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The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
IN RUSSIA CENTURIES AGO

One who Travelled through Russia in
1908 wrote in Latin an interesting ac-
count of what he saw. These were
afterward translated into English, in
part as follows: The Muscovites are
generally of very strong Constitu-
ton. both very tail and bulky. Above
one-half of the Year is taken up with
their Fasts, when the common people
feed upon nothing else but Cabbage
and Cucumbers, and these, raw. only
picked" The writer, Henry William
Ludolph, has leanings toward Vege-
tarianism. for he added: This is an
evident sign of their natural vigour,
though it must also be allowed that
they promote the digestion by the
Brandy and Leeks which they use in
large quantities. and question!ess cor
rect the viscous Humours arising in
the Stomach by such indigestible
Nourishments."
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
Manned Birds Did Well.

Manned birds show remarkable in,
tellgence in getting food for them.
Selves" said naturalist.
81 once found in my garden blue.
bird that a stone had wounded badly
The poor little creature could neither
walk nor fly. put it in a cucumber
frame and fed it regularly, but | sup.
pose I didn't give it enough, for it
foraGed industriously all the time
Lying on the earth, it would cover it.
self with leaves-only it's small eyes
would be visible. Then, when a fly
alighted somewhere near-swoop, the
bluebirds head and neck would dart
from the covering Of leaves and the
fly would be devoured.
"A finch with broken wing lived
high all one summer in my garden at
the expense of the spiders. 1t pillaged
their webs. 1t made a round of some
twenty webs a day and fattened on
the contents of those filmy larders. -
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
For Editors Benefit.

Mark Twain at the dinner in
honor of his SEVENTEEN birthday, ad-
vised a young novelist not to shun
judicious self-advertisement
"On one of my first visits to New
York. he said, Il was taken on a
sightseeing tour by successful joke
writer. learned during this tour
something about the way to succeed
''As we rode down Broadway on a
car my friend suddenly looked up
from the comic paper he was reading,
gave hearty laugh and then read
aloud to me joke.
''Isnt that create he cried. ooh,
ha. ha, ha, ha Isn't that the fun
niest joke-ho, ho, ho!-you ever
heard?'
Just then we rose to get off. When
We reached the sidewalk l said to
my friend:
"'You showed me that joke before.
you know. 1t is one of your own isn't
it?'
"He smiled at my puzzled face and
answered.:
"'Yes. But you didn't notice the
man who sat opposite us, did you?
He is the editor who buys most of my
stuff and he doesn't know me person
ally. See?'"
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The Frenchman's face was hacked
and notcaed.
"Haye you been duelist?' one
asked.
NO, no." the man replied. Il have
been Il champagne maker he
touched his face. These honorapie
nicks," he said. "are champagne scars
champagne scars" he went on
decorate the visages of all the work
ers in the underground champagne
mills of Rheims. They are caused by
the bursting of the bottles. About one
bottle of champagne in every ten
bursts.
There are miles and miles OF cham
pagne caves in Rheims. caves cut IN
the solid limestone rock, where, In
constant temperature of As degrees.
millions OF bottles Of wine refine and
riysn.
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Gid not say word of what she had
seen to any one. She was very proud
and high spirited. The young man
and young woman disappeared that
night; and. as soon as your mother
had recovered sufficiently, l renewed
my suit. and she accepted me, ON con-
dition that should take her away
from the neighborhood. We did not
wait to get married, but left at once,
and were married at the first place
where We stopped.
Your mother never returned to the
old place, her family having removed
also short time arterward. They had
lived there but short time and had
no intimates, SO none of them ever
heard from the neighborhood again.
went out there to settle up some of
my affairs, and heard that Hubbard
had been there, learned the story, and
inquired my address. few weeks
afterward, | went out during the late
afternoon, for a walk, as we are doing
now. and met him right here. He
accused me of treachery 10 him, and
said that the lady whom we had seen
him in company with was his sister,
who had come after him to aid her in
untangiing some property matter,
which required their immediate atten-
ton. He made some sighting remark
TO me, saying he was going to the
house to see your mother. with whom
he would have an explanation, wind
ing up with the remark that had de-
frauded him of her. and he would have
her yet. One word led to another
and finally he struck me- | returned
the blow with interest, and he fell,
striking that rock there" pointing to
large rock by the roadside. after
which he never stirred. had KILLED
him. but had not intended to do so.
| dug grave over there pointing to
Il mound so slight as not to be notice.
able, land buried him"
Did mother ever know?"
mo, my boy
did any one else?"
No"
But that is why you and mother
were always estrarged from each
other?"
Yes"
"Oh, we'll, cheer up. father 1t
was not so bad-the killing. mean.
You did the only thing you could do.
The estrangement was terrible. 1t
might have been better if you had told
mother"
1T would not-under the circum-
stances"
well, don't dwell on 1t now. We
will go home now, and make the best
of it, dear old father"
But am not your father"
"You-are-not-my Then
who is?"
THE man sleeping under that
mound there"
And the elderly man walked deliber.
ately into the dark wood, leaving the
younger one sitting on the rock where
his father had t1eathed his last
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
CHEF MUST STVDy LONG

when you reflect upon what chef
goes through to complete his educa-
to-. it is no wonder that his services
command high prices" said the culin-
ary king of Broadway restaurant.
The Chef he continued. begins
as boy, as apprcatice to master,
For several years h. works under the
vegetable cook. He learns how to
make mashed potatoes that look like
white roses. how to cook and to ar
range all the vegetables. from the
truftle down, in hundred fine and
beautiful ways. He gets no salary.
He gets only his board.
Then for year he studies raw
meats. He learns how to select them
and how to cut them up. He can tell
at a glance, for instance, the genuine
salt-meadow mutton from the false.
Along with this raw meat course goes
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never throw anything away unless 1t is
spelling. Spoiled food is worse than
none. I use up the bits as We go
along; then they are always fresh and
good.
This bunch of celery cost me s
cents. picked out the freshest bunch
at the market 1t was fresh clear to
tho tips of the leaves
First. | cleaned the whole thing.
separating the stalks and cutting off
any brown bruised places. being care
full not to waste it in cutting.
The leaves | shredded and used to
season the stuffing for a roast. Sage
disagrees with John, but celery suits
to 7.
The outside stalks (two of them.
you must remember that | am not
cooking for family of ten). chopped
and cooked with the rCast. They
came out nice and tender in the gravy.
The rest Put away in a cold place
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Careful Woman Used All of
Celery Bunch to Advantafe

That was Sunday. Monday took
the celery stalks. all but the very In.
side ones. and stewed and creamed
them. | covered the celery with water.
When the celery had boiled tender
poured the water off into a wide.
mouthed bottle, corking it tightly, and
saved it. ! buttered and salted the
celery. tossing it up with fork to
keep it from burning, then covered it
with milk, brought it to a boil. thick,
ened it little. and-we ate it,
Tuesday | took the gravy left from
the roast, put this with the fat of the
roast into about pint of water, sliced
in an onion. put in two leftover baked
potatoes. sliced fine, dropped in two or
three spoonfuls of Dreaded tomato left
from the day before. and brought the
whole to boil. When the mixture
boiled | put in three raw potatoes
pared and halved lengthwise (they
boil more quickly that way), and when
the potatoes were done and the onion
tender | put in the remnants of the
roast itself, dashed in that bottle OF
celery juice that I had saved, let the
whole come to boil once more, took
out the meat. thickened the gravy a
little, poured it over the meat. and
we ate that. That celery water sea
soned the stew to a turn.
You have just now eaten the celery
hearts in the salad.
That's all. | saved leaves and
juices. There wasn't much waste in
that Scent bunch, was there?"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
WINE WORKERS IN DANCER

THE workers down there smell
nothing but champagne all day long.
champagne escaping from burst bot
ties. And as the turner's move along
the racks-each turns $4,000 bottles
daily-they are continually sauted
with explosions. Bang. And the glass
splinters fly, and Il little fountain of
champagne perfumes the damp air.
Day after day each bottle must be
turned, turned fifty times altogether.
till the sediment In it has all mounted
up and concentrated itself around the
cork. Then the corkers remove the
corks, let the sedimentthickened wine
In the neck Of the bottle blow of, and
skillfully replace the cork again.
The corkers' and turner's work is
dangerous. These men ara nearly ~
SCARED like me-"
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any warlike contingency. This ID
simply policy dictated by self-re.
spect. 1t may be noted here that dur
ing the Russo-Japanese war the sym
pathies of those young men Of the
middle class. who have Indian blood
in their veins. were strongly with the
brown warriors of Nippon. Mexican
Indians of cultivation, of whom there
are thousands, regard themselves as
descendants of the men of the Orient; ;
their race memory preserves. unob-
liberated, the record of the wrongs
done them by the white conquerOrs
from Spain. Even men with but a
slight admiNture of Indian blood speak
with bitterness of the deeds of Herman
Cortes and his fellow conGuistadores.
The rise Of Japan is far from displeas.
ing to the thoughtful and reading In
dians of Mexico. There exists a race
patriotism which will make Itself felt
in the nat!ona! policies of the near
future.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
Not Darkest Before Dawn.

The idea that the darkest hour is
just before dawn is poetical but in
correct. The darkest hour is mid.
way between sunset and dawn, and
the legend is of piece with the
statement often made that the hour
preceding dawn is the coldest
In many countries there Is a fixed
belief that just before the break of
day there comes an ebb when nature
grows cold and pulseless and life flut-
tering in the breast Of the dying man
finally expires.
According to science such dissolu.
tion should occur between three and
four O'Clock, investigation extending
over a period Of several years having
proved that the temperature is lowest
them Montreal Herald.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
NO GOOD TO WARM THE HEART
lmbibing Of Chocolate sodas a Strain
on Friendship,


Every virtue" said Harrington.
seems to have it's drawbacks. |
climbed up on the water wagon on the
first of January and strapped myself
to the seat. The other day | met Jim.
son. and he. also, was riding high up
on the aqueous car. We had not seen
each other for long time and. from
force of habit, said Come and have
something We went to a drug store
and rccklessly ordered two chocolate
sodas. 1t was chilling sort of drink.
and. somehow. at once began TO
think of the s. Jimson had borrowed
from me once and to wonder how |
had ever considered him a pleasant
companion. Then Jimson treated and
we took some more cold and heartless
stuff out of the soda fountain.
by the time the second drink was
half consumed Jimson began to hint
about tn" time I borrowed his dinner
jacket and spilled ice cream on its
front When. finally, we had worried
down that second dose of Arctic seas
we parted from each other with evil
dent relief on both sides. Now had
we adjourned, when we met, to a gin
mill and partaken Of eXhilarating and
warming things. we would probably
have spent hours sossiping about
pleasant things and parted from each
other like brothers reunited. But, on
the other hand. we would have prac-
tically wasted the afternoon so far as
business was concerned and accumu
lated at least a semijag Perhaps it
was best as it was, but can tell
You one thnG-it has to he pretty
strong friendship that can stand two
sodas New York Press.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
WERE IN TEMPORARY ECLIPSE
Neighborhood DepopuIated After the
Spelling Bee.

Neishborhood DepopuIated After the
Spelling Bee.
l wanted to make inquiries about
several different people in a certain
neighborhood in Iowa, and when
found farmer leaning over his gate,
stopped my horse and asked him If
he knew one Henry Smith.
'Yes, sir, I've knowed him for ten
years. he replied, but can't tell
You where he is to-day"
And do you know James Thomp,
son?'
Jim Thompson? Why, him and
me are like brothers, but | can't say
where you'd find him today"
How about George Snyder?"
George Snyder? Why. was
tradin' hosses with him the other
week. but | can't say where he is to.
day"
asked after four or five other men
and received the same answers. each
one ending that 1t wasn't known
where the man was just that day.
why don't you know where they
are to-day?" l finally asked.
"Becase, sir-becase we had an
old-fashioned spelling bee at the
schoolhouse last night, with every
body loaded for bar, and most every.
body for five miles around has had
to take to the woods and won't be
comm out for three or four days yeti"
Baltimore American.
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ALL HIS AMBITION VAIN

There was once a young man who
came from a wee bit of town, ana
whenever he would tell folks where
he was raised they would ask MN
where that was.
It irked the young man to find that
his native town was such an lncoh-
spicuous place, and he said to hlmseh:
81 will hustle around and make my
self famous, and then Blink Center
will get some notice. for after l nave
became celebrity everybody Will
learn that l was born and raised
there"
So for years and years he climbed
the path of fame. until at last his
name was known in every house in
the land.
And then he died, and folks talked
a good deal about him, and MS lie
was cited to the young people as an
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
Cigarettes and Other Smokes.

In smoking cigarette we are part
ly inhaling about ten grains of tobac-
co, which. as rule, is milder and
freer from adulteration than any other
form of smoking tobacco. One pound
of tobacco will furnish filler for about
416 cigarettes, and one pound of Gig.
arctic paper will! serve to envelop
12O0O cigarettes. One cigarette co.,.
ssts Of one twenty-sixth OF an ounce
of tobacco wrapped in about one hun
dred and fifty-sixth Of an ounce Of
rice paper. Ten cigarettes about
equal one full-sized cigar. An ordinary
Dipe holds tobacco equal to the
amount required to make Ave cigar.
ettes.-New York Times.
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example of what persistence and in.
dustry accomplish.
At last his fame grew so lustrous
that it was necessary to organize a
society bearing his name.
Then the society got TO work and
looked up his birthplace.
Did the society locate 1t al Blink
Center?
No; for nobody at Blink Center
could remember anything of such a
family as his. So the brass tablet in
memnry of his birth was affixed to a
tumbledown house in the outskirts of
a city 100 miles from Blink Center.
However. it was easier for eXcur-
sionists to get there than to go to
Blink Center on a jerkwater railway.
Yet this teaches us that all is vanity
and that we often cut good deal OF
ice without first building an icehouse.
Cleveland Leader.
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GAVE SAILOR COIN; GETS $500.
Girl Will Cash Bond on Bank Of Por'
tuqAl for That Amount.

Eight thousand dollars reward for
an off-hand kindness conferred four
years ago on a destitute and partially
sick sailor In Uncle Sans navy Is che
Christmas present that pretty Annie
Josephine Saucier, a shop girl and
former mill hand of the city Of Lewis
ton, Mass, is to receive soon, says
the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The day Of fairyland wonders is
not past, 80 the Lewiston girl thiL ks,
for to-day she Is the practical posses
sor Of nearly $4,000 that is to come to
her on account of the simple giving
OF 20-cent piece at Newport. R. l., to
a strange man wearing the uniform of
the United States navy.
At the moment that she granted the
| strange request Of the sailor he passed
to her a small scriptlike piece Of pa.
per, saying: Keep this for your kind
ness. Some day you will find tnat
you have lost nothing by the favor you
have done me-"
Carried in her pocketbook and laid
about her home among many of the
most worthless trifes that might
easily have been thrown away, this
scriptlike keepsake has now brought
fortune to this poor shop girl Of
Lewiston.
The Piece of script that the young
girl carried with dress samples, cards
and small odds and ends that fill the
pocketbooks or reticules Of young
Bank Of Portugal, calling for payment
to the holder of 5000 in the year 1sO6
with interest at per cent, compound
ed annually, and as the note natures
this month the sum total she will re.
ceive from the bank shortly will be
very nearly $4,000.
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Giles Fletcher an English traveller,
saw Moscow fired by an army of Tar
tars in 1911. in the absence of Car
Ivan the Terrible He writes: 1Thern
was nothing but whirlwinds and sucl.
a noise as though the heavens would
have fallen According to Fletcher.
numerous persons were burned tn
death, while crowds struggling to
escape from the flames met and the
ensuing crush resulted in thousands OF
fatalities.
He asserts that there perished at
that time by the fire and the press the
number of 100000 or more" This
estimate. of course, was excessive. AS
means of getting rid of the dead
bodies. says Fletcher. the Car Ivan
ordered them on his return to be
thrown into the Moskva, and the
corpses damned the deep and rapid
river and caused it to overflow its
banks.
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! Finest Gothic Edifice !
! is Cologne Cathedral !
e Is S$& S&
Especial Correspondence.)

Prominent in every view of the city
Of Cologne, on the Rhine, is the cele-
brated Cologne cathedral, the finest
gothic edifce in the world and. next
10 st. Peters in Rome. the largest
church in Christendom.
The noble towers OF this grand
cathedral can be seen for miles over
the level country as Cologne is ap-
preached in coming down the Rhine.
The river flows swiftly above the city.
between low, green banks and past
charming little villages. AS Cologne
is approached the features of the
towns deferses. its curious old
houses. its bridge of boats. and its
railroad arch spanning the muddy
stream, are observed one after the
other, and above all, rising grand and
undefiled are the tall towers of the
splendid church. which stands on a
slight elevation, near the river bank.
The site OF Cologne cathedral. like
that of many other Christian churches
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also a study of fish and of game and
of pouitry-how to stuff. dress, lard,
truss and SO or.
Next. for year, at Il small salary,
he stands before the range, learning
how to broil, fry, roast ana bake
He now knows the foundation of
his art and is admitted into the pres.
ence of the chef himSelf-oniy assist.
ants have taught him SO far. The chef
teaches him to make soups, pastries,
ices and the more complicated pud.
dings and souflces. Three or four
years is none too long time to study
here
Ten years Of hard work should
turn a quick apprentice into good
chef. Such chef without difficulty
earns from $25 a week up to $3.50. Il
lie gave half as much time to the bar.
the church or medicine he would earn
thrice as much. York Press.
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They all waited.

had little prospect OF success. Sew
eral other sought her hand The only
difference was, maybe. that was the
most persistent of the lot A young
man came into the neighborhood from
Chicago. He was summer boarder
at a neighboring farm house. His
name was Hubbard-Sidney Hubbard.
He met your mother, and she fell in
love with him at once. None Of us
had any chance then. Practically,
we all gave it up. But one evening.
toward the close Of the season, l was
passing the house where he boarded
The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
A New Theory.

In an uptown school the teacher in
one of the lower grades endeavored to
instill a little information into her
pupils on the subject of horses and
their gaits, and then asked each of
them to prepare brief essay embody
ing some of the facts they had just
learned One of the boys thereupon
prepared and turned in the following
lucid Offering:
Some horses is called paceters
They can run faster cause they arc
howlegged." ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
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No Fairy Tale.

He belonged to the "hic" brigade.
He came home late and in disorder
His wife met him with rolling pin
ana tense biceps. ready to strike
:.hen the ire was hot.
Sweetheart" he said. I've beer
discushin' war at the club. I heard
you reading paper on peace you read
before the woman's club. Now (hic)
lesh arbitrate thish matter"
He thought he was wise. Next morn,
ing he was wiser.-Indianapoli StSr
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and was astonished to see him in
earnest talk with girl whom l had
ing at the open window, and he had
an arm around her. l watched them
moment, and then turned to go
away. l had gone toward the house
OF your mothers family, with the in
tention of telling my story. when l
met your mother and brought her at
once to the place where had stood.
We heard him use endearing terms to
her. saw him kiss her. and then heard
him promise to go with her at once.
| took your mother home and left her
almost completely Frustrated. She