j By F M KIMMELL largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance Official Paper of Redwillow County Charlie MANDEiisoNtho Burlingtons post prandial artist should follow the advice of that wise man Oh that mine enemy would write a letter and stay out of the letter writing business him self Or write a better one than his re cent effusion which was a remainder of sophomoric days and college society essays A Studied Slight She How that woman we just pass ed does hate me He She looked pleasant enough She Thats all done for effect but If you noticed she never turned to take in my new suit and hat Detroit Fren Press Dnst nt Sea Great quantities of dust collect on the decks of vessels at sea no matter if they are swept twice or thrice a day Most of It too is found on sailing ves sels The Inference is that the sails act as dust collectors arresting tha particles which drift in the air e Sure t Use rooc Illy Cream l Tartar Baking FwieF d made with il alum baking powder carries alum to tlie stomach unchanged Scientists have positively demonstrated this and that such food is partly indi gestible and unhealthful FEED ON THE BRAIN Yes we dont blame him Been buying the kind thats no good and now that he has found our place hes overjoyed Our Feed Band Wagon is where everybody who wants feed is getting it Now is the time to get in as were going to do like others and have a grand clearance sale Better feed at lower prices you never saw McCOOK MILLING CO Good Looks are experienced by ci re urns tances The man with a comfortable bank account looks bet ter than the man without one He has no lines of worry or anxiety He knows his mon ey is safe First National Bank offers many ad vantages besides freedom from all worry It is a good place to have an ac count How easy it is to start one You can learn by calling c seyZt Artrr r mmmmittnwfmtnmmTtnM i i fc Che Ben franklin Bicentenary J aiN 17 1700 was a red let ter day in the history of the United States for that day wit nessed the birth of Benjamin Franklin printer scientist philosopher and statesman The bicentenary of Franklins birth will be celebrated In many parts of the world In Paris where he represented the colonies dur ing the Revolutionary struggle the day will be fittingly observed and in con nection with the exercises a statue of Franklin by the American sculptor John J Boyle will be unveiled near the house in Passy where he lived when the minister of the young repub lic to France In Boston where he was born in New York where he fail ed to find employment and in Phila delphia with which his career is chief ly identified there will also be ceremo nies iu recognition of the significance of the day In the famous city whose name signifies that in which Franklin firmly believed brotherly love the most elaborate of these exercises will be held They will be under the direc tion of the American Philosophical so ciety which Franklin himself founded in 1744 and both the state and the fed eral government will take part in them Franklin was one of seventeen chil dren and his father a Boston tallow maker was not blessed with wealth so that he did uot have any special ad vantages of birth He had few oppor tunities as a boy to excel in scholar ship for he had only two years school ing and then went to work to help his narent in molding candles It was an eventful day for the printing trade and journalism when the young Franklin was released from making candles and set to printing as an apprentice to his brother James This brother owned a newspaper and the boy Ben got some experience in helping him run it but he aud James did not get along very well and the boy started out to seek his fortune Landing in New York he AaM8aV -X V y -V -- Avr WRWZV ftS7l r i 7f v wfta23 y r tjr rf t Ki WWiJ a t r - STATUE OP FKAXKLIN IN KEW XORK sought for employment but without success and journeying on reached Philadelphia with but a dollar in his pocket But success crowned his ca reer in Philadelphia ere many years had fled One of his most successful as well as famous enterprises was the Poor Richards Almanac the first number of which he published when he was twenty six and which at once be came popular He continued publish ing this almanac for twenty five years It was translated into all the languages of Europe and its quaint sayings have become household words For many years he published the Philadelphia Gazette He organized the first pub lic library iu Philadelphia and estab lished the academy which has devel oped into the University of Pennsyl vania The art of printing is in his debt to an immeasurable degree In 174S Fnanklin sold his paper his almanac and his printing plant He was then only forty two but he had accumulated what in those days was considered a fortune and as the af fairs of his countrymen demanded his attention he determined to have no impediments in the way of his render ing zealous public service For a pe riod of over forty years thereafter he was almost continuously occupied in the cause of his country- Prior to the Revolution he represented the interests of his own colony of Pennsylvania and sometimes other colonies at the British court he participated in the drawing up of the Declaration of Independence of which he was one of the signers and he spent some of the most impor tant years of his life pleading the cause of the colonies at the court of France With what success he pleaded is known to all His inventions and dis coveries gave him a high place in the world of science and learning and he is recognized today as the father of electrical science He might have made a great deal of wealth out of his in ventions but he did not worship the almighty dollar and valued money only as It contributed to the enjoyment of comforts and refinements Though so versatile and accomplished he was content to be known simply as a print er and when he died In 1790 the fol lowing epitaph which he wrote him self was placed upon his tombstone The body of Benjamin Franklin printer like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gliding lies here food for worms But the -work shall not be lost for it will as he believed appear once more in a new and more elegant edition revised and cor rected by the Author m m P 0 0 k jy EAIRLE IHIKEIR EATM Copuriaht 1905 bu Eaile Hooker Eaton pLl Jg g The Chinaman a flipflap turned Eorgot the Golden Rule And jabbered things he never learned In Melcan Sunday school Said Slim She goes a bit too swift And dont steer none too straight But you can bet with such a lift The papers wont be late An engine off the rails He said and yet Id rather cut That out it sometimes fails He threw his papers off and jumped To limbs above held fast The auto rushed ahead and bumped And that bump was its last ij m i HREE hundred days plus sixty four Of every year we get The editor corrals the floor And keeps it too you bet But once a year he yields to me To tell some things I know And now Ive warned you all you see I think Ill let her go One day a carrier Slim McDade Got funny from the heat Said he The paper carrying trade Has wore out both my feet If I just had a honk machine To rest my feet awhile Id tank up well with gasoline And spread the news in style ropiu3 yOSiKBw The corner turned there came to view A sight that did Slim good For near the curb and vacant too A puffing auto stood Its mine I saw it first he cried A smile chased off his frown And then he nimbly hopped inside And threw his papers down He cried What chump blew out the gas This smell is far from funny Its like some one in Gladdens class Was burnin tainted money With clumsy hands he fumbled round Said he What makes her trek The auto gave a sudden bound That nearly snapped his neck Then like a lubber far from land And new to Neptunes gear He seised the wheel with unskilled hand And did his best to steer Along the road he honking flew His course quite like a Z He came within an incli or two Of climbing up a tree A Thomas cat that dodged about In vain was yeowling hurled End over end and flattened out Against a hard old world A poodle dog as black as tar And yearning to be fed Came rushing out to bite the car But bit the dust instead gU A pensive cow that tempted fate And turned to watch the pup Was quickly made to demonstrate That beef was going up A Chinese laundry cart flew high And busted as it rose And every tree that stood near by Put on some underclothes No town on earth can sport her mate Just hear her puff and buzz I didnt know before how great These choochoo wagons wuz No wonder rich folks wears a smile As they plows through the streets Theres somethin doin all the while And how it rests the feet A circus band came round the curve And Slim felt quite dismayed Said he If I dont keep my nerve Ill pi the hull parade He bumped against a sacred calf And then upset a clown He barked the shins of one giraffe And knocked another down Though followed by the wild west Sioux Eight bulldogs and a cop Slim shook them off and onward flew He simply couldnt stop And that was why he saw with pain That others might do tossing racing with a train For he was Straight toward a railroad crossing Its quite the rage to try to butt JpFJ Slim dropped with perspiration wet And quite as white as chalk It rests the feet he said and yet I think rd ruther walk Now wasnt Slim McDade a peach Thats all Ive got to say Except just this I hope youll each Remember ME today HENRY M WHITNEY HiM Advocacy of Reciprocity and Conrovery With Prewldent Henry M Whitney of Boston who has become Involved in a controversy with President Roosevelt In connec tion with the question of reciprocity Is a brother of the late William C Whit ney secretary of the navy under Pres ident Cleveland He was the Demo cratic candidate for lieutenant govern or of Massachusetts in the recent cam paign aud ran ahead of his ticket Mr Whitney has for years been conspicu ous in his advocacy of the policy of reciprocity especially reciprocity with Canada This issue cut quite a figure in the recent campaign in the old Bay State and while Curtis Guild Jr the Republican candidate for governor who favors conservative revision of the tariff was elected by about 23001 plurality his running mate on the tick- HENIJT M WHITNEY et Eben S Draper received less than 2000 plurality on the face of the re turns The Democrats decided to con test his election and endeavor to have their candidate Mr Whitney seated About a year and a half ago Mr Whitney was empowered by a mass meeting in Fanueil hall to appoint a committee of 100 to lead a fight for reciprocity with Canada Thirty thou sand business men of Massachusetts signed resolutions in favor of the reci procity propaganda Later Mr Whit ney headed a delegation which appear ed before President Roosevelt at Washington In the recent campaign hf referred to Mr Roosevelts remarks on this occasion and the president has said that Mr Whitneys statements misrepresented him Mr Whitney was born in Conway Maps in 1S41 He was educated in the public schools of Conway and at the Williston academy at Easthamp ton He began his business career in a bank engaged afterward in the ship ping business and in 1SS9 went into rapid transit operations in Boston He introduced electric traction and was instrumental in the consolidation of Bosioiis traction lines into one sys torn He is now identified with nu merous large corporate interests in New England Mr Whitney is mar ried and has several children Thomas W Lawson in speaking of the Mas sachusetts legislature in Everybodys Magazine said in a recent article that Mr Whitney had the reputation of carrying that body in his waistcoat pocket AN AIR DRILL AT WORK An Interesting anil Significant Siclt In n Shipyard The use of compressed air in connec tion with mechanical operations has served to minimize labor In many hitherto tedious processes Shipbuild ing is one of the occupations in which DRILLING A BATTLESHIP PLATU the compressed air method of apply ing force ha worked wonder In the old days most of the work in building a ship whether for merchant use or for warfare was done by hand Hatchets and adzes were in constant employ ment where now steam and compress ed air do the trick with a minimum of expenditure of human strength It is interesting to watch a work man take a compressed air drill and make a hole in a thick steel plate that would withstand the attack of a heavy shell An air compressor produces air under a pressure from one pound to the square inch up to 3000 pounds or more The usual working pressure ranges from 50 to 100 pounds per square inch Saws riveters and other tools are also operated by compressed ah t5he Struggle to I MU rfWSi V CONTROL Railway Rates I T HE contest over the question of railroad rates overtops In in terest everything else up for discussion In the present con gress and bids fair to be the most ex citing of any struggle witnessed in some time In the national halls of legis lation The battle may be said to have begun last winter to have been con tinued during the recess of congress in the newspapers and on the rostrum and now to be joined again where the contest must be fought out nt tlie na tional capital itself The administra tion plan for a body vested with pow ers to make fair rates won a victory last winter In the house of representa tives where the bill bearing the names of Congressman Esch of Wisconsin and Congressman Townsend of Michi gan passed by a large majority Demo crats uniting with Republicans In its support and only a few scattering votes being cast against it When it went to the senate it encountered obstacles too great to be overcome at that time and the Fifty eighth congress went out of existence without enacting Into law this most important measure During the summer the friends of railway rate reform rallied their forces and the rail roads and the interests allied with them did the same During the interval be tween the expiration of the Fif ty eighth congress and the assembling of the Fifty ninth the senate committee on interstate commerce held sessions and took testimony the interstate com merce commission made investigations with a view of aiding in the solution of the problem and the subject was discussed In the press on the plattorm of Chautauqua assemblies and at other public gatherings As the Esch Townsend measure did not become law the matter must be taken up anew from the beginning and the assembling of the Fiftj nintli con gress found the friends of railway rate reform eager to proceed with the en actment of the new bill Messrs Esch and Townsend are again the presidents field marshals In the lower branch of congress In the senate the course of railway rate reform is beset with greater V V Vc V J nsv v k Jv r -v w zm Bi iKr 4 J SVCAOVaAK W -v - j t vw 3 rar yy v VVV v1 i k t n iwfcrvMi SENATOB KELSON W ALDRICU cles now as it was in the previous ses sion owing to the strength of the rail way element in that body A bill has been prepared with the aid of the in terstate commerce commission which is said to represent the ideas of the administration as to the kind of a law which would prove effective Senator Foraker who has all along opposed the presidents idea of giving rate mak ing powers to the interstate commerce commission has prepared a bill ex pressing his own ideas of a conserva tive measure on this subject He is one of the members of the senate In terstate commerce committee which has charge of bills on the subject of railway rates The other members are Stephen B Elkins of West Virginia Shelby M Cullom of Illinois Nelson W Aldrich of Rhode Island John Kean of New Jersey Jonathan P Dolliver of Iowa Moses E Clapp of Minnesota Joseph H Millard of Nebraska Benja min R Tillman of South Carolina An selm J McLaurin of Mississippi Ed ward W Carmack of Tennessee Mur phy J Foster of Louisiana and Francis G Newlands of Nevada Senator El kins is chairman and he made his for tune largely through railroads and is counted as in sympathy with their side of the question The foremost antago nist of railway rate legislation in the senate however is Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island who for years has been the mainstay of corporation influence in the upper branch of congress Lincoln Steffens the magazine writer whose investigations of the system have been carried on in many states has de voted much attention to the operations of Senator Aldrich who he says owns Rhode Island The senator is the father-in-law of John D Rockefeller Jr he stands close to H n Rogers vice president of the Standard Oil company and is an all powerful factor in the circles of high finance Senator Al drich is sixty four years old he hai been in politics for thirty five years and has risen from alderman to sena tor He entered the house of repre sentatives in 1S79 and was promoted to the senate in 1SS1 He Is an expert In all matters relating to finance and has for years been chairman of the senate finance committee Though past three score the senator is well preserved and athletic and devotes much time to golf He has a private course on his Providence estate and it has some times been claimed that he is the cham pion golf player of congress Jfi r i T j i ji