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Upon the iron high*raj, wreathed in smoke,
Or east or west tW» clanking engine reels,
The weary dust spins onward at the stroke
Of hall a hundred wheels.
And clouds of hissing steam.
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THE RAILWAY.
It comes, the breathless driver staring straight
Through misty eyeholes, with the sudden
gleam
Of burnished dome, and cranks of ponderous'
weight
Old countrymen that trudge from new plowed
lands
.Affld on*.high bridges stay their weary feet
Bee faces flashed beneath them, waving hands
That-may not stay to greet.
Or slow, with hollow blast and wealthy din,
"Bg wide armed signals creeps the laden train,
High vans with shuddering jolt and clinking
pin
And hiss of clattering chain.
"Wide eyed, affrighted cattle, meek and still,
And murky coal for city folk to burn,
And dusty blocks hewed from some western
hill
And wreathed in twisted fern.
But, best of all, when, in the sullen night,
Along the dim embankment, hung in air,
Bhoots the red streamer, linked with cheerful
light,
The wide flung furnace glare
Lights the dim hedges and the rolling steam,
Then passes and, in narrowing distance, dies,
Tracked by the watchful lanterns' lessening
gleam—
Two red, resentful eyes.
—•'Lord Vyet and Other Poems" by Arthur
Christopher Benson.
TROOPS AND DRINK.
Th Curious Statistics Showing W at Eu
ropean Nations Pay Fo Them.
The friends and advocates of "uni
versal peace" and the foes of intemper
ance and inebriety are pretty generally
agreed- that the expenses attending war
and war armaments and liquid bever
ages of an intoxicating or exhilarating
kind are unduly large. There is an old
proverb—it is not a Swiss proverb, of
course—to the effect that a man who
drinks more than he should "drinks
like a Swiss," and it is for this reason,
perhaps—and residents of the republic
of Switzerland say for no better one—
that the fame of residents of Switzer
land for sobriety is not as farreaching
as the fame of the Scotch, f$r instance,
for frugality. A recent computation
which has appeared shows that the an
nual expenditures of the Swiss for wine,
beer, cider and brandy are 175,000,000
francs, six times as much as is spent on
the army. Germany expends, or, more
properly, individual Germans expend,
$500,00(\000a year on liquid refresh
ments, distilled or fermented—chiefly
beer and Rhine wine—and 120,000,
000 a year on the German army. Franc^
expends in a year $500,000,000- on
drink, chiefly wine, and $140,000,000
a year on the maintenance of the army
of the republic. The Italians expend
$250,000,000 a year for liquors, wines
and cordials and $55,000,000 for the
Italian army, the expenditures being in
about the same ratio as in other nations.
Austria-Hungary expends less upon
liquor in a year than any other country
of the first class in Europe, amounting
to about $225,000,000, though persons
who are familiar with life along the
blue Danube might not unreasonably
come to the conclusion that $200,000,
000 of this sum was spent in the city
of Vienna alone in lager beer. Such,
however, is not the case. In the moun
tainous districts, particularly in the
Tyrol, Transylvania and in Croatia,
very little wine is drunk, and though
Hungary produces a large and steadily
increaasing amount of wine a very large
proportion of it is exported to Other
countries. Relatively not much of it is
kept for home consumption.
The Austria-Hungarian army costs
$70,000,000 a year, or less than one
third of the cost of the liquors con
sumed in a year. The Eussians expend
$300,000,000 a year in liquors and
$150,000,100 a year, or one-half as
much, for the maintenance of the army.
England expends $480,000,000 a year
on beer, ale, wine, porter, gin, rum and
smoky whisky and $90,000,000 a year
on the maintenance of the British army.
No one knows exactly how much is
spent in the United States on liquor in
a year, especially in prohibition states,
but it is supposed that the whisky tak
en for medicinal purposes costs each
year more than does the maintenance
of the regular army.—New York Sun.
A Good Roadmaker.
Edwin Mclntyre, who lives a hermit
life in the house near Warren where Dr.
Pilton R. Baker was shot, has a queer
hobby. One of the prettiest and best
pieces of road in Maine passes in front
of his retreat. It has been built by Mr.
Mclntyre, who for the last 23 years has
been picking up the rocks and stones
near his honre and pounding them into
pebbles, which he has put in the high
way. In 23 years' time he has pounded
900,000 stones and made them ready for
road use. The town authorities, recog
nizing the value of the work, for years
have compensated the man by giving
him his aoad tax. He estimates that he
has placed on the road 20 cords of these
manufactured stones. Other towns might
envy Warren such a faithful roadbuild
er.—Rockland (Ma) Star.
His Mark.
"How do you sign your name?" asked
the tax collector of the Pumpkinville
citizen who had come ia to register for
the election.
"How did the kernul thar sign his
sen?" asked the citizen, indicating the
young lawyer who had just registered
and was passing out the door.
"Why, he signed his 'O. Tolliver
Johnson, Esquire.'
"Waal, jest put mine down Hello
Tom Phillips, Esquah.''—Atlanta Jour
nal.
Anthropologists have ascertained that
the Andaman islanders, the smallest
race of people in the world, average less
than four feet in height, while few of
them weigh'more than 75 pounds. J'
vffe-,
Charlotte is a corruption of the old
iglish word oharlyt, which means a
dish of custard, and chocolate russe is
Russian charlotte.
THE ^DEST^NEWSPAPER.
I Was Established a China In the Eighth
Century.
The oldest newspaper in the world is
the Tsing-P^o, or Peking News, founded
in the year 710 A. D. Until quite late
ly it was generally supposed that the
Kin Pan, a Chinese journal published
in Peking for the last thousand years,
was the oldest newspaper in the world.
In a very able work recently published,
however, Imbault Huart, the French
consul at Canton, shows that this high
honor belongs to the Tsing-Pao, which
has been published continuously since
the year 710 and is even said to have
been founded some. 200 years before
that date, or early in the sixth century,
800 years before a newspaper was known
in Europe.
The Tsing-Pao now appears as a book
of 24 pages, octavo size, tied in a yel
low cover by two knots of rice paper.
Each page has seven columns, and each
column has seven characters, or letters,
which read from top to bottom. The
types are made of willow wood. This
is the "edition de luxe" officially recog
nized by the emperor, and the price of
which is about 24 cents a month. There
is also a popular edition, got up rough
ly on poor paper and printed, or rather
daubed, from a plate of engraved wax.
This costs 16 cents per month and is
issued an hour before the other.
It is the official journal of the gov
ernment—the "Times" of China. It
gives all the details concerning the per
son of the emperor, his movements, his
maladies, his remedies, the imperial
decrees and the reports of the ministers,
in the printing of which every error is
punished with death.
It announces to all the provinces the
date which has been fixed by the em
peror for the people to change their
summer hats for winter ones, which
they are expected to do as one man.
This journal is easy to read, for it ap
pears in an English translation 4 in
Shanghai.
After the Tsing-Pao the most impor
tant paper in China is of modern date—
the Chin-Pao, or Shanghai News,
founded in 1872. It has a circulation of
some 15,000 copies, and at the close of
the Franco-Chinese war Li Hung Chang
made use of it—an innovation till then
unknown—to influence public opinion
and demonstrate by history the rights
of the Chinese over Anam.
Chinese newspapers are usually print
ed on yellow paper, which is changed to
blue in case of mourning and red on
gala days. One paper has three editions
each day—on yellow paper in.the morn
ing, gray at noon and white at night—
so that the sellers cannot substitute one
edition for another in serving their cus
tomers. Another journal has a title
which signifies "the reproduction of
what it is necessary to know," all given
on a couple of pages, octavo size. They
readily attempt to "en-Chiuese" foreign
words, as, for instance, the word "tele
phone" is made to read "to-il foung."
The Chinese press, like many of their
other institutions, has remained station
ary for 1,000 years, but is now begin
ning to wake up and modernize itself.
—San Francisco Call.
The Texas Girl.
Chivalry used to be described as a
southern virtue, and though we do not
Wish to imply that the men of the north
are unchivalrous it is quit8 possible
that in the south women are still re
garded with a greater degree of formal
reverence than elsewhere. A native of
Texas describes with enthusiasm the
women of his state and snows why they
cannot fail to excite admiration. "They
are," he declares, "sweet, polite, gra
cious and courageous they do not curse
or swear they do not use slang, and are
not drunkards. Most of them ride well
on horseback and can use the six shooter,
but do not want to take away a man's
job or position." Could a more engag
ing picture be drawn? These lovely
compounds of swettnesd and strength
know their power, but do not abuse it.
They may resent injury in the most ef
fective fasbiGn, but they are not mean.
They will hesitate before shooting a
man who has a family dependent upon
him. They are no mere amazons. The
fact that they do not curse and swear
shows that they possess also th« gentler
domestic virtues. Those who are in
search of the ideal girl should purchase
a ticket for Texas.—Providence Jour
nal.
The Odor of the Opera.
The confirmed opera goer drew a long
breath. "That would make me happy if
it blew over my grave," he murmured
blissfully.
The woman with him looked at^nim
doubtfully. "What's blowing?" she
asked unsympathetically.
"It's the perfume," he explained.
"One always gets it when the curtain
rises on the second act. The house is
fall by that time and the odors of the
flowers and perfumes have grown
heavy. The air is close and oppressive
during the entr'acte, but when the cur
tain goes up the draft sweeps out and
catches that indescribable odor and
whirls it up here 1p the dress circle.
It's not like anything else. No theater
has it. It's the essence of opera flowers
and laces and jewels and beauty and
music. I'd recognize a whiff of it In
paradise. Just ask any old chap who
has been coming here for years about
it. He'll know what I mean."—New
York Sun.
Celebrating- His Deliverance.':
"Herbert," asked the young wife
timidly, "is this the kirtd of mince pie
your mother used to make?"
"No, dear," answered the young hus
band. "My mother never made mince
pies. She was a health reform lecturer,''
And Herbert helped himself to a sec
ond cut.—Chicago Tribune.
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The Only Sore Way.
Pollywog—How would you go about
finding a needle in a haystack?
Jollydog—I shouldn't look fori*. I'd
simply slide down the haystack.—New
York Journal^ .«s$£«® IH,&WF
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NATURE OF tlFE.
Talk on the interaction of the Consttt
aenta of Protoplasm.
Herbert Spencer's definition of the
nature of life implies, as is well known,
a continnous adjustment' of internal to
external relations, says the London
Lancet. In other words, vitality is pre-,
served by interactions going on between
the constituents of the protoplasm. On
the face of it this view must be very
materially modified in the light of some
exceedingly interesting experiments re
cently brought to the notice of the
Royal society by Horace Brown, whose
classic researches on that interesting
class of ferments the enzymes are well
known. He has found that by submit
ting seeds to the very low temperature
Df evaporating liquid air—i. e., from
—183 degrees C. to 192 degrees C—for
110 consecutive hours their power of
germinating is not in any way impair
ed. Since the above temperature is con
siderably below tbct at which ordinary
chemical reactions take place, the re
sult is very remarkable and would ap
pear to show that although a state of
complete chemical inertness in proto
plasm may be established it does not
necessarily lead to a destruction of its
potential activity.
Is this protoplasm tnus brought to a
"resting" condition to burst into activi
ty on restoring favorable conditions? If
so, what becomes of life during this
"rest?" These observations are also of
interest in connection with the sugges
tion of Lord Kelvin that the origin of
life as we know it may have been extra
terrestrial and due to the "moss grown
fragments from the ruins of another
world" which reached the earth as
meteorites. That such fragments might
circulate in the intense cold space for a
perfectly indefinite period without prej
udiced their freight of seeds or spores
is, Horace Brown remarks, almost cer
tain from the facts we know about the
maintenance of life by "resting" pro
toplasm. The difficulties in the way of
accepting such a hypothesis certainly
do not lie in this direction. Here is an
interesting problem for biologists, and
the development of the question will be
followed with the keenest interest.
TRICKS OF MEMORY.
Notable Examples of Forgetfulness That
Are'Supposed to Be True.
The first man to start a school for the
training of memory was a Greek, Si
monides, who read one of his poetic
compositions to a large audience and so
fascinated them that when he bowed
and withdrew from the building they
sat spellbound. The roof caved in and
killed them all, mangling them so that
the bodies were unrecognizable, but Si
monides came to the rescue of the de
spairing relatives and said he could re
member where each person in the audi
ence sat and who he was. As there was
no one to dispute his decisions his iden
tification was satisfactory, and he profit
ed by the enthusiasm to start a memory
school.
A young woman of no education fell
ill in a small Germantown. She could
neither read nor write, yet she raved in
Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and the sim
ple villagers thought she was possessed
of the devil. Investigation proved that
at the age of 9 she had been taken by a
charitable old Protestant pastor. It was
his custom for years to walk up and
down a passage of the house into which
the kitchen opened and read to himself
in a loud voice out of his books. These
books were ransacked by the physician
in charge of the curious case and who
had made inquiries into the sick girl's
past life, and in them were found the
identical Greek and Latin passages
which the girl in her delirium had re
peated.
There is an authentic case of a bril
liant young woman, happily married,
who had a long illness, the result of
wbj,ch was that when she recovered she
had lost every recollection of her life
from the day of her marriage, inclusive
of the ceremony. The rest of her life up
to that point she remembered clearly.
At first she pushed her husband and her
child from her in alarm, but her par
ents and friends have convinced her she
is married and has a son. She believes
their word of necessity, though she has
never recovered her memory of that one
year which is lost to her.—Exchange.
The Servian Drum
The men -who play the big drums in
the different regiments of the Servian
army must have an easier lot than, the
drummers of other lands, for they do
not have to carry their own drums.
In nearly all cases instead of being
slung in front of the man who plays it
the instrument is put on a small two
wheel cart drawn by a large dog. Of
course the drummer must play as he
marches, but the dog is so well trained
that there is no difficulty in doing this.
The animal keeps his place even
through the longest marches, and the
drummer walks behind the cart, per
forming on his instrument as.it goes
along. Each regiment is provided with
two or three big drams, but very few
regiments have a band.—Youth's Com
panion.
Not Always.
"Remember, my boy," said Uncle
James as he gave Bobby a coin, "that
if you take care of the pennies the shil
lings will take care of themselves."
Bobby looked a trifle dubious.' ',,'•
I do take care of the pennies,"he
replied, "but as soon as they get to be
shillings pa takes care of'em."—Lon
don Tit-Bits. '.:•*:.
Of the two stamps first issued Wash
ington's portrait was on the 10 cent and
Franklin's on the other. Since that
time the various issues of the United
States stamps would furnish a unique
portrait gallery, showing .the^faces of 48
noted Americans. SKi''t%$
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The bullet which killed Lord Nefaoh
at Trafalgar is still preserved.' It is
mounted in a crystal locket and reposes
in a crimson bag with, gold tassels
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Many other Articles teo numerous
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Ask for the king of all 10 cent cigars, the
Costs no more than inferior package soda—
never spoils the flour, keeps soft, and is unu
versally acknowledged purest in the world.
ft Made only by CHURCH & CO., New York,
sL 9 Sold toy grocers everywhere.
MT Write for Arm and Hammer Book of valuable Recipes—FREE.
M.Mullea, Pres. J. M. Tajen, T. P. W. F. Seiter, Cash. W. E. Koch, Ass't.
The Citizens' Sank of New Ulm, Minn.
Directors: I M. Taje«, Ge: Doehne, W. Boesch, F, Crane, O. M. Glsen, Wm.
Silverson and M. Mullen.
The individual responsibility of th« 27 stockholders is $2,000,000.
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President of and Senior Consulting
Physician to the
NORTHWESTERN
MEDICAL^ SURGICAL
INSTITUTE
and EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY wiU
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All work ia country and city takea a.
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I will keep on hand a complete aFsor*
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strong. All druggists, 50c or $1. Cure guaran
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Sterling Remedy Ca. Chicag* »r New York.
Kducata Your ttowals With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
*0c, 25c. If C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
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Sold in quantities to suit the
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TOS. SCHMtCKER
ii^e Millinery
Th« ladies «f New Ulm should
bear in mind that we lead in.
millinery g«ods of all kinds.
H1.TS and BONNETS.
TELVETS amd SILKS.
FEATHERS and FLOWERS.
A complete lin« of each always kept
on hand. Also fancy work, stamped pat
terns and ribbons. In embroidery work
and fine yarns we carry a particularly
fine line. MRS. SARAH PFEFFERLB
To Cur« Constipation For«r«r.
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Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c
ir C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Gatkge 0pgar?s.
#*eo. Dayton sells tne Celebrated Cot
tag» Organ with the largest and
West Organ Co. in tha World to back
their warranted goods. Sold on east
terms *nd cheap for cash or on shor
time. Pianos sold «n th« monthly iny
stallment plan. The Conover,the World's
Favorite, is mad« by theChicago Cottage
Organ C». and built by Conover Bros,
het best piano builders in America.
Educate Yoar liowels With Cascurets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
He, -oc. If C. C. C. fail, drugpists refund money.
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