Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1897 — Page 3

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LIFE OUT OF DOORS.

CALIFORNIA FAMILIES WHO LIVE IN WAGONS AND TENTS.

Six Months of Perfect Weather—The Disagreeable Features of Camping Oat. Women Who Ride Astride—OirU Who

Wear Or era I Is. [Special Correspondence.]

FRESNO, CaL, Oct 6.—It is moot refreshing to find the inhabitants of at least one state in the Union reasonably appreciative of its attractions and determined to enjoy them. The proud boast of California that it has a greater extent of coast line and vaster ranges of mountains than any other in the country is no empty one.

The mountains and the sea, the intervening plains and valleys, offer unexampled opportunities for recreation, and the climate lends itself to further the aims and ambitions of one who Would pass a season in the open air.

As early as the month of April, while yet the fields are covered with sheets of bloom and before the spring rains have

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hardly ceased, there is a stir in all the towns and cities caused by the active preparations for camping. People in the southernmost counties plan to visit the Yosemite, and even Shasta, and think nothing of trips aggregating over a thou sand milos, and all the way by country road and in some sort of a house on wheels. The favorite kind of carriage is one built after the fashion of a gypsy van, large and roomy, ugly as sin, mounted on foifr wheels and capable not only of carrying all the indispensablcs for a long voyuge, but of stowing away the family at night. It has come about that a large proportion of the Californians havo become in a sense migratory and seem to feel within them the same instinotive impulsefor seeking fresh fields and pastures new that the birds do after the winter rains are over.

I have met them everywhere, whole families, plodding over the roads throughout all southern California, sunburned, healthy and happy, having cut loose from the carking cares of town life, bent on seeing the natural beauties of this great and wonderful state. The destination of many of them is the seashore, where tho horses are turned out, the van converted into a dormitory by night and a bathhouse by day, while the bountiful waters of the coast furnish them with unlimited sport and innumerable fish. Again, the Yosemite is the objective point of hundreds of others, where they form regular camp communities and revel in the beauties of that glorious vnllay almost without cost.

The long period of drought, say from May till November—aud the sky is cloudless and blue—gives them a protracted season of delight. I don't suppose it is always unalloyed, for, aside from the disagreeable features of camping out (and there are some, especially if you have to do your own cooking) there is the dust. Now, it is an open secret that the California roads are about tho dustiest in the world. The fact that the well known expression "Get up and dust" came into vogue about the time of the first gold excitement 50 years ago seems to warrant one in tho belief that it originated here. Anyway it might have done so, for of all my reminiscences of travel the du§ty roads here are the most vivid.

Residents of this locality recognize the terrible condition of their streets and roads by hanging a long handled feather duster at the side of the front door. It is just as much expected that you will use it before entering as that you will pull the doorbell. You see, perchance, as you travel a cloud of dust arising from one of the vast grainfields that liue the road for miles and wonder what has caused it For awhile you can see nothing else, for the dust cloud envelops everything like a pall, but perhaps a stray xephyr blows it aside a moment and then you perceive within it a gang of men and horses engaged at reaping or thrashing the grain. What you saw was only a sample of California's fertile soil reduced to dust and taking to itself wings in the peculiar way that it has.

In coming out of the Yosemite few weeks ago we had occasion to pass many log and ore teams, each one with eight mules attached, and each mule kicking up the dust in away that was "a caution to snakes." We—that is, the tourist*—did not see the teams, but our driver said they were there, somewhere within the dust cloud, and when we arrived opposite to them he would yell for them to draw aside and let us pas& Then we would hear sounds coming from out that pillar of cloud, strange and choice ejaculations such as are supposed to be serviceable in urging mules to do their duty, and the dust heap would become a fixture for a moment while we passotl it We passed one lime, I remember, within 13 feet, and —•this is the gospel truth—I did not see either driver or team and have often thought that perhaps it may have been

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wandering about in a fog. But when there are open to the camper such scenes as the mountains give us, such streams as the mountain valleys afford and such fishing as the coast yields, a little thing thing like tbis oan be borne with equanimity. *J

As a final argument in favor of this state as a spot for feminine campers to disport, let me mention that woman has emancipated herself from the conventional garb of the city and goes about— especially on horseback—in bloomers and divided skirts. She seems to enjoy it, too, and as horses are almost as free as water out here nearly every wqman rides. You will see little girls up to the age of 8 or 10 running around in denim overalls. You can't tell them from boys, except by the cut of their curls and the manner in which they throw a stone They just revel in the delightful freedom from petticoats and aire out in the dirt from morning till night, -tr FRED A. OBEB.

Diseases often lurk in the blood before they openly manifest themselves. Therefore keep the blood pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

PENNY IN THE SLOT

The Machines Are Far More Numerous In Germany Than In This Country. [Special Correspondence.]

BERLIN, Oct. 2.—The Germans are not so slow. Their inventors know a thing or two after all. They might even give us some pointers on nickel-in-tha-slot machines. A machine in the Berlin railway stations has attracted my attention. It does away with the ticket seller and saves lots of crowding. It is used especially for suburban traffic. If the manager of the Now York elevated railway lines would adopt it, the people would shower blessings on his head.

Another machine in the railway station embodies an excellent idea. It dispenses tickets to the platform from which outgoing trains take their departure. If you are going to the train to see a friend off, you are ordinarily obliged to part with him in the waiting room. Perhaps you have business which will occupy you both up to the last moment. Then your friend will miss getting a good seat and may even get left. That is what happens frequently at the great terminal stations in the United States. But these platform tickets, which you can buy at the German stations by pushing a 3 cent pieco in the slot, will admit you to the platform. After securing his seat your friend may raise the car window or come outside and talk with you. You do not have to say farewell. until the train pulls out.

One begins to wonder whether the clerks are not wasting their time in bestowing pity upon the skilled laborers thrown out cf employment by the constant invention of new labor saving ma chinery. Perhaps the clerks will themselves need to be pitied.

Yesterday evening I was walking down Leipziger strasse, the Broadway of Berlin. It is lined with very elegant business places. A crowd in front of a brilliantly lighted buffet stopped me, and I went inside. A big trade was going on, but there were no clerks or waiters in sight. It was a revelation of the possibilities of the simple, unpretending niokel-in-the-slot machine. One wall was occupied with beer fauoets, over which clean, empty glasses hung on rows of pegs. The faucets were labeled with the names of different brew.s —Pschorrbrau, Zackerlbrau,Munohener, Pilsener, Weissbier. All the popular beers were on tap. Different faucets with different prices gave different measures, only it wouldn't do to hold a quarter liter glass under a half liter faucet unless you wanted to wet down the dust on the floor.

On another side of the room were the eatables. "Two eggs, 10 pfennig." I put in a 10 pfennig piece—2£ cents— pressed the button, and a sliding door opened, disclosing two eggs in a dish. One foreigner made a blunder by misreading the label "Hahnganzaufdrucken," which means "Press the button hard." The first meaning of the word "Hahu," however, is "chicken," which the stranger evidently expected to get for his 10 pfennigs. What he actually did obtain was apiece of leberwurst, or sausage, that the average foreigner does not find palatable, however dear it is to the German taste. Cold meats, sandwiches, salads, almost everything that one would desire for a quick lunch was on sala But the only human representatives of the proprietors in sight were the kitchenmaids who came in now and then and carried out the soiled dishes.

This manner of buying cigars was not wholly satisfactory, inasmuch as one must take the first that comes without having a choice of color and form out of a boxfuL When this difficulty is overcome, what chance will remain for the existence of clerks?

MARK NORMS.

This Tells Where Health May be Found, And that is more important than making money. If your blood is impure. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the medicine for you. It cures scrofula, salt rheum, rheumatism, catarrh and all other diseases originating in or promoted by impure blood and low state of the system.

Hood's Pills are easy to operate Cure Indigestion, headache. Kdsctte foar Bowe!« With CMcarets.

Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. I(te,35c. It C.C.C. fail, druintfsta refund mooer.

Try Grain-©! ^ry Graln-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIX-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without Injury as well as the adult Alt who try it like it GRAIN-O has that seal brawn of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stojoach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15c. and 35 cts. per package. Sold by ail grocers.

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TEBRE HATTTE SATURDAY EVENING Ttf

VSata or Swords.

Boxing, though better appreciated BOW, was not so popular in the north of England and Scotland as in the south, not assuredly because the people are either better mannered or less aggressive, but probably because the science was less understood. Sir Walter Scott's touching tale of the "Two Drovers" is a good illustration of this difference of feeling on the subject, and as long ago as 1790 a book was written by a highland officer with the following curious title: "Aatipugilism, or the science of defense exemplified in short and easy lessons, for the practice of the broadsword and single stick, whereby gentlemen may become proficient in the use of the weapons, without the help cf a master, and be enabled to chastise the insolence and temerity so frequently met with from those fashionable gentlemen, the Johnsonians, Big Bennians and Mendozians of the present day, a work perhaps better calculated to extirpate this reigning and brutal folly than whole volume of sermons."

It was precisely this feeling which poor Robin Oig, Sir Walter's hero, expressed when his friend Harry Wakefield, with whom some words had passed, suggested that they should have round or two and be friends. "To be peaten like & dog," said Robin—"is there any reason in that? But if I am to fight I've no skill to fight like a jackanapes, with hands and nails." "How would you fight, then?" said his antagonist. "Though I'm thinking it would be hard to bring you to the scratch anyhow." "I would fight with proadswords and sink point on the first plood drawn, like a gentlemans."—National Review.

An 111 Wind.

As they entered the horse car both men put their hands into their pockets in search of the fare. "That's all right, old man," said the one as he fished out a dollar bill. "Goon!" replied the other, shoving the hand with the bill aside. Vl've the change right here." "But it's my treat, returned his friend. "Besides, I need the change anyhow."' "Don't take that bill, conductor, said the man with the dime in his hand. "I'm paying for this." "Not much, you ain't," insisted the other, holding his friend's hand and trying to poke the dollar bill within reach of the conductor. "Stop that now," cried the man with the dime. "If you won't listen to reason, let's match to see who'll pay." "I'll go you," replied the other.

The man spun the dime in the air. "Heads!" cried his friend. Whether it was heads or tails will never be known, for just then the car gave a lurch and the coin dropped between the slats and rolled out of sight "I said you wouldn't pay this anyhow," laughed the.other as he handed the conductor the »dollar bill and put the change in his pocket

When the men left the car, the conductor came along ajid fished out the dime with a jackknife. As he whacked it up with the driver he said, with a wink, "It's a good thing for us, Bill, that all the fools ain't dead yet"—New York World.

A Rhyming Bible,

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In the library of Glasgow university there is a rhyming Bible, the work of the eccentric old divine, Zachary Boyd. He conceived the idea of rendering the sacred book in rhyme, a task which had to some extent been undertaken by several writers, among whom may be mentioned the Saxon Caedmon and Tate and Boyd's rhyming version of the Psalma Zachary Boyd gave full play to his imagination and produced a work of abiding interest and curiosity, though it has never yet been printed. —London Answers.

'•Away With Melancholy, And bid dull care avaunt," sounds very well in verse, but If you have a case of the "blues" caused by indigestion, with biliousness added on as an extra horror, you cannot say hey! presto! and thus insure the de parture of those abominable twins. The "proper caper" when thus troubled is to seek the aid of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Thereafter you will speedily digest with ease and eat with appetite, and your liver will reassert its right to regularity. Not only this, you can retire without a horrible dread that the Washington monument will in dreams—impose itself upon the pit of your stomach. If you feel premonitory nptoms of chills and fever, kidney trouble, or rheumatism, summon the Bitters to the rescue without delay, "lest a worse thing befall you." A feeble condition of the system is more speedily chasged to a vigorous one by this fine tonic than by any other medicinal agent in existence. A wineglass ful three times a day.

Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Ind., says: "I have been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of tfie stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. 1 had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any ISO worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the!'world." Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggist# in Terre Haute, End.

The ConcKuptton of Bread. We have been so accustomed to regard bread as the staff of life, the one essential food, that it is rather astonishing to be assured, as the statisticians are beginning to assure us, that it is going out of use as an article of consumption. Certainly the figures seem to bear out that assurance. The shrinkage of the world's wheat area, taken in connection with the increase of population, the increase in grazing area, and the enormous and varied supply of fruits and vegetables as compared with what used to be available, all point in the same direction. We eat less tread and more meat and fruit, a fact that, we fancy, most people will verify in the limited field of personal observation.—

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There is no word so powerful amontf women, no influence so great, and no authority so high as the utterances of a recognized leader when speaking to her sister women for the good of womankind.

When, therefore, the voice of Belva A. Lock' wood, of Washington, D.C., who is recognized among women as their mightiest leader and champion in sll women's movements which mark this generation, is raised in the interests of women when this mosteminent woman lawyer and lecturer in the world, representative of her sex to such an extent that she has been twice nominated for President of the United States by the Equal Rights Party, who has been honored by member-*iip in more American and Foreign Societies than any other woman, publishes the fact to the world that she owes her resent good health and strength to the use of 3r. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, it comes as a positive proof, a revelation of the way to hearth to the thousands upon

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Dr. 35. Detchon'a Anti Diuretic'* May be worth to you more than $100 if you have a child who soils bedding from incontenence of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrests the trou bleat once. $1. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascurets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.

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Atv There is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over us much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per packagc. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. __

Dost Tobacco Spit ssd 8stoke Yocr Life Away* To uit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-Bse, the wonder-worker, that makes, weak men strong. All druggists, 60c or II. Care guaranteed. Booklet aad sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Ca, Chicago or New York.

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Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Its the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmted, Le Roy, N. Y.

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OR. GREENE'S NERVURA CURES BELVA A. L0CKW00D, FOREMOST WOMAN OF HER TIME.

Belva A, Lockwood the Acknowledged Leader of American Women, Has Been Cured by Dr. Greene's Nervura and Recommends Its Use to All Weak, Tired, Nervous, Run Down and Suffering People.

Dr. Greene's Nervura Blood and Nerve Remedy Has Proved Itself the Greatest and Grandest Medicine In the World JS It Cures the People. It Gives Health, Strength*' Vitality and Vigor to

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thousands of people who droop and languish under the burden of ill-health, over-taxed strength, nervous disorders and the weaknesses, pains and aches of female complaints.

It rings like a clarion note of hope and health for the weakened,.worfl out, discouraged women of our land, depressed alike in nerve power and bod'ly strength, who live on without strength, energy or ambition, but who will now know from the wonderful cure of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, through the use of Dr. Greene's Nervura, and from her enthusiastic praise of this grand remedy and urgent advice to women to seek its remarkable healthgiving invigorating and restoring powers, that good health, strong nerves, vigorous bodies, always follow the use of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy

Mrs. Lockwood says "I have used Dr. Gre^hes Nervufft blood and nerve remedy and. am pleased to sny that it has improved my digestion, relieved the

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BKLVA A. LOCKWOOD, A. M. & B. L., Secretary American Peace Bureau." Do not suffer another moment, but get Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy and be cured. Consultation, examination and advice free on all diseases at the office of Dr. Greene's Remedies, 148 State Street, Chicago, 111., by calling personally or by writing.

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