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but the high officials of the great COM
mercial powers are all taking careful NOE
OF his doings. Their interest is entirely
justified, since his wisdom may be the
greatest factor in bringing about what
every one hopes for-the gradual settling
down of the restless elements in Cuba
and the establishment of new and stab
Ter order. under which business and gov
ernmental affairs may be satisfactorily
carried on. Certainly unwisdOm on his
part would increase Cuban confusion and
put afar off the hoped for day Of Cuban
sanity.
Barring Peary, who has once more
gone furthest north, Gov Magoon is per-
haps the only American who has been ad-
vanced this year into world prominence
Elihu Root belongs measurably in tire list
however, since, though made secretary OF
state in 1905, it was in this year that he
broke all precedent for an American sec
rotary of state by visiting every Latin
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

I of more diverse personality and training
of more widely varying aims antece-
dents and standards, of more strongly
contrasting life and experience in all the
world than those who hove this year
been lifted some rounds up the ladder of
internatinal fame.
The careers of the two Frenchmen late
ly made ministers have been fairly BURST
ing with romance of one sort and anOth-
en- Were either to write his autobiogra-
ply the book would be crowded from COZ
err to cover with stories of intrigue, Of
deadly combats, of such contrasts between
dazzling success and dismal failure, the
garnet and the palace, as are rarely found
outside stage melOdrama.
Clemenceau's Incredible Career.
Premier Clemenceau is a journalist as
well as a politician, the only news
paperman" in the lot, by the way. He
has small body, a sallow face, head
! that has been bald since he was in his
early twenties, a little mustache, a Wit
riolic tongue and a clever, agile mem
tally. his political knowledge is pro-
| found. He yields "A bistering pen. Al
though he has been a political figure in
public was born, although he was suffi-
GENTLY and Extensively prominent when
young man during the last days of
! the third empire to be practically eXiled
! by the government, and although his
ambitions and ability have always been
conceded to be of cabinet size, he has ne
yer been able to attain the ministry until
this year.
He has overthrown more MINISTRIES
than any other man now or ever in
French public life, however, his record
| being seventeen. He las fought num-
erous dulles and written many short stor-
| les, no end of essays, political articles by
the mile, and at least one play. He was
| educated to be a doctor of medicine, and
was teacher after falling in his chos-
sen profession, thus earning his living
i'm two ways at least before he establish
ed Justice, the Paris newspaper whose
conduct entities him to be considered a
journalist.
Clemenceau is now 60. His father was
a physician and so was his grandfather
and several others of the Clemenceau
family. Nearly all of them were also
anti-royalists. When he was medical
student living in the Latin quarter of
Paris he wrote for a pert scholars re-
view, to which Emile lola, then also a
young student, contributed verse lola
did not overstep the line sufficiently to
attract imperial attention, but Clemen-
ceaq did and was forced to disappear for
| years.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

He came to NcwYork, practiced medi-
cine while among the French who live
south of Washington square. and then
got "A jon tcaching French in a young
womens school at Greenwich. >onn. One
of his students was Miss Mary H. Plum
mer, an orphan, whose uncle was a New
Yorker of some special position and
wealth
Clemenceau and the girl felf in love,
but when he told the uncle of his desire
to marry the niece the proposition was
treated as something too ridiculous to e
thought about. However, Clemenceau
didn't abandon the idea neither did Miss
Plummcr, and after he had made n triT
TO Paris to get hos fathers permission
which was necessary under the French
law, the two were wed. They lived in
Greenwich until it was plain that the
empire was lettering. Then Clemenceau
FASTENED home to France
He was elected mayor of .dont MatrC
and deputy from tire Seine to the ma
tional assembly a few days after the
capitulation of Paris before the triumph
ant Germans. He was still mayor on the
lutal lNln Oh March, ana IHe nTSl VIZ
lcncc of the commune broke out in his
quarter, when the two generals, Clement
/ Thomas and Lecomtc, were snot by the
insurgents. Clemcnceau was long re-
preached because he did not foresee anC
prevent this outrage. nine days after il
( he resigned his post, but took his sea
among the mepbers of the League of the
Rights of Paris.
From that time on until the Panama
scandals Clemenceau was power, though
rarely a constructive one, He harraseC
/ Theirs and he harrased Gambetta. Gam,
BETA declared in answer to one of Glenn
enceau's impassioned socialistic declara,
tons that there was ''no social question.
Clemenceau retorted by creating the IRA,
dical socialist party" which has exer.
cised almost absolute power in Franc,
ever since.
Gambetta disappeared and Waldeck.
Rousseau came on the stage as Premier
He went down before Clemenceau anc
was followed by Jules Ferry. Next cam,
Brisson. Clemenceau downed him ant
then ATTACKED President Grevy, the only
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

American republic in person, with the
avowed purpose of improving existing re-
lations between the United States and
those smaller weaker nations
Prince Charles of Denmark who, as
kings son. was of special interest in his
own little country was advanced to the
dignity of word figure on June %, when
he was crowned King Haakon VII. OF
Norway. The Princess Ena of Batten-
burg, comparatively little known even in
Europe and almost unheard of on mis-
side of the Atlantic, became of world in
terest ON May 81, when by marriage she
was transformed into Queen Victoria OF
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He is popular in Paris, but Paris is con-
stantly amused at him and his ways,
nevertheless. When Ire is initiated on the
stage there is always plenty of cheer
ing, but the cheers are mingled with
laughter
England's Lawyer War Minister.
saw Mr.. Haldane, Great Britain's
war minister, who raised himself to the
rank of world figure by his plan for
the reorganization of the British mill
tary staff, in Berlin last August WREN
he was visiting the German capital to
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

witness n great military review and to
study the German army staff. He is
broad-shouldered man, possibly a little
too stout; his full, ruddy face Is clean
shaver and shows unusual personal force.
His sturdy limbs and deep chest indicate
physical strength.
lie dressed himself in black at all hours
Of the day, his garb presenting a strik-
ing contrast 20 the brilliant uniforms
of tire German officers by whom he was
much of the time. He was
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
CHlLDREN's TROUBLES.
Treat Them Seriously and Try

Treat Them Seriously and Try TO
Gain Their Confidence.
When your child first comes to you
in tears and complains bitterly Of this
or that petty wrong or injury, he forces
you to one of the most important de-
cisions in your parental career. Your
path lies open before you-to treat his
trouble seriously, to speak to him man
to man. or to laugh at it as Of no con-
sequence
Beware before you too hastily make
your choice. You are choosing between
your little ones future confidence, even
his self respect and his final alienation
from you
To the child all his woes are real and.
important. His little fears and Anglers
are as great factors in his mental de-
velopment as your large ones are in
yours.
Many timid child has been fright
ened into commissions and death by
something which would not cause an
adult even to start, and many pas
sionate one has lived to regret that all
his infantile naughtinesses were treat
ed as jokes and made simply the cause
for laughter.
! There is no occasion to overestimate
their Importance. 1t will not be neces-
sary Simply accord to the child the
same consideration, help and criticism
that you would give a grown person
suffering from proportionately heavy
troubles, and do not let him feel that
always he is to be the butt for the
mirth Of his audiences, lust because"
as one small boy plaintively remarked,
"they woke up few years before I
didw His philosophy was inadequate,
but his sense of justice was in the
right place.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
A New Germ Terror.

Here's new germ scare: A Copen-
hagen physician has discovered that
the act of weeping, the releasing OF
tears that chase down the cheeks,
moistens and sets in motion a host of
harmful bacilli likely to injure those
in the room with the weeping one.
Especially does one who essays the
role of comforter expose himself to
danger from the liberated bacilli rs
this latest germ scare to make it more
difficult than it now is to find SYM
pathizers?" queries a philosopher.
"Will every one flee, for reasons OF
self preservation, from the woman
who is clearing her own atmosphere
by having good cry? And if there
are sound scientific facts at the bot
tom of this physicians rather sensa-
tional announcement there must be
bacilli unlimited in the audience room
of theater during one of those mo-
ments of which it is afterward said
there was not dry eye in the house. y
New York Tribune.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

A ripe tomato cut and rubbed on the
face tones and freshens the skin and
in some cases will remove yellow
spots, including freckles.
Cucumber juice is the best Of all
beaches for the skin. When cucum-
Der cannot be obtained fresh ripe grape
fruit will be found a good substitute
Cut open and rubbed on the face, it lis
a tonic as we'll as bleach.
Copperas is perfect disinfectant
and should be dissolved in boiling wa
ter and poured down any Of the drain
pipes about the house, Be careful i'll
pouring this where there is white
enamel, as it will turn the enamel yell
low.
Complete relaxation after eating-a
suspension Of mental and physical ac-
tivity-Will favor the processes of nat
ural digestion not only because Of it's
tranquillizing effect upon the nerves.
but because the stomach may use the
surplus unusued energies Of the body
in the processes of digestion. Happy
the man or woman who can take an
after dinner nap. It means health
happiness and long life
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
Sing Under False Names.

Singing for the various photograph.
ic companies has come to be quite a
source Of income with many grand
opera artists. They get fabulous prices
for few minutes work, as their rec
ords are extremely popular and some
of them sell at the price of an orches-
ira seat at the opera house. Some OF
the singers Of lesser rank sing often
enough in this way almost to equal
their salaries for stage appearances
but what is not generally known is
that some Of them have two names
for public purposes. They will sing
under their own name an operate Sc
lection from some production In which
the public knows them well and then
will render popular ballad or stand
ard song, using another name. These
latter records are not so expensive as
the operate selections with the popu-
lar name, but the voice is the same
New York Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
CHOICE MISCELLANY
Americans to Blame Again.


France, like the rest of Europe, is
being rapidly Americanized- with Yam.
kee notions" syndicates, telephones
and, above all, advertisements. The
world is being turned into one big ad-
vertising boarding and life is a round
of tradesmen's '.drummers" The best
paid artists are the men who draw
picture posters. The meadows beside
the railways are fragrant with the
merits Of new chocolate, lung tonic
or new auto tires. Half the press con-
sists of open or concealed trade puffs.
A short story hides a cryptic recon-
mendation of new cure for cancer,
and speech by the prime minister is
broken off by a picture of a bathy
colpic corset or an Office clerk suffering
from backache.
Literature itself, like art, drama,
dress, trade, even pleasure and vice,
has drawn new life from the Column
bian science of puffery Literature,
being in low water, has invented a de-
vice to restore it's lost reputation and
it's gains. The buffers arts have re-
duced the reprints Of the standard au-
thors to a matter Of centimes.-Fred-
eric Harrison in Nineteenth Century
and After.
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THE BUSINESS GIRL.

Don't Be Afraid Of Undertaking New
Ventures.
If you want to succeed YOU must
dress the part. Don't be wasteful OF
exravagant in your dress, but keer
yourself neat looking and well groom
ed Don't go about with a slipshod
hangdog air, as though you and success
were as far apart as the poles. If YOU
look helpless and incompetent no one
will trust you with work Of any kind.
When you apply for a post do so in
a modest yet confident manner.
Business men are not looking for
helpless, dependent femininity in their
employees.
What they want is well behaved
capable business woman.
Dress as we'll as you can afford to-
but don't make the mistake of wearing
beads and laces and elbow sleeves
while on duty.
Many an applicant has failed to win
a position because she was untidy or
oyerdressed.
II you look capable, alert and inter.
ested, opportunities are sure to come
your way.
When there is something important
to be done your employer will say: 81
will put it in the hands Of Miss K
She looks trustworthy"
The first steps in the ladder Of sue
cess are the most difficult ones to
climb
But nothing succeeds like success,
you know, and when you have once
made yourself known as a capable,
successful worker half the battle is
won.
Don't be afraid of undertaking new
ventures or of doing more than your
share Of the work.
Failure once or twice or half a dozen
times does not mean failure for good
and all
These rules hold good with men as
well as women.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
The Clock.

He stands in the corner from morning till
night
A patient old thing with no feet.
His face is as shining and round as q
moon,
And OH so exceedingly neat.
From breakfast to supper,
Right on through the day,
''Tick-tock, textbook! I'm only clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock!' he'll say.
His hands are quite tidy and grow on his
face
When 1 get to be big 1 shall know
Why one is SO long and the other so short
And one he moves fast and one slow.
From breakfast to supper,
Right on through the day,
''Tick-tock, tick-tockl I'm only a clock
Textbook, tick-tock!'' he'll say.
wide awake
To see what the little mice do,
And he watches the brownie creep in
through the blind
His little red shoes soaked with dew.
From supper to breakfast
From nighttime to day,
"Tick-tock, tick-tock! I'm only a clock.
Tick-tock, tick-tock!'' he'll say.
And when it comes morning wish no
would tell.
ask him, but never . trace
OF the wonderful doings he saw in tho
night
Does he show in his sober old face.
From breakfast to supper.
Right on through the day
''Tick-tock, Textbook! I'm only a clock.
Tick-tocs-, tick-tock!" he'll say.
Youths Companion.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
MulIauatawnv Scum.

Put into soup pot jointed fowl,
cut into small pieces a pound of chop
ped veal, two sliced onions fried in a
little butter, two sliced apples and six
quarts Of cold water. Cover, set at the
side of the range and simmer until the
fowl is so tender that it falls from the
bones. putting in at the end Of the first
half hour a half dozen whole cloves
and peppercorns. When the chicken
is tender take it from the LIQUOR and
cut the meat from the bones. setting
the meat aside and returning the bones
to the kettle, adding to the LIQUID a
paste made Of level teaspoonful OF
curry powder. teaspoonful each OF
salt and sugar mixed to a paste with
little water. Cook very slowly until
the LIQUOR is about one-half the ouanti-
ty it was in the beginning, take from
the fire. strain, set aside to cool and
remove the fat. Return to the fire,
cut the chicken into bits and stir these
into the soup with a cupful of boiled
rice. Boil up once and serve.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
Said to Be jacobs Well.

A German traveller, writing from
Palestine to a Cologne paper gays:
sour guide, a tall, swarthy, long beard
ed man, who could earn much money
as a model, grew eloquent when we
came to Schechem, place which
should be sacred to the Hebrews be-
cause it's history is 50 closely inter-
woven with theirs. Here we saw what
is known as Jacobs well, which is in
the shadow of Mount Gerizim. 1t is
about seventy feet deep, they told us,
and eight feet in diameter. Here,
said our guide, stood the oak of Mo-
reh, where Abraham, when he came
to Canaan, built the first altar. In the
days of Jacob, Schechem had become
a business town, and here it was that
the traders of that time came with
their live stock and products of the
field to trade All it's commercial
greatness has vanished, but it will at
tract religious people as long as the
well, which is still in a good state of
preservation, remains"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
a DifficnIt Art.

There was a good story told Of DR..
Joachim when he was in Hanover.
During the winter there was a great
deal of skating going on, of which he
had a good view from his window. 1t
looked SO easy and every one seemed
so happy that he thought he would
have a try. Accordingly he strolled
down and was soon pounced upon by
the ice cleaner, who asked him if he
wished to skate. II have never tried
yet" Joachim replied Il will show
you, Herr Observation-Disclosures" the man
said, screwing on a pair of skates. so!
Now stand up. Now slide the right
foot so and the other SO, and then OFF,
Joachim slid his right foot and pre-
pared for the left, but before he had
righted himself he was indeed ''of''
and sprawling on the ice. ia ia, JAZZ
the man exclaimed, as he raised the
famous violinist. ut is not quite so
easy as playing the fiddle"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
Young Folks
THE COWTHORPE OAK.


Tree In Yorkshire, England, Is Said to
Be Five Hundred Years Old.
One of the Oldest of British trees is
the Cowthorpe oak, which has been
standing near Wetherby, in Yorkshire,
for 500 years, according to yeracious
chronicle. 1t is a tree that has been
described often and has figured in
works of fiction.
1t is related of this tree, says the
New York Sun, that on occasion as
many as forty persons have been
gathered within the hollow of its
trunk, although it must be confessed
that some of these were children. The
most recent measurement shows that
its girth Of trunk at the ground was
fifty-four feet three inches, and the
cavity was eleven feet by nine feet
The tree is not now SO very tall,
reaching only thirty seven feet into the
air. There are twenty-five props about
the tree to support the falling branches.
The cavity has been noticeable only
since the beginning of the nineteenth
century. Many of the earlier measure
ments show that the tree once was
much greater in girth than now.
Aged as 1t is, the tree bore acorns in
1901 and 1905 and always produces a
fair amount Of foliage. In 1893 an
acorn borne by the Cowthorpe oak was
planted near by, and a tree is growing
up slowly as a memorial to the parent
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
Dickens Character Lives.

When mention is made of the en-
pire builders of the Canadian west the
name of Lord Strathcona instantly
comes to mind. AS Donald Smith he
played an important part in the ex-
pIoitation Of the great undeveloped
country He equipped a regiment, the
Strathcona horse, in the South African
war. He has done much toward slim
ulating the ties that bind the imperial
and colonial governments. Lord Strath,
coma was knighted because of his pub.
lie work and was raised to the peerage
because of his philanthropy This lat,
ter point in his character was well
brought out by the celebrated English
novelist Dickens in his representation
of the Cheeryble Brothers mentioned
in Nicholas Nickleby." 1t is not gen
orally known that Lord Strathcona
was the original Of this sketch.-Joe
Mitchell Chapple in National Maya
zine.
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Crown Of Great Britain.

The crown is already Of great weight
-thirty-nine ounces and five penny.
weights-no light burden for the king
on the occasion when his majesty per-
forms the ceremony of opening parlia-
ment. To add to it the Cullinan dia-
mond would increase the weight by
about three-quarters of a pound avoir-
dupois, which, it is estimated, is what
the jewel would weigh after it was
cut. The crown as it is seen today il
the Tower of London contains 2,S1S
diamonds, 297 pearls and many other
exquisite jewels. It's chief gem is
the ruby, the value Of which has been
estimated at 100000, which was Civ
en- to the Black Prince in Spain in the
year 1867 and was worn by Henry Y
in his helmet at the battle of Agin-
court.-London Observer.
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The Paraaon Apple.

In answer to an inquiry in regard
to the Paragon apple County Gentle
man says:
The Paragon apple has not been
much tested in the eastern states.
While it is considered excellent for
home use in the central and south cen
trail states it has not been regarded
as an important market variety any
where except in restricted localities on
the Pacific coast. It is of a very fine
appearance when well grown, and of
good quality, but the tree is thought
to be rather weak and short lived It
would be risky to plant this apple for
commercial purposes in New England
at present. It is doubtless worth try
ing, but it cannot be regarded yet as
an established success.