THE NORTHWESTERN,
BENhClIOTER < GIIISON, Edn and P»(*
LOUP CITY, - • NEB.
i_—rttj-!—i
J. Pierpont Morgan did not have
quite everything bought in this country
before he crossed the sea. but he left
a man in charge on tills side to pick up
what few trifles he had happened to
overlook. ~ .
The recent reference in Youth's Com
panion to San Bernardino county. Cal
ifornia, aa the largest in the United
States, has brought out the fact that
there is one even larger—Custer coun
ty. in Montana. The one contains 19,
947 square miles, the other 20,490. In
the interest of accuracy, therefore, the
palm must be transferred from Cali
fornia to Montana.
The Geneva correspondent of the
McKinley has Informed President
Kruger of the Transvaal that he can
not receive him, either officially or un
officially. No doubt that story will
give comfort in London, and it can do
no harm anywhere else. We may be
very sure that if President Kruger vis
its Washington he will be received
with all the honors befitting his rank.
Liquor dealers in Abingdon. Mass.,
by way of a joke nominated Rev. W.
H. Wyman for constable, hut they
have about come to the conclusion
that the joke is on them instead of on
the reverend gentleman. They thought
the proffer of such an honor wrould an
ger Mr. Wyman, hut he enlisted the
aid of local church people, was trium
phantly elected and now declares that
the Sunday and midnight closing or
dinances must he rigidly observed.
A film of kerosene on the surface
of standing water is fatal both to
the larvae and to the adult female
mosquitoes which alight there to lay
their eggs. A small quantity is suf
ficient, one ounce being enough for
a space of fifteen square feet. Tem
* porary pools which result from heavy
rains, and even the water in hollow
stumps and discarded tin cans may
furnish a generation of mosquitoes.
You may talk of the selfish men
who succeed, but when we talk of suc
cess we don’t mean tumblehugs who
roll their treasure home, pigs who suc
ceed in finding acorns, hankers who
pile up dollars, trust organizers who
rob, or gamblers who successfully
swindle. When we mention success
ful men, we mean men really success
ful—those whose lives have added
something to the dignity and decency
of the human race.
The dinner given by the survivors of
the defenders of Belfort in the Franco
Gcrman war, on the anniversary of the
siege, was especially memorable be
cause of the one woman present, who
provided one of the most popular
toasts. This was Mme. Belfort, a
lieutenant of the Franes-Tireurs, who,
then but a girl just out of her teens,
was enrolled as a trooper in that corps,
as she was a capital rider and shot.
In this campaign she won both her
commission and the military cross.
When digging in the gravel beds of
South Kensington for the foundations
of the Victoria and Albert museum in
London great quantities of the bones
of extinct animals were found, crea
tures which lived in the London basin
at the time that the river's drift and
brick earth were being deposited.
These were the hones of the great
stags then common, of the elephant
and of the primeval horse, creatures
which lived there before the channel
was cut between England and France,
though not perhaps before man had
appeared in what is now the Thames
valley. A scientist, to whom some of
the remains were taken said that they
reminded him of the great discovery
of similar remains in the brick earth
at Ilford, in Essex, England, thirty
seven years ago, when he personally
saw dug from the brick fields of that
parish the head and tusks of one of
the largtst mammoth elephants in the
world.
wunin tne next two months the
government will close out its busi
ness of educating Indians by contract,
and thenceforth will retain practical
ly the whole control and conduct of
the matter. The change from the old
system to the new began in 1895, when
Congress passed a law providing for
sectarian schools, the decrease being
twenty per cent eacli year. Mean
time, as the cutting off of this aid de
prived Indian boys and girls of the
privileges which they had enjoyed
for them in government schools, the
attendance in which has increased
from fourteen to twenty-two thous
and, and is still growing at the rate
of a thousand a year. The next step
contemplated by the government is a
measure of compulsory education for
young Indians. It is a pleasure to
note that Hampton Institute, being en
tirely non-sectarian and performing
a service which would be hard to
duplicate will still receive a certain
measure of government assistance.
An interesting and unusual cere
mony will take place in Quebec next
month, when a suitably inscribed
bronze tablet will be placed by the
Sons of the American-Revolution upon
the spot where the brave Gen. Mont
gomery fell, on December 31, 1775, in
- his Ill-fated attempt to capture the
citadel. The ceremony of unveiling
the tablet to the American general will
be followed by an international ex
change of courtesiesami a banquet;and
It Is safe to predict that, although the
city held out successfully against the
fathers, it wil.f capitulate to the sons.
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
AMUSEMENTS THE SUBJECT ON
LAST SUNDAY.
“Let the A mine Men Now Artie and PI»y
Hr fore I *** Second Samuel Chapter
II. Verie 14—Sport* m a Menu* to
iaa Kui—The Home Life*
(Copyright, IMI. by Louis Klopsch, N. T.)
Washington, May 1U.—This discourse
of Dr. Taimage is in accord with all
Innocent hilarities, while it repre
hends amusements that belittle or de
prave; text, II Samuel ii, 14, “Lot
the young men now arise and play be
fore us.’’
There are two armies encamped by
the pool of Gibe-on. The time hangs
heavily on their hands. One army pro
poses a game of sword fencing. Noth
ing could be more healthful and inno
cent. The other army accepts the chal
lenge. Twelve men against 12 men,
the sport open. But something went
adversely. Perhaps one of the swords
men got an unlucky clip or in some
way had his ire aroused and that which
opened in sportfulness ended in vio
lence, each one taking his contestant
by the hair and with the sword thrust
ing him in the side, so that that which
opened in innocent fun ended in the
massacre of all the 24 sportsmen. Was
there ever a better illustration of what
was true then and is true now—that
that which is innocent may be made
destructive?
v\ nat oi a worldly nature is more
important anil strengthening and in
nocent than amusement, and yet what
has counted more victims? 1 have no
sympathy with a straightjacket relig
ion. This is a very bright world to
me, and I propose to do all 1 can to
make it bright for others. I never could
keep step to a dead march. A book
years ago Issued says that a Christian
man has a right to some amusements.
For instance, if he comes home at night
weary from his work and, feeling the
need of recreation, puts on his slippers
and goes into his garret and walks
lively round the floor several times
there can be no harm in it. I believe
the church of God made a great mis
take iu trying to suppress tlie sport
fulness of youth and drive out from
men their love of amusement. If God
ever implanted anything in us. he im
planted this desire. But instead of pro
viding this demand of our nature the
church of God has for the main part
ignored it. As In a riot the mayor
plants a battery at the end of the
street and has it fired off. so that every
thing is cut down that happens to
stand in the range, the good as well
as the bad, so there are men iu the
church who plant their batteries of
condemnation and fire away indiscrim
inately. Everything is condemned.
But Paul the apostle commends those
who use the world without abusing it,
and in the natural world God has done
everything to please and amuse us.
In poetic figure we sometimes spt ak
of natural objects as bping in pain, but
It is a mere fancy. Poets say the
clouds weep, but they never yet shed a
tear, anil that winds sigh, hut they
never did have trouble, and that the
storm howls, but it never lost its tem
per. The world is a rose and the uni
verse a garland.
Find Out for Yourselves.
I project certain principles by which
you may judge in regard to any amuse
ment or recreation, finding out for
yourself whether it is right or wrong.
I remark, in the first place, that
you can judge of the moral character
of any amusement by its healthful re
sult or by its baleful reaction. There
are people who seem made up of hard
facts. They are a combination of mul
tiplication tables and statistics. If you
show them an exquisite picture they
will begin to discuss the pigments in
volved in the coloring. If you show'
them a beautiful rose they will submit
It to a botanical analysis, which is only
the post mortem examination of a flow
er. They have no rebound in their
nature. They never do anything more
than smile. There are no great tides
of feeling surging up from the depths
of their soul in billow after billow of
reverberating laughter. They seem as
if nature had built them by contract
and made a bungling job out of it. But,
blessed be God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces and whose
life is a song, an anthem, a pean of
wuiuij. nvru uieir iruuuK's are llKe
the vines that crawl up the side of a
great tower on the top of which the
sunlight sits and the soft airs of sum
mer hold perpetual carnival. They are
the people you like to have come to
your house; they are the people I like
to have come to my house. If you but
touch the hem of their garments you
arc healed.
Now, it 1st these pxhllarant and sym
pathetic and warm hearted people that
are most tempted to pernicious amuse
ments. In proportion as a ship is
swift it wants a strong helmsman, in
proportion as a horse is gay it wants
a stout driver, and these people of ex
uberant nature will do well to look at
the reaction of all their amusements.
If an amusement sends you home at
night nervous, so that you cannot
sleep, and you rise up in the morning
not because you are slept out, but be
cause your duty drags you from your
slumbers, you have been where you
ought not to have been. There are
amusements that send a man next day
to his work with his eyes bloodshot,
yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they
are wrong kinds of amusement. They
are entertainments that give a man
disgust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are not swords, with
working aprons because they are not
robes, witli cattle because they are not
infuriated buns of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling ad
venture, love that takes poison and
shoots itself, moonlight adventures and
hair-breadth escapes, you may depend
upon it that you are in the sacrificed
victim of unsanctified i«+easure. Our
recreations are intended to build us up
and if they pull us down as to our
moral as well as to our physical
strength you may come to the conclu
sion that they are obnoxious.
t.lve Within Your Meant
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your menus. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. It is all
folly for tis to come from a place of
amusement feeling that we have wast
ed our money and time. You may by
It have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that yield
ed you hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements.
The first time I ever saw the city—
it was the city of Philadelphia—I was
a mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and
1 remember in the eventide one of
these men plied me with his infernal
art. He saw I was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He
painted the path of sin until it looked
like emerald, but I was afraid of him.
I shoved back from the basilisk—I
made up my mind he was a basilisk.
I remember how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me and, with a con
centered and diabolical effort at
tempted to destroy my soul, but there
were good angels in the air that night.
It was no good resolution on my part,
but it was the all encompassing grace
or a good God that delivered me. Be
ware, beware. O young man! "There
Is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the eud thereof is death.
The table has been robbed to pay
the club. The champagne has cheated
the children’s wardrobe. The carous
ing party hasburned up the boy's prim
er. The tablecloth of the corner sa
loon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in a day make
a tour around a whole month's wages
ladies whose lifetime business it is
to "go shopping,” large bets on horses,
have their counterparts in uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church
and that send drunkenness staggering
acrosss the richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated sons
come home to break their old mother’s
heart.
I-ook Out for tlie
Merchant, is there a disarrangement
in your accounts? Is there a leakage in
your money drawer? Did the cash ac
count come out. right last night? I
will tell you. There is a young man
in your store wandering off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, but not
the sinful Indulgences in which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How brightly the path of unre
strained amusement opens! The young
man says: "Now I am off for a good
time. Never mind economy. I'll get
money somehow. What a fine road!
What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack
tne whip, and over the turnpike! Come,
boys, fill high your glasses. Drink!
Bong life, health, plenty of rides just
like this!” Hardworking men here the
clatter of the hoofs and look up and
say: "Why, 1 wonder where those fel
lows get their money from. We have
to toil and drudge. They do nothing.”
To these gay men life is a thrill and
excitement. They stare at other peo
ple and in turn are stared at. The
watch chain jingles. The cup foams.
The checks flush. The eyes flash.
The midnight hears their guffaw. They
swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take the name of
God in vain. They parody the hymn
they learned at their mother’s knee,
and to all pictures of coming disaster
they cry out, "Who cares!” and to the
counsel of some Christian friend,
Who are you?”
Passing along the street some night
you hear a shiek in a grogshop, the
rattle of the watchman's club, the rush
of the police. What Is the matter now?
Oh, this reckless young man has been
killed in a grogshop fight. Carry him
home to his father's house. Parents
will come down and wash his wounds
and close his eyes in death. They for
give him all he ever did. although he
cannot in his silence ask it. The prod
igal has got home at last. Mother will
go to her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers and twist them into
a chaplet for the silent heart of the
wayward boy and push hark from the
bloated brow the long locks that were
once her pride. And the air will be
rent with the agony. ’1 ue great dram
atist says, “How sharper than a <-,er
pent’s tooth it is to have a thankless
child."
Sport* a Mean* to an Enrt.
Your sports are merely means to an
end. They are alleviations and helps.
The arm of toi! is the only arm strong
enough to bring up the bucket out of
the deep well of pleasure. Amusement
is only the bower where business and
philanthropy rest while on their way
to stirring achievements. Amusements
are merely the vines that grow about
the anvil of toil and the blossoming of
the hammers. Alas for the man who
spends his life in laboriously doing
nothing, his days in hunting up loung
ing places and loungers, his nights in
seeking out some gaslight foolery! The
man who always has on his sporting
jacket, ready to hunt for game in the
mountain or fish in the brook, with no
time to pray or work or read, is not so
well off as the greyhound that runs by
his side or the fly bait with which he
whips the stream. A man who do<s mt
work does not know how to play,
'f Clod had intended us to do nothing
i
but laugh ho would not have given us
shoulders with which to lift and hands j
with which to work and brains with
which to think. The amusements of j
life are merely the orchestra playing j
while the great tragedy of life plunges
through its five acts—infancy, child- j
hood, manhood, old age and death. |
Then exit the last earthly opportunity. !
Enter the overwhelming realities of an
eternal world! -
I go further and say that all those :
amusements are wrong which lead into j
bad company. If you go to any plat" j
where you have to associate with the
intemperate, with the unclean, with j
the abandoned, however well they may j
be dressed, in the name of God quit
it. They will despoil your nature.
They will undermine your moral char
acter. They will drop you when you
are destroyed. They will not give one
cent to support your children when
you are dead. They will weep not one
tear at your burial.
The Final Rome.
I was summoned to his deathbed. I
hastened. 1 entered the room. 1 found
him, to my surprise, lying in full
everyday dress on the top of the couch.
1 put out my hand. He grasped it ex- ;
citedly and said, "Sit down, Mr. Tal- j
mage, right there.” 1 sat down. He j
said: “l-ast night I saw my mother. '
who has been dead twenty oars, and
she sat just where you sit now. It was
no dream. I was wide awake, there
was no delusion in the matter. 1 saw j
her just as plainly as I see you. Wife, |
I wish yon would take these strings off
me. There are strings spun all around
my body. 1 wish you would take them
off me.” I saw it was delirium. “Oh,"
replied his wife, "ray dear, there is
nothing there.” He went on and said:
"Just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my
mother sat. She said to me, ‘Henry, l
do wish you would do better.’ I got.
out of bed and put my arms around
her and said: ‘Mother, 1 want to do
better. I have been trying to do better, j
Won’t you help me to do better? \ou
used to help me.’ No mistake about it, !
no delusion. I saw her—the cap and j
the apron and the spectacles, just as :
she used to look twenty years ago. But |
1 do wish you would take these strings ,
away. They annoy me so! I can j
hardly talk. Won’t you take them
away?” I knelt down and prayed, con
scious of the fact that he did not reali- j
ize what l was saying. I got up. I
said: "Goodbv. 1 hope you will be j
better soon. He said, “Goodbv, good- |
by.”
That night his soul went up to the j
God who gave it. Arrangements were j
made for the obsequies. Some said: t
"Don't bring him in the church; he is |
too dissolute.” “Oh.” I said, “bring
him in. He was a good friend of mine J
while he was alive, and 1 shall stand j
by him now that he is dead. Bring j
him to the church."
*****
Delight In die Home Fife.
Again, any amusement that gives
you a distaste for domestic life is bad.
How many bright domestic circles have
been broken up by sinful amusements!
The father went off. The mother
went off. The child went off. There
are today the fragments before me of |
blasted households. Oh. if you have j
wandered away, I would like to charm
you back by the sound of that one i
word, ’'home.” Do you net know that
you have but little more time to give
to domestic welfare? Do you not see,
father, that your children are soon !
to go out in the world, and all the in
fluence for good you are to have over
them you must have now? Doath will
break in on your conjugal relations. |
and alas if you have to stand over the
grave of one who perished from your
neglect!
Ah, my friends there is an hour com
ing when our past life will probably
pass before us in review. It will bo !
our last hour. If from our death pil
low we have to look back and see a
life spent in sinful amusement, there
| will be a dart that will strike through
| our soul sharper than the dagger with
; which Virginius slew his child. The
memory of the past will make us quake
j like Macbeth.
SLAVES' PASSPORT COIN.
Copper Pocket I’lerpn I »»il In Kvrapiug
from Hoiutage.
Mr. Charles L. Feller, 1C1C East
Pratt street, has in his possession a
copper coin of the kind used by slaves
as passports in their travels when run
ning away from their owners during
the anti-slavery agitation preceding
the Civil War. The coin bears tiie date
1838, with “Liberty” in a laurel wreath
on its face and on the reverse the
kneeling figure of a slave woman and
the Inscription "Am 1 not a woman
and a sister?” The condition of the
coin Is porfect and came into posses
sion of Mr. Feller several years ago,
who obtained it from an oyster dredg
er. The dredger found it with a lot of
other coins in the ruins made by tiie
great tiood at Johnstown. Mr. Feller
has a large collection of coins, and at
tached no particular value to this piece
; until a few days ago, when he read an
; account of a lot of these anti-slavery
| coins being dug up In the Middle West.
Considerable Interest was attached to
the finding of them. According to the
! Boston Transcript, Mr. II. B. Thatcher
of Bangor, Me., who is a noted coin
i collector, has one of the pieces of the
: same year as Mr. Feller's. Mr. Thatch
I er says he remembers that in his
youth slaves went to his father's house
at night and were taken in. His fa
ther would take them out of Bangor
in his wagon and would carry them
well on their way toward the Canada
line. The coins were used by the
slaves along their avenues of escape
as signals by which they could show
they were entitled to assistance with
' out being compelled to speak and tell
about themselves.—Baltimore Sun.
I
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON IX, JUNE 2— HEBREWS
IX: 11-14. 24-28.
Uohlno Text: Il« Keep I.lvetll to Make
Intercession—Hebrews 1: 25—Jesus
Ever High rrleit In Heaven—Among
tl.e Jews.
11. But Christ being come on bigh
I>r!est of good things to come, by a greater
nnd more perfect tabernacle, not madfc
with hands, tliat is to say, not of this
building.
12. Neither by the blood of goats nnd
calves, but by his own blood lie entered
In once into the holy place, having ob
tained eternal redemption for us.
13. For if the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprink
ling the unclean, sanettfieth to the purify
ing of the flesh
14. How much more shall the hlood of
t'hrist, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to tlod,
purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God.
24. For Christ is not entered Into the
holy places made with hands, which are
the figures of the true: but into heaven
Itself, now to appear in the presence of
God for us.
2.7. Nor yet that lie should offer him
self often, as the high priest entereth
Into I he holy place ( very year with hlood
of others.
28. For then must he often have suf
fered since the foundation of the world;
but now once In the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
27. And as It appointed unto men once
to dir. but after this the Judgment.
28. So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many: and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
i presume mat trie reason me
tional Committee put this lesson In this
place was to show us that Jest... who
has ascended to heaven, and has sent his
Holy Spirit upon us, is an ever-living
Saviour, still working and earing for us.
Ills mission Is not ended. Jesus is not
idle in the heavens. We still have a
Saviour who is a present Redeemer and
mediator between our souls and God, the
bridge as it were, or the realization of
the stairway of Jacob's dream, between
earth and heaven.
The subject therefore is that Jesus is
our high priest, our mediator, an eternal,
living Saviour, representing us before
God, and God lo us, and removing
those things which separate the soul front
God our Heavenly Father.
The letter to the Hebrews "is intended
for those who felt as though under the
new dispensation they had lost all that
was most dear to them. Judaism, with
its splendid ritual and elaborate priest
hood, was stricken root and branch, and
was passing away. The writer of this
letter teaches the fact that it is only
the external elements of Judaism that
are going, and that something Infinitely
better is taking its place—something that
contains all that was essential and eter
nal in the old system."—G. Campbell
Morgan.
If we understand the mission and duties
of tlie high priest in the Jewish economy,
we will be better able to realize what
Jesus does for us ns a high priest. The
basis of ail his duties was mediutorship
between God and man. "The whole char
acteristics and the functions of the
priesthood centered in the person of the
high priest.”—Kdersheim. 1. He was ap
potnted by God. 2. He was the mediator,
the connection between God and man. 3.
lie was the representative of the people
before God. presenting their prayers and
offerings. "The crown and glory of the
l.evitlcal dispensation was in its priest
hood. Its most sacred and solemn service
was that of the high priest on the day of
atonement.
Illustration. We can know God only
tlirouRh material manifestations, ns we
know men through our bodily powers and
their bodily manifestations. So we know
the sun only through the material ob
jects through which or hv which it is
manifested. One minute "f full direct
vision of the sun would blind us. We see
the light itself as reflected from objects;
the colors, tti*' chemical and life rays, the
power that takes pictures, the heat rays,
all only through some physical objects.
Illustration. "You remember how Dio
genes, the philosoppher who dwelt in a
tub, received Alexander the Conqueror.
When Alexander came lo hirn, and stood
in the entrance to that hovel in which
lie lived, and asked, ‘Diogenes, is there
anything which Ah xander, the king, can
do for you?’ The philosopher replied,
'Yes, there is one tiling you can do for
me—stand out of my sunlight.' That is
my attitude towards any man wtio seeks
to play the part of priest between my
soul arid God. ... I say, 'Get out of
my sunlight! Don't come between me and
God!’ 1 come to God through Jesus
Christ, and through no other person. I
do not question tin* right of any person
to Intervene between me and God be
cause I do not need a mediator, but be
cause I have a great high priest who
ever livetli to make Intercession for me.”
—G. Campbell Morgan.
Increasing’ a Golf Outfit*
She was a Boston girl, not given to
sudden crazes and ill-considered pleas
ures, but last summer and in the early
fall she fell a victim to the golf habit
and from that time her thoughts,
sleeping or waking, ran on brossles and
mashles and cleeks and other imple
ments of the peace-destroying sport.
So, as Christmas approached, and she
had every reason to believe that her
aunt would remember her as usual,
she went to her and diplomatically
suggested that the present this time
should be in a direct way associated
with golf. A day or two before Christ
mas the expected bundle arrived from
the aunt, accompanied by a note in
which the elderly lady apologized for
her ignorance concerning golf, assert
ing that, all golf terms wi re alike to
her, and she didn’t know a brassie
from a stymie. ‘‘But, my dear," she
went on, "I have done the last 1 could,
and I hope this little present, which is
certainly associated with golf, will he
acceptable and useful." The expectant
athlete, somewhat dashed by the
smallness of the parcel, untied the
string, unrolled the paper, opened the
box, and took out—a golf pin! —
Youth's Companion.
PHI M in Outwit* A atliorlt!**.
Postal authorities in Washington
are worrying over the case of a man
who advertises to cure deafness with
out fail for a certain sum. To those
who rend the required amount the ad
vertiser sends 2,000 pills, with direc
tions to take not more than one a day,
guaranteeing a cure when all the pills
have been used. As the truth or other
wise of this claim cannot be determin
ed for about live and a half years, tho
authorities do not know what course
to take.
The Spartan Jap*.
Tlio Japanese are a Spartan race.
Many things besides their resistance
to cold prove it. The most of them
live in simplicity. They can go a long
time without food. The coolies per
form marvelous feats of strength and
endurance; they draw a "jinrikisha'’
all day or carry travelers over the
steepest mountains. Every summer a
colony of foreigners go to Mount Hei
Eizan, near Kioto. Their camp is sev
eral miles up the steep mountain side,
but early each morning the Japanese
bring up the mail, fresli vegetables
and milk, and women often carry
trunks to the summit on their heads.
A ficliubret Mixntmcript round.
An interesting original manuscript
work by Kranz Schubert was discov
ered recently in Vienna among the
property of a rich and eccentric mart
named Wyssiak, an official of the court
of justice, who died recently, it is the
Iong-sought-for composition in I) flat
for two violins, viola and violincello.
This work is dated in March, 1841, and
was recognized as genuine some years
ago by Schubert’s step-brother. Today
the same verdict is given by several
specialists well acquainted with Schu
bert's music. The discovery has
caused a great sensation in Viennese
musical circles.
An "M. !>'»" Open Letter.
Renton, 111., May 20—R. II. Dunaway.
M. D., of this place, in an open letter,
makes tho following startling state
ment:
“I had Diabetes with all its worst
symptoms. I applied every remedy
known to the profession, as well as
every prescription suggested in our
books. In spito of all, I was dying,
and 1 knew it.
“As a last resort, and with scarce
ly any faith whatever, I commenced
taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills. In ono
week I saw a great Improvement. After
I had taken five boxes, I was sound
and well. This is ten months ago,
and I have not taken any medicine of
any kind since, and am convinced that
my cure is a permanent one.
“As a practicing physician with
years of experience, I most positively
assert that Dodd's Kidney Pills are tho
best medicine in the world today, for
Diabetes or any other Kidney Disease.
Since using them myself, I have used
them in many eases in my practice,
and they have never failed.
“I am making this statement as a
professional man, after having made a
most thorough test of Dodd's Kidney
Pills, and because I feel it my duty to
the public and to my professional
brethren. 1 he truth can never hurt
anyone, and what 1 have said is the
absolute truth.”
R. H. DUNAWAY, M. D.
It Is no wonder that the public are
enthusiastic over this new medicine,
when our leading physicians them
selves, are being won over to its use.
C’ity Funds Kept in a ( liimro’'.
The city of South Norwalk, Conn.,
keeps a part of its record in a chimney.
This unique “safe” is found at the mu
nicipal electric lighting plant. The
space usually utilized as a soot pit in
the base of the 500 foot brick smoke
stack has been utilized for keeping the
records and books of tlie plants.
A FAMOUS OLD HOUSE.
The house of Walter Raker & Co.,
whose manufactures of cocoa and
chocolate have become familiar in tho
mouth as household words, was estab
lished one hundred and twenty-one
years ago (1780) on the Neponset river
in the old town of Dorchester, a suburb
of Boston. From the little wooden
mill, “by the rude bridge that arched
the flood,” where the enterprise was
first started, there has grown up tho
largest industrial establishment of the
kind in tho world. It might ho said
that, while other manufacturers come
and go, Walter Baker & Co., go on for
ever.
What is the secret of their great suc
cess? It is a very simple one. They
have won and held the confidence of
the great and constantly increasing
body of consumers by always main
taining the highest standard in the
quality of their cocoa and chocolate
preparations, and selling them at the
lowest price for which unadulterated
articles of good quality can be put
upon the market. They welcome hon
est competition; but they feel justified
In denouncing in the strongest terms
tne rrauauient metnoas Dy wmcn in
ferior preparations are palmed off on
customers who ask for and suppose
they are getting the genuine articles.
The best grocers refuse to handle such
goods, not alone for tho reason that,
In the long run, It doesn’t pay to do it,
but because their sense of fair dealing
will not permit them to aid in the sala
of goods that defraud their customers
and Injure honest manufacturers.
Every package of the goods made by
the Walter Baker Company bears tho
w-ellknown trade mark “La Belle
Chocolatiere,” and their place of manu
facture “Dorchester, Mass.” House
keepers are advised to examine their
purchases, and make sure that other
goods have not been substituted.
An attractive little book of "Choice
Recipes” will be mailed free to any
housekeeper who sends her name and
address to Walter Baker & Co., Ltd.,
168 State Street, Boston, Mass.
.
When a soldier becomes insane there
Is something wrong at headquarters.
It isn’t at all pleasant to pay tho
laundryman stiff prices for slimsy
work.
What Hu the Clillilrrn DrlnkT
Don t givo them ten or coffee. Hivoyoti
tried tho new food drink called GLAIN-Of
It is delicious and nourishing, and takes tho
place of coffee. Tho more Gmin-O you give
the children the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain O is made of
pure grains, mid when properly prepared
tastes llko tho choice grades of coffee, but
| costs about >4 as much. All grocer* tell it.
15c und U5c.
Many a man has married a piece of
real estate, with a woman in the title
deed.
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