The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, August 14, 1908, Image 2
H4grf -zi ,WvJ l avn V -C. 1' a o M J V f j M The Chlefi E. B. DbWOLF, Publisher RED CLOUD, NEBR. If everybody living Rot his rights would anylhlng lo loft? How couTiTbo manymntIon plctur howB bo running If prosperity hntl nol returned? Amusing how tho "Hnvc-younny-work?" fellows kcop away from tin wheat belt. Tho moneyTiinklng machine's prlncl pal merit In to land a few undCBlrnblo cltlzona in tho penitentiary. Knglnnd would no doubt glndly trade her pugnncloin auffragottcs. for tho Mexican revolutionists and pay a hnndsomo "boot." Somo day somo playwright mny wrlto u play In which thcro will bo n collcgo boy who la not crnzy. Hut what will bo tho uuo? Bonts ongnged In mackerel fishing off Mllford. Knglnnd, havo landed ns ninny as 30,000 Hsh, and 100 llsli havo been sold for a shilling. Guanajuato holds tho World's record as a silver producer, having yielded 11,000,000,000 Moxlcnn In tho InBt thrco and a half centuries. According to Mitchell's Nowspaper TrosB Directory thcro nro now pub lished In tho United Kingdom nlono no fewer than 12,353 newspapers. Wo don't hear much lately nbout Idlo freight cars. Most of them nro getting busy. Gcorgln, for Instance, needs 7,000 cars to movo her peach crop. Why can't wo havo n society com posed of gentlomen who havo posi tively declined to permit themselves to bo nominated for tho vice-presidency? As long nsho Cambridge, Knglnnd oarsmen have declined to row, the Harvard boys will always havo tho sat isfaction of thinking Hint they might linvo beaten them. An English doctor declares that ex tremely warm weather Is good for hu ninn beings. Wo havo always boon willing to conccdo that It was good for thoso in tho Ico business. An old-tlmo spoiling bco wns held nt tho Carnoglo hall, In Urynn, Tex., botweon tho Ladies' Aid nncluty of tho Hnptlst church and tho Homo Mission society of tho Methodist church. A Minnesota woman having been di vorced llvo times, Is forbidden to marry. Slio tins probably mado up her mind by UiIh time, without tho low stepping In to break her of tho hnblt. Prlnro Hello announces thnt his brldo will hnvo an Incomo of $300,000 a year, which ho thinks will bo enough for them to got nlong on. Ho must In tend to let his creditors contlnuo to wait. It Is estimated thnt tho Bum of $12, 000,000 was spent for Fourth of July nroworks and explosives this yenr. Tho avcrago cost of deaths in cele brating tho Fourth probably Is about tho samo as In a regular battle. DrltlBh Biiftragottes Boom to hnvo mastered tho rulo of practical poli tics that nnyono who wnntB anything must not lot fnlso scruples or modesty or courtesy stand in tho way of naklng for it in n peremptory tono of volco. Tho announcement thnt Just to pro paro tho plans for Now York's pro posed 02-story sky-scraper took tho tlmo and labor or ICO men for bIx months and will cost at lenat $250,000 will mako Chicago feci even worso than sho did beforo. Robert Sowell of Stldhnm, n Creek Indian, is ono of tho most widely trav eled men in Oklahoma, having beon In Knglnnd nnd on tho continent of En ropo, besides having clnlmod a real donco In both South America and Australia. And now tho provisions of tho pure food law are to bo stringently applied to patent medicines, nnd horenftor catarrh cures will havo to euro catarrh, and corn removers will bo required to removo. To bo suro, it rcqulros a violent stretch of tho imagination to put catarrh foods under tho heading food. "Blind Tom," noted a generation ngo us a musical prodigy, died last month in tho homo of tho daughter-in-law ol Ids old master, for ho was born a slave near, Columbus, Ga. When a boy he nmuscd tho household by ImltntliiR tho cries of birds nnd tho sound of the wind and rain. Ho had a marvelous memory, nnd could play any musical composition which ho heard. It Is snld that ho could play ono molody with his right hnnd, another with his left nnd whistle a third at tho samo time. Yol with all his musical gifts, says Youth's Companion, ho was intellectually n child living in tho caro of guardians. Tali's Ranch at Taft. TEXAS Tliln famous ranch, tho best In tho cou"t country, at ronnouablo prices, easy tenns. Write us today for artlcuUra. WHITE & LEVI, 716 P 81., Lincoln, Nebraska. SOUTH DAKOTA LAND Now la vmir Mir opportunity to buy South 1 nt fost prices. Larno Hat to wrlto us fur pnrtlcularu. Dakota land at folect from. rl WHUE & LEVI, 716 P SI., Lincoln, Nebraska. Gasoline Engines CUSHMAN MOTOR CO., LINCOLN. NE3R.' ..nHiAin r-tiBivr-n-k NEBRASKA NEWS NtHlulPUINIhKli OTATE NEW8 AND NOTES IN CON DENSED FORM. THEPRESS. PULPIT AND PUBLIC What Is Going on Here and There That Is of Interest to hte Read ers Throughout Nebraska. Tho Ootoo County Tlonchcra' Insti tute hnd nn attendance of 1G0. Senator Brown hns announced n number of apenklng dales for AugiiBt. When a saloon In Nebraska City was attached for debt It was found tho proprietor hnd removed most of tho goods. Sophie, tho elght-yenr-old daughter of L. P. Hanson, west of Farwcli was Bhot nnd instantly killed by a brother of four years. The shooting wns purely accidental. M. L. ItlchardBon, an old soldier nnd resident of Hny Springs, was literally cut to plocoH by falling In front of it fielf-blndor while harvesting wheat. He Is not expected to live. C. O. linker, appointed ub Hpeclnl appraiser for estates from which In heritance tnx la collectable, has filed his roporlB on several estates in tho county court of (Sngo county. Johnson Teten who tried to kill his wife by shooting her somo days ugo nnd slnco that tlmo hnH been In tho county Jnll of Otoo county, Ihib been balled out by his relatives, flvo of thorn giving n $5,000 bond. Tho lG-yoar-old son of Charles Lan droff, a farmer living fifteen miles southwest of Uroken How, lost his llfo by being dragged to death by a boras. As ho fell from the nulmnl his foot caught In tho stirrup. Ho was dragged half a mllu, being horribly mangled. Tho York Independent Tclophono company has purchased all the copper toll Illicit between Sownrd and Grand Island and Sownrd and David City and is now constructing a toll lino from Grand Island to Ravenna, connecting with tho Uroken How company. Mnry Bracking, tho 21-year-old daughter of Henry Brooking, a wealthy farmer, wiih driving a team to Lorton, Otoo county, and tried to cross tho tracka ahead of a local Missouri Pa cific freight train. The vehlclo was struck and alio waa thrown twenty feet. Her neck waa broken, tho ve hlclo destroyed nnd tho horses killed. Frank Hooper, a young man who claimed to hnvo been employed at tho farm homo of J. H Loseo, near Hns tlnga for Bovernl dnya, succeeded In cnshlng a check for a llttlo over seven teen dollaiB at Plcknn's store, but be foro ho had made his escape ho was taken Into custody. Whlln Cnmpboll Tiros, circus waa showing In Alliance three Hon cuba were born, ono of which was a raro curiosity, in the fact that It was al most puro white. Thla makes this end of their monagerle similar to tho show Itsolf, inasmuch aa it la atrletly a Ne braska pioductiou. Au Old Settlors' association has beon organized nt Ashton nnd will hold a reunion September 22 and 23. Tho following ofllcora were elected: Presi dent, Theodore OJendyk; secretary, ThomaB JaonroJ; vice president, S. Golczlnskt and I. Sondburg; treasurer, H. Smolsor. Tho old settlers' association or Cherry nnd Koya Pnha counties will hold their sixteenth annual reunion at Sparks on August 28 and 29. Tho pro gram of races and sports, Including a big bnscball game, la larger than usunl, and thcro will be spenklng and music also, a well ns a big bowery danco in tho evening. Sioux Falls (S. D.) diBpatch: While traveling through tho country in n cov ered wagon in tho hope that open-air llfo would rcstoro his broken health, George Johnson of Yutan, Saunders county, Nob., died in IiIb wagon whllo it waa at a point about a mile and a quarter from tho town of Whlto Lnke, Aurora county, In the central part of tho state. Ho was a victim of con sumption. Edward Lundsford was arrested at St. Doroin nnd tnkon to Syracuse, whero ho waa arraigned on tho chnrgo of wife desertion. Ho waived exami nation and was bound over to tho dis trict court. Tho couplo wero 10 and 18 years of age, reapectlvoly, when they wero married nbout two ycnr3 ngo. Kingston (N. Y.) dispatch: Tho mar rlago In thla city Monday night of Georgo Faulkner, C2 yenra old, and Mrs. Sarah 13. Seymour, Gl yeara old, both of Schuyler, Neb., was tho cul mination of a roraanco begun In Ulster county more than forty yenrs ago. Faulkner waa a native of Kingston and Mia. Seymour was a untlvo ol Saugertlos, twelvo miles from hero. They bocamo engaged In their youth, but a lovora' quarrel separated them nnd each ono married eomo ono else, lloth lost their partners by dentil and wero of courso privileged to marry ngaln. Hut fow pcoplo renllzo tho enor mous amount of Improvements that aro being effected nt tho stato fair grounds nt tho capital city this year In view of tho annual stato fair to bo hold during tho last week of this month: An imnienso now cnttlo barn ia being built, located just west of tho administration building, and erected at a cost of $30,000. Dr. O. T. Irons, chief Inspector of tho Hurcau of Animal Industry at No braska City, leaves Monday for Lou don, England, to vUlt his old homo nnd with his niothor. Dr. Knno will bo in charge during his absence. AND NOTES. Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the State. Charley l.andreth of Oconto, 1G yearn old, waa thrown from a hortc and In atnntly killed. Tho annual Gngo County Teachcra Institutes will bo held In Dentrlco August 24 to 28. A bank has been organized nt Crookston, a small town west of Val entine. It la capitalized at $10,000. Tho sixteenth annual reunion of tho Old- Settlers' association of Cherry and Keyn Paha counties will be held nt Sparka, Neb. Tho village board of trustees cf Hralnerd recently levied nil occupa tion tax on nearly every line of bu.il nesa In the town. Tho people of Cook, Johnson counly, will call a special election to vote bondw In the sum of $10,000 for a new brick school house. Wayno'a second annual chnnlauqun asHcmbly Is closod. Tho session last ed eight days and was a complete sue cess. All expenses wero met by re ceipts. The Ccdnr county fair will be held September 10, 17 nnd 18. The summer rnceB wore held July .I nnd 4, nnd the fall fair will be devoted mostly to ex hibits. Tho executive committee of the Cuming Counly Old Settlers' associa tion bus fixed upon Thursday, August 27, ns tho (Into for tho annual picnic nnd reunion. A stock company to promote a creamery enterprise has been organ ized nt Crab Orchard and a sufllclent amount of stock sold to wnrrant the establishment of n plant. George Iluehll.a well to do farmer living n couplo of miles west of Powell, In Jefferson county, committed suicide by ahootlng himself. There was ap parently no cause for tho act. Stato Superintendent J. McBrlon and hla family have been visiting Johnson county relatives. Tho super intendent says tho Btory that has gone out of the shortage of teachers In Ne braska la not correct. Threshing baa commenced In tho vi cinity of Sutherland. Much wheat will run nbout forty bushels, and oats will go aa high as sixty bushels to the acre. Corn la considered by tho fnrmers to bo "made." Tho real estate belonging to Andrew Hlgglna of Nemaha county, who was killed b-ome time ago In a runaway, baa been divided among the thrco sons and ono duughtor. There wero nbout 000 acrea of laud. At tho recent special school elec tion In Sutherland, bonds to tho amount of $2,500 wero voted. This Bum Is to go toward Installing a heat ing plant in tho school building nnd building a two-room addition. Tho telegraph Instruments have been taken out of tho station at Lush ton without notice. Tlrt? patrons of the Hurlingtou route say they will not submit to what they call an outrage. Tho railroad business of the place Is $30,000 a year. Mrs. Oliver Starkey, who was shot by her husband near Palmer, Is be lieved to bo on the road to recovery. Although her side wna riddled with blrdshot, she hns shown remarkable re cuperative powers. It is feared though that alio will loso ono of her nrma. Whllo Charles Dcndiuger and Georgo Porter wero working on tho top of a scaffold around a hny ntneker in Cedar county, the machlnu fell with them. Porter fell underneath tho timbers Ho wna badly crushed and It Is thought ho will not recover. Tho other man wnB bady bruised. At St. Paul Information was filed against Oliver Starkey, charging him with assault with intent to kill hta di vorced wife recently in Gago Valley, Howard county. The complaint was filed by Miss E. Scott, a slater of tho Injured womnn. Starkey waived oxa mluntlou and was bound over to tho next November term of tho district cuurt. Two men, Joy Wright and Georgo Fogla, membcra of tho national guard, encamped near ABhlund, wero drowned in tho Platte river. Roth were mem bora of Compnny C, N. N. G., of Ne braska City. Tho drowned nro Georgo Fogla, aged 21, a farmer living near Nobrnska City, and Joy Wright, a clerk In a grain ofllco In that city. Both wero bom at that place. Neither could swim. Ben Uhland, a young farmer near Humboldt, roporta a curloalty In tho shape of an eyeless duck, hatched out a few weeks since. Tho fowl runs nbout with tho remainder of tho brood nnd seems nblo to secure food, oven without eyes. Tho freak shows abso lutely no signs of eyes, lashes or cavi ties, but ia otherwlso a perfectly formed fowl. A coyoto scalp swlndlo has been brought out In Buffalo county by Sheriff SammotiB. John Bacon, janitor nt court house, Lloyd Dects, Abo Swln yor and nine nccmpllcea havo been ar rested nnd glvon preliminary hearings and all oxcopt ono have pleaded guilty. Bacon secured Bcalps from the county clerk's ofllco and hid them in tho boiler room nnd Beets and Swlnyor would get same and resell them at leisure. John H. Dwyer, of McCook, a whlto man, married, with wlfo and two chil dren, was bound over to tho noxt term of district court in nnd for Rod Wil low county, charged with nn ntjmcpt at committing rape on two young Rus slon glrla of this city each need ten years. Following is tho mortgngo report for Gnso county for tho month of July: Number of farm mortgages filed, 10 j amount, $30,887; number of farm mort gages released, G; amount, $10,000; number of olty mortguges filed, 2G; amount, $27,GGQ; number of city matt gages released, 1G; amount, $8,230, NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From alt Parts of the World Condensed Into Small 8paee for the Ben efit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. Tho Snnta Fe Railroad company, by Ita counsel, pleaded guilty to rebating In tho federal court nt Chicago and was nssesacd a fine of $7,000 by Judgo Iletlicn. Tho case grow out of n bonus pnld tho Garden City Sugar and Land compnny of Garden City, Kan. Cnpt. Baldwin mndo a successful flight of nearly flvo miles with hla mllltnry balloon at Fort Meyer, near Washington. Army ofllcera present wero cnthuslaatlc over tho results of tho trial. Tho Oklahoma Central railroad has been ordered into tho hniuls of re ceivers by Federnl Judgo Campbell at Muskogee. A report hns gained circulation that tho Chicago Oreat Weatcrn railroad has been sold to n syndicate of En glish capitalists. Tho Natlonnl Autl-Aslntic Immigra tion league lias been organized in Washington, 1). C. Astatic cholera is epidemic In the eastern and southeastern districts of European Russia. New York- Is preparing to welcome tho Olympic athletes upon their nr rival on August 2!). Every member of tho American team will ho given a gold medal. Tho International Apple Shippers' association has decided to ask con gress to ennct a law providing for tho uniform grading of apples. William II. Taft addressed tho Vlr glnln Bar association at Its recent nn mini meeting nt Hot Springs. Tho Canndlan Pacific Railroad com pany Is displacing Bomo of the strik ing shopmen with Japanese. Iowa baa been ofllclally declared to bo in n stato of mourning for tho Into Senator William B. Allison by Gov. Cummins. Tho St. Louis grand jury Is to in vestlgnto tho conduct of tho recent primary election in thnt city. Tho W'estem Passenger association hns refused to grant a apodal rato for tho Bryan notification at Lincoln. Telephone service hns superseded the telegraph on the Rock Island road between stations in Kansas. Tho Missouri Pacific railroad has doubled the force in its shops at Se dalla. Tho DuBoIs and autl-DuBoIs Dem ocrats of Idaho havo split and or ganized separato conventions. Tho opoch-mnklng flight of Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloon came to a sudden end In Stuttgart, Gormnny, when the airship took fire, exploded and disappeared after breaking all records for controlled flights. Eight hundred employes in tho Ca nadian Pacific shopa at Winnipeg, Man., havo gono out on a strike. Tho sultnn of Turkoy was stabbed recently by a minor court ofllclal. Tho coat of mall always worn by tho sul tan deflected tho blade. "Tho would-bo assassin was arrested. Said Pashn, tho grand vizier, and tho nowly formed Turkish cabinet havo resigned. Tho Suffragctto movement under the leadership of an English woman invaded Oyster Bay recently to hold a meeting. They met with no en couragement and returned to Now York. A receiver has been appointed at Tucson for tho Arizona Consolidated company. William H. Taft ia to preside nt tho opening of tho Republican campaign at Youngstown, O., on September G. Gov. Hughes of Now York is to bo tho principal orator. A series of explosions in tho Auto Gas company's plant nt Albany, N. Y completely wrecked tho plant, killed two employee and fatally .injured tho manager, John B. Harrison of Mil waukee Oil hns been struck on tho Charles Davis farm on tho edgo of Phelps and Maries counties In southwest Missouri nt a dopth of 1,000 feet. Tho Btrlko bus caused much excitement in tho neighborhood and land In tho vicinity is being rapidly leased. Leading members of tho Syrian col ony in Now York hnvo started a movement to present Turkoy with a modern battleship. Tho money to build tho vessel is to bo raised among tho 200,000 Syrians In America. Hot winds aro injuring tho corn crop in Nobrnska. In tho month of July 6G9 babies less than ono yenr old died in Chicago. Dunning and Anselmo, in Cuator county, Nebraska, wero visited re cently by tornndocB which caused con Bldernblo damage to property. Tho international motor boat raco at Huntington, L. I., resulted In a vic tory for tho American boat tho Dlxlo II, Tho Etmllsh boat waa second. A proceeding to regulnto and fix tho price of coal to consumers In Okla homa is to bo brought ugnlust nil coal producing companies In that stato by Attorney General West. A forest flro of alarming propor tions Is raging In tho Cocur d'Alono nntlonnl forest In Idaho, Tho twenty-sixth annual national convention of tho Knights of Colum bus was hold in St. Louis during tho first week of August. A break In a water main at Spring field, Mo., caused all tho factories in tho city to closo down for au entire day rocontU'. Tho Western Passenger association hns refused Chairman Mack's requcut for reduced rates to tho Bryan notifi cation. A thoutrical merger which includes almost every theater In the United States la reported In New York. Prop erty representing $500,000,000 will bo Involved. Late figures on tho Kansas primary glvo Joseph L. Bristow a majority of 15 In tho legislature over Senator Long. In tho house Bristow has 70 votea to Long's GG. Tho Bcnato is equally divided. For fear her daughter was going to elope, Mrs. Annlo Hlncmann of St. Loula committed aulclde. Tho Atlantic battleahlp fleet ex perienced tho rougheat wenthcr of tho entire trip thus far off tho coast of New Zealand recently. Tho Hiipremo lodge of tho Knights of Pythias closed Its twenty-fifth con vention nt Boston with tho election of ofllcera. Henry P. Brown of Clo-, burno, Texas, waa chosen cuprcmo, chancellor. ! Tho contract for building tho Pugct Sound drydock has been given to C. J. Erlckson of Seattle, Wash., by tho navy department nt hla bid of $1, G25.000. Lato returns mako It certain thnt Joseph L. Bilatow has defeated Ches ter I. Long for tho United States sen atoruhlp from Knnsaa. Morton Al baugh, campaign manager for Senator Long concedes tho nomination of Bris tow. Later returns also confirm tho first nnnounccnient that W. R. Stubbs had defeated Cyrus I. eland for gov ernor of tho stnto. At Ashovlllo, N. C, Judgo Pardee has granted nn appeal and super scdoaB in the rato cnao recently de cided by Judge Speer, which allows the Increa8ed rates to go Into effect. Roy C. Wooda, candidate for tho Re publican nomination for public ad ministrator of St. Loula county, shot Alexander Steubo nt Wellaton, a sub urb of St. Loula, nnd shortly nflor warda was himself shot nnd fatally wounded by a party unknown. Tho Bhootlnga wero tho result of tho ro cent bitter political campaign. Missouri primary results as Indi cated In the first reports wero that W. S. Cowherd had been nominated for governor over hla thrco competi tors. Tho three large cities of the state gave heavy majorities for Cow herd. David Ball waa hla nearcat competitor. A young man from Leavenworth, Kan., waa recently rejected nt tho navy recruiting station In Kansas City becauso bo could neither read nor wrlto. Late eatlmatcs place the number of dead lu tho 121k river country nbout Ferule, B. C, ut 150. Tho proporty loss In Fcrnlo nlono Is $5,000,000. Six thousand persona lost everything they hnd nnd nro now destitute. Persons! Mrs. Jano Trumbull, wlfo of an En glishman who camo to tills country Bovernl yeara ngo to tench golf, is dead in Now York from tho blto of n pet cat. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stewart, the no'ted temporanco advocate, known all over tho country ns "Mother Stowart," is dead at her homo in Hlckaville, O. A voluntary petition In bankruptcy has been Hied in tho federal court nt Pittsburg, Pa., by attorneys repre senting Harry K. Thaw. Tho assets aro given as $128,012.38, and tho li abilities at $453,140.13. Roger O'Mara, tho Pittsburg dctoctivc, was appoint ed receiver with bond at $200,000, Cardinal Gibbons, head of tho Ro man Catholic church in America, has been taken dangerously ill In Rome with Intestinal trouble, and has been obliged to tako to hla bed. Alford W. Cooley, assistant attor ney general, has resigned on account of ill health. Assistant Secretnry of Stato Bacon has left Washington for Porto Rico ou government business. Frederick W. Thompson, well known ns a railroad builder In tho middle west, is dead at Muskegon, Mich. Gen. Fred Funston was tendered a reception and luncheon by tho com mercial bodies of San Frnnclaco pre vious to his departuro for Fort Leav enworth, Kan. Rev. Luther Freeman of Chatta nooga, Tenn., hns accepted the pas torato of the Independence Avenue M. E. church at Kansas City. Senator W. B. Allison of Iown died unexpectedly at hla homo in Dubuque. Heart failuro waa tho I mined I a to causo of death. Senator Allison was 79 years of ago and hud been in con gress for nearly half a century. Ho wns born at Perry, O., in 1829. Ho was a delegate to tho national con vention of 18G0 which nominated Abraham Lincoln for prcsldont. Judgo Georgo A. Vandoveor, candl dato for tho Republican nomination for judgo of tho Ninth judicial dis trict of Kansas in tho recent pri maries, wns killed by a Rock Island train at Hutchinson. The train struck an automobllo lu which ho wns riding. W. J. Craig, onco owner of tho In dlannpolla Sentinel, Is dead in De catur, Indiana, aged Gl years. Dr. Frederick K. von Lucnnus, chief of Emperor Wll'lam'B bo called clvU cabinet, Is doad in Berlin. " S. T. McKnlght, n millionaire lum berman of Minneapolis, Minn., is dead of heart dlseaso. Georgo A. Pettlbono, of tho Western Federation of Miners and ono of tho defendants in tho trials for tho mur der of cx-Gov. Stcuncnborg of Idaho, Is dead In a Denver hospital as tho result of a surgical operation fol cancer. FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL. , Discharged Because Doctors Could Not Cure. Levi P. Brockwny, S. Second Ave, Anoka, Minn., says: "After lying for flvo months in a jSy. hospital I was dls- p, :. charged ns incur- CT. A ftlil mill rrlirnn nttf ySs-jraSU S,X montuH ,0 1,Ve ji iwy ucari was uueci- ed, i nau amoiner ing spells nud sonic- '6tt. times fell uncon scious. I got so I couldn't use my arms, my eyesight was impaired nnd tho kidney secretions wcio badly dis ordered. I was completely worn out and dlr.courngcd when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went, right to tho cause of the troublo and did their work well. I hnvo been feeling well ever slnco." Sold by nil dealers. HO cents a box Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. NO CHANCE TO BUNKO HIM. City Youngster Too Well Aware of the! Wiles of Grafters. The baseball evangelist, tho elo quent Hilly Sunday, said during tho revival services nt Sharon, Pa.: "Keep good company. Nothing docs (ho young moro harm than bad so ciety. Only yesterday n farmer told mo about a youngster of six or seven, a llttlo country wceker, who hud as suspicious nnd mistrustful a heart as somo old miser or crook. "Thla boy was sent by n charity so ciety to spend a week at the farmer's. Tho farmer set out to meet him, but was late. Ho ran into him half-way to the farm, trudging along the whlto road, a big burlap bag of luggage on his llttlo bony shoulder. "The farmer held out his hands for the burlap hag. . " 'I'll enrry It, son,' ho said. 'It's too heavy for you.' "'Go on! said the little boy fierce ly. 'Clear out now. or I'll call a cop.' " ' MET ON HI8 OWN GROUND. Dishonest Politician Gets Little Satis faction from Promise. Congressman I.ongworth, nt a din ner during tho Republican convention In Chicago, tnlkcd about honest poli tics. "Honest politics nlono pays In the ?nd," said he. "Your dishonest poli tician comes out like Lurgan of Cin cinnati. Lurgnn was canvassing for votes. Ho dropped In at a grocer's. "'Good morning,' he said. 'I may count on your support, I hope?' " 'Why, no, Mr. Lurgnn,' said tho grocer. 'I've promised my support to your rival.' "Luignn laughed easily. '"Ah, but, In politics,' said 'promising and performing arc he. two' different matters.' "'In thnt case,' said the grocer, heartily, 'I shall be most happy to slve you my promise, Mr. Lurean.' " Her Reason. Not long ngo there waa tried In an Ohio court a suit for damages where in tho principal witness, a womnn liv ing near Dayton, wns induced to come to court only after several subpoenas had been served upon her. When tho dilatory witness wa3 final ly brought before hla honor, he said In hla sovercst tone: "What reason can you assign, madnm, for disobeying the summons of the court?" "I ain't got none, Jedge," answered tho woman, meekly, "only we've got small-pox down to our place, an' I thought mebbe you'd bo kinder pro Judlced agin it." Illustrated. ALMOST A SHADOW. Gained 20 lbs. on Grape-Nuts. There's a wonderful difference be tween a food which merely tastes good nnd ono which builds up strength and good healthy flesh. It makes no diffcrenco how much wo ent unless wo can dlgcat It. It ia not really food to tho system until it ib nosorueu. A iorKstnie woman says: "I hnd been a sufferer for ten years, with stomach nnd liver trouble, nnd had got so bad that tho least bit of food such aa I then knew, would glvo mo untold misery for hours after eating. "I lost flesh until I was almost a shadow of my original solf nnd mv friends wero quite alarmed about me. "First I dropped coffee and used Postum, then began to uso Grape-Nuts although I hnd little faith it would do mo any good. "But I continued to uso the food nnd, hnvo gained twenty pounds in weight and feel like another person lu every way. I feel as if llfo had truly begun' nnow for mo. "I can cat anything I like now in moderation, suffer no ill offccla, bo on my feet from morning until night. Whereas a year ago thoy had to send mo away from homo for rest whllo others cleaned houso for me, this spring Thavo been able to do it mysolt all nlono, "My breakfast is simply Grnpe-Nuts with cream and a cup of Postum, with sometimes an egg nnd a ploco of toast, but generally only Grape-Nuts and Postum. And I can work until noon nnd not fcol as tired ns ono hour's work would hnvo mado aio a year ngo." "There's a Reason." ' Namo given by Postum Co., BattloJ Creek, Mich. Read, "Tho Road to WolK vlllo," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new i one appears from tlm. to tlms. They are genuine, true, and full of human j interest. s 1 .i . i-.. m