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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
SCOUTS IDEA OF MARRIAGE.
crunty Massachusetts Bachelor Of
Eighty Years Has Most Decided
Views on The Matter.

Eighty years OF single bleBsednesa 10
the record Of Moses r. stowe, M Of
the oldest residents OF Grafton, Mass.
Not a woman crosses the threshold
Of his cozy home.
m makes no difference who or what
the womH h; she wouldn't get inside
OF this house" he says. Even won.
on peddlers create a different atmos
phere when they only knock AZ the
door.
Marry? Well, I should ray not You
don't know what that word means
Why. look at all Of the men In this
country who have fastened them.
selves % women whom they ~protessed
TO love, and now want I get aE far
away from femininity as they can. I
wouldn't marry the best woman that
ever lived. I tell yen. they are trou
BILE brewers; they always have been
and always win be.
! had lots Of girl friends when I
was a young fellow. but when there
was any chasing to be done they we're
the ones who did IT, never allowed
myself TO become infatuated with a
girl as I knew Il would be my end"
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
INToLERABLE ITCHING.
Fearful Eczema All over Baby's Face
professional Treatment Failed.
A Perfect Cure BY cu,leura.

when my little girl was six months
old noticed small red spots on her
right cheek. They grew SO large that
l sent for the doctor but, instead OF
helping the eruption. his ointment
seemed 10 make 4 verse Then I
went to a second doctor who said Il
vas eczema He also gave me an ONT.
ment which did o help either. The
disease spread all over the face and
the eyes began 10 swell The itching
grew iutulerahle and II was a terrible
sight TO @ I consulted doctors for
months. but they were unable 10 curo
the baby. ! paid out FROM $50 20 $40
without relief. One evening I began
20 8 the Cuticura Remedies The
next morning the haby's face was all
white instead OF red. I continued until
the eczema entirely disappeared. Mira
p f. Gumbin. sheldon, la. July -, 'OS
POtaoF pruE A chsuL Corr. Holo rrepA Buioa
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
Beginning Right

"Youg folks must be mighty oXecp
uonally fond OF eggplant remarked
the gr0cera clerk Ia the deacon's son
whom tho two met after the church
services one Sunday Your father
ordered two dozen of EN- yesterday
"Oh. that's easily explained You
see dads been reading about the
latest methods Of chicken.raising, and
ne decided to try the business. Al.
though the books advised beginners
20 purchase adult fowls. dad decided Il
was better 10 start with the eggplant"
-Harpor's Weekly,
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
A Tail R.nr story.

why. once. do you know. I found a
bear inside a hollow log. Well OF
course. / couldn't get az him 60 shoot
him. and the log was too heavy TO
move. I didn't know what 10 do. So az
last I thought OF cutting four holes
IN the log. about where the bears
feet must be. and ! got his paws
through slick Then tlod a rope
atcut the log and made him walk with
Il into camp And-Wouid you be.
liove tive had an our food and all
"a fuel Tor The Water out OF that "A
deal Outing
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

exertion. until. tired Of combating In
vain against a spirit which victory
cannot subdue. our enemies win vac
uate soil, and your country retire.
an immense loser from the contest
No, sir! We have made up our minds
90 bide the issue OF approaching strug.
gle, and though much blood may be
spilled. we have no doubt OF our ulti.
mate success After reading these
lines We no longer hesitate 10 believe
that Carroll would eagerly put down
his address. 80 that they may not
hang the wrong man"
The convention contained 20 law.
yers. 6 physicians, 9 merchants. Z
farmers. 3 soldiers, I printer. 2 states.
men, ! minister. 1 surveyor and .
shoemakers. among them four
brothers, John and Samuel Adams and
Richard Henry and Francis L. Lee.
The statement that Jefferson was
the youngest member Of the conyen.
ton Is wrong. There were six who
were his juniors. and the boy mem
Der" was Edward Rutledge Of South
Carolina. and he was 20 years old.
while the oldest was James Smith Of
Pennsylvania. who was 66 years old.
They did not sign by roll call nor by
colonies, as is often published. but
rather by volunteer and inclination.
John Hancock signing first. Samuel
Adams next. Phil Livingston follow
ine. Robert Treat Paine fourth. with
Thomas Hayward last, or number So.
John Morton was FIRST to die, date be.
ing April. i777 tage $50. while Charles
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

Laundry work az homo would be
much satisfactory n the right
Starch were used, In order TO set the
desired stiffness, Il IL usually noccs.
Hary 10 use DO much starch that tho
beauty and oneness OF the fabric Is
hidden behind q paste OF varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance. but also Affects the wear
lng quality o. the EoodA This trou.
Bile can be- entirely overcome by using
Defiance starch, rs Il can be applied
much more thinly because OF Us great.
or strength than other makes.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

kind. and doing
Il quickly. JEFF
ferson. 10 relat
ing the tncI-
dent. laughed.
since the really
mere summers
ay Incident
aided in giving
us freedom
Delegates for
;ot the dignity
OF the occasion
and removed
their coats. and
this only in
creased the o
sibiuU OF At
tack by the
Singing ao1.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
h DID Ne Meant

Mr. Brown and bis family were
standing Ia front OF the Hons cage.
John, said Mss. brown. II these
animals were to escape. whom would
you save FIRST. me OF the childreng"
me. answered John, without hest.
tntton -Evorybody's Magazine.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

Little children are suffering every day
in the year with spuins. bruises, cui
bumps and burns. Hamlius Wizard oil
Is banishing these aches and pains evcrv
day ia the year, the world over.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

HERE is an old Latin say
ing which says The
voice Of the people is the
voice Of God. and no bet.
ter evidence exists in
proof Of this phrase than
the American Magma
Charta ~ the Declaration
Of independence In this
document are enumerated
a few Of the truths which
struggling humanity has
L.nnal 49,
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

He Is n mar OF power who, when an
his fellows are swayed by some am.
biton cor passion, remains calm and
unmoved-Cfest0n
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01
GRATIS.

Youth Cat a bun emporium)-I say.
you know. this milk is sour.
Sweet Thing-Well, there's plenty
Of sugar on the table. Amt there2
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-07-01

just 100000 tons Of butter ana
cheese we're eaten ~ over the world.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Holding the Breath.

It is a physical impossibility for a man to kill himself by holding his breath. Individuals differ greatly in the length of time they can hold their breath, and what practice and deter mined effort, combined with natural great lung capacity, can do in this di- rection is shown by the long periods for which champion divers can remain under water. If a man succeeded in continuing to hold his breath in spite of the physical discomfort in which he had placed himself the result would simply be to induce a state of coma. When this state was reached nature would reassert herself, and the breath ing functions would again resume full activity, preventing a fatal issue in spite of their owners desire.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
A Finger PiIIory.

The finger pillory is still preserved carefully in the parish church of St. Helen Ashby- and is thus described: "An ancient and rather sin gular curiosity is a finger pillory. This instrument seems to have been used for the punishment of disorderly per sons during divine service. It consists of two upright posts about three feet high, which support a beam of nearly the same length, in which are bored holes of various dimensions, cut first horizontally, then perpendicularly, in order that the first joint of the finger may be inserted and the finger retained in an angular form. The culprit is then secured by bringing down over the holes another beam which Is attached by hinge at the end to one of the posts and fastened at the other by a Academy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
THE FARMER: APRIL 12, 1909
A wond@rfu1 sen~ft,ve r1.nt.

A Wonderful Sentative Plant.
 An incident related by the author of 'sThe Pearl of India" in his description of the flora of Ceylon is almost un- canny, although we are assured that 1t Is true. It Is about the mimosa, or sensitive plant, and makes one almost wonder whether the plant has intelli- gence. The doctor. one of the charac- ters of the book. while sitting with the family on the broad piazza which form ed the front of the bungalow of a coffee plantation recognized 8 thrifty sensitive plant, and it was made the subject of remark. He called his young daughter of eleven years from the. house.
 'Lena,' said he, Ego and kiss the mi mosa."
 The child did so, laughing gieefully. and came away. The plant gave no tok- en of shrinking from contact with the pretty child.
 "Now," said the host, twill you touch the plant?"
 Rising to do so, he approached 1t with one hand extended, and before 1t had come fairly in contact the nearest spray and leaves wilted visibly.
 'The plant knows the child" said the doctor, "but you are stranger"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Inside Your Ronex

People usually imagine that their bones are of solid mineral construc- ton, without any feeling in them. As a matter of fact, there are blood yes sels and nerves inside the bones just as there are outside. During amputa- tion of a limb much more pain is felt when the bone is attacked than when the flesh is being cut through. Through the marrow which is inside the bones run the nerves and blood vessels, en- tering the bones from the flesh without by little holes. Nature adapts the bony structure of various animals to their habits in a very interesting manner. Sluggish creatures, like the sloth. have solid bones, whereas the bones of the deer and the antelope are comparative ly light, so that they may run fast, and the leg bones of the ostrich are hollow. You will find in the bones of any skel- eton the application of mechanical principles which have only become known to man through the processes of laborious and long considered in vention.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
A Bridge of Crocodf1es.


 A traveller writes of port in north. western India: 'The great sight of Karachi is the sacred crocodile pre- serve at Magar Pir, some seven miles off. There are hot springs here which feed a shallow tank containing nearly a hundred crocodiles. The story, usu- ally thought to be fictitious, of the Eng lishman who for bet crossed the tank by jumping successively from the backs of these crocodiles is based on fact. The hero of this foolhardy feat was a certain Lieutenant Beresford, a friend of Sir R. F. Burton. When Bur- ton and his companion were visiting the crocodiles' tank they noticed that these reptiles and certain islets of reeds happened to make an almost cont1nu- ous bridge across the tank. This prompted the daring subaltern to haz- ard the feat of crossing by hopping from one crocodile to another. To the engagement of the spectators he sue ceeded in this apparently mad attempt. Sir Richard Burton had already sue cessfully performed an equally daring feat. He managed to muzzle croco- dile by means of a lasso and then jumped on the reptiles back and en- joyed a somewhat zigzag ride"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12

Vegetable Compound has done for me during this trying period. Complete restoration to health means so much to me that for the sake of other suffer- ing women I am willing to make my trouble public so you may publish this letter. CHAs. BARCLAY, RED, Graniteville, Vt.
 No other medicine for woman's ills has received such widespread and un- lualified endorsement. No other med Icine we know of has such record Df cures of female ills as has Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
 For more than 80 years it has been curing female complaints such as inflammation, alteration, local weak hesses, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains backache. indigestion n unequalled for carrying women safely through the period of change of life. It costs but little to try Lydia B. PimkhAm's Vegetable Compound, and, esMrsr Barclays ysays,it is 'sworth noun tains Of gold to suffering women.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Mime. Scarron.

Mime. Scarron, afterward the famous Mime. de Maintenon, the wife of Louis XIV, was in her girlhood remarkably beautiful. She was dark, with piercing black eyes and wavy hair. In middle life her gravity of countenance and of department was considered quite ex traordinary in that age of gayety. One of her contemporaries said that she did not smile once a year, and yet she was not gloomy, but only of a sedate habit of mind,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Cigar. Before Breakfast.

''The proper time to test a cigar or stogy is in the morning before break fast" said a tobacconist. Naturally, early morning smoking is not healthy, but it is very discriminating. Try it by smoking samples of your favorite brands in the early morning and you can depend upon your judgment.''- Pittsburg Press
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
A Monster God Home.

In Mexico are found ruins of an cient Aztec teoca1lis. or "god houses, D some of which are thousands of years old. One of these, near Cholula, is in the form of a truncated pyramid. Each side of the base of this pyramid is 1 1,423 feet, which is twice the length of the great pyramid Of Egypt. The height of this Mexican wonder is 177 feet, and it's base covers an area of forty-four acres.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12

People past middle life usually have some kidney or bladder disorder that saps the vitality which is naturally lower in old age. Fo1eyS Kidney Remedy corrects urinary troubles, stimulates the kidneys, and restores strength and vigor. It cures uric acid troubles by strengthening the kidneys so they will strain out the uric acid that settles in the muscles and joints causing rheumatism. F. B. Brill. local agent. A135
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
(To bs Continued.l
Doctors' Latin.

At it's best it must be admitted that doctors Latin is, in the words of g dis tinguished professor, doggy and me- daeval." For our own part we would go so far as to say that it is more doggy than mediaeval. At its worst it is monstrum horrendum with which no respectable dog would own kinship. British Medical Journal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Triumph of Art.

Miss Peachley (exhibiting her new hat)-I know you won't like it. Miss Tartun-But I do, dear. I never saw any thing more artistic than that ar engagement of the flowers. It hides the shape of it beautifully.-Chicago Trib- npa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Just Like the Little Injun..

feacher-How many commandments are there, Sally? Sally-Please, teach CT, ten. Teacher-Suppose you were to break commandment Expressive pause.) Sally-Then there'd be nine Punch.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Tanning a Rat.

A trapped rat may easily be tanned by allowing no water but that offered in a spoon for the creature soon learns to recognize the hand which supplies this all important necessary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
Owned Up.

Redd-I saw a picture up at the ex- hibition of cart drawn by a donkey. Greene-Yes; it was. I drew it.-Yon. kers Statesman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12

1EOu nervousness andother annoying symptoms, and I can truly say that iaE.Pinkham's
 Vege table Com pound has proved
 worth mountains of gold to me, as it restored my health and strengt tn. I never forget to tell my friends what Pinkham'S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
WORTH MOUNTAINS
 OF GOLD
During Change of Life, says Mrs. Chas. Barclay

GraniteFille, Vt.-'sI was passing through, ,khe Change of Life and suffered
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12

yle nesse< vne< yoa wnns uy shs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
HOTEL HAMILTON
OPENED DECEMBER .

100 rooms, 100 baths. addition for fl1fs season. Most desirab1y located on high ground overlooking harbor. 4 stone structure, with all the com- forts and conveniences. Send for iI- 1usfrafed booklet and information to osa< New York Hotel Arlington" 25th Gf and Broadway. GA most conven- fent hotel to stop at en route.)
 k(Rma. F. IugoId. Mgr, .,HamiIton, Bermuda
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-12
B E R M U D A

Eng1and's most favored possession. An ideal climate with the most ex- Quisite co1oring of flowers, water. birds and fishes. Delightful drives, charm Ing scenery. Absolute rest and quiet under balmy skies. A short, pleasant 9ext voyage, by a large new steamer Golf. tennis boating, fishing.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-16
A VICTORY FOR ENTERPRISE

The Silver Belt wishes to congratulate the people of Globe on the signal vic tory won on Wednesday, when $200,000 worth of improvement bonds were vot- ed. While the victory was not entirely complete, it was triumph of sufficient magnitude to encourage the enterprising and progressive element and spur them on to greater future effort.
 In wrestling the water plant from the hands of q private company and plac- ing it's magnificent revenues at the dis posal of the city, the taxpayers have laid solid foundation for many other improvements without materially in creasing the tax rate. The water plant, as so often stated by the Silver Belt during the past few weeks, will pay the interest and principal on bond issue of s300,0O0 and leave balance in the city treasury. There is no question about this statement, and because the Silver Belt knew it, having in it's posses sion facts and figures to verify its as- sertion, it insisted on the people voting the sewer bonds. Sewers would havs come to the city as 8 precious gift. Taxes would not have been raised, and almost immediately s75,0o0 would have been paid to local labor, which soon would havs found its way into the tills of Globe business houses. But the sewer question is not dead and at an early day bonds for this purpose will be voted. We believe that if the question was submitted to the people today that bonds would carry by a five to one vote. The progressive portion of the city's population will insist upon an early settlement of the sewer problem and the Silver Belt will not allow 1t to slumber. There is much encouragement however, in the step already taken, and its goodly influences will early be felt,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-16
MEMORIES OF THE DEAD
Picture Those Who Are Gone as They
 Were in Life.

William Dean Towels, in Harpe: s
 Bazaar.
 I would have the niourners grieve all their sorrow out and not stay from dwelling on their loss. Without fully realizing this, they cannot begin to retrieve it. Keep before you, would conjure them, the vision of the face. the form, you shall see no more on earth, and let it pass only by itself, hoping, longing for it's return when it fades away. But do not frame this image from the memories of the dead in their hours of sickness, or even in the hours after pain when they take on tho majesty and beauty of eternal peace. Those hours are but as instants in the long tale of the years that went before.
 Return in your tenderness, turn again in your despair, to the records of those happier years, and reconstruct from them the truer likeness of your beloved. See him gay and glad, full of life and purpose, of work and play, of jest and earnest, such as he vertically was, and do not wrong him by the presentment of his suffering or its nor tai surcease. Make him your own again by putting this out of your thoughts, and inviting into them the semblance of hin when his life was the habit of your own, ard he was most himself in some fortunate, some joyous moments.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-16
WHY LUMBER IS COSTLY
Lumbernen Waste Half of Every Tree
 They Cut.

Rudolf Cronan in Mcclure $.
 Er Bristol, chief of the section of wood chemistry, states that 50 per cent CT more of the average tree as it stands in the forest, is wasted before reaching tho market ill the form of lumber. He says, further, that the timber cut has increased from 1s,oc0,ooo,o0o board feet in 1sso to 5o,OO0, 100000 board feet in 1906, and that our present consump- ticn of wood in all forms is equivalent to at least 100000, ,ooo,0o0 board feet annually, and possibly much more.
 Further, it may be new to you that white pine, in former years the greatest of all our lumber trees and the only wood digrifod with the name of ''piAe," has, under the heavy drain upon it, so fallen of that its domina- ton of the lumber market has practi- cally ceased. Tn from ten to fifteen years the supply of other woods-for instance, the yellow pine and the Douglas fr--will be just as limited as that of white pine now. Rapidly de- creas.ng also, is our supply of hard woods, the prices of which go up high CT and higher. White oak went up from SIS in 1890 to SS5 in 1907, nick ory from SSS to S55, and yellow poplar from $29 to $53. Expert foresters pro claim that we are, without having made any provisions against it, dangerously near hardwood famine, which will strike at tho very foundation of some of the country's most important indus tries.
 Since 1870 forest fires have each year destroyed an average of fifty lives and S50,000,000 worth of timber. Not less than 5o,oo0,ooo acres of forest is burned over yearly.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-16
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON
tBeing the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth W
TRANSLATED BY MAUD MARIE

Oh daughter heed wisdom and observe my ways that all men to hee Shs darling and dem Yet think not be- marriage that he shall try to thee after make thee yea to model thee. For wife quite right Loi choossth fool chooseth garment by lamp light moonlight he hath gotten her home he waeh match furnishings daylight crying Aa What thought hath turned out indigo buel To- have been done!''
 Yea he that weddh fluffy thing with roue and dmpe shall with fghten the butch and keep the cook in subjection. And he that seeceh Juno that shneth womans club and derstandeh dle him him with baby talk and lovepats a readeth Ibsen shall ogeteh and the milk boish
 his perspectve
  disposition and of her temper
 But let not thy troubled alter
 
  she that become kitten all grub Verify verify hankeh for committing moral and suicidei he something he he something Selah!
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-16
Morning Smiles

 He bought house, he bought lot, Ill district rather tony; He kept the house, but she took the lot
 As grounds for alimony. Tommy, do you know anything about heaven?'' "Yes m, it's different from the earth. The people there live on the inside of it.''
 "How do you make that out7' ''Why, we say 'on earth and in heaven.''' ''The oak is my favorite trse,'' said
 she. She paused and he took the cue. "If have 8 favorite tree," said he, Ut is undoubtedly yew.''
 *k# No other name
 To Burbank's fame
 Conld ever hold a candle, If that wise gent
 Would but invent
 A melon with handle.
 sSm "so you are a bill collector" "Yes, that is my calling. What are you7''
 ''oh, I'm piano tuner That is my listening
  1T say, old pal, why do you take the paper away from your bride?" 'oh, because the reward for my ar rest is advertised she's 80 nerv- ous.''
 Judge Which of you wants this di- vorce tho more, you or your wife? Actor-We both want it. but our managers want it most of all. So you wish to buy some furniture on credit? What do you do?'' ''I'm a librarian Have you any references?'' ''Yes."
 Where are they? ''In the reference room at the n- brary."
 ''Pa, did you have to ask ma more than once to get her to promise to be yours7"
 ''Yes. I think asked her four or five times.''
 "GeeI guess you didn't give her much time to think between askings did you?''