2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. f'er yea '2 00 112 paid In advance 1 i>o ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of one dollar per square for one insertion arnl fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Kates by the year, or for six or three months, are low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times or less. *2; each kubscquent inser t on Ml cents per square. Local notices 1« cents per line for one hiser aertion: f> cents per line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 rents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business c;.rds, ll\e lines or less. *5 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 73 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRltss is complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of work. PAHTHJLI.AU ATTENTION PAID TO LAW PKINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub* her. Papers sent out of the county must be pai for in advance. Senator Mark Ilanna and \Villlcun J. Bryan met Saturday for the first time, 11 ot h had been A Notable yuestg at - the din . Meeting. n< . r 0 ; t j ie Gridiron :lub in Washington. When the dinner slosed Mr. Ilanna stepped up to Mr. Bryan as they came out from the ban juet-room and greeted him: "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Bryan," he said. Mr. Bryan expressed his pleasure at meet ing Mr. Ilanna, and the gentlemen smilingly assured each other that they had frequently heard of each other. Senators, diplomats and others gath ered around the two men, surprised to Uxirn that this was their first meeting. The interview was brief, and each gen« tleman vieu with the other in extending tompliments and courtesies. Mean while both smiled at hearing the otli ir's praises, until Mr. Bryan finally burst out laughing. "We're quite a mu tual admiration society, Mr. ilanna," tie suggested. The senator agreed, and then they told each other gout, night. The annual report of the Des Moines public library contains the number of aooks that were worn out during the year IS'J'J. The readers were out one religious book, eight literature, two biography, two history, two travel, 340 fiction and 312 juvenile. It may be granted that those who read the more serious works have cleaner hands and take better care of their books than the readers of fiction, and it is true that the children are most careless. It is also true that works of fiction are loosely bound, for the publishers know that they are perishable goods seldom worthy of preservation. The statistics, however, prove clearly that the great majority of people are novel readers, and that the public library supplies that class with its reading matter. "The country is indebted to the Mor mon for one very excellent idea," re marked liepresentative Wilson, of Idaho, recently. "That is the (ierman idea of rural villages. The agricul tural Mormons of Idaho, and of Utah, for that matter, have solved the prob lem of isolation, which is the bane of rural life in this country, by grouping their houses into a small village and going outside to till the soil. As soon as a farming community of Mormons settles anywhere the village is laid out in regular streets, trees are plant ed, and other improvements begun for the common good. In many of these villages they build town halls and pro vide other places of amusement." A party of veteran newspaper men were talking the other day about three Albany reporters who became members of the cabinet of the president of the United States—the late Daniel L. Man ning, secretary of the treasury during Cleveland's first administration; Dan iel S. I.amont, secretary of war during Cleveland's second administration, and Charles Emory Smith, now postmaster general. It was less than 25 years ago, says a Washington correspondent, that they sat side by side, reporting the pro ceedings of the New York legislature. A retired merchant of Winsted, Conn., who has been troubled with corns on his toes for months, at liia wife's suggestion lately ustci many remedies, and, finding no relief, he con cluded that there was no cure for corns. Consequently, says a local exchange, he went into his woodshed, grabbed a chisel and mallet and cut off three toes one after the other. A most effective and lasting cure certainly, but one that will hardly become popular. A Philadelphian who is much afraid of draughts has a feather suspended from the ceiling by a light silken thread, says the Uecord of that city. Should the feather move in the slight est degree, b.; doesn't rest content un til he finds out where the draught comes from. That man ought to live in a safe with the combination on the inside where no rude draught could break in on him. An astronomical day l>egins at noon, 12 hours after the beginning of tliocivil day, and is counted from the first to the twenty-fourth hour. A civil day com mences at midnight, and is counted from the first to the twelfth hour. A nautical day is counted as a civil day, but commences, like an astronomical day, at noon. EARN THREE CENTS A DAY. Famine SuNrrrrn 111 India »rv> a .li'rf Mlillc «'tl «' tiuvrriimi'Ut Work. London. May 17.—Dealing with the famine in the central provinces of India, which have an area equal to that of Austria and a population of nearly 11,000,000 and which were for merly prosperous, the Daily < hroni cle's correspondent at Bilaspur writes: "The demand for government as sistance is unparalleled. In one dis trict 40 per cent, are dependent on government relief for their daily bread, in two others the percentage is over 3D. In the whole area there are 1,500,000 people with no other sources of subsistence than govern ment charity. "In the eastern division, where the crop failure was the most complete, we have had the best of opportunity of sccii the gigantic* organization evolved lor grappling with the fam ine. The abomination of desolation is here. "Three miles out from Bilaspur, 1,500 persons are liusy adding to the long list of tanks constructed by famine labor. Further on stone breaking is in progress, and peasants who have never before handled any implement save those of husbandry, wrestle manfully wtili crowbar and boring tool. When the rock is brok en women and youngsters busily ply little hammers. An able-bodied man earns three cents, women two cents and a half, and children two cents. To European ears this wage sounds preposterously low. If the price of grain increases the wage is increased, and vice versa, so that a full day's toil secures to every worker a suffi ciency of food. Xo work no pay. "The old and feeble are drafted into the weakly gangs. 1 hey would be infinitely better in the camp kitchen, which is always open to them. Hut the Indian pea: mt woman dreads the 'kangalkalian' with the same aver sion that the English poor have for the workhouse. They love to handle money and even these wrecks of hu manity lay by a few pies (a pie is the equivalent of cent United States currency) of their miserable pittance and starve their shrunken bodies in order to gel a morsel of opium or to bacco. "The type of relief work" described at Hilaspnr is found by the hundreds in the central provinces and the aid given to the able-bodied people seems sufficient and the kitchens and hospi tals are well managed. Tint the Mon ny wage for a weakly gang is insu'Ti eient. I am assured, however, that it will be raised." THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. A Senate Committee ICrporfK in I'avni of tile Ni<iir»K!i» Kontr. Washington, May 17. —The senate committee on inter-oceanic canals yesterday presented ils written re port upon the Nicaraguan canal bill. The report includes Ihe statements of Admiral Walker and other mem bers of the committee appointed to investigate the various routes for an inter-oceanic canal and also the con clusions of the committee with ref erence to both the -Nicaragua and I'anama routes. The committee takes strong posi tion against the proposition to build the canal via the I'anama route, (lav ing for the work already done by the French. The declaration is made that the I'anama company is prac tically without assets. "They say," says the report, "they have assets that a committee of ex perts has valued at $00,000,000. They make no offer or suggestion as to what they would take for it. The lowest sum at which they estimate the cost of completing their canal is $'.•5,000,000. So that in entering that combine we would go in on the basis of $! 55,000,000 for the completed canal on the plan of three levels, if that plan is adopted, against $135,000.- 000 which is the highest estimate any engineer has placed on the .Nicaragua canal. The difference is $-17,000,000 in favor of Nicaragua." S THEY BOUGHT SUBSTITUTES. How Two ( liiiiameii I:»<ji|>c«l ICciii*; ■executed lor .tlurder. Vancouver, 15. ('., May 17.—The Em press of China firings information that punishment has been meted out to the murderers of .Missionary Brooks. Fifteen men were tried for the crime before the provincial judge at Chiiuan Fu, and the British consul. It developed at the trial that only three were guilty of the actual kill ing, and one of these dealt the final blow. This one, being most culpable in the Chinese criminal code, was he headed in the presence of the British consul. Another, who was only a shade lighter in guilt, was sentenced to strangulation at the autumn as sizes. A third was sentenced to life imprisonment, and four others to ten years' imprisonment. In connection with the punishment of the lirooks murderers the North China Daily News lias a startling story to the effect that the condemn ed men were allowed to purchase substitutes and that for SI,OOO two men were procured who agreed to pay the penalty of death imposed upon those most directly concerned in the murder. The man who was to be beheaded paid SOOO for his substitute, a dissolute opium smoker, who wish ed to provide for his family. The murderer condemned to be strangled had to pay only S4OO for his substi tute. Armored Train Trotcd. London, May 17.—An armored road train, constructed for the war office, was tried yesterday at Leeds. The officers present at the trial think tin invention marks a great advance in military science. The armor is half an inch of nickel and steel and it is proof against bullets and shell splin ters at a distance of 20 yards. Each of the three trucks oft lie train car ries one naval gun. The trial, which was made under severe conditions, was completely successful, and the train will be taken to South Africa at once. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900. THE ST. LOUIS LABOR WAR. Striking Street Railroader* Itejeet tU« TeruiN of Settlement tillered bj lli« Tranxit t ompany—A I'oltceman Shol by Women. St. Louis, May 18. —The culmination of the prolonged struggle between the St. Louis Transit Co. and its em ployes is not yet in sight, notwith standing the conferences held during the past week. Thursday was devoted to confer ences, but up to a late hour last night no solution tending to end the tight had been arrived at. Shortly after li ]i. m.the union's grievance commit tee and 1 lie Transit Co. officials met and continued iu session two hours. The strikers' committee submitted a counter proposition to the one hand ed to them by the railroad officials Wednesday night, which was rejected by the executive committee of the railway men's union. The Transit Co. officials at yester day afternoon's conference in turn rejected the counter proposition of its employes, the hitch resting en tirely on a clause which calls for the complete reinstatement of all the old men. The railroad officials stated that under no circumstances would the men who superseded the strikers be replaced. President Whitaker, of the Transit Co.. said his position is final and it now remains with the strikers to determine whether the strike shall be called off or continue. The strikers held a meeting after this statement, at which the propo sition was submitted to them. The mass meeting at the Coliseum was attended by .1.000 strikers. After b vigorous discussion of the railway company's proposition it was reject ed by an overwhelming vote. Resolu tions were then adopted stating in effect that the fight now on between the Transit Co. and its employes is one for 1 lie existence of organized labor in St. Louis, and calling upon nil trades unions and sympathizers with trade unionism to suspend labor after the coming Saturday. General Manager liatimhoff. of the Transit Co.. claims more trolley and feed wires were cut Wednesday night than any other night of the strike, seriously interfering with 11K- run ning of ears on some lines. Thurs day a f ternoon the (ass avenue, < ho tcatl avenue and the Vandeventer lines were opened up for the first time in the past ten days. The federal grand jury has begun fin investigation into the complaints of the post office department that since the inauguration of the strike the mail could not be handled regu larly. owing to the obstructions plac ed on the track. Officer Cokcley, who was doing guard duty on a car of the .I' ffcrson avenue line, was shot and painfully wounded during a disturbance at Jef ferson avenue and Randolph street. Mrs. Myrtle Christiansen and her niece, Miss Elizabeth Peterson, who, it is alleged, fired the shots at the car, were arrested and locked up. BRADLEY'S BOCMLET. Kentucky Itepuhlieunw Hectare thai tise ex-tioteruor (.ood Vice I'rewi dentin! Timber. Louisville, May is.—The republican state convention met here Thursday afternoon and after a session of nine hours, with two hours' intermission, elected four delegates to the national convention, four alternates and two presidential electors: indorsed the ad ministration of President McKinley; condemned the state of affairs ia Kentucky, which it charged to the democratic party, and instructed its delegates to vote for McKinley for president and W. O. Bradley, of Ken tucky, for vice president. (apt. N. S. Irwin, republican can didate for congress from tne Louis ville district, was elected temporary chairman of the convention. In ac centing the nomination Chairman Ir win talked on state and national af fairs. lion. J. M.i erkes, of Danville, national committeeman for Ken tuckv. was appointed chairman of the committee on resolutions. There were calls for Taylor, Bradley and other party leaders. The chair ap pointed a committee to escort Taylor to the platform. Taylor referred to the condition of affairs in the state and urged that "the fight for liberty be continued unceasingly until Kentucky should be wrested from the state of dis order and disregard of ■ne people's rights into which the democratic party had precipitated it." His speech evoked the greatest enthus iasm. Kx-Gov. W. O. Uradlev followed with a speech in which he referred forcibly to the state of affairs, in voking restoration of civil liberty which, he said, had been so long dis regarded in the state. He denounced severely the assassin who shot down Goebel and said he hoped the guilty would be punished, but not the in nocent. While the ex-governor was speaking Gov. Taylor sat behind liiin with his little daughter on his knee, and as Bradley referred patlietically to 1 he criticisms made of Taylor, the latter buried his face in his hands and wept. The unusual spectacle of democrats addressing a republican convention was seen when Judge W. 11. Yost and 'Richard W. Knotty editor of the Even ing Post, of Louisville, lifelong dem ocrats and supporters of ex-Gov. Drown, were called for and spoke. The.convention elected Gov. Taylor and ex-Gov. Hradley delegates to the national convention, by acclamation. George Denny, of Lexington, and W. A. (iaines. colored, were elected dele gates to the national convention on the second ballot. A New Tobacco Combine. New York. May is.—The formation of the new opposition tobacco com pany has now been practically com pleted and articles of incorporation will be filed at Trenton within a few days. The new concern will be known as the Intarnational Tobacco Co. It will be incorporated under the law- of New Jersey, with a capi tal of 51i.'.000.000. Among the incor porators are some £)f the best known individual manufacturers in the Uni ted St;.trs. The C(illl|illtit will ilaf fur' control 1? factories, will: a ca pacity of 13,000,000 pounds. ARMY CANTEEN SYSTEM. A Committee of the ltletbodlMt C>i nrral CoiilcrcniT t tlllicialu lor Tlirlr Altitude on Tlilfc Queiitioii. Chicago, May 15. —The Methodist conference committee on temper ance. of which Samuel Dickie, of Michigan, is chairman and of which Congressman Johnson, of North Da kota, author and champion of the anti-canteen law, is a member, adopt ed resolutions Monday which in the minds of a number of the committee men arc a direct slap at President McKinley, because of his acquiescence in the decision of Attorney General Griggs declaring the law ineffective. The resolutions are a portion of the report of a sub-committee into whose hands the task of preparing l the committee's report to the gener al conference had been placed and was adopted in the face of a motion to substitute for it a minority report from Dr. I'riee, of the New York con ference, after a two hours' debate in which the members alternately ar raigned and championed President, McKinley in his stand on the anti canteen law. The report is as fol lows: "We are. however, chagrined, hu miliated and exasperated by the puer ile and absurd construction placed upon the anti-canteen law so-called, by the attorney general of the I'nitcd States, and with all due respect to his exalted station we record the fact that we are pained and disappointed at the course of the president in ac cepting as'final and satisfactory an opinion without binding force. Such an abuse of power is nullification in its most dangerous form. "I pon the president, as command er-in-chief of our army, rests the re sponsibility for the canteen saloon, an evil which he has ample power to suppress and which, to quote the episcopal address, 'is a more deadly foe to the soldier than bullet or trop ic heat.' 'We urge upon the president an early exercise of the power vested in him, tot he end that the. authority of the government, instead of being used to place temptation before the sol dier, shall lie used to save him, as far as possible, from the moral hazards incident to military life." After, a stormy session the commit tee on episcopacy decided to recom mend to the general conference that two new bishops be elected to pro vide for possible deaths on the board during the next four years. The body voted down a report from a sub-com mit tee in favor of petitioning the con ference to elect a colored bishop. In stead of making a di"ect recommen dation on this question the committee will report a revised version of the declaration adopted by the confer ence in ISUii. recognizing Ihe qualifi cation of colored men to till the high office and admitting the need of a col ored leader to direct the religious work among his people in the south. The result is taken as a defeat of the movement to secure the election of a colored man as bishop at this conference, as the leaders started out with the determination to give spe cific instructions to the conference. THE KANSAS CITY STRIKE. ( nioiiiKts Will Aid Street JCallroudcm bj a liojciitl A■■ A |>|>eal tot olisrus incii. Kansas City, Mo., May 1-1. Kvery street car line in this city and Kansas City, Kan., was in full operation Sun day and no violence was offered by the strikers who went out on Satur day. The industrial council held an en thusiastic meeting and adopted reso lutions sympathizing with the street car men and ordering a boycott of the railway company. The resolu tions request the heads ol Ihe differ ent. unions represented in the council to instruct their members not to ride on the curs, The industrial council is composed of ">:> different, unions outside of the building trades. In addition to the resolutions of sympathy the indus trial council unanimously adopted the following appeal to the Missouri members in congress: "A crisis has been precipitated in organized labor by the action of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. in ;lischarging(i."< of its employes because these men saw lit to connect them selves with others of their craft; when the employes attempted to ex ercise their manhood by requesting 1 other employes to become members, the company resorted to the United States courts for a blanket in junc tion restraining each and every one from interfering with the men in its employ at a time when not a single unlawful act could be charged up to organized labor. Therefore we ap peal to you in the name of humanity to use jour best endeavors to have congress pass an act limiting the power of United States judges in is suing injunctions, and in this connec tion we favor the election of United States judges by direct vote of the people." To llrut tile lee Ti uM. New York, May 16.—The alleged combination to raise the price of ice iu New York was brought to the at tention of the common council Tues day by the adoption of a resolution recommending the construction of three inunii < al ice plants, to be lo cated in various parts of the city and operated by the city, for the purpose of furnishing ice to consumers at actual cost. Official* to be Arretted, Montgomery, Ala., May 1"). War rants were sworn oul Monday for the arrest of Warren S. Reese, United States district attorney for the mid dle district of Alabama; Julian 11. liinghatu, inlcrnal revenue collector for Alabama, and Frank Moraguc, on a charge of conspiracy to kill certain doorkeepers at the state Capitol on the day of the meeting of the repub lican state convention, April ft). . V 111 - davits were made by C. 11. Scott, brother of (luston Seott, who wan shot by Morague. No arrests have been made. POSTAL FRAUDS. Widespread Rascality in Cuba Ia Revealed. Havana's Poatnianter Wake* a Ham aiflns Confession and In Arrewted —Congress l« A«lied to Pro vide a l.atv to I'll the Case of yir. Neely. Washington, May 15.—The post master general, after a protracted in terview with the president, yesterday announced that Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant, postmaster general, will proceed to Havana next Wednes day to take charge of the postal af fairs of Cuba. The postmaster gen eral declined to say whether or not Director Genera! of Posts Kathbone would be suspended. It is said, how ever, that the fact that Gen. liristow will assume these duties does not necessarily indicate that Mr. Rath bone will be relieved of all connection with the service. Bristow outranks the director of posts and the latter might operate as a subordinate, al though on this point no statement is vouchsafed. Havana, May 15. —The extent of the postal frauds is far greater than what was originally expected. Besides tak ing in the postal department, the frauds seem to include the local office at Havana and various other offices throughout the island, and also to have extended to outside points which have been used for the sale of somu of the old issue of stamps that were ordered destroyed. The result of the investigation at the local post office is the suspension of Postmaster Thompson, who was installed in April, 1899. Havana, May 17. Postmaster Thompson, of Havana, has signed a sworn statement in which lie says that September 1G last, being in need of money, he took from the money order funds s4lis, giving his memor andum as a receipt for the same. When the inspections were held Mr. Thompson ordered a clerk in charge of the money order department to place lemlttances received that day. which would not have to be account ed for until the following day. suffi cient to cover the amount of his re ceipt, which was then wittidrawn un til after the inspection. This was kept up until April 7. when the spe cial agents unexpectedly discovered the receipt, which Mr. Thompson then paid. He also admits that ' liarles I'. Neely. late financial agent, indorsed a bill for $l!50 which Thomp son had discounted by tne North American Trust Co. Warrants were issued last evening for the arrest of E. I*. Thompson, the Havana postmaster; W. 11. Reeves, .leputy auditor of Ihe island, and Ed ward Moya and Jorge Mascaro, Cu ban clerks in the stamp department, ind all were lodged in the Yivac, the Tombs of Havana. This was done tinder the advice of the postal inspec ors who arrived yesterday. Washington, Ma\ is. The Post says: "Congress must come to the lid of the administration in bringing I'. P. .Neely, the Cuban defaulter, 112 o justice. A new law must be enacted md enacted at once, which will tight- Mi the government's hold upon him. Everv loophole of escape must be dosed. '■Attorney General Griggs lias al ready made his appeal to congress. Yesterday afternoon he forwarded to Senator Hoar, chairman of the -enate committee on judiciary, and to ongn ssinan Ray. chairman of the Minilar committee of the house, u •o|>y of a bill drawn especially to ueet the present situation. He ac companied the bill with a strong let er pointing out the necessity for its irompt passage. 11<■ expresses the lope that the measure may be passed .vithout delay. "The bill is in two sections. The irst provides that the statutes of the United States relative to extradition 'ict ween the I nifed States and eoun ries with which the United States ■ias treaties of extradition shall ap iily to the extradition of fugitives from justice from Cuba, while the Tovernment of that island is exer •ised under the authority of the Uni ted States. This section is directed i, the Neely case. "The second section is to guard against future troubles in the pos sessions over which the I i.ited States has unquestioned control. It pro vides that the domestic extradition now in force between the various states shall be extended to the Phil ippines, Guam, Hawaii and Porto "While the attorney general is con fident that Neely could be extradited under present laws, his confidence is not shared by some leading interna tional lawyers who have examined into the case. Senator Davis, chair man of the committee on foreign re lations, is among those who believe that there is no authority at the present time for extraditing Neely." Havana, May IS.— Postmaster Thompson's bail was yesterday reduc ed from SIO,OOO to SI,OOO, which was deposited in cash b\ the Danish con sul. ilerr Culmell. a wealthy mer chant. The bail of Moya and Mas caro has been reduced to $1,500, which has not yet been furnished. Reeves will ' allowed to remain at his own home in charge of special agents. During llie investigations now in progress he will be called upon daily to give evidence, and it is also felt that bail required of him would necessarily be heavy and prob ably would not be obtainable. Author ol" Seven Tin I'der* Ik Arretted. Copenhagen, May 18. —A telegram from Koping. Sweden, reports that as the steamer Koping was passing the Prins Carl a man sprang upon the deck of the latter vessel and shouted "If any one comes near I will shoot."' The man escaped in a boat. When the I'rins Carl was boarded it was found that 1~ men on board had been shot, seven of whom, including the captain, were dead. The police tracked to Eskilstuna (">T miles west of Stockholm) and arrested the au thor of the tragedy. He tried to fire a revolver at the officers. THE LETTER WAS GENUINE AND CONTAINED FACTS. A Former American Settled in Can* nil it Flooded with Infju ir I «•*. A short time since a letter appeared in these columns feigned by Mr. W. H. Kinkade, of Alarueda. Assiniboia, Western Canada, which caused that gentleman to receive a great many inquiries, most of them anxious to know if the letter was genuine. To a large number of the inquiries answers were sent, but it was impossible to reply to all. We take pleasure io submitting to our readers a specimen of replies sent by Mr. Kinkade: "Yes, the letter dated December 22. 1899, supposed to have been written by me which you saw in your local papers was genuine and contained facts. I will say of the information received from the Canadian Govern ment agents prior to coming here, I did not find a single untrue state ment. The Canadian government is: an honorable one and its agents dare not misrepresent this country or they Would lose their job. There is quite a bit of land for homesteading yet, a very little close to market, but main ly from six to twenty miles from sta tions. The country hereabouts is a prairie, nearly level, slightly rolling, not a rough country by any means. Homestead entries cost ten dollars; on land tnat has been cancelled there is a five-dollar cancellation fee extra and in some cases an inspection fee of five dollars, and where the former occupant has made any substantial improvements there are smali amounts to pay for improvements. This is a poor place for a poor man unless he has brains and muscle and "git and grit," but with these requi sites he ear. succeed. The population of this part of Assiniboia has doubled during the past two years. There has been as much prairie broken the past two years as was already broken previous to 1898. C. I*. K, land (odd sections) joining homestead land sells at three dollars per acre. Improved quarters within four to five miles of town sell at SI,OOO this spring. This is not a Garden of Eden at all. Nc man need think he can come here and get rich in a short time without much labor, but if he will work and be saving he can soon be an independent farmer tilling his own soil and get ting good returns for his labor. "We burn coal, which costs us per load al the mines which are 2C miles southwest of us. "People with stock and machinery should come in May, so as to have al! June to break in. Those who expect to work for wages for the first year or two should come by the end of July to work through harvest and threshing and then goto the coal fields and work all winter, and by spring Jie could be ready to improve homestead. "A quarter-section of railway land sells at three dollars per acre. The interest is all figured up and a man has about s7t to pay cash, and if he breaks at least ten aeres first break ing season his s2l interest for the first year is thrown off and the sec ond fall following purchase he has SOO to pay and then SGO to pay for eight more falls, which makes a total of sOll the quarter costs him. includ ing all interest. Paying for a quarter of land that way is like keeping a life insurance policy paid, only it does not take so long to do it. Hy a man home steading one quarter and buying an other quarter gives him a chance to have a aL'O-aere farm all his own and have it paid for in ten years and after that he is sure of an easy living if he is any good at all. "SIGNED) W. H. KINKADE." r.a.«l!y Bone. "How did they open the Paris exposition, George? I've lost the paper containing the account of it." "\\ hy, it was a simple ar.d impressive ceremony. Looby stepped tip and —" "Who is Looby, George?" "Looby is the president of the French republic. Looby walked nj> ar.d pushed uwav a paint er's ladder, and kicked aside a plasterer's hod and a pile of bricks, and yanked a car penter's horse out of the way, and tore down the 'Positively No Admittance' card —in French, of course —and scraped a lot of sand and gravel away from the bottom of the door, and then gave the knob a yank—and the exposition was wide open! Simple,isn't it?"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. S<uiui»<ml the School Visitor. A visitor at a Columbia, Mo., school the other day asked one of the lower grade class this question: "What is the axis ol the earth?' "An imaginary line passing from one pole to the other, on which the earth revolves," proudly answered a pupil. "Yes," said the examiner, well pleased, "ano could you hang a bonnet on it'' ' "Yes, sir." "Indeed! And what kind of a bonnet?" "An imaginary bonnet, sir.'' The visitor asked no more questions.—Chicago Chron icle. To Win I'mlyine: Fame. Some day, to 6hift the small boy to ats earthly paradise, somebody will introduce a fenceless baseball park and his fame wil. last forever. —Pittsburgh Times. A Blood Trouble Is that tired feeling blood lacks vitality and richness, and hence you feel like a lag paid all day and can't get rested at night, ilood's Sarsaparilla will cure you because it will restore to the blood the qualities it needs to nourish, strengthen and sustain the muscles, nerves and organs of the body. It gives sweet, refreshing sleep and impart!. new life and vigor to every function. Felt Tired—"lll the spring I would have no appetite and wouM ieel tired and with out ambition. Took, l.'ood's Sarsaparilla in. email doses, increasing as I grew stronger. That tired feeling left me and 1 felt better in every way." \\ . K. Baker, Box 90, Milford. Ohio. Be sure to fret Hood's because Hood'st SarsapzzriSSa Is the Medicine Money Can Buy. Pre pared Iv C. 1. Hood &Co . Lowell, Mass Ed In tlrao. Bold by drugpirui. gl
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