Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA.
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A Parisian complains that kissing
is out of fashion in France. Import
the American girl!
The latest Paris edict is that women
must be thin. It must have been or
dered by a majority vote.
The Boston Globe notes with lively
interest the release of 1000 Newch
•wang junks loaded with beans.
The earl has the actress. Or is it
the actress that has the earl? Either
way it is safe to defer congratulations.
A new novel is dedicated: “To the
women with red hair”—probably in
the hope that the novel will be also
read.
“Where is heaven?” anxiously asks
the New York Herald. But what earth
ly difference can it possibly make to
the Herald?
Oyama says he attributes all his
success to the virtues of his emperor.
The old man probably isn't telling all
he thinks, however.
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A stock broker says it is just as
safe n<ro- as it ever was for the poor
to put their savings into Wall street.
He is a truthful man.
The wicked Arabs seem to have
n ade a great mistake in kidnaping
Count de Zegonzac. French counts
never have any money.
Beer is 25 cents a glass in Panama.
The republic really has done remark
J-bly well to get along for more than a
jear without a revolution.
Investigation probably would show
that neither of the armies in the far
east worried greatly about China's
neutrality at critical times.
The young Chicago medical student
who is curing rheumatism by hypnot
ism ought to be able to find plenty of
practice, if he can keep it up.
I? President Roosevelt would solve
the servant girl problem for them the
women of the country would be will
ing to chance it on race suicide.
“Battleships,-' says Lord Charles
Beresford. oracularly, “are cheaper
than war.” However, permanent, uni
versal peace is cheaper than either.
That the Marquis of Anglesey left a
valuable estate at Llanfairpwil
gwynggll is a fact and not a typo
graphical error, as might be supposed.
If any bird is to assume supremacy
in the scheme of creation, as Prof.
Williston thinks, there can be no
doubt that it will be the American
hen.
Can the Pennsylvania judge who
has decided on the bench that the
husband is "master in his own house”
sustain the decision of the court at
home?
What's this Germany complains
that America pilfers her literary ideas!
Our beer may be more or less a
plagiarism; but we deny the literary
impeachment.
The scientific theory that petro
leum is derived from old fossils looks
bke an unkind and wholly uncalled
loi' reflection upon Mr. Rockefeller’s
personal appearance.
A Berlin professor claims to have
discovered a serum that will cure hay
fever. And a host of sufferers may be
expected to remark next August that
they “hobe id’s drue.”
Gen. Ma is heard from at last in
the vicinity of the interesting town of
Tungchaintze, but our other old
friend, Gen. Pflug. seems to have
pfaded entirely out of sight.
Why should the Congress of Moth
erhood propose to start a newspaper
tc spread their gospel? Isn’t every
newspaper in the country in favor of
babies and lots of them? Why
crowd?
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Mr. Grover Cleveland celebrated the
completion of his sixty-eighth year by
starting off on a hunting trip. The
jackrabbits agree with Dr. Osier that
a man ought to retire before reaching
that age.
The United States circuit court has
ruled that fancy socks must pay duty
as embroidery. If the embroidery
takes the shape of “clocks” would
the court require the hose to be en
tered as timepieces?
Any possible rumor that Slugger Jef
fries is to play la a piece by George
Bernard Shaw is denied in advance
by the press agent. When there is
slugging to be done in a play Mr.
Slaw prefers to do it himself.
Mrs. Cornelia Claflin says man’s
‘bones, muscles and nerves are con
structed to endure for 400 years. We
are not so certain about the bones
and muscles, but some nerves are
built on that model all rjght.
A Chicago man after having had a
disagreeable experience with a lady
who was able to wipe up the floor
with him advises men to avoid marry
ing girls who are heavier than them
selves. He ought in all fairness to
have a royalty from the producers of
anti-fat concoctions.
A correspondent writes to ask if the
story cabled over from Paris about a
French surgeon being sued for having
dropped his eyeglasses and inadvert
ently sewed them up in a surgical
wound of one of his patients, is in
tended to be serious. We reserve
cur reply until we get the verdict.
The Jersey City police departments
decision to place pianos in thd station
houses, for the patrolmen to play on
in their leisure hours, shows what
constant association with the criminal
ciasses will do even to good men.
i A Broken Chord
All idly to and fro
Her window curtain sweeps,
In the lamplight’s rosy glow
She sleeps, my lady sleeps.
And I catch the glint of gold
From her tresses uncontrolled.
Through the curtain’s filmy fold.
And the heart within me leaps
As she sleeps! My lady sleeps!
Ah. then does she dream of me?
Mine the dearest name she keeps
In her ivory treasury?
She sleeps! My lady sleeps!
Soft! Her blossom lips now part!
Has she secret to impart?
And I wait with trembling heart!
Nay. a sound my soul abhors!
For she snores! My lady snores!
| —E. D. Pierson.
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(Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Tub. Co.)
cess, me preuy one. just nome irom
college, lounged back In an arm chair,
her white hands clasped behind her
head and her amused eyes on her
elder sister. Rachel, the plain one
sat in the midst of drifts of white,
busily sewing. And there was that
in the sewing, or in the cloth, or in
what it all meant, that had turned
Rachel’s plainness into something
nearly akin to beauty.
“Rachel!” called a voice up the
stairway. “Oh. Rachel! Come down
a moment and help me with this side
board. 1 can't move it alone.”
The girl emerged, smiling, from
among the snowy drifts, and ran down
stairs, light of foot and of heart. She
came back presently, washed her
hands and set to work again.
“Sister!” shouted a boyish voice
from the gallery, “lend * me another
spool of that coarse thread. I’ve got
the kite out ever so far, and my cord’s
out.”
She arose again and went out; and
Bess heard her talking merrily as she
tied the thread to the cord Danny
held. When she returned and sat
down at the machine, there was not
a ripple of impatience on her content
ed face.
“How can you stand it?” asked
Bess, still more amused. “I have kept
time. In the last half hour you have
been called away from your work
eight times; and yet you come back
looking so seraphic that it makes one
want to shake you.”
“I don’t get much time to sew,”
Rachel answered, blushing a little.
“But, then, I haven’t many things to
make, and it won’t take so long. And
they’ll all miss me a good deal. I
must do what I can for them, while I
am here.”
“It’s the most ridiculous thing,” said
Bess, thoughtfully, “that you should
be thinking of marrying! Somehow,
nobody would ever have thought it of
you. Why, you have never even had
a lover that I can remember; and I
always had the house full of them,
from the time I was a little thing with
my hair in a pig tail. And here am I,
not thinking of being engaged yet—
and there is sly, demure you, going
to marry the finest man in all the
country round. I’d just like to know
how you did it. Miss Rachel Brand.”
Rachel blushed more and more.
“I hardly know how it was,” she
said shyly. “Brother John brought
him over for a week, and they went
hunting a good deal—and I was busy,
of course, for mother was not very
well that week and Susan went home
to her sister’s funeral—so I had the
cooking to do—and Brother John is so
thoughtless—he would persist in
bringing him into the kitchen. You
don’t know how mortified I was-”
Bess broke into a laugh.
“Oh, you deceitful minx!” she cried.
“You and Brother John made it up
between you, I know—luring him out
there where he could see our careful
Martha with her sleeves rolled up,
Conducting herself as a busy house
wife should. And this to a man who
has been living in a boarding house!
No wonder he fell a prey to your art
ful devices! Well, when he comes
this evening, I shall make myself duly
scarce. After falling in love with the
Model Woman, as set forth in my
sister Rachel, he would not even
deign to look at a useless creature
“How can you stand it?” asked Bess.
like me, who couldn’t even boil water
decently.”
And Bess took herself off, notwith
standing Rachel’s laughing protests,
and wrote letters until she wearied of
them, and left the wind to blow them
where it would.
The wind blew one of them down
Into the orchard at the side of the
house, where Rachel sat witn a dainty
little piece of handwork, while the
low afternoon sun sent pale grr-on
rays through the apple boughs. RaH el
caught It as It flew past her, not
knowing what it was, until her eyes
had sweot along several lines.
“-amused at Rachel, who was al
ways cut out vor an old maid, we
decided so long ago. She sits up
there, all day long—except when they
call her for something, which is about
every two minutes, for Rachel is a
helpful somebody, and not at all like
her good-for-nothing sister—she sits
there, I sav, sewing, sewing, on her
trousseau—‘sewing the long white
seam,’ as Jean Ingelow says—and with
the most calmly, placidly happy ex
pression on her face, as though the
earth and love and everything like
that had been made just for her. It
makes me-”
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“Do you still want us to be married?”
she whispered.
Rachel’s eyes were wet with a shin
ing happy moisture, when Danny
came running, sending a jubilant shout
before him:
“Sister! Yonder he comes! An' I
bet he’s brought me a new baseball!’’
“Mr. Arnold, this is Bess,” she said,
a little later, blushing and smiling,
until even one who did not love her
very much would have seen that she
was no longer plain.
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“I think I shall go over to Ark
wright on a visit to Ethel Joyner,” said
Bess a week later. Somehow, her va
cation was beginning to pall upon her
and she was restless.
“I think I would not go,” said
Rachel, quietly. She was still sewing,
but rather slowly; as though there
were no need for haste. As Bess
looked at her with quick inquiry she
said: “Mother is anxious for you to
help her a little—or at least, to want
to help her—and—well, I wouldn't go.”
And then Rachel hummed a low tune,
to show how much she was at ease.
Other days went by, and Rachel
pushed the machine back against the
wall. “There is no haste,” she said.
“I am a little tired of sewing so long.
I think I will rest for a few days.”
And she rested, not being strong
enough to go on a picnic with her
lover and the family, and feeling too
tired for the walk to church. Bess
grew more irritable, and began letters
and threw them into the fire, and
started books, and forgot how far she
had read.
“I think I shall go to the city and
find employment,” she suggested;
and Rachel turried upon her with a
pale face.
"Bess, you shall not go!” she cried,
with a little desolate wail in her
voice. “Just stay here—it will all
come right. I—I need you to stand
by me. You see—I—I am not quite
sure whether I will marry Fred—after
all. I am not positive that I love him
and one ought to be very sure,
don’t you think so?” And with lips
white and trembling, she looked into
Bessie’s eyes.
The next day Bess went out for a
walk, and before the walk was fin
ished she was on her way to see
Ethel, leaving a saucy, merry little
note behind her. “I’m not a very use
ful creature,” she said to herself, “but
at least I can do this one generous
thing—while there is time.” .
Rachel was very pale when she met
her lover.
“Bess has gone away,” she said
quietly, with her eyes on his face.
“She grew a little restless, I suppose
—and she has gone over to Arkwright
to see a friend of hers-”
“Yes?” said Mr. Arnold, with friend
ly inquiry. “She’ll come back to our
wedding, of course?”
Rachel’s face grew rosy red under a
sudden rush of color.
"Do you—do you still—want us to
be married?” she whispered; and his
look of utter amazement was sufficient
answer.
“You haven’t been like yourself
since Bess came home,” he said wratb
fully. “Somehow she didn’t take a
fancy to me—though I tried with all
my might to win her over. Never 1
mind—it’s all right now.”
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Half an hour later he tried to cal:
her down from that upper room.
where the machine was making «
steady whir, as of a whole colony of
exceedingly busy bees.
“Come down to the orchard—it’s
lovely under the trees. What are you
doing there, anyhow, Rachel?”
“Sewing the long white seam,” she
murmured, as she rose to answer his
call; and Bessie’s legacy of peace was
on her face as she went.
FORTUNE WORRIES POOR WOMAN
Was Bequeathed a Neat Sum and
Can’t Get Used to It.
‘ The wealthy do have their wor
ries,” said Mrs. Cynthia Nicholson,
who is worth $50,000, looking up to
day from the steaming washtub over
which she had toiled for many years
to support her family, and which she
finds it difficult to leave in spite of hei
snug little fortune. “I have a whole
lot of money now,” she continued. “1
have put it in bank, but goodness
burglars rob banks, and so do bank
officers! I want somebody to watch
the bank officers and somebody tc
watch the watchers.”
Judge Henry S. Stevenson yesterday :
afternoon sought out Mrs. Nicholson,
who is a widow, in her rooms on the
third floor, rear, of a tenement house
in Harriet street, says a Bridgeport
(Conn.) special to the New’ York Her
ald. and told her that her uncle, Will
iam Germond of Middletown, had died,
leaving an estate of which her share
will be between $40,000 and $50,000,
and handed her a certified check for
$1,000 as the first installment of her
fortune.
“I toiled for forty years,” said this
energetic widow, who is now’ 59 years
old. “without being able to save a
single penny for a rainy day, and I
never can get used to having money,'
It troubles me. It makes me suspi
cious and I keep thinking everyone is
trying to swindle me out of it. 1
would like to build myself a comfort
able home, but I am afraid of the
real estate agents and builders, and
I know I could never trust a lawyer.
“Of course I am glad I haven’t to
work any more, and the children will
be able to live well on the money
when I am gone, but I was happy
enough before I became wealthy. Now
I am worried half to death.”
NOT ENEMY OF FARMERS.
Investigation Shows Hawks Feed
Largely on Vermin.
Why shoot the chicken hawk when
it comes within range? Why shoot
any hawk? True, we all do so, or
have done so. But why? For the
most part, we fear, because we were
simply savages out to slay; indeed,
more savage than the savages, for the
latter rarely killed animals which
were not dangerous or which could
not be used. Now, about the hawk,
let us go once more to Uncle Sam,
who is passing wise in many things.
Uncle Sam has been studying hawks.
Of 124 stomachs of marsh hawks
which were examined, 45 per cent, of
the hawks had been feeding on mice,
18 per cent, on other small mammals,
18 per cent, on reptiles, frogs and in
sects, and only a very low percentage
on poultry and small birds. We do
not find that this bird was so very de
structive to quail and partridges, aft
er all; and it is under this latter sup
position that most sportsmen shoot
hawks when they find opportunity.
Uncle Sam concludes that the marsh
hawk is a beneficial bird, and that its
presence and increase should be en
couraged in every possible way.
Then why shoot it down, as it flits
by, striving, in its own ancient and
appointed way, to get on in the world,
just as each of us is striving? We
counsel each sportsman to think the
matter over, and to remember that
the results of scientific investigation
are more conclusive than hasty sup
positions.—Field and Stream.
Thought They Were Real Steps.
There was one amusing incident at
the concert of Eugene Ysaye a few
nights ago that very few people in the
audience were aware of. In fact, it
was not until after the concert that
the real truth of the matter was
known. Everyone who has been in
the Academy of Music is familiar
with the drop curtain representing the
entrance of some sort of a temple with
a lot of steps running back from the
stage—or, to identify it more perfect
ly, it is the curtain with the huge
word asbestos written across the cen
ter.
When Ysaye finished his first num
ber he walked toward this curtain,
halted, looked about and then walked
to the side and off. No one could ex
plain this odd move until after the
concert and then the violinist con
fessed that he had glanced at the
painted steps and with his mind con'
centrated on the applause of his audi
ence behind him had mistaken the
painted steps for real ones and it wa^
not. until he had reached the curtain
that he realized his mistake.—Phila
delphia Press.
To a Girl.
I know what is the object
Of that little sigh.
And why the secret languor
That lurks within your eye.
You smile? You'll learn some morning,
Sweet maid, why this is so;
Perchance you now suspect it,
I know!
I know what things you dream of,
And what you see In sleep;
Writ on the brow the secrets
1 read, that you would keep!
You smile? You’ll learn some morning,
Sweet maid, why this is so;
Perchance you now suspect it,
1 know!
I know your laughter’s reason,
And why you weep apart;
I penetrate the mystery
Of your woman's heart!
You smile? You'll learn some morning.
Sweet maid, why this is so;
■What, feeling, you know naught of
T nast all feeling, know!
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Sister Found Out.
In direct disobedience of orders,
tempted by the frozen surface of the
pond. Tommy tried to skate upon it,
but the treacherous ice gave way and
he fell In. Returning home shiver
ing from his icy bath, he met his sis'
ter. She sympathized with him in his
misfortune, brought him dry clothing
and concealed his disobedience from
his parents. Next day she came from
the pond in a similar plight. In uttei
amazement Tommy surveyed her drip
ping form, exclaiming! “I told you
the ice wouldn’t bear skating on
Jennie. Why did you try it?” “I
wanted to see for myself whether R
would or not,” was his sister’s tear
ful reply—New York Times.
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Fl^ronT^
President Roosevelt was inaugurat
ed with great “pomp and circum
stance.” There wss a spectacular pro
cession with banners and brass bands.
There were hundreds of thousands of
people to witness the procession and
when the president took the oath of
office he looked upon the upturned
faces of a multitude. The newspapers
printed page after page of descrip
tive articles, later on the weekly pa
pers showed it in pictures and then
the magazines had their say.
In what strange contrast all this
is with the inauguration of Thomas
Jefferson, just one hundred years ago.
The National Intelligencer, the lead
ing newspaper of Washington at that
time, gave the following report of
Mr. Jefferson's inauguration:
"On Monday, after Thomas Jeffer
son had taken the oath of office as
president of the United States, the
oath of office was likewise adminis
tered to George Clinton as vice-presi
dent of the United States. After the
delivery of the speech the president
was waited on by a large assem
blage of members of the legislature,
citizens and strangers of distinction,
and a procession was formed at the
navy yard, composed of the several
mechanics engaged, which marched to
military music, displaying with con
siderable taste the various insignia of
the professions.”
On the 14th of March following, the
Boston newspapers heard the news
and announced Mr. Jefferson's ap
pointments, one of them adding that
“We understand these appointments
have received the unanimous sanction
of the senate.”
An account more in detail was giv
en in July by Augustus Foster, Brit
ish minister in Washington at the
time. In one of his letters home he
said:
“I don’t know’ whether I have yet
transmitted to you an account of the
installation of the successor of Monte
zuma in last March. On the 4th he
proceeded on horseback from the pal
ace, which is of white stone and the
largest building here, and attended by
his secretary and groom, rode up the
long avenue of Pennsylvania to the
capitol, which is an unfinished rival
in stone of the Roman building of that
name, and dressed in black and silk
stockings, delivered a speech of some
length to a mixed assembly of sena
tors. populace, representatives and
ladies. It was too low spoken to be
heard well. He then kissed the Book
and swore before the chief justice to
be faithful to the constitution, then
bowed and retired as before. WThen
he received all who chose attended
the levee, and even toward the close
blacks and dirty boys drunk his wine,
and lolled upon his couches before us
all. There was nothing dignified in
the whole affair.”—Birmingham Age
Herald.
German Made First Watch
Peter Henlein of Nuremberg, in Ger
many, about 1500, is now generally
credited with the invention of the
portable watch. The earliest watches
were naturally rathei; crude; this is
shown by the few specimens still in
existence. They were circular in
shape, not oval or egg-shaped, and en
tirely made of iron. In place of the
round balance was a straight one
called “foliot.” Like almost all
watches up to the year 1790, they were
provided with the verge escapement.
The hair spring is absent; it was not
invented till 150 years later. In order
to obtain a tolerably uniform rate an
upright hog’s bristle was used, against
which the foliot strikes. The uneven
traction of the spring they endeavor
ed to prevent by means of a brake.
Great, accuracy was not aimed at
which is shown by the fact that the
oldest watches with very few excep
ticns up to about the year 1700 indi
cated only the hours, the minute hand
being entirely absent.
While the first watches were rath
er cnide. there appeared only twenty
or thirty years after their invention
works that are termed almost techni
call}* perfect. The iron plates and
wheels had given place to finely gilt
brass ones. The pinions were ot
steel and polished, the cocks artistic
ally engraved, and the pillars neatly
turned. Greater precision was obtain
ed when, about the year 1660, the hair
spring was invented by Dr. Hooke,
and also, but entirely independent of
the latter, by Huyghens. This opened
the way for the introduction of the
minute hand, which is found quite gen
erally around the year 1700. Some
of the oldest watches were already
furnished with a striking mechanism.
About the year 1600 watches with
alarms were made, and in 1691 Bar
lowe, an Englishman, introduced the
repeating watch.
Toward the year 1800 there was
made for the first time the second
hand in watches. The cyl.nder es
capement is known to be quite old,
for it was originated as far back as
1710, but was not generally adopted
until about 1840. The lever escape
ment, the one used in the majority
of American watches of the present
time, was invented about 1765 by
Thomas Mudge.
Dr. Osiers Quick Diagnosis
Dr. Williams Osier of Baltimore,
the famous medical specialist of
Johns Hopkins, who set the country by
the ears because of his assertions con
cerning the uselessness of men after
they reach the age of 60, has the
reputation among his brethren for
getting the biggest fees for the least
work of any man in the profession.
A story which is current among
■Washington physicians is about a
rich old man whose wife has been ail
ing for months. All the local doctors
had tried their hands without much
result. The old lady had passed the
allotted term of life, 70 years, and
was suffering from the general break
ing up of her vital organs.
The old man, genuinely fond of his
wife, thought the doctors did not
know what the trouble was, and when
some one suggested the renowned
diagnostician of Baltimore he jumped
at the chance. He telegraphed to Dr.
Osier, but that learned gentleman was
very busy and could not come. The
distracted man wired again, telling
Dr. Osier to leave his work and come .
no matter what the cost. The doctor
answered that it would require S10C
to bring him to Washington on that
particular morning and the old man
wired:
“All right; only come at once.”
The doctor arrived in due season
and was met at the station by the
husband. During the drive to the
bouse the doctor told the man blunt
ly that his fee must be paid in ad
\ance. and the cash was promptly
produced.
After listening to a few details ot
his patient's illness from the trainee
nurse. Dr. Osier was ushered into the
sick room. He felt the woman's
pulse, listened to the heart and took
the respiration after the approveo
method. Then he went down stairs
where the husband was anxiously
waiting for him.
“The tiouble with your wife.” he
answered coolly, as he carefully ad
justed his gloves, “is that she is 70
years old. That is all.”
And before the astonished man
could get his breath, he heard the
cab door bang and the doctor was on
his way back to Baltimore.
When Giants Roamed Earth
The past was more prolific in the
production of giants than the present.
In 1830 one of these giants, who was
exhibited at Rouen, was ten feet high,
and the giant Gaiabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome in the time of Claud
ius Caesar, was the same height. Fan
num, who lived in the time of Eu
gene II, was eleven and one-half feet
in height.
The Chevalier Scrog in his journey
to the Peak Teneriffe found in one of
the caverns of that mountain the head
of a giant who had sixty teeth and
who was not less than fifteen feet
high. The giant Faragus, slain by
Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne,
according to reports, was twenty-eight
feet high. In 1814 near St. Gernad
was found the tomb of the giant Iso
lent, who was not less than thirty
feet high. In 1590 near Rouen was
found a skeleton whose head held a
bushel of corn and which was nine
teen feet in height. The giant Bacrt
was twenty-two feet high.
In 1623 near the castle in Dauphine
a tomb was found thirty feet long, six
teen feet wide and eight feet high, on
which were cut in gray stone the
wards, “Kentolochus Rex.” The skel
eton was found entire and measured
twenty-five and one-fourth feet high,
ten feet across the shoulders and five
feet from breastbone to the back.
But France is not the only country
where giant skeletons have been un
earthed. Near Palermo, Sicily, in 1516
was round the skeleton of a giant
thirty feet nigh. Near Magrino, on
the same island, in 1816, was found
the skeleton of a giant of thirty feet
whose head was the size of a hogs
head and each tooth weighed five
ounces.
Charity Machine a Wonder
“A charity machine,” said the sail- i
or, ‘‘stands in front of the house of
Edison Murphy of Croydon. Any
tramp that comes along can get a
cent out of the machine.
‘‘The tramps don’t believe their
eyes at first. They stand and look
at the charity machine in a knowing
way. They say to themselves that
they ain’t green, and it’s no use tryin’
to do them.
“But there the big, cast iron In
strument stands, and it states plain
and direct on the dial of it that any'
poor person, if he turns the handle a
hundred times, will receive a penny
Dut of the slot.
“So the tramp gives it a trial. He
starts to turn the handle, counting
sarefully, so as not to go over the
hundred, for the handle works pretty
stiff. He turns with thj right hand
a while. Then he turns with the left
hand. At fifty he stops to rest, and
with a grunt he wipes the beads from
his brow. Finally out drops a cent.
“The tramp grins. He thinks he’ll
turn ten hundred times, and get ten
cents for two beers. He is pretty
tired, though, by the time he’s turned
500 times, and, besides, the morning
is pretty well gone now. So he stops
at the five hundred. He goes off with
five coppers, rubbin’ his arms. His
arms’ll be stiff next day.
“Hard-earned coppers! Edison
Murphy calls his invention a charity
machine, bu> there's not much charity
about it. Edison gets out of the ma
chine enough electrical power to light
his house, pump his w-ater, and run
his freight elevator, and all it costs
him is 20 or 30 cents a day that goes
into the pockets of poor deluded
tramps.’’
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
M mercury will eurely destroy tbe »eo*e of imell
end completely derange tbe whole ayitciu when
e.terlng It through the mucous surfaces, such
articles should never be used except on pres, rip
tlons from reputable physicians, as the damage mey
will do Is ten fold to tbe good yon can posalbiy de
rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, O.. contains uo mer
cury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon
tbe blood and mucous surfaces of the system, la
buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get tha
genutae. it Is taken Internally and made In I oiedo,
Ohlc. oy F J. Cheney * Co. Testimonial free.
Sold by Druggists, l'rlce. *5c- per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
A girl with small feet always owns
a rainy-day skirt.
Piso’s Cure is tbe best Tnedidne we ever u*ed
for all affections of the throat and lung-- V\ U.
0. ESDSCST, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10. li*W
Of Interest to Brain Workers.
A medical man who gave evidence
in a London chancery division case
testified as to the connection between
brain work and longevity in a way
that charmed the lawyers and will
charm other brain workers. One-third
of the laborers in rural districts, he is
reported as saying, die of brain soften
ing, and the average vegetative rural
laborer much earlier than the hard
thinking lawyer, simply because his
brain rusts from lack of exercise.
Scientific Wonders to Come
Already the secret has been learned
of purifying sewage by electricity, so
that in time every brook and river
may run with mountain cl earner to
the sea. These things and the fast
developing system of wireless teleg
raphy are only a few of the things
that science, aided by the new theory
of electrcity. holds in store for the cot
distant future.
Prefers Calves to Butter.
A Kensington. N. H., farmer lays
the following down as a hard and fast
rule: “I raise no less than twelve
calves a year and would do it if there
wasn't a pound of butter in the hou e
from one year's end to anoth- r
What Everybody Says.
Jamboree. Ky., April 3rd.—»Spe
cial.)—“I suffered for years with my
back,” says Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well
known resident of this place “Then
l used Dodd’s Kidney Pills and I have
not felt a pain since. My little girl
complained of her back. She u-< d
about one-half box of Dodd's Kidney
Pills and she is sound and well."
It is thousands of statements like
the above that show Dodd's Kidney
Pills to be the one cure for Backache
or any other symptom of deranged
kidneys. For Backache Is simply a
sign that the Kidneys need help.
Dodd’s Kidney A°ills always cure
Backache. They also always cure
Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy,
flheumatism, Bladder and Urinary
Troubles and Heart Disease. The.-e
ire more advanced stages of kidney
lisease. Cure your Backache wirh
Dodd’s Kidney Pills and you need
lever fear them.
New Use for Whisky.
A butler, newly engaged, requested
his master to allow him some whisky.
“There’s nothing like it to clean the
windows,” said he. However, a few
minutes later his master chanced to
pass through the room, and to his sur
prise found the glass empty. “Why,
James.” he asked, “where’s the whis
ky?” “Well, you see. sir.” said James,
“it's this way; I drank the whisky and
then I breathe on the glass.”
To Keep Weight Down.
If you wish to keep your weight
down, don't drink water at meals.
Take tea and coffee. Rise early, walk
at least flve miles every day, and don’t
take a nap after exercising. Sleep
eight hours only, and on a moderately
hard bed. Shun fresh or hot bread.
Flee from potatoes, peas, macaroni
olive oil. cream, alcoholic drinks,
sweets and pastry.
Seek Bones of Primitive Man.
Paleontologists are hoping to fina
any day the bones of primitive man in
some part of the West, where tht
deeply eroded canyons have revealed
so many wonders of the animal work
in the shape of ancestors of the hoist
and the dinosaur.
Mean Old Bachelor Again.
It was an old bachelor who said that
it was futile to discuss the questior
whether a genius would make a gooc
husband. No real genius, he said
would ever marry.
CHILDREN AFFECTED.
By Mother’s Food and Drink.
Many babies have been launched intc
life with constitutions weakened bj
disease taken in with their mother s
milk. Mothers cannot be too careful
as to the food they use while nursing
their babes. The experience of a
Kansas City mother is a case in
point:
“I was a great coffee drinker from
a child, and thought I could not eat a
meal without it. But I found at last it
was doing me harm. For years I had
been troubled with dizziness, spots be
fore my eyes and pain in my heart,
to which was added two years ago a
chronic sour stomach. The baby was
born 7 months ago, and almost from
the beginning, it, too. suffered from
sour stomach. She was taking it
from me! **
, In my distress I consulted a friend
°f more experience than mine, and
she told me to quit coffee, that coffee
did not make good milk. I have since
ascertained that it really dries up the
1 quit c°ffee, and tried tea and
at last cocoa. But they did not agree
ith me Then I turned to Postum
Coffee with the happiest results, it
F^noT1 be the very th,Qg 1 needed
“ °^0n'y agreed perfectly with baby
d myself, but it increased the flow
°L“y milk' My husband then quit ^
weirVFiT P°!tUm> qui<*ly Sot *
,of ,he dyspepsia with which he
had been troubled. I no longer
rom the di22i„ess. blind .peUs'""^
to my heart or sour stomach Po ■“
um has cured them. * * ''
' “Now' we all drink PrxjM,™ *„
husband to my Lvfn f[om my
baby. It has proved to be^h* k°M
bot drink we have e!er use^
rzi r tzzitz: tbe b
-Mr
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