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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-03
Mystery of CLAIMS Castle


I the claret ran short Instead of sending
the butler for more the earl himself went
| for further supply He was gone a
| long time. so long that his guests won
dered at first, then became anxious, and,
! mindful of the mystery went to look for
him. They had reached the cellar door
when the earl flung himself out and shut
and locked ii behind him. His clothes
We're torn. his face was bloody, and he
| showed every sign of having been in a
struggle with something in the cellar.
What 1t was he would not say.
CeIIerman Died.
Just about that time too, a cellarman
or man hired as cellarman-had
died and there was a long delay in fill
Ing his place. One or two men were
| tried. but after a short experience none
of them cared to stay One at least was
reported to have hurt himself, much as
| the earl had done. There was mystery
OF some sort; but only the earl, the fac
tor and the heir knew what it was-un-
| less, perhaps, the cellarmen And none
| of them would speak
ABOUT twenty years ago the local week
~ newspaper printed death notice:
Died-Thomas Lord Glamis, aged eighty-
four years.
The death notice solved the mystery
10 explain how, we must go back to near
the end OF the Eighteenth century The
eleventh Earl of Strathwore vas Thomas
bowes-LNon. who succeeded his brother
on July 3. 1920. According to the records
ne had one son, George, who was born
in 1901 and died in 1884, leaving two chill
dren, who successfully became earls of
Strathmore after their grandfathers
death. This son born in 1901 was called
Lord CLAIMS from 1920 until his death
VINO then was the Lord CLAIMS who died
In 1884. aged more than so wears?
The name. the title, all the crcum-
stances. tend to show that he was the
eldest brother, probably twin, of George
Lord CLAIMS. As such elder son, he
would have succeeded legally to the title
and estates; but he was a manac-not
harmless lunatic but child and then
man of great size and strength a mon
ster really. The suppression of an heir
who was maniac had been accomplish
ed before his time.
Dukes Son a Lunatic.
The eldest son of the second Duke of
Queensbury. in Queen Anne's time was
dangerous lunatlc, guilty of at least
one murder He was put aside and for
tunately died before his father. So
Thomas Lord CLAIMS was put aside, and
his younger brother succeeded in his
stead. Somewhere in the huge old cas-
tie he was kept. guarded by men hired
ostensibly as cellarers. The death of his
keeper compelled the earl 20 act as but
Ter; and while he was getting supplies
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MlsHAPs OF WATCHES.
Dropping Timepieces Causes Most Of
Accidents to Them.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
A man with a good watch dropped 1t
in shifting it from one garment to an
other, the watch falling three feet to
the floor He picked it up in some trep-
idation and held it up to his ear and
listened
1t was still going, and SO 1t seemd to
have suffered no harm; but when he ven
tured to open the case-this was a hunt
ing case watch-he found that the crys-
tai over the dial was broken into innu-
merable fragments
He brushed this glass off the face of
the watch, and the watch kept right on
running all right for a week. But then
1t stopped, and then the man took it
to his jeweler.
The jeweer loked the watch over and
presently, with a delicate little pair of
tweezers, picked out of The interior the
broken off head of little polished steel
screw.
MANY people drop their watches?"
asked this man who had dropped his of
the jeweler.
Half Of all the watches that come in
for repairs on an average owe their in
juries to dropping was the reply 1T
is the commonest of all forms of acct
dents to watches. Just now there are
rather more than the usual number of
watches being dropped by men on ac-
count of the fashionable habit of car
rying the watch on fob.
The number of watches dropped in
creases when this fashion comes in, as
1t does at intervals, and decreases again
when men once more take to wearing
watch guards.
But then people drop watches in d
great variety of ways, as you did yours,
for instance, in shifting 1t from one pocll-
ct to another; and people drop them by
dropping the garment in which the watch
is contained"
Are men or women more careless in
handling watches?"
Il wouldn't undertake to say as to that
but women are more likely than men are
to wear watches in some manner at
tached to their garments, or attached to
a chain worn around the neck, and so as
a matter of fact there are fewer watches
dropped by women"
How about the Children
Here, as between the sexes, girls are
more careful of watches than boys are,
and less likely to drop them. Some boys
drop their watches two or three times
day, and some seem to play football
with them"
Is it likely to hurt watch to drop it?"
Pretty sure to, and short drop might
do the watch as much injury as a longer
one.
"Of course, any moisture in watch is
bad for II, and sometimes moisture gets
into a watch i'm ways we hadn't sus-
pected. More than one fond father dand-
ling his first child and giving it his watch
to play with has found later that in
some mysterious way his watch was be-
ginning to rust But really it was sim
pie enough.
The little one had had the watch in Its
mouth, and the moisture from its lips
had penetrated within the watch and
started II rustng.
''Mishaps to watches may come from
many other causes; there is, for in
stance, the familiar breaking of the
handspring, which may snap In the
watch of the most careful man; but when
you ask If many people drop their
watches you mention the cause that
brings in half the watches that come to
the jeweler for repairs
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How De lacys Cin-ko'Na and|ron" Kills the Germ
AND CURES CATARRH o. EVERY KIND
Such 0acn the S% o as e s x"y d rs1 oo Colds %

tarrh germs = behind scattered
throughout the system. 50 as long
as these diseased catarrh germs are
allowed to live, just that long you
will suffer. Now you take the first
dose Of De Lacy's Cin-Ko- Ma and
Iron into the stomach, and before it
finally passes from the body it must
go the rounds of the veins-in 9th
er words, it is taken from the stom-
ach by these tiny sucking veins and
it INSTANTLY KILLS a NUM-
Der of these diseased CATARRH
GERMS. The second dose is taken
and in the same manner KILLS
MORE GERMS. The third dose
kills few more. and SO on till finally
EVERY DISEASED CATARRH
GERM in the entire system IS
KILLED, and you are once again
free of catarrh and back in your old
healthy condition, stronger and
better man or woman.
Now, you may ask how long this
is going to take. We frankly tell
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Gated it may be, we tell you honest.
ly and sincerely that de LACY'S
CIN-KO-NA and IRON" will
CURE YOU SOUND and WELL.
Simply continue lis use till you
know that every diseased germ in
YOUR entire system Is killed. WE
CAN STATE POSITIVELY
THAT 1T HAS NEVER FAILED
IN A SINGLE INSTANCE TO
CURE ANY CASE Of CATARRH,
STOMACH TROUBLES, LUNG
TROUBLES, COUGHS, COLDS
or LA GRIPPE, KIDNEY.
LIVER or BLADDER TROU-
BLES. We have thousands of let
tiers from every section OF the
United States and from all classes
OF people to prove this assertion.
So, il you honestly want to get
well, we can only ask you to do what
thousands of others have done, be-
gin on De Lacy's Cin-Ko-Na and
Iron to-day and be cured.
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r. G. B. in the New York Mail.
The Earl of Srtahmore and Kinghorne
is dead. Like many another British peer
he is worthy of note more for extraneous
than for personal reasons. In his case
the reason for fame was his connection
with the mystery of CLAIMS Castle
CLAIMS Castle, built hundreds Of years
ago, has long been held by the Lyon
family, of which the Earl of Strathmore
is head. Nearly two centuries ago the
Old Chevalier with eighty followers, came
to the castle, which took them in without
undue crowding. The mystery, however,
is much younger than the castle and orig
mated since the Pretenders visit
1t was first brought to public notice in
1876. when the Lord CLAIMS who has just
An English newspaper, whose article was
copied in "Littell's Living Age told how
the young man, having received the con-
gratulations of his family, was taken by
his father and his fathers factor, or
agent, into private room. What was
said or done to him there was not dis
closed: but he emerged looking very white
and Mortified, and did not take further
part in the festivities OF the uaS. 1 he
mystery, 1t seemed, was known only to
the earl and his factor, who disclosed 1t
to the heir when he became of age.
Was a Mystery.
There undoubtedly was a mystery and
many attempts were made to fathom It,
The late Laurence Oliphant told how he
was staying at the castle once when an
attempt was made which might have
been successful but for an accident. The
men in the house party had gone shooting
and some lady proposed that the secret
chamber which was supposed to conceal
the mystery should be located. Lady
Strathmore consented, and all the ladies
it was their intention to hang a towel
from each window; then an inspection
from the outside would easily show the
secret chamber, the window of which
would display no banner on the outer
wall. The ladies had partly completed
their task when the earl returned. He
saw the towels, guessed what they por-
tended and raced into the castle. where
he rated his wife and her friends. and
saw for himself that the cloths were re-
moved II will have nothing more of
the kind" he said; so the attempt was
dropped
1T was thought to be maniac member
of the family, confined somewhere in
the castle. Events seemed to bear out
the belief. Late one evening the earl
and some friends were at supper when
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he was attacked by the maniac and was
fortunate to escape with his life.
AS each heir became of age he was ia
ken aside by the earl and his factor and
made acquainted with the secret of the
mystery of CLAIMS castle. One heir be-
came of age In 1921, another in 1S43; the
late earl, as heir presumptive. became of
age in 1896 the present earl in 1876. The
new heir will not be of age until Septem-
Der, 1905. 1t remains to be seen If he. too,
is taken aside by his father and the fac
tor and If the mystery still exists.
things look however, as II 1t had come
to an end.
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MONEY IN FLORIDA HOTELS.

Is throbbing across the world.
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Starting the Furnace.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
"rll start the furnace going
With confidence he said
And down into the cellar
He went with hurried tread,
He thought it would be easy,
And heat would freely flow
From cellar to the attic
In half an hour or so.
He ratified at the shake-bar
Uutil his wrists seemed sprained
And then removed the ashes.
That from last spring remained,
He stuffed in lots of paper,
Then wood that he had chopped.
And then on that a bushel
Or so of coal he dropped.
He struck a match and lighted
The fuel thus prepared,
And half a minute later
! Excitedly he glared.
For smoke came fiercely belching
Out through the furnace door,
And where the pipes were jointed
He also saw it pour.
He opened all the windows
As denser grew the smoke:
He coughed and gasped and sputtcred
And feared that he would choke
lie CROPPED about the cellar
TIL water he had found,
And then in desperation
The furnace fire he drowned.
The smokepipe then he tackled
And pulled it all apart;
Around him SCOT came pouring.
Enough to fill a cart.
He put the joints together
Got paper wood and coal,
And watched with satisfaction,
The bright flames upward roll.
Tour hours of sorest trouble
The man had undergone.
When up the stairs he staggered.
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you it depends entirely on how
many diseased germs your system
contains. You NAV have catarrh of
the stomach, and the millions of lit
tie germs conferred around this or
gan, sapping the very life and exist
ence out OF it. In this case it would
take from one to six bottles, de-
pending entirely how long and how
bad you have suffered with your
stomach.
Then, again, the diseased germs
may only be in the throat or nose.
Or they may have attacked only the
Kidneys, or Bladde-, or the Liver,
or even the Lungs. And then, again,
if you have neglected yoursel. too
long. they may have attacked your
whole system. In this case, you
may THINK you have catarrh of
the head, indigestion. kidney trout
bles, etc. But in reality you simply
have an AGGRAVATED CASE Of
CATARRH But regardless of what
form it has taken, or how cornpli-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-03

She Is chanting her chant of strife,
And it echoes afar where the soldiers are,
In the scream of the piercing fife.
She has lighted her flaming torch
And her banner has been unfurled,
And the humming thrum of her calling
drum
Is throbbing across the world
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Man of Parts.

From the New York Times.
Stage Manager-I think you are trifie
too stout to play Romeo.
Heavy Tragedian-Why, my good man,
l could play the part of an infant in
arms! Art has no limitations, sir.
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Weeks Rhyme and DOgSerel


| With features sadly drawn.
His hands and face were blaoker
Than plumage of a crow,
But he had won a triumph
He had made the furnace go.
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son it does not take it long to reach
every organ of the system that is
covered with a mucous covering.
"DE LACY'S CIN-KO-NA and
IRON is absolute death to each
and every catarrh germ. and the pc
cuiar way in which it acts makes it
a positive cure for cata,rh of every
description. This is the way it does
it, told in a simple way.
You take a dose of De Lacy's
Cin-Ko-Na and Iror and, of course,
it goes straight to the stomach
Now, the mucous lining of the
stomach is regular network of lit
tie tiny veins that branch out to the
larger veins, and, after traversing
throughout the whole body, finally
enters the big arteries as PURE
BLOOD. But in dong this it leaves
all the irnpurities-the diseased ca
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

THE NEBRASKA SOCIALISTS.
Complete Ticket Named and Placed
Before the Voters.

OMAHA-The socialists in state
convention here, placed the following
ticket in the field:
Governor, B. H. Vail, Omaha; lieu
tenant governor, T. Carroll, Hastings;
treasurer, c. w. Stearns, Humboldt;
auditor, T. P. Lippencott, Blair; secre-
tary of state. William PARCEL, North
Platte; attorney general, l.. l.. NIL
vaine, Omaha; commissioner of public
lands and buildings. A. d. Peugh,
Grand Island; superintendent of public
instruction, Mrs. Mary Pierce Rowe,
Omaha.
Presidential Electors-L. Westgate,
Lincoln, of the First congressional dis
trict; j. A. Jacobs, South Omaha, of
the Second district; L. DeVore, Laurel,
of the Third district; D. C. Omstott,
Gering. of the Fifth district: Harry
Lamplaugh, North Platte, of the Sixth
district. Delegate-at-Large-J. ]. Har.
mon of Grand Island and L. V.
Humphreys of Atkinson.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
The BROOKLYN BRIDGE,

The twenty-first anniversary Of the
opening of the Brooklyn bridge took
place recently. 1t has been a busy
place since 1883. The total receipts
thereform from 1883 to 1898, when
the structure passed into the posses
sion of the railroad companies, were
S17,272,S90, and the expenditures for
the same period were $1S,151,3 01. The
railroad earnings from 1883 to 1898
were $13,734,81S, and the earnings
from the roadway in the same period
$1,205,4 AGO. The Brooklyn bridge cost
in the neighborhood Of S16,000,000.
Z he cost of the structure itself was
81 100000, while the cost of acquir.
ing real estate, ETC., for the terminals
was about $4,500,00O. The cost of the
Williamsburg bridge, the second Of
the East River bridges, will be in the
neighborhood of $20,000000. The cost
of the williamsburg structure will be
less than that of the Brooklyn bridge
structure, but the expense of acquir.
ing real estate for terminals and ap.
proaches was greater.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
A Psylno WASHINGTON Industry

Cascara bark peeling has become
an active industry ia the forests of
western Washington. The bark Is
taken from the barberry and chittim-
wood trees that grow profusely in the
Grays harbor district. 1t has COM
mercial value of 8 cents per pound.
An ordinary treo yields from 80 to
100 pounds of the dried bark Whole
families are engaged in collecting the
bark and selling to dealers. Some
men make IS day at the work. En-
tire sections are contracted by eastern
buyers and peelers engaged to supply
the bark. There is talk Of petitioning
the legislature to enact laws for pre-
serving the trees, which are more val
liable than any timber grown in the
native forest. The bark is used for
medicinal purposes. 1t is estimated
that one pound of dry bark will make
enough liquid extract to sell for 50
at wholesale.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Christian Women Bury Errinq Girl.

CHADRON-After holding the body
In the Mead undertaking rooms for
over week trying in vain to reach
an aged mother in Canada, Doris
Davidson, the young woman from Cas-
per and Douglas. Wyo., was buried I'M
der the auspices of the Woman Chris
tian Temperance union. 1t will be re-
membered she committed suicide by
taking laudanum in the Depot hotel at
this city last week. Nothing could
have been sadder than this funeral.
Not one human being that had ever
heard or seen her before. a stranger
in strange land, but there were pray
ers and songs and tears and flowers.
Pictures were taken of her and the
flower covered casket to send to the
mother when she is found.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
First Daugerreotype in America.

1t is perhaps not generally known
that the earliest practical information
as to Daguerres process Of catching
and holding the figure of his camera
obscure came to America through
Prof. S. F. B. Morse. In letter to
q friend in America, to be quoted in
Abraham ogardus' THE Lost Art Of
Daugerreotype" in the May Century,
Prof. Morse tells of constructing the
first daguerreotype apparatus made
in the United States from drawings
furnished by Daguerre. "My first eff
fort" Prof. Morse writes, was on a
small plate Of silvered copper pro-
cured at hardware store. and, de-
fective as the plate was, obtained a
good representation of the Church of
the Messiah, then on Broadway, from
a back window OF the New York City
university This il believe to have
been the first daguerreotype made in
America"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
TWO STEPS
The Last One Helps the First.

ne Last one Helps the First.
A sick coffee drinker must take two
Uteps to be rid of his troubles and get
strong and we'll again.
The first step is to cut OF coffee alb
solutely.
That removes the destroying ele-
ment The next step is to take liquid
food (and that is Postom Food Cot
fee) that has in it the elements ma
ture requires to change the blood
corpuscles from pale pink or white
to rich red, and good red blood builds
good strong and healthy cells in place
of the broken down cells destroyed by
coffee. With well boiled Postum Food
Coffee to shift to, both these steps
are easy and pleasant. The expert
ence Of Georgian proves how i'm
portant both are.
From 1872 to the year 1900 my
wife and I had both been afflicted
with sick or nervous headache and at
times we suffered untold agony. We
were coffee drinkers and did not know
how to get away from it for the habit
is hard to quit.
But in 1900 I read of a case SINH
lar to ours where Postum Coffee was
used in place Of the Old coffee and a
complete cure resulted, so concluded
TO get some and Try it.
"The result was, after three days
use of Postum in place OF the coffee
j never had a symptom OF the old
trouble and in five months had
gained from las pounds to 1913 pounds.
my friends asked mo almost daily
what wrought the change. My an.
swer always is, leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum in its place.
I'VE have many friends who have
been benefited by Postum.
. "As to whether or not | have stated
the facts truthfully l refer you to
the Bank of Carrollton or any bust
ness firm in that city where | have
lived for many years and am we'll
known" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a.reason."
Look in each pkg. for The famous
little book. "The Road to Wellville."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Farmers viii Organize.

GOEHNER-Farmers' meetings were
held Tuesday at both this place and
Beaver Crossing, both in Seward coun-
ty, to discuss the formation of farm
ers elevator companies. H. H. Hanks
of Nebraska City addressed the meet.
ing here and $1,000 was raised to-
ward the project. The company will be
a branch Of the National farmers ex-
change. C, Vincent of Omaha, spoke
at Beaver Crossing, and another meet.
ing will be held to complete work be-
gun.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14

Prof. William James or Harvard he
very popular with the more intelligent
and studious of the undergraduates.
When these young men, however,
make rash, or bold, or unbecoming as
sertions he does not hesitate to take
them dswn. Not long ago a sopho-
more aired some rather atheistical
views before Prof. James. YOU" the
latter said. ARE free thinker. per-
ceive. You believe in nothing" Il
only believe-haw-what can under.
stand" TIE sophomore replied. ut
comes to the same thing, l suppose"
said Prof. James.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
~gNEWS IN NEBR ASKA ~
pENNlsoN MUST GO TO IOWA.
District Judges Deny Writ OF
Habeas CORPUS.

OIStIISh ouu9cS OSHJ WIZ
Habeas Corpus.
OMAHA--By the opinion of the dis
trict court handed down by Judges
Day, Redick and Troup, no habeas
corpus writ will be allowed for the
purpose Of preventing the extradition
of Tom Dennison to stand trial for
completely in the Pollack diamond rob-
berry.
A large crowd was in the court room
to hear the opinion rendered. The de-
cision OF the court was announced by
Judge Day, who merely called the
case and stated that inasmuch as the
parties were all present in court the
decision would be handed down. He
then proceeded to read a written opin-
ion Of some length. AS soon as he
concluded, Judge Troup read sup
Elemental opinion and Judge Redick
still another, all agreeing as to the
findings, and expressing in a measure
the individual views of the judges.
Briefly stated, the court held that
the various points alleged in behalf OF
Dennison had not been sustained.
That the statute of limitations had not
run against the crime. owing to the
fact that Dennison had been out of
Iowa nearly all the time since the
crime was committed; that the gov
ernor's extradition warrant was suffi-
cient and in proper form; that the
grand jury indictment of Dennison was
properly authenticated and sufficient
proof that crime was charged: and
finally, that Dennison had failed to
establish that he was not in Iowa at
the time charged, the court finding
therefrom that he is a fugitive from
Justice.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-14
Hint for the Sick Room.

Never ask sick person what she
would like to eat or drink. Let the
meals always be nicely cooked and
their exact nature unknown till they
appear. Little surprises in the way
of food do much to tempt the appetite