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The sun., 1909-11-07

Commander II. A. Field. from command OF
tho Yorktown, home 90 walt orders.
Lieutenant Commander W. D. Crosiey. from
Lieut.. l.. j. Connolly from the Kansas 20 the
Missouri as senior engineer ofncer
Lieut. Y, r. WiIilams. from the Missouri 70 the
naval hospital ct BoSton for ucatmofit.
Ensign ID. r. Cummings. from the Louieana 10
the Celtic.
The sun., 1909-11-07
Army and Navy Orders.

wAsHNoroN. Nov e.-Thcse army orders were
issued o-dAy:
First Lieuis. Harold 8. Hetrick and william A.
johnson, Engineer Corpe First Battalion Engf
necrs, 70 engineer school. Washington bArracks
District Of Columbia.
The following ofIicers OF the Medical Reserve
Corps are relieved from duty at posts dost gnatod
First Lieut.. Ellsworth Wilson. Fort Rosecrans
First Lieut.. iiam NJ Archer, Jr.. Fort Clark
and First Lieut.. Henry p. Phlilipps Port sam
Houston; Capt. Wilbur r.. Dove. retired relieved
George d. Arrowsmith, sixth lnfAntry. from
Fort William Henry Harrison: Capt Cecil Stewart
Twelfth Cavalry, resignation accepted.
The sun., 1909-11-07
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

ANIArrRE ALMANAC THIS DAT.
Sun rises. c-3tl Sun sets. 4:4sl Moon rises O5
HIoH wATHk THIS DAY.
sandy Hook. $50! Gov Island 4 2.I Hell Gate o:I5
The sun., 1909-11-07

SUGAR.-Raw.- quiet centrifugal. 90 test
+.30c.: muscovados. 40 test. 3. SOC: refined
quiet: granulated. 515.O5c.
NAVAL STOuRs. Spirits of turpentine
ssd5sbSc. Common TO good strained rosin
The sun., 1909-11-07

The majority Of farmers In the, North
west don't seen, to need the money. Wheat
prices are much higher than the average
for a series Of years. hut they are not as
hi igh AS when farmers threshed the winter
wheat crop and are far lower than in the
weeks when the bull speculation in wheat
was intense in Chicago. By comparison
current prices may look low 20 the farm sr
just as to the Hpeculator in stocks Steel
common, for instance, now looks cheap at
30 whereas as high price last spring would
have seemed incredible. ....
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How Animals Learn.

DR.. T. Zell, a German naturalist,
has collected many instances to prove
that animals learn by experience, and
thus become wiser than their unin-
structed parents. Game animals OF
all kinds, he AYERS, have learned the
range of modern rifles. Grayhounds
quickly learn to let rabbits alone, and
foxhounds pay no attention to either
rabbits or hares. Killer whales and
Gulls follow whaling vessels, just as
vultures follow an army. Crows be-
gin to accompany the chamois hunter
as soon as they have seen the result
of his first successful shot, and rough
legged buzzards follow the sportsman
after winged game. The number OF
birds that kill or injure themselves
by flying against telegraph wires Is
much smaller than it used to be.
Doctor Zell also refers to the fact
that birds and quadrupeds have
learned to disregard passing railway
trains, as horses quickly cease to be
frightened by automobiles. His in
stances of the intelligent selection ez-
ercised by sheep dogs are familiar to
all.-Youth's Companion.
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Natures Most Valuable Cathartic.

Heretofore castor oil, the most val.
liable cathartic known, has been ex-
cluded from universal use by its nau-
seous odor, disagreeable flavor and
sickening after taste, SO that inferior
medicines have been in demand.
Now, however, childhood's bugbear
has been banished by the benefactor
who compounded Palatal, a purgative
specific, in which all the virtues OF
this oil are retained, from which all
it's vices are eliminated. 1t is not q
substitute for castor oil, but 1t is that
remedy without unpleasant taste and
stomach irritants.
It is palatable, harmless and diges-
tible, because the ninety-three per
cent. of chemically pure cold pressed
cream of castor oil is combined with
seven per cent. Of wholesome favor
ings-anise, coriander and caraway.
This is why children lick the spoon.
AS a laxative or purgative for ba-
bies and pregnant women Palatat can
be taken with comfort and without
danger of any sort. 1t is easily adj
ministered and agrees with the most
sensitive stomach. An overdose is
impossible, as the excess simply
passes through the bowels unchanged
and lubricates the intestines, produc-
ing easy movements, without the 4un-
comfortable straining "gripes" mo-
ticed when other cathartics are used.
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The Voice Of Paris.

1.-THE ringing of bells enters large
ly into the orchestral composition Of
the Paris noises" writes Rowland
Strong in Harper's Weekly. Then
the drivers of the tramways sound a
gong, or blow a whistle, the note of
which varies with the different lines,
and the tramway conductors have a
little brass horn which they sound
as a signal for starting or stopping
-. . The hawker of cherries still
sanctifies the spring afternoons with
his La douce cerise . .. Ia
douce,' on a long-drawn-out wall. A
more vitalizing, because a more per-
emptory, cry Is that of the mussel-
man. In addition to blowing his
horn, the chair-mender, and the itin-
Grant cobbler, give vent to savage
roars."
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But when she goes into the business
world it will seem to fairly bristle
with thorns, so many will be the
sights she will apparently receive.
Most Of the wounds Of the sensi-
tive girl are self-afaicted, only un-
fortunately, she doesn't know it
When she gains this knowledge her
suffering and her tears will soon
ease.
1t is wisdom that is slow in coming.
for you can't make the sensitive girl
believe that the Sights directed her
way are not intended. She is so sure
in her mind that her gievance is just
that argument is hopeless.
Indeed, argument is hopeless most
of the time with the sensitive girl.
If you number such a n among
your friends or in your family, try to
change her way of looking at the
world, instead of arguing with her
that her grievances are %groundless.
Try to get her to see that the world
Is too big and people too busy to be
occupied in thinking up ways to hurt
her feelings, and that in the main
people are too kind to do such things
anyway. The idea that people are
continually shooting arrows her way
comes frequently from an overdevel.
oped ego. She believes other people
are thinking as much about herself
az she is, and their words and actions
she m~isconstrues as directed to her.
self, when the probability is they
never had her in mind at all mol
thought of such a construction being
put upon their conduct.
This is particularlytrue in business
Business people are entirely toe
rushed to mince words or to consider
how people may take what they say
The sensitive girl is extremely fool
ish to think every unkind word, every
slur about poorly done work or slow.
ness is directed at her. Rest assured
if her work doesn't suit, she will hear
directly from her employer. He won't
beat around the bush about it. And
she needn't torture herself with the
thought that he is whipping her over
somebody else's shoulders.
Common and a philosophical
spirit are good cures for sensitive.
ness But these are the very qualifi.
cations the sensitive girl is apt to
lack. The best thing to help her is to
mix with the world and with people.
to get a big, broad view of life where.
in she will see how extremely small
she and her affairs are. This will
gradually give her a saner and more
rational viewpoint and her extreme
constituencies will disappear. She will
become much happier, much more
companionable. The sensitive girl
should endeavor to get this view of
life, for she is making herself
wretched over things which in the
main do not exist, for most Of the
sights and wounds to her feelings
are imaginary, not real. And it is a
pity to spoil life with imaginary ills.
New York Times.
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Blue For Walking Gowns.

In Paris, either for walking, for
visiting or for the races, women OF
taste always return after a time to
dark blue for their trotteur costumes,
and with a smart hat and sunshade
and we'll cut boots or shoes they al
way appear elegant.
This fact was particularly notice
able at Chantilly, writes the Paris
correspondent of the Gentlewoman,
and it was amusing to note how every
woman introduced her personal taste
in the selection of her cloche and om-
brelle to relieve the severe classical
cut of her gown.
Comtesse d'Hautpoul wore fancy
braiding matching her blue costume
and a coarse straw hat of the same
blue. Princesse Ferdinand de Lu-
cinge was also in blue. with a hat and
feather to match; likewise Baronne
Merlin, her blue hat being trimmed
with buttercups. Comtesse de Saint
Sauveur favored Sevres blue Tussore
and a white aigrette in her black hat;
Princesse de La Tour d'Auvergne in
blue serge had a black hat and a clus-
ter of dark red feathers, and the
Marquisse de Noailles was in navy
blue Tussore, with revers of printed
Indian linen on the jacket.
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"MEMOIRS OF DAN RICE" THE
u CLOWN OF OUR DADDIES.
Dan Rice in His memoirs" Tells In.
side Mysteries of Show Life.

Dan Rice in His IellS LII.
side Mysteries Of Show Life.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman Is compelled
to reply that the race of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted fol
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran'
teed to make you roa with laughter.
The author presents to the public a
volume Of the great testers most
pungent jokes, comic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners.
lectures, anecdotes, sketches of ad'
venture, original songs and poetical
effusions; wise and witty, serious.
satirical, and sentimental sayings OF
the sawdust arena Of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the
famous Zone Horse Show" was more
of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
you postpaid for $3.50 by Book Pub
fishing House, 134 Leonard street
New York.
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A Wedding Hint.
The tall girl smiled in some EN-.
barrassment

The tall girl smiled in some en-.
barrassment.
Haven't you any secondhand
shoes?" she said to the shoe clerk.
But, miss" he demonstrated.
mo, no, you misunderstood" said
she. II don't mean to wear. I just
NEAR old shoes, too worn for use,
that customers have left with you.
you see, there's a wedding up at our
house tomorrow, and we want some
thing to throw at the bride and
bridegroom"
II see," said the clerk.
He rummaged in a black shoe hole
and drew forth an armful Of dilapi-
dated footwear. The girl selected
some threes, twos and ones.
"These will do. Thanks ever so
much" she said, and so departed.
"~Big-footed people are always
working that on u.s." said the clerk
afterward. THAT girl wears Fights.
She couldn't very well throw such
nudscows at the bride, so she chose
some little and dainty shoes here
mes and twos. Oh, yes, it's an old
trick with the big-footed Los An
geles Times.
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Health Bread.

Take two pints of lukewarm water,
three tablespoonful of olive oil,
three tablespoonful of molasses, two
teaspoonfuls of salt, one-ha1f tea
spoonful Of chopped walnuts, two
yeast cakes dissolved in a cup of
slightly warmed water, with three
teaspoonfuls Of sugar, three cupfuls
Of white flour, two quarts unsifted
graham flour, being careful to add
the -four slowly, so as not to get In
too much. Let rise until light, then
knead down, let rise again, mould in
three loaves, let rise and bake in mod
crate heated oven three-quarters Of
an hour, being careful not to have
the oven too hot, as graham burns
much easier than white four.-New
York World.
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A Tall Corn Story.

This is the tallest corn story Of the
season, and is being told among the
travelling men over the State. 1t is
said to have beenin a letter written
home by an Eastern visitor: "Most
Of the Kansas streets are paved,
grains of corr being used for cobble-
stones, while the cobs are followed
out for sewer pipe. The husk, when
taken soff whole and stood on end,
makes a nice tent for the children to
play in. It sounds queer to hear the
feed man tell the driver to take a
dozen grains of horse feed over to
Jackson's livery stable. If01t were
not for soft, deep soil here I don't see
how they would eve harvest the
corn, as the stalks would grow up as
high in the air as the Methodist
church steeple. However, when the
ears get too heavy, their weight
presses the stalk down In the ground
on an average of %ninety-two feet, ana
thus brings the ear near enough to
the ground to be chopped off with an
xe."-Kansas City Journal.
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;I&R&@4 &

and girls wear well shaped walking
boots out of doors they would not
only be more graceful but would find
more pleasure in walking-which as
an exercise has much to commend it.
Three suggestions will help any n
who wishes to walk gracefully and
with the alertness which is character
istic of youth; the forward foot
should point practically straight (the
strongest position in supporting
weight; the back foot should push
the body forward; the chest should
be high and forward. AS long as we
live we must hold ourselves up by
muscular effort, and when we have
learned the right way it o o becomes
a matter of habit.
When a girl walks heavily she Is
always walking incorrectly and is
never graceful. Girls are not alto
gether to blame for this, as they are
told from childhood to throw their
shoulders back" which has a tend
ency to put the weight in the heels,
a strain on the back and to throw the
head forward. Instead the young
should be told to throw the chest for
ward and the head and shoulders will
take their right position.
Relaxation is the second thing nee
essary for grace, as we'll as for the
nerves. But relaxation does not
mean merely collapsing in a lacka-
daisical sort of way and being evil
Lowry" 1t means having the power
to control the muscles---letting those
rest which are not needed for the
immediate work. Motion, Of course,
is at the joints, and the muscles NOV
ing them may be made to act rythm-
ically by a little practice. The body
being constructed for movement re-
spends quickly to the pendulum-like
swing Of the leg from the hip and the
harmonious yet very slight swing OF
the arm. A woman's arms are stiff
because her shoulders are usually
tense. When the chest is active the
shoulders will drop in place, and the
arms should hang at the sides.
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THE HALO-WHAT is 1T?
A Psychic Explanation Of an Old Phe.


Vance Thompson has for many
years been Investigating the many
thousands Of psychical theories of
Paris, and in a remarkable article in
Hampton's Magazine he has quite a
number of amazing, yet authentic,
statements. For instance, he speaks
of the halo:
/ was summoned one day to the
Saltpetriere, in Paris, to see a woman
who lay in a bed in the dark. She
was a woman whose body, nerves,
brain had been leased and tortured
for years in psychic and occult exper-
iment. What mental perturbation
was racking that brain I did not
know; and the physicians at her bed
side did not know. With clenched
hands and teeth and eyes open wide
the woman lay there; her breathing
was irregular and not deep. What
we saw was this: a luminous halo of
a vague orange hue that circled her
head, even as in the cid pictures of
martyred saints you see the heads
mooned with faded gold. This halo
was luctant. It came and went; it
was a light that lickered, grew,
faded, formed itself anew.
a miracle, this aureoled head?
If want to call it that. Words are
not of great Importance. 1t was a
miracle when it glowed around the
head of a martyr tortured in the
arena, so tortured by pain and fear
that his disassociated psychic EN-
tres produced the phenomena of the
differentiation Of luminous energy.
Perhaps it were better to call 1t at
once a miracle and a prescientifc
fact, a fact that is, which is occult,
but is in the way of becoming known.
I asked DR.. Fere what he thought
of this miracle.
II have often seen It," he said.
The field of his experiments was the
madhouse at Bicetre. There many
homeopathic patients abide; and
often in cases of severe headache, or
of religious ecstasy, he has seen these
fuctuant aureoles around the head.
"The rays are often twenty cent?
meters in extent, quite regular, form
ing a perfect a%ureole," he explained.
There is, then, a form of energy,
endowed with luminous, properties.
emanating from the human body,
under certain conditions.
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The Spare Room Pitcher.

Every housekeeper knows how i'm
possible it is to replace pieces of
handsome washstand china when one
piece Is broken-and usually it Is the
most important piece Of all, the
the pitcher, which meets with the &C.
cident. A solution of the problem ia
the purchasing, not Of a fancy-colored
toilet set, but of a bowl and pitcher of
clear glassware. The smaller pieces
may be easily provided in glass, and
the whole set looks daintily white
and clean on the washstand. These
crystal bowl and pitcher sets are not
at all expensive, a very gracefully
shaped set costing but So or So
Washington Star.
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Cleaning WickerWork.

Do not scrub your implanted wick
er furniture with soap and water,
as it will turn it yellow and ruin it's
looks. Instead try scrubbing it with
a strong solution of snlt water.
If you have pieces that are so shah
by that they must either be painted
or thrown away, try the salt water
treatment first. Scrub we'll and put
in the sun and air to dry quickly. 81.
If you must paint wicker furni-
ture, see that you buy a paint that is
we'll mixed and thinned to the proper
consistency. If too thick it gets
lumpy and the paint is apt to rub off
on clothes. Porch chairs that are OK
posed to weather should be finished
with a coat of enamel to make them
last longer. The coat Of enamel is
also more easily dusted.-New York
Times.
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Massaging Cups.

If you cannot go to a professional
masseuse, it is well to own one of the
m~assaging cups that can be bought
for a small sum and do much to stir
up a free circulation and to give ex-
ercise to muscles.
These are small glass cups with a
rubber top. The latter is worked
gently, and the suction Is quickly
felt on the flesh.
These cups can be profitably used
after the face has beeen we'll washed
and grease rubbed in. Be careful to
work it in an upward and outward
motion, as otherwise wrinkles will re-
sult.-New York Times.
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Turkish Chair Cover.

In the perfectly appointed modern
bathroom all that is not nickel plated
is white enamelled, and while all OF
the sanitary requirements are thus
met. considerable of the old-fashioned
comfort is left out. A resourceful
mother Ct little children, who OBJ
.'ected to this cold comfort after the
oath, has made. a pair of slip covers
rcr the white.euamelled chair.
They are of absorbent Turkish
toweling in white, perfectly wash
able, and the maker ayers that each
week secs one of them sent to the
laundry. They do not extend as far
as the floor, but form a liberal cover,
cut to fit the back and the seat, over
which they slip, AID reaching six
incnec below the edge Of the seat
Boston Post.
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He Had the Idea.

A Chinaman who had been robbed
h a woman on the Bowery was trying
b describe her at the police station.
Cant you remember how she was
fressed?" asked the lieutenant at the
|esk. What sort of a hat did she
Fear?"
For a moment John seemed puz-
bed. Then his face frightened.
r"He dead-she glad" he confident
announced.
And now the police are looking for
woman with a Merry Widow hat
Everybody's Magazine.
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Pronunciation of Hiawatha.

Sir-Why does Clinton Lloyd pro.
nounce Hiawatha with the long a.
when the long re" pronunciation is
taught in the schools? TEACHER.
Because the former pronunciation
is as nearly like the Indian pronun.
citation as is possible in the English
language. The probable reason for
the other pronunciation being taught
in the public schools is that when q
publishing company was getting out
a new reader and appealed to Miss
Longfellow, daughter of the author
of the poem "Hiawatha," for the cor
rect pronunciation of the word she
explained that she followed her ia.
theirs pronunciation and used the
long "e."-Editor indianapolis News
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The FoIIoW.Up.

| H. /. H'... o. ?. ID $500 NEHet
A custom has grown UP during the
last few years among commercial
firms in England, borrowed, we be:
lieye, from the United States, thu
classic land Of business enterprise, o,'
writing one letter after another to.
persons who have. asked fora cata'.
log or something Of the kind and
importuning them to buy. Even
some Of the good srms do it., prob.
ably with the idea that II you only
worry the customer enough, he will
give a larger order. Our own Inn
pulse, we freely admit, is to cease or
dering forever from the firm that
worries us. One may know well.
enough that its goods are excellent
One may enjoy using the stamps en-
closed to frank ones orders through
the post for the quite unjustifable
purpose Of writing to somebody else.
One may even believe that "our Mr..
Abracadabra Gushpoods, who repre-
sents US in your county and who
offers to call on US about once a week
for orders, is a most estimable and
d%isinterested young man, who BOOKS
our order because it saves US trouble
and not at all because he is paid 50.
a week and ten per cent. commission.
So green we may be. There are linn
it's even to greenness; and that limit
comes when we are informed that an
order is desired, not because 1T Is
profitable, but to insure a recommen-
dation to our friends. 1t is fattering
to be assured thst a recommendation
can do so much with ones friends;
but it is a nuisance nevertheless. We
doubt if the following system ID real
" good business.-London Globe.
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To Walk Gracefully.

The modern girl is at her worst
when she walks. Her feet are
dressed in low shoes with high heels
and her stride is out of all proportion
to her height. Her right arm is
swung vigorously back and forth,
while the left one clutches a hand
bag and holds it at the waist line
with elbow aggressive. Her chest is
depressed and her head, with its mar
velous adornment, is thrust forward.
The present fashion in shoes is
partly responsible for the awkward
ness of our girls, declares a writer in
Vogue. Shoes with high heels tip
the foot down, preventing the beauti-
full spring of the instep arch. If such
shoes could be reserved for the house
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Marvellous Coincidence.

While trying an old woman on Q
charge Of stealing fagots q Judge who
had acquired the habit of thinking
aloud unconsciously exclaimed:
"Why, one fagot is as like another
fagot as one egg is like another egg"
The counsel defending the case
heard the observation and repeated
1t to the jury, whereupon the Judge
cried: "Stop; it is an Intervention
of Providence. This was the very
thought that passed through my.
mind. Gentlemen addressing the
jury, acquit the prisoner."-London
News.