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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
FAMILY RUNT
Kansas Man Says Coffee Made Him
That.

Coffee has been used in our family
of eleven-father, mother, five sons
and four daughters-for thirty years.
l am the eldest of the boys and have
always been considered the runt of the
family and coffee topper.
Il continued to drink it for years un-
til | grew to be man, and then |
found l had stomach trouble, nervous
headaches, poor circulation, was un-
able to do a full days work, took medl-
cine for this, that and the other thing,
without the least benefit. In fact |
only weighed 116 when l was %.
Then | changed from coffee to Pos
tum, being the first one in our family
to do so. ! noticed. as did the rest Of
strength and flesh. Shortly after |
was visiting my cousin who said, You
look so much better-you're getting
fat
AT breakfast his wife passed me
cup Of coffee, as she knew l was al
ways such coffee drinker, but said.
No. thank you
What" said my cousin. you quit
coffee? What do you drink
Postum l said, or water. and I
am we'll They did not know what
Postum was, but my cousin had stom-
ach trouble and could not sleep at
night from drinking coffee three times
q day. He was glad to learn about
Postum, but said he never knew cof-
fee would hurt anyone" tTea is just
as injurious as coffee because 1t con-
tains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.)
After understanding my condition
and how l got well he knew what to
do for himself. He discovered tha.
coffee was the cause OF his trouble as
he never used tobacco or anything else
OF the kind You should see the change
in him now. We both believe that IL
persons who suffer from coffee drink.
ing would stop and use Postum they
could build back to health and happi-
ness" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" Read the little
book. THE Road to Wellville." in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. 4 new
one appears from .inne to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Ever read the above Iettert new
one nPpeHrs from time to time. They
ore gen nine. true. and fuia of human
interest.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
Veteran Second saseman t4uggns o Cardinals

the second-sacker can arrange a trade
for himself that will strengthen the
Cardinals it will go through. Last
winter it was thought that Higgins
would become leader of the Cincin-
natl Reds and when Miller was in the
running for the job he was given per
mission from Bresnahau to open ne
gotiatiOns for a trade.
When Hank O'Day was appointed
Higgins lost out. But he continues
to seek position as general director
and if any bids are received he will
be allowed to depart, OF course, pro-
viding Bresnahan is pleased with
what he is offered.
If Higgins leaves the Cardinals
after this year when Lee Magee will
become the second baseman. Magee
is outclassed by Huggins in expert
ence, but Lee is speedier than his op-
ponent, is a better hitter and is 60
ing to become one of the best base
runners in the circuit.
Then Bresnahan thinks that he has
the coming greatest second baseman
in the game in Magee. He Is an ar
dent admirer of the Cincinnati lad for
the simple reason that he has copied
Rogers style perfectly-be full Of
vim and dash and wide awake all the
time.
For the present, and probably for
the rest of 1912 Magee will do left
field duty.
Higgins probably would have gone TO
Boston when the Cardinals were IN
the east, but for John NJ. Ward and
his co-worker, James Caffney. being
attacked with cold feet. The bosses
of the Braves and Johnny Killing. are
not working in harmony, and 1t has
been limited often that Killing is not a
shrewd or smart leader.
The opening for Huggtns is Boston,
unless Garry Hermann GUSTS Hank
ODay in Cincinnati. Both teams have
material that could strengthen the
Cardinals, and when Roger Bresna-
han gets ready to talk with his foes
for Higgins, he is not going to put a
10-20-30 tag on pee-wee Miller.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

being an estimate Of the immigration
from the United States for 1912, the
consumption OF coal will naturally in
crease.
The agricultural districts OF Canada
have now become so we'll known
throughout the world, and the vacant
area of splendid land is still so great
that it may be expected that the num-
bers mentioned will increase from
year to year, and it will not be many
years before the immigration figures
will reach the million mark.
1t may be asked what is there to
warrant this large immigration? With
millions of acres OF land, capable Of
producing twenty-five to forty bushels
of wheat TO the acre; Or If In oats,
from forty to ninety, and even as high
as hundred bushels per acre, or the
same splendid yields of fax or bar
ley, there is ample inducement to at
tract these hundreds of thousands who
are filing the present agricultural set
Elements and pushing forward into the
newer settlements year by year, and
leave room still for the hundreds of
thousands who will follow There re-
mains not only the agricultural wealth
of the country, but there are also the
social advantages, the home-making
privileges, apart altogether from the
financial opportunities, there is the life
and the energy born from the knowl-
edge that the settler is more than a
unit in the upbuildlng, in the making
of a country that will soon rank
amongst the first in the nations of
the world. There Is no desire on the
part of the writer to dwell upon the
success that has followed the Ameri-
can settler in the Provinces of Mani
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and
the coast Province of British Colul2-
bia, or to speak of the thousands of in
dividuals whose hundreds of dollars
have made them thousands, but atten-
tion must be paid to the fact that these
people have done well. They are fol-
lowed by their families and their
friends, who also are doing well.
Where, few years ago, seemingly
only months ago, there was nothing
but the open prairie, or If we speak OF
the more central portions OF these
provinces, the park districts, there are
today we'll titled and cultivated farms,
large farms, too, and the herds OF cat
tie. Cities and towns are the result OF
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

compllsh the desired purpose. His con-
troll. which always has been good,
seems to be improving.
''On top of this he has a splendid
disposition for q pitcher Nothing
seems to rattle him. Some pitchers
get up in the air If they think an um-
but Walter Just smiles, knowing that
he can lay the next one over If he has
to. He is by all odds the greatest
pitcher in the game today and to my
mind there never lived one who was
any better. AS near as any human be-
ing can hope to achieve In any line of
endeayor Johnson has achieved it as
a pitcher"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
Iris Speaker Best Player.

Billy Murray, one of the best judges
of ball player in the country and
who is now acting as scout for the
Pirates, awards the palm for being
the best player to iris Speaker. Says
Billy: you can praise Ty Cobb, Joe
Jackson and the other great outfield-
ers in the big leagues. but none of
them Is in the class with Iris Speaker
of the Red Sox. Speaker Is the best
player on the diamond today AS a
ner he has Cobb and the others beat
en-. I've seen all the stars of twenty
five years. and the Beanee,er is the
Ling"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
JOHNSON is GREAT PITCHER
Has Added to His Terrific Speed Ex-
cellent Control. Slow Ball and
Quick Breaking Curve.

walter Johnson is today a per-
feet pitcher" said one of the veteran
umpires of the American league re-
Gently in discussing the Washington
marvel. II you could have a hurler
made to order you couldn't design one
who would be bit more effective
than the big Swede, whose name is a
terror to the best batsmen in the
country.
johnson isn't using his terrific
speed much nowadays. In fact, he sell
dom cuts one loose with all his might
unless he happens to be in a tight
place and opposed to hitter who is
weak ON the fast ones. He throws a
lot Of fast balls with break on them
still, but they are not of the old ar
mor-plercing type that made him fa-
nous.
"At one time he had to depend al
most entirely on the velocity of his
ball and his control to make him for
midable. but now he has acquired a
good curve and nice change of pace.
For some time he has been expert
mentlng with a slow ball, and now he
has got command of it. Think of the
deadly efficiency of a slow one coming
after ball that has been turned
through q mile minute.
walters curve Is not the widest in
the world, but it Is quick one, and
the break plenty large enough to ac'
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
MODERN BASEBALL IS FASTER
Nothing to Be Accomplished by
Wordy Controversy on Merits of
Old and Young Players.

There may be some good accom-
plished from a wordy controversy
whether or not baseball Is faster than
1t used to be, but just exactly how
this Is to effect the cost of living is
not so perfectly apparent, says the
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The old fellows who have had their
day and who are continually looking
backward. seem to think that they
played faster and better in the olden
time. but the young men who are ncw
engaged in making baseball history
are dead sure the old timers were
truck horses in comparison with
them.
There Is no reason why the old
timers could not hit a ball Just exact.
ly as hard; run Just as fast and field
just as accurately. 1t may be that
owing to the development of pitching
they would not have an opportunity
to hit and run as often, and inside
baseball may be developed more than
1t was in the olden times, but grant
all this and what's the answer?
1t pleases us who remember some of
the old-timers to think they were just
as good as the best, but It may be
that We are mistaken At that, II is
pretty hard to see what is going to
be accomplished by the disillusion-
ment. If the men of today are much
better than they used to be. let It go
at that. Nothing can be accomplish
ed by arguing this question any more
than can be by indulging in con-
troversy over politics or religion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
Rare Books for Harvard.

Harry Elkins Wtdener, who was lost
on the Titanic, had a very valuable
collection Of books, and these will go
to Harvard university His grandfa
ther, p. A. B. Widener, will provide a
building in which the books will be
adequately housed. The collection in
cludes a first folio Shakespeare, a
copy of Shakespeare poems in the
original binding, and what is described
as the finest collection in the world OF
Robert Louis Stevenson's works.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

the opening up Of this rich field Of ag.
riculture, and 1t Ia high class OF ag-
riculture, carried on by the use OF
brains, and, where energy has not
been endowed, it has become in that
splendid air a case of inoculated en-
ergy.
The rapid advancement of railways
makes the situation easy Today one
may be located thirty miles from one
Of the many branches of the different
systems. A year from now, the whis-
tie of the locomotive and the long
train of cars may pass the farm, the
elevator is but short drive from the
home, splendid market is established,
and all the advantages of an old set
tied community are at hand
The prospects this year from an ag-
ricultural standpoint are exceedingly
bright, and, relieved Of untoward con-
ditions, the farmer Is already counting
his bank roll, planning for more eX-
tensive operations for next year, and
figuring on paying out for his farm.
He is calculating what the increased
Fdlue OF MS AoldlhgS, as result OF d.
successful crop, will add to his assets
Already some fields of wheat have been
harvested, barley has been cut, and
the yield is above his expectation. In
fact, the feeling at the time of writing
is that never in the history of any
country on the continent has there
been such a prospect of large aver
Iage crop, all over the three central
provinces of Canada, as will be harvest
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
Uniforms and Diplomacy.

The gaZettes have announced that
the emperor of Germany has deigned
to name Mon. de kiderlen-W Waechter
majo of the Seventy first Thuringian
infantry. To please his august master,
the minister sometimes wears his unit
form, but in 1t he gives no Illusion of
elegance. The other day. to console
himself, he said: Il believe my col.
league, NJ. Poincare (the French am.
hassador) would appear more ridtcu
lous than | do If he were obliged to
1ress as an artillerist"
Prince Won Buelow, who is colonel OF
Iussars, rode in the grand review at
He head OF his regiment. Some years
20. at Strasburg. the emperor remark
some squadrons that were moving
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

Miller Higgins is playing his last
year with the Cardinals. That is, the
tiny secondsacker will depart If Man
ager Roger Bresnahan can put
through a deal this winter that viii
strengthen the National league
troupe.
Higgins is not to be traded because
Bresnahan enyles the brains of the
Rabbit" or because there is ill-feel-
ing between the boss and his tricky
little assistant, but because Miller
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

in zigzags across the field in man.
ner scarcely correct. They were the
hussars of NJ Won Buelow. "Ach!
cried William H., init Buelow INNER
die krumme wege der diplomatic"
tOh. with Buelow. 1t is always the
crooked ways of diplomacy lie Cri
de Paris
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
His Occupation Gone.

Hungry Herbert would work.
ma'am. but there is little doing In my
profession at present.
The Housewife is your pro-
fes sion?
Hungry Herbert-Taking care Of the
gallopiug horse effects in a theater.
The automobile plays have just about
ruined my business
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09
Boston Lands Western player.

The sale of Pitcher Wynn Noyes OF
the Spokane club to the Boston club
OF the National league has been an
nounced. Noyes. who is the star right
handler of the Spokane club, will nc
be delivered until the close of tn
Northw esterp league season.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

Stovall is slowly. but surely, whip
ping his Brownies into winning form.
Walter Johnson of the Washington
Senators has only one bad habit. He
chews gum.
If the Athletics have a $4,000 in
field the Boston Red Sox have ST.
100000 outfield.
Bill Armour, the former Detroit-To-
ledo manager, is scouting for the st.
Louis Cardinals.
The Washington fans still believe
can league bunting.
Mike Simon, who was slated for the
discards last fall, has proved a handy
man for the Pirates.
Rehg, whom the Pirates turned
over to st. Paul. Is hitting hard and
stealing numerous bases.
1t has been rumored and denied
that Hughey Jennings is to manage
the Boston Braves next season.
Detroit has bought third baseman
named Deal. Jokes are now In order.
Deal kindly with the boy, however.
Over In Philadelphia the fans are
still hoping that the Athletics will
come through and win the flag again
The Cubs and the Pirates are hav-
ing merry little struggle between
themselves In the National league pen
nant race-for second place.
Vincent Campbell, the Boston out
| fielder. has improved wonderfully In
| his work in the field. He covers an
! immense amount of ground and Is a
sure catch of fly bail.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teethiug, softeus the gums, reduces inhamma-
tlou. allays pain, cures wind cole, 25c bottle
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

smooth man is liable to be slip
perry.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-09

Ever read the above ietterf new
one nppeHrs from time to time. They
ore rsrnuiae. true. and fuiA of human
interest.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
HOW FAST The HORSE WENT
"Lickity Split" Said the Boy Witness
and the Judge and Jury
Understood.

In the Superior civil court a lAtle
chap was giving testimony in a case
where an express team is alleged to
have knocked down and injured a
boy acquaintance Of the witness. The
little chap on the witness stand was
asked how fast the team was going
when he first noticed it. He seemed
a bit puzzled, and the attorney sug-
gested a hearse and a fire engine as
tremes of comparison. The boy said
it was not going as fast as a fire
engine and faster than a hearse.
The attorney yenturod again to
have the witness state in his opin-
ion just how fast the team was 90
ing,
cit was going 1ickity split" said
the youngster.
From the expression upon the
faces of the judge and the members
of the jury it was evident that they
understood the answer Of the witness
thoroughly.-Boston journal.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
HELPED HIM ALONG,

GLOW did he manage to escape
from the pcnitentiary? [ thought
it was well nigh impossible"
"Well, he figured it out on scien-
tifc lines. Somebody 8muggled him
a pair of trunks, and after he got
outside everybody thought he was
running a Marathon"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

The occupants OF a house at West
Midway, in Norfolk county, Virginia,
were astonished at finding continually
in the fireplace small pie 'es of paper
that had been dropped down the chin
ney from some mysterious source.
When the owner began watching out.
side the house he saw a squirrel run
up the roof and enter the chimney, 1t
al concluded that the messages had
been sent down by the squirrel.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
Sikest0n, Mo.

-y ~- +N~AN NAaAAk = AEAA \ "
have an operation. Iwould not listen to
that, and when a friend of my husband
told Inn about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, l was willing to take it.
Now / look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. can do my own homework,
hoe my garden, and milk a COW. / can
entertain company and enjoy them. l
a visit when l choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. l wish | could talk to every
suffering woman and girl. Mrs. DEMA
BETIUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, HI have taken LIZ,
dia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case Of female trouble
and it made me a well woman. Nv
health was all broken down, the doctors
said | must have an operation, and I was
ready to 60 to the hospital, bu~tdreadeIit
so that began taking your Compound.
l got along so well that | gave up The
doctors and was saved from the opera
tion."-Mrs. CHARLES MOORE. K. r.
No. 3, Murrayville, Ill.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

Tt was only with the utmost Difficult
ty that NOAH was able to control him.
self. as the two mosquitoes Of the arl;
WaHed red and corpulent on the back
OF his hand gorging themselves tdAro.
pletion. IF it wasn't for the grudge |
have against my posterity,' he rasbed
through his clenched teeth, I'D smash
your Internal carcasses!"-Puck. 4
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

A remarkable piece of quartz forma-
ton is on exhibition in a Biddeford
store window. It is half of a large
round stone about six inches in di-
ameter and is deeply followed. Look
ing into the hollow, one sees innumer.
able brilliant crystals. 1t is a very
fine specimen. The rock was found
in saco in Common street 70 feet I'm.
uerground.-Eennebec (Me) Journal.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

The boys appetite is often the
source of smazement. If you would
have such an appetite take Cham
berIain's Tablets. They not only
create a healthy appetite, but strength
en- the stomach and enable ii to do
its work naturally. For sale by all
dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT,

"Do you," said the counsel,
Swear that you will tell the truth,
the whole truth an"
ooh, how lovely!" the fair wit
ness interrupted. "Shall [ be all
lowed to talk all the afternoon if 1
want to2"-Stray Stories.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

While the drift of our modern life in
the outside Jrld may be toward tech.
meal anG scientific education, the
drift in college is still toward the
great teacler-tue man of thought.
provoking power and Of spiritual
capacity; sincere and genuine both in
scholarship and manhood, Of whom
one can speak, as Carlyle spoke Of
Schiller, "a high mi8isteling servant
at Truths altar, and bore him worth.
lily If the Office he held,"-The Cen.
fury.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

1t is a pleasure to tell you that
Chamberlain Cough Ramed, is the
best cough medicine | have ever
used" writes Mrs. Hugh Campbell, Of
Lavonia, Ga. Il have used it with
my children and the results have been
liahly satisfactory. For sale by all
dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
W. den Lea Joke,

Why is it, as a writer in the Bell
man points out, that the general sense
of humor is stirred when anything
happens to ? mans wooden leg, such
as its loss or a knothole coming in it,
Or getting it under the cars? 1t is or
was the same way with stealing a
mans horse in the Far West. Both
OF these accidents are serious Yet
the7 are supposed to be subjects for
mirth.-AIinneapolis Journal.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
Existence an Aim.

Life is a mission. Every other def
milton of life is false, and leads all
whe accept it astray. Religion, sci
ence, philosophy, though still at vari-
ance on many points, all agree in this
that every existence is an aim.-Maz.
zini.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
Conducts SUNDAY enc, N JAN,

Isaac Jones, retired wnaler, steam
boat man and soldier OF Somerset,
Pa, teaches what is probably the most
unique Sunday school class in the
country. For 20 years he has taught
a class in the Somerset county Jail.
During that time six of his pupils, he
is quoted as saying have been hanged
and one other has been convicted of
murder.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
Detecting SHORTCOMINGS.

Do you wish to find out q persons
weak points? Note the failings he has
the quickest eye for in others. They
may not be the very failings he is him
self conscious Of, but they will be their
next-door neighbors. No man keeps
such q jealous lookout IS . rival
J. c. and A. W. Hare.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
Three Buried by Snowsllde

In the course Of a violent storm at
Grenoble, nea Paris, recently, an iso-
lated mountain chalet, situated at a
height Of over 5000 feet above the
sea. was buried in an avalanche Of
snow and completely disappeared. It's
three occupants have undoubtedly per-
ished.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
More Than likely.

When Aunt Mimy, away down south
in Dixie, was told that a man Of her
acquaintance, who had been convicted
Of murder, would be hanged, she con-
sidered the situation th~oughtfully.
That's gwine be right tryin' on that
%feller," she concluded at last.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

Don't waste your money buying
Strengthening pIaslers. Chamber
lain S Liniment is cheaper and better.
Dampen a piece of flannel with it
ami bind it over The affected parts
and it will believe the pain and sore,
ness. For sale by all dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14

p. Don't let the baby suffer from
eczema. sores or any itching Of the
i. skin. Doan's Ointment gives instfnt
,relief, cures quickly. Perfectly safe
,fOr children. All drusgiE,s sell it.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-11-14
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Napoleon Almost an EnqIIshman.

NapoIeoh AIInus an E~hgTTsHThaH'
1t was just a chance that kept Ma
poleon from being born an English
subject. He was born Of Italian par
ents, on Corsica, an island in the
Mediterranean. A few years before
Napoleon's birth the Corsicans asked
the English to rule over them, but the
Britons refused.