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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-15
New York Stock Market.

New York, Sept l5.-The stock list open
ed strong. the greatest amount Of interest be-
ing attached to Wabash securities, although
dealings in them were not heavy as compared
with dozen other active stocks The mar
ket fell off somewhat in interest during the
second hour
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-15

York product is better then the British
material and as these officers are Of
course the most fnterested" what they
say will probably go.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-15
Labor Candidate Defeated.

London, Sept. 15.-In the bye-election for
the North Belfast division Sir Daniel Hixon,
conservative, was elected over Mr.. Walker
the labor candidate, by vote Of, 40 to 1896.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-15

=, HElNZS BAKED BEANS. Prepared
Mustard, Mustard Dressing and Catsup lust
.e'r.v.1 =. G. MILRURN
sAT MACKEREL ,or sale mt Sc. Toe.
'"u AV eacn oy &C. MILBURN
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
WAITED LONG FOR REWARD.
heroic Sailors Get Tardy Recognition
From CONGRESS.

Unless it be for the material things
which directly C it's members,
Congress evidently believes in virtue
being its own reward, writes Caspar
whitney in Outing. Lucky is the man
who, lacking that paramount endow-
ment OF modern America-a pull
escapes the SANDERS of the envious or
receives federal recognition for a val
liant deed he has been indiscreet
enough to perform.
Recently the Secretary Of the Navy
presented gold medals to Lieut.. E. P.
Bertholf, Lieut.. d. H. Jarvis and Sur
geon S. j. Call for their heroic rescue
in 1897 of 275 imperiled sailors. At
the risk, and very nearly at the cost,
Of their lives, these three men made
a 1,6OO-mile overland trip to Point
Barrow in midwinter to carry relief to
sailors starving there on the ice.
Nearly eight years later they each re-
ce1ve from this great and expanding
nation a gold medal valued at $40!
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Faithful in Arduous Task.

Miss Alice NJ. Robertson, who has
just been appointed postmistress at
Muskogee, the most important town
in the Indian territory, is the grand
daughter of Rev. DR.. Worcester, a pio-
neer missionary among the Cherokees
before their removal from Georgia to
the Indian territory. For several a
she has been supervisor of Creek
schools, a position which the circum-
stances of her early life peculiarly fit.
ted her. Many of the schools are in
remote and almost inaccessible por-
tons of the Creek nation, reached
only by long drives over roads so bad
that she has several times been
thrown out Of her buggy. She has had
to ford dangerous streams, sometimes
getting into swimming water, and has
had to depend upon the most primi-
tive accommodations for food and
shelter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Shouting Their Praises.

kirkland, Ill, Jan. 2nd.-(SpeciaD
Cured Of the terrible Rheumatic
pains that made him a cripple for
years, MI. Richard r. Greenhon, an
old and respected resident of this
place is shouting the praises Of the
remedy that cured him, Dodd's Kid
ney Pills.
Il had the rheumatism in my left
limb 81 that | could not walk over ten
to fifteen rods at a time, and hat by
the use of two canes" MIR. Greenhon
says. Il would have to sit or lie
down on the ground when l was out
trying to walk and the sweat would
run down my face, with so muck pain.
| could not sleep at night for about
five or six weeks.
Il tried different doctors medicines,
but they were all no good. Then /
sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills and
almost from the first they brought
relief. By the time l had taken four
teen boxes of them my rheumatism
was all gone and l a truly say 1
feel better han l have in the last
twenty-five years."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Growth of the Churches.

Despite the clatter about outworn
crecds and the anxious look on the
faces CT amateur diagnosticians as
they sit up with the church and feel
it's pulse, the statistics are still on the
side OF tao church. They show it
vital, not moribund. The figures for
practically every denomination show a
percentage of growth during 1904
larger than the increase in popula-
ton. There is not such a drift away
from traditional theology as many
would have the world believe. The
average person is not as determined
to break away from the faith of the
fathers as is currently represented.
The truth is the pulpit always has
taken far more interest in theological
puzzles than the pews, and there can
be a mighty churning of the doctrinal
waters without the church rank and
file becoming disturbed.-New York
Globe.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
euNKo MANS" LONG CAREER.
Death of Tom o'Brien Recalls Stories
of His Success.

Death of Tom O'Brien Recalls Stories
of His Success.
News of the death of Tom
O'Brien, the notorious confidence man
J md originator of the gold brick, in a
'rench penal settlement at Cayenne,
ecalls the story of attempts made
i've or six years ago by his Chicago
nd New York friends to rescue him.
Annie Gray, O'Brien's New York
;weetheart, who had been devoted to
i'm all through his trial for murder
md Imprisonment, was author of the
lot.
A syndicate, said to have been COM
:Osed of eight confidence men in the
wo cities, raised the money and char
cred a swift steam yacht, which lay
or days off the island of Cayenne
waiting for a chance to pick up the
convict.
O'Brien had been furnished money
o bride the guards, and every precau-
ion had been taken to insure his
escape, but the authorities learned of
the plan and redOubled their vigilance.
When the steam yacht appeared off
the coast of the penal settlement it
was watched by a warship. At last
the plan was abandoned.
When O'Brien was sentenced to
Cayenne for life for the murder of
kid" Waddell, a fellow confidence
man, in a Paris hotel, he closed a ca
reer of crime that for years had baf-
fed the efforts of the best detectives
on two continents.
He organized the confidence bust
ness thirty years ago and reduced it
to such a system that he became
known over the world as the king of
bunko men," O'Brien not only
worked confidence games himself but
directed dozens of other crooks in
nearly all the large cities. He dressed
like a prosperous business man and
wore long whiskers. He was in close
touch with politicians in every city
where he operated. ri
But O'Brien's political pull finally
failed him. He sold a gold brick to
an Albany real estate man for $4,000
and was arrested. He got a man to
go on his bond for $4,000 and sailed
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
HOTEL SOLELY FOR CHILDREN.
Unique Hostelry Recently Established
at London.

Now that the Countess Paulett has
given her patronage to the Children's
hotel in London, many of England's
fashionable babies will become the
proud tenants of select suites in this
new and extraordinary institution.
The e London hotel is under the
control Of the Nordland Institute of
Nurses and is furnished throuehout
to suit the peculiar needs of it's fastid-
1ous little inmates, whose parents,
finding it necessary to run down to
shooting preserves or across to the
continent, prefer a select place of this
kind to the doubtful care of their home
servants. Each baby or child has its
own student nurse in it's own suite
and the prices run from S12 a week
upward. No children over 8 years of
age are accepted, but babies in the
feeding bottle stage mag become hon
ored guests and have suites as high
as $500 a week. The furniture suits
the age Of the guest.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
FUTURE OF THE CHESTNUT.
Probability 1t Soon Will Become a
Staple Food.

The potato long ago conquered the
larders of many parts of the world
| The chestnut is, on the contrary, an
almost undiscovered food, at least in
England and the United States. Yet
scientists tell us that the chestnut is
a more nutritious food than the pota'
to.
They are very much alike in their
| constituents, these two foods, only the
chestnut has more of the nutritive ele-
merts for it's weight than has the po-
tato. The potato is 76 per cent wa
ter and the chestnut only SIS per cent.
The chestnut has three times as much
proteid, almost twice as much starch,
four times as much sugar and gum,
twenty times as much fat and about
the same percentage Of mineral mat
ter as has the potato.
The potatoes lack of fat makes it
necessary to put butter on it to make
it palatable. The chestnut is butter
ed by nature. Yet, as compared with
most other nuts, the chestnut is supe-
rior because the others contain such
an excess OF fat-often SO to- 60 per
cent-that they are indigestible. The
chestnut has little over 2 per cent.
Bake or roast your chestuuts and you
have as good food as anyone. could
want.
If the chestnut had an unpleasant
flavor, or if it was hard to raise it,
there would be no for Wonder
in the failure to utilize it as food on
q large scale. But as a matter of
fact it is said that a given area of
land will produce the maximum
amount of food possible when planted
with chestnut trees.
However. the neglect of the chest
nut may rot be all a misfortune. In
the days to come, when the hen, the
potato vine, the apple tree and the
stock range are all working industri-
ously and exclusively in the service
of the cold storage company, it may
be a comfort. to have the chestnut
tree to fall back upon, which can cater
to us without cold storage intermedia-
ton.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
GETTING Rich Slowly,

Ordinarily a great fortune is built
up like a stone wall-a stone at a
time. The young man who declines
to lay the first stone. because it comes
SO far short of a wall, will never make
progress in financial masonry. An i'm
mense proportion of the people of this
country live up to their incomes, lay
ing aside nothing for the traditional
rainy day. Because they can not save
$1,000 in a bunch they save nothing.
The greatest financial kings of the
world have not been above taking
care of the pennies even. The great
financial institutions look after even
the fractions of pennies.-Troy Press.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Mark Twain Taken Literally.

The librarian of the United Service
Cub of Calcutta is a native Indian.
His catalogue of the library contains
some remarkable cl~assifications,
amorg which is al amusing n in
connection with a book Of Mark
Twain's-his Extracts From Adams
Diary" The native librarian evidently
didn't know whether Adams diary
comes under religion or philosophy.
So to make it sure he put it under
both headings, gravely adding Mark
Twain's own words, Translated From
the Original MS"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Cost of Rural Free Delivery.

In 1897, when the rural service was
started on probation, $4,000 was
deemed sufficient for its trial. Dur
ing the fiscal year that ended June
80, 1904, nearly s13,0O0,OOO was ex-
pended for rural free delivery. For
the fiscal year upon which we have
now entered $40, SIG, 900 has been ap-
propriated for the continuance and ex-
tension of the rural mail service.
There were 24,566 rural routes in ex-
istence at the end of the fiscal year
on June so last, 9,446 ne wroutes hav-
ing keen put into operation during the
fiscal year. On Oct. 1, 1904, there
we've 27,135 routes established, and
the service was being extended at the
rate of about 800 routes a month
Worlds Work.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Tribute to Oklahoma.

S. NJ. McHarg, a Grant county far
e found his wheat so short that he
cut it with a header. Wishing to con
serve the soil moisture for wheat SOW
ing in the fall he planted the land to
corn. To his surprise the corn ma
tured and yielded about thirty-fve
bushels to an acre. His wheat averag-
ed about $685. an acre and his corn
$1,000, a total o: S28.75 ar acre, or
1915 for his thirty-acre field. This is
a convincing example of the resources
of Oklahoma's soil and climate.-Kaa-
sas City Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Will Climb Mount Rainier.

F. Augustus Moorehouse, an aristo-
cratic citizen of London, England, has
arrived in Tacoma for the purpose of
climbing Mount Rainier. The fact that
the mountain has never been ascend
ed in the winter time does not daunt
him, and he will leave this week for
Paradise valley, on the mountains
south slope. Moorehouse says he has
plenty of leisure and will remain at
the task until it is finished. He has
been through the Alps repeatedly and
believes that a ~15,000-foot mountain
like Rainier can be easily assembled
despite it's system Of fourteen glaciers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
YOUNG AND SHORT SENATORS,
Old Men No Longer MonopoIize Seats
in Upper House.


Although the senate is supposed to
be composed largely of old men young
men are rapidly gaining the seats.
Mr.. Hemenway. who will be the new
senator from Indiana, is Al. He and
his colleague, Senator Beverage. who
is AZ, will be among the youngest men
in the senate. But Senator Dick OF
Ohio, who succeeded Senator Hanna,
an old man, is only 46. Senator Knox,
after several years as attorney gen.
eral, is young as men are accounted
nowadays, being 81, which happens
also to be the age of Senator Crane Of
Massachusetts, who entered the SEN
ate with him. The prospective SEN
ator from Nevada, Mr.. George S. Nix
on, will probably be the shortest in
stature of all that branch of congress.
He is described as nearly a head
shorter than Senator Knox, although,
like nearly all the short men of the
senate. possessed of much ability
Washington Post.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Joke on Archbishop ireland.

Archbishop Ireland doesn't mind
telling a joke on himself. The arch
bishop always dresses so unostenta-
tiously that no one could guess his
episcopal rank from his street garb.
Travelling one day in a rural district,
he met a good-natured woman in the
car who, after some general converse
ton, asked him: You're a priest,
father, aren't you?" In a bantering
mood, the archbishop thought he'd try
a bubble to put her at her ease. so he
answered: mo, my good woman, I'm
no longer a priest" The woman gave
him a plying glance. Then she said,
soothingly: ooh, the Lord help us,
father! 1t wasn't the drink, l hope?"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06

ed twelve Philippine scouts, missing
five, said to have been boloed while in
the river
And again on Dec. 16. Second
Lieut.. Stephen K. Hayt and thirty
seven enlisted men, T~hirty-eighth
company, Philippine scouts, were kill
ed by Pulajanes at Dolores, Samar.
First Lieut.. George F. Abbott requests
help from the military authorities.
Town is threatened by 1000 Pulajanes.
Situation critical in both instances. 1
offered the Philippine government all
the assistance desired, AS yet none
has been accepted"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Mrs. Peary Not eoino North.

Mrs. Peary will not accompany her
husband on his next trip to the arctic.
Not that she does not wish to go, for
she is a hardy traveller, but because
Lieut.. Peary is going to take such
chances this time as he never took
before, and he does not wish his wife
to share the peril. Mrs. Peary was a
most valuable member of the expedi-
ton in which she took part. Strong,
courageous and determined, she was
willing to take her share of p~rivation
and danger, refusing to accept any
odds because Of her sex.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
BeIated Recent for a Slave.

In looking over his morning mail
this morning, J. r. Ratckin. a Shenan-
doah, Ia, scotsman, received a letter
from a man at Wabbenska, Ark, con-
tanning as an enclosure a receipt dat
ed back sixty-six years ago for a slave
girl. The receipt was also a warranty
and read as follows:
Received, Sept. 8, 1882, Of John
Roberts, $576 in full for the purchase
of a negro girl named Charlotte. Said
girl is about IA or 10 years of age, and
1 warrant her to be sound i'll body and
mind and a slave for life. l will also
defend all claims against said girl.
Joseph W. Hill.'-New York World.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Woman Long Mariners Friend.

The Santa Barbara lighthouse on
the Pacific coast has been kept by a
woman for thirty-eight years. In 1856
a lighthouse was erected two miles
south Of Santa Barbara, and President
Franklin Pierce appointed Albert ].
Williams to be the keeper. In 1865,
near the close of the civil war, Mrs.
Julia F. Williams was appointed keep
er, to succeed her husband, who had
died. She has had the longest serv-
ice of any keeper on the coast. She
has been away from her post only two
nights in twenty-seven years, and
rarely leaves the lighthouse except on
Sundays, when she drives to Santa
Barbara to attend church. The tower
rises ITS feet above the sea level and
the solid white light can be seen sew
enteen miles at sea.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Buffalo Bill coino to France?

It is said that William F. Cody
("Buffalo Bill") intends 10 expatriate
himself and become a citizen of
France. Cody is we'll along in years
and his family troubles have worn him
down considerably. For this reason
he is DESTROYS of turning yer his
Wild West show to younger hands.
He is going to Europe with the show
in February, and it is sad that if he
can settle his wife's suit for divorce
and dispose Of some other matters he
will never return to America, but will
spend the remainder Of his days in
France.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Labouchere's Christmas Gifts.

Henry Labouchere, editor of London
Truth, recently held his twenty-fifth
annual doll show. About $4,000 dolls
and toys we're provided by readers of
the paper for distribution at Christ.
mas among the children in the hospit-
ais, warehouses;, workhouse infrma-
ries and poor law schools of the me-
tropolis. There was a separate gift
for every child, as we'll as large toys
and dolls for general use by the
youngsters in the different institu-
tons. AS in many previous years, an
anonymous donor has sent 1900 new
sixpences for the children.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Getting Over a Difficulty.

In the north there lives a farmer
whose sense of humor failed him on
his wedding day. He lived at some
distance from his bride-elect, and on
the eventful morning he set off for the
station in good time, but he met one
friend after another. with the result
that he missed his train.
Naturally he was very much upset,
but bethought himself of the tele-
graph. This was the message he sent
Don't marry till l c~ome.-William."
Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
CUTICURA SOAP
The Worlds Greatest Skin Soap-The
Standard of Every Nation of
the Earth.

Millions of the worlds best people
use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuti-
cura Ointment, the purest and sweet
est of emolient skin cures, for preSerV-
ing, purifying and identifying the
skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts,
scales and dandruff, and the stopping
of falling hair, for softening, whiten-
ing and soothing red. rough and sore
hands, for baby rashes, itchings and
chafings, and many sanatiYe, antisep-
tic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women, especially
mothers, as well as for all the pur-
poses of the toilet, bath and nursery.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.
An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces-
sary e. break q lifelong habit would,
If it could be transformed. lift a
weight of many tons.
II sometimes requires a higher de-
gree Of heroism to break the chains
of a p%ernicious habit than to lead a
foEiorn hope in a bloody battle. A
lady writes from an Indiana town:
-"From my earliest childhood l was
a lover of coffee. Before | was out
of my teens | was a miserable dys-
peptic, suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
81 was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
| could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast At the age of Sc L was
I'm very poor health, indeed. My Sis
ter told ne | was in danger Of becom-
ing & coffee drunkard.
But [ never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast although it
kert ne constantly i'll, until l tried
Postum. learned to make it prop
eriy according to directions, and now
We can hardly do without Postum for
breakfast, and care nothing at all for
coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys-
persia, 60 not have spells Of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me sc when | drank coffee" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book, THE Road to Wellville."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
EnvntIana used Zine Tools.

When the pyramids were built the
iaboTers did not work under such dis
advantages as have long been attri,
buted to them. Researches show that
they had solid and tubular drills anc
lathe tools. The drills were set with
jewels and cut into the rocks with
keenness and accuracy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06

for Europe. At Liverpool he was ar
rested. returned to this country. and
sentenced to ten years in prison. He
secured temporary release on habeas
corpus and escaped to France.
O'Brien went broke" in Paris and
it was when he was refused a loan
that he shot his old pal" Waddell.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Discovered It for Himself.

'T meant to have told you of that
hole" said the kindly host to his
friend, who had suddenly disappeared
In the course of a stroll through the
grounds into a pit full Of water. The
friend climbed out and shook himself.
'It doesn't matter" he said. cheerily.
81 found it"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
TELLS OF sAMAR DISASTER.
Gen. Corbin Sends Details of the Re
cent Massacre.

WITT WTdS9dNTCs
Gen. Corbin's report of the uprising
in the island of Samar and of the bat
tie in which Lieut.. Stephen X. Hayt
and thirty-seven of mis- command of
scouts were killed, has been received
by the war department. The report
says:
'"The Pulajanes are on the warpath
in Samar in considerable numbers, as
may be judged from the following:
On Nov. 10 about 400 Pulajanes and
several hundred volunteers Joined in
an attack on a detachment of twenty
Philippine scouts at Oras, Samar.
Killed one hospital corps man, wound
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Oriuin of Petroleum.

Until recently it was almost univer-
sally believed that petroleum, like
coal, gas derived from fossil vegeta-
ton or possibly from animals or fishes
of some long past age. Now it is as
serted by many scientific men that it
may not be of any organic origin, but
may be due to subterranean chemical
nnfinn
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Shockinu,

Daughter-DOn't invite my rural
uncle in the reception room any more
Mother-Did he make any bad
breaks before the company, dear?
Daughter should say 90. When ]
showed him a Louis XIV chair he
asked if Louis was a good chairmaker
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Chemistry on Railroads,

The operation of a modern railway
IS a place where chemistry would
hardly seem likely to be much in evil
dence, but every large railway system
maintains expert chemists in whose
laboratories questions of Vita import
ance to railroad economies are con
stantly undergoing minute chemical
study.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
indenture in Ancient Egypt.

Recent excavations in Egypt have
revealed a bond-dated A. D. 100-ap'
prenticing a slave for two years to
the "semiograph," to be taught to read
and write shorthand, or "the signs
that your son Bionysios knows" the
teacher receiving in all 120 drachmas
about S23.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
Steel Elshinn Rods.

Steel fishing rods have been brought
to such a state of perfection hat they
are now being sold extensively in the
place of those of bamboo. 1t is said
that they are handler to carry, and
are better balanced