Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NORTHWESTERN.
BENMCIIOTER B OIBSON, Ediul Fob*
LOUP CITY, • » NEB.
Five brothers named Backes live in
Trenton, N. J. All are lawyeri en
joying lucrative practice, and not one
of them had more than a grammar
school education. Their father died
In 1874, leaving a widow and six boys,
the eldest of whom was but 14 years
old.
A miscellaneous Item to the effect
that Joseph Fritz of Byron, Mich., was
president of the Epworth League there
and also a bartender in his father's
saloon is denied. The young man is a
consistent member of the Methodist
church and does not tend bar; al
though he boards at home, which is
above his father's saloon. He holds no
office in the Epworth League.
A new division of seagoing torpedo
boats has been added to the German
navy. The vessels are five in number
and are from the same type as these
lately sent for service in Chinese wat
ers. Each has a displacement of 350
tons, with a crew of fifty men, an arm
ament of three torpedo tubes and five
quick-firing 2-inch guns. The boats are
capable of steaming twenty-six to
twenty-seven knots an hour, and each
can carry 100 tons of coal.
It is a fact worth bearing in mind
that whenever news is scarce in Wash
ington the correspondents are sure to
set afloat one or two rumors; that an
extraordinary session of Congress is
to be called, or that some member of
the cabinet is about to retire. Matter
for a second dispatch is furnished by a
denial of the rumor. A knowledge of
this device will enable readers to esti
mate the probable truth of these ru
mors when they first make their ap
pearance.
A Maryland judge has judicially af
firmed one of woman’s rights, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. If a woman
finds her husband loitering around the
streets, she has a right to order him
home, where his presence is wanted,
and to push, shove or otherwise use so
much force as is necessary to make
him obey. This is an especially in
disputable right, according to the
learned court of Hagerstown, Md.,
where the loitering husband is found
in company with another woman.
The author of "The Kidnapped Mil
lionaires,” the latest novel to attract
general attention, is Frederick Upham
Adams, an inventor of some note. He
recently built a railroad train which
shattered all records from a mile to
one hundred miles. It was built to
avoid atmospheric resistance, and was
popularly known as the “cigar-shaped
train” or the “wind-splitter.” Between
Washington and Baltimore this train
of seven cars attained the remakable
speed of 103 miles an hour.
Dorothy Talbert, colored, 104, who
now lives in Atchison, for many years
was a slave in Clay county. Mo. Mrs,
Talbert was originally owned by a Vir
ginia family, but she was sold before
the civil war to Fountain Waller of
Liberty. Clay county, together with her
five children. The Virginia man who
sold them afterward bought hack Hes
ter, one of the children and she is still
on his plantation, and is herself a
great-grandmother. Mrs, Talbert lives
alone, and tends her garden beside do
ing her own work. Mrs. Conway, her
daughter, who died a few years ago,
although 61, was the old lady’s "baby,’’
and she feels the loss keenly.
Western apples sent to the New
York market last season afford new
proof of the importance of packing
goods In the best way. In the ordinary
New York flat there is seldom room
for a barrel of apple3, nor would fruit
bought In such quantity keep until
used. On the other hand apples pur
chased by the dozen or the peck are
expensive. Western growers who act
ed upon tills knowledge were well paid.
]>ast year they shipped their apples to
New York in boxes. They were sold
at barrel rates, and the boxes were
'Dnveniently kept on the fire escapes
until freezing weather. Two hundred
and fifty thousand boxes were sold last
winter, and this year the number will
be still larger.
The rights of a striking workman
were clearly and concisely stated the
other day by a New York magistrate
who was hearing a case of assault.
"You may work for whom you please,”
he said, “as long as you please, and
leave whenever you please. If you ran
do better or get more money, you have
a perfect right to do so. But every
other man has the same right to sell
his labor for what he S'es fit. to
work as many hours as he pleases, and
to accept whatever compensation lias
been agreed upon between him and his
employer. The law does not permit
you to Interfere with him.” If every
striker would keep this simple state
ment in mind, labor troubles would at
least be free from vio’ence.
One may sympathize with the writer
of a letter lately published in the
Ixmdon Times, and yet not be able to
repress a smile. “I recently attempted
to alight from one of the new Ameri
can tram-cars.” writes this indignant
Englishman. "I am sure that I used
the utmost care, yet I was thrown
nearly thirty feet!” Evidently the
poor man had never before ridden on
a street car which moved fast enough
to make it unsafe to alight while the
car was in motion. One is led to think
that the plan to give London real
rapid transit is succeeding.
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
FINANCIAL PANICS THE SUB
JECT LAST SUNDAY.
From the Seventeenth diopter of Jere
miah. Verse II—The Refinement* of
Life and Fnneceesary Erpeueee of the
Unma nod F»mllj“”LlTt Economically.
Copyright, 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.
Washington, July 14. In this dis
course Dr. Talmage shows the causes
of great financial disturbances which
take place every few years and ar
raigns the people who live beyond
their means; text. Jeremiah xvii, 11,
"As the patridge sltteth on eggs and
hatcheth them not, so he that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days and at
his end shall be a fool."
Allusion is here made to a well
known fact in natural history. If a
patridge or a quail or a robin brood
the eggs of another species, the young
will not stay with the one that happen
ed to brood them, but at the first op
portunity will assort with their own
species. Those of us who have been
brought up in the country have seen
the dismay of the farmyard hen, hav
ing brooded aquatic fowls, when af
ter awhile they tumble Into their nat
ural element, the water. So my text
suggests that a man may gather under
his wings the property of others, but
it will after awhile escape. It will leave
the man in a sorry predicament and
make him feel very silly.
Extravagance Ctu»m Ruin.
What has caused all the black days
of financial disasters for the last 60
years? Some say it is the credit sys
tem. Something back of that. Some say
it is the spirit of gambling ever and
anon becoming epidemic. Something
back of that. Some say it is the sudden
shrinkage in the value of securities,
which even the most honest and intel
ligent men could not have foreseen.
Something back of that. I will give you
the primal cause of all these disturb
ances. It is the extravagance of modern
society which impels a man to spend
more money than he can honestly
make, and lie goes into wild specula
tion in order to get the means for in
ordinate display, and sometimes the
man is to blame and sometime his wife
and oftener both. Five thousand dol
lars income, $10,000, $20,000 income, is
not enough for a man to keep up the
style of living he proposes, and there
fore he steers his bark toward the |
maelstrom. Other men have suddenly
snatched up $50,000 or $100,000. Why
r<Jt ho? The present income of the man
not being large enough, he must movo
earth and hell to catch up with his
neighbors. Others have a country seat;
jo must he. (Others have an extrava
gant caterer; so must he. Others have
a palatial residence; so must he.
Extravagance is the cause of all the
defalcations of the last 60 years, and, if (
you will go through the history of all
the great panics and the great financial
disturbances, no sooner have you
found the story than right back of it
you will find the story of how many
horses the man had. how many car
riages the man had, how many resi
dences in the country the man had,
how many banquets the man gave—al
ways, and not one exception for the
last 60 years, either directly or indi
rectly extravagance the cause.
The Refinement* of IJfe.
N’ow for the elegances and the re
finements and the decorations of life.
I cast my vote. While 1 am consider
ing this subject a basket of flowers is
handed in—flowers paradisiacal in
their beauty. White calla with a green
background of begonia. A cluster of
heliotropes nestling in some geranium.
Sepal and perianth bearing on them
the marks of God's finger. When I see j
that basket of flowers, they persuade j
me that God loves beauty and adorn- 1
ment and decoration. God might have
made the earth so as to supply the j
gross demands of sense, but left it !
without adornment or attraction. In- I
stead of the variegated colors of the j
seasons the earth might have worn an ,
unchanging dull brown. The tree
might have put forth its fruit without j
the prophecy of leaf or blossom. N'ia- !
gara might have come down in gradual I
descent without thunder and winged ,
spray.
Look out of your window any morn
ing after there lias been a dew and see
whether God loves Jewels. Put a crystal
of snow under a microscope and see
what God thinks of architecture. God
commanded the priest of olden time to
have his robe adorned with a wreath
of gold and the hem of his garment to
be embroidered in pomegranates. The
earth sleeps, and God blankets it with
the brilliants of the night sky. The
world wakes, and God washes It from
the burnished laver of the sunrise. So
1 have not much patience with a man
who talks as though decoration and
adornment and the elegances of life are
a sin when they are divinely recom
mended. But there is a line to be
drawn between adornment and decora
tions that we can afford and those we
cannot afford, and when a man crosses
the line he becomes culpable. 1 cannot
tell you what is extravagant for you
You cannot tell me what is
extravagant for me. What is
right for a queen may be
squandering for a duchess. What may
be economical for you, a man with
larger income, will be wicked waste
for me. with smaller income. There is
no iron rule on this subject. Every
man before God and on his knees must
Judge what is extravagance, and when
a man goes into expenditures beyond
his means he is extravagant.
Meeting Oue'ii Obligation*.
Of course sometimes men are flung
of misfortunes and they cannot, pay. i
know men who are just as honest in
having failed as other men are honest
In succaedlng. I suppose there Is hardly
a man who has gone through life but
there havo been some times when he
has been so hurt of misfortune he
could not meet bis obligations, but all
that I put aside. There are a multi
tude of people who buy that which
they never intend to pay for. for which
there is no reasonable expectation they
will ever be able to pay. Now, if you
have become oblivious of honesty and
mean to defraud, why not save the
merchant as much as you can? Why
not go some day to his store and when
nobody is looking just shoulder a ham
or the spareib and in modest silence
steal away? That would be less crim
inal, because in the other way you
take not only the man's goods, but you
ta*e the time of the merchant and the
time of his accountant, and you take
the time of the messenger who brought
you the goods. Now. if you must steal,
steal in a way to do as little damage
to the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose in the Ameri
can senate when a question of national
finance was being discussed, and,
stretching himself to his full height,
in a shrill voice he cried out, "Mr.
Chairman, I have discovered the phil
osopher's stone, which turns every
thing into gold—pay as you go!" So
ciety has got to be reconstructed on
this subject or the seasons of defalca
tion will continue to repeat themselves.
You have no right to ride in a carriage
for which you are hopelessly in debt to
the wheelwright who furnished the
landau, and to the horse dealer who
provided the blooded span, and to the
harness maker who ceprisoned the gay
steeds, and to the liveryman who has
provided the stabling, and to the driv
er, who, with rosetted hat, sits on the
coach box.
Oh, I am so glad it is not the abso
lute necessities of life which send peo
ple out into dishonesties and fling
them into misfortunes, it is almost
always the superfluities. God has
promised us a house, but not a palace;
raiment, but not chinchilla; food, but
not canvasback duck. 1 am yet to see
one of these great defalcations which
is not connected in some way with
extravagance.
Extravagance accounts for the dis
turbance of national finances. Aggre
gations are made up of units, and
when one-half of the people of this
country owe the other half how can
we expect financial prosperity? Again
and again at the national election we
have had a spasm of virtue, and we
said, "Out with one administration
and in with another and let us have
a new deal of things and then we will
gel over our perturbation." I do not
care who is president or who is sec- 1
retary of the treasury or how much !
breadstuffs go out of the country or j
how much gold is imported until wi
learn to pay our debts and it becomes J
a general theory in this country that ,
men must buy no more than they can J
pay for. Until that time comes there !
will be no permanent prosperity. Look
at the pernicious extravagance. Take
the one fact that New York every j
year pays $3,000,000 for theatrical |
amusements. While once in a while a i
Henry Irving or an Edwin Booth or a
Joseph Jefferson thrills a great audi
ence with tragedy, you know as well
as 1 do that the vast majority of the
theaters are as debased as debased they
can be. as unclean as unclean they can
be and as damnable as damnable they
can be. Three million dollars, the vast
majority of those dollars going in the
wrong direction.
Harmful amt l'nneoe»sary Expense.
Over a hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco a year.
About $2,000,000,000 paid for strong
drink in one year in this country.
With such extravagance, pernicious
extravagance, can there be any perma
nent prosperity? Business men, tool
headed business men, is such a thing a
possibility? These extravagances a'so
account, as I have already hinted, for
the positive crimes, the forgeries, the
| abscondingsof the officers of the banks,
i The store on the business street
j swamped by the residence on the fa.sh
j ionable avenue. The father's, the hus
i band's craft capsized by carrying too
1 much domestic sail. That is what
j springs the leak in the merchant's
I money till. That, is what cracks the
j pistols of the suicides. That is what
| tears down the banks. That is what
j stops insurance companies. 1 hat is
j what halts this nation again and again
in its triumphal march of prosperity.
! In the presence of the American peo
ple so far as I can get their attention
i I want to arraign this monster curs®
j of extravagance, and I want you to pelt
j it with your scorn and hurl at it your
anathema.
How many fortunes every year
| wrecked on the wardrobe. Things
I have got to such a pass that when we
cry over our sins in church we wipe
the tears away with a $150 pocket
handkerchief! I show you a domestic
; tragedy in five acts:
J Act the first—A home, plain and
beautiful. Enter newly married pair.
Enter contentment. Enter as much
i happiness as ever gets in one home.
Act the second—Enter discontent.
| Enter desire for larger expenditure.
; Enter envy. Enter jealousy.
Act the third—Enter the queenly
dress-makers. Enter the French mil
liners. Enter all costly plate and all
great extravagances.
Act the fourth—Tiptop of society.
Princes and princesses of upper ten
dom floating in and out. Everything
on a large and magnificent scale. En
ter contempt for other people.
Act the fifth and last. Enter the as
signee. Enter the* sheriff. Enter ttie
creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter
the wrath of God. Enter the contempt
of society. Enter ruin and death.
Now drop the curtain. The play is
ended and the lights are out.
I called it a tragedy. That is a mis
nomer. It Is a farce.
Providing for One'* Own.
I know »* cuts close. I did not
know but some of you in h.’gh dudgeon
would get up and go out. You stand It
well! Some of you make a gri&t
swash in lif«, and after awhile you
will die, and ministers will be sent
for to come and stand Wy your coffin
and lie about your excellences. But
they will not come. If you send for
me, 1 will tell you what my text will
be: “He that provideth not for his
ow’n, and especially for those of his
own household, is worse than an in
fidel.” And yet we find Christian men,
men of large means, who sometimes
talk eloquently about the Christian
church, and about civilization, expend
ing everything on themselves and
nothing on the cause of God, and they
crack the back of their Palais Royal
glove in trying to hide the one cent
they put into the laird's treasury.
Whtrt an apportionment! Twenty thou
sand dollars for ourselves and one
cent for God. Ah, my friends, this ex
travagance accounts for a great deal of
what the cause of God suffers.
And the desecration goes on. even to
the funeral clay. You know very well
that there are men who die solvent,
but the expenses are so great before
they get underground they are insol
vent. There are families that go into
penury in wicked response to the de
mands of tills day. They put in cas
ket and tombstone that which they
ought to put In bread.
tsod'A CauAo XinpOYrrUlifKl.
And then look how the cause of God
is impoverished. Men give so much
sometimes for their indulgences they
have nothing for the cause of God and
religion. Twenty-two million dollars
expended in this country a year for
religious purposes! But what are the
twenty-two millions expended for re
ligion compared with the hundred mil
lions expended on cigars and tobac
co and then two thousand millions of
dollars spent for rum? So a man who
had a fortune of $750,000 or what
amounted to that, in London spent It
all in indulgences, chiefly in gluttonies,
and sent hither and yon for all the
delicacies and often had a meal that
would cost $100 or $200 for himself.
Then he was reduced to a guinea, with
which he bought a rare bird, had it
cooked in best style, ate it, took two
hours for digestion, walked out on
Westminster bridge and jumped into
the Thames—on a large scale what
men are doing on a small scale.
Oh, my friends, let us take our stand
against the extravagances of society.
Do not pay for things that are frlvo
j ions when you may lack the neces
| sities. Do not put one month's wages
or salary into a trinket, just one trink
I et. Keep your credit good by seldom
tasking for any. Pay! Do not starve
a w hole year to afford one Belshazzar's
carnival. Do not buy a coat of many
colors and then in six months bo out
at the elbows. Flourish not, as some
people I have known, who took apart
ments at a fashionable hotel, and had
elegant drawing rooms attached and
then vanished in the night, not even
leaving their compliments for the land
lord. I tell you, my friends, in the
day of God's judgment we will not
only have to give an account for the
way wc made our money, but for the
way we spent it. We have got to leave
all the things that surround us now.
Alas.if any of you in the* dying hour
felt like the dying actress who asked
that the casket of jewels be brought to
her and then turned them over with
her pale hand and said, “Alas, that I
have to leave you so soon!" Better
in that hour have one treasure of heav
en than the bridal trousseau of a
Marie Antoinette or to have been s at
ed with Caligula at a banquet which
cost its thousands of dollars or to have
been carried to our last resting place
with senators and princes as pallbear
ers. They that consecrate their wealth,
their time, their all, to God shall be
held in everlasting remembrance, while
I have the authority of this book for
announcing that the name of the
wicked shall rot.
SOUP AND STOCKS.
Omens Which Warning to a Heavy
Speculator.
A New Yorker in London during the
recent time of excitement on the stock
exchange attributes his fortunate is
sue from a series of heavy speculations
to an incident that was connected
with nothing more occult and super
natural than a plate of soup. He
was at dinner when the recent crisis
was at its height. The soup was vermi
celli. with the customary letters
floating in it. In the conversation the
New Yorker was contending against
the general argument that the existing
high prices were not likely to decline
but rested on a business basis which
made it certain they would be main
- tained. He was lifting the spoon to
his lips after a very spirited utterance
on the subject, when he saw that the
four letters in his spoon sp it the
word "Sell.'’ lie is not a superstitious
! man. but the incident set him think
I ing. He swal'owed the omen with
; out mentioning it. He continued to
eat, and the party confined its talk
chiefly to the condition of the stock
market in this city. When he dipped
! his spoon in the soup for the last
; mouthful, the New York op rator
I saw that only six of the flour letters
i remained in the plate, but they spelt
j the word "Unload.” This coincidence
i was too much even for the doubting
stock broker, who excused himself
from the table and went to the cable
. office of the hotel. He sent word to
his broker to close out all his rail
I road holdings, and the difference in
■ time brought the message here for
the opening of the market on the
day of the panic. His broker followed
his directions, and he came out a
heavy winner. It is not surprising
th** his favorite soup is now vermi
celli. especially when he is operating
heavily in stocks.—New York Sun.
TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON IV.. JULY 28-GENESIS.
12: 1-9.
Golden Text: "I Will Bless Thee mid
Make Thy Name Greats and Thou
Miatt He a Blessing -God Calls Abra
ham—Gen. 12:2.
Time.— According to Vssher's dates In
the margins of our Bibles, Abraham was
born A. M. (year of the world) 2008, or
B C. 1886, almost exactly half-way be
tween Adam and Christ, 352 years after
the flood. He migrated when 70 years
old, B. C, 1826, and entered Canaan live
years later, 1821.
Places.—(1) Cr of the Chaldees. The
ruins o. this city, called Mugheir, are six
miles west of the Euphrates, near where
1* Is connected with the Tigris, about 120
miles above Its entrance Into the Persian
Uulf. and 120 miles southeast of Babylon.
I. The Four Centuries After the Flood.
— We pass over four centuries (427 years),
before we come to the next great epoch
in the religious history of the world.
1 mrlng this time great progress had been
made. The new race started on a much
higher plane than the former one. They
had learned many lessons from the old
world. They had seen the effects of sin.
They had records of God's dealings in
the past. They stood on the plane of
civilization and Invention attained before
the flood, but with better purposes and
uses.
1. The world was populated in three
different lines by the three sons of Noah:
Shem, from whom were derived the Jews
and other Semitic races; Ham. the ances
tor of the colored race; and Japhot,
among whose descendants are the Euro
pean nations. To these three the diverse
taces and the languages of men con
verge, as rays of light to their source.
2. The diversity of language began or
vvns depleted by the confusion of tongues
at Babel, near the- present site of Baby
lon. "an act which did not indeed shatter
the one primitive language into many
complete languages, but into the begin
nings of many." "an Impulse of the nat
ural development of languages.”—De
litxsch. There are more than three thou
sand languages and dialects in the world,
although the leading languages are less
than three hundred. The Bible. In whole
or in part. Is translated into more than
four hundred, including all the principal
ones. The diversity of language gave the
ugpui tunny iui many uuiemu develop
ments of civilization and language, so
that finally there will come one language
which shall include the best things in
all. It made, us it were, a fence and de
fense around Abraham and the new re
ligious development. The gift of Pente
cost was the reverse of Babel, a symbol
of a better day when all men shall be
brothers again, and as the world grows
better the unity becomes more possible.
See the progress by comparing Gen. 11.
Aits 2, and Rev. 7:9, 10.
3. The Dispersion. The people began to
scatter widely. They early went as
widely apart as Chaldea and Egypt,
working out the problems of government
and civilization in many independent
ways. The best progress is made in this
way in almost every department.
4. We have a brief story of the ances
try of Abraham.
It. Abraham and His Early Life.—1.
Ills name, “Abram,'' in Hebrew means
exalted father, or Ram (the lofty one) is
father.—Ryle. Afterwards changed to
Abraham, Father of a multitude. "The
name 'Abram.' Abu-r&rnii, the exulted
father, is found in early Babylonian con
tracts. “—Professor Sayee. 2. Ills father's
name was Terah, a descendant of Shem.
Abraham was the tenth generation from
Noah. 3. He was born in I'r of th >
Chaldees (see Place) B. ('. 1996, two years
after the death of Noah. 4 He hud two
brothers, Nahor and Haran He married
his half-sister Sarah at Cr. Abraham
had no children before he entered Ca
naan, but he adopted his nephew I-ot,
after the death of his father Haran. 5.
He lived in I'r till tie was 70 years old.
1. In Abraham's time the city of L'r,
though now over one hundred miles from
the sea. was on the shores of the Per
sian Gulf. Abraham, no doubt, often
walked upon the sands of tin- seashore,
lo which the number of his descendants
was compared. The city was a great
maritime emporium, a walled town, with
a high civilization and a large commerce,
situated in “a marvelously rich country,
said to be the original home of the wheat
plant, and famous for Its dales and other
fruits.’’—R. Payne Smith.
III. The Call of Abraham.—Vs. 1-3. 1.
"Now the tail'd'" (Jehovah) “had said."
(Omit had with R. V.) The passage is a
general statement of the reasons whV
Abraham emigrated to another country.
“Get thee out of thy country . unto
n land that I will show thee.” lie did
not tell him just where he wanted him to
go, but would guide him. and show him
the wny as he went along.
IV. The First Pilgrim Father.—Vs. 4,
.9 From Hie last chapter we learn that
Abraham left I'r witli his parents, Ills
wife, his brothers, and his nephew. The
Journey was atmut live hundred miles.
Haran was a large commercial city. "A
native of Cr would have found himself
more nt home in Haran than in any other
city of the world."—Sayce. For some un
known riason Abraham and his com
pany remained at Haran for a number of
years Instead of going on to Canaan.
But Abraham did not know that he was
going to Canaan (Acts 7:3; lleb. 11:8).
Tlte statement in 11:31 that he was going
to the land of Canaan means that tills
was the divine purpose, and not that It
was Abraham's plan. He remained In
Haran till after his father T* rail's death,
and then the Lord showed him that ho
was not yet at the end of his Journey.
V. Vailed Experiences.—Vs. (i-9. 8
"Passed through." He entered on tin
north and w . nt toward the south.
"Sichem." Between Mts. Ebal and Gerl
zltn. "Plain of Merer.” rather the "oak
(or oak grov e) of Moreli," In Shechem.
Difficulties. “And the Canaantte was
, . . in the land." Another race, that
of Ham, and still more idolatrous than
ttic people of I'r, who were descendants
of Shem.
This statement In the text is made to
show (1) the seeming difficulties In the
way of God's fulfilling Ids promise; (2t
lienee the greatness of Abraham s faith:
(3) the reason why God again appeared
to him to encourage his faith; (4) the
reason why Abraham moved on.
God tries faith to increase it. It is
strengthened by tile winds that blow
upon it. as an oak on the hillside becomes
deep-rooted and tough-fibered.
lit* l>lt» of Trot*.
Trees are queer things. In summer
they wear all their clothes and in win
ter they keep them in their trunks.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Fireworks to the value of $.'(0,000
were shipped to Austria and other
points on the route of the duke and
duchess of Cornwall and York, to be
used in celebrating the visit of the
royal tourists.
A Cincinnati man who recently ob
tained a divorce after his wife had
compelled him to cook, scrub floors
and dodge occasional bullets, has been
awarded alimony in the sum of $43 a
year.
I
One Snip Anchored on Another.
, It is not usual for a ship on the
high seas to elect to cast anchor on
the deck of a passing steamer; but
that Is what a four masted schooner
did recently In the Atlantic. The two
vessels grazed in the fog. and tho
■‘catted” port anchor of the schooner
CAught In the steamer's deck “by a
fluko.” It fastened to an engineer’*
state room in such a manner as ta
bar his exit, but fortunately the chain
parted Just as the room was being
ripped into fragments. The schooner
followed the steamer to ita destination
to recover her anchor.
Her I.aodsblo Ambition,
Colonel G. B. M. Harvey, the pub
lisher, tells of meeting tho young
bride of a well known Kentucky fam
ily, who said: “I'm glad to meet you,
because I’m thinking of writing a
book.” "Of what sore?” asked the
colonel. “Oh,” was tho answer,
"something like 'Lcs Mistrables,' only
more lively.”
lion He Headed Off Sharpshooter).
William K. Vanderbilt. Jr., does not
Intend that Idlo Hour, his new home
at Oakland, L. I., shall be photo
graphed without his permission. He
has accordingly had pictures taken
from every possible point and copy
righted the results.
Couldn't Work HlnJ for a ''Temple."
A civil engineer employed in Salt
Lake City received recently from tho
cashier at the works at which he had
been engaged his first week’s wages,
less 10 per cent. He asked why, hav
ing worked a full week at agreed ^
rate, there should be any deduction.
“It's the tithe for the Temple," was
the answer, and on further inquiry if
appeared that it was usual in Salt
Lake City for every citizen or work
man to pay over to the elders a sum
representing a tithe, or 10 per cent of
his earnings or gains. The engineer
said that he knew nothing about the
Temple or the elders, and that he
cared less. He added that he would
have his full pay or know the reason
why. “Oh, it's entirely optional,”
said the cashier, pushing over the bal
ance.
Wo tderfvl (a«« In Indlons*
Buck Creek, Ind., July 15th—Mrs.
Elizabeth Rorick ‘of this place had
Rheumatism. She says: “All the doc
tors told me they could do nothing for
me.” She was very, very bad, and
the pain was so great she could not
6leep at night.
She used Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and
she is well and entirely free from pain
or any symptom of the Rheumatism.
“Are you still using Dodd's Kidney
Pills?’’ was asked.
“No, I stopped the use of the Pills
some time ago. and have not had the
slightest return of my old trouble. I
nm sure I am completely and perma
nently cured.”
Many in Tippecanoe County who
have heard of Mrs. Rorick's ease and
her cure by Dodd's Kidney Pills, are
using the Pills, and all report won
derful results.
Royal FUtol Shot.
King George of Greece lias lately
taken up pistol practice as an amuse
ment and is developing a considerable
talent in that direction, so that he ^
was able in a recent tournament to
defeat some of the best shots in the
kingdom.
NEW EQUIPMENT FOK THE WAIJASH.
Effective July 10th. The Wabash is
placing the first of the large order of
equipment, consisting of twe baggage,
8 combination pasenger ard baggage,
30 coaches. 10 chair cars, 3 cafe cars
and 2 dining cars into service. The
trains running from Chicago leaving at
11:00 a. m., 3:03 p. m., 9:15 p. in. and
11:00 p. m., respectively, will carry
this new equipment. Much comment
has been made upon the elegant broad
vestibule chair cars in this service. Iu
addition to this extra equipment, the
Pan-American Special, running be
tween St. Kouis and Buffalo, leaves St.
Louis at 1:00 p. rn., arriving at Buffalo
8:20 a. m. Returning, leaves Buffalo
1:30 p. m., arrives St. Louis 7:56 a. m.
This train has been equipped with the
large broad vestibule chair cars and
cafe library and observation cars,
something entirely new, an innovation
in the passenger service.
It is one of the unsolved mysteries
how two men can exchange umbrellas
and each invariably get t he worst of
It.
Busephaius, the horse of Alexander,
hath as lasting fame as his master.
Teach your child to hold his tongue;
he’ll learn to speak fast enough. ^
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W. N. U.—OMAHA No. 29—1901
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