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    THE NORTHWESTERN.
BEKbCHOTKR * UIHSOX, Ediand Tab*
LOUP CITY, - - NEB.
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Japan la the country where the cre
mation of corpses is practiced on the
largest scale.. The custom dates back
about 1,200 years.
Canoe-building is one of the indus
tries of Kennebunkport, Me., which
used to build great ships, and even
now launches an occasional schooner.
A runaway horse in Denver the
other day finished a flight by landing
in the interior of a rapidly moving
trolley car, where he rode for nearly
a block before the vehicle could be
stopped.
There are six surviving governors ot
New York—Cornell, elected in 1879;
Cleveland, elected in 1882; Hill, first
elected in 1885; Morton, elected in
1894; Black, elected in 1896. and Roose
velt, elected in 1898. Three of the six,
after having been governor, attained
honors in the field of national polities
—Cleveland as president, Hill as sen
ator. and Roosevelt as vice president.
Mr. Justice Brown of the Supreme
court, once said, in addressing a class
of young lawyers, that a verdict of a
jury in a criminal case is a decision
not upon the question whether the
man on trial is guilty or not. but upon
the question whether he shall be pun
ished or not. An importaut distinc
tion. It shows the element of human
interest, independent of legal subtle
ties, which the jury system secures.
An atrocious murder was committed
recently at Puy-Saint Gulmier. near
Clermont-Ferrand. France.. A young
man of twenty-seven. named Jean
Baptiste Gometon. after shooting at
his father with a rifle, followed him
into the street, and in the presence
of the neighbors chopped off his head
with a hatchet. Jealousy was the
cause of the crime, as l>oth father
and son were in love with the same
woman.
An order lias been given for the
erection of a monument to Jennie
Wade on the battle field of Gettysburg.
Jennie Wade was a young Iowa wom
an who was visiting at the home of
her sister in Gettysburg when the bat
tle began. Her fiance was in the
Union army, and was killed.. She
and her sister were in a large brick
house almost within the Union lines.
On the morning of the third day word
came to the house that many of the
soldiers were suffering far want of
food, and the women set about mak
ing biscuits and bred for the soldiers.
Jennie was engaged in this task when
a musket ball went through the kitch
en, killing the young woman.
At the beginning of the new fiscal
year the pneumatic tubes which have
been employed in the postal service of
New York. Brooklyn, Philadelphia and
Boston went out of operation, and the
mail wagon has taken their place. This
looks like a step Backward. It is prob
ably only temporary. Congress seems
to have refused to continue the ap
propriation solely on account of its
unwillingness to foster a private
monopoly. Doubtless a pneumatic tube
service built ard owned by the gov
ernment will yet be established and
maintained in all large cities, although
several Ingenious rival contrivances
for doing the same work deserve con
sideration before a final decision is
made.
The Crandall toy works of Pennsyl
vania have bought a large tract of
lumber and mineral land in North
Georgia, a short distance from Chat
tanooga. The company is having a
railroad line built through the center
of this tract. In the centre of the
tract the company will erect a town
of its own. A large factory will he
built at this point, and houses for the
workmen. The town whl be built and
operated after the manner of Pull
man, 111. Surveyors are at work sur
veying branch lines of railroad
through the tract. Coal mines will be
opened and fuel and raw material will
he supplied in abundance to operate
one of the greatest toy concerns in
America.
A French writer, Henri Coupi.1, says
that the fact that, notwithstanding
their simplicity, the songs of the birds
cannot bo imitated with musical in
struments arises from the impossibil
ity of reproducing their peculiar
timbre. The notes of birds, while cor
responding with our musical t'cale.
also include vibrations occupying the
intervals between our notes. The dur
ation of birds' songs is usually very
short, two or three seconds for thushes
and chaffinches, four or five seconds
for blackcaps, but from two to five
minutes for the lark. Monsieur Cou
pin remarks that while one in every
ten species of European birds is tune
ful, the proportion diminishes to only
one in a thousand among the gor
geously clad birds of the tropics.
Mary Clark, who had spent most of
her 75 years in one of the cotton mills
of Manchester, N. H., died last week
as the result of the extreme heat. Miss
Clark was supposedto have had a little
money laid by, but a superficial search
brought to light only four |5 bills. In
looking about the room a policeman
picked up a pair of corsets. They were
suspiciously heavy, and he ripped them
open and found $S30. The money
weighed 3V>pounds. Miss Clark had
worn the 'orset In the mill every day,
being afraid to trust her savings to the
oanks
TALMAGE’S SEltilON.
FALSE NOTIONS ABOUT REAL
RELIGION CORRECTED.
“Of SpIrM Great Abundance; Neither
Wee There Any Such Spice a* the
Qneen of Sheba Gave King Solomon.''
II Chronicle* IX: 9.
[Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.]
Washington, Aug. 4.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage corrects come of
the false notions about religion and
represents it as being joy inspiring in
stead of dolorous. Text II. Chronk-les
ix., 9: “Of spices great abundance;
neither was there any such spice as
the queen of Sheba gave King Solo
mon."
What is that building out yonder
glittering in the sun? Have you not
heard? It is the house of the forest
of I,ebanon. King Solomon has just
taken to it his bride, the princess of
Egypt. You see the pillars of the por
tico and a great tower, adorned with
1,000 shields of gold hung on the out
side of the tower—500 of the shields of
gold manufactured at Solomon’s or
der, 500 were captured by David, his
father, in battle. See how they blaze
in the noonday sun!
Solomon goes up the Ivory stairs o'
his throne between twelve lions in
statuary and sits down on the back
of the golden bull, the head of the
huge beast turned toward the people.
The family and the attendants of the
king are so many that the caterers of
the palace have to provide every day
100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides
the birds and the venison. I hear
the stamping and pawing of 4,000 fine
horses in the royal stables. There |
were important officials who had
charge of the work of gathering the
straw and the barley for these horses.
King Solomon was an early riser, tra
dition says, and used to take a ride
out at daybreak, and when, in his
white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm and followed by !
mounted archers in purple, as the
cavalcade dashed through the streets
of Jerusalem I suppose it was some- ;
thing worth getting up at 5 o'clock in
the morning to look at.
Seatng for Oneaelf.
Queen Balkis was so pleased with
the acuteness of Solomon that she said.
“I’ll just go and see him for myself.”
Yondon it comes—the cavalcade—
horses and dromedaries, chariots and
charioteers, jingling harness and clat
tering hoofs and blazing shields and
flying ensigns and clapping cymbals.
The place is saturated with the per
fume. She brings cinnamon and saf
fron and calamus and frankincense
and all manner of sweet spices. As I
the retinue sweeps through the gate
the armed guard inhales the aroma.
"Halt!” cry the charioteers, as the 1
wheels grind the gravel in front of
the pillared portico of the king. Queen
Balkis alights in an atmosphere be
witched with perfume. As the drom
edaries are driven up to the king's
storehouses, and the bundles of cam
phor are unloaded, and the sacks of
cinnamon and the boxes of spices are
opened, the purveyors of the palace
discover what my text announces: “Of
spices, great abundance; neither was
there any such spice as the queen of
Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
Well, my friends, you know that all
theologians agree in making Solomon
a type of Christ and in making the
queen of Sheba a type of every truth
seeker, and I will take the responsi
bility of saying that all the spikenard
and cassia and frankincense which the
queen of Sheba brought to King Solo- ]
mon are mightily suggestive of the
sweet spices of our holy religion.
Christianity is not a collection of
sharp technicalities and angular facts
and chronological tables and dry sta
tistics. Our religion is compared to
frankincense and to cassia, but never
to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh.
It is a dash of holy light. It is a
sparkle of cool fountains. It is an
opening of opaline gates. It is a col
lection of spices. Would God that we
were as wise in taking spices to our
Divine King as Queen Balkis was wise
in taking the spices to the earthly Sol
omon.
Christ firing* i h«erfnines*.
How any woman keeps house with
out the religion of Christ to help her
is a mystery to me. To have to spend
the greater part of one's life, as many
women do, in planning for the meals
and stitching garments that will soon
be rent again and deploring breakages
and supervising tardy subordinates
and driving off dust that soon again
will settle and doing the same thing
day in and day out and year in and
year out until the hair silvers and the
back stoops and the spectacles crawl
to the eyes and the grave breaks open
under the thin sole of the shoe—oh. It
is a long monotony! Hut when Christ
comes to the drawing room and comes
to the kitchen and comes to the nur
sery and comes to the dwelling, then
how cheery become all womanly du
ties! She is never alone now. Martha
gets through fretting and joins Mary
at the feet of Jessus. All day long
Debora is happy because she can help
I-apidoth, Hannah because she can
make a coat for young Samuel, Miriam
because she can watch her infant
brother, Rachel because she can help
her father water the stock, the widow
of Sarepta because the cruse of oil
is being replenished. O woman, hav
ing in your pantry a nest of boxes con
taining all kinds of condiments, why
have you not tried In your heart and
life the spiccry of our holy religion?
"Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things, but one
thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen
that good part which shall not b ■ taken
away from her."
I must confess that a great deal of
the religion of this day is utterly in
sipid. There is nothing piquant or el
evating about it. Men and women go
around humming psalms In a minor
I key and cultivating melancholy, and
! their worship has in it more sighs
| than raptures. We do not doubt their
piety. Oh. no! But they are sitting at
I a feast where the cook has forgotten
to season the food. Everything is flat
in their experience and in their con
versation. Emancipated from sin and
death and hell and on their way to a
magnificent heaven, they act as though
they were trudging on toward an ever
lasting Botany Bay. Religion does not
seem to agree wdth them. It seems to
catch in the windpipe and become a
tight strangulation instead of an ex
hilaration. All the infidel books that
have been written, from Voltaire down
fo Herbert Spencer, have not done so
much damage to our Christianity as
lugubrious Christians.
rat In Mors Spire*.
I have to say also that we need to
put more spice and enlivenment in our
religious teaching, whether it be in the
prayer meeting or in the Sunday
school or in the church. We minis
ters ne.-d more fresh air and sunshine
in our lungs and our heart and our
head. Do you wonder that the world
is so far from being converted when
you find so litle vivacity in the pulpit
and in the pew? We want, like the
Lord, to plant in our sermons and ex
hortations more lilies of the field. We
want fewer rhetorical elaborations and
fewer sesquipedalian words, and when
we talk about shadows we do not want
tosayadumbration,and when we mean
queerness wo do not want to talk
about idiosyncrasies, or if a stitch in
the back we do not want to talk
about lumbago; but, in the plain ver
nacular of the great masses, preach
that gospel which proposes to make
all men happy, honest, victorious and
free. In other words, we want more
cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be
so in all the different departments of
work to which the Lord calls us. Let
us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let
us be common sensical. When we talk
to the people in a vernacular they can
understand, they will be very glad to
come and received the truth we present.
Would to God that Queen Balkis wrould
drive her spice laden dromedaries into
all our sermons and prayer meeting
exhortations!
More than that, we want more life
and spice in our Christian work. The
poor do not want so much to be
groaned over as sung to. With the
bread and medicines and garments you
give them let there be an accompani
ment of smiles and brisk encourage
ment. Do not stand and talk to them
about the wretchedness of their abode,
and the hunger of their looks, and the
hardness of their lot. Ah, they know
it better than you can tell them. Show
them the bright side of the thing, if
there be any bright side. Tell them
good times will come. Tell them that
for the children of God there is im
mortal rescue. Wake them up out of
their stolidity by an inspiring laugh,
and while you send in help, like the
queen of Sheba, also send in the
spices. There are two ways of meet
ing the poor. One is to come into their
house with a nose elevated in disgust,
as much as to say: ‘T don’t see how
you live here in this neighborhood. It
actually makes me sick. There is that
Dandle. Take it, you poor, miserable j
wretch, and make the most of it." An- i
other way is to go into the abode of 1
the poor in a manner which seems to j
say: ‘‘The blessed Lord sent me. He j
was poor himself. It is not more for
the good I am going to try to do you
than it is for the good that you can do
me.” Coming in that spirit, the gift
will be as aromatic as the spikenard
on the feet of Christ, and all the
hovels on that alley will be fragrant
with the spice.
Singing; at a Religion* Duty.
I promise a high spiritual blessing
to any one who will sing in church
and who will sing so heartily that the
people all around cannot help but sing.
Wake up, all the churches from Ban
gor to San Francisco and across
Christendom! It is not a matter of
preference. It is a matter of religious
duty. Oh, for fifty times more the
volume of sound than has ever yet
rolled up from our churches! Ger
man chorals in German cathedrals sur
pass us, and yet Germany has received
nothing at tne hands of God compared
with America. And ought the ac
claim in Germany be louder than that
of America? Soft, long drawn out
music is appropriate for the drawing
room and appropriate for the concert,
but St. John gives un idea of the
sonorous and resonant congregational"
singing appropriate for churches when
in listening to the temple service of
, heaven he says: “I hear a great
I voice as the voice of a great
i multitude, and as the voice of
j many waters, and as the voice of
mighty thunderings. Halleluiah, for
the Ixml God omnipotent reigneth!”
Join with me in a crusade, giving
mo not only your hearts, but the
mighty uplifting of your voices, and I
j believe we can through Christ’s grace
sing 5,000 souls into the kingdom of
i Christ. An argument they can laugh
j at, a sermon they may talk down, but
i a 5,000-voiced utterance of praise to
j God is Irresistible. Would that Queen
Balkis would drive all her spice-laden
dromedaries into our church music!
Tli« for Sorrow.
Why did you look so sad this morn
ing when you came in? Alas, for the
loneliness and the heartbreak and the
load that is never lifted from your
soul! Some of you go about feeling
like Macaulay when he wrote, “if I
had another month of such days as 1
have been spending, I would be im
patient to get flown into my little, nar
row crib in the ground, like a weary
factory child." And there have been
times in your life when you wished
you could get out of this lite. You
have said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips
would be the dust of the valley!” and
wished you could pull over you In your
iast slumber the coverlet of green
grass and daisies. You have said:
"Ob, how beautifully quiet it must be
in the tomb! I wish I was there.”
I see all around about me widow
hood and orphanage and childlessness;
sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If
I could ask all those in any audience
who have felt no sorrow and been buf
feted by no disappointment—if I could
ask all such to rise, how many would
rise? Not one.
A widowed mother, with her little
child, went west, hoping to get better
wages there, and she was taken sick
and died. The overseer of the poor
got her body and put it In a box and
put it in a wagon and started down the
street toward the cemetery at full
trot. The little child—the only child—
ran after it through the streets bare
headed, crying: "Bring me back my
mother! Bring me back my mother!”
And it was said that as the people
looked on and saw her crying after
that which lay In the box in the
wagon, all she loved on earth—It Is
said the whole village was in tears.
And that Is what a great many of you
are doing—chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all
this sorrow that I see about me? Yes;
the thought of resurrection and re
union far beyond this scene of strug
gle and tears. "They shall hunger no
more, neither tiiirst any more, neither
shall the sun light on them nor any
heat, for the Lamb which is In tha
midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes.” Across the couches of your
sick and across the graves of your
dead I fling this shower of sweet
spices. Queen Balkis, driving up t*J
the pillared portico of the house ot
cedar, carried no such pungency of per
fume as exhales to-day from the Lord’s
garden. It is peace. It is sweetness
The Mott Magnificent Temple*
Have you read of the Taj Mahal. In
India, in some respects the most ma
jestic building on earth? Twenty
thousand men were twenty years in
building it. It cost about $16,000,000.
The walls are of marble inlaid with
carnelian from Bagdad and turquoise
from Tibet and jasper from the Pun
jab and amethyst from Persia and all
manner of precious stones. A traveler
said that it seemed to him like the
shining of the enchanted castle of
burnished silver. The walls are 245
feet high, and from the top of these
springs a dome 30 more feet high, that
dome containing the most wonderful
echo the world has ever known, so
that ever and anon travelers standing
below with flutes and drums and harps
are testing that echo, and the sounds
from below strike tip, and then come
down, as it were, the voices of angels
all around about the building. There
is around it a garden of tamarind and
banyan and palm and all the floral
glories of the ransacked earth. But that
is only p. tomb of a dead empress, and
it is tame compared with the grand
eurs which God has butlded for your
living and immortal spirit.
Oh, home of the biessed! Founda
tions of gold! Arches of victory! Cap
stones of praise! And a dome in which
there are echoing and re-echoing the
halleluiahs of the ages! And around
about that mansion is a garden, the
garden of God. and all the springing
fountains are the bottled tears of the
church in the wilderness and all the
crimson of the flowers is the deep hue
that was caught up from the carnage
of earthly martyrdoms and the fra
grance is the prayer of all the saints
and the aroma puts into utter forget
fulness the cassia and the spikenard
and the frankincense and the world
renowned spices which Queen Balkis
of Abyssinia flung at the feet of King
Solomon.
When shall these eyes thy heaven
built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong.
And streets of shining gold?
1 --
Two I’nuenicer*’ Dlallke*.
A lady of a truly masculine spirit,
accompanied by a small poodle, is said
to have failed sadly the other day in
an attempted reformatory movement.
She entered the smoking car of a
suburban train and sternly refused,
when approached by the conductor, to
go into another car, observing that
her presence would keep the other oc
cupants from smoking. One thick
skinned wretch, however, insensible to
the claims of refinement and reform,
began to enjoy his accustomed cigar,
which was suddenly snatched from his
lips with the remark in a high treble:
“If there Is anything 1 do hate it Is
tobacco smoking!” For a time the
offender was motionless, then, gravely
rising, amid the curiosity of the as
sembled smokers, he took that little
pooole out of the lady's lap and gently
threw him through the window, sigh
ing: “If there is anything I do hate it
is a poodle.”— Chicago Tribune.
Cunglii n Freak Lobster.
Daniel Carpenter of the South Kerry
recently caught in one of his lobster
pots a freak lobster. While this crus
j tacean is of ordinary size and perfect
ly developed, one-lialf of the shell,
1 running down the back, from the cen
i ter of its head to its tail, is of a bril
' llant crimson and the other half of a
i brigh- green, while according to the
learned ones of Brown University who
! are making a study of tills species of
marine animals, similar specimens
have been found A lobster thus col
; ored was never before seen by old
fishermen In these waters.—Provi
dence Journal.
British lifeboat* save, on an aver
j age, 550 lives a year.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VII. AUG. 18; GENESIS
18; 16-33.
Golden Text—Thu HfTcctiml Horrent
Prayer of • Rlghteoua Man Avulleth
Much .la*. 3; IB—Abiahan'i Inter
eeaalou.
Place,—Abraham was In Hebron nl the
Oaks of Mamre, in the environs of the
city. Hot dwelt In Sodom.
Time.—About 15 years after the last
lesson. B. C. 1S97, according to t'ssher s
dating. Abraham was 99 years old. His
son Ishmael was 13 years old.
I. Two Oriental Scenes.—One day the
aged Abrgham, now 99 years old, was sit
ting In his tent door among the Oaks
of Mamre resting during the heat of the
day, when suddenly, looking up, he saw
three strangers near him. He immedi
ately went to them ana welcomed them
in the Oriental manner, and entertained
them with the utmost hospitality. It was
not long before he perceived, by what
they said and did. that they were angels,
and one of them was no less than thi
Angel of the Lord, who had In some way
appeared to him live times before. The
whole scene is primitive and Oriental,
and, in the words of Gelkle. "'presents a
perfect picture of the manner In which n
modern Beds wee Sheykh receives trav
elers arriving at his encampment.” "Ab
II. The Two Announcements of the
Angels.—The tlrst announcement was
that Sarah should have a son within a
year, who was to be the heir of the
promises, ana of the covenant with Abra
ham. The second was that God was
about to visit Sodom with some terrible
judgment on account of its wickedness.
But that was a neighbor of Abraham,
and he must have visited it and become
acquainted with some of its people
through Lot. But especially his beloved
Lot lived there, loved In spite of his fall
ings and imperfections, and he was ex
posed to destruction together with those
whose company he kept.
III. Abraham's Prayer for the Boomed
City.—Vs. 22-32. ”22. And the men turned
their faces from thence.” Two of tbe
three strangers to investigate the wicked
ness of Sodom. This is said to show In
vivid colors that God never punishes
rashly or unjustly. "Abraham stood yet
before the Lord" in the person of th ■
third angel.
"That passed between those pieces," as
the representative of God.
“18. In the same day.” At this very
time. "Tlie Lord made a covenant .with
Abram.” A solemn agreement or prom
ise on the Lord's part, and absolute faith
in it. acceptance of it on the part of
Abraham.
The Meaning of This Vision.—We un
derstand the meaning of tills vision only
when we know the ancient customs of
tlie blood covenant. The rites are known
to be very ancient. Its underlying form
is that of the mutual transfusion of
blood. Dr. Trumbull relates a case where
two young men entered into this coven
ant in this way; "One of the friends took
a sharp lancet and opened a vein in the
other's arm. Into the opening thus made,
he inserted a quill through which he
sucked the living blood." The sume was
done by the other. They thus became
friends closer than brothers, who must
guard, protect, and aid each other to tie
very utmost. By it each one "gives over
one’s very self or one's entire possessions
to another." It is like a true marriage
covenant, "their separate identity is lost
in a common life.” This covenant is
made in several different Kays. Some
times the blood of an animal sacrificed
is used as a substitute and type. This
must always be in the case of a covenant
with God. One form is that described In
the verses of the lesson. The two i>er
sons pass between the parted portions of
the animals. God was represented by the
burning lamp here. Dr. Abbott says,
"By some the division into two is sup
posed to represent the two parties to tip
covenant; and their passing between the
divided pieces to signify their union into
one. By others it is supposed that the
meaning of the ceremony, perhaps ex
pressed in words at the same time, was
In effect an Invocation or prayer tha;
the fate of the sacrificial beast hewn into
two pieces might fall upon whoever vio
lated the treaty and broke the promise."
Nothing could express more perfectly to
Abraham the divine assurance that the
promises should be fulfilled and that God
was his friend. It is most beautiful and
touching. It also bound Abraham to
serve God with all his heart, lie was
pledged to him Of course what find
could do under his covenant depended
upon Abraham's obedience. But he had
been tried again and again through a
long life, and It was now assured that he
would not fall.
Compare the covenant of blood In lh<
charnel house In I.alia Kookh, and tin
fiery cross dipped in blood In Hcntt'a l-ady
of the Lake.
IV. The Covenant Agreement.*-Bee
(Jen. 12: 2, 8. 7; 13: M-17. IS: 4-<i, IS; 17:
4-8; 22; 15-18. 1. Abraham should have a
chlhl and descendants, who should be
come a great nation. 2. These descend
ants should be as Innumerable as the
sands and the stars 3. They should pos
sess the land of Palestine. 4 He would
be their God, and they his people. HV
would bless them, protect them, train
them as a father trains his children. f>.
He would make them a blessing to all
nations, through all ages. Note (1 > the
gradual unfolding of these promises. They
grew larger as Abraham grew Iti faith
and character. Note (2) they were not
selfish promises. They began In Abra
ham, hut reached over the world. Note
(3) that there was to be a long period
of training before they could be complete
ly fulfilled. All efforts to make the. world
better suddenly like a flash of lightning
are necessarily failures, from the nature
of man. Note (4) that God made every
thing a reminder of the covenant, Ills
name, his person, the land, the dust, the
sand, the stars, his flocks, his altars—
every one spoke to him of his covenant
With (led.
V. Practical Lessons and Illustra
tions 1. God comes to us In our dark
times, the times of trial and sickness
anil loss and danger. These with God In
them are a training In faith and char
acter. How sweet the sunshine after the
storm, and the assurance that he is al
ways shining on the other side even dur
ing the darkness and storm! Character
grows by God's encouragements In the
trials of our faith, by earnest* believing,
by confirmations of faith, by religious
observances, by the everlasting covenant
with God.
Lithographic stone in Kentucky.
A deposit of lithographic stone has
been found near Mount Sterling, Ky.,
which Kugene Leary of the United
States geological survey, who had been
sent to examine it, says he would
rather own “than any gold mine he
ever heard of. There is no reason
why the quarry should not control the
market in this country. There is no
lithographic stone anywhere else, so
far as known, and there will he no
difficulty in competing with the Ger
man product.”
New l’hiee for Cor*«tl.
A Manila exchange tells of an Amer
ican soldier who, while stationed >n
Bulacan, became enamored of a pretty
Filipino. Wishing to show his affec
tion he purchased and sent to her a
complete outfit of American clothing.
When next he called he found her ar
rayed in all the pretty things, but she
had made one radical mistake. This
was with the corsets, which had caused
her a great deal of worry before she
discovered what she took to he tho
use for which they were Intended.
Then she unlaced them and put on tho
two pieces as leggings.
f>ay* It la a Business Proposition.
A millionaire shoe manufacturer is
going to leave his palace home and
occupy one of the plain cottages he is
ouiiding for his workingmen in the
model shoe manufacturing town he is
constructing at Endicott, N. Y. He
absolves himself from all philanthropic
measures and declares he is actuated
in securing ideal surroundings for his
laborers simply by the knowledge that
It will pay.
Women Trained as Sign Painters.
Women sign painters in Berlin un
dergo a regular apprenticeship. They
are first taught how to use the brush
and to mix paints. Gymnastic train
ing is a part of the course, so that tho
vumen may ascend scaffolding and
stand on ladders without losing their
nerve. The female painters wear gray
lined frocks and caps and look more
like hospital nurses than mistresses of
the brush.
It Pays to Kpiil Newspapers.
Cox, Wis., Aug. 5th.—Frank M. Rus
sell of this place had Kidney Disease
so badly that he could not walk. He
tried Doctor’s treatment and many
different remedies, but was getting
worse. He was very low.
He read in a newspaper how Dodd's
Kidney Pills were curing cases of Kid
ney Trouble, Bright's Disease, and
Rheumatism, and thought he would
try them. He took two boxes, and now
he is quite well. He says:
"I can now work all day, and not
feel tired. Before using Dodd's Kid
ney Pills I couldn't walk across the
floor.”
Mr. Russell’s is the most wonderful
case ever known in Chippewa County.
This new remedy—Dodd’s Kidney
Pills—is making some miraculous
cures in Wisconsin.
Ilenudry*s Rich Find.
James Beaudry, a Minneapolis man,
bought from a Russian in Ha'ifax five
years go a curious, rough stone of a
reddish hue. Acting on a recent hint,
ho sent the stone to this city, and
cutters here developed ten fine Si
berian rubies worth J75 per carat.
good housekeepers
(*se the bent,. That s why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents.
Enthusiasm will lead a man to do
things that common sense could not
drive him to attempt.
PIso'g Cure cannot be too highly spoken of ag
a cough cure.— J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave.,
N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0, I AW.
In India and Persia sheep are used
as beasts of burden.
y,TS Perm.nenCjr tureo. NoCt* nrn«nronim.«j»f*«* '
<i»v » >!.*« of Or. Kline « (ireat Nerve Kentmer.
Semi for FREE *2.00 trial bottle ami treatl«o.
1IB. K. H. Kline. LtU.,831 Arch St., IhiltUeUihit. Pfc.
Our vices are like our nails: even
as we cut them they grow again.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-eent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
New York has now 60,000 telephone
stations.
Hail'd Catarrh Cor®
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c.
Ice melts at 32 degrees, water boils
at'212,
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
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DDJri*l/IHC Burns, Sores and all Pain.
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It Cures Through the Pores Send You a Trial ll tJo.
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SCALE AUCTION
BIDS BY MAIL. YOUR OWN PRICf.
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PATENTS MiMNiiip
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Si LAWRENCE, 315 Hamer Building.Omaha. Neb.
H. J. I’owgtll. Hepre.enlailve. Bat'd at Waahliigti.il
D.C., 1861. Uaeful Uuhle Bunk oil I'atemg FREE.
SOZQBONT Tooth Powder 25c
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Mention This Taper.
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