THE PRESS-DEMOCRAT.
U- M. Hart, Publi h«r.
HENNESSEY,
"1
IIERF, T1IEKH AM EV! K\Ulli:i!K
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Btn-
efit of Our Readers.
National Capital.
The senate has adopted the house
resolution providing for the admission
Of Arizona and New Mexico as states
Including the provision for recall of
fudges.
Admiral Togo, while in Washington
placed a wreath on the grave of Ad-
miral Charles S. Sperry at Arlington
cemetery.
Ex State Senator P. W. Holstlaw,
62-year-old Illinois banker and
chuich leader told the senate Lorlmer
committee of asking and of being
promised $1,500 for buying furniture
lor the state from a certain firm.
President Taft has signed the re-
apportionment bill, under which the
house of representatives is increased
from 391 to 433.
The postofflce department has add-
ed an "h" to the name of the city of
Pittsburg. Pa., so that it will now read
officially "Pittsburgh."
Fort Sumter is one of 48 army posts,
most of the stations of the coast
artillery, which may be abandoned
ioon.
Former Gov. .lames K. Vardaman
has won the Democratic nomination
for I'nited States senator from Mis-
sissippi by about L'0,000 majority.
Postal savings banks have been or-
dered established in Olathe and Pratt,
Kan.; Sikeston, Mo., and Elk City, Ok.
Frank Hloom, the young Jew, whose
futile effort to get a commission last
spring attracted attention has been
ordered to report at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan., for examination, Sep-
tember 1.
Domestic Items.
The New York postal savings bank
took in more than $41,000 in its first
Week.
Telephone posts will be marked in
blue and white with indicators at
the turns establishing a marked trail
between Kansas City and St. Joseph.
C. ( . (Jallagher en route to the
Kansas reformatory for forgery, es-
caped by jumping from a train but
was recaptured.
The plans and specifications for the
municipal electric light plant in Kan-
sas City, Kan., drawn by the Mc-
Laughlin Engineering company have
been approved by the commissioners.
Ten Missouri counties have not yet
lent official returns to the secretary
of state from the recent election at
which bonds were voted for a new
state capitol.
A Connecticut court has refused to
admit a will to probate on the ground
that the instrument was drawn in a
ta loo i).
E. E. Lessard a St. Louis aviator
telephoned the police that someone
bad stolen his monoplane. So far as
known that is the first time anyone
* ver complained of the theft of a fly-
ing machine.
Four small orphan boys forced a
half-witted urchin to set fire to the
Uhlich Evangelical Lutheran orphan-
age at Chicago.
Western railroads are threatened
with a big strike this fall. Thousands
of employes are ppeparing to back up
a demand for higher wages and better
Working conditions
The entire Kansas national guard
Is encamped on Pawnee Flats at Kort
Rile.v for the maneuvers.
The Kansas memorial commission
has contracted at 1'rotor, Vt., for
$100,000 worth of marble for the sol-
diers memorial hall to be built In
Topeka.
Clinton. Mo., saloons are closed
•waiting the action of the county
court to determine the validity of !
the prohibition petitions for the last
half of the year.
A cloudburst accompanied by a ter-
rific wind, electrical and hail storm
 t Galena, Kan., caused damage of
fclunit $: 00,000 to the zinc and lead
milling Industry.
The government lighthouse tender 1
Lilly will start from St. I.ouis up the
Missouri river where it will put in a
system of 100 channel lights to aid
navigation.
A grand jury is investigating the
methods employed by certain state
bankers in conducting their institu-
tions in Oklahoma.
A stay in the deportation order
Rgainst Theodore Malkoff, a Russian
political refugee has been granted af-
ter a presentation of facts by Repre-
sentative Merger, the Wisconsin So-
cialist.
Sixteen young men who kidnaped
Dale Williams after his widding at
Caney, Kan , w ere arrested on the
complaint of the groom's mother.
A carload of watermelons shipped
from Cement, Ok , contained s00
Bveragicg more than 40 pounds each
A 10 per cent dividend, the first
since the failure last September is an
Bounced by the receivers of the Abi-
lene, Kan.. State bank.
The first division of the revolution- J
try army has entered the <apital of
Haiti and procla.med Gen. Leconte
srtsident. 1
Gov. Stubbi hts railed a routes
erne of railroad oilklals and repre-
sentatives of the northwest Ki'.r.fU
counties to discuss moans ol providing
seed wheat for the farmers who pro-
duced no crop this year.
The petition tiled for tile recall of
Mayor J. H. Graham of Wichita, Kan.,
and the city commissioners Is insufii- I
clent, about 50 per cent of the 4,100
names on the petition being Illegal.
The new Santa Fe trail, extending
from Kansas City to Colorado, Is in
better condition through central Kan-
sas than any time for a year and an
unusual number of tourists are travel-
ing over it.
Reports from several sect.ons of i
Oklahoma say grasshoppers are ap- I
rearing by millions, and damaging the
crops.
Brooklyn street car men are on
i strike for Increased wages.
Mud in the high water of the past j
week in Kansas streams lias killed
' tons of fish.
I The congressional reapportionment
} hill, providing a house of representa- |
five membership of 4HH, an increase
| of 4" members has been accepted by
the senate.
Lafayette Choat, who tied his wife
with mules near Liberty, Mo,, was
held to appear before the grand jury
in .November.
Foreign Affairs.
The Belgian government has
bought for the Brussels Itoyal museum
a picture which belonged to ex-I'resi- j
dent Hoosevelt's ancestors. The price
paid was $1 Ti,000.
"American Industrial spies," seek-
ing the most important secrets of Ger-
man trade success, are at large in the
manufacturing districts of that coun-
try, according to Berlin newspapers.
Empress Auguste Victoria of Ger-
many has recovered from her attack
of toiisilitis and is able to walk.
More than four months and a half
have passed since the Camorra trial
began at Viterbo, Italy, and it is not
yet half finished.
Twenty thousand teamsters and
drivers of vehicles engaged In trans-
portation have joined the striking
stevedores and dock workers in Lon-
don, Eng.
Germany has accepted John Q. A.
Lelshman as ambassador from the
United States at Berlin.
Fighting between factions in the
revolutionists army broke out in Port
Au Prince, Haiti, and in one engage-
ment 20 men were killed.
Jules Vedrines, the French aviator,
started to Paris from London by air-
line and safely crossed the English
channel.
Owing to great slides of earth and
rock the famous Culebra cut has
proven to be the most annoying and
expensive part of the engineering
work on the Panama canal.
American initiative in unrestricted
arbitration has been crowned by the
signing of the arbitration treaty by
France.
The body of Edwin A. Abbey, the
American painter who died in Eng-
land, was cremated and the ashes
buried.
Maj. Gen. Carter has been ordered
to Washington from San Antonio to
resume his duties as assistant chief
of stuff of the army.
POULTRY BEING PREPARED
BY OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR
Fanciers all over the State are Getting Their Birds Ready
for the Big Show at Oklahoma City, September
26 to October 7.
Preparation of poultry for show
purposes is now in progrer.s all over
'.he state of Oklahoma, according to
Information given out at the office
jf the Oklahoma State Fair, Oklalui
out City, September 26 to October 7.
Indications point to one of the big
gest exhibits in the history of the
Jiggest expositions ever before held
n this state. In order to accommo-
late the increased demand for space
ind coops, the State Fair Association
Has just received and installed a solid
^ar load of the finest coops made,
l'liey are of wire and wood, with en
ltnel facing.
Announcement is made that the
State Fair will give no less than
guineas, turkeys, ducks, geese and
pigeons are also included. And there
will be an egg laying contest that will
be a big feature. Each pen will con-
sist of six female birds, properly leg
banded, and no male bird will be al-
lowed in the pen.
Any number of specials have been
offered by seed houses for the best
displays of various chickens and the
American Black Minorca club will give
handsome silk ribbons for the best
cock, hen, cockerel, pullet and pen, to
be competed for by members of the
club only. John W. Nicely has charge
of the poultry department of the big
fair and he says the spacious building
at the southern end of the grounds
will hardly be large enough this year.
PUSSES STATEHOOD
6ILL PASSES SENATE TO ADMIT
THESE TERRITORIES TO
STATEHOOD.
ALREADY HAD PASSED HOUSE
Amendment For Striking Out Judicial
Recall Provision Rejected—Senators
Curtis and Bristow Voted Against
Bills—Taft's Dissatisfaction Feared
But May Become Law Without Hia
Signature.
IN THR COUNTRY.
The City Man—Your father, 1 b 
lleve, cleared the land of everything
The Countryman—Yes—everything
but the mortgage.
POULTRY BUILDING
OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR
Which has just been equipped with several thousand of the latest and ! est
:oops, made of wire, wood and enamel.
! (2,124 in premiums this year. This
n'ill be an incentive for poultry fan-
| :iers all over the southwest to send
| their birds to a show which already
; enjoys a reputation second to none
' in the country for thoroughness in
| every detail, and as a show that is
annually visited by more people than
any other exposition in this section of
the country. Every day brings letters
to Secretary I. S. Mahan at Oklahoma
City concerning entries and he is
ready to send catalogue and blanks
to any one desiring them.
Provision is made in the premium
book for practically every breed of
chicken under the sun and the prizes
are substantial. Miscellaneous fowls,
Robbert Had Ingenuity
An unusual scheme for robbing a
{old dump was discovered at Nome,
Alaska, a few days ago, when inspec-
tion was made of a dump that was
thrown up three years ago. It was
found that robbers had sunk a hole
through the top of the dump and
cluiced out all the inside, leaving a
Hollow shell standing. It is estimated
that in this manner the thieves had
obtained Jf'.OOO.
It is unquestionably the best equipped
poultry building in the country.
In addition to poultry there are hun-
dreds of other things that are now
being looked after by the Secretary
of the State Fair. He reports that
the outlook at this time ef the year
for a big live stock show was never
better. Entries are coming ill fast
and one man living in Missouri has
passed up the Missouri State Fair for
the Oklahoma exposition. Accompany-
ing a long list of cattle which he will
send to the Oklahoma State Fair was
a request for another entry blank with
the explanation that he had decided
to show his harness and saddle horses
at Oklahoma City Sept. 26 to Oct. 7.
Insects That Use Rubber
When Para trees are tapped after
the gum has run into receptacles and
stiffened, a species of large black ant
is accustomed to cut out pieces of the
rubber and carry them away. Bees
also find uses for india rubber, and
some species in South Africa actual-
J ly cut the bark of trees that produce
J resinous substances in order to cause
a flow of the sap. The gum is em-
ployed by the bees as a ready-made
wax for their nests.
Personal.
John \V. Gates, the financier died in
Paris, of pneumonia, after several
weeks illness.
Mayor Mrs. Wilson of Hunnewell,
Kan., has telegraphed the governor to
begin ouster proceedings against the
councilmen.
Edward E. Jackson, Jr., the New
York attorney, charged with the for-
mation of wire pools was lined $45,000.
Mayor Houghton cannot govern
Girard, Kail., as the Socialists desire
and he will be asked to resign.
The Democratic cotton tariff bill,
the third of the big tariff revision
measures brought forward by the
house has passed that body by 202 to
91.
Carey A. Manker, ex-banker of
Pearl, 111., under indictment for em-
bezzlement, killed himself at San
Francisco, when he learned that ex-
tradition papers had been honored
for his return to Illinois.
Van H. Prather, former probate
judge of Wyandotte county, Kan., has
made an agreenientMvith the county
commissioners for the final settle-
ment of the claims the county has
against him.
A. \Y. Wheeler deliberately set tire
to his home in Denver while his wife
and three children were asleep, then
stood in front of the place to see his
family incenerated.
Superintendent Webb of the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad is arranging for
tlie new line of motor cars which
that road will put on from McVlierson
to Wichita. Kan.
Prof. L. I.. Dyche, Kansas state fish
and game warden has sent notices out
to all deputy fish and game wardens
that turtle doves must not be shot.
The Republican at Concordia, Kan.,
is six inches higher than in the flood
of 1; 0M and the Solomon has over-
flowed a considerable territory.
Prohibition enforcement officers are
searching for a touring car that runs
on the boulevard out of Oklahoma
City at night and supplies other mo-
torists with drinks.
The federal government is peti-
tioned to ow n, mine and sell Alaskan
coal at cost directly to the consumer
hv approximately 10,000 business men
of Portland. '
The St. Louis & San Francisco rail-
roal has agreed to reduce the freight
rate oil srain originating at .Nebraska
points and shipped to Memphis by
way of Kansas City, .. .
Already Used to It
Manager—"That young w oman whom
I placed at this counter a year ago
slready knows more about the busi-
ness than you do, and I find that I shall
have to put her at the head of the
Jepartment, though 1 fear It will be
rather unp'easant for you to be under
her orders." Clerk—"Oh, no; I am
jetting used to that. We were mar-
ried last month."—Stray Stories.
A Wrong Choice
There is no act, nor option of act,
possible, but the wrong deed or option
has poison in it which will stay in
your veins thereafter forever. Never
more to all eternity can you be as you
might have been had you not done
that—chosen that. You have "formed
Cour character," forsooth! No; if you
have chosen ill, you have deformed it,
md that forever!—Ruskln.
Queer Cure for Consumption
Some of the English papers an-
nounce the accidental discovery of
what appeared to be a cure for con-
; sumption by means of the ammoniated
J eases generated in the production of
! maggots for fish bait in an establish-
! ment near Hradford. The United States
j ronsul at Bradford, in a report to
Washington, says "While engaged in
this work, it is said certain persons
! known to he suffering from tuberculo-
| fis have regained their health."
Exactly 2:30 A. M.
Arthur ' Why Is it. fi .rest Evan-
I ieline, that when I am with you the
! hands on that clock seem to take
ivings and fly?" Stern Voice (at the
] tiead of the stalrsi "Without wisli-
'n' to be impertinent, young man, I
limply want to observe that tliem
i lands hain't got nothin' on the ones
in our gas meter."—Judge.
Eye-Glass Telescopes
j For extremely near-sighted persons
i tpectades tiave been Invented in (ler-
jiany in which the lenses are replaced
Sy short telescopes.
To Cultivate Memory
The best way to remember a thing
is thoroughly to understand it, and
often to recall it to mind. By read-
ing continually with great attention,
and never passing a passage without
understanding and considering it well,
the memory will be stored with knowl-
edge, and things will recur at times
when we want them, though we can
never recollect the passages or from
whence we draw our Ideas.
The Law's Inefficiency
The "man higher up" generally
seems to be so high up that the law
cannot reach him.—Pittsburg Post.
Trees for Rocky Mountains
Hardy trees of Europe are to be
planted on the slopes of the Rocky
Mountains.
A Cure for Snoring
Here is a simple cure for snoring,
on which a correspondent has lived as
a happy married man for 38 years.
| "Put a clove in your mouth." That's
all. It will keep your mouth c'osed
and will be there still in the morning,
having compelled you to breaths
through your nose all night.
Home and "Boughten" Bread
It apepars that from CO to 70 per
cent of the bread used in New York
City is actually baked by women in
the home, and even a $23,000,000 bread
trust w ill have hard work to persuade
many of these women that the scien-
tific bread turned out by the baking
companies day after day under uniform
conditions is an improvement on the
home product.
China to Have Airships
China's mlMtary councillors and the
minister of war have decided in a con-
ference to send officers to England to
acquire technical knowledge of air ma-
chines to enable them to construct
and to fly airships on return to China
John W. Gates Dead.
Paris, France.—John W. Gates, the
American financier, died at 5:10 this [
morning in the arms of his wife and j
his son, Charles G. Gates. The end
was peaceful and it seemed as though
he was falling asleep. The usual re-
storatives failed in the last crisis.
The death of John W. Gates in Par-
is. removes in his prime one of the
boldest and most successful American
financiers and a picturesque figure in I
the field of sports. Since 1880, when
he organized the Southern Wire com-
pany, Mr. Gates has been a mail with
whom it was necessary to reckon in ,
the particular industrial affairs to
which he had given his attention. In
recent years he found relaxation from
business cares in becoming a pronu
nent patron of the American turf.
Liquid Glue Beneath the Table
An excellent cold liquid glue is made George "Didn't you notice that 1
is follows Dilute 2 to 2'.. parts crude pressed your foot at the dinner to-
aitrlc acid -villi 40 to 30 of water, soak night"" Maris- "Why, it wasn't mv
■n this 23 parts of glue for twenty four f00, you pressed! Oh, George. I won-
hours and then heat the mature until dered why mamma was smiling so
t is homogenous 1 he quantity of acid sweetly at the minister! " Michigan
ised depends on the quality of the Gargoyle
   I ' -—  
! Foolish Wager Caused Death
An Age Test A workman named Cel.- tin Leroy,
You can usually guess wlihln a few aged fifty, died in Paris, France, tlie
:s of :i woman's age by noticing other day while trying, for a wager,
i' " ?iic takes it when you e::ll her a to cat a large beefsteak at one mouth-
.'.yh. ful.
Senator Fry Is Dead.
I.ewiston, Me.—The state of Maine
lost its senior I'nited States senator
and an almost lifelong faithful serv
ant, when William Pierce Frye died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hel- j
en White, here. At his bedside wero
Mrs. White and his other daughter
Mrs. Alice Briggs, who also resides
in I.ewiston. Although lie had been
il! for a long time, death came slid i
denlv.
Indians Granted Appeals.
Oklahoma City, Okla —A writ of er-
ror from the I'nited States supreme j
court, directing that an appeal be
granted in the case brought for 12,-
000 Choctaw and Chickasaws, who are
contesting taxation of their allotments
by the state, has been received by j
the clerk of tin supreme court. 1'h"
suit was begun in the superior court |
of Logan county July 12, 1910. Su. !
perior bulge Sandlin decided the case
against the Indians and was later up-
held by the supreme court.
Washington, D. C.—The bill grant-
ing statehood to New Mexico and Ail.
zona, which legislation has been
for a number of years the dream !
of the people of these territor-
ies, was passed by the senate, 33 to
IS, after rejection of the Nelson
amendment, which proposed striking
out of the Arizona constitution its ju- 1
iliciary recall provision.
| The bill as passed by the senate dif- j
fers only slightly from the house :
J measure, and, it is said, may be un-
satisfactory to President Taft. He
has contended all along that he would
be glad to sign the statehood hill if
the Nelson amendment prevailed, hut
that it \yas a grave question whether
he would he willing to sign it if the
amendment were defeated, as it was 1
by 43 to 2ti. The indications are that 1
the bill will beome a law without his I
signature.
The senate amended the house hill
with two minor changes regarding the
! manner of voting in New Mexico on 1
proposed amendments to its constitu !
tion. These will undoubtedly he agreed
to by the house and the bill expedited
to the White House. These amend-
, ments were reported by the senate
committee on territories and agreed '
to without debate.
Practiall.v all of the debate on the
bill centered around the Nelson i
amendment. Even some senators who j
declared their opposition to the recall j
of judges, voted against the amend- .
I ir.ent, on the ground that if the peo- I
pie of Arozina desired recall as part ;
of their system of government, it was ^
for them and not for congress to say
whether they should have it.
The bill as passed, compels Arizona,
J as a condition precedent to entry into |
the Union, to submit the recall prop- <
osition to the voters for final decision j
as to w hether it shall remain in their
constitution. New Mexico must vote
on a proposition embodied in the hill
which would make the constitution
of the state easier of amendment.
The test vote came on the Nelson
i amendment, which was lost.
After this had been defeated it was
thought the bill would be adopted
without division, but Senator Bailey-
called for the ayes and nays. Senators
Bradley of Kentuky, and O'Gorman
of New York, voted for the Nel-
son amendment. The same two mem-
hers with Senator Bailey, voted
; against the final passage of the meas-
ure, as did two progressive Repub-
licans, Senator Bristow of Kansas, and
Kenyon, of Iowa. The others who
voted against the admission of the
territories were Senators Brandegee
of Connecticut: Burnham, New Hamp.
shire; Crane of Massachusetts; Curtis
of Kansas; Dillingham of Vermont;
Heyburn of Idaho: Lippitt and Wet-
more of Rhode Island; Nelson of Min-
nesota: Oliver and Penrose of Penn-
sylvania: Root of New York, am?
Smoot of rtah.
DON'T BUY WATER.
When you buy bluing for your !aup>
dry work, get RED CROSS BALL
BLUE. A pure solid ball of blue, not
a bottle of colored water.
Used in thousands of homes for 20
years. Makes clothes pure whits.
Two sizes 5 and 10 cents. AT AL.L
GROCERS.
Went Up Twenty Points.
During the recent hot spell a broke?
was complaining to a friend of the
dull trading. "Business," he said,
"What can one do In the way of busi-
ness with the mercury standing at
100?"
"Do!" replied his friend. "Great
Scott, man; it's the chance of a life-
time to sell mercury."—Boston Ev^
nlng Transcript.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy fot
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of (
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castori 
cuuureu, anu ste lilac l
Ended Cat's Sojourn.
Felix Smith of Easton, Pa., bought
a cat the other day. He paid $5 foi
her. Why did Felix pay five buck*
for the cat? Answer—Decause she
was guaranteed to be a good ratter.
Did Felix have rats? We should say
he did—the house was full of 'emt
And the cat cleaned 'em out! No;
that's the curious part of It. After the
cat had been on the job a week the
rats were as plentiful as ever. Fella
couldn't understand It until one eve
nlng he concealed himself In the base
ment to watch the cat. About 9 p. ra,
as the cat sat with her eye on a rat
hole, Felix says that rat after rat came
out of the hole, walked up to the old
cat, kissed her gyood-night and then
returned to the hole. After that FellJ
kicked the cat out of the house.—Boa
ton Post.
Baffling the Mosquito.
Last summer we were pestered wlttj
the awful nuisance, mosquitoes, night
after night, and on one occasion
killed between thirty and forty In oui
bedroom, at midnight. The following
day I took a woolen cloth, put a little
kerosene oil on it, and rubbed both
sides of the wire mesh of the screeni
with it. That night one lonely moi
quito disturbed our rest. Two o>
three times each week I rubbed tlit
screens in like manner, and we en
Joyed peace the rest of the summer
The odor from the oil remains only £
few minutes, and the oil itself pre
serves the screens and keeps awaj
flies.—Good Housekeeping Magazine.
TruthfuMy Said.
"My friend, you should Join thi
church. As the prophet says 'Come
thou with us and we will do thee
good.' M
"You have already, parson. I wai
at your church fair last night.
Smart Set Magazine.
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"That's
Good"
Is often said of
Post
T oasties
when eaten with cream or
rich milk and a sprinkle of
sugar if desired.
That's the cue for house-
keepers who want to please
the whole family.
Post Toasties are ready
to serve direct from the
package—
Convenient
Economical
Delicious
"The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocers
P: T"M CEREAL CO., Ltd.,
1 attle break, Mich.