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The National tribune., 1909-11-04
PEOPLE.

The German Kaiser, who has an eye
on everything which goes on in his
realm, has become alarmed at the re-
cert decline in the birth rate of Ger
many, which for the past 10 years has
been greater than that of any other
Nation in Europe. This state Of things
ls not at all in accordance with the
Kaiser's plans or hopes for Germany,
and he has therefore as an inducement
to parents to raise large families offered
to stand as godfather to every eighth
child born in German family, no mat
ter how poor or humble its parents
and has also ordered his Government
to pay to all such parents the sum of
80 marks, OF about $40. In Germany
this will likely have the desired effect,
but II is feared that 1t would take more
than a prize of $40 to impress upon the
minds of the struggling American fatn-
er and mother the joys accruing from
the presence of an eighth little strang-
er" around the family hearthstone.
The gentle Queen of Holland has de-
cided ideas Of her own. She has lust
invented a most surprising contrivance
to take the place of the ordinary baby
for the use of the little
Princess when the weather is cold. It
is in shape something like a giant per-
containing stove and seats
for nurses besides the place for the
royal child. and is drawn by a horse
1t must be awful ugly and queer look
ing, and just why the baby couldn't be
put into little white fur coat and cap,
be well tucked up and sent out in a
baby carriage with q healthy woman to
push 1t. is difficult to understand. But
the baby belongs to Queen Wilhelmina,
and she has the say+so in Holland, and
IL is certainly no ones business what
she sends the little Princess out in
There is one thing, surely. whatever
Queen Wilhelfnina does is going to be
just right in the eyes of her absolutely
devoted subjects.
. Women feel. of course. that their
personal appearance is "a question which
concerns themselves alone. IL they
choose to adopt style of dress or of
doing" the hair, 1t is no ones busi-
ness but their own. Consequently there
is high Indignation in Kansas City and
Chicago where the Superintendent of
the Postal Telegraph Company and a
leading merchant have issued orders
that all women employed by them must
take out their hair rats, and reduce.
II not remove altogether, the big puff
at the back of the head. The merchant
has gone further than this and forb d.
den any sort OF dress worn by his
clerks except the simplest All
Iewelry, peeE-a-boo waists. ANYTHING
frilly or fluffy Is tabooed. and nothing
permitted but a plain black skirt and
4 simple black or white waist. These
are very wise orders, and no sens Bile
girl employed by either of these con-
Germs could object. To be sure, il does
put the girls into something OF fix.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
The Presidents Picturesque Tour
Down the Mighty Stream.

The most picturesque of all the many
events of President Taft's long trans
continental tour has been his trip down
he Mississippi River. The country has
been following him aboard the light
house tender OIeander as he braved
the perils of shadows and sandbars
and bends and as the fleet of nonde-
script boats, carrying 25 Governors and
III members of Congress, wheeling
along behind him all the way from st.
Louis to New Orleans.
The long sail will add to the volumi-
nous history of that great river, and
will be remembered as the outcome Of
an effort of the powerful Business
Mems Association of St Louis to arouse
interest in the improvement of that
river. Many distinguished people have
sailed on that very famous way. Among
them have been Presidents and numer-
Gus other dignitaries, but never before
has there been such a party of numer-
Gus influential individuals from whose
number a session of the Senate and
House Of Representatives could almost
have been called.
The great States bordering on that
river want improvements in the shape
of a 14-foot channel that will cost
something like S63,000,000, according
to the estimates of Army engineers. The
project is the largest Single one yet
Hidppeu Out, S1NlilS only the fdndfld
Canal There have been two or three
tremendous campaigns before Congress
for money to inaugurate this improve
ment, but thus far these campaigns
have not succeeded beyond the author
ization of surveys. But it is expected
there will be a river and harbor ap-
preparation bill in Congress this Win
ter. If so, the clamor for starter
for the 14foot channel promises to be
well-nigh irresistible.
The President has declared himself
for the project under certain linita-
tions, but has discouraged action that
might prove too hasty. He wants, first,
that the improvements to the channel
of the Ohio River, which Is the greatest
feeder of the Mississippi, be pushed
ahead. In the meantime he wants ex.
perimentS made with wsil-esta blished
lines of boats on the Mississippi. He
has even suggested that the Govern
ment put on at its own expense a line
or two of boats to carry freight. He
also wants something done toward ter
minal facilities and wharves. The in
vestigationS OF the River and Harbor
Committee of the House on waterway
projects have demonstrated that one of
the chief difficulties in building up the
sadly-neglected facilities of American
rivers for handling freight is proper
wharves and other freight landing and
unlanding facilities.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Rank Not Considered.

r. c. Phillips. Naples, n. Y. objects
10 the phraseology in the bill, rank
shall not be considered" He under
stands it that all rank and connection
with the army ceased when we were
discharged, and no words in the bill
can make that any different. II looks
as if those who had been promoted for
bravery or any cause had been dis
graced by 1t. and the action of the
National Encampment in condemn ng
the officers retirement bill was a dis
grace. 1t Is time that the old grudges
held by soldiers against their officers
should be forgotten.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Pension Inequalities

]. A. Rodgers. 5th Ohio. Sigel. Ill,
says that he enlisted in April. 1861. and
was discharged in May. 1865. He is
getting $40 a month, because his legs
got in the way of q rebel bullet and
because he had the scurvy and lost all
his teeth. He Is now So years old. One
Of his neighbors enlisted in March,
1865. and was discharged in July of the
same year, and is drawing $50 per
month on account OF his age He got
no farther TO the front than Washing
ton, d. c. Comrade Rodgers does not
think this is fair. just because he hap
pened to be born few years earlier.
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The Congressman of the Mississippi
Valley districts will come to Washing
ton fresh from the big sail to urge their
campaign for large appropriation. 1t
will undoubtedly be resisted, as the
Treasury funds are low. and the leaders
are already crying out about the i'm
perative necessity OF economy. Presi-
dent Taft has gone on record as favor
ing bond issues for certain interior prof.
ects, such as the reclamation of arid
lands and waterway improvements.
With him on the sail down the Missis-
sippi River has been Speaker Cannon,
who represents n Mississippi Valley dis
trict, but who IS a little "skeery'' about
the 14-foot channel project. because of
the great drain it might be upon the
Treasury in the immediate future. AS
the head man of the House, holding the
pursestrings of the United States Gov
ernment, the Speaker has to be con-
servative about big expenditures There
is an unwritten law that the United
States Government must not issue bonds
except in time of war. The voting pub
lie has generally been unfriendly to the
party that was not able to make both
ends meet-to keep the expenditures
within the receiptS-especially If the
expenditures brought about an issue of
bonds. The Speaker has not been in
public life for more than 80 years with
out HOW lltdSuly
have driven parties out of power.
The Bond Issues.
There is apparently to be big con-
test over the proposed bond issues this
Winter, with pretty nearly the entire
West in favor of the bonds and pretty
nearly the entire East against them.
For some years Congress has favored
the continuing contract system for river
.roI 80.
method contracts are let for large prof.
ects which require a term of years for
completion. Theodore E. Burton, of
Ohio, now Senator, but then n member
of the House and Chairman of the Riv-
er and Harbor Committee, championed
that system in the face of great opposi-
tion, but it was finally adopted and has
worked very satisfactorily. indeed. After
the contract Congress votes
the money needed to continue the work
along well-defned lines from year TO
year. The Engineer Office of the Army
is accordingly able to conduct the
construction of such improvements
methodically and with less waste
Speaker Cannon is in favor of sticking
to that plan in improving the Missis-
S ppi. Thus the Government would be
paying the cost of improvement from
year to year, and would not he saddling
a debt upon future generations.
Some of the Western State and Fed
eral officials have been making it hot
for Uncle Joe" because he was so con-
servative about their 14-foot waterway.
There have been meetings and speak
ings aboard their boats on the way
down the Mississippi and also at New
Orleans. They lost no opportunity to
whang away at the veteran Illinosan,
and he in turn has met their assaults
boldly, but with good nature. and has
tried to make it. plain what the men
who have to guard the Treasury from
a deficit and the public from the bur-
den of bond issues which might prove
unpopular have to think about the
great project.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Look Out For Your Nerves.

There is hardly anything which restores
the nerves as quickly and surely regular
bowels Most people who have weak nerves
and are run down are chronieally constipated.
1t Is surprising in how short time a man
or woman can build up n strong body by
beiag absolutely regular and taking Prof.
Midgley's advice.
Our readers be positively certain Of
results IL they will but send for Prof Midg-
ley's book and follow his advice- He IL
known all over the country as the "Constf-
patton Wizard" His method is all so woa-
derful and so simple. that It has been said
by n great many to be positive pleasure
TO adopt the Midgley way Of getting cured
right at home
There il nobody else in this country who
has given this disease such deep profess
sionaI study Prof. Midgiey. His advice
to you VIII be worth hundreds of dollars.
and you will have saved years OF misery
bad health. and danger of disease.
You will realize within few hours what
IL is to really live and have that exquisite
feeling Of perfect health. cheerful spirit.
good digestion, clear mind. quick memory,
energy, courage and ambition, to a degree
which you probably never before could un-
darstand or experieuce-and all this by
merely following the simple directions Of
man by whose advice hundreds have been
cured in q most remarkable manner
The National tribune., 1909-11-04

nearly exhausted all the books can tell
him of the higher mathematics, and has
gone beyond most college graduates in
this science. He has studied algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, calculus and
other mathematics, even to astronomy,
physics, chemistry and anatomy a little.
Think if his poor little brain! Strange
to say, this remarkable boy of IL looks
just like any other healthy, normal
child of his age, and loves to play as
well as study. His boy friends call him
WILL which shows he isn't a little Pc
dantic prig, as one might suppose. The
professors at Harvard are waiting to
see into what the boys brain will de-
velop and, in fact, he has attracted the
attention of students of psychology all
over the world.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
The Roll of Honor.

Charles T. Roberts, Hicksville, o.,
was pleased with the statement as to
the Roll of Honor written by Serg't
Pownail, 29th Ind. Comrade Roberts
was also a Sergeant in the battalion,
which was abolished on account of the
Jealousy of the army. He has lost the
end OF the index finger on his right
hand and is down with sciatic rheuma-
hsm. He wants all the boys to stand
by The National Tribune's bill to raise
the rates.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Must Quit Pill Habit.

You young and middle-aged men and
women who eat and drink everything you
like. and you old men and women who are
addicted to pill-eating to keep your overdue
bowels going. you don't realize that there
would not be one-hur dredth part of the dis
ease on earth today If your bowels were alb
solutely regular.
You can shake your fist at almost any old
disease known If you've got the bowels that do
business every "a hours This is plain talk,
but every doctor will tell you the same thing
only he may be more particular in his Ian
guage. but it won't have the impression on
your mind.
Now, YOU can't cure constipation with
cathartics, and one of the reasons why
there Is much constipation today is because
there are so many drugs. liquids and unnat-
ural bowel movers guzzled and swallowed by
so many thousands of people
'It is true these cathartics sluice out the
bowels clean, but they also slulce out that
bowel-roving Juice or secretion which
Nature has put in every good bowel to
make it work easy and right. When this
natural Juice" in the bowel is cleaned out
your bowels become nero dead-pipes Then
you get bad case of constipation and pills
are swallowed to do the moving. This goes
on. over and oyer- again. .--
'"Talke 1t for granted that you have
got to quit taking pills and drugs castor oil.
cascara. jaIap, ssmboge and all other ca
thartics before you can ever hope to cure
your constipation
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
The 18Th Ohio.

VIII d. Cristy, Co. G, 116th Ohio.
Creston, Iowa. says that in giving the
losses of his regiment at "a killed and
81 dying from disease this was an un-
derstatement. There were SO killed and
IS died from wounds in less than 10
days after receiving them. making alto
gether 113 killed. There were 334
wounded, and deducting the Is who
died would make 319. He knows that
this is correct, as he has the names and
dates. Lieut-Col. Wlldes was promoted
TO Colonel and transferred to the 1S6th
Ohio. Col. Washburn was shot thru
the head at Suckers Ford. but survived
until few years ago.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04

for it is impossible to wear the big hats
without the fun dressing of the hair,
| that is, to have them look right. Still,
| if the stand taken by these men is
even the beginning of change in the
present hideous and most unbecoming
| fashion of hair arrangement with its
attendant evil, the big hat, everyone
will hail as great reformers these sensi-
Bile men, and accord them places among
the real benefactors of the race.
Who ever thinks of Harry Thaw now
a-days? and yet he has not ceased to
fight for his freedom a single hour,
hardly, since he was committed to the
Matteawan Asylum for the insane
Many people believed, when this young
man was found guilty of the murder
of Stanford White, that the Thaw mil
lions would soon secure his release, but
time has gone on, and appeal after ap-
peal has been made by his welI-paid
lawyers, and yet Harry is still taking
his three meals regularly inside the
four walls of his prison home. His
last appeal was to the highest New
York court, the Court of Appeals, which
decided that his commitment was legal
and refused to allow his release. There
is nothing left for him now but the
supreme Court of the United States.
and it is said that his latest lawyer is
going TO present his case before that dig
nified tribunal. 1t looks as If our courts
were good for something after all, and
our judges the right sort of men.
Everyone hopes that Harry Thaw will
spend many more years just where he
Is. and there is every reason to believe
he will.
Mention has been made before in
these columns of the infant prodigy,
William James Sidis, of Brookline
Mass, who, altho only IL years of age
and still in knickerbockers, has been
enrolled as special student at Har-
ward. He was ready year ago to take
the examination, but he was considered
TOO young to be admitted then. so he
went to Tufts College and spent the
year IN study there. This wear. when
he again applied for admission. Pres
gent Lowell decided to let him in. 1t
Is almost unbelievable what this young
ster knows. At eight he could speak
french, Russian, English and German.
besides having quite a knowledge of
LATIN and Greek. When he was a little
Fellow in skirts he could recite mage
aiter page of Shakspere by heart. and.
as for his Mother Goose" he Was
hardly out OF his cradle before he he
gan TO repeat "Humpty Dumpty.~ ssI IT.
tie boy Blue" and all the Others Rnt
II is not all this that makes him the
marvel he is. He has already prettv
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Results of CONSTIPATION.

When a train is stuck in the tunnel ana
caanot be dislodged. it stops traffic. With
the body 1t Is worse. because when there 4.
blocking-up somewhere in your 90 feet OF
bowels, the poison from the blockade il going
to be soaked up by the little capiIlaries on
the inside lining OF the bowels. and all this
poison Is rushed right through the blood
1t goes to the brain naturally and to
every part OF the body. every. organ being
goes to YOUR face in the form of piriipie-
poison and breaks out on the skin IL goes
TO your head and gives you headache and
dizziness II goes to your brain and makes
You drOwsy. IL weal<ens the stomach and
causes dyspepsia and bad breath IL goes
to the liver and causes bilotIsness IL goes
TO the kidneys and eventually gives rise
TO Brights disease, II goes to the heart and
lose their lustre, it makes your nerves A..
fabby and weak and sorts and thfs
is the advance agent OF ALI kinds Of disease.
which YOU couldn't get at all II there was
pure, rich red blood flowing in your veins
and your whole body was IN prime condi-
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Had Tried Every Kind of Medicine.

Miss Ella Cea. of Boone. Ia. says:-'T had
been constant sufferer from that dread dis
ease. constipation. all my life. and had tried
every kind of medicine and consulted many
different doctors. but none proved successful.
At last l concluded to give Prof Midgley's 8
druelcss treatment a trial. 1 did and at
the end of month entirely cured.
Ny general health grew better and at pres
ent am in the best of health. Can say 1t Is
wonderful and help to anyone suf-
fering as / was"
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Here Is An Opportunity of Lifetime
to Be Cured.

Here is the greatest opportunity to be
cured of chronic constipation that you have
ever had come to your notice.
You will be amazed to the array OF
letters that are received daily by this bene-
factor OF mankind who answers all letters
sent to him and asks charge for the ad-
vice which he freely gives. These letters are
from wornout, pill-ridden patients who have
tried the "EIidgley way last desperate
effort. and have been cured as easily
though they had but a mere coid
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
| o The Readers Of
The National Tribune
Wonderful Clean Straight Talk the Folly Using haes for
Constipation and How to Stop Absolutely Without Pills Medicines


For the benefit Of our readers we publish
a timely and Interesting talk by Prof T. II.
Midgley on point which Is most vital to
every man, woman and child IL this country
tho way to stop the spreading danger OF
shronic constipation. All he says Is true,
and evidences of it are many and varied.
as seen in hundreds of letters from those who
have done as he advocates. that we think
1t will be public benefit to make them
known. We recommend Prof. Midgley most
earnestly nur rna1ars.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
sheridan at Cedar Creek.

w. FL. Huntley, New Haven, Conn,
has been much concerned by the COM
in regard to Sheridan at
Cedar Creek. Comrade Huntley be-
longed to the 18th Conn.,, and his regi-
ment was not surprised, but was in line
10 minutes before the first shot was
fired into the Eighth Corps. 1t fell
back with the rest about four miles.
When Sheridan arrived he stopped
about 10 feet from where Comrade
was standing and made short
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Indiana at AndersOnyilIe.

d. c. Smith, Charlottesville, Ind
Treasurer of the Indiana Andersonville
Commission. says that the report Of the
commission viii soon be ready for dis
tribution, and the commission desires to
furnish every eX-prisoner, his widow or
any of his heirs with one copy of the
report Send address and. If possible.
regiment and time of Imprisonment to
D. C. Smith, at 402 w. Wabash avenue,
Charlottesville, Ind.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
His Glass Should Be Included.

Frank Z. Eustaphiere, Bath, n. Y,
objects to the 90-day limit. He served
45 days in the Gettysburg campaign
with about 10000 others as a member
Of the 74th N. Y. N. G. He served
again 80 days In defense of Buffalo, and
did as much service and work as very
many who are now drawing pensions,
while he receives none. He thinks his
class should be included in the pension
lict
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
24-Hour "Habit" All Important.

TT is one of the simplest things in the
world TO cure even the worst case of chronic
constipation, and yet nearly very other man
and woman you meet is positively stopped
up that they are hardly able to think clearly.
To get the "habit' every "a hours regularly
works wonders By the habit" 1 don't
mean the cathartic habit. but mean that
natural, easy move that every ought
to have without needing to make a rush for
the pill box every night.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
BY Gives Interesting Talk on How His Idea Has
Constipation Without Medicine.

patton over one year ago. I am still feeling
fine eat anything, have good complex
ion. weigh 1876 lbs. now-used to weigh f59
when 1 was constipated- have regular
bowel movement every morning. feel 80
years younger. I hope your treatment will
cure others like 1t did me. Yours very truly,
Henry Steinbeck, Chillicothe, Mo.
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Was Near Death.

Thos. Needham, 1928 s. 44th Ave. Chicago,
says:-'T suffered from chronic constipation
for 10 years. 1 tried every cathartic in the
market in vain. Doctors could do nothing,
and death seemed near. By following your
advice I cured myself permanently in just
one month"
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Doctors Admitted Drug-Sin.

The Chief Clerk Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, located at New Brunswick.
N j., writes:-"I have suffered from chronic
constipation for the past six years. taking
most all of the pills and potions ever heard
OF At one time became bad I decided
to give UP my position with the Railroad, as
i felt my days were numbered
One physician told me that he as well
others were pOwerless TO constipation
with drugs, saying that the purgatives in
hame the bowels and eventually paraiyzs
them followed your advice. have not spent
a penny for drugs of any sort, and 1 am
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
Suffered 80 Years.

J. T. fitzpatrick. of White Plains. Ga.
man 55 years old who had been consti-
pated for 80 years, after taking n single
months treatment, writes May 4, 'os:-"I
have not taken anything for my bowels
since the first of Sept, 1868. My bowels are
regular as the days come-the misery that 1
The National tribune., 1909-11-04

For the benent Of our readers we have
taken the trouble to pick out at random
a few Of these letters and publish them.
For instance. Mrs. Morgan PariShurst, Of
Gerry. N. Y. suffered for 80 years and cured
herself in 30 days so completely that she
says:-"Two years ago 1 commenced with
your treatment and am glad 1 did and so
thankful for what it has done for I
have no trouble now; am better in every
The National tribune., 1909-11-04
How to Get the Advice.

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