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There is only one way 20 cure deafness
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and unless the Inflammation can be tax
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NAL condition, hearing viii be destroy
ed forever: nine cases out OF ten are
caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing
but an infiamed condition Of the mucous
surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case OF Deafness (caused ~
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sTocKnoLpERg MEETING.

The annual meeting Of the stock.
holders of the Ciarksburg Light &
Heat Company win be held at its OF.
nee Thursday. February Is. 1903, a;
10 o'clock a. m. for the election OF
directors for the ensuing year and
for the transaction OF any other bust
ness that may properly come before
the meeting.
y. AZ BROWN 60
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Harry OFT is here from wheeling.
". T. Hess OF Morgantown. is a
city budness visitor.
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The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
A True Story Of the Secret Service old by Capt Dickson

Late the third afternoon | stun
bled on the ashes of campfire. and
close beside 1t, among the frs and
cedars. | found where horses had
been tied. This was what had
searched for, and ! felt sure that
would here find something of value.
| camped a short distance from the
place so would not disturb 1t, leaving
my examination until the next morn.
ing, when | would have a good light.
it then being too dark 10 attempt such
a thing.
That night, by the light OF my
campfire. | read again the report of
the robbery as given by the train
hands. Near the last of It was the
account of the sleeping car porter who
related. with evident grief, that he
had been relieved of s6.15 in silver.
and that the bandits had rified the
liquor cabinet OF the buffet. taking
with them all of the whisky and few
bottles of the rarer and stronger
wines.
Early next morning examined the
deserted camp of the highwaymen
There was nothing but a burned out
pile of ashes and charred sticks and a
few empty bottles. The bottles gave
the clew for which | searched. The
highwaymen had certainly made their
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
~ CNKE or TIE /ZIXEPS
Z ZHfEN IIXE D0GP AIDE N2k1/

erous owner of the good liquor. with a
show of Indifference | was far from
feeling. He was late arrival, it
seemed, and lived in a shanty far up
on the mountain-side with two com
panions The three We're making a
rather poor attempt to work a claim
they had preempted.
Getting away from my loquacious
minerfriend, | climbed the steep trail
to the cabin and set about an inyesti-
cation of it with great caution. The
men We're at home, and from the
sounds issuing from its closed doors
| guessed they were having rare old
time that evening. l approached to the
very door and listened with my ear TO
the planks TO sounds of revelry within
The men We're gambling and drinking,
and | could hear the clink of coins
and the rattle of bottles and the ribald
jests with which they made their bets
and gloated over their winnings and
cursed their luck when they lost |
heard sufficient 10 make me sure that
my mueh-sought bandits We're in the
cabin, although there was no direct
mention of the express robbery.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

camp here Each bottle bore the
label OF The sleeping car company, and
some of them were the diminutive
TASKS of which | had drunk one on
the trip from Denver There was not
a scrap of paper anywhere else to
be found
'Elated with my success. made a
survey of the country and discovered
half-obscure trail leading farther
into the mountains. | took up this
trail and followed it as best ! could
until nightfall Often l lost it, and
sometimes ! spent an hour or more
casting about to pick it up again as |
have seen hounds bafied on the trail
of fox. About three o'clock that
afternoon | found something that made
my eyes sparkle. Shattered into
thousand pieces was the remains OF
one OF the small whisky bottles on
large fiat rock beside the trail where
it had doubtless been cast IN playful
mood induced by its contents Among
the fragments | found the label of the
car company.
1T was the dry season, and this
was in my favor, for no rains came
to oblterate the trail For five days
followed the bandits across the hills
and through the valleys. verifying my
route from time to time by fragments
of broken whisky bottles along the
way, and at the places where they had
camped for a night The buffet-car
must have been we'll stocked for ]
found many bottles in this journey.
The trail eventually came TO
well beaten road, which. from my map,
| learned was the stage and mail route
from Montrose, the nearest railroad
point to 0uray, then rather insig-
nifcant mining settlement. | lost no
time in getting TO Ouray. for it was
impossible 10 trail my men along this
road and | was sure they had headed
for the mining camp.
Two days were spent at Ouray
without finding a trace Of the three
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
/. They had not stopped there GER

men. They had not stopped there GER
tainly, so took the trail TO Telluride.
a mining camp farther on in the noun
tains. Telluride was then camp OF
500 or 1000 souls, and there was a
bit Of mining boom on which daily
brought new prospectors to swell its
citizenship, f2tuous souls brought
there by the greed of gold-a lure
that never fails to attract victims in
swarms. For three days l searched in
vain through the saloons and dance
halls and other places where the rough
miners eongregated without finding a
trace Of my three rogues. That infal-
lible sixth sense of mine was doing
it's best TO keep me longer in Tellu-
ride, although my judgment told me
TO move on to Silverton but in the
end my intuition won the fight and
remained.
One evening | was drinking with
a honed miner. The whisky was
abominable. The distillery where it
was made would never have recog-
nized its product in its present form.
| complained of the poor quality of
whisky and asked my acquaintance if
there were not some better stuff to be
found in the camp He said there
was not. at any of the bars, but that
he had been given an amazingly good
drink by miner, whose name he men,
toned He said it had been in a little
bottle which held just enough to tease
one. but il was the best liquor he had
drunk since he left Kentucky many
years before. He licked his lips in
pleasant memory OF the drink
Il almost gave myself away. SO
keen was my pleasure at this chance
remark. l inquired about the gen.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
Ispahan Once a Fine City.

No city has a happier name .naa
Ispahan - the rendezvous. WneD
visited by the traveller Chardin, IN 'n'
early part of the eighteenth century
1t contained 173 mosques. IS colies,s
800 caravansaries and 2I3 pu0"l
baths. But the Afghans, the io'a'
vandals, who did not care for batnins
destroyed the aqueducts and sis'e'
tered the bathers. In tie matter =, =
great public squares Ispahan can ear ~.
outrlval any European city. Nv
Meydan. or great square is third ..
a mile In length and about hali ".
breadth. 1t was once eneireled " :
canal bordered by fine trees but 'ui ,,s
have long since vanished along VIZ
the canal
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ct would have been the rankest

'Tt would have been the rankest
folly to have attempted their arrest
without ssistance-although | did
tackle such job once in my salad
days. as this scar will testify and he
pointed to an ugly wound at the back
of his neck. partially covered by his
flowing gray locks. But that is an
other story. / decided to call ON the
United States deputy marshal. man
of tigerish bravery. for assistance.
There was no chink or crack in the
door through which | could gain a
peek at the interior of the cabin, so
dropped down on my hands and
knees and crawled around 10 the back
of the cabin where | thought there
might be a window. There was win
dow. but il was closed with a heavy
shutter. and | could not find any point
TO peep through but | did find some
thing en- the way around. My hand
touched something round and smooth,
and | clutched it Involuntary. 1t was
one of the little whisky TASKS. After
| had left the cabin | struck match
and examined it, The label of the
car company was still on II.
The deputy marshal was found at
one OF the dance halls and he soon
summoned a reliable posse. We sur
rounded the cabin from which still IS
sued the sounds of revelry The men
were stationed at every point about
it. Then the marshal and raped on
the door. In response TO cur summons
one of the miners staggered across
the floor and threw the door wide
open. We tripped him up and rushed
over him into the cabin. The men
were too drunk to make any resist
anee. and We captured them without
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

Shot being fired. They were hav.
ing a big stud-poker game, played with
gold pieces and currency instead Of
chips There was some $4,000 or So.
600 upon the table. Strewn about the
floor We're many whisky and wine bot
ties. In box beneath one of the
hunks was solitary pint bottle Of
whisky, the last remnant of the con
tents of the buffet cars liquor store
1t was. as | said, clean case Of
luck"
Copyright 1903. by w G. Chapman)
Copyright in Great Britain)
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
Played on Ancient instruments.

At concert which took place in
the large hall of the Royal museum at
Stuttgart. recently, at which the king
and queen of Wurtemberg were
present. no instruments were used
save spinets, clavicembolas and pianos
of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtles. The most interesting of these
were the one which was once owned
by Johann Sebastian Bach, and an
other on which Queen Louise of Prus-
STA learned to play.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
Pittsburg Man Is "Loaded"

tries-natural gas, steel rails. tin
plate, petroleum, steel pipes and sheet
metal, fire bricks. tumblers, table
ware coke. pickles. and all that sort of
thing-that you will begin to feel like
a combination delicatessen and hard
ware store.
| have not begun to enumerate the
different data l have collected on this
subject. as l have no desire to make
the reader feel small or to lose conf
denee IN himself. As l have pointed
out before, the Pittsburger, or the man
who IS under the influence of Pitts
burg. must be provoked before he un-
burdens.-C. III. White, in Harger's.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
Perfect Fiend to Quote Statistics, Ac
eording 10 Writer in
Harper's.

The Pittsburger can carry more fig
ures of large denomination on his per
son without your suspecting their ex-
istence than any other citizen of the
United States. He is a reservoir OF
decimals and statistics He must
have ample justification, however. be
fore he turns the spigot, but when he
does there Is torrent no man can
stem.
Ii provoked and inclined to extend
himself. in a fve-minute talk he can
I'LL you so full OF miscellaneous indus
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

Everywhere there are indications
that the land has continued to rise
more rapidly at the north than at the
south around the basin of the Great
Lakes. The lake ridges bordering
Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron
and Lake Michigan all show this.
These lake ridges are old shore lines
formed when the ice INSTRUCTED the
drainage TO the northeast. and so were
at the time of their formation level.
But now they gradually rise, so that
they are much higher at WATERFOWL
\. Y. than they are at Syracuse. and
they are higher at the northeast end
OF Lake Erie than they are at the
southwest, and so as you go north
along the shores of Lake Huron and
Lake Michigan, and in the Red river
valley along the old shore lines of
glacial Lake Agassiz it is found that
there has been warping of the
earths crust since their formation.
G. X. Gilbert of the United States
geological survey, after careful study
OF the facts, shows that this deforma-
tlon of the earth's crust 10 the basin
of the Great Lakes is still going on.
and is gradually tipping up the basin
tending to drown out the cities that
are at the southwest end of the lake
and eventually to turn the whole
drainage over through the line of the
Chicago drainage canal into the Mis-
s1ssippi valley. The rate of this
change of level at the northeast part
OF the basin he finds to be such that
the water level at Chicago will rise
from nine to ten inches in a century
This he calculates from study of the
bench marks that We're established in
Buffalo and other places 100 wears
ago. He concludes, therefore. that.
unless dam is erected to prevent 1t,
Lake Michigan will again begin TO
overflow into the Illinois river in
about 500 years; for the summit of
the channel leading into the Illinois
river is only about eight feet above
the present mean level of the lake
and only four or five feet above the
high water level In 500 or 600 wears
therefore, unless a dam is built. the
water OF the Great Lakes will begin to
spill over into the Mississippi valley
during its high stages. and in from
1000 to 1900 years there will be a
continuous flow during the mean
stages of the water, while in about
700 years as much will run into the
Illinois river as now runs over Mia
CARA, and in $500 years the rock bot
tom at the head of Niagara river will
be so high that there will be no Niagara
Tails for tourists to gaze upon or for
electric companies to utilize for light
and transportation. The basin of
Lake Erie Will then drain into the
Mississippi valley by way of the Chi
cago sanitary canal
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
Ea,her Of Great Amerleatl.

Daniel Webster's father name u
Ebenezer Webster He was porn .ss
Kingston. \. H, in 1879, served ~ lat
French war under Sir Jeffrey Ailihe'1 !,
and was one of the first setter, ,-st
what is now Franklin. \. H. II "a !.
He died in 1905, when Daniel ""
years of age.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

Among other places where consid-
cradle changes in land level have
taken place in recent times, we may
mention the coast OF New Jersey.
which is sinking at the rate of about
two feet a century This is evident
irom the advance of the water upon
the coast line, and from the burial of
large trees in the New Jersey swamps.
which formerly grew on dry land. but
are how sunk many feet below water
level. Dr. Robert Bell brings evidence
TO prove that the land about Hudson
and James bay is rising at at rate of
rom five to seven feet century.
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

The southern coast OF Greenland Is
slowly sinking, while that Of SeandE
naVia is rising. Darwin has shown
that the eastern coast OF south Amer
lea has been rising since the glacial
period. In 1922 100000 square miles
along more than 100 miles Of The
western coast was permanently rails =
three or four feet by single earl.
quake shock. In 1919 the bed of the
Indus at its mouth was sunk IS fee,
and the village and port OF Sindres
permanently submerged. while por.
ton of the delta of the Indus SO miles
long and 16 broad was elevated ten
feet. About 1912. Following numerous
earthquakes in the vicinity of New
Madrid, on the west side OF the Mis-
sissippi river, little below its june
ton with the Ohio, stretch OF country
800 miles long was so affected by
earthquakes that numerous tracts
were sunk down and others raised, 50
that many new lakes and islands were
formed and the bed of the Mississippi
much changed. "a
In the interior of continents II is
more difficult to find evidence Of
changes in land levels. because We
have no fixed data from which to cal
culate But in two or three places
in New England scientific men affirm
that there have been such relative
changes in the heights of mountains
that distant peaks which were once
visible from certain points are nov
obscured by the elevation OF interven
ing peaks
For the most part the known
changes in earth levels have been
slow, but we cannot safely infer tha'
that has always been the case; ana
even now the elevations are some
times by leaps, as in the case referred
to on the west coast of South Amer
ca. A noted instance occurred aoou'
twenty five years ago. when the easr
tains in California was permanent
lifted ten or twelve feet for lohs
distance by single earthquake shoch'
In general, however, we may be conn
dent that the foundations OF the ear'n
are so firmly established that no SUI
den and widespread catastrophe HUN
changes in land level need be feafeu'
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

ONE years ago, before | be-
came connected with the
United States secret serv-
ice in the east. | was en-
gagged by a member of the
western express COM
panies to do some special
work for them, . began
Capt. Dickson. My head
quarters we're In Denver
and my work, on the whole.
was decidedly interesting.
One adventure in particu-
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
SOLID ROCK SAWN BY WAITED
BY GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M II +,
Of
Joseph Bowles) 'o'

In the study of nature, as elsewhere.
effective natural forces work so silent
ly and so constantly that we are in
great danger of not being properly inn
pressed by the magnitude of their op-
erations. A drop of water is small
thing, and each one accomplishes but
the tiniest amount of work, yet, as a
continual dropping" will wear stone,
and as the drops of water which fall
upon the earth are innumerable and
come down in constant succession, the
total work accomplished surpasses the
highest flights of imagination.
The amount of water which falls
from the clouds and flows down to
lower levels in river beds and torren-
tiai streams varies greatly in differ
ent parts of the world, and in each
locality is greatly affected by special
conditions. In mountainous coun-
try the slope is so steep that nearly
all the rainfall finds its way into the
stream beds, and comes down to the
plains In torrents after every shower
or every melting of the snow upon
the summit. The effect of these tor
rents is prodigious. Stones many feet
in diameter are rapidly rolled down
the sleeper slopes and even carried
far out upon the plain, and deep gorges
are rapidly worn in the solid rock. One
will find great accumulations of bowl.
ders spread out upon the lawlands
about the mouths of all mountain
streams
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

King S river is from 3.0oa 70 -.
In depth, which the riye- - ''V0V ies,
hard granite. "sS Cut n
We have been aceusto1saa
OF such gorges as PRODUCED - - speas
Vulsions OF nature; and tba,. co..
many chasms in the eartb.s e.e are
which have been produced ,sulae
manner, of which the valley of - va!
dan is a conspicuous EXAMINE sHe !o''
the impressiyeness of CANYON. Br
duced by the steady action - pro
causes is even greater than .s s'oSe'
those produced by a sudden , a q
sion. When one reflects ubon !, tsu,as
ever, the process seems very - -. nos'
and the effects not at all avtrar s'Ape
for geological time is long If san
saws down through the rocks oa. ''s'
ers its bed a foot in 900 years 1 ss., ,o "
Is almost inconceivably slow, if w rsa
produce a gorge 1000 feet deen n'a !,
1000, 900 years; whereas if II IL. "a
its bed foot in 200 years II , s'sa
produce a canyon 5000 feet deas su :,
l,ooo,oo0 years. We can easily im. y
Inc the rate to be many times mae
rapid. In comparison with tho :,
gorges which we have mentioned "a ~
below Niagara falls seems very ipsi,
nificant and of very recent date
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

The Niagara gorge. e4ts,5.,, ..
Lewiston up to the present eat.r...
is but seven miles and a half lono -,
about 300 feet deep; yet this is all ~
work that has been done nv ~.
mighty river since the drainage of II"
great lakes began to flow in that dir.
ton. Recent surveys have shown ,h.,
the falls are wearing back at the ra,s
of nearly five feet year. thus sbov
ing that. If present forces have been !,
operation constantly, this cataract can
not be over 1000 or 5000 wears old
The Falls of st. Anthony at Minneano
lis have worn back. for the Missjssinni
river, narrow gorge CT similar Length
and dimensions and at a5at the samA
rate. II the other gorges mentioned
show by their vast extent the great
length Of geological time. these gorges
illustrate by their diminutige extent
the regency OF some of tie most mar.
velous events in geological history
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

The most impressive of all gorges
produced by river erosion is that OF
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
which for 800 miles flows in chan
mel of its own cutting 5000 feet Tor
more than mile) deep; while tribu-
taries from every side enter it through
narrow gorges of equal depth. On the
Pacific slope there are many other
river gorges approaching this in mag
nitude. Both forks of the American
river have cut gorges through solid
slate FROM 1000 to 1000 feet in depth.
The canyon of the MERGED river, where
1t flows through the Yosemite valley
is bordered with perpendicular gran
ite cliffs from 5000 to 5000 feet in
height, while the Grand Canyon of
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11
LAKES TO DRAIN MISSISSIPPI

BY GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT A. NJ
(Author
The Forrest City times., 1909-06-11

Copyright, ~ Joseph Rowles)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-11
GERMAN-FRENCH TRADE.
Progress OF Association for Improv
ing Business Relations.

Consul-GeneraI Richard Guenther
advises that the German French
Economic associatin, whose organiza-
ton he reported some time ago, re-
Gently held its first general meeting
in Frankfort, brief account of which
follows:
The president of the German Sec
tion of this association stated that at
present 267 members representing
leading firms trading with France.
belonged to the German section The
association contributes news articles
on French German commercial rela-
tions to 400 German periodicals.
Eight standing committees have been
appointed to study and treat on all
matters pertaining to customs, trans
portation. the post. telegraph, tele-
phone, expositions and sample ware
rooms, press and publication, protec-
ton of trade and commerce. collec-
tons Of claims in foreign countries
excursions and expositions for pur-
poses of study, and to acquire infor-
nation.
Various questions of great interest
were discussed at this meeting by
the members, some of whom repre-
sent the chambers Of commerce Of
Germany's trade centers. The pro-
ceedings of this meeting go to show
that not only will the trade relations
of the two countries be beneficially
affected by this new association, but
It will have a favorable influence on