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THE TWICER-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907, r. 7i 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 A among the spectators to make the j banks of the river it first navigated.