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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

At n recent meeting of the London
Practitioners society, DIR. Robert Able
showed. in order to illustrate tho pene-
trative power of radium a Photographic
plate upon which n revolver had been
photographed by a single grain of rad
lum. TIL cartridge with which the re-
eolver was loaded and the internal
mechanism of the revolver were clearly
Feen in h photograph. demonstrating
that the rays had penetrated the
steel.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

In n recent article In n German paper,
Herr Paul Speier shows that the spon-
taneous ignition of zinc dust is out of
the question when the material is prop
erly packed. Wetting of the material
Is also without danger. Ignition and
explosion can only occur in the pres
ence or air. The matter is of some inn
portance. inasmuch as steamship own
Frs sometimes refuse to transport this
material. and fire underwriters hay
stringent regulations with respect I. it.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Lord Avebury. otherwise Sir John
Lubbock. was the first person In Eng
land to nav his photograph taken. NJ.
Daguerre. the inventor of the art.
came to London to patent his discov-
cry, and paid an early visit to Lord
Avebury's father. The son was play
ing in the garden. and was successfully
photographed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30
FALL MAY PROVE FATAL.
Woorsocket Man Tumh!co from, SIX
teen.Eoet ScaHrlGuno-

WITT ONI Gcatf0ICI.lJ.
Noonsocket. 5. D.. Aug. al.-Georre.
Cooper fell from Il scafroiding sixteen.
feet high Thursday ove.ing and s,,s-
tanned injuries from which th,re is NJ
Tie chanee of his recovering. A YER
teorae is either broken CT disloeate,!.
and he is paraly.sd from his should re-
down. His mother lives 1T Lynch.
Neb.. and his sister, Mra O;.s .siaeor.
At Springfield.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30
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Custer. S. D.. Aug. 22-lIenry Ellis,
a tie !auier. was seriously injured by
being crushed between a heavy load of
ties and a large pine tree. and his right
leg was so badly mangled that he r:..a
lose tSo member.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

A debt collecting gency which is run
~ a part Of the regular public postal
system Is the newest Improvement"
OF the postoflce OF Austria. Despite the
novelty of the enterprise. the plan has
worked admirably. 30 that many thou
sands are collected annually by the
postmen throughout the Austrian en-
Nlre.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

The Wocheimer railway. from ASS
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Aus
tria, July 10. passes through a portion
Of the Alps and has forty-seven tun-
nels and 72S bridges. One OF the bridges
has the largest stone arch in the world.
Its span is over 270 feet.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30
SHOT AND KILLED SELF.
Accident Proves Fatal to Iowa Man al
W~oonsccket. s. D.

Woonsocket. S. d. Aug. 22.-Charlos
Cotton. of Redfield. Ia. accidentally shot
and killed himself here Sunday with
4 revolver.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

The Rev. Thomas Spurgson r,"'-tr'~S
the same attitude toward t. r'it.~'l
Baptist union az his father. We 70 70. =
Srember of It and Inns recent aec'Hrch
his purpose to remain cuf"'e .: T. j."
long as the present state Of matte,
continues.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Fai:mont. w. Va.-Owing to a misunder.
standing of the date set for the semi
monthly pay day at the miles OF the
Ciearfield and ohio River Coal company
nearly every workman has gone On s.r;,,c
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

The giving out Of church notices has
often proved a pitfall for the unwary.
During Lent said a rector lately.
several preachers will preach on We'd
nesday evenings, but l need not give
their names. as they will be all found
hanging up in the porch"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Peoria. ILL.,, claims the most remark
able bicyclist in the world, considering
his advanced age. This man. Thomas
w. Davis. Is now in his nth year and
from the Century Club of America the
first prize for the 1902 mileage record.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Logarsport. Ind.-Bccause he broke e
vow to stop drinking, made mt his wife's
grave. Tony Albert suicide by
eating morphine in a saloon here. He hal
Kept his pledge four weeks.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Yreka, csl.-Two boys were killed
and another fatally injured in a poy-
der explosion II milo frog., here earl,
tocay.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

London The HaMhurg-American
line steamship .Amerika. which has
sailed from Southampton for New
York. took Among her passengers
George T. Baer. presidcn; CT the Read
ing railway.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

New or,eons--aao case ot yellow
fever + reDorte4 q. Ne.t i.e:.l, l.s
miles ON he's.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30
Nav YORK EXCHANGE
CHOLERA iM RERIu

Chicago. Aug. 22.-New York ex-
change 20 per cent. discount.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Berlin. Aug. ga child died here
today apparently CT cholera.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Roumania Is inhabited by n bewil-
hering variety of races. but whether II
Greek. Slav or Tcutonic lineage. the
modern Roumanian makes it a point OF
nonor TO claim descent from the colon
tstyS whom Trajan planted in the con-
cuered province of Dacia, y. d. l07.
Ealing themselves Romunl and their
language Romunie. the proud citizens
Seldom draw out a legal document
without some nllusion to their founder.
whom they style the divine Tra1an.'
The Roumanian language reflects the
composition of the race. and now only
family suggests the language which
Trajan spoke.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

"The bath OF tive reSt e-n.,s-r." Gays
T. Baron Russell il his !ooN. "a Hun
cred Years Hence" viii lave tho body
speedlly win oNygenatcd water Gclis-
cred with a force That will render rub
ping Unnecessary. and beside ii VIII
stand the drying cupboard. lined with
some quickly moving arrangement Of
soft brushes. and fed with a highly
nesiccated air. from which almost IN u
moment inc pather will emerge. dried.
md with II skin gently stimulated ana
perhaps electrified, to cIothe himself
quickly and pass down the lift u his
breakfast. which he will eat to the ac-
compartment Of Il summary of the
rIo!ning's news read out for the benc-
&. of the family. or whispered into his
ears by a talking machine"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Boston, Nassau exciting battle be.
tween Il whale and a school of eight o,
ten sharks was observed by passengers
on the fruit steamer Bound Brook. The
struggle went on desperately, the water
fairly boiling rs the sea was dashed into "A
mass of foam by the mighty efforts of the
contestants. rs the ship drew out of range
the energetic sharks appeared to be get
ting the upper hand.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

bloomsbury. ra.-ro recover her pocket
book. Miss lotti" DrAke jumped from =
rapidly mo<.ng train. She was found SIT
ting hy the traek, having 'sc-pcd Win e.
Tow cuts anu br4is.a.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Lonloa. lig-At ;he Basham -Aohey
Flower saoM ihe carl Of ~Hi,eknpek. :
years old. SOFA OF inc Marquis Camden, eN-
tloitel . collection ii vegetables grown ia
ms own l.til. garden. ana won a iri1t.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Chester. Pa.-Ialf crazed with pain from
an aching tooth and being unable to get q
dcntist to extract the molar, Henry Yves
ley. II cook, took a thin wire. fastened it
around the tooth, tied the other end tic
the rear of his employers delivery wagon
and yelled 10 the horses to Get up" The
tooth was pulled.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Danhury. Conn.-One of the fine cow in
the dairy herd on Robert Russcll's farm
I'm Brookield has given birth to a calf
which has no eyes. The sockets for the
eyes are there and the lids also. The
calf is a normal. healthy one in every
other way and it's sense OF hearing is UNI
usually acute.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

New Orleans. La-For not having paid
his poll tax ;hc Second district congress
sional committee ruled Judge Booster IN
eligible and mad" Judge Davcy the demo-
cratic nominee. Six OF the present dciega-
ton VII therefore Toe returned to congress-.
only Colonel Robertson now being in
doubt.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Chicago. 1ll.-A fox terrier known as
bill jolly" was found dead, and the chill
dren within Il radius OF half a dozen
squares believe that he mmit suicide.
Early In the morning the dog was found
dead on top of a gas range. with the gas
turned on. Some time ago Bill was run
down by n trolley ear and one of his legs
badly injured.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Providencc.-David Hi. colored. loi
years old. but as spry as the average man
of %. WAS arraigned in police court on Il
charge OF rcvclling. The police got him
on Battery street, whore he was flourish
lug "A revolver and threatening to shoot
passersby.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Gcneva.-A boat being rowed by a stall.
wart fisherwoman named Vogei capsized.
A young man swan out to the woman.s
assistance and brought her ashore half
drowned. but on Identifying her he
dropped her On the ground and walked
away. When informed that he had en-
dangered the woman's life by his heart
less action. he replied: "Sir. she is nv
mother-.n-law. For the last year she has
made my house a misery. If | had known
sooner | would have climbed a tree and
looked on"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Kansas city. Mo.-A 'crying room for
babies is a unique feature in the designs
for the new Roman Catholic Church OF the
Annunciation The idea originated with
the Rev. Father WilliarA j. Dalton, pas
tor of the parish, who had in mind the
mothers Of his district who are kept from
attending mass by turbulent offsprings.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Scaford. Del.-On the farm of w. l..
Bell. IA mile from Seaford. several of his
fields are submerged with water to n
depth of from one to three feet and perch
and catfish in large numbers can be seen
swimming about. n colored farm hand
caught. with n wash basin in less than
an hour. Il bushcl of fish. The phenom-
cnon cannot be explained. Other farm,
ers report similar conditions.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-30

Stroudsburg. Pa.-Josiah Green and his
wife came to town and bought goods in
Gedrich's store. Mrs. Green and Mrs.
Gedrich got chummy and Mrs. Gedrich
promised Mrs. Green that she would soon
visit her in the country. She failed to pay
the promised visit, and Squire Hanev was
Obliged to listen to evidence to decide
whether or not the Greens were entitled
TO 81 damages for their disappointmcn;.
The squire decided in the negative.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
THEY CURE RHEUMATISM
A Particularly Painful Form of This
Disease Yields to DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.

Of the many forms which rheumatism
takes, that which is popularity known as
sciatic rheumatism probably tortures its
victim more than any other. That DIR.
Williams Pink Pills have cured this
stubborn as well as painful trouble is q
fact proven by the following statement,
and no sufferer who reads this can af-
ford to let prejudice stand in the way, Of
trying these blood-lnaking pills.
Rheumatism is now generally re-
cognized as a disease of the blood. DIR.
Williams Pink Pills Enthusiastically
make-pure blood. When the blood is
pure there can be no rheumatism. Mrs.
Thomas Bresnehan, of "a Mill street,.
Watertown, N. Y, says:
81 My trouble began with a severe cold;
which I took about week before:
Christmas i'll 1904. / began to, have,
rheumatic pains in my back and limbs
and after time I couldn't straighten.
up. I suffered the most awful pain. for
months and much of the time. was, un.-
able to leave the house and had to take.
hold of a chair in order to walk and
sometimes I could not stand up,at all.
The disease was pronounced, sciatio
rheumatism and, although had. a. good
physician and took his medicine faith.
fully, L did not get any better. After
some six weeks of this terrible pain and
suffering 1 tried Dr. Williams Pink
Pilfsand that is the medicine that cured
me-. After few boxes the pain was
lessintense and could see decided inn
proNement. continued to take. the pills
until 1 was. entirely cured and. [ have
never had any return of the trouble
ALI druggists sell DIR. Williams Pink
Pills, or the remedy will be mailed post
paid, on receipt of price, so, cents per
boz, six boxes for 81. So by the DIR. Will
hams Medicine Co., Schenectady, n. Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

either side, f1ae-pointed, glistening
with wax, and black as the unstinted
use of dye could make it.
Old Hippolyte, the porter, even more
antique than the hotel. hobbIed out
behind his master and began lifting
down their luggage Arthemise, in
starched cap and apron, f1uttered
through the entry to take the ladies'
wraps.
Anita alighted from the cab, then
Alice. Both girls glanced doubtfully
through those medievallooking doors
of iron. curiously wrought. Back, far
back behind it all, there burned dim
light in the rear.
Alice felt that she was surely in
New Orleans, really in New Orleans
no other place could be just like it,
"Oh, Anita, Anita" she whispered,
1--WE are really and truly in New Or
leans-can't you feel it,"
Those green-painted shutters locked
like New Orleans; the slippery BAN
quette felt like New Orleans; Mon
sieur Victor with his shrugs and bows;
Hippolyte, with his bent back and stiff
leg; Arthemise, full of quaint little
smiles and smirks-all seemed part
and parcel of the foreign life.
A crowd of maskers passed them,
marching four abreast; they blew tin
horns in the strangers faces and
laughed Red fire cleaned along
distant street; a rocket shot up from
Esplanade-the Spirit of the Carnival
seized upon the girls.
Come, Aunt Alice" Anita called,
and laughed. She had been fool
long enough; now she meant to have
jolly good time. Come on-hur-
ry."
Duke, watching her from across the
street, felt a blind unreasoning re-
sentiment gather in his heart.
Mrs. Ashton stepped cautiously out
of the cab, feeling her way. Her foot
slipped; she splashed into the gutter.
Monsieur Victor went distracted with
grief.
"Ah, macame, madame, re water
too bad, too bad; 1 have him remove"
And with profuse lamentations he as
sisted the ladies through the entry.
Duke watched them disappear, Hip
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
GHOSTS OF The WAR.
Spectral Forms Which are said to
Haunt Certain Localities

1t was in August, 1862, that Long
street marched his veterans across
the Bull Run range through Thor
oughfare gap to fall suddenly on the
flank of Popes army at Manassas
and make that Inflated Virginia town
ship for second time the scene of
bloody carnage. Since then more
than 40 lazy southern summers have
passed over the graves of the thou
sands who marched down from the
hills never to return, and yet if you
ask the people who live by the gap
they will tell you that each year
there comes a night when the gray
legions are once more astir; when if
chance took you there, you could
stand in the road between the sounds
of marching troops about you, the
clank of even the baby's clothes for
bandages. The war is still present,
a vivid reality and yet a memory.
And it is not strange that from its
bloody happenings have grown some
superstitions, some curious Preside
tales that ill assert with our work
aday disbelief in ghosts and the I'M
usual.
On the road from Thoroughfare gap
dlOuS lie east sue Ol lu0 T1OS0 ABOUT
three miles toward New Baltimore
there stands great oak just at the
entrance to an old estate. This is a
haunted spot, and no negro for many
miles about would pass by it at night,
if by any hook or crook he could
avoid it. Here in 1868 occurred one
of those minor tragedies that charac-
terize the especial dangers of the
scouts and vendettes of the cavalry
arm in arms, the rattle of hoofs and
the shuttle of thousands of feet.
There are not lacking aged darkies
who add touch of realism by assert
ing that you may even feel the breath
of the marching men upon your face
But you will see naught; no footprints
will mark the trail, and the sun will
rise again on an unsecured land still
sleeping under the reaction from the
efirce strain of war
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

Pedro's Place, and Duke hid himself
in the recess of a doorway.
hundred years ago when Napoleon
reared his dazzling despotism, this
Hotel Louis lie Grande had been the
center of fashion for a loyal colony.
Even before that, those two Pickering
lamps in front bad shone down upon
many a brilliant gathering of the Mar
quis de Vaudreuil. But the colony
had been bartered away like bauble,
and the empire fell, shattered into
star-dust. The hotels glamour passed.
1t degenerated into a mere pension
where an occasional stranger came
out of curiosity to view the rooms
wherein had slept so many noble and
ill-starred guests
Mardi Gras brought high tide of
prosperity to the old hotel During
that one maddening week Monsieur
Victor Labouisse reaped his annual
harvest.
Suddenly a man stepped out of
Pedro's Place; Duke shrank deeper
into the shadow and let him pass.
1t could not have been very long
until a second cab, loaded with lug
gage and travelling more slowly, rum
bled down the street and drew up in
front of the hotel. Monsieur Victor
rushed across the banquette like a
fitting bat, and opened the cab door
with Frenchman's much-ado-
~Arthemise, Arthemise, Hip-leet,
Hipleet," he shouted back, and his
voice echoed in the vaulted passage
way as though it struggled through
the damp aisles of catacomb.
Alice drew back, halflaughing, half
frightened, as she came face to face
with this singular little caricature in
black and white. Monsieur Victor's
clothing was very black, and his linen
Immediately white; his face was
pinched and thin and pale, but his
mustache-ah. the glossy glory of that
! mustache. It stuck out stifiy ON
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

the station to the street At the edge
of the banQuette he heard Mrs. Ash
ton give the cabman her address,
Hotel Louis lie Grande, 2157 Valois
street" While they waited for their
luggage he sprang into another cab
and ordered the driver to the corner
of valois and Esplanade-"
1t was the Thursday night before
Mardi Gras. A moist and sticky fog
hung over the low-pitched roofs and
red-tiled gables of the quaint old Gre
ole town. Canal street blazed with
lights. Revelers crowded along its
banquettes and paraded the streets
grotesque, Kaleidoscope, happy. The
neutral ground seethed and heaved, a
bedlam of Mosques, hambeaux, tin
horns and good humor Beyond all
this lay the domain of Darkness of
narrow streets and quietude.
Dukes cab worked its way slowly
through the dense mass, and had al
most crossed Canal when it came to
a congested halt at the corner of
Valois.
Hurry, driver, hurry" he called;
what are you waiting for?" He
looked out upon a smiling sea, the
cleaning teeth of Creole girls, people
pushing to and fro, surging human
pillows tipped with laughter. The
crowd jeered and laughed-everybody
is good-natured in New Orleans, but
they cannot understand why one
should want to hurry. Presently they
parted and let him pass.
The wheels ratified and clattered
down a narrow street, getting farther
and farther from the lights, the music
and the jollity behind him. Duke
recognized the wide Esplanade as he
crossed it, the neutral ground, the
whitewashed trees, the houses-noth-
ing ever changes on Esplanade.
The cab stopped again. rs this
your place, sir?" the driver asked.
Yes, this will do He stepped out
and paid the man.
When the cab had gone he pursued
his way on foot, looking about him
until he located the dingy entrance to
the Hotel Louis lie Grande. 81 thought
I'd remember the place." he said, and
crossed to the other side.
Opposite it was a little restaurant,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
Eyesisht and Marksmanship.

Some curious researches have re-
Gently been made by French army
surgeons on the relationship between
good eyesight and good target prac-
tice. At first glance one would say
that the two things must Invariably
depend the one upon the other. But
the facts lead to a different conchl-
sion. At least, they show that one
may have very defective eyesight and
yet be very accurate marksman-
Astigmatism, myopia and other de-
fects of vision may exist in a marked
degree without destroying the ability
to aim and shoot straight In the
French and German armies soldiers
are permitted to shoot from the right
or the left shoulder, according to
their own preference, which is often
guided by the superiority of one eye
over the other. Accuracy of judgment
counts for as much as acuteness OF vi
sion with the good marksman-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
DUKE OF
DEVIL
MAY=CARE
BY HARRIS DICKSON
CHAPTER vII.-continued.
Author of
The Black VOLTS Breed" Etc.
@4N~sa-~~3h ><3Ness-~A
Copyright, 1905, by d. Appleton & Cs.)


After some little time, Joe reascend-
ed the stair alone. He let the cellar
or two he stood there undecided, as If
he had half a mind to open it again.
Then he shook his head and went
away.
About half-past two in the after
noon Joe's returning steps rang sharp
1y on the flags. Before he reached his
front door, Jim, the negro man, had
opened it.
He's gone, Mister Joe, jes couldn't
keep him no longer"
Gomez"
"Yassir, went away about II
o'clock; here's de note what he left ;"
Joe tore it open and read, scrubbed
in pencil:
Dear Joe: It's no use, I can't hide.
Please inquire if that poor devil left a
There's some money in the Planters bank
that 1 sha'n't need. Use that.
Don't bother about me. N.
p. 81 have taken your pistol
But Joe did bother. Even the negro
could see that he was very much dis
: turbed- He stopped for no dinner, but
turned away and left the house i'm
mediately.
He's just in the humor to hurt
somebody, or get hurt himself. I've
got to find him.