NEW MINISTER FROM SWEDEN
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Herman d3 Lagercrantz the recently appointed Swedish minister to the
United States firmly established his popularity with the president imme
diately upon his arrival in this country when jt became known that he was
the father of seven children President Roosevelt told him that he had the
right kind of credentials to make him an acceptable minister to any country
on earth Before entering the diplomatic service of his country he was en
gaged in the iron industry and was president of a railroad
D U lilriL
IS A
MOST EXPENSIVE UNQER
TAKING IN CHINA
More Than 4200000 Will be Expend
ed in Rites Over Late Emperor
Obsequies of Empress Dow
ager Just as Costly
Pjkin The Chinese empire will ex
pend more than 4200000 in the burial
rites of the late emperor and dowager
empress of the Celestial kingdom be
fore the Confucian law and the an
cient precedents governing the burial
of Chinese royalty are complied with
The religion and all Chinese usage
is founded on respect for the -dead
and to the western observer the lavish
expenditure of money attendant on
the taking of the body of Emperor
Kwang Hsu from the Forbidden City
-to the coal hill mortuary with all its
pomp and splendor was nothing short
of the grotesque
For a week the body of the dead
emperor rested in state in the room
in the palace reserved especially for
that purpose by the Chinese court Be
fore his remains could be removed the
law demanded that every piece of his
personal property must be destroyed
Priceless silks furs gems art works
of which the emperor was intensely
fond during his life were assigned to
the flames This was done at the cost
of a fortune while the destruction of
the vast personal effects of the Dow
ager empress will entail an expendit
ure of doubly as much
Brilliant barbaric and weird was
the progress of the cortege through
the streets of Pekin the other day
The procession was led by Prince
Chun the regent while the baby em
peror had a prominent position in the
line
Thousands of soldiers ministers of
state priests and prominent civilians
marched to the coal hill while my
riads of mourners bowed their heads
in the dust as the body was borne by
At mortuary hill the remains will lie
in state until the imperial- sepulcher
is prepared
The dowager empress will be buried
in the spring when her mausoleum
shall have been completed Her ob
sequies will cost as much as thoso
of the emperor A vast collection of
priceless furs and other personal prop
erty belonging to her was incinerated
in her palace two days ago
The funeral observances were no
table for a strange admixture of an
cient Chinese custom with western
forms and practices a fact that shows
the progress made in recent years of
modernizing the system of procedure
for imperial interments handed down
from oygone generations
The fact that many of the old gro
tesque funeral forms that have been
observed for centuries were to day ig
nored as utterly unsuited to modern
conditions has brought out much local
criticism of the government but in
spite of this the throne has ordered
the grand council to consider another
memorial looking to the alteration of
existing funeral observances to con
form to modern methods
SOCIETY UNIONS ON DECLINE
Country Shows Falling Off of Seven
Per Cent During Year
New York Marriages among per
sons in New York who are socially
prominent are on the decline accord
ing to statistics based on names ap
pearing in the Social Register for 1909
just out A decrease of 20 per cent
over last jears marriages is shown
for New York city with a general fall
ing off of approximately seven per
cent throughout the country
Pittsburg was an exception with 6D
social marriages this year as against
05 last year and Chicago was sta
tionary with 135
Compilers of statistics declare the
financial depression was responsible
for the decrease The figures in New
York for last year were 7G3 and for
3908 only GG2 Philadelphias weddings
dropped from 242 to 224 and Boston
from 1G7 to 147 St Louis recorded
only 98 for 190S as against 131 for
1907 but San Francisco showed an in
crease from 81 to 119 In Baltimore
there was a decrease from 11G to 99 in
St Paul from G7 to 59 and in Minne
apolis from 29 to 27 Southern cities
as a whole showed no appreciable
change
FARMERS USE OAT INCUBATORS
Poultry Raisers Have a New Way of
Providing Food for Chickens
Morocco Ind Farmers near here
have a new device in connection with
the raising of poultry It is called the
oat incubator The outfit is simple
and original consisting of a number of
crates one above the other with nine
inches of space between On the bot
tom of each crate layers of burlap are
placed and on the top crate water is
poured each morning The water soaks
the oats and then drops from one
crate to the other Under the influ
ence of artificial heat the oats sprout
and grow rapidly the green tender
shoots making excellent food for chick
ens during the winter - months A
bucketful of oats will make five buck
etfuls of green food Poultry raisers
who have tried the oat incubator are
enthusiastic in its praise
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FAMOUS CONSTITUTION TO BE
BROKEN UP FOR JUNK
Was Built to Race Liptons Shamrock
II 25000 Worth of Various
Metals and Material in
the Craft
New York A few days ago marked
the passing of another American cup
yacht The famous Constitution
predecessor of the Reliance was sold
to Edward S Reiss Co by the
American Cup Defender association
the syndicate which built her of
which August Belmont was the head
She will be broken up for junk like
Thomas W Lawsons Independence
Liptons Shamrock II and other cele
brated racers
The Constitution is high and dry
in he yard of the Thames Railway
Company in New London Conn
where she has been since her last
race with the Reliance in 1903
She will be cut in four sections
each of which will be put on a lighter
with a derrick and brought down the
sound and East river to the foot ot
Broad street There everything in her
construction will be broken up and
sold There is 25000 worth of so
called junk in the yacht There are
100 tons of lead 30 tons of bronze 25
tons of steel 20 tons of sails and 20
tons of miscellaneous materials in
cluding anchors and chains
Mr Reiss has bought nearly a score
of famous yachts in a few years
Some he has sent south and sold for
tarpon fishing and others whose
bones were getting brittle he has
broken up In cases where their
years have not told on them their size
has kept them idle in some shipyard
A cup defender is an expensive play
thing because of the large crew re
quired to man her The Vigilant and
Colonia were changed into schooners
which require less of a crew than
a sloop of equal size but neither is
as large as the Constitution The Con
stitution measures 89 feet six inches
on the surface of the water but from
her bow to her stern she is 132 feet
long She has a beam of 25 feet two
inches a draught of 19 feet seven
inches and has 19 feet of depth
SISTERS WEDDED ON DARE
Double Nuptials in Early Morn Result
of Cousins Proposal
Sioux Falls S D George Sweet of
Gregory and Miss Minnie Austim and
Guy Stearns of Ottumwa S D and
Miss Sadie Austin were the principals
in a romantic double wedding which
was the result of a dare on the part of
the young men The brides are sis
ters and are the daughters of Mr and
Mrs Azariah Austin of Iona The
grooms are cousins The wedding fol
lowed a midnight journey from the
extreme southern part of Lyman coun
ty to the county seat at Oacoma It
appears the two young men were vis
iting the sisters and during the eve
ning made the daring jest that the
sisters had not the nerve to accom
pany them to the county seat at once
and be married The sisters called the
bluff accepting the dare and the four
started out at once on the long and
dangerous journey to Oacoma arriving
at that place at three oclock in the
morning The great diificulty and dan
ger in making the crossing of White
river in the darkness added zest to the
occasion After their arrival at Oacoma
there was a tedious wait for the clerk
of courts to appear and issue the
necessaiy license After this was se
cured the services of Rev N H May
were engaged and the marriage cere
mony was performed
WIFE OF MINISTER FROM SWEDEN
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States is one of the moct dslighiful wemen in the dipionsatlccircies of the
capital and bids fair to be one of the most popular hostesses in- Vachin2t0n
with the opening of the social season
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If present plans do not miscarry
and if the people of Arizona are per
mitted to have their way a little cor
ner of the Painted desert equal to two
townships in area will soon be de
clared a national monument and set
aside for preservation forever In its
present condition for the use and en
joyment of the whole people
There is no more beautifully indefi
nite term in American geography than
the Painted desert There are rail
road maps that confine the name to
a narrow strip of territory along the
Little Colorado river but anyone fa
miliar with the southwest knows that
there are at least a half score of other
regions of equal or greater extent
fully as deserving of the title George
Wharton James defines the Painted
desert region as extending from the
Rio Grande west to the Calico moun
tains the Salton sea the Mojave des
ert Its northern limits are some
where among the plateaus of southern
Utah while its southern boundary
must be sought somewhere down in
northern Mexico It includes the Col
orado desert the Grand canyon the
Mongollon plateau the Tonto basin
the Verdi Hassayampa and Salt river
valleys the Petrified forest and the
Superstition mountains Not all of
this vast region is desert in character
and only a relatively small portion of
its desert expanses deserves to be de
scribed as painted 1
Yet the conditions of color and bare
ness that first suggested the name ex
ist in places throughout this whole
vast stretch of country Parts of it are
as fertile as any of the worlds garden
spots It contains some of the noblest
virgin forests in America including a
number of national forests aggregat
ing many millions of acres in extent
It is crossed by the Continental divide
The lofty peaks of the San Francisco
and San Mateo mountains as well as
the lesser heights of the Zuni Super
stition Mogollon Pinal and other
ranges are within its borders It is
crossed byone of the great rivers of
America the Colorado and a hundred
smaller streams such as the Little Col
orado the Gila and Virgin rivers Bill
Williams Fork and Havasu Walnut
Oak Willow Diamond and Bluewater
creeks drain other portions Portions
of the desert area are mere wastes of
natural sand but other portions are
chaotic bad lands upon which the
Master Painter of the universe has
spread a divine harmony of color that
shames the wildest flights of the ima
gination
Transcontinental travelers never
fail to wonder at and admire the
standing rocks red cliffs black lava
precipices extinct volcanic craters
and tall white walls that lend variety
to the view the whole way from Isleta
to Gallup West of the Colorado river
the chocolate colored mountains and
hills that shade from gray to black
and from brown to crimson compel the
notice of the least observant AH these
are of the Painted desert but they are
no more than tantalizing hints of the
greater glories that lie beyond the car
window perspective
Most of those who forsake the Pull
mans and ever after boast of a close
view of the Painted desert inspect it
only as an incident of a trip to the
strange towns of the Hopi Indians a
long and wearisome journey of a hun
dred miles or more from Canyon Dia
blo Winslow or Holbrook The por
tions one sees on such a trip are not
those most worthy of inspection for
the wagon roads follow the lines of
least resistance irrespective of the
scenery Nevertheless no traveler
over either route will ever forget the
wide outlook over the gaudy super
heated sands the fantastic sky lines
the black grim volcanic craters and
basalt cliffs the orange and carmine
bad lands of the Painted desert
Its coloring is as rich as that of the
Grand canyon and more varied The
prospect is limited only by the powers
of human vision The winds and
storms and rushing waters of ages
have chiseled basalt clay and sand
stone into Images columns monu
ments towers and strange fantastic
forms that have no names Irrespec
tive of its coloring it would deserve to
rank among the worlds wonders Yet
its coloring is the greatest wonder of
all Here may be seen a red wall 500
feet high and 100 miles long Yonder
is a coal black cliff of hardened lava
rising from a valley floor of snowy
alkali From any vantage point one
may survey a glowing landscape that
shovs 100 shades of pink gray red
chocolate carmine crimson mauve
brown yellow and olive Near Indian
Wells is a seemingly interminable line
of tall rock sentinels all garbed in dif
ferent hues on guard in this land of
enchbiilment No wonder the Spanish
explorers when they first beheld it
more than 350 years ago named it Eft
Pintado Desierto
Nine miles north of Adamana is
Dead River canyon from the rim of
which one obtains a view of the Paint
ed desert that can hardly be matched
for scenic interest The drive re
quires not more than two hours over
a road that derives more than ordinary
interest from the circumstance that it
crosses the old Central Overland stage
route the far western extension of
the historic Santa Fe trail Although
this has not been traversed for more
than a quarter of a century the deep
ruts worn by the wheels of the stage
coaches freighting caravans and prai
rie schooners of the emigrants bound
for the far off land of gold in the excit
ing years that began with 49 are still
plainly visible
v Just on the brink of the canyon is
an ancient cedar tree the only one for
miles around Tradition has it that
here was the famous rendezvous and
camping place of a band of despera
does and cattle rustlers that terrorized
this part of Arizona for many years
Hence the spot is locally famous as
the Robbers Roost
To describe even the small portion
of the Painted desert visible from
Robbers Rocst is as hopeless as to
describe an Arizona sunset As far as
the eye can carry is a succession of
buttes terraces and castellated hills
that seem to display all the colors of
the rainbow Pervading all is the mys
tic purple haze of the arid lands that
blends chaos itself into a symphony of
color more celestial than of this sordid
earth Away off to the northwest is a
black flat topped mesa beyond which
lies the land of the Hopi Indians To
the north is1 the land of the Navajos
the American Bedouins But this is
desolation itself uninhabited even by
the hardy tribes that find in the desert
a congenial home At ones feet is the
sandy boulder strewn bed of a forgot
ten river whose healing flow ceased
ages ago when this gorgeous land of
thirst bore a far different aspect
green with tropic vegetation and melo
dious with the songs of birds From
the parched desolation rise shimmer
ing heat waves so that one shrinks
from the descent into the canyon as
from a fiery furnace
However it is not as bad as it looks
A circuitous path leads to the canyon
floor over glittering beds of gypsum
and thick deposits of mineral paint
Near the bottom the edge of a vast de
posit of silicified wood is reached
This is not the famous Petrified forest
of Arizona which is 15 miles south
but in many respects it is not less
wonderful Officially it is known as
the North Sigillaria forest It is pro
posed to set aside 72 square miles of
it as a national monument that it may
be forever preserved as a public pos
session
If ones eyes be sharp he may find
many strange and curious things min
gled with the sand silex and rock
fragments There are corals and the
fossil bones of fishes that disported
themselves in ocean depths when this
lofty Arizona plateau was far below
sea level There are the fossilized re
mains of prehistoric birds animals and
reptiles for which science has not yet
invented names On a larger scale are
a thousand freaks of erosion the work
of sandstorm and rainstorm of wind
water frost snow heat and all the
irresistible forces of nature Yonder
stands a host of gigantic silent stone
figures some of almost angelic beau
ty and others diabolic in their gro
tesqueness among which Colorados
Garden of the Gods might be lost and
passed by unnoticed so numerous are
the greater wonders
The safest way of not being miser
able is not to expect to be happy
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would you feel If I were to give you
a penny
I think replied Sammy that I
should feel a little faint at first but
Id try and get over it
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Frank J Cntxcr makes oath that he U nloi
partner ot the Orm of V J Cjienbv 4 Co dotau
burincss In tho City of Toledo County and Htate
aforrsald and that said firm will pay the turn ot
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caeo of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the um of
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An Encouraging Average
I have been looking over my finan
cial operations said Mr Easigo I
must say they are more successful
than usual
Have you been making large
profits
No I dont expect anything llko
that
But you say you were successful
Comparatively successful During
the month I have loaned money to five
friends and only three of them have
quit speaking to me
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottlo of
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infants and children and see that ic
Bears the
Signature of j
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
An Exceptional Case
The newspapers tell of a Connec
ticut woman who gave her husband
25000 to let her alone
This is a funny old world It is
the husband who usually gives his
wife every cent he gets to let him
alone
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Waiting for a Rise
Have you sold your airship yet
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Smokers appreciate the quality value of
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Each hour has its lesson and its
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Mrs T C Willadsen of Manning
Iowa writes to Mrs Pinkham
I can truly say that Lydia E Pink
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followed it as directed and took Lydia
E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and
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Had it not been for you I should have
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