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Loup City northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY. - * NEBRASKA
Citizen and Christian.
A professing Christian and a good
citizen live side by side in a certain
suburb and are good friends, says the
Home Herald. The one has been pray
ing for the conversion of the other for
years and grieving greatly that the
Lord should see fit to deny his re
quest. And the good citizen has trav
eled on, unconcerned by the efforts
which are being put forth in hifa be
half, but his front walk is shoveled in
winter, while the other man’s is not.
It is just a bit of carelessness on the
part of the church member, but, if he
only knew it, his carelessness puts a
barrier up before the answer to his
prayers. His religion would make a
stronger appeal to the unchurched man
if his back yard testified to it as loudly
as his Sunday coat. He might very
well talk a little less about his faith
himself and see to it that the stones
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of his sidewalk should rise in their
cleanness and proclaim it to the pass
ers-by. If Palestine had been a coun
try of snows and ice, the Bible would
have had something to say about the
carelessness which allows a brother to
slip, as well as the negligence that per
mits him to stumble.
The Servian people should either ex
ert some free choice in the selection of
a dynasty, or else have a ruling fam
ily chosen for them. Nothing can be
expected in the way of a prince fit to
rule from either of the rival houses of
Karageorgevitch and Obrenovitch. The
present heir to the throne, Prince
George, would seem to be little better
than a maniac of caprice and self will,
with tendencies running to violence
^nd homicide—a fit plant from that
hothouse of revolutionary intrigue and
murderous plot, the royal palace at
Belgrade. The Servians have shown
some restiveness under the prospect of
being ruled by this madcap, who is re
ported to have surrendered his rights
to the throne when charged with the
brutal murder of one of his house ser
vants. Whether the surrender will
amount to anything remains to be
seen; but the peace of southeastern
Europe is so largely bound up with the
quality of Servia's rulership that an
other palace revolution resulting in a
sane dynasty without the taint of mur
der in its blood might inaugurate a
better era for this striving little nation
of two and a half millions.
There is a report that the American
woman is going to take up the new
tariff, as its effect on furs, feathers and
furbelows has suddenly taken it out of
the grade of abstract subjects and put
it in the class of an intimate subject
demanding personal attention. And the
• shopping women” are factors to be
reckoned with, even if they know little
of politics and care less. They know
when something interferes with the
elasticity of their pin money, and
their feminine instinct does the rest.
So there is evidently trouble brewing
for the tariff legislators, for as trouble
makers women have been a success
from the start.
.Ah applicant for naturalization pa
pers in a Brooklyn court was questioned
by the judge with a view to ascertain
ing his knowledge of American institu
tions. The court did not go very far.
The last inquiry was as to whether the
applicant understood the trolley car
transfer system in the borough, and
upon an affirmative answer being
given the judge said: “I guess^ou will
do for a citizen." But how about a
great many citizens, native and natur
alized, who do not comprehend this
and other complicated and mystifying
arrangements? Is such failure to be
regarded as cause for disfranchise
ment?
Score another triumph for wireless
telegraphy. Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder, commander of the Atlantic
fleet of our navy, has just been in
formed by wireless message from New
port, the home of his daughter, wife of
Surgeon Johnson at the naval training
station, that he is grandfather of a fine
little girl. More and more is wireless
proving itself adaptable to all require
ments, public and domestic.
A Denver man has invented a phono
graphic safe lock that must be talked
open. The word which locks the safe
is recorded, and the one who uttered
it mnst repeat the performance or the
mechanism will not budge. This lock
might be too secure; for in the event
of accident to the voice for which the
safe lock will move there would be
costly work for the locksmith.
Pony meat as a supply for polar ex
ploration has the advantage of going
there on the hoof, earning its board by
hauling while there and then coming
pack as the digested product.' Which
seems rather ungrateful to the faithful
equine; but perhaps that quality does
not flourish with the thermometer at
• 72 minus.
Gewgaws are not to be worn on
men s clothings this year, says a fash
ion note. The men will have to do
without sausage curls, too.
A Pittsburg plumber claims to own
a large part of the city of Montreal. It
is not surprising that a plumber should
own the town, but the only odd fact
* about this case is that the native
plumber on the spot failed to see the
good thing first.
The man who can have the bottom
of the strawberry, the cherry, the
huckleberry and the other small fruit
baskets remove:! from the waist line
(o its natural position, will live long
in the hearts of a grateful people.
CAPITAL CITY NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUND THE
STATE HOUSE.
NEWS OF THE STATE CAPITAL
Doings of the State Officials and
Other Happenings That Are
of State-Wide Im
portance.
Many Professors Are Promoted.
Dean Bessey, at the meeting of the
state university regents, introduced
the matter concerning the raising of
the pay of a number of the janitors
who have been connected with the
university for some time. The re
gents took the matter under advise
ment and some plan will be formu
lated for the raising of the pay of
the older janitors. The board ad
journed to meet at a special session
one week from Tuesday. At this time
the question of the cadet encampment
will be considered and several im
portant committee reports received.
The university budget was under con
sideration. Owing to the smallness of
the appropriations and the fact that
several appropriation bills failed to re
ceive the governor's signature, the
budget is not in satisfactory condition
for the next two years.
The list of appointments and
changes in the faculty were made
and are as follows: Dean Charles
Bessey was selected as head dean and
the ranking order of the rest estab
lished as follows: Dr. Shergjan, Dr.
Davis, Dr. Ward, Professor Bfirnett,
Professor Richards, Professo* Costi
gan and Dr. Fordyee. The order in
dicates the relative length of service
of the deans, The title of Mrs. Berk
ley, dean of the women, was changed
to advisor of the women. This change
is in accordance with the custom pre
vailing in the eastern colleges, and
does not indicate any change in the
duties of the official. The titles of the
following were changed:
C. E. Persinger, to associate pro
fessor from assistant professo:-.
A. A. Reed, to professor secondary
education, from associate professor.
Guernsey Jones, to associate pro
fessor, from assistant professor.
R. J. Pool, to adjunct professor,
from instructor.
C. L. Barnebey, to instructor, from
assistant instructor.
Alfred Boyd, to adjunct professor,
from instructor.
A. D. Schrag, to adjunct professor,
from instructor.
Amanda Heppner. to assistant pro
fessor, from adjunct professor.
L. A. Scipio, to adjunct professor,
from instructor.
C. L. Dean, to assistant professor,
from adjunct professor.
Albert Bunting, to adjunct profess
or, from instructor.
C. M. Heck, to assistant professor
physics, from adjunct professor.
J. E. Almy, to professor of experi
mental work, from associate profes
sor.
L. B. Tuckerman, to assistant pro
fessor, from adjunct professor.
L. E. Aylesworth, to assistant pro
fessor, from adjunct professor.
W. A. Willard, to professor his
tology and embryology, from associ
ate professor.
W. C. Brenke, to associate profess
or, from assistant professor.
J. H. Powers, to associate professor,
from assistant professor.
F. D. Barker, to associate professor,
from assistant professor.
Julia Loughridge, to assistant pro
fessor, from assistant registrar.
R. E. Stone, to assistant professor,
from adjunct professor.
E. G. Montgomery, to professor,
from associate professor.
V. V. Westgate, to adjunct profes
sor, from instructor.
Alvin Keyser, to professor, from as
sociate professor.
P. B. Barker, to adjunct professor,
from instructor.
Val Keyser, to superintendent, from
assistant superintendent.
In accordance with the wishes of a
large number the opening of each
semester was set on Tuesday instead
of Monday, so that students would not
be required to travel on Sundays.
Don Love Wins Mayoralty Fight.
Don Love won over A. H. Hutton
at the primaries Thursday afternoon,
R. C. Ozman triumphed over W. A.
Hawes for the city clerkship. A light
vote was cast. For other places on
the ticket there were no contests.
Love got 749 votes and Hutton 487.
Ozman polled 688 votes while Hawes
got 521.
The primary is barren of results as
far as the city election is concerned.
On May 4 there will be a number
of candidates by petition. The pri
mary candidates must also be put on
the official ballot as candidates by
petition.
C. E. Spens Colonel.
On the recommendation of J. E.
Kelby, attorney for the Burlington
Railroad company, Governor Shallen
berger has appointed C. E. Spens,
Burlington general freight agent, to
the position of colonel on the gover
nor's military staff in place of one of
the Omaha colonels who resigned dur
ing the battle ovtr the early closing
bill. This appointment fills the breach,
and the war will continue with Colonel
Spens in the van for 8 o'clock closing.
The governor still has thirty-four
colonels in his staff.
Another Bank in Havelock?
Havelock citizens are looking for
ward anxiously .for an announcement
of the early beginning of the erection
of the new Burlington shops at that
place, for which an appropriation of
$800,000 is said to have been made
by the company. As a result of that
expectation real estate prices ami ac
tivity are jointly picking up. Charles
C. Parntelee. the well known P'atts
mouth banker, has just bought a busi
ness lot in Havelock, and the sus
picion is entertained that he may be
•ontemplating opening up another
bank
Normal Board Is Not Worried.
Although met by the refusal of
Treasurer Brian to join with them,
confronted by an opinion from Com
missioner Calkins that the new nor
mal board is not legally constituted
and cast upon a cold world by Auditor
Barton's statement that he would not .
pay its warrants, the new normal
board created by the last legislature
and appointed by Governor Shallen
berger, met at the governor's call in
his office Wednesday, organized, ai>
poi^ted its committees, reappointed
principals and went ahead as it were
put up in the true blue wrapper.
T. J. Majors; of Peru, whose ap
pointment is questioned because he is
a state senator, was made president
and NT. M. Graham, Secretary.
The following committees were
named:
Auditing—State Treasurer L. G.
Briar, N. M. Graham, W. H. Green.
Executive—Fred A. Nye, T. J. Ma
jors, W. H. Green.
Teachers and Employes—E. C. Bis
hop, N. M. Graham, T. J. Majors.
Text Books and Libraries—Fred A.
Nye, E. C. Bishop, E. L. Adams.
Judiciary—E. L. Adams, Fred A.
Nye, L. G. Brian.
Printing—W. H. Green, E. L. Adams,
X. M. Graham.
Five junior normal principals were
reappointed, this action following on
the recommendation of State Super
intendent Bishop:
O'Neill—Dr. H. K. Wolfe.
Alliance—Superintendent D. W.
Hayes.
North Platte—Dr. J. A. Beattie.
McCook—Superintendent C. W. Tay
lor.
Geneva—Superintendent R. W.
Eaton.
There are three other junior nor
mals, located at Alma, Valentine and
Broken Bow, to which principals will
be later appointed. •
Regents Create New Department.
A new department of Slavonic lan
guages with Miss Miller as an instruc
tor was created by the regents of the
state university. The board also rec
ommended the establishment of a
Swedish department, provided the
proper interest was shown in the new
course. Some time ago the regents
were petitioned for a new Swedish
department, but the matter was
dropped at that time since only about
75,000 Swedes reside in Nebraska and
it was thought that the department
would not receive sufficient support.
The board reconsidered the matter,
however, and will in all probability
take favorable action upon it.
The resignation of Captain John
G. Workizer as commandant of the
university cadets was accepted and
vaptain Yates, a former Nebraska
graduate, was accepted as his suc
cessor. The change is to take effect
next fall. The following were chosen
for farmers' institute work: E. P.
Brown, Davey; F. W. Chase, Pawnee
City; Andrew Elliott, Galt; E. W.
Hunt. Syracuse; B. F. Kingsley.
Hastings; C. G. Marshall, Lincoln;
Miss Gertrude Kauffman, Lincoln;
Miss Gertrude Rowan, Lincoln; Miss
Lulu Wolford, Pawnee City. The fol
lowing will also assist in the institute
work: William Ernest, O. Hill, Alma,
Neb.: H. A. Miller, Ashland; Mrs. O.
J. Workman. Ashland.
Prods Fraternal Orders.
State Auditor Barton proposes to
enforce the law requiring fraternal
beneficiary societies to have a repre
sentative foam of government. The
statute requires this and the supreme
court has defined a representative
form of government, but Auditor Bar
ton is the first auditor who has had
the courage to try to strictly enforce
the law. The decision of the court
on which he bases his action was giv
en in the case of Lange vs. The Royal
Highlanders, wherein it was held that
the inherent right to enact laws for
the government of a corporation is
in its stock holders and that this au
thority cannot be assumed by com
mittees or directors or other bodies
without express authority, that a rep
resentative form of government
means one conducted by the agency
of delegates “chosen by the people."
New Pavilion to Cost $50,000.
Arrangements have been begun for
the construction of the new stock
judging pavilion at the state fair
grounds for which the legislature ap
propriated $50,000. Secretary Mellor,
of the state board of agriculture, was
at the grounds Friday preparing plats
for the structure. The board of direc
tors has decided on the location of
the building and has made plans to
construct it 150x300 feet in size.
Only one-half of the building will
be constructed this year, the board
having decided that the other part
will not be built until more funds are
secured from the state. The new pa
vilion will be located on the low
ground west of the auditorium and
between the race track and the cattle
barns. The structure when compelted
will cost $100,000.
In its monthly statement the Ameri
can Express company shows that its
local business, upon which it is called
upon to pay occupation tax, amounted
in March to $432.^4, upon which it has
paid $10.82. A similar report by the
Adams Express company sHows a
total locals business of $2,223.89, upon
which is paid amounting to $55.64.
Kearney City Bonds Rejected.
After having heard arguments of at
torneys State Auditor Barton has re
jected the $100,000 water bonds Issued
by the city of Kearney and presented
to him for registration. The city pro
posed to build a plant or to buy the
American Water company's plant. The
latter was appraised at $165,000. The
bonds voted are of doubtful legality,
according to the auditor’s opinion, and
the city will have to go into court to
get a reversal of his holding. The
bends were not sufficient in amount to
buy the private water plant.
Outlook Good for Irrigation.
State Engineer Simmons has re
ceived the United States bulletin for
March showing an unprecedented
snowfall in Wyoming. This is cheer
ing news to irrigators in Nebraska
who depend upon the Platte river for
water during the growing season. The
North Platte river supplies a large
part of the water used for irrigation
in Nebraska and this stream is sup
plied largely by the melting of snow
in the mountains. If the melting takes
place gradually no injurious floods oc
cur and the water is distributed more
evenly throughout the summer.
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NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEV/S NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
1 Humboldt will hare its usual quota
of saloons for another year.
The business men of Bloomfield
have organized a commercial club.
Work has been started clearing the
j grounds recently bought by the gov
' ernment as a site for the $70,000 post
office building in Fairbury.
The Burlington bridge between
David City and Columbus burned. It
is supposed the fire was set by the
passenger train that passed over the
bridge a short time before.
William Dean, a college man of Eau
Claire, Wis., is in the hospital at Lin
coln in a dangerous condition from a
self-inflicted wound. He was despond
ent from inability to obtain employ
ment.
One man was killed and another
dangerously injured by being struck
by a Burlington train between Louis
»'ille and Cedar ( reek. They were
walking on the right of way when the
accident occurred.
The father of Rev. S. W. Nesbit, pa
stor of the Congregational church at
Elgin, this state, was killed in New
York by falling in front of a subway
train. He was on his way to visit his
son in Nebraska.
“Dr.” Samuel Theure, who came to
Broken Bow a few months ago, was
placed under arrest under a warrant
alleging that he had engaged in the
practice of medicine without the
proper license.
M. W. Burger has inaugurated a
movement to organize a farmers’ ele
vator company at Crab Orchard in
Johnson county. The object is to buy
or build a farmers' elevator at that
point.
Harry Martin of Grand Island,
charged with H. Hyboe, with the rob
bery of an old named Theiler, plead
guilty in the district court and was
sentenced to five and a half years in
the state penitentiary.
The county assessor of Lancaster
county is this year determined to get
all the diamonds on the assessment
roll. Tax shirkers will have to keep
their sparklers hid, thus being de
prived of “showing oft" to good ad
vantage before the public, if they
do not want assessment figures re
corded against them.
An enthusiastic meeting of farm
ers was held in Wakefield to talk over
the question of straightening the Lo
gan. Thousand of acres of land in
the Logan valley are damaged yearly
by the water overflowing and the pro
tect of straightening the creek and
giving it a straight channel has been
under consideration for some time.
As a preliminary to an attempt to
get a few more counties out of
quarantine Dr. Jucknes, state veteri
narian, and Dr. A. T. Peters of the
state farm will make a two weeks'
trip beginning Thursday through
western Nebraska to lecture to the
stockmen on cattle mange and
kindred diseases.
.Jesse iller, a section hand on the
Northwestern railroad, was killed
about two miles south of Blair. With
others of the section crew he was
standing near the track, waiting for a
freight train to pass, and while look
ing toward the engine a car door
swung out, striking him on the head,
crushing bis skull and knocking one
eye out of the socket.
A man giving the name of Henry
M. Kline appeared at the Exchange
National bank in Hastings and made
a deposit of $55. Later he visited
several grocery stores, where he
made small purchases and gave a
check for $5, receiving change. Then
in the afternoon he went to the bank
and withdrew $40. Nothing has been
heard of him since.
W. E. Stonebarger was brought to
Kearney from Gibson by the town
marshal of that place in a most
violent state of insanity. Stonebarger
had some trouble with a neighbor
over hogs and had brooded over it
until he went crazy. Three men were
required to watch him in his cell, as
he insisted on throwing himself
around in an endeavor to commit
suicide by breaking his neck. Later
he was taken to the asylum at Has
tings.
A. L. Caviness, president of the
Nebraska State Teachers’ association,
in announcing details of the next
meeting to be held in Lincoln No
vember 3, 4 and 5, asserts the list of
speakers will be one of the strongest
ever heard at a state teachers’ meet
ing. Among those of national reputa
tion who will be present are Hookei
T. Washington of Tuskogee, Ala.;
Principal G. B. Morrison. St. Louis;
H. T. Bailey, North Scituali, Mass.,
and ex-President Eliot of Harvard uni
versity.
In accordance with the appropria
tion of $30,000 for the payment of
back wolf bounty claims by the legis
lature, the clerks in the auditor’s
office are busy paying off the old
claims. The first 500 aggregating over
$3,000, were mailed out last week.
Irwin Wilds of Ghappell was thrown
under the cars by a bucking broncho.
One of his hands was cut off and his
head badly mutilated. He will prob
ably die.
At the town of Sterling, in Johnson
county, occurred a disastrous conflagra
tion and the aggregate loss is about
$20,000, partly covered by insurance.
The question of a municipal light
plant in connection with the water
works system and a new city hail is
being agitated in Hooper and is re
ceiving much support from the busi
ness men and taxpayers.
Three deaths occurred at the Grand
Island soldiers’ home in one day last
week.
Mrs. Augusta Erickson, living near
Holstein, committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid. She had been in the
insane asylum three different times.
A fire at Alliance destroyed the
Rumer block. Loss on building and
contents about $40,1)00.
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Rubber Is one of the great essentials
of modern industrial life. With iron
or steel, with copper, and with glass
it may be compared in the diversity
of its use; it has the advantage over
these, and may be compared in this
latter respect to corn, wheat, and the
necessary foods, in that it is capable
of eternal reproduction if mankind will
but apply to its cultivation his ex
perience and scientific knowledge.
There is scarcely a device of daily
commerce into which rubber does not
enter as a necessity, and yet in the
annual statistical publication of the
department of commerce and labor—
Commerce and Navigation of the
United States—the student will look
in vain for the word “rubber,” and
not until he examines the word or the
phrase “indiarubber,” “India rubber.”
or "India-rubber” will he be able to
see how vast and Important is the sub
ject before him. This conservatism—
if the term may be here applied—is
traceable throughout all the literature
of all the libraries of the English
speaking world. The aboriginal native
word describing the substance first
discovered by the early Europeans was
cahuchu. probably pronounced but
surely corrupted into caoutchouc. This
latter word has spread into the lan
guages of Europe. In French it is the
same word; in German the only modi
fication is to substitute a k for the c,
and in Russian nearly the same change
takes place. To be sure tho Spanish
uses frequently the word goma, equiv
alent to our gum, and this is made
more specific by adding the adjective
elastica, and the Portuguese has the
word borracha, but caucho is com
mercially well understood, as might be
supposed from the first association
with the source of supply. Rubber, or
india rubber, however, is undoubtedly
the term which will continue to be em
ployed in English to distinguish this
indispensable product of the tropics.
Caoutchouc directly explains the
descent of the gum and its adoption
into arts, but india rubber embraces
not'only this history but conceals one
of the romances of the industries.
Traveler j—and it is said Columbus
himself was one of them—noticed that
the Indian inhabitants of America,
thought then to be an unkonwn por
tion of the Indies, played ball with a
curious substance grown in the primi
tive forests and prepared according
to native ways. This substance was
also made into shoes; It Jjrmed a
protective coating for garments, and
from it were made bottles which could
be squeezed together so as to eject the
liquid contents. This substance was
called caucho in some parts of Amer
ica, and the gatherers were caucheros;
in other parts the gatherers were called
because of the shape of the bottles and
the uses to which the Portuguese saw
them put, seringeiros, syringe-men.1
From this origin the india prefix of
the word is derived. At first the gum,
goma elastica, according to the Span
ish, was merely a curiosity; it was
imported into Europe and studied
chemically with great interest; it
was made into tubes and put to prac
tical use in the laboratory. But in 177G
the English chemist Priestley recom
mended the use of the gum for effac
ing the marks of the lead pencil. It
rubbed out these marks and was
therefore, a rubber. It became more
widely known as experiment showed its
value, and in 1823 Macintosh discov
ered the method of waterproofing gar
ments, and added another word to the
vocabulary. From this date india rub
ber was more and more an article of
commerce; it served many purposes,
but it also balked the inventors in
many directions in which they had
hoped it might be applied. Experi
ments were constantly being made;
eveh the incorporation of sulphur had
been tried, but it was not until 1839
that Nelson Goodyear, in the United
States, hit upon a practical method of
combining rubber with sulphur so as
to retain all its good, unique proper
ties, while losing those that had made
it hitherto unsuitable. This process
was called vulcanization.
Rubber—india rubber—is a definite
chemical combination of carbon and
hydrogen, expressed by the (propor
iionate) formula C5 HS, or CIO H16.
't is a whitish solid, opaque, scarcely
reacted upon by the ordinary solvents,
but forming fluid or gelatinous masses
with the ethers and the coal-tar oils.
\1! this refers, of course, to the chem
ically pure rubber. It will also melt
and burn. Physically, rubber will
5tretch, and when tension is released
its mass returns to the original posi
tion and form. Unfortunately, how
ever, rubber in the pure state has
three awkward qualities: It loses this
distensibility at certain degrees of
beat and cold, it softens under heat,
and has a great tendency to stick to
itself or to other masses of rubber
with which it is brought in contact.
Now, these three qualities of rubber
as refined after entering the market
from the tropical forests are overemoe
when it is mixed with sulphur—that
is, vulcanized. It can then be molded
into various shapes and still remain
distensible. The degrees of tempera
ture between which it retains these
good qualities are very much wider
apart, so that climatic changes are
less felt by the manufactured product,
and consequently rubber articles of an
infinitely more varied type can be
turned out from the factories. Vul
canized rubber is therefore the sub
stance really implied ordinarily by the
word alone.
Plants Grew in Darkness.
While many plants close their petals
or fold their leaves as darkness ap
proaches. the testimony of most sci
entists is to the effect that none cease
to grow. A series of experiments was
recently made in the east with quick
growing plants, such as asparasms, let
tuce, radishes and the like, with a
view of ascertaining whether the
growth continues at night with as
great rapidity as during the day. The
result determined that, while the
growth is continual with most plants,
it is by no means so rapid during the
dark hours as during the light. There
are, however, many exceptions to this,
not a few plants being nocturnal and
growing more and faster during the
night than in the daytime. These,
however, .are usually tropical, and
their habitat is commonly in dense
forests, where even during the day
time no great amount of light Is able
to penetrate.
Wants Large Sum for Navy.
Alfred Picard, named French min
ister of marine, in succession to M.
Thomson, last year, for the purpose of
reorganizing and carrying out reforms
in the French navy, has presented to
the cabinet an extensive plan of de
velopment which, not counting new
ships, involves an expenditure of $45,
000,000.
CUTTING.
Author (bachelor, staying at farm) —Dear! Dear! What on earth makes
the child cry like that?
Mother—Ah, sir, ’tis the poor little maid's teeth that’s paining her so bad
Author—H'm, poor little beggar! Why doesn’t she have 'em out?
PERUNA
For Catarrh of the Throat of Two
Years’ Standing.
•*l was afflicted for two years with
catarrh of the throat. At first it was
very slight, but every cold I took made
it worse.
”1 followed your directions and in a
very short time I began to improve. I
took one bottle and am now taking
my second. I can safely say that my
throat and head are cleared from ca
tarrh at the present time, but I still
continue to take my usual dose fora
spring tonic, and I find there is noth
ing better.”—Mrs. W. Pray, 260
Twelfth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
POTATO MAKES PROUD BOAST.
Humble Vegetable Used for Many Oth
er Purposes Than Recog
nized Dinner Essential.
i
Whenever you lick a postage stamp
you partake of me. since ail llckabb*
gums are made from dextrine, one
of my products.
Your neck caresses me all day—for
the starch that stiffens your collar is
made from the potato.
The bone buttons on your under
wear are probably “vegetable i vory”
—compressed potato pulp.
My leaves, dried, make a good
smoke. You have often smoked them
“unbeknownst,” mixed with your fa
vorite brand.
Potato spirit is a very pure a! >';oI.
It is used to fortify white wines. Yaoy
a headache is not so much due to
the grape as the potato.
I yield a sweet syrup. In this form
I am often present in cheap • •■>■ oa,
honey, butter and lard.
Let the corpulent try as they will,
thev cannot escape yours truly
THE POTATO.
AILING WOMEN.
Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kid
neys Will Keep You Weil.
' 4
Sick, suffering, languid women are
learning ihe true cause of bad b.t< ks
auu uu n V '*• v
them. Mrs. W. G.
Davis, of Groestveck,
Texas, says: Back
aches hurt me so l
could hardly stand.
Spells of dirtiness
and sick headach.es
were frequent and
the action of the kid
r - « neyg wag trregn'ar.
Soon after I began taking Doan's Kid-'
ney Pills l passed several gravel
stones. I got well and the trouble lias
not returned. My back Is good and
strong, and my general health i- bet
ter.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
• _ «
THE WRETCHES.
Uncle—How is it. young man. 'hat
you failed again in your examination’
Nephew—Why, the wretches asked
me the very same question I could not
answer last year! «
Grief That Kills.
"My poor boy,” said the beneficent
oid clergyman, who had encountered a
young waif sobbing in the stree; ,
“what ails you? Some case of dirt
distress has touched your heart
chords. no doubt.”
“No,” sniffed the lad, "you’re clear
off your base, old kazzozicks. Me an’
Snippy an' de rest of do fellies tin
canned the mangy, old yellow cur up
at Schwarz’ grocery, and while old
Schwarz an’ de gang followed the
dog, I sneaked back to the grocery to
swipe dried apples. De Fido chased
into Schmitt’s orchard and de gang
cribbed de swellest peaches you ever
seen, an' then dey smoked grape-vine
cigarettes and set the barn a-Kre. I
made a sashay into de apple barrel at
de grocery, an’ de delivery boy pasted
me with a bed-slat and it hurts yet
and I didn't get to see de fire, and
didn't get nothin’ to eat. and 1 wisht
i wuz dead—dog-gone it all!”—The •
Bohemian Magazine.
"COFFEE DOESN’T HURT ME'1
Talcs That Are Told.
"I was one of the kind who wouldn't
believe that coffee was hurting me,'*
says a N. Y. woman. ‘‘You just couldn't
convince me its use was connected
with the heart and stomach trouble I
suffered from most of the time.
‘‘My troutde finally got so bad I
had to live on milk and toast almost
entirely for three or four years. Still
I loved the coffee and wouldn't believe
it could do such damage.
. "What 1 needed was to quit coffee
and take nourishment in such form as
my stomach could digest.
“I had read much about Postum.
but never thought it would fit my case
until one day l decided to quit coffee
and give it a lirial and make sure about
it. So I got a package and carefully
followed the directions.
"Soon I began to get better and w;ls
able to eat carefully selected foods
without the aid of pepsin or othsr di
gestants and it was not long before I
was really a new woman physically.
Now I am healthy and sound, can
eat anything and everything that
comes along and I know this wonder
ful change is all due to my having
quit coffee and got the nourishmor.' i
needed through this delicious Postum.
My wonder is why everyone dou't
give up the old coffee and the troubles
that go with it and build themselvei up
as I have done, with Postum."
Easy to prove by 10 days' trial or
Postum in place of coffee. The reward
is big.
"There’s a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? \
one appears from time to time. Tb.7
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