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Thottsands Hare Kidney Trouble
and Don’t Know it.
How To Find Ont.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
S . , ^*1 x j sediment or set-
— ' tling indicates an
unhealthy condi-
yV tion of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it Is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass It or pain in
the back is also
convincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out of order.
What to Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish in caring rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
of the urinary passage. It corrects inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
tt, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many times
during the night. The mild ?nd the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp-ftoot Is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
If you need a medicine you should have the
best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes.
You may have a sample bottle of this
wonderful discovery
and a book that tells
more about it, both sent
absolutely free by mail,
address Dr. Kilmer &
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tion reading this generous offer in this paper.
Don’t make any mistake, bat re
member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghampton, N. Y., on every
bottle.
BIG MENACE TO LIFE
Pittsburg Expert Declares Every
Steel Rail Is Defective.
HOW USE DEVELOPS BREAKS.
Home of Swamp-Root.
A Suggestion to the Kaiser.
[Kaiser William is reported to have
laid that he would like to visit the United
States, but. he added, "Who will take
my place durlnj? my absence?"—Daily
Paper]
Most mighty kaiser. Teuton lord,
Belted with helmet and with sword,
Fall not to come across the sea
To where we all are waiting thee
With welcome rare and loud acclaim
For one of such exalted fame.
Who'll take thy place upon the throne
The while you visit this our zone?
Let not this question make thee ill.
We've plenty here who’ll fill the bill.
Although the BUI la built like thee.
Ilost mighty lord of Oermany.
There’s Bryan from Nebraska’s realm.
Whilst thou art here he'll take the helm
And steer the German ship of state,
With eye aflame and heart elate,
And give your empire quite a throb.
We hear he’s looking for a Job.
Or If not Bryan, possibly
We’ll send our only Taft to thee.
He’s quite the biggest Bill we’ve got
And used to situations hot
He’s sat on numerous thrones of late-
Almost a sitting syndicate.
And If not Taft than, best of all
The notions just now at our call.
Thy vary second self might be
The man to assume thy majesty.
At home with pomp, with strength of
wrist
Quite equal to the mailed fist
A man so like thee few would note
<%at thou hadst doffed the Imperial ooe*
And taken passage o’er the main
To visit this fair land of gain—
In short, O mighty emperor,
Why not swap thrones with Theodore?
-John Kendrick Bangs In New York
Times.
More News from the New England
States.
If any one has anv doubt as to the
virtue of Foley's Kidney Cure, they
noed only to refer to Mr. Alvin H.
Stfmpson. of Willimantic. Conn., who.
after almost losing hope of recovery,
on account of the failure of 50 ■many
remedies, finally tried Foley’s Kidney
Cure, which he says was “Just the
thing” for him. as four bottles cured
him completely. He Is now entirely
well and free from all the suffering
incident to acute kidney trouble. Sold
by Cherokee Drug Co.
At a small sized race riot at Pitts-
yllle. Ala.. D. B. Brady, a traveling
salesman, wa* shot twice In the arm
and the negro leader was shot to
death.
Orlno lAxatlve Fruit Synip is beet
r women and children. Its mild
tion and pleasant taste makes It
eferable to violent purgatives, such
pills, tablets, etc. Get the booklet
id a sample of Orlno at Cherokee
■ug Co.
Looking on the bright side of life
ver Injures the eyesight
Kidney complaint kills more people
than anv other disease. Thig is due
to the disease being so Insidious that
It gets a good hold on the system be
fore it Is recognized. Foley’s K||iney
Cure will prevent the development of
fatal disease if taken in time. Sold
bv Cherokee Drug Co.
One way to be unhappy Is to envy
the happiness of others.
Kodol for Indigestion and dyspep-
ela not only digests what you eat It
tones the stomach and adds strength
to the whole body. Makes rich, pure
to the whole body. Makes rich, pure
blood Kodol Is made In conformity
to the National Pure Food and Drug
Law. Sold by Cherokee Drug Co.
A wise man shuts up before he
nfas out of talk.
isturbed the Congregatln.
person who disturbed the oon-
on last Sunday by continually
ig is requested to buy a .bottle
y's Honey and Tar. Ohecokoe
Mexico has demanded of Guatemala
the extradition of General LJma. who
la implicated in the murder of Gen
eral Barillas, threatening a rupture of
diplomatic relalons.
Pain canted by boils, burns, cats,
scalds and akin diseases is promptly
relieved by Dewitt's OarboUzed Witch
Basel Salve. Good for vOm. Ghero-
kss Drug Ob.
Each Rail When Finished Containa a
Fracture, Asserts A. W. Heinle—Fault
Said to Be In Method of Manufacture
and Not In Metal—Naw Shape Urged.
“Every steel rail before It leaves the
rolls at the rolling mill is more or less
fractured,” was the sensational state
ment made by an expert roll turner in
Pittsburg recently, save a special des
patch to the New York Herald. “The
fracture is not visible and does not de
velop until a train load of cars is
rushed over the track. This causes
the track to roll In waves, and the
fracture In the steel develops into a
break, which is discovered by a track
walker or a train Is wrecked.”
O. W. Heinle, whosQ home Is In Graf
ton, a suburb of Pittsburg, Is an ex
pert and consulting roll turner and has
made steel rails a life study. His fa
ther is also a roll designer. The elder
Mr. Heinle laughs at his son’s efforts
to show up the weakness in rail con
struction, although his views coincide
with those of his son. The younger
Heinle is a persistent advocate of a
change in the present T rail, which Is
declared a menace to life and property.
Should Mr. Heinle’s contention be
proved correct that it is the shape of
the rail which leads to so many breaks
and accidents It would cost many mil
Hons of dollars to replace the present
standard sections with a new style rail
The distance between New York and
Chicago on the Pennsylvania railroad
is given as 911 miles. There are two
rails to each stretch of track, making
four times 911, or 3,944 miles of steel
rails. This does not take Into consid
eration the side tracks or the sections
which have four tracks, the yards or
branch lines—merely the main line on
which passenger trains are operated.
The present standard rail laid on
trunk lines Is ninety pounds per yard.
Thus there are approximately 8,413,440
yards of rails on the main line of the
Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Chicago. Should a new style
rail be adopted of the same height. It
would require a rail of 100 pounds, or
641*844,000 pounds of steel, or 820,672
tons of rails. If the present track of
the Pennsylvania system between New
York and Chicago was to be taken up
and a hundred pound rail substituted,
the ninety pound sections would be
sold as scrap or converted into rails
for sidings, switches, etc., thus repre
senting a cash conversion. The laying
of new sections could not be done for
less than $15 per ton, cash, or $4,710,
080.
When it is taken into consideration
that there are about 250,000 miles of so
called travel track on the railroads of
the United States, which correspond to
main lines, and all these steel rails are
to be replaced, the total cost is about
$660,000,000. The 250,000 miles of
track must be multiplied by two, as
each piece of track has two rails.
While these figures are not absolute
ly correct, they carry out the Idea why
the railroads of the United States are
opposed to adopting a new style of
rail, as such a change would bankrupt
the entire ralltoad system of the coun
try; for It is well known that should
a piece of track be put down which
proves unbreakable every railroad In
the country would, have to adopt such
a rail or be ruined through damages
incurred from accidents and be con
demned by the traveling public as well
for sticking to a rail which proves un
sound and breakable through the nat
ural wear and tear of railroad travel.
“When the pig iron Is converted into
steel through the open hearth furnace
or the Bessemer converter," said Mr.
Heinle, “the molten metal, which has
been changed from Iron to steel by
chemical action and the elimination of
certain chemical elements and the ad
dition of others, is poured into a large
cast iron mold and formed Into an in
got As the metal cools It shrinks in
the mold at the top and center, gradu
ally settling in the center in an in
verted cone shape. This is termed the
‘piping’ In the mold. Toward this pipe
all the impurities In tho steel ingot
flow. Tbs pipe may be from six inches
to eighteen inches deep, according to
the size of the Ingot mold. The larger
the mold the greater the size of the
Pipe.
“Instead of cutting this pipe off pre
paratory to reheating the ingot and
rolling It down Into a bloom it is per
mitted to remain in the steel. In the
rolling process the pipe containing the
chemical Impurities is gradually spread
out through the rail. Cutting off this
piece of pipe and eliminating these Im
purities is absolutely prohibitive In
practice owing to the cost involved.
After the ingot is rolled down Into a
bloom which will make the proper
sized rail the bloom Is rolled into a
rail.
“When rails were rolled In thirty foot
lengths, a larger ingot had to be made,
and the piping l»ocame greater. The
impurities in the pipe, Instead of being
evenly distribute*! throughout the en
tire rail, only affect some section or
part, and this becomes the weakest
from a chemical standpoint.
‘This Is recognized by all metallur
gists, but It is not In the chemical
structure that a rail is weakest It is
lu the physical treatment or rolling.
Rolls can be constmcted that will tear
the steel to pieces, while other rolls
will make a smooth shape. I contend
that the roll bnllt to shape the rail
specified by the railroad engineers is
partly incorrect This Is not the fault
of the rail makers. It Use with the
tallroeds. It Is e matter of dollars
and cents with them to get a rail made
as cheaply as possible. The steel mak
ers are willing to make a different
shaped rail, and it remains for the rail
roads to adopt a new standard.
“To illustrate the weakness in the
existing T rail I must explain how the
rail Is rolled. The top of the rail, which
comes Into contact with the wheels of
the train, is termed the ‘ball’ or ‘head’
of the rail. That part supporting the
head is the web, and the bottom of
the rail, which is fastened to the wood
en tie and supports the web, is the
tlange. To make the head of the rail
strong enough to carry the weight and
to meet the shock of a train passing
over It the head is made the heaviest,
tho web being much lighter, and the
flange Is formed at right angles with
the web, also very light.
“In rolling the chunk of metal known
as the bloom down to a rail the heated
metal Is crushed into shape by the
rolls. In passing through the rolls the
thinnest parts of the rail cool the
quickest. This is the flange. The re
sult is that the Impurities spoken of
In the piping of the Ingot flow to the
hottest part of the metal, which Is the
head. The flange of the rail contains
the finest steel, and the head, which
comes into direct contact with the
heavy locomotive wheels, the poorest,
whereas it should bo the best But it
Is not in the head of the rail that the
fault lies which causes the rail to frac
ture and break. It is between the web
and the flange.
“Ninety per cent of the rails that are
found broken in the track are ruptured
at the base of the web and top of tho
flange. You can put the steel rail to
the severest test and the fracture wjll
not show. It cannot be discovered
even by a microscope. But Just as
soon as a large locomotive, followed
by a heavy train, comes thundering
over the rail the fracture appears and
spreads.
“Steel Is not fibrous, like wrought
Iron. It is granular. The finer the
grain of steel the more it adheres to
the other grains surrounding It If
steel was fibrous It would not frac
ture, but would be more apt to split
and bend. Steel will stand up well
under a steady strain, but It is the
everlasting pounding of passing trains
that breaks the rail.
“When a train passes over a track
the latter bends Into waves the same
as thin ice does when the small boy
runs over it playing Pompey on the Ice
pond. Finally the boy breaks through
after be has sufficiently fractured the
Ice or has put too much of a load on
It It Is exactly the same with the
rail. The boy makes forty or fifty
trips over a stretch of thin Ice, which
waves under him, but eventually he
will have fractured it to such an ex
tent that It will break under him.
Any locomotive engine driver will tell
you that the sensation of passing over
a waving track Is similar to that of
running over thin Ice.
“It has been asked why rails are not
set In concrete or something to make
the track rigid and thus avoid the
wave motion. This has been tried and
found ineffective. The speedy travel
of a train acts similarly to heavy
pounding and sudden shocks and the
rigid supports ou tracks soon break
Into pieces. The track most wave as
the ponderous mass passes over It to
be safe. If It was rigid. It would be
far more dangerous.
“The present style of rail, when
broken down in the rolling mill, as we
term it, to a rail shape, Is pretty fair
until we begin shaping It into a rail.
The rolls, while running in one direc
tion, are tearing the web away from
the flange. That is, the web is being
formed by a vertical action, while the
flange is being formed through a later
al pressure of the roll. There is a pull
ing away from each, creating a frac
ture.
“My contention is that there should
be a fillet of steel rolled between the
web and tbe flange. Thns the weight
of metal would be equalized, and there
would be as much steel In the flange
as there is In the head. The fracture
which takes place at the meeting of
the flange and the web would be ob
viated, because the metal in the base
of the rail would be heavier. The
shape I Imre in mind would be termed
a compound rail.
“The compound rail would have to
contain about ten more pounds of steel
to tbe yard than do the rails in use at
the comparative height This Is not
such a great factor of expense when it
Is taken Into consideration that the
breakages of rails cause numerous ac
cidents, and tbe cost of removing rails
constantly Is no small part of the rail
expense. I believe the rail should be
lowered in height
“Chemists and metallurgists need not
look for any chemical change In steel.
They must look for the trouble In the
physical treatment which they have
wholly Ignored.”
Immigrants From the Canary Islands.
The arrival at New Orleans of the
immigrant ship Pio Nono, with a band
of sturdy natives of the Canary Islands
aboard, will probably mark the cessa
tion of Immigration from the shores of
Bpaln into the new world, says the
New Orleans Picayune. The little band
which made up tbe passenger list of
tbe 1'io Nono numbered thirty persons
in all, men, won^n and children. They
experienced no trouble meeting tbe
laws of the United States and the
statutes covering immigration In Lou
isiana. All In the party appeared to
be In the best of health and were found
to be a most desirable set of people.
The arrival of the party marks the first
time in a century that a band from the
Canary islands has sought Lovflslana
in which to cast their fortunes.
Defoe’s House to Bo Torn Down.
Tbe bouse in which Daniel Defoe
wrote “Robinson Crusoe" in Tooting,
London, is to be pulled down. Few
English people ever visit It, but many
Americans make a pilgrimage to it
Japanese Invents Apparatus For
Use of Deep Sea Divers.
MAY SAVE RUSSIAN WARSHIPS
Takao Iwanmi of Washington Gets
Patent on Invention Which Is Said to
Make Work Under Water Easy at
Twice the Depth Possible Heretofore.
Evolution of the marine world, the
raising of battleships that have been
sunk, tbe bringing to the surface of
treasure vessels that went to the bot
tom years and years ago as well as
sunken merchant boats in all parts of
the world, is promised by tbe inven
tion of a Washington man, a Japanese,
whose ingenious brain has been at
work at tbe task a long time, princi
pally for the benefit of bis own nation
to enable it to gain possession of Rus
sian battleships lost In the late war,
writes a Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Post.
Takao Iwanmi, a Japanese employed
In the drafting division of the South
ern railway in Washington, has invent
ed a diving apparatus with which ef
forts are to be made to raise the ships
of war that were sunk during the en
gagements between Japan and Russia.
Two of tbe sunken vessels are of tbe
Russian type, while the same number
are those of the Inventor’s native land.
The ships are at the bottom of the sea,
all within a radius of ten miles from
Port Arthur.
Iwanmi has been at work on the In
vention five years. Only recently has
he perfe<fted the outfit, however, and
not long ago he had his apparatus pat
ented. The Inventor has been in Wasli
Ington several years. He Is of an in
ventive tnm of mind and has many
other devices that he Is laboring on
from time to time.
The feature of Iwanmi’s diving suit
is his claim that It will allow the diver
to go to a depth of 300 feet In the wa
ter. This has been the weak point of
other Inventions of this character, ow
ing to the fact that they were not
made to resist the pressure of the wa
ter below something like 150 feet. An
other feature of Iwanml’s apparatus
is that by means of the pumping ma
chinery and tbe lines of hose the man
at work far below the water’s surface
will be able to remain at his task for
hours at a time.
Tbe air will be supplied by a ma
chine which Is run by a storage bat
tery. Tbe floating paraphernalia will
be different from that now In use, In
that It will not be a boat, but a vertical
floating buoy. This will contain an
assistant or two and tbe air machinery
leading to the man working 800 feet
below.
After reaching tbe vessel as it rests
on tbe bottom of tbe sea It will be com
paratively an easy task to bring the
old bull to tbe surface. Having gained
his point, tbe diver will set about to lo
cate tbe boles and openings In the
wrecked ship. If the ship went down,
as did those of tbe Russians and the
Japanese as well, tbe holes made by
tbe shot and shell will be found and
repaired. Then the portholes, the
batches and tbe gangways will be In
spected and where necessary repaired
to such an extent that they will be
come water tight. After this task has
been completed additional apparatus
will be brought Into use, and the work
of pumping tbe water from the hull
will be started.
Holes will be bored in the sides of
the ship, and into these pipe lines will
be extended. Tbe line will be attach
ed to powerful pumping engines In a
vessel on the water’s surface, and slow
ly but surely the water from the inside
of the wrecked boat will be brought
out. When this has been accomplish
ed the holes will be plugged, the tem
porary anchors removed, and, accord
ing to all calculations of the inventor,
the steel hull will ascend rapidly to tbe
top. Here it will be attached to a line
and towed to the nearest shipyard, to
once again enter the service of the ma
rine shipping interest of the world.
Iwanmi has already received an of
fer for one of his diving suits. He is
to receive $1,500 for it as soon as
placed aboard a ship consigned to the
parties Interested, who are lu Japan.
The apparatus Is to be made lu Balti
more. It will be much like other div
ing suits, but will be made stronger by
tbe use of steel ribs. These ribs will
be all through tbe rubber, about half
an Inch apart, and will make it possi
ble for the diver to go to a much
greater depth and stand the water
pressure than has ever been accom
plished by means of the other inven
tions. Eventually Iwanmi expects to
turn his attention altogether to tbe
business which will be brought about
by means of his Invention.
London’s Bishop Who Will Visit Us.
The bishop of London, who Is to visit
the United States during the coming
summer, is on the border land of the
fifties and t>tlll a bachelor, says the
London P. T. O. He h^s proved him
self an Ideal ruler of the see, for which
bis thirteen years’ acquaintance and
sympathy with the life of the people
of London and particularly of the East
End admirably fitted him. He won
tbe real affection of the people “down
east" by his free and easy manners
with them and by acting up to his mot
to, “Don’t be afraid to be human.” He
would often salute an irreclaimable
ruffian with a genial, “Hello, old boy!”
(hi one occasion be loaned a seedy In
dividual bla great coat, and It never re
turned. He has been censured by a
parochial relief committee for Indis
criminately giving half crowns away.
One lad. who played football with him,
•aye, “Ingram la pretty firm on bis
ploar
A ROMANCE IN MARBLE.
London to Have the Moat Magnificent
Town House In Europe.
London is to have a romance In mar
ble—nothing in point of splendor like
It In New York, at any of the exclusive
resorts or anywhere on the continent.
The London Chronicle as well as all of
the Loudon dailies and the weeklies
contain accounts and pictures of tbe
Byzantine gorgeousness and majesty
of the structure. The Chronicle uses
finer adjectives, and Its account in part
is used;
The somewhat old fashioned exterior
of Sir Ernest Cassel’s new residence,
Brook House, now just cleared of an
Intricate network of scaffolding, gives
little Idea of the work within and the
remarkable architectural undertaking
that Is transforming the mansion into
the most magnificent town house In
London.
Its splendor challenges comparison
with “Arabian Nights” palaces, and
eastern romance is rivaled by present
day actuality in the world quest for
material of service and adornment. All
comers of the earth have been ran
sacked to produce the various mate
rials for the fulfillment of the owner’s
hopes and the architect’s refined
scheme. It is now nearly two years
since Sir Ernest Cassel bought Brook
House from Lord Tweedmoutb. It has
taken over twelve mouths to quarry
the 800 tons of statuary marble of
which the main staircase Is composed.
This marble^s from the famous quar
ry at Sarravezza, once the property of
the Popes Julius II. and Leo X. of the
Medici family. Michael Angelo, sent
from the Vatican in 1490 to prospect,
was amazed at the beauty of the mate
rial, and it Is said bis report to the pope
deprecated its quality so that he might
obtain a monopoly of tbe mine for his
own sculptures. From that date all
of Angelo’s masterpieces were chiseled
from these Tuscany marbles.
Not only Is tbe actual stairway in
Brook House of this marble, but the
floors and walls are paneled with the
polished stone. Corinthian columns
seventeen feet In height, hewn out of
the solid block, give support to tbe
upper floor and the great gallery un
derneath the immense dome. Just a
vein of color Is visible In these pillars,
and tbe greatest difficulty has been
experienced in getting such Immense
pieces without a flaw.
There is no Roman dining room in
London or In England, when all Is
said, and it Is a question if In the
Eternal City Itself there Is a marble
dining room of such majestic dimen
sions as that In course of construction
for Sir Ernest Cassel. The rotunda-
like addition to the former stracture.
noticeable from the Park lane side. Is
In reality a long room with rounded
ends, ahd the arched celling Is nearly
thirty feet high.
In the Enemy’s Camp.
A Presbyterian clergyman was prais
ing the late Dr. Henry Martyn Field
of Stockbridge, who for forty-four
years edited the Evangelist.
“Dr. Field did so much good,” he
said, “because he went about bis work
diplomatically, sensibly, reasonably. I
once heard him declare that reformers
failed often because tbe moment they
started a reform they dropped common
sense. Common sense was swallowed
up in zeal. He said that a nerve cure
faddist once entered a shop and, lead
ing th# proprietor to one side, whis-
pered mysteriously:
“ ‘Ah, friend, friend, you can do the
race untold good If you will only take
the agency for our anti-tea prepara
tion. It Is warranted to cure in a
week the most confirmed and nerve
racked tea tippler. Never again’—
“But the dealer laughed and drew
away.
“ ‘You have made a mistake,’ he said.
T can’t take su<-h an agency as that.
Don’t you see that this Is a tea shop?’
“ ‘Oh, no mistake,’ said the reformer
eagerly. ‘It’s localise you run a tea
shop that I have sought you out. You
come into constant contact with the
very people we are trying to reach.’”—
Washington Star.
The Cov/boy Bishop.
Once while still bishop of Wyoming
ami Idaho Bishop Talbot went to St.
I’aid to attend a meeting of dignitaries
of the church. There one noon, on the
porch of the hotel, a tramp approached
a group of bishops and asked ibr aid.
“No,” one of the charchme-:! replied,
“I don’t think we can do anything.
But down there is the youngest bishop
of us all,” pointing to Bishop Talbot,
“and he’s a very generous man.”
The tramp went to Bishop Talbot,
and the others watched with Interest.
They saw a look of surprise come over
the tramp's face; they saw that the
bishop was talking eagerly, earnestly:
they saw the tramp look perturbed,
but they finally saw that something
passed from hand to hand.
The tramp tried to get away without
Cftoaklng to those of the group, but the
former spokesman called to him:
“Well, did you get something from
our young brother?”
The tramp grinned sheepishly. “No;
I gave him a dollar for his new cathe
dral at Laramie!”—Harper's.
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The first bottle ended the terrible
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other symptoms left one by one. until
she was perfectly well. Dr. King’s
New Discovery’s power over coughs
and colds la simply marvelous-" No
other remedy has ever equaled It
Fully guaranteed by Cherokee Drug
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All Humors
Are impure matters wblch the skin, llyer,
kidneys and other organs cannot take care
of without help.
Pimples, bolls, eczema and other erup
tions, loss of appeti'e, that tired feeling,
bilious turns, fits of indigestion, dull head
aches and many other troubles are due to
them. They are removed by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
In usual liquid form or In chocolated
tablets known as SaraatabS. 100 doses $1.
Asked For Prayer.
The Hon. John Langley, who comes
to tbe next congress ns a representa
tive from Kentucky, used to be ap
pointment clerk of the census bureau.
He knew how not to make an appoint
ment when he didn’t want to. A story,
Is told of an excellent old clergyman
from Pennsylvania who called on
Langley to urge the appointment of a
young woman from that state. Tbe
appointment clerk talked In such man
ner as to lead the clergyman to believe
that his young woman would get the
appointment. It didn’t materialize,
however, and the man of the cloth
asked one of Langley’s subordinates:
“What kind of a man is Mr. Lang
ley?”
“A good man, I think,” was the loyal
reply.
“But what is his reputation for truth
and veracity?”
“I always understood it to be sound."
“No. He tells me crooked tales. He
told me a flat falsehood.”
“There must be some mistake.”
“No, there is no mistake, and I told
him he had told me a falsehood.”
“And what did he say to that, sir?”
“He put his hands on my shoulders
and said, ‘My good brother, pray for
me.’ "—Washington Herald.
Mental Photography.
A member of the Photographic soci
ety has been trying the new mental
photography which has been making
some stir in Berlin. This local experi
menter took a blank photographic plate
Into his dark room, bound It to hla
forehead and for thirty minutes con
centrated his thoughts on the face of
a close friend of his. The developed
plate, which he says is the Identical
one that he bound to his forehead/
shows faintly traces of a face that has
many points of resemblance to that of
his friend. Buch, at least. Is tbe opin
ion of some who have seen the plate,
though others declare that Its mark
ings are Indeterminate and look Ilka
nothing In particular. The point raised
by the experiment is whether or not
an Image on the human brain can be
photographed, since the X ray e*n gg.
cure an Image of the arteries of a body
or of something Inclosed in a solid,
opaque covering.—Philadelphia Record.
Spring on the Plelne.
The tent Is making music
When the vagrant raindrops spat!
The prairie dogs have set In
Per a good old fashioned chat;
The meadow lark le slngln’
In a voice of liquid gold.
And tbe breezes off the mountains
New mysteries unfold.
The she wolf on the mesa
Starts for home upon the run.
She’s going where her wolf pups
Are playin’ In the eun.
There's a stream In the arroyo.
And It’s gurglin’ like a brook.
It’s the last of winter’s snowbanks
That have filed ’fore King Chinook.
The hilltops are a-turnln'
From brown to tender green.
And the newborn lambs are playin’
Where the herders’ tents are seen;
There ain’t no robin redbreasts.
And there ain’t no apple trees.
But ffcr downright joy In springtime
Give me the plains land, please!
—Denver Republican.
Notice to Our Customers.
We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles Is most affected
by the National Pure Food and Drug
Law as it contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs, and we recommend It
as a safe remedy for children and
adults. Cherokee Drug Co.
Of course it is the fat girl who has
the most winning weigh.
DeWltt's Kidney and Bladder PiUe
afford prompt relief for weak kidneys,
backache and urinary trables. Sold
by Cherokee Drug Co.
It is the cooper who does a starv
ing business.
Mrs. !■}. Joyce. 180 Sullivan St,
Clanemont. N. H.. writes: “About a
year ago I bought two bottles of Fo
ley’s Kidney Cure. It cured me of a
severe case of Kidney trouble of
several years’ standing. It certainly
is a grand, good medicine, and I
heartily recommended It. Cherokee
Drug Co.
Spare moments are the gold dust
of time.
DeWltt’s Little Early Risers, fa
mous little Pills. Cherokee Drug Oo.
A pretty girl’s cheek goes for more
than its face value.
A little Kodol taken occasionally,
especially after eating, will relieve
sour stomach, belching and heart
burn. J. B. Jones, of Newport TVnn..
sales three bottles of Kodol cured him
of dyspepsia. It is sold here by Cher
okee Drug Co.
It Is easier for some people to be
poor than honest.
For & cold or a cought take Ken
nedy's Laxative Cough Synu>- It
contains no opiates and gently mores
the howls, thereby driving the cold
entirely from the system. Condorms
to the National Puns Food and Don
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