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The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
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The Chinese pupil reciting his lesson turns his back to the teacher
 The American red gum Is entering largely into the manufacture of furni- ture. Early objections to its use have been overcome.
 Platform tickets are issued by some German railroads for the use of non- travellers who wish to say good-by to departing friends.
 The smallest dog Is probably the in the palm of the hand or may be concealed in bunch of flowers.
 The practice of cutting the claws of the more ferocious animals of the Lon don geological garden has recently been greatly facilitated by chloroform. ing the animals. Heretofore 1t was done by sheer force of a squad of men the animal being. first secured by ropes.
 Mrs. Taft years ago began collecting silver cups in lieu of fragile crystal glasses from which water usually is served. She has now a dozen or two cups. and in the family circle she uses them constantly. They are all of uni form size but of different designs. and have been purchased in many for eign countries. At the breakfast table each member of the family has his own cup appropriately engraved
 The Paris street with the longest name is La Rue des Pretres-S -Saint-Ger- main-p pAuxerrois. In Brussels Is La Rue de la Herbes- -Potag. eres. The Belgian metropolis has a suburb bearing the name Onegeschu- perdezilvercokkernolj Holland eclipses these with Alblasserdammer andarenopsteckersvs ergaderinlokaal. which signifies "the meeting room of the street lamp lighters of Albasser- damn"
 China is becoming thoroughly Yan- keeized. The people there have gone daft over recently introduced American sewing machines and ice cream freez- CTS. In the cities the streets are blocked with men. women and children crowding around the vendors, who make the ice cream as they sell It. l Operators on the sewing machine in south China are paid s5 a month for | working nine hours a day, seven days in the week.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
ISLAND PERMITS HOME
JameS Willis Was 25 Years Alone,
 Yet He Entertained Thousands.

James Willis, the hermit of Willis island in the Delaware at Yardley, Pa, has just celebrated the twenty. fifth anniversary of his habitation there, during which time he has en- tertained at his cabin more than 1000 prominent visitors from all parts of the country, the Philadelphia Record says. One of the first things neces- sary for a visitor to do when calling on MT. Willis is to register in large book, after which the guest Is ob- liged to partake of generous hopftal ity.
 Of course, there are scores of per sons near by who are frequent visitors to the island, coming almost every day, but they are not counted among the guests required to register.
 Twenty-Five years ago MT Willis was a business man in Philadelphia, and. coming here for few weeks vacation was favorably impressed with the is land. which was then a wilderness. To day it has very different appearance and the cabin in which he lives is fit ted up with every m arn convenience, all the work of the owner. The place is secretly wired and everything is within the power of electricity.
 Electricity opens the doors, closes the windows. operates fans to make breezes and many are the jokes played upon his visitors by MT. Willis. for not even a book can be picked up with out feeling the presence of an unseen force.
 While residing here MT. Willis has met with many discouragements. floods having several times practically clean. ed the island of everything habitable. With renewed energy. however. he has rebuilt and to-day the island is the envy of hundreds who love outdoor life.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
HOME OF PILLAGER INDIANS.
IL Is Near the Canadian Border
 North of Lake Superior.

It Is Near the Canadian Border, North of Lake Superior. A long, deep, clear and very cold body of water called Burnside lake
 north of Lake Superior, near the Can. 100 other beautiful islands, a certain sunny islet. that Is of great interest to the archaologist, says Records of the Past.
 These islands and waters constitute the hereditary home of the Pillager Indians. who are pagans. One of these islands (kneEn as Flower island) is, as 1t has been for generations, the seat of the Pillager kings. On 1t sleep, according to tribal traditions, over fifty successive Pillager rulers, the ances- tors of the present chief or king. who, he says, must have reigned an average of thirty or forty years each, as he himself has been chief for more than half century.
 The more modern graves are care fully roofed with cedar bark, which, when kept dry and away from the earth Is almost imperishable. The very ancient graves have been essen tially obliterated by the ravages of the elements. At the head of each of the traceable graves is carved the pc culiar heraldic Insignia of the king who sleeps beneath and above him are placed receptacle for the mah-no-min (wild rice), fish, berries and other food which are brought annually by the re- lated members of the tribe to appease, as they suppose. the hunger of the departed.
 Undoubtedly. if half as much money as is being expended in the excava- tions of Africa and Asia Minor were placed in scientific hands for the pur- pose of uncovering pre-Caucasion civil ization in America, the results would be even more definite and satisfactory and perhaps more valuable.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
niscinIIne UpheId.

In speaking of his mothers unswerv- ing discipline, John D. Rockefeller. in Random "Reminiscences, says she up held the standard of the family with a birch switch when it showed a ten dency to deteriorate. and excuses were not encouraged. On one occasion. when he was being punished for some unfortunate doings which had taken place in the village school. he felt call ed upon, he says, to explain after the whipping had begun that he was inno- cent of the charge.
 Never mind," said my mother. "We have started in on this whipping. and it will do for the next time." This attitude was maintained to its final con clusion in many ways.
 One night, I remember, we boys could not resist the temptation to go skating in the moonlight, notwith- standing the fact that we had been expressly forbidden to skate at night. Almost before we got fairly started we heard a cry for help, and found a neighbor. who had broken through the ice. was in danger of drowning. By pushing a pole to him we succeeded in fishing him out. and restored him safe and sound to his grateful family.
 AS we were not generally expected to save a mans life every time we skated, my brother William and I felt that there were mitigating circum- stances connected with this particular disobedience which might be taken into account in our mothers judgment, but this idea proved to be erroneous.
 The amount of your fortune is al ways exaggerated, so that stories that You are stingy will go better
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
Varied Formula.

Did he tell the whole truth?"
 Practically. He told the truth with a hole just large enough for him tc crawl out of it."-Puck.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

The amount of your fortune is al ways exaggerated, so that stories that YoW are stingy will go better
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

away. NHdI lAC uoC Ol says Tom, with a nice home ready and me with good job?' And she's going to be so much company for me, he says. Oh, the boy of it. the boy of it." she sighed. And there's no use saying a word against 1t, not a word, he's that firm and decided"
 She had it out with herself and then, her rebellion ended. she turned to plans for Toms future.
 When the time comes, I'll be going and give the lad the home. No house is big enough for two families. To be sure, I'm small bit of family all by myself, but I've had me own way for so long, I'd be interfering without knowing what I was doing. John Don nelly was right. l could never play second fiddle and there's no use in my trying to tune it."
 I he tears sprang to her eyes at the thought of saying good-by 10 the place which she and Tom had worked so hard to pay for and furnish. She loved every inch of it. She loved everything it contained, and yet. for the sake of her son, SIG was uStermiueu uC leave it.
 If was to die" she thought, it would all belong to the lad. so I'll give him his share whilst I'm here and see him enjoy it. l wonder where I'll be going when I move out
 In imagination she already saw her self departing. she knew not whith- CT, and was overwhelmed with a sense of desolat;on. It was at this point in her reflections that John Donnelly
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HE FOUGHT WITH JOHN BROWN
One of the Survivors Tells of the
Battle of Osawatomie.
Paola Correspondence Kansas City Star

correspondence hhHSds lily star.
One OF the three survivors of the bat
tie of Osawatomie who will be at the
dedication OF the battlefield as a state
park August 81 is Capt. Robert E. Shear
er of Paola. Mr.. Shearer is now more
than eighty years old and he has lived
In Miami county fifty-six years.
The other known survivors are Luke
Parsons Of Salina and Capt. John s. Edie
Of Levo. IL Henry kilbourne is still liv-
ing he is a fourth survivor. Kilbourne
was at the celebration at Osawatomie
two years ago and was not In good health
at that time. His address is not known
here.
Mr.. Shearer remembers wildly the
events OF the battle at Osawatomie.
fought August 80, 1856 John Brown, Dr.
manded the defense. and Gen. John w.
Reid the attacking party of four hundred
Missourians. Gen. Reds command after
crossing the Marais des Cygnes river at
Bundys ford, four miles west OF Osa-
watomie. approached the town about
daylight.
John Brown had about forty men
under his command" Mr.. Shearer said.
He lined up his force on the south
bank OF the river In the timber. Reid 8
approach was made known by the firing
they did about a mile west OF town. They
killed David Garrison and Fred Brown.
son OF John Brown. and wounded George
Cutter severely. leaving him for dead.
Reid formed hts command just west
OF the town and eighty rods south OF
Browns command. He unlimbered q six
FOUNDER cannon and the battle began q
little after sunrise. The free state forces
moved east, returning the fire or the
enemy. who finally ceased firing the can
non and made a charge into the timber,
when the main body of the free state
men, having CALAMITY held their ground
| for more than an hour against ten times
their number were compelled 10 retreat.
| Most of them crossed the Marais des
| Cygnes some swimming and others in a
| skin Three were taken prisoners. George
Partridge, T. p. Powers and William
Williams were killed. DR.. Ipdegran and
u. w. Coils were wounded.
| I'm the battle six men were killed and
i four wounded on the free state SIDE and
II is not known how many OF the Mis-
| sourians We're killed
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Youth and Sleep.
From Golfers.


Sleep has been viewed variousy by the
best thinkers of many periods Sir Thomas
Browne compared II to death. The same
thought was in Shakespeares mind when
he spoke Of deaths counterfeit and
thou ape OF DEATH Cervantes, however
came much closer 10 the modern concep-
ton Of sleep. He had Sancho Panza in
vented il and then indulge in this ora
ton: 1T covers a man all over thoughts
and ALL like cloak; IL is meat for the
hungry, drink for the thirsty. heat for the
cold and cold for the hot. 1t Is the cur
rent coin that purchases all the pleasures
OF the world cheap. and the balance that
sets the king and the shepherd, the fool
and the wise man, even" And in his eli
max the faithful squire cried out against
thinking OF sleep as form of death. Per-
haps it is only among young men or In
youthful age of the world, such as the
izabethan. that sleep isn't given its due
Both ambition and gayety grudge res,
any extra time. Yet when we come &c
Coleridge the attitude OF the age has
changed. and the note often heard is:
20 sleep. II il a gentle thing.
Beloved from pole to pole.''
And to bring the discussion up to the
minute we have only to quote Editor E(
Howe of Atchison, Kansas, who ha,
summed Up the mental progress of cen
turtles on this subject with 50 much force
that his words ring Of cynicism:
When a man is real young there seems
he regrets the loss Of the little time h,
has to devote to sleep: but in time hi
learns that sleep Is about as interesting q
the rest Of It. and more aatiafactogY:
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WESTINGHOUSE FLAG.
How the Stars Were Arranged on
the Blue Field.

From the PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
Another valuable relic of Washington
has been recently added to the Valley
Forge Museum Of American History. This
is Washington's headquarters flag. His
marquee was purchased by the museum
last fall after having been exhibited for
years in the National Museum at Wash
ington. 1t was his first headquarters
here and was used by him throughout the
war of the revolution.
Now through the courtesy Of Miss
Frances b. Lowell, descendant OF Betty
Lewis the sister of Washington, the flag
of the patriots is exhibited with the ia
nous war tent.
For years the flag has been a treas
ured heirloom in Miss LovelIs family
and few have known of its existence
Upon her fathers death she became its
owner. II was known TO the family as
"Washngton's headquarters flag"
THAT il is the unidentified flag Of
Peale's portraits there can be no doubt.
saws the Rev w Herbert Burk, founder
Of the museum, and who obtained the
treasured relic THE flag OF one pic
ture'' says the Rev. Mr.. Burk, lis a blue
jack with thirteen stars The flag now In
with thirteen stars. the blue faded anC
| the stars yellow with age"
The flag is thirty-six inches long anC
| twenty Eight inches wide. The headns
| is of homespun linen, with three eyelet.
worked with thread. The stars are 81,
| pointed, double stitched and the silk bacl
| Of them has been cut out to show tn,
/ arranged in a circle. but in lines follow
ing the crosses OF the British flag which
/ the Rev. Mr.. Burk says, seems to hav,
| been the earlier arrangement.
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AMERICAN WOMAN AS TOURIST,
Hurry Through Europe and Astonish
Old World People.
From the Delineator.


American women go on trips not only
alone. or in small companies. but In large
and. to the foreigner. almost frightening
bands. During the last few years large
assemblages of unmarried women, gro
tesquely denominated Kentucky bellies, or
Jersey beauties. or Kansas peaches, have
traversed Europe i'm a constant hum OF
newspaper notoriety. Sometimes a vot-
ing contest under journalistic auspices
has chosen them as the most popular
young ladies OF their town or state.
Sometimes the enthusiastic suffrage OF
male admirers displayed through coupons
purchased with cigarettes or breakfast
foods has picked them.
They hurry through Europe, seeing
London in three days and Paris In two.
while anxious readers at home are, by
the cable. kept in daily touch with their
impressions. On the continent especially
the ardent and tumultuous youth OF the
Latin races gather, almost in mobs al
the stations to welcome-and inspect
these examples OF the famous American
girl. Judgment is oftenest favorable, but
there was once horrid scene at an Ital-
ian station where a number OF singuarly
plain peaches were actually Missed BY
a mob Of furious and disappointed young
gentlemen
So fantastic do such episodes seem TO
the foreign mind that legends about them
grow apace abroad. For example, one
friend of the author's-in whom he
hastens TO say he puts no trust what
ever-maintains that on the Lake OF
Como he saw a band OF 200 American
widows travelling together. and in crepe
yeilst
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Winter on the Sheep Range.

From Everybody's Magazine.
It's cruel business, this range-sheep
growing. cruel and hard and rough. The
waste OF animal life through starvation.
freezing and smothering in stampedes is
enormous. A few, a very few, flock
masters make provision for hard winters:
but the majority do not. Let there come
a wet snow, falling with little wind. as
happens on some parts of the range each
winter, and the grass Is buried. The
sheep then huddle on their bedding
ground and wait: the herder sits in the
wagon by his stove. reading his maya
zines or smoking his pipe. or chewing
his tobacco. or indulging whatever SINH
lar foible ne may foster. He knows he
cant help the sheep. A regiment of
empty-handed herders could do no more
than one. 1t SHOWS on. the wind blows
afresh. the temperature drops. The wet
snow covering the brown grass out on
the pasture lands takes on a crust of
ice: ice cakes the fieeces of the sheep:
they huddle together. pleading in tremu-
lous bleats for the succor which does not
come. The storm RACES across the wilds.
bending its force upon them. They sink
beneath the weight of hunger and cold
and snow. and perish wailing their an
guish until death stiles their Quavering
lament. Many mans start, many a
mans all. goes this way each year on
the sheep range.
It's cheaper. figures the fockmaster.
In proportion to the cost OF feed when q
man must buy IL. to let a large percen-
tage OF the fiocks starve than to bring
| all through the winter by feeding II
must be remembered that the sheen lost
unless man Is just starting out. rep.
| resents very little. in actual cost OF pro-
duction. to the flockmaster. The range
/ has done all Of II. save the labor of the
herder and his dog.
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check at all times. But the experience
of today attests the need Of truth Baron
Rothschild. one partner in the greatest
financial institution OF the world and
member Of a family presumed 10 have
won wealth along all the channels OF high
finance, declares solemnly for absolute
truth. He asserts that he makes il an
assiduous study to tell the unvarying un-
vanished truth. Whatever the embar-
rassments or apparent present suffering
his rule will permit exceptions In
business, society or church, he urges
plain. simple truth, and the aged man
OF most valuable fund of experience
says he finds this course The easiest TO
pursue after getting out OF the habit or
light prevarication. The truth sustains
itself and requires no elaborate support
or defense. Consistency need never be
studied, when handling the truth All
the vexing problems of deciding when
and where the exception is permissible
and where real benefit might accrue from
falsehood are passed. And on top OF
these conveniences comes the great self
Improvement, which gives confidence.
serenity and poise. These and many
other reasons are advanced as proof that
religious teachings and hoary principles
of society are fundamental with the ku-
man race. and apply 10 the present with
the same force as any past period.
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CANADA'S POPULATION.
Increasing Rapidly, But Room fol-
Many More Millions.
Sew York Commercial

From the New York Commercial.
1t is estimated by the census and sta
tistics branch of the Dominion govern
ment that the population of Canada
March 81 was 7.4S9, 7S1, and the Official
census to be taken in June, 1911. is ex-
pected to show more than eight million
people resident in British North Amer
lea. Twenty years ago the population
was only .S29.411-so IL expectations
are realized. Canada will have nearly
doubled her population in two decades,
which would be a rather remarkable
record. Still, Canada must be consid-
cred as only sparsely settled, for. with
an area of 3,315.647 square miles as
against a continental area of 1857, 600
for the United States, she has only
about one-twelfth as many people.
There are more people resident in New
York city than there are in the two
provinces of Quebec and Ontario COM
bined; the population of New York
state outnumbers that of all British
North America by about one million;
Pennsylvania has more people than are
resident in the Dominion: the residents
of the three maritime provinces are less
by half a million than the population Of
the borough of Brooklyn: the three
prairie provinces now have popula-
ton of 1.1s9.563, about three times its
size ten years ago, and yet IL Is smaller
than that of the one state Of West Vir-
ginia and about the size of that of
Maryland: the population of the prov
ince OF Ontario about equals that OF
the state of Michigan; the province OF
Quebec has 2.154.034 residents. or con-
siderably less than the population of
Chicago and within a radius of fifty
miles from the city hall here in New
York there are great many more peo-
pie than are resident In all of British
North America Still, Canada maintains
an Independent governments confed-
Grafton of provinces-has a standing
army. is providing for navy and has
a merchant marine Of no small proper
tions 1t was announced from Ottawa
recently that at high noon of that day
there were more than six thousand peo-
pie on the Atlantic ocean bound for
points in Canada. and that during the
week ended August Is fully FIVE thou
sand settlers arrived in the Dominion
from foreign lands. There is ample
room for a population of one hundred
million in Canada, and at the present
rate of settlement and development she
bids fair to have that many people be-
fore she is fifty years older.
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Truth a Modern Necessity.

Prom The Portland oorel Telegram.
Tell the truth II IS a scriptural man
date. and embraced in every code OF
ethics published in historic times. But
despite this ancient and universal author
lty, there are those in these modern,
reyolutionizing times who believe white
lies are tolerable and for the best. Bust
ness men lie nearly every day. The real
estate dealer eXaggerates. Horse traders
conceal and distort. In every branch or
our work and every phase Of our life We
md a measure of falsehood. and with
the sweep OF a practical hand condone il
with the reflection that religious and
moral teachers must set rigid examples.
which may have exceptions in practice.
and the further warrant that modern
business conditions are coUched upon a
different social state from that prevailing
when the great writer's and leaders taught
ethics.
II the Bible. with its injunction for alb
Soiute veracity, alone were our guide the
man with shallow thought on a liberal
plane or inclination might classify il with
the extreme doctrine OF turning the other
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Thousands Of men and women who
work every day have lame, weak, acA-
Ing backs.
They do not know that bad backs are
caused by sick kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills have given
strong, sound backs and wells kidneys
IA n multitude Of suffering men and
women.
Backache II usually kidney-ache. the
Kidneys are In the small Of the OacA'
and when they get cOngested, innamed
and swollen q cold. fever, strain OF
hurt will often start the trOublep there
is q dull. heavy. draggy pain right IN
the small OF the back, that changes ~
times to sharp, shooting panEs, or siaD-
like twinges when stOOping or ifinS'
II II torture to bend or straiSnten'
hard 10 sit down or get mp, or even -
turn over in bed. You rise In the morn
ing tired, sore and lame.
And when the urine is dark-coiOre0'
cloudy, or contains sediment like grains
Of sand; when passages are TOO ie
uuent or scanty, scalding not 70"
have double proof that your kidneys
need attention. Neglect may Dfihs oA
gravel, dropsy or . bad case OF nHss
disease or diabetes.