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The Dolores star., 1903-07-17
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"tor the past five years I have
rarely been without pain, but Pc
runa has changed all this, and In
a very short time. think / had
only taken two bottles before
began to recuperafe very quickly,
and seven bottles made me WE'LL
do not have headache or back
ache any more, and have some in
feresf In life. give all credit
where 1t is due, and that Is to Pc
runa.--Emma MITCHELL
BY far the greatest number of female
troubles are caused directly by catarrh.
The Dolores star., 1903-07-17
A MER1CA is the land of ner-
. vous women.
The great majority of ner-
yous women are so because they

are suffering from some form of female
disease
Mrs. Emma Mitchell. $50 Louisiana
street. indianapolis. Ind. writes:
'Peruna has certainly been a blessing
in disguise to me. for when 1 first began
taking it for troubles peculiar to the sex
and generally worn out system. l had
little faith
The Dolores star., 1903-07-17

3 Baxter's "Bullhead' scent cigar.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

n OWN in North Carolina, among the
IL Great Smoky Mountains, lives an
Indian chief who Is said 10 be the old
est Of his race in the United States
John Kohleeostay is his name, and IT
was 10 years ago. according to the
tradition OF his people. when he first
saw the light. More remarkable than
his age. however. is KohIeeostay's sue
cessfuI defiance Of the American Gov
eminent.
Seventy years ago the sixteen noun
tain counties Of North Carolina were in
habited exclusively by the Cherokee
tribe of Indians. For more centuries
than they could count the latter had
pitched their wigwams there. and when
the United States sent troops to the
mountains with orders to move the tribe
TO the lands provided for them in In
dian Territory. they showed no dIspo-
sition TO give UP their ancestral possess
sions.
Five hundred of the rebels. led by Koh-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Strange Siamese Custom.

They have a novel method IN Siam Of
getting rid OF the bodies OF paupers and
criminals. In one of the temples Is kept
a flock Of, a hundred vultures, and tho
bodies Instead OF being buried or burned
are given to them as food as soon as
they catch sight of a body the rapacious
creatures gather around it, and it only
takes them a minute or two TO pick all
the flesh of it.
A repugnant sight 1t is, but, accord
ing to Siamese physicians. it is an ex-
cellent sanitary measure The soil OF
Siam, they point out, is generally moist,
and hence it is much better that bodies
should be treated in this way than re-
placed in the ground, for, If buried,
they would surely prove more or less
of a menace TO the public health.
After the yultures have finished their
feast the skeletons are placed in wooden
boxes and burned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Giant Flashlight.

OF special interest to the commercial
world is the new fiashlight which has
been erected by the German government
on the Island of Helgoland, in the
North Sea.
This light is not only the largest in
the world, but also the oldest, for Ger
mans declare that it never had a model.
The technicians employed on the work
maintained that the German reflector,
with its exactly parabolic ground work
glass mirror, or speculum, would prove
superior to every other device which
has hitherto been used for this purpose.
and the great success of the HelgoIand
fast flashing lights shows that they
were right
Experiments were then made in
Nuremberg and proved far more sue
cessful than had been deemed possible.
The revolving reflector of the German
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

leeostay, refused to leave their homes.
declaring that the mountains belonged
TO them and not to the whites. Fer five
years this handful OF braves defied the
Government. hiding in the impenetrable
forests from the soldiers, until finally
the United States. recognizing their
claim, allowed them a reservation
among the mountains they loved so
well. where their descendants. with the
old patriarch. KohIeeostay, still in their
midst. are living to this day
Kohleeostay. who boasts of the pureSt
Indian blood. seorns the whites, and has
always refused 10 live with them or
learn their language. He cherishes an
intense admiration for Andrew Jackson,
however, under whom he once fought in
an expedition against the Creek Indians
OF Georgia. service for which, he
claims, the United States promised to
pay him. but never did. And that makes
one more grievance the cid man has
against his paleface neighbors.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

apparatus was fully equal to the French
revolving light. As soon as this be-
came manifest. work was begun on a
light reflector or protector equal to the
largest ever used 1t was to represent
thirty million candle power and 10 last
no longer than one-tenth OF a second.
the flashes following each other every
five seconds.
This wonderful light now illumines
the entire horizon around Helgoland
In normal weather 1t can be seen for
twenty-three leagues. and in favorable
weather the beams go far beyond the
central fires or light rays. On the first
night that the new light was used its
beams were seen by people standing on
the mole at Busum. a distance of forty
miles, and since then the watchers In
the lighthouse at Amrum. about the
same distance. have been able in I'M
favorable weather to see the same
beams and were struck by the fact that
the otherwise bluish-white light of the
electric arc appeared red.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Stole to Buy Bible.


n EcIDEDLY queer objects have led
l. London hired girls" to rob
their mistresses OF late. the quaint
est being that OF a damsel OF
eighteen, who stole $3.50 in order to get
a Bible. The girl had gone in" for
the Bible. which was an especially
luxurious one, issued by a London pub
Usher on the instaument plan. She
was to pay $3.50 a month. and had done
so twice. When the time came to pay
the third irstallnent, however, the
slavey found herself short, so. rather
than lose the Book OF Holy Writ. she
stole half of sovereign out of her mis-
tress' desk. and was arrested in con-
sequence. A police magistrate let the
girl off later. impressing her with the
fact the end does not always justify
the means
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Train Three Years Late
Asst week a citizen of Texas stop
ping at one OF the hotels on the

I Asst week citizen of Texas stop
ping at one Of the hotels on the
Avenue. being in a reminiscent
mood, told the following story about the
slcwest railroad train on record:
1T was in the afternoon OF September
s. 1900. that the regular passenger train
on the Gulf and Interstate Railroad left
Bolivar Point. which is just across the
bay from Galveston. for Beaumont, the
two points being about seventy miles
apart. It was a very stormy afternoon
and the train had not gone very far be-
fore the great hurricane of that date de-
veloped its fury and further progress of
the train was arrested by the washing
away of the track ahead of It,
The train had hardly come to a stop
when the track behind it was also found
TO have disappeared. and all that could
he done was to hold the train where it
was and wait for the fury of the ele-
ments to subside. Fortunately the ter
rife wind did not overturn the cars. and
The track on which they stood was the
only piece of road in that section which
remained intact.
This little railroad was principally
owned by the estate of wealthy cattle
man and was built originally as the be-
ginning OF a road which was to bring the
grains OF the great Northwest down to
the ships on the gulf. The country
through which this little road ran was
not thickly settled or greatly developed.
and what development had taken
place received a severe setback in the
terrible storm, the country being fat and
most of it suffering more or less from
the ravages of wind and water. 1t was
year or two before the owners of the
road felt that it would pay them to re-
build the damaged section, which
reached for some miles beyond where
the train was stalled
THE train had not received very much
damage from the water and wind. and
so the management of the road wisely
built shed over 1t to protect it from
the weather.
when oil was discovered In southeast
Texas the little road began TO assume
new importance, and slowly but surely
its owners commenced to rebuild AZ
but II was in August. 1903. before they
reached the belated train. Just O62
days late, the passenger coach was
pulled into Beaumont. 1t had been ar
ranged TO have the same crew that was
IN charge OF the train at the time of
the storm bring the resurrected train
into Beaumont, and a great many pas
songers who were stormbound in the
train were invited by the MANAGEMENT
OF the road to go down and come in
with 1t and so finish their journey, but
IL was found that the engine was hardly
in condition to do any pulling until il
was first hauled into the shops and re-
paired. and so the passenger coach was
attached TO the regular train. OF August
6, 1908, and brought into Beaumont.
where 1t received great ovation and a
band OF music celebrated its arrival"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
A Notorious Criminal.

In Sweden there Is a man named
Loefdahl who is said TO be in one re-
spect the most notorious criminal on
recOrd-7s He has been charged with 40
less than 1907 different crimes He
began his career as a forger, and did
rot stop until he had forged 1900 docu-
ments. Then he decided to make money
by setting houses on fire. and he had
burned seven dwellings before he was
caught. Most of the documents which
he forged were receipts for salaries of
railroad employees, and for every house
which he burned he obtained the full
value from an insurance company
1t IS estimated that II the full pen
atty Of the law were to be imposed for
each offense Loefdahl would have to
spend several centuries in prison.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

ern Holsters and crabs, and great num-
bers Of them have been preserved in
the rocks in some parts of this country.
Quantities OF them are found in the
neighborhood of Cincinnati. Being clad
in armor made of an imperishable sub
stance known as "chitine," their forms
have been preserved in a wonderful
way, and. the mud in which they be-
came buried having hardened into stone,
they are dug out today by curiosity
hunters, who call them ''Detriied but
terfiies'' or else fossil locusts."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Running From the Rain

Gno you know" said an observant
II citizen. the habit of running
through the rain is based on a definite
tailacyg IL Is common habit. But does
IL tend TO minimize the amount or water
falling on person exposed to the rain ,
am convinced that 1T rather aggrava+os
the situation. BY experience in mss
ing the distance CT block, running one
time and walking the other ana of
times when the rainfall was ahout tho
same, ! found that my clothes n,cIod
up more water. and conseouentlv 80
damper when I covered the distance IN
run than they were when I walked 81
There seems to be a good reason
for the rather curious fact. Rain toI,.
irregularly. Sometimes there IS q sn.co
OF five or six inches between the ran
Ing drops. as we have noticed on smooth
surfaces, Ike stone tagging. and again
only the fraction of an inch will sonar
ate the drops. Water occasionally fails
in sheets, but this il not usual p,.
while the fall is irregular considered
with respect TO the perpendicular lines
described In the descent. looking
straight ahead and through the lines we
find before US sheet OF water that ,s
we'll nigh solid. We can understand
that running against this sheet of water
Will have very much the sama erract
wind would have II its direction roreed
the rain in our faces. We simply nick
up the water, and the fact that the
spaces between the drops perpendicular
ly considered are greater than the spaces
in any given direction horizontally will
explain to US the fallacy OF the whole
thing"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Adam a Lucky Man.

A DAM never lost an umbrella.
n He never blew down the muzzle of
loaded gun
He never passed a plugged quarter on
a minister.
His wife could never threaten him
with his mother-in-law.
He didn't have TO tend the furnace.
Adam never rocked the boat.
Ana he never squandered his week s
wages on a 10 to shot, and then lied
out OF IL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

in appearance. having a dark red coat
with handsome white markings, the hair
and hide in a perfect state OF preserya-
ton
The cause of the calfs untimely de-
mise is said by Mr.. Loclhart to have
been the absence OF a very important
organ from It's internal economy-name-
ly, a heart And so. you see." he says.
at was like lot of people in the world
who amt dead. however, but who have
more head than heart TO them"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
TWO-HEADED CALF AND THE MORAL THEREOF.

HIS calf Is a winner. whether the
i coin falls heads or tails for
It possesses the same generous allow
ance. a plurality Of expression, both
fore and aft.
It's owner, a conscientious farmer on
the edge of Lake George. is cautious Of
dignifying the calfs rear appendages by
the term tails He says they are not
long enough to be called such, and that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

he should say they we're mere anec-
dotesi
The calf was born seventeen years ago
on the farm of Mr.. Lockhart, who has
liven in the immediate neighborhood
for thirty-five years. Mr.. Lockhart's
son was a taxidermist, which circum-
stance accounts for the preservation of
this freak. which lived only an hour
after its birth. 1t is stuffed and set up
in normal posture and is most Hfelike
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Great Star Coming.

According to astronomers. the Star of
Bethlehem. which conducted the wise
men to the birthplace of Jesus. viii ap-
pear once more in 1910 or 1911 Josephus,
the Hebrew historian, speaks OF this
star. which is now known as Halley's
comet, and since his time it has ap-
peared on twenty-three occasions
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
MISS COLUMBIA, QUEEN OF THE GLOBE.

An American girl recently performed
the feat OF walking on a globe the en-
tire distance from London to Brighton.
The globe was ball of rubber trihe
less than two feet in diameter.
The globe walker, Miss Anna Florence,
walked on it much as the acrobats per-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
Victoria Memorial.

In the accompanying picture is shown
curious monument which has been
erected in New Zealand in memory of
the late Queen Victoria. AS may be
seen, it is quite unlike a conventional
monument. which is not strange, since
it is tribute from the Maoris, toward
whom the late sovereign always showed
much good will
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
SONG OF THE ANCIENT SPINNING REELS

The first reel that was invented was
the hand reel, the yarn being wound
into skeins by turning the wheel and
fastening the skeins after counting a
sufficient number Of strands. The flax
was first woven into thread. or yarn, on
the spinning wheel. then the bobbins,
full OF yarn, were placed on the hand
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

form IN the circus. by balancing herself
and rolling the globe along without
touching the ground.
This journey is believed TO be the
longest ever accomplished by this IN
usual form OF locomotion- Her progress
was watched by crowds along the entire
route.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

clock. When the wheel was turned,
Keeling off the strands from the bobbin.
the clock would tick when a certain
number of strands were wound on the
reel, and the housewife. instead of te-
diously counting the threads, as on the
earlier invented reel, would fasten on
the lieben.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04
100000 Years Old.

These are not bugs. They are the
first animals that ever walked on the
earth and they lived about 10000. 600
years ago Scientists call them "trilo-
bites" and declare that they were IN
doubtedly the first animals that had
legs. They were the ancestors OF mod
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-04

In spite Of it's glaring originality. 1t
is very artistic work In its way. and
as nothing like it can be seen In any
other part of the world. it has become
one of the sights OF the country. a fact
which patriotic Australians do not fail
to impress upon tourists and other Wis
itors
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-11-26
Old Public Libraries.

Though 1t is the popular idea that
public libraries are of modern origin,
there is proof that the Anglo-Saxon
kings of England were disposed to
erect them, and works were brought
from Ireland, where sciences had been
much earlier cultivated than in Great
Britain, says the Chicago News. Rut
the invasion of the Normans stopped
the spread of libraries, and the first
In England after the conquest was es-
tablished at Oxford, in Durham (now
Trinity College, In the thirteenth CEN
tury by Richard de Bury, who pur-
chased from thirty to forty volumes
of the abbot of St. Adams for fifty
pounds weight Of silver. Before that
time books were kept In chests and
not in a room styled a library. At
the end Of the seventeenth century
there were only six public libraries in
Great Britain. The first circulating IL
brary was founded by Allan Ramsay,
in 1925, whence he dlffused plays and
works of fiction among the people of
Edinburgh. So successful were Ram
says efforts that it is said that with
in seventy years nearly every town
and large village possessed a library.
The first in London was started by
Botho. bookseller, in 174O. Blrming.
ham obtained its first circulating II.
brary in 1851. The next step was the
free library, Manchester possessing
the first, in 1850, being quickly fol
lowed by Liverpool, Birmingham and
other large towns.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-11-26

height of the cataract. He Is said to
have had a habit, pronounced when
he was in his cups, of saying: Some
things can be done as we'll as Others"
He followed out this idea in his jump
ing, and it cost him his life.
On Nov. s, 1929, accompanied by
tame bear, Sam jumped from a ledge
into the Genesee river, height of
ninety-six feet. Both came out alive.
Sam longed for greater heights of
fame, and distributed handbills an
nouncing that on Nov. 13 he would
leap from a scaffold at the preciplce.
The scaffold was built twenty feet
higher than the brink of the falls.
An immense crowd gathered to wit
ness the leap. Sam prepared for the
occasion with liberal potations. He
mounted the scaffold and harangued
the crowd with all of the drunken
gravity of which he was capable. He
felt himself in need of a stimulant,
and he took one. He then gave a
run and "took off," His body did not
fall feet first, but made a half turn.
He struck the water with a force Of
1000 pounds, as figured by local sta
tistician at the time, He did not rise.
The crowd waited until dark and then
went home. That was the last of Sam
Patch in Rochester The body was
subsequently discovered in the river
at Charlotte and given burial.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-11-26
EFDIT DITORlALSA1


tiona and attract more attention British India according
to the Railroad Gazette had 25373 miles at the end of
1901 while Russian ASIA including the Chinese seizures
had only 1928 miles, Even In the past four years India
has built than Asiatc Russia Strategic railways to
supposed Russian schemes account for part In
da's mileage.
OF European countries the German Empire leads in
mileage, with 32753 miles, but it is followed closely by
Russia with 81 945 the latter will doubtless soon take
the lead. Great Britain makes but modest show in the
list under its name having but % 100 miles In Eu
rope; but has railroad In India than In Europe ha
twothrds Of the railroads in Africa and with those of its
colonies in America and Australia up aggregate
of 91 S45 miles, which may be compared with the mileage
of 100000 in the United States at the present date North
America has railroad than Europe and Asia together
the two Americas than all the rest Of the world The
aggregate of capital invested in railroads the world
is $36 000000a tidy to be invested in any one
thing In seventve years The wealth the railroads have
created developed many times exceeds this vast amount
The rapid development and utilization of the resources OF
country made possible only by network Of rail
roads-Baltimore Sum-
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-11-26
Could Not Re Deceixed.

An Englishman travelling In Russia
furnishes the following Incidents to
a London paper-an incident which be
personally witnessed and which he
says shows better than volumes of
description the customs and social con-
ditlons of Russian peasants: AT a
railway station the train is on the
point Of starting. As usual in Russia,
the bell rings three times before de-
parture, to warn the passengers to take
their seats. At the first ring the chief
conductor, seeing on the platform a
group Of peasants standing humbly
and cautiously together, says very pO.
lltely to them: Gentlemen, the first
signal is given, please take your
places"
One Of the peasants, turniAg to his
comrades, says: "Dlmitrt, Ivan,
Steven. do you hearl The master tells
us to enter the train" "Oh. you stu.
pid," says another Are you 8 gen.
tlemani You heard him say gentle
men, He invited the gentry" There
Is a second ring Of the bell. The con
ductor calls. hurriedly and Angrily
please, gentlemen, take your seats
you htar the second signal"
The same peasant says to the 9th
ers: sit is for us We must take oul
seats: the train will start" You ASST
says his companion do you thint
you are called gentlemani Wz'
you ever a gentemanY" The thirC
ring Of the bell is heard. Tn,
conductor. losing his temper and hust
ling the peasants forward. cries