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(under two years of age), in the Independent’s Baby Prize
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Solicits the acccounts of depositors who desire
“ the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
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Lands Bought and Sold.
Farm Insurance
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Will Pay Your Taxes.
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that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
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It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
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Dr. Mendenhall’s
CHILL and FEVER
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- (This Picture on Every Bottle)
T’jCqMS Chills. Pavers, Malaria. Bilious
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TO CALIFORNIA.
Via Union Pacific. Millions
I Ire been spent in the improve
nt of this line, and all human
enuity has been adopted to
►tect its patrons against acci
lt. The line is renowned for
fast trains and the general su
‘iority of its service and equip
nt. Fast time, shortest line,
oothest track. Tourists sleep
a speciality. Inquire of
. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
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Art and Frame Company
Enlarge Portraits in Oil, Water
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TO THE FAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis j
daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
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ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from September
15th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will sell
one-way tickets from Missouri i
River Terminals (Council Bluffs ;
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows ; , 'N V;
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
atchee, Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria,
Oregon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles and San Diego.
Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
WTnnKimM Anfono fTfah Qnrl
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Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
IStilOct. 10.
$100 REWARD, $100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testi
monials.
Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for
constipation.
MOST POPULAR NUMBERS.
Seven and Thirteen Are Fixed Upon
in the Minds of the Oreater
Number of Men.
“Ask a man to pick out some num
ber between one and ten, and you can
tell him nine times out of ten what
number he has selected, though his se
lection is made mentally," said a man
who, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, is fond of the old
things, “and when you come to think
of it, the task of naming the correct
number is not a difficult one. In the
course of an hour the other day I
asked ten men to think of a certain
number—any number between one and
ten—and I would tell them what num
ber they had fixed their mind on
In nine cases out of ten I was correct,
missing it only once. The minds of
nine of the persons selected the num
ber seven, and one of them selected
nine. It is not difficult to understand
why the mind should run to the num
ber seven. Even in the case of the
man who fixed his mind on the num
ber nine, he told me when it was all
over that his mind had first run to
seven, but he quickly changed to nine
without knowing just why it was that
he changed. Seven is the most prom
inent figure between one and ten. It
is the most popular number in the line,
and is associated with more things
than any other number, and it is quits
reasonable that the mind should light
on seven. I made another test the
other day with five perso.ns, asking each
of them to write some number between
one and ten, and give it to a sixth per
son. When the slips had been handed
to the sixth man I said: ‘Seven is the
number on each of the slips.’
“ ‘Correct,” said the man to whom
they had been handed, and the five
men were a bit bewildered for the
moment by the fa,ct that they had all
hit upon the same number, and that 1
was able to tell what the number was.
It would be quite as easy to name a
number between 10 and 20, though I
have made no tests along this line. I
dare say that 13 would be the first
number to flash in the mind, simply
because it is the most talked of, and j
the only number between 10 and 20
that has the widest association. So
you can tell there is no trick about it,
and it doesn’t require any knowledge
ul me uucuil puiiusupuiea.
EXTENDING BOUNDARIES.
Some of Our Larger Cities Have An
nexed Ground Far Into Adja
cent Farm Lands.
According to a recently issued census
bulletin, the real rank of cities is not al
ways indicated by the order in which
they stand in the tables of population.
Some great centers have'a considerable
part of their massed population lying
outside the municipal boundaries. Bos
ton is a good example; about 1,200,000
people live in sight of the state house
dome, and less than 600,000 of them are
governed by the Boston mayor. Other
cities have annexed far into the farm j
lands of the adjacent country, says
Youth's Companion.
It is customary to speak of the popula
tion of a state, “in proportion to its
size." Such a comparison is seldom
made of cities, although it might not be j
uninteresting. Pittsburg, for example,
has a population of a third of a million !
on 18,000 acres of ground; New York’s
population, little more than ten times
as great, spreads over nearly 12 times
as many acres.
Chicago was long famous for its an
nexation habit, but since 1890 New York
has annexed much more territory than
Chicago’s total area. New Orleans has
a slightly larger area than Chicago.
Each of them covers six times the area
of Baltimore.
Washington, which occupies the Mary
land part of the ten miles square set
aside for a national capital, is a fair
sized city as area goes, for this genera
tion. It may seem small a century hence,!
nlfTintirrV, if 1,1^ nKon^nntln nn,nl. fn.
all the purposes of urban development j
when laid out.
In the case of cities, as well as of other
corporations, consolidation is plainly
one of the tendencies of the times. More
than one-third of those In the United
States have added to their territory by
! annexation since 1890. Townships and
oounties are occasionally subdivided, by
; reason of local interests, but the cities
| seem to be steadily pushing their boun
j daries outward. There are some eco
nomic reasons for this, but the reason
in many cases has been the desire of
their inhabitants to make a "good show
ing.”
In the Bight Boom.
At the latest of the ladies’ clubs a
i "pets’ room,” with little stalls for dogs
and cats, lemurs and lizards, all the
small creatures that a lady finds neces
sary as companions, Is provided.
One of the most enthusiastic members
was showing her friends of her own sex
over the establishment, and opened the
door of the “pets’ room with proper
pride.
There, in the center of the room, on
two chairs, sat two immaculately
clothed young men, grave of face, but
with a wicked twinkle in their eyes.
“Don’t you know this is the ladles'
‘pets’ room?’” asked the enthusiastic
member, with some acerbity.
“That’s why we are here,’’ replied the
more serious of thetwo young men, with
becoming gravity.—Sporting Times.
Longevity of Birds.
Small singing birds live from eight to
eighteen years. Ravens have lived for
almost 100 years in captivity, and par
rots longer than that. Fowls live 10
tp 20 years. The wild goose lives up
ward of 100 years, and swans are said to
have attained the age of 300. The long
life of birds has been interpreted as
compensation for the great mortality
i of their
HYDROGRAPHIC RECORDS.
Practical Benefit Derived from Them
Illustrated in Geological
Survey Work.
The parable of the sower is appli
cable to all educational' work. Much
of the mission of the great departments
maintained by the government, espe
cially the scientific bureaus is educa
tional in its nature. The government
is in the position of a progressive and
ambitious instructor in a modern col
lege, who, surrounded by every labora
tory and library facility, spends part
of his time in making original investi
gations and part in communicating to
his pupils the results of his studies
The seed he sows falls on all kinds cjf
soil, but, however poor the ground, it
is sure to bring forth fruit in some
measure, if there is life in the kernels
that he sows. There is great varia
tion in the returns from the different
kinds of educational work prosecuted
by the government. The ultimate
value of much of it can be determined
only after the lapse of many years,
but some of it seems to bear fruit a
hundred fold from the very start. An
instance of this is seen in the results
that have followed the hydrographic
work of the United States geological
survey in many quarters. The cases
in which it has been of benefit to the
one state of Colorado, for example, are
numerous and interesting.
None of the irrigation work contem
plated by the government would,
ordinarily, bt possible without long
delay, were it not for the hydrographic
data accumulated by the survey dur
ing many years of observation and
measurement. In addition to that,
the work of private individuals is con
stantly facilitated by the same records.
No large engineering enterprises are
now undertaken without reference to
the survey’s records concerning the
supply of water available at the
chosen site. The South Platte Land
and Reservoir company, which has
under way canals and reservoirs that
probably aggregate $500,000 in value,
has established stations at Orchard
and Kersey, Col., because of the
superior hydrographic advantages of
fered by these localities. The choice
of those points is directly traceable to
the data compiled by the survey.
Equally important is the fact that
projects that would have resulted dis
n etnin elir Vi ir» nnmarona naooc hnnn
abandoned after a study of survey
records that throw light on the prob
able outcome. Data concerning the
flow of water on the Arkansas and
South Platte rivers prevented the ex
penditure of great sums of money on
the state canal in the first instance,
and upon the Pawnee pass reservoir
project in the second.
Survey data seem to be in great
demand as unimpeachable testimony
in the legal controversies that have
arisen in this state in regard to irriga
tion matters. A most notable instance
is the case of the Colorado. & South
ern railroad vs. the Denver Union
Water company, in which the sum of
$100,000 was involved.
Data obtained by the survey in re
gard to the amount of water power
available at certain p%ces have influ
enced the plans of the Glenwood
Springs Light and Power company,
the New Century Light and Power
company, and also proposed power
companies on Clear and St. Vrain’s
creeks. None of these projects has
yet been carried to a conclusion, but
some of them will undoubtedly be
eventually constructed.
Colorado cities seeking a suitable
water supply have frequently con
sulted data obtained by the survey.
In the case of Durango, in southwest
ern Colorado, the discharge of Florida
river was especially studied in order
to ascertain whether a gravity water
system would be feasible at that point.
The location of various manufactur
ing industries has been determined by
report from survey engineers on the
available water supply.
AN OXEN CAVALRY CORPS.
Natives Queerly Mounted for Police
Duty on the Island of
Madagascar.
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maintained on the west coast of Mad
agascar by Governor General J. G. Gal
lieni. While the French troops in that
country are ample to meet the occa
sional revolutionists, the governor gen
eral makes use of native talent for po
lice work in out-of-the-way localities,
says the New York Herald.
On the west coast of Africa is a
tribe of natives, possibly radically
connected with the Hovas, who are
known as the Sakalova, the most war
like tribe of the country. The natives,
in imitation of French troopers, or
ganized an oxen cavalry corps, under
command of a French officer. They
are armed with modern long-handled
lances, or spears, and side arms.
Their uniform is khaki, with skull
caps. They ride barefooted, without
stirrups, sitting on their equipment,
cinched like a saddle, with cords made
of the native fiber plant, and a sort
of bridle of the cord, passing through
the nose of the beast.
The oxen are neither slow or scared,
and it is assumed would create havoc
with their horns among horse cavalry.
Servian Army’s Big Drum.
A curious feature connected with the
Servian army is the manner in which
most of the regiments carry the big
drum. It is not, as in most countries,
slung in front of the man who plays it,
but is placed upon a two-wheeled cart
drawn by a single dog, which has been
50 trained that it keeps its place even
through the longest and most tedious of
marches. The drummer takes up a po
sition behind the car and performs on
the instrun. t as the animal pulls it
along
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Any honest person who suiters with
Rheumatism is authorized to go to their
druggist today and get a bottle of Para
campb, use as directed, and if it fails to
do exactly what we claim, go back to
their druggist and get their money. Par
acamph is recommended as a modern
scientific treatment for all Rheumatic
Swellings and Neuralgic troubles. It re
lieves on Nature’s plan. That is when
appl ied it opens the pores, penetrates
directly to the scatof the ailment soothing
the inflamed skin, muscles and joints re
ducingthe swelling by removing the con
gestion, drawing out the fever and inflam
mation by inducing sweating. It sweats
the disease out of the body through
the pores of the skin. This is why Para
camph is superior to the many internal
strong, drastic drags that upset the stom
ach, shatter the nerves, and undermine
the general health. Our, guarantee is
made to convince you of our faith in Par
acamph. We have of course, tested its
merits thoroughly in many and various
cases. We know therefore exactly what
it will do. So don’t hesitate, but get a
bottle of Paracamph today, and after two
or three applications you will be convinced
that we claim only for Paracamph exactly
what it will do.
Paracamph is sold only in 25 cent, 50
! cent and #1.00 bottles. The larger sizes
are cheaper for family use. Write for
book of testimouials. The Paracamph
Company, Louisville Ky., L. S. A.
WASH BLUE
Costa 10 cents and equals ao cent*
worth of any other kind of bluing;
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around in the Water.
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PORTLAND AND
NORTHWEST. 1
Without change via Union Pa
cific. This route gives you 200
miles along the matchless Colum
bia River, a great part of the
distance the trains running so
; close to the river that one can 1
| look from the car window almost
directly into the water. Two
through trains daily with accom
modations for all classes of pas
sengers. This will be the popu
lar route to the Lewis and Clark
Exposition 1905. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive Street,
, St. Louis, Mo.
THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
VICE TO CALIFONIA.
Commencing Saturday Septem
ber 17th, the Iron Mountain
Route will inaugurate through
car service to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. This is the “True South
ern Route” via Texarkana and
El Paso. Special low rate colo
nists’ tickets to California points
will be on sale September 15th to
October 15th, via Iron Mountain
Route. For tickets and reserva
tion apply to local agent
H. C. Townsend,
G. P. & T. A. ■
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COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST.
LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
on sale daily, except on Friday
and Saturday—September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rate
$5.60 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
return limit on these tickets
seven davs from date of sale.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agent.