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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
INDIANS RAID THE Urea s.
URYt

\ band Of Osago Indians has looted
the United States Treasury OF SOS.
The loot was permitted by the author
tiles, for the Red Men had the law
on their side, the money being the
expenses they We're allowed by the
Indian Commissioner in making the
trip to Washington from their reserva-
ton. Each Osago was allowed SEC
by the Commissioner. They filed into
the Treasury Building, n few weeks
ago, silent as oysters and presented
their order They got their money and
left the department without uttering
a wOrd-Only few grunts The
names they signed or indicated by
mark were we'll worth the money and
were as follows:
O-lO-hah-wal-la; I. Deerheart Bacon
Rind; Ne-kc- wah-tian-ka; O-loh-hah-
mole; wah-hu; Arthur Bonni-
castle. and Evc's-Tall-C
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WAS A REAL MAGICIAN.

Bostonian was praising the other
day the astronomical and literary work
OF Percival Lowell
Before tho last eclipse" he said,
Mr.. Lowell observed to an old colorsd
man whom he liked:
George. II you will watch the chick
ems out st your place tomorrow
morning at II o'clock you will see
them all go to roost."
"THi hi George laughed. Oats a
good joke"
HE thought, you see. that Mr..
Lowell was fooling him. But. sure
enough, when II o'clock came the
next morning the sun darkened and
the chickens did go TO roost. George
was amazed. He sought Mr. Lowell
out and said:
'Wot you done tole me wuz true.
sab. Nah chickens went to roost. sab.
jist laik You said dey would
Yes. George. I suppose they did.
the astronomer returned.
How long. sab. did you know
bout dis asked George.
oh. a long time George
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VERY BAD BREATH.

Senator Clay. of Georgia, told the
following story 10 n number OF his
colleagues in the Senate cloak room
a few days ago.
Sam Jones. the evangelist, was
holding meetings in my home town
last summer in the open air. His
subject for the particular evening of
which I speak was Death lie had
been preaching some fifteen or twenty
minutes when he reached the climax
OF his theme with My Friends. think
OF IT, Think OF II, ] say. And you not
prepared to die At my every breath
soul drops dead" Then a small boy
away back In the rear exclaimed, why
don't you chew clOves7"
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
UNIQUE STREET RAILWAY.
In Which the Horse and tho Passen-
gers Ride Togsther-Owned by a
Woman.

III the spirits of the poor. departed
car horses are allowed TO return to the
land OF the living, they must chuckle
tf car horse spirits do such an un-
seemly thing) when they witness one
OF their kind standing on the back
platform OF a street car, meditatively
chewing a straw and viewing the
landscape DER" as the car merrily
glides on its way into the town. But
many times a day just outside the
great city OF Denver Colorado.
4 short line of street railroads
called the Cherrelyn Line loads from
one OF the city terminals to the little
town OF Cherrelyn. 1t ascends gradu-
ally from the city, and its motive
power. an ancient and decrepit speci.
men Of the genus car horse creeps
slowly up the hill. stopping frequently
Tor breath. Once at the top however.
his labors arc over for the time be-
ing. He is unhitched from the car.
climbs aboard the rear platform, and
proceeds 10 make himself comfortable
When the hour OF departure is reached
the driver gives the car gentle shove
and the whole outft goes spinning
down the hill 20 its starting point.
Tho Cherrelyn Line Is owned and
controlled 10y Mrs. George II. Eosue.
~ Denver who claims that II is the
only all-gravitr system in tho world
There was a similar line operating in
southern California n few years ago.
50 the claim to- that distinction may be
disputed. Be that as Il may. how
ever, II Is one Of the sights of Denver
"a street car ON which both horse
and passengers ride.
The rolling stock Of this road rep
resented by the single carts not
exactly Up TO date i'm style or finish.
II is shabby and worn. aud the rear
platform. not originally designed as
stable, droops disconsolately The
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
HELPS BURGLAR TO ROB
WEALTHY WIFE.

Il had no trouble gettin' into the
house" said the reformed burglar In
reminiscent mood. 1T was one of
the old fashioned kind which had not
been modernized, and a 4-year-old
could have opened the windows. The
female party that owned the house
had the reputation Of bein' mighty
rich and suRthin' of q miser, so 1
thought there might be good pickin' 8
for me in the way OF old silver and
the like. She had married a young
man about q year before my visit
who was known to be sunthin' of a
high roller.
THE first room l struck that seem
ed promisin' was the dinin' room
filled up with massive mahogany fur
niture like they don't build nova
days. l had no trouble in openin' the
sidsboard, where / found a few real
silver spoons and blamed lot o. plat
cd trash that wasn't worth sarryin'
away. L was just about to leave the
room when out flashed an electric
light and l found myself starin' at
the barrel of a pistol A young lei
Ter in pajamas held the gun, and his
hand didn't shake a bit. He had a
business look in his eye, so when he
told me to throw up my hands | done
so without no argument.
How much OF haul have you
NADER" he asked pleasantly. | told
him only few spoons, and that it
was a low-down trick to pinch a man
who hadn't got enough to pay for his
trouble.
He acknowledged there was boss
on me, and then asked me if | was
N
safe without rousin' the neighbor-
hood. If you have the materials with
you to crack a safe. says he, why
you an nell divide the spoils.
81 acknowledged that | had come
prepared to open anything in the
hardware line, and then, with his gun
p'inted, he backed me out of the room
to one adjOinin' where there was a
safe in the wall. Then he told me to
go to work and sat down in a chair
with his pistol turned my way.
We'll, sir, to make the story short
I opened that safe with this pelican
superintendent the job. There was
wads O. long green in a tin box that
would choke a COW, likewise diamonds
and other sinners. The boss o. the
business sorts 'em over careful, and
when the box was clean empty he
uduuS me over some ola DTedStDlns
and napkin rings and a baby's silver
mug and told me that that was my
share. while he pockets the rest IS
calm as We please.
Now, then, about face and dom
kick. for this gun is likely to go off,
says he, and heads me back to the
window through which I'd entered
| Git through there, and be quick about
| II, SON he says. and then, as if t
| add insult to inj'ry. gives me n push
| that sent me hyin' inter the back
yard ready TO choke with rage"
The reformed burglar here uttered
some very UNIFORMED profanity a.
the picture of that night rose to mem
/ DRY
when ia got on me feet hearC
/ a pistol 90 of in the house an vel
/ for help and knowed who done 1t
/ There was nothing for me to do bu
/ light out. II seems that young mar
was the old party's husband. She,
/ kept him short of funds and he tool
this chance TO make good. Now, di,
/ ye ever hear n meaner job played OF
a hard working man than he playe
on me?"
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
DO RATS HAVE SOULS?

In the course Of a lecture before the
Psychotherapeutic Society, Dr Ward
that Prof. Elmer Gates. Of
Washington. u. c.. who has been OK
pcrimenting with light rays had found
about FIVE octaves above violet n form
Of wave similar ~ x-rays, but differ
emf I'm some respects.
Under these rays living objects
throw % shadow which exists ms long
ne there is life i'm the animate object.
A live rat was placed I'm hermetic1lIv
scaled tube and held In the path NJ
the rays i'm front Of n sensitizcd screen
So long MS the rat was alive IL threw
a shadow. When IL was killed IL be-
came suddenly transparent after n Ger
tain length 81 time.
Here said the lecturer "there
was strange phenomenon At the
very instant the rat became trans
Darent, a shadow Of exactly the same
shape was noticed to pass "a n were
ont OF and beyond the glass tube and
vanish as it passed upward on the
sensitized screen"
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
CURE FoR sEAsICKNEss.
Electric Current Used to Quiet Nerves
Of the Sufferers.

Those who have been Frustrated by
the heaye and the chop-chop Of ocean
vessels will be glad TO learn that a
sure cure for seasickness is promised
The ship physician OF the Hamburg
American liner Patricia has found by
experiments conducted on the last
voyage Of the ship that a simple cleo
trio vibration chair does the work, and
30 successfully did he demonstrate this
to the satisfaction Of the ships Of1cers
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02

sides of the car, both inside and out.
are decorated with tho carvings and
writings of tourist fools
Whose names are like their faces.
Always seen in public places
Mrs. Bogue is not exactly a million
aire as the result of operating her own
railroad and drawing all the salaries
and dividends. and she appreciates
the deficiencies of rolling stock and
road1bed. But she takes keen de-
light in the management OF the road
and finds it a paying investment
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
AUTOMOBILE SKATING.
skates Run by Storage Battery
Strapped to Mans Waist.

Recent cable descriptions OF auto
mobile skating in Paris nave been
verified. Alphonse Constantine, ar
Italian who Lives in Paris, has been
making many successful experiments
with his new form OF automobile
skates which he invented.
The apparatus consists OF two four
wheeled skates zach operated by an
air-cooled motor of l 1/2 horse power
capacity.
small tank containing gasoline
sufficient for a 46 mile run Is strapped
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
Keeper for Thirty-eight Years.

Albert II. Metcalfe watched the gov
ernment belongings around Sacketts
Harbor for thirty years, and then
died. During all the years the Bu-
reau of Yards and Docks of the Navy
Department has regularly submitted
an estimate OF 3365. to Congress for
the annual salary of the ship keep
er" a. Sacketts Harbor, and that Is
probably the only place where the
name ship keeper" appears In an
official way on tho records
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
POSTMAST STEERS OF OLDEN
TIME.
Ninety Years Ago Incomes Arg
umented by Acting as Agents.

The postmaster of today may think
he has troubles of his own, but there
was time about the year 1917, when
queer things were expected OF post
! masters. An old pamphlet dated
April 9Th, 1917. states that q new
daily and thrice a week paper" was to
be printed 'at the seat of government"
After the virtues Of the proposed publi-
cation were set forth the editor-to-be
says:
"PostmaSters are hereby authorized
to receive subscriptions for the Gaz-
cite, and for all moneys collected and
transmitted to the editor, at the city
OF Washington, a discount of 10 per
cent. will be allowed. Distant sub
! scribers will have their papers care
fully packed and punctually forwarded
to order. 1t is to be presumed that a
copy of this pamphlet was sent to
each postmaster in the United States.
Under the system that then existed
this method was entirely proper and
II is claimed that postmasters derived
considerable income from such sour
| ceS.
/ The prospectus" further states that
"a competent reporter will be employed
to furnish the proceedings of Congress
! for the Gazette" and that all Inter
esting articles of intelligence will be
carefully selected and published"
The Editor-to-be. in writing of HIM
self says:
"As the humble guardian Of the pub
! lie veal, he will occasionally use the
privilege he has right to exercise,
in expressing his temperate disappro-
! baton of such measures of the coun-
try. If those opinions should some
times be erroneous, he wishes them to
be ascribed to the common falibility
of human judgment, which cannot be
always in the right. AS far as it may
be possible, he will labor to be inn
partial, but that there will be a bias,
and that that bias will be in favor of
the present dominant party he has too
much candor to deny and too much
honesty to conceal. What he can do
within his humble sphere. shall be done
for the good of the country, and II
he fails he will console himself with
the reflection that he had discharged
his duty to the utmost OF his ability
Gnd power"
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NE RAID ~ NE treasury

Did you know dey would go TO
roost a year agoT
Yes fully a year ago
We'll. dat beats all. said George.
in an awed voice. Dem chicI ems
wuzn't Matched year ago "-Satur-
day Evening Post.
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HAS STUDIED STANDARD
OH

There is the making OF most val
liable servant of the trusts IN South
Orange i'm the form Of small boy
whose name does not appear. Be
lieving he had killed seven-year-Old
Loretta Smith. a pupil Of the Colum.
bia public school. whom he knocked
senseIess with a SNOWFALL. a small
boy. who escaped before his identity
could be ascertained. hired negro
boy for r cents 10 assume all blame
for the tragedy The girl was more
frightened than hurt.
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Mr. Bryan's daughter has taken 10
writing plays. Senator Tillman is writ
ing a book, and Congressman Long
worth is accused Of writing topical
songs BY next November we may
have very little left TO be thankful
for
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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02

Nearly MI the cigarettes ~ the
United states are made I'm New York.
Richmond New Orleans. and san
Francisco.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02

Sumatra ia now producing about ne
much coffee as Java.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02

Cotton fabrics Of fine quality arc
found in Peru in tOnbs that date back
TO the time OF the Incas.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02
THE HORSE is PASSENGER on THIS CAR.

to present him with a bill. II is re-
corded that a botslkeeper once offered
TO throw of half the bill when he
learned his guests identity The i'm
mortal j. n. glaTed at the landlord
then, declaring he would allow no one
10 Guido him in generosity, and said
he would throw off the other half
He seldom stopped in cities of more
than 10000 population, believing that
in the large cities his personality
would be lost. There are few news
paper Offices in the country outside of
The largest cities where he is not well
known. Some years ago he travelled
all over the country ransacking the
files OF newspapers for his own obit-
uary. He has been reported dead
more than once.
He is an apostle OF truth" press
ure. and keeper Of the secret of the
veil" For forty years he has been
promising to lift the veil and put "Ou
the pressure"
Wherever he stopped in the course
OF his migratiOns his first announce
ment was that men called him crazy.
and that he was about "to put the
pressure on" This pressure" was
some mysterious force which he alone.
he believed, prevented from crushing
out of existence all the life OF this con
tinent
No one has ever doubted that he was
insane. He himself boosted of it, But
his is an insanity that up to now in
spired only friendship and sympathy.
BUD behind his insanity and his fifty
years OF aimless wandering over the
corntry is a tragic story
Mind Unhinged by Blow.
In his youth he was an infant phe-
nomenon At four years Of age he
read almost all of the Bible. and dur
ing his teens he acquired reading and
speaking knowledge of no less than
thirteen languages. During the gold
craze in 40 ne went West and started
a stage line Within two years he had
accumulated a fortune Of $4,000. 4
partner robbed him, and then -. N
moved back to Ohio and began the
study OF law Within a few years he
stood at the top of the bar OF Cincin
natl
One day he was defending a muir
derer in whose innocence he strongly
believed As result Of his cloQuence
the man was acquitted. The same day
bis client confessed that ne was guilty
y. "" rushed back TO the courtroom
and started to- explain but the strain
and excitement had been too much for
him He was stricken with apoplexy
Within a short time he recovered his
physical health but never his mental
poise
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Once Prominent Place.

1t used to be a prominent place,
and shortly after the close of the war
n ship-of-the-line, then the biggest
type OF war craft built, equivalent OF
tho first-claSs battle-ships of modern
times, was planned. and the building
begun at Sacketts HarbOr. The vessel
was to have been the New Orleans.
The work progressed slowly, how
ever, and was finally abandoned, but
the hull of the big vessel remained up
on the stocks. Away back, probably
along in the '40's or SOS, man
famed Metcalfe was appointed ship
keeper. In 1868 he died, and his son,
Albert H.. succeeded him in the posi-
tion. Some years ago all that was
left Of what was to have been the New
Orleans was torn down; but the posi-
ton and title OF the keeper remained.
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ID. HI. on Every Railroad.

Sill in his possession are a hundred
slips reading Good for J. -. His
most treasured possession is n slip OF
paper signed by the leading officials
q many of the biggest railroads in
he country. 1t reads: The immortal
J. N: pass him forever. Good on all
roads from now until doomsday."
Hotel men in the towns he visited
did as much. He was never known to
have more than a few cents at a time.
but in the fifty years of his wanderings
few landlords have been bold enough
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-02

It IL announced that the fad of taxi
ing snuff is again coming into vogue
in France.
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THE IMMORTAL ]. NJ"
Most Picturesque of Characters
Goes 10 Asylum.
AS a Boy lie Could Speak Thirteen
Languages Mind Unhinged by a
Great Criminal Trial. Has Been
Insane Fifty Years.

Jacob Newman Free. the immortal
J. N" has reached the end OF his
travels. lie was finally adjudged in
sane. and will spond the remainder of
his days in the State Hospital of To-
ledo. He is now seventy-eight years
old.
ThHs passes a character known in
every sizable town in every State in
the West. For more than half = cen
tury he lived as the birds live. No town
or State could claim him as it's own In
each he was at home and among
friends. 1t is his claim. and IL is not
disputed. that he knows more PEG
pie personally than any other living
man.
For fifty years no has travelled up
and down and across the country. rid
ing free on nearly every railroad. and
living without expense in the best no
tells, the towns he visited. afforded.
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ONLY WOMAN SHIP KEEPER.
Sackefs HarbOr Navy Yard in
charge of Woman.
Some nember of Present Keepers
Family Has Been Stationed Here
Since Navy Yard Was Established
r1any Years Ago.

Women are steadily encroaching up
on the occupations Of men. and now
another position heretofore filled by
man has gone to one OF the fairer
sex. The charge and care of a govern
ment naval establishment, almost for
gotten, has been turned over to her
and for the first time in the history
OF the American navy a woman ha,
the rank Of ship keeper"
The woman is Mrs. Albert H. Met.
calfe. She has been placed in charge
of the navy yard at Sacketts Harbor,
N. Y, on Lake Ontario not far from
the st. Lawrence, and will receive q
salary of 1865 year.
Albert II. Netcalfe. keeper OF the
yard since 1868. died recently, and his
position was given TO his widow. The
Sacketts Harbor Navy Yard is not
a big establishment. 1t consists OF an
acre and n half OF ground, on which
there are half a dozen small buildings
and a few guns used in the war OF
1912.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-17
pIsCouRAGING NEWS.

The following paragraph from the
current issue of The Abbeville News
IS significant and by no means ia.
couraging:
The present number of farmers 10
year quite largely. We have heard OF
several who say that they shall under
take to farm no longer, because they
can get no help to either make or
gather a crop. and it useless to under
take II by Themselves and Will go at
something else Thar lands they will
rent or let go uncultivated. There is
very little encouragement to the farm
er or the one who has not sufficient
help of his own. 1t is impossible to
employ labor for the farm.
Coming from one Of the best agri-
cultural sections of Alabama, where
owners of farms have depended entire
ly on negro labor. such statement
Is discouraging, to say the least of IT,
If the farmers of Henry county can
rot get labor what hope is there for
the great plantations in the black
belt? When a farmer abandons his farm
it means a decrease in the supply of
food products, unless he can find some
enc TO take his place and cultivate
his land effectively. Is not the above
statement another strong argument for
good immigrants?
No section of Alabama offers better
inducements to small farmers--white
+, rmers especially-than the famous
wiregrass region. For extent and va
riety of crops, with the exception OF
wheat. it is not equalled by any part
of the State. Fruits, grains. vage
tables, milk. butter and fowls are
among the certain results of agrcul-
turaI effort, and it is very much to be
dep1ored II for any reason that fine
fa rming section retrogrades or fails
to advance along with other sections.
If The News is correct its statement
is not encouraging