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JUy 26, 19107
having o suffer for a lack; of .water
or light.
The water works were hullt twen
ty years ago at an original cost of
-$100,000 (that was th amount of
first honds). Since that time there
has been issued $25,000, $20,000 and
$35,000 of honds for the enlarging
and improving the works. Of the
first $100,000 of honds, $25,000 was
paid eighteen years before they were
due, and the $20,000 issue has been
paid also.
This will give you an idea of the
cost of the water works $325,000
short of $500,000. The honds are
heing paid off as fast as they hecome
due. The next honds are not due
until 1910. Notwithstanding some
$10,000 .worth of improvements last
year to the works, and a like amount
to he expended this year, the water
works had, and will have, a balance
In the treasury.
The bureau of statistics of public
works in Ohio, if examined, will
show that the Martins Perry, Ohio,
water works js among the "best in
the state of Ohio. The people of this
little city are justly proud of their
public works and have no disposi
tion to relinquish them into private
hands.
The original cost of the light plant
was $30,000. Since, bonds to the
amount of $13,000 have been issued.
Of this indebtedness every dollar has
been paid as it became due. The
plant furnishes the citizens as cheap,
if not cheaper, current than any city
in this section of the country, be
sides furnishing the city with ninety
seven arc lights and twenty-three to
a railroad at crossings. The electric
plant was built in 1895 and has at
present over $5,000 surplus on hand.
The net proceeds last year from
water works were $12,175; from the
light plant, $86-8.64 after paying
bonds due, interest, etc. The total
bond indebtedness at the present
time is $232,853.31, with estimated
valuations of $1,000,000.
Last year the receipts from public
utilities were $45,000 and the excess
of receipts over expenditures which
went into the hands of the sinking
fund trustees- enabled that board to
purchase many thousands of dollars
of city bonds at a great saving to
the taxpayers of this city.
The laBt bonds sold were $20,000
this month; the city received a pre
mium of $1,810. "These bonds were
sold to pay the city's share of public
Improvements. The city is willing
to prove to anyone wishing to inves
tigate that it is in a healthy financial
condition, and that there is no
danger of the relinquishment of mu
nicipal ownership.
The statement that the machinery
has been damaged to the extent of
thousands of dollars by having inex
perienced men employed on short
notice to fill the places of men dis
charged, is in keeping with tho bal
ance of the article, . utterly false.
Very truly yours,'
JAMES M. BLACKFORD,
Mayor.
SURPASSING ELOQUENCE
Says Bryan's Commoner: "Hon
estly, now, you pert paragraphers,
did you ever hear a sweet young
graduate discourse on 'Beyond tho
Alps Lies Italy?' "
If the paragraphers havo not, oth
ers have; and, Mr. Bryan may de
pend upon it, it was worth going
miles to hear, not to mention the
graduate being worth going even
still more miles to see. No com
mencement was ever complete with
out "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy."
Devoid of this oration, such an event
would be dull, flat, insipid, and not
worth while. It would be as profit
less as. a populist convention in these
piping times of political innovations,
and as contrary to public peace as
a Bryan platform from which Mr.
Roosevelt could not snatch some
thing now, grand, gloomy, or pecu
liar, ever and anon.
We have various ideas' of elo
quence, we American people. There
are those who find the climax of su
periority in orations that sweep con
ventions like whirlwinds, and, inci
dentally, make presidents or, at
least, make nominees. Then there
is the soft pedal variety that lulls
and soothes, and woes care away
a sort of "safe and sane' quality,
of gently worded eloquence as
it were. Then again there is the
oratory of predatory wealth, a -"money-talks"
species of eloquence. This
latter i& very persuasive at times,,
and has brought about many curious
conditions.
Before the shrine of the sweet girl
graduate and "Beyond the Alps Lies!
Italy," however, wo may alj meet Jjil
common fellowship and render unto
Miss Caesar the things that are Miss
Caesar's. None of the above cited
shades of oratory, eloquence, or talk,
as you may please to call it, is com
parable with this last mentioned
kind. When she says "Beyond the
Alps Lies Italy," who is there in all
the world to dispute? What brain
can conjure up any sort of conten
tous adversary intent on locating
Italy elsewhere? Who views with
alarm; who fails to point with pride?
Italy is located, at once and .forever;
it is tlwre, just beyond, the Alps. She
says so; and what she says goes!
Washington Herald.
ument as tho best earthly inherit
ance their ancestors could bequeath
them, and pray that tho civil and re
ligious libortles they have secured to
my country may bo perpetuated to
the remotest posterity and extended
to the wholo family of man.
"Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
"Baltimore, AugUBt 2, 1826."
Chicago Record-Herald.
HOW TO TREAT BURNS
In cases of burns death may ho
due first to asphyxia, secondly to
shock, and thirdly to septicemia.
The medical man seldom gets to
the case in- time to treat the first
condition; the second is essentially a
general condition; while tho wholo
success in preventing tho third de
pends, upon the immediate local
treatment. It is, therefore, tho con
dition which must bo considered
here. Among tho public it is a gen
erally accepted idea that the thlig to
do' in tho case of a burn Is to dust
flour over it or to cover It with oil
and Indeed oven in some compara
tively late text books 'on surgery a
mlxturo known as "Carrort ojl" Is
advocated.
Tho use of such applications can
not bo too strongly deprecated, and,
Indeed, if tho lay mind could be
taught that tho best tiling to put on
a burn bofore tho doctor Is called, In
a hot compress which should contain
some boraclc acid, if thcro Is any
in the house, it is probable that the
majority of deaths due to septicemia'
after burns would bo prevented.
For the wholo aim and object of
the local trcatmont is to prevent sep
sis;: flour and ollvo oil may bo sooth
ing and may allay tho pain, but thcro
Is no antlsoptlc property in them;
rather they are excellent culturo
media for bacteria. London Hospital.
Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine
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LINCOLN.
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Grip Pains
It would be utterly Impossible .-to
imagine anything: more distressing
than La Grippe jpains. They are sim
ply indescribable, and seem to be com
posed of all the misery sensations
known.
. Yet they can be relieved, and in a
very short .time by talcing
Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills
the "greatest remedy on earth for pains
of any kind. Their soothing Influence
upon the nerves is felt throughout the
.entire systei. ,
'I had La Grippe pains all over me,
and I wa$vJh-such distress I thought I
could not endure it. I thought of Dr.
Miles' Anti-Pain Pill arid after taking
three doses the pain disappeared, and
I" slept peacefully. My brother has a
swelling oji his, neck, and uses them, as
, they ease the pain, and leave no bad
effects liKe quieiinjy powaerB.
CARROLL OP OARROLLTON
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, tho
richest man of tho colonies, who died
in 1832, was tho last surviving sign
er, and on August 2, 126, the year
of the fiftieth anniversary of tho
adoption of the declaration, the year
which found three signers living hut
left him thesole survivor, he made
a reaffirmatory declaration shgwing
that August ,2 was the date on which
the document received his signature,
with most of the others:
"Grateful to Almighty God for the
blessing which, through Jesus Christ'
our Lord, he has conferred upon my
country in her emancipation, and up
on myself, in permitting me, under
circumstances of mercy,,to live to the
age of eighty-nine years and to sur
vive the fiftieth year of American in
dependence, and certifying hy my
present signature my- present appro
bation of the Declaration of Indepen
dence adopted by congress on the
fourth day of Muly, in the year of
our Lord time thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-six, which I origin
nally subscribed on the second day of
ADELIA 'iANE, Portage, Mich. August or me same year, ana or
tt Mmv fn to heln. vonr Arneatet which I am now tne iasc surviving
will refund your money on first pack- signer, I do hereby recommend to
" the present and future generations
'25 doses, 25c. Never sold in bulk. the principles of that important doc-.
Buy a Home in Nebraska
FINE FARM LAND V.URY VtiUJUf.
, FOR SALE A number of one-quarter, ono
half and whole sections of farm land In Perkins
county, Nebraska.
This land Is all rloh prairie land, every acre of
which can bo cultivated. Thd soil Is black loam
and very productivo.
The country Is liealtbful, the land beautiful, and
"" - suited to diversified farming.
. ''" There are well improved farms, good neigh
bors, good schools, good churches, and a good
town all in sight of this landVc,
This land Is located from w, to five miles from
a thriving town on the Burlington railroad.
There are three other good towns In Perkins
county.
45 BUSHELS OF CORN PER ACRI WAS
RAISED LAST YEAR ON LAND ADJOINING
THIS LAND.
50 BUSHELS OF WHEAT PER AORK
RAISED ON THE SAME KIND OF LAND IN
THE SAME COUNTY IN 1000.
ALFALFA GROWS IN PROFUSION NEAR
BY ON THIS SAME KIND OF LAND.
For each year during' the past three years tho
crops raised on land in Perkins county sold for
more than the COST PRICE of the same land.
Farm tbfs land one year and its present selling
price would be doubled.
It is as productive ns the best land in Iowa or
Illinois. Sell 20 acres In those states and your
money will buy a quarter section or me iana i
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