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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA. *-- ■ ■ ■- ■ * »' —- -"•» A Parisian complains that kissing is out of fashion in France. Import the American girl! The latest Paris edict is that women must be thin. It must have been or dered by a majority vote. The Boston Globe notes with lively interest the release of 1000 Newch •wang junks loaded with beans. The earl has the actress. Or is it the actress that has the earl? Either way it is safe to defer congratulations. A new novel is dedicated: “To the women with red hair”—probably in the hope that the novel will be also read. “Where is heaven?” anxiously asks the New York Herald. But what earth ly difference can it possibly make to the Herald? Oyama says he attributes all his success to the virtues of his emperor. The old man probably isn't telling all he thinks, however. s •' — — ■ i — A stock broker says it is just as safe n<ro- as it ever was for the poor to put their savings into Wall street. He is a truthful man. The wicked Arabs seem to have n ade a great mistake in kidnaping Count de Zegonzac. French counts never have any money. Beer is 25 cents a glass in Panama. The republic really has done remark J-bly well to get along for more than a jear without a revolution. Investigation probably would show that neither of the armies in the far east worried greatly about China's neutrality at critical times. The young Chicago medical student who is curing rheumatism by hypnot ism ought to be able to find plenty of practice, if he can keep it up. I? President Roosevelt would solve the servant girl problem for them the women of the country would be will ing to chance it on race suicide. “Battleships,-' says Lord Charles Beresford. oracularly, “are cheaper than war.” However, permanent, uni versal peace is cheaper than either. That the Marquis of Anglesey left a valuable estate at Llanfairpwil gwynggll is a fact and not a typo graphical error, as might be supposed. If any bird is to assume supremacy in the scheme of creation, as Prof. Williston thinks, there can be no doubt that it will be the American hen. Can the Pennsylvania judge who has decided on the bench that the husband is "master in his own house” sustain the decision of the court at home? What's this Germany complains that America pilfers her literary ideas! Our beer may be more or less a plagiarism; but we deny the literary impeachment. The scientific theory that petro leum is derived from old fossils looks bke an unkind and wholly uncalled loi' reflection upon Mr. Rockefeller’s personal appearance. A Berlin professor claims to have discovered a serum that will cure hay fever. And a host of sufferers may be expected to remark next August that they “hobe id’s drue.” Gen. Ma is heard from at last in the vicinity of the interesting town of Tungchaintze, but our other old friend, Gen. Pflug. seems to have pfaded entirely out of sight. Why should the Congress of Moth erhood propose to start a newspaper tc spread their gospel? Isn’t every newspaper in the country in favor of babies and lots of them? Why crowd? t • — .. — - - ■■ - —-- — - Mr. Grover Cleveland celebrated the completion of his sixty-eighth year by starting off on a hunting trip. The jackrabbits agree with Dr. Osier that a man ought to retire before reaching that age. The United States circuit court has ruled that fancy socks must pay duty as embroidery. If the embroidery takes the shape of “clocks” would the court require the hose to be en tered as timepieces? Any possible rumor that Slugger Jef fries is to play la a piece by George Bernard Shaw is denied in advance by the press agent. When there is slugging to be done in a play Mr. Slaw prefers to do it himself. Mrs. Cornelia Claflin says man’s ‘bones, muscles and nerves are con structed to endure for 400 years. We are not so certain about the bones and muscles, but some nerves are built on that model all rjght. A Chicago man after having had a disagreeable experience with a lady who was able to wipe up the floor with him advises men to avoid marry ing girls who are heavier than them selves. He ought in all fairness to have a royalty from the producers of anti-fat concoctions. A correspondent writes to ask if the story cabled over from Paris about a French surgeon being sued for having dropped his eyeglasses and inadvert ently sewed them up in a surgical wound of one of his patients, is in tended to be serious. We reserve cur reply until we get the verdict. The Jersey City police departments decision to place pianos in thd station houses, for the patrolmen to play on in their leisure hours, shows what constant association with the criminal ciasses will do even to good men. i A Broken Chord All idly to and fro Her window curtain sweeps, In the lamplight’s rosy glow She sleeps, my lady sleeps. And I catch the glint of gold From her tresses uncontrolled. Through the curtain’s filmy fold. And the heart within me leaps As she sleeps! My lady sleeps! Ah. then does she dream of me? Mine the dearest name she keeps In her ivory treasury? She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Soft! Her blossom lips now part! Has she secret to impart? And I wait with trembling heart! Nay. a sound my soul abhors! For she snores! My lady snores! | —E. D. Pierson. I (Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Tub. Co.) cess, me preuy one. just nome irom college, lounged back In an arm chair, her white hands clasped behind her head and her amused eyes on her elder sister. Rachel, the plain one sat in the midst of drifts of white, busily sewing. And there was that in the sewing, or in the cloth, or in what it all meant, that had turned Rachel’s plainness into something nearly akin to beauty. “Rachel!” called a voice up the stairway. “Oh. Rachel! Come down a moment and help me with this side board. 1 can't move it alone.” The girl emerged, smiling, from among the snowy drifts, and ran down stairs, light of foot and of heart. She came back presently, washed her hands and set to work again. “Sister!” shouted a boyish voice from the gallery, “lend * me another spool of that coarse thread. I’ve got the kite out ever so far, and my cord’s out.” She arose again and went out; and Bess heard her talking merrily as she tied the thread to the cord Danny held. When she returned and sat down at the machine, there was not a ripple of impatience on her content ed face. “How can you stand it?” asked Bess, still more amused. “I have kept time. In the last half hour you have been called away from your work eight times; and yet you come back looking so seraphic that it makes one want to shake you.” “I don’t get much time to sew,” Rachel answered, blushing a little. “But, then, I haven’t many things to make, and it won’t take so long. And they’ll all miss me a good deal. I must do what I can for them, while I am here.” “It’s the most ridiculous thing,” said Bess, thoughtfully, “that you should be thinking of marrying! Somehow, nobody would ever have thought it of you. Why, you have never even had a lover that I can remember; and I always had the house full of them, from the time I was a little thing with my hair in a pig tail. And here am I, not thinking of being engaged yet— and there is sly, demure you, going to marry the finest man in all the country round. I’d just like to know how you did it. Miss Rachel Brand.” Rachel blushed more and more. “I hardly know how it was,” she said shyly. “Brother John brought him over for a week, and they went hunting a good deal—and I was busy, of course, for mother was not very well that week and Susan went home to her sister’s funeral—so I had the cooking to do—and Brother John is so thoughtless—he would persist in bringing him into the kitchen. You don’t know how mortified I was-” Bess broke into a laugh. “Oh, you deceitful minx!” she cried. “You and Brother John made it up between you, I know—luring him out there where he could see our careful Martha with her sleeves rolled up, Conducting herself as a busy house wife should. And this to a man who has been living in a boarding house! No wonder he fell a prey to your art ful devices! Well, when he comes this evening, I shall make myself duly scarce. After falling in love with the Model Woman, as set forth in my sister Rachel, he would not even deign to look at a useless creature “How can you stand it?” asked Bess. like me, who couldn’t even boil water decently.” And Bess took herself off, notwith standing Rachel’s laughing protests, and wrote letters until she wearied of them, and left the wind to blow them where it would. The wind blew one of them down Into the orchard at the side of the house, where Rachel sat witn a dainty little piece of handwork, while the low afternoon sun sent pale grr-on rays through the apple boughs. RaH el caught It as It flew past her, not knowing what it was, until her eyes had sweot along several lines. “-amused at Rachel, who was al ways cut out vor an old maid, we decided so long ago. She sits up there, all day long—except when they call her for something, which is about every two minutes, for Rachel is a helpful somebody, and not at all like her good-for-nothing sister—she sits there, I sav, sewing, sewing, on her trousseau—‘sewing the long white seam,’ as Jean Ingelow says—and with the most calmly, placidly happy ex pression on her face, as though the earth and love and everything like that had been made just for her. It makes me-” i » wr w - t _i .. “Do you still want us to be married?” she whispered. Rachel’s eyes were wet with a shin ing happy moisture, when Danny came running, sending a jubilant shout before him: “Sister! Yonder he comes! An' I bet he’s brought me a new baseball!’’ “Mr. Arnold, this is Bess,” she said, a little later, blushing and smiling, until even one who did not love her very much would have seen that she was no longer plain. * • • “I think I shall go over to Ark wright on a visit to Ethel Joyner,” said Bess a week later. Somehow, her va cation was beginning to pall upon her and she was restless. “I think I would not go,” said Rachel, quietly. She was still sewing, but rather slowly; as though there were no need for haste. As Bess looked at her with quick inquiry she said: “Mother is anxious for you to help her a little—or at least, to want to help her—and—well, I wouldn't go.” And then Rachel hummed a low tune, to show how much she was at ease. Other days went by, and Rachel pushed the machine back against the wall. “There is no haste,” she said. “I am a little tired of sewing so long. I think I will rest for a few days.” And she rested, not being strong enough to go on a picnic with her lover and the family, and feeling too tired for the walk to church. Bess grew more irritable, and began letters and threw them into the fire, and started books, and forgot how far she had read. “I think I shall go to the city and find employment,” she suggested; and Rachel turried upon her with a pale face. "Bess, you shall not go!” she cried, with a little desolate wail in her voice. “Just stay here—it will all come right. I—I need you to stand by me. You see—I—I am not quite sure whether I will marry Fred—after all. I am not positive that I love him and one ought to be very sure, don’t you think so?” And with lips white and trembling, she looked into Bessie’s eyes. The next day Bess went out for a walk, and before the walk was fin ished she was on her way to see Ethel, leaving a saucy, merry little note behind her. “I’m not a very use ful creature,” she said to herself, “but at least I can do this one generous thing—while there is time.” . Rachel was very pale when she met her lover. “Bess has gone away,” she said quietly, with her eyes on his face. “She grew a little restless, I suppose —and she has gone over to Arkwright to see a friend of hers-” “Yes?” said Mr. Arnold, with friend ly inquiry. “She’ll come back to our wedding, of course?” Rachel’s face grew rosy red under a sudden rush of color. "Do you—do you still—want us to be married?” she whispered; and his look of utter amazement was sufficient answer. “You haven’t been like yourself since Bess came home,” he said wratb fully. “Somehow she didn’t take a fancy to me—though I tried with all my might to win her over. Never 1 mind—it’s all right now.” • * • Half an hour later he tried to cal: her down from that upper room. where the machine was making « steady whir, as of a whole colony of exceedingly busy bees. “Come down to the orchard—it’s lovely under the trees. What are you doing there, anyhow, Rachel?” “Sewing the long white seam,” she murmured, as she rose to answer his call; and Bessie’s legacy of peace was on her face as she went. FORTUNE WORRIES POOR WOMAN Was Bequeathed a Neat Sum and Can’t Get Used to It. ‘ The wealthy do have their wor ries,” said Mrs. Cynthia Nicholson, who is worth $50,000, looking up to day from the steaming washtub over which she had toiled for many years to support her family, and which she finds it difficult to leave in spite of hei snug little fortune. “I have a whole lot of money now,” she continued. “1 have put it in bank, but goodness burglars rob banks, and so do bank officers! I want somebody to watch the bank officers and somebody tc watch the watchers.” Judge Henry S. Stevenson yesterday : afternoon sought out Mrs. Nicholson, who is a widow, in her rooms on the third floor, rear, of a tenement house in Harriet street, says a Bridgeport (Conn.) special to the New’ York Her ald. and told her that her uncle, Will iam Germond of Middletown, had died, leaving an estate of which her share will be between $40,000 and $50,000, and handed her a certified check for $1,000 as the first installment of her fortune. “I toiled for forty years,” said this energetic widow, who is now’ 59 years old. “without being able to save a single penny for a rainy day, and I never can get used to having money,' It troubles me. It makes me suspi cious and I keep thinking everyone is trying to swindle me out of it. 1 would like to build myself a comfort able home, but I am afraid of the real estate agents and builders, and I know I could never trust a lawyer. “Of course I am glad I haven’t to work any more, and the children will be able to live well on the money when I am gone, but I was happy enough before I became wealthy. Now I am worried half to death.” NOT ENEMY OF FARMERS. Investigation Shows Hawks Feed Largely on Vermin. Why shoot the chicken hawk when it comes within range? Why shoot any hawk? True, we all do so, or have done so. But why? For the most part, we fear, because we were simply savages out to slay; indeed, more savage than the savages, for the latter rarely killed animals which were not dangerous or which could not be used. Now, about the hawk, let us go once more to Uncle Sam, who is passing wise in many things. Uncle Sam has been studying hawks. Of 124 stomachs of marsh hawks which were examined, 45 per cent, of the hawks had been feeding on mice, 18 per cent, on other small mammals, 18 per cent, on reptiles, frogs and in sects, and only a very low percentage on poultry and small birds. We do not find that this bird was so very de structive to quail and partridges, aft er all; and it is under this latter sup position that most sportsmen shoot hawks when they find opportunity. Uncle Sam concludes that the marsh hawk is a beneficial bird, and that its presence and increase should be en couraged in every possible way. Then why shoot it down, as it flits by, striving, in its own ancient and appointed way, to get on in the world, just as each of us is striving? We counsel each sportsman to think the matter over, and to remember that the results of scientific investigation are more conclusive than hasty sup positions.—Field and Stream. Thought They Were Real Steps. There was one amusing incident at the concert of Eugene Ysaye a few nights ago that very few people in the audience were aware of. In fact, it was not until after the concert that the real truth of the matter was known. Everyone who has been in the Academy of Music is familiar with the drop curtain representing the entrance of some sort of a temple with a lot of steps running back from the stage—or, to identify it more perfect ly, it is the curtain with the huge word asbestos written across the cen ter. When Ysaye finished his first num ber he walked toward this curtain, halted, looked about and then walked to the side and off. No one could ex plain this odd move until after the concert and then the violinist con fessed that he had glanced at the painted steps and with his mind con' centrated on the applause of his audi ence behind him had mistaken the painted steps for real ones and it wa^ not. until he had reached the curtain that he realized his mistake.—Phila delphia Press. To a Girl. I know what is the object Of that little sigh. And why the secret languor That lurks within your eye. You smile? You'll learn some morning, Sweet maid, why this is so; Perchance you now suspect it, I know! I know what things you dream of, And what you see In sleep; Writ on the brow the secrets 1 read, that you would keep! You smile? You’ll learn some morning, Sweet maid, why this is so; Perchance you now suspect it, 1 know! I know your laughter’s reason, And why you weep apart; I penetrate the mystery Of your woman's heart! You smile? You'll learn some morning. Sweet maid, why this is so; ■What, feeling, you know naught of T nast all feeling, know! —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Sister Found Out. In direct disobedience of orders, tempted by the frozen surface of the pond. Tommy tried to skate upon it, but the treacherous ice gave way and he fell In. Returning home shiver ing from his icy bath, he met his sis' ter. She sympathized with him in his misfortune, brought him dry clothing and concealed his disobedience from his parents. Next day she came from the pond in a similar plight. In uttei amazement Tommy surveyed her drip ping form, exclaiming! “I told you the ice wouldn’t bear skating on Jennie. Why did you try it?” “I wanted to see for myself whether R would or not,” was his sister’s tear ful reply—New York Times. • Fl^ronT^ President Roosevelt was inaugurat ed with great “pomp and circum stance.” There wss a spectacular pro cession with banners and brass bands. There were hundreds of thousands of people to witness the procession and when the president took the oath of office he looked upon the upturned faces of a multitude. The newspapers printed page after page of descrip tive articles, later on the weekly pa pers showed it in pictures and then the magazines had their say. In what strange contrast all this is with the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, just one hundred years ago. The National Intelligencer, the lead ing newspaper of Washington at that time, gave the following report of Mr. Jefferson's inauguration: "On Monday, after Thomas Jeffer son had taken the oath of office as president of the United States, the oath of office was likewise adminis tered to George Clinton as vice-presi dent of the United States. After the delivery of the speech the president was waited on by a large assem blage of members of the legislature, citizens and strangers of distinction, and a procession was formed at the navy yard, composed of the several mechanics engaged, which marched to military music, displaying with con siderable taste the various insignia of the professions.” On the 14th of March following, the Boston newspapers heard the news and announced Mr. Jefferson's ap pointments, one of them adding that “We understand these appointments have received the unanimous sanction of the senate.” An account more in detail was giv en in July by Augustus Foster, Brit ish minister in Washington at the time. In one of his letters home he said: “I don’t know’ whether I have yet transmitted to you an account of the installation of the successor of Monte zuma in last March. On the 4th he proceeded on horseback from the pal ace, which is of white stone and the largest building here, and attended by his secretary and groom, rode up the long avenue of Pennsylvania to the capitol, which is an unfinished rival in stone of the Roman building of that name, and dressed in black and silk stockings, delivered a speech of some length to a mixed assembly of sena tors. populace, representatives and ladies. It was too low spoken to be heard well. He then kissed the Book and swore before the chief justice to be faithful to the constitution, then bowed and retired as before. WThen he received all who chose attended the levee, and even toward the close blacks and dirty boys drunk his wine, and lolled upon his couches before us all. There was nothing dignified in the whole affair.”—Birmingham Age Herald. German Made First Watch Peter Henlein of Nuremberg, in Ger many, about 1500, is now generally credited with the invention of the portable watch. The earliest watches were naturally rathei; crude; this is shown by the few specimens still in existence. They were circular in shape, not oval or egg-shaped, and en tirely made of iron. In place of the round balance was a straight one called “foliot.” Like almost all watches up to the year 1790, they were provided with the verge escapement. The hair spring is absent; it was not invented till 150 years later. In order to obtain a tolerably uniform rate an upright hog’s bristle was used, against which the foliot strikes. The uneven traction of the spring they endeavor ed to prevent by means of a brake. Great, accuracy was not aimed at which is shown by the fact that the oldest watches with very few excep ticns up to about the year 1700 indi cated only the hours, the minute hand being entirely absent. While the first watches were rath er cnide. there appeared only twenty or thirty years after their invention works that are termed almost techni call}* perfect. The iron plates and wheels had given place to finely gilt brass ones. The pinions were ot steel and polished, the cocks artistic ally engraved, and the pillars neatly turned. Greater precision was obtain ed when, about the year 1660, the hair spring was invented by Dr. Hooke, and also, but entirely independent of the latter, by Huyghens. This opened the way for the introduction of the minute hand, which is found quite gen erally around the year 1700. Some of the oldest watches were already furnished with a striking mechanism. About the year 1600 watches with alarms were made, and in 1691 Bar lowe, an Englishman, introduced the repeating watch. Toward the year 1800 there was made for the first time the second hand in watches. The cyl.nder es capement is known to be quite old, for it was originated as far back as 1710, but was not generally adopted until about 1840. The lever escape ment, the one used in the majority of American watches of the present time, was invented about 1765 by Thomas Mudge. Dr. Osiers Quick Diagnosis Dr. Williams Osier of Baltimore, the famous medical specialist of Johns Hopkins, who set the country by the ears because of his assertions con cerning the uselessness of men after they reach the age of 60, has the reputation among his brethren for getting the biggest fees for the least work of any man in the profession. A story which is current among ■Washington physicians is about a rich old man whose wife has been ail ing for months. All the local doctors had tried their hands without much result. The old lady had passed the allotted term of life, 70 years, and was suffering from the general break ing up of her vital organs. The old man, genuinely fond of his wife, thought the doctors did not know what the trouble was, and when some one suggested the renowned diagnostician of Baltimore he jumped at the chance. He telegraphed to Dr. Osier, but that learned gentleman was very busy and could not come. The distracted man wired again, telling Dr. Osier to leave his work and come . no matter what the cost. The doctor answered that it would require S10C to bring him to Washington on that particular morning and the old man wired: “All right; only come at once.” The doctor arrived in due season and was met at the station by the husband. During the drive to the bouse the doctor told the man blunt ly that his fee must be paid in ad \ance. and the cash was promptly produced. After listening to a few details ot his patient's illness from the trainee nurse. Dr. Osier was ushered into the sick room. He felt the woman's pulse, listened to the heart and took the respiration after the approveo method. Then he went down stairs where the husband was anxiously waiting for him. “The tiouble with your wife.” he answered coolly, as he carefully ad justed his gloves, “is that she is 70 years old. That is all.” And before the astonished man could get his breath, he heard the cab door bang and the doctor was on his way back to Baltimore. When Giants Roamed Earth The past was more prolific in the production of giants than the present. In 1830 one of these giants, who was exhibited at Rouen, was ten feet high, and the giant Gaiabra, brought from Arabia to Rome in the time of Claud ius Caesar, was the same height. Fan num, who lived in the time of Eu gene II, was eleven and one-half feet in height. The Chevalier Scrog in his journey to the Peak Teneriffe found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of a giant who had sixty teeth and who was not less than fifteen feet high. The giant Faragus, slain by Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne, according to reports, was twenty-eight feet high. In 1814 near St. Gernad was found the tomb of the giant Iso lent, who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1590 near Rouen was found a skeleton whose head held a bushel of corn and which was nine teen feet in height. The giant Bacrt was twenty-two feet high. In 1623 near the castle in Dauphine a tomb was found thirty feet long, six teen feet wide and eight feet high, on which were cut in gray stone the wards, “Kentolochus Rex.” The skel eton was found entire and measured twenty-five and one-fourth feet high, ten feet across the shoulders and five feet from breastbone to the back. But France is not the only country where giant skeletons have been un earthed. Near Palermo, Sicily, in 1516 was round the skeleton of a giant thirty feet nigh. Near Magrino, on the same island, in 1816, was found the skeleton of a giant of thirty feet whose head was the size of a hogs head and each tooth weighed five ounces. Charity Machine a Wonder “A charity machine,” said the sail- i or, ‘‘stands in front of the house of Edison Murphy of Croydon. Any tramp that comes along can get a cent out of the machine. ‘‘The tramps don’t believe their eyes at first. They stand and look at the charity machine in a knowing way. They say to themselves that they ain’t green, and it’s no use tryin’ to do them. “But there the big, cast iron In strument stands, and it states plain and direct on the dial of it that any' poor person, if he turns the handle a hundred times, will receive a penny Dut of the slot. “So the tramp gives it a trial. He starts to turn the handle, counting sarefully, so as not to go over the hundred, for the handle works pretty stiff. He turns with thj right hand a while. Then he turns with the left hand. At fifty he stops to rest, and with a grunt he wipes the beads from his brow. Finally out drops a cent. “The tramp grins. He thinks he’ll turn ten hundred times, and get ten cents for two beers. He is pretty tired, though, by the time he’s turned 500 times, and, besides, the morning is pretty well gone now. So he stops at the five hundred. He goes off with five coppers, rubbin’ his arms. His arms’ll be stiff next day. “Hard-earned coppers! Edison Murphy calls his invention a charity machine, bu> there's not much charity about it. Edison gets out of the ma chine enough electrical power to light his house, pump his w-ater, and run his freight elevator, and all it costs him is 20 or 30 cents a day that goes into the pockets of poor deluded tramps.’’ Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, M mercury will eurely destroy tbe »eo*e of imell end completely derange tbe whole ayitciu when e.terlng It through the mucous surfaces, such articles should never be used except on pres, rip tlons from reputable physicians, as the damage mey will do Is ten fold to tbe good yon can posalbiy de rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney * Co., Toledo, O.. contains uo mer cury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon tbe blood and mucous surfaces of the system, la buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get tha genutae. it Is taken Internally and made In I oiedo, Ohlc. oy F J. Cheney * Co. Testimonial free. Sold by Druggists, l'rlce. *5c- per bottle. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. A girl with small feet always owns a rainy-day skirt. Piso’s Cure is tbe best Tnedidne we ever u*ed for all affections of the throat and lung-- V\ U. 0. ESDSCST, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10. li*W Of Interest to Brain Workers. A medical man who gave evidence in a London chancery division case testified as to the connection between brain work and longevity in a way that charmed the lawyers and will charm other brain workers. One-third of the laborers in rural districts, he is reported as saying, die of brain soften ing, and the average vegetative rural laborer much earlier than the hard thinking lawyer, simply because his brain rusts from lack of exercise. Scientific Wonders to Come Already the secret has been learned of purifying sewage by electricity, so that in time every brook and river may run with mountain cl earner to the sea. These things and the fast developing system of wireless teleg raphy are only a few of the things that science, aided by the new theory of electrcity. holds in store for the cot distant future. Prefers Calves to Butter. A Kensington. N. H., farmer lays the following down as a hard and fast rule: “I raise no less than twelve calves a year and would do it if there wasn't a pound of butter in the hou e from one year's end to anoth- r What Everybody Says. Jamboree. Ky., April 3rd.—»Spe cial.)—“I suffered for years with my back,” says Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well known resident of this place “Then l used Dodd’s Kidney Pills and I have not felt a pain since. My little girl complained of her back. She u-< d about one-half box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she is sound and well." It is thousands of statements like the above that show Dodd's Kidney Pills to be the one cure for Backache or any other symptom of deranged kidneys. For Backache Is simply a sign that the Kidneys need help. Dodd’s Kidney A°ills always cure Backache. They also always cure Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, flheumatism, Bladder and Urinary Troubles and Heart Disease. The.-e ire more advanced stages of kidney lisease. Cure your Backache wirh Dodd’s Kidney Pills and you need lever fear them. New Use for Whisky. A butler, newly engaged, requested his master to allow him some whisky. “There’s nothing like it to clean the windows,” said he. However, a few minutes later his master chanced to pass through the room, and to his sur prise found the glass empty. “Why, James.” he asked, “where’s the whis ky?” “Well, you see. sir.” said James, “it's this way; I drank the whisky and then I breathe on the glass.” To Keep Weight Down. If you wish to keep your weight down, don't drink water at meals. Take tea and coffee. Rise early, walk at least flve miles every day, and don’t take a nap after exercising. Sleep eight hours only, and on a moderately hard bed. Shun fresh or hot bread. Flee from potatoes, peas, macaroni olive oil. cream, alcoholic drinks, sweets and pastry. Seek Bones of Primitive Man. Paleontologists are hoping to fina any day the bones of primitive man in some part of the West, where tht deeply eroded canyons have revealed so many wonders of the animal work in the shape of ancestors of the hoist and the dinosaur. Mean Old Bachelor Again. It was an old bachelor who said that it was futile to discuss the questior whether a genius would make a gooc husband. No real genius, he said would ever marry. CHILDREN AFFECTED. By Mother’s Food and Drink. Many babies have been launched intc life with constitutions weakened bj disease taken in with their mother s milk. Mothers cannot be too careful as to the food they use while nursing their babes. The experience of a Kansas City mother is a case in point: “I was a great coffee drinker from a child, and thought I could not eat a meal without it. But I found at last it was doing me harm. For years I had been troubled with dizziness, spots be fore my eyes and pain in my heart, to which was added two years ago a chronic sour stomach. The baby was born 7 months ago, and almost from the beginning, it, too. suffered from sour stomach. She was taking it from me! ** , In my distress I consulted a friend °f more experience than mine, and she told me to quit coffee, that coffee did not make good milk. I have since ascertained that it really dries up the 1 quit c°ffee, and tried tea and at last cocoa. But they did not agree ith me Then I turned to Postum Coffee with the happiest results, it F^noT1 be the very th,Qg 1 needed “ °^0n'y agreed perfectly with baby d myself, but it increased the flow °L“y milk' My husband then quit ^ weirVFiT P°!tUm> qui<*ly Sot * ,of ,he dyspepsia with which he had been troubled. I no longer rom the di22i„ess. blind .peUs'""^ to my heart or sour stomach Po ■“ um has cured them. * * '' ' “Now' we all drink PrxjM,™ *„ husband to my Lvfn f[om my baby. It has proved to be^h* k°M bot drink we have e!er use^ rzi r tzzitz: tbe b -Mr G©t th© littl© book n « Wellvllle" In each pkg. M 13