i iV T t 3 s - f5 x c I 2 rM lv fk u t Mr i L 4k rf xMSES 1 yF hfefe Vaiffi QAPflr CriuhGH IN OAKLAND SHATTERED BY EARTHQUAKE T P ww t yf BIFOCALS By Walter Irwin M O DO YOU NEED GLASSES If you do by all means give your eyes the benefit of the best optical service to be had There is nothing so important to those who are suf fering from weak eyes as proper treat ment by a specialist who thoroughly understands his profession It is just as important to know where to go to have eyeglasses fitted as when to go It is equally important that the one with whom you are dealing is strictly honest and whose advice may be relied upon One might better do without wearing glasses at all nomat ter how weak the eyes than to have the wrong kind The Kryptok Invisible Bifocal Lenses are the right kind for thoss who either must have two pairs of glasses or who are wearing bifocals These lenses supply every need of the eyes as they can be made in any combination possible in a bifocal lens to meet the 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ginning April 20 Terms 1200 to insure For folders and further particulars addresss B W BENJAMIN McCook Neb Mares will be kept inpasture on farm at 50o per month 12 miles south and 3 miles west of McCook Best of care will be taken but not responsible for escapes or acci dents He Laughed LaKt A certain lady who wished to have some fun at the expense of an agent who had ofttimes solicited her to in sure herself and family asked him on one occasion If he would insure the cat The agent to the astonishment and no small amusement of some friends promptly offered to do so provided she paid the first premium down The lady still thinking to hoax him ex pressed her willingness to do so and placed a shilling on the table The agent quickly produced a proposal filled it in and obtained her signature while those present were on the tiptoe of expectancy as to what was to fol low Now madam with your permission may I see the cat Certainly she replied at the same time pointing to a glass case which contained the stuffed remains of the poor defunct cat A chorus of derisive laughter burst from all present but to their dismay the agent turned bowed politely at the same time picking up the shilling and exclaimed When that cat dies madam kindly call at our office and claim the insur ance money Good morning London Telegraph The First Stove The most important uses of fire were taught by fire itself As the primitive man stood near the flames of the burn ing tree and felt their pleasant glow he learned that fire may add to bodily comfort and when the flames swept through a forest and overtook a deer and baked it he learned that fire might be used to improve the quality of his food The hint was not lost He took a burning torch to his cave or hut and kindled him a fire on his floor of earth His dwelling filled with smoke but he could eudure the discomfort for the sake of the fires warmth and for the sake of the toothsomeness of the cook ed meats After a time a hole was made in the roof of the hut and through this hole the smoke passed out Here was the first stove The primi tive stove was the entire house the floor was the fireplace and the hole in the roof was the chimney The word stove originally meant a heated room So that if Ave should say that at first people lived in their stoves we would say that which is literally true St Nicholas Practical Diagnostic Sigrn of Death Dr Ott of Lillebonne through Jour nal des sciences medicales de Lille suggests the following practical and simple method of ascertaining whether or not life is present The point select ed is the forearm which is quickly ac cessible is free from hair and is easily exposed The arm is extended horizon tally from the body and the forearm pronated If the test is made in the open air a cloak Is held so as to shield the part from all motion of the atmos phere The flame of a candle is now directly applied to a spot on the fore arm which is closely watched by the observer At the end of a few seconds a swelling rapidly forms and bursts If it contains air or gas the tissues are lifeless If it contains liquid or exuda tion life is present If City Noises Jur Yon Get some spermaceti roll a wad large enough to fill the ear orifices put it in a piece of fine cotton cloth tied with thread and insert into ears on retiring pressing it quite firmly therein so that the ball of spermaceti will closely fill up all the air space in the ears You will find it quite effective for barring noises and hence inducing natures sweet restorer balmy sleep to get in its good work This ear plug is harm less and cheap It helped me out great ly years ago amid the citys din my sense of hearing being intensely keen and temperament neurotic It is worth a trial and I have no patent on it New York Herald The Soft Answer If nature had made me an ostrich said old Grouch I suppose I could eat your cooking Wouldnt that be nice answered his Imperturbable spouse Then I could get some plumes for my hat Boston Transcript The Moyer and I laywood Trial HE trial at Caldwell Ida of the officials of the Western Federation of Miners who are charged with instigating the assassination of the late ex governor of Idaho Frank Steunenberg Is a mat ter of wide interest for several rea sons In the first place the murder of the governor was a crime of an extremely shocking character as he was blown up by a bomb in front of his home and his body terribly mutilated Next the charge that the murder was due to a conspiracy involving officers high in the councils of a large and influential labor organization takes it out of the class of the ordinary homicides the re sult of individual passion or hate or lust of gold and places it in a class quite by itself According to the confession of Harry Orchard which led to the appre hension of the accused labor leaders he was their tool and In this and other crimes simply executed their orders The confession of Orchard led to the charge of murder being brought against himself and against Charles II Moyer president of the Western Fed eration of Miners William D Hay wood its secretary and G A Petti bone formerly an active member of the federation Subsequent to his con nection with It Pettibone became a well to do business man In Denver An indictment was found against J It Simpkins also He Is a member of the executive board of the federation but is a fugitive and a reward of 2000 has been offered for his appre hension The prosecution has a confes sion similar to that of Orchard from another alleged tool of the federation officers Steven Adams who is also under indictment The representatives of the accused men say however that the evidence has been manufactured In an effort to break up and ruin the miners organization According to Orchards confession he made several attempts on the life of Governor Steunenberg before that iSftW iljk CHARLES H MOYER AND WIILIA3I D HAY WOOD which proved successful and attempts on the lives of other officials were also made One bomb which was planted in the path of Chief Justice Gabbert of the Colorado supreme court blew up another man an assayer named Wal ley instead of the jurist for whom it was intende3 One of the most remarkable inci dents in connection with the case oc curred while this confession was being read before Judges Gabbert and God dart of Colorado Adjutant General Wells of the same state and represent atives of the governors of Idaho and Colorado When the part of the con fession was reached In which Orchard had described his attempt to blow up Judge Goddart that jurist became un easy Orchard had said that the bomb was still planted in the earth in front of the judges home and might be found where he had placed it but that great care would need to be exercised in its removal The judge was think ing of his family and fearful lest some member of it might be killed by the murderous weapon while the reading of the confession was in progress ask ed an adjournment of the case at once and hurried to his home Orchard had declared that the bomb was arranged in the same way as that which had killed Governor Steunenberg and also after the manner of that used in blow ing up the thirteen men at Independ ence station in 1904 He said that the bomb was about six inches below the surface on the outside of the gatepost that it was covered with a piece of sacking that a wire from the bomb came just above the surface to the end of which a small fishhook was attach ed A screw eye was driven into the gate and a piece of wire was attached to this said the confession and when ready for use the wire from the screw eye was slipped into the fishhook lying on the ground The slightest opening of the gate when this was set would blow up the person opening it Judge Goddard on reaching home found the screw eye as described but dared not look for the bomb On hs return the reading of the confession was finished and then the entire party of eight went to the resjdence of the judge whore General Wells undertook the dangerous work of digging up the bomb and found it laid exactly aa Orchard had described IN A POISON FACTORY The Deadly Drusr Have u Fascina tion For the Workmen Slip on this glass mask said the foreman You will need it The visitor donned the uncanny mask of glass and the foreman led the way to the cyanide of potassium depart ment We make 1000 tons of cyanide a year he said A dose of Ave grains is a fatal one Thus our annual prod uct is enough to kill 2G0OO0O people He opened a door and a room filled with writhing flames dense shadows sparks smoke and weird figures in glass masks was revealed In the cen ter of the room in a great caldron 100 pounds of molten cyanide of potas sium bubbled and seethed The flames glinted strangely on the glass masks The foreman coughed These fumes he said are whole some The men you see are all ro bust I have known weakly chaps working here among these strange fumes to pick up health and strength In another clean cool room the fin ished cyanide was stored It looked like crystallized white sugar good enough to eat Good enough to eat said the fore man gravely Well we have had men eat it Four men committed sui cide in that way The fumes seem to create in our men a desire to taste the drug They fight this desire most of them suc cessfully but they all feel it the same as workers in coffee plants want to chew the coffee beans and some feel it so strongly as to succumb Cin cinnati Enquirer VIRGINS GARLANDS McmoriulM In an English Chnrch to Girls True to First Love There are seven virgins garlands still In existence In Minsterley church Salop the first of them bearing the date 1554 and the last 1751 They consist of silk ribbons and paper ball shaped and are covered with rosettes the inside center of the cane or wire frame supporting a pair of paper gloves They represent a ro mantic custom of very ancient origin and are sacred to the memory of girls who while betrothed in their youth lost their intended husbands by death yet remained true to their first loves Each maiden designed her own gar land and at her death this simple em blem was borne before her by the vil lage lasses the white gloves being aft erward added After the obsequies these garlands were suspended in the village church on a rod bearing at its extremity a heart in the shape of an escutcheon upon which the initials and date were inscribed These were origi nally fixed above the maidens pew Some of the earliest and forgotten garlands were composed of real flow ers but later the covered hoops de scribed were substituted There is a passing allusion to this simple memorial of the early dead in Hamlet Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants crants signifying garlands London Graphic Quick Wltted One day last week I was informed by telephone of a fire in my own office not six feet away from where I was standing said a prominent Wall street broker A client with whom I had been talking after lighting a cigar threw the burning match into the wastebasket under my desk As I went to the door with him I heard the tele phone bell ring violently When I an swered the call I was surprised to be told that there was a livoly blaze under my desk which had been seen by a bright office boy in the opposite build ing The fire was hidden from me by a high filing cabinet and might have done serious damage before I discov ered it myself I am now hunting for that he added Any one quick witted enough to think of telephoning in such an emergency I can use in my business New York Press Pintos Safety Vnlve A round smooth hole in the side of a granite monument about nine miles olit from the City of Mexico is locally known by a term which signifies Plu tos safety alve The hole Is about nine inches in diameter at the opening which is polished in a manner which suggests human workmanship That man had nothing to do with drilling or polishing this hole will be readily surmised when it is known that it has occasionally emitted hot air and smoke during a period extending over 300 j ears 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