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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

the Russian papers report that hero
who received decoration for courage
on the battlefield had not even shirt
on which to pin the symbol, 1t is false
that the injured rise from their beds
and rush into the lines eager to fight
again. The injured have no beds; the
moneys appropriated for the purposeare
stolen.
We knew all this long before you did.
You saw only the immense empire
which haughtily spread over two hem
!spheres; we saw the vermin gnawing
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

its vitals. You now see only defeats
on land and sea; we look upon mis-
cry that crushes millions.
1t is not enough that our brothers are
perishing by thousands in foreign
land, paying with their blood for the
perfidy of that government which tore
from them their freedom and their
fatherland. Our people are brought to
the last stage of misery. Tens Of thou
sands without work-fathers who can
not feed their children-walk the streets
of Warsaw and Lodz.
Yet there is not enough misfortune.
Mobilization is announced. Another
10000 victims are drafted from Poland
the land Of graves and crosses.
Savage Despair.
You cannot imagine the savage de-
spair which overpowers the masses torn
from the plow, from the hearth, from
wife and children. 'If we are going to
perish, let us perish in our own country!
Let us die by the hands of those who
are our enemies!" is the cry of the re-
serves. "The very stones cry out when
they take us. They clamor to the peo-
pie of Warsaw. We are not going to de-
fend Russia. Our country is here!"
You do not know that women throw
themselves under the wheels of the
trains that carry their relations to the
far east; that cases of sudden death
and madness occur every day; that in
Pultusk, Czanstochowa and Lodz, SOL
diers fired into the people and killed
many. In Gostynin, when the order was
given to decimate the resisting reserves,
the colonel, Dzwonkowski, a Pole, shot
himself in front of his regiment.
In Kutnow the women, maddened
with despair, threw themselves upon the
Russian officers, then knelt upon the
tracks, raising their hands and calling
the vengeance of Heaven upon the czar.
The Russian government lies when 1t
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
AWKWARD DINING IN JAPAN
The First Meal Partaken Of by an
American There Is Sure to
Be Trying.

If it's your first japanese dinner you're
having dreadfully hard time. In the
first place, writes Bertha Runkle, in
Child Life in China and Japan" you
must sit on the floor, for they don't have
any chairs in Japan. You kneel down,
and then you turn your toes in till one
laps over the other, and then you sit
back between your heels. At first you
are quite proud to find how well you do
it, and you don't think it's so very un-
comfortable. But pretty soon you get
cramped, and your legs ache as if you
had toothache in them. You don't say
anything, because you think that if the
japanese can sit this way all day long,
you ought to be able to stand it few
minutes. Finally both you feet go to sleep
and then you can't bear it moment lon
ger and you have to get up and stamp
round the room to drive the prickles out
of your feet, and all the dancing girls
giggle at you. This isn't your only trou-
BILE, either. All you have to eat with is d
pair of chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
white mating floor. Now the floor of a
Japanese house isn't just the floor; it's
the chairs and sofas and tables and beds
as WELL At home it would be mortify-
ing enough to go out to dinner and spill
something on the floor; but in Japan,
where people sit and sleep on the floor,
it seems even worse. So you are unhappy
till your little nesan (who is the waitress,
and almost as prettily dressed as the
dancing girls, but not quite) comes
laughing to your aid and shows you how
to hold your chop-sticks. After that you
manage nicely the rice and the omelet,
but the fish and the chicken you can't
cor.trive to shred apart without drop
ping your chop-sticks all the time. So,
between dances, the maiko-little girls
| about IL years old-kneel down beside
you and help you. They can't keep from
giggling at your awkwardness; but you
don't mind-you just giggle, too; and
everybody giggles and has lovely
| time.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
TWO LATE MODEL GOWNS.

OF richly embroidered braid, sometimes
with narrow frill. Dotted nets and
muslins are liked for the evening gowns,
as we'll as soft wools, silks and crepes.
The girdle continues the proper thing
on fancy costumes, but narrower belt
is making progress on shirt waists and
shirt waist suits.
The reaction noticeable in the way OF
less elaboration in dress applies to the
coiffure, too. No ornaments are now
worn in the hair save combs, the three
story pompadour is quite gone, and all
the mass of hair that for awhile lay
on my lady's back-to the detriment Of
her dress, and not particularly effective
or becoming, either. save in the rarest
cases, is no longer approved Now the
hair is lightly raised above the fore
head, but at the back it is worn fiat
against the head, accenting the natural
outline.
For wear with silk shirtwaist suit
there should be white ruche at the
neck and-another grandmother touch
"a close string of gold beads; or, If one
possess it, short chain of coral beadz.
These accessories in no way detract
from the simplicity Of the gown, and at
the same time give enough decoration
to make It suitable for dressy demands. ~
Although this is what is spoken Of as
color season, black is well to the fore
for evening dress; and thin stuffs are
especially liked for these gowns. They
should be made little longer than round
length, and the foundation be firm
enough to keep the skirt from looking
limp. Light crinoline is now used to
hold out the sleeves at the shoulder.
and may become generally used for
skirts as in days of yore; but bear In
mind it has not as yet made much of
show for this purpose. Black dresses and
also colored ones, are literally sprinkled
with sequins, put on, not in the old fiat
way, but in little strings that make
swing and jingle as the wearer walks.
Spangles, too, are employed, always very
effective on black.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
TOLD OF BALDHEADED MEN
They Want More Hair Cuts Than
Men with Hair, Says
Barber.

The secretive, taciturn barber was
finally induced to talk, says the Provi-
dence Journal. He remarked: I've no.
ticed one popularity about my custom
ers that I could never quite explain.
The less hair a man has the more at
tention he pays to it.
There's real estate agent who
comes in here nearly every week for
hair cut, and if shaved him clean from
the back of his collar to his forehead
you'd never know that I'd touched him.
He's got a short, light colored fringe,
that plays around under the rim of his
hat, like the soft, fluffy fringe you see
on those shawls the women wear over
their shoulders, but you'd think to hear
him that he could braid 1t and do it up
in coils. Wants me to be particular and
trim it close on the neck and around the
ears. | humor him, Of course l take
a handful of somebody else's hair and
sprinkle it on the cloth put on him and
then | snip the air gently for ten or 15
minutes and make a great ado when |
whisk him off.
"And when he leaves the chair and
says he mustn't let it grow so long again
say it was pretty long. l hope the
Lord will forgive me. Nine out of every
ten of the bald heads are that way, but
men who've got plenty OF hair will keep
away from here until they look like the
edges of an old-fashioned hayloft. It's
curious and, as said. never could ac-
count for It,"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

the costume department of perhaps as
beautiful "store" as is to be found any
where in the world, and saw one model
that seemed an exact copy of grand
mother dress. BY a grandmother
dress" we mean no elderly-lady affair,
but the sort grandma wore when she
was maiden young and fair. The frock
referred to was made of pale blue crepe
de chine, the skirt full, with three wide
ruffles giving it added flufiness, the
ruffies about as far apart as they were
wide, and extending from the hem of the
skirt to little within the waist line.
The waist had low neck and short
sleeves, and to its fulness was enhanced
by row of ruffies.
Trimmings of self-material are to be
quite the fashion, and they are a relief
from the over-ornamentation that of
recent years has made use of whole
milliner's scrap basket on single cos
.ume. With the soft Yools in vogue,
ruffies are especially suitable, and these
also carry US b X tQdays Of "delaine."
Self-trimming 1nclddo, besides the
rufled bias, bands. straps, puffs and
quillings. Puffs, another revival of the
old, are beginning to be seen, and are
well adapted for soft woods. Rosettes
and stiff little bows are trying to make
headway, but to us seem to have little
to recommend them. Scallops are yet
another old-fashioned come back, and
these are usually bound with some con-
trasting color. For instance, red cash
mere would have scallops finished with
black taffeta. Surely, there are to walk
abroad the very ghosts of our grand
mothers.
The square neck is used on evening
gowns, and on day dresses with the ad-
dition of the chemisette. Sometimes the
opening is finished with a narrow bit
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
POLISH PEASANTS FORCED TO FIGHT
FOR A HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to Fate Worse
Than Death. Fathers and Lovers Murde
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Front-Stirrine Appeal of Polish Woman
to All American Mothers.

people. 1t is untrue that the govern
ment of the czar is Russia. That gov
ernment never receives the sanction and
mandate of the people. The government
acts, Russia is silent. 1t is false that
Russia is Russia. Russia is Poland, Fin
land, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia.
Russians are Tartars, Kurds, Yakuts
and other peoples harnessed under the
yoke of despotism.
1t Is false that necessity compels Rus
sia to the war. The moral necessity was
to evacuate Manchuria at a time set by
herself. 1t is false that the interests of
Russia required a further occupation.
Not the interest of the people is here
at stake, but the interest of handful
of titled and untitled parasites, who
send the people to massacre and to be
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

should escape the vigilance Of the Rus
sian army and police, but the precau-
tions would have all proven fruitless
had it not been for his own powers Of
endurance, his determination to escape
military service for hated ruler and
the assistance of a devoted wife, who
managed to throw the officers off the
sscent until her husband should be we'll
over the Austrian boundary.
The sealed rubber package carried BY
Mazurowski on that night contained a
Emessage to the newspapers of America
(which they were asked to give to the
mothers of America 1t tells of present
conditions in stricken Poland; of hus-
bands ordered to the front, who, rather
than leave their families to suffer, kill
them before joining their regiments; of
lovers, who, rather than leave their
.sweethearts to become the prey of
.licentious army officers, kill them and
then themselves. 1t tells of conditions
$50 revolving and so terrible that it Is
almost impossible for the enlightened
people of this free land to believe them,
and yet this noble Polish woman asserts
they are true
I The Appeal.
\ Her letter to American mothers is as
follows:
When several years ago, at the wish
of Car Nicholas H., the first peace
conference gathered at The Hague, it
was received by the friends of humani-
sty with applause. 1t seemed to herald
tthe dawn of new era. We Poles alone
knew that the whole project of Mura-
vieff was a fabrication to mislead the
civilized nations. The czar announced
EDeace, but in his own land there was
mo cessation of strife. At the time of
Mhe conference half the provinces were
under martial rule; and now, while a
second conference is about to take place
not this time on the initiative of a
,despot, but of an elected leader of the
American people-Russia, unmasked, is
conducting in the far east such deyas-
tating, unnecessary war as is unparal-
leled in history
1t is not war; 1t is massacre! All
scientific and technical progress intend
ed for the increase of the power Of the
human race is being used for the work
of devastation. A hail of bullets COW
,ers whole regiments. Battlefields are
so thiclSly strewn that it is necessary
to burn the bodies or to place the dying
and the dead in one grave. New regl-
ments of victims crowd from all portions
of that great country which Russia
claims, to hail, by order Of their su-
periors, the 'peace-loying czar."
1t is said that the government OF the
czar did not wish this war. No, 1t was
mot war that was desired, but new pos
sessions! Therefore 1t preached dis
armament to deceive your alertness
that 1t need not fear foreign ornaments
The Gear, Not Russia.
The Russian government, you mus
mot forget. governs unchecked by thu
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

New York.-On dark, stormy
might in October Stanislaus Mazurowski
left his humble home in southern Po-
land and swan the Vistula river near
.Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria. In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army in Manchuria, and started on his
long journey to America.
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
case Mazurowski carried with him a
letter to the American people from a
Polish woman of noble birth. His cap
'ture with that letter in his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as a deserter, but death also to
1.-THE fair woman for whom he was act
ing as messenger. Knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
Killed His Wife Rather Than Leave
Her Alone.

Your homes are not surrounded by
gendarmes and spies. You can move
the consciences of your brothers; you
can demand that they put an end to
this horrible massacre, which sets on
the twentieth century in its infancy a
brand of shame.
If you will not do this, II our voice
rouses no response, then there are no
longer any human beings; there is only
a silent, unpeopled desert, on which
hyenas dwell. Then the proposed con-
gress of peace is, like the first, per-
fidious comedy, a proclamation, a deri-
sion of the untold misery of a wretched
people.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
Real Cruelty.

Beggar-Kind sir, could you help
victim of the trusts? l am starving!
Citizen-How are the trusts respon-
sible?
"They shut down the factory where
my wife had a job, slrl"-Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

but within filmy light frocks, white
waists, counters ard frames entirely
given over to cottons and lightweight
stuffs. Which reminds us to give some
sage advice regarding choice of waist
material. 1t seems to be getting TO be
the rule to have the majority of ones
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

IN the lull that succeeds the Christmas
frenzy it is good time to plan and pro-
vide for next seasons demands.
In the large cities the shops are bow
ers of summery stuffs, snow outside,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

GAIN we must speak Of the
quaint prettiness of the fash
ions, and the quaintness
promises to be more than
ever a feature of gowns. We
strnlled this week through
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

OW is the time when a
maiden's fancy turns to
thoughts of spring and sum-
mer shfrtwaists, though we
shall have real winter with
nc yat fnr poonu rpnnnc put
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20

To you, free people, direct my ap-
peal. How long will the principles OF
humanity be the laughing-stock of tri-
umphant militarism? How long are we
to measure culture by the Improvement
of deadly weapons?
To American Mothers.
Women of all nations, let your moth
erly hearts be filled with the suffering
of Polish mothers! You have voice.
Your lips are not sealed by the CENSOR
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-30

The wooden floor of the stalls is
raised two or three feet. so that the
buyer. standing on the ground. is about
on a level with the seller sitting i'm tho
stall The stan win be about by 10
Feet, and each has az the back a strong
lookup cupboard OF wardrobe. where
the wares are shut at night. but in the
day they win be taken Out and arrang-
ell ddintlr about the girl seller Home
made silks are the staple-silks in
checks Of pink and white Of yellow
and orange. OF indigo and dark red.
some are embroidered I'm silk. il silver
on On gold. some ARE plain. An are
thick and rich None is glazed. and
none IS CANDY. There viii also be silks
from Bangkok. which are Of two colors
purple shot with red and orange shot
with red. both very beautiful All the
silks are woven the size Of the dress
FOR mon about twentv-eigllt feet long
and twenty inches broad and for wo-
men about hve feet long and much
broader Tins there Is no cutting of
the piece. The anas. TOO. which are the
bottom pieces for a woman's dress.
are woven the proper size There wiz
probably. too. De piles Of snowy cam
brio facsets ana eauzy SIX handker-
chiefs. hut often -nese are sold ~ sep.
arate alls.-BiacAwood's Magazine
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-30
Of THE
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Question of Securing Fleet Was
Discussed, and Committee viii
Be Sent to Washington.

An interesting meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce was held yes
to-day in the rooms Of that DOoy
President Stiilman presiding.
Several matters were discussed
chief among which was the Informal
ION received that the preliminary
itinerary of the North Atlantic feet
had been made up and that Pensacola
had been Ommitt2d as the point
where the feet would rendezvous. A
committee composed of prominent
citizens was appointed to use all en-
deavors to secure q change in the
itinerary. and it is expected that this
committee viii have to 80 to Wash
ingtOn to call upon the naval officials.
Secretary Jones was appointed
committee Of one TO can uDOn the
business men of the city, especially
those who are mostly benefited by
the visit here of una vessels, and see
If a fund sunicient to carry on this
work cannot be secured, as it is very
essential that a fund sufficiently large
to defray all expenses be raised at
cnce if the feet is to be secured for
this port
The body passed resolutions con-
Cemning the BTOWniOW bill and the
L;ttlefeld bin. both of which are
against the interests Of the pilots.
The senators and representatives
from Florida were requested 10 vote
against the passage of these
measures.
A resolution was passed request
ing Senator Mallory and Congress
man Lamar to protest in congress
against tho destruction of Niagara
Fails for commercial purposes.
The secretary was instructed to
communicate with the surgeon gen
eral Of the Marine Hospital and Pub
lie Health service, and request that
an assistant surgeon be appointed at
this port, The Office having been abol-
ished some months since.
Five new applications for member
ship were received.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-30
EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.
Man Bitten by HARMLESS Snake BE-
lfeved He Was Dying.

Man Bitten by HARMLESS Snake BE-
lieved He Was Dying.
An English physician in India once
told Of an extraordinary case Of the
effect Of Imagination on the physical
system. He says:
"SOme time ago on visiting the hos
pital one morning I was told that a
man had been admitted during the
night suffering from a snake bite and
that he was very low. I found him In
state Of severe prosration; he was
hardly able TO speak and seemed to be
in a state Of great depression. He and
his friends said that during the night
in going into his hut a snake bit him
on the foot; that he was much alarmed
and rapidly passed into a state of in
sensibility. when they brought him to
the hospital. They and he considered
that he was dying and evidently re-
garded his condition as hopeless.
ION being asked for a description Of
the snake they said they bad caught
It and brought it with them in a bottle.
The bottle was produced. and the
snake turned ont to be a small limo
cent lycodon 1t was alive. though
somewhat injured by the treatment It
had received.
ION explaining to the man and his
friends that it was harmless, and with
some difficulty making them believe it.
the symptoms Of poisoning rapidly dis
appeared. and he left the hospital as
well IS he ever was in his life in a
few hours"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-30
A WAGNER ANecDoTE.
How He showed His Joy at Spar
sifaI" Rehearsal.


HOw He showed His JOY at n Spar
sifaI" Rehearsal.
The following anecdote Of Wagner is
told by Alfred Reisenauer, the pianist,
who, as a pupil Of List. knew the
composer Of "ParsifaT' personally.
Wagner was always more or less
self conscious" says Reisenauer, and
only at rare intervals did his FRI ends
see him in moods that conld be called
anything but premeditated In Bal
reuth 1 saw him in a highly character
istie situation, and l never shall for
get 1t. 1t was at a rehearsal of Par
sifaL' The garden scene had just been
admirably sung and danced, where
upon Wagner, in his exuberant JOY,
Rugged and kissed the artists, and
then. quite beside himself. got down on
all fours and barked like a dog, con-
GLIDING his exhibition by throwing his
legs in the air and balancing himself
on his head
cat this interesting moment List
and several Of his pupils, including
myself, walked on the stage. Quick as
fash, List, who always played the
role of Wagner's sell constituted de-
fender, said grimly, Well, if that's a
pose, it's the hardest one in the world
to hold, by thunderp For the sake OF
the meister we tried to restrain our
mirth, but the effort was not wholly
successful 1 firmly believe, however,
that Wagner himself was secretly
pleased at the sensation for which he
was responsible. -Harper's Weekly.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-30
An EnrIish sIantran.

A man;-ap has been found in Afford.
Lincolnshire. England. which shows the
b0rbarity Of q century or so ago. 1t
Is probably the largest lnantrap in ez-
istence. Il is seventy-six inches in
lenEta, and It's jaws. with teeth pro
truding two inches, win open fully two
fect two inches by eighteen inches.
Old time landlords who chose TO insist
upon their rights in Their entirety. as
they often ID. were N liberty TO plant
these barbar0us engines about I'D the
underground of theh. Enclosed land for
The benefit Of any trespasser or possible
pOacher who might chance to set foot
near them Their use was abolished by
law in 1877.