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4 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTE3IBER SO, 1906. HIS PITIFUL PLEA FOR NEW SPELLING Mark Twain Voices Cries of Millions Who Struggle With Old. CUSTOM EASILY CHANGED Great Humorist Asks Associated Press to Adopt New Form and Kelieve 82,000,000 From - Oppression of Old Form. NEW YORK, Sept. 19. The annual meeting of members of the Associated Press was held In this. city today.. Im portant matters in connection with the service were disposed of. Tonight the members, who Included publishers, edi tors and other representatives of papers taking the Associated Press, met with several guests at dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. Melville E. Stone,-general-man- ager of the Associated Press, presided, and with him at the guests' table were Samuel I. Clemens, who discussed "Re form Spelling"; General Horace Porter, ex-Ambassador to France, who respond ed to the toast, "Our Guest"; Henry A. Shute, auditor, who talked of "Critics," and Professor George E. Vincent, of the University of Chicago, who spoke on the subject, "Purely Academic." After the guests and members were seated, after the custom of the Associated Press dinners, the loving cup was passed and each member drank, each In turn having been Introduced to the other guests. The toastmaster then introduced General Horace Porter, who paid a high and graceful tribute to the work of the Associated Press and of newspaper men in general. He spoke of the improve ments In the handling and expediting of the transmission of news in foreign coun tries brought about by the enterprise and energy of the executive offices of the As sociated Press in recent years. Mark Twain's Pathetic Appeal. Mr. Stone next introduced Mark Twain, who was greeted with enthusiastic and prolonged applause. Mr. Stone said of Mr. Clemens, among other things, that he was the "inspiration of the first press club in this country." 'The truth Is," replied Mr. Clemens, "the Inspiration was due to a Jug that someone carried in. That club is still running." Mr. Clemens continued: I am here to make an appeal to the nations in behalf of the simplified spelling. 1 have come htre because they cannot all be reached except through you. There are only two forces that can carry light to all the comers of the globe, only two the sun in the heav ens and the Associated Presa down here. I may seem to be flattering; the min, but I do not mean It so: I am meaning only to be Just and fair all around. You speak with a million voices; no one can reach so many races, so many hearts and intellects as you, except Rudyard Kipling, and he cannot do It without your help. If the Associated Press will accept and nee our simplified forms and thus spread them to the ends of the earth, covering the. whole spacious planet with tliem mm with a . garden of flowers, our difficulties are at an end. - Soon Get tTsed to Change. Every day of the 3U5 the only pages of the world's .countless newspapers that are read by all the human beings and angels and dev ils can read are those pages that are built out of Associated Press dispatches. And so I . beg you, I beseech you oh, I Implore you to spell them In our simplified form. Do this daily, constantly, persistently for three months only three months It Is all I ask. The Infallible result? Victory, victory all down the line. For by that time all eyes here and above and below will have become adjusted to the change and In love with It, and the present clumsy and ragged forms will be grotesque . to the eye and revolting to the soul. And we shall be rid of phthisis and physic and pneu monia and pneumatics and .diphtheria and pterodactyl and all those other Insane words which no man addicted to the simple Chris tian life can try to spell and not lose some of the bloom of his piety In the demoralizing attempt Do not doubt it. We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change placf with an easy and blessed factl- Ity, and we are soon wonted to change and be happy in .It. We do not regret our old yellow fangs and snags and tushes after we have worn nice, fresh, uniform store teeth awhile. Lost Money by Old Style. Do I seem to be seeking the good of the world? That is the idea. It Is my public attitude; privately I am merely seeking my own profit. We all do It, but It Is sound and It is virtuous, for no public Interest Is any thing other or nobler than a massed accumu lation of private Interests. In 18S3, when the simplified spelling movement first tried to make a noise, 1 was Indifferent to it. More I even Irrelevantly scoffed at It. What I need ed was an object lesson, and I got It. Here the speaker related an anecdote of having once been required to write ten pages of copy for a magazine where words of not less than from ten to twenty letters were employed, at 7 cents a word, thereby Buffering great pecuniary loss, and continued: From that day to this I nave been a de voted and hard-working member of the beaven-born-' institution, the. International Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Authors, and now I am laboring with Car negie's simplified spelling - committee and with my heart in the work. Simplified spelling can convey any fact you need to convey, and it can pour out emotions like a sewer. I beg you, I beseech you, to adopt our spelling and print all your dispatches In It. - Stumbling Block to Immigrants. I have reached a time of life, 70 years and a half, where none of the concerns of this world have much -interest for me per sonalty. I think I can apeak dispassionately upon this matter, because In the little while that I have got to remain here, I can get alone very well with ' these old-fashioned forms and I don't propose to make any trouble about It at all; I shall soon be wliere they won't ears how I spell as long as I kep the Sabbath. There are 82,000,000 of people that use this orthography and It ought to be simplified in our behalf, but it Is kept In its present condition to satisfy 1.000.000 of people who like to have their literature in the old form. That looks to me to be rather selfish, and we keep the forms as they are while we hays got a mil lion people coming in here from foreign countries every month and they have got to struggle with this' orthography of ours, and It keeps them back and damages their citi zenship for years until they learn to spell the language, if they ever do learn. This Is merely sentimental argument. Only Age and Righteousness Left. In conclusion Mark Twain said: Now you see before you the wreck and ru'n of what was once a young person like yourself. I am exhausted by the heat of the day; I must take what Is left of this wreck and run out of your presence and carry It away to my home and spread it out there and sleep the sleep of the righteous. Tnere Is r.othlng much left of me but my age and my righteousness, but I leave with you my love and blessing, and may you always keep your youth. . (Prolonged applause.) To Open Council Crest Line. The official opening ol the Cuuuci) Crest loop ol? the Portland Railway Com pany, which vu postponed last week on account of rain, will be heia this after noon, when a special car party made up of Councilmen, officials of the Portland Railway, LJght & Power Company, to gether with a few Invited guests, will make a trip over the new line, stopping at the summit of the crest for a view over the city and the surrounding coun try. TAFT AND BACON BEGIN (Continued From Page 1.) Taft boarded the cruiser Denver to return commander Col well's call. He found there Mr. Zayas awaiting him under a prear rangement with Commander Colwell and thus cordial relations were established both with the palace and with the revolu tionists. Mr. Zayas had on Tuesday sent a letter to Mr. Taft through Charge d'Affaires Sleeper tendering htm his greetings. Unfortunately the latter did not reach Mr. Taft, but Mr. Zayas made it public today. Editor Arrested for Sedition. The conditions in the field are qulefc, although the situation at Cienfuegos is threatening. General Rodriguez said this evening that rural guards and military are patroling the entire outskirts and suburbs of Havana. One thousand militia from Matanzas have been removed from the Cabanas fortress to Camp Columbia. Gonzales Munoz, editor of the Spanish edition of the Havana Post., an American newspaper, was arrested tonight by or der of Secretary Montalvo on account of his publication of an ' editorial article criticising the government and Mr. Mont alvo in particular, and insisting that jus tice demands the immediate release of political prisoners. In addition to his Journalistic work, Senor Munox also is private secretary to General Freyre An drade. Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. Government officials consider the publication of the article in question particularly reprehensible because of its emanating from an employe of the gov ernment. Asbert Would Fight Uncle Sam. It is said that General Asbert, one of the Insurgent leaders, has sent a letter to Mr. Roosevelt, giving his reasons for the revolution and adding that, if the President does not agree to a new gen eral election supervised by a. United States commission, the revolutionists will continue the war. The letter Is al leged to say that the insurgents do not fear the United States Army and the Liberals could raise an army of JO. 000 men. Detaahments of marines and sailors from United States warships have been landed at Cienfuegos for the protection of Soledad, Constancia and Hormoguero American sugar estates. PALMA GIVES HIS ULTIMATUM Resign Rather Than Consent to New Election. HAVANA, Sept. 19. In the course of the conversation of the American Secre taries with President Palma at the palace this morning, Messrs. Taft and Bacon subscribed to the sentiments set forth in President Roosevelt's letter and expressed the hope that their visit would contribute to the establishment of peace. In reply to questions by Messrs. Taft and Bacon, Mr. Palma reviewed the various aspects of the electoral problem In Cuba. Asked whether the government had taken steps to effect a compromise, the president re plied in the negative, saying that the government had limited itself to assist ing the efforts of the veterans without .taking an active part in the negotiations. Mr. Taft then asked if any revolution, ary demands had been directly affected by these negotiations. Mr. Palma said in reply that the programme of the rev olutionists included the absolute annul ment of the last elections, and that, it by compromise it should be agreed to hold partially new elections, he, Mr. Palma, would no longer continue as executive, because his prestige would suffer and to do so would be a drawback to a con stitutional form of government. Referring to the efforts being made to bring about peace, Mr. Palma said he had left that matter to the political parties. On receipt of Mr. Roosevelt's letter, the government had limited itself to suspen sion of hostilities. The president added that in his Judgment Congress should pass an electoral law which would amply guarantee both parties; also a municipal election law under which elections would be held next January, the government to preserve strict impartiality. PUT YOUNG MEN IN CHARGE Barry and Duvall for Seconds Under Funston in Cuba. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. Young offi cers for command in Cuba, in case the army is sent there, is the plan practical ly decided upon by the War Department. General Frederick Funston probably will be in command and his chief Lieutenants are likely to be Brigadier-Generals Tho mas H. Barry and William' P. Duvall. These two officers have recently com pleted an inspection . of the German maneuvers in Europe and have notified the War Department that they intend to sail for this country on September 29. but, owing to the acute situation in Cuba, they have been advised that their pres ence in this country at an earlier date will be desirable. Notwithstanding the presence of Sec- j retary Taft and Assistant Secretary tsaeon in trie iruoan capital on a mission looking to the pacification of the island, preparations are going forward to meet any emergency that may arise in case the reconciliation of the warring elements in Cuba cannot be accomplished. - Whatever Mr. Taft or Mr. Bacon may have to communicate will be sent direct to President Roosevelt, as they constitute a special Presidential mission which is quite independent of the Department of State. No information from the diplo matic representatives of this Government in Cuba concerning the progress of nego tiations instituted by Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon is expected at the State Depart ment for the reason that these represen tations are accredited to the Palma Gov ernment and officially have nothing to do with the special commission and would not assume to report on any of its func tions. Acting Secretary of State Adee got into communication with Mr. Bacon by wireless telegraph late yesterday after noon, while the Des Moines was on her way to Havana. The State Department was informed to day by the owner of a plantation near Santo Domingo, Cuba, that the Cuban insurgents had seized 13. of his horses. The telegram came -from the owner, who resides at Grand Rapids, Mich. Complain of Rebels' Evil Deeds. LONDON, Sept. 19. (Special.) Inves tors in the Western Railroad of Cuba, a British enterprise, have complained to the British foreign office of damage to the company's property by Cuban insur gents. Officials of the road know of no move as yet by the foreign office to sub mit their complaint to the United States. Pains in the back and kidney and liver troubles are cured by Hood BarwniT'lll. FREEZE-OUT GAME BY UNION A Officials Admit Charges Made by Wyoming Coal Companies. RAILROAD OWNS THE MINES Interstate Commission Hears Story of Refusal of Spur Tracks and Confession and Excuses of Union Pacif io Men. OMAHA. Sept. 19. A hearing was be gun in the Federal courtroom here to day, before C. A. Prouty, member of the Interstate Commerce. Commission, on a complaint against the Union- Pacific Railroad Company, filed by the Sioux City & Rock; Springs Coal Company. The latter company owns coal mines in Southern Wyoming on the line of the Union Pacific, and alleges that the rail road company has discriminated against it in favor of the Union Pacific Coal Company, in the matter of build ing spur tracks and furnishing cars for the transportation of coal. Mr. Prouty explained that the hear ing, which Is Under the Tillman-Gillespie resolution, was to ascertain wheth er or not the Union Pacific Railroad Company is responsible for the exist ence of a coal monopoly in the North western States. J. T. Marchand ap pears as the attorney for the Commis sion, while John N. Baldwin represents the railroad company and E. E. Thomas of Omaha acts for the Sioux City & Rock Springs Coal Company. Shut Out From Market. Warwick Saunders, of Davenport, Iowa, president of the Sioux City & Rock Springs Coal Company, told of the efforts of his company to secure transportation facilities from its mines, which are near the line of the Union Pacific road, about 20 miles from Rock Springs, Wyo. He said the officials of the railroad professed to be friendly, but that a spur track from his mines would have to cross land owned by the Union Pacific Coal Company, and Gen eral Manager Clark, of that company, refused to grant permission. Randall Brown, owner of coal land half a mile west of Hanna, Wyo., where the Union Pacific Coal Company oper ates three mines, told of a similar sit uation regarding the matter of a spur track to his land. He said the Central Coal Company, of Kansas City, and the Union Pacific Coal Company, of Chey enne, practically controlled the coal supply of the West and Northwest, and that there - is a shortage of .supply every year. Admits and Excuses Freezeout. D. O. Clark, vice-president and gen eral manager of the Union Pacific Coal Company, and superintendent of coal service of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, was the next witness. He said the capital stock of the company is $5,000,000, and the company is bond ed for a like amount, stock and bonds all being owned by the Union Paclfio Railroad Company. Mr. Clark declared that his reason for refusing permission to the Sioux City & Rock Springs Coal Company to cross his company's land with a spur track was that its coal is of an inferior quality and he did not wish to have it put on the market as Rock Springs coal, which has a very high reputation. He admitted that his company had bought two sections of land adjoining the Sioux City's land to prevent its obtaining an outlet. Hired Men to Locate Land. It was developed that Mr. Jlark is also vice-president of the Superior Coal Company, of which John W. Lacey, of Cheyenne, counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Is president, and Frank Manley, of Rock Springs, ex chief engineer of the Union Pacific Coal Company, is general manager. He said the Superior Coal Company has secured about six sections of land, principally in Sweet Water County, Wyo., through the purchase of Individual filings on Government land. A- list of 16 of these entries was submitted, each of which was made by an employe of either the Union Pacific Coal Company or the Union Pacific Railroad Company.' He said the Union Pacific Coal Company advanced the money necessary in most of these enterprises. He said he held all but three shares of the stock of the Superior Coal Company in trust for W. E. Cornish, of New York, vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. An effort was made by Messrs. Mar chand and Thomas to show that title had been secured to this land by fraud and objection was made by Mr. Bald win. Mr. Prouty adjourned the hearing until tomorrow. CASHIER IS - ACCUSED (Continued From Page 1.) tectlve art in an effort to break down Van Auker's guard and Induce him to confess. What passed in the rodm only the three officers know and for the present their lips are sealed, but it is stated on un impeachable authority that the sweatbox for once failed to work. Looking his ac cusers squarely in the eye and manifest ing not the slightest symptom of nerv ousness. Van Auker answered every ques tion' put to him and told and retold his story of the hold-up, sturdily maintaining to the last that he bad really been robbed just as he had stated and as the news, papers told the story the day after the alleged occurrence. Confesses Mania for Cards. . On other points he quickly gave in, and it is now definitely known that he confessed the gambling charges in de tail, admitting that he had gambled more or less for years and had not ceased to woo the fickle goddess after taking the responsible position at Rainier. In all he is said to have confessed that he lost about $2300 last Summer, most of it in playing farobank at Astoria, al though he said that he won and lost con siderable sums at the same game in the Mllwaukle Club, at Milwaukie, Or., where gambling is tolerated by the Clackamas County authorities. His losings in As toria he admitted, when confronted with evidence that had been laid before Allen by Editor Kemp, had amounted to about $1700. Most of the balance had been lost at Milwaukie. Sanity of Cashier Doubted. Other revelations he made while in the sweat-box were of a character so startling as to raise a doubt in the mind of Mr. Allen as to his entire san ity. Though apparently a keen, shrewd, level-headed business man. Van Auker without much hesitancy told of inci dents In his past life, running back 2) yearat that indicate that he la either a veritable Munchausen in some re gards. Or a monomaniac on the subject of highway robberies and holdups. One of these weird tales was to the effect that in 1885, while he was work ing as a telegraph operator for a rail road at Jonesborough. Ark., he was held up by a gang of ruffiians, who compelled him to accept $7000 in banknotes, telling him to keep the money until they called for it. He wrapped the bills in a newspaper and carried them on his person night and day-for an entire year, he said, in mor tal terror lest he should lose them. At the end of. that period, one day while he was at work alone behind the counter of a bank in Toungstown, O., a roughly-dressed individual stepped into the room and whispered to him, "Give me that money." Van Auker. said he thrust the money into the fellow's hand and watched him disappear with a sigh of relief. Van Auker Gray at Forty. Van Auker is said to have remarked to the detectives, passing his hand over his head, "that Is how I have all these gray hairs at 40; it was worrying over that $7000." Yesterday afternoon, Inf broadaylight and without a detective prompting him, Van Auker told a similar story to an officer of the bank, stating that one night while he was working In Clacka mas County a strange man held him up on a dark road and forced him to accept a package which he later found to con tain $150 in bills, and for which the owner never called. In the sweat box Van Auker is said to have stated that a number of safes had been cracked in and about Jones borough Just before the J7000 was given him and to have stated that the robbers forced the money on him for the purpose of making him keep certain of their secrets which he had accidentally learned. This and other incidents in Van Auker's life will be further Investigated by the detectives, who claim that his past record will not bear inspection. Inquisition Lasts All Night. The swetbox inquisition did not ad journ -until nearly 5 o'clock yesterday morning. From Detective Hartman's office Van Auker was taken to the Im perial Hotel where Sheriff fThite regis tered and took a room with two beds. He was assigned to room 523. Van Aucker then registered himself under his true name and was given the other bed in room 523. Detective Allen was assigned to room 207. s The names on the hotel register were the first clew any except those in the secret had to the presence of Van Auker in Portland Jn company with the Colum bia County Sheriff. Even local stockhold ers of the Rainier bank, of which there are several, were not informed until yes terday morning what had occurred. At about 8 o'clock yesterday morning Van Auker was taken back to Detective Hartman's office, where the sweating pro cess was resumed. An opportunity to sleep over the matter had not altered Van Aucker's determination, and he still held out against the detectives. Finally in the afternoon, when Mr. Allen had-informed him that a telegram had been sent to District Attorney Allen of Colum bia County asking him to issue a war rant for his arrest on a charge of em bezzlement, Van Auker made the propo sition that to avoid the disgrace that would probably follow arrest and a trial, he would, though Innocent, make good the shortage if the bonding company would promise to drop the case. This proposition was made and accepted at about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and Van Auker immediately started out in' search of friends and relatives from whom he hoped to secure, the money. Sheriff White accompanied him. . The amount Van Auker will have to raise is only $1627. Since the first ac counts of the aileged hold-up were printed it has developed that a clerical error in the. books made it appear that Van Au ker's accounts were $2600 short, whereas the real shortage, representing the loss by theft, was only $1627. Van Auker's confession of his gambling losses has entirely shattered the confi dence of his employers in his integrity. After the Pinkerton detectives had inves tigated and reported that the bank had undoubtedly been robbed, as claimed by Van Auker, Carleton Lewis, of this city, president and principal stockholder of the institution, announced- that there was no suspicion against Van Auker, and later when the books were experted and found to balance perfectly, except for the $1627, the announcement was made again. Few Suspected Cashier. In fact, there were few among those connected with the Rainier Bank who at the time distrusted the cashier. That he was in the habit of gambling was not known to them, and so far as they had investigated his record it was good. On the day of the robbery several of the stockholders assured a reporter of The Oregonlan of their entire faith in the story told by Van Auker. Now the feeling is different, but in spite of the fact that they are virtual ly convinced of Van Auker's dishonesty, the officers of the bank are wholly un able to fathom the mystery of his ac counts. Their theory is that Van Auker carried out the fake robbery without the aid of an accomplice to hide a shortage in his cash, but they are wholly unabie at the present time to understand how he could have kept secret the fact that he was $1627 short when the bank rarely had more than $5000 in actual cash on hand. Another mystery that is puzzling them, as well as the detectives, is the fact that for more than two months be fore the robbery Van Auker had been in .the habit of keeping half of his sup ply of gold coin hidden on a ledge over the door Inside the flimsy brick vault in the bank, yet the bank is provided with- a fine time-lock, burglar-proof safe of the latest pattern. Gold Found Intact. This gold, amounting the day of the alleged robbery to about $2600.' was found Intact. Van Auker claimed that the two bandits who held up, bound him hand and foot and locked him In the directors' room took all the gold in the yafe, amounting, as he thought, to about $2600. In the sweatbox Van Auker gave a plausible explanation of the presence of the money in the vault, saying that he had been in the habit of keeping it thera for the purpose of foiling bandits if they should hold up the bank. Still another mystery in the case is where Van Auker got the money which he says he gambled away. He was draw ing a salary of only $S5 a month in the bank, and when he took the position was forced to borrow $175 in Portland to tide htm over until his first payday. The books at the bank are said to prove that at no time did his personal account show more than $185 to his credit, yet he ad mitted in the sweatbox that he had often carried much larger sums about with him, or had kept them secreted about the vault, not in the safe. His own explanation is that much, of the money he lost was won at previous "sittings" at faro bank. Van Auker has lived in this state for several years. Before entering the Rainier Bank he was in the employ of the O. R. & N. C,o., In this city, .-is a telegraph operator. He is married nnd is the son-in-law of Rev. C. H. Camp bell, of Sellwood. His family consists of his wife and a daughter about 12 years of age. He was married to Miss Camp bell at Colorado Springs, Col., In the early '90s. At that time Mr. Campbell Bed Eyes and Eyelids, Weak Eye ' And tired eyes need Murine ? Tonic WRECK BRIDGE Scotch Express Plunges Over an Embankment. CARS QUICKLY ABLAZE Ten Persons Reported Killed and Sixteen Injured on Great North ern Railway Near Gran tham, England. LONDON. Sept. 20. The crowded Scotch express train on the Great Northern Rail way, leaving London last night, was wrecked outside of Grantham at mid night. The train should have stopped at Grantham, but failed to do so. Soon after passing the station the train left the rails and then Jumped a bridge. The engine and several coaches were dashed over tht embankment, the engine turning turtle. Several coaches Immediately took fire. There are many passengers beneath the debris. Of ten extricated five have died. The number of lives lost is not known, but is believed to be large. Many were injured. At last accounts the coaches were still blazing and the fire brigade had been called out. The dead and injured as yet have not been Identified. At the spot where the express was de railed there is a curve, and it is supposed the brakes failed to act. The train ap pears to have gone upon a siding, smash ing the parapet Of the bridge which was completely shattered. At 5 o'clock this morning it was offi cially stated that ten persons had been killed and 16 injured. A dispatch from Grantham stated that the fire was well under control. A later report states that the engineer and fireman are dead under the engine, that the superintendent of the mall car is missing, and that seven injured persons have been taken to the hospital. JAPAN TO BORROW $40,000,000 Sends Agent to Convert Bonds at Reduced Interest. VICTORIA, Sept. 19. Mr. Takashl, financial agent of the Japanese gov ernment, arrived here tonight by the steamer Kaga Maru on his way to New York and London to float the remain ing portion of the $250,000,000 foreign loan, half of which has been issued at ( per cent, and, as the non-redemption period expires on March SI, the govern ernment is anxious to convert it into a 4 per cent obligation. To do this Mr. Takashi will seek to borrow $40,000,000. Mr. Takashi, in an Interview, said nothing had been settled other than the rate of interest. He could not say whether he would be able to float the loan at New York or London. Asked whether Mr. Schiff, of New York, would arrange for the floating of the loan, he said evasively that he intended to visit Mr. Schiff, who was his good friend. 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