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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
DEcAYED STARCH.
A Food Problem.

An Asheville man tells how right
food did that which medicines had
failed to accomplish:
For more than Is years." he says.
II was afflicted with stomach trouble
and intestinal Indigestion, gas form
ing in stomach and bowels and CIV
ing me great distress. These condi-
lions were undoubtedly due to the
starcky food 1 ate, white bread, pota-
toes, ETC., and didn't digest. 1 grew
worse with time, till. 2 years ago.
had an attack which the doctor
diagnosed as appendicitis. When the
surgeon operated on me. however, it
was found that my trouble was ulcer
of the pancreas. instead OF appen-
dicitis.
"Since that time l have had sew
eral such attacks, suffering death, all
most. The last attack was about 3
months ago. and I endured untold
agonies.
'sThe doctor then said that l would
have to eat less starchy stuff, so I
| began the use OF Grape-Nuts food. for
l knew it to be pre-digested, and have
| continued same with most gratifying
results. 1t has built me up wonder
fully. l gained 10 pounds In the first
s weeks that I used Grape-Nuts. my
general health is better than ever be-
fore. my brain is clearer and my
nerves stronger.
aFor breakfast and dinner. each, I
take 4 t~easpoonfuls of Grape-Nuta
with cream. a small slice of dry toast.
an egg soft boiled and q u Of
Postum; and I make the evening meal
ON Grape-Nuts and cream alone-this
gives me a good nights rest and !
am wsll again" Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
There's a reason. Read the pttIe
,ock. "The Road 70 Wellvtlles" In pkgs
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
Same Manp

Ethel-I've been engaged even
times this year.
Evelyn should think he'd begin to
get tired of that sort of treatment
Cleveland Leader.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

avert the strike failed. The coal oper-
ators of the central competitive field"
framed an appeal to President Roose-
welt to investigate the facts of the
situation and determine the justice Of
the case by arbitration. This was
done by the operators after all hopes
of peace had failed, but it did not
avert the strike, although it was hoped
that it might shorten it's length.
The present strike involves more
men than any other the coal industry
has known in this or any other coun-
try. Practically all the miners in I'LL
nois, Indiana and Ohio are members of
the United Mine Workers, and all went
out. They number:
Illinois .53,oou
indiana .l6,U0U
Onlo .ob,UUU
The strike includes also the south
western field and involves in
Missouri 5000
Kansas {, 1000
Indian territory ............. 5000
Texas 7,O00
and 1t also stops the clank Of many
tipples in Iowa, West Virginia, Mich
igan and Kentucky.
Probably all the miners in western
Pennsylvania will be ordered out, to
the number of 100. COO.
What will be the result of this tre-
mendous industrial war? How long
can it endure? The daily bread and
very existence of 3,000,0 900 people de-
pend upon the wages which will be
sacrificed. Will the struggle be COM
~paratively peaceful or will the turbu-
lence which has marked most strikes
be used by the less self-controlled
miners to enforce the demand which
has been refused?
Much depends on the results of the
negotiations between anthracite oper-
ators and their miners, for II peace
overtures fail in the anthracite field
as well as the bituminous, the strug-
gle viii be a titanic one, reaching
from the Delaware to the Missouri
river and south throughout the soft
coal fields of Kansas, Indian territory
and Oklahoma to Texas. 1t Is not al
all improbable that not less than $780,
900 coal miners will be loafing before
the end of April. No time of the year
could be better for a protracted siege
by the workmen, and that is n OF the
elements Oh strength which determined
the strike long before the conferences
were begun. The suspension will bs
at the beginning OF the growing sea.
son, when little garden patches dot
ting the states OF Pennsyivania. Ohio
Michigan, Indlana. Illinois. Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma. Indian ter
ritory and Texas will be looked to fol
the main support of the hundreds o
thousands Of families and their mil
lions of Individuals WHO'S income hAi
beOn cnt oH Thousands ot fhssa idl'
20 H.HhNrI CNI-
, 1906-12-26
CAPTAIN THOMAS SWOBE
ON PERSHING MATTER.

Regarding the attempt to traduce the
character of General Pcrshing by circu-
lating the story of his relations with
n Filipino woman, Captain Thomas
Swobe, quartermaster at the army sup
ply depot In Omaha, one of the few
men enabled 10 speak with authority,
because Of his close association with
Pershing in the Philippine islands, de-
nounces the story as false in a tele-
gram to Senator Warren, father-inlaw
of General Pershing, says the Omaha
Bee. Senator Warren had read a ca
blegram in a New York paper which re-
vived the i'll report, and wired Captain
Swobe, asking for a Statement for use
in the Army and Navy Journal going
to press today" and Captain Swobe
sent this:
Omaha, Dec. 2O.-Cablegram from
Manila stating that Pershing married
and lived with a Filipino woman and
that | was aware of the fact is abso-
lutely and unqualiiedly false and ma
licious. There is not one word of truth
in it. You are at liberty to use this
as you may think best.
THOMAS SWoBE,
Captain and Quartermaster.
, 1906-12-26
PLANTING TREES FOR TIES.
Railroads Providing for Day When
Forests Arc Gone.

The most %perishable of the factors
that enter into a railroads "mainte-
nance of way accounts, the ties, are
in modem practice reckoned for fur
thest ahead. The Atchison is the
latest road to adopt the plan OF
growing its own ties, which means
that about 20 years from now the
construction department will be cut
ting its own lumber, provided, OF
course, that in the intervening gen
Grafton ties of steel or sleepers OF
stone or concrete after the English
fashion have not come into general
use.
Dispatches from the west an
nounced that the Atchison had paid
800, 900 for a ranch in California con-
tanning 1859 acres on which to grow
eucalyptus trees to supply the road
with ties. 1t takes the tree, which is
q relatively rapid grower, about 20
years to arrive at a diameter large
enough for the purpose and each tree
will then furnish from six to eight
ties. In order to give the road a
continuous supply about 400 acres
will be planted each year and at the
end of 20 years, when the nrst plan
tation is ready for the ak. the plant
ing will begin all over again.
The railroads of the middle west
began the planting of the eucalyptus
groves some years ago and there are
now in Kansas several such plantar
lions of a fair growth, though none
has yet reached an age sufficient for
cutting. II the present rate of con.
sumption, which has been estimated
at $4,000, 900 ties a year, continues
they will all be needed.
Daily Renuhlican. 50 cents a month
, 1906-12-26

why not?' he replied. smiling. If
she viii tie up to a poor devil of a
lawyers clerk, who is not making any
more, II as much, as h Isl !.
you might have spared yourself
that mendaclous lie," she replied,
flushing hotly. you have been de-
ceiving me all summer, and you know
1t. The rich Mr.. Wenham. with his
automobiles and yachts and horses
and summer place and house on the
avenue, could we'll AFFORD to take me
to the Point in a hired electric launch
II he were not acting a part"
what do you mean" he STAN
mered.
"Oh. / happened to u across that
dear Mrs. Perkins, at whose demure
little farmhouse you board, and her
command of the English language was
scarcely sufficient to tell me of the
glorles Of your wardrobe and your
equipments, and the poor soul was
nearly distracted that you always
went forth so modestly attired and
only entertained your fine friends
from the hotel surreptitiously-albeit
at great expense. I did not explain
to her that you were putting yourself
to all that trouble to fool a poor
stenographer, but / did take pains to
find out just who and what you are.
and the result Is that 1 know that
you are a fraud"
The girl stopped with flashing eyes,
and the young man, whose face had
attained a flaming red, broke into a
merry laugh.
We'll" he said, looking at the girl
with provoking calmness, 81 guess it
is horse and horse"
What do you mean?" she asked,
sharply.
Merely that while MI. Wenham
may have concealed his riches from
Miss Vance, it also is true that Miss
Vance, daughter of a banker and heir
ess to a million in her own right
which came to her from her grand
father Van Courtney, was trying to
| fool a poor lawyers clerk and have a
summers romance at the expense of
a broken heart"
The canoe swept up to the dock at
this moment and ne nelpeu ner out
and dragged the n into the boat
house without giving her a chance to
answer, although he noted her fam
ing cheeks.
you see," he said, as he came out.
wiping his hands on his trousers,
your work was as coarse as mine
1T was all very well to live at a cheap
boarding house, but when we me the
ostlers and the Olrichs and the Van
Dolds, as we did at times at the hotel
and they made such a fuss over you
l did a little investigating myself. Sc
now that we have proven ourselves
two liars, let's make it one"
And, being in the lee of h boat
house, he deliberately took her in his
arms and kissed her-and she shame
lessly put both arms about his mech
and returned his kisses.
, 1906-12-26

made; that II newspapers are permit
ted TO exchange advertising for trans
portation. then all Others must be per-
mltted to exchange whatever they may
deal in to the railroads. provided the
railroads are willing. There is now a
bill before congress amending the rate
In SO as to permit the desired ex-
change or the part OF the press, but
Mr.. Curtis is OF the opinion that 1t will
not pass at this session of congress. 9
1t is very questionable whether it
should pass at all. and In urging Its
passage newspapers admit that their
Advertising space that has In the past
been given to railroads was not worth
the transportation they received, 9TH
erwise they would be willing to pay
cash.
, 1906-12-26
Whose Say-so is Best?

With nearly all medicines put up for
sale through druggists, has to take
the makers say-so alone as to their cura-
tive value. OF course, such testimony is
not that of a disinterested party and
accordingly Is not to be given the same
credit as II written from disinterested
motives. DIR. Pierce's medicines, how
eve form n singleand therefore striking
exception to this rule. Their claims to
the confidence of inyalids does not rest
solely upon their makers say : so or
praise. Their ingredients are matters OF
public knowledge, being printed on each
separate bottle wrapper. Thus invalid
sufferers are taken into DIR. Pierce's full
confidence. Scores OF leading medical
men have written enough to fill volumes
in praise of the curative value of the
several ingredients entering into these
well medicines.
AMONGST these writer's we find such med
zeal lights as Prof Finley Ellingwood. NJ. D.,
q q Bennett n, Medleal Collsse, GhieagS; Prof.
der, NJ. D.. late of. Cincinnati. Ohio; Prof.
John King. NJ. D.. late Of Cincinnati. ohio;
low. Of JEFFERSON Medical College. Of Pa.
and scores of Others equally eminent
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
sus. anteversion and retroversion and corrects
Irregularities. cures painful periods. dries up
disagreeable and weakening drains, some
tude Of other diseases peculiar to women.
Bear in mind. It Is not . patent nor even .
secret medicine. but the vFavorite Prescrip-
ton" OF . regularly educated physician. OF
large experience in the cure of woman's
peculiar ailments. who frankly and confd-
ingly takes his patients into his full com
hdence by telling them just what his rPre-
scription" is composed OF. or no other medi-
cine put up for woman's special maladies
and sold through druggists. can 1t be said
that the maker Is not afraid 10 deal thus
frankly. openly and honorAbly. BY letting
every patient using the same know exactly
what she Is taking.
Sick women are invited to consult DIR.
Pierce, by letter, free, All correspond
ence 10 guarded as sacredly secret and
womanly condolences are protected by
professional privacy. Address DR.. r, v.
Pierce, Buffalo, NY.
How to preserve health and beauty Is
told In DR.. Fferce's Common Sense Med
zeal Adviser. 1t is free. For a paper
covered copy send DR.. r. v. Pierce, Buff
falo, N. Y. 81 one-cent stamps to cover
mailing only ; In cloth binding 81 stampa
Or PiAraa's Pellets cure constipation.
, 1906-12-26

AS usual, the annual report Of Miss
Estelle Reel. superintendent of Indian
schools, is a very interesting document.
From the report it is gathered that
manual training is becoming a leading
feature of the school work, and with
entirely satisfactory results. The SUI
~perintendent has visited practically all
of the Indian schools during the year,
and reports that more teachers are rec
ognizing the special characteristics of
the Indian, and consequently better
methods of teaching prevail. The bene'
fetal results of educational work among
the Indians is Illustrated by the larger
number of pupils who have found EN-
ployment in various occupations re.
quiring manual skill.
, 1906-12-26

The Cheyenne Leader is the latest
to that the Union Pacific
will certainly build a cutoff from Carr
station to a point west of Borie. The
Leader, however, says that there are
to be two cut-offs, n to carry the
through business M one to carry the
local business to Cheyenne. 1t says
that all the passenger traffic will keep
on going by the way Of Cheyenne. To
the average man who has given the
question any consideration whatever,
1t would appear to be the height of folly
for the company to haul passengers
many miles this side of Cheyenne only
to take them back there again and then
bring them west. When the cutoff is
built it is reasonable 10 presume that
all of the through business will pass
over the shortest and easiest route to
the west. That is the purpose for its
construction.
, 1906-12-26
NEWSPAPER TRANSPORTATION.

In his Washington correspondence
William E. Curtis refers to the fact
that a large number of newspaper men
are making strenuous sndeavor to have
the rate bill modified SO as to permit
railroads to exchange transportation
for advertising. The interstate COM
merce commission adheres to the posi-
tion that under the law as it now
stands no such contracts can be legally
, 1906-12-26

Daily Republican. SO cents a month.
, 1906-12-26

A washington correspondent says
that Senator w. A. Clark of Montana.
although receiving an income of from
s12. 900, 900 to $4,000 900 per annum,
always takes a street car in preference
To a cab.
, 1906-12-26
PREACHING AT LANDING
SATURDAY EVENING

There will be preaching at the
Woods landing school house on Satur-
day evening, December 80, and on Sun
day morning at 1 o'clock at the Popp
school house.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02

will offer two unbroken lines of sky
scrapers. Throughout the city improve
ment will be carried out exactly as Mr..
Burnham has advocated for two years.
I'VE will have a great boulevard and
terrace at Twin Peaks, and the several
new parks and other beauty spots con-
ceived by the architect now will be con-
st'ucted. The changes will cost tens
of millions. but the result will be that
San Francisco will stand as the most
beautiful of all cities. 1 predict that
there will be nothing to compare to the
new city in beauty and utility. We
were too cramped in our business
quarters. Now we are going to have
plenty of elbow-room, and, besides, we
will have city that will delight the
eye. All the old ugliness has gone for
ever.
THE new San Francisco will be bet
ter than the old, as was the case In
Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Galveston and
Baltimore, but on a much larger scale.
Thirty days will see 10000 men at
work in the burned district"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
Views Showing the Devastating Effects Earthquake and Fire San Francisco

II is now decided that the old lines
Of the city will not be followed, but
that instead new thoroughfares will be
traced. all streets made wider than
formerly. and uniform style of archl-
lecture adopted. For two years Daniel
Burnham. an architect, had been agi-
tatlng for city beautiful. He had raj
lied many business men to his support,
but his plans were abandoned by the
city authorities only two months ago
as beyond all reason in cost.
Now. the twin disaster of earthquake
and fire has made possible the accom-
plishment of Burnham's dream, which
1t had been admitted by every one
would transform San Francisco into
the most beautiful city in the world.
Work will begin at once In pushing
Burnham's ideas to complete develop
ment. and all the municipal officials
are enthusiastic over the outlook.
Mayor Schmitz expressed his delight
with the plan for the new San Fran
CISCO
"The whole city will be remodeled,"
said Mayor Schmitz. 1--WE will start
work right at the water front. Even
the ferry house, which survived the
fire, will be torn down and replaced
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
Little Shoe Sense,

The hoe should be three-fourths OF
an inch longer than the foot. for the
foot works forward in walking.
Short shoes force tie toes back. and
finally the joints become distorted and
bulge cut on the sides and above. Thus
corns, bunions and other disorders are
developed, says the Chicago News.
Walking shoes should not be worn
in the house, neither should the same
pair be worn on consecutive days, thus
giving them chance to rest.
II the shoes are cleaned every day
and oiled once month they will last
much longer Gil them, especially on
the soles end about the stitches where
the uppers join the coles. For this pur-
pose castor oil is very good.
The heels should always be kept In
good repair. Rubber heels will prevent
the jarring that comes from contact OF
the heels with pavement.
Be careful always to have fresh
laces and ribbons in your shoes. Moth
ing so marks woman untidy as worn
ribbons or flowing. stringy shoe ties.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02

The latest plan in road building is to
reconstruct the old Federal road con.
structed in the early years of the coun'
try and intended to connect the East
and West 1t cost the Government
S7,O00,000, but was allowed to get out
of repair when railroads came into eX.
istence. The idea is to ask the Gov.
ernment to rebuild this road, which
extends across Maryland. Pennsyl.
vania, West Virginia, Ohio and In.
diana, and would thus give a highway
from the Atlantic Cooast to the Central
West. OF course the excellent State
road systems of the Northeastern
States could be connected with this
system at some point in Pennsylvania.
1t looks as if the automobile owners
would be the greatest users of road
of this kind, and a plan to use Uncle
Sans money should provide for some
kind of a special tax which would
make the owners of these machines
pay a proportionate share of the cost
1t is becoming generally recognized
that roads are quickly worn out when
freely used by automobiles which rap.
idly wear away the surface covering.
While a National road would be an ex.
cellent thing for travellers in general,
1t would serve as a connecting link
for the rapidly extending systems OF
State roads. Considerable care should
be taken at the start in establishing a
precedent, and making the persons pay
for the road who are likely to use it
most.--Boston Cultivator
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
Hung at Any Angle.

leaving free space between the rod
ana the frame. the rods being inclined.
Associated with each rod is an adjust
able catch. having two holes, through
one of which is inserted the rod and
the supporting cord through the other
When tension is put upon the support
ing cord the catches are tilted so as to
grip the rods and thus be held firmly
in place. If 1t is desired to change the
inclination of the frame this can be
easily and quickly done by sliding the
catches up or down along the rods. If
they are moved upward the angle be-
tween the frame and the wall is less
ened, while If they are removed down
ward IT is increased, If the top edge
Of the frame is not horizontal, for eX-
ample, and it is desired to straighten
it up this can be done by moving one
Of the adjustable catches until the pro-
per result is secured.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02

IAtoE.. HE value of good roads and
N Y the methods in which the
q o good roads movement Is
4 sometimes given an impe-
NoSr tus is shown in various
ways, therefore 1t might be said in
this connection that the sand-clay
method originated in the following
very simple manner: A few years ago
a South Carolina farmer had occasion
to dig a pit near the highway. and
wishing to get rid of the clay he spread
1t on a piece of sandy road In doing
this he "builded better than he knew"
as that was the beginning of the i'm
provement of the roads in his county.
Perhaps more has been accomplished
m the real permanent improvement OF
the country roads with this simple ad-
mixture of sand and clay in South
Carolina than In any other State. At
yer constructing two and one-half miles
of ordinary macadam road, at n cost
Of from $1,000 to $4,000 per mile, 1t was
decided to try the simpler and cheaper
plan of spreading sand over the clay
roads and clay over the deep sandy
roads. 1t was not easy to determine
the amount of sand needed in the one
case. or of clay in the other to pro-
duce the best final result. Conse-
quently. II has been necessary TO study
the resulting road surfaces for several
months, in some cases adding more
sand where the surface showed a ten
dency to give way under the traffic in
wet weather, or in other cases adding
more clay where the tendency was for
the surface to break up during the dry
season. First. the roads were cut to
grade of from two to three per cent,
then the surface was given the proper
section for shedding water, this surface
slope being kept sufficiently gentle to
permit the water to run off slowly and
not to carry the sand with it. The
sand or clay was then hauled in
wagons, usually short distances, and
spread over the surface a thickness of
from two to six inches The mixing
of the sand and clay was done by the
ordinary travel and the surface was
finally packed by the wlde-tire wagons
and a horse roller. Many of these
roads, which are twenty-five to thirty
feet wide, cost for grading and sur
facing about $4,000, while others under
more favorable conditions cost about
$1,000. and in a few places where little
grading was necessary, material was
near at hand, and convict labor was
used, this work was done at cost not
exceeding $50 per mile.
Richland County. in which Columbia,
S. c., State capital is located, takes
the lead in this method Of improving
the public Acknowledgements
Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02
FOR HANGING PICTURES.

When preparing a picture to be hung
upon the wall everything depends upon
the points at which the fastenings are
placed on the side. Although these
may be inserted by an experienced
person, the probabilities are that the
purchaser will not be entirely satisfied
with the result, especially il the pic
ture is valuable Jne. BY the use of
the device shown here the picture can
be adjusted at any angle from the wall
without removing the fastenlngs, but
simply by adjusting the catch. At
tached to the back of the frame at
each side is a rod or guide. At the
ends of the rods are angular pieces,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-05-02

copper; but it is similarly equipped
with a window-face. The air is
pumped into the helmet as in the case
of the smoke-helmet, so that the worker
is tied by two lines, one comprising an
airline, the other line of hose, to
which it is also frequently the custom
to add a lifeline.
The other covering explains itself. 1t
is intended for work in high tempera.
lures under a variety of conditions