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Latest portrait of one of the most famous women in America taken at
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HaTtHE OLDEST PULPIT
DESK AT ALBANY N Y WAS IM
PORTED IN 1650
Is Property of First Reformed Church
-Built in 1793 President a Mem
ber While Governor of
the State
Albany NY This city has the
honor of owning the oldest pulpit on
the continent along with that of being
the oldest chartered city in the United
States TEepulpit stands in the First
Reformed church which was built in
the year of the building of the old Cali
fornia missions 1793 but unlike them
it is as strong and in as good repair
as it was when the builders left it
The pulpit was brought over from
Holland by the Dutch in 1656 to stand
in their new church which was just
building Twenty five beaver skins
were sent to Holland as part payment
but they became damaged in transit
o the pulpit was donated by the Dutch
west India company The building
served as a fort as well as a church
Icannon being mounted upon the roof
and while the service was going on
twithin sentinels- watched for signs of
a foe
To day the old hour glass and an
jcient Dutch Bible are still in their ac
customed places while in the olden
time the pews in front of it were oc
cupied by Col Peter Schuyler Al
banys first mayor the patrons of
the Van Rensselaers who owned land
along both shores of the Hudson river
ifor 24 miles and Gen Philip Schuyler
pne of the first three major generals
linMhe revolutionary army also first
frjnited States senator from New York
Within its shadow the famous Iro
quois chieftain King Hendrick who
with Sir William Johnson defeated
the French and Indians in the battle
of Lake George was converted to
Christianity and Col Aaron Burr
United States senator from New York
and vice president under Thomas Jef
iferson was married to Theodosia Pro
vost
- President Roosevelt sat before it
and listened to the preachers words
as a member of this church when gov
ernor of New York state
The old pulpit is rich in years and
honors its history is Albanys history
the churchs members having taken
part in all the events of interest that
have happened in ye olde towne
since its founding
FEELS PAIN IN BURIED HAND
Relief Comes When Fingers Are Ex
humed and Straightened Out
Gallipolis O The case of Robert
Wolf of Couch W Va is another link
in the theory that the several mem
bers of the human body do not rest
painlessly in the grave unless put
away in a perfectly natural position
Mr Wolf while out hunting shot his
right hand mangling it badly Doc
tors from Point Pleasant were sum
moned and amputated the hand above
the wrist The member was buried
but for some time afterward the in
jured man was- restless and could not
sleep and was worried He did not
complain about his arm hurting him
but said that his hand pained him
very much He showed his relatives
with his left hand the shape his right
hand was in when it was buried
The pain increasing and Mr Wolf
still complaining Mr Phillip Wolf a
brother and another went to the place
where the hand was buried dug up
the box and found the hand cramped
in exactly the position described by
Mr Wolf The fingers were carefully
straightened out and the hand placed
back in the box in such manner that
there was no pressure anywhere and
reburied -The injured man at once
became easier and said that his hand
did not hurt him except for a slight
feelfng above the thumb
Physicians explain that the sensa
tion of a severed arm or foot being in
place when in fact it is cut off and
buried is caused by the nerves at the
end of the wound They do not ex
plain however how a man may think
his fingers hurt him when he no longer
has them
For a New State in the Northwest
Idaho Washington and Oregon May
Be Asked to Contribute Counties
Spokane Wash Residents all over
eastern and central Washington
northern Idaho including the Pan
handle and northeastern Oregon are
evincing interest in the proposal to
create a new state by taking 26 coun
ties with a population of 400000 in
the territory bounded on the west by
the Cascade range on the east by
the Bitter Root mountains on the
north by the international boundary
And on the south by the Blue moun
ftains and judging from the hearty
support accorded there is every rea
jsonable prospect that the project will
ibe carried out successfully
t C Herbert Moore chairman of the
city beautiful committee of the Spo
kane chamber of commerce who is
at the head of the movement urges
the assembling of a convention at an
early date at which the new state
plan can be thoroughly discussed by
representative men of the three in
tecested states
The proposed action to create the
mew state by taking parts of 4hree ad
joining commonwealths Is without a
jprecfcdent in the history of the nation
An approach to it however was fur
nished In West Virginia organized in
constitutional manner in 1861
Prominent lawyers in the northwest
declare that provision is made in the
constitution of the United States for
the creation of new states and they
point to section 3 article 1 as the
method of procedure The text fol
lows
New states may be admitted by
congress into the union Lut no new
state shall be formed or erected with
in the jurisdiction of any other state
nor any state be formed by the junc
tion of two or more states or parts of
states without the consent of the leg
islatures of the states concerned as
well as of the congress
This will involve a lot of work It
means also that a community of
sentiment unanimous among the
people must be created in the three
state legislatures to secure their
united action
Heir to Vast Mexican Wealth
Heiress apparent to 200000000
Senora Creel wife of the new Mexican
ambassador is the richest woman of
the dimplomatic set in Washington
where many are rich Enrique C
Creel the ambassador is far from
poor but his 24000000 dwindles to
paltry insignificance when ranged be
side his wifes huge fortune She is
the daughter of Gen Luis Terrazaz of
Chihuahua owner of gold mines and
broad acres
Send Music by Wireless
New York Through a slight acci
dent to an electrician in the employ
of the De Forrest Wireless Telegraph
company on the roof of the Yale club
it became known that Dr De Forrest
is attempting to transmit music
through the air without the use of
wires as he now transmits messages
He is working in connection with the
Cahill Teleharmonic company which
sends music by wire to any point
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HAULING FARM CROPS
FIGURES ON TRANSPORTATION
BY WAGON
Interesting Statistics Prepared by De
partment of Agriculture Average
Cost of jCarrying Wheat 19
Cents Per Ton Per Mile
Washington At an early date the
United States department of agricul
ture will Issue Bulletin 49 of the bu
reau of statistics prepared by Frank
Andrews transportation expert of the
division of foreign markets This
bulletin is a report on the cost of haul
ing crops from nearly 1900 counties
and cover practically the entire farm
ing area of the country
The average cost to the farmer ot
hauling wheat from farms to ship
ping points- is given as nine cents per
100 pounds the average distance
hauled is 94 miles and the average
wagon load of wheat weighs 3333
pounds thus containing about 55 bush
els For cotton the average load is
1702 pounds distance from shipping
point 118 miles and cost of hauling 16
cents per 100 pounds Reduced to
terms of cost per ton per mile the
rate for wheat is 19 cents and for cot
ton 27 cents
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The highest cost of haul is for
wool which is carried on an average
398 miles from farm or ranch to ship
ping point at a rate of 44 cents per
100 pounds for the entire distance
The lowest cost for any one product
is for hemp which is hauled from
farms to shipping points at an aver
age cost of six cents per 100 pounds
the distance hauled being 52 miles
and the average load of hemp weigh
ing 3393 pounds
For the enth e distance from farm to
shipping point corn oats and barley
are each hauled at an average cost ol
seven cents per 100 pounds hay flax
seed rye and timothy seed eight
cents wheat potatoes and beans nine
cents tobacco and live hogs ten
cents rice hops and buckwheat 11
cents apples and peanuts 12 cents
vegetables other than potatoes and
cotton seed 15 cents cotton and fruit
other than apples 16 cents and
wool 44 cents
Except in the case of wool prac
tically all costs represent the expense
incurred by farmers in hauling their
own produce Wool is hauled in the
Rocky t mountains largely by regular
freight wagons and the wool growers
pay for the hauling at varying rates
per 100 pounds
The total tonnage of farm products
hauled on country roads in the United
States- is not known but of 12 leading
products it is estimated that nearly
50000000 tons were hauled from
farms during the crop year 1905 6 at
a cost of about 85000000 or more
than five per cent of their value at
local markets Of this traffic 40000
000 tons represent the weight of corn
wheat and cotton and the cost of
hauling these three products was
70000000
CURFEW LAW HITS WOMEN
Indian Territory Teachers Rebel at
Nine OClock Order
Muskogee I T We wont stand
it Let them go and get old maids
if they want old maid school teach
ers said a petite young school
teacher to a group of her fellow teach
ers and she stamped her foot when
she said it
This was all because the school
board has applied the curfew law to
school teachers of Muskogee From
Tulsa and McAlester comes informa
tion that the school board at each
place has made a similar order
The boards of education in these
towns have decided that the teachers
in the public schools must cut society
five nights out of the week at least
The boards have given it out that they
do not expect to see the teachers out
after nine oclock at night through the
school week and they do not add that
the teachers are at liberty the other
nights
This order has created a storm in
the towns mentioned Some of the
teachers are in open rebellion and
say they will go where they please
and when and some of them have
done so but it is noticed they are
waiting with some apprehension for
the next meeting of the board
GIRL BARBER 13 BUSY
Young and Old Men of Ohio Town
Are Acting Real Giddy
Hamilton O After completing a
course of study in a tonsorial acad
emy in Cincinnati Miss Minnie
Boone aged 23 a prepossessing
young woman of Mauds Station But
ler county returned to her native
village last week and opened up a
neat tonsorial parlor in the staid old
Butler county hamlet
Success marked the first days busi
ness and Miss Boone has made a ten
strike It is even hinted that the
men of Mauds Station love to linger
in the comfort of the barber chair
and the run on hair tonics made by
some of the bachelor residents has
been a matter of comment
Sea foams are all the rage and the
old time shampoo is being revived
Facial massage is also growing popu
lar and instead of the hitherto week
ly Saturday afternoon visit to the
man barber ofthe village of Mauds
it is said that some of the youths and
old bucks have taken to having
their faces shaved and whiskers
trimmed two and even three times a
week
MAIL ORDER WAYS
A BAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR
CATALOGUE HOUSES
AT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE
Sooner or Later It Teaches Every Mail
Order Patron the Error of
Sending His Money
from Home
The methods of the mall order
houses are their worst advertisement
Sooner or later there will come a time
in the experience of every purchaser
of their goods when he will wish he
hadnt done It when he will wish he
had spent his money with his home
merchants This Is not only because
he will see the ruin wrought in his
own community by the nefarious prac
tice of sending the money of the com
munity to the city but also because of
the practices of the mall order con
cerns
The story in the catalogue sounds
well It sounds like you would get
the identical thing you wanted and at
a much lower price than you had im
agined it could be bought for and you
order it The purchase arrives and
when opened you feel that some mis
take has been made that the concern
has sent you the wrong goods It is
not what you ordered
Ah but it is The difference is be
tween the way It actually looks and
the way it sounds In the catalogue
You explain that the goods you re
ceived is not what you ordered and
ask for an accounting and are told
that it is you that Is in error that
you got just what you ordered and
then if you are wise you buy of the
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better to call upon cur local dealorl
and look over his stock where wo can
see the goods beforo buying Ther
aro then no errors In change or ret
Tunds to be haggled over across a 300-
mile stretch
Yes It is better to trade at homo
Our home merchants guarantee upon
an article means something as ho
wants our good will Keeping the
money at home benefits home Indus
tries and thus Indirectly us We can
not expect to sell our products to the
local merchant and do our trading in
Chicago It is all one sided and somo
time we would have no local merchant
to do our buying
Catalogue houses I have found from
bitter experiences are tricky If those
who are dealing with them will watch
their purchases they will find It so
sooner or later Our last deal had It
occurred here at home would have
been straightened out in five minutes
and without feeling but with you it
takes me all winter to get my money
back when the goods are not satisfac
tory and even then I get only a credit
card which is lost through studied
carelessness upon the part of someone
In your concern so that I have noth
ing to show for my claim
Every man should trade at home if
conditions admit of purchasing a good
article at reasonable prices If not
then he had better trade at the next
town or city that his money may go
to build up the country around him
He sends it to Chicago that it may go
Into profits of some big mall order
house until there is enough sucker
money to build and endow somo great
charitable institution as a monument
to the greatness of the mail order man
and the gullibleness of the easy pub
lic
I have already asked that you adfust
the matter of our last deal I want
my money returned without further
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The one sure method of curbing the mail order giant is to bind him with
the thongs of home patronage Are you helping in this work Are you
spending your money at home and helping your town to grow or are you
sending it to the city to swell the fortunes of the mail order man
home merchant next time and know
what -you get when you pass over the
money for it He may not be able to
sell you what you thought you were
buying from the mail order house at
the catalogue price but he can sell
you if he has it the same goods you
get from the mail order houses at an
equal or less price than they ask for
it and what is more he can sell you
what you really want at as reasonable
a price as you can get it for else
where
The following letter written by a
Michigan farmer explains in a clear
and unmistakable way the danger of
buying of mail order concerns It was
addressed to one of the largest of this
class of institution in this country
Baldwin Mich Jan 12 1907
Gentlemen
I have your favor of recent date
and also your catalogues and accom
panying circulars offering premiums
for distribution of the same among my
friends I have no doubt that as you
say I will thereby confer a great fa
vor upon you but I am compelled to
take issue with you on the statement
that I will also confer a favor upon
my friends
In my dealings with you extending
over some timepast I have received
no favors from you I paid for all I
got and the length of time I traded
with you instead of establishing
friendly relations and gaining me ad
ditional favor as it would in a home
store gave ypu the opinion that un
like a new customer to whom you
give your very best so they will come
again I was a steady comer and any
old thing would do for me
Our last deal opened my eyes and
convinced me of your policy Your
catalogues offer some apparently great
bargains But let us draw up our
chairs and see If there are not a few
things very essential to the rural citi
zen that are not mentioned within its
voluminous bulk
For instanpe there is no reference
to paying cash or exchanging goods
for wheat oats corn beans butter
eggs and hay
How much will you pay for cattle
sheep and hogs f o b at Baldwin
How much will you pay to support
the Lake county schools and educate
our children How much for improv
ing our roads and bridges For sup
porting the poor For the general
public expense
On what page do you offer to con
tribute money to the support of our
churches
What line of credit will you extend
to me when my money is low because
of sickness or poor crops What do
you provide in the way of entertain
ment for the public and In the way
of providing those things that make a
town desirable and thus keep up the
value of my property
As a matter of fact do you do any
thing to help locally or do you merely
take the money out of a community
returning nothing whatever beyond
the value of the goods bought Think
ing it over carefully I believe it is
dickering and unless I get it I shall
certainly get its equivalent in adver
tising you and your methods among
the people of Lake county
Awaiting your reply I am
Yours truly
CARL SCHULTZ
Wolf Lake Michigan P O Baldwin
Mich
Can you Mr Purchaser not profit
by the experience of others and turn
your money into home channels by
trading with home merchants where
you will get a dollars worth for a dol
lar or must you follow the mail order
mans lead to trouble for yourself and
destruction for your community Do
not wait for that evil day when you
have learned wisdom in the expensive
school of personal experience but
profit by that purchased by others
You will find it far cheaper and more
satisfactory in the end
A Turkish Health Report
The French government wishing to
obtain definite statistics on points re
lating to certain Turkish provinces
recently sent blanks with questions
lating to certain Turkish provinces
to be answered to the Provincial gov
ernors The replies received from
the Pasha of Damascus are worth
quoting
Question What is the death rate
in your province
Answer In Damascus it is the will
of Allah that all should die Some die
young and some die old
Q What is the annual number of
births
A God alone can say I do not
know and hesitate to inquire
Q Are the supplies of water suf
ficient and of good quality
A From the remotest period no
one has died in Damascus of thirst
General remarks as to the local san
itation Man should not bother him
self or his brother with questions
that concern only God
A Squelcher
I gave that odious Mrs Dough
purse something to think of this after
noon says Mrs Bankfull to her hus
band who was amusing himself by
tossing 20 gold pieces into the artifi
cial lake in the drawing room for the
pleasure of hearing the gold pieces
plunk as they sunk
Whajja say to her asked Mr
Bankfull rolling himself a cigarette
in a hundred dollar bill
She was boasting about the solid
gold radiators they are having put Into
their new house and I told her we
thought steam heat was so old-fashioned
that we were going to heat our
house with radium hereafter Judge
Minister Discovers Comet
Ministerial duties do not prevent the
Rev Joel H Metcalf of Taunton
Mass from pursuing astronomical in
vestigations His study of the stars
has resulted In the discovery of a new
comet which is now being closely ob
served by astronomers throughout the
world It has been named Metcalfs
comet
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE
Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will
Never Return
Only one sure way to cure an aching
back Cure the cause tho kfdneys
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Thousands tell or
cures madebyDoans
Kidney Pills JohnC
Coleman a promi
n q n t merchant of
Swains bo ro Ga
says For several
years my kidneys
were affected and
my back ached daj
and night I was
languid nervous and lame in the
morning Doans Kidney Pills helped
me right away and tho great relief
that followed has been permanent
Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box
Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
Burro Drivers Carry Candles
In Mexico all vehicles be they
handcart automobile or anything be
tween must carry a light at night
This rule or law Is rigidly enforced
Even tho drivers of tho poor little
burro or mule carts on their two
wheels must carry a light
So rather than buy lanterns which
cost money they take a dip candle
and wrapping it in a bit of newspa
per to shield it from the wind carry
It in their left hand as they drive
along homeward from work after
evening has fallen The effect is
striking as the light falling strongly
on the Indian driver throws the face
of the man Into strong relief against
the darkness
Clover Grass Seeds
Everybody loves lots and lots of Clovei
Grasses for hogs cows sheep and swine
We are known as the largest growers of
Grasses Clovers Oats Barley Corn Po
tatoes and Farm Seeds in America Oper
ate over 5000 acres
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Postage Stamp Paper
All the paper for the millions of
postage stamps used in the United
States is manufactured at Mechanic
Falls Me Once a month the firm re
ceives a requisition for 1000000
sheets of the paper and each sheet
will make 361 stamps
Especially worthy of notice 13 Garfield
Tea Natures remedy for constipation
sick headache liver and kidney derange
ments It is made wholly of Herbs
Affection consists not in - use of
carefully prepared utterances
Lewis Single Binder straight 5c cigar is
good quality all the time Your dealer or
Lewis Factor Peoria 111
An opinion carries conviction only
when expressed with force
Mrs WInalowB Soothlnjr Syrnp
For children teething softens thergnrus reduces In
flammatlon allays pain cures wind colic 25ca bottle
All thy virtue dictates dr to do
Mason
W A Mitchell dealer in eeneral
merchandise Martin Ga writes
My wife lost in weight Jrom 130
to 68 pounds We saw she could
not live long She was a skeleton
so we consulted an old physician
He told her to try Peruna
She gradually commenced im
proving and getting a little
strength She now weighs 106
pounds She is gaining every day
and does her own housework and
cooking
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