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The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-25

Therefore, when your ki%dneysare weak
Or out of order, you can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
If YOU are sick or "feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon
rs your kidneys are we'll they will help
oil the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys.
The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-RoOt, the great
kidney remedy, is 500 realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, and is sold
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-25

OH its merits by all
druggists in f%fty-cent
and one-dollar size
bottles. You may
-t- t-..t.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-25

have q sample Dottle Home Of swamplRoot.
by mail free, also a pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writingto DIR. Kilmer & Co, Bing-
hamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the adj
dress, B~inghamton, N. ". on every bottle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-25

About the only result of n resta
rant or boarding house keeper serviI
Strawberries to his patrons is tn
more than the usual fault is -four
with the cream.
The Red Cloud chief., 1904-03-25

This morning we saw a man eighty
years old going into a doctors Office.
IL seems to us that il we were eighty
years old we would have enough
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
A Slip of the Tongue.

The narrator was growing excited
as he entered upon the description Of
the shipwreck.
1T was n fearful moment. gentle
men. We saw that we were lost. The
life-boats had been STAYED in, and
there was no way tn escape from the
doomed vessel. Forward upon the
bridge stood our noble Captain, true
to his trust to the last, while aft were
crowded those of us who still remain
cd alive after that fearful night.
Never shall ] forget the last. awful
moment as the vessel sank My eyes
were fixed on the mizzenmast, where
some one had bound a beautiful young
girl, the belle of the ship, with whom.
not twenty-four hours previously,
hac been conversing gaily. And as
the ship went down she was borne
with IL into that seething gulf. help
less, doomed. mashed to the last -
Chicago RecordHerald.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

terms. The exchange was $685.. max
ing the total price Uncle Sam was
asked to pay $50 ton. and we were
using 400 tons n day running at mod
crate speed.
After run of ten hours the ship's
officers held a consultation The al
most impossibility of reaching the
cape without coal was only too clear
and II storm should come up the
ship would be absolutely helpless. II
was hard thing to do, but there
didn't seem to be any alternative. The
ship was reversed and put back to St.
Helena. Scotchy' was occupying the
identical position we had left him in
on his black gold mine. This time he
was a trifie more interested, because
he knew we were going to trade with
MIN, He gave us his philosophy in
this way: He had been sitting on that
coal pile for eighteen months. waiting
Tor snip to come that had to have
1t. He observed from the height of
the Vanderbilt above the water that
she came in light and that her officers
would not dare risk storm while
she stood up so high Our return did
not surprise him a bit, and he soon
got his men to work and loaded 1 900
tons in the hold. for which the federal
government paid $4,000. He said
somebody had to pay for his tobacco
and his patience, and we happened to
be the victims. He admired the
United States and sometimes felt
sympathetic-but sympathy wouldn't
buy whisky and things like money
would. Kansas City Journal.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
SMALL BOY WAS WANTED.
Demand for Sustenance Evidently
Fruitful Of Results.

Demand for Sustenance Evidently
Fruitful Of Results.
He was not more than six. He stood
hotel at Thirty-siXth and Chestnut
streets. His sturdy little legs were
bare and brown, and he looked a
healthy youngster, with his arms
akimbo and a shock of surly brown
hair blowing to the breeze.
Nav! Oh, Maw!" he yelled with
all the strength of his young lungs
at the upper stories of the hotel. The
policeman on the post stopped, two
maids who were rolling perambula-
tors halted in their parade, the pas
sengers on a passing trolley craned
their necks, and two curious team
sters pulled up to see what was the
matter.
NAV! Oh, Nav" yelled his cub
ship, louder and more petulantly, all
Oblivious of the attention he was at
tracing. The voice reached it's mark.
A window in the fifth story shot up;
woman put her head out. At sight
of her the youngster, with all his
strength, cried out:
ooh. Nav throw down my hat an
q piece of bread and butter with su.
gar on it inside!"
The head at the window disappear
ed, the maids turned away. the pas
sengers on the car laughed, the cop
grinned, and the tradesmen were just
saying Cit up TO their steeds when
a bellboy appeared. AS he towed the
small boy into the hotel he said sig
nificantly, "Your mother wants to see
you. philadelphia Press.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

At this time when the eyes and at
tention of the entire civilized world
are focused on Russia, the car and
his great army in the far east, the
horoscope OF Nichilas H. should prove
of interest, even to those who do not
believe that the position of certain
planets about the time of a persons
birth has anything whatever to do
with the ups and downs Of life
The car was born at ST. Peters
burg, May Is, 1868. The time of day
was noon. or to get the time down to
astrological nicely at II h. So m, IA S,
a. m, st. Petersburg time. Accord
ing to a horoscope published in an
astrological magazine called "Des-
Tiny" there were untoward aspects in
The heavens about that time which
determine that the czar at this time
is in a most terrible position.
An evil influence has been at play
about him all his life Simple and UNI
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
HE SOLD HIS COAL
SCOTCHMAN "HELD UP" UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
War Vessel in Pursuit of the Confed-
crate Cruiser Alabama Filled Its
6unkers with Fuel at Cost to Un-
Gle Sam Of $4,000.

"One of the peculiar businesses that
grew up as a result OF the civil war
was the establishment of private coal
ing stations in all sorts of out of the
way places" remarked E. Mckee,
late of the United States navy. "You
see, the government could not tell on
what part OF the earth's surface it's
war vessels might have to cruise in
their chase for privateers and other
craft menacing its operations, and, of
course, could not make arrangements
Tor coal. AS a consequence the cap
tains were authorized to secure the
best bargains they could at such ports
as they might touch when a supply
was needed. Thrifty ones in the most
unfreCuented waters prepared for n
possible visit from United States
war steamer with low coal bunkers,
and when the fish entered their net
they charged up for the time they
had to wait. They were net patriots,
buc were on earth strictly for the root
of all evil.
L was marine on the Vanderbilt
during her 25,000-mile chase after the
confederate cruiser Alabama We left
the port of New York in 1862. We
look Capt. John A. Winslow to Fayal
in the West Indies, where he took com
mand of the Kearsarge the vessel
that eventually rounded up the prey.
At that time the ocean was dotted
with the ships of Uncle Sam in quest
of the greatest and most formidable
Of the enemy's cruisers.
AT nearly every port we stopped we
would get more or less misleading in
formation, and would hopefully follow
every clew. While in the South At
lantic we heard from what appeared
10 be a most authentic source that
the Alabama was at the Cape OF Good
Hope. AS we approached st. Helena
NapolcOn's island, the coal bunkers
got low, and we stopped there, and
opened negotiations with a Scotchman
Tor new supply. He serenely de-
manded $50 a ton in gold, without
going to the trouble of removing his
pipe while stating his outrageous
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

There are few other items Of eX-
pense to be considered, but the At
lantic las always seemed to be the
insuperable barrier between the for
eign-born citizen and home.
Now he wonders why he has never
looked into the thing before. Well,
he will 60 that much is certain. And
so the days from the time that his
decision is made are full of the activi-
ties of preparation and the nights are
slecpless, with teverish anticipation.
A thousand pictures of the scenes of
his youth present themselves to his
imagination with astonishing vivid
ness. His memory becomes crowded
with the faces of folk he had forgotten
OF thought he had forgotten, and his
heart yearns for an actual sight of
them. He hardly realizes that the
children he remembers have become
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

assuming in manner, with both tie
ability and the desire to do his duty.
he stands surrounded by friends and
counselors who are false and decep-
tive, and by enemies who are power
tul and unyielding.
He is not a robust man, and his
constitution is by no means strong
His nervous system is weak and de-
ranged, and he lacks stamina and
force OF will. Heavenly signs at the
time of his birth foreordained that
Fate would be too powerful for his
weak frame and feeble will to stand
against
All Of these doomful, dubious signs
the astrologer who ciphered out the
horoscope interprets as disastrous
The portents point to the defeat of
Russian arms in the present struggle
with Japan, internal eruptions in the
great empire of the bear, humiliation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and death Of the
car.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

From Paris the latest automobile
Tad has come, and the dog that goes
motoring with his master or mistress
will hereafter wear goggles. coat and
cap in New York just as his European
brother has been doing for several
years.
Women will be very prompt to take
up this new fad. the automobile supply
dealers believe. 1t has long been a
custom in France to protect pet dogs
with the peculiar outfit OF the automo
bilists, and it is contended by those
who have set the fashion that dog
needs such protection quite as much
as a human being. II is argued that
he dogs eyes are even more suscer-
tible to the injurious effect of WITH
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
Willing to Accommodate.

There is at least one motorman in
this town who has a sense of humor
and who can take delays philosophf.
cally without cussing. The other day
a woman. one of the artistic sort.
came out of Carnegie hall
At the same instant her friend, also
artistic, came out of an apartment
hotel on the opposite side of Seventh
avenue. They rushed to greet each
other and met right in the middle of
the car track and in front of car
that was just getting under way.
Then the women stopped and began
to say a few yards of things to each
other. The car stopped, too, but the
women didn't seem to realize that it
was there at all until the motorman
leaned over the dashboard and asked
gently:
Ladies, would you like for mo to
get you couple of hairs?"-Nsw
York Sun.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
Taught by Phonoaraph.

a book agent recently obtained adj
mission to the Office Of Thomas Ed
son, and assailed him with such an ag.
gregation of arguments in favor of the
publication she represented that the
famous inventor hurriedly subscrib.
cd. After a gradual restoration OF his
energies Mr.. Edison asked:
How did you ever succeed in mas
tering such long and convincing
speech as that?"
"Oh. our speeches are taught us at
the home Office" responded the lady.
sweetly, "by means OF the phono.
graph."-Harpers Weekly.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

and dust than are those OF the auto.
mobilist. and for this reason he is en-
titled to the protection afforded by
goggles.
Lap dogs, accustomed to the atmo.
sphere of house. cannot stand the
chilling effect OF the draught created
by the swift motion of the automobile
on country roads, IL is asserted. and
for this reason they must have an au-
tomobile coat.
So the New York dog that goes rid
ing in touring car henceforth, If he
be real stylish dog. must put on all
the ''toggery" of his master or mis-
tress. be he pug, bull terrier, grey.
hound or Great Dane.--New York
Dress.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Enthusiastically in the aliens ear. He
hears it as he sits at his desk, and he
drops his pen and closes his ledger:
as he tills his field, and the plowshare
Is left to rust; ii comes to him in
the darkness of a Pennsylvania mine
and in the blaze of an Arizona sun,
amid the whir and clatter of shops
and mill or in silent desert solitudes
an imperative insistent call.
Forthwith the vague hope our for
eign-born citizen has cherished bios
SONS into an actual and definite pur-
pose; the difficulties that oppose them
selves to it's achievements are exam
ined-and truly they do not appear to
be great now that the purpose is
formed. A few days of a land jour
ney; a week, or little more, of a sea
voyage, the expenditure of few paltry
dollars and the thing is practically
done. Certainly not a great deal OF
expense for the ocean voyage if ore
does not insist upon the pomp and
luxury of a saloon passage. That
would be very well if one were con-
tent to wait for the attainment OF
wealth. but when one is obeying the
cell of home it is different and a few
days, more or less, of trivial discom-
fort IL the steerage seems insignifi
cart. Here is newspaper clipping
that one of the big steamship lines
has cut its eastward steerage passen-
ger rate $40 That would bring it TO
for 500!
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

At a cost of more than $1,100,000
the three miles of lofty sea wall that
Is hereafter to keep destroying tidal
waves out of Galveston was completed
last week. And it is pluck that pays
Cor Galveston's ocean trade was never
SO great as now.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
Germans in Samoa.

The German occupation of Samoa
does not appear to be a success The
landed proprietors, unable to make
money out of their estates. are eml
grating to America, and the heavy
freight rates and import duties are a
serious matter to the smaller bust
ness people.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

It is to be hoped that the bust that
the young Russian woman sculptor is
making of Mark Twain will be as ar
tistic in all respects as some of the
other busts with which Mark has been
connected.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

That ten-year-old boy who hanged
himself because he was compelled to
get up early in the morning might not
have been worth the piece of rope he
used had he lived a few years longer.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

1t is pleasant to know that Colcm-
bia is willing TO enter into friendly
relations with the United States again.
II is depressing to live constantly in
fear of the beginning of war that
we might not know had begun against
us.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Dr. Chalmers may be right in say
ing that defective sight makes men
drink; but it does not take scientist
to prove that drink makes defective
sight.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

A typewriter girl in the patent of
flee has copied $4,000 words in seven
nours-a worlds record. All wise type
writer maids will admire her speed
and prefer their own.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

What will the poor typesetter do
when the legions of General Takahara.
kamaharahara begin to encounter
those of General STANDARDIZATION.
offaroff?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Gen. Jiminez is reported to have
returned to Santo Domingo. If this
is so it will be necessary to keep the
Santo Domingo telegraph Office open
at night again.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

When the Office boy learns that he
is expected to be diligent, neat, qziet,
unobtrusive, obiging, modest, accu-
rate and attentive, he begins to think
SO is not very big pay after all.-Bos.
ton Home Journal.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

a physician advises everybody to
spend all the time he can in the open
air. If rents and living expenses con-
tinue to go up a good many CT us will
have to spend all of our time there.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Most of the girls will fail to see
wherein it is OF any practical import
ance what Gov. Warfield or any other
man thinks as to the right Gge for
them to marry.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Be careful where you throw your
matches. The wealth that was wiped
out last year in fires would have hired
the labor of half million of men for
year at $50 month each.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

The British expedition to Lhasa
must wish devoutly that Col. Pope
'ad been more active in pushing the
movement for good roads in Tibet.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

The young woman who recently
coughed up a cent, swallowed twenty
years ago, is really entitled to some
interest on the money.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

A goat in Delaware has partaken of
a dynamite free lunch and now no
one dares to kick it. Here is val
liable hint for the much-abused hobo.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Gentlemen who have ships afloat
with contraband cargoes for the Jap.
anese will sit up and take notice when
lou mention remedies for insomnia.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

The turf grows as green in Illinois
as in Ireland-in places. There are
pine and spruce trees in the forests
Of Wisconsin and Michigan as tall and
lair as any in Norway. Milwaukee,
It is averred, brews as good beer as
Munich. And, incontestably, the sun
shines as bright and water runs as
clear in the new world as in the old
Yet sooner or later the American
citizen of foreign birth begins to doubt
these and similar facts, or if he ad-
mits them he is still conscious of a
feeling that sunshine, green fields,
mountains, trees and ruins are at
least placed in happier combination
in his native land than elsewhere.
Then, in spite Of his pride in his
Americanism-a pride which is often
intense-he has an inward and grow
ing conviction that the customs of
that native land are in some respects
UNNECESSARILY superior to those OF the
land of his adoption.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

With something like 100000 900 in
habitants to draw from, China antici-
pates no trouble in filling the position
lately occupied by Mr.. WI.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

1t is not true that the baseball play
er who was hit by train in New Jer-
sey instantly put up his hand to claim
the judgment of the umpire.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Every little while somebody sug-
gests that the United States annex
San Domingo. Would it not be pos
sible to sink it?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

A mountain of pure soap has been
discovered in Nevada. The tramp
problem in that state may be consid-
cred solved.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

At the prospect Of a soap famine
that celebrated anti-bath doctor will
probably have one or two spasms Of
joy.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

and the black leviathan slowly, almost
imperceptbly, begins to back out from
the dock. The home journey has be-
gun.-Kennett Harris in Chicago
News.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03
q. A. LIsK, Publisher

The automobile with all it's perils
seems to be less fatal than the bath
Ing suit.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

''Is American literature bourgeois"
asks Gertrude Anterior. Nay, sister.
Much of it is of finer type than that.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

The woman who crossed Abyssinia
on a mule is receiving much credit.
But the mule did the work.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

People who go away on a holiday
and get drowned find that it inter
feres seriously with their plans.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

A German scientist has discovered
that the bite of the rattlesnake will
knock leprosy. So will a gun.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

1t took genius like Kipling to see
in Joe Chamberlain a subject for poet
ic treatment.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

Almost any flying machine can &C
oomplish wonderful feats in the in
yentors prospectus.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

All things come TO an end at last.
however, and eventually the ropes are
removed and the crowd goes over the
gangway with rush-"single women
and families aft, single men for'ard. 3"
Forward and aft they troop, down the
hatchways to the lower decks, there
to become involved in hopeless coEfu
sion. 1t is evident that there is no
immediate chance of an assignment Of
quarters, and friends are waiting on
the dock to wave a last farewell; SO
they Chamber back, bag and baggage,
to the upper deck and there lean over
the bulwarks and wait for the start.
Presently the steamer begins to tOot
hoarsely ard the crowd on the deck
begins to wave hats and handkerchiefs
and Shout farewells, which demon
STATIONS are returned from the docks
of the steamer. Flowers are thrown
which invariably fall short Of their
mark into the water or on the wrong
side of the fence. Then nothing hap
pens and the handkerchief waving sub
sides and painfully constrained smiles
appear vi IHS ldSSo VI INC pd9SSHSSl5
and their waiting friends. It is one
of the greatest SORROWS of parting to
be obliged to stand and grin for ten
or fifteen minutes at a stretch at the
friend you are seeing of"
The third-class gang plank is haul
ed away and after a pause the first
class gang plank goes also. few
more minutes of agony and the wills
tie sounds again, bell jingies some
where, the big hawsers are cast off
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

The homc-goer finds himself at
length standing in the magnified shed
of the steamer dock in New York.
among five hundred-odd other second
and third class passengers. CThe
"steerage," be it understood, has been
aboished-it is "third-class" now, and
there is difference apart from the
name, as shall hereafter be shown
There are two gang planks leading to
the steamer, which elsewhere is CON
cealed from view by high board
fence one of these gang planks is
amidships and is guarded with snowy
canvas along its length. That is for
the first-class passengers. The other
is placed aft, is plain and somewhat
dingy; it is closed moreover, with
ropes. A clause of the instructions to
passengers in the third-class tickets
warns them to be on board at least
two hours before the advertised time
of departure, which is 10 O'Clock in
the morning. 1t is past now, but
apparently the second and third class
quarters are not yet in readiness and
the punctuality Of the passengers is
rewarded by a dreary wat
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-09-03

men and women, that the blooming
maidens of lang syne are by this time
comfortable elderly matrons and that
those he left in their prime must be
bowed down by age and its 1nirmities.
Then, too, the fact that he has been
wholly and utterly forgotten by most
of those very folk of whom he thinks
with such fond warmth of affection is
yet TO be forced upon him.
The Jasper news., 1904-09-08
HUNDRED DOL LARSANACRE
FART NEAR JASPER BRINGS THAI
PRICE.
Henry Hoover Sells His Fine Farm
South uf Town To Mr.. VIII
Rumble.

Mr.. Henry Hoover. one Of Jasper
oounty's prosperous farnels, aud whc
has resided suuth Of this city for " few
years sold To Mr. viii Enmble, of North
Missouri his tns forty acre farm for
one hundred dollars an alre The farm
is one OF the hrst improved places in this
section Of county. 4 line two story
house, modern Improvements, u guod
large barn, a hne well of water aud ~
good cistrrn are on We place.
Mr., Hoover, who has hcen an active
member with his family Of the nuukard
church, is we'll liked in these parts, his
strict hu iness principles and his bones
ty hns rndearrd him to his many friends
lie will move his family to Indiana, his
former LONE.
MIR, Rumble IS a prosperous farmer Of
rorth No. brolher.iH. RN Of Mr.. Geo.
Eex aud mes ighly recommended,