Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
IX)UP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Admiral Perry little dreamed what
progress the Japanese would make in
llfty years.
Kuropatkin says he is glad the Japs
have crossed the Yalu. Satisfactory
^11 round then.
According to recent investigations
there are’ 44,000 hotels in the United
States—mostly bad.
Gen. Stoessel and staff expect to
spend the summer months at their
seaside resort in Port Arthur.
Fried onions, they say, will kill
germs in the human system—also,
sometimes, long-standing friendships.
Still, the small boys of Wisconsin
will not object to the announced cur
tailment of the shingle production in
the state.
Grafting in charitable institutions,
with the patients as victirhs, is moral
ly very like taking pennies from a
blind beggar.
A former Dakota judge is cow an
inmate of a Missouri prison. This is
rather a heroic way of taking one’s
own medicine.
The value put on men is steadily
rising. A woman in Georgia, in a
breach of promise case, has asked for
$100,000 damages.
Young Mr. Rockefeller says that
misfortunes are blessings in disguise.
Yes; and they are usually successful
in preserving their incognito.
The kiag of Italy now wears his
mustache curled up at tho-ends. Evi
dently there was a deep significance
in Emperor William’s recent visit.
So King Peter is going to be crown
ed June 15, if he isn’t assassinated
before then. That will be the anni
versary of his election to the throne.
An American girl has painted the
portrait of the empress dowager of
China. Fortunately, the work was
completed before the dowager’s latest
death.
One of the sons of President Loubet
gets a salary of $400 a year as a clerk
in the Bank of France- Evidently he
wants to learn the business from the
bottom up.
A preacher says St. Louis is mor6
wicked now than Rome or Babylon
ever was. But a good many people
will insist on going and seeing for
themselves.
J. C. Smith of New York, who in
herited $1,000,000 seven years ago, is
a bankrupt. Well, he can at least
claim credit for having put the money
in circulation.
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The New York minister who inter
polates “they say” in the Apostles’
creed must have formed the “it-is
alleged” habit from reading copy on a
daily newspaper.
If Peru and Brazil are reading the
reports from the far East it is safe to
assume that the boundary dispute will
be settled by arbitration. The other
thing doesn’t pay.
The war in the east would seem less
horrible if some suitable English syn
onyms could be found for “Fengwang
cheng,” “Newchwang,” “Liaoyans,
and “Fengshanghong.”
An English chess player is going to
marry the daughter of an American
millionaire. This will enable him to
go on benefiting the world by devot
ing himself to the game.
China announces again her deter
mination to maintain strict neutrality
and that is wise. An army equipped
with parasols is out of place when
there is real fighting going on.
Somewhat roughly, people may be
divided into two great classes, those
who think the cherry looks most
beautiful in bloom and those who
think it looks most beautiful in pie.
Japan’s attitude on the foreign
trade question while it is trying to
take Manchuria is much less import
ant than its attitude when It shall be
in definite and permanent possession.
It Is interesting to read and hear
what the philosophizing prophets
have to say about conditions in the
American city of the ftiture. Perhaps
they know as much about it as any of
us do.
Cats are said to be regarded as a
dainty food in Italy, their meat be
ing described as “tender and sweet.”
This may be true of the meat, but
can hardly be appropriately applied to
the song.
Mme. Janauschek is now an inmate
of the Actors’ Home at West New
Brighton, Staten Island. Thus do we
see the benefits of genius. If she
had been an ordinary woman she
might have had to scrub in her old
age.
All the shorthand writers in the
country working together couldn’t
have taken down the remarks that
were made in New York when all the
L roads in the city were stalled at 5
p. m. and it took, from ten to twenty
six minutes to start the trains again.
A New York phrenologist who has
been making a study of Russell Sage,
says the financier’s master passion is
a desire to conquer in the battle of
life and not the abstract love of hoard
ing money. And still uncle Russell
doesn’t willingly separate himself
from the money when he gets it.
Only a year or so ago it was impos
sible to pick up a paper without read
ing something about C. M. Schwab.
It will be remembered by many of our
readers that he wa3 once president of
the United States steel trust
mm THE WORLD’S I
BEST WRITERS
DO MEN EAT TOO MUCH?
Prof. Chittenden has been reading
before the National academy of sci
ences the much anticipated descrip
tion of a series of experiments recent
ly conducted by the Sheffield scientific
school of Yale to determine if the
average human being is not eating too
much.
His affirmation is very important in
these days of food trusts, for he
still persists that the average healthy
man eats from two to three times as
much as he needs to keep him in per
fect physical and mental health and
vigor. Prof. Chittenden’s experi
ments covered all classes of men from
the hardest worked toiler to the col
lege professor and lasted nearly a
year. It was certainly the most com
plete test of the question ever under
taken.
There was a gradual reduction of
meat and proteid foods with little in
crease in starch and other foods in
nearly all the tests, and yet at the end
of the experiments the entire lot of
men who had been experimented with
Avert in the best of health. In some
cases the weight and strength had ac
tually increased, while the daily con
sumption of food had been only from
a half to a third as much as the aver
age man cats.
WHY JAPS HAVE PROGRESSED.
The ease with which scientists, en
gineers. naval and military experts
have been produced in Japan proves
that often the most abstract training
is the best preparation for practical
efficiency. The cherry-stone carvers
have been preparing to hold the lever
and the trigger: the pundits have
found the plotting of a campaign upon
Port Arthur already accomplished in
their ancestors’ charting of the cos
mos and the soul of man. The Japa
nese have not been taught to despise
anything as too small or too great.
No allusion of raflal superiority has
fostered a faith that they can blunder
luckily through all emergencies. No
superstitious respect for machinery
has betrayed them into scorning the
finest of all instruments—the mind
itself.—New York Evening Post.
AGAINST WAR, AND FOR IT.
The real argument against war is
not the sentimental one of suffering,
hardship, loss of life, etc.; it is the
moral one that war with its vicious
consequences of national debt, bur
densome taxation, disordered finances,
relaxc d social morals, should never
be undertaken if it can possibly be
avoid' d. * * That men are killed
<n war; that dreadful wounds are ob
tained; that hardship is suffered and
domestic bereavement wrought, is
nothing. Such things are as insepa
rable from war as prickly heat from
the climate of the tropics, or as deadly
cold from the Arctic circle; but that
is not the true argument for or against
war, for or against peace. It is not a
question at all of personal hardship
or domestic bereavement; it is a ques
tion of public justice or injustice. A
wanton war, a war of conquest for
mere brutal conquest’s seke, a war
waged in the spirit that Ahab took
Naboth’s vineyard or David obtained
Uriah’s wife, is a great crime; but a
just war, a war inevitable**for nation
al preservation, for the defense or en
largement of human liberty, is more
glorious than a thousand years of ig
noble Chinese peace. There are vices
coincident with war, but they are not
more deplorable nor more ineffacable
than the cankers of a calm world and
a long peace. The march of civiliza
tion has proceeded at a charging step
following every great war. The bat
tles of Marathon and SaLamis were
the turning points in the civilization
of mankind. The greatest forced
marches of mankind since Marathon
on the path to enlarged civil liberty
and law have been wrought by great
wars. Gigantic social and civil abuses
have perished beneath the sword.—
Portland Oregonian.
PERILS OF “SELF-DOCTORING”
Large numbers of people in pros
perous circumstances die as sexagen
arians from maladies which are evi
dences of degeneration and of prema
ture senility, while many who' pass
this period go on to enter upon an
eighth or ninth decade of life. The
former class comprise those who have
lived without restraint of their appe
tites and who have sought to allay
some of the consequences by self-med
ication, while the latter class com
prise those who have lived reasonably
and who, if annoyed by imperfect
digestion, have sought relief by aban
doning the errors from which it
sprang.—Lancet.
THE INARTISTIC AUTOMOBILE.
How many millions of human be
ings must be born and wither and per
ish before men of light and leading
will come into the world competent
and willing to design and construct
automobiles of truly artistic and grac<*
ful lines? Most of the thousands of
self-motors in our thoroughfares are
monsters of ugliness. Why cannot
these chariots be so put together
that they will at least make some ap
proach to symmetry?—New York Tri
bune.
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.
Some of the private houses of set
tled and cultured people in Boston,
New York, Baltimore and Washington
are as good as our best. One of the
most refined and dignified of their
great homes is the White House. Com
pared with the tawdry oppressive glit
ter and real vulgarity of some of our
palaces, the White House is a model
of what a home for the president of a
great people should be.—Report of C.
Ronley of the Mosely Commission.
FREEMEN THE BEST FIGHTERS.
An English writer on military mat
ters takes the ground that & repub
lican or representative form of gov
ernment is not conducive tQ the best
results when it comes to preparation
for war, and that the business of
fighting, to be thoroughly successful
should be managed by an autocracy
But it is to be feared that this gallant
soldier has studied history, and espe
cially recent history, to little effect
There is no more autocratic power on
earth than Russia, and that country
has not furnished a particularly strik
ing example of readiness for war oi
effective military organization of late
Japan, on the other hand, which if
"nything was a little too ready for
war, has a representative government.!
Napoleon III. sought to be as auto
cratic as his more famous and much
abler predecessor, the first emperoi
of that name. Yet under Napdleon
III. the French army administration
was so weak and rotten that it fell
to pieces, involving the nation in d* j
feat, disaster and humiliation as soon
as Germany had a fair chance tc
strike at it.
Autocracy never yet, from the times
of Xerxes, Alexander and the Caesars
to the present, has been capable, in
and of itself, of creating that spirit of
devotion and patriotism which makes
the truest national defense. On the
contrary, those nations which have the
most liberal governments and the
largest measure of freedom of indi
vadual action have shown themselves
the bravest and readiest in war. It
sometimes takes longer to arouse
them, and it undoubtedly is true that
they are not always as thoroughly
prepared for hostilities as they might
be. Tnat in itself shows their prefer
ence for peace as against war. But
when the spur of necessity or patriot
ism is applied where can better fight
ers be found than those who come for
ward from the ranks of a free people
and offer themselves to their country?
—Troy Times.
TOURISTS AT THE BULL FIGHT
Men who at home are members of
the S. P. C. A., yea. even of the Y. M*
C. A., come to Mexico and demand to
know where tickets to the bull fights
are to be had. If it is on Sunday, so
much the better; there is a thrill of
deviltry in smashing several com
mandments at once. Women go. and,
fascinated, sit through the successive
acts of a drama of blood and pain
Does anyone mean to say that he j
would not attend a gladiatorial com
bat. would not revel in seeing men
pitted against wild animals, or that, !
if Christian Science martyrs were |
thrown into a Mexican arena to he de- !
voured by wild beasts there would not
be a crowd of most worthy tourists on |
the front seats? Human nature re
mains quite unaltered. The passion |
for the bull fight on the part of the ■
worthy people who come here every |
winter and spring is proof enough j
that the old Romans were no fuller
of original sin than the rest of us.— j
Mexican Herald.
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THE FIRST SWIM OF THE YEAR.
The first swim of the year Is with- !
out a peer as a serious menace to
health, combined with acute personal
suffering, says James L. Ford in Les
lie’s. There always comes a time
early in May when three or four suc
cessive days of warm weather give
a sudden impetus to the buds, leaves
and grass, and fill the schoolboy’s
heart with a longing for the cool
depth of the river that flows through
the meadows half a mile from school.
And immediately after the hearty ;
2 o’clock dinner—which, as every j
physician knows, is a most auspicious j
moment for bathing—a dozen boys
with towels stuck under their jackets
may be seen leaving the school
grounds in a furtive manner so as not
to attract the notice of the “old man,"
who is known to harbor certain old
fashioned prejudices against swim
ming in the early spring when the
water is as cold as ice and malaria
lurks about the river banks. The lit
tle band of .fun-seekers are also at
pains to elude the school bullies who
might play disagreeable tricks with
their clothing, and to bid to their
saturnalia of discomfort two or three
unsuspecting small boys who are sur
prised, pleased and flattered by the
invitation.
Which one of us will ever forget
the ghastly misery of that early
spring swim? The icy coldness of the
water; the oozing turf on which we
undressed and left our clothes; the
gusts of chill wind that swept down
the river; the sharp stones over
which we walked and the awful cold
ness of the water that was spattered
on our backs by our merry comrades!
SHAKESPEARE.
If you could collect all the volumes
of Shakspeare’s works that have been
published and sell them at $1 each
it is possible that you might be able
to buy out the steel trust at its water
ed valuation, and have something left
for a nest egg. There have been all
kinds of editions, some for the million
aire at $8,500 a copy, some for the
street mendicants at a penny. His
works have been forged, garbled,
edited down to the bare bones,
rewritten, repudiated, printed and
reprinted, published and repub
lished. Only the Bible stands in
front of Shakespeare in gen
eral circulation and the good book
has the merit and advantage of being
forced down our throats, whereas
Shakespeare is sought after.—New
York Press. *
Long-Lived Calla.
Mrs. Adallne Hobron of New Lon
don, Conn., has in her possession a
calla which is 75 years old. The plant
looks as healthy as ever and bears
blossoms. *
FORETOLD BIG FLOOD
AGED MAN’S PREMONITION OF
, GALVESTON DISASTER.
His Prophecy Is Vouched For by Well
Known Priest of the Texas City—
Man Was Undoubtedly Gifted with
Strange Power.
Father James M. Kerwin, rector of
St. Mary’s cathedral, has returned
from Dallas, where he officiated at the
funeral of Michael Rennie, known
throughout the United States as the
“old telescope man,” says a dispatch
from Galveston, Texas. Rennie died
suddenly at the Salvation Army Work
ingmen’s hotel in Dallas several days
ago. Upon the window near his bed
was found an open Bible and a well
worn hymn book. On the flyleaf of
the Bible was written: “Give this book
to Father Kirwin. Michael Rennie,
Galveston.” Inside the flyleaf was
written':
“If anything should happen to me.
sudden death, this is my will. You will
find enough money in the boss of my
telescope to pay my expenses, and a
mass for my soul, the remainder to be
given to Father Kirwin for the use
of the little orphan school, the tele
scope and one microscope. One mi
croscope for Father Kirwin himself, a
present from me. Michael Rennie.”
Death had come suddenly, as he had
always predicted it would, for Michael
Rennie was something of a seer and a
prophet.
The time or place of Rennie's birth
is not known, but somewhere in Scot
land more than three score years ago
he first saw the light of day. He re
ceived some education and soon drift
ed out as a sailor before the mast to
the ends of the earth.
For more than twenty years he fol
lowed the rough ways of the sea, and,
according to his own account, was
very wicked. He came to Galveston
in a jute ship in the early ’80s, and
left the sea for the interior of Texas.
He settled at Dallas and became the
moving spirit of the Liberal Club, an
agnostic organization.
He soon tired of life away from the
sea. and eventually landed in Austra
lia during the period of the Melbourne
exposition. One day by chance he
wandered into the Catholic cathedral
at the moment of the elevation of the
Host, and afterward declared that he
saw in the priest’s hands the Infant
Child.
He returned the following day and
witnessed the same sight. Immediate
ly he applied to the priest for instruc
tion in the Catholic faith.
At the close of the exposition in
Melbourne he purchased a street tele
scope and two binocular microscopes
sent out by CrQuch & Son of London.
He continued his travels, finally re
turning to the United States. He gave
exhibitions in every largo city and
gradually worked his way back to
Texas.
Rennie always declared that the
spirits of his dead friends held close
communication with him, and Father
Kirwin vouches for the following
story:
“On the Thursday evening preced
ing the great Galveston storm I en
countered him at the corner of Mar
ket and Tremont. He was not busy
as a showman, and I engaged him in
conversation. He made arrangements
for a mass for his deceased parents
on the following Tuesday, and prom
ised to be present thereat.
“Much to my surprise he came in
the following morning—he was a regu
lar attendant at the early mass—and
said he would not wait over until
Tuesday, as he had been w'arned to
leave the Ci.y.
“ ‘I see a terrible, engulfing flood,’
was the way he worded it. ‘I see thou
sands struggling in it and hundreds
floating dead. Then I see a steel gray
wall, stretching from one extremity of
the city to the other, and then I see
the wall disappear.’
“Rennie left the city on an early
morning train. The following day the
storm bore down upon us, and after
events, the world's charity and Gal
veston’s pluck have built the steel
gray wall; and now the grade rising
,and the gradual secretion of sand
upon its seaward side are about to
cause it to disappear from viewf.”
Japanese Field Marshals.
One of the Japanese field marshals,
Marquis Yamagata, is 6ixty-six years
old and looks decrepit, although he is
full of energy. He represented the Mi
kado at the coronation of the Czar in
Moscow in 1896. The other field mar
shal, Marquis Oyama, is four years
younger, but looks portly and phlegm
atic. He married a Japanese girl who
received here education in the United
States. He went to France during the
war with Prussia and was in Paris
during the siege.
Welding Cast Iron.
Machinists and iron workers are
greatly interested in the discovery of
the art of welding cast iron, which W.
S. and L. R. Schaap, of Loveland,
Colo., claim to have made. They de
clare that the compound which they
have invented also will braze alum
inum, as successfully as borax will
braze steel.
What Made the Noise.
The late Senator Tim Ellsworth or
Niagara county, New York, was a
physical giant, as well as a tremen
dous power in politics of the state
which he served so long. He had a
tremendous voice, and when he got
into a heated argument it was pretty
definitely understood what he meant.
On one occasion several members
of the legislature were taking lunch
eon together / at Keeler's in Albany.
There came a tremendous explosion,
which fairly shook the building.
“What was that?” asked Senator Per
sons. “That,” replied Speaker Nixon,
“is Uncle Tim Ellsworth saying that
he can carry Niagara county this
fall.” _
Playwright’s Big Bonus.
Massenet will receive a bonus of
$200,000 for giving La Scala Theater,
of Milan, the choice of his works for
the next four years.
Dominion Steamship Subsidy.
The Dominion government has
voted a $50,000 annual subsidy for- a
steamship line from Montreal to Mex
ico.
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CHANCE TO DO GOOD.
Beggar Worsted Pedestrian With His
Own Argume ni.
The pedestrian looked scornfully at
the beggar who had accosted him.
“You say you want money for your
starving wife and family,” he repeat
ed. ‘I don’t believe you have any.”
“Well, wot of it?” asked the beggar
brazenly.
“I believe you’re lying,” persisted
the pedestrian with conviction.
“Wot if I am?” said the beggar dog
gedly.
The pedestrian showed his astonish
ment at such a display of utter de
pravity, but he held firmly to his pur
pose.
“I believe you only want money to
buy liquor,” he said.
"Wot if I do?” returned the beggar.
“In that case,” said the pedestrian
slowly and impressively, “you show
yourself to be a liar, a vagabond and
a drunkard—a man who is hardly
worth saving.” Then, after a moment
of thought, he added, “Do you know
that the liquor evil is, to a certain ex
tent, its own corrective?”
“Nix,” replied the beggar.
“Well, it Is. Scientists tell us that
it is killing off the weak and inferior
classes and in that way you may be
said to be doing some good. Do
you-” Before he could finish the
beggar’s hand was thrust toward him,
palm upward.
“Please, mister-, won’t you help the
good work along?” asked the man in
rags.
He got a quarter and the lecture
was never finished.
TRULY A MODEL SERVANT.
Man Stuck to His Duty Though His
House Was Burning.
Miss Ida Tarbell, the writer, was
talking at her home in New York
about servants.
“I have been reading,” she said,
“John Forster’s ‘Life of Dickens,' and
the book has reminded me of the
pompous Forster’s body servant, Hen
ry’. Dickens described Henry during
his last visit to America.
“The man, it seems, was devoted to
his master. From one year's end to
the other he never needed a repri
mand.
“It was therefore surprising one
night, when Forster was entertaining
several writers at dinner, to see the
scrupluous Henry make error after
error. He upset a plate of soup, and
Forster uttered a cry of alarm. He
forgot to serve the sauce for the fish,
and his master said, ‘Why, Henry!’
Altogether he made the excellent din
ner seem a slovenly and poor repast.
“When, at the end, he had set the
port and walnuts on the table, Henry
leaned over Forster's chair and said in
a tremulous voice:
“ ‘Please, sir, can you spare me
now? My house ha£ been on fire for
the last two hours.’ ”
Made Room for the Judge.
A merry story is told of Judge
Beekman Winthrop, formerly a judge
of the Court of First Instance in the
Philippines, who has just been named
by the president for the next governor
of Porto Rico.
The judge is a Harvard man and a
valued member of one of the old New
York families. An anti-imperialistic
female was worried about reports
reaching this country concerning the
dislike the Filipino woman has for the
Yankees, so she said:
“My dear judge! You are so chival
rous! Don’t you feel the slight put
upon you by the native women? I've
heard that their hatred of their con
querors is so great they are positively
insulting.”
“On the contrary, madam,” replied
the judge, bowing, “they are most
solicitous. Why, a high caste Manila
lady deigned to push her pet mar
moset off the divan so I could sit
beside her!”—New York Times.
The Bold Ghost.
The vear was young, but the place was
old.
And the house had gone to sleep.
And the ghost that came by night was
bold.
For the silence was so deep.
Aloud he called to his heart's fair queep,
But she would not unbar the door
And the window from which she used to
lean
Stirred at her touch no more.
In vain through tne empty night he cried,
But there came no answering tone;
And then he bethought him that since
he died
A hundred years had flown.
But a hundred years should have brought
more near
The love that he loved so well;
And the bold ghost's neart turned cold
with fear—
Where was the old-time spell?
Had she forgotten what he neld fast?
They say 'tis a woman's way:
Was It only a dream that love could last,
The dream of an Idle day?
From the silent house the bold ghost
turned—
Why dream that a dream Is true?
Ashes were where love’s tire once burned;
Death's meaning at last he knew.
‘—Smart Set.
Death of Famous Conjurer.
Herr Dobbler, the famous conjuror,
died in Aberdeen recently. He was
on the stage forty years. It was he
who, in 18G4 exposed the Davenport
Brothers, who had pretended that
their tricks were supernatural mani
festations.
Japanese Censor Dot:’ts.
This is what the Japanese censor
forbids the publication of: (1) Details
or accounts relating to tactics; (2)
what relates to future war move
ments; (3) damage done to the Japa
nese warships and transports; (4) the
range of guns in action and the quan
tity of shots used; (5) the positions
and names of the bases of naval oper
ations; (6) the whereabouts of war
ships and transports, and (7) particu
lars with regard to coal, fresh water,
munitions of war, etc.
From Athens to Paris.
Athens, Greece, is soon to be con
nected with Paris by railway. The
Grecian government has already se
cured the building of a road to the
Turkish frontier, which will soon be
connected with the railway systems of
Europe.
Connecticut’s Fair Building.
The Connecticut buidJng at the
World’s Fair contains many old co
lonial relics, furniture, china and oth
er treasured articles of Connecticut’s
early day s.
TO SAIL ON PRAIRIE
“SCHOONER” THE INVENTION OF
GAIL BORDEN.
Difficulty of Controlling It Made Ve
hicle Too Dangerous To Be Popular
Early-Day Texan Had Stormy Jour
ney Through Life.
A man from Texas was talking with
a New Yorker when a wagon with the
name Gail Borden painted on it passed
by. The name is retained by Gail
Borden’s successors, though Gail Bor
den himself is dead.
“I do not know when Borden came
to New York,” said the Texan, “but
the sight of his name recalls a bit of
interesting history which, I venture to
say, few, if any, New Yorkers ever
heard.
“Gail and his brother used to be
editors in Texas. They were the
founders of the Texas Telegraph,
which had a hot history. It was the
first newspaper published in Texas.
It was printed in San Felipe in 1835.’
“On the approach of the Mexican
army, President Burnet and his cabi
net fled to Harrisburg, and were fol
lowed by the Bordens with their press
and type, and they were there work
ing off a form of the paper when the
advance of Santa Anna’s army ap
peared at that place.
“They were forced to abandon the
work and flee for their lives. The
type and press were thrown into the
bayou and the printing office de
stroyed.
“After the victory at San Jacinto
the publication of the paper was re
newed at Columbia, but was, with the
government, transferred to the new
town of Houston, and soon afterward
was sold. Thomas was older than his
brother Gail, and, besides being a part
ner in the paper, was also engaged in
surveying and selling lots in Galves
ton.
“Gail invented the steam gauge and
also a vehicle called a prairie schoon
er. This was much the same as an
ordinary covered wagon, but was made
to run by sails, and it would run, but
i too much so.
"It was not easily controlled, and it
would do unexpected things, and was
dangerous. It would run into the gulf
or up against things, and the model
was finally wrecked in a drift on Gal
veston Island and the project aban
doned. Borden intended these vehi
cles to be used on the great, level, dry
plains; hence the name he gave them.
“This idea of his afterward caused
the great trains of covered wagons in
the west to be called prairie schoon
ers.
“Gail Borden filled a number of civil
offices and was a member of the con
vention at San Felipe in 1833. He was
also the agent for the Galveston City
Gas Company and the first Collector
of the Port of Galveston.
“After annexation he distinguished
himself as an inventor, first securing
a valuable patent for preserving meat
in a form which he called meat bis
! cuit. He also invented and secured a
j patent for a process of condensing
milk which is a staple article of com
merce.
“He made the first condensed milk
where the town of Glidden is now. in
Colorado county, but then called Bor
den. As late as 1S87 his sign was still
to be seen there.
“At that time a postoffice and Bor
den’s place were about all there was
there in the way of business. The
county of Borden, at the foot of the
plains, was named for him, as was
{also the county seat, which is Gail.”
Words for Ordinary Purposes.
“The small number of words actu
ally necessary for ordinary purposes
in our everyday life is surprising, and
nothing illustrates this better than
the limited vocabulary of a little
child,” Dr. M. Harris said. “I have
a daughter 6 years old. She is able to
make all her wants known, to talk
freely and easily. If an adult knew
just the number of words in a for
eign tongue that she knows in her
own he would be able to get along
nicely in a conversational way with
people who spoke nothing but that
language. What the child’s vocabu
lary comprises, how many words and
of what classes I recently made it my
business to ascertain in a series of
investigations extending over a con
siderable period of time. I found that
the total number of words she knew
and used was just 352. omitting proper
names, and that 54 per cent of these
were nouns, IS per cent verbs and 11
per cent adjectives, the remainder be
ing made up of conjunctions, preposi
tions and pronouns.”—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Cause of Beef Trust Probe.
Among the facts which led to the
investigation of the beef trust are the
following: Last August good to extra
fresh beef (“Western sides”) sold in
Boston at $8.37% a hundred pounds.
In the preceding April such beef, in
the same market, had brought only
$G.50, although the packers in Chi
cago had actually paid a few' cents
more a hundred pounds for the live
cattle in April than they paid in Aug
ust.
The Buffalo a Criminal.
As a species of hardened criminals
among placid herbivorous animals,
says a writer in McClure’s, none is
worse than the bison o. American
buffalo. Toward man and beast and
even among themselves, these vicious,
vindictive and agile brutes, whose
half-brothers on other continents do
not fear even the terrific onslaught of
lions and tigers, are in a state of al
most continual wrarfare. Eagerly crop
ping grass from a meadow', or luxuri
ously wallowing in the swamp-mud of
their ranges, a herd of these giant,
brown, ponderous-headed, shaggy pa
triarchs make a scene of peace and
contentment. Yet they are among
the wickedest rogues and most ag
gressive fighters ever seen in a zoo.
Sullen and ugly, they often become
furious to madness without the least
provocation, and frequently attack one
another with serious or fatal results.
Typhoid Mortality Decreases.
In 1882 the deaths from typhoid
fever in Paris were 142 per 100,000 in
habitants, to-day the proportion is
only 10 per 100,000.
Diamonds a G?od Investment.
About a year ago a young broker
wto bad the shining light of a horri
ble example before him, his father*
having lost two fortunes in Wall
street, fell heir to about $30,000 from
the estate of an aunt. He made up
his mind that this money would bo
safely invested, and, hearing that dia
monds were constantly going up, he
put the entire sum into the stones.
He bought them at a trifle below mar
ket value from pawn brokers’ -ales
i shops, retaining the services of an
expert. He sold the entire lot the
other day at a profit of $9,000, over
25 per cent on his investment. Dia
monds are going up constantly, and
the main supply, the Kimberley and
the QeBeers mines of South Africa,
is constantly lessening.
The Highest Waterfall.
For a long time the highest known
waterfall in the world wa ('• .sola
cascade, in the Alps, having a
of 2,400 feet. But a waterfall ir the
San Cuayatan canyon, in the . f
Durango, Mexico, now claims ! ~t'
place. It was discovered by
prospectors ten years ago in th. .
barranca district which is call
Tierrns Desconocidas. While
ing for the famous lost mine, Na
jal. a great roar of water was !i
With much difficulty the party .<■ .
on and up the mighty chasm tire 1
they beheld the superb fall, which is
said to be not less than 3,000 feet high.
The Original “Rubberneck.”
Giraffes are the most difficult of all
animals to take by surprise. No mat
ter from what direction you may ap
proach, the giraffe is sure to dscover
you. It has been called the original
“rubberneck.” It is not generally
know* that nature, because of the
height of its eyes from the ground,
has supplied it with a talent peculiarly
its own for making observations.
Even the most angelic of women
can't help wondering at times if she
would look really swell with wings.
After a fellows being married a few
years he begins to long for a little
monotony to relieve the excitement.
Character is crystallized conduct.
A Farmer Found It.
Mount Pleasant, Utah, May 23.—To
find a medicine that will cure every
ailment due to diseased or disordered
Kidneys has been the aim of many
physicians and chemists.
Mr. C. E. Peterson, a farmer of this
place says he has found such a rem
edy and that he has tried it with suc
cess in his own case. Mr. Peterson
says the remedy is Dodd’s Kidney
Pills, a medicine introduced here
tbout seven months ago.
“I am glad to be allowed to testify
to what good things Dodd's Kidney
Pills have done for me. I used this
remedy for Kidney trouble and it
cured me completely.
“I can heartily recommend Dodd's
| Kidney Pills to all who suffer with
! any kind of Kidney trouble.”
i Mr. Peterson’s case is only one of
many just as convincing that have
been reported recently. This new rem
edy seems to have conquered Rheu
matism completely, not a single ca<e
having been reported where Dodd's
Kidney Pills have failed to cure per
fectly and permanently.
Played with Booth; Now Starving.
There was a rather fine bit of senti
ment developed the other day when
an actor named Maurice Pike was
dragged before a New York magistrate
charged with vagrancy. The i*>or old
fellow is 65 years of age, and he told
the judge that he had often appeared
in the support of Edwin Booth. It
happened that the judge, who is him
self an old man, remembered the ac
tor, and he asked him if he did not
play Cassio to Booth's Othello in tho
year 1872. Poor old Maurice Pike sat
isfied the court that he was the guilty
party, and the magistrate refused to
pass a sentence. In fact, he told the
old actor that he would see that he
was provided for until the time when
he could communicate with the Actors’
Fund Society.
Valuable Clay Deposit Found.
On the Peabody estate in North Tar
rytown, N. 1., a clay deposit has been
found worth, it is declared, millions ot
dollars. The land was in the market
for two years at $40,000, with no pur
chaser. ’i i-e discovery was made by a
civil engineer who was surveying the
land. Borings have .been made (o a
depth of seventy-five feet and the bot
tom of the deposit has not been reach
ed. _
Extravagant speeches are often very
economical with the truth.
Only a fool’s tomorrow ruins tod?;-.
WHAT THE KiNG EATS.
What’s Fit for H*n.
A Mass, lpdy who has been through
Hie mill with the trials of the usual
housekeeper and mother relates an
Interesting incident that occurred not
long ago. She says:
"I can with all truthfulness say that
Grape-Nuts is the most beneficial of
all cereal foods in my family, young
as well as old. It is food and medi
cine both to us. A few mornings ago
at breakfast my little boy said:
'• ‘Mamma, does the King eat Grape
Nuts every morning?’
“I smiled and told him I did not
know, but that I thought Crape-Nuts
certainly made a delicious dish, fit for
a King.” (It's a fact that the King of
England and the German Emperor
both eat Crape-Nuts.)
“I find that by the constant use ot
Grape-Nuts not only as a morning co
real but also in puddings, salads, etc.,
made after the delicious recipes found
In the little book in each package it
is proving to be a great nerve food
for me besides having completely
cured a long standing case of indiges
tion.” Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich.
There Is no doubt Grape-Nuts Is the
most scientific food in the world.
Ten days’ trial of this proper food
in place of improper food will show In
steady, stronger nerves, sharper brain
and the power to “go” longer and
further and accomplish more. There’s
a reason.
„ J;00* *?. each pl£g- for tho famous
Uttle book, “The Road to WellviUe."