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The Press., 1905-08-02

Although the great Napoleon was not
the sort of man whom 1t was ordinarily
safe to laugh at, he was ridiculed and
caricatured on account of his faith that
sugar could be made profitable from
beets. In 1911 the emperor promised
the French people that they should
have sugar from beets If he excluded
from France the commerce Of England,
including the sugars Of the British
West Indies. This promise led to the
publication Of a caricature In which
the emperor and his little son, the king
of Rome, were represented. The en-
peror was shown sitting in his boys
nursery, squeezing beet root into q
cup Of coffee. The baby prince sat
near him hard at work sucking a beet
root, while the nurse, standing close
by, was represented as exclaiming,
"Suck 1t, dear, suck 1t; your papa says
it is sugarv' This biting sarcasm did
not prevent Napoleon from spending
several million francs at a time when
his empire was under a tremendous
strain Of expenditures in bounties for
sugar made from beets.
The Press., 1905-08-02

he that hath no inward beauty ,pee-
cetves none, though al around = Deaur
tful-YounR.
The Press., 1905-08-02

Old Barney Maguigan was as well
known on his ''sweep stretch" as the
bluecoats on the beat AS his work
became somewhat burdensome with
the increase Of years the residents of
the neighborhood urged the employ
ment of an assistant.
Barney did not look upon the sugges-
ton with favor-it savored too strongly
Of the time when he should be ''laid on
the shelf"-but he consented to the
trial Of a new hand at last, and a stout
youth was engaged whose broom made
quick work of the leaves and litter.
Eyes, sir" Barney admitted reluc-
tantly few mornings later when ask
ed by an old friend If he did not find
his assistant a good worker-"yes, sir,
there's no denying he's got the muscle
to swing a broom in the open; but, man
alive, when it comes to the fancy
touches round a lamp post or a sewer
mouth, why. he's no good at all!'
The Press., 1905-08-02
EAR OF OIONYSTUS.
One of the Famous Whispering Places
of the World.

of the World.
Among the notable whispering places
Of the world Is the Ear Of Diony-
sius" Of ancient Syracuse. 1t is In
the shape of parabolic curve, ending
in an elliptical arch, with sides par
allel to its axis, perfectly smooth and
covered with slight stalactitic incrus-
tation that renders its repercussions
amazingly sonorous. 1t is "a feet high,
from II to 35 in breadth and 1877 deep.
1t has an awful and gloomy appear
ance, which, with its singular shape,
perhaps gave rise to the popular and
amusing paradox that Dionysius had it
constructed for the confinement Of
those whom he deemed inimical to his
authority and that from the little
conversation among the captives who
were brought to the ancient town Of
Syracuse in the time Of it's splendor,
when it was the largest in Sicily. The
sound Of words uttered with q low
voice is augmented in vaults or gal
leries so as to become audible at con-
siderable distance from the speaker.
A like effect takes place in a less de-
gree when sound ascends from the bot
tom Of deep we'll or when words are
uttered at one extremity Of long cor
ridor or passage in a building. If a
pin be dropped into well the sound
produced when it strikes the water is
distinctly heard at the mouth or the
sounds Of words spoken near the sur
face Of any we'll is similarly augment
ed. Try it.-New Orleans Times-Demo.
Crat.
The Press., 1905-08-02
GERMANY's BLACK LETTER.


Comparison of Texts Used I'm Print
ing In the Fatherland.
at is remarkable that so practical
people as the Germans should continue
to use their blind black letter." says
Jerome Hart. 1.-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 alpha
bets have been designed to convey ideas,
and those alphabets which transfer
thought with the most quickness, clear
ness and precision are the best. Con-
sidered from these standpoints the Ger
man alphabet is one of the worst. That
II is a failure is shown unconsciously
Ia many ways. Advertisers, for exam
pie, have no sentiment about them.
They want to reach the reader and
reach him quickly. Therefore nearly
all the display advertisements In Ger
man newspapers are printed in Latin
! ! e1ssss:..a ss:..a Sters. .-@.2+4t 4
$50, too, with the commercial and
financial pages. Stockholders and mer-
chants have no time to waste in de-
ciphering badly printed German text.
Therefore the commercial page in the
German dailies is now nearly always
set up in Roman type. Circus adver-
tisements, theater placards and adver-
tising posters generally, the names of
streets on the corner signs, the letter
ing on cars and omnibuses, even tenn
.porary signs, such as No Thorough
fare or Street Closed you nearly al
ways see in Latin characters.
Another proof Of the inferiority 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 retard this
needed improvement, for he clung stub
bornly to the German text and fire.
Quently sent back books which were
printed in Roman, refusing to read
them."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Press., 1905-08-02

Manager Dempsey has signed Fur
key, the fast Thorndike pitcher, for
the balance of the season. Monson has
been up against Turkey times enough
to realize that he is a good man.
Miss Jennie Hare, SO, died at the
home of her sister, Mrs. John Cuddi-
by, Sunday, 23d ult', of cancer, after
q long Illness. She leaves another
sister, Mrs. Manning, of Warren.
The funeral was held at St. Patrick g
church Tuesday morning at $50.
The burial was in Ware.
The Press., 1905-08-02

One Of the most widely known geo
logical curiosities in the vicinity Of
Cork is series Of knobs or knots pro-
Jecting from the face Of cliff. There
are sixteen Of these huge projections
all together, all regularly set in the.
face of the cliff, one above the. othee.
forming. series Of such uniformity a.
to, give it the general appearance Of Q
stairway. Since time out of memory
this queer ascent and its projecting
"steps" have been known as the O.
ants Staircase.
The Press., 1905-08-02

After all, what's the use? No mat
ter how hard we may fight, we lose in
the end; no matter how much we may
seemingly conquer, in the end We are
wretchedly beaten; no matter how
much we are in the public eye, within
two weeks after our death we are too
dead to be talked about. There Is
only .one time in the world, and that is
now.-Lawrence Kan.) World.
The Press., 1905-08-02


s. M'chester, o 3 3 O 90 0 10
Monson, 90 O O % O OIL
Runs, Bailey, Wallace 4, Brecken-
ridge 2, Scanlon, Sullivan, Casey.
Sacrifice hits, King, Crowley. Stolen
bases, Wallace 2, scanlon, Murphy.
Two base hit, Sullivan. First base
on balls. off Collins 1, OFF: Cartmill |,
off Turkey 1. Left on bases, Monson
4, South Manchester z. Struck ont,
Smith. Turkey 2, Flaherty, Collins,
Sullivan. Double plays, Collins to
Breckenridge, Smith to PeloQuin to
King, Leary to Emerson. Passed
balls, Scanlon 1. Time, LII 45m.
Attendance, 1000. Umpire, w. a.
Hall.
The Press., 1905-08-02
Peculiar Disannearance.

j. D. Runyan, of Butlerville. o., laid
the peculiar disappearance of his painful
symptoms of indigestion and biliousness
to DR.. Kings New Life Pills. He says {:
"They are perfect remedy for dizziness,
sour stomach, headache, constipation,
etc." Guaranteed at Eaton's drug store,
price 25c.
The Press., 1905-08-02

els your name Goodenough% asked q
bill collector of a man on whom he
was calling.
"It is," answered the man, with a
look Of surprise.
'"Then I have a bill against you. "
And he handed him slip of paper.
'"That is not my name," said the man.
"But you said your name was Good
enough"
$50 it is," said the nam as he prepar-
ed to close the door. "It's good enough
for me-"
The Press., 1905-08-02

Rockville, 2 2O1 400 10
Stafford, 1 1 o % o o o o. 8
Runs, Rafftery 2, Welch, Pieper,
Leonard, Borden, Loughlin 2, No
Carthy 2, Smith 2, Reynolds. Three
base hit, Smith. Two base hit, Nc
Clelland, Pieper, Borden, Loughlin.
Stolen bases, Phenix, Rafftery 2,
Welch, Loughlin, MCCARTHY, Rey-
nolds. Sacrifice hits, Kelliher, Han
nifan. Double play. Loughlin to
Phenix to Pieper. Base on balls, off
Cobb 2. Struck out, by Biggans 6,
by Cobb 6. Hit by pitched ball, Kel-
liner. Wild pitches, Cobb 2. Pass
ed balls, Reynolds 1. Left on bases,
Rockville 4, Stafford z. Umpire,
Newcomb. #Welch out, hit by bat
ted ball. So
The Press., 1905-08-02

Head of Foreign Trade Once
Where would you prefer to go as our
agent? Young Traveler-Well, II pos.
sible where the natives are vegetartans.
New Yorker.
The Press., 1905-08-02

NoTHING ON THE MARKET EQUAL TO
CHAMBRRLAIN's Colo, CHOLERA AND
DIARRHOEA 'REMRDY.-This fact is well
known to druggists everywhere, and nine
out OF ten will give their customers this
preparation when the best is asked for.
Mr.. Obe Wilmer. a prominent druggist
of Joplin, Mo-, In circular to his c"s-
TONERS, says: ''There is nothing on the
market In the way f patent medicine
which equals Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Rem dy for bowel
complaints. We sell and recommend
this preparation =" For sale by E. K.
Taft, q. F. Cady, Stafford q. Hall, Jr.,
& Co., So. Wellington.
The Press., 1905-08-02
NOTICE.

Every time that the attention OF the water
users is called TO the waste Of water. the ques-
tion Is asked: "Is the water getting low :" The
Stafford Springs Aqueduct Co., would like to
call the attention OF all water users to articles
5, 8 and OF the Rules and Regulations, which
VIII be strictly enforced. At all times the use
OF hose Is limited 10 one hour day -
5-MAIRTENARCE AND REPAIRS. All parties
taking water shall keep the pipes and fixtures
within their premises In good repair and pro-
tected from frost at their own expense, and they
shall De held liable for all damage which may
result from their failure to do so.
b-WAsTE OF WATER There must be no waste
OF water and no eoneealment OF the purposes for
which IL Is used. No continuous fow to guard
against freezing win be allowed except through
q meter or for extra rates.
S-SHUrTING OFF. The Company reserves the
right to shut on water for the violation OF any
OF these rules.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26


The American farmer is the greatest man
IN the world to-day because he is master OF
the soil-he is gaining in intelligence quite
SIS rapidly as his products are increasing II
magnitude Our recent combines of capital
in United States measured in money are
enormous, yet such figures sink into insig-
nihcance when compared to the money,
brain and Drawn invested in agricultural
industries. For instance, the farmers of
Minnesota and Dakota have received $780,
900, 900 for their products In single year.
The farmer knows what Nature will bring
forth for him from his experience in the
past He knows if certain seeds are
planted and properly cared for that Nature
will take care of the rest. In the same
way you are master o. Jour o1n destiny
Providing your blood is in good order, il
only needs little effort on your own part
to keep healthy and strong-rid your body
Of the poisons that are apt to accumulate
49, your system is ready to ward off the
attack of the germs of disease. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery makes rich red
blood-by increasing the number of red
blood corpuscles. There is no alcohol in
this great tonic to shrivei up the red blood
corpuscles. AS an Alternative extract, made
only of herbs and roots it goes about its
work in natures way 1t stimulates the
liver into proper action, and feeds the
worn-out nerves, stomach and heart on
pure blood. Used for over third of Q
century it has sold more largely than any
other blood medicine in the United States.
More bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery are sold to-day than ever before
that is true test of its medicinal value after
thirty eight years of deserved popularity.
DR. Pierce's medical Adviser" sent on
receipt of stamps to pay for mailing only.
Send 81 one cent stamps for book in paper
covers, or 81 stamps for cioth-b bound vol.
ume. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce. Buffalo. NY.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26

J. S. Blakely of Fort Wayne,
Frank a. Greene of Knox, and Oliver
E. Beyler of Bremen, with several
Plymouth candidates were given the
Order of Red Cross Monday evening
in this city.
John Boss who went to ST. Joseph S
hospital in Fort Wayne a week ago,
expecting to submit to an operation
took severe cold and his condition
is such that he has decided TO return
home and remain a week or ten DAYS
when he again expects to go to the
hospital.
Jesse Lucas, one of the burglars
who stole goods at the residence of
joseph Woods during the Bourbon
fair, entered plea of guilty and was
sent to the penitentiary The other
four persons implicated are still in
jail and will not be tried until next
term of court.
The speculative grain trade is rath-
err undressing The fluctuations
last week were rather narrow and no
definite tendencies developed. The
Chicago wheat market is not now
rejecting natural conditions, the
the movements of the last week hav-
ing been simply the movements of
the dominating speculator.
The first frost of the season Sum
day morning Oct % 1t was not very
heavy and in "A hours the wind had
changd to the south, the sun was
shining brightly and the weather
was warmer. Vegetables and flowers
on the high grounds and in all places
where they were protected, still look
like they did in the summer.
The train records for the week
ended Oct. 21 show that the volume
of traffic now moving in the middle
West is much the largest in the his
tory OF the Central Traffic Associa-
ton line. With most of the roads
cars are scarce and the volume of
tonnage is steadily increasing and
there is yet larger grain movements
ahead.
Presiding Elder Maxwell of South
Bend, dedicated the new Methodist
church at Richland Certer, Sunday.
t is one of the best country churches
in the state and the entire cost was
provided for. There was an immense
crowd in attendance and the elder
preached an excellent sermon and
did some good begging to raise the
balance unpaid on the church Sunday
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26
For BreakfaSt
Luncheon
or Tea

A few small biscuits easily made with
Royal Baking Powder. Make them
small-as small round as napkin ring.
Mix and bake just before the meal.
Serve hot.
Nothing better for light dessert
than these little hot biscuits with butter
and honey, marmalade or jam.
You must use Royal Baking Powder
10 get them right.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26

Entered at the Pcstoffice at Plym-
south, Indiana as .seeond-class matter.
Plymouth, Indiana, October 26, 1905
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04
MONEY IN OLD EMPHASIZES
Ship Breakers Need Capital, but Busi
 ness Is Profitable.

London Tit-Bits.
 A first-class battleship, which costs about a million to build and fit out takes upon an average three years to construct, and nearly as long to pull to pieces after being thirteen years or more in active service.
 Ship breakers are sold battleshipS on the strict understanding that the vessel is pulled to pieces in home waters" and 1t is not generally known that in the great majority of in- stances the admiralty buy back from the purchaser certain parts of the old ships for nearly the same amount of money paid for the warship at the auc- tion sale.
 The most valuable of a first-class battleship is the armor plating, and 1t Is in consequence of this and the enor~ nous amount of trouble entailed in stripping it off the hull that the au- thorities pay so heavily to regain ita possession.
 Several ship breakers estimate that the price of an old battleship-say for the armor plating when resold. The natural conclusion is that the rec mainder of the vessel is "a gift" as it were. to the ship breaker. but such Is not the case.
 Many thousands are spent every year that the vessel is in the hands of the breakers, and a large and expensive electrical plant has to be installed to unrivet the armor plating and for other purposes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04
r,.ctr,O Farmlng Machinery.

The electric current Is crowolns the borsa on his own stamping ground In 1+alv. where the Electric-Technic so- .,otv of Turin has taken up the manu- faoture of electrical machinery Tor az ricultural purposes. The plowlhs e- sSsr S1inches 1en, mounted on trucks, one sta ttoned on each side of the field to be riOH n,ow ed. A gang blow similar to that psed for steam blowing is hauled across the field in either direction Dy the winches by means of steel cable The winches are equipped with a twen- ty-horse-p power induction motor, con tton scar An hour and a half suffices Tor the blowing of an acre. the blow turning three furrows at any depth from ten to twenty-four inches at the rate of 1000 feet in eight minutes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04

into the work Don't let your brother James persuade you to slip off with him to some evening of pleasure, or your Cousin May induce you to go to her birthday party.
 School girls have nothing to do with society. You cannot go to parties and dances and picnics and take excur- sions here and there, while you are at school. without falling below your right percentage, and mourning an accumu- lation of neglected work. Your motto must be, This one thing do." This school time is your seed time. If you are thorough and diligent in your prep aration, you will have ease and joy and go on with a flowing sail when you are in college, or have entered some field of business, or are home daughter with social engagements. All this will be later.
 But school comes first in a school girls life. If you have lessons in mu- sic, so manage your hours for prac- tice that they dovetail with your other work So with any other accomplish ment.
 We all lose a great many precious minutes by dawdling. A girl or wo- man who goes on with her work with out wasting time will keep ahead of her work, will sit in the box and drive 1t; not let 1t drive her. Hurry and worry make home work a dreadful task. You must somehow carry your work lightly, as if 1t were a pleasure, and not a doleful and hated duty. Why do we treat duties as if they must be dolefulf Duty should come to us wearing a face like the sunrise. And, girls, do not look down on fa- ther and mother because they can | not nelp you over the hard places The legitimate helpers for you are your teachers. Note down your diffi- culties and carry them to the class room. If you are a good student, by which I mean one who neglects noth- ing and does her best, the teacher will not snub you. She will in turn do her best to be Illuminating on dark situations and to show you how to cope with new problems
 But your parents have left their schooldays behind them The meth ods of study have altered. The sums are footed up, the parsing-by the way, to do you parse in these days?- is managed differently; the words are not pronounced as they used to be. Even though your father be a doctor, a lawyer, governor, statesman, or suc- cessfuI merchant, he would probably thave to go to school again to take a high school examination, and while your mother is a brilliant woman and a parsonage, she, too. has forgotten l a good deal that she took pains to learn. Dear girls, don't look down on us older ones. Your homework is very formidable in our eyes. Don't fancy we underrate 1t. You have it to do. Take it as your days work.
 | Never mind about other things Your dress, your friends, your fun. are all subordinate to your days work; the school work and the home work both. ] I almost forgot to say; Don't sit up too late at night. and whatever
 else you do, or don't be above the candy habit. Hundreds of winsome girls would recite better, remember
 better. behave better, and toss off their
 work as soap bubbles float from a
 pipe. if only they would let bonbons
 and pastry and chocolate Severely
 alone. Besides this, they would be a
 hundred times prettier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04

Colonel Mann, in Town Topics.
 Thomas w. Lawson teaches business men a lesson much moro important than the manipulations of the stock market-it Is the tremendous influence of newspaper advertising. Millions Of dollars are wasted annually by other wise shrewd business men in trying to advertise by expensive circulars. which are seldom read and never effective, MT Lawson might have sent through the mails hundreds of thousands of cop les of his frenzied finance letters, and no one would have paid the slightest attention to them. He printed his let ters in the advertising columns of the leading papers and aSvithin week the whole country WIZ agog, the stock market was upselA record number ol
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. (Copyright 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
 My daughter would be much more winsome if she had no home work to do.p said a girls mother to me the oth- CT day.
 The girl herself, throwing down her books with an air of disgust. exclaimed. as if trampling on an enemy. "Therel I hate you. I wish I need never see you again! School all day. and study all the evening. and where does there come in the time for any fun?' Where. indeedi
 And yet after young girl leaves the primary grades, after she has rounded the landmark named Cape Twelve or Cape Thirteen, she must expect to have a certain amount of home study to be regularly done, if she is to take high rank in her classes. Every schoolgirl knows this. Now, if you are @ school girl. you belong to the girl friends I am addressing, and as I want to think of you as sweet, winsome and reasonable, you will let me speak very plainly, will you not?
 The study periods which alternate Awith recitations cover some portion of the work outlined for the next day. But they do not and cannot cover the whole of 1t. You may spend them in studying those lessons in which you are weak. and in which you are most likely to need some help from your teacher. But ln order to do full justice to your school, as well as to yourself, in order Co maintain the high reputation of your own class, you must bestow the labor of a quiet hour or perhaps two quiet hours at home on your books.
 Two hours is quite enough. You should not devote more time than this to your homework The question is. when shall you take the two hours? It <.f axa eral ways You may take music les sons, or else you may have to give your mother some aid in the housekeeping. do errands, set tables, make beds and wash dishes, and either way you have legs time for home study than your op- posfte neighbor, whose mother requires few services, and who has no extra studies Yet, you, not she, must be congratulated. An all-round girl must know how to do housework as well as shine in school
 There is everything in system. Never begin to study the minute you come in from school. Eat something, slice of bread and butter. or little fruit. or drink a rlassful of milk, as soon as you fake off your hat. Put your books and everything of school aside for several hours. Go out doors, take walk, play tennis. drop in upon your chum. or put wour room in order; but let there be a real space between school work and home work.
 nave d schedule appointed for them. the hours of study are arranged with a view to letting the students nave a chance for play as well as for work.
 whatever time you select, either an hour in the evening and another in the morning, or two consecutive hours be- fore going to bed, put your whole sell
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04

sbares changed hands. and a magazine whose previous circulation was com paratively small had eager oea n,ntaS Sor wore copies than could be prlnteu. a3 13r Towson.s advertisements deal with MT, sansational subject, but 1t has been SonSIeS by other methods without causing causing any sensation whatever. Tel Tel tSo r,,6lic in the right way and in the right sne naners about the right thing, and if win respond promptly and profitapEy that Is the moral of the Lawson cam, cam paign, and every ouslness ma"
 take 1t to heart and pocket