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The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
SaEed His Life.

Whitehall, ILL.,, June 8th.-Mr. Lon Man
ley had Blght's Disease and after his home|
doctor had treated him for sometime he
finally told him that he could do nothing,
more for him, and that he would surely DIE
A friend who had heard Of what Dodd's'
Kidney Pills had done in cases of Kidney
Trouble, advised Mr.. Manley to try a.
treatment of this remedy.
He did so and everyone. was surprised and
delighted to see an improvement in very
short time. This improvement grtAually
kept on as the treatment proceeded, tllB
now Mr. Manley is well. He says:
"The doctor said he had done all he COULD
for me- He gave me up. A friend advised
me to take Dodd's Kidney Pills, and in a
few weeks l was nearly all right again.
II am not dead, and can truthfully say
that l feel better today than l have for
years. Dodd's Kidney Pills are wonder
full remedy and l will always praise them
and recommend them to everyone suffering.
as 1 did"
Mr.. Manley's recovery has caused pro-
found sensation, as no one ever thought he
would recover
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

At recent meeting of the Philo-
sophical society at Cambridge, Eng
land, S. Skinner contributed a paper
on the slipperiness of ice. This has
been attributed to the presence of a
layer of lubricating water under the
body pressing on the ice. The water
is produced by the lowering of the
freezing point where the pressure is
experienced. On this view the object
glides on liquid layer, and conse-
quently viscous friction in water
takes the place of the rubbing fric-
tion between the solids Jolly has
shown by calculation that the weight
of a man concentrated on the blade
of a skate is sufficient to lower the
freezing point very considerably, and
Reynolds, arguing from the difficulty
of slipping on very cold ice, comes to
the same conclusion. In the present
paper it is pointed out that sliding
on liquid layer is a condition under
which cavitation will occur in the
liquid, and that this will aid the slip
pilg.-NatuTe,
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
PASSING OF THE ALLIGATOR.
It's Former Abundance in Florida De-
Rcribed by One Who Has
Hunted 1t.

''In July, 1879, near my home in Polk
county, Fla" said Cyrus Balcher, ac-
cOrding to the New York Sun, i was
one of a party of nine men who joined
in an alligator hunt on what was
known as the Hooker Prairie, but in
reality was chain Of bayoug Within
an area of less than one mile around
we dispatched 224 alHgators. They
ranged in size from three feet to IL,
the average length being seven feet.
Il came north 20 years ago and did
not go back to Florida until last win
ter, when visited my old home. When
I expressed a wish to go out and bag
a few alligators folks looked at me in
surprise, and told me there hadn't been
an alligator on Hooker Prairie in ten
years, and people around there had
almost forgotten what an alligator
looked like.
Hunting the reptiles for the leather
market had caused them to become ex-
tinct where they had once been almost
as plentiful as the flies that covered
them as they basked in the sun. And
with the departure Of the alligators,
they told me, the flies had also almost
entirely disappeared.
81 remember once, in those good old
alligator days, a party of us were out
deer hunting. Our dogs started deer
and took it to the river, into which it
plunged, to swim across.
1T never got across, though. It was
captured by big alligator and lugged
back to the river bank. When we fol
lowed the dogs to the spot we found
that the alligator had whipped them
off and had the deer half deyoured. We
lost the deer, but got the alligator.
"Once anotherman and myself pulled
a ten-foot alligator from burrow in
the bank by running a long-handled
boat hook into the hole, which the al
ligator seized in its jaws and held on
to, This was the same alligator that
had come out of the bayou the day
before where an old darky named
Gabe Doan had fallen asleep while
fishing, and bitten the old chaps leg
off at the knee.
81 would no doubt have had the rest
of old Gabe, too, if two other fisher
men hadn't heard his yells and hast
ened to the spot. When they ap-
preached, the alligator slid into the wa
ter, taking Gabe's leg along with it.
The men carried the darky home and
he got well, and saw him stumping
around on the wooden leg that took
the place Of the one the alligator bit
off.
"On'one alligatoring trip along Hook
er Prairie 1 myself killed 16 big alIiga-
tors and destroyed more than two bar
rels of alligator eggs"
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
PHOTOGRAPHIC THE DEAF.
A Task That the Operator breads
and Is seldom Satisfactory
in Results.

If deaf people had the same dread of
photographers that photographers
have of them, they would not often
have their pictures taken. The artist
dislikes them, not because of their in
trinity, but because they take poor
pictures, says the New York Times.
"Why DO they show up SO badly in
a Photograph" asked the visitor in
whose presence such complaint had
just been made.
81 don't know why" was the reply,
'but they do. Judging by their express
sion at that time they must be expect
ing the camera to go off at the critical
moment with a Fourth-of-July racket,
and they are all on edge to hear it.
Their eyes never look like other peo-
ple's eyes, nor their noses like other
peoples noses, nor their mouths like
other peoples mouths. suppose that
is partly due to the difficulty in making
them understand instructions. l may
pose a deaf man before the camera
ever so artistically, but before l get
five feet away he is dropping over again
in the most detected attitude.
Hold your head up 1 shout at
him.
"He opens his mouth wide and en-
circles his ear with his palm.
What's that?' he says.
81 go back and jerk him into shape.
We repeat that performance half a
dozen times. BY the time the poor fell
low gets an inkling of the require
ments of Photographic subject, ,'he is
in state Of nervous collapse that does
not add to his physical fattractiveness..
But after all that preparatory twssle
we do not like to postpone the great
event, so we take picture. Naturally,
it is not a good one. The man is not
satisfied; neither am |, but it is not
much use to repeat the performance,
for he is not likely to get better one.
Altogether, there is a strained,
tense look on the pictured face of
deaf person which not even the pencil
of the retoucher can soften, and if the
photographers art were to be judged
by that small portion of his work he
would soon suffer so in reputation that
he would have to shut up shop"
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

compelled to waste many valuable
minutes in running back to their Off
ces for their coats In some of Chi
cago's big offices any employe ventur-
ing to remove his coat would lose his
Job if he did not heed first warning.
Other firms are more lenient and de-
clare that only those employees who
come in contact with the public need
swelter in coats on hot day. But the
members of one firm, themselves ad-
dicted to the shirt sleeves habit, de-
clare that they think men look well
dressed in their shirt sleeves and they
encourage this negligee in summer,
because they are then assurd that their
employees are not trying to cheat the
laundrymen by wearing soiled linen
The agitation of the burning coat
question in Chicago has brought out
the fact that employers do not care to
have boards raised at their expense.
They drive away trade and it has been
declared that employees must shave at
least every other day. One employer
says that all boards raised in his Of
fees should be tagged in some manner
during their first stages so that call.
ers will understand what is intended.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

leir grandfathers did of old. InO'-
entally, they will probably make
ore money in an hour out Of the
hicago crowd than their grandfath-
rs did in a month. They will sell
lats, porcupine quill work, bead
iork, baskets, canoes and skins This
anoe races, swimming matches and
Picturesque Indian tilting contests
ith which the Indians Of the last
cntury amused The traders. will be
oacted again for society and the
sreet rabble of the metropolis.
When the grandfathers of the pres
Mt Indians did business in Chicago tho
lhabitants of the post hired persons
haul drinking water from the Chi
ago river. Now, as has been recently
stimated, Chicago people annually
onsume a quantity of water equal to
;square quarter of mile in the lake,
oe-eighth of mile deep. The city's
links do an annual clearing house
hsiness of $S,333, 900, 900. Enough
gain is received annually in Chicago
+ fill line of bushel baskets, set close
tgether, reaching nearly four times
sound the world. Last year 2,053, 3,00O,-
90 feet of lumber came to the Chicago
1arket, while pianos were manufac-
tired in such number that had they
ben placed in line about every four
books they would have encircled the
gobe. Chicago is rich in material for
climates like this, and the centennial
will be the means of bringing Chi
ogo's greatness and rapid growth to
n q un1,ld's attention
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
ONE OF LINcoLN's BEST.
Humorous Anecdote That Was Fa-
vOrite with the War
President.

The world is indebted for the pres
ervation of this anecdote to the late
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana. who re-
lated it in Washington not long before
his death, says the Philadelphia Led
ger. AS Voorhees, told it, Lincoln had
in court a case in which he feltno great
confidence, and, agreeably to time
honored rule among lawyers eff you
have a poor case abuse the opposing
counsel0 touched lightly on its
merits, but paid his respects tohis op-
ponent, who happened to be a young
lawyer, not without ability, but very
glib, very bumptious, and a little ''toc
previous generally to make a favor
able impression on the jury. The
situation indicated" (as the doctors
say) the professional rule too strongly
for Lincoln to resist its application.
But he tempered the wind before
shearing the lamb. After compliment
ing the young man on his remarkable
flow of language, as exhibited in the
speech which he had just delivered to
the jury, and paying a warm tribute to
his good qualities and those of both
his parents, Lincoln said:
"But my young friends gift Of
words has one serious drawback,
which you, gentlemen, have wit
messed in this case. 1t interrupts
the action of his mind. His thinking
machine and talking apparatus don't
eeem to jibe. When mis- tongue WORKS.
his brain quits. He reminds me of
little steap1boat that used to run on
the Sangamon river 1t had three
foot boiler and a five-foot whistle, and
every time it whistled it had to stop"
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

Must Go,
luVenated appearances, But after the
first surprise of it, the discovery was
made that all their beauty, like that
of the painted lady of Double
Dykes" was false. Citizens are now
declaring that the new leyee must go.
The whole problem in a city like
Chicago is serious. The levee cannot
be eradicated by law. The use of too
stringent measures. say the author
tiles, is like attempting to extinguish
burning oil with water: the evil only
spreads into new districts. When the
elder Harrison was mayor he swept
all illegitimate resorts into one gen
eral neighborhood He did not at
tempt to destroy them wholly.
Gradually, because the street car
patrons demanded it, State and Clark
streets were purged at least so far
as outward appearances went. The
levee. thus further restricted, moved
south and east and between streets.
Proprietors of snowy saloons who
thrive best near evil resorts and who
cannot afford to leave the thorough
fares have now tried Wabash avenue,
some Of them spending $4,000 or $780,
600 in repairing old buildings. But the
vigilance committee of citizens is
after them, and Chicago awaits their
next move.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
In Jaal for sneensnE.

Az one Of the good, kind ladies waS
Walking along the tier after the church
was over, saying kind words to the un-
fortunate sons of Adam, she stopped in
front Of cell 6O2 on the sixth floor.
She said: my good, kind man, what
In the world ever put you in here"
He said" "Sneezing'
She said; my goodness! How in tho
world could they pvt you in here for sneez-
Ho said. Il woke the gentleman up."--
Cook County Jail Journal
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
Reneat of Forage crops.

Those states which are noted for
the production of forage crops not
only have maintained the original fer
tility of the soil, but they spend for
commercial fertilizers less than one
per cent. of the annual size of their
crops, while those states which pay
least attention to forage crops have
impoverished the soil and spend an
nually for fertilizers from five to nine
per cent. Of the total value Of their
crOps-Agricultural Journal
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

his tiance. But then it must be taken
into consideration that Chicago g.
pretty we'll pleased with Mr. Palmer
and is not yet very well acquainted
with Miss Brown. This Baltimore
family, however, is well represented
in the lake city, one daughter having
married Walter W. Keith and an
other having become the bride Of
Marshall Fields nephew.
Honore Palmer's social position
makes him one of the best known ex-
ponents of the new blood" that has
lately been forced into the city coun-
Gil. His campaign two years ago,
as the "sill1 stocking" democratic
candidate from the Twenty-frst ward
was a novel political feature for Chi
cago, and one that became signif-
cant when he won. Although the re-
publicans this year put up a strong
man in the person of Fletcher Dob
byns the impetus of Mr.. Palmer's
initial term and his renewed energy
carried him to victory and a second
term. While young Palmer has done
nothing brilliant in the council he is
regarded as a very satisfactory indi-
cation of progress in the journey
towards a clean council and honest
politics.
Among the other members of the
council who are not politicians but
conscientious men and careful stu
dents of municipal affairs. and who
are for that reason really the back
bone of the newer council, may be
mentioned Alderman Milton J. Fore
man, Frank l. Bennett, Henry T. Ed
mann, Walter J. Raymer and Charles
WernO.
Problem of the "Levee.v
KeS1ueHrs O1 urio'oOuuH sile III OHl-
cago who have occasion to use the
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25


en- Sides is very A''9A" D'""'
good, especially at this time.
These replicas of Columbus three
famous ships, the Santa Maria, Nina
and Pinta, are really very picturesque
and greatly enhance the interest and
attractiveness Of the park. 1t is to be
hoped that the park commissioners
will repair them, leave them where
they are, and take more care of them
in future. Of the interesting features
of the exposition which survived the
disastrous fire that followed the great
fair. those that remain in the park are
all too few. The Fine Arts building
used bv the Field Columbian museum,
the German building used as refrac-
tory, the convent of La Rabida used
tie japanese pagodas on the island
and the three caravels rottipg in the
lagoon are about the only features
that remain; yet they are all pictur-
esque in spite of many signs of decay
and without them the park would re-
semble any other Ordinary reserve OF
lawns, shubbery and ponds. The Fer
ris wheel remains in Chicago, but it
stands inactive in North side beer
garden, and is likely at any time to be
torn to pieces for the iron and steel
that is in it.
Not few of the worlds fair build
ings were purchased by individuals
and moved out of the city. For exam
pie, J. j Mitchell purchased the Ceylon
building. moved it to Lake Geneva and
made himself very odd, beautiful and
costly summer home of it. The Nor
way building may be seen on c. K. G.
Billings Lake Geneva estate. Some
one else purchased the Idaho building,
but, although it may be seen at the
Wisconsin resort, the visitor would
have to wade in mud and water to his
knees to get to it, for it stands in a
slough, where it is abandoned by all
save bats and other eerie creatures.
But even there it will remain a unique
and picturesque attraction, for its
solid cedar beams will not soon rot.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

Cottage G Grove
cable line have
lately had their
attention arrest
ed by a very re-
markable activity
in the reconstruc-
tion of old build
ings in the yicin-
ity of Twenty
second street. Al
most every night,
so it seemed, sew
eral Id struc-
lures took on new
w h i t e pillared
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

I'VE have called" explains the chair
man to the committee, "to ask you to
make an imbromptu speech at the
meeting tonight"
81 cannot" replied the great man.
81 can deliver an address, but if yon
want me to make an impromptu speech
you should give me two weeks No
tice- -"-Judge.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

Greenway Brown,
youngest daugh-
ter of one of the
"oldest and most
aristocratic'' fam
lilies of Maryland
having made the
fortunate reser-
vation. At any
rate one might
gather from Chi
c a g o headlines
that Mr.. Palmer's
good fortune is
but second to the
good fortune on
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

fall will be the in
vasion of the city
by Indians from
six diff re n t
tribes, who will
come down the
lake in their ca
noes as their fore
fathers did a cen
tury ago, land
down by the
Goodrich docks.
otherwise the old
f ort Dearborn
! a n din g, and
there reenact old
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

S e a S on h a V Q
served to show
that Chicago is by
no means all hus-
tie and no dignity.
Several brokers
at the board of
trade lost money
the other day be-
cause they ap-
peared at the pit
in their shirt
sleeves. That is,
they were re-
preached by the
police offcerof the
1000,
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

hope, only in part. With the proper
restrictions on the actions of the red
men, however, this exhibition will be
well worth seeing. Henry E. Weaver,
a Chicagoan, has saved a section of
the old fort and this Will be set up as
near the spot it originally occupied as
possible. The Indians will live on the
lake front IA their tepees and enter
into barter and trade at the fort, as
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

"Sir, you look like an optimist. You
have a happy corntenance. Lend me
dollar"
"My friend, do you know why look
happy? It's because haven't any
wealth to bother me. Cleveland
Leader.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

"He doesn't know much," said a
man to-day in speaking Of an enemy;
"and." he added, in a moment of frank
ness, - don't eifher>r--Atchison Globe.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

posed of to the
highest bidder
has raised a
storm of protest
in Chicago, but
SO far as we know
no poet has yet
risen to immOr-
talize him S e f
over the situa-
ton. And the
chance to do a
poetical stunt of
a lasting kind
over these much
abused old Wood
OIL
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

"This is a very difficult piece" she said,
as she turned from the piano. 1T makes
Ssame here" returned the thoushtless.
nan.-Chicago Post
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
CHEAP TO CA11roRN1A.
ResiNonded Too soon.

His Aunt-John, why did you enter the
ministry?
John-Because. dear aunt, | was called.
TAre YOU sure John, that it wasn't Som0'
other noise you heard ?"-Puck.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
Don,t Get FoOtsore! Get FoOt-Eases

A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot,
aching feet. and makes new or tight shoes
easy. Ask to-day for Aliens Foot-Ease
Accept no substitute Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, Ny
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

People seldom improve when they havss
no other model but themselves to copA
fter.-GOldSmith
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
rhe- indians Are coming.

We are informed that a feature of
Chicago's centennial celebration next
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
CHEAP ro COLORADO.
The Burlingtons Cheap Rates for Sum-
ameF Outing,

The Burllngton's Cheap Rates for sum-
amer Outing,
Take your vacation in Colorado. Re-
markably cheap daily tourist rates after
June 1st, and,from july st to I oh round
trip rates are less than half.
CHEAP TO MINNESOTA.
To this beautiful summer region daily
low tourist rates Of approximately one fare.
plus 81 90 round trip.
CHEAP TO CALIFORNIA.
Special half ratesround trip to California,
july Ist to TOth. Low round trip rates
less than one fare from August 1st to 18th.
Write me describing. proposed route L.
W. WAKELEY, G.. P. A., Burlington Route,
6O4 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
A New Dignity.

The few really sultry days that have
made their presence felt thus far this
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25
TIE TOPICS
OF CHICAGO
Some Timely Chatter from the
Western Metropolis.
The Young Men of the City Are Break
ing Into POIities-Oddities for
the Centennial Celebration
of This Fall.

Chicago.-Chicago's most, eligible
bachelor" is spoken for, Miss Grace
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
druggists refund moneyifit fails to cure. 25c.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

The proposal that the three Column
lan caravels in Jackson park be dis
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

We initiate only what we believe and
admire.-Wilmott.
The daily picket. (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-25

Problem of the 'Levee.y
RcS1U6uCS OI uNC' DOutu SIu6 III OAil-
cago who have occasion to use the
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-17
CHEHALISCOUNTY
LOCAL COINGS IN ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTY
Items Of Interest From All Sections of Che.
halls County, Gathered by Aberdeen Herald
Correspondents and Cleaned From Our
Local Exchanges.
MONTEyANO

Chas. Carter has purchased residence
is Academy addition.
DR.. S. L. Moak returned " ednesday
from business trip to Portland.
Mrs. F. L. Carr and daughter left
Saturday for Warren, III. Mrs. N. L..
Aver left the same day for Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Belle Calder returned Wednesday
from Sumpter, Ore, where she has beer
living the past year with her brother, w.
G. Calder.
E. D. Kellerman has been granted a
franchise to construct and operate a
private telephone line between his store
and residence along ID street.
Amos Garrison is very bad with in
fammatory rheumatism. Two weeks
ago his sister Eta went after him to
Ellensburg and brought him home. He
suffers so bad at times that he is deliri-
Gus.
The bicycle riding ordinance has been
amended so as to prohibit riding on the
north side of Pioneer street between
First street and the western city limits,
and also on the south side of same street
between First and Second streets. This
closes Pioneer street altogether to bcy-
Gle riders.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-09-17
OAKVlLLE.

Agnes Fisher of the Stumpy Bluff
Farm is attending school here this term.
Mrs Foster, of Dryad, is visiting her
uncle, u. w. Bagshaw, at the Oakyille
hotel.
Miss Daisy Dragoo, formerly of this
place but now of Yakima, is visiting
with Old friends here.
Ted Lemmons accompanied by DR..
Van Wrinkle went to Olympia We1nes-
day, where he had an operation for ap.
pendicitis.
Thos. Pearson will commence picking
hops the first OF the week. Many In.
dams are going to help in the work
There is good supply Of pickers.
Several of p. S. Austin's friends have
heard from him this week. They have
reached Edmonton alright. Mr.. Taylor's
horses went through without an accident
Frank Leisner and wife left Tuesday
for an extended visit to their forme
home in Wisconsin. Since coming t,
the coast Nr. Leisner has worked hare
and prospered.