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The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
HOLD RECORD FOR FASTING
Two Eeee nitric Enolishmen Who Prae-
tieed Seh-DenIai Through Many
Year, Of Their Lives.

The most persistent faster Of all
time was probably Roger Crabb, who
lived in the time OF the common
wealth.
In order to carry out his ideas most
efiectually he sold of his stock in
trade, distributed the proceeds among
the poor and took up his residence in
a hut near Ickenham. where he lived
on three farthings week.
Instead of strong drinks and
wines" says the eccentric Roger. Il
give the old man a cup of water and
instead OF roast mutton and rabbit l
give him broth thickened with bran
and pudding made with bran and
turnip leaves chopped together"
Vigorous health was the result, says
the London Chronicle, but his absten-
ton from food was regarded with
such suspicion that on one occasion
he narrowly escaped being burned
alive as wizard.
Another famous hermit who man.
aged to reduce diet to very simple
proportions was James Lucas, with
whom many OF US are doubtless
familiar as Mr. Mopes in Charles
Dickens tom Tiddler's Ground"
Lucas lived mainly upon bread and
penny buns, though to these were
added at times eggs and herrings and
gin. A basket slung from the roof
out of reach of the rats served him as
larder, and he abjured washing, all
furniture and clothes, wrapping him.
self in an old blanket.
A generosity with gin made him the
friend OF all the tramps in the king
dom and eventually he had to employ
two armed watchmen to protect him
from their attentions. A hermit with
a bodyguard is something OF para
dox.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
SMALL VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE
According to Legal Decisions Few
Men Need Have High Opinion Of
Themselves.

That "human life is cheap" would
appear from study undertaken by
a well known lawyer of the legal deci-
sions handed down in this country
with reference to the cash value" of
a man.
1t is estimated that at ten years
of age boy Of the laboring class
is worth s2.06l,42; at fifteen, s4.263 46;
at twenty-tve. $5,4SS,03, from which
time the decline is steady, man of
seventy. by this legal decision scale.
rating at only $1713! BY the same prac-
tical method Of computation one eye
is worth $1,000; one leg, $4,000; two
legs. $G5,O00; one arm. $4,000; one
hand, $4,000; one finger. $1,000, and
permanent disability, 5000. This, 1t
is pointed out. is merely an average as
far as decisions have been examined
1t should be added that the estl-
mates of the value of mans life
are based upon an idea not Of his
value to himself. but of his value to
the community. The figures in in
dividual cases would vary greatly
with reference to the fact whether or
not the persons death caused hard
ship to others who were dependent up.
ON him
The value Of man to himself Is,
it is further pointed out. unimportant
after he Is dead-from a legal point
of view His value to society at large
cannot be considered In cash esti-
mate, since that kind Of value de-
pends upon other than physical re-
sources. His value to those who look
to him for support can alone be esti-
mated on the material side.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Eskimo Lamp.

1t is believed that the Eskimo lamp
was invented before it's possessors
emigrated from their original home,
which was probably further south
and near the seacoast. But the form
OF the lamp becomes more specialized
the higher the latitude Is. The lamps
OF southern Alaska have a wick edge
OF two inches, while those OF Point
Barrow and nothern Greenland have
wick edges of seventeen to thirty-six
inches.
The lamp is employed for melting
snow and ice to obtain drinking water.
for cooking, lighting, warming. drying
skins and in the arts 1t Is also
social factor and the sign Of the fam
ily unit, each head Of the family nav
ing his lamp.--Harper' Weekly
The Holly Ch'ef'3in's plant l.
letter prepared to PRINT your sale
rllls than any printing house in
he Arkansas valley. We make
Sner'altv OF this work and turn
NJ s"""rior quality OF bill
p-'"-s - i've c,~ht. Service is
v.'t prOmat
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Cherry PUDDING

2 cups sifted pastry -four
2level tesspoonfuls X C Baking Powder
y teaspoonful salt u cup butter
2eggs u cup milk (scant)
Cherries
Salt or tablespoon butter
Sift together three times. the flour- hak-
ing powder. and salt and work in the butter:
beat eggs, add milk to eggs and stir into the
-four. Half fill baking pan with cherries,
add bits Of butter and pour batter over top
Of cherries. and bake slowly for fifteen min
utes. then increase heat and bake until
cherries uppermost, serve with hard sauce
or very sweet cherry juice. Other fruits,
such rs apples, peaches. apricots, berries OF
bananas may be used.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Marble PUDDING

2 cups aiited pastry -four
2level tesspoonfuls K C Baking Powder
Il teaspoonful cinnamon
teaspoonfui salt y cup sugar
Yolks Of eggs. beaten light
Tablespoonful melted butter
4 cup cold water
Whites Of eggs. beaten dry
~ ounces melted chocolate
sift together, three times, the -four. bak-
Ing powder, salt and cinnamon. 70 the
yolks add the sugar. butter and water, and
st,t into the dry Ingredients. Add the
whites OF the eggs. Divide the mixture into
two parts and add the chocolate to one
part Dispose the two parts in buttered
mold to give marbled appearance. Steam
forty-6ve minutes.
In mixing egg and sugar, use rotary egg
beater making light creamy mixture Of egg
yolks and sugar. In steaming pudding have
low blase under the water for at least the
rise before cooking.
Serve with Vanilla Sauce.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Baking Helps

Select materials with great care. The
best of everything is always the cheapest.
To have perfect finished product we
must first have good material for our
foundation. In selecting materials for
baking. first get a high grade baking
powder, for unless properly leavened,
food is not palatable. A high grade bak-
ing powder is not necessarily high priced
one. X c Baking Powder is medium in
lprice, but of the highest quality, made of
the best and purest of materials properly
combined to produce the best possible
results.
For cakes and pastries a soft wheat
pastry -four is preferable. To determine
a soft wheat from a bread, or hard wheat
-four, press it tightly in the hand; If tho
-four stays packed in a moss showing tho
imprints of the fingers. it Is pastry -four;
if it falls through the fingers sandy, it is
a bread -four, and should be used only
with yeast.
Shortening must be fresh and sweet.
Sugar should always be cane sugar.
Water is equally good as milk in all
articles where a large amount of sugar
ID used. except for cookies.
Larger masses of dough require longer
time for rising and baking.
Bear in mind that baking rules are as
important as measuring rules. Do not
bake cakes, pudding and such pastries
as short cake, dumplings and meat rolls
with hot fire at the start. Have a slow
oven until the dough doubles IN bulk;
then increase heat to bake and brown.
Biscuits, cut cookies and pie pastry
require hot oven.
Have food thoroughly cooked. Half
cooked pastries are hard to digest and
Injurious, better to oves-bake than undsr-
bake
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06

evenly in the pan. have the prunes cooked
tender and remove the stones. Press the
prunes skin side down. into the top Of the
dough.
Brush over with melted butter, dredge
with sugar and cinnamon. and bake twenty
i've minutes. Serve hot, cut into squares!
With bard sauce or stewed prunes.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06

Patronize Chiettain advertisers
1t means the continued prosperity
# our town. Montgomery-W Ward
have never as yet built up any
hing bit A mail order business.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Prune kachen

Prune kuchen
cups sifted pastry -four
2 tablespoonfuis granulated sugar
u teaspoonfui salt " cup butter
2level teaspoonfuls K c Baking Powder
Cinnamon to taste egg
Is cup milk " pound prunes
3 tablespoonfuls melted butter and 3 table.
spoonfuls sugar for top Of Kuchen.
Sift together, three times, the -four, sugar
salt and baking powder, and work in the
butter. Beat the egg: add the milk. and
stir into the dry Ingredients. Turn into q
shallow buttered pan and spread the dough
Copyright Isls ~ Jdsuss NO. Co.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
HantNa !Sauee

Boil cup Of sugar and u cup Of water
oix minutes; add 2 teaspoonfuis OF butter aud
Q teaspoonfu Of vanilla extract.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06
Had Souee

Cream u cup butter with u cup suga
and flavor to suit. putting over pudding
when pudding is still warm.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-06-06

IS Ia hand high, Color: Black with
white points.
TERMS: $l2 50 TO insure colt to stand
and suck, $40 TO insure mare with foaI
So for the season.
PEDIGREE: Sired by A. r. Siivey's
Kentucky Mammoth, 10 IL hands high
of Howard county, Mo-; he by Importe,
Compromise. Napoeons first dam b,
Moro; second dam by Old Napoleon,
noted Kentucky jack, owned by A. W
Walker of Boone county, Mo.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
FAITHFUL DOG is PUNISHED
alashed for Barking While Burglars
Were RoSbing His Masters Cafe
In New York.

Aaron Silverman's brindle bulldog
Spot is the only living creature around
Silverman cate at 141 West Twenty
seventh street that Is in any condi-
ton to smile, but Spot is physically
too sore to smile.
Some time after midnight the bark
ing of Spot awakened the Silverman
family in their rooms above the sa.
loon. Silverman %thereupon arose, got
a trunk strap and walloped poor old
Spot into silence and went back to
bed.
When Silverman went behind the
bar about $50 he found that burglars
who doubtless had started Spots un
3p~recedented barking had ripped open
the cash register and taken $40 and a
ring from 1t, and then had attacked
the safe and got away with one dia,
mond ring worth s125, two more worth
800 each, a %$75-dollar watch, a la
'valliere worth s75, a $45 locket and
chain and four Russian gold pieces
worth about $10.-New York Sun.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
NO NEED 70 AHoLD PHONE
Sound Magnifying Trumpet which
viii Tell You When 4 Il Time
to Talk. s,


There is a sound magnifying trum-
Bet Of fiat shape, behind which is a
small attachment intended to support
HE telephone receiver. When 1t be
0omes necessary to hold the line,
when calling up or replying, instead of
h person standing with the receiver
glued to his ear he places the receiver
upon the time saver, bringing the ear
piece into position with the sound
magnifier. He is then at liberty to re-
sumo his duties until such time as
the person required at the opposite
end attends his instrument.
This is notified by the speech trans
mitter being magnified by the time
saving device SO as to be perfectly
audible at a distance. The receiver
may then either be withdrawn and
held to the ear in the usual way, or
left In connection with the magnifier,
hearing being quite as simple and
easy as under normal conditions. An
other advantage of the invention is
that he users two hands are left free
to carry out any other requisite task,
such as the turning up of documents,
making references, writing down mes
sages or instructions from dictation,
and SO ON.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19

The poems are the whispered mes
sages of a soul that spoke from another
world, the soul of the celebrated act
ress, says Mrs. Deltwyn, n are
the sequel to. a volume of poems issued
by Miss Menken under the title of In
felicia" This volume a been dedi-
Gated to Charles Dickens.
In the early part of January, 1899,
reads the Introduction to the volume.
the first poem included herein, Pas
sing Out Into Life was received. From
then until the end of that month an ad-
ditional poem was dictated daily, at
which time the writer's mission as an
amanuensis ceased.
1.-THE voice came to me as clearly as
I am talking to you now Mrs. Delt-
wyn told a reporter.
II had met Miss Ntenken only once,
when | was a small girl. h was a
great friend of my mother. Once she
gave mother a, volume of .Infeficfa' and
l obtained it. 7 read 1t and reread it.
I became saturated with the weird md
mystic beauty of the Volume
''If you read this book. 'Believeat
Thou This?' you can see the same
weird. fantastic diction that character
ICED Infeiicia.' But this later book is
filed with optimism. while the other
was written In an unhappy strain.
"Did you ever sit by the fireside. half
dreaming and did you see faces of those
YOU loved. faces that maybe had been
buried long, long ago; faces hat per-
+haps are living yet? l SAW her face
that way
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19

Is head of the house, positively refuses
TO consent to a regular marriage.
1t is said that ManueI's refusal when
his mother begged him to permit her
to marry again, was gentle but firm.
He pointed out to her that although he
loved her very much, he could not per-
init her to do such a rash thing as to
marry a man through whose veins
there courses no royal blood. 1t hap
pens that Amelie's lover is nothing
more than a count-the Count Of Vas
salaes, a Portuguese noble.
When Manuel made 1t clear, to his
mother that he intended to rule over
her with a firm hand, in regard to this
marriage business, 1t is said that she
grew petulant. IT won't go to your
wedding unless you let me marry the
count, SO there!" she cried. Manuel
reckoned he could get along somehow
even II his mother didn't grace the
wedding festivities with her presence.
1t is probable that the marriage of
the former queen and the Portuguese
count will be a secret one and take
place in London. Queen Alexandra of
England, Emperor William N Anne
lies numerous other friends are pre-
pairing to be shocked when they hear
the dreadful news.
King Manuel is the chap who had all
sorts Of thrilling escapades with Gaby
Deslys, the Paris dancer. He went a
little too far, and the unfeeling Portu-
guese populace took him by the nape of
the neck and threw him bodily out Of
PORTUGAL
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
New York,s New Postotfice.

New York's new $4,000, 900 post
office building, a massive pile of pink
granite five stories in height and two
blocks long, facing the rear of the
pennsylvania station, is the greatest
building of its kind in the world. From
he curb to the topmost piece of
granite is 101 feet. There are 1867
600 cubic feet of granite, $4,000 tons
of steel, 1000, 900 bricks and 100000
square feet of glass in the building.
The main corridor, corresponding in
length to the outside colonnade, is a
combination of buff marble, white
plaster and glass, two stories high, 20
feet wide and ESQ feet long. There
are 100000 square feet of working
space within the building.-Popular
Mechanics.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
Regulating Weight.

There is only one way to regulate
body weight and that is by the
natural method--by diet, exercise,
bathing, etc.-by alimentation and
elimination, The nostrums advertised
to take off flesh without change Of
diet are all dangerous. Be sure of
that. and avoid them. The same diet
that will put flesh on a thin man will
take flesh off a fat one. In other
words, a natural diet produces a
natural condition of the body.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19

in fine health now. If / ever have those
troubles againI will take Lydia E. PING
hams Vegetable Compound Ms.
ED. FERRoN, SIG High St, Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin.
Providence, R. L-"I cannot sneak
too highly of Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
'etable Compound as it has done won
'ders for me and l would not be without
1t. had organic displacement and
bearing down pains and backache and
was thoroughly run down when I took
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1t helped me and / am in the
best of health at present. I work in a
factory all day long besides doing my
housework SO you can see what it has
done for me. l give you permission to
publish my name and / speak of your
Vegetable Compound to many of my
friends. Mrs. ABRL LAWSON, 126
Lippitt St, Providence. RI.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
UNIQUE Suicide.

A safe was used by a man nam
ed Jacob R~abinowitz. ifty-four years
old, OF Philadelphia. Penn, to COM
nit suicide, a few days ago, FIRST he
lacked up an 500 pound safe with a
block OF wood. Placing his head be-
meath il he drew a strap as tightly az
he could around his neck. Then he
knocked the block from under the
safe and the heavy weight fell upon
his head. He was found by his wife,
but died before a physician arrived.
He had been Respondent for several
weeks because he lost Il lawsuit.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
HIS SUIT REJECTED;
BLOWS OUT BRAINS
Chicago Salesman Shoots Self
On Doorstep of Girl Who Re
fused to Wed Him.

Chicago. Special-When his proposal
of marriage was rejected by Miss Ma
bel Snow today. Willard q. Fletcher, "a,
fired a shot into his right temple and
died two hours later.
Fletcher was a salesman. He shot
himself while on the sidewalk in front
Of the young woman's home.
Miss Snow was the first to reach the
side of the unconscious man. h ad-
mitted Fletcher had proposed marriage
and hat she had rejected him. Yes
terday, in company with Miss Snow. he
visited a department store. Leaving
her on the first floor, he went to the
hardware department and purchased
the revolver with which he later shot
himself.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
EnsIand's Oldest Bowling Green.

Which is u Oldest recreation?
There are not wanting psychologists
who profess to be able to trace refer
ences to football and baseball on
Egyptian moral tablets. However,
when it m to actual records, the
fine old English game of bowls would
appear to be as old as any.
Southampton, Eng, has records
showing that one Of the local bowling
greens vas in existence in 1893.
Many interesting customs are asso-
ciated with the game on this historic
green. Every summer a fire jack"
competition is held, and an order OF
knighthood is conferred on the win
ner, who kneels in the center of the
green while the other players gather
round him and the master touches
him with a sword and dubs him sir"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
TWAIN AND INCOME TAX.

From Harper's Magazine.


1t was one day in 1887 that Clemens
received evidence that his reputation
as a successful author and publisher
a man of wealth and reyenues-had
penetrated even the dirnness of the
British tax office. A formidable envel-
ope came, inclosing a letter from his
London publishers and a very large
printed document, all about the income
ak which the queens officers had lev
led upon his English royalties as the
result of a report that he had taken
Buckenham Hall, Norwich. for a year.
and was to become an English resident.
The matter amused n interested him.
To Chatto G. Windus, his English pub
fishers, he wrote: t
| will explain that all thai about Buck
enham Hal was an English newspapers
mistake, | was not In England, and if !
had been ! wouldn't have been at Buck
enham Hall, anyway, but Buckingham
Palace, or l would nave endeavored to
have found out the reason why. -.
But We won't resist. Well pay as II I
allows me copyrighs has a right to tax
me.
Rejecting on the matter, Clemens de-
cided to make literature of it. He con-
ceived the notion of writing an open
letter to the queen in the character of
a rambling. ~garrulous, but well-dis-
posed countryman. whose idea was that
her majesty conducted all the business
Of the empire herself. He began:
Madam: You will remember that last
May Mr.. Edward Bright, the clerk of the
Inland revenue office. wrote me about a
tax which, he said was due from me to
the government on books Of mine pub
lfshed In London. that Is to say, an In
come tax on the royalties. / do not know
Mr.. Bright, and 1t is embarrassing to me
to correspond with strangers. for was
raised in the country and have always
lived there, the early part in Marion
county, Missouri. before the war. and this
part in Hartford county, Connecticut near
and about eight miles this side
of Warrington. though some call II nine,
which is impossible to be, for ] nave
walked 1t many and many a time in con-
siderably under three hours, and General
quarter, which is not likely: 50 1t has
seemed best that / write your majesty.
The letter proceeded to explain that
he had never met her majesty person
ally, but that he ono met her son. the
Prince of Wales. in Oxford stree. at the
head of a procession, while he himself
was pm the top of an omnibus. He
thought the prince woul probably re-
member him on account of the gray
coat with flap pockets which he wore.
he being the only person on the omni-
bus who had on that kind of a coat.
II remember him. he said, 'as cas-
lily as ] would a comet."
The letter. or petition as it was
called. was published in Harper's Mag
aZine and widely copied. 1t reached the
queen herself in due time, and the
Prince OF Wales in Oxford street. at the
humor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
BOILED EGGS BETRAY THEM
Nationality of Diners Is Shown In
Their Various Method of
Eating.

Sherlock Holmes might have figured
this out, but he did not:
The average Englishman will al
ways demand his egg boiled just
three minutes, then he places it In an
egg cup, just large enough to have
the egg fit it. taps the aop of the
she'll, and removes the broken shell
with his fingers. The egg is eaten a
spoonful at a time.
a Frenchman, much like the Eng
lishman, likes his eggs of three min
utes, exactly. He her ''peeis. them,
places them in a glass. stirs and
mixes well together with salt. pepper
and butter. He makes a practice OF
dipping bread into the mixture, and
eating it along with the eggs.
A Spaniard wouldn't think Of letting
his egg boil more than one minute.
He then breaks it, and lets the con.
tents run into a glass, and consumes
it as if he were drinking a glass OF
wine.
An egg is only fit in an Italians
estimation when it has been placed
AZ Soiu "dleI, anu removed Just as
the water beings to boil. He then
breaks it, pours it OH a plate, and
proceeds to sop it up with bread.
The German. like the Italian, de-
mands his eggs as near the liquid
state as possible. He breaks his eggs
in an unsightly cup, and scoops the
liquid out as if it were soup.
The American is about the only one
who prefers his eggs boiled hard.
When they are served up to him, he
knifes them. in half, removes the CON
tents into a glass, after which he
adds a plentiful supply of pepper, but
ter and salt. He then minces the
eggs fine, mixing them well with the
spices, and eats them with his toast.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
meteorite Falls Near Woman.

A meteorite weighing 81 pounds
was recently the subject of discussion
in chemical circles in johannesburg,
South Africa. The stone fell in Zulu
land a few months ago, and was not
only noticed by an eye witness some
10 miles away, but fell within a few
feet of a native woman, who gave
Information which led to it's discov-
cry. The meteorite cannot so far be
broken. 1t is known, however, to con-
tain platinum.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
A Relic OF History.

A newly rich woman, who was anx-
ious to make a favorable impression
in her n~eighhorhood, decided to show
her collection of antiques to the bish-
op when he called. The time came,
and one by one she displayed the
whole collection. giving him the HIS
tory OF each piece. There she said,
pointing impressiyely to an old yellow
teapot, that teapot was Used In the
Boston tea party
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-06-19
IT Would Seem So.

What do you consider the most i'm.
portant even in the history of Paris ~
asked the obsequious landlord Of the
American tourist. We'll" replied the
tourist, who had grown weary of dis
%tributing tips. $50 far as financial
prosperity is concerned, ] should say
the discovery of America was the
making of this town.