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The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

The used key is always the bright
est.
1t is never profitable to set the same
egg twice.
Don't finch, founder, fall over, but
grapple like a man.
Thinking, not drinking, is the way
to vanquish the blues.
Keep your wits always on tap-no
telling when you will need them.
A plentiful supply of blessed sun.
shine is one thing which costs moth
ing.
Learn TO think quickly and act
quickly so that when an emergency
comes you can meet it.
The individual who is daily putting
the most into life is the one who, in
the long run, will get the most out OF
1t.
The farmer who robs his son of the
| chance to become a better man than
himself Is mighty poor sort of Chris
tian.
The rule proves the exception, par
ticularly when 1t comes to enforcing
laws as against "malefactors of great
wealth."
There may be grave doubts about
the basement, but the ground floor O.
success is not crowded, neither Is the
room at the top
In everyday life we see men con
demning practises or actions of other!
when they possess traits Of character
equally subject to criticism.
We may smile at our neighbor will
his little 40-acre farm across the roa(
as we look out on our own spreadin.
acres, but with some of US the smile
would be a wry one indeed If we cam,
to compare profits at the end of tn,
year.
One reason why too many boy
leave the farm: A traveller saw a DO,
hoe1ng potatoes in the hot sun. H
rode up to the fence and asked
What do you get for hoeing pota
toes?" The boy YEARLY replied as h
raised his sunburned hand, "Nothin,
If do, but hell if l don't"
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Lying in the
] Garretson hospital in a critical
condition from badly lacerated
scalp, which he, sustained when hit
by a street car, Albert Maxwell, fifty
one years Of age, steadfastly refuses
to drink water in any form because
he doesn't like it. He declares he has
been total abstainer from natures
beverage for the last thirty years, and
is willing to take a chance of giving
up his life rather than touch water,
again.
When Maxwell was taken to the
hospital he was placed on the oper-
ating table while the MUSICIANS seWed
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
HEALTH AND INCOME
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one a lot.
to make money
With the loss Of health ones income,
is liable to shrink, if not entirely
dwindle away. .=
When young lady has to make her.
own living, good health is her best,
asset. e
7 am alone in the world" writes q.
Chicago girl, dependent on my own
efforts for my living. / am clerk,
and about two years ago through close.
application to work and boarding.
house diet, became a nervous in
valid, and got SO bad of it was almost.
impossible for me to stay in the Office
half day at a time.
"A friend suggested to me the idea
OF trying Grape-Nuts food which I did
making It a large part Of at least two.
meals day.
To-day, am free from brain.tire.
dyspepsia, and all the ills Of an over.
worked and improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape.Nuts I
owe the recovery Of my health, and.
inc ability to retain my position ana
income. 80 VS.
Read THE Road to Wellville" Is
pigs. There's Reason 81
ever read the above letter. 4 n.x,
o u appears from time to dina. Th.r
49, nrs genuine, true, and FUN Of hums1s,
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Refusal Of Water May Cost His Life

up his scalp, which had been almost
completely torn off the skull. Max.
well stood the operation well. AS he
Strengthened up ready to be assigned
a bed Doctors Ross and Silk offered
him a glass. Of water.
Il never use it, was Maxwells re.
spouse to the proffered drink. The
physicians and the nurses regarded
the statement as joke Next morn.
ing the nurse offered Maxwell medi.
cine in the form Of pills A glass Of
water was offered him to take with
the medicine, but Maxwell refused it.
He swallowed the pills without water.
The white Of an egg was prescribed
in the evening, but after inspecting
the food Maxwell declared he thought
there was water in it and refused to
take it. 4.
Hospital attaches are in a quandary
as to what to feed the man. Mrs.
Maxwell says 1t is useless to coax
her husband to drink water.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Tragic Fate Long Pursues a Family

the present Cumming generation, was
a sailor Of Salem, Mass, and went
down with his ship when Miss Cum.
ming was young girl. Her father
was blown to death in boiler ex-
plosion in Salem. He was merchant
and simply happened along when the
boiler let loose. Only parts of his
body were recovered. One sister was
breaking wood over her knee when
she fractured her kneecap. The leg
was amputated but gangrene caused
her death. Another was killed by a
snowfall, in which stone was i'm
bedded and a third was caught while
packing a trunk. The lid crushed her
head.
The unhappy fate Of the family
seemed to descend to the branches, for
one of Miss Cummings nephews was
lost in the San Francisco earthquake
in one Of the collapsed buildings which
took fire. A brother of this lad, En-
sign Matthews, had persisted on the
Maine in Havana harbor. These trag-
edies so preyed on the mind of the
mother, Miss Cummings sister, that
she became violently insane and is
now in Massachusetts asylum. Now
the last near relative of Miss Cum
ming is in hospital, and it is impossi.
Bile to say whether she will escape
the family fate or not.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Everybody Helps to Make City Clean

sections. Wagons furnished by the
city and by business firms were on
hand to follow the workers and COL
lect the results Of their labor
Up one side of the street and down
the other they worked, cleaning the
street and parkings of weeds and
papers and piling them for the wagons
to collect and cart away And school
boys who had not been detained at
home to clean yards followed the
shovel and hoe brigade with brooms.
sweeping up the dirt the shovelers
had missed.
And the women were working, too
While their husbands were cleaning
the streets, they were sweeping the
yards, picking up tin cans and pa
pers and cutting the dead weeds. In
all parts of the city women could be
seen, raking up leaves and trash and
even repairing fences. The churches
had men working cleaning and re-
pairing the property and the school
janitors were busy in the schoolhouse
yards.
1t is the intention before long tt
have the $4,000 school children of the
city organized into Juvenile leagues
for the purpose of assisting in this
| work.
This is only starter" Mr.. Dear
explained. "All of Kansas City, Kan.
!! will be cleaned the same way"
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Kidding Worse Than Cutting.

a
Talk about making good with your
friends, a New Orleans man told
everybody he knew that he was going
to Philadelphia for the dual purpose
Of seeing the worlds baseball series
and having a slight surgical operation
performed. Reaching this city, he
consulted a specialist, and was told
that an operation was not necessary.
But, DOCTOR" the New Orleans
party urgently interposed, lit must be-
DONE"
'Why must it," wonderingly quer-
led the surgeon.
Because" was the startling RS
joinder of the Southern man, II told
all the boys at home that I was going.
to have an operation performed, ad6
if don't make good they will kid the
life out Of me.'-Philadelphia Tele4
graph.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Forging the Big Panama Canal Gates

my's mines or accidental explosion
might easily destroy them, the gov
eminent has begun to build the gates.
The cost will be $5,500,000.
OF the $4,000 tons Of steel required,
the heaviest single pieces will weigh
about eighteen tons. The thousands
Of individual pieces, numbered and 1it'
ted to 60 together as easily as chill
dren's blocks, will be shipped by
steamer via Baltimore and with them
will 20 more than four hundred skilled
structural steel builders from Pitts
burg to set them. The advance guard
of experts will leave here in Deem
Der and the first work probably will
begin early in 1911.
The location Of the 46 pairs of gates
will be, 20 at the Gatun dam on the
Pacific side, II at Pedro Miguel, and
II at Miraflores, near the Atlantic en-
trance. The gates are designed to
hold back water 47.4 feet deep in a
channel 10 feet wide, which means
a pressure of a million pounds. The
weight of single gate will be about
900 tons, and the dimensions are u
to 81 feet high, GO to Is feet wide and
feet thick.
Each lock will be ample for ship
SO per cent larger than any vessel
aaoat, and it has been estimated thai
as many as a hundred ocean ships
may be handled in single day.
There are no locks approaching
these in size. The famous Sue2
canal is a sea level affair and the fe"
great lock canals would have to com
bine their gates to equal the size anc
strength of the great doors of Pan
| anna
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

AT EW YORK.-Another is likely to be
~ added to the list of tragic deaths
in the family Of Miss Adelaide Cum
ming Of this city. She is now in Bos-
ton, summoned there by peculiar &C.
cident to her sister who, on her thirty
second birthday put on new dress of
the hobble.skirt variety, and as she
was going downstairs, tripped and fell.
Her hip bone was broken and various
complications have set in which may
cause her death.
Miss Cumming is still a young wom-
an, but misfortune has been with her
all her life. Her grandfather was
wrecked and drowned at sea; her
father killed in a boiler explosion;
one sister crushed by a trunk, anoth-
er killed by a SNOWFALL and a third
by gangrene; a nephew went down in
the Maine, another was killed in the
San Francisco earthquake, and their
mother is now insane.
James G. Cumming, grandfather Of
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Schurz Was Sure Of Him.

Carl Schurz was dining one night
with man who had written book
Of poems, SO called, and who was
pleased with himself. 81
The poet was discoursing on the.
time-worn topic of politics of the men
who take office.
II consider politics and politicians.
beneath my notice." he said. Il. do.
not care for Office. I wouldn't begA
senator or cabinet officer, and l doubt.
If could be tempted by the offer Of,
the presidency. For the matter Of
chat, l would rather be known as q.
third-rate poet than first-rate states
man.
well, aren't your schurz shouted
at him.
~ d I i. D 4
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
Kill Insects in Fall.

The larvae Of some Of the trouble.
some garden insects work their way
into the soil for a safe home for pass
ing the winter. Therefore, after all
the trash and old plants have been
burned it is a good plan to pillow up
the garden soil while it is yet dry,
to expose these dormant insects ia
the action Of the frost and elements.
This will kill some Of them
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
THE AMERICAN BOY.

Is 1t at all strange that some OF
the qualities and virtues which ne
longed to our women in an older DAY
are now being transferred to the op-
posite sex? Can we marvel at the
production of self-sacrifcing Amer7-
can boy, who goes to work as soon as
he has finished at the high school, or
even at the grammar school, and reg
ularly puts a share of his wages into
the family fund that is sending Edith
or Mabel to Vassar or Bryn MaWr
Certainly the living American boy OF
eighteen or twenty measures well up
in the scale of merit with any young
ster that the world has yet produced
says the New York Mail. We hear a
good deal of complaint about his
cigarette smoking, and his rough
ways and impertinelce, and other de
fects; but if his designations were &c
be compared with the heavy drink
ing and lawless propensities OF the
smart youth Of so years ago, ne "oulo
be found to be rather model OF con
duct than otherwise. He is better
not worse, than his father was at the
same age. And he is more thorough
ly imbued with the notion that 1t Is
his duty in life to be competent, anC
strong, and productive, than any Other
boy who ever looked out upon the
great world with eager eyes.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

e Good 'f than mali all Mr.. John N Watkins:
the others put tog ether, as they only
poisoned my system. Peruna cureo
me. I used it for four months petorf
a. complete cure was accomplished, pus
am truly grateful to you. The least
can do in return is to acknowledge
the merits Of Peruna, which 1ahs
pleasure in now doing"
Bladder Trouble.
Mr.. G. B. Newhof, 10 Delaware
street, Albany, N. Y, writes:
"since my advanced age I find that
1 have been frequently troubled with
urinary ailments. The bladder seemed
irritated, and my physician said that
it was catarrh caused by protracted
cold which would be difficult to over
come on account Of my advanced years.
1 took Peruna, hardly daring to believe
that I would be helped, but FOUND 70
my relief that I soon began to mend:
The irritation gradually subsidized, and
the urinary difficulties passed away. l
have enjoyed excellent health now for
the pass, seven months. enjoy my
meals, sleep soundly, and am as well as IS
I was twenty years ago. give all
praise to Peruna."
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
ORGANIZE BOYS CORN CLUB
Some Able Addresses Delivered by
Noted Speakers and Much
Enthusiasm Aroused.

Permanent organization Of a state
wide Boys Corn club was effected at
the Texas State Fair at Dallas the
other day Fifteen hundred boys
came up to the exercises from about
rs counties, 10 of which have county
wide organizations, and they received
such an enlarged view of the POSSIBLE
tiles it will afford them In the imme-
date future as they had never known
before.
DR.. A. S. Knapp, who has led the
work Of farm demonstration in the
South for many years and who was
dubbed "the bishop of the Boys Corn
Club movement" told the boys that
Mr.. Colquitt had agreed to award a
state diploma to every boy who raises
100 bushels of corn to the acre, and
that the Federal department of agri-
culture would give trip to Washing.
ton to all the boys receiving state d.
plomas and diploma free from that
department also. The house and sen.
ate committees on agriculture have
agreed to receive the boys on their
arrival at Washington Secretary viii.
son will do the same, and it is thought
that President Taft will give the boys
an audience also.
The boys were also enthused by the
declarations of Hon. E. B. Afford of
Henderson that in increasing the pro.
duction Of corn they were the bene.
factors Of the state and society in gen.
eral; of J. A. Evans, state agent for
Louisiana and Arkansas in the dem
onstration work, that they were max
ing farm life more attractive than the
city; of Judge Cato Sells of Cleburne
that they were developing into rea
business men in that they were actual
producers, and of E. w. Kirkpatrick
of Mckinney, president of the Texas
Farmers congress, that they were the
chief figures in Texas today.
! Permanent organization was effect
ed through the election of the follow
ing officers, their names having beer
presented by a committee CONSISTING
of Walter E. Davis Of Cleburne an(
James D. Greer of Nacogdoches, nam
ed for this purpose.
! President, George Mason of Brono
Johnson county; secretary, Alden Full
| Ter, Nacogdoches; assistant secretary
Charles Summers, Lindale, smit]
county; vice presidents for the varI
GUS committees in which there ar
county organizations were named a
follows: Erath, Harvey Winters
stephenville; Grayson, Hersenal Cook
Van Alstyne; Upshur, Louis Wilford
Gilmer; McLennan, Claude Talbert
Eddy; Henderson, John Caldwell
Athens; Bell, Willie Wick, Troy
: Houston, Luther Lundy, Loyelady
kaufman, John Porter Jr., Terrell
Burleson, Jim Ries, Linis; Wake,
Albert Harding, Huntsville; Bosou,
Quincy Womack, Clifton; Collin, Ho,
ace c: Weary, Farmersville; Re
River, ]. Edward Bloodworth, Clarke
/ vile; Nacogdoches, Luther Brow
Martinsville;; Van Zandt, Oslo shor
Grand Saline; Anderson, Russell, shi
. ley, Palestine; Hamilton, L. E. Pa
ladge, Hico; Shelby. Tom Fole,
q Timpsu ss: s.. 3 s..
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

B That Frenchman who assembled in
an aeroplane to the height of 9,121
feet and froze his carburetor should
be allowed to keep his altitude record
unbroken. Frost bites achieved in
high attitudes add nothing to the Joy
of the human race.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

A picture entitled THE Bath Of
Diana has recently been sold for
100000. Somehow, we can't help
feeling that if we were going to pay
100000 for picture we should wish
TO get one that we could show to our
girl friends.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

It may be that the young women OF
the west are turning eastward, where
more sedate habits prevail; and it
may also be that the young women of
the east no longer have the same de-
sire to go west that they did when a
possible "Virginian' was waiting at
every ranch to make romantic love to
visitors. The fact of the matter is
that school-teachers are now very
much in demand all over the country
says the St. Louis Times. The mum.
Der of schools and instructors is con.
stantly increasing, and there are posts
at home for those who like the work
of teaching, and who are properly
equipped for it.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

New Jersey is moving for the con.
struction of a ship canal across the
state as a link in the proposed coastal
waterway between Boston and Florida.
Thus a new field of endeavor is likely
to be opened for the enterprising New
Jersey mosquito.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

American potatoes have won a nota.
bic victory. For thirty-fiye years they
have been barred out of France on
the ground that many of them were
affected by disease that might con
taminate the French tubers. As a
matter of fact American potatoes are
about as healthy as any that are
grown. The French scientists, hay
ng investigated the matter thorough
II, have concluded that there is nc
good ground for exclusion, and Amer
lean potatoes will be admitted freely
AS the French potato crop is poor
this year such action assures an i'm
portant addition to the food supply.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

Scientists have recently discovered
that it is hard to get back to work on
Monday, but in mary other respects
the sayants are quite abreast Of the
times. y.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

The official announcement that the
death rate in the United States last
year dropped to Is per 1000 OF popu'
lation is indicative Of the increasing
healthfulness of the country. With the
single exception of Great Britain
which surpasses this nation by frac
ton, the United States now has the
lowest deathrate of any country in the
world While the decrease Is attribut
ed largely to the absence OF grave
epidemics, the facts are highly credit
able and show that we are making not
able progress in everything pertaining
to hygiene. The crusades against the
white plague" and other ailments
which have contributed greatly to the
mortality lists are evidences of effec
tive cooperation on the part of bene
fcence and sanitary science.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09
DOCTORS
FAIL D
Suffered Several Years With
Kidney Trouble, ''Peruna
Cured Me-"

Mr.. John N.
Watkins, 1888
Shenan d o a h
Ave-, st. Louis,
Mo-, writes:
Among all
the greatly I'D |
vertised medl-}
cines for kid
ney and blad-
der trou b ! Q
there is moth
ing W h I c h
equals PERU
ma. l suffered
for sew e I a l
years with this
trouble, spent
hundreds Of
! dollars on doc
tors and 1nedi-
cine and all to
no purpose UNI
til I took Pc
runa.
zone bottle
Si5 ma more
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

Twelve dollars having been stolen
from a Georgia editor, let us have no
more Jokes about the lack Of prosper.
ity of southern journalists.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

If there are great number of hens
of the Scranton, Pa, variety we can
expect the price Of eggs to drop in a
few days.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

Constipation
Nearly Every One Gets IL
The bowels show first sign
of things going wrong. A
Cascaret taken every night
as needed keeps the bowels
working naturally without
grip, grippe and that upset
sick feeling. 600
Ten cent box, weeks treatment.
All drug stores. Biggest seller In
theworld-million boxes month.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-09

When a town has only one barber
lit might be well for a guardian to be
sent along with him when he leaves
che city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-11

Special to Times Republican.
Boone, Feb. 11.-Millon Logan, Sr.
aged 81 years, died this morning at a
o'clock of old age. He is survived by a
widow and six children.
Logan was the personal friend OF
Abraham Lincoln, also foreman of the
jury in the famous Armstrong murder
trial in which Lincoln took the defense
of the Widow Armstrong; son, who
was charged with numbering German
resident. One witness swore he saw
Armstrong strike the man by the light
of the moon. Lincoln cross examined
the witness and got him to repeat the
story. Then he produced an almanac
showing there was no moon on that
night, thus freeing Armstrong.
Later it was claimed that Lincoln
had the wrong almanac and changed
the date, but Mr.. Logan, before his
death, denied this, saying he person
ally examined the almanac The fun
eral services are to be held Sunds y
afternoon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-11
A SHOOTING ARRAY.
Night Operator at Alton junction
Wounded in Thigh During Quarrel.

Night Operator at Alton junction
Wounded in Thigh During Quarrel.
Special to Times Republican. -
Creston, Feb. IA shooting affray
occurred at Alton Junction Wednes-
day night about 8 o'clock in which j.
J. Cieeden, the night operator at the
Junction, was shot by Thomas Cat
ley, following a hot quarrel. in which
Cieeden, says both participated and
each passed offensive remarks.
Cieeden, who was alone at the time.
gives his story that Galley pulled a
revolver and fred two shots at him,
tho 1t Is thought that but one took
effect, passing thru the fleshy part of
both thighs. ASser firing Galley started
out of the depot and ran as fast as he
could go to escape the parties who
began coming in after hearing the
shots. Cieeden managed to reach a
restaurant near by, where medical at
tention was given him and it is thought
that unless blood poisoning sets in he
will recover all right.
The authorities were not notified Of
the trouble until shortly after noon
Thursday, when Sheriff Mason of this
place, was called. Whether there is a
motive for this, is not known at this
time. The affair will be thorou shly in
vestigated.