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Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
At Church In Holland.

In many parts of Holland men still
wear their hats in church. Moreover,
smoking in church is not considered
irreverent by the Dutch when service
is not in progress, and, it is said, even
the ministers sometimes indulge in
this practice.
Altogether, Dutch Professionalism is,
it would seem, from a certain stand
point. a comfortable form of religion.
One may keep his hat on in church,
which saves him many a chill; he may
talk freely and in his natural voice,
not in whisper; he has neat house
maid in a white cap and apron to
show him to his pew or to offer him a
chair; and he has nice drab pews of
painted deal all around him and a
cheerful "two-decker' pulpit above.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
49, Cnre Ear Cancer "a.

In his annual report DIR. E. +. Bash
ford, general superintendent of re-
search in the laboratories of the inn
perial cancer research fund told the
members of the society that during the
past year there had been IL claims
to the discovery of cure for cancer.
All of these had been investigate ID ana
no Justification for any one Of these
claims had been obtained. Doctor Bash
ford also said women were more. liable
TO cancer than men. In England and
Wales in 1910 the death rate from
cancer was $50 per 100000 for men
and ] 07O for women.
AS the London Times says editorial
ly in commenting upon this reports
The only reasonable expectation OF
curing cancer still rests upon its COM
plete removal by the surgeon at the
earliest possible time after 1t is dis
covered Medical Record.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
SNOW REALLY A BLESSING
Denver Newspaper Rejoiees At the Re-
n1arkable Fall Of "the 5eau:ifui'
Throughout the State.

Il has been said before. Let ii be
said again. The snow that YOU swept
from your walks, that silted down
your collars, that got into your hair.
your eyes. your tempers, is worth a
million dollars 10 the agriculturists Of
Colorado. To the dry farmer who
plows it into his soil it viii bring re
wards in a next years bank account.
Lying in the mountains Il will flow
down the bitches to the irrigationists
next season. On ranch. in orchard
and truck garden IT means moisture
and money. To the city it means
health that always comes from sea
sonable weather. Wade through IL
with a smile on your lips, shovel il
with song in your heart, roll it into
balls and throw at your neighbor with
a laugh and a CHEEKY word. Il spells
temporary inconvenience and future
prosperity-and a white Christmas for
the public tree that brought ali Den
ver-all Colorado-into that new, bet
ter, greater, get-tOgether bond OF
friendship and work.-Denver Times.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15

that there is real pleasure in contem-
plating this array of coats and muf-
fiers which make so fine a show on
every available counter.
Fashion has developed here with an
amazing rapidity For it is but three
or four years ago that no choice was
to be found outside the range of knit
ted coats. But this season a coat of
this type is no longer modish. Prob
ably it will still attract the serious
sportswoman who, having in other
years tested it and discovered its mer-
it's, is too conservative to be tempted
by the new.
But more will be tempted by the
many novel ideas in color and design
which are carried out in pure silk, In
silk woven with wool, and in pure
cashmere. For not only are these
pretty and becoming but they lend
themselves to so vast a variety that
a woman may indulge an individual
taste in way which hitherto has
been quite impossible in an outfit of
this kind.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
ENGLAND'S TEMPLES
Beautiful Tribute to Past LabOrS
of Catholic Church.
William Winter, the Dramatic Critic,
Says He Is Conscious Of Pro-
found Obligation for chureh's
Preservation Of the Arts.

Utica, n. "a beautiful tribute is
paid by William Winter, the dramatic
critic. to the old Catholic temples of
England, many OF which now lie in
ruin. ITO think of the Catholic
Church" he says, lis to think of the
oldest, the most venerable and the
most powerful religious institution ex-
listing among men. / am not a church
man of any kind; that possibly, is
my misfortune; but ! am conscious OF
a profound obligation of gratitude to
that wise and august austere, yet ten
derby human ecclesiastical power.
which, self-centered amid vicissitudes
of human affairs and proyident of men
of learning, Imagination, and sensibil-
ity throughout the world has pre-
served the literature and art of all the
centuries, has made architecture the
living symbol of celestial aspiration,
and in poetry and in music has heard
and has transmitted the authentic
voice of God
Il say that / am not a churchman;
but l would also say that the best
nOuTS Vi my llle nave bSSlI hOuAS VI
meditation passed in the glorious
cethedrals, and among the sublime
ecclesiastical ruins of England.
81 have worshiped in Canterbury,
and York in Winchester and Sails
bury in Lincoln and Durham, in Ely
and in Wells.
Il have stood in Tintern, when the
green grass and the white daisies
were waving in the summer wind, and
have looked upon the gray and rus
set walls and upon those lovely arched
casements-among the most graceful
ever devised by human art-round
which the sheeted ivy drops and
through which the winds OF heaven
sing a perpetual requiem.
II have seen the shadows of eve
ming slowly gather and softly fall over
the gaunt tower, the roofess nave, the
giant pillars and the shattered ar
cades of Fountains Abbey in its Sc
quested and melancholy solitude,
where ancient Ripon dreams in the
spacious and verdant valleys Of the
Skell.
q have unused upon Netley and
Kirkstall, and Newstead, and Bolton,
and Melrose, and Dryburgh; and at a
midnight hour l have stood in the grim
and gloomy chancel of st. Columbia's
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
FACE FULL OF PMPLES

Ruffln, N. C.-"My face became full
of pimples and blackheads, and
would itch, burn and smart. The skin
was rough and red. ! was really
ashamed of my face. My arms and
back were affected almost as badly
The pimples would tester and there
would come a dry scab on top The
trouble caused my face to be disfig-
ured badly and the itching would both
er me SO could not sleep well nights,
especially during warm weather.
THE trouble lasted me three long
years without anything doing me any
good until friend told me about Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment and then ]
decided to try them. After the first
application / could see some improve
ment. After using Cuticura Soap and
Ointment two weeks did not look
like the same person; most Of the
pimples had disappeared. ,At7tne end
of four weeks | was completely
cured" (Signed) Miss Mamie Mitch
ell, Jan. 9, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p Skin Book, Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. l., Boston. ADV.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Errors of His Ways.

"A good New Year resolution for a
middle-aged married man?" said
George AIDE at a dinner in Chicago
We'll, the best resolution a middle
aged married man could make, accord
ing to my view, would be for him to
swear off telling his wife and children
about the girls The used to kiss in his
young days.
I'D say to the middle-aged married
man of this type:
Suppose, friend, your wife fell into
a reminiscent, jovial mood some eve
ming after supper and started to tell
about the boys who used to kiss her
by the wood stove in the dim parlor,
wouldn't the dove of peace flap her
wings and light out p. d. q. iust?'"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
DRESS FOR WINTER SPORTS
Fashion DEGREES Much Variety Of Col
or in the Costumes for Wintry
Pleasures.

London.-Sport on the snow and ice
fields OF the continent is at hand The
Times presents an article from spe-
cial correspondent on dress for win
ter sports;
An outfit for winter sport demands
special preparation for the marked
changes Of temperature. An expedi-
s.on started in the splendid sunshine
may linger in the snOwfields until the
sky is ablaze with stars. Sport begun
on the ice run beneath a oloudless
sky may end in a haze Of flying snow
flakes.
At this time Of the year every shop
of importance specializes in the de-
tails necessary for such sport. This
season, indeed. they are given pre-
eminent place. Everywhere there is
such variety, such splendor of color,
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15

Our friend Tom married recently
says a contributor to the Boston Tran
script. His bride, being from the Pa.
cifc coast, where thunderstorms are
rare and moderate. became terrified
when a genuine eastern "riproarer'
broke loose, and she sought safety in a
closet.
Presently came scream from her
place of refuge.
What's the matter?" inquired her
husband.
20 Tom" she answered. half-crying,
half-laughing, I'm afraid to come out
because of the lightning, and I'm
afraid to stay in here because there's a
mouse"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
First Chinese School Book.

There are also fragments of the Chi
Chiu-Chang vocabulary composed by a
eunich of the palace in about the year
40, A. d, All the authentic texts of
this ancient school book, widely used
in the year to teach Chinese chill.
dren to read and write, had long since
disappeared. The paper manuscripts
are the oldest examples of such litera'
ture in existence. NJ. Chavannes has
succeeded in reconstructing from these
heterogeneous and more or less frag-
mentary and disconnected materials a
fairly probable picture Of the daily
life of the Chinese garrisons that held
these frontier posts against the Huns
and kept open the trade routes to
Farghana and Yarkand. The human as
well as scientific interest of such pic
ture is manifest.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
And AGAIN. NY RrethrenlD

certain small girl, YEARLY listen
ing to long sermon by minister
who had the odd habit of drawing in
his breath with an odd whistle, whis-
pered to her mother that she wanted
to go home. The mother, expecting
the discourse to end, momentarily, re-
fused permission. The third time this
happened the mother said, II think he
will stop now in minute" To this
the child answered in a clear, high
voice, NO, mother, he isn't going to
stop | thought so now for three
times, but he has gone and bowed
himself up again"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15

Cathedral, remote in the storm-sWept
Hebrides, and looked upward to the
cold stars, and heard the voices OF the
birds of night mingled with the des-
olate moaning of the sea.
With awe, with reverence, with
many strange and wild thoughts
have fingered and pondered in those
haunted holy places, but one remem-
brance was always present-the re-
membrance that it was the Roman
Catholic church that created those
forms of beauty, and breathed into
them the breath of divine life, and
hallowed them forever; and thus think
ing | have left the unspeakable pathos
of her long exile from the temples
that her passionate devotion prompted
and her loving labor reared"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
LOSES JOB; TAKES HIS LIFE
One Day of ldleness In Nineteen Years
Was Too Much for East
ern Man.

Boston, Mass.-One day of idleness
after 10 years of hard, steady work
was too much for William Ratzel of
Roxbury, so he committed suicide.
For nearly a score of years Ratzel,
who was a carpenter, was employed in
a woodworking factory in East Cam
bridge,
He was discharged. He brooded
over his lot all day, and at night after
the factory closed he opened window
of his old place of employment and
made his way inside. In the morning
when a foreman opened the shop he
found the body of Ratzel lying on a
workbench with a gas tube in his
mouth.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Park for MiIIionaires.

Plans for the transformation at an
enormous cost of the 14,000-acre Palos
Verdes ranch, overlooking Los Angeles
harbor and the Catalina channel. into
one of the most magnificent residential
parks in the nation for American mil
lionaires, are being made. Frank A.
Vanderlip of the National City bank OF
New York and his associates recently
purchased the tract for $1,750,000 for
this purpose. The plans as they now
stand promise to involve an expendi-
ture of $5,000,000
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Dummies Arrested.

Dummies used by a Pathe director
I'm an auto wreck at South River, n. j.,
had the distinction of being shot at and
arrested by Chief of Police Oppenber-
ger of that place recently, according
to a New Brunswick newspaper. The
dummies, when not in use, were placed
in the store room of the Washington
hotel Some iokers told the chief that
some men were stealing cigars from
the store room and when he arrived
and saw the dim figures in the dark
ness he called upon them repeatedly
to surrender. Receiving no answer he
blazed away at them several times be-
fore he discovered the joke.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Indians First "cubists" ~

Lone Star" art instructor in the
United States Indian service, claims
that "cubist' art originated with the
American Indian some 200 years ago
Among his collection of Indian art
says American Art News, specimens in
the common figure of the eagle, shaped
square and totally unlike an eagle, yet
Immediately impressing the observer
that it is one, which, declares Lone
STAR is the height of the "Cubist'
art
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Cauuht.

Mrs. Peck-John Henry, did you
mail that letter?
J. Henry-Yes, my dear I-er-held
it in my hand all the way to the mail
box. ] didn't even put it in my pocket.
remember distinctly, because
Mrs. Peck-That will do, John
Henry. / gave you no letter to mail
Judge.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Rars polloe Eund contrIbutlon.

Evanston, Ill.-Because friend of
his was arrested and locked up for
speeding against his protest, 4 T.
Lord, who has given a large donat'on
to the police pension fund every year.
announced that he would never con
tribute another cent to the fund.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Didn't Suit Small Boy.

After spending a few weeks last
year at a watering place, where he
took his daily swim in the open air
pool of warm sulphur water, a little
fellow was this year at the seaside.
In his tiny bathing suit he gazed out
over the vast ocean in silence.
Then he protested:
I'm not goin' in. Dat amt water
for boys: dats for boats"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Wonderful Case of Mrs. Stephenson,
on the Pacific Coast.

INDEPENDENCE OREeoN"I sick with what four doctors
called Nervous PTOstraon treated by them Tor several years.
would for while then back in the old way again. had
papaon the heart very bad antg spells and was SO
that spoon dropping the floor would nearly Kill me- could not
lift the ghtest weight without making SICK intact was about as
miserable could be- saw your au
vred thought would try Them and am SO hank aa lot
thew hend me at once took about dozen bottles OF LYDIA T.
Phan Vegetable Compound and also used the Sanave WASH
Since then have whenever felt sick our reIedes
The only doctor employ liberty publish this let
ter"-Nrs w STEPHENSON Independence, Oregon
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Inst an Accident,

Bill-"Was he ever in railroad ac-
cident?"
Jill-"Yes, but he came out all
right
What was it?"
HE proposed marriage to girl on
a train and she refused him"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
This Win Interest Mothers

Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
relieve Feverishness Headache, Bad Stomach,
TeethinR Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and destroy worms. They break up
Colds in "a hours. They are go pleasant to take
children like them Used by mothers for "a
years. All Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad-
dress, A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y. Adv.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Helping the Editor.

Wright-"It seems to be getting
harder work for the newspaper man
all the time"
Penman-"Oh, l don't know about
that see that ball-bearing scissors
have been patented by an Ohio In
ventor"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
Stamp Sale Enormous.

Chicago. Parcel post business orr
ginating in Chicago this month has
averaged 215 tons a day The stamp
sale for the last ten days In the Chi.
cago post Office amounted to more
than 100000,
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
OF Course Not.

Jinks-There goes Simpkins. He
has a perfect wife. We ought to con
suit him, he surely knows how to
manage wife.
Blinks-Useless; no man would give
away a valuable secret like that.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
COLDS & LaGRIPPE

5 or doses 666 will break any case
of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe;
it acts on the liver better than Gallo
mel and does not grippe or sicken.
Price 25c.-Adv.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
New Pine Cleaner,

For cleaning pipes used for con-
veying liquids there has been invented
a machine that forces crushed quartz
through them, much as bottles are
washed
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
He Came up.

Bill-"Where did he learn to diver
Jill-"Oh. he's a self=made diver.
Didn't you notice he just came up
from the bottom"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15

"Then you don't think Banks is fond
Of his wife?"
Not so fond as he is of her hus-
band"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
ARE YOU coNsTIPATEp?

Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills have
proved their worth for Is years. Test them
yourself now Send for sample to 3i2 Pearl
ST., New York. Adv.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
That Was Her Business.

How did that manicure ever man
age to marry that old millionaire"
she Just nailed him. | guess"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15

Is Equally Valuable Ga Strengthening Tonic, Because ACTS on tho
LIVER Drives Out Malaria ches the Blood and Builds Up the Whole System
You taking when take Groves TaesS chill Tonic as
the formula printed label showing that contains the wnown
properties IRON equal for Malaria Ch and
Debility and Loss of Appetite Gives life and vigor to
Nursing Si Children True Tonic and Sure AppeS
children Guaranteed by Druggist we mean it. oO
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
EXtravaCance.

Extravaganza.
Hcks-Is it true, then, that you're
living beyond your station?
WickS-Yes. two miles
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
A Grateful Atlantic Coast Woman.

oDoDoN Me- feel it duty owe to all suffering women to
Pnkham's Vegetable Compound dld Tor me- one
wear ago found myself terrible sufferer had pains in both SIDES
and such could scarcely stTaighten up at times my
appetite and nervous could not Steep
then would tired mornings that could scarcely get around
# seemed almost impossible do bit OF work and
thought would be better until submitted to an opera
ton commenced taking Lydia F. lfnkhans Vegetable @
like a woman had no pans, Slept Wen hdu 8oou
appetite and and could do almost all own work Tor lam
M shall always feel that owe my good healIh 10 your
medicine" Mrs. HAYWARD Sewers, Hodgdon Maine.
For 80 Lydia e. Pnkham's Vegetable go MGSGN
the standard reme0y MVTGMANM
sick with wOmans ailments V " ESANW
herself if she does not try this Ia N Va
made from roots and herbs u II l7N ~ II
has suffering women to health w
waMHDWrite to LYDIA MEDICTNECO. (o\ ap M
E& LYNN MASSs for advice: WM(E%SNSM
Vorr letter opened, read answered AJS9
woman held in strict confidence
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15
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Praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable COmpOnn

Women from the Atlantic the Pacific fromal sections
of this great country, city so large no village so small
health restored by Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Com
pound No who is suffering from the ills peculiar
sex should until she given this famous remedy
trial Is it reasonable to believe that what 1t did Tor
these women it will do for any sick woman?
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-17
tBy Associated Press. }

Washington, July 17.-UniteG
States officials today saw prospects
for immediate peace in Mexico. Car
bajal stated he would retire in fav-
or of Carranza and Carranza an
nounced that he would negotiate
with the federals for the p ,aceful
transfer of power in Mexico City
These are believed to practically as
sure the cessation of bloodshed Car
bajal wants general amnesty for fed
eral troops, but it is said here that
General Carranza will not issue this.
Secretary Bryan is optimistic. Villa
has announced that there need not
be any apprehension as to his posi-
tion. John r. Silliman has been or
dered to urge Carranza to guaran-
tee the lives and property of Huer-
ta's supporters. The United States
recognition depends on the agree
ment between Mexican factions.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-17
FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE
FOR WOMEN; SUMMER
TRAINING SCHOOL

Tallahassee, July 1.-THE Sum
mer School for Teachers is in full
blast at the State College for Won
en-; and it is doubtful If more con-
genial gathering can be found any
where. The SOCIAL atmosphere is
delightful, while the mental and the
spiritual uplift is keenly felt by all
present.
On Sunday morning those who
could not attend church were invit-
ed to the lobby of Bryan Hall for a
study of the Sunday school lesson
1t was truly an hour spent with
the things eternal"
Monday evening at twilight, on
the campus, the usual lesson was
given in story tellng-that Oldest
of methods DR.. Conradi was pres
ent and told to the delight Of all
the legend of how the daisy came to
bloom upon earth. lie brought out
in the history of the word, the beau
tiful idea that it means the days
eye," and the star flower"
The Y NJ. G. A. meeting on
Wednesday evening was well at
tended. Prof. Evans presented some
splendid thoughts along the lines of
physical, mental and spiritual
growth
1t is interesting to watch the class
in primary methods playing school
games during intermissions. The
class is large, and full of enthusiasm
and zeal for this work. Miss Schwa~
meyer presents the various subjects
in her own clear, forceful, inimit-
able way; and the teachers are get
ting broader visions of the duties,
privileges, and glorious possibilities
which belong to their SPECIAL work
for the young child.
Miss Schwalmeyer is greatly be-
loved by the entire student body;
and is the bright particular star of
the primary section.
On Thursday at six o'clock, Mrs.
Sheats made welcome a number of
present and former students of the
College. An invitation to tea makes
doubly glad the heart when away
from home. A real feast 1t was,
and being over, those friends of for
mer years again united, Mrs. Sheats
made the occasion an even more joy
GUS one, by christening the beautiful
new loving cup, recently presented
Mr.. Sheats by the Florida State Of
ficials.
The guests were Mrs. Bridges and
Mrs. Brown of Tallahassee, Miss Nc
Rae, Miss Cason, and Miss Patton Of
Lakeland, Miss Richardson of Mari
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-17
ELIZABETH CARMAN

Two interesting witnesses in the
mysterious murder of Mrs. William
Bailey, the Long Island woman, who
was shot to death in the office of DR..
Edwin Carman at Freeport, were the
daughter of the doctor and Il. Il.
Bardes, an insurance man, who lived
near.
The young daughter, not yet old
enough to appreciate the gravity of
the charge against her mother, told
the coroner at his inquest that she
was sitting in the lower floor of the
Carman house at the time OF the
shooting, and she was certain she
had not seen her mother there.
The child is heartbroken because