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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
SNAKE POISON DEADLY
Venom of Old Bite Caused Death OF
Noted Animal Collector.

Hamburg, April 1s.-Slow working
snake venom was the cause of the
death of Karl Hagenbeck, the animal
collector, on April 4, according to the
physician who attended him. He was
bitten seven years ago and the venom
eventually affected his liver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
Sugar Special
best grade @~~V

along with a 81 order of other gro
ceries and you can actually save money
on practically every item on your list.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

L6C your IIIOIIGy WOIK IOI you.
some profits of the r. NJ. Rose Cor
We made 259o on every dollar in
You can make every dollar you
invest earn you 259o every year.
You know what business | do.
You knozO / sell as much high-grade
goods as all other mail order houses in
the South combined. When | say /
make 259o on every dollar you kno1y
it's true, don't you?
DO you want to join me in max
ing this a bigger business as big
nationally as it is in the South, the
biggest whiskey business in the
world?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

They declare that in wet weather the
doors become stiff and the cords tight.
the reverse being the rule when Old Sol
intends paying a visit
your morning cup of coffee constitutes a
barometer. IT does-at least. SO an old
city gentleman declares. Recently I was
given the benefit of his observations.
Il drop a piece of lump sugar into the
Coffee he explained. and await devel-
opments. If the rising bubbles collect IN
the center Of the surface I prophesy nice.
mild weather. But if the bubbles adhere
to the sides OF the cup. then I am certain
it win rain.'
\ man who has lived half his life IN
the country pins his faith to mountains
valleys and mists for his weather lore.
When the mists that usually enshroud
hills in the morning rise quickly up their
sides towards the Sky, he is Of opinion
that Indictment weather viii follow, while
fine weather is heralded by the msts
floating down into the valleys and seem-
ing to disappear suddenly into the earth.
Another observant commercial traveller
whose business takes him great deal
i'm trains maintains that the sounds pro-
duced by train in tunnel speak more
eloquently to him of approaching weather
than any barometer. IL a passing train
goes by with only a faint rumble, he ex-
poets weather that is entirely congenial.
but if it passes with that deafening. re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

you 1t las been aching this weather.
know that ffere is rain in the air. When
it stops aching l always look for change
of conditions, and am very seldom dis
appointed. To tell you the truth. despite
the fact that / have suffered somewhat
at times, | would not have that bunion
interfered with for anything. 1t is abso-
lutely invaluable"
Curious as this barometer IS. 1t is
after all. only one of a number OF curious
means OF foretelling the weather. know
Of very dainty young lady who declares
that her most fnfallible barometer is her
hairN
When she desires to know the approach
ing weather she merely goes into a dark
room and starts brushing her locks vig-
orous1y. If, by means of the sustained
friction. her hair gives off sparks, then
she knows the weather will undergo no
disagreeahle change. But il she fails to
generate the sparks, no matter how
strenuously she wields the brush, then
she Is confident that rain will fall short
ly. Curiously enough. she is seldom far
wrong in her forecasts.
One would scarcely imagine that doors
and blind-cords had any ability to fore
tell the weather. Yet some observani
housewives aver that such is the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

guarantee we refer you In our PROSPECTUS
to the Hamilton National, of Chattanooga.
Atlantic National, of Jacksonville, Central
Savings and Trust Co., of Newport, and
other banks.
What do 1 propose to do tciM this neso
money.
will make more money with it. will
honey comb Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana.
Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas. All
these states and others too, are waiting for
the kind of Kentucky whiskey | make
eager and anxious to order it by mail. |
will put my goods into these states like |
have in Georgia, Alabama, North and
South Carolina and Florida In fact. |
have already started-have opened up
store at Newport for the national mail
order sale of whiskey. It's going big.
WEBB LAW HELPS US.
Think what the business in the South
will be with 5000 clSholders-everyone
everyone turning orders to us
- everyone enjoying the Stockholders
discount.
The. time is ripe. The Webb law has
helped us-it will knock out the blind TIGERS
has put the clean, mail-order direct
tO-consumer business on frmer founda-
ton than ever.
Don't you see that this is your obborfnnify
she doesn't knock often. This NAV be
her last call. Suppose you invest only 5000
all cash or on easy monthly payments,
You can expect $50 year, every year. Thi
in after years. Instead of you working for n
works for you. You share in the BID profit
try. Somebody else does the Worrvin6 an,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

who. but for this assistance and the
opportunity of studying the elements
Of their art free from the stress and
hindranee of poverty. would never have
attained eminence. But Grubicy's fame
rests on more enduring foundation
than this. 1t is one thing to pick up
a poor artist and supply the means OF
living while he works away with brush
and paint and brains attempting to
lind the true elements of greatness;
1t Is quite another and more difficult
task to bring 70 bear upon such sphil-
anthropy the sure eye of the patron
who can recognize in the early awk-
ward attempts of ain artist the incip-
lent signs of genius. Yet, with almost
superhuman cleverness, Grubiey has
done this not in one case but in no
less than half a dozen.
\ list of his discoveries" includes
segantini, Previati, Cremona, Bugotti,
Andrecotti, Fornara and now canon,
all of whom were found in poverty by
this Milanese and who are now IA
nous throughout the entire world. II
is Grubicy's ambition to fill the place
one time occupied by kings and popes
when they were munificent patrons
of art. The golden spoon at birth was
naturally of paramount Importance in
helping him to carry ON life's work.
After the war which united Italy,
Grubicy found himself a. rich man with
many ways of using his money. man
withfa capital to invest could double
it, tieble it, in very short time. The
older heads of finance advised the
young capitalist how to place his
money so that his income would yearly
increase. but fortune building was not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Worlds Biggest Diamond Mine

IOlIl ll-bltS
Twenty-Five miles east Of Pretoria il
what is known as the Premier Diamond
mine, the biggest in the world, where
1900 Kaffirs may be seen any day.
digging drilling and loading trucks Of
blue earth, from which are extracted
diamonds to the value of something like
G.. 100000 per annum.
The total value of diamonds exported
from south Africa in year is about
ca. 500 900 sterling, and of this quantity
about q ouarter-are discovered in the
Premfer mine the other two chief mines
being the De Beers and Jagersfontein.
The Premier mine was really discov-
cred by Sir Thomas Cullinan. the pres
ent chairman. after whom the great
Cullinan diamond of 3o25 karats, discov-
cred in the Premier mine, was named. 1t
NAV be remembered that, this diamond
Vas presented to King George by the
Transvaal government, and was cut into
flawless stones, the largest of which
is in the Imperial crown
The Premier mine possesses an area OF
1900 claims, equal to 80 acres, and at
the present time 100000 loads of treat
able "blue' as the diamond yielding earth
is knownf are dealt--with every year.
And such are the resources OF the mine
that 1t is calculated that during the
newt 40 years the present annual output
will be easily maintained.
At present the mine is about $50 feet
deep and it Is considered practical, ac-
oording to the African World Annual. to
work to depth of 1900 feet. The quality
of the stones discovered is increasing in
value with the depth. and, in order to
encourage honesty among the Kaffirs, a
payment of ss. karat on all stones found
and delivered to the compound managers
is paid
In addition to the 5000 KaffiIs. there
are 1900 white people working in the mine
in various capacities. 1t Is wonderfully
equipped with electric plant and ma
chinery, and is fascinating sight after
sunset with 1000 electric lights twinllinx.
eight great searchlights concentrating on
the center, piercing the huge cloud Of
blue smoke rising from the pine after
blasting and many thousapd4 Of natives
.rushing Down the side OF the mine, shout
ing and singing merrily. to reauulo work
for the night shift"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
HAND-IN-HAND
WITH ROSE

You don't know anything about the distilling busi-
do. You couldn't make money investing
alone. But yoa make money O0orking handin-hand
avifh me.
(l4ave rgh4 to ask you TO incest viM me?) have.
have built the greatest mail order business in the
South. That's proof. That's what have done. What
have done | can do again. I'm not content Pm
ambitious I'm going make my business reach all oyer
the country, just like it does in the South.
(Why do / ask you to join me p
Two reasons-one, want my loyal friends and GUS
toners in the South to share in my prosperity;
two, it takes new life, new Blood capital to
develop business as big as intend to make mine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
GRUB|CY FINDS
ANOTHER GENIUS
MiIanese Makes Business oc
Helping Artists
rs REMARKABLE MN
Has Played Fairy Godfather to Long
List of Painters Who Are Now
weld Famous--How
He Works

Rome, March Especial )A-Alberto
Grubicv. the wealthy Milanese patron
of art. has discovered yet another ge-
MUS of the brush. His latest protege.
canon. is rapidly fighting his way into
the forefront of modern Italian art
and Grubicy is already looking for an
other promising youth upon whom he
can lavish his superfluous money
Grubicy is easily one of the most re-
markable men of the day. Born to I'M
mense wealth in Milan, he has devoted
most of his life and large part of
his fortune to the relief and encour-
agement of promising ltalian artists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
QUEER METHODS OF
GAUG|NG WEATHER
One Man Uses Bunion on
Big Toe as a Barometer.
Coffee a Prophet
From 1'it-Bits.

FrOm III-IIls.
some people are prepared to place un-
bounded faith in the barometer as a
means of forecasting the weather. said
a successful commercial Traveller TO the
writer recently. "But I, for one, am in
clined to place greater faith in a bunion
on my big toe than in any barometer
ever made. / always know what the
weather is going to be, and I am regard
ed by my y<friends as rather a prophet
When my bunion aches-and | can tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

verberating roar one so often hears. then
he knows rain Is not far away
Stringed musical Instruments are hed
to be invested with unique powers as sa.
rometers. violin tuned on a wet dag
Inevitably goes sharp If dry weather L
at hand whilst if tuned on a crisp day
it viii sound fiat IL a change of conditions
is imminent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
COME IN,
MAKE MONEY

Your money added to my money and my
knowledge will make you that 259o, probably
more, on every dollar you invest
What is the bank giving you? -496--almost
nothing. What do the banks make ?-10%
up to 100. That's the difference between
saving and investing.
What are you going to do when you get
older? Are7y you going to work always, or
will you have something to show for your
toll? Saving will never do it. A good invest
ment is your only chance.
Now offer you chance to invest your
money with me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
Already Taken

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
"Norah@ said her mistress, severely.
IF you have that policeman In the kiteh.
en- again shall speak to him."
Go as far as ye like. num-. said
Norah. but yez'n niver git him. We're
to be married next Chuesday."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
DON'T YOU SEE YOUR CHANCE

You know me; you know my methods You know have
msrepresened If know opportunty when YOU see
& yap appreciate real chance to make real
you Don't hesitate Don't find excuses Don't say g"
don understand simply grab hold of this opportunity Make
up yonr mind you will have of these shares
S right down and fill this coupon 1t obisacs you
in no way 1t simply lets fully explain plan to YOU Fill
out the coupon and mail il today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02
WEBB LAW HELPS US.

You can expect $50 Think what this
IN alter years Instead of you working for money your
works or you share IN the big profits of this big indus
get the dividends ~ ~ -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
Bad Manners of Guests.

The second epistle touches upon another
phase of the same subject:
Is there any way to teach our friends
what one might call manners for the coun-
try place? Why will people who apparent
ly know how to behave during the winter
neglect all courtesy about summer en-
gagements? Year after year 1 receive
notifications from friends that they are
coming to see me, and this when they have
had no regular invitation. Sometimes they
don't even send word they are coming UP.
but drive up to my house at meal times
or late in the evening as they might to a
hotel
Those I have invited are little better.
for they delay accepting or telling me when
to look for them, though they were
the only guests I had to plan for, and I
was not waiting to hear from them before
fixing the dates for other visitors.
Summer is hard enough time to man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23

age for anyhow. with the frightful extra
expenses of every kind, and 1 do think
our friends might spare us all they can.
Won't you put a word about this in our
Corner for the sake of other housekeepers
who are struggling with the burden of the
summer country vacation?
:" The burden of the summer country
vacation" 1 don't suppose my correspond
ent was striving for satire, but she GER
tainly achieved it.
1 have printed these two letters because
have a shrewd surmise that they describe
pretty accurately the state of mind of
many women who do not put their trials
into words, either because they do not
wish to make others uncomfortable, or be-
cause they are bound up in what might
be called the conspiracy of silence about
1.-The good old summer time" Every one
is supposed to find it the most delightful
season of the year. Poets have sung of
the joys of midsummer days and midsum
mer nights; romancers have dilated upon
the beauty and bliss of the period II don't
believe any of them were housekeepers
with slender incomesl, and we have all
come to the point where, as the writer of
the first letter says. anything in the way
of criticism is considered in the nature of
a hereSy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
Winter Preferred by Many.

For my own part, I say frankly and |
have said for years, that do not care for
the summer and that 1 love the winter.
This does not mean that 1 do not enjoy YER
dure and flowers, long drives and walks.
sunsets and fresh vegeta bles, country air
and ripe fruits any more than it implies
that 1 like bleak, cutting winds snow and
slush, fogs and infiuenzas. But 1 find that
the pleasures and comforts of the winter
more than offset its drawbacks, just as the
annoyances of the summer outweigh its
advantages. That is. they do In my case.
More than that, believe there are good
many others who feel as do, but who
shrink from declaring themselves openly.
So far as young people are concerned,
there is every reason why they should love
the summer. In the first place. it means a
release from school or college and freedom
from responsibility for the school boy or
girl and the entrance upon a time of relax
alton and amusement. 1t stands for vaca-
ton and outdoor sports-boating, fishing,
swimming, riding, tramping, camping, ex-
cursions and picnics of various sorts in the
midst of growth and greenery. All holiday
fun and frolic are before them when sum-
mer reigns over the land. To those who
live in cities 1t opens the door to wider lib
erty ard gives them the key to the fields.
Decidedly. summer was meant for the
young.
To the housekeeper hot weather brings
something altogether different. Long ago
I reached the point where appreciated the
heavy additional expense OF housekeeping
in summer. Fresh vegetables call for more
butter fruit demands cream n abundance
and implies ice creams and ices and other
desserts which, while undoubtedly good.
are likewise costly. The housekeeping al
lowance which may with care be made to
cover the outlay in winter has a sore tug
to meet in summer. and this, too, when
there is no coal bill.
1 know several housekeepers who never
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23

~~ WO letters on the same topic lie upon
my desk. Hear what the first says:
a. should like to know what you
really think about summer. 1 know
it is customary to talk of it as If it
were period of delight and peace, but
don't believe there is any housekeeper who
has summer place who really feels this.
Is Take my own case. We are not rich but
my husband and have always felt the ne
cessity of giving our children all the coun-
try air we could during their vacations, and
we had so much difficulty in securing salts
factory boarding places in the summer that
two years ago we bought plot of ground,
put up a sort of shack on it q suppose you
might call it bungalow. and thought our
troubles ended. They had just begun.
g People talk of summer rest, but never
worked so hard as l do when am off on
my so-called vacation. In the first place,
1 have trouble with service. There is room
for only one maid in our limited quarters,
and she usually finds the country lonesome
and wants to go back to town at the end of
a week. 1t is next to impossible to get help
among the natives. and many other things
are about as hard to come at.
Fresh vegetables, for instance. We are
not out here long enough to keep a garden
a COW. chickens, and we are dependent for
dairy supplies. eggs. poultry, and vegeta-
bles. well for ice. upon the resources
of the neighborhood- My housekeeping in
New York is play compared to what I do
here, and by the time my summer rest is
ended 1 feel ready for a sanitarium.
=" The children love it. of course. and my
husband finds it delightful. He goes away
early in the morning and comes ba ok late
in the afternoon, and is off at the ball games
of the vicinity on the Saturday half holiday,
and on Sunday do my best to make him
comfortable. So he can't understand why
/ don't form glowing plans for what we will
do next summer and is little sore that 1
don't enthUse about the place. To me the
best part Of the outing will be the day that
takes me back to city comforts, and yet
when 1 say this every one looks at me as
though 1 were uttering the most fearful
heresy.
How do you feel about it? Don't you
think the summer a terribly overrated sea-
son? And if you ever used slang would
you or wouldn't you echo my sentiment,
No good old summer time in mine p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23

nurse. Also the woman who lives on a iarh
all the year around, who with the aid OF ire
others of the family does her own work at'o
is independent of employees. who relles
habitually on the products of the garden
and dairy and poultry yard, probably finos
summer an easier time than the winter.
But the housekeeper who must watch ex-
penses closely. to whom the addition OF
few dollars to her weekly bills means worry
and distress has a hard time to get alone
in the summer. She has to plan closely 10
keep within her allowance, and besides
this she must meet the countless small
exigencies, such as those to which nave
already referred, of marketing dih1culties'
of shortage of supplies. of failure on the
part of her purveyors of provisions, OF un-
satisfactory domestic service, OF insufilcleht
water, of inconsiderate visitors. L have
passed over unnoticed the plague of flies
the pest of mosquitoes, the struggle to KEEP
both out of a house that is open as much as
1t is closed. and the fact that IL any guest
or member of the household is kept awake
by heat or noise or mosquitoes or anything
else and comes down to breakfast unre-
freshed the housekeeper, for some mys-
FERROUS reason, always feels herself directly
responsible for the discomfort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
Holds a Rug in Place.

Here is a hint which may be of service
to some one. To hold rug firmly in place
in the middle of the room and yet allow
Il to be taken up easily and cleaned, drive
brass headed tacks into the floor at each
corner and midway between; then sew
brass rings on the rug to hook over these
when the rug is laid. I would also like to
tell what I think the best way to cook
eggplant. Use no batter. no bread or
cracked crumbs. but cut the eggplant
third of an inch thick, rub both sides with
salt. then stand the slices on edge in a
deep dish to drain for ten or fifteen min
utes. 1t makes 1t tough to press it. Leave
the skins on, 1t turns better. Have plenty
OF good pure lard hot. pepper the eggplant.
and fry it brown and crisp and you will
find it nice for breakfast. L. F. D."
Thank you for both of these suggestions.
Years ago I recollect reading in story of
Mrs. Whitney's of how a clever little
housekeeper had sewed rings on her rug
and fastened them over nails driven in the
floor. am glad to hear from some one
who has tried the plan for herself. Ny fear
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
Burden on the Housekeeper.

Yet, after ALL the summer comes and TIE
family goes to the country, and the house
keeper who has been in harness all winter,
who has worked herself weary cleaning
house and making ready for the fitting
from town, must set her country house in
order and take up the heavier burden Of
summer home making. If she had the
chance to give it up she would probably de
cline John and the children love 1T and
it does them so much good" she would
say, and put her veto on any project of rest
for herself that would rob them OF their
special share in the good old summer
time"
What is to be done about it? Only two
suggestions present themselves to income
for the housekeeper and one for the 9th
ers-the family and the visitors. First. Ior
the housekeeper: If you are she. try to
cultivate philosophy and not to take life
too hard. After all. worry doubles the
trouble, and if you can make a joke of con-
tretemps the sting goes from them. Bring
your religion to your help, and see in y ur
annoyance a chance for development in pa
thence, and recollect that no effort you can
put forth for your family will mean half so
much to them Is your cheer and good tenn
per. Even If you boil inside, try to main
teir a calm appearance. and by and by the
boiling will settle to simmer. and this in
time ceases to bubble and seethe and trou-
BILE and be at rest.
We who are the family have our share in
making matters light. in refraininy fror1
complaints, in trying to save steps and
stunbles, in leaving unsaid the words that
irritate or wound. If we are possible
guests. it lies with to spare the hostess
the inconvenience of delayed replies to in
vitations. to come at the time we are asked
and to go before she is tired of us. not to
arrive unannounced, to show in every pos
sible way that the visit is giving us genuine
pleasure, and that when we concluds it we
leave debtors to the hospitality which as
made our pleasure possible.