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Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Leaders in Congress Come from Cities

states, else the representation Of that
region among the members from the
cities would be still further materially
reduced.
1t is noteworthy that of the city
membership sent to congress 1853 are
lawyers and only 6S belong to other
professions and avocations.
Two of the best all-around legisla-
tors in congress-Theodore E. Burton
of Cleveland and John w. Weeks Of
Newton, Mass.-come from the cities.
They are equally posted on currency,
the tariff, the navy, agriculture and
rivers and harbors. Representative
Mann of Chicago is a recognized au-
thority on the pure food and drugs act.
F. P. Gillet of Massachusetts, is the
best-informed man on the civil serv-
ice; Charles E. Townsend of Michigan
on the interstate commerce laws, it
being generally known that he practi-
caley drew the Hepburn railroad-rate
act; James A. Tawney of Minnesota is
the authority on appropriations, and
Serene E. Payne of New York on the
raising of revenues to pay them; John
Dalzell of Pennsylvania is the apostle
of protection; w. S. Bennett of New
York the strong man on the immigra-
ton laws, and Charles \. Fowler of
New Jersey on currency.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
IrimminQ for a Corset.

For the girl who is slim and who de-
sires to wear ruffle inside her corset
of something else to make her look
little stouter. there is an idea that is
well worth trying. This is to buy some
dainty and thin material such as main
sock or dimity or use any thin ma.
terial that you may have handy. and
make a rufiie for the top of the cor
set, making it full at two ends where
it will be sewed to the front of the
corset and leaving the part that will
be sewed to the back of the corset
with barely any fullness at all. The
rufiie can be edged with lace and be
made dainty with the lace and ribbon
and it will be found much daintier
than bows. The ruffie can be made so
that it can be easily taken off when
1t needs laundering. 1t will always be
fresh and dainty and it will give the
appearance of fullness to the front of
the waist.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Floral Trimmings for Millinery.

An enormous velvet poinsettia in its
exquisite natural coloring-rich car.
dinal. toned down to warm. glowing
chianti tone. The long, slender petals
are only loosely joined and the imita-
tion is perfect. One of these flowers
is quite sufficient for trimming hat
of even large size. but 1t may also be
combined with ostrich or other fine
plumage If desired.
A large chrysanthemum looks like a
little feather ball in softest mauve
tones. 1t is composed of innumerable
crinkly petals of soft velvet. and may
be used instead of the marabou or os.
trich pompons so very much in vogue
at present, on one of the chic, large
toques, or combined to. form a garland
or wreath on a large hat la direc.
toire or Boucher.-Vogue.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

A UTOMOBILES will become a part
"a of the White House equipment in
the administration of William II. Taft,
taking the place in a measure of the
horses and carriages now used as a
means of locomotion in and around
Washington by the members of the
Roosevelt family. One of President
Roosevelt's pet aversions is the auto
mobile. He has declined to purchase
car and only in two or three in
stances has he ever consented to be
a passenger in one. On the other
hand, Mr.. Taft is very fond of the au-
tomobile. In the late political cam
paign he made many tours in high
power cars, notably on his visit to
New York, where he was compelled
to make long jumps in accordance
with arrangements made for him by
the national and state committees.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
~ -
WeC2STOE(O

eTINCLE JOE" CANNON, plain
~ farmer and unfrilled speaker of
the house, will soon blossom out and
put on more airs that humming bird
with two sets of wings. He is going
to have carriage with two prancing
horses and a colored coachman.
He will dash along Pennsylvania
avenue like real plutocrat and throw
dust in the eyes Of the common toiler
plodding along on his weary way. For
all these years Uncle Joe" has occu-
pied the rear seat Of trailer and
smoked his Porto Rican cigar in peace
and content.
Then some foe Of rural simplicity
slipped over to the senate and whis.
pered that Speaker Cannon should
have carriage. To make consistency
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Civil Service Commission Wants Hom,

department of the government wholly
peripatetic and without permanent
quarterings is subject to suspicion and
to sighting considerations. We want
ed to be helped out of that situation" :"
1t is nearly twenty-six years since
the commission was organized. The
early meetings in 1883 were held in the
apartment of Dorman B. Eaton in the
celebrated but dilapidated Wormley's S
hotel. Later the commission rented
two rooms in a residence in Fourteenth
street. From there it moved to the
seed building of the department Of ag-
riculture. In 1885 it moved to a wing
OF the city hall building. In 1898 it
moved to the Concordia building, and
in 1900 it moved to it's present wholly
inadequate building.
The commission wants quarters
that are permanent, that will be a
creditable monument to the work it
has done and an honor to the public
service that it is performing. An ap-
preparation of 100000 will provide a
proper site and building and this ap-
preparation is recommended. In trans
hitting to congress the commission 8
letter and the draft of bill for the ap-
preparation, President Roosevelt says
he approves the commissions recon-
mendation.
The force of the civil service COM
mission consists Of 1874 employees, OF
whom 157 are constantly employed in
Washington. These employees super
wise and complete the work of 1853
local boards, composed of 1880 mem.
bers, distributed throughout the terri.
torial extent Of the United States, Ha
waii. the Isthmus of Panama, and the
island of Porto Rico. Last year there
tiOnS
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Marie AntoInette Toques.

Some new velvet toques have been
exactly cooled from the toque worn by
Marie Antoinette in the lovely Vigee-
Lebrun painting. The use of large
buttons, plaques of braid and fiat braid
motifs continue their triumphal
march. The ease with which they mark
the long line accounting for their reign
The newest neck chain to suspend a
pendant Is a mere thread Of platinum
powdered with diamond dust.-From a
Paris Letter to Vogue.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
A New Veil Roll.

Which isn't veil roll at all, because
it's a stick-owing to the manner of
Its making and to the present width
of wells. 1t looks like stick of mint
candy. and is made of six-inch red
satin ribbon, edged with halfinch red
satin ribbon. and then twisted in
bias twirl, exactly like striped candy.
down along pasteboard roll. The roll
has first been covered with scented
cotton, and the whole thing has de
licious look when finished.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
W127.E FUR. .W27H RLcNlYG QE MEZ 3.

n
suddenly demand the
anywhere told
These little Frenchy payme hats 1t one form
freedom perhaps equally to tie under M
wedding decked
in nfurbelo or a school soiree
uching net around the
oft
Air of ials of
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

The construction of an International
Christian Eendeavor headquarters
building at Boston, it is noted, has
been undertaken. The profits from
the rental of office quarters in this
building will be devoted to this exten-
sion work.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
DRESS FOR THE EVENING.
Designed to Be Made Up in Oyster
Pink Satin Cashmere.

Oyster-pink satin cashmere would
look charming in this elegant style:
the bodice and skirt are cut in one, the
the lower part of the skirt is cut up
in "V," showing an under-skirt of
lace; silver trimming, in key pattern
is sewn along the lower edge Of over
skirt. and also on the bodice; the lat
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Yom kippur.

Yom KIppur.
When everything else is surrendered
that is distinctive of Jewish ceremo-
nialism the atonement retains its grip
on the vast majority of Israelites. Kip
pur is the last link binding them to
their community, their faith and its
peculiar observance
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
Grooming n. an Art,

Beauty Of grooming. correct poise
and ability to make the most Of ones
good points count for more than a
beautiful face. u1s I'd. ....
Any woman with passable face
may be attractive. and even be con.
sidered beautiful II she will cultivate
the art Of being we'll groomed.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
The sneeze That Failed.

The Sneeze That Failed.
A little maid of three has been
taught to say Excuse me" when she
sneeZes.
The other day her mother had her
attention attracted by a queer gasping
noise. and, looking up quickly, saw
the face of the little maid wrinkled
up in very distressing way.
You didn't say it," said the mother.
Il didn't do it," responded the little
maid.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

ter has strip of insertion sewn above
the trimming, and a white tucked
chiffon tucker; the under-sleeves are
also of chiffon, edged with insertion,
while satin is used for the over-sleeves
with trimmings to edge them.
Materials required Seven yards
satin AZ inches wide, 6is yards trim
ming. two yards insertion, one yard
tucked chiffon.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums, reduces IN
nAmmasion aays pain, wind collie. 25c bottle
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

Less than a pint of whisky mav
make a peck Of trouble.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
THE UNEMPLOYED.

There's plenty of work about If you
only look for it"
Yes, and by the time I've found it
all me energy's gone!"
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

You might say of legal wedding,
Certainly knot"
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

ONLY ONE "BROMO OUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for
the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used the World
to Cure Cold in One Day. 25c.
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04
IMPUDENcE PERsoNIFIEp.

Robert Rustler-What did you say
was the title of your new song?
Successful Chorus LADY, call II
"The Proposal"
Robert Rustler-And the key?
Successful Chorus Lady-B minor.
Robert Rustler-B mine-eh? How
would you like to change it for key
in A fiat?
Oh, Father!
Father, you must not drop your
final 'g's.'"
Thus GwenGo,in obsessed by nou-
veau culture, to father, retired pork
packer.
But haven't been droppin' EN-"
There you go. Droppin'! And you
say comm and goin' and eatin'' with.
out any final g sound at all. It's aw.
full"
pause.
"Gwenny."
"Yes."
May drop the final g in egg?"
Gilpin observer., 1909-02-04

important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
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grandfathers not only navigated the river in
keelboats, but lay fiat behind the goods the poats
were loaded with while they were belng shot at
by Indians along the banks.
1t is almost if not quite as hard now 10 mag
inc what the world meant before the age OF
steam it is to think out what will be its mean
ing in the age of the perfected airship and aero
plane. Every contrast possible in the ST. Louis
centennial week of pageants is challenge to
look backward and forward in the attempt to
find out what hundred years already mean, as
the first in the attempt to find what it is
to mean shortly for this generation and for the
grandchildren of this generation in 20O9.
The makers of the centennial week program
were keenly alive to the opportunities for spec
tacular effect suggested by the most striking
events of the worlds progress. The aeronautic
events such as balloon races aeropane and diri-
giPle balloon contests, suggest the future posi-
bilities of transportation in contrast with those
of 1909. For comparison with automobiles and
aeropanes the bateau of Laclede's day, with it's
stumpy mast, its cordelle and it's sweeps is an
educational feature of the water pageant which
includes crafts Of all the kinds which now ply the
waters of the Mississippi. The Yelled Prophets
pageant, unique and picturesque, is another fea-
ture which is full of romantic interest. The edu
cational parade, the parade representing 5000 of
st. Louis industries the procession Of thou
sand mayors and the other events which find
place on the program all suggest that as a great
week for st. Louis it's centennial week is still
greater, it belongs to hundred years of his
tory-makng for the continental United States
The city of st. Louis was founded by Pierre
Leclede Liguest in 1854. The territory west of
the Mississippi river was then in possession Of
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W7ICHZ- ~
France Laclede landed at the foot of what is
Market street, organized the village and
resided there for II years. He named the new
site st. Louis in honor of Louis XIV, the reigning
sovereign of France. The territory was trans.
ferred by France to Spain by secret treaty in
1862, but it was not announced in the new village
until October, 1854. In 1903 Spain retroceded the
sovereignty to France and on April 80, 1903,
France sold all the territory west of the Missis-
sippi river. known as the Louisiana purchase to
the United States for 100000, Napoleon re-
marking: This accession of territory strengthens
forever the power of the United States"
With less than thousand inhabitants when
the whole country had not quite seven and a
quarter million in 1909, st. Louis emerged from
the Of the keelboat and pirogue to pioneer the
steamboat western rivers. Loading it's first
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steamboat in 1917 it had more than doubled its
1910 i'll 1920. From 1000 in 1920,
two decades of steamboating gave it ,469 in 1910
About that time it began it's great transcontnental
work with the prairie schooner reinforcing the
steamboat in overland transit With the trans
continental overland movement to Oregon wei!
as California, growing, in 1850 it had n, $50 people
and was beginning it's work as the first pioneer Of
railroads to the Pacific. After bringing the first
locomotive west of the Mississippi in 1852, it more
than doubled its population in that decade, reach
ing 1s5,5S7 in 1860. With the foundations of the
states now west of the river already laid along its
first trade routes in 1860, it advanced in the next
two decades to 35o,552 people. Chicago was pass
ing it in population then without being able to
take from it its historical place the first great
city of the west,' the pioneer and founder of the
west of the present Since 1880 it has doubled it's
population once more, advancing from $780, 900 to
over 100000. At it's present rate of increase, re-
sponsive to that of the Mississippi valley, St. Louis
is doubling business in little over 10 years. It's
bank clearings increased from 1922 100000 in 1869
to $3014 600 900 in 1908 Its tonnage of merchan.
disc received and forwarded was 20,162,OOO tons
for the first six months of this year. It's bank
resources reported June 49, 1909 at 1885 SS1, OO0
more than double the total of the tenth year back
Such figures illustrate much more than local
progress. they are mid-cOntinenta before they
become local, in the sense that the people of the
whole area between the Allegheny and Rocky
mountains are now eXertng energies and ut
1Zlng new forces of growth, unforeseen even as
late as lO years ago. AS the percentages OF this
growth are OF course greatest west of the Missis
sippi river, ST Louis has almost made itself over"
in Is years in growing up to the new growth OF
the country. Since it began work for the worlds
fair, celebrating the Louisiana purchase it has
learned to look back on itself in the last decade of
the nineteenth century as "old St. Louis" In
looking back to the older st. Louis of 1902 1t can
boast that as frontier outpost it led the progress
Of the continental United States. In looking for
ward, in it's centennial year, it can see that the
IF tho Cfnr 1,oc
the beginnings of greater results, which belong to
the immediate future of the continental United
States, whose progress makes the frontier town OF
1909 the lnidcontinental city of 1909.
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FAVORED DOGS IN GERMANY
Dachshund Is the Most Popular Varl.
ETY., the English Bulldog Be-
Ing Second Choice.

The dachshund Is the favorite dog
in Germany, and very useful and
Pleasant companion he seems to be.
The English bulldog is good second
in popularity, and the nearer he is to
our standard points the better he is
liked. The fox terrier varies good
deal in size and marking and is evil
IDENTIFY not so we'll known in Germany
as he deserves to be.
The ladies there are as fond OF
tllei, little Poms and their King
Charleses as are their English sis
tiers of their pet dogs at home.
Some few dogs in the streets are
harnessed to four wheeled trucks
Usually man and dog pull. The
work seemed too heavy and exhaust
Ing for the dogs, which are generally
mongrels of the mastiff type. They
look in fair condition and are not ill
treated.-Farm and Home.
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Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much OF
their attractiveness to the way they
are Numbered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau.
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch. which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
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it still had his companion explorer William
Clark, to stand for the spirit of the American and
French makers of destiny" who thought little
more of starting thousand miles into the I'M
known west from st. Louis than the average st.
Loulsan now thinks of starting for the Pacific
coast in sleeping car
From village of 900 inhabitants to the fourth
city in the United States, with population of
three-quarters of a million, is a wonderful
achievement, but 1t sinks into insignfcance when
compared with the giant strides of the past CEN
fury in the world of SCIENCE commerce. the arts
and every field of endeavor which makes for a
higher and better civilization.
1t is a severe strain on the imagination to at
tempt to bridge over the gap between the mean
ing of an airship crossing the Mississippi river
ut St. Louis this year and what the ancient keel
boats of 1909 meant, they landed at the foot
of Walnut street, where the town was founded in
1894 by the pioneers who had padded and cor
delled their bateaux painfully up the river from
New Orleans under Laclede as he advanced in
the bold attempt to control the fur trade of half
continent with his handful of men.
The keelboat then was no more out of date
than the airship is now 1t was the best modern
boat in 1909 which could be equipped by the CAPT
tai OF ST. Louis, of New Orleans or of Philadel-
phia. Because of it Philadelphia and St. Louis
commanded the east and west movement of bust
ness as that north and south was commanded by
New Orleans and st. Louis, as soon as their first
fleets of keelboats were regularly organized. It
helped to make great history, even if it did have
to be pulled up stream by rope dragged by men
on the bank.
This distance in point of change in the way
things are done is almost impossible for the
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Snake Story.

Before he went fishng." said the
town story-teller. he swallowed
bout pint an half Of snakebite rem
edy, an of course you know what that
is? Well, after the snake bit him,
the reptile cut all sorts O. capers, kaze
the remedy went straight to it's head.
Last thing it tried to do wuz to swal-
Ter its tail, an it got itself in the form
of hoop, an I'm liar eff the chill
dren didn't roll it around all day!"-
Atlanta Constitution.
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HE MIGHTY activities and marvellous progress the
world has in the past 100 years strikingly
illustrated in the centennial celebration of the incor
poraton Of st. Louis. Picturesque pageants with
everything in the way of the spectacular which is
most likely to stir the imagination of the spectator
into approaching the work Of the past through
trass with the present feature the weeks program.
The greater part of the history Of early St. Louis
is really more fit for the unwritten American epic
poem than it is for prose. It's work frontier
town in the first half of the nineteenth century made
mi tai cit Of
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GRAFT FOWL BONE ON JAW.

An unusual surgical operation performed at
st. Joseph's hospital, in Omaha, recently. DOR
ton OF the jawbone of Lucretia Norris was re-
moved and piece of chicken bone inserted in the
place of diseased section
The girl is six years old, and was born with
uniformed jaw 1t was to remedy this that bone
from freshly killed chicken was inserted.
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NO FRIENDS.

Cashier-Youll have to bring some
one to identify you before we can
cash this check. Got any friends in
the town?
Stranger-Not one. I'm the tax col.
lectOr.
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WHY SUFFER FROM A COLD
when few drops of Perry Davis Painkiller taken
promptly in some hot water milk will prevent It'll
~ Arc, S5c and soc bottles. At all dealers.
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/HZ <LLI/IL1I/vC ar
SZLNZIS BY LAcLEOE. |
5y SEEcZAL 4ER7/S S/oH ERon
NE 17iH77rG BY I'll. SI00OARD K
mind. In point of
fact in St. Louis it
is only a matter of
the third generation
between keelboat
and aeroplane. In
1907 the first air
ship on record as
crossing the Missis-
sippi river crossed
it at st. Louis dur
ing the internation-
81 GOVT ~--A- -"
year. It is something
W itli!L4--
part of the record to
which belongs the his
tory of the first loco
motive crossing the
Mississippi at st. Louis
in 1852 to complete
the work of the st.
Louis argonauts of
1S49, crossing to the
Pacific in their "prai-
rie schooners."
If we suppose aero
planes and airships
circling in the air
above the st. Louis
keelboat landing of a
hundred years ago we
may imagine, if we
can, how they appear
to the men whose
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Sure Sign Of Love

Sure Sign Of Love.
$50 you think he's really in love.
eh?"
mo doubt about it. Why, he thinks
she's attractive in auto goggles"
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Palm tree prosperity does not de-
pend upon weather or climate.
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Its business pioneers, establishing the first centers
is interested with St. Louis in celebrating this
founding the first great city of the trans-Missis
made the western beginnings now explained in
scores of other western cities and in actual thou
sands OF other incorporated towns, which, if they
are not already great, are not unduly modest in
their expectations of becoming so. The invi-
tation to a thousand mayors of American cities
to participate in the festivities shows that st.
Louis fully appreciates it's position as the pioneer
city of the great west
AS there were less than 200 houses, including
outhouses and barns, in the st. Louis which incor-
porated in 1909, it could not have had much over
500 people. The town was already the chief seat
OF the western fur trade, with it's trading stations
pushed to the headwaters of the Arkansas and far
towards the sources of the Missouri and the Vel
lowstone. Doing business wholly by barter, with
almost no money in hand in sight or in circula-
ton, with resources represented almost wholly by
the spirit Of its 900 people; with the ak and rife
and blacksmith's sledge it's Implements with
the one-horse cart, the keeboat and canoe as its
transportation facilities the little town, when it
incorporated, already looked it's work as that
OF opening up the United States of the future to
the Rocky mountains and beyond them to the Pa
cific In 1909 it had lost Meriweather Lewis but
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second half the
between the Rio Grande and the Canadian border and
the Mississippi
from the the Ohio the mouth of the Missouri and of the
the
of
its
founding
the beginnings