SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
RIDER HAGGARD, WEIRD FICTION
WRITER; MODEL FARMER AND
POLITICAL ECONOMIST.
The Woman's Side of It—Converge of
the Proposition That the Wife
Sho Id Not Burden Husband
With Household Duties.
DESTROYING THE QUEER
LARGE SUMS OF CAPTURED
COUNTERFEITS BURNED UP
AND MELTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT.
A SEQUOIA GIGANTEA.
by the Chinese and presumably intro
duced into this country by them. 1
consists in taking a bag of S»''1 cel Restoration In Government Crounds
of Tree Twenty Feet TIH ck .
lars and shaking them violently about
for hours at a time, the result beinfe
that they are taken out badly worn and
with a small deposit of gold at the bot
tom of tne sack.
The government also has in its po
session numerous counterfeits of for
eign currency, principally Italian, Ger
man and Austrian, though there is parnuen't" of Agriculture, east of the
soma English an l French. The gov
ernment holds that it is as great a
crime to falsify or counterfeit foreign v , “ i Park in California and was
obligations as it is to counterfeit our
i "tel at the World’s Fair at Chi-
ago At »’
of the fair it was
° One of the features of this curious brought
to Washington. It is twenty
collection is the number of advertise
ments so closely resembling money or
stamps ’.hat the government officers de
termined to take charge of them.
A Tension
Indicator
Beginning away back with St. Paul.
is JUST
who admonished the women to keep si
lent in the churches, the so-called Coin. Stamps, and Other Imitations
WHAT
weaker sex have been exhorted, ad Accumulate In Uncle Sam's Strong
Box in Large Quantities.—Valuable
vised and ridiculed; and a long list
THE
of conduct of the negative sort mapped Counterfeiting Machinery.
II. Rider Haggard is a man of gen out beginning with DON’T, and an
I WORD
The periodical destruction of coun-
ius. At one time, he is writing such [ equally lengthy array of the positive
IMPLIES,
terfelt currency, spurious coin, post-
impossible creations as "She” and sort, starting with DO.
other
"King Solomon’s Mines,” calling into ’
And all this sage advice applies in age stamps, revenue stamps and from
play a most vivid imagination and turn to maid and wife, debutante and contraband material captured
ut
counterfeiters by the secret service,
settings, in weird and unreal color dowager.
ings; at another time, be is actively
Now what’s sauce for the goose is has been ordered by the Secretary of
It
superintending the work on his mag sauce for the gander. Why not some the Treasury. The accumulation of this
indicates
stuff in the treasury is larger than
nificent 200-acre English farm; next advice to men?
be is studying over some new imagin
Are you one of those men who con- usual. Three clerks in the cash room
CHARGES
ADMISSION
FOR
the state
ative creation, wandering about bls 1 tinually leave their personal belong of the treasury have been delegated
CHARITY.
of the tension at a glance.
home, and not speaking to the mem ings, their hats, canes, coats or slippers, a committee to see that this "queer
bers of bls family for a week at a wherever they’ve happened last to use money is done away with.
Its use means time saving
Every two or three years so much
European and Diplomatic Gossip.
time; and again he is making an eco them?
and easier sewing.
nomic study, under a government
Do you smoke your cigar in the par counterfeit money and counterfeiting
James J. Van Alan, the expatriated
commission, of tlie social conditions lor and let the ashes fall wheresoe’er tools and implements accumulate in the American millionaire, has taken a hint
It’s our own invention
of the poor in America. In a short they will, and that, too, after the regu office of Chief Wilkie, of the secret serv from the Duke of Westminster, who
and
is found only on the
ice,
that
It
is
necessary
to
destroy
it.
Interview with him, as he passed lar Friday cleaning? And you en
has for some time past charged all
through Washington this year, on bls deavor to placate your wife with that The chief notifies the Secretary of the tourists or excursionists who desire to
way west, I found that he possessed superior sophistry about cigar ashes Treasury, who Issues an order which explore Eaton Hall and spend a daj
seuds the coin to the assay office, where among the beautiful scenery on his
eminently practical bard sense, while keeping out moths.
the Imaginative streak of his charac
Do you bury yourself in the morn all the silver and gold is melted or re Cheshire estate, 12 cents a head. So
ter did not manifest itself In the ing paper, even reading while eating, duced from the mass, run into ingots, great has been the influx of tourists
least, and I see now, that he has while your wife sits silent at the head
to Rushton Hall, Mr. Van Alan s his
Just made his report to the British of th table? Do you exclaim, or
toric place in Northamptonshire, dur
Secretary of State for the Colonies, chuckle, or swear softly at the latest
ing this season, that, commencing with
on his inspection of the three land news, without sharing your informa
January 1, he proposes to follow the
We have other striking
settlements, which have been estab tion with her?
Duke’s example with a condition
lished in California, Colorado and
Do you compliment the little wo
improvements that appeal to
.-lightly changed. The income derived
Ohio respectively, by the American man when you are enjoying one of
from the Duke’s visitors is divided
the careful buyer. Send for
branch of the Salvation Army.
your good dinners, or do you find fault
among local charities. Mr. Van Alan
our elegant H. T. catalog.
Colonization Work of Salvation Army if the morning coffee is just the least
will charge a maximum of 25 cents
to all visitors from abroad and 12
At these three points the Salvation bit below standard, though the pre
certs to excursionist parties other than
Army ,has established rural settle vious twenty-five mornings you have
liquid
of
surpassing
drunk
the
amber
those who may come from the county
hite ewing achine o
ments, taking worthy poor from the
of Northampton, to whom the grounds feet In diameter and is called The
overcrowded cities, furnishing them excellence?
General
Noble
in
honor
of
the
Secre
Cleveland, Ohio.
Do you notice the new gown that
will be free on Mondays and Satur
with small tracts of land, sufficient
days. The income derived from all tary of the Interior under whose ad
money to get a start and make homes has cost her days of thought and ef
fort? Or do you say "You women
sources will be divided between the ministration so much good wits done
spend a whole lot of unnecessary
local infirmary and an institution for I lor the big tree reservations of the
thought and time upon clothes,” and
social intercourse and educational im I Pacific coast. Tlie cost of its trans
then take your new top-coat back to
provement which he means to estab portation to Chicago was $10,000.
is hollow and a spiral
the tailor the sixth time because “it
lish in the neighborhood for the bene I The interior
leads to the platform at the
doesn’t set just right?”
fit of workingmen. It is estimated that stairway
next year,when the house and grounds tup.
Do you surprise your wife occa
may be seen at the best, the income
sionally by getting seats at the theatre
Over one Million Dollars
derived from this project will not fall
and giving her a surprise party of
allowed our clients during the last
A
Dress
Made
of
Postage
Stamps.
two? Or do you say "Aw, go to the
far short of $5,000.
six years.
matinee if you want to see the show.
An American lady wore a ball dress
King Leopold of Belgium, who is of
CHIEF WILKIE
Over one Thousand
I’ll go to the ball game.”?
at
a
ball
in
Bermuda
recently
in
whicn
ten mentioned as business pai tner of
Of The ¡secret Service.
Do you tell her of your plans, your and sold, while the rest of the stuff, in ’thomas S. Walsh of Washington and 30,000 stamps were used. Years were claims allowed through us dur
work, your perplexities? Do you cluding the base metal, such as dies, Colorado, possesses considerable real spent in the collection, and the dress ing the last six months. Dis
share with her your hopes and fears? stamps, etc., is taken either to the navy estate in the French Riviera. His de- was covered with stamps of all na ability, A£e and In-
Do you let her know of the real life yard or to a foundry and there de
tions. An eagle made entirely with
you lead so many hours each day? stroyed in tho presence of secret serv
brown Columbian stamps was the cen crease pensions obtained
Or do you turn her questions with a ice officers, who make affidavits of the
tre of the breast. Suspended from the in the shortest possible time.
brief "Women know nothing auout destruction to the Secretary.
talons was a globe made of very old Widow s’ claims a specialty.
business. It will only worry you.”?
There has not been a house-cleaning
blue revenue stamps. On either side Usually granted within 90
Do you sometimes take her in your of this kind since November, 1902.
of the globe was an American flag,
arms and say "Little woman, you are Valuable Counterfeiting Machinery.
the stripes of blue and red stamps. A days if placed with us immedi
a good wife—a real help-meet.”? Do
collection
of foreign stamps was past ately on soldier’s death. Fees
At present the contraband Includes
you ever tell her the things you did in In addition to counterfeit notes, coins,
ed on the back of the bodice in the fixed by law and payable out of
the sweetheart days? Or do you let postage and revenue stamps, valuable
form of a shield. A large picture hat, allowed pension.
A successful
it go, thinking "She knows that any and costly type, by means of which
covered with red and blue stamps,
way.”
a mask and a very pretty fan cov experience of 25 years and benefit
counterfeiters print the Latin numerals
ered entirely with pink, completed the of daily calls at Pension Bureau
The woman’s field of labor, big man. on “queer" notes; Inks, paints, acids,
costume.
Is narrow and circumscribed. It is photographic apparatus, dies, molds,
are at your service. Highest ref
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls of stamps and other accessories of the
erences furnished. Local Magis-
the house and the needs of the chil- art of making fictitious money.
trates pecuniarily
dren. This is her province and she
H. RIDER HAGGARD,
Improvising.
This year a large batch of the John
But know that she son-Hancock notes will be burned.
“I admire that last piece you benefited by sending us
for themselves, repayment for the glories in It
also longs for contact with the big They are known as the “Hancock 2s.”
played, professor, immensely,” said claims.
cost of which Is provided at low rates world,
for the mental stimulus that
Mrs GasweH. “It had a kind of wild
of Interest
,, _ comes from daily association with men They were made by the celebrated coun
terfeiter Johnson of Detroit and were
freedom about it, you know, a sort of
TABER & WHITMAN CO.,
Mr. Haggard expresses himself as
and
affairs,
for
the
joy
of
recognised
so nearly perfect that the government
wierdness that touched me. Was it
extremely well satisfied with the re compensation for services rendered.
your own composition?"
suspended the issue of this note, No
Warder Bld’g, Washington, D.C,
sult» seen at the Fort Romle settle
Because she is your wife, because doubt many of these counterfeits are
“Madam,” coldly responded the em- |
ment in
California, and the Fort
she
has
entered
into
the
domestic
life,
inent
musician,
who
bad
been
hired
I
still
in
circulation
and
performing
the
Amitv settlement In Colorado. The
for the occasion, “I was putting a new I
functions of real money.
Ohio'settlement he leaves out of con- these things are denied her.
string on my violin.”
A number of notes made by the no-
Can’t you be generous to the little
»lderatlon, as it is principally devoted
to the redemption of Inebriates, and woman? Can't you welcome her into torious but now "reformed” counter
the carrying out of agricultural experi your larger life? Can’t you make her feiter Brockway will be destroyed.
teaches yotl about bees, bow to handle them for
KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM,
honey and profit. Send for free copy. Read it.
Even Pennies Counterfeited
ments. ‘At both Forts Romle and your real comrade—your true help
Then you’ll want to subscribe. 6 month!
mesnes
are
at
Villefranche
eur
Mere,
Amity, he found the settlers healthy, meet?
Tn the store room of the Secret Serv
trial 25c. Don’t delay but do it to-day.
near
Nice.
They
are
called
the
Col
du
ice Bureau are many boxes of bad coins.
happy, hopeful and almost without
Everv coin of the United States from Caire, and the Passable. Both have
exception doing well. Beginning in
A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio.
Longest
Bridge
In
the
World.
cents
to $20 gold pieces has been im been enlarged some few years ago,
nearly every cnse with nothing. In the
itated, counterfeit nickles being found notably the Passable, to which has
course of about four years at Fort Ro
To Canvass for the
The longest bridge In the world Is the more frequently than silver or copper been added the whole of the western
mle, he found these settlers worth
side of Cape Ferrat In this portion
about $2.000 per head. nlxtve all their Lion bridge, near Sangong, China, sup coins.
AlnsanSÆniilni
debts and liabilities to the Salvation ported by over 300 huge stone arches
In the collection is some gold coin of the newly acquired property a small
Army and others, and at Fort Amity, and extending five and one-quarter that has been sweated. Sweating is an port has been constructed for the
an average of over $1,000 a head, miles over the arm of the Yellow Sea. ancient and simple trick, long practiced King’s yacht.
which lie thinks is more than they
Lady Henry Somerset, who is well
PIANOS AND ORGANS
could have possibly accumulated dur
known in this country from her great
STANDARD OF THE WOULD
ing the same period as day laborers on
work in the interest of the temperance
the land or In the cities.
movement, has a woman footman, a
female butler, and women in charge of
Reason For Wide Encouragement.
her stables.
It Is true that, although the set
Members
of reigning families,
tlers themselves are doing well the
NOW PUBLISHED.
princes as well as princesses of the
Salvation Army, for the reason that
blood, have to obtain permission from
unexpected difficulties in the open
The issue contains portraits of the
the sovereign before they can leave
ing up of the land were encountered,
the country. They are always expect
was called upon to pay some $50,000
NINETY MEMBERS
ed to notify the monarch when they
for its experience. Mr. Haggard de
intend to absent themselves from the
clares. however, that under all the cir
two from each State in the Union. This
town or city where the court happens
collection was made from recent exclusive
cumstances, and in tlie face of the
Accident Proof!
sittings for the
to be in residence at the time.
principles demonstrated, and the suc
cess won in every other direction, tills
The late King Humbert of Italy on
experience has been very cheaply
one occasion called his niece. Duchess
bought.
Helen of Aosta, to severe account for
EXCAVATION WORK.
“Further." he says. “I cannot see
having left Italy to visit her mother
any cause to fear a repetition of that
in France without previously obtaining
With Greatest Economy
loss in the future application of these
his sanction.
The Pictures
use the
principles. It is therefore totally in
This
rule,
which
Viceroy
Lord
Curzon
•
accurate to say, as lias been done
also
introduced
in
India,
caused
almost
12
x
8
inches
i
n
size
Western
Elevating
Grader
widely In press summaries of my re
open rebellion among a number of the I are protected hv copyright and can not be
port. tlint these settlements are finan
more powerful maharajahs and gaek- j reproduced legally eisewhere. The group
cially a failure.”
forms tlie most valuable collection of states-
wars of the empire, who on a number
men ever offered to the American people.
Would Systematize Philanthropy.
of occasions disregarded the Viceroy’s
The number will be ot unrivalled value to
Mr. Haggard proposes a scheme,
rule and left the empire not only with
individuals, schools and libraries.
i.
to combine a Judicious use of
out his sanction but against his strict
the public credit, with that of what 1
est instructions.
have called, ‘the waste forces of be
The wealth of some of the Russian
nevolence,’ and by means of these
churches in costly gems, jewelry and
two levers, to lift some of the mass of
precious
stones is proverbial. Some
human misery, which demonstrates
churches In the United States, notwith- I
For terms and other particulars address
itself in the great cities of civilization,
standing they are not supported by the
to n new level of plenty and content
government,
as
they
are
in
Russia
and
ment”
other countries, are gradually acquir
ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
lie liellcves that If settlements are
ing rare paintings, statuary, stained
THE MERGANSER WILD DUCK.
carried out on these lines, and espec
glass windows and costly vestments.
ially if they are located upon good
220 Washington Street,
One of the most beautiful of wild toll from the finny tribes. Cold has For Instance, the most costly mitre in
land, which has cost tlie controlling
authortfiea little or nothing, there ducks, with Its dark, glossy green head, no terrors for these tough creatures the United States, a mitre which rep- '
Boston, Mass.
AUROKA. ILL.
should lie. as is Indicated by the ta rich, salmon colored breast and strong and they swim as nimbly In the Icy resents $10.000 worth of jewels and
Send for Catalog.
precious
stones,
is
worn
by
Bishop
ly
marked
wings,
its
voracious
fish
rivers of the north as In the waters
bles furnished In this report.’ no loss,
eating habits make the Merganser use of the Carribean. They “dive at a Horstmann of the Cleveland diocese of
but even a considerable gain.
less for food and thus an object but flash.” and are as difficult to kill as the Roman Catholic Church. Most of
G. M.
these jewels were presented to the
little troubled by sportsmen. A large the “water witch” itself.
number of local names such as the goo
Only the most guileless housekeeper church by Mr. Gordon, who also donat
Ancient Adulterations.
sander, the shelldrake, saw-bill, diving will look at any saw-billed duck in ed to the city of Cleveland his magnifi
Adulteration laws appear to have goose, the weaser. have attached them market—the serrated mandibles indi cent Gordon Park. Mr. Gordon was
been quite as necessary in the good selves to this large, handsome swim cating that the organ is used as a fish a father of Mrs. Daisy Hanna, wife
old ' days
*-■— as
-- in the sophisticated mer that studiously avoids man. even chopper, and fish food never makes of Dan. Hanna, son of the late Senator
Twentieth Century. Even the adul though no sportsman would trouble good game meat
Hanna.
VAN CALAVA.
O VOU KNOW that dirty bottles and scales cause you trouble?
teration of feather beds and bolster» him. and that eludes pursuit by the
The drake Is a Foregone but ”■ .in end
Obviate this by using our Developers, put up READY TO USE.
had to be provided against. October most remarkable feats of diving and selfish bird and immediately deserts
“Old Probabilities’’ In Japan.
11. 1483, Is tlie date of a statute pro swimming. Eating is the cnief object the neighborhood when the six to
While Japan has had meteorological
Simply empty our tubes into the developing tray and add the water-
hibiting the sale in English fairs or In life for the Merganser, who fre twelve creamy buff eggs are being Stations on some of her very high
markets of these articles, or of pil quently swallows a fish so large that hatched. All the domestic duties then mountains since ISO», these were onlv
we don’t charge you for the latter. Large quantities of developer
lows. “except they be stuffed with one it can not descend into the stomach, fall upon the devoted mother. "I once in use during the summer. An ail the
made up at one time oxydize and spoil. With our developer* you only make
manner of feathers.” It expreasiy but must remain partially in the dis paddled after a brood,” says chamber year station will now be opened on the
up enough for immediate use.
denounced the use of auch “unlawful tended throat until digested, piece lain in the Nature Library, “and summit of Mount Tsukaba, near Toklo.
„
S,en<t,2? Ce".tS fw h,lf * dozen tubes »efficient for 24 ounces of devek
and corrupt stuffs” as "scalded meal. But this process is so rapid as though several times they were almost
t
P
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rL e,ox’A20» Cyk°. Rotox, or other papers, or 60 ounces of Plate •“i
feathers, or fen-down.” The last sub to always leave the bird with a vora within reach of my landing net they
Roekcfellcr Scores In Japan.
stance Is the same as cottou grass, and cious appetite and drive it to desper eluded every effort to capture them.
Film Developer—a Developer which will not stain the fingers or nails, and
The
British
steamer
Monarch
sailed
was evidently In great demand as a ate rashness to secure its prey.
Throughout the chase the mother kept from Philadelphia recently for Japan
non poisonous. We have a Sepia Toner for gaslight papers, 6 tubes, 25c.
fraudulent substitute In bed-atufflng.
Swift currents with deep pools where close to the young birds, and several with a cargo of 2,470,790 gallons of
In the Eighteenth Century, agalu. we the fish hide and foaming cataracts times swam across the bow of the ca-
find complaints of people who bought where they leap are the delight of the aoe la her efforts to draw my atten refined petroleum, one hundred barrels
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICAL COMPANY
fen-down at a halfpMUty a pound, and Merganser, whose marvelous diving and tion from the brood and to offer her of lubricating otl and 1.200 cases of
wax. This is the greatest oil cargo
llth St. and Penn Ave..
Wa.nixagtoaa. D- C-
•old It among feathers at sixpence.
swimming enable then) tQ take heavy self as a sacrifice for their escape.”
ever »hipped out of the United states
Makes Official Report on Salvation .
Army Colonization Work.— Would
Direct the “Waste Forces of Be
nevolence.”
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