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THOS. CALE, OF ALASKA,
MEMBER OF U. 5. CONGRESS.
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Washington Address is 1312 9th St,,
N. W., Washington, D. C,
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CONGRESSMAN THOS, CALE.
Hon, Thos. Cale, who was elected to
Congress from Alaska, is well known on
the Pacific siope, where he has resided.
His Wuhingtorx address is 1812 9th St.,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
Washington, D, C,
Peruna Drug Co,, Columbus, Ohio,
Gentlemen: I can t'hw-r]ullll rec
ommend Peruna as a very efficient
remedy for coughs and colds,
‘ Thomas Cale.
Hon. C. Slemi) Congressman from Vir
ginia, writes: ¢ have used your valuable
remedy, Peruna, with beneficial results,
and oan unhesitatingly recommend {our
remedy as an invigorating tonic and an
effective and permanent cure for catarrh.”
Man-a-lin the Ideai Laxative.
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Oh! Papa don’t forget to buy a
bottle of CHENEY'S EXPECTO
RANT for your little girl. |
You can buy it at any Drug {
Store and you know it never fails
to cure my Croup and Cough. i
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‘The Great Antiseptic Catarrh Remedy.
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miwesk Thompson's Eye Water
When a wise man is too tlrad to
think his talk is sure to scund foolish.
finny gels-made men are hot-air prod
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4 THIRTY YEARS OF IT.
{A Fearfully Long Siege of Daily Pain
\ and Misery.
r Charles Von Soehnen, of 201 A St
Colfax, Wash., says: “For at least
A TR thirty years I suf
< - \ sered with kidney
: & troubles, and the at
-3 SRy tacks lald me up for
\ X “!,‘) days at a time with
T / pain in the back and
A ”#3*‘ rheumatism, When
A | was up and around
{ - sharp twinges caught
me, and for fifteen years the frequent
'passages of kidney secretions an
moyed me. But Doan's Kidney Pllls
thave given me almost entire freedom
{from this trouble and I cannot speak
too highly in their praise.”
‘ Sold by all dealers, 60 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N, Y,
Women who own cut glass shouldn't
throw stones,
__ Only One “Bromo Quinine™
is Laxative “o Qai Look
z-md’ . Grove, Eudtho
to Cure a Oold in One Day, 2¢.
~ Some of our distant relations come
fi%m of posterity,
_Survivals, Not Americanisms,
The accepted manner of defining
Americans, either male or female, in |
the London comic papers or in sec
ond-rate English novels is to lard
their speech plentifully with “calcu
late” and “guess” and with “well” at
the opening of each sentence. This
mode of marking, or any other is in
itself totally unimportant, but lin
gulstically It Is not without interest,
for while it is purely conventional as
now used and has no relation to any
American habits of the present day,
whether good or bad, it is pleasant
to note that the hard-worked insular
humorists need not have gone so far
afield to find the words necessary for
the identification of Americans. They
really had but to turn to the “New
Letters” of Thomas Carlyle (Vol. 1,
p. 178), and there read the following
sentence: ‘“He has brought you a
Fox's book of Martyrs, which I cal
culate will go in the parcel today;
you will get right good reading out
of it, I guess.”—From “The Origin of
Certain Americanisms,” by Senator
H. C. Lodge, in the Seribner,
Wants the Recipe. :
Pittsburg club women are in some
excitement over the discovery that in
that city many women are mortgag
ing their homes to buy automobiles.
This is done to make an appearance
of wenlth and soclal position, which
to many women seem about all there
is of life, even if they are mere
imitatlons. Pittsburg is not the only
place where this ambition is consplcu
oug, and everywhere there are people
who would rather have an automobile
than an unencumbered home. When
the club women have reformed this
gort of thing out of Pittsburg—for,
of course, they are going to do it—
we request that they send on their
recipe.-—~Philadelphia Press. o
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AN.OLD MISTRESS,
A visitor to one of the stately an
cestral homes of Virginia who was be
ing shown about by an old colored en
tainer paused before a painting. ‘
“Exquisite!” he exclaimed, raptur
cusly. “That must be an old master.”
Uncle Nelse shook his head. “No,
sub,” he replied, “tain’t ole marster.’
Dat’'s ole Mistis Al'son.”—Youth'
Companion,
The very wisest advice: take Garfield Tea
whenever a laxative is indicated! Pleasant
to the taste, simple, pure, mild, potent and
health-giving, lgmfe of Herbs“not drugs.
Right you are, Alonzo; the fountain
plays because the water works,
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ECZEMA SEEMED INCURABLE.
Body was Rawe— d from
Hospitals as Bosg.‘mmm
“From the age of three months until
made intolerable by eczema in its worst
form. In spite of treatments the disease
gmhnlly spread until nurg every a:n of
is body was quite raw. He used to tear
himself dreadfully in his sleep and the
agony he went through is quite beyond
words. The regimental doctor pronounced
the case hopeless. We had him in hos
pitals four times and he was pronounced
one of the worst cases ever admitted.
From each he was discharged as incurable.
We kept trying remedy after remedy, but
had gotten almost past hoping for a cure.
Bix months ago we purchased a set of
Cuticura Remedies. The result was truly
marvelous and to-day he is Serfectly cured.
Mus, Lily Hedge, Camblewell Green, Eng
land, Jan. 12, 1007.”
Somehow tha average boy lacks a
mania for acquiring good conduct
marks at school.
Tayler's Cherokees Remedy of Sweet
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suwmption, and all throat and lung troubles.
At drugglsts, 250., 500. and SI.OO per bottle,
Women with natural curls are apt
to have a few kinks in their dispo
‘sitions,
© Piles Cured in oto 14 Days,
Qintment fs ranteed to cure
et liching, Biind, Bleedingor Protruding
Piles in 6to 14 days ormoney refunded. 500,
It fsn't always easy for a female
detective to catch a husband.
! Ttch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
| Sanitary Lotion, Never fails. At druggists,
Every dog has his day-—with the
exception of the yellow cur.
‘ THIS MAN'S BACK
| ACHED FOR TWO YEARS,
" Cured by Minard's Liniment after all
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T write you these few lines to let you kuow
| that I thank you for your sample of Min
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now. You can publish my name anywhere
you like and I will recommend Minard’s
Liniment. Yours verytruly, Joseph Perry,
83 Ingraham St, E. Providence, R. I,
Jan, 7, 1008,
The above letter is one of many telling of
wonderful cures by Minard’s Liniment, and
we again offer to send a special bottle Free
to all who send a postal to Minard's Lini
ment Mfg. Co., So. Framingham, Mass.
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~(Clever Cartoon in the Now York World, by C. R. Macauley.
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD OWN SHIP LINE
Bristow, ot Parama Railroad, Advises Pacific Coast Boats
~~Thinks It Would Be of Advantage in Transporting
Supplies to the Canal---Criticises Pacific Mail Co. For
Attempting to Monopolize Railroad.
Washington, D. C.—J. L. Brigtow,
of Kansas, who was appointed a spe
cial commissioner of the Panama
Railroad last August, with instrue
tions to report whether it was advis
able to establish a Government steam
ship line between Panama and Pa
cific Coast ports of the United States,
has made a report to the Secretary
of War, in which he says that “the
weight of the argument is strong-
Iy in favor of establishing this
service.” :
Mr. Bristow, who first came into
the public eye as Fourth Assistant
Postmaster-General at the time of
the postal scandals which he investi
gated for President Roosevelt, had
servéd under a previous apfiomtmontyi
as a special commissioner of the Pan
ama Rallroad, with directions to in
vestigate freight rates and trade ex
isting between United States, South
American, Furopean and Panaman,
ports. As a result of his inquiry at.
that time the' Panama Railroad was
continued as a commercial line un
der the United States Government,
the Panama Railroad Steamlhip‘gg_.‘j
between New York and Colon, was ‘1
tained and ‘operated by the Govern
ment, and contracts of an exclusive
character with the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company were annulled. Un
der his s;acond :gtxlngtgl’om Mr. Bris
tow was instrue W ate sne
cifically the service rendered 79@
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
REAR-ADMIRAL CAPPS ANSWERS CRITICS OF BATTLESHIPS
Chief of the Repair Bureau Definds the Freeboard Style of
the American Navy---He Recommends a Change in the
Holists---Greater Spezd Gained in the Dreadnought Type.
Washington, D. C.—Rear-Admiral
Washington Lee Capps, Chief of the
Bureau of Construction and Repair
of the Navy Department, made an
swer to the critics of the navy at a
hearing before the House Committee
on Naval Affairs. To the minds prac
tically of all the members of the com
mittee, Admiral Capps’ statements
were a complete refutation of the
charges which have been made
against certain features of the con
struction of American battleshins,
Admiral Capps displaved no ani
mosity or ill-feeling toward the
chronic and scientific fault-finders,
and discussed the subject of naval ar
chitecture in a dispassionate wav,
While he riddled the Reutardahl ar
ticle in McClure's Magazine in itg
general features, still he gave eredit
to certain criticisms made. In partie
ular he admitted the justice of the
criticism of the ammunition hoists
on battleships. He advocated a com
plete change of hoists, and asked for
andapproprlatlon of $175,000 to this
end. o
The Admiral discussed at length
the question of high free boards and
low free boards on battleships. 31,
said that the general type of naval
architecture which is followed by the
Board of Construction is the same as
has been followed since 1889. This
style was adopted By Great Britain
after the suhjeet had been considered
thoroughly and exhaustively by the
leading naval architects and experts
of the country, in fact, of the world.
It is the style generally followed to
day by England in the building of her
biggest ships.
He said that if there was one na
tion more than any other which by
reason of sea-fighting experience
should be able to distinguish between
the respective value of a high free
THE CANAL SAFE IN TIME OF WAR
Colonel Goethals, in - Report at Washington, Says It
Wili Not Be Hard to Defend.
Washington, D, C.—At the hear
ings of the Senate Committee on In
teroceanic Canals, Colonel Goethaols
gave assurance that the Panama
Canal, when completed, would be
- reasouably safe from military in
vasion, and said that the chances of
‘ O—— -_%-m—-—-—“-
Australia’'s Heat Wave-——
Many Persons Prostrated,
Melbourne, Australia, — The heat
wave in Victoria is ended, but it has
left disastrons efiects in fts train.
Vast bush fires raged in many parts,
destroying hundreds of homesteads
and threatening many townships.
The sufferings of horses and :
have been terrible, and the settlers
have lost mvily in live stock.
100 d::‘m 'tm : -umtrokc.}ln S
“with a view to advising whether or
not the Isthmian Canal Commission
should purchase steamers and estab
lish a service between Panama and
the Pacific Coast ports of the United
States. to be operated in conjunction
with the steamers now running be
tween New York and Colon.”
In his report Mr, Bristow criticises
the service of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company to Panama. He
thinks a Government line on the Pa
cific coast would be desirable for the
transportation of canal supplies and
materials and ecanal employes, for
keeping open and improving-the Isth
mian route of commerce and for pro
curing cargo for the Panama Ralil
road steamships homeward bound
irom Colon.
M:. Bristow represents Genefal
Manager Schwerin, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, as com
plaining against the action of the
United States in permitting foreign
lines to use the Isthmian Railway
upon the same terms as American
lines, Mr. Bristow argues that as
the canal when completed is open to
the use of all nations on equal terms,
there should be no discrimination
now against foreign steamships.
Mr. Bristow says that to perform
the service required on the Pacific
Coast would necessitafe the purchase
of from six to nine vessels. Hs esti
anates the cost of these vessels as
from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000.
board and a low free board, that na
tion was Japan.
~ He pointed out that Japan had fol
lowed the.nlan of low free boards,
while Russian shios had the high
free boards. The Rvsslan ships are
now at the bottom of the sea, while
Javanese ships are still floating.
~ Since the Russian-Japanese war,
the Japanese bave been building their
ships so that the free boards are stiil
lower. Tt bad been ascertained that
the Russians, apnarently realizing the
error of their high free boards when
2oing to battle in the Sea of Japan,
had pumved water between their
decks, and had even loaded coal in
the staterooms of the officers in order
to get their ships as close to the water
as nossible, and afford the least pos
sible taget.
- American ships, he said, had a lit
tle more free board than the Japan
ese and a little less than the Hnglish
ships of the Dreadnought type, the
English, in order to get greater speed
having been forced to allow a little
more free board.
‘The questions raised in the Reuter
axfl article, he said, had afforded
subjects for argument, dispute, con
troversy and discussion among naval
architects since the construction of
the modern navy began and doubt
less always would do so. There was
always a fight between armor men
and armament men, between steam
engineering departments and other
departments, but the result in the
end had been the construction of ves
sels which present the best knowledge
of naval architects.
No nation had followed the French
style of naval construction. That
was a distinctive class by itself, but
in general there wassimilarity among
the English, American and Japanese
styles,
the crippling of the canal by spies
armed with dynamite will be small,
provided that armed guards are main
‘talned at Miraflores and Gatun locks.
?'rhe Gatun lock is located seven miles
from the Atlantic, and the Mliraflores
lock eight miles from the Pacific.
br. Flexner's Serum
i Cares Meningitis Cases.
. Newport, R. I.— The latest two
cases of spinal meningitis that ap
peared among the apprentice seamen
at the naval tralning station here
have been treated with success with
the new serum, the discovery of Dr.
Flexner, of the Rockefeiler Institute,
;"th cases were those of F, F. Craw
ford, of Charlestown, 111,, and R, B.
}.!(ozm of Lipton, Tenn., new re
cruits in the
| ‘ln the naval service, who were
‘i ke sm alter thelr arrival at
~ A POOR CLOTHES RACK.
After a long and wasting illness a
North Country man was about to don
his clothes for the first time,
“Jock!” called Kis wife from an ad
joining room, “heg thau getten all thy
claes?”
The gocd man, with a lively sense
of his emaciated condition, replied
dryly: 4
“Aye, Aa’s getten me claes reat
eneuf, but there’s nowt tc hang ’'m
on!”—Tit-Bits.
THE ANNUAL CALL.
Mr. Wrinkleton States His Views on
the Subject of Vacations.
“It ism’t the cail of the wild,” sald
Mr. Wrinkleton, “nor the call of the
tame; it'’s just the call of the vaca- |
tion time. |
“l find my work now dragging on
me; it takes me twice as long to
do anything now gas it did a month
ago, and I don’t do it half so well. As |
a matter of fact I don’t feel like doing
a blessed thing; that is, in the way
of labor. I could loaf or I could play
with great strenuosity, but on my |
labor side I am all run down. What
I want and need is a change. I want
to g 0 on my vacation, |
We wind up our labor machinery
to run just about so long, aboit one
year; and after that we need a com
plete rewinding. Sleep will check the |
unwinding of the spring, and even |
wind it up again sufficiently to keep
us going from day to day for the
period the clock is intended to runm,
but when it comes to the end of the
year we are all uncoiled, and then
there is nothing to do but te wind
up completely again, which we do
automatically on our vacation, the
power we develop in loafing or play
being stored in the spring.
“I have known men who never fook
a vacation and who yet, worting
along thus steadily without a break,
did their work well, but I am con
vinced that it doesn’t pay. And lam
satisfled that the men who do keep
plugging along and doing their work
well, without taking any vacation at
all, pay for it in the end.
“So I think everybody ought to have,
a vacation, but I do think thatr per
haps many of us think too much about
it and wind ourselves up for the year
with' too narrow’ a margin left aver.
You see how this sort of thing ®per
ates with a good many people in their
winding of themselves for a day'’s
work; they stop all of a sudden and
g 0 all‘to pleces the minute the whistle
blows. You can’t get a lick of work
out of them after that. Y
“And it's so, I fear, with many of
us about our vacations; we want to
go when our time comes and we're
no good after that.”—New York Sun.
Army Language. |
In the army there are expressions
pmihir{to itself. !}!eard from the
first time by outsiders, they need in
terpretation.
Among the most common are “hike,”
for “march;” “striker,” for a soldier
serving as a body servant or house
man for an officer; “C. 0.,” for “com
manding officer;” and “O. D.” for
“officer of the day,” “hop” and “hop
room,” for *“dance” and “dancing
room!” “citz clothes,” for “civilian
dress;” “commissaries” for “grocer
ies;” ‘“coffee cooler,” for an officer
who is always looking for an easy job
in some staff position; “found,” when
an officer fails to pass his examina
tion ;“shavetall,” for a youngster just
out of West Point. Among the ?I
diers the expressions have multiplied
until quite a vocabulary of strange
words has been established.
“Bobtail” is ‘a dishonorable dls
charge. “Orderly bucker” is a sol
dier who when going on guard duty
strives by extra neatness of appear
ance to be appointed orderly to one
of the officers. “Dog robber” is the
soldier's contemptuous expression for
“‘atriker.”
The Oldest Bank.
There was a kind of public record
offfee attached to the palace and
tegeple at Nineveh, in which it was
customary to deposit important legal
and other documents. Among these
ther¢ were discovered official state
ments as to the transactions of the
emirent banking house of Egidu at
Nineveh. Assyrian chronology proves
that these refer to a date about 2,300
years before the Christian era, when
Abraham dwelt at Ur of the Chal
dees, as is stated in Genesis. We
may, therefore, claim for this firm
the reputation of being the oldest
bank in the world.—T. P.'s Weekly.
PANTRY CLEANED
A Way Some People Have,
A doctor said:—
“Before marriage my wife observed
in summer and .country homes, com
ing in touch with families of varied
means, culture, tastes and discrimi
nating tendencies, that the families
using Postum seemed to average bot
ter than those using coffee.
““When we were married two years
ago, Postum was among our first
order of groceries. e also put in
some coffea and tea for guests, but
after both had stood around the pan
try about a year untouched, they were
thrown away, and Postum uged only.
“Up to the age of 28 I had been
accustomed to drink coffee as a ronu
tine habit and- suffered constantiy
from indigestion and all its relative
disorders. Since using Postum all
the old complaints have completely
left me and I sometimes wondet if
I ever had them.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read ‘“The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a rea
son.” - iy g SRR 00l 4
# Good Roads. §{
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Pope on Good Roads. .
~ The good roads movement always
has aitracted the favorable a,ttent.ion"
of automobile manufacturers, both ln-:
dividually and collectively, and in his
annual report Albert L. Pope, retir
ing president of the National Asso-’i
ciatian of Automobile Manufacturers,
commented on the subject as follows:@i
‘‘Brief intimation has been given|
to You in earlier reports of the work
performed by your committee on]
highway improvement. The most
satisfactcry Iresults have been ob-/
tained. The committee has been'
working quietly for three years.‘
studying the good roads movement‘;
throughout the country, with the!
idea of making sure in which direc-!
tion it could best expend its efforts.!
Analysis has shown that most of the'
good roads organizations have only;i
been able to accomplish good locally,!
and that there is to-day no represen
tative national good roads mo’@tement?
including all industries and individe'
uals desirous of better highways.!
With this idea in view, this past sums
mer has been spent in gathering to
gether the larger industrial interests
who could be counted on for flnancla;l‘
support in this movement and in thel
perfecting of an organization that'
might reaily accomplish somethingi
in a tangible way. 5
“Just at the moment the plans ob,
the committee are culminating in a
long hoped for combination of intetj-i
ests, which will be absolutely national
in its representation and will un
doubtedly be heard from in every,
State within the next three months.!
The committee points with pride .to
the fact that it has had an appropriay
tion at its disposal for some two years
past to further this work of organi
zation, hut has not utilized it, owing
to its desire to spend no money until
it was sure of the proper policy to
pursue, and now has this policy: so
well outlined that within the next
few months rapid progress will un
doubtedly be made, Active work is
now under way, and the last appra
priation of SSOOO, made by the asso
ciation some months ago, will be util
ized for this preliminary work, in con-~
junction with like appropriations of
the Association of Licensed Automo
bile Manufacturers and the American
Motor Car Manufacturers’ Associa
tion, and the donations of individual
manufacturers, most of whom have
signified their intention to contribute
liberally. We believe that at last the
automobile interests have identified
themselves with the good roads move
ment in such a way that direct benefit
will be derived, not within ten years,
but within the next two years.’—s
Boston Post. Pk
' Road Construction. 4
We are told all about making ma:
cadam roads in the latest bulletin of
the Office of Public Roads, Depart
ment of Agriculture The work gtyeal
in detail the best practice in macad
am road consiruction, and especially,
that followed by the Massachusetts
highway commission. It may not be
50 generally known at this time that’
the word macadam is derived from:
John L. Macadam, a Scotch engineer,
who in the early part of the last cen
tury invented the process of road
making which bears his name. y
The macadam type of road surface
ing is connecting. centres of popula
tion, on which there is a moderate
amount of travel. It is not an eco
nomical form of pavement for the
main streets of cities'or large towns,
and it is usually too expeusive for
country roads other than the main
ways. It resembles closely the gravel
road. When the road built of gravel
is not quite sufficient to resist sucs
cessiully the wear and tear of the
trafic over it, macadam surfacing
may usually be substituted for the
gravel with satisfactory results. ?
The bulletin states that, singularly,
enough, at the present time the worst
foe of the macadam road is, perhaps,
its most ardent advocate—the motor,
vehicle. The steel wheels of the or
dinary vehicle grind off sufficientf
powder from the stones to serve as a
binder, replacing the binding mate<
rial blown away by the wind or
washed off by rains. But the swiftly,
moving motor car of the present day,
has introduced a new problem into
road mantenance. The large rubbeq
tires on wheels of small diameter ap
pear to esert a suction on the blnder,
of the road. The vacuum caused by
the vehicle moving rapidly over the
road lifts the dust into the air in
clouds, and it is blown away into the
fields. Various substances are being
experimented with for application tq‘
road surfaces to lessen or obviate
this evil. Coal tar and oils with an
asphaltic base seem to give the best
results. In France tar has been used
for several years, it is sald, most sate
isfactorily.—~—New York World, .
Cold Weather Prophet. A
One of the rarest birds to New,
England is here, prophesying a cold,
hard winter. It is the red poll. Only,
in the most severe weather does the
red-headed bird venture from the fro
zen lands’ of the North, and when he
does it always means a cold, severe
winter.—Boston Record. .
Nothing Doing. e
“Please, mum,” began the aged
hero in appealing toneg, as he stOOd:
at the kitchen door on washday, “I've
lost my leg—" '
“Well, I ain’t got it,” snapped the
woman, slamming the door.—Everys
bOdy'!- “i
As a producer of woolen clothing
Massachusetts 1s pre-eminent {in
‘America, . -
