Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Economy is a virtue, but its practice
ought not to be reflected in laundry
1 bills.
New York uses 1.388.000 quarts of
milk a day. No statistics about other
beverages available.
Now’ a Philadelphia expose is threat
ened by Mayor Weaver. Can it be
that the Quaker City is stirring in its
6leep?
The published statement that the
milk trust is thinking of watering its
stock makes the New York Herald
simply cachinate.
A writer in the Chicago Record
Herald gives a formula for beautifying
the tress locks. This is Chicagoese
for washing the hair.
If you don't believe that a woman
can keep a secret, ask her her age.—
New York Herald.
But don’t look at her.
The cable says the duel between
Count Czaykowski and M. Yillette
“was well attended."’ It was quite a
social function, in fact.
The kaiser will permit army officers
. to drink to his health in water, feel
ing, no doubt, that the custom is not
likely to become dangerously preva
lent.
It is not true that activity in build
ing South American railroads is so
that defaulters may make the trip
through to Buenos Ayres without
change.
The first woman typewriter is still
thumping the keys. However, she was
married before she entered the busi
ness and was not a real typewriter,
after all.
The society for psychical research
wants $100,000 to find the way to the
hereafter. This might be encouraged
if we had discovered any royal road
to the here.
The Emperor of Japan has written
another poem, which consists of six
lines. He gets $3,000,000 a year, and
Is undoubtedly the highest salaried
poet on earth.
Those who claim that onions as a
diet sharpen the intellect will point
with pride to the assertion that Mrs.
Chadwick is addicted to the tear-com
pelling vegetable.
The Parisian hostess who enter
tained her guests with a “moving pic
ture” representation of a surgical op
eration evidently expected to make
them happy by contrast.
Even the sly fox will admit that the
friends who are opposed to putting a
bounty on his skin hope to preserve
him that they may get a chance to
hunt him down as a sport.
Tlfe man who has bought his on the
installment plan is not always sure
that Cicero was right when he spoke
of the possession of books as a peren
nial source of solace and joy.
Susan B. Anthony is 85 years old
and admits it. Alice Roosevelt is 21
and makes no secret of the fact. But
between Susan and Alice are many
women who would rather not tell.
' King Edward read his address at
the opening of parliament. He got
along very nicely, as the man who
wrote it was careful not to put in any
words the king could not pronounce.
A court of law has decided that if
a wife exceeds a liberal allowance for
dress her husband cannot be held for
her bills. Now will some court of law
kindly decide what is a liberal allow
ance ?
A Chicago woman sued for $50,000
for breach of promise, and got 50
cents. It should have been 30 cents,
tc have adequately represented her
mental condition when she heard the
verdict.
—
A negro woman 73 years of age has
graduated from a New Haven, Conn.,
•school. She has one big advantage.
Nobody will be likely to make flippant
references to her as a “sweet girl
graduate.”
A dispatch from Carson City, Nev.,
says that of fifty-five children whose
births were recorded there last year
only one was a boy—but it doesn’t say
that there were only fifty-five births
last year in Carson City.
The attempt to discipline automo
bile owners by fining the chauffeurs
has not proved the success that was
hoped for. Being arrested merely
comes to be regarded as a part of the
chauffeur's regular duty.
A well meaning person declares
that the use of tobacco shortens life
greatly and also that the habit, once
formed in youth, is invariably kept up
to extreme old age. This good reform
er seems to operate under a blanket
franchise.
An unknown young man 25 years of
age has won $5,000 in a prize story
contest. It would be well worth the
price of all of Carnegie’s millions to
have a ten-year lease on the feelings
■which are that young man’s at the
present time.
A New York woman left a will in
which it was stipulated that her ashes
should be buried in her work basket.
Perhaps she was afraid the hereafter
might sometimes seem long and tire
some, and figured that it would help
her to pass away the time if she could
have her sewing or knitting handy.
A bill has been presented in Con
gress to prevent divorced people from
holding public office. Naturally the
statesman who offers it thinks a pen
alty of that kind would end the
divorce business at once and forever.
IT IS IN JE BLOOD
Neither Liniments nor Ointments
Will Reach Rheumatism—How
Mr. Stephenson Was Cured.
People with iuflavied and aching
joints, or painful muscles ; people who
shuffle about with the aid of a cane or a
irutch and cry, Oh ! at every slight jar,
iro constantly asking,“What is the best
thing for rheumatism ?”
To attempt to cure rheumatism by ex
ternal applications is a foolish waste of
time. The seat of the disease is in the
blood, and while the sufferer is rubbing
lotions and grease on the skin the poison
In the circulation is increasing.
Delays in adopting a sensible treatment
are dangerous because rheumatism may
Ht any moment reach the heart and prove
fatal. The only safe course for rheumatic
sufferers is to get the best possible blood
remedy at once.
Mr. Stephenson's experience with this
obstinate and distressing affliction is
that of hundreds. He says :
“About a year ago I was attacked by
severe rheumatic paius in my left
shoulder. The pains were worse in wet
weather, and at these periods caused me
fche greatest suffering. I tried a number
of treatments and ointments, but they
failed to alleviate the pains.”
Then be realized that the cause must
be deeper and the pain only a surface in
dication. He adds:
“ I had heard Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale People recommended as a cure
for rheumatism, and when I found that
I was getting no relief from applications,
[ made up my mind that I would try
them. Before the first box was gone I
noticed that the paius were becoming
less frequent, aud that they were not so
severe as before. After the second box
and been nsed up I was entirely free
from discomfort, «md I have bad no traces
of rheumatism since.” .
The change in treatment proved by
almost immediate results that Mr.
Thomas Stephenson, who lives at No. 115
Greenwood street, Springfield, Mass.,
had found the true means for the purifi
cation and enrichment of his blood.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are without
doubt the best of all blood remedies.
They effect genuine and lasting cures in
rheumatism. They do not merely deaden
the ache, but they expel the poison from
the blood. These pills are sold by all
druggists.
Spread of English Language.
New Zealand, Samoa, Hawaii, most
of Polynesia and various small states
have permanently adopted our mother
tongue, and there is every reason to
believe that the 10,000,000 of Filipinos
will be using it in the course of time.
With the construction of the Panama
canal Central America also will prob
ably yield to its influences to a large
extent.
Definition of Railway Ticket.
A little school girl's definition of a
railroad ticket is worth repeating. In
a composition written in one of the
Boston primaries on “A Railway Jour
ney,” the little one says, among other
things: ‘‘You have got to get a ticket,
which is a piece of paper, and you
give it to a man who cuts a hole in it
and lets you pass through.”
Have Strange Beliefs.
Strange beliefs linger in many out
of-the-way corners of Britain. In Dev
onshire, for instance, the country folk
still make “cramp rings” out of old
coffin handles; and bracelets forged
out of nails on which suicides have
hanged themselves are worn by gouty
people, and deemed singularly effica
cious.
Cured Her Diabetes.
Halo, Ind., Feb. 27th.— (Special.) —
If what will cure Diabetes will cure
an form of Kidney Disease, as so
many physicians say, then Dodd’s
Kidney Pills will cure any form of
Kidney Disease. For Mrs. L. C. Bow
ers of this place has proved that
Dodd’s Kidney Pills will cure Dia
betes.
“I had Diabetes,” Mrs. Bowers says,
“mv teeth all became loose and part
of them came out. I passed a great
deal of water with such burning sen
sations I could hardly bear it. I lost
about 40 pounds in weight. I used
many medicines and doctored with
two local doctors but never got any
better till I started to use Dodd’s
Kidney Pills. They cured me so com
pletely that in three years I have had
ao return of the disease. I am a
well woman now, thanks to Dodd’s
Kidney Pills.”
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ailments from Backache to Bright’s
Disease. Cure your Backache with
them and you will never have Bright’s
Disease, Diabetes or Rheumatism.
Women Workers of London.
There are in actual practice in Lon
don five women builders, two women
architects, seven women house paint
ers and dozens of women who are em
ployed as internal house decorators.
Billion Dollar Gran*.
When the John A. Salzer Seed Co., of
La Crosse^ Wis., introduced this remark
able grass three years ago, little did they
dream it would be the most talked of grass
in America, the biggest, quick, hay pro
ducer on earth, but this has come to pass.
Agricultural Editors wrote about it,
Agr. College Professors lectured about it,
Agr. Institute Orators talked about it,
while in the farm home by the quiet fire
side, in the corner grocery, in the village
post-office, at the creamery, at the depot,
in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer’s
Billion Dollar Grass, that marvelous grass
flood for 5 to 14 tons hay per acre ana
ots of pasture besides, is always a theme
wrorthv of the farmer’s voice.
Then comes Bromus Inermis, than w-hich
there is no better grass or better perma
nent hav producer on earth. Grows wher
ever soil is found. Then the farmer talks
about Salzer's Teosinte, which produces
100 stocks from one kernel of seed, 11 ft.
high, in 100 days, rich-in nutrition and
greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and is
good for 80 tons of green food per acre.
Victoria Rape, the luxuriant food for
hogs and sheep, which can be grown at
25c a ton, and Speltz at 20c a bu., both
great food for sheep, hogs and cattle, also
come in for their share in the discussion.
JUST PEND 10c IN STAMPS
and this notice to John A. S*lzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their big catalog
and many farm seed samples. [W. N. L.J
The first regular English pantomime
la aald to have been “Harlequin Exe
cuted,” produced at the Lincoln’s Inn
Fields theater, December 26, 1717.
Think of the Lonely Ones.
Let us spare a thought for the lonely
ones.
From the moments gay and glad;
There are many whose- lives are thin and
poor.
Whose thoughts are cold and sad.
We caii spare a thought for the lonely
ones.
And perchance can find a way.
By a tender word, or a kindly look.
To brighten the lives of grey. •
See the toiling seamstress, wan and pale,
In the dingy, sordid room!
And the lonely youth, in his lodging, pine
For a glance of tile dear old home.
See the mother weep till her eyes are red,
By the empty cradle side.
And the widow reads for the hundredth
time
How her hero husband died!
Oh. look not far for the lonely ones,
For the mail who toils by thy side
May be feeling the gull between thee iwid
hirn
Is cruelly, cruelly wide.
And it may be a glance or a kindly word.
Or a tender thought to bless.
May brighten a soul that was lost for
years
In the plains of loneliness.
■—A. B. Bull, in “Philo and the Angel."
—
McCook-Prentice Duel.
“A misleading statement,” said Capt.
Samuel A. Harper of Peoria, “in le
gard to the so-called duel between Col.
Dan McCook and the son of George
D. Prentice is going the rounds. As
I witnessed the fight I know more
about it than those who didn't see it
and who apparently never heard of it
until recently.
“In December, 1S62, I was in com
pany H, Fifty-second Ohio infantry.
During the battle of Stone
River the left battalion of the
Fifty-second was detailed to guard a
supply train from Nashville to the
army at Slone River. Col. Dan Mc
Cook was then commanding the bri
gaue on post auiy as rsasnvme, uui,
eager to find excuse for going to the
front, he on this occasion took com
mand of his regiment and we started.
“When we reached the old asylum
on the Murfreesboro pike, about eight
miles out. Wheeler's cavalry attacked
us, and before the battalion could be
concentrated. cut a wide swath
through the moving train. When com
pany H double-quicked up from the
rear to the point of attack we met Col.
Dan coming to meet us from the head
of the train. At that minute we be
came hotly engaged, as did the detach
ment with the Colonel.
"In a few minutes I looked up to see
how Col. Dan was faring, and saw him
ar.d a Confederate officer riding in a
circle firing rapidly at each other with
their Colt revolvers. It was what the
boys called a beautiful fight, and fin
ally the Confederate officer fell from
his horse. Col. Dan rode on to form
the arriving companies, but Capt. Ed
ward L. Anderson of bis staff dis
mounted, placed the wounded officer
behind a tree, and gave him such as
sistance as he could render.
"Col. Dan soon had his men in hand
and drove Wheeler off. He delivered
the train to the army in front and
with his one battalion participated in
the closing fight of the battle of Stone
River. Meantime Capt. Anderson
learned that the officer wounded in
the spectacular fight was the son of
George D. Prentice and he so reported
to Col. Dan.
"As the latter was a warm personal
friend and great admirer of George D.
Prentice and had written him the day
before in regard to the course of the
war, he was grieved beyond measure
that he had shot the son of the old
friend of his family and himself. How
ever, he had young Prentice cared for
and used his influence to have him
sent home.
“When Col. McCook next met Mr.
Prentice (unexpectedly at a hotel in
Nashville), he hesitated to approach
him. Prentice noticing his constraint
and divining the cause, took the mat
ter in his own hands. He gave the
colonel the most cordial greeting, and
the two talked over the fight at the
asylum, the Colonel expressing his re
gret that the fortunes of war had
made him the antagonist of his old
friend’s son. When Col. Dan fell at
Kenesaw no more touching tribute
was paid his memory that that which
came from the pen of George D. Pren
tice."—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Expert Surgeon in the Ranks.
“You never could tell,” said the
colonel, “what kind of a man you
were picking up when a man enlisted
in the first, year of the civil war. All
sorts of men were eager to get into
the service, and most of them were
humble minded. I remember that in
one of the earlier regiments mustered
in Ohio we found a college president,
three lawyers and four doctors among
the privates, and hundreds of men
who were reticent as to their previous
standing in life. Much the same con
ditions prevailed, I know, in Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. In
that day the best of us did not believe
that any man was too good to carry a
musket in defense of the flag.
“Many of the men who enlisted in
cognito were not found out for months
or years. For example, when we were
going through the Carolinas in the
last year of the war Surgeon McCau
ley of the Ninety-eighth Ohio over
took an Irish sergeant on his way
from the field hospital to the fron^
Artillery and skirmish firing in front
indicated that the brigade was having
a hard fight, but the sergeant, well
equipped as to arms and ammunition,
and well fortified with ‘spiritus fru
menti,’ obtained at the field hospital,
where the surgeons were too busy
with the wounded to protect their
supplies, seemed indifferent.
“Surgeon McCauley, taking in the
situation, said: "Pat, what are you
doing back here when the regiment is
having a fight in front?’ Pat saluted
and said in reply: ‘Faith, and bedad,
doctor, it is meself that is going to
the same front where the boys are
fighting. I carried Jamey back there
to the hospital and strapped him to a
dure while they took off his leg. It is
a sorry day for the poor lad. These
field hospitals are little more than
butcher shops—a dure for an operat
ing table. Bad luck to the whole of
them.’ After trudging along quietly
for a few minutes Pat said .explosive
ly: ‘If I were no better sawbones
than the spalpeens back yander I
would never take scalpel in my hand
again.’
f “A change in the bearing of the
man. a change in the tone of voice,
led the doctor to suspect that Pat was
something more than a straggler who
had drifted back to the field hospital
simply to get a drop of the crr‘her,
and he plied him with questions so
skillfully that he soon learned that
Pat was a graduate of Dublin Surgical
college and had practiced surgery.
A few days later Pat, at the sugges
tion of Surgeon McCauley, w’as de
tailed to assist in the field hospital.
He proved to be. when sober, an ex
pert with saw’ and knife, and in a
few' days made the quickest and neat
est amputation recorded from Perry
ville to Bentonville. Later he made a
hip joint amputation, regarded at that
time as very difficult, and placed to
his credit one of the noted operations
of the war.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Early Days of the Great War.
“The volunteers,” said the captain,
‘‘went into the army in 1861 with
queer notions of military service. In
the first year of the war I heard men
well informed on general subjects
contend that a commanding officer
could not compel his men to march
in the rain or to fight on Sunday or
to make a campaign in winter. All
these things they declared were in
the army regulations, and if any gen
eral dared to disregard them there
would be trouble.
Betore our company nau neen six
months in the service it had made
several forced marches in the rain,
had waded rivers on three different
occasions, had fought its bloodiest en
gagement on Sunday, and the boys
had revised their army regulations to
read, ‘An officer may do with h!s
men what he pleases, providing al
ways that he licks the enemy.’
“At Stone River a captain of the
best disciplined company in the regi
ment ordered his men, retreating in
line, to stop and pull out a gun car
riage jammed in between two trees.
The captain and two men stepped out
and the company went on. The cap
tain and his two helpers were prison
ers in five minutes, and word came to
the company that the captain had
sworn he would have them all pun
ished for disobedience of orders as
soon as he was released from prison.
“In due time he was released and
returned to the regiment in a new
uniform. He came up with the col
umn just as the men had been or
dered to throw up intrem hments, and
when he reached his company the
men were as muddy as so many ditch
ers. They suspended work only a
minute to give the captain a cheer. In •
that minute the wag of the company
asked: ‘Whore is the captain. Cap?’
This forced the issue, and the cap
tain. laughing, said the joke was on
him., In fifteen minutes he was work
ing as hard as his men. but his new
uniform was a sight to behold."—Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
Nation’s Badge of Honor.
The department of Minnesota adopt
ed its badge in 1889. It is made of
copper mined in the state and bears
a representation of the state seal in
relief. It is pendent from the pin by
a cherry ribbon, the pin being in
scribed “G. A. R. Minnesota.”
Old War Horses.
These aid horses never forget the
calls, no matter how long it has been
since they last heard them.
One day some years ago, when I
was passing an open lot in the out
skirts of Chicago, I found a boy try
ing to play an old cornet, says a
writer in Forest and Stream. While
the hoy a.nd I were at work on the
cornet, an old negro ash hauler came
along driving an animal that had once
been a good horse, but was now only
a collection of skin and bones. The
horse stopped when he heard us and
stuck up his ears. I came to the con
clusion that he had been a cavalry
horse and asked the old negro where
he had got him. "From a farmer,” he
said. I could not find a “U. S." on the
horse; he had probably been dis
charged so long ago that his brand
had been worn off. But taking the
cornet I sounded the stable call, and
the horse began to dance.
“Hold fast to your lines, now,
uncle,” I warned the old negro. “I am
going to make that old horse do some
of the fastest running he has ever
done since he left the cavalry.” Then,
beginning with the call for the gallop,
I next sounded the charge, and the old
plug went plunging up the road at
his fastest gait, dragging his wragon
after him. I gave him the recall next,
and he came down to a walk, much
to the relief of the old negro. He said
that this was the first time he had
ever seen the horse run. He had n^v
er been able to get him to go faster
than a slow walk before. “You don’t
feed him well enough to get him to
do much running,” I told him. “That
horse, when he did have to run, got
his twev/e pounds of corn and all the
hay he could eat every day.”
Importance of Proper Food.
“The fate of nations,” says Brillat
Savarin, “depends on how they are
fed.”
{The Law of Life j
fc -— - A A — 0k A _ A A _ .. A A — A A A a a ^ A a
«*=■*’-V --U--—
Lo! this is the law of life;
A song of peace, and a day of strife;
A day.ot strife, and a song of peace—
And the thunder of battles that never
* cease.
And this is the law of lite!
From the morning gray of the farthest
day.
Flown the centuries there has come—
"Ve clash of arms, and the mad alarms
Of trumpet and fife and drum—
ihis eternal truth: That the War God s
ruth
_JS a^*n ^ the fiercest hate;
that Man. in the game, is as fiax to
flame—
And the pitiful fool of fate!
From the days forgot—and when time
was not.
And the first man stood a lone
rum? :L;iVS "f o!d when barons bold
m/ their castles of oak and stone.
\vLtf»Y,r n S and rtpht in a vvild delight
a ",the ,"ider of church and state;
And Man, in the game, was the moth in
the fianu—
And the pitiful fool of fate!
b t om the days of old—to the days of
gold J
That we moderns so highly prize.
Hate the cries and gtcans aiul tlie sighs
and moans
Of the dying assailed the skies.
And to slave and tight from morn till
night—
Is the rule of tin* wise and great;
And Man, in the game, is as flax to
flame— ,
And the pitiful fool of fate!
Yea, the War God quaffs of our blood —
and laughs
At the mothers who give us birth;
For his skull-decked throne is the brawn
and bone
Of strenuous sons of earth!
And the months roll on—and the vears
are gone.
Yet his passion does not abate;
And Man. in the game, is the moth In the
flame—
And the pitiful fool of fate!
For this is the law of life:
A song of peace, and a day of strife;
A day of strife, and a song of peace—
And thunder of battles that never cease.
And t^iis is the law of life!
—Ohio State Journal.
Disraeli and His Ancestry
Even in old age, when he was jour
neying to the grave full of honors,
Lord Beaconsfield spoke proudly of
his Hebrew ancestry; but Mr. Lueien
M olf is at some pains to prove that
the whole story of the Disraelis, as
set forth in his memoir of his father,
is, to say the least, unreliable. Savs
Mr. Wolf:
“The statement that the name Dis
raeli had ‘never been borne before or
since by any other family’ is only
true of Lord Beaconsfield himself, for
he was the first Disraeli. His father
to the end of his days spelt his name
D israeli, and his grandfather, who
first adopted the nobiliary particle,
was known in his young days, like
his father before him, as simple Is
raeli Nor is it quite true to say that
the name stands absolutely alone in
the world’s onomastieon. Throughout
tie 8th century a Huguenot family,
named Disraeli, was a resident in
London. It became extinct with one
Benjamin Disraeli, of Beeehey Park,
Carlow, a rich money-lender and no
tary of Dublin, who died in 1814. There
is also to-day, in Vienna, a family
named Disraeli, but they rather tend
to confirm Lord Beaconsfield's hypoth
esis, since they have only recently
adopted the name. Even in its most
authentic form of Israeli the name
was not unprecedented in the 5th cen
tury, for it had been borne with con
siderable distinction by Jews 500
years before, and it was still current
at the time of the Spanish exodus.”
Mr. Wolf traces the obscure origin
of the family from the time when a
certain Benjamin D'Israeli was born
at Certo. Ferrara, the family having
probably come from the Levant. This
Benjamin D’Israeli emigrated to Eng
land in his 8th year, and was the an
cestor of Lord Beaconsfield. Mf.
Wolf mentions incidentally the inter
esting fact that Mr. Pinero is a de
scendant of a collateral branch of the
family.
Few Good Reading Clerks
“The meeting of congress' reminds
me that it is one of the rarest things
:n the world to find a good reading
clerk,” said an old reporter, “and
there is, I suppose, a very good reason
for it. As a matter of fact, it takes a
peculiar type of man to make a read
ing clerk. There are a great many
men who can read well for a while.
But the man wanted by the large de
liberative bodies must be able to sus
tain himself, and in order to do this
Jie must learn how to control his
voice. In fact, he must be as careful
of his voice as the artistic singer.
“Reading clerks in legislative bod
ies often have a peculiar condition
to deal with on account of the charac
ter of legislative halls. The men who
read for Congress also read under
difficulties. During the last national
conventions of the Republican and
Democratic parties I had occasion to
appreciate the difficulties of finding
good reading clerks. Each conven
tion selected a number of reading
clerks, but the service was not at all
satisfactory. It was impossible to
hear the clerks a short while after
they began to read. They would pitch
their voices in a key so high that col
lapse vocally was inevitable. The
voices would soon become husky and
the men could not be heard at all.
Another man would be pressed intc
service with the same result.
“On account of these difficulties it
required the services of a number of
men to get the platforms and resolu
tions before the conventions. And at
that the reading was of a most unsat
isfactory nature, for even the dele
gates who were required to vote on
the various propositions involved
could not hear and did not know
what they were voting for. Good read
ing clerks are indeed rare and it
would seem that young men with am
bition might find it profitable to equip
themselves along this line, where they
are endowed with voices capable of
being developed.”
Queer Beliefs in Papua
Among the most curious supersti
tions of the people of Papua is the
belief in Fifi. says a recent sojourner
in the region of New Guinea. Fifi
is supposed to be a spirit always in
visible but occasionally audible. It is
considered a bringer of both good and
bad luck, but no attempt is made to
propitiate it.
The cult is so absurd, says the De
troit News-Tribune, that the wonder
is that the people believe in it at all,
yet although there is apparently noth
ing supernatural on the face of it the
Papuans are willing to credit its man
ifestations.
When a tribe wishes to know its
luck and whether hostile attack is im
minent the rites of Fifi are celebrated.
This is always done at night. The
tribe gathers round the fire and one
girl is told off to be the medium of
Fifi. She is chosen because she is
supposed to possess some peculiar oc
cult power fitting her especially for
this office. She retires to some cor
ner near at hand where she is not
seen and from there she whistles in
different keys.
The assembled savages, on hearing
the sound, immediately exclaim that
Fifi has come and judge by the whis
tles whether the omens are favorable
or not. The priestess is not above the
Delphic trick of framing her oracles
to suit political necessity or her own
inclinations and likings. One would
think that a people of such general
common sense as the Papuans would
see the possibility of deception, but
they have implicit faith in Fifi's man
ifestations. Certain insects were also
regarded as Fifi. When one species
of firefly entered the house at night
bad luck or immediate attack and ex
termination by hostile tribes would be
predicted. This is, perhaps, the most
ludicrous phase in the beliefs of this
fascinating and, on the whole, amiable
people.
Finding Warrant for War
On both sides of the great contro
versy which took such fearful shape
in the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, but especially on the Protestant
side, the minds of men were devoted,
not to seeking that peace which was
breathed upon the world by the New
Testament, but to finding warrant for
war—and especially the methods of
the chosen people in waging war
against unbelievers—in the Old Testa
ment. Did any legislator or professor
of law yield to feelings of humanity,
he was sure to meet with protests
based upon authority of Holy Scrip
ture. Plunder and pillage were sup
ported by reference to the divinely
approved “spoiling of the Egyptians”
by the Israelites. The right to mas
sacre unresisting enemies was based
upon the command of the Almighty to
the Jew* in the twentieth chapter of
Deuteronomy. The indiscriminate
slaughter ot' whole population* was
justified by a reference to the divine
command to slaughter the nations
round about Israel. Torture and mu
tilation of enemies was sanctioned by
the conduct of Samuel against Agag,
or King David against the Philistines,
of the men of Judah agaiust Adoni
bezek. Even the slaughter of babes
in arms was supported by a passage
from the Psalms. "Happy shall he be
that taketh and dasheth thy little
ones against the stones." Treachery
and assassination were supported by
a reference to the divinely approved
Phinehas. Ehud, Judith ami Jael;
murdering the minister* of unap
proved religions by Elijah * slaughter
of the priests of Haal— Andrew D.
White, in Atlantic.
Senate Gavel Lasts Long
Assistant Sergeant at Arms Stew
art of the United States senate has
ordered a silver band for the gavel
that is used by Senator Fry© in call
ing the senators to order. This gavel
is unlike most of the symbols of au
thority wielded by presiding officers.
It consists of a piece of ivory shaped
like an hour glass. Nobody knows
the origin or age of the gavel, save
that it has been used in the seuate for
more than 100 years. It is yellow
with age and is slick and smooth as
the result of long handling.
“The history of this gavel,’’ said Mr.
Stewart the other day, “is wrapped in
mystery. We have traced it back tar
enough to know that it cam* to Wash
ington from Philadelphia in ISQ1, and
has been on the vice president's table
ever since. I have Just ordered a
silver band with an inscription for
the gavel, it will bear the date 1901.
One hundred years after the arrival
of this gavel in Washington we
bought an inkstand for the use of the
presiding officer of the senate. The
stand and the gavel are the only
pieces of furniture allowed permanent- !
ly on his desk in the senate.”
■ The senate is rtu h a decorous body
that the vie • president never breaks
the boards in his desk pounding for
order, over in the house the carpen
ter has to put in a couple of new
planks in the speaker's table every
session. During Reed's regime the
boards had to be renewed every
month or so.
COULDN’T LIFT TEN POUNDS.
Doan’s Kidney Pills Brought Strength
and Health to the Sufferer. Ma
king Him Feel Twenty-fiva
Year* Younger.
J. 53. Oorton, farmer am! lum’ ^
^ man, of Deppe,
r*. cj., says. *
b u ff e r e d for
years with ray
back. It w a*
bo bad that I
could not walk
y any distance
nor even ride in
]J( easy buggy. I
J'j do not believe I
/ could have
s* 1 raised ten
a. ». co.to* pounds of
weight from the ground, the pain wa»
so severe. This was my condition
when I began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. They quickly relieved me ami
now I am never troubled as I was.
My back is strong and I can walk or
ride a long distance and feel just .*»
strong as I did twenty-five years a-,o.
I think so much of Doan's Kidney
Pills that I have given a supply of tho
remedy to some of my neighbors and
they have also found good results. If
you can sift anything from this ram
bling note that will be of any servlet*
to you, or to anyone suffering from
kidney trouble, you are at liberty to
do so.”
A TRIAD FREE—Address Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all dealers. Price, 50 cents.
Swedish Bridal Superstition.
The Swedish bride, who is sutiersti
tious, fills her pockets with bread,
which she dispenses to everyone she
meets on her way to the church, every
piece she disposes of averting, as she
believes, a misfortune.
Superior quality and extra quantify
must win. This is why Defiance Stan h
is taking the place of all others.
David is not the only man who ha5*
flattered a loyal servant that he m:cLt
set him in the front of the battle to
secure his fall.
Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever ’>nl
for all affections of the throat and 1 :r.. - Wit
O. Endslkt, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, ’.dtW.
To the receptive soul the river of
life pauseth not nor is diminished.—
George Eliot.
A HEALTHY OLD AGE
OFTEN THE BEST PART OF LIFE
_
Help for Women Paaslnsr Through
Change of Life
—
Providence has allotted us each at
least seventy years in which to fu'fill
i our mission in life, and it is generally
our own fault if we die prematurely.
Nervous exhaustion Invites disease.
; This statement is the positive truth.
When everything becomes a burden
and you cannot walk a few blocks with
out excessive fatigue, and you break
out into perspiration easily* and your
face flushes, and you grow excited and
shaky at the least provocation, and
you cannot bear to be crossed in any
thing, you are in danger : vour nerves
have given out; you n».ed building up
at once 1 To bnild up woman’s nerv
ous system and during the period of
change of life we know of no better
medicine than Lydia E. Pinkharu's
Vegetable Compound. Here is an
Illustration. Mrs Mary L. Koehne. 371
Garfield Avenue, Chicago, 111., writes:
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never disappoints : so when I felt that I was
nearingthe change of life I commenced treat
ment with it. I took in all about six bottles
and it did me a great deal of good. Is
stooped my dizzy spells*. pains in my bncic
amt the headaches with which I had suffered
for months before taking the Comp>und. I
feel that if it had not leen for this great med
icine for women that I should not have been
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young, and will surely cure all female disor
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Mrs. Pinkham. of Lynn. Mass., in
vites all sick and ailing women to write
her for advice. Her great experience
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SOUTHERN GON 0ITION S AN D
POSSIBILITIES.
In no part of the United States has there be*n
•itch wonderful Commercial. Industrial and
Agricultural development as along the 1 ,e* ,f
the Illinois Central and the Yazoo 4 Miss *
Valley Hailroads in the States of Tenness
Mississippi and Louisiana, within the «.„m te
years. Cities and towns have doubled th- ■
C>pulation. Splendid business blocks in>»
‘en erected. Karin lands have more th
doubled In value. Hundreds of lndttstr.es h . •«
bet>n established an*l as a result there is a
unprecedented demand for
D«y Laborers. Skilled Workmen, and
Especially Farm Tenants.
Parties with small capital, seeking an oppor
tunity to purchase a farm home; farmers who
would prefer to rent for a couple of years befor*
purchasing,i and day laborers la Helds or fac
tories should address a postal card to Mr J b\
Merry, Assistant Oeneral Passenger Agent.
Dubuque. lowa. who will promptly mall printed
matter concerning the territory abova d©.
■oribed, and gtr# specific replica to all inquiring