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.jrt? eS- 1 ft Columbus Journal By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Co. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. General News Senators Dolliver and Cullom stand apart from the rest of the republican members of the senate interstate com merce committee on the railroad rate question. The brotherhood of American yoe men decided to hold the next conclave in Minneapolis. A movement to in crease rates of insurance in the order failed to pass. Congressman Pino Guerra of Cuba Is charged by the prosecuting judge of San Juan y Martinez with the lead ership of the Insurrectionary plotting In that vicinity. Gross earnings of the Atchison in October are reported to have been about $G,750,000. This amount would exceed the gross earnings in the month last year by $1,200,000. The comptroller of the currency has been advised that by order of the board of directors the First National bank of Leesville, La., has closed its doors. No cause is assigned. The battleship Virginia completed her official tests in a four-hour endur ance run down the coast, during which she slightly exceeded her contract speed of nineteen knots an hour. General B. J. Viljoen is at El Paso, Tex., negotiating for land near there on which to found another colony for the Boers who recently abandoned their homes in Chihuahua, Mexico. Rev. David Claibourne Garrett, rec tor of the Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal) of Chestnut Hill, Boston, has received an invitation to become rector of St. Peter's church of St Louis. A dispatch to a news agency from Tokio says: "A message received from Seoul states that the Marquis $to was slightly injured by a stone thrown by one of a party of disorderly Kor eans Wednesday night." Foreign Secretary Landsdowne, in behalf of Great Britain, has accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to participate in the naval and military display on the occasion of the James town (Va.) exposition in 1907. The British foreign office informed the Associated Press that the porte. refused to accede to the demands of the powers, the naval demonstration will proceed, the matter no wbeing in the hands of the naval commanders. Cephas Poindexter, the murdered of Deputy Marshal Z. B. Wade, was hanged at Rocky Mount, Va. When taken to the scaffold he was asked if lie had anything to say, and he re plied. "They are hanging an innocent man." Thomas Taggart. chairman of the democratic national committee, ap pointed August Belmont of New York as treasurer of the committee to suc ceed George Foster Peabody, who re signed, it is stated, on account of sickness. The appointment of M. Revoil, for mer governor of Algiers, to represent France at the Morrocan conference has been decided upon. Mr. Revoil conducted the negotiations leading up to the Franco-German agreement in the conference. It was officially announced at Lon don that Sir Henry Sanderson, perma nent under-secret ary of the foreign of fice since 1S94-. retires early next year, and that he will be succeeded by Sir Charles Hardinge, now British ambas sador to Russia. It is authoritatively announced in Tokio that the embargo against Amer icans who desire to visit Port Arthur to investigate the conditions of their properties abandoned owing to the war, will be abandoned owing to the war will b eremoved in a fortnight. The report of the C. J. Devlin receiv ers, appointed by the United States district court in the bankruptcy pro ceedings of the Kansas coal magnate was made and showed: Total assets, $4.956,94S; total liabilities, $4,592,208. The contingent liabilities were esti mated at $674.6:9, but their value has not yet been fully determined. A new limited passenger train be tween Chicago and Los Angeles. Cal.. over the recently finished San Pedro line will be established December 17. The train which will be known as the Los Angeles limited, will be operated over the Chicago & Northwestern, Un ion Pacific and the new San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railways. Governor Joseph W. Folk of Mis souri says: "A state primary law should be enacted whereby nomina tions for state, county and municipal offices will be made by primary elec tions held on the same day all over the state by all political parties, with the same number of voting places as in a general election, and the expenses paid in the same manner. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw vis ited the Florida state fair and address ed 5.000 people. Judgment was rendered at Sioux City by Judge Gaynor of the district court against some twenty Indians on the Winnebago reservation in Nebras ka, upon accounts. Croceus. the world's champion trot ting stallion, record $2:02, was sold at auction in New York for $21,000 to M. W. Savage of Minneapolis. At Los Angeles. Cal., robbers broke Into the local Japanese bank at 111 East Fifth street and took cash amounting to $15,000. Young Theodore Roosevelt, son of the president, received a broken nose in a football game. The new police system established by an American instructor. George Jiminez, on lines similar to that in operation in New York, went into ef fect at Panama. The centennial celebration of the Christian church as founded by Alex ander Campbell will be celebrated in Pittsburg, Pa,, in October, 190. The government of Ecuador has ac cepted the invitation of Emperor Nich olas to take part in the second peace conference at The Tague. NEBRASKA TUCKER JURY LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL LINCOLN The supreme court has held that the new Tucker jury law, af fecting all counties outside of Doug las, Lancaster and Gage, is unconsti tutional and has denied the applica tion of Governor Mickey for a man damus to compel the canvassing board of McPherson county to pro ceed under the law in the preparation of a jury list The governor acted on the advice of the attorney general for the purpose of testing the law, which had been found to be so defective that it could not be applied. The opinion in the case will be filed later. The main defect in the statute, which was offered in the legislature by Senator Tucker of Richardson county, was the provision requiring the division of the number of voters by the number of precincts In the county to obtain the quotient which was to serve as the basis for the se lection of names from a list. The state legal department claimed that in most instances this resulting quo tient would be a fraction and that it was physically impossible to use it in picking out the names on the list. Other features of the act were also found to be inoperative because of vagueness. The invalidation of this act will leave the counties affected free to re sort to the old law in choosing juries. Nebraska Loans Money. LINCOLN Nebraska is loaning much money in the east, according to quarterly reports of the state banks now being received by Secretary Royse of the state banking depart ment, iteports from 250 of the 565 banks of the state have been received and it is evident that the total list of deposits for the quarter will exceed any quarter since the state banking department has been in existence. Many of the cities, counties and school districts of the state are re funding their bonded indebtedness at a lower rate of interest CITIZENS OF NEBRASKA HELD IN LAND OF CZAR LINCOLN Wealthy, respected and happy, Mr. and Mrs. George Schmidt of McCoolc decided to visit Russia, the land of their birth. Now the fam ily has been broken up by the Rus sian police and the authorities refuse to allow them to leave the land of the czar. They formerly lived in Lincoln and were married in this city Today Mar riage License Clerk Abbott received a letter from Rev. Gustav L. Henkle man of McCook, giving the details of the trouble. As soon as the two arrived in Rus sia they were apprehended. Mrs. Schmidt was sent to one colony and the husband to another. The Rus sians examined their marriage cer tificate and took it from them. Henkleman wanted a copy of the marriage certificate and Abbott fur nished it The minister will take the matter up with the Russian embassy in Washington. Both the prisoners are American citizens. They have several children. Fremont Vets Among Dupes. FREMONT Among the old soldier declaratory statements canceled by the United States land office at Grand Is land were about eighteen or twenty made by residents of Fremont They were procured by a smooth "locating agent," himself an old soldier, who represented to them that actual re moval to the land was not necessary, that they could dispose of their relin quishments, have credit for their length of service and when they proved up sell out at a good price. Most of them paid the agent $10 to $15. Buys Poison and Disappears. LONG PINE Utterly disheartened over a little domestic quarrel John Kurtz, night foreman at the North western shops and an old resident of this place, disappeared from home and had in his possession twenty grains of strychnine capsules purchased pre vious to his disappearance. With these, it is thought he has ere this ended his life. Union Pacific Hurrying Work. The Union Pacific has completed getting the right-of-way for its line up the North Platte valley. The land is all secured and work is progressing rapidly. Trampled by Cattle. NORFOLK U. T. Carl, a Wayne county farmer living between Norfolk and Hoskins, may die as the result of an attack made upon him by a bunch of cattle at his farm. He was tram pled by the beasts. Was An Old Ruling. State Superintendent McBrien has cleared up the mystery of the two county superintendents-elect who were said to have issued first grade certi ficates to themselves. In one instance It was a clerical error. In the other he has learned that the county super intendent issued himself a first grade certificate, under an old ruling, which has never been formally repealed. It was rescinded July 1. The superin tendent will give the official the advan tage of the technicality and recognize him as the legal head. Kills Large Gray Eagle. PLATTSMOUTH A large gray eagle, measuring seven feet from the tips of the wings, was killed by Harry Wiles, while the young man was hunting in the timber, the eagle at tacked him. Geneva School in Good Shape. Governor Mickey has returned from trip of inspection to the Girls In dustrial school at Geneva. He ex pressed his satisfaction with the man agement of Miss McClellan, the superintendent STATE NEWS NEBRASKA BRIEFS There is great demand for corn huskers in Gage and other counties. A number of cases of typhoid fever are reported in the town of Callaway. The corner stone of the new Con gregational church at Aurora was laid last week. The Sarpy County Teachers asso ciation will hold convention in Gretna Saturday, December 9. The present term of the district court of Custer county has twenty di vorce cases on its docket Farmers have been having splendid corn husking weather and they have improved it to the fullest extent The barn of W. H. Kennison of Ed gar was destroyed by fire, with all contents, including fifteen horses. Loss, $15,000. An independent telephone company, known as the Johnson County Tele phone company, has been organized at Smartville. Earl Sanford has been sentenced to fifteen months in prison from Fre mont for forgery. John Husky got a year for burglary. J. R. Huttemier, a young man 18 years of age, husked and cribbed 10G bushels of corn in seven hours at his home seven miles east of Beatrice. An attempt to commit suicide by Mrs. John P. Beard of York nearly terminated successfully. She has been mentally unbalanced for some time. The local lodge of Knights of the Maccabees has presented the city li brary of Tecumseh with one hundred volumes of standard works in fiction, history and poetry. Four coyotes were captured by two Sutherland men and their hounds in a few minutes the other day. The ani mals have become very numerous and their depredations have been exten sive. A building permit was issued to i. D. Foster of the Foster Grain com pany of Lincoln for the construction of an $8,000 elevator, with a 75,000 bushel capacity, at 1003 North Tenth street. Angry and chagrined Mrs. Cath erine Curry of Lincoln dragged her husband through the streets and threw him at the door of the woman he had been visiting. Curry was bruised and his head was injured. Harry Chambers, who deserted his young wife at lork several weeks ago, was brought back to face the charges. He was found in Colorado in the regular army, having enlisted, it is supposed, in order to avoid arrest Oscar Jacobson fell from a dray at McCool and was instantly killed by breaking his neck. He had jumped on the drav to ride home and in attempt ing to get off he in some way lost his balance which icsulted in his acci dental death. The people of Butler county are preparing to strike back at the Union Pacific and the Burlington railroads for the non-payment of taxes. These companies are contesting the revenu law and owe the county taxes for two years amounting to $20,895.33. Walter Applebee, a farmer living near Pickrell, was arrested on a com plaint sworn out by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Applebee, charging him with deserting her and her children. The case was set for hearing December 4 in the county court of Gage county. J. T. Elerbeck, a farmer living a few miles southeast of Beatrice, has purchased of W. E. Smith of Oketo, Kas., Logan B., the head of Mr. Smith's herd of hogs, for which he paid a fancy price. The hog weighs 1,100 pounds when in sow condition. The dead and mangled body of Earl Stearns, an employee of the Beaver City Mills, was found wound around the shaft at the mill which is situated a mile west of town. It is believed that he had been dead for fifteen minutes at least when his lifeless body was discovered by the proprie tor. While in a drunken condition near the Omaha agency Samuel White, 19 years old, accidentally shot William Walker, an aged Indian, with a re volver, the ball penetrating below the collar bone and coming out on the op posite side between the second and third ribs. Walker is in a critical condition. The tragic killing of a happy little boy. playing with his father and mother in a cornfield near Dorsey, is reported. Roland Dean Pickering was his name. His father and mother, be cause of the scarcity of corn huskers, were plucking corn. The little fellow hid under the wagon and was caught by the wheel and mashed to death. Ten requests for teachers, one a principal, is the record made by Peru normal in one day last week. Presi dent J. W. Crabtree says: "The school regrets that there is no one to recommend for these positions; those having finisheJ the course have se cured positions some time ago. and students attending prefer not to leave until their work is finished." The jury commission appointed un der the new jury law has selected 500 citizens of Cuming county from which list the jurors for the terms of court for next year will be drawn. Twenty six names have been selected from each voting precinct in the county. The foundation for the new normal library has been made, and work is well under way. The appropriation of $32,000 was made for this building by the legislature last spring. The stu dents are eagerly looking forward to the completion of this building, for the present library is crowded to its utmost Gotlieb Bockerman, aged 72 years, was instantly killed by a switch en gine in the yards of the Northwestern road at Blair. Mr. Bockerman, who is very deaf, was walking along the track toward his home and was struck on the forehead by the tender of the engine. In the district court at Fremont Harry Hurley of Mason City, la., who burglariously entered the Blatz beer vault there, was sentenced to serve one year and three months In the state penitentiary. He is a one armed individual, aged 25 years, and his home is at Mason City, la. Great Center of Russian Unrest W7IIEM& Kronstadt, the scene of a mutiny of soldiers and sailors ic which hun dreds were killed, is one of Russia's principal naval stations and form a separate administrative division of the empire. The forts and batteries are unsnally heavy, and made se espe cially for the protection of St. Peters burg. A revolt there would be a seri ous menace to the czar. Not only would St. Petersburg be at the mercy of the mutineers but Peterhof Palace, to the southward, could easily be seiz ed. Kronstadt is situated on Kotlin Island, thirty-one miles west of St. Petersburg. The Island, which was taken from the Swedes in 1703, forms an elongated triangle seven miles long by one mile in width. Its base is to ward St. Petersburg. On one side of the island is a shoal channel through which only small vessels may pass, while the channel south of the island is the marine highway to the capital. Heavy batteries defend the northern entrance, while the southern passage is dominated by Forts Alexander, Ris bank, Peter the Great, Constantine. Mentchikoff and Cronslott, all built of granite and armed with guns of largo caliber. Kronstadt has two harbors EDUCATION NEEDED IN RUSSIA First Requisite for Success of Popular Government. If popular government in Russia is to meet with even moderate success it will be necessary for that country to put every dollar it can raise for a good many years into educational fa cilities. Of the 120,000,000 of people in the empire 99,000,000 are unable to read. According to official statistics the number of persons in schools of all grades in Russia is 1.350,000. It takes a good deal of energy and strug gle in America to keep our public af fairs going as they should go and many costly mistakes are made. Yet in this country, with a population of two-thirds that of Russia, we have over 13,000,000 of our children and young people in schools, ten times as many as Russia-, and only 0,000.000 of our people, ten per cent, are illiterate, as compared with the 99,000,000, or ,0 per cent, of Russians. Nebraska State Journal. CHAMBERLAIN MAN OF REPOSE English Statesman Quiet in Manner, but Shrewd Observer. Of Joseph Chamberlain a critic says: "He is one of the most restful men I have ever met. There is no flurry or haste or bustle in his man ner. He is what our grandfathers would have called 'a dry stick.' His voice in conversation has a quizzical tone, his wit is dry, his manner is that of a shrewd and somewhat bored observer rather than that of an active participant. He leans back in his chair, sitting rather low, his hands folded, his eyes studying those about him with quiet, contemplative interest. He never appears eager to make a point in conversation, and one only be comes aware of the quickness and wakefulness of his mind by some shrewd remark which brings general conversation back to the point from which it first set out, or to some def inite conclusion. In Training for High Position. August Belmont III has begun his business training just as his father did. having gone to work in the bank ing house of August Belmont & Co. He is doing just such routine work as always falls to the lot of the youngest clerk in the establishment. The young man is quiet and earnest in manner, seeming intent on mastering whatever Is brought to his notice. When he shows that he has made good progress he will be promoted to a junior part nership, but for the next few years life will be real and earnest for Au gust III. Just as the first August Bel mont trained the present head of the house for the vast responsibilities he was to assume, so the youngest Au gust Belmont is to be trained for the task which will be his when his father lays down his work. School for Backward Children. Miss Olive Jones has established in the heart of New York's swarming east side a school for backward chil dren. The children in each class will be of practically the same age and will have equal opportunities to learn. Miss Jones hopes that one'of the great causes of truancy will be remedied in her school, children who have for any reason got behind their mates and have to join classes with the little fel lows are made fun of and to avoid this ridicule these backward big ones play truant. Beauty's Troubles. It is one of the most difficult things in the world for a girl to be happy if beautiful. People are jealous of her; women she has "cut out" and men she has ignored both unknowingly, perhaps say odious things of and to her. The pleasure of ordinary social intercourse is marred for her by the other women's Inevitable distrust. The man her best friend loves will probably fall in love with poor Clor inda, who doesn't care tuppence for him. The World and His Wife. S A , v -aa-. XBGVZ&r sW iffF ,Kt & -- Bmmmmmssmm nr' -"e5 . HiKKaw n liy, cilHUiMIW -JTP -"?"-. S!Zr&?2iZ&ZKr7J&ZlY47rl?Jfl' ' l!illl ' flM " -o,a qKK'nv . i i! nimiwB JSi-wis---. "- S,?&Z2Mfi0VkZ''toar 'iT iriKi'llM for naval vessels and one commercial harbor, capable of accommodating 1.000 ships. During the winter season part of the transportation, of freight to St. Petersburg is effected on railways built on the ice. The town has' a population of about 65,000, but the in dustries are chiefly in connection with the government navy yards. It was founded by Peter the Great in 1710, and the house in which he lived is one of the show places. In some of the . imlolmhhb s mmmMmiiiMz r - - JsQE2Zl&Z&!ZZE22 HANDICAP JUST ABOUT RIGHT Local Man Unaware He Was Up Against Champion. John Roberts, the English billiard player, has just returned from a trip to Australia. One day he was in a small city on the big island, when a lo cal player entered the billiard room where Roberts was. The local man did not know Roberts. Some of his friends who did put up a joke on the Austral ian. They whispered to their unsus pecting champion that the stranger in the corner was a very good player, who might be able to give him a few points. The provincial was nothin loath and requested Roberts to nlav a game oi wv with mm. Huberts replied that he would be pleased, and as to a .. - . ... . . . . . handicap he said he would reserve the right to fix that after he had seen the local man play his first stroke. This offer was considered a somewhat strange one by the challenger, but he accepted it and opened the game with a miss. Roberts then said: "I will give you 99," and proceeded to run out with an unfinished break of 100. THINKS FAIRY TALES DO HARM English Duchess Would Have Children Learn Lives of Great Men. From London comes news that the duchess of Somerset has ordered the teacher of her village school no longer to read fairy tales to the children. The duchess explains her abhorrence of myth and legend in these peremp tory words: "I protest against filling children's mimls with such nonsense and such unpractical ideas. They should be taught from their earlier years, instead, the lives of the world's great men. Julius Caesar, Dante. Na poleon and Milton." Now. it is rather unfortunate for the citation of great men by the duchess that one of them, the first Napoleon, is credited with the cynical statement that "history is a fa ble agreed upon." while the names of Messrs. Dante and Milton are pre served as the authors of great works of imagination. And as for Julius Cae sar, well, he was no novice at fairy tales. The arbitrary duchess has no little boy or girl of her own. Boston Globe. Meant to Be Complimentary. At a reception given in Paris not long ago by Lady Colebrook a French municipal councilor wished to compli ment an Englishwoman and her pretty daughter. The mother wore a fawn coiored gown, the girl being in pink. "Milady." said the councilor, "your lovely daughter might well be called the pink of beauty." "An. monsieur," was the reply, "you are prone to flat tery. I fear." "But no," said the Frenchman, whose knowledge of Eng lish is somewhat limited. "I speak but the truth. Indeed, all must admit that mademoiselle is the pink and you the drab of beauty." Fifty Years in Bed. ' A woman has died recently in Car marthenshire, Scotland, to whom a strange story attaches. Fifty years ago, when she was twenty-four, she fell in love with a man who won f-om her a pledge to marry him. Her par ents, however, disapproved of her choice, the mother declaring that sooner than permit her daughter to ved the youth she would keep her in bed all her life. Strange to say the girl took to her bed at once, and rever rose from it again, losing all interest in the outside world. Novelist's Widow in Poor Health. Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, who has made her home in San Francisco for several years, is in very poor health and has gone to Lower Califor nia to recuperate. Mrs. Stevenson has identified 'herself with a literary co terie in San Francisco and her home is a sort of literary salon. She recently completed a new edition of her hus band's works in which she has sup plied a large amount of new material bearing upon the life of the disting uished novelist. churches specimens of Peter's work as a carpenter are also enshrined. In the matter of schools Kronstadt is fairly well equipped, there being a school for sailors, a naval academy and two gymnasia. Two canals traverse Kron stadt, whose streets are regular and well paved, but all the houses, with the exception of those owned by the government, are chiefly of one story only. The commerce of the town is highly important. Irtish ,!Jlljj5?,'- !-4kt ztmrn iiii LUK! r-lCggZES55t-gg.1 Wn j: 71 'mZP &&F MEANS EXPANSION OF TRADE Increased Output of Gold Will Have Good Effect Feast days and holidays. Sundays and work days throughout 1905, each will give the world over a million dol lars of new gold. The mines of the earth will yield this year $375,000,000 of gold. F. A. Vanderlip. the New York banker, looks forward in the near future to an annual average out put of $400,0(10,000 of new gold for at least a considerable number of years. He does not think this startling yellow flood will be a yellow peril to those business relations which are based on terms of money so as to cause any vi tal derangement of affairs. But he does think there is likely to follow just what followed in the two former periods of the world's history when there was an extraordinary production of gold added to the monetary stocks. One of these periods followed the dis covery of America when the treasures' of Mexico and Peru were exploited. The other was in the years following the discovery of gold in California and Australia. In each case a mighty im pulse was given to the exploitation of virgin fields of development. It is not improbable that the next few years will witness the expansion of the field of commercial enterprises into new iuaces. countries mat are commer cially and industrially backward will yield to this important influence. At our hand is South America on one side and China and Japan on another. Beyond are Africa, the other Asiatic countries, and eastern Europe. The Yankee rapidly is awaking to their commercial possibilities. If he will have an influx of gold more than am ple to sutsnin the credit operations for ! I,is (inmesl'- affairs he will Iouk to ' vim,- ftif.l.. r t....v ..: r n.i. ..? , "L" '"'" v.jwm.iuuii. "so of cred't which thes The wider e new fields ' ,T"l1I 7filnT,i in -.. ..Hl.nl.l.. ...Xtl 1 ..in wi nj 111 miu iiwuiiuii win ai- sorb the increasing gold stock in be neficent uses, preventing it from ever becoming a serious menace r busi ness organizations. Chicago Tribune. MICROPHONE IS THE LATEST Brings London and Rome in Telephon ic Communication. Tete-a-tete between London and Rome. 1.100 miles apart, is the latest telephone revelation. Prof. Majorama has invented the microphone for use with the telephone, whereby experts of London and Rome have already held disjointed conversation. To es tablish telephonic communication be tween the two cities is said to be per fectly simple, provided the connecting wires are thick enough. It is merely a question of money. In telephoning long distances sections of wire are used, which are effective for inter mediate points, but perhaps not sub stantial enough for the entire distance. Failing the necessary .substitution of thicker wires the alternative is the use of the microphone, which makes it possible to hear words transmitted over the thinner wires. The longest distance for effective telephoning from London is at present to Marseilles, 800 miles distant Could Not "Rattle" Schwab. It takes a good deal to disturb the mental equilibrium of Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate, and the Clover club of Philadelphia realized this ar its latest dinner. Mr. Schwab was one of the guests and was down for a speech. When he began his re marks the club members started their usual catcalls and interruptions, with their accustomed object of disconcert ing the peaker. Very few men are able to withstand this assault, but Mr Sch wall was leady. He was suave and self-posessed throughout the ordeal, and when the din became so great that he could not be heard he calmly turned to a neighbor on the platform and started to tell his story. These were new tactics for the Clover club, and after a few trials the steel man was permitted to complete his speech. Shock to His Pride. "A well known dramatic author told me he once took a couple of friends to a play of his own. ' says Frank Drome. "He did riot mention to them that he was the author. Their faces as the play proceeded lengthened; it did not seem to be their school of comedy. At the end of the first act they sprang to their feet. "Let's chuck this rot," suggested one. "Let's gc somewhere else," suggested the other. The well known dramatist fol lowed them out. He thinks the fault must have been with the dinner. Wants America to Found School. Shaban Bey, a leader of the Alban ian insurrection against Turkey, has arrived in this country and will try to interest the American hoard of foreign missions in his psoject for a boy's school in Albania. The sultan has set a price u ua his head. Shaban has been w-ounded several times in fights vrith the hated Turkish soldiery. He thinks that if the boy's school were es tablished by the American board the sultan would not dare interfere with it for fear of offending this country. CONVINCING EVIDENCE That Dr. Williams Pink Pills WiH Cwr Rheumatism. ' People can core themselves of a good many common ailments at a very Binoll cost if they go about it the right way," said Mr. Hoar, recently. "For instance, 1 have just cured myself of a very pain ful disease. I might have begun to treat it sooner, that's all the mistake I made in the matter. But I found the root of the difficulty and I picked out the right remedy without the aid of & doctor. "It was really ali in my blood. I first felt a twinge in my left foot mid ankle iu the middle of last Januurv, following exposure to cold. I realized I had rheu mutism and I knew that really conies from 1k1 blood. Cold iinply develop. it. Then my bunds and feet were cold and clammy even in hot weather, and numb a great part of the time. I cou eluded that my blood was thin and poot ami the circulation sluggish. "After a time my feet and ankles swelled so badly that I could only tio my shoes half way un. Mv legs swelled terribly mid I could walk" only a sliorl distance before giving out completely "When I read of the cures of nit kinds of blood diea.-es. that had been effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, 1 was con vinced that they were jiva the reined v for my case, mid so it proved. I could see that they were benefiting mo before I hud quite used up the first box. The improvement was decidedly marked u. ter I hud taken two boxes. " Three more boxes restored my hands and feet and legs to natural size and feeling and then I stopped taking medicine and have since been perfectlv well." Mr. F. LeRoy Hoar lives at No. 13S Constitution street. Bristol. R. I. Any one can get convincing evidence that Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills have cured anaemia, rheumatism, erysipelas and other serions diseases of the blond by simply writing to the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Parisian Market Porters. The porters of the. market place in Paris carry, strapped on their backs, great baskets full of garden produce. Often one sees a man with a load of cabbage that is bigger than himself. Value of Private Cars. A few years ago only men of great fortune possessed private cars. Now adays there are so many of these palaces on wheels that their value is estimated at $72,000,000. Symbol of the Cross. The symbol of the cross is used in the religions of the aborigines of North and South America, and by the most ancient nations of Europe, as well as by Christians. River Rises Forty Feet. The famous Tugela river, in South Africa, is said on one occasion to Lave risen forty feet during a single night, owing to thunderstorms on the moun tains. Old Mother Nature. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Emerson. Idaho Joins. Fraser, Idaho, Nov. 27th (Special) Mrs. Martha J. Lee has given for pub lication the following statement, con cerning Oodd's Kidney Pills: "I was down with Rheumatism three times." she says, "and each time Dodd's Kidney Pills helped me. The last time they cured me. and now I am able to get around and do all my work, though I am fifty-eight, and I can walk to Suiiday School every Sunday. Before I took Dodd's Kidney Pills I was so bad I could use neither bend nor foot. I shall keep Dodd's Pills on hand all the time." Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid crystallizing in the muscles. Healthy kidneys remove all Uric Acid from the blood. Diseased Kidneys cannot remove this Acid which collects in the blood and poisons every vein and artery. Dodd's Kidney Pills cure Rheumatism by curing the Kidneys; by healing and strengthening them. so that they can rid the blood of all impurities. Valuable Pair of Scissors. The German emperor not long back received a pecular present a pair of scissors, but so exquisitely made as to be valued at nearly $."00. A steel merchant was the giver. He had the emperor's portrait and some celebrat ed historical buildings engraved on the scissors. The engraver is said to have worked five years at his task. The North Pole. It is often said that, when the North Pole is discovered there will be found a Scotchman doing busineoJ. The Highlander always ranked foremost amongst the pioneers of the Ameri can West. 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