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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-09-18
COLUMBIA RIVER CONFERENCE
Communication Giving Review of Confer
enCe Just Ended

The conference just closed has never
been excelled, in many respects, in the
history of the Columbia River Confer
ence. The bishop by his tactful and
brotherly way won all our hearts. He is
a scholar of the highest type as was
shown by his several lectures and
sermons.
The people of Wenatchee royalty
entertained all the visiting delegates
gratuitously.
The reports brot in by the several
secretaries and agents were very en-
couraging. Our missionary offerings
have increased over $4,000, our mem
ship increased 1900 and several fine
new churches have been built during
the past year. From all quarters came
reports OF the passing of the saloon"
Mrs. Lake, Roman Catholic lady
from Missouri, by her temperance lee
ture, thrilled US and strengthened the
ties of love which We have for our
Catholic friends.
DR.. o. w. Mintzer was retained as
district superintendent which was made
possible by the creation Of new dis
trict. The only change in the person
al of our preachers is at Cashmere.
Rev. M. ]. Perdue succeeding Rev. H.
T. Robinson who was sent to Newport.
Bro. Perdue was a classmate of the
writer at Garrett Biblical Institute and
comes to Cashmere after a splendid
record as pastor of a church at South
Bend, Ind. A new circuit called
Wenatchee Circuit was formed and R.
L. Ludlam placed in charge. This
gives US five charges with their five
pastors, one evangelist, one superin-
tendent and about one thousand mem
bers in Chelan county.
The Leavenworth church is the
weakest of all our churches in Chelan
county but we believe it is in the near
future destined to become one Of the
strongest. 1t is strengthened this year
by the addition of Peshastin, so we
start the year with a membership of
over 10. A great many Of these are
young converts won last year.
The contract for building the church
at Peshastin is already let, and sufficient
money subscribed to pay for same.
We want to begin the church at Leav-
enworth at once and rush it through so
that both OF these churches can be
dedicated on the same day. 1t was
pleasant surprise to the pastor when
he came home from the conference to
see two OF our boys" cutting the
brush on the church lots just south Of
the new school building. Subscrip-
tions will be solicited at once for the
church building. Let all our people
push the matter and we will have sufi-
/
cient money in sight in less than two
weeks to begin work. We desire to
thank the people Of Leavenworth for
their help during the past year. 1t was
trying year, chiefly because Of un-
suitable quarters in which to hold our
services, but it was a year of progress
and we look with confidence 10 the
future.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-09-18

Judge Miles Poindexter rendered his
resignation to the governor last week,
to take effect Tuesday morning, and
states that he will Immediately open
law Offices in Spokane. Judge Poin-
dexter has the following to say Of his
successful campaign for the nomina-
ton for congress:
Il have obtained no support from
special interests and shall go TO con-
gress without entangling alliances OF
any kind whatever.
My aim shall be to represent the
entire district without regard to local
ity and the entire people without re-
gard to class.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is coed
for cuts, burns, bruises and scratches.
It is especially good for piles. Recon-
mended and sold by Kaufman Drug
Co.
Many a man gets gay when it isn't
his turn to furnish the amusement.
Representative from - national
banks in this state and Georgia met
in Savannah last week and organized
the South Atlantic National Currency
association.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
acts gently upon the bowels and there
by drives the cold out of the system and
at the same time it allays inflammation
and stops irritation. Children like it.
Sold by Kaufmann Drug Co,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, July IS, 1908.
Lever at Sumter.

The State has the following synop-
sis of Congressman Levers speech
before the Farmers Union of Sumter
county on last Wednesday:
''The next speaker introduced was
the ever welcome and very popular
Congressman A. F. Lever, who has
done so much for the farmers and for
the business men of his district. Mr..
Lever was enthusiastically welcomed.
Among the most important things,
he said, was that he desired to call
attention to the fact that 36 per cent.
of the entire population of this country
nearly rs per cent. Of the South's
people-was engaged in agricultural
pursuits, hence the Importance of all
matters touching agriculture. He
emphasized the Importance Of organ
ization and cooperation among the
farmers as a class. He strongly
warned the Farmers Union against
permitting politics to enter into the
organization and divert it from the
fundamental lines upon which itrests.
He reminded them that history shows
that nearly all farmers organizations
have been dashed to pieces on the
rocks of politics. This Sumter County
Farmers union is predictated upon
the broad lines of cooperation and
education and is intended to aid the
individual farmer. No organization
can fully succeed unless it is made up
of men armed with independence. No
farmer is independent who has to sell
his cotton to buy the necessities of
life and whose smoke house is in
Chicago and whose corn crib is in
Iowa. He pleaded for such diversi-
fication of farm methods and products
as will make the farms self-sustaining.
In discussing the labor question he
strongly opposed the idea of throwing
open our door to unrestricted immi-
grafton.
In vigorous tones he said, 81 am
unalterably opposed to any immigra-
tion unless the immigrant comes with
sufficient means to become at once a
home builder.
81 welcome the Americans of the
northwest to South Carolina as home
seekers and citizens, but am unalter-
ably opposed to croWding our labor
markets with cheap labor or filling up
the country districts with the tenant
class of whites"
He urged the desirability of small
farms under the management of white
brains, and pleaded with the young
men to devote themselves to the
farms, 50 that this Southern country
might blossom as rose.
He closed amid great applause and
was warmly congratulated"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
Mr.. J. J. McMahon Will Open
Individual Office.

Mr.. John J. Mcmahon has with
drawn from the law frm of Lyles &
McMahan and will open an individual
office on Law range the first of next
month.
The senior member Of the original
firm, Mr.. VIM. H. Lyles, has taken
into partnership with him his son, Mr..
Jo-Berry s. Lyles, and the firm style
will be Lyles & Lyles. The junior
member of the new frnl was gradual
ed this year from the law school of
Harvard uniYersity.-Columbia Rec
ord, 9th.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15
It Can't Be Beat.

The best of all teachers is experience.
@. M. Harden, of Silver City, North
Carolina, says: II find Electric Bitters
does all that's claimed for it. For Stom-
ach. Liver and Kidney troubles it can't
be beat. I have tried it and find it a
most excellent medicine" Mr.. Harden
is right; it's the best of all medicines
also for weakness, lame back, and all
run down conditions. Best too for
chills and malaria. Sold under guar
antee at Derrick's Drug Store and
Kaufman Drug Co. SOC.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15

John D. Rockefeller on Wednesday
celebrated his 69th birthday.
Every home with children should
have box of DR.. Thornton's Easy
Teether in it. A guaranteed remedy
for all bowel and stomach trouble in
teething children. For sale by Der
rick Drug Co.; or Easy-Teether Medi-
cine Co., Hartwell, Ga.
The Washington County, Virginia,
grand jury has indicted several night
riders.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15

Many a man gets gay when it isn't
his turn to furnish the amusement.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15

Pain will depart in exactly 20minutes
if one of DR.. Shoop's Pink Pain Tab
lets is taken. Pain anywhere. Re-
member! Pain always means conges-
ton, blood pressure-nothing else.
Headache is blood pressure; toothache
is blood pressure on the sensitive nerve.
DR.. Shops Headache Tablets-also
called Pink Pain Tablets-guickly and
safely coax this blood pressure away
from pain centers. Painful periods with
women get instant relief. 20 tablets 25e
Sold by Kaufman Drug Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15
Verses in Memory Of S. Patrick
Lindler.

Verses in Memory Of S. Patrick
LindleG.
Dearest father thou hast left as,
Thou hast gone to a better home
Where pain and trouble and sorrow
cease,
And storms in thy path shall never
roam.
Oh! dear father, how much we miss
thee,
We miss thee at thy usual place;
Oh, dear, we miss thee everywhere,
But the Lord has seen fit to call thee
and he will all Our sorrows bear.
Dear Jesus wipe our tears,
And all our sorrows heal;
For in his death
Our loss we deeply feel.
Sleep on, dear father sleep on,
Beneath the deep, red sod;
And may we, like thee, when life Is
done,
Cling closer to thee All-wise and
Eternal God.
But vet again, we hope to meet thee,
On that bright and blissful shore;
Where all will be Joy and happiness,
Soon to meet and part no more.
Well do we remember that last and
awful dying hour;
In all the pains and agonies of death.
But the Lord was with us; He knew
what was best,
So he called thee to thy peaceful rest.
P. B. L.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15

Two young men in Abbeville were
injured last week by being thrown
from an auto which ran over an en-
bankment.
A Southern fruit train carrying thir-
teen cars of peaches was derailed near
Greenville last week and peaches
we're scattered far and wide.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-15
Quick Relief for Asthma Suf.

IcIcCS.
Foley's Honey and Tar affords i'm
mediate relief to asthma sufferers in
the worst stages and if taken in time
will effect q cure. Derrick's Drug
Store.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
HINTS FROM MISSOURI.

How to Use the King Drag and Have
an Ideal Road.
In Missouri the roads are really bad.
and improvement by tie king road
drag has been taken up systematically.
The following suggestions are from Il
bulletin by the Missouri board of agri.
culture:
Don't drive too fast.
Don't walk Get on the drag and ride.
Don't wait for your neighbors to take
hold. They may be waiting on you.
Don't wait for the big grader to
come and shape up your road All
you can do first will help to make the
work Of the grader permanent.
Don't try to drag with one piece; use
two. One will scoop out the holiows
in the road and deepen them. When
two are used the one keeps the other
up. and soon the holows will have
filed and become level like the balance
of the road
Don't wait for good roads until the
| city folks begin to talk about mac
| adam at public expense This will cost
from $1,000 to $1,000 mile and for
country purposes, where there Is nc
heavy hauling, it is no better than. not
| as easily maintained as, a road proper.
ly made with the drag. Five dollars
mile with a proper use of the road
drag will keep the ordinary country
road that is properly drained. graded
and bridged or culyerted in first class
| condition nine months in the year and
make it a fairly decent road the other
three months. But this cannot be done
in one year or two. The longer the
| drag is used intelligently the better
the road will become until finally /,
is oval and smooth and hard ard elias
tic. This is the ideal road, and moth
ing but road properly made with the
drag or an asphalt road meets all these
requirements.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
AN ASPHALT ROAD.
New Jersey to Experiment With Mix
ture Of That Product With Dirt.

New Jersey to Experiment With Mix
ture Of That Product With Dirt.
The New Jersey state department Of
highways is to construct in Mercer
county an experimental mile Of new
automobile road, the plans for which
State Road Supervisor Robert A. Nee
ker recently obtained in Kansas City
Mr.. Meeker says the new method Of
construction is simple and cheap. that
it is self healing when broken and
therefore practically indestructible. that
1t improves with age. that it Is mud
less noiseless and almost dustless and
that it is not slippery even when coated
with ice.
In the building of the road the origi-
nal soil Is finely pulverized, and then
into this there is worked a mixture of
hot asphalt. the whole mass being firm
~ rolled in the finishing. Breaks are
quickly repaired by traffic. the weight
| of wheels cementing them together.
The base yields slightly to heavy traf-
| fic and then regains its original shape
1t is equally good for horses and auto
| mobiles
| If the experiment proves success, II
| is likely that the result will he a radi
cal change in the road building meth
DDS Of the state Of New Jersey, with
the substitution of asphalt for the MAJ.
adam process now used
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
Million a Year For Reads.

Connecticut still leads In the good
roads movement as Il state She was
the third to get into it. New Jersey
being the first. four years before her.
and Massachusetts the second. in 1893
Now Connecticut spends S1.G0O,000 a
year. while the first spends but $6Co.-
eco ard the second but 100000 les:'
than that Connecticut spends the lar
gest amount per capita fer coed roads
by far, the only other states whose
total annual appropriations are larger
being New York. with S5,nG0,GG0. and
Pennsylvania with 81 500. eco but both
states are vastly larger than little
Connecticut.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
lneersoil on Glover.


In declining an invitation to a Clover
club dinner once Colonel Robert lnger-
soil wrote:
"A wonderful thing is clover 1t
means honey and cream-that is to say.
industry and contentment--that is to
say. the happy bees in perfumed fields
and at the cottage gate Old Boss the
bountiful, serenely chewing satisfac-
tion's cud in that blessed twilight
pause that. like benediction, falls be-
tween all toll and sleep. This clover
makes ME dream Of happy hours. of
childhood's rosy cheeks. of dimpled
babes. of wholesome. loving wives. of
honest men. of springs and brooks and
violets and all there is of stainless JOY
in peaceful human life.
"a wonderful word is clover! Drop
the C. and you have the happiest of
mankind Take away the C. and r.
and you have left the only thing that
makes 4 heaven of this dull and bar
rem earth. Cut off the r. alone. and
there remains very deceitful bud that
sweetens the breath and keeps peace in
countless homes whose masters fire.
quent clubs. After all. Bottom was
right, Good hay. sweet hay. hath nc
fellow"
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course is treated similarly to the first.
The rolling is continued until any de-
rrassions cease to he formed When
ever depressions are noticed during the
rolling materials should Immediately
be spread upon such places and the
rolling continued until the surface is
brought up to true grade. The gravel
should not be dry when rolled. If fur
nished dry, it may lie sprinkled or the
rolling put off until after a rain. The
top course should be about three inches
thick after rolling.
Usually a gravel road does not be.
come firm and hard until after n con.
siderable time, during which it needs
constant attention. Each year, how.
ever, the roadbcd becomes frmer and
ultimately nearly as solid as macadam.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
GRAVEL ROADMAKIHG
How the Material Should Be Az.
piled and Selected.
UNDERTAKING. IMPORTANT.
With Proper Grading, Gravel Rightly
Used Will Make Most Excellent
Highways-Ths Advantage Of a Flat


Used Will Make Most Excellent
Hiehways-Ths Advantage Of Flat
Roadway.
Even where gravel employed has
been applied in road construction in
Maryland owing to Its method of appli-
cation the roads do not always main
tain their form as they should in wet
weather. This fault is not usually due
to the material employed SO much as to
an entire lack of proper grading and
Undertaking. Merely to throw some
gravel over wet or spongy place
without raising the level of the road
bed or making any provision for the
drawing off of the water can never
make road which will not cut through
and become muddy whenever the frost
comes out Of the ground. The water
sinks through the gravel covering into
the clayey foundation and renders the
latter yielding to the everything road,
which pushes the wheels through the
gravel into the clay or if the covering
is thin causes the clay to be pushed up
between the pebbles.
With proper attention toward grad
ing. undertaking and the shaping of
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17

been telling. the bartender showed over
a dime and nickel change from the
quarter. ungarnished with his custom
ary smile, and Rabbitt walked out.
Now Babbitt had il home and wife,
but that is another story. And will
tell you that story, which will show
you better habit and a worse story
than you could fluid in the man who
invented the phrase.
1t began away up in Sullivan county.
where so many rivers and so much
trouble begins-or begin. How would
you say that? 1t was July, and Jessie
was summer boarder at the Noun
tain Squint hotel, and Bob, who was
just out of college, saw her one day.
and they were married in September.
That's the tabloid novel-one swallow
of water and it's gone.
But those July days!
Let the exclamation point expound it,
for | shall not. For particulars you
might read up on Romeo and Juliet
and Abraham Lincoln's thrilling sonnet
about "You can fool some of the peo
ple," etc, and Darwin's works.
But one thing must tell you about
Both Of them were mad over Omar's
"Rubaiyat." They knew every verse o1
the old buffer by heart-not consecu
lively. but picking 'en out here ana
there as you fork the mushrooms in ;
fifty cent steak la bordelaise. Sui
livan county Is full of rocks and trees
and Jessie used to sit on them. and
| please be good; used to sit on the rocis
and Bob had Il way of standin. tai,int
her with his hands over her shoulder
| holding her hands and his face clos
to hers, and they would repeat owe
and over their favorite verses of th
old tentmaker They saw only th
poetry and philosophy of the lines the
Indeed, they agreed that the win
| was only an image ana that what wa
meant to be celebrated was some diyiT
ity or maybe love or life Howeye
at that time neither OF them had taste
the stuff that goes with sixty Ger
table d'hote.
Where was /? Oh. they married an
came TO New York. Bob showed b
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copyright, 1906, by the S. S. Mcclure Col
/" HIS document is intended to
strike somewhere between a
temperance lecture and the
"Bartenders' Guide" Relative
to the latter, drink shall swell the
theme and be set forth in abundance.
@Agreeably to the former, not an elbow
shall be crooked.
Bob Babbitt was "off the stuff"
which means, as you will discover by
referring to the unabridged dictionary
of Bohemia, that he had ''cut out the
booze;" that he was ION the water
wagon" The reason for Bob's sudden
attitude of hostility toward the demon
rum," as the white ribboners miscall
whisky (see the "Bartenders Guide'),
should be of interest to reformers and
saloon keepers.
There is always hope for a man who
when sober will not concede or ac-
knowledge that he was ever drunk.
But when man will say, in the apt
words of the phrase distiller, 81 had a
beautiful skate on last night" you will
have to put stuff in his coffee as we'll
as pray for him.
One evening on his way home Bab-
bitt dropped in at the Broadway bar
that he liked best Always there were
three or four fellows there from the
downtown offices whom he knew And
then there would be highballs and sto-
ries. and he would hurry home to din
ner little late, but feeling good and
little sorry for the poor Standard Oil
company. On this evening as he en-
tered he heard some one say. "Babbitt
was in last night as full as a boiled
OWL"
Bahbitt walked to the bar and saw in
the mirror that his face was as white
as chalk For the first time he had
looked Truth in the eyes. Others had
lied to him; he had dissembled with
himself. He was drunkard and had
not known it. What he had fondly
imagined was a pleasant exhilaration
had been maudlin intoSication. His
fancied wit had been drivel, his gay
humors nothing but the noisy vagaries
of sot. But never again!
IA glass of seltZer." he said to the
| bartender
/ A little silence fell upon the group of
| his cronies. who had been expecting
| him to join them.
Going Off tho stuff, Boh:" one of
them asked politely and with more
| fornality than the highballs ever call.
ed forth
Yes" said Rabbitt
Some one of the group took up the
unwashed thread Of q story he had
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
The Cheanest Roadmaker.

The good roads without money
movement that has by means of Kings
split log road drag converted the
slough holes of the "corn belt roads
into model turnpikes Is extending to
the eastern states. where most roads
are either very good or very bad. says
Ga"len Magazine Mr.. King is arrang
III. with the various state boards Of
agriculture to give series of practical
demonstrations of the use of his de-
vice on eastern roads where the sue
cess of road dragging is more doubtful
because Of sand and rOckL
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-17
Bad Roads. Indeed

1t is no wonder that the grangers are
speaking pieces in favor of better
roads, as the mud is something formi-
dable on the country roads. At East
Longneadow, Mass. one Of the
churches was closed OH recent Sun
day on account of the muddy condition
of the roads, says the Hartford Times.
A Hartford funeral party. driving to
Cromwell. found the roads impossible
In some places, rendering it necessary
to take to the fields. The milkmen and
teamsters declare that they never saw
the beat of it, and the chauffeur who
gets off the macadam is entitled to a
premium