6
EARTH'S BLOSSOMS.
Oh. jrnu husbands, when you grumble at
your wife's dressmaker's bill,
And about a costly bonnet fret and
stew.
Did you ever stop to reason how this
world would take a chill
If your pretty wife and daughter dressed
like you?
U r Jth vour somber black cravat, and your
ugly, shiny hat.
And your coat, a perfect antidote for
mirth,
Tou are practical enough, like the kitchen
garden stuff,
But the women are the roses of the
earth.
When a crowd of men are gathered, It's a
sad and solemn show—
It's a living, breathing spectacle of
gloom;
Every single fellow's garments might be
patterned from a crow
That had peeked about an undertaker's
tomb;
gut you let a woman goto that gather
ing of woe
And you will see a sight that's cheap
at any price.
For 'mid the funeral band, blithe and ra
diant, she'll stand
Like a flashing, gleaming bird of para
dise.
60 we mustn't growl and grumble, though
the bills be what they please
For the satins and the other precious
stuffs,
And be happy though our trousers do
get baggy at the knees.
And we often are obliged to trim our
cults.
Though we labor every day so that
they may be as gay,
When we see 'em, don't we get our
money's worth?
Though they do come rather high, we
must have 'em, you and I,
For the women are the roses of the
earth.
—Good Roads.
c, W J J
[Copyright, 1 £97, by F Tennyson Neely.]
CHAPTER IV.—CONTI.NUED.
But the quartermaster said he'd
tried it with those very mules, between
Emory and Medicine Bow a dozen
times, and he'd risk it. The driver
could get off his seat if he wanted to,
and run alongside, but he'd stay where
Ihe was.
"Let me out, please," said the en
gineer, and jumped to the ground,
and then, the cavalcade pushed on
again. The driver, as ordered by an
employer whom he dare not disobey,
let the reins drop on the mules' backs,
the troopers falling behind, the
yellow ambulance and the big baggage
wagon bringing up the rear.
Then, with a horseman on each side,
the mules were persuaded to push on
again, and then when fairly started
Burleigh called to the troopers to fall
back, so that the mules should not, as
lie expressed it, "be influenced." "Leave
them to themselves and they can get
along all right," said he. "but mix
them up with the horses, and they
want them to take all the responsi
bility."
And now the command was barely
crawling. Brooks, heavy, languid with
splitting headache, lay in feverish tor
por in his ambulance, asking only to be
let alone. The engineer, a subaltern as
yet, felt that he had no right attempt
ing to advise men like Burleigh, who
proclaimed himself an old campaigner.
The aid-de-camp was getting both
eleepy and impatient, but he, too, was
much the quartermaster's junior in
rank. As for Dean, he had no volition
whatever. "Escort the party" were his
orders, and that meant that he must
govern the movements of his horses and
men by the wishes of the senior staff of
ficial. And so they jogged along per
haps 20 minuter more, and then
there was a sudden splutter and plunge
and stumble ahead, a sharp pull on the
traces, a marvelously quick jerk back
on the reins that threw the wheel team
on their haunches, and> thereby saved
the "outfit," for when men and matches
were hurried to the front the lead mules
were discovered kicking and splashing
in a mud hole. They were not only off
the road by a dozen yards, but over a
bank two feet high.
And' this last pound broke the back
of Burleigh's obstinacy. It was nearly
midnight anyway. The best thing to
be done was to unhitch, unsaddle and
bivouac until the gray light of dawn
came peering over the eastward prai
rie, which in that high latitude and
"long-day" month would' soon be after
three. Then they could push onto
Keno.
Not until nearly eight o'clock in the
morning, therefore, did they heave in
sight of the low belt of dingy green
that told of the presence of a stream
still long miles away; and here, know
ing himself to be out of danger, the
major bade the weary escort inarch in
at a walk while he hurried on. In 1.5
minutes the black-hooded wagon was
twisting and turning over the powdery
road a good mile ahead, its dust rising
High over the sage-covered desert, while
the other two, with the dust-begrimed
troopers, jogged sturdily on. Loring,
the young engineer, had waved a cor
dial good-by to his old cadet acquaint
ance. "See you later, old man,"he
cried. Stone, the aid-de-camp, nodded
and said: "Take care of yourself," and
Burleigh said nothing at all. He was
wondering what he could do to muzzle
Loring in case that gifted young gradu
ate were moved to tell what the quar
termaster actually did when he heard
the rush ami firing out at the front on
the road from Warrior Gap.
But when ait last the black wagon
bowled in at the stockaded, quadrangle
and discharged its occupants at the
hut of the major commanding, there
were tidings of such import to greet
them thait Burleigh turned yellow
white again at thought of the perils
they had escaped.
"My God, man!" cried the post com
mander, as he came hurrying - out to
meet tlie party, "we've been in a blue
funk about you fellows for two whole
days. Did you see any Indians?"
"See any Indians!" said Burleigh, ral
lying 1 to the occasion, as became a
man who knew how to grasp an oppor
tunity. "We stood off the whole Sioux
nation over toward Crazy Woman's
fork. There were enough to cover the
country, red and black, for a dozen
miles. We sighted them yesterday
about four o'clock, and there were
enough around us to eat us alive, but
we just threw out skirmish lines and
marched steadily ahead, so they
thought. best not to bother us. They're
shy of our breech-loaders, damn 'em!
That's all that kept them at respectful
distance."
The major's face as he listened took
on a puzzled, perturbed look. lie did
not wish to say anything that might
reflect on the opinions of so influential
a man as the depot quartermaster art
Gate City, but it was plain that there
was a train of thought rumbling
through his mind that would collide
with Burleigh's column of events unless
he were spared the need of answering
questions. "Let me tell you briefly
what's happened,'& he said. "Red
Cloud and his whole band are out- on
the warpath. They killed two couriers,
half-breeds, I sent out to find. Thorn
ton's troop tluat was scouting the Dry
Fork. The man we sent to find you
and give you warning hasn't got back
at all. We've had double sentries for
three days and nights. The only souls
to get in from the northwest since our
fellows were run back last night are
old Folsom ami liaptiste. Folsom had
a talk with Red Cloud and tried to in
duce him to turn back. He's beset with
the idea that the old villain is plotting
a general massacre along the Big Horn.
He looks like a ghost. He says if we
had 5,000 soldiers up there there'd
hardly be enough. You know the Sioux
have sworn by him for years, and he
thought he could ooax Bed Cloud to
keep away, but all the old villain would
promise was to hold his young men
back ten days or so until Folsom could
get the general to order the Warrior
(iaj) plan abandoned. ]f the troops are
there Folsom says it's all up with them.
Bed Cloud can rally all the northern
tribes, and it's only because of Folsora's
influence, at least I fancy so—that —
that they didln't attack you."
"Where is Folsom?" growled Bur
leigh, as he shook the powdery cloud
from his linen duster and followed the
major within his darkened door, while
other officers hospitably led the aid
and engineer into an adjoining hut.
"Gone right onto Frayne. The old
fellow will wear himself out, I'm afraid.
He says he must get in telegraphic
communication with Omaha before he's
four days older. My heaven, man, it
was a narrow squeak you liadi! It's
(iod's mercy Folsom saw Red Cloud'be
fore he saw you."
"Oh, pshaw!" said the quartermas
ter, turning over a little packet of let
ters awaiting him in the commanding
officer's sanctum. "We could have given
a good account of ourselves, I reckon.
Brooks is down with fever, and young
Dean got rattled, or something like it.
He's new at the business and easily
scared, you know; so I practically had
to take command. They'll be along in
an hour or so, and—a word in your ear:
If Brooks has to remain 011 sick re
port you'd better put somebody in
command of that troop that's had —er
—er —experience."
The post commander looked genuine
ly troubled. "Why, Burleigh, we've
all taken quite a shine to Dean. I
know the ollicers in his regiment think
a heap of him; the seniors do, at least."
But Burleigh, with big eyes, was glar
ing at a letter he had selected, opened
and was hurriedly reading. His face
was yellowing again, under the blister
of sun and alkali.
"What's amiss?" queried his friend.
"Nothing wrong, I hope. Why, Bur
leigh, man! Here, let me help you!" he
cried, in alarm, for the quartermaster
was sinking into a chair.
"You can me!" he gasped. "Get
me fresh mules and »icort. My God:
I must start for Frajne at once. Some
whisky, please." And the letter
dropped from his trembling hands and
lay there unnoticed on the floor.
CHAPTER V.
Mid June had come, and there was
the very devil to pay —so said the
scouts and soldiers up along the Big
Horn. But scouts and soldiers were
far removed from the states and cities
where news was manufactured, and
those were days in which our Indian
outbreaks were described in the press
long after, instead of before, their oc
currence. Such couriers as had got
through Frayne brought dispatches
from the far-isolated posts along that
beautiful range, insisting that the
Sioux were swarming in every valley.
Such dispatches, when wired to Wash
ington and "referred" to the depart
ment- of the interior and re-referred to
the head of the Indian bureau, were
scoffed at as sensational.
"Our agents report thefndians peace
ably assembled at their reservations.
None are missing at the weekly dis
tribution of supplies except those who
are properly accounted for as cut on
their annual hunt." The "officers,"
said the papers, "seem to take the real
Indian in every bush," and unpleasant
things were hinted at the officers in
consequence.
Indians there certainly were in other
sections, and they were unquestion
ably "raising the devil" along the
Smoky Hill and the Southern plains,
and there the interior department in
sisted that troops in strong force
should be sent. So, too, along the line
of the Union Pacific. Officials were still
nervous. Troops of cavalry camped at
intervals of forty miles along the line
between Kearney and Julesburg, and
even beyond. At Washington and
ttle great cities of the east, there
fore, there was no anxiety as to
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900.
the possible fate of those little
garrisons, with their helpless charge
of women and children, away up
in the heart of the Sioux country. But
at Laramie and Frayne and Emory, the
nearest frontier posts; at Cheyenne,
Omaha and Gate City the anxiety was
great. When John Folsom aaid the In
dians meant a war of extermination
people west of the Missouri said:
"Withdraw those garrisons while
there is jet time, or else send five
thousand troops to help them." But
people east of the Missouri said: "Who
the devil is John Folsom? What does
he know about it? Here's what the In
dian agent says, and that's enough,"
and people east of the Missouri being
vastly in the majority, neither wore
the garrisons relieved nor the reen
forcements sent. What was worse,
John Folsom's urgent advice that they
discontinue at once all work at War
rior Gap and send the troops and la
borers back to Reno was pooh-poohed.
"The contracts have been let and
signed. The material is all on its way.
We can't back out now," said the of
ficials. "Sendrunners to Red Cloud and
get him to talk. Promise him a lot of
presents. Yes, it he must have them,
tell him he shall have breech-loaders
and copper cartridges—to shoot buffa
lo with, of course. Promise him pretty
much anything to be good and keep his
hands off a little longer till we get that
fort and the new agency buildings fin
ished, and then let him do what he
likes."
Such were the instructions given the
commissioners and interpreters hurried
through Gate City and Frayne, and on
up to Reno just within the limit fixed
by Folsom. Red Cloud and his chiefs
came, in accordingly, arrayed in pomp,
paint and finery, shook hands grimly
with the representatives of the Great
Father, critically scanned the prof
fered gifts, disdainfully rejected the
muzzle-loading rifles and old dragoon
horse-pistols heaped before him. "Got
heap better," was his comment, and
nothing but brand new breech
loaders would serve his purpose.
Promise them and he'd see what could
be done to restrain his young men.
But they were "pretty mad," he said,
and couldn't be relied upon to keep
the peace unless sure of getting better
arms and ammunition to help them
break it next time. It was only tem
porizing. It was only encouraging the
veteran war chief in his visions of pow
er and control. The commissioners
came back beaming. "Everythingsatis
factorily arranged. Red Cloud and his
people are only out for a big hunt."
"Got heap better," wa» his comment.
But officers whose wives and children
prayed fearfully at night within the
puny wooden stockades, and listened
trembling to the howls and tom-toms
of the dancing Indians around the
council fires in the neighboring valleys,
wished to heaven they had left those
dear ones in safety at their eastern
homes—wished to heaven they could
send them thither now, but well knew
that it was too late. Only as single
spies, riding by night, hiding by day,
were couriers able to get through
from the Big Horn to the Platte. Of
scouts and soldiers sent at different
times since the middle of May, seven
were missing, and never, except
through vague boastings of the In
dians, were heard of again.
"It is a treacherous truce, I tell you,"
said Folsom, with grave, anxious face,
to the colonel commanding Fort Em
ory. "I have known Red Cloud 20
years. He's only waiting a few weeks
to see if the government will be fool
enough to send them breech-loaders.
If it does, he'll be all the better able
to fight a little later 011. If it doesn't
he will make it his casus belli."
It was nearly 300 miles by the wind
ing mountain road from Gate City to
Warrior Gap. Over hill and dale and
mountain pass the road ran to Frayne,
thence, fording the North Platte, the
wagon trains, heavily guarded, had to
drag over miles of dreary desert, over
shadeless slopes and divides to the dry
wash of the Powder, and by roads
deep in alkali dust aijd sage brush to
Cantonment Reno, where far to the
west the grand range loomed up
against the sky—another long day's
march away to the nearest foothills,
to the nearest drinkable water, and
then, 40 miles further still, in the heart
of the grand pine-covered heights, was
the rock-bound gateway to a lovely
park region within, called by the
SiOuX some wild combination of al
most unpronounceable syllables, which,
fr«ely translated, gave us Warrior
Gap, and there at last accounts,
strengthened by detachments from
Frayne and Reno, the little command
of fort builders worked away, aix in
hand, rifle at hand, subjected every
hour to alarm from the vedettes and
picket# posted thickly all about them,
pickets who were sometimes found
stone dead at their posts, transfixed
with arrows, scalped and mutilated,
and yet not once had Indians in any
force been seen by officers or man
about the spot since the day Red
Cloud's whole array passed Brooks'
troop on the Reno trail, peaceably
hunting buffalo. "An' divil a sawl in
th« outfit," said old Sergt. Shaughnes-
6y, - that hadn't his tongue In hit
check."
For three months that hard-worked
troop had been afield, and the time
had passed and pone when its young
first lieutenant had hoped for a leave
togo home to see the mother and Jess.
Ilia captain was still ailing and unfit
for duty in saddle. Ife could not and
would not ask for leave at such a
time, and yet at the very moment when
he was most earnestly and faithfully
doing his whole duty at the front
slander was busy with his name long
miles at the rear.
Something 1 was amiss with Burleigh,
said his cronies at Gate City. lie had
come hurrying back from the hills,
had spent a day in his office and not a
cent at the club, had taken the night
express unbeknown to anybody but
his chief clerk, and gone hurrying
eastward. It was a time when his
services were needed at the depot, too.
Supplies, stores, all manner of m*
terial were being freighted from Gate
City over the range to the Platte and
beyond, j'et he had wired for authority
to hasten to Chicago on urgent per
sonal affairs, got it and disappeared.
A young regimental quartermaster was
ordered in from Emory to take charge
of shipments and sign invoices during
F.urleigh's temporary absence, and the
only other officer whom Burleigh had
seen and talked with before his start
was the venerable post commander.
One after another the few cavalry
troops (companies) on duty at Emory
had been sent afield until now only
one was left, and three days after Bur
leigh started there came a dispatch
from department headquarters direct
ing the sending of that one to Frayne
at once. Capt. Brooks' troop, owing
to the continued illness of its com
mander, would be temporarily with
drawn and sent back to Emory to re
place it.
Marshall Bean did not knowwliether
to be glad or sorry. Soldier from top
to toe, he was keenly enjoying the
command of his troop. He gloried in
mountain scouting, and was in his ele
ment when astride a spirited horse.
Then, too, the air was throbbing with
rumors of Indian depredations along
the northward trails, and everything
pointed to serious outbreak any mo
ment, and when it came he longed to
be on hand to take his share and win
his name, for with si|ch a troop his
chances were better for honors and
distinctions than those of any young
ster he knew. Therefore he longed to
keep afield. On the other hand, the
visit paid by Jessie's school friend,
little "Pappoose" l'olsom, was to be
returned in kind. John Folsom had
begged and their mother had consent
ed that after a week at home Jess
should accompany her beloved friend
on a visit to her far western home.
They would be escorted as far as Oma
lin, and there Folsom himself would
meet them. His handsome house was
ready, and, so said friends who had
been invited to the liousewarming,
particularly well stocked as to larder
and cellar. There was just one thing
on which Gate City gossips were en
abled to dilate that was not entirely
satisfactory to Folsom's friends, and
that was the new presiding goddess
of the establishment.
LTo Be Continued ]
The Cloth of Ceremony.
One of the Tibetans was dressed in
white, one in black, with square-cut
caps, Tartar physiognomy, very dark
complexions, and long pigtails, and
were well known to our people.
They approached us m«king many po
lite bows, and, taking off their caps,
prt?sented the cloth of ceremony, as
was becoming from inferiors to supe
riors. This is a form which is uni
versal in Thibet, and extends into
China, though I do n*t remember ever
to have heard an explanation of the
custom. The cloth we received was of
cotton, badly woven, but of fine tex
ture, about the size of a small hand
kerchief, but so dirty as to show that
it had frequently performed simi.'ar
offices of civility before. The more
wealthy classes employ silk instead of
cotton cloths, the legend, "Om mane
padme hum." being commonly woven
in damask at each end. The sale of
these cloths of ceremony, I was given
to understand, constituted a govern
ment monopoly in this part of Thibet
—Geographical Journal,
Optician'* I.ntln.
Hirain had returned home from col
lege, where he had won high honors
as a student of the ancient languages,
A»ut he "fell down" one day when his
sifter, a demure young girl in her
teens, asked him to translate a sign
sfie had seen in front of an optician's
office, which read thus:
"Con Sultu Sabo Utyo Urey Es."
Hiram struggled manfully with it
for several minutes, and gave it up.
•'"lt isn't good Latin," he said. "There
ai% some words in it tljat are Latin,
but the others are either wrong in
termination or are barbarisms from
other languages, and, taken as a
whole, it doesn't make sense."
"That is what I said," rejoined his
sister, "but Keturah. out in the kitch
en. translates it without any trouble.
She says it means, 'Consult us about
your eyes.'"
Whereupon niram collapsed.
Youth's Companion.
Awfnl Willie.
Featherstone—What keeps your sis
ter so long, Willie?
Her Awful Little Brother—She's put
ting on the finest clothes she has.
Featherstone—What's that for?
Her Awful Little Brother —She said
she was going to land you to-night if
it couliibe done.—Tit-Bits.
Hlsher Education of Women.
"She managed to keep her cook more
than a week after the cook decided to
leave!"
"I'm not surprised. At college her
blockingandinterferencewere thought 1
quite phenomenal." lndianapolU
Journal.
IKE WAR TAXES.
A. Bill to Reduce Thorn by $40,-
000,000 Annually.
Nearly All of lite Ntamp Taxes Will be
Aboliahed, and a U< <lll< 11011 In tlie
Hair* Levied oil Beer la Fro
ponied —To be Hualied
Tlaroimh Congreaa by
Ciirlntmaa.
Washington, Dec. 6.—Chairman
Payne, of the ways and means com
mittee, yesterday introduced the bill
reducing the taxation under the war
revenue act, after the republican
members of the committee had agreed
on the form of the measure and the
articles to receive the reduction of
tax. It is intended to have the full
committee act on the bill to-day and
to put it through the house before
Christmas.
The bill provides an aggregate re
duction estimated at $40,000,1548.
The estimated reductions, in detail,
as given out by Mr. Payne, are as
follows:
Beer $9,832,712. cigars $.1,187,704, spe
cial taxes (Section 3) commercial bro
kers SI.'!S,2SI, custom house brokers
SH,I()7, circuses $11,744, theaters $47,-
178, exhibitions not otherwise provid
ed s^4,2lS. Total special tax $287,-
589.
Schedule A Bank checks $7,000,000,
certificates of deposit $200,000, drafts,
inland, $500,000; promissory notes $3,-
500,000, postal orders sr>o2,ooo, foreign
bills of exchange SIOO,OOO. export bills
of lading SIOO,OOO, express receipts
$1,200,000, telephone messages $315.-
000, bonds of indemnity $250,000, cer
tificates other than of profits $200,000,
charter party SIOO,OOO, brokers' con
tracts SIOO,OOO, conveyances $3,000,000,
telegraph dispatches SBOO,OOO, insur
ance $3,000,000, leases $200,000, mort
gages $500,000, passage tickets $200,-
000, powers of attorney, etc., SIOO,OOO,
protests $25,000, warehouse receipts
$250,000. Total in schedule A $22,-
242,000.
Schedule B, $4,548,283; less wines
SOOO,OO0 —$3,948,283. Legacies, char
itable, etc., $500,000; grand total $40,-
000,348.
The bill provides a discount of 20
per cent, in the tax of $2 per barrel
on beer, in lieu of the present 7'/j per
cent, reduction, making the new rate
SI.OO per barrel.
The sections of the war revenue act
taxing commercial brokers, custom
house brokers, circuses, theaters and
other exhibitions are stricken out.
The rate 011 cigars is made $3 in
stead of $3.00 per 1,000 weighing more
than three pounds per thousand.
Schedule A retains the stamp tax
on corporate stocks, bonds, etc., sales,
etc., at exchanges or boards of trade,
freight receipts, certificates of profits,
entry of goods at custom houses, and
entry for withdrawal of goods from
customs bonded warehouses. With
these exceptions, the stamp taxes un
der schedule A are struck out.
Schedule B, which requires stamps
on proprietary medicines and prepar
ations, perfumery and cosmetics,
chewing gum, etc., is amended so
that sparkling or other wines are the
only products requiring stamps.
The bill provides for redeeming
revenue stamps heretofore issued and
not used.
The concluding section provides
that the act shall take effect 30 days
after its passage.
RULED OFF THE TURF.
Eleven Itealdenta of an Indiana Town
are Puiilabed for a Hold Fraud.
Chicago, Dec. 6.—The board of re
view of the American Trotting asso
ciation, in annual meeting here Wed
nesday, investigated one of the most
extraordinary turf frauds ever per
petrated. and at the close of the in
quiry issued an edict of expulsion
against 11 residents of Rushville, Ind.
The offense for which these people
were put outside the pale of reputable
turfdom —the sentence being effective
on tracks of the National association
as well as of the American— is the
"faking" of an entire day of alleged
trotting and pacing over the Iluah
ville track on September 16, 1899, pro
curing the admission of summaries of
the same in the official records of the
American association as well as the
year book of the American Trotting
Register association and then selling
and otherwise making use for gain
of the horses alleged to have made
fast records op the day in question.
CRAZY IMMIGRANTS.
ITlore Stringent I,e£l*latlon I* Needed
to Keep Tliem Out of Tbla Country-
Washington, Dec. 6. —Goodwin
Brown, prominently connected with
the hospitals for the insane of New
York, yesterday contended before the
industrial commission that vigorous
legislation was necessary to protect
the country from the influx of insane
immigrants. He declared that while
25 per cent, of the population of the
state of New York was foreign born,
quite 50 per cent, of the patients in
the hospitals for the insane in that
state were foreign born. lie was
not prepared to say that there was a
concerted effort 011 the part of for
eign countries to unload their insane
upon the United States, but it was an
incontrovertible fact, that many of
the foreign insane get into this coun
try. He said the foreign born in
sane was costing the state of New
York over $1,000,000 a year.
(■Bge'i ICatiniatea.
Washington, Dec. 6. —The secretary
of the treasury has sent to congress
the annual estimates of the expenses
for the g-overnment for the coming
year. They aggregate $020,741,762, a
slight decrease from the estimates
last year. The appropriations for
the present year are $586,055,362. The
estimates cover every branch of gov
ernment service. The war depart
ment estii-ate is $176,658,345 and the
navy department $88,913,248. The
total for rivers and harbors is $33,-
881,317. The total for pensions Is
1144,000,000. »
The Cenana of IftOO.
A booklet givinjr the population of all
cities of the United States of 25,000 ami
over according to the census of 1000, ha«
just been issued by the passenger depart
ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway, and a copy of it may be obtained
by sending your address, with two-cent
stamp to pay postage, to the General Passen
ger of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, Chicago, 111.
A Real Patriot.—i'riend—"Do you love
your country?" Politician—"You bet I do.
I've held a government job for 12 years
Syracuse Herald.
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Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave St. Louis
via Katy Flyer (M. K. & 'l. Ry.) every Tues
day at 8:16 p. m.for San Antonio, Los An
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Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave Kansas
City via the M. K. & 'l'. Ry. every Saturday
at 9:05 p. m.for San Antonio, Los Angelea
and San Francisco.
It is said that an artist at work on a Bibli.
ea! history undertook to make a sketch of
Rebecca at the well," but lie couldn't draw
the water. —Chicago Daily News.
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This question arises every day. Let us an
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boiling! no baking! add boiling water and
set to cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp
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No more are you!" "Thot Oi am! 1 got
nil- papers jest befure iliction an' voted loik*
a mon. ' —lndianapolis News.
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Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at
once. Co to your druggist to-day and get a
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50
cents. Go at once: delays are dangerous.
It is hard to do, of course; still, you can
be fooled. —Atchison .CHobe.
To Cure a Cold lu One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
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Knowledge comes with what we learn;
wisdom, with what we unlearn. —Judge.
OLDEST HAJMN AMERICA
Tells How He Escaped the
Terrors of Many Winters
by Usi^^ew^
Mr. Isaac Broclc, the Oldest Man ID the
United States.
Mr. Tsaac Brock, of McLennan county,
Tex., has attained the great age of 111 years,
having been born in 1788. He is an ardent
friend to Peruna and speaks of it in the
following terms:
"During my long life I have known a
great many remedies for coughs, colds, ca
tarrh and diarrhoea. I had always supposed
these affections to be different diseases, but
I have learned from Dr. Ilartman's books
that these affections are the same and are
properly called catarrh.
"As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Peruna,
I have found it to be the best, if not the
only reliable remedy for these affections.
| "Peruna /m* *e«»; •*! anrj-bv
, htany yuUra, and / attribute ttty u>.ud
health and my extreme age to thfm
remedy. It exactly meeta all my
requirements.
"I have come to rely upon it almost en
tirely for the many little things for which I
need medicine. I believe it to be especially'
valuable to old people." Isaac Brock.
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age.
A person entirely free from catarrh is sure
to live to a hale and hearty old age. A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi
cine Co., Columbus, 0.
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