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New-York tribune., 1906-04-09

Police Commissioner Bingham's first report
shows that he has restored 1.O16 policemen to
active duty and abolished ten squads The pres
ent Commissioner so far has developed no fads-
except that policemen must police
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
Oak Trees and Liqhtninu.

Very curious facts about the prefer
ence of lightning for certain kinds
of trees have been collected by the
Bureau of Forestry at Washington.
It has long been noted that oaks are
far more frequently damaged by
lightning than beeches. AS a partial
explanation it has been suggested that
the smoother leaves and bark OF the
beech by producing a uniform wetting
of the surface In a storm, may cause
lightning to reach the ground from
such a tree with less damage than in
the case of an oak. But statistics
gathered by the Bureau of Forestry
indicate that the beech Is compare.
lively exempt from lightning strokes.
Between 1900 and 1905, within a GER
tain district, 66 oak and about 20
fir trees and three or four pines were
struck by lightning but not q single
beech was struck, although the beech
was actually the most abundant tree
in the district, outnumbering the oaks
almost seven to one.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
No Presidents for British Railways.

British railways do not have presi-
dents, and there is nobody in the Of
fetal roll whose authority exactly cor
responds to that of the American chief
executive. The chairman, often titled
and usually a layman, finds his chief
duty in presiding owe semiannual
meetings and answering the extreme
ly pertinent questions put to him by
the proprietors,-for every British
shareholder feels the weight and dig
nifty Of his proprietorshfp, and nay not
be gainsaid. To make, for the mo
ment, a technical distinction, the char
acteristic organization of a British
railway is departmental; the charac-
teristic American organization is di-
~visional. That is to say, we are prone
to make each operating division of the
road a separate entity, ruled by its
superintendent, who reports to the
president, while they give the division
On most of the larger systems there
are a group of vice-presidents, each re-
sponsible for a main branch of the
business, but reporting in turn to the
president, while the give the division
superintendents, who are the orerat-
ing units, as free a hand as possible.
Our general managers are little. moro
than full-powered general superintens
dents.-Ray Morris, in the Atlantic.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Ar Old Medicine.

ss0round oyster Shells" said the
physician, as he squeezed a lemon
over his blue points, were used as
a medicine by the medieval doctors
"a medicine for the ricketts, and
scrofula."
"How absurd"
absurd? Not at all. Oyster shells
contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sulphur,
ma nesia, bromide, phosphoric acid
and iodine. Those are all excellent
tonfcs.
"You know how hens eat ground
oyster shelfs and thus produce eggs
with good, thick, strong shells? Well,
as the oyster-shell powder acts on
egg-shells so l have no doubt 1t act
ed in the middle ages on the bending.
crumbling bones of the rickety, put
ing strength and irmness into them.
Ground oyster shells, I am con-
vinced, would be good things for frail
children today. They would strength
en- the frame, increase the appetite
and have a splendid effect on thu
teeth. Bulletin.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Miss Agnes E. Slack, Of London,
secretary of the Worlds Christian
Temperance Union, said that johann
nesburg is about the wickedest spot
on earth. The very air there seemed
to her charged with the fever of ac-
cumulating wealth from the gold
mines, and society from top to bot
tom is dishearteningly sordid. In the
Dutch districts, where the people make
their living growing grapes for the
wine markets of Earope, she said the
negroes are generally paid part Of
their wages in in~toxicants, with the
result that they all become .beastly
drunk several times a week. Lady
smith, she said, with all its mopu-
ments and graves on the mountain
around, is a gloomy settlement.
The Western provinces Of Cape Col
ony. she said, are exquisitely beauti-
full. and several of the towns literal
ly blazed with gloriously colered
flowers. Puppies, reds, pinks and
yellows there mingled in brilliant pro-
fusion. Ferns that are rare in West
ern hothouses grow there in abund-
apce.-Baltimore Sun.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
Paper From cotton Stalks.

The manufacture of paper from the
fiber of cotton stalks is one of the
latest inventions which are said to
have passed the experimental stage.
1t is asserted that all grades of pa
per, from the best form of linen to
the lowest grade, can be manufacture
ed from cotton stalks. In addition
to this, a variety of by products, such
of alcohol, nitrogen, material for gun
cotton and smokeless powder can
also be secured in paying quantities.
Mills for the use of cotton stalks in
that way may become general in the
cotton-growing states. 1t is estimat-
ed that on an area of land producing
a bale of cotton, at least one ton of
stalks can be gathered. Upon this
basis, from $1,000, 900 to IL, 1000, 900
tons of raw material could be secur-
ed for the production of paper, which
would increase the value of the
South's cotton crop nearly 100000
900. A company has been organized
under the laws of the State of Maine,
with a capital stock of $4,000, 900,
preferred and common, for the pur-
pose of manufacturing pulp and pa
per from cotton stalks.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
The Evils of Constipation

are many; in fact, almost every. serious
illness has it's origin in constipation, and
some medicines, instead Of preventing con.
cathartics, which, when first used, have q
beneficial effect, but the dose has to be
continually increased, and before long the
remedy ceases to have the slightest effect.
There is one preparation, however, that
can be relied upon to produce the same
results with the same dose, even after
fifty years daily use, and this is Brand
reth's Pills, which has q record of over
LOO years as the standard remedy for con
stipation and all troubles arising from an
impure state O. the blood.
Brandreth's Pills are the same fine lax.
alive tonic pill your grandparents used
and can be found in every drug and medi
cine store, either plain or sugar-coated.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

He will certainly fail who hopes to
know men deeply and only to get hap
piness, never to get anxiety, distress,
disappointment, out of knowing them;
and he has mistaken the first idea of
human companionship who seeks COM
Partnerships, friendships and contracts
with mankind directly and simply for
the pleasure they will give him.
Phillips Brooks.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
chIcano of the Future.

The Merchants Club has made ar
rangements with MI. D. H. Burnham
to prepare a plan for the development
of Chicago. 1t will be like the plans
for the improvement of Washington
Manila, and San Francisco. 1t will
embody the suggestions of experts
1t will be made after consultation
with a committee Of the Merchants
Club and an advisory board represent.
ing the park boards, the art institute,
societies of engineers and architects,
the drainage board, and other civic
bodies. twenty-five thousand dol
lars will be subscribed at once for
the preliminary expenses. Its sup
porters are men of business capacity
and intelligent activity.-Chicago Tri-
bune,
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Renewed complaints are made that
inferior coffee is shipped under false
bills of lading to Porto Rico for the
purpose of being exported thence as
the product of the island. This is a
fraud on the producers and upon the
buyers of the coffee, remarks the Phil
adelphia Record. There is no excuse
for shipping any coffee to the island.
Whatever goes there is presumptive-
ly designed to defraud. The presump-
ton is strengthened by the fact that
it is entered on manifests as peas and
beans. Adequate can should be
taken to protect Porto Rico from the
destruction of it's business.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
CIRQUE rouRAl in AuroMosILEe.
Ia Abandon kAlirpAd Method Of
Transportation After This
aaanon.

0eaHQus
Barnum 81 Bailsy4s Greatest Show
On Earth" has sounded the doom OF
the picturesque SIX, eight and ten
horse circus driver and of the gor-
geously caparisoned and plumed steed
Of the parade. The organization will
tour the country in mammoth auto
mobiles, beginning next year, it was
announced by "Tody" Hamilton.
With the news Of this radical de-
parture from all custom and tradition
came information OF the dissolution
OF the Circus Trust and the resump-
ton of the old time hostility. This
will NEAR q renewal, after this J ear,
Of the bitter warfare which character
ICED circus conduct until the late
James A. Bailey formed a friendly
business union.
For many years the expense OF rail-
road transportation has been a source
of growing alarm to the circus pro
prietor. Railroads do not want the
Job Of hauling the big three section
organization. The work delays pas
senger traffic, and the danger OF acct
dent, involving tremendous damages,
Is great. Several railroads have gone
to the extremity of positively refus-
ing to accept the business and 9TH
ers have made rates so high that
~,circusea cannot travel on their lines
with profit.
Mr.. Bailey appreciated the urgency
of overcoming this condition long be-
fore hfs death last spring and had
settled upon the automobile as the
solution. Before the electric and
and gasolene mode of transportation
had reached its present high state
of efficiency ha once nearly decided to
return to the wagon show" days,
when horses furnished the motive
power, but the modern necessity OF
long Jumps" forced him to abandon
the plan. His show took to the road
from Madison Square Garden last
April with several experimental auto.
mobiles. These have demonstrated
their ability SO conclusively that next
year will see the canvas enterprise
moved from town to town by chauf'
feur and battery.
The Barnlm & Bailey circus num-
bers one hundred and twenty-five wag
ons-pole, canvas, baggage, proper.
ty, cage, tableau and chariot vehicles
and the average daily run is sixty
miles. Sometimes the distance reaches
a hundred or more miles, but
only on a Sunday. The average daily
railroad bill approaches one thousand
dollars.-New York Herald.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
HALEY COMET DUE IN 1910.
Has Not Been Seen Since 1885, ano
Will Not Be Seen Again Till
Latter Part of Twentieth
Century.

The most famous of all comets,
though not the largest and most brill
liant, will again be visible in 1910.
This is Halley's comet, so called from
it's Identification by the great astron-
omer who was the friend of Sir Isaac
Newton. Halley's investigations OF
astronomical records led him to as
sert that the comet which he had OBJ
served in 1882 had appeared in 1881
and 1907, and to predict its reappear-
ance in 1859. The fulfillment of his
prophecy excited the most int Sc
scientific interest and established be.
yond doubt the periodicity of comets
and their movements in orbits de-
It's last appearance was in 1885, its
period varying between se~venty-fye
and seventy-six years years on &C.
count of the perturbing attractions
parts of its orbit. 1t was by that
time possible to calculate it's move
ments with much greater accuracy
than before that it made it's perihelion
passage within four days of the pre-
dicted date. 1t vas not then a very
grand object to the naked eye, but
the light of it's nucleus surpassed
that Of second magnitude stars and
was comparable with that of Al.
debaran and Antares. It's tail, while
the comet was approaching the sun,
attained to a length of 20 degrees.
-Leslie's Weekly.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

The sublime of Nature does not
equal the sublime of Thought. A good
man is a truer image of spiritual
things than the loveliest landscape;
and the faithfulness Of conscience,
the inviolable law in the soul, is more
worthy to picture the moral con-
stancy of God than the orderly revo-
lutions of the heavens.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Hardness is a want of minute at
tention to the feelings of others. 1t
does not proceed from %malingnity OF
c~arelessness of inficting pain, but
from a a want Of delicate perception
Of those little things by which pleas
ure is conferred or pain excited--Syd-
new Smith.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

A medical journal oe>-ares that
people who drink cows milk are
more and more inclined to consump-
ton than those who use the milk of
the reindeer, the buffalo, the ass or
the goat.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Doan's Kidney Pills cured me in a
few short weeks. I am now enjoying
the best of health, have a fine appe-
lite, the best of digestion, and restful
sleep, all due to your splendid pills"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
DlSFlGURlNG SKIN HUMOR
Impossible to Get Employment, as Face
and Body Were Covered With Sores
Cured by Cuticura.

and Body Were Covered With sores
Cured by Cuticura.
"Since the year 1894 | have been trou'
bed with a very bad case of eczema which
| have spent hundreds of dollars trying to
cure, and | went to the hospital, but they
failed to cure me, and it was getting worse
all the time. Five weeks ago my wife
bought a box of C%uticura Ointment and
one cake of Cuticura Soap, and | am
pleased to say that | am now completely
cured and well. 1t was impossible for me
to get employment, as my face, head ana
body were covered with it. The eczema
first appeared on the top of my head,
and it had worked all the way around
down the back of my neck and around to
my throat, down my body and around the
hips. 1t itched so | would be obliged to
scratch it. and the flesh was raw. am
now all well, and | will be pleased to rec
ommend the Cuticura Remedies to all per
sons who wish a speedy and permanent
cure of skin diseases. Thomas Nj. Rossi-
ter, 200 Prospect Street, East Orange, ~
J. Mar, 80, 1905"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

In every piece Of honest work, how
ever irksome, laborious and common
place, we are fellow workers with
God.-F. B. Meyer.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Remember, it is looking downward
that makes one dizzy. Look up, and
your brain clears, your heart grows
calm and strength comes to you for
every task and every emergency.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

He who allows oppression shares
the crime.-Erastus Darwin.
In the long run men hit only what
thew aim at.-Thoreau.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
Band instruments in use by the
Salvation Army are worth $4,000.

FITS, st. vitus'D Dance: N Nervous Diseases per
manently cured by DIR. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. 50 trial bottle and treatise free.
DR.. Il. r. Kline, Id. ,931 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

piles Cured in 6 to II Days.
Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protr'1dlng
Pfesin 6 to IA days or money refunded. DUO.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
How,s Thtse

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case OF Catarrh that canno be curedby
Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.J.
Cheney for the last ID years, and believehim
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
lions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
WEST b TRuAx, Wholesale Druggists. To-
ledo, o.
WALD1xa, K1sNAH 8 MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Curels "a keniuternally, act
ingdirectly upontheb blood and m~ucuoussur-
faces o the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price. 75c. per bottle. Soldby all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The cities of Glasgow and Noting
ham supply gas to the consumers,
and it is sold at fifty cents a thousand
cubic feet - about one-half what 1t
costs in American cities. Last year
Nottingham made a profit of $780,
600 on it's gas plant.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground OF
truth.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
TRYING EXPERIENCE.

Doan's Kidney
Pills, as / have
found by personal
experience that
they are an ideal
kidney remedy. l
suffered with COM
plications of kid
ney complaint for
nearly Ave years,
spent over 500 on
useless remedies,
while five boxes OF
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

TO Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
e. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

That our American forests abound in
plants which possess the most valuable
medicinal virtues is a%bundantly attested
by scores of the most eminent medical
writers and teachers. Even the until
tored Indians had discovered the useful
ness of many native plants before the
advent of the white race. This informa-
ton, impaired freely to the whites, led
the latter to continue Investigations until
to-day we have a rich assortment of most
valuable American medicinal roots.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

CRATES and a~nt-eaters have tongues
nearly two feet In length.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Roth the above mentioned medicines are
wholly made up from the glyceric extracts OF
native, medicinal roots. The processes EN-,
ployed in their manufacture were original
with DR.. Pierce, and they are carried on by
skilled chemists and pharmacists with the
aid of apparatus and appliances specially
designed and built for this purpose BON
medicines are entirely free from alcohol ana
ali other harmful, habit-forming drugs, A
full list of their ingredients is printed on
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Not less marvellous, In the unparalleled
cures it is constantly making Of woman's
many peculiar affections. weaknesses and
DISTRESSING d~eTangements. is DR.. Pierce's
Fa7orite\ Prescriptiohas is amply attested
by thousands ofppEoicited testimonials con-
tributed byG2afeful paffenS who have been
cured by It Of catarrhalnelyic dTaina. Qainfm
periods 1rregularities. prolapsus and QfheT
dfsplacementsL causeI by weakness ulcer
atIon of uterus and Kindred affections. often
after many other advertised medicines. and
physicians had failed.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Many men owe the grandeur of
their lives to their tremendous diff
culties-C. II. Sturgeon.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Mrs winslow's Soothing Syrupfor Children
teetning, softens thegums, reduceslntammar
ton, allays pain, cures win collie, 25ca bottle
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20

Dr.. Pierce believes that our American for
ests ab0Snd in most valuable medicinal roots
foS the cufeAQf most obstinate and fatal dis
eases, if wewocd properly investigate them;
and i9(eAfraefNS Of this conviction; he
poir&S with pride4 the almost marZelQnS
cures effected by his rGnldsnMedicalliS=
covery.n which has proxen1tself to-he1he
most eficientstomacht onicLiEeE1 nYlgQE--
atQrA heart tonic and regulator. and blood
cleanser known 10 medical science, Dyspep-
STA. or Indigestion. torpid liver. functional
and even valvular and other affections OF
the heart yield to its curative action. The
reason tUhy it cures these and many other
affections. is clearly shown in a little book
of extracts from the standard medical works
which is mailed free to any address By DR.. r.
V. Pierce. OF Buffalo. N. Y. to all sending
request for the same.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-12-20
Wicked Johannesburg.

COlor more goods brighter ana raster coloie
I've any garment without ripping apart
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-30
Crash Of Passenger Trains on the
Great Northern, in
Montana.
TRAINMEN KILLED IN
HEAD-oN COLLISION
Railroad Employees Perish in
Crash on seaboard Air
Line. IL.

Columbia Falls, Mont, Jan. 3d.
Great Northern Oriental Limited No. /,
westbound, and passenger train No. 2,
eastbound, collided headon on a straight
track one mile west of Columbia Falls
at 10:40 last night. Two fremen and
one express messenger are dead. Their
names are:
= Wuizbacher, express messenger.
Engineers Bardin and Thierweichter,
Conductor Quinn, and Mail Clerk Ar
mold were injured. The latter were
taken to the hospital at Whitefsh,
Mont.
None Of the passengers was injured
beyond 70 severe shaking up. -.
smashed that they were taken from the
trains. Train No. 2 left Columbia
Falls on its eastern trip at 7:1O this
morning and No. L was scheduled to
leave there at o CLOCK (western time)
Six Killed in the South.
Norfolk, Va, Jan. 3O.-A disastrous
wreck occurred on the Seaboard Air
Line railway, between Hamlet, N. c.,
and Columbia. s. G., early this morn
reported e dead and BY BY s which 1t two , others
are said by current reports here to have
been killed. The wreck was between
north bound passenger train and an
extra freight train, south bound from
Hamlet, N. G. Those officially reported
dead:
Engineer A. A. smeck, Hamlet, N. G.
Fireman Andy White, Hamlet, N. c.
Two unidentified, United States rail
way mail clerks.
According to rumor here, Engineer
John Robertson Of Raleigh, N. G., and
nj hp loo of
R Faa were also also killed lied An Official
report given out at the Seaboard Offices
in Portsmouth this afternoon says that
Engineer Robertson and Fireman Doug
las were injured. The wreck, according
to an official statement, was caused by
the men in charge of the freight train
overlooking the passenger train.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-30
LID RUM0R SCAREs
HOT SPRINGS, ARK,
Journal ma spaoial Service.

Journal Special Service.
4 Hot Springs, Ark, Jan. 30. am
bling house owners Ware given scare
last nj CHI, when was rumored that
Governor JEFF Davis intended to put
the lid down in this city. Efforts were
made to reach the governor at his ex-
ecutive mansion in Little Rock over
the longdistance telephone, in order to
verify the report, but no word was
received.
Hot Springs is. the only town in Ar
kansas where gambling is wide open.
It is said that the political machine in
this county did not support Governor
Davis for the United States senatorship
and for this reason he has threatened
to shut down gambling.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-30
CASTRO PREPARES
To- FIGHT FRANCE
Venezuelan President Inspects His
Garrisons in Expectation Of a
French Invasion.
Journal snecial saruioa.

Journal Special Service.
New York, Jan. 3O.-The Herald pub
fishes the following copyrighted cable:
Willemstad, Curacao, Jan. "a
prominent Venezuelan who has arrived
here from Caracas says that President
Castro, while supposed to be resting at
Maracay, has been actively engaged in
visiting the garrsGns and an Rropang for
called toi the capital for instructions,
troops are mobilizing and the Impress
ment of the army has begun. The peo-
pie are apathetic, but will be forced
to fight, tho they blame President Cas-
tro for going too far with M Taigny.',
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-30
IS SAVED
FROM ANGRY MOB
Evangelist Attacks Iowa Towns
Administration and Has Elk
citing Experience.
Special to The Journal.

Special to Tho Journal.
Waverly, Iowa, Jan. 30.-An attempt
evangelist, yesterday, for attacks on the
city s morals and authorities, was
eayerted by the action Of the regular
ministers Of the city.
In his sermons, MIR. Oliver made an
attack on the city administration. Soon
after, mob Of 200 persons proceeded to
the church where Mr.. Oliver was still
speaking. The local ministers then
hurried Oliver out Of the church and
wired to Governor Cumnlins for protec-
ton, but Sheriff Parrott succeeded in
holding the crowd at bay.