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JUST THINK OF IT Every farmer his own landlord, no fncum. brines. hi< Lank account increasing year by year,land value inerros mh. stock Increasing, splendid climat", ex cellent schools and churches, low taxation, high prices for cattle and prutn, low railway Irales, and every poxsl _ I bio comfort. This is the condition of tho farmer In Western Canada— Provinoe of Manitoba and districts of Assinl boia. Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans arc now settled there. Reduced rate-i on ail railways for homeaeekers and set tlers. New districts are being opened tip this year. The netv forty-page Atlas of Western Ca nada sent free to all applicants. K. Pedley, Superintendent of Immigration,Ottawa Canada or \V. V. Hennett, Canadian Ooverument Agent, 801 New York Life lildg., Omaha, Neb. Thompson's Eye Water When Answering Advertisements Kindi# Mention This Taper. W. N, U.—OMAHA. NO. 5.—1902 PISO S CURE FOR , bunts where all else tails. | Beet < uuffh syrup. Taste* flood. Da in time. Bold by drusalnt*. CON SUMPTION You never hear of a person adver tising in the paper to recover a lost temper. There is more Catarrh m this section Of the country than all other disease* put together, I and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable, for a greul many years doctors pro ! nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science h»» proven catarrh to lie a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires consti tutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, man ufactured j>y F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken Internally In doses from 10drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They oner one hundred dollars for any case It falls toruru Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Druggists, Tae. Hall s Family Pills are the best. The price of liberty is eternal vigi lance—and it is always payable In anvance. Manual Training fnr Filipinos. The first industrial and manual training school in the Philippines has just begun in the city of Dumanguette, on the island of Negros. The school, which Is of two stories, the first of stone and the second of wood, tl ough not of bamboo, is due to the generos ity of H. B. Sillman of New York, who gave $10,000. The young Fili pinos are to he taught carpentering, iron work, etc., and 100 acres of land have been bought on which to teach them agriculture. The school is in charge of Rev. I.ecn C. Hill, a Prince ton graduate. Dumanguette was se ! lectod because of the friendly attitude ! of the nativete. l)otil>l<tl Up in New Y< rk Mount* Of a total number of 160,000 dwell t ing houses In the boroughs of Manhat tan and the Droux, New York, only IS,000 are occupied by a singlp family each. The total population of the two boroughs last June was 2,030,000. and the tenement population, so called, at the same time was more thau 1,550,000. Fifty Ywhth at the Throttle. John McCurdy has just completed his fiftieth year as engineer on the Michigan Central, and, although TO years old. makes daily trips between Michigan City and Jackson, 153 miles. . If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Hail Blue. Large 2 uz. package. 5 cents. A professional man may be a “lion” \ and still not profess to match his ' wife's jaw. MORE FLEXIBLE Oil LASTING, won't shake out or blow out; by using I-ieflanoe atarnli you obtain better results i than possible with any other brand amt ! one-tlilrd more for same money. It is simply impossible to suppress , : the man who can't tell a funny story. j PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color silk, wool or cotton perfectly at one boil ing, Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. It’s a good plan not to send out in vitations unless they look acceptable. Nhirt \V*tat Women. The shirt waist proved a great in vention. Nearly every woman wears one. The only inconvenience about the ! shirt waist is the trouble in ironing caused by starches that produce that hard, nerve racking effect. Defiance : | starch contains a chemical ingredient i ! that does away with the trouble. Ask ; ! your grocer for it. Sixteen-oz package for 10 cents. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha. Neb. The artistic base ball player ac knowledges the fact that there is beau ty in curves. to Winter Use Allen’s Foot EtM, a powder Your feet feel uneomfortablo, nervous, and often cold and damp. If you have Chilblains, sweating, sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 1 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, \jc Hoy. N. Y. If we could reach our ideals there would be nothing ieft for which to strive. To run* i\ Cold In One tiny. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fail* to cure.23c. When you meet a man with a scheme proceed to get in a hurry. WHEN YOlli GROCER HAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may he sure he is afraid to keep it until ills stock of 12 or. packages are sold. De fiance Starch Is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains IS oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. If certain people only tell the truth It mutters not about the uncertain ones. Piao’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of aa o cough cure.—J. W. O Bants, 322 Third Ave., N.. Minneapolis. Minn., Jan. 6. 10O& Silence is the most perfect herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. The greatest of professional athletes use Wizard Oil for a "rub-down.” It soften* the muscles and prevents sore ness. Reason is a man's guard and moral principle is his safeguard. SALZER'S LIGHTNING CABBAGE. This is the earliest cabbage in the world and a regular gold mine to the market gardener ; and farmer. By the way, there is lots of money to lie made on ear Best cabbaKt. beets, pens, radishes, cucumbers and the like. For 1 Ac. and this Notice the John A. Salzer Seed Co , Lacrosse, Wls., will send you their mammoth catnloir I anu inuKinus oi newer ana vegetable seeds. I Market gardeners' catalog, As postage, w. s. p. She calculates to please—the pretty, accurate arithmetic teacher. A Cere for the Tobacco Habit. Mrs. J. Kay. A. W. High street, Ties Moines, Iona, lias discovered a harmless and tnexpens Ive remedy for the tobacco habit, which has cured her husband and hundreds of others. Any druggist can put it up The prescription and direction* tent tree (or a stamp to pay postage. Narrow is the mind which fancies it can justly Judge of every situation. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make the."! white again. Large 2 os. package. 5 cents. There should be no time for depres sing retrospection* A STUDENT OF WAR. Daath of Joan de Bloch Moral In III* Horrlrn to Foaoa. It Is still too early to estimate how far civilisation has been advanced by the life work of Jean de Bloch, the Russian writer whose death at War saw was announced the other day. Practically throughout M Bloch's ac tive life he was devoted to the study of the science of war, its methods, its causes and its political and economic effects. His study of military equip ments and methods led him to the be lief that war, always a horrible thing, must be Infinitely more terrible in the future; that, in fact, war was becom ing so deadly that first-class powers could no longer resort to it, opposing armies being unable to exist within striking distance of each other. His moral convictions led him to evolve a plan for international arbitration. The Czar, who had been strongly im pressed with M. Bloch's pictures of war. virtually accepted this plan in outlining his call for the peace confer ence at The Hague. That conference writers in the twelfth century men tioned the pastime and described the skate then in use as the brisket bone of an ox fastened to the sole of the foot and bound around the ankle, while the person thus mounted pushed himself along the ice by means of an iron-shod stick. And it is said that In the museum at Cambridge, as well as in the British museum, there are bones thus ground for use as skates. Later caine the wooden frame, with an iron or steel runner. This was some time in the fourteenth century. In the six failed signally to bring any lasting as surances of peace, but for the influence M. Bloch exercised in bringing it about as well as for his contributions to the entire subject of international relations he will be long remembered. MARRIAGE AMONG SAVAGES. Peculiar Customs That Prevail with Australian Aborigines. Ethnological experts agree that with most Australian tribes every woman is betrothed in infancy, or even in an ticipation of her birth. According to some mysterious law of their own this is arranged by the old men of the fam ily. the women having no voice in the matter. The age of the proposed hus bands is not taken into consideration, so that it frequently happens that by the time the girl is of a marriageable age her intended is an old man. If in the meantime some younger man has set his heart upon her this means a tight, in which the unfortunate bride to-be, as she is dragged away, is cer tain to come in for a share of the blows which the rival suitors deal out to each other. In some of the coast districts, where not all the girls are promised in in fancy, the betrothal of a young woman to a man who follows the occupation of a fisherman compels her to lose the first joint of the little finger of her left hand. This slow and painful oper ation is performed by a stout string bound tightly about the joint—an en gagement ring with which one would willingly dispense! A marriage license, equally unique, is common in some sections, where the chief gives to the prospective groom a peculiarly knot ted string, possessing which he is free to seek the wife of liis choice.—Wom an's Home Companion. WANT A WHITE AUSTRALIA. Qneenslnnd Adopt* PIhd fur Drpurllng l’oljrnetlsui. The movement to make a “white" Australia is not receiving such general approval as the Chinese exclusion has in this country, but it is none the less certain that yellow and brown labor must go from England's colony. The bill now being discussed in the com monwealth parliament permits the in troduction into Queensland (the state most affected by the measure, for it is there that sugar is grown) during 1892 of 75 per cent of the number of island ers (Polynesians) who return to their ‘ homes during the present year. In 1903 only 50 per cent may return, and by 1896 there will be none In the colony, for by that year all will have been sent back to their island homes, whether or not they hold property or can pass the education test. The chief opponents of the measure are the sugar planters and manufac turers. who say the white labor in the cane fields is much more expensive and much less effective, and they promise the extinction of a growing industry on which great sums of money have already been spent if it become neces sary to rely solely on expensive and incompetent labor. Premier Barton’s idea, however, is that by a system of import duties and bounties the sugar industry may be so protected that the loss of cheap and efficient labor will not harm it. President McKinley's Kindness. A near friend of Mr. McKinley’s re calls this incident of his western trip. During one of the semi-impromptu ovations at a small railway station a golden-haired mite of some seven summers edged her way through the crowd and close up to the tracks as the big man on the car platform ceased speaking. “Do you like my new sash, Missor McKinley?’’ she called in a sweet, shrill treble as the cheering died away. “Indeed. I do,” replied the presi dent. with a Bmile, stooping down to her as she turned about to give him the full benefit of the huge bow, “Why I never had such a beautiful sash in all my life.” And the owner’s face beamed ecstati cally up at him, says the New York Times, as the train moved on again. ‘BILLY 9 P Copyrlfbt t»2. Daily Story Publishing ( .uuptny “A most unnatural child— sullen, sluggish, sneaking,” the rector affirm ed, punctuating the indictment with pauses In his effort to be exact A shadow' of protest flitted over his wife's face. First, Billy was motherless. Secondly, under cover of a garden hedge one day she had watched Billy take aim at a crow, and hts eyes, eager, sweet and blue as larkspur, had ap pealed to her unforgettably. Decided ly, Billy's eyes when they could be seen, counted. It waa said of the rector that he knew every man, woman and child in the county; and they, by reason of his sweet cordiality of manner, knew and loved him. The rector owed his popu larity more to a single grace than to the whole big sum of his virtues—a grace of sympathy so rare, so discrim inating, so replete with charity as to make him quite unofficially, of course, but In a very real sense, the confessor of his people. But with Billy the rector could make no headway. Billy was his thorn In the flesh, an ever-present ap peal to his sympathy, but dodging ev ery expression of it with the elusive ness of a phantom. His kindliest overtures glanced the armor of the child's reserve. One day the rector took him perforce for a drive, hoping to thaw this stolid unresponsiveness. He told his most thrilling stories; Billy remained utterly aloof. The rector was approaching a state of actual dis comfiture when Billy himself snapped the tension by dropping adroitly from the phaeton. He disappeared in the brush like a scared rabbit. The rector decided to bide his time. It wras in harvest time that Billy’s mother breathed her Inst, swiftly, tranquilly, meekly grateful for her re lease. Billy's father had bullied her into a stingle98 grave. Billy's father, a burly, irascible farmer, had long since tired of his sickly wife; he was doubtless glad of his release. But he felt a fresh displeasure against her; she had died in hi* busiest season without consulting his convenience. Billy’s conception of death was very nebulous. He observed the funeral preparations with a sort of wonder, though the unwonted stillness and darkness made his heart flutter. It was not until the rector led him to the bier and tenderly told him to kiss his mother good-bye, and the tall man with black gloves screwed on the lid, that Billy began to apprehend. The chill of desolation came upon him and he sobbed softly, unobtrusively lest his father should hear. He had smarted too often for the offense to take risks. At last the casket was lowered and the rector's voice became more solemn. Billy sobbed audibly. He drew as near the rector as he dared and in creased the distance from hi3 father. Presently Billy heard a thud. “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” and the rector had thrown a clump of dirt at his mother! He moaned aloud in his an guish. To Billy, who knew nothing of symbolism, the act savored only of un friendliness. He interpreted it in the light of his own experience, and in i road-side warfare with his kind, Billy had learned the value of pebbly sand as ammunition. Hence the rector s difliculty with his young parishioner. The farmer lost no time in bringing home a buxom widow whose quarrel some progeny soon crowded Billy out. A nostalgia for the woods seized him; he became nomadic in his effort at self effacement, and his father, who hated the sight of his under-sized offspring "slinking around like a whipped dog," was not sorry. No wonder Billy pass ed as "sullen, sluggish, sneaking." Billy exulted in woodcraft. He knew the boggy hollows where the violets and blood-root grew; the songs of the birds were the familiar voices of his friends, and he studied the habits of the birds and chipmunks with the fervor of a naturalist. Billy did not miss his mother's kisses so poignantly in the forest. In the course of time a new interest came into Billy’s life. One day in He sniffed at Billy, passing the rectory he saw a little, yellow pig frisking about the lawn in the most unaccountable fashion. Billy stopped short in amazement. It wasn’t a pig after all, but could It be—yes. it was a dog. a tawny, little rolyboly with a black stripe down his back, and a tail that curled like a pig's, and a face that reminded Billy of old IJncle Ike’s bulldog, only it was black and looked less dangerous. Billy sidled up to the fence and whistled softly. The pug frisked over with his nose in quisltively tilted. He sniffed at Billy and then backed off. Evidently he was not prepossessed. Billy dived into his pocket for his lunch and held It coax tngly between the palings, but the pug was not to be baited with coarse bread and ham. He had never eaten so mean a meal in all his petted, well-fed life. Billy did not consider this a bad beginning, however; he was so accus tomed to being snarled at by the surly country dogs. Billy finally broke the Ice In this wise. Having heard of the pugs pre dilection for candy, he determined to play his trump card. He had long carried in a safe inner pocket a nickel which he kept partly for the lack of a suitablo investment and partly because the consciousness of ownership ex pressed in dollars and cents is so sweet to a boy. Now Billy had so fullen un der the spell of the pug’s enchantments that he cheerfully spent his nickel penny by penny, for the toothsome commodity which was the price of the dog’s good will. And the weeks of joyous fellowship that followed left Billy nothing to regret in his bargain. Billy’s new-found happiness came to a sudden end, however, when he saw sinister signs of departure about the rectory. The rector's guests were go ing, and the impending separation from his dear, canine playfellow filled him with despair. Now, Billy could not know that the dog had been given to the rector’s wife. He assumed that as It had arrived with the strangers, it would also depart with them. Billy thought the situation over in bitter rebellion. Gradually he evolved a way out of his trouble. He remem bered with a thrill the long-disused shanty in a clearing in the woods, where he kept a rusty, old musket and other valuables safe from the vandal ism of his step-brothers. What could be simpler than to secrete the dog in this safe place—yes. indefinitely? Billy would bring his own portions of meat and cakes for him to eat, and tt ’re were a few corn sacks in ihe barn which would do admirably for bis “How came you to do it?” bed. Billy acted upon this alluring plan. A week elapsed and Billy heard ru mor of the distress at the rectory which took the edge off his satisfac tion. The rector's wife had actually been seen in tears—a state of things poor Billy had not foreseen. His con science began to work in deadly earn est. and he would hug the dog in a pas sion of repentance. His mother’s griefs were too fresh in his mind for him to be indifferent to tears. An old formula which she had patiently in stilled became luminous with mean ing. “Do unto others." Assuredly, Billy's conscience had become sadly over-weighted. Yes, he would take the dog back and make a clean breast of it. He thought of what might happen when the rector told his father, with dark misgivings, but he would know that the rector's wife was not crying. At twilight they started. Billy wish ed that he felt like frisking, too, but his courage oozed with every step. Billy's rap brought the rector to the door. The pug yelped delightedly. In the noisy welcome that followed Billy would have slipped away, but the rec tor drew him inside. “Where did you find him, Billy?” “Didn't find him,” said Billy laconi cally. “Where has he been?” “I had him.” Billy was dreadfully scared, but he was not ready to tell the whereabouts of his treasure house. The rector took another tack. “Billy did you bring him back because you were sorry you had done wrong?” The rector was sounding his “moral sense “ Billy’s head dropped lower. “Who required you to bring him back?” “Nobody,” Billy muttered. “You brought him because you were sorry for us,” suggested the rector’s wife, gently. Billy raised his beautiful eyes to hers In a flash of gratitude. The rector started. It gave the plain features the effect of an illumination. “My dear,” she continued, drawing him to her. “how came you to do it?” Billy burst into tears. “I didn't want him to go away.” The lad’s life was bared before them in its great fricndlessness. The child less mother clasped the motherless child to her heart. Finally she said, “Billy, how would you like to be our little son—to live with us and have the dog for your very own?” Billy's arms tightened abo.U her neck in an excess of feeling. And so It came to pass. .— j if PIE OR TART? Don’t Soy, “Both, If Yon Pleo»e“ l.«arn to IlUtinguUti. “Do you know the difference between a pis and a tart?" How often have you heard this asked at a dinner ta ble when the conversation languishes, and how fruitful of argument the ques tion invariably is! Half a dozen "cor rect” answers are given in as many minutes. The fact is, the point is not capable of such an easy explanation as might be supposed. “A pie contains meat, a tart fruit.” says some one. Quite so, but who ever would deny the existence of ap ple pie? The famous Lord Dudley was heard to remark at a sumptuous din ner given by Prince Esterhazy, “God bless my soul! No apple pie.” And he should certainly have known what he was talking about, for this was his favorite dish. Further, there exists a volume (dated 18611) entitled “The Compleat Cook,” wherein are to be found descriptions of how to make a “partridge tart” and an “olive pye.” History may thus be said to veto the “meat-and-fruit” theory. Mrs. Beeton, by the way, who should be the su preme court of appeal In a matter of this kind, ingloriously describes her recipe as an "apple tart or pie." Next comes an even more plausible explana tion. "A pie is closed; a tart is open”; thus pronounce by far the majority of the oracles on this momentous sub ject. There Is admittedly much to be said in support of this argument. The aforementioned laird Dudley, who was once questioned as to his correctness in speaking of apple “pie," held to the “closed-and-open” theory, while Lord Alvanley’8 apricot "tart” was an up rooted structure, although sometimes ornamented with a grille of cross pieces. But the word “pie" as any au thority will tell you, is, in its origin, an abbreviation of the word “pastry." And we have yet to meet a self-respect ing tart whose basis was other than (more or less indigestible) “pastry.” Wherefore any tart may be correctly called a pie, though not every pie, as we shall now demonstrate, can be de scribed as tart. The whole thing turns on the origin of the word tart. The French tourte gives the clue. It leads us to the I^atin torta—English “twist ed.” A “pie” is that which is made of pastry, whatever its form or con tents. A “tart” is that which is made of pastry twisted. The merest twig gle of culinary art on the summit of an otherwise unornamented pork pie confers upon it the proud right to the title of tart. On the other hand, con ceive, if possible, a totally plain dish of fruit supported on a slab of bald farinaceous pastry, and, despite all preconceived ideas to the contrary, you may unhesitatingly label it “pie.”— Pall Mall Gazette. EARLY PAPER-MAKING. History of the Art Traced Through Several Centuries. The earliest paper was doubtless that made from Egyptian papyrus, whence all similar writing material is named. The papyrus paper used to be described as being made of the thin pellicles ly ing between the rind and the pith; now it is known to have been made of slices of the cellular pith laid length wise side by side whereon other lay ers were laid crosswise, the whole moistened with Nile river water, pressed and dried, and smoothed by being rubbed with ivory or a smooth shell. The papyrus paper was super seded in Europe by a paper of other fibrous matter gradually between the 10th and the 11th centuries. At a re mote antiquity the Chinese made paper of the mulberry tree, sprouts of the bamboo, and Chinese grasses. The Chi nese first wrote on bamboo-boards; but for 300 years before the time of Christ the usual paper of the Chinese was made of silk-waste, solidified In some way that has not been described. The inventor of paper made of vegetable fiber was the statesman Ts’ai Lun, born in Kwei-yang, in the province of Hunan, who In 89 A. D. was in charge of the Imperial arsenals. In 106 A. D. it is said he succeeded in making pa per of bark, of hemp, of rags and of old fishing-nets. The governor of Sa markand, returning from a victorious expedition into China in 751 A. D. brought among his prisoners of war ar tisans who enabled him to start a pa per manufactory at Samarkand. Per sians learned the mystery, and soon were making paper of old linen cloths. The demand rapidly increased v.nd in 796 new works were set up at Bagdad, where the manufacture was carried on until the 16th century. The first man ufacture of '•ag paper In Europe was in Spain under the Moors; in 1164 there was a mill at Jatlva. Soon after traces of paper-making are found in Italy. France and Germany, in Eng land there is said to have been a paper mill at Stevenage in Hertford, in 1460. but little is known of the history of paper-making in England until 1558, when there was a well known mill at Hartford.—Montreal Star. A (Jold Rejoinder. “Dere ain't much sympathy in tfls world, an' dat's a fack,” said Meander ing Mike, “r took dat policeman into me confidence. I told him dat r had had all de troubles extant—dat I was Jes' a collection of sorrows.” "What did he do?” “He looked me over, an' den said It was about time fur him to take up a collection.”
