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Remaining in the Port ohice Il
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is the cheapest. tits absolutely safe
and most convenient. F:>y,'
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sibleys londay M .3s5s "a
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weslsy Rip = e learning TIE.
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i Is, hes pis 8, of ~ new buggy
/ purchased Il ~ han Tuesday.
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1 jioice Is learn TIT Y ~ has ,so sfar re-
covered ~ Is IS able q be ont g far:
sass tho hotel ohios Tuesday. Is; Hi II.
nj i. 81 Humistton returned Saturday
from i trip 81 Traverse and Pope
county. While tl1ere ~ al1l:rrall,nged FOR,
/ fine farm u, ! little two
I hundrod acrss j. Pope count sss
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easy terms, where corn grows. Deep,
black soil. Coal n 90 per ton. NJ:
tritious native grasses. Free home
steads adjoining. $.fs x >. > :
Write us for information. 49, !.
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.a I. We have some Of the finest farm
and ranch lands on. the Missouri
slope, from l,' ..1: =, 49,; ~ { {. Is
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NJ y y Y, csosunt s 4 Gli a "a
,Al \ "a \, |, d y n I; \ II
INV ycnr tov l y i, 4 y. naks
syour trads y I j n. "
W John Ramage received tv.ss = so c't
buggias ma oult ators II = I.
wan ~ per large y q n h IS 4 \
ilpatterns, and low price 81 y tls I Elty
SPharmac 4 WI NJ Fl
v; Cshrist Niemanann,, Wort agt g u
.popula bop man, did bum ,ss in
'Sibley Tuesday. n iS!ss
Alrs. P eter Larso "A is AZ ldng ex-
tenslve imp y en- nts son hersresl,
Idence near MI. Al binson .:
. Albert Olund left . Y nesesday
55n,orning for Pillage where hs will
make his permanent home. :,
" j. Z orncross and famil ssirlrli arrived
Tuesday and moved into III TIE nc house
r,ecently pure chased q n. M II stanton.
u III, 1[iss Clara { Graff of Lisiinore was
the guest 81 friends il this city Tues
day: and departed for her lll[ AN. late
! the Same evening. q
SIN Reiter left for Sibllsey Ia,
Tuesday afterno DON to gilvs'elss5iln his
evidence ia the shoe case before
tie grind Jury now il sessilo, there q
d Donald Petit Of Rushmo1e has
sold his interest in theBedfor eCo.
store to q. G. 6 Constable He's I'M
decided % I'd what he: WI vi eng
age in. q III 5& 9: :5.9 / -.
& \ 10 o't put up with poor
oil any longer =: b'u,tgo ia
Loveless' and get Pennsyl-
wanna oil. %=: n. / (. .
II Deputy Sheriff Mon air was called
to Shelly. Ia, Tuesday to testify
before the grand jury il regard to
the stolen shoes from the Omaha
cars. ~ s:= I MI. Z: q 81
i, Chas Ross the young son of the
Omaha operator who has been SER
siously sick with appendicit has
taken change for the better the
last day or two f e & NJ y sss5 =
4 Mrs. NJ. C.Pettit who been theguest
Of Mi. and Mrs. g. Petit every
since the death Of their son, week
or two ago returned to her home in
Minneapolis Tuesday
Thou hast strange mott nsl for one
ia, young y substitute Ia thin that
thou a IA the Same = Rocky loun-
taini Tea, made Aby the Madison
edicine co, $3.50 I: CIV Pharmacy r, !
The little three year old childof
MI. and Mrs.. Oscar Larson died MSof
diptheria Tuesday evening. Mr.
and Mrs. Larson have the sympathy
of tho Immunity sin their great loss.
rs yt.lt
~ Mr. Binnings, formerly: manager
81 tho. depot lunch counter plead
guilty Monday morning to . charge
of using ab,lsiv e language on COM
plant oftJohn Smith. He was fined
Eve dollars. + 5 HILL u. J NJ }3S.s3
Mother, Yes one package makes
two quarts of baby 4 medicine. see
directions There il nothing justjas
good tor babies and children ssas
Rocky Mountain Ia. sbcts. city:
Pharmacy. 81 4 81 ssa 5s.}:5:s$1 $&$ts
g. The Ladies' Cemetery Aid will
give q supper s. a, o.. o.. W. hall
Thursday evening March 20, com
menoing al ; O'Clock. Every one,
knows that these suppers are a treat
besides You are assisting a COED
work Ii $ III Isl I. tE355s fSfs
s$ Mrs C. =. Van Deusen. of XII
}bourn, wis. !, n was afflicted with
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Ne. and Mrs. has. 3Sma llwood
lat ednesd1ay for Il 1aiinneep oils.
NJ Gilbert Anderson returned from,
Sioux Falls Tuesday u III . 1 s IA
n Fred Hart 81 Kimbrae was ! busi.
sneetls caller - the city Tuesday !. @s s
rank Spanord 81 Ewing tor NJ
1doinR busiiine pa ON streets STues-
ESay. B ss s ~:
". Chute bought u Majestic
11.s llz ~ Huimstto On hardware
Tuesa sf55tS. .f} 81 !.
i. il. ~ sttney /, 81 w tsrloo, 4. [,
49, tho guest 0f his bro her omoer
IMcG artney = short time N 4 sdnesady:
Mn: -. >. Bedford ofs Rushmors
wss in.the city Tnesday on her way
"a Reinbeck 1a, 70 be- present III the
wedding of her niece. a fss,
Il Clarsnco Hart I, H baker W Stsnens:
rest urant Is known as . most ex-
.oellent bread and pastry maker and
the patrons of the hakerzgy are highly.
pleased With ~ ofS the brea cakes,
etc. parhased there ..is y 4
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IEEtS - ~ IN 49, ~ 44ll1es0
Insda y,,1sas ts y % any \. yaSttiSS..s
NJ. sxcit q with ~ following
result, Total vt y aAst, 10 = 1901
,bso. II ia III Nh ne u ! \
Tor President of Co,u,ns u ~ ~ I'M y:
N II. N. Palm n; 25l S 81:
a. Glasgow NH ~ I, HI
For trustee N I. s$
u. N. Gould x, 453 al .Ss.
AR. Albertus 40 n is:i D
+ / p. ippI I. 5 \. .26S si!s
Walter Aagaard ~ 7..=S s1.$..
For Record #5 s5S N ri Y,
\ !. { J. N. Messer IN 45s A. :..5,Is
Treasurer ~ !, 5f {3}9 x ri "A.
Loren Clark 4. 331 22. l9s ~
! Merle Hnribert Il Il 1913 5t.s y q
For Assessor 81. } s5s \ # 4 ~, n NM
n j. j. Kendlen ~ Il
For Street Commissioner Il ).
s,a B. r. Thurber a 7; + 1872 4S' a. @sss$1
Pat O'connor Ill i5sya, & 367 rs
For License 1S 256 50
Against License 5s 2O3 !. ri: s$
There was no effort made by the
temperance people to get out . vote,
whatever, while the other side, di1
iderable work as it was thought
by some that the new idea Of nam
ing a ticket might possibly result n
defeating license. n. 5. Il. y: : 5 s
At this time there are al sorts Of
conjectures as to what the new
council will4do, but the members are
reti cent except that they will en-
| deavors to givea business admins.
ltration. '5 :. !. T.. .ssss ss+ K
4 IT is prophecied that Worthington
vii never see . joint caucus again,
= 4 NJ.
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The following table shows the
charges for sending money By, y.
!: press, money order, past attios ord 8
and bank draft; %.z. =
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WORT1YlNG7OA.FAL kzNNESO7A.#
l,I'iil|I|Il| Goods !.
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W do aot claim below cost because
fene pay But Do claim 70 sell
shop The city and What IS betty
from that will command the
be newest and
kest of ths sessons goods
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g.
Land Seekers F xcsl4 .
sion every week. n
Until our W-q,.arter sset 9
in Traverse and w ikiia
are closed ont Il ..s |5.s 5Il,|sI
Deep black lac I Z soil IN i : !. n
spb-soi1. I. !. ". /. !. Il 4 II: j
!: Q I ii Wells Ne Is
at 40 10 90 feet. !. \.
. =: NJ !. E. LAYTON |: I \ ] }
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8CI you hould ~ Stas he \ dee \.
There isa'i Y psstsr n a.s mads any
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qualify is:h ll the ssme y: Buy A bo pxx3
sofs NAN Critics. very cigar thu
ams. ~ smoke and A, flasor: u
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II. CLARK. 6 y. 1 IS s. tE sSS
Physician and SnrgeSalI
Residence cor. l1th street ~ Oh II
ave-, two blocks aboyeO oaTtf ILo1sOss|
Office in @. "A. II block. 6 III
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Samfpl6 1roe. 4. II .5Ss3 81; ,E2
ss Chas. DeG Graf j colored New YORK
found Hing who was cent out heresa
/ number of years no and made Biz
home at Dan Shell u turned up here
here again last week after . number
sof years absence sunday he w vaas
intoxicated D and while stopping st
sthe Western house, rs B entered ono
sof the female serl'yllant tosomis during
the night The 81 esye, an alarm
md Charls 49, aken care Of by
a odloer. MoId morning, shs
made tracks out 81 town Is rapidly
Bas ossible. VI # 0 .y:S,5s I :. .,fssas
NJ John Fitch 81 this city :.rs-s
,oeived tho .Wsekly Breeze
,l,ub lished atL san Ia1ia Obispo CaIs
ifstnia one days Til. week, which
cont aimed \ Aotice Sof the death of
.Dr. Walter Gardner Brown 5, aged ~.
wears four months and three days
Mr.. brown was q resident Of this:
county when the country was new
and was known; near and far asas
good kind hearted ,,neighbor and
friend He - !, brother-in-5 law III
Mrs.. Fitch. ..$sS.5 .{s#s
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dents palace in the Champs de Mars
This latter is a large plaza which more
resembles e vacant city lot than a pub
lie parade ground being totally devoid
of vegetation and incumbered with all
sorts of rubbish peculiar to the aver
age vacant lot. not excluding the goat
and the tomato can. The building it,
self is large. but unpretentious, built
of brick and wood, on the seward side
of the Champs de Mars A company of
ragged soldiers is always on guard. no
matter who the presidential incumbent
may happen to be. and a Calling gun is
mounted in the lower hall in close .prox-
unity to some neglected but beautiful
statuary, relics of a past age when one
of the executives had a spasm of re-
finement and undertook to embellish
the palace. The white marbles today
are soiled with the finger marks of the
dirty 'soldiery who lounge about on
guard. but other than this they have
not received much attention.
The soldiers are nearly ali barefooted,
clad in ragged regimentals and carry
their guns like so much cordwood
Once in awhile one OF the numerous
generals comes around and shouts at
tention" when such of the soldiers as
are within hearing shuttle up in an ir-
regular line, dragging their guns be-
h1nd, ana GO through what lhey IOndiy
believe is a drill. such as is prescribed
by great tactieians. Their, this over,
they lounge back again to their fa-
vorite pastime of drawing circles in the
sand with their toes or shooting craps
When off duty, the Haitian soldier
sometimes puts in his time begging
from passersby ON the streets, pleading
as an excuse. that his pay is in arrears
and he will have to wait till the next
revolution for a chance to get even.
As this is generally the truth. or at all
events quite a reasonable assumption,
the soldier sometimes does very well by
waylaying people on the street corners
and soliciting from door to door.
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BEES, TONGUES.

Man is often blamed for driving TO ex-
tinction many sorts of beautiful crea-
lures, but the account is far more than
balanced by the amount of good ne mas
done for those animals which proved
useful and could be tanned. Take the
case of the bee. The bee lives by IT'S
tongue, with which organ it is able TO
extract the honey from flowers. NOW.
a bees tongue is about twenty-httn
of an inch long. Clever beekeepers by
keeping only those bees with naturally
long tongues have succeeded in length
ening the tongues of a number of bee
colonies to the extent of another hum
dredtk OF at inch.
It docs not sound much, but 1t en-
ab,es those insects to do a quarter as
much work again in the same time
Man has done more than this for bees
He has given them ready made homes,
where they are safe from wasps and
other enemies; frames for making their
combs without using large quantities OF
wax for outside walls and food during
f1owerless weather.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Andrew Carnegie
in fact, who was going about the
world seeking for suffering scommuni-
ties to enrich and poor towns in need of
paintings and libraries. Now he is al
luded to by the press as a commercial
Mr. Hyde and a philanthropic and ar
tistic Dr. Jekyll." 1t all depends upon
the point of view, you know. Now if
BritiSner had gone to America and
come back here with half your com
merciaI fleet sailing captive in his wake
there would have been paeans of re
joicing and loud acclaim for the man
who had succeeded in ''NIorganizing
the American marine for the benefit of
John Bull. Esq.
Nov. just what has J. Pierpont Nor
gan done to merit all this vituperation in
the press and to create distrust and
jealousy in the British breast? Why, he
has merely organized another combine
patterned after the billion dollar steel
/ trust which he sprang upon an unsus-
pecting world last year. only this time
it is a sea combine instead of a land
one. 1t is merely the community of
interest idea carried to it's ultimate
/ conclusion. Mr.. Morgan made a move
in this direction last year when he
bought the Leyland line. That was but
a single line, after all, but by the howl
of rage and indignation that went up
over here at the time one would have
thought he had corralled the entire
commercial marine of Great Britain,
with it's navy and other things thrown
in.
The British can't say. in fact. that
they did not have sufficient warning
of the projected consolidating of their
ships under the direction of an Amer
lean company; but, you see, they trust
ed too much to Mr.. Morgan's love for
Britain and his intimate acquaintance
with the aristocracy. 1t seems, after
all. as though even our aristocracy over
/ here-and of course we will not admit
that there is any real article of the
kind anywhere else-thinks more of the
almighty dollar" than of patriotism,
for there are members of the aristoc-
racy engaged in the shipping business,
! and if they had not been willing to sell
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lost his life by the bursting of his ball
loon. He had assembled at the Mount
Holly fair grounds at Charlotte, n. c.,
where he was to go up three-quarters
of mile and then descend by para
chute. When. however, the balloon
had risen to a height of 200 feet, the
gas began to escape. and at 300 feet the
aeronaut fell to the ground.
While there have been comparatively
few fatal accidents to aeronauts prop
er, the number of parachutists who
have been killed is very large indeed.
Scarcely a season passes without long
list. A lieutenant in the British army
in India who made an ascent at Bonn
bay met with a frightful death by the
collapse of his balloon, which split
asunder when at a height of about a
thousand feet and precipitated him to
the earth. He had previously made an
ascent to a height of II, 600 feet, and at
the time he met with his death was at
tempting to achieve at least 49, 600 feet.
One of the noteworthy accidents was
that to Herr Lilienthal of Berlin in
1896. He had been experimenting with
aeronautics for twenty-five years and
had invented flying machine with
which he could sail from an elevation
to a lower level for a distance of sever
al hundred yards. but one day he lean
ed too far backward. causing his ma
chine to lose its balance, and falling to
the earth. broke his back.
Then there was the accident to the
big balloon Governor Russell on Boston
Common July 4, 1892. Three men were
in the basket. including Professor G. A.
+ Rogers, who was then making his one
hundred and nineteenth ascent. The
balloon collapsed when about a mile
high, and the professor and one of his
companions We're drowned in Dorches-
/ ter bay.
An expert in parachuting mentions
I several accidents he had noted in a sin
I gle season. Three men were drowned,
j one man fell into the sea off Honolulu
and was eaten by sharks, another fell
and was impaled upon an iron rod. In
1898 Miss Tillie Sabern, a pretty girl
| of Anderson. Ill. was killed in making
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So much has been written about the
nlthy streets of the capital that I will
cnIy remark that they are now under
gong cleansing-that is, the early
summer rains are on, and the filth
heaps, dead cats, mules and goats ar.
belng gradually swept toward the bav
Inc holes remain, however, and it is
owing to the broken condition of tbe
streets that we foreigners rarely 90 ont
OF nights Another reason is that in
times OF revolution like the present tba
sentrles on every corner have a die
agreeable habit of '.potting'' such wav-
farers as they may discover aftar
O'Clock at night
1t does not much matter who ;- 49,,
dent actually seated or in nros,,a -. ~
me government goes on lust tba
sane-that is, the honest fellows nm -,
the mountains pick the wild coffee 80, -
cut the valuable timber, from which
when shipped to foreign parts tba -;oH
revenue is derived-and vhoa,,a., iic ca
whenever party. has. possession Of the
from. EDWARD nj cU ,leIl. mere
Port au Prince Haiti. ON'
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respectable a man as could be found to
fill the executive chair. 1 have known
him for several years, having first met
him i'll 1872, when he was minister of
foreign affairs. He is a black man of
great ability, was recently minister to
Paris and speaks several languages
with fuency. He was at one time a
great friend of former President HIP
polyte the immediate predecessor of
General Sam, and it was thought at the.
time of Hippolytess untimely death that
Firmin might be his successor. But the
opposition united on General Tiresias
Sam, who was in every sense of the
word a dark horse and he was elect
ed by an overwhelming vote-that is,
the army and the navy We're for him
and he held the office for more than six
years out of the seven which constitute
the official term. He came nearer to
completing his term of office than any
ten out of dozen of his predecessors,
and having been in six years, the poll
ticians were saying that in that time he
should have feathered his nest quite
sufficiently and ought to get out. So
out he got, not because he wanted to,
but because, being over sixty years old
and desiring a little leisure in which to
enjoy his accumulated wealth, he saw
no other way in which to accomplish
his desires. 1t is a good thing to know
when one has had enough, but ten to
one Simon Sam will soon tire OF his
exile, and when the next presidential
revolution occurs-due within a year or
two-he will be swelling the ranks of
the "outs' who want to get back in.
I have mentioned the navy as a de-
cisive factor in settling the presidential
question, but, it is really second to the
army. which consists of some 10000 SOL
diers. supposed to be ablebodied and
imbued with republican PRINCIPLES
About 5000 of the total are quartered
in and around Port au Prince and Cape
Haitien. and a goodly proportion of the
number are stationed about the presi-
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though there is as little risk attending
the profession or avocation as any to
which the term extra hazardous may
be applied. During the first century OF
ballooning the number of fatalities, so
far as is known, did not exceed twenty
five, and there have been comparative
ly few in the past decade or so. While
some imagine that the bursting of a
balloon or the gas bag of an airship
when at a high elevation would neces-
sarily mean the death of the aero
nauts beneath it at the time, such is
not always the case. Both Low and
King have had their balloons burst
above them and yet subsequently made
safe descents. A simple bursting ow-
ing to giving away of material of
which the gas bag is composed and an
explosion of gas owing Gas was the case
in the Severe Academy to ignition from
the motor are very different things.
When the envelope of balloon or gas
bag merely rips, the gas generally. es-
capes slowly, and the aeronaut may
have time to make a parachute descent
before the bag entirely collapses.
1t is said that the fatality to the first
female aeronaut, Mime. Blanchard was
due to her setting off fancy fireworks
when at a great height above Paris.
The escaping gas from her balloon
caught fire and exploded. She was
dashed against the iron ratings of a
tall building and killed
One of the most notable accidents due
to the bursting of a balloon occurred
nearly twenty-seven years ago. Pro-
fessor W. H. Donelson and n. S. Grim
wood made an ascension on the 18th of
July 1875 and were carried by high
winds out over Lake Michigan and
drowned. 1t was Professor Donelson' S
one hundred and thirty ninth ascen-
sion, and he was considered careful
aeronaut, but the gas bag of his bal
loon was leaky, and when over the
lake, owing either to it's being struck
by lightning or dashed with violence
against the waves, it collapsed, and
neither of the balloonists was ever seen
again.
Thirteen years ago Professor Perry
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NICE the sad accident to Senior

- INCE the sad accident to Senior
Augusta Severe. the amateur
aeronaut, the gas bag of whose
airship exploded above the city
of Paris. people are naturally inquir-
ing as to the safety of aerial naviga-
ton. There are those who aver that
but for an accident as they term it,
one may navigate the air so long as he
pleases and. provided he takes even or
binary precautions, there is little dan
ger of any fatality ensuing. On the
other hand, the majority of earth
jewellers maintain that aerial voyaging
always has been and always will be
dangerous. The natural home of man
is on the earth, and so long as he can
manage to make his steam and electric
cars travel at the rate of mile MN
ute he should not be overanxious to IN
wade the atmosphere. y mile a minute
is fast enough for anybody, and we
ought to be satisfied with that speed so
long as we inhabit this mundane
sphere.
The first professional balloonist-M.
Blanchard-made sixty-six ascents,
and the end of his life found him in
bed, but his wife, who had made many
an ascent in f1er husbands company
and who took up his avocation after
he died, was killed by falling from
great height when making an ascen-
sion above Paris in the year 1918. So
the first fatal accident to a profession
al aeronaut as well as the last one of
which we have record occurred above
the streets and houses of the French
capital. So far as is known, the terri
Bile accident by which Senior Severe
met his death by being dashed to pieces
last month is the first fatality to the
navigator of a veritable airship His
machine was modelled in a general way
after that of his fellow Brazilian, San
tos-Dumont. It's great gas holder
was nearly 100 feet long, with a diam
eter of 40 feet and a gas capacity of