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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-22

look to an unframed eye as il 1t
would not take much to shift them
should a horse buck suddenly or
stumble. Yet most Of them could ride
whirlwind il they could only sad
die it, for they are Australian pio-
neers making their way into the big
mining camp in time for the Christ
mas revels that are certain to take
place.
The great camp comes in sight. A
long, narrow gully flanked on both
sides by low hills, dotted all over with
dirty tents that look too hot to shield
even a dog on such blistering day.
In front of nearly every, business
place, no matter whether It be made
of galvanized iron, wood or bag and
canvas, the owners have tied a liberal
amount CT fresh green foliage. All
day long men have been busy bring
ing in great wagon loads Of young
trees and green branches cut in the
forest close by, and the business folk
have purchased literally. -
Camels are kneeling in the high
way, whilst their Afghan drovers un-
load them, and they guggle and cluck
and groan dismally as though 10th to
part with their burdens. Mules
with ears laid fiat back, and big, dir.
ty, yellow teeth laid bare, step quick.
~ through the throng, drawing carts
daily decorated and covered with
quaint devices planned by the differ.
emit tradesmen to whom they belong.
Auctioneers and cheap jacks are hold.
Ing impromptu sales In the open air.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-22
A Song for the Season

A song for the holly bough
For the Yuletide beckons now,
And our harvest garnered sphere
Showeth the white O the year!
Brightly the berries burn
Like the embers in the urn
OF the day ere it declines
Behind the crest of the pines.
Green-a glory of green
Are the leaves of vernal sheen,
None of their simmer lost
Under the touch of the frost.
Furnished berry and leaf
Symbol the souls belief
~ the fadeless love of Him
Who stitch, in heaven, above
The saints and the seraphim
At the right of the throne of Love.
Center our faith and hope
We who yearn and grope-
IN the love they typify
SGisten the garlands nowD,
so, under the Yuletide sky,
A song for the holly bought!
Clinton Scotland In Housekeeper.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-22
Too Late!

,rvas Christmas Eve, and bitter cold,
The snow was falling fast;
rba lev branches Creaked and moaned,
And shivered in the blast.
Va trudgad along the frozen road,
4 lad with yellow hair,
who bore a bundle on his back,
And hummed a merry air.
vben last he trod those hills and daies
II was a summer day;
rha birds were singing overhead,
His heart was light and gay;
uiS dreams were all of sunny isles
And pillows bounding free.
And needless of his mothers tears,
He left her for the sea.
prr after many a weary month
Of hardship toll and pain.
us tonged to see athwart the dusk
The lights of home again
nd tray the collie, by the fire
In his accustomed place.
And at the window, best OF ALI
His mothers smiling face. -,
uo drew a picture as he went
OF walls with holly bright,
coy table spread for two
with linen fresh and white.
And while the tale of foreign lands
And stormy seas he told,
Uis mothers loving, wrinkled hand
Upon his curls Of gold.
The dizzy flakes had ceased to fall,
He strained his eyes to mark
The glimmer of tine lamp-lit panes,
But all was still and dark.
No joyous bark rang OUT 10 greet
His footsteps as of yore-
The cold white SHOWS unbroken lay
Around the silent door.
He saw upon the snowy sill
A wreath of immortelles,
And then his orphaned cry arose
Above the Christmas bells.
His mothers lonely watch was Ger
No more to weep or wait. o
She walked in glory with the stars
He had returned too late.
-Minna Irving. in Leslie's Weekly.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

diseases, including pelvic ca
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

Is today. nor was it so big or so Won
derful. Furthermore type setting was
done by hand and was very expensive
as was the operating departments of
all big newspapers. 1t would cost
circus a mint of. money to pay for all
the advertising it wanted and the
newspapers could see no reason for Civ
ing them free advertising at great eX-
pense. But the circus had to have the
publicity and it's press agent could get
It only by presenting features that the
papers recognized as real news items
when their columns Wee Immediately
open for the exploitation of their wond-
deTs.
II was these conditions that made it
necessary for Toby Hamilton, many
years ago. to let a Barnum lion get
away in New York, be cOrnered in q
barn. and guarded there for days dur
ing futile attempts at capture. when
he could have been taken any time in
fifteen minutes. But as a result of il
there were pages Of free advertising in
the New York papers that otherwise
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

them are as we'll known as was Jumbo,
who in the old days was in the pub
lie eye, second only to John L. SulE-
van. Even the personal "reminiscences
of the press agent are a wonderful re-
source and though Mr.. COXey mOdestly
places himself with the rank and file
and not among the shining lights, he
has a fund Of stories that it is worth
any mans while to listen to.
He relates one incident that occur
red in Indiana. He was then with the
circus which was showing at Rich
mond. one day he received a letter
from a man who requested four COM
plimentary tickets saying he was the
publisher of a little newspaper in the
town he lived in. In a postscript he
added that he was also at that time
filling the pulpit of the local Baptist
church. Mr.. CoXey by return mail en-
closed him the tickets writing him that
he was happy to extend the favor. Then
he added in a postscript that he en-
closed two notices, one of which he
would like to have appear in his
publication and the other a brief an
nouncement he would like to have made
from the pulpit the following Sunday.
The tickets were never presented. The
minister editor was a man of parts but
admittedly he was not a dead game
sport.
on another occasion George AIDE. the
fable writer, was hanging round the
circus entrance chatting with Mr.. Cox
ey when Farmer Tallgrass approached
with an eight year old boy in his arms,
doubled UP so he would look too young
to ride in on a half fare ticket. The
old man stopped and pointing to AIDE
he said, Johnny, you allus wanted to
! see a real live circus man. now take a
good look at that Teller" 1t was AIDES
time TO buy.
When the circus was showing in Boil
! ivar. Missouri. one day a long, lank
woman with a daughter but little less
tall and angular, approached the big tent
where Mr.. Coxey was taking tickets.
| Each woman had a shOat under her
arm which was squealing to beat the
band. The elder woman addressing
Mr.. Coxey, said: Men Mol jes' come
! in FUN the Ozarks an wanted t'see
the show. We amt got any money hut
we reckOned as how you all might take
| these lawgs fer the show an le US in
And he did.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

features, the public is Kept informed
by the show paper distributed every
where free but it is up to the press
agent to talk about things that are not
mentioned in the regular advertising;
things that are of themselves interest
ing and as a result of which the show
gets a great deal of incidental publ
city.
And there is no one more competent
to do this than Mr. COxey. He has
spent the greater part of his life in the
work of a press agent and newspaper
man and has a multitude of eXper-
fences, that properly related would fill
an interesting volume. He has been
with the Barnum & Bailey aggrega-
ton on both sides of the water and on
his latest trip to France he saw the
death defying act Of the woman who
turns a somersault in an automobile,
even before the act was secured by
the Barnum & Bailey management. In
fact he says he witnessed three per-
formances before he really saw it cri-
tically, for the impulse at first was to
turn his head.
Naturally the conversation with Mr..
COXey turned on the work of the press
agent and the transformation that has
occurred in that business in the last
few years. 1t was not many years ago
mat the press agent was supposed to
be only the paid fakir of the aggre-
cation he represented. but he was ex-
pected to do his taking SO cleverly that
no one would suspect it. The circus
in those days was not so popular as it
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

cured IN the olden times by taking, for
the paper has to nave the news even
if it does advertise the show.
Then too, in these days Of expansion,
monster aggregations. thrilling features
and new inventions; days when the big
things from the cities crowd clear out
into the back woods; days when the
headlines in every paper have some
thing Of a naiF raising nature, there is
always something happening under the
eye Of the press agent, that is strictly
true, stranger than fiction and yet af-
fords fine material for advertising Dur-
poses. Often the advertising man finds
dollars in just starting a scientific dis
cussiOn about something or writing a
truthful and entertaining feature story
on some subject like for instance. the
very important question. DO Elephants
Have SOuls2" OF course the writer
sets forth the experiments made with
the particular circus elephants he was
interested in.
The press agent himself is really a
feature Of the modern show. Many Of
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

money could not have bought. For the
same reason Charlie Davis, now of
Tucson, Arizona, and we'll known here.
and who by the way is one of the
greatest and most successful of the old
line press agents, when accompanying
big shows he was connected with, al
ways managed to take his aggregation
Of wild Indians to church on Sunday,
or mix them up in pretended rows with
half scared people. 1t was all for ad-
vertising, just as the prima donna loses
her Jewels then finds them again, or
the star actress secures her annual d.
vorce.
But things have changed in these
latter days and the press agent wins
success by close adherence to the gos-
pei of truth This is not because the
press agents are any better than they
used to be. Far from il. for they are
just as human in their day and gem
Grafton as are the newspaper men and
n press agent was never known to say
mo" but once. That was when he was
asked if he would refuse a drink. But
it has finally come to be consider ed
good business to be honest. This ap-
plies not only to the press agents but
to the shows. The latter must have
thrilling features that the people want
and ii is up to the press agent to tell
about them in an interesting way and
so conduct himself that when he comes
next year his word is worth something.
Then when he tells a newspaper man
about a real wonder he gets just as
much space and more, than was Sc
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
THE PRE- SIS AGENTS WORK
How the Nature Of it Has Changed in
Recent Years.

The third and last advance -adver-
Using car Of the Barnum & Bailey
circus spent yesterday in the city.
CHARTERED in ii were sixteen men un-
der the personal direction of Charles
w Hayes, and whose special mission
was the retouching of the bill boards
after the manner of the latest artistic
effects in circus paper, and the spread
ing of more literature among the peo-
pie generally. Accompanying this ag-
gregatiOn also, was w. d. CoXey
press agent of the circus. with whom
=. Republican reporter had a most in
tereSting interview.
Mr.. Coxey's business is to get as
much publicity as possible for the show
and to call attention to its various fea-
lures. not only in the amusement line
but in every other way, including man
agement. circus methods, etc. Con
corning the amusements and menagerie
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
Female Weakness IS Usually Pelvic Catarrl1. Per-na
Cures Catarrfl. Wherever Located.

Mrs. Lizzie Redding, sISi Clifton Plsee, 81
Louis, Mo-, writes:
Il found after trying many different medicines
to restore me to health that Peruna was the only
thing which could be depended upon. I began
taking it when 1 was in a decline, induced By
female weakness and overweight nerves
J Il began to feel stronger during the first week
took Peruna and my health improved daily Until
now am in perfect health and enjoy life IS I
never did before. Lizzie Redding.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
Unhappy Women !

No woman can be happy when her
health is undermined. No woman can
have good health while She suffers from
female weakness, Inflammation, ulcera-
tiOn or any disease of the delicate wOm-
anly organs. Nervous, Sleepless, fretful,
suffering in body and mind, she does not
live but only exists.
More Shan a half a million such women
have found n perfect and permanent cure
for their dlSeased condition in the use Of
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Women cured by this remedy say it is
wonderful medicine" so perfectly
does it restore them TO health and conc
illness.
There is no alcohol in "FavOrite Pre-
scription," neither does it contain opium,
cocaine, nor any other harmful drug. 1t
Is in the Strictest sense, an honest, tenn
perancs medicine, It's ingredients are
purely vegetable, and ii will agree with
the most delicate constitution.
49, Don't be hypnOtiZed, or over per
- suaded, into accepting substitute.
This medicine has a record that's worth
far more than any difference in price.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DR.. Pierce, either personally or
by letter, absolutely without charge or
fee. thus avoiding the unpleasant queS-
tiOningS, offensive examinations and ob-
noxious local treatments considered nee
essary by many local practitioners. All
correspondence treated as strictly private
and sacredly confidential. Write without
fear and without fee to DIR. r. V. Pierce,
6G3 Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
Thousands of WOmeH Cured Every Year
by correspondence Is What
Dr. Hartman Proposes to Do
For You Without Charge.

Women who suffer should read the
evidences presented here. We have
thousands of letters from grateful
friends who tell the same story.
Half the ills that are peculiarly
woman's own are of a catarrhal
character. Female weakness was not
understood for many years.
Dr.. Hartman deserves the credit of
having determined its real character.
He has made catarrh and catarrhal
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
WOMAN CITY CLERK.

Miss Estella Gordon, of Centerville.
Ia, is the only woman city clerk in the
state. The question of the legally of
her election by the city council brought
out much discussion. the statutes say
ing the Office shall be file by a quail
fed elector. The city attorney gave
lis opinion that Miss Gordon. being
qualified to vote at school and NUM-
c!pal elections when the question of
bonds is voted on, is a qualified electoT
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
Cheviots, Thibets
and Unfinished Worsteds
'.fyIsdBe3jamin0@|
MAKERS * NEWYoRK
labeled

The makers guarantee and ours with
every garment bearing the above label.
We are exclusive agents here.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
WITH JAPANESE RED CROSS so.
GETTY.

Mrs. Teresa Richardson has the dis
tinction of being the only English lady
who has been with the Japanese Red
Cross society. She has received the
highest decoration for ladies' in Japan,
conferred upon her by the mikado, the
accepting and wearing of which has
been sanctioned by King Edward. She
has also received the highest order IF
the japanese Red Cross society and
two other decorations.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
Be
Prepared

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of
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24

Peruna cures catarrh, whether of the
pelvic organs or any other organ of the
human body.
Pe-ru-na, Natural Beautifler.
Peruna produces clean, mucous mem
branes, the basis of facial symmetry
and perfect complexion.
The women have not been slow to dis
cover that course of Peruna Will do
more toward restoring youthful beauty
than all the devices known to science.
Many a girl has regained her faded
beauty, many matron has heightened
the days of her cOmely appearance by
using Peruna.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-24
La Peruna g. women - : -

In Peruna these women find = prompt
and permanent cure.
Thousands OF testimonials 70 this ef-
feet are received by Dr.. Hartman every
year. The good that Peruna has a.
complished in this class OF cas- can
scarcely be over-estimated.
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L you do not derive prompt anl !.
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: Peruna, write 1T once TO Dr. HART
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you his valuable advice gratis. ,
Address DR.. Hartman, President.
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bus, Ohio. All correspondence heid4
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-10
A Germ steriIixer.

San Francisco's ''bng wagon" the
board of health's latest enterprise aim
ing toward the extinction of all forms
Of germs and dangerous baciIli. had a
practical test, according to the Chron-
icle Of that city. The various varie-
ties Of germs were placed on cards and
buried In the center of pillows and
mattresses, which were placed in the
oven or sterilizing box Steam to the
amount Of thirty pounds pressure was
turned on. and after twenty minutes
it was withdrawn and a formation OF
chemical gases was allowed to enter
the vacuum. Whether the germs met
instant death cannot be determined mn
til after a post mortem, which Is now
in progress at the city laboratory The
sterilizer. the first Of its kind to be
built is self propelling and has a speed
OF about five miks an hour. The ma
chine resembles steam road grader
somewhat in appearance and weighs
nearly four tons.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-10
Cures Catarrhal Deafness.
One Weeks Use of fiyomei Did
More Than Six Months Treat
ment BY Specialists.

In the treatment of deafness, which
is often a result OF eatarrh, Hyomei acts
almost Immediately upon the inhamed
membrane and the hearing begins to
return at once. A few days treatment
viii bring relief and in three or four
weeks, according to the severity of the
case, cure win be accomplished
Miss Meeks Of Mattewan, N. ", says;
'Hyomei is truly wonderful. / have
used il but a short time and see a great
change in my condition. My hearing is
improving rapidly, and ! had no idea
| would improve so rapidly in so short
a time. My breath, which was so Of
fensive to myself and others, has lost
its bad odor entirely. / have spent a
great deal of money with catarrh spe-
ciahsts and antruly say that six months
Of their treatment is not equal to one
month Of Hyomei.D
Rickert & Wells are selling Hyomei
upon the unusual plan of agreeing to
return the money if the medicine does
not cure.
A complete ontfit costs only Sto0
and consists of an inhaler that can be
carried in the vest pocket, a medicine
dropper and bottle Of Hyomei, The
inhaler win last a lifetime and there il
enough Hyomei for several weeks treat
ment. Additional bottles of Hyomei
can be procured for so cents. Compare
this small expense with the fees charged
by specialists and then remember that
if Hyomei does not cure Rickert & Wells
will return your money.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-10


The Times is reminded that the pas
senger station Of the Central Vermont
Railway Co. ia Barre was not erected
by the company, but was the gift Of
the residents Of the town. When it
was erected it was large enough to meet
all requirements of the small village
there was here at that time. The part
Of the station set off for the use Of
the station officials became inadequate
long ago, and was enlarged by taking
part Of the rooms set apart for the
patrons Of the road. AS the patronage
increased the Accommodations were re-
duced. While the present station was
SO constructed as to be ample accomo-
dation for the 200 to 5000 people there
We're then in its territory 30 years ago,
apart Of those accommodations have been
taken away now that there are $4,000
to 10000 people in the same territory,
and the most extensive repairs have
been those giving more room to the
railway officials. These are none too
large now, and more room could be used
to advantage, but the room set apart
for the public is entirely inadequate.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-10
ToLsToI ANp THE czAR.
why Russian Ruler Does Not Exile
the Great Writer.


why Russian Ruler Does Not Exile
the Great Writer.
For many years Count Leo Tolstol
has been the most outspoken critic OF
the car and the Russian empire. yet he
has never been molested. lie has said
things openly that would have caused
the Punishment or Imprisonment Of
another man. The reason for his free
dom is described in an article BY Vance
Thompson in Success Magazine for
February as follows
ToIsto owes his miraculous freedom
not to state policy. He owes 1t to the
ear.
Nicholas H., whose realm runs over
forty degrees Of latitude and who isl
considered the sole representative Of his
subjects of God upon earth. is himself
ToIstoist. The ear is kindly, over
worked, unhappy man. He writes
vague. melancholy verses. rides bicy-
Gle and takes amateur photographs
his amusements are few. Iolstoi's
books appealed to the Slavic mysticism
in him. accorded with his dreamy love
of humanity and woke in him aspira-
tons for peace on earth and the full
fllment of the early Christians dreams
Of fraternity and equality in love. He
reads Tolstoi; he talks T0lstoi--as Ed
ward VII. reads the racing guide and
talks horses and as William III. reads
everything and talks everything Be
tween the car, imprisoned in absolute
sovereignty. and the free old man OF
Yasnaia Pollana there is a strange bond
of sympathy, both mental and spiritual.
An earlier car, Paul, had a similar
feeling for Tolstoi when he was still
little more than lad The young Leo
N. Tolstoi was at Seyastopol. shut up
in the famous and terrible "Bastion
H." TO the general in chief Of his
armies in the Crimea Car Paul wrote
with his own hand: Bear in mind this
young officer. No disaster must be all
lowed to happen to this young man,
who does so much honor to Russia.
Yet In those days he had not written
much But the ToIstois had always
been favorites Of the crown from that
early ancestor who was boon COM
panion of Peter the Great down to his
father and Leo n. Tolstoi himself. Ev-
cry official, every functionary, in Rus
sin knows that to touch Tolstoi is to
touch the car. Though they have new
er met, his friendship for Tolstoi Is al
most a cult. Not all his ministers and
not the mighty band Of archdukes can
change his mind in this matter, should
they care to do 50, and the govern
ment, as distinct from the car, has its
own reasons for leaving Tolstoi all this
liberty which binds him