Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-01
cHocK FULL OF REMINDERS
Modern Patent Medicine almanac
Right ID to Date and
Then Some.

Have you seen q patent medicine almanac
for 1903? Stop al q drug store and the sm1-
ing clerk VIII hand you one. You VIII find
IN Il positive and unmttiEH1ed evidence that
TIE world iE going some.
fou wm be surprised. and perhaps
shocked 70 learn that the 1909 almanac
Goes not tag along a whole big century
behind the present day.
The liver piIs and brtterE that VIII cure
anything are stiu prominently mentioned
and their praises are sung 10y those WHO
have used them. but that is not al. Nex1
years almanac is ike an old man whose
memory Of recent events has suddenly
come back 10 him and who becomes EEr-
ruluus.
The old patent medicine almanac IN
formed Us year after year that Isaac New
ton was born in 1642 and Henry Clay in
III. IL related that Columbus discovered
America IL 1882. and il recorded other
eveuts away back II the musty past but
Il dd not venture into the century in
which St was issued From it We learned
that the air pump WIS invented in lds6. and
we know il has been in constant use ever
since, pumping IL hot We were also told
that Nantucket was plundersd in 1-Zg. but
nobody would DO il now. Who would want
49, A-AAA1 a. AANe nave IA -NalA4LhbL-
The Pacific ocean was discovered in Ibl2.
the Msy1Uwsr sailed in J6gl William
Penn died IL JuS and Philadelphia was
taken in III Il mus. have bsen asleep. as
usual The Hessians were defeated IN the
same year, and they ought 10 have been.
no doubt. How orr Erandfs1hers used 10
hate the HessianE. Dhey were GLAD to read
about that defeat The first congress a5-
JOurned in IVA What do you suppose
would have happened Il il hAd never CON
veDed again?
There was another entry in the old al
manac reading Diet at Worms, l64a"
As children we used 10 read il and wonder
4 II meant II ddu't mean what we
thought it did, however. They hadn't even
heard Of microbes al that time.
Evidently the old editor has not been dis
: charged by the publisher Of the almanac,
although there is a new one on the JOB.
The old man may be occupying q subordi-
nate place, but he takes ID one page with
ar earnest plea for as to slacken our race.
He realizes that the world is running by
him And the 1909 almanac shows 1t. too.
Beginning with the cautious statement
that William Pitt died in January, 1906, the
new almanac marches right along with q
record Of events leading up 10y leaps and
NN4Aa a. ADN lIchtAA LLIt- IL Bays LLht
Cronle surrendered February =, 1900. Yes,
Cron3s did but he was a fighter, all right.
Cuxsy started TO Washington in 1925. Re
member Cuxey? he was a great knocker
and used his hammer with dexterfty, but
the country was too big and prosperous
for him TO stay IN the limelight very long.
Mention is made Of the cyclone in Iowa in
1872. BY the way. what has become Of the
cyclone-the real thing? Is il out Of bust
ness2
Cetewayo WIS captured in 1873. That Is
not so very recent. but il is a good thinE
for CeiewRyo that the almanac mentions
him he was in danger Of being for
gotten. The new almanac says that
chloroform was introduced in 1877 and we
know II has not been used freely enough
s~ojourner Truth died in 1889. s~ojourusI
may have slipped out Of the memory q
some Of Us, but we learn from President
Roosevelt that Others OF the same name
hsre recently become deceased ans are
nut sujUuruiuE here any more.
Taft elected president, 1sB," is the mosi
recent entry in the new almanac. Mex
thing we know the almanac VIII be trying
to publish things ahead Of the newspapers
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