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sumption must be
out inese germs
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received from with-
are every where
being received and
I cast out by the
healthy system
It is the narrow
chested whose in
heritance is weak
ness who fall a
prey to consump
tion because they
are too weak of
lung to resist and
throw oft disease
Doctor Pierces
Go 1 d e n Medical
Discovery makes
weak lungs
strong It cures
obstinate deep
seated coughs
bleeding lungs
weakness emacia
tion and other conditions which if neg
lected or unskilfully treated find a fatal
termination in consumption
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Tenn I was pjrsuaded to try Dr Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery The first few bottles
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would soon be a victim of that dreaded disease
consumption Had almost given up in despair
when my friends persuaded me to Rive your
Golden Medical Discovery a fair trial I com
menced its use I weigh 160 pounds now and
when I commenced I only weighed 140 pounds
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pleased to answer any inquiry
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Dr Pierces Pleasant Pellets cleanse the
clogged system from impurities
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Coming to
icOook
The eminent physician
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will bo in our city on
Monday
January 15
and will be at the
New Palmer Hotel
untii 5 oclock p m Monday
January 15
ONE DAY ONLY
DR POTTBRF
President of the staff of physicians of
the Boston Electro Medical Institute is
making a tour of the state
This being an advertising trip and to
introduce the new system will give con
sultation examination and all medicine
necessary to complete a cure free All
parties taking advantage of this offer are
requested to state to their neighbors the
result of the treatment
Cures deafness by an entirely new
method Catarrah in all its various
forms cured so that it will never return
Treats all curable diseases of catarrh
nose throat and lung diseases eye and
ear stomach liver and kidney gravel
rheumatism paralysis neuralgia ner
vous and heart diseases blood and skin
diseases epilepsy Brights disease and
consumption in early stages diseases of
the bladder and female organs liquor
and tobacco habit Stammering cured
Piles fistula and rupture cured
Special attention given to all surgical
cases and all diseases of the eye nose
and throat
Glasses fitted granulated lids cata
ract cross eyes straightened without
pain
If you are improving under your family
physician do not take up our valuable
time We wish to give everyone plenty
of time but cannot listen to long stories
pertaining to your case The rich and
poor treated alike Idlers and curiosity
seekers will please stay away Our time
is valuable
Remember not one penny will be
charged for all the medicine required to
make a cure of all those taking treat
ment this trip
Office hour 9 a m
Positively married ladies must be ac
companied by their husbands
Remember the date Monday January
15th at the new Palmer hotel McCook
Nebraska
GREAT ROADS OF ANTIQUITY
The Mowt Mncrisizlceiit Were TIiohc cf
the Mediaeval Peruvian
Perhaps the earliest road on record
Is that mentioned by Herodotus a3
having been constructed by Cheops the
Egyptian king in order that stones
might be dragged along It for his pyra
mid In the opinion of the Greek trav
eler the work of making the road was
as great as that of building the pyra
mid for It took ten years to construct
and It was composed of polished stones
with figures carved on them but this
does not compare In magnitude with
the highways constructed by the Peru
viana while mediaeval Europe was still
In a state of semlbarbarous disorgani
zation
The two principal roads In Peru ran
from Quito in the north to Cuzco the
capital the one along the sandy and
level strip of coast the other along the
plateau of the Andes a region of un
paralleled engineering difficulty The
length of the second has been estimated
at from 1500 to 2000 miles It crossed
sierras buried in snow bridged ravines
with walls of solid masonry mounted
and descended precipices by staircases
hewn in the solid rock and ran in in
terminable galleries along the sides of
intractable mountains
Where rivers had to be crossed
bridges were made with ropes of stout
pliant osier twisted to the thickness of
a mans body and stretched over the
stream sometimes for a distance of 200
feet These cables swung side by side
and fastened with planks so as to form
a footway were drawn through holes
In enormous buttresses of stone spe
cially constructed on each bank and
were secured firmly at each end to
heavy beams of timber A railing of
similar osier material gave the pas
senger confidence as he crossed the os
cillating bridge that sank dangerously
in the middle and mounted rapidly at
the sides
The great highway was twenty feet
wide and was built with flags of free
stone covered with bituminous cement
It was measured out by posts set up
at every league Caravansaries and
magazines were stationed at conven
ient distances for the Peruvian soldiers
on their military expeditions and a
regular postal service had been organ
ized by which highly trained runners
relieved every five miles could convey
messages a distance of 200 miles in
the twenty four hours The roads were
kept in beautiful order the inhabitants
of a district being responsible for that
portion of the highway which trav
ersed their land At the same time it
should be remembered that there was
no wheel traffic to cut up the level sur
face of the hard pavement There is
considerable irony in the fact that it
was not till the Spaniards forcibly in
troduced their so called civilization
into Peru that the famous roads be
gan to fall into disrepair London
Standard
How Tnrki Pray For the Infidels
The following is an exact translation
from the Arabic of the official prayer
of Islam which is used throughout
Turkey and daily repeated In the Cairo
Azhar university by 10000 Mohamme
dan students from all lands
I seek refuge with Allah from Satan
the accursed In the name of Allah the
compassionate the merciful O Lord
of all creatures O Allah Destroy the
infidels and polytheists thine enemies
the enemies of the religion O Allah
Make their children orphans and defile
their abodes and cause their feet to
slip and give them and their families
and their households and their women
and their children and their relatives
by marriage and their brothers and
their friends and their possessions and
their race and their wealth and their
lands as booty to the moslems O Lord
of all creatures
In all the other religions of even the
semicivilized nations of the globe there
can be no prayer found to parallel this
cruel appeal of Islam to the spirit of
inhumanity
A Wonderful Moan
One of the most wonderful speci
mens of vegetable life known to the
botanist is the life moss of Jamaica
Barbados and other of the West In
dian islands There are several spe
cies of tropical plants which have re
markable tenacity of life but the
life moss and the story of its vital
ity are almost beyond belief its pow
ers to live under adverse circum
stances being certainly beyond that of
any other known plant It appears to
be absolutely indestructible by any
means except by immersion in boiling
water or the application of a redhot
iron to its roots and branching vines
It may be cut up and divided into in
finitesimal particles and then the very
smallest shred will throw out roots and
soon grow and form new branches and
buds Specimens of this extraordinaiy
plant have been suspended in the air
in a dry hot room they have been
placed in close air tight dark boxes
without moisture of any sort and yet
they lived grew and flourished
What WelllnRton Was Doing
When Sir John Steell the sculptor
had the Iron Duke sitting for a statue
he tried to induce him to look warlike
All his efforts were in vain however
for Wellington seemed judging by his
face never to have heard of Waterloo
or Talavera At last Sir John lost his
patience As I am going to make this
statue of your grace he exclaimed
can you not tell me what you were
doing before say the battle of Sala
manca Were you not galloping about
the field cheering on your men to
deeds of valor by words and action
Bah said the duke in evident
scorn If you really want to model
me as I was on the morning of Sala
manca then do me crawling along a
ditch on my stomach with a telescope
In ray hand
Cleaning
Up the Isthmus
of Panama
T has been determined that the
Panama canal shall be built and
the next tiling Is to build It with
as little loss of time loss of mon
ey and loss of life as possible Health
conditions on the Isthmus will affect
the problem of cost in all three of these
phases Prevention of disease and
death Is important from a money
standpoint as well as upon humane
grounds for if the mortality rate Is
high among the laborers and the super
intendents of the labor the work will
be delayed and the cost of the whole
undertaking will be greater A high
death rate would drive labor from the
isthmus increase the wage rate that
must be paid and run the expense of
constructing the canal away beyond
estimates There is a widespread be
lief that the climate of the republic of
Panama is unhealthy but the reputa
tion which the country surrounding the
canal zone has obtained is due in part
to the Insanitary conditions existing
rather than to the climate of the coun
try itself So important was the mat
ter of sanitation at the isthmus con
sidered that In the organization of the
force to carry on the work there one of
the first men engaged was the sanitary
expert who performed the task of
cleaning up Cuba perhaps the biggest
job of the kind executed in recent
times a task which far surpassed in
magnitude the fabled task of Hercules
in tidying up the Augean stables This
expert is Surgeon William C Gorgas of
the United States army Before the
reorganization of the canal commission
and the appointment as governor of the
canal zone of Charles E Magoon he
acted for a time as governor in the ab
sence of General Davis who then oc
cupied that post
Colonel Gorgas was born in Alabama
in 1834 and graduated in 1S75 from
the University of the South He re
ceived the degree of M D from Belle
vue Medical college New York in
1870 and the honorary degree of D S
from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1903 entered the medical service of
the army in 1S80 and became an as
sistant surgeon general with the rank
of colonel in 1903 Colonel Gorgas is
becoming a popular man in all parts of
the isthmus though there was a time
when the rigid measures he imposed
bore so hard upon the people of Pana
ma that they wished him in even a
COLONEL W C GOBGAS
warmer country than theirs The
easy going inhabitants of the towns of
the canal zone were not accustomed to
going out of their way to make their
surroundings sanitary and the advent
of the Yankee colonel with his bug
brigade was not at all to their liking
at first But the fumigation process
has succeeded so well that the festive
mosquitoes that carry the yellow fe
ver germ have been almost completely
banished and at the present time the
statistics show the canal zone to be as
healthy as the average American city
In October 1884 when the French
were trying to dig a canal across the
isthmus they had 19243 men on then
payrolls All but 2700 of these were
natives who were immune from yellow
fever Among the non immunes there
were eighty four cases of fever and
twenty one deaths in the month men
tioned In October 1903 the Ameri
cans had some 4000 non immunes on
their payroll one case of fever and no
deaths A force of some 2200 men is
engaged in creating and enforcing sani
tary conditions and waging war on the
Stegomyia fasciata or yellow fever
mosquito and the expense to date of
this work has been over 1000000
Though this Is a large sum it is held
to be money well expended The
French in October 1SS4 with a force
of 19243 had 1G1 deaths making a
death rate for the year of nearly 100
per 1000 The death rate in October
1905 under American administration
was about 32 per 1000 Colonel Gor
gas expects that when the sanitary Im
provements now In progress such as
street paving and waterworks at Colon
and Panama and comfortable screened
buildings for employees have been com
pleted the health conditions will still
further improve
As showing the magnitude of the
work that has been done it may be
said that In October 2164537 square
yards of brush and grass were cut and
burned three miles of new drains were
dug twenty miles of old drains were
cleaned 20000 square yards of swamp
were cleaned and filled In a hundred
houses were fumigated and thousands
of wells and cisterns disinfected There
are five hospitals in the zone and every
camp has a well equipped dispensary
for minor cases
THE BETSY ROSS HOUSE
The PeiilKuer of the American Flas
rnd Her History
The hous In Philadelphia where Bet
sy Ross made the first American flag
is regarded as a shrine by every pa
triotic citizen of the United States
The movement for the preservation of
this sacred spot has met with success
and the property will soon pass into the
possession of the nation and be safe
from molestation by the march of Im
provements or from falling into neg
lect and ruin Over a million school
children have contributed to the fund
of 25000 which was raised under the
auspices of the American Flag Home
and Betsy Ross Memorial association
for the purchase of the property The
president of this society Is John Quincy
Adams and the secretary is Charles
H Welsgerber painter of the picture
Birth of Our Nations Flag The
formal acceptance by the nation of the
Betsy Ross house will take place with
appropriate ceremonies on the next
flag day June 34 190G The building
is at 239 Arch street
The woman who designed the star
spangled banner was born In 1732
Her father Samuel Griscom was a
builder who helped in the construction
of Independence hall She was brought
BETSY BOSS HOUSE IK PHILADELPHIA
up a Quaker but married John Ross
an Episcopalian and with him attend
ed Christ church in which her pew is
still shown She helped her husband
in the upholstery of furniture and was
skillful with her needle and in design
ing patterns Knowing this an uncle
George Ross one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence guided
George Washington and Robert Mor
ris the committee appointed by the
Continental congress on a flag for the
new republic to the house where John
and Betsy Ross plied their trade She
received them in the little back parlor
still preserved as it was then and in
consultation with them she made the
banner which was officially adopted by
congress on June 14 1777
John Ross was killed In his countrys
service Betsy married another fighter
Captain John Ashburne of the priva
teer Luzerne He was captured and
taken to England where he died in
prison He sent a message to his wife
by John Claypoole a Revolutionary sol
dier who in delivering it became smit
ten with the twice widowed Betsy and
afterward married her He too died
soon after marrying her but she lived
until 1S3G and Avas buried by the side
of her last husband in Mount Moriah
cemetery Philadelphia
AN UNUSUAL VOYAGE
The Taslc of Tovrlnpr the Dry Dock
Dewey to the Philippines
One of the most unusual and remark
able tasks ever performed upon the sea
will be the towing of the big floating
dry dock Dewey from Solomons island
Chesapeake bay to Olongapo in the
Philippines where the government is
equipping a naval base and dockyard
The Dewey was constructed at a cost
of about 300000 and the cost of trans
porting it to the Philippines a distance
fyW -
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THE DliY DOCK DEWEY
of 15000 miles is estimated at about
300000 It will be towed by three of
the strongest colliers in the navy and
eight huge wire hawsers and twelve
thick manila hawsers will be used in
making connection between the dock
and the towing vessels The hawsers
weigh about a hundred tons and cost
23000
The Dewey is 500 feet long by 34 feet
wide and G3 feet high is of steel and
weighs about 11000 tons The route is
by way of the Suez canal and the
Dewey If she gets through will be the
largest structure which ever passed
through that waterway There will be
a tight squeeze in pulling it through as
the dock is almost as wide as the canal
itself The trip will be a slow one and
will consume from five to six months
but no special -obstacles to progress are
expected unless typhoons are encoun
tered In that case the dock might get
away from the colliers and the conse
quences would then be serious
Dream
a scientist explains some of the
strange phenomena of dreams by say
ing that they are due to what he calls
hereditary memory He takes the
falling through space dream and
points out that after suffering the men
tal agony of falling the sleeper es
capes the shock of the actual stopping
The explanation is that the falling sen
sations have been transmitted from
remote ancestors who were fortunato
enough to save themselves after fall
ing from great heights in treetops by
clutching the branches The molecu
lar changes in the cerebral cells due
to the shock of stopping could not be
transmitted because victims falling to
the bottom would be killed In a sim j
Uar manner by reverting to the habits
of animals which existed centuries ago
the same investigator finds an expla
nation for the mental state experienc
ed by individuals In various dreams
the pursuing monster dream the
reptile and vermin dream oolot
dreams suffocation dreams flyin
dreams and the like
Quack jMctllclncti of Uyprone Dayn
Nearly everything in the anima
kingdom was formerly used In the
healing art In the oldest medlcav
book now known composed In Ilelio
polls where once Joseph served in the
house of Potiphar we And means for
Increasing the growth of hair prepar
ed for Schesch the mother of Teta the
king of upper and lower Egypt
Dogs teeth overripe dates and
asses hoofs were carefully cooked In
oil and then grated As Teta lived be
fore Cheops this recipe for hair oil Is
older than the great pyramid at Gizeli
and is supposed to date back more than
6000 years The heads of venomous
serpents have held an important place
in medicine A strong broth madu
from them and mixed with salt auJ
spices and 100 other remedies was em
ployed under the name of theriac as a
cure for every conceivable disease
Three drops of the blood of an angry
cat gave relief to the epileptic
Camp Tidbits
The muskrat may be broiled over the
hot embers with sliced bacon so ar
ranged that the drippings run over the
musquash as it cooks or it may be
made into a stew with vegetables ana
pork and in this case the longer it
simmers over the fire the better will
be the results Only seasoned campers
ever have an opportunity to feast on
the delicious nose of a moose or know
the delights of marrowbones of deer
split and mixed with parched corn
meal and cooked all night or dried
venison pounded to fragments and
cooked with rich bears fat musk tur
tle soup porcupine steaks with hell
benders as a side dish And although
thousands of muskrats are killed and
eaten every year in Maryland and
Delaware probably but few of my
readers in the northern states will ex
periment with this rodent Outing
Chinese Cooklnpr SecretK
I once attended a mandarins ban
quet in Peking said an ex consul
and it was the most remarkable feast
I ever sat down to One course appear
ed to be plain hard boiled eggs Tho
eggs came on unadorned Their shells
were intact and yet when we broke in
to them we found that they contained
nuts and sweetmeats Another course
was whole oranges with unbroken
skins yet inside the oranges were five
different kinds of jelly The Chinese
guests took these two courses as a mat
ter of course but I in amazement ask
ed our host how on earth they had been
concocted He smiled and shook his
head
Ah that he said is my cooks
secret
Warren and Jefferson
Joseph Jefferson was playing Sher
idans comedy of The Rivals in
Boston on one occasion many years
ago His version of the play had been
arranged in such a way as to give
Bob Acres considerably more promi
nence perhaps than the author origi
nally intended occasionally at the ex
pense of the other characters Wil
liam Warren the old comedian sat
the play out and at its conclusion was
asked How do you like Jeffersons
Bob Acres
Capital capital replied Warren
and Sheridan twenty miles away
Carlyles AVay
Carlyle appears in a brief reminis
cence from the pen of Percy Fitzgerald
thus The thing with Carlyle was to
send out for a long churchwarden a
clay pipe and a screw of tobacco
which put him in great good humor
He talked to his plate as you might
say If anybody said anything from
which he dissented you would hear him
murmuring Oh the puir auld fool a
regular puir auld fool
More Liprlit
A case was being tried on the charge
of selling impure whisky The whisky
was offered in evidence Jury retired
to try the evidence Judge presently
What is the verdict Foreman of
the Thirsty Jury Your honor we want
more evidence San Francisco News
Letter
A Conjnsnl Tiff
Husband I see plainly you want to
get up a quarrel And In the street tool
Wait at least till we are inside our own
house Wife Impossible I shall have
cooled down before we get there
Paris Journal
Wanted to Find the Crumb
Mamma What ire you tearing your
doll to pieces for Hattle Im looking
for the crumb of comfort papa said
was to be found In everything
Man is the merriest of all the species
of creation Above and below him all
arc serious Addison
Every
Two Minutes
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Physicians tell us that all
the blood in a healthy
human body passes through
the heart once in every two
minutes If this action be
comes irregular the whole
body suffers Poor health
follows poor blood Scotts
Emulsion makes the blood
pure One reason why
SCOTTS
EMULSION
is such a great aid is because
it passes so quickly into
the blood It is partly di
gested before it enters the
stomach a double advan
tage in this Less work
for the stomach quicker
and more direct benefits
To get the greatest amount
of good with the least pos
sible effort is the7 desire of
everyone in poor health
Scotts Emulsion does just
that A change for the
better takes place even be
fore you expect it
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