THE TIME TEST. That Is What Proves True Merit. Doan's Kidney Pills bring the quick «8t of relief from backache and kid ney troubles. Is that relief lasting? I yet §SF Mrs. James M. Long, W of 113 N. Augusta y* - ' ® 1 '* Staunton, Va., tell you. On January 31st ' 1903, Mrs - L ° nf * have cured me" (of pain in the hies, bearing down sensations, etc.). •On June 20th, 1907, four and one-half years later, she said: "I haven't had kidney trouble since. I repeat my testimony." Sold by all dealers, BO cents a box. .Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. FATIGUED EXPRESSION. "N«»rly all In." TRIPP COUNTY, S. D. Government Land Opening. The government opening of a mil lion acres of fine agricultural and grazing lands will probably occur about Oct. Ist. The Rosebud extension of The Chicago & North Western Ry. la the only railway reaching these lands, and Dallas, S. D., is the railway ter minus and the only town on the reser vation border. The U. S. land oflico ■will probably be located there. Pamph lets describing this land and how to secure a quarter section homestead, free on application to W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., C. & N. W. Ry., Chicago, 111. His Idea. "Well, just what Is a secret, any way?" "A thing to be kept—" "Yes." "On tap—" "Oh!" "Until several people have ferreted St out—" "Well?" "And then It Is published with big head lines."—Nashville American. India-Gestion. Here is a story the biehop of Lon don told John Morley the other day, *ays the Philadelphia Inquirer. They •were holding an "exam." in an East •end school, and the teacher was ex plaining the chief products of the In dian empire. One child recited a list •of comestibles. "Please, miss, India produces curries and pepper and cit ron and chillies and chutney and— and —" "Yes, yes, and what comes after that?" "Please, miss, I don't re member." "Yes, but think. What is India so famous for?" "Please, 'm, india gestion." The Spider and the Fly. In the long warfare between the tspider and the fly, the latter has had the housewife for its auxiliary and friend. The flies have been tolerated, even fed and nurtured, while the spiders and their webs have been ruth lessly destroyed. This unremitting and unrelenting war against it keeps the spider population down, while the flies increase and multiply by the millions and ten of millions, almost •unchecked. The spider is ugly and his web is unsightly In the estima tion of most people, but spiders hurt no human creature. They feed on flies, which are the foes of mankind, and do mankind a service.—Philadel phia Press. SELF DELUSION Many People Deceived by Coffee. We like to defend our indulgences and habits even though we may b» convinced of their actual harmful ness. A man can convince himself that whisky is good for him on a cold morn ing, or beer on a hot summer day— •when he wants the whisky or beer. It's the same with coffee. Thousands of people suffer headaches and nerv ousness year after year but try to persuade themselves the cause is not coffee—because they like coffee. "While yet a child I commenced us ing coffee and continued it," writes a Wis. man, "until I was a regular cof fee fiend. I drank it every morning and in consequence had a blinding headache nearly every afternoon. "My folks thought it was coffee that ailed me, but I liked it and would not admit it was the cause of my trouble, so T stuck to coffee and the headaches stuck to me. "Finally, the folks stopped buying coffee and brought home some Postum. They made it right (directions on pkg.) and told me to see what differ ence it would make with my head, and during the first week cm Postum my old affliction did not bother me once. From that day to this we have used nothkig but Postum in place of cof fee—headaches are a thing of the past and the whole family is in fine health." "Postum looks good, smells good, tastes good, is good, and does good to the whole body." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well ville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest. COWBOY PREACHER PECULIAR BUT FETCHING METH ODS HE EMPLOYS. Uses the Blunt But Forceful Language of the Plains to Bring Hard ened Sinners to Repent ance. Seattle, Wash. —In the course of an hour's preaching at the Volunteers of America mission, Samuel S. "Bettes, the "Cowboy Preacher," roped, throwed and hog-tied Baptists, Meth odists, Presbyterians, Catholics and quite a number of other religious bodies. After getting his rawhide se curely around the orthodox denomina tions ho proceeded to brand them with marks not exactly familiar to the cat tle ranges in Texas, where the cow boy preacher used to ride the round up. Bettes, who says the prefix "Rev." is the grease some ministers use to slide ttito heaven with, faced a mixed but entirely receptive audience when he launched, or rather rode, full speed, into his discourse. There was the usual shouting coterie of Volunteers, but the rest of the hall was packed with men from the streets, who were attracted by the flaring signs outside the basement entrance, advertising the "Cowboy Preacher," and by the uproarious chorus of cries that varied the singing. The preacher got some enthusiastic yells when he delivered himself of especially caustic epigrams. A few of his choice ones were as follows: "You never hear of a man back sliding from the Presbyterian church, because he had to backslide to get there." "Some people talk about the Metho dists converting sinners. Why, I can hog-tie any Methodist in catching sin ners." "I'd rather be a religious fool than a devilish sharp." "The hard shell Baptist may get to heaven, but if he does he'll find out 1 what an awful old fool he was on earth." "Religion is a good cure for dyspep sia. The man who curses generally lias a stomach ache coming to him." "No truo Christian will smoke a cig arette. A cigarette is a fool at one end. a fire at the other, some paper and dust in between." "Some Seattle ministers let their hobbies run away with them. They need a religious bronco buster." "Long hair don't let a preacher through the eye of the needle any easier than long legs." Incidentally, Mr. Bettes wears a good deal of hair himself, which he tosses back on his forehead when he gets well under way with his pictur esque sermons. He took for his text, "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners," which he said was from the Songs of Solomon, 6:10. Before the sermon began one of the Volunteers arose and asked for contributions. When the plate came back to the platform, Bettes arose and remarked that he needed 12 more dol lars to pay for a new /suit of clothes, but the sl2 were not forthcoming. His sermon dealt chiefly with the glories of unorthodox religion. He calls himself a free-will Baptist, and frequently broke off short in his talk to hand out some scathing denuncia tion of certain aspects of present-day religion. Striding back and forth on the narrow platform, his long iron-gray hair falling in disorderly masses across his brow, his face flaming red and perspiring, his arms waving, fists often clenched, he poured forth a tor rent of words, at times ascending to heights of uncouth eloquence, at oth er times dropping back into slang or the grotesque language of the plains. Once he stopped short in the mid dle of a talk about the beauties of the story of salvation, loaned forward over the edge of the platform and shouted at two girls on the front seat, who had been whispering: "Shut up! I want you to shut up as long as I'm talking. I've got something to say, and you, olii curiosity box," addressing the girl who apparently had started the conversation, "you want to know how your hat looks, I suppose." The cowboy preacher has been In Seattle for a week, and it was stated that he will be here a week longer. He has preached all over the United States. He used to be a cowboy in Itia* and herded oattls for six years. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 1908. SOCIETY MAN'S STUNt. Plays Drum and Cymbals In Band Concerts. Philadelphia. —George Gilpin, Jr., 4 scion of one of the beat known Phlla delphia families and a great favoritq in the younger set of society, has fol the last few weeks, unknown to many in the exclusive coterie in which hfl moves, been playing the drums, cym bals and triangle during the Munici pal band concerts in the public squares. He has been doing his besi to make the summer concerts enjoy able and to gain the admiration ol the small boys who crowd near him nightly and wonder how he can ma nipulate the drumsticks in such a Won derful style. The society man drummer joined the band at the opening of the sea son and has since played regularly in the concerts. When informed that many of his friends regarded the mus ical venture as a whim, Mr. Gilpin laughed and said: "Oh, no, there is nothing remark able about it. I understand music and I took it up. It ,is better than sitting around an office for a few dol lars a week." "You surely are not in need of money that you applied for a posi sitlon with the Municipal band?" he was asked. "Not exactly that," he answered, "for last season I played the cornet In an orchestra in Atlantic City, and although my salary was but sls a week it cost me three or four times that amount to live. "This position was gained after my ability as a musician was put to a severe test, and It certainly makes me feel elated." Mr. Gilpin is the grandson of the last mayor of Philadelphia before the consolidation. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Gilpin of 2004 De Lancey place, and his brothers are John C. and Charles Gilpin, 3d. The latter is the husband of the cele brated beauty, formerly Miss Frederi ca Berwind, a sister of Mrs. Robert Strawbridge, and of the Baroness Brocklin von Brocklinson. Relatives of Mr. Gilpin declare that It is his ambition to have an orches tra or band of his own, of which he shall be conductor. Music is an ab sorbing passion with him, and he be lidves that more Philadelphia men of musical talent should try and dis tribute its benefits. DOG HAS WOODEN LEG. But He Proves a Lively Member ot Society. Gardner, Mass. —At first thought it would seem as if a dog with a wooden Rover. leg would have a hard time getting around, but Rover, a family pet owned by Frank S. Learned of this place, romps and runs as lively with his wooden leg appendage as if he had the use of all four feet. Last summer, while Mr. Learned was running a mowing machine in a hay field the dog playfully jumped at him, and had his left forefoot cut off by the swiftly moving steel knives. Mr. Learnea's friends thought Rover ■would have to be killed, feeling sure that the dog would be a helpless crip ple the rest of its days andd more of a burden than a pleasure to its master. | Mr. Learned, however, felt badly at | the thought of losing his favorite dog, I and after taking advice from a veteri i nary had a wooden leg made, incased in a leather haiiiess, which Is strapped around Rover's body, and the happy j canine is now as frisky as ever. Rover accompanies Mr. Learned'a , daughter to the meetings of the relief corps, and when she goes around to ( get the password from the members the faithful dog follows her around, ■ seemingly appreciating the important j of bis position as assistant conductor. WAR ON THE GYPSI EUROPEAN COUNTRIES UNITE TO EXTERMINATE WANDERERS. Conference at Berne May Decide to Inaugurate a Campaign to Drive Out the Camps of the Pic turesque Nomads. A wanderer on the face of the earth, with no place they can call homo, and with every man's hand raised against them, the gypsy tribes of Europe are to face an organized persecution which promises to drive them from the conti nent. "No home but the road, no life but pleasure, and no roof but the sky," the gypsy's dream of happiness is no longer to be realized in Europe, for in June of next year a conference of rep resentatives of all the powers will meet at Berne to decide on the best means of getting rid for all time of the picturesque bands of strolling people, whose history goes way back to the most remote ages. It is a need for a universal system of policing the continent that has forced repressive measures to be adopted agaijist the gypsies. Recent attacks, successful and un successful, on the lives of monarchs, have fired the police of the continent to renewed efforts to guard against anarchy. No one ever accused the gypsy of being an anarchist. He is too indolent, too easy-going to take an interest in politics. He cares nothing about who governs the country, or how the wealth is distributed, as long as he can go from place to place in his decorated wagon and get enough to eat to keep life in himself, his wife, his children, his horse and dogs. It is a stern remedy that is about to be applied, merely because in isolated Instances the criminal has taken ad vantage of the free life of the gypsy camp to use it for a cloak. But the order has gone forth, and the attempt to be inaugurated next June will be the most systematic ever known. The task will be an enormous one, for the pleasure-loving brown man, with his iove for music and bright colors, his unconventionally in dress, his wild cry for personal liberty, has spread all over the continent. It is said tiiat there are no less than 750,000 In Europe, and it must be remem bered that this enormous total has been reached in spite of the fact that for a large part of his history the gypsy has been an object of suspicion and of persecution in many countries. In consequence of the unwillingness of the gypsy to give statistics about Gypsy Women and Their Tent Homes. himself it has not been easy to ascer tain the totals in the various countries. But in anticipation of the conference at Berne a careful effort has been made to get figures, and the following do not vary markedly from the exact totals: Austro-Hungary, 300,000; Turkey, 100,000; Greece, 10,000; Bosnia, 20,000; Russia, 150,000; Italy, 50,000; Portu gal and Spain, 200,000; France, 10,000; England, 5,000. In this motley aggregation are in cludorl the descendants of a dozen races, for the gypsy, though he pre serves certain characteristics, is really the composition of the world's lovers of complete freedom. Gipsies are not bandits. Not even their foes in Europe charge this. They may commit petty thefts, such as robbing a henroost in order to get food, but the percentage of stealing among them is not great, considering the wild, open life they lead. Both in Europe and in the United States the principal business of the men is dealing in horses. Here undoubtedly they turn some pretty sharp corners and drive some slick deals. But the history of the horse trading shows it to be a busi ness for specialized skill and bad con science. Even "David Harum" of hu morous memory was not above driv ing a deal in which he badly stung a rival. It is said that there are now only 10,000 gypsies in the United States. They are familiar sights on the coun tryside and in the big cities at a time when some big gathering assures an influx of visitors and liberal patronage for the clever women of the camp who foretell the future for a small con sideration. Undoubtedly the concerted Eu ropean movement will drive large num bers from the other side to this coun try, Mexico and South America, there to continue the strolling life, which is theirs by choice, and from which no man's decree can permanently turn them. S The Plaee to Bay Cheap S ) J. F. PARSONS' ? mm • B h OJKES RHEUMATISM UINBABO, SCIATICA NEURALGIA and KIDNEY TROUBLE "•-MOPS" takeu Internally. rids the blood Of tbe poisonous matter and acids vtblch are the direct oauses ot tbese diseases. Applied externally It allords almost In stant relief from pain, wbile a permanent cure Is being effected by purifying the blood, dissolving tbe poisonous sub stance and removing It from tbe system. DR. 3. D. 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