
head are hung on a line several SINH
lar plaques, each of them bearing the
portrait of a pretty woman. Perhaps
this valentine is meant to be sent to
a young man accused of fickleness.
A big heart of violets incloses the
whole.
Obviously for a young man is
heart-shaped valentine bearing the
words Good luck" and ornamented
with pictures of cigarettes and play
ing cards. Thus playfulIy are the
little masculine weaknesses touched
up, and in no spirit of unamiable criti-
cism.
Designs with colored cupids-wing-
ed pickaninnies with their wool done
UP in little twists-are more than half
humorous. But none of the new
style of comic valentines have any
suggestion Of malice in them, or even
OF Tidicule. They are just pleasant
and friendly greetings, appropriate to
the anniversary of the good saint
who is supposed to be especially the
patron of lovers.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
FISHING LINES FROM eRUBs.
Details in the Manufacture Of Silk
worm Gut

Details IN the manufacture or SILK
worm Gut
1t has been found that silkworm gut
forms the best line for fishing par
poses partly on account of its great
tenacity and partly because it is So
transparent. Every year a sufficient
number of Spanish silkwOrm grubs
are selected for this purpose. After
they have eaten enough mulberry
leaves, and before they begin to spin,
they are thrown into vinegar for sew
eral hours. Each insect is killed and
the substance which the grub in the
natural course would have spun into
a cocoon is forcibly drawn from the
dead worm into a much thicker and
shorter silken thread. The threads
are then placed in pure water for
about four hours and afterward dipped
for ten minutes in a solution Of soft
soap. The fine outer skin is thus
loosened SO that the workman can re-
move it with his hands. The threads
must be dried in shady place ana
are often bleached with sulphur va
por until they acquire the bright ap-
pearance of spun glass
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
An Old Valentine

Out of my ''Telemaque," worn and old.
Like a sword from a rusty sheath,
Hath fallen this trifie of lacelaTid gold
a fairylike tissue, all shot with gold,
Half yelling a verse beneath
II, the midst of the verse is a heart.
transfixed
with an arrow of steely blue;
on. the foolish verse. with its metaphors
Mixed
oh. the foolish heart. with the dart
transfixedt
And the foolish way to WOO.
I remember well the .sunny-haired Lad
Who wrote in this boyish way;
A 6reamer-what glorious eyes he had!
Poor dreamer, whose dreams have grown
sere and sad.
And whose hair and hopes are gray
one fair spring day. when the wood
lark'S song
So sweet that il sank like pain
Through cur thrilling hearts. as We
passed along
A6ovgn leafy a1SieS-(HoW that haunting
Floats back to my mind again1
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
A FELLOW FEELING.
Why She Felt Lenient Towards the
Drunkard.

OTQnkaTSs
A great deal depends on the point of
view. A good temperance woman was
led, in a very peculiar way, to revise
her somewhat harsh judgment OF the
poor devil who cannot resist his cups
and she is now the more charitable.
She writes:
For many years / was a great sui
ferer from asthma. Finally my health
got SO poor that found / could not lie
down, but walked the floor whilst 9TH
ers slept. | got so nervous l could not
rest anywhere.
Specialists told me must givesup
the use of coffee-the main thing that
l always thought gave me some relief
I consulted our family physician. and
he, being a coffee iend himself. told
me to pay no attention to their ad-
vice. Coffee had such charm for me
that in passing a restaurant and get
ting a Whit of the fragrance / could
not resist a cup. | felt very lenient
towards the drunkard who could not
pass the saloon. Friends often urged
me to try Postum, but turned q deaf
ear, saying, That may do for people 80
whom coffee is harmful, but not for
me-coffee and I will never part
AT last, however, / bought pack
age of Postum, although l was sure l
could not drink it. / prepared it as
directed, and served it for breakfast
Well, bitter as l was against It, /
must say that never before had /
tasted a more delicious cup OF coffee!
From that day to this (more than two
years) / have never had a desire for
the old coffee. My health soon re-
turned; the asthma disappeared. be
gan to sleep well and in short time
I gained 20 pounds in weight.
''One day I handed my physician
the tablets he had prescribed for me,
telling him I had no use for them He
stayed for dinner. When / passed him
his coffee cup he remarked: I am glad
to see you were sensible enough not
to let yourself be persuaded that coffee
was harmful. This is the best cup OF
coffee l ever drank he continued
the trouble is so few people know
how to make good coffee When he
got his second cup l told him he was
drinking Postum. He was ineredu-
lous. but I convinced him, and now he
uses nothing but Postum in his home
and has greatly improved in health =
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich.
Look in each package for the IA
nous little book. The Road to Well
vtIle.''
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The story as old as Adam and Ewes
Was told, while the lark o'erhead
Flung his arrows OF song into golden
sheaves-
And the siIken rustic of tender leaves
Made sweeter the words he said
All. well! we have all had our, Area
And this is the brief of mine.
And the mystic messages, the shining
That opened that land of delight to me
Was this primitive valentine.
We do these things in a different way
From the younger folk CLEAN.
In the learned light of this lettered day
We move in a more esthetic way.
And q wiser way, I Ween-
But athwart The years. with their grand
er things.
Their treasures Of wisdom and lore
This trifle Of gold shot tissue brings
Remembrance OF simple. hoIier things
. lZEat hailowed the days of yore.
Agnes Mahony.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
Eye Strain in Children.

If one remembers the fact that not
more than 10 per cent of all persons
have normal eyes and takes into con
sideration the sensitive organism of
the growing child it is not difficult to
believe that many children suffer from
from eve strain.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

and often could hardly straighten
my back. The aching was bad in the
daytime, but just as bad at night, and
l was always lame in the morning.
was bothered with rheumatic pains
and dropsical swelling of the feet. The
urinary passages were painful. and the
secretions were discolored and SO free
that often I had to rise at night.
felt tired all day. Half box served
to relieve me, and three boxes Effected
a permanent cure"
A TRIAL FREE.-Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo. N Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price SO cents.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
Becominu.

THAT dress is becoming, my dear.
said the man who thinks he is dip
lomat. She looked at him coldly for
moment and then replied. ''Yes. it is
becoming = threadbare. - Liver,
pool (Eng) Mercury.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
AduIteration of Liouors.

a New York physician says: The
greater part of the whiskey, brandy
and beer sold in New York today is
chemically prepared and is absolutely
unfit for the human stomach"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

ney trouble. OF
eight or ten
y ears sanding
l suffered the
most sc re
baekache and
other pains in
the region of.
the kid n e y s
These were es-
pecially severe
when STOPPING
tn lift aDVthino
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De
fiance Starch is fast taking place OF
all other brands. Others say they can
not sell any other starch
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

a man who knows enough to make
his living is never thought as much
of as the genius who can't.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11
AN OLD MANS TniauTk

An Ohio Fruit Raiser, 70 Years oI5,
Cured of Terrible Case After Ten
Years of Suffering.
Sidney Justus. fruit dealer, of a.en-
tor, Ohio, says: Il was cured BY Doan. :
Kidney Pills of n severe case of kid
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LaxGtive Bromo Quinine Tablets All drug
gists refund the money IT it fails to E. ".
Groves signature is on each box. sc
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-11

A woman can change her mDd a
dozen times while man is making
his up once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

turns them over to the manufacturer, who
Immediately makes the amount good with
perfect sheets.
The laws of the United States provide
that any person who shall have IN his I'M
lawful custody or possession any distinctive
paper on which United States securities or
obligations have been printed or that the
Secretary of the Treasury has adopted for
that purpose is liable. If convicted to
fine of five Thousand dollars and imprtson-
ment and confinement to hard labor for
fifteen years.
There is such a complete system OF checks
and counter checks upon each sheet OF the
paper arriving at the treasury and going
therefrom to the bureau OF engraving and
printing that is practically impossible
for a sheet to be missing and unaccounted
for. On one occasion when $40 bills were
being printed at the bureau there was
sheet unaccounted for that cost the bureau
$50. The sheet was never heard of again.
On receipt of the paper from the treasury
the process OF printing Is begun. 1t Is
first prepared in the wettfng division by
being counted in sections OF from ten TO
twenty sheets each. Later the sections
are placed between wet cloths and put
under heavy weights distribute the mois-
ture from the cloths evenly through the
paper Sufficient time Is given for this
distribution and the weights are then taken
off 1t is changed, each section being d.
ytded into three equal portions. The inner
or dry sides are reversed and made the
outer sides, so as to place them in direct
contact with the wet cloths. They are once
more placed under the weights, remaining
there for a number of hours. when they
are removed from the wet cloths. counted
and stacked ready for issue to the printers.
The custodian of dies. rolls and plates Is
ea,Iad unon for the necessary plates and
the work of printing is begun. The printers
assigned to the work are given orders for
the necessary plates, while their assistants
receive orders for the necessary amount
of paper. this being determined by about
what a days work usually amounts to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

When the assistant gets the paper 1t must
be counted with the same care and pre-
cision that q bank cashier counts money
before he passes 1t to customer. The
printer and his assistant are then respon-
sible for the plate and paper. AS a further
precaution and safeguard to both the prin-
ter and government there Is an automatic
device attached to each printing press that
records each impression that is made. From
the printer the printed sheets are taken In
hundreds to the examining division of the
bureau. where they are again counted and
placed in racks for drying. The printer
and his assistant get a receipt for the
number of sheets they turn over. In fact.
receipts are given and taken with each
handling of the paper. II the printer has
any imprinted paper on hand at the close of
the day he returns It, with his plate. and
receives credit therefor There is an Inn
mediate checking up between the printer
and the examining division, the object
being to see II the printer has accounted
for as many sheets of paper as he received
in the morning from the wetting division.
The registers on the presses are likewise
consulted and all three counts must agree.
During the night the freshly printed i'm
presslons remain in the drying room. When
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

turn the best-natured elephant into a peev-
ish brute, ready to strike and murder In an
instant. But these moods pass quickly.
The great danger is when an elephant Is
just TURNING into rogue. Every elephant
turns rogue sooner or later. and they never
recover. They may be tractable for a time
after qu.eting down. but the attack will re-
turn. and then probably keeper will be
killed. The female elephants turn rogues
earlier and are more violent than the males.
and the females are more dangerous In or
binary times.
Elephants form great attachments for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

dent and. showing talent or reckless dis
regard for consequences. made a success In
handling the animals. and have since been
classed as bull men and offered that job
and no other.
Despite the perils the constant watchful-
ness the half-conscious realization that
death is near. probably not elephant
man in the world today would leave his
calling. II has a fascination of a strange
kind, and the keeper becomes attached to
the great brutes that trembie at his word
one Instant ard the next may turn upon
him and trample him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

gigantic pets. sleep near them. ride them.
order them around and enter with them
into closed cars for long rides. We are not
afraid of them. Before many years we be-
come fatalistic. We exepct them to kill
us some day, but hope 1t may not be soon.
just the ordinary citizen expects death
some day.
Trainers testify that the elephant brain
works nearer like that of human being
than the brain of any other animal. The
moods and tempers of the big brutes
change suddenly The weather, hard
night ride on the cars, bruised foot may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

iberia germs found. number of guinea
pigs receiving injections of washings from
the mouthpieces remained perfectly well.
II does not necessarily follow that the tele-
phone never spreads infectious disease. ANY
one using a telephone Immediately after a
person suffering from phthisis or diph-
liberia would certainly be exposed to infec-
ton unless the mouthpiece had been ef-
fectively sterilized, and this may be done
with so little expense and trouble that
there seems no excuse for its omission. The
British post Office now sells a dtsinfecting
mouthpiece for the small sum Of $1-2b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

Good elephant men command good pay.
Most of them live In a state OF constant
watchfulness, realizing the treacherous ma
ture of the brutes. and those who 90 hot
realize this sooner or later are trampled or
hurled to death.
The elephant is the most treacherous'
moody changeable animal IN menagerie
They are twice as dangerous as tigers,
lions or hears. The men who handle the
big cats in their cages are forced to watch
closely and carefully while they are In the
cages with them, but that lasts only
short time. We bull men, i've with our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

at the lower left-hand and upper right
hand corners. The numbering Is executed
on special machines. and the greatest care
must be taken to prevent duplication. Inc
blue seal is imprinted upon the money In
the office of the treasurer.
Thus from the time the linen rags go
into the Massachusetts mills until they
come out paper money ready to pass from
hand to hand there Is constant care exer-
cised. every step requiring special preeau-
lions and skill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

again put through the same process for
the face printing. In due course they are
returned as perfect and make their way
back to the treasurer or controller of the
currency. a checking process keeping up
with every person who handles them. This
process Ia so perfect that 1t carries the
blank paper out of the building and brings
II back in the shape of currency with every
sheet accounted for in some manner.
Before the notes leave the bureau for
the treasury they receive the blue numbers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

business begins next morning they are taken
from the drying room and placed in the
hands of expert examiners, who carefully
scrutinize them for imperfections in print
ing. The perfect impressions are counted
into packages of 100 sheets and these are
stacked into packages of 1000 sheets. The
imperfect sheets are also made up into
packages.
When the paper that has been printed on
one side has become thoroughly dry and
has been determined to be perfect 1t IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
DANGEROUS BUSINESS.
Man Who Has Had Experience Says 1t
is Handling Elephants.
rom the Cleveland PlaIn Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perhaps the most dangerous. constantly
dangerous. business in the world is the one
into which have been tossed-the business
OF elephant man with a circus.
There is a constant demand for bull
men" but few will accept the position. and
most OF US fell into the business by acct-
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certain men and bitter hatreds of others.
a hatred that means murder when the OPP
portunity arrives. But the love or an ele-
plant for it's keeper Will not deter 1t from
killing him when the outbreak comes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
Telephones and Infectious Disease
N the New York Globe

fr0fl the VIEW lUfk diope
The medical officer of London has recent
Iy subjected a number of public telephone
moufhpleces to meteorological examination.
They were found to be very dirty. but in
no case were any tubercle baciih or di1h-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16

~ URING the fiscal year which closed
June 80. 1905. the United States
Treasury used about 100000 sheets
H. Of paper Of which there is no other
kind in the world. This IS the fam
Gus distinctive paper on which United
States notes. treasury notes. silver certif-
Gates. gold certificates and national bank
notes are printed.
Each Of the sheets is 81 by 1914 inches.
This prints four bills of any size that is
issued. Each sheet Of that blank paper
must be accounted for with the same strict
ness and accuracy as If the government had
obligated Itself upon It's face to pay 500 or
81 600.
In every 1000 sheets OF the paper there
are u pounds, and the government pays
the mills that make it 1914 cents per pound.
This would make the total cost of A, 900, 900
sheets about 5000. $50. The great care
taken, however, TO account for each sheet
IS not because of its intrinsic worth to the
government. but because the paper might
be taken by couuterfeiter and turned into
a bill that would have to be redeemed by
the government or it would be possible
for a dishonest emplOye Of the bureau of
engraving and printing TO make use Of
sheet 10y printing bills
About 1eOUOO blank sheets of this paper
are issued each day TO the bureau of en-
craving and printing. and every sheet Of
this must be accounted for in the form of
printed currency or in mutilated sheets. A
missing sheet costs the bureau the exact
amount OF the bills that were being print
ed upon the paper that day. Should $50
bills be- the ones in course Of print, and
there should be a sheet missing the bureau
OF engraving would have to hand out $50
If SIS were being printed the cost would be
$50. and 50 on, each sheet OF paper printing
four bills. This Is only one OF the numerous
precautions taken 10 protect the govern
mont against the misuse OF this celebrated
paper.