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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-06-12

mayors Office and to the legislatures
to protest against the vice of drink
ing
The average political boss IS in
politics strictly for what is in it" and
that means that he is neither in the
game for his health, his recreation nor
his spiritual welfare. And why not?
Do business or professional men enter
into their respective avocatiOns for any
Of the above reasons? | trOw not. The
boss" has one fixed, set idea, and that
is to get there" as he would express
it; to accumulate a large roll of simO-
Icons and then retire to some respec-
table residence portion Of the city and
forget the low, coarse mob with which
he was compelled to associate while
he was getting his start. The success
full ones do this, and the unsuccessful
ones remain at the same old stand. re
Wiling the ingratitude of the ones who
made the rifle" and got away with
their bundle"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-06-12

Ward bosses" often combine to ac-
compHsh results, and they often cut
the ground from under one another
without the slightest conjunction.
never knew but one boss" whose
word was absolutely and entirely to
be depended on both as to what he
could do, and what he would do. He
could tell to certainty about how his
ward would go, and if he gave his
word as to the delegates he never I'M
der any circumstances broke. He
was man of strong likes and dis
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-06-12

This woman says Lydia T..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
saved her life. Read her letter.
Nv. T. c. Willadsen, of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
lean truly say that Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound saved my
life, and cannot express my gratitude
to you in words. For years suffered
with the worst forms of female COM
plants, continually doctoring and
spending lots of money for medicine
without help. Iwrote you for advice,
followed it as directed, and took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
it has restored me to perfect health.
Had it not been for you l should have
been in my grave to-day. l wish every
suffering woman would try it,"
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
WONDERFULLY UNIFORM
SPEED OF new CRUISER

Portland. Me-, March with an
average Of go. So knots an hours to her
credit, the scout cruiser Chester re-
turned here today from her four
hours endurance run at top speed
over the course between Cape Eliza
beth aud Thatcher's island.
Her maximum speed for any 10
minutes during that time was 90. 6
knots. Her average is 2.55 knots In
excess OF the contract requirement
anc one and one half knots better
than had been prophesied by her
builders. These figures. which are
correct and official. indicate that
her speed was wonderfully unifor m
throughout the entire trial.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
ASLEEP WITH The DEAD"
ARTISTS MODEL OVERCOME

Chicago, March - Miss Franc
Kingsnorth, an artists model, was
led blindfolded into room filed
with cadavers and was photographed
for picture to be entitled "Asleep
with the dead She tainted when
the bandage was removed and her
eyes opened on the gruesome. grinnlDg
hulks of human forms that surround
ed her.
Her collapse was followed by hys-
terics, in which she screamed and
struggled to free herself from what
seemed to her a living tomb. until
she fell in an unconscious heap on
the floor.
For hours after her experience,
she was in precarious condition at
the home Of DR.. John b Wilcox.
whittier she was removed following
the scene created as tho result Of an
effort to obtain photograph that
would eclipse all the imaginative hor.
rors concei ved by art.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
HOW TO BE A BIGGER
MAN THAN YOUR lob

Be bigger man than your job
Then you can make the job ~ big as
you are and command An increased
salary for your work. Water cannot
rise higher than its level, and If your
Job Is too much for your, you are go.
ing to be swamped
An official of the United States
Steel company in Pittsburg, who has
directly under his supervision hun.
dreds of young cler icsl men. was
asked the other day whether he has
all his positions filed.
"FDledl Not by long shotl
I here are simply a bunch Of fellows
rattling around in them. -
Don't rattle around in your place
like skeleton in suit Of armor.
Your employer is not hiring bundle
Of bones. He is paying his money for
real man and 1t Is up to the live
one to be bigger than the job-to be
master OF the situation at all times.
Y. NJ. @. A. secretary once said
that he wanted to make his job so big
that his successor would have hard
time filing it.
He strived always to develop new
features. and work out original ideas
in such an effective way that the job
would be too big for anybody else
Evidently this man was not only
equal to, but greater than the prob
lens which confronted him. He was
far stronger than the man who origi.
nally held the position. He not only
filled the place, but more than filled
1t.
After doing all that WAS required
OF him, he found volume OF surplu,
energy which he ingeniously directed
into new fields of endeavor. Ho con
quered new worlds; but never had oc
casion to weep because there were NJ
more left: for when all the worldi
were conquered. he created new ones
That kind Of man is bigger thar
his Job and only such n one In indis
pensable to his employer.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
BEVERSTOCK
RESIGNS FROM COUNCIL

Alderman Il. l.. BeverstocK Of the
First ward, has rendered his resi- gna-
tion. and has gone to Palisade where
the family will reside in future. Mr..
Beverstock was here yesterday and
announced that he has located sew.
eral lumber yards on the Western
Slope for his company. They will
reside at tho corner Of Third and
Main. Palisade. and will be ready to
greet their friends at any time. Mrs.
Beverstock will first to go Deadw ood.
S. ID. , where she will visit sister.
Mr. Beverstock left here last night
for his place Of business.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
"CAP" BRADBURY FALLS
HEIR TO A FORTUNE

George e. (Cap) Bradbury. for
merly Of this city but now Of Canon.
conductor on the Florence and Drip
pie Greek railroad, has just fallen heir
to fortune of $3.50. 600 by the death
of an uncle. Charles Brewer in wor.
oester, Mass. Cap Bradbury did not
know Of his good fortune until in.
formed over the long distance tele.
phone in Cripple Greek by The Trib-
une Saturday night. The uncle was
70 years old and had been retired for
years. He died several weeks ago.
but the news Of the good fortune did
not reach this city until Saturday
evening. Mr.. Bradbury rays he knew
his uncle was wealthy but did not
expect to fall heir to any part Of 1t
A brother, W. O. Bradbury Of Dem
yer, shares the same amount Of money.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
HEARTS OF SIX
GIRLS OFFERED
TO ONE BANKER

Edwardsville. ILL.,, March 2-Leap
year is stern reality to @. W. Terry
president Of the State and Trust bank
here. Six bona fide proposals of mar
riage have been made to him by as
many girls,
Mr.. Terry, who also 10 attorney for
the Mckinley syndicate and Is good
looking and we'll to do, was selected as
the object of the unattached affections
Of the ground, and each girl wrote a
letter calculated to stir his heart.
He then sent poem, which con,
cluded
"And think can say
That two weeks from today,
I'll try to make happy one lass,
T'll announce my selection
OF candid perfection
And apply for benedict's class. P"
Now the girls are wondering wheth-
er he really will do it.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
Easter Dance.

'.True ease in writing comes from
nr., not chance. As those IN owe easiest
who have learned to dance" says
Pope-and so ST. Adams Guild will
give u grand Easter Ball on Monday
April Goth. at Morgan hall at which
many new features will be introduced.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
ESCAPES
FROM A
CONVENT

Council Bluffs, Ia. March 2-Sis-
ter Geneva of the Sisters of Charity
connected with st. Bernard's convent
and hospital in this city, has escaped
from the institution and yesterday
WAS married in Omaha to Orange
Raymond Dye Of st. Joseph. Mo.
The escapade has caused great sem
sation in Catholic circles In western
Iowa, and all sorts of rumors are
afioat. The convent authorities are
maintaining strict secrecy.
Sister Geneva is only go years old,
although nun of 10 years standing.
Dye. while at work at the institu-
tion, fell in love with the sister.
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
Only $40 From Denver.

The Colorado and Southern offers
between March 9th and April 30th
this very attractive rate to California
Arizona. Nevada, Oregon aud WASH
ington points; also Mexico certain
points).
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02
Attention K. Of. p.

Forty fourth anniversary X. Of
p, Castle bali, Tuesday, March 8.
Basket social. 40.2
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02

Sunday dinner n special feature at
Hotel Lennox. Music and excellent
service. 4Gtf
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02

II you want results. try Tribune
class ads They ars winueH
The daily tribune., 1908-03-02

OFFICE WITH n. r. Lures
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16

datey nurseries in proper places in which to raise
seeding for distribution to all who will plant them
proper conditions and the supervision of the
partment These should distributed for actual cost
or better yet if 1t may be done, free Of cost
There $4,000 persons in the State of New York
suffering from tuberculosis 1t has been demonstrated
80 those in the incpient stage may
cured by going to the Adrondacks abiding
a considerable time.
There is found natures great sanarium The balsan-
laden air, sweeping $50 miles woodland,
cooled by the mountain peaks filed with oxygen
thrown off by the forest foliage produces quail
ties for this disease beyond the power of mans ingenuity
TO produce IN any other way.
If one casts aside the commercial feature reforested
and protected the Adirondack and Cats forests kept
for health resort a playground will reward the
State for all labor and money expended
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
which Is a good substitute for cement

which Is a good substitute for cement
for many purposes.
A recent account Of the natural his
tory collections Of the British Museum
contains the statement that the num-
ber. of specimens of insects on exhibit
ton there was in 1904, 1,O1S,0O0. They
belong to no less than 1892 named
species. The Coleoptera (beetles)
number 39S,OOO; the Lepidoptera
(moths, butterfiies), 355,767. There
are $500 species of Coleoptera and
41.21O species Of Lepidoptera repre-
scented. Yet entomologists believe that
the larger part of the insect species OF
the world has not yet been named or
discovered. In a work on a single
family Of tiny beetles (the Pselaphi-
day. Mr.. A. Raffray mentions more
than 5000 species, and expresses the
belief that these do not represent one
third Of the existing forms.
1t will probably be many years, says
Prof G. H. Hitchcock, before visitors
to the Hawaiian Islands will have an
other opportunity equal to that pre-
scented during the past summer of see
ing the volcano of Kilauea in magnifi-
cent eruption. Kilauea has the great
est active volcanic crater on the EARTH
comparable, in fact, in extent with
some of the small lunar craters. At
the end of June the crater contained
a lake of molten lava 800 feet long by
400 feet wide. In places the boiling
lava explodes, throwing masses Of
molten fluid 80 or 40 feet high, and
after each outburst the surrounding
lava is sucked into vortex like that
of maelstrom, solidifed cakes 10 or
% feet in diameter being turned up
on edge and drawn in. At another
point on the lake the upwelling of lava
from beneath resembles an enormous
spring. Crusts four to six feet high
are showed upon the shore like cakes
of ice in a spring food. The glare of
the molten lake can be seen at night
more than thirty miles away.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
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The OyertIred Conduntor

When the horse cars were in exist
ence there was greenhorn known as
John who conducted on the Thirteenth
and Fifteenth street lines. He boarded
with his two aunts, who lived on Cath
arine street, between Thirteenth and
Broad. One day his aunts though they
would take ride with John and 500
how he was getting along. so thew
waited for his car. Soon the car bac-on
to get crowded and passengers got Off
and on at every square John began 70
get angry. At last he became so exas-
perated at having to stop so often that
when an old lady asked him to ston at
chestnut he bawled out: I'm darned
SICK and tired pulling the bell. It's
nothing but stop here and stop there
stop here and stop there Away with
youse all down to Catherine street with
me aunts, and you get out in buncb >,
Philadelphia Ledger.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
EFFECT OF AN AUTO RACE.

TiciSIes Owner to Have Car OF a
Make Which Takes Big Prize.
1t is, indeed, easily noticeable after
big automobile race of any sort, in
which the particular winning make Of
machine gets great deal Of attention,
that owners of cars of this certain
make are apt to look little bit more
proud than usual says the New York
SUN Take, for instance, directly after
the Grand PriX race at Dieppe, where
Mercedes car was first. There have
been folks driving Mercedes cars IN
subdued manner, about the streets of
the city for some years when the Ger
man machine was not showing up at al
we'll in races.
But the moment that the news of
Lautenschlager's victory was spread
abroad they began to look a little more
conscious as they drove about 1t was
handling of Il car that might turn out
any day and win just such race
When the ISOtta- Fraschini fini sled
first ut Briarcliff that sent the heads
Of whole lot of owners of these cars
away up. 1t is the same with every
little thing-a road race or a hill climb
or some unusual feat; they make the
driver or owner of one of these tri-
umphant ears bit more cocky.
When the Thomas car was leading
the others across the continent Tho, las
drivers, whether they were handling
1864 or 1908 models, apparently all had
mental pictures of what they could do
to some other makes If they wanted to.
1T is a sure thing that each of these
races has such Il result and sometimes
the drivers are surprised and hurt
when in road brush they get left by
some car that never won a blue ribbon
as Il racer
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
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Mexico plans to spend $4,000. 900 In
the near future in experiments in irri-
CATION
A telegraphing typewriter that may
be attached to any typewriter is re
cent invention.
The United States in 1907 produced
166,095, 335 barrels of petroleum. an in
crease of nearly 100000 barrels over
1906.
Ten coal briquetting plants in the
United States produced 63,153 short
tons last year, worth on the market
$244, $40.
A company is being formed at Belle
fonte, Pa. to manufacture brick the
chief ingredient of which will be fur
mace Stag.
The waste products of a nearby coal
mine are utilized to furnish the city
of Amherst, Nova Scotia. with heat
and power
Berlin's fremen wear water tight
jackets which may be filed from the
hose. affording the wearer protection
from the heat.
Electric railways of the United
States have attained trackage Of
over 10000 miles. nearly one-fifth that
of the steam lines.
II Japan a company is manufacture
ing product from volcanic ashes
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
LOWERING THE FLAG.
The Regulation Method OF Half
Wasting the CoIors.

Wasting the CoIors.
The method of showing honor to the
dead through the position of the flag
placing it at half mast-it is termed
in naval circles, in the army, at half
staf-is described in Article Al, par
agraph 42S, Of the United States army
regulations as follows:
"Where the flag is displayed at half
staff it is lowered to that position
ward hoisted to the top before it is
finally lowered"
at military posts,' said a sergeant
Of the army recruiting station, where
the flag staff is planted in the ground
it is usually in two sections and aboIt
eighty feet high. When the flag is
placed at half staff it is customary o
lower it to the middle Of the upper
section, which in this case is consid-
cred the staff. At forts and other posts
where flags are on top of buildings the
flag, when placed at half staff, is hang
ing from the middle Of the staff, the
central point of the flag, the lower
corner Of star section coinciding with
a point midway between the top AID
bottom of the staff
When flag is placed at half mast
in the navy" said a lieutenant of the
United States naval recruiting station.
''the distance between the top of le
flag and the top of the mast is made to
equal approximately the distance be-
tween the bottom Of the flag and The
base Of the mast. kansas City mes.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
REPLY TO AUSTRALIA,
Roosevelt's Answer to Invitation to Visit
Southern Commonwealth Is Read
in Melbourne

MELBOURNE. oct. 14-Prcmier
Deakin today presented to the House Of
Representatives the answer received
from President Roosevelt in reply to
AustraIia's invitation to visit the com
monwealth on his return journey from
Africa. Mr.. Roosevelt expresses his ap-
probation Of the courteous invitation
especially in view Of the hospitality en-
tended recently TO the American battle
ship fleet everywhere in Australia, but
he regrets that he will be unable to visit
Australia on his way back from his hunt
ing expedition. In conclusion the Presi-
dent says he hopes ut some future time
to be able t" come to THE giant young
commonwealth of the southern seas
whose success is of the greatest i'm
pOrtance to the civilized world"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16

ureS with strict adherence to the principles which
derhe our safety and the perpetuity Of In
stitutions than any mOmentary gained the
price of sacrificing that which alone make secure
ultimate achievements
That method those principles which define the meth
od, are simply that each stands equal his neigh
Dor, and that controlled by any ca bal
or cotere or any abusing power but work
through democratic methods by honorable representa-
ton Of the popular will.
American life is more wholesome to-day and more
intent upon right things there is quicker response
demand for proper representation in politics.
is constituencies the part Of those having power
lest their abuses Of it should be discovered greater than
ut any time in history. No battle has been lost
Many remain to be won.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
FIRST MESSAGE
FROM DR.. COOK.
At the Time Arctic Explorer Declared He
Was on His Dash to North Pole
Fears for His Safety

NEW YORK, Oct. LITTLE first mes
sage from DIR. Frederick L. Cook, the
Arctic explorer, since he started for the
pole from il point north of Etah on Feb
ruary 26 last, has been received i'll this
city. 1t was brought by Rudolph
FRANKIE, who accompanied DIR. Cook on
the early stage of his journey and who
received it from the explorer by mcssen-
gers whom he sent back to the winter
IaSe after he was well on his way to
the farthest north. The message was
written on March II last, about three
weeks after DIR. Cook had started on the
last stage of his journey
1t was dated Polar sea. north of
Cape Hubbard,' and said that up to
that point everything had gone very well
although the weather was extremely
cold. He was making Il straight line for
the pole at that time, he said, and eX-
pected to be back at the base late in
May.
Il am making straight course for
the pole" DIR. Cook wrote THE boys
are doing well and | have plenty of dogs
| hope to succeed. At any rate, / shall
make a desperate effort While | expect
to get back by the end of May, still l
wish you to be ready To go to AcpOne,
the island off North Star, where the
whaIers' steamers come, by the fifth of
June, and, if L am not back, to go home
with the whalers l think, however, we
will be back"
DR. Cook did not reach the base be
fore FRANKIE started for home and no
word yet has been received from him.
Members of the Peary club and the ex-
plorers have been considering for some
time the ACCESSIBILITY Of sending an ex
petition. He had Il large company Of
EsquimauX and plenty of dogs.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
CHILEAN PIRATES BOLD.
Vessels Are Relieved of Valuable Car
goes in HaTbor and Insurance
Takes a Big Jump.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct
14.-Capt. 0. Callaon, representative of
the German Underwriters of Hamburg,
who is here on a tour of inspection. re-
Gently investigated the looting of cargoes
at Chilean ports and says insurance has
been increased from ~ per cent. to 10
per cent. as a result of his report He
instanced two cases where American
steamers had been practically pirated in
the harbor at Antofagasta. In another
at 10000 pecos, had been looted from
lighters and loaded on an Italian bark
Very heavy losses had also occurred at
TalcuhuanO.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16

of islands often overfowed beside
streams with low, damp banks and I'M
der thick trees where leaves collect and
slowly decay beneath their branches.
The edible part is only the fruit and is
In size as the apple to the tree; for
under the soil, unsought and unob-
served, is hidden an interviewer mesh
Of tender white filaments, forming
what the scientists call the mycelium
and doing the same work as the roots
Of trees. After a warm rain the fruit"
appears quickly, so that it has been
supposed that these and other mush-
room forms spring up in single night.
They do spring up in a few hours.
but they have been hiding under the
soil almost full grown waiting for the
favorable moment. And when they APP
pear they are dull cream-colOred oval
pouches, pitted all over and held up on
q hollow white stem No other fungus
growth looks at all like them, so for
the skeptic afraid of eating poisonous
mushrooms. there need be no fear.
They are to be found not often in
the near woods, but farther, in the
dense wilds where overhanging branch
es snap against your shoulders, and the
leaves of last fall crackle beneath your
feet. Your eyes must cover yards OF
ground since the dull cream of the
grays and tans and brown of the dead
leaves and the damp soil. Sometimes q
luscious cluster of three or four stands
huddled together in clump of trees
sometimes Il space a few feet in diam
eter will produce a couple of dozen
sometimes you find single large NOR
ell, proudly alone, measuring five inches
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-16
A TEST OF COURAGE.


There were two dogs in the neighbor-
antipathy to each other. Rover, the
yellow dog, had the freedom of a large
yard with a picket fence round it, and
a gate that was always kept fastened.
Prince, the brindle, roamed unchecked
in the street outside. Whenever Prince
came trotting along Rover would make
a dash at the gate, and he being unable
to get out, the two dogs would stand
there, one on the inside and the other
on the outside, glazing at each other
with inextinguishable fury, barking,
growing, and using violent language,
the purport OF which was that if it
were not for that gate there would be
some fierce and terrible fighting.
One morning Prince came along, look
ing more aggressive than usual. Rover
saw him. The hair along his back
bristled up, and with a savage growl
be ran down the front walk, and
charged at the gate in his customary
way. This time, however, by some IN
accountable accident, the gate had
been left unfastened, and the impact
threw it wide open.
For the first time in all their &C
quaintance there was naught to hinder
the two dogs from flying at each other.
Nothing was between them but their
long-standing grudge. Rover's impetus
had carried him TO the edge Of the side
walk. Prince was within two feet Of
him.
1t was an awful moment But neither
dog hesitated the smallest fraction of a
second. They acted instantly. With a