THE TIME TEST.
That Is What Proves True Merit.
Doan's Kidney Pills bring the quick
«8t of relief from backache and kid
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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."
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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.
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