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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1898.
According to revised statistics
just published by the bureau of ag
riculture, Nebraska led all the
states last year in her production
of corn, with the grand total oi
241,268,490 bushels.
The failures last month in the
United States were less than during-
any January since 1881, while
the actual payments through the
clearing houses of the country were
thirty-six per cent greater than
last rear.
The treasury of the trans-Mississippi
exposition is said to be about
two hundred thousand dollars short
oi the amount necessary to com
plete the buildings that have been
projected. It is claimed, however,
that the funds can be raised.
If the German government keeps
up the crusade against American
farm products she' may some
day have a rude awakening
when Uncle Sam takes a hand
in the game and places
extra tariff on all German imports
or excludes some of her articles,
such as wine, altogether from en
tering American ports.
Kentucky's legislature demand
ed the resignation of Senator Lind
say because he voted against the
Teller resolution, and a resolution
has been introduced in the New
York legislature demanding the
resignation of Senator Murphy for
the reason that he voted .for the
Teller resolution. Honors are
therefore even, upon to date.
That there are still people and in
lact whole nations on this earth
who dread dire consequences as a
result of an eclipse of the sun is
best illustrated by reports from
Hyderabad, India, where recently
on the occasion of the luminant be
coming obscured a governor liber
ated fifty prisoners besides giving
them money and clothes no doubt
to ease a guilty conscience. The
remaining prisoners very likely
wish for an eclipse every day un
til all are liberated.
The bureau of agricultural stat
istics at Washington has just made
an announcement of its figures on
last year's agricultural crops of
wheat, corn and oats, by states.
The total of wheat grown in the
country was 530,149,168 bushels; oi
corn 1,902.967,933; of oats 698,767,
809. Nebraska produced of wheat
27,452,647 bushels, being the eighth
state in the amount raised. Of
corn this state grew 241.268,490
bushels, leading all other states in
the union in its total production,
Illinois coming next with 232,927,
085 and Iowa third with 220.089,
149. In oats this state stood fourth
with a yield ot 51.731,094 Iowa pro
ducing double that amount, Illinois
and Wisconsin also leading.
Representatives ot the Union
Pacific reorganization committee
called on President McKinley and
Attorney General Griggs itf relation
to the forthcoming sale of
the Kansas Pacific. The com-,
mittee desired that the presi
dent modify the amount oi
the government bid from the
full value of the road, but as reported
the president adheres strictly to the
plan as laid out to protect the gov
ernment's interests, As there are
other roads in which the govern
ment has large amounts involved,
any deviation from the present sale
would leave the possibility of show
ing other roads the same leniency.
The people in general will approve
ot the action of the president in
forcing the delinquent railroads to
put up in full.
Frank Sauter, of Milwaukee,
Wis., and Thomas A. Edison, Jr..
the latter a son of the Wizard,
claim they have at last solved the
air-ship problem and made air nav
igation possible. They departe'd
from the old style baloon princible
and built a boat with regular mast
and sails, only that the material for
the sails is dappel, admitting of in
flation by gas. While Mr. Sauter in
vented the boat young Edison dis
covered the new as wliich made
the plan feasible. What experi
ments they have so far made proved
highly successful. Now we expect
the gentlemen to nave patriotism
enough ,to go after the North Pole
and bring it down in time to be
placed on exhibition at the coming
great show in Omaha.
Diplomacy; between the Czar of
Russia and the Sultan of Turkey
has become somewhat si rained
lately. The Czar appointed Prince
George, ot Greece, as governor of
Crete, to which the Sultan emphat
ically objects, while the Czar just
as stubbornly insists that he hball.
The other powers evidently have
left the sick man on the Bos
phorus in the hands of Doctor Nich
olas to be put -through a sweating
cure.
To Ouo He Writes Legibly.
A well known musician, who writes
a very illegible hand, once Eent an un
usually hopeless scrawl to a friend. The
latter studied it a minute, gave it up in
despair and then sat down and wrote in
reply: "I shall be most happy to dine
with you tomorrow at 6. Kindest re
gards to your wife," etc. In less than
half an hour his friend appeared breath
less at his door.
"There's some misunderstanding,"
he said anxiously. "I wrote you a note
asking you if you could play the piano
part of the trio at Brown's recital, and
here you've sent me an acceptance of a
dinner invitation, but 1 didn't invite
you to dinner. "
"Well," returned the other blandly,
"I didn't suppose you'd really sent mo
an invitation to dinner, but I couldn't
read a word of your note, and in that
case hereafter I mean always to take it
for granted that you're asking me to
dine."
For one of his correspondents at least
the offender now writes legibly. Chi
cago News.
Tlio Treating Habit.
It was Pope Telesphorus, who died
before the year 150 A. D.f who institut
ed Christmas as a festival, though for
some time it was irregularly held in
December, April and May. But for cen
turies before there had been a feast of
Yule among the northern nations, whoso
great enjoyment was in drinking the
wassail bowl or cup. Nothing gave
them so much delight as indulgence in
"carousing ale," especially at the sea
sou of short days, when fightiug was
ended. It was likewise the custom at all
their feasts"for the master of the house
to fill a large bowl or pitcher, to drink
out of it first himself and then give to
him that sat next, and so it went
around." This may have been the origin
of that popular American custom known
as "treating. " It is curtain that upon
our Christian observance of this glorious
day have been ingrafted habits taken
from rude and barbarous people. St.
Louis Republic.
Reform In Ancient Stuttgart.
The question of the nightly illumi
nation of the old city was always a con
tested one, and fiercely waged the war
fare between the dukes and the town
authorities. It was Eberhard Ludwig
who finally defied the doughty magis
trates and ordered that a number of lan
terns should be supplied. The lanterns
were provided, but the magistrates
would not allow them to be lighted. A
hot contest followed between the duke
and the chief magistrate. Tho latter
had but oue response for all the angry
remonstrances of the duke, "When
people should be brought into view be
fore the eyes of night thieves, how easy
it would be for them to drag their vic
tims to a dark place, plunder and kill
theml" Eberhard was obliged to give
up his project
Duke Carl insisted that the streets
should be lighted and carried his point,
but no sooner had be removed his resi
dence to Ludwigsburg than complete
darkness once more nightly settled over
the streets of Stuttgart Iron pillars, to
which shallow pans were attached,
were stationed at regular intervals
along the streets. When, on extraordi
nary occasions, illumination was allow
ed, rosin and pitch were lighted in these
pans, and the flickering flames only
added weirdness to the darkness that
they were intended to dissipate.
As late as 1770 lanterns hung in the
places designated by Duke Carl, but
they burned not The security of the
citizens was above all else. "Stutt
gart," by Eliso J. Allen, in Harper's
Magazine.
Morals and Sex.
"Whatever the Turveydrops of the
moral world may have to say about the
necessity for elevatiug moral deport
ment on the part of "woomau, bewitch
ing wooman," I have never been able to
see any indubitable intent in nature her
self toward binding them over to any
higher moral standards than she does
men. Both men and women seem to me
to be compounded of the same average
morality, though with certain unlike
mauifestatious, largely the result of cir
cumstances and opportunities.
I see no special cause for believing
that the average woman under like
temptation would do very differently
from the average man a belief which
is not lessened by Bishop Potter's re
cent accusation before the women's
auxiliary of the Civil Service Reform
association that they put their relatives
into office whenever they get-the chance,
"without any evidence that they arc fit
ted to fill the places they applied for."
Possibly women were intended by their
Creator to stand for the reformatory in
terests of life, hut I think there is not
as yet sufficient evidence thereto, either
in the naturo of things or of women, to
warrant any special abrogation of other
distinct and more familiar duties in fa
vor fif interests xnainlv ruul
THE DEACON'S PIETY.
IT WAS EQUAL TO ALL OCCASIONS AND
LASTED OVER EIGHTY YEARS.
Suspended Religious Services Indefinitely
to Nurse the Victims of a Smallpox Epi
demic An Example In This as Ho Was
In Devotion to the Flag.
Deacon William Trowbridge was a
small farmer living near Sheboygan
Palls. He went there over 50 years ago.
Besides tilling a little patch of ground
the deacon, who was indeed the very
soul of honor and ever had the respect
and confidence of all in that commu
nity, was in the hahit, before regular
preachers were sent there, of reading a
sermon or exhorting. There was no
sham about Deacon Trowbridge's piety.
He was sincerity itself.
Fifty years ago the little village was
visited by a smallpox epidemic an old
fashioned, widespread and spreading
epidemic and they didn't know how
to scotch it as well as they do now.
The first Sunday after the dreaded
disease made its appearance the deacon's
congregation was quite large. At the
end of the services he made an announce
ment in about these words:
"These servicesVill.bo postponed un
til after the smallpox disappears from
the community. From this on I shall
give my services to the stricken fain'
ilies. I shall minister to their wants,
help to nurso them, and when they die
follow them to the grave. It may be a
long term or it may be a short term,
but, however long or however short, it;
is my plain duty to help my distressed
neighbors."
The word was well suited to the ac
tion which followed. The good old dea
con hurried to his home, changed his
clothes, bade his family gcodby and at
once began his work of mercy. What a
! work it was! The epidemic lasted near
ly all winter. Largo numbers died. Few
in the village escaped the disease. The
deacon's example was followed by oth
ers. Men went to their homes, told their
wives and children what the deacon had
said and was doing, arranged their busi
ness, provided fuel and provisions, kissed
their dear ones and went to the aid of
tho unfortunate. Like the deacon they
went without reward or hope of reward.
Like him they spent weeks and some of
them months in that service without
daring to go home lest their dear ousa
catch tho disease.
The strangest of all this strange ex
perience is the fact that neither the dea
con, the good souls who imitated his ex
ample nor their families were overtaken
by the malady, notwithstanding tho fact
that the watchers, helpers and nurses
were almost constantly in the presence
of tho suffering patients and notwith
standing the fact that they laid out and
helped to bury the dead.
Nearly half of tho deacon's congrega
tion had disappeared when, the next
spring, he resumed services in the
schoolhouse. It was a sorrowful Sun
day. Thpseiu tho audience who had not
lost members of their family had lost
neighbors and dear friends. "When the
good old Christian had read a chapter,
prayed and talked a practical sermon,
ho referred feelingly to the scenes
through which the community had
passed. I think every man, woman and
child in the room, including tho deacon,
wept. At the close of the talk he asked
all present to join him on their knees
in asking that the community might
escape such visitations for all time to
come. It was a most earnest appeal. I
believe that that prayer has been an
swered. There may have been a few
cases of smallpox there since then, but
theie has never been an epidemic.
The Sunday after Sumter was fired
upon, and .while Deacon Trowbridge
was conducting services in the Baptist
church, the denomination to which he
belonged for over 80 years, he and his
congregation were disturbed by a great
commotion in the street right in front
of the church. There were beating of
drums and sounds of fife' much out of
tuno. It was eo uncommon a thing that
most of the congregation walked or
ran out of the church. Finally the dea
con closed the Bible and slowly follow
ed his fleeing flock. When outside, he
asked the cause of "this unseemly dis
turbance on tho Lord's day. " Some one
told him that the president had called
for soldiers to uphold the honor and the
flag of the nation and that they were
going to raise a company right then
and there.
Tho old deacon's eyes flashed as he
walked out into the street, where a
young fellow was irregularly pounding
a bass drum, and said: "Nathan, I
know it is Sunday and that all but the
Lord's work should be abandoned, but
the saving of our country and tho
shielding of its flag from dishonor is
the Lord's work. Give me that drum. "
And that model of piety strapped on
the big drum and went to pounding,
greatly outdoing Nathan in two re
spects he made more noise and kept
perfect time. He drummed as no one
before had never drummed in the little
village. As if it had gone on lightning
wings, word flew through tho commu
nity that Deacon Trowbridge had left his
pulpit to beat a drum, and on Sunday
too.
Within half an hour nearly every one
in town and many from tho outskirts
had gathered around tho old drummer,
all cheering him, and on Sunday too.
That night Nathan Cole, who had been
relieved as drummer by the deacon,
went to Sheboygan with enough men to
make up what became Compauy C of
the Fourth Wisconsin. J. A. Watrous
in Chicago Times-Herald.
A Great Find.
Lady of tho Houso (to servant girl
applying for a situation) You were in
tho service of my friend, Baroness K.
Why were you sent away?
Servaut Please, ma'am, for listen
ing at tho doors.
Lady Ah, then I will take you, only
you must promise 'to tell-rae all you
heard. London Fun. '
THEY DON'T LIKE PAPER.
Savages at First Contact Regard the Fabric
With Suspicion.
When savage people first como in con
tact with the whites, none of the won
ders that they see is regarded with more
suspicion than large sheeta of paper.
The native is apt to regard paper as a
sort of cloth, and the fact that it tears
easily and is worthless for most of the
purposes to which cloth is put convinces
him that it is a fraud.
One or two Kongo travelers told of
the disgust with which the natives at
first regarded paper. The Kongo tribes,
by the way, are on the lookout for
sharpers, and ib is exceedingly hard
work for anybody to sell them a bad
quality of cutlery or cloth. Savages
soon find, however, that paper is not in
tended to serve tho purposes of cloth.
Then they cease to look upon it as a
fraud, but they do not think it ranks
high among white man's manufactures,
and they have little use for it.
Some time ago a well known explorer
was traveling in the interior of Queens
land, Australia, where he met many
natives who had never seen a white man
before.
One day a crowd of natives was in
the white man's camp carefully inspect
ing the explorer and his baggage when
a newspaper happened to drop out of
his pocket.
The natives unfolded and spread it
out on the ground. They decided that it
must be an article of wearing apparel,
and one of them tried it on. He wrap
ped it round his shoulders like a shawl
and sat down on the ground, arranging
his covering this way and that and
watching the faces of the crowd to seo
what they thought of his elegant gar
ment, covered as it was with many
thousands of curious marks.
Presently, however, an accident hap
pened. While the savago was rearrang
ing his shawl and trying to bring the
corners together in front of him the gar
ment began to tear at the nape of his
neck. A howl from tho crowd called at
tention to tho disaster. The blanket, or
whatever it was, was evidently made of
tho poorest sort of material.
The savage took his covering off, ex
amined tho mischief he had wrought,
made the tear a little longer and then
with his finger poked a hole through
tho paper.
That settled tho fact that tho article
was worthless. The newspaper sudden
ly lost all interest for tho natives, who
turned their attention to less destructi
ble objects. Pearson's Weekly.
BREAKFAST CEREALS.
They Contain Essential Elements For Per
fect Nourishment of tho Body.
"Cereals and fruits should form the
base of breakfast foods," writes Mrs.
S. T. Rorer on "Breakfast Cereals and
Fruits" in her cooking lesson in The
Ladies' Home Journal. "They will sup
port muscular action, preserve the heat
of the body and strengthen the brain in
its nervous activity. Whole or steel cut
oats and whole wheat, from which our
nineteenth century bread should be
made, contain the essential elements for
the perfect nourishment of the human
body. The great objection to cereal
foods is their difficulty of digestion, not
from any fault of the foods, but, first,
from lack of time in cooking and, second,
from lack of proper mastication. Baw
starches are indigestible. The first step,
then, toward the digestion of starches
is over tho lire. Each little cell must be
ruptured, and for this long and careful
cooking is required. The second step to
the digestion of starches is in the
mouth. They are there converted from
the iusolublo starch to soluble sugar.
If they are swallowed quickly, without
mastication, they miss this digestion,
entering the stomach as strangers. This
organ not being prepared to receive
them, they are cast out into the small
intestines to be entirely instead of part
ly digested. This organ, now compelled
to do, in addition to its own duties, the
work of the mouth, soon becomes over
taxed, and we have, as a result, the
disease most common in this country
intestinal indigestion.
"Of the breakfast cereals steel cut
oats head the list. Any of the wheat
germ preparations are good. After these
come the rolled wheat and barley and
rice preparations. All these foods, how
ever, must be thoroughly cooked and
eaten without sugar."
Why He ILcft the Stage.
Thero is in Philadelphia a man who
abandoned the theatrical profession be
canse ho could not lift Fanny Daven
port. Ho was a member of one of the
local stock companies about 20 years
ago, when Miss Davenport came to
Philadelphia with one of the men of
her company sick. Sho applied to the
manager of thejheater in which the
young man referred to was employed
for some one to take tho sick man's
place, and as the young actor was not
in the cast of the play then running his
services were loaned to Miss Davenport.
He was cast for the part of Caius Lucius
in "Cymbeliue?" and tho busin&s of
the part required that he should take
Miss Davenport in his arms and carry
her off the stage. Tho lady weighed
considerably more than he did, and
when he attempted to pick her up he
found that his strength was not equal
to the task. His struggles caused the
audience to laugh, and that spoiled a
good scene. He was so humiliated that
be left the profession after that engage
ment Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rival Citizens.
Johnny's face was smeared with dirt
and tears, thero was a lump on his left
cheek, and one knee projected through
a jagged rent in his trousers leg.
"Johnny, Johnny," exclaimed his
mother, "have you been fighting again?"
"Yep," he replied. "Me an that boy
from New York had a scrap. He looks
wors'n I do, too, you bet"
"You'll break my heart, you willful
boy ! What were you fighting about?"
"About the jography of Chicago. I
said it hadn't any bluffs, an he said it
was all bluff, an I chugged- him.
Awarded
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40 YEARS THE STANDARD!
A GEORGIA HEN COOP.
It Was Sure Proof Against the Inroads of
Outsiders.
"There isn't a more faithful being on
earth," said a Georgia business man to
a reporter, "than one of our Georgia
darkies. Neither is there one more su
perstitious, nor yet again is there one
who loves better the products of the
hen coop. And Cartersville isn't any dif
ferent from any one of a hundred south
ern town 3. When I was down there
some time ago, a customer of mine who
had a fancy for chickens and who had
always had more or less trouble in
maintaining ownership of them told me
he had a remedy and asked me to go
around with him and see it. I wanted
him to tell mo what it was, but he in
sisted on my seeing it first, so I went
along with him, and in a few minutes
was standing in his back yard before
what was to me the oddest chicken
coop I ever saw. It was constructed of
large timbers and there were a dozen
places in its walls whero a hand could
be run in and everything cleaned out
within reach. Then thero was no fas
tening on the door, nor was there any
kind of protection to the fowls. I
couldn't understand how such an in
viting snap could be of any use to the
owner and said as much.
" 'The charm is in tho timber,' said
he.
"'No,' said I.
" 'Fact, just tho same, ' said he. 'Yon
don't see it on the outside and you don't
know it, but the darkies around here
do, and they won't come within 100
yards of that coop if they can help it. I
don't care how full of chickens it is.
'Cause why? It is built of the timbers
of a gallows on which a man was hung
about three months ago in another coun
ty. It cost me something extra to get it,
but it has more than paid for itself
siuce I have had it, and I am in the
market now to buy all the secondhand
scaffolds in Georgia. If you run across
a sheriff any place with one for sale, let
me know by next mail, won't you,
please?'
"It was a true bill," concluded the
traveling man, "for I saw a darky
tried on it, and he refused a big silver
dollar to go down to tho coop to get a
chicken for breakfast." Washington
Star.
TEAS AND TEAS.
Things Once Useil or Now Used as Substi
tutes For the Chinese Herb.
Of course every one knows that we
drink a good deal that isn't tea when
wo drink a cup of tea. We drink or
are supposed to drink some tea, somo
lead and some straw. But there arc sev
eral "teas" that the drinkers know are
not made of tea leaves and yet are not
adulterated.
In Peru they drink mate, a tea made
from the Ilex paragueusis, a species of
holly. This is the only mate tea, but
there is a Brazilian tea, gorgonha, call
ed mate there; another tea used in Aus
tria, called Brazilian tea, and several
other so called mate teas are made from
different varieties of the ilex. In Lab
rador they make a tea from two species
of ledum. Oswego tea was made from
the scarlet mouarda, and mountain tea
from the dwarf evergreen, Gaultheria
procumbens. Then clover tea and tansy
tea and catnip tea and mint tea are
used, though not as beverages.
In Sumatra they uso coffee leaves to
make tea out of, and the beverage is
said to be very refreshing. In Mauritius
the leaves of an orchid, Augroecum
fragrans, are used. Tup Touquinese
have teas of their own, made of .leaves,
berries, barks and woods. The Abys
sinians make tea out of the leaves of
the Catha edulis. When a sentinel can't
leave his post to get a cup of tea, he
can chow a leaf or two of this plant,
and ho won't feel like going to sleep
all night In Tasmania tiiere aro said
to be more than 209 substitutes-for tea;
in England they used to make a tea of
sage, betony or rosemary and of rasp
berry leaves; in France they use black
enrrant leaves and borage to make lea,
and a century or so ago they gathered
in English gardens and fields ash, elder
and sloe leaves, and the. leaves of white
thorn and blackthorn, out of which to
mako tea. So it is ovideiit that there
are teas and teas. New York Sun.
Whatever is a cruel -wrong, -
Whatever is unjust,
The honest years that speed along
Will trample in the dust.
In restless youth I railed at fate
With all my puny might,
But now I know if I hut vrni
It all will como out right.
Though viro may don tho judge's crown
And play the censor's part,
And fact bo cowed by falsehood's frown,
And naturo ruled by art,
Though labor toils through blinding tears,
And idlo wealth is might,
I know the honest, rarncat years
Will bring it all out right.
Though poor and loveless crceda may pass
For pure religion's gold.
Though ignorance may rule the man,
While truth meets glances cold,
I know a law supreme, sublime,
Controls us with its might,
And in God's own appointed time
It all will como out right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. .
JPEENCfl MA11EIAGES.
MATRIMOrlY THE GREAT OBJECT TO
ALL GIRLS OF FRANCE.
Castoms Ib This Farticnlar Have Changed
Badically At the Present Time the Per
sonal Inclinations of Yonngr Women Are
Considered.
Aliss Anna h. Bicknell is an English
ladv who has had most unusual oppor
tunities for studying French life. For a
number of years she was a governess in
the household of Napoleon manure
sided in the Tuileries. For The Century
Miss Bicknell has written an article on
"Frpimh Wives and Mothers." Miss
Bicknell says:
Tho old inariage de convenance, which
caused so much sorrow and consequent
evil in former days, when a girl was
taken out of a convent to be shown the
man to whom sho was about to be mar
ried, is now a thing of the past It must
be acknowledged, however, that mar
riages are still made up, often too has
tily and superficially, by nicely balanced
family arrangements and by the inter
vention of friends. Nevertheless, attrac
tion and repulsion are now taken into
consideration, and a girl is no longer
forced to marry a man whom she posi
tively dislikes. I could quote instances
in the very highest (historical) aristoc
racy where, at tho last moment, after
the trousseau had been sent in (marked,
according to custom, with the united
initial letters of the two names elabo
ratoly embroidered) and all the social
preparations made, the marriage was
broken off because tho bride had de
clared that she could not "get acens
tomed" to the bridegroom nor enduro
the idea of seeing his face in her home
during her natural life. In one of these
instances the family lamentations over
tho initials of the troussean were really
amusing. Fortunately a substitute was
soon found whose name, like that of the
rejected suitor, began with an X, and
the complications were thus happily
settled.
The great object of the French girl's
life is marriage. From tho time of her
birth her parents have prepared for this
event, and in many cases they have con
siderably straitened their income and
curtailed their enjoyments to make up
her dot. Every girl in every class is ex
pected to have something. Those who
have nothing are exceptions and consti
tute a minority of old maids. The girls
who from choice do not marry generally
become nuns, usually much against the
wishes of their parents. The old tales
of young women being forced into con
vents to improve the position of their
brothers are forgotten in these days,
when, while no child can on any pre
tense be deprived of a share in the fa
ther's inheritance, monastic vows are
not recognized by law. Nuns and spin
sters are exceptions; marriage is the
rule.
When a girl is of age to be introduced
into society, her friends and relatives
immediately look out for a suitable hus
band, whom it is considered highly de
sirable to obtain before she has reached
the age of 21, that sho may not be pro
claimed fille majeure when the banns
are published. The principal considera
tions are equality of birth, of position,
of fortune, and in the last particular
the scale is usually expected to weigh
rather more on the side of the young
lady, especially if the young man, in
addition to sufficient present advantages,
can bring forward a number of relatives
not likely to live long. This is called
having hopes (des esperances beaucoup
d'esperauccs). If the young lady with a
substantial clot can also show a satisfac
tory background of invalid uncles and
aunts, then everything is as it should
be, and the young peoplo are brought
together with every prospect of a favor
able conclusion. It happens, however,
too often that they do not know each
other sufficiently, and that they are per
suaded to believe that the mutual liking
is greater than it really is. Sometimes
this sort of undefined attraction ripens
into a deep and devoted love. When
this occurs, there are no more affection
ate wives or more faithful widows than
Frenchwomen.
More frequently, especially in the
higher classes, a sort of cool friendliness
springs up, where they see but little of
each other, aud freedom is enjoyed on
both sides. The authority of the hus
band is less felt than in an English
household. There is a sort of under
standing that in her home the wife is
queen and settles matters as she pleases.
But their best and warmest feelings
arc awakened by all that concerns their
children. French parents are perhaps
tho most affectionate in the world. The
interests and welfare of their children
are their first consideration, and won
dcrful sacrifices of their own pleasuro
and enjoyment aro made iu favor of
their sous aud daughters by tho most
worldly men and women. These are
taken as a matter of course; no one
thinks of doing otherwise or of seeing
any merit in such acts.
The mothers especially are uuequal
ed. Nothing will stand in the way of a
Frenchwoman where her children's in
terests aro concerned. This love is so
engrossing that it swallows up every
other. They are moro mothers than
wives, and if called upon to choose be
I ween allowing a husband to go alone
i;n a foreign mission or leaving their
children they would not hesitate. "Mes
:-ufauts avaut tout"
More Proof.
O'lloolaban Countin tho two miu
vesterday, there's been 18 kilt so far on
;Iio uoo buildiu goiu up across the
treet
O 'Callahan (impressively) Thot's
uother proof av the uuluckiness av the
lumber 18. Brooklyn Eaglo.
Oysters after they have been brought
.way from the sea know by instinct
be exact hour when the tide is rising
iid approaching their beds, and so of
eir own accord open their shells to re-
ve their food from the sea, as if they
re still at home.
When a man gets down
flat on his back, so that he
has to be carried about like
a baby, he finally realizes that he is a sick
man. Very frequently he has been a sick
man for years, but has recklessly refused
to recognize nature's warnings. Severe
illness is something that does not strike a
man like a flash of lightning. It creeps
upon him by degrees, and at every step
warns him with a new danger signal.
When a man feels "out of sorts" or
"knocked out," orwhatever he may call it,
he is a sick man. It is time to take warn
ing. Headaches, drowsiness, loss of sleep
at night, loss of appetite.'nervousness, bad
taste in the mouth in the morning, and
frightful dreams all these are warnings of
encroaching- illness. Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery creates appetite, cures
dyspepsia stimulates the liver, purines the
blood, quickens the circulation and tones
the nerves. It makes rich, red, tissue
building blood. It builds firm flesh, but
does not make corpulent people more cor
pulent. Unlike cod liver oil, it does not
make flabby flesh. On the contrary, it
tears down and excretes the unhealthy tis
sues that constitute corpulency, and re
places them with the firm, muscular tissues
of good health. It cures 98 per cent, of
all cases of consumption. All bronchial,
throat and kindred ailments, as lingering
coughs, spitting of blood and weak lungs
are cured by it Thousands have testified
to its merits. At all medicine stores.
It is a dealer's business to give you
what you ask for; not to tell you what
you want
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation. Constipation is the cause of
cure the disease. One "Pellet" is a
gentle laxative, and two a mild cathar
tic. Druggists sell them, and nothing is
"just as good."
U. P. TIME TABLE.
COIXG EAST CENTRAL TIME.
No. 28 Freiuht 6:00 a.m.
No. 2 Fast Mail 8:50 n. m.
No. i Atlantic Express.... 11:40 p.m.
COINQ WEST MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 23 Freight 7:40 a. m.
No. 21 Freight 3:20 p. m.
No. 1 Limited 3:55 p. m.
No. 3-Fast Mail 11:20 p. m.
N. B. Olds. Agent.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
jQR. J. W. BUTT,
Office over First National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE. NEB.
gEDELIi & THORPE,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Offices: North Platte National Bank
Building, North Platte, Neb.
J! F. DENNIS, M. D.,
HOMOEOPATHISO?,
Over First National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA.
jTILCOX & HAIililGAN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
rfORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA
Office over North Platte NaUonal Bank.
D
R. N. F. DONALDSON,
Assistant Surgeon Union Pacfic Rp"'
and Member of Pension Board,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office over Streitz's Drag Store.
E,
E. NORTHRUP,
DENTIST.
McDonald Building, Spruce street,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
JjlRENCH & BALDWIN,
ATTORN E YS-AT-LAW,
NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA.
Office over N. P. Ntl. Bank.
T,
C. PATTERSON,
Office over Yellow Front Shoe Store,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
D, M. HOGSETT
Contractor and Builder,
AND AGENT FOR
ECLIPSE and FAIRBANKS
WINDMILLS.
. NORTH PLATTE. NEB.
S3
J. F. PILLION,
Plumber, Tiaworker
General Eepairer.
Special attention given to
WHEELS TO EENT
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