Nebraska Newspapers

    Columbus Journal
R. S. STROTHER, Publisher
COLUMBUS, -
NEBRASKA
RACE RIOT NOTES.
The grand jury at Springfield, 111.,
returned indictments against six more
alleged leaders of the mob. At Kan
kakee, Private Klein of Chicago, who
killed Earl Nelson, was released on
$10,000 bail.
One more death, that of J. W. Scott,
was added to the fatality list of the
Springfield (111.) riots. National Guard
patrols were fired on twice from am
bush, but no one was hit. Gov. Deneen
issued proclamations offering rewards
for the arrest of the murderers and
urging all citizens who had informa
tion about the rioting to present it to
the grand jury.
Gov. Deneen ordered home all the
state troops in Springfield except the
Seventh infantry and First cavalry.
Negroes were in great fear of renewal
of attacks. Arrangements were com
pleted for surrendering Private J. B.
Klein to the civil authorities at Kan
kakee for trial on the charge of kill
ing Earl Nelson.
Abraham Raymor and Kate Howard
were indicted at Springfield as lead
ers of the mob.
PERSONAL.
A son was born to Senator and Mrs.
A. J. Beveridge of Indiana at Man
chester, Mass.
Cashier N. A. Alston of the bank of
Stevenson, Ala., disappeared and it is
alleged that he is short in his accounts
from $20,000 to $24,000.
John D. Rockefeller gave his cousin.
Miss Gertrude Rockefeller of Okla
homa City, Okla.. $50 as a wedding
gift
Miss Annie S. Peck, the mountain
climber, for whose safety fears were
felt, returned in safety to Lima, Peru.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans cele
brated his sixty-second birthday and
went on the retired list At Lake Mo
honk, N. Y., he received numerous
calls and telegrams of congratulation,
and was given a big reception and lov
ing cup.
Edward Cotteringham, treasurer of
the Union Traction company of Lin
ton, Ind., accused of embezzling
$5,000, was arrested in Ottawa, Ont
Alfred T. Wimberly, Kentucky man
ager of the Bankers' Life association
of Des Moines, la., and a well-known
insurance man, committed suicide in
Louisville, leaving a note saying he
was tired of life.
At Utica, N. Y., Representative
James S. Sherman was formally noti
fied of bis nomination for the vice
presidency at the Chicago convention
last June. The notification was made
the occasion of a general holiday and
the residents of the city, irrespective
of party, took part in the tribute to a
fellow townsman.
Omer K. Benedict, editor of the Ok
lahoma City Times, was arrested on
a charge of criminal libel preferred by
Gov. Haskell.
GENERAL NEWS.
Injustice to Judge Landis, misstate
ment of his position and misstatement
of the facts on record are charged
against Judges Grosscup, Seaman and
Baker of the federal circuit court of
appeals in the government's petition
for a rehearing of the appeal of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
filed at Chicago.
Of $10,000 in decayed- greenbacks
sent to the treasury department for re
demption by O. D. Earl of Morrillton.
Ark., all but $25 was identified and a
check for $9,975 was mailed to Mr.
Earl. Fearing the banks were unsafe,
Mr. Earl buried his savings in an old
pail in 1904.
Having been defied by the Indiana
state executive board of the organiza
tion, President T. L. Lewis of the Uni
ted Mine Workers issued from head
quarters a letter advising all miners
on strike in Indiana to return to work
immediately.
The regimental championship rifle
shoot of the United States was won
at Camp Perry for the third successive
year by the Sixth regiment of Massa
chusetts. Persian revolutionists captured Ain-ed-Dowleh.
who had advanced on Tab
riz at the head of 1,200 government
troops.
Seventy miners were entombed by
an explosion in a mine at Wigan.
England, and it was feared most of
them were killed.
Three firemen were killed and a
fourth dangerously hurt at London,
Ont., when the floors of a burning
building fell upon them.
Capt. Baldwin trained three signal
officers in the handling of his dirigible
balloon and then turned it over to the
army.
Dr. Joseph Eichberg of Cincinnati
was drowned in Big Tupper lake. New
York, while trying to land a large pick
erel. The home of Wofford Tweed near
Marshal. N. C, was destroyed by fire,
and his wife, their three children and
Mrs. Murray Tweed were burned to
death.
Fire destroyed the Kaatskill House
in the Kaatskill Bay district of Lake
George. N. Y.. and three cottages.
T. W. Burgess, a blacksmith, was
in the water more than 20 hours in an
attempt to swim the English channel
and gave up a mile from the French
coast
Fire In the town of Gore Bay. Mani
tou Island, destroyed 15 business
houses and the lighthouses.
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D. McCreary, aged 65, a coal mer
chant of Louisville, committed suicide
in a Doanung no-use :JBiLiexigton, sy.
Mrs. "Jack" Gardner and Mrs.Enilly
Crane Chadbourne are not to be pros
ecuted on a criminal charge by the
United States government Jn connec
tion with their alleged attempt to
smuggle $80,000 worth of art goods
into the country.
One man was killed and four per
sons injured , when an automobile
turned turtle in San-Francisco.
Fourteen horses were shot to pre
vent their being burned to death at
Carroll, la.
William Finney, a colored patient in
the insane asylum at Peoria, 111., who
was attacked by a white lunatic, died
of his injuries.
Theodore Norman of Avon-on-the
Sea, N. Y., removed a piece of glass
three-quarters of an inch in length
from his forehead, which, unknown to
him, had been imbedded there ever
since he fell downstairs with a bottle
in his hand 26 years ago.
The bride of a week of Prof. Ru
dolph Spitzer'of Sternberg, Mecklen-burg-Schwerin,
threw herself from the
top of the Bismarck tower at Herings
dorf, Prussia, falling 1,200 feet to the
bottom of the cliffs upon which the
tower is built
Mrs. Mary Cassidy of Chicago, who
killed her husband and wounded her
self, ended her life by leaping from
a hospital window.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
adopted the Congo annexation treaty,
assuring the annexation of the Free
State and the end of King Leopold's
misrule in Africa.
Announcement was made that a cor
poration is being formed to be known
as the Commonwealth Fuel company,
embracing 153 Illinois coal mines with
in a radius of 59 miles of St Louis,
supplying practically all the coal con
sumed in St Louis and in East St
Louis.
After drugging three watch dogs
that guarded the summer home of
Frederick W. Woerz, a wealthy New
York brewer, burglars entered the
house at Belle Haven park, Conn., and
stole $6,000 worth of jewelry and $100
in money.
The National Editorial association
elected W. H. Mayes of Brownwood,
Tex., president and decided to meet
next year in Seattle.
The Pennsylvania pure food law of
1907 was declared unconstitutional in
a decision rendered by Judge Martin
Bell in the Blair county court.
The Lusitania lowered her own
trans-Atlantic record by nearly four
hours.
Rev. George S. Fitzhugh of Virginia
took out a license to wed Lulu V.
Frazier, ten years old, explaining that
he intended to marry the child to
make her his heiress.
The Southern Indiana railroad,
owned by John R. Walsh of Chicago,
went into the hands of a receiver.
James S. Sherman, Chairman
Hitchcock and other Republican lead
ers, conferred with President Roose
velt on the New York situation and
it seemed settled that the party must
renominate Gov. Hughes.
President Roosevelt received the
members of the team which piloted
the American automobile to victory in
the New York-to-Paris automobile
race.
United States troops stationed in
Yosemite park were called out to
fight a destructive forest fire in
Tuolumne county, Cal.
John Pedman Reid, said to be a
wealthy American, committed suicide
in Bournemouth, England.
The design of William C. Potter for
an equestrian statue of Gen. George
B. Custer, who was killed in the battle
of the Little Big Horn, to be put up
at the Custer home in Monroe, Mich.,
has been accepted.
Two companies of regular troops
broke out of their cars at Atlanta,
Ga., and started a riot that was not
suppressed until soldiers had been
summoned from Fort McPherson.
Mrs. Wardwell, the quarantined
leper, widow of Gen. Wardwell, es
caped from her quarters at Tomb
stone, Ariz., and is supposed to have
boarded a train for California.
The Minnesota Democratic state
convention met in Minneapolis and
after a scene of indescribable tumult,
caused by the mention of his name
and which continued for 64 minutes.
Gov. Johnson was nominated for re
election. Edward H. Hacker, a traveling
salesman employed by the McCall Pat
tern company, and his young wife, to
whom he had been married only ten
months, shot and killed themselves in
their New York home after a quarrel.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Sydney and was given an en
thusiastic welcome.
Hague diplomats expect that Hol
land will declare war on President
Castro of Venezuela to vindicate the
national honor, and work on the war-.,
ships meanwhile is being rushed.
The ten-year-old daughter of John
Stoltz, residing ten miles west of
Armour, S. D., committed suicide,
using a double-barreled shotgun to
commit the deed.
Thirteen men were seriously in
jured in lower Detroit river, when a
charge of dynamite exploded under
the drill vessel. Destroyer.
OBITUARY.
Dr. A. E. McBeth of Battle Creek,
Mica., prominent Republican politi
cian, president of the common council
and a veterinary surgeon of state
wide reputation, died suddenly of
apoplexy.
John J. O'Brien, 37 years old, mem
ber of the St Louis city council and
wealthy boiler manufacturer, is dead.
William Seibert, 88 years of age, one
of the organizers of the Republican
party, and a delegate to the first na
tional convention, died at Pittsburg,
Pa.
John V. Farwell, pioneer merchant
and philanthropist of Chicago, died,
aged 83 years.
Capt Charles K. Jackson, 71 years
old, a great lakes sailor for more than
half a century, died at his home in
Algonac, Mich. t
Dr. Albert J. Bushong, a famous
baseball catcher about 20 years ago,
died in Brooklyn.
Roilo B. Oglesbee of Laporte, head
of the Indiana banking department
and well-Known over the state as
newspaper man, politician and histori
cal writer, died of heart disease, aged
48 years.
MYSTERY IS SOLVED
ARREST.:. MADE FOR ROBBERY.
FROM SUBTREASURY.
FORMER TELLER IN THE TOILS
m. - -.
Had Been Suspected from Start, but
Succeeded in Satisfying Officials
"" of His 'innocence.
Chicago The mystery of the theft
of $173,000 from the United States
subtreasury a year and a half ago,
one of the largest losses the govern
ment has ever suffered in this man
ner, is believed to have been solved
by the arrest at an early hour Sunday
of George W. Fitzgerald. Others are
believed to have been implicated in
the crime, which for months complete
ly baffled government secret service
men.
Fitzgerald was an assorting teller
under Assistant United States Treas
urer Boldenweck. Suspicion at the
time of the theft, February 20, 1907,
rested on him, but so plausible was
his story and so intense his apparent
interest in discovering the real cul
prit that interest ceased to center in
him. Much work was done on the
theory that the crime had been perpe
trated by a colored man. Meanwhile
Fitzgerald was discharged from the
government employ for culpable neg
ligence for allowing such a theft to
be consummated under his very eyes.
The money stolen had been used and
was tied up in packages, some of
which bad been marked for destruc
tion at Washington. Any of them
would readily- have passed anywhere
except for their large denominations.
None of the bills was under $500 and
some were of-the $1,000 and $5,000
denominations, the $1,000 predominat
ing. The theft created a sensation
throughout the country and congress
at the last session was asked and re
fused to release Assistant Treasurer
Eoldenweck from liability, although
it was promised that congress would
again consider the matter at its next
session.
REPORT ON PANAMA CANAL.
Commission Finds Highly Satisfactory
Condition on the Work.
'Oyster Bay President Roosevelt
made public a report submitted to him
by a special commission consisting of
James Bronscn Reynolds, Samuel B.
Donnelly and Henry Beach Needham,
regarding conditions in Panama. The
commission wac appointed April 25,
last
That the president is pleased with
the report is shown in a letter which
he sent to each member of the com
mission on Friday. He expresses par
ticular pleasure over the fact that the
committee upholds the administration
of Colonel George W. Goethals, chair
man of the Isthmian Canal commis
sion, and the president has had a
copy of the report mailed to Colonel
Goethals, requesting that the recom
mendations made by the committee
be put in immediate effect so far as
possible.
GREAT FIRE AT STEAMBOUL.
Fifteen Hundred Houses Destroyed in
the Turkish City.
Constantinople. Fire broke out Sun
day afternoon in the Stamboul quart
ers and with a brief period a terrible
conflagration was raging. A strong
wind carried the flames at great
speed and for six hours they swept
over the section, destroying 1,500
houses and shops. The fire was still
burning at 9 o'clock at night, but the
wind was decreased considerably.
TWO-CENT FOREIGN POSTAGE.
Postmaster General Issues Order Ren
dering New Rate Effective.
Washington. An order was issued
by the postmaster general putting into
effect, beginning October 1 next, the
postage rate of 2 cents per ounce, ap
plicable to letters mailed in this
country for the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. Letters un
paid or short of postage will be dis
patched to destination, but double the
deficient postage will be collected.
Farmer Stung to Death.
Columbus, O. John L. Stansberry,
aged 37 years, a farmer who lived near
Dublin, died within twenty minutes
after he had been stung by bumble
bees. He was stung six times and
within three minutes he became un
conscious and was beyond aid when a
doctor arrived.
Indictments at Springfield.
Springfield, 111. Twenty more in
dictments, making fifty all told, were
returned by the special grand jury of
Sangamon county. The latest batch
of accusations includes five indict
ments against Thomas Marshall, and
twelve other negroes'.
Indiana Miners Win Strike.
Terre Hause, Ind. The strike in the
bituminous coal field is officially end
ed by the announcement that the ope
rators' association has agreed to the
demands of the United Mine Workers
of District No. 11.
A Special Session Later.
Des Moines, la. Governor Cummins
has decided not to call a special ses
sion of the legislature until after the
big republican conference here August
25. That he -will after that is prac
tically certain.
Forest Fires in Montana.
St Paul, Minn. A special to the
Pioneer Press from Helena, Mont,
says: Forest fires have broken out
anew in the Little Belt reserve of
central Montana and much valuable
timber is being destroyed.
Free Use of Mails.
Washington Hereafter all pension
ers will be alowed the free use of the
mails to return their pension vouch
ers, as the result of an order issued
by Postmaster General Meyer, amend
ing the postal regulations.
I NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. .
Items' ,fr Greater or Lesser Impor--tance
Over the State.
Brown county has a political orator
in the person of a thirteen-year-old
girl. '"
A pioneers' association for Cuming
county has been organized at that
point
The Fullertca chautauqua this year
was the most successful over held
there.
The chautauqua tent at Pawnee
City was wrecked by storm. The loss
is $750. ...
The Cass County old settlers' picnic
was laregly attended. Gov. Sheldon
made an address.
Fred France of York county was
badly gored by a. vicious cow. He
was nearly exhausted when rescued.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Yockey, pioneer
residents of Gage county, celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
. A young man named Bryan was ar
rested at Arcadia for bootlegging. He
will be tried at the next term of court
The Seventh Day Adventists in Ne
braska will hold their annual camp
meeting at Hastings, commencing
August 27.
James Martin (colored), a trusted
empolyee, swindled a Nebraska City
firm out of $600. He paid back $400
and left the town.
F. L. Ziegler, a traveling man out of
Lincoln, attempted suicide at Hold
rege by taking laudanum. Physicians
saved him by heroic work.
Fred H, the Beatrice horse driven
by Fred Rabare, won first place in
the 2:10 pace at Coffeyville, Kas.
The race was for a $1,000 purse.
Charles Hagen, who was killed by
a freight train on the Omaha railroad
about three miles south of Blair was
41 years old and a baker by trade.
The state railway commission has
compiled a set of figures, giving -as its
guess that railroad legislation has re
sulted in a saviug to the state of over
$6,000,000.
The management of the Gage coun
ty agricultural society is making ex
tensive preparations for the fair, to
be held at the driving park Septem
ber 21 to 26.
A final quietus has been put to the
proposition to have Merrick county
build a big drainage canal at Clarks,
the County Board of Supervisors hav
ing refused to make any appropriation
for carrying on th2 work.
The 1-year-old daughter of John
Mecher living ten miles northeast of
Lindsay, drank tho contents of a bot
tle of fly killer which had been
knocked to the floor in the wash room
and died a few hours later.
The Otoe Canning company has be
gun packing corn. The pack this year
does not promise as large as that of
last year, because of the high water
during the month of June and the
cold weather in the spring.
The Morton-Gregson Packing com
pany at Nebraska City has closed
down its plant for repairs and Govern
ments Inspectors Hugh E. Hervey and
M. Johnson have been transferred to
Kansas City, and Dr. B. O. Hull to St.
Louis.
During a thunder storm at Prague
the barn of V. J. Futin. containing
three horses, was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground. The same
storm killed six head of cattle belong
ing to Frank Koranda and destroyed
some stacks of wheat
The Merrick Coiinty Agricultural so
ciety was given substantial encourage
ment when the County Board of Su
pervisors met and voted an appropri
ation of $150 for the annual county
fair which the association holds at
Clarks in September.
John H. Repd, who was arrested at
Wymore and bound over to the dis
trict court on a charge of bootlegging,
escaped from the officers. He asked
to see his family before being taken
to jail, and while the officers waited
at the front door of his home, Reed
escaped through the back door.
An ordinary life policy in the Mid
west Life cf Lincoln. Nebraska, for
one 25 years of age would cost $20.91
for the first year and $16.40 a year
thereafter. Payments after the first
year could be paid every quarter at
a cost of $4.35 a quarter. The Mid
west Life is an old line company and
is furnishing safe and sound insur
ance, good for all time at a rate which
is within the reach of all. Agents
wanted. Write fcr particulars.
Joseph Currier, a tramp, who in
company with L. E. Truscott, was
stealing a ride on a Rock Island box
car loaded with iron tubing, was badly
crushed in the yards at Beatrice. In
switching the engine struck the car
pushing the tubing to the end in
which the men were riding. Currier
was so badly injured internally that he
may not survive.
Thomas F. Costello, ex-Union Pacific
conductor, has filed a suit at Grand
Island for damages in the sum of $20,
000, making the Union Pacific the de
fendant, and alleges that he was per
manently injured by a rearend colli
sion in Omaha, in 1904. While his
train was puling into that city on the
down grade another freight crashed
into the rear of his train.
When the rural mail carrier drove
to the water tank of Alex Farris,
near Murray, in Cass county, to wa
ter his team, he was surprised to find
the little 2-year-old child of the family
in the tank dead, having accidentally
fallen in and drowned.
Railroads from the east of Omaha
have decided to reduce the oil rates
from the east to Omaha between 3
and 4 cents per hundred pounds. The
railroads maintain that although this
rnts nnite a fieiire in their revenues.
the reduction was made on their own
volition and will affect a large volume
of business.
Peter Jobman, a prominent jfarmer
living eleven miles northeast of
Beatrice, in speaking of the corn crop,
stated that there were fields in his
neighborhood that would average from
twenty-five to thirty bushels to the
acre and others that would not yield
more than ten bushels per acre.
County Attorney Singhaus of John
son county has, upon investigation,
found that there are several estates
subject to the inheritance tax which
was not paid and has filed petitions in
fourteen estates which will probably
produce $4,060 to $5,000 of revenue
for the county general road fund.
II STATE CAPITAL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
BOARD REDUCES UNO VALUES
Total Assessment of Lands Less
than that Placed Upon the Same
by County Assessors.
Terminal Assessments.
A letter, received by the state board
of equalization from Phil B. Clark,
county clerk of Knox county, indicates
a very common error into which sev
eral county officers in different parts
of the state have fallen that of sup
posing that the counties have the
privilege of taking advantage of the
terminal assessments for municipal
purposes within their counties.
Mr. Clark writes that since the
board has been slow with the work of
equalization under the terminal tax
law the county board of his county
has estimated an 'addition of about
$30,000 under the criminal tax law and
added it to the. tax tolls of the county.
Asnwers are being sent out to coun
ty clerks where this error has been
made that the assessment of terminals
locally is for municipal purposes only,
and that it will not add a dollar to the
amount distributed to the county by
the state board for county and state
purposes.
The board has been slow about get
ting at the equalization. of values in
the several cities and towns under the
terminal tax law, some of the mem
bers cf the board having been out of
the city the greater part of the time
since finishing its work of equaliza
tion of general state assessmnts.
Total Land Assessment
The total assessment of lands, as
equalized by the State Board of Equal
ization, is less than the total value
placed upon lands by the various
county assessors of the state. In some
counties the state board increased the
land values and in some counties it
made decreases, in order to equalize
between counties, but the aggregate
assessment is less than that made by
the county assessors themselves. The
county assessors are responsible for
the valuation placed on all property
except railroads, which goes to make
up the grand assessment roll.
The law requires the State Board
of Equalization to pass upon the work
of county assessors and to equalize
these returns between counties so
that every class of property may bear
its burden of taxes. The board must
see to it that the actual value is
placed upon every piece of property.
It is not the duty of the board to in
quire what relation one class of prop
erty bears to another class, but to list
each at its true value.
It is not the duty of the State Board
of Equalization to maintain a certain
ratio between the value of railroad
property and the value of lands, any
more than it is the duty of congress
to maintain a ratio of 16 to 1 between
silver and gold.
The law specifically prescribes how
railroads shall be assessed and the
value placed upon this class of proper
ty by the State Board of Assessment
is, in the estimation of a majority of
the board, the true actual market
value. In the case of the Northwest
ern, officials swore that the road could
be reproduced for $3,000,000 less than
the value placed upon it by the state
board. The Union Pacific, which one
member of the board thought was as
sessed too low compared with the
other roads, was valued on its main
line at $107,000 a mile.
Farmer Fined for Selling Bad Eggs.
Gooley Griffie, a farmer who was
charged with selling bad eggs at the
town of Broken Bow, has pleaded
guilty and paid a fine cf $10 and costs.
He was the first farmer to be made
the subject of complaint by the state
food department. His arrest and
prosecution is taken as an indication
that the food department intends to
begin with the farmers to prevent the
sale of bad eggs, but a prosecution is
pending against an egg dealer of
Dawes county for selling to the pro- )
prietor of a restaurant a case of eggs ,
that contained many bad ones. Food
Commissioner Johnson has refused to
rule in regard to who shall candle
eggs, the farmer, the retailer or the
wholesaler, but the effect cf prosecu
tion against farmers will be that
farmers will have to shoulder this
responsibility and expense.
Grocery Stores Being Inspected.
An investigation of the grocery
stores in Lincoln by the rood depart
ment shows that many or the stores
keep their wares in dirty praces, ua
eanitary and unfit Commissioner
Johnson has ordered a general clean
ing up and he still has his inspectors
at work investigating the eggs sold
here.
Committee Will Not Interfsre.
The executive committee of the
democratic state committee will not
call a meting to hear both sides of
the controversy between Edgar He
ward and Chairman Dan Stevens of
the democratic congressional com
mittee cf the Third district. It is un
derstood that the committee conclud
ed that it was not within the purpose
and province of the state committee
to go into the personal differences of
two democrats. The contrbversy
grows out of charges of Howard
against Stevens.
Plenty of School Teachers. .
State Superintendent McBrien re
ports that he finds a sufficiency of
teachers for the public schools of Ne
braska this year. He says that in the
west and the northwest some of the
county superintendents are asking for
teachers, but in the main there are
plenty everywhere. The superintend
ent has issued a circular to the cou- -ty
superintendents asking them to fret
the results of teachers' examinati n
to him as quickly a? possible so th t
certificates may be issued before t
opening of the school.
SHE WAS NO HASBEEN.
Smoking Car Just the One Old Woman
Was Looking For.
"Madam," said the brakeman as the
train stopped at a village station and
a little old woman started to enter
the smokiag car. "the car back Is the
one you want."
"How do you know?" she tartly
asked.
"Because this is the smoking car."
She pushed past him and climbed
up the steps, and after taking a seat
she pulled out and filled a pipe, struck
a match on tho sole of her shoe, and
after drawing a few puffs she said to
a man smoking a cigar across the
aisle:
"That young feller out there don't
know half as much as he thinks he
does."
"How so?" was asked.
"He took me for an old woman that
had never rode on the cars before, and
told me this was the smoking car."
"And yon wanted this car?"
"Why, I never ride in any other
not unless my pipe is broke, my to
bacco all out and none o' you men
folks will lend me a cigar."
ECZEMA FOR 55 YEARS.
Suffered Torments from Birth In
Frightful Condition Got No Help
Until Cutlcura Cured Him.
"I had an itching, tormenting ecze
ma ever since I came into the world,
and I am now a man 55 years old.
I tried all kinds of medicines I heard
of, but found no relief. I was truly
In a frightful condition. At last I
broke out all over with red and white
boils, which kept growing until they
were as big as walnuts, causing great
pain and misery, but I kept from
scratching as well as I could. I was
so run down that I could hardly do
my work. I used Cuticura Soap, Oint
ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about
eight months, and I can truthfully say
I am cured. Hale Bordwell, Tipton,
la., Aug. 17, 1907."
"I cheerfully endorse the above tes
timonial. It is the truth. I know Mr.
Bordwell and know the condition he
was in. Nelson R. Burnett, Tipton, la."
QUITE SAFE WITH HER.
One Secret "Tootsle" Surely Never
Would Pass Along.
"John, love," said the young wife,
"you oughtn't to have any secrets from
me."
"Well, Tootsie?"
"You go to lodge meetings, and you
never tell me anything about them."
"They wouldn't interest you, dear.
I don't mind giving you the password,
though, if you'll promise never to dis
close it to a living soul."
"I'll promise never to tell It to any
body." "Remember it's to be repeated only
once and very rapidly."
Til remember. What is it?"
"Aldaborontiphosclphorniosticos."
"What! Please say it again, a lit
tle slower."
"Have you forgotten the conditions
already? I said 'only once and very
rapidly.' "
(Tearful pause.)
"O, dear! I wish you hadn't told
me!"
ONE EXCEPTION.
Easy Edmund It's one uv de frail
ties uv our poor human nature dat no
matter how much a man gits he wants
more.
Drather Sitdown (thoughtfully)
Oh, I dunno 'bout dat. Not in a police
court he don't
Largest Rock Crusher in Operation.
The largest rock crusher in the
world was recently thrown Into opera- i
tion in a cement mill at South Pitts
burg, Tenn., and it crushes all the
rock used by a 4:000-barrel plant
The machine has an hourly capacity
of 800 tons and 60 per cent of the
product is in pieces four Inches or
less and 30 per cent, in pieces two
inches or less. The crusher is 19 feet
in height and weighs 425,000 pounds.
The hopper is 20 feet in diameter.
The operation of this machine alone
requires 29 horse power.
FRIENDLY TIP
Restored Hope and Confidence.
After several years of Indigestion
and its attendant evil Influence on the
mind, it is not very surprising that
one finally loses faith in things gen
erally. A N. Y. woman writes an Interesting
letter. She says:
"Three years ago I suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left me
in a most miserable condition. For
over two years I suffered from nerv
ousness, weak heart, shortness of
breath, could not sleep, etc.
"My appetite was ravenous, but I
felt starved all the time. I had plenty
of food but it did not nourish me
because of intestinal Indigestion. Med- j
leal treatment did not seem to neip,
I got discouraged, stopped medicine
and did not care much whether I lived
or died.
"One day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee, and use Postum. I had lost
faith in everything, but to please my i
friends I began to use both and soon
became very fond of them.
"It wasn't long before I got some
strength, felt a decided change in my
system, hope sprang up in my heart
and slowly but surely I got better. I
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and I have
better health now than before the at
tack of peritonitis.
"My husband and I are still using
Grape-Nuts and Postum." "There's a
Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from tirr.e to lime. They
are gc"'ine, true, d full of hums,
interest.
as)
A GOOD OLD FRIEND.
aaaVTrSiFHil
The Gumpot Well, you fellows can
say what you like about the editor.
For my part, I always stick up for him.
FIna Y. M. C A. Building Planned.
A Young Men's Christian Associa
tion building that cost to build and
equip more than a million dollars is
to be opened in Philadelphia this fall,
with Walter M. Vood of Chicago in
charge as secretary. An effort is to be
made to recruit the membership to
4,000, so that the largest possible
number of boys may have the bene
fits of the new structure. Philadel
phians are proudly pointing to the
eight-story building in Arch street aa
one of the three finest Young Men's
Christian Association homes In the
world, the other two being the
Twenty-third street branch, in New
York, and the central building la Chi
cago. Progress.
"Yes," said Mrs. Malaprop. "mf
boy is doing first-rate at school. I
sent him to one o them alimentary
schools, and his teacher says he's do
ing fine. He's a first-class sculler,
they tell me, and is head of his class
In gastronomy, knows his letters by
sight, and can spell like one o' these
deformed spellers down to Washing
ton." "What's he going to be when he
grows up?"
"He wants to be an undertaker, and
I'm declined to humor him, so I've told
the confessor to pay special intention
to the dead languages," said the proud
mother. Harper's.
European News Disseminators.
A French statistician calculates that
there is one newspaper published for
every S2.000 inhabitants of the known
world. In Europe, Germany heads the
list with 5,500 newspapers, of which
800 are published daily. England
comes next, 3,000 newspapers, of
which 809 are "dailies," and then
comes France, with 2.SI9 newspapers,
of which only one-fourth are daily or
published twice or thrice a week. Italy
comes fourth, with 1,100 papers, and
is followed by Austria-Hungary, Spain,
Russia, Greece and Switzerland, the
last having 450 newspapers. Alto
gether, Europe has about 20,000 news
papers.
Honesty No Bar to Fortune.
It is a mistaake to think that vast
fortunes cannot be built up by honest
methods. They can and often are.
There are thousands of men among
whose riches there does not minglo
one particle of the sweat of unre
quited toil, on whose crimson plush
there is not one drop of the heart's
blood of the needlewoman, whose lofty
halls are the marble of industry, not
the sinews and bone of the toiling
masses. Dr. Madison C. Peters.
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