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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Postaue Stamp Gum.

Every time a person licks United States postage stamp he gets taste of sweet potato. The gum with which the stamps are backed is made from that succulent vegetable because Uncle Sam's lieutenants consider it the most harmless preparation of the sort All of the gum used on American postage stamps is mixed by the government at the bureau of engraving and printing, where the stamps are made. It is spread on the sheets after the stamps have been printed. The gum, in a liquid form, is forced up through pipes from the basement, where it is made. These pipes lead to a series of ma chimes consisting of rollers, between which the sheets of stamps are fed, one at a time. A continuous fine stream of the liquid gum falls upon one of these rollers. The sheet with its wet coating of sweet potato mucilage passes from the rollers into a long horizontal fiue filled with hot air. When it emerges at the other end of the fue the gum is dry.-New York Telegram.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Preserving tho Balance.


 A well known professor Of architec- ture, commonly referred to as Ham my" by his pupils, toIds story illus. trative of the remarkable degree to which certain persons possess the sense of symmetry.
 It seems that there was once a Scotch gardener who had charge of @ good sized English estate and under whose direction the formal garden al the rear had been laid out with abso- lute symmetry, even the two summer houses, one on each side of the garden, being identical in even the most minute detail. On one occasion the English. man became angry at his son and locked him up in one of the summer houses. As soon as the Scotch garden. CT heard of this his sense of symmetry was 50 outraged that he immediately sent for his own son and locked him up in the other summer house to pre- serve the balance. "Hammy" neglect. ed to mention whether both boys were dressed exactly alike, but it is to be presumed that even this detail was at tended to by the aesthetic Scotchman. New York Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Straight From the Animal.

A London gentleman, having taken small farm in the country as being the correct thing to do, as well as to get little fresh air. had invited some of his friends down to see his new possession.
 Having viewed the domain and not ing the absence of creature life about the place, one of his friends remarked:
 "With 6 nice, open place like this, l wonder you don't have some animals about, as is usual on a farm. Some cows, for instance, so as to have your own butter and cream" .
 "No-o," drawled his host, "don't care about butter or cream"
 Some chickens or ducks, then. You surely like fresh eggs?"
 Moo, don't care for eggs. But I've sometimes thought I'd like a sheep. I rather like kidneys for breakfast."- Liverpool Mercury.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
The Palisades.

To see New York city from the Pali sades is to witness the multiple beau ty and wonder of the Palisades them. selves. One of the most astonishing facts concerning these towering masses of grandeur is that they lie SC close to the most artificial, man sub jugated area that .civilization has evolved, writes Philip Verrill Mighels in Harper's Magazine. To come upon the Palisades from the rear at night is like stepping to the edge of the world. where the slender, dark island lies low beyond as if it were only a part of space. its countless lights looking like millions of stars stretched for miles across the sky. The illu- sion is dispelled when the wind flows up with the tide to the base of the cliffs and lifts up the full throated roar of the substantial city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17

For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thousands of cures to its credit.
 mE9@ Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women 0W to write her for advice. She hes guided thousands to health free of charge.
 Address Mrs. Pinlzham, Lynn, Mass.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Approaching It Gradually.

An old farmer, on paying his rent told his landlord he wanted some tim. Der to build a house and would be much obliged to him if he would give permission to cut down wood for the purpose.
 The landlord answered peremptorily, "No."
 "Why, then, str." said he, twill you give me enough to build barn?"
 'No.''
 gro make a gate, then?'
 "Yes"
 ''Thats all wanted" said the farm CT, "and more than expected."-Pear. sons Weekly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Complimentary to Him

supplementary to Him. Really" said Cholly Sappey, 'T cawn't understand Miss Rood at all. She actually called me crank.'' ''The ideaw exclaimed Miss Cutting. "How hattering"'
 "FlatteringY
 "Yes; a crank, you know, is a man with one idea. Standard and Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17

WANT ADS. CENT A WORD
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Cure Your Cold
 with Flax Seed

For many years physicians have been suc- cessfully treating Coughs, Colds, :" Bronchi- tis and Consumption with an Emulsion of Flax Seed, called L1NONINE. This is not a secret remedy, the formula being on every bottle. It is palatable cmulsion-sweeta as cream - made of the oil compressed cold from the finest, selected Flax Seeds and by scientific process requiring 12o hours.
 If you wish to know what this Flax Seed Emulsion will do, write to the makers and they will send you an order on local drug gist for regular-size package (not mere sample) and will pay the druggist themselves for it. This is their free gift, made to let the remedy itself show you what it can do.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Leslie Harris
Charged with
Robbing Safe
Brother Of Los Angeles Man Who
Attempted to Loot Bank in
Illinois is Under Arrest.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. @.-Leslis
Harris, Is years old, IN attorney and
brother of Lamar A. Harris, whose SEN
~sational attempt to rob a bank in High
land Park, ILL.,, and with mis- subsequent
suicide, caused a sensation two months
ago, was arrested yesterday and charged
with having robbed the safe in a store
where he formerly was employed.
According 60 the police, 500 was taken,
and $500 was found, where Harris had hid
den 1t. Harris refused to make a state
ment. He was the sole support of his
mother, who formerly was wealthy and a
leader In society.
CHICAGO, Dec. 20 Lamar Harris, a
brother OF Leslie, robbed the Ersklne bank
at Highland Park, ILL.,, on October 10, and
committed suicide In a shed, to which he
had been driven by officers and citizens
after attempting to escape IT. an automo-
bile. Harris had bee. living in a fashion
able hotel here and entertaining acti esses
and chorus girls at lavish dinner parties.
Formerly he had practiced law in Los
Angeles. His robbery Of the Highland
Park bank, to which he sped in an auto
mobile borrowed from a mining promoter
whose acquaintance he had made the night
before at an Evanston hotel, followed &
dinner party given the night before TO
we'll known actress then playing in Chi
cago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Fast Train
is Derailed
Near Tucson
Two Men Killed and Thirteen Persons
Seriously Injured When Flyer
Leaves Rails.

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 0.-Engineer rom
Walker and Fireman p. w Bauer poth
Of Tucson, were killed, thirteen persons
were seriously injured and ~thirty-nine
others cut and bruised when eastbound
Southern Pacific passenger train No. T.
formerly known as the Golden State Linn
tied, was wrecked three miles west OF
Benson. at 4 o'clock this morning, me
most seriously injured we're brought TO
st. Mary's hospital at Tucson. Among
them are:
Willard NJ. knight, Los Angeles; mail
clerk.
w. X. Walker. Los Angeles; mail clerk.
Mrs. L.. A. Bellows, Boston, Mass.
A. II. Foster, Los Angeles; Mail clerk
Colonel William Fife, Cananea, Mex
Miss Nellie Corbett.
Edward G.. Edmunds, mall clerk Los
Angeles.
The train was running thirty miles an
hour. Southern Pacific officials say hs
train struck a curve at too high speed
The engine, baggage car, man car ana
Two tourist sleepers toppled from the rails,
the engine and the mall car rolling forty
feet down into a culvert. The other cars
turned over as they cleared the rails, but
did not go into the ditch.
Two Pullmans and mn observation car
remained on the track and their momentum
carried them 500 feet beyond the wreckage.
The injured were near,y all In the tour
list sleepers and In the mail car.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Christmas Cheer
in Army and Navy
Seventeen Thousand Sailors at New
York Will Be Given a Fine
Spread.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-Every soldier
and sailor in the service of the United
States will celebrate Christmas at the ex-
pense of the government,
More elaborate plans are made by the
army and navy for the celebration Of
Christmas than any other day of the year.
This year the government will give the H.
O0 sailors Of the Atlantic battleship fleet.
which is a large percentage Of those in
the service, an unusually fine spread at
New York.
Last year the fishes Of the sea cheated
the b~luejackets out of the dinner designed
for them. 1t happened that the Navy de-
partment had sent out aboard the ocean
steamer Republic a large quantity OF cram
berries, nuts, apples, turkeys and other
Christmas dainties valued at SCI, 191, for
the battleship fleet at Gibraltar, then on
it's cruise around the world. The Republic
sank after a collision and so did the blue
jackets Christmas dinners.
A policy has been adopted by the navy
Of taking the blueJackets periodically tc
some big port where they may enjoy life
to the fullest. The British navy officials
claim TO have discovered that after such
periods of hilarity the sailor is more con.
tented at sea. They will be started off or
their holidays by a big Christmas dinner
including oyster cocktails, roast turkey
cranberries, pumpink pie, ice cream, as
sorted fruits and nuts, coffee and cigars
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Jerome Talks to
Working Men
BE Says if Lords Are Given Power
Over Finance Liberals Cannot
Again Regain Power.

! LONDON. Dec. 20.-The election com
paign has brought out two interesting COM
manifestations. Jerome K. Jerome, address
ing the workingmsn At NARROW last even
ing, spoke strongly for the liberals. He
said II thu lords were once given power
over finance the liberals could never hope
TO take office again, because 90 out Of
every 100 conservatives were rich men and
able to afford to contest an election every
year, II necessary, while the liberal labor
men could not stand the cost OF yearly
elections, which the conservatives could
compel by constantly throwing out the lib
eral budgets,
Robert Blatohford, the socialist leader, in
the course OF his series Of articles on ''The
German Peril" today declares that the
questions of budget, protection and free
trade are all insignificant in the face of
this impending danger, and suggests as a
program AN immediate vote OF $3.50, 900. OOC
for the ANY, compulsory military service
and universal military training for school
boys, q large increase for secret service
and naval intelligence. as well as tile tax
alton OF manufactured imports, II found
necessary.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Baptisms IN Icy
Waters of Hudson
Converts to New Sect Among Negroes
SILVER for Half Hour in Freez-
ing Robes.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Dec, 90
Charles Walker Of Kingston, Jamaica, has
established a new religious sect among the
colored people here and this afternoon ne
baptized two converts in the icy waters OF
the Hudson. The converts were attired in
loose robes and stood on the wharf shiv-
erlng for half an hour after the baptism,
A short time ago Elder Walker baptized
in the Hudson Mrs. Pleasant Greene, who
became violently insane.
Preacher Walker describes his new sect
as the Church Of God and the Saints OF
Christ"
His belief is that all baptlsms should be
performed in natural streams, irrespective
Of the temperature.
TT is often necessary" he said, TO cut
a hole in the ice in order to perform bap-
tisms,"
Pleasant Greene, whose wife was taken
to the asylum following her baptism in the
river, threatened today to shoot the elder
il he again preached his religion to Mrs
Greene.
Sterling NORTHUMBERLAND & Dodge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Three Sisters
to Be Indicted
Mother and Two Aunts of Mrs. 0cey
Snead Will Be Charged with
Her Murder.

NEW YORK. Dec. 9O.-The three ecen-
trio sisters, Miss Virginia WaTdlaw, Mrs.
Mary Snead and Mrs. Caroline w. Martin,
all charged with the murder Of Ocey
Snead, whose emaciated body was found
in a bathtub at East Orange, N. j., Will
be indicted by the Essex county IN. j.
grand jury on Tuesday, according to the
program mapped out by the county au-
thorities.
Immediately thereafter application Tor
the extradition of Mrs. Snead and Mrs.
Martin, now held in the Tombs here, will
be made. 1t is believed that the two sis
ters in New York, on the advice of coun-
sci, will consent 10 go to New Jersey for
trial without a legal battle.
Miss Wardlaw maintained the family's
almost morbid desire for seclusion today
when she requested that the bars Of her
cell be plastered with newspapers in order
that the other prisoners might not look
at her. But because Of precedent that the
granting Of such a request would create,
her plea was unheeded. Mrs. Martin and
Mrs. Snead, in separate cells, spent a quiei
day at the Tombs. They are to be ar
raigned in a police court tomorrow for q
continuation of the preliminary hearing
which was begun on Saturday.
Prosecutor Mott Of Essex county, New
Jersey, said hat he has positive evidence
that both Mrs. Snead and Mrs. Martin
we're INSTRUMENTAL in engaging the, houst
in which ocey Snesd died. r.. Charles Kirk
an 11-year-old messenger boy, will testify
that he carried Mrs. Martins suitcase IL
East Orange on November II, while the
prosecutor says he has additional evidences
that Mrs. Martin was in the house after
Ocey Snead met death and before Miss
Wardlaw so tardily notified the police.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21

indian from the vicinity of the mission
that the cavalry narrowly escaped a repe-
tition of the fate of Custer and his troops.
The main position of the hostile camp was
some distance ahead and hundreds Of war
riors were discerned running to and fro,
but only a small proportion of the Indians
showed fight, and for some time kept the
troopers holly engaged.
The regular Indian method Of fighting
was adopted, the reds quietly sneaking to
the tops of elevations and occasionally
firing at the troopers, while they them
selves were steadily retrestlngt toward their
village and slowly drawing the troops to
what the Indians supposed would be their
doom. A trap had been set for the SOL
diers, and before they were aware of their
danger they were surrounded on almost
all sides by high elevations. Instantly the
tops of the hills became fairly black with
the forms of what was evidently the entire
force OF the hostiles and they prepared to
close in on the troops. Colonel Forsyth
is unQuestionably one of the best and most
experienced Indian fighters in the army
and he saw the trap into which the troops
had been drawn I'm time TO avert serious
consequences. Hurrying a messenger to
the agency, the Ninth cavalry was sum
moned 20 the scene. and the Indians We're
| soon forced to retreat before the COM
bined forces Of the Seventh and Ninth.
Although Red Cloud claimed he was a
prisoner in the hostile camp at the time,
there we're many old squawmen and others
at Pine Ridge who stoutly maintained that
no one but old Red Cloud himself could
nave directed the indian forces with the
skin and cunning displayed on that oc-
casion. 1t was generally understood that
to him belonged the glory, from an indian
standpoint, Of the sldllful management of
J the hostile forces on that day, and no one
spoke more highly of that great general
ship than the arm officers and soldier
who participated in the fight.
A few years ago, feeling the end ap.
preaching, Red Cloud dictated and sent q
farewell letter 10 Buffalo Bill, whom he
addressed by the Indian name of Pe-Ha'
Has-Ka. He said:
Tel my friend, Pe-Ha-Has-Ka, that I
Is Red Cloud that talks to him by one o.
my people who knows white man pei
sign. VIII talk what / say TO him will
my tongue and send by paper. Old ogal
lala chief, last chief soldier of Sioux
talks from heart to the White Eagle o
Great Fathers Warriors. l want tell hin
old chief soon go to Manitou huntinl
ground-neve see Pa-Ha-Has-Ka more.
say we light-men smoke ~pipe-shake hand
bury hatchet-liye same tepee. My PEG
pie follow white mans road. You Away
good after fight 10 red brother. l speal
to you to be always friend my people
You good; You show my young men heaj
big village, heap things | never see.
"Old Indian. more old then you, hop
tell Great Father Washington and Gres
Fathers Head Man AXE care my people
All want 10 be good. ! Ike you come.
no see you, but I could hear you tall
/, Shake hands-make goodby friend, giv
their ears 70 P~e-Ha-Has-ka, be friend I
Sioux. White man rich. Indian pooI
Tell white man help indian. ] talk 70
? last time. Hear down, II black robe spea.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Bones of Celcstials
, Back to China
Remains of Two Victims of Tragedy
at Union City, Ind, twenty-five
Years Ago Dug Up.

UNION CITY, Ind. Dec, 9O-After they
had been buried In the cemetery here for
twenty-five years, the bones Of Bow Hong
and his brother, known as Chung Lung,
were dug up today and in two suitoases
were taken to Cleveland. Soon, with the
bones Of twenty-five other Chinese that
have died in this country, they will be
shipped TO Hong Kong.
Bow Hong and Chung Lung died in a
hideOus tragedy in a little laundry they
operated for their brother, Sam Hong
Bow Hong, after trying In vain to per
suade Chung Lung to desert Sans laun'
dry and start = place OF their own. muir
dered his companion with an axe as h
was sleeping. Bow Hong then plunget
into his own body man times a croOkeC
Chinese dagger and finally thrust tn
weapon into his throat before he fell.
Every year Chinese have put food on thu
graves OF the two friends So that the evi
spirits might be p~lacated and permit tn,
dead to rest in peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21

who found the old man squatting on a
knoll above the agency and gazing visit
fully at the setting sun.
At one time. in the Omaha council, REQ
Cloud openly abused the agent and berated
the government of the agency. He after
ward came to the Doctors office and apol-
ogized, saying that he talk one way
bucks-another way Little Beard
Red Cloud never had more than one wife.
His fellow chiefs had from two to a dozen.
The doctor tells an amusing anecdote of
the chiefs first family trouble. One day
the old man came to the doctor and said
that he had had trouble with his wife. He
said he saw that Mrs. Red Cloud was
growing old fast and needed some one to
help her about her work, so he bought n
pretty Indian maiden, about 90 years old,
and brought her home. Mrs. Red Cloud
made serious objections to the matrimonial
arrangement and made the objections so
forcible, with a big butcher knife that
both the old chief and the wouid-be wife
helper fled for their lives,
A Trap That Failed.
On several occasions during the latter
part Of November and through December,
1880, Red Cloud visited the headquarters
Of the newspaper correspondents then az
Pine Ridge to report the progress of the
difficulty. Red Cloud was decidedly
downcast by the constant reports of depre-
dations committed by the h~ostiles, and lost
no opportunity TO counsel peace and us.
his influence to end the trouble before the
troops and Indians met in bloody conflict
Red Cloud and his intimate friend, Biz
Road, leader Of one of the powerful banI'
which participated in the Custer massacre
were together almost constantly during
this period. and were frequently at thu
agency up to the day OF the battle o.
Wounded Knee, December %. 1890.
For some weeks previous and up TO tina
day there were several thousand s~o-calleC
friendly Indians encamped about tn
agency. But the new of the battle, so dis
torted as TO make 1t appear that Colonel }
w. Forsyth had disarmed Big Foot's 10,
lowers stood them iy a row and shot then
down like rats In a trap, caused the agenc!
to become alarmed and they at once STAN
peded to the adjacent hills, and mad
every preparation for battle. Red Cloud
dwelling. a fine frame building, stands
short distance northwest OF the agenc,
building on the bottom lands along Whit
Clay creek, and It was there that the large
portion OF the stampeded Indians gathere
presumably for the purpose Of coaxing Re
Cloud 10 stampede with them and assis
in avenging the death of Big Foot's hors'
Some OF the Indians opened fire on IN
agency. thinking no doubt that in III
excitement Of the moment the war splr
OF the good chieftain would be arouse
sufficiently TO induce him to go with then
After exchanging shots with the trooI
and Indian police for a time the Indian
retreated. taking Red Cloud with them, b
afterward insisting that they forced him
accompany them. The next day word wa
received at the agency that the stampedin
Indians We're attacking and attempting
J aAck and burn he DreNel mission, locate
, SOME four miles north OF the agency, an
the seventh cavalry, Colonel Forsyth con
. nandiuy, was hastily sent out TO drive a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Kerosene Poured
Into Toy Stove
Little Girl Burned to Death Playing
with Christmas Gift-Mother
Will Probably Die,

EAST ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2O-A toy stove
which her father had given her today In
stead Of waiting until Christmas resulted
in the death OF Minnie Coming, 6 years old,
in the family home this afternoon. The
girls mother. Mrs. Katherine Coming, is
not expected to live. and her father was
slightly burned.
The chiId started to build a fire in the
stove, as she had often seen her mother,
by pouring on kerosene, AS soon as a
match was touched 20 the oil the girls
clothes were enveloped In flames.
Her mother, In trying to extinguish 'he
blaze. being attracted by the asonlzing
cries, was burned so badly that at ST.
Mary's hospital tonight the physician an
nounced her recovery 20 be doubtful.
The child died two hours after being
burned. The father. Edward Coming was
burned In r~escuing his wife. The firemen
~extlnguished the fire In the house.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Footpad Robs
Women Only
Two Girls Are Badly Beaten by High
waymen at st. Joseph,
Missouri.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. Dec, GA highway
man who preys on women only, operated
here Saturday and Sunday. according TO
reports made 10 the police. Miss Lou Barr,
who. with Miss Pearl ellison, was return
ing home from a visit 10 a %neighbor, was
frightfully beaten up when she declined
10 ho.d up her hands when the highway
man suddenly confronted them In the dark
Saturday night. Her companion stood
helplessly by screaming for help. Residents
Of the neighborhood began TO run towards
the scene and the footpad fled. Tonight
Miss Rachel Chopen was held up in front
Of the home Of her uncle and after being
knocked down by the robber and kicked
b~rutally, was robbed Of her pocketboOk
containing a small amount. The police
and citizens are searching for the rObber'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21
Omaha Branches

Chas. Blind, 1904 Leavenworth.
G. F. Hall, 32d and Burt.
G. w Hartman. 2003 Cunning.
Jos. Houska, 1928 Sherman Ave.
]. M. McAuley, 1906 Sherman Ave.
McCreary & Barlow, 1922 No. Gath.
Martin Reum, Hayden Bros.
G. II. Mallinson, 1912 Capitol Ave.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21

S. Finkenstein, 2O02 No. 26th.
Johnson & Goodlet, 20O2 Lake St.
e. e. Kennard, 1921 No. 45th.
Rosenblum Bros, 1921 Cunning.
K. P. 0ellgren, 1902 No. 30th.
Semmer Bros, 28th and Farnam.
H. Rachman, 1907 Leavenworth.
]. D. Austin, 1924 No. 30th.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-21

Schmidt & Son, SIG No. 18th.
Public Market, 1910 Harry.
c. Thorson, 1889 No. 18th.
c. Thorson, 1925 California.
Hansen & Freick, 10th and Locust.
West End Market, 40th andDodge.
G. Olsen, Benson.
Walnut Hill Grocery, 1920 Hamil-
ton.