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PS1®®-? "fez" 1 w. OBITUARY MRS. LdUlSA DAHMS. MRS. MARY LINDMEIER. Mrs. Mary Lindmeier, .widow of the iate John Lindmeier, died at the home -Ml her daughter, Mrs. John Bauer, on 3 In the death of Mrs. Louisa Dahms, widow of the late Johann Dahms, Nicollet county has lost another pioneer. Mrs. Dahms passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs. Louis Fitzner, Courtland Township last Thursday morning, December 28, after an illness of .more than ten months. Myocarditis is given as the cause of death. She had passed her eighty-fifth birthday. Mrs. Dahms, whose maiden name was Louisa Stolt, was born in Sallentin, Province of Pommern, Germany, Sep tember 7, 1831, and was married to Mr. Dahms in that country in 1854. They came to America in 1859, stopping at Madison, 111., where they'remained for about a year and then coming to Minne sota, settling in Nicollet township, Nicollet County, in 1860, taking a homestead a mile wgst of Nicollet village. Following her husband's death in 1895, Mrs. Dahms continued to live on the old homestead until about twelve years ago, when she went to reside with her daughter, Mrs. Fitzner in Courtland. Mr. and Mrs. Dahms wereNicollet county residents during the Indian up rising, and experienced many of the early-day hardships of those perilous times. Mis. Dahms was the mother of nine children, six of whom survive her, as follows: J. C. Dahms, Walnut Grove Mrs. Louis Fitzner, Courtland Mrs. Charles Braun, Mankato Mrs. Henry Bode, Courtland Mrs.' Charles Tom schin, New Ulm W. M. Dahms, Nicollet township. She also leaves three sisters and one brother, Mrs. Minnie Kettner, Mrs. Louis Bode, Sr., Mrs. Elisa Cor nelius, and Christian Stolt of Nicollet township also forty-four grand-child ren and forty-one great-grand-children. Mrs. Dahms was a life-long member of the Lutheran church. The funeral was held Saturday after noon, from the home of Mrs. Fitzner, with services at the Courtland Lutheran church, Rev- H. Strasen, the pastor, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. JOSHUA HODGSON Joshua Hodgson, a veteran of the Civil War, and a pioneer resident of Belgrade township, Nicollet county, died at his home there last week, from a com plication of diseases. He was born in Clinton county, New York, in 1846, and came with his parents to Belgrade in 1857. He served as a private in the Company F, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. He is survived by one daughter, Miss Luella Hodgson a brother, J. Hodgson, -——ftnd three asters, the Misses Sarah and Charlotte Hodgson, all living at the farm home. The funeral was held from the home Friday afternoon, and burial was in the Clenwood cemetery. North Franklin street, at 10:30 Sunday night. The cause of death is said to have been weakness induced by old age. She was past 80 years old. Mrs. Lindmeier, whose maiden name was Mary Kestner, was born in Ger many, November 23, 1836, and wasfew married to Mr. Lindmeier nearly fifty years ago and came to America in 1881, settling in Stark township, where Mrs. Satisfy the Appetites caused by sharp autumn breezes with some of the many tempting foods we keep on hand for that purpose. A good, hot substantial breakfast of bacon and teggs or sausage and cakes, topped off with a cup of our excel lent Chase and Sanborn Cof fee will start the day right for the workers of the family and make life looJp better all around. Here are few of the good things we furnish for your table: New canned vegetables and fruits just received. Brookneld Pork Sausages. Dill and Sweet Pickles, just fresh. Purity Cakes in all flavors. Fresh Oysters now in season. FT\ *or quick service I A and first class supplies. Win. H. Bierbaum, Prop. 'A Mh^d^W^M Lindmeier continued to live until a few years ago/when she left the farm and removed to New Ulm to make her home with her daughter. Her husband died a short time after settling on the farm in Stark, which Tie had purchased on his arrival in America. Seven children were born to her, five of whom are living. They are: Mrs. John Bauer, New Ulm Mrs Anna Wild, Sax ton, N. D. John Lindmeier, Minneapolis Andrew Lindmeier, Watertown, S. D. Anton Lindmeier, New Ulm. She also leaves a brother, Anton Kester, and a sis ter, Mrs. Lena Helget, of Sleepy Eye. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock from Holy Trinity Catholic church, and burial will be in the Catholic cemetary. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our thanks to all the kind friends who assisted us during the last illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, MRS. ANTON LIEB We, are especially grateful to Rev Father Schlinkert and Rev. Father Schmidt, the Sisters at the Loretto Hospital, the pall bearers, and all others who showed their sympathy and kind ness in any way. Anton Lieb and children. FEED BIRDS IN WINTER PLEA OF CARLOS AVERY Carlos Avery, state Game and Fish Commissioner, has sent out a plea for the protection^ the birds that remain with us in winter. "Such birds are always in imminent danger of starvation during periods of deep snow and low temperature," says Mr. Avery. Many birds live on foods obtained from the ground—others from weed tops and plants that are covered by deep snows. Much can be done to supply the birds with food and many bird lives can be saved by a little care and attention." Mr. Avery suggests that feeding stations be established near residences for such winter birds as the downy and hairy woodpeckers, chickadees, nui hatchers, brown creepers, evening gros beaks and other winter residents and visitants. Suet, seeds of various kinds, ground meat scraps, etc., placed in artificial feeding1 stations, or in any suitable place, will attract the birds in large numbers. Suet may be fastened to branches of trees, grain may be scatter ed on straw or litter in sheltered places which may be protected by boughs to prevent covering with snow. Discussing Mr. Avery's appeal for the caring for the birds, a New Ulm citizen and an old hunter said yesterday: "I am heartily in favor of doing all that I can to care for the birds that re main in the north during the winter, but, I think that some steps should be made immediately to protect the prairie' chickens from the ravenous hunters. The legislature at this session should amend the game laws to protect the chickens for at least five years, by pro hibiting their being killed. Unless this is done it will be but a short time when they will have become entirely extinct in this part of the country." Other sportsmen have expressed the' same sentiments here within the past weeks. It might be well for the Commercial Club to put the question up to the legislature^ and no doubt other sections of the state would fall in line and insist that the Legislature take prompt action. Hollanders and Herrings. Holland can claim the honor of hav ing first established herring fisheries and taught its people the very great nutritious value of this fish A Dutch man, Wilhelm Benkelszoon, discovered the secret of preserving herrings in the fourteenth centuryTand the salted herring made its appearance on the market in precisely thevsame manner as it1 now does, for the preserving process has undergone no marked change. Your Dutch fisherman is an expert at his job and can manage as, many as 1,200 fisb in an hour, working at top speed. He ties a short knife to the third and fourth fingers of his right hand by a stimg, which is at tached to the handle of the knife. He thrusts it thrpugh the gill cavities and. with a sharp cut, bungs away the*gills, heart, gullet and pectoral fins of the unfortunate herring "Pray Before Being Married." Here is a Russian pioverb that might be made good use of. It cer tainly would dispel a multitude of sor rows, especially the last one, which would prevent many hasty marriages and relieve the courts of many divorce cases. It takes matrimony out-of the pale of whims and makes a divine con sideration of it. The proverb runs this way I "If you go to war, pray if you go on a sea journey, pray twice, but pray three times if you are going to be married." Good advice, all of it. There is too much that is hysterical in the matri monial venture, and a little praying will tend to relieve the mind.—Ohio State Journal. Without Offending. Two things you can say to almost any man without offendinff him. One is, "You are working too hard" The othervis, "You ought,to geLmorj* pay.' -Boston Glob* j£&&, %21 mMJt4?ti^ mm CR0SSIN9THE LI When Neptune Owns the Ship and Holds High Carnival., PLAYS SOME ROUGH PRANKS. W' As a Vessel Nears the Equator the Sea King's Reign Begins, and^ For the Time Being No Passenger IsToo High or Mighty to Escape. It is to be expected that the people shut up in the little republic that is bounded by the iron walls of an ocean liner should seek many ways of divert ing themselves. Perhaps "republic" is not altogether a happy.word to use in that connection, because no 'czar of the Russias fever had such autocratic pow er over his subjects as the captain of a great liner has over the travelers on his ship. But he uses his power very sparingly, and if his temporary sub jects behave decently and obey the unwritten laws of the sea he lets them do about as they please. They exercise their ingenuity in pio riding all sorts of entertainments to relieve the monotony of the passing days. Shuffleboard and deck golf, ring toss and bull board and a concert usu ally suffice for the brief joui-ney across' the Atlantic ocean, but on the more dis tant voyages to India or Australia or down the long coast of ^outh America these mild amusements pall upon the voyagers, "and they plan something more elaborate. Tournaments of vari ous kinds, races of every sort, lectures and plays are the order of the day. But the most time honored and ex travagant revelries are sure to take place when the ship crosses the imag inary line between the northern and southern hemispheres. From time im memorial that has been the day dedi cated to jokes and quips and pranks of all kinds. The captain's serious face re laxes the mates and even the quar termasters and sailors are evidently concocting some huge scheme of fun no horseplay is outlawed no practical jokes are too rough no exalted person age is too dignified to be exempt from Neptune's "rough house."/ The most elaborate fun of that sort that I remember witnessing was on a trip from N York to San Francisco The night before the ship was to cross the line we saw a spot of light off the starboard bow. It seemed to draw/ nearer and nearef, and pretty soon old Neptune himself, clad in oilskins and, dripping water from his garments and his long white beard, climbed the black side of our.ship and, standing upon the hurricane deck, surrounded by an ad ming throng of passengers, an nounced that the next day at 2 o'clock in the afternoon "we should cross the line and that he would wet*Mne*tts--tb his domain with suitable "equator cere monies." spoke in thunderous and somewhat sepulchral tones. Then he disappeared over the side q£~tbe snip. The next day at 2 o'clock Neptune was promptly on band again. pre pare for his coming tfie sailors had ar ranged on the lower deck a great can vas tub, perhaps twenty feet square, filled with water to a depth of about threes feet The tub was surrounded by «a rail, and Neptune, seated on a gor geous throne, at first commanded that the passengers should be initiated into the mysteries of his domain. He had come aboard this second time with a great flourish of trumpets-, and he was followed by a long train of fantastic-, ally arrayed subjects. Those subjects ruthlessly seized the passengers, right and left, and Nep tune commanded that the men should be shaved. They were seated on the edge of the improvised bathtub, and the barber appeared, wielding a lather brush nearly as big as a broom and a pasteboard razor also of huge dimen sions, Covering victim's face with a lib eral supply of lather, the barber raised on high his tremendous razor. But just as he was about to apply it to the face of the unresisting passenger, twQ of Neptune's myrmidons, standing in the great tub of water, suddenly pulled the victim over backward and im mersed him completely. A moment later he emerged, spluttering and coughing. but making a desperate effort to ap pear good natured If any passenger was particularly dignified or dandified, if he had shown any overweening conceit in his own abilities, Neptune's slaves sought him out especially. The more spotless the linen. th» more stylish the necktie, the .more fleckless the white flannel suit, the surer was the owner to have the stanch literally taken out of-him. Of course not all of the 650 passen gers could be initiated with these elab orate ceremonies. Most of those who were enjoying the fun to the utmost and who wer» congratulating them selves that they had gone scot free, did not notice some sailors in oilskins climbing the masts directly over their heads. The sailors had a big hose in their hands. While the last victim was being submerged and the boister ous fun was at its height the heavens seemed suddnely to open, and out of a clear tropical sky a tremendous show er poured down upon the heads of all the passengers. A Few escaped a thorough sprinkling, he tables were turned on the hilarious onlookers, and the chief Initiates took their turn in laughing at the others. When it was all or*r. Father Neptune served^ja bountl'"! relation, and to each passenger was" given an elaborate and beautifully engraved certificate AS evidence that he had received his sea christening and that he had the right -henceforth to pass freely over the equator.—Rev. Dr, Francis E. Clark. In Youth's qompanjon r- GASTRIC REBELLION. Some of the Mistake* In Eating That Incite Poor Digestion. Indigestion is often attrfbutec to hasty eating, and people are reproved, and rightly so, for bolting their food, but it is interesting to observe that while the bolting of msyat is always se verely censured, one ne\er hears any blame attached to those who swallow fruit by the mouthful and devour un cooked vegetables wittfout any at tempt at mastication. Nevertheless it is the hasty swallower of vegetable fiber who is really the inciter of gastric rebellion. Vegetables are at all times very imperfectly digested by the stom ach and require their" tough fibers to fce thoroughly broken up by the teeth if they are to be dissolved even in the bowel Thete is a well known saying which avers that digestion waits upon appe tite, and there is no doubt that of all the adjuvants to digestion a keen der sire for food is the most powerful and important. But appetite itself often depends upon conditions which/ are in dependent of the body's absolute neces sities Thus tl\e aspect of the food, its smell, taste and even the manner in which it is served all help either to stimulate a desire for it or to induce a sense of aversion, while the environ ment of the diner often- exercises im portant influence, beneficial or other wise Brain work of any kind interferes with the rapid digestion of food, and even the habit of reading during meal times, practiced by so many, is con ducive neither to appetite nor diges tion. A" well lighted room, music and frivolous conversation will often per mit a chronic dyspeptic to enjoy with out remorse the pleasures of the table, while a depressing atmosphere, uncon genial company and unappetizing dishes may induce a fit of indigestion in the most healthy individual.—Food and Cookery. CHARM OF THE BIBLE. Its Poetic Beauty and the Marvel of Its Word Pictures. Then some of us who cared for lit erature took up the Bible casually and found its poetic beauty. We read the book of Job—which*, by the way, Mr. Swinburne is said to have known by heart—and as we read it even the stars themselves seemed less wonder ful than this description of their mar vel and mystery: Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Areturus with his sons? Or we read in the thirty-seventh chapter-of the book of Ezekiel of that weird, valley that was full of bones— "and as I. prophesied there was ar noise' and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to bone"— mrely one of the most wonderful vi $ions- of the imagination In. all litera ture. Or we read the marvelous denuncia tory rhetoric of Jeremiah and Isaiah or the music of the melodious heart strings of King David. We read the solemn adjuration of the "King Eccle siast" te remember our Creator in the days of our youth, with its haunting picture of old age, and the loveliness of "The Song of Songs" passed into our lives forever. Ta this purely literary love of the Bible there has been added within the last few years a certain renewed re gard for it as the profoundest book of tfie soul, and for some minds not .con ventionally religious it has regained even some of its old authority as a spiritual guide and stay. And I will confess for myself that sometimes as I fall asleep at night I wonder if even the most picturesque of modern writ ers has written anything to equal the Twenty-third Psalm—Richard LeGal Kenne* in Phoenix When the.World Is Full. The mean decennial rate of increase ia the population of the world is 8 per cent, and at this rate the 28,000,000 square miles comprising th& fertile re gions of the earth, which Ravenstein computed can only support 207 persons per square mile, will have their maxi-' mum* population of 5,994,000,000 per sons in the jear 2072. This estimate allows fourteen persons per square mile in the 18,000,000 square miles- of steppes and deserts. Crookedest Railroad In the World.' Up Calitornia's Tamalpais runs the crookedest railroad in the w6r\& Of the eight miles of track the longest tangent is but 413 feet. In one notable Instance the road makes five complete loops and ties two complete bowknots to attain an elevation of ninety\feet The end of the line is about half a mile higher than the starting point, and there is not onev particularly steep grade in,the entire system.—Wall Street Journal. Painfully Frank, Hostess (to departing guest)—Must you go early, Mr. Blank? Ejjank—I'm very sorry that I must leave, Mrs. Park The fact is, not expecting to have such a pleasant time this eve ning. I made another engagement*'— Boston Transcript. ,, Worse Still. "Did Mr. Jobbless pay his ,bill?" "Yes, sir," answered the collector, "but he made a lot of fuss about it "Dm! Don't let that trouble you, son. It's the fellow who bellows and doesn't payNthat we should worry about"— Birmingham Age-Herald. 4 Yi SA6E AND SULPHUR 1 DARKENS GRA I It's? Grandmother's Recipe to «t*,, Restore Color, Gloss ,F' and Attractiveness. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea' and Sulphur, properly compounded^ brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for ''Wyettfs Sage and Sulphur Compound," you will get a large bottle of this famous old recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, for about 5tt cents. Don't stay gray! Try it! No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time by morning the gray hair dis appears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy and attractive, Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is a delightful toilet requisite for those who desire dark hair and a youthful ap pearance Tt is not intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention, of disease. Mr. Ole Fladeland of Grygla, Minn.} says that Dr. J. E. Doran of Minneapolis, Minn, has entirely cured him of his troubles and that he wili cheerfully give a testimonial to this effect to anyone who will call,for it. We take pleasure of announcing Dr. Dorans next visit to New Ulm, Grand Hotel, Monday January 15, Hours :1 p. m*to 8 p. m. Adv 52-2 'i 0 •L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 g£ Hint That Failed. Visitor (Waiting an invitation to lunch)-Two o'clock! I fear I'm keep? inu you from your dinner. Hostess— Nov but 1 fear we are keeping you from ours.—Mecgeiulprfer Blaetter. 2 srfit^1 mp£ 5 J» 0 0 STORE YOUR STORAGE BATTERIES WITH THE RjlOtEifEs'.TAaaDGQOdanHFRES*tt,** at**- & FHf for New Years or any other day. SAFFERT-GUGGISBERG CEMENT CONSTR. CO. Manufacturers of the Rib Cement Stave Silos, Culverts, Tile, Etc. All Kinds of Artificial Stone-made to order. Cast Stone for all types of buildiags. Third North Street. South Side Auto Go. -FOR THE WINTER We will keep them in good shape and have them in fine condition when the season opens next spring. «sk Us About this Service 0 &e9ea«ft«a*8*a»a«a*a«o*a«e* o«ct«e«0«o«o«a»0«9*a«0ea«o* See "the new line of Congoleum Art Rugs I we carry. Just the thing you need for the, room you use^ a' great deal and must clean often, and yet handsome enough for the finest room in the house* They lie flat on the floor '^and require no tacks.^They are cool, dustless, pleasant to look at and their wearing quali ties are exceDtionaLfMpa^ XMH? FORSTER 0«0#0*0«0«0KW0*0«0«0eO.O« O»0»0»0»0»0«0#0#0«o#0*0#Oe8 tt 8 Let us/show you how promptand courteous ly we can fill your or der. 0 *4 Phone 98 A.J.JAHNKA I 8 DOES YOUR LABEL READ '17. SUBSCRIPTION ••-•••$. New Wim, Minn, 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0