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Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
ALMOST CRAZY WITH ECZEMA

II. the undersigned, cannot give
enough praise to the Cuticura REM
edies. I had been doctoring for at
least year for eczema on my foot. I
had tried doctor after doctor all to
no avail. When a young girl sprained
my ankle three different times, paying
little or no attention to 1t, when five
years ago small spot showed upon
my left ankle. / was worried and sent
for a doctor. He said 1t was eczema.
He drew small bone from the ankle
an inch long. The small hole grew
to about the size of an apple, and the
eczema spread to the knee. The doc.
tors never could heal the hole in the
ankle. The whole foot ran water all
the time
my husband and my sons were up
night and day wheeling me from one
room to another in the hope of giving
me some relief would sit for hours
at time in front Of the fireplace
hoping for daybreak The pain was
80 intense was almost crazy, in fact.
I would lose my reason for hours at
q time. One day friend Of mine
dropped in to see me. No more had
she glanced at my foot than she ex-
claimed: Mrs. Finnegan, why in the
world don't you try the Cuticura Rem
edies!' Being disgusted with the doc.
tors and their medicines, and not be-
ing able to sleep at all. decided to
give the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment a trial. After using them
three days that night l slept as sound
as a silver dollar for eight long hours
I awoke in the morning with but very
little pain. in fact, / thought I was
in heaven. After using the Cuticura
Remedies for three months I was per.
fectly restored to health, thanks to
the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
will be sixty-four years Of age my
next birthday, hale and hearty at pres
ent." (Signed) Mrs. Julia Finnegan.
1924 Hebert St.. st. Louis. Mo-. Mar.
Z. 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere. a sample OF each.
with 32-page book. will be mailed
free on application to "Cuticura."
Dept. L. Boston.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

took long drink OF water from the
pitcher beside his bed. and gathered
up the train of thought where he had
left II the night before He reviewed
the easement of the financial strain
Things were mending at last While
the going was still rough. the greatest
dangers were already past.
His mind moved on to the Incident
at the corner OF the bar of the Par.
thenon. when the young athlete had
turned his hand down He was no
longer stunned by the event. but ne
was shocked and grieved as only a
strong man can be. at this passing OF
his strength. He had always looked
upon this strength of his as perman.
ent, and here. for years. 1t had been
steadily oozing from him. AS he had
diagnosed it, he had come in from un.
der the stars to roost In the GOODS OF
cities. He had almost forgotten how
to walk. He had lifted up his feet
and been ridden around in automo-
biles. cabs and carriages. and electric
cars. He had not exercised, and ne
had dry-rotted his muscles with alco-
hol And was It worth It? What did
all his money mean after all? Dede
was right II could buy him no more
than one bed at time. and at the
same time 1t had made him the abject.
est Of slaves. II tied him fast. Which
was better? he asked himself. All
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

Elan Harnish known all through Alas
ka as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
S0th birthday with crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tivoli. The dance leads
Is staked Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mail contract. He
starts on his mail trip with dogs. and
sledge telling his friends that he will be
in the big Yukon gold strike at the start
Burning Daylight makes sensationally
rapid run across country with the mail
to join his friends in dash to the new
gold fields. Deciding that gold will be
found in the up-river district Harnish
will be wortr its weight In gold. but
when he arri yes with his flour he finds
the big fiat desolate., comrade discov-
vest. He goes to Dawson. becomes the
most prominent figure in the Klondike
and defeats a combination of capitalists
complications Of high finance. Daylight
finds that he has been led to invest his
He goes to New York, and confronting
his disloyal partners with a revolver. he
threatens to & kin them II his money is % not
stealings and Harnish goes back to San
Francisco where he meets his fate in
Dede Mason. a pretty stenographer. He
makes large investments and gets into the
political ring. For a rest he goes to the
country. Daylight gets deeper into high
longing for the simple life nearly over
comes him. Dede Mason buys a horse and
Daylight meets her in her saddle trips.
One day he asks Dede to go with him
on one more ride. his purpose being to
ask her to marry him and they canter
away. she trying to ana1yze her feelings.
could not lie with a money manipulator.
Daylight undertakes to build up a great
industrial community. He Is insistent
that she marry him and yet hopes to win
her.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
Pointed Paraoraphs.

Anyway, the topper never frowns
when asked to smile.
Look out for the cars-even II you
are on the right track,
A kiss in haste may be worth two at
leisure-and 1t may not.
Set others a good example By civ
ing yourself q square deal.
When monopolists can't buy what
they want they simply take II.
A woman is more careful of her
complexion II she purchased II.
A girl hasn't much faith in prayer II
she continues to have freckles.
Most men are willing to forgive and
forget-if the price Is satisfactory.
Every cloud may have a silver lin.
ing, but it's always on the other side.
And the matrimonial game is apt to
begin with cut glass and end with
broken china.
II G. Washington was never asked
by fond mother what he thought OF
her cute baby. then It may be true,
that he never told lie.
little tip will often cure 4 waiter
Of deafness.
A man can enjoy reading a mother
in-law joke-if he Is q bachelor.
The building Of a spite fence IN an.
insult your neighbors can't overlook.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

the superior skill had been his.
Strength. sheer strength. had done it..
He called for the drinks. and. still
dazed and pondering. held up his own
arm and looked AT it as at some new
strange thing He did not know this
arm. 1t certainly was not the arm he
had carried around with him ali the
years The old arm? Why. II would
have been play to turn down that
young husky's But this arm-he con-
tinued to look at It with such dubious
perplexity as to bring a roar of laugh,
ter from the young men
This laughter aroused him. He
Joined in It at first. and then his face
slowly grew grave He leaned TO.
ward the hammertbrower
Son" he said. ''let me whisper a
secret Get out OF here and quit
drinking before you begin
The young fellow flushed angrily.
but Daylight held steadily on.
You listen to your dad. and let
him say few. I'm a young man my
self. only ! amt Let me tell you.
several years ago for me to turn your
hand down would have been like com.
mittng assault and battery on kin
dergarten.
Slosson looked his incredulity. while
the others grinned and clustered
around Daylight encouragingly
Son. amt given to preaching.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
A Bad Name,

Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo,
who recently refused a five-hundred-
dollar increase in salary. was talking
about a certain trust magnate.
Hes got bad name,' said the
mayor-novelist. Hence he can't get .
square deal. He's got as bad . name
for a lawsuit as Dodgin had for q man.
ager.
''Dodgin was the new manager of .
biscuit concern. There was work
man at the concern who liked to sneak
off to a shed at about three In the af-
ternoon and smoke pipe and look
over the afternoon paper for half an
hour or SO. Well, one day as the work
man sat reading and smoking in the
shed Dodgin appeared.
WHO are you? Dodgin asked stern
ly. frowning at the idle workman.
"The workman frowned back.
Huh, who are your he said.
81 am Dodgin. the new manager
was the reply.
AT this the workman smiled
so am l. he said heartily. Como
IN and have a smoke"
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
An OculIst Cook.

When certain Mobile man stopped
for luncheon at small railway s:a-
ton eating house in a Mississippi
town, an old darky shuffled up and an
nounced in a gruff voice the bill Of
fare consisted Of ham, eggs, cornbread
and coffee.
After due deliberation the traveller
stated that he would like some ham,
eggs, corn bread and coffee.
Such a pretentious order for one per
son only appeared to stagger the aged
servitor. But he soon recovered his
equanimity and started toward the
kitchen. Then he turned and came
back with this inquiry:
Boss. how will yo' hab dem eggs,
blind OF lookin' at yer?"
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
Accuracy Versus pIction,

He was showing his out-ef-town
friends the sights of the South side.
And that" he remarked finally.
pointing to a passing common carrier.
"is the Tower Grove car"
you mean. corrected the friend.
who was stickler for dictioh, "a
Tower Grove car"
NO." replied the other, who was .
stickler for accuracy. 81 mean THE
Tower Grove car; and If you hope to
get back to your hotel tonight you'd
better grab it."
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

this was Dede's own thought. 1t was
what she had meant when she prayed
ne would go broke. He held up his
offending right arm. 1t wasn't the
same old arm. OF course she could
not love that arm and that body as
she had loved the strong. clean arm
and body of years before. He didn't
like that arm and body himself. A
young whippersnapper had been able
to take liberties with It, It had gone
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
They Were Iona Enough.

The unanswerable retort was heard
at a North Country dog show last
week, says the London Chronicle. At
the man who brought up brisk but
undecorative whippet an affable atten-
dant scoffed. "Thatll win no prize,
lad" he remarked finally.
whats wrang WI him?" was tho
surprised answer.
Why. look at his legs. Those legs are
ma lang enough"
Not lang enough? Why, they touch
the ground. Did you want them any
langer?"
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
OreW's Advice,

A story of John Drew's wit 10 cirsu-
lating in New York's Rialto.
Mr.. Drew, at New England lunch
con Of turkey and pumpkin pie-tur
key and pumpkin pie are nowhere bet
ter than at Moquin's-had the III for
tune to be seated by a bore and .
failure.
The bore and failure, tragedian.
lamented the fact that he couldn't get
place as lead" and put the blame
upon the press.
"There's a conspiracy in silence
against me-" he said. "A universal
conspiracy of silence. What ought
to do, Drew"
Join it," said Mr.. Drew. Aervously
twisting up his mustache.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
Found Imitation Difficult,

Bert. a freshman, closed IA letter to
his cousin Joe. Ave years old. by say.
ing: Now. must quit and write nvs
pages on Esther"
The next day his father found Joe
armed with tablet and pencil. trying to
hold down his young brother Robert
and said to him: Joe, what are you
doingr'
I'm trying to write nve pages on
Rob. but he won't be still." replied tha
little fellow.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
Her Fortune Teller.

Mrs. Add you ever go to the for
tune teller?
Mrs. B-Yes, once. Before | was
married went to the probate court to
see how much my, finaces father had
left him in his win.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

No harmful drugs In Garfield Tea. Il b CON
posed wholly Of simple health giving hsrhl
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
CHAPTER XIX.

Daylight awoke with the familiar
parched mouth and lips and throat.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
, Accounting for Some Mistakes.

Miss Elderby-Do you really think
that women propose?
Old Bach-If they don't there are
great many marriages I cannot 40
count for.
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
Literal.

This dentist calls his once . der
tai parlor."
well, isn't It . drawing roomr
Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25

It's difhcult for . man to practice
economy and be popular At the same
tims.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
WOMAN LIVES AS HERMIT
Friend Finds Her Alone In California
Canyon-LlVes Lonely Life For
Seven Years.

Santa Monica, Cal.-For seven
years Miss Alma Pitlinzer, a young
woman of Cincinnati, has been living
the life of recluse in Topango canyon,
eight miles north of this city. When a
friend recognized her while on a trip
to the canyon recently and urged her
to return home she refused.
Eight years ago the young woman
was living in WalAut Hills, the fash.
ionable suburb of Cincinnati. She was
betrothed to a young lawyer of that
city The following year she fell i'll.
After partly recovering she left
home saying she was going to Cali
fornia to recuperate. She came to
Santa Monica seven years ago, and,
after passing five weeks at the beach,
purchased cabin at Topanga. where
she has since remained.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
CRUST COVERED BABY'S HEAD

6S2 Brunswick st., Baltimore, Md
my baby's face broke out in pimples,
which after bathing would weep and
form scabs until his head and face
were completely covered with crust
and his hair all fell out. 1t was cross
and would not sleep. Each day it
spread until his entire face and head
were covered with weeping sores. /
tried several prescriptions, but did not
find any relief. Then / decided to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
After using them two or three
times the sores dried up and after q
half dozen applications all disfgure-
ment disappeared. In less than three
weeks the sores and scales were COM
pletely gone, and baby's skin as
smooth and clear as when he was fiwt
born. Cuticura Soap and Ointment
cured him" (Signed) Mrs. Lottie v.
Steinwedel, Jan. IA, 1912
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Add. post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston" Adv
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
New York Brewer Takes Two
Sons With Him.
Falls in Attempt to Keep his Bank Ac-
count From Disappearing -
Leaves Youngest to Be
Comfort for His Mate.

New York.-Broken at last by his
long battle with i'll health, Jacob Haas,
Ga years old, committed suicide with
gas and took with him two Of his
three little sons-John, z, and Law
renee, 6. He left his youngest born,
Joe, A, knowing his young wife, An
ma, 80, could keep him and would find
comfort in him.
By working a double shift, from 8
a. m. until midnight, eighteen hours
Of work with an interval Of an hour in
which to run home for food, Haas
struggled while he was well to keep
the little family bank account from
disappearing.
When only $50 was left, despite his
efforts, he decided there was one way
left by which he could help his wife,
and he deliberately set about planning
the triple tragedy and the saving of
the baby.
Haas worked at a bottling plant in
Brewery Town" and lived in three
bare rooms at 1910 Second avenue.
Until two years ago he was prosper
Gus and as happy as he was beloved
by his wife and children. Some stom-
oh trouble brought on pulmonary
disease and after long illness Haas
was left wreck Of his former self.
In spite of his weakened condition
Haas took on the double shift, and
his wife helped out In the time when
he was too i'll to go to work by max
ing brewers aprons on machine
that kind neighbors had lent her.
Early this week Haas fell i'll again.
Last night, having drawn his $Se from
the bank, he took home a quart OF
whisky secreted in his clothes, and
when bedtime came persuaded his
wife to take little Joe in bed with her
on the ground that the lad was not
feeling well. Ordinarily the three
boys insisted on sleeping with their
father and the mother slept alone or
a couch in an adjoining room.
After the two lads were asleep
Haas barricaded the door Of the room,
gummed strips of paper over the
edges, carefully caulked the window
and the transom, and with wrench
took tap off the gas pipe that the
flow might be the swifter. AS he
worked he drank the greater part of
the bottle of whisky. He had lived
almost an abstainer and drank now to
keep up his courage.
About 2 o'clock Mrs. Haas was
reused by the smell of gas and the
bodies were discovered. Haas left
pathetic note Of explanation for his
relatives, enclosing the $50 which he
had drawn to save his wife trouble,
as the account was in his name.
As the young wife looked upon the
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
DIES TO HELP WIFE
dead bodies Of her husband and her
two bright little, tow-haired sons she
fell in faint beside them.
CHAMPION HARD LUCK BOY
SeVenteen-Year-oId Warren Lad
Seems to Be Pursued by Evil
Genius.

Warren, Pa.-Raymond Pierce, aged
seventeen, thinks he is the champion
hard luck boy. Four years ago he
was kicked by a horse and had his
right arm broken. Exactly five weeks
afterward he fell off a soap-box and
fractured the same arm nearer the
shoulder. Two years ago he broke the
same arm in slipping and falling on
ice. The jlnnee then seemed to leave
his arm and go to his legs.
Last June while playing ball he was
struck on the left ankle with ball.
resulting in the ankle bone being
cracked. Two weeks later, while still
on crutches, he fell and injured his
right knee. He had just become able
to walk a few days ago when a motor
cycle ran into him and injured him
so badly that he will be out of COM
mission for some time.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20

nor pearls to seek, but the cargoes Of
vessels which might be wrecked on
the dangerous bar of the estuary or
the sand-banks Of the channel, In one
way or another, however, Ostia kept a
lively trade, and polyglot population
which bought and sold in the serried
shops lining its paved streets. The
religious cults of the place are alone
enough to show how variegated the
crowd must have been. Vulcan, the
original god of the place, who had
presided over its metal-wotkers since
the days of the early kings Gas Romans
loved to believe), had had to accept a
serious rival in Phryglan Cybele, and
other competitors In Syrian Mithras,
and Egyptian Iris and Seraphis, as
well as the Hebrew Yahweh, whose
worshipers dwelt thickly about the
new Claudian and Trajanic basins.
Wealth and Temples.
And all this population had to have
its places of amusement, as we'll as It's
temples, and there was wealth enough
to decorate these with statutary which
the Graeco,Roman artists of the me-
tropolis probably supplied. Among
the best examples that have survived
to be found in the recent excavations
are head of Aphrodite, and a full
length of priestess, complete except
for the right hand, and that nose-tip
which has been Clipped off ninety in
hundred ancient statues which still
exist. She makes a gracious, ma
tronly figure which, let US hope, did
something to civilize the shrieking
Levantine mob of Ostia. The main
place Of recreation, the Theater, built
of brick with stone facing, in the
Roman manner, is, relatively, less we'll
preserved than the shops and houses.
A big, outstanding building, it was
a more obvious and profitable quarry
for medieval builders. Nor had it
been we'll treated in the imperial
times. A summary restoration in the
time OF Honorius did much to obliter-
ate the more worthy work Of the third
century emperors. The clearance of
the city is still going on, year by year,
at the expense of the Italian govern
ment, and the absent public is kept
informed of constant discoveries by
Signor Vaglieri's reports in the Mott
zie degli Scavi, the most systematic
and unfailing record which any coun-
try issues concerning the recovery of
its past. But no reading of many re-
ports is worth single visit to the
ruins themselves, and those visitors to
Rome who neglect to take the electric
line to Ostia and to spend at least an
afternoon in its Forum and streets
will miss one of the most interesting
places In Italy.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
FIANCEE'S SKULL AS CUP
Curious Method of German Student
to Keep His Dead Sweet
heart In Mind.

Paris.-Drinking from a cup made
from the skull Of his fiancee Is the
way which German student at
Strassburg has adopted to keep the
memory of her fresh. The fact ia
vouched for by the Able Wetterle, a
famous French-Alsatian priest, whose
propaganda against Germany has
won him several terms of imprison-
ment. He bought the grim relic from
the student to add it to his museum
of German civilization" at Colmar.
The girl died year ago in the hos
pital where the student worked, so
that the latter had little difficulty in
removing the head in the dissecting
room. The able was put on his track
by a jeweler who studded the skull,
which was brought him, with rubies.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
DUE TO SIMPLE DIET
Centenarian Gives Secret Of His
System of Living.
No Fancy Foods and Daily Walk Of
Mile Is Rule That Helps Re-
tain Mental and Physical
Faculties.

Cleveland, O.-William c. Clark has
formulated a system Of living which
be asserts has enabled him to retain
his mental and physical faculties for
more than a century. He recently OBJ
served his one hundred and first birth
day anniversary at the home Of ais
daughter, Mrs. A. C, Malcolm, No. 72l5
Linwood avenue, N. e.
Moderation in eating is Mr.. Clark's
primary rule; the one by which he &C
counts for his longevity. Plain food
no pastries-comprises his diet He
was practising the theories Of Horace
Fletcher years before Fletcher came
into the limelight by his advocacy OF
the simple diet. Mr. Clark does not
use alcoholic liquors.
Il once used tobacco" he said, "but
became disguised with the habit
when l came to this country. l am
thankful now that gave 1t up"
When weather conditions permit he
fakes walk of mile or more every
day. In spite of his age he can go
about alone. The public square, how
ever, he declares, is the most danger
GUS place he has ever seen.
Mr.. Clark was born near London,
England, In 1871, when the reign Of
George III. was drawing to a close.
Six English soverelgns have ruled In
the course of his life. None Of the
phantoms and fancies of old age exist
to him. Last week at his centennial
birthday celebration, to show that he
was not superannuated, in the strict
sense Of the term, he sang the bass
part in quartet that had gathered at
his daughters home.
Mr.. Clark has had an eventful life.
In early youth he was apprenticed to
firm Of oyster dredgers. Following
this occupation, he spent a number Of
years In the merchant service and has
touched at almost every port on the
European coast.
Once in a storm off the coast Of
Greenland he feared that his career
was to be a short one. His ship
had taken on a cargo at a Russian
port and on the return voyage had
been driven far up into the Arctic
ocean. Sitting by a window at his
daughters home the old mans eyes
sparkled as he told of the hardships
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
Conserved Food Disease.

DR.. Jacques Liouiville, who was
part of the STAFF of the antarctic ex-
petition which recently returned to
the north, has given the name the
disease of conserved food" to the NAL
ady which is the cause of most Of the
illness encountered on these expedi-
lions. There is a very decided alter
alton in the composition of the blood,
owing to a lack in the food of the nee
essary elements of health, The pa.
tients suffered from overpowering
drowsiness and shortness of breath,
which prevented them from taking
part in marches or similar severe
work. All these symptoms disappear.
ed when supply of fresh meat was
obtainable.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1912-09-20
SCOTCH GIRLS ARE POPULAR
Many Steamships Bring Large Par
ties Of Highland Lassles to Marry
American Farmers.

New Ycrk.-Judging by the fire.
quency of their arrival in large par
ties, Scottish lassies are popular as
brides In some sections of the far
West.
In similar proportion to that on
many previous voyages of Anchor lin
ers, 10lper cent of the 500-odd passen-
gers on the steamer Columbia, just in
from Glasgow, were young Scotch
women.
All Of the fifty maldens announced
themselves bound for various western
states as brides-to-be Of prosperous
farmers.