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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07
FOES sTcr!Es WELL BUILT
They Show Constructive Skill and
Gif. Of Decoration That Carried
Them Into Many Languages.

There Is IN the best Of Poe's brief
tales constructive skill. command
OF design. and gift OF decoration
rare in any literature. and almost un-
known in English, which Is ever un-
duly negligent Of form. And no one
need wonder that Poe's short stories
wandered swiftly out of our language
into French and Italian and Spanish,
into German and Scandinavian, and
bohemian. into strange tongues where
no other American author. except
Fenimore Cooper. had ever before
penetrated. HIS weird psychologist
studies have influenced later writers
as unlike as Maupassant and Richie
pin. Fitzjames. O'Brien. Robert Louis
Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling His
tales OF q myEtery solved at last by
observation and deduction have been
initiated by Dumas and Sardou. BY
Gaboriau and Boisgobey. by wilkie
Collins and Conan Doyle. And Sher-
lock Holmes. the only fictitious char
scfer to win international recognition
in tie final years of the nineteenth
century, 10 the reincarnation of q fig
ure first projected by Poe.-Century
Magazine.
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CEaD MAN SANG AT FUNERAL
Pistro Fieeo, Amateur Musician. Left
fhshcoraph Records to Be Used
At His Obsequies.

We hear now and then Of . man
reading his own obituary in the pa
pers. but 1t is a rare things for Z
dead man to sinE at his own funeral
piciro Ficco, shoemaker and ana
eur musician. had a very great fond
ness for the phonograph. He pur-
chased good many records and occa-
sionally sang into his own phono-
graph and kept records OF the songs
He was taken seriously ILL., He real
lied that he could not recover, ard
teinR poor man and unable to get
UP much of 4 funeral he requested
that they use his photograph 10 fur
n!sh the music for the funeral eerv-
ices. He picked out the Angels
Sc -enade," and Gounod's Ave Maria"
sung by himself. and these were used
and thus the dead man took an i'm
ror,ant part at his own funeral serg-
ice. He instructed that his phono-
graph ard ~ records, number OF
them his own. should be sent to his
mother in Italy.-The Christisn Her
aid.
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Interest in Old Books.

Ladies who are looking for some
thing original III the way of an ex-
hibit might find more than the usual
interest in q collection of ehildren's s
books. as supplied by their friends,
no book to bear date of less than
twenty years ago. One such collec-
tion proved most delightful entertaia-
ment. There were quaint Peter Par
ley books and all sorts of books of
grandmother's day. An added attrac-
tion was the personal idea each sug-
sested, with the names OF the original
owners and verses warning not to
steal the precious book on danger of
coming to the gallows in the end and
so on. One woman who is something
OF an invalid has amused herself BY
getting together a collection OF the
old McGunsy schoolbooks that she
used In her childhood. She had some
difficulty In supplying some of the
readers. but finally got them all.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07
suPERsTIT!oNs OF sNE5ZING
Il Wss . Thing - lli-or1en Until tho
Time 81 Jaesb. Say the Jewish
RSbbiS.

Many euperetitions have gathered
around the practise OF sneezins.
The Jewish rabbits say that In the
nrst ages Of the world sneezing was
considered a thing Of i'll omen. and
even q pressge Of death, and that THE
terrible state OF things lasted until
the coming Of Jacob. when that astuts
patriarch, anxious lest he should him
self perish from such an Insignificant
cause. besouSht the Almighty to en-
dow sneezing in future with more
beueficent attributes.
Among the sncients saeezing was
considered lucky or unlucky accord
ing to the circumstance Of time and
place.
For instance, 1t was considered
lucky to sneeze between noon and
midnight, also when - moon Was in
the signs of Taurus, Lao, Libra, Cap
ric9rn ard Pisces.
Fut Il. on the other hand. you
.ncezsd during any OF - hours be-
tween midnight and - following
noon, or while the moon hppened to
be in the signs Of Virgo, Aquarius.
Cancer or Scorpi-above all. unhap-
PLY. you were just getting out - bed
or rising from the table-hen you
were to consider yourself In q par
lous state. indeed.
The Greeks and Romans eatertafn ed
the superstition that to hear anyone
on their right hand sneeze was of
good presage to all concerned, ard
the Greeks used to say of beautiful
woman that Cupid and lis loves had
sneezed At her birth
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Faciro Cesth,

Why should We consent even to the
eemblance of lack of courage in our
pagan trappiuss of woe at every
death? We may grieve that We are
left behind; that a comrade whose
face and voice and Interpretation OF
life make half our Joy should pass
beyond our grasp But II We believe
that death 10 going to Justify itself
as life has Justified itself, there is
no right or reason in emphasizing
grief. We were made to 20 onward
There is no permanent stoppaxe in the
great professional pageant passing
from one eternity on TO another And
when We are forced to wave farewell"
to one who goes beyond our sight, let
It be ceura&eou,ly and with 4 solemn
g,adness. There Is nothing 10 be com.
miserated," writes the good, gray poet
to one about to die. Il do Aot COM
mi.erate-I congratulate you."-Lou.
ise Collier Wilcox. in Harper's Bazar
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Eor a Sick little Girl.

Give an invalid child q set of doll
dishes for her own tray. As there are
plenty of these sufficiently large to
hold all that the patient is allowed 10
eat the "cuteness" and novelty OF
u; ing the little dishes will stimulate
the feeble appetite and tempt her to
eat the food that would otherwise re-
main untasted.
Choose a gay red and gold decora-
ton and let her have her milk or cam.
brio tea in the little teapot OF the set.
On these dishes serve her a SQUAD,
roasted and stuffed. for her little
Christmas turkey. and it viii be eaten.
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hsirses Plans Invsstms snt.

A girl who inherited a snug little
fortune Of twelve thousand dollars has
been rather cramped financially all
her life, and she had always loused
for the luxuries and frivolities OF
existence. Her uncle came to talk the
matter over and advise her as to the
investment of her little fortune Nov.
my dear" said he, in the tone of a
genial but prudent counselor, "of
course you have made come plans
have some idea of how this is to be
invested? What yearly income do you
expect from your twelve thousand
dollars?" Then the young woman re-
piled: Il expect, dear uncle, to invest
my money so that shall have a year.
ly income of twenty-four thousand
dollars for six months
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LIVING BECOMES 4 HABIT
For Those Who Reach Maturity and
Form Many Ties, Dying 10
No Easy Matter.

Living. like other acts often re-
peat=d. grows UPON us. 1t is not the
child, 1t is not the youth, even, who is
bsvr1 TO life. That was q very rare
instance OF the little boy who, res
cued from q runaway accident with
his mother. turned to her and said:
oh, mother! Wasn't it good thing
| was saved. 1t wouldn't have mat
tered SO much for you If you I'D
died, because you're old. But Al %
young; 1t would have been awful for
me TO die" AS rule, the young
child takes life and death together all
as a matter of course. and there is
rarely any fear in child's mind of
the hereafter, unless it has been sown
there by ipiudieious reading But
those who have lived to maturity ard
after; who are married to all the
sweet and pleasant habits of living:
who have lie. rned to love and observe
the holy regularity of nature and to
watch the infinite variety OF her
beauty; who find themselves bound BY
a thousand ties to their fellow men,
kindred friends. and acquaintances;
who see their lives all woven into the
pattern OF the otaer lives about them.
who delve into human history ard
watch for esch sign of progress, eacn
inclination and tendency-for these it
Is no easy matter 10 turn ones eyes
to the great, dark beyond and go out
INTO the utterly unfamiliar and un-
known.-Louise Collier Wilcox, in
HarEer's Bazar
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Lease Of . Tree.

A Ar tree on high bank Of the Lewis
river has been leased for a period Of
Is years, to be used as a telephone
pole.
The owner and leaser Of the tree is
Mrs. Mary Pratton, who leased the
tree to the Etna Telephone company.
This unusual telephone pole is de-
scribed as being on the north fork OF
the Lewis river. lis feet above the
Woodland ferry landing and 100 feet
below the south line Of the Robert
Barr place.-Vancouver Correspond
ence Portland Oregonian.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07
A Moose Hunters Mistake.

Hartland hunter, starting out
after a deer one day recently, put a
blanket on his horse before he put
on the harness, SO that the animal
would be warm. Arriving at likely
place, he tied the horse beside a wood
road and went into the woods. He
had not travelled far whsn he struck
an old road.
Following this for about a mile he
saw in the distance what he took to
be a moose standing In the road. Ia
king careful aim he fired, and was
much pleased to see the animal fall.
He rushed up and found he had killed
his own horse. The walk home was
q long one.-Kennebec Journal.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07
DOGS in Ecclesiaetical Decorations

Dogs in Ecclesiastical Decorations.
The stained glass representation OF
the "Pedler and His Dog" to which
attention has been directed by the dis
covery of q boundary stone OF ped.
lers Acre" en- the site OF the new
county hail. was removed from Lam
beth church 4 quarter Of century
ago owing to the alleged inconrruHy
CT introducing the figure Of deg in .
church window. Quite recently Chan.
ceiior Prescott Of Carlisle refused .
faculty for stained glass window -
q Wcstmoreland church because the
design included 4 dog: and perhaps
the only existing examples Of dogs
used for ecclesiastical decorations A1s
to be found In Lord Brownlows pr1.
vate chapel at Ashbridse. In this
church one stained glass window le-
picts Tobias and Sara In bed and q
dog sleeping on the guilt. while In -.
other window Job Is shown bet1E
mocked b. three men. one of " hoA Is
holding a cog by 4 eha!a.-W WsstA;u.
stcr Gazette
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

GUsSHSHEIM will introduce bill in the U. S Senate
providing additional Federal Judge the Judicial
which Denver located The legal work United States
such large make this
cessy The will bill during
He also taking the of the IT.
duy from bighted seed that being this country
sold within thi. The industry has suffered
disc
this indL
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

The has provided testing the postal savings bank
by selecting city each for experime
puposes Leadl has selected for Colorado This seeS
perhaps large money
the foreign element aud testing II
efficiency of the will also be having
this deposited the postal department and thus
retained here.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

Telephone or write today forifuu par
.iculars wherereby you can save 500
n the pr ce OF a good Piano. The OAR
ow Music Co, 6l2 l4th St, Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

The Good Roads Convention will be held in Denver
Friday aud Saturday week will large
that delegates will be appointed large
will attend 1t will be productive Of good calling the
of the Legislature making liberal
the well
the plains.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

Tux biennial report. Officers show that the
during the past campaign of the Of
popraien by last General Assembly the prior leg
;sl.tuYs initiate e
expenditures they have been wisely and economically
dsursd public good instead of for partisan
vancement growing and the demands larger
The
Colorado and its development call for
these
in The
appropriations should be subserve the best interest
the public making The penuriou
the public veal than those who
the orin penury be eardin
growth exravagan
We don't penny and
pousl foolish sbut a honest policy.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

THE United States Supreme Court has sustained the Bank
legislatures of Nebraska Kansas
and Oklahoma The principal Of attack the law the
that provided of all banks for creating
deposor.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

Of the Colorado metal
of of S23239I corGng
Mines and based
smelling The production
S33,4439IS. OF
gold produon fine valued
The production s.592S5o With value S459o44
Of spelter amounted
brought 1886 production whe
paid wtie the production of copper
s4os,96s pounds with value of ST. The
per gold approximately silver az
pound lead pound copper
~ s per pound There variation
of the State Bureau of Mines
given as it suppose that the officials with
this possible
figures eadng out official statements The showing good
enterprise seng relation the
industry development They
excellent
feel lust pride progress during
the
should frowns but geul hope should
possess minds of all.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07
National Wester Stock Show
at Denver, Jan l6 to n

A special rate Of one fare for the
round trip will be made via the Colora-
do and Southern for this occasion from
all points within $50 miles of Denver on
January l6, 1s 10. and 20. In addition
to these dates tickets will be sold from
points more than $50 miles from
Denver on January 18th. Final limit
on all tiske on January 64th.
Sewing machines repaired or rented.
Any make. See Taylor.
Dentistry.
DR.. w. T. Cain over Merchants and
Miners National bank
For Sale-The Metropolitan Rooming
Houss. Good money maker. Good
reaso for selling.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-01-07

PEARcK has indicted by the
of State Auditor Kenahar
had placed the statutes of the state Public Ac
nd
State which the latter refused
permit that he justified permitting e
his well
in
dscredt him. The will be
fought both sides and it purely democratic
the republican
1t has been inmaed by Kenehan that Parces
while employees under Pearce
The to
officials we'll the the
nooriety through the dssensons
the credit of the
will shown or dishonest violation of law.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-31
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.

N. NJ X: Blackheads caused from sluggish
circulation, Indigestion anemis, and sometimes due
merely to neglect to cleanse the face each
night with good cleansing cream rubbing II in until
nearly of it has disappeared. then In
complexion brush to all of the dirt pores
Cleanse the facsrin the morning with the cold
self-addressed, stamped envelope and shall
you the soap treatment for blackhsads
an excellent cleansing cream. Massage the scars on
your face left by pmples with good skin food
and they will disappear I shall send you that
formula II you care for IT,
BABE: do not make up the formulas myself. You
win have to make them up yourself your drug
gist do It you. send addressed stamped
envelope and I shall you formula for the cold
cream.
MISS B. H: 1 cannot tell you anything about the
article you mention shall you my for
cold cream If you for Il and send sslf-ad-
dressed stamped envelope.
GERTRUDE: Send me a seIf-addressed. stamped
envelope and be glad to you eomplsts in
This is excellent for sagsns muscles and aabsy akin
MATILDA H.: II you have a red nose you should
avoid all sudden changes in Temperatures rich smiley
foods liquors, II take them. ana keep your anki..
and feet warm. send self-addressed stamped an.
veOps and shah be glad you an excellent hai,
tonic, good cleansing cream green SOAP tr.at.n.
FOR blackheadA
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Use of the Sachet Bag.

The ordinary of using perfume by drenchns your
handkerchief with it consider vulgar habit. Lay
sachet bag among hadkerchiefs put your per-
fume them while they still in the box, allow
ng all the crudeness the odor disappear II you
to extracts toilet waters, put the
roots of hair after washing touch the tip your
finger wet with the odor eyebrows lobes
Of your ears pour In the center OF your palms
close them tightly until dries there is moth
ing delightful than white fragrant well kept
hand extended in welcome. ~ 80
- hand of this kind has moral as we'll as a health
full significance. witness Lady Macbeth after the
murder Of Duncan when she said. All the perfumes of
Araby will this little hand"
perfume inside the corset. but care
fragrance about woman should be intangible
the fragrance OF flower Some achieve this by
lining the walls OF closets with thick layer
cotton. which their favorie powder sprin
killed. then covering with silkaline or cheese
CLOTH Their bureau drawers any other receptacle
where clothing In kept treated in the MANNER
Frangipanni sachet powder hne used in this
way. provided likes a slightly oriental perfume
The formula is oris root two pounds sage ounces
sandalwood ounces vetiver four ounces two
drams cvet dram, oil OF neron twenty-five grains
santal twenty-five grains oil rhodium twenty.
ve grains Mix the oils with the finely ground sandal
wood and then mix with the whole mass.
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Fascinating Use Of Sa,dalpood.

The of heavy perfumes to be decried particu.
lariy those which obtain animals such as musk
civet and ambersris These odors should never be
used excspt to develop make more permanent the
cleansing doors Of vegsta6les and flowers
Personally prefer perfumes which have the slightest
modicum Of animal odor think that the Individual
woman however. win ma the kind of perfume which
suits her personality opiyathe 1mitator VINO
buys violet water her friends are using It.
Her friend may be the kind Of woman who would
mind you Of violet dsltcst.. modest fragrant; ana
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the'imitator her direct opposite woman perhaps
would remind you Of the dangerous yet brilliant poppy:
for her, should be selected some the perfumes of
the orient
have a friend who, is dark, with clear. smooth
skin and dark brown hair She has little color
but for all that 10 viyacous and full OF life Wherever
this woman goes there is left behind Just the fantest
possible odcr OF sandawood. seen her
extract Of perfume but her face powder
her tacuHs and her soap are all mpregmted with the
odor and among clothes in her bureau drawers ana
uponths shelves her closets there are
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matey connected with that part of the which
Galen placed the soul This intimate relation with
mans mind is perhaps the that familiar odors
will stimulate than sensations of touch
or taste In this connection the smell comes
next to that of sight ..
This scientific fact used by Augustus Thomas
POLITICALLY in THE wItching Hour" when he made the
subtle. delicate from withered jasmine
call up to the judge the sweetheart his youth and
the love Of his life In way could this have been
done more esctivel but &c is probable that not
in hundred in the audience knew that familiar Sodors
Will stimulate memory and reflect images long
much qnicker than the sense Of taste touch
Historians have told that the and disuss Of
perfumes have marked rise and fall Of nations
during Egypts spendor and luxury greatest
power sweet odors played larger and important
rat in life than they stories
Of NLneveh and Babylon would not complete
we put in them the details OF frankineense and other
costly: doors which were universally used -
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chips and pieces OF the spicy wood. AS sandal
wood is perfume too aggressive for most people,
in the that 1t is used by friend it has sweet
as an intangbility is most
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Pdadns Accepted the Senses.

Our pagan ancestors accepted the and called
them good they did everything nature gave
to them. and they placed the of smell high as a
refining influence the ofactory nerve is so in
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KioLet EqyOrite nilh creeks..

There ssa TRADITION that the Greeks discovered the
way Of sxtraOtng the Odor Of the violet Perhaps It
was the love Of the Greeks the subtle fragrance of
this modest hoEsr that gave us the tradition Of the
violet being mAds from Ianths favorlte ny1nbhs
ArtinAs 50 hOd became the Athenianu OF the use %
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By LILLIAN RUSSELL,

@RB of today Indebted to our Puritan
NAH forefathers for prejudice against any
sense appeal and yet every beautiful thing
In art and every comfort which surrounds
ISNSSf1f life owes its origin to mans cropping
49, toward the most refined qualification of
his '.-.
Scientists tell US that the sense of smell
t the fourth to sink into leargy we 20 to sleep
and although the higher the civilization as ruI. the
greater influence has upon its people yet
the sense Of smell has always recognized power
Of attracting love and hate among savage races
and even animals And that perfume one Of the gifts
which nature intended delectaon is quite evil
dent from the she has spread over the world
We call flower soulless when it lacks perfume and
no matter If its petals exqusitey perfect
- those Of the cGnellis, pass it by for the
simplest little hedgerose which gratifes our nostris
with its perfumed kiss !
The word perfume indicates that the nrst way of
gratifying the Of pleasant odors was to
burn the bsrks and aromatic trees The word
per" signifytng through" frunuIn" meaning
"smoke" And that this fumigation was earliest asso-
cated with the pures and highest is ustra
I'd by the part the burning was given in all
ancient forms Of worship.
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Some Girls AIwa2a1 I2rfzme
Z7ezp Eye6rowe.

perfume sumptuary laws forbidding their sale
Athenian men enacted.
And whom Poppea died Nero burned more than Arabys
a year at her funeral This sumptuary laws to
It was said there good reason to fear that
temple" Ir.:-' a..
The Of essences resins aromatic gums and herbs
among the first medicinal prescriptions made BY
Hppocrates Galen, and others. But with the modern
physician perfumes remedial been
completely overlooked Perhaps for this is
the that believed that sickness was
the result Of sin and should punished the most
doses possible Later, however we have been
told that perfumes be used disinfectants and
have learned that the dried
lavender quite efcacous keep the dreaded
moth from furs and frillsas smelling moth
balls which make smell the FIRST cold days
autumn If she had walked out Of an Egyptian
nausoleum. - i - q. g..
1t has also been demonstrated that those
in perfume factories generally immune
tagious diseases and beginning ind out that
pleasant odors quite dsinfectants
horrible odors that always the anti
septic dressings of the hospital. |
The modern woman should know the therapeutic as
well the esthetc value of cleanly perfume
is nothing delicate the odor of freshly Iaun-
dsred clothes that have been hung
and IL add little delicate sachet powder scented
with your fayorite odor you will make yourself i'm
pernenty conspicuous olfactory OF your
friends but win eontrive always impress In en-
with cleanliness and fragrance.
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Formula for. Hiolet Warer.

frisnd of mine who used violet odOrs was so an
with IN. blooming violet nsIds at erase that