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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
The Continent Of LemurIa.

no COntInent OF EenuT1d,
There was also supposed to be a
prehistoric continent that occupied
the greater portion Of what is now
the Indian ocean. Madagascar is said
to be a remnant Of it. Sclater, an
Eng1ishman, has called this continent
Lemurta, after monkey-like animals
said to have inhabited It.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Modest Precaution.

why do you insist on so much red
tape in your department" Because"
answered the official, we're only hui
man and liable to make mistakes, and
we want to put 'em off as long as pos
sible"-Exchange
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Duty and Usefulness.

Only to find our duty certainly, and
somewhere. somehow, to do it faith
fully, makes us good, strong, happy
and useful men, and tunes our lives
into some feeble echo of the life of
God.-Phillips Brooks.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Stock Island with Caribou,

An island in Lake Superior has
been stocked with caribou; Caribou
island, SO named because it formerly
was noted as home for the animals.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

Females Have Worse Record.
Prison records show that more fe-
male prisoners have previous records
against them than males.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
PuNns,

Women" declared she, have big
ger intellects than men" IT won't
dispute It," responded he. "a man
can't wear footgear that has to be
kept on by mental power alone"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Not Quite the Thjno.

Matrimonial Agent have found
for you. my friend, veritable pearl
a wealthy widow of 75." The Count
II like the pearl. but I'm afraid
shan't care for the shell!"-Le Rire.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

His Decisions Were All Accepted.
Uncle Jim Hastings umpired the
Comets" What! Say, how did he
look when he got through" He
looked all right. Uncle Jim stands six
feet two and weighs $40"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Importance of the Rube

After all, it's that "rube" with his
shock of corn and little bushel Of
wheat that makes the world go.-De-
troft News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Would Mortgage the Farm.

A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire,
Ga, w. A. Floyd by name, says:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the two
worst sores / ever saw; one ON my hand
and one on my leg. 1t is worth more
than its weight in gold. I would not
be without it if had to mortgage the
farm to get it" Only 25c at B. +.
Hughes drug store.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
A M after of Taste.

A doctor calls buttermilk the elixir
Of life. Unless you get 1t early it usu-
ally tastes like an elixir of tin can.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

Courts are great expense to New
York city. The jurors alone last year
cost $415, 16S. The year before the cost
was 1921, 293.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
The Hilhest Applause.

The silence that accepts merit as
the most natural thing in the world. Is
the highest applause.-Emerson
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

Italian Proverb.
He that rs carried down the current
catcheth at everything.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

Largest Private Picture Gallery.
The duke Of Portland has the largest
private picture gallery In the world.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female Ills,
and has positively cured thousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, f1broid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, baokache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try It?
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinlsham If there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat your
observation-disclosures andadvise you
free. No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because Of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
Chesapeake ( Ohio Ry.

Schedule in effect June %, 1908, subjec
to change without notice. Eastern
time.
EAST BOUND.
For Washington and the North
2O9 a. M; Ills a. M. daily.
For Richmond and Norfolk
200 and IL Is a. M, daily.
Local for Richmond.
10. "a a. m. daily; 2.21 p. m. week days
Local for Charlottesville
8,12 p. m. daily.
WEST BOUND.
For Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, Lou.
isville and the West.
4.23 a. M; and 8.l2 p. M, daily.
Local for Clifton Forge
2.05 p. M, week days.
Local for Huntington
6.5S a. NJ, daily.
Local for Hinton.
6.55 p. M, daily.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

After suffering for seven years,
this woman was restored TO health
by Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Read her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, Of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter, writes to Mrs. Pinkha1n
~ had female troubles for seven
years-was ell rundown, and 80 ner.
vous I could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While Ia this con-
dition wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad.
vice and took Lydia 3. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound, and I am now strong
,pd wall
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
STRANGE Case.

One Of the New York hospitals has
a patient-a young athlete-who has
normal vision when lying at full
length. but is blind as bat when he
sits up or stands on his feet. This has
been his state for six months OF SO.
The hurt to the eyes that brought 1t
on was received in game Of basket
ball. The specialists who are trying to
remedy the mischief done to his eyes
at that time employ a new X-ray
process. This consists" explains a
New York paper, "os periodic flashes
Of the rays-of great intensity
against the retina, instead of the older
method of steady application of the
rays for a considerable period of time
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16

In Paris last yeor 1929 horses were
killed for food, which was 5000 more
than the previous year. These animals
yielded 100000 pounds of meat.
The evening world., 1908-01-07
ADD S250,OO0,OOO
To CIRCULATION
IS SENATE PLAN
Financial Bill Provides f)l
Issue ana Gives Currency
Comptroller Discretion.


,,
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Dill which has Tor some tlnne been IN
preparation by leading Republican men,
oers of the Senate Committee on FL-
nance was to-day printed and given To
the public.
1t provides for an add!tiona! issue OF
bank circulation which shall at n" time
exceed $3.50, upon bonds other than
those issued by the Government, inc!Nd-
ing state and mnh''lpAl oohHS III APP
P'p,u'
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IN he awarded ,o ,ny rankin. i~ayt.,.l.
lion
II is provi,c1 ,b,, the ircrn Sec! cl.-
culation shall in n, c.se exec d -
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P'r c'"' "' "c ''''' -"
posted.
Senator Aldr!yh introduced ia, bill IN
~. Sena,. soon after tina; h,ay CON.
NeUtu '"-""'
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a f,he hll.
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ponds u the United states.
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sort. c,
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In his judgment business conditions do
mand such additional rircui,,i., .ra
.ba ,,,si,ia. '"'
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'he Application warrants the issue. may
approve such Application. and shall do
,er,nira ,ro ,iu,, 49,.
'"' Law VI Issue ana Sha' iN
the amount WITHIN The limitations Hg.,-
matter imposed. OF such Additional cir
cuiatnS notes TO be ISSUED.
W htheNer after receiving notice of
such appiola! any such association shall
deposit with the Treasurer OF any A.
such bonds described in section : Of
this act as Shall be approved in rIar.
scter and amount by the TIr.sIrrr Gf
the United States and the se,-etary OF
ceiye mon tba orIer re ehtil.,i 10 re-
or tho C,,rrevcy. ~ M ,"~.'p'r"'',t
blank repistem,j am "a n'H M ms m
$3.50 '1.s'rt,u ana ol"ht'rSiSn'd as
g. ao neu - IN ti"". IN am" nj 10 20
T.. ~ ~, . i .nr N'dIhe' HiLuo' as ny d
- 80 ltsasutel OF me 'httd states,
sinra ~ p" o ~ deposited Such add
Noaai c..cL1alI's notes TO be used, held
snu treated IN the sane way as cirsu-
iaunS notes OF national banking assoc
Sianons heretofore issued and secured
nv "a HlTnE1F DF u - al -. . I-- -.
The evening world., 1908-01-07

IN the cashier or some other officer ~
the association making me deposit.
LeId ,S Security.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25

"I think | am nearly always tired
returned Miss Leigh, plaintively. is II
not dreadful, Alison-about poor Mr.
Roger, 1 mean? If it were not for my
poor blind mother, whom l pretty nearly
support out of my savings, | do not thlnS
I could endure this much longer. MY
dear" with the tears starting to her gen
tle ewes. when one gets to my age one
values peace and kind words above every
thing. and that is just what one can not
get at The Holms."
"Do YOU mean that this sort of thing
goes on daily?' exclaimed Alison, turning
her flushed face to the governess. DO
Won mean," bringing out her words Wien
difficulty. "that papa often gives Roger
all this to bear?'
"Well, my dear, one must not exas-
cerate. Things are not always gong
wrong at the mills, of course; and some
Zines we can eat our meals in peace
hrt vour poor dear father-one hardly
I;,os to blame him to his own child
i very often hard on Mr.. Roger. Ii
seams TO me as though nothing Mr.. Roger
can do pleases your father. and as II
Mabel can do no wrong in his eyes. You
o.n soc for Yourself, Alison, the lnt1u-
ence she has over him.
Yes, I see but | can not UNDERSTAND
if. When | was last at nome MisS.s
was only a child, and yet, though she Is
not seventeen, and ought to De IN Inc
school room and under your care sne
seems completely mistress
"She is never in the scnooi room now
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
There Is the Record.

Referring to the Democratic campaign
text book for 1908 the New York World
says:
1.-THE Democrats have stout rods in
pickle for the Republicans this year, as
is proved by their campaign book of three
hundred pages, but they apply none of
them to the Republican President. They
are opposed to jingoism, militarism and
imperialism, and yet the most warlike of
Presidents escapes criticism. They de-
nounce extravaganza and waste at Wash
ngton, and yet the man who is largely
responsible for this reckless expenditure
finds no accuser They make war upon
the privileged plutocrats of the tariff, the
combines and the trusts, and yet the only
President who ever sent for Hartman
and arranged for the collection of cam
paign corruption fund is nowhere con-
demned. They demand publicity in cam
paign expenditures, and yet President
who neglected at critical time to insist
upon that policy is held blameless. They
reproach the Republican party for its fail
ure to enforce the laws against the pirates
of interstate commerce, and yet the Presi-
dent. who holds that the laws are too
drastic and that they must be modified,
goes free of censure.'
Harsh words are not necessary. The
Democratic text book shows up the Re
publican record, and nothing could be
gained by bitter denunciation. The facts
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
That sentiment is sweeping the whole
country:
I'VE WANT A CHANGEr

Here's a Republican Boomerang.
An editorial printed in the Fort Worth
(Texas) Record of Sept. will give the
Republican standpatters something to
think about.
The Records editorial follows:
Scattered over the editorial page of the
New York Herald the following line in
italics appears several times: Mr.. Bryan
promises US tariff reform. But can he
deliver the goods with a Republican
House of Representatives and a Republi-
can Senator
1.-THE Herald is openly fighting Mr..
Bryan, but the intended attack upon him
in this query is pretty much of a boom
erarG. Its logical answer makes more
for Mr.. Bryan than against him. The
Republican party is pledged to tariff re-
vision, yet the Herald asks, Can Bryan
bring tariff revision with the handicap
of Republican Senate and House? Does
that mean that body of Republican law
makers means that there shall be no tariff
revision? Does it mean that the Republi-
can promise for tariff revision is mean
ingless? Very evidently the Herald so
believes. Nor is the Herald alone in that
belief
''And if Mr.. Bryan, Democrat, can not
deliver the goods of tariff revision in spite
of a Republican Congress, how will Mr..
Taft be able to accomplish the feat? The
Herald's argument is so loose and vul-
nerable as to be unworthy any paper
which aspires to the position in politics
and journalism which the Herald as
sumes to fill.
But the answer to the question is that
in the gathering together of the body of
men who will make the next Congress
there has been in many cases a sacrifice
of party affiliations for the naming of
the better man. Also, the men who will
form the next Congress are in many cases
more patriotic than partisan. There are
Republicans who will stand with the
Democrats for tariff revision in spite of
all powers against it, because tariff re-
vision is matter greater than party at
this time 1t is going to be a pretty
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
This Is the Story.

The most notable and important fea-
ture of the opening of the Republican
national campaign at Youngstown, Ohio,
Saturday, was not the speech of Gov.
Hughes, nor yet that of Senator Bever-
idge. 1t was the part the steel trust took
in this formal launching of the Taft cam
paign in Mr.. Taft's own State.
The Associated Press dispatches briefly
indicated what happened in this para
graph of its report:
Along the rust-red waters of the Ma
honing river to-day the great mills of the
Carnegie works of the United States Steel
Corporation, the Republic Iron and Steel
Company, and the Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company were quiet, for a three
day holiday had been declared, including
Sunday and Labor Day. Youngstown is
a steel town, and the Drawn and muscle
of her chief industry formed the body of
the parade which preceded the discharge
of the heavy political ordnance"
The extended special report which the
Cincinnati Enquirer gives of the big meet
ing throws more light on this highly in
teresting feature. We quote from the
Enquirer of Sunday, Sept. e:
''The commanding feature of the day
was the parade which preceded the speak
ing in Wick Park There were a few over
$4,000 men in line. Of these more than
10000 came from the steel mills. Sup
piled with uniforms at the expense of the
companies, the toilers presented a striking
appearance as they marched past the re-
viewing stand. Because of the opening a
shutdown of the mills was ordered till
next Monday and the occasion made a
holiday. But few of these workers at
tended the meeting in Wick Park. This
was easily seen by the lack of uniforms
in the crowd. Probably not over one-tenth
of the turnout came to hear the speeches.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
Fun Is q Necessity.

Most people have the impression
that fun and humor are life incident
ais, not necessities; that they are lux
uries, and have no great bearing on
ones career.
Many think of fun as frivolous, indi-
eating lack Of serious purpose in
life. There are parents who rebuke
their children because they want to
have fun and go in for q good time.
These parents have yet to learn the
great part which fun and humor play
in the physical economy, and their in
f1uence on the life.
What a complete revolution in your
whole physical and mental being comes
after seeing a really funny play You
went to the play tired, jaded, worn out
discouraged. All your mental facul-
ties were clogged with brain ash; you
could not think clearly. When you
came home you were a new being.
A business man, on returning home
after perplexing, exhausting, exasper-
atlng days work, experiences the same
thing. Romping and playing with the
children, spending jolly evening with
his family or friends, telling stories and
cracking jokes, rest his jaded nerves
and restore him to his normal condi-
ton.
have been as much refreshed by
a good, hearty laugh, by listening to
good, wholesome fun-stories, jokes
or by spending an evening with friends
and having good time, as by long,
sound nights sleep; and I look back
upon such experiences as little vaca-
tions.-Success Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
Protection.

They found other attractions that the
holiday furnished, and were content to let
others listen.
''There were thousands of Hungarians,
Roumanians and other Slav people in this
division. Each man wore a khaki suit
and carried a cane or flag furnished by
his employers. They were divided into
brigades and were organized on military
lines, having regimental and brigade Off
GERS.
Zone Of the unusual incidents occurred
when the parade halted at the Elks' Club.
Someone called for cheer for Taft Out
of the uniformed ranks in response came
a roaring shout for Bryan and the col
umn moved on"
This is the story. It carries it's own
argument, and requires very little COM
ment by way of elucidation.-Omaha
rld-Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25

of God-given intelligence by the American
workingman. Former President Parry of
the National Manufacturers Association,
which does such yeoman service in expos
ing the iniquities of Dingleyism, furnish
ing the details otherwise procurable with
great difficulty by the layman, denounces
unfair tactics like these by employers. He
frankly confesses that the election of
Bryan and Kern would entail no disaster,
no damaging effect upon business, nor
would it at all interfere with the eco
nomic conditions and the phenomenal
wealth and resources of America, which
are bound soon to restore that prosperity
driven away by Republican insensate folly
and profigacy.
'And now a contemporary affects ignor-
ance of where these placards are hung.
Every utterance of Mr.. Taft is a dema-
gogic placard when he breaches that Mr..
Bryan's election would incite a new panic
or be an obstacle to prosperity's return.
Every false screech by his organs is such
a placard. The Leather Betting Company
of New York has started the placarding.
It's effect is now gone"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
That Leather Betting PIacard


The following is a Pittsburg (Pa.)
Post editorial:
whoever in memory recalls the Gar
field campaign can see those criminafiy
coercive placards on Ohio factories This
mill will shut down if Hancock be elected
Every manufacturing State in the Union
in every campaign since has been dis
graced by the same style of placard. West
Virginia knows the felonious device. Some
times it is a promise, as it must be now,
that mills will resume if Mr.. Taft is elect
ed. In times when Republican panics had
not thrown thousands into idleness and
stopped the wheels, it has been threat
to close; an assault upon the American
right to free ballot The promise is an
attempted bride; the shutdown intimida-
ton of more prosperous eras has been an
outrage upon the ballot.
''NIr. Kern has pilloried the perpetra-
tors of this criminal offense against the
freedom of political choice, against the use
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
FROM THE COMMONER
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER


as to jingoism, militarism, Imperialism,
extravaganza and waste at Washington
tariff privileges enjoyed by combines and
trusts, Harriman's contribution to the Re-
publican campaign fund, the Republican
party's failure to enforce the law, and the
Republican record generally-these things
are all presented in compact form.
There is the record. The people may
apply it-and The Commoner believes
they will apply it, so as to defeat the po-
ltical party that is responsible for that
record
In the meantime anyone may obtain a
copy of the Democratic campaign text
book for 1908 for twenty-five cents. II
will be sent, postpaid, for that sum. Ad-
dress Text Book Department, care Demo
cratic National Committee, Auditorium
Annex Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
Who Needs 1t and Who Gets 1t?

difficult job if Mr.. Bryan is elected to pre-
vent tariff revision
1t is possible that the willy foreigners
are sowing the seeds of dyspepsia in our
fleet
Mr.. Roosevelt may not, after all, need
to go to Africa in order to have a diff
cult search for an elephant.
Of course Mr.. Dupont of the powder
trust thinks this criticism of his leader
ship is merely a puff of smoke
Mr.. Dupont's presence in the Republi-
can headquarters rooms threatens an ex-
plosion in several parts of the country.
If the Republican vote falls off as great
a per cent as the cost of living shows an
increase, Mr.. Taft will have to hustle to
carry Pennsylvania.
"Of course the people rule" says Jo-
seph G. Cannon. And" continues "Un-
Gle joe" pointing to Nelson B. Aldrich,
I'VE are the people"
A great many factories that closed
during panic that came under a Repub-
lican administration are promising to open
and run full time if another Republican
administration is put in power.
American army uniforms made of Brit
ish khaki by coolie labor And the party
responsible for the gentlemen who did
it is declaring for protection to American
labor and American industries Perhaps
it means latter election"
Mr.. Taft has already discovered some
tariff schedules that are not high enough.
Interested parties will take due notice
Of the publicity after election" policy
and come across Immediately. Mr.. Shell
don is in a receptive mood.
Mr.. Taft says workmen "have right
to accumulate funds to support those en-
gagged in a strike But another Ohio
judge. following the Taft injunction pre-
cedent. restrained the International Print
ing Freshmen and Assistants Union from
nayiDg strike benefits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
Maybe You Overlooked These Facts.

Maybe You Overlooked These Facts:
Senator Fulton went to Oregon, and
asked for reelection, and the people said {:
GIVE WANT A CHANGE :"
Senator Hansbrough went to North Da-
kota for reelection, and the people said
1--WE WANT A CHANGE!
Senator Kittredge heard it in South
Dakota, from the people:
1--WE WANT A CHANGEw
Senator Long asked the people of Kan
sas for reelection, and the people shouted !:
1--WE WANT A CHANGE"
Senator Hopkins went to Illinois and
asked for reelection, and two-thirds of
the Republicans Of Illinois announced:
1--WE WANT A CHANGE"
Almost one-half of the Republicans of
Iowa. even when asked by their listin-
guished Senator Allison, replied:
1--WE WANT A CHANGE"
The voice of the people IS unnaistaka-
BILE. Wherever they have had chance TO
speak, they have earnestly lifted their
voices, saying:
I'VE WANT A CHANGE.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25
CHAPTRR VT

Alison was too tired to lie awake
a,o1nent after her head touched the pillow,
ISu sae woke so late the next morning
la breakfast was already over, and Miss
S'sU sent up a message by Poppie, beg
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-25

The deepening and frightening Of
the Annisquam River have made an
island out of Cape Cod.