The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, August 02, 1901, Image 2
The Plattsmoutri journal B. MANX, XV. K. FOX. Publishers. PLATTSMOUTH. - NEBRASKA The air In the English channel was K) clear one day recently that the dome f Boulogne cathedral, twenty-eight ulles away, could be clearly seen from Dover with the naked eye. In conversation with a newspaper rorrespondent, Arab! Pasha ha3 stated ;hat he is in a difficult financial posi tion. He got an allowance of 50 a month from the Egyptian government, which was scarce!y sufficient to supp!y :he wants of his large family, which .ncludes sixteen children, aged from :hree to thirty-eight years. The Newberry liDrary at Chicago has ?ecured the Prince Lucien Bonaparte rollection of 15.0(0 volumes, said to be among the best philological libraries in existence. The prince spent a for tune in getting it together and his heirs offered it for sale at $200,000. but the Chicago institution is said to have Dougbt it for a much lower figure. E. A. Mattel, the French explorer af caverns, whose discoveries under ground have attracted much attention, reports that he has found in the de partment of Hautes AIpcs a cavity in the form of a "natural well," whose Jepth exceeds that of any other known. He has scunded It to the depth of about 1,027 feet, but the actual bottom has not been reached. Doctor Voges. the director of the Buenos Ay res National Board of Health, reports that during a recent trip to Paraguay he accidentally dis covered that napthalene is an excellent remedy for mosquito bites. It neutral izes the poison, he says, even when the bite has caused considerable inflamma tion, and If a fresh bite be rubbed with napthalene no swelling follows. Speaking of the summer and win ter journeys wealthy people make to various 'resorts" here and abroad, a shrewd observer of city life remarks that "the finer the house on the avenue, the less it is occupied." In so far as that is true, it n to be regretted. At every season, in some favored re gion, nature spreads a fairer roof than ever architect devised; but we may leave paradise behind us when we set out to find a better place than home. a the presence of a large number of officers f rem the garrison aad neighbor hood, the famous "Tower of Remem brance" erected at Gravelotte by the Germans in 1835. at a cost of more than 40.030, was blown up recently by the military engineers. Originally intended as a post of observation over the neighboring country, it was after wards found that the existence of such a watch-tower was incompatible with the safety of the new fort outside Metz, w hich is completely dominated.. All ac cess to the monument has been prohib ited for some time past by the military authorities. No fair-minded landlord can any longer advance the old argument that wretched tenements are inevitable be cause the poor prefer filth to cleanli ness and that good tenements will not pay. The City and Suburban Homes Company of New York has disposed of that Insufficient excuse of the parsimo nious landlord. This corporation ap proached the problem with the idea of combining business and philanthropy. It has built excellent tenements in the poorest parts of the city, and rents at prices as low as those of the miser able hovel about them. Its holdings represi nt an investment of two mil lion dollars, on which it has just de-rlare-l" a dividend of 4 per cent. The landlord who pretends that good tene ments will not pay is usually a man who wants fifteen per tent. In East Oakland. Cal.. is to be tried a plan for helping homeless girls which seems almost ideal, in method a well as in purpose. A rich and generous-hearted woman has declared her intention of building ten cottages, each of which will accommodate ten girls and be in charge of a "house-mother." The cottages will stand in a beautiful park, with trees, lawns and flower gardens about them. The inmates of each cottage will constitute a separate family, the. older girls helping tf care for the younger ones. All will attend the public schools a. other girls do. and will have their own outside diver sion" and friendships. Meantime they will also have in the home a thorough training in housework. As they reach a suitable age, each will receive spe cial education in whatever trade or field of work she may select teaching, dressmaking, millinery, typewriting, art or music so that when she leaves the home each girl will be equipped to earn her own living. One of the most atractive characteristics of the undertaking is its lack of institutional restraint and the large individual free dom wheh it permits. Seven of the largest sugar refineries in St. Mary Parish. Louisiana, have decided to discontinue the use of coal in the manufacture of sugar, and will hereafter use oil as fuel. These re fineries use $150,000 worth of coal an nually, and they get it largely from western Pennsylvania. It will cot $35,000 to adapt their furnaces to the ue of oft. but it is estimated that less than $50,000 worth of fuel oil will do the work of $150,000 worth of coal. It is probable that next season all the fugar plantations in Louisiana will be using Texas oil instead of coal. I-ansing, Iowa, bids fair to become famous for the many fine pearls found there, saya an Associated Press dis patch. One was sold for $1.S00 the other day. It wa3 found by a Swede named Benson on the clam bed which produced the famous Queen Mary about a month ago, and although weighing less than, 66 grains, is a much finer and more valuable gem. No less than twelve pearls were found 'at Lansing on one day recently, but the Benson will probably go down in his tory as the finest of them alL ouNtfvy: As lonjr ago the force of Asia's hate Was turned on Greece because she dared lf free. Bo Kurope. following: the self-5ame fate. Shall hurl her combined armies, soon or late. My country, upon thee. The world moves on In cycles. History, Advancing by some hidden law sublimt. Is re-enactf d. "as the nifes flee; For that which once has been again shall be. Though changed to fit the time. Th monarchies behold with startled eyes Thy srrowitiK shadow, casting In eclipse Their trade und prestige; fear and envy rise; Anil he who ask. hears ominous replies Kail from the Future's lips. For Kurope. hauchtv in ancestral pride. With all her mighty armaments of war. Till they are used will not be satlstied; To crush a rival, ai. ner states allied Will gather on thy shore. She will not brook an etiual: will not see The marts of commerce pass from her control. She hates thy newness, hates thy liberty: iiut most she hates thy threatened mas tery. Thy fleet ness to the goal. 1 Already growl the war-docs in their lairs; Already come the mutterings of storm: The next decade in silence she prepares.; Then, as the trumpet call for action blares. Her columns swiftly form. Her hosts unnumbered swarm upon thy shore; Her navies sprinkle the surrounding - seas. This is the culmination of all war. The Armageddon prophesied of yore, I'receding lasting peace. And long the contest wages to and fro. And long the clouds hang heavy over thee, Mr native land: yet. In the ending, know Thou shalt prevail and over thee shall Slow The sun of victory. i Then, as a tempest on a summer day Leaves all things purer from Its passing flood. So shall thy stains, corruption and de cay. Thy tilth of greed and guilt be washed away In that baptism of blood. Then stronger, better, truer than of yore. The flag of freedom over thee unfurled. Thou shalt, the people's champion once more. llarch onward through the Future's open door. The leader of the world. Forcing a Decision. BY JAMES NOEL JOHNSON. Author "A Romulus of Kentucky." Etc. (Copyright, 1901. by Dally Story Pub. Co.) "Come to think of it." said George Peterson to Will Garrison, as the two stood chatting on the highway, I heard that you said that one of us was a-goin to git a bullet-hole in him afore long?" "Well, now," returned Will thought fully, screwing his left eye and digging at his scalp, "hit comes to me thet I hed jest about sich talk." "You think we ought to shoot over Tillie Adams, eh?" "I don't see thet we cud choot over ennything more important; do you? I ihot ole Jim Stacy over a hog last summer, an' by gum. in my estima tion. Tillie Adams is wuth a whole drove o' hogs." "That Is all true." admitted George; "hogs ain't to be mentioned In the same breath with Tillie no man gits ahead o' me in appreciating her worth but the question Li one o' policy an" good Jegment ort we to kill each oth er over her?" "Now, that is a matter to seriously chaw on, I admit. That we both love the gal more nor an ox team cud pull ef they had a down hill shoot on it, is certain. That botli wud fling our lives, as worthless rags, at her feet. Is ekally shore; but as to whether we'd be doin' the proper thing to do it is a matter to chaw on. But the matter must be settled some way. I believe the one she loves best orter have her, but she won't say. I believe I'm the one." "An I feci shore I'm the one." "An' this shorenes3 o' both, ye see, is what I've thought would bring trouble. So I figger it this way: If both live, an' one gits her, tother wud rut her be dead. With one dead, he's at everlasting peace, an' the other is happy with Tillie. Now, what do you say?" "I'm a chawin' on the thing." "Have you got yor pop with you?" V 57 , Spang! "No. but I see you've got two." "Yas. an' here is a good place. A nice, thick shade yander under that beech to die comfortable under, an' ttrmorry is Sunday, an the new preacher Is to preach at High, Point, an' the feller that gits his light put out will have a glorious big funeral!" "I kin jist see Tillie, her bootlful face, like er dew-wet rose, hanging over me right now'" "Hueh! Go ter drawin' a picter like that, an' I'll commit suicide to git to be the one to git hung over." The two men laughed merrily, while at the same time they were unjolnting the "pops," casting cut old hulls and putting new cartridges Into the cyl inders. "How far oft had we better get?" asked George. "Oh, we-e-11. say well one hundred yards aid step forward ten steps at each fire." "That's good say, who's them com in In that buggy?' iff I "Durned ef I don't believe It's Bill Tom Branner an Tillie." "That's jest who they is, by gum!" An old topless buggy, drawn by a thin, bay horse rattled up. The occu pants, coming opposite, inclined their heads gently, smiled pleasantly and passed on. a foam of dust rising in their wake. "She smiled at me, George." "Sue smiled at me. Bill." "Say, Bill." laughed George. "Would n't it be a good 'un on us if Tillie lovtd that dog dratted rascal with her bet ter than she do either of us?" "Huh! An' him with nuthin but an edication. an not a hoss to his name That's 'bout as redickilus as one c us bein' loved by a president's darter.' "Oh. I wuz jest funning, of co'se, but come to think, I've hearn o things jest as onreasonable. Ye see, Tillie has been down to the Bluegrass goin to school for a year or so, an thar's no tellin what sich fool doin's as that will lead a gal to. They are curious critters at the best gals is. Why, I hearn of a gal once that refused to marry Jesse Underwood, the best pistol shot our Kaintuck hills ever had. Well "Boys, don't shoot, for God's sake! suh, she kep on an on actin' the fool till she finally married some poor lawyer thet never amounted to nuthin' ceptin' sumthin' like circuit judge, or some foolishness like that Tell ye, gals is curios." "Yas, that's so; but we ain't no more time for foolin'. Let's step off.' The men stepped out, took places and confronted each other. They were to count three in concert, then fire. "One, two, three!" "Spang!" A ball passed through a lock of hair above Bill's left ear. He hadn't fired, and for good reason. When he went to cock his revolver the main spring had broken. He had pointed the weapon nevertheless, taking the risk of being killed rather than to explain an accident that George might regard a purposed act to avoid the duel. "We'll have to adjourn this case," sighed George, "until you kin git yer own pop." "Say. George." returned Bill, hand ing George the crippled weapon. "I've jest thought we kin settle thl3 matter more satisfactory. Tillie, as well as she appears to love both, mout refuse ter marry the one that kills tother about her. Then we'd be in a nice shapes one dead and tother wusser. Less fine out which one she really loves best; then let that lucky one give tother all his property to console him a little, and take her." "That'll be satisfactory to me if we kin git a bill o' discovery, as the law yers say, that will wuk." "Well, I think I've got it. Termorry at church me an you will let on like we git in a fuss, an pull our pops. Everybody will be excited; the wim men will yell, an pirty Tillie will come screamin' out to the one she loves best, an' beg him for her sake to put up his pop." "The very thing!" exclaimed George slapping a cloud or dust from his right leg. A great congregation had gathered for Rev. Ball, the celebrated revival ist of Knott county, was to preach, and the report had drawn people as a suck hole draws chips from a broad terri tory. The house being filed, the grounds overflowed. Men and boys covered the turf in front and at the sides, as thickly as bees cling at the side of a gum on a hot morn of July all ears eagerly poised. Nothing save the elec tric voice of the speaker, fell upon the vast quiet. When the preacher began to pitch his tone to the scale of concluding ex hortation. Bill and George, as per pre vious arrangement, came into the crowd from opposite directions. They were radiant in their new clothes, and their new boot3 announced their entrance through pfoud meas ured squeaks. Being the richest young men of the section, their appearance made heads of reverence silently incline and a whis per of admiration ripple through the wide throng. Quietly the young gallants worked toward each other, and, before the si lent company knew they had met, or knew they had occasion for quarrel, a rapid fire of denunciation began be tween them. "You did step on my foot!" vo ciferated George. "You are a liar" shouted Bill. "Boys, don't shoot, for Lord's sake!" shouted a score in concert. The hitherto passive throng, was now in rolling, surging motion. The timid fell to the rear, and the bold toiled madly toward the danger-swirl. The windows of the house became mouthsfor rapidly expelling wads of color. The doorway was a choked channel for the emission of a feminine flood. Wild shrieks went up, and benches tumbled down. Dogs yelped, and whlteaced, wild-eyed women cried: "Oh, vihere's my baby?" or "Sal lie" or "Tonlmie," where are you?" A rolling cofcmotion of voices on the outside fin airy killed all distinct ex pression. Bill's whitejfaced sister got to him, and seized hifl by the arm, but a big, firm hand pu.jhed her back. The con stable wedgedhis way to George, but he fell back limply against propping men. his fac gushing .blood. The justice of th peace, who commanded peace, found the peace of Bill's paral yzing fist. All was in swirling, roar ing confusionwhen the thunderous voice of the preacher broke above the crowd with the aweing power: "Ef ye ain't got no respect for me, an the dav. an' thp Tnrd. resneet ver neighbors who now leave single life for the holy ways of matermony. I now peform a sarimony. Be ye silent in the face of this - awful, sacred in- ordinance uv heaven's disposition Jine han's Thomas Benton Brammer and Matilda Jane Susan Ann Adams!" Silence fell, and so did the spirit of Bill Garrison and George Peterson They looked up at each other and though agony loaded their slow-chug glng hearts, they smiled through sick, feeble lips as thought answered thought: "Wkat fools us fellers be! SANFORD'S PUNCH BOWL. Made to Hold Tanglefoot, It Now Hold Only Water for Horses. The watering trough of Pickering Square, Bangor, is said to have a more peculiar history than any other similar object in the state or in New England. Years ago. when Capt. Charles San ford owned a steamboat line between Bangor and Boston, making a trip or two a week with a squatty steamer the friends of the captain and owner decid ed that they would make him an origi nal present on an anniversary, and they ordered a huge granite punch bowl. At first the idea of a bowl 5 feet high and 5 feet in diameter was. not conceived, but it came to the mind of one of the friends and the order was changed so as to make the present of unheard of dimensions, and of rough granite without inscriptions. The people who made it thought there was something out of the ordinary in the wind and they put extra work into it. The affair was shipped to Bangor and was formally presented to the captain aboard the craft that bore it to Front street. The captain was surprised, but be made a very neat speech of ac ceptance. The bowl was kept aboard the craft for a week or more, until one day the owner thought he would take it on the wharf, and with all sorts of tackle to help, the task was commenc ed. But there was bad luck following the bowl somewhere, as at the critical moment the rope parted and punch bowl and tackle and nearly the whole crew went into the river at once. The bowl stayed where it sank for a num ber of years, as the fleet cf steamers that landed at the wharf didn't draw as much as they do now. and the, bowl din't interfere with navigation. But Capt. Sanford finally decide that it must come up. and he offered it to the city as a watering trough, if they cared enough about it to move it from where it lay. They did and it was moved at once and was put wheve it stands now to delight the hearts of weary horses down in the square. BABYLONIAN EXPLORATIONS. Discovery of Great Temple Library of City of Nippur. Prof. Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania, the Babylonian explor er, has discovered the Great TempLa library of the ancient city of Nippur, which was destroyed by the Elumnites n the year 228 B. C. For eleven years the professor has been exploring the mounds of ancient Nippur, the city that antedated Babylon by centuries as the capital of Babylonia. Within the past year he has found among those prehistoric ruins the library of the Temple cf Nippur. This is the first Babylonian temple library that has ever been discovered, and it contains the oldest and most important records of the earliest civilization of which even an echo has come down to our own age. Already IS.000 volumes have been taken from the ruins, and it is expected that many more thousands will be recovered. Inscribed on clay tablets in the cuneiform characters which the explorations of Nineveh and Egypt have made familiar to archaeo logical students, these literary works of men who lived 5,000 years before the Christian era began include dic tionaries, architectural plans, histori cal and chronological data, legal and commercial as well as religious liter ature, that bear witness to the "form and pressure of time" in which Abra ham lived. They also show, says Prof. Hilprecht, that ages before the reputed appearance of Adam man was not only existing but that developed a high state of civilization, comparable in all its essential points with that which we ourselves possess. America's First rrotestant Charon. The first Protestant church in Am erica was made of the sails of Capt. John Smith's ship hung between the trees at Jamestown, Va. The pulpit was a stump and the congregation sat upon unhewn logs during the service until 1611. when a log cabin was erect ed under the direction of the governor. Sir Thomas Dale. In 1638 a brick struc ture fifty-six by twenty-eight feet in dimensions, with a tower through which it was entered, eighteen feet square, was built with the most sub stantial material, as its endurance tes tifies. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1676, but was restored and occu pied until 1723. when the capital was removed to Williamsburg. Chicago Record-Herald. Training: Boys for the Se t. The practical Germans train boys for their steamship service by a three years' course on fast freight ships which earn money for the company while affording a field of instruction for the youth. At the end of the first year the "boy" becomes an ordinary seaman, and at the end of the second year an "A. B." A year later he goefc on one of the company's regular steamships to get the finishing touch, and to qualify him for that year in the imperial navy which makes him what all commanders must be- a naval re serve officer. Kins;" Ten Maces. The King of England has ten maces, which are kept in the Tower of Lon don. They are all of different degrees and all will be used at the coronation. The lords have their own mace and will not allow the house of commons' mace to enter their house. It accompanies the commons to the door of their lord ships' house, but it is always left outside. ABOUT GHOST SHIPS. SHIVERING TALES TOLD OF OLD OCEAN'S MYSTERIES. t Haunted Hulks Which l'low the Great Tracklee Main Strange Ftrmi Which Startle Superstitious Sen men The Flying Dutchman Seen OS Cape Horn. Landsmen boast or their haunted houses and the weird spirits that dance in country graveyards at midnight. But there's not a house, no matter how black and dismal and how far back from the public road it may be sitting, nor how many murders may have been committed within its walls years ago, that can compare in super natural terrors with the haunted ships with their crews of dead men that haunt the trackless waves of the ocean. And there s not a ghost on land, no matter how many grave yards he may prowl around, nor how many old mansions he may rattle chains in and groan and disport him self, that can hold up his head for one minute in the presence of one of the grisly, grinning, matted, dank ghosts tnat ships as A. B. on a ghost ship, lucre is an air of vagueness and unreality anyhow about the ocean that makes it naturally a more fit abiding place for ghosts than the prosaic shore. The great trackless, unfath- omed, mysterious deep, with its cen turies of nameless horrors still locked firmly in its silent bosom, is the proper place for ghosts. And so it is no wonder that they who go down to the sea in ships believe as firmly in spirits and spirit ships and roving hulks with crews of men dead cen turies agone as they believe in their own existence. One of the spectral ships best known to landsmen gener ally is the Flying Dutchman, with which Capt. Marryat made his readers acquainted. The Flying Dutchman was trying to round the Horn some time in the early part of the 17th century. The ship was repeatedly driven back by contrary wind and tides until the ship's captain, Vanderdecken, swore a fearful oath he would round it if it took till judgment day. Vanderdecken was taken at his word, and now for three centuries he and his worn crew have been battling to round the cape. Sailors watch with fear and trembling when their ships are rounding the Horn, afraid that every moment may bnng into view the spectral Flying Dutchman. It is believed that every appearance of the Flying Dutchman will be followed by death or misfortune to some of the crew of the ship that sees it. Off the stern, rock-bound coast of New England is not infrequently seen the ghot of the ship Palatine, whose appearance scudding in the teeth of a gale is always supposed to betoken dis aster. The Palatine was a Dutch trad ing vessel which was wrecked on Block Island in 1752. The wreckers, who by means of false beacons along the shore had lured the ship to its doom, made short work of the vessel. They stripped the ship of everything movable and then set fire to the hull to conceal the traces of their work. As the boat lift ed up by the tide floated away down the channel a piercing scream was suddenly heard from the cabin and a woman clad in wnite. nut. wreatnea around in red flames, was seen stand ing in front of the mainmast. She had been a passenger on the ship and had hidden below to escape the wreck ers. She burned to death in sight of the people along the shore, and since that time the ghost of the Palatine with the figure of a woman in white standing in front of the mainmast has been seen hundreds of times by sail ors cruising in those waters. The dead ship of Salem is well known off the Massachusetts f hore. Just 20 years ago the ship was ready to sail to England, when two mysterious people, whom none in the village had ever seen be fore, came hurriedly aboard and se cured passage. They were a young man and woman of strange but forbid ding beauty. The ship was detained so long by adverse winds that the townspeople began to suspect witch craft and propnesied disaster. But the skipper jeered at their fears, and when the wind changed put out to sea on Friday morning. No word or sign of that ship or its living freight was ever seen or heard again. But later that same year incoming vessels reported having met a craft with shining hull and luminous spars and sails spinning along with every cloth drawing in the teeth of one of the wildest of gales. A crew of skeletons manned the ship, while on the quarterdeck stood arm in arm a handsome pair, a young man and a woman. Improving IDs Voice. Canon Dayman, who for half a cen tury was rector of Shillingstone, pub lished in early life a metrical and scholarly translation of the "Inferno," and in later years for a long period represented a portion of the diocese in the blissful realm of convocation. Amusing as well as learned, I remem ber his telling a story of one of his parishioners, whom he found one cold, wet windy night standing shivering under the archway which spans the high road over which the Somerset and Dorcet railroad runs at Shilling stone. Wondering what the man could be doing, standing on a cold, wet night in the most draughty place imaginable, the canon asked him what he did there and the reply was. "Please, sir, be go ing to sing bass next Sunday in the anthem, and I be trying to catch a hooze," (wheeze). Cornhill. Engine CsinC Petroleum Fnetu The Southern Pacific company on its Pacific system has 79 engines, to which have Just been added fifty en gines, ordered last year, and to which are to be added 103. for which orders are now outstanding. The company now has ninety-five engines using pe troleum fuel, while an order has been issued for the equipment of all engines for burning petroleum. Estimating the consumption of the engines at twenty-one barrels of oil each day for 300 days in the year, the consuming power of the engines will be 5.8S4.200 barrels. Compared with ccal. the use of oil fuel, when established through out the system, will represent a saving to the company of $4,203,000 annually, as determined by previous experience of the road in the use of oil. FARMERS.' 1 ar Less Quirk and Observant Than the Couatry Cull Ircn. Principal Tnomas W. Boyce of the First District school is of the belief that city children are the real "farm ers." in the matter of observation, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. The country cousin has long been scoffed at for his open-mouthed wonder at what to his city-bred playmates are objects of every-day knowledge, and plenty have been the joke sprung at the expense of the country gawk upon his visits to the city. But now the tables are turned and the city boys and gills may well look out for their laurels as world-wise youngsters. "We have been reading 'Snow bound' in our eighth grade recently," Eaid Mr. Boyce. "and it is a matter of surprise and wonderment to note how little the children know about farm life and nature. Some passages which one would think every intelligent boy or girl of 14 or 13 years of age ought to know leave a perfect blank in the minds of the city scholars. Take, for instance, the passage, 'The oxen hooked, and lashed their tails.' The scholars could not imagine what 'hooked' meant. They thought that the word hook meant to snatch, to steal, to grab, to swipe, but not one associated the word with the tossing of the horns of the impatient brutes. The passage describing the well sweep, 'like Pisa's leaning miracle,' was so much Greek to them. Although they understood the reference to the lean ing tower of Pisa, they knew nothing of the old-fashioned well sweep. 'The sun-circled day, portent of the storm,' they had never seen. They expostu lated at believing such a thing. 'You cannot look at the sun.' they said. 'It is too bright. It hurts your eyes.' Now, I venture to say that there is not a boy in this state who has lived on a farm to whom the sun-circled day is not the portent of a storm. They have noticed it from their childhood days. The city children were non plussed in reading of the gray banks of clouds with the rising of the sun. The sun they see s over the housetops, through some dining-room window. It is an interesting study for mc to ob serve how iittle the city people are taught to observe nature. That is where the country children have the advantage over their city cousins." SUPERFLUOUS ACTIVITY. Women Speak of The Complex Dut:es of the Moment. The fact that the world the world of women, at least is too busy is now put forward so often that its utterance amounts to a truism. The most com mon phrase in our language seems to be that which proclaims the want of leisure. "I am so busy;" "If I can ever get the time;" "Life is such a pressure these days;" "The complex duties of the moment;" "The busy modern pub lic" these are, all of them, most fa miliar sentences to us. and are on our lips time and again in explanation of business, social, and even moral short comings. It is not putting it too strongly to say that in the present rush of living we are losing some of our best characteristics and painfully dwarfing our lives. We are too busy to be neighborly, hospitable, to be sympathetic a good many, indeed, of the finer traits of humanity are finding less expression among us. The question of better control of the leisure which the old century gave to women, and which the new will in crease, is a large one, and admits of elaborate presentation. It is only in tended in this brief paragraph to em phasize a single rint. which is. the value of a quick weighing of every e' fort in which one is about to engage. or is now absorbed, to be sure of its necessity to yourself, or yourself to it. Harper's Bazar. I-ansroages Difflrnlt of Acquisition. Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Frank A. Vanderlip recently returned from a trip of four months in Europe, where he visited nearly all the continental capitals and had inter views with the several ministers of finance. "My plans for the future are not definite at present," he said, "and the work I shall have will not be de termined for some time. I have rap idly come to the front as the great American accepter. I have been re ported to have accepted in the last few months more places than I ever expect to have offered me in a lifetime. For the present I am going to rest and get acquainted with my mother, of whom I have seen very little in the past four years. During my sojourn abroad I discovered that English is fast becom ing the commercial language of the world. In Europe every minister of finance and most of the prominent business men I met were able to speak Kntrlisli well. This excepts the irronrh Thev seem to think in rranno that everyone must know French and that it is not necessary for a Frenchman to know any lan guage but his own. I found the most finished linguists among- the peoples whose languages are the most difficult of acquisition by foreigners. Socletr I Hollow. "Oh. pa!" exclaimed the dear girl. her sapphire eyes brimming over with tears- "how can you say society is hollow?" "Why shouldn't I?" re torted pa, with a coarse, throaty laugh, that betrayed the fact that he paid more attention to making money than acquiring polish. "Why shouldn't I when I have to pay the bills for feeding the gang that you have here at your blow-outs?" Exchange. Wanted Ills Own Perquisite. An Englishman staying at an Eng lish inn ordered a bottle of wine for luncheon, but only consumed a third it nt that meal. When he asked for the remainder at dinner he was told that all the wine left at table went to the waiteras a perquisite. The landlord supported this statement, but wTen a summons was issued for the value of the missing wine the claim and costs were paid As soon as a woman falls in lore her complexion gets better. Cigars are given to soldiers in the Italian army as part of their daily rations. TOWN BOYS THE The Torturing Feed Bat; One of the animal tortures of the day is the feed bag that Is pulled over a horse's nose, as if it were a muzzle, and supported by a rope or strap over his bead, asserts an observing writer. When the breathing holes becom clogged with oats or corn on a hot and humid day the victim's suffering must be intense. Besides, it is poor econ omy, as a horse wastes nearly a3 much an he eats by the act of tossing the bag up to get a mouthful. He who betrays a trust betrays him self. From I'nlplt to Consulate. Rev. Dr. C. P. H. Nason, who ha resigned the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church in Germantown. Pa., is to be United States consul at Grenoble, France. Dr. Nason was; graduated at Williams college in 1862. whic h was President Carter's class and his degree was conferred by Williams two years ago. This is rather a pleas ant way for a cergyman to retire. Itev. Mr. Nason was acting pastor of the American church in Paris in 1&99. A College Professor at 80. Although President Henry G. Weston of Crozer Theological seminary is more than 80 years old, he performs all the duties of his office and will deliver four lectures next week at the interdenom inational Bible class to be held at Lake Orion, Mich. As long ago as 1849 he vas moderator of the Baptist General Association of Illinois, which state was. the stene of his early labors. "Hobs" Is a Crack Rider. Lord Roberts is a fearless rider anrt tirually well in at the death in a fox hunt, bat his eminence as a hunting: man depends on his splendid eye for country nnd his unrivaled knowledge at horse flesh and not on mere dare deviltry. Ixrd Roberts has had his share of 'c roppers," but, thanks to his light, steel-built frame, he has never come to any serious harm in the hunt ing field. Six Doctors This Time. South Bend, Ind.. July 29th: Sir different doctors treated Mr. J. O. Lan deman. of this place for Kidney Trou ble. He had been very ill for three years, and he despaired of ever being well. Somebody suggested Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Landeman used two boxes. He Is completely cured, and besides losing all his Kidney Trouble, his gen eral health is much better than it has been for years. 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