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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, June 8.-Wheat-July,
96Hc, Sept, 99asc. Corn-July, SAC;
Sept, SIC. Oats-July, Acc; Sept, 3Sc
Pork-July. $l635; Sept, $16.52h.
Butter-Creameries, 1S@23c; dairies,
17@21c. Eggs-13k @14c. Poultry
Turkeys, lie; chickens, 12c; springs,
20m22c.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
Stop That Cold

To check early colds or Grippe with 'Preventics
means sure defeat for Pneumonia. To stop q cold
with Preventics Is safer than TO let it run and be
obliged to cure IL afterwards. To be sure. Pre-
ventics will cure even O deeply seated cold, but
taken early-at the sneeze stage-they break OF
head of these early colds. That's surely better
That's why they are called Preyentics.
Preyentfcsare little Candy Cold Cures. No Qutn.
Inc, no physic. nothing sickening. Nice for the
children-and thoroughly safe too. III you feel
chilly II you sneeze. II You ache all over think OF
Preventics Promptness may also save half your
usual sickness: And don't forget your child. u
there Is feverfshness. night or day. Herein prob
ably lies Prcventics greatest efficiency. Sold in
Be boxes for the pocket. also in 25c boxes of AZ
Preventics Insist on your druggists giving you
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10

Piles get quick and certain relief fro nDr.
Shops Magic Ointment. Please note it is
made alone for Piles, and its action is
positive and certain. Itching, painful
prot-uGing or blind piles disappear like
magic by its use. Large nickel-capped
glass jars so cents. Sold by Schultz &
Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
Lonu Strike ls Settled.

Pomeroy, o.. June 10.-The miners
strike which prevailed here for six
months was settled at lengthy con-
terence of state labor officials and
operators. The settlement will imme-
diately return 600 men to work.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
HIGH TROUSERS, FEW BRAINS
School superintendent View Of Those
Turned Up at Bottom.

Turned Up at Bottom.
W. 81. Elson. superintendent of in
struction In the Cleveland TO- public
schools. was recently asked about the
nashy socks, shirts and neckties at
fected by many Of the high school boys
and the custom Of taking reefs In the
bottom Of the trousers, says a special
10 the New York World
"Yes, know" he replied. Il have
been wondering whether all this u a
necessary adjunct to the curriculum. J
sometimes think that thirst for color
IN the art department runs to hose IN
stead OF canvas.
II am Of the opinion that In most
cases there is q law which governs the
length Of ones trousers. It may DC
state IN . general way az the higher
the trousers the fewer the brains"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10

Improper action of the kidneys caueses
backache, lumtago, rheumatism. Pine
ules" is a kidney remeedy that will re-
lieve these diseases, pleasant to take and
guaranteed to give satisfaction or mo
ney refunded, "Relief in every DOSE
Sold by Schultz Il Ketcham
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-10

Man Zan Pile Remedy comes put up in
a collapsible tube with nozzle. Easy
to apply right where sorness and inflam-
nation exists 1t relieves at once blind,
bleeding, itching or protruding piles.
Guaranteed. Price 500. Get it to day.
Sold by Schultz Il Ketcham.
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PreVentiCS
Schultz & KETCHAM.
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat,

Minneapolis, June 8.-Wheat-July,
$1.00ls; Sept, 99%c. On track-No
l hard, $103B; No. l Northern, ST..
02h; No. 2 Northern, s1.00@1.00& !;
No. Northern, 96k @9Skc.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-08-27
TO INVESTIGATE
TURKISH INVASION.

Constantinople, Aug 26-The gov
ernment is dispatching a special com
mission of officials of high rank to The
Turko-Persian frontier to open an in
CURRY on the recent INVASION by Turks
Of Persian territory, and the bloodshed
and destruction Of property mat fol-
lowed. The porte repudiates the ale
cation that Otterman troops advanced
beyond the frontier.
Reports received here say that the
matter threatens to assume a grave
character, especially as the Persian
residents of the district are being Sc
Yerely prosecuted by Turkey kurdish
auyilaries.
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=, = 7or,.,,s-u ill.,. ,o.,,..,o, e.o.,
a. s $500 .,i.
little daughter Is the CUES, Of
MIN and Mrs Alex Livingston at
lBro6man,
=. :: :: :. =. :. :: :. :.
, t;> ,....
for Atlanta Later she viii go to
ra1mab Fails flo snend some mime
Gee. y. Br duac&, Of Kew YorE, al'.
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FOR SAl.a.
a pleas2nt coLtass On Il street for
$3.50
r. f. Hopkins q Son.
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by the Fernandina club % few weeks
aso, ii is expected that a large crows
WiI Be PRESENT
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health. Impure or diseased blood means the
poison IN this vital fluid acts injuriously on
Pustular eruptions, pi1np1es, rashes and the
IN feverish and diseased condition, as the
some irritating hunor. Chronic Sores and
tier IN the blood, while Rheumatism, Catar1h,
| deep-seated blood disorders that continue to
lce them remain in the blood. ..~
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, . sFNFT
KENNEDY S l6X4g;.E l2Sii'g, aDgEr
asa~segeF slossan end uorsy Bee " Eysry Bottle,
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BASEBALL GAME TOMORROW.
Fernandina Corning Over 70 Play
Came with Tie PICS.

anne OF the
Aare anxious
Al 10 LLlntn
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!. =. Fergusou has retuoned from
cgt ylsi o Jacksonville
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Mrs. Julia Peterson LEFT yes erday
for Atlanta. Later She viii 80 to
Tallulah Falls to spend some time.
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Fancy ard plain drassnpk;ne don,
rs Ray corner 1005 Oak Diac.
and Carpenter street
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THOROUGHLY TESTED IN HER FAMILY.
. . - Mas been used extensively in our family
gwen 10 2otn young and DID, and always with the be
e3ues 1t thoroughly ceanses the blood of ali inpur
tlSS at the same time it builds up general health
klYes appetite, strength and energy. We have eiven
II 10 our children as intimafed found it to be non
injurious 10 the system and always capable of purify
ing the blood and restoring health. unhesitatinriy
recommend 1t to all in need a blood medicine If is
superior TO everything else for blood diseases
MRS CLARA DAUBERT,
Schuy.kil Haven, Pa
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-, III bIood troubIes are not acquired.
Through the blood disease germs are trans
nitted from one generation 10 another. Par
ents hand down tainted circulation to their
children, and we see its effects manifested in
various ways. The skin has waxy, palIid
appearance, the eNs are often weak, glands
Of the neck enlarged, and, as the faint has
been IN the blood since birth, the entire health
is usually affected, and the system weakened
from want Of nourishing, hcalth-giving blood.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-08-27
TIL KING OF
BLOOD PURIF 7 9 E2P 9

For than forty years s. S. has worn the crown of
public approval and has been recognized the King of Blood
Purifiers. 1t has demonstrated its ability to CURE n
thousands upon thousands Of of blood and diseases
until it is regarded today the reliable and safest of all
blood medicines.
Pure blood means strong vigorous bodies well nourshed
systems steady and all the machinery life working il
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~ 1-11-CTTT-T
nony with nature-thus insuring perfect
osite of all thiS9 any i1npurity, humor or
system and affects the general health.
GUS skin affections show that the blood is
1T of too much 9cid or the presence of
ers are the result of morbid unhealthy ma
'fula, Contagious Blood Poison, etc, are al
Y worse as long as the poisons which prod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

the most extraordinary freak OF nature
ever exhibited. He is a Russian or SUI
perior intelligence. While his head and
face, with the thick growth of long silky
hair, most nearly suggests Skye terrier.
his brain is above the normal. He has
been exhibited in every civilized country.
and he is one of those broadminded men
who unfailingly profit by what they see
and hear.
He understands and writes Russian, Ger
man, French and English. l have often
conversed with him on various topics and
invariably became so much interested in
what he said that l forgot for the moment
that l could merely see his twinklng eyes
through the hair that made the rest of his
face invisible.
The man born without arms and the man
born without legs most fully illustrate
natures law of compensation. The present
Charles Trip is certainly an armless Won
der not only in doing practically every
thing with his toes that ordinary folk can
do with their hands, but in his degree of
intelligence and mental equipment.
He is the valuable foil for another equally
remarkable freak the legless man, Eli
Bowen. They are always placed together
on the platform and are boon companions.
Both are serious married men and the
fathers of interesting families. One of
Bowen's sons is a judge and another a sue
cessfui merchant. Bowen himself is an
acrobat. climbing and leapng with his
hands and arms. which are developed like
another mans legs.
The bearded lady" Annie Jones. is
woman OF culture and refinement. Bearded
women are not uncommon in the show
business. They have been on public exhi-
bition for the last fifty years. This par
ticular one is really modest and charming
lady. with all that title implies. She
draw. paint little and can play on various
instruments of music. She is ready and
intelligent in conversation and has been
married twice.
The elastic skin" man, James Morris,
is barber by trade. and a good one. He
now has shop in New York and on the
road runs the BARRIERS tent. handling the
razor and shears to the satisfaction of the
employees of the show between perform
ances
Billy Wells" the hard headed man who
permits man with a sledge hammer to
break blocks of granite on his head, has
entirely normal brain under an alb
normally thick skull. He often took tickets
in front of the main tent, and it Is pre-
sumed that he would not be trusted in such
a responsible post We're he not thoroughly
equipped mentally for such trying job.
The double bodied Hindu, "Laloo," was
a very intelligent freak. l have often
heard him disputing with his personal
manager. His only failing was prodigalty.
He would spend money lavishly and would
buy everything he might fancy, which
called for frequent protests from his man
ager.
He was well read on ordinary subjects,
spoke four languages and always went
well dressed. Away from the platform of
freaks he gave the impression of a for
eign gentleman in comfortable circum-
stances. His abnormality, the lower half
of second body protruding from below his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

was not among those who espoused the
pernicious doctrines of feminine equality.
Great hopes were entertained at one time
that Chulalongkorn would bring her along
with him, but 1t seems he hasn't done 80.
She would make a far greater sensation
than the king Members Of the Women's
Rational Dress Association would hail her
advent with rapturous delight. They would
banquet her and make her life member
and honorary president of their league. For
she wears the GARMENTS they have long
been trying in vain to popularize-bloom-
ers. Her costume, roughly described, con-
sists of tunic, knickerbockers, stockings
and shoes The tunic is closely fitting, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

l have known few cases wherein the
freaks on exhibition were below the
average intelligence. The midgets Lucie
Zarate and Great Peter the Small pos
sessed a very low order of intelligence
other hand. Chang, the Chinese eight
footer; Col. Goshen. Capt. Bates and
George ABgur, were all of higher order
of intellect. were fairly well educated and
very interesting conversationalists. Hav-
ing Travelled widely, they possessed stores
of information such as even well-educated
people who remain in their narrow environ
ment never acquire.
AS a rule it may be said that giantesses
are neither so intelligent nor so well in
formed. Ella Ewing, the tallest woman
of whom there is any record, was just
plain Missouri country girl, who had to be
shown
She WAS exceedingly modest and retiring
and refused to leave her own country,
though tempted by the show with the offer
of LOCO a week Her small education had
been in country school, which she was
compelled to quit early because of her in
creasing size.
Perhaps two children were ever born
with more natural intelligence than the
"Orissa twins Radca and Daodca They
were bound together by a seemingly in
dissoluble bond at the breast bone-though
when one sickened unto death in Paris a
celebrated French surgeon succeeded in
separating the living from the dead.
They were the brightest children l ever
saw, and absorbed information a sponge
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the same platform with the physical freaks.
or these perhaps none has been more
remarkable than little Oracle Cochran. a
girl of seven years. Her memory was
something almost supernatural. She could
answer any question a great variety OF
subjects propounded by any person or per-
sons I'm a crowd.
You might name any country. obscure
island, town or village In the world and
she could tell you where it was. the number
of It's inhabitants, etc, and this instantly
almost before the last word left the ques-
toners lips. Frequently lot OF smart
college students would band together in the
crowd and by preconcerted arrangement
fire questions at the child with the idea
of confusing her with names and dates,
etc. But she invariably came out vic
torious
We afterward had boy with us abroad
who was phenomenally gifted in the same
way. His parents, living in Wisconsin.
were in no way remarkable In the course
OF the lads public career he answered
probably 25.oo0 separate questions in this
off hand style.
The manufactured freak embraces such
as the tattooed man. the tattooed woman,
the moss haired girl some alleged al
binos,' etc. They are ordinary people with
no distinguishing mental characteristics.
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the public thought him the smallest man
that ever lived There have been some
attempts at deception. such as making
giants taller by building up a few inches
inside OF their boots, but they don't look
serious.
However, If you don't think three or four
inches important, just contemplate an or
binary child on two-inch roller skates. Put
four inches in his boots, rig him up in
frock coat and high plug" hat and any
tall man will look foot taller than he Is.
1t is one of those curious optical illusions.
The so-called "Circassian girls were all
pronounced frauds. There never really was
a genuine Circassian woman with the hair
worn by these exhibits. In the old bowery
museum days almost any girl who would
consent to have her hair cut and would
battle her head in beer every day could
be a 'Circassian girl The beer made her
locks stand out to scare an Indian.
We once had q very pretty young girl
who wore a wig for the moss haired girl.
She travelled all over Europe without being
detected. although the moss wig was
discarded after every performance. Her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28
oLD-TIME sTENoGRAPHERs.
Shorthand in the Time Of the Romans
-Elizabethan Writer

From the London Chronicle.
Sir Edward Clarke, in joining the ranks
of the inventors Of systems of shorthand.
has yielded to a temptation common to
great men Of all ages The learned Egyp-
tan who first got tired OF writing out a
complete hieroglyphic. and took to sug-
gesting part OF 1t only. on the way not
only to an alphabet, but toward the goal
reached by Sir Edward himself Since that
dim period we have all been doing our best
to find a royal road to expression. and have
achieved the gramophone. Even Herbert
Spencer, whose father invented a lucid
shorthand was bitten with the desire to
conquer time, and he tells us that an ex-
animation of his fathers system left him
in no doubt whatever that It was the best
of all.
The fatality Of all systems however. is
That what seems easy to the eye of filial
piety may be terribly difficult TO the cold
gaze OF stranger. OF the innumerable
systems of shorthand that were the vogue
century ago how many survive today?
In spite of Ptman. fame and fortune still
await the man or woman who can invent
system that will appeal to the reader as
EFFECTIVELY as to the original writer Per
maps II we were to redscoyer the lost
shorthand writing of the ancient Romans
we might find ourselves on the road toward
solution of the problem.
For the Romans were on afrectionate
terms with shorthand Did not Suetonius
speaking of Caligula, express surprise that
an emperor or so many promising parts
should nevertheless be an iEnoramus in
shorthand: and did not Titus Vespasianus
pride himself on his facility In the use of
stenography both for business and amuse-
ment. So fond was he OF the sport that he
Delighted to gather his amanuenses around
him In order that they should tilt against
edcn OtneF IN the stenOQranhip 6ald
may be that but for the redscoyery of tho
art In our own country toward the end Of
art In our own country toward the end Of
would not have been moved to write bis
diary. '''''
The hrst impulse to the rediscovery and
cultivation OF shorthand in modern times
may probably be traced to the desire st
the time OF the reformatio of preserving
the oiscourses or the preachers of the new
doctrines. 10 write fast as a man
speaketh treatably," the Elijah than writ
Ing master and stenographer Peter Bales
declared to be 'in effect very easy
the shortness whereof is attained by mem
ory. and swiftness by practice, and sweet
ness by industry. But the early systems
were very inefficient, and this has been
considered by critics to be one of the
causes OF the corrupt readings of the ,evt
Of some of Shakespere's plays. Contem.
porary opinion on the subject NAV be gath
cred from the Pleasant Dialogues and
Dramas of Thomas HeyWood ue95I
who says that his play of Queen EiIza
beth"
DID throng the seats, the boxes and The staya
80 much that some by stenography drew
plot put II In print, scarce one word true"
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The Kings Palace at Bangkok.

grand ladies in the land would attract half
as much attention. She is always accom-
panied by a bodyguard of dozen ladies
in waiting, similarly attred. An enter
prising Bangkok photographer once OBJ
tanned a photograph Of her in her ration
ais but some comments that were at
tached to reproductions of it which ap-
peared in some London journals gave such
offense to the bewitching Sowayi Pongsi
that she ordered the negative destroyed,
and the photographer was told that he
would lose his head II ever he sold another
copy.
No European queen, probably, is so rich
In jewelry as the Supreme Queen Of Siam
She has huge safe or casket, the handi-
craft OF London firm, in which repose
marvellous necklets. pendants. bracelets,
anklets Of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and
pearls galore. The second queen owns a
scarcely inferior casket, and each of the
other wives has her own special hoard
The national jeweler has a standing order
for 100000 worth Of jewelry to be deliver
ed to the king every year, much of which
Is distributed among the favorites Of his
harem. But his own collection of Jewels
and bi5outerie far surpass that of any Of
his consorts. Within the last few years
1t has been enriched by the purchase Of
many of the rarest and most costly gems
that have appeared in the European mar
ket His jewel repository is said to occupy
the entire wall space of the royal bed
chamber. which Is itself in many respects
a work of art.
This throne Of state is second in mag
n1ficence only to the marvellous peacock
throne of Persia. 1t is largely composed
Of gold and studded with precious stones.
His mantle of state is without doubt the
most costly garment in the world. 1t is of
great antiquity and is handed on from
king to king, each one adding to it some
bejeweled establishment. It is literally
covered with gems. So valuable is it that
six armed soldiers mount guard over 1t day
and night. 1t is supposed to be donned
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fluffy frills and laces. and across her
breast and shoulders is a bright blue sash.
with a glittering order in diamonds. Tho
shoes are of black patent leather with gold
buckles: the stockings are Of white silk.
and the moderately tight boomers. fasten-
ed at the knee are also of silk.
She is petite creature with features Of
the Japanese type, oval, and olive-com-
plexioned, flashing black eyes and pearl
white teeth. Very fetching she looks in
her rational dress. for, not to speak -ir-
reverently of her majesty, she possesses
ahem.-nether limbs that would make the
fortune of ballet girl. At a lord mayors
reception at the Guildhall none of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

1t may seem an odious comparison to
make, but it is a fact that IN point of in
telligence. general information and mental
endowment the circus freaks. as a class.
superior to those who crowd about
them in curiosity and pity And there is
touch of irony, well as humor, in the
additional fact that the professional freak
regards the passing crowd from his ele-
waited platform with something like the
same curiosity, not wholly unmixed with
contempt. The remarks, soto voce, ex-
changed on this platform sometimes would
be highly edifying, even If not always COM
plimentary, were they understood by the
swarm below.
In all of my experience in this connection
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(COpvrlp

Copyright 1907 by r. +. Hamilton.D
- ARNUMS reputation as a show
man was built wholly on freaks
and strange Curiosities. His cir
- Gus fame was nothing until he
became associated with men who
made the most honest of businesses out
of the circus that had been largely fraud.
With bum cirCuses went bogus curiosi-
ties and fake freaks. In the modern circus
everything must be genuine.
l personally have known but few frauds.
Joyce Heath the alleged colored nurse OF
Washington, was one. The Fill mermaid
was another. The latter was exhibited in
a small glass cage in Barnums museum
at the corner of Ann street and Broad
way.
/ recolleCt IL very we'll. 1t was COM
posed of the body of a fish and the cured
or dried head OF monkey, the hair having
been shaved of. 1t bore no resemblance
to the pictures of mermaids printed in the
story books. 1t was an Insignificant fraud.
Tom Thumb was not nearly so small
as many men known TO have existed before
him. but he was Barnumized SO well that