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Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
GOOD NEWS.
Many Smyrna Readers Have
Heard it and Profited Thereby.

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relief is within their reach. Many
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more, thanks to Doan's Kidney Pills.
Many people are telling the good news
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was satisfactory in every respect. L
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were greatly strengthened by their use.
1 was troubled with backache for a
long time, and my kidneys were too
frequent in action, thus giving me
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about Doan's Kidney Pills 1 procured
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! gave me relief from the first. The
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Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
Fortune Came Too Late.

Troy. n. Y, Jan. q. - Charles G.
Biedinger. an inventor, was found dead
in his room in a cheap lOdginghouse
here. He had been in extreme want
lately. but had just learned that the
superior court, at Cincinnati, O.. had
decided a patent right claim in his
favor. awarding him $4,000 and in
terest upon it for several years. His
invention, a machine for making p9peI
wrappers, was patented while he was
in a sanitarium by his financial hacker
who refused an accounting whom tho
inventor was discharged from the sant
tarium.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
THE
THE
new YORK WORLD
THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION.
Read Wherever the English Language
is spoken.

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better paper in 1907 than ever before. In
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The news service of this paper is con-
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Moreover, its political news is impartial,
giving you facts, not opinions and wishes.
It has full markets. splendid cartoons and
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Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
Rank FoOIishntss.

"When attacked by cough or a cold
or when your throat is sore, it is rank
foolishness to take any other medicine
than DIR. Kings New Discovery, . says
G. o. Eldridge, of Empire. Ga. Il
have used New Discovery seven years
and 1 know it is the best remedy on
earth for coughs and colds, Group, and
all throat and lung troubles. My
children are subject to Group, but New
Discovery quickly cured every attack. y
Known the world over as the King of
throat and lung remedies Sold under
guarantee at Benton N. Weldon's drug
Store. SOC. and $1.0O. Trial bottle
| free.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
King AIforoo Had Narrow Escape.

Madrid. Jan. 24.-King Alfonso had
a narrow escape from death while
hunting. A wild boar unexpectedly
appeared and rushed at the king who
shot the animal The king then drop
ped his gun and walked up to the
body. supposing that he had killed the
boar, but it suddenly bounded up and
flew furiously at the king, who was
saved only by a prompt shot fired by
one of the party into the maddened
animals head. King Alfonso was un
hurt.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
A Cure For Misery.

81 have found a cure for the misery
malaria poison produces" says r. M.
James. of Louellen, SC. ''It's called
Electric Bitters, and comes in 80 cent
bottles. 1t breaks up case of chills
or a bilious attack in almost no time
and it puts yellow jaundice clean ont
of commission" This great tonic
medicine and blood purifier gives quick
relief in all stomach, liver and kidney
complaints and the misery of lame
back. Sold under guarantee at Ben
ton N. Weldon's drug store.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
Rush TO Enlist In Army.

New York, Jan. 27.-Several thou
send men. it is estimated have baen
turned away from the United S:atas
army recuiting stations in this c'ty
since it became filled with unemployed,
two months ago. Every rnc1itiag
station is 50 rapidly eElisting man for
the 9rmy that the former records are
increased $50 per cent. Al po tir'
since the wor has the r'1sh TO rec.,...-
ing stations been so greet.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
CABIN sWARMED WITH RATS
Nearly All of Dead Mans Face Eaten
Away BY Rodents.

Lancaster. Pa, Jan. 23.-Jacob Col
Inns, a negro. who was between eighty
and one hundred years of age, and
who lived in a cabin along the Sus-
quehanna river above Columbia, was
found dead in his bunk and the cabin
filled with rats. He apparently had
been dead a week, and nearly all OF
his face was eaten away by the rats
as we'll as portions of his body. Moth
ing is known of him except that he
came to the place about thirty-fvt
years ago and squatted along the river
bank.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
Terrorized Town While Hypnotized.

Bristol, Tenn, Jan. 25.-Charles
Estep was hypnotized by Yancy Will
son, and for an hour ran wild, terror
izing pedestrians and fighting like a
madman until he collided with a teie-
phone pole. The injured man was re-
stored by g professional hypnotist.
Wilson declares that he didn't know
he could hYpnotize and was joking
with Estep when the latter Sue
eumbed
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
To Lend Farmers S4.o0o.ooo.

Ottawa. Ont. Jan. 27.-TAe Domin
len government has decided to loan
sufficient funds to the farmers Cf :ha
new provinces Of Alberta and S2s
katchewan. whose crops were a fail
ure, to purchase seed grain. The
scheme in all will involve about s4
600. O.OG0. The advances will be payable
in three years at the usual govern
ment rate of interest.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Guilty. of KiIlino Niece.

Lock Haven, Pa, Jan. 27.-William
Donley, of Remove, charged with slay~
ing his nine-year-old niece, Mary Don
ley, at Remove, Oct. 90, 1907, was found
guilty Of murder in the first degree by
the jury.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
ADMITS KILLING DAUGHTER
Believing He Is About to Die, John
Fetter Confesses Murder.

South Bethlehem. Pa. Jan. 24.-Be-
lieving that his illness would result
fatally John Fetter. aged seventy-three
years. confessed that he murdered his
daughter Ella Fetter, aged thirty-nine
years. in November. 1894 Fetter told
Justice Haus that he had placed the
rope around his daughters neck and
then told the neighbors that she had
hanged herself. The confession was
lodged with the district attorney.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
SHORT AND SNAPPY
ITEMS OF INTEREST
CLEANED BY OUR WASH
INGTON CORRESPONDENT
Clever Hits on Big Men and Great
Questions Which are Uppermost
in the Public Z We of theWeek

The story that comes up to Wash
ington from Rio de Janeiro about a
plot to destroy some if not all of the
American batteships lacks official con.
irmation That is only to be expected
seeing the way that the news service
of the Departments is run, but there is
enough news on the outside to indicate
there is som ething at the bottom of the
story. 1t is an interesting develop
ment from several standpoints. In the
first place there could be nothing more
senselessly wicked than an attempt
against the American warships at any
time and especially in the harbor of
very friendly foreign power. But it IS
Just the sort of thing that the anar-
chistic propaganda would prompt. The
TACT that the plot seems to have been
hatched in Paris aud that anarchists of
Germany and Italy were mixed mp in
it merely indicates how wide spread is
the network of this crazy cult, the en-
envy of all civilized society. What
they could hope to gain by this whole
sale murder and destruction it is i'm
possible for sane people to understand.
But the mere fact that such thing was
contemplated ought to rouse the ma
tiors of the world to fight this crazy
sect to determination.
One of the interesting features of the
case too is that after having been in
official communication with three other
nations on the subject for nearly a
week, Robert Bacon, Assistant Secre'
tary of State declared he knew nothing
about the matter This is an almost
trivial phase of the case, for of course
nobody cares much what Mr.. Bacon
knows or what he says. But there
have been so many similar cases where
he has done the same thing, notably in
the case of Gov. Swettenham of jana
lea and the killing of the japanese sea-
poachers in Alaska, that his talent il
this line is worthy of at least passing
mention.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Consul Green says that the Japanese
are merely fulfilling their manifest
destiny in Manchuria. We never had
any great love for the Japs, but we did
not wish them quite such finish as
that.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
A CARD

This is to certify that all druggist
are authorized to refund your money if
Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure
yourcough or cold. 1t stops the cough
heals the lungs and prevents serious
results from a cold. Cures la grippe
coughs and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Contains no opiates.
The genuine is in a yellow package.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by all Drug
gists.
There seems to be some doubt as to
whether banker Walsh will get $40 OF
270 years for his bank wrecking ex
plot But in the ordinary course Oi
events, we should think that either one
would be sufficient.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Mr.. Bryan declares that he has ma lie
enough money in the past ten years to
make him absolutely Independent for
life. And this would be good argu-
ment with some interests against cleo
ing him to the presidency.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

That remark of Carrie Nations about
expecting to see every brewer in the
hereafter certainly will be an induce
ment for those gentlemen to live so
that they will go where she does not
expect them.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

These statistics Of the unemployed
in the big cities would be more en-
tightening If they indicated what pro-
portion would work if they had the op-
portunity.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

An exchange speaks of the vice presi
dencp as political mOrgue." Well
it has beon a political refrigerator foi
the past three years at any rate.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

1t must be a great satisfaction to
Uncle Russell Sage if he realizes how
neatly and completely he sewed up his
fortune when he left it in his wife's
hands.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Herbert Osborn declares he got mar
ried merely for joke" Mighty
queer sense of humor in anybody.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Political aspirants for the two con-
ventions will from now on try to offset
blackballs with high balls.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Be good and you'll be happy; but
probably you will have mighty stupid
time of it.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Cuban patriots can look forward to
the long delayed revolution for some
date subsequent to February st, 1909.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

The country Is now threatened will
an epidemic of original Taft men.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Speaker Cannon prefers the canned
variety of tariff revision with the car
opener mislaid.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

Reports of the Schmitz Ruef case
from San Francisco indicate that ethel
Justice slipped a cog or got sand il
the bearings.
Smyrna times., 1908-01-29

The straw vote shows what way th
hot air blows.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16

Redmond's paper and was: asked to go
to parliament, but refused for the
reason that he wished to- keep his citi-
zenship at Red Hook. N, Y.
The lieutenant governor is not more
Interesting than are his brothers.
There are three OF these, and each has
idiosyncrasles that have made some
thing of mark insthe world. Perhaps
the most noted is William Aston Chan
Ter. who once made all kinds of geo.
graphical and geological discoveries in
Africa. which gained him membership
in foreign scientific societies and
caused several new kinds of bugs to be
named for him. He then came home
and went into Tammany Hall politics.
that being the nearest thing to the jun
gle life he had been leading. He ran
for congress and beat the redoubtabie
Lemuel Ely Qutgg. later known to
fame as "Ryan's yellow dog" do
not remember whether or not it was
this defeat which seatised Quigg to be
embalmed in verse; but. at any rate. II
was at about this time. The verse ran
something like this:
If were LemueI Ely Quigg,
Lem Ely Quigg.
Tefn Ely Quigg;
If I were Lemuel Ely Quigg.
I'll tell you what I'd do.
Ia jump into a woodchuck hole,
An auger hole,
A gimlet hole;
I'd jump into gimlet hole
And pull the hole in too.
Another of the Chanler brothers Is
John Armstrong, whose chief title &c
distinction is that he was the one time
husband of Amelie Rives, the novelist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
Act Quickly.
Delay Has Been Dangerous in Rock
island

CCiay f1dS been dangerous IN hCCk
Island.
Do the right thing at the right
time.
Act quickly in times of danger.
Backache is kidney danger
Doans Kidney Pills act quickly.
Cure all distressing, dangerous kid
ney ills
Plenty of evidence to prove this.
Charles Greves of lS32i5 Third ave
nue., Moline, H., says: "Doan's Kidney
Pills have been in my family on sew
eral occasions. My wife suffered some
time with severe backaches caused by
disordered condition of the kidneys
and have been troubled in the same
way, the pains across my loins at
times being almost mbearabIe. Since
learning of Doan's kidney Pills. how
ever, these backaches and kidney dis
arrangements are thing of the past
made statement some years ago
recommending Doan's Kidney Pills.
and I repeat that Doans Kidney Pulls
are all that they are represented to be
and a sure cure and safe cure for kid
| ney disease
Plenty more proof like this from
| Rock Island people Call at Harper
House pharmacy and ask what Gus
| toners report.
| For sale by all dealers. Price. 80
lcents Foster-Milbnrn company. Buf-
falo, New York, sole agents for the
United States.
| Ramamhar tha uame-DOan'S-1n
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
How His Practice Grew.

But he did come in time to large
practice. 1t was this way: Whenever
he saw any deserving person or any
person he imagined deserving who
needed lawyer and had no money
Chanler would undertake the case for
nothing. This course gained him the
good will of the people and the Ill will
of his brother attorneys. One dubbed
him "the poor mans lawyer" and the
other "a crank"
Every man who aspires to the presi-
dency has TO be compared to Lincoln
in some way or another. IL it is not
the cut of his whiskers, it is his stories
or his LONELINESS. Chanler has some
faint resemblance to the great eman-
cipator in atFeast two particulars. One
Is that he is very tall, and the other is
that he refused to take cases when
convinced that his client was wrong.
He is known to have thrown up at
least one>,case, and one involving a
good fee at that. when he learned that
his man was guilty
Mr.. Chanler. in addition to graduating
from Columbia Law school. took a
course in international law in Cam
bridge. England. While In Great Brit
ain he became Interested In politics
and was a warm supporter of Parnell
IL Ireland. He assisted in editing John
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
Effective Speaker.

During the campaign of 1906 Lieu
tenant Governor Chanler developed
into one of the most effective speakers
on the platform. He was so intensely
in earnest, 50 individual and SO indie
pendent that he captivated his audi
ences everywhere. His constant care
was to present his arguments in new
and striking ways. He would get up
in the middle of the night to jot down
some point. One day while out with
Mr.. Hearst he felt new speech rag
ing inside of him and hunted up u
stenographer to whom to deliver 1t.
The stenographer was new. and Ne.
Chanler talked with great rapidity. As
and guessed at the rest with more or
less startling results.
When the Grafton was typed Chanler
handed it over to Hearst without
CHANGING at it himself. Hearst strug-
gled with it for about five minutes
and handed it back with puzzled and
| injured air.
Il think, Chanler," he remarked,
with some heat, THAT you are ID
anarchist or you have adopted some
new and untried language that even
Roosevelt hasn't heard Of"
| Chanler looked at the chaos of words
| that should have been his speech,
bought the stenographer box of bon
bons and advised her to go back to
washing dishes.
| Most of the Chanler brothers are
| sportsmen, Bob being a, great rabbit
and coon hunter in Duchess county
and Billy having shot lions in Africa.
Lewis Stuyvesant is an exception,
| however. "He is a serious minded
chap" says friend, "who goes after
a thing as IL his whole life depended
on it. He isn't crank or anything
of that sort, but he's earnest in every
thing he does, and he tries harder
than any man know"
Mrs. Chanler was q Miss Alice
Chamberlain of Red Hook, and there is
now a family of two sons and one
daughter. The lieutenant governor is
not yet forty and has the possibility
of many accomplishments ahead OF
him, even though one of them is not
being president or the Democratic can
didate therefor, which is not exactly
the same thing.
As second officer of the Empire Statt
Mr.. Chanler has made a distinctly fa
vorable impression In New York TIKI
! lieutenant governors Office Is more I'M
portant than In most states, for tn,
reason that the incumbent is a mem
Der of several boards and chairman o.
some or them. These boards have /
large share in public works and in tn,
actual details Of government.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16

MTFEh |NtW,
dent making has been a favorite pas
time along The Hudson's classic banks
There are envious people in the mid
die west and elsewhere who say that
all this Is now changed; that the pri-
macy of New York in national politics
is at an end. This may be so. Yet so
long as New York has thirty-nine votes
in the electoral college she will con-
tinue to be an important factor. Politi-
clans are not ruled by sentiment. how
ever much they may claim otherwise,
and thirty-nine electoral votes all in
one bunch look very good TO them.
Here is the way the Democratic poll
ticians regard the matter. and the
view is not without its common sense.
The Democrats can possibly win il
they carry New York. 1t all hinges on
that. They certainly cannot win with
out it. Owing to the split up condition
OF the Republicans in the Empire State
there is chance for the Democrats to
carry New York this year Mr.. Chan
Ter actually did carry it two years ago.
Therefore. reason the politicians afore
said, the logical candidate for presi-
,dent-indeed. che only candidate that
can WINS Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler.
But how can you reason with q popu-
lar wave? The heart OF the masses
says Bryan, and, IL Providence sr Bry-
an himself does not interpose. Bryan it
Will probably be.
There Is one other factor in the equa-
ton. however. The Independence
league. the organization that originally
nominated Chanler for lieutenant gov
ernor and that helped to elect him
threatens to place a candidate for pres
ident In the field This candidate. of
5 course. vii, be Hearst. for Hearst is the
league. Hearst will draw votes from
Bryan. thus diminishing hie chances
for election, which, never were too
promising.
On the other hand. Chanler. having
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16

less attempts t. catch =" anlnosrs. r.
p2atedly dashing its nose against tie
glass At last. having CONG 10 the
conclusion that its Efforts were of no
use, it finally discontinued them. The
glass Was then removed but the itls rs
firmly established in the pike never
became disestabiisied. for 1t never aft
erward attacked the minnows, though
it fed voraciously on all other kinds
of fish.-London Telegraph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
Useful Society Bud.

Chanler belongs to the Four Hun
dred and was born at Newport. the
summer home Of the smart set. He. is
q great-erandson of the original John
Jacob Astor. who started his fortune
in the fur trade and has kept his fam
lily on the fur lined side of life ever
since. While Mr.. Chanler was born
with millions and is a society bud. he
is by no means as useless or lacking In
IDEAS as these facts would imply. In
fact, he has been original enough on
one or two occasions to be dubbed
crank" A crank may be nuisance
or a benefactor. according to the point
of view. but he has TO think.
Despite the fact that he is related to
the best families in America, including
the Marions of North Carolina and the
~. L. VS." he considers himself. and
his friends consider him. "a plain Dem
ocrat." That is not surprising. as 1t is
about the highest distinction man
can have in America. 1t is the order TO
which Abraham Lincoln belonged
A great many American men have
shown that they could succeed in spite
of poverty. A few like Theodore Roose-
Welt have shown that they could sue
coed in spite of birth and wealth, q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16

Remedy. My little girl. Catherine,
who is two years old. has been taking
this remedy whenever she has had
cold since she was two months old
About a month ago | contracted
dreadful cold myself, but | took Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and was soon
as well as eyer.' This remedy is for
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
Good Words for Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy.

People everywhere take pleasure in
tcstifying to the good qualities of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs.
Edward Phillips of Barclay. Md,
writes: 81 wish TO tell you that | can
recommend Chamberlains Cough
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
ChanIsr. P | cor Mans Lawyer !"
Character Study of New Yors Lieutenant Governor, Who
Is a Presidential canddate-"A Plain Democrat"
Though Born With MiIions-Effecve Platform
Speaker and Earnest In All He Does.

been an Independence league man.
might stand a chance Of gaining the
support of that organization. 1t must
be stated frankly. however. that even
this chance is remote. Hearst is the
emperor of the league. and the only
man he will boost for the presidency
of the United States. the goal on which
his eye has long been fastened, Is Viii
liam Randolph Hearst.----~-e--
Chanler would fare better at the
hands of the New York editor. how
ever. than Bryan. The memory of
1904 and Bryan's support of Cockrell
for the Democratic nomination is still
fresh, and if any, one figures that
Hearst forgives things like that he
does not know the man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16

stlll harder task. Mr.. Chanler belongs
to the last named class.
He is a lawyer; but, like the boy
whose father was Christian, he is
not working at it now. In fact, he
never did make much in the practice.
Having steady income Of his own.
he didn't need the money. 1t is said
that his office went WITHOUT chair
some timex for the reason that Mrs.
Chanler stipulated that he could not
buy a chair until he did it with money
he collected in fees.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-16
Curino a Fish.

4 curious experiment was tried q
short time ago to determine the brain
power of the pike. One of these yo-
racious fish was placed in a tank with
some minnows with glass partitions
separating the one from the other.
The pike for three months. made fruit