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The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
SNAKE KILLS HER TWO SONS
While Mother Goes TO Rescue OF Chill
dren Baby Falls in Tub and
browns.

Raleigh, N. C.-The attention of
Mrs. George Adams, living in Pitt
county, was attracted by the cackling
OF a hen. and she sent her S-year.old
son TO the barn to drive the hen from
the nest. A scream from the lad that
the hen had pecked him caused the
mother TO send her younger son TO as.
certain the cause, and n similar out
burst from him led the mother to in
vestigate.
She found that both boys had been
bitten by rattlesnake that was coiled
in the nest. Hurrying with her little
ones to the house, she found that her
babe had fallen into tub and drown.
ed.
The boys, lacking medical atten-
tion. soon died in agony. The three
children will be buried In the same
grave.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
Westminster Abbey.

tions, trophies, had all become con-
founded In my recollection, though
had scarcely taken my foot off the
threshold. What, thought |, Is this
vast assemblage of sepulchers but a
treasury of humiliation, huge pile OF
reiterated homiies on the emptiness
of renown and the certainty of obllv-
ion! II is indeed the empire of Death
his great shadowy palace, where he
sits in state, mocking at the relics of
human glory and spreading dust and
forgetfulness on the monuments of
princes. How idle a boast, after all,
is the Immortality of a name! Time
is ever silently turning over his pages:
we are too much engrossed by the
story of the present TO think of the
characters and anecdotes that gave
interest to the past; and each age is a
volume thrown aside TO be speedily for.
gotten. The idol of today pushes the hero
OF yesterday out of our recollection:
and will, in turn, be supplanted by his
successor of tomorrow. Our fathers"
says Sir Thomas Browne, find their
graves in our short memories and sad
ly tell us how we may be buried in our
Observation-Disclosures Abbey"
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

White clothes are made of vegetable
fbreS, cotton or flax. Boiling affects them
the same way it does other vegetable mat
ter, as potatoes or cabbage. 1t softens
them and weakens the fibre. Boiling will
soften even hard wood
By this you can easily see how your
clothes will wear out quicker and tear
more easily if you boil and hard-rub them
Wool, which is an animal fibre, is softened
Just as the fibre of meat in boiling
Fels-Naptha will cleanse your clothes in
cold or lukewarm water without any boil
ing or hard rubbing, and there isn't
single thing in it that will harm the goods.
Your clothes will wear twice as long.
and they'll be whittier and cleaner all the
time. Try a cake of Fels-Naptha and see.
But use it the Fels-Naptha way, according
to the simple directions on the red and
green wrapper. They'll tell you how to
wash all kinds of clothes with Fels-N -Naptha;
wash dishes, clean floors and do many
other things with it.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
Explained by Anty Drudge.

Little Miss Rompobout-"Just look, mamma, tore my
frock."
Mother-"Good gracious, and that frock just new Only
washed twce"
Any Drudge-"Just those two washings made the tear
possible. You boiled the frock, as you do all your
clothes, and that softened and weakened its fiber. If
you had used FelsNaptha in cold or lukewarm
water the fabric would not be half rotten and ready
to give away the first time it caught in anything"
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

What's the use Of bringing up all
these old stories about Hartman cam
palgn contributions to the 1904 Roose-
welt campaign Did anybody foresee
Armageddon and the battle for the
Lord then? Besides this is an ent,rciy
new deal No post mortems.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
wbv Money Js chesp.

81 want you to tell me what this
paper means when It says in its mar
ket report that money is cheap" said
Mrs. McFee to her husband. who. like
all husbands. is supposed to be en-
cyclopedic. McFee laid down the
sporting sheet. ITS simply putting in
briefer form the statements that
money talks" he replied. "and that
talk Is cheap. Judges Library.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

A Connecticut authority tells US that
milking cows is the best finger exer-
else for piano PLAYER AND it has the
added advantage Of not annoying the
neighbors.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
chIeaao Women, Eest Reau,lfuI.

Chicago.-The women of Chicago
have been exonerated and vindicated.
Chiropodists from all over the coun.
try In session there and a noted ex-
pert stated that Chicago women have
the most beautiful feet and ankles. He
said 1t was an outrage the way New
York and the world libels the feet OF
the Windy City's fair residents.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

The young lady who gave the 1,oOe
toothbrushes to the slum children IN
New York had good intentions but Sic
overlooked the powder puns and mar
curing sets.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
Reindeer Moss.

II is stated that an immense bed OF
the best reindeer moss has been dis
covered near the mouth OF the Poronal
river in Kamchatka. The bed extends
TO distance OF seventy-fve miles
along the coasts. has a width OF over
nine miles and a depth OF six feet.
This kind OF moss is used in the man.
ufacture Of cardboard.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

our batueshirs can he put to good
use even In times Of peace. The navy
department is using them just now TO
find reefs that are not on the map.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

The most famous city damaged by
the earthquake I'm Turkey was Adrian
ople. which was founded by the Roman
2mporer Hadrian. \. y. l25. Fron:
1851 To 1853 it was the residence of
the Turkish sultans as they advanced
against the Roman empire of the east.
In 1853 Constantinople was taken 10y
the Turks and the SultanS shifted their
capital. In the former city. which -
a famous commercial center is the
mosque ~ the sultan Sclim That
building IS declared 10 he the finest
81 IFS kind in the Turkish empire.
Adrainople now has between 10000 and
10000 population.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Do you know there is one state in
the union that loans it's money To
farmers i'm sums Of $3.50 and $4,000?
Yes. that freak state of oregon. and
she has been at it long time-ever
since the territorial days back in 1856.
The small borrower is preferred. In
terest is 6 per cent. In 1910 the state
vas loaning her people total of So
351,340, and though her rules are strict
rot a single farm loan was i'm process
Of foreclosure. Interest goes to the
school Wisconsin State Jour-
nal
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Australia has passed an approprie p
tion bill providing a bonus of S25 for
every new baby, Stimulating an in
FAINT Industry so 60 speak.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Total gross earnings of all railroads
IN the United States making weekly
reports show a gain Of 81 per cent
for the month Of July over the same
period year ago. according To a
statement given in Dunn's Review
This Is the most favorable monthly
statement since April. when the gain
over last near showed rs per cent
and compared with an increase of 39
per cent in June and 4.3 per cent in
May. Practically every road report
ing showed an increased activity in
business.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Within next day or two the British
object for which they have been work
ing for the last twenty years-the es-
tablishment of an educational apiary
under government auspices. All that
is now wanted for the completion of
the scheme is the arrival of six colon
les Of bees at small inclosure which
has been prepared near the owl house
in the geological gardens.-London
Daily News.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1912.

The science Of aviation seems TO be
retrograding. No aviator has oeen
killed for couple of DAYS.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

woman who marries for spite has
To take IL out of her husband.
Some people act foolish and then get
sore because others notice II.
London has 1883 registered motor
CABS.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Janitor-Stop playing that from
bone; the man in the next room says
he can't read
Dinkheimer-Ach, vot ignorance
ness! could read ven | vas fife
years oldt!
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
whose reign began i'm 1911, is credited
by his history with the invention of
fixed ammunition, In his cartridge
bullet and charge were united i'm a
paper case. 1t was not. however, until
1850 that the first successful metallic
cartridge was patented by an Ameri-
Can.-The Argonaut.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

Eighty-two universities are making
efforts 10 supply the increasing de-
mand FOR expert highway engineers.
They have failed, thus far. The states
Of the nation are spending more than
5000. 100000 yearly for the building OF
good roads, and the list of trained men
20 handle the problems of improve
ment is exhausted This will he -
subject Of conference with representa- .
tives Of educational institutions at the
American road congress. To be held In
Atlantic city. beginning Sept 30.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17
SOME FACTS OF
GENERAL INTEREST
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sheet OF plate glass i'm the United
states died few days ago His name
vas Samuel Lewis. Mr.. Lewis learned
the trade of polishing glass in Eng
land before he came TO the United
states. He went to work for John b.
Ford when he arrived i'm this country.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

OF all tho beasts In the worl1. the
otter. that fierce outlaw. is the great
est wanderer n Is as " he were af-
nicted with a curse that forbids him
to be still that forces him ever 10
push on-on on, Rest as rest he
knows not. Three DAYS will see the
end NJ his longest inaction. and the
amount of miles he covers in a fort
night would amaze some folk.-out-
ing.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

In Sweden 80 per cert 81 the pco-
pie are depositcrs in national banks;
In England and France % per cent
have money in banks: in Italy. 20 per
cent In the United states. however,
only . Ia per cent Of our pcpuls-
tion are depositors In the national
banks Of course the state. private
and savings banks and the trust COM
panies get a vast bulk Of deposits.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

mission 70 organize new National
banks. or the applications pending
eighteen were approved and four re-
iected In The same month sixteen
hanks. with total capital ot Si,5e0 ooo.
were authorized TO besin business.
Seven Of these had individual capital
~ less than s5o.eoo. on July 81 there
were 400 hanks in eNistenco. rhey
have am authorized capital 90 St05i,-
O,00o.
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

During the month Of July there were
only twenty-five applications for per
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

There are no forests I'm China. For
cstry is subject in which the Chinese
evincc no interest. The great plain.
On which Tientsin is located, never
had forests. being entirely of delta for =.
nation. and the mountainous regions
"a the north and west were denudel
of their forests centuries ago. \ Brit
ish mining and shipping corporation
has begun the work of afIorestation and
has a million Young trees growing. but
there are no government forestry OH
fcials. schools of forestry or horticul-
tre magazines devoted 10 these sub
.ects or associations of foresters. nur-
serymen. seedsmen, etc, in China
London Globe
The Calumet news., 1912-08-17

II would greatly surprise Tho average
Londoner today to hear that .by a
proclamation of 1906. the use II coal iu
yhe capital was forbidden. So little was
il liked. Two and a half centuries tat.
cr. on the contrary. it, valye was res
ngnized. and its export In any form
prohibited. Today nothing is So
scarce as coal IN London As for coal
ers. their PAY and conditions of !'vius
today are princely when compared with
those of many miners in the eishteenth
century,. p. : Weekly.
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Vote in Illinois
Eliminates Taft,
Is DiXon'S View

Senator Dixon, manager of the Roose-
welt campaign committee. made the fol-
lowing statement regarding the results
in Illinois:
"Illinois Republicans have declared for
Roosevelt as their nominee for Presi-
dent by more than 10000 majority.
"The overwhelming repudiation OF
Taft by the Republicans of Illinois ENDS
raft's campaign for a denomination.
Wherever legitimate primary expression
has been had the Republican voters
have utterly repudiated Taft. In North
Dakota Taft received 1,5l6 votes out Of
publican voters repudiated Taft's claim
by 700O0 majority. The Illinois Repub-
licans repudiate his claim for renomina-
ton b. over 10000. Certainly no Re-
publican leader can longer doubt that
an attempt to force Taft's nomination
would be suicide for the Republican
party. Roosevelt will be nominated at
Chicago and will be triumphantly elect
ed il November"
At the Taft national headquarters no
gressman Mckinley of Illinois, director
of the Taft campaign, did not visit
the headquarters during last evening.
and his associates said that returns
were SO incomplete as TO make an
accurate comment upon the result im-
The Roosevelt headquarters was food
ed with kilograms from Roosevelt man
ayers and workers in Illinois and
throughout the country conveying infor-
nation as to the vote and congratula-
tionS upon the outcome.
The news of the heavy Clark vote In
Illinois was conveyed to Speaker Clark
! by telephone.
That's the best news I've heard since
the last baby was born," said the
Speaker, in an emphatic tone.
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
FIGURES
SHOW ROOSEvELT'S
LEAD TO Be 10000
Champ Clark Will Have
Solid State Delegation
at Baltimore.

COICAGO, April 10.-In a record
breaking primary vote, one that
brought out SO per cent of the regis
tration, Theodore Roosevelt carried
Cook county by more than 10000. He
carries the State by 10000
Totaling of the ballots in the city
show that 284,665 votes were cast in
the first Presidential preference prim-
ary, 146,022 being for the Democratic
ticket, and 11s.642 for the Republican.
In the city alone the former Presi-
dent had a plurality of 2s.236. and the
returns from precincts in the county
now being tabulated will greatly in
crease this figure.
Champ Clark will beat woodrow Will
son for the Democrat delegates by
nearly 5000 when the final vote I'm the
county Is counted, and will have a plu-
Complete returns from the precincts. In
the ten Congre ssional districts in the
city give Clark plurality of so;646. He
did not lose a single Congressional dis,
preference vote IL followed he win have
the entire delegation OF fifty-e.ght mem-
bers to the Baltimore convention.
Roosevelt lost one dlstrict-the fifth
represented by Congressman SABBATH
The Twenty-fifth is still in doubt.
While still incomplete, the latest re.
turns indicate that Wilson carried only
two of the 1902 counties.
Complete totals from the city unre.
vised, give Clark 1884, against 2.GS'
for Wilson. Complete city totals give
Roosevelt. 72,iSS; Taft. 44,l0; La Fol-
lette, II, 103.
The total vote cast on the Presidential
preference in Chicago was 81, 1877. Demo
cratic leaders pointed to the fact tha
there were l3,sS1 more Democratic vote,
than Republican, and see In 1t goot
omen of party success in the fall
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Roosevelt Is Elated
Over His Victory in
Illinois Primaries

PITTSBU RGH. Pa. April lG.-Colonel
Roosevelt. wore his broadest smile when
he left here today, and when figures
upon the Illinois primary results, where
lie carried the state by wide margin.
were shown him, he pulled his hat
tighter on his head and said:
That's good. / shouldn't be sur
priseIl IL the tide goes our way"
News of the Illinois primaries, where
lie made a vigorous campaign Saturday
and Monday, encouraged the colonel
10 pat added zcst into his speeches be-
fore 1l,OC0 persons here last night. He
attacked the alleged ''use Of Federal
patronage in Kentucky to divert popular
clamor for pregressives'' and denounced
the reported action of Congressman
from civil service employees at WASH
ington in the cause Of President Taft
RooseVelts special train will reach
philadelphia ut Z p. m. Following his
speech there he will proceed to New
York.
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Glad | Was Born in
Illinois," Says Senator
w. E. Borah of Idaho

Senator Borah, when asked about the
Illinois result, said:
We'll, 1 am proud / was born in
Illinois"
This result demonstrates that the
people will not go up against these in
effective. half-arranged primaries, but
where they have a real primary and a
full and free hand they will get out ard
Participate. Not only is the Illinois re-
suit demonstration OF this but IL
demonstrates the almost marvellous
strength Of Roosevelt"
senator Bristow of Kansas declared
the Illinois result meant that President
Taft would not be nominated.
Republicans do not want President
Taft and he will not be nominated" de-
clared the Senator. THE result would
have been the same in other States had
the Republicans had the same oppor-
tunIty to express themselves. 1t would
have been the same In Indiana and In
Michigan. Even in Eastern States
where there are primaries, as in New
Jersey and Massachusetts,, the result
will be the same/as In Illinois, In my
opinion" '' ~"
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Cotton Dealers Object
To Proposed Measure

Insisting that dealing in cotton fu-
turcs prevented the formation OF n
cotton trust, and that any law pro-
hibiting speculation In this commodity
would be class legislationu. representa-
tives Of the cotton exchanges com
nletcd their arguments today against
tion by the House Agricultural Com
mittee.
Louis Brooks, representing the New
York and Augusta cotton exchanges,
made the class legisla ton argument,
citing extracts from a speech deliver
I'd by ',hlef Justice white when he
was a Senator In 1892. In opposing a
similar measure then pcnding.
The Washington times., 1912-04-10

against the President In Illinois should
eliminate him from further considera-
tion as the Republican standard bearer
THE Illinois primaries are signih-
cant" said Congressman George w.
Norris of Nebraska. "They demon
stfate concluslvely that where the voters
have a real opportunity to express their
opinions they are against Taft. 1t Is
strange that Taft wins in the conven.
tionb, controlled by bosses, and thet
a progressive wins In real primary
"If there had been genuine pri-
mary i'm Indiana, such as was held In
Illinois, the republication of the rresl
dent would have been tnevitaple III
that state also. IL an honest primary
suits would at least have been diner-
ent from what they now appear
"Soap Box" Primaries.
"President Taft said he was opposed
TO soap box primaries, but 1t seems
that he wins only in these soap boN
primaries. So far as can be learned
there Is no complaint whatever from
any source regarding the fairness and
the completeness OF the Illinois pri.
mary elections. The result was what
we knew 1t would bo---a sweeping
progressive victory. A similar result
will be obtained in any State whcre
the people are BlNSu iuil
TO record their true convictions. The
Republicans of this country do not
want the denomination of President
Taft"
Congressman Lafferty, an oregon pro-
gressive, said 1T,
"The illinois primaries, believe, Will
eliminate President Taft. The progress
sive movement is the same In any state,
a question OF principles and repudia-
tion of the reactionary element OF the
party. The voters of this country are
progressive.
Sees Third Party.
"The overwhelming Roosevelt vote
there indicates that II a reactionary Is
nominated at Chicago there will be a
third party in this country-it may no,
win this year, but II will win eventually
Whether Colonel Roosevelt or some
other progressive is the anti-reaction-
airy candidate. regard the nomination
OF a progressive at Chicago as absolute
ly imperative"
Congressman Akin OF New York, who
| came to Congress on an Independent
progressive platform, said:
"ProgressiVism will win in all otho:
States where the people are allowed tc
express their real choice
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Roosevelt Men Feel
Confident of Winning
AT Maine Conventions

BANGOR, Me-. April 1O-Roosevelt
prospects looked bright when the State
and district conventions met through
out the State today. and the Roosevelt
managers predicted thct the colonel
would have ten more delegates by to-
night.
The Taft forces were not very enthu-
siasuc about the prospects for victory
and IL was generally believed that
Roosevelt would capture two delegates
each from the second third. and fourY
districts, ;lnd the four delcgates-at.
large. The Taft leaders. unless thkv
put UP an eleventh hour fight al
show phenomenal strength, cannot con-
troll the conventions. ..
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Roosevelt Urges
Pennsylvanians to
Defeat the Bosses

JOHNSTOwN, Pa, April 10.-Colonel
Roosevelt spoke at Jeanette to 1000:
Greensburg, 1900; Latrobe, 1000; Blairs-
Vile, 800. At Greensburg he said:
81 am glad at last in Pennsylvania
YOU will have a chance to show that
you are your own masters"
Before a crowd of 5000 in the opera
house here the colonel said:
You cannot get a square deal from
the bosses. l want you to show next
saturday as they did in Illinois yes
terday that you are able to govern
yourselves. The bosses are afraid to
trust you. They have brought out fake
Roosevelt candidates to divide the vote.
! want you to support Mahlon III.
straight goods"
The Washington times., 1912-04-10

|, You know when your liver is bad.
when your bowels are sluggish. You
feel certain dulIncss and depression,
perhaps the approach Of headache.
your stomach gets sour and full Of
gas, tongue coated, breath foul, or you
have indigestion. You say, IT am
bilious or constipased and must take
something tonight"
Must people shrink from u physic-
.they think Of castor oil, calcmel. salts
or cathartic pills.
Its eject IL as thut of fruiI; of eating
coarse food. OF exercise. Take a tea
spoonful of delicious Syrup of Figs
tonight and you won't realize you
have taken anything until morning,
when all the clogged up waste mat
ter, sour bile AMI constipation poisons
move or ana out of your system, with
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Dean of the Senate
Accepts His Defeat
In a Cool Manner

Senator Cullom of Illinois defeated
in the Illinois primaries for the FIRST
feat cooIly today. He Dat In his Of
flce in the room OF the Committee on
Foreign Reletfons and fAfEed about
being vanquIshed with a smile.
The Senator from Illinois was not
lacking in persptcacity as to what
causedhis def eat. He said II was be-
cause he had voted for his colleague,
Senator Lorimer. He attributed the
Roosevelt victory to the same thing.
I'm through with public life. I've
finished my service for the country
and now I'm going home to rest" said
Senator Cullom.
Senator Cullom Is eighty three years
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
CLEAN YOUR LIVER AND 30 FEET
OF BOWELS WITH ''SYRUP Of FIGS'
More effective than calome castor oil SALTS gently
cleanseS the stomach liver and bowels without
y nausea or gripping. Children dearly love it. -

out grippe. nausea. or weakness. Moth
ing else cleanSes and regulates your
sour, disordercd stomach. torpid liver
and thirty feet Of wastc-clorsed bowels
like gentle, effertive Syrup, Of Figs.
self. Being composed entirely of lus-
ci",is fiss.> SIENNA, and aromatics. 1t can
not cause Injury.
II yoir child IL cross. sick, ana
feyerish or its little stomach sour,
tongue coated. give Syrup. CT Figs at
once. It's really all that is needed 20
make children well and happy again.
Asl; your druggist for the full name.
"Syritn Of Figs and Elixir Of SIENNA,
and look on the label for the name :
and that only is the genuine. Refuse
any other i;s syrup substitute with
contempt, -..
The Washington times., 1912-04-10
Flies to Court in His
Aeroplane to Pay Fine

HEMPsTEAD. L.. l., April iO.-Drop-
ping out OF the clouds. George w
Beattie, aviator. today strolled into
Mineola court house, pleaded guilty TO
exceeding the automobile speed limit.
paid $40 fine, climbed into his aero
plane. and few away.
Beattie was arrested several days
ago for speeding, and when he pleaded
guilty he explained that she thought
the automobile was an aeroplane and
tried to run Il accordingly. He brought
with him TO court two witnesses. Mar
shall Reid, OF Philadelphia, and his
meohanlcian. They few TO court in
another aeroplane from their hangar
on Hampstead field.