Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NORTHWESTERS.
BENSCIIOTER A OIUMON, Ed*and I*oS>a
LOUP CITY, • • NEB.
The inhabitants of the province of
Ontario write more letters than those
of all the rest of Canada.
The Jersey mosquitoes are playful,
compared with those of North Caro
lina. A minister of that state, while
traveling with *• ahild in Hyde Coun
ty, found the mosquitoes so rapacious
that he had to put the child's head in
a paper sack to keep the insects from
devouring it alive.
Can a man live without his stom
ach? This question has been decided
affirmatively by Karl Kruger, a Chi
cago gardener. Four months ago, be
cause of cancer, his stomach was re
moved by an expert surgeon. Then
he weighed 96 pounds; now he weighs
160, and is still taking on flesh.
Charles Ball, of Albion. Mich., be
lieved that he could take poison with
V out serious effect. He swallowed
/ twenty-five grains of morphine, and m
a little while he vomited it. This
demonstration so pleased him that he
thought even a pistol shot would not
harm him. Aiming a revolver at his
temple he fired. That was Mr. Bell's
last mistake in this life.
A pair of Kansas lovers the other
day went to Iowa to escape the law
which forbids the marriage of first
cousins. The same day in a Kansas
town a couple from Colorado took ad
vantage of a Kansas law which per
mits a divorced person to marry after
the lapse of six months. These cases
led the Kansas City Journal to sug
gest that the states send ambassadors
to each other,with power to negotiate
treaties through which uniformity in
marriage laws might be secured.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
calls attention to the fact that the
United States treasury now holds in
round figures $510,000,000 in gold,
which is the largest accumulation of
the yellow metal anywhere in the
world at present. Not all of this, how
ever. is actually at the disposal of the
treasury, only $64,000,000 being includ
ed in its current cash assets. The sum
of $150,000,000 is by the present law
held in the redemption fund, which
the treasury must hold against the
outstanding greenbacks and United
States notes, while the balance of
$296,000,000 is on deposit only, and is
represented by gold certificates in cir
culation.
Old Home Week is not confined to
New England. Nevertheless the re
cent gathering of "old settlers" to
commemorate Colorado's silver wed
ding to the Union had novel features.
Three months’ sojourn in Colorado,
for instance, entitled ope to become a
pioneer. During the celebration a co
ossal statute of Lieutenant Zebulon
Pike was unveiled at Colorado Springs.
Dressed In the military costume ol
1806, he is represented standing on
Cheyenne Mountain looking away to
ward the greater mountain which
bears his name. Is he wondaring, per
chance, as he watches frequent train#
lifting passengers up the once in ac
cessible slopes, how “Pike’s Peak or
Bust!" was ever synonymous with su
preme courage and endurance?
Among the curios in the postoflice
department exhibit at Buffalo are the
postoflice ledger of Benjamin Frank
lin; the report of the committee of
United States senate on the transpor
tation of mails on Sunday; a postal
card which traveled around the world
in 120 days; history of the travels of
a registered letter In this and othei
countries, some old books printed In
the seventeenth century and obtained
through the medium of the dead letter
office; framed statistics of the postal
service from 1775 to date; the magni
tude of the postal service of the Unit
ed States as compared with France,
Germany and Great Britain; some
old mail bags which have been cut
open and robbed, in one Instance the
bag being stained by the blood of the
murdered carrier
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The great Apartment stores ha70
been a serious problem to small trad
ers all over the country, and in several
states unsuccessful .attempts have
been made to regulate their growth by
legislation. A new' plan is now to be
tried in Chicago in the form of a co
operative department store to which a
number of small dealers arc to contrib
ute their capital and their work. The
whole investment will be five hundred
thousand dollars, and it is planned to
sell everything from ice cream to a
coal hod. Each department will be
In charge of a skillful merchant, fa
miliar with that particular branch and
himself a stock-holder. As the rent
of a single department will be
less than the rent of a separate store,
and as each man hopes to carry h!s
old customers with him, the enterprise
starts with rosy hopes.
In Corea the Gentlemen of the Court
are making handsome profits out of
the illicit manufacture of false money.
They can buy for 10 dollars enough sti
ver to make 400 dollars' worth of coin,
and as they are on good terms with
the King, the police dare not interfere.
A few days after shooting a neigh
bor’s cat, David Bell, of Marietta, O.,
•discovered that somebody had thrown
several pounds of arsenic in his well.)
Fortunately the discovery was made
before any one had used the poisoned
water.
T ALAI AGE'S SEKjION.
THE SPIRIT OF AMITY" LAST SUN
DAY'S SUBJECT.
"The Rsrlisrons People Showed l'» No
I.lttle Kindness" — Arts xsvlli: S
Kindness In Action the Greatest of
Virtues.
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, S. Y]
Washington, Sept. 22.—In this dis
course Hr. Talmage commends the
spirit of amity and good feeling and
mentions illustrious examples of that
spirit; text. Acts xxviii, 2, “The bar
barous people showed us no little
kindness.”
Here we are on the island of Malta,
another name for Melita. This island,
which has always been an important
commercial center, belonging at dif
ferent times to Phoenicia, to Greece,
to Rome, to Arabia, to Spain, to
France, now belongs to England. The
area of the island is about 100 square
miles. It is in the Mediterranean sea
and of such clarity of atmosphere that
Mount Aetna, 130 miles away, can be
distinctly seen. The island is glori
ously memorable because the Knights
of Malta for a long while ruled there,
but mose famous because of the apos
tolic shipwreck. The bestormed ves
sel on which Paul sailed had “laid
to" on the starboard tack, and the
wind was blowing east-northeast, and.
the vessel drifting probably a mile and
a half an hour, she struck at what Is
now called St. Paul's bay. Practical
sailors have taken up the Bible ac
count and decided beyond controversy
the place of the shipwreck. But the
island, which has so rough a coast, is
for the most part a garden. Richest
fruits and a profusion of honey char
acterized it in Paul's time as well as
now. The finest oranges, figs and
olives grow there.
When Paul and his comrades crawl
ed up on the beach, saturated and
hungry from long abstinence from
food and chilled to the bone, the isl
anders, though called barbarians be
cause they could not speak Greek,
opened their doors to the shipwrecked
unfortunates. Everything had gone
to the bottom of the deep, and the
barefooted, bareheaded apostle and
ship’s crew were in a condition to ap
preciate hospitality. About twenty
five such men a few years ago I found
in the life station near East Hampton,
Long Island. They had got ashore in
the night from the sea, and not a hat
or shoe had they left. They found
out, as Paul and his fellow voyagers
found out, that the sea is the roughest
of all robbers. My text finds the ship's
crew ashore on Malta and around a
hot fire drying themselves and with
the best provision the islanders can
offer them. And they go into govern
ment quarters for three days to recu
perate, Publius, the ruler, inviting
them, although he had severe sickness
in the house at that time, his father
down with a dangerous illness. Yea,
for three months they staid on the
island watching for a ship and putting
the hospitalities of the islanders to a
severe test. But it endured the test
satisfactorily.and it is recorded for all
the ages of time and eternity to read
and hear in regard to the inhabitants
of Malta, “The barbarous people
showed us no little kindness."
A Magnificent Word.
Kindness! What a great word
that is! It would take a reed as long
as that which the apocalpytic angel
used to measure heaven to tell the
length, the breadth, the height of that
munificent word. It is a favorite Bible
word, and it is early launched in the
book of Genesis, caught up in the
book of Joshua, embraced in the book
of Ruth, sworn by in the book of
Samuel, crowned in the book of
Psalms and enthroned in many places
in the New Testament. Kindness! A
word no more gentle than mighty. I
expect it will wrestle me down before
r get through with it. It is strong
enough to throw an archangel. But It
will be well for us to stand around
it and warm ourselves by its glow as
Paul and his fellow voyagers stood
around the fire on the island of Malta,
where the Maltese made themselves
Immortal in my text by the way they
treated their victims of the soa. "The
barbarous people showed us no little
kindness.”
Kindness! All definitions of that
multipotent word break down half
way. You say it is clemency, be
nignity. generosity; it is made up of
good wishes; it is an expression of
beneficence; it is a contribution to the
happiness of others. Some one else
says. "Why, I can give you a defini
tion of kindness; it is sunshine <>f the
:.oul; it is affection perennial; it is a
climacteric grace; it is the combination
of all graces; it is compassion; it is
the perfection of gentle manliness and
womanliness.” Are you a i through?
You have made a dead failure in your
definition. It cannot be defined, but
we all know what it is, for we have
all felt its power. Some of you may
have felt it as Paul felt it. on some
coast of rock as the ship went to
pieces, but more of us have again and
again in some awful stress of life
had either from earth or heaven hands
stretched out which "showed us no
little kindness.”
The (irucp of Forgiveneiis.
But are you waiting and hoping for
•ome one to be bankrupted or exposed
or discomfited or in some way over
thrown then kindness has not taken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on a Malta where there are
no oranges. You are entertaining a
guest so unlike kindness that kind
ness will not come and dwell under
the same roof. The most exhausting
' and unhealthy and ruimrj* spirit on
earth Is a revengeful spirit or retaliat
ing spirit. as l know by experience,
for I have tried it for five or ten min
utes at a time. When some mean
thing has been done mo or said about
me, I have felt: "I will pay him in
his own coin. I will show him up.
The Ingrate! The traitor! The liar!
The villain!” But five or ten min
utes of the feeling has been so un
nerving and exhausting I have aban
doned it. and I cannot understand how
people can go about torturing them
selves five or ten or twenty years,
trying to get even with somebody.
The only way you will ever triumph
over your enemies is by forgiving
them and wishing them all good and
no evil. As malevolence is the most
uneasy and profitless and dangerous
feeling, kindness is the most health
ful and delightful. And this Is not an
abstraction. As I have tried a little of
the retaliatory feeling, so I have tried
a little of the forgiving. I do not
want to leave this world until T have
taken vengeance upon every man that
ever did me a wrong by doing him a
kindness. In most of such cases I
have already succeeded, but there are
a few malignants whom I am yet pur
suing. and I shall not be content until
I have In some wise helped them or
benefited them or blessed them.
R»rr Flower from Rojul CJarden.
The king of Prussia had presented
to him by the empress of Russia the
root of a rare flower, and it was put
in the royal gardens on an island, and
the head gardener. Herr Fintleman,
was told to watch It. And one day it
put forth its glory. Three days of
every week the people were admitted
to these gardens, and a young man,
probably not realizing what a wrong
thing he was doing, plucked this flow
er and put it in his buttonhole, and
the gardener arrested him as he was
crossing at the ferry and asked the
king to throw open no more his gar
dens to the public. The king replied:
“Shall I deny to the thousands of
good people of my country the privi
lege of seeing this garden because one
visitor has done wrong? No; let them
come and see the beautiful grounds.’’
And when the gardener wished to
give the king the name of the offender
who had taken the royal flower he
said. “No. my memory is very tena
cious, and I do not want to have in
my mind the name of the offender lest
it should hinder me granting him a
favor some other time.” Now. r want
you to know that kindness is a royal
flower, and blessed be God, the king
of mercy and grace, that by a divine
gift, and not by purloining, we may
pluck this royal flower and not wear
it on the outside of our nature,' but
wear it on our soul and wear it for
ever, its radiance and aroma not more
wonderful for time than wonderful for
eternity.
Uopefol and Cordial Words.
Oh, say the cordial thing! Say the
useful thing. Say the hospitable thing.
Say the helpful thing. Say the Christ
like thing. Say the kind thing. I ad
mit that it is easier for some tempera
ments than for others. Some are born
pessimists, and some are born optim
ists, and that demonstrates itself all
through everything. It is a cloudy
morning. You meet a pessimist and
you say, “What weather today?” He
answers, “It's going to storm,” and
umbrella under arm and waterproof
coat show that he is honest in that
utterance. On the same block, a min
ute after, you meet an optimist, and
you say, "What do you think of the
commercial prospects?” and he says,
“Glorious. Crops not so good as usual,
but foreign demand will make big
prices. We are going to have such an
autumn and winter of prosperity as we
have never seen.” On your way back
to your store you meet a pessimist
merchant. “What do >ou think of the
commercial prospects?” you ask, and
he answers, “Well, I don’t know.
Wheat and corn crop blasted in Kan
sas and Missouri, and the grain gam
blers will get their fist in. and the hay
crop is snort in some places, and in
the southern part of Wisconsin they
had a hailstorm and our business is as
dull as it ever was.” You will find the
i same difference in judgment of charac
ter. A man of good reputation is as
sailed and charged with some evil
deed. At the first story the pessimist
will believe in guilt. "The papers said
so, and that's enough. Down with
him!” The optimist will say: “I don’t
believe a word of it. I don’t think that
a man that has been as useful and
seemingly honest for twenty years,
could have got o(T track like that.
There are two sides to this story, and
I will wait to hear the other side be
fore I condemn him.” My hearer, if
you are by nature a pessimist, make a
j special effort by the grace of God to
1 extirpate the dolorous and the hyper
i critical from your disposition. Ile
I lieve nothing against anybody until
I the wrong is established by at least
two witne-ses of integrity. And, if
! guilt is proved, find out the extenuat
i ing circumstances, if there are any.
1 Kindness! I>et us, morning, noon and
I night, pray for it until we get it.
K iimI ih’hh of Action.
Furthermore, there is kindness of ae
] tion. That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
I David showed to Mephlbosheth for his
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
I Onesiphorus showed to Haul in the
Roman penitentiary. That is what
• William Cowper recognized when he
! said he would not trust a man who
! would with his foot needlessly crush
} a worm. That is what our assassinat
ed President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found him
I in the capitol grounds trying to get a
| bird back to the nest from which it
! had fallen, and which quality the illus
| trious man exhibited years before
i when, having with some lawyers in
the carriage on the way to court passed
j on the road a swine fast In the mire,
1 after awhile cried to hi* horses, “Ho**
I and said lo the gentlemen, “l must go
j back and help that hog out of (he
mire." And he did go back and put
on solid ground that most uninterest
ing quadruped. That was the spirit
that was manifested by my departed
friend. Hon. Alexander H. Stephen* of
Georgia—and lovelier man never ex
changed earth for heaven—when at
Washington. A senator’s wife, who
told us of the circumstances, said to
him, "Mr. Stephens, come and see my
dead canary bird." And he answered,
"No; I could not look at the poor thing
without crying." That is the spirit
which last night ten thousand mothers
showed to their sick children coming
to give the drink at the tenth call as
cheerfully and as tenderly as at the
first call.
Suppose all this assemblage and all
to whom these words shall come by
printer’s type should resolve to make
kindness an overarching, undergirding
and all-pervading principle of their life
and then carry out the resolution. Why
in six months the whole earth would
feel it. People would say. "What Is the
matter? It seems to me that the world
Is getting to be a better place to live
in. Why, life after all is worth living.
Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor,
has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclos
ure against that inan, and because he
has had so much sickness in his family
he is going to have the house for one
year rent free. There is an old lawyer
in that young lawyer’s office, and do
yon know what he has gone in there
for? Why, he is helping to fix up a
case which is too big for the young
man to handle, and the white-haired
attorney is hunting up previous de
cisions and making out a brief for the
boy. Do you know that a strange
thing has taken place in the pulpit,
and all the old ministers are helping
the young ministers, and all the old
doctors are helping the young doctors,
and the farmers are assisting each
other in gathering the harvest, and
for that farmer who is sick the neigh
bors have made a ’bee.’ as they call it.
and they have all turned in to help
him get his crops into the garner? And
they tell me that the older and more
skillful reporters who have permanent
positions on papers are helping the
young fellows who are just beginning
to try and do not know exactly how to
do it. And after a few erasures and
interpolations on the reporter’s pad
they say, ’Now’, here is a readable ac
count of the tragedy; hand It In, and I
am sure the managing editor will take
It* *'
•New UUpcii.nitlou of Geniality.
My hearers, you know and I know
we are far from that state of things.
But w-hy not inaugurate a new dispen
sation of geniality. If we cannot have
a millennium on a large scale, let us
have It on a small scale and under our
own vestments. Kindness! If this
world is ever brought to God. that is
the thing that will do it. You cannot
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold
it into excellence or reformation or
godliness.
The east wind and the west wind
were one day talking with each other,
and the east wind said to the west
wind: "Don’t you wish you had my
power? Why, when I start they hail
me. by storm signals all along the
coast. 1 can twist off a ship's mast
as easily as a cow’s hoof cracks an
alder. With one sweep of my wing I
have strewn the coast from Newfound
land to Key West with parted shiri
timber. 1 can lift and have lifted the
Atlantic ocean. I am the terror of all
invalidism, and to fight me back for
ests must be cut down for fires, and tho
mines of continents are called on to
feed the furnaces. Under my breath
the nations crouch into sepulchers.
Don’t you wish you had my power?”
said the east wind. The west wind
made no answer, but started on its
mission, coming somewhere out of the
rosy bowers of the sky, and all the
livers and lakes and seas smiled at its
coming. The gardens bloomed, and the
orchards ripened, and the wheatfields
turned their silver into gold, and
health clapped its hands, and joy
shouted from the hilltops, and the na
tions lifted their foreheads into the
light, and the earth had a doxology
for the sky, and the sky an anthem for
the earth, and the warmth and sparkle
and the gladness, and the foliage, and
the flowers, and the fruits, and the
beauty, and the life were the only an
swer the west wind made to the in
solence of the east wind’s interroga
tion.
And while we take this matchless
kindness from God may it be found
that we have uttered our last bitter
word, written our last cutting para
graph, done our last retaliatory action,
felt our last revengeful heart throb.
And it would not be a bad epitaph for
any of us if, by the grace of God, from
this time forth we lived such benefi
cent lives that the tombstone’s chisel
could appropriately cut upon the plain
slab that marks our grave a sugges
tion from the text, "He showed us no
little kindness.” iiut not until the last
child of God has got ashore from the
earthly storms that drove him on the
rocks like Mediterranean Kuroclydons,
not until all the thrones of heaven are
mounted, and all the conquerors
crowned, and all the harps and trum
pets and organs of heaven are thrum
med or blown or sounded and the ran
somed of all climes and ages are in
full chorus under the jubilant swing of
angelic baton, and we shall for thou
sands of years have seen the river
from under the throne rolling into the
"sea of glass mingled with fire,” and
this world we now inhabit shall be so
far In the past that only a stretch of
celestial memory can recall thut it ever
existed at all. not until then will we
understand what Nehcmiah calls "the
great kindness,” and David calls “the
marvelous kindness,” and Isaiah calls
“the everlasting kindness” of God.
TIIK SI NI>A\ S( IK)()!'.
LESSON t. 2ND QUARTER, OCT 6
GEN. 37: 12-36.
(laiilrn Tetti The I'ntrlurrhs, Movnl
with Kuvy, Sold Joseph Into K|rypt:
hut (ln<l Wu.~ with Him Arm Vllt B.
— t'KIl't IM'vrl.1’ ()od.
of our Bibles). Ten or eleven years after
Jacob s return from Parian-aram.
Place Hebron, twenty miles south of
Jerusalem, the home of Isaac. The cave
of Machptlah and the Oaks of Mumre be
lt ng to this place.
Isaac—ICS years old. Twelve years be
fore his death. A blind, feeble old man.
Jacob.—-About 10S years old, with twelve
sons and one or more daughters.
Joseph.—17 years old. and Benjnmln 10
or 11 years. Joseph left Parian-uram when
6 or 7 years old.
LIFE OF JOSEPH.
First Step: Ills Ancestral Inheritance.—
Joseph was born in Padnti-nram, B. C.
1735 (according to t'ssher). and was the
i !d( st son of Jacob and ills bt loved Raeh
«1. From his father and grandmother Re
in kah, he would naturally Inherit a ten
dency to worldliness and sharp bargain
ing, bordering on deceit, and an eager
desire for wealth. Constancy, persist
ence. dogged tenacity. Is certainly the
striking feature of Jacob's character.
Second Step: Family Influences.—These,
like Ids ancestral traits, were an inter
mingling of good and evil. The household
was composed of his blind and feeble
grandfather, Isaac, his father, his three
wives (Rachel, Ids mother, being dead),
their ten sons, much older than Joseph,
and his younger brother Benjamin, a hoy
of 10 or 11 years. Joseph's first seven
years were spent In the home of Laban,
where the Influences were far from favor
able. The older boys had all their youth
ful training in this atmosphere. Their
relatives In Haran were none too pious.
Third Step: His Position in the Family.
—Another series of helps and hindrances
arose from his father’s intense love for
him. There la no better Influence around
k boy than the deep love of his parents
wisely expressed. "His father's love,”
says Rev. Armstrong Black, "drew out
the finer characteristics of the boy, as
sunlight opens out a flower." But this
love for the first-born of his best-loved
wife led him to partiality. He distin
guished this son above all the others by
"a coat of many colors," probably like
those represented in the lately discovered
tomb of Benl-IIassan In Egypt, long,
richly embroidered robes In various pat
terns and colors, which seem to be pro
duced hy sewing together small pieces of
different colors. Herodotus describes one,
sent as a present by a king of Egypt,
which "had a vast number of figures of
animals Interwoven into its fnbrU. and
was embroidered with gold and tree
wool" (Herodotus.3:42). This was probably
given as a sign that he had chosen Jo
seph to bo ills successor as head of the
clan.
I'ourlli Stop: Baity l.ahor.—Joseph did
not live In idleness, but worked on the
farm like the others. Batly tasks are t.
the utmost importance in training chil
dren. They are "the seed plot of the
manly virtues." in that school may be
learned nearly all the virtues, when the
smallest acts are done with the highest
motives.
Fifth Step: Dream? and Visions.—Jo
seph dreamed two dreams and related
them to tin- family. Both of them repre
sented himself at the head of the clan
and ruler over all. They grew not so
much out of his ambition as out of his
prospects as the heir, being the eldest
son of the beloved Rachel. The coat of
many colors would confer the hope that
he was to be the heir. He may have
thought how much better many things
would he if he could only manage affairs.
He dreamed that he had the power. “His
soul foresees and foreshadows its own
power in dreams." “Something said to
Joseph that he was a better man than his
brethren, and that. given time and
chance, they would how down to him one
and all. He felt and knew that his day
v. as coming, and he showed how strong
he was in the way lie handled the future
in dream vision."—Rev. Armstrong Black.
Sixth Step: A Youthful Attempt at Re
form.—Bike most earnest young Chris
tians Joseph made an attempt to reform
some of the evils he saw among his older
brothers. They would not. of course, lis
ten to him. and he reported them to his
father. Joseph's brothers hated him
heartily for what he did, but it doubtless
made them more careful.
"We are not obliged to suppose-that Jo
seph was a gratuitous talebearer, or that
when he carried their evil report to their
father he was actuated by a prudish, cen
sorious, or In any way unworthy spirit.
* • * And no one can tell what torture
that pure young soul may have endured
in the remote pastures, when left alone to
withstand day after day the outrages of
the coarse, unscrupulous men."—Dods.
Seventh Step: Entrusted with a Difficult
Mission.—Vs. 12-22. The ten brothers had
wandered some seventy miles away from
home with their flocks. Perhaps to keep
them separate from the flocks belonging
to Isaac. Perhaps because there was
some land there belonging to the family
through Abraham. Perhaps the pastur
age was better, and their own had been
exhausted. Possibly they were willing to
get beyond the criticism of their father
and Joseph In pursuing the conduct they
enjoyed.
Eighth Step: Sold Into Slavery.—Vs
23:28. 23. "They stript Joseph * * • of
Ids coat." It was the sign of his super
iority and the favoritism of their father.
They would show it to their father to de
ceive him.
The Wronged Father.—Vs. 29-311. 29:
"Reuben returned unto the pit.” Reuben
had planned to rescue Joseph and send
him home safely, as soon as his brothers
had left him. He probably went Into an
other part of the field to attend to the
sheep and to draw the rest away from
the pit. When he returned he found his
brother gone. "Aral he rent his clothes."
The Oriental sign of grief.
Beware of I.It tie Things.
The Monon News warns its readers
to beware of little things, and as if
speaking from experience, it says: "A
black seed no larger than a pinpoint
will grow an onion that may taint the
breath enough to break up a be
trothal. ruin a school and shatter the
good intentions of a sewing circle.”—
Indianapolis News.
WISE OR OTHERWISE.
Misery dumps a lot of stones on the
road to success.
It isn't the 2:10 horse that travels
the farthest in a day.
A woman has got to like a man be
fore she will trust him.
There are a lot of unsafe bridges on
the road to prosperity.
Some outwardly handsome people
are deformed on the inside.
Men attribute their overstrained
mental condition to brilliancy.
Salisbury** Quren fkinfenlr.
A peculiar souvenir Is kept in Lord
Salisbury's historic home at Hatfield.
It is a stone, over a pound in weight,
with which tiie window of his carriage
was smashed at Dumfries on October
21, 1.HN4. His two daughters were seat
ed with him in the vehicle, but fortu
nately all three escaped uninjured.
Lord Salisbury had on that occasion
delivered the last of a series of
speeches in Scotland.
Rntnemhcred III* Nefro Friend*.
R. B. Weddington, a farmer of Union
county, North Carolina, who died re
cently, was not troubled by the "race
issue.' Ho lived in the kindliest rela
tions with the negroes, and in his will
he gave three tracts of land to three of
his faithful colored servants and gave
money to others. The balance of his
estate, amounting to 1.C00 acres, he
bequeathed to the Methodist church.
Tim World * iJrrntent Tinrn.
New York is to have the largest ho
tel in the world. It will he erected
by the Subway Realty company, which
% composed of capitalists who fur
nished the bond for John 13. McDonald,
the man who i3 building the under
ground railroad. The structure will be
located on Park avenue, between For
ty-first and Forty-second streets, and
will be built at a cost of $5,000,000.
Work on the immense structure will
be commenced within a fortnight
An Incomplete House*
We run wild over the furnishings of
a house; its furniture, carpets, hang
ings, pictures and music, and always
forget or neglect the most important
requisite. Something there should be
always on the shelf to provide against
sudden casualties or attacks of pain.
Such come like a thief in the night; a
sprain, strain, sudden backache, tooth
ache or neuralgic attack. There is
nothing easier to get than a bottle of
St. Jacob's Oil, and nothing surer to
cure quickly any form of pain. The
house is incomplete without it. Com
plete it with a good supply.
Some naturalists says that no in
sects except the silk worm feed upon
the leaves of the mulberry.
Are Ton Pain* Allen'* Foot Enne?
It Is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken Into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Store*, 23c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Romantic women rather like a plain
tive lover.
LIFE OF PRESIDENT M’KINLCY.
By Murat Halstead; large book;
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ing $15 daily. Send lOcts for mailing
free outfit at once.
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The first fire engine used in this
country was brought from England to
New York in 1731.
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A GREAT COUNTRY
The eyes of all America are turned to
ward North Dakota's magnificent crops.
Just harvested. Over 80,000,009 bushels of
wheat and 18,000,000 bushels of flax, good
corn and abundant grasses. Thousands
of farmers raised 14 to 18 bushels of flax
per acre on new breaking, now bringing
them $1.25 a bushel. Think of your get
ting free government land and realizing
$25 per acre for tho first breaking!
There is plenty of good government land
left, but it is being taken up fast. Also
excellent chances to go into any business
In new towns on the "Soo” Line. If you
want free land, or are looking for good
business locations, write I). W. Casseday,
La,nd Agent, "Soo” Line, Minneapolis,Minu
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If your dealer docs not have Kxeel
gior Brand, writ* fur cululogue.
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