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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-12
Infant PeSSin1iSn1.

Grandma-"Margery, hear you
have a little sister at your house. I
suppose she cries at times"
Little Margery-"Cries? Well /
should say SO! Why I never saw
anyone that appeared to look upon the
dark side of things as she does"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-12

At some of our seashore resorts,
sea water is used as medicinal bev-
erage. mostly to reduce obesity. 1t is
brought in by fishermen from far out,
to be safe from any pollution. Three
glasses daily is the usual dose.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-12
Tit for Tat.

II Is quite generally known that the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing.
ton, ID. O., was founded by an Eng.
lishman. but by comparatively few
that the British Museum was founded
by BENJAMIN Thompson, an American.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-12

America owns the Declaration of In
dependence, containing 1890 letters,
written on a space not larger than the
head of a pin, which when viewed
through a microscope, can be distinctly
read
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-12

One Of the Nuremberg toy makers
enclosed in cherry stone plan Of
Sevastopol, a railway station and the
Messiah of Klopstock.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Hospitality.

While the reportorial representative
Of a great news bureau was in San
Antonio, Tex, whence he had posted
In such haste as to have little luggage,
he met with a charming bit Of southern
hospitality. He had no cuffs, and q
local reporter promptly drew off his
w and said to the guest within the
city gates: Here, take mine. I've
more at home" Later it was learned
that the donor Of the cuffs worked for
the San Antonio Daily Express, and
the superintendent of the news bureau
upon hearing of the incident immedi-
ately wrote to Frank Grice, owner of
the Express, in appreciation of an act
peculiarly southern In it's frank good
fellowship. Here is Mr.. Grice's reply:
eff you can send me the name of the
member of the Express staff who of
fered his cuffs to your man he will be
discharged for not offering his shirt as
well."-Chicago Record-Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
BUSINESS LAWS.

It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
Ignorance Of the law excuses no one.
The acts Of one partner bind all the
others.
An agreement without consideration
is void.
A personal right of action dies with
the person.
The law compels no one to do i'm
possibilities.
A contract made with a minor or
lunatic is void.
A receipt for money paid is not le-
gally conclusive.
Signatures made with a lead pencil
r good in law.
Agents are responsible to their prin-
cipals for errors.
Each individual in a partnership is
responsible for the whole amount of
the debts of the firm.
6 A draft becomes an acceptance when
the party upon whom it is drawn
writes accepted" across it's face and
signs his name.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Money,

Portuguese money is based on a unit
which is worth about the thousandth
part of q cent. So if you buy a single
postage stamp it costs you about TO-
600 milreis. We were shocked at the
price of the objects the vendors in
Ponto Delgoda desired to sell us. When
presented with a bill some of us got
heart disease and some of us apo
pleXy. Only after long explanations
IN mingled Spanish, Portuguese. French
and English did we learn that Il pho
tograph offered at several thousand
milreis was worth about 10 cents. In
short, it was brought forcibIy to our at
tention how extremely artificial a me-
dunn IS money, how difficult it is to
get, how difficult it is to keep, but also
how difficult it is to exchange this In
terconvertible medium in foreign coun-
tries-when you have any. Probably it
is even more difficult when you have
not.-ArgOnaut.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
DR.. r W. WILEY AND CORN TORAG
IN NEBRASKA.

degrees test gasoline was advanced
half a cent a gallon, while all other
high grades were put up a cent per
gallon. The present internal venue
tax on ~denaturized alcohol Is so large
as to make its use for commercial pur-
poses impractical. In England, Ger
many and some other European coun-
tries there is no tax on denaturized
alcohol, and there it is largely used in
the arts and in manufactures and also
as fuel and for motive power. Com
mercial alcohol, known as wood alcO-
hol or methyl alcohol, has long been OBJ
tanned by the dry distillation of wood,
but there are many purposes for which
it cannot be used and for which the de-
naturized alcohol obtained from grain
or vegetables would be available. The
products expected to furnish the chief
supply Of this article in case of the
removal Of the tax are corn, potatoes,
sugar beets and other vegetables con-
tanning a great deal of starch. Accord
ing to the estimates of the secretary of
agriculture, potatoes and corn will
~ A"ASSiy SIOhh " LIZ plOuuCllOu VI
alcohol as well as for food If the tax is
removed. The alcohol in that case
would be made undrinkable by the adj
dition Of wood alcohol and pyridine.
DR.. Wiley, whose chemical expert
ments have done much to develop SEN
timent in favor of pure food laws, has
shown that cornstalks may be util-
lied for commercial alcohol, the same
kind of press being used to extract the
~fermentable material as for sugar cane.
Mr.. Wilson estimates that with the
grinding up of the stalk as we'll as the
grain corn can be made to produce 230 |
gallons Of alcohol to the acre. This
would mean a vast increase in the de- |
mand for this product and a CORE
spending benefit to the farmer. The
corn crop Of the country is already
enormous, and on the plains of the
west it is stacked up almost mountain
high at certain seasons, but it's growth
would be stimulated still more by the
opening up of such a market as the re-
moval Of the tax would create. It is
estimated that the ordinary white DO
tato will produce as much as 255 gal
Ions Of alcohol per acre. From sugar
beets about 24 gallons of alcohol per
acre may be obtained. The use of alco-
hol for fuel and power Is not SO dan
gerous as that of oil and gasoline, and
1t is thus especially adapted for farm
purposes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
rol,ticnI sscecnes.

Sonie people think. for instance, that
political speeches DO not matter. Po-
ltical speeches NATTER far more than
the acts sf parliament which they in,
troduce. Men rare less even about
what IS being done than about why it
is being done. The spirit in which Il
thing is effected is of far more practi-
cal Importance even than the thin@ it.
self. This can be tested by the simple
experiment in social life of removing n
~gentleman's hat for him. first in ona
spirit, then In the otter. If ,you get r.d
of all the talk about practical politics
talked by tired men with 10000 n
year, and really look imp3rtially at tie
history OF human society you viii see
that collisions have arisen far more
from insults than from injuries. Some
of my imperialist friends. for instance,
tell me that because | think South Afri-
ca a nuisance to England therefore |
should permit Germany to pluck it
from us in war. This is like saying
that because / think a top hat ugly and
uncomfortable | should let another man
knock it off in Piccadilly. No doubt it
is uncomfortable. But why should he
knock it off? Who is he? l WONDER
G.. *. Chesterton in London News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
THE r S AIR BRAKE.
What II Did When Westinghouse
Finally Won q Trial.


Persons who should have known bet
ter thought Westinghouse visionary
when they were told that he proposed
to stop a train by air. Nobody seenl-
ed inclined to let him try his plan Oil
a real train. but they did not object to
his working a model of 1t In a shop
where he couldn't do any harm or io-
volve anybody else in expense. lie
knew his scheme would work, but he
could no make any n else believe 1t.
So he continued to sell his invention
for replacing derailed cars on the
tracks and to talk about his brake TO
my railroad man who was willing to
listen.
well have you ever stopped a train
with this air thing of yours?" they
would ask.
No, he couldn't say that he had done
SO. Nobody would let him try it even
IN a train Of dump cars.
One day he arrived in Pittsburg, sell
ing his other invention and talking
about his brake notion to a man con-
nected with a railroad out there.
That's a great idea of yours" said
the man. I'VE will try it on our line"
So the officials of this railroad per-
mitted Westinghouse to put his new
"kickshaw" on one of their trains.
But he had to agree to indemnify the
road for any damage that might be
caused to the train as the result of the
trials. The train was equipped. On
the designated day the confident in
ventor and a group Of skeptical rail-
way men boarded the train on which
the first air brakes were fixed. Off
went the train on its trial trip. The en-
gineer put on full speed, and just as
he had rounded a curve he saw ahead,
at a grade crossing and in the middle
of the track, a loaded wagon, a man
and a boy and a balky horse. The en-
gineer moved his little lever, and the
first train that was yer stopped by
air pulled up at a standstill several
feet short of the obstruction.
Thus, on it's first trial, the Westing-
house air brake saved life and prevent
ed damage to property. Thenceforward
talking was unnecessary; all that had
to be done was to make brakes. The
inventor thought of that clause secur-
ing compensation to the railroad for
any damage he might do to the train,
and he laughed. His fortune dated
from that day. He was then only
twenty-two.-Arthur Warren In Sue
cess.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Sharp, but Not Clever.

A London scientist says that life in a
metropolis makes young children sharp,
but not clever; that it often destroys
their chance Of ever being clever, for
it hastens the development of the brain
unnaturally. 1t makes them superb
cial, alert, but not observant; excitable,
but without n spark Of enthusiasm.
They are apt to grow blase, tickle, dis
contented. They see more things than
the country bred child, but not such
interesting things, and they do not
properly see anything, for they have
neither the time nor capacity to get at
the root of all the bewildering objects
that crowd themselves into their little
lives.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
A Wonderful Record.

As made up by improved and exact
processes DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescrin-
Ilon Is q most efficient remedy for repn-
iaIing all the womanly functions. correct
NY uispiacements, as prolapsus, antever-
Sion ana retroversion, overcoming pajnful
PERIODS, toning up the nerves and bring
ing aDont a perfect state of health. It
cures the ~backache, periodical headaches
the dragging-down distress In the nelvic
region, the pain and tenderness over
rover abdominal region, dries up the
pelvic catarrhal drain. so disa0reaahIe
and weakening, and oyercomes every
form OF weakness incident to the organs
distinctly feminine.
ayorite Prescription" is the only
medlclne for women. the makers OF
winch are not afraid to print their
lormnla on the bottle wrapper, thus
ssdhllg thelr patrons into their full con-
nuehce. 1t is the only medicine for
women, every ingredient of which has
the strongest possible endorsement of
Ihe most eminent medical practitioners
ana writers of our day, recommending
IL lor the diseases for which rFavorite
description is used. 1t is the ONLY
put up medicine for women, sold
AIN a large percentage Of alcohol, so
harmful In the long run, especially to
uellcate women. 1t has more genuine
cures to its credit than all other medi-
clheS Tor women combined, having
saved thousands of sufferers from the
operating table and the surgeons knife.
1t has restored delicate, weak women to
strong and vigorous health and v%irility.
making motherhood possible. where there
was barrenness before, thereby brighten
ing, and making happy many thousands
OF homes by the advent of little ones to
strengthen the marital bonds and add
had reigned before.
Write to DR.. R. v. Pierce. He will send
you good, fatherly, professional advice,
in a plain, sealed envelope, absolutely
free. Address him at Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce'S Pleasant Pellets do not
grippe. They effectually cleanse the sys-
ten OF accumulated impurities.
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, by DIR. Pierce, zoos pages, is sent
Tree on receipt of stamps to pay expense
OF mailing only. Send 81 one-cent stamps
Tor the book in paper covers, or 81 stamps
Tor the cloth bound volume. Address
as above.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Had No Time to Vote.

President Zachary Taylor in 1910,
when only twenty-five years Of age,
was appointed to a ~iieutenancy in the
regular army. He served in the army
ton for the presidency in 1S4S. After
he had carried off the prize friends of
Henry Clay and others who wanted the
nomination sneeringly spoke Of Taylor
as an ignorant frontier colonel, who
had not voted for forty years. 1t is
probable he had not voted, as he had
been away from home in the military
service most Of the time and came into
prominence only through his brilliant
military record in the Mexican war.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Social Limits.

You may tell a man that his neck,
tie cannot be reckoned among his sue
cesses, you may point out his errors
in regard to investments, you may re-
proach him for emitting to take ad-
vantage Of the opportunities he has
had for advancement, and he will ac-
cept all your criticisms with a reason
able calm, but take gentle exception
to the way in which he pronounces a
word and the chances are that his next
is Of a heated nature.-London
Queena
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15

COuSIeSS. SuOulu IL
be placed oil the statute books it would
result in bringing into the market a
product which would be In great de-
mand for heating, lighting and power
purposes and for use in the arts, so say
those who advocate the passage of the
measure now in congress-. Among the
prominent supporters of such a law are
Nahum ]. Bachelor, head of the ma
tional grange. representing some $780,
600 farmers; James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture. an 2.'osesso Harvey
W. Wiley, Chef Oh ne Cow -nment's
bureau of chemistry. Because of the
fact that the denaturiZad alcohol would
be available for generating power for
many mechanical purposes the bill in
terests the automobiles, the owners
of motor boats, the manufacturers and
users of farm machinery and those en-
gagged in many branches of industry.
Even the piano dealers of the country
are interested and in their national
convention a few days ago passed reso-
buttons indorsing the proposed law. 1t
has been strongly opposed by the
Standard Oil company for the obvious
reason that a wide use of denaturized
alcohol would lessen the demand for
its products. 1t is also opposed by the
manufacturers of wood alcohol.
Commercial alcohol, if it could be
obtained at a sufficiently low price,
would supplant, to some extent at
least, both petroleum and gasoline.
The supply Of gasoline is on the de-
crease, while its price has been going
up. Only a short time ago 70 to y
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
h Ohio River.

= No part Of the Ohio river is in Ohio,
the boundary of the state is the north
ern OF northwestern margin of the riv-
er. The stream itself is wholly in West
Virginia and Kentucky, where it flows
past Ohio. The northwest territory, out
of which Ohio was formed, was defined
as the territory north and west of the
Ohio, not north and west of the middle
that great river.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Husbands.

The woman who said tAat she knew
her husband didn't drink because he
drank SC much water in the morning
isn't in it with the woman who says
that the reason her husband doesn't go
to church is because he is already as
good as he can be.-DetroIt Free Press.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Took All the ResponsibiIity.

I'm going to give up that new spe-
cialist I've been trying"
whats the reason?"
"Why, he's always telling me that !
must try to help myself"
what did the other man tell you?'
He always told ME he was helping
me.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Not to Be Trined with.

Love had just laughed at the lock-
smith.
why don't you laugh at the m%illiner
and the landlord and the g~rocer?"
asked a b%ystander.
Because" replied Love, "they al
ways make me feel mighty serious."-
Houston Post. =.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15

Hannah" said the mistress to her
new girl, you can take that brown
serge dress Of mine and put 1t in soak"
"Yes'm," said Hannah. who's your
fav'rite pawnbrokerf" London An
swers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
| paradise, NUM-
Ate Off His Hand.

Smith, hear Jones, the naturalist,
had a bad accident. What was it?
Brown-Why, somebody gave him a
young tiger cub and said it was so
tame it would eat off his hand. Smith
Brown-We1l, it did.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
WhereH

An English mayor tells this story:
"a woman, speaking at a meeting in
support of women's rights, repeatedly
asked her audience, Where would men
find themselves without women?
"A weak voice from the rear of the
hall:
"'In paradise, num-"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Improved.

"Does your papa get much prac-
tice?" asked the visitor of the doc
tors seven-year-old son.
sob, he doesn't have to practice any
more" replied the boy. HE knows
how now"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
Slipped q Word.

From a recent examination paper on
religious instruction at a boys school:
"Holy matrimony is a divine institu-
ton for the provocation of mankind."-
Punch.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15

"a UTE an in
" dustrial revo-
~ luton is liza
BILE to come about,
1t is said, in case
of the enactment
into law of the bill
taking the internal
revenue tax off
"denaturiZed alco-
hol," as advocated
by President Roose-
welt In his recent
special message to
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1906-06-15
SurRery

Medical Student-What did you op-
crate on that man for?
Eminent Surgeon-Five hundred dol
lars.
IT mean what did he have?"
Five hundred dollars."-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
FOR KANSAS AVENUE LIGHTS.
Council Given a Surprise When Bill
Comes In.

The council will probably get involved
in quarrel with the Edison company
over the bill for lighting Kansas ave-
nue. viii thech Edison company has filed
nue. which the Edison company has filed
two lights at rate of s65 a year. The
bill covers a period of six months and a
half
The council intended that the contract
should only extend over three months
and at the end of that time the Edison
company was to present a bill The
Edison company delayed from time to
time and never presented their bill until
now. They ask $65 per arc light per
year for their Kansas avenue service
The experiment was made at the sug-
gestion of the company who wished TO
make q contract with the city for light
ing Kansas avenue permanently. They
made no price to begin with, stating
that they would figure this out follow
ing their experiment. The contract was
taken up with because the city's plant
has its capacity tested right now to sup
ply current for the remainder of the
city.
Legally the Edison company cannot
collect a cent from the city for lighting
Kansas avenue" said f. G. Dreaming,
city attorney. There is not a scratch
of the pen to show that a contract was
entered into. The lights were simply
put up on a resolution made by Council
man Holiday granting the Edison conf
pany permission to put up 81 lights on
Kansas avenue. The resolution was
verbal. No contract exists so that If
the city council wants to take the stand
that no contract exists and that it is not
liable for the bill presented it can do
So"
The attitude of the council seems to be
in favor Of allowing the electric light
bill for a term of three months, the orig
inaI time mentioned when the subject
came up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
KELLY WON'T PAY 1T.
Objects to BIZ OF the Expert
Accountants.

Haskins & Sells, the expert account
ants of New York. who were employ
ed by Governor Hoch to make an ex-
animation of the state treasury, have
presented to the state their bill for the
unpaid balance they claim to be due
them for their work and from the
position taken by T T. Kelly, state
treasurer. it is likely that the account
ants will have to bring a successful
suit against the state if they get the
money. The amount of the bill is
$3,040.S0. A part of this bill amount
ing to $S61.25 was presented to the
state on January II, but has not been
paid. Attention is called in the new
bill, which was received at the COVER
nOr's Office yesterday, to the fact that
a part of the bill has been rendered.
Outside of this nothing except the for
NAL bill was inclosed in the envelope
which was addressed ITO the State of
Kansas"
This presentation of the bill will
bring to a head the discussion, which
has been going on for some time, as to
whether or not the state owes the ac-
countants anything in addition to the
large sum which has been paid them.
Treasurer Kelly already has declared
in a signed statement several things
about the work Of the accountants and
he adds that they viii not be any more
money while he is in Office. This prob
ably means that there will be suit
1t is not known now what course the
governor will pursue in the affair, as
he is cut Of the city. He did not pre-
sent the other bill to the auditor of the
state for endorsement and he may not
present this one until the firm of ac-
countants employ an attorney and in
stitute mandamus proceedings The
governor may submit the bill to the
executive council for its approval, but
it is most certain that the state Off
GERS, making up this body, would re-
fuse to approve it and insist upon the
governor assuming the responsibility.
Several of the state officers have ex-
pressed the opinion that they did not
earn this additional money and should
not be paid.
Treasurer Kelly will stand on the
statement he made when the Shawnee
county district court dismissed the suit
brought against him by the attorney
general He has said that he will not
pay any more bills from this firm and
that he will compel the firm or the
governor to bring mandamus proceed
! ings to collect the bill. If the bill
passes the hands of the auditor. the
treasurer may refuse to pay it. as he
did in the case OF the W J. Bailey
grocery bill two years ago.
The greater part Of the new bill rem
dered BY the accountants Is for work
done since the investigation of the
| treasury was completed. It is for pre-
pairing a new system of bookkeeping
for the use of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
PoLICYHoLDERs SUE.
Organize and File Claims Amounting
to $5O,25O.

San Francisco. Cal, Aug. 4.-Or-
eanized policyholders of the Williams
burg City Fire Insurance company
Yesterday CONNIE suit against the
company to recover $50, 25O, alleged to
be due the plaintiffs on account of
policies due and unpaid. This is the
first of a series of eight actions which
attorneys have been empowered to in
stitute An attorney representing un-
paid policyhoIders of the Transat-
lantic Fire Insurance company of Ger
many, has announced his determine
ton to bring separate suit on behalf Of
the alleged creditors in the courts Of
Germany The action viii probably
furnish a precedent for a large num-
Der of poHcyholders who have been
unable to collect insurance from Ger
man comnanieS.