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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Mr.. william A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining 20 the
subject of building for the readers % this
paper on account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor. Author and Manufac-
turor. he is. without doubt. the highest
authority on an these subjects. Address
sll Inquiries 90 William a. Radfori No.
Igi Fifth Ave. Chicago. H.. and only
enclose tyO-cent stamp for reply.
A small story and half or cottage
house Of five rooms is shown In this
plan II is % feet six inches wide by
30 feet In length, and may be built
with or without a cellar or plumbing
However, at the time Of building. a
cellar under a small house like this
does not cost a great deal and no
modern house these days should be
built without water and gas pipes and
electric wireing
Gas Is being carried In pipes along
thickly settled roads In the country.
Almost every village having an enter.
prising population has gas plant and
many country homes have private
plants OF their own. improvements In
the manufacture OF gas have gone
ahead 80 rapidly OF late that It is not
necessary for any person, no matter
how remote from large cities. to do
without this wonderful modern con-
venience in housekeeping.
You can have a good satisfactory
water supply both upstairs and down
by simply putting good force pump
in the well. or cistern, with a little
piping and with a tank sufficient for a
days supply. You can have a more
elaborate system for more money. but
the point ! wish to make is that no one
need do without a water supply under
pressure II they really want II.
Such houses as this may be built
for very little money. II is difficult to
estimate for different localities be
cause prices vary more than half. but
i have known just such houses to be
built for $1,000 and finished up in a
way entirely satisfactory TO the owner.
You can make II as more elaborate as
you want to, but generally the object
in building a small house is to make a
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
BIRDS WAR WITH MYRIAD MITES

busy food gathering that they are
fearless. II is possible to approach
within few feet of them and to
watch them at their labor. This. Of
course. applies 10 the warblers which
feed in the shruJbery and in the lower
branches OF the trees rather than TO
those which prefer the topmost foliage.
Touching the matter OF the warblers
plumage. nothing that can be said cf
It's beauty can be deemed extravagant
Take the blackburnian warbler (Den.
droica blackburniae). a bird that may
be seen at this season in both city
and suburb. There IS no hue in feath.
ers. to one mind at least. that in point
OF brilliancy can be compared to the
throat Of this gorgeous creature. The
books put the color down as an orange
yellow, but print is cold. Furnished
gold is better. and yet does scant jus
tice to the beauty of the subject. Other
warblers and other bird families have
yellow throats, but the beauty of the
blackburnians feathers is a thing
apart.
The sauciest of warblers Is the
Maryland yellow-throat. This yellow.
throat, like the blackburnian, is a
beauty. With the other bird out of
the question the yellow-throat might
be awarded the palm. 1t is not hard
to scrape acquaintance with this little
fellow. He is always dressed for a
masque ball and as he peers at Won
from out the bush where he has taken
refuge his eyes twinkle through the
top Of his black mask and he seems
TO say: Find out who | am is you
can"
The Maryland yellow-throat is a
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
THE SAFE WAY TO BUY PAINT,

Property owners will save a deal
of trouble and expense In keeping
heir buildings properly painted. IL
they know how to protect themselves
against Misrepresentation and adul
teration in paint materials. There's
one sure and safe guide to a pure and
thoroughly dependable White Lead
that's the Dutch Boy Painter" trade
mark which the National Lead Com
pany, the largest makers of genuine
White Lead, place on every package
Of their product. This company sends
a simple and sure little outfit for test
ing white lead, and valuable paint
book, free, to all who write for it
Their address is Woodbridge Big.
Sew York City.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

lighted bedrooms upstairs, with a
bathroom between them opening of
from the hall,
You can have as many clothes
closets as you want by building them
under the low part OF the roof in the
sides of the bedrooms, in space that is
not otherwise utilized.
In designing this little house the
cost has been kept down as much as
possible by making it very plain and
leaving out all unnecessary furbelows
that cost extra without giving proper
tionate returns.
Such houses are very much In de.
mand on large farms. II farmers would
build houses like this and place them
In nice locations near the highways
they would have less difficulty in Sc.
curing good farm help One reason
why men object to farm work is that
their living accommodation usually
are about a hundred years behind the
times. Shis is unnecessary. Il is
time for farming communities to wake
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

ground lover. II inhabits the whole
northern country in summer. It Is this
beauty which occasionally builds its
nest in the unsavory skunk cabbage,
a fact which led me in another article
TO declare that | more than half be-
lieved the birds olfactory nerves were
lacking. Possibly. however. II Is a
case of all things being sweet to the
sweet for the yellow-throat is a sweet
tempered little fellow, withal his voice
is occasionally querulous. It's note
sounds something like "Witchity
witchity, witchity." though II may be
translated TO suit the fancy of the
hearer. John Burroughs who is al
ways apt. thinks the yellow-throat po-
litely asks the wayfarer: Which way,
sir?"
One OF the fascinations OF advanced
study of the warblers is the possibility
that one may stumble upon rare spe
cies. Frank NJ. Chapman touches up
or this point In his Teachers Man
ual of Bird Life" He says: ITO the
field ornithologist warblers are the
most difficult as well as the most fas-
cinating birds to study. Long after
the sparrows, fy-catchers and vireos
have been mastered there will be un-
solved problems among the warblers.
Some rare species will be left to look
for-it may be member OF the band
flitting about actively in the branches
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

again depends great deal on circum.
stances.
II is often desirable to build the
cellar wall Of cement whether the
house itself is built the same way or
not. The lower part of the wall may
be built without an outside form If the
ground is firm enough to maintain a
perpendicular cut long enough to mix
the cement and shovel It In. In such
cases 1t is only necessary to put up
temporary boarding to form the inside
of the wall up to the grade line Then
stakes may be driven and boarding
placed inside Of them to build the
wall from the grade line up.
When this upper portion of the
mold is boxed in II is easy to tack in
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Marine insurance is the Oldest blnr.
OF modern insurance. Its principles
we're first employed in the fourteenth
century by the merchants of BARGE
Iona, in Spain, when that city was
the capital OF the kingdom of Cata-
lonia and when its hardy mariners
were second to none in the world.
About the same time, and also at
Barcelona, the famous code of mari
time laws known as the consulate
del mar" was promulgated. which Is
the foundation of the present shipping
laws OF every country.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
souqht Crusoe's FireIock.

Hulda b. White OF Philadelphia has
purchased the firelock used by Al
exander Selkirk, Defoe's original Rob-
inson Crusoe on the island OF Juan
Fernandez, at sale in Edinburgh.
The relic has an authentic pedigree.
and for long time was in the pos
session Of Selkirk's relatives in Fife
shire. Scotland. The price paid for
the gun was S160.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
Stopped In Time,

Little Bob, who for some months
had invariably ended his evening
prayer with Please send me a baby
brother" announced TO his mother
that he was tired OF praying Cor what
he did not get, and that he did not be.
lieye God lad any more little boys to
send.
Not loag afterward he was carried
into his mothers room very early in
the morning to see twin boys, who had
arrived during the night. Bob looked
at the two babies critically. and .her
remarked: IT'S good thing
stopped praying. or there'd heen tp-e'
OF them. m."-Delineato
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
a Reviked version.

A poet who HIS been known 10 tell
the truth recoun:s this story OF Lis
little daughter:
Her mother overheard her expound.
ing the origin of the sex to her family
Of dolls.
You see. children" she said.
Adam was a man all alone and was
very lonely, so God put him to sleep.
took his brains out and made a nice
lady Of them. illustrate Bits.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

up 10 the demands Of modern civiliza
ton
Houses built after this design look
very well when made OF cement and
it often happens that cement house
can be built in a village or country
place as cheap or cheaper than wood
When sand and broken stone can be
easily gotten together the cost Of mix.
ing and putting the materials together
in the mold is often less than the car.
penter work on frame house. but this
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
By EDWARD q. CLARK.
associate Member American Ornithol
ogists' UnlonD

associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists UnlonD
Copyright. Joseph B. Bowles)
Late September is the warbler sea-
son. Untold thousands Of the birds
forming this family hurry southwark.
Save to the keen observer their pres
ence IL unsuspected. They keep as a
rdle rigidly to the tree tops, where
they carry on unending war against
the myriad OF insect foes of the foil.
age
The warblers are mites of creatures,
The largest of them being about the
size OF the English sparrow, while the
great majority are but a trifle larger
than the kinglet, which is the smallest
bird we have. barring only the ruby
throat humme1. Search all the bird
families and you will find few mem
Bers that are arrayed like unto these
industrious little laborers on mans
behalf.
There are something like 40 species
Of warblers. and in their colors they
shade into one another so perplexing.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
Starch, like everything else. is be.

Starch. like everything else. is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat.
est Observation-Disclosures Starch-all in
furious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition OF another ingredient, In
vented by US. gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
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mouldings to give the cement any
markings desired. In such cases the
cement that goes next to the outside
planking is made little richer, and is
sometimes plastered on with a trowel
before the backing is filled in.
Cement construction is gaining in
favor very fast and there are men now
in almost every community who have
Mt least a working knowledge of how
to put the materials together and to do
satisfactory job, A foreman with
two or three unskilled helpers will
soon build good cellar wall OF con
crete that will harden and improve
with age.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Of the fathers went so far as to esteem
the love OF music sign OF predes-
tination. as thing divine, and re-
served for the felicities OF heaven It..
self.--SIr William Temple.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
HoW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hals
Catarrh Cure
Z. J. CHENEY & co. Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known r. J. Cheney
for the last IS years, and believe him perfectly hon
Orabe m all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any OBLIGATIONS made by his nrm.
WAIDING. kINNAN & MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo o.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and MUCOUS surfaces OF the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price rs cents PEI
hottie Sold by all DrlgRsts.
Take Halrs Family Pills Tor constipation
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory IL the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, 1t is usually neces-
sary to use SO much starch that the
beauty and fineness Of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear.
ing quality OF the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
II Came CT.

The fair bather was in the greatest
danger when the heroic rescuer seized
her by the hair. 1t came of. Puffs
and coils and waves and rats IL
strewed the shuddering sea.
For moment the rescuer was
iazed.
Then he grasped the tiny knob Of
rial hair that remained on the lady's
mead and drew her into shallow water.
Did she thank him for saving her
life?
She didn't.-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

comfortable home for a small family
at moderate cost and that is what
this design is intended for.
After you become thoroughly tired
of paying rent and decide to build for
yourself, II your family is small and
you can manage with two bedrooms,
then study this plan over carefully. II
is very compact, has three comfortable
rooms down stairs and two good we'll
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
Dark Subject.

I'm all in the dark about how
these bills are to be paid said Mr..
Hardup to his wife.
We'll, Henry" said she, as she
pulled out colored one and laid It on
the pile. you will be il you don't pay
that one. for it's the gas bill"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Lewis Single Binder straight SC cigar
made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your deal.
er or Lewis Factory, Peoria. Ill.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

Platonic love is a good deal like
the gun we didn't know was loaded
Smart Set.
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The only way some people know IL
the other way.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10
WAR5lERs MOST PERPlExlNG,
MOST FASCINATING FAMILY
TO STUDENTS.
FORTY DIFFERENT SPECIES

The Winged Creatures, and Their
Manner Of misrating-Their colors.
Habits and Good Work.
Flight OF the Hawks.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-12-10

GOOD HOUsEKEEPEas.
Use the best. That's why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers cents.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
Bryan Tells Nebraska People
That Republican Party is Not
Responsible For Good Crops
and Good Prices.

steubenville. o.. Oct. i4.-Taft is
travelling through the pottery district
OF Ohio. His hearers mostly are
workIngmen. He told laborers the
continuance OF good wages depends
on Republican success.
East Liverpool. Ohio. Oct. 14.-In
the midst OF the steel and ron dis
trict OF Cleveland, VIM. II. Taft
commanded the closest attention Of
an immense audience. This region Is
proverblally regarded as the hardest
place In Ohio for political speaker
to obtain a respectful hearing When
Taft appeared he was warmly well
coined.
He showed from his viewpoint why
K was the American workman need
ed the protection OF the tariff and
what had been the result when he had
not had that protection. Taft col-
lowed this with a detailed account OF
his own personal experience with the
labor world.
He explained that the decisions he
had rendered while on the bench. aud
for which he Was now condemned by
Bryan and Gompers, we're In reality
the legal basis of labor examinations
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Replies to Insinuation He Was Offere d
Office. by Disproving Assertions OF
His Traducers.
PRESIDENT OF LONGSHOREMENS UNION SHOWS THAT
HE WAS NOT WITH PRESIDENT EXCEPT In COMPANY
He is for TAFT for President and Announced Himself for Taft
Before Gompers Manifesto Was Published

New York, Oct. 1.-THE Demo
cratic national committee. through
John ]. Gordan. acting chief of the
press bureau at headquarters here
made public the following:
at was stated at national Demo
cratic headquarters that President
Roosevelt. by promise OF office, has
succeeded in having one of the big
men of the American Federation OF
Labor desert Gompers in his ad-
vocacy of the election of Bryan.
"The leader in question is Danial
j. Keefe. of Detroit, president of the
international Association of Long
shoremen. and one of the vice presi-
dents of the Federation of Labor"
Denies Offer.
Detroit, Mich, Oct. 14.-President
Keefe, of the Longshoremen's union.
categorically denied the statement
from Democratic headquarters in New
York that he had been offered the
position Of commissioner general of
immigration.
Keefe said: 81 was not closeted
with President Roosevelt at all. did
see him October 3, but 1t was only a
four or five minutes audience at
which several others We're present.
These included p. H. Morrisey, head
OF the brotherhood of Railway Train
men. and | think one of the others
was Gen. Powell Clayton. There were
others I did not know. am of the
opinion that every word said to me at
that time was overheard
"The president did not offer me
the position of commissioner general
Of immigration. directly or indirectly
there or at any other time. The ex-
ecutive council of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor did not, to my know,
edge, send out any circular, as is re-
ferred to in the dispatch from New
York. consequently | could not have
Endorsed It.
"On August 10. more than sin
weeks before saw the president
made identically the same state
ment which | made few days ago In
regard to Taft's candidacy. My state
merit appears in the Detroit Free
Press Of August '16 | was asked ther
by a representative of the Free Press
IL had signed or seen the letter
sent out by President Gompers, OF
the American Federation of Labor dc
nouncing the Republican platform
and urging labor to support Bryan
and the Democratic ticket. re-
Piled
Il do not believe that Gompers
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
HORSE RUNS AWAY
THROWING HALLS
FROM THEIR BUGGY
Robert Hall Has Been DncOn-
sci0us More Than Twelve
Hours Since Fall. y
Doctors Think He Will Re-
cover From Effects.
GRAHAMvILLE MEN INJURED

Maxon Mills. Oct. IA. Especial. y
While returning home from a speak
ing. John Han and his son, Robert
Hall. two prominent farmers OF Ora
hamville.-,were pitched out of the
buggy last night about $3.50 O'Clock
and injured. Robert Hall suffered
conclusion of the brain. but win re
cover; while his father had his left
knee wrenched. Both sustained minor
injuries about the body. The father
was able to be removed home this
afternoon. but II will be several days
before Robert Will be able TO be
moved.
Their horse vas frightened by a
train. The father was pitched out
and injured, while Robert Hall
struck his head on the buggy while
trying to jump. DR.. S. 2. Holland
was called and he found that Robert
Halls skull was not fractured. Hall
had not regained consciousness this
afternoon. but he win recover. The
buggy was wrecked by hte frightened
horse.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
FINANCIERS GET
TRIAL In FEDERAL
COURT FOR FRAUD

New York, Oct. 1.-THE trial o
Charles w Morse. former ice king
and Albert II. Curtis, former office
of the National Bank OF North amer
lea. on charge of looting the bank
was begun in federal court. Prose
cutor Stimson announced he intend
to pdy the lid off New York's "frer
zied finance" Charles NJ. Schwat
John w. Gates, F. Augustus Heinse
W. F. Havemeyer and other Jesse
financial lights are witnesses. There
Is hot fight over the jury. II is r.
ported Curtis Is ready to testify 70
the government. but Attorney Oloott
of the defense, denied this.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
SAMPLE BALLOTS
ARE RECEIVED BY
CLERK OF COUNTY

The log cabin device of the Repub-
lican party will occupy the place OF
honor on the official ballot at the com
ing November election. the party
having won first place by carrying the
state for Wilson last fall. The Off.
cial form OF the ballot was received
by County Clerk Smedley this morn.
Ing. and It will be given to the printer
after October II, when the time IN
which candidates for county and city
positions can get their names on the
ballots Is up.
The ballot shows seven political
parties represented, appearing on the
ballot In the following order: Re
.publicar, Democrat, Prohibition, So.
cialist Labor, Peoples Party and Inde.
pendence party.
For congress there are four candi-
dates to be voted for, Porter, Repub.
llcan; James. Democrat; Ford, Social.
lst, and Graham, Peoples Party.
The ballot viii be unusually large
because of the long lists OF president
ial electors and the city ticket and
school bond question. and when com
pleted VIII be about the size of one
page Of The Sun.
The paper on which the official bal
Dot Is printed is furnished BY the
state, and the clerk has received not
fee that 1t has been shipped from
Louisville and should reach here by
the time needed.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
Tammany Comes Across

New York. Oct. 1i.-Tammany
Hall will contribute $4,000 to the
Democratic national committee. ac-
cording TO an announcement made by
Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany
leader. In addition. the local organi-
cation will pay al the expenses of the
big mass meeting in Madison Square
Garden on October &c, at which Mr..
Bryan is TO speak. This will proba-
bly, amount to $4,000 more. All this
Is besides the thousands Tammany
always spends in New York.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
Flying Wedge For Hissen

In the interest OF the Independence
party Edwin Strauss, of Chicago, anc
z. e. Smith, of Toledo. o., will speak
tonight at 1880 O'Clock at Third street
and Broadway. The speaking will be
in the open, as the speakers will ad-
dress the voters from a hack. Messrs.
Smith and Strauss are touring Ohio,
Kentucky. Illinois and Indiana in the
interest OF the party. Sixty men have
been divided into twelve organiza-
lions. ami each is known as Flying
Wedge"
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Farmers Union

Maxon Mills. Ky, Oct. 14.-(Spe-
cia, One hundred farmers are at
tending the executive committee meet
ing of the Farmers Union here today.
The meeting began this morning, but
as some members were SOW to arrive
the committee did not begin to get
down to business in earnest until this
afternoon. The purpose of the meet
ing is to regulate the price of tobacco
in control OF the union for next year
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-14
SUPPLY MEN GIVE
MONEY TO PARTY
---GET NONE BACK

Frankfort. Ky, Oct. Ia. (Spec3al.)
In a report on the condition of the
asylums State Inspector Thatcher
says. supply men at various asylums
have been contributing to the cam
paign funds Of both parties and says
the Big Hill Coal company contribut-
ed 81 900 to the Democratic cam
paign fund through ]. II. Fuqua. The
contribution was refused by Bob
Phillips, then a member of the board.
The company claims the money was
not returned by Fuqua.