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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
Two Questions.

Should the maid always place the
plate when served at the left of the
guest, and in passing bread or any
thing else should it be from the right?
Please tell me something to say in
answer to an announcement Of birth.
WILBUR.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
Christmas Decorations.

Can you suggest some new way OF
decorating for Christmas this year?
We have always had a tree, but l
would like a change II possible and
still have the house look attractive.
FLORA.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

On your invitations state that the
party is given in honor of your friend.
Do not inclose her card. A stationer
will give you the proper form.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

The plate is placed at the right and
the dishes passed at the left always.
When you hear of new arrival in
this mundane sphere simply write
note of congratulation to the mother
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

Trade OF the United States with its
American neighbors In 1907 amounted
to nearly $1,000. 600. 900. against q 1T
tie more than q third az much
decade ago.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
Dance for a Friend,

We are to give a dance at our home
soon. Should we inclose her card or
mention her name in the invitation?
L. NJ. s.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

There are many ways to make
money. Much depends upon the tai
ent at your command. Plays" ba-
Ears. supper at which the men serve,
birthday and measuring, also weight
parties, all bring money into the treas
ury.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
A Social Evening.

I board in a small family hotel and
would like to entertain about 80
guests that live in the house. AS quite
a number do not play cards, thought
you could tell me some other way
Just social evening. X. L. 7.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

Without cards you must have some.
thing in which all the guests would be
equally interested, so l would suggest
character party" Request each
one to come as some famous person.
guess who is who and award several
prizes
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
Ways to Earn Money.

/ would like to know of few diff
ferent ways that a school class OF
young ladies and men could earn lit.
tie money. Hoping to read your an
swer soon, A. N. NUYER.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

Women are almost as absurd a.
men are foolish.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

PILES CURED IN q TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed TO cure any ease
of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Prutruding Piles in
70 IA days or money refunded. Soc.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
FOR T'HE HOS TESS
Advice oD Matters of EDtertaiD-
n0eDt aDd Other Interesting
Subjects, by Madame
Merri.

expressing your best wishes for the
little stranger.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

Sometimes a woman 10 known By
the company she avoids.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethfng softens the gurns, reduces N
nammston, silsys palm. cures wind colo. 80 botue-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
A HIGH WIND.

Giles-They have very high winds
in Ameriky.
Brownies, they do.
Giles-There's a bit in the papers
read this morning about a safe being
blown open there.-London Mail.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
A Turkey Dinner.

have been helped so much by read
ing your hints to hostesses" that |
am writing to you for the first time
in regard to a dinner l went to give
in a few weeks. / am going to have
turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes
and sweet potatoes, corn and celery
scalloped oysters and pie. l would
like to have a salad, but do not know
what kind to serve. VIII you kindly
tell me when to serve the salad-if it
would be permissible for me to put 1t
at each persons plate before the meal
or If should serve it at the table?
Will you please tell me II my list is
all right. | would be very thankful
If you would give me any suggestions,
as l want everything right. l have
a lovely little home, and do want to
have a nice dinner. EVELYN c.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

IL Cures while You walk
Allen Foot-K Ease Tor and buniona hol rweasx
callous aching feet Bc all DruRGists
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18

The proportion of left-handed people
II one In six.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
Your ideas are good and your dinner

Your ideas are good and your dinner
will certainly be nice. Here Is the
way l would arrange it: First, clear
soup, then the turkey, oyster stuffing,
mashed potatoes, sweet potato GRO
Quettes with tiny sausage balls,
creamed onions or tomatoes, celery,
jelly, sailed nuts. an apple or fruit
salad served as a course with cheese
waters, individual pies, whatever va
riety you wish. with coffee. The cram
berries would serve in an ice or in
small molds, one for each person.
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been in the heart of the coffee-growing
region of South America. But it was dis
covered by particularly charming Amer
lean girl. who, though she announced at
the beginning of her history that she
would rather go to Europe than marry
any man in the world changed her opin
ion in rather surprising manner. And
that, too, in spite of the complications
arising from the rivalry of an old lover
from New York and an aristocratic Anglo
Spanlard. The charm of becoming &C
quainted with new localities and with
new methods and standards of living is
great: and it is this charm that the au-
thor of this clever little book has been
able to pass on to her readers-and that
without the slight inconvenience incident
to living on the side of the Sierra Nevada
mountains whence one removes only to
climb or to tumble downward The
heroine is a peculiarly cheerful and
philosophical girl, who gives much of her
own bright spirit to the description of the
writes and the group of coffee growers
among whom her lot Is cast
THE MAN WITHOUT HEAD. BY
Tyler De SaiX. Illustrated by NJ
Leone Bracker. New York: Moffat,
Yard & Co.
The gruesomeness of the title offers the
keynote to this tale which, in addition
to being a clever detective story, is
study in the psychology of criminal
genius a genius who, by reason of the
punishment visited on him by society. had
become maniac. There are two investi-
gators who, together. are able to solve
the mystery of the murder in the Skirle
cottage in Blencarn Fell One of them is
freyberSer, the detective, who brings to
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ture novel Mr.. Patterson satiriZes the
hanger-on of the rich. AS the heroine
''vollys forth" when Paul Potter talks of
his social position: What is it you
mean, but the chance to go to the garish.
vulgar houses of sure-thing gamblers. to
pseudo sentiment to their empty-pated
doll women? You are a cheap little tout.
Potter. whose business in life is to pull
in victims for the operators of gigantic
confidence games. To whom does society
owe position? To me, who give 1t edu-
cation and recreation and thought and
happiness; or to you who take from 1t
return to 1t sneers, corruption, evil eX-
ample. depraved tastes and debased
amusement"
But it is not until the end that Sylvia
sees clearly enough to make this ar
raignment of her former lover. In fact
it Is not until then that it is wholly true.
To trace the development of Paul Potter
and his like Mr.. Patterson shows him
from his Yale days. when. from having
tutored rich mems sons in his first two
years. he makes the crew. and the foot
ball team by reason of his splendid body
TO slip into this position of stockholders
clerk and of association with the fathers
of the men with whom he has been init
mate in college, It is necessary for him
to desert the girl he loves when her
fathers failure in the middle west shat
tiers the comfortable future that had been
planned for the lovers. From that point
is the record of steady deterioration to
the standards of the unfortunate New
York Smart Set" which is surely at
tracing greater share of the public at
tention than is merited by either its at
tainments or it's sins. The fate of Paul
Potter is contf4sted with that of his
former betrothed who, through hard and
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his work the enthusiasm of an artist for
the creation of his genius, and Heller,
who possesses a yet more potent motive.
The pursuit of Sir Anthony Clyde, the sus-
pected murderer. and the almost incred-
1ble series of circumstances brought to
light by it. the discoveries which caused
Freyberger to form his theory and the
perilous plight to which his whole-souled
devotion to his theory led him make a
story Of compelling excitement. And the
denouement provides the final thrill. The
love story, while subordinate, adds further
interest to mystery story which is sure
tos excite attention.
THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA. A
Novel BY George Cary Eggleston.
author of "A Carolina Cavalier"
etc. Founded on the Play of William
c. de Mile. illustrations from Scenes
In the Play. New York: G. w. Dill
bingham Company.
The some what cloying procession of
wartime stories has received correct, if
perfunctory, addition I'm THE Warrens of
Virginia. The Virginia atmosphere is
convincing and the picture of southern
heroism. suffering and chivalry during the
war. interesting enough to the man-if
that man exists-who has not beheld that
same picture ofttimeS before. South vies
with north In chivalry, fire and bravery.
And the fact that the war is over is
signaliZed by the union of lovers who, in
spite of contending faiths. have kept their
devotion untarnished and uniform
A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH.
"A Novel. BY Joseph Medil Patter-
son. Chicago: The Reilly Il Britton
Company.
In his purposeful If somewhat imma-
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Martin r. Prestin in Prison Garb
Socialist Labor Party Nominee.

seat in the House, he was nominated
for Vice President on the populist ticket
with Bryan. After that strenuous cam
paign he again accused the democrats
Of unfair treatment. Four years ago the
populists nominated him for President
and he started an active campaign to re-
vive the party, as he will do again this
autumn, following his second nomina-
ton for the highest Office.
Life Work as Historian.
Mr.. Watson's real life work. not COM
menced until after the campaign of 1886.
has been the writing of history. In two
years he produced his STORY of France
and two years later his Life of Jeffer-
son." while in two years more his pen
had produced his Napoleon" which has
been followed by another book on Jeffer-
son, besides a novel, Bethany, Story
of the Old South" He has published
four magazines-has two on the stalls
now. IIe has written poems and still
plays the fiddle. Wallace Putnam Reed
once said that his slight figure and flash
ing eyes suggested "a soul of flame in a
body of gauze" He is still a lean and
hungry Cassius, and already is upon the
hustings bitterly attacking his former run
ning-mate and present rival for the presi-
6ency Mr.. Bryan. He will have cele-
bpated his fifty-second birthday on the
eve of the pub LEGATION of this article.
Began as Clothing Store Clerk.
Another presidential nominee who came
iutc local fama by chasing the octopus is
Honest Tn Hisgen, known in his
family Bible as Thomas l.. He is three
years older than Mr.. Debs. and two years
older than Mr. Watson-will be an even
fifty a few weeks before election day.
This leader of Mr.. Hearst's independence
ticket is the son of William Hsgen. a
German immigrant. who settled in Alba
nv N. Y, and later ran a country store
in Petersburg Ind, where Honest Tom
was born Some genius hath lately said
that Indiana is a great state to come
FROM and young Hisgen evidently shared
this view. for at the age of sixteen he left
fathers original stopping place. Being
the fifth of eleven children. his father did
not buy him Pullman ticket. Reaching
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amy" Tom Watson worked as a farm
laborer and during sessions boarded with
a farmer who lent, him the money to buy
his first law book. which he studied by
the glare of this friends pine knot fire.
In spite of these handicaps he was ad-
mitted to the bar at nineteen and at
twenty returned home and opened an
office He now had not a decent change
of clothing to his back, but one of his
former schoolmasters. r. II. P.arce. save
him his first lift by Offering to trust him
for a whole years board.
The receipts of Tom WatSon'S first
first 500 that came in he sent to his
mother. The second year he re-estab
lished his parents, brothers and sisters
in one of the old family homes which
had gone beneath the sheriff's hammer
and from here with his dinner in
kettle, he walked three miles to Office
every morning, also three miles back
each afternoon. Before long he was
earning $4,000 a year and had bought
back several thousands of acres of the
ancestral estate. His political debut
made when but twenty-four, was a
fiery speech delivered on the minority
side of a hot debate in a democratic
state convention. The frail, redheaded
rustic lawyer was unknown when he
rose. At first he was greeted with
groans but before he had finished his
audience cheered with delight and
every one asked his name. Two years
later his neighbors sent him to the
legislature, and in 1883 he stumped for
Cleveland and was a democratic cleo
tor-at-large
Fought the Bag Trust;
Next he led a fight against the jute
bagging trust. and in reward for this
the farmers elected him to Congress.
But after his election he came out as
populist. This Disguised his democratic
friends, who, when he was a candidate
again in 1892 and 1894, counted him
out, he claims, and deliberately gave
the certificate Of election to his OPP
ponent. Steadfastly claiming these two
elections, he carried his contest to the
House of Representatives, but there lost.
During his term in the House he secured
the first appropriation for rural mail de-
livery ever passed by Congress, and in
1896, two years after his final contest for
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Populist Nominee.

the capital of the Empire state he went to
work in a clothing store. Next he drifted
to Massachusetts and entered politics,
waging a bitter twenty-year war on the
Standard Oil Company. which struggle
naturally endeared him to Mr.. Hearst, on
whose Independence League ticket he ran
for governor a year ago. polling more
votes than the regular democratic candi-
date.
The Temperance Candidate.
The oldest presidential candidate of all
those in the running this year is Eugene
w. Chain, the prohibition nominee. Two
days before election he will celebrate his
fifty-sixth birthday. This reformer's
career gives support to the theory that
hobby is reaction against environment
for Wisconsin, in addition to being the
great beer state. is also now famous for
having given the temperance candidate to
the Union. He first saw the daylight
there, in the town of East Troy. and
after finishing at the public schools was
graduated from the law department of
the state university. Moving to Wau-
kesha he practiced law there for twenty
four years. all the while speaking at
temperance meetings, pleading with the
German element to turn down their stems
and organizing temperance societies
among the citizens in general throughout
the beer belt and elsewhere. He was also
an active spirit in the Good Templars,
temperance brotherhood, and his state
society made him It's grand chief twenty
two years ago. Four years before that
the prohibitionists of his district nominal
ed him for Congress, again for attorney
general in 1885. and for governor in 1900
In 1902. year after his removal to Chi
cago to become superintendent of the
Washington Home, he received another
congressional nomination from the prOhi-
bitionsts of his new district there. and
in the year of the RooseveltParkers cam
paign he ran on the dry ticket for at
torney general Of Illinois. in which state
he was the same year elected grand chief
of the Good Templars, the same office
that he had held in Wisconsin. While
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by looking at him." said another. Some
times. But il is much easier after a few
words have passed. l do not mean all
states, but there are some ways of tell
ing what state a man is from. and then
you can almost always spot the part of
the country a man is from For instance,
there is something breezy about western
ers that attracts your admiration. Then.
of course, you can always tell a man
from New York city. There is no one else
that dresses like him or is like him in
manner. The men from the south are
slouchy in their dress l do not mean
anything uncomplimentary by this. They
may be well dressed but souchy They
wear SLOUGH hats great deal. for in
stance. Then did you ever hear of any
body but Maryander who would reply
Yes indeed or Yes, indeedy.' TO a
question? OF course. everybody knows
Virginia talk when he hears il. and in
the same way down-easter is known
by his accent"
But If this is only fright much, in
formation on the subject. as some of
our neighbors would say, it is ''a-plenty,"
according to others.
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Dickens literary children. there could be
no better place of observation and inquiry
is common. The pronounced types rarely
come to the capital and even when an
American arrives with some striking ear
marks of provincialism they wear off
with astonishing rapidly 1t might be q
difficult task to find some one in Wash
ington addicted to the use of "we-uns'
and ''you-uns. but there are parts of
this great United States where such ex-
presSions are not unusual. On the whole.
however, there is less distinction in ap-
pearance. manners and language between
a resident of the United States living on
the Pacific coast and another resident liv-
ing 1900 miles away than there is between
Englishmen living in adjoining shires
Even the Texas cowboy is said to be
becoming a memory in Texas towns. and
the East Side. New York, dialect as it
is popularity written. was never used in
the Bowery. except on the stage. Never
thelesS. there are shades of distinction be-
tween the American of one part of the
country and the American of another
part, but they are fine and not indel-
ible.
Can you tell what state a person is
from when you first meet him, providing
he does not tell you?" one apartment
house clerk was asked.
The Hotel Clerks Viewpoint.
Not SO much the state, but certainly
the section of the country" was the re-
sponse Il would not guarantee to tell
man from Kansas from one from Mis-
souri,. but 1 would know at a glance
whether a man was from the north,
south, east or west. There is something
almost indefinable both in appearance
and manner that enables one with eX-
perience behind hotel desk or apart
ment house register to recognize at once
the section of the country stranger is
from. even before a word is spoken OF
course, mistakes can be made. but they
are few. 1t is just the same sort Of in
tuition that hotel clerk has when he is
confronted by some one whom he sus-
poets as a bad customer He cannot tell
why: the persons appearance and man
ner show no fault that can be pointed
out and yet he feels that the person will
need watching, and he rarely goes
wrong"
Can tell what state a person is from
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restaurant keeper, who was about to Kill
Preston, when the latter shot in self
defense However this may be, the jury
thought otherwise.
His conduct here has been exemplary
He is industrious and intelligent and has
good countenance," the warden of the
panitentiary informs me in answer to
my inquiry concerning this unusual can
diGate's life In prison. Perhaps "Morrie'
Preston will make of himself another
Jean Vatican. Let US hope SO. II he
makes good after surviving such sen
tence he will perform a greater miracle
than winning presidential race.
Another Nominee With Prison Rec
Another nominee with a prison record
one of which he is proud-is Eugene
Victor Debs, again named for the presi-
dency by the socialists proper, as he was
four years ago by the same party. and
eight years ago by the social demo-
Gratis Debs. who is now fifty-three.
was born in Terre Haute, Ind, where he
still lives. After receiving a common
school education he became a locomotive
fireman on the Terre Taute and Indian
apolis railroad when only sixteen and
continued to stoke the engines of that
road until nineteen. Then he entered
wholesale grocery house, and there
worked until twenty-four. when, having
interested himself in politics. he was
elected city clerk of Terre Taute, serving
four years. and when thirty married and
went to the legislature. Having entered
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
while working on the road, he had re-
manned active with that union. and when
twenty-five had been elected grand sec
rotary and treasurer. which position he
held until 1893, the year of the worlds
fair in Chicago. when he was chosen
president of the American Railway Union.
The year following the fair came the
great railway strike in Chicago, when
President Cleveland ordered out the fed
eral troops to protect the United States
mails. 1t was during this bitter contro-
versy and its incidental riots that Debs
came into the limelight as manager of
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nearly his entire life has been devoted 20
pounding away at temperance, hammer
and tongs. he has given some time to side
enterprises.
Rescued to Become Rescuer.
This nominee has had a strenuous time
since he came into the national lime
light this summer. August S. while SWIM
ming in the Y. NJ. c. A. poo at Mr..
Bryan's homo city. Lincoln. Neb., he mar
nowly escaped drowning. and was rescued
by three young men. Five days later.
while a certain element of Springfield,
H.. were paving the way for Abraham
Lincolns centenary, by lynchlng a negro
and shooting a few others within the
shadow of the Emancipator's tomb. Mr..
Chain happened to be add essing a pro-
hibtion meeting near the scene. A terri
fed negro. fleeing from his bloodthirsty
pursuers. ran into the meeting place and
took refuge upon the very stand upon
which the candidate. well along in his
speech was standing. The mob rushed In
after their would-ba victim and ii looked
for a time as though the temperance
meeting would be turned into a shambles.
But If any of the uninitiated think that
q man must be any the less virile because
of being a temperance reformer, he
should have seen Mr.. Chain upon this
sensational occasion. With his hand in his
hip pocket. where prohibitionists are not
supposed to have anything concealed. the
nominee stepped in front of the onrush-
ing mob and cried: Stand back. gentle.
men. Or I'll shoot every one of you who
touches this man." The BLUM worked.
The candidates pocket was empty-at
least of firearms-and the mob retired
after the nominee had been struck in the
face with a brick
sample of this nominees wit was
given after his escape from drowning in
the pool: Wouldn't il have been awful
had I come to my death by water I
wouldn't have minded for myself. but it
would have been tough on the prohibition
party to lose its head i'm that way!
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINA