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--"..- --r--rrjcrt-.v x v t I 1 3 gtii I I .? . x n Columbus Journal 8TR0THER 4b BTOCK.WELL. Pnbs. COLUrMUS . NEBRASKA. FROM MANY POfKTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO FEW LINES. DAY'S EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Reader. Washington. The senate will probably follow the house in passing the Sulloway pen sion bill instead of the National Tri bune measure. Rumors current in London that Am bassador Bryce intended to resign as Ambassador to the United States was denied at the British embassy in Washington. Conditions in the famine districts and refugee centers of the northern part of the province of Anhui, China, are rapidly growing worse, according to a cable received from Shanghai by the American national Red Cross so ciety. The house on the 17th made prog ress in the consideration of the im portant appropriation bills. The army bill was concluded and passed late in the afternoon. The postoffice appropriation bill, carrying a total ex penditure of $253,047,S68 also was taken up. The government has won another step in its prosecution of the so-called bathtub trust, the United States cir cuit court having decided that the civ il proceedings for the dissolution of the alleged combination and the crim inal proceedings against its indicted members may go on simultaneously. The house of representatives adopt ed an amendment to the Moon bill codifying laws relating to the judi ciary, which will stop the practice of corporations doing an interstate busi ness from taking practically all suits against them out of the hands of the state courts and placing them in the federal courts. Renewal of the fight on Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior, is contemplated in a resolution intro duced by Senator Purcell, which seeks to force into the open the re port of the joint congressional com mittee that investigated the charges made against the cabinet officer by Gilford Pinchot, former chief for rester. General. The Dexter, 31e., Savings bank was closed by order of the state bank ex aminer. A current report that the pope has experienced aserious attack of gout was denied. There was a breezy denial in the house of the country's military un preparedness. The house passed the legislative ex ecutive and judicial bill, carrying ap proximately $35,000,000. ' A bill debated in the house is in tended to prevent corporations trans ferring suits from state to federal courts. Governor Hadley submitted to the legislature a resolution to congress asking for the ratification of the in come tax law. Refined sugar was reduced 5 cents oer hundred pounds on coarse, granu lated and confectioners' A, and 10 cents on all other grades. King Gustave opened the riksdag. He said the proposed expenditures for the army and navy was 6,000,000 crowns greater than for the preced ing year. Henry Cabot Lodge won the hard est fight in his political career in nearly CO years and returns to the United States senate for a fourth term. The Spokane (Wash.) city ordinance prohibiting the employment of alien laborers on city work was declared in valid by Judge Hinkley in the super ior court. Coonel Enoch M. Crowder of Mis souri has been appointed judge advo cate general of the army. He suc ceeds Brigadier General G. B. Davis, who will retire on account of age February 14, with the rank of major general. Alleged inhuman treatment by the authorities of Zacatecas of J. A. Far rell, an American mining engineer, is being investigated by the American embassy at Mexico City, following a protest signed by eight foreign resi dents of El Rio. Representatives of the national league for medical freedom and other organizations appeared before the bouse committee on interstate com merce to oppose the Mann bill to en large the scope of the public health and marine hospital service. Five men were killed and several Injured in a collision on the New York Central at Batavia. N. Y. Senator Lodge was made the re publican caucus nominee in Massa chusetts, but his election is not (hereby assured. Henry C. Scott, president of the National Light and Improvement company of St Louis, shot and killed himself at his home. The house committee on military affairs added $770,000 for field artil lery for organized militia to the army appropriation bill, and reported the bill to the house. Opposition has developed to the confirmation of Walter I. Smith as judge of the Eighth federal circuit John Broder, a pioneer railroad builder of the middle west was found dead in bed at his St Joseph home. He was eighty-one years old. Governor McGovern transmitted to the Wisconsin senate the report of the Stephenson investigating ' committee- without recommendation. N. P. Dodge, aged seventy-three, a brother of General Greenville M. Dodge, .died at his home in Council Bluffs, after less than a week's Ill ness of pneumonia.,. Conditions are crowing worse in the famine district of China. Lawyers have pronounced the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to be void. Railroads in western trunk terri tory pleaded for a right to raise J. rates. l Senator Elkins left an estate valued at 120,000,000. Governor Carroll, in his message, pleads for less political strife in Iowa. Judson C Clements was made Chairman of the interstate commerce commission. The house voted to abolish the of fice of second deputy commissioner of pensions. Charles F. 'Johnson, of Waterville, Me., a democrat was elected United States senator. The census taken in December shows that the population in Vienna numbers 2,004,291. Bids for canal supplies submitted by United States manufacturers are regarded too high. Governor Colquitt of Texas says the question of prohibition should be submitted to the people. A fire in the pension office at Wash ington, burned records, but caused only minor financial loss. Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life Assurance society, died suddenly at New York. At a democratic house caucus Champ Clark was made thenominee for speaker by acclamation. The plan of refunding the Hondur an debt is regarded as amounting to a United States protectorate. , Senator Fletcher in an address de clared Secretary Ballinger an unfit man to remain in the cabinet The legislature of North Dakota elected Porter J. McCumber and Asle J. Gronna United States Senators. The French press is much exer cised over the Netherlands govern ment's proposal to fortify Flushing. The Michigan house and senate, voting separately, chose Charles E. Townsend to succeed Senator Bur rows. A bill providing for the physical valuation of railroads was introduced in the lower house of the Kansas leg islature. The Iowa house of representatives endorsed New Orleans as the loca tion for the 1915 Panama exposition over San Francisco. The grand jury returned an indict ment charging perjury against Wil liam Li Brower, former vice president of the Northern bank of New York. Senator Hitchcock, in a speech be- tore tne Nebraska legislature, was optimistic with regard to the pro gressive work of lawmakers past and future. Among the nominations which the president sent to the senate was: Joseph E. De Olivares of Missouri, consul at Madras, transferred from consul at Managua. The reign of martial law which was instituted in the disturbed sections of Rio Jancrio after the recent revolt in the navy had been crushed, was end ed by the government decree. What is declared to be the most nearly perfect counterfeit bill that has been made in 15 years came to Chief Wilkie in the secret service, from Wichita. Kans. It is a $10 bill. There is concern almost approach ing panic in the ranks of New York's four hundred, due to an epidemic of scarlet fever, which has claimed as its victims some of the leading so- Colorado's cities having a popula tion in excess of 5,000 increased 16.6 per cent in the last ten years and contributed 42 per cent increase of the state's total population of 259,324. Millions of spindles in cotton mills will be idle one-quarter of the time from now on until markets improve i f a recommendation made by the Arkwright club in Boston is general ly accepted. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich's long awaited "plan for the revision of the national banking legislation." as be calls it was submitted to the na tional monetary commission at a meeting called for the purpose. The naval affairs committee of the house which is to vote on the mat ter soon, will probably provide for the two battleships and two colliers and all of the program of Secretary Meyer. During last year forty-nine men were sent to the penitentiary and 566 to jail for selling liquor to In dians. The facts are stated in a re port by Special Officer William E. Johnson. The house committee on judiciary reported favorably a bill providing that there shall be no retrials grant ed in civil or criminal cases on tech nicalities, unless they are such as, in the opinion of the trial judge, would change the verdict Personal. The new governor of Alabama de clared prohibition to be a failure. Democrats of New York in caucus nominated W. F. Sheehan for sen ator. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich submit ted his plan for national bank legis lation. Democrats lunched nationally at Baltimore but launched no presiden tial booms. Bob Fitzsimmons. the prize fighter, and his wife are now in vaudeville. Congressman Walter L Smith was nominated for judge of the eighth ju dicial circuit. The Nebraska senate, with a sin gle exception, cast its vote for Hitch cock for United States senator. Changes in the Nebraska guaranty of deposit law are suggested by Sec retary Royse of the state banking board. Premier Briand was the target for two bullets fired in the French cham ber of deputies, but escaped un harmed. The democrats in congress are busy getting lined up for the next session. By joining with the insurgents house democrats reversed a ruling made by Speaker Cannon. The new president of the Illinois Central is not in sympathy with the anti-smoke agitation in Chicago. Speaker Adkins of the Illinois house announces that he will take a day off to do the winter butchering. Dora" Harrison, a 19-year-old girl, proposes walking from New York New York City to Tampa, Fkv, tc win a purse of $1,000. TEN MILLIONS MORE ANDREW CARNEGIE MAKES ADDI TIONAL DONATION. THE MONEY IS FOR RESEARCH Points to Accurate Marine Charts Made by Yajht Carnegie as One Instance of Good Work. New York. Andrew Carnegie on Friday announced a gift of $10,000,000 to the endowment fund of the Car negie Institution of Research at Wash ington. This brings his endowment to the institute up to a total of $25, 000,000. Coupled with the formal announce ment was a declaration by Mr. Car negie that the work of the institution had cleared from blame the captain of a British ship who ran his vessel on the rocks, by proving that the British admiralty charts, by which the captain was guided, were two or three degrees astray. The discovery of 60,p000 new worlds by Prof. Hale at the observatory on Mt Wilson, California, also was an nounced. Mr. Carnegie also announced that a far more powerful telescope than man has ever made is now under con struction for the Mt Wilson observ atory. The new telescope will have a lens 40 inches in diameter. Mr. Carnegie declares that "the whole world Is going to listen to the oracle on the top of Mt Wilson and in a few years we shall know more about the uni verse than Callileo and Copernicus ever dreamed of. I hope I shall live long enough to hear the revelations that are to come from Prof. Hale on Mt Wilson. In conGrming a report of the en dowment, Mr. Carnegie said: "The report is correct They had a large endowment before and this ten millions makes the total of their endowment twenty-five millions but the institution has already scored successes to justify even that sum. I believe that the institution in re search will repay tenfold in service to the world. "Doubtless you noticed in the tele graphic news of yesterday that the yacht. Carnegie, has just reached Buenos Ayres. That yacht is the first one ever built with bronze substitut ed for iron; the latter deflects the magnetic needle and bronze does not. The result is that all former observa tions are inaccurate. "The Carnegie is going over all the seas year after year, putting the world right That one service will give ample dividends on the whole $25,000,000 in my opinion. "There is scarcely anything that pleases me so much as the success of that little boat, the first of its kind. "But this is not all the institution is doing. It is experimenting in its physical laboratory on the rocks and analyzing them and will soon be ready to show a formula for the mak ing of Portland cement or concrete. It has found the ingredients neces sary and that invaluable material can be produced In any part of the world wherever the elements are found. Hitherto, as I understand it. cement could only be made from certain com paratively rare deposits." ROOSEVELT SUCCEEDS MORTON. General Agent of Equitable Life at Davenport Makes Prophecy. Davenport, la. "Former President Theodore Roosevelt will succeed Paul Morton as president of the Equitable Life." This is the prediction of George Sternsdorff, general agent of the insurance society at Davenport He knew Mr. Morton well and says he will stake his reputation as a prophet on his prediction that Theo dore Roosevelt will be his successor Praise Morton's Life. New York. Resolutions of praise of the life of Paul Morton and sorrow over his death were unanimously adopted by the directors of the Equit able Life Assurance society, the Equitable Trust company and Mer cantile Trust company and by the executive committee of the Associa tion of Life Insurance Presidents. Vetoed by the President. Washington. President Taft ve toed a bill for the relief of Clarence Frederick Chatman, an enlisted man who was dishonorably discharged from the United States navy. Presi dent Roosevelt had vetoed a similar bill. Forty Polish Miners Perish. Berlin. A news dispatch from So nowice, Russian Poland, says that forty miners lost their lives in a fire in the Casimir colliery near that place. Three hundred and sixty others escaped. Favorable to New Orleans. Washington. New Orleans wonthc first round of the fight for the loca tion of the Panama exposition when the exposition committee of the house by a vote of nine to six decided in favor of it as the site of a fair to cele brate the opening of the Panama ca nal in 1915. The committee voted to report favorably the Estopinal bill recognizing New Orleons and author izing the selection of a board of com missioners and the making of a gov ernment exhibit No appropriation for pecuniary aid is authorized. Lower Joint Express Rates. New York. Officers of Canadian and American express companies, in conference here on Friday, announced a reduction in through rates soon' to take effect between all offices of the United States and many of Canada. It is explained that several of the Ca nadian companies have held back in the matter up to the present because the customs regulations at the Cana dian border necessitate so much extra work that a reduction in existing rates would in many cases work a hardship. ALL 0VE1 NEBIASIi Jealous Man Kills Wife. Douglas. County. Stirred to Jealousy by the sight of his wife dancing with other men at the Durant fire department ball, Wallace York forced her to accompany him home and a few minutes later cut her throat from ear to ear with a butcher knife and then ended his own life in the same manner. Sent to the Asylum. Custer County. The board of In sanity passed on the case of Mrs. Nettie Mohatt, who confessed before the coroner's jury to having killed her child by means of carbolic acid. The board examined the woman closely as to her mental 'condition, an' found her incapable of realizing the enormity of her crime. She was sent to the asylum. Nebraska Checker Tournament. Lancaster County. The Nebraska state checker tournament will be held in Lincoln February 7. It will be conducted on the two move re striction plan with the usual open ings barred. A purse has been raised by the Lincoln players and this will be divided into the different prizes. AH resident players are invited to at tend and take part in the contests. Buffalo County Poultry Show. Buffalo County. The Buffalo County Poultry and Pet Stock associ ation closed its' annual show at Kearney after a very successful exhi bition. Nearly seven hundred en tries were made and hundreds of fine blooded fowls were shown. Frank Householder of Newark won the spe cial prizo for the highest scored bird, a rose comb White Leghorn owned by him scoring 93 1-3 points. Mark M. Coad's Will. Dodge County. The will of the late Mark M. Coad which is on file in the county judge's office gives a bequest of $10,000 to the Benson orphanage. Seventy-five thousand dollars is given to Mark O. Coad, of Denver, payable 15,000 when he attains the age of 25, 15,000 at 30 and the balance at 3?.. There are bequests aggregating $45, 000 to relatives in Nebraska, Mon tana and Ireland and $25,000 to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coad of Omaha. Otoe County Corn Show. Otoe County. The Otoe County corn show, which was held in Nebras ka City, was one of the most suc cessful ever held in the county. The exhibits doubled those of any year, both as to farm and school exhibits. The prize for the largest ear of corn was awarded to William Otten of Berlin. It measured fourteen and three-quarter inches. Mary Robirds secured the prize for the heaviest ear, it weighing twenty-six ounces. Epidemic of Smallpox. Johnson County. At the present time there is epidemic of smallpox in many of the towns in southeastern Nebraska. The village of Elk Creek, in Johnson county, has several cases. Tecumseh has had a number of cases but the disease has now dis appeared. Cases are reported at Tal mage. Auburn and many other places. The disease is in mild form, fre quently the patients not being obliged to take to their beds. Mother Kills Her Baby. Custer County. Mrs. Nellie Mohatt, living five miles north of Broken Bow, is under arrest charged with killing her four-weeks-old baby by adminis tering carbolic acid. Mrs. Mohatt was taken before Coroner Pennington and Prosecutor and confessed that she killed the child. She gave as her reason that she had too many chil dren and that this one was not want ed. The woman is only 23 years old and is the mother of six children. Student Plunges to Death. Buffalo County. Milton Benner, 14-year-old student at the Kearney Mili tary academy, plunged to his death down a toboggan slide. His foot caught in the runners of the sled, the sled was over-turned, the railing of the incline gave way and he fell to the earth, crushing his skull. Canning Company's Report. ' Adams County. iThe Hastings Canning company closed its year's business January 5 and its annual statement shows up well. The com pany did a very satisfactory business made several hundred dollars worth o'f permanent improvements and paid a dividend to stockholders. Attempt to Burn Buildings. , Custer County. An attempt was made to burn the buildings belonging to the county poor farm. Investiga tion showed a quantity of Inflamma ble materials placed in secreted places about the main building and outhouses. The incendiary was evi dently frightened away before com pleting his work. Smothered in Cave-In. Red Willow County. Alfred Lof venberg of McCook was smothered and crushed to death by a cave-in at the Flitcraft sand bank a few miles west of town. Three Bullets in Body. Brown County. Clyde Desilva. Alnsworth's southpaw baseball pitch er, is -in bed at Osbom house in Ainsworth with three bullet holes in his body, and Charley Austin is in the county jail charged with the shooting. Acquitted of Murder. Wayne County. After being out almost twelve hours the jury brought in a verdict finding Henry Hogrefe not guilty of murdering his wife. Ho grefe, who had maintained his com posure even while the most damag ing evidence was being given against him during the trial, received the verdict with apparent calmness, thanked each of the jurors and then broke down and sobbed like a child. Hogrefe was tried on the charge of aoordar in th first dP.zrfifK. HITCHCOCK SENATOR HE GETS 117 VOTES OUT OF 12t VOTES CAST. HOUSE AND SENATE CHOOSE House Favora New Orleans for Expo-' sition and Senate Refers Mat ter to a Special Commit tee for a Report. Lincoln. Gilbert M. Hitchcoclq Is United States senator in every sense of the word except the formal declara tion of the fact in the joint session of the legislature at noon Wednesday and his later swearing in at the national capital. The vote was taken Tuesday In each house of the legisla ture, each member of each house vot ing on the candidate whom he pleased to name. Only two candidates were voted for, Mr. Hitchcock and Senator Burkett in the house, while Dan Cook of Beatrice rose to unexpected promi nence in the senate by the vote of Senator Peter Jansen for him. In the house Mr. Hitchcock received 87 votes and Senator Burkett 10 votes. Three republicans, Johnson of John son, McKelvie of Lancaster and Nutz man of Cass, were absent. In the senate Mr. Hitchcock received 30 votes. The voting was wholly without pre liminary speechmaking, Anderson of Kearney, republican, being the fiqst man to name Congressman Hitchcock. Of the forty-three republicans pres ent in the house thirty-three voted for the, democratic candidate without any evident hesitation. Cronin of Holt, republican, first offered an ex planation of his vote, nnd then cast his ballot for Hitchcock. Smith of Boone, also explained his vote and cast it for Senator Burkett. To Beat Wolf Bounty Brokers. Auditor Barton wants to forestall all attempts to profit at the expense of persons having claims against the state for wolf bounties. The state has repealed the law under which bounties are paid for such scalps, but persons holding claims to the amount of $30,000 are Interested in getting these claims allowed. Mr. Barton says that his office has been besieged for a week by persons who want to secure lists of persons having such claims in order to offer a certain per cent of the real value of such claims for the assignment thereof and thus profit when they are allowed by the state. The auditor has invoked the aid of the chairmen of the finance and the claims committees of both houses to push through these claims at an early date so that he can send out warrants and forestall the inten tions of the scalpters. Removal of University. Leo of Boyd Introduced a resolu tion similar to one offered in the house for an appointment of a com mittee of four to meet with a like committee of the house to investigate the proposed removal of the univer sity, buildings to the state farm cam pus and to investigate the needed ap propriations of the university. The resolution was seconded by Brown of Lancaster and was adopted. Lieuten ant Governor Hopewell said he would announce the committee today. The resolution of Lee calls for the ap pointment of two members of the committee on finance and two mem bers of the committee on universities and normal schools. For Tuberculosis Hospital. Another step in handling the tuber culosis problem is contained in a hill introduced by Bushee of Kimball. This provides for an appropriation of $100. 000 for the erection of a tuberculosis hospital in the western half of the state. Provision Is made for the care in the hospital of indigent persons af fected with consumption. It is Mr. Bushee's Idea that the hospital should be established In one of the far west ern counties because the climate and altitude there is similar to that of Col orado and Wyoming, where consump tives have been given a new lease of life. Senators Oppose Poulson Bill. The nine or ten republican senators who met last night practically turned down the Poulson county option bill when they agreed that the shorter the bill the better it would suit them. While no formal action was taken, those present expressed themselves in favor of a brief amendment to the Slocumb law. A uniform system of accounting for state institutions Is designed in a res olution submitted by Prince of Hall and adopted by the house. It pro vides for a committee to confer with the state auditor to arrange such a system and provide for its installa tion. " ' , Getting Their Stamps. Forty-five cents worth of stamps were banded out in sealed envelopes to each member cf the house Tues day afternoon, this being the appor tionment for the week just ended. Each week hereafter the clerk in the chief clerk's office will hand out this amount of stamps to the members. If they use that number, well and good. If they use more than this amount they must "dig down" into their own pockets. If they use less they may "salt them away" for use next sum mer. Dr. W. M. Thomas of Pickrell. ap pointed superintendent of the state in stitution for feeble minded youth at Beatrice in place of Dr. George I Roe of Beatrice, by some mistake filed a bond made out to the governor of the state instead of to the state of Ne braska. The statute provides that the superintendent of the Beatrice in stitution shall give a bond for $10,000 to the state of Nebraska. Thomas E. Stewart of Beatrice, bookkeeper of the Institution also gave a bond, pay able to the governor and not to the state. BIRTHPLACE OF THE PRUNf First Tress Wsrs Isissrlsd Fi Frmss and Plants to tks twrta Clara VsHsy, oaHtanUa Saa Joss, CaL It to pes that there are people compelled to Urs ta city boarding homes who win sot taiak that the man who introduced praass Into America deserves to raak as a public bsaefactor. Whatever the "boarders" may think aaoat K It la certain that boarding aoass keepers win reaard him as oas of tks great men of the past centmry. la that opin ion California orchardUts will heartily concur, as he was the pioneer in an Industry that now represents an in vestment of more than $50,000,000 in Improved orchard land, equipment and packing plants, and pays large dividends on every dollar. The first prune trees ever planted in California were Imported from France and plant ed in the grounds of the Pellier nur- First Prune Farm. sery, in San Jose, in the year 1861. Mr. Pellier has long been dead, bat his old home is still standing, aad ought to be regarded as a sscred landmark by all purveyors and con sumers of prunes. The old frame hoase is now the center of 100,000 seres of prone orchards, grouping in the Santa Clara valley. Not far from 10,000,000 prone trees grow in the val ley. In comparison with these figures, the prune orchards of France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Servia and other prune-growing countries are hardly worthy of mention. California now dominates the world's prune trade, not only supplying the markets of the United States, but exporting millions of pounds annually. ODD NAMES OF THE 0ZARKS Designation of Towns in a Missouri County Either Vtry Purposeful or Very Purposeless. Kansas City, Mo. Whether Imag ination or lack of it Is more evident In the names of Ozark towns might be debated. But there would be no dispute about the fact that the result Is something unusual. Hack writers who delight in putting proper names together ia foolish sentences would 'find a long journey in the Ozark re gion as full of delightful possibilities as a walk in a diamond field. With what enthusiasm would they string 'together something like this: "If he is clever, the Fowler In the Timber may Dent a Zebra; if Not that his Blue Eye may fill with Joy to find Lamb and Pease on the same Trail. Though Fate be Barren, if he's Witty he may Bluff and say the Ark holds yet a Rat, a Swan and Birdsong from the Congo. And Manysprings, and a Rill Diggins, Gold and Pleasant Hope, perhaps are Only about Halfway to Evening Shade. And so Goodnight." In a single county of Missouri this large collection of the literal label Is shown: Rat, Ink, Gang, Alley. Tim ber, Horse. Hollow, Sinkln. Birch Tree. Timber and Low Wassie. More imaginative, perhaps, are Not and Congo. Mountain View represents r SINKIN RAT I I S INK HORSE HOLIOW SHANNON GANG S h allev. COUNTY NKHTRtt j MOUNTAIN VIEW NOT j Map of Shannon County, Mo. the humorous department, for it is in a hollow where there Is neither view nor mountain. For shortness of name, the region is no less remarkable, with such types as Hy, All, Lon. Job. Arp, Osa. Coy, Day. Bly, Van, Igo. Abo and Roe. Sometimes the traveler may have a suspicion that the towns have been named after the fashion that the In dians label their children. There are such examples as Coin. Groom. Notch and Flag. Sometimes the labels are poetic and alluring Shadygrove. Birdsong and Romance and again they are as far in the other direction as Kiddos Spur. Hughes Stone Quar ry. Hanks and Smlttle. For those who know Latin. Bona is a good name for a town, though Dagonia- and Pro tein may see Radical. Cost of Stopping a Train. Chicago. According to Signal En gineer J. A. Peabody. of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, who Investi gated the matter on his own line, the cost of stopping a train of 530 tons and returning to a speed of 50 miles an hour is 42 cents. The cost of stopping a 2,000-ton train from 35 miles an hour Is $1. The officials of another road esti mate each stop of a six-car passenger train from 45 miles an hour at 35 cents and for a 1,500-ton train from 15 miles an hour at 58 cents. The time lost for making a stop on a level, straight track has been esti mated at 145 seconds. All Run Down? Thia coasTitiea is. directly cawed by bad blood. Whea the blood is awde rka ad pare by Hood's SsrasaparDIa, yes wul fed strong aad cheerfal; it will pat sew life late year vein, new visor iate romrmecles; give yoa a aharser-appetite tad geod difestioa; ssike yoa look better. Sleep better and feel better; will auk the hardest work lighter and the darkest say brighter. Facts! "Tho pfo eenfirai them.. Get Hood's today. Make the liver Do its Duty CARTER'S UTTLB UVERFbUS (Mill t Kgnttraa KamictedwlUil oroejcs.BiS'i t'sEjtWafir Slander soon dies if you take It oat of circulation. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5o cigar. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. If every year we would root out vice we should sooner become per fect men. Thomas a Kempis. PILES CUKKD TIT STO 14 DATS Ttrardruarist will refnod money If PAZO prjJT. MONT Mil to euro any aw of Itch! eg. BUaS. Ha4ts or Pratrodlis rites lain 14 days? taT It's a great accomplishment to be able to sing, but don't lose sight of the fact that it's Just as great a one ts know you can't. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellats rejralats and invigorate stomach. liver and bowel. BBgar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take ss candy. Lofty Ambition. "What is your ambition?" "Merely to make more money than my wife can spend.' Detroit Free Press. The Difference. Ted Did he sober down and marry? Ned No; he married and sobered down. Smart Set A Son's Compliment. His Incessant work, his avoidance of all rest and recreation and his rig orous self-denial mado Joseph Pulit zer, in his days in harness, the da spair of his family. In this connection a pretty story la told about the famous journalist's son Ralph. Mr. Pulitzer had refused to take a holiday, and Mrs. Pulitzer ex claimed: "Did you ever know .your father to do anything because It was pleasant?" "Yes, once when he married you," the young man gracefully replied. ANNOYING. Bill Bug What makes your back so stiff? Rheumatism? Waldo Worm No; I swallowed a toothpick. COLDS Cured in One Day . pSS Munyon's Cold Remedy Relieves the head, throat and lungs almost immediate ly. Checks Fevers, stops Discharges ol tne nose, takes away ail aches and pain caused by colds. It cures Grip and ob stinate Cosgha and prevents Pneumonia. Price 25c. Have you stiff or swollen joints, no mat ter how chronic? Ask your drumtist for Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy and see how quickly you will be cured. 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