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Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
JILTlNC PROVES COSTLY.
When Engagements Are Entered In to in Germany They Must
 Stand.

It is no light matter to enter into plays by no means the principal part in the contract. The German law grim, practical, relentleSs-is close at hand to see that no wrong Is done to either party. No wonder, therefore, that an engagement is entered into only a little less lightly than the estate of matrimony itself. Once the betrothal feast has taken place the knot is as good as tied. The one who breaks the engagement, except for good reasons, recognized by the law as such, is obliged to pay, not for damaged affections or broken heart, but for material loss If the bride have given up a lucrative employment in the prospect of marriage she must be compensated, and all moneys spent by parents or guardians for the trous- seau, the wedding breakfast, etc, must be made good.
 On the other hand, the bride-eo-be who jilts her fiance without good cause Is required to make good to him any loss he may have sustained through her influence, as in exchanging a good business for one less lucrative, in or der to be near her; renting house in prospect of marriage or entering into any contract in which money is in yolved. All such claims must be estab- lished within two years.
 The majority of women over men in Germany is more than SO0,OO0. In the small towns, therefore, the prob lem of marrying the young girls is getting to be very serious one. When a hostess wishes to give ball or small dance she finds that for 50 or 60 young girls she can find only about six young men. For this reason the boys in the high schools and gymnasia are permitted to go out early, although it is openly ac- knowledged that it is not good for them to be thus distracted from their work. The number of girls training for business or professional careers in- creases every year as their chances for marriage decrease.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
FOODS FOR THIN FOLK.
What to Eat and What to Avoid-~It Followed Carefully Will Pro-
 duce Desired Results.

It follows that, if you wish to be fat fer, you must eat freely of those things which are forbidden to the overplump especially bread, pastry, cereal produc4 of all kinds, potatoes and sweets.
 One great advantage of the system as already stated is that it does Eof require the person who pursueS it t0 make a martyr of himself. Though but ter is fattening, one need not give Il up, inasmuch as the quantity cOnsumeQ under ordinary circumstances is small. Sugar is a fat-producer but a few Jumps daily in ones tea or coffee will not count.
 Sweets of all kinds are great fat pro- ducers, and stout people are apt to De particularly fond of them. In which connection it is worth noting that tina use of sugar as food, in one shape or au- other, has increased en enOrmOusly within the last few years. At the beginning o. the nineteenth century it was very eX pensive-a luxury, indeed, almost be- yond reach of the rOor-but at presen; it is one of the cheapest articles of diet
 If anybody who finds himself or her self beginning to get too fat will simply give up potatoes and bread for awhile the tendency will promptly cease. To abandon the latter is hardship-how serious one realizes only after trying it for a few days-but the benefit gained amply pays for the sacrifice. Thin toast thoroughly crisped, may be eaten, and will prove a consolation.
 Prince Bismarck's physician cured him of a tendency to obesity by forbid ding him to drink anything at meals practice which, for some reason not satisfactorily explained, seems to have a tendency to make people fat.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
Kinc Alfonso's Night Guards.

King Alfonso is perhaps more se- curely and carefully guarded during the hours of darkness than is any oth- CT European monarch. except, perhaps. the sultan of Turkey. For four cen turies the slumbers of the successive sovereigns of Spain have been watched all night by the "Monteras de Espino- sa"-a body of men to whom is rele- gated the exclusive privilege of guard ing their monarch from sunset to sun rise. They must have an honorable military career, and be natives of the town of Espinosa. Ceremoniously they lock the palace gates at midnight, opening them at seven the next morn ing.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
SOME NEW LACE STITCHES
The Rather Coarse Work Liked by Girls Ordinarily Not Over
 Fead of Fancy Work.

The girl who has a distaSte for me sewing and delicate floss embroidery. and who chooses the darning of torn linen and family stockings as her snare of the household duties, will find real friend in the new filet lace embroidery. In this lace work the designs are woven into a fine or coarse mesh net by darn ing instead of by the cross-stitch, as ln Russian scrim embroidery. In fact, the vogue for cross-stitch embroidery haa rather given way to filet lace work, which closely resembles filet-guipure
 The real filet lace is enjoying decided popularity for insertions and edgings on table covers, center pieces and counter panes At a large dinner given this month by well-known society woman the long table was covered with mag nificent linen cloth. Oblong lnsets ot f1let lace in orchid design. set at regular intervals formed square in the center of the cover, while the same oblong ln- sertions outlined the edges of the table, and filet lace edging finished the bor- ders of the cloth.
 A square tea cloth seen recently at ar afternoon reception was built from ten- inch medallions of filet, alternating With the same size squares of linen, The lace showed lordly roosters and pea cocks silhouetted in white against the linen mesh.
 Collars and cuffs, medallions and bands of filet lace will be much in evil dence as trimming for the shirt waist and linen frocks of the summer girl ot 1905. The girl who cannot afford the real guipure can produce almost as striking effects in darned lace, with the aid of her book of cross-stitch designs Colored faces seen so much on evening frocks this winter will be a feature of the washable dresses for warm weather, and for these the modish girl can em- broder nets In the soft shades of blue pink. yellow and lavender.
 In making f1let lace the net should bs securely fastened to piece of paper cambric or thin oilcloth. The mesh is so easily puckered and drawn out of shape that it must be watched careful y. or the result viii be anything but sat- isfactory. The weaving is effected by a dull-pointed needle and mercerized cotton, silks or crewels in self-tone or contrasting shades may be employed for the darning The needle Is drawn over one thread of the mesh and under the other, as in the simple darning process, the holes being filled in by two or three crossings of the thread. Another meth cd of filling the holes is to have the threads pass diagonally over the tiny square crossing each other in the cen- ter This gives a more lacey effect than the straight-line stitch. Washington Star.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
MODERN TREASURE TROVE.
Island in Lake Michigan Yields to Searchers a Large Store
 of Gold.

From an island off Grand Traverse bay, in Lake Michigan, two men, &C., cording to uncontradicted report, have just dug up $50, 900 in gold. It is SUD- posed to be gold that was stolen from Chicago at the time of the great fire It is also stated to be Spanish gold" though the currency of the pistole and the doubloon in Illinois only two years before the crime of '73, is a fact in financial history not hitherto noted This, however, is mere detail Ths important fact is that a treasure hunt CT has actually unearthed a very sub stantlal sum, and in real money. It will put hope into the hearts of many hitherto unsuccessful excavators, and the stocks of srsasure-prospectin companies-nons of which, so far as we know, are listed on any exchange should go up several points.
 The phrase like finding money" lone of the most familiar in our pop ular speech) shows in itself how even numdrum twentieth-century society is permeated by the notion of treasure trove. Other equally common figures of speech, it will be noted, relate to experiences as familiar as them. selves. Split milk and chickens count sd before they are matched come with in the limits of everyones knowledge. But hardly anybody finds money. When one does, it is usually only 8 dime or a nickel in the gutter. The phrase goes into homely language be- cause people are thinking about find ing money, not because they are do' ing it.
 One reason for the fascination which hidden treasure has for persons of all ages and periods is that on no other ground do romance and practical sense approach so closely. That there were pirates along our coasts-enough or them to make up popular series or the now extinct cigarette pictures-ls as indisputable as that there were signers of the Declaration of Independ- ence. They certainly amassed great stores of gold and silver. It was their regular practice to bury this, and mo- body has ever dug it up. Therefore. 1t is still where they buried it, for anybody's taking.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
WHY KIDNEY DISEASE
 IS DANGEROUS.
Neglect of the First Warning Symp- toms is the Prime Cause Of so Many Deaths from the Dreaded
 Bright's Disease,
1t is Easily Durable in the Early Stages

Kidney diseases are so destructive to human life because they do not manjfest alarming symptoms until the constitu- ton is seriously weakened and the strength exhausted. Then, too often, the remedies employed by many physi- clans are of indifferent or doubtful value, and the patient rapidly sinks under the disease. The wisest course is to apply reliable kidney and liver remedy on the first abbeayance of the symptoms. 4 little uneasiness i'll the small of the back, digestive troubles, bowel irregularities and disorder i'll the urinary organs are matters of small moment i'll the estima ton of strong men and women, yet they have a serious meaning. They show clearly that the kidneys are suffering and need help, which must be forth coming at once to prevent serious, per haps fatal consequences. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters at this time would the weakened organs to health. An investment of one dollar i'll a bottle of Prickly Ash Bitters when the disease is yet in the early stage will save hundreds of dollars ill doctors bills, besides the suffering that would surely follow should the disease be allowed to fasten itself ill the body. The excellent curative power of Prickly Ash Bitters is not confined to the first stages of kidney disease. It is equally efficacious ill severe or chronic cases. Physicians have used it as last resort, in cases that de6ed their best efforts, with the most brilliant results and it has shown its superiority over the many so-called kidney cures, now being loudly advertised, in instances innu- merable.
 Accept no substitute. Insist on having
 the genuine Prickly Ash Btters with the
 large figure ill red on the front label.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
Leather Table Covers.

The arts and crafts in this country have brought out table covers of nat ural. leather that are most attractive. They are stained in the different art greens, three tones of red and also left in the natural tans and browns. They are used for library and sitting-room tables, and men particularly prefer them for sens. There is no attempt to cut the edges even or to have any appearance Of finish about them. They wear for, ever and day and need no laundering The most fanciful of them are illumined ;r the dull purples and gold of the old missals. This takes great deal of skill, but the result is in doubtful taste.-Phil- adelphia Press.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
DON'T WEST In anything un you nave
 read thneW Buyers u||etin "It sounds, note of financial emanation. v 
Free for a Ptal Card.

Free for a Ptal tara. It shows h fortunes were made b,he richest men in Ameri' It shows tfnethods ot millionaires -tr secret ot making money showing of rare value lou. Equip ped with acknowledge YOU can do they have done.
 It shows l anyone, with some mo, may rap- idly increase y methods similar to thosed by the richest men i.e country. It shows a sane and certain road t.alth along the copper, gand indus trial highway
 To road thilletin is to learn how tdesmoney. It is all abouting money actually n1g money. It goes intopper, gold and industri; as a hard headed bus lproposi- tion for ha,aded busl- ness men. tells zyou things you ct afford to be ignorant
 IF YGVE ! USE FoRaE MONEY
 THAN YUE NOW.
 Sent F on RE- QUEST. Hs' \ ELM0)DELL,
 Co.0pe Broker,
 IACKsG. ARK.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
LIVERY MEN FARMERS DRAYMkN
St.OO per bottle.

And all users of axle grease that want the best grease on the market and that recognize a good thing when shown it's merits, we recommend our Golden and Cas- tor Oil brands of Axle Grease. It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes and 3 pound tin buckets. For sale by all up-to-date merchants. Ask for it and take no substitute. It is guaranteed to have no equal for quality on the market.
 WATERS-PIERCE
 OIL COMPANY.
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
Aunt Mabel's Maple Mousse.

Boil one large cup of maple syrup un- til it ropes. Pour slowly over the we'll heater yolks of eight eggs, beating con- stautiy until smooth. Put into dou. Me boiler and scald, not letting 1t boil. Remove from the fire and let it become cold, then stir into one pint of whipped cream. Turn into freezer, pack well av four hours-Philadelph PresA
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
Her Hearty Approval.

Tommy had been playing center in a game of football with the neighborhood boys. and his mother, after having soaped him energetically, was holding him under the faucet.
 President Roosevelt is right" shs said. "We do need cleaner footballi"
Newport daily independent., 1906-02-09
Dreadful

He-Why so pensive? Are you think ing how dreadful 1t was of me to kiss you so soon after our first meeting?
 She-No not exactly, was thinking how dreadful 1t would have been had ws never met at all.-ChicAgO Daily New&
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02

because the Ice 10 taking them south. When
the Jeanette party, In their fight for life.
were straining every nerve to reach the
coast Of Asia, the leaders kept the fact from
the most OF them that they were losing part
OF their work, for the drift was taking them
back to the north.
Sometimes the travelling nay be very
fair for scores Of miles. and then a tremen-
dous gale may for days exert its power
on these floating ice fields, crushing them
together, piling up high ridges over which
paths for the sledges mus: DO cut with pick
axes, or reducing the surface % a chaotic
state that is scarcely passable tor man or
dog; or the ice may break up. opening wide
water leads Between tho foes thct cannot be
crossed or circumvented for days at a time.
All these impediments mean great delay
and often defeat.
Th~ foer or Eve greatet journeys by
sledge on the sea ice show chat men Of the
highest qualities, endurance and expert
ence may accomplish wonders. but progress
toward the Pole is after all a gamble de-
pendent upon physical conditions.
Parry in 1927 reached 80 degrees Is
minutes with his heavy, clumsy siedses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02

II il sombre in color, rather deeper than
gray. and a sympathetic material for the
Gothic style.
The ornament and trimmings are all In
creamy terra Gotta, which the rough, dark
stone throws out in contrast. Lintels,
edges and p~innacles are all in the light.
clean cut material. II has been used in
profusion from end 10 end Of all the build
ings.
The luxuriant in terra Gotta
Is a feature Of the aspect Of the college
buildings. IL makes their mass frankly
two colored. 1t puts the lines and angles
Of the building In the brightest relief 80
that details can be made out distinctly
from a distance.
Besides numberless bits Of purely archi-
tectural ornament in terra Gotta there are
a fun six hundred gro,esq les. These
were designed by Livingst'n Smith. They
form a se les, all emblsmatic Of various
phases OF college activity.
There are grotesq les pi9turing the under
class life. othe's Of athletics, Others on
the abst1ise studies Of the later college
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grees 81 minutes. a little east Of north OF
Franz Josef Land, il the best that any ship
hss yet made.
The British had scarcely offered the sc
re wards to stimulate attempts TO reach
the Pole by ship when Arctic explorers
came to a common conclusion that it was
useless to try any longer to re ach a very
high northing by ship alone. They had
never found an open sea and were con-
vincd at last that it was futile TO endeavor
to force a ship through the ice.
Then they turned their thoughts TO sledg-
ing, and for the past eighty-eight years
the sledge has been the chief appliance
used in attempts to reach the Pole.
Every one of these attempts has been
bafied. For many years they were doomed
10 failure. largely because the art of polar
sledging and the best food and other equip
m ent for such journeys were little under
stood. It is Peary, far more than any
other man. who has brought these essen
tials TO a high degree Of perfection.
But the dominating cause OF the failure
to reach the Pole by sledge is the instability
Of the ice pack. No n can tell how this
ice blanket over the Arctic Ocean is going
TO behave.
A sledRe party may be struggling splen-
didly toward the north only to find that they
are losing many of their hard earned miles
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bulky arrow-running back It's feet toward
the eve. To the west. on the left OF the
picture and cut of by Convent e
stand the four lesser buildings in a separate
group.
In front are the gymnasium building and
Townsend Harris Hall. on i3sth street.
Behind them. on 10th street. are the
Mechanical Arts Building and the Chemistry
Building. Townsend Harris Hall is reserved
for the sub-freshmen students.
The college itself is housed in the main
building, the classrooms are in the two
curved wings. the Offices in the central
tower. Including the su~b-freshmen, some
1000 pupils will be housed as soon as all
departments move up to the new site.
The great central body Of the main build
ing, running backw ard from the central
tower, e~ncloses a single large room. This
room, the great hall, seats 2,4O0 people
IL suggests a cathedral.
The heavy stone walls rise eighty teet,
with long Gothic windows at intervals.
There is to be a great organ, large enough
TO fill the room with sound.
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difficult 10 set one foot before another; and
when he had won the highest north--s9
degrees - minutes north-and started on
the return journey Cagni had many days
of intense anxiety, for the ice DRIFT took him
far west Of Tepitz Bay, where his ship
was stationed, and it was only by incredi-
BILE efforts and after four weeks Of strug-
gle in a d~isintegrating and moving pack
that he regained the meridian he meant
to follow south.
The last of these great journeys and the
one that planted the American flag north
of them all In 81 degrees o minutes north
was the most difficult and perilous among
them. Never before was the polar sea ice
seen in 20 unstable a condition. 1t played
havoc with Peary's plans.
He had arranged 10 have supporting
parties bring him supplies up to- the point
where he would make his final dash for
the Pole. Some Of these caches he expected
to pick up on his way south.
But the whole polar area was afost.
On the north side OF a big water lead no
drifted seventy miles 10 the east In a week.
He was completely out of touch with his
supporting parties and could not depend
upon them for an ounce of food.
he Dldnptu n CdCHc HIliSru dhd ~ rNhS
back for Il, only to find that a lead had
opened between him and the cache and IL
could not be recovered. Then he made
his wonderful dash poleward and the terrible
march southward, when the drift carried
him far out OF his way 70 the Greenland
coast.
From first TO last. except in 1873, when
Markham carved out a shoTt road north
ward, the vagaries Of the polar pack, with
it's stretches of good ice, its long lines OF
pressure ridges, Its rubble, its water leads
as wid "a big rivers and too long to be
circumvented, its breaking up into foes
and its drift hither ind yon driven by the
wind, have been the mdeterminate elsI
ments for which no calculation couli pro-
vide. Arctic travellers are now confronted
with a most important question.
What can be done 20 supplement ths
sledge? Nansen is already out with a plan,
which ia to push a ship into the polar pack
bet ween 100 and 10 degrees west, and he be-
Iieves that in the course Of five or six years
she will drift completely across the north
polar region far to the north Of the Fram's
route and across the most interesting part OF
what is still unknown
Undoubtedly a more expeditions solution
will be sought for. II it In possit le to devise
boats combini ng strength with lightness
which may be TAX en- along to supplement-
the sledSe and 20 work where the sledge Is
ineffective a long step will have cen made
toward reducing the uncertainties hat
involve the present methods OF sledge tnaVel
over the polar pack. Il
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and twenty-eight men hauling at the ropes
IL was the highest north for a half century,
but how pathetic was Parry's discovery
that his hopes were blasted.
In three days his measurement Of distance
travelled showed that he had advanced
twelve miles to the north, but his observa-
ions showed that he was less than five
miles nearer the Pole. Sixteen hours Of
effort enabled him to advance on the follow
ing day more than ten miles north, but
his observations showed that he had gained
not quite four miles. The ice under his feet
wa steadily moving south. He had not
food enough 10 hold out against such odds
and 40 he gave it up.
In 1879 Markham started north i'll the
region where Peary has just made his
phenomenal journey. He also made a
record northing, though the odds were
terribly against him. for his sledges were
overloaded and there was scurvy among
his men.
The ice was very rugged, but as the winter
had been bitterly oold the pack was solid.
The greatest sledge travellers of to-day
would undo ubtedly have gene much further
north than $50 10.
The next great feat Of sledging was by
hansen, when he left the Fran with a CON-
ride, twenty eight dogs, three sledges and
two Esquimau skin boats. He made 13s
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Played a note in their lives who have no
esthetic side 10 their natures but who have
what has been accepted as the artistic
hand.
The real hand. the hand that produces
the music, is the hend Of the nerves. that IT.
never seen but can be felt through the
medium Of the keyboard. Technical de-
vslor ment is certainly not a matter OF
physical development: il means brain,
heart and oul working together in perfect
accord.
TO most people technic and mechanism
are SYNONYMOUS terms. believing that IL
depends solely on the strength and supTle-
ness of arm and finger, in a word, the
manual speed and de~xterity of the player.
Now 20 me this is the purely physical side
Of the matter, for technic in it, highest
sense should lie connected with the in
tellectual and N thetic sides of the nature
al well. II is akin TO style.
when il has reached It's highest point of
development it is the power to express
accurately the r~leyer's idea OF the music
before him. II this he truly so, then of
course the share and size OF the hand do
not matter, so that il is SUP pie enough to
obey the command of iCs MAJ ter.
"0ften it happens that | am asked TO
hear some one play and T. give my adv ice.
/ cannot do this and will not when the