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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
Eczema and Other
Skin Diseases Be-
ing Cured Rapidly

In a recent visit to one Of the largest
local drug stores it was learned that the
sale of the drug citrox has increased so
rapidly that II is almost impossible for
the druggists 10 keep a sufficient supply
of IL in stock. Evidently citrox does h
Is claimed for IT by its discoverer.
DR.. ]. L. Currier, a prominent scientist
of London. Eng, discovered not many
months ago that a teaspoonful OF pure
citrox dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of
hot water applied twice daily TO any part
OF the body affected with Eczema, letter
and other skin diseases would cure almost
any case. and the sale OF citrox has been
remarkable.
The pure drug only should be used, just
as IL comes from the chemical works,
put up in small sealed packages
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
All your Stomach distress and Indi'
gestion will be ended forever.

Does Il ever occur TO you how busy that
little stomach Of yours is? 1t actually
holds three pints. though in one year you
force II to take in $500 pounds OF ma
terial, digest Il and prepare It for as
similation to the blood. DO you wonder
at the number OF cases or indigestion
ana ,omae trouble? You crowd il with
steaks and pastry, ~irritate It's juices with
spices and acids and expect this little
four-ounc. mill to do it's work.
Is there any wonder that your food
passes u~ndIEested. or lays like a Jump OF
lead in tie stomach That everything you
eat turns 10 acid. stomach gas and Stom-
sch poison. p~utrefying the intestines ana
digestive canals, causing Bi~housness
Headaches. DIZZINESS and indisesuon'
Heartburn. Nauseous Breath eons'ips''oa
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
BOYIea College.

While a majority OF the students of
Boyles college are from Omaha and the
immediate vicinity, there are many from a
distance. "A young woman arrived a few
days since from the sunny southland, her
home being on a cotton plantation at
Friars Point, Miss. A few days later a
young mad arrived from Church's Ferry,
N. d. The town of Church's Ferry is not
far from the Canadian line. The student
passed through st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Sioux City. preferring Boyles college to
the institutions in any of the three towns.
These two pupils represent geographical
extremes from which the college gets pu-
pills. and is suggestive in showing that
Omaha is well advertised by the college
literature.
As in all educational institutions, a great
many students of Boyles college pay their
own expenses. Two former student have
recently returned to school who have been
earning money to complete the work. One
OF them was employed on a fruit farm at
Rifle, Colo.
Another young man who has been work
ing his way through school has just closed
a season OF professional base ball, playing
forty games during the season. He thinks
his education will be OF benefit. even II he
goes into the professional ranks of the
big leagues. where he hopes to be in a
few more years.
Business education is taking on a new
meaning among farmers. The idea has been
prevalent that when a young man left the
farm 10 take a business course, he was
forever done with the farm. With i'm
proved methods and better development of
resources II is necessary that one know
something OF bookkeeping and business
forms in order to insure greater success.
There was a time when what a farmer
had left at the end Of the year represented
his -profits-nothing left, no profits. Now a
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
HONOR FOR SOL0N BoReLUM
OF state Root Praises Latest
Work of Artist at
Washington

Scion Borglum, the enown sculptor.
has won new laurels in Washington, ID. c.,
where he is to execute two large marble
eagles which will be placed on each side
OF the monumental door OF the National
Bureau OF American Republics. One Of
the eagles is to represent North America,
the other a condor, will stand for South
America. Secretary of State Root, TO
whom tho sketches were submitted. ex-
pressed enthusiastic praises of the work.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16

The above is the name OF a German
chemlta al, which is one OF the many yalua.
BILE ingredients Of Foley's Kidney Remedy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is recognized by
medical text books and authorities as a
uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the
urine. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy as
soon as you notice any Irregularities and
avoid a serious malady. Sold h. all drug
gists.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
Frightened Into Fits

by fear of appendicitis, take DIR, Kings
New Life Pills, and away goes bowel
trouble. Guaranteed. 25c. For sale by
Beaten Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16


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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16

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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16
YnnR CHILD MAY FAIL

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under Individual instruction, in couses
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

frozen over and covered with ice and
snow. which makes travel very much
easier than i'll summer, and there auto-
mobiles would find the opportunity of
making Roadway.
Just how feasible it would he for
automobiles to travel from Unalaklik
to Cape Prince of Wales l cannot say,
but the trip is made at frequent inter
walls during the winter with dog teams
from Nome to Cape Prince of Wales,
In summer travel is chiefly by water
between these points. Unahkiik, as
looking at the map will show. is not n
great distance from Nome. the distance
from Nome to St Michaels being only
10 miles.
Taken all in all, while the journey
would be trying, hazardous one. it is
altogether likely that with plenty of
pluck and determination several of the
contestifg machines tlfatfeft the Office
of the New York Times would eventu-
ally draw up in front of the office of
the Matin in Paris.
The successful accomplishment OF
such. a. r,arvelous iourney1ought to and
pT4t-- istarTS-A
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

I'VE often hear of various parts of
railroad cars and of steel rails break
ing during severe winters as result
of extreme cold-this in the moderate
zone of the United States, where the
thermometer seldom goes more than Il
few degrees below zero. What, then
Is to be expected in a climate where
the thermometer reaches 20 below
and more? Granted that competing
autos will carry a limited supply of
extra parts TO replace breaks. the ex-
IRENE cold would break various parts
faster than an automobile factory at
home could produce them.
This. to say nothing of oil freezing
stiff when used as a lubricant Why.
in some parts of Alaska n gun cannot
be fired in extreme cold weather unless
| every particle of grease has been either
wiped out or boiled out with hot va,
ter and the gun left outdoors. for the
grease would jam the different parts OF
the gun TO such an extent that ii could
not be used, What show would an
automobile in the arctic region have
under such conditions? None at all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

"Just what the contestants would
find after reaching the Siberian shore
I do not know. but it probably would
not be as rough country for automo-
biles as Alaska. not being so noun
famous. The plains of tundra, as it is
termed in Alaska. exist in Siberia, as
in some parts of Alaska. This tundra
Is composed of small hummocks of
earth and thick, heavy grass and ex-
tends for hundreds of miles, chiefly
near the seacOast. In summer the in
tervals between these hummocks,
which are usually only a foot or two
apart, are filed with water caused by
the melted snow and ice on the sur
face of the ground, which does not dis
appear by the action of the sun. A
few feet below the surface one will
find in midsummer that the ground is
frozen so solidly that a pick can
scarcely enter it. 1t has remained in
this condition. it is believed, from time
immemorial, for the frost never leaves
the ground from one years end to the
other
'1n winter. however. the tundra is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
) for the Weakest Flower and the Mghtest Tree
of Plants From Tiny Seeds to Full Growth.

other helps the seed grow strong and
able to grow flowers when they shall
have become plants.
The bee is guided to the flowers
by their bright colors and their sweet
scents. The brighter colored and
showiest flowers as a rule are not
the most fragrant, while many of
the rarest scented are most modest
of appearance. You will be surprised
II you once begin to count them up,
how many white and dull or dark
while guady flowers, such as the tu-
lip, fox glove and hollyhock. have
little or no scent. And then, just
as in the world we find some people
who have everything to attract 9TH
ers to them, beauty and gentleness,
cleverness, kindliness and loving
sympathy, so we find some flowers,
like the beautiful lilly, the lovely
rose, and the delicate hyacinth,
hHiCii nave NolOi dilI SSSHI anu
graceful shapes all combined.
Have you ever noticed how diff
ferent flowers open and close at diff
ferent times? The daisy receives its
name DAYS EYE, because it opens
at sunrise and closes at sunset, while
the evening primrose and Others
spread out their blooms just as the
daisy is going to bed. And there is
a very good reason for all this.
THE daisy opens by day, because
it Is visited by day insects, but those
particular moths which carry the
pollen of the honeysuckle and other
evening-opening flowers. fly only by
| night, and If such flowers opened by
day other insects might steal their
honey, while they would not be OF
right size or shape to touch the pol
len bags and carry the dust.
Again. some flowers close when
Fever rain is coming; some to prevent
their pollen dust from being washed
away, and others to protect their
drops of honey. Cua-shaped flower:
| often droop their heads to protect the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
THIS WEEK HIS SUBJECT IS PLANT LIFE

w NCLE Joe, The Story Teller.
had been out for a short
stroll. It was Sunday morn
ing in early spring. and
Uncle Joe had brought back small
bunch of delicate wild flowers, the
contemplation of which as he sat up
on the porch bench seemed to afford
him great pleasure and satisfaction.
Here it was the children. freshly
dressed and awaiting the expiration
of the half-hour when 1t would be
time to start to Sunday school, found
him.
20. look at the spring beauties!"
cried Lucy, in delight.
Come here and let me pin them
on you," said Uncle Joe.
What is that white one?" asked
Dick. pointing to blossom.
~
THAT is the blood root, answered
Uncle. ut is usually the first wild
flower to appear in this part of the
country. But. this year the spring
beauties seem to be running 1t a
tight race"
why are there no wild flowers in
. winter?" Lucy wanted to know.
Flowers and plants, like people,
are born, feed. grow. have children,
sleep and at last die. For some plants
winter means death, and for others
only sleep till spring. For most wild
| flowers winter means death. For
their seed it means sleep"
Tell US some more" pleaded
Lucy.
well, listen" said the Story Tel
| ler And this is
Uncle Joe's Story About Plant Life
When seed falls In. the ground
so long as the earth ISL I'D and dry
it lies like a person In a trance. as
IL it We're dead; but as soon as the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

warm, damp spring comes, and the
busy little sun-waves pierce down In
to the earth, they wake up the plant
let and make 1t bestir itself.
AT first the growing seed has no
leaves or roots with which to feed
upon the soil or the sunlight. But,
very much the same as the little
chicken In the egg. 1t feeds upon that
which is with 1t contained in Its shell
or covering. And, as the little chick
en- grows legs, wings and down be-
fore 1t pecks through the shell, the
little seed develops roots, shoots and
the material for the making of
leaves. i
80 soon as the tiny roots begin
to drink up nourishment from the
soil. the nourishment so taken flls
up the little cells closest to the roots
and expands them SO that they keep
pushing up and feeding the cells
above them, and thus the plant is
forced up and into the light of day
to grow and live out its life.
Once peeping above ground the
plant can no longer afford to be idle
and live upon prepared food. 1t must
work for itself, just as the little
chicken must learn early to scratch
for itself. So far it has been taking in
food of the same kind as you and /;
that is, food which has once been
alive. Think over what people eat
and drink and you will find almost
all of 1t has been alive; meat, vege-
tables, bread, milk; all these are
| made from living matter. And,
though you do take In such things
as water and salt. and even iron and
phosphorus, you could not live on
such alone. The human body re-
quires to be fed with food which can
be worked up into living matter. But
the plant, as soon as 1t has roots and
| leaves, begins to make living matter
out of matter that has never been
| alive.
Hour after hour and day after
day our plant goes on pumping vi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
The Progression

honeyglands within them, for II the
cup became full OF rain or dew the
honey would be useless. and the in
scots would cease to visit them.
But it Is not only necessary that
the flowers should keep their honey
for insects, they also have to guard
it carefully against the wrong kind
of insects. Ants love honey as well
as bees and butterflies. Against the
robber insects flowers protect them
selves by hairy, or gummy, stems and
also thorns and bristles.
"a thorough botanist has little
need of either watch or a baromc-
ter while among plants and flowers.
From the flowers which are opening
and closing he can very fairly ap-
p"oximate the hour of the day, aud
10 many instances a pretty shrewd
| calculation may be made in regard to
future weather conditions.
THE shapes, colors and scents of
| flowers are adapted to lure these par
ticular insects best suited to carry
ing pollen from Kind to kind. The
lower petal CT t!,e violet provides an
i ideal rest for the bee after its fight,
and a comfortable support to the in
sect while engaged upon securing its
drop of honey in. trade for the pollen
| it brings.
! ''And after frost has come and ali
/ the tender flowers are withered and
| dead. after the leaves Of bushes and
trees have fallen as a soft cover over
earth, the little seeds OF summer time
lie sound asleep throughout the long
night of winter, until the war;,
breath of spring shall kiss them into
lie again on Just such a bright,
| glorious morning as thic.''
What time is it, Uncle Joc?'
asked Lucy.
Time for you children TO rrf
along to Sunday school" replied
Uncle Joe. after slaneins at hi.
watch.
It'd almost as soo- stay here" sais
! Dick.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
undoubtedly would be glory enough 70
any automobile enthusiast"
EX-Congrcssman Has Doubts.

misrepresentation jefferson NJ Levy,
who has important interests in the
northwest, when asked for his views
upon the forthcoming automobile race
from New YORK TO. Paris. said in part:
Il am an optimist, and, while l have
great admiration for the enterprise aud
originality displayed in arranging such
n spectacular contest. yet | must con
fess that l am not altogether hopeful
about the probability of its being car
ried to successful ending.
In the first place. man can over
come nature up to certain point. Be-
yOnd that he is hopeless. The diff
culties which nature has erected in the
face of the proposed race are so great
that | doubt if human beings can sur
mount them. For one thing. l believe
that the intense cold of the arctic
where the thermometer often goes tC
so degrees below zero, will make il
practically impossible for steel and
iron to withstand 1t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

water and food from the earth from
its roots to it's leaves, drinking in
carbonic acid from the air, and using
the sun-waves to work them all UP
into food to be sent 10 all parts of
its body. In this way the leaves act
as the stomach of the plant, and di-
gest it's food.
Sometimes more water Is drawn
up into the leaves than can be used,
and then the leaf opens thousands of
little mouths in the skin of it's under
surface which let the drops out just
as drops of perspiration ooze through
!. the pores of our skin when we are
overheated. When the air is damp
and the plant has too much water
these lie open and let it out, but
when the air is dry, and the plant
wants to keep as much water as it
can, they are closely shut. There are
as many as hundred thousand of
these mouths under one apple-leaf,
so you may. imagine how small they
often are.
The plants which live only one
year take in just enough food to sup
ply their daily wants and to make
seed. After the water is no longer
carried up such plants wither and
die, but the seed makes its bed wher-
ever 1t may fall into earth, and, If
it lights upon good ground and is
properly covered up by leaves and
foliage, becomes new plant next
year.
"Of course, you know seeds are
formed in flowers, and that the seeds
are necessary to grow into new
Lplants. Most carefully does the
flower protect it's seeds, as carefully
in its own way as the best of mothers
protect their children.
/ ITO their, aid flowers call the busy
little bees and like insects. holding
out to them their tempting drops OF
honey. And as the bees fly from
T flower to flower they take with them
la ripening sort of seed-food. called
pollen. which carried from one to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
FULL OF TROUBLE Dub
UNIQUE Auto Race From New
York to Paris is Over Hardest
Imaginable Route.
ROUGH PLACES IN ALASKA
travellers In That Part of Country Tell
of Hardships to Be Encountered
Easier to Go In Winter.

John c. Klein, who spent some time
In Alaska several years ago, in speak
ing of the proposed New York to Paris
automobile contest arranged by the
Paris Matin and the New York Times
said to representative of the latter
paper:
Certainly the suggestion of an au-
tomobile race from New York to Paris
is novel one. The contest would en-
gage the attention not only of automo-
bilists throughout the world but
would create great interest among the
general public as well. 1t would be
far and away the most important and
interesting automobile contest held
since the invention of the machine,
particularly from the standpoint of en-
durance.
Those who enter for the contest
might as well make up their minds
that the trip through Alaska and ST.
beridsW.n be no such jaunt as many of
them may have been accustomed to
making over the excellent roads of
Long Island or New Jersey. The long
stretches of uninhabited country. the
difficulty of obtaining supplies and the
rigorous weather would all have to be
taken into consideration. for supply
stations for machines and accommodate
tions where the chauffeurs could OBJ
tain shelter and food are not plentiful
I'm the wilds of Alaska.
THE winter season alone would
make 1t possible to undertake such q
contest, the frozen snow and ice Great
Ing thoroughfares, so to speak, which
do not exist in warm weather. Thou
sands of men travel in Alaska In the
winter by dog teams or on foot who
could not make such trips in the
spring or in summer. They suffer but
little hardship, comparatively speaking
Indeed, thousands of men and n few
women have walked from Dawson t
Nome or between other points 'ovel
the ice,' which means that the frozeI
lakes and rivers afford a chance Il
travel that does not exist when thj
weather is warm. OF course individ
uals on foot can go where automobile:
cannot, but whether machines cOul(
successfully make such long ant
arduous journey can only be proved
after the experiment is, attempted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

: 49, 1sl~ - -
"While the cold is intense in Alaska
and snowstorms numerous in winter,
yet many thousand persons live there
in that season and enjoy life. There
would not he much question about the
chauffeurs being able TO make the trip
if healthy and provided with plenty
of food, but there is always the dam
ger of serious breakdowns of the ma
chimes. The adjustment of supply
stations and repair depots is altogeth-
err feasible, at least in certain parts of
Alaska, but it would seem that in any
event machines would require to be
conveyed by others carrying food and
supplies for men and necessary parts
for repairs to the machines.
Good Cause for Worry.
II see that in a recent cablegram
from Paris to the Times the statement
is made by the Paris Matin that the
only part of the route which at pres
ent is causing worry is the rough
country between Vancouver, B. c.,
and Skaguay, Alaska If the journey
Is attempted by the route suggested,
there will indeed be cause for worry,
and plenty of it. The rugged, noun
famous country which interyenes be-
tween those points makes it almost
physically impossible for the trip to
be made by the route suggested.
THE more feasible route would be
from Vancouver, B. c., to Ashcroft by
the Yale road, which, by the way, is a
very good one; thence to Telegraph
! Creek, to Atlin, TO Caribou, to White
horse. to Selkirk. to Ogilvie. TO Daw-
son and to Circle CITY. a distance of
iperhaps 200 miles. Beeves are often
driven from Ashcroft to Atlin up the
Yukon river.
From Circle City United States
military telegraph line extends to Fort
Yukon. to Rampant: thence along the
Yukon river to Fairbanks, to Tanana,
to Nulata. to Unalaklik and to ST. Mi
chaers, where the Yukon empties into
| the Boring sea. I do not know il 1t
would be possible for an automobile
to make it's way down the Yukon to
Unalaklik after leaving, say, Circle
City. While the river, Of course, is
| frozen solid in the winter, there Is a
SOOU zeal Ol rough HumLuOSh -iSc,
which in many places might make II
difficult for an automobile to get past
and into better going.
1T would seem that Unalaklik would
be the logical point at which to leave
the Yukon river and strike out north
east for Cape Prince of Wales. To fol
low the Yukon to st. Michaers from
UnaIaklik would be to bear off in an op
posite direction to that desired. A
Cape Prince of Wales, Boring sea. as
the map will show, narrows very con
siderably and at this point enters the
Arctic ocean. The distance across Der
, ing strait at Cape Prince of Wales Il
only a matter of thirty miles to Cap
Nuniamo, In Siberia, where land 1:
; again found, although Fairway Rocl
| Is an island in the strait short dis
| lance from Cape Prince of Wales ant
Diomede island short distance far
Their over toward the Siberian side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02

Putting aside the question of the
availability of supplies for men and
machines in the zone where human
beings and habitations are not to be
found for hundreds of miles. the to-
Biography of the Alaskan-Siberian coun-
try is such that ! think it doubtful IL
an automobile could even reach Bering
strait. While dog teams can travel in
almost any section of Alaska. yet it is
very different matter for automo-
biles. which cannot travel down steep
and rough mountain sides for Il dis
lance of mile or more where the
trail, but two or three feet wide twists
and turns sometimes every few feet.
l note that some person in discussing
this feature Of the trip suggested that
in such cases the machines could be
lowered with block and tackle. II Is
ridiculous to assume that autom obiles
FenSaged in such race could be load
ed doap with heavy machinery and
such fmpealsenta in addition TO the
men and the salelies
Il do. not bellies, the Peace river