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BY F M KIMMELL
McCOOK
NEBRASKA
Somewhat disconcerting the num
ber of ico men wlio deal In coal
The grand dukes must have got
corner on all the bombs in Russia
Count Boni de Castollanes debts
teem to stick closer than his family
Fraulein Krunp vvas not particular
ly comely In fact she didnt have to
bo
Wonder how long it will lake us to
become used to the puro food when
we finally get It
When automobile and balloon rac
ing becomo too tame there remains
the submarine boat
Kansas will gladly avail itself of
any kind of help in harvesting its corn
crop so long as it is husky
Milliners will rejoice to hear that
35 000 songbirds and parrots havo
been imported from Europe
According to Dr Parkhurst a man
can be wicked without being rich
Yes but it doesnt pay to be
So Boston has a new anti spitting
ordinance But who would have
thought that Boston needs such a law
Now that eggs are suspected of har
boring disease germs it seems to be
up to the pure food commission to
label them
King Edwards fame is not dimin
ishing Following up ihe hotel and
cigar idea somebody has named a
necktie after him
As a world power Japan should not
be surprised at the information that
we have in this country a considera
ble number of boxers
Alfred G Vanderbilt says that rich
men love their wives just as poor men
do Some rich men love other mens
wives just as poor men dont
A Brazilian count astonished his
guests by leaping into a den of lions
The effect upon the lions must also
have been stunning for the lions took
the count
Gen Kuropatkin has written a his
tory of the war between Russia and
Japan None of the Japanese generals
apparently thinks It is necessary to
do any writing on the subject
Burbank has produced an apple that
Is red and sweet on one side and yel
low and sour on the other What a
popular apple this will be with the
Kchoolboy of the future whose best
girl may like sweet while he likes
sour
The new evening dress coat in Lon
don will be a blue swallow tail with
brass buttons That will be the real
Daniel Webster coat which ex Mayor
Curtis father used to wear and it is
to be hoped that the buff waistcoat
will go with it
A story comes from Kansas that a
negro is turning into a watermelon
but we cant help thinking there is
something twisted about this story If
the turning into were turned the
other way around it would sound more
convincing
An Oklahoma woman has vowed
that she will never eat again until her
husband is converted As the man
when last heard from was still hold
ing out he must be a miserly wretch
who plans to save the food his wife
would otherwise eat
At Uniontown Pa a man who was
charged with bigamy begged that the
authorities would put him in jail with
out a trial because he was afraid to
meet his wives in court It is diffi
cult to understand how a man with
as much wisdom as that could make
the mistake of committing bigamy
Such are the uncertainties of fame
Not many years ago Sir Redvers Bul
ler was regarded as one of the great
est soldiers in the British army But
the manner in which Sir Redvers con
ducted the campaign for the relief of
Ladysmith during the Boer war
brought him into disfavor with the
war office in London and he was side
tracked His complete disappearance
from active service remarks the Troy
N Y Times is now effected by
placing him on the retired list
The pose office departments idea
of printing special stamps for the 2G
largest post offices with the names
of the cities for which the stamps are
issued running across the face and of
over printing ordinary stamps for the
remaining post offices of the three
highest classes about 5900 offices-
with the name of the place and ab
breviated state name will give phil
atelists a new field of enterprise if
they care to enter it A complete col
lection of United States stamps then
would be a big one and almost as
interesting as a complete collection of
United States postmarks
Before long the students of geog
raphy will have to add a new river to
the list of streams in Africa The duke
of Abruzzi who has been exploring
the region of the Mountains of the
Moon has found a river that is
marked on no existing maps
Sir Thomas Lipton will take a cup
of kindness yet for auld lang syne
even if he declines to make a chal
lenge
Yes this is a prosperous year if we
do have to crack our eggs at 40 cents
per dozen or thereabouts
Our Washington Letter
Newsy Information from the Capital of the Nation President Goes
to See Panama Programme of His Trip Babies Not for the
Department of Agriculture
5aftiaeaiaawage
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt accom
panied by Mrs Roosevelt and Surgeon General
Rixey of the navy has gone to investigate the
big ditch Uncle Sam is digging on the isthmus
The president is breaking precedents with
out mercy in connection with his Panama trip
When he made his trip from New Orleans to
Hampton Roads with the armored cruiser squad
ron he went outside of the marine limits of the
United States and now he will go ton days away
from American soil
A president of the United States has nevei
placed his foot on foreign soil Mr Roosevelt
will do so at Panama Hawaii can be reached
from San Francisco in less time than Panama
can from Hampton Roads and Europe in much
less time from New York Perhaps with the
precedent of visiting foreign lands established
a trip may be made by an American executive to
Europe This will come however only when the people are better educated
in this direction
Upon leaving Colon on the return trip the president will go to Porto Rico
The Porto Ricans have the kindliest feeling for the president as he is known
to feel they should have the status of American citizens Moreover ho hon
ored them by placing their delegate in congress on the American commis
sion to the Pan American conference at Rio de Janeiro Therefore he expects
to havo a cordial reception in the island dependency
The president will cross the island- talk with the natives and make one
or two speeches Then he will sail for Hampton Roads He will be here in
ample time for the opening of congress on December 3
On its voyage to Panama the Louisiana will be accompanied as bicyeje
policemen by the armored cruisers Washington and Tennessee By means
of wireless telegraphy President Roosevelt will be kept au courant with devel
opments in America and the rest of the world and any business of imme
diate importance will be conveyed to him by this means The navy has sta
tions at Charleston and Key West so that there will be no difficulty about
communication on this stage of the voyage
WILL STUDY MEN AND PROJECT
When the ships reach the Caribbean sea the
wireless station at Gauntanamo will be depended
upon to keep Mr Roosevelt informed and to trans
mit to Washington any instructions ho may care
to give The navy -has euporimented -with the
Guantanamo station and has had no trouble in
transmitting and receiving messages to and from
Panama
In order that there may be no question how
ever other ships equipped with wireless teleg
raphy will be in constant communication with the
Louisiana The armored cruisers accompanying
the battleships can be employed as dispatch boats
should the necessity arise With such a formid
able array of armored craft it is extremely doubt
ful of even the ghost of the redoubtable Capt
Kidd will care to attempt to board the presidents
flagship
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President Roosevelt will remain four days
on the isthmus He proposes to tramp along the line of the canal will inspect
the cities of Colon and Panama ride on work trains examine the houses in
which the laborers live talk with officials and men and endeavor to inform
himself thoroughly about the great project
Upon his arrival he will be received by the entire canal commission and
by officials representing the government of Panama Herbert Squiers who
has just been appointed minister to Panama is arranging quarters for the
reception of the president and Mrs Roosevelt and will give a dinner in their
honor The president of Panama also will entertain Mr and Mrs Roosevelt
In the absence of the president from Washington Secretaries Root and
Taft will dispose of all matters which do not require to be brought to Mr
Roosevelts personal attention The president feels he can get away without
embarrassing the government and especially as he has completed his annual
message and disposed of all matters of a pressing nature
AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS WILL NOT PROBE BABIES
Prospective visitors to the agricultural de
partment can acquii e monumental unpopularity
by referring even remotely to the subject of
baby breeding A dull day and a few facts
are perhaps responsible for the report to the
effect that along with plant and animal propaga
tion the department planned to begin a crusade
to improve the American baby The facts are
these
Prof W N Hays assistant secretary of agri
culture is secretary of the American Breeders
association He has named a committee of noted
scientists and has asked its members to coordinate
some scattered observations already made con
cerning heredity It is hoped that from available
data it may be learned in a measure how heredity
and environment affect the development of human
beings particuarly with respect to blindness
deafness and other principal physical defects
and whether the matter is serious enough to war
rant recommending a law to limit marriage of defectives
The committee has no connection with the government It will present
a report of its work at the meeting of the Breeders association at Columbus
O January 15 1S In the meantime Prof Hays and agriculture department
officials scout the idea that the department proposes to tackle the great
American baby in the course of helping to breed better cattle and vegetables
The committee called the committee on eugenics includes the following
leaders in the scientific world Prof Alexander Graham Bell of Washington
D S Jordan of Leland Stanford university Maj Charles Woodruff of the army
medical corps Charles A Henderson of the University of Chicago C E Ward
of New York and Rev J E Gilbert of Washington
CONVICT SOLDIER BETRAYED BY FINGER PRINTS
A curious result of the recent adoption by
the United States army of the system of identifi
cation by finger prints just reported to the war
department was the discovery in the person of a
soldier at Fort Leavenworth of a British mur
derer for whom the Scotland Yard authorities
have long been looking
The man was a prisoner in the United States
penitentiary serving a five year sentence for a
military crime In prison he was well behaved
and liked but when the warden following the
general order to take the finger print records of
all soldiers attempted to secure an impression of
this mans digits he met with violent resistance
and the assistant who tried to make the record
was knocked down and roughly handled
Suspecting that this resistance was based
upon tho mans previous knowledge of the use
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of which these finger prints might be put and
that his record was bad the warden sent copies of the prints to the police
authorities in a number of cities Witiiin a comparatively short time Scot
land Yard reported that the man had committed an atrocious murder in Morta
that he had been sentenced to life imprisonment and had escaped to America
BACK STAMPS ON LETTERS IN FAVOR
It is said that the postal department is be
ginning to hear from business men in different
parts of the country regarding their dislike of
the recent order to discontinue the back-stamping
of mail in the post offices at Los Angeles
Kansas City Minneapolis St Paul Detroit and
other cities That disfavor is also shared by the
business men of Washington who are not slow
in their intimations that the back stamp enables
a man who gets a delayed letter to register his
kick with the person at fault and largely fixes
upon the party responsible for the delay
The back stamping consists of stamping on
the back of each letter the name of the citv or
town in which it is received together with the
time of its receipt This with the stamp on the
front of Hie letter shows the actual time occupied
in the transmission of the letter from the place
in which it was mailed to the town or place where
it was received thus really acting as a check system on the promptness of the
post office system
Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock says that it is not unlikely that
thi3 back stamping will be discontinued in all parts of the country the claim
being advanced that its abolition would expedite the delivery of mail from
one to three hours which is no inconsiderable fteui in the economy of a busi
ness dav
AWFUL SUFFERING
From Dreadful Pains from Wound on
Foot System All Run Down
Miraculous Cure by Cuticura
Words canont speak highly enough
for the Cuticura Remedies I am now
seventy two years of age My system
had been all run down My blood was
bo bad that blood poisoning had set
in I had several doctors attending
me so finally I went to the hospital
where I was laid up for two months
My foot and ankle were almost be
yond recognition Dark blood flowed
out of wounds in many places and I
was so disheartened that I thought
surely my last chance was slowly leav
ing me As the foot did not Improve
you can readily imagine how I felt I
was simply disgusted and tired of life
I stood this pain which was dreadful
for six months and during this time
I was not able to wear a shoe and
not able to work Some one spoke to
me about Cuticura The consequences
were I bought a set of the Cuticura
Remedies of one of my friends who
was a druggist and the praise that I
gave after the second application is
beyond description it seemed a mir
acle for the Cuticura Remedies took
effect immediately I washed tho foot
with the Cuticura Soap before apply
ing the Ointment and I took tho Re
solvent at the same time After two
weeks treatment my foot was healed
completely People who had seen my
foot during my illness and who have
seen it since the cure can hardly be
lieve their own eyes Robert Schoen
hauer Newburg N Y August 21
1905
Women at Strenuous Tasks
On the western coast of the United
States at Monterey Cal Mrs Fish
keeps the lamps lighted in tho Point
Pinas lighthouse On the eastern
coast at South Portland Me Mrs
Gordon earns her living by working
as a deep sea diver Sprinkled over
the country between these two wom
en are thousands of other members
of the female sex who deserre to be
enrolled as auxiliaries to Mr Kip
lings corps of Unafraid Gentle
men And then from the woman in
Utah who is sheriff and hangs mur
derers to the woman in Chicago who
bosses a gang of Italian street clean
ers he tells the role of women who
are engaged in strenuous occupations
in the United States Wherever man
has tried to wrest a living from un
willing nature there woman has also
left the impress of her daring ex
ploits Technical World
Four Footed Thieves
In Winchester England a grocer
began to miss money from his til
and set his wife to watch After two
weeks the wife was not able to de
tect the thief though money was
stolen almost every day There were
two clerks in the store and the
grocer finally called them thieves
and discharged them
When two others had taken their
places the money continued to dis
appear and the case was given to the
police An officer who hid under the
counter solved the problem He
found bits of paper representing
about 50 that tho mice had made
nests of They had entered the till
through a hole in the back and taken
the bills one at a time
The two clerks who had been dis
charged for dishonesty brought suit
for damages and the other day the
grocer was compelled to pay them
300 each
Cosmopolitan America
Is there a type of average Ameri
can workman Dr Arthur Shad
well an Englishman author of In
dustrial Efficiency tells how in one
of the older towns of Massachusetts
he witnessed a procession of cotton
operatives on strike They were
marshaled by nationalities with a cu
rious effect The different types
cheek by jowl stood out in vivid con
trast the French the familiar Eng
lish the Celtic the Scandinavian the
Slav the small Portuguese and tho
swarthy Greek Such a sight can be
seen nowhere else It brought be
fore my eyes in one living picture the
amazing cosmopolitanism of Ameri
can labor and made me think with a
smile of that convenient abstraction
but almost mythical person of whom
we have heard so much the average
American workman
COFFEE IMPORTERS
Publish a Book About Coffee
There has been much discussion as
to Coffee and Postum lately so much
In fact that some of the coffee import
ers and roasters have taken to type
to promote the sale of their wares
and check if possible the rapid growth
of the use of Postum Food Coffee
In the coffee importers book a chap
ter is headed Coffee as a Medicine
and advocates its use as such
Here is an admission of the truth
most important to all interested
Every physician knows and every
thoughtful person should know that
habitual use of any medicine of the
drug stimulant type of coffee or whis
ky quickly causes irritation of the
tissues and organs stimulated and
fintlly sets up disease in the great
majority of cases if persisted in It
may show in any one of the many
organs of the body and in the great
majority of cases can be directly
traced to coffee in a most unmistak
able way by leaving off the active ir
ritant coffee and using Postum
Food Coffee for a matter of ten days
If the result is relief from nervous
trouble dyspepsia bowel complaint
heart failure weak eyes or any other
malady set vji by a poisoned nervous
system you have your answer with
the accuracy of a demonstration in
mathematics
I Theres a reason for Postum
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ToBretders of this pptr will bo pleased to lcara
that inero Is it leant one drcafed disease tbst setenco
bus been able la cure la all It stages and that u
Catarrh Haifa Catarrh Care Is tho only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
belus a constitutional disease requires a constitu
tional treatment Halla Catarrh Cure li taken in
ternally actios directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system thereby destroying the
foundation of tho disease and gtrjag the patient
strength by building up tho comtttutloa and assist
ing nature In dolus lti work The proprietors hiTO
so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any cao that It falls to
care Send for list of testimonials
Address V 1 CIIKNEr CO Toledo O
Sold by all Druggists Tie
Take Halls Family nils for constipation
Name for Stetsons boat
There are many good stories told
of tho late John Stetson the theat
rical manager Here is ono of them
He was having a yacht built and a
friend meeting him on tho street
asked him what he was going to
name the boat
I havent decided yet replied
John but it will be some namo com
mencing with S probably either
Psyche or Cinch
Boston Society Fad
Dealers in pet stock say that su
burban residents of Boston are adopt
ing as the latest fad the raising ol
game chickens Tho stately carriage
and brilliant plumage of these bellig
erent fowls make them valuable for
decorativo purposes on the lawn to
people who would however never
dream of putting their combative
qualities to the test The dealers are
prophesying that before long the old
time fancy of keeping gamecocks
chained with silver chains on the
lawns of country houses will be re
vived Boston Record
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the present year a large portion of
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