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TESTING PAINT.

Property owners should know how
to prove the purity and quality OF
white lead, the most important paint
ingredient, before paying for Il. To
all who write. National Lead Co, the
largest manufacturers of pure white
lead, send Il free outfit with which to
make a simple and sure test of white
lead. and also a free book about paint.
Their address Is Woodbridge Bldg,
New York City.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
BUD DOBLE

The greatest of all horsemen, says: 'Tn
rly 40 years experience with horses | nave
found SPOHN'S DlSTEMPER CURE the
most successful of all remedies for the
horses. 1t is the greatest blood purifier"
Bottle soc and 81 90. Druggists can supply
YOU, or manufacturers, agents wanted.
Send for free Book. Spohn Medical Co.,
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. r
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To Clean Bottles and pecanters.

To clean water bottles and decanters
mix together half q gill of vinegar and
u handful of salt. Shake well in the
decanters to be cleaned. and no matter
how discolored, this treatment has
been tried and found successful.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
pebts Of the Rich and Poor.

Debts. as a general rule. are harder
TO be collected from the rich man
than from the slave Of toll, for the
former builds upon his position in So
ciety to C him from his obliga.
tons. while the latter often makes
the attempt to discharge his contracts
to preserve his standing in the com
munity.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
STATE OF OHIO CITY on TOLEDO. .
Lucas |

LUCAS COUNTY. o..
FRANK J.. CHENEY makes oath that he Is senior
partner OF the nrm OF +. J. CHENEY K Co, doing
business In the CITY OF Toledo. County and State
aforesaid. and that said nrm will pay the sum OF
ONE DOLLARS for each and every
case OF CATAtRH that cannot be cured by the use OF
HALLS CATARRI CUKE.
FRANZ ]. CHENEY
Sworn 10 before me and subscribed In my presence
this 9th day OF December, A. d., 1886.
A. W. GLEASON.
@ NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure In taken internally and acts
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Send for testimonials. free.
i. J. CHENEY a Co, Toledo. q
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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Gettinq Back at Him.

He (peevishly)-Here and now !
wash my hands Of the whole affair.
She (calmly)-And don't forget your
face and neck while engaged In the
laundry act.
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Almost any man can marry money
II he is willing to take q widow older
than he is along with Il.
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Muggins--"When your wife sings l
suppose you forget ali your troubles"
Buggins So "Um all my other
troubles"
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The hand can never execute any
thing higher than the character a
aspire.-Emerson.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

WE SELL GUNS AND TRAPS CHEAP
( buy Furs & Hides. Write for catalog los
N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or
Lewis Factory. Peoria. Ill.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

To plead that anything is excus-
able Is to admit that 1t Is wrong
Smiles.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop pay.
ments. j. MULHALL, Sioux City, la.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

He who hesitates much will accom-.
plish little.-Von Moltke.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

Mrs. winslow's Soothing syrup.
children %teething, softens the gums, reduces I'm
sllays pain, cures wind cole. &c bottle
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One cannot quarrel II the other will
not.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

II you have anything to do. do It;
don't loaf on the job.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02

This woman says Lydia II,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
saved her life. Read her letter.
Mrs. #. c. Willadscn, Of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
~ can truly cay that Lydia 4. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound saved my
life, and I cannot express my gratitude
TO YOU in words. For years 1 suffered
with the worst forms of female COM
plants, continually doctoring and
spending lots of money for medicine
without help. l wrote you for advice,
followed It MS directed, and took Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
il has restored me to perfect health.
Had IL not been for you I should have
been in my grave to-day. 1 wish ovcry
suffering woman would try it."
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
GOOD ADVICE.

Shc-Whcn you are gone I shall
pine away.
He-O, spruce up.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
c FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear.
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness,o or nervous ~prostration.
Why don't you try itp
Mrs.. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Red Cloud chief., 1908-10-02
lmporfant 70 Mothers.

Important 70 Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
Evening star., 1908-01-25
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Nebraska by electing Burkett senator
when Burkett was only just past thirty.
declared the young man was the best
natural-born politician he had ever
known. and. given health and luck.
would one day be President.
X X x
Yes" drawled Jim Bander. first
mate. who had come from Bermuda and
had been duly elected n member of the
Deep Sea Story Telling Club. yes. I
1t was this way: I had been collecting
startish along the rocky shore of the
island one day. just after the tide had
turned. I knew I was doing a dangerous
stunt. for the breakers were rolling in
and the tide was coming in fast. The
breakers. too. smashed in between the
great powders with awful force and it
was all 1 could do half the time to keep
my footing.
"All at once I came to big startish
with her jelly-like little star family all
holding on to one of her fingers and she
beaming proudly at them with her little
red eye. I was Just on the point of pry
ing her off with my iacknife when I saw
in toward me with a great hollow boom.
1 started to run for shore. but the
wave came. sucking away the waters and
piling them up overhead. the sand ran so
swiftly back from shore that l could not
keen my footing, and l gave myself UP to
being swept out to sea.
Just when l was ready to give up en-
tirely and the white foam-spray began
showering about me heard a calculating
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voice from the rock to whose smooth side
was trying to cling.
"'You drop that knife and let me alone
after this and I'll save you," said the
voice.
Quick as a thought l agreed, and then
the startish continued:
"'You just hang on to me and I'll hang
on to the rock with all my thousand feet
Quick, Here it comes"
And she did. gentlemen. The sea broke
over me. NV mouth and ears and nose
against the cliff until l was sore and
bleeding. When the waters finally surged
back. leaving me hanging dazed and be-
wildered to the rock and seemed ready to
come on for the next onslaught l clam
bered quickly over the rock and up to
safety.
Maybe YOU don't believe it. but you see
I'm here to prove it. But. coming to
think of It, I think the lady and l did use
mental telepathy in .the rescue plan in
stead of actual speech. I kept my prom
ise with her just the same"
X x X \
An unfortunate automobile driver was
bemoaning the loss of his job the other
night at a social gathering of the chauf-
Touring clan. A wealthy merchant had
dispensed with his services because the
young man had disobeyed orders and
taken his new $4,000 car out with a
party of his own friends, while the irate
merchant telephoned all over the Dis
trict for the runaway car.
Cheer up said one of the members,
a bright young fellow. who has toured
every nook and corner Of Europe with
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piano and begin to knock the tar out OF
the air of the song, with the idea that
he's making a hit with the writer Of the
thing. If he shows up at any sort Of a
little social blowout where a lot of his
friends assembled, they simply refuse
to do anything else but play and howl
that new song of his. In such cases the
composer can't come out boorishly and
beg them to cut it out. That wouldn't
look right. So he has to sit and twiddle
his thumbs and stand for It, Before the
evenings over they're bound to ask him
to sing or play the beastly thing him.
self. and II he tries to wriggle out Of It.
why. they're liable to look upon him as
sulker or something.
Then the monographs get hold of the
song that's made a hit, and that makes
FOR more gloom on the part of the COM
poser-gloom. l mean, of another sort
than because he doesn't get a nickel in
the way of royalties out of the canned
music people. Everywhere he goes he
Dutts into phonograph with a horn as
dig as tunnel, and as soon as the
phonograph owners see him coming they
turn nineteen handsprings to get out the
record on which his song hit is canned.
Then he has to sit or stand by while
the internal thing is squeaked and raspet1
at him. =
I'm the course of time the barrel-
organs and street-pianos get hold of the
song, and what they do to 1t is a warn
ing to the wicked. A song composer
never really knows or understands the
depths Of suffering until he hears one
of his song hits bulleted out Of the
1n'ards OF enty-horsepower street.
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back to their ships if court-martial
proved that they had violated this ex-
press order.
So some hundreds of American and
British bluejackets stepped ashore in
Yokohama at about the same time. Now,
oddly enough. considering the situation.
the bluejackets of the two services didn't
have any run-ins for hours and hours,
although punches of the differently uni
formed bluejackets frequently happened
upon each other.
Then, toward sundown. trouble broke
out all in heap, and in diverting way.
A couple of the American bluejackets.
hiking around with the liberty parties to
which they were attached. tried to create
job. considering how much saki Yoko-
hama holds in bottles and casks and
things Their more sober mates finally
demanded that the two bad actors keep
out of the saki joints. The pair of bad
actors of course refused to take any such
orders Then a couple of their sober
mates waded into them with the idea of
making em be good. The clouts were
passing back and forth with fine action
and effect, when a knot of British blue
jackets ambled up. British bluejackets.
generally speaking. are more garrulous
than ours. These British bluejackets APP
proved. it seemed. of the way the sober
American men-o'wars men were pum-
melting the pair of drunken Tnen-o'-wars S
men for their intemperance. They did SO,
right out.
Hit serves TIL bloomink swizzlers
right" was one of the ways they said 1t,
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VSS

and-such furrier's had just been de-
livered at the milionare's home by mis-
take. and added that messenger would
be right around to take the package back
This. of course. looked all right to the
footman. and when the messenger arrived
a few minutes later the box containing
the handsome fur-lned coat was handed
to him.
Which is about all. The millionaire got
the bill for the coat in due process of
business, and then he appeared at the
furrier's and demanded to know why,
and the thing came out
It's an eventless week over this way
when persons who need the money and
things don't uncoil some new one.
Steerage Parties.
To Europe for s15-that can be done
now, and on good steamers. too. OF
course, the $lj rate means the steerage.
but the steerage nowadays doesn't mean
the unutterable misery that it used to-.
In fact, the steerage accommodations on
the average big transatlantic steamer
of today are quite as good as the second
cabin accommodations were a matter of
only ten years or SO ago. just as the
second cabin accommodations Of today
are every whit as good as the first cabin
accommodations were dozen years or SO
ago.
Tens of thousands of aliens are taking
advantage of the marvelously cheap rate,
which is due to rate war between the
steamer lines. to visit the old country
But they are not the only ones taking
advantage of it. Hundreds of Ameri-
cans. men and women. are going over in
what they call ''steerage parties'' These
are young folks who couldn't possibly
afford to go even second cabin. but they
can and do make up partes-sort of Euro
pean Summing parties, as they are oc-
caSlOnally called-tO go over in the steer
age and take the game as II comes. The
Mauretania took out three parties, conf
prising some 13J young Americans. in the
steerage on her last eastward trip. Sew
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got to look pleased anyhow I ought
to feel 'complimented. as they intend.
But. however / may look, I certainly
don't feel happy. I've got to smirk
and look self-conscious and battered
and all like that; but when I look that
way I'm the most brazen fraud that
you ever saw or heard of in your
bawn days. I'm an Internal hypocrite
when l look grinny and chessy-catty
over folks efforts to please me by
singing or whacking my songs Be-
cause every blooming note of the songs
IS perfect misery to me and nothing
else You see the average song COM
poser becomes weary of his new songs
long before they ever are published at
all. He gets tired of them. in fact,
often enough, while he's throwing
them together. I have heard that
there are some famous writer's who
refuse utterly to look at their writings
when the writings are printed. Prob
ably that's because they're sick of
the stuff they've written before 1t gets
into type. And that, as I say, is how
1t Is with song writer's.
IF the song of which the composer
becomes weary while he's writing it
Is hit after It's published, then the
composer is in for 1t. He'll often feel
like going to Van Diemens land for
a few years to get away from the
nerve-racking din of the blamed song
that has made hit. If he drops into
a vaudeville show he's bound to hear
the thing sung or played at some time or
another during the performance. If he
drops into a music store one or other or
the clerks Is bound to romp over to
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and start something that it would take
reams of official ships paper to explain to
the satisfaction of their respective depart
ments at home; if, indeed, nothing more
serious should occur.
1t happened, however that the men
forard of both the American and British
ships had been on board their vessels. de-
prived of all liberty, for conside rabe
periods, owing to the self-imposed quar-
antines on account of cholera outbreaks
In various Chinese and Japanese ports;
and the bluejackets of both services
were keen to stretch their legs on dry
land. They were so insistent lat the
mast" about it that the American and
British shippers got together and con-
ferred. They famed the situation over
and finally they made up their minds
men go ashore.
Before the liberty parties from any of
the ships were allowed to go over the
side they were drawn up. both on the
American and British decks. and given
a talking to by their shippers in person
about how they were expected to conduct
themselves on the Yokohama beach. They
were told to go their way and mind their
business and to abjure Saki-or abjure 1t
as much as they could. They were plain
iy told that it was none of their affair
what the relations between the United
States and Great Britain happened to be
at the moment. All that was required
of them was that they use their mou-
choirs. figuratively, while on the beach.
and avoid clashes on peril of getting
soaked good and plenty when they got
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barely thirty years When he was elected
to the Senate he was by long way the
youngest member of that body-in fact,
the youngest person who had sat in 1t for
a good many years.
He was only thirty-seven years old, and
in that short period had risen from a farm
boy in Iowa through the stages of janitor
at a country college, working his way
through school: teacher in a village, law
yer state legislator and congressman.
Now Mr. Burkett is being exploited as
highly available candidate for place on
the republican national ticket this year.
and he still holds the distinction of being
the Youngest man in the race. He is yet
a bit under forty, the foremost politician
in his state-the state Of Bryan. j. Ster-
ling Norton John NJ. Thurston. Edward
Rosewater and many other men who have
enjoyed national note. And he Is likely
to remain indefinitely in the Senate If he
wishes.
1t is the fact that he Is strong IN
Bryan's home state that has caused at
tention to be turned to him as a promis-
ing vice presidential possibility. his
friends insist that with Bryan on one
ticket and Burkett on the other there
would be no doubt of the republicans get
ting the states electoral vote. despite the
fact that Bryan has been regarded lately
as much stronger at home than in former
years.
Senator Burkett is not worrying him
self about his candidacy-in fact, laughs
at it, But he is pressed as highly avail
able for many reasons. As a Senator ne
is credited with remarkably good record
on the questions likely to be bropgnt up
in a preside ntial contest.
He is an excellent stumper, and MARK
Hanna, who tried to break deadlock IN
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of mind and visits the grave OF a de-
ceased relative several times each
week. One of her acquaintances who
had learned of her frequent trips to
the cemetery met her the other day
and asked:
why. dearie, why do you go to the
cemetery SO often?"
ITO weep over the grave or my dear
departed relative" was the reply
The friend pondered deeply for a mo-
ment and then as a smile broke over
her features she said:
II see it all now. Why. dearie. you
just go out to that dismal graveyard
to revel in the exquisite joy Of sorrow,
that's all"
I'm Secretary Metcalfs anteroom at the
Navy Department. said an officer to a
Star reporter, there is large book on a
small table. The book looks like die
tionary, but it isn't. A well-known news
paper man who goes in there every day,
and sometimes two or three times day,
spent some time yesterday looking
through the book. Finally he closed 1t
with bang and said. Its funny / can't
find such a simple word as 'alluring' in
that dictionary" Just out of curiosity l
went over and looked at the book myself.
and the mystery was cleared up. The
book was the Pronouncing Gazetteer.
Since the incident 1 have related / have
seen several members of Congress consult
the book while awaiting an audience, and
look rather sheepish when observed"
X X x X
When Elmer J. Burkett came to Con-
gress from Nebraska he was a youth of
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piano The song itself would be bad
ment of torture. but when the song is
Dago-ized and filled full of those out
landish little pizzicatti and appoggiatura
the effect is maddening.
"a bunch Of New York humorists once
caused the late Paul Dresser a horrible
afternoon of misery. You remember how
hackneyed and soul-searing Dressers song,
Two Little Girls in Blue. became? Well
after it got to that fiendishly hackneyed
stage, and when Dresser hated it and
loathed 1t and despised it SO venomously
that he could hardly be restrained from
fighting whenever he heard It, gang Of
Dresser's running mates in the big town
put UP job on him.
They rounded up, down in Mulberry
Bend, New York's Italian quarter, some
forty street-piano Sicilians whose ma
chimes had the awful Three Little Girls
In Blue thing hidden away inside of EN-
Dresser was laid up at his home with
the gout, and Wnen Dresser, man who
weighed more than 300 pounds, had the
gout, Why,> he used to sit propped up in
easy chair. gnashing his teeth. and long
ing for people to come and visit him.
well. when they heard that Paul was
down with, vicious attack of his gout
they bearded the forty and odd street
pianos in a bunch in front of Dressers s
house in uptown New York and had 'em
all start Two Little Girls a-going to-
gether, in about forty and odd different
keys. The Giuseppes were instructed not
to play anything else, but to whop 'er
right along until further orders with Two
Little Girls in Blue. The humorists
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was struck with the verses at once. and
he wrote some beautiful ballad music
around them. The thing was a sort of
a Promise Me- song. and really fine
piece Of work, both as to words and mu-
sic 1t made. as it deserved to make, an
immense hit.
Meanwhile the naval officer, out on
the China station. didn't know anything
about 1t. He hadn't had any reply from
the composer in st. Louis. who's poor
correspondent. and he'd almost entirely
forgotten about the verses he'd sent to
the composer by the time he returned to
Washington about year later.
"One evening shortly after his return
here he made a call upon some young
women friends. They were musical. and
he asked one OF them to sing something
for him. She sang the lovely music Of the
st. Louis composer, with the naval Of
ficers words. but the naval officers
name, as the wordist didn't appear
on the sheet music, because he'd written
to the composer that he wouldn't care
for anything like that in case the COM
poser wrote music around the verses. So
there he sat. listening to one of the best
ballads that's been done for many years,
the words his own stuff. and that was
the first time he'd heard 1t. though the
song had reached everywhere by then.
Are naval officers modest persons? Well.
this one enjoyed the song, and said so.
but he didn't say a word to the young
women about his having written the
words and that fact didn't become gen.
orally known till the St. Louis composer
made the announcement himself against
the naval officers wish.''
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WHEN BLUEJACKETS MAKES A FOREIGN PORT

T HE first little fracas between the
Evans feet bluejackets and the
waterfront folk happened at Rio
Janeiro. 1t didn't amount to much.
though a couple of sailors were slightly
cut by the Brazilian negro who started the
affair. Admiral Evans quickly recalled
from shore all Of the ships liberty par
ties. Then he Investigated the little
roughhouse. He found that the blue
Jackets were not to blame, and so, on
the following day, 1000 Of the ships men
for'ard were allowed to hit the beach.
Although nothing serious of this nature
is looked for in the progress of the long
cruise down and up the South American
coast by the battleship fleet. there may
be few other minor tits between blue
jackets and beach-fronters before the
trip Is finished. With some $4,000 naval
sailormen taking their turns at liberty In
the various ports visited 1t would be
strange indeed II there were not few me-
lees to record in the course of SO prolonged
cruise. But nothing SO tight-fltting as
the fight between sailors of the cruiser
Baltimore and a parcel of knife-wielding
Chileans. which came close to involving
the United States In a scrap with Chile.
is anticipated by any of the officers max
ing the present cruise. For one thing.
and an important thing. the South Ameri-
cans like us a good deal better than they
used to. They used to entertain the idea
that the United States had furtive, lurk-