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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1904)
NEMAHA ADVERTISER. W. W. SANDOHS, Publish NEMAHA, NEBRASKA U - , . Women know as nnicli about politics ui inon know about war tnups. Some men lire eagerly sought nftcr accause they don't pay Uiolr debts. A man's Idea of hnrd work Is any tlnd at which he can't sit down mid imoko. "lie was a follower of the golden rule." should be a soul-satlfyhig opl siph for any man. Never smoke a gift, olgnr in the presence of the donor unless you have vonderful self-control. Olvll service Is said t( work well Ui ilio Philippines. Walt til the Filipinos ret on to the way of civilization. For a a toady, consistent casualty ree ml, however, the gasoline can has the lusio-Jiipani' Avar beaten a mile. Paulino Aslor Is not the only Amer ican, heiress who has becomed allied villi the Spender family of England. Men Hhould be elected to otllco be- iatiso of their qtiallllenflons for the Job mil not for the purpose of keeping them out of Jail. We've Been ho many sales of "mill suds" advertised lately, Unit only the .entral portions of all the factories wist be loft by now. After walking homo from the race track a man Is In tho humor to sneer it Ills wife for mklng chances on the prlzo cako at a church fair. A Kansas woman Is said to have eft Jier husband because ho persisted 3i refusing to argue with her. Gould mythlng be more aggravating? Professor Mason, of tho Smlthson nn Institute declares that "tho blondes ire u disappearing human type." Not ivhllo the peroxide supply holds out, rofessor. A California surgeon operated on a pt.lont wlille the house in whloli they ivoro was burning. It's simply impos liblo to stop some surgeons when they tot their patients down. Newspaper wits do not iilwnys treat nitlqultles with proper respect. One f them remarked, upon reading about the discovery of a capstan two thou mnd years old in the Forum of Koine, that it must have been tho one used Iji winding up the affairs of Uie Roman Cmplro. Russell Sago Is not the only man rvhOjdoes not lake a vacation. The Klltbr of tho prison paper at Sing Sing id in Its that lie has jiqt i taken a vaca tion for live years, and says that his engagements are such that he docs not see how he can take one for at wist seven nioro years. A Southern clergyman is trying to ,-onvlnee a convention of his church Unit Santa Olaus Is a myth and an ibominatlou and that to allow little thlidren to believe in him was to train 5iem to bo deceitful. Let us hope that lie good, foolish man has no children tt his own who are never allowed to play that a doll is nllvo or a chair is i Jior.se or that ttiere are Indians and frizzly bears lurking behind the rose Hushes in tho garden. Oae thing must be said for John Lloxandor Dowlo ho never steals epon his victim from behind. For ln rtance, lie lias made public announce nent of bis intention tt) dethrone Ed rard VII. with an added warning that the kaiser Is to be the next victim; Ihe c.ar and Emperor Frauds Joseph 10 be spared until further notice. "I nay be assassinated for saying these urords," exclaimed the lntorpld Elijah 01. "but I fear nothing." Wltii such . dare-devil adversary his majesty voulri better look out. When should a girl marry? Govern ir Warilold, of Maryland, thinks not ofore she Is twenty-six, and lie bases llils ago on the fact that his wife nin twenty-six when she blessed him vith her presence. A certain Dr. Imlth regards eighteen as a good age, tnd Dorothy DIx sends a long screed jo iha Sabbath press giving various itiggostlons. Meanwhile tho person uost vitally interested makes her ar rangements to accord with her oppor tunities, and wo incline to the opin ion that from now on to the end of jho chapter the girl will marry Just when she Is satlslled that he cannot; Ifford to throw away tiie golden thujice. Girls are very much alike In Oils respect; so are parents.' One of the distinct features of the ige is the tendency to return to agrl juUui'o, Where a few years m;o the fanner bojs ore rushing to the cities I to crowd the professions, there Is now La decided move in tho other direction 'Tho natural reaction that must always follow a movement so radical In soma measure, accounts for the disposition I to return to the soli for a livelihood I but there Is more. Tho agriculturist ' has become a professional man. Tho college and tho university have added I a special course for his benefit, an gives Jilm a degree, lie Is a botanist and a chemist, and science ban taught him to take In the Jaded and worn out farm, and with Intelligence cause- It to blossom like the rose. Tho dls plritlng labor which bent tho forms of the elders and sent tho lads scurrying cityward has been lightened by de vices that better accomplish the end sought. Tlie long bourse are shori ended, and the farmer finds time to in dulgc in Uie enjoyments of life. This new condition, added to tho faclnatlon ol independence, has turned many men from other professions toward tho country, carrying with them the man nerlsin of their class until the ex tor initiation of the chin whisker is threatened by the Prince Albert coat. Recommendations for a change from the vertical system of penmanship have been made before the Chicago Hoard of Education. One of the trus tees, Mr. Cameron, Is quoted as say lug of vertical writing: "It may bo good to write love letters, but it is not good for keeping books. I do not know of a set of books In Chicago where the up and down writing is allowed. If t boy can write only In the vertical stylo business houses have little use for him." If that is the case It is a sulll- dent reason why pupils should not be required to learn vertical writing. If business bouses have no use for boys who write only the vertical style surely no boy ought to be required to learn that style against his natural Inclination. It does not follow, how ever, that those to whom it is natural to write the vertical should be forced to learn the Inclined style. The ob viously common sense rule Is not to attempt to force the pupil out of his natural bent. That involves something worse than a waste of time. It results either In total failure or the acquire ment by the pupil of an Irregular, nondescript style not suited to book keeping or anything else in which uni formity and neatness are desirable. Very few pupils left to tliemselves would write the vertical style. Per haps as many would write with a backward Inclination. There is no danger that there will be any lack of penmen writing -with the forward in clination if pupils are taught to make the best of the stylo which comes natural to them. There Is no obvious reason why nooks should not no writ ten in the vertical style, other things being equal. Indeed, that style has the advantage In point of legibility. When Thomas A. Edison was a tele graph operator he had few equals in speed and anybody who could read coarse print" could read -what he wrote at top speed and his page was almost as even and handsome as print. There Is no valid objection to a set of books kept by such a writer so far as the penmanship Is concerned. Hut If business houses will not have that style very well. Those who can wrlto It like Edison can flnu enough writing to do if they wish. They should not force themselves to write another style which they can never master merely to please the business houses, TOM'S CLEVER TRICK. Thin Jllir Klcpliiiiit Could Really Muko a Month Oi'Kiiu Sound. Many New York girls and boys, as well as out-of-town young visitors to the city, will recall Tom, the big per forming elephant who furnished daily amusement for ills young audiences with tricks and other marvelous per fortiiiiuees In the Central Park menag erie. That Is to say, his performances seemed marvelous for a heavy elephant whost natural position was on all lours, and who did not speak English, even though it almost seemed as If ho understood It. Old Tom llually became so dangerous that about two years ago he had to be quietly put away by a dose of poison. Perhaps the most remarkable of Tom's tricks was one of which his trainer was very proud, not only be cause It was dllHcult, but because it was novel as well. Tom would stand uiion bis hind legs on strong box, take from his keeper's hand a boy's mouth organ, gracefully curl his trunk back until It rested on his forehead and then alternately blow and draw his breath through the musical reeds of the toy. Rears liavo been trained to beat a drum and to wrestle, seals havo been taught to play ball and ponies to play see-saw, but Tom's proud keeper thought his pet overtopped all other performing large animals In this novel musical solo. St. Nicholas. Not Four. "Yes, she's swell enough," said tho CI i lea go girl. "Rut her forefathers?" suggested the Roston girl. "Oh. grndous, don't mako it any avoinc than It really is! She's only had three." Philadelphia Press. GOOD i Short Qtories Captain Cuttle's famous watch, vhleh would keep "correct" time only y various shakings and shlftlnga of be hands during tho day, is matched y a Yorkshlreinan'H clock. IIo re lented the Imputation Unit there was iiiylhing wrong with It. "It goes root inou for thlin that kmui how t' read t,' he said; "when Its hands are at twelve, it strikes two, and then aw miii u Its halfiNist seven." Do Wolf Hopper ways bhat his small lephew was given a diary, and one of lis first entries in It was "got up at loveii." lie showed it lo ins motiier, ind slie corrected his sentence. ' Got ip!" she exclaimed In horror; "does the tun get up? It rises: The youngster arcfully erased the offending words, ind wrote, "Rose at. seven." And on etlring for the night he carefully In- erfbed in Ills diary. "Set at eight." An ordinary edio Is a curious tiling; nit according to the statements of a frenchman at a watering place in the i'yrcnees, one echo on the Franco-Prus- i.in frontier is far from ordinary. "As oou as you have spoken," said the rcnchinan. who had secured an sitidl- Mieo of wild-eyed tourists, "you hear listlnct.ly the voice leap from rock to ook, from precipice to precipice, and is soon as it lias pushed the frontier it issuines 'the Spanish tongue!" The story Is told of a meeting of creditors who were trying to settle tho iffalrs of a merchant who had failed or a large amount. .He insisted Hint lis assets were absolutely nothing hat bis wife owned the house In which ic lived; that the family farm was the iroperty of his daughter; that the store iclongcd to his son. "I have nothing," e said, "except my body, which you an divide among you." "Weil, shentle- men," spoke up a Jewish creditor, "if ion no uoi, i spcaus rignt now lor ins all." A Loudon playgoer, who had drunk iceply at his dinner, appeared at the ox otllco of one of the principal thea crs. and put down a sovereign, asking or the best scut in the house. His onditloii was so evident that the man the bo.vL oflici politely declined to fM lilui ivK'-ifcet. "What's matter?" Icmanded IfMnmlicant. "what's mat er with inc?" "Well, if you really ivaut to know," responded the ticket seller, "you're drunk.' The frankness this reply had rather a sobering in- lluence upon the playgoer. He gather- il up tho sovereign with dignity. "Of ourse Pin drunk," he said, cheerfully. is he turned lo go; "I wouldn't conic to sec this play If I were sober, would "t At the Democratic convention, Will- u in .L Rryan was held up by a lot of camera fiends, for whom lie ohlig .ngly posed. A stranger, accompanied by his ,"-yir-oId daughter, came up, liiuouiiced that he had voted for Rryan twice, and asked the privilege of sliak .ng hands with him. The privilege was sxanted, and Rryan also took the little girl's hand. As he did so, a camera 'ield shouted: "Hold her hand, Mr. (tr.van." Mr. Rryan compiled. More Photographers appeared on the scene, i nd desired the pose to continue. It lid continue for over live minutes. 'I'm glad my wife isn't here." said Mr. (h'.van, when lie was at last released 'mm bis captivity: "holding a girl's .land tills way for live minutes in a Hiblic street:" ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION. Natural HiirrouiidiiiKH of People Kc H)i)iill)lc for Relief in Omens. The first dawn of imagination re sults in superstition. Tho lowest type jf African savage is devoid of either. The moment he develops into a crea ture rather more removed from the brute creation lie begins to feel the fascination of the unseen. Tho. tribes that Inhabit the forest land and moun tain regions are the most superstitious. The trees shake, and moan in tho winds. They aro credited with spirit life. The caves of the mountains, wltii their hollow echoes, are tiie homes of the gnomes that guard tho earth treasures, the gold and silver mines; the rivers are full of mock ing water spirits uncertain In temper i the capricious element in which they dwell. Theism comes from the desert, with Its vast spaces, its intense loneliness. Rut oven the desert wor shipers of one great spirit had their superstitions. At night, as they watched the stars that shine with un equaled brilliancy In those burning re- rlons, they not unnaturally conceived lie Idea that many of them were the pntward expression of one of the great tplriLs that minister to the Most High, ind were permitted by Him to oxer :lso a special liitluence over the des fl nl os of tills pin not and the lives of (ho humans that Inhabit It. Out of cheso beliefs grew up the so-called fcl(iueo of astrology, with Its casting of horoscopes and Innumerable pre dictions. Wo aro tho children of our ances tors, and even In this twentieth cen tury aro not yet delivered from tlio hereditary Influences of their super stitions. The number seven, for in stance, has always been rogarded as a mystic number. Seven angels stand ; before tho throne; a seven-branched , candlestick was commanded to bo used in the temple; tho seventh day of tho week was ordered to be kept holy and nowadays the seventh son of a seventh son Is credited in rural dis tricts, and especially In various parts of America, with almost supernal lira powers. Witchcraft, that curious mix ture of hypnotism and charlatanism has been pructlced from time iintno- morlal. Tho Witch of Endor was ev ldently possessed of great hypnotic power, and worked her wonders by means of mesmerism and suggestion us Is evident from her terror when tiie spirit of the prophet really np poured to the Jewish monarch at her summons. Why is the number tbii teen unlucky? This superstition is ap parently derived from the fact that there were thirteen at that Last Sup per which terminated in the great tragedy. To tills same least does the superstition nlout upsetting salt be long. In stretching out to dip ills hand In the dish Judas is said to have upset the salt, and the ancient paint ers of that sacred repast often do plot an overturned salt cellar. Why Friday, a day sacred to Venus, should be considered unlucky It is dif ficult to say, unless we refer the idea lo that Italian proverb which declares that Racchus, Tobacco and Venus are tiie cause of all the misfortunes of men. The mysterious influence of horseshoes Is still believed by an in credible number of people. This su perstition owes Its origin to the cres cent moon, to the horned head-dress of Isls, and of Diana, who wore tho crescent above her brow. Many cu rious superstitious are attached to por traits, which are derived from tho mythology of tiie Egyptians. Certain persons gravely assure one that tho wrath of the departed lias power to materialize now and then, and to watch over the living members of ills race so long as his portrait exists. It was to keep for the departed some portion of their earth life that the Egyptians devoted such attention to the preservation of the mummy. Su perftitions are dlllicult to shake off. it is consoling if a trayful of glasses falls down to remember that broken glass is lucky; and if one is annoyed by a spider that persists In holding high revel on one's pillow, one likes to say to one's self that a spider seen at night is an excellent omen, and so on. Howver, like the belief in fairies, our superstitions will, no doubt, slow ly disappear and only be remembered as subjects for jeering by the matter-of-fact mortals of the twenty-fifth cen tury. London Doctor. SUBSTITUTES fOll WIT. Chinese school teachers do not strengthen the brains of children with algebra and calculus, but stuff them with Confucian morals, says a writer In the Chicago Record-Herald. Ho further declares that in China he found no wit or imagination, but tells the following incidents, which prove that the Chinaman has good unconscious substitutes for one or tho other: One day in Shanghai, when I was feeling sick, I called a Chinaman lo me and said, "John, do you have good doctors in China?" "Good doctors!" ho exclaimed "China have best doctors In wo'ld." "Eudon, over there." I said, point ing to a house covered with a doctor's signs, "do you call him a good doc tor?" "Eudon good doctor!" ho exclaimed. "Ho great! Ho best doctor in China, lie save my life once!" "You don't say so!" I said. "How wns it?" "Me velly sick," lie said, confiden tially. "Me calico Doctor Han Kou. Glvee, some medicine. Get velly velly sick! Me call Doctor Sam Sing. Glvea more medicine. Me grow worse. Go ing lo die! Rlimoby call Doctor Eu don. Ho no got time, no come. He snvee my life!" In Cbefoo my wife engaged a Chi nose cook. AVhen he eamo she asked his name. Shaking hands with him self and smiling, lie said. "My nauuo Yong Hang Ho." "Oh, Unit's too long!" said my wife. "I can't remember all that. I call you John." "All light," ho said, smiling. "What your namee?" "My name," said my wife, slowly. "Is Mrs. Melvtllo D. Landon." "Hi!" cried John. "Too long naniool Can't 'member all lot. Calico you Char ley." I'rlendly HiiujKCHtiou. "My heart Is still untenanted," sigh ed tho slender summer girl. "Why don't you wrlto on your can' 'Flat to let?' asked her plump cousin who was wearing a broad smllo-and i now engagement ring. What the average man doesn't knoi. Is that lie doesn't, knov half as much as he thinks he knows. HUNTS UK ETIQUETTE Ceromonlous calls ure uofc madt between women In the morning, evening, or on Sunday afternoons. A gentleman, owing to tho exactnesi of business, may cull In tho evening mid on Sunday afternoon. When Invited to a church wcddlnp and not to the receptllon iollowlrig, It is not necessary to send a prescnl to the bride: but call is made on tin brine on her at home day a month or iwu nitor tne woucimg. Mrs. C. K. IliiniKiirdiicr, a Kcbccen Lender, Writett to Thank Doiiu'h Kid tic PIIIh for It. Mrs. C. E. Ihinigardner, a local ofll cor of the Rebeccas of Topeka. Kan., Room 10, Xt'j Kansas avenue, writes: uierl Doan's Kidney Pills during the past year for kidney trou ble and kindred ail ments. I was suffer ing from pains in tho back and headaches, but found after tho use of one box of tho remedy that the trou bles irradnally disap peared so that beforo I had finished a sec ond package I was well. I therefore heartily endorse your remedy." (Signed i A Fit El! TIM At. Address Foster-Mlllitit-n (n ni,rr..i N V. For Sale lV nil rlnnl ."0 cents. - .... - I1V.U THE LATEST WORD ON AUT UMN COLORS AND SHADES Tho Havana cinnamon and seal shades are good, and tho mixed browns showing a touch of red or black, or perhaps both, are oxnoefced to have a fashionable followimr for the latest season. Greens, perhaps, come next: then several new tints in blue, from tho sapphire to the nlum. the deeper and ilcber violet tones, many of which show a distinct red dish purpic, and the Rurgundv tints: all ate made use of in unobtrusive mixture In bio;i(tcl(.ths and in thesatui- fnced chll'lon cloths, with their uede-llke surface, there are some novel c 'loiings that are arisbic In the extreme. All of the geranium, Jiiocmiemlnot. and automobile reds are considered extieinely goud in these, the richer wine eludes, from the old-time grenat to the deepest Rurgundy, dull-linlshed Ijnf greens in medium tints some of the mine sober giays that, lean to the drab, clove and Quaker colerrlnus; fawn, a dull pink ipproaehtng the lose cendree and iliuost everything in brown from tho palest cafe an lull to the richest seal, ate In high favor. Tharo are skores ov people who would think less ov breaking most of 'lie 10 commandments than lliev would one ov the fashionable core- manys ov life. CHANGE FOOD Sonic Very Fine KcHiiltH Follow. The wrong kind of food will put the body in such a diseased condition that no medicines will cure it. There is no way bat to change food. A man in Missouri says: "For two years I was troubled so with my nerves that sometimes I was prostrated and could hardly ever get In a full month at my work. "My stomach, back and bead would throb so I could get no rest at night pxcopt by tits and starts, and always hud distressing pains. "1 was quite certain the troublo came from my stomach, hut two physi cians could not help me and all the tonics failed, and so finally i turned to food. "When 1 had studied up on food and learned what might be expected from leaving off meat and the regular food I had been living on. I felt that a change to Grape-Nuts would be Just what was required, so I went to eat ing it. "From the start I got stronger and better until I was well again, and from that time I haven't used a bit of medicine for I haven't needed any. "I am so much better in every way, sleep soundly nowadays, and am free from the bad dreams. Indeed this food has made such a great change In me that my wife and daughter have taken it up and we aro never without Grape-Nuts on our table nowadays, it is a wonderful sustalner. and we frequently have nothing clso at ail but a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast or supper." Name given by Postum Co., Rattle Creek. Mich. Good food and good rest. These are Hie tonics that succeed where all the hot tied tonics and drugs fail. Ton ilays' trial of Grape-Nuts will show tne the road to health, strength and vigor. "There's a roason." Look in each pkg. for the famous ittle book, "Tin Road to Wel!ilit." I