Nemaha Advertiser
WASHINGTON'S RECEPTION AT TRENTON
TWITCHING NERVES
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W. W. SAND'nS, PUDLiQHsn
Nemaha,
Nebraska
Aunt Iiclliiilit'N Idea.
It -vvns Aunt Belinda's first ride on
I steam road and sho was very much
Interested In the Interior of tlio couch.'
"Ilozoklah," she -whispered, pointing
above, "why do they carry that Haw
Mid ax In a glass case""
"To bo used In case of a wreck," re-,
oiled the old man at her side, as ho
aolomnly took a pinch of yellow snuff
from a leather box. The old lady toy
ed with her corkscrew curls for a mo
ment as If Jn deep thought and then
laid:
"Wn-all, I always heard that thesa
ncw-tlmo surgeons wero brutal, but I
never thought they would go so far as
using a regular wuw and ax on peo
ple." MotorltiHT on Ilurnl Itonrin.
"III. there, boy I Where will thli
fond take us?"
"Tor Jail, mister, If the consta-liU
R-hnf'A wntfililmr round the bend
letches ye." Baltimore- American.
Overheard In St. Joeih.
Bodrlck Do you see that tall gen.
tleman In the black suit? 'He reduces
people.
Van Albert Ah, Indeed 1 Then h
manufactures nntl-fntV
Bodrlck Oh, no. Ho Is a mlntsto
nd makes two one.
Ilelilml Steel-Illinmed Cane.
Bookkeeper That teller Is a slick
one. He says ho knows how to maka
ft fortune.
Cashier nm. Ho must bo a for
tune teller.
ller Ii'lcnre "Wan Poor.
Eva Polly's husband Is an export
iccounlant. They say he Is unusually
ood at figures.
Emm Gracious! Then he certainly
never married Tolly for her looks.
.Secret.
Eva Why In the world did Mabel
lulect such a narrow-minded man for
t husband?
Emma Shi They are going to live
Qi a Hat and there wouldn't be room
for a broad-minded man.
No Hcmeily.
"But, my dear," said the tall lady
ivlth the parrot on her hat, "If your
husband Is really so forgetful why
don't you got him to tlo knots In his
uandkerehlof when you wish him to re
member anything'"
"Oh, that wouldn't do any good," re
plied the lady In the rabbit muff. "He
would forget to carry the- handker
chief."
Mix Inducement.
Dolly Every time you call, you
make lovo to mo. I'm getting tired of
It . How can I induce you to stop
It?
Cholly Marry mo nnd I'll promlso
never to make lovo to you again.
Cleveland Leader.
"I,lu;IiN On.
The Humane Dentin mt will you
Dave gas, madam?
The Cautious Patle-it Well, you
Jon't supposo I'm going to let you
tinker about In tho dark, do youV
Hie Sketch.
A Iliuintlnw Pear.
"Yes, there Is one clould on my fu
ture." "What Is that?"
"I do so fear that when 1 have
Worked so hard to make a name to go
Down to posterity they may go and
put mo In n hall of fame." Baltlmoro
American.
Proof Positive.
Ilykor My landlady Is
a cruel-
tiearted woman.
Pyker Why do you think so?
Ilykor Sho says she enjoys seeing
ocr boarders have good appetites.
V I a a n e I a 1 S t r 1 u we n e y.
Her Admirer Will you give assent
to my marrhige with your daughter,
lip?
.Her Father Not a cent, young man,
not a cent.
It All Depend.
He Do you believe that
foreign
travel enlarges thojmlnd?
She-Yo3, In some eases; In others it
ncroly swells tho head.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Illfi reatneMN Haw IJeen HeeoKiiUed
and Lauded Kverywhero.
Tito human trait of her" worship has
this disadvantage, that it often exalts its
heroes into the clouds and cuts them off
front human sympathy by making demi
gods of them. No man of modern times
lias suffered from ideal isatl r.i no much
as Washington. Wo all acknowledge that
ho was tho greatest of Americans, that
his patriotism was of the purest and his
character of tho noblest, and that we ab
solutely owe our national independence
to his consummate generalship. Yet the
homage paid to his greatness In these
days is of tho head rather than of the
heart.
Excessive idealization lias eliminated
the warm human heart from our idea of
him and has left in place of tho real
Washington a sort of alabaster imago or
only a steel engraving. This is a wrong
both to him and to ourselves, hut it seems
to have been inevitable in view of the un
deniable greatness and nobility of his
character. 1 1 is chief fault, so to speak,
was in being too perfect. lie was so
high above the ordinary man that hero
worship wns bound to strip nway all tho
natural human traits and leave nothing
but a sort of demigod cxaled on a pedes
tal to he worshiped from afar off. In
recent years this unfortunate process has
had its natural reaction, and the pious
rhapsodies of Weems have been partly re
placed by biographies which allow the
lonely hero at least a few human limita
Hons and peccadilloes. It is even said
that he hurled strong language at Leo in
the battle of Monmouth, but men aro
I still writing hooks to disprove this evi
dence that he could lapse Into justifiable
human passion. For tho present, then,
wo must be content with a more or less
defied Washington.
If any man was ever justly idealized
that man was George Washington. But
for him the country could not have won
Its independence, but for him it could not
have formed its union, and but for him
It could not have set its new government
Into motion. lie alone could bind North
and South together. He embodied tho
qualities and virtues which won the ad
miration of the austere New England
colonists as well rs of tho aristicratie
Virginians. Ho had the practical knowl
edge and tho rare balance of judgment
which could cope with every emergency
and render justice in every dispute. Ho
could he eloquent with tho Virginians
nnd devout with tho Puritans, nnd could
command the respect and devotion of all
who came within roach of Ids unselfish
and fascinating character. Modest, gen
erous, just, forceful, fearless, of absolute
integrity, declining all pay for his price
less patriotic services, what wonder that
his soldiers offered to crown him king,
or that, after his pained and angry re
fusal, tho nation made him not only its
President but its canonized hero forever?
Bcyoad doubt the greatest, of Wash-
higtou's ninny services wan rendered as a
I foldier. John Adams' and Congress said
the coi::I- ycre ftve, and there left the
ni;.' . VwuVn-'ton an 1 his soldiers
mad' tin iv hrui)i of Indep mln' a
fact. I sti J of i ,ure a vtion. It wis
April 21st, 1780.
a comparatively small body of heroes that
presented freedom and nationality to tho
thirteen colonies. The feats of general
ship by which Washington achieved this
end have never been surpassed in the his
tory of war.
From the days of his youthful but dan
gerous mission to the French frontier on
the Ohio, and from the time of bis warn
ings to Braddock, ho showed an unusual
grasp of tho art of war. Ho knew the
value of striking quickly as well as Grant
did. Napoleon never struck more swift
ly or suddenly in his brilliant Italian
campaign than Washington did on that
Christmas night in 177U at Trenton. Nor
was Napoleon's following-up blow more
emphatic than Washington's attack on
Princeton a week later. It was not a
mere complimentary platitude that Fred
erick t lie Great uttered when ho sent his
kindly message "from tlwo oldest general
in Europe to the greatest general in the
world." It was not a play of empty
words in which the President of tho Con
tinental Congress said to Washington
when ho resigned his commission : "The
glory of your virtues will not terminate
with your military command; it will con
tinue to animate remotest ages."
This was the man in honor of whose
death Napoleon ordered all tho standards
and Hags of tho French republic to be
bound with crape for ten days. This was
the respected enemy for whom a great
British licet hung its (lass at half mast
when he passed away. The grief of the
yoiMg nation over his death was heartfelt
and human enough then. Since that time
the tributes to his memory have been
su-.h as no other man of ancient or mo-lorn
times has commanded. Washington's
gi outness, unlike that of Lincoln, has
been recognized and lauded by all the
European nations. His name is a house
hold word in every land that has dream
ed of liberty. To every school boy in the
Fulled States it is tho synonym of tho
highest American manhood. If his use as'
a lay model has somewhat dehumanized
Washington, it has ennobled the ideals
and lives of the men of the nation. The
nation's future is secure as long as tho
patriotism and high character of George
Washington have any power to stir enthu
siasm. Chicago Tribune.
GEORGE WASHINGTON LETTER
Salt! to Have lleen Written liy First
President About an Artl.st.
George Fields of 401 Borgoulino nvo
nue, West Now York, N. J., has a letter
purporting to have been written bv
George Washington to Franz Honkinson.
Fields says he found it among tho effects
of Helen Mary Taylor Wessel, a grand
aunt, who died many years ngo at tho
ago of 1)7. He doosn't know where she
got it.
The letter is as follows;
"Dear Sir 'In for a penny, In for a
pound,' Is an old adage. I nm so hack
neyed to tho touches of the painter's
pencil that I nm not altogether at their
bock and sit liko patience on a monument
while tl.ey are determining tho Hues of
my face.
"It is proof among many others of
what ImbP and custom fan effect. At first
I was inpatient at the request and resstlvo
under the operation as a colt is of tho
saddle. The next time I submitted very
reluctantly, but with legs llouncing I
have yielded a ready obedience to your
request and to the view of Mr. Pme.
"Letters from England, recommenda
tory of this gentleman, came to my hand
previous to his arrival in America, not
only as an artist of acknowledged emi
nence, but as one who had discovered a
friendly disposition toward this country,
for which it seems he had been marked.
"It gave me pleasure to hear from
you. I shall always reel an interest in
your happiness, and with Mrs. Washing
ton's compliments and best wishes joined
to my own for Mrs. Ilopkinson and your-
;olf, I am, dear sir, your most obedient
and humble servant,
GEOHGE WASHINGTON.
".Mount Vernon, May 1(5, 17S3."
-New York Sun.
That thou art dead the sons of men yet
gi love ;
A light wort thou upon a nation's path,
A rock unshaken 'mid the deep sea'B
wrath,
'Neath which tho young hope of the world
might live.
Oh, warrior seer! Our country's need 19
dire,
Though ao'er an alien foe besiege her
gate !
Vain hope were armaments or navies
great.
Wo bleed within nnd burn with our own
(Ire.
All shadowy the evils thnt besot
The gift thou gavest us, so bravely won.
Thou slionldst live now; ah, with what
keen regret
Wouldst thou then view thy handiwork
begun
In such abundant hope nor nearer vet
Thy great Ideal, noble Washington !
London Is undoubtedly leading tho
world in the matter of women's
clubs. Twenty-one years ago there
was not a single institution of tho
kind; now thoro are thirty. There are
also several mlKod clubs, of which
tho women members number about a
thousand.
Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
Is one of the closest students nt
Shakespeare In the Senate and tho
only vegetarian in that body.
A Scrloua Horodltary Trouble Cured
By Dr. Williams' Pink PIII3.
Sufferers from nilmcnts tlint hnvo af
flicted in regular succession one genera
tion after uuother of their family are, as
n rule, inclined to submit to them ns in
evitable. Tho case which follows proves
Hint such hereditary difficulties nro not
beyond tho reach of curntivo forces nnd
tdumld inspiro hopefulness and a readi
ness to try remedies that have effected
fcignnl cures, such us that which is hero
given.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bannells, of 2,o. -l",
East Seventh street, Newton, Kansas J.
gives tho following account of her ail
ment nnd her euro :
"For two yours I suffered from u trying
nervousness in my lower limbs from my
knees down, us my mother and my
grandmother had suffered before mo.
Tho situation was for many years ac
cepted ns unavoidable because heredi
tary. But about two years ngo, when my
son was realizing benefit from the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I thought thoro
might possibly bo some good in thorn for
inc. My troublo had then become so
serious ns to niako it difficult for me to
sleep. I often hnd to walk the floor in
restlessness tho whole, night. After tak
ing sonio six boxes tho twitching disap
peared nnd I ceased to use tho remedy.
1 evidently stopped u littlo too soon for
nervousness came back nfter n month or
so nnd I used tho pills again for n short
time. lVdief ciimo ut onco and since!
stopped using thorn the second time J
have boon freo from nuy return of tha
twitchings or from nuy interference with
my sloop."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured
tho worst cases of bloodlussness, indigos
tion, influenza, headaches, lumbago, scl
atica, neuralgia, nervousness, spina,'
weakness nnd tho special ailments of girh
nnd women. For further information,
address tho Dr. Williams Medicine Co..
Sehenectndy, N. Y
Skewers should always be rur
through fat, never through lean ; the
let the juices out.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take I.AXAI'iVK HKOMO Quinine Tablet
Dnisglsts refund money If It falls to cure
Ii. V. Grove'a Blgnuture Is on each bos. 23c
In the German colonies white
women are scarce, there being onlj
2"1 in East Africa and L'39 in the Ger
man island3 in tho Pacific ocean.
An ill-natured man is my horror.
I am more afraid of him than I am
f a bloodhound or a hyena.
A bag of sandalwood dust or laven
der placed in the linen chest will
give the contents a of the chest u de
licious odor.
Life is short only four letter? in
it. Three-quarters of it is a "lie"
and half of it an "if."
Give growing children plenty
the most nutritious food at regub
intervals and allow tllem plenty of
time for eating, teaching them to
chew each mouthful thoroughly
before swallowing.
If a man is polite he is well bred.
I don't care whether ho had any
ancestors or not.
Here is a lesson on the art of going
upstairs from a teacher of physical
culture: "In ascending the stairs
keep the body upright and don't
climb. You may walk up with very
little more effort than is required in
passing along a corridor. Kai?o tho
chest and tho whole body, then,
incline it forward ever so little
Step on the ball of the foot springing
lightly at each step. Do not puff
and pant, even if you are scant of
breath. Go slowly breathing easily,
,vith lips closed. In going downstairs
Keep the body erect, step on tho ball
jf tho foot and make the knee yield
easily at each stop. And never turn
In your toes,' whether going up or
down."
UNDER WHICH KING.
"The Ttlorti I'onttuu (lie 31 tire Kn:n'
the Hlore Cofifee the JIoro I'olnon."
The President of the W. C. T. U. in
a young giant State in the Northwest
says:
"I did not realize that I was a slave
to coffee till I loft off drinking it. For
three or four years I was obliged to
take a nerve tonic every day. Now I
am free, thanks to Postuin Food Cof
'ee. "After finding out what coffee will
do to Us victims, I could hardly stand
to have my husband drink it; but he
was not willing to quit. I studied f u'
months to tlnd a way to Induce him to
leave it oil. Finally I tojd him I
would make no more coffee,
"I got Postuin Food Coffee, a:'d
made It strong boiled It the reiivl""Iv.
time, and had him read the little bo'dwp
'The Road to Wellvlllo, that comes in
every pkg.
"To-day Po3tum has no stronger ad
vocate than my husband! He tl'
our friends how to make It, and t
ho got through the winter without a
spell of the grip and has not had a
headache for months tie used t ' ,
subject to frequent nervous he.ul
uches. "The ntrongpr you drink Fostum t!"
more food you get; tho gironer y i
drink eoffeo tho mora poison y.m "
Name given by Postum Co., L ''
Cr,p,c M1('h
There's u reason.
