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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
THE DRUG FIEND.
Hasheesh Makes Its Slave Utterly
Useless For Any Service.

USELESS TOT ANY ScFNicc.
One OF the drugs that are most strik-
Ing In their effects is hasheesh, or
Cannabis indica, largely taken in Asiat-
&c countries. where l used myself 10
meet its votaries. Its chief peculiarly
IS 10 make one believe eth all his
might whatever is suggested 10 him.
II he is an Arab. tell him that he is
a sultan. and straightaway he orders
heads TO be cut Off. Tell him he is n
rooster. and he VIII crow. / knew Of
two Americans who experimental on
themselves. and when the first was
told that he was like a locomotive he
snOrted and wnistled and kept going
round the table putting and blowing
until he dropped from sheer fatigue
The other somehow conceived the
idea that he was dead and forthwith
gave elaborate directions for his own
funeral till he waxed wroth at the
unseemly mirth OF his companions
when they should have wept.
Hasheesh makes its slave utterly
useless for any service, and so with
the other drugs Their victims one
and all end in becoming do-nothings.
Self made do-nothings, or those who
are so by drug taking, are much worse
than useless.
AS they usually do not begin till as
adults they reach the working period
of life. they become wretched burdens
on the real workers, since our social
system lacks any constitutional enact
ment whereby. as occurs in commu-
nifty Of bees. the workers systematical-
ly put their drones to death
The opium fend from long living in
an unreal world becomes transformed
into the most all round liar in the
land, the very embodiment OF IN
veracity. One of them victimized me
with loan that he might go and
close the eyes Of his dying mother
when her eyes needed no such closing
for years afterward
Another sent from a western CITY TO
his wife telegram which purported
to come from an undertaken demand
Ing money 10 pay for shipping his
body home This money. when it came.
he. and unfortunately no undertakey.
pocketcd and then went his way.
We all know what the confirmed
drunkard becomes. but not tiil the
Judgment day viii the whole story be
known IF the grlefs and tears Of the
innoSe:f cncS whom the drunkard
made Il suffer while he was here
EveryHc dy's. Magazine.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
ORIENTAL RUGS.
Made to Resemble the Antiques by
Chemical Washinqs.


The United States buys annually
many thousand dollars worth of what
are known to the profession as wash
ed rugs. Brightly colored oriental rugs
sometimes are washed with a solution
or chloride of lime, a treatment which
partly bleaches the colors and imparts
a soft appearance to the rug.
This chemical treatment is a process
or washing which produces the effect
or age and peculiar sheen TO the sur
race which Is pointed out by the un.
scrupulous dealer as Il proof Of supe-
rior quality The fact H. that the proc
ess OF washing as described invariably
weakens and in some instances de.
stroys the materials CT the rue.
The progressive effect of the Chem.
icals on the materials In the rug is
this: The chlorine Gas contained i'm the
Chloride or lime attracts oxygen and
moisture from the air, by which muri
attic acid Is formed. This eats away
the vitais Of the rug. Sooner or later
the wool and cotton in the rug become
brittle and thus weaken the warp and
deteriorate the wool.
Nhen thlS deterioration is complete
the pile OF the rug may be swept away
by the ordinary process of sweeping.
and the warp. which is the foundation
or the rug, becomes so weak that holes
appear here and there, and soon the
rug is worthless.
1t not seldom happens that Persian
rug is 100 staring I'm some bright hue,
perhaps red. and is not salable. The
interruptions dealer VIII subject tbs
rug TO series of washings In chem
ically prepared water. In this way he
turns cut a rug possessing n soft an
uque sheen that is truly captivating
and finds a ready purchaser Mt an ad.
vanced price.-ChicaCo Tribune
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
The Proper Word

Reckoning from the standpoint OF
the photographer. Ruth. aged seven.
committed an objectionable assault on
the kings English. but the seventy
five other persons living I'm that apart
ment house would swear That she
chose the proper word. Ruth's COM
ment concerned the vocal gymnastics
OF lady who was learning TO sing.
"She is having her voice dit!iculted. 4"
said Ruth, and every one OF the seven
ty-tvc nerve racked neighbors echoed.
"She is."-New York Times.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
4 DREADFUL WEAPON.
The SIashing Sharks Teeth Club of
the PoIynesians.

Clubs were the weapons Of primitive
ana savage man. Ancient specimens
from Mexico are heavy sticks grOoved
nlonS the side for the Insertion Of
blades Of bosidian-that is. volcanic
glass. The Sioux club is a Hat piece
OF wood. curving and widening away
from the grip and terminating in
rpherical h a. which In modern times
carries a loag spike while the blades
M several butcher knives are common
~ inserted along the margin. The ma
uonal museum Of the United States
possesses a great variety OF these
checking IS apOns. designed, rs the
frons.crs,nen say, 10 knock down &c
white man and then 10 brain him and
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
Little Locals

Miss Minnie Bdncr. a young and at
traciive lady Of Bolivar. w. Va. has re-
turned TO her home after visit OF sew
era days 90 her cousin, Miss Netiie
Billmyer, near Gaylord.
Money to Losn-Money 10 lend in any
amount or Farm Land.
BLACKBURN SMITH.
DR. Harry NJ. Crow, Of Morgantown,
w Va. who was here last week in con
neciion with the sale Of the farm Of his
father tho late Mr. VI. Crow, has return
ed home.
Mrs. John 4. Lutz. Of Washington,
accompanied by her little daughter. is
visiting her mother. Mrs ). F. Baugh-
man.
Money 90 Loan-In sums Of 7 900 Or
more; secured by deed Of trust on Real
GRO. HARRISON. Atty;
Boyce Va
Miss Mary Clsgcjt left last week for n
visit TO Mrs SHELBY Timberlske in New
York
Miss Porlia Baldwin has returned from
"A visit 10 friends Do Washington.
Miss Gertrude Mccormick is visiting
relatiyes and friends iu New York.
Mr. james Clsreit. ,vbo has been IN
with typhoid fever "a, Biu,ield. ". Va,
but who Is now rapidly Receiving. and
Mr.. Norton Clageit. Of nramwcl. " Va ID.
are visiting their mother here
Scat trade is very dun and s,uggisb
this week and quotations are several
points or 4 strong burr movement
is anticipated 90 certain quarters. and
the bears arlce- to have taken 10
cover. The activities of those VINO are
short" continues wi;h uaabsieG vicor.
NJ james 7 Berlin. enc 81 tie best
known farmers OF Clarke county. i con
fined C. .i- home. near town. with ?
severe sitscs at pneumonia
Nr Cfa.. R Ice. OF Washington. is
here an visit 20 BIS father sol Chas.
= lee. who has been so ror sbe past few
day Mr. Lee Mil soon close up hi,
affairs in Washington aud take up ,
permanent residence here
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20

D@DA% VI ShONlNO HlEAGHlNH
PORES-A, A, A.
Will become surrounded by water.
which will readily dissolve the plant
food from il. If, on the other hand
the soil is in the form of chunks and
ciods very little OF the plant food can
be dissolved The plant food that is
on the inside of a clod might as well
be out in tie road or over on one of
the nefghbors' farms.
Some Of the potassium and pbos
phorus will not dissolve even when
brought in contact with water. II
takes long contact with the air to
cause chemical actions which will
change it into n soluble form. Con.
tinual stirring of the soil hastens this
change. Thorough stirring also loos.
chs up the ground so that air can GET
down to the roots. Without aid they
Will stop growing and the entire work
OF the plant viii stop. The yellow an
pearance OF patch OF corn in a low
place where the ground is water sonk.
ed Is due to Lack of air about tn,
roots.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
Three Siuns.

Peculiarities Of signs are Il source of
never ending delight to some people.
One man reached his Office arinning
the other morning because on his way
downtown he had seen three signs that
read as follows: Teddy Bears Re
tailed" Baby Carriages Retired" and
Umbrellas Recovered" - New York
Post.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
Home Course In
Modern Agriculture
H-How Plants Eat and Grow
By c. ". GREGORY.
Agricultural DfvfSf- n. Fosro STATE college
NvERy growing plant Is lri'e
By C.. v. GREGORY

Association
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20

Beethoven the aesthetic idea" for y
sonata. 10 retain such treasure in her
own hands for 4 twelvemonth ana
thereafter have It dedicated TO her
and all for guineas,
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20

@vERY growing plant Is little
factory. The green ccicrin;
matter OF the leaves. or chic
rophyll. is the engine. The
sunlight is the power that makes the
engine 60. aud the air. water and some
OF the substances I'm the soil are the
raw materials.
Under the stimulating influence OF
sunlight the chlorophyll takes the car
bon dioxide gas OF the air and the wa
ter. nitrogen and minerals which the
roots send up i'm the form OF crude sap
and tears them TO pieces. Then Il puts
them together again in hundreds OF
different ways. IL makes them into
the starch of the potato or the sugar OF
the sugar beet II puts them together
In another way and makes the hard.
horny gluten OF kernel OF popcorn or
The tough fiber OF cornstalk. BY
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-01-20
Defined.

John" she said. looking up from
Che paper. what is a political boom
erangT'
why, I'd define It," he answered.
'as n roorback on the return trip
Philadelphia Ledger.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-15

n T. c~-c-,' unused Ann ,.c"j "tov , -
u ,o 2le"t viii oa2-Ce tic o"--c.t 81
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08
PROF. HENRY MANSFIELD,

PROF. HENRY MANSFIELD.
the we'll known Trance Medium.
Palmist, Deep Psychic Clairvoyant,
gives truthful advice on all affairs
of life. Learn what is before you.
Business chances. journeys, specu-
lations, social and domestic condi-
lions, failure, success, ill-health,
evil influence. love. marriage, d.
vorce, lawsuits and all human af.
fairs advised upon with unerring
accuracy. Thousands have been
helped; If you are in trouble Of any
kind, unhappy. not satisfied In life,
have domestic. love or business
troubles, you will be told how to
overcome them all.
Low 50c-Reading-50c Fee.
Deep Dead Trance Clairvoyant
Reading SO. SIS With Chart.
S19h-Riverside Ave.-S19h
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of men successful and otherwise in
business, in professions and of
| course in politics. So far as my OBJ
! servation goes, it has served to
| give me the impression that, every
thing else being equal, the advan-
tage has always been on the side
of him who was not only country
born, but raised to maturity in the
country.
l have employed many hundreds
of men, writers, mechanics and
business office employees. l have
necessarily had to have personal
business relations with many attor-
neys. My experience has been that
| the graduates form the farm have
been in every way superior to the
graduates of the city high schools
and colleges. Farm bred young
men have more than held their own
with the children of the cities.
My recollections of my farm life
are, of course, recollections of
hardship and discomfort. l had suf-
ficient knowledge and acquaintance
with boys of the town and city to
know that they enjoyed many
things that were denied to me. But
as boy l was as we'll aware of the
fact as l am today that the ad-
vanatges that ] enjoyed as farmer
boy-I do not mean morally the adj
vantages of Spartan training. but
the advantages of real pleasure of
daily existence that boy can feel
were all on my side.
The hard working farm laborer
or city workman may look with
envy at a we'll to do man, young or
old, who has time and money to
indulge in drink or other vices.
The honest and pure young woman
who has to work hard to support
herself humbly might just as we'll
envy the showily dressed, dissi-
pated courtesan.
1t seems to me that most of those
people who have written and
spoken on this subject of making
country life happier are proposing
to do just the reverse. They are
seeking a way to introduce into
rural life conditions which, if not
vicious by intent, will result in vice.
Because mankind is gregarions,
social intercourse is necessary. But
social intercourse carried to an ex-
IRENE, or carried the least bit far
Their than absolutely necessary,
must rtsult, in a greater or less
extent, in some or many forms of
social vice.
My recoilections of farm life
when was farmers boy, and my
observation of farm and country
life during years that ! have dwelt
in the country, impress me with
the fact that social life in farming
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08
GCHOOL
by Robert Fama1oy

Second among the great general
and Immediate needs of country
life, Mr.. Roosevelt's message places
changes in country schooling, so
that the children will prepare for
country life and not, as at present,
mainly for life in town"
Let me premise with the asser-
ton that there is a wide difference
between education and knowledge,
and that the boy who is to have a
useful education will get it in spite
of all ordinary adverse circum-
stances or environment
AS a boy on my fathers farm,
] began to work so early in life as
to be unable to remember when
i did first begin. In my fifteenth
year, owing to my fathers illness,
began to manage as well as work
on the farm. Between the ages of
4and Is l was in all respects a
farm laborer.
When haying or harvesting
weren't on, l attended an ordinary
district school, but irregularly. The
teachers were usually only just a
step or two further on the road to
education than was our best pupil
physical ability to maui the tough
est among us being by no means a
small qualification desirable in
our teachers.
Really. depended largely on my
self, the books in my fathers house
and those / borrowed or bought. for
my education. Just because l was
a farmers boy, had unusually fine
opportunities to develop my mind;
not so much by reading the books
that / did read as by reason of the
fact of the peculiar kind of work
that a farmer does. l had all my
waking hours to think about and
digest the information that I
cleaned from my books in the even
ings and during periods in special
seasons of the year when little
farm work was done.
Beyond my books, and perhaps
more than my books, l had the op-
portunity that every agriculturist
has to discern natural laws, study
them, and develop initiative mad
j originality in thought.
There is this advantage in farm
life for intellectual development
over that Of city life. There is
necessarily great isoltion of in
dividuals. There is lack Of all
absorbing social interests. The in
dividual not having his mind dis
tracted by the thousand more or
less exciting incidents in his sur
roundings and but at rare intervals
finding it necessary to be self con-
scious necessary to govern his
conduct, his conversation and his
thoughts in order to conform to
customs) Is driven back on himself
more. He is compelled to employ
his mind and to solve for himself
the problems for which his less
fortunate neighbor of the city de-
ponds uopn others to furnish solu-
ton in the way of answered cues
tons.
AS my life in the world has been
an active one, l have been brought
directly and indirectly into contact
with hundreds, perhaps thousands,
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communities is, even under present
conditions, more than the sane and
wholesome existence of any COM
munity requires. Social life in the
city amongst all classes is greater
than the nature of man requires, is
carried to an excess, and not the
least of all the various causes that
result in race suicide is the ex-
treme social activity of our urban
populations.
The one great attraction, and
perhaps to most of children the
only attraction of city school life is
its social opportunities. The social
affairs, the personal, intimate rela-
tons between pupils in a school
form SO great part of the child's
mental activities as to leave such
small room in the mind for the
ostensible work of the school that
mental development of our school
children is small.
Many years ago some Frenchman
stated that the city of Paris re-
newed its population once every
hundred years.
Perhaps more thorough system
of taking the United States census
might reveal just what effect city
life in America was having on
checking the growth of population.
1t Is quite possible that if all the
data could be obtained, it would be
found that not more than four or
five generations of families could
exist as continuous jewellers in
cities. Whatever the case may be,
it is notorious fact that most CON-
petent experts who have given at
tention to this subject both Europ-
cans and Americans, have declared
that national standards of fertility
amongst women, physical and intel
lectual hardness amongst peorC,
and comparatice increase of pop
ulation all deteriorate in proportion
to urban population as compared
with rural population.
If the farmer and his wife were
taught in their newspapers and
magazines and books, and if the
children were taught in the country
schools that mental and physical
deterioration was inevitable as the
result of city life, and that their
only hope of having descendants of
the third, fourth or fifth generation
lay in their remaining in the coun-
try, 1t is probable that the great
rush from the country to the city
might be checked, and it is certain
that the very best and most intelli-
gent of country people would stay
away from the cities while rearing
their families, and II they went
there at all, only late in life after
their families had grown to matur-
ity-that is to say, after it had be-
come impossible for these new in
habitants of the city to do any in
jury to their progeny.
If the children in all of the public
schools of the United States, and
if the students in our colleges and
universities were generally and
thoroughly taught that urban life
was nothing more than a slow pro-
cess of individual deterioration and
of family suicide, it is more than
likely that contentment with coun.
try life, and hence happiness, on
the part of the farm dweller would
be largely increased.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08
MARKETS
FURNISHED by Walter J. Nichols
& Co..
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

CHICAGO, The government re-
port issued today showing grain
reserves in farmers hands of 49,
100000, compares with the follow
ing report issued year ago:
Wheat, 148,721, 900, 23.5 per cent;
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

corn, 962,429,000, 81 per cent;
oats, 267 ,476,00O 35-5 per cent. To.
days report is bearish.
n aAeht Ashe hts htsh shth
Wheat-Close: May, $1.14X:
July, $1.02B; September, 97c.
Corn-Close: May. 67kc; July.
67hc; September, &c. {
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08
PROFIT 7,AIfz7NGTODAY

Stocks we're little easier to4&y
after the big advance of SaturS n
and profit taking on fairly god
scale caused reactions in the Snow.
storm group, which has been tie
center of attraction for the lAet
week. Many buying orders seemfd
to be in the market at these levels
and stocks held firm generally.
Idaho Smelling & Refining is the
only exception to the rule and con-
tinues to decline in spite of reports
that the plant is running success
fully and has plenty of ore to treat.
Confidence seems to be absolutely
lacking in this security but unleSs
there is something concealed con.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

3krning which the stockholders
|khow absolutely nothing about,
4Aere ought to be some improve
Eient in the price before great
Mhile.
III Idora was particularly strong and
swas traded in quite extensively.
Ajax came in for little attention
today for the first time in month.
Alameda is being picked up and the
floating supply is getting quite
scarce. International Coal & Coke
is puzzling to local spectators. Its
continued decline during the last
10 days does not seem to be war
ranted but there does not seem to
be any bottom to the market at all.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

JUAN DE LA CRUZ AND WIFE,
Special Corrsspondsnos 70 The Press
NEW YORK. March S.--Juan de
Ia Cruz and Miss Mariana de la
Cruz, the Filipino midgets, and said
10 be the smallest adults in the
world. have arrived here to make a
tour Of the continent. Both were
horn on the island OF Panay, p. ].
Juan Ia three inches smaller than
. the number OF years of his exist
once. his stature being 30 inches.
Miss Mariana is &c years OF age
and IN her stocking feet measures
Just n inches.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

* Oats-Close: May, $3.50; uly,
49Bc; September, 41Hc.
y Visible supply: Wheat, decrease
1,272,000; corn, increase 100000;
oats, decrease, $4,000.
Il He who pursues two rabbits will
succeed in catching neither.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

A fine chicken and garden ranch,
close in, either for sale or to ex-
change for small house and lot.
Five acres rich, black soil, all
plowed. ready for crop. Price only
$500. Spokane Realty Exchange,
IA Galena block. M. 1891.
SPOKANE REALTY EXCHANGE,
IA Galena Blk. NJ 1891.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

What woman likes about max
ing her husband go to an after
uoon tea Is how he hates to.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-08

Three lots--One corner and two
inside lots within five blocks OF
East Sprague avenue, for $500. pay
able 500 cash. balance $40 per
month. F. A. Chase & Co.. GOT
Sprague ave. Phone Main 179.
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JUAN DE LA CRUZ WIFE, MARIANA DE LA CRUZ.

AND MARIANA DE LA CRUZ.
Mrs. La Cruz, uan's wife, is an
average sized Filipino
Q % . . . . . . . . . 90
. Hillary Agyba of Sinai, who .
. was said to be the smallest .
. adult in the world, was Is =
= inches in height In her stock .
= ing feet. e
. Tom Thumb, whose real .
= name was -Chas. Sherwood .
. Stratton, was less than two =
. feet In height at the age of IA, .
. when he was exhibited by p. .
= T. Barnum. .
0 9 q o Q 80 90, 900
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Attorneys.
Loans and Collections.

Loans on furniture, plano. horses,
etc. A. A. Barnett. 624 The
Rookery.
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$500 per Month

BUY THIS MAGNIFICENT LIT
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1t has flemished Oak or Walnut
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Many dealers sell the same piano
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This is an old reliable New York
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this little piano at $21S will fill the
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Chickering.
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Cooper & Co.. collections. 40 Co
lunbia building. Phone 1892.