Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-23

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/ food for thought. Hoks Smith = look.
ed upon as the foundation Of bitter
J ness OF the Democrats who look upon
Bryan and Smith as having the same
IDEAS.
Russia Is about to build big navy.
and most of the work VIII be done by
America" So said William e. Corey.
president of the United States Steel
corporation, which he returned ON the
Provence Saturday.
4 President Roosevelt win be urged by
the Republican state committee Of Ne
hraska to take the stump in that stats
for the national ticket. Senator La
Toilette is expected to devote much
attention to Bryan's home state.
Charles Dold. president of the Inter
national Union OF Piano. Organ and
Musical Instrument Workers. Is pre-
pairing a blistering editorial for the
next Issue OF that organizations off,
| cial Journal, castigating Gompers for
his political methods.
National banks In Chicago, report
Ing their conditions as OF the close
OF business July 10. show a record to-
tai OF deposits The sixteen national
institutions held an aggregate Of $751;
| 9l1.723, an increase of nearly $8,000.-
900 over the amount reported In May
and an increase Of about 331 100000
over the amount held In August last
year.
Rattlesnakes are more numberous
In the Iron Mountain district this year
than ever before. and Iron Mountain
has long been famous as the snakieat
section OF Wyoming. Many fishermen
have had narrow escapes from snake
bites and runchmen hesitate to under
take haying because their meadows
are infested by the venemous reptiles.
The Prohibitionists will pool at
least one million votes In November"
That was the prophecy made at the
Chicago headquarters OF the Prohibl-
ton party( following the nomination
of Eugene w. Chifin OF Chicago for
the presidency and Aaron 8. Watkins
OF Ada. o. for the vice presidency of
the United States. Local Prohibition
lists were greatly pleased with the
nominations. and there were all man.
ner OF roseate forecasts on tap re-
garding what the party Is to do this
fall.
Better bread making would lead TO
fewer Divorces" WAS the declaration
by DR.. II. w. Wiley OF the govern
ment's poison squad" who addressed
the American Biscuit Makers associa-
ton at Atlantic City. Good bread,
In my opinion. would help to solve the
Americal OWL of divorce. II the bakers
make good bread and then educate
the people to buy II. the great destroy
er of domestic happiness, dyspepsia,
Will be removed and wc Will hear no
more OF the divorce problem DR..
Wiley declared to the bakers that
Oh ..f h. NnA In ,,v,ft
to eat, that too much cbemicaliz.d
flour is used; that he cannot SEQ the
reason for coloring flour. and that 1t
was the governments intention to
have flour sold the color nature tn-
tended 1t to be; that bleaching In
jures the flour. He declared that no
food should be artificially colored.
Reports from Delaware and Mary
land yesterday indicated the peach
crop In those states this season would
be bigger than In many years. The
railroads have estimated the output OF
Delaware alone will be 1,779.030 bask-
cts this year, and the traffic managers
OF the railroads leading through the
peach-growing sections OF the state
are making arrangements to move the
big crop as sooD as 1t Ia ready to har-
vest Only 1856 carloads were shipped
from Delaware last year. This season
II is estimated it will take at least
$500 cars.
Hudson Budd's stationary hen Is
dead after career of nearly year
as the only one OF the variety. Mr..
Budd expected that the hen would live
only a short time. and consequently
does not feel as badly as he might
She became stationary ut the time Mr..
Budd laid the new concrete floor In
his hennery at Catham. N. J. The
hen, fine example OF the Brahwa
variety, wandered into the ro0st
few hours after the concrete had set"
and was anchored. AS 1t was impos-
sible to get her out, MIR. Budd provided
sent for her. One point that inter-
ested chicken fanciers of that section
was that the egg-laying ability OF the
hen was not impaired In the least.
Blood poisoning. which resulted
from the bite Of mosquito, caused
the death In the Samaritan hospital Of
William Breithaupt, 2 years old. son OF
Dietrich Breithaupt. merchant OF
Brooklyn. For seventeen days the
child was In the hospital, where his
case was watched with deep interest
by DIR. f. Maxwell Galloway. an expert
on septic poisoning, and the other
physicians connected with the institur
tion. The death, the surgeons say
should serve AZ q warning to per
sons whose skin becomes infamed
and FLESH swollen after m0gqutto
or other insect bites them.
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