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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-25
DEATHS HARVEST.

IL was sad that w. A. Nelden elected
to commit suicide rather than face the
difficulties of business which con-
fronted him, but inasmuch as he
chose to face the unknown in prefer
ence to remaining here and fighting
the battle out, we who survive cannot
restrain ourselves from Offering our
sympathy to those he left behind and
expressing our regrets that he has
gone the way of all flesh. He was a
genial man in his life time, and val
liable member of the community. He
was active and energetic and seemed
to have a desire to benefit the COM
munity in which he lived. Has was
the first president of the Commercial
club, and in that capacity did much
to establish the organization. He was
an active member of the board of
education and was president one term,
serving with fidelity and distinction,
because he was friend of the schools.
In business life, he was persistent and
worked hard to achieve success For
some time past he has not been well,
and recently he was displaced as
| president of the Nelden Drug COM
pany, because of his inability to stand
| the strain.
Believing, perhaps, that his days
of usefulness were over and that it
would be better to die, he invited the
Reaper to his presence and by his own
hand terminated existence here.
There may be those who will Judge
him harshly because of this action,
but not so with Truth We sincerely
regret his going, but have no adverse
criticism to offer. May his soul rest
in peace in better land than this,
where cares and annoyances are I'M
known.
Mr.. Nelden was So years of age. and
left a wife and three children, one
Mrs. Louise Nelden-Cross, the others
Paul and Ralph Nelden, to mourn his
loss. May He who heals wounded
hearts look in pity upon them and
compensate them for the terrible
grief that has thrown it's shadow over
their home.
william Pinney, who for many Years
has been superintendent of buildings
for the board of education, died OH
tuesday last, after a very short i'll
ness. Mr.. Pinney was a kind gentle
man, who had host of friends. Heart
failure and congestion of the lungs
cause his demise. He was taken i'll
on the Sunday previous to his passing
ana while on the day previous he was
able to recognize his family and
friends, he soon afterward sank into
unconsclousness and peacefully went
away. He was born in England and
came here in 1868. He worked on the
tabernacle organ, and did much of
the interior word in the Gardo house
now occupied by Colonel Holmes. He
was prominent in the erection of the
McCornlck block and the Chamber of
commerce, and erected most of the
handsome school buildings in the CITY
the Lafayette school being his mas.
terp1ece' Five sons and four daugh-
ters and nineteen grandchildren
mourn the loss of an excellent man,
ana nave numerous acquaintances to
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horses, an occupation a man with
weak leg would have to abandon. The
writer does not pretend that patient
knows more than the surgeon, but
there are so many instances where
"the operation is a success, but the
patient dies" that too much care can
not be exercised. In the case of this
Illinois woman she would have doubt
less lived happily for many years but
for the experiments of the doctor who
did the cutting, it being proven on the
trial that she was an exceptionally
bright woman. 1t seems to me that in
many cases it Is better to place the
responsibility upon the patient than on
the physician.
A very old poem relates the story of
a sergeant of the French army, wn,.
reported to his general:
Present four, and l, all wounded;
Praised be God, we hold the fort"
This old narrative has a duplicate
in the story Of Russian regiment at
the battle of the Shakhe river. After
being mercilessly raked by Japanese
fire, six men and an officer reported
to General Stakelberg. The officer and
his men, were all bleeding. The gen.
eral raked them mercilessly for aban-
doning their regiment, but when in
formed by the commander of the rem
nant that they were all that remained
Of battalion, was horror-stricken
The wounded officer fell from exhaus-
ton after making the report. Ambu-
lance attaches at once attended to the
wants Of the regiment" The Incl
dent is worthy of being embalmed in
song and story and no doubt some
Russian poet will some day tell the jul
veniles of the autocracy the tale of
how these men reported present"
~ "
For the benefit of the fair sex, | re-
produce special cable" from Paris
to the effect that double skirts will
be the feature of the new seasons
models. The sleeves will be short and
very full at the shoulder"
~ ~
M. Hector Granet, a resident of Yer
sailles, France, has the remains of his
father, kept in cement sarcophagus,
filed with alcohol and covered with
glass, through which admiring visitors
can see the perfectly preserved form
of the old man. whose hair and whis-
kers are still growing. This gruesome
exhibit demonstrates one thing; tnal
alcohol makes the hair grow.
~ ~
From the Brickville Vindicator we
clip the following items:
Colonel Silas Watson was a pleas
ant visitor at this office last Wednes-
day Colonel Watson was accompan-
led by dressed turkey, which he
kindly forgot when he departed. The
colonel expects to run for sheriff of
this county next fall It is rather
early to open the campaign, but we
predict that If the colonel lives and
and keeps his health, he will sweep
everything before him.
Mrs. Rev. Springer is on the sick
list with tonsilitis. 1t is lucky that it
Is her instead of the reverend, as he
is busy this week with one of the most
enthusiastic revival meetings ever
held in our midst.
Major White Of this place went to
ST Louis recently, and while there
saw Mr. John Walker. an old Rrick.
ston boy, who has been meeting with
wonderful success since he left here
several years ago to seek his fortune
IN larger place. Mr. Walker now has
very lucrative position in a -four and
feed store
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-25
CHATTER.
(Being the personal opinions of the
writer and for which no one else is in
any manner responsibility

any manner responsibility
The Supreme court of the grea,
state of Illinois has decided that any
surgeon who performs a major oper-
alton on a patient without said pa
TENTS consent is, under the law, guilty
OF malice and liable to punitive dam
ages. Even the consent of the nearest
relative, provided the patient be of
sound mind, does not relieve the scien-
fist of liability. The court holds, how
ever, that emergency cases do. not
come under this decision, which gives
the doctor bit Of a chance for his
white alley. The case which resulted
in the judgment of the court was one
where a surgeon operated on a woman
for epilepsy. She was not unable to
care for her household duties and
looked after her three children as well
as a woman thus afflicted could look
after children. At the solicitation of
her brother-in-law, during her hus-
bands absence, she was taken to
sanitarium for treatment, and while
there, without her consent, she was
chloroformed and the surgeon per-
formed an operation he designated as
'hystereotomy." After returning to
her home, her mind failed and she was
taken to the hospital for the insane,
where she now is. Her husband
brought suit and was awarded YER
dict Of $4,000 damages. The physi-
clan pleaded in defense that the hus-
band had given him carte blanche in
the case, but the defense availed him
nothing.
A.
This is a correct decision. While
1t Is true the patient may at times de-
cline to consent to an operation which
might be the means of saving life the
afflicted one, in certain instances,
ought to have the right of electing
whether an operation should be per-
formed or not. Many times surgeons
are too hasty with the knife, although
1t Is gratifying to note that greater
care Is exercised now than there used
to be. case in point right here in
Utah will bear repeating. David Nc.
Donald, private in Battery A, N. G.
u, was injured during a parade, his
right leg being crushed below the
knee. The surgeons at the hospital
were unit In declaring the injured
member should be taken off. Mcdonald
objected, and declared he would die
with that leg on If it was his time to
die, but never would he give permits
sion to operate. He was reasoned
with In vain; no sort of argument
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en- and these problems faced, if our
duty is to be well done, remains essen
TALLY unchanged. We know that self
government is difficult. We know that
no people needs such high traits OF
character as that people which seeks
to govern its affairs Alright through
the freely expressed will of the free.
men who compose it. But we have
faith that we shall not prove false to
the memories of the men of the
mighty past. They did their work,
they left us the splendid heritage we
now enjoy. We in our turn have an
assured confidence that we shall be
able to leave this heritage unwasted
and enlarged to our children and our
children's children To do so we must
show, not merely in great crises, but
in the everyday affairs of life, the
qualities of practical intelligence, of
courage, of hardihood and endurance.
and above all the power of devotion
to a lofty ideal, which made great the
men who founded this republic in the
days of Washington, which made
great the men who preserved this
republic in the days of Abraham Lin
coin.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

fury and quarter of its national life
is inevitably accompanied by a like
growth in the problems which are
ever before every nation that rises
to greatness. Power invariably means
both responsibility and danger. Our
forefathers faced certain perils which
We have outgrown. We now face 9TH
er perils the very existence of which
it was impossible that they should
foresee. Modern life is both complex
and intense, and the tremendous
changes wrought by the extraordinary
industrial developments of the last
half century are felt in every fiber of
our social and political being. Never
before have men tried so vast and for
midabIe an experiment as that of adj
ministering the affairs of a continent
under the forms of a democratic re-
public. The conditions which have
told for our marvellous material we'll.
being, which have developed to very
high degree our energy, selfreliance,
and individual initiative, have also
brought the care and anxiety INSOFAR
able from the accumulation of great
wealth in industrial centers. Upon
the success of our experiment much
depends; not only as regards our own
| welfare, but as regards the welfare OF
mankind. If we fail, the cause of free
| self-goVernment throughout the world
will rock to it's foundations; and
therefore our responsibility is heavy,
to ourselves, to the world as it is to-
day, and to the generations yet I'M
born. There is no good reason why
we should fear the future, but
there is every reason why we
should face it seriously, neither
hiding from ourselves the gravity OF
the problems before us nor fearing
to approach these problems with the
| unbending, unfinching purpose to
solve them Alright.
Yet, after all, though the problems
are new, though the tasks set before
us differ from the tasks set before
our fathers who founded and pre-
served this republic, the spirit in
| which these tasks must be undertake
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

must be one Of cordial and sincere
friendship. We must show not only
in our words but in our deeds that
we are earnestly DESTROYS of secur-
ing their good will by acting toward
them in a spirit of just and generous
recognition of all their rights. But
justice and generosity in nation, as
in an individual, count most when
shown not by the weak but by the
strong. While ever careful to refrain
from wronging others, we must be no
less insistent that we are not wronged
ourselves. We wish peace; but we
wish the peace of justice, the peace
of righteousness. We wish it because
we think it is right and not because
we are afraid. No weak nation that
acts manfully and justly should ever
have cause to fear us, and no strong
power should ever be able to single
US out as a subject for insolent ag
gression.
Our relations with the other pow
ers of the world are important; but
still more important are our relations
among ourselves. Such growth in
wealth, in population, and in power
as this nation has seen during the CEN
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11
INAUGURAL ADDRESS or
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Short Speech Delivered by Chief Executive After
Taking the Oath of Office - Our Duties as a
Nation to the World and to Ourselves.

After taking the oath of Office dur
ing the Inauguration ceremonies at
Washington March 4, President Roose-
welt delivered the following speech:
My Fellow Citizens:
No people on earth have more
cause to be thankful than ours, and
this is said reverently, in no spirit
Of boastfuiness in our own strength,
but with gratitude to the Giver of
Good, who has blessed us with the
conditions which have enabled US to
achieve SO large measure Of we'll
being and of happiness. To us as a
people it has been granted to lay the
foundations of our national life in a
new continent. We are the heirs of
the ages, and yet we have had to
pay few of the penalties which in old
countries are exacted by the dead
hand of a bygone civilization. We
have not been obliged to fight for
ouI existence against any alien race;
and yet our life has called for the
Eigor and effort without which the
manlier and harder virtues wither
away. Under such conditions it
would be our own fault if we failed !;
and the success which we have had
in the past, the success which we con
fldent1y believe the future will bring,
should cause in us no feeling of vain
glory, but rather a deep and abiding
realization of all which life has of
fered US; a full acknowledgment of
the responsibility which is ours; and
fixed determination to show that
under a free government a mighty
people can thrive best, alike as re-
CARDS the things of the body and the
things of the soul.
Much has been given to us, and
much will rightfully be expected from
us. We have duties to others and
duties to ourselves; and we can shirk
neither. We have become a great ma
ton, forced by the fact of it's great
ness into relations with the other ma
tons of the earth: and we must be-
have as beseems a people with such
responsibilities. Toward all other
nations, large and small, our attitude
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11
The Mind Needs Diversity

Put variety into your mental bill of
fare as well as into your physical. 1t
will pay you rich returns. No matter
if you are strong and rugged and able
to work every day in the year, your
body does not. Ruskin's love of the
beautiful gave his whole life an indie
scribable charm and holiness. 1t kept
him looking upward as well as out.
ward. 1t purified and exalted, while
it held him spellbound. Put beauty
into your life. 1t is the twin of love
The union of the two in their highest
form would make earth a paradise
and man, indeed. only a little lower
than the angels. -
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Prolific squirreIa.

A couple of old antagonists meet on
a Scotch golf course every Saturday
afternoon. They were all square
at the seventeenth and the loser OF
last week had just played his third
in the shape of a nice approach to
the green. Last weeks winner came
up to his ball with grim purpose. He
had an easy pitch to the green, but
q number of young sheep were uncon-
sciously browsing along the edge.
Rim forrard, laddie.'' said last weeks
winner to his caddie. and drive AVA
the lambs!'' Ma, ma vigorously
protested his opponent: 'bide where
We be. 1addie! Ye Gamma move any
CROWN thing! That's the rule of
gowff.'
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DERANGED NERVES
DISTRESSING TROUBLES LEFT BY
ST. VITUS AND GRIP.
Woman Afflicted for Years by Strange
Spells of Numbness and Weakness
Receivers Perfect Health.

Spells of Numbness and Weakness
Receivers Perfect Health.
When she was fourteen years old, Mrs,
Ida L. Brown had st. Vitus' dance.
She finally got over the most noticeable
features of the strange ailment, but was
still troubled by very uncomfortable sen
sations, which she recently described as
follows:
Zone hand, half OF my face, and half
of my tongue would get cold aud numb.
These feelings would come on, last for
about ten minutes, and then go away,
several times a day. Besides I would
have palpitation of the heart, and my
strength would get so low that could
hardly breathe. AS time went on these
spells kept coming oftener and growing
worse. The numbness would sometimes
extend over half my body"
How did you get rid of them?''
cit seemed for a long time as if never
could get rid of them. 1t was not until
about six years ago that found remedy
that had virtue enough in it to reach my
case. That was DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, and they have since en-
tirely cured me-
Ibid it take long to effect cure?' .
''Noi 1 hadn't taken the whole of the
first box before saw a great improve
ment. So kept on using them, growing
better all the time. until had taken eight
boxes and then was perfectly well, and
I have remained IN good health ever
since with one exception"
s'What was that?''
"Oh that was when had the grip.
was in bed, under the DOCTORS care,
for two weeks. When got up I had
dreadful attacks of dizziness. 1 had to
grasp hold of something or I would fall
right down. I was just miserable. and
when saw the doctor was not helping
me, began to take DIR. Williams Pink
Pills again. In short time they cared
me of that trouble too, and I have never
had any dizzy spells since. -
Mrs. Brown lives at No. 1705 Dewitt
street, Nation, Illinois. DR. Williams
Pink Pills are without an equal for the
rapid and thorough cure OF nervous pros
tration. They expel the poison left in the
system by snch diseases as gimp and are
the best Of tonics In all cases Of weak
ness. They are sold by every druggist.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11
RoxaI Women in Feud.

The present czarina and the dow
ager empress do not merely look ask
ance at one another They have been
at open war for years. The latter
found it very hard to surrender first
place among the women OF the en-
pire, but of course had to do SO. This
was especially irritating to the i'm
peFious dowager, fnasmuch as the wo-
nan who displaced her hates every
thing in the way OF display, cares
naught for court intrigue and Is al.
most painfully shy.
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catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they cannot reach
tutonal disease and in order 1t you
internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken IN
ternally, and acts directly the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack medi-
cine. TWAS prescribed by of the best physicians
In this country for and is regular prescription
It is composed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers acting directly
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the
Two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re-
suits IN curing catarrh Send for testimonials free
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11
sIur on Married LEGISLATORS

Congressman Adams, the bachelor
representative from Pennsylvania, is
the man who introduced a bill for the
establishment of whipping post in
the District of Columbia. The meas
IRE is In line with President Roose-
velt's recommendation on the subject.
but Mr. Adams has small hope of
favorable action by the house Judi
cfary committee. Every last mem
Der of that committee is a married
man." says the Pennsylvania, "and
they are all afraid to report my BILL
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Everybody .'PraetieaI" Now.

we live in a practical age" re-
marked West PhiladeIphian. For
years I've noticed the sign of a man
who advertises to do practical horse
shoeing. Now, a Woodland Avenue
barber has himself down as a practi-
cal hair-cutter. Napoleon always
shaved himself. I always thought it
proved him either oYer-suspicious or
cewardly; but perhaps it was because
those who welded the razor were not
practical in those days. The sign of
the practical toothpu1ler is yet to an
pear. Philadelphia Record.
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Unfiatterinq Recommendation.

An Odessa (Moo man found it
necessary a few days ago to lay aside
his good clothes and put on dirty,
ragged suit and help clean up the
machinery in his place of business.
Then he went home, and as he ell
tered the front gate he met a tramp
coming out. The tramp mistook him
for one of his kind, and, if reports be
true, said: There's no use to go in
there, pard; that's the meanest white
woman living
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Doing Great Work.

Ward, Ark, March 9th Especial
From all over the West reports
come of cures of different forms OF
Kidney Disease by Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and this place is not without
evidence of the great work the Great
American Kidney Remedy is doing.
Among the cured here is Mr.. ]. V.
Waggoner, well known citizen, who,
in an interview, says: "Dodd's Kidney
Pills have done wonders for me. My
kidneys and bladder We're badly out
of order. 1 used many medicines, but
got nothing to cure me till I tried
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Two boxes OF
them fixed me up so that I have been
well ever since.
Tell the poor kidney and bladder
diseased people to take Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and get WE'LL
No case Of kidney complaint is too
far gone for Dodd's Kidney Pills to
cure. They are the only remedy that
has ever cured Brights Disease.
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thinks nBen-tlur" Great Book.

Ayad A. Ghazuli, an Egyptian, en-
gagged in the work of the medical de-
partment of the University of Cincin-
natl, has applied to the publishers of
.'Ren-Hur'' for permission to translate
the work into Arabic. Mr. Ghazuli
has translated a number of works, in
Guiding Spencer's History of Philos-
ophy." It is his opinion that there
is need for just such book as Ben
Hur." which he describes as zone OF
the most instructive and interesting
books of this age" in the Egyptian
church of which he is member.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

Talking NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Edi-
son are the best; cash or payments, 81
weekly. Write to-day. JENKINS MUSIC
CO.. KANSAS CITY, no. 10000 records in
stock, Mention this paper.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation. Feverishness. Bad Stomach.
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 80. 600
testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as
a cough CURE. w. o BRIEN, So Third Ave.
N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 6. 1904
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

You can't get divorced from a crop
of wild oats without paying alimony.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

In the matrimonial gamble the sure
winner is bachelorhood.
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No woman is a heroine in the eyes
of her cook.
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cafarrh of the Bladder and kidney TroubIe
absolutely cured by DR.. David Kennedyss F1vortts
Remedy. World famous for over 50 years 81 bottle
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Did anyone ever have really good
time on an excursion or picnic?
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

Even the march of progress is of
ten followed by April showers.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-03-11

USE THE FAMOUS
Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-cz package
cents The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
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If church pews were like sleeping
car berths more men would CO.
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Why 1t Is the Best

Somehow. people never act as you
think they should.