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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17

Emmeline-I pity the man that mar
rics you.
Eleanor-Pd do the same for the
man that marries you, only know
there'll never be any such man. "a,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17
Favored American.

Favored American.
The most favored man In the king
dom of Siam is an American named
Strobcl. He is the kings counsel, and
his majesty takes no important step
without consulting his attorney gen.
eral.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17

Plum-Why do they call an auto
"she?"
Prunes-It's SO hard to manage, and
SO expensive.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17

It's wise son who knows when to ask
his father for money.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17

Orange-Has ne an interest In tho
business?
Lemon-only . slight curiosity,
believe. 0
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17
LITTLE LAUGHS.

A Denver girl sprained her ankI,
at football game. Gee, she mus
have q deep voice!
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-02-17

Palm-Do men usually give accord
ing to their means?
Pepper-No; according to their mean
nefs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
A Trite Saying.

It Is trite saying that no man II
stronger than his stomach. DIR. Pferce's
Golden Mcdical Discovery Strengthens
the stomAch--puts II In shape to cake
pure, rich blood-helps the liver and
kidneys to expel the poisons from the
body and thus cures both liver and KID
ney troubles. II you take this naturAs
blood purifier and tonic, you will assist
your system in manufacturing zach day
a pint OF rich, red blood, that Is invigo-
rating to the brain and nerves. The
weak. nervous, run down, debiiitated
condition which so many people suffer
from, IL usually the effect OF poisons In
the blood; II Is often indicated by pimples
or boils appearing on the skin, the fnco
becomes thin and the feelings blue
DIR. Pierce's discovery cures all blood
humors as well as being tonic that
makes one vigorous, strong and forceful.
1t Is the only medicine put up for sale
through druggists fer like purposes that
contains neither alcohol nor harmful
habit-forming drugs, and tho only one.
every ingredient OF which has the profess
sional endorsement Of the leading medical
writer's OF this country. Some OF these
endorsements are published In littlo
book OF extracts from standard medical
works and VIII be sent to any address
{rec, on receipt OF request therefor by
letter or postal card, addressed to DIR. R.
V: Pierce, Buffalo, N. " 1t tells Just
what DIR. Pierces medicines arc made OF.
Tho "Words OF Praise" for the several
ingredients Of which DIR. Pierce's medi-
cines are composed, by leaders In all the
several schools OF medical practice, and
recommending them for the cure OF tho
diseases for which the rGolden Medical
Discovery is advised, should have far
more weight with the sick and afflicted
than any amount OF the So called rtesti-
monials" so conspicuously Haunted before
the public by those who are afraid to let
the ingredients OF which their medicines
are composed be known. Rear In mind
that the rGolden Medical Discovery has
THE BADGE OF HONESTY on every bottle
wrapper, in full list of Its ingredients.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation, invigorate the liver aud regu-
late stomach and bowels.
DIR. Plerce's great thousand-page illus
trated Common Sense Medical Adviser
VIII be sent free, paper-bound. for 81 ono
cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 81 stamps.
Address Dir. Pierce as above.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
Eulosizes Public Schools.

President Roosevelt, speaking at the
celebration of the centennial of the es-
tablishment OF the public schools of
Washington, said:
THE public schools are not merely
the educational centers for the mass
of our people, but they are the fac
tories of American citizenship. Incl
dentally to its other work the public
school does more than any other insti-
tuition of any kind. sort or description.
to Americanize the child of foreign
born parents who comes here when
young. or IS born here. Nothing else
counts for as much in welding together
into one compact mass of citizenship
the different race stocks which here
are being fused into new nationality"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
Lives Spent in Peace
Russian Monks Dwell Always in
the Center of Monastic Stiffness
Especial Correspondence, ,

To the uninitiated monastery in
Russia may seem an even less attrac-
tive place of retirement than monks
cell under the glowing southern sky
But those who know Russia will easily
realize that there are attractions and
possibilities which give a peculiar
charm to monastic life in that country
of striking contrasts. of vast silent
places; OF ceaseless turmoil on the
one hand and of dull monotony on the
other. have in my mind n monastery
on the banks of the Neva, not far
from st. Petersburg. which has always
seemed to me TO be a very center of
perfect peace and rest III summer
the steelblue cupolas of its church rise
above the tops of the birch and rowan
trees that grow all round It and the
small graveyard where the monks are
buried under high grassy mounds
adorned with humble little wooden
crosses of the shape which distin-
guishes the cross of the Greek church
from that of Rome. The blue waters
OF the Neva flash and gurgle close by.
and far away countless spires and
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
MALARlA7 +? 2
GENERALLY That is Not the Trouble.

Generally That Is Not the Trouble.
Persons with susceptibility to ma
larial influences should beware of cof-
fee, which has tendency to load up
the liver with bile.
A lady writes from Denver that she
suffered for years from chllls and
fever which at last she learned were
mainly produced by the coffee she
drank.
Il was also grieyously afflicted
with headaches and indigestion" she
says. which | became satisfied were
likewise largely due to the coffee
drank. Six months ago quit It's use
altogether and began to drink Postum
Food Coffee. with the gratifying result
that my headaches have disappeared,
'iny digestion has been restored and
have not had recurrence OF chills
and fever for more than three months.
have no doubt that It was Postum
that brought me this relief. for | have
used no medicine while this improve
ment has been going on" (It was
really relief from congestion of the
liver caused by coffee.)
My daughter has been as great a
coffee drinker as I, and for years was
afflicted with terrible sick headaches.
which often lasted for a week at a
time. She is brain worker and ex-
cessive application together with head
aches began to affect her memory
most seriously. She found no help in
medicines and the doctor frankly adj
vised her to quit coffee and use Post
um.
For more than four months she
has not had headache-her mental
faculties have grown more active and
vigorous and her memory has been
restored.
mo more tea, coffee or drugs for
us, so long as we can get Postum
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek. Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
hook THE Road to Wellviller in pkgs
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

on Saturdays We waited TIL the
rough drift ice from Lake Ladoga had
settled on the Neva. till all the open
spaces between the ice sheets were
firmly frozen over. and till the sun.
during spell of mild weather, Lad
somewhat smoothed the Ice. Then az
$ p. m. on Saturdays we strapped our
skates on. seated on blue ice. ana
glided down the river. pausing here
ane there to career round partisu-
iarly smooth sheet of ice. At the MON
astery steps we took off our skates
and followed the thin stream of sheep
shin-coated peasants into the church.
through the soft gloom of which the
candles at the east end. near the gold
en- gates of the holiest of holies. shone
with white and fitful light
Power in Simple Services.
There were no treasures of art in
that comparatively unimportant mon
astery church, but on the door. lead
ing | know not whittier. there was
painting of the head OF John the Bap-
list on a salver. which drew and haunt
ed YOU with its spiritualized beauty.
its suggestion of many things passing
all understanding. The peasants pros
trated themselves on the floor: the
priests. in robes of gold and silver,
read in deep bass voices the Slayonic
texts, which no one understood. And
then, from gallery high up at the
back of the church. there came a flood
of music which seemed less of the
earth than any other sound. Mems
voices and boys. pure and rich and
very reverent, with notes of supplca-
ton that seemed impassioned sobs as
the "Gospodi pomilui" G-ord have
mercy upon us) rose again and again.
and with a final Amen" that throbbed
and thrilled with exaltation.
When, after the service. we got
down to the Neva, the night had come
blue and clear and crowded with
stars-and into the teeth of the north
wind we skated up the river, with the
choir OF angels and archangels still
singing in our ears.
There are monasteries such as this
all over Russia on the banks of the
Don and the Dnieper as well us on the
Neya. near lonely villages and in the
vast plains of central Russia. And
wherever they are there hangs about
them the same mystery and the deep
peac that draw and hold you when
YOU stand in the Tate gallery before
The yale of Rest"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
kinq Georges Title.

King Georges title of king OF the
Hellenes is due to the fact that when
he was elected to the throne he was
acclaimed by the nation as king. not
of Greece. but of the Greeks. The
great powers admitted the title of
King of the Greeks. but. out of con.
sideration for the susceptibilifies OF
the sultan they adopted for official
purposes the title of king OF the Hell
lenes, as distinguished from the
Greeks still under Turkish rule.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

In Autumn and Winter.
In autumn. when the great RATS
came down the Neva from unknov n
places much further north. we sat TN
the wooden seats in front of TIE
monastery church. listening to the
songs of the men on the RATS aud
watching the wild geese and ducks
flying southwark high overhead. Aud
now and then monk would come apd
sit beside us. offering us hospitality
In the shape OF a bunch of red rowan
berries. which he ate with obvious en-
joyment.
But best of all and most enchanted
was the place In winter. when the blue
cupolas had high caps of dazzling
white snow. when the Russian rob
ms the beautiful birds with throats
OF salmon pink, were fed by the
monks. and when the air glittered aid
cracliled with cold. There was a
Service at the monastery at p. IN.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

its hour has struck and it shall soar
no more.
Te make the picture the more i'm
pressive and pathetic bee that lin
gered in the sun slipping honey from
the Clover at the base of the monu-
ment seemed so strangely satisfied
with its lot that one could not help
recall the fact that Napoleon who. in
the early days of his life. chose the
bee as his motto, representing in
uustry. afterward o.ss It aside for the
eagle. the king of birds. Napoleon
and his eagle had fallen, but the bee
bunzea on as contentedly among the
flowers as if the ground upon which
they grew was never bathed in brave
mcx's blood to crafty the unfath -rp-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
~

able whims of military genius. The
little bee survived and sang where the
mighty eagle struggled and sank. The
burning taper scoffed at the fallen
start
And what preceded and followed it
all?
stood two days later in the old
carriage house in which the remark
able bail of the duchess of Richmond
was held the night before Waterloo.
AT this ball were gathered the flower
of Brussels society, with Wellington
and his stan officers the center of at
traction. In the midst of this scene
of gayety and splendor, fortune hav-
ing been squandered in the interior
decoration of this spacious building
that night, a message was handed
to Wellington informing him CT the ap-
proach of Napoleon The word was
discreetly passed to his officers. who
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
KENruckIANs WANTED.
All Should Remember "Home Coming
Week. Next Sprinq.

Week" Next Spring.
Judge Caldwell Yeaman of Denver,
president of the Kentucky Home Club,
has received from the Louisville Com
mercial Club the following communi-
cation:
"Home Coming Week.
The Louisville Commercial Club
wants to invite all former KentuckiaIs
to visit the state next spring.
"Wanted-The names and addresses
of all kentuckians who have moved to
other states.
did you know that the last census
shows that there are over six hundred
thousand Kentucklans living In other
states?
well, it's fact!
How many of these former Ken
tuckians do you know?
THE Commercial Club of Louisville
wants the names of as many of these
as it is possible to get 1t desires to
extend invitations to every Kentuck-
ian who has moved away to come back
next spring and attend the Home Com
ing Week festivities at louisville.
plans are rapidly maturing for this
great event. The Commercial Club
hopes to make it red letter week on
iNNhhuthg HlSioIltbl cttitnudT. lntTt
will be something doing seven days
and nights. and then the crowd viii
disperse and go to different parts of
the state to remain as long as the low
railroad rates are in effect. as the ar
rangement made with the railroads will
include low rate to all points In Ken
lucky for Home Coming Week in
Louisville.
'If you have any friends or relatives
who have moved to other states. please
send the names and addresses at once
to the Commercial Club, Louisville,
Kentucky"
Judge Yeaman would be pleased to
have all Kentuckians In Colorado send
him their names and addresses. He
will then cause a complete list to be
i made of all native Kentuclxlans living
in Colorado and will furnish 1t to the
| Louisville Commercial Club He be-
lieves that such list will be of great
service in Colorado and in Kentucky.
in promoting the Kentucky Home.
which 1t is proposed to construct and
maintain in Colorado for Kentucky in
valids coming TO the state for health.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

after day-don't wor-
ry. Doan's Kidney
Pills have cured thou
sands of women in the
same condition. Mrs.
A. Heimau of Stlllwa-
ter. MINI. says: But
for Doan's Kidney
Pills I would not be
living now. They
cured me In 1899 and
I've been well since.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

Immediately mounted their horses and
departed for Waterloo.
In the trenches the next. day they
were identified by their silk stockings
and buckled shoes as they lay man
gled among the dead where the fight
ing had been the fiercest And Pet
only the night before they had dohned
that raiment to participate in those
scenes of peace and pleasure around
which Byron wrote the words. "On
with the dance; let joy be unconfined."
Mound That Marks Scene.
Such was one of the incidents of in
terest that preceded Waterloo. One
of those that followed it was the erec-
ton of this great mound, composed OF
possibly 100000 cubic yards of earth
skinned from the face of the battle
field and planted in one cone-like pile
by Belgian women, who carried it in
their aprons and in baskets on their
heads and received as compensation
construction a sum of less thar 20
cents per day. The lion that Eur-
mounts it is cast from the guns cap
tured from the French army.
It all seems imposing and majestic.
but cold and uninspiring compared
with that strikingly beautiful picture
presented when we turn to the heart
of Paris and wend our way to that
great tomb of the Invalides.
AS we lean over the balustrade and
look down upon that modern sarcoph-
agus of Egyptian marble containing
all that remains on earth of the brok-
en- spirit of st. Helena we turn our
eyes toward the lighted altar and
then our gaze follows our thoughts
toward the gilded dome and above and
then back again to that colossal casket
containing its precious grain of ashes.
How solemn and stupendous seems
the silence that surrounds this sacred
sleeping place! How pathetically ores
memory recalls the request:
Il wish that my ashes might lie on
the banks of the Seine, among the
French people whom l so well loved"
And how fittingly beautiful has been
the response of that impulsive, patri-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

cupolas. and forest of masts. suggests
the capital and one of the great water
ways of the world. But round the
monastery the summer silence is un-
broken.
A long, long avenue of gigantic
birch trees. such as only the high
north produces, with strong, straight
stems of silvery white and magnificent
c-swns of fluttering foliage. runs far
into the fat country stretching endless.
lessly behind the monastery. Where
the birch avenue ended we had dis
covered tiny wooden cottage. stand
ing at the end of one of the famous
Russian strawberry farms:' and when
the great heat of the day was over
and we resumed our shoes and stock
ings, which in that lovely sreenery
and on the short dry grass path of the
avenue we doffed as matter of
course, we invaded the old peasants
realm, and carried back to tea under
the birches a large birch-iird basket
of strawberries ripened under a sky
which never darkens in June into a
nearer approach to night than a rose
tinted dusk.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

otic and poetic people in this gold
mounted temple OF their gratitudel
Standing amid its indescribable
beauties one knows not which to ad-
mire the more, the genius of Napoleon
or the artistic and really majestic ex-
preston of the gratitude of the people
of France.
Wellington's memory is perpetuated
in marble in the city of London and
the lion lives in bronze on the pin
nacle of the mound that overlooks
Waterloo, but the genius of that little
corporal, Napoleon, right or wrong.
lives in one of those strange recesses
of mems hearts where great spirits
alone seem TO find an everlasting ahId-
in; place.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

used to have such pain in my back
that once | tainted. The kidney Sc
cretions were much disordered. and
was so far gone that | was thought to
be Mt deaths door. Since Doan's Kid
ney Pills cured me I feel as IL had
been pulled back from the tomb"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
Oldest EnaIIsh clerayman.

The Oldest clergyman in England is
the Rev. John Edward Kemp, who
has been in holy orders for seventy
TWO years, being now ninety-five
years Of age. He has been chaplain
in ordinary to King Edward since
1901
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

1--WE are not living In the millennium.
but in the millionairiuIn. says the
Hon. James b, Belford of Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

Lewis Single Binder ciRar-richest, most
satisfying smoke on the market. Your
dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qnintnc Tasiets- Drug
Sfstr refund money II IL falls TO cure r. W.
0RovK's sIgnatnrc u on each box. xe-
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
His Needed curino.

Him--I wonder If there is anything
In this mind cure.
Her-wrll, II there Is you ought to
take It,
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

Virtue that is born of necessity is a
poor seif-reward.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

green earthenware vessels Il wish
had nowD suspended from The over
hanging roof outside the front door.
1t had three spouts, and from these
the old man Che showed us how he
did it, with a quiet smile) poured wa
ter into the hollow of his hands, and
in this. manner performed the ablu-
tions he considered it well to perform
once week. The strawberries he had
picked seemed to lack flavor after he
had guilelessly laid bare to us the Sc
crets of his toilet; but when we asked
whether we might pick our own sup
ply, so that he might send to market
all he had gathered, he assented With
smiling courtesy, and another fnscina.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

When You Buy Starch
buy Defiance and get the best. fs Or
for 10 cents. Once used. always used.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

II women were permitted TO do the
courting there would be fewer male
cyclists.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
poN,r pEspAIR.
Read the Experiences Of Minnesota
Woman and Take Heart.

II your backache aches, and you feel
lick. ianguid. weak and miserable day
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
Ths Dest RssuIts n st,reh;c.

can be obtained only by using De-
fiance Starch. besides getting 4 or.
more for same money-no cooking re-
quIred.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04
Like Fsiryland Courts.

CIKc FdTTyIdHd COuFts.
1t was like going from one court in
Fairyland into another. to invade the
strawberry farm at the back of the
monastery. The door of the one
roomed cottage stood wide open at all
times, aud through the dusk of the in
terror there cleaned just one speck
of light from the little lamp hanging
in the corner in front of the ii,on with
its brown-faced virgin. There was no
furniture in the room over and above
a rough deal table and shake-down,
and the peasants bath and washstand
were supplied by the quaintest of
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

tion was added to our picnic in Fairy
land
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-04

Where the Mighty Eagle Sank.
1t looks pitifully toward the skies.
where it once scared in triumph. but
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-24
COUNTY LEVY .s
Board Of Supervisors of5 Chester
field II dds Meeting VI
. 3. ma \ -Dlsputcl

isiSg (3pcCinl to 'Vhei $1llles-Llspt 5,i A.
% CtHEsTERFIELD, YA., July 23.- -,A:
the meeting $oY tho Board OF supervisors Dr.
ia dav tho county levy WINS laid for 1907,
al follows: General fund.- thlrty-fi five cents
IN the hundred dollars Of property yal-
5,,os: district school fund, ten cents; coun-
~ school fund, Il ten cents; road funa,
twenty cents, nggregatlng seyentyf7T3hlNy five Ave
Cents on the hundred dollars. The W un-
firing efforts OF certain citizens who are
giving their time and talent TO perm 1Ifl !. :,
nant road Eimprovcment- notably, HOWARD
sswineford. ESQ. were rewa rded ny y an =
sex t1Ti levy of ten cents, which the boar par 2
pledged itself to devote to the permanent
road work already in progress.
al Tho county expenses for the last Hsc cal
year were approximately SIS ,O0o.T exclu-
siyo OF school expensas.
The application for q new e street :. u !,
Chester, parnlleling the Richmond ii ana an
Petersburg electric Tine, crossing the
Atlantic Coast Line Rallroad ~ d means
81 an overhead bridge, came up to day,
md was continued. The Atlantic Coast
Line railroad, Il by its at torney offered 70
construct the bridge without cost sE TO
the county, provided proc edngs to open zen
up Dodomeade Street, in the same place,
were abandon ed. n Tho matter Will be de-
termined In s August. II /. sss
GE6Sssl Tho board duced the fees allowed phX7
sicians for attending paupers sss n VI the ne
3countylfrom one dollar to fifty cents, some
Of the physicians8 bills having become ex !,
3cessive .siti N =