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The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Six and Five Point Stars.

The stars on the great seal and
the seal of the president of the Unit
ed States arc five-pointed, while on
the seal of the house of representa-
tives they are six-pointed. The 10
stars on the diverse of the present
half and quarter dollar are five-point-
ed. The reverse of the present half
and quarter dollar is a copy of the
great seal. except that the clouds are
omitted. 1t is evident that heraldry
has not taken very strong hold in
these matters In the United States;
therefore it is not in the power of
any one to say without doubt why
the difference in the stars on the flag
and the coins. So far as Is known.
with the exception of the reverse Of
the present half and quarter dollar
the stars on our coins are copied from
the colonial coins. which were, no
doubt. made after the manner of Eng
lish heraldry, while the nag was made
up after the design of Washington s
coat'of-arms. containing three five
pointed stars.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Growth Of Kindness.

= The American people, in their need
ed work of reconstruction, are not
losing their characteristic virtues of
kindness and goodhumor. A leader
in reform. in a private letter, writes
thus: After all, human sympathy is
the foundation.stone of democracy. l
have imagined that our criticisms Of
life were becoming Kinder, mean
the ordinary run of newspaper criti-
<cism; and kinder means broader.
Some of us, perhaps. went rather far
in the heat of attack; and | think
the increased kindliness, which leads
1uore surely to sympathy, is an excel
lent tendency. Lately it has seemed
TO me that we needed more than any
-thing else in this country kindly ex-
plantations. If we could only under
stand one another. intolerance would
expire" All of which is true, declares
Golfers Weekly, and truly said, and
charity is friend and not an enemy
to reform.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
SAD AWAKENING
THoUGHTLEsS SON WILL RE.
TURN TO VACANT HOME.
MOTHER IN PAuPeR's GRAVE
He Brings Back a Fortune, But No
Welcome From Mother Will
Greet Him.

Pueblo. Colo.-Ten years ago Abner
Greenwich, lad of seventeen. disap-
peared mysteriousiy from his home in
Pueblo. His mother, widow, believed
he had been murdered.
The police of Pueblo and other cities
searched for him but without finding a
clew which would lead to the explana-
ton of the mystery, and in a year the
disappearance of Abner Greenwich
was forgotten, for the haunting face
of the mother was seen no longer at
the police station, seeking news of her
boy. She had died of grief.
Now comes the temperance of Alb
ner Greenwich, who, in letter writ
ten from Peru to a boyhood friend,
John McGovern, says he is returning
with a fortune of $1,0O0.000 CLEANED
from the pestilential swamps of Peru
and the sands of its fever-ridden rivers.
II am coming home" he says, with
million to make my mothers last
days happy" not knowing that all the
millions in the world could not have
atoned for one hour of the agony
which his mother spent in her lonely
search for her son.
"She shall have everything that
money can buy, but | want my arrival
to be a surprise to her." Little does
Greenwich know that he will be un-
able with all his wealth to ever buy
a stone to mark his mothers last rest
ing place for she sleeps with the un-
known dead, and that in all the world
there is no person who VIII 1eel
a mothers JOY at the return of wan
dering son.
OF all these things Abner Green
witch knows nothing. 1t is enough for
him now that he has 100000, and
that when as a boy reading forbidden
tales of adventure. he told John NC
Govern that some day he would disap-
pear and not return until he had slI-
100000, he had meant what he SAID.
According to the story OF Green
witch, he has paid dearly for his wealth.
The fever Of the tropics has turned his
hair gray and his face is wrinkled like
that of an old man. Il am afraid he
says. ITO see looking glass. Once
saw my face in pool near my camp,
and its appearance frightened me, but
| guess mother will know me, any
how
Greenwich says that firing OF
school and poorly paid work, he car
ried out his expressed detet-
mination to disappear and not return
until he had $l,O00,000.
With the carelessness and cruelty OF
boyhood, he never once thought of the
sorrow he would cause his mother, but,
meeting young college graduate from
Chicago, he stealthily left Pueblo, and,
reaching New Orleans. sailed with his
companion on ship bound for Peru.
For the first three years they suffered
all the privations of hunger, thirst and
fever, and found themselves further
handicapped by their ignorance of the
native language. Then, becoming IA
miliar with the country and its Gus
toms, they plunged into the wilderness
and engaged in the rubber business.
Until my arrival at Lima Il month
ago." he says, for seven years | had
seen no white face, save that of my
partner.
Now my last dollar of the million
has been made. My partner has like
amount, and month hence we Will be
in Colorado, when l shall endeavor to
make amends to mother for my con-
duct in leaving as l did"
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Miscellaneous.

The Ian office at Gunn!son, Col,
has been abolished by the interior
department.
Thomas N. Huntington, Ami B..
Todd and Fred Hoyt have been con-
victed in the federal court at Omaha
of land fraud.
Two garages and 100 automobiles
were recently destroyed by fire in
St. Louis. The loss was estimated
at $225,00o.
The first annual meeting of the
American Society of International
Law was recently held in Washing
ton. Secre.ar Root, the president
made the opening address.
The Army of the Potomac has Sc
lected May as the date for the cere-
monies incident to the unveilins of
the McC elan statue in Washington.
The police of Warsaw, Russian Pol
and. have discovered that SIS is the
price paid by terrorists in that city
for murders,
In speaking to the Porto Ricans at
Ponce, Secretary Taft declared that
they already had every liberty en-
joyed by citizens of the United States,
and that citizenship was only nomi-
nal rather than substantial.
The New York peace conference
adopted resolutions favorins a per
manent arbitration court at The
Hague which shall be open to all the
nations of the earth for the settle
ment of international disputes.
The peace congress in New York
closed its three days session with two
big banquets. Andrew Carnegie was
decorated with the cross of the Legion
of Honor by the French government
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
in the southern part of Europe recent
ly. considerable property was dam
aged but no casualties were reported
JOHN Gonderson, who held up the
: clerk in the Northern Pacific EN-.
press office at st. Paul and secured a
package OF $4,000, has been arrested
by the police of that city.
New Yorlt's transfer tax law has
been declared constitutional by the su
! preme court of the United States.
King Edward of England and Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy, recently me
on board the royal Italian yacht Trim
acria in the harbor of Gaeta.
Late news from the Mexican earth
quake shows that the devastation
wrought was worse tnan at first sup
posed. The whole of the west coast
from Acapulco south to Salina Cruz
| has been badly damaged.
Two German aeronauts covered 81:
miles in 10 hours.
The plate mirror manufacturers
have organized a trust at Pittsburg
| Pennsylvania.
The seismograph at Be:iin regis
tered a severe earthquake at dis
tance of 6.210 miles at about the sam,
hour as the shock in Mexico.
H. II. Tucker. jr., the indicted sec
retary OF the Uncle sam Oil compan,
has been released from custody oil
bail of 5000.
| The battleship Kansas was recent,
| placed in commission at the Leagu
Island navy yard, with appropriate
! ceremonies.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
The Evolution of
Household Remedies.

The modern patent medicine Dusi-
ness is the natural outgrowth of the
old-time household remedies.
In the early history of this country,
EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME
MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas,
bitters, laxatives and tonics, were to be
found in almost every house, compound
ed by the housewife, sometimes assisted
by the apothecary or the family doctor.
Such remedies as picra, which was
aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple
brandy. Sometimes hop tonic, made
of whiskey, hops and bitter barks. A
score or more of popular, homemade
remedies were thus compounded, the
formulae for which were passed along
from house to house, sometimes written,
sometimes verbally communicated.
The patent medicine business is a
natural outgrowth from this whole
some, old-time custom. In the begin
ming, some enterprising doctor, i'm
pressed by the usefulness of one of
these homemade remedies, would take
it up, improve it in many ways, manu-
facture it on large scale, advertise it
mainly through almanacs for the home,
and thus it would become used over a
large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE
HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK
A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC
FORM.
Peruna was originally one of these
old-time remedies. 1t was used by the
Mennonites, of Penn sylvania, before it
was offered to the public for sale. DR..
Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM
FOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Men
nonite origin. First, he prescribed it
for his neighbors and his patients.
The sale of it increased, and at last he
established a mandatory and fur
nished it to the general drug trade.
| Peruna is useful in a great many
climatic ailments, such as coughs, colds,
sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal
diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF
FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE
USE OF PERUNA and its value in the
treatment Of these ailments. They
have learned to trust and believe in
DR.. Hartman's judgment. and to rely
on his remedy, Peruna.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

and solid wall type. We present here
with a picture of three-story house
located on West Colfax avenue. which
can be built by anyone Of little me
chanical skill for less than three hun
dred dollars. including the materials.
and extra labor one would have to en-
ploy The house is fourteen feet wide
and twenty-three feet eight inches
long. The walls are solid rock and ce-
ment, and are laid between boards the
same as the old style grout house,
stone being used as much as possible
between each layer of cement and
gravel, mixed one of cement, four of
sand and eight of screened gravel. The
loose stone should be surrounded by
the concrete at least one inch thick on
every side.
On account of the great strength OF
the cement wall it is not necessary to
have the wall of the first story or
basement over ten inches thick, and
above the first story six inches is of
ample thickness when Ike board
uprights are used every thirty-two
inches. Barb-wire or any old iron
should be used plentifully in the wall
and corners to strengthen 1t.
Six-inch sewer pipe can be used TO
advantage in the wall for chimneys
The floor of the basement is cement
and the two upper floors hard pine.
Creosote stain is used inside, also on
the roof and gables. The balance OF
the paint is pure lead and oil. The ere
n
boiled linseed oil and color.
This style of house is especially
adapted to south slope and is cool
and dry in summer and warm in win
ter.
The cement used was Colorado Ideal
Portland, which the writer considers
the best cement made. A valuable
pamphlet entitled How to Use Ce-
ment," can be obtained by addressing
The Portland Cement Co., Colorado
building, Denver.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.

George w. Roosevelt. cousin OF
President Roosevelt, died at Brussels
where he was consul general.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has stated that
his son Homer, will succeed S. c.
drummer as his private secretary
about July l..
The official Western Baseball as
ISOLATION schedule shows the season
for that organization will open May 2
President Roosevelt is reported tc
be working on a plan to have the gov
ernment pay all legitimate expenses
of national campaigns, in order tc
eliminate the corporation and money
influences.
DELPHI NJ. Delmas has positively
refused the request of Harry X Thaw
and members of his family to take
charge of the next trial of the case
Col. A. r. Greene, of Kansas, has
been apro nted superintendent of the
Platte Nat onal park in the Indian
territory.
Capt. F. ]. Tygard. late president
of the Bates County National bank,
which failed recently at Butler. Mo-.
has been taken to the state asylum
for the insane
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus addressed the peace confer
ence at New York on the subject Of
the Commercial Aspects of the
Peace Movement"
John D. Rockefeller has given
5000, 900 to the American Baptist
Missionary union.
Henry Ducet, aged 96. who guided
Gen. Fremont to California, died re-
Gently in Indian territory.
George Baldwin, consul to Nurem-
burg, Germany, died recently in
New York hospital. He nominated
President Mckinley for the first
public office he ever held.
Second Assistant Secretary of State
Adee has started for Europe with the
intention of making n 1000 mile tour
of France on bicycle.
Judge N. F. Handy, one of the pio-
neer citizens of Topeka, died recently
at his home in that city, aged 10
years.
John Malang, republican, has been
elected state senator from the Jop-
lin. Mo. district to succeed the late
senator Thomas Connor, democrat.
Mrs. Donald Mclean has been re-
elected president-general of the
Daughters OF the American Revolu-
ton.
Rev. DR.. Tennis S. Hamlin, pastor
of the Church of the Covenant IL
Washington, and one of the most
noted Presbyterian divines in the east
died recently in Philadelphia OF
ApopleXy.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
THE HERALD
SPRINGFIELD. COLORADO.
Young Man and Employer.

When the inexperienced young man
thing he runs up against is the other
mans point Of view. He starts out
full of himself and OF what he can do
and Of how he can do it. After a
time he begins to wonder why he
doesn't get on; If he is stupid. blum
dering fellow, he never finds out, for
the stupid man goes through life fight
ing his employer all the time. If you
are eager to rise in the world. con-
slider yourself in relation to your en-
ployer's business from his standpoint.
Try to get at his aims and difficulties.
and consider your work in relation
to those aims and difficulties. Ask
yourself whether your work is fur
thef'ing his aims, IL you want to know
whether you are making progress to-
ward ultimate success. Try to think
out your employers method of deal
ing with his problem and with his
employees. Not till you have gained
some insight into these things are you
in a position to take the first step to-
ward the realization of your ambition.
Consider the fact that the head of
every business concern has definite
aims and definite methods by which
he is accomplishing or hopes to ac-
complish those aims. He requires erl-
ployes who will consent to become
the comparatively insignificant wheels
in n more or less complicated ma
chine. Of which he furnishes the mo-
tive power. AS the employe is OBJ
liged in any case to come up to his
employers requirements If he is to
please and succeed with him. he will
profit by meeting those requirements
as fully and with as good grace as
possible.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
GONE FOREVER.

Ten years ago farmer put his ini'
tials on n dollar bill. The next day he
went to the nearest town and spent it
with a merchant. Before the year was
out he got the dollar back. -Four times
in six years the dollar came back to
him for produce and three times he
heard of it in the pocket of his neigh
bors.
The last time he got it back four
years ago. He sent it to a mail order
house. He never has seen that dollar
since, and never will. That dollar bill
will never pay any more school or
road tax for him. will never build or
brighten any of the homes of the COM
munity. He sent it entirely out of
the circle of usefulness to himself and
his neIghbors.
Patronize your local merchant who
helps YOU to pay your taxes, support
your schools and churches, and lends
a helping hand in times of sickness
and trouble.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
BELIEVES IN DRY FARMING.
Donahue Tells Why He Has Faith ir
the New System.

81 wish to call your attention to the
fact that there are more than 10000,
900 ofarable acres of ofunoccupied prairi,
between this city and the kansas-Ne
braska line. This territory can anL
will be reclaimed without the aid OF
irrigation where the artificial applica-
tion of water is impossible. These mil
lions of acres of now unproductive
prairie that stretch in one monotonous
and almost unbroken waste between
this city and the rising sun will
within the next half century, support a
population many times greater than the
entire population of this state at the
present time" declared John II. Dona-
hue before banquet of the Mile High
Club at the Savoy hotel in Denver
speaking on the subject, What is Dry
Farming?'
Mr.. Donahue, who is one of the coun-
try's recognized experts on the subject
and has been largely instrumental il
introducing dry farming i'll Colorado
gave a thorough exposition of the sub
ject.
He said, further:
when history shall have accorded
the proper place to each public charac
ter now upon the stage of action IL
proportion TO the lasting benefits whici
he conferred upon his countrymen, }
believe that the chief executive of this
nation-Theodore Roosevelt-will oc
cupy one of the most lofty pedestal.
among them all, and subsequent gener
ations will lay a laurel wreath upon his
monolith as a testimony of their ap
preciation of the services he rendered
them when he conceived and was in
strumental in inducing Congress to
enact into statute the now famous
reclamation act"
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
These Chicks Will Know own Father

Colorado Springs, Colo.-Colorado
Springs claims the prize rooster. 1t of
fers in evidence a brood of thirteeI
chickens which the cock Matched. Foa
three long weeks this rooster sat on 8
setting of eggs, and ever since the!
were hatched, a few days ago, has
watched the brood with care.
The bird is owned by Fred Hill oi
226 South Institute street. It's freak
action has caused commotion in the
neighborhood. Chicken fanciers have
been awaiting developments with in
terest ever since the hen left her nes'
and the rooster took possession. And
now that the chickens have come oul
Hill is convinced he has the freak bird
of the land.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
HENS KNEW THEIR BUSINESS.
Never Would They Lay Anything but
the Freshest Of Eggs.

There is a German dairyman and
farmer, whose place is not far from
Philadelphia. who greatly plumes him
self upon the absolute superiority Of
his products above all others in the
vicinity.
On one occasion he personally ap-
piled to Germantown housekeepcr
for a transfer of her custom to him
self. 81 hears dot you haf lot of
drouble with dot dairyman OF yours"
he said, "Yust you gif me your gus
tom and der will be no drouble.'
Are your eggs always fresh" ask
ed the woman.
FRESH" repeated the German. in
an indignant tone. Let me deli you.
madam, dot my hens nefer, nefer lay
ANYTHING but fresh eggs!"
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Disappears With Cash.

Chicago, April 20.-William Havens,
seventeen years of age, disappeared
with $1,000 last Wednesday while car
rying the money from the Independent
Packing Company, where he was en-
ployed to the Drovers' Deposit Ma
tional Bank, Forty-second and Halsted
streets.
A warrant charging larceny as
bailee was to-day sworn out for Hav-
ems arrest. The young mans parents
believe he has met with foul play. He
was member of the choir of the I'm
ion Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Soon after King Edward of England

Soon after King Edward of England
decorated Prince Henry of the Meth
erlands for his gallantry in rescuing
passengers from the wrecked steam
ship off the Hook of Holland, in Feb
ruary, Queen Wilhelmina presented
gold medals of the Order of Orange
Nassau to the three sea-captains who
assisted in the rescue. and silver
medals to the members of the boat
crews who lisked their own lives in
the work.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

dered and passages OF the secretions
too frequent. On the advice OF my
husband 1 began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Since using two boxes my trou-
BILE has not reappeared. This is Won
derful, after suffering two years"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents boy.
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

Lord Curzon, when he was a stu
dent at Oxford. burned the midnight
oil, won scholastic honors galore, took
brilliant degree and won the grand
prize of a fellowship. Lord Rosebery,
on the other hand, took no honors,
was rusticated, and didn't even get
an ordinary degree.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

Though the late shah of Persia pos
sessed jewels worth $4,000. 900, 1t
would be mistake to suppose that he
die so much marrying in order to get
a sufic cient number of wives to wear
them He wore the jewels himself.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

A man has just been acquitted in
Missouri on the unwritten law. When
the people of that state all learn TO
read and write they will not have to
depend on the country squire to tell
them what is law. They can look in
the book and see.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

ago, dropsy set in.
and my left side was
SO swollen the doctor
said he would have t6
tap out the water
There was constant
pain and a gurgling
sensation around my
heart, and / could not
raise my arm above
my head. The kid
ney action was disor-
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
Getting Ready.

ITS just as well to be prepared for
that war with Japan. At least that S
what our people think at home.''
But what sort of preparation can
they make?"
I've just had letter from my wife
and she writes that the Winfield Scott
Light Guards unanimously disbandel
Saturday night. - Cleveland Plain
dealer.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

1t is said that the government can
not secure enough pure-food inspec-
tors. Naturally, this is difficult po-
sition to fill, as recent revelations
have made it very plain that pure
food is something very few are able
to identify on sight.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
university coined the word europhia
in an address he delivered some time
ago to the graduating class of WON
ans college. Europhia is the joy OF
living.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
An AnImaI.Lover'. Ambition.

To be genuine lover of animals.
End TO be able to effect an improve
mcnt in the breed of those which ap-
peal most TO ones fancy. is to add a
fresh and lasting source of enjoyment
to life.-Country Life
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

BY following the directions. which
nre plainly printed on each package of
Defiance Starch, Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de-
sired, with either gloss or domestic
finish. Try it, 16 OF. for 10c, sold b!
all good srocers.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
THE CEMENT AGE.

A Three-Story House for Less Than
$500.
The attention of the writer has been
called to the wonderful increase of
cement houses in Denver and sur
rounding districts. both Of the block
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
In a Pinch, Use ALIENS FooT.EAsE,

powder. 1t cures painful, smart
ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails.
It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Makes new shoes easy. A
certain cure for sweating feet. Sold
by all Druggists. CSC. Accept no sub
stitut.a. Trial package. FREE. Ad-
dress A. S. Olmsted. lie Roy. n. Y.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

The Lutheran church has recently
issued call for 1000 new ministers
to fill vacancies in that denomination
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

An egotist is the center of an admir-
iEg crowd-and he's the crowd
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26

Even those who haven't an eye for
beauty appreciate handsome income.
The Springfield herald., 1907-04-26
A MISSOURI WOMAN
Tells q Story Of Awful Suffering and
Wonderful Relief.

Mrs. ]. d. Johnson. Of 603 West
Hickman St, Columbia, Mo-, says:
Following an operation two years