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6 £♦ •♦?♦?■♦ ? ♦ r ■♦■«•■■.? ♦■■• ♦•^^■♦^•♦*>4* 8 A MODEL p § LITERARY CLUB 8 8. — 8 • + Kentucky Women Make a♦ • ♦^ Constitution That Might '^Z Well Be Copied. XT Jl BY BESSIE DOW BATES. X?, ♦* !♦ ••♦•♦♦♦•♦• ♦ •♦^♦^■♦■^♦'^♦/?*<?4;v Clubs are being formed almost dally by ambitious American women. Many of these clubs have high aims, while others set-in comparatively trivial, but there is one club known as the Nomads in Maysville, Ky., which besides serv ing as a stimulus to active minds pos sesses a model club constitution that might well be emulated by other clubs whose purposes are less clearly de fined. In some features the constitution of the Nomads does not differ from that adopted by the average society when sensibly directed, but in this particular ((institution the crying evil of nonat teiidanee is treated with a dignity and firmness which argue well for the fu ture of the club. The responsibility of membership Is treated so vigorously and so well that it cannot be other than of interest to the readers to have me quote all of that part <>f the constitution which re lates to it. So here it is: "Members: Section 1. All members shall pay an annual fee of 50 cents at the first regular meeting of the club. "Sec. '2. Any members coming in after roll call shall pay a line of "> cents at the following meeting. In cases of sickness or absence from the city mem bers shall be lined 10 cents, otherwise *J."> cents. "Sec. ;'.. Any member absenting her self from the club for three consecutive meetings without cause for such ab sence shall no longer be considered a member. "Sec. 4. Any member failing to per form her duty at the specified time to provide a substitute in case of her own Inability to attend to it or to arrange for it in such manner as may be entire ly satisfactory to the programme com mittee shall be subject to ft fine of $5 or to loss of membership in the club. "Sec. 0. Each member shall respond to roll call with a quotation or be fined 5 cents. "Sec. 7. The membership shall be limited to 25. "Sec. 8. All excuses for absence must be presented to the president in writ jf. j ?^S^ its MBS. KLKAKOB DUNCAN WOOD. ing, or a fine for unexcused absence will be imposed. "See. I). Members of the club have the privilege of Inviting only visitors in the Pity to the regular club meet ings. "Sec. 10. Any member wishing to re sign her membership is expected to hand in her resignation in writing that it may be acted upon by the dub." The object of the Nomads is distinct ly literary. A glance at the pro gramme (if the past season shows that much has been accomplished by these ambitious women who have worked in the true spirit of progress. During the 15 meetings of the club, beginning Oct. 4 and ending on the 25th of April, the works of Thackeray, Browning, Ten nyson, Charles Reade. Mrs. Humphry Ward, Hawthorne, Lytton, George Eliot. Carlyle. Arnold, Irving, Howells and Kipling were studied and discuss ed. The club is limited to 25 members, and each one has taken some part in the programme of the year. Club teas have given variety to the programme and encouraged the social purposes of the meetings. To Mrs. Eleanor Duncan Wood the success of the programme is partly due. Mrs. Wood Is the author of several magazine stories of marked merit and lias a promising literary career before her, being a young woman with a de cided talent for the writing of fiction. Cedar- Fence Posts Best in town. 8 i .22. per hundred. Coal and Wood. CODD & MACKENZIE Colfax Hardware Bldg. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. BY JUSTIN E. ABBOTT OF BOMBAY. EIGHTEEN YEARS RESIDENT IN INDIA. A famine the most widespread and severe of this century now darkens Ihe whole of western and central India, an area equal to New England, New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Michigan and Wis consin. Sixty million people are involved, of whom probably 10.000,000 "will perish unless aided. The living skeleton Is the indisputable evidence that the resources of the people are exhausted. Along the highways, in lonely t.^mL.mn| lli >mi.:,;»W.-^^»uil'i .mini » • •-i.'.V.V"^"- passes, by stream beds that give no hope of water, weak and emaciated hu man beings are falling and dying by hundreds daily. Croat numbers who reach relief camps are past help, and the very food they ravenously eat kills them. Children, orphaned or deserted, are picked up by scores as they wan der. Terrible tales are told by eyewitnesses of these helpless little ones be ing devoured by dogs and jackals. The cause of the famine is the failure of the monsoon rains from June to October last year. The farmers, who number SO per cent of the population, were already impoverished by the fam ine of ISD7. Expenditure of every kind was stopped; hence the laboring class and artisans have had no work. The British government is relieving the sit uation by gratuitously feeding the in firm, the aged, the emaciated and the children. The ablebodied are employ ed on cash wages in building reser voirs and irrigation works, railway em bankments, roads, etc., which will greatly mitigate future famines. About 0,000,000 are now in daily receipt of of ficial relief. Connected with the camps are hospitals where those in the ex tremes of emaciation are nursed back to strength. The death rate is by far the greatest in the native states where government control is least. Here, however, the government is assisting hy loans of money and of the services of experienced officers. Already the authorities have spent With the failure of crops in the fam ine area there began a flow of grain from other parts of India and other countries. From Burma alone there was imported in ten months 427,000 tons of rice, worth $70,000,000. Mer chants have carried grain everywhere, and the price has remained fairly uni form at a cost only twice that of ordi nary years. There are millions of peo ple, however, who have no money and no worK. it is cnese moneyless mil lions for whom help or death is the only alternative. "WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH ME?" [Famine girl not too far gone to save.] In spite of all that can be done by the government there is a vast field for the private charity now being so splendidly supplied by America. Britain and her colonies and various European countries. Doubtless the most efficient agency for distribution of this private benevolence is the body of several hun dred American and European missionaries located "in the famine districts, whose experienced services are freely given to this work of humanity. Missionaries supplement official effort:-; by assisting as many as possible to reach relief camps. Those too weak for the journey, unprotected young wo men, mothers with children and deserted orphans, are given refuge and tender GOVERNMENT RELIEF WORK-MAKING A RESERVOIR. care. Weavers and other petty artisans are supplied with work which pre vents the breaking up of their homes. Industrial schools are maintained which in a few mouths give boys a training that makes them self supporting. It is the duty and privilege of every one to have some share in this sacred work of humanity. Money may be sent to Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall street, New York, treasurers of the committee of one hundred, William E. Dodge. chairman, and Dr. Leander T. Chamberlain, executive director, by whom it will be cabled promptly to the responsible and representative Americo-Indian relief committee, under the chairman ship of United States Consul William 11. Fee, at Bombay, with the veteran missionary, Robert A. Hume, as execu tive secretary. This committee aids and co-operates with our heroic fellow citizens of all denominations in the famine districts. The New York committee of one hundred on Indian famine relief co operates with committees of the same name in Boston, New Haven, Baltimore. Washington, Indianapolis and other cities, each* of which has charge of the work in its own section. The commit tee announces that, thanks to the hearty assistance of the press of the United States and the express compa nies, which forward gifts without charge, it has received contributions amounting to ?100,000. On receipt of a postal addressed "Committee of One Hundred, 73 Bible House, New York," supplies of illustrated literature are sent without charge and expressage free. The help of individuals, clubs, lodges, labor unions, employers, pro prietors of hotels, churches. Sunday schools, young people's societies. King's Daughters, etc., is sought in distribut- THE nAPPY mother before the famine. ing this literature and organizing relief movements. Two cents a day will save life, and ?2 will provide work for a famished person until the next harvest. COLFAX GAZETTE, COLFAX, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 3, 1900. SKELETONIZED BY FAMINE. Pure- For the third of a century the standard tor strength and purity. It makes the hot bread, hot biscuit, cake and other pastry light, sweet and excellent in every quality. No other baking powder is "just as good as Royal," either in strength, purity or wholesomeness. Many low priced, imitation baking powders are upon the market, fhese are made with alum, and tare should betaken to avoid them, as alum is a poison, never t<> be taken in the food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. BONE AND ANIMAL MEAL. Boyer, 4fter Experimenting on Meal Feed, Tells the Result. Time and again we have referred to the value of meat in some form or oth er to poultry, especially when they are confined to runs. Fowls in free range, especially in an orchard range, gather a vast amount of bugs, worms and in sects generally that furnishes them with all the animal food they need. But not more than five flocks out of a hundred are able to enjoy the luxury of a large orchard. Hence, being depriv ed of a natural supply of this much needed food, it is necessary for every poultry keeper to look well into the question and secure the very best that can be had. The green bone cutter has had much to do in solving this Important question, but this valuable invention has also had its battles to fight. Injudicious feeding of gi'een bone has developed worms in the fowls that have caus ed considerable loss. It likewise has caused irritableness of stock, causing much fighting, and in young stock it has caused a too rapid growth of comb and wattles. Understand the fault lies not in the bone cutter nor in the green bone so much as in the wholesale man ner in which it is fed. A fresh meat diet should be fed cautiously, not more than an ounce for each hen and not oftener than every other day. The difficulty in securing the green bone in small towns and the labor at tached to running some of the bone cutters have also been cause for oppo sition. These facts, so fully ventilated in the press, gave vent to so considerable ad vertising to venders of meat scraps that it was not long before the woods were full of the "best article." During the past four years we have been doing considerable experimenting on A Few Hens' experimental farm with prepared meats of all kinds as well as with green cut bone. We have not lost one bit of our faith in green bone when it can be had fresh and there is suffi cient time at hand to properly cut it, but as our experiments are intended for the benetit of our readers scattered all over the country we made a series of tests to ascertain just what article would be the safest substitute and which could lie generally recommend ed. We wish here to state that after we stopped using green cut bone in order to secure a substitute we noticed that our ess yield for the same number and variety of fowls for the same season of the year and under like conditions oth erwise was not so good as when we fed the green bone. But after giving the animal meal a t;'st we noticed that gradually the egg yield increased, so much so that 'here is a neck to neck race between the green bone fed hens and the animal meal fed hens. So after a year's almost exclusive trial of animal meal we feel safe in saying that the very host substitute for green cut bone is animal meal. We would advise where it is possible to feed both, say preen bone twice ji week as a separate noon feed and animal meal in the mash every morning ex cepting on the days when the green bone is fed. In this way there is a va riety and a possible case of double benefit.—A Few Hens. Prevented a Tragedy. Timely information given Mrs. George Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, saved two lives. A frightful cough had long kept her awake every night. She bad tried many remedies and doctors but steadily grew worse until urged to try Dr King's New Discovery. One bottle wholly cured her; and she writes, this marvelous mpdieine also cured Mr. Long of a severe attack of pneumonia. Such cures are positive proof of its power to cure all throat, chest and lung troubles. Only 50c and $1.00. Guaranteed. Trial bottles free The Elk Drug Store, F. J. Stone, Propr # Bargains in gloves at Armstrong & Co.'c, successors to McDonald Bros, RECORDS FOR THE WEEK. History of the Transactions in Whit man County I.amlK Patents and Receipts. U S to Frederick Body, bw qr 14 1!) 3!t. U S to Barbara Hayer Sr, nw i(r ne (jr, eh nw qr, ne qr sw qr 21 12 45. Deeds. Wm Collard to Henry Utz, Its 5 U b 27 Wiley h 2d ad Palouse <JOO 00 U L Ettinger to Wm Collard, Its 5 I! b 27 Wiley's 2.1 ad Palouse 250 90 Henry Utz to Wm Collard, Its !> 10 15 10 5 10 45 8200 00 H C Busby to Geo W Roberta, pt sw qr 2219 44 85 00 H L Moody to Sparks Bros, It 5 b 10 Huffman's 2d ad Tekoa 1 00 Kobert R Grow to A F Sherherd, 1 3 bl, CJeo T Huffman's ad Tekoa. . 550 00 Mrs A E Wood to Floyd Davidson, nh nvv qr a 3 41, sw qr 27 18 43, lease 1-3 crop Real Mortgages. Chaa L Mari<h to J A Ebbeit, sh se qr 13 17 45 050 00 Releases of Mortgages. Thos S Krutz to Juhn N Weldin 21C0 00 , Chattel Mortgages. Perry Haxton to Plough & Waters, binder, horses. .... 20250 <} M Henderson to J I Cise'lhresh in? Machine Co, b»?^-er I*oo 00 Robt W McCall to Buffalo Pitts Co, feednr bagger . 3365 00 W I Dailey to W F Chaleuor, earn ings contract 1000 00 W A Avenll to Chalenor & Co. stacker 175 00 C MuNselmau to Chalenor & Co, gear. 75 00 J H Stevenson to L N B Amieri-on, horses wagon harness 200 00 Chas H Wood to H Cornvvell Tr, sw qr s 27, nh nw qr 8 34 18 43 1000 00 Smith & Woodhmise to J I Case Threshing Mach Co, farm mach.. 1040 00 Smitn & VVoodhoui<e to J I Case Threshing Machine Co, engine .... 1000 00 J L McDuna dto A Kuhn, crop 1-2 of 65 acres se qr 35 17 44 150 00 X T McClannahan to W H Lichty Tr, crop ne qr and se qr 30 17 46 212 00 H V Hill to N W McGee, crop sw qr 32 15 44 250 00 J F Mattingl^y to H Wolf & Son, jj crop nw qr 22 18 42 38 00 J M Lanuis to Martin Campbell, farm mach 7-M) 00 Bills of Sale J T Lobaugh & Co to W O Starr, wagon 87 -"'0 C S Taylor to J T Lobaugh & Co, bupgy .. 150 00 J A Osterbersr to J T Lobaugh & Co, wagon 87 50 Wm E Munson to Child, Harcleroad & Day, binder 81 50 E T McClannahan t.> T E Th< mas, crops ne qr 30 17 40 Miscellaneous Myra Lehrbass vs H A & L Lehrbass, lis pen dens. Louisa Lehrbass n Luther Lehrbass, lis pendens. Forty Years Among Cannibals. The French adventurer who wan a cap tive among cannibals in Central Africa for forty years, has decided to write a book, which will no doubt prove inter eating. We can sympathize with his re lease from hie terrible captivity, which must have been as joyous ac that of a mau who finds himself suddenly released from the captivity of a refractory stom ach, by that peerless remedy, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which has done more to promote health than any other in existence. This is the medicine to take, if you are a sufferer from dyspepsia, con stipation, indigestion, biliousness, nerv outness or insomnia. Don't fail to give it a trial. Ask for Hostetter'n, and do not accept a substitute. The genuine has private revenue stamp over the neck of bottle. The Whisky Without a Headache. Wm. Schluting, proprietor of the New Castle, has just received direct from the J. W. McCulloch distillery, Owensboro, Ky., a shipment of the celebrated Gieen River whisky, the whisky without a headache. Selected for its purity and superior quality by the government for exclusive use in the U. S, army and navy hospitals. This goods is put up full measure and is recommended for family use. Horses for Sale. We have for sale at prices to suit everybody, 50 head of grade Clyde work horses, ranging from 1200 to 1600 pounds. 4 to 7 years old. Mansfield Bros., 3'-j miles south of Winona* F. A. Blackstone pells Mason & Ham lin pianos and organs. The beet is the cheapest. Call on H. W. Goff for Insurance. Grain Receipts And Warehouse Printing. Bramwell Bros. Colfax, Wash. Our work will please you. THE Pioneer Drug Store, W. J. HAMILTON, Propr. Prescription Work a Specialty. A complete stock of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Soaps, Brushes, Perfumeries, Paints, Oils, (ilass, Notions, Hooks, Stationery. Telephone No. 37. Main Street, Cnlfax Jl p THRESHING MACHINE ■ I.U. and EXTRAS. Our Extras, which are tirnt cla*n, nell at. about one-half the pricei charged by other houses. Header and Jackson Extras. 150 ft. S-inch 4 ply Gaadjr Belt $38.60 Myers' Tank Pump, complete . 15.00 Cylinder Teeth, each 6 eta J. C. JULSLAM), Next door to (looshop, Main Street, Coif*] tat. Vincent's Academy WALLA WALLA, WASH. _ A select Boarding School for yottag girls. Gives a thorough education in all English branches. Mute, Fancy Work, Lan^iiugi'*, etc. No compulsion with regard to relitriotu opinions. TERMS MODERATE. Correspondence Holicited Addrews. SISTKK Sl'l'KßlOi;. J. W. CAIKNS, Express and Drayman Will haul your freight or move your goods and chattels PROMPTLY-CARKFULLY. OLIVER HALL Sells the Best Pumps and Windmills in the Paloune Country. See him hpforp having. Hiram Mitchell Auctioneer. Will pay prompt attention to a<i verging and posting hills for ail wain* pot in my hands. Free corrals at Colfax for stock brought to me to sell. Parties at a rtwancfi will find it to their ad vantage to commuuicate with me be fore fixing datew or making final arrangements for sales. Call on or murm me at Colfax, and your sale will receive prompt and careful attention. If you wish to Advertise In Newspapers . . . ANYWHERE AI ANYTIME call on or write E.C.Dake's Advertising Agcy. 64-65 Merchant's Exchange, San Francisco, Calif. FRED H. BROWN Bu ys Cattle and Hogs. Pays highest market price. Office with Chas. DeFrance, Colfax, Wash. GAZETTK CLUB IiIST. I'ay able in advance. Colfax Gazette and— American Economist, New York s-j 66 American Gardening, New York " 2.30 Argonaut, San Francisco \\\ 4,55 Bulletin, Sunday, San Francisco 2! 30 Call, Weekly, San FrauciMco 2.2. r > Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York ... 235 Century Magazine, New York '.*. 5.06 Chronicle, Weekly, San Francisco 8.66 Enquirer, Weekly, Cincinnati 2 05 Examiner, Weekly, San Fntndaeo 3.66 Farm and Fireside, Sprint-field, () 1 X 0 Glob»-Democrat,Twiee-a Week.St. Louis 2 80 Harper's Magazine, New York . 4.15 Harper's Weekly 475 Harper's Bazar ' 475 Inter Ocean, Weekly Chicago 1 <)0 Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. New York 156 Lippincott's Magazine, Philadelphia 8 66 Ledger, Weekly, Taconia 2 30 Munsey'a Magazine, New York 2 40 McClure's Magazine. New York 2V» McCall's Magazine, New York .. " LB6 Northwest Horticulturist, Taconia Is.", National Tribune, Washington ...... 246 Northwest Magazine, St Paul. ...... 2J6 Oregonian, Weekly. 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