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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24

In Richmond, Mr.. Angel has Just
been sent to the penitentiary. He
evidently has not been living up to
his name.
Physicians are still discussing the
remarkable case of an Atlanta boy
who died from the result of bee sting
ing, causing lock-jaw. The sting of
the presidential bee causes the OPP
posite result.
At Tomahawk, Wis, a pint beer
bottle was found in the stomach of
fish the other day. Evidently using
some remarkable bait in that vicinity.
According to Berlin cable, the
Kaiser is getting old If the author
of that statement can be located he
will undoubtedly be punished for lese
majestic.
Mr.. Rockefeller, it is reported,
merely smiles at the mention of that
$2o,ooo,o 900 fine. 1t is the consumers
of oil who are looking worried and
getting ready to do the squealing.
ABE Hummel threatens to write
a new book" says news item. Com
ing from. Abe, it could hardly be anf-
thing less than a threat.
The question whether women
should propose is really not worth
while. They know too many ways to
land the men without going to that
extreme.
New York is considering the idea
of separating the sexes on the street
cars. They are already separated in
Washington The women sit and the
men stand.
Mr.. w. D. Howells says it is a
crime to accept money for writing
poetry. 1t is benevolence to accept
it for not writing poetry however.
The report that the Mikado of ia.
pan writes poetry doubtless was
started by some mean California
lingo.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24

Ohio farmers are offering beer in
addition to wages to their farm hands
and once more Kansas realizes what
a handicap she is under when it comes
to harvesting her crops.
The st. Louis baggage sms sher
who dropped trunk containing dy-
Mantle may recover, but if he does
he will hereafter handle trunks as if
they contained eggs.
What has become of the old fash
toned base ball player who hit the
ball so hard that he broke the BATH"
asks the Spartansburg Journal. We
understand that he has contracted the
habit of walking up to the plate and
striking out.
A Chicago woman thrashed her
husband when she heard that he had
filed an application for a divorce.
That will teach him never to take
such a step again without first OBJ
tanning permission.
Commissioner H. Knox Smith
knocks the Oil Trust right in the
spot where it had just been kicked by
K. Mountain Lands.
The Kentucky traveller who was ar
rested and fined in Texas for taking
a drink of whiskey on board rail-
road train will probably want to
amend Colonel Watterson's judgment
that Kentucky is now the worst
governed State in the Union"
Paris likes American songs ana
England has desided to approve of
our clothes. If we could only make
Germany like Our tariff the European
concert would be harmonized quite
to our purposes.
Since the passage of the prohibition
law in Georgia, the Atlanta Consti-
tuition has published several poems
on the subject of GROWERS" The
editor probably wanted to rush them
while there is yet time.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Since he came within 765 votes of
the senatorshp, Vardaman thinks
they ought to give him the job any
how.
1t may be week or two before
Mr.. Foraker is able to realize wheth-
er Taft sat down on him or merely
stepped on his toes.
Senator Dick still refuses to talk
over the Ohio situation, but it might
be impossible to print his remarks
if he did
Cortelyou has the gift of silence.
He also has the grace of resignation
when it comes to accepting the next
higher job.
Pittsburg is also asking for pure
water. With this and pure air it may
aspire to pure citizenship in another
generation or two.
ST. Louis has the largest lightning
rod factory in the world. We sup
pose the demand has increased on ac-
count of the number of candidates
for the presidential nomination.
The manufacturers are in favor of
lowering the tariff duties on raw ma
terial, and raising them on manufac-
tured products. Thus they would
get the farmer coming and 60
ing,
One advantage in having larger
Republican organization in the south
is that there would be larger ele-
ment to choose from when it came
to the appointment of federal judge.
Look at Pritchard.
In addition to the biggest bass, the
strongest onions, and the most lus
cious strawberries, Texas can now
boast of having had the highest tenn
perature this year, but she will prob.
ably be glad to have us forget It.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24
JULY EXCURSIONS EAST.

Colorado Midland Railway, July
18th and 25th, Limit October 3Ist
One fare plus two dollars for round
trip. Midland City Ticket Office.
L. H. HARDING,
General Agent.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24

Write for our free booklet
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION
of
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY.
SALT LAKE
SECURITY & TRUST COMPANY,
Salt Lake City.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24

The report that the Mikado of ia.
pan writes poetry doubtless was
started by some mean California
lingo.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-08-24

Ohio farmers are offering beer in
addition to wages to their farm hands
and once more Kansas realizes what
handicap she is under when it comes
to harvesting her crops.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-05-31

Geo + Mc7iurirE 90. '-'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
JAPANESE WELDED
OUT PACIFIC FLEET
Sent to Receiving Ships
for Balance Term.

NORFOLK, VA Dec 17-tSDeciaD
That no japanese would be taken with
Admiral Evans fleet of battleships on
it's cruise 10 the Pacific was the order
issued -Four went with torpedo des-
troyer flotilla that went on ahead,
but now, it is said, all the Mikado's
subjects are being weeded out of the
messrooms.
Twelve mess attendants were trans
ferred from the fleet to the receiy-
ing ship Franklin at the Norfolk Navy
Yard. Sixty of the japanese, it was
stated aboard the battleship Mime
sofa, have been sent to the Brooklyn
Navy Yard to go aboard the receiv-
ing ship Hancock. These men will be
kept on the receiving ships for the
term of their enlistment, and are sub
iect to the same regulations as the
American bluejacket or petty officer.
Under the rules laid down by the
present Secretary of the Navy the
enlistment in the navy Of persons not
citizens of the United States is
strongly forbidden, and for this rea-
son none of the japanese can be re-
enlisted, and all aliens are thus to
be eventually eliminated from the en-
listed force. Realizing that the Jap
anese servants could no longer be
retained the officers have for some
time past been instructing other
sailors in the duties formerly assig-
ned to the Japanese
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
SAMPLE LETTER OF
BLACK HAND BAND
Demands Money Under Dire
Threats.

BALTIMORE. MD, Dec. 17,-(Spe
ciaD-Among the Italians who have
been threatened by the Black Hand
is Dominick Miccio, president of a
Macaroni factory. The following is
a copy of one of the letters which he
received:
Mr.. Dominick Miccio: With this
letter I let you know that you have
taken very little account of me.
That will O'clock out now, for you
carry very bad verdict on your
shoulders. This verdict is to disturb
all your business and to destroy your
life even though you build a house
of iron, because 1 Constantine An
archie, with but a single word can
destroy anything | want. I have I'M
der my command $4,000 persons.
Sour and very sour for one who fails
in our hands. Mr. D. Miccio. We have
just the same right to live on you
people who have large business. /.
Constantine, Anarche Will compel
you before five days, to make up
flower which will not disturb any
thing, this flower you will make it
of 5000, which you will do it secret
ly without letting anyone know of
it otherwise it will be worse for
you. In doing this will take oath
under our blood and oaths that all
your bad sentence that you carry will
end. You can navigate easily with
your business. This flower that you
do send it by registered letter, and
when we send to get it we will send
poor innocent person; be careful
and do not say anything to the law
and what you do it with good
heart and. secretly | will promise you
that all your troubles will be ended
and you may walk night and day
without fear Send letter to
A. CONSTANTINE,
"Pinehill, Pa. Anarche."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18

proceedings instituted by the woman
to secure possession of her 18-year
old SON.
One of the most ardent in big
batch of epistles read:
Dearest Loving Al:
"Heartsick, lonely and sadly write
you these lines to let you know that
| have not forgotten My Dearest Love.
Oh, Albert, Dearest, the intermission
between our meetings are awfully
long. ] have no one else to love me.
l hope you will always remain the
apple of my eye, the dearest to my
heart, and be my Chauncey Alcott
Oh, dearest love, be true, for my
heart is only thine along the pathway
of life and my only prayer is that
shall soon be relieved from this
living, for / am very unhappy. Now,
AL, dearest, l must bring this epistle
to close, for | am closely watched
by the villain.
Truly, sincerely and honestly
YOUR BUTTERFLY"
'P S.-Loye may wither, flowers
may die, friends forget you, but never
l. / shall always be your darling lit
tie Butterfly Destroy this just as
soon as you can, for there are more
,r-Loro +t,;c oor,o F,,Ovo
There were more. The husband
found them and Mrs Goodman didn't
deny they were in her handwriting.
Goodman left her
Judge Ferguson dismissed the pro
ceedings and permitted the father to
retain possession Of the boy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
HOME TO SPEND XMAS
GIRLS ARE COMING
AneriCuS Bevy of Beauty
is Corning.

Home for the Christmas holidays
Americas school girls and boys are
coming today and tomorrow from a
dozen halls of learning up the state,
and full two score will make up
the grand total coming here to greet
Santa The young ladies from Amer
icus attending Lucy Cobb, Agnes Scott
LaGrange and Monroe Colleges will
begin arriving today, while from
the Tech, the State University and
other schools the boys will come
trooping as well 1t will be joy
Gus homecoming, as fondly anticipa-
ted by loved ones here as by the
youngsters themselves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
ARDENT LETTERS
CAPTIVATED YOUTH

PHILADELPHIA, PA. Dec. IT,
Especially Passionate love letters
written by Mrs. Concordia Goodman,
pretty sprituaistie medium of
1912 North Tenth Street TO Albert
ii. Hammer a youthful plumbers APP
prentice, Of 1920 Master Street, Great
ed sensation IA the habeaa corpus
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
Fine Farm For Sale.

The best improved six hundred
acre farm in Southwest Georgia and
every thing on the farm to run it for
a year. Address Farm" care the
Times Recorder.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18

Tom Lawson's announcement that
hereafter he viii attend strictly to
his own business may in time in
fluence other men to 90 and do like
wise-Ex
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
Fun For Christmas.

The BOMB-BOMB makes the noise
of a cannon. Children can shoot it
with perfect safety. For sale by G.
A. KEMPEUR and NAHOUM BROS.
1913 to 1-1-08
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18

Scientists declare that the world
is beginning to revolve more slowly,
but even that viii not prevent the
interest on a mortgage from falling
due on time.--Ex
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18

Some men are so superstitious that
they believe a laugh at the breakfast
table will queer them for the rest
of the dRy.-Ex.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18

According to Gov Hoke Smith, the
Democratic party has got the South
to reckon With.-Baltimore Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-18
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

is the chief beast of burden and were it
not for this "ship of the desert" the
burning wastes would be impossible for
man.
Along these caravan routes GASES are
found in places where underground
sources of water exist. Vegetation
flourishes in these restricted areas and
date palms. affording grateful shade.
thrive. OF late strange sights to the
natives have been seen along some Of
these caravan routes. Modernism has
invaded them. Daring tourists have
run their automobiles, to the consterna-
ton of the Arabs, into the GASES which
never before witnessed other means Of
locomotion except that furnished by the
camels. A strange contrast indeed 1t
must be to see the motor car of civiliza-
ton whirling along routes where for
centuries the four-legged "ship of the
desert" stood without compeer. But
so 1t is. Civilization is forcing It's way
into every nook of the world. But
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

immense burning wastes of loose and
moving sand, with tracts of barren
rock, stony plains of gravel and elevat-
ed and rocky plateaus rising into
mountains, with extensive valleys and
expanses of sand between. Some of the
valleys are depressed below the level
Of the ocean. Under the influences of
meteorological conditions operating for
centuries the particles composing the
sandstone and other rocks are disinte-
grated and these particles carried away
by the mighty wind that sweeps the
soil, wander afar until they come to a
standstill in the hollows. Such is the
origin of the extensive sandy tracts of
which the accompanying illustration
gives a good idea. In these belts or
strips the sand halting against the
smallest obstacles accumulates around
them and generally the downs thus Gre
ated assume the form of the waves of
the sea, their fall and motion being
with the direction of the prevailing
wind.
Rain is utterly unknown except In
the GASES and on the mountains, where
1t sometimes falls with such violence
as to produce torrents that suddenly
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
MOSLEM RULES OF EATING.


Most of Them Seem Based on the
Best Sanitary Ideas.
The rules set down by the old Mos
lem precept as to how to, behave re-
ligiously and appropriately at meals are
interesting, though whether they are
devoutly complied with in times Of fes-
tival is doubtful. Here are some exam
Piles: Wash your hands and mouth be-
fore eating. When eating never put
one leg upon the other nor put your
elbows upon the table, as this binders
good digestion.
Never be a slave Of your repast and
never touch any meal II you are rot
hungry. Be ever content with what
you find before you and never give
yourself great pains In preparing
choice dishes. Be always If possible
at the table in company with friends,
as the prophet never partook of his
meals alone. Always begin and end
your meal with Thanksgiving to Allah.
Always eat with your right hand and
swallow, before and after food, little
salt.
1t shows good upbringing and Is
pleasing to Allah ever to put into the
mouth only small morsels and never to
make any observations upon the de-
fective qualities of dishes. Never cut
bread with knife, but, as the prophet
did, break it. Never choose the fruit
offered hut take anv at hazard Novor
wipe your fingers with bread. Avoid
blowing on hot dish, but wait until
1t gets cool. Eat dates, apricots and
other similar fruit one by one, remem-
bering In eating them thus the unity
Of Allah.
Avoid at the table drinking much
water. Your meal finished, use attent-
lively the toothpick, gather up the
crumbs and wash again your hands
and mouth. Lastly, render thanks to
Allah.-London Lancet.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
STILL NO CURE FOR CANCER.

Remedies Widely Heralded Mt First
All Prove Disappointment.
Premature advertising of medical
theories which have not gone beyond
the stage of experiment Is not without
its dangers. The X-ray was hailed on
all sides as the long-sought panacea.
Within q year after IT'S discovery 1t
had been tried on all sorts of maladies
and the papers were reporting results
nothing short Of miracles. Conserva-
tive medical men asked In vain for
time to observe results. But what now
Is the attitude Of the profession to-
ward X-ray therapeutics? 1t has re-
placed none of the Older methods, GER
tainly no surgical operations, and with
cancer it is used only when every sur
gical measure has failed, and then only
to decrease the rapidity of the tumor's
growth.
The alleged trypsin cure for cancer
has been similarly trumpeted more
loudly than the scientific tests yet war
rant The results OF DR.. Boards ex-
periments on mice he considers encour-
aging, but in cases of human cancer it
Is yet years too soon to make any posi-
tive claim whatsoever. OF cancer there
are many types; some grow quickly
and without removal are rapidly IA
tai some, again, are so slow in their
growth that years may pass before
their presence Is even recognized. It
is not easy to decide, even when the
result appears most conclusive, wheth-
er a cure of cancer has been effected
Formerly surgeons believed that II a
cancer did not recur in its first site
within one year the patient was free Of
danger That time Conservation
time" as surgeons call it) has been
increased first to three, then to five
years, and at present one of the most
experienced surgeons In this country
believes that cancer may recur even
after ten years.
Thus 1t is evident that the factors
which enter into any adequate determi-
nation of the value Of trypsin as q
remedy for cancer are not simple nor
do they quickly become manifest even
to the conscientious and scientific ply
siclan.-New York Post.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
Odd Habits of Pheasants.

There Is some curiosity as to how
many English pheasants will be raised
in Kansas this year. The average num-
Der of birds raised by each pair of par
emit birds is sixty. With 1000 in the
State this would mean about 100000
birds In two years. The woods and
fields would be overrun with them at
this rate. However, there are many
foes Of the birds and they are killed
every year in great numbers The sleet-
storms are particularly hard on them.
as the water freezes on their long plu-
mage and they are unable either to fly
or run fast. When in this condition
they are easy prey to dogs and wolves.
One of the queerest habits the birds
have is to migrate in the late winter
thirty-five miles. 1t is claimed that the
birds always migrate exactly thirty
five miles and always to the south. The
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30
SAHARA DESERT.

A Sun-Baked Region Of Deso1ation
and Ever Shifting Sands.
In the event that it becomes neces-
sary for France to intervene In the
affairs Of Morocco, in the interests Of
international order, the scene Of her
first operations will be in the desert
region where the French colony Of
Algiers and the country of the Moors
join. French troops are now posted
in that region and a more dismal set
ting for military operations it would be
difficult to find. Under the name Of
the Algerian Sahara the great desert Of
Sahara extends into Algeria, along the
southern base of the Atlas mountains
and closely approaches the Mediterra-
mean west of the Gulf of Cabes. The
immensely of this great barren region
can scarcely be realized. The Sahara
desert embraces some 100000 square
miles and presents an alienation Of
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

Uncle Sam provides for his postmen.
In every case the fortunes were made
through shrewd investments in real es.
tate.
London now has six underground
electric railways (tubes) in operation,
and five more are under construction
or projected. The railways of London,
underground and surface, carry more
than 6OO,OOO,OOO persons each year, Of
which underground lines accommodate
25S,OOO,OOO. There are nearly 600 rail-
way stations in Greater London, and
into the trunk line stations alone there
pour annually more than 100000 pas.
Sengers.
A dip into an official return showed
that there are 1904 London cabmen
between the ages of 60 and 70, 249 be-
tween the ages of 20 and 80. while 7
return their age between 80 and go
One almost suspects these seven old
patriarchs of having carried sedan
chairs In the pregrowler days. At all
events, they are living advertisement
OF London as health resort, with beef
steak, ,overcoat and muffier.-London
Chronicle.
The name Polly" applied to the
parrot, Is said to have been brought
to the North in an early day by fiat
boatmen. who took grain and provis
ions down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to New Orleans. Parrots were
in cages at the doors of many French
shops and the Westerners heard the
French say to the bird, "Parlez, par
lez," pronounced parley, and meaning
speak! speak p This word, as they
brought it back, came to be polly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-30

THAT friend Of yours, Skillven, Is
certainly one of the most charitable
men I ever met" remarked the passen-
ger with the fur-lined overcoat
81 haven't noticed him giving away
anything" said the passenger with the
Katherine suitcase, folding his news
paper and pocketing it. What hap
pened to touch his hearth
81 don't mean that exactly" said the
passenger in the fur-lined overcoat II
don't know whether he's easy or tight,
but I know he takes charitable views"
That's easy" commented the man
with the --leatherine suitcase His
ideas may be liberal, but he isn't-not
to speak of. Borrowed his wheelbar-
row last spring and 1 happened to
break one OF the handles. At least,
didn't break IT. it was broken already,
or splintered. Well. offered to pay to
have it repaired, of course, and darned
if he didn't take me up on It'll"
That was pretty small" agreed the
man with the fur-lined overcoat. Il
don't wonder you're sore on him."
II don't know that I'm sore, particu-
larly. 1t was only 25 cents, but it
didn't seem to me very neighborly.
Kind of cranky disposition, too"
well, Of course, 1 don't know any
thing about that, but 1 was talking
with him about old Brackenbury. Talk
about a crank, Brackenburk is one for
your whiskers. He's got crouch
against humanity. Hanged If 1 ever
knew such a mean old rooster. was
telling this Skilliven about the way he
acted up all the time in his Office. /
guess there isn't one of his clerks who
wouldn't poison him If he got good
chance. Skilliven, it seems, knew him.
~ believe all that Is greatly exag-
gerated,' he says. OF course, he's a
little irritable at times, but he's suf-
fered with dyspepsia-a- good deal to
my certain knowledge. We must make
allowances. He's pretty nice old man,
when you know him.
az know him pretty well by repu-
tation,' said. He's got the reputation
Of being the meanest old skinflint that