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IIMILLIONS Of

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LockStitchMachines

have been sold duringthe past half centuryaffording gratificationand satisfaction to the

usersTheHook is as

far ahead of the shuttleas a circular buzz sawis ahead ofa cross cut

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saw and for the samereasonthe RotaryHook with its contin ¬

uous motion admits ofa greater speed andeliminates vibration sotrying on the nerves

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vetinery Surgeon

Fistulo Pollevil Splints Spavin or any

Surgicalwork done at fair pricesMoney due when work is done or stockremoved from stableI AM FIXED TO TAKE CARE OF STOCK

SPECIAL ATTENTION TO EYE-SSDCRENSHAW

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NEW UNDERTAKERS SHOP

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I have just opened an UndertakersShop at Russell Springs I keep readyfor use all kinds of

COFFINS AND GASKETS

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AUTHOR GAINS FAME FORNEWLYWRITTEN BOOK

London Man Seeking to Call PublicAttention to His Work on Yel ¬

low PerilSlays Aged New1Zealand Chinaman

London Edward Lionel Terrythought he was a man with a missionand ought to make a name for himselfHe could not bear the idea of set-tling

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down in the real estate and mort ¬

gage broker business with his old

descendedII and was educated at Oxford and EtonI

Lionel at 21 six feet tall with theproportions of a blacksmith enlistedas a private in a line regiment with ¬

out his fathers knowledge He wasafterward transferred to the BluesMagnetic and easy in address he wasliked by both officers and men

In defiance of the rules of the service he at once covered the walls of hisquarters in the Windsor barracks withcaricatures of the officers The chap ¬

ticldedIon ap ¬

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peared framed it and pleaded for amitigation of the culprits sentence

After two or three years soldieringhe was released through the efforts ofhis father but could not remain longin London Off he went to South Atrica enlisted in the mounted police andserved through the Matabele war tak ¬

ing part in 15 engagements He wastwice wounded and gained the friend ¬

ship of the great empire builder Cecil Rhodes He returned to London

I and a tall hat but two years of thisI was all he could endure The wan-

derlust¬

seized him again It was inBritish Columbia that he became con-

vinced¬

that Chinese cheap labor wasandII mining and farming Then he came toNew Zealands shores Here hebrought out his first book God IsGold wherein he attempted to con-

vince¬

New Zealanders that the ChiprosperI ¬

wasI am going to make a name for my¬

self he wrote to his father but Iont want you to appear connected

with me for it may harm youOne day recently Terry while walk-

ing in the streets of Wellington NewZealand came upon Kum Young afeeble tottering old Chinaman Lifeseemed a burden to the aged manHere was Lionels chance to becomedoddering

After his deed of blood Lionel cool ¬

ly walked to police headquarters andsurrendered A murder charge wasplaced against him Then he wroteto Gov jfiunket

Sir Having spent several years invarious portions of the British empireinquiring into alien immigration andbeing convinced of the evil conse-quences arising therefrom I have de-

cided¬

to bring the matter before thepublic eye in a manner which willcompel attention To make this deci ¬

sion perfectly plain I have this even ¬

ing put a naman to deathLionel is now famous

I APPLE TEA IS THE LATEST

Being Tried inEngland as a Remedyfor Many IllsDiscovered-

by a Germa-

nLondonSaid to be a cure for mazyills of the body from gout to indiges ¬

tion apple tea is quite the latestthing in beverages and has only justbeen introduced into England-

It is a substitute for tea coffee anIcocoa and is the dscovery of ProfEbbanl an eminent German doctor

I Apple tea is made in Germany from aparticular sort of apple which will

Igrow only in certain soil The peelwhich possesses suck nourishing quali ¬

ties with about half an inch of pulpattached is used The pips are alsoused and are slowly dried according toa certain process which effectually pre ¬

vents mildew or rot and when finishedappear like bits of cork

Apple tea is made in the same wayas ordinary tea and in flavor andcolor very much resembles good Chi ¬

nese hyson tea

250000 FOR WEDDING GIFT

Detail of Marriage of Son of RockIsland Magnate Disclosed

by a Check

New YorkFrequent mention hasbeen made of some of the presentsgiven recently at the marriage of Na ¬

thaniel Moore of Chicago and MissFargo in New York but there was onethat has escaped notice That was acheck for 250000 given to the youngbridegroom by his father James Hobart Moore one of the Big Four itthe Rock Island road and prominent as-

a promoter of industrial consolida-tion

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This is the second big checkMr Moore has given his son within acomparatively short time When theyoung man attained his majority lastyear his father made him a present ofa check for 100000 What he has leftof the first check added to the quar¬

ter of a million he received as a wed ¬

ding gift ought to make a tidy sum onwhich to start light housekeeping >

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wWi btiti r SUGAR RESULTS

roveriinient Developing Strains onSclentlie Principles Plan

Large Yield

IWashingtonBelieving that com ¬

beet sugarupon the character of

seed furnished the grower the UnitedStates department of agriculture ismaking every effort to produce astrain of pedigree seed that will enableAmoricanfarmers to produce a largeyield to the acre of beets containing alarger percentage of sugar and a lowerpercentage of undesirable constituents

The work was begun by securing thebest strains of European seeds and allknown strains of Americangrownseeds and growing them for compari ¬

son Of these the best four strainswere selected as foundation stocks andall beets of exceptional quality weresaved and planted the following yearas mother beets for seed production

In the succeeding year onehalf ofthe seeds secured from these individu-al

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plants were soft and the best speimens of beets preserved as specimensfor the production of the first crop oielite seeds The other half of the

seed was planted this year and thebeets secured will furnish next yearsSUppiy of seed for the new strainAlong this same line of improvementa private grower at Fairfield Washhas produced a lot of some 300 rootstesting from 20 to z4 per cent sugara most extraordinary achievement inview of the fact that the usual beetseeds available do not contain over 15

per cent sugar-

COLLEGE IS IN WILDERNESS

Institution Dedicated in KentuckyRegion Where Education Is

Sadly NeededI Bloomington IllTn the fastnessesof the Kentucky mountains in thei

heart of Morgan county there hasi just been erected a college in mem-o y of Matthew T Scott of Blooming

j ton The project was suggested byMrs Scot and met with favor by thePresbyterian synod of Kentucky She

i was advised to select Morgan countywhich is without any other education-ali enterprise of consequence The siteis near West Liberty and is 15 milesfrom the nearest railroad and canonly be reached by a stage coach andthe route is very rough and circuitous

Mrs Scott is widely known through ¬

out the United States by reason of herprominence in the Daughters of American Revolution having served as vicepresident general and in other posi-

t tions in that societyThe college was dedicated by Mrs

Scotts brotherinlaw Adlai E Stev-ensonj former vice president of theUnited States The enrollment uponthe opening date was 115 studentsProf J W Thurman an educatorwell known is the first president andhe had for assistants five teachers ofability The board of trustees com-prises Bennett H Young of Louisvilleand Rev L H Blanton and RevJ E Guerrant Mrs Scott has endowed the institution and a numberof the citizens of Kentucky also as-

sisted financially

GLASS TOWN IN NEBRASKA

Facilities Afforded by Northern Village in State Will Probably Be

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Omal1aA glass town may be Ne ¬

braskas portion In northern Ne ¬

braska is a city of a population of1200 It is located on one of the greatrivers of the state which affords mostdesirable water power of about 4000horse power capacity If the depositsof glass sand nearby which show 98per cent of silica could be used formanufacture of glass products by anelectrical process whose current wouldbe generated by the water power thelittle city might evolve into one ofthe leading glass producers of thecountry The manufacture of glass bythe electric arc as shown by the Ger ¬

man process js possible with less cap ¬

ital for the erection of a plant givingsimpler cleaner and quicker processesthan the ordinary method and af ¬

fords a saving of heat and energyIn Belgium they are making windowglass by machinery One machineturns out continuously sheets of glass

6z inches wide and of any desiredlength and of a uniform thicknessvarying from onefifteenth to fivesix ¬

ti Enths of an inch This can be ob ¬

rained as rough glass for making extra thin glass as horticultural glassand as window glass It possesses unenualed brilliancy on both sides Themachine is recommended for its sim ¬

plicity and for saving time and ma-

terial¬

Maniac Gets Big PensionThe largest pension claim settled

since Commissioner Warner ok chargeof the pension office was awarded to aveteran of the civil war who is a patientin the St Elizabeth government hos¬

pital for the insane An accrued penskin of 9848 is the lump sum awardedwith future payments of 30 a monthConsiderable of the 9348 will go to payfor the mans maintenance during thetime he has been confined in the hos ¬

pital The monthly allowance will affort him added comforts and luxuries

The Kaisers Failinglne emperor of Germany now owns

eht big touring ears but in spite ofhis versatility and his divine rightsbe cant scorch in more than one ofthem at a time t

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THE WHITE TERROR

It Is Believed It Has Returnedand a Shudder of Horror

Convulsed Russia

mtm DOWN THE PBOLETARISIS

Workmens League and the Lonjrne of

Leagues Issued a Deehiratouof a General Strike

Count Wittes Life Is Considered inDanger and the Palace Annex

Where He Is Residing IsHeavily Guarded

St Petersburg Dec l8A shudderof horror has convulsed Russia Thegovernment claims it has given battleonly to the red revolutionists butthe populace generally believes thatthe white terror has returned Al ¬

ready the leaders of the proletariatorganization who escaped capture Sat-urdayI night at the Economic societyProfIgovernment evidently anticipates abattle royal and has made its disposi ¬

tions accordingly It fully under ¬

stands that the proletariat will giveblow for blow in answer to the whole ¬

sale arrestsThe workmens council and the

eague of Leagues Saturday night is¬

sued a declaration of a general strikeI

to begin immediately and consequent ¬

ly by an imperial ukase published allgovernors general governors and pre ¬

fects throughout the empire who arecut off by telegraph are clothed withalmost dictatorial powers being au ¬

thorized without consulting St Pe-tersburg

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I to declare a state ofsiege and if necessary even mar-

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tial law As most of the pro-

visional¬

authorities are reactionaryofficials of the old regime the advan ¬

tage they will take of such power toterrorize the populace can be easily

I imagined they being in position tobecome petty tyrants and wage war

j each in his own particular fashionj against the revolutionists

Count Wittes life is considered tot

j be in danger and the annex of the paace where he is residing is heavily

guardedStDec SA report

that Count Witte has resigned is inmartIas Gen Count Alexis Ignatieffis be-ingI held in reserve

IOHIO THEATER BURNED

Four Persons Lost Their Lives and aI

Dozen Had Narrow Escapes

Lorain 0 Dec l8Four lives werelost in a fire which destroyed the Vsrbeck theater here early Sunday moining The dead

Dwyer 28IJames William Marsh 24 and two-I childrenapartmentstj

i Marsh was stage manager of the the-ater Dwyer another employe of thetheater slept in the basement wherethe fire originated from which escapewas cut off Mrs Marsh and Jier chil ¬

smokeIThe loss on the theater which wascomparatively a new one is 35000The loss on the entire building is 50

I 000 The theater was owned by theVerbeck Amusement Co of Oil City

PaThe Marsh family came here fromDetroit about four weeks ago A doz ¬

en people living in the building hadnarrow escapes from being suffocated

The fire department did not have aladder sufficiently long to reach thewindows where the imprisoned per ¬

sons were and William Schultz a mer ¬ladI ¬

They climbed down the improvisedescape and Schultz stood in his peril ¬

ous position for 30 minutes while thedescent of the tenants were madeover his body Eight persons wererescued in this manner

REPUBLICANS HELD A CAUCUS

It Was Agreed to Pass a StatehoodBill This Winter

Washington Dec 15 41ie repubban members of tilt houea in caucusunanimously declared in favor of ad¬

mUting Oklahoma and the Indian Territody as one state and by a vote of110 to 65 declared in favor of admit¬

ting Arizona and New Mexico as onestate Both statehood questions are tobe contained in one bill The only op-

position¬

to the program was directedagainst joining Arizona and New Mex ¬

ico and it is understood that Mrand Mr Tawney

of Minnesota were the only speakerson this side I

The Next G A R EncampmentMinneapolis Minny Dec 13Corp

James Tanner commanderinchlef oi

the G A R Is here in consultationwith the local committee of arrangeencampmentmhere next summer July 16 is theatate suggested

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