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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

prove that this young person had
as much common sense as beauty.
At the first glance this absolute
independence makes all these girls
look alike. 1t is from them that
French authors have constructed
their sterotyped types of Ameri-
cans for novels and plays. She was
built by us in the simplest way.
with bad manners and simple
heart, and there was a doll, and the
two elements composing it are
equally false.
The young American woman,
when We see her among us, may
appear to us ill hammered because
we compare her with the cOnven-
tional type of our own girls which,
be it said in passing, is not very
true to life either. Seen at home
and from near at hand, we under
stand that the American girls indie
pendent ways belong alike to the
best and the worst breeding. After
a time, however, we distinguish
among them, and very clearly, the
one who is fast and the one who
is not.
AS for simplicity, when we
Frenchmen apply this word to
girls, we always take for granted
that the only question in the
world which appeals to them Is
love. We esteem love essential to
their existence, since they are
women. We speculate on what
they dream of love, what they know
of it, and our measure of their in
nocence, of their purity of soul,
lies exclusively in the answer. 1t
is inferred that their knowledge of
life is in harmony with that revela-
ton alone.
This measure cannot be applied
to the American girl; since for her,
as for the American man, love
usually takes the second place in
her thoughts. To know whether
or not she will marry according to
her heart, whether she will not
have romance, more frequently
does not enter into her calcula-
lions. Even for those who seem to
try the hardest to please, and who
abuse most of physical coquetry11-
they are rarer than the French be-
lieve and commoner than the
Americans ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rela-
ton with men represents, nine
times out of ten, only feature of
social life. 1t is a means of assur-
ing triumphs of self-respect, of be-
| coming what the newspapers call
prominent people in society,"" by
the number of adorers.
Such coquetry is not as danger
Gus for them as it would be else
where, on account of the reserve of
the American men on one side and
on the other the American woman S
penetrating comprehension Of mas
culine character.
They have begun to live so very
early in intimacy with men that
they are with the latter just as the
children of a circus rider are with
horses.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
SOCIETY WOMAN SEIZED AS A
STREET WALKING P|CKP0CKET

NEW YORK, Jan. 2,-Of all the
peculiar experiences of the Christ
mas holiday season, that undergone
by Mrs. Jeanne Trautman, a we'll
known society woman, and wife or
DR.. Alex Trautman. wealthy ply
stefan of 800 Lexington ay.. is most
amazing.
While walking on Fifth av. on
Christmas eve, among a throng OF
bustling holiday shoppers. she was
suddenly seized by a man whom
she claimed to be a total stranger,
then accused of a crime of which
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
HOW TO WALK ON The
SLIPPERY PLACES

Here Is a hint from a local genius
who has not yet arrived at flames
lofty pinnacle, but he's certainly on
the way:
while the pavements are slip
perry with sncnw most people in
walking slip back an inch or so
for every step they take BY 1000
steps they lose SO feet, If they will
take pains to set the foot down stiff
and fiat they will always slide
ahead instead of lack. In l2 steps
they are foot ahead instead of a
foot behind They arrive sooner
with less effort"
There's no charge for this.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
COTTON AND WEBSTER
MATCHED.

Dan McEnroe yesterday after
noon closed negotiations for a fight
Jan. IS at Burke. Idaho, between
Joe Cotton (coloredD and BAT
Ting" Webster. The men will
fight for 60 per cent of the re
ceipts and divided this rs pei
cent to the winner and 25 pei
cent to the loser. Webster will
train in Burke and Cotton in Spo
Kane until few days before the
fight when he will taper off his
work In Burke.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
RACES AT THE RINK.

In the first OF a series Of races
at the Princess rink last evening
George Pym defeated r. NJ. Brand
hagen, and Arthur Liberty defeated
o. M. Moore. Tonight Moore and
Brandhagen will race ana Liberty
and Pym will be pitted against
each other. Mooresor Brandha gen.
which ever one is defeated tonight,
will drop out Tomorrow night
three men will contest, the loser
dropping out, and the final race
will be run Friday night.
At the concert yesterday after
noon a banner crowd was enter
tanned. fully 500 people being
present.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
HERMAN WAS
EASY FOR CANS

And now it is up to Joe Cans to
go on the stage since he beat lit
tile kid" Herman, hero of the Chi
cago Ghetto. Cans would not make
much of hit on the English stage,
but might make barrel of money
showing in the Yiddish theaters of
the large Eastern cities. His bat
tie yesterday afternoon at Tono-
pah, New, with Herman terminated
in the eighth round with a left
square to the latter's jaw. Her
imam dropped and was counted out
without coming to sufficiently to
attempt to arise. The knockout
was one of the cleanest ever seen.
All through the game Cans carried
the fight easily and worried Her.
man into believing he was easy
money. He was, but would not
have been had he taken a brace
and fought with confidence.
The Gans-Herman negotiations
all the way through were frowned
upon by genuine sports, who did
not take much stock in the Sc
robustness of Herman. 1t must be
admitted that when he fights foe
he has confidence of whipping he
shows wonderful speed. But he
was beaten man yesterday from
the time he entered the ring. The
receipts were $30,735.
The purse was 100000, divided
into GO and 40 per cent, and the
arena in which the men met cost
100000, it is claimed. Somebody
will have to pay the freight.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

morning l found my roll of $13
gone" .......
When on Christmas eve Hogan
saw Mrs. Troutman in the holiday
crowd on FIT av. he Immediately
seized her, and alleged that she
was the person he had meet the
previous Saturday night.
Mrs. Trautman, who claimed she
had not ben away from her home
on Saturday night, except with her
husband asserted her belief that
Hogan was either crazy or badly
confused. Her husband and her So
ciety friends were free to assert that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
THE COLUM BIA.

An improvement in the character
of plays presented in the past few
weeks has brought the Columbia's
attendance to the capacity stan
dard. "A Japanese Courtship'
last night drew a big crowd. THE
Sultan of Morocco" is next week
attraction.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
NATURAL FLOWERS FOR EVENING COUTURE

The prettiest fancy for the eve
ming headdress is the wearing of a
wreath of natural flowers encircling
the couture. The woman with the
pale, fluffy blonde hair looks be-
witching with pink baby roses and
feathery fern running round her
head. Tiny red rosebuds or holly
berries with their shining foliage
show to advantage dark, shadowy
tresses.
For theater wear a new fashion
has been adopted to take the place
of the theater hat. 1t is a bandeau
of tulle or velvet ribbon. A bunch
of natural flowers are pinned on
the left side. while loops of ribbon
fail gracefully from their midst. To
wear such headgear is an art. but
there Is no reason why it should
not be universally becoming. if suf-
ficient care is taken to puff and coil
the hair so as to perfect the effect.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
COAST BOYS BEAT
CHICAGO

The football team of the Chicago
North Division high school, with its
Lake Michigan water, was trimmed
yesterday afternoon by the Seattle
high school with a score of II to s.
The Seattle high school team
proved the better mudder of the
two teams. The Chicago men
leave tomorrow for home.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
FORBES SETS NEW RECORD.

The the Spokane Rod and Gun
club shoot yesterday Jack Forbes
set a new ground record by break
ing 104 birds in succession. Twelve
experts contested for honors in 10
15-bird events. Forbes broke 142
out of $50; f. j, Chingren was sec
ond with 1886, and Pete Holohan
third with 1872.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

The Spokane theater manage
ment perpetrated an unblushing
sort of delusion on it's audience
last night in the thing called The
Midnight Flyer" 1t is wierd
and wondrous creation evidently
pulled in from remote rural dis
tricts.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
FREDDIE WEEKS WINNER.

At Cripple Creek, Colo. last
night Freddie Weeks, of Butte.
Mont. defeated Willie Mcnamara,
of Chicago, in the third round.
Weeks was the superior all
through.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
THE WASHINGTON.

The vaudeville performances yes
terday were popular New Year di-
versions and the house was packed
afternoon and evening. This weeks
bill is furnishing the patronage
plenty of popular amusement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
SHERIFF STOPS FIGHT.

The sheriff at Shelbourne, Ind,
last night refused to allow a fight
between Mike Schreck, of Cincin-
natti, and Harry Rogers, of Chi
cago.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

The first thing that strikes the
traveller who has heard much about
the young women of America is the
absolute impossibility of distin-
gushing the married from the un-
married.
The oft commented fact that they
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
NEARY MATCH A DRAW.

Dave Feshler, of Cambridge, and
Chas Neary, of Milwaukee, boxed a
10 round draw last night at Mil
waukee.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
FIERCE FIGHT IN PANAMA

Stevens called policeman. 1.-THE
noise must stop" he said.
but which noise?" asked the Of
ficer.
Stevens reflected. Then finally
"The pan noise" he said "The
law recognizes the other as music.
Let the monograph play"
And thus the ended the battle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
SENT RHODES TO HOSPITAL.

At Providence, r. l., last night
Billy Rhodes and Terry Martin
boxed fierce Is rounds to a draw
Rhodes had to be taken to the hos
pital afterwards.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
LEEDS CRITICALLY ILL.

NEW YORK, Jan. PIT is report
ed that w. b. Leeds, tinplate mag
nate and former president of the
Rock Island railroad, is critically
i'll with paralysis and has gone to
Paris for treatment.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

come and go unattended would not
suffice to establish this confusion.
The similarity goes further. They
wear the same jewels, the same
dresses, they have the same indie
pendence of laughter and speech,
the same looks, the same gestures.
the same full lowered beauty, and
thanks to the invention of the
"chaperon" there Is not a theater
or restaurant party or tea where
they do not go, ALWAYS alone and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
FIRE AT POMEROY.

POMEROY, Wash, Jan. 2.-F. J..
Elsensohn's store, the largest in
this town, was totally destroyed
last night by fire. The loss ap-
proximates 100000, partly covered
by insurance The blaze started in
the second story of the store build
ing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
SEATTLE, 6; PORTLAND, a

At Portland yesterday the Seat
tie Athletic club defeated the
Multnomah football team by a
score of to 4.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
THE SPOKANE.

/. ssSergeant Kitty" with Helen
ByTon in the leading number, is
billed for the Spokane Jan. 8. 1t
is "a musical comedy that made a
hit in the East.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
THE AUDITORIUM.

< The Jessie Shirley Co. started
the new year with crowded houses
yesterday, drawn by the comedy
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
:At the Theatres

"A Contented Woman" The COM
/ pany is making hit in Hoyt's play.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
SECOND xAHD GOODS.

Highest price paid for second
hand furniture. Tel. NJ. 3oa ia
Riverside. 80-9
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
PRINTING.

Save % to so per cent on your
printing bills. Spokane Stamp
Works, SIS First avenue, opposite
Hotel Spokane. s*s
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

The Press prints news without
fear or favor. -.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02

Freight. furniture, baggage and
parcel delivery. Tel. $500. 32o-o
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-02
GREATEST FRENCH NOVELIST
SIZES UP THE AMERICAN Girl

BY PAUL BOURGET
or the French Academy; Poet,
Critic and Novelist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
MADE REMEDY
INEXPENSIVE AND EASILY PRE-.
PARED BY ANYONE.
is Said to Promptly Relieve 6ackaehe
and Overcome Kidney Trouble and
Bladder Weakness Though Harm.
less and Pleasant to Take.

What will appear very interesting
to many people here is the article
taken from a New York daily paper.
giving a simple prescription, as formu-
lated by a noted authority, who claims
that he has found a positive rem
edy to cure almost any case of back
ache or kidney or bladder derange.
ment, in the following simple prescrip-
ton, il taken before the stage Of
Bright's disease:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Shake well in a bottle and
take in teaspoonful doses after each
meal and again at bedtime.
A well-known authority, when asked
regarding this prescription, stated
that the ingredients are all harmless,
and can be obtained at a small cost
from any good prescription pharmacy,
or the mixture would be put up IL
asked to do so. He further stated that
while this prescription is often pre-
scribed in rheumatic Affections with.
splendid results, he could see no rea-
son why it would not be a splendid
remedy for kidney and urinary trou-
bles and backache, as it has a peculiar
action upon the kidney structure,
cleansing these most important Or
gans and helping them to sift and
filter from the blood the foil acids
and waste matter which cause sick
ness and suffering. Those who suffer
can make no mistake in giving it q
trial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
HELPING THE TRUSTS.
Systems That Are Opposed to the
Welfare of the Masses.

Nearly a century ago, Disraeli, the
elder, in his essay on gaming and
gambling, wrote: "The savage and the
civilized, the illiterate and the learn
ed, are alike c%aptivated by the hope
Of accommodating wealth without the
labors of industry" In this saying the
great statesman and writer sounded
the keynote Of much of the woes met
with in life. 1t is the desire to secure
wealth without labor, to gain some
thing for nothing, that causes many to
go to their graves "unwept, unhonored
and unsung."
The mar who gleefully sings Make
a few dollars arm you a living" will
be sure to find many people ready to
believe him. They will take a
chance anyway. and the gullible are
so numerous that the promoter really
succeeds in accommodating wealth
without the labors of industry" but
the others-his ENTHUSIASTICALLY
fail.
During the past few years one large
concern that has for long been drain
ing the rural districts of surplus
wealth, has built a city of its own,
and has erected buildings for the &C.
commodation of 1000 people. This
concern does not draw a cent of trade
from the people Of the city wherein it
is located. All its wealth and the
means by which 1t built up its ''own
city" has been contributed by people
scattered throughout the country.
How few there are who think that
when they send money to this great
concern for supplies that might as
well be bought in their home town,
that they are helping to deal a death.
blow to the place they call home? Yet
such is the fact. Every dollar sent
to the large city, assists in the build
ing up OF greater trusts, and great
er combinations, that seek to control
the manufacturing, the mercantile
business, and as well the prices OF
labor and all the products of the work
shop and the farm. 1t means bust
ness oligarchy to which the common
people should not submit.
D. M. CARR.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Millions Are Lost Annually.

Fifty millions of dollars annually is
a conservative estimate Of the amount
that the people of the United States
are swindled out Of through the opera
ton Of fraudulent investment and in
surance concerns.
How easily people are influenced to
make investments in questionable con.
Germs, has been recently strongly IL
Illustrated through the operations of
the different alleged cooperative mer-
camille, home-building and investment
schemes which have been declared
fraudulent by the postal authorities.
1t is during the times Of prosperity
that the schemers find the richest
field. People who never had the hand
ling of much money, and who find in
their possession a few hundreds of
dollars, just have enough for the
taste" of wealth so that they are
easy victims for the sharpers who OPP
crate fake" enterprises which hold
out alluring promises of great re-
turns on small investments. State
laws for the control of such
should be stringent, and severe pun
ishment melted to those who operate
them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
TRADES GREAT G
How Some Mammoth Fortunes Have
Been Built Up.


Many of the great fortunes in Amer
lea have been gained by the j%udicious
use of printers ink. The wealthiest
merchants attribute their success TO
advertising. Millions and millions of
dollars worth of manufactured prod
ucts are annually sold to the people
OF the United States through the ad.
vertising pages of the public press,
the only medium. Consider the new
tangled breakfast foods, the umerous
natural food preparations! 1t is more
than likely they would never have be-
come known without their merits
were exploited before the people
through the newspapers. Great exclu-
sive mail-order houses, institutions
that have come into existence during
the past 20 years, have been built up
entirely through j~udicious advertis-
ing.
AS to the mail order houses, there
is a loud clamor against their en-
croachments throughout the country.
There is every cause for alarm that
they will eventually grow into such
mammoth institutions as will monop-
olize the business that is now the
backbone and spine of the country
towns. There is one way that the
merchants can lessen the evil. 1t is
by persistent use of the public press.
Use advertising space, meet the COM
petition rightly and squarely and let
the people know about it.
Hundreds of would-be business. ven
lures have failed just because there
was no proper advertising. Hundreds
and thousands Of small merchants fail
for the same cause, The paper in a
small town is of greater force than
the average merchant thinks. If the
storekeeper desires to test his home
paper as an advertising medium, let
him insert an advertisement of some
article and put the price lower than
it Is generally sold at. Then await
results. He will find that the people
will learn of it, and call to see about
it.
Dollars to the editor for advertis-
ing space are never lost il the adveE
Using is of the proper kind. The in
vestment will bring greater returns. to
the merchant than money invested in
any other way. One trouble is that
the average merchant knows little
about proper methods Of advertising.
A simple card John Jones, Grocer,
sells groceries" is of but little use.
Make advertising attractive. Tell
about goods, about prices, and every
thing that a prospective purchaser
may want to know. Keep persistently
at it. Change advertisements week
after week. The people look for it,
and it will pay.
D. M. CARR.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
KNEW WHAT PAPA SAID.
And 1t Was Something Of a Variation
of Old Adage.

Tommy was stubborn and his teach
er was having a hard time explaining
a small point in the geography les
OH.
Tommy" teacher began, you can
learn this if you make up your mind.
It's not n bit smart to appear dull.
/ know" she continued, coaxingly,
that you are just as bright as any
boy in the class. Remember, Tommy,
where there's a will there's"
"Aw," broke in Tommy, Il know all
dat, / do. Me ladders a lawyer, he is.
an I've heard him say it lots O. times"
you should not have interrupted
me-" reprimanded the teacher, but
I'm glad that your father has taught
you the old adage. Can you repeat
it for me?"
Sure" said Tommy, confidently.
me ladder says dat where der's a
will-der's always a bunch O poor re-
lations ."-Lippincott's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
FURIOUS HuMoR ON CHILD.
itching, Bleeding Sores Covered Body
Nothing Helped Her-Cuticura
Cures Her in Five Days.

after my granddaughter of about
sever years had been cured of the
measles, she was attacked about a
fortnight later by a furious itching and
painful eruption all over her body,
especially the upper part of it, forming
watery and bleeding sores, especially
under the arms, of considerable size.
She suffered a great deal and for three
weeks we nursed her every night,
using all the remedies we could think
of. Nothing would help. We tried the
Cuticura Remedies and after twenty.
four hours we noted considerable i'm
provement, and after using only one
complete set of the Cuticura Remedies,
in five consecutive days the little one,
much to our joy, had been entirely
cured, and has been well for a long
time. Mrs. F. R~uefenacht, R. F. D. No.
8, Bakersfield, Cal, June rs and July
90, 1906"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Pure Food.

The pure food law does not prohibit
the sale of Cream of Tartar Baking
Powders because Cream of Tartar is
as pure as Alum-but it is a well
known fact that a baking powder in
which Alum is used instead Of Cream of
Tartar is less Injurious. DR.. Herman
Reinbold, the expert German chemist,
In e recent official report concerning
Baking Powders, declares that a pure
Alum baking powder is better and less
injurious than the so-called Cream of
Tartar powders. He says that If the
quantity of alum contained in a suf-
ficient quantity of baking powder for
a batch of bread Dr. cakes for an ordi-
nary family, be concentrated to one
mouthful of food, and taken into the
stomach of any one person, no matter
how delicate, it could do no harm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Another Meanest Man.

We've heard of the meanest man
in town, and his faithful wife in her
faded gown, and of Maud in the stub
BILE raking hay, when the good old
judge rode her way; and the famous
liar with line and pole, and the truant
boy and swimming hole; but the freak
of all Is the lar who goes and buys
for family food and clothes on credit
fer six months or more, from the keep.
er Of the local store, and when for
cash he sells his crops, at the local
store he never stops; forgets the bill
ne ought to pay, and for things he
wants he sends away to Make &
Fake who want the mon and who
sell for cash" to everyone. This
man with mind of little strength, can't
zee the "plunk" at arms length, but
grabs the penny near his eye, and lets
the glittering dollars lie.