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Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
STOPPED SHORT Taking Tonics and Built Up on Right
 Food

The mistake is frequently made of trying to build up a worn-out nervous system on so-called tonics-drugs.
 New material from which to rebuild wasted nerve cells. is what should be supplied and this can be obtained only from proper food.
 Two years ago I found myself on the verge of complete nervous. col lapse. due to overwork and study and to illness in the family writes a Wis. young mother
 My friends became alarmed be- cause I grew pale and thin and could not sleep nights. l took various ton ics prescribed by physicians. but their effects wore off shortly after I stopped taking them. My food did not seem to nOurish me and I gained no flesh nor blood.
 Reading of Grape Nuts, I deter mined to stop the tonics and sec what a change of diet would do. I ate Grape-Nuts four times a day with cream and drank milk also, went to bed early after eating a dish of Grape Nuts before retiring
 Tn about two weeks I was sleeping soundly. Tn a short time gained 20 lbs in weight and felt like different woman. My little daughter whom was obliged to keep out of school last spring on account of chronic catarrh has changed from a thin, pale. ner- vous child to rosy, healthy girl and has gone back to school this fall
 "Grape-Nuts and fresh air were the only agents used to accomplish the happy results" There's Reason"
 Name given by POstum Co. Battle Creek. Mich. Read The Road to WellYille,' in pkgs.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
SEVEN WERE KILLED.
4 Toledo Motorman Misinterpreted a
 Signal to Stop.

Toledo. O., Feb. 15.-Seven persons Were killed and a dozen injured when Big Four passenger train struck a Toledo and Western electric car at the Michigan Central railroad cross ing ill West Toledo tonight. The dead are:. James Myers. motorman. of To- ledo; Roy Fisher of West Toledo: Mrs. William Fisher of West Toledo: Clarence Beech and Mrs. Clarence Beech of Sylvania and two of Beech's children.
 According to eye witnesses of the wreck. which occurred shortly after S o'clock, the conductor stopped at the crossing to flag the car across. See ing the train coming he motioned the motorman to stop. but the signal was either misunderstood or not seen or disregarded.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16

WILLIAM WINDSOR, IL. B., Ph. b.
 He is a member of the bar of the United States supreme couft and for his work as a criminologist received from the court of appeals of Texas the highest compliment. ever paid to a practicing lawyer by a court of last resort.
 In his lecture at the Olympic thea ter, Dr. Windsor will eXpound the new system of learning. entitled ''Vitoso- phy." of which he is the originator. which inculcates the highest form of morality and proves that it is unnec- essary to be either poor, sick or un- happy.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
MANAGER HITCHCOCK
 WILL TAKE A VACATION
Before Taking Active Direction of Mir. Taft's Political Fortunes.

Washington, Feb. 15-Frank H. general. concluded his service with the government today and on Monday will hand his resignation to the pres ident. In a short time he will take up the work of managing the Taft presidential campaign in earnest.
 MT. Hitchcock will take few days vacation before he enters upon the pO- litical work He will make his head quarters in this city. Mir Hitchcock will be succeeded by Dr. Charles NJ. Grandfield. now chief clerk of this of flee
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
THE WRECK COMPLETE.

Bay City. Ore, Feb. 15.-Wreckage from the ill-fated American ship, Elm fly Reed, which went ashore at the mouth of the Nehalem river yesterday cargo of coal has been washed out to sea and hardly trace of the PHO tons which was on board is visible. Both the ship and cargo are a total loss. The total list of lost lives is Il.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
PLANS FOR FORT MASON.
To Be Made Most Important Troop
 Transfer Station in the Country.

Washington. Feb. I5.-Plans and specifications have been compiled by the quartermaster generals office for the extensive work which is cOntem- plated at Fort Mason. Calf. where there will be established a general military supply depot. Congress has authorized the expenditure of S1.500.- 000 for the construction of buildings and a pier. It will be the most inn portant shipping point and troop transfer station in the country
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
WEDDING OF MISS sHoNTs
1t Was an Unostentatious Proceeding st the Ho-rr of the Brides
 Father

New York. Feb I5.-Miss TheOdora ShOnts. daughter of Theodore r. Shonts. formerly chairman Of the ISthmian Canal Commission. was married at noon to Manuel Bernard D'Albert de Luynes, Due. De Chaulnes of Paris. at the home of the brides father. 132 E. Fifth Ave. by MonsignOr Lavelle of St. Patricks Cathedral. It was an unostentatious home wedding. but there were many notable guests
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
THE ScHUYLKIll HEATING

Reading, Pa. Feb. 15.-The flood in the Schuylkill river reached it's height tonight when it was nine feet above low water mark. The ice broke up without causing damage and passed down the river at this point, after which the water began to recede.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
AN OHIO DISTRICT FOR TAFT.

Toledo. O.. Feb. 15.-NOah Swayne and Fl. C, Tadgen were elected dele gates to the republican national con- vention by the Fifth Ohio district to- day. Both were Instructed to vote for Taft for presidentI until he is nOmi- nated''
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
MIR. TAFT IN MISSOURI.

Kansas City. Feb. 15.-A dozen counties in Missouri held primaries to select delegates to the state conven- tion today A large majority of del egates were instructed to vote for Taft delegates to the national convection.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
THE scHEzENYI'S LEAVING

New York, Feb. 15-Count and Countess Laszlo Schezenyi sailed for Europe tonight on the steamer Kaizer- in Auguste Victoria. The countess, formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, said the count and she would stop in London en route to Hungary.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
WEATHER TODAY

Washington Feb. 15.-Arizona Fair
 Sunday and Monday.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16

Accompanying this will be found a sample blank filled out, indicating about what will be required for the farmer to keep track of. though some minor changes may be necessary in the blanks to be prepared for distribu- ton for contestants at once. These figures are merely put in as an illus tration:
 Ranch of John Smith.
 Crop year commencing Feb 15, 1908. ending Feb. IA. 1909. Investment: 40 acres land, valued at s1OO. .. . s4, 900 Working capital ... .. 800
 Total Investment .,... ~.....$4.5OO Productions:
 120 tons alfalfa at Avge $9.5O .s114O.O0 25,000 lbs barley at sI.25 cwt.. 3l250 375 bXs cantaloupes at S2 box. 750.O0
 Total production (grOss) ..$2,2O2.5O Expenses:
 Water 40 acres at s1 an acre s 4O.OO Labor (as per time book) 469
 days at s135 ..... e. .... 63S.15 .-.. .. ...... - 10000
 Total expenses =. ... s...$1.O1315 Net Profit ... ..$l.1S9.35
 Net profit per cent on investment. 26 4S-100 per cent.
Arizona republican., 1908-02-16
MUTUAL RESERVE RECEIVER.

New York. Feb. 15.-Receivers were appointed tonight for the Mutual Re serve Life Insurance company. upon the application of the polieyhOlders' committee
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30
Boosting the Yukon

That the output of the Yukon t, tory will equal S5O00OO0 or D, season, an increase of S2,00O,OOu that of last year, is the confident diction made by Captain Artbur tanley, mining engineer who some time in the upper countr! summer, and who is temporaril! journing in the Tanana, where now inspecting many of the pr'n producing creeks of this distrie Fairbanks exchange. Captain Wistanley made sore exhaustive investigation into the q tion of the probable output of the kon, and lays the increase oyet year to the installation of more mo- methods of mining than prevailed the Yukon during the past few yeare notably the use of dredges, electrical convey ors, hydraulic outfits and ether heavy equipment, installed by the big com binations of capital now in posses sion of vast area of the good mining ground of the famous old Klondike.(
 These large plants are so thorough tuned up by the work of the pre2ent season that there will be no delay |. getting them in operation next sessor and, with the addition of many O '"' to those now already installed, the duction of the territory should soon show repetition of the pal days of the camp.
 Dawson still shows a decline mercantile way, due to the fac the individual operator is fast bearing, and the big companies, " import all their own food and supplies, taking his place, but ther still plenty of money and life lC the old burg and the business munity will soon be reduced to point where there will be no more legitimate competition, with plen money for those who survive the we ing out for many years to come.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30
Alaska's Future

| A1dShcI S S@bSA
 1 Alaska the Golden is becoming a land of rare surprises. Neglected and abandoned for years as au almost out cast territory, it is now rapidly coming 1 into it's rich and glorious heritage. If the gresent rate of progress is kept up i for a decade, and there appears to be no reason why it should not continue, Alaska will be found knocking for ad- mission to the Union as one of it's rich est states. There is enough quartz and placer mining in Alaska to keep half a million miners busy for a century; there is sufficient coal, copper and other minerals to keep busy another half million of miners for the same period, and strangest of all to the nn- initiated, investigation has shown that the fertile valleys of the far Northern country will support 500,00O prosper ous farms and homes. The government agricultural station at Copper Center has demonstrated that wheat, oats, barley, and practically all of the com mon garden vegetables can be grown to perfection in the rich virgin soil of Alaska.
 Railroad development is all that is needed to bring about wonderful transformation, and already lines of steel are penetrating into the new em- pire. Frederick H. Chase, in current review, says: Alaska has more gold than ever had California, Australia, or South Africa; it has more copper than twenty Buttes; it has more hard coal than Pennsylvania, and it has more tin than Wales. The hay that rots on its tundras and plains would fatten all the cattle that roam on the plains of Kan sas, Oklahoma and Texas. And there the wild, fertile, untouched plains and valleys await the ax, the spade, the blow and the reaper of half million American farmers"
 Three railroads are now being con- structed from points on the Pacific coast to the interior, and other pro- iects are under consideration. The roads now being built are the Alaska Central, from Seward City; the Valdez i Yukon, at the head of Port Valdez, and the Copper River & Northwestern, at Cordova, on Cordova bay. The con- pletion of any one of these roads to the Yukon means the opening to settle ment of an agricultural and mining territory larger than Texas. But the primary object of the railroads is the development of the copper and coal fields, said to be among the richest in the world. One of the bridges on the Cordova road, it is stated by the en- gineers, will cost S2,OOO,OOO, good evil dence that some one believes in rich and prosperous future for the terri tory.
 A new era is dawning for Alaska, and it may not be long before the vote from beyond the Arctic circle will be more or less decisive factor in the election ot president of the United States.- Washington Post.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30

All of our box stationery goes at half price for the next few days. We have an enormous stock, great variety, new designs, and must dispose of at sacri- flee to make room for large shipment coming. Good opportunity to buy nice box paper and envelopes at less than cost, at Heubner's Drug store.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30

Andrews & Evans have bes line of the latest style of aC Mounts and Enclosures for Pol,.e. and are now in a position to turn ou high-class work on short notice.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30

"SITKA HOT SPRINGS" AccoY' modations, American or EuropeaI plan. For terms apply to Do"f"- Goddard and Brooks, Sanite Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30

A fancy writing desk made of Alaska woods, at Jensen's.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-30

A new era is dawning for Alaska, and it may not be long before the vote from beyond the Arctic circle will be more or less decisive factor in the election ot a president of the United States.- Washington Post.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
SMART DEFINITIONS.

A smart, pithy, or humorous def
milton often furnishes a happy illus
tration of the proverbial brevity which
is the soul of wit.
To hit off a jury as "a body of men
organized to find out which side has
the smartest lawyer" is to satirize
many of our Intelligent fellow
countrymen.
A boy once said that "dust is mud
with the Juice squeezed out"
A fan, we learn from another juven-
lie source, is "a thing to brush warmth
off with :" salt, "what makes your
potatoes taste bad when you don't
put any on :" and ice "water that
stayed out late in the cold and went
to sleep"
A school boy, asked to define the
word "sob," whimpered out !: ut
means when feller don't want to
cry and it bursts out itself"
A good definition of "Pharisee"
is "a tradesman who uses long prayers
and short weights - of humbug,
lone who agrees with everybody -
and of tyrant, "the other version OF
somebody's hero"
Thin soup, according to an Irish
mendicant, is "a quart of water boiled
down to pint, to make it strong"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
THE JEWISH new YEAR.

In striking opposition to the spirit
of Joy and happiness which pervades
Christendom generally is the New
Year of the Jews. With the Jews,
who also observe the New Year for
two days, the days are not days of
feasting and enjoyment, but days of
judgment. According to the belief
of every orthodox Jew, every menu
Der of the Jewish race is tried on the
New Year. The books kept in heav
en- are opened on that day. The record
of each man for the year just ending
is looked through and taken under
advisement for ten days. On the
tenth day, the day of atonemeEt, the
fate of each man for the coming year
is drawn up, whether he should live
or die, prosper or be poor. On the
day of atonement the fate is sealed
and nothing can change it any more.
-Chicag0 Tribune.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
NEW YEAR sUPERsTITIONs.

It Is considered a sure sign of death
to see ones shadow in the moonlight
on New Years eve.
You court misfortune by leaving
the house on New Year before some
one has entered it. You must hope
for the luck, moreover, of having the
first to enter a dark haired man.
Seeking to know what good or evil
the New Year would bring, supersti-
tious people in the long ago girt
themselves with swords and sat on the
roof of their houses on New Year S
eve. They also knelt at the cross
roads Con a cowhide) for the same
purpose. The first thing brought,
one might think, would bepneumonia.
1t is bad luck to carry anything
out of the house on the New Year be-
fore something has been brought in.
But the best luck of all, which even
those most scornful of portents may
not despise, is to begin the New Year
owing no man cent. -PhiladelbhiG
Press.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
HE WAS STILL COUNTING.

A doctor, now eminent, was at one
time serving as inferno in one of the
Philadelphia hospitals, as we'll as hold
ing his own with coterie of rather
gay friends. On certain morning
the physician awoke to find that he
had sadly oversight. Sleepily putting
on his clothes, he hastened to the hos
pital and soon stalwart young Irish
man claimed his attention.
"Well, my man, what seems to be
your trouble this morning?" inquired
the doctor, concealing a yawn, and
taking the patient by the hand to ex-
anime his pulse.
"Faith, sor, it's all in me breath
in. can't git me breath at all, at
ALL"
"The pulse is normal, Pat, but let
me examine the lung action mo-
ment," replied the doctor, kneeling
beside the cot and laying his head on
the Irishman's chest. Now, let me
hear you talk" he continued, closing
his eyes and listening attentlvely lol
sounds of pulmonary congestion. A
moment of silence.
"What will 1 be sayin' doctor =
finally asked the patient.
"Oh, say anything count one, two,
three and up, that way" murmured
the physician, drowsily.
"Wan, two, three. fure, FIVE, six, "
began the sick man.
When the young doctor, with a
stare, opened his eyes, Pat was con.
tinuing weakly, "Tin hundred and
sixty nine, tin hundred and sivinty
tin hundred an sivinty-wan."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
MODERN FINANCE.

In condemning that sort of modern
finance that consists in getting some.
thing for nothing, the late Bishop
Potter said: "I once knew a boy
who would have made a splendid
financier. This boy, strolling idly
through the streets-he never had
anything to do-met another.
.''I wish, he said, I had nickel.
Then I'd buy good scent cigar and
go into the woods and have a smoke.
"'I have a nickel, said the other
boy.
"'Have your the first cried eager
ly. Then let's form a corporation ;
"'All right. How is it done?
"'I'll be the president. You'll be
the stockholder. The nickel will be
the capital ard we'll invest it in to-
bacco.'
"The thing was agreed to and the
president, taking the stockholders S
cents, bought cigar forthwith. Then
he led the way to the woods. There he
sat down on log, lit up and began
to smoke skillfully.
The stockholder waited for his turn
to come. He waited very patiently.
But the cigar diminished. One third
of it, two thirds of it disappeared and
still the president showed no signs of
safety.
"'Say 7 exclaimed the stockholder
at last, don't I get whack here p
"The president, knocking off the
ashes, shook his head.
"'I don't see it, he said.
"'But what, shouted the angry
stockholder, do I get for my capital ?
WELL said the president, you
can spit
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
WHY SMOKING INJURIES THE BODY.

That smoking is injurious nearly
everyone knows in vague way. But
exactly how and why, few could ex-
plain.
And yet to state the reason is not
difficult. Smoking is injurious tothe
body in several ways. First of all,
we think, of course, of the poison
nicotine, the active principle of to-
bacco. And there is no doubt but
that the nicotine does much harm,
especially in the case Of the man who
smokes large number of heavy
cigars. The effect of nicotine varies
somewhat in different individuals, but
in general way it may be said to
have pernicious influence upon the
heart and stomach.
The worst effects of tobacco smoke,
however, are due not to the nicotine,
but to the inhaling of the smoke or
oe esaelza-laaan- air---Mot that the
smoke itself is poisonous, for it is not
but because the smoke prevents the
body from getting rid of its own self
elaborated poisons.
AS a great pathologist has said:
"The body is factory of poisons." "
These poisons are constantly being
poured out at the rate of about eight
pounds day. One-third of all this
poisonous excreta passes through the
lungs in the form of steam or vapor.
Now, the lungs within their COM
paratively small compass contain a
folded surface of about 600 square
feet, an area equal to the floor of a
room forty feet square. tits through
this surface that the oxygen is drawn
into the body aud the poisonous car
bon dioxide is thrown off.
Smoke is in reality nothing more
or less than cloud of fue dust, car
bon-dust that is to say SCOT. And
when this dust comes into contact
with the surface of the lungs it forms
a thin coating which obstructs the
entrance of oxygen-laden air, as well
as the exit of the poisonous out
breathings.
nus Tue luQOOl ou1OhGlj VI AG VIM
inhales tobacco smoke either directly
or by sitting in smoke laden atmos-
phere, is both starved and poisoned
starved for oxygen, the most impor-
tant of ali the foods, and poisoned by
his own unexcreted waste. Know
ing this we can understand why cigar
cites, although made of light tobac-
co, are the most injurious of all the
"smokes." It is because almost in
variably the confirmed cigarette
smoker inhales, while, in the case of
the pipe or cigar-smoker the smoke
drawn directly into the lungs is only
that which is floating in the air. We
can also understand one of the rea-
sons why the outdoor laborer may
smoke with but little i'll an amount OF
tobacco which would be destructive
to the indoor smoker.
The best rule is: Do not smoke,
and, if you must srho1ze, d not-is; !;
hale.-7He Circle.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
HISTORY TREES AT FREMONT.

"This is about my size !" said Judge
Taft, on a recent visit to Spiegel
Grove, the old home of President
Hayes in Fremont, O., as he walked
up to a magnificent scarlet oak and
put his hand on its great trunk.
"The Taft oak is its name hence
forth, ;" replied the owner of the place,
land your namesake stands in hon.
ored company.
Some distance nearer the driveway
is the Cleveland hickory. In 1893,
when Mr.. Cleveland attended the
funeral of President Hayes, the
horses attached to the family carriage
became frightened, and Mr.. Cleve-
land, alighting, leaned against this
fine hickory. which has ever since
borne his name.
In 1897 President Mckinley, after
attending wedding at Spiegel Grove,
spoke at the union of the Twenty
third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to
which regiment both he and Presi-
dent Hayes had belonged. The cir
cular stand from which he spoke was
built round group of FIVE trees, which
have ever since been known as the
Mckinley oaks.
A splendid maple shading one of
the approaches to the residence has
since the Presidential campaign of
1880 borne the name of President
Garfield, an occasional visitor at
Spiegel.
In 1877, during President Hayes
administration, a reunion of his old
regiment was held at his home. The
luncheon tables were spread under an
irregular line of superb white oaks,
which were then formally named after
General Sheridan, the favorite cCm-
mander of the Twenty-third, who sat
at the head of the table; Generals
Rosecrans, Scammon, Hayes and
Comfy, the four successive colonels
of the regiment. A few years later
beautiful American elm, standing
near the front entrance of the veran-
da, was named by General VIM. T.
Sherman, in the presence of President
and Mrs. Hayes and several distin-
guished guests.
Two other interesting trees in the
grove, although not native, are an
oak grown from an acorn of the Char
ter Oak of Connecticut and weep
ing willow slipped from the one over
Washington's grave at Mount Yer
non, which in turn was slipped from
that over Napolean's grave at st.
Helena.
A tree is tree, but when tradition
haunts it it becomes something more,
and the historic trees at Spiegel Grove,
distinctly labeled, attract an attention
which their size and beauty alone
would not win.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
A NEW YEAR.

Here you are, little Year. Did you come in the
night,
When was asleep in my bedP
And how did you find your way in before ngnt'
With no sun shining out overhead?
Did you pass the Old Year as he rusned out Oh
sight 20
With a pack that was heavy as lead9
He looked just like you, o so shining and slim,
When he made his bow twelve months ago;
We all said GOOD morning" politely 10 MINI
It was manners, dear Year, as you know;
And his hand was outstretched, and his eye was
not dim,
AS he stood in his first morning glow.
But his ffty-two weeks were SO crowded with
work,
And he had such a handful of days,
That he couldn't expect, since he was not a snlrk
He'd be clipper and CHEEKY always;
His story was mixed up with brightness ana mlrA
And we'll speak of him only with praise.
AS for you, little Year, you are growing so rast
AS you stand in the other Years place.,
That already the shadow that falls from the pas
rs weaving its veil DER your face.
o happy New Year, may your happiness last,
As you trot at the century's pace. NIL.
-HdTper's Round Table.