Four Typical American Women
The Wives of the Four Principal National Candidates
Kr?. Ida Saxton McKinley is a
granddaughter of John Saxton, the
founder of the Canton Repository.
The families of both her parents were
smong the pioneers of Ohio. She was
born in Canton June 8, 3847. She
sent to the seminary at Media,
fc'a., but delicacy of constitution com
piled her to leave the school at 16
years of age and continue her educa
tion at home. Her father, James Sax
ton, was an advocate of business edu
cation for women, and she spent some
time as his assistant in the Saxton
bank at Canton. After the close of
the civil war she was sent to Europe
to finish her education, and upon her
return made the acquaintance of Maj.
McKinley, to whom she was married
en January £5, 1871. The invalidism
which has so strongly brought out
I'resident McKinley's devotion to his
wife did not attack her until after
tier marriage. The home life of the
president and bis wife is ideal, and
<Je*pite hpr physical weakness Mrs.
JVlcKinley says she is the happiest of
women. The president likes nothing
better than to tell of the assistance
fcie wife has been to him in his work.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was Miss
Edith Kermit Carow when she was
married to the now candidate for vice
president in 1886. She is a handsome
■woman, well educated, and thorough
ly familiar with the requirements of
•society. She is a warm admirer of Grover
Grover Cleveland, especially as a
wife and mother, and warmly ap
proves the declaration of the former
president's wife that children belong
exclusively to the home and fireside,
end should never know they are ob
jects of public interest, especially dur
ing a political campaign. She is care
ful to screen her children in all ways
possible from photographers, and
likewise shuns publicity for herself.
She declares children, if promiscuous
ly admired, become self-consciouf.
vain and conceited, and lose those
traits of innocence and loveliness
beautiful in children. There are six
children The eldest, Alice, aged 16,
Is a child by Gov. Roosevelt'B first
HAIR BRUSH AND COMB.
Thplr Vcjflcrlcil Condition IN Sftill to
Uv Itei*pon*lhle for Muny Cnn«n
of Scalp Trouble.
"The thing I'd like to impress upon
Ihe public is the vital importance of
clean hair brushes," ays a scalp spe
cialist "The condition of the average
liair brush is simply disgraceful and
makes a perfect mass of infection.
The brush should be washed every
week, and washing isn't enough, it
(should be thoroughly sterilized at
least twice a month. All hair does
not need much brushing, and the kind
cf brusli required depends upon the
peculiarities of the scalp, A stiff brush
is necessary for some heads and fatal
to others, and one's brush should
xeally be prescribed by a competent
(specialist. Then, the comb should be
m dim-rent thing from the ordinary af
fair. It should be coarse. A fine
comb is all wrong. The teeth should
round both on the sides and the ends,
to that it will g.ide smoothly through
■the hair, and there shouldn't be any
corners between the teeth.
"Women keep their hair better than
men. In the first place there's more
t)f it and thc r scalps are better pro
tected, but they wear their hats so
much less than men, and the liats,
•when they are worn, do riot fit the
bead so tightiy and create such a heat
find moisture, generating poison, as
■the man's hat docs. A leather hat
■band should be changed frequently.
3t gets dirty, and decomposition of
leather is a wonderful microbe pro
moter.' —Cincinnati Tribune.
But It Did Not Work.
Singing of birds was tried to over
•Blue the insomnia oi Maecenas.
wife. The rest are Theodore, aged
13; Kerinit, aged 11; Ethel, aged nine;
Archibald, aged six, • and Quentin,
aged three. Mrs. Roosevelt was at
Philadelphia with her husband.
Mrs. \V. J. Bryan was Mary Baird,
of Perry, 111., and was married to Mr.
Bryan on October 1, 1884. She at
tended the female academy in Jack
sonville when he was in another school
at the same place, and was graduated
the same week that he was, and was
also the valedictorian of her class.
She studied law and was admitted to
the bar without any idea of practic
ing, but simply to be more thorough
ly companionable to him. She is a
year or two younger than he. Mrs.
Bryan has an immense amount of de
termination and aggressiveness, is
studious and reserved. She does not
care for fashion' or society. Atten
tion was at first drawn to her at the
time Bryan made his famous tariff
speech in the house, when it devel-
oped his wife had helped him write
it. Mrs. Bryan has a great liking for
politics and accompanies her husband
on his campaign tours. Her tastes
are essentially literary.
Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson is a daugh
ter of Dr. L. W. Green, who was pres
ident of Center college, Danville, Ky.,
when the democratic candidate for
vice president was attending studies
there. She is of revolutionary stock,
being a great-granddaughter of
Joshua Pry, and has been president of
the Daughters of the American Revo
lution. It was while he was learning
logarithms of the father that Adlai
Stevenson lirst met the daughter.
The marriage did not take place un
till 1866, 15 years later. There are
four children. Mrs. Stevenson went
to Washington with her husband
when he was elected to congress in
1874, again when he became postmas
ter general, and later vice president,
and altogether has lived 16 years in
the capital. She is essentially a home
loving woman, devoted to her family,
and entertained little in Washington.
Her taste in dress is extremely quiet
♦ and she seldom wears jewels.
THE TRAILING SKIRT.
Condemned by ' Mc-dlc-al Authurltle*
Who Declare It to lie n Verl
tulile Microbe Collector,
The physicians of Europe have band
ed together against the trailing skirts.
During the scientific congress held at
Rome the delegates from the various
countries of Eurape have come to the
conclusion that long skirts arc emi
nently dangerous to health.
Dr. Philip Casagrandi demonstrated
in a most original and impressive fash
ion the inconveniences and the sanitary
•teriis of this garment, lie sent into
the streets a number of ladies carry
ing trailing skirts, with instructions
to walk about for an hour.
When the ladies returned the danger
ous vestments were submitted to a mi
croscopic examination, and on each oi
the skirts Dr. Casagrandi discovered
whole colonies oi microbes and bacilli.
The physicians determined that the
germs of influenza, consumption and
typhoid fever are the freast of the evils
which careless mothers, after an hour's
promenade, bring home to the cradles
of their children.
in view of these alarming revela
tions made by Dr. Casagrandi the hy
fjienists present at the congress prompt
ly condemned the wearing of long
skirts.
Iced Water IN the Dent.
Ice-cold water is not so good as iced
water that is, water cooled by ice
without coming in contact with it. The
less of either the better. It is an ex
cellent practice to drink water an
abundance of it—just before retiring;
also the lirst thing in the morning. It
is a cleaner of the system, especially
the stomach, and iit a yood diuretic.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1900
RE-ROOFING BARNS.
H«w Capaclly of a Structure May !)•
Nrarly Donlilrd Without I.eutitb
rninic thr J'oata.
1 send you a rough plan showing a
way we have here of re-rooffing old
barns; indeed nearly all new barns
are built with the same kind of roof.
The capacity of the barn is nearly
doubled without lengthening the
posts. Each pair of rafters is made
of four pieces of oak, 2x5, and of
equal length, put together as repne
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INSIDE BENT OF BARN ROOF.
ecnted in the drawing. J B, B, are
pieces of board 12 or 14 inches wide
at the widest point, spiked or nailed
on each side of the joint in the raft
ers. A piece same thickness as raft
ers should be fitted in between these
boards, filling space formed by the
tinple in the rafters and all firmly
nailed together. Cis a piece of board j
eight inches wide spiked on each side
of pair of rafters at ridge. The car ;
track can be hung on these.
The ridge of barn should be one- |
half as many feet above the
plates as the barn is in width. The I
dotted half circle touching at the !
points marked a, a, a, a. a, shows the
form of the roof if properly made, j
Rafters two feet from centers. I<aft- '
ers put together as described would
break in solid wood before they would
part at the joints. This is considered
one of the strongest roofs made.—H.
E. Taber, in Ohio Farmer.
GROWING WOOD PULP.
An Ofl-lland SitKK<-atlon Which Sermi
to lie Worthy of Sertoli* Thought
and Cunnlilrration.
A few days ago I cut a silver pop
lar which had been planted for orna
mental purposes in the spring of 3889.
and which had grown nearly 18 inches
in diameter a foot above the ground,
and probably contains a cord of woc*i. !
The tree became a nuisance where it
stood, and sit had to come down. I
But it made me think of the possibili- |
ties of growing such trees for commer- ,
cial purposes. Poplar is being- much
used for paper-making. How many
years will it take at the present rate
of using the native poplars for this
purpose alone before the natural sup
ply will be exhausted? Possibly we
way be able to find other materials
for paper-making-, such as cornstalks,
ete., but I would feel pretty safe to
predict a ready sale of all poplar wood
that one could grow for the next 100
years. I do not know what price pa
per-makers have to pay a cord'for the
wood they use. But think how quickly
one could produce a big lot of poplar
wood. The tree grows marvelously
fast. In ten years from planting you
would have quite a good forest, and
even before that time much of the
wood could be utilized for various pur
poses, as the trees could be set quite
thickly at the start and 1 gradually
thinned out. Trees can be cheaply pro
cured, too. I only offer this as a sug
gestion.—Farm and Fireside.
PERMANENT PASTURES.
To Keep TII.MII in Gonil ConillUo* I*
u Problem That lln» I'uz/.led
Many Farm era.
Probably the easiest way to keep a
permanent pasture in good condition
is to stock it hard enough so that
the. grass will be eaten before it
throws up a seed-stock or becomes
hard and woody, and then give extra
feed at the barn so that the animals
will return at least as much fertility
to the soil as the grasn. takes froir
it. Of course manure or fertilizer
may be carried out, and spreadl on
the pasture, but that costs money,
and many farmers are often at a
loss to obtain fertilizing elements
enough for their mowing lands and
cultivated fields. If they buy feed to
nse in summer when cattle are in the
pasture, they hope to and usually do
fit enough in the way of growth, fat
or milk production to pay for it, and
look upon the increased quantity and
extra quality of the manure heap as
an extra profit. In this matter of
overstocking the pasture it is best
done and produces best results where
there are two pastures, so that the
animals can be changed from one to
the other about once a week, or as
often as the feed is eaten down
smooth. This helps to prevent them
from gnawing so closely as to de
stroy the roots, which they may dc
in some favorite spot if they are kept
too long in one pasture.—Midland
Farmer.
Plum trees like rich soil, and they
gTow well in a poultry yardi wher«
the fowls pick off the insects.
ST. MARY'S AOADKMY,
Notre Dame, Intllutm.
We call tlie attention of our readers tc
the advertisement of St. Mary's Academy
which appears in another column of this pa
per. The 4<ith year opens September 4th,
19<K). We do not need to expatiate upon the
scholastic advantages of St. Mary's fur the
catalogue of the school shows the scope of
work included in its curriculum, A\hich is
of tlie same high standard as that of Yassar
arid Hryn Mawr, and is carried out faith
fully in the class rooms. We simply empha
size the spirit ot earnest devotion winch
makes every teacher at St. Mary's loyally
strive to develop each young girl attendant
there into the truest, noblest, and most in
telligent womanhood. Every advantage of
equipment in the class rooms, laboratories
and study rooms, every care in the matter of
food and clothing, and exceptional excel
lence of climatic conditions —all of these fea
tures are found at Si. Mary's, in the perfec
tion of development onlv to he obtained by
the consecration of devoted lives to educa
tional Christian work, in a spot favored by
the Lord.—The Fine Arts Journal.
Tears stood in my wife's great, gray eyes
"I am dying togo to the Paris exposition!"
she exclaimed. "You arc very foolish!" said
I, striving to lie calm. "If you die, you will
po to Heaven!" Recuba bit her lip. It was
impossible, of course, to gainsay my logic.—
Detroit Journal.
Crop* In \elirn*kn.
There is a broad smile on the face of near
ly every farmer in Nebraska, because of the
satisfactory crop conditions in that remark
able state* In the Northwest, drouth has
seriously injured the wheat yield. In the
South again there has been more or less dam
age, but in Nebraska they have had season
able, heavy rains, and not too much of them.
A full crop of oats and wheat will, from
present indications, be followed by a
bumper crop of corn. During the past week
heavy rains all over the state have put this
crop in fine condition, and it may break the
record.
I he expectation is that great numbers of
people will goto Nebraska this fall, when
the cheap harvest excursion rates are in ef
fect, to investigate the country and confirm
by actual experience the stories of prosper
ity so often heard.
I.nbor Silver.
Biggs—Old man Miggs is lazy.
Jiggs--- Is he?
ts, indeed. Why he rented a parrot for
the summer just to have it swear at the heat
for him."—Baltimore American.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli
ble medicine for couglis and coids. —N. \V.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
One reason that women are successful in
the legal profession is that their word is.
law.—lndianapolis News.
PUTNAM FADELESS PYRS are fast to sun
light, washing aud rubbing. Bold by all
druggists.
Most women go shop/ring not because they
want anything, but to see if they win find
anything that will n/ake them want some
thing.—lndianapolis News.
Magistrate—"You are charged with talk
ing back to an officer, sir; have you anything
to say?" Prisoner —"Not a wurd, ver hon
or—Oi've sed too much alreddy.'"— Ohio
State Journal.
Cyril (aged five)—"l shall never get mar
ried, mamma!" Mamma —"Hut I thought
vou were so fond of Ethel?" Cyril—"Yes;
out she believes in fairies," and I don't!" —
Punch.
May—"l am afiaid the ring he gave me
is not pure gold." Belle—"Why don't you
test it?" May—"Because if it were not
pure gold I could never forgive him, and if
it were I could never forgive myself for sus
pecting his honor."—Town Topics.
Jasper—"l have hit on a new style of pro
posal, and am in doubt what to do " Jump
uppe—"What is your trouble?" .1;. v,,<
rant decide whether to write a short story
around it or try to capture an heiress with
it."—Town Topics.
In the Lunatic Asylum.—-Keeper—"This
poor fellow used to be a famous musician."
\ isitor —"Ah! and now he's a wandering
ministrel."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Reports from rural districts confirm the
impression that the hired man perspired
awfully last week, while the farmer sat in
the barn and expatiated on his love ol hard
work.—Boston Transcript.
"Poetic license rests upon General eon
gent, as I understand it. "Well, yes. 1
fancy absolute prohibition is impracticable."
—Detroit Journal.
Polygamy in a civilized community is an
unthinkable thing. The mere hotel rates
it the resorts where women summer are
sufficient to effect this.—Detroit Journal.
Our notion of a credulous man is a man
who thinks all the motions a baseball pitch
er makes are necessary.—Detroit Journal.
\ i POOR LITTLE JOHNNY!
SSP^SlBSri'- AND HIS "TUMMY"!
\vv<~- >§4b Small boys, and many times large ones,
MM occasionally girls, too, big and little,
l^ jat |> X' I \A V_ v suffer terribly from convulsive pains or
i • . ' ! "cramps" in the bowels and stomach —
£/J K \ pain SO violent that it "doubles up" the
V Yy\ I / ' ' ones attacked, and makes it impossible for
. |fv vi \ —/ them to stand up.
}> *( j\ j . ;i ■ / Some people call it colic, but most honest,
\J/J J J I plain-spoken people call it '"belly-ache" and very
I/K^ / ) &XC \ properly, for the seat of the trouble is in the
.• J CaP 1 U \ bowels, and caused by the violent efforts of the
Vfßb. \ bowels to rid themselves of something which
I/ \ doesn't belong there. The small boy usually
112 j — j '\V\ \ pfP gets it from over-eating or from eating forbidden
I i \v\ \ fruit, and suffers mostly in the summer time.
' //fflP 1 . 1 / /~K It's spring now, and"in times of peace, prepare
j'm" ■ \ \i / x r war *" Let *ke boys and girls and the big
J M J( folks, too, for that matter, clean out the clogged
Snt' I I F i Y CJH channels filled with winter biie and putrid undi
-7 U L- * gested food, strengthen the 30-feet of bowel
' *1 ■ —■ l • ■ canal, liven up the liver, and "summer belly
, „ , aches" will have no terrors, because they won't
fepJrc T 7 r "! ake the H 7 ache-proof is to use CASCARETS, gentle, sweet, fragrant
the perfect system cleaners and bowel strengthened. For fear that anybody in the
family should ever be attacked by belly-ache, keep a box of CASCARETS in the house always, and
remember that all pains and troubles in your insides are
25c. 50c!*^^ykMiEC5lll^* ,^^^^DRUGGISTS
To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. * 4W
o-.1-.c
W*hcn * preparation has ,in advertised rep
utation thiil is world wide, it means that
1 preparation is meritorious. U you to intc
J a L tiirf to buy an article that has achieved
universal popularity like ( ascarets (',mdy
| Cathartic for example, you feel it lias the
, indorsement of the world. The judgment
I ol tin- people is infallible because it i 8 j m .
I personal. J'he retailer who wants to sell you
j s ! "lething else" in place of the article you
I as* for. has an ax ti grind. Don't it stand to
I r eas °n'' He's trying to sell something that
I ,K not what he represents it to be Why?
| Because he exp< cts to derive an < xtra profit
our of your credulity. Don't you see
through his little game? The man who will
I try to sell you c. substitute for Cuscurots
is a fraud. Beware of him! Me is trying to
I steal the honestly earned benefits of a repu
! fation which another business man has paid
I lor. and if his conscience will allow him to
|go SO far. he will go farther. It he cheat#
his customer in on< way. he will in another
.Mil, it is not safe to do business with him.
Beware of the C'ascaret substitutor!
Kernember Cascarets are never sold in
bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed
c ( every box and eath tablet stamped
A man smoking a cigarette boarded a
T nion traction ear, and a woman handed
him an anti-cigarette tract. "Thank you,
ma ..in said he."l j] take it home to my
son. ' —Muncie Star.
The lioxem of ( lilnn
are attempting to solve a gigantic problem,
but tii' y are going about it in the wrong way
and will never succeed. Some people, in
this country, seem to think that they have
as great a puzzle on their hands in selecting
a location for a home. They will certainly
go about it in the wrong way unless they in
spect. the beautiful farming countrv on the
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway in Marinette county, Wisconsin,
where the cropsare of the best, work plenty,
fine markets, excellent climate, pure, soft
water; land sold (heap and on long time.
Vv hy rent a farm when yen can buy one for
less than yon pay for rent? Address C. K.
Rollins, Land Agent. 101 La Salle St., Chi
cago, 111.
Give a rig plenty of milk and it will make
* bog ot itself. —Chicago Dai!} News.
C'ltrlcr'n Ink
good and so cheap that no family can
afford to be without it. Is yours Carter's?
A girl !S>» forgive a man for kissing her
on the impulse of the moment, but never for
apologizing for it.—lndianapolis News.
"Papa, what is the difference between a
professional and an amateur golf player?"
"Oh, about $5,000 a year."—Town 'lopies.
To fore a Cold In tln<> IJny
Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. A1
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 26c
Man's inhumanity toman enables the po
liceman to draw his salary.—( hicago Daily
News.
Drugs have their uses, but don't store
them in your stomach. Beeman's Pepsin
Gum aids the natural forces to perform their
functions.
Black cigars ar« the very latest in
widowers' weeds. —Chicago Daily News.
Ilall • Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Pi ice, 75c.
nun (""ism u.atic Compound is
jm Sfc K I "woniy positive cure fust «.
In I ■■ I I perience speaks foritself IJnnoi
Killb oo b. CaiUorUitt avu, Übicagu.
1 Cigar Dealers Like |
0 to have their regular customers smoke
2 Old V lrginia Cheroots ■
■ because they know that once a man ■
m starts smoking them he is "fixed/' £
J and that he will have no more trouble 2
# with him trying to satisfy him with •
2 different kinds of Five Cent cigars. 2
Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this "
ye»r. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. ®
POOR LITTLE JOHNNY!
AND HIS "TUMMY"!
- MY OWN SELF ACAJN."
Mr*. Gaten Writu to Mrs. Plr.khaiEi,
Follows Her Advicf and IN Made Well.
" DF.AU MRS PINKHAM: For nearly
two and one-half years I have been in
feeblehealth. AftermylittlechilGcarue
I have taken Lydia 1". Pinkliatn's Vege
table Compound as advised and now
send you a letter for publication. For
several years I was in sueli wretrbed
health that life w;.s almost a burden.
I could hardly walk across the floor,
was so feeble. Several of our best
physicians attended me, but failed to
help. 1 concluded to write to you for
advice. Jn a few days i received such
a kind, motherly letter I followed your
instructions and am my 'old self'
a fain. Was greatly benefited before I
had used one bottle. May (iod bless
you for what vou are doing for suffer
ing women." MRS. CLARA GATES,
Johns P. 0.. Miss., Oct. C, I(3<J9.
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA.
Conducted T>y the Sisters of tho Holy Cross.
Chartered 1855. Thorough English and Classical
education. Regular Collegiate Degrees.
In Prcparator}' Department students care
fully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical
and Chemical laboratories well equipped. Con
servatory of Music and School of Art. fiym
nasium under direction of graduate of Boston
Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free.
The 46th year opens Sept. 4. lfcOO. Address,
DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY,
St. Hary's Academy, - Notre Dame, Indi&no.
I AR|CC» When Doctor s»and others fall to relieve
kNUtkai vou.try N F. M. H: it never fails B<,x
frci-. IH rm. It. A. Bownn, Milwaukee, Win.
A. N. K.- c 1825
Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. ÜBC
CsJ In time. Hold bv drunclstH. Ml
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