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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
Tooth and Breath.

No matter how rosy and kssable n
mouth may be, unless behind it there
are teeth milk white as pearls" and
sweet, balmy breath, it loses half its
attractiveness.
''Get "A box Of fine powdered char
coal Scrub the teeth thoroughly with
this once week The remainder OF
the week use nothing but cold water,
or if you like it, pure CASTLE soap.
Do not pick the teeth. Instead, have
a spool of coarse white silk, and run
strand of this between the teeth after
every meal. And now let me caution
you, never, never TO use any prepare
ton warranted to make the teeth
white
Any dentist will tell you that all
good teeth have "a slight yellOwish cast,
and that there is something lacking in
a white tooth which makes it crumbly.
and victim of early decay. And
there is wisdom in this, as in every
thing Dame Nature has hand in.
Just put piece of dead white paper in
your moth and note the effect on your
complexion.
A negro's teeth especially are very
yellow, but they look white by contrast
with his dark skin, and so. too, will
yours, little maiden. if you keep them
clean and highly polished, and your
lips and complexion bright and rosy.
And what is more distressing. both
to the possesSor and her friends, than a
bad breath? 1t may be the result,
either of Indigestion or decayed teeth.
II the former, the remedy is simple,
though one that dyspeptics are prone
to disregard. Eat slowly. and chew
your food thoroughly, and after every
meal take spoonful OF charcoal in
water. If the later. let little charcoal
dissolve slowly in the mouth, and have
the teeth attended to. the sooner the
better.-F. Armstrong, in Yankee
Blade
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
Life i'm Oklahoma.
he new cemetery south of the town

The new cemetery south of the town
is meeting with general favor.
If any reader of the Boomer sees
anything that he doesn't like in this
paper we will gladly take it back in
our next issue.
We learn that the seven new towns
started west OF this place overlap one
another very seriously. One man from
Illinois lives in three OF the towns. and
is running for mayor of all of them.
Coroner Goosefelter is so far behind
in his work that he requests us TO in
form his patrons that he Is doing the
best he can. His friends will oblige
him by not making efforts to increase
his business at this time.
Jim Triggers called on us yesterday
and traded us IA nickel-plated derringer
for years subscription TO the Boomer
He got the derrlnger from man who
died suddenly after calling Jim a
horse-thief Come again. Jim.
Rafe Thimblerigger paid Us a
pleasant visit yesterday and told us
that he had just won a fine quarter
ton at II shooting match with ten
derfoot. lie paid the funeral expenses
himself. Rafe is gentleman. King
fisher (Oklahoma) Boomer.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
Pearson as an Inventor.

When little more than a boy the late
Postmaster Pearson of New York in
vented "a life-saving boat. He was
poor and unable To raise the money
necessary 10 have his invention patent
ed. He went TO "a man of means, who
promised To- take the boat in hand and
see that it was properly put before the
public in conside ration of aI interest
in it. When young Pearson found
that the product of his inventive gem
Jus was marketed he also found that by
some legal triclIe ~ he had been wholly
dcfrauled OF his rights in it. The patent
proved valuable and boats cJnstruc ed
upon its principle are now in use all
along the coast, but Mr. Pearson never
reached cent oi profit. At the csn-
tenial exhibition in Philadelphia in
1876 the original model of this life-sav-
ing boat was one OF the things To be
seen. As Mr.. Pearson's eye fell upon
1t, he remarked % the persons who
were with him: "Tnere is my boat. v
New York Evening Post.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
The Weldon ExtraditiOn Law.


Canada is determined TO be no lon
ger the modern Alsatia, the place OF
sanctuary for American boodlers and
embczzlers. Two centuries ago there
was "A quarter in Whitefriars, London,
which was the refuge of criminals and
debtors, and if they could once get
within its limits they were safe from
arrest and prosecution. 1t got to be a
disgrace and shame to England, and
Parliament abolished il. Last week
the Canadian Parliament passed the
Weldon law, which enlarges the list of
extraditable crimes so Us to embrace
those of all descriptions. As first pro-
posed, the law was made retroactive SO
us to cover the cases OF the rascals
who have hitherto been secure in the
Dominion, to the scandal of the good
citizens thereof, but that clause, after
something OF contest, was stricken
out, and the law now only applies TO
all crimes committed after It's passage.
This law is in accordance with the
comfy OF nations, but is departure
from immemorial practice. Except
under n treaty, no nation has right
TO demand from another the surrender
Of "a fugitive from justice. A request
by one government to another for the
surrender OF notorious fugitive from
justice has often been granted out of "a
spirit OF good feeling and friendship,
but it is not accorded as II matter of
right. One of the most prominent in
stlnces OF this kind was the surrender
nf fEunnH hu ho Annpiu1, -
at the request of the United States, the
treaty between the nations not cover
ing his case.
Our eXtradition treaty with Great
Britain was negotiated in 1912. and UNI
fortunately omitted all mention of the
crimes of larceny and embezzlement.
Hence, fugitives accused OF those
crimes did not come within the terms
of the treaty and the courts both in
the United States and in Canada would
refuse to give up the criminal. But
the evil has grown TO such an extent
and has brought so much apparent dis
grace on the Dominion, as being q
refuge for thieves, that the parliament
OF that country determined TO maintain
that bad eminence no longer. The
extradit!on treaty negotiated with
England by our late minister, Mr..
Phelps, covered these crimes, and some
others that the senate appeared to OBJ
ject to, and the treaty was not ratified.
Hence the only way left for Canada
was to pass law making it the duty of
the courts to deliver up fugitives from
justice, no matter where they came
from nor what offenses they are charg-
ed with. The law is carefully drawn,
and expressly provides that the person
surrendered shall not be tried for any
other crime than that of which he is
accused in Canada. The law Is a wise
one, and will prove in the end to be
better for Canada than for the United
States. There will be no more dis
graceful accessions TO the American
colonies in Montreal and Quebec. -
Chicago Herald.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
A Painstaking Editor.

Henry NJ. Alden. the editor of Har-
per's Monthly, is one of the busiest
men in New York. He is very con-
scientious in examining articles. for.
like all editors, he is always looking
for possible literary bonanza. In
many cases. when he feels obliged to
decline an article. he sends an elab-
crate criticism OF it TO the writer call
ing attention TO its excellencies and de-
fects. and perhaps indicating what he
considers better method OF treating
the topic. Writer'S who have received
such criticisms find them exceedingly
valuable in suggestions, sometimes
getting material enough out of them
TO write two or three articles. Mr..
Alden is graduate of Williams college
and OF the Andover Theological semi
nary, and is man of wide cultivation
and deep scholarship. During his
twenty years editorship OF Harper's
Monthly he has come to know person.
ally nearly all the prominent literary
men and women of the day, about all
OF whom he has some interesting rem
iniscence or anecdote to relate.-New
York Tribune.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
How to Clean Statues.

Instead OF securing the bronze with
soap and water and Il dilution of nitric
acid, as was proposed by Miss Minnie
Palmer, the method employed by the
park commission is To carefully daub
the entire surface with ordinary wax
dissolved in turpentine. To give the
preparation the proper tint bronze
powder is mixed in, and il was applied
with ordinary paint brushes. The eff
feet produced is very pleasing one,
and. as the dissolved wax will act as n
preservative, the process will not on.
ly give the city statues a handsome
appearance during the centennial cele-
bration, but keep them in better order
for years TO come.-New York World.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

The prospects for the early admis-
sion of Idaho TO the sisterhood of
states are seriously embarrassed by
the preponderance OF Mormon voters
over the Gentle population. The
balance OF power of that territory is
virtually in the hands of the Mornons,
and they have more than once dictat-
ed the choice OF delegates to congress.
In the event of "a constitutional con-
Sention, there is little doubt that the
Mormons would attempt to capture it,
and color the constitution for the pro-
posed state to their own liking. The
situation is an unfortunate one, and
Idaho had better make up her mind
TO face it,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

a carriage horse with tail is grow
ing less and less frequent in all the
fashionable districts. How such
monstrous deformity as clipped tail
should be looked upon as adding to
the beauties of the noble animal, is
astounding. A man who maltreats
and mutilates this faithful servant
should be stood up in the stable dur
ing July and August. and while his
hands are tied behind him, horse-flies
and mosquitoes should be allowed TO
enjoy themselves promiscuously on his
nose and ears and countenance Then,
perhaps, he would realize something
of the torture his equine friend en-
dures.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

Joseph Carriers wife of Green Bay,
has novel cure for intemperance,
and it works like a charm. Joseph
used TO get drunk and come home and
beat his wife and children, but he
won't do it again, for a time at least
After he had sobered up the other
night, and while he was sound asleep,
she tied him fast, and then whipped
him until he cried for mercy and
promised 10 be model husband in the
future. At last reports Joseph was
living up TO the terms of the agree
m ent.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
Blessings of Poverty.

Jinks-"Do you suppose man with
a family can live on one dollar day
and be Chrtstian?'
Bliuks-"Of curse. He can't afford
TO be anything lse."-New York
Weekly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

for all time. The timbers were boxed
up and sent off, and they are now at
Plymouth. where ship carpenters will
set them up in Plymouth Hall, il they
have not already done so.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

A farmer OF our acquaintance has named
one of his hogs Maud, because she comes
into the garden so much.-HGstsville ala }
Mercury.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

Mr.. John Garrett who has been APP
pointed United States CONSUL to
Birmingham, England, was born Jan
nary 9th, 1913, in Monmouthshire,
England. OF Welsh parents and at the
age of twelve was put to work in an
iron mill. When eighteen years old he
emigrated to the United States and for
many years worked in Pennsylvania
as an iron puddler. About the close
of the civil war he entered on a grand
scheme of organizing labor and by his
superior ability raised himself to be-
come president of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers,
which under his leadership increased
its membership to eighty thousand
and has become one of the greatest
labor organizations in the world.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

A man in Newark, n. j., fed his
fellow employees in factory roast dog
meat to prove that the objection to
that meat is unfounded. He made the
discovery, however, when the nature
of the food was revealed to the men,
that the stomach has private prejud-
ices, for while all had before declared
the dish not only palatable, but en-
joyable, when they found what they
had eaten every one OF them was taxi
en- violently i'll. This astronomical
reformer has been fattening cats with
which TO feed the guests at the next
party, but it is safe to say that at least
those who partook of his roast dog
will send regrets.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

The Baroness Gripenburg has
started a woman's rights paper in
Finnish called Home and Society. be-
sides the woman question, it treats of
temperance and the higher education.
The men are aghast, but the plucky
Baroness says it is progressive and
American for women to edit news
papers. and as she has the means TO
do so, she proposes to make the women
OF her country familiar with her
twentieth century ideas.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

The family with 16-year old boy in the
house has no use whatever for a twenty
four volume encyclopaedia. -Somerville
Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

own self-respect. Thoroughness in
hand is increasing in America,
TO compete with Europe. Accuracy Of
knowledge is not keeping pace. New
York Weekly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

Some girls are like loaf sugar They have
no especial taste, bat are very sweet
Detroit Free Press.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

Many states have decided that Bo.
hemian oats no es are fraud, but the
courts OF Iowa have decided that
swindled farmers have no redress
They must pay up and beware OF the
next swindle.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21

II is wise child that goes out of the room
to laugh when tho old man mashes his
thumb.-Terre Haute Express
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
IMPROVE YOUR LAWNS.

How to Make the Grounds Around Country
Homes Attractive.
Nowhere does individual taste more
clearly betray itself than about the
homes of the more or less well-to-do
people scattered all over the country.
Village improvement societies have
done something toward awakening
public sentiment in this direction, but
individuals can do more by making
their own grounds attractive andkeep-
ing them in order. Herein lies the
secret of success. No amount of elab.
crate designs can compensate for un-
shorn grass, untrimmed trees or neg
lected fower-beds. If only one of the
three essentials of a good lawn is
practicable, namely, grass, trees and
flowers, by all means give US grass.
distant hills and plains may be made
beautiful by trees alone, but all ~nenr
grounds require this velvety covering
to render them attractive to the eye
and interesting to the mind" Indeed
it has been truly said that mo splendor
of flowers or of foliage would com
pensate for the absence of grass" in
which exists the nurest green of vegeta'
ton. We find. however, a poor and
Indifferent article on many country
lawns. This is usually the result OF
too much shade and a neglect to keep
up the soil. The best way to remedy
the trouble, if moss and weeds pre-
dominate, is to pillow up and enrich the
soil. Grade, if necessary, and sow with
lawn-grass seed, and take proper care
thereafter. II grass Is only thin. more
food is evidently wanting. An occa-
sional top-dressing Of some approved
fertilizer through the summer is ad
visable, but it should be put on JUS
| before rain. A coat of well-rottet
manure is beneficial in the fall. Whel
| this is raked off in the spring, gras
seed should be sown wherever bare Of
thin places are visible. This treat
ment, with the. frequent use Of tn,
lawn-mower, leu,. little to be desire,
in this direction. American Agricult
urist. .l..t
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

Twenty seven years ago, says the
Boston Journal, an acorn lodged some.
how in the mortar or between the
stones of an Ohio courthouse spire
took root, and sent out an oak shoot
To-day a miniature oak grows on tho
spire eighty feet from the ground. II
draws life from the cement, the ''skir
of the rock" and the air, but princi
pally from the air, as there is very Lit
tie cement in the spire
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
AGRICULTURAL ATOMS.

SPENDING the crops before they are made
is working to disadvantage; so far as pos
sible, pay as you 60.
MAKING good butter is not the simplest
thing imaginable, and it is not an exception
to the rule that knowledge is essential to
success.
FEW root crops are more profitable than
carrots. They are an excellent food for
horses and colts, and they stimulate the
flow of milk in COWS.
SAVE all the straw. If cut and mixed
with clover and bran good feed is Sc.
cured, while it is one of the best materials
for bedding that can be used.
WHERE regular system Of under drain.
age does not commend itself, drains al
least should be cut through the wet spots
in fields, which by drowning out viii per
haps offset the gain on other portions.
IT is difficult matter to eradicate weeds
from the land, especially from pastures
which are seldom or never plowed, but
while they remain the owner will not find
it easy, or even possible, to make uniformly
good butter.
! The farmer or gardener who has Q
variety Of peas that suit him IN growing
we'll, in yielding bountiful crops of largo.
well filled pods, and which is early enough
for his market, will do well to sow few
rows expressly for seed, and to allow none
to be picked from them.
In land newly cleared from hard wood,
or land that has been dressed with wood
ashes, q little phosphate will show good re-
suits. In old pasture land, or in land tina,
has been long In cultivation, it pays to use
it literally, and care should be taken "te
procure fertilizer that Is rich in potash.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHY.
the Wheatstono systom and It's Ingenious
and Practical INVENTOR.

E- 81 e.
rho Wheatstone System and It's Ingenious
and Practical Inventor.
Prof. Wheatstone, of Kings College,
london, was ono Of the several persons
who In 1887 claimed the honor Of hav-
ing invented the electric telegraph. He
arst applied for a patent for making
the electro-magnet act at long dis
tances. In July, 1887, wires were laid
down from Euston Square to Camden
Town Station, in London, and Prot.
Wheatstone sent the first message to
Mr.. Cooke, his coadjutor in the work,
between the two stations. The inven-
ton was Immediately patented, both in
England and America, and it is stated
rs a curious fact that the American
patent granted to Wheatstone G. Cooke
Is earlier in date by just ten days than
the first patent obtained by Morse.
Prof. Wheatstone has made many in
ventions and improvements in electri-
cal machines. In 1880 he constructed
the first electrical machine for sending
several messages at once. The tele-
graph apparatus now used throughout
Great Britain was invented by Prof.
Wheatstone. We can not give the full
details OF its construction, but may
briefly outline 1t thus: It includes a
punching machine for producing
the perforated strips of paper, a
transmitting apparatus through which
these strips are rapidly passed, and a
receiving device which marks on an
other strip dots and dashes in ink.
The punching machine will make the
holes In three or even four strips at g.
time. and in tho hands of an expert
cnced operator will punch at the rate
Of forty words a minute. When the pa
per is prepared. it is run through the
transmitter, which operates to establish
@ current whenever certain moving rods
can pass through the holes and estab-
fish contact, the currents being alter
nately positive and negative. If sue
cession of currents in reverse directions
are caused to pass upon the line, the
receiver at the opposite end will record
a series of dots To make a dash, one
reversal of the current is missed; and,
in brief, the function of the paper is to
regulate the motion of the transmitter
so as to produce reversal or missing OF
reversal, of the current at the proper
moments, and thus cause the current to
form, in its movement, dots and dashes.
The speed is determined by the rate at
which the receiver can receive, because
the apparatus contains a controlling
electromagnetic, which takes time to be
magnetized and demagnetized, and
hence, if the current revcrses too quick
ly, the marks will run together instead
of being separate and distinct. The
maximum useful speed is about 100
words a minute on a short line. One
strip OF punched ribbon will do for any
number of circuits, so that from q CEN
trail station a single strip disseminates
news to many places. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
THINGS DOCTORS DO NOT kNow
Their Ignorance illustrated In tho Robin
son Poisoning Cases.

Their Ignorance Illustrated In tho Robin
son Poisoning Cases.
There was commotfon among the doc
tors at a recent meeting of the Massachu-
sets Medico-Legal Society, when it was
found that reporters for secular newspa-
pers were taking notes. Papers bearing
specially on the notorious Robinson arseui-
cal poisoning cases had been announced.
DR.: Holt declared that there was general
ignorance of the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning, and claimed that because of this
ignorance the Robinson poisoning cases had
gone on without arousing suspicious on the
part Of medical mon. There were, he said,
at least eight cases of criminal poisoning !;
seven occurred within five years, and in
one family, and the other was that of a
relative.
The cases were all treated by physicians
OF large practice, prominent in the profess
sion, and yet no suspicion of arsenical poi
soning was aroused until an organization in
which the victims were insured tried to de-
termine by investigation why so many per-
sons died suddenly in this family.
In support of his statement as to the ig-
norance of medical men of the symptoms Of
arsenlcal poisoning, the doctor remarked
that certificates of death were given in five
" oAo AsOoAAoOA C<soCo 10 1OAAOWS, pACuAo-
mia, typhoid fever. meningitis, bowel disease
and Bright's disease.
The startling disclosure Of the stupid ig-
norance shown in the treatment of those
cases is quite in keeping with the usual in
discretion manifested by the profession in
the treatment Of persons who are sufferers
from the slow and subtle poison which is
generated in the system from diseased
state Of the kidneys.
The afflicted are treated for consumption,
apoplexy, for brain and various nervous DIS
orders, when in most instances, it is shown,
when to late, that the patient was
wrongfully and ignorantly treated for sup
posed disease which was, in reality, but a
symptom of kidney disease, and should
have been timely treated as such by the use
of Warmers Safe Cure, which is the only
remedy known that can be successfully re-
lied on In the treatment of such disease.
Such exhibitions Of stupidity by those
who profess great intelligence in such mat
tiers Is calculated to destroy confidence, and
it can be we'll said that a remedy like War
ner's Safe Cure, which places the direct
means Of preserving health in the sufferers
hands, Is far more meritorious than high
priced medical advice which is SO generally
worthless and too often based upon an
erroneous opinion as to the true cause OF
illness. ... :.
Human life is just little too precious to
the average individual to be sacrificed to
the btgotry or ignorance Of others.
l. Z - pew.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

"A florist in England claims that q
rose bush, which has been bearing
white roses for more than thirty years.
has suddenly changed, and now puts
out only red roses. The only cause as
signed for this is the enrichment of the
surrounding earth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

q FRRNcHMAN Is anxious to arrange for .
tank where q, 600 people can see tho combat,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10

II costs twenty five dollars fine or thirty
days in jsil to sell boys cigarettes in Ohio.