Tfie Pldttsnioutli Journal
G. B. MANX, W. K. FOX, PiMlohen.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA
A passenger en a street railway In
Vienna claimed damages, which were
awarded him. for a shuck to his nerves
caused by the conductor shouting ou
to the passengers to jump off the tar,
as he feared a collision.
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hue Delays If
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Cremation has just been made legal
In Spain, where hitherto it has been
prohibited as incompatible with the
religion of the country. The reform
Is based npon sanitation. In the de
cree just issued by the Queen Regent
sanctioning the erection of a crema
torium in Madrid, it is stated that this
departure from traditional modes of
burial are actuated by hygienic con
sideration which can no longer be
waived or neglected.
Juliet's "What's in a name?- might
be asked regarding the vessels of the
British navy which have borne the
names of reptiles. It Is said that four
Vipers have been wrecked, the last of
the name but recently, and a Cobra
still more lately has broken in two and
gone to the bottom with officers and
men. Also four Serpents, three Liz
ards, two Snakes, one Alligator, one
Crocodile, one Rattlesnake, one Ba
silisk, and two Dragons which are
not reptiles have at various times met
with disaster. British tars, it is said,
have a superstitious feeling of dislike
against sailing in vessels bearing such
names. Lucky or unlucky, the name?
ire needlessly disagreeable.
Italy and Austria have just agreed
to take a step unprecedented in mod
ern history. At the end of August the
pope promulgated a Bull transferring
from the administration of the Dal
matians to that of the Croatiaas the
charitable institutions known as St.
Jerome's, which has a capital of 80.
The institution had belonged to
the Dalmatians for five centuries.
Much bitterness was created, and sev
eral serious conflicts occurred between
pople of the two nationalities. The
question has now. happily, been solv
ed, the two governments having
agreed, after cordial negotiations, to
establish the previous condition of af
fairs and consider the papal bull as
non-existent.
Shun delays, they breed remorse;
Take thy time, while time is lfnt thee;
Creeping wnails have weakest force
fly their fault?, lest thou repent thee.
ioxi is best when soonest wrought.
.Lins'rintf labors rorac to nauKht.
Hoist thy afl while pale doth last
Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Seek tin time, when time is put;
Sober speed is wisdom's leisure.
After-wits are dearly twnijtht.
Let the fore-wit guide thy thought.
Time wears all his locks before.
Take then hold upon his forehead;
When he flies he turns no more.
And behind his scalp is naked.
Works adjourned have many stays.
Long demurs bring new delays.
Seek thy salve, while young the wound,
Older sores ask deeper lancing;
Alter cures are seldom found.
Often sought, scarce ever chancing.
In the rising, stifle 111.
Lest it grow against thy will.
Drops do pierce the stubborn flint.
Not by force, but often falling;
Custom kills with feeble dint.
More by use than strenifth prevailing.
Single sands have little weight.
Many make -a, drowning freight.
Kobert Southwell.
His Little Wretch.
Predut Harper, of the I'niversity
received the foi-
u f a;ra;a. recently
lowing 1 -tier from a prospective girl
Undent ai iVcatonica. III.: "Dear Mr.
Harper I krow you will be pleased tc
learn that I have d'i !ed to attend the
university school cf education this fall.
I ara goirs to Chicago next Saturday
on the morning train, and as I have
never bern in the city before I would
be glad if you wculd meet me at the
station. I aru five feet four inches tall.
have light hair and eyes and a pleasin
appearance. I shall wear a dark brow
traveling skirt and a blue waist, with
white yoke. I think i shall know you
from your picture?, but for fear I make
a mistake will you please wear you
card Ic your hat?"
me Lnited Mates of America, the
l nite.l States of Brazil, the Unite
urates cr Mexico and the United
"I's i enezuia appear among
the names of th- countries represent
-i at tne Kan-American congress in
-Mexico. This shows how widely our
federal plan of government as well
as our style of naming it has been
adoptfd in the New World. The use of
the word "state" in this war has
oftn bfen regarded as slightly in
arcurate. The word state originally
signified a body cf people united under
one government, whereas we use the
term to describe one of the divisions
of our coiiLtry; but whatever rhetori
cal inaccuracy we may have commit
ted ha3 evidently b. en overwei?hed In
the minds of our imitato-s. by the suc
cess of our "great experiment." Per
baps now that Eng!and has designated
as Mates me several parts of the
Australian commonwealth, the "Am-
erwanism has become good English.
j a jiajor nan s inaugural address of
January, ItKO. "the most important re
quirement for the Boston public
schools was pronounced to be that of
'additional school accommodations
mfe mat lime a special "Boston
hool house commission"" has been
created, with authority to spend Jl.-
tor new school houses the pres
ent year and 13.000,000 more within
the next few years. The commission
proposes to spend this money for "the
best sanitary buildings that skill can
cievise. but as a means of providing
temporary relief it has built fortv
three portable school houses of a type
experimented with last year. These
buildings are of wood and can be taken
to pieces easily and moved. They are
properly warmed, well lighted, and are
often located In the yards of crowded
acbool buildings, the sanitary arrange
ments of which are then "available.
They have not entirely displaced rent
ed rooms, but they are regarded as
generally superior to the latter both
from the standpoint of economy and
of accommodations.
Aa Alabama delegate who died sud
fienly while in attendance upon the
Methodist Ecumenical Conference In
London was at one time a director In
t Selma bank. The bank failed. There
upon he disposed of all his property,
aevoted the proceeds, so far as they
would go. toward paying off the bank's
Indebtedness and died poor. There is
ro doubt about the religion of a man
ike that, and It was eminently fitting
lhat he should represent his church at
a gathering where Its great men met
"to stimulate one another to eood
works and better ways."
BY IREN E D. CRAIG EN.
(Copyright. 1501, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
The sun shone fiercely down in the
factory yard and upon Mr. William
Cole, foreman, seated upon a pile of
lumber and muttering imprecations as
he dug his heel savagely in the hot
sand.
' If I ever get back to civilization,
confound it, I'll stay there!" he was
declaring under his breath. "It's just
as the poet fellow says, "Better fifty
years of What's-his-narne than a cycle
of Carthage.' "
"Who's you talkin to. Mister?"
piped a small voice.
Mr. Billy started and looked up. to
find himself confronted by an atom. It
was a feminine atom, dressed in a torn
pink frock, with a shock of mud-colored
hair and the bluest eyes that ever
looked out of a dirty face. The atom
dragged after it a wagon made of
pasteboard, mounted on empty spools,
In which reclined with what grace it
might a doll formed from a stick of
kindling wood wrapped In a bit of cal
ico. "Hulioa! you little wretch where'd
you spring from?" asked Mr. Billy.
"Over there," responded the atom,
nodding vaguely in the direction of a
line of hovels, half a mile away. "I
play here 'cos, we ain't got no yard and
It's hot in the road. That's my house
yOu's setting on now."
"Oh! it is, is it?" responded Mr.
Billy, gravely. "Well, now, see here.
I'm not going to have you coming here,
where cars are backing in all the time
You'll be killed if you do. Not tha
you wouldn't be better off in Heaven
but I don't care to have your death
on my soul and mind. Now, here's a
small fraction of United States curren
cy. Take it and trot along home, and
remember that if you spend it judic
iously you may some day be as rich as
Rockefeller. Don't lose sight of the
fact that I'm vested in the panoply of
power here. So git!"
The child held out her hand for the
penny, and eyed Mr. Billy wistfully. "I
don't wanter go home," she said: "she
whips me."
"Does, hey?" said the big man. with
amiable sternness. "Well, perhaps you
need it. Tell you what I'll do, though.
If you'll promise solemnly, honest In
jun, to tay away from the tracks, you
may bring your doll duds over here
Promise?"
The child nodded.
"All right: fire away. then. If your
face were cleaner, I would give you a
chaste kiss on the cheek just for luck;
but, tinder the circumstances, I think
I will forbear."
Then Mr. Billy went whistling away
to his work, and the atom made a
palace of the lumber pile end seated
Rosabella in state in the drawing-
room, while Bhe prepared an imaginary
dinner In an imaginary kitchen under
some projecting boards. The next day
biggest violet eyes in twenty states."
The atom smiled graciously at the
compliment, and as often as she saw
Mr. Billy in the days that followed
she'd wave a stately hand at him. and
he would respond with a "How's my
little wretch?" in a big voice that rang
through the yards.
One day Mr. Billy was at home with
an attack of what he called, for want
of a better name, "the durndest fever
a fellow ever had." when his small
protege came to harm. She had a skip
ping rope in her hand and was wan
dering near the forbidden tracks when
a freight car of lumber backed into the
LIME AND MALARIA.
IfiTCStlgators Say That Former Partially
Averts Latter.
A French scientist, Dr. Roche, thinks
that he has discovered an interesting
fact in regard to malaria. He declares
that the addition of lime to the soil
for purely agricultural purposes will
reduce the amount of malaria in that
vicinity. Another medical man. Dr.
Grel'et, echoes that opinion, and as
serts that the diminution in malaria is
proportional to the quality of lime
used. .Neither of these writers offers
any explanation of the alleged discov
ery or shows why the lime should an
tagonize the malaria. The old uotion
that so-called malarial fevers resulted
(as the name implies) from bud air, a
miasm arising from the soil, and es
pecially from wet places, lo still enter
tained by a number of people. This
is a theory which could be reconciled
easily with the belief which Drs. Roche
and (rcllet now cherish. If both of
these suppositions are correct no doubt
the lime checks the development of
the miasmatic vapor In wet soil. But
It has recently been suspected that
malaria is caused by a micro-organism
which gets into the victim's blood, and
not by a gas which is inhaled. It is
also suspected that this microbe get
into the Mood through the bite of an
infected mosquito. Now, If this un
derstanding of the case should prove
to be right. th n it would not be easy
to soe what lime has to do with sup
pressing malaria. Perhaps it kills
mosquitoes and improves the sanitary
conditions of a district in that manner.
Or it is remotely possible that the
disappearance of malaria which ha.s
been noticed in Prance Is confined to
a limited region, and is due to Borne
other cause than the use of lime as a
fertilizer. The two facts may have
been simultaneous, but unrelated. At
any rate, it will be desirable to know
whether anything of the kind has been
noticed in other places where malaria
once prevailed and where lime has
been employed by farmers. If so, there
is doubtless something in the idea.
Otherwise, the French cases would ap
pear to be accidental and exceptional.
5 OM PVII P' THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM OF 3
Vyil IyVltL BANISHMENT IS 2
ti LIPE !l DESCRIBED. 3
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Aa a train was leaving Lezama Sta
tion, Spa'sP..- -,v days ago. the boil
er of the locomot've exploded. Many
persons were ki'.lec' and Injured. The
locomotive itself and several carriages
were destroyed. TM body of the
but the
to
death beneath the pri?in. The sta
tion master wa.i serioi-ly Injured and
the wall cf a house nqar the railway
collapsed. Several piec"3 of wreckage
irere hurled a great distvnce from tha
scene of the accident.
TM body
Irlrer has not been found.
ftoker was discovered crushed
"Who's you ta!kln to, mister?"
when the youngster appeared Mr. Bil
ly greeted her cheerfully with:
"Well, you little wretch, how are
you?"
"Use well," responded the Infant.
And, ar. he drew nearer, the foreman
discovered, from the smeary condition
of her countenance, that some effort
had been made to render it clean.
"Been washing your face, I sec," he
commented.
"Is yer goin to kiss me now?" the
child demanded.
"Think I shall. Here's a corner
that's comparatively spotless, and upon
it I press my lips thus partly as a re
ward of merit for your praiseworthy
efforts and partly because you have the
. . V
"Where Is the big man?"
yard. The end of the rope was caught
by the wheels, and as the little one
tugged to repossess herself of it her
foot slipped under the car and was
cruelly mangled. She whimpered for
a moment, but the little wretch had
been brought up in a stern school,
where sympathy was unknown, and
directly he lay quiet until one of the
men passed near where she was. Then
she lifted her voice in a piteous cry.
"Here's the little wretch." she said.
"I'se awfully hurted. Please come and
get me."
They carried her to the hospital and
summoned her mother, and after the
surgeons had removed the crushed
member and made the patient as com
for table as possible she began to get
feverish.
"Where Is the big man?" she asked,
plaintively. "Why doesn't he come to
see his little wretch?"
"I'm here, Martha." said her mother.
her surly face for once softening.
"Won t I do?"
"So," said the atom, her head toss
ing on the pillow. "I want my big
man! He loves me. He kissed me
once, and he gave me this yesterday.
I'm his little wretch. Oh! why doesn't
he come to me?"
"This" was a penny, the last of a se
ries of such gifts, which had been
tightly clasped in the small hand every
minute, except when the surgeons were
operating.
"Who is this man?" asked the gweet-
faced nurse. "If we could find him.
her last moments would be easier.
Nothing can save her life, but she
would be happy if he were by when
she passes out."
"I don't know no man!" said the
woman, roughly. "She's out of her
mind."
"Johnny knows my man." went on
the little voice; "he'll go for him. Tell
him his little wretch is hurted. and
he'll come."
But before Johnny could bo found
the shadows had lengthened in the
ward, and the murmur had grown so
weak that the "Oh! why doesn't the
big man come to see his little wretch?"
could hardly be distinguished. Then I
as the sun went down, all was quiet
again !n the dormitory, and the nurse
drew the sheet up over the still, white,
beautiful face of the atom.
When Mr. Billy heard about it th;
next day his face paled, and his lan
guage was something fearful. "I'd have
given my life and all the money I pos
sess to have been with the kid!" he
said, brokenly. And then he went over
to the hovel and laid a rosebud In the
hand that still held tho penny.
ADVOCATES TAXES ON WIVES.
Itishop'a Scheme for I'utlitiK aa Kntl to
Native Customs.
According to the report of a resident
clergyman of New York, who ha3 been
in Africa to lcok over the missionary
field, the mi.-sionaries in South Africa
recently held a convention in Natal.
Among the questions that claimed
their attention was that of polygamy
among the natives. They discussed the
practicability of makins rmsj:
against this custom. Many of them
declared that the practice was con
demned not only by moral, but also by
business considerations. The bishop
of Ma.shonalaml asserted that the coun
try mignt find in polygamy the real
reason for the very inconvenient
dearth of labor in the mines. The na
tive father looks upon his daughter
merely as so much merchandise. He
will cheerfully part with her if he can
get what he considers to be her value
in cattle. The girl is sold to her fu
ture husband for from five to fifty head
of cattle, according to her beauty, as
that quality Is estimated among he
natives. An exceedingly fat girl is
very beautiful indeed and brings the
highest price in the matrimonial mar
ket. The bishop of Mashonaland pro
posed a plan which, if carried into ef
fect, would, in his opinion, put an end
to polygamy. He would have the gov
ernment view all wives, except the first,
as articles of luxury and tax them in
a progressive scale. Wife No. 1 should
be exempt from taxation, but the hus
band should pay a tax of 525 a year
for the luxury of having wife No. 2
In his family, $50 a year for wife No.
3, $100 a year fcr wife No. 4, and so
on. It Is evident that at this rate it
would take a very long purse or a
well-stocked cattle yard to keep the
native home adorned with a goodly
number of wives. The convention did
not commit itself to this or any other
plan for doing away with polygamy,
and it remains to be seen what the
white legislators of South Africa will
think of the novel scheme suggested
by the bishop of Mashonaland.
There has been a great deal of sym
pathy wasted upon Siberian exiles,
writes William E. Curtis from St.
Petersburg. While there have doubt
less been innumerable cases of in
justice and brutality, for Russian of
ficials are corrupt and cruel, and the
Slavs, a3 a race, have always regarded
human suffering with indifference.
nevertheless, under ordinary circum
stances, the majority of those who
have been banished to Siberia are
much better off than they were at
home and ought to consider them
selves fortunate to escape imprison
ment for a term of years. The cara
vans of convicts, whose misery and
anguish have aroused so much horror
and Indignation in civilized countries
have not usually undergone any great
er hardships than were borne by the
pioneers who crossed our own prairies
to Colorado, Montana and California
before the overland railroads were
built. And, upon arriving at their
destinations, unless they were guilty
of serious crimes, their surroundings
and circumstances were often much
better than those of the men who
developed the wealth of the mountains
and the prairies west of the Missis
sippi river. The life of a miner or a
ranchman or a farmer in Siberia,
whether he be an emigrant or a con
vict suffering banishment, offers in
finitely greater advantages for moral
and material improvement than can
be found in any of the great Russian
cities, and in the great majority of
cases what was imposed as a punish
ment turned out to be a blessing, for
many of the wealthiest and most In
fluential men In Siberia are exiles
who have found unlimited opportuni
ties for the exercise of their talents
and industry. The exile system was
adopted by Nicholas I., "the iron
czar," with the idea of utilizing con
vict labor for the development of the
timber, pastoral and agricultural re
sources of the vast region beyond the
Caucasus mountains, and. instead of
tending offenders to prison, shipped
them into the wilderness to work
out their small salvation under the
e-irveillance of the police. They
were ticket-of-leave men. They were
permitted to go and come and do
whatever their hands found to do. and
enjoy tho fruits of their industry with
out interference from the authorities
so long as they remained in the neigh
borhood of the community to which
they were assigned. Good behavior
was rewarded by additional liberty.
Exiles who proved trustworthy were
allowed the privileges of ordinary citi
zens and were sometimes permitted on
parole to return to their old homes
in Russia to visit their parents or at
tend to business affairs. No one was
chained either on the march or after
arrival unless he had committed a
capital crime, or had tried to escape.
or was refractory or had violated the
orders or the rules imposed upon him.
The heartrending pictures tfrawn by
Mr. Kennan and other writers were
often accurate, but the figures who
appeared in them were usually men
who had aroused the hostility of the
officials by resistance or defiance and
were punished for that reason.
VILLAGES MADE UP OF WOMEN.
During the summer and autumn
many of the villages and towns around
the Essex coast are entirely without
able-bodied men, save, of course, for
the presence of such indispensable per
sonages as the clergyman, doctor and
one or two shopkeepers. A typical
example is the village of Tollesbury.
Although Tollesbury boasts a popula-
toin of considerably over a thousand
inhabitants, the nearest railway sta
tions, Kelvedon and Maldon, are near
ly ten miles away, and from May un
til toward the end of September it is
simply a village of women and child
ren. This is owing to the fact that all
the men, and most of the boys over 16
years of age, earn their living as yacht
bands, and when summer commences
they start every year for a cruise of
several months' duration, rarely seeing
their homes again till late in the
autumn.
By the end of this month the mud
flats which lie between Tollesbury
and the deep sea, will be a forest of
masts of pleasure j'achts which lie up
here for the winter, when the hands
are paid off and the men return to the
village. During the winter the staple
industries of tho place are fishing in
smacks, oyster drcdg.ng for starfish,
which latter are of considerable value
for manuring purposss.
Men of Tollesbury were among the
crew that Sir Thomas Upton took
across the Atlantic to sail Shamrock
I. and several of them are taking part
in the present contest. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Headgear of Columbia's Mn
Many pictures of Columbia's crew
in white, with toboggan caps on their
heads, have been published from time
to time, observes Victor Smith, but
they have not lessened interest in the
peculiar headgear of Barr's pets. Boys
wear such caps in the streets in cold
weather, plainly knitted articles of
every conceivable color, with tasseled
peaks hanging down the back. Some
times a pempon takes the place of
the tassel. Columbia's crew wears
toboggan caps of horizontal stripes cf
yellowish green and bluish blr.ck. and
the general effect reminds you of Pal
mer tox.' Brownies or of watchful
sprites materialized.
Vienna's Appetite for Hon Meat.
Consul General Hurst, at Vienna,
sends to the American department of
state an account of the horse meat
industria of the Austrian capital,
which now calls for the slaughter of
some 25,000 horses and half a hun
dred donkeys annually horse meat
being Eold under close public regula
tion, and as such and not something
else, and finding a market among tho
poor on account of its 50 per cent low
er price as compared with ordinary
meat.
A Kangaroo ICancli.
An Arkansas planter is making ar
rangements to start a kangaroo ranch.
The hides are valuable and the ten
dons much more so. The latter can be
split extremely fine, and are the best
thing known to surgeons for sewing
up wounds and especially for holding
broken bones together, being much
finer and tougher than catgut.
New York's Presidential Llt.
From New York state have come five
of the twenty-five men who have been
presidents of the United States Van
Buren. Fillmore, Arthur, Cleveland and
Roosevelt.
f) Vast Riches Cause Great I)
, "orry 10 a. former
VCLQT Peeper. v v - )
AN HONEST NAME.
Illinois Statesman Tells a Good
Story Knew Ills Father's Son
Woo Id Not Ue.
The Honorable Alva Merrill of Chil-
licothe, member for the Twenty-fourth
District, State of Illinois House of
Representatives tells an interesting
story:
Some two years ago Mr. Merrill
gave a testimonial stating that Dodd's
Kidney Pills cured his rheumatism.
This with Mr. Merrill's portrait were
published in thousands of papers all
over the United States.
On the train returning home from
Springfield one day last winter were
the Honorable Mr. Merrill and sev
eral other members. After a time
one of them said:
"Merrill, what time do you get to
Chillicothe?"
This attracted the attention of an
old man who had been apparently
awaiting some identification of Mr.
Merrill and as soon as he heard the
name he rushed up to his seat and
extending his hand said:
"You are Alva Merrill and you
saved my life. I was most dead with
Lumbago and in an advertisement I
saw your picture and your recommen
dation of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I knew
your father, and I know his son would
not lie. and therefore I decided to trv
the Pills.
"I am satisfied that Dodu's Kidnc?
Pills and nothing else have caved my
life and I have been waiting this op
portunity to thank you personally, for
had I not seen your recommendation
I might never have been led to use
this remedy, but, thanks to God,
through your honest name and the
honest medicine which you so heart
ily recommended I am still alive.
"I have been watching you since
you got on the train at Springfield and
thought I recognized your face as thjj
one I had seen in the advertisement,
and as soon as this gentleman called
you by name, I knew you were the
man I had to thank."
Her Wealth
a.
Cultivation of Coco.
The cultivation of coco, says a wri
ter in the Scientific American, i3 at
present an inviting agricultural pur
suit in Trinidad and parts of Venezu
ela. The coco tree cannot withstand
strong sunshine, and the young plants
have to be shaded by banana or plain
tain trees, and later, when they attain
their growth, by tall trees known as
"immortels," or the "mother of the
coco." These make a kind of canopy
over the entire plantation. The fruit
of the coco tree is a pod, resembling
a cucumber and growing on the trunk,
or large branches, where it "looks as
though It were artificially attached."
The seeds are like large, thick Lama
beans embedded in pulp. These form
the coco beans of commerce. The
processes of curing and drying require
much attention.
For a year and a half an inmate of.
an institution for the poor, Mrs. Ellen
Cushing of Chicago, is now burdened
with wealth and is more unhappy by
far than when a pauper dependent
upon others for the necessities of life.
Broken in health and spirit by old age
and the vicissitudes of former years,
worried by a legion of petty annoy
ances that follow in the wake of hei
inheritance so that she cannot sleep,
a bequest of SS.000,000 from her un
cle, Henry Dolan of New York, left
to be divided between herself and four
sistere, is only a scurvy trick that fate
has i-iayed upon her.
Her friends say the inheritance will
kill her. They tell of hundreds of let
ters she receives from persons who
seek to take advantage of her feeble
ness and obtain a portion of her rich
es. Some of these are the letters of
professional beggars, who recite har
rowing tales of poverty and dirtress,
and ask for amounts ranging from 55
to $500. Others are from promoters
of enterprises, such as mines in Alas
ka, the search of sunken treasure, the
completion of flying machines and per
petual motion contrivances, who would
accept in trust all her money were she
willing. These are read nervously as
fast as they are received, and are much
to blame for her present condition.
Mrs. Cushing will receive her Inher
itance November 28, and what she will
do with the money the beneficiary has
not the slightest idea. Now she is
not content to live In any one place
but moves about from the home of
one friend to that of smother, un
happy in the possession of her great
riches.
Whisky V )tf.
Judge Smith of the London city
court decided that to a man who
earns as much as a pound a week
whisky is almost a necessary of life
and he cannot escape responsibility
for debt on the ground that the li
quor is a luxury. In the case before
the court the defendant was a minor,
but the judge ruled that the bill must
be paid with costs.
The Dram In Warfare.
In 1869 the Italian minister of war,
Signor Ricotti. abolished the drum in
the Italian army. For nine years a
crusade in its favor has been carried
on in Italy, and at length its return
is decided upon. Every regiment in
the country has been supplied with
one or more of the 1,200 drums which
have been ordered from a Milan mak
er. These new drums will be an im-
AN OPEN
LETTER
I Address to Women by tho Treas
urer or t&o i. C. T. U. of
Kansas
Smith.
City,
rs. E. C,
"Mr Dear Sisters: I brfiero in
provement on the old ones, for they that will lift up and helpVomeu, and
umy to weign iour pounds, as
against the previous seventeen pounds.
but little use appears all knowiedcr
and learning- if you have not the health
to enjoy It.
France's Submarine Fleet.
By 1906 France will have a fleet of
CS submarine boats when the present
programme is fulfilled. Twenty sub
marine boats have been laid down this
year, and owing to this large number
none will be laid down in 1902. Five
will be begun in 1903 and in 1904 26
more will be undertaken. Three will
be ready next year, and 17 more in
1903.
American Servants Want Too Much.
A writer in a German paper declares
that servants in the United States do
only half as much work, demand twice
as much free time and four times as
much wages as servants do in Ger
many.
MBS. E. a SMITH.
Having found by personal experK
ence that lovdia 12. Pinkham's
vegetable Comnouncl ifi a mrlf.
She Had Oitculs.teti.
"Did you ever kiss a man?" asked
the Chicago girl. The Boston girl
blushed. "Really, that is so vulsrar.
ou know." she said. "Maybe it is.
but did you?" persisted the Chicago
girl. "I should hate to think It was
a kiss," replied the Boston girl, "but
since I have become engaged I have
tried osculation." Chicago Post.
A Community of Rents.
Some people live in New York, oth
ers exist. It is written that a major
ity of our citizens never owned a
home. They live in rented flats or
houses all their lives, and do not know
the meaning of possession. Many mil
lionaires dwell in hired residences.
Their homes are In other states, but
they must be In Fifth avenue during
the social season, and they must keep
house. Philadelphia has been spoken
of as a "community of homes." New
York is a community of rents. More
than half of our people don't know
what it is to pay taxes. Their obliga
tions of citizenship are settled by the
landlord, who takes everything out in
the rent. We are becoming a charac
terless mob. New York Press.
Importations.
"You get all that is best in your
system of government from England,
you know," said the placid Londoner.
And In a tone of slight irritation the
New York man rejoined, "How about
Richard Croker?" Washington Star.
An Isolated
Largest of liuoki,
"Some day," muttered the foolkiller,
"when I have more leisure than I have
nowadays, I shall publish a book en
titled 'Fools I have Met.' "
It is interesting to note that the In
habitants of the island of St Hilda,
lying off the west coast of Scotland,
only have communications with the
mainland during three months of the
year, from the beginning of June to the
end of August. In these months it is
visited by excursion steamers perhaps
half a dozen times; for the rest of the
year its inhabitants know as much
about British affairs as do the Eski
mos of the north. If King Edward
were to die tomorrow, or Liondon be
burned down, they would learn of the
pvents for the first time next June.
But while unable to receive communi
cations except during the period men
tioned they have a quaint seapost. .
Whec they desire to communicate with
the mainland they put their letters,
with coins for postage. Into a tin box
or a bottle, which is enclosed in a
roughly-shaped tin7 boat, with the
words "Please open cut on top, and
a bladder full of air attached. This
is thrown into the sea at certain tides,
and so carried to the Hebridc-an shores,
or mayhap to the coast of Norway.
The group of islands of which St.
Kilda is the chief, has an area of 4,000
square miles. The climate is mild
cinu of rare virtue, and having- seen
dozens of cures where my Buffering
sisters have been dragged back to life
and usefulness from an untimely grave
simply by the use of a few bottles of
that Compound, I must proclaim its
virtues, or I should not be doing my
duty to suffering mothers anddragged
out housekeepers.
owing to the Gulf 6tream and immense . Dear Sister, is your health poor.
numbers or wild fowl make their " ul u our. ana used up.
Scottish Islanders Who
Live in Practical Igno
rance of the World.
homes on the islands. The waters are
full of fisn and the natives raise val
uable sheep.
especially do you have any of the
troubles which beset our sex. take my
advice ; let the doctors alone, tr-
Compound; it is better than any
and all doctors, for it cures and they
do not. "Mas. E. C. Smith, 1213 Oak
h treasurer W. C. T. U., Kansas
City. Mo. f 5000 forftlt If about testimonial U
that ever claimed Milwaukee as home, Mrs. Finkham advises sick wo
and It was from that cif.y that he was mca free. Address, Lynn, flTftafl.
twice elected to Congress, and he could
have gone oftener had he so desired. $8.00 Olie Of the'
"Baby Mine" Elected II I m.
Isaac W. Van Shaick, who died re
cently in Maryland at the age of 84,
was one of the most notable characters
Baby Mine" was the song that elect
ed him the time he ran for Congress.
In the outer wards of the city in thei
thickly populated districts where th
Polish voters ive he visited the hum
ble homes and dandled the children on
his knee, jollied the mothers and sang
"Baby Mine" to the babies. He sang
it on the floor of the Chamcer of Com
merce when trading was dull. Every
where he went he was called upon for
his favorite song and never failed to
respond.
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