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The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
GET POWER.
The Supply Comes From Food.


If we get power from food, why not
strive to get all the power we can.
That is only possible by use of skill
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and
poor fire is not a good steam pro-
ducer
From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs. suf-
fered grievously for long time from
stomach troubles" writes a lady from
little town in Missouri.
1T seemed as if l would never be
able TO find out the sort of food that
was best for me. Hardly anything
that | could eat would stay on my
stomach. Every attempt gave me
heartburn and filled my stomach with
gas. l got thinner and thinner until
l literally became living skeleton
and in time was compelled to keep
to my bed.
"A few months ago was persuaded
to try Grape-Nuts food and it had
such good effect from the very begin
ming that I have kept up its use ever
since. l was surprised at the ease
with which l digested it. 1t proved
to be just what needed. All my un-
pleasant symptoms. the heartburn, the
inflated feeling which gave me so
much pain disappeared. My weight
gradually increased from 9S to ll6
lbs, my figure rounded out, my
strength came back, and l am now
able to do my housework and enjoy
1t. The Grape Nuts food did It," Name
given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek
Mich.
ten days trial will show anyone
some facts about food.
There's n reason.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
REPUBLICAN OPENING
BY VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS
Says Republicans viii Readjust Tariff
When Demand Exists-Will Also
Enact Just Railroad Leg
islation.

Bellefontaine, Ohio, Sept. 24.-Beau
tiful weather and immense crowds
were features of the opening of the
Republican state campaign here yes
terday. Republican clubs from all
parts of the state arrived early in the
day to participate in the parade which
was held during the morning.
Judge Dow was chairman OF the
meeting. Music was furnished by the
Republican Glee Club of Columbus,
and the address of Vice President
Fairbanks followed. He said:
LET well enough alone is we'll
worn phrase, yet is possesses great vir-
tue. When business conditions are
uneXcelled, when both labor and capi-
tai are generally and profitably EN-
ployed, 1t is not the part of wisdom to
revolutionize political parties.
"A Republican Congress will read
Just tariff schedules whenever such re-
adjustment is essential to preserve the
integrity of the system and to main
tain the law in wholesome operation
Change will not be made for the mere
sake of change. or to promote free
trade, whose disastrous effects we
well understand. An adjustment OF
duties will be made responsive to a
such demand exists, Congress will in
wise and patriotic way give effect to
it. 1t will not proceed in manner
to disturb and unsettle, but to main
tain the stability of commercial condi-
tions The subject will be considered,
not in a narrow and technical spirit,
but in broad way, having in view the
largest common good
"The subject of railway discrimina-
tions is of wide interest. The ques-
tion is obviously one to be dealt with
with full knowledge, and not by an ap-
peal to prejudice or by loud acclama-
ton.
'.It must be settled, not in the light
of mere personal or party politics, but
according to principles of strict JUS.
tice; in the light OF right as between
man and man. 1t will be settled, In
the language of your platform. so as to
promote and insure the rights of indi-
viduals, interests and localities. Legio
lation which had been hitherto enacted
to cure the generally admitted evils
has not accomplished all that was In
tended or all that was deemed neces-
sary.
"The President has brought the mat
ter to the attention of Congress and
congress may De ieiieu upon W Pio
ceed, in the light of past experience
and present information. to enact such
laws as will effectually remove the
evils which confessedly exist.
There must be an end of discrim
ination.
Republican triumph in Ohio viii!
mean the endorsement of the admins
tration of President Roosevelt. 1t viii!
show that the people are satisfied not
only with the soundness of the policies
of the great Republican party. but that
they approve the able and successful
manner in which the affairs of the
nation are administered by him."
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Escaped Prisoners Recaptured.

Denver, Sept. ga News special
from Hugo says: Charles Harris, John
Smith and Jesse Carroll, who were
confined in the county Jail here await
ing trial in the District Court next
month for burglary at Limon, forced
the corridor door of the Jail at noon
Thursday Sheriff d. B. Brockway
was absent and Jailer A. r. Brockway
was at dinner.
The wife of the sheriff discovered
them in the office searching the sher.
IFS desk and ordered them back, but
they walked out and started to run
over the hill back of the jail. She i'm.
mediately gave the alarm and a posse
on foot and on horseback headed by
Jailer Brockway captured them hiding
in a haystack about two miles north
of town within an hour after the out.
break.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
New Secretary of the Navy.

Washington. Sept. 25.-George Won
L. Meyer United States ambassador to
Russia, is being talked of as a prob
able successor of Charles Bonaparte
as secretary of the navy. Mr.. Bona
parte is slated to become attorney gen
eral next spring, when William H.
Moody returns to the practice of law
in Massachusetts. There was time
soon after President Roosevelt entered
the White House when he would have
been pleased TO see Mr.. Meyer, then
ambassador to Italy, step out. But Mr..
Roosevelt's opinion of Mr.. Meyer has
changed upon better acquaintance.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Las Vegas to Tonopah.

Salt Lake, Sept. 24.-The an
nounced purpose of Senator w. A
Clark and his associates to extend the
St. Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railroad into the Bullfrog and Goldfield
mining regions of Nevkada is to be
carried cut by means of the Las We
gas & Tonopah Railroad Company,
which filed its articles of incorpora-
ton Saturday.
+ The capitalization is s4.OOO.OOO. and
the company will at once build a line
from Las Vegas. on the Salt Lake
route. through the Bullfrog and Gold
field regions to Tonopah.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
To Change Inauguration Date.

Washington, Sept. 23.-District Com
missioner Mcfarland, chairman of the
national committee to consider the ad-
visibility of changing the date of the
ceremony for the Inauguration of the
President of the United States, has is
sued call for the meeting of the conf
mittee November Sth. The committee
is composed of the governors OF all
states and territories and fifteen resi-
dents of the District of Columbia.
Among the dates suggested for the
ceremony are April 30th and the last
Thursday in April. The change is
urged by reason of the inclement
weather that usually prevails in Wash
ington March 4th-
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
RESTORED HIS HAIR
Scalp Humor Cured by cuticura Soap
and Ointment-After All Else
Had Failed.

81 was troubled with severe scalp
humor and loss of hair that gave me a
great deal of annoyance and inconven-
ience After unsuccessful efforts with
many remedies and so-called hair
tonics, friend induced me to try
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The
humor was cured in short time, my
hair was restored as healthy as ever,
and can gladly say l have since been
entirely free from any further annoy
ance. | shall always use Cuticura
Soap, and l keep the Ointment on
hand to use as dressing for the hair
and scalp. (Signed) Fred'k Busche,
213 East 57th St, New York City,"
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Proposed Topeka Worlds Fair.

Topeka. Kans., Sept. ga monster
worlds fair and celebration of the tif-
tieth anniversary of the admission of
Kansas tc the Union was planned here
last night by the Commercial Club of
Topeka, assisted by several prominent
men from different parts of the state,
among them Governor Hoch and T. NJ.
Potter of Peabody.
1t is to be entirely a Kansas institu-
tion, managed by committee of fif-
teen prominent men appointed from
different parts of Kansas. 1t is pro-
posed to expend in the neighborhood of
s2,00O.O00. The date of the exposition
is 1911.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
RAILWAY RATES.
Advantages Possessed by Americans in
Our Low Rates.

Compilations made from foreign and
domestic statistics show freight rate
on English roads of nearly cents per
mineral ton-mile. The actual figures
are .93 cents. A ton-mile of merchan-
disc or live stock costs 2.9i, and on all
commodities an average of 2.32.
Against these the figures for the
United States are startlingly small, be-
ing O.5S cent. On German roads it is
142 cents; on French, 1.55; Austrian,
1.16, and Hungarian, 1.30.
England's passenger rates per mile
on the same classes as cited for the
United States were 4 cents, Germany's
3.S cents. For their average days
wages workmen can travel as follows:
American, G5 miles; British, 50; Ger
man. SO; French. 40: Belgian, SO;
Italian, 3S and East Indian, 21.
On American roads locomotive engi-
neers average 81 day; English. sl.62;
Belgian. S1.01. American firemen get
$2.2S; British. 81 cents; Belgian. -
cents. Railroad laborers in the United
States get from two to four times as
much as laborers on foreign roads.
Forty per cent. of the gross earnings
of American railroads goes to labor.
while only twenty-five per cent. goes
to capital.
In England labor gets twenty-seven
per cent, capital thirty-eight per cent;
in Germany the division is equal
In the last four years American roads
paid 1914 100000 for cars. engines. etc.
The roads were capitalized at s12.792.-
SOG,O23 (now s1G,O00,0OO OOO0). on the
basis. in 1903, of $61, 1863 per mile. Eng
lish roads that year stood for S277 ,474
per mile, German roads for SlO4 .725,
French for $l4S.053, Russian for S76,-
095, Austrian S110,475, Belgian slG7,.
s98.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Germany and France Agree.

Paris. Sept 23.-It is stated that Dr.
Rosen. German minister to Morocco
and NJ. Revolt, representing France,
reached complete agreement on all
the disputed points of the Moroccan
questions in their conference yester-
day.
Both parties are entirely satisfied
with the arrangement. Premier Rou-
vier and Prince Won Radolin, German
amba ssador to France, met at the for
eign office after the negotiators had
reached an accord, and conversed most
cordially.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Pension Bureau Reaort.

Washington, Sept. 23.-The report
of the commissioner of pensions for the
fiscal year ending July lst last shows
that during the year there were 49,
9S5 allowances under the old age dis
ability order of March Is, 1904. 1t also
shows that 655 pensions of $72 month
have been increased to 500 a month
on account of total blindness, under
the act of April s, 1904.
There are pending only 15.25G orig
inal claims of survivors of the Civil
War. and the commissioner gives as
surance that they will be adjudicated
as speedily as possible.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Earthquakes and cIoudbursts.

New York. Sept. 3.-Earthquake
shocks continued Thursday in Gala
bria. says a Rome dispatch to the Her
aid AT Amantea two women were
killed. AT Ajello many houses fell
and twelve persons were injured.
Al Bruzio a church fell and there
was further damage at Cosenza, Catan-
zanaro and Monteleone.
There was cloudburst at Bari, the
wind capsizing sailing vessel in the
harbor, and six persons were drowned.
At Poritici, near Naples. there was
another cloudburst and the floods OF
water brought into the town many
large blocks of lava from Vesuvius.
Service of the street cars was inter
rupted.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Royal Arcanum Injunction.

Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 22.-On the
petition of members of the Royal Ar
canum, Judge Clark of the United
States Circuit Court yesterday granted
an injunction restraining the supreme
council of the Royal Arcanum from
putting into effect the advance rates
decided upon at the recent conference
at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The petitioners allege that the rates
will force out of the order every mem
ber over fifty years old. Judge Clark
set October goth as the date for argu-
ment on the question of making the in
junction permanent.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Riot at Bull Fight.

Mines. France, Sept. 25.-Twelve
thousand spectators of a bull fight
here yesterday broke up the chairs,
other seats and boxes and set fire to
the barriers surrounding the arena be-
cause the matadors refused to kill an
other bull as an encore after they had
dispatched five.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Half-MiIe Pacing Record.

Allentown, Pa, Sept. 22.-Dan
paced by two runners, w. c. Hersey
driving, went mile in 2:01 yesterday
at the Allentown Fair. An hour later
Dan Patch, hitched to road wagon,
cut the pacing record of his sire, Joe
Jatchen, from 2:111a to 2:05.
The time of 2:01 made by Dan Patch
beats the worlds pacing record for
half-mile track.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Even if the fashion introduced by
the Crown Princess Cecilia of Ger
many. who has inaugurated the Gus
tom of carrying a walking stick and
has one to correspond with each OF
her costumes, is introduced over here.
a good many girls won't have to get
more than one walking stick.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Western Pacific Work seaun.

Salt Lake, Sept. 22.-Forty teams
began work on the Western Pacific
railroad grade twenty miles west of
the city, to-day, and officials ann ounce
that 1900 TO 1000 teams will be at
woI.- by October 1st.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29
Odd Fellows Go to Canada.

Philadelphia. Sept. 22.-The Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows yesterday
decided TO meet next year in Toronto.
The question of separating the patri-
archs militant from the Sovereign
Grand Lodge was referred to the com
mittee On state of the order.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Speaking of perpetual motion, it is
pleaded in behalf of a murderer that
he was crazy because he stopped try
ing to guess the wheat market in
order TO devote his entire attention to
solving the perpetual motion problem.
What is the difference?
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

An English doctor says beer-drink,
ing has made the Britons sturdy
race. Nobody can tell how much
sturdier the race might have been
however. if it had never become ad
Gicted TO beer.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

After trying to remember every
good thing we have ever eaten, we
have come to the conclusion that
about the best there was going were
the green apples and salt of the good
old days.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

NJ. Jachetta, editor of II Vindice, an
Italian newspaper at Pueblo, has
started a subscription for the benefit of
the sufferers in the esrtsGra!'e at Cal
shria, Italy.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

The New York man who sent
bomb to his landlord because the lat
ter had raised the rent must be one of
those people who do not look with
favor upon indemnities.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

An Ohio man who was supposed to
be a pauper died few days ago. leav-
ing $4,000. There is no likelihood
that the one who gets the money will
permit himself to be mistaken for a
pauper while ii lasts.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Somebody has written to the papers
defending Napoleon Bonaparte. though
nobody has been roasting Napoleon
lately, so, far as we know. with the
possible exception of Satan.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Mr.. Joseph Letter, brother-in-law
says that Viscount Curzon would
make a good citizen in any country
Viscount Curzon has not called his
estimate of Mr.. Letters universal
value.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Because the growing of an early
cock wrought damage to her health,
a New York woman is suing the
ROSTERS owner for 5000. The obvious
course was to chop OF the rooster's
head and let the owner do the suing
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

An Oklahoma girl who advertised
for husband, got one, after an expen-
diture of $l1. He died within year,
leaving her 10000. 1t continues to
pay to advertise.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Admiral Togo's name is pronounced
as if spelled Tongo, the letter ''g" in
any japanese word always having the
sound of IN" to accompany it. This
is important to people who have
named their dogs for the great ad-
miral.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

1t is noted with deep concern that
there is partial failure of the persim-
mon crop this year. The crop of
poles. on the contrary. is simply i'm
mense.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Camille Flammarion has announced
that the recent eclipse of the sun
pleased him. and the eclipse, much
comforted, has voted itself a success
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Hint to the young man about to
propose: You will impress her more
If you tell her that your salary is
81 500 year than you will If you tell
her it is $50 week
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Apparently the women are agreed
that a man should have nothing to
do with a woman's hat except to pay
for it.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

A New Jersey girl had TO marry
about sixteen men before she found
one who suited her. Something of a
slam on the men of New Jersey, we
should think.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

In the matter of thoroughness and
expedition, however, there is nothing
like good lusty earthquake for
making a wide open town.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Now that he has dined with Mrs.
Potter Palmer King Edwards social
standing cannot be questioned in the
best society.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

The chances against a person be
ing killed in a railway accident in
Great Britain are 100000 600 to !.
Still, that doesn't help the 1.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

That new fashion of having set of
jewels for each costume is not. after
all. so complex as it might seem
for some of us.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Newports smart set members are
protesting against associating with
their lowly neighbors. They consider
this a sort of high kick, as il were.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

About the time man comes to be
known as Guiding Star for youth, he
IS exposed and then he is Warning
Signal.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Work is slack at the San Francisco
mint and several of the employees have
been laid OFF. although the demand for
the output is greater than ever.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

An editor announces that he is 60
ing to put lion in his sanctum to
keep out the poets. He'll find that he
needs more than one.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

What n relief it must he to China to
know that there will be no more prize
fighting in her backyard!
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

1t is said that the Gulf stream is
getting near the United States
Everything is coming this way.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

The dancing masters are trying to
take one step forward by abolishing
the "two-step."
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

been visiting Niagara, but sold no
lace while there.
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

China will have to wait only twelve
years for parliament. and what is
matter of twelve years to China?
The Springfield herald., 1905-09-29

Few men have faith enough to
leave their umbrellas in the vestibule
of church.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-04
HEALTH OFFICE TO
ENFORCE ORDINANCE

Many complaints have lately been
received from all sections OF the city
regarding what Is known as the ma
Eure and garbage nuisance" Livery
men and expressmen have repeatedly
hauled through the streets manure in
pose, and scavengers have mixed ma
nure ana other garbage, comhustible
and noncombustible, so that IL could
not be disposed of at the crematory.
authorities were powerless to stop
the evil but under an ordinance re-
Gently passed the board of health Is
empowered to divide the city into
scavenger districts, regulate and pro-
vide hours for the collection of all
manure, garbage and other refuse
and direct that all combustible mat
ter shall be kept separate and apart
from noncombustibles and shall be
conveyed In proper wagons.
The board will divide the city into
districts and rigidly enforce the new
ordinance.
All citizens should take notice that
under the ordinance IL liz made a
misdemeanor to mix garbage which
can be burned with that which is in
distructible. All householders, res
taurant and hotel keepers must pro-
vide separate and proper receptacles
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-04
GETS SW|NDLERS

Officer "Bilr' Shannon last night
made the discovery that three men
were conducting a business as doc
tors, hypnotists and palmists in a
room on the third floor of the new
Colonial hotel, Post street and Main
avenue, and his subsequent investi-
cations convinced him that the men
were swindlers. The officer visited
the room of the doctors" and ascer-
tanned that they had no license for
the conduct of their business. He
found two of the trio engaged in
making a bargain with patient"
to give him three treatments for
nervous afiliction at So a treatment.
Shannon took the pair to the police
station, where the younger. aged 90
years, gave the name of a. c. Pet
fridge and his occupation as a hyp-
notist. The other man said he was
Il. r. Tjarks, aged 80, and a tinsmith
by occupation. but laid no claim to
any other trade or profession.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-04

At the dollar dinner of the cham
Der of commerce last night at the
Hotel Spokane there were 219 repre-
sentative business men who voiced
the hearty applause for the great
progress made by Spokane COM
mercially and joined in the enthusi-
astic discussion for plans for the
future. 1t was the most notable
gathering in the history of the cham
Der and bespeaks a future success
hard for the advancement of Spo-
kane's commerce.
There were many toasts and re-
sponses, among the addresses being
that of President Goodall.
President Goodall said:
Spokane leads all other cities of
the United States of equal population
in building activity. There were 1881
building permits issued for the year,
having a total valuation of $500
917, which surpasses any previous
record.
'"rhe records for the past five
years show $3.50 new buildings, with
an estimated valuation amounting to
$40, 133,6sS. Do you want to see a
continuance of this remarkable
growth? Then boost for Spokane and
let your boosting be through the
channel that will do the most good
the chamber of commerce.
las to the prosperity of our organ
ization, We have more than doubled
our membership within the past year
and have increased it's importance
and power to do good many fold.
while the discrimination in
freight rates has forced from the
city the plant of the Pacific Coast
Pipe company, we have gained, be-
sides several small factories. a manu-
featuring enterprise that bids fair
to become one of the most important
industries ever secured for the city
l refer to the plant of the Modern
Manufacturing company, for the
manufacture of harvesters. threshers,
grain drills, gasoline engines, etc.