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land TM LAND OP PRETTY BOON. f know a land where the streets are paved With the thing wa meant to achieve. It la walled with the money we meant to have saved And tha pleasure for which we crleve fhe hind word unspoken, the promise. And many a coveted boon, Aj stowed away there tn that somewhere Tha land of "Pretty Boon." r ; i filer ar ' uncut jewels of possible fame Lying about In the dust, And many a noble and lofty aim ' Covered with mold and rust. And oh I this place, while It seems so near, la farther away than the moon. Though our purpose is fair, yet we never gei mere The land of "Pretty Boon." 1 J . . .. . . no, .now,- said Fltsroy, with s j who, having by hard laker called! It, .,, , ln, eyeorows. i desire to keeu It. T1 natural, la It l" cieany see, however, you fear to! not?" -.-.,-,.. inecompinxorimm, "You argue well, sir; yet there Is wno acknowledge, himself penniless, something to sav for the hlrhwavmen mougn with a faintly con-1 sometimes. Tab. ih. r.t him they call raintiy con-1 sometimes. Take tha temptuous glance at the other man's ' Just spoke of, the Irish , oiers you carry arms and he does not. The road that leads to that mystic ana la strewn with pitiful wrecks. And the ships that have sailed for Us shining strand Bear skeletons on their decks. It Is farther at noon than It was at dawn. And farther at night than at noon; Oh, let us beware of that land down there The land of "Pretty Soon." Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER Two travelers In sober, apparel, and fldlng sleek, well fed nags, were the only wayfarers on the road, aa far as the eye could reach. Without them, the weird loneliness of the November landscape would have missed its last touch of desolation; for the dripping, gray-green sedges, Intersected with ulky little streams and.dltchps. which looked like faded grogram ribbons with frayed edges, the sodden road with Its deep ruts forming brownlnh-gray pools, and the leaden-gray sky against which the leafless branches of the one pollard willow were extended aa though im ploiing respite from further rain all blended themselves Into a inmbr; back ground that was wholly harmonious. Only as the two horses, heavy with tnud, laboriously climbed the steep, slippery hill, did the entrance of human beings bring the element of unrest Into the scene. "You climb cautiously, sir," observed the younger to the elder man, with a light smile. Their difference In age could be but that of a year or two, The older traveler, a clean-shaven Arm-Jawed man of unmistakably Scot physiognomy, replied calmly: "I am afraid." The other his name was Flttroy suddenly reined In his horse. His companion answered the amazed ques tlon In his eves: "Of falling have a care, sir, or you Will do it yourself. The mud is slip pery ; my horse carries a heavy load and I have no mind for riding Into town with a torn cloak or bespattered person. "You are wise, sir," said Fltiroy. "The merciful man Is merciful to hln beast, his person and his garments It hath tx.-en long- years since I valued any of these, and, therefore, as you per celve," noticing the other man's narrow scrutiny. "1 have had many a fall In the mire." 'Tut! As to that, we are both miry. Tls these pestiferous roads, after the rains. The stable boys at the Oolden Goblet shall scrape off some of It, when we have dined." Again Fitzroy' horse Teared back sharply, and again amazement stared from his eyes. "The Oolden Goblet? Are you bound to dine there? Then our ways part, sir; though I am loth to leave pleasant company." "But how now?" In astonishment equally blank. "Where else should we dine, save at the Inn? Pardon me, sir, but your behavior Is certainly most t range." A dull red haa risen In Fitzroy's cheeks. He gazed at the ground with out answer. "If 'tis a matter of money" began the other in an altered tone, "Ay, sir; you have touched the point. Poverty Is not a vice, Is It? or it could not so readily shame us. My pockets are empty, and I had counted on the charity of some good cottage creature for a cup of milk and some bread and cheese." "Pray be my guest at the Inn," said the older man with formal civility. He was apparently aa cautious of over demonstration toward a chance ac qualntance aa of climbing slippery hills, but waxed more Insistent at Fitz roy's violent demur: "But wherefore not? Surely, my hospitality should be no less than an old cottage wo man's?" "Blr, you are most kind. But I would go with an empty stomach rather than dine at the Oolden Goblet. I lave an ancient grudge" "But I thought," cried his fellow trav ler, "you were strange In these part? Tou said aa much, when we fell In with each other this morning, and you nnvad ma to nolnt you the road to Durham." "But doth a road run one way only?' ritsroy asked with a sudden sparkle f mirth In his eyes, as quickly extin guished. "As I remember the Golden ou are riant, sir. the muntrv Is lonely, and there are rumors If high waymen, and you never saw me before this morning. Let us part ways you to your Inn, and I to my good dame, or master, or whomever I may find. Good day, sir." Oood Duncan Mctniugafl, kirk officer Of Ballantyne parish and canniest of Scots, thoughtfully watched him spur his horse up another of the steep, mud dy little hills, with the stumbling haute of an angry schoolboy. Society on the road was pleasant but perchance dangerous pleasure, when you knew not with whom you were riding, and when your saddlebags held forty pounds Scots, In good gold, to buy a set of communion sliver for the new Ballan tyne kirk. He had a trust, a reputation a life to guard. Yet "Tush! could the fellow blush like Kitty herself, and yet harbor evil designs?" ai a ruae tame in a little hovel up the road Fitzroy sat glowering over the extremely frugal fare brought him by an old woman, gnarled of face and knotted of figure, to whose cackle he paid no attention. "I've naught In my purse to pay for this," he flung out finally; "nor In my saddlebags either.' The woman chuckled without glee "Yet there was a gentleman came part way with you," she observed. "Look! he climbs the hill now." "And he travels armed," said Fitzroy moodily. "My pistol dropped yester day from a broken holster while I ford ed a stream. How do I know he car ries aught worth killing a man for?" "By his traveling armed," concisely. Tut, Mr. Fitzroy! Do you conceive, sir, that because luck haa hitherto been with you In sending you cowards and unarmed travelers, who would willingly give their purses to save their skins, It wll be so always? Truly, air, you speak like " "A coward," said Fitzroy. "I am not one, but" his face clearing a little "he who comes hither is a coward and I may get off without bloodshed. In faith, I was bom a gentleman, and even In battle, where a man may kill and not hang for It, there would always come an uneasy voice between me and my sword, that would sound like a cry of reproach from my mother or sister. Yet I have not seen either of them since I was a lad of twenty. How, now, sir!" starting up as the shadow of a man fell across the doorway. You have changed your mind?" 'I come to crave your pardon, sir, said Duncan McDougall, gravely. "And to eat supper with you, If this good wo man hath aught to give us. Pardon my suspicions, and give me your com pany for the rest of the road, for. In truth, I am afraid of Its loneliness." "Say no more." said Fitzroy with fe verlsh eagerness, helping him dismount. 'We will both eat and sleep here, and the old woman shall stable your horse where she hath taken mine." McDougall started slightly as the old crone took the bridle. Her appearance and that of the house, was unprepos sesslng, and his Scotch cautions return ed on him. He stood up rigidly, while Fitzroy opened his eyes In unfeigned surprise, and loudly recited a long Presbyterian grace, before he would take the seat In dicated for him. A man of religion!" exclaimed Fltz roy. He had not intended to say it aloud; but the performance of so dis tinctly devotional an act In the pres ence of a stranger was as astounding to him aa It was unremarkable to the Scotsman, who complacently replied, his mouth full of bread and cheese: Officer of Ballantyne kirk, and n man of peace toward all."- Yet you travel armed," suggested Fitzroy doubtfully. A commendable means of securing peace, Is It not, sir 7 i neara over-mucn of these so-called 'gentlemen of the road,' who kill a man In haste and dis cover his poverty at leisure to have a mind to tide unprotected when I am traveling alone." Have you ever heard," asked Fitz roy, carelessly, or one iney can im: Irish Paddy,' who hath been making himself somewhat officious In these parts?" The Scot shook his head. The slow-creeping twilight hit the slow- creeping red In Fitzroy's face, aa he said, lightly: Oh. well, these gentry practice for gain, rather than fame, so 'tis not sur prising you should not have heard of him yet. Besides, he hath so far kept hi hands clean of blood, they say. which save a man a deal of notice But may I ask, sir, why 'tis you appear to grudge these poor fellows the name of gentleman, to which many of them by birth at leaat, are entitled?" 'Because" the speaker's utterance was still rendered Indistinct by vigor ous mastication, while Fitzroy sat and unhappily eyed his food "being by birth at least, personally disqualified for that title, I, an honest man, be grudge It to a set of cowardly thieves. Twas a long time since most of them were born, and I hold that their patent case man i-aaay or tne Koads.' "Tls not a man I admire, nor would I willingly stand in his shoes: yet 'tls said he waa a fine, gallant lad ten years since, ruined at cards by a cheating gamester colonel whom he could not denounce "Why," said the Scotsman, "that I call cowardice." "What mean you, sir! What dare you?" Fitzroy's hand was where sol diers carry their swords. He had sprung to his feet, and his voice echoed Indignantly to the low rafters. "I will not tut, what a vile temper I am In, for that I am crossed In a friendly ar gument! Pardon me, sir; and laugh at my heat as much aa you wish." But it was not laughter that looked out In the steadfast gaze of McDougall, who had laid down his knife and fork. The two men were alone, the woman having slipped out to fodder the horses. In sickening anxiety Fitzroy awaited the next speech, whose slow, unchang ed tones brought back the breath to his quivering body: "I, myself, may wax as hot in putting the other ease that of the honest way. faring man of trade or toll. I, for In stance, of course, carry naught worth taking." "Of course not," agreed Fitzroy craft ily, the traveler's previous words yet ringing In his ears: "My horse carries a heavy load." "Yet, were it but thirty shllllns, or but one shilling, or but sixpence, 1 would not deliver It up for thirty blun derbusnes In my face. Folly It may be I claim not that It Is courage, yet tls the Britlflh nature that I have Who took It must take my life and life la sweet to me. You eat nothing, sir." " 'Tls this cursed choking bread,"sald Fitzroy, breathing heavily. "Here, wo man, have you no more milk?" Nay, sir" the crone had reappeared "not a drop more. My cow Is gone dry." I have plenty in my dish," inter posed McDougall, "Nay, man, dip In, dip In! We farmers stick not at fine table civilities." 'You have not asked me why life Is sweet," said the Scotsman. "Surely a happy man should be an object of cu riosity! Since you ask not, I will tell you of mine own accord: I am pass ing young, I have health and strength have land enough to wring a living from, and in December I am to marry the sweetest girl in all Scotland. It Is much to live for. Is It not?" with eyes riveted on Fitzroy's. "Gentlemen," interrupted their elnls ter-faced hostess, "am I bid to make up beds here? or do you purpose to take the road?" McDougall hesitated. "First show me how my horse Is lodged," he said to the old dame. Scarce had they dis appeared together into the dusky door way of the dilapidated outhouse before the woman sped eagerly back to Fitz roy. "Quick," she whispered, pulling him Into the house. "Here" produc ing a pistol from a cupboard" 'tl his; I cut It from his holster whilst you supped. You need not fear him now. 'Tls a coward, anyway pale, dead, scornful Hps beside hlea did Dot repeat: " 'Tls but a bit of Judas work." In the bag lay a letter, whets address: "To Mrs. Dorothy White, Dur ham," struck him with a vague, un pleasant sense of familiarity. "Dr. Aunt," It read, "there Jen will be handed you by a brave gentlemaa and true, Mr. Duncan Mehlongail, of this place. Him I am to marry In a little time. The silver pieces are for you to ad to that I gave you for a wedding gown wh. you, honoured Aunt, promised me tne favour to buy for me, sena ji Dacjc Dy mm, ana l pray you or yr. cortesy to lov him as you lov me, ror i lov him as I do my Self. Yr. moast dutiful neace, "KITTY FITZROY." Thirty pieces of silver, flung In as many directions, splashed Into the lit tle roadside ditches. "I have betrayed the Innocent blood!" cried Fitzroy. His face waa ashen. He peered with eyes of horror at the still thing at his feet. "A bad business!" he muttered. "Brother-in-law, I could wish you better part in the play than that of my first victim." He heard horse hoofs, and trembled like an aspen. Hastily wiping his fin gers In the moist gratis, he mounted his horse and rode oft, with savage spurs In his sides. The hoofs followed then abruptly stopped where the wounded man had laboriously risen on one elbow, watch ing the highwayman's fleeing figure. At a familiar neigh, he smiled grimly and painfully, first glancing at the un tuched panniers of the Ballantyne kirk's good gold, which lay on the faithful creature's back, then, at the muddy coins scattered round him. His stunned senses rallied slawly. 'Kitty'll never cry for her coins," ha said feebly. "Gin I live to come back. Ay, I'll live. Were I no better kirk of ficer than yon poor craven makes of a highwayman, 'twould go ill! Why call he me 'brother1?" And Fitzroy, speeding frantically on into the dusk, scourged by visions of a last Judgment, when he should stand with Cain and Judas, looked not back to tell him. Louise Betts Edwards. MORTARS FOR DEFENSE. Ooblet It stand, at a crossing, and some of gentility hath expired After all, tIBJ lUfc e. uit wi wwi av, mtiaiiiB their harmless fellows for a few filthy approach It from the east, some from tha wast Nay. Blr I have not yet learned your nam. I cannot and will not enter that Inn, and It Is spending breath to ask m wherefore. Per chance the landlord has cheated me or I cheated tha landlord; perchance I fcappeaea to kiss the barmaid. Blr, I ant sorry, but I will not go. t see a coins, Pah I I am a farmer, and work In the dirt all day, but I would not touch such money." 'Hold, sir!" cried Fltsroy Impetuous. ly, while the old woman frowned In tha background. "Tou ara bard, me thlnks. I, too, am honest, yet I have the poor man's sympathy for him who a living and Mttam In tha distance; I am confident Miwi dam thara will glvs tu food, I feels tha world owes blm aad area a night legging." I the right to collect It" "War. bow kaow you thara la a I "Aad I," disputed McDourall, "havs AM, aad that bar boapltallty Is fratr the poor man's sympathy for tboat "'Tls a brave man!" flashed Fitzroy "Yet if he sleeps here I need not. Woman, he fed me from his own dish And he would have dined me at th Golden Goblet, had I dared to show myself there." "He hath reckoned for the supper al ready," grinned the crone. "I sped back to tell you where he carries his money." "In his saddle-bags." "Nay, 'tls in a little buckskin bag within his coat. It clinks most amaz ingly heavy, nor would he pull the string. 'After all, 'tls a trust and must not be touched,' he said, and paid me with a shilling from another pocket. Why hang you back, sir?" A sudden sound smote the highway man s ears before he could answer the sound of swift hoofs splashing on a wet road. Breaking to the door, he saw a horse and rider making furious haste. His prey had escaped him. "Quick, fool, my horse!" he cried, flinging himself frantically across the beast when she brought It, and ex tending. Instead of good-by, a hasty hand for the purloined pistol. He could scarcely account for his chane of mood. Chagrin at being outwitted, fear of re maining as tame sport for the old wo man's gibes, pricked him on. His fresh er horse quickly outran the traveler's more Jaded one, which at the sound of a shot from behind, threw his wounded rider in the thick mud and galloped on, mad with terror, In the one Instant of Fitzroy's dis mounting the hurt man struggled to his feet. "Come on, sir," he said, with ghastly composure. "You have not yet dipped your hands In blood. You dipped them last In In my dish you wretched betrayer coward!" As he fell In the vain attempt to pull his ad versary down with him, one sharp cry of pain, of human dependence, quiv ered In the air, preceding a deadly still ness: "Kitty!" The face bending fiercely over blm blanched at the sound, more than at the scarlet stream which soaked the grass where he fell. "Why need he shriek that?" muttered Fitzroy. "'Tls strange. In faith, I would his Kitty had him, and I the buckskin bag." Recalled to the need for baste, he knelt down and fumbled for tb bag, opened It and then laughed lovdly and hoarsely. "Shillings! Ons, two" he oounted thirty, and bis band shook. Ht wished mightily It had been any ether number, even a leaser: aad oould not have sworn that the Don't Pay to Work All the Time. "I have tried working nights, and seven days in the week, and all that sort of thing," said Mr. Bifferly, "with a vague Idea that nature would make an exception In my case, and that I could do It all right, whether anybody else could or not, but I find it doesn't pay, which is to say that nature didn't make any exception In my case. It may smile Indulgently on me at the outset of my breaking Its established rules, but If I persist it gets stern and makes it clear to me that I must not violate Its rules, doing this by bringing down my output without regard to the number of days or nights I work, to as little or less than I could produce In six days' work, besides keeping me in a state of perpetual nervousness and wor ry. 'The fact Is that we need a day of reat; that no spring Is Inexhaustible, and If we keep on dipping after the waer Is low we dip up mud with the water, and It doesn't pay; It's better to give the spring a chance to fill up, and to give your back a chance, too. 'A man that Is fit and trim can de more work in six days than a tired man can In seven. The man that tries to get more out of himself by working all the time really gets less. If he Is crowded for money and wants to work and earn it, the temptation Is reat to keep riht on at work all the time, and earn all he can, and If he permits him. self to stop at all, he thinks he's wast In time; but, bless us! he isn't, he's only givln himself a chance to fill up. Let him keep calm and enjoy that period of idleness; and it Is not really idleness it's recuperation. Then when the time comes to work let him pitch in for all he knows how; he can't work too hard then, but It certainly does not pay to work all the time." They Ara Among tha Most Tarrlble Implements of Warfare. The type of heavy breechloadlng mor tar relied upon by the army for Inner line harbor defense Is one of the most terrible Implements of war that have been devised. The high-power rifle Is mounted in the coast defenses with an effective range of eight to ten miles, and is calculated to open fire upon uim-Kauing neei tne moment it comet within reach. The mortar battery If concealed well away from the big guns, where It cannot be reached except ac cidentally by the Are of the enemy, nor Is this battery intended to be brought into play until the rifles In the main fortifications have been completely or partially silenced by the enemy. The mortars have a limited range of about four and one-half miles, and their tre mendous bursting charges are fired high In the air, with the certainty of plung ing into any vessel occupying a plot ted position upon a chart which is in the possession of officers equipped with range finders of delicate precision lo cated at a considerable distance from the concealed battery. This chart, Is divided Into minute squares, and as the enemy's ships cross the intersection of Imaginary lines the men handling the mortars, although they cannot see the vessels, aim, load and discharge with the certainty born of long practice that every shot will tell. These new mortars, of which 1,00' are provided for In the existing schem of national coast defense, and of whicf 320 have already been mounted In posi tions commanding the entrances o) the principal harbors on the Atlanth coast, fire a 12-inch shell weighing 1,000 pounds. This, following a high trajectory, Is Intended to fall upon the unarmored decks of vessels, and by ex ploding demolish the machinery, de stroy the crew and perhaps sing the vessel. The weapons eacch weigh about 13 tons, are 11 feet 9 Inches long, and their 12-inch rifled bore is ten feet in length. Their greatest diameter Is at the breech 3 feet 2 inches. This great mass of metal Is so nicely balanced that It can be loaded, aimed and fired by two men. The loading is performed by sim ple mechanisms, and with a trained gun company of six men one accurate shot can be fired every two minutes. C3 Hoi Perhaps sleepless airhts caused it, or grief, or tick nest, or perhaps it waa care. No matter what the cause, you cannot wisb to took old at thirty. Gray hair la starred hair. The hair bulbs hsve been deprived of proper food or proper nerve force. Egyptians as Cannibals. One of the Important and quite start- lln archaeological discoveries of recent times Is the announcement that the splendid builders of the pyramids, th undisputed masters of the arts and sci ences of that brilliant age practiced cannibalism and regularly ate the flesh of their dead. This remarkable revelations, which mars the seat of the world's most an cient civilization, from which we have Inherited so much Is not a speculative theory, but a cold fact, told by the spade and shovel of Prof. W. Flinders Petrle. Prof. Petrle came across his Interest ing find while excavating a group of old Maataba tombs of 3,500 B. C, In a cem etery near the village of Deshashah, some sixty miles from Cairo. Here a series of costly rock tombs and mortu ary chambers were opened which were evidently places of wealthy burial. On opening one of the massive coffins he expected to find the usual embalmed mummy or corpse, but Instead a swath ed and cut up body, that of a woman, with the flesh entirely gone from the hones, met the gaze of the excavator. That this waa universal and not an Isolated case was hown by the sub sequent finding of a half a hundred lissected bodies In various parts of the old cemetery, extending over an area of half a mile. It will be for future excavations which are now being carried on by the Egypt Exploration Society under the llrectlon of Prof. Petrle, to throw ad ditional light on this subject. SlOO Reward, $100. 'There are many men who wouldn't marry for money," growled the savage misogynist, "ir they could get the mon ey any other way." The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all Its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. 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Write gear If you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the Vigor, write the doctor about it. He may be able to suggest something of value to you. Address, Dr. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. A Hen's Care of Kittens. An Auburn lady tells of a curious In cident that came to her notice recently. A setting hen stole away her nest, but after a day or two the nest was dis covered and the eggs taken away. Soon after a cat that had three little kittens found the nest nd took it as a home for her young ones. The old hen re turned on the nest part of the time and near It all the time, and when she saw the kittens there she seemed to regard them as her progeny. She would hover them in the nest and cluck to them with the greatest complacency. The cat didn't want to give up her chil dren, however, and the hen and the cat naa a pucnea Dattle. The result was a division of the spoils. The cat ran away with one of the kittens, while the hen remined In possession of the other two. A member of the family discovered the hen's theft, however, and restored the kittens to their real mother. The old hen made such a time about it that she had to be fas tened up In a coop. A woman notary public In Colorado, who was recently married, asked the attorney general what name she should use officially In the future. He has re plied that she must sign all documents as before her marriage, for he finds no law compelling or even authorizing a woman to drop her maiden name on the simple excuse of marriage. In fact, he says that there Is no authority for a hange of name at marriage or at any other time. J . o ucnij jju-iciiicu iruney controller a weight Is fixed on a yoke to slide up and down on the pole, one end of tha rope being attached to the weight to maintain the tension, taking up tha slack when the wire runs low. fagiatf fslltC nd other wound or sores on nua IllsE llll I A or beaaL are nulrldr he tiled with. 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