acts gently yet prompt
ly on the bowels , cleanses
ike system eWectually ,
kissisfe one in overcoming
Kabitual constipaTion
ermanently. loget'As
lenejielal ejjects buy
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SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS-50 ! p rBOTTLL
Some 'Jliiii s ( o Kcmemhcr.
The fact that a parrot is green is no
sign that he is not a bird of ripe
experience.
The great drawback about yellow
Journalism is not that it is yellow , but
that it is read.
There Is nothing so wonderful but
that it might be more so. Niagara , for
Instance , would be far more marvelous
-If the water flowed the other way.
Jfany a man is modesty itself until
his children are born. It is then he begins -
gins to put on heirs.
It may be true that money talks , but
ft is so frequently tight that its con
versation is hardly worth repeating.
There is nothing that so destroys
one's pride of ownership as the early
morning call from the tax collector.
John Kendrick Bangs , in "Success Mag-
On IIIDignity. .
The chief of the gang of burglars wa3
dividing the s\vag.
"You played sick while the rest of U3
-7ore ( loins the work on that last job ,
iJill , " he said. "All you did was to locate
tfap plant. Hero's what you set for that. "
Bill counted the small wad and handed
ii ba"k.
"Kopp it , cap , " he said. "I'll be satis-
with honorable mention. "
.Send dealer's same and top from paimi
carton of * * 20-Mulc-Tcam" Borax , aua
- < % ! cents in stamps and % vo will mail illus
trated booklet. ( ii'vind many uses fop "Borax
la the Home. Farm and Dairy , " also this
iocc dcsidn. 15 by 16 inches , on cloth I
icady for working. FREE.
.Address Taclfic Coast Borax Co. , Chicago.
flnivk Ilfflex Action.
Shocked and Grieved Parent Tommy
where did 5011 g < 't those beautful littlt
spotted oss ? You have been robbing
. s aie bird's nost. yon wicked boy !
"Tommy I'm poin" to set the old hen
-on 'm , innmma. and laise some pretty lit-
rle birds , so jou can ] ) tit some more oi
. Tribune.
cin on your bat. Chicago
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for Chlld-
svn teething , softeus the gums , reduces In
flammation , all.iys pain , cuies wlud colic.
a bottle.
THE MUSSULMANS. \
Arc Xot Easily Disturbed
'IVIiilc SnyiiiR Tlicir Prayers.
When saying his prayers the true
Mussulman is not easily disturbed.
Hans Doering. in his account of bi3
travels in Chinese Turkestan , writes :
* Tt Is an interesting sight to see a
"Mussulman perform his devotions.
Through the piece of glass in my pa
per window , I saw the interpreter
spread his carpet in front of his house
Just opposite the one in which I was
.living. His wife and child sat quite
rloe to him talking loudly with some
visitors , but this did not in the least
listurb the old man at his devotions.
"In spite of the noise the melodious
chanting of the Koran was qute au
dible. The worshiper kotowed several
tflmes and cried 'Allah , Allah , Allah ! '
then for awhile stood reverentially
clasping his bands crosswise upon bis
&reast , after which he joined in the
conversation.
" 'His wife then went through the
same performance , doing exactly the
r-ume as her husband.t This they do
r every morning and e\'ening whether
there are friend- ? with them or not. "
SOMETHING ? OH EVERYBODY
The New York Central employs 50-
0-0 men and betveen $3,000,000 and
J > oCOO. < j0 ( i paid in monthly wages.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
i-i time of war have been tested in the
llyssian arnn- . Their speed is four
tunes as great as that of carrier pig-
"o-5.
If the real estate of Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
Its inlubitants each individual would
< wn ? .L'.02o worth , according to the as-
sesscd value.
I'rof. Carl von Noorden , addressing a
number of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the subject of "Food and
Nourishment , " declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi
ately after they have married is be
cause their wives give Them their favor
ite dishes en every possible occasion.
{ London Standard.
" \ egetnble milk" is used in Japan.
11 is made from the soja bean. The
liquid is exactly like cow's milk in ap
pearance , and in taste cai hardly be
distinguished from it. To make it the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
in water. Some sugar and phosphate
of potassium are added , and it is boiled
down till it has the consistency of con
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison I'arkmai. of Ern-
poria. Mr. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing in Chile. lie brought the seed
i < > America , and in the late seventies
he went to Kmporia to live. lie sowed
alfalfa in a farm which he bought and
the plant prospered. It was slow in
gaining popularity in Kansas , but is
now one of the State's most important
fora so crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
! iy lav.to take a weekly half-holiday ,
and there must be no shirking the obli
gation. The Grand Hotel , Auckland ,
was recently crowded with guests , and
f-evcral waiters , instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
half-holiday , remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori
ties came to hear of it and the proprie
tor of the hotel had to appear in court ,
u here he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant-
generals of the Confederate army. They
arc Gen. A. P. Stewart , ranking lieu
tenant-general of the Confederacy , of
Kiloxi , Miss. , and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Uuckner , of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
anniversary on October 7 last. Gen
eral P.uckner w.is a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer in 1S9G. lie was
eighty-five on April 1 last.
The German Emperor has a well-
'Yjuipped pottery which brings him in
S.'AOCO : i year. The Kins of Wurtein-
bprjj owns two large hotels which yield
bun a yearly income of some ? 10,000.
The King of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Meissen , and the
Regent of Lippe Delmoid runs a large
model farm from which lie sells butter
and milk and eggs. The King of Servia
is said to own a barber shop and an
apothecary shop , in addition to which
beholds an agency for mtotor cars.
I once had a cat that did a rather
remarkable ratting feat. lie stalked
two young rats on the eaves of a low
Hat stable roof , and caught one in the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob , how
ever , not satisfied with the one , grasped
it fiimljin his mouth , and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile , for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
in his mouth and the other in his paws ,
and promptly killed them both. The
Scotsman.
"Instances of desertion from the army
m Mexico are very rare and for the
best of reasons , " said Senor Jose de
Minaldex , of Nueva Leon. "The reason
lies in the almost sure capture of the
lugitive and the certainty that he will
get not one but numerous floggings on
his bare back. These lashings are done
in the presence of the comrades of the
deserter , and when the men see how
great is the suffering of the miserable
wretch who tried in vain to quit his
military obligations , they are forced
to conclude that it is better to stick to
the army than undergo such a terrible
ordeal ! " Baltimore American.
The earliest mention of corn in Kan
sas is found in the account of Coron-
ado's expedition in lo41-M2. Prof. Wil-
listen found charred corn in the ruins
of prehistoric Indian pueblos in Scott
County , estimated by him to be at least
two and a half centuries old. In some
af the rooms there was found charred
L'orn to a depth of five or six inches.
The first mention of growing corn in
Kansas of which there is any record IB
in the narrative of thv expedition of
nourgmonr , commander of the French
olony of Louisiana. Bourgmont found
' .he Kaw Indians cultivating corn on the
; > iesent town site of Douiphan in 172-1.
A strange story comes from one of
the Balkan states , where commercial
norality is still in its infancy. At a
recent banquet given at the house of
.he prime minister a distinguished dip-
unat complained to his host that the
Minister of Justice , next to whom he
, \.is r-itting. had taken his watch. The
irime minister said : "Ah , he shouldn't
uive done that. I will get it back for
. ou. " Sure enough , toward the end of
ho evening the watch was returned to
t owner. "Aid what did he say ? "
isked the guest. "Sh-h ! lie /docs not
mow I have got it back , " said the
n'lme minister. Philadelphia Record.
TnriiJ" Ilei'oriiiisis ; L ncic.
It is MTV comical to see the anxiety
of some liop'iblicm politicians foi
tariff reform. There is Uncle Shelby
Moore Cullom. of Illinois , who has
been Senator from Illinois tor the pas !
twenty-four years , : ud a member ol
the House of Representatives for six
teen years before iliaft now s.iys "Wt
must have tariff reform. ' ' Unfit
Shelby has kept his car cle.se to tin
ground during all his long public ca
reer and has fuithfu'ly ' voted for thu
tariff bills ilnt h-.vo filtered ami pro
tected the trusts and has been endorsed
ed in so doing by the Republican party
of Illinois , but now he wants reform
of some kind. Your Uncle Siielby is
too cute to say how much reform he
is h.uikering after , bevill. . of course ,
leave that to the Republican National
Couvcnlien. Iv.it ho wants a tariff bill
promised "alter election. "
Uncle Shelby probably does not c.sre
whether "the principle of protection"
is ana in endorsed by the Republican
party , or whether a maximum ami
minimum larilf. which would raise the
tariff higher , is the outcome "after
election. ' ' but he wants it uud"rstood
that before election be is for reform of
the boldest kind without specifying
what schedules shall be abolished nr
revised.
Your Uncle Shelby is no belter or
worse than the average Republican
politician , and his bold pronouncement
for tariff relorm "immediately after
election' ' is a. strong indication that
the nreat majority of the people of
Illinois have been clamoring for tariff
reform before election , and that it is
the part of wisdom to try and con
sole them with a promise for the fti
ture.
Can the people of Illinois be kept
in line for the Republican party auain
by promisesV What will they do t <
Uhde Shelby and the other Republi
cans who represent them if Their fav
orite son. UiHo Joe Cannon , is reelected -
elected Speaker atrain. and persists 5i
appointing a srand pat Ways and
Mc.uis Committee like the present oiu
that laughs and gibes at tariff reform
of the slightest kind ? Uncle .Toe is
backed by all the power and money ol
the trusts , and nothing but a political
revolution v\ill unhorse him.
In tact , nothing but a Democratic
majority in Congress , continued for.
nt le.tst. four years. Vv.iil reform the
tariff. If the Democrats control the
House of Representatives of the nex.t
Congress and pr'ss a tariff ivform bill ,
your Uncle Shelby will probably vott
in the Senate against it. I'.ut even if
he. forced by public opinion , should
rote for a tariff reform bill , there are
more than enouirh friends of the trusts
and combines in the Senate to defeat
It
It is safe to say that practically
Bvery Republican in the Senate and
House would vote against a Demo
cratic tariff retorm measure , just as
ihey have refused to consider the bills
Cor reforming the abuses of the tariff
That were before the committee at the
session just ended. There was the bill
to reduce the tariff rates that exceed
100 per cent. : ml the bill to abolish
the duty oil wood pulp and print pa
per were never reported from the
committee that Speaker Cannon ap
pointed and controlled.
It is no good to try and fool the
people with promises all the time. If
they want tariff reform they must not
Duly elect a Democratic House of
Representatives. but a Democratic
majority in the Senate also. The people
ple of Illinois will have th opportu
nity of defeating the re-election of
Senator Hopkins this fall , if they re-
illy want tar iff'reform , but they will
have to elect n Democratic State leg
islature to do so. There are over
twenty States th-l : will have a similar
opportunity. Hut will they do it ?
Two years later they will elect thirty
more United States Senators , and it
svill need a majority of these to be
Democrats to assure tariff reform.
\ny reform of value that will prevent
the trusts from charging Inch prices ,
jr from selling cheaper abroad than
it home , will never come from the Re
publican party , as now constituted.
The voters who want reform will
iavc to be steadfast in well doing , for
; t will take a long pull and a strong
mil to force the trusts to give up
: heir strangle hold on tjho American
Jeople.
American Deiiincrney.
In view of the record of the Roose-
elt administration : uul the Republican
najority at the last session of Con-
cress , the Democrats of the country
lave reason to rejoice at the possibil-
ty , if not the probability , of returning
o the control of the Government of the
Jnitcd States.
Never was there a time in our na-
ionai history when a practical appli
cation of the principles of the Demo
cratic party was more obviously or
irgently needed for the reformation of
ilw-cs. And since a frequent recur-
ence to first principles is of the high-
'St ' importance we purpose to furnish
L series of short articles reviewing the
irlnciples of Democracy. For , unfor-
unately , there was never a time when
here were so many men calling theui-
J selves Democrats , who seemed to knovi
slittle of triem. and to be so at vail
ance with them , as there are to-day.
There are two great characters
whose writings have been regarded as
expressing the fundamental doctrines
of the Democratic party James Madi
son , the Fath'Mof the Constitution ,
and Thomas Jefferson , the author of
the Declaration of Independence. No
act or policy conflicting with the doc
trines on which these two men were
agreed can fairly be called Democratic ,
as that term is understood in American
politics. Nor can any man whose con
duct in public life fails to conform to
such doctrines , be , with propriety ,
called a Democrat.
MADISON'S Tiinoitv.
In 17S9. M.ulNon addressed the Gen
era I Assembly of Virginia a memorial
and remonsiiaucc. in the course of
. \hicli he laid down the first principles
of free government thus :
"All men are to be considered ns en
tering into society on equal condition5 ? ,
as relinquishing no more , and , there
fore , retaining no less , one.than an
other , or their natural rights.
"Equality ought to be the basis of
every law. and is more indispensable
in proportion as the validity or expedi
ency of any law is more liable to be im
peached. "
Concerning the powers of rulers in
general , he said :
"Their jurisdiction is both derivative
and limited. It is limited with regard
to the co-ordinate departments ; more
necessarily is it limited with regard to
the constituents. The preservation of
a free * government requires not merely
that the metes and bounds which sep
arate "ach department of power be in
variably maintahud.'hut more especial
ly that neither of them be suffered to
overlap the great barrier which de
fends the rights of the people. The
rulers who are guilty of such an en
croachment exceed the commission
from which they derive their authority ,
and ? ire tyrants. The people who sub
mit to it are governed by laws made
neither by themselves , nor by any au
thority derived from them , and are
slaves. "
And nine years later , applying the
same principles to the Federal Govern
ment , in the Virginia Resolutions of
179S. he siid ; : '
"ThK assembly doth explicitly and
peremptorily declare that it vieus the
power of the Federal Government as
resulting from the compact to which
the St.-ites are parties , as limited by
the plain sense and intention of the in
strument constituting that compact ,
niul as no further valid than they are
authorized by the grants enumerated
in that compact. "
Then , adverting to the imperialistic
pirit of those days , which has been re
vived in an aggravated form in these
latter days , he ad.led :
"A spirit has. in sundry instances ,
ieei : manifested by the Federal Govern
ment to enlarge its powers by forced
onstructions of the Constitutional
barter which defines them ; and in-
lications have appeared of a design
: o expound certain general phrases
( which , having been copied from the
> ery limited grant of powers in the
'onner Articles of Confederation , were
: Im less liable to be misconstrued ) so
is to destroy the meaning and effect
> f the particular enumeration which
iccessarily explains and limits the gen-
ral phrases , and so as to consolidate
he states , by degrees , into one sov-
M-eiguty : the obvious tendency and in-
jvilable result of which would be to
ransform the present Republican sys-
em of the United States into an abso-
ute. or at best a mixed , monarchy. "
Xej ro Population in the Cities.
In view of Senator Foraker's appeal
o the negro voters to oppose Roose-
; elt and Taft in the campaign of 1908 ,
ind the manifest inclination of the
icgroes to act in accordance with For-
iker's advice , the Providence Journal
jives some interesting statistics relat-
ng to the distribution of the negro
jopulatiou of American cities. From
his it appears that Mound City , 111. ,
las the largest per centage of negroes
n its population of any other city , the
jercentage in 1900 l > eing 43. In some
> ther cities , it is very large , as shown
> y the following table :
Per cent
airo. Ill 40.o
iVashington. D. C ' 51.
s'ew Orleans. La 27.
Ulantic City. N. J 23.5
ialtimore , Md 15.
Svansville. Ind 13.
ndianapolisInd 9.5
'olumbus. Ohio (5.5 '
! t. Louis. Mo 0.
Miiladelphia Pa 5.
" (
Mttsburg , Pa" 4.5
'
'incinnati. Ohio . 4.5
Cew York. N. Y 2.
v
.oston. Mass 2.
'hicago. Ill 2.
' . j l
'leveland. Ohio 1.5
) etroit , Mich 1.5 ! j
The number of negroes in Baltimore j j
s 79.000 ; in Philadelphia , C.2.0UO : in j
; ew York. (50,000 ( ; in St. Louis. . ' 55.- ( ]
00 : in Chicago. 30.150 ; in Pittsburg ,
0,355 ; in Cincinnati. 14,000 : in Boston ,
1,000.
Evidently , the negroes will be a
trong factor in the coming election ,
Gil Ed BY
Only Surviving Ex-President of the
United States Succumbs to
Long Illness.
EM ) COMES UNEXPECTEDLY.
Country Shocked by News of Demise
of Democratic Leader Twice
Elected President.
G rover Cleveland , the only surviving
ex-President of the United States , died
suddenly Wednesday morning at his
home in Princeton , X. J. While it was
known that Mr. Cleveland had for the
past three months been suffering from
a severe attack of rheumatic gout and
acute indigestion , his death came as a
complete surprise to the country.
He had been a sufferer from gout and
aiabetes for more than two years. Early
in 190G he was stricken with an attack
of Indigestion , the result of diabetes ,
and for weeks was unable to partake
of any except liquid nourishment. A
CLEVELAND'S CABEEB HI SHOBT.
Born at Caltlwcll , Essex County , N. J.r
March IS. 1S37. Christened Stephen s
Grover Cleveland. J (
In 1841 family removed to FayettevlIIe ,
N. Y.
Served as clerk In a country store.
In 1S53 was appointed assistant teacher
of the New York Institution for the Wind.
For four years , from IS.jo , assisted his
uncle In preparation of "American Herd
Book. " and had a clerkship In a law linn
in Buffalo.
Admitted to the bar In l r.n.
Appointed Assistant District Attorney of
Hrit- County Jan. 1 , ISO : ; .
Defeated for the District Attorncyshlp of
Erie County In IfcCS.
Practiced Ian- .
Elected Sheriff of Erie County In 1870.
Elected Mayor of Buffalo la 1SS1.
Elected o\ernor of New York in 1SS3
by a plurality of UOO.OOO.
Elected President of the United States In
1SS1. Majority in the electoral college , 37.
Broke all records by vetoing 113 out of
9S7 bills.
Married France Folsom in the Whlta
use June l' , ISSO.
Defeated In campaign for re-election In
Engaged in the practice of law In Now
York.
elected President of the United States la
1S02.
Settled Venezuela boundary dispute la
1S05
After leaving White notice in l flG estaT > -
Hsbed home for his family in Princeton ,
N. J.
land married in the White House Miss
Frances Folsom , June 2 , 1SSG. She was
a daughter of his former law partner.
In 1SSS he was a candidate for a second
end term , but was defeated in the election
of that year by Benjamin Harrison. After
his retirement from public life he settled
in New York city. At the national Dem
ocratic convention held in Chicago in /
June , 1S92. he was for the third tima
named as his party's candidate for tha
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sojourn in the South improved his
health considerably.
Early last year he had a repetition of
the attack of Indigestion and for some
weeks his condition was such that his
life was despaired of. Mr. Cleveland
made a splendid fight for life and won.
In February last diabetes began to
make itself felt again , and Mr. Cleve
land became subject to spells of un
consciousness , coupled again with in
ability to assimilate food. Death final
ly came at 8:40 a. m. Wednesday.
Life of Cleveland u Busy One.
Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second
ind twenty-fourth President of the Unit
ed States , was born March IS , 1837 , in
Daldivell , N. T. In 1S41 the Cleveland
catnily removed to Fayetteville , X. Y. ,
where young Grover received his first
schooling , and where later at an early age
ie served as a clerk in a small country
store. Still later , when his parents set-
Lied in Clinton , N. T. , he pursued his
studies further , and -when only 17 he was
ippointed assistant teacher in the New
Fork institution for the blind. In 1855
Cleveland served a clerkship -with the law
irm of Rogers , Bowen & Rogers at Buf-
'alo. It was in that office that Cteve-
and began to read law. He was admit-
: ed to the New York bar in 1859. Mr.
Cleveland received his first public office
vhen appointed assistant district attor-
ley of Erie county. In 1SG9 he joined
.he firm of Lanninff , Cleveland & Folsom.
[ n 1SS1 he was nominated as the Demo-
Tatic candidate for Mayor of Buffalo and
vas elected by the largest majority ever
riven in that city , although the Repub-
ican State ticket was carried. In 1SS2
ilr. Cleveland ran for Governor of New
Cork against Charles J. Folgor , then
Jnited States Secretary of the Treasury ,
ind won by a plurality of nearly 200,000.
lis administration was notable for the
imple and unostentatious way in which
ie conducted the business of the State.
At the Democratic national convention
leld in Chicago in July. 1SS4. Cleveland
ras nominated by his party as its candi-
late for the presidency of the United
states and at the election in the follow-
ng November was chosen to that office ,
t was during his first term that Cleve- i
presidency and in the following Novem
ber was elected. After his retirement
from public office Cleveland lived with
his family at Princeton , N. J. Five chil
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cleve
land , of whom four , two daughters and
two sons , are living.
THE "WHITE HOUSE BHEDE. "
Prances Folsom Cleveland
Widow of the Late Ex-President.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland , tha
"White House Bride , " who is left to
mourn the death of Former President
Cleveland , was the youngest mistress
the White House ever had , as well as
the most favored by diplomatic society.
Her grief is shared sincerely by a host
MRS. GKOVEK CLEVELAND.
of friends , many unknown personally to
her , who were made in every State
while she was in the public eye as wife
of the President.
Mrs. Cleveland is the daughter of
Oscar and Emma C. Folsom , and her
father was the law partner of : > Ir.
Cleevland in Buffalo , where she was
born July 21. lbG4. -v
Miss Folsom became the wife of
President Cleveland on June 2 , 1SSO ,
the wedding ceremony being performed
in the Blue Room at the White House
in the midst of a brilliant assemblaga
