The Commoner.
JANUARY 22, 1904:
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Receiver for a Lone C&r.
A dispatch to the Chicago Chronicle
under date of Newark, N. J., says: A
receiver was appointed in the chan
cery court here last week for a single
palace car. It Is called the Boston
and at the time it was built was
known as one of the finest in exist
ence. It was exhibited widely. Later
it became famous by remaining side
tracked for almost two years near
Springfield, Mass., "while the question
of its ownership was being fought in
the courts. All that time a colored
porter named Dudley and his wife
stuck by the car, keeping it in order
and earning a livelihood by exhibiting
it to visitors.
The receiver is Lawrence S. Mott of
this city. He and Hobart Tuttlo, pri
vate secretary to former Governors
Griggs and Voorhees, were interested
in the American Palace Car company,
which built the Boston. The com
pany's affairs became involved and the
car was sold to Now England persons.
It then was bought by H. A. Harvey,
who gave a mortgage to Arthur Trues
deii in part payment. The suit which
has resulted in the appointment of a
receiver was brought for the purpose
of satisfying Truesdell's claim. Mott
was instructed to give a ?10,000 bond
and sell the car.
A Ponying Institution.
Among all of Uncle Sam's projects
there Is no department which Is, pro
portionately, as great a source of in-
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful it is In Pre
serving Health and Beauty.
Nearly everybody knows that char
coal Is uie safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature but
few realize its valae when taiten into
the human system for the same cleans
iDg purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it tn befer; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities alway. present
ir the stomat and 'ntestlnes and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
Emoidng, drinking or after eating
onions and oth odorous vegetable.
Charcoal effectually clears and Im
proves the complexion, it whitens the
tteth and further . acts as a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; It
disinfects the irouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoai In one
Icrm or another, butprobably the best,
charcoal and the most for the money
i? in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges;
itbey are composed of the finest pow
dered Willow charcoal, and othr
hurmless antiseptics In tablet form or
rather in the frm of large, pleasant
tasting lozenges, the charcoal being
mixed with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
eoon tell in a much improved condi
tion of the general health, better com
plexion, sweeter breath and purer
blood, and the beauty of it is, that
no possible hzrm can result rom their
continued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit.
A Buffalo phypician in speaking of
the benefits of clarcoal, says- "J ad
vise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges, to
j? 11 patients suffrJng from as"in the
etomach and bowels, and to clear the
complexion and purify the breath
mouth and throat; I also believe the
liver is greatly benefited by the daily
use of them; th ' cost but 25 centg a
box at drug stores, and although in
some- sense a patsnt preparation, yet I
believe I get mora and better charcoal
in Stuart's Absc-bent Lozenges than In
any of the ordinary charcoal tabletav"
corneas the patent office, ana yet, at
the same time, no branch of the gov
ernment owes its origin to a more
beneficent purpose. In the earliest
days of the colonies the now prover
bial Yankee proclivity for invention
was recognized as a possibly importr
ant factor in the improvement of con
ditions in the new world, and when
the colonists had secured the right
to enact laws for their own govern
ment this question was one of the fiist
to bo considered. President Washing
ton, in his first address to congress,
1790, called attention, to the matter
and urged the expediency of giving
effectual encouragement to the exer
tions of skill and genius in the pro
duction of new and useful Inventions,
and from this suggestion came the
present American patent system,
which, as one writer on international
law has said, "Is generally recognized
by the most profound students of our
Institutions, both at home and abroad,
to have contributed more than any
other one thing to the pre-eminence
of this country In the Industrial arts
and in manufactures." It is only with
in the archives of the patent oiiice
that one is able to obtain anytning
like a correct idea of the wide range
of the inventive ingenuity of the
American people, for up to the present
time nearly 700,000 patents have been
issued, while the receipts of the de
partment are so much greater than
its expenditures that the balance in
tne treasury on account of the patent
fund now exceeds $5,000,000. Collier's
Weekly.
Goalless Switzerland.
With a population of 3,G00,000
Switzerland is Without any coal sup
ply of her own. None of her rivers is
navigable and all her coal imports
have to be brought in by rail, which
makes it very expensive. Htr coal
bill is about $12,500,000 a year.
In order to make her outlay for
fuel as economical as possible, the
government has decided to establish
a federal testing station, attached to
the leading institution for technical
instruction at Zurich. At this station
every kind of fuel used in the little re
public is to bo scientifically tested) to
determine its exact aeat-produclng
value, which will be made known to
the public through periodical publica
tions by the government. It is intend
ed to reform the whole coal trade by
substituting heat-producing value for
weight as the basis of its price per
ton.
Our consul at Zurich, in reporting
this scheme, states that its originator
is an American, Dr. E. J. Constam,
from New York. Exchange.
An Important Meeting.
At Ann Arbor, Mich., on February
11 and 12, will be held the sixth an
nual meeting of the League of Michi
gan Municipalistjfc combined with a
meeting of the Mj&igan Political Sci
ence association. The League of Mich
igan Municipalisis is a co-operative
association of cities and villages
formed for their mutual advantage and
the improvement and betterment of
municipal conditions throughout the
state. The forthcoming annual meet
ing will be addressed by men who are
deeply interested in the work of mu
nicipal Improvement. Mayor John F.
Bible of Iona is president of the
league and his annual address will be
an important contribution to the
thought upon the growing problem of
municipal betterment.
Married Fifty Years.
At Rose Hill, la., on December 24,
190'3, Mr, and Mrs. Secrest KInkade
celebrated their golden wedding. Mr.
and Mrs. Kinkado wero married at
Sholbyville, Ind. Mrs. Kinkado's
maiden name was Spillman, and the
golden wedding anniversary was made
the occasion of a family reunion. All
surviving members of the family were
present, six in number, and their to
tal ago is 382 years, an average of
nearly C4 years. Mr. and Mrs. KIn
kade have been readers of The Com
moner since its first issue, and this
paper extends to them its hearty good
wishes.
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