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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS?

H. T. Newcomb of the District of
Columbia Bar, has compiled statistics
showing that 5,174,71S depositors in
savings banks of six eastern states
are directly interested in the joint
ownership of $442,354,OS6 of steam
railroad securities, that insurance
companies doing business in Massa-
Chusetts hold $S45,S89,03S of steam
railroad stocks and bonds and "A edu-
cational institutions depend on SAT-
46S, 1927 invested in similar securities
for a portion of their income. Other
fidUciary institutions own enough
railroad securities to bring such hold
ing up to more than billion and a
half dollars, about one-sixth of the
entire capital invested in railroad
property. These investments repre-
sent the savings of the masses, there
being twenty million holders of life in
surance policies in the country, as
many more of fire insurance policies.
and an even greater number of de-
positors in banking and trust institu-
lions, where investments are largely
in railroad securities.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
TO KNOW ONESELF
Only by That Means Can the World
Be Understood.

Who have lived the most common
sense lives? Well, one such was the
Emperor Aurelius. A soldier, a states
man, an administrator of the highest
ability! And yet man to whom the
highest worth was the capacity so
to see the complicated facts of life
in their true relation as to be able to
live tranquil in any circumstances. An
other person with a grand simplicity
was the slave Epictetus. The one
teaches US that a man can live as he
roically in a palace as in a church,
market place or camp: the other that
a lowly estate is no bar to the pro-
foundest knowledge of human nature
and the most illustrious manhood. A
wiser word was never written than
that inscribed over the portal of the
Delphic oracle: Know myself
For it is only by self knowledge that
one can know the world and under
stand the lesson it would teach man
kind.-BOSton Post.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
All Positions Have Drawbacks.

Every position in the world has its
drawbacks. every line of work has its
disagreeabIe side and failure many
times can be traced to this Sinking
from attending to the disagreeable.
seemingly unimportant. or difficult,
task. A mother breads TO punish her
child. She can't bear the scene it
will cause, and she lets the small err
ror go uncorrected until it grows
great
An employer thinks it mean and
small to speak to his help about be-
ing on time; and so the few moments
are lost each day, other leaks are not
stopped, and his business is ruined.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
oRIP OF THE SNAKE KING.
An Illustration of the Strength That
Wins in Battles With RattIers.


E. r. Sanborn, the photographer of
the Geological society, is well &C
quainted with all snakes in the rep
tile house. He occasionally plays with
the harmless species.
The other day he took the biggest
of the king snakes out of the snarl
in its cage and let it Irvine around
his arms.
Hes got an awful grip said Mr.
Sanborn. See he's got me hand
cuffed now. with turn around each
of my arms
"A king snake can coil so tightly
around your coat sleeve as to leave a
welt on your arm. That's the reason
a king snake can kill RATHER
He's as quick as light, and he
winds himself around the rattlesnake
and breaks its back. But he hasn't a
bit of poison.
Mr.. Sanborn declined suggestion
that he put the king snake in a cage
of diamond backs, just to see what
would haDDen.-New York Sun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
WANTED THE CAT WATCHED.
Solicitude Under the Circumstances
Not Unreasonable.

The late Father Scully, of Cam
bridge, Mass, told the following story
at a temperance lecture in Medford:
There was man in Cambridge who
was confirmed drunkard and whose
friends had tried hard to reform him.
Father Scully mot him one day, and
thought he woull try new way OF
reform. He told The man if he did not
stop drinking he would turn into rat.
This had a great effect The unfor-
tunate commenced to brood over it.
He started for home, and sat for hours
thinking he was going to turn into a
rat. Finally he called his wife and
said: Mary, if you see me turning
into a rat, for Gods sake keep your
eye on the cat
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
NO TONGUE CAN TELL
How Suffered with itching and
Bleeding Eczema Until Cured
by CuticUra.

No tongue can tell how I suffered
for five years with a terribly painful
itching, and bleeding eczema, my
body and face being covered with
sores. Never in nay life did I expert
ence such awful suffering, and 1
longed for death, which l felt was
near. had tried doctors and medi-
cines without success, but my mother
insisted that I try Cuticura. l felt
better after the first bath with Cuti-
cura Soap and one application of Cuti-
cura Ointment, and was soon entirely
we'll. (Signed) Mrs. a. Etson, Belle.
vue, Mich
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
WASHING Blankets.

Have ready three tubs of moderately
warm water; for the first water make a
strong suds by using plenty of Ivory
Soap. In this put pair of blankets
and stir with the clothes stick until
clean; then rinse through the other two
waters, putting a little soap in each.
Wiring by hand and stretch carefully on
the line ELEANOR +. PARKER.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Find Skeleton of Murderer.

While eXcavating a trench for drain
age in road at EastbOurne, England,
workmen came upon a coffin contain
ing a skeleton the skull of which was
separated from the other bones and
lying between the shoulders. 1t
proved to be the skeleton of a wife
murderer who was executed 24O years
ago. The wife's body lies in an ad-
jacent church yard.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Must Have Been a Bachelor.

A horrible synic has invented the
following disgraceful paragraph: Tt
is beautiful to behold at a wedding
the sorrow-stricken air of the parent
as he gives the bride away when we
know that for the last ten years he has
been trying to get her off his hands, >
London Tit-bits.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
How's This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure
J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last Is years and believe him perfectly
orabe in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his nrm.
WALDING, KINNAN q MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and surfaces of the
system. Testimonials free. Price as cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
siamese Raise lockwood.

Besides rice, teakwood forms the
principal product OF Siam. Elephants
are extensively used in this industry
In hot weather, when elephants can
not be used, buffaloes have to do the
work in the forests.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
OPERATION AVOIDED
EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLEY
She Was Told That an Operation WA
Inevitable. How She Escaped 1t

When n physician tells woman suf-
fering with ovarian or womb troub BILE
that an operation is necessary, the very
thought of the knife and the operating
table strikes terror to her heart, and
our hospitals are full of women coming
for ovarian or womb operat ionS.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

won't shake out or blow out; BY using
Defiance Starch you obtain better re-
money.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Average Supply of Coal.

Half a ton of coal to each inhabit-
ant is the average the world over
The United States produces four tons
to the inhabitant
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in q pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures &c ozs." Demand De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing Defiance never sticks.
Lift your mind above your sur
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Talking machines-Victor and Edi-
son are the best; cash or payments. ST
weekly. Write to-day. JENKINS MUSIC
CO., KANSAS CITY, no. sc. 600 records in
stock, Mention this paper.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

1t is useless to tell one what they
already know and they won't believe
what they don't know.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF as
o cough cure. w. O'BRIEN, 3:2 Third Ave-
N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 8. 1900.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

We wish every summer we were
as popular as Strawberries and ice
cream.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

No chromos or cheap premiums, but
a better quality and one-thfrd more
of Defiance Starch for the same price
of other starches.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
More Flexible and Lsstino.

Make your eyes effective penetra-
tors on all clouds that appear
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

a mans uncomfortable mind be-
comes non-productive.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Thickness of Skin.

The skin of the men and women of
some nations is much thicker than
that of others, particularly in hot
countries. The Central African negro
has skin about half as thick again
as that of a European. That of a ne
gro is thfckest over the head and back
evidently to form a protection from
the sun.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Do a good act. and you are credited
with two. Do a mean act. and you
are credited with ten.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
USE THE FAMOUs

Be careful that something don't
attract that won't benefit you.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Rivers in British Empire.
There are 1900 rivers in the British
empire.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Be original and different and indif-
ferent 10 what is.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

When things seems unnatural you
are being influenced by other thar
nature.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only
cents The Russ Company, South Bend. Ind.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
DON'T FORGET

You know many things that you
never had occasion to realize.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Have You Noticed That

Some people do an act of meanness
in one direction and try to square
things by generosity somewhere else.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

"'Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
cured wife OF terrible disease. With pleasure
testify to Its marvellous ecacy. Sweet Albany n Y
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz package 5
cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Those Who Have Tried It

will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa
ter Starch has no equal in Quantity
or Quality-16 OF. for 10 cents. Other
brands contain only IL OF.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
Yucatan's independence.

Seventy-five years ago Yucatan de-
clared itself independent.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces IN
nammAton. allays pain. wind collie. 25 bottle
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15
D, we cannot hold out the promise
that DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
zeal Discovery will cure con-

When Answering Advertisements
Kindly Mention This Paper.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

Lift your mind above your sur
and try to get to it
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-15

When Answering Advertisements
Kindly Mention This Paper.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
He Meant All Right.

In connection with Inc dHhu"
spring exposition of the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, which drew
only the other day to so successful a
close. Philadelphians are hearing a
story which is almost too good to De
true-though it arrives well vouched
for.
According 20 this the young and de
cidedly pretty wife of one OF the I'M
successful applicants for admission to
the gallerys walls called upon GER
tain highly talented and well known
member of the jury to plead her hus-
bands cause. She was sincere; she
was eloquent; the great mans heart
was touched-but what could he do,
for he remembered only too well the
huge and glarngly colored canvas
which had been turned down. At
last he said:
Madam, go back and tell your good
husband that when he will send us in
picture as small and as charming
as pretty and well painted, as you
There the story ends, with not a
word as to what followed the speech.
philadelphia Ledger
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
PUTTING UP TIE POSTERS.
A Ton Of Flour Required to Make Paste
for One Week.

A ton Of -four and twenty barrels ci
water are required to make 1000 gal
Ions of paste used each week in stick
ing up the posters advertising the the
aters in Kansas City, says the Kansas
City Journal The posters themselves
are no small item, as it requires -four
wagon loads of them to cover fiftees
miles of billboard IL the city. Fifteen
men are employed constantly tc
change the posters each week.
The paste, of which SO much 10
needed. is made in barrels, each Of
which holds fifty gallons. About 10C
pounds of -four Is placed in each,
which is then filled with water and
heated to boiling with steam pipe.
1t Is carried around for use in big
boxes, which fit in the back OF the
wagon used, and which hold a barrel
and half. The paste must be used
while 1t Is hot. or else 1t thickens and
spoils. The bills that are pasted up
each week soon accumulate to such
an extent that they are in the way.
They are then torn off with crowbars
and sold as fuel They burn very
well. and bring nearly the price OF
cordwood.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
WORTH REMEMBERING.

There are three entirely different
Kinds of ingredients used in making
the three different varieties of baking
powders on the market. WE'D Min
eral-Acid or Alum, CD Bone-Acld or
PHOSPHATE, and go Cream of Tartar
made from grapes. II is important,
from the standpoint of health, TO
know something about these ingredi-
ents. and which kind is used in your
baking powder.
IN Mineral-Acid, or Alum. is made
from a kind of clay. This is mixed
with diluted oil of vitriol and from
this solution a product is obtained
which is alum. Alum is cheap; costs
about two cents q pound. and baking
powder made with this MineraiAcid
sells from 10 to 25c, pound.
(2) Bone-Acid. or Phosphate. is the
basis of phosphate baking powders
and the process is fully described in
the patents issued to a large manufac-
turer of a phosphate powder. The Z.
6 Patent Office Report gives full
and exact description, but the follow
ing extract is enough
burned bones, after being ground,
are put into freshly diluted oil OF Wit
riol and with continual stirring and
in the following proportion" etc.
From this Bone-Acid phosphate hak-
ing powders are made; such powders
sell from 20 to 80 cents pound.
(3) Cream of Tartar exists in all
ripe grapes. and flows with the juice
from the press in the manufacture OF
wine. After the wine is drawn off the
tartar is scraped from the cask. boil
cd with water and crystals of Cream
of Tartar, white and very pure, sepa-
rate and are collected. II differs in
no respect from the form in which 1t
originally existed in the grape. Cream
of Tartar. then. while the most eEpen-
sive. is the only ingredient that
should be used in baking powder to
act upon the soda, as its wholesome
ness is beyond question. Cream or
Tartar baking powders sell at about
40 to so cents pound.
Such are the facts, and every one,
careful of the health OF the family,
should remember this rule:-Baking
powders selling from 10 to Is cents
mound are made Of MineralAcids;
those selling from 20 to 80 cents or
Bsne-Aci6; and those from 40 to so
cents of Cream of Tartar made from
grapes.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
yApAN's GOSPEL OF WORK.
Wealthy Youth Devote Themselves 10
Useful Pursuits.

The secret of JapanS wonderIul
Success said globe trotter' lies'
perhaps. in this: Whereas, the rlcheSt
and best born and most powerful Oh
other nations young men give 'hehi
selves over to frivolity and ldleheSs'
the flower of the young men OF Japan
work, work. work In the pleasure
cities of the wOrld-at Monte tarlo'
in Paris, in Algiers, in Ostenu' III
Cairo-you will find young graho
dukes from Russia. young barone's
and lords from England, all gamDilhe'
motoring. skiing, yachting. dining anu
what not But do you ma aniohs
them-I don't mean now only, but ever
have you ever seen among them any
of the young princes and earns anu
millionaircs of Japan? NO, lhdeeu'
Those young men have been WORKING
in our universities, working IN oui
machine shops, working in our chelli
cal understanding, workihs'
How well this speaks for Japan =
future, What warning 1t ID 10 ,he
rest of the nations of the world! foi
if this noble energy continues IN the
youth of Japan from the lowest lc
the highest one of two things VIII
happen-either Japan will far outstrlp
the other nations or else the other
nations younE men, too, from the low
est to the highest, will have to abah-
Don their sports and their dissipatlons
and turn themselves resolutely 10 ID
Dor for the public good.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
ItaIy's Industrial Advance.

Not many people in the United
States are fully aware Of how rapidly
Italy is advancing in industrial impor-
lance. In some way northern Italy
has in the last ten years shown as
promising development in an indus
trial way as is to be found anywhere
in Europe. The never-failing water
supply of the snow-topped mountains
is being utilized by the electrical en-
gineers in way which promises to
convert northern Italy into great in
dustrial state. Nowhere in Europe is
there a population better fitted to aid
in an industrial development. The
people are dexterous. quick to learn
and industrious, and up to the present
time the general wage scale compares
favorably with that of any competitors
which they have to meet The result
of these favorable conditions has been
for instance, the development of the
silk industry at rate which sounds
like statistics of American indus
trial growth.-Scribner's.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
A Good Rule Works Both Wavs,

An old minister who was fond of GO
ing away from home, found that some
of his parishioners objected to his fire.
quent absence, and complained of it
some of them to him personally, and
more of them behind his back. When
he thought he had heard enough OF it.
he addressed his congregation one
Sunday thus:
with regard to objections concern
ing my absence, / have to say, when
| am out of the pulpit am usually in
some other body's pulpit. When you
are not in your own pew are you in
some other body's pew? Second, when
amlout of my pulpit sometimes get
better men than myself to fill 1t, and
you have chance Of hearing the lead
ing preachers in the church; and some
times l get worse men than myself to
fill it. and the chance of hearing them
ought to make you thankful for your
mercies."
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
One of the STAGES.

Over in New Hope, Ark, last week
the farmers of Green county held a
meeting of the Educational and Coop
erative association for the purpose Of
electing delegates to the state conven-
ton to be held in Hot Springs. Among
the prominent men in attendance was
Gen. N. Y. Crowley of Independence,
who is making the race for railroad
commissioner. While the session of
farmers was under way New Hope
maid with musical talents in the bud
opened up piano across the way and
began that process known as cultivat-
ing the voice.
For goodness sake" exclaimed Gen.
Crowley. what noise is that"
Gently. General" exclaimed Will
Burton of Caddo township. who had
Just been elected one of the delegates.
That noise is from a young lady who
is having her voice cultivated"
Cultivated, huh" said the general;
then it is evident the process of cul-
tivation has reached the narrowing
stage. memphis Commercial Appeal.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-27
EXPECT HIGH WATER.
People Along Red River Warned as
Result of Heavy Rains.

Shreveport, La, May 23.-This city
was visited by heavy wind and rain
storm Sunday night, which destroyed
two houses, fences, and uprooted
few trees near the city. No one was
reported injured as a result. Houses
that were destroyed were unoccucpied
AS result of the heavy rains here
and above a warning has been issued
by the weather bureau to farmers and
others to prepare for high water, and
it is feared that Red River will be
over its banks in a few days. The
river here is still two and a. half feet
from the danger line, directly oppo
site the city, but the railway tracks
and low lands below are in great dan
ger of being flooded, and it is believed
that the river will go out of its banks
there in a couple of days. The fore
cast predicts a rise of 10 to Is feet
in As hours.
Country roads are almost impas-
sable and the surrounding country is
so water-soaked that the farmers are
being forced into idleness,