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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
O.a,vntomie Gets on Refinery.

The proposition Of the Kansas Pc.
troleum company that II the city OF
osawatomie would donate ten acres
of ground they would put up an oil re-
hnery with a capacity OF 300 barrels
rer day has been accepted. Work
will begin at once.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
HiaMnthn suIcide.

Because his wife refused to again
live with him after a separation OF sew
.eral months. A. w. Smith shot him
self in the head with revolver, death
resulting a few hours later.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15

Gen J. X. Hudson has disposed OF
ais interests at Versailles, No, and
win take active charge Of the editorial
department q tie Topeka Herald
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
Mexican War veteran.

Solomon Smith Of Burden, "a years
old, Is dead at his home In Burden.
He was the father Of II children. and
had lived in Cowley county since 1870.
He was a veteran of-the Mexican war.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
E,uporia Paper suspends.

The Emporia Republican, founded 70
years ago by the late governor, Charles
v. Eskridge, has suspended publica-
ton, its last editor, w. L. stahl, leav-
ing town without p valedictory.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
Pr,.,s... IN Virginia.

washington. June in.-PreSident
Roosevelt left here Friday forenoon
for q short Whit to friends In Vir-
slnlr
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
Nervous Women
Thsir suiisrinss Are Ususll1
Due TO Uterine Disorders
Perhaps Unsvspsoted
A MEDICINE THAT CURES

|, Can we dispute
the we'll known
factthatAmerican
\women are ner-
Ivous?
| How often do we
hear the express
sion. II am 30 ner-
lvous, II seems rs II
u should hy;" or,
I" Don't speak 10
mo-" Little things
|nunoy You and
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
Would Hold over n Year.

An interesting question has been
raised ut Wellington. rs TO the right
of mayors OF cities OF the second class
to name appointive officers at any time
ether than at the first regular meeting
OF the city council In May. Mayor w.
r. Savage was kept by illness from
attending the meeting in May, and
II was impossible TO get q quorum for
the June meeting, as three OF the coun-
.cilmen have vacated their ofices by
removal from the ward or CITY, the
present incumbents assert that on ac-
count of the mayors failure to nomin-
ate their successors Mt the time APP
pointed they have the right to hold
over for another year. The matter
will probably be taken into the courts
for adjustment.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-06-15
Pipeline to the Gulf Soon.

II is learned on good authority that
the construction Of a pipeline from
Kansas through Indian Territory and
Texas to the gulf is TO begin within
a few weeks. The line is to be built
by the Shell Oil and Transportation
company OF London. England. The
Cudahys and John w. Gates Of Chi
cago are interested In the project The
Capitalization of the corporation Is
said to be II million dollars. 1t is
the purpose Of the company to secure
10 600 barrels of crude oil daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-11

over 10000 Cases Have Been Cured.
20 Years On Omaha.
His FREE BOOK tells the nature and
causes OF every disease with which men
may be afflicted. Out OF respect for society
and the city in which he lives. the doctor
paper the various diseases OF men that he
: called upon TO treat. This Information
can all he found in his book.
His Home Treatment
has permanently cured thousands OF cases
Medicine sent tn plain package.
Fees Ltght. Consultation Free.
Once Hours a. M. 10 $50 p. m. Sun.
days, a m. TO D. m.
Call or write. BOX Te6 once u6 South
18th Street. Omaha. Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-11
FOR 80 YEARS
DR.. McGREW
has made a SPE-
CIALTY OF all forms
Of diseases and dis
orders OF
Men ONLY

His facilities for
treating this class OF
diseases are unlim-
tied. His remark
able cures have sell
dom been equaled.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
Like Many Il Man.

A horse was entered in trotting
race. When he was put on the track
to be warmed up he seemed to move
with great energy, and number of
inexperienced persons put up their mon
ey on him, but when the actual race
came off IL rawboned. yew necked ami
NAL that had no style about him passed
the snowy horse with great ease and on
the home stretch distanced him.
THAT horse" said an experienced
race track man who had been wise
enough to back the rawboncd steed,
(which lost out is like good many
people lie spends too much time and
energy going up in the air instead of
getting over the earth. Missouri Val
ley Farmer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03

Strange though it may appear to the
present generation, it seems that trou-
sers when first introduced into Eng
land were regarded as anything hut
mark of responsibility. In the original
trust deed, drawn up In 1870, Of
Bethel chapel. Cambridge street, Sbef-
field, there was clause containing the
following prohibition: Under no cir
cumstances whatever shall any preach
or be allowed to occupy the pulpit who
wears trousers" 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to add that knee breeches and
CATERS were then the correct attire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
A MONSTER PHANTOM.
The Ancient Morse Legend of the
Flying Dutchman.

The old Norsemen had curious and
vague tradition of a phantom ship
which they called Mannifual. The
French maritime chronicler, Jal, gives
an account of her. SO likewise does
Thorpe in his work on Northern
Mythology" She was so gigantic that
her masts We're taller than the highest
mountains. The captain rode about
on horseback delivering his orders.
Sailors going aloft as boys came down
respectable middle aged men, and in
the blocks about her rigging were din
ing halls where they sustained life
during their heavenward wanderings.
When passing through the strait of
Dover on her way northward she
stuck, but the captain. with ready in
vention, ordered her sides to be lib
orally besmeared with soap, and she
slipped through. leaving the cliffs of
France and England white forever aft
erward.
Down to within a century ago this
gigantic ship was known among Eng
lsh sailors by the name Of the Merry
Dun of Dover, but she seems quite to
have disappeared from the maritime
lore of Great Britain. Seamen of
Normandy still believe in her existence
and call her the Chasse Froude. They
say that she is so immense that it
takes her seven years to tack. On one
occasion in turning her bowsprit swept
away a whole battalion of soldiers
from the Dover cliffs while her stern
boom was demolishing the forts of
Calais
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
Humanity In Prison.

1t is true there are peculiar speci
mems of humanity in prisons-cranks,
freaks, degenerates and hardened and
vicious characters so are there all
these outside the prisons mixed in with
the other people of the world in the diff
ferent grades of society. The delber-
ate professional criminal with pecul-
lar and pronounced characteristics and
forming 4 different type of man and
woman, is too infrequent to constitute
a definite class unless he, with many
others not in prison, be considered as
member of Il diseased class in hui
mainly. Those who do not agree with
this impression and persist in believing
that there is Il distinct, typical GRIM
nal class must, if they study society
and also become familiar with the in
mates of our penal institutions. admit
that only small portion of the class
are confined therein.-C. L. Ordway in
Atlantic
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
A FAMOUS OLD BRIDGE.
II Is Curiously Decorated With His
tOric Pictures.

Few places in Switzerland are more
Interesting than the historic old city of
I.ucerne, at the junction of the river
for its historic associations with the
heroic legends of William Tell.
Across the river are two wonderful
wooden bridges, the Muehlenbruecke,
or Mill bridge" with its quaint pic
lures of the Dance of DEATH" and the
Kapellbruecke, or Chapel bridge" This
chapel bridge was constructed as long
ago as 1888 and for nearly 600 years
formed the chief avenue of traffic
across the broad but sluggish stream.
Anciently the bridge extended it's zig
gag shape to nearly twice its present
length and reached as far as the Hot
kirche, or cathedral, whence its name,
the Chapel bridge.
In the center of this covered wooden
bridge stands the famous Octagonal
WaSserthurm, or water tower, where
in olden times the municipal treasure
was stored. For ages it was also used
as a prison and among the dungeons
as a torture chamber.
But the most unique feature of all
consists of the curious pictures in the
roof of the bridge. These old pictures
sixty-nine of them-are painted on tri-
angular wooden panels which fit into
the pitched roof of the bridge. One
after another they tell the most salient
facts of Swiss history or portray
events in the life of the tutelar saints
of the town. ST Leodegar and st. Maui
rice-New York Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
A HAZlNG TRAGEDY.
Origin of the Slang Phrase "Who
Struck Billy Patterson:'


Its many years now since the slang
expression, Who struck Billy Patter-
SOM was heard all over New York
and Brooklyn said Il veteran of the
metropolis. Few people remember
the origin of the expression, which was
really the killing of a young man by
sheer fright. Hazing at colleges was
as rough then as now. and common
plan was to capture new student,
try him for some imaginary offense,
condemn him to execution, and then
hold his head on block while 4 blow
was struck on the ground with the dull
side of a hatchet. A student named
William Patterson was caught and
tried in this way and was led weeping
and shouting to the block. He was
then blindfolded and held down, told
that his last day had come, and then
the bogus blow was struck with the
hatchet His cries ceased instantly,
and when the students in alarm tore
off his eye bandages and felt his pulse
they discovered that he was dead. Sew
eral investigations were held to ascer-
tain who struck the fatal blow, and it
was because it was finally ascertained
that no one ever struck Billy Patter-
son at all that the aggravating ques-
ton referred to was shouted at every
stranger by street boys, bootblacks and
other juvenile nuisances."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
CHINESE NEATNESS.
The Man Is Clean Even if His Sur
roundings Are Dirty.

Next time you are i'll Chinatown no.
tice the finger nails of the inhabitants.
You will be surprised possibly to find
that they are generally as clean and
bright as though they had just come
from the manicure.
As are his finger nails so is the rest
of the Chinamans body. 1t is one of
the queer contradictions about this con-
Trajectory people that, although their
houses are usually surrounded by a
fringe of dirt and although they don't
take TO modern sanitation bit, they
are very clearly in their personal
habits.
The daily bath is an institution. A
bathtub is not necessary. Your China
man manages very we'll with a few
cupfuls of water and wash rag.
He completes his toilet by polishing
his long nails. and every day or so he
visits the barber, who shaves not only
the scanty hair on his face, but also
his head and the inside of his ears
If he can afford it. the Chinaman puts
on Il clean blouse every day or two. 1t
is no accident that these people are
nation of laundrymen. 1t comes to
them Washington Post
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
THE FINDING OF MOSES.
A Famous Artist Says There Were
No Bulrushes In Egypt.


Bulrushes are so inseparably associ-
ated in the mind with the finding of
Moses that it is difficult to imagine a
painting Of the incident in which the
picturesque reeds do not figure.
But there is a beautiful painting by
Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema of the
finding of Moso and the bulrushes
are entirely omitted. great paint
er gave the following )lanation of
the fact.
He ascribes the presence of the word
"bulrushes" in the authorized version
as being due to faulty translation, for
there are no such things as bulrushes
ON the Nile. The word in the original
means papyrus, and it seems that in
the absence of some equivalent in
English the word was used as being
the nearest which the translators had
at their command.
According to Alma-Tadema's read
ing, the mother of Moses fashioned Il
cradle or ark of papyrus and smeared
it over with the white Nile mud, and
it is according to this rendering that
he has painted his picture
Journal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
TAFFY CANDY.
Why 1t Becomes White Through
Pulling and Working.

Why 1t Becomes White Through
Pulling and Working.
You have often wondered and have
even gone so far perhaps as to ask
your scientifically inclined friend why
candy or taffy made from brown sugar
or even molasses becomes white by
pulling and working. The question is
not hard one to find an answer for,
provided you look in the right place.
but it is ten chances to one that you
have never seen a solution of the eng
ma in print.
First, the exposure to the air and the
friction evaporate the sirup, which
contains most of the coloring matter,
and facilitate the civilization of the
carbon in the sugar, which is always
white. Sugar contains eleven atoms
Of oxygen to twelve of carbon and
eleven of hydrogen. The sirup drained
from this same sugar in the refining
process not only contains more or less
Of coloring matter, but has smaller
proportion of oxygen to the amount of
carbon.
Still another reason why taffy is
whitened by the pulling process is be-
cause it is in effect similar to crush
ing. Pure, clear rock candy, when
crushed, has its powers of absorbing
light destroyed or greatly impaired, the
pulverized portions rejecting all the
elementary colors in each ray, which,
of course, results in the eye receiving
the impression of white light.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
OVERExERTION.
1t Leads to Weakness of Heart and
Early DEATH

Early DEATH
A prominent university professor
says that an investigation Of some
years has convinced him that much
evil has resulted from college athletics.
College athletics, he finds. bring on
by overeXertion a number of ills, of
which the worst and most common is
weakness of the heart. that. develop
ing with maturity, units the victim
for continued efficient effort in bust
ness and eventually carries him off be-
fore his time.
Sprinting and tennis he believes to
be the two sports which work the most
havoc with the heart.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said that
condition which often promoted long
life was prudently poor health at an
early age. He meant by this that a
man who in his youth had to husband
his strength and by slow and careful
process develop the good health that
he lacked would be more likely to es-
cape the dangers Of overeXertion in
which the careless giant was tempted
to indulge.
Still, given strength and good health
in the beginning, moderate exercise of
ones powers cannot fail to be source
of renewed strength as well as of
healthful decentralization Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
Warming to Guests.

This notice greets one in hotel
opened by a foreigner who has just
mastered the English language:
Gentlemen who come in this hotel not
say anything about their meals they
Will be charged for and if they should
say beforehand that they are going
out to breakfast or dinner, and if they
say they have not anything to eat they
will be charged, or unless they bring
it to the notice of the manager. And
no fuss will be allowed afterward about
it, and nothing will he allowed to de-
duct anything out of it."-Paris Eng
lish and American Gazette.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
GOT THE FIRST PLATE.
Johnny Had 1t CIutcbed, but He Had
to Let Go.


President Roosevelt, on one of his
hunting tours in the Adirondacks,
spent very hing day in restless pur-
suit of big game. At his urgent re-
quest the guide conducted the party
to the nearest inn the wilderness af-
forded.
Amusement was created in the presi-
dental party when the chief executive,
whose identity had been kept a Sc
cret, was given a seat at the family
board 1t was increased when huge
portions of corned beef and cabbage
were passed from the head of the
table, where sat the host. The first
plate to make its appearance was
heaped very high. 1t reached small
boy and got no further. The president
sighed to express his envy and disap-
pointment.
Johnny exclaimed the host sharp
ly, that bent fer you; tibet be fer the
stranger"
Much to the amusement of all, the
president seized the rim of the plate on
There was Il moment of doubt.
Then the president, softly and with
a twinkle in his eye. but with inexo-
rable decision. leaned over and spoke
into the red, resentful face of the hun
cry boy:
johnny he said let CO.
Johnny let go.-Success.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
INK THAT LIVES.
The Indeliblc Writing Fluid Used
by the Cid Irish Monks.

1t is impossible to read the most an
Gent histories of the Irish saints with
out noticing how large Il part books
play in their lives.
In the library some cut the sheets of
parchment or even Sewcd together in
the neatest way the odd shreds. for
the monk must not waste the gifts of
God. especially when they are rare and
dear. They polished it on one side IN
til it was smooth and laid it near the
scribe. Others prepared the peculiar
thick inks of the Irish writer's. very
much like varnish, in different cOlors.
The red was the most beautiful. and.
after 1000 years it yet shines as the
day it was first used. 1t was got from
a kind of cookies collected on the sea-
shore. Then there were black and
green and golden inks, used in various
thicknesses by the illuminators and the
artists in miniature.
All these inks will resist chemicals
that corrode iron. The ink was placed
in thin comic glasses attached either to
the side Of the desk or to the chair,
sometimes to the girdle of the writer,
often fixed to the end of Il pointed
stick placed upright in the ground. 1t
is owing to this peculiar skill in max
ing ink that so many of the old Irish
manuscripts have come down to us
London Answers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
THE MILKY WAY.
One of the Great Problems of the
Science of Astronomy.

One of the Great Problems of the
Science of Astronomy.
Some of the streams of fainter stars
in the Milky Way are very striking and
must convince the most skeptical of
their reality. says a scientist.
1t is possible to draw an arc of q
circle through any three stars and a
comic section through any five, but
where we find ten or twenty stars fall
ing into line not once, but in many
cases, and that there is curious SINH
larity between the strange curves and
branching streams which these pha-
langeS of stars mark out on the heav-
ems, there is no room left for doubt
that the mind is not being led away by
a tendency of the imagination similar
to that which finds faces in the fire or
sees a man carrying sticks on the face
of the moon.
If it is proved that Il group of stars
is arranged in line or marshaled in any
order it would follow that the individ-
uals of the group must be actually as
well as apparently close to one anoth-
err and that they form some kind of
system, having all of them had COM
mon origin or been subject to some
common influence. What these streams
and curves of stars mean and what
forces have marshaled them in lines
form one of the grandest problems of
the future, one that trust l may live
to see unraveled.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03

The vegetable ivory of commerce is
an albuminous substance formed from
a milky fluid in the fruit Of species
of palm Indigenous to several parts of
Central and South America, but which
seems to flourish best in New Granada
and Peru. 1t corresponds to the meat
of the cOcoanut, which latter is the
fruit of another species of palm. When
vegetable ivory nuts are ripe they are
covered with Il brown skin and are
bean shaped. the interior being perfect
~ white and very hard.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03

During examination in American his
tory in one of our big city schools the
question was put. what was the May
flower compact" This is the thorough
ly logical reply of one good little Amer
lean:
THE Mayiower and the Speedwell
started together from England, and the
Speedwell went to pieces and sunk,
and they put all the people into the
Mayfiower, and so the Mayflower come
hacked"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03

1t is n mistake to associate pride or
foppishness with self respect. The one
rises from judicious consideration of
what we are, the other from an eXtrav-
agant notion of what something ex-
traneOus has made us. The one is
true, the other is false, and both can
not exist together. A man that re-
spects himself cannot lie proud. and a
proud man does not respect himself.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03
ROMAN DICE THROWING.
Devices Used to Prevent Fraud In.
the Days of the Caesars.

devices USED 10 Prevent FRAUD
the Days of the Caesars.
The number of dice used was three,
being marked with q minimum of one
and IL maximum of six spots. The most
fortunate throw, called venereus by
Cicero and basilicus by Plautus, was
when the dice showed three senioneS,
or eighteen spots. The gravity of the
losses depended naturally upon the
amount of money at stake and the fines
that were paid when the dice showed
one or more aces.
1t is difficult to explain what skill
had to do with such a game. Still Isl
dore describes how inveterate gamblers
could succeed in throwing the six and
in avoiding the unit. In graffito at
Pompeii an honest player congratulates
himself for having gained a good sum
of money without fraud. Piautus
dwells on these dishonest practices, to
avoid which several instruments were
invented, such as the horn and the
fritillus.
1t seems, however, that these instru-
ments did not always fulfill their pur-
pose. A third one was consequently
invented in the shape of Il tower, with
a spiral staircase inside and funnel
on top. The dice, shaken first in the
horn or in the frtillus. We're thrown in
to the funnel and rolled down the
spiral staircase until they landed on
the table Such precautions rendered
cheating almost impossible
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-03

On one occasion when The Mika-
do was being rehearSed Gilbert called
out from the middle of the stalls.
There is n gentleman in the left
group moi holding his fan correctly"
The stage manager appeared and en-
planned. There is one gentleman" he
said. who is absent through illness"
An" came the reply from the author
in grave, matter of fact tones, that is
not the gentleman l am referring to-"
Dundee Advertiser.