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N em am a Advertiser
W. W. SANO'RS, Published
Nemaha, Nebraska
WHERE GEN. BUTLER FISHED.
U mil tit 1 11 II .Nmi-i-oiiimIi-iI by (In; Willi
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Way up In Oxford county, .Maliio, on
the I'litnoiiM I'o.'id to tlic Rangoleys, i
l'ajflnr tavern, tin; quaintest Inn you
over saw. It Is not far from Hoar riv
er and In the hunting anil fishing conn
try, says tlic Roston (J lobe.
Joseph Wlllnrd, who wan ho Ioujj
cleric of the Superior Court In IJostoii,
passed twenty-four suinnirix there
Uon. Rutler was frcquentluy entertain
ed hy the proprietor, Onirics Rartlett
When .Mr. Wlllnrd llrst went to Pop
jr tavern In 18(1(1 he and hi.- son trav
eled on horseback Iroiu ItoatMi. Tho
Journeyed through the Wh'ti moun
talus seeking a lavorahle phe.e to rest
When they reached l'oplar tavern .Mr
Wlllanl was delighted with the Jlttk
luti and Immediately sent for his fam
ily. Charles Rartlett wn.1 m friend of (Jen
Rutler. lie camped with him ninoiiu
the grand old hills of the L'lne Tree
State. All their war experiences wero
reviewed on the fishing and hunting
trips which they took togothot.
They talked of the time when the
general punished Mr. Rurt'Ut In the
camp at Lowell. Ilartlett was a pri
vate In the Twelfth Maine and was In
camp preparatory to the expedition
south. On a cold, frosty morning the
olllcers were out lnsioetlng. Each sol
dier wan .supposed to have an extra
shirt In his haversack, hut the weather
was so frigid that Rartlett was wear
ing bouh of his. The general linked htm
if he didn't, have an extra shirt and
Ilartlett explained the circumstance.
"It Is pretty cold," the general re
plied, dryly, "hut I shall have to pun
ish you. Warm yourself up with a
double-quick run around tie parade
ground."
Gen. Rutler was a man o Infinite
humor and Mr. Ilartlett relates the fol
lowing Incident of his funmnklng:
"I saw liutler and Grant In an ex
citing horse race at Now Orleans. Down
over the hill and across the parade
ground tHiey went pell-mell. (Jen.
Grant's horse stumhled and fell, throw
ing the rider to the ground. Gen. liut
ler ilnally reined his horse and, driving
hack to where Grant was ruefully nurs
ing his Injured hack, said, with a dry
smile: 'You ought to have a porous
p'hnster, general,' "
Charles Ilartlett, now ret red from
active business life, Is 01 yours of age.
Within six miles of Poplar tavern In
wiino of the wildest, grandest wenery
in the State Hear river, the Natural
dam, Horseshoe falls, Pu.'.le mountain,
Screw Auger falls, .Tall and Kails, Sad
dleback mountain, White (A-ip. entrance
to the Notch, Moose cavern. Speckled
mountain and Sunday river.
"Hollo, Vour Olllce Is on I'M re."
"One day last week I was Informed
hy telephone of a tire in my own olllce,
not six feet away from where I was
standing," said a prominent Wall street
liroker.
"A client with whom 1 had noon talk
ing, after lighting a cigar threw the
burning match Into the waste basket
under my desk. As I went to the door
with him I heard the telephone bell
ring violently. When 1 answered the
call I was surprised to he told that
there was a lively blu.o under my desk,
which had been seen hy a bright olllco
hoy In the opposite building.
"The fire was hidden from me by a
high filing cabinet, and might have
done serious damage before I discov
ered It myself. I am now hunting for
that boy," he added. "Any one quick
witted enough to think of telephoning
in such an emergency 1 can use In my
business." New York Press.
AwimI lit SIkIiI of (lit; Dovey.
Whenever Lascar- sailor men are con
fronted at sea by any unusual specta
cle they customarily ask their captain
that a live sheep or pig be given to
thoin for sacrlllce, .says the New York
. Herald.
Thus It came about that the Lascar
rrew of the Ilrltlsh steamship Imogen,
which arrived here yesterday from Med
iterranean ports, had fresh mutton on
Good Friday.
On the morning of that day the
freighter had fallen In with the Dewey,
that titanic dry dock which Is now be
ing towed to Manila, and the spectacle
no wrought up the Lascars that they
made nppottl for some living sacrlllce,
and a sheep was given to them. This
was killed with much ceremony and
with equal ceremony choice morsels
were thrown overboard to appease the
demons of the deep.
Win-ni.
May Roxley (at the telephone)
Hint you, a.Tok? You know you prom
ised you'd spoil 1c to father to-day?
.Tack Lovett Yes. I er sjioko to
him his morning at his olllce.
May Roxley Oh I What did he say?
Jack Lovett Why or I didn't wait
to hear all of It. Catholic Standard
nd Times.
The mail Is allVcled hy the weather,
according to a poatal official, nnd
women, he cays, are largely to blame
for overworking employes on certain
days in the year. Immediately after
a spell of had weather or oven one
rainy day the mail will be practi
cally double, and then men will have
to work overtime to handle it. In
accounting for this state of offair?
he says that women stay nt home
when it rains and answer their cor
rcflpondencL. This duty is pretty
generally put on" when the weather
is pleasant for more congenial occu
pations, but ii the weather prevents
their going out then they settle
themselves to u day nt their desks.
If you have Influence nt Washing
ton, you may be permitted to see,
but not to handle, the original
Declaration of Independence. It la
flccurcly lodged In the State Depart
ment, and has been withdrawn Troiii
public view Bineo 181) f.
A wife in the Borough of the Ilronx
eloped with an old sweetheart, and
then added insult to Injury by re
questing her husband, in a written
note, to "take care of mother."
This was too much, and the next day
the deserted husband fired his
liiolher-in-lnw.
An odd eostom prevails among the
darkies of Abyssinia. When a father
in gotting on in years the affectionate
Ron bids him climb a tree and jump
down from the branches, If the old
man staplers on landing tiie son
spears him on the spot; his useful
ness is over.
The bell that rings at the hour of
death, to obtain pruytirs for the
passing or departing bou', or that
rings immediately - after death, or
while the body of the deceased person
is being carried to the place of inter
ment, is called the ' passing bell."
It owes its origin to an idea oi
sanctity attached to bells by the early
Romanist. Shakespeare and Sir
Walter Scott both refer to it.
The schoolboys of St. Gail, Switz-
erland, who are smokers are lined
five francs for each offense, nnd tho.ne
who furnish them with tobacco in
any form nrelliablc to the same lino.
Informers get a reward of five frnnoi
for betraying smokers.
Physicans in New York are en
deavoring to inaugurate n ensh fee
system and quite a few have done so.
The idea was originated in London
by a specialist, who used to place a
pile of gold on his desk in order to
show patients what wus expected of
thorn.
li each village of Scrvia there is
only ono swineherd and he leads all
the pigs of tiie community. In the
morning he goes though the streets
blowing his horn, and the pigs hustle
out of their own accord and fall in
behind him and follow him to the
pasture At night ho brings thorn
homo, nnd they disperse to their
sties in tho'samo orderly way. as they
pass the houses to which they belong.
BACK TO PULPIT.
Wind Fooil l)ll for n Cli-rry iiiiui.
A minister of Ellzubethtown tells
how Grape-Nuts food brought him back
to his pulpit: "Some five years ago
1 had an attack -of what seemed to bo
La Grippe, which left mo in a complete
Plate of collapse, and I suffered for
some time with nervous prostration.
My appetite failed, I lost tlesh until
I was a mere skeleton, life was a bur
den to me, I lost Interest In every
thing and almost In everybody save my
precious wife.
"Then on the recommendation of
some friends I began to use Grape-Nuts
food. At that tluie L was a miserable
skeleton, without appetite and hardly
able to walk across the room ; had ugly
dreams at night, no disposition to en
tertain or be entertained and began to
shun society.
"I finally gave up the regular minis
try; Indeed 1 could not collect my
thoughts on any subject, and became
almost a hermit. After 1 had been
using the Grnpu-Nuts food for a short
tlnio I discovered that I was taking on
now llfo and my appetite began to Im
prove; I began to sleep better and tnj
weight Increased steadily ; I had lost
some llfty pounds, but under the ue.v
food regime I have regained almost my
formor weight and have greatly liu
proved In every way.
"I feel that I owe much to Grape
Nuts and can truly recommend tha
food to all who require a powerful re
building agent delicious to taste and
always welcome." Name given by
Postuin Co., llnttlo Creek, Mich.
true natural road to regain health, or
hold It, Is hy use of a dish of Grape-
Nuts and cream morning and night
Or have the food made Into some of
tho many delicious dlshos gtvon In tha
llttlo reclpo book found In pkgs.
Tea days' trial of Grape-Nuts helps
many. "There's a reason."
Look In pkgs. for a copy of tho fa
toous llttlo book, "Tho Road to Well
ylllo."
GOOD
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At a dinner piirty, where there were
twelve covers, "Mo of the courses con
sisted of scali' pod oysters In sliver
shells. The set of shells was broken
there wero only eleven. The mistress,
therefore, tohl the butler that she would
not cat any oysters. When the oyster
course came, In- placed before his mis
tress one of tlii' shells. To his horror
she did not (Inline it. She took up
her fork and was about to plunge Into
It, when the mini flew to her side. "Par
don me, madam," ho murmured, "but
you said I was to remind you that tho
doctor forbade your eating oysters on
any account."
A chemist who for many years was
She manager of a concern In Mussnchu
lotts manufacturing various high-grade
explosives, recently revisited the place
if his former employment. During a
ilk with his old friends of the Insti
tution, ho made Inquiry with reference
to a certain colleague by the name of
Jenkins. "Hy tho way," said the chem
ist, "what has become of Jenkins? FIno
fellow." "Fine chap, Indeed!" agreed
tho foreman, "and very skillful In the
use of chemicals. Hut a little absent-
nl tided Jenkins. See that discolora
tion on tho wall over there?" "Why,
res ; but whnt has that to do with Jen
kins?" "That Is Jenkins."
Everybody Workes Hut Father" was
sung anil whistled so frequently by the
young people of an Eastern town, that
an aged Inhabitant thought he was the
person referred to. He Is too feeble to
work, but he could not listen to the
song morning and night, so he left
home, and has not been seen since.
I know a woman," oneo said llelva
A. Lockwood. "who got a modern ser
vant, a cool;, from a noted cooking
school. On the third day she announc
ed that she was going to leave. 'You
only keep two servants,' she said to
her mistress, 'and I've been accustomed
to living win-re there are four, which
suits mo better on acount of my par
tiality for bridge.'"
An English rector ono Sunday preach-
Nl from the text, "Who Art Thou?" Af
ter reading it. ho made a pause for tho
congregation to reflect upon tho words.
when a man lu a military dress, who
ut tho instant was marching very se
dately up the middle aisle of the
church, supposing It a question address
ed to him, replied: "1 am, sir, an olli
cer of the Kith Itegimeut of Foot, on a
recruiting party here, and having
brought my wife and family with me,
I am conio to church because I wished
to be acquainted with tho neighboring
clergy and other people." This so de
ranged tho divine and astonished the
congregation that the .sermon was cou
eludod with considerable dltliculty.
A New York lawyer tells of the neat
retort made by a youthful physician to
tho sarcastic references of counsel lu a
case tried In that city. It was dur
ing the cross-exaiiilnutlon of the young
phyichm that tho counsel made his dis
agreeable remarks touching the Im
probability that so Juvenile a practlon
ov should thoroughly understand his
profession. . "You elulm to be acquaint
ed with the various symptoms attend
ing concussion of the brain?" asked the
lawyer. "I do." "Wo will take a con
crete ease," continued tho counsel. "If
my learned friend, counsel for the de
fense, and myself wero to bang our
heads together, .should we get concus
sion of the bra In V" Tho young phy
sician smiled bitterly. "Tho probabili
ties are," he replied, "that counsel for
the defense would."
BUFFALO SEEN BY CORTEZ.
Former DeiiUou of tlic I'lnlits l)e
MerlliiMl ly mi Marly Kiplurcr.
Although authorities differ on tills
uubject, tho hulTulo was llrst seen by
white men lu Anahuac, tho Aztec cap
ital of Mexico, In 1521, when Cor to
and his men paid their first visit to the
monago'flo of King Montezuma. Nine
years later tho animal wus first seen
jn a wild Btato In southern Texas by a
ship-wrecked Spanish sailor, who hnd
little to say about It beyond remarking
that ho had eaten tho tlesh, which lu
his Judgment was liner and sweeter
than tho meat to he had In Spain.
The next explorer to penetrate tho
buffalo country was Coronado, who
crossed Arizona and New Mexico and
the southern part of tho panhandle of
Texas. In 1512 tho expedition was
crossing tho plains, which wore de
scribed as being "as full of crooked
backed oxen as tho mountaluo Serena
In Spalno of sheep" it Is from some
of Coronado's men that wo get our
first published descriptions of buffulo.
Ono of these, that of Gomara, I will
give bore, not so much because It Is an
early ono as becauso It Is remarkably
accurate, particularly when wo con
sider that It was written more than
JStlO yours ago, by a man who was not
a trained naturalist Tho only serious
antstako ho makes Is tho ono concern-
Ing tho toll of the animal, which Is
very short compared with that of the
domestic ox, for exnmple. '
"All the way tho plnines are as full
of crooked-backed oxen, as tho moun
tulno Serena in Spalno Is of sheepe.
Those oxen are of the bigness and
color of our hulls, but their .Virus are
not so great. .They have a great bunch
upon their fore shoulders and more
hair on their fore part than on their
hinder part, and It Is like wool. They
havo as It were an horse-mime upon
their backbone and much hair and very
long from the knees downo their
foreheads and it soomoth that they have
beardes, because of the great store of
hair hanging downo at their chinnes
and throat os. The males have very
long tulles and great knobbe or flocke
nt the end, so that In some respect
they resemble tho Hon, and In some
other the camell. They push with their
homes, they runne, they overtake and
kill an horse when In their rage and
anger. Finally, It Is a foulo and fierce
beast of countenance and forme of
bodle. The horses fledde from them,
either because they had never scene
either becouso of their deformed shape,
or else becauso they had never scene
them. Their masters hav no other sub
stance; of them they eat, they drink,
they npparol, they shooo themselves."
How many buffaloes there wore at
this time no ono knows and probably
no one ever will know, but wo know
that there must have been many, manj
millions. Hartford Times.
WOMEN ARE WORST USURERS?
II In AM-rl',l They Have No jHercj
for l.iioUlivsn llorrowor.
Astonishing revelations as to the
methods of business pursued by women
money-lenders in London, says the Lon
don Express, were forthcoming during
an investigation by an Express repre
sentative. It would naturally be supposed that
these women Shylocks would bo more
susceptible to feelings or consideration
toward their victims than the ordinary
male usutier. As a matter of fact, in
stances were given in which they ex
acted their pound of tlesh to tho utmost
from the poor wretches who had fallen
Into their clutches, and wero as hard
as adamant In face of the most heart
rending eotufitlons.
Most of the women are of advanced
age, and their trade Is carried on under
the guise of loan, discount or banking
companies. In one or two cases the
women keep In the background and
their transactions ore carried on by a
male representative, but tho majority
do all their olllco work themselves.
A clerk- who had a wlfo and two chil
dren had the misfortune to borrow $50
from a woman usurer. He only received
$-ir, the other .$5 being deducted as an
Inquiry fee. In twelve months he had
repaid $120, and his creditor then
claimed $10 as a balance. He appealed
against the extortion, out tho woman
went to his house, an, using throats
and vituperation, created such a sceno
that he was glad to get rid of her on
undertaking that he would pay the bul
unco In a month. This he did by pawn
ing ono or two articles of furniture.
Another married man who had bor
rowed $100 from a woman money lend
er paid Interest at $2.50 a week for
eighteen months, and, although he had
paid the loan nearly twice over, ho
was refused time lu which to recover
himself. The consequence was that
his home was sold, and his wife and
children are now In lodgings.
Several other Instances of a similar
character were forthcoming. The vic
tims were men who shrank from fac
ing the ordeal of a public court, and
preferred to suffer any amount of per
sedition rather than appear before a
county court judge.
The women use methods for collecr
lug their money which the most ra
pacious male usurer would not think of
employing. Some of thorn havo been
known to stop their "clients" In the
streets mid bully them publicly, while
householders who have fallen behind In
their payments havo had stones thrown
through their windows by the Irate
lenders.
The .Function of the Semite.
Pertinent at the present time, when
tho Senate Is somewhat freely criti
cised as "obstructionist," Is nu anec
dote which Is told In a biography of
Sir John Macdonald, tho first prltno
minister of the Dominion of Canada.
On his return from France, Jefferson
called Washington to account for hav
ing agreed, as a member of tho Consti
tutional Convention of 178T, to a sec
ond chamber.
"Of what uso Is a Senate?" ho asked,
as ho stood before the fire with a cup
of tea In his hand, pouring tho tea Into
tho saucer aa he spoke.
"You havo answered your own ques
tion," replied Washington.
"What do you mean?"
"Why do you pour your tea Into your
saucer?"
"Too cool It," said Jefferson.
"Even so," Washington Bald, "tho
Senate Is tho saucer Into which we
pour legislation to cool."
Ry tho time an old maid Is forty
years old she should not say,: "If I
ever marry." She should say: "Had J
ever married."
A PRETTY MILKMAID
lhiul-1 1'r-rU'na In a 'on-lrful
Mulicinr,
s-'i y ;
1 MISS ANNIE HENDREN. !
JVT ISS ANNIE HENDREN, Rocklyn,
ATA Wash., writes:
"I feel better than I have for over four
years. I havo taken several bottles of
Pcrutm and one bottle of Manalln.
"I can now do all of my work in tho
house, milk the cows, take care of the
milk, and so forth. think Peruna Is a
mosi wonderful medicine.
"I believe I would be in bed to-day if,
I had not written to you for advice. I
liad taken all kinds of medicine, hut
none did nie any good.
"Peruna has made mo a well and
happy girl. I can never say too much
for Peruna."
Not onlr wnmon nf mntr .. n,l
praise Peruna, but die wholesome, uhp-
nu women enRajreu in Honest toil voulil
not be without Dr. Hartman's world' re
nowned remedy.
The Doctor has prescribed It for many
thousand women every year ami he
mvr fuilu In rumiivn n m n ll If mln nt Ut-
... - - ' - ' - - i .... j I . I ,1. Illll, UL VJ L
ters like the above, thanking him for
his advice, and especially for the won
derful benefits received fromPeruna.
An excellent whitewash1 is made of
these ingredients: Threp parts,
Rosondal cement, one oart clean lino
3und, and mix thoroughly with fresh'
water. Ii brick color is required,
add enough Venetian red to tho
mixture. If a very light color h
needed, mix with a sufficient
quantity of lime.
WINTER
YTIIKAT, 00 hnhrli. per were.
lMUIoiiin(lp!i I KLI. hlr
EM-rd Co., box v, l.ai'ruuM-,
Tho " plighting-stono" was us'ea
until quite recently in parts of Scot
land. Troths were plighted by grasp
ing hands through a hole in tho
stono. These troths and promises
wore inviolato in matters of love,
business and ail social relations.
Tho Shnh of Persia 13 supposed'
never to bo off Persian soil. As a
mattor of fact, ho never is, though
he does travel. To his boots there is
a false solo ; between tho false and
the real a portion of tho holy eartli
of Persia is packed. Thoroforo, his
royal nibs, whenever ho has his boots
on, is standing on Persian soil.
A big crop of fence posts is ex
pected by T. II. Miller, a banker of
burnout, Kansas. lie bus purchased
m island in the Cimarron River,
jontaining nearly ono thousand acres.
)n it lie is about to plant two hun
Ired :wul fifty thousand trees, solely
'or fence posts.
Tho first station in Scotland for
wireless telegraphy has been com
pleted at Macrihunish. The tower
sreoted is four hundred feet high,
nd has been bniLt by a New York
firm for tho National Electric Signal
ling Company, of Pittsburg, by which
it will be used for tho purpose of an
experimental station in diroct com
munication wrtli tl.o United States,
Tho corresponding towor o:. this side
is situated at Boston.
S0EES ON HANDS.
Suffered for a Long- Timo Without
Belief Doctor Afraid to Touch
Them Cured liy Guticura.
"For a long time I suffered with
sores on the hands which wero Itching,
painful, nnd disagreeable. I had three
doctors and derived no benefit from
any of them. One. doctor said ho was
afraid to touch my hands, so you must
know how bad they wore; another said
I never could be cured; and the third
said the sores were caused by te (,ln'
ping of my hands in water In the dye
house whore I work. I saw In the pa
pers about the wonderful cures of tho
Cutlcura Remedies and procured son o
of tho Cutlcura Soap and Cut.eu a
Ointment. In three days after the
application of tho Cutlcura Olntmenl
my hands began to peel and wore bob
tor Tho soreness disappeared. nd
hoy are now H.nooth and clean, and
iTm SUM working J" tbedy-house
Mrs A E. Maurer. 2J10 State St., Ui.
cago, HI., July I,."