THE MARBLE BOOSTER
Aa Independent Newspaper.
Frank P. Frest. Editor and Proprietor.
MARBLE - - COLORADO
No Chinese revolutionist wears at
any rate a pompadour.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned open-face appiebutter pie?
The autumnal colors are much finer
than those of the gaudy billboards
The Chinese revolution seems to
have got beyond the control of the
police.
The efTort to render hazing safe
and sane continues at various edu
cational institutions.
China’s infant emperor writes mar
velous compositions for one who has
Just begun his schooling.
No true lover of nature ever goes
around declaring, in sepulchral tones,
that life is a vale of tears.
Japan’s population is increasing at
the rate of 600.000 a year, and the
surplus must go somewhere.
If goat’9 milk is a cure for inebriety,
as is asserted, one would never guess
It by studying bock beer signs.
Hoopsklrts are announced as due
to return But fashion, like politics,
has Its rumors that never come true.
The Kings county. New York, Jail
Is characterized as a “disgrace.” Most
jails are open to the same criticism.
A baby has been killed by a hot
bag. This comes from departing from
the established and recognized cold
bottle.
Football fatalitites have been less
frequent this year than usual. The
game is in danger of losing its popu
larity.
A New York janitor laughed so hard
at a joke which his daughter told that
he fell dead. As usual the joke is sup
pressed.
And the worst of it is. the war be
tween Turkey and Italy doesn’t seem
to be good even for kinematograph
purposes.
The man who killed himself after
six hours of married life apparently
was satisfied that a little often goes
a great way.
Magazines that are shipped by
freight are at least congratulating
themselves on not being completely
sidetracked.
A young actor has married a widow
■worth $15,000,000. It was about time
that the male sex of stageland was
recognized.
Violinist Kubelik ha3 fled from Chi
cago because it was too noisy here
for him. Need it be said that he has
gone to St. Louis?
Football Is not all wasted effort.
Txits of the pale-browed ordinary stu
dents get excellent exercise in giving
the college yell.
It’s our notion that everybody will
have to have his liver regulated and
in good working order before the mil
lennium can come.
A Seattle clergyman preached from
a coffin in the streets and was “pall
beared" home. Seattle must be a
hard town to wake up.
Statistics show that in nearly all
cases the college girl, when she mar
ries, stays married. Probably she
starts out by giving her husband a
vivid description of the hazing stunts
she has partlcipaated in.
A song writer has been ordered to
pay $2 a week toward the support of
his child. Now we may expect an
Indefinite number of new “rag*'
spasms.
A Chicago paper Suggests that only
light reading should be carried by the
aeroplane postmen. It is grimly ap
propriate, however, that a lot of it
goes to the dead letter office these
days.
A New York young man has enter
ed Harvard with six trunks, 20 suits
and 10 pairs of shoes. Nobody, how
ever, has gone to the trouble of pre
dicting a brilliant future for him.
Mary Anderson says that any work
Is preferable to a stage career. But
successful people usually speak in this
strain. Even our great financiers as
sure us that being a millionaire is
nothing like as easy as It looks.
An Asbury Park cook is reported to
have had her $1,500 worth of diamonds
stolen This looks like a deep scheme
to attract all the cooks In the country
to the Jersey resort next season
"Swat the ants!” cries a scientist.
Say. savants—mayn’t we keep one lit
tle Insect for a pet?
There are some women who never
change their minds. Just as there are
some men whose automobiles never
break down—because they don’t own
automobiles
"Hoopsklrts are Inevitable,” says a
fashion expert The only redeeming
feature of a boopsklrt Is that It can
be used as a parachute In ease of aa
•emplane accident
Washington Gossip
Nation Loses Millions by Bad Roads
TASHINGTON.—In the United
I States there are in all about
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2,500,000 miles of roads of one kind
or another —enough to reach around
the earth 100 times. Much of this,
however, is of a character not wor
thy of the name road. Some of it. is
little better than a rock pile, and oth
ers are wide tracks through ditches
and swamps. Of the whole only seven
miles in each hundred can be said to
have any improvements whatever, and
on the most of it the improvements
are such as to be unworthy of note.
Altogether not two per cent, can be
called first class. With the proper im
provement of this network of roads
will come a saving that will richly
repay the nation.
The roads in the United States may
hot be the very worst in the world,
but they are bad enough as a whole,
that is certain, compared with those in
other civilized countries. Europe is a
network of magnificent highways. In
Germany, France and England one can
ride for miles without striking a stone
or a puddle. This does not add to
pleasure alone. It is the means of
Government Busy Cleaning Out Opium
1 LOWLY the federal arm is sweeping
1 in the opium fiends. The recent
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raid here by internal revenue agents,
when $8,000 worth of the drug, pre
pared for smoking, was confiscated
and the distributing organization for
the District of Columbia broken up,
was one of a series of big hauls in the
larger cities of the country in recent
months, as a result of which several
hundred thousand dollars’ worth of
the drug is now in government pos
session.
In the last five months just such
hauls, many larger and more impor
tant, have been made by means of
which agents have in many cases been
able to trace the drug to the illicit
manufacturers, thus dealing the most
serious blow of all. In Terre Haute,
Ind., where the richest haul of all was
made, nearly $100,000 worth of the
drug was found when the inspectors
raided a small river shack where the
crude opium was being prepared for
distribution to smokers throughout the
middle west.
“We are learning how to go about it.
We are discovering the haunts of
them,” said a special officer. "It has
been a hard job, because there is no
interstate regulation. There is a bill
for that purpose before congress now'.
Mammoth Guns to Guard Panama Canal
1 HE greatest gun ever built will be
come part of the coast defense at
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the Pacific end of the Panama canal.
The giant weapon is now at Sandy
Hook, N. J., but according to orders
received from the war department it
will soon start on the most remark
able journey ever taken by a weapon
of its size. It weighs 180 tons, is 50
feet in length, with a 16-inch caliber
and power to throw a 2,400-pound pro
jectile a distance of 23 miles. The
gun is being moved because war au
thorities believe New Y'ork is in less
danger of being attacked than the
west end of the Panama canal. There
no ship that pokes its nose above the
horizon will be safe against the mon
ster gun for with a single well-direct
ed shot it could send to the bottom the
largest war craft the world knows to
day.
Bar Unbidden Guests From Naval Ball
| ECENT agitation over the new re
i strictions placed upon midshipmen
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at the naval academy in the matter of
guests at academy dances has brought
forth from officials of the navy de
partment a remarkable statement. It
was disclosed that heretofore the
doors of the naval academy have been
opened wide on the evenings of
dances, and all presenting themselves
at the doors dressed as for a dance
nave been admitted without question.
Several embarrassing situations
have developed from time to time
involving midshipmen in serious
trouble. Henceforth, It Is stated, the
academy officials will require that no
person he admitted without presenting
a card of Invitation, and the names of
all persons to whom such cards are
Issued are to be listed.
“The lnvltstlons to balls and hops at
the naval academy,” says the state
ment, "have been either a source of
misunderstanding or a cause for at
emptlng to stir up class prejudice.
Few fathers and mothers with sons
at the naval academy hut would de
saving millions of dollars each year
to those countries where such roads
are maintained.
The cost of hauling over our coun
try roads is now about 23 cents per
ton to the mile. In the European
countries as long as 18 years ago the
cost had been reduced to 10 cents, and
it is much lower today. Oh some of
the roads going into London, by the
motor cars now in use, it is less than
four cents, and by wagon freight can
be hauled almost anywhere on the con
tinent for from one-half to one-third
its cost in the United States. The
saving effected under this system
amounts to hundreds of millions of
dollars every year.
According to the report of the inter
state commerce commission in 1906,
our railroads handled more than 800,-
000,000 tons of freight which originat
ed on their respective lines. All this’
had to be taken to and from the cars.
A great deal of it was made up of the
products of the farm and the forests,
and it is estimated that at least 200,-
000,000 tons of it had a haul of nine
miles at a cost of 23 cents a ton. That
bill alone would represent more than
$400,000,000, and other freights and
hauling would run the sum to $500,-
000,000 or over. Now suppose we cut
the wagon freight bill in half, or to
liy 2 cents a ton, which is still far
above the cost of hauling in Europe,
and the saving would be $250,000,000
a year.
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The only way to stamp out the use of
opium and cocaine primarily is
through interstate regulation.
“Since the importation of opium was
prohibited, in 1909, a process of manu
facture has been evolved which has
left the door wide open again. The
process of manufacture is very simple
and can be carried on quietly for
years. The crude opium is bought
from druggists who, without an inter
state regulation law, can import the
crude drug and distribute it at will.
Since last fall we have made hauls in
every large city in the country, includ
ing New York, Buffalo, Washington,
Providence, Chicago, Terre Haute,
Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, Oma
ha, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco, Boston and Philadelphia.
These hauls have all brought out some
thing and given a line on the traffic
generally.”
Although the fortifications for the
canal have already been fully planned,
the details regarding them are kept
secret. All that is known is that the
two ends of the ditch will be defended
by seven forts in all, three at the At
lantic end and four at the Pacific open
ing. These works will constitute two
systems of forts—the four at the Pa
cific end operating together, and like
wise the three at the Atlantic end.
The fortifications will all be under
ground. A hostile fleet approaching
from the ocean will see nothing but
a slope of grassy greensward, whether
on the islands or on the mainland.
There will be nothing visible to shoot
at, for the great guns will be hidden
in concrete lined pits, from which
they are uplifted momentarily by their
disappearing carriages to deliver their
fire.
The locks of the canal necessarily
are vital points, and these will be de
fended by “field fortifications” —that
is to say, well constructed earthworks,
with six-inch howitzers, three-inch
field guns, etc. These works are in
tended, of course, for defense against
possible attack by a land force.
sire and expect the authorities having
their sons in charge to endeavor to
keep them apart from that special
form of temptation that haunts all
places where large bodies of young
men are collected together.
“When the academy was much
smaller and the number of guests
1 consequently fewer, there was little
difficulty in keeping a careful scrutiny
at the doors of the ballroom; but the
1 number of guests attending has made
this practically impossible.
“Is it too much to ask that only
■ those Invited should attend, and that
■ cards of admission should be issued
- to authenticate the guests? Is there
. any decent ball or assembly of any
i slse which is not protected by some
- similar precaution'’”
TIRED, SICK AND DISCOURAGED.
Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Health
and Cheerfulness.
Mrs. J. P. Pemberton, 854 Lafayette
St., Marshall, Mo., says: “For years
I suffered with Bright’s disease which
doctors said was incurable. 1 grew
so weak, I had to take
to my bed. Kidney
secretions were sup
pressed, I became ter
ribly bloated, and final
ly reached the point
where I took no inter
est in life. It was then
I began using Doan’s
Kidney Pills and soon
Improved. Before long I was without
a sign of the trouble that seemed to
be carrying me to my grave.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Remem
ber the Name—DOAN’S.” 50c,allstorea
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HE WAS NEXT.
Katherine —There is never any ex
cuse for ignorance.
Kidder—That’s right. There were
even knight schools in the dark
ages.
BABY’S ECZEMA AND BOILS
“My son was about three weeks old
when I noticed a breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after, his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
aLso. and in a few days became a solid
scab. I became alarmed, and called
our family physician w r ho at once pro
nounced the disease eczema. The lit
tle fellow was under treatment for
about three months. By the end of
that time, he seemed no better. I be
came discouraged. I dropped the doc
tor’s treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in a few days noticed a marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders,
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter. When he was about seven months
old, all trace of the eczema was gone.
“During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in
boils which I cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been a great sufferer. During
the time of teething and from the time
I dropped the doctor’s treatment, I
used the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment, nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti
ful. and his head a mass of silky curls.
I had been afraid that he would never
be well, and I feel that I owe a great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies.”
(Signed) Mrs. Mary W. Ramsey, 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs, Col.,
Sept. 24, 1910. Although Cuticura
Soap and Ointment are sold by drug
gists and dealers everywhere, a sam
ple of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to “Cuti
cura,” Dept. 5 L, Boston.
Was in Real Trouble.
A passenger who escaped uninjured
from a serious railway smash, seeing
a fellow-traveler searching anxiously
among the wreckage with a lantern,
offered to assist in the search, and,
thinking the old man had lost his
wife, asked in sympathetic tones:
“What part of the train was she in?”
Raising his lantern and glaring at the
kindly disposed passenger, the old
man shouted with indignant distinct
ness that triumphed over physical in
firmity: “She, sir! she! I am look
ing for my teeth!”
An Early Frohman.
First Mediaeval Manager—How’s
your latest miracle play?
Second Ditto—Fine. Thought it
would be a failure, though, till we hit
on something that’s got the women
coming in droves.
F. M. M.—How so?
Second Ditto—We lost the baby that
we used in the Solomon-and-the-Two-
MoYhers’ baby scene, and have been
using a lap-dog ever since.”—Puck.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOR1A, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
His Bearing.
"Is he a man of military bearing?”
“Well, he likes to ‘soldier.’ ”
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation. Constipation is the cause of
many diseases. Cure the cause and you
cure the disease. Easy to take.
If it is safe to trust Ood in any
thing it is safe to trust him in every
thing.
Makes the laundress happy—that’s Red
Cross Baa Blue. Makes beautiful, clear
white clothes. All good grocers.
If every man had all the money he
wanted, the devil would get us all.
DREADED MAN-EATING SHARK
Voracious Monster of the Deep At
tains Enormous Size and De
vours Almost Anything.
San Francisco, Cal.—This shark
was caught in the vicinity of the
Hawaiian islands. There are many
species of sharks, this being of the
“white” variety, known as the ‘man
eater,” and therefore the most dread
ed of all monsters of the deep. They
attain great size, one having been
caught 37 feet in length. The body Is
covered with a hard skin, and is gray
ish-brown above and whitish below.
These sharks often follow ships for
days to feed upon any animal sub
stance that may be thrown or may
Caught In Hawaii.
fall overboard, and often^ their indis
criminate voracity will swallow things
Indigestible. A lady’s workbox was
found in the stomach of one, and the
papers of a slave ship in that of an
other. Human beings are frequently
its prey, a fact which makes bathing
or diving in tropical seas a dangerous
pursuit.
This variety of shark is capable not
only of biting off the leg of a man.
but of snapping the body In two, and
has been known to swallow a man
entire. Its head is large, the mouth
large and wide; furnished with ter
rible teeth, which are triangular in
form, somethimes two inches in
breadth, sharp-edged and Berated.
When not in use they are laid back in
the mouth, nearly flat, but when used
in biting, they are brought up by
means of muscles with which each
tooth Is independently provided.
This shark is often captured by
seamen by means of a great hook
halted with a piece of meat and at
tached to a chain, as the shark's
teeth readily bite through any rope.
When the shark is hooked and hauled
on board, great care Is necessary to
avoid danger both from the mouth
and from the wonderfully powerful
tail.
MAY YET BE BRITISH QUEEN
Little Daughter of Russia’s Czar May
Be Wedded to the Prince of
Wales.
London. —It is rumored that Prin
cess Tatjana, second daughter of the
Czar of Russia, is the destined bride
of Edward Albert, the young Prince
of Wales. They are second cousins,
the maternal grandmother of the
princess, Grand Duchess Alice of
Hesse, being a sister of the late King
Edward.
They are indeed doubly second
cousins,’ for Prince Albert’s grand
mother, Queen Alexandria, and Prin-
cess Tatjana’s grandmother, the
Dowager Empress Dag mar of Russia,
are sisters of the present King Fred
erick of Denmark..
The Czar Nicholas of Russia and
King George of England, sons of
these sisters, have always borne a
remarkable resemblance to each oth
er, accentuated by the similarity In
the cut of their beards, and by the
low stature common to both. The
Prince of Wales Is 17 years of age,
vhlle the princess Is only 14.
Toadstools Kill Three.
Chicago.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry L.
Letch and their son, Le Roy, were
found dead In their home In Irving
Park, a suburb. Physicians declare
they had died from toadstool poison
ing.
A Pint of Unequaled I
Cough Syrup for 50c
The Quickest, Surest Couah
You Ever Ueed, or Money Refund?
-Stop. Even Whoopin’
Quickly. 9 "
You may not needle *2 which a SW
bottle of Pinex saves you, but von .u***
the wonderful effectiveness of this
cough remedy. It will usually
most obstmate deep-seated cough iZA
“ugh""' and ha, no equal f„‘
A 50-cent bottle of Pinex, mixed ....
home-made sugar syrup, give. yo “.’TO
pmt-a family supply of the moat nuJS
and effective cough remedy you
baaily prepared in five minutca-di^? 1 -
»n package.
The way this takes hold of a court.
gives instant rehef, will make you
that you never tried it before.
the appetite, is slightly laxative and tw!!l
good—children take it willingly. R kT" 1
wonderful record in cases of
lung trouble and is splendid for erm*
asthma, bronchitis, throat trouble etc 1
Pinex is a special and highly’ con.**,
trated compound of Norway Yvhite Pi
extract, rich in guaiacol and other natuli
healing pine elements. Simply m i x
sugar syrup or strained honey, i n a n2
bottle, and it is ready for use. Used i,
more homes in the U. S. and Canada thw
any other cough remedy. “*
Pinex has often been imitated, but nevw
successfully, for nothing else will produci
the same results. The genuine is guara ?
teed to give absolute satisfaction or mone»
refunded. Certificate of guarantee is wrun.
ped in each package. Your druggist hu
Pinex or will gladly get it for you. If
send to The Pinex Co., 234 Main St. It
.Wayne, Ind. ’’ *
A DIFFERENCE.
Tessie—I suppose you won’t marry
unless you find one girl in a million.
Tom—No; with a milion.
How to Use Red Cross Seals.
“How to Use Red Cross Seals’’ It I
the title of an interesting publication I
recently issued by the National Asso- I
elation for the Study and Prevention I
of Tuberculosis. I
Red Cross Seals must be placed 1
only on the back of letters and not B
on the address side of packages that I
are going through the mail. They I
may be placed anywhere on matter I
going by express. Care should he I
taken in sending merchandise through I
the mails not to place seals over the I
strings with which the package is tied. I
since this seals the package against I
inspection and subjects it to first I
class postage rates. As many seals I
may be used on the back of a letter I
or package as may be desired. Every ■
one Is urged to use them liberally. ■
since every seal is a bullet In the war I
against tuberculosis. I
Red Cross seals are not good for ■
postage, and will not carry mall mat- I
ter, but any kind of mail matter will ■
carry them. Finally, every letter or par- I
cel sent out, either by mail or in some I
other way, during the holiday sea- ■
son should bear one or more Red ■
Cross seals. I
Ready Permission.
As an uptown manufacturer and hit 9
wife were motoring through the coun- 9
try in Buck’s county, the wife saw an 9
apple orchard, with several trees 9
laden with bright red fruit. Her 9
mouth watered for apples, and she I
Induced her husband to stop the car I
and go into the orchard. I
As he put his foot Inside he encoun- I
tered a man. “May I have some ap- I
pies?” he asked.
“Sure, help yourself,” replied the
other.
“How much will I owe you?”
“Oh, nothing, nothing at all. I
don’t own the orchard,” said the man.
—Philadelphia Times.
Age of an Egg.
In a glass of water the fresh egg
will assume a horizontal position. The
egg of three to five days makes with
the horizon an angle of 30 degrees.
The angle Increases to 45 degrees for
an egg eight days old, to 76 for one oi
three weeks, and at 30 days the egg
rests on Its point.
Diphtheria, Quinsy and Tonsilitis begin
with sore throat. How much better to
cure a sore throat in a day or two than to
be in bed for weeks with Diphtheria.
Just keep Hamlina Wizard Oil in the
house.
Takes More Than That.
"Truth lies at the bottom of »
well.”
"Yes, and unlike most wells. 7° u
can’t raise it by hot air.” — Baltimore
American.
CHRISTMAS POST CARDS FR®
Bend So stamp for It* samples of my very epoie
est Gold embossed Christmas and New '.***
Post Cards; beautiful colors and lovelle* des|f»*
Art Post Card Club, TO Jackson St, Topeka. Ksasas
What has become of the old-fash
ioned politician who used to imagine
he was destiny’s only son?— Toledo
Blade.
Don’t be misled. Aak for J5E?
Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white ofcthss.
At all good grocers.
We show how much of the Bible ws
believe by the way wo trust Ood.