Trutf* *xnd
Qu lily
appeal to the Well-informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor
ingly, it ia not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it act 9 without any debilitating
after eflects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine—
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
SHE BAMF3OOZLES HIM.
Mrs. Caller —You surely don't al
ways give your husband a necktie on
his birthday?
Mrs. Athome —Yes, I do, and the
poor dear doesn't even know it's the
same one each time!
Hurt a Convict's Pride.
A church missionary had a letter
recently from a convict begging him
to reform the writer's wife, who was
also in prison.
The convict —who Is serving a long
term —was very anxious about the
matter, because, as he said: "It waa
no credit to him to receive letters
from such a place as prison."
Another convict, in the course of *
letter to his brother, a pauper, re
marked: "Well, Jack, thank goodness
I have never sunk so low as the work
house yet."—London Daily News.
Coming Events.
Let no one say that the mind hap
no power over the body. If it can
cause such effects as in the case taken
from Ulk, how much more can it in
fluence the physical conditions of the
now and here?
"You look pale and thin. What's got
you ?"
"Work! From morning till night,
and only a one-hour rest."
"How long have you been at It?"
"I begin to-morrow."—Youth's Com
panlon.
Rain from Father's Head.
A bright little boy of two summers
was unconcernedly playing near his
father, who was laboriously occupied
with a difficult task which caused big
beads of perspiration to drop from hia
forehead. Presently the lad ceased
his play. Looking at his parent doubt
fully a moment, he ran swiftly to his
mother and, assuming a pained ex
pression, pointed to his father, saying
plaintively: "00, mamma, see! Poo
papa head yainin'."
WIFE WON
Husband Finally Convinced.
Some men are wise enough to try
new foods and beverages and then gen
erous enough to give others the bene
fit of their experience.
A very "conservative" Ills, man,
however, let his good wife find out for
herself what a blessing Postum is to
those who are distressed in many
ways, by drinking coffee. The wife
writes:
"No slave in chains, it seemed to
me, was moie helpless than I, a coffee
captive. Yet there were innumerable
warnings—waking from a troubled
Bleep with a feeliug of suffocation, at
times dizzy and cut of breath, at
tacks of palpitation of the heart that
frightened me.
"Common sense, reason, and my
better judgment told me that coffee
drinking was the trouble. At last my
nervous system was so disarranged
that my physician ordered 'no more
coffee.'
"He knew he was right and he knew
I knew it, too. I capitulated. Prior
to this our family had tried Postum,
but disliked it, because, as we learned
later, it was not made right.
"Determined this time to give Post
um a fair trial, I prepared it accord
ing to directions on the pkg.—that i%
boiled it 15 minutes softer boiling com
menced, obtaining a dark brown liquid
with a rich snappy flavor similar to
coffee. When cream and sugar were
added, it was not only good but de
licious.
"Noting its beneficial effects in me
the rest of the family adopted it —all
except my husband, who would not ad
mit that coffee hurt him. Several
weeks elapsed during wfeich I drank
Postum two or three times a day,
when, to my surprise, my husband
said: 'I have decided to drink Postum.
Your improvement is so apparent—you
have such fine color—that I propose
to give credit where credit is due.' And
now we are coffee-slaves no longer."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
• Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
vllle," ia pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
oneappeara from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
Interest.
raimmnTg}
AND
MECHANICS
WORK AT PANAMA.
Every Working Day the Yankee* and
Their Machines Accomplish Marvel*.
Every 50 working days the toilers
who are digging the Panama canal
are removing an amount of material
eqyal to the great pyramid of Cheops,
which consumed the labor of 100,000
men for 20 years in the building, and
the services of the same number for
ten years in constructing the road
connecting the work with the quar
ries.
"Spread in any city of the union
the earth which was taken from the
canal during a single month would
have buried ten solid city blocks un
der 40 solid feet of earth," says the
Philadelphia North American.
Truly, the work accomplished since
the army engineers took charge is stu
pendous and awe-inspiring, but the
forerunners who prepared the way
under overwhelming obstacles and
drove the mosquito and the yellow fe
ver from the canal zone must not be
forgotten. Because of their work the
One Year's Excavation on Panama
Canal Compared to Great Pyramid.
whole force can now put Its shoulders
to the wheel and defy the climate,
which ten years ago was death to the
white man.
The high water mark was reached
during February, when a daily aver
age of 122,741 cubic yards of material
was excavated. February had but 24
working days of eight hours each, but
all records were broken by a total ex
cavation of 2,945,880 cubic yards. For
this work 64 steam shovels were used.
Thirty-five more immense steam
shovels are now being used, or are en
route for the canal zone. In the
month of January, 1908, there were ap
proximately 43,000 employes on the
rolls of the commission and of the
Panama railroad, about 6,000 of whom
were Americans.
The real work of excavation began
In 1906, and in the two years ended
since then 21,600,565 cubic yards were
removed. During 1907 the record
went up in bounds from 815,270 cubic
yards in March to 1,868,729 in October,
but even the latter figure, which so
amazed the American public when re
ported, has been dwarfed to insignifi
cance by the 2,709,290 cubic yards of
January and the 2,945,880 cubic yards
of February, 1908.
With fully 80 per cent, of the entire
plant needed for construction pur
chased or contracted for, machine
shops erected and organization per
fected, this year will see every record
almost doubly broken and completion
near enough to determine with a fair
amount of accuracy the date on which
the great American fleet, if desired,
could pass into the Pacific without
such a cruise as has just been accom
plished.
The illustration shows the amount
of material excavated from the Pan
ama canal in a year, as compared with
the amount of material in the pyramid
of Cheops.
VERTICALLY FOLDING DOORS
Being Installed on Many Engine
Houses and Factories.
Vertically folding doors, the upper
panels of which are glazed, are being
installed on many engine houses and
The Door Partly Open.
manufacturing buildings. Lifted by a
chain hoist at the side of each door,
the panels or leaves fold upward and
Inward, coming close together at the
top opening. In this position the door
is well protected from the weather,
cannot be slammed around by the
wind, and offers no obstruction.
When closed, says Popular Mechan
ics, the glass panels admit the light
freely, and for ventilation purposes
the door can be raised to admit as lit
tle or as much air as may he desired.
By raising the door two Inches, four
horizontal openings of six inches are
nade, the door remaining storm proof.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1908.
SAFE STEERING ON AUTO.
Much Depends on the Character of the
Device.
The right or wrong type of steering
gear on an automobile may make all
the difference between safety and dis
aster at a critical moment, notes a
writer in Motor Age. A slight error
in steering will be increased by one
type until it Is fatally wrong and the
car Is in the ditch; another type will
tend automatically to correct slight
mistakes. The former the writer calls
"dynamically unstable;" the latter,
"dynamically stable." We read:
"In one of the earliest types of
steering-mechanism used on motor
\\
If a wheel be handled by Its lower
most point then It reaemble* a tiller
and is dynamically unstable.
vehicles the wheels were controlled
by a lever pivoted at a point in front
of the driver usually at or near the
center of the dashboard, this type be
ing commonly known as 'bath-chair,'
or tiller, steering. It was in a vehicle
so fitted that M. Levassor of the firm
of Panhaid & Levassor lost his life
In an early race."
When the dangers of bath-chair
steering were first realized, the pub«
lie, we are told, rushed to the conclu
sion that the general principle of lever
or tiller-steering was at fault. This,
the writer assures us, is far from the
truth. It is the direction of the steer
ing-motion in the bath-chair type that
is dangerous. If the direction of the
steering-effort be reversed, the forces
that were previously a cause of danger
If a wheel be handled by Its upper
most point then it Is dynamically
stable for steering at all times.
become a sourec of security. If the
lever be aranged to move in the same
direction as that in which the car is
to be steered, the difficulty vanishes,
the forces called into play actually
preventing oversteering. To quote
further:
"It is of interest to examine the gen
erally adopted wheel-steering from the
Grasping the wheel oppositely with
both hands is dynamically safe for
steering motor-cars on any road sur
face.
dynamical point of view; the matter la
not altogether simple, owing to the
fact that the manner in which the
wheel is held and handled is an Im
portant factor in the problem; we will,
therefore, briefly discuss the matter
on certain alternative bases.
"Firstly, let us suppose that the
wheel be handled only by Its lower
most point, then its action resembles
the bath-chair steering with a very
short lever; it is dynamically unstable.
If, conversely, we suppose the wheel
handled only by its uppermost point,
the motion is in the same direction as
the car Is steered, and it is, therefore,
dynamically stable. Neither of the
above suppositions, however, exactly
represents the facts as to how a wheel
is manipulated. The usual method of
holding the wheel—at any rate, at
high speeds, when dynamical consid
erations are of greatest importance—
is to grasp It in both hands, one on
each side, and, when steering, the
wheel is turned in the direction that
the body is leaned. Under these cir
cumstances the steering is dynamical
ly stable, but the motions concerned
are rotative rather than translational,
as in the previous case.
"•if, as is actually the case, the
sieering-wheel is inclined, there la
still a component motion acting in the
manner stated. It is interesting to re
call how much more suitable the
heavily raked steering-pillar appear#
on a speed machine—in which the im
portance of the dynamic forces is the
greatest—than the more vertical pil
lar; the latter always looks out of
place except on a slow-moving vehicle.
The mechanical instinct in this re
spect seems to comprehend at once
that which cold-blooded reason reaches
only with some difficulty."
Cleaning Old File*.
Acid will clean old flies and mak«
them better, but will not mak« good
file* of worn-out oast»
Save the Babies*
INFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that of
all the children born in civilized countries, twentytwo per cent, or nearly
one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thirtyseven per cent., or more
than one-third, before they are five, and one ■'half before they are fifteen!
We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a ma
jority of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these
infantile deaths are occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations. Drops, tinctures
and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain mora or less opium, or
morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. In any quantity
they stupefy, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria
operates exactly the reverse, but you must see that it bears the signature of
Chas. H, Fletcher. Castoria causes the blood,to circulate properly, opens the
pores of the skin and allays fever.
Letters from Prominent Physicians
addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher.
li, Dr. A. F. Peeler, of St. Louis, Mo., says:"l have prescribed your Castoria
IS&flji* i (d many cases and have always found It an efficient and speedy remedy."*
jjsS§ Down, of Philadelphia, Pa., says:"l have prescribed your Caa-
ISjkxK . —toria In my practice for many years with great satisfaction to myself and
M benefit to my patients."
~«k - 1 CTHBIi i Edward Parrish, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says:"l have used your Cas
ks"3£ I AJI II Bwlij toria in my own household ■with good results, and have advised several
■|H || Ifl patients to use it for its mild laxative effect and freedom from harm."
[bCP£ -*1 Dr. J. B. Elliott, of New York City, says: "Having during the past six
P'ja 1.. ALCOHOL 3' PER CENT Q ear 3 Prescribed your Castoria for infantile stomach disorders, I iaoat
A\£ge(ablePre mra/innKiric heartily commend Its use. The formula contains nothing deleterious
fe j sirailating theFoodamlltalia- to^ h ° dellcate of children."
ting lite Stomachs andUowis of Sprague, of Omaha, Neb., says: "Your Castoria le an ideal
%b S\ medicine for children, and I frequently prescribe it While Ido not advo-
S
llilJW' exception for conditions 'which arise in the care of children."
oj|s PromotesDteestionJChterfiil- Dr. J. A. Parker, of Kansas City, Mo., says: "Your Castoria holds the
'j ness and RestContalns neillter esteem °* the medical profession in a manner held by no other proprie
ty? Opiuni .Morphine nor Mineral. tary preparation. It is a sure and reliable medicine for infants and chll
. NOT NARCOTIC. dren. In fact, it is the universal household remedy for infantile ailments."
pS 1 - j Dr. H. F. Merrill, of Augusta, Me., says: "Castoria is one of the very
r<fa Jtttpea/orjfcSMllLPmm finest and most remarkable remedies for infants and children. In my
|J Pumpkin Sttd" opinion your Castoria haa saved thousands from an early grave. I can.
JMMMt- I furnish hundreds of testimonials from this locality as to Its efficiency
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f r - Norman M. Geer, of Cleveland, Ohio, says: "During the last twelve
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'GATOR ON THE RAMPAGE.
Edifying Story That Is Vouched for by
the Georgia Ananias.
"Yes," said the fisherman, "the man
had fished all the forenoon, an' hadn't
got a nibble, so he took another swal
ler out the jug, pulled off his boots, an'
lay down on the river bank an' went
to sleep. As soon as he went to
snorin' good, a alligator that had been
watchin' him all the mornin' crawled
up an' swailered his boots, likewise
the jug, with 'bout half a gallon in it,
I reckon. The cork came out, and, of
course, the 'gator got the full benefit
o' the whisky, which so turned Its
head that it lashed the water with its
tail till the river was a foamin' mass,
after which It crawled up on the bank
agin an' made desp'rit efforts to climb
trees an' turn double-somersaults, an'
do all manner of impossible thi«igs!"
'Why didn't it swallow the fisher
man, instead of his boot?" some one
asked.
" 'Gators, gentlemen," said the story
teller, "can't stand ever'thing. They
must draw the line some'rs." —Atlan-
ta Constitution.
VERY GOOD REASON.
Father—l told you not togo with
that boy.
Bobby—l had to, father, 'cause he
had hold of my hair!
Bells.
Bells are understood to have had
their origin in China, but at so remote
a time that no precise date can be
given. Their first use was to clear the
air of evil spirits and to drive off the
storms. Old European records tell
how the tolUng of bells kept the
devils from assaulting believers;
hence their connection with churches.
Bells may be traced in Europe back
to the sixth century, but were not
generally introduced into the western
church much before the eighth cen
tury.
Case of Shocking Neglect.
Friend —What has become of Celes
tine, your maid?
Mrs. Snoblotts —I had to discharge
her. She had no consideration for
Fido.
Friend—Why, I always thought she
took the most tender care of the pet.
Mrs. Snoblotts —So did I till I found
she was using her own comb on him
without first sterlizing it.
A Cold Lunch.
The pupils of a distinguished pro
fessor of zoology, a man well known
for his eccentricities, noted one day
two tidy parcels lying on their in
structor's desk as they passed out at
the noon hour. On their return to
the laboratory for the afternooa lec
ture they saw but one. This the pro
fessor took carefully up in his hand
as he opened his lecture.
"In the study of vertebrata we have
taken the frog as a type. Let us now
examine the gastrocnemius muscle of
this dessected specimen."
So saying the professor untied the
Btring of his neat parcel and disclosed
to view a ham sandwich and a boiled
egg.
"But I have eaten my lunch," said
the learned man bewilderedly.—Lip
pincott's.
A Good Turn.
"Here, wake up," cried Subbubs, ap
pearing on his porch in his pajamas.
"You've got a nerve to be sleeping In
our hammock."
"Nerve?" replied the hobo, sleepily.
"Why, I'm a benefactor; if it wasn't
fur me holdin' dis hammock down de
mosquitoes would 'a' lugged it off
long ago."
Try Murine Eye Remedy
For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes.
Murine Doesn't Smart—Soothes Eye Pain.
All Druggists Sell Murine at 50cts. The 48
Page Book in each Pkg. is worth Dollars
in every home. Ask your Druggist.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago.
It's surprising how brave the ar
erage man is when there isn't any
real danger in sight.
Mrs. Wtnalow'H Soothing? Syrup.
For children teething, fioft«Qß the gums, roduce* In
flammation, allays palu, cures wind colic. 25c »bottle.
Success often depends upon utiliz
ing the mistakes of others.
Read Gila Buttes Ad." in another column.
Being bitten by a toothless dog
must be a soft snag.
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pj rl LhWa sea > Drowsiness, Bad
iLJI Jlli Taste In the Mouth, Coat
fflßHßKgaP ed Tongue, Fain in the
Ihih» TORPID LIVER,
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■ittle "
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