Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 1908 — Page 7

HR OF IRE Mill BUILDER OF FIRBT STEAM CARRIAGE IN AMERICA. t Oliver Evan* Worked on Idea for Bteam Propulsion fn Boston aa Early as 1773—Shop of Inventor Still Standing. boston.—A quaint building on St. Janies street, above Second, now numbered 216, is reputed to be the shop where Oliver Evans worked in the year 1796. Evans was one of the early Inventors of which this country has furnished so many, and although he is principally recalled as the inventor of the first “steam carriage,” or what we would now term an automobile, when he had his shop in the low-roofed building in Lowndes’ or Elmslie’s alley, the little lane now named St. James street, he was patronized as the man who could make mills which saved expense by giving 20 pounds more flour to the barrel than any other. Although Evans was not a native of this city, he was a descendant of the first Episcopal minister of Philadelphia, Evan Evans. The latter died in the year 1728. Oliver was born in Newport, Del., in 1755, and his parents were in humble circumstances. Early he developed a genius for invention, and while he was still a very young man he designed a non-condensing engine, in which power was derived from the tension of high-pressure steam. This invention has been the foundation of a long race of steamboat and locomotive engines. The brothers of Oliver were millers, and the young man soon joined them in their business. While engaged with his brothers he made many inventions and in 1790 he applied for a patent for the application of the steam engine for driving

Reputed Shop of Oliver Evans in Boston. milis.btitis saidto have been refused. It is said that as early as the year 1773, when Oliver was only 18, he was occupied with the subject of steam propulsion, both by land as well as water. In these lines, however, he was outdistanced by others, blit in his steam carriage, which he named the Oruktor-Amphibolis, which first was put in operation in the year 1804, he was ahead of any person in this country in achieving steam propulsion by land. , Evans, in an article in Poulson’s Daily Advertiser some years later, thus describes his first attempt to exhibit his steam carriage. “In the year 1804 I constructed at Philadelphia a machine of my invention for cleaning docks —a heavy, flat mud-flat, with a steam engine of the power of five horses in it to work the machinery. And to show that both steam carriages and steamboats were practicable with my steam engines, I first put wheels to it and propelled it by the engine a mile and a half to the Schuylkill, although its weight was equal to that of 200 barrels of flour. I then fixed a paddlewheel at the stem, And propelled it by the . engine down the Schuylkill and up the Delaware. 16 miles, leaving all the vessels that were under sail full half-way behind me, the wind being ahead.” Evans had the strongest Relief In the efficacy of steam to propel carriages, and therefore ought to be regarded as the father of the automobile. He did not, however, foresee the terrific speed of which the modern motor car is capable, for he said that he believed that stages Would one day be moved by steam at a speed of from fifteen to twenty miles an hour, which modest prediction has been more than fulfilled. While he occupied the little shop in St. James street Evans was following the business of manufacturing millstones. In 1797 we find him moved to what is now 232 South Second street, a little below St. James street, although the building so numbered is •not the original structure. The alley next to it,, early in the,Jast century, was the entrance to the custom house, then located some distance back from the street. At the time Evans took his steam carriage to the Schuylkill and made his historic voyage on the Delaware his shop was at the comer of Vine street and Ridge road. Later Evans went to New York and died there In 1819. Busy Vermont Woman. Mrs. A. B. Enright of East Concord, Vt., is county superintendent of schools and said to be one of the busiest women in the state. Besides her school work she performs all the duties that fall to. the lot of the wife of a Methodist pastor of two large parishes.

HAS NEW PLAN TO REACH POLE. Explorer Baldwin Would Uae Portable Housea and 100 Floes. New York. —What is pronounced by experts to be the best plan for polarresearch is the novel one proposed by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin. “I am soon to lay this plan in detail before the Harvard union at Cambridge," says the explorer, “but I’ll tell you this much now: “Give me a cargo of logo, another of casks partly filled with emergency supplies and a single vessel specially constructed and we can go from

Evelyn B. Baldwin. Bering’s strait to the pole and right across the Arctic ocean. Scatter the logs, portable houses, casks, etc., upon a group of heavy ice floes surrounding the ship, shifting the supplies, if necessary, by means of windlasses, motors or dogs, and we’ll succeed. A single crew can manage the three cargoes. “Had the Jeanette expedition adopted this plan it would have won. “In my support Rear Admiral Melville stated to me that a small house erected on the ice at the beginning of the drift of the Jeanette having been blown away .before it had been fastened down, was found two years later less than two miles from the ship, thus proving that the ship and ice proceed just as a balloon moves with the atmosphere in which it floats. “With portable studios and laboratories our artists and scientists may work in tranquillity. With balloons we will view a. wide belt of territory, and, as did the Baldwin-Zeigler expedition, frequently dispatch messages homeward. “With our logs as fuel we’ll barbecue the walrus, seals and polar bear. With the casks as emptied we’ll form a flotilla- filled with duplicates of our collections. “ ‘Good scheme,’ said Admiral Schley the other day.” ~*r — POWDERLY TO GET OLD POST. Will Be Commissioner of immigration Succeeding F. P. Sargent. Washington.—The appointment of T. V. Powderly as commissioner of im-

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Terence Vj Powderly. migration to succeed the late Frank P. Stfrgent will, it is said, -be announced in a few days. Mr. Powderly was for years at the head of the Knights of Labor and is now chief of the information bureau of the immigration ofllce. He was commissioner of immigration until sue ceeded by Mr. Sargent. HeandLyman J. Gage, while the latter was secretary of the treasury, and while th immigration bureau was a branch of the department, had a disagreement which resulted in Mr. Powderly's withdrawal from the commissionership. Mr. Powderly was general -.master workman of the Knights of Labor from 1879 to 1893 and from 1878 to 1884 was mayor of Scranton, Pa., elected on the Labor ticket. He was b&tn in Carbondale, Pa., in 1849, and became a machinist. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar in Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Powderly ha written often on economic topics for leading" magazines and labor publications. - , Swedish Woman Honored. Miss Selma Lageriof, besides being the most popular writer in Sweden, has just received an honorary degree from the University of Upsala. She is the first woman in Sweden to receive this distinction, and it is said to be only a matter of time when she will get the Nobel prize. "

LONDON INVADED BY NEGROES. Absence of Race Prejudice Makes Life Pleaaant There. England is being invaded by American negroes, who suddenly have realized that they suffer in that country from none oi the disabilities attaching to their rtlce and color in the United States. Thousands of them have gone there in the last year or two and thousands more are going. The Invasion began in force about a year ago. The first negroes to go were variety artists and athletes, who found that they were well treated there. It is hard to obtain any estimate of the actual numbers of American negroes now in England. An .official of the American embassy declares that last winter the embassy had hundreds of applications from negro citizens of the United States, who were stranded In England, to be sent home. The embassy, of course, has no funds for this purpose, but the officials did what they could to help and many who went over to capture the variety stage in England worked their way home in the stokeholds of tramp steamers sailing to Baltimore or New Orleans. This year, the same official declares, there are at least 5,000 American negroes in England, and 4,000 of them arrived this year. A trip to some of the leading watering places on the English coast will lead one to think that the estimate is much smaller than the actual number. The “busker” is an institution at Margate, Ramsgate, Southend and other watering places where the Londoners of the middle and working classes run down for the week-end or for a few days’ holiday. The “busker'’ usually la a broken-down actor or music hall man who makes his living singing and dancing on the sands, depending on the generosity of the holiday makers for his reward. The native "busker” has been almost driven off the sands by the American negro. The “black face” comedian act long has been a favorite with the “buskers,” but the “comedians” were white men made black by liberal applications of burnt cork. This year the black men are the real thing and the “entertainment” which they offer has changed. Instead of the sentimental ditties of the London music halls the “buskers” are rendering the “coon songs” of New York and Chicago, and the “nigger melodies” of the plantation days. The sentimental semimilitary songs, so popular in America about the time of the Spanish-Amer-ican warfare also great favorites at

present on the Margate sands. There Is no prejudice among the lower class home-staying Englishmen and women against the negro. The colonial Englishman regards him much as the American does, but to the cockney or his prototype of the provincial cities every man whose skin is not white is a “native.” He draws no distinction between the negro and the high class Hindoo, and receives them both on terms of perfect equality. He will eat with the negro, drink -with him, and the women will go even further, they will marry him. A negro quarter, although not very well defined, is already springing up in London. It lies in Soho among the tangle of narrow streets inhabited by men of every nationality under the siin, except English, and there are one or two restaurants where chicken, sweet corn and other delicacies dear to the negro’s heart can be obtained. Another center is in the maze of courts and Alleys behind Fleet street. Had to Be Cautious. The Artist —So you can’t use my sketches, then. Would you mind telling me what you think of them? The Editor —I can’t new; there are some ladies in the next room.—HalfHoliday. At Last. He—Do you think a young man has as good a chance now as he had 20 or 30 years ago? She —Better; this is so sudden; but I know papa will be delighted.—N. Y. Sun. ■ r f THE MARKETS. New York, .Oct. 6. LIVE STOCK-Steers ....... 4 00 @7 25 Hoes 6 7Q. @ 7 00 sheep :::::::: 275 @525 FLOUR—Winter Straights.. 415 @ 4 30 WHEAT-May CORN-September fogg- “f* RYE—No. 2 Western 8314® BUTTER—Creamery 18 @ 26 EGGS 20 @ 24 CHEESE. 1014O> 15 CHICAGO. CATTLE=Prtme Steers ....66 40 @ 7 76 Fair to Good Steers 5 50 @ 640 Plain to Fancy Heifers.. 4 25 (fTTW Calves *SO w 8 50 HOGS—Beavy Packers ..... 665 @ 690 Heavy Butchers 6 W Pitrp 4 50 and 80 B L T TT E R—Creamer y 16^ —*—Hairy — LIVE POULTRY 1* POTATOES (per bu.) <0 @76 FLOUR—Spring Wheat, Sp'l 5 90 @ 6 00 GRAlN—Wheat, May 1 02%@ 1 03% December, New 99%@ 1 00% • Corn,‘December 66%® 66% Oats, May 51%® gl% Rye, No. 2 76 # <6% MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat, No. 1 Nor'nf $1 06" @ 1 07% December 98%@ 99%Corn, December 65!i@, 65% Oat's, Standard -w 50%@ 51% Rye", No. 1 76 @ 7b% KANSAS CITY.-' GRAlN—Wheat, December. $ 93 @ 93^ May 96 @ 96% Corn, December 58 @ 58% Oats, No. 2 White 48 @ 52 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Reef Steers ~..,,53 75 @7 50 Texas Steers . 2 JO @ 5 00 HOGS-Paekers 5 75 @ 6 75 Butchers 6 40 @ 7 00 SHEEP—Natives 360 @4 26 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers ...|4@o §>7 25 i Stockers and Feeders.... 275 >fi 475 Cows and Heifers 2 75 @4 75 HOGS-Heavy .. .* 6 55 g 685 SHEEP—Wethers ..... 3 50 (@3 90

LICE IN POULTRY Borax Spray a Safe Preventive — Simple, Cheap, Harmless to Fowls. "20 Mule Team” Borax was a good thing poultry of lice. 'I had used so much Inflammable Lice killers that my Poultry Houses were regular fire traps. I gave my S. C. W. Leghorn house a good spraying just two months ago. Since I have caught several hens and I found no lice. I am rid of lice and shall continue to use “20 Mule Team” Borax as a spray, also as a wash. (Signed) MRS. B. R. BUFFHAM, 0 Roswell. New Mexico. CALLED FOR 80ME PUNISHMENT. Prisoner Altogether Too Deliberate for Life In Arizona. Arizona Judge (to defendant in an assault-and-battery case) —You say the complainant called you a liar and horse thief at least a dozen times before you knocked him down, eh? Defendant—Yes, sir. Judge—He said you were a coward and quitter? Defendant—He did. Judge—All right. I’ll let you off on the assault charge; but —don’t be in a hurry, mister—l reckon I’ll have to fine you jest about SSO for not knocking him down sooner!, The sheriff will take you in tow and see that you cough up the dust befbre you pass out. —Illustrated Sunday Magazine. NOT DOLLARB, BUT EGGS.

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First Thespian—When I was playing in Kansas City and getting my 200 a night— Second Ditto Hold on, there, Monty; make that five! First Thespian—No, Jack; upon my honor—2oo a night regular. Eggs are cheap there. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, u mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Cos., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury. and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It Is taken Internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Cos. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. A Polite Boy. "I understand that your little boy hi very polite.” “Yes.” “It’s nice to see children well brought up. I like to- see little boy* get up and give their seats to ladles.” “That boy got down out of a pear tree yesterday and gave his seat to a bulldog before he left the lot where the tree was.” —Houston PobL Wh portent to Mother*. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for Infanta and children, and Bee that it In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought It Would Beem So. “Beauty is only skin deep," remarked the party with the quotation habit “And if some portraits of handsome women are accurate,” rejoined the peevish person, “beauty is quite a distance outside the cuticle.”)^ Lewis’ Single Binder Cigar has a rich ‘Aste. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise insults. —Latin proverb. Mr*. Winslow'* Soothing Syrup. For children teething, soften, the gums, reduce* Inflammation, *llay* pain, cures wind colic. • 25c * bottle. Whether life shall be desert depends on the .springs in your heart. U*e Allen'* Foot-Ease Cure* tired, aching, sweating feet. 26c. Trial package free. A. 8. Olmsted, L*Rojr, N. T. Self-realization comes through service for social redemption. FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop payments. J. MULHALL, Sioux City, la. All’s to be feared where all’s to be gained.—Byron.

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PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more good* brighter and fatter colon than any other dm. Ona 10c aackago oolora all Kbara. Tliaj dra In cold water batter than anj other dya. You can dyo Mlgarmoniwithoutrippiagapart WriUtorlroobooUat-lia* toDyu. Blaacband MUColora. MONROE DRUB 00., Qulnoy, lUhtoim.

Difficult Advice. ' "In your campaign speeches,” said the idealist, “and in your private conversation, too, you must tell people only thw simple and direct truth.” “Do you know,” returned the candidate thoughtfully, “I don’t believe people would vote for a man who sbemad as ill-natured as all that!”—Washington Star. “BPOHN’B.” This is the name of the greatest of all remedies for Distemper, Pink Eye, Heaves, and the like among all ages of horses. Sola by Druggists, Harness Makers, or send to the manufacturers. $.50 and SI.OO a bottle. Agents wanted. Send for free book. Spohn Medical Cos., Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. Truly a Bad Caas. The Butler—What makes the mlssua in such a bhd humor this morning? The Maid —Some woman told her a secret last night, and she’s forgotten it. —Stray Stories. Lewis’ Single Binder straight se. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria. IH. It’s easy for a man to get in the swift class if he’s on the down grade.

WOMAN’S BACKACHE

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The back is the mainspring of woman’s organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with other symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the body, that a woman’s feminine organism needs immediate attention. In such cases the one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave., Rockland, Me., says: “1 was troubled for along time with dreadful backaches and a pain In my side, and was miserable in every way. I doctored until I was discouraged and thought I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try it; after taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt 4o well in my life.” Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl, Pa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: *‘l had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. I could not sleep, and had nq appetite. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured me and made me feel like anew woman.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear-mg-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion,dizsdness,or nervous prostration.

SICK HEADACHE j —i Positively cured by CARTERS theae Lut, ° piH *- They also relieve DiejsH 111 IP tress from Dyspepsia, In-B-g J 1 1 IrL digestion and Too Hearty Pf I V K Eating. A perfect rem■A 111 || i' edy for Dizziness, NauH KILL 9. ea. Drowsiness, Bad if Taste In the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Ifcis., TORPID liver. They regulate the Bowels. . Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE,MU PRICE. PADTCDcI Genuine Must Bear UAm tno Fac-Simile Signature ■iTTLE _ TpIlls! ■L [refuse substitutes. HYGIENIC TOWEL ▲ towel which Is sure to receive Immediate and m&t hearty welcome by the user. From every pointof view, economical as well as sanitary, it is by longodds the best that has ever been put before the public. The “Hvgienic” possesses every-good quality that is possible to be put in a towel. It is of strong, massive rough texture, assuring good wear. It is porous, and absorbs motsture qufckiyv drring the body with hardly any effort. It is a rapid absorber of water and It remains entirely odorless. It is made in four sizes: Jsx3o JOo apiece. 18x40 15c apiece 20x44.30c* apiece. *41x50 35c apiece. Send for one or a pair for sample. Money returned if not satisfactory, write directly to Mills, as we are the manufacturers. THE HYGIENIC MILLS. York and Howard Streets, Philadelphia', Pa. VOR SALE—Beat Patent On Earth. HouseM- bold necessity. Every Woman will buy. Fortune for promoter. Address: PATENTEES, Jenifer, Alabama.

Syrupsffigs Cleanses tlje Astern Eftectua I ly, Dispels Lolds and Headr aches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts Truly aa a Laxative. Best forMen\v£)men and Child* ren-youngand Old, % itsTjeneficial Effects Always huy the Genuine which has the foil name of the Com"CALIFORNIA J?o Strup Cos. m it is manufactured. printed on A* jront of every package. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS, one size only, regular price s(Kj>*r bottle.

W. I. Doeglas makes and sells more men's 53.00 and *3.00 ehoes than any other manufacturer In the world, bees ure they hold their ahape, St better, awl wear longer then any other make. Stoss st All Prides, for fv*rv ktrnbdr ts the Family, Mss, Boyt, Woman, Ml wet A Children W.L.Doqclm ft.se aad M .00 autX4. ItM um* So onaltad ot aay yclea. W. L. Doojlu |MO oat fl.oo oSsai an tho boot la tbo wmM M Color SyoMi Cood SnloiMh ■ff-Xake Do Suhotltuto. W. L. Dooxlao no mo and price It tumped on bottom. Sold rrorrwhere. Shoot moiled from taotory to any part ot the world. Catalogue free. • W. 1_ DOUGLAS. 7 Sort SI., Bfocttoo. XoooThe Road to Wealth Many people traverse it, but few have time to reach the desired haven. Their money works too slowlf to bring them there in time. The man whose money is making 6 % is making money one hundred ter cent, faster than his 3% neighbor, and, if he earns 12% on his funds, he is making money three hun* dred t*r cent, faster. A man walking, and an express speeding, about represents the difference. Let a company with ample assets, large proven earning power, unexcelled opportunities, guidedi by reliable, energetic, experienced business men Show you how to double and treble the present earning power of your money. An Inquiry commits you to no expense~placet you under no obligation—a postal request links ut together. Will you write? To-day— to Pittsburg-Salt Lake Oil Company Keystone Building, Pittsburg, Pa* Money in Fruit AND VEGETABLES A HOME In a place with no Frost nor SnoW, no Floods nor Cyclones, no Rattlesnakes nor Sunstrokes. You can get TWELVE SHARES in a five hundred acre Orange Grove, TEN ACRES of land nearby and TWO TOWN LOTB for 1818.00 cash, At McKinley, Isle of Pines Jnst south of Cuba. Installment payments taken. Oranges, Grapefruit, Pineapples, Tomatoes, Peppers, Egg-plant and other crops Say from 8300.00 to 8800.00 an acre yearly. ur settlement is four year, old. 800 Americans have Invested with us. Look into thia. Write for printed matter. TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT CO. 403 Main Street. BUFFALO. N. Y. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Hotel Savoy Concrete, steel and marble. In heart of city. 210 rooms, 135 baths. English Grill. SI.OO up. TAFT or BRYAN LITHOGRAPHS Size 31 x 28. Sample Copies In tubes, lO eta. Special price, in quantities to Agents. THK ANDERSON UTHO CO. 418 East B Hi st, CINCINNATI, O, 117 fl. a large Nat of fine lowa VV f* nfIVR farms from 40 to 1000 ~ v Mau ▼ acre,, ranging In price from 840 to 8100 per acre. Write us kind,of farm and location you want. We can furnish it. Corn Brit Land A Loan Comoony. Dm Moiao,, la. XkANK DEPOSITS GUARANTEED by OMse,„ AS homa State Guaranty Fund. Don't Worry about banka. Deposit your money here. Safe as Govern, ment Bonds. Payable on demand. We pay 4$ In* terest- We sell high-class bonds. Largest Btate Bank In Oklahoma. Capital 821X1,000. Send forbooklet X. Oklahoma Trust Company, Muskogee, OUa, FARMS AND HOMES IN VIRGINIA, Level * lands, fertile soil, excellent water, best schoolsand churches convenient. Agreeable, health* ful climate, winter average 39 degrees: summer, 76. Improved farms, 810 to 130 per acre. Write for fret Illustrated Real Estate Herald No. 16, with full aaoount. Pyle A Cos., Inc., Petersburg, Va. U/E BUILD onr own Aerial or Motor Tramways, ” and contract to move any kind of tonnage, ores any character of country and for any distance up to fifteen miles, at an agreed price per ton. Our “Correspondents Contract’ for exclnslve county representation will interest you; Consolidated Tramway Company, Roanoke, Va. MONTREAL READ ESTATE. Building lot, tVA from 190 up, at Park Avenue Extension. Payable 6% down, balance $1.46 np monthly. 10* off 10 lot blocks. Selling rapidly bore. Will double In vain. In 2 years. Free plans from John Findlay, 30 St. John Street, Montreal, Canada. Ddljril OR SALE—I6O to 1200 1C IK KLIiN 1 acres. Buildings, * ztui * sheep, corn. hay. grass and springs. Railroad, telephone, Rural throngb farm. James P. Flint, Bowling Green. Missouri. WIDOWS’ 1 ™ 1 ” N EW LAW obtained *>7 JOHN W. MORRIS. PENSIONS Washington, D. O. . A. N. K.—A (1908 —41) 2251.

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