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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
Wise to Listen.

In passing, 1t is the wise folk who
listen to friendly criticism, without a
trace of indignation. just as did the
little fellow who heard himself called
all sorts OF unwelcome names and
went on as II nothing had happened at
all. For It is friendly criticism, in the
home and among true friends, that
makes US see ourselves as others see
rs"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
Has Effected SAVING OF Water

Water waste detection has been
made a science by the present city
engineer of London. BY its application
he has reduced the daily consumption
ten gallons a head Of population. This
saving is simply enormous. In East
London alone 1t is enough water to
meet the wants of city OF 100000
inhabitants.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Now It lie said that the common
househy carries the egg of the parasite
that causes the hookworm disease.
The fy's terfors are increasing 80
that we may soon consider It a worse
pest than the mosquito.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

A New York woman in Reno seek.
ang divorce accused her husband OF
swearing at her IN seven languages,
Such conduct in her was most unwifO
~ She should have he~n proud Of q
husband whoao record In the swearing
linguistic line so few msn could hops
e oqual.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Some women are born beautiful, but
statistics show that a great many more
have beauty thrust upon them by 30.
eiety reporters who write up their
weddings
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Another actress has obtained a d.
Vorce from her husband, but will not.
we fear. cause the press agents to
cease complaining about the populari.
u OF the moving picture shows.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Philadelphia Judge is at loss to
decide whether a lobster suffers when
It is boiled, but It is well known fact
that a lobster suffers when he pays
for one.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

When Eve dolled up in the new
spring style fig leaf Adam, no doubt,
wrete a letter to the newspaper com
planning about the shocking styles of
the day.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

After a Brooklyn woman had run
the house thlrty-five weeks on s55 her
husband left her, saying that she was
no wife for a poor man. Evidently
abe overfed the brute!
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

A bad-very bad-sign OF the times
10 that convicts are gaining the sylh-
pathic ear of justice by writing bad
pathetic ear Of Justice by writing bad
ing public is alarming.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Add to the list Of pessimists the
man who last spring bought an ex-
pensive lawn hose with money that
he might have used in pursuit Of
pleasure.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

According to one estimate, It costs
$4,000 a year to keep a hydroplane
in commission. One could keep a
white elephant for that sum, and not
have half the trouble.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

An English physician says that in
300 years the majority OF the people
On earth will be insane. Judging by
the political arguments, a lot OF them
won't have to wait that long.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Mrs. Jones-My dear. dead husband
never complained Of my cooking.
Mr.. Jones cher second venture)--
Perhaps that's why he's Youy dear
dead hnsbfAd.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

An inventor has completed a ma.
chine for making cheap cigarettes at
the rate of Is a minute, and now all
that is required is a cheap. noncorros-
I've machine to consume them.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Man is a queer animile He arises
IN righteous indignation at the
thought Of a woman wearing socks,
and yet risks an eye when one climbs
on a street car.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

1t has been established that the an,
Client Egyptians had the hookworm.
And despite all their wisdom they APP
parently lacked thymol and epson
salts.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Since New York man has estab
tshed farm to raise butterflies, It is
reasonable to suppose that some other
man will soon start to raising butter
Inc flies.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

On general observation it would seem as
though the question of the day was not the
high cost of living but what the standards
of our American mothers Of the future will
be.
On walking along the street one is COM
PEELED to wonder if we are gradually going
back to the garb Of our first parents in the
garden of Eden.
Clothes so tight as to display every line
of the figure are more fit behind the foot
lights than on the streets in the light of
day.
II the American men are lackine in conr-
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Ohio women have formed an anti.
gossip league. Such charity ought to
cover even the fashionable sins Of the
hobble skirt and the cigarette.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

In the midst Of new sensations and
startling developments the unloaded
Spistol Is still killing its victims in the
good old-fashioned way.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Woman in New Jersey, whose hus-
band refused to take her to a moving
picture show, deftly hit him on the
head with an ak. AK and you shall re-
ceive, as it were.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

II stimulating the thyroid gland will
make men taller, scientists ought to
be able to tap something or other to
make men wiser, handsomer and bet
ter.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

A motoroyclist, to be sure, might
give the girl behind him some sort of
handlebar to cling to, but he usually
seems to prefer the hug.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Man went to attend the funeral OF
his motherin-law and found her alive.
And yet some people are not satisfied
with their lot.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

''Pie." says an exchange, rs an ex.
preston of the soul" Yet most OK us
have been under the impression that
the expressions were due to night
mare.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Still, there is nothing to show that
a synthetic" rubber tire will be
cheaper or last any longer than the
kind you have always bought.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
Many
Men
Given
to Silly
Clothing
By Mrs. n. z. PHILLIPS,
BrOoklyn, n. 7.

around the forehead
The of the Modes and Pesan memorable than
those governing mems atreee why should mems shirts continue to
they with of the cloth below the waist lne Little
boys waists of the right cut but then little boys clothing selected
by their
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

II you do not believe this is a talka.
tive nation you should note that sc
per cent. of the worlds telephone
calls in 1911 were registered in the
UnICed States.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

The South jersey peach crop is said
30 be the greatest ever known. A
peach OF a crop, as It were.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

A lobster may suffer when It is be.
ting cooked, but think OF the agony OF
the lobster who soots the bill.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

DR.. Anna Shaw, who AYERS that
women will I'LL mems shoes, presum.
ably refers to Chicago women.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
When does old age come?

When does old age come?
'Years are for the letting of houses, not
for counting away peoples lives" In the
older countries people remained young be-
cause they forgot birthdays. Some are
born old, some grow old, some have old age
thrust upon them. There are men of 80
of better heart and mind and of better
physical strength than the average man
of Fl.
| saw a woman in her prime marry a
man of % years, who was the oldest crea.
ture l have ever seen. He had silver hair,
a bunch back and black stumps for teeth.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

County fairs are an infallibIe indi
eation OF cooler weather.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

just That Difference.
Some girls arc ambitious 70 mare
well; others are conteBf 10 MARI
happily.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

Missouri's peanut crop is short, but
the country's crop OF peanut politics
- a wonder
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28

A paragraphist asks: rs poker a
gambling gamer" Not with some
dealers we know.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
BY J. L. Austln, BsltlmOrs, Nd.

tesy it because the themselves to blame
The influence for good evil that woman exer man through
mediums dress, character and general department
instead degenerate let bgn
needed.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-09-28
PssslmIstIe Anti.

"A stenographer," said sneerweli.
seems 70 be the only woman to whom
man dictates nowadays. Judge.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
He Wrote "Opportun;ty"
From the Kansas CITY Times.

From the Kansas city Times.
To the West. To the West! To the
land OF the free.
Where the mighty Missouri rolls down
TO the sea;
Where a man Is q man IL he Is willing
to toll,
And the humblest may gather the
fruits of the soil,
1t Is rs years ago. December 20. that
John ]. ingalls, was born; Il is four
months more than IL years since he
died.
This mans memory Is fresh today,
not so much for the laws he helped
TO make while he was United States
senator. nor for the service he did his
adopted state. He was a amous states
man. but he was more ncted as a writ
er. He was not an author In the sense
OF having produced books. He wrote
fitfully to please his fancies and for
magazines. He lived itfully. AT least
beginning when q cyclone In 1860
whisked away his home and laid bare
the town OF Sumner. Kan, until he was
retired from office In the United States
Senate. after serving rs years. During
all that period his course had been a
turbulent one. And yet
When the ftful fever Is ended and
the fooliSn WSanEle OF the forum n
the market IL closed, glass heals over
the scar that descent into earth
has made and the carpet OF h infant
becomes the blanket OF the dead.
These lines are from Blue Grass"
an essay written by ingalls,. And they
and they alone-adorn the bowlder
that marks his raw In b cemetery
In Atchiscn.
ingalls, did not possess a character
that drew men unto him by affection.
HIS challenging. criticisinE. satirising
temperament kept him from being pop
ular. In the language Of Champ Clark.
I'm the s~trfctest acceptance of the term.
Ingalls was never popular In Kansas.
He had a wondruGs hold ON the admir-
alton. but not upon the affection of
his constituents Thinking OF Ingalls, a
man was proud 70 can himself a kan
san. And through sheer hriiliancy at
intellect and eloQuence OF tongue he
aroused Intense enthusiasm Men stood
OF and gaxed with admiration and awe
upon Ingalls,. Just as they stood on and
gained with admiration and awe upon
Mount Blanc or Pixies peak. But they
never slapped him famiiisriy and fond
" on IN back.
The speeches o. Ingalls, that viii live
longest are his eulogiesI For Instance.
the one given in b UuiteA states Sem
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
Newspapers Published in Prison.

In an interesting article on prisons IN
the American Magazine. Julian Leav-
lit writes:
There are, Of course, some in
fiuences which, IL not exactly reform
atory In their nature. do nevertheless
tend TO relieve the graz tedium of the
prison life somewhat. There is, for ex-
ample. the prison newspaper OF which
the best known are, perhaps, the Star
OF Hope. of Sing Sing: The Summary,
OF Elmira; and the Mirror, Of Still
water. Thes are entirely edited, set
up and published by the inmates. That
such publication might be made most
powerful instruments OF reformation
must be obvious; but as O rule they
are discouraged or, at best, merely
c~ountenanced by the administration.
Their best service Is as local mediums
of the exchange OF wants. For ex-
ample, here are a few notices Of a
very common kind.
1.-The occupant OF 257 would like to
have 523 nut his number on the Fra
and the Philistine.'
1.-The occupant OF SCI will be pleased
to receive copies of Fargo papers IL
any n can accommodate him.
There are many curious items of
oblique humor in these strange maya
zines. The paragraphist is, as every
where. very popular.
Here is a Telegram from the Mir
ror, published at saltwater. Mimi:
There are many false scalp t~lics:
but a dose Of saltwater will temporar-
lily, II not permanently. cure a fellow Of
itching palms.
And the ,Jigsaw Philosopher asks,
In the same column. How many do you
suppose there are OF us who would care
to write funny paragraphs IL we were
In Mr.. Kilograms socks?'
sU4N .AA
one:
When Old Hutch was informed that
King Edward was dead he said.
What shop did he work in?" When
told that he was king of Great Britain
he snorted: I don't care nawthin'
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
!p1lrs. Estella Gillispie
ONE CASE OUT OF MANY
TO PROVE OUR CLAIMS.

st. Anne, m.-aI was passing
through the change of life and /
was a perfect wreck from female
troubles. I had a displacement
and bearing down pains, weak
fainting spells, dizziness, then
numb and cold feelings. Some
times my feet and limbs were
swollen. l was irregular and had
so much backache and headache,
was nervous, irritable and was
respondent. Sometimes my ap-
petite was good but more often it
was not. My kidneys troubled
me at times and / could walk
only a short distance.
u saw your advertisement ina
paper and took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. and
/ was helped from the first. AT
the end of two months the swell
ling had gone down, / was re-
lieved of pain, and could walk
with ease. / continued with the
medicine and now / do almost all
my homework. / know your
medicine has saved me from the
grave and I am willing for you to
publish anything / write to you,
for the good Of others. Mrs.
EsTELLA GILLESPIE, RID. No. 4,
Box "a, st. Anne. Illinois.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
P!mPLEs ON FACE 3 YEARS

"A wns troubled with acne for three
onag years. NY face was the only part
AGected, but 1t caused great disfgure-
ment, also suffering and loss Of sleep.
~ fFst there appeared red. hard
o6mples which later contained white
@atter, ! suffered : crest deal caused
~ the itching. I was IN = state Of
oerpIexity when walking the streets
- anywhere before tho public.
n used pills and other remedies but
10y failed completely. ! thought Of
x0lving up when nothing would help.
ut something told mo to try tho Cuti.
ouxa Soap and Ointment. sent for
= Cutlcura Booklet which I read care
4n11y. Then ! bought some Cuticura
0cap and Ointment and by following
- directions ! was relieved In . few
1nys. I ussd Cuticura Soap for wash
- my face, and applied the Cuticura
Ointment morning and evening. This
oEentment brought marvellous results
- | continued with II for . few weeks
on6 WAS cured completely. can
1EnthfuIly ny that the Cuticura Rem.
eo1oe arc not only al, but more than
eooy claim to be-" (8igned) q. Bau.
0ol, 1918 W. Goth Plaoe. Chicago, ILL.,,
~ -. 1911. Although Cuticura
Goap and Ointment IRE sold By drug
'0l1ts and dealers everywhere, Z sam
- q each, with S2-page book. win
- mailed free o. application 70
Cnticura," Dspt. 1. Boston.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19

tOTHDSIDItS III lht
church yard adjoining his fathers
house-.the Baptist parsonage.
This exercise having loosened his
reluctant tongue he made progress &c
rapidly that by the time he was 3
years old he gave promise Of future
oratoricai eminence. After school hours
II was his custom to retire to the
church yard with his books, perusing
them til nightfall, making u the
meaning Of words by the help of a
dictionary. From his sixth to nth year
he attended a private school, four miles
from his home, where his precocity as
sumed intense interest In metaphysics
and before he was 8 years old he was
familiar with Jonathan Edwards on
1.-THE WILL" and Buffers Analogy"
This in%cessant study had It's injurious
influence on his health and symptoms
of insanity began to manifest them
selves at the time.
He delivered addresses at religious
meetings when he was IL years old.
At the Northampton school he made
great progress In Latin and Greek. At
Ii years Of x he entered the Bristol
academy to prepare himself for the
Baptist ministry. When his turn came
to speak at Broadmead chapel, In ac-
rdanc with the arrangement of the
academy, his self possession, which had
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
Success Under Difficulties
ROBERT HALL, ENGLAND'S GREATEST ORATOR, WHO
,"I0ST ALL HIS IDEAS" I'M HIS FIRST SERMON.
BY MADISON C. T

enabled him to speak with astonishing
eloquence before audiences, strangely
forsook him. Speaking with facility for
a few minutes, he stuck and stopped.
covering his face with his hands, he
sobbed aloud: "Oh. / nave lost all my
ideas" In spite OF his failure, his hear
ers had confidence in his ability and as
they went away, prophesied: IF that
young man once acquires self poses
sion he will be the most eminent speak
er of his day
He determined to try again at the
same place, only 10 fail more agoniz-
ingly. This time he was too mad TO
cry. the deacons sought in vain to pac-
ify him. He hurried straight home and
striking the table with his clenched
fist he startled two of his companion
with the declaration: Well, If this
does not humble me the devil must
have me-" He tried a third time, and
at once achieved fame. He was now IL
| years old and after spending four years
In hard study at Kings college, Aber-
deem, he came away with a mind as
brilliant as his tongue was gifted. At
q the Bristol crowds carried him upon
the crested wave Of popular enthusi-
asm. Going next to Cambridge he
preached with a brilliancy and power
never equaled before or since by any
other English preacher. He was orig
inal in matter and manner He was
a real man. He a a vigorous indi-
viduality. He was not machine made.
A machine made preacher is like the
donkey engine which was described by
a boy: 1T puffed like a locomotive, 1t
whistled like steam cars, but it didn't
go anywhere" Halls eloquence was
the spontaneous outgushing of a mind
richly stored n a heart burning with
zeal for the truth.
He was tortured with disease all his
life. Sometimes every sentence was
punctuated with a pain. He was in
sane at times-his infirmities and suf-
ferings through all the years made his
life a continual martyrdom. and the
marvellous fortitude with which he
triumphed by his imperious will over
his bodily weakness prove once again
that obstacles call out great qualities
and make greatness possible. Robert
Hall owed the grandeur Of his life to
] his tremendous difficulties,
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19

The "change of life " is a most
critical period in a woman's ex-
istence, and the anxiety felt by
women as it draws near is not
without reason.
When her system is in a de-
ranged condition, she may be
predisposed to apoplexy, or con-
gestion of some organ. At this
time, also, cancers and tumors
are more liable to form and begin
their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as
sense of suffocation, hot flashes,
headaches, backaches, dread of
impending evil, timidity, sounds
in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes,
Irregularities, constipation, vari-
able appetite, weakness and
~inquietude, and dizziness, are
promptly needed by intelligent
women who are approaching the
period in life when woman's
great change may be expected.
These symptoms are calls from
nature for help. The nerves are
crying out for assistance and the
cry should be needed in time.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is prepared to meet
the needs of women's system at
this trying period of her life. 1t
invigorates and strengthens the
female organism and builds up
the weakened nervous system.
1t has carried many women safely
through this crisis.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19

ate. a tribute to James Burnes, the ST.
Joseph congressman:
In the democracy OF the dead, all
men at least are equals. There is Meth
er rank, station nor prerogative in the
republic of the grave. At this fatal
threshold the philosopher ceases to be
wise and the sons of the poet is silent.
Dives relinquishes his millions ana
Lazarus his rags. The poor man is
as rich as the pauper. The creditor loses
his usury n the debtor is acquitted
of his obligation. There the proud man
s~urrenders his dignities, h politician
his honors, the wording his pleasures.
the invalid needs no physician and the
laborer rests from unrequited toll. Here
at last Is natures final decree In equity.
The strongest there has no supremacy
ana the Weakest no defense. The might
lest captain succumbs to the invincible
adversary, who disarms alike the VIC
tor and the vanQuished."
Although ingalls, was an agnostic
there Is in all OF his utterances that un-
essence Of the Christian
spirit. And h last words he ever said
were those OF h Lords prayer.
John ]. Ingalls, gave Kansas its mot
70 "ad astra per aspera;" he was a
memoe OF the Wyandotte constitu-
tional convention: he was secretary OF
the territorial council. secretary of the
first state senate and he represented
n Sunffower state in the United States
Senate is years, being relegated after
giving the best part OF his life to the
service OF his feilowmen. Their. after
h Investment OF his senatorial .tora
March 4. 1891. he came back to the stats
or his adoption. Inc showed that the
iuster with which he shone in the SEN
ate need not be dimmed by private life.
OPPORTUNITY,
Master of human destinies am Il,
Fame. love and fortune on my foot
steps wait.
Cities and fields I walk: / penetrate
Deserts and seas remote and passing
by
Howell and mart n palace. soon or
late,
I knock unbidden once at every gate
IL sleeping. wake: If feasting rise before
i turn away. 1t is the hour OF fate
n they who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire. and nQu every fo~
Save death. but those who doubt or
hesitate.
Condemned to failure, penury and woe
Seek me In vain and 0selessly fmplore.
I answer not. and I return no more.
! John ]. Ingalls,.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
Robert Hall. the

Robert Hall, the
greatest of English
pulpit orators, was
born on May 2,
1864, at Armaby,
L~eicestershire. the
youngest of a fam
lily of IA. He was
physically 80 feeble
that he was unable
to walk until 2
years of age, and
was equally slow
to acquire articu-
late speech. He
could read before
he could initiate
words, his
nurse having taught
him the letters of
the alphabet and
the formation OF
words from the in
~scriptions on the
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19
The Easiest Way.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
TIL Playwright-Ah! The audience is
calling for the author.
The House Manager hear 'em; but
you can get out through the alley and TN
hold 'em back while you beat II.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19

Rather than lose out II tho last min
-. the bride will promise to obey
! ont ahe always has her 1ngers
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-19

OaFaeid Tsa. Tor ne ms resulting from In,
fu4gN blood, 40 ! rennsdy OK tried efficacy.
Drink bsfore rstlrlng.