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i Fought, Blizzard 3
\ All Night. 7{
Tbriliing Experience of a Minister
in South Dakota Who Got Lost
in a St,Drm While Going t>o His
Born and Carae Near Freezing
to Dsath. ?
PEOPLE whose lines are
cast *n PJeasant Prices.
' W* where nature is always ap^
proximately serene and
smiling, who never really
nave to struggle with her giant forces
kor her more terrible moods, get in the
habit of using big words for very
small experiences. Every fall in the
mercury becomes a cold wave, and
every decent, ordinary storm is dubbed j
^ _ ?<! fnr.+ < ),? !
E^K a Dlizzaru. -AS U. ui;mn ui iuvi, u.v ;
K genuine Western blizzard, when tlie j
?&, air is full of stinging, singing, frozen I
particles, blowing six ways to a Sun-1
r day, when a man can't see six feet in j
front of him, when all landmarks are j
lost, and all signs fail, is something
" of which the Eastern States are blessedly
ignorant. Such an one came within
the experience of the Rev. John
Eastman, of South Dakota.'and he has
^ never forgotten it, nor is he likely to.
^ Mr. Eastman is a member of the Indewnkantan
Sioux, an Indian with all
the Indian stoicism, which belittles
j* hardships for which the white race
r would find few words strong enough.
Yet his description of that night's ad
ventures are tanning enougu iu jjruiv
that the word blizzard is not one to be
lightly applied to any little four-iDeh,
hs we--behaved city snow fall.
It was one Saturday evening when
Mr. Eastman had been sitting cozily
In front of a crackling fire after dinW
ner. thinking over his sermon for the
P following day. He was tired and the
[ warmth and quiet were very grateful.
I But he remembered that his horse was
I tired, too. He had driven him twenty
^ miles that day and put him up unblanketed.
And so, though he did not
usually attend to the animals until
Just before he went to bed. he decid
ed to go out and make them comfortI#
able early, and be done with chores
for the night.
"It was only a step from house to
!? barn," says Dr. Eastman. "I did not
think It worth while to take a lantern,
but I did put on an overcoat when I
K saw how stormy it was outside. It
was a black night and there was a
|B9b blizzard on. The wind was in my face
and the fine hail stung like shot from a
Kr rrTin T* folrlir hit- rnv rh#>PkS. SO that
? as I crossed the garden I turned to
N have the wind at my back and get my
V breath by walking backward a few
ft minutes. I saw the light in the house
^ glowing faintly through the sleet, as
I walked. Then for a few minutes Ibent
my head and butted into the
storm. When I turned again for breathing
space I could not see the house.
Neither, though I knew I had not gone
KkH far enough, could I find the barn. I
realized that I had gone wrong someBhA
how, but it was not for some minutes
that I understood that the situation
BH was sorious and began to look for it.
Eo9H I should have thought I could find my
way to it blindfolded, but here I was
zig-zagging back and forth and getW
ting nowhere.
? "I don't know how long I cruised
around as a dog would search a trail.
It probably was only a few minutes.
but it seemed an nour. it was xue
longest part of the night's experiences.
MF I was slow to confess to myself that,
keen as I believed I was in prairieBag
fraft, I was really lost, and could not
Hi help myself even a little bit. I suppose
I went around in a circle, but
8| thefre was no proof to my mind of the
H ^ "The place was the prairie at Flan
dreau, where I now live. It is as level
H as this floor, and is now well settled,
but then it was miles to any other
S| .house. EJvery inch of the prairie was
? like every other inch. When I knew
K I was lost I made up my mind to be
|& as long as possible in freezing to death.
H I gave up trying to find the barn and
[ra just walked without thinking where I
was going. I kept saying: 'Walk, walk,
H .walk.'
"That was easier said than done. I
JjB haven't said anythirg about the cold,
ai But it was cold. It was the most aw
ful cold a man can feel. But I wel?
? corned every twinge as an assurance
Itnat l was noiaing my own. uguuug
off the numbness that would have
meant death. My feet I kept alive
by running every little while. Of
course, I went with the wind a good
deal. I realized that I shouldn't, and
called myself a coward and forced
myself as a moral duty to face it. And
I fancy it was this moral duty that
6aved my life?kept me fighting something
all night, though for that matter
"P fought myself, calling myself a fool
all the time. I pounded myself and
occasionally even kicked myself.
"Some time in the night the temperature
must have moderated. At any
rate, the snow began to stay where it
fell. I have about given up all hope
of living when suddenly I noticed it
was harder to walk through the snow.
Then I began to feel sleepy. It grew
on me and I thought I would lie down
and rest, for I was very tired. But I
rebelled against this as a picce of folly.
I kicked myself and again called myself
a fool.
"Then the first I knew I was down
on my hands and knees in the snc.w.
I guess I did not much realize my danger.
I remember I noticed the pnow
drifting around me. I had my back
to the wind. I had found horses and
cattle frozen to death, standing with
their backs humped up against the
wind.
"I was conscious of the drift creep ??
T maM 4- A
IlEg UP Oil me. liuu J. :aiu iu uii sen ijj.tv
I was being slowly buried alive. I
wondered who would find me. If they
would know me, what they would say
at first and what everybody would say
as the news spread. I had found men
frozen to death in a blizzard. One
,was a young boy. a tenderfoot. The
others were not the best type of men.
Drink as much as cold killed them.
"My mind went chattering from one
idea to another. I believe I kept myself
alive by thinking, for the snow
Was creeping on up over my back. I [
-*?- ? ? efMI oc T nnnld so as to Ipt I
I_ ao oiiit ? ?
It roof me over. I thought It would be
days before they found me. I wondered
how long I should lie there, and
I thought of the wolves that might
come when the snow had thawed a
little and scatch down to rue and begin
to gnaw my frozen flesh. I saw myself
half eaten, my big muscles torn into
shreds. I fancied the wolves would
leave my face to the last, and so my
| people would know me. After a while
| I felt better. I did not know it. but it
! was warmer there under the snow,
j My breath melted a little hole up
I through the drift. The air was cold,
j but it was the sweetest relief in the
i worl l that it was still and not cutting
like a million little whip lashes.
'Tresently I was able to press the
snow around me back, and I found it
would parte and stay, so I had a little
room to move. It was fearfully cold
still, and yet it was so much warmer
th.in I had been that I was quite cheer
fill. Then the thought came that perhaps
I had really died and did not yet
know it. This seemed after a minute
to be funny, and for fhe first time that
night I laughed, or thought I was
I laughing: my face was frozen so I did
I not move a muscle.
J "It was about this time I noticed
I could see a button right under my
eye 011 my coat. The night had passed
and it was daybreak. My mind took
the fact in very slowly. I did not dare
get up or move. I deliberated whether
I should try to -get up. I almost decided
* ' t to do it. And then with a
snort and a grunt I was on my feet
and shaking off the snow. I shall
never forget the agony of that moment.
If there was a muscle in my body that
did not fairly shriek in a protest of
pain it must have been in parts that
were frozen. But I took a step forward
and then tottered along and gradually
learned again to walk."
This is Mr. Eastman's side of the
story, but of his wife's long watch
through the night he cannot tell. He
only knows that in the early dawn,
when the sky was clear and a few stars
shining faintly on the western horizon,
lie saw n liuiucr iiwoc iu cm iu
which he thought might be a house,
and rubbing snow on his face to take
out the frost, as he went, he struggled
painfully toward it. As he drew
near he saw some one coming from the
opposite direction ? some one who
proved to be his wife. She and the
boys had been up all night and long
before dawn had gone out to find him.
He had been lost and well nigh died
within eighty rods of the house. The
boys were recalled by firing a gun. The'
stock was found to be all right. And
the minister's sermon was preached
that day with a thankful spirit, but
a mighty sore, stiff body.
The Swazl Queen's Cow.
The Johannesburg Star gives an
amusing account of the interviews between
Sir Arthur Lawley and the
Queen Regent of Swaziland on the occasion
of His Excellency's visit to the
latter's country. "At the first confer
ence the Queen Regent got up from her
chair and walked to the table at which
His Excellency sat, and, leaning over
K, exclaimed in a stage whisper, which
was audible on every side, 'I don't
want to talk loudly about it. I just
whisper it in your ear. but it is good
I should tell you that before the war
we used to receive money. Our beer
pots are now empty.' At the end of
the interview the dowager, in taking
ner leave, remarked, 'We could have
given you a welcome in cattle, but we
are poor. All I have is one cow. It
is so small I will not call it a cow; I
will call it a goat. Therefore, I say,
I give you a goat.'
"His Excellency replied by telling
her that he would give her three oxen
as food for her people.
"Subsequently the Queen Regent
played about the grounds, dragging a
toy elephant after her, which toy had
been presented by Lady Lawley to a
child of the late King.
"At the conclusion of the ceremony
the Queen desired to kiss Lady Lawley.
an honor from which her ladyship.
with much tact, mercifully escaped."
Intelligent Use of the Shears.
The editor who uses the shears intelligently,
says,the Burlington Hawkeye,
cannot be classed as a lazy editor.
Be it understood that to read and understand
and appreciate the writings
of others and to be able to cull from
the thoughts of a fellow editor the gist
of his argument so as to give the
readers the benefit is a task in comparison
with which the writing of a
long and ponderous "leading" editorial
Is child's play.
To have the mind capable of recognizing
and culling the gems of thought
irom excnanges is not uiziuess. iu
read with care the numerous editorial
pages that come to an exchange table
so as to be thoroughly in touch with
the thought of the day and to select
with intelligence the best of this editorial
thought is not laziness. It is the
hardest part of a conscientious newspaper
editor's work.
The brightest editorial pages in the
State or nation are those which contain.
in addition to the thoughts of the
editor, a well selected symposium of
extracts from other newspapers. It is
this sort of editorial pace which is of
the most value to a discriminating
reader, and it conveys more genuine
thought and imparts more pleasure to
the student of the world's affairs.
Indian Poverty.
In a paper which he read before the
British Association. Sir Robert Giffeu
put the annual income of the 300,000.000
people inhabiting British India
and the feudatory States at $2,340,000,000,
or $7S per cipita. Writing to the
London Times. William Digby. the Indian
authority, asserts that this is an
overestimate. He says there- is not
so grest an income, actually, for the
300,000.000 of to-day as there was for
230.000,000 twenty years ago. He says
that the total visible income of India
in 1900 was $1,449,799,595, which gives
each individual less than $50 a year
to live on. In the Presidency of Madras
he estimated that the income of
the 34.000.000 inhabitants is fiveeighths
of a penny per head per day.
Sorrows Like Clouds.
Sorrows are often like clouds, which
though black when they are passing
over us, when they are past become as
if they were the garments of God
thrown off in purple and gold along
the sky. If each man had the spirit
of self-surrender, the spirit of the
cross, it would not matter to him
whether he were doing the work of
the mainspring or one of the inferior
parts. It is bis duty to try to be himself.
simply try to do bis own duty,
New York City.?Loose coats of all
| sorts are greatly in vogue and make
\ ideal cold weather wraps. They can
be slipped on over the gown with per
coat "with cape collab,
feet ease and without danger of rumpling.
This May Manton one includes
several novel features and is adapted
to a variety of materials, but is shown
*? -1- -1 TfHK fha on no
ID pasiti lull uiuauwiuiu 1111.U mv. v..4.v .
collar of velvet trimmed with fancy j
braid and edged with heavy ecru lace.
The inverted pleats, that are stitched
with corticelli silk, give exceedingly
becoming lines while providing the fulness
and flare that are much in vogue.
The sleeves are novel and effective as
well as comfortable. i
The coat is made with yoke portions
to which the fronts and backs are at- i
tached. Both the coat and the sleeves <
ai'e laid in inverted pleats, the outer
ones being stitched flat for their entire
length, the inner left free for a portion
thereof to provide flare at the lower
edge. The sleeves are In bell shape
and fit with comparative snugness i
PRINCESS GOWN LENGTHENED B
above the elbows, and at the neck Is J
the cape collar which can be further |
enhanced by fringe knotted into the 1
lace when desired. i
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is five and a quarter i
yards twenty-seven inches wide, three 1
and a quarter*yards forty-four inches i
wide or three yards fifty-four inches ]
wide, with one-half yard of velvet for <
the cape collar, four and a half yards j
of braid and one and three-quarter i
yards of applique to trim as illus- (
trated. 1
i
Becoming: Prince98 Gown. !
frvot. 1
I Princess gowns are uujuuk mc- ,
ures of the season and are exceedingly I '
becoming to well formed women. The *
one shown in the large drawing is both '
novel and handsome and allows of va^ '
riations without number. The model, 1
however, is made of broadcloth, in the '
new shade known as Lombard}* plum, 1
with the epaulettes and cuffs of velvet '
in the same color overlaid with applique
of heavy lace, the square yoke <
and collar of cream chiffon, tucked and 1
enriched with lace, and trimming of
fancy braid piped with velvet. The '
color is as beautiful as it is new and '
! the combination of materials singu- 1
larly rich and attractive, but tne gown
can be made entirely of velvet, of cloth [
or of similar material. As illustrated 1
the closing is made invisibly at the left f
shoulder seam and beneath the trimming
at the left front seam, but it can
be effected at the centre back if pre- 1
ferred. '
The gown is made with centre fronts, :
j side fronts, backs, side backs and un- 1
! der-arm gores. Both the centre <front
j and the back are full length, but the 1
| side fronts, tinder-arm goers and side
i backs are lengthened by the circular
J flounce which is joined to the edges of
j the front and the backs. ? The epaulettes
are arranged over the shoulders
1 and the neck is finished with a regulation
stock. The sleeves are among the
: newest of the season, and show d?>ep
1 flare cuffs, which extend well over the
' Lands, and above them form full drooping
puffs.
| The quantity of material required for
; the medium size is fourteen and a
' quarter yards twenty-one inches wide,
I twelve yards twenty-seven inches wide
I or seven and a quarter yards fortyJ
four inches wide, with seven-eighth
yards of velvet, three-eighth yards of
. tucking and six yards of braid to trim
as illustrated.
i
The Straight Skirt.
Aeeording to a Paris correspondent
of Le Bon Ton. the straight skirt, very
full over the hips, is the thing, but a
few flounces are still worn and quite a '
few fancy tucked skirts, that is, the t
tucking put in waved or curved designs j
( 37er the entire skirt. a
The straight skirts are twkfrd, i
paens
pleated or shirred over the hips; some
are box pleated, the fulness falling in
straight lines below. One model has
very fine side pleats stitched down flat
with about five rows of stitching. Others
are shirred about five inches down.
These skirts are not made with much '
train, but are very long all around. ,
They are often embellished with
trimming set on around the bottom, ;
some have flounces shirred on with a |
heading. These are even used in j
cloth, but the latter is of such fine,
soft quality that it is easily adapted to j
such purposes. Panel effects are used
to a great extent and give long, graceful
lines.
Very Fashionable Stockings.
Stockings of striking effect have naK
row bands of lace inset, many of them
of contrasting colors, the most striking
being black in white. An inch
band of lace in some of the stockings
undulates serpentine fashion over the
instep and up the leg. In other stockings
the inch bands are put in to form
conventional designs over the instep,
and in others inch bands of lace are
set around the stocking from the ankle,
perhaps the length of it. *
\
Hats For Ultiel>
M.sses' hats are very large, thfc
crowns are quite high, and are either
trimmed with a very long plume,
caught in with a .buckle at the front of
the crown and drooping over the brim
at the side, or else the crown is surrounded
with very short tips. .
Filmy Princess Dresses.
We hear of tulle and mousseline prii*
ress dresses, but, of course, these filmy
fabrics are but "superstructure," requiring
as a foundation a perfect dress
of handsome silk.
OloTea of Many Colon.
The "multicolored Idea" extends even |
to gloves this year. Kids come in all
the cloth shades, with bindings and
sitcliings of the brightest colors.
1 CIRCULAR FLOUNCE ON SIDES, j '
Shonldor Capes.
Small capes that cover and protect 1
the shoulders make a feature of the '
se&son's styles and are greatly in
vogue both as parte of costumes and 1
is general wraps. The two May Man- {
ton designs illustrated are admirable 1
ind are one round, giving a smooth
at over the shoulders, the other cut iu
leep points that fall in handkerchief 1
style. Both are double and both show 1
the stoles that are preferred to every
other form. of necK nnisn. as illustrated
the round cnpe is made of tan 1
colored cloth, the pointed cape of the 1
same material in the shade known as 1
mole-skin, both being finished with
stitching in corticelli silk. The stole
of the round cape is made of heavy
jcru lace finished with drop ornaments,
out that of the pointed cape is cut from i
the material, simply stitched and finished
with fringed ends and drop ornaments
placed at the neck and midway 1
5f its length.
The round capes are cut in one piecQ j
?ach and arranged one over the other 1
and finished at the neck with the stole,
rhe pointed capes as illustrated also
ire double and finished with the stole, 1
but can be made with the under portion
cut from the outer edge to the
"* Al? aw +lin nrvrvor I
leptu ui iuc uiA upyvi.
cape only and joined thereto, thus giving
the effect of two capes without the
additional weight.
The quantity of material required for ,
the medium size is for round cape two
md three-eighth yards twenty-one
nches wide, one and three-eighth yards |
forty-four inches wide or one and an
eighth yards fifty-four inches wide, ,
with one yard of all-over lace for the i
stole; for pointed cape three yards i
SHOULDEB CAPES. 1
(
wenty-one inches wide, one and a half
'ards forty-four inches wide or one <
ind three-eighth yards fifty-four laches
vide.
ORTHT of a high
er "coniniendatloi
ffiBk. A than I can fin<
A #1 words to express.'
Mti I This is what Mr
W| I J. H. Plangman (o
V I B Sherman, Tex.]
jg ' J Bays of ' Doan'i
^BOSBSBDW Kidney Pills. Hi
tells his experience In the followlnj
words: He says, "Sometime In Septenv
ber I was taken with a dull aching pair
acroes the small of my back, directlj
over the kidneys. I paid small attentloi
to this at first, thinking It would pas:
off. But Instead of getting better ii
became worse and In a short time thf
pain centered through my left hip anc
pain acrossdown my left le!
[jV j* /> as far as the knee.
1R SmaUOt This Is precisely
fwhat kidney trou
ble will do with thi
It does not al
ways show itsel
at first, but ap
pears Just in thi:
way, when somi
unusual movemen
or action brlngi
sharp pains ant
exhaustive aches
telling of sick kid
So Mr. Plang
man's experience bore this out
Continuing, he says: "I did noi
know the cause of the trouble, bu1
I am led to believe now that it wat
first brought about by jumping in anc
out of the wagon and In some way ]
may have strained my back.
"I was constantly growing worse," h(
continues, "and I became very muct
alarmed about my condition. I knev
that something had to be done or seriouj
results were sure to follow. I went tc
a specialist here In Sherman, and underwent
a rigid examination."
Then he relates how the doctor tolc
him that it was a serious case, but thai
he could cure him for fifty dollars
Iilfe's Problems.
Marion has reached the age when
the problems of life assume interest.ng
proportions.
"I was born in Washington, D. C.,
grandmother. Where were you born?"
she asked, recently.
"Way out in Kansas," answered the
)ld lady.
"Father was born in New Orleans,"
continued the child, "and mother in
Denver. Do you know,"?reflectively
-"it seems to me people are liable to
oe born most any place."?Lippincott's
Magazine.
Cured of His Bad Habit.
A few months ago the son of a railway
director was, through his father's
nfluence, given a position of some importance
on a large railway. He was
fresh from Cambridge, and in the orlers
which he from time to time issued
to the men under him always
nade use of the longest, most unusual
tvords. This habit led to some rather
expensive blunders, and, the matter
coming before the general manager,
le wrote the young official the following
letter:
"In promulgating your esoteric cogitations
and in articulating your superficial
sentimentalities and amicable,
philosophical, or psychological obserrations,
beware of platitudinous ponderosity.
Let your conversational
communication possess a clarified
conciseness, a compacted comprehensiveness,
a coalescent consistency, and
i concatenated cogency. Eschew all
"Anrrinmomtinn rtf flatulent earrulity.
lejune babblement, and asinine affec.ation.
Let your extemporaneous des:antings
and unpremeditated expatiation
have intelligibility and veracious
rivacity without rhodomontade or
thrasonical bombast. Sedulously
lvoid all polysyllibic profundity, pompous
prolixity, psittaceous vacuity,
ventriloquial verbosity, and vanilo
guent vapidity. Shun double entendre.
prurient jocosity, and pestiferous
profanity, obscurant or apparent. Don't
put on air; say what you mean; mean
what you say, and don't use big
words."
The young official took the gentle
hint and changed his style.?Los Angeles
Times.
One in four of the people of Chicago
is a German. N. Y.?45
FITSnertAanently cured. No fits or nervousness
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
.VarveRestorer. S2"t ria 1 bottle and treatisefree
Dr.It.H. Klink, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phils., Pa.
There's enough fun in the world for
iverybody to have some.
All creameries use butter color. Why
not do a> tbey do - use Juke Ti.xt Butter
Color.
A free Pasteur Institute is to be established
in New Orleans.
]*nsuraPlao's Cure for Consumptions* J.
my life throe yeara iu;o.?Mas. Thomas RobfciSB,Maple
St., Norwicn, N. V., Feb. 17, ltfJJ.
The population of Abyssinia i3 about 10,300.000.
Afrs WInslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teef blDp, softec thespinas, reduces inflammation,hlmys
pain,cures wlndcolic. 23c. a bottle
Possible Wttterpotrer of the Globe.
Those who are looking forward with
trepidation to the time when the
world's coal supply shall be exhausted
will find solace in some rough cauculations
by John Clarke Hawkshaw, a
prominent civil engineer, concerning
the water power now going to waste.
He says: "Assume a deptn or ten
inches of rainfall to flow off each
siunre ineb of land surface, the mean
height of which may be taken as 22."i0
f?et ab^re sea level. Then the water
from tiie whole surface falling through
the mear. height would give 10,340,
000,000 horse power in perpetuity. Our
present yearly output of 225,000.000
tons of coal would give that horse power
for only a little over half a day."
Patience and Perseverance.
"The public is a big thiug," says an
advertiser of experience. "It is hard
to stir up. It moves slowly sometimes
?wants to get acquainted first. Likes
to deal with well-known people. The
inly way to get acquainted and become
weLl known is to be patient and keep
jn advertising."
-r^SftiEsSSii fe'
^jfow a Farmt
- However, necessity knows no law and
3 Mr. Plangman paid half down and took
1 the treatment and followed It falthful'
ly for four weeks.
Naturally, he thought that he would
f soon be rid of the trouble, but in upite
) of the doctoring he goes on to add, "I
s was in euch misery that it was almost
s impossible for me to do my work."
? "It was at this Juncture that Doan's
Kidney Pills came n ?
i to my notice and I ram in
r procured some from .
i the drug store of C. ICI1 J(7!c?
3 E. Craycroft. I jr.
t used these pills
; according to dlrec1
tlons and to my / ^"4 \
I surprise I was con- I M YM
' siderably relieved ^ Th^V"T
f on the second day \
- and in a short time V I
- completely cured/' ^
i versale^pertenceof WJWA\
those who have YjSy'
3 been sufferers from ^<0
s Kidney trouble and who have been fort
tunate enough to test the merits of
s Doan'B Kidney Pills.
1 There la nothing wonderful or mag.
leal about this remedy, It simply does
- the work by direct action on the kidneya.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for the
- kidneys only and this accounts for
i Pain through and
^ /1 d?V\ Early indications
' IJffll/riLJ/ kldney trouble
1 come from two
C BOurces? 1521011
and the blad(lerU
\ vilrl The l5ack becomes
I left / weak and lame be*
II 1- \XyJJ cause the kidneys
\ilip l f"W are sick, and reU
ffl if llef from backache
ih a can oniy oe comI
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t tt jfflvK 1 kidneys are set
V/flfy, right.
Useful Fox Terrier.
Jack, the Portsmouth harbor fox terrier,
is now disconsolate because the
summer season is nearing its end.
Jack's occupation in life is to stay
around on the harbor station landing
stage and catch the mooring ropes as
they are thrown ashore from the island
steamers. The dog picks up the
rnnoc in hio month flTirt riins \rith thPJTl
to the men, who make the steamers
fast. Yesterday Jack was quite disconsolate
because there were no boats
running.?Southern Daily Mail, Portsmouth,
England.
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The French KecruitP.
The number of recruits accepted for
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against 233,000 for 1903, although
the difference in the number of men
on the lists is not more than'500. The
decrease of 37.000 is due to a more
rigorous examination of the conscripts.
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Three generations of one family are
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and the latter's son and daughter,
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Irritation of the r*.?>*
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of order. Delay in j^oifulilCCl
prompt attention
often causeB serious
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