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The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

kHR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER. 1722
wi Third Ave, Moline, ILL.,, writes:
''Ihave been suffering from catarrh
in the head for the past two months
and tried innumerable SO-called RENE
dies without avail. No one knows how
have suffered not only from the dis
ease itself. but from modification when
in company of friends or strangers.
Il have used two bottles of your med
icinc for a short time only, and it
effected q complete medical cure, and
what is better yet, the disease has not
returned.
81 can most emphatically recommend
Peruna. to all sufferers from this dis
ease"
Read This Expesience.
Mr.. A. Thompson, Box 65, r. r. 1.
Martel, Ohio, writes: when / began
your treatment my eyes were inflamed,
nose was stopped up half of the time,
and was sore and scabby. l could no.
rest at night on account of continual
hawking and splitting.
81 had tried several remedies and was
about to give up, but thought would
try Pcruna.
s'After had taken bout one-third of
= bottle / noticed a difference. I am
now completely cured, after suffering
with catarrh for eighteen years.
81 think if those who are afflicted
with catarrh would try Peruna they
would never regret it."
Peruna is manufactured by the
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Ask your Druggist for q Free Peruas
Almanac for 1909.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
FusiIIade Of Exploding Bullets Needed
... to Kill Monster Bear.

In Everybody's Rex Beach tells this
incident of his adventurous "Chro-
matte Bear Hunt" in Alaska: AS
dashed across snow-field l saw our
guide suddenly appear on the ridge
above me like a phantom, silhouetted
against the evening sky. He was bare
headed-it took us three days to find
his hat-his rubber boots were strad-
ding at ridiculous distance from
each other, and he was hitting it of
at the rate of 100 yards in nothing
and three-fifths seconds. He was look
ing backward over his shoulder, FUN
bling at his hip pocket for shells, and
yet he coursed over these loose bowl
ders with the sureness of foot of a
mountain goat. He dipped out of sight
as suddenly as he had appeared, and
heard him cracking away agc;n, then
the louder atrort OF Fred's rita,
IAN instaE: later l reached TIC TOD,
and, glimpsing huge brown body
rushing toward us in prodigicus leaps.
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FOUGHT TO THE LAST GASP

joined In the fusillade. The mon
ster's great weight bore him deeply
into the snow, which he flung behind
him at every plunge, and yet. shocked
and torn by those exploding bullets. he
still came on and on, a tremendous,
ungainly figure of rage and determine
ton.
Even when he was down to his
launches and deathly sick he red
dened the snow in a futile endeayor
to continue that charge. 1t was
magnificent exhibit of courage. and he
died facing us as BELTS a monarch.
the red glare of rage still in his eve.
Whew! l certainly stepped around
bit that time said Joe. wiping the
sweat out of his eyes, My first four
shots never feazed him, so thought
I'd sort Of withdraw and reload on the
run. but I couldn't seem to locate Won
fellers nowhere
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
ASSISTS AT A BUFFALO HUNT

notify Pa that he was ready to have
him scare the buffalos out of the
marsh and down the fence into the
corral
Pa had the gas bag all full, a mile
across the marsh, tied to a tree with
slip moose. SO when We all got set
he could pull string and unite the
slip moose.
Well. everything worked bully, and
when Pa tied her loose We went up
into the air. about SO feet, and Pa
steered the thing up and down the
marsh like a pointer dog ranging a
field for chickens.
1t was the greatest sight I ever
witnessed, seeing more than 200 buff
falO heads raise up out of the tall
grass and watch the airship. looking
as savage as liens eating raw meat.
First they never moved at all, but
We began to blow the honk horns, and
then We yelled through the mega
phones to get out of there. you sawed
off short horns" and then they began
to move away from the airship across
the marsh, and We followed until they
began to get into a herd. nearly on
the other side of the marsh. but they
only walked fast. splashing through
the mud.
When We got almost across the
marsh Pa said now was the time to
fire the Roman candles, SO We each
lit our candle, and the fire and smoke
and the fire balls fairly scOrched the
hair of the buffalos in the rear of the
herd. and in a jiffy the whole herd
stampeded out of the marsh right to-
ward the fence, believing in African
language, scared half to death, the
first instance on record that an At
rican buffalo was afraid of anything
on earth.
We followed them until they got to
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When Pa told us that he had 10.
Gated a place where we could get all
the wild African buffalo that We
wanted. 1 thought of the pictures had
seen of the killing of buffalos in Amer
lea, where all the buffalo hunter had
to do was to ride horse after herd
of the animals, that couldn't run faster
than a yoke of oxen, pick out big
bull and ride long side of him and
ten feet range. until his liver was
filed full of holes, and he had the
nose bleed, and when he fell down
from loss of blood, dismount and skin
him for lap robe. The American buff
falo would always run away and the
hunter could kill him il he had cart
ridges enough. and never be in any
more danger than farmer milking a
COW.
thought We would have about the
same kind of experience with African
buffalo. only We intended to lasso
them, and bring them to camp alive
for the show business, but instead of
the African buffalo running away from
you, he runs at you on sight. and tries
TO gOuge out your inside works with
his horns, and paws you with his
hoofs. and when he gets you down
he kneels down on You. and runs horns
all through your system, and rolls over
on your body like setter dog rolling
on an old dead fish.
The African buffalo has a crouch,
as though he had indigestion, from eat
ing cactus thorns, and when he sees
man his eyes blaze with fire, and he
gets as crazy as an anarchist. and
seems to combine in HIS makeup the
habits Of the hyena, the tiger, the
man-eating shark and the Texas rat
tle-snake.
| wouldn't want such an animal for
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

S~see
Ever since the terrible earthquake
in Italy, the eyes of the world have
been watching the volcanoes in the
immediate vicinity to see what they
would do as result of the violent dis
turbances of the earth's crust. Would
Etna and Stromboli get into violent
eruption and complete the work of
devastation? And with the question
came absorbing interest in the past
and present history Of these volcanoes
and the study of their peculiarities.
Perhaps no one is better qualified to
speak on this point than Mr. Frank A.
Perret of Naples. Italy, who is vol
cano expert and was with Mateucci on
Vesuvius throughout the violent erup-
ton of 1906. .--
Mr.. Perret is an American. but since
1909 he has made a special study of
volcanic phenomena. taking up his res
idence at Naples that he might OBJ
serve Vesuvius. He has also studied
Etna and Stromboli.
tween Vesuvius and Etna. which is
now in eruption. Vesuvius is a true
cone, with one central crater from
which it erupts, although its lava
flows are from crevices that open in
the mountain flank below the crater
Etna. with a height of 1000 feet and
a mass SO tremendous that its base
measures 80 miles in circumference,
is fiat-topped. So its great eruptions,
as rule, are not from the central
crater, but break out on all sides of
the mountain, wherever the wall is
the weakest at the time To-day there
may be seen. scattered here and there.
more than 200 different cones. each of
which marks the site of an eruption.
Some of these cones are more than
as Vesuvius, and all have been formed
by lateral eruptions. t...
Mr.. Perret spends most of his time
visiting the several volcanoes of Italy
when in activity. as some of them
continually are. He makes his obser-
vations on the spot. OF course, he en-
joys all the risks there are to be had.
During the eruptions of Vesuvius. he
was with so others, mostly carbiniers,
on the mountain opposite to where the
ash fell and the lava flowed. Sudden
ly, the wind changed, carrying ash.
dust and dense smoke toward the
men. 1t became SO dark that holding
the hand before the face. it could not
be seen. The dust was SO dense that
its friction caused the lips to bleed
and eyes, ears, clothing, all were filled
with fine ash. The gases at the same
time were sitting. The people were
several hundred yards from the OBJ
seryatory and had no way to get to it
for safety. 1t was finally decided the
guide should take the end of a rope
and seek landmark leading towards
the observatory where the rest would
follow along the rope; he then sought
another landmark, etc., finally, all
were safely gathered at the observa-
tory, but the darkness, dust, ash and
gas were as bad as ever and it was
only question of time when all would
succumb to the baneful influence of
the vapor This awful condition last
ed from early afternoon to midnight
when the wind changed again and re-
lief was instantaneous. Had condi-
tons remained as they were until
there is no doubt that all
would have persisted. "
A remarkable occurrence, seldom If |
ever before seen by man. was wit |
messed by Mr.. Perret on Vesuvius !
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Spooning by Wire.

DO they let you talk like that over
the Telephone she asked, when he
had L-ished speaking in the language
of the infant, the tootsy-wootsy, who
is popsy-wopsy's tweetest little fing?
style of thing to his latest offspring,
who was about one year old
why, certainly" said he, as he
hung up the phone. They let you
talk any old way over the telephone.
80 long as you don't swear at Central.
Y wish you could hear some Of the
sweethearts billing and cooling some
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

of the buffalos. and We let the gas out
of the airship, and went into camp,
right there, and Pa bossed things for
about two days, until the buffalos got
good and hungry, and then we backed
the cages up to an opening in the
fence and put hay in the far end OF
the cages, and the herd began to take
notice.
We wanted the big bulls and some
cows. and nature helped us on the
bulls, cause they fought the weaker
ones away from the cages. and walked
right up the incline into the cages, and
Pa went in and locked the doors, and
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COULDN'T FOOL HIM

proceeded. first of all, to visit the col
lection of wax figures at the Eden
musee. He was engaged in looking
critically at one of the most life-like
groups on exhibition there. when a po-
liceman suddenly plucked him by the
sleeve. The up-stater turned. You
mustn't smoke in here" said the police
man. severely. A look of wisdom be-
yond the power of words to describe
came over that up-stater's face. Con-
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
The Limit

Ranter Hamm-The craze for "a.
ism in makeup and properties viii
kill me. .
Booth Garrick-What is the trouble
now?
Ranter Hamm-The manager insists
that in the Whitecapping scene year
a real coat Of .tS- and fesiners!-
Cleveland Leader. sr..-
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Good Record Of Punch.

Many world-famous poems, some
light. bright and witty, such as w. s.
Gilbert's Bah Ballads" others serious,
dignified and sad, such as Tom Tay-
lor's magnificent tribute to the mem.
DRY of Abraham Lincoln and Hoods
Song of the Shirt" first saw tho
light in Punch, or The London Chara.
vari. --.,.-..
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Valuable Potato.

In the bidding in of a monster pota-
to auctioned off during the interna-
tional fair, at San Antonio, Tex, Ollie
Murphy, a soldier of Fort Sam Hous-
ton. paid what was probably the high
est price ever Paid for single potato
in Texas. The vegetable cost Murphy
$1.S0. It vas the principal item of
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

at Cairo, Egypt.
! when we got the cages full of bulls
and started to haul the cages to camp
by the aid of some of the negroes who
had returned alive. by jingo, the cows
followed the cages with the bulls in,
and you couldn't drive them away.
We loaded the gas bag on to sort
| of stone boat. and Pa rugged up a
| couple of OK yokes and in some way
| hypnotized few cow buffalos, so he
could drive them, and they hauled the
stone boat with the airship to camp
| and we got there almost as soon as the
| cages did, and Pa was smoking as
contented as though he was walking on
Broadway. and with an OK CAD he
would larrup the oxen and say: "Haw,
Buck" like a farmer driving oxen to
pillow a field.
Pa got his wild oxen so tame be-
fore We got to camp that they would
eat hay out of his hand, and when
We rounded UP in our permanent camp.
and looked over our stock, and killed
some of the buffalos that had followed
the cages, for meat for the negroes,
and lit some sky rockets and fired
them at the balance of the herd to
drive them away from camp. the ne
groes. who had always had a horror
CT meeting wild buffalos, thought Pa
was a superior being, to be able to
tame a whole herd of the most savage
animals, and they got down on their
knees and placed their faces in the
dust in front OF Pa and worshiped him.
and they wouldn't get up off the
ground until Pa had gone around and
put his feet on the necks of all the
negroes in token that he acknowl-
edged himself to be their king and pro-
tector, and the wives of the negroes
all threw their arms around Pa and
Rugged him until he got tired, and he
said he had rather fight buffalos than
be Rugged by half-naked negro WON.
en- that hadn't had a bath since Stan
ley discovered them. but Pa appre-
ciated the honor, and Mr.. Hagenbach
said Pa was the greatest man in the
world. $500.
The next day we shipped the buffa-
los to the coast, and had them sent
to Berlin, and when We got the mail
from headquarters there was an order
for a lot more tigers. SO l suppose we
will be tigering as soon as the open
season is on.
The idea is that We must get all
the animals We can this year. for 1t is
rumored that Roosevelt is coming to
Africa next year to shoot big game.
and all of us feel that wild animals
will be scarce after he has devastated
Africa.
We got short of salt pork and some
time ago Pa sailed down some sides
of rhinoceros, and yesterday was the
day to open the barrel. Pa showed
the cooks how to fry rhinoceros pork,
and l tell you it made you hungry to
smell rhinoceros frying. and with
boiled potatoes. and ostrich eggs. and
milk gravy, made from elephants milk.
We lived high. but the next day an
epidemic broke out, and they laid it to |
Pas rhinoceros pork dinner, but Pa |
says any man who eats eight or nine |
fried ostrich eggs is liable to indi- !
gestion.
Gee, but this is great country to |
enjoy an outing in! ----.... e
Copyright. 1905. by w. G. Chapman.)
Copyright in Great Brittany
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Mice on the Pillow.

I'm not so much afraid of mice a.
some women" said she. but I don't
like them in my hair. The other
night finished biscuit I was eating
after l went to bed and naturally left
some crumbs about. not meaning to.
never thinking of mice -r.
well, about the middle of the night
I heard scampering. and there were
the mice all over my hair. trying to
get at those crumbs
Il tell you. gave one shrek, sprang
up. lighted all the gas in the room
and sat up the rest of the night watch
ing that pillow"
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

Once a denizen Of the upstate re-
gions, where whiskers grow in plenty
and umbrellas bulge at will, decided
to visit New York. But he decid-
ed to visit the bewildering metrop-
oils quite as a man of the world-not
to be taken in by the wicked men,
who, as he understood, made a bust
ness of deceiving the guileless up
slater. Hence he arrived at the Grand
Central looking very. very wise, and
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

was Doan's Kidney Pills. Three boxes
made q complete cure and during I'VE
years past have had no return Of the
trouble"
Sold by al! dealers. Soc box. Fos-
terMilburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

tinuing brazenly to smoke, he re-
marked: Tut, tut. Go away. Don't
you think know that you're made of
wax"
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times when the wires cross, just the
same as if they were on a divan in
the corner of An old-fashioned parlor,
with the lights turned down."
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the mlStletOe!
Perfectly ter.
rible," agreed Sal
ly, shifting her
gum.
did you see
the W ay A my
Briggs acted at
the party La 8 t
night?"
"Scandalous!"
"One gu l d
think she h q d
never been kissed
before" E
Il don't believe
she ever had"
echoed Sally.
Just as soon
as that Mr.. More
h O u 8 W a s an
n o u n c e d. s b e
moved her chair
right over by the
chandelier a n d
when she got up
to be introduced
to him, she had to
stand under the
mistletoe and"
Wasn't tn a t
good? He never
XII 8 s ed her a
tall" r..
A nd W b e n
Henry came In.
she was right in
t he way. OF
course / wouldn't
go under that mis-
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

bled with kidney
complaint from the
time Of the Civil war.
There was constant
pain In the back and
head : and the kid
ney secreti0ns were
painful and showed
q sediment. The first
remedy to help mo
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Wisdom,

Wisdom does not show itself so
much in precept as in life-in firm
ness of mind and mastery OF appetite.
1t teaches us to do. as well as to talk:
and to make our actions and words all
of a col0r.-Seneca.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
But Not Many.

Some men are SO attentive to their
wives that you might think they were
not Notwithstanding
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
NO TEMPTATION.

Wag (referring to Miss Oldbird)-
Um. I should think it would be more
suitable II she were standing under
"elderberries" instead Of mistletoe-
berries. o. N' '.- ---''t' 81
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Rx~n&e4s4'
improved PUMPING system,

In California, where many wells
yield both natural gas and water. it is
stated that a system has been tried
whereby the gas is separated and
utilized in an engine to pump the
water.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

menu Of dinner served ty Murphy
to his comrades at the post on the fol-
lowing day.
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VISITS WITH
.&MLEM
Under the Mistletoe

'Ain't it awful" said Name, the
way some girls hang around under
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
COULD NOT SHAKE IT OFF.
Kidney Trouble Contracted by Thou
sands in the Civil War.

James w. Clay, 666 w. Fayette St.
Baltimore, Nd. says: Il was trou-
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Locks like P-~speritv

NeT YORK city imported S3,5OO.0OO
worth CT precious stones during the
last mcnth. 5000 - =.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

Teachers Orders.

Teachers Orders.
Here. MAJ" requested the boy. hur.
lying in from school before time;
hang my jacket up behind the stove"
rs it wet?"
mo; but teacher sent me home to
tell you to warm my jacket for mel
Judge.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

The New Way.
He-Darling. all is over between US.
She-Oh, George, this is SO Abruzzi.
Punch. .'.' ..i
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

The average woman Is fond of pets,
but her husband is not in that class.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
Married Man Fixed.

A citizen vas overhead to make an I'M
gallant remark on the street the other
day. He said his neighbor was speaking
to him about the heavy expense connected
with keeping family. and asked: Don't
you find 1t so?' mo. I use my wife's
temper for a furnace. her feet for a re-
frigerator, her company manners for ST.
gar. and then We have tongue all the
year round. SO you see my expenses are
very light"
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20

PILES CURED IN 6 TO IL DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed To cure any case
nf Itching. Blind Bleeding or PrOtruding Piles in
TO IA days or money refunded. SIC.
The Columbus journal., 1909-01-20
g q O
Poor Setter Doc.

A Battle Creek (Mich.) man had a set
ter dog upon which his heart was set.
The dog set on the electric line and the
motorman failed to set the brake soon
enough. with the result that the car set
tied the setter. The company refused to
settle for the loss of the setter, where
upon the owner set the law on it and re-
covered 500 and costs, which the COM
pany settled for the dear little setter.
The man better setter again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
TEE.5O'Jocor1oB1LE.

give a wholly disproportionate amount
Of trouble with their ignitionS. largely
due to primitive wiring arrangements.
If the wires be followed out thr, ugh
their presentations round the cl4sSis
1t will be found that a cheap. light pat
tern Of stranded low tension wire IS
curled around the moving parts and ,he
interior of the body work and is Sc
cured by metal staples hammered into
the woodwork, or by thin metal clips
hitched to water pipe or other metal
part. There is generally room for play
at these points, especially on the con
tact breaker wires, and there is no
extra insulation. All the low-tension
wires should be collected and wrapped
together with worsted-not plated to-
gether as they probably were pre-
viously. A piece of stout Irvine should
be attached to one end of the wires
and they can then be hauled bodily
through a piece Of rubber hose about
three-fourths inch internal diameter.
This hose can be secured to the wood.
work where necessary by a metal clio.
padded with slip of rubber cut from
an old tube.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
CARRYING SPARE TIRES.
Special Bag Should Be Used to Pre-
tect Them From Dust.

Most car owners when starting on q
tour or a drive provide themselves with
spare tire cover and air tube. The
chief trouble in connection with doing
this Is that there is no suitable place
provided for carrying them on the ma
jority of cars. Many, for want OF a bet
ter place, fasten the spare tires on the
back of the car, and in some cases put
a spare air tube inside the cover par
TALLY inflated. thinking they cannot
have a better place In which to keep IL
until il is required for the purpose of
repair or replacement
In reality. no place could be worse for
carrying an air tube than inside a cover
where Ii is especially when fastened al
the rear of the car, subject to all the
dust and dirt with its small particles az
grit carried Inside the cover Then IN.
particles at the bottom between the nj,
tube and the cover act like a rough file
on the surface of the air tube the vi
bration OF the car rubbing the surfaces
of the tube and cover together with the
dust acting like emery paper BET tween
them. Air tubes should not be carried
in this way. They should be folded N.
and the valve wrapped up in cloth. AMI
placed In special bag well busted out
with French chalk.
Where the type of body permits n
drawer or false floor should be provided
beneath the rear floor boards in which
a spare tire may be carried in safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
PUTTING IN NEW CELLS.
Never Exceed Original Number in
Replacing Them.

In putting new cells in your motor car
never place in any more cells in series
than originally came with the machine
With a good coil four to six cells in
series will give satisfactory service on al
most all cars. and if four cells give sat
isfactory service. then a greater number
connected In series will las, shorter
length OF time. to say nothing OF tie ex-
cessive burning and pitting o. the plat
mum points OF the coil.
To any one not versed in electrical mat
tors this statement seems strange. but 1t
is easily understood II you consider that
when you add more cells the voltage Of
the battery is raised. Consequently a
greater amount or current would flow
through the coil. and the more current
that flows. Of course, the shorter will be
the life OF the battery. When adding
fresh cells to 4 battery test ali cells and
remove those which are almost run down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
Demand for Special Steel.

pale into inSignificance when the pese
day price of rubber is considered