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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-13

Z lost fifty pounds in weight and was
almost out of my mind with pain and
chagrin as no matter where the irrita-
ton came, at work, on the street or
in the presence of company, I would
4 have to scratch it until had the blood
running down into my shoe. simply
cannot describe my suffering during
those seven years. The pain, mortif-
cation, loss of sleep, both to myself and
wife is simply indescribable on paper
and one has to experience it to know
what it is. A
81 tried all kinds OF doctors and
remedies but might as well have
thrown my money down sewer. They
would dry it up for a little while and fill
me with hope only to break out again
just as bad II not worse. had given
up hope OF ever being cured when was
induced by my wife to give the Cuticura
Remedies q trial. After taking the
Cuticura Remedies for little while /
began to sse change and after taking
dozen bottles Of Cuticura Resolvent,
In conjunction with the Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment, the trouble had
entirely disappeared and my leg was as
a lapse Of six months with no signs of q
recurrence 1 feel perfectly safe in ex-
tending to you my heartfelt thanks for
tho good the Cuticnra Remedies have
{ done for me. shall always recon-
mend them to my friends. W. n.
White, Mgr. Label Dept, Typo. Unien
4 No. q. s3i2 e. Cabot ST., Philadelphia,
Pa, FEB. 4 and Apr. I3, 1909"
cutir,ra Remedies are sold throughout the world.
mss. IS Aalsd hes. cytlsura BOOK o. me sim.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-13
FLYING SQUADRON.
Naval Veterans Elect oficcrs-NIem-
Der OF tho Monitors Crew Present.

The order Of the Flying Squadron or
Civil War Veterans elected officers at.
their regular business meeting held
yesterday afternoon in the Federation
of Labor hall. The meeting was we'll
attended by survivors of the naval en-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-13
KNEE TO ANKLE A
MASS OF HUM0R
Suffering Simply lndescribabIe
Had to Scratch Till Blood Ran
Health Undermined from Lack Of
Sleep Gave Up Hope but
#CUTICURA FREED HIM
FROM SkIN-TORMENT
about seven years ago small nbra-
sion appeared on my light leg just above

-
my right leg just above
my ankle. 1t irritated
me SO that / began to
scratch it and it began
to spread until my leg
! from my ankle to the
knee was one solid
scale like a scab. The
irritation vas always
worse at night and
would not allow mo
to sleep, or my wife
either. and it was
co m pletely under
mining orr health r
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-13

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-13

gagements In the Civil war. although
their number is exceedingly smalli iii
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-03
BISHOP TRUST CO.
q /; lAUlt1 UtP,

The Bishop Trust Company, Ltd, beg
to announce that on January LIST, 1910,
they will open a Ladies Department
in connection with their Trust BUSH
ness, where ladies, DESTROYS of saving
money, or with property interests, or
funds to invest may call or correspond
and receive advice as to opening a
bank account, putting their funds out
at interest, buying real estate, stocks
or bonds, or investing in any other
class Of security. Under the laws OF
the Territory a woman can hold prop
erty in her own right.
The Bishop Trust Company feel that
they have been fortunate in securing
Tor this Department the services of
Miss ]. T. MacinJyre, who is well
known to the business community of
Honolulu as the manager for eight
years past Of Bishop & Company's
Savings Bank. Miss Mcintyre will
Nhave an Office in the Bishop Trust Co.'S
building on Bethel street, where she
will be found daily from to u, after
the LIST of January.
All accounts and transactions strict
ly confidential.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-03
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Westons Centrifugals.
Babcock & Wilcox Boilers.
Green's Fuel Economizer.
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ton.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-03
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-03
HELD DIR. WU'S HAND.

During the Of the puportng from DR.
WI mother the medium stood close the diplomat times holding
his hand and pang him shoulder Finally
OF him. continuing talking in that position couple of minutes.
At the conclusion of the the Indian girl told what she
of the with Chinese minister
of ALL she much fighting in the faraway country from which he
His native land preparing she said for struggle
building great ships of Dr. WI would be vitality interested
this terrible conflict and would hold office of Importance
Shortly after this the medium said there to her spirit
friend of the ministers who of his country but
American This spirit the medium the William
and finally after hesitation she uttered the last
ley The Control remarked that the spirit had left this eight
Assuming dgnifed attitude the medium bowed respect
fully to Dr. WI and the deep clear masculine voice said
MCKINLEY SPEAKS FOR PEACE.
"FIow you my friend? William Mckinley former Presi
dent of the United States have just heard what the little Indian
girl predicted about great for China sincerely hope
that such will take place for peace
you also for peace Are you not?'
Yes said the Chinese statesman at for peace always
Il am sure will do all you prevent this my
brother and too will continue to work for peace said the medium
Thus ended the communication.
DIR. WI ASKED NO QUESTIONS
Dr. Wa apparently what heard assume
his characteristic role of ap interrogation failed qes
ton the spirit of the former President He showed every
being profoundly impressed
From his aache he obtained his which he ned
his hand for minutes while the medium persons
the room and spirit messages Then the minister procured
piece Of paper and proceeded to write apparently something he
wished to be to the medium It's puport dvuged
Before the medium had of her DR. WI WI
Chang departed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19

"~ ALk about the trials of q w0- niaB whose husband is late for dinner or doesn't come
 when he iS cXpcctcd says the Wornai, who has had experiences, ii is annoying enough at any time. bl II is nothing in a civilized country to what il is when you are off in the WildS somewhere and dinner and din ncr get ing are two of the most inpnr lart things in life.
 w hen Mr Blank took me and the haby Sorne years ago to try life on Il TrNaS sheep ranch we found there were q good many things in the world hat We had no conception of before aud life took OH different aspect. It was happy life, but il was not all easy one. l had to do all kinds of houSeworl, the hardest kind of house work. and cooking ii a house situa ted in q Texas chaparral is not cooking as il Is done even in q New York flat We lived chiefly on game which Mir Blank shot aS we needed il. Our veg ctabIcS were all canned-peHS. corn and Il certain number of things we kept always on hand
 .'l suppose made myself q great deal more work than was necessary and did twice as much cooking. but | was used to everything in eastern style, and il did mol occur to me that 1 could have things in any other way We always had dessert every day for dinner. l made cake and practically we lived in the wids of TeXas exactly as we could here
 Well, the das when Mr Blank did not come home to dinner was New Years There was not so much differ encc between the days~~they were all working aayS-but l had prepared q special dinner Mr Blank was going off to fhc dipping vatS but he was to be back at :. o'clock for dinner. and prepared good one Ii was rabbit think, that day. our nearest neighbors were q family of Alsatians whom we knew very well and who had been very kind To Us. That morning before breakfast Mir. Blank had ridden over there on business of some kind. They had made c%gnoC To celebrate the day. and of course he must accept their hospitality and take q glass.
 "NoW. Il @ooI strong c%@nn@ is not exactly q before breakfast drink for Il nlan who iS not accustomed To taking it at that hour in the morning, and the cggnog was q strong one. It was New Years day and eggnos ingredients can b,. found ll Texas when potatoes can not When Mr. Blank came home he
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19

could not cal his breakfast and only | took q few swallows of coffee and mounted his horse and rode away.
 T went to work and cooked dinner
 in my best style l had little oil stove. for il was always warm where we were, except when q norther came up. Everything was done to perfec- ton and ready to put on the table at o'clock, but Mir. Blank did not come. looked out. but he was nowhere in sight Two o'clock passed. 2:3o, 5 o'clock, and still he did not come.
 Any one would have supposed that l would have been frightened and think something had happened to him, for he is one of the most considerate of men and this was Il most unusual occurrence But was not frightened. If anything had happened probably the men would have brought me word. 1 had a good dinner prepared. and he did not come, and on New Years day. I grew more and more angry as the time passed. until by night was hard ly in condition to speak. By and by he rode up. He seemed to feel my mood, Anyway, his first words were;
 "'I suppose you are provoked
 "Ne>.' l said. I am
 He Ma,> angry then, and he went off t0 Stulr "ul his horse without an otEcr word IL didn't last long, how ever. and we came to an understand ing.
 Ill seems that thai e@Snog, taken the first thing in tIie morning. had been too much for him. He had hard ly left the house before he was over come with all irresistible desire to sleep He says hc never knew how he reached the dipping vats. for he slept most of the way an his horses back. When he got there ne found working was simply an ifnPosSihi!itA The men had little shaRty. and he managed 1 to crawl up there. throw himself on the floor, and there he slept all day | long without stirring until night. when l he had slept off the effects of the egg nog
 Il do not look upon eggnog no" as such an innocuouS drink as did at one time. and l know there was never q
 wife who lived through such q long day as did waiting for Mr Blank to
 come home thu New Years day in Texas. New York Tl2es.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
MARRYING EN MASSE.

; Curious New Years Custom of Plou-
 sastes of Brittany.
 Some curious aud distinctive mar a'iage customs prevail among ,hc Plou Sastels. strange race nf people tthouGht by some to be of Asiatic ori gim inhahiting Plougastei naoulas. in 6rittany, who are great Slra wberry growers. They are also noted io, in. aermarrNinS exclusively with eacl, oth ~r. The alliances. which are engineered by an Intermediary known a~ the bas- ralaine, all take p,ace ou uac day, usually the first Tuesday of the new year. The basralaines start their cam 4iaign i'll September as soon aS the bar vest is gathered in demands a. ot, be half of the intending hridee eatn the hand Of his bride elect
 The courtship is thcu author ,,l and proceeds with ardor dHring ilr dark hnonths which follow. las te4l tWen sy-fhree couples were ,,,:.ta.st.. .ti the parish church. on Ian &
 After the ceremony et...t. dancing and ieasting. The great dinner which Ss served at the numerous inns begins at o'clock aud lasts wei ou to mid night. The favorite dish is tripe, and .n inordinate quauti;y uf alcohol is gonsumed-one would like to know with what results.
 The whole place IS en tete, and there -41re never fewer than 2.O0U 2uesls After the orgy the united couples re pair to their separate homes. They Ii, not take up their joint life until th1 -Gollowing evening (after the service for the dead and second feast, whcr they are escorted to the bridal cham Der by large contingent of grooms men and bridesmaids. to whom soul and cakes are presented by the newl, narried.-Sphere.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19

OF. Ml5l4i., poN I MEND TELLING Yor. Whom hui they were people Who sad ~ nrctiru thcuN, Wtn ,iiun.t tAprct slIcia and Nhu roitdn't msli1V any re surn except | hf"isru @ratilthlc thml hnrt you to liSten io.
 "WbY. no. ectlainty i'm uot crying. - 9nd the bachelor giri smiled Gashin9lv ' hrou@h moist eyes. "Ent I dou't mind ceiling you il was tho happicsi part of sny Christ mas Aad hereafter those are the sort of people l'm going to give 10
 "l 1hink l shaii wri,e jolly little aSote to each of the relatives and friends with whom usually exchanec pres. ,rnls. shall scnu these notes long enough before Christmas 10 foreSlall snyhody's buying presents for me.
 'ln the notes | Shali convey my best soNe and my Christmas wishes. shall also explain why intend to send no present this year that purpose !mak Ing all my gifts to those whose only claim upon me is ihcir uccd shall sdd that an certain lucy will like his original mcthud ot diSpoSing of Fhelr gifts. And Simlt further Say that Il they want io makc me hap " and lo enjoy the .io.iieSl kind ot Christmas themselves thcy will please 8ake the money thcy had intended ro spend on me and do likewise with it. Ill this way every dollar we give will 5e well spent aad make somebody -really glad
 So that's my New Year resolve. In selfish: That's att you know The bachelor girl langhcd "it's horribly selfish. Didn't tell you vi~ goiu. to dc if merely hecausc il made me aappier#' Philadelphia Euirlin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
HER ONE NEW YEAR
 RESOLUTION.

o."'t""s' reoe''"" '"r ..ar" .4 clor @irt "Acs, one. Want
 to know Oh. wei. don't sand 4eiiing you I've nude up my us1ssS 3o spend next Christmas differ .s7ltlS
 --5 ,intend to up:tkc aH aitps"tl her diff ses.9tl dispoSition of mA presents here AEaer Fhe places that knew thefn 4asail know them Hu more, aud the 'AtlderncSs, where nu presents IlaNe ..s.ger been is going to bloSs"m with ,aainc
 You see. it is this way: W hen | sat .s3nnn to think il all over the worry ss5 fuss and Hue moley spent | ame to the eoHctnSioiI Ililt. outSl,lc ,F 1te nearest aud dearest. gave oniN Eamee or four gitls tl.ai were really t4 oilh while =tiiai iS iital gave me any 4l:Saat happiness io give and brought s2al joy to others
 "gIeSe three OF four were the things 2 gave wei, it doesnt matter
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19

 Ii sit Gown to wrltc verse that's
 brtEg::"i::.g OCT with gl2e It tH?ns out to be serious, though
 why 1 cannot see. And If, upon the other hand, my
 musings would be sad My readers read it and they smile
 as f # made them glad Ay HENE' FER meet woman who W IS bright enough for kings And try to talk l cannot think of
 aught but stupid things, But when l have vis-avis at din-
 ner dull and slow ! make the wittiest remarks. though
 she would never know. When was but baby I had not
 baby face I looked the most all knowing kid
 of an all knowing race, But as I neared maturity a change
 came over that, And now I look as innocent as any
 pussy cat. a ND people. when they see me AA anywhere, are not impressed With the idea that I've mind that's different from the rest Of ordinary minds they meet. wher- ever they may be. But that is not the thing that's most distressing unto me. The thing hate the most ill all my weary span of life Has happened to me since l wed my tender little wife. She's tender, and she's pretty: but.
 by jingo, in my house She rules the whole establishment
 whilst I'm nixcumarouse. N OW, why IS it, wonder-what ~ accursed freak of fate Has settled me in this extremely mortifying state? Why is it that. whate CT try to do, despite my wit, The thing that truly happens is its very opposite2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
An Echo of Tennyson.

Ring out, wild bells. poet saa%. "Ring off" was hisSed into lis tecth "Those same wild bells the pact 'a,.s Who wore old Albion laurel w,essth. The poet paused him m h.s p'th
 Quite angered a the sudden clock "I'll ring those bells" he said in Vrafh .Or else I'li ring ynrs se".t''=s '-sr '
 I SA t, ,..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
MIR. .SPILK|NS' NEW YEAR RESOLVE.

MY life has been the queerest one AVA that ever man has seen. l do not think Tn all this world its
 like has ever been No matter what I try to do, Tn spite
 of all my wit, The thing that truly happens IS It's
 very opposite
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-19
THE POWER OF ONE
 ECCN0C.

"~ ALk about the trials of q w0
 nIan who's" husband is late for dinner or docSr't come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

ations and status of his own mind: and consequently 1t is impossible for him to say that he Is conscious of the divine act of pardoning his sins. And, without further discussion, we are constrained to reach the conclusion that our Higher Life" brother was under delusion when he insisted that the human conscious ness could take cognizcance of a divine act.
 A man may examine the conditions of pardon, as they are revealed in the New Testament: he may see that the revela- tion teaches that repentance toward God, and faith in the Lord Jeuses Christ will secure pardon, l. e., that God promises pardon to all persistent believers. He may then ask himself: Have 1 exercised real repentance and true faith?' And, now he comes within the domain of the functions of consciousness, for he Is inquiring into his own mental acts and states.
 Well, after deciding intelligently that he does repent and believe, as the Bible requires him to do, will he not then have @ consciousness of pardon? Not at all The repenting and the believing, both of which take place within himself, and are acts of his own mind, are the acts of which he is conscious. The pardoning is the act of God and of this act 1t Is in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
USE PHILOSOPHICAL TERNS-By J. c. Hden D. D.

personal agent can be either right or wrong. Abstract is opposed to "eon- crete;" and is properly applied to a prir- cple considered in and by itseif, and drawn away from all relations and cir cumstances. The principles of arithmetic are abstract principles. The muftipnoa- G a table would be perfectly true, even if ther = nothing to count. The prin- ciples of geometry are abstract prfnci- ples They would all be perfectly true, even if the physical universe were blottsd out of existence, and there were nothing left to measure.
 As a practical specimen of the nonsense often covered up under the term ''ab- stract.'' I offer the following incident The Rev. William S. White. who was Stonewau Jacxson's pastor at Lexington. Va, was preaching against dancing, and told us of lady friend who asked him: Do you think that dancing in the ab- stract is wrong?" NO madam" replied the preacher; land if you will only dance in the abstract you will never hear any objection from me. But l never knew anybody to dance in the abstract. All the dancing that I ever knew anything about was dancing in the concrete; and to that I do decidedly object"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

very little patience with routine religious talk that had no intelligible meaning.
 Brother A, the Higher Life advocate, was much disturbed in his mind because the pastor said q do not know that am saved; I only believe it." But you ought to know it; and I'm sure that you do know it," was the reply.
 Now, let us examine this point in the light of what has already been said as to the function of consciousness" And to make the matter as plain and prac- ticable as possible, let us suppose that a man present himself to a Christian church as a candidate for membership. Among other questions the moderator asks him: Have you sense of the par don of your sins?" Now, the candidate hesitates. He Is an educated man, and has learned to weigh and measure his words. He is a candid man, who Is in- capable of professong what he does not really feel. He knows that to "have a sense of pardon" is the same thing as to be conscious that God has pardoned his sins. He knows that this involves the statement that, judicial act of the AL might can be, and has been, discerned by the human consciousness. This is be- yond the belief of the candidate. He Is satisfied that his consciousness has no field nor function outside of the oper-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

system to say nothing of our neigh bor Mars.
 Sir Hiram Maxim has said that in his opinion message to Mars. sent by the power of Niagara. would be the next achievement of science.
 Of all the planets of our solar system we are the most insignificant. As reason able beings we must believe that the other planets are also inhabited. We cannot possibly conceive that the planet Mercury is inhabited, for 1t is so near the sun that. on account of the intense heat. anything that had life, either animal or vegetable, would be instantaneously incinerated.
 On the planets Uranus Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune we cannot conceive Of the existence of any form of life, because they are so far away from the sun. Of these planets the cold must be more intense than we can even imagine. still these planets are many times larger than ours.
 They were not hung in space simply for us to look at and wonder at.
 Since it was first suggested by our as- tronomers that Mars was inhabited, many men have been promoting, or l should say suggesting, various schemes to get into communication with our celestial neigh bors.
 Of course the people cried impossible as they always do when any one sugyosts something out of the ordinary. Communi- cation with any other world is no more impossible than looking through human body.
 Fifteen years ago when Roentgen an- nounced that he could do this the people said that he was crazy and should be put into an asylum Today every doctors of- flee throughout the world has an x-Ray apparatus.
 Five years ago people said that man would never fly. yet within the last three weeks man has conquered tho air, and within a year the aeroplane will be the plaything of the rich
 What we are pleased to call our enlight- ened civilization is, at the present. baree~ in the kindergarten of knowledge. As time rolls on and man grows wiser, who can say but that we will not only be able to communicate with Mars. but visit it as well? If we can fly through the air, it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to look forward to the day when we can fly through space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

OHN LOCKE, the illustrious author
 of that epoch-making book, the N< Essay on the Human Under standing" was led to his studies on that line by ref1ecting upon the vague and unsatisfactory use of certain terms which occurred in a conversation which he had with some friends. That conversation left Locke in a most uncomfortable frame of mind, for he found that the terms used in conversation upon philosophical subjects were so extremely loose and unsettled in their meaning and applica- tion as to make clear thinking and sound reasoning we'll nigh impossible.
 Locke did much in the way of. clearing up the subject, and since his time there has been less to complain of in the mat ter of obscurity in the meaning of the more important technical terms used by philosophical writers. From the time of Cousin and Sir William Hamilton-nay, from the time of Reid-there has been no excuse for the philosophical writer who failed to understand and to apply the word "consciousness" in its proper sense.
 Consciousness" when properly used, means that power or faculty of the mind which contemplates and takes knowledge four own mental acts or states; and in no true sense can a man be "conscious'