The Coffeyville Daily Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 4

COFFEY VILLE DAILY JOURNAL, COFFEY VILLE, KAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER J205. 1 FROM BIRTH TO OLD AGE Life is a constant fight against the dangers of disease, and he holds his own the it THE COFFEYVILLE DAILY JOURHAL Q. WEAYERLING AND I. R. ARBOGAST THAT BOY OF YOU RS Has started to school and the other boys, or perhaps a little Abetter.

We have the most up-to-date and complete line of Boy's and Children's Suits and Over- coats ever shown in Coffeyville. Suits in Buster Browns, Nor-folks, double breasted or three-piece and overcoats in all the new styles. Prices from $1.50 to $7. Ho. 2719 Gets the $3.00 Hat this Week.

arclaySMelds Clo0 Coo9 119 west ninth 3 Desi wno Keeps his body and its functions in the best working trim. There are times In every life when Nature gratefully accepts a little aid. She does not want a whipping up for thatisinev- Hah fn nw- t'u uy ueprus- sing reaction. In most cases a tonic and alterative properly com-Dounded will afford the required help by promoting digestion, assimilation and reconstruction of tissue and reducing waste of vital nerve forces. It must not be an alcoholic stimulant just a vegetable tonic.

Meeting these needs and conditions Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has been in successful use these forty years and has accumulated a record of cures unoqualed in the history of medicine. It is composed of non-alcoholic, glyceric extracts of Golden Seal root, Queen's root, Stone root, Black Cherry bark, Bloodroot and Mandrake root, and by special processes perfected by Dr. Pierce, in his own laboratory, so combined in the most exact proportions, and their medicinal properties preserved without the use of alcohol as to render it a safe and effective remedy for use in the family without consulting a doctor. Young or old can take it freely as needed, and now that its composition is published, then! is no ground for prejudice against it as a patent medicine or secret medicine.

It ij neither. SVercefa Dr- Pierce's Pleasant Pellets VVekv ('ure constipation. Constipa-KcWeVa tin is the cause of many diseases. Cure the cause and you cure the disease. One Pellet Is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic.

Druggists sell them, and nothing' is "just as good." Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page illustrated Common Sense Medical Adviser will be sent free, paper-bound, for 21 one-cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 31 stamps. Although there may be many favorable features to the outlook, it is no time for prudence to be cast to the winds; no time for speculative commitments which would yield disaster if temporary reverses came; no time for laxness in any of the forms of business prudence and conservatism." Now that winter approaches, the question is again asked on every side, "what have you done witn your summer wastes." Coffeyville has laid in new entemrises. new buildings, new wage earners, new jobs and her country side contributes good crops for the winter. Oh yes! and we nave some new gas wells.

A BAD START. Kansas City Journal: The imple ment trust need have no fear of the co-onerative concern gotten up by some Kansas. Oklahoma and Missouri retail implement dealers to manufac ture implements in opposition to tne trust. The concern has turned down a free site and free gas proposition In the Kansas gas belt for a $10,000 cash bonus In a small town In southern Missouri where fuel comes high. 4 INSURANCE PROBLEMS.

Out of the present insurance scandals have arisen the following six items that demand immediate revision by law: 1. An increase in the security or the policy holders. 2. A decrease in the expense rate and the cost of insurance. 3.

A decrease in the burden of needless taxation. 4. A decrease in the amount of clerical labor now indispensable to meet the requirements of some fifty states and territories. 5. The stamping out of fraudulent insurance enterprises.

6. Adequate national protection for American companies, transacting business in foreign countries. FARMER M'N ALL IN TOWN. Topeka Capital: Hon. Webb McNall of Smith county, and owner of 2,000 acres of land, was in town yesterday and brought the news of northwest Kansas, what it is thinking about and wnat it is doing and how it is getting along.

"Has Kelly thrown the governor out of office yet," was Farmer Mc-Nall's first question as he got off the Union Pacifis He was relieved to learn that the state treasurer had" not yet resorted to extreme measures. "Up our way," Mr. McNall says, "the folks read all the newspapers print about candidates against Hoch and then just laugh. The idea that us I farmers don't know what is going on In the world Is a mistake. I'll tell you how the rural telephone and the rural daily mail delivery work.

If Farmer Jones has some hogs or wheat, or eggs or butter to sell, he looks at his morning paper to see how the central markets are. Then he goes to the phone and calls up the wheat elevator or the local hog buyer or the grocer and asks what they are giving for the thing he has ready for market. If the price Is all right he hauls the stuff to town. If not he tells the dealer that his prices are wrong according to the day's market reports, and he either gets the right price or he rings off and calls up a competitor. The telephone and daily farm mail have given the farmer competitive markets.

"That is one thing," says Farmer McNall. "It is the same way in politics. The newspaper tells him what is going on and by the telephone he talks it over with neighbors in the township or county. If there is a freshet and somebody tells me that in my catle pasture the fences are down in a certain draw and the cattle are getting through, I ask him to drive 'em back, fix up the fence and send me the bill. As it Is wet and he hasn't anything better to do, he does it and it saves me money as well as worry, trouble and time.

The farmer can call up the county seat and find out when a case is to be called in the district court. The telephone saves him money every day in the year and makes things different on the farm from what they used to be." This year a million dollars' worth of old corn has been sold in Smith county and there are scarcely any mortgage left While the farmers are rich and contented, they are watching developments in the uncovering of corporate graft and corruption in politics and will be readyrto vote when the time comes. "I notice Farmer i McNall says, "that these big insur-' OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Journal, by mail, one year $4.00 Dally Journal, by carrier, per mo.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1905. KNOCKERS. Knockers never built up a city. If the 'majority of the people of Coffey ville were objectors and fault finders and doubters and kickers and hold backs we would still be a town of three or four thousand population. Knockers never brought out factories or rail roads here; knockers never built our waterworks and electric light plant, or put in our sewers or built our city hall, or paved our streets.

The men who al ways carry a hammer are not the men who have pulled Coffeyville ahead of the county seat in the race for the largest city in the county. The border city is the metropolis of the gas belt and the gateway of the Southwest, but the knocker had no hand in bringing her this distinction and the benefits therefrom. Real estate has multiplied in value, wages have doubled, good jobs are plentiful, and prosperity reigns here, but the knocker did his best to keep these things from coming to pass. If he had had his way one could still buy a corner business lot hare for $250 and an acre of land for $100, which is now a part of the residence portion of the city where lots sell for $500 each. The knocker fought every inch of our progress for the last eight years and he always had some reason for his knocking and that reason was generally a selfish one.

Don't be a knocker. Fortune favors a city that does things. A procession of benefits follows in the train of every accomplishment. Coffeyville has much to do if she would realize her splendid promise. Development 'demands attention that we may keep abreast of our progress.

The knocker Is just as much opposed to development as he is to progress. An applicant for admittance to a lodge may have the price of Initiation but he must also come with a certificate of character and good standing. Coffeyville, when she asks admittance to the 25,000 club should come a clean, beautiful and modern city. The knocker is opposed to her joining that club. If she joins any way no will try to see to it that she has nothing but population to gain her ad mittance.

Are you-a knocker? Re form, then and join in the work for a greater Coffeyville. If you can't do that, at least do not oppose or retard the work. Kansas City Journal: What are the wild waves saying to Colonel Bryan? Nothing any wilder, we will wager, than Colonel Bryan has said to his de voted countrymen. It seems safe to predict that this time next winter Coffeyville will have a fine opera house and an electric road to bring the farmers to the city to see the shows. With brick at $5.00 per hundred it may be cheaper to build a brick than a frame house if lumber gets much higher.

Coffeyville needs the houses. If all the tents on the outskirts of the city were gathered together they would make a showing equal to a regiment in camp. Frank A. Vanderlip to the National Banker's Association: "Should a stock market speculation start from the present high level of prices, in the face of the extraordinary demand for capital and money which crops and business alike are making, the result might easily be a temporary disaster. HAD TO HIDE IT A mother wrote us recently that she had to keep Scott's Emulsion under lock and key her: children used to drink it whenever- her back was turnedr Strange" thai children should Hke something that is so good for them.

It's usually the other way. Scott's Emulsion makes children comfortable, makes them fat and rosy-cheeked. Perhaps that's why they: like it so much they know it makes' 4 -fy n4 you a sample, free 1 SCOTT BOWNEJ Yoq raji bitcet. Xo.i: I NtW) LABJEL you want him to look PALACES OSCAR HAS LOST. Royal Residences and Civil List of Swedish King "Were Exceedingly Modest.

London. When the Norwegian storthing, by a simple decree, declared the union with Sweden dissolved and that che king of two countries had ceased to act as king of Norway, the material loss of King Oscar and the royal family of the Bernadotte3 was not so great as might seem at the first blush. The union has been more nominal than real and the golden link of the crown has never been particularly solid. King Oscar has, indeed, at one stroke lost nearly half of his subjects and considerably more than one-third of his territory, but in Norway the monarchy has never drawn from the state revenues an exxcessive Income. King Oscar ha3 never encouraged a lavish expenditure in the management of his court and a modest civil list, supplemented by a moderate private fortune, has sufficed for the needs of the royal family, which has in many respects formed habits of democratic simplicity.

The civil list of King Oscar as king of Sweden is about $363,710, and the royal family enjoys also an annuity ol about $82,000, voted to King Carl XIV. and his successors on the throne of Sweden. Norway allowed the monarch a civil list much less than half that granted by Sweden, about $136,250, on which to maintain the royal dignity. By law King" Oscar was bound to pass six weeks annually in Norway. Until recently and it must be remembered he is in his seventy-seventh year he attended every year the opening of the Norwegian storthing, and on his visits to Norway resided in one or the other of the royal residences at Chrlstiania, the royal palace" and his county seat, Oscarthal.

The royal palace, situated on an eminence in the western part of the city, was built in 1822-1848, and with the gardens did not cost more than $122,000, voted by the storthing. The private apartments contain paintings and sculptures by Norwegian artists, most of which were presented to the king and queen on their silver wedding in 1882. The throne-room contains portraits of Oscar I. and Queen Josephine, besides other members of the royal family. The second royal residence makes a favorite excursion for visitors to Chrlstiania, as it is beautifully situated on the Chrlstiania fjord, two miles from the city.

It was built in 1847 by King Oscar In An glo-Gothlc style. It was sold by Charles XV. to the government, but was set apart for the use of the reign ing monarch. The painter Tidemand is well represented by somo of his characteristic pictures Norwegian peasant life. In the grounds are to be seen antique Norwegian buildings, an old Norwegian church, dating from the twelfth century, and typical farm houses of the country.

LOCKSMITH WAS TRICKED. Betrayed by a Man Who Employed Him to Open His Poor. New York. A German locksmith In Harlem had a call one night recently from a young man who said that he'd lost his keys and wanted to get Into his house quietly. The locksmith went with the young man to a house near by and set to work on the lock.

"There's no use of my. hanging around," said the young man. rrm going to the corner for a drink When you get through whistle." The German stuck to his task and In ten minutes he had the way clear Then he whistled. The young man came up. The locksmith said he wanted two dollars for his work.

He was told to come around In the morning. As he knew some of the occupants of the house he consented. The young man walked Into the house and the German went home. Next morning he went around for his money. The house was full of cops.

He stayed long enough to hear that the house had been Looted and then made tracks for his shop. "WIDOW'S MITE" IS FOUND Ancient Coin Recently Picked Up on a Farm Near Berlin, Wisconsin. Madison, Wis. Experts of the University of Wisconsin hold that an ancient small coin picked up in a field of the Allard farm near Berlin by Anton DIsterhoff Is a genuine "lepton" or "widow's mite" of Bible times. The coin is copper, three-eighths of an inch in diameter, with a design representing two cornucopias and a poppy ion one Tfilda' and an inscription on the other "Jonathan, the high' just as neat as priest, and the senate of the Jowa," in Greek.

The coin, when found, v.as inclosed in a small metal box and is supposed to have been lost by cno of the French missionaries who visited Wisconsin in the early half of the seventeenth century. It was worth about one-twentieth of an American penny, but now has considerable value, as it is or.e of very few in existence. Mississippi Bloodhounds. The state of Mississippi is to go into the dog-breeding business, limited to one class broodhounds. Several recent failures to run down escaping criminals with bloodhounds and some mistakes made by the hounds in tracking the wrong persons have convinced the officials of the need of improving the breed, the hounds being hitherto hired as occasion demanded from local parties.

Mississippi has now bought thin finest bloodhounds within its borders, and will start a state pack. a' PASSENGER AGENT'S TALE. Worked in a Fish Feature That Boomed His Road to the Limit. The chief of the great railroad had one of his periodical grouches. The heads of four superintendents had been lopped off before ten a.

and the chief had just given the signal for the passengev agent to come in. As that worthysank into the execution chair the chief cut loose, says the Chicago Record-Herald. am already informed that tha P. D. Q.

road has landed the business of the piano players' convention, that the nine European parties you were after will travel over the Alpha and Omega; also that we haven't had as much as a washout to get bur name in the papers. I have decided that your resignation will take effect two weeks from to-day, unless you deliver the goods on a piece of business worth mentioning. You may start boosting the travel per- ceuiage oy seeing inai my private car is attached to No. 11 this evening, and that it is switched off at Lake Omo, where I will be beyond the sight of white men for exactly two weeks. I am going where I'll have'to use a compass to get from one tent to another.

Now climb." The passenger agent climbed a flight of stairs to the office of the advertijing manager. "I want a fishing ad. for this road," he said. yOne that will take all the empties In the yards to handle tho traffic None of those fine air, graen grass, babbling brook, placid water, teeming with fish kind; but a rou3ter. Get busy." All the great newspapers of the northwest carried the following sensational advertisement a few days after the departure of the chief: WRECK ON THE P.

O. RY. Lives of many prominent cltizons were endangered in a great wreck wliich occurred on the lake division of the P. O. railroad 18 years ago to-day.

A special train chartered by the state fish commission was conveying a large party to the northern lake region, where the ceremony of planting fish was to hn or.acted. As the train was crossing a brlJge over Mud creek the structure gave way and the train was precipitated into the water. Fortunately no lives were lost, but every one of the fish escaped. The catastrophe was entirely forgotten until a party of anglers visited the waters of Lake Omo a few days ago and found fish so thick that they had to come up on the bank to get out cf the crowd. An explanation for the phe nomenon has just been found.

Mud creeks flows into Lake Omo, and the 3,000,000,000 fish lost 18 years ago are now full-grown specimens the fiany tribe cavorting in the lake. Trains will leave all day to-day and to-morrow for Lake Oma over the P. O. at six, eight and ten a. and two, four, six and eight p.

m. Rjund trip, $14. Newsboys will sell bait on the trains. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE MON OCLE. Lake May 30.

Fifteen thou sand people angled to-day in Lake Omo. The scene was the most remarkable ever known in the history of angling. P. O. railway hauled the crowds perfectly.

It is estimated that about 500,000 pounds of fish have been cap tured thuS far, and the game still con tinues. An incident of the day wa3 au nvasion of the preserves of chief of the P. who is on his annual outing. He was compelled to flee and his camp was occupied by strangers. iiissing a Kiss.

Helen And is Harry Cauliflower really such a slow young man? i Slow? Why, if he takes a girl on a railroad excursion i she has to tell him every time they are com ics to a tuuncCUicsso DalUvXsvs II DAID HPffllZES SCO ance magnates who used to be so shocked at my anarchistic methods as insurance superintendent, are being found out." DANCERS OF FOUR TRACKS L'svii Bssetting Passenger Trains When Passing Long Freight Trains. We wish to draw attention to the fact that this catastrophe at Harris-burg shows in a most dramatic way, says the Scientific American, what a great peril the passenger trains on four-track railroads are exposed to in having to sweep past the whole length of the many 40 and 50 car freight trains which they meet so frequently in traveling through busy manufacturing districts such as those traversed by the Pennsylvania railroad. It is a fact well understood by railroad men that the enormous length to which freight trains have grown of late years exposes them to exactly the kind of accident which caused the recent disaster namely, the crumpling up of the train when the brakes are suddenly applied if the action of the brakes is not uniform throughout the whole length of the train. If a freight train of 40 or 50 cars and weighing over 2,000 tons is traveling, say, 20 miles an hour and the air brakes are applied and act simultaneously and with equal efficiency on every car the whole train vould be brought to rest without any danger of crushing or displacing the cars. But if the action of the brakes should be set hard on, say, only the first half or third of the train the enormous momentum of the last half or two-thirds, expending itself on the portion upon which the brakes are in full action, brings a crushing strain which the cars are unable to withstand and they are forced into one another side-wise upon the adjoining tracks.

It is well known among railroad men that accidents of this kind are extremely frequent and that they constitute a standing menace to fast trains on the adjoining passenger tracks a menace that cannot be safeguarded by signals, not, at least, if the wreck should take place when the express is within a short distance of or passing the freight train. This is one of the perils to which the recent rapid growth of freight traffic and the endeavor to cheapen its transportation by using enormous engines and trains of exaggerated length have brought us. The only safeguard against it is the exercise of eternal vigilance on the part of the engineers of passenger trains and the most careful use of the air brakes on the part of the engineers of long and heavy freight trains. "Walking on the Tracks. In the course of a year, the total of persons killed while walking on or across railroad tracks is larger than the total killed in wrecks of all sorts.

It is an almost daily incident in the office of the coroner of Allegheny county to receive notice that some one has been killed by a train. No surprise is excited if two orv three such notifications come in a single day. In other counties of the state the same slaughter goes on, and in other states of the union. The grand totals compiled by the interstate commerce commission are appalling. They are expressed in thousands, while the totals of killed in wrecks are numbered In hundreds.

Pittsburg Gazette. DISTINCTIONS In ladies furnishings are easily attained if you buy here. No need of ill-fitting or uncomfortable garments, and the cost Is much less, too. The fall styles are in. Early choosing is quite advisable.

WOMEN STATION AGENTS. Found Superior to Men by an Indiana Railroad That Has Tried Them. The Lake Erie Western railroad is making some significant changes of station agents, and It is predicted that the daj' is not distant when all -the smaller stations will be in charge of women, and it is said that their work is very satisfactory, says an Indianapolis report The first woman station agent was appointed at Summit something more than a year ago, and it was her work that first suggested to the. company's officials the policy of appointing women as station agents. Her monthly reports are models of neatness and exactness, and she had hardly entered upon her duties when she made some valuable suggestions as to how to make the road popular with the people along the line.

But it was not till the general officers made a trip of inspection over the line that the full results of her administration became known. The station at Summit was found to be the best kept in Indiana. A little inquiry resulted in the information that the station had ceased to be a lounging place; that there had been no rowdyism since Miss Catherine Dicks had taken charge; that the doors and benches vere always clean, and that the station had become as orderly and well kept as any private house in the town. Prior to that time trips of inspection had consisted of a scurrying along the line, with stops only at the large cities, and it was at the suggestion of one of the Indiana officials that the general officers stopped at Summit. Miss Dicks was not expecting them and had not made preparations to receive them, but the station floors were free from stains, the stove glistened with new polish, not a particle of dust was on the benches, and the private office of the agent was homelike and inviting.

The other women agents have been appointed since then, and the officials have found that the good results of the change have been the same in every case. They have also learned that the women have greater tact in handling people than their male predecessors displayed, and fewer complaints have come from their stations. It is also said that passenger traffic has greatly Increased from these four points. EARLY ELECTRIC ROADS. Line in Baltimore Perhaps First Regularly Operated in This Country.

Daft began work on the Hampden branch of the Baltimore Union Passenger Railway company in Atfgust, 1885, at first with two, and a year later with tiwj more dummies, which pulled regular street cars. A central and the running rails were used for the normal operation, writes Frank J. Sprague, in 'The Electric Railway," in Century, but at crossings an overhead conductor was installed, and connection was made with it isy a transversely hinged arm carried on the car and pressed upward against it by a spring. The driving was by a pinion operating on an internal gear on one of the axles. This was, I think, the first' regularly operated electric road in this country, and the conditions under which the contract was taken, including waiting a year for payment conditioned on satisfactory operation and finally, even on these onerous terms, secured only in the face of an opinion by a well-known, scientist that no one but "a knave or a fool" would undertake it were anything buv encouraging.

Fortunately for Daft, however, T. C. Rob-bins, the genera? manager of the railroad company, was strong in the faith. This equipment, was followed by a more ambitious one that a section of the Ninth Avenue Elevate railroad for a distance of two miles, where a series of experiments was carried on during the latter part of the year 1885, with a locomotive called the "Benja-jnin. Franklin." The motor was mounted on a platform pivoted at one end, and motion was communicated from the armature to the driving -wheel through grooved friction gears i held in close contact partly ify the i weight of the machine and partly by an adjustable screw device.

This locomo tive, pulling a train of cars, made ser-eral trips; but the experiments wer soon suspended, and they were not re-aumed till three years later, when, during several weeks, a rebuilt and improved "Benjamin Franklin" was frequently run between the steam trains on the section between Fourteenth and Fiftieth streets, attaining at times a speed of 25 miles an hour, and -on one occasion pulling an eightear train up the raaxlmum grade of nearly two per cent, at a seven-mile rata. rGE CASH.