The Tragic Life Story of a Man Who Was
Once the Governor of a State.
A WEEK ago ex-Governor Franklin
J. Moses of South Carolina, was
i-er.tenctd in a Boston police
court to four months In the house of
correction at Deer Island.
Back of this is a life story, strange
drania-tk:. pathetic, which teaches a
powerful moral, says Hearsts Sunday
ChicagoA-xiJcricati, -
The downfall of Franklin J. Moses
from the social and political influence
of Chief Executive of a stale to a
tramp convicted of passing a worth
less check is directly traced to the
tpium hatit.
The only son of wealthy and Influ
ential parents. Moses had every pos
sible advantage. His father was Chief
Justice of th,e state of South Caro
lina, his mother a distinguished south
ern beauty.
Tall, handsome, of distingue pres
ence, gifted with exceptional talents,
prestige and wealth. Franklin J. Mo
sea made a dashing soldier and later
an able statesman. That was thirty
years ago.
Today he is the ruin of his former
elf, bowed down, haggard arid piti
ful. His picture is in the rogues' gal
lary. He has neither friends nor
money.
Nothing seems left to him except the
gift of eloquence, and he has used
that with telling effect in his own
behalf when arraiged in police court
from time to time to answer for his
various misdoings. 1
In his youth Franklin J. Moses was
the petted darling of South Carolina's
proudest and most exclusive social set.
All the men admired him. The women
adored him. At the banquet his
speech was the conspicuous toast of
the evening. No ball or social gath
ering at Charleston was considered a
complete success unless he was there.
In his cell in the house of correction
at Deeer Island, Boston, Franklin J.
Moses dictated the history of his life.
Too nervous to write, he restlessly
paced back and forth as he sorrowful
ly tol dof glorious prospects blighted,
golden opportunities thrown away, and
the final subjugation of those atrib
utes which mark the statesman by the
characteristics of the tramp and the
criminal.
BT FRANKLIN J. MOSES.
Were it not to warn others of a
fate like mine, nothing would induce
me to draw aside the curtain and re
peal to the public the tragedy of my
wasted life.
I am but fifty-eight years old today
Just the age of most of the men
who are now ruling the world In bus
iness, in affairs of state, In the pro
fessions and literature.
But look at me'.
My hair is white, my skin is brown
and seasoned, my cheeks are hollowed,
my frame Is shrunken, and my hands
are palsied like a man of eighty.
Worse than all, my reputation as a
man among men is gene.
Opium and morphine, the twin curses
of my life, were not content with
undermining my health.
They attacked my mind and my
moral nature. They broke that down.
They led me to do things that in my
right' senses I abhor as I do murder.
They are not merely drugs to me.
They are two grinning,' pursuing, and
avenging sprites, besetting me at ev
ery turn.
It is years since I have tasted either
ef them. But the work of destruc
tion they began all the destructive
force of nature, disease and of ap
proaching age have helped to carry
n.
The beginning of my downfall was
not when I lost my political position
of governor of the state of South Car
olina. Political reverses come to all men in
public life.
My real ruin dated from the time
that the most brilliant part of my ca
reer began.
In 1873 I had been elected Gocernor
'the youngest man who ever held
L Prosperous Missouri Farmer I
nR. DAVID RANKIN of Tarklo,
Mo., is said to have under cul
tivation larger tracts of land
than any other farmer In the United
States; moreover he claims to feed
more stock than any other of the
great cattle kings of the west.
Mr. Rankin is a practical farmer.be
Ing of Scotch and German blood. Six
feet two In height, and weighing 180
pounds, he Is almost a giant. His
board Is short and heavily tinged with
Bray. He wears gold rimmed glasses,
a heavy coat without a vest and a
"biled" shirt with roll collar. Once
penniless, he Is now owner of a pala
tial home and thousands of acres of
tana.
To those who have never visited a
large ranch the methods necessary to
tarry on the vast amount of work
w Id a great problem. Mr.
Jtaskla owns fourteen ranches con
taining tt.N0 acres; TM teama and BO
saaa art required to operate the dally
tswtlaa of work la the busy season
wfcOa tfe crops art under cultivation.
Basil raaeh has aa overseer, who la
I to iahs a monthly report aad
th saass to his employer. The
of tha past jraafp work ovsr
that position In my native state at
the age of thirty.
I had fought my way up to that po
sition, to speaker of the house of rep
resentatives of the state and to other
offices against the blteres opposlion. I
had been in he confedorae army, but
I had become a republican as a matter
-of principle.
That was equivalent to being called
a traitor by the aristocracy of the
state.
At the outset of my administration I
was subjected to a social ostracism. It
was extended to my family and
friends. My Masonic brothers would
not speak to me outside of the lodge
room.
I held my head high and tried to
ignore the taunts and humiliations
thnt were heaped upon me at every
turn.
My nerves gave way. I could not
sleep.
To one of my particular friends I
confided my sufferings of mind and
body.
"My Godr he said, "why do you go
on this way? Take some morphine and
sleep. That friend, who thought he
was giving me the best of brotherly
advice, was Major J. U. Dennis, for
merly of Norwich, Conn., who went to
South Carolina to settle after the war.
1 took his advice and sent a mes
senger to the apothecary that evening
for the drug.
"Now I will sleep:' I cried exult-
ar.tly that night before going to bed.
as I poised a bit of the white stUif
on the point of a penknife before tak
ing the dose.
Yes, I slept.
The next day I was the happiest
man in the world. Social ostracism
was nothing to me. I was at a mer
curial height.
I made the most brilliant speeches. I
could write with a fluency and bril
liancy I had never thought myself
capable of before, -
I kept on using morphine all th
time I was governor.
When I vacated my office I had
nothing further to hope for in politics
in my native state, as the democrats
had possession of it.
So I went to New York City to earn
my living in any way that I could.
It would have been a trying tim
for any man. But my nerves were
already weakened by morphine.
I felt an Intense braving for some
thing stronger., Opium was the only
thing that satisfied this appetite.
Under its stimulus all my troubles
vanished.
I had been struggling to make a
living my writing political speeches
for councilmen and aldermen and for
others seeking oflices.
What had been laborious and dis
tasteful work now became easy and
pleasant. I never halted for a word
or an Idea.
I got large prices for my work.
But to keep up the standard I had
set for wit and brilliancy I had to use
more and more opium.
It became my meat and drink.
I ate it. I drank it in the form of
laudanum.
I smoked It In the vilest dens of
New York's Chinatown. It brought
me into contact with the lowest and
vilest of characters.
Yet I was oblivious of it all. I was
living in an enchanted world.
Splendid visions were spread before
my eyes and moved past me in one
vast panorama spec tacles with all the
gorgeous coloring of Abbey's "Quest of
the Grail," scenes as ethereal and
heavenly as the wall paintings of Pu
vis de Cbavannes.
In my waking, or rather rational,
hours, when I was comparatively free
from the drug, I Justified my course
to myself by thinking that I was mere
ly doing what great men and geniuses
for centuries past had done.
I reflected that Coleridge had writ
ten that most marvellous, fantastic
plem, 'The Rhyme of the Acieut Mar-
all the ranches show that a total of
7,539 head of cattle had been sold for
S172.520 and 8.249 head of hogs for
Mil, 844. The total clearance for the
year 100 amounted to 1100,000. The ex
penses, including Interest, reached the
sum of Ml.851.13.
The most profitable ranch Is the one
looked after by Foreman George Ross,
whose yearly report contains the fol
lowing statements: Number of acres,
2.280; cattle, 1.128; net proceeds from
cattle, I44.S88.M; hogs, 1,232; cash for
the same, I17,M.1; expense per acre,
$4.39; corn bought. 38,720 bushels.
Mr. Rankin la a close observer and
soon picks out the good qualities of
bis men. He Is pleasant and accom
modating, daring and energetic, which
qualities have won for him the wealth
he now commands. Besides his farms
he has an Interest la several banking
concerns, but to these latter ho (Ives
little attention, aad spends moat of
his time riding f or the ranches to as
that proper car la being given the
stock. Sometimes ha lends a helping
hand In pulling a steer from the mud;
again ha will assist la building a shed
(tor the fattonod hoaja.
la religion tha largo raaeh owner
iner," under the same subtle influ
ence; that De Qulneey's mo"t brilliant
essays were due to the same cause,
and that that poet of all poets. Ho
mer, had owed his gift of the muse to
what he termed the "sleep drug."
1 After eight years came the turning
point.
My happiness changed to a settled
gloom.
Instead of being lifted up Into the
sky and soaring like a rphit through
the heavens 1 fell lor days Into deep
abysses.
Pwajrii Ife iJante"acconipanying Vir
gil through hades, with all the fiends
of hell clutching at me.
A night became an age of misery. 1
lived a hundred years in a month.
I became conscious that some one
besides my normal self was guiding
me In my waking and walking hour.
He seemed to be a demon of crim-i,
forcing me to do things I would once
have killed a man for accusing me of.
He led me on extensive travels, 1 know
not where.
. I know now that It was ihi deprav.
Ing Influence of the drug that ma-le
me defraud and forge, though at the
time I thought it was that imaginary
companion that urged me to it.
Fortunately for me, I was taken Into
the hands of the law in ISM and sen
tenced in New York to a term on
Blackwell's island.
Then 1 fell Into the hands of V.v
Massachusetts officers and was sen
tenced to three years In the Chailes
town penitentiary from 1S&3 to 1SKS.
That was my salvation, if that wo"d
can be applied to such a wreck as 1
was.
That p-ison term freed me from tlu
grip of the drug.
But, oh! what torture!
My nights weer skn-pless. Before
me passed visions of faces all the de
graded types I had met in the opium
dens, distorted and rendered infinitely
more hieous by my feverish mind.
All the endless multitudes of New
York's lower world flowed past mo.
Jeering and hooting at me as if I
ere in a pillory.
At last I carne back to sanity.
I walked forth from the prison in
my right mind.
But, alas! I had spent all the sum
of happiness that nature had allotted
to me spent it In dreams in dark,
hideous dens.
The glow of sunlight, the laughter of
children gave me no joy or thrill of
life.
My hair was write at middle life,
my hand and foot were unsteady. .
Yet I had enough moral stamina
left not to touch the drug again, nor
to become a drunkard, as so many do
under the circumstances.
If health and the Joy of life- was
gone I had one thing left hope.
I tried to re-establish myself as a
man.
I went to the little summer resort
town of Wlntrop, Just out of Boston,
and started a weekly paper, the Win-
'roD un
There was a bare living In It. But
a living was all I wanted, and to be
of some use in the community.
First I announced my full history
to everybody in the town, so that I
might not be accused of sailing under
false colors.
The prim and Puritanical part of the
townspeople pointed the finger of scorn
at me not b yopen gesture, but by
tilted head and averted eyes. Hut
many were considerate and helped me.
For ten years I led an honorable, If
not a respected, life in Winthrop
the town I now look at from my pris
on home, separated only by the swirl
ing eddies of Shirley Gut, but to me a
channel as Impassible as the Styx un
til death ferries me over.
What was the cause of my Ilnai
downfall?
All that I had done In the past!
When business reverses came and I
lost my paper, the heart went out of
me.
But still I have hope hope for the
sake of living honorably at the end of
life and finally of dying honorably.
Better to lose your argument than
your friend.
takes a deep Interest. Recently he
gave $50,000 to the United Presbyterian
college located there and which is now
a leading educational Institution in the
west. Tarklo has received many bene
fits from his hand In the way of pub
lic rifts, which have made the wealth;
farmer a very popular man.
Louisville Courier Journal: The fact,
that Prof. Pearson of the Northwest
ern university, an Institution conduct
ed under church auspices, has ques
tioned some of the miracles of the bi
ble, has recently created a commo
tion In certain orthodox circles. "If,"
says Rev. F. A. Hardin at a meeting
of ministers In Chicago, "I had the
power and ability I would skin that
man, salt his hide and tack it up on
the bam door before the ordinary
preacher could sharpen his Jackknlfe.
What a pity that Brother Hardin has
not this power. Perhaps, If he had,
this whole question of the miracles
might bo conclusively and permanently
settled to everybody's satisfaction.
"Did you sister say how she liked
tha amateur minstrels last night V
asked Do Jones of his best girl's small
brother. "Oh, she thought your part
waa good, all right enough," replied
tha youngster. "Did she really?" quer
ied tha delighted Da Jones. "What did
aha say?" "I heard her tell mamma,"
replied the young hopeful, "that you
ma4a a holy show of yourself."
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I The Alfalfa King of Nebraska.
T
D. WATSON, the alfalfa king of
J Nebraska, has matured plans
by which he proposes to give
the world an object lesson In practical
philanthropy. From his 6.000-acre farm
in the Platte valley he Is carving loo
farms, on which he will place as many
farmers as desire to participate In his
beneficent project.
These farms will vary in size from
forty to 160 acres. F.aeh will be
equipped with a substantial house and
barn and supplied with all the neces
sary live stock. Watson will furnish
capital and brains, his beneficiaries tie;
latJol '
MAN IS REMARKABLE.
"Alfalfa" Watson Is one of the re
markable men of Nebraska. After
making a fortune In Hoton, where he
published an agricultural pap-r,he em
barked In land speculation, and thro'
the rascality of a partner lost every
cent.
"At the age of 45 I found myself
without a dollar, but my credit was
good and I had corifideni-e In Nebras
ka," he said. "1 borrowed 1.".0.0"0.
bought land here In the liatte valley
find put It into alfalfa. In the In
tervening seven years I have paid 5
per cent annually on the money I
borrowed, built the largest bain In
the world and have a standing offer
of JHK).0o0 for my equity. 1 have made
all the money I need and intend to
lose no time In giving the world this
object lesson. Extensive farming has
paid me well, but I uin confident the
intensive pynem will be much more
profitable. Every m:ui 1 put in pos
session of a farm will b. wnrM'.iK '.'or
himself and iii- at the same time."
To insure the suceti's of his plan,
Mr. Watson will select his men care
fully and with a view to their agri
cultural accomplishment. Those able
to direct labor successfully will be
given I'M acres, others will be put In
charge of eighty acres and the larger
number on forty acres. By this means
Wit-on will be able to detirmlne wli"h
Is the best silted farm. The entire op
eration will be carried on under" his
personal supervision.
GIVES LABOR A CHANCE.
"Labor creates everything, and It is
my intention to give labor a chance,"
he explained. "While 1 expect to nrake
some money I do not Intend to hog
things. I have some pet Ideas and be
lieve they are not chimerical. Suc
cess In farming operations Is largely
a matter of exercising Intelligence. 1
know men who would Bwing a scythe
In pre-ference to running a mower,
even If the mower was handy."
Watson is as breezy as the state he
has made famous as an alfalfa pro
ducer. Lavt year he harvested 7,0-30
tons.
"I knew but little about raising al
falfa when I started," he suld, "but
Nebraska County Seat War.
A COUNTY seat war of unparallel
ed bitterness has Just come to
an end In Knox county. Nebras
ka, the outcome being the same as In
the old fable of the three giants each
one killed the other to. The three
combatants on this occasion were Nio
brara, Crelghton and Bloonifleld. Af'.r
twenty years of interurban strife and
expense to taxpayers of $-0,100 no one
of the towns has been able to win.
As dec ided by the supreme court of
Nebraska, the county seat shall be
henceforth located In the geographical
center of the county.a spot which falls
on the sheep ranch of William Wlsh
endoff. The location Is three miles
from a railroad, and aside from the
farm house there are only a few sheds
and buildings In which the county rec
ords may be kept.
The new town will be called Center.
Already Robert Lynn, a newspaper
man, has opened an office in what was
formerly a meathouse. o hopes to
secure the county printing and will
publish a weekly paper. Farmer Wlsh
endoff has sold many of his sheep and
has turned the pen space- into town
lots.
Center will drain other towns In the
neighborhood In building Itself up.
Even now as a quiet peaceful ranch
it Is the focal point of a dozen or
more buildings, which are being moved
thither from Running Water. Verdi
gris and other adjacent points. Mer
chants in the outlying towns d!r to
live at the county seat, and a number
have put their little stores on wheels
preparatory to moving over the level
prairie.
The Knox county officials have ta
ken Bunday dinner with Mr. Wlshen
doff and for the present have arranged
to transact official business In the
barn.
On April 1, the date announced by
the supreme court, the county clerk
will deposit the records in a box stall,
adapted for the purpose, which was
formerly occupied by the farmer's thor.
oughbred horse. The county Judge will
call court to order In a haymow, and
the county jell for the present will be
contained In a sturdy corncrlb. Per
manent buildings will be erected as
the county officials experience need
and find themselves In funds.
The loss of the county seat comes as
a Mtter deprivation to Nlobrara,whlch
has held It since the county was laid
out. The town has suffered a disad
vantage, however. In having no rail
road facilities and In being located In
tha eatreme northern part of tha coun
ty. Crelghton, the second contestant, was
but Nttla better situated, being In the
' tztrssao southern part, and Bloomfleld,
I tha thlr daspiraat, la obliged to admit
.went to such authorities as l ror. m
ry of Wisconsin, Prof. Curtis or .
Prof. Gottrell of Kansus and Prof.
Roberts of Cornell for information.
Did you ever hear of a god lawyer
who did not look up authorities. I
took their advice and achieved suc
cess from the start."
When the first 1in farm" r In op
eration Mr. Watson will double the
scope of the enterprise. Kventually be
expects to fill the entire Platte val
ley thereabouts with prosperous small
farmers and make the region faiiiemw.
H e Is buying up land daj 1 y a id tx s
Ing alfalfa profitably, where others
have failed. By using his methods the
colony Is bound to aucce-ed.
BOUGHT OUT A NKKIIiliOR.
Two years ago the owner of a half
section adjoining Watson's ranch be
came disgusted and moved back east.
Afked by the Alfalfa king to put a
price on his place, he replied:
"You can have It for H.-00, and not
a cent less. It won't raise anything,
and Isn't worth half that money, bat
I can afford to keep it and If you want
it that Is the price you will pay."
Watson paid him his figure and sold
over J.'.SOO worth of alfalfa from the
tract last fall. Every detail of op
eration in the Watson colony Is to be
on scientific lines. Rotation of crops
will be strictly enforced and, contra
ry to present practice, alfalfa sod will
lie broken at regular Intervals and
the ground planted to corn.
Last summer he raised thhty-elght
bushels of corn to the acre on alfalf-t
sod, while his neighbors did not husk
a bushel. lie Intends not only to
maintain fertility, but to convert the
i'latte valley Into a veritable garden.
The enterprise will have the person
al supervision and encouragement of
such noted agricultural scientists as
Prof. Curtis, director of the Iowa Ex
periment Station at Ames, la.; Prof.
Henry, dean of the Wisconsin Agri
cultural college; Prof, t'ottrell, agricul
turist of the Kansas Experiment Sta
tion at Manhattan, Kan., and F. I'.
Ooburn of Topeka, secretary of the
Kansas Board of Agriculture, who was
editor of Mr. Watson's agricultural
Journal. The men w ho are to be placv
edlti charge of the first 100 farms
have alrendy been selected in Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio.
Prof. Henry of Wisconsin recently
spent a week at Mr. Watson's ranch
and expressed astonishment at his suc
cess in raising alfalfa on the uplands
more than 2"0 feet above the Piatt-?
river, while others failed on the beit
toms. The Watson enterprise will have
his dose attention.
Switzerland enjoys the unenviable
distinction of having a larger percent
age of lunatics than any other coun
try. that It Is In the extreme eastern part.
I Every time that an (lec tion could be
I held within the law, however, the con
gesting towns have put. th -ir claims
to the vote of the people of the coun
;ty. I It takes a three-fourths majority to
: change the county we-nt, however, and
j on e ach occasion the Crelghton sym
pathizers have voted for Crelghton and
the other townspeople, with eejual pa
triotism, have thrown In a ballot for
their favoie-d locality. So there has
never resulted im Important majority
for any one town. Niobrara began to'
feel sure that it could bold on forever.
The town went to extreme Itngts to
secure a rsllroad and has at length a
definite prospect.
The disappointed rivals finally
brought about the downfall of Niobra
ra, however, by entering Into a com
bine. They had seen the prey slip
through their own fingers and tht-y
preferred that all three should stand
empty-handed together. So the towns
drew up a petition to the supreme
court pointing out the unsuitablllty of
Niobrara, Its Inaccessibility from other
points of the county, It lack of a
rnllrnd. Its Vacation, -ii. and the su
preme court took a radical action.
The supreme Judicial body drew di
agonal lines across the1 county and
stuck a pin In the intersection. "The
county seat shall be there," the court
said, with no regard to whether the
eeosrtphicai cti.tei f.-ii on mountain,
plain or forest It proves, however,
that a rallioiid runs on three mile
away, and that the change may event
ually be a popular one.
Professional shoppers are employed
by a larga London firm of drapers to
test the ability of shop assistants. This
firm owns over thirty large shops, and
employs nearly 1,000 assistants. To
find out whether every customer is po
litely served, a number of women cut.
tomers are employed to call at the
various shops. They are told to give
as much trouble as possible, and some
times to leave without making a pur
chase, after looking at nearly every
thing In the shop.
Malwatchln, on the borders of -Russia,
Is the only city In the world peo
pled by men only. The Chinese wo
men are not only forbidden to live In
this territory, but even to pass the
great wsll of Kalkan and enter Into
Mongolia. All the Chinese of this bor
der city arc exclusively traders.
Bishop C. C. McCabe has sailed for
South America, to be gone six months
during which time he will visit tha
many Methodist missions In Bratlt,
Ecuador and other South imaiican
oountrtss.
I
It
T. . beautiful, hlah orslrle, until
approaches the Niobrara River, when
It becomes broken and hilly. The prai
rie land Is rich In every possibility, la
well watered and In an elegant cli
mate. It Is on the brsneh line of the Fre
mont, Elkhorn Mo. Valley R.
which leav the msln line at Norfolk
and ends at Verdigre. The Fremont.
Elkhorn A Mo. Valley R. R. has re
cently determined on an extension Into
or through Boyd county. w'h!ch this
year is the banner for corn yield in
the state. This extension Is now being
surveyed and located, and Will bo
pushed as soon as spring will permit.
It will open up markets and R. R. fa
llltlesto a splendid seetlpriof th
Ttale heretofore Isolated and difficult
of access.
Land, Improved, sells at $20 to 130
per acre, and some even higher than
that; unimproved land from 110 to $20
per acre.
Average yield of corn this year (1901)
was 20 bushels per acre. Price at
Crelghton was 3 Oto 35 cents per bu.
Twenty per cent will be marketed and
the balance fed In the county.
Some wheat was grown, but an es
timate of the total yield cannot be
gotten.
Hay for local feeding purposes was
raised, but not marketed.
No alfalfa was grown In the coun
ty, or no significant amount.
Crelghton Is the largest town In th
county, and has 1,000 population. AH
lines of business are well represented,
as well as all religious denominations.
Good schools are well supported. The
town is backed up by an excellent
country around It."
Niobrara, the county seat, Is situat
ed on the mouth of the river, where it
empties Into the Missouri River.
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vertisement of Drs. Fellows & Fellows.
The firm Is composed of father and two
sons. They are honorable men. They
have climbed a little higher the ladder
of medical wisdom than other special
ists who claim as much In their adver
tisements. The professional business
of the'se doctors has grown along with
the general advancement of the city of
Pes Moines. For twenty years and
more they have been before the publlo
as specialists. But they have been
students as well. They follow tha
thought of the best me-dle-al experts as
It appears In the reputable medical
Journals and take special instructions
as It Is to be had in the most noted
hospitals and medical schools In this
country and Europe. The advertise
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So extern I ve has the business of this
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has been their career that acting un
der the inspiration of the motive to do
more for the world, they prepared at
great cost of tl" e and money a pri
vate medical work, and this they will
send to all who write for It. The send
ing of such a work through the malls
is permissible on account of the edu
cational effect and the valuable In
struction to be had from Its careful
reading. The purpose of the work Is
not to excite the world, but to warn
It not to reveal mysteries to the cu
rious, but to lay bare those facts
which are destroying the physical being
of men. Drs. Fellows & Fellows ara
In every way responsible.
Branoh Offioo in Friend.
Frlend.Neb. (Special.) A branch of
fice of the Kharas Infirmary of Oma
ha has recently been established here
by Prof. Kharas, the superintendent of
the haras institutions. It Is a per
manent Institution In Friend, and pa
tients from all over Saline and Fill
more counties are coming here for
treatment. Several prominent cltlxens
of this place made special Induce
ments to the Kharas company to lo
cate the office' here, as It Is the means
of bringing quite a good deal of out
side money to this town. Prof. W, A.
Campbell, a graduate of the Kharas
School of Magnetic Osteopathy, baa
been placed In charge as resident
manager. .
A glass stopper for preventing mould
In syrups and other substances has
been invented by a uerman pharma
cist. It contains a chamber with a
perforated bottom, Into which Is stuff
ed cotton saturated with chloroform,
and the vapor from the chloroform
prevents any fungous growth In tha
bottle.
Hamlin's Wizard Oil Is good for
many painful ailments; Its use will
surprise and delight you. 60c and 11.00
hi druggists.
An air cooling system on a vast
scale is to be tried at the Bt. Louis
exposition. Great fans will bring a
current of cold air from a height of 100
feet above the earth and pour It over
the grounds on hot days.
Soreness, stiffness of joints and mus
cles cured at once with Hamlin's Wis
ard Oil. Ask your druggist about It
Sometimes a man finds that tha pull
ha expected to get catches him In tha
neck.
Dr. Mas Nordeau will be tha eon
tral figure at tha neat Zionist con
gress at Basel. He will Introduce a
discussion on "Ths Physical, Intellec
tual and Economic Improvement of
tha Hebrews."
KNOX COUNTY, NlsWASKA.
Bessie Mamma's hands ara so soft)
they ara velvet Billy Wall, whoa aha
(aught us In tha pantry this morning
Tommy can tell you that her haada)
sora felt.
Tha old man may have area tar fa
tin Mora Mm thaa ta youth,