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VOLUME XIX MT VERNON ROCKCASTLE COUNTY KY FRIDAY MAY 18 1906 NUMBER 32 9 rt1 J j oz iJ 11 tiH rrC cj 1m 1= c 7 FridayTEtnd li t1aI UW TO BE mm DRESSED Means a pleasure to all your acquaintances and a genuine feeling satisfaction to your selfWhat could be handsomer than the many Styles ol CK lCsuits made out of all wool goods in checks plaids stripes black thibets and fancy worsteds etc Strictly high class tailoring which means best woolens cut properly sewed properly and stylish MA Great Deal ofKK Suits They will come up to your expectations rpllereisstyJe1tlJlcL ingno matter what the price shouldersIand the K 1coats IH Did Certainly Look Like that last week every body bought K K Suits and Douglas Shoes at Bakers Popular Prices 675 750 850 1000 1250 and on the famous Kwality Kounts Suit e 1 Zh Cz r rC H H r We Sell Everything But if theres one line that tick les our vanity more coiilpletel- line Suits it is our of W L DOUGLAS SHOES rU kiC 85 There are others but none like the Douglas theASIAShoesa that he bought of us ASK YOUR NEIGIIBORSVie Daughter or Sister what she thinks of the famous Friedman Shoes or Ladies that they have peen buying of us IST andtFINESTlooks like everybody buys of LAND STOCK AND ClfcOl W D McIntyre of Millersburg sold to Roxie Davis 17 cattle averaging 1120 pound at 5 cts avemglingwas about 4500 pounds of wool from farmers around Paris which cost from 25 to 30 cents per pound Paris Kentuckian As indicating the steady growth in public favor which the mule is enjoying we note that the proprie tor of a Missouri jack farm bas just sold some fine animals at high prices 3000 t2000 1500 i25o 1200ilve for 1000 threeIletter from Austin Texas says there is great shortage in mules in that State They are in strong demand by farmers and ranchers and the supply is inadequate Winchester Democrat Within the last few years a plant called Japan clover has been introduced from somewhere and is m w found in numerous places in the county An exchange says of it Japan clover a grass which in reI cent years has spread to the grea er part of the country growing ev en in the poorest soil is coming thicker this spring than ever It affords excellent grazing and cuts good hay For grazing purposes the new grass cannot be excelled after it comes in but it is too late for early grazing It is said to be a splendid fertilizer and is considered a blessing for this country to have the new grass accidentally in trade shows some improvement says the Breeders Gazette Late last week witnessed quite an upturn and this week on light re ceipts it was continued The finish Jast week sawal the Monday loss restored 1 tllscrrm1na tion against strong weight plain cattle The top last week was but 6 butthis week developed a drove of steers fed in Kentucky good enough to make 6 20 Forjhe next 30 to 6 j days market prospects look somewhat encouraging Steers suitable for the shipping outlet are selling at 5 400585 vhile export purchasers are largely at 4 7505 50 Local killers ate buying most of their cattle at 4 50 to 525 while there is a showing of common light killing steers t 43440 Distillery cattle are now running freely the bulk selling at 5 22a5 40 with tops at 5 50 Talking on the future of the hog market Charles Goepper a promi nent Chicago buyer said Last fall I was a bear in common with hog buyers all over the country We were wrong simply because we couldnot detect a normal demand I do not look for materially lower prices during the summer packing season with every condition favor ing the grower but my advice to country speculators is to avoid but ling the market Contracting hogs for summer delivery at 6 cents is dangerous While prices have ruled high all winter speculators have not had a profitable season and practically all the money has gone to the grower I look for a normal summer run of hogs and it is up o the consumer to maintain prices A factor in sumtier nnr keting will he the fall fai rowed pig and after June we may lojk fur that crop SCIATICA CURED AETER TWENTY YEAKS 01 TORTURE For me re than twenty years Mr J B Massey 3322 Clinton street Minneapolis Minn was tortured by scistica The pain and sufft r ing which he endured during this time is beyond comprehension Nothing gave him any permatent relief until he used Chamherlaus Pain Balm One application of that liniment relieved the pain end made sleepand rest possible and less than one bottle has effected a per manent cure Mr Massey relates his experience for the benefit of others who may be similarly afflict ed If troubled with sciatica or rheumatism why not try a 25 cent bottle of Pain Balm and see for vouJself how quickly it relieves the pain For ale by Chas C Davis leading druggist When a child asks an old rash ioned woman question the woman is liable tosay Curiosity killed a 1 cat UAiLiBorn to the wife of Dr D E Proctor on the tenth a fine boy baby Mr V G Proctor is still in very poor health Alec Proc tor sold to Ransom Brown Sr a five year old mare for 9000 Nathan Cress has returned from Indiana J R Taylor had a fine young mare to run away Tuesday and kill e self He had been offered 135 for her a few days b- eforeEld J L Davis filled his regular appointment at Providence Saturday and Sunday Mr and Mrs Wm Watson of Nina Gar rard county visited his mother Mrs Martin Owens Saturday and SundayAwedding is expected in this part soonA E Proctor ihumnessMARETBURG o The supper given at our church was quite a success The sum col lected being 3700 Ve thank those of adjoining churches for liberal = assistanceIPatch Sunday iastJohn Griffin and sister Annie also Miss es Edith and Georgia Cress of Liv ingston visited relatives here last weekMiss Jewel Francisco of Brod headvisited relative here Satur day and Sunday Miss Mollie Car ter returned to Brodhead Sunday Louana Vhit head of Ml IIMiSS was the guest of Miss Alice McCall last Sunday OFFICERS ELECTED The Great Council of Kentucky Improved Order of Red Men at their meeting at Fiankfort the past week chose the following officers for the ensuing year r Great Sachem D H Russell of UGreat Senior Sagamoie Page of Louisville Great Junior Sagamore Joseph Kemper of Mt Sterling Great Prophet L L Behout o Padnach Great Keeper of Wampum Her LouiwilJeI H W The next meeting of the Great Council will he held at Lexington POSTMASTER ROBBED- G W Fouts Postmaster at Riv erton la nearlo lost his life and was robbed of all comfort accord ing to his letter which saysuFor 20 years I had chronic liver com paint which led to such a severe case of jaundice that my fingernails turned yellow and when my doctor prescribed Electric Bitters which cured me and nave kept me well for eleven years Sure cure for Biliousness Neuralgia Weakness and all Stomach Liver Kid ney and Bladder derangements A wonderful Tonic At all druggists 50 cents If the hens couldtalk how they would abuse incubators The incubators are better mothers than hens fOLEYSfiONYANDTA1 Cures Colds Prevents 1 hielfE m lmmmm ntH=mmc =mm =mm =mm =iaitll =iti31S114441fl41 Jg H H WOOD lden t IPrc W G 1TICELEY1st Established F THOMPSON 11 w IljlCashl b I PEOPLES BANK IBRANCH CITIZENS BANK BRODUEAD = IMTVERNON KENTUCKY I uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunuuuuuuunuunnunun m We solicit the accounts of Firms and Individu ils guaranteeing careful o courteous treatment and prompt service to all our customers burEE =r insurance lVepay 3 per cent on all deposits offroo or more when left with the m not checked upon for a period of six months k= uunnu u mn n mu u m u Ii E 1IIIECIQItS- 3w H EL WOOD W G NICKLFY Wf SPARKS 1 W RIDER P L THOMPSON r JOE DICKERSON G T M1 MILLER L W BETHURUM 11 B SALIN- a mil 11111 11111 1111 1111 i111 lil111 tt1ttT 111111 111111 t tIIrI ft r RrThe Gibralter of Roclccastle County tJ Financial Institutions mtijtel OF BItoDIILEID KY t = itt9 iiJti ACCOUNTS OF Q Individual Firms and Corporations Solicited j jjQjQa IPay 3 per cent interest on all deposits of 100 I when left in the bank and not check iedupon for a period of months 5 CIJh 1V u i mm mm i l117oro ada a a akF LC LjOLfQUotrQJLTtJ n A philologist was talking about words There are over 225 000 in the English language he said but we only use a few thousand of them The extra ones are of no use to us Any man could sit down with a dictionary and write in good English a story that no one in the world would understand Here for instance can you make head or tail out of this And the philologist pattered of gliblyI will againby the atabal You are answyed Yet this is no blushets bobance nor or am I a cudden either Though the atabal is dent still will I agarnby it Then be translated 2nd V President JOHNSON six I willrecover the drum You are amazed Yet this is no young girls boasting nor am I a foolei ther Though the drum is hidden still will I recover itKausasC- ity Independent DEATHS FROM TIS decrease in the same ratio that the use of Dr Kings New Life Pills in creases They save you from dan ger and bring quick and painless relief from constiyation and the ills growing out oft Strength and vigor always follow their use Guaranteed by all druggists 25C Try themrI1 ov llAtIDJliUq for cktltfroHt safe lure Jlo opiates Uirsa s lELD R4 b T5 0 0 IEARS THiuXimiuL CLOTHING Me sY uths and Bo s Suits t Tiie most economical to buy because they are better made and fit more perfectly than other StiltssoldatI ular Prices arNoneF rs1leJ FI 5H Wt Verno Ky 887 APPENDICI B W A CARSON PainteD Paperhanger Agent for HENRY BOSCH COS line of WALL PAPER UOOM- MOULDINGS ETC ETC Let us make you uu estimate on work before placing you order All Work Guaranteed By the time a girl has worked down town six months one of her greatest amitions is to be able to wear a white shirt waist three days before sending to the wash F 1 MT VERNONSIGNAL1i FRIDAY May IS Published every Friday by EDGAR S ALBRIGHT L SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR IOO otl Advertising rates made known a icalionI FOR CONGRESS lve are authorized to announce JUDGE JOHN W HUGHES of Mercer County as a caiifiulate to represent the Eighth Congressional District in Congress to succeed lion G G Gilbert subject to the action of the Demo cratic party Tbe Great San Francisco Disaster Y1VITI DESCRIBED BYONE WHO EXPERIENCED TILE AWFUL SCENE The following is a letter which Atty C C Williams received from relative who lives just across UK bay in Alameda which so vividly describes the terrible disaser that laid waste the beautiful city of San Francisco we copy it in trill San Francisco April 30 1906 DEAR COUSIN CASPER i know that you will be happy to know that we all escaped being burned upso far and that we came out unscathed by the big earthquake that shook the bottom out ot San Francisco on the fate ful 8th of April last and with small lots of property Can you imagine big proud San Francisco which you honored with your visit last August to be now one vast expanse of ruins black charred heaps of bricks and mortar twisted rails and wires by the thousands dangling from half crumbled down skyscrapers which looks down at you through the blackened apertures of their former windows like legions of mocking Peering devils =the ground seven blocks by eight No more French restaurants with the luscious crab No more latin quarter with the sons and daugh ters of sunny Itally mixing their songs with those of the natives of the Pyrenees and of Normandy of glorious France no more Mexican Fandango or pompous Coon re sorts of the Barbary coasts where proud Albions and other tars found it fun followed by a remorseful day to have the last cruises pickings wheedled out of them by dusky beauties and belles of other climes No more Kearney street no more Market street the busiest of the marts of the world and the most crowded of all the thorough fares No more NOb Hill the seat of the palatial homes of the late bananza kings The Hopkins At Institute with its priceless treas ures of art is gone Nothingnmor ofall the wealth and material beauty of San Francisco but hills upon hills of desolation and anni hilation The Palace Hotel that world renowned caravansary is down to the first story a mess of ghastly ruins The St Francis Hotel the Fairmount monuments by themselves are mere shells so is that handsome structure the Call building One hundred banks twenty theaters most all the churches all are gone South of Market from the Ferry building to the hills towards the county line is a vast plain ofugly black smok ing ruins It is gruesome sicken ing heartrendermg You dream of it at night and you shudder at the thought of it in the day No you cant imagine it you must seeit and then after one has seen it one is sorry to have seen Something takes you by the throat and chokes you Of it a phantom remains that draws you and you grow old in one hour Fifteen square miles of territory laid bare swept by the demon fire 10000 acres of houses in ruins two hundred millions worth of property destroyed one thousand dead five hundred wounded Vbat a holocaust to the angry gods For three and a half days San Francisco burued From the Ala meda shore at night the spectacle was grandiously awesome The first day the fire ate up all the wholesale district and part of the Mission the second day the middle residence district the retail stores wd CChinatown had to be given upI rd day it swept Over Western addi i r= = Lion and North Beach and as the relentless fiend crept up the slopes of Nob Hill Russian Hill and Tel egraph Hill these looked like immense citadels of fire overtowering the plain and the valleys below en veloped in the deadly red glare The proud city of the argonauts was a sea of flames The crash of the dynamite mingled its thunder to the roar of the conflagration Every once ina while as the roof of some large building would give andsvaysparks would shoot up to the hear nsThere was hardly any water at the first great shock most of tai mains were broken some of the pipes lifted up in the air and stood half way on their beam ends Water was pumped from the bay and in some instances the sewers were used as conduits hut to no avail here and there a few stream from some reservoir would he used with effect for a little while unti the firemen fighting from behiu wet blankets surrounded by flame were forced to retire to renew their brsve fight further back only to be again driven away Neer was a more heroic fight put up by fire uen and soldiery Block after block of buildings in the path of the fire were blown up in the effort o check its course but the demo n laughed at wreckage as well From house to house from street to street from quarter to quartet it would leapand seize upon fresh preyIn one place in the Mission the broken mains created a flood slow ly drowing several inmates of wrecked houses pinioned in the timbers before help could reach themThe City Hall went down at the first shock fortunately it didnt catch fire Its records or most of them and moneys are safe in the vaults The steel skeleton of its dome 300 feet high looms up like gigantic beast whose entrails have been torn out exposing the bare ribs of the carcass The Mechanics Pavillion was early in the day turned into a gen Sudeeulyings caught fire from behind and beforejall could be moved it is said the place of ten thousand capac ity was turned into a huge funeral fire The Presidio the military reservation on the Golden Gate with its large forest was made the headquarters for the wounded In the midst of all that hales the new Postoffice of granite and mar ble stands white and serene crack ed only still to the extent of 500000 The Mint the Cus tome House and the Ferry binding stand practically uninjured Among the hotels of the South side the records of the number of people crushed or incinerated IP greatest reaching the hundred mark in one instance Seventeen men and twenty three horses were killed by the colapse of the 2Iav Street Market The earth seemed to move in waves Income places the sidewalks are lifted up 4 to 6 feet and next to it a depression in the ground equally as deep tells of the force of the quake The car tracks and the cable slot in places are twisted in zigzags Fire caught simultaneously at twenty different places at once at the first tremble which lasted from 50 to 70 seconds and which realh seemed an age With a roar the quake cams from North to south and a twisting aud shaking and a rollicking that seemed never to want to stop and the work of destruction with all its heartrender ing scenes was on rendering 300 000 people homeless The third day of the conflagration a sucessful stand was finally made on Van Ness Avenue on the north and on Dolores street on th south two thoroughfares 125 feet wide Here all the available water was concert trated rows after rowf of buildings in the path of the fiery monster were dynamited and back firing resorted to Most of the damage was done by the fire Thetall steel buildings stood the shock very well as ex emplified by the Call building 17 stories high the new Chronicle building the Mutual Saving Bank building and many others The fire did all the damages to those frames are all standing The heat was intense and night was as light as day Many firemen had their coats caps and shoes burned oft their bodies Fifty fine horses were killed during those three days of agon yrand the engines were r =putted up the hills by1 ropes In one instance 500 men wit b rops pulled the engine out of the fire to the top of a hill were many cases of ex ITherebut in the matu the people all worked like brothers The au thorities aided by the soldiery kept the situation well in hand Those who refused to help were torced to do so at the point of the bayonet wagons and automobiles were re q litiitioned to carry the wounded Used and clothing and thieves human vultures ghouls and other fiends were shot in their unholy act One prominent firm of grocer Goldberg Bowen Co triple heir prices on the second day of the calamity in San Franciscc Oakland and Berkeley The nuli tary swept the owners out of th s ores and confiscated the whol stock which will be paid for at the regular wholesale rates by the finance committee In contrast to the attempted highwa robbery of this firm one small grocery firm cut down the prices one third in many instances selling ow cost 1 One expressman was offered i all the money the man had to take a sickwife a hild and a few parcels to the ferry a thirty minutes drive Seeing the plight of the man the jehu demanded fiftv dollars Another expressman pass ing with his rickety old wagon carrying his own furniture away hearing of this unloaded his wagon on the street left his longings in charge of some strang ers and took the mans wife and child to the ferry for which service he refused to take any pay whateverAs as any act of extortion was reportei to the authorities thi military stepped in and confiscate the goods or the conveyances for the benefft of the people Th third day of the fire a baker fron Oakland took away a load of fresh baked bread to the city ostensibly for the lelief committee the only way he could get a pass Once on the other side he begun selling his bread at 25 and 50 cents a loaf A soldier soon stepped upon tbe 1 of his revolver compelled the hake to give away every loaf to the hun gry The people who charged ordinary prices wete not interferer withThe fourth day I went over fron Alameda as one of the relief committee to bring refuges across and the sight that met my gaze going upmarket street amid that vast expanse of ruins was heartrender ing By thousands the people were tramping down toward the feny ir order to escape the doomed city People of all conditions in all sorts ofcostumes rich once and poor now all are poor and homeless were tramping over the hot bricks towards the country All sorts of conveyances were requisitioned tc carry those wounded well enough to leave the city and the few be longings which they saved which consisted mostly of bundles wrapped up in sheets comforters blank its a few had valises some were dragging their trunks for blocks Here and there a parrot canary bird a pet dog with a few bits o f urniture on trucks buggies bar- ouches express wagons automo biles hand carts wheelbarrows etc Here a woman with a silk Iress diamonds on her fingers a mans hat her husbands slippers pother with a skirt a pair of mans outs a Ul inSOVercoat anda ancy hat with floating plumes The Italian woman whose dollar hat was ever a luxury was walk iug side by side with a woman of wealth and fashion both grim black with smoke and dirt silent esigned all on the same level now Strange to say I did not see anyone in despair or in tears The people took their misfortune philo ophicallv without whining or com ilain they were cool headed and ouraneous Man5 stayed camping n the streets or parks who could ave gotten away With grim Yankee determination the people look to the future of their destroyed city Building is going on already We hear of nothing but the new the greater San Francisco tbe city beautiful that is to rise out of the ashes of the old About 150000 are now under tents 200000 are being fed daily b the authorities a stupendous task So far nobody has gone hungry From all over the country a great wave Of brotherhood swept toward San Francisco in ag onv Alameda is feeding and housing about ten thousa dWeh- ad ten at one time We still have s four Gussie and her mother and even dear old grandma have been cooking for crowds and that en two gas jets And so it is m about every other household The city has never been so free from crime and the sanitary condi lions are excellent- In our town everything is cash and the banks being closed the problem of meeting ones obliga tions and feeding the crowd is a difficult one We ourselves escaped with small loss chimneys tumbled over furniture smashed and brie a brae in stutthdrues Hard times wiil come latter when people miauls to pay their tent or to earn their Using will have to be carried along We hope for the best work with a will for one coiiitnou purpose and leave the rest in the hands ol the AlmightyVery your cousin Charles Arnold Borle A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD could not bring as much happines to Mrs Lucia Vilke of Caroline Wis a did one 25c box ot Buck leus Arnica Salve when it com pletely cured a running sore on tier Itg which had tortured her 23 long years Greatest antiseptic healer of Piles Wounds and Sires 26c at all druggists It is seniiofficiaUy announced that this government wilt make no suggestion for the reduction or ar maments during the H gue Con terence Nor afterwards either if the present signs bold j J f Ii Lare M MEN AND BOYS + rT7 w piy 11 for hams Iud side B Bring your dollar anti get much earl carry J j = w1ZCL1 Want your moustache or beard abeautiful browD or rich Mack Use TUB New York Stan gives tbS simple and welcome solution to- long vexed problem The free distribution of Government seed might be narrowed dowi close to the vanishing point by system of elimination Oa every packet of seed sent out from Wash inglon there is the printed request that the recipient report to the Ag ricultural Department the luck he has with the contents The des partment clerks are never over worked after the harvest tabulat ing such reports So heres the planUless the farmer writes Dear Government yonr Pride of the Can and head ofcorn was wonder one your Sure to Head lettuce headed or words to that or some other effect put that farmer on the black list and ignore all future applica tions from him for free seed His Congressman will be able to tell him that it his own stilt andno harm will be done The plan will not be complicat ed by new batch of applicants this year for there are not going to be any more farmers after the pres ent generation dies out All the sons of farmers are becoming mor termen or bankers or drivers of ice wagonsThe absurd slander in regard to farmers sons may be ignored as petty attempt at wit by socalled metropolitan newspaper Vith that out of the way the farmers can turn their attention to the suggestion itself So far no one has ever heard of banner crop except of votes that ever sprang from government seed If change should come it should be recoded as an event of some historical import If no such report can be made it behoves the farmers to get together and decide oasomei i I r A Lr y7x KA K w w- r WATCHTill i fl c IT BARGAINS t i AT F KRUEGER SONS 7 17 Tt L7 itF 4wJ r t U i To Cure a Cold in One DIy 1Seven IWiffion boxes sold in past 12 months 1t11fj1tt1t11V v Spring and 1- Summerll i tfyz Stockof CLOTIIIXHll HATS1j I i We t f as as yon t IIIsorrTa aC nar lAyers Pills a a in a a a a a a r TabletsTake mentII The great rule of health Keep the bowels regular And the medicine JCAycrCoAVer UO NGHAMS DYE tUft or P S form of distribution that will e Worthwhile In ten of the eleven districts man f Kentucky the Congress is elected by the farmers About all the farmers get out of it is free seed If the free seed do not deliver the goods the farmer gets left- Free hens free hogs a sheep or so gratis and now and then a trot ter free would be much more sat isfactory arrangement The farm ers make tue Congressman and the righs kind of Congressmen gets what their constituents wants Its up to the farmers if free seeds don t suit em to get something better LoUlsvilleTlmes THE draft of the address to the throne in reply to the Emperors speech at the opening of the first Russian Parliament was submitted to the lower House of Parliament Tuesday c nsists practically of the following commands General am nesty the abolition of the daath penalty the supension ofmartial law and all exceptional Ibws full civil liberyty the abolition of the council of the empire the revision of the fundamental law the estah lishment of the responsonsibility of ministers the right of interpella- tion forced expropriation of land guarantees of the rights of trades unions E Gerry Brown thinks that uu lei certain conditions the use of the word hell is entirely proper Washington Post The fact that Omaha has gone Democratic shows what Democracy can do in Nebraska when Colonel Bryan and hiswvoice are 12000 miles away Kansas Qity Journal The time is approaching to stir up some more alarmist stories as to the whereabouts of the drydock Dewey No 83 A Cures Grip in Two Days on box 25c IIJIJ Willis Griffin = PRACTICAL t UNDERTAKERaAND FUNERAL DTRFCTOR aMt Vernon KY 2 w Stock Complete Can furnish on shoitno = tine Coffins aril Caskets and have Embalming =adone trine Hearse attached ORDERS bywbc Promptly Filled EPhone No 63 UiiUtUUUUUmUiUUUUUUiUUIUUUiUiUtUUUUiUUUUR r JOHAS NicKEKZIE IICOME = nnsysFiWIWI 5II W every Metalic S- g IIIwillNotions s CLOTH IN G I nilIWe carrry a full line of Clothing that will suit sizes and ages Our goods are right and our prices I right areI i Yours very truly- ItI Phone JONAS McKENZIE I tI vJOtAS rit1c ENZIE YOUR BANKING No matter how small so ruattter how large THE BANK of MT VERSION will give it careful attention This message applies to the men and the women alike Remember we pay 3 per cent interest on all deposits of 100 or more when left with the bank and not checked upon for a period of six months or more OFFICERS C C WILLIAMS Pres L RICHARDS Cashier J T ADAMS VicePres A B FURNISH Asst Cash Fire Proof Oil If you are looking for YOUR MONEYS WORTH Take your oilcan to your Deal er and insist on having it Filledwith tt FIREPROOF COAL OIL pre Proof 01 1oML VERNON SIGNAL MT VERNON KY MAY II 1906 Ze Cull up No 79 whetyou vant to Commurii cute with SIGNAL 791 tI 4 uc R R 01 TIME TABLE 22 north 124 pm 21 north J32 a m 2 south rs4 pit 21 South 1236 a m JAS LANDRUM Agent Phone No 58 Entered nt the Vernon Ky Postoffiee as secomlolass mail matter PERSONAL Mrs Meshack Gentry is very ill John Purcell Jr has a very sick childV G Smith spent Wednesday at Brodhead Hon J N Saunders of Stanford was here yesterday Boss Livesay has moved from Middlesboro to Admont Va Miss Georgia McFerron ir vi i ting friends and relatives here G C Fish and S H Martin are serving as Federal Jurors at London James Pirctcr opeiatcr at Rat Bernstadt visited friends and rela tives here Wednesday W H Fish was here Monday and told us there was but little change in his wifes health Mr Walter Sloan of Burnside Kv was visiting his cousin Mrs K B Brown at thisplacethis week Mrs D E Davis left Wednes day for a three weeks visit to Crab Orchard Lancaster and other pointsM Hollingsworlb of Middles barn was here Sunday calling on one of out most beautiful young ladies Mrs L S Jones returned to Mi dlrsboroyesteidax her daughter Mrs L V BelhurutnTbemgnmch improvedElmer Lechliter L N Brake man fell from the top of a box car at Lebanon Wednesday receiving serious injuries Mr and Mrs F Francisovpass ed through yesterday afternoon en route to LaFollette and Knoxville to visit relatives Mrs M B Salin and Misses Annie and Alza Thompson and Rissie Williams spent last night with friends at Brodhead Misses Uta Hutcheson of Owen ton and Miss Alma McAfee of H irrodsnurg were the guests of Mr and Mrs W B Sahn from Saturday until Monday Judge W R Cress of Monticel lo was here yecierday The Judge is looking fine and we are glad to know that in addition to good health he is also eijoying a goodly portion of this worlds woods dLOCAL Fifteen U S prisoners will be brought here today from London for safe keeping London has for ty five in all mostly moouhhiuers CLUBING OFFERUntil further notice we will furnish the Signal and Weekly Courier Journal for i 50 a year or the Signal and Louisville Herald Daily for 2 00 Cash must accompany all orders under this arrangement WANTED Your town tax If you havent paid your taxes this means you These taxes must he settled at once as the money is badly needed to pay for work en streets So please settle your tax and save cost Others have paid and you must Yours truly T J Pennington Marshal REWARD i will pay a reward of 10 oo for the arrest and convic tion of the party or parties who tore down my wire fence 1 also want to serve notice that I do want any more passing throug- my fields and parties guilty of same will be prosecuted mavii2t W M Poynter FREE TRIPlf you want a free trip to Mammoth Cave now is the time to enter the SIGN AL contest All that is required to get the trip all expenses paid is a dub o twentyfive 25 new cash subscriv ers of 100 to the MT VERNO SIGNAL There arr tire idy sere r al who have begun making u p clubs The trip will take plac some time in August Just make up your mind that you intend U make the trip and it is half made Robt Cox has begun the founda tion for his new house The same princiule is involved when the other follow does you rs when you do the ether fellow The City Council of Lancaster has passed an oidinance that the Marshall shall kill all untaxed doge I am now located near the depot prepared to do all kinds of black smithing Horseshoeing a special may t 131 Milt Taylor FOUNDI found on Sunday May 13 a certain amount of mon ey For further information the owner can call and see me at Wil die Ky JOHN McNEW State Superintendent Fuquc has called a meeting of County School Superintendents to convene at Frankfort May 22nd to consider the adoption of a union schedule for country public schools R L Coliier the timber and telephone man was here Wednesday loading poles to be shipped East some of which are very ex cellent Mr Collier says he ex uects to ship about 400 poles from here this summer Attention is called to the fact that Dr M L Myers will be at his office in Brodhead on Monda only The Doctor will drive down in the morning and return in the evening spending the whole of each Mon day with his Brodhead patrons The expense of Rock castle at the Home Coming Week will be 29 which goes to pay for badges a n d register The kllowing amounts for this purpose were received this week W G Nicely socts J A Wood 5octs Ah North said to have been stealing a ride on a freight train at Firi ton Laurel county Frida night was shot three times and in stands killed by Brakeman Joe Pruitt Both lived at Piitsburg Pruit came on to London where he gave himself over to the officers He claims self defense Who ever saw a pereot manta ked the revi aLt Tiere is no suchthitig Every tu tnhrr5 hh faults plenty of themThe reo vivaist continued Who ever saw a perfect woman At tars juncture a tall thin woman arose cDo you mean to say madam the evangelist asked that you have seen a perfect woman Well I cant just say that I have seen her the woman replied But I have heard a powerful lot about her she was my husbands first wife Perhaps the most miserable kind of a man is the old man that has worked hard all his days nccumu lated an independence and retire to spend his declining years ineae As soon as he quits work he hl conies miserable for work has be come a habit with him Me works industriously year after ear and gradually draws near the goal His goal is to have weahhto enable him to quit work But when he attains the coveted independence he can not enjoy it It is a fact that the man who works for a dol lar cannot enjoy ithis pleasure is in earning it Pleasure is streaked all along through life and the fellow who doesnt take his share he passess on the way will have his ability to enjoy detdened and when he gets old he will find with regret that the pleasures are all in the pastEx We were asked this week by a delinquent subscriber why we kept on sending the paper after the subscription date has expired Every weekly newspaper in towns of this size are forced to do this Should we stop subscriptions when the timd expires nine times out of the subscriber would give us a call down for insinuating that his credit was not good Rather than to cast a reflection against the honesty of a subscriber topay a small debt it is next to a necessity for a home paper to continue timehas is necessary for the city dailies or weeklies to follow this rule as their subscrib ers live at a distance and are not personal friends as is the case witn the majority ofour subscribers Our subscribers should deem it an notfdoubt their integrity and continue to send them the paper after their time has expired Should suy de sire their paper discontinued they should notify us and remit to date then if the paper is not stopped we guarantee that it doesnt cost them a cent Ex The Rpckcastle Medical Society met in the officeof Dr A G Lov ell Monday and reorganized the society by the election of Dr P Benton President Dr W J Child rcss Vice President rod Dr S C Davis Secret trY The society will meet again the third Friday in June in the olficeof Dr S W Ad kins when the following program will Le carried out A paper on Summer Complaints of Children by Dr Walker Owens and one on Small Pox by Dr W J Child ress followed by a gin eral discus sion of all the physicians present A full attendance is earnestly requested JUlVliNGSTOA Mr Robert Lemons is in Louis xille this weekMiss Myrtle Rice is speudiug the week with her fath er at Hazel Patch Mr Timm Davis of Paint Lick is the guest ol his brother L H DavisiIr John Pope was in Corbin this week on business Mrs J L Lemons of Paris Tenn is spending several days with her son Mr Robert LemonsMr Eugene Orndorff leaves today for Newark Ohio after a plensant visit with his par entsMr Hardin Mahaffey spent several days with his family this week He has a position in Ala bama M rs Chewmng has return ed from an extended visit to her daughter Mrs Dave Reigel of Leb anon Junction Mrs Harry Jenkins left Monday for Corbin where she expects to mike her future horseMr Ar thur Botner was in town Sunday between trainsMr Chas Rice Jr happened to avery painful accident getting cinder in his eye lie had some trouble in getting removedMrs Mary Haynes of LaFollette Tenn is a pleasant vis itor at the home of Mr and Mrs C Hocker Mrs Parsons and family of Berea spent several das this week with her perents Mr and Mrs Jame McGuire Rev Combs closed his meeting at the Christian church Sunday night with twentyone additionsMas- ter Bentley Sparks is spending a month with his grandmother Mrs Susan Doty at Richmondjudge- L W Bethurum and Jailer Jarrcit were in t wn Saturday to see about the smallpox MissjBettie French is spending a few weeks at the home of Mr and Mrs G D Cook Mr Willie McGuire spent several days last week with his parents Mr and Mrs Janis McGuire Mrs Essie Painter and lit daughter Rut i retTfniea t rotir Nashville Sunday ace nnpanied by- her cousin Miss Boning Mrs Painter spent the winter in Nash dUe where her little daughter has been in school Mr J E Wood all was in Hazel Patch This week DEAD Floy the little daughter of Mr and Mrs Jacob Pike died Wednesday morning at six oclock She had been sick for mor than two months with nervous trouble The funeral services were conduct ed by Rev A J Pike of rodhead and the remains were taken to Pine Hill for burial We extend our sympathy to the bereaved fam fly BROOK BA D Mrs J G Frith and son GOt ernor have returned fotn a twt weeks visit to Danville and Stan InrdHiss Myrtle OBinnon of Stanford spent one diy of lass week here visiting her uncle J G Frith Ora Frith has assumed hi new duties Working in the shafts for J Thos CherryE G Dunn was over from Danville one dayI last week The Young Mens Club have reorganized and are now meeting regular ly in their new homeW A Tyree OUt boss con tr lctor has taken a contract togrect a Masonic Hall at Crab Orchard Miss Lizzie Cabel is at home again after spending five months in school at Morehead Rev A J Pike is at Livingston this week daughterAIrssTuesday shopping Jno Robins and Barbee McAfee attended lodge at Mt Vernon last Monday night Mr and Mrs H L Harp will go to Louisville to spend a few days Henry Anderson has re turned home from Bowling Green where he took a course in the Busi ness UniversityMrs J C Leece is visiting her parents at Rockhold KyChas C Hurt made a flying trip to Louisville first ofweek Mr and Mrs L n Hilton of Pine Hillvisited homefolks first of week A E Albright is serving on the Federal Jury at LondonOur- new Marshall D B Albright is giving satisfaction Let us all lend a helping hand and make one of the best towns in the state out ofour dear old townMisses Uta Hutch eson and Alma McAfee visited Mrs Salin at the Miller House in Mt MondayVSMaretburg Saturday night He JewelFranciscoCall in MaretburgMjssLiIy Fug et visited her sister Mrs Clarence Schaffer this weekThe stock CountyFair IRHHamm 4 Granville Owens Secy JIPres Hutcheson Treas Dr M 1Myera J W Tate and Jno Rob ins Directors 1With such men as these we are assured ol a good Fair There will be more attrac lions and better premiums than ever heloreMr and Mrs Francis co fire visiting in La FollelleTenn his week LEVEL ft KEEN Tommie Hatcher L N Brakeman was visiting his parents Mr and Mrs R B Hatcher last week Mr E C Oliver and family of Lebanon junction visited the fam ily ot Mr and Mrs A H Hamlin fast veek James Norton has returned home frcm ClairfieldTenn where he has been loging for the past mouth NEWS ITEMS John Alexander Dowies illness is said to be at a critical stage The First Appostle has taken to his bed and is failing rapidly The Burley Tobacco Growers Association has begun its fight for the control of 1906 crop and claims to have a good chance to win The interstate Commerce Com mission shows every intention of outdoing the Bureau of Corporations in the Muck Raking Game The May diy strike in Russia has ended The workmen of St Petersburg and generally throughout the country have resumed workIt is estimated in Chicago that one million persons will suffer as a result of the proceedings in which the American Reserve Bund Com pany are now in volved The Federal Government has won a decided victory in its suit against the paper trust and m con sequence the General Paper Com pany will be disolved andreorgan izcd alorg different lines James H Clark a telegraphop eratorof Chamblee Ga crazed hyj drink and disappointment in love in less than twentyfour hours killed one man seriously wounded three others clubbed a fifth with a shot gun stt fire to a house then committed suicide Two of the highest salaried men tom KenTucky in other places are John M Harlan and Dan McCann each of whom receive ten thousand dollars per year for the services Harlan is a Justice of the Supreme Court ot the United States and Mc Cann is a baseball pitcher Ben Huffaker now serving a life sentence in the Edyville psnitenti ary for murder was convicted Fri day of the murder of hen Shirley a fellow convict and given the ceath uenalty The auestion ofwhether or not he can be tried without being pardoned for iris first offense wil be raised The Red Crops receipts up to date for the relief of California earthquake sufferers aggregate 2 215000 Money is still reaching he Treasurer of the organization at the rate ol several thousands a day The organization gstill has about 1700000 wtiich has not heen expended IIn the United States thus far over 37000 miles of interurban electric railway has been built and this is the work of the last ten years It is predicted that by 1915 a pass enger will be able to cross the con tinent by trolly and that would benomore surpising than some other things that have happened in the progress of American trans portation A meeting over which John Alexander Dowie presided at Zion City Sunday afternoon was broken up by a numberof followers of the opposing faction assisted by sever al outsiders and before the crowd dispersed a free fight occured Dowie was addressing the audi ence numbering about six hundred and made the statement that the overseers of the Voliva faction were thieves and robbers A t once a number of those in the aud ience were on their feet shouting No no you are the robber why dont you pay your debts The disturbance became so violent that a Zion guard was sent to restore or der The guard took hold ofan old gray beaded man who was the loudest in his demands for Dowie to pay his obligations and this was a signal for a free fight A d ozen wereIto drag him down the aisle when Gladstone Dotvie and Dea platformnot to create a disturbance and to take their seats xxXxzei OVER I Three Million Peo p- Are le Wearing Star Brand Shoes And Like Them o W e Are you one of this number Ifs not try a pair of b PATRIOTMENS BRAND SHOES t ARE BETTER r One trial is all we ask Ask to see them i Are You Prepared for Summer V- U h Look through your wardrobe and see if yon dont 5 jf need a new Suit A Hat An extra pair of pants H Uunerwear Hosiery All the Summer necessities are o f J- Atu in our Stock Come early and get choice Remember L that Summer often comes unaware Get ready mHl1 come and look at our Stock whether you buy or not i i s We the the iMcCORMICK and DEERINCi I Harvesting Machinery d Syracuse prows I BirdsefFWagonsf E AND Globe FerfiMzers We Are Fighting OldTime Business Methods = And Credit Prices b- ySELLING EVERYTHING At Prices To Suit The People FOR CASH Make our store your headquarters yhile in town welcomeIFISHS CASH STOREChurch St Mt Vernon Kyoo acac POLITI C5 The conference also corr resolution calling on the Oni r States to interefere in the Congo Free State Gsv nub Taylor of Tennessee defeated Senator Carmack for SaturdaysI20000- Since the introduction of mission into Japan 300 benevolent institu ions have been established There vere nOle prior to that time Three hurdrtd and twenty pen don bills were passed by the House esterday in one hour anda half This record has never been r n lal Jd in the disposition of peusion le gislationSenator Carmack of Tennessee returned to Washington Tuesday He replied good naturedly to many expressions af regret of his defeat by exGov Bob Taylor and said he was out of politics Senator Tillman Tuesday made in the Senate another statement in regard to President Roosevelts change of attitude on the Railroad Rate Bill In closing his s tat e Lent Senator Tillman said The charge I mane and still make is that the President is guilty of bad faith and that the Rate Bill which will be when enacted into law a much better and stronger measure han we had hoped to get has been emasculated of one of its most valu tble and essential features by the Presidents action I am ready to he thoughtful and honorable men of the country CASTORIAFat flie Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ilmature of ct8f DROPS CURES RHEUMATISM LUMBAGO SCIATIC NEURALGIA and KIDNEY TROUBLE i taken Internally rids the blood or the poisonous matter and acids which are the direct causes of these diseases Applied externally It affords almost In stant rellet from pain while a permanent cure is being effected by purifying the blood dissolving the poisonous sub stance and removing it from the system DR S D BLAND Of Browton Ga writes had been a sufferer for a number of years with Lumbago and HUeumatlem In ray arms and leg and tried all tbe remedies that I could gather from medical works and also consulted with number of tile best pbyalclanibat found notblng tliat gave the relief from l1mul shell prescribe It In my prMttOf for and kindred dlieaie FREE 3 If you are suffering1 with Rheumatism Neuralgia Kidney Trouble or any kin dred disease write to ua for a trial bottle of DROPS and test it yourself 5DROPS can be used any length ot time without acquiring a drug habit as it is entirely free of opium cocaine alcohol laudanum end other similar ingredients Large10UeYorSalebyDrbuggst BMM SWANK IHEUMATIC TORE C01PA1Y Dept 80 16O Lake Street Chlao iJO arQf40afiJ VU vUvW GL- Ia v I AllC3 Qg0SgIN fJ 8 g- i A eaASIONAll g o MILLINERY I i 0 0 Cga geiithenomastr co C 8 HATS GILT BELTSo o 8 C 8 OR oC GANDJESI f- I Irs eoepo 8MT VEINON KY S 8 GOVERNMENT WHITEWASH A carelessly made whitewash will endure only for a little while especially in sections where rain fall is abundant It will richly pay to get the wash right in the first application so that it may enI dure otherwise the effects are soon lost find the work remains to be done over again Of all the white washes of which we hive had knowledge that made after what is called the Government formula is the most durable and most satisfa tory We have printed this formu la repeatedly and requests are agaiat hand for it It surely is ont of the bits of useful informa tion that every farmer should file it away for ready reference We publish it again with the sugges tion that it be cut out aLd be put where it can he found when needed Some titno ago an autograph letter under date of December 1871 from U S Grant then President of the Uuited States was published giving the formula to a friend of his in California and adding that he had white washed the Vhitc House all over with it We que te from this letterHaifa bushel unslackek lime slack with warm water cover it durirg the process to keep in the steam strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer add a peck of silt previously well dissolved in warm watei three pounds of ground rice boiled to a jthin paste and stir in boiling hot water half pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of glue which has been previously dissolved over a slow fire and add five gallons hot water to the mixture stir wen and let stand for a few days cover ed up from the dirt It should be put on hot One pint of the mix ture will cover a square yard prop erly applied Small brushes are best There is nothing that can compare with it for outside or in siedwork and it retains its bril liancy tor many years Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade Spauish brown yellow ochre or common clay FORTUNATE MISROURIANS When I wys a druggist at Livonia Mo writes T J Dyer now jf Grayavillef Mo three of iir 4btoniers were permanently cure NewJiscoento day One was trying to sell his property and move to Arizona but after using New Discovery a short while he found it unnecessary to do so I regard Dr Kings New Discovery as the most wonderful medicine in existence Surest Cough and Cold cure and Throat and Lung healer Guaranteed by all druggist 50C andi Trial bottle free ADJOINING COUTNIES The L N Railroad will make extensive improvement at Paris Work will begin at once on a new roundhouse new shops and increas ed facilities generally WANTED by Chicago wholesale and mail order house assistant managerman or woman for this county aud adjoining territory Salary 20and expenses paid weekly expense money advanced Work pleasant position permanent No investment or experience re quired Spaie time valuable Write at once for full particulars and self addressedenvelope SUPERINTENDENT 132 Lake St Chicago Ill RELIGIOUS TheSouthern Baptist Conven tion began its sessions Friday at Chattanooga with a large attendance Encouraging reports were heard from the president and secre tary of the foreign missiou work Gov Beckham declines to give out whit agreement regarding the States ssistance in Sunday cbs ing of stloons in Louisville was reached at the conference held with millS rs of the Louisville Ministerial Association but says a puMic announcement will be made shortly The Methodist Conference in the South was asked to adopt a law jequr ing ministers to give up the use of tobacco upon ordaination RHEUMATISM Why suffer from this terrible malady when one application of Chamberlains Pain Balm gives re lief Hundreds of grateful people testify to the magical power of this remedy over rheumatism For tsae by Chast C Davis leading drug fgliit = r JI I COLD WAVE INJURES FRUIT AND CROPS IN CENTRL KENTUCKYI Damage to the extent of many thousands of dollars was done in Central Kentucky by a killi ig frost which fell Tuesday night and by a slight snow and hail Wednesday It is feared that gardens are ru ue while all fruits are injured if not killed Wheat was killed vhile tasselingIn early morning the frost was so thick that the bluegrass crackled under foot like straw The thermometer stood at 34 while at our altitude frost forms at 41 Tho beans and potatces are froze r The strawberries are sharply nip ped in the blossom Those set and haltgrown are safe as are those in the bed but a grand prospect is blighted If it could be told what the weather would bs in the next tend ays it might be said how roundedmay be the saucer of the laboring men The weather may assume a line tl at may yet glut the market andan other that will cut off the working mans pail The corn is not frozen nor the small clover nor the oats No tree fruits are frozen The grapes look sick But the grape has ho boed around the earth with man ever since Noah went on a tank and has gotten used to pretty tough practicesOnly within the past fifteen years has the weather been as cold as it has been the past four days This was in 1894 when on May 20 snow fell to the depth of several inches Fruits and grain hove er by that time were mostly of sufficient hardihood to withstand the cold and the snow only remained on ihe ground for a day or twoThe present cold wave arrived here Sunday and gradually increas ed in intensity Overcoats that had been discarded for the summer were again assumed and buildings from which the stoves had been re moved were almost untenable until the stoves could be replaced My Hair i- sScraggly Do you like it Then why be contented with it Have to be Oh no Just put on Ayers Hair Vigor and have long thick hair soft even hair But first of all stop your hair from coming out Save what you have Ayers Hair Vigor will not disappoint you It feeds the hairbulbs makes weak hair strong Tho best kind of a testimonial- Sold for over sixty years IrAMdo Ayer Co Lowell issAlto raonufeoturoro of it1lJersSARSAPARILU 1ENTUCIiYFAIR DATES The following are dates fixed for holding Kentucky Fairs for 1906 as far as reported Officers of fair are requested to report to us any omission or correction of dates Brodhead Aug 153 days Lancaster July i83 days Houstonville July 253 days Madisonyille July 315 days Danville August 13 days Harrodsburg Aug 7 = 4 days Fern Creek Aug 144 lays Vauzeburg August 154dtys Columbia August 21 4 days Shepherdsville August i41days Lawrenceburg August 214day Springfield August 22 4 days Barbourville August 223 days Guthrie August 233 days Nicholasville Auu 28 2 dys Shelbyville August 29 4 days loidou August 293 days Florence August 294 days Bardstown Augusl294daS Somerset Sept 54 days Elizabeletown Sept 43 diys Paris September 42 days Monticello Sept i 14 days Glasgow Sept I2tdays Falmouth Sept 264 day TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATINE BROMO QUININE Tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cureE W Groves signature is on each box 25CtS A San Francisco dispatch quotes a H Harrimau vvith saying ulr the Government will not supply you with money I wilt lend yon 500000000 Houston Post une oiiiBuotnif The seasons first cold may be slightmay yield to early treatment but the next cold will hang on longer it vill be more troublesome too Un necessary to take chances on that second one Scotts Emulsion is a preventive as well as a cure Take SCOTTS EmULSION when colds aboundand youll have no cold Takeit when the cold is contracted and it checks inflamma tion heals the membranes of the throat and lungs and drives the cold out ISend for free sample ChemistsIand 100 Aldru ch KILLTHE COUCH AND CURE THE LUNGS KingsNw IlfOR CONSUMPTION Price 50e 100 Freo Trial Surest and Quickest Cure for all 1 THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES or mONEY BACK ROCKCASTLE Real Estate Co MT VERNON KY 0 FARM No IThis farm of 317 acres located on Negro creek near Brodhead Ky is one of the best farms in the county and will be sold at a bargain the owner being unable to properly look after same because of his health The entire farm is under fence 170 acres in cultivation balance timbered three houses on farm good wells ar d springs and plenty of good stock water Also rood orchard FARM No 418o acres near Brod head well fenced plenty good water good orchard Plenty timber to run farm good residence and one tenant house Can be bought for 55000 A great bargain FARM NO 5So acres of land be twetfii Brush creek and Orlando 20 acres in cultivation balance timbered WillisellFreedom church splendid resides and a most desiralile farm Price WOiiO a bargain FA KM NO lO Thre traits of land in one body consisting of 85 84 and 155 acres located on Glade Fork creek in Lincoln county Ky and about miles from Crab Orchard on Crab Orchard and lice Lick road These lands are located near the resi dences of George Hines and George Gooch About j5acres of this land is bottom land and a good part of itis upland but level and is good fuming land A bargain at 3 1m acre One thirdcash the balance in one and two years A GAURANTEED CuRE FOR PILES Itching Bliud Bleeding Protrud ing Piles Druggists are autboriz ed to refund money if PAZO OINT MENTfails to cure in 6 to 14 days Soc m1LUSmDrffiY Slakes Kidneys and Bladder BlghS ONLY RAILROAD SOUTH IEQUIPPED WITH AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC BLOCK SIGNALS lli1IWTbt1iilIf1iug AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY PROM CINCINNATI TO ALL IMPORTANT CITIES South Southeast and Southwest IFIRST SOUTHr For Information and Rates Addre H C KINO C P T A 111 E Main St Lexington Rr W A OARRETT General Maull W C RINEARSON PA Cincinnati O t SUNKLOWKR PHILOSOPHY Some people are ursucessfull every thing but kicking When a pretty girl has a sun grin on her face you doubt that it is the same girl What has become of the oldfash jioned boy who never left home vrithcut a Bible in his trunk When a woman comes down town shopping she spends half her time in taking off and putting on her gloves and the other half in looking for samples in her pocket bookIWhen a man returns to lmiolc town on a visit people are never as glad to see him as he thinks they should bo And how manv there are who have never heaur of him REWARD 5 iO0 t The readers nf this paper will be pieced to learn that there iat least one dreaded diseae that Science has been able to wire in its stages and that is Cattar h Halls Cat tarrh Cure is the only positiva cum now known to the medical fraternity Cattarrli being a constitvtional disease rcqinnsa constitutional treatment Halls Ca tarrh Cure is taken in ternally acting directly up on tIe bio d and iniieous mrfaces of the system tliereby destroying the fonndatioi of the disease and giving tIll patient strength by building JII lie institution and assist irg nanire in doing its work TIll pnpe etors have so much faith in its ciirativt pow fr liSt they oiler Om kindred Dollars for any case it fails to cure Send rul list of testimonials Address J CHENEY CO ToIedoO- Solil by till Druggists 75c Take Halls Iainily Pills lor c nstipation is now to be barred from IPanama few remaining juys in life by not being allowed to hold a shooting fiesta concurrently with the national election Nobody has suggested yet that th doctors were behind the gov ernmems move against patent medicine trust The hardcoal miners have re sumed vvoik but the householders are continuing to pay winter prices NOT IF AS RICH AS ROCKEFELLER If you had all the wealth of Rockefeller the Standard Oil magnate you could not buy a better medicine for bowell complaints than Chamberlains Colic Cholera amid Dirrhoea Remedy The most cmi nent physician cannot prescribe a bttter preparation for colic and die airhoea b lh for children and ad dults TIme uniform success of this remedy has sluiwn it to be su jKrrsr to Jill oherr It utvcr fails aid when r ilured with water and EIit Sold Iy Chas C Divis leading dl utigist CASTOBXBears the Signature ID lit 0 T11e Otisy M ns LONE1IETVEEN LOUISVILLE EVANS VI LLE SI LOUIS AND SOUTHWEST IS VIA Louisville Henderson St Louis R R HENDERSON ROUTE Puhnan Sleepers Free Reclining Chair Cars Special Roundtrip Homeseekers Rates to foutluvest and west first and third Tuesdays in February and March 1906 Special Tourist Rates to Colorado Tex as Mevico and New Mexico on sale daily until April 30 Limit to return May 31 1906Secondclass Colonist Rates to southwest Tickets on sate first and third Tuesdays February and March 1906 Second class Colonist Rates to California and Northwest Tickets ou sale dai ly February iAh to April 7th ASK VS FOR RATES J H GALLAGHER Trav P A L IRWIS Gn P A I IfrISkoUldealerandIDSlston OIIfIethreecolor Hanwr will waried J STEVENS ARMS AND TOOL CO I PpBox4096 USA OLD II 1C ICO RY ClMlS Hyojr vsiociutc Elito his something to discover that a state at least has ihe right to bar a foreign corporation from doing business within its borders There is not much left of state right hut the Supreme Court of the U ii ted States this week conctedud so much It was in the case of theTrav elers Insurance Company against the Insurance Commissioner ot the State of Kentucky The deci sion rendered by Jus ie Peck ham was in favor of th state It seems thet the insurance company in common with other corporations had been in the habit of removingj- cllllplainis ag oust them federal courts when an action was brought in the state courts The result was that the company was b irred from the state The was taken to the Supreme cxseI Justice Peckham had two of colleagues aginst him in a dis entI USIticeHar1anthe court held that the state was perfectly within its rights in liar ringout any corporation it wished Justice Peckham said that a state may refuse to let an outside company do any business whatsoever within its borders and that the state iw was not in corflict with the constitution This decision is ingly simple but it invoves a seemI that is of utmost importance cases of the Standard Oil pany and other corporations TheI decision cannot but be read by these gentlemen with a great deal of interest and in view of the reve lations that have been mare by the Commissioner of Corporations and fly the Interstate Commerce Com mission it is possible that there will be a number of states in which ofiendiig states will find thcmse ves without a domicile One of the recent tiles of journ alism is that j on must not quott the President When e really he gins airing his opinions of tx Senators you hardly want to violate it eitherThe Trust has dissolved with eire prhphecies of what will happen to the consumer It is quite obvious that the pipsr trust contemplates entering into a gen jtlemans agreement seenlsIIIs is DANGEROUS TO NEGLECT A COLD How often do we hear it remark ed Itsonlv a coldand fe days later learn that the man is on his back with pneumonia This is ofsuch common occurrence that a cold however slighgt should not be disregarded Chamberlains Cough Remedy counteracts any tendency to of a cold to result in pneumonian and has gained its great popularity and extensive sale by its prompt cures of this roost common ailment It always cures and is pleasant to take For sale by Chas C Davis leading druggist C C Williams ATTORNEYATLAW MT VERNON KY OFFICE On ard floor 011 The Bank of Mt Vernon on Church streetSpecial attention given to collections Phone No 80 M U MYERS DentistII f FirstClass Work 11 OPFCIA residence on Cld Main St known as the CC Vil hams residence PhONE NO 73 Will he in office at IRODHFAO ever ONljV 3 CMcCLARY Uh Undertaker Embalmer iPiLINE of Caskets c Orcleis by Telephone attend ed promptly Stanford Wv W M Francisco MONUMENTAL WORKS Brodhead Ky Granite and Marble Monuments and Tombstones ILL VORK FIRSTCLASS SATISFACTION GIVEN a II UTL I 1iIIlAYegefable rcparationforAs theroodandllegulaL- ingthaStoinndmsaniiBowelsof l I PromotesDigesHonCheeiful nessand RestContains neither tl OpiumMorphmg norMineral NOT NARCOTIC Pu sinrz IPurrpan tabs Sul e I IDiGytonaSoJo IItion IIGnnJmlI Convulsions fevcrish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP TacSinute Signature of NEW YORK Af iW6fiths old I t CASTORIAFor The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the- signature IIof In- Use For Over I Thirty Yea- rsCSTRIA carT zr fXAGTCOPYQFWRAPFRWINE Home home you must have children happyhome makers If a weak made strong enough to bear little pain or discomfort to I OF CAROUI 1 Womans Relief It will ease away all your pain reduce inflam mation cure leucorrhea whites falling womb ovar ian trouble disordered menses backache headache etc and make childbirth natural and easy Try it At every drug store in 100 bottles WRITE US A LETTER DUE TO CARDUI freely and frankly telling us all your and nothing else is ray baby girl now troubles We will send free advice in two weeks old writes Mrs J P plain sealed envelope Address La West of Webster City Iowa She dies Advisory Dept The Chattanooga is a fine healthy babe and we are Medicine Co Chattanooga Tenn both doing nicely SOUTHWESTThe mmPRQS PEf jTV u Are you making as much off your farm as you ought No doubt you are making all yon can The trouble is the land costs too much It tues too much money to buy a hg farm and so you are trying to make a living a small farm or perhaps you are renting one and paying a goherepayingThere are thousands of acres of fertile lagd in the Southwest along the line of the Cotton Belt Route that can he bought for from 3 to 10 YEarI COST interests lay in settling there The trip can be made at very little expense On tim first and third Tuosc ys of ouch month you can purchase a round trip ticket to any point in the Southwest on or Cotton Belt Route at very low rates interestedinWrite at once for free copies of books describing this wonderful country and for full information about cost of tickets etc LCBARRY T P A Colto Belt Route 82 ToJd BHg Inrsvile Ky The YELLOW Front THE OLD RELIABLE REST DIUJJSTOHE IN THE COUNTY Chef pest EDt ugs A ny v here No Churge ioi Prescriptions Childrens Diseases a Specialty All come for fair treatment SN Cu DAViS ProprPHONE No 53 r fcyMDecxxs c GRANVILLEO ENS A I UNDERTAKER I I Brodhead Ky1 W COMPLETE LINE Coffins Caskets and Robes All Mail Telegraph or Telephone orders Promptly Filled 3cJX dnnft tuflB i9t1al MAGAZINE SECTION MT VERNON ROOKCASTLE COUNTY KY MAY 18 1906Pages 1 to 4 CLARA BARTON ACTIVE Red Cross Heroine Will Establish Railroad Hospital Car Service Although Over Eighty Years Old She EnergytoCape with Wrecks Crossleaderthat she is one of the most remarkable Feelingnolongeruntiring woman although upward of eighty years of age has lately returned to her old home in Massachusetts and opened headquarters for a great new movement to alleviate suffering name hospitalcorpswith the aid of hospital cars speedy injuredofespecialonly likeness which Clara Barton has permitted to be made in many years nolovesonal friend Mrs John A Logan after much persuasion finally induced her to sit for this picture Mrs Logan is seen standing by her side WORKED IN CIVIL AND FRANCO PRUSSIAN WARS Clara Barton who is entering with co much enthusiasm into a new mis BARTON MRS slonaiy work was born in Oxford Mass in During the Civil War she did relief work on the battlefields and organized the search for missing men for which Congress appropriated the sum of 15000 After the close of that conflict she went abroad and car on the Red Cross activities of the FrancoPrussian war following which she did heroic work at the Johnstown flood distributed relief in the Russian famine in and the Armenian massacre of 1896 at the request of the President of the United States carried relief to Cuba in and conducted the Cross relief at the Galveston floodAmericas most interesting repre sentative in the worlds group of old women has been loaded with hon ors by all nations and her home is filled with valuable tokens of esteem Chief among the treasures cherished by this of conquering armies are the jewels and decorations tendered her by the royalty of many nations and constituting unquestionably the great est collection ever bestowed upon any citizen of the United States GIFTS FROM ALL SOVEREIGNS Conspicuous in the glittering array are the amethyst cut in the form of a pansy an inch and onehalf square I the gift of Miss Bartons personal friend the Grand Duchess of Baden the Servian Cross decoration pre sented by Queen Natalie the Gold Cross of Remembrance bestowed by the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden a medal presented by the Queen of Italy an English decoration pinned on Miss Bartons dress by Queen Victoria the Iron Cross of Germany presented by the Emperor and Empress the decoration of the Order of Melusine presented by the Prince of Jerusalem Cyprus and Armenia and the brooch and pendant of diamonds the gift of the people of Johnstown in recognition of the great service rendered by Miss Barton after the famous flood Miss Bartons father was in boyhood one of the soldiers of Mad Anthony Wayne and Clarissa Harlowe Barton as her name is inscribed in the family Bible to the Bay State home as human Christmas present I4ke many another New England Clara Bar ton when thrown on her own resources took up school teaching as a means of livelihood and when she was obliged to abandon this because of failing eye sight she managed to secure a position in the Patent Office at Washington and here she continued her service until the outbreak of the Civil War disclosed to her a lifework Her advertisements in the Massachusetts papers that she would receive money and stores for the wounded soldiers and personally dis tribute them at the front brought quick responses and from this small beginning the scope of her work broadened The ministering angel of the Army of the Potomac was present at the battles of Cedar Mountain the second Bull Run Antietam Fredericksburg and the Wil derness WAS WITH THE VANGUARD In the FrancoPrussian war Miss Barton was the first person to enter Strasburg after the fall of that city and was instrumental in organizing the relief She performed a similar service at Paris which she entered with the vanguard at the conclusion of the siege After her return to the United States she directed relief work in addi to the instances above mentioned during the Mississippi flood of 1882 the overflow of the Ohio River in 1883 the Louisiana cyclone of the same year and the Texas drought of 1889 ever at the fore aiding sustaining and sup porting untiring presence the failing courage of those in their suffering learned to depend upon her with passionate love and gratitude t Mrs John A Logan Mary Simmer son Cunningham Logan who appears with Clara Barton in this picture is a native of Missouri but was educated in Kentucky and married John A Lo gan in 1855 Since his death she has MISS CLARA AND JOHN A LOGAN 1830 ried 1892 1898 Red grand idol Red came a girl tion who engaged in literary work and has resided in the city of Washington mak ing her home in a quaint old house filled with mementoes of her hero hus band This residence is on a most at tractive little estate of about onehalf acre in extent located on the brow of a hill overlooking the nations capitol COLONEL HENDERSONS POEM Several years ago the late Col D B Henderson wrote a poem entitled Yes or No which slumbered until the other day when it was read in Des Moines at a meeting held in the famous Iowans memory The poem runs Is there a mentor strong and good That always indicates the road Where we should go That tells us with unerring voice Which of the words should be our choice The Yes or No We have the bibles of the earth With all their holy power and worth And yet we know The world Is wild with disputation As to the true road to salvation The Yes or No pathAndIs there no woe Is there no doubt in noblest mind Who In the word from heaven would find The Yes or NOJ rightHereNor dream of woe When reason suddenly cries out doubtAndAnd ever thus we rise and tan We hope and fear and tremble all Until we go reposeThereLost is the No SQUIBS Recent events in Zion City make it ap parent that Elijah the third has gone up almost as effectually as did the original A Kansas woman was kicked by a mule causing her to bite off her tongue She realises now it is bad business to talk back to a mule It is hard for Russell Sage to understand want to travel in airships when walking Is so much cheaper ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA Volcanic Explosions in East In dies the Most Terrific in History Vast Volumes of Ashes Blown Twenty Miles Above Earth Detonations Heard Three Thousand Miles Distant By Sir Robert Ball The following description by Sir Robert Ball of the eruption of Kraka toa will be read with special interest at the present time It is taken from his book The Earths Beginning re cently published by D Appleton Co Until the year 1883 few had ever heard of Krakatoa It was not in habited but the natives from the surrounding shores of Sumatra and Java used occasionally to draw their canoes up on its beach while they roamed through the jungle in search of the wild fruits The island seemed to owe its existence to some frightful eruption of bygone days but for a couple of centuries there had been no fresh out breakIn 1SS3 Krakatoi suddenly sprang into notoriety Insignificant though it had hitherto seemed the little island was soon to compel by its tones of thunder the whole world to pay it in stant attention It was to become the scene of a volcanic outbreak so appall ing that it is destined to be remem bered throughout the ages At first the eruption did not threaten to be of any serious type In fact the good people of Batavia so far from be ing terrified at what was in progress in Krakatoa thought the display was such an attraction that they chartered a steamer and went forth for a pleas ant picnic to the island Many of us I am sure would have been delighted to have been able to join the party who were to witness so interesting a spectacle With cautious steps the more venturesome of the excursion party clambered up the sides of the volcano guided by the sounds which were issuing from its summit There they beheld a vast column of steam pouring forth with terrific noise from a profound opening about thirty yards inwidthAs summer of this dread year advanced the vigor of Krakatoa stead ily increased The noises became more and more vehement These were pres ently audible on shores ten miles dis tant and then twenty miles distant until the great thunders of the vol cano now so rapidly developing astonished the inhabitants that dwelt over an area at least as large as Great Britain and there were other symp toms of the approaching catastrophe With each successive convulsion a quantity of fine dust was projected aloft into the clouds The wind could not carry this dust away as rapidly as it was hurled upward by Krakatoa and accordingly the atmosphere became heavily charged with suspended particles A pall of darkness thus hung over the adjoining seas and islands Such was the thickness and the density of these atmospheric volumes of Krakatoa dust that for a hundred miles around the darkness of midnight prevailed at midday Then the awful Manythousandsitants of the adjacent shores of Su matra and Java were destined never to behold the sun again They were pres ently swept away to destruction in an invasion of the shore by the tremen dous waves with which the seas sur rounding Krakatoa were agitated The development of the volcanic en ergy proceeded and gradually the ter ror of the inhabitants of the surround ing coasts rose to a climax July had ended before the manifestations of Krakatoa had attained their full violence By the middle of August the panic was widespread for the supreme catastrophe was at hand On the night of Sunday August 26 1883 the blackness of the dust clouds now much thicker than ever in the Straits of Sunda and adjacent parts of Sumatra and Java was only occasionally illumined by lurid flashes from the volcano The Krakatoa thunders were on the point of attaining their complete development At the town of Batavia a hundred miles distant there was no quiet that night The houses trembled with the subterranean vio lence and the windows rattled as if heavy artillery were being discharged in the streets and still these efforts seemed to be only rehearsing for the supreme display On the morning of Monday August 27 1883 the rehears als were over and the performance be gan An overture consisting of two or three introductory explosions was succeeded by a frightful convulsion which tore away a large part of the Island of Krakatoa and scattered it to the winds of heaven This supreme effort it was which produced the mightiest noise that so far as we can ascertain has ever been heard on this globe It must have been indeed a loud noise which could travel from Krakatoa to Batavia and pre serve its vehemence over so great a veryinadequateof the eruption of Krakatoa if we bythosewould be little indeed compared with what is recorded on testimony which it is impossible to doubt Westward from Krakatoa stretches the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean On the opposite side from the Straits Rodriguezthed1stance most 3000 miles It has been proved by evidence which cannot be doubted that the thunder of the great volcano attracted the attention of an intelli gent coastguard on Rodriguez who carefully noted the character of the sounds and the time ol theta occur rence He had heard them just four hours after the actual explosion for this is the time the sound occupied on its journey If Vesuvius were vigorous enough to emit a roar like Krakatoa how great would be the consternation of the world Such a report might be heard by King Edward at Windsor and by the Czar at Moscow It would aston ish the German Emperor and all his subjects It would penetrate to the se clusion of the Sultan at Constantino ple It would have extended to the sources of the Nile near the equator It would have been heard by Moham medan pilgrims at Mecca It would have reached the ears of exiles in berIa No inhabitants of Persia would have been beyond its range while pas sengers on half the liners crossing the Atlantic would also catch the mighty reverberation Or to take another illustration let us suppose that a sim ilar earthshaking event took place in a central position in the United States Let us say for example that an explo sion occurred at Pikes Peak as resonant as that from Krakatoa It would certainly startle not a little the inhabitants of Colorado far and wide The ears of dwellers in the neighbor ing States would receive a consider able shock With lessening intensity the sound would spread much farther aroundindeed it might be heard all over the United States The sonorous waves would roll over to the Atlantic coast they would be heard on the shores of the Pacific Florida would not be too far to the south nor Alaska too remote to the north If indeed we could believe that the sound would travel as freely over the great conti nent as it did across the Indian Ocean then we may boldly assert that every ear in North America might listen to the thunder from Pikes Peak if it rivaled Krakatoa Can we doubt that Krakatoa made the greatest noise that has ever been recorded Among the many other incidents connected with this explosion I may specially mention the wonderful sys tem of divergent ripples that started in our atmosphere from the point at which the eruption took place The initial impetus was so tremendous that these waves spread for hundreds and thousands of miles They diverged in fact until they put a mighty girdle round the earth on a great circle of which Krakatoa was the pole The at mospheric waves with the whole earth now well in their grasp advanced into the opposite hemisphere In their progress they had necessarily to form gradually contracting circles until at last they converged to a point in Cen tral America at the very opposite point of the diameter of our earth 8000 miles from Krakatoa Thus the waves completely embraced the earth Every part of our atmosphere had been set into a tingle by the great Miss Ottlile Guenther who was a private audience by Pope Pius X is a Chicago girl ofGuentherLeoXIIIbefore his death Miss Guenther has been taking a hasdoneItalians of Chicago and will resume this when she graduatedfrom eruption The waves passed over our heads the air in our streets the air in our houses trembled from the volcanic impulse The very oxygen supplying our lungs was responding also to the supreme convulsion which took place 10000 miles away It is needless to object that this could not have taken place because We did not feel it Self registering barometers have enabled these waves to be followed unmistak ably all over the globe Such was the energy with which these vibrations were initiated at Krakatoa that even when the waves thus arising had converged to the point diametrically opposite in South America their vigor was not yet ex Continued on next page column 5 AWFUL BALLOON VOYAGE German Military Aeronauts Safe Only After a Terrible Ex perience War Airship Was Driven Five Hun dred tiDes Over Baltic Sea and Dropped in Swedish Snow Bank Barely Averted Drowning The progress of balloon experiments in the German army has just received a severe setback by the fearful experi ences of two members of the Aero static Corps named Wolff and Brand who have returned to Berlin after hav ing been given up for dead following a balloon ascension during which they completely disappeared The two men were blown all the way from Berlin to the Baltic Sea where they were driven by a gale clear across that body of water and finally landed half dead in a little village in Sweden traveling al together more than five hundred miles The story of their flight is one of the most thrilling in the history of bal looning in Europe UNABLE TO MAKE DESCENT The two balloonists caught in the gale in the upper air were blown at terrific speed for three days unable to make a descent without being dashed todeathAs wind seemed to slacken the preparingupon seeing as they dropped from the clouds that the open sea was beneath them They tried to shut the valve but were only partly successful When within a few hundred feet of byWolffsurrounding the gas bag to do it But the balloon still dropped nearer the sea Finally desperate the balloon ists climbed into the balloons rigging and cut the basket from under them Clinging to the cordage about the balloon the two men hung between hope and fear for a few moments as the bag seemed to hover uncertainly The thought came into their minds simultaneously that one must drop off and lighten the weight to save his comrade otherwise both must drown But slowly the bag began to rise once TO CORDAGE FOR HOURS After clinging for hours to the cor dage thousands of feet in the air over the sea the two soldiers made out the land As soon as it was safe the valve was opened again and the balloon was allowed to descend slowly The two men landed in a snow bank within a few miles of a little Swedish village They had to walk two miles almost exhausted through the snow and col lapsed just as they reached the first cabin Thet there tree MIrandy reminds me amazinly uv a jaybird Lookahere Si yewre gettin dip py Haow on airth kin a tree fallen acrost th road put yew in mind uv a jaybirdBecuz MIrandy It hez blew daown Giddap Nance THE STATE OF SEQUOIA The Name of the Originator of Use Cherokee Indian Alphabet- to be Honored The decision of the convention which recently met at iiuskogee Indian Territory upon a name for the new state to be added to the Union brings a total of thirtythree states which have adopted Indian titles for etate names The convention after some little discussion decided that the new state should be known as Sequoia as a tribute to the great Cherokee leader and is a fitting honor which America owes to one of the really great red men of this conti nent The Cherokee Indian alphabet was originated by George Gist a half breed known to the tribe as Sequoia He was a statesman and a peaceable lender among the tribe He was an illiterate man but the idea of an alphabet for the Cherokee tribe was conceived from the brands he saw on cattle He carved eightysix charac ters with his hunting knife out of pine bark then he called the wise men together and explained the characters The tribunal council adopted that and in later years one of the tribe translated the Bible Into the Cherokee language through which medium THE HALFBI EED SEQUOIA Christianity was first taught among tho Cherokees It is to Sequoia that the Cherokee nation owes its splendid 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a rail fence is a comparatively short panel but now that wire is in the majority of cases taking the place of the rail it is questionable whether as many posts are necessary as was the case when rail were used Recent tests were made at an English experiment station to de termine upon the best method of con structing a fence One point considered was whether a fence constructed a dropper is as efficient and durable as one constructed entirely with posts A second point under consideration was the minimum number of posts required In the construction of an efficient and durable fence when droppers are used and the character of the dropper re quired for best results The dropper is a thin vertical brace used to strengthen the stretch of wire between posts As metal is admittedly more durable than wood an endeavor was made to obtain a suitable rigid metal dropper but with out success NOTCH THE CORNER POSTS LOW An error that farmers sometimes make in erecting a fence is that they place the corner supports or struts too near the top of the post and conse quently at too great anangle with the line of the fence so that when the wires are stretched tightly the post is pulled out of the ground notwithstanding that huge bowlders are piled against the post or hung on it in an endeavor to keep it in the ground One fence which has been found to prove very satisfactory consists of square posts and top rail with three or four rows of plain wire fastened on the outside edges of the post instead of through holes bored in the uprights To these wires is fastened ordinary poultry net ting with say an inch and ahalf or twoinch mesh This netting may be strained very tight and will lie as flat as a board the appearance of the fence being thereby greatly improved While the use of barbwire in the construction of fences is regretted ow ing to the injury which it sometimes inflicts upon the live stock there is no doubt that its employment under certain conditions prolongs the life of a fence deterring stock from rubbing against it and unduly straining the plain wires It has been argued that stock soon get to understand how danI gerous barbwire is and when in a quiet condition are rarely injured by playtheyin consequence While there may be some styles of woven fence which will enable the farmer to discontinue barbwire the new material must have suf ficient elasticity to recover from occa sional very severe and and also sufficient to respond to our varied conditions of heat and cold and require no straining after its erec iion The American fence manufactur Europeansthe iS possible to obtain from them fences constructed entirely of metal at small costWhile the unprogressive farmer is to have a few bars to let down in order to admit of the passage of teams or wagons no fence is complete without an entrance and therefore without a gate for at best bars are only makeshifts and a loss of both time and temper It is surprising how common they are when excellent and serviceable light gates can now be pur chased very cheaply and even where the lack of money is an obstacle to this a handy man can with the aid of an axe a hammer and some nails build and hang a strong useful gate with no GATE with other than the expenditure of a few hours labor and certainly in less time than is required in the continual putting down and up of the bars Experiment has shown that it is ad visable to have the openings of the farm gates 16 feet wide or thereabouts in order to admit of the transfer of the Fence by Improperly Placed Corner Supports farm implements from one field to an other Where some fields are planted with small green crops from which the farmer desires to keep his poultry it is thought best that the bottom rail of this gate should be within an inch of the ground that the poultry cannot crawl under The gate posts should be A PLEASING FENCE OF TIMBER AND POULTRY WIRE unusual strains content outlay Distorted quite separate and distinct from any posts used in the construction of the fence as a better effect is obtained without additional trouble if they are slightly higher than the uprights in the gate and higher than the fence posts adjoining the gateway The main entrance to the farm and also the gateways around the dwelling may be still further improved if a little addi tional trouble is taken to square the topsNountil it is painted for not only does painting aid in giving a tidy appear ance but prolongs the life of tie wood It will be better and a saving of time if the timber after being cut up for the gates is given a couple of coats of paint before being put together After the gate is completed and hung it can be given a final coat The first or priming coat should be very thin in fact may be nearly all raw linseed oil The second and last coats will of course be a little thicker and in order to dry hard and with a little gloss should contain a small quantity of tur pentine and boiled oil While tastes may differ as to color results have shown that white seems to give the most satisfaction while tho iron work painted black will make a slight con trast adding to the improved appear ance of the gateway STASISIISR DASHER CHURNS Even in this Day of Creameries But ter Is Made in the Good Old Fashioned Way The chances are ten to one or better that the butter you buy at the grocery store now was made in a creamery for the great bulk of the butter consumed in this country is made in milk estab lishments But there is still some but ter made by hand and we still sell churns right along The greater number of the individ ual churns now sold said a churn manufacturer in Chicago recently in speaking of the growth of the cream ery business are of the cylinder type operated by a crank turning within the churn a wheel with paddles some times like the paddlewheel of a steam boat but we still sell as well churns of the oldfashioned type such as our grandmothers used and such as their grandmothers used before them I might add that the oldfashioned dasher churn is still as it has always been painted blue Who still buys these old styles hand churns in the day of machinemade butter Why so to speak the oldest people and the most modern too They are bought by small farmers keeping only one or a few cows who naturally continue to make their own Where the Cor ner Supports Prevent the Post PullingOut butter and who make it of course with a hand churn Some of these farmers might make more butter than they would require for their own use and the surplus they would sell as they would their surplus eggs to the country store And you find larger farmers too farmers perhaps keeping many cows and selling the bulk of their milk to a creamery still continuing to make the butter that they need for them selves and making it as they have al ways done in a hand churn Such churns are sold to people liv ing in suburban or country homes and keeping cows who make their own butter because they prefer to anyway and they are bought by various people everywhere who want sweet or un salted butter and who make it for themselves in hand churns America exports churns to the West Indies and South America and to New Zealand and Australia and to dairying countries in various other parts of the world but we still supply our own people with the oldfashioned dasher as we did twenty years ago TO TACKLE JTAZERS The hazing trials at Annapolis fol lowed by the long discussion of the subject in and out of Congress have served to widely advertise the Acad emy and as a result there has been an unusual rush of applications from ambitious young men who aspire to become admirals Many of the applicants breathe defiance to all hazers and re cite instances of their physical pow ers to demonstrate their fitness for appointment One of the letters recently received at the Navy Department ran as follows oftheboxingtheIrhazing theytriedmake me eat soap j P CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS Assistant Secretary Hays Points Out Necessity for More Thorough Farm Education Is in Effect a Country High School The consolidated school question Is a feature of the country school educa tion problem which is rapidly coming to the fore especially in the northwest and it promises much for better farm education The proposition is that six or seven or ten of the crossroads schools in any rural district shall be combined into one larger school and were it not for the question of trans portation of the scholars to and from the central school it would undoubtedly meet with universal favor From an educational point of view the ad vantages of the consolidated school plan are very great Assistant Sec retary of Agriculture Hays is an en thusiastic advocate of the plan and states that where the plan has been put into operation the beneficial results have been manifold The question has been agitated to a considerable extent in his own State of Minn esota due largely to his own efforts Professor Hays is thoroughly alive to the fact that a better scheme of edu cation is needed for the farm boy if he is to keep his foremost position among the worlds agriculturists FOR BETTER FARM EDUCATION The time Professor Hays says has gone by when an ordinary school education will serve for the farm boy The three Rs are not sufficient to enable him to succeed in life He must have special education for farming just as the young man or woman who is to enter professional life has special in struction along the lines ho expects to follow And so the consolidated school comes in with its better educational facilities Canada has taken an advanced stand on this question and is consolidating her country schools In a word the farmers children are being given the advantages of a high school education As President Creelman of the On tario Agricultural College has pointed out the system undoubtedly is from a standpoint of dollars and cents more expensive for the first few years at least but the rural ratepayer has it to decide for himself whether he would rather pay five dollars more per year and secure for his boy or girl such increased benefits as the consolidated school can give or leave them in the hands of an inexperienced girl teacher who perhaps does her best in a little oneroomed school without facilities of demonstration of any kind PRACTICAL FARM SCIENCE One of the most important features of these schools is the school garden where practical farm science is taught in a practical way Such gardens are not however confined to the con solidated schools but are now being kept in connection with a number of the more progressive district schools in various parts of the country They are usually from two to three acres in area divided into experimental and individual plots for each of the pupils ranging in size from six feet square to six by ten or even twenty The general plan of laying out each garden involves 1 a belt of native trees and shrubs surrounding the grounds 2 a halfacre playfield for the boys 3 a lawn bordered with shade trees for the girls 4 a shaded walk each for boys and girls about a hundred yards long 5 an attractive approach to the school consisting chiefly of a piece of open lawn with shrubs and flowers on either side 6 a suitable reservation for individuals and class plots 7 an orchard plot or border 8 a forest plot in which the chief native trees are grown from the seed PLANTS GROWN BY PUPILS The ordinary range of vegetables and a selection of flowering plants are grown in these gardens the pupils themselves furnishing the necessary work In the large schools two hours each week are found sufficient for the garden work and one hour in the smaller in both cases under the supervision of the teacher or a special instructor The school garden serves a double purpose since it not only provides the most practical form of nature study but acts as a valuable in centive in the general school work It is no uncommon sight during the sum mer season to see a public school in session out of doors not with slate and 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end doubtfully at the Ameri can he said You must have a good eutfsoll and a good surface sort and the sod must be well laid Then you must roll it and cut it and water It and keep on doing this until its rightA TO A LAWN The agreed with him that the process was simple and then asked How long wilt I have to do this before the lawn is like that one The old gardener again spoke doubtfully but finally gave it as his that If his directions were for anywhere from fifty to a years the results would be all that could be desired This same idea might also apply to Englanddue to the fact that their foundations were laid scores of ago and generation after generation of work ers has been tinkering at them ever theRomansfor some of the best Known highways and to the south of Lon beautifulnow patronized by the owners beginningwasfeet of the early Britons as fromWalesafterwardsgrades because of its being the high Englandstill shaded in places by the yew trees atoarchers ENGLISH VERY NARROW roadIs The spots oo t Sue our Solar Tcle scope amine thca fact that it is only in certain places that one team can pass another with out consiuorable manoeuvering If all the labor expended upon an American country road were to be concentrated upon a narrow track only wide for a wagon great Improvement in results would be noted for it Is of course much cheaper to lay the foundations build up the body and surface a road feet wide than to put Into shape a highway which at its point the ambitious Americans have extend ed to forty feet This in itself is a point which if Intelligently adopted would in many places solve the ques tion of a practicable roadway upon which In all kinds of weather and at all times of the year a single team of horses could haul a profitable load to market The farmer nsns n cart up nnyhereweight The tires of the wheels are from four to eight inches In breadth passingsmoothness of the road in that It3 wheels serve as eCrectIve rollers ENGLISH COUNTRY ROAD AND BRIDGE CROSSING RAILROAD freedom connected America scratched looking MAKE American opinion followed hundred English greatly sandaled ROADS enough farmers fourteen narrowest English It is not due to any peculiar advan tage of soil and certainly not to any advantages of climate that English roads are better than American roads for it one leaves the highway in the English country the lanes will be found by a traveling American to have a most homelike appearance In their rutted condition and a very great contrast In the matter of holes bogs and boulders to the highway left behInd No climate could be more threatening to the solidity of a road way than the moist and changeable weather of the British Isles STURDY APPEARANCE OF THE BRIDGES In the matter of bridges solidity seems to be the purpose In view The arches and retaining walls are built of stone approaches are gradual and when once the finishing touch is put upon one of these structures it will with little supervision and care outlast even to many generations the men whose handiwork it is The solid masonry arch the heavy stonecapped wall and the gradual rise of the roadway to the centre of the bridge are ottI1etain sturdy character of their own which is a form of beauty welcomed by the eye Time softens the colors Ivy creeps over the stones and in a short space even if newly built one bridgestakesscape giving the impression of always having been there and of intending always to remain THEIR VALUE TO THE TEAMS TEReAside from the beauty strength and durability of these macadam roads end stone bridges they possess an largedfarm where the margins of profit aro beUeveespecially In regions where tho culti vation of the land is more or less intensive we would find similar roads valuethroughIlls ability to reach his market In the shortest time at the minimum ex pense and with the least motive power I u a Isrge This Telescope Is provided with on adjustable With this wonder hottestdsymale needs thU to study the sun In Eclipses also the Mysterious inrlf1IerontTelescope P liltlj such a good was never fold for this price beforeThese Telescopes are made by one of the largest mannfacturers of pe me circumferenCtwith scientifically ground and adjusted Caaraatttd Eatery 1000Eycrr0bjeetmbeswayorefor 108 Sent bTjnnll prepaid for t10 Our now of etc sent with each order This is a grand offer and yon riO It On JUt U ftJJlHutftl or money refunded f S84 by Posti vnw wow maps Heney lr9wv 01Dank Dmft ble to our order If desire by mill add U eents portage BAD FOR COUNTERFEITERS Secret Service is Hard Pushing this Dangerous Class of Criminals Detectives Kept on Alert to Cope With Clever and Brainy Schemes for Passing Illegal MoneyThe King of Counterfeiters This has been a bad year for crimi nals This statement is based on data brought out at the convention of the Police Chiefs Association of New Yore State an address delivered by the president of the International Associa tion of Police Chiefs and by policebureausment The secret service division ol the Treasury alone caused the arrest of 532 persons charged with serious custodyfortyonefeiting tho currency fiftytwo for malting alterations in the currency 344 for counterfeiting coin and the remainder for various violations of the United States statutes Of the 532 alleged of fenders 392 were native Americans fortytwo wero Italians some of whom were naturalized and thirteen were Austrians The largest number of ar rests were made in Pennsylvania where ninetyfourseven arrests Ohio with thirtyfive California with twentynine Missouri remaininginstances tho exception of Alaska was represent d As compared with last year there was a decrease In the amount of count erfeit currency seized by officers and an increase in governmentI of counterfeit coin total face value of the notes seized was SfiS24 against 44350 the preceding year and of the spurious coin 24110 as against 16419 the year before The number of plates for printing counterfeit bills captured by the government was 165 and the number of dies and molds for casting and stamping count erfeit coins was 454 Nearly all this stuff was seized by the Government before It had been placed in circula tion Nine classes of counterfeit notes were placed in circulation and of these In the opinion of the Treasury of ficers only four were cleverly enough executed to be called dangerous RAISING SMALL BILLS The feature of the work of makers raIsingtherather a remarkable increase in this Illicit industry and tho raisers wero particularly busy in circulating these altered obligations in Ohio Indiana Illinois and other states of the middle west It is believed by the officers of the secret service that theleading of fenders in this divisionsfof criminal work were captured thoughthere is no doubt that many altered bills are still passing from hand to hand in the chan nels of trade Counterfeiters in the United States do not restrict their operations to the manufacture of Amer- Ican money and one of the skillful pieces of work done by the secret service men was the apprehension of three groups of counterfeiters who were issuing fraudulent obligations of the AustroHungarian government BROCKWAY THE KING OF COUNTERFEITERS Because of the comparative isolation of Hawaii its large foreign population and the amount of silver in circula tion it seems that the coining in dustry has been active there Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service has an nounced that arrangements have been made for the establishment of a branch of the service at Honolulu where in dications have pointed to tho development of coining enterprises and it is hoped that the contemplated measures of suppression may be effective yearhasis that there has been an increase of departmenteral Improvement in criminal identi fication and police work As Richard Sylvester major and superintendent of WashingtonD OR Int8retlth11 Booklet entitled Telel Taik act wl 1 each order or on request I I of of l coloredlhotomost pleasant and interesting way to spend r 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given place to the gentleman who sells cheap gold mines and three card monte has gone over the divide and and surethings prevail The charms of rapid life have produced embezzlers checkraisers and forgersIt a fact worth noting that the King of is at large but is under surveillance of secret service men old and skillful is Wm E Brockway and he lives in N Y He has done penance for his offences the statutes of the United States but though now old yet so great is as a maker of counterfeit money that the secret service men never lose sight of him Brockway can make money which any banker in the would accept as genuine INTRODUCE EXCELSIOR Ik or E R MXPEET I ONG I IMIST YOU ON SEA FARM IN THE re s f land WANTS GLASSFredenperlortomore than double what it cost MILESMr amythlnc andlaClearweatherWORTH MANY TIMES THE PRICE 419O6Mcaere LrV Around world in minutes Laughable interesting everylandabsorbing Crys stereoscope ALMOST taking ad liberaland interesting fAviewingCeducational from every 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from preceding page strangetostepstoAmerica they again described a series of enlarging circles until they em braced the whple earth Then ad vancing into tho opposite hemisphere theyhadfrom which they had set forth about thirtysix hours previously Here was a unique experience The air waves had twice gone from end to end of the globe Even then the atmos phere did not subside until after some fadingintensitycentBut besides these phenomenal un dulations this mighty incident at Krakatoa has taught us other lessons atmosphereWealmost say nothing as to the condi tions prevailing above the height of ten miles overhead We were almost altogether ignorant of what the wind might be at an altitude of say twenty miles Krakatoa drove into those winds prodigious quantities of dust hundreds of cubic miles of air were thus deprived of that invisibility which they had hitherto maintained With eyes full of astonishment men watched those vast volumes toa dust start on a tremendous jour O f 9k o and and a tal lens for Hundreds people are daily vantage our very decidedly offer t r excepting brilliancy against Offer beautiful YEARS COULD subscrip subjects I prepared operator indeed Kraka r Krakatoatookof that eruption no one had the slight twentymilesis incessantly hurrying with a speed awfulhurricanepart of Calcutta on the ground and slew so many of its inhabitants For tunately for humanity this new withinlesssurface We are thus preserved from unintermittentblasts against which no tree could stand and which would in ten min utes do as much damage to a city as would the most violent earthquake When this great wind had become charged with the dust of Krakatoa then for the first and I may add for the only time it stood revealed to hu man vision Then it was seen that this wind circled round the earth in the vicinity of the equator and com pleted its circuit in about thirteen days In some violin experiments in a menagerie the influence of the instru whichbecamemusic was played but was soothed by slower melodies Wolves showed an appreciative interest lions and hyenas were terrified leopards were uncon cerned while monkeys stared in won der at the performer INLY SPECIAL TO NEW SOLAR TELESCOPE tfr WHAT WANT RANCH SCHOOL forTerrestrialandCelestlalnso ANOTI1tHBsttto the 60 ofSELLING Or interert beautiful aluminum NOTHING Among beautiful Hundreds SLOD 60 DAY OFFER OUR Telescope briars new brain cells Into lar opens up now avennea of tho1lgllt and broadens the scope of the mind great thing me on this IYoUillamersneysltwillSECURE THIS TELESCOPE AND TAKE A LOOK AT OLD SOL Aver tor lets than f800 or 1000 Ii a to iccnre tor f100 THE WONDER OF THE AYE I Itsvalucto occasion nu ni e alone is worth more than FsefSAApiidFfandyonhave I KIRTLAND BROS CO Dent A M sn 1TRU rThis booklet tells all about the care of Telescopes and about Bcllpsesof the Bun and Moon the evenIng and morning for year where visible etc 0 U ENGLISH LANDSCAPE Their Roads and Bridges are Sub stantial Enduring and Picturesque In Comparison With American Rural Improvements They Convey The Idea That We Think But Little Of PosterityThere an old story which xrill bear telling again as it Illustrates well the disadvantages to be over come In a new country It Is of an American traveling In England who when out walking one day stopped In adImirewhich extended without a flaw or blemish from the hedge along the roadway up to the very steps of the bouse An old gardener was at work on the place and at that particular time was pushing a lawn mower across COUNTRY ROAD AND BRIDGE the sward The American hailed him and with the usual freedom and inquisitiveness of his nationality asked many questions as to the conduct of affairs In such an establishment ao the gardener was connected with Tell me he said to the gardener bow do you make a lawn like thIs I have a place In America and I am trying to make a lawn around the house but it doesnt seem to do welIn The old gardener scratched his head and doubtfully at the Ameri can he said You must have a good subsoil and a good surface soil and the sod must be well laid Then you must roll It and cut it and water It and keep on doing this until ifa right A CENTURY TO MAKE A LAWN The American agreed with him that the process was simple and then asked How long will I have to do this before the lawn Is like that one The old gardener again spoke fully but finally gave it as his opinion that if his directions were followed for anywhere from fifty to a hundred years the results would be all that could be desired This same idea might also apply to the roads and bridges throughout Eng land for much of their excellence IB due to the fact that their foundations were laid scores of years ago and generation after generation of workers has been tinkering at them ever since In fact the roads built by the Romans now serve as the foundations for some of the best Known English highways and to the south of Lon don east and west through the beauti ful county of Surrey there is a road now greatly patronized by the owners of motor cars which in its beginning was the highway beaten hard by the sandaled feet of the early Britons as they toiled to the east const from Wales with their backbreaking bur dens of tin This same road waa af terwards improved in Its texture and grades of its being the high way for the pilgrims of western Eng land en route to Canterbury It is still shaded in places by the yew trees planted perhaps a thousand years ago to furnish bows the sturdy British ROADS VERY NARROW In the first place the English road IB generally narrow so narrow in mysterious pets en the our Sotheaele scope mi J fact that It is only in certain places that one team can pass another with out consiuorable manoeuvering If all the labor expended upon an American country road were to be concentrated upon a narrow track only wide enough for a farmers wagon great Improvement in results would be noted for it Is of course much cheaper to lay the foundations build up the body and surface a road fourteen feet wide than to put Into shape a highway which at its narrowest point the ambitious Americans have extend ed to forty feet This in itself Is a point which if Intelligently adopted would in many places solve the ques tion of a practicable roadway upon which In all kinds of weather and at all times of the year a single team of horses could haul a profitable load to market The English farmer nsns a cart up any11ereweight The tires of the wheels are from four to eight Inches in breadth passingsmoothness of the road in that its wheels serve as effective rollers ENGLISH CROSSING RAILROAD TRACK looking doubt because It is not due to any peculiar advan tage of Boil and certainly not to any advantages of climate that English roads are better than American roads for if one leaves the highway in the English country the lanes will be found by a traveling American to have a most homelike appearance in their rutted condition and a very great contrast In the matter of holes bogs and boulders to the highway left behind No climate could be more threatening to the solidity of a road way than the moist and changeable weather of the British Isles STURDY APPEARANCE OF THE BRIDGES In the matter of bridges solidity seems to be the purpose in view The arches and retaining walls are built of stone approaches are gradual and when once the finishing touch is put upon one of these structures it will with little supervision and care out last even to many generations the men whose handiwork it is The solid ma sonry arch the heavy stonecapped wall and the gradual rise of the roadway to the centre of the bridge are entirely utilitarian In the minds of the builders but they possess a certain sturdy character of their own which is a form of beauty welcomed by the eye Time softens the colors Ivy creeps over the stones and in a short space even if newly built one of these English country road bridges takes a permanent place in the land scape giving the Impression of always Laving been there and of intending always to remain THEIR VALUE TO THE TEAMSTER Aside from the beauty strength and durability of these macadam roads and stone bridges they possess an economic value which plays a large part in the conduct of an English farm where the margins of profit aro small and there Is no reason to believe but that the American farmer especially in regions where the culti vation of the land is more or less in tensive we would find similar roads and bridges of enormous value through an appreciable increase in tie ability to reach his market in the shortest time at the minimum expense and with the least motive power broadens hottestdayneeds this to study tho sun in also the mysterious re current Sun Spots which appear and disappear intervals and movo about in thisTelescopeThese Telescopes aro made by one of the largest manufacturers of Europe clrcumIono of Instruments and no farmer should wltnout one aUn aWl nre broneht to view with astonishing learneRs Sent by express safely packed for orb I06 Sent bimaH prepaid for 110 Our new lrltf Guns eta sent with order This grand offer and We rant each jest u rnmtnUi or money refunded wS4 100 by red Letter Order ngrese Money If ado BAD FOR COUNTERFEITERS Secret Service is Hard Pushing this Dangerous Class of Criminals Detectives Kept on Alert to Cope With Clever and Brainy Schemes for Passing Illegal MoneyThe King of Counterfeiters This has been a bad year for crimi nals This statement is based on data brought out at the convention of the Police Chiefs Association of New Yon State an address delivered by the president of the International Associa tion of Police Chiefs and by the operations of the var ious police bureaus of the United States govern ment The secret service division ol the Treasury alono caused the arrest of 532 persons charged with serious crimes Of those taken into custody fortyone were arrested for counter feiting the currency fiftytwo for making alterations in the currency 344 for counterfeiting coin and the remainder for various violations of the United States statutes Of the 532 alleged of fenders 392 were native Americans fortytwo were Italians some of whom were naturalized and thirteen were Austrians The largest number of ar rests were made in Pennsylvania where those apprehended numbered ninety four New York followed with seventy seven arrests Ohio with thirtyfive alifornia with twentynine Missouri vith twentythree and in the remaining instances every state and territory with the exception of Alaska was represent ed As compared with last year there was a decrease in the amount of count erfeit currency seized by government officers and an increase in the amount if counterfeit coin confiscated The total face value of the notes seized was Sfi834 against 44350 the preceding year and of the spurious coin 24110 as against 16419 the year before The number of plates for printing counterfeit bills captured by the government was 165 and the number of dies and molds for casting and stamping count erfeit coins was 454 Nearly all this stuff was seized by the Government before it had been placed in circula tion Nine classes of counterfeit notes were placed in circulation and of these In the opinion of the Treasury of ficers only four were cleverly enough executed to be called dangerous RAISING SMALL BILLS The feature of the work of makers of false money this year was in raising the denomination of bills There was rather a remarkable increase in this illicit industry and tho raisers were particularly busy in circulating these altered obligations in Ohio Indiana Illinois and other states of the middle west It is believed by the officers of the secret service that the leading of fenders In this divisionirofjcriminal work were captured though there is no doubt that many altered bills are still passing from hand to hand in the channels of trade Counterfeiters in the United States do not restrict their operations to the manufacture of American money and one of the skillful pieces of work done by the secret ser vice men was the apprehension of three groups of counterfeiters who were issuing fraudulent obligations of the AustroHungarian government BROCI WAY THE KING OF COUNTERFEITERS Because of the comparative isolation of Hawaii its large foreign population and the amount of silver in circula tion it seems that the coining in dustry has been active there Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service has an nounced that arrangements have been made for the establishment of a branch of the service at Honolulu where in dications have pointed to the development of coining enterprises and it is hoped that the contemplated measures of suppression may be effective yearhasis that there has been an Increase of departmenteral improvement in criminal identi fication and police work Richard Sylvester major and superintendent of the police department of Washington D C and president of the Interna requestf in interesting absorbing stereoscope ALMOST NOTHING q ccoloredasA most plcasant interesting to spend 1 incidents and sights of travel Fun interest instruction combined Every view an actual othtr famous natural of theI or beautiful naturalscenery This set is of great educational value presenting as it dues realistic likenesses ofand places that we all should know about scenes Among the beautiful every land are the Yellowstone Park Swiss Alps On Hoard Russian Manof War A Klondyke Camp Famous Ferry Depot San Francisco Cathedral Rotterdam Moulin Rouge Paris Street Scene RegimentChickamaugaWorlds Fair Holiday Street Parade in Havana Cuba Public Well Pekin Lookout Mountain Steamboat Scene on the of Gethsemane Palestine The National Capitol atWashington The Pantheon at Rome Luna Island at Niagara Falls Davids Judgment Seat Jerusalem Interior II Hundreds of Thousands are every respect the equal of those formerly sold at 50 cents each and stereoscope 5200 Now we come to our great Read our plan as it describes the tells how to 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contend with the criminal and disorderly classes It should not be forgotten that in this period those agents of the people who are chosen to combat crime must more than ever before have a higher intelli gence more accurate training greater courage both moral and physical In order to cope with educated clever unsuspected professionals who have succeeded the goldbrick man of days gone by In time the bank burglar with his can of powder and drill has given way to the yeggman who uses nitroglycerine the faker who delight ed the citizens with cheap gold rings has given place to the gentleman who sells cheap gold mines and three card monte has gone over the divide and bucketshops and surethings prevail The charms of rapid life have produced embezzlers checkraisers and forgersIt a fact worth noting that the King of Counterfeiters is at large but Is under surveillance of secret service men This old and skillful operator Is Wm E Brockway and he lives in N Y He has done penance for his offences 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page hausted The waves were then strange to say reflected back from their point of to retrace their steps to Krakatoa Starting from Central America they again described a series of enlarging circles until they braced the whple earth Then advancing into the opposite hemisphere they gradually contracted until they had the Straits of Sunda from which they had set forth about hours previously Here indeed a unique experience The waves had twice gone from end to end of the globe Even then the atmos phere did not subside until after some more oscillations of fading at last they became evanes centBut besides these phenomenal un dulations this mighty incident at Krakatoa has taught us other lessons on the constitution of atmosphere We previously knew little or I might almost say nothing as to the condi tions prevailing above the height of ten miles overhead We were almost altogether ignorant of what the wind might at an altitude of say twenty miles Krakatoa drove into those winds prodigious of 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James Adams European representative for American manufacturers and graduate of West Point is in Paris at the outbreak of the great war between France and Germany He engages in a balloon reconnoissance for the French and barely escapes capture being swept into northern France where he is wrecked in the grounds of the Chateau Lagunay He is rescued by the daughter of the Count Lagunay Aimee with whom he falls in love The Germans advance Adams defends Aimee from insult at the hands of Griesman Colonel of Cavalry Adams joins the Hussars under Lowenberg an old friend and later assists in an am bush of the French Word reaches him at camp that Aimee is again in the hands of Griesman lVith FleiscJi mann a gigantic sergeant of the Em perors bodyguard he impresses an automobile and goes to her rescue In a terrific sword fight he kills Griesman and two others and proceeds with Aimee to the home of her cousin at Bethel Chapter VI For two delicious days I remained at Bethel with Aimee Then early in the afternoon Fleischmann brought up the big car we set out for camp for ob ious reasons taking a direct road that did not pass the Chateau Lagunay Reaching the outskirts of the camp we found a host of war balloons Inflated and ready for ascent Others were already soaring above us and looking far to the south we saw the French balloons high in air observing the German movements As we went farther south for the camp covered an area some ten miles square we found that a large part of the army had moved It was evident that events were approaching a crisis At headquarters I sent in my name to the Emperor Fleischmann pa ing up and apprehensionrorfor myself certain of my ability to make satisfactory explanation I waited calmly When I was finally ushered into the au gust presence I saluted and related my story The Emperor waved his hand as though to dismiss me But I persisted and when I finally drew from my pocket the documents I had taken from Gries mans pocket and told him of Grevoir Griesmans supposed interpreter his pression changed lIe ran over papers prominentFrenchscheme of invasion data concerning the German forces and realizing that Gries enemyhecomment upon my abrupt departure from the camp and a caution that I conduct myself more circumspectly in the future responslhleforsion that I had really abducted the big sergeant against his will A little smile flickered over his face at this Then he againYou Lowenberg he said in dismissing me There is work for you on the right wing We will be In action ton rnn or the day after You and Fleischmann can redeem yourselves at the front Until you offend again I forgive you both When we had patiently endured Lowen bergs scolding he had been very much afraid for us learning that orders were planformy was assembled in force between our camp and the Marne River The first contact had occurred the day before when a German brigade of armored automo hues undertook to reconnoiter to the south The French had sent out a similar brigade for the same purpose and they met near a small village The two forces came together in a mad charge The steel conical prows of the great cars rammed at high speed crashing into and over one another and finishing in a tangle of wreckage from which but one German machine had emerged in condition to re turn to camp An assault with such a force upon cavalry or infantry would be irresistible but upon an enemy of its own kind it meant mutual annihilation It was a striking example of the unfitness of such machines for general warfare At dark we were ready for the advance moving under cover of night to avoid the aUseeing eyes of the airships- A brief statement of the military situation seems necessary in order that the reader may understand the nature of our undertaking As has been stated French occupied the Marne River ChalonssurMarne to BarleDuc fromItween these towns the south bank Marne rises sharply from the water TOGETHER 1tight of perhaps two hundred feet fall g away at the rear in a sunny slope overed with vineyards and orchards On the edge of this cliff the French had con structed sunken fortifications manned by great cannon mounted on disappearing carriages alternating with mortars for hurling novel projectiles of which they had a choice collection as we afterward learned In all this precipitous bank there is no break save one where a road comes dawn to the river crosses a narrow stone bridge and turns toward Rheims On the north side of the river the bank is low and the land stretches away for miles to the north east and west forming the great Catalunlan Field an ideal place for military operations Here resting on the river and protected by the great guns on the fortified cliffs the French had massed their second and third armies and were working north with rifle pits and earthworks expecting to overwhelm the German invaders German advance had moved south eoSit ten miles the right resting on Sil tory the left on the Aisne River It was planned to send strong detachments east and to hold the banks of the Marne fROM NQTf5 D OIN5C- omjed II byVmMacKrill The center would then attack press the French back upon the river and before they could get across strike them on both flanks or drive them into the water To Lowenberg fell the special task of moving further up the Marne to Monte Peller the only other point at which the French could cross Here the south bank fell away and the north bank rose in three hills the center of the trio being really a small mountain with a flat top which commanded the bridge below and the banks of the Marne for some distance The French fortilications did not extend this far and the main danger was in the possibility of an opposing force reaching the hill before we could get there- With a detachment of ten infantry regi ments and one of cavalry we pushed on through the night and before dawn reached the Sillery forest which extended to the base of the Monte Pelier Here we encamped to await the signal to advance and the arrival of a regiment of artillery Early in the afternoon we heard firing openedHourlysnappy bark of the highpower field guns blended with the roll of rifles and the wierd howl of the new multiplex ribbon Catlings which sent out a continuous stream of explosive bullets bursting on the slightest impact and tearing their victims horribly Presently the great twelve inch guns on the high banks came into play Their booming reports echoed through the heavens bespeaking enor mous projectiles The din was fearful I thanked my stars that I was not within the darkness came on we could catch the flashes or light as the French guns belched out their tons of iron and the mortars their pots of acid fire and liquid gas It was not until afterward that I learned the full extent of the devil ishness of mans inventive ingenuity in providing means for the destruction of human life Then came our signal High in the air to the east appeared a shower of golden sparks and the mysterious echoing boom of an aerial projectile was borne to our ears The sparks paled and fell and from their midst floated three blue stars It means that the Frenchare retreating to the river and that Monte Pelier must he taken said Lowenberg He gave an order and the word was passed on The artillery had not comeit never came as a matter of fact Some one had blun dered But we waited not Here was our task and we moved toward it with came to an end In front of greatdarkLowenbergFlelschmann as we emerged from the woods the troops directlyInlet whistled past my ear Another flash and report another and another each farther up the hill Silence fell broken only by the tramp of thousands of feet AVe saw that our advance was known to the French but we pushed on It was no time to stop We had covered half of the distance and were climbing steadily when the whole top of the hill lighted up and a hail of lead descended The front row of cavalry went down a struggling mass of men and horses It was no place for cavalry Again and again came that terrible flash The crashing report as of thousands of rilles and the song of lead in our ears was terrible The storm was too heavy Offi cers and men alike threw themselves on the ground and sought shelter behind the boulders with which the hill was strewn or in depressions in the ground The fire became continuous And now the French loisted great searchlights that revealed our ranks The sharp white rays dazzled our eyes and we could see nothing Some eight thousand troops hugged the ground sheltered and unsheltered Men groaned agonyHorsesgallopingdownAt brief and regular intervals came that sheet of flame and the hail of bullets It was death to retreat and death to remain So we lay until daylight As the dawn broke and the sun lit the sky the French continued their destruction in a more diabolical fashion From the top of the hill they rolled great balls of tough paper which broke on the rocks and scattered burning acids and noxious gases Directly above the point where we three lay there was a welldefined hum mock which deflected these hideous imple ments of warfare else I should not have survived that experience Of those who were not so protected few escaped The whole side of the hill for half a mile was covered with dead and dying During the night the firing on the east had diminished but with the dawn it opened again and the heavens were rent with the crash and roar of mighty guns which continued all day without intermission The firing above us ceased how ever and the horrible balls of acid came no longer Lowenberg concluded that the French ammunition had given out and that an attack was again possible A slnI gle regiment had been left behind as a re serve An orderly was sent back and presently we heard the bugle sound the advanceIt a magnificent sight to see them come the woods and climb the slope They adopted the Indian style of advance in open order sneaking from rock to rockthere were no trees to give shelter When they reached us we rose and led them I kept near Fleischmann who was jealously guarding Lowenberg On we went a few yards at a time We were less than a hundred yards the top when the bugler at Lowenbergs side gave the signal for a rush As the clear note rang out the men straightened from their crouching positions and drawing together went up on the run shouting their stirring war cry Vorwaerts Preussen As we reached the last yard of the as scent the very air over our heads burst into flame Had we been a foot higher our whole line would have gone down as did the cavalry the night before But the French aimed too high with this their last volley and the next moment we were upon clashing against a wall of bristling bayonets Steel struck steel all along the line Fleischmann had fallen back slipping on a loose Now he fairly leaped ahead of us his great sabre sweeping down a row of bayonets as a scythe in ripe wheat The French stood in a pit dug around the brow of the hill and fought like demons There seemed to be thousands of them Our revolvers were emptied immediately and it was then a primitive fight hand to hand face to face shoulder to shoulder struck out to right and left with but one ideaselfpreservat- ion As in a dream I heard the deadly clash of metal the puffing and grunting of straining men the blasphemy the shriek of the wounded Farther around the hill top our men were falling back and farther yet they were clear inside the line driving the French before them A few of our men gathered about us and almost surrounded by the infuriated French we held our desperationonce in a lifetime We were fairly walled in with the dead yet as fast a went down others came forward There seemed to be no end to the cut and slash the spurting of red blood the glare of angry eyes looking into our own with murderous hate Lowenberg was on my right at his right Fleischmann wielding his salre like a flail Steady boys he cried and again Steady Well have them on the run But in my heart I knew that it could not be so that we must go down in blood and dust victims of a misguided ugly squat Frenchman who had been felled some time before by one wrlJgledupdesperate thrust sent his bayonet into Lowenbergs vitals Ah God how it sick ened me My beloved friend sank with a gasp A mist obscured my sight for a moment I weakened and my sword wavered Before I could recover the butt of a musket appeared in the air immediately before me and descended upon my head My ears rang like a foundry The whole world seemed suddenly to be whirling like a Fourth of July pinwheel with multi tudes of sparks flying tottered back ward and fell heavily upon the pile of dead in the trench As I went down I looked at Fleischmann He stood erect with feet well spread like some great wargod a sabre in each hand hewing smashing cutting his his jaws set with determination He had thrown away his coat long before his hat was gone a cut on his temple let the blood trickle down over his bronzed cheeks Into my heart came a great love for this mighty fighter Then my light went out and the horrid noise of war faded away into the great silence It was Fleischmanns voice in my ears that wakened me I lay the grass in a small open shed He was bathing my head with cool water Quickly recollection came back to me and stung into activity by my supposed danger I rose m feet But the danger was past Save for the dead and wounded there was not a Frenchman in sight Fleischmann was as as before the tight began He told me that just as lIe was about to give up his comrades came to the rescue We were in full possession but at what a fearful cost Out of ten thousand men barely five hundred to answer the call I found Lowenberg lying on a heap of straw his light fiickering his mind wan dering At intervals he gave orders out to his wife or sang snatches of German ballads One of his under officers who was a physician sat near He shook his head in answer to my inquiry There was no hope- Presently my friend turned his head and looked at me with eyes suddenly grown clear Adams he said faintly tell the boys it was a good light They were true Prussians And telltell his Majes ty He half rose and raised his arm with clenched fist For God and the Fatherland he cried in ringing tones and fell back dead We turned the French guns in the direc tion of tho and prepared to hold our little fort for the expected assault For several hours there had been little or no firing to the cast where the main armies were engaged It was late after noon now The sky was becoming over cast and the wind iwas rising Presently the sound of firing rose again All the guns in the world seemed to be going off attonce From our elevated po plaInIput it to my eyes There ay the panorama of war Like moving patches of dead grass appearedJthe opposing forces The brown khaki of the Germans and the soft gray seaislandcloth of the French gave distinction enough There was no smoke for this is the lay of smokeless powder The center of fighting appeared to be well down the bend of the Marne and as I watched I could see that the water was full of black specks The French were being forced into the river A large body of the gray was hurrying up the river bank making for the Monte Peller crossing And we with but half a thousand men to defend it The increased in force The skies grew dark And now coming from the south appeared a shoal of small airships of a new dirigible type with fans and rudders They circled above us hardly a quarter of a mile away and swung down toward the battlefield heading into the gale in regular formation And as I watched a strange thing happened The ships were poised directly over the victorious Germans Suddenly a series of peculiar popping reports came to my ears I saw the Germans breaking scattering running away from the French The ground beneath them behind them in front of them sparkled like the phosphorescent ocean I saw the whole army disorganizedhorl1etrack and as the sky lightened for a moment I saw that the track was hu manthe bodies of men prone upon the earth I called Fleischmann Look I The army is retreating See the sparks around them What does it mean THE TWO FORCES CAME IN A TERRIFIC CHARGE from from them stone upon calm cried river wind cried He put the glasses to his eyes Ah dynamlteIboys are being blown to pieces We can not escape Before he could see more approachIngsheets shutting out the plain and the armyWe under the little shed depressed and silent It was very dark The wind blew fiercely In spite of the rain however Fleischmann insisted on making a tour of the lines to see that the men were on guard Faithful Fleisch mann Let me pay tribute here to your unwavering loyalty withthesmash and the little shed tumbled about hummingInbees wings many times intensified Some enormous bulk hovered over me Ireached upward in involuntary defense and my hands grasped what I knew inv stantly to be the basket of one of the dynamite ships I was carried along with cIt fearing to let go My feet dragged over the ground and the next moment I swung off into space but I kept my wits and throwing a leg over the edge of the bas ket clambered in Though it was in tensely dark I knew that I was rising I felt around the basket It was unoccupied save by myself In one corner a small motor sparkled going at high speed I had been sufficiently associated with aeronauts to know that this controlled the steering fans but that the ship would float without its operation And with a shrewd suspicion that I might want the power later I switched off the current The humming stopped and I floated as in a subterranean lake- I was very tired My head was aching and I realized that I had not eaten for a day and a night Fumbling around I found another switch and turning it was delighted by the illumination of the terior of the basket from several tiny in candescent lamps In one corner stood a wicker hamper labeled Provisio I opened it eagerly and found a of crackers cheese sardines canned meat and sweet chocolate A rack on the side held three tins of water So in reason able comfort I sat there in the basket and ate my lunch The rain had ceased the wind fell far above me appeared a pale mist through which the moon broke in mellow light The mysterious silence the absence of apparent motion as I sailed through that moonlit sea brought peace to my mind I thought quietly of Aimee of Lowenberg dead and gone of brave Fleischmann left behind in the little fort of all the happenings of that terrible fight It seemed far away as though in the dead past a thousand years ago And when I had thought until I was weary I sent up to God a little prayer for courage knowing that my life was in im minent danger and then lay me down to sleepTo be continued AND THEY NEVER KNEW A Little Story of Real Life The great financier buried his face in his hands as a great flood of bitterness crowded his soul He had locked the door of his private office and de nied himself to every one all morning just as years before he had shut the world and its people from his heart When but a child he had been branded as a bad boy and other children were forbidden to play with him He had grown up asking him self why no one loved him That he was bad he had learned as a parrot would but the real meaning was too vague to be understood by his childish mind At school no one had understood him Once when he was disobedient a plan had been conceived to punish his favorite teacher He was so grieved that lie ran away for fear he might again cause pain or punishment to the one he loved No one came and asked why he did solie was expelled That to starve to die was better than to live without sympathy had been his early conclusion for truly was he being eaten up with a gnawing hunger for sympathy and companionship Once when he was a young business man successful indeed because he gave his lifehis whole energyto work some one started a report that he was dishonest in a deal He cried out against the injustice of a world which would not see He was tried and the judge who no doubt meant to be honest decided against him because circumstances were not in his faorINot one came say know I be hove you are honest No wonder like a haunted thing which would fly to shelter from the eyes of the world he lived alone in his grief of being misunderstoodYears when it was found that falselyIto be just His eyes were kind and seemed to appeal to you to respond but his mouth was set and firm and lines which once expressed sweetness had now deepened into furrows of care and coldnessAs sat there dreaming his life over he wondered who was ever denied sympathy as he A rap came on the door and he ad mitted his bookkeeper a woman She looked frightened and there were traces of tears in her eyes He asked her to be seated Anyone In trouble was welcome particularly this woman whom he had more than admired I have come she said to ask what you are going to do with me There is money missing from tho safe There is no way to prove my innocence for I believe 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