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ball into a dark secret. Five Partisan
beauties at q supper party and you can
count on hve secret kneadings.
The dough ball takes a shape behind
the tablecloth. 1t may be a rude heart
or rough disk (meaning money, the
shape Of a gold piece), or an animal
Cone big lump for the body and five
little ones stuck on for legs and head.
to make her or her f1ance win at the
races. Frequently. when IL has q FORM
1t is the antique dough doll-which she
names interiorly for a person loved or
hated. and her sentiment pours out
upon the secret object while she laughs
and chats. But IL you could search
through these superstitious beauties
handbags, pockets or Jeweled powder
boxes you would oftenest find the SIM
pie, formless ball Of dough. What!
Why? Vaguely to keep Off bad luck TO
conjure the cherries. the "guigne"-ves
let us say 1t fearlessly, the "gufgnon."
which is the superlative Of black. per-
sisting bad luck.
They fear "guigne" when they ought
to fear the flesh and the devil.
They hope In a dough ball when they
ought to hope in Providence
But, wait. this Is a Christian world.
Surely. they do not hope In M'thra
Who knows? 1t may be the dough ball.
even. is a mute. shamefansd anpeal of
stricken consciences! ASK" He said
and you shall receive"
Perhaps it's asking
STERLING HELLO.
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Misplaced Sympathy.

A WELL KNOWN lecturer. who has
Z Travelled all over the world, covering
100000 miles, in order TO gather facts
about the awakening of woman, said re-
Gently In New York:
Woman is waking everywhere. The
militant suffragettes are doing much to
help the Weakening in England They
who blame the militants are as unreal
sonable as Lander.
THE poet Lander. you know. had a
violent temper He ragged especially when
his meals went wrong.
His luncheon went very wrong one day
in Florence, and Lander threw his chef
out of the dining room window into the
garden.
But the mans body had no sooner
vanished than Lander rushed to the open
window after 1t. thrust forth his head
and cried in heartbroken accents:
Good heavens, I forgot my poor yio-
letsr"
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Thick.

A WEALTHY philanthropist said OF an
unwise charity:
Such charity. sustaining the shiftless
at the expense of the thrifty. reminds me
of Farmer Browns hired man. John.
Johns a good Teller said Farmer
Brown, but bit thick--a bit thick.
I'll tell you what Johns like. l sent
him out one morning to thin out the onion
patch. 1t was rne patch, but over
crowded. He worked n day or two on the
job, and then 1 went to see what he d
been doing.
Well. sir. / found that he'd pulled out
all the biggest onions and heaved them
away, leaving only the smallest, meanest
plants in each row l asked him what in
tarnation he meant by such work. and he
said he wanted TO give the little fellers
a chance.the big ones had crowded them
out, and they couldn't grow.
Yes Johns a bit thick-a bit thick.
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The Seaside Cocktail.

John DREW gave, at Atlantic City. at
} supper following a hop. the recipe
for a seaside cocktail.
ITO make a seaside cocktail he said.
mix a pretty summer girl with a brown
young business man, and soak in moon
light every evening from till IL.
Stir with the tango and bunny hug and
grizzly bear as played by the hotels Hun
garian orchestra. and squeeze In a dark
corner OF the piazza between dances
Garnish with sea baths. motor rides and
clam bakes. Serve with an
engagement ring"
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during its early representations and how
Bizet committed suicide, imagining II
would never be success
The French have several names for
cherries. What we call ox-hearts they
call "bigario": what we call pie cherries
they call "cerises.'' Cerises is the gen.
eral loose name for the fruit, but big
black. juicy variety Is named the
guigne," spelled and pronounced the
same as the word for bad luck. There
fore. instead of saying ''guigne" they al
ways say Cherries.
Now. you will see them all wearing
talismans. Amparito Farrar has
brand new chrysopraze with a tiny star
engraved on it, mounted in platinum
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years. discovered a girl friend in grea
distress. She took her in and treated
ner like sister. AS result the ba,
luck attached itself to Zina
She had run of Cherries that Taste,
three months, atrms Lydia, land she
got rid OF 1t only when the bad luck CIR
suddenly married wealthy man and
Went away with him to Brazil Well
that Brazilian has since lost half his
money, and If l should ever see her com
ing ooWn the street again I'd turn and
run the other way
Like Aurore Marcia and many an
other. she keeps tab on new acquaint-
ances.
4 keep little note book" she admits.
ana l see no harm in jotting down the
GATE make any new acquaintance. In
parallel column j note the good and
bad things happening to me. with the
dates. When l find the dates getting to
correspond. why. | find it prudent to act
in consequence
| talked of these mysteries with tho
man who knows them all.
That's nothing to the case of tha
Greek boy to whom Aurore Marcia gave
the reputation of the evil eye" he said
1T drove him from Paris. He was GOT
ting pretty well in the swim un,i, h.
met Aurore. She refused his acouaint-
ance."
He's got the evil eye!" and soon all
the others got to repeating it.
You know what the evil eve iso ~
man who cannot help bringing bad inck
and It's so contagious that single
glance from him if delivered stra;sht
and right will start the trouble S,nh
men are known by a peculiar look IL,
their eyes. From that hour the Greal
boys name was scratched off the hook
and he found himself alone in Par;s -
They are not cruel and heartless Thay
would willingly suffer one slam az hal
luck for friend and let ii go at that
but they don't dare-they dread the So
ries.
There you are-the series: or. in otba,
words. the Cherries. Originally II was
merely Partisan theatrical superstition
applying particularly to the first ren'
RESERVATIONS of pieces.
From the first rehearsal to the final
ringing up of the curtain every soui
connected with the new piece, from tha
manager to the scene painters boy and
from the star to the humblest sewing
girl, kept watchful and alert to do nothe
ing that might bring on the subtle aura
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aura of bad luck or the microbe Of bad
luck-and 1t is catching. In still an
other sense II is viewed as an inteli-
gent entity that can be offended and
placated. Also 1t may be fooled and
baffied.
1t can easily attach itself to GER
tain objects. Lydia Lipkowska was re-
Gently given guitar that belonged
originally to Josephine e,t the Jun unha Apply
sequently to the ex-Empress Eugene.
AS she touched 1t reverentially she
brought from 1t sad little air
What is it," said the happy giver.
ooh, you were improvising? he said.
mo. 1t must be a "reminiscences, she
answered.
The little tune was sad and pretty.
She found herself humming It, IT got
into her thoughts. 1t got into her
dreams.
There is something wrong here"
she said at last-because she Is always
on the watch to head off the cherries.
IN have to hum 1t to some one else
to get rid Of it,"
So Lydia hummed the little tune one
morning In the presence OF ner uress-
maker. who went away humming II.
and the fair and feted queen OF song
found herself delivered.
Yes. but the Cherries set In at once
all the same. Her bull pup sickeneo.
her sable stole was stolen. she quar-
broke down. she caught bad cold In
the head Finally, when nasty sore
throat kept her in the house, she
sought the advice of specialists.
Get rid of the guitar" advised Alex
ander. And two days afterward she. had
presented it to the Josephine Museum
at Malmaison. the pup recovered, the
stole was found, her friends became
reconciled. the auto began running.
her nose stopped running, and one of
her city of Paris bonds won $50 in
the monthly drawing.
Lipkowska says that she has proofs
that there are lucky and unlucky in
animate objects. just as there are lucky
and unlucky persons: land the only
sensible thing to do is to treat them
in consequence she told the man
who told me. IF an object brings you
bad luck, get rid of 1t at once. If
a person brings you bad luck. avoid
that person. Avoid even those who
themselves suffer from bad luck"
H5ii f.6l46z nheetaoi hrd mfw hrdiu
She told how Zina Brozia, after several
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of bad luck-that is to say. the "guigne."
"Guigne" in the dictionary means per-
dictionary. a kind Of cherries.
x
X x
To pronounce the word was found to
be particularly fatal. Bizet laughed at
the superstition during the preparation
of Carmen: and at the end of the Sec
ond act during it's last rehearsal. he
walked to the center of the stage and
,auch,np,v exclaimed: "Zut for the
guicne," Every one knows the otherwise
unaccountable frost of the great opera
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III is Mime. Paul Bourbon" he said.
"She lies in bed all day every Friday
You have heard OF those who will not
begin any journey or commence a work
of any moment on a Friday, and there are
those who refuse every invitation for that
day of bad luck Nine Paul makes a
clean sweep. Every Friday Of her life
she lies all day in bed She does nothing
but lie quiet in bed, just seeing nobody
and doing nothing but eat bonbons, sleep
and read a novel
She viii not stay in a room with a red
bearded man, and has quit dinner party
on pretext of i'll health when there was
one. Judas had "A red beard" she ex-
plains. Nor will she do anything new
or important the day she has seen a man
with arm In sling or bandaged head or
heard a man sing in the street or a cat
new in the house.
r.
When she meets funeral she first saws
short prayer. then retraces her stems
half block and makes for her destina-
ton by another route.
III she meets a cross-eyed child under
fourteen she does the same thing without
the prayer. IL she puts her left foot out
OF bed first I'm the morning she returns
lies a few minutes. and quits bed with
the right foot.
When any one sneezes in her presenca
she Immediately says to them: GOD bless
YOU" Though this ancient politeness 10
common enough in Paris among acouaint
ances, IL often causes Nine. Paul en-
barrassment among strangers
An -choooot' went some one in the
paddock OF the Longchamps race course
TIE other afternoon.
God bless you" exclaimed the lovely
Erenchwoman.
What "A charming afternoon II e
mademoiselle" lie answered in good
French. though being obviously a ruddv
checked American boy. and he was sur
prised and hurt when she, who had spoken
TO him first. walked off with her nose i'm
tie air -
All this is but the outer edge of the
great mystery OF the Guigne-pardon, the
cherries-and / have risked its hoodoo
writing the word and you In reading il
because i have written IL out plain
IL ID the one word of the French Ian
guage that must never be pronounced
You must always say Cherries.
IL Is the only thing that the beautiful
women OF Paris fear. They fear the Cher
ries
IL you ask what 1t means you will
be told that IL IL bad luck but 1t is
more. In one sense IL means the hoo
doc. In another you may call ii the
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HERE goes the
most superstitious
woman in Paris,
he said.
/ was sitting In
the Bois. beside a
man who knew
them all.
The lovely crea-
ture had. no doubt,
come up from
Nichv for some
shopping.
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ring. which she never takes off. Note. it
Is brand new chrysopraze. not recut; be-
cause this peculiar stone, which brings
good luck when it has not come under
evll influence. can also carry the cherries
II you don't believe it, ask the Louvre
museum curator. He will show you one
that had been worn successfully by Marie
stuart, Marie Antoinette and the Empress
Eugene. 1t came originally from the
Duchesse d'Etampes, who died suddenly
in 1915 and you know the peculiar mis-
fortunes and ill-luck that struck the
three queens who wore it after her. The
ex-Empress Eugene long smiled at the
superstition, but, rejecting on her con-
tinuous unhappiness in her old age. when
she passed through Paris in 1904 she
presented the unlucky ring to the
Museum of the Louvre. where it may
now be seen by any tourist.
Prince Murat, who is not a weak, con-
fiding woman, never opens bank at
baccarat without he has on his right
hand ring with a large sardonyx in it
engraved with an eagle. This sardonyx
peculiarly favors fortune. Zina Brozia
wears an alectorine, a white stone as
big as a bean, rather rare. which takes
perfect engraving. 1t should bear q tiny
human hand, and, worn between a sap
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- : Is POS :
sza llii|9a1z:z=@@A=a= By
Don't Be
requires judge and veue juymen to legally determine
mans guilt
What particular gift of Providence enables you pass
judgment your fellows? In what burst Of generosity Gid
destiny bestow upon you the gift of Omnscience?
possible that you soothsayer in league with the
beyond? Or perhaps adept the mysteries
of the psychic brotherhood Or again. which probable
you just mean loose outhed irresponsible Islander sling
ing gabbLer
Winding his business is about big job competent
undertake.
The community does require self delegated MONITORS
Control of the public morals branch Of the public
We prefer police with brass their buttons and
their tongues.
Busybodss invariably nuisances always unreliable and
Invariably addicted to naccuracy and exaggeration
We yet knew toUn cold sufficiently intelligent
comprehend the difference between right and wrong
Criticism works tOo and the who solely for
destruction isn't fit Judge notifies
hunters have habit wearing
eyes,
Condemnation well charity should begin home and
auoanasis failed supply enough problems occupy
the corrective tendencies of anybody.
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Dough. Witches, in all lands and
ages, used it for their spells The
italian sorcerer Of Catherine de Medicis
made dough doll with a crown on its
head to win the love of Marguerite de
Valois for the unfortunate Mole
Charles TX was mortally hooded by
his enemies sticking pins in a dough
doll mystically named after him.
Dough babies are not things to brag
about. Fair madame shows her jewel
talisman to one and all. but underneath
the tablecloth she kneads the bread
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Special Correspondence OF The star.
PARIS. August :.
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STERLING E1ElLIG TELLS OF THE PET

Jewel Talisrnans and
the Secret Bread Charm
"A Woman Who Stays
in Bed All Day on Fri
days-The Guitar of
Josephine w ord
That Must Never Be
Pronounced = Keeping
Track of the Hard
Luck Days
special Correspondence OF The star
PARIS, August lgI.;
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ZlNA bROZIA SAYS:
IF ISHOULDEWR SEE That
BADLUcK GIRL. ID TURN
AND RUM :. .''.~,..-:

phire and an emerald, it obtains and re-
tains worldly goods and conquers the
favor of the great. Nine. Paul Bour-
rillon wears Il topaz engraved with a
falcon, famous for securing sympathy
of all.
1t was by the aid of an emerald en-
kowska, that Methuselah lived to be
the oldest man; and the prophet Aaron
wore an amethyst engraved with a bear
in belt round his stomach Lydia has
all this from travelling in the mountains
of Greece. The horses of the stage
coach began baking the edge Of
precipice, to the imminent danger OF
every one. when a young .urk Jumped
from his seat. braced hind wheel with
a big stone and Gained the rearing
horses on the edge of the abyss.
II have done no act of courage" he
said in reply to everybody's thanks. Il
did not risk my life at ALL i wear an
amulet that protects me from accidents"
And with this he showed a crystal sus-
pended from his neck. 1t was engraved
with bear and bunch of grapes.
All right. they wear such talismans os-
tentatiously. and brag about their vir-
tues; yet If you are at lunch, dinner
or a supper party with one of these
fair women watch her closely, and
you'll see her secretly lingering a ball
Of bread crumb underneath the table,
,Ioth
You know, the soft part Of bread.
kneaded in the fingers it becomes like
Tough or putty.
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IL you ask. what 1t means you will
be told that IL Is bad luck but it is
more. In one sense IL means the hoo
doc. In another you may call ii the
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-14
BREAKS A COLD
IN A FEW HOURS
First dose Of Pape's Cold Compound
relieves all grippe n,isery-Con-
tains no Quirine.

After the very ;irst dose of 'Pape's
Cold Compound" you distinctly feel
the cold breaking and all the disa gree
able grippe symptoms leaving.
II is a positive fact that a dose of
Pape's Cold Compound taken every
two hours until three consecutive
doses are taken will cure Grippe or
break up the most severe cold, either
IN the head. chest. back, stomach or
limbs .alt...
II promptly ends the most miserable
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stuffed up. feverishness sneezing. sore
throat, running OF the nose mucous
catarrhal discharges, soreness, stiff
ness and rheumatic twingcs.
Take this wonderful Compound with
The knowledge that there is nothing
else In the world which will cure your
cold or end Grippe misery as promptly
and without any other assistance or
bad after-e!fects as a 25 cent pack
age OF Pape's Cold Compound, which
any druggist can supply-it contains
no qninine--be sure YOU get what YOU
ask for--accept no observation-disclosures
IN every home Tastes nice-acts
gently. 49, . ,,, advertisement
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-14
Heart Beats BY Wire.

Heart beats may soon be heard
around the world The doctor in san
Francisco will find it possible to con-
meet nenlarging lantern with New
York wire and watch the shadow pie
ture Of IA patients heart beat even if
that patien is i'm Boston. Science has
pictured the heart beat enlarged It,.
thrown the quivering shadow on "a
great white screen and coldly analysed
the changing pulsations.
Washington university's school of
mC<scine has installed an electrician
diograph. II is being used in the study
and treatment Of diseases. A PAINS
taking German dreamed out the actual
principles % the instrument half Il
century ago. In reality there wera
two Of them-Herr Killiker and Herr
Mueller With a rheoscope they sue
ceeded in picturing the pulsation Of
the heart of a frog.
The oectrocardiograph is "A thing OF
wires, copper plates, electrodes, came
eras lanterns, compensators, keys ac-
cumulators and the other technical re-
qusities of electricity II is a MOVING
picture machine and one of the weird
est in the world. Miles from the bed
side OF a dying man one may watcn
the final fight of his heart against the
coming of death. lntallibly the un
canny machine records the pulsationi
and contractiOnS of the most trelesS
engine in the world, the human heart.
II is now possible To receive tele-
cardiograms. They will hardly become
popular. They are the shadow records
of hearts beatings, carried long dis
tances by wire and thrown upon u
screen by combined lantern and
camera
Heart murmurs." the whistling
sounds in the auricles and ventricles,
the sucking resurgitations of the blood
in the upper chambers will be inter-
pretated by the machine into some
thing tangible.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-14
UPPER PENINSULA
Continued From PAGE Two.
Pays Up and Goes Free

Several weeks ago John Cough OF
Menominee was married in that city
20 Miss Frances TOddish Within an
hour after the ceremony he concluded
that Miss Toddish was not the right
ftl object of his affections and he dis
appeared Recently he was arrested
or a charge or abandonment while
employed as sawyer in a Manistiquc
MN. He procured a postpOnement Of
the trial on furnishing a bond OF $500.
Late last week Cough notified Prose
cutting Attorney Fred Haggerson that
Ne had effected a settlement with his
bride and produced "A written state
ment from Miss Toddish- that was,
asking that the complaint against him
be withdrawn. The settlement was on
a money basis-the couple TO live apart
without interruption so long as Cough
contributes a specified portion Of his
monthly stipend to the support of his
wife. Mr.. Haggerson was acquiescent
L. dropping the prosecution under this
ARRANGEMENT and Cough was permit
ted to depart for Manistique to resume
his former position.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-14
PAGE FIVE

The body was found by w. r. Smith.
a Fiat Rock farmer who was passing
on the road According 10 tracks i'm
the snow the stranger had stepped
from the highway 10 the approach
leading 10 the dock He had plncet
o box Of cartridges on one Of the tim
beers and had showed five cartridges
into new 32-calibre revolver. Place
ing the gun against his right ear ha
had pulled the trigger He fell forward
in the SNOW, still grasping the gun. I'm
the pockets OF the dead man wera
found hfty-twO cents. but no papers
or marks about his clothing by which
he might be Identified could be dis
covered. One man claimed that this
unfortunate was OF Russian birth ami
that his name was Michael Majinsld.
while others declared that Majinski
was not the person. IL IL said that the
dead man was employed at the new
dam at the time OF it's construction.
also that he had worked for the {.
Stephenson company He weighed
about 175 pounds was six feet tall, was
bald about the top Of his head. ana
had sandy hair and a long sandy mus
tache. He wore a complete lumber
mans outfit, and all OF his clothing
vas clean and we'll kept
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-14
PLAN TO WORK
CUT-OvER LAND
Use Of Convicts for Development
of Waste Districts Urged

TWO ways Of carrying out Governor
Ferris suggestion 81 the cut-ov tim
Der lands Of Michigan. will De pres
ented 10 the Legislature sometime in
the next few weeks. one 10 permit
the counties 10 bond themselves 10
pay for the clearing and stumpage ana
10 raise the money 10 pay Off the
bonds by tax on the improved lands.
as is done in the case Of drainage dis
tricts.
The other proposition 81 TO have
the work done by establishing camps
OF short term prisoners similar TO the
prospecting camps that are conducted
by the use of convicts in Colorado.
1t is pointed out that northern Mich
igam especially has towns and rail
road facilities built upon disappear
ing lumber interests which are leav.
ing them without the support of ade-
quate agricultural development.
"As the case now stands" said
G. w. Richardson, discussing the
former plan. THE resolute hustling
farmer cannot afford to settle on these
lands in Michigan when the oppor-
tunity of government aid over in Can.
ada is before him. The result is that
our settlers are mostly foreigners who
have not the means or ability To meet
the situation in a competent manner.
II the county could go TO q man
that bought an So say and offer Ia
clear 20 10 40 acres of IL. he could
begin farming and getting his returns
right off. The bonds would be made
for a long term SO that the assess
ments against the land would not be
. burden TO him. In this way the
much needed farming industry could
be built up rapidly without appreci-
able cost TO anyone"
The other plan, il is argued, will,
as a by-product, be an acceptable
solution OF the problem confronting
| many counties Of what to do with 90
DAYS and six months prisoners This
arrangement would give them healthy
| useful outdoor employment.
The sponsors of these reforms feel
that, with the backing Of the COVER
nor, the disinterested patriotism OF
their purposes will carry them through
the legislature in It's present spirit.
Upon the suggestion Of the superin-
| tendent of public instruction, Repre-
sentative J. Y. Mcbride, of Shiawas-
see, is preparing a bill calling for a
! teacher of manual training in each
! county who shall go from township
T. township instructing the boys OF
the rural communities in the arts OF
the forge and the carpenters bench.