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SORRY ROADS
A “MUD TAX”
Is Terse Declaration of Member of
National Association Committee.
SESSIONS IN WASHINGTON
Brief to be Prepared for Submission to
Committees on Agriculture--Mem
bers Call Upon the President.
The special committee of the Na
tional Good Roads Association re
sumed its session at Washington
Thursday. Mr. Jeffersoji Meyers, pres
ident of the Lewis and Clarke exposi
tion, of Oregon, presented a resolution
endorsing that project, which was read
and adopted. The chairman appointed
Messrs. Stewart, of West Virginia;
Tiilebrew, of Tennessee, and Cooley,
of Minnesota, a special committee to
prepare a brief for submission to the
house and senate committee on agri
culture. An invitation was extended
to the National Good Road 3 Associa
tion to hold its annual meeting at
Portland, Oregon, in 3905, which was
laid over to be presented at the na
tional meeting in St Louis this year.
The special committee appointed
earlier in the week to arrange a visit
to the white house, reported that they
had called upon the president, and he
had informed them that he would be
glad to receive the representatives of
the Good Roads Association. It was
agreed (hat all present would call in
a body on the president.
The meeting then adojurned and
proceeded to the capitol, where they
were given a hearing before the sen
ate committee on agriculture. Chair
man Harper opened the discussion and
Btated to the committee that lie and
his colleagues appeared before them at
this time by the direction of the Na
tional Good Roads Association, to pre
sent the resolutions unanimously
adopted by the association at its last
meeting He explained that neither
the committee nor the association as
a whole, had any desire to promote or
advocate either the Brownlow, Lati
mer, Gallinger or any other particular
bill now pending before congress, but
that their purpose was to impress
upon the minds of the committee the
growing demand for national aid for
good roads as a? general proposition.
He said they were all in favor of any
bill that congress might enact which
would afford to the toiling farmers of
this country some relief from the enor
mous burdens of “mud tax” which they
are now daily paying.
CRUM WORKING WITHOUT P\Y.
Status of Charleston Colored Collector is
explained by Secretary Shaw.
In response to Senator Tillman’s
resolution adopted by the senate call
ing for the record of William D.
Crum's appointment and his service as
collector at the port of Charleston, S.
S. C., Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
Thursday sent to President Pro Tom.
Frye the following letter:
“William D. Crum was appointed
collector at th eport of Charleston, S.
C., March 20, 1903, and a temporary
•commission issuue. Crum qualified by
execution of bond for $50,000 and took
oath of office March 30, 1903. Crum
was again appointed December 7,
1903, and has given bond in the sum
of $50,000 and took the oath of office
on January 9, 1904. There has been
no third appointment and no fourth
appointment. The same information
is contained in a letter to Hon. B. R.
Tillman, under date of January 8,
1904, and which appears in the Con
gressional Record of January 27. 1904.
“The resolution also asks, ‘ls Crum
now in office, and if so, tinder what
authority of law?’ William D. Crunt
is de facto collector at the port of
Charleston, S. C. Whether he holds
his position under tho authority of
law T is determinable, not by the execu
tive department of the government,
but by the judiciary, and by that only.
He is not receiving pay. because of the
provisions of section 17G1.”
GREEN REMAINS PfA'TODY AGENT.
Trustees Hold Meeting in Washington and
Decide to Postpone Action.
A notable body of representative men
•attended a special meeting in Washing
ton of the trustees of the Peabody
•educational fund. It was announced
after the session closed that full con
sideration had been given to the ques
tion of a general agent to succeed Dr.
Samuel A. Green and to the proposed
enlargement and maintenance of the
Peabody normal college, at Nashville,
but that it was concluded to postpone
action in both matters until the meet
ing of the trustees, to be he’d in New
York next October.
Japan Naval Programme.
A notable naval event which slipped
by without notice was the launching
in Japan on Nov. 1 of the 3,000-ton
cruiser Ottawa. Her completion will
signalizo the fulfilment of Japan’s
scheme of naval construction devised
at the end of the Chinese war, which
has raised the island empire into one
of the great naval powers of the world.
Most of the fleet was built in Eng
land, but Germany and the United
States contributed certain ships, and
Japan herself has built some. Hence
forth, Japan will probably be able to
handle all of her own naval construc
tion.
A TRAGEDIAN’S QUERY.
"I just heard a man say he would
give ten dollars to see you.”
“Indeed,” said Mr. Stormington
Barnes. “Did he look like an ordi
nary auditor or a man with an attach
ment?” —Washington Star.
WHEW!
Mi 33 Bella Kcze —You deliberately
cut me the other day, didn’t you?
Miss Kadley—Well —er really, I
didn’t mean to
Mi3s Bella Koze —No, I suppose you
couldn’t help cutting anybody; you’ve
got such a hatchet face. —Philadelphia
Press.
ALWAYS OUT OF SEASON.
“Who is this man who i 3 telling us
that he has found a way of extermi
nating mosquitos?”
“He’s the same man who last July
was exulting over the fact that he had
found a cheap substitute for coal.”—
Washington Star.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day s use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveltestorer. -Titrialbottleand treatisefree
Dr. It. 11. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Plain., I‘a.
An ounce of love is worth a ton of sym
pathy.
Falzer’s Earliest Cane.
Another new thing. Can be cut six
times during a season and sprouts again
with lightning rapidity. Next to Saizer's
Teosinte it will make more green fodder
than anything else, cheap as dirt and grow*
everywhere.
Of Salzer’s Renovator Grass Mixture,
just the thing for dying out pastures and
meadows, Mr. E. Rappold, East Park, Ga.,
writes, “I sowed Salzer's Grass Mixture
on soil ‘so poor two men could not raise a
fuss on it,’ and in forty-one days after
sowing I had the grandest stand of grass
in the county. Salzer’s Grass Mixtures
inrout quickly and produce enormously.”
100,000 barrels choice Seed Potatoes.
salzer’s new national oats.
Here is a winner, a prodigy, a marvel,
enormously prolific, strong, healthy, vigor
ous, producing in thirty States from 150
to 300 bu. per acre. You had best sow a
lot of it, Air. Farmer, in 1904, and in the
fall sell it to your neighbors at $1 a bu.
for seed. [A.C.L.]
JUST SEND 10c. IN STAMPS
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Win., and receive in return their big cata
log and lots of farm seed samples free.
After hesitating a man often finds it too
late to act.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle
It takes a smart man to write an unim
portant letter.
Minister Buys Space.
A minister named Cook, of Concor
dia,, Kansas, has dosed a contract for
a year with a local newspaper to take
sufficient advertising space in which
to print his weekly sermons.
StOO Reward. ISIOO.
The readers of this paper will be plowed to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that soience has been able to cure in vll
itsstages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall’s CatarrU
Cure is the only positive eure now known cj
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s CatarrhCureistakeniater
nally, acting directly upon the blood and uiu
coussurfaoes of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faithia
itsourative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars forauy oasothat it fails to euro.
Send for list of testimonials. Ad<lr«ss
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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Island of Cypress, in the Med
iterranean, will soon have a railroad
from coast to coast. The amount of
8,500,000 francs has been appropriated
for its construction.
CONSTANT ACHIN3.
Back aches all the time. Spoils your
appetite, wearies the body, worries the
mind. Kidneys cause it all and Doan’s
Kidney Pills relieve
and cure it.
H. B. MeCarver, JP
of 201 Cherry St., s?**&%£*
Portland. Ore., in- .
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ney Pills lor back
ache and other
symptoms of kid
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had annoyed me for |
months. I think a %
cold was responsi- ■ *
ble for the whole 1.
trouble. It seemed to settle in ray kid
neys. Doan’s Kidney Pills rooted it
out. It is several months since l used
them, and up to date there lias been no
recurrence of the trouble.”
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by al!
dealers. Price 50 cents per box. Fos
ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
NEW WAK SECREIARY.
ix-Govjrror Talt Takes Oath of Office
at Washington as Successor
to E'ihu Root.
At Y/a&hington, Monday, Governor
William H. Taft took the oath of office
is secretary of war and at once en
ered on his new’ duties.
These ceremonies took place in the
arge reception room attached to the
secretary’s apartments in the war de
partment and the transfer of the port
olio from Mr. Elihu Root to ex-Gov
srnor Taft, while simple, was more im
pressive than any similar event in
many years.
i Before noon, the appointed hour,
Jovernof Taft came over to the depart
ment from his hotel with a little party
of personal friends and some of his
immediate family. They were ushered
into Secretary Root’s office, where the
retiring secretary, in a few well chosen
i words and with a good deal of feeling,
i surrendered his portfolio to Governor
Taft.
The party then proceeded to the re
ception room when General Chaffee,
chief of staff, in uniform, took charge
of the ceremonies. The room was
cleared of all except the participants in
the induction and the party of friends
and members of the general staff. Gov
ernor Taft and Secretary Root took
their places at the long table where
3tood John Randolph, a notary public,
who administered the oath to the in
coming secretary.
Then there were congratulations for
Secretary Taft and good-byes for Sec
retary Root. Every army officer on
duty in Washington was aligned at the
door and the brilliantly uniformed
column passing before the retiring
and incoming secretaries formed a
splendid spectacle.
HOW FUTURES ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Plan of Trading Which Caused the Down
fall of Firm of Baxter & Co.
The general system under which
speculation in cotton futures is con
ducted is familiar to those wha study
tho market situation. To the layman,
who never “indulges,” the following
explanation will be interesting:
The buying and selling <7f cotton and
produce futures is done on a basis of
“margins,” the customary margin on a
cotton transaction being $1 per bale,
or one-fifth of a cent a pound, the
standard bale being fixed always at 500
pounds.
The customer makes his contract
j through Lne dealer, who may act as a
broker, or who may himself become
the party of the second part to the
contract. In the latter case the dealer
operates what is known as a “bucket
shop.” The usual cotton trade is one
hundred bales, though a smaller
amount may be bought on margins in
almost any of the bucket shops.
The customer places say SIOO with
the broker or bucket shop proprietor,
to margin one hundred bales. This is
a margin of twenty “points,” the point
j be’ng one-one hundredth of a cent. The
purchase is made at the market price
at the time, and ff the market ad
vances the purchaser wins. An ad
vance of 20 points, or one-fifth of a
cent per pound, means a gain to the
customer of SIOO. An advance of 1
cent a pound means a gain of SSOO,
and so on. Vice versa a decline of 20
points or one-fifth of a cent a pound,
means a loss of SIOO, and the custom
er’s margins are thus wiped out. He
is then called upon to put up more
margins to protect his purchase, and
in the even of failure to do this, he
loses the original margins placed on
the contract.
The selling of cotton futures is prac
tically the reverse process. The cus
tomer desiring to sell, puts up similar
margins, which he loses in the event
of cotton rising a sufficient number ol
points to wipe them out. But if cot
ton should decline in price he wins
SIOO for every 20 points it goes down
WRIGHT AND IDE INAUGURATED.
New Governor and Vice Governor of Philip
pines Take the Oath of Office.
A special from Manila says: Gov
; ernor Luke E. Wright and Vice Gover
nor Henry C. Ide were inaugurated
Monday. There was an imposing de
monstration, including a brilliant mill
tary pageant, about 3,000 troops beins
1 in line.
After taking the oath of office Gov
ernor Wright delivered his inaugura
address. It was a straightforward
speech, dealing with the most impor
tant subjects. Governor Wrigl.t invir
ed attention to the improvements that
had been accomplished in the Philip
I pines under American rule and declar
ed his intention of adhering to the
principles of the Taft administration
He urged Americans to establish cor
dial personal and business relations
j with the Filipinos, who must coristi
| tute their chief customers. In coneiu
I sion Governor Wright asked for the
sympathetic co-operation of all classes
1 to whom, he said, were assured squa
; opportunities for advancement.
Wireless Trolley a Success.
The “wireless” trolley system in
vented by Leon W. Pullen, of Philadel
phia, was successfully tested over a
mile of steam railroad tracks. The
invention does away with the third
rail through the use of a magnet. The
equipment, which is easily adjusted,
consists mainly of a highly magnetized
bar running the entire length of the
car. The feed wire is buried in the
ground. At intervals of eighteen feet
a metal cap four inches in diameter
comes to the surface. This cap is
harmless and has connection with
the feed wire. It only becomes charged
when touched by the metal bar under
the car.—Chicago Record-Herald.
® Miss Rose Hennessy, well known asli
a poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington,
Ky., tells how she was cured of uterine
inflammation and ovaritis by the use of
Lydia £♦ PinkhanLs Vegetable Compounds
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkitam :— I have been so blessedly helped through the use
of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound that I feel it but just to
acknowledge it, hoping that it may help some other woman suffering as I did.
“ For years I enjoyed the best of health and thought-that I would always
do so. I attended parties and receptions thinly clad, and would be suddenly
chilled, but I did not think of the results. I caught a bad cold eighteen
months ago while menstruating, and this caused inflammation of the womb
and congested ovaries. I suffered excruciating pains and kept getting' worse.
My attention was called to your Vegetable Compound and the wonderful
cures it had performed, and I made up my mind to try it for two months and
see what it would do for me. Within one month I felt much better, and
at the close of the second I was entirely well.
“ I have advised a number of my lady friends to use it, and all express
themselves as well satisfied with the results as I was.” Miss Rose Nora
Hennessy, 410 S. Broadway, Lexington. Ky.
The experience and testimony of some of the most noted
women of America go to prove beyond a question that Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will correct all such trouble and
at once, by removing the cause, and restoring the organs to a
normal and healthy condition.
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham : About two years ago I consulted a phy
sician about my health which had become so wretched that I was no
longer able to be about. I had severe backache, bearing-down pains,
pains across the abdomen, was very nervous and irritable, and this
trouble £rew worse each month. Tho physician prescribed for me, but
I soon discovered that he was unable to help me, and I then decided to
try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and soon found that
it was doing me good. Mv appetite was- returning, the pains disappear
ing, and the general benefits were well marked.
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cine for only three months, I found that I was completely cured of my
trouble, and have been well and hearty ever since, and no more fear the
monthly period, as it now passes without pain to me. Yours very truly,
Miss Pearl Ackers, 327 North Summer StL, Nashville. Tenn.”
When a medicine has been successful .in restoring to health
more than a million women, you cannot well say without trying it
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P FORFEI I it we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and sicnatttres of
\h above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness.
VvUUU Lydia E. I'lnkhittn Mod. Co., Lynn, Maa*.
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A LOCAL JOKE.
“You say the audience laughed
wffien you recited ‘Marco Bozarris’ in
Chicago?"
“Yes,” answered Mr. Stormington
Barnes. “You see, when I came to the
lines beginning, ‘Strike,’ the people
thought it was a local allusion.”—
Washington Star.
A REJECTED RECIPE.
Edith —Just think! Here’s a new
thought professor who 'teaches that
one can become beautiful by persis
tently thinking herself beautiful.
Irene —Oh, pshaw! We could point
so many instances to the contrary.—
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