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Columbus Journal
By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Co.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
News in Brief
Next year's session of the Geolog
ical Society of America probably will
be held in Mexico.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
says John R. Walsh's banking meth
ods were bad but not criminal
John D. Rockefeller is said to have
under consideration the idea of an
endowment for old-age pensions.
The report of the Panama Canal
commission to Secretary Taft finds
no reason why the work should not
be carried on to a successful comple
tion. All the French cardinals met In
Paris to discuss their attitude toward
the separation of church and state
and forward a cipher dispatch to
Rome.
Justice Leventritt at New York de
cides that the purchased has the right
to sign the name of the person from
whom he purchased it to a railroad
ticket
Advices received at the state de
partment are to the effect that the
threatened trouble between Columbia
end Venezuela has probably been
averted.
The oil and paint departments of
the Original Pressed Steel Car com
pany's plant in Lower Allegheny, Pa.,
were destroyed by fira The I02S will
be fully $50,000.
Chancellor Chaplain of the Wash
ington university, St Louis, talked on
football to the teachers' association
at Jefferson, Mo. He dilated upon the
evil results of the game.
Senor Moret, the Spanish premier,
says it Is his opinion that the forth
coming conference on Moroccan af
fairs will lead to a sincere and lasting
agreement between France and Ger
many. McCall has already turned over to
the New York Life Insurance company
a check for $235,000, covering the
moneys that Andrew Hamilton re
ceived in 1904 and which are yet un
accounted for in detail.
The United States Steel Corporation
has completed surveys for a belt rail
road from Milwaukee and Chicago
around the southern end of Lake
Michigan through Kalamazoo and
Grand Rapids to Muskegon, Mich.
The entire plant of the American
Shipbuilding Company in Bay City,
Mich., was destroyed by fire, entail
ing a loss of over $250,000. The fire
started about 11:30 in the furnace
shop and quickly spread to the other
buildings.
Frederick O. Howe of Cleveland, In
an address before the joint session of
the economic and political science as
sociations in Baltimore, declared
against "government by privilege" and
says municipal ownership will give
free cities.
The appropriation of $1,000 passed
by the house of representatives of
Cuba to aid the striking cigarmakers
of Key West is not likely to pass
the senate, as the finance committee
adopted an almost unanimous report
opposing it
Alexander MacDowell, a Birming
ham, Ga., negro, who attempted the
life of Policeman Henry Nichols at
EJkmont was pursued by 100 men
and brought back to town with a rope
around his neck and his body riddled
with bullets.
At La Rochelle. France, troops
charged the striking dock laborers
with bayonets as they were attempt
ing to gain entrance to the docks in
order to force the laborers there to
cease work. A number of persons
were wounded.
Major Hugh J. Gallagher, commis
sary depart, U. S. A., who has for the
past year been acting as assistant
purchasing agent of the isthmian
canal commission, has been detached
from that service and ordered to Ma
nila February 1.
Crime is on the Increase in London,
says William B .Curtis, writing from
Washington, despite the strict en
forcement of justice and the fact that
$13,000,000 a year is spent on the po
lice, prisons, courts and other means
of checking the lawless.
Huntington, Ind., has been selected
as the meeting place of the American
Christian church convention in Octo
ber of this year. Arrangements were
completed recently whereby the
quadrennial gathering of ministerial
and lay delegates goes there. The
convention will be organized with
about 600 delegates.
Judge McPherson in the United
States district court at Philadelphia
refused a new trial to Henry Lear, the
former president of the Doylestown.
Pa., National bank, convicted last
September of misapplication of the
funds of the defunct institution. The
case will be taken to the United States
district court of appeals.
A Chilian syndicate has made the
lowest bid for the building of a rail
road from Arica in Chili to La Paz in
Bolivia.
The annual tournament of the In
door Rifle league of the United States
will be held at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
February 12 to 17.
Fire at Harrisburg 111., destroyed
the buildings on the east half of the
public square and caused a loss of
over $60,000.
Mrs. Stella Brennan, convicted of
murdering her three stepchildren, was
sentenced to life imprisonment at
Minneapolis, Minn.
William H. Payne, one of the oldest
grain dealers in New York and an
art critic of national reputation, is
dead of heart disease.
The mistake of a Paris switchman
resulted in a street car accident in
the Avenue de la Republique, in which
twenty-two persons were injured.
The funeral of Charles T. Yerkes,
the late traction promoter, took place
from his at Fifth avenue and Sixty
eighth street, New York. The funeral
services were conducted by a Quaker
mlnester. They were simple and at
tended only by members of the family
and a few close friends of Mr. Yerkes.
Three Wives Meet
An Arkansas City man who had
twice been divorced took 'his third
wife to the theater recently. His two
earlier wives have become good
friends, and when the couple took
their seats, the man looked around,
and, to' his consternation, saw he had
three wives in a row beside him.
The Chronic Bachelor.
The age of a house can sometimes
be concealed by a few coats of fresh
paint Theoretically, it is the same
with a woman. Cleveland Leader.
Camels Outdone.
Other creatures than the camel are
able to get along for extended period
without drinking. Sheep In the south
western deserts go for forty to sixty
days in winter without drink grazing
on the green, succulent vegetation ol
that season.
To Break up Fresh Cold.
It Is well to remember that a fresh
cold In the head may sometimes b
broken up immediately if treater
early by snuffing warm salt water up
the nose from the" palm of the hand.
Own Carriages in Common.
A curious custom exists in Genoa,
Many of the well-to-do people, as well
as those in moderate circumstances,
do not own either horses or carriages.
They own only an interest in them.
Four or five or half a dozen great
families club together and buy a car
riage and horses; then they arrange
among themselves the days the differ
ent families will use it
Water Supply Decreases.
A shrinkage in the world's water
supply has been predicted by M. Mar
tel, the French explorer of caves, in
a lecture. Through the erosion and
corrosion of the earth surface, he said,
the water level is being continually
lowered, and unless measures for pre
venting this were adopted, a large
part of the world will a few centuries
hence die of thirst
What She Means.
When a married woman says she
has all the rights she wants, what she
really means is that she has a good
husband. In An.erica most men are
so much better than the law that most
women never find out how bad the law
is. Woman's Journal.
A New Being.
Shepard, 111., Jan. 8th (Special)
Mrs. Sarah E. Rowe, who is residing
here, says she feels like "A New Be
ing," although she is in her fifty-seventh
year. Why? because she has
taken Dodd's Kidney Pills, that well
known medicine that has put new life
into old bodies, and has come as a
God-send into homes of sorrow and
suffering. She says:
"No one knows what awful torture
I suffered with Rheumatism and Kid
ney Trouble, until I got cured by
Dodd's Kidney Pills. This grand rem
edy drove the Rheumatism out of my
body, nothing else ever did me any
good. Dodd's Kidney Pills are worth
one hundred times their price, for they
have made me, though I am fifty
seven years old, a new being. I am
in better shape now than I have been
for many years and I owe it all to
Dodd's Kidney Pills."
The Kiss in Ancient Times.
Individuals of princely rank once
expected the kiss of respect from
their inferiors, but this custom is al
most obsolete. A kiss was conferred
as a formal mark of favor by crowned
heads at jousts and tournaments
Princess Margaret daughter of James
I of Scotland, kissed the poet Alain
Vhartier for saying so many nice
things about her, though he was one
of the ugliest men in the kingdom.
Substitute for Eyesight
The value of a visual apparatus is
so apparent that one can hardly con
ceive of a creature achieving much
without it yet among ants will be
!ound many diligent and effective
'workers" who are blind, though ant
soldiers and other members of the ant
community have large eyes. The blind
ants, who do the most complicated
work of the nest have substitute
senses in their antennae.
First Apples Brought to America.
John Winthrop is usually held re
sponsible for the introduction of the
apple into the New World. But as a
matter of fact when Winthrop an
chored off Cape Ann the recluse Black
stone already had apple trees grow
ing about his cabin at Shawmut Neck.
Some of the best of our American ap
ples were brought over by the Hugue
nots, who settled in Flushing, L. I.,
in 1660, and planted there, among oth
ers, the pomme royale or spice apple.
INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION.
How Food Headed Off the Insidious
Disease.
The happy wife of a good old fash
ioned Michigan farmer says:
"In the spring of 1902 I was taken
sick a general breaking down, as it
were. I was excessively nervous,
could not sleep well at night, my food
seemed to do me no good, and I was
so weak I could scarcely walk across
the room.
"The doctor said my condition was
due to overwork and close confine
ment and that he very much feared
that consumption would set in. For
several months I took one kind of
medicine after another, but with no
good effect in fact I seemed to grow
worse.
"Then I determined to quit all medi
cines, give up coffee and see what
Grape-Nuts food would do for me. I
began to eat Grape-Nuts with sugar
and cream and bread and butter three
times a day.
"The effect was surprising! I be
gan to gain flesh and strength forth
with, my nerves quieted down and
grew normally steady and sound,
sweet sleep came back to me. In six
weeks' time I discharged the hired
girl and commenced to do my own
housework for a family of six. This
was two years ago, and I am doing It
rtill and enjoy if Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, "The Road to WellTUle," la
Pkgs.
YEAR ONE
All Records Broken by
It has been a year of glistening na
tional prosperity and its brightness is
reflected into the year that is to come.
Nowhere on the horizon Is there
visible a cloud of doubt that next year
will be as generous-handed as hss the
year whose bell has just tolled. All
records of prosperity for this and for
any other country have been broken
by the harvests, manufacturers and
the commerce of the United States
of America for the twelve months
which now have slipped finally Into
the past
The North has had a prosperity In
which the West has shared, and the
South simply is fat with plenty. No
principal crop in the United States
has failed. For the bushel sown, the
earth has returned its twenty fold. It
is not necessary to give the figures
in order that the great fact may be
grasped. In all the staples of life the
year has broken the record of yield.
It is possible that in the case of cot
ton an exception should be made, but
of the southern staple there has been
a production as large as the people of
the cotton-growing- sections could
have wished. The prices are high;
everyone had some cotton and every
one has a share of the selling price.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
said that the well-being of the Ameri
can farmer Is a matter of the pro
foundest interest to the entire coun
try. He might have gone farther and
have said that the well-being of the
entire country depends upon the well-
being of the American farmer. It has
been a year of unsurpassed prosperity
to the agriculturists of the country.
Production has been unequaled, and
as the wealth and the happiness of
all depend upon that which springs
from the ground, we go back to the
basis and the proper place for the
prophecy of happiness when we stand
upon the farm.
By the time that the new year has
run half its course It is probable that
there will be a fuller and better un
derstanding between the sister coun
tries of North and South America.
The third conference of the pan
American states is to be held in Bra
zil, and there the Secretary of State
of the greatest of the American coun
tries will meet with the officials of
the smaller republics, and out of their
conferences and discussions it is be
lieved will come plans which, when
put to the working test, will make se
cure upon a firm foundation the peace
of two continents.
It is probable that before the first
session of the Fifty-ninth Congress
sees the day of adjournment that a
national quarantine law will be passed
which will reduce to a minimum the
danger of yellow fever epidemics in
the South.
It is probable that before the new
year becomes an old year two stars
will be added to the flag of the United
States, Arizona and New Mexico, join
ed to become one state, and Okla
homa and Indian Territory, joined, to
become the other. When this end is
accomplished, there will be no terri
tories left in the Union, and the year
1906 will go down in history as the
year which saw the fulfillment of the
dream bf the fathers.
To go again into the immediate past
it may be said for the last of the old
years that it saw the making of a rec
ord for American commerce in both
matters of exports and of imports.
The year 1904 produced the first bil
lion dollar record for Imports; the
year 1905, saw a material increase,
and during each one of its twelve
months the value of the imports
amounted to practically $100,000,000.
against an average of less than half
that amount only a score of years ago.
The exports of the United States,
as an official puts it, "never touched
the billion dollar mark until the yeat
1895, and have never in any calendar
year been as much as a billion and a
half dollars in value; but, this year
they have considerably exceeded that
figure and will approximate a value
of $1,600,000,000." None of the of
ficials who make a study of trade con
ditions has been able to discover any
thing in the future which should pre
vent a like marvelous growth of the
commerce of the United States dur
ing the coming year.
The manufactures of the country in
creased their share during the last
year in both imports and exports of
the United States. The increase in
the importation of manufacturers' ma
terials in the ten months ending Nov
1. 1905, amounted to $81,000,000, an
increase of 21 per cent over the cor
responding period of last year, while
the increase in all other imports
amounted to but $54,000,000, an in
crease of 12 per cent over the corre
sponding months of 1904.
In the matter of exports of manu
factures the value of increase during
ten months of 1905 was $58,000,000,
an increase of 14 per cent, while the
gain of all other exports was about
$50,000,000, an increase of 7 per cent
over the same months of last year.
HIGH MARK IN CROP FIGURES.
Products of the Farm Make a Remark
able Showing.
Crop figures for the year establish
ed a new high mark, both as com
pared to yields per acre on many
grains and in the aggregate produc
tion. The year's statistical story will
be found in the following tables:
Inc. over
Bushels. 130i. Record
Corn .... 2.707.993.540 9.? 2.666.440.273 1899
Winter w't 42S.462.834 2S.9 45S.S34.501 1901
Spring w't 264.516.655 20.5 293.1S5.322 1899
T'l wheat. 62.979.4S9 25 3 74S. 460.218 1901
Oats .. .. 950.116.197 6.2 9S7.S42.704 1902
Barley ... 136.651.029 2.2 139.748.958 1904
Rye 27,616.043 1.4 33.630.592 1902
Buckw't . 14.585.082 3.3 22.791.S33 1866
To'l cer. 4.530.041.3S2 10.6
Flaxseed . 28.477.753 21.3 29.2S5.Q00
Potatoes . 260.741.294 21.6 332.830.300
Rice 12,933,436 38.6 21.096,033
Decrease.
AGRICULTURAL VALUES.
Inc. over
1905. 1904. Record
Corn n.H6.69.738 2.6 $1,087,441,440
Wheat ... 618.072.727 1.5 513.472.711
Oats 277.047.537 .8 303.584.852
Barley ... 55.047.166 6.1 61.898.634
Rye 16.754.657 10.7 24.589.217
Buckwh't 8.565.499 3.2 22.791.839
1902
1904
1904
1904
1901
1902
1902
1891
1866
T'l eer..$1.992.1S4.324 1.4 $1,964,579,445 1904
Potatoes . 160.821.080 6.6 151.638.0fr4 1903
Hay S15.959.784 2.4 570.882.871 1893
OF GREAT PROSPERITY
the Harvests Manufactures and Commerce of the
United States.
The Washington officials who deal in
the statistics of manufacturers hold
that there is every apparent Indica
tion that the prosperous showing of
the last year is to be more than du
plicated in the year that Js to come.
It is a fairly well established fact
that coming unhappy events cast long
shadows before. The students of the
situation look not only at the matter
Immediately In hand, but they look at
all the conditions of commercial life:
the state of the country's finances,
the likelihood of tariff changes, the
possibilities of commercial wars, and,
in fact, at all other things upon which
government agents make reports.
They look at all these things before
they attempt anything of prophecy,
and when they do consent to prophecy
they do not put. it in black and white
because there is always a chance of
the arising of something hitherto un
known; but they do consent to give
an expression of their belief in the
future, founded upon the best knowl
edge which is given to them from all
available sources. It is only the crop
expert who in the winter, the time
of the death of vegetation, refuses to
say one word as to the future, for the
time of long distance weather fore
casts has not yet arrived.
The view of the coming year as it
touches exports and imports and the
manufacturers of the country is to be
expressed only by the much-used and
apparently well-liked word, rosy.
Should there be those who look
only to the purse as the standard of
a people's happiness, it may be said
that there is more money in circula
tion among the inhabitants of the
United States to-day than ever there
has been lefore. Despite bank troub
les here and there the financial insti
tutional solidity and prosperity of the
country seems to have a foundation
of rock which cannot readily be worn
away. The light shines ahead.
DISASTERS DURING THE YEAR.
Earthquake In Italy the Worst Calam
ity Recorded in 1905.
Disasters were numerous during
,1905, though there was no calamity
involving such. great loss of life or
such horrors as accompanied the burn
ing of the Iroquois theater at Chicago
in 1903, or of the steamer General SIo
cum at New York in 1904. Leaving
out of consideration the Russo-Japanese
war, the greatest disaster of the
year occurred in Calabria, Italy, where
400 lives were lost through an earth
quake Sept. 8. Nearly as many deaths
were recorded as due to the collapse
of a partially constructed reservoir
near Madrid, Spain, April 8.
The most serious disaster in the
United States was the tornado in
Texas, April 29. At Laredo 100 lives
were lost. A tornado in Oklahoma,
May 11, caused nearly as many deaths
in the town of Sidney. A fire in a
shoe factory at Brocton, Mass., re
sulting from, an explosion, March 20,
also resulted in 100 deaths.
Railroad accidents probably have
not caused so many deaths as in 1904,
but several serious ones occurred dur
ing the past year. In a collision on
the Western Maryland railroad, twenty-eight
miles from Baltimore, June
1, twenty-three persons were killed.
In each of three other wrecks twenty
lives were lost, and two wrecks
caused twelve deaths each.
By an explosion in the Rush Run
and Red Ash coal mines, near Thur
mond, W. Va., March 19, twenty-four
lives were lost. A gas explosion in a
mine at Ziegler, III., April 13, en
tombed fifty miners. July 11 more
than 100 miners were killed by an
explosion in the pits at Wattstown,
Wales.
Of disasters on the water the most
serious was the wreck of the South
ampton Railway company's steamer
Hilda, off St. Malo, English channel,
in which 100 lives were lost The
explosion of the boiler of the United
States gunboat Bennington in San
Diego harbor, July 21, caused the
death of sixty of the crew.
LYNCH LAW LESS IN EVIDENCE.
Fewer Victims of Mobs Than in Any
Year Since 1885.
The lynchings reported for 1905
are but 66, the smallest number since
1885. The following table showing the
number of lynchings since 1885 will
be of use to those studying this par
ticular feature of criminology:
18S5 184 1896 131
18S6 138 1897 166
1887 122 1S58 127
X to". JYm JoJJi 1VI
loKI. iiiO AJV a.li9
1S90 127 1901 135
iK'i j ."' yt
1S92 :235 1903 104
J KM fcV' 4vv Ol
1 fc? T ! V AiJVj OO
1895 171
The lynchings in the various states
and territories were as follows: Ala
bama, 3; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 1;
Georgia, 11; Kentucky, 4; Louisiana,
4; Mississippi, 17; Missouri, 1; Ne
vada, 1; North Carolina, 1; South Car-
Tobacco .. 4S.674.118 S.8 58.2S3.108 1901
Rice 12.2S5.S31 12.1 13.S91.523 1904
Cotton ... 550.000.000 "12.4 62S.195.359 1904
Dairy
products 665.000.000 ' 8.8 611.000.000 1904
Total
value .$3,914,925,140 .l $3.950.S30.303 1904
Decrease.
MANY FALSE TO THEIR TRUST.
Losses by Defalcations and Embezzle
ments Are Large.
The record of embezzlements, forg
eries, defaultings, and bank wreckings
shows a large increase over that ot
1904, and is much the largest that has
been made up since 1897. Its total is
$9,613,172. These losses are distribut
ed as follows:
Stolen by public officials $ 461.856
From banks ........................... 6.740.6S4
By agents ISo.oO
Forgeries 1,433,000
From loan associations 130.823
Bv postoffice employes 4.000
Miscellaneous stealings 1.076.059
The summary of lr 'alcations, etc.,
by years for 1894 to 39tl is as follows:
1894 $25,234,112 1900 $ 4.500,134
1895 10.423.295 l'JOl H25-5?
1896 9,405.821 1502 S'iS'S
1897 11.248,084 1903.-. 5'J
1898 6,851.263 1904 HH
ISM 2.218,373 1905 9,613.172
olina. 3; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 11;
Virginia, 1.
Of these lynchings 65 occurred In
the south and 1 in the north. Of the
total number 61 were negroes and 5
whites. The crimes alleged were as
follows: Murder," 34; rape, 15; mur
derous assault, 4; attempted rape, 4;
robbery, 2; race prejudice, 1; kid
naping, 1; elopement, 1; informing.
1. Two lynchings were for unknown
reasons, and one innocent victim
hanged.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS OF 1905.
List of Those Attaining Pre-eminence
During the Year.
The following persons stand at the
head in various lines of sport:
Amateur Athletics Martin J. Sher
idan. Automobiling Barney Oldfleld.
Billiards Charles P. Conklin.
Bowling Charles M. Anderson.
Boxing James J. Jeffries.
Chess Frank J. Marshall.
Cycling Frank L. Kramer.
Golf (Open) Willie Anderson.
Golf (Amateur) H. Chandler Egan.
Golf (Women's) Miss Pauline Mac
kay. Jockey David Nicol.
Rifle Shooting Sergt C. E. Orr.
Skat Herman Dietz.
Skating (Professional) Norval Bap
tie. Skating (Amateur) Morris Wood.
Swimming C. M. Daniels.
Tennis Beals C. Wright
Tennis (Women's) Miss Elizabeth
Moore.
Trap Shooting R. R. Barber.
YEAR AS SEEN BY BRADSTREET.
(
Period of Heavily Increased Purchas
ing Power.
The year just ending has been one
of almost boundless activity, accord
ing to Bradstreet's. It was a period
of rich rewards to agriculture, though
not of uniformly record yields; of
abundance of employment for labor
and of few serious strikes; of build
ing and constructive activity in all
lines; of enormously enlarged bank
clearings totals, and of striking small
tailure damage, considering the im
mense business done and the unpre
cedented number engaged therein.
That it was, on the whole, a year
of heavily increased public purchas
ing power seems certain, in view of
the fact that commodity prices were
maintained at record high levels.
Continuing the report states:
"The multitude of records broken
shows that new guideposts have, in
deed been set up. The revival which
began in the last half of 1904, far
from spending its force, as was pre
dicted in the early part of 1905, grew
as the year advanced. The commer
cial, financial and industrial move
ment surged forward, weather draw
backs and disclosures of financial rot
tenness in high places failing to stem
the upward trend. Disregard of pre
cedents was, perhaps, best illustrated
in the persistent advance of securi
ties despite high money prices, and
the tendency to discount prosperity
was irresistible."
Speaking of conditions in the lat
ter part of the year it is stated:
"In September car shortages began
to affect traffic and collections, clear
ings reached new high figures, while
failures and liabilities for nine months
were below 1904. Lifting of southern
quarantines gave zest to southern
trade, which was further helped by
high cotton quotations when the
movement was heaviest In the last
quarter open weather favored out
door activity, but retarded retail
trade, which was also hampered by
farmers holding grain and cotton and
the car congestion, which likewise de
layed collections. Stock speculation,
though lacking marked public partici
pation and displaying manipulative in
fluences, was of large volume at rec
ord prices, despite high money, in
fluenced by active trade and dis
turbed foreign markets. Iron and
steel outputs advanced; ore sales,
clearings and staple prices all scored
high levels in December."
Of the outlook for the new year the
report says:
"If satisfaction with the past and
confidence in the future are at all re
liable guides, 1906 is likely to equal,
if indeed it does not surpass, the year
drawing to a close. The volume of
orders booked ahead exceeds any pre
vious year in the country's history,
and high prices as yet seem to exer
cise no effect upon consumptive de
mand. Iron and steel of ail kinds are
heavily sold ahead, as are also shoes,
cotton and woolen goods, lumber,
hardware and a myriad of other prod
ucts. Wheat enters the winter in ex
cellent condition and with an en
larged area. Predictions as to 1906
building are even more sanguine than
a year ago."
IMMWNAAAA
MURDERS HAVE BEEN FREQUENT
The number of homicides and
deaths by violence of every kind in
1905, as reported by telegraph, shows
a considerable increase over 1904, be
ing 9,212, as compared with 8,482 in
the latter year. This record is brought
down to Dec. 27, so that the com
plete record for the year would have
been slightly in excess of the above
figures. The startling feature of the
record is the increase of murders com
mitted by highwaymen, burglars 'and
that particular class of criminals, the
number being 582, as compared with
464 in 1904, 406 in 1903, 333 in 1902.
and 103 in 1901.
LOSS OF LIFE BY ACCIDENTS.
The following table gives the loss
of life resulting from disasters of vari
ous kinds in this country during 1905
as reported by telegraph.
Fires 1.018
Drownings l.7
Explosions i
Falling buildings -j7
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Cyclones And storms .. 467
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BODY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
MANY CENTURIES OLD.
Remains of Prehistoric Man, Whe
Must Have Lived Ages Before
Christ Have Finally Found Place
In British Museum.
The oldest known body of any hu
man being reposes in the Egyptian
gallery of the British museum. AH
that is known concerning it is taken
from the inscription which was found
on the case containing the mummy.
This says: "Body of a man who was
buried in a shallow grave hollowed
out of the sandstone in the west bank
of the Nile in upper Egypt Before
burial the body was treated with a
preparation of bitumen and was ar
ranged in the posture in which it now
lies, on its left side, with the hands
before the face and the knees drawn
up nearly on a level with the chin.
The grave, which has been roughly
imitated by the model here exhibited.
was covered with the slabs of un
worked stone, and in it, beside the
body, were disposed flint knives and
a number of vases, partly filled with
the remains of funeral offerings. The
man probably belonged to a fair
skinned, light haired race, which may
be regarded as one of the aboriginal
stocks of Egypt, whose settlements
were usually found on the west bank
of the Nile. The style of the flint in
struments found in the grave indicates
that the man lived in the later neo
lithic period of Egypt; that is. In re
mote ages, long before the rule of
Mencs, the first historical king of
Egypt"
A wandering Arab was the first one
to see this grave and he reported his
find to a British official, who immedi
ately sent a couple of soldiers to guard
it day and night. The body is not a
mummy of the ordinary historic Egyp
tian period, such as Rameses, the
father of the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
It was never bound up in linen or
cased in a painted coffin, but was
merely coated with a preparation of
bitumen, called by the Arabic word
mumia, hence our word mummy.
This man must have hunted along
the banks of the Nile before the time
of the earliest mummied king which
the museums possess before the time
of Menes, who was supposed to have
ruled Egypt about 5004 B. C. There
were previous to that time two pre
historic races, one the conquerors and
the other the conquered, from which
sprang the Egyptian race of thr
earliest dynasties. It is with these
remote stocks that this man has to do.
Considering the condition in which
he was found it is evident that he was
associated with a late period of the
new stone age of Egypt. He was
buried in a characteristically neolithic
grave and has neolithic pots and
instruments of flint about him. They
are like all other neolithic pots and
chipped flint weapons and knives
found in other parts of the world. The
fine, thin flint knives were placed In
the grave as a rart of the funeral
ritual. They should be compared
with Egyptian flints of a known his
toric age, and they will be found to be
almost identical with them. There
is, of course, no inscription of any
kind on the pots, knives or graves,
all having been made long before the
invention of any written language.
Certain Egyptian documents of great
antiquity mention a race called the
Trennennu, who had red hair and blue
eyes. This man has hair of a distinct
auburn shade.
Thinks They Are Safe.
In the spring term of the past year
the athletic young women of Smith
college developed a passion for base
ball. In conversation with a distin
guished visitor at the college. Presi
dent I Clark Seelye spoke of the
fresh enthusiasm which the students
were manifesting in the national game.
The visitor, having his own ideals
of intelligent gentlewomen, looked
somewhat distressed at this announce
ment "Aren't you afraid," he asked, "that
baseball will have a tendency to make
the girls masculine?"
A humorous expression stole over
President Seelye's face. "Masculine?"
he echoed. "My dear friend, if you
could never have further fears pitch
ing the ball you would never have any
further fears on that score."
What Pa Said.
Little Harry entered the parlor a
few minutes after Mr. Hudson had
been announced. In spite of all he
had been told that he must never
speak of his sister he forgot his in
structions. "Sister Annabel is awful pr:d Oi
her diamond ring, won't even let me
see it, but I know I'd like one like it,"
began Harry eagerly.
Tho young man was delighted.
"I am glad your sister is so pleased
with it; you must tel! me why you
would like one," answered the young
man.
"Because mamma gave me a new
scrap book and my mucilage is gone
and Pa said it was paste."
Writes Book in Prison.
The Countess Bonmartini, in prison
in Italy for murdering her husband.
has written a book, which ends with
these words: "If I have sinned it is
because I have greatly loved
But until my right hand has withered,
until my tongue sticks panting to my
palate, my protesting voice will sound
from the profundity of my prison."
Steals American Letters.
Two years ago a Norwegian postal
clerk was convicted of having been
long and systematically pilfering from
the mails; he had done away with
some 1,500 American letters. A few
weeks ago another was convicted oi
the same offense; lie had appropriated
at least 1,000 American letters in two
years.
Jcv'sh Services in Africa.
Th first Jewish services ever held
i British East Africa were hold or
Yom Kippur at the Masonic Hall, oi
Nairobi, and resulted In the formation
of a congregation. There are about
fMrtv Tsvs in the nrotectorate. most
of them engaged in dairy farming.
Reads Like Prise Fight.
Frost an account of the Doncaster
(England) Art club's annual exhibition
in the Doncaster Gazette: "Miss
also goes in for portraiture. In hifr
ting off her father's head her inten
tions are good, but the execution lacks
very much in artistic finish."
Trouble Breeds Trouble.
"It Is odd," mused the philososphical
lawyer, "that when a man gets heavy
damages to his person or his property
he immediately flies to the courts to
get some more." Baltimore American;
A Hint to Husbands.
A woman simply cannot harbor bad
temper when she knows her dress to
be a success. If only husbands real
ized this, the dressmaker's bill might
be heavier, but serenity would reign
in the household, and many would
gladly pay the price.
Moisture in the Air.
The capacity or air for holding
moisture is twice as great at 52 de
grees as at 32. and four times as great
at 7S degrees as at the freezing point
of water 32 degrees Fahrenheit
The Value of Ideals.
The life of every person will be
made better and brighter by choos
ing a high ideal, and then seeking
conscientiously to live up to it. The
ideal dish for breakfast is Pillsbury's
Vitos, which is full of stored-up en
ergy and nourishment
Jorkins I do not suppose that there
is a man living that could successfully
forgo my name to a check and get
it cashed. Morkins Is your signat
ure such a peculiar one? Jorkins No;
but I haven't any money in the bank.
Judge.
Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
In the Children's Home in New York, curs
Constipation, Fevorishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
jjowcis ana .Destroy onns.O ver 30,000 tes
timonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N.Y.
The only man braver than the hero
who fears not ridicule is he who feara
it and yet faces it in a good cause.
Robbed in Church.
Just think what an oatnigo it Is to fee
robbed of all the benefits of tho services
by continuous coughing throusrout tho con
gregation, when Anti-Gripine is guaranteed
to cure. Sold everywhere. 25 ccnu.
Youth changes its tastes by the
warmth of its blood, age retains its
taste by habit. Rochefouchauld.
A C.tTARANTKKO CVKK FOK 1'ILES.
Itching. Ultncl. Itleetllnc. rruirmlln l'lle. lru
ITlftta are auttiorizeil to refund money If I'AZO
OINTMENT fall to cure In fi to II days. Sue.
Philosophy dees not regard pedi
gree. She did not receive Plato as a
noble, but made him so. Seneca.
Lewis' Single Binder straight Sc. Many
smokers prefer them to 10o cigars. Your
dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, UL
Action without purpose and direc
tion is of little value. A grasshopper
has more action than a bee.
PIso's Cure is the best medicine, we ever usd
for all affections of the throat anilluns;.. WJC
O. EsDSLST. Vanburen, Intl.. Feb. 10, 1'.OO.
Packers who plead guilty are like
iy to be accused by their associates
of unprofessional conduct.
Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De
fiance Starch is fast taking place of
all other brands. Others say they can
not sell any other starch.
The man who boasts that he aasu'r
any friends does not deserve to have
any.
OBEM PUBLICITY THE BEST
GUMBXNTY OF MERIT.
When the maUer of a medicine, sold
through druggists for family use, takes
his patients fully into hi9 confidence by
frankly and fearlessly publishing broad
cast as well as on Its bottle, wrappers,
a full list of all its ingredients in plain
English, this action on his part is the
best possible evidence that ho Is not
afraid to have the search light of inves
tigation turned full upon his formula
and that it will lear the fullest scrutiny
and the most thorough investigation.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for tho
cure of the weaknesses, periodical pains
and functional derangements of the or
gans distinctly feminine, is the only medi
cine put up for sale through druggists for
woman's special use. the maker of which
Is not afraid to take his patients into
his full confidence by such open and
honest publicity.
A glance at the published ingredients
on each bottle wrapper, will show that it
Is Hiado wholly from" native, American,
medicinal roots, that It contains no poi
sonous or habit-forming drugs, no nar
cotics and no alcohol pure, triple-refined
glycerin, of proper strength being used
Instead of the eemmnnly employed alco
hol, both for extracting and preserving
the active medicinal uronerties found in
the roots of the American forest plants
employed. It is the only medicine for
women's pecular diseases, sold by dwig
gists, that docs not contain a large per
centage of alcohol, which is in the long
run so harmful to woman's delicate, nerv
ous svsteni. Now, glycerine is perfectly
harmless and serves a valuable purposo
by possessing intrinsic value all it own,
and besides it enhances the curativo
effect of tho other Ingredients entering
Into tho "Favorite Pre-cription."
Some of the ablest medical writers and
teachers endorse these views and praise
all the several ingredient of which "Fa
vorite Prescription" is composed rec
ommending them for the cure of tho
very same diseases for which this world
famed medicimi is advised. No other
medicine for women has any such vro
fawionnl endorsement worth more than
any number of ordinary testimonials. If
Interested, send name and address to Dr.
R. V. Pierte. Buffalo. N. Y.. for his littlo
book of extracts from the works or
eminent medical writers and teachers,
endorsing the several ingredients and
telling just what Dr. Pierre's medicines
axe made of. It's free for the asking.
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