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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1905-02-09

Sas mar am 8orubenb, ebe Saun,
Der 8ub. bonn Sien9runb fort ioate
na6 Der Staot. Die giae fam aus
isiner 8ammer unb bate feline Sable
Iigteiten in cine &iite sepadt, iis mar
bleid. srregt; es mudte bonn pielen
8iidsn feiu. 4u9 plaste fie l1nrube;
benin ie sing aus her Stube. unO 10
bin unb Der, uno nirgsnbs bate lie
eroB Qrbsit. 3peimul lief lie nod
gsgen bic Wsrtitatt binii6er. mo bic
GlarisRarie NIT benz S6ni an Der
Qrbeit Itanb, febrte aber balben Weges
pieoer UNI, ais rene tie etpas. 9eim
brittenmal frat ie bort auf bic
S6peGIe.
.8as ift2" frugts bic Gfdri>Marie;
gum 3uIebsn tam bic Giae ni6t beriis
Der. Dieie pintte nit ben qussn. baB
Der S0ni nidt gu b0ren brau6e, mas
iie gu Iagen babe.
.0as lit oenn?" fraete bic anOere,
nod einmal, Elm ipenig u~ngsouloig,
trat nebeu bic S6peIter auf bic
S6psle unb tlopfte ben Staub aus
benz @eipanb. Die giGe brebte benz
8ertitattinnern ben Riiden.
.gtaein tann er nift gsben Der gub!
IS mub i'm zines binbringen," iugte
iie.
So gsb OOd!" Iuste bic GIari>
Rarie.
nWiqft - tpinTt ni6t
.S92" untsrbrad ie bic GGarisMaz
rie, rtpsnn's um's 2eben gebt. 9ebe i9
in bic StaOt, font aber ni9t!!"
Die anbere i6pieg. IS idisn. aIs
p~erlange lie mad einem guten Bort.
Gnblid Ttammelte iie: rGr muB es
re6t betpmmen, Der 9ub, er bat ia
ieBt pieOer sei4risbsn, Der 9err.
er -"
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bic GlarisMarie langiam. gleidgiilz
tie. panOte iid unO sins an bic Irz
belt 5uriid.
81 sing na66er bic Giae unb leste
oben in Der Sammer oes 9uben audi
nod Sopftu6 uub Sdirm fir iid ieIs
Der sureft uno itano uno preBte Die
Sanb Dor bic platte 9ruit unb bate
elm 9efii6l BON S6pinoel uno San=
Qiateit; piel fam auf einmal, ptel fir
ben langiumen 9eritano elmer, bic
aeittebsns i'm SIensrunO geiefien: Der
Bub ainq fort, unb in bic Stabt iolte
Iie, lie, bic np9 in teiner @~iIenbubn
eeIeFcn unb nidt nit 2suten umging!
Der q6ere riidts psitsr. gls ss
ountel mar unb bic qbsnomablSeit
Gintsr ibneu lag, iaben ale, bic Qlten.
Der Saun uuo Der S0ni. bic @iae unb
bic GlarizW drie nm ben Siid uno
beteten. 8ds tbaten lie INNER. penn
iuit ridts gu beiprsfen mar.
SO nollen mir nod cine 3eitlans
betsn," iagte bic GlarisMaris INNER;
INNER mar ie ss, bic Oaran erinnerte,
uno baun betete lie nit ibrsr tisfen,
feIten Stimms ous r@uterunier" uub
ben englii6en 9ruB, uno bic anbern
murmelten mad. Sing elmer bintsn an
Der Saustbiir poriiber. tOnnte er es
b6ren: Gint6nisss Murmsln pielsr
Stimmsn, uub INNER pie Elm 6tbrer
poruuf eileno bic cine. bic Der Gluris
Rarie, tart. rubis. nit einem 1Ous
Taq, Der ni6ts nit Dem 2eieru ssmein
bate, oas mandmal in Der Stride
9ing, tpsnn lie Den RoisntranS beriugs
ten. 9l6sIid unb nidt ME cine. biz
fiG idldiris asbstet, b0rte bic Glari.
Marie audi pieosr auI. Wdbreub ibl
@men laut uno turS ub6ra6. tritarf
has MurmsIn Der anberu ME Wirbs
| pebtn. Damn heb jsne bic spsi alter
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
SMALL RAY OF HOPE LEFT.
Story Doesn't Say Whether the Girl
Felt the Same Way-Tale
by Governor Folk.

Gov. Folk of Missouri was talk.
ing about the bill prohibiting the
use of alum in baking powder,
SAYS the New York Tribune.
A legislator described to the
governor two conflicting aspects
of the alum and baking powder
question, and each of these as
poets was lamentable.
81 am reminded" said Gov.
Folk, smiling, "of a Tennesseean
named George Jones. George
lived in Observation-Disclosures
Vile is my native town-and he
had red hair.
RED hair is fashionable now,
but in George Jones early youth
ii was considered a good deal of a
disgrace. Hence George, though
a fascinating chap, did not have
much success with the young
women.
"Howeyer, one fine night he
raked up enough courage to pro
pose to a girl with whom he was
very deeply in love. She replied
to his suit in a sad voice:
"I am sorry, George, but |
could never marry anyone with
red hair
George smiled hopefully and
said:
"'That is nothing. My barber
tells me that at the rate my hail
is falling out I'll be completed!
bald in two years."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
Practical Girl.

PEARL don't see how you can
have more beaux than most girls
when you are not particular about
your appearance. Why, if l am
washing dishes when a young man
calls I'll rush up the back way and
fix myself up before letting
him in.
Ruby-That's the trouble, dear.
| walk right out in my apron
Chicago Daily News.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
RACE is IMPERFECT
The Expression "Your Feet Are Not
Mates" True-other Oddities
in Our Makeup.

There is more truth than pO-
etry in the rather rough saying,
sometimes INDUCED in a handy
ing spirit, that "your feet are not
mates" The fact is we are not
as perfectly made as the sculptor,
the painter anG the poet would
have us believe.
For instance, the two sides Of
q PERSONS face are never alike.
The eyes are out of line in two
cases out of FIVE, and one eve is
stronger than the other in seven
persons out of ten. The right
eye is also, as a rule, higher than
the left. Only one person in Is
has perfect eyes, the largest per-
centage of defects prevailing
among fair-haired people. The
smallest interval of sound can be
distinguished better with one ear
than with both.
The nails of two fingers never
grow with the same rapidity, that
Of the middle finger growing the
fastest, while hat of the thumb
grows slOwest. In "a cases out
of 100 the left leg is shorter than
the right. SO, you see, We are
not the perfect creatures we are
sometimes represented to be, moi
is it quite so horrible as one might
imagine to be reminded that ones
feet are not mates. The feet
are not mates, as a matter of fact,
that is, they are not both exactly
alike and of the same size.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
oERMANYs BLACK LETTER.
Comparison Of Texts Used in Printing
in the Fatherland-Show
Unprogressiveness

at is remarkable that so prao-
teal a people as the Germans
should continue to use their blind
black letter." says Jerome Hart,
in the New Orleans Times-D Dem
ocrat. The German text is ugly,
and when printed from small type,
on dingy paper, with high-speed
presses, as is the case with most
daily newspapers, it is difficult to
decipher. Ever since the days of
Cadmus alphabets have been de-
signed to convey ideas, and those
alphabets which transfer thought
with the most quiekness, clear
ness and precision are the best.
Considered from these stand
points the German alphabet is one
of the worst. That it is a failure
is shown uncOnsciOusly in many
ways. Advertisers, for example,
have no sentiment about them.
They want to reach the reader and
reach him quickly. Therefore,
nearly all the display advertise
ments in German newspapers are
printed in Latin characters,
$50, too, with the commercial
and financial pages. Stock brOk-
ers and merchants have no time
to waste in deciphering badly
printed German text; therefore
the commercial page in the Ger
man dailies is now nearly always
set up in Roman type. Circus adj
vertisements, theater placards
and advertising posters general
"; the names of streets on the cor
ner signs; the lettering on cars
and omnibuses; even temporary
signs, Such as NO InOrOugnIdre
or Street Closed you nearly
always see in Latin characters.
"Another proof of the inferior
ity of the German text is the fact
that nearly all German scientific
works are printed in Roman.
This has been the case for years,
but it has had little effect on the
printing of books of a general ma
ture. Bismarck did much to re-
tard this needed Improvement,
for he chung steadily to the Ger
man text and frequently sent
back books which were printed in
Roman, refusing to read them"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
Matter Of Stripes.

A small boy from the north who
was visiting a relative in one of
the southern states where convict
labor is employed in public i'm
provements became interested in
the men in their black and white
striped clothes. One day he went
to a circus and for the first time
In his life saw a zebra.
sob, auntie," he cried, "lOok al
the convict mule?'-Lippincott''
Magazine.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
CONCENTRATIONS.

When Ethel cabled to her father
from London her engagement to
the duke of Manchester, he re.
piled simply: Congratulations "
and when, a week later, she cabled
that the engagement was off
again, he answered with cheerful
reiteration: Congratulations"
Reader Magazine.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
WHERE PocAHoNTAs RESTS
Body u Believed to RspOse Beneath
Gravessnd Church Near Eng
lish Capital.

From its vicar / have just Ne
oeived a photograph Of the par.
fish church at Grayesend beneath
which lie the remains of POca.
hOntas, says a London writer in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. l
am told, however, that the Viz.
ginians who are counting on
removing the bones of the Indian
princess from Gravesend to
jamestown, .. S. A, are likely
to be disappointed, as all trace
Of these interesting remains has
been lost.
According to the generally &C,
cepted story, Pocahontas was
taken with smallpox just as she
Ind Capt. Rolfe werestartingback
o Virginia died in her husbands
arms on the sailing day, and was
buried in the rectOr's vault OF
Gravesend's parish church. But
the present church is the third to
serve the little parish, and the
fires which destroyed the pre-
yious buildings did their work so
well that now the location of the
original vault can only be guessed
at. In rebuilding the chancel
many years ago the late rector,
Dr. Haslam, discovered a number
Of the curious ba~rrel-shaped cot.
fms of the early seventeenth cen.
fury pattern, but these were so
CHARGED and cOrrOded that the rec
tor could learn nothing about
their occupants.
The Nirginians' proposal, how.
ever, has raised considerable dis.
cussiOn in London and has drawn
from one writer half a column of
doubt as to whether POcahOntas
ever was an Indian princess, any
way, and whether she came to
England as the wife of John Rolfe.
This iconoclast declares that
POcahOntas was an Indian advpn.
turess brought to England as a
speculation by the governor Of
Virginia for exhibition purposes
and that she was called a princess
to make her more interesting.
More than a year ago a party OF
enthusiastic Virginians who were
doing" London and vicinity got
on a train and went down to
G%ravesend. They were so pleased
with their visit that they prom.
Used the parish church a pulpit
built from solid oak cut at James
town. The pulpit has not turned
up. A party of ladies', also from
the vicinity of Jamestown, soUe
time ago promised to send from
home a stained-glass window as a
memorial to POcahOntas. The
windoW has not appeared. Grave
senders are hoping that if the
American patriots send an envoy
to undermine their church in
search of POcahontas' bones he
will bring along that pulpit and
memorial window.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10

To the man looking ahead th.
has an urgent invitation. me eVAinReg
Is today when investment cham peIt11lt
and homes can be purchaser h. eIe 300
tenth 70 one-half the prices 49, one
North and East. 70 tie
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
"eoing uppn

what was the man with the
turned-up nose asking your
said a man coming out of a New
York Office building, to a friend.
"Oh, he was looking for some
one on the 18th floor, and / told
him 10 follow his se."-Yon
kers Statesman.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10

Gollifer-I wish | knew Of some
place where | could go and spend
a sane and sensible Fourth of
July.
Gosch-Try some place in Great
1s4tain -Chioa0 90 Trihnna
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
Proper,

He-Why have you nick-named
your dog Circumstances"
She-Because | have absolute
ly no control over him.-DetrOit
Free Press.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10

WANTED-Salesman with ability aud
business experiences TO sell High Grade
Lubrlcating Oils, Greases and Paints
on Commission. Man owning horse
and buggy who could call on owners
of thresbing machinery preferred.
Liberal terms. References required.
the Federal Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
sMALL HANos wELL love
Points in Which, It Is Boosted, San
Francisco Women Excel
All Others.

San Francisco is the greatest
glove town on earth, say the glove
dealers of the city in the ChrOn-
icle. There are more gloves sold
here in proportion to the number
of inhabitants than in any other
city on record. There are more
expensive gloves sold here to the
class of women who do their shop
pinginthe retail houses in the city
than there are elsewhere. There
are more perishable light-colored
and light weight gloves worn on
the streets in the daytime in SAP
Francisco than there are in any
other American cities. Finally,
according to the glove dealers, the
hands which these gloves cover
are on the average nOticeably
smaller and more shapely than
the hands of the average eastern
woman.
The average sizes worn in San
Francisco, and so ordered in large
quantities from eastern sources,
are the 81, 81 and 6. The sixe Of
the average San Francisco wOm-
are the 81, 81 and 6. The size of
tween the two numbers last
quoted.
The biggest sales of gloves in
the east are in the sizes from 6 to
61. The large lines of small
sizes ordered by their San Francis
co branches are a constant source
of surprise to the eastern houses,
who must be told again and again
that big consignments of tho
larger sizes will not be sold.
Women of all degrees of wealth
are equally particular about their
hands. Shop girls of San Fran
cisco earning So or So a week,
spend $3.50 or 81 every month or
so for a pair of gloves, concern
ing the quality and fit of which
they are quite as particular as
is the wife of the prosperous bust
ness or professional man. 1t is a
tradition and a habit among San
Francisco women of all classes to
appear on the streets well gloved
and well shOd. They may have
to rob Peter to pay Paul, but the
fact remains that these two ad-
iuncts of the toilet are consistent
ly as correct as possible.
In addition to the evident care
bestowed upon the hands there is
a most significant natural reason
for their beauty. The climate Of
San Francisco is perfect for the
development of this great charm,
the pretty hand. 1t is soft and
moist rather than dry and free
from the harsh and cold winds
which crack and chap the hands in
spite of care. The weather cOndi
tiOns are most favorable to the
preservation of a firm, soft, white
skin. The persistent wearing of
gloves in the open air has a
marked effect in seconding the
climate for the beauty of the
hands. 1t protects them from the
tan which thickens the skin; from
the freckles which disfgure it,
and from the dust and grit which
force themselves into the pores
and rOughen the finger tips to the
detriment of the nails.
Even among the children are
gloves universally worn, for the
pretty and we'll kept hand has be
come a tradition with our women
and its development in the young
or generation is a matter O
course.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10

horses aad jack will make the season oil 1905 a.
tbrss miles east OF LeUington, No, on the Dover road
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-06-10
No F~avorites.

Though tile world may owe all
of us a living, not many of us are
preferred creditors. - Chicago
Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
WHO YOU IL.
This Is Sometimes n More Than Dim
cult Thing to Prove.

e@s w
Paradoxical as 1t may seem. the
most difficult thing TO prove in court
of law is who you are 1t is simple
matter If you have still living plenty OF
relatives of an older generation; but,
supposing your parents and uncles and
aunts are dead, it becomes well nigh
impossible. AS a matter of fact, your
knowledge of your identity is abso-
lutely hearsay. You know your father
and mother called you their son, and
TO that fact you may testify if the
question of your identity should ever
come before judge and jury. But the
testimony goes before the jury with
the warning from the judge that it is
only hearsay, for you have no personal
knowledge of the matter.
Official town or parish records are
valuable, but by no means conclusive.
Suppose you are John Smith, son OF
Robert and Mary Smith, born at AL
bany on Aug. 1, 1865. The record of
births in the bureau of vital statistics
at Albany will prove that Il son named
John was born to Robert and Mary
Smith ON that date; the register of the
church may prove that John, son of
Robert and Mary Smith, was baptized
on certain date, but they do not
prove that you are the John Smith of
whom these are records.
TO establish the connection between
you and the person mentioned in the
records-in other words, to prove your
own identity-is the difficulty. If your
mother is alive she can do it: If any
relative who has known you since you
were born is alive he can do il.
The successive suits for the estate
of a. T. Stewart failed on such grounds
as these. The plaintiffs, cousins of the
late Mrs. Stewart, were unable to
prove their relationship 1t was neces-
sary in one of these cases that man
should prove his late father and A. r.
Stewart TO have been brothers, but he
had no personal knowledge of the mat
ter. He had heard his father in Ire
land refer to A. I. Stewart as his
brother but the court would not LET
him testify to that and as the de-
PENDANTS denied the relationship, the
case fell to the ground.
The identity of person becomes
even harder of proof after he is dead.
Very often it is necessary to success
in litigation over an estate to- prove
not only who were your parents, but
who were your grandparents. Family
Bibles, with the records therein, help
out in this, but are not at all conclu-
sive. Birth and marriage certificates
are accepted as cOrrObOrative, but II
requires quite mass of such matter,
together with at least some witnesses
who can testify of their own personal
knowledge, before court will accept
such fact as proved to its satisfac
ton.
All of this illustrates the great value
Of keeping family records, for these,
while not conclusive, are strong cor
roborative evidence Of identity. espe-
cially If the handwriting of the success
sive heads of the family, in which the
entries are made, can be proved, which
Is generally fairly easy. Many great
estate has been lost to its rightful own
ers solely because of their inability to
prove who they were.-New York
World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
The Cautious CnrD.

In the second act, scene /, Of "Ham-
let' we find Polonius saying to Reynal-
do, See you now your bait of false
hood takes this carp of truth" which
would seem to imply that your carp
was a gullible creature, such, however
and alas, not being the case-at any
rate, in these days. Nor was this fish
regarded as an easy prey by the skilled
anglers Of centuries ago. Master Izaalx
Walton says: "The carp Is the queen
OF rivers, a very subtle fish. If you
will fish for a carp you must put on
very large measure of patience"
Elsewhere with pain one notes I'M
fiattering reference to Cyprinus, which
Vaniere lauds thus: "Of all the fish
that swim the watery mead not one in
cunning can the carp exceed" Button
was so impressed with its extreme eau
tion and Witness that he designated It
"the fresh water fox" As for Walton,
to that which we have already quoted
there Is appended the remark, "He Is
hard to be caught" Now, whatever
may be thought of old Izaak as a natu.
ralist, it must be admitted that as re-
CARDS deluding coarse fish he was de-
cidedly call there"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
Old PARIS Possible Are.

One Of the last services Deaf Stanley
did for Westminster abbey was to
cause the almost etfaced inscription
over the celebrated old PARIS grave
to be recut. 1t is as follows: "Tho:
Parr of ye County Of Salop. Borne
in AID 1883. He lived in We reigns Of
Ten Princes viz, X. Edw. 4, X. Edw
., X. Rich. 3, X. Hen. Z, X. Hen. 8, X.
Edw. 6, g. Ma, Q. Eliz, X. ia. & X.
Charles. Aged 152 yeares, and was
Buried Here Novemb. 10, 1886"
The ''old Countess of Desmond" who
is said to have died at the age of 40,
is mentioned by Lord Bacon, Archbisl-
op Usher and Sir William Temple.
The first assures us that "she did
dentige (renew her teeth twice or
thrice, casting her old teeth, and others
coming in their place" - Chambers
Journal
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
Race Memory of Bird.

l am never tired of watching nv
barn door fowls on the occasion when
the sweep comes, on the moment when
the brush energies from the top of the
chimney. Whatever the fowls are do
ing, they rush in every direction seek
ing for cover, convinced that an awful
enemy has appeared on the roof. A
cap thrown high in the air has the
same effect 1t wakes the latent re-
nembrance of the birds of prey. They
see what may be called the vision of
the ideal hawk, which is far stronger
and more deeply imbedded in their
very physiology than any momentary
image can be. This theory of inherited
race memory seems to throw light upon
the origin of instinct. Thus animals
often live and move as If impelled by
reason and foreknowledge. Fear. often
repeated. calls forth the long "ears of
the rabbit."-Carpenter's "The Art Of
Creation"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

When you are in a hurry for thing
how slow it travels.
An excuse never accomplishes all II
Is expected to accomplish.
If you want people to like you don't
know anything ION" them.
Ever notice this? If one thing goes
right with you something else goes
wrong.
Every one owes something to himself
except the father. He owes it all to his
family.
When you see two people who dislike
you whispering together doesn't 1t give
you n funny feeling?
About the easiest thing in the world
that we know anything about is to find
the bright side for somebody else.
They speak of it as "llfe's fitful fe-
ver," but most Of us have such hair
raising experiences that it Is more like
chills.-Atchison Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25

What treasures of the ancient world
may still lie hidden among the debris
Of the past? Where are the riches of
Babylon and Nineveh? Where are the
secret treasure chambers of Egypt?
Where is the gold of the phoenicians? {?
Where is the tomb of Alaric, the Goth,
that was crnmmed with all the richest
spoils of Rome? Who has discovered
the secret places of Mexico and Peru,
where the untold wealth of mighty
dynasties was stored?
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25
The Amount OF WATER to Dr,nk

The normal amount of water daily
required is a mathematical calculation
regulated by the sensation of thirst. A
reduction Of the body water by / per
.ent produces thirst. Life can be sus-
tanned for longer time when water is
taken without food than when dry
food is taken without water. 1t is
said that six and half pounds of wa
ter, holding in solution waste products,
Is excreted in twenty-four hours from
the body weighing 165 pounds. This
will serve as an approximate guide to
the necessary amount Of water for dai-
ly observation-disclosures Medical Jour
nal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-10-25

Among the Somulis of Africa there is
legend that when God first made
them, man and a woman, he wrote
down in a book the law they were to
follow. They were promised that as
long as they carefully preserved this
book they should continue great and
powerful, but If they lost 1t their great
ness would depart from them. One day
the book was carelessly left lying out
side tent, where a bullock found and
devoured it. From that fatal day their
decadence set in, and to the present
time whenever an OK dies of disease or
Is killed his entrails are religiously ex-
amined to see if any trace of the book
can be found. If found they believe
they should recover their lost power.