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WIRE
 TRIPS

Via Long Distance Telephone involve no cost for hotel bills or railroad fare. You remain comfortably at home or in your office and accomplish import ant and satisfactory results quickly and economically.
 The lines of this company, with their connections. reach most places of importance within 1000 miles. The rates are moderate, the service prompt and reliable.
 THE SOUTHWESTERN
 TELEGRAPH < TELEPHONE
 COMPANY. EaA
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Trust Department
Insurance Department

None but the best Old Line rne-TrieJ Companies re writes all kinds of Fire, Tornado Accident risks
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AnS. LIMITED TO IS WORDS IN.
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 WANTED - ROOMS OR SMALL FUR. nished house. April l. Address IT. NJ. Burns X Co, oai W Barraaue
 ,f-ls 5t WANTED~-.S SITUATION BY YOUNG; man, business experience and reli
 ability in aus good line of business
 references furnished Adress \, care Graphic SIT 5t SIX WEEKS ABSTRACTION IN Salesmanship and position as trav- eling salesman with q reliable firm secured. Write for our book. How ta SHeeeea as q Salesman" Bral. street System. l5b Main street. Ro- chester, N '. 2-10 loot WANT1sD---RAiLWAY MAIL CLERKS, postofiee clerks, carriers and rural free delivery carriers; thousands of positions to De filled Excellent op- puvtnnity fol, young men; salary $500 to sl 200; examination May l5, free instructions; write immediate iy Government Positions Bureau. 3o33 Powers faliS.. Rochester, N. S
 1-i0 iabt WANTED--Six LADY MATTRESSES at $30 8 month, room and board, for Oklahoma; als1 Ave housekeepers, two chamber-.a'ls and four sales ladies, Apply O'BRIEN BROS, 2ll 1-a Main st, city. 3-2 If ED ATKINSON HAU1S CINDERS, dirt. sand, gravel, coal and manure j; grading aud filling 8 speciality. Old phone 22,.3,. 3-1O l2t WANTED 10 FAHII.lES FOR TH!. tarm; ll tiemakers; 25 lumber stackers, { log cutters. E men for an extra gang, ] first class night watchman, first class white cooks, 10 salesnen Apply O'BRIEN BROS. 21l 1-2 Main st., city. 3-2 If WANTED --- PARTNER TO TAKE half interest in my view business rapher, Fourth Ave. Hotel. 3-14 St WANTED--l BOOKKEEPER; 1 LA dy stenographer; lumber checker; 9 sawyers; 2 carpenter; 2 men cooks; architect O'Brien Bros. and Branch, 211 l-2 Main st., city.
 3-21 Ct SALESMAN WANTED TO SELL TO Grocers, Druggists and Confection- CTS; $100.00 per month and expen- ses. California Cider &, Extract Co, St. Louis, Mo 1t WANTED-TO SELL TO Grocers, Druggists and Confeotlon- CTS; $10O per month and expenses. California Cider &, Extract Co.,, St. Louis. Mo. 3-7-lt WANTED-SALESMAN TO CARRY sideline of the best selling post cards on the market; liberal com mission; reference required. South ern Post Card O., Shreveport, La. '
 3-16 ct SALESMAN WANTED TO SELL TO grocers, druggists and confectlon- CTS; a$100 per month and expenses. California Cider and Extract Co.,, St, Louis, Mo. 3-14 Ct WANTED TO LEARN BAR Der trade, few weeks required, best paying work within the reach of poor man; can have shop with small capital, wages from SIP to $20 weekly; wonderful demand for bar
The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-29
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Farm Telephones.

Tn some parts of the country tele- phones are becoming very common. It seems that once a telephone is estab. lished in the family 1t is there to stay. Other sections of the country are very much behind the times in this respect, probably because no one has gone ahead with the preliminary arrange ments.
 A farm telephone Is not only a great luxury, but 1t is fast becoming an ab- solute necessity. With the addition of more business to the farm every year and the scarcity of labor anything that saves steps Is worth money. When you get accustomed to doing business over the telephone you realize Its great value.
 A short time ago I heard farmer order 100 bushels of seed oats by phone from another farmer about ten miles away. He had seen sample at the fair last fall and made the ne gotiations accordingly. The business was transacted in about five minutes while the farmer was sitting at his desk after reading his morning mail left at the box by the rural delivery man. It would have taken him all day to get his mail and drive to the other farmer and buy his seed oats. But there is a social side to farm life that Is fostered by the telephone. It often happens that woman is left alone for the day and she can easily make arrangements to have neigh, bor call and spend the time pleasant. ly, instead of feeling lonely. Then it Is so easy to make social arrangements for evenings or to meet friends as oc, casion requires.
 There are always people in a neigh borhood who are publicspirited enough to go ahead with the necessary arrangements to establish telephone service Others should encourage them promptly by subscribing to the fund required. Everybody is benefited, be, cause the arrangement is mutual in the neighborhood. - Agricultural Epitomist.
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Scientific Small Farming.

An experiment from which much may be learned Is being tried in Hun gary. It is embodied in the new land bill. which is now coming into opera tion. The proposal is to break up 24. 900 acres into settlements, which set dement's will be subdivided into plots of seven acres each. But the interest ing point is that in the center of each group of small holdings there will be a larger holding of not more than 666 acres, which will be in the hands oi a capable and experienced farmer who will set an example for the oth CTS to follow.
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Hog Cholera.

In the way of treatment the United States Bureau of Animal Industry has discovered a vaccine which saves about S0-odd per cent after cholera ap- pears in a herd, and a larger per cent If vaccinated before the disease Is in troduced Time will demonstrate the practicability of this method. The bacteriology department of the Kansas State Agricultural College Is also working along these lines. but Is not yet ready to announce anything but progress.
 When symptoms of cholera appear in herd. 1t is wise to dip the whole herd. disinfect their quarters thor oughly, give them a slight change in feed, and add to this about five drops of tincture of prickly ash for each hundred pounds of hog once or twice a day. The old remedy of wood ashes and salt is good in many instances. A little powdered sulphate of copper, dried sulphate of iron or charcoal given daily when the animals are not perfectly healthy frequently does much good. After all. the old adage, an ounce of prevention Is worth pound of cure, holds good here.
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SOME MARRIED ADAPTATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
N0A@&ANN0~

S~~~~%~~oN~~ It doesn't hurt any to express occa- sional surprise over the (maybe) fact that she still remains as a girl at heart.
 Don't overlook the fact that the gir. thier and wheezler she gets the more she likes to have you call her win. some" once in while.
 Why Is 1t that the woman whose ears resemble sun-dried clans is the one who experiences the keenest han. kering for those big pendant ear. rings?
 It Is difficult for man to under. stand why he should be required to wear toeless hose when his wife puts in about nine hours a day needing Irish crochet lace.
 Why is 1t that dandruffiness, linty. featheriness and general unkempt blowsiness are the unfailing exterior characteristics of the woman who walls about her shattered ideals?"
 The woman whose husband goes out before breakfast and fetches home an armful of lilacs for the breakfast ta. ble doesn't have to worry about his curves when he's out of her sight, either.
 In the first place, man couldn't be induced to eat fudge and pickles in o1f fny ta h f,,lo p,Yt I,a be, he wouldn't loll around a little later on, wondering what in the wide world ailed his stomach.
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and . maker of card sharps among womea.-Utica Globe.
The Miracle of Polite Per.istency.


 Says Orison Swett Warden, writinA in Success Magazine: When genius has failed in what it attempted, and talent says impossible; when every other faculty gives up; when tact re- tires and diplomacy has fled; when logic and argument and influence and pull" have all done their best and retired from the field, gritty persist ency, bulldog tenacity, steps in, and by sheer force of holding on wins, gets the order, closes the contract, does the impossible. An, what mir. acles tenacity of purpose has perform ed! The last to leave the field, the last to turn back, 1t persists when all other forces have surrendered and fled. It has won many battle even after hope has left the field.
 Confederate commanders in the Civil War said that the trouble with General Grant was that he never knew when he was beaten" When Grants generals thought that his
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army, with only two transports, would be trapped at Vicksburg, they asked him how he expected to get his men out, urging that in case of defeat he could get only a small part of his army upon two transports. He told them that two would be plenty for all the men that he would have left when he surrendered
 It Is the man in the business world who will not surrender, who will not take no for an answer, and who stands his ground with such suavity of man ner, such politeness, that you cannot take offense, cannot turn him down, that gets the order; that closes the contract; that gets the subscription; that gets the credit or the loan.
 He Is a very fortunate man who combines a gracious manner, suavity, cordiality, cheerfulness, with that dogged persistency which never gives up.
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winner" getting her share of gossip
 The wise woman is the one who lets cards severely alone. and that is just what some of them are doing. One of the most surprising things about society women recently has been their loss of interest in bridge whist. For several years 1t seemed as if this game would become a permanent in stitution. Women played for high stakes at almost every opportunity. They were at it morning, noon and night. In many Newport houses 1t was not an uncommon thing for the hostess to lead her guests straight from the breakfast table to the card table, and the afternoon receptions usually resolved themselves into bridge campaigns. There were many women who gambled themselves poor, in the sense that they lost all their pin money and their own incomes and were forced to go in humiliation to their husbands for more funds. There were other women who fattened finan. cially on bridge. There was one prominent society matron who re. ceived an automobile as a gift from her husband and the next week part, ed with it to liquidate bridge debt
 There Is, however, little or no bridge gambling at present Bridge Is dead After all, as the evidence shows, 1t was a fad. Society cannot stick to anything. It must have change. Society women are restless, nervous, always calling for something different, and so bridge whist has gone. Of course 1t will be played, but only occasionally, and never again will 1t be a wholesale thief of time
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Water for the Chicks.

Take an ordinary baking pan and have the tinsmith rivet on an ear" on one side for mailing to tree. Have him also make hole in the bottom in one corner, that the water can be let out every day and the pan be kept clean. Nail the pan to a tree about twelve inches from the ground, so the chicks can drink without get ting into it with their feet. The birds will soon discover that it is a fine place from which to get a drink on hot days Sometimes they find. too, that 1t is a convenient place for a bath, and this of course makes the water dirty. But 1t Is not much trou- ble to refill the pan with clean water, and this should be done two or three times a day. Chickens and birds re- quire a great deal of water, and they often suffer for lack of 1t. Don't neg lect them.-Boston Herald.
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a rod that leads to the handle of the bucket controls the flow. The top of the rod is connected to a crossbar, which runs under the handle of the bucket This bar Is in close reach, and, when resting on the top of the bucket the valve is open. To close the valve the operator merely extends a finger and lifts the bar, thus shutting off the fertilizer. The valve flares at the bottom, spreading the fertilizer in a broad fine stream. For small farms, gardens and lawns this device is of great convenience, and is a money. saver.
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Earnings of Good Cows.

To demonstrate that all the good COWS are not confired to any one breed and to show that the net profit per year is from a god COW attention is called to the records of the best five cows at the Wisconsin experiment sta
 tion as follows: Johanna, Holstein, 13,1s62 pounds mix, 44496 pounds fat, average test, 3.62 per cent, net profit s95.s1; Marcells Jersey, 7,7S31 pounds milk, 442SS pounds butter fat, average test, 5.6: per cent, net profit sS0.o1; Margaret Guernsey, S,652.7 pounds milk, 40t.25 pounds fat, aver
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WOMEN AS GAMBLERS.
Pigh Society Danes Losing Their Ints.re.t in Bridge Whist.

It Is doubtful If women ever should be permitted to play cards. Hardly day masses without women gathering for cards in cne or a"other of the big hotels of New York city. Sometimes big 5arties are in aid of certain chari
 ties: souetimes they are merely an
 Item ir the seasons program of a wome1's club. Does one of them ever pasy without talk of cheating? Not on,. Every time women gather to pay cards for slender vases or Jap .anese tea sets there is heated talk of the winning of the prizes by methods not exactly friendly. There are wom. en undoubtedly who have a weakness for sharp practices at cards, still 1t is doubtful if they offend as often in this respect as men. When anything ir. regular crops up, however, they talk about 1t without fear or favor. In this way dissension and bitter quar-. rels arise, and it Is doubtful If even a "booby" prize Is awarded without the
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WAX FROM A MEXICAN WEED.
The Once Despised Candelilla Now
 Worth s20O or More an Acre.

| The Once Desptsed tandelfila NOW Worth s2OO or More an Acre.
 The discovery by Oscar Pacius of Monterey of process for extracting wax from the candelilla weed Is caus. ing the establishment of a new indus try in Mexico and Texas. The can delilla grows abundantly upon many millions of acres of semi-arid land in Northern Mexico and parts of Texas Arizona and New Mexico. Land owners who have this formerly despised weed growing upon their holdings are now in fair way to reap fortune. Mon- terey (Mexico) correspondent of the New York Sun says.
 | When 1t was discovered few years ago that a good grade of crude rub Der could be manufactured from the guayule shrub experiments began to be made by Mf. Pacius and others with various other kinds of wild vegetation to learn If they possessed commercial properties. MT. Pacius found that the ,andelilla contained wax to the amount of 319 to Az per cent. He gathered supply of the plants and began ex- pcriments with a view of arriving at process of economical extraction of the wax. He perfected this process q few months ago and 1t Is now in prac. tical operation.
 The manufacture of this vegetable wax Is already on paying commercial basis. The demand for the product comes at this time chiefly from Ger. many. The present price of the wax In Mexico Is $500 gold a ton. It Is said that it takes about thirty tons of the weed to make one ton of the crude wax. The cost of producing a ton of wax Is s75 gold.
 The land upon which the candelilla weed grows profusely Is producing a big revenue in the localities where factories have been established. It Is said that where land Is we'll set In the plant 1t can be made to yield a profit of s200 to $500 gold an acre a year
 The candelilla wax Is said to be harder than any other wax. This fact has caused 1t to be In demand for the manufacture of photograph records, pharmaceutical articles, varnishes shoe, leather and wood polishes, insula. tion in electrical wiring, gums. candles and many other things.
 The fact that the guayule shrub and the candelilla plant are now known to contain valuable commercial properties In, Il. t,t authorities of Mexico and 1t Is said that a series of chemical experiments and tests of the various other desert plants which cover great stretches of land in Northern Mexico will be made under the direction of the government, with a view of discovering any com. mercial properties that they may con. tain One plant which grows profuse. l ly along the Rio Grande is called gubernador and is being used exten- siyely for the manufacture of a boiler compound. There are also two or thres kinds of shrubs and weeds which pos. sess cleansing properties almost iden- tical in effect with washing soap. The roots of these shrubs are used by the native Mexicans to the exclusion of manufactured soap.
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age test, 4.66 per cent, net pron. s73.30; Christiana, Ayrshire, 9,037.4 pounds milk, 366.5S pounds fat, aver age test. 4.06 per cent, net profit s6621. The cost of feed at market prices has been charged to each COW and the figures represent the sale of butter fat less the cost of feed. The skim milk, calf, and manure are pro ducts in addition.
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piece of board is nailed, back of which

piece of board is nailed, back of which the nest is made.
 To set the trap simply raise the slats inward from the bottom or g inches high and place a small stick under one of the slats, As the hen enters the door is raised off the stick, which falls to the floor There should be about five slats for a box 12 or IA inches in width, slats close against inch strip at bottom.
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4 Tran Nest,

The accompanying plan of trap nest is quite simple and can be made from box of suitable size. It should be 12 or IA inches square by 20 or 24 inches long. The slats should be nailed to crosspiece about one-quarter the distance from the top. A couple of nails are driven through the box and into the crosspiece to swing on. Half way back, on the inside, a narrow
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pretty penny. Then came along a Virginia man and invented the hand fer, tilizer dropper. This de. vice consists of an odd. shaped bucket, running to a point at the bottom and having a small open. ing there, through which
 the contents filters. A
 bingod valva oDerated by
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gram consists of two sets of fues. one set to admit the fresh air. the other to furnish an escape for the vitiated air. The inlet or fresh air flues should be placed not more than ten feet apart and located in the exterior walls of the barn. The outlet may include one or more flues.
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Quite Unnecessary.

Bacon-I understand the principa. rule of a new club at Paris Is that all the members on entering the insti. tuition shall preserve an absolute si. lence.
 Egbert-I suppose 1t is quite unnec. essary to say 1t is not a woman's club? -Yonkers Statesman.
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Nothing Dangerous About That.

Hewitt-Delays are dangerous Jew ett-Oh, I don't know. My wife re- ceived letter this morning saying that her mother would have to post. bone her visit-New York Press. .
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His Fate Already Settled.

Hicks-Do you think that that fir. tation between Jack Wilson and Kate Thornley is serious?
 Wicks-For Jack, yes. But he doesn't know 1t yet.-Somerville Jour. nal.
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We suppose Peach is the accepted nickname for girls these days because their mothers bring them up in fear and trembling that frost may get them.
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When Xegetnbles lIature.

The following list will show the gar dener how long after plsnting the va- rious common vegetable. will mature their growth and be ready for use:
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Saves the Fertilizer.

Fertilizer is expensive. By the old method of distributing 1t there was usually enough wasted to represent a
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The King System of Ventilation
 Ventilation for stables and barns Is now regarded as one of the essentials to be provided for in construction. The King system as illustrated in the dia.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-05

will be taken to Wisconsin for tria:
IT is said that Brown has served a
term in prison a similar charge.
It is said that Brown, who is a well
appearing man of 35 years Of are. il a
very clever swindler. One Of his
games was to visit cigar or LIQUOR es.
adjustment and make the proprietor
neiieve that he had violated some 81.
ternal revenue law and settle the mat.
ter with him in a quiet way by taking
a Dribe. Another was to visit 4
farming community and negotiate for
the purchase of land and at the same
time secure information in relation to
farmers receiving pensions. In one
case he was told that certain far.
mer was receiving a pension from tba
government for a trouble with his
eyes and that there was NOTHING tba
matter with them. He went TO th5s
party and told him that he was an IN.
spector from the pension Office and
tnat ne was there to INVESTIGATES his
case. He informed the farmer that
ne had been defrauding the govern.
menfs for number OF years and then
then suggested that the matter could
De settled for certain sum.
The frauds Of which Brown 10 nov,
wanted We're all committed in VIE.
consin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-05
CARTHAGE, ILL.
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Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Miller spent a
part of last week in Peoria
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Choate are visit.
ing relatives in the city.
Otis Helfrich is home from Lake
Forest University for his summer
vacation.
Thos. Ellison visited his brother
William at Niota last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. Briley visited
with Dave Briley, of Niota, one day
last week
Miss Flosse Harris is visiting in
West Point.
Lennie and Tom Davis we're Hamil-
ton visitors Saturday.
DR.. and Mrs. R.. d. Denton are visit
Ing in Peoria.
]. A. and c. G. Califf spent Friday
in Burlingto
j. Ross Swigert has returned from
his trip to Kentucky.
Mrs. Salina Gilbert is visiting Mrs
Lucille Mitchell, In Kentucky.
Miss Ethel Brown is visiting In
Iowa.
Mr.. Kirby and family. of Iowa, spent
Saturday with his brother, T. ]. Kirby
of this city.
Mr.. | Wilson has gone to Buffalo,
N. Y
Born to Mrs. Rose Holtzbaur, nee
Barry. of Algona, Iowa, on the 22nd,
daughter.
Mrs. Fritz Stepp and grandson are
enjoying the celebration at Burlington.
Miss Bertha Biggs, daughter Of
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G. F. BROWN TAKEN
BY THE OFFICERS
Deputy Marshal Dunlap and Others
Made the Arrest at His
Mothers Home.

Fort Madison Gem City: Internal
Revenue Officer Beecher Stearns of
Milwaukee, Wis, arrived Friday with
a warrant for the arrest of C. F..
Brown. who is charged with imper-
sonating United States internal rev.
enue officer and obtaining money by
fraud.
Officer stearns, in company with
Deputy United States Marshal Dun
lap, of Keokuk, Sheriff Datin. Chief
of Police Schier and Postmaster Hol-
lowell went to the home of Browns
mother on Johnson street where
Brown was arrested. He was placed
in jail and this morning was taken to
Ottumwa and from there will be taken
to Red Oak for examination. If the
evidence is sufficient to hold him he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-05
CHICAGO Grand Iurx

CHICAGO, July 5.-The grand jury
h asreturned No Bill" against j. =.
Mccormick son of the President Of
Western University of Pennsylvania,
charged with passing worthless
checks. He was accused of giving
spurious paper to Rev. w. G. Covert,
and other churchmen here.
Sharp criticism of the Chicago
Daily Socialist is contained in the re.
port of the grand jury which
was investigating the charges the pa.
per made against members Of the city
administration. The report said that
the paper failed to produce evidence.