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N o R M AN DAILY TRANSCRIPT
KEEP "IN FORM"
This really means keep-
ing the digestion good,
the liver active and the
bowels free from con-
stipation. You are then
ready to "play the
game" to win. For any
disturbance in the di-
gestive functions
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS
has been proven very
helpful You should try
it, but insist on getting
HOSTETTER'S
NATIONAL GUAM FORCES OF UNITED
S1ATES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION
Better Trained and Equipped
Than Ever Before.
BUT STILL FAR FROM PERFECT
II
SPECIAL TO WOMEN
The most economical, cleansing and
germicidal o£ ail antiseptics Is
A soluble Antiseptic Powder to
be dissolved in water as needed.
As a medicinal antiseptic for douches
!n treating catarrh, inflammation or
ulceration of nose, throat, and that
caused by feminine ills it has no equal.
For ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co. has recommended Paxtina
in their private correspondence with
women, which proves its superiority.
Women who have been cured say
it is "worth its weight in gtfld." At
druggists. 50c. large box, or by mall.
The Paxton Toilet Co,, Bostou, Jlass.
Soda Fountain
©oda Jounfaln : We hare made up ready for
prompt shipment 6, 8, 10, 12 aud 20 ft. front
•ystem, pump service outfits, new and slightly
used, at a bijf saving in price on easy monthly
payments. The Grosman Co., Inc., Dallas,Tex.
AVOID SPREADING OF DISEASE
•Precautions That Should Be Observed
by Those Afflicted With
Tuberculosis.
All persons who are intimately as-
sociated with cases of active pulmo-
nary tuberculosis cannot be too cau-
tious about the proper disposition of
tubercular sputum. Such sputum
should always be received in cups
containing a five per cent solution of
lysol gr carbolic acid, or, in the ab-
sence of these, milk of lime. Paper
cups, made especially for this purpose,
may be used and subsequently burned.
Soiled handkerchiefs and cloths
should be immersed for one hour in
lysol or carbojjk arid (five per cent)
®nd then boiled vliore they are han-
dled. The patient should be provided
with a set of dishes for his exclusive
•use, and these should be kept by
themselves and boiled thoroughly aft-
er each meal. Remember that tuber-
culosis is a preventable disease, but
that its control can be accomplished
only by the strictest observance of
sanitary precautions.
In Case of War With Mexico It Will
Require Some "Bruehlng Up" to
Fit State Troopi to Take Field
With Regular*.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.-—When the cloud came
Into the sky suggestive of war with
Mexico, the first thought of the mili-
tary authorities concerned itself
naturally with the preparedness of the
regular army. The second ^thought
was directed to the preparedness of
the .National Guard, but in a way the
second thought was graver than the
first, for in a war which assumes great
proportions volunteer organizations
must make up the major part of the
armies in the field.
The National Guard forces of the
states of the Union are better trained,
better organized and better equipped
today than they ever were before, but
they are still far from a state of per-
fect readiness for war. From the day
of the birth of the first rumor of prob
iK
On the Parade Ground.
Seeing Is Believing.
Miss Brown—Do you think that
Sally Collins believes in this "uplift"
movement?
Miss Jones—From the way in which
she mounts a street car I have no
•doubt of it.
HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.
A young woman out in la. found a
'Jvise, good friend in her mother-in-law,
jokes notwithstanding. She writes:
"I was greatly troubled with my
stomach, complexion was blotchy and
yellow. After meals I often suffered
sharp pains and would have to lie
down. My mother often told me it
was the coffee I drank at meals. But
when I'd quit coffee I'd have a severe
headache.
"While visiting my mother-in-law I
remarked that she always made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how. she laughed and told me it was
easy to'make good 'coffee' when you
use Postum.
"I began to use Postum as soon as I
got home, and now we have the same
good 'coffee' (Postum) every day, and
I have no more trouble. Indigestion
is a thing of the past, and my com-
plexion has cleared up beautifully.
"My grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her to leave off coffee. She then
took tea but that was just as bad.
"She finally was induced to try Post-
um which she has used for over a
year. She traveled during the winter
over the greater part of Iowa, visiting,
something she had not been able to
do for years. She says she owes her
present good health to Postum."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well-
ville," in pkgs.
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum—must be well
boiled. 15c and 25c 'packages.
Instant Postum—Is a soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly. 30c and 50c tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
•about the same.
"There's a Reason" for Postum.
—sold by Grocer*
able trouble with Mexico, the Ameri-
can volunteer spirit has been mani-
festing Itself. Enlistments In the Na-
tional Guard have increased and it
can be said that if the occasion de-
mand, the National Guard troops can
be taken into the service of the United
States quickly, and in such a condi-
tion of comparative preparedness that
there need be no great delay in send-
ing them into the field with the tried
men of the regulars.
Ever since the passage by congress
of the bill introduced by Senator Dick
of Ohio, some years ago, and under
the active operation of the resulting
law, the National Guardsmen have
progressed in organization, in effi-
ciency and in equipment. In the war
department there is a division of mili-
tia affairs whose chief is Brig. Gen. Al-
bert L. Mills, a tried soldier, and a
medal of honor man decorated for con-
spicuous personal gallantry on the
field of battle in Cuba. The first as-
•Istant to General Mills is Lieut. Col.
Harry C. Hale of the Seventeenth In-
fantry, who has had hard fifeld serv-
ice, including three tours or duty in
tlie Philippines, and who is known as
one of the closest students of military
affairs generally that the army holds.
Ever since its organization the di-
vision of military affairs has striven
to bring the regulars and the National
Guard closer together in spirit and in
efficiency of service. Of course. It Is
recognized that it is impossible to
turn a civilian into a regular over
night, and that it is also impossible to
do It in years under the conditions of
training which naturally must attend
the regime of the guard. The guards-
men drill only once a week. They go
Into camp only once a year, and at
the best they can get but the first les-
sons of the regular service life. As it
Is, however, by means of the help
which the federal government has giv-
en and through the increased Interest
among the guardsmen, the state sol-
diers are today fitter probably than
ever before to enter active service.
In round numbers, there are 120,000
National Guardsmen in the United
States, 9,000 officers and 111,000 en-
listed men. On the wall of the main
office of the division of military affairs
Washington is a huge map of the
United States. This map is "carded,"
state by state, each card showing the
strength of each arm of the service In
every state of the Union. Elsewhere
In the office are the reports which
show efficiency. Regular army officers
pass judgment upon the military stand-
ing, all things considered, of the differ-
ent organizations of the guard. Ev-
erything pertaining to the efficiency
of the state troops is known to the
war department authorities in Wash-
ington, and it is on the basis of this
knowledge unquestionably that first
selection for service will be made.
The regular army and the National
Guard together are divided into 16
military divisions. The regulars form
the first four divisions and the guards-
men the other 12 divisions. In a
sense, so far as the National Guard is
concerned, this division formation is
tentative. If the guardsmen are sent
to the front unquestionably they will
go In divisions, but the advance cre-
ation of these divisions bas been diffl
cult, owing to the limited control of
the federal government In the prem-
ises, the varying conditions obtaining
in the different states, "the fact that
in the general case several states com-
pose a single divisional district," and
the fact, as the current report of the
chief of the military division says,
that no regular army officers have
been available for working on the
problem. The division formation, how-
ever, unquestionably will be the forma-
tion of the National Guard for tactical
purposes in case they are ordered into
the field.
As has been said, the regular army
forms the first four divisions. The
Fifth division, geographically speak-
ing, includes the New England states.
The other divisions In order and the
states whose troops will go to form
their units are: Sixth, New York:
Seventh, Pennsylvania: Eighth, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Dela-
ware, New Jersey; Ninth, Florida.
North Carolina. South Carolina:
Tenta, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennes-
see, Kentucky; Eleventh, Michigan and
Ohio; Twelfth. Indiana and Illinois:
Thirteenth, North Dakota. South Da-
kota, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin;
Fourteenth, Kansas, Colorado, Wyo-
ming and Nebraska; Fifteenth, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Arizona; Sixteenth, Utah,
Nevada. California, Oregon. Washing-
ton, Idaho and Montana.
Under a law recently passed by con-
gress and approved by the president.
It will be easier to take the National
Guardsmen of the different states Into
volunteer service than ever before. If
three-fourths of the members of a
state regiment express their willing-
ness to enlist the organization at once
can be sworn into the volunteer serv-
ice, and the deficiency of enlisted men,
if any, can be made up by volunteers
from outside of the organization. It
will be seen from the table given of
the twelve militia divisions that the
brigades and regiments forming one
division will be drawn from neighbor-
ing states, thus in a great measure
keeping up not only the traditions of
state pride, but of that pride which in
a good sense can be called sectional.
This sort of feeling is recognized as
being proper, and as a stimulant to
high endeavor.
The National Guard of every state
in the Union today is armed with the
latest model of Springfield rifle and
carbine for the infantry and cavalry,
and with the latest type of field guns
for the artillery. The equipment of
the other branches, the engineer, sig-
nal and sanitary troops, Is also that
of the regular service.
Comparisons, as a saying which has
gone into the class of the bromidic
has it, are odious, and they also are
frequently invidious, but the National
Guardsmen of some of the states are
in far better trim for the field than are
their brothers of other states. Once
in the sevice, however, with the ex-
ample which the regulars set for them,
with the strengthening of their en-
durance qualities by the open air and
the exercise and with the discipline
which in the service rigidly is en-
forced, it ought not to take long to
bring the more backward of the regi-
ments nearly abreast of the others in
efficiency and to make the guardsmen
division units in strength as they are
units in organization.
A division is the smallest military
unit containing all arms of the serv-
ice and all branches of the staff. As
the chief of the division of militia af-
fairs puts it, "It is ihe smallest mili-
tary tool box and the smallest unit
capable of independent action. A large
force could not well be administered.
of auxiliary troops, It Is Baiil, la of
vital Importance to the Union and it U
also held that until ail these divisions
are made complete, each containing
all arms in their proper proportion, a
large part of the efficiency of the so-
called unlta would be sacrificed in a
campaign.
W ar finally brings organization up
to its perfected form for material and
men must be supplied. The army, and
with It the militia, Is far better pre-
pared today to go Into the field than
it was at the opening of the Spanish
war. That-war taught lessons which
were well learned, but even with the
regular army things are not perfect.
1 he general condition is due largely
to the refusal of congress to lisUm to
the appeals for money necessary to
keep the* regular service up to the
standard, and to the Indifference of
the states to the welfare of their Na-
tional GunOI. Law-making bodies al-
ways seem obsessed with the thought
that war never Is again to come. Then
war comes.
In the twelve militia divisions there
Is an excess of infantry. Take as an
example Twelfth Division which com-
prises the troops of Illinois and In-
diana. Here there is an excess of
three regiments of infantry over the
normal number of infantrymen re-
quired. There Is a deficiency, how-
ever, of three troops of cavalry, six
Militiamen Taking Lessons In Skir-
mish Firing.
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batteries of field artillery, two com-
panies of engineers, two companies ol
signal troops, three ambulance com-
panies, and there are lacking ammuni-
tion, supply and pack train forces.
With the three excess regiments of
infantry to draw from it would be
possible to make up the shortage in
other arms by proper transfers, but
of course there would be delay In fit
ting and training infantrymen for tbeir
new duties.
There is an excess of Infantrymen
In virtually all of the militia divisions,
and readjustments and reassignments
apd additional equipment would be
necessary to balance each division
properly and to send it into the field
as a perfected unit. It is true that It
the military preparedness of the coun-
try as a whole had been considered by
the state authorities In the formation
of their National Guards, the oondi-
tion of excess in some tranche* and
deficiencies in other branches would
not obtain. The state, however,"In the
past has looked more perhaps to the
wishes of the men forming organiza-
tions than it has to ihe military exi-
gencies of some national crisis. The
day of readjustment eventually wHI
come. It is certain to come if we have
war, and it Is almost certain to come
if we have peace, because the officers
of regulars and the officers of the
Guard together are working to this
great end of unification and efficiency.
If the United States gets into a war
of great proportions there will be
more National Guardsmen in the field
than regulars. The volunteers are
the fighting resource of every nation.
The guard is in a better condition to-
day than it ever has been before, but
it is nothing like perfect in its organi-
zation. The lessons of the Spanish
war, added to those of the present
day, it seems are likely to result In
making perfect that order of things
military to effect which it has been for
yea's the earnest effort of the officers
of the division of militia affairs of the
war department of the United States.
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Old hens are not absent-minded, yet
their eggs are frequently mislaid.
The race isn't always to the swift; it
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clothes. Adv.
Society weddings come under the
head of fashionable ties.
New York State Cavalry Troop.
Supplied or fought unless so organ-
ized." It is this view of the military
authorities that led to the division of
the militia Into divisions.
From the experience of all the na-
tions that ever engaged in warfare it
is known approximately the propor-
tions which the different arms In each
division should bear to one another.
There is a great variation in these pro-
portions in the divisions of the or-
ganized militia. No two are alike and
not a single one Is complete, "nor is
there any immediate prospect of a
single complete division with the ex-
ception of the Sixth," which will be
drawn from the state of New York
alone.
The deficiency in the National Guard
is most markedly apparent in field
artillery. The division of militia af-
fairs has bent every effort to create
thq missing troopa and met at flrit
with only slight success. The creation
WILLOW RIVER
AGED INVENTOR IS DE#D
Levi H. Page of Chicago Said to Have
Designed First Arc
Lamp.
Chicago—Levi H. Page, reported to
have been the inventor of the arc
lamp, was buried here. Mr. Page, who
was seventy-eight years old, died of
heart trouble in his home at 1657 West
Madison street, in obscurity and com-
parative poverty although there are
said to be 62 of his patents, registered
in Washington, which have made for-
tunes for others. Mrs. Page, the j
widow, declared that her husband in- |
vented the first arc light and scores of |
other things, "from an egg beater to I
mall shifter for railway trains."
Prisoners In Remarkable Escape.
Chicago.—Three prisoners escaped j
from the "hull pen" on the eleventh j
floor of the county building by climb- ;
ing through a window to a narrow
ledge, thence up a rope dangling from j
a flag pole to the roof, through an '
open skylight and down 11 flights of
Btalrs to the street.
9,000 Eggs bumped Upon Man.
Chicago. Morris Elboom became a
human omelet when his horses, at-
tached to a wagon loaded with 9,000
hen eggs ran away and dumped tha
yolky load upon him.
Good Cause for Alarm
Deuihs from kidney diseases have in-
creased 72% lo twenty years. People over-
do nowadays In so many ways thatlhe con-
sent filtering of poisoned blood weakens
the kidneys.
beware of fatal Bripht's disease. When
backache or urinary ills surest weak
kidneys, use l)oun's Kidney I'ills, drink
water freely and reduce the diet. Avoid
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Doan's Kidney I'ills command confi-
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An Oktnhoma Case
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and my kidney* and
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and It waa all I
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kidney secretions
far too fre-
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1'oan's Kidney Pills
took hold of the
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used them and they
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health."
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