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Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
A Spiritualist's Trick.

Some of the most effective results are produced when the medium is sup posed to be held, or tied so securely that it seems impossible that he could have escaped to play the "spook" part so actively. And yet, when the meth cd of escaping from these bonds are understood. it all seems so simple that it is surprising that any intelligent person should be deceived by such commonplace tricks.
 "One of the best rope-tying tests" MT Darlington explained. ''is that of the Davenport brothers, two clever mediums who have deceived thou sands of persons In preparing the rope with which they are to be tied they take one of the cords by the mid de and form at that point a bow, or double loop. All that is necessary to make this knot is to wind the cord once around the fingers and, through the ring thus formed, draw a small portion of the cord on each side in op- posite directions. This, in fact. is a double slip-knot. the loops of which may be diminished or increased in size as the ends are drawn tight or releas- ed. Leaving the two loops open, the two ends of the rope are passed through two holes bored purpOsely in the chair. and with the ends the me diums are secured tightly, the legs be- ing fastened to the bottom of the chair while the arms are close to the body To all appearances they are thorough ly secured, but this is what really happens: the moment that the cabinet is closed they draw back their legs a little, thus slackening the knot suffi- ciently to permit them to extract one hand. With the other hand they hold the knot, ready to be drawn tight again as soon as the hand is replaced. and the legs are extended, but. with one hand free. it is quite easy for them to make all the racket and produce as many varieties of phenomena as the most captious critic could require. Moreover, when the knots are exam ined after the sitting. all appear in perfect order."-From "The Spook De tective," by John R. Meader. in The Bohemian Magazine for December.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
PRODUCTION
 IF LUMBER Never VIII Be Greater Than
 Last Years
 A STARTLING STATEMENT Some Facts Given to The National Conservatio n Commission by a Member of The Forest Service. How The Supply is Diminishing.

Washington, Dec. 2.-Thet the top notch production of lumber in the United States was reached during the year and that from now on the annual production would either remain the same as last or would show a decrease was the startling announcement made today before the national conservation commission by Overton Price. asso- ciate forester in the United States for est service. He also said that the annual cut of timber last year would cover a piece of land 1000 acres in area and would make pile as high as Washington monument.
 Tt has been estimated continued MT Price that our industries, subsist- ing wholly or mainly upon wood, pay the wages of more than one-half a million persons; the original forests covered one-half of the United States, and the existing forests cover one fourth; only One-fifth of all our stand ing timber is publicly owned. Only 70 per cent of the public forests and less than one per cent of the private for ests are conserved by us.
 The land section of the commission will hold it's session tomorrow. The names of two new commissioners were announced this afternoon: EX-Gov ernor George c. Pardee of California and Dr. Charles R. Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03

4 great many people who have trifled with indigestion, have been sorry for it-when nervous or chronic dyspepsia resulted. and they have not been able. to cure it. Use Kodol and prevent having Dyspepsia.
 Everyone is subject to indiges- ton. Stomach Arrangement follows stomach abuse, just as naturally and just as surely as a sound and healthy stomach results upon the taking of Kodol.
 When you experience sourness of stomach, belching of gas and nauseating fluid, bloated sensation, gnawing pain in the pit of the stomach, heart burn (so-called). diarrhoea. headaches, dullness or chronic tired feeling-you need Ko- dol. And then the quicker you take Kodol-the better. Eat what you want, let Kodol digest it.
 Ordinary pepsin dyspepsia tab lets" physics, etc, are not likely to be of much benefit to you, in digestive ailments. Pepsin is only
 ELVEY 6 HULETT,
 Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
BOOST YOUR EAvoRITE

Everybody in the world is welcome to call at the store of the Redewill Music Co., and see that beautiful 5000. Vose X Sons Grand piano, that will soon be given to some contestant in The Republicans big scholarship con- test It is one of the handsomest pi- amos ever shown in Arizona, one of the highest priced and highest grades pi- amos made by the celebrated Boston piano manufacturers, Vose & Sons. Go and see it, try it out, it will astonish you with it's charm and power
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03

haps twenty to twenty-five people and expand as business grows.
 The location of the factory has not been considered yet as it is an enter prise that, like a store, might be plac- ed almost anywhere, requiring no pe- culiar slipping facilities such as side tracks. nor any unusual physical fea- ture such as an ore reduction plant or a sugar factory All that is needed is a good business location and it need not necessarily be in the commercial center
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
Better Not Get
 Dyspepsia

If you can help it. Kodol prevents Dyspepsia, by effectuaIy helping Nature to Relieve Indigestion. But don't trifle with Indigestion.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
DR! PRICES WHEAT FLAKE CELERY
 FOOD

By recent scientific experi. ments, Dr. Price, the famous food expert, has recently pro- duced a Wheat Flake Celery Food, which is highly nutritious, easy Of digestion, and a most delicious every day food for all classes.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03

a partial digester-and physics are not digesters at all.
 Kodol is a perfect digester. If you could see Kodol digesting every particle of food, of all kinds. in the glass test-tubes in our laboratories, you would know this just as well as we do.
 Nature and Kodol will always cure a sick stomach-but in order to be cured, the stomach must rest That is what Kodol does-rests the stomach. while the stomach gets well. Just as simple as A, B, c.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
A NEW POSTAL AGREEMENT

Berlin. Dec. 2.-The United States and Germany have arranged a two cent postal rate instead of the former five-cent rate. It is effective January 1, 1909.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03

For your spectacles, eye glasses and other optical goods see pr. Swigert, IT E. Adams St. Phone Red 2641. Bring your repair work to us.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
ALL WERE LOST

Kobe, Japan, Dec. 2.-The Japanese steamer Ginsei Maru foundered off Wei Hei Wei. The entire crew and all the passengers were lost.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03

See Mealey at the Hartwell Studio, 20 South End St.
Arizona republican., 1908-12-03
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today and get 6 doi- lar bottle. Then after you have used the entire contents of the bottle if you can honestly say, that 1t has not done you any good, return the bottle to the druggist and he will refund your money without Ques- tion or delay. We will then pay the drug gist for the bottle. Don't hesitate, all druggists know that our guarantee Is good. This offer applies to the large bottle only and to but one in a family. The large bot tie contains 2tS times as much as the fifty cent bottle
 Kodol is prepared at the labora tories of E. c. Dewitt & Co.,, Chicago. ne Live Druggists. .rizona- f-FesFSSMA
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15
DO NOT oVERCHARGE.

A notice from the arbitration com
mittee of the entertainment committee
cautions the public against overeharg-
ing officers and men of the fleet, re-
questing that Complaints of such be i'm
mediately made to any member of the
committee by the person aggrieved. 1t
is further requested that any dispute
between the men and an individual over
breakage or damage of any description
be reported to this committee for adj
Indication. The committee prefers that
the men make no attempt to liquidate
or settle the difference before the com
mittee is notified So many damaging
reports have come here from other
ports that the committee hopes to avert
4 repetition here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15
PIRATE SMITH BACK
At FORT SHAFTER

Essay, can't you send me to Oahu
Jail for burglary, instead of givin me
up to them Fort Shafter fellers?' in
quired private Stephen Smith, Goth In
fantry, as he was brought into the of
fee of Sheriff Iaukea yesterday after
noon by detective Joe Leal. Smith had
been captured an hour before at Kai-
muki where he had been living since
the night he was pursued and shot at
down at Moanalua on July by mill
tary posse.
Smith has been at liberty since June
90. On that day, between and 5
0 clock in the morning he, with Duesen-
berry, escaped from the Fort Shafter
guardhouse by climbing out through a
12inch ventilator. They had just fin
ished g short term of Imprisonment in
Oahu Jail for larceny of Captain Mil
ler's yacht Lady. Smith and Duesen-
berry were two bold "pirates, who
deserted from Fort Shafter, stole the
boat, and were wrecked on the Waia-
nae rocks, this island.
On the night of July 4 Lieut.. Cleary
and posse of soldiers came upon the
two escapes back of Fort Shafter There
was pursuit and several shots fired, re,
suitlng in the capture of Duesenberry
Smith made good his escape. What oc
CURED then and afterwards he tells in
the following Coekney English:
"Them fellers chased us and they
got Duesenberry. Them shots came
mighty close, but none on 'em 1T me-
| run like goat but [ lad pain in
me stomach and / laid down. A soldier
passed by me and e sings bout that
| musta gone down the road. Then |
ups an runs again and one on 'em
sees me an he shoots at me- | lad
me second wind, alright, but one of
them bullets went through me bloomin
at an / lost it.
@''Next night / broke into a shack
at the Moanalua polo grounds an got
a suit of clothes, a pipe an walkin'
stick. I got some underclothes an
they 'ad a name on 'eHl Douglas Da-
mon. Say, I m teIlin' We the truth
Say, won t that get me into Oahu jail
on chdFge o DurgulufYE Inc next
night / liked cross town and went TO
Kaimuki and found a 'ole in the ills
Cad, but them mosquitoes was fierce
there, an ] 'ad muffin to eat, Except
bananas and papayas. Say, but the pa
payas out there is fine They re about
the honly bloomn thing I 'ad to eat.
Today | went to Moiliili an bought a
nickel S worth of poi. I was going
back to the ole to eat it, when Mr..
Leal he comes up to me an ser. is
your name Smith, an / SEE, Yes.
Then [ tried to eat that poi, but it
stuck in me troat I don't like that
stuff
80 Lor', but I 'ates to go back to
Shafter;'
Smith was turned over to Major Dun |
ming yesterday afternoon by Chief Tay- |
Tor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15
Z " >
Don't Europeanize Hawai-
- y y $3.50

Territory, the day of our emergenee
into Statehood would be greatly hasten
ed. Let French, japanese and Ameri-
business in Hawaii and the small Amer
lean farmer will soon be among us in
overwhelming numbers. CALIFORNIA; I'M
generosity is the great bar to our
progress just now, but that will be
overcome as soon as her people realize
what a prosperous Hawaii will mean to
the Golden State
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

During July l, 1908, boy of nine
years of age named George Akao liilii,
at Hauula, woke from his sleeping bed
between the hour of II p. IA. and u
clock in the middle of the night, then
started wandering from place to place.
He did not know where he was going.
About / o'clock in the night, the
parents woke up and saw that the lit
tie boy was not in bed, the parents be-
gan to called the boy with their loud
voices, but no answer was returned.
They began to searched for the boy
during the night from place to place,
but the parents did not found him,
after that the parents made another
searched, finally they found the boy
fast asleep in house far away in the
lantanus bushes at o'clock in the
The parents asked the boy, how did
he get in this house, when these people
are sleeping; the boy answered, he
didn t know anything how he get in
this house from long walked.
BY this reason, the people of Hauula
said, that the boy went from his home
with his eyes closed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

ls2S Ioung street, Honolulu, July l3
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15
NEWsY NOTES FROM
HAUULA BY THE SEA

(By Our Occasional Correspondent
All Kama, a poi-shop Chinaman, was
bitted in the leg this morning by a
hungry dog.
The cause of the trouble was, when
the Chinaman brought barrel of poi
for Hawaiian family, there was stand
ing by the gate big dog with his
mouth opened ready to bite anyone that
pass in. This brighten animal made him
so scared that he dropped his barrel of
poi on the sidewalk, and began to drive
the dog away by hitting him with a
stone; the hungry dog did not run
away, but he made sprang and caught
the poi Chinaman s leg with his awful
mouth The dog didn't do much serious
harm on the Chinaman
The owner of the dog was not at
home when the poor Chinaman was
bitted by the dog.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

Yours respectfully.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

Official bali tickets are IS each, ad-
hitting gentleman and any number Of
ladies. The ball is on the night OF the
18th. .
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

The Advertisers splendid sledge
hammering of the unworthy proposition
to South Europeanize Hawaii is a pub
lic-spirited service of the first import
ance. We do not wish to Asianize, or
Europeanize of Africanize this Terri
tory into a perpetual dependency of the
Union. We must Americanize it into a
State The time to do it is now. If
the coastwise shipping laws, not only
as to passenger traffic but as to freight
carrying, could be RENTED for this
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15

Write. enclosing stamps. % the 81.
cntitic American, New York Citr-EL
Adv.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-15
MAKING ICE At HOME.

Editor Advertiser.-I was interested
in the article pertaining to the Ger
man invention of freezing er ice max
ing in Sundays paper. If it is not toe
much trouble. viii yen tell me where
/ can find more explicit explanation
Of the same2
Yours respectfully.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Makinu Seajskins,

How many of the fair wearers of
sealsllins know how this fur is pre-
pared? In the skin of a dog or cat
it will be noticed that at the roots of
the longer, coarser hair there are fine,
short hairs, called under fur"
In most animals these hairs arc so
few that they are usually overlooked.
Not so with sealskin. The skin after
going through various processes to
cleanse it of grease, etc., is stretched
fat with the flesh side uppermost. A
fiat knife is then passed over it, thin
ming the skin considerably.
In dcing this it loosens the roots Of
the longer hairs, which are more deeG-
" embedded than those of the under
fur. The rough hairs are thus &C
rid of without injury to the soft3.
fur.
Next the pelt passes through the
operation which softens and pre-
serves it. Then comes the dyeing, by
which the uniform tint so generally
admired is obtained And now The fur
is ready for making up.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
CURE AT CITY MISSION.
Awful Case of Scabies-Body a Mass
of Sores from Scratching-Her
Tortures Eic!d to Cutcura.

"a young woman came to our city
mission in most awful condition physi-
cally. Our doctor examined her and
told us that she had scabies (the itch)
incipient paresis, rheumatism. etc,
'rought on from exposure. Her poor
body was a mass of sores from scratch
ing and she was not able to retain solid
food. We workedhardoyer her for seven
weeks but we could see little improve
ment. One day l bought a cake OF
Cuticura Soap and a bottle of Cuti
cura Resolvent, and we bathed our
patient we'll and gave her a full dose
of the Resolvent. She slept better that
night and the next day l got box OF
Cuticura Ointment. In five weeks this
young woman was able to look for q
position and'sheis now strong and we'll
Laura Jane Bates, IS Fifth Ave, New
York, N. Y, Mar. IL, 1907"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

At a recent meeting Of New Eng
land college presidents, one Of the
most important of them all remarked
that mental arithmetic did not train
a childs mind, .a"d that mathemati-
clan per Sc was incapable of moral
reasoning. Mathematicians might
take notice, remarks Harper's Weekly.
1T reminds one," says the writer, "of
Stiles, the greatest of the Yale mathe-
maticians of his time. He, indeed,
had virtues as we'll as mathematics,
and was the graceful and learned
editor of Garden and Forest, horti-
culturist editor of the New York Trib-
une, and president of the New York
park commission. Once he was Ill
for long time-a very long time
and he used to say that when he be-
came convalescent he discovered that
the mathematical was the lowest
order of mind He wanted to read:
he tried poetry, and that would not
do; nor would fiction or philosophy or
history-but when he at last tried
mathematics he found that his en-,
feebled mind could master that"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
PERHAPS A NATURAL MISTAKE.
Physician Had Reason to Think He
Had Lost His Patient.

Henry Grimm. who was formerly
one of the prominent members OF the
German-American society, tells story
about a German friend of his who
was taken i'll.
For many days the German was
close to death, but after time he
showed improvement in condition
The doctor told the Germans wife
that her husband might have any
thing to eat that he liked.
The German expressed a desire for
Limburger cheese. and the wife, being
a generous woman and pleased at the
Improvement, and in order that her
husband might have nibble at any
time he had a taste for it, put some
cheese in every room In the house
1t is easy to imagine the aroma.
The next morning the doctor called
at the house, and as soon as he opened
| the door he asked:
when did he die"-Hartford Post
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
caterpiIIars Brought by HaiIstorm.

An army of 100000 caterpillars has
appeared in the Krugersdorp district,
which recently suffered severely from
haiistorm.
OiG coonists connect the visitation
with the receGt fall of hail, and they
recall instances where plaques Of in-
sacts have invariably followed a phe.
nomeEal storm.
1t is suggested that the stones carry
some germ whi1h is launched tnfo
life when the melting process begins,
and farmers whO have penetrated
deerly into the mysteries of the weld
trace the periodical visitatiOns of huge
swarms of buttel aias and moths ald
even of the drea led tick to the evolu
ti0n OF a germ in the bailstOne depos
tied on the ground.
Venerable Free Staters now resi-
dent in the district have vivid mem
ories of frightful storms in the late
eos, and in the early '70s, when simi
lar caterpillar plaques devastated the
crops in the conquered territory, anC
| they also recall the interesting fact
that when the black insects arrived
the locusts disappeared.-Rhodesis
Herald
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Tied Up the GaIIaghers.

Lightning has played some queer
pranks, but about the funniest joke
a streak of it ever got off was when
it bumped into old William Gallagher
of Cleveland. Mr.. Gallagher was peace
fully in bed when the bolt hit his
domicile and the fluid completely
wrecked the iron bedstead in which
the old man and his wife were sleep
ing. Worse than that it twisted the
clothes and the iron about the couple
in such curious fashion that they were
actually tied in bed, and, to save them
selves, couldn't get out, while the rain
beat in on them from the wrecked
roof. Finally their shouts brought
the neighbors and Gallagher and Mrs.
Gallagher were released from old
Jupiters iron clutch, wet and scared
and exhausted. The bedstead with
the clothes twisted about it's sides is
a curious object of interest in Cleve-
land to this day.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
TELLS OF eoRDoNs WEAKNESS,
Lord cromer Throws Light on History
of Hero of Sudan.

In his book, Modern Egypt" Lord
Cromer, for 20 years the representa-
tive of British authority in the land
of the khedive, gives the other side
Of the heroic story of Gen Gordons
rule in Khartum, where he was slain
by the fanatical natives. Lord Gro
mer twice rejected the proposal to
send Gordon to the Sudan. Would,
he says, that | had done so a third
time!" He soon woke to Gordons
variability. He says: 'Impulsiye
fiightiness was, in fact, the main de-
feet of Gen. Gordon's character, and 1t
was one which, in my opinion, rem
dered him unfit to carry out a work
which pre-eminently required a cool
and steady head. | used to receive
20 or 80 kilograms from Gen. Gordon
in the course of the day when he was
in Khartum, those in the evening often
giving opinions which it was impos-
sible to reconcile with others dis
| patched the same morning.
This stream of kilograms from
Khartum was so continuous that Lord
| Cromer had to adopt a special meth
cd of dealing with them. Il geu'
orally found a batch of them wait
ing for me when l began my work
in the morning" he says. MY prac
tice was to put them on one side and
wait till the afternoon, by which time
more had generally arrived. l used
then to compare the different tele
grams to try to extract from then
what it was that Gen. Gordor
really wanted, and then to decide
what could be done toward carrying
out his wishes"
Lord Cromer says, also: Zone o
the leading features of Gen. Gordon
strange character was his total ali
sence of self-control. He was liabl
to fits of ungovernable and often o
most unreasonable passion. H
formed rapid opinions without delit
Grafton and rarely held to one opinion
long. His journal, in which hi
thoughts from day to day are re
corded, is, even in the expurgate
form in which it was published,
mass of Inconsistencies"
Gen. Gordon's courage is warml
praised by Lord Cromer, who says ful
ther: Many a man before Gen. Gol
don has laid down his life at the ca
of duty. Many man, too, has strive
to regard death as glad relief froT
pain, sorrow and suffering. But n
soldier about to lead forlorn hope
no Christian martyr tied to the stak
or thrown to the wild beasts of ancier
Rome, ever faced death with more Ill
, concern than Gen Gordon"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

Where are the pressed flowers of
yesteryear?" lamented the sentiment
al girl. The picture postcard craze,
alas, has destroyed the pressed flower
habit as we'll as the art of correspond
ence. Before postcards began to flood
the world my globe-trotting friends
very often backed up their description
of some new place visited by inclosing
a pressed flower or leaf indigenous
to that particular soil or plucked
maybe from some historic spot. II
was a pretty sentiment, but it has
been squelched by the picture card
Nobody who travels takes time to
write letters now, consequently there
is no way of sending back pressed
flowers. New York Sun.