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Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
On to the PoleI

When word of the discovery of the
north pole came to Chattanooga, a
slightly deaf old lady remarked unctu-
ously: well, now l always said them
Cook tourists got about most every
where. l amt bit surprised to hear
that one of ems reached the top
notch in the travelling line."-Lippin-
colts.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. l read so
much of fwhatLydia
T.. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women /
felt sure it would
help me. and I must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
Mains all lnft mn r
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
Not ExpeetInu Too Much.

II suppose your remarks In con-
gress will be listened to with great in
terest?' tr
my friend" said. the statesman, in.
congress man is lucky to get a.
chance to make speech without ex-
pecting people to listen to IT,"
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
Easy to Diagnose.

A st. Louis woman swallowed her
false teeth twenty-five years ago, and
is now complaining of a gnawing SEN
sation inside of her.-Atlanta eGor-
gian.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
A New Wrinkle.

"Thars sign up there. daddy, what
says, Don't blow out the gas
well, who bowed 1t out? Jest hit
It lick with my britches an hain't
seen nothin' er it sence. ."-Atlants
Constitution,
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
Without Knowing II.

"Drat the cat!"
What's the matter. girl?"
"Oh, the cat went TO sleep on my
new hat and wore her down town
and back"-I.ousiville Courier-Jour.
nal.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
addition of new ap-

being improved by addition OF new ap-
paratus.
The plumbing laboratory is arranged
and designed to furnish the students
with as nearly as possible actual work
ing conditions. 1t occupies the best
room in the Trade School building and
is complete.
The steam engineering laboratory
includes, besides the power and heat
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

includes facilities for carrying on all
the ordinary phases of high school and
college chemistry, with much In the
way of special apparatus for research
work and specialized forms of investi-
CATION. Polariscope, microscope and
fine analytical balances are included
In the equipment.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

The great and good do not die even
in this world, embalmed in books theiI
spirits walk abroad.-Smiles.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
A Fine Thought.

The world is full of roses. and the
roses full of dew,
And the dew is full Of heavenly love
that drips for me and you.
Riley.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums reduces IN
1amma mation, sAys pain. wind collie. 25c bottle
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

Constipation causes and aegravates many serious
diseases. II is thoroughly cured by Br. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. The favorite family laxative
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

To believ0 only what our finite
minds can grasp.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

A philosophical man when consider.
ing his own troubles isn't.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

To consider anything impossible
that we cannot ourselves perform.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

The greatest necessity in womans
life is love.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
Pettit,s Eve saIve for 25c.

Relieves tired, congested, infamed and
sore eyes, quickly stops eye aches All
druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, N. Y.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25
DOCTOR YOURS

DOCTOR YOURSELF
when you feel n cold coming by taking few doses
of Perry Davis Painkiller. II is better than Qunne
and safer. The large Soc bottles the chea pest.
Gilpin observer., 1909-11-25

ALIENS LUNG BALSAM
will not only fresh cold but of tho stub
born coughs that usually hang on for months. Give
1t trial and prove Its worth. &c, Soc and 81 70.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

by the architects; every detail was con-
sidered from tie acoustic point OF view.
What seemed to be the instructive pscu-
~liaritles OF the Brooklyn Academy and that
of Philadelphia were adopted, and yet
there was no more than partial success.
So, too, especial emphasis characterized
the exsctions made by the directors of
the New theater upon the architects that
they might spare no expense or time in
constructing a perfect acoustic interior.
They thought they had met these require
ments, but that mystic something, which
is so elusive and apparently 80 dependent
upon nance was not in their favor.
The builders OF railway locomotives
sometimes meet a like experience, al
though in a different direction, for they
have found that of two locomotives built
exactly alike, without apparent deviation
Of a fraction Of an inch in any part Of the
apparatus or a measurable difference in
the weight Of the steel and iron, one will
always behave perfectly, whereas, the
other is constantly refractory. And the
builders of locomotives rave never been
able to explain what occasions this diff
ference any more than the architect of
public buildings can tell why one is per-
feet acoustically and the other faulty
Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
HOW TO GET A CHEAP GAG"
Sudden Jar VIII DO the
Rest.

Il don't know what you would call it,
remarked the Intermittent tank to me.
He was perfectly sober at the time and
had been so for weeks. "Is It a psyche
logical Of a physiological phenomenon
G on and tell me about IT," 1 said.
We'll" said the intermittent tank. my
friend and / had ridden out to Elgin In
an automobile. There are some ruts be-
tween Chicago and Elgin. as some other
motorists might well testify. On the way
out we didn't touch a drop Of any refresh
ment. When we got out there we man
aged to accumulate-what matter how?-
four drinks each. They were Scotch, as I
remember, with ginger ale pursuers. We
We're merely feeling pleasant. We were
not drunk OF anywhere near drunk. We
were not even what you would call en-
thusiastic. We were not stewed. nor even
simmering. We were as nearly sober as
two men containing an aggregate Of double
octet Of smiles could be.
o the way home we drove a little more
confidently and less craftily than when
we went out. l do not know why, but We
did. I Am only stating facts. Consequently
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
ovERsToCK SALE OF roc
AND CHAIRS.

the waste Of Christian kisses on an
" 'eathen idols foot"
Throughout the performance a subtle odor
OF incense pervaded the entire house.
Few persons realize the psychological
effects Of incense" Miss ST. Denis remarked
afterward. Yet It is because OF it's peculiar
influence that It is used in churches. 1t ex-
erts a strange, subtle power over me during
my entire performance and indeed for some
time after 1 leave the theater. 1t seems tc
be necessary to the understanding Of my
Interpretation both for the audience and
myself.
Il have never understood the singular
fascination that India has for me. / have
never been there, though, of course, 1 hope
to visit that marvellous country some day.
New York World.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Miss Wells busy. sketches. detective
stories and books for girls are always on
hand. She has no less than three series
Of books running now and an instalimenD
Of a Patty book-that creation 90 deaf
to schoolgirls from coast to coast-lay In a
five-pound candy box IN which is was "a
journey to the publisher.
why a ~five-pound candy box?' was
asked.
IT'S my standard OF measure was the
response. "When / use up a pint bottle
Of ink and consume five pounds OF candy
1 know the box is ready to be sent to the
publlsher-otherwise filled. An infallibls
mechanism almost"
1t IL hard to tell whether Miss Wells Is
fonder Of her rapidly aging desk or her
waste paper chute-her " invention The
chute II a hole cut in the floor. giving
vent to a brokers' ticket basket which con-
tinues down bottomless to a janltor below.
In the book lined study Of her Railway
home Miss Wells spends the morning
hours from 9 o'clock to 1 furnishing guild
ance to her pen. She looks out Of win
lows on Jersey trees and Jersey grass.
How lovelyl' sentimentalizes the
visitor, mot to have to put on ones hat
and gloves and take a special trip to see
the grass and trees in the park"
But l." mourned the rhymster, have
to put on my hat and gloves and take a
special trip to see the asphalt and sky
scrapers; so we are even.'
Such is the woman OF whom a Boston
paper once said, The radiation Of happi-
ness is less an art than an exact science.
She plays at her work and avows that she
works for money and not for art for arts
sake. But she does not want her pub
fishers to know her work is play.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
DRESSED IN AIRY HARNESS
With Her Body Stained a Colder
Bronze h Performs Daring
Dance.

Miss st. Denis appears in more than a
program in New York. In her most daring
dance, though, she wears only a sort of
harness Of Jewels over her 1.-THE body.
Stained a golden bronze with the Juice of
the betal nut, she is so completely clothed
In the spirit and beauty OF India that any
one who goes to see her for any other
treason than that Of appreciation Of a won
derful art is going to be disappointed.
Undoubtedly my dances are the most
daring on the stage. II you consider merely
the question of drapery." she said. II
mean that l wear fewer clothes than Isa-
dora Duncan, Maud Allen or any Of the
interpreters of Greek dancing. For in my
last dance-that called The Temple where
l appear as the enshrined idol Radha, the
wife of Vishnu-I wear. with the exception
Of trunks, absolutely nothing but Jewels
and flowers. That is all hat the idol really
wears, and, TO put other things on her
would seem to me to be prudish. IL not
p~rurient
Il try to give an Interpretation as well
as a representation of India. But unless
you nave seen the dance doubt II you will
understand what 1 mean.
Everything In dancing depends on the
spirit in which 1t is done. Undertaken in
the right spirit. and before an audience
that took 1t In the same spirit, 1t would be
possible to give a performance in the nude
that would be without suggestion. When
you have seen the dances you Will agree
with me-"
SO l saw Miss st. Denls's performance,
her cobra dance, in which with wonderful
writing arms and legs she stimulates the
motions Of the cobra In a small bazaar near
the Ganges; her Nautch dance. the num-
] her called s"rha Forest % In uyhfeb aha I'm
personates a Hindoo Yogi, and the final
Mystic dance OF the five senses, in which
the idol Radha descends from the shrine
and gives to her priests the message that
the qualification OF the senses leads to
despair, and hat only in renunciation does
the soul find peace.
1t is in the last dance that Miss st. Denis
wears the jewel harness. and there is no
doubt that the audience at the Hudson. OF
whom four-fifths were women. found moth
ing TO shock them and everything to ad-
mire.
The scene is In the temple before the
shrine OF Radha. who sits cross-legged and
with Joined hands pointing heavenward.
while on the steps leading to the altar and
on the floor OF the temple her priests ring
bells and wave lights in their efforts to
waken her. Finally, she descends and exc
cutes a dance In five parts, Stimulating in
elaborate pantomine the senses OF sight.
h~earinfg. smell. taste and touch.
The priests are real Hindoos. The temple
and the altar setting In their somber rich
ness Of color suggest a painting by Gerome.
while Miss St Denis, a 1.-THE. lean bronze.
bare as Diana herself. save for her harness
OF jewels, makes you think hat II all
HindOo goddessss resembled her. even
Tommy Atkins would never a bewailed
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
MYSTIC QUALITY OF ACOUSTICS
Most Elusive of PUSHES with Which
Architects Have 20
Deal.

That mystic quality which architects
constantly designed for an auditorium, or
any public service, namely good acous-
tics, is reported to have eludcd the archi-
tects who designed the New theater In
New York. Recent tests suggest that the
acoustic quality is not as good as /. that
OF the Metropolitan Opera house. The
Philadelphia Academy OF Music and The
old Brooklyn Academy OF Music. burned
some years ago, were distinguished for
their almost perfect acoustic qualities. And
yet the architects were no more than for
tunate when they planned these buildings.
They did the best they could and left the
rest to chance.
When the Metropolitan Opera house was
constructed The greatest pains were taken
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
LITTLE WARDS OF THE CITY
RandaII's Island Colony OF Afflicted
Children IL Gloomy Place
to See.

OF the 1900 inmates Of the New York
City Children's hospital and schools on
Randall's Island. one-half are feeble
minded while the other half have normal
minds in feeble bodies. Most of them
are under IL, and all are under Is. The
colony is in charge of Mrs. Mary C.
Dunphy. the superintendent, and 1t pre-
sents sights both curious and pathetic To
the visitor.
In showing Charities Commissioner Heb
berd and a. party about the other day. Mrs
Dunphy led the way into a classroom
where fifty feeble minded children SQUAT
tel on the floor around the teacher, be-
ing traine in singing a humming song.
One of them named Jessie was asked
to sing a song, which she did after hearing
a few Introductory chords. From the
throat of this child a voice of unusaI
beauty issued. AS soon as the song was
ended Jessie returned to her former state
of apparent Inconsistencies of her sur
roundings.
That is a characteristic of these feeble
minded children. Their actions resemble
those OF machines, Birds, daisies and
other objects, including a warship, were
being drawn on a blackboard by two
dozen feeble minded children in another
room. Many of them could not pronounce
properly the name of the drawn objects
but showed skill with the crayons. When
the visitors left the classroom they heard
the sound of music on the lawn, where
the islands brass band Of twenty-eight
pieces, under the instruction OF Leader
Schmolk, was at attention. 1t was re-
markable how the feeble minded boys fol-
lowed so accurately the leadership of the
bandmaster. There is a base ball team made
up Of feeble minded youths, as well as a
basket ball team.
Another large room contained about two
score boys and girls who were making
garments for the inmates. Here last year
over Loo pieces of girls clothing, 1906
pieces of boys clothing. 200 garments for
men and siHty-two for women were made.
Besides this 1900 miscellaneous articles
and 5000 pieces of bedding were repaired.
The shoe repair shop reports show
that almost 1900 pairs OF shoes were half
soled and heeled.
The inmates also made repairs to fur.
niture. Thousands Of plants were cut and
p~ropagated during the year and in add
ton the members of the colony raised
vegetables for use in the institution and
several tons of hay and fodder for the
horses on the island.
One hundred thousand yards Of material
is used here every year, and as an ex-
ample of the way the feeble minded chill
dren work 1t may be SALE that a pencil
or chalk line is drawn where a seam is
wanted in a garment and the children
follow it accurately. Two overseSrs are
the only ones in the sewing room who
possess normal minds.
The crippled children used to have~to
walk to school. Commissioner Hebberd
has earned their gratitude by supplying
them with a donkey and cart. They rid
In the cart to school and make a pet OF
the donkey.
Other changes brought about by the COM
missioner concern the flower gardens and
fruit patches. where the children spend
a good deal Of time in the summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

would hire him, but they didn't. and when
l came along:
Take you home under the umbrella? p
he said to me, and ! said:
Certainly and then he lifted the UNI
brella and we started off.
He was about IL and 1 am older, you
know, and 1 was a good deal taller than
he, his head came about up to my Shout
der, but he didn't try to hold the UNI
brella over me, he opened 1t and just
handed it to me and L carried it and he
walked alongside, and he didn't try to
get in under the umbrella-he just walke
along beside me in the rain.
I'VE had quite some distance to go
three long blocks across town and one
short block down,-and 1 thought I had
better talk to him a little to sort Of &C.
cupy the time so that the distance
wouldn't seem so long to him. I was his
very first customer. This was the first
time he had ever tried the umbrella bust
ness, and he hadn't been waiting there
more than a minute when 1 came along;
so he had made a grand start and natur-
ally he was very much pleased.
II had asked him when 1 hired him how
much it would cost to take me home, and
he didn't know. We talked about that as
we went along. 1 told him he ought to
have a regular schedule Of charges, &C
cording to the distance, and l asked him
what he would think Of charging, say, a
cent a block, charging long blocks as two;
but he thought that would be too little
he was inclined to think that 10 cents
would be about right.
Mother Knew He Was Out.
81 asked him il his mother knew he was
out on this work, and he said oh, yes, she
had given him the umbrella; and l might
say here that 1t was a very good umbEella,
and big; it protected my big hat perfectly.
And incidentally 1 learned that my escort
had a sister, older than himself, and that
he vent to school P. S. So-and-so he told
me. and he told me where it was and how
he got to 1t.
And then 1 asked him what he was
going to do with the money he earned
this way, and he said he was going to
keep 1t in a bank, but he didn't know
yet what he was going to do with 1t. And
then l asked him II he knew what he was
going to do when he grew up.
Yep he said, and l said 'What?' and
my escorts answer to that was:
~ don know yet So 1 imagined that
he had not yet got his mind very firmly
fixed.
by this time we had gone some dis
lance and we were still keeping steadily
on; presently the boy said to me:
Is it much further?' and 1 told him
not much; and then he explained to me
that he wanted to get back II he could
and get another customer in this rain.
But he was just as nice about it as could
belle was a nice boy-and in a minute
more we came to the end Of the journey,
with my hat all right. 1t had been under
stood between us that l was to give him
10 cents, but l gave him 5 cents extra 10
put in his bank, and then he took the UNI
brella and scurried back TO see il he could
get another customer.
wasn't that all very interesting? I
had never dreamed of anything like this
happening to me, but here ! was now
hiring an umbrella boy myself. just like
ia read about in the stories in the papers.
But we never can tell what's going 10
happen to US"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
LUCTNDAS HAT TROUBLES
Had a Flying Machine Specimen that
Caused Worry.
HIRED AN UMBRELLA ESCORT
Got Many a Thrill Like NOveIists Put
I'm Their stories While Being
Conveyed Home I'm the
Rain.

II had read these stories in the papers,
said Lucinda, about the boys with UNI
brellas who wait around subway and
elevated stations on rainy days to make
wha they can escorting people home,
but It had never occurred to me that |
should ever have any such experience. 1t
only goes to show thai anything is liable
to happen to anybody.
d you know that big hat of mine.
the one l have to tip my head sideways
In to get through the narrow doors Of the
pay as you enter cars? I've just had to
buy another smaller hat to wear to run
about In; but the big hat is a nice hat and
1 didn't want to get it wet IL I could help
it, and the other day 1 got caught in 1t
In the rain.
DO you remember that day when it was
so lovely all day and then cam on to
rain about half past s.? 1 was out that
day in my big hat and 1 went home on the
elevated; it began to rain while I was on
the train, and then l thought OF those UNI
brella boys and l hoped I'd meet one.
Il didn't stop where 1 usually do, at a
station where many people get off and
where there is likely to be a number of
umbrella boys. but 1 went one station
farther. so as to be nearer home. 1 thought
1 would a k a chance Of meeting a boy
there. 1 could telephone for an umbrella
If there wasn't any, but there was Just
one boy there He told me later hat he
had come there himself to this station be-
cause so many boys went to the other
station; he thought that here, where
found him, there would be less competition
and he would be more likely to get custo-
mers. Not bad for the small boy, do you
think?
Captured the Boy.
We'll, / saw that boy standing with
bis umbrella at the foot of the stairs
when I started down from the top, and
just ahead OF me were two other women
and 1 was in mortal terror for fear they
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
NEW CURE FOR PNEUMONIA
Hopeful Results of Vaccine Tests at
Tufts Medical Col
leEe.

OF immense interest to medical science
are results recently obtained in laboratories
and hospitals by the department Of path
ology and bacteriology of the Tufts Medi-
cal school Of Boston, in the treatment Of
pneumonia by injection Of vaccine derived
from germs which cause the disease itself.
These germs are rendered entirely nom
harmful before being used in treating the
disease.
Without here entering upon the techni-
cal aspects Of the treatment, which is en-
tirely new, The Times will present It's most
significant features. as related in an artl-
Gle in the current issue OF the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal.
DR.. Timothy Leary Of Tufts Medical
school desiring to test the new vaccine on
the most unpromising subjects appealed to
his professional friends to use the treat
ment in alcoholic and other extreme cases
The vaccine is called pneumocIccus vac
cine, the pneumococcus being the name Of
the special germ which causes pneumonia.
The vaccine was tried on thirty-four of
these unpromlsing patients, of whom six
died, a percentage Of 1T. Then It was
tried in forty-nine cases OF ordinary pneu-
monia, with only two deaths. In the
series OF forty-nine ordinary cases Is per
cent came TO a crisis in three days. The
crisis is reached usually In nine days.
total deaths for the series of eighty
three cases treated with the vaccine In
lection numbered eight, or 81 per cent.
Every physician at once Will realize that
these results are extraordinary. Further
experimentation. therefore, will be fol-
lowed with deep and watchfuI interest.
Acute pneumonia often defies the best
services of modern medical scianco o,d
II a vaccine has been produced which re-
duces its virility so msrvelously as these
reported cases from Boston would indi-
cate. the great art OF medicine has taken
another tremendously long stride.-St.
Louis Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

we shot into a chuck hole tina was about
the size of one Of the Marian canals, ana
both Of us shot far up into the air. II VIII
bur or Orville or Bleriot had seen us there
would have been bitter jealousy.
I'VE went up 1 say, a great distance,
but that is not the important fact. The
great point is that when we came down
we came down drunk.
I'VE had not ridden half a mile after
the Jolt until my friend turned to me and
asked: DO you feel anything PECULIAR
NO said 1; I only feel drunk
" so do !, ever since that bump replied
my friend.
And we we're. The drinks that pre-
viously mad only mildly exhiarated US
now had us genuinely intoxicated. Prob
ably the jolt had started the booze to
working, had sent It splashing up high
enough to saturate our brains. I'm not a
physiological psychologist, so how can I
tell? ! only know the results.
From that experience my friend and I
have elaborated a helpful and economical
scheme for those who wish to spend as
little money as possible in attaining the
condition vulgarly known as soused.
Instead OF taking twenty or thirty con-
secutive and expensive three-fInger irrlEa-
tions, let the earnest seeker stop at four
and refuse to pay, or I'm some other way
offend the man with the bung-starter, so
that he will kick the Investigator violently
from the place. The kick. rightly admins
tered, would do the work OF the twenty-six
unpurchased drinks. These drinks. with
the treating commonly involved. would run
up into tho shekels, as many a man
knows.
Failing this method the renting OF a
taxicab and the shooting OF a few well
known t~hankyma'ams IN ungraded streets
would accomplish the same purpose-at
more expense, but still at a saving from
the original cost Of drinks and their ac-
~companying treats."-Chicago News.