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THE TWICER-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907,
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POETIC
SEEKS
VEIN
A Dl
SIOUX CITY. Ia., Feb. 25—A petition
for divorce, filed by Mrs. John Wade
Is In the form of a poem, entitled "A
Matrimonial Idyl.” Woven Into her
appeal for single blessedness is a vein
of grim humor. She dedicates the doc
ument to "Young and old who would
•empt fate.” She begins:
Stay single e.-e you may repent, when
too late:
Nine times out of ten married life la
a fake.
If you prefer Joy and peace of mind.
Drift sweetly alone down the swift
stream of time.
You may think for a. while ’tls unal
loyed bliss
To have a sweetheart caress you and
klsa.
Whose flattering promises fall sweet
on your ear—
He will t urn and abuse you ere mar
ried a year.
The pledges of man's constant love are
profit beyond the pres,
pr- valllng prices few i
5 per cent, on the inve:
asking price,” said a
central part of Kan-<
based rather on the d-
than on worth
p.t figures. "At
irms are paying
itment or on the
banker of the
a. "Prices are
-ire for a home
h as producers. Now,
when that is realised the speculative
buying will stop. Already It is going
to the western part of the plains region
and is taking place more In the ranch
section than among the well-settled
farms. Some of the buyers who have
held cheap Western land are hurrying
to trade it for city property In Kansas
City, Oklahoma City. Muskogee, and
other towns, feeling that even If they
get mortgaged property—as they do
generally—they will be better off than
by holding to their open land.”
FROM A WIGWAM
TO II. S. SENATE
a snare.
Just a delusion In all, I say; so beware,
'TIs courting today and wedlock to
morrow; ;
Then courts of divorce and trouble and
sorrow.
Just profit by others, whose unhappy
fa*b
"Would warn you never to tie up with
a mate
Don't turn up your nose, but heed
kindly warning
Of those who are victims of men’s
false alluring.
My advise Is, trust God; do the best
you can.
To wed is ail lottery, when you trust
in a man.
Proceeding in a greater spirit of mis
anthropy. Mrs. Wade takes a deadly
shot at the male sex:
A substitute for man Is the latest hit;
Just keep a dog to growl and a cat to
spit;
A domestic parrot can both Jaw and
swear.
A monkey to dispute and pull your hair.
All that Is lacking In such connubial
bliss.
All of the luxury of wedlock you'll miss.
Are gentle little love taps, Just for a
Joke,
Such ns knockdowns, black eyes or
sweet little chokes.
Then forgetting meter ar.d rhyme.
Mrs Wade takes one last Jab at the
whole race and its most sacred Insti
tution:
Don't think you need one to strike even'
a match:
There are better places a light to
scratch,
Talmage says matches in heaven are
made.
Rut brimstone attachments show where
the plan was laid.
Mrs. Wade's first husband. B. J.
Rlrchard, was a real estate dealer and
a veteran of the Civil war.
TO BRING THE BLUE
AND GRAY TOGETHER
PITTSBURG, Feb. 25.—A reunion of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
the United Confederate Veterans may
he brought about before the ranks of
both organizations are wiped out by
death. Col. J. M. Schoonmaker. of this
city, who Is high in the councils of the
Grand Army and Gen. Stephen D.
Dee, Commander-ln-Chlef of the Uni
ted Confederate Veterans, are now
trying to bring It about. Col. Srhoon-
niaker has just received an Invitation
to attend the reunion of the Confed
erate veterans, which will bo held in
Richmond, Va.. on May 30 and 31, and
June 1, 2 and 3. It is the first time In
history that an invitation has been
extended to a rnan who fought under
the Stars and Stripes to participate
in the reunion of the men who fought
under the Stars and Rars.
Not to be outdone. Col. Schoonmakr
or has invited not only Gen. Dee. but
a number of his friends, members of
the Confederate Veterans, to attend
the reunion of the Union soldiers,
which Is to be held In Saratoga, N. Y.,
the latter part of next August or the
first week in September.
Many of the Confederate soldiers
still have warm recollections of Col.
Schoonmaker. He was in command of
the advance cavalry of Gen. Hunter's
army In tho Dynchburg raid, and his
courteous treatment of the Confeder
ates won for him their ardent admlra-
ration. It was Col. Schoonmaker who
saved the Dexlngton Boys’ Academy
from being fired upon during the raid.
A knowledge of this, and other sim
ilar acts reached the ears of Gen. John
D. Gordon prior to his death, and he
sent an invitation to Col. Schoonmak
er to attend the last reunion of the
Confederate veterans.
Soon after the Invitation was receiv
ed, Gen. Gordon died suddenly, which
prevented Col. Schoonmaker from ac
cepting the invitation. Col. Schoon
maker has just received the following
letter from Gen. Deo, who is a nephew
of the late Gen. Robert R. T,ee:
"My Dear Comrade—I learn that
Gen. Gordon, just before his death, in
vited you to attend the reunion of the
U. C. V., and that you did not come
because of liis death. Now, as my
comrade's friend. I renew this Invita
tion, and reouest you to attend the
reunion at Richmond, A'a., and trust
that our lives may bo spared, and we
may be such friends as you and Com
mander Gordon were."
Col. Schoonmaker immediately sent
a letter to Gen. Dee accepting the in
vitation. and in return Invited the
Confederates to attend the Grand
Army encampment.
MB AUCTIONING
THUMB OUT WEST
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 25.—The pub
lic sale season is at Its height, ar.d the
country papers are filled with an
nouncements of auctions at which
farmers are selling off stock, household
goods and implements. In every coun
ty between the 100th meridian and the
Missouri river these sales are numer
ous. In some counties four or five
auctioneers are kept busy. It loo>s to
the outsider as if all the people were
preparing for an exodus. This is not
the case. The sellers are going, to be
sure, but they are not always leaving
the county. Many of the older farmers
are moving to town; some are going
to Canada: others are bound for the
cheap lands of the Southwest, * which
seem to be the attractive spot for the
Immigrants at this time. The restless
ness that marks the Westerner is ap
parent and it Is confined to no one
class. The sales are made on a basis
of 6 per cent, with ten to twelve
months’ time. There is lively bidding
among the banks for this business. The
bank sends a man to care for the notes
as they are given and to discount them
if the buyers wish. This year the notes
are fewer and more farmers pay cash
than formerly.
It is the opinion of shrewd buyers
that the speculation In land in the
middle West has about ended; the rise
In values ia not likely to offer a large
TOPKKA. Kan., Feb. 25.—A race-
t.-ark jocked twenty-five years ago; a
little later a hack-driven; now a Uni
ted States Senator, is the evolution of
Charles Curtis, who arrived In Wash
ington city recently to represent Kan
sas In the United States Senate.
When the stork winging his way
across the Kansas prairies forty-seven
years ago left a Iusty-lunged papoose
in an Indian wigwam there was no
prophet so optimistic as to forecast
for the youngster a career leading to
a Senatorail toga. Nevertheless the
boy the wise old stork brought to that
Kansas wigwam attained the distinc
tion of being the first aboriginal de
scendant to enter the United States
Senate.
Senator Curtis is not a full-flooded
Indian. His father was a pale-faced
soldier and his mother belonged to
the Kaw tribe, but he Is proud of his
Indian ancestry, and every September
he goes to the reservation in Oklaho
ma where lives the lingering remnant
of his once powerful tribe, there to
mingle with the survivors in their
tribal dances and other festivities.
By reason of his Indian blood Sena
tor Curtis participated in land allot
ments to the extent of 320 acres, and
each of his four children drew a sim
ilar prize, thus giving to the family an
aggregate of sixteen hundred acres,
now conservatively valued at 550 per
acre.
Became a Jockey.
In early childhood he was placed
upon his own resources, and when a
strip of a lad he became a Jockey.
Throughout the West he. followed the
races and made for himself the repu
tation of being able to coax from a
horse the very highest notch of speed
within the limit of capability.
Topeka was then, as. now, his home,
and the young man filled in the in
terim between racing seasons by driv
ing a hack. “Hib" Case, one of the
big lawyers and picturesque charac
ters of Kansas, was often a patron of
the Curtis hack. He came to know
the young man well, and offered him
a place In his office as a law student.
To this Curtis replied;
“I have often thought, Mr. Case,
that I would like to be a lawyer, and I
would gladly take up the study In
your office, but I cannot quit my job—
the money Is too badly needed. How
ever, I can study law and drive my
hack, too, tf you will be kind enough
to loan me the necessary books."
He got the books—and he used them.
As a Hackman Studied Law.
Sometimes curlde up inside of his
hack, waiting for belated trains, some
times in the driver's seat, jostling
over cobblestones, one hand upon the
reins, the other thumbing the Black-
stone pages—sometimes one place,
sometimes another, but always his
mind and his eye upon the law.
At last, without the aid of law
school or tutelage other than the ad
vice and encouragement tendered by
“Hib” Case, Curtis was admitted to
the bar. He passed a brilliant exami
nation. Charley Curtis—evervbody in
Kansas feels at liberty to call him by
his first name—found it but a short
step from law to politics. His first
political office was Prosecuting At
torney of Shawnee County. He sur
prised everybody by enforcing the
prohibition law—something that sel
dom happens in Kansas. It was a
surprise, because he was generally un
derstood to be opposed to prohibition.
“Laws Made to Be Enforced,”
“The law's on the books, isn't It?”
was the nonchalant comment of Cur
tis to prohi’s and anti-prohi's alike
when they remarked his severity In
closing the liquor joints.
In 1S92 Curtis was sent to Congress
from the Topeka district, and since
that time his political rise has been
spectacular and rapid.
Much has been written about tho
Ill-fated Dane Senatorial succession
and the public prints have told over
and over the story of how misfortune
has been visited upon each succeed- j
ing Senator all the way from the j
erratic old Jim Dane down to the be
smirched Burton—how one committed
suicide, how another was stricken
dead, how another was sent from the
State to a life of exile in New Mex
ico, how another went to Jail, and so
on through the list.
But if Senator Curtis has even a
remote thought of inherited disaster
there is no outward manifestation of
it—an instance of one Indian who does
not pin faith to an evil spirit.
Senator Curtis has an interesting
family. Their home in Topeka is of
palin exterior, but -inside there is an
individuality at once marking it as
different from the ordinary place. Mrs.
Curtis is of domestic trend—a plain,
practical woman, accredited with re
markable endowment of old-fashioned
common sense, and the Curtis chil
dren, bright to the point of brilliancy,
wear upon their faces the unmistaka
ble token of their Indian ancestry.
exported the grand total which leather
and the materials for its manufacture
form in the foreign trade of the United
Slates aggergatec-s In the calendar year
1906 about 150 million dollars.
All sections of the world bought of
our.botts and shoes and other manu
factures of leather in 1906. and nearly
all sections sent their raw hides and
skins in exchange therefor. Of boots
and shoes alone the United Kingdom
look in that year nearly 2 million dol
lars' worth, against but a quarter mil
lion dollars’ worth a decade ago. Bel
gium, France. Germany, the Nether
lands. and other European countries
also took greater or less values of boots
and shoes, as well as other classes of
leather. Canada too lit million dollars’
worth in 1906, against one-fourth of a
million dollars’ worth In 1896: the West
Indies, exclusive of Porto Rico, took
2 1-3 million dollars’ worth in 1906
against one-third of a million in 1896;
Mexico, lit millions in 1906. against 51
thousand dollars’ worth in 1896, while
South America, Australia, various sec
tions of Asia and Oceanica, and British
Africa were also in 1906 customers for
boots and shoes of American manu
facture.
In addition to the 914 million dollars’
worth of boots and shoes exported In
the year 1906, there was 25 million dol
lars' worth of “upper” leather and S
million dollars' worth of sole leather,
ail intended chiefly for boot and shoe
making, while harness and saddles and
other classes of leather manufactures
added a couple of million dollars to the
total and were distributed to all parts'
of the world. To the United Kingdom
the exports of upper leather have
grown from 7 1-3 millions In 1896 to
13 1-3 millions in 1906. while of sole
leather the exports to the United King
dom grew only a single million dollars
in that time, having been 5 1-3 million
dollars in 1896, against 614 millions In
1906.
India. China, Japan, Australia, Ar
gentina, Brazil. Mexico arid the Cen
tral American States contributed to the
84 million dollars' worth of hides and
skins for use in the making of leather
imported in 1906. Of hides of cattle,
the largest contributor was Argentina.
5 million dollars’ worth in the fiscal
year 1906. while over 2 million dollars’
worth was brought from India, more
than I million dollars' worth from Can
ada, and 2 million dollar’s worth from
France.
Goatskins are the largest single item
in importations of hides and skins, ag
gregating 3214 million dollars in the
calendar year 1906, against a little less
than 9 millions in 1896. India was by
far the largest contributor of the large
value of goatskins Imported, the total
value of goatskins imported from that
country in the fiscal year 1906 being'
practically^ 11 million dollars, while In
the same year the value imported from
Mexico was 2 Is millions from France
2 millions, from the United Kingdom
1 1-3 millions, from China 3 millions,
from Aden in southern Arabia 114 mil
lions, and from Russia in Europe 1%
million dollars.
display and exploit j seat and squatted for protection on
the far side of the box.
Too Slow on tho Trigger.
O'Rourke, assuming the obedient air
of the man who knows when he is
bulged, struck his left arm up and
made a move as if to point upward
own in which
fheir wares.
Among the States that have made
appropriations or otherwise provided
for representation at the Exposition
are the following:
Connecticut has made an appropria
tion of 326,000: District of Columbia, ! with his right too, but he didn't stick
325,000; Delaware. 115,000; Douisiana. i the right up. He went Instead for his
315.000: Maine. 340 000; Florida, 350,- j right hand gun—and it was a lightning
000; Georgia, 350,000; Illinois, 325,000. ; movement at that. But it wasn't light-
Kentuckv 340,000 (by popular subscrip- j ning enough.
tion); Maryland. 355.000; Michigan, Bankstreet broke O'Rourke's right
360,000; Missouri, S60.000; Mnssaehu- j shoulder with a ball before the man
350.000: New Jersey. 575,000: from the Santa Ar.ita country could
North Dakota, $15,000: New York,
3150,000: North Carolina, 350.000; Ohio.
375,000: Oklahoma, 310,000; Pennsylva
nia, 3100.000; Rhode Island, 350.000;
South Carolina, 320 000; Tennessee,
310.000; Virginia. 3800,000; Vrginia
counties additional, 3150.000; Vermont,
510,000; Wisconsin. 360.000; West Vir- I
get his right hand gun cleared for ac
tion. The shock kiTocked O'Rourke
down. Bankstreet vaulted with one
hand over the side of the box and in
something less than four seconds he
had his man disarmed.
'•Wa' ant no way for me to help it,
nohow. Flag,” Bankstreet explained to
ginia, at least 355 000: Oregon, Mon- i the wounded man as he and the Mexl-
tana, Idaho and Washington Jointly, can loaded him into the dray to take
3250,000: other States are now arrang- '■ him for treatment to the office of
ing to also provide for representation. ! Tombstone's one doctor down the
The foreign countries that will par- | street, "and so you don't want t' take
it t’ heart none whatever. I’d ha’ give
you a better chanst, on' I jest' nach-
ully ron't like t' stand t’ git sieved
ticipate with either warships or troops
or both are Great Britain, France, Rus
sia, Germany, Japan, Switzerland,
Italy, Belgium. Spain. Sweden, Greece,
Argentina, Brazil. Chill, Costa Rica.
Domingo. Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico.
Nicaragua, Panama'. Peru. Salvador,
and others may yet decide to seek rep-
reaentation. Many of these countries
are also represented commercially.
HE KEPT ORDER
THE DEPTH OF
DEATH VALLEY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The
United States Geological Survey has
just completed a line of spirit levels
through Death Valley, California, and
much to the surpise of every one fa
miliar with the region has ascertained
that the depth of that area is not so
great as was supposed. The final com
putations of the results, have not yet
been made, but the preliminary figures i. .
feeDbelowthesea'le^if ThSw&SS I topaz'eyes^rk^ ***
mav ba altered bv two or *hree feet pair of topaz * jes ' Uke a mountain
_ a i_fr ..3L°,.°_ r _ 'L nree ._ re , ot cat's, that seemed to grow darker and
to spit sparks when he
When "Tex” Rickard, the Goldfield
bonanza mine man and fight promoter,
breezed into New York the other day
he attracted a lot of attention, says a
writer in the Washington Star.
The smallish, sawed-off, elderly man
with the pale face and red hair, wear
ing a store frock coat and a wide, buff
sombrero, who accompanied Rickard
to New York, attracted no attention at
all. Nobody knew who he was. No
body asked who he was. As a "friend
o’ Tex’s,” the dead-games over there
tossed the little red-haired elderly man
a glance and a word or two, but he
didn’t get his picture in the papers and
none of the reporters was asked to in
terview him.
And yet this unassuming "friend o’
Tex’s” was a man of a good deal of
note In his day. His name is Nicholas
M. Bankstreet, and he was day marshal
of Tombstone, when Tombstone was
bad. He rarely or never adverts to his
Tombstone experiences. The sure
enough game men of the old camps
were ev6r silent men. But Bankstreet’s
management of Tombstone when it was
bad Is a part of the history of the
Southwest. He is now a prosperous
holder of several Goldfield properties,
wears b'iled shirts and removes' his
boots every night when he turns in.
But these things do not in any way
minimize or offset the way he played
the game when Tombstone was his
camp and he was day marshal there.
There were a lot of gun-sooners In
Tombstone in that day, but none of
them ever got the drop on “Nick”
Bankstreet. He was the day marshal
there when a man’s life in Tombstone
wasn’t generally held to be worth much
more than a buzzard tamale or a plate
of frijoles. Bankstreet monsooned
Into Tombstone about six months after
the boom there began, and he succeed
ed "Turk” Patrick as day marshal of
the camp—"Turk” had been so minced
up in a knife fight with a couple of
halfbreed gila eaters that he had to
be hiped up to Manitou, Col., to win
back his strength.
B'ankstreet was a taciturn, unassum-
up a hull heap by boys full o’ the
cactus medicine f'r th’ wages I’m get-
tin’ an’ that’s a fac'. ”
That looked like a pretty fair start
for Nick Bankstreet, and it began to
dawn upon the Tombstoners that
Bankstreet intended to go about tho
business of preserving law and order
during the daylight hours in Tomb
stone without taking any chances on
amid the depressing aroma of drugs,
oqop, outosouoi n ut paojiunq JSujaq
lotions, ointments and unguents.
What the United
States Dispensatory
Says.
II
FROM INVASI
* The late Dord Actor, professor of
history at Cambridge University, who
laid the plan of the “Cambridge His
tory of the World,” was once asked
what was the greatest event in the
nineteenth century. Without a mo
ment's hesitation he answered:
“The accidental sinking of Fulton's
steamer in the River Seine in 1804. If
it had been successful Napoleon would
have been able to land his forces
wherever he pleased and the conquest
of the British Isles might have fol
lowed.”
That Napoleon recognized such a
possibility is shown by a letter writ
ten by him July 21, 1804, just as he
was starting for his Austerlitz cam
paign. He instructed his Minister of
Marine, M. de Champagny, to appoint
a committee of the French Academy to
investigate Fulton’s invention and to
report to him within eight days, say
ing. with irritation, that much time
had already been lost, and concluding
his instructions with the remarks:
“It is possible that the Invention of
this American may change the face of
the world.”
PERUNA EDITORIAL NO. 2.
In our last editorial on Peruna, after showing that this well-known familj
medicine is no longer a secret remedy, but prints on the label of the bottle th<
principal active ingredients, we made the statement that PERUNA 13 A2
EXCELLENT CATARRH REMEDY. .
The question now arises whether we are claiming* for Peruna more tnar
the facts warrant. Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in reality a catarrli
remedy? Have we proof of this fact so well established that even the erit;u
of Peruna must admit the force of our evidence ?
Our task will be an easy one to show what eminent authorities thinS
of the ingredients which compose Peruna.
Take, for instance, the ingredient HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS, 0B
GOLDEN SEAL. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy,
that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous n . mbranes
chronic rhinitis (nasal catarrh ', atonic
dyspepsia (catarrh of the stomach',
chronic intestinal catarrh, catarrhal
jaundice (catarrh of the liver), and in
diseased mucous membranes of the
pelvic organs. It is also recommende:l
for the treatment of various forms ol
diseases peculiar to women.
Another ingredient of Peruna,
CORYDALIS FORMOSA, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a
tonic.
CEDRON SEEDS is another ingredient of Peruna, an excellent drug
that has been very largely overlooked by the medical profession for tha
past fifty years. THE SEEDS ARE TO BE FOUND IN VERY FEW DRUG
STORES. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it
is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysenteiy, and in interniiiteut
diseases as a SUBSTITUTE FOR QUININE.
OIL OF COPAIBA, another ingredient of Peruna, is classed by the United
States Dispensatory as a mild stimulant and diuretic. It acts on the stomach
and intestinal tract It acts as a stimulant on the genito-urinary membrar.se.
Useful in chronic cystitis chronic dysentery and diarrhea, and some chronic
diseases of the liver and kidueys.
THE EMINENT AUTHORITY ON THERAPEUTICS. BARTH0L0W, in
speaking of these same ingredients of Peruna is even more enthusiastic asTo
their medicinal merit.
OF HYDRASTIS, HE SAYS it is applicable to stomatitis (catarrh of
the mucous surfaces of the mouth), follicular pharyngitis (catarrh of the
pharynx), chronic coryza (catarrh of
the head). This writer classes hy-
drastis as a stomachic tonic, useful in
atonic dyspepsia (chronic gastric ca
tarrh), catarrh of the duodenum, ca
tarrh of the gall duct, catarrh of the s
intestines, catarrh of the kidneys (chronic Bright’s disease), catarrh of
the bladder, and catarrh of other pelvic organs.
BARTH0L0W REGARDS COPAIBA as an excellent remedy for chronic
catarrh of the bladder, chronic bronchitis (catarrh of the bronchial tubes).
BARTHOLOW STATES THAT CUBEB, an ingredient of Peruna, promotes
the appetite and digestion, increases the circulation of the blood. Useful in
chronic nasal catarrh, follicular pharyngitis (catarrh of the pharynx), increas
ing the tonicity of the mucous membranes of the throat. It also relieves
hoarseness. Useful in atonic dyspepsia (catarrh of the stomach), and in chronic
catarrh of the colon and rectum, catarrh of the bladder, prostatorrhea, and
chronic bronchial affections.
MILLSPAUGH, MEDICINAL PLANTS, one of the most authoritative
works on medicinal herbs in the English language, in commenting upon
C0LLINS0NIA CANADENSIS, says that it acts on the pneumogastric anti
vaso motor nerves. It increases the secretions of the mucous membranes in
when the final computations are made
but they are probably not more than
three feet in error. The Geological
Survey now has elevation marks on the
highest and lowest points of dry land
in the United States.
It Is a strange coincidence that these
two extremes are both in Southern Cal
ifornia and only 75 miles apart. Mount
Whitney Is a foot or two over 14,500
feet above the sea level, while Death
Seine In Paris. Fulton was a Penn
sylvanian, the son of an Irish emi
grant, who settled in Lancaster Coun
ty. When be was only 18 years old
the boy made toy boats that were pro
pelled by paddle wheels. He became
a painter, and at the close of the rev
olution went to London with a letter
of introduction to Benjamin West,
who procured for him the patronage
of the nobility in painting miniature
\alley, as nbove stated, is 276 feet be- , j n ’ t* j e t no gun-fannin* ombrey
Imt- P.ofAi*n tno snif/in Qinir olcn in it... ... .*
low. B'efore the Salton Sink, also in
Southern California, was flooded by the
Colorado river, it contained the lowest
point of dry land in the United States,
a spot 2S7 feet below sea level.
Previous estimates of the depth of
Death Valley based on barometer read
ings gave for the lowest point figures
varying from 250 to 450 feet below sea
level. The level line of the Geological
Survey is believed to be the first accu
rate determination of elevations in that
locality that has ever been made.
was getting
busy.
In accepting the flay marshal's billet
“Nick” Bankstreet delivered himself
in form of the following expression:
“I hain't calcaltin’ on gittin’ shot up j
none whilst holding down this yere I
Job. I shore can’t see no fun in this I
thing o’ layin’ abed with a hull lot
o’ zigzag punctures in my carcass, I
shore can’t. That’s why I hain't a-go-
THE LEATHER INDUSTRY
IN FOREIGN COMMERCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The
leather industry contributed 150 million
dollars to the foreign commerce of the
United States in the year 1906, against
less than 55 millions a decade earlier.
These figures, supplied ^by the Bueau
of Statistics of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, combine imports
and exports of leather and its manu
factures and imports and exports of
hides and skins. Tn all of these, espe
cially in imports of hides and skins and
exports of leather and manufactures
from that article, the growth of the de
cade has been extremely rapid. Hides
and skins form the largest single item
in the record of imports, and leather
and manufactures thereof stand third
in the list of manufactures exported.
The industry of bringing in from
abroad the raw material for the manu
facture of leather and sending out of
the country the finished article,
whether leather or manufactures
therefrom, has shown a remarkable
growth during the decade. The value
of hides and skins imported in the cal
endar year 1906 was practically 84 mil-
ion dollars, and in 1S96. a decade ear
lier. was but 21 millions, having thus
quadrupled in 10 years. Of leather and
Its manufactures exported, the figures
for 1906 were over 45 million dol
lars. and in 1S96 were less than 19
millions. Add to this 84 millions of
hides and skins imported and 45 mil
lions of leather and manufactures
thereof imported and the nearly 2 mil
lion dollars’ worth ot hides and skins
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 25.—The prog
ress that is being made with the build
ings and grounds of the Jamestown
Ter-Centennial Exposition, is certainly
very gratifying. Notwithstanding the
fact that the weather has been very
disagreeable for this latitude for a
month or so, the work has gone stead
ily on till now most of the buildings are
either completed or so near completion
that there is little more to do but put
on a few finishing touches. The States’
Exhibit building is completed and some
of the exhibits are now on the ground
and are being Installed. Many of the
State buildings are finished and most
of the others are nearing completion.
The grounds, too, are rapidly being
brought into the state of beautiful
completion and will soon present the
bewildering beauty that will be pre
sented to the public when the gates
swing open on the 26th day of April.
The two great Government piers that
extend 2,400 feet out into Hampton
Roads, each of which Is 200 feet, wide
and which are connected by a cross
pier 800 feet long and of like width as
the others. Is also rapidly being com
pleted. These piers will enclose a
forty-acre water space In which all the
minor aquatic sports will take place.
Transportation lines are hustling as
they never did before to get ready to
handle the crowds, and from the pres
ent indications there will be no con
gestion in that line. In fact; the Water
Belt Line, a line of elegant steamers
that will run a fifteen-minute sched
ule between Norfolk and the Exposi
tion grounds, add an hour schedule on
the rest of the line, which takes in Old
Point Comfort, Fortress Monroe,
Hampton. Newport News Portsmouth.
Navy Yards, and other points on this
line. The boats on this line will pass
through the various naval fleets that
will be assembled in Hampton Road*
during the Exposition. In fact, trans
portation to and from the Exposition
grounds from the various points along
this line will be a pleasure instead of a
bugbear.
The industrial feature of the Expo
sition is proving a factor of far greater
importance than it was at first thought
ould be. The space of the States’
Exhibit building and other general
buildings for that purpose has proven
inadequate for the requirements or
would have done so but for the fact
that many of the most Important man
ufacturing industries have erected or
are erecting massive buildings of their ,
this vere camp stick me up an’ poke
lead into my frame. I jes' nachully
like t’ be swingin’ along on th’ solos
o’ my boots, an’ they gotta show me
this yere thing o’ layin’ back on a
bunk in a dark room whilst th’ holes
is healin’ an’ countin’ th' centipedes
a-workin’ their way in through th’
ceilin' an’ sides o’ th’ dobe—they
hain’t enough action In that kind o’
work.”
The Tombstoners who heard “Nick”
thus express his natural objection to
being plugged hoped that he would
get by with his determination, but
none of them had much of an idea that
“Nick” would be able to make his de
termination stick for very long.
Bankstreet had never shown the camp
anything in the line of strategy, and
so. of course, there was no way of fig
uring on the line of stuff that he
would develop.
But just two days after he pinned
on his badge a husky, green-eyed chap
named “Flag” O’Rourke, who had
drifted down to Tombstone from the
Santa Anita Mountains, where he had
grown sulky after years of unsuccess
ful prospecting, knocked off work at
noon, absorbed about half a gallon of
made over night mescal into his dia
phragm and archly shot the right ear
from the head of a Chinese keeper of
a restaurant.
After doing this O’Rourke strolled
out Into the middle of the street—
Tombstone being a one street camp—
and announced very audibly that be
couldn’t abide in any kind of a grub
joint that didn’t provide its patrons
with stewed puff adders, fricassed tar
antulas an scorpions a la Chihuahua,
adding that the same was the on'y
kind of vituals that he cared to eat
when he felt real good, as he happened
to be feeling just at that moment of
speaking.
Meets Marshal Unexpectedly,
Obvibusly referring to Day Marshal
Nick Bradstreet. O’Rourke wound up
something as follows:
** Wrich, if any red headed runts
what think they're some few on gun -
breedin’ wants t‘ dispute. I’m shore
here a-perchin,’ ” and O'Rourke left
Dr. Edward Everett Hale says: "In
early life I knew an old man named
Edward Church, who had introduced
Europe. 03 He*told me that^e* wa^the j general. In the mountains of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Carolina,
roommate of Robert Fulton for several [ collinsonia canadensis is' considered a panacea for many disorders, including
e ^. a f._^ ia . k |. 1 ? g .. ll i i3 I headache, colic, cramp, dropsy and indigestion. DR. SCUDDER regards it
die wheel boats run by steam on the highly as a remedy in clironic diseases of the lungs, heart disease and asthma.
_ These citations ought to he sufficient to show to any candid mind that Pe
runa is a catarrh remedy. Surely, such herbal remedies, that command the
enthusiastic confidence of the highest authorities obtainable, brought together
in proper combination, ought to make a catarrh remedy of the highest efficacy.
This is exactly what we claim for Peruna. We claim no more than the
best authorities willingly admit. It is useless for envious doctors or hostile
critics to attempt to set aside such proof.
Some of these ingredients are not in common use. Some of them are dim-
portraits. He abandoned painting to ! cu ]t to obtain, and still more difficult to combine into a stable and palatable
mind was always busy with contriv- compound, lhey have been, therefore, neglected by the medical profession,
largely, for remedies that are easier to obtain and more convenient to dispense.
Peruna is a catarrh remedy that has been in the field for n: *• ty years.
OTHER CATARRH REMEDIES HAVE COME AND GONE, but the reputa
tion of Peruna has outlived them all.
Peruna is a combination of efficient herbal remedies that wields a power
ful influence on all the mucous membranes of the body, and hence reaches
catarrh wherever it is located.
This is our claim, and we are able to substantiate this claim by ample
quotations from the HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES IN THE WORLD.
ancen for labor saving machinery and
for the solution of difficult problems.
In 1792 he assisted James Watt in
constructing steam engines, and'tried
to persuade the Earl of Stanhope and
other rich men to furnish the money
to build a paddle wheeled vessel to
be propelled by one of them. In 1794
he made the acquaintance of Joel Bar-
low, the poet, who used to live in the
old Octagon House on S street here
in Washington, and whert Barlow went
to Paris to escape the displeasure of
the British Government Fulton went
with him. While there Fulton invented
the panorama and painted the first
that was ever exhibited. With the
proceeds of that, invention he made
experiments in’ the River Seine with
been maintained uninterrupted from American eagle scream, hus far,
that day. Shortly after Fulton estab- however. Congress has made no ap-
lished steam ferries between New proprlation and has authorized no par-
submarine boats and torpedoes, and in J York and Brooklyn and between New , tlcipation Jn the event The anxiety
1801 was employed by the French York and New Jo „ eJ . and before he
Government to blow up English ships 1
uuvcuunciu iu uiun up out -to , . _ , - ,
in the Channel. But his submarine j dl0d ln February, 181o, five steamboats
to make a little political capital out
boat was pronounced impracticable
and bis torpedoes were ineffective.
"Then he built the working model of
the first steamboat ever floated, sixty
feet long and eight feet beam, supplied
with a steam engine and propelled by
a paddle wheel in the stern. It was
moderately successful ln playing the
Seine and naturally excited a great deal
of interest. The boat was built at
Plomblers ■ with money furnished by
Robert R. Livingston, United States
ambassador to France. Napoleon di
rected M. de Champagny, his minister
of marine, to nppoint a committee of
members of the French Academy to
make an investigation, and one of the
commission was the celebrated M.
Montdolfler. the Inventor of balloons.
“Mr. Church told me.” continued Dr.
Halo “that shortly after daylight on
the morning of the day in July. 1804.
when this commission was to make the
test, he and Fulton were awakened
from their sleep by a frantic knock at
their door, and when they Inquired who
was there the voice of a sailor who
had charge of the little steamer cried
out:
" ‘Monsieur Fulton! Oh. Monsieur*
Fulton! The boat has sunk to the
bottom of the Seine.”
"Church snid that they dressed them
selves hastily and ran down to the
river, where they found that the boat- !
man’s story was true. In some way j
or other the little model had been
jammed against the bank, and sprung
a leak, had filled with water and had
gone to the bottom.
"The committee of the French Acad
emy never made the test.” continued
Dr. Hale. "Fulton raised the wreck,
rebuilt it. and ran It on the Seine
the middle of the road, leaned up j all summer, but Church told me that
against the front of the saloon, and, i Napoleon took no further interest in
with his thumbs tucked in his gun i it. He said that a boat that would
belt, blinked lazily in the sunshine. j sink so easily would be useless for his
Presently a dray, hauled by a flea- purposes.
bitten and demure mule and driven
by a Mexican smoking a corn-shuck I “Mr. Livingston, however, continued
cigarette, pulled alongside • the plank ! to take a deep Interest in the invention
were navigating the waters of the Hud
son,
In the spring of 1808 he married
Harriet, daughter of Walter Living
ston and niece of his patron, Robert R.
Livingston. At the time of his death
he was experimenting with a subma
rine boat called the Nautilus. He
built the Fulton, the first steamship
of war for the United States navy, In
1810, and spent several months as the
guest of Joel Barlow at Kalorama, in
the city of Washington, where he was
engaged in torpedo experiments down
in the valley of Rock Creek, where the
Zoological Gardens of Washington
are now located. He endeavored to
interest President Jefferson in the
matter and wrote him several let
ters, which are preserved in the libra
ry of Congress, begging him to appoint
a commission of army officers to co
operate in the experiments, but Jeffer
son paid no attention to the matter.
The submarine boats of today and
the marine torpedoes which are now
commonly used b.v all the navies of
the earth are based upon the theories i
first advanced by Fulton in his exper- j
iments on tie Seine in France.
In 1837. thirty years later, John I
Ericsson built a boat with a screw i
propeller at Stevens’ shipyard in Ho- i
boken, in the same shop where Ful
ton’s Clermont was made. Ericsson’s :
experience in Europe had been
lar to that of Fulton. He built
of the affair at Brownsville has ab
sorbed the attention of the Senate,
and the House has been thinking of
other things, Robert Fulton has been
forgotten.
His descendants In New York will
loan the French government some In
teresting personal relics which will be
exhibited in a pavilion on the banks
1 of the River Gironde, in the exposi-
I tion grounds, and perhaps one or
' more of his four surviving grand-
[ children will attend the exposition.
| They are Rev. Robert Fulton Crarv,
j pastor of the Church of the Holy Com-
i forter, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Charles
| Fulton Crar.v, of Merrick, L. L; Rob
ert Fulton Lud!pw, of Claveraek. N.
Y„ and Mrs. Ella Crary Crammnnn,
wife of H. H. Cammann, of New York.
• Robert Fulton Crary, Jr., a great
grandchild, is connected with the Ful
ton Trust Company,
City.
Nev
York
with twin propellers and ran it
and down the Thames daily for sev
eral months, but the wise lords of the
admiralty wu!d not deign to notice
it. They declared that it was impos
sible to propel and steer a vessel at
the same end, and so Ericsson brought
his invention to America.
The French exposition is Intended
to show the progress that lias been
made in the science of navigation
from the first experiments of Robert
Fulton on the River Loire, in 1803, to
the present day. and will include all
branches of marine industry, fisheries,
canoeing, boat building, optical and
nautical instruments; life saving ap
pliances, provisions for the welfare of
sailors, uniforms of naval anil marine
simi- [ organizations throughout the world,
boat ! and everything that relates to aquntie
sidewalk ln front of the honkatonk
against which O’Rourke was leaning
and glowering. A large, square pine
box of the sort that blankets for Wes
tern shipment used to be packed in ,
was the dray's load.
O’Rourke gazed idly at the mule and
and with his assistance Fulton trans
ferred his experiments to Hoboken, N.
J.. where, with the aid of Nicholas
Roosevelt, great-great-uncle of th'e
President, he constructed a side-wheel
steamboat, called the Clermont in hon
or of Mr. Livingston's summer home
the dray and the box. He did not ob- on the banks of the Hudson. James
serve that the top of the box was
missing. But when the muzzles of
two blue-steel forty-fives, held, by a
pair of freckled.^hairy hands, appear
ed over the edge of the box and a
tousled red head, uncovered by any
hat. followed the guns, bobbing by
Jumping-jack-wise, O'Rourke sudden
ly became a heap observant.
"Point ’em both at th’ buzzards,
Flag." said the day marshal of Tomb
stone in a persuasive sort of way,
resting his arms on the edge of the
box and drawing a fine bead with both
his guns on O’Rourke's torso, and be
fore Bankstreet had got the words out
that greaser driver, rightly foreseeing
that there'd be considerable action in
that immediate neighborhood present*
ly, suddenly dropped backward off Ms j
Watt designed the engine, which was
j built by Boulton & Co., at Soho. Lon-
; don. and reached New York in good
' order. On August 11, 1897, the Cler-
I mont left New York City and made
the passage of 150 miles to Albany in
| thirty-two hours. The remainder of
that summer home on the Hud«on re-
| ported the fact to his Government with
the remark that 'No gentleman of my
staff would be willing to trust his life
in it.’
“If that little model had not been
crushed against the banks of the Seine
upon that fateful night in July.” said
Dr. Hale, “what might have happened?
As Napoleon himself remarked, the face
of th<- world might have been changed.”
In the winter of 1807-8 the Clermont
was rebuilt and steam navigation has
The republic of France, proud of its
record as a naval and maritime na- j
tion. will commemorate the centennial j
anniversary of Fulton’s success in ap- ;
plying steam to navigation by holding j
an international maritime exposition j
at the city of Bordeaux from May to j
October. The United States will he ;
busy with the Jamestown Exposition, j
and the only attention it will pay to
Fulton’s achievement will be a naval maritime nation, but we buiid better
demonstration fed by the New York shins than any people in the world.
Yacht Club on Aug. 11, 1907, the an- i The citizens of New York have or-
niversarv of the departure of the ! ganized a memorial association for
Clermont on her perilous voyage from j the purpose of erecting a monument
Hoboken to Albany. j to Robert Fulton. Cornelius Vander
sports and occupations. The French
Maritime League, of which the cele
brated Admiral Gervais Is president,
will illustrate the history of navigation
from the earliest times. It is collect
ing models of every kind of ship, an
cient and modern, commercial and
naval, together with articles that per
tain to geography and navigation.
American manufacturers will find an
opportunity at Bordeaux to prove the
superiority of American genius and
enterprise and to ’ demonstrate that
Robert Fulton, however great hie may
have hr f-n and however mich he may
have done to promote navigation, is
not the only citizen of this country
that has contributed to the advance
ment of the science. We are not a
The Secretary of the Navy has
promised to send a fleet to Bordeaux,
but the President should appoint com
missioners also, and Congress should
authorize the erection of a pavilion
from which the flag of Fulton’s coun
try can float at Bordeaux. It is the
least that we can do. France, how
ever, will properly commemorate the
most important event in the history
of navigation. England, Germany,
Italy, Russia, Japan and other nations
ill unite in doing honor to one of the
most eminent citizens of the United
States; but we, as a nation, should
have some authorized representative
bilt is the chairman. Col. H. O. S.
; Heistand of the army is chairman of
: the executive committee, and the
headquarters are at 3 Park Row. New
. York City, where subscriptions are re-
> ceived. The body of Robert Fulton
■ !ies in the vault of the Livingston fam-
j ily in Trinity churchyard, at th" head
of Wall street. The members of.ihe
j association propose to remove if to
some available and appropriate loca
tion upon Riverside drive and erect
[ over it a monument that shall perpet
uate his fame forever in sight of too
shipyard in which his first successful
steamboat was built and upon the
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among the spectators to make the j banks of the river it first navigated.