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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. - - - LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. The hour-glass figure will be con venient for a young man’s arm. A cargo of yeast cakes might help eome of those flying machines to rise. Mr. Carnegie now announces that "wealth is slavery.” Watch us kiss our chains. An Ohio man dropped dead while eating a piece of pie. Lucky fellow! He died happy. Too often it is the cooks, rather than the children, that are the “de stroyers of home life.” The telephone “hello!” in Japanese is “moshi, moshi!” The busy signal must be something jarring. And now will Mr. Edward Atkinson kindly tell us how much a man ought to spend a year for clothes? _ Any married man who thinks that the dressing-on-$65-a-year theory is all right has onlv to consult his wife. _ An Ohio murderer spent his last hours on earth playing a guitar. He was probably anticipating his golden harp. Vermont declares her maple sugar crop is short, but that is impossible while the supply of granulated sugar holds out. “The School for Husbands” is the name of a new comedy by Stanislaus Stange. It probably means the break fast table. The Savannah Press says that ‘Lily j Langtry as a grandmother sounds bet ter.” But does the Jersey Lily look any better? — Ever since the first woman shook the first rolling pin at her husband woman’s clubs have been a menace to married men. Richmond. Va., has adopted an or dinance prohibiting the exhibition of artificial legs. How about the real ar ises, though? — \a statistician has found that “only five of every business men succeed.” But he hasn’t figured in the get-rich quick contingent. A continuous bath is said to produce excellent results in insanity. To be sure. Continuous submersion, if deep enough, will cure any case of insan ity. Cassie Chadwick may have the con solation of knowing that Sophia Beck, her successor in the center of the stage, is not nearly so bright a finan cier. The Rev. John Balcom Shaw advo- ; rates admitting women to the priest hood. The suggestion comes late. Women always has been a ministering angel. Thank heaven, the Thaw-Xesbit “romance” will now stay out of the papers for a while. Here’s hoping that it won’t show up next in the di vorce court. Andrew Carnegie says that the wealthy man is a slave. So is the married man, and yet men continue to sigh, and always will, for wealth and marriage. “Every young married woman should know how’ to make bread,” said a writer on economics. Yes; and every young man should know how to fur nish the dough. That Xew York physician who is trying to start a crusade against long | di esses may as well give it up. He will have no better success than the late Mrs. Bloomer had. It is interesting to learn that no present danger confronts the Canadi an falls at Niagara. The worst that is likely to happen soon is the stoppage of the cataract on the American side. That’s all. A Sioux City, Iowa, man has applied for an injunction to restrain a lady who lives next door to him from cook ing onions. Now, here is a case for the champions of personal liberty tc become aroused over. “A rich, nice, young nobleman” ad vertises in a New York “Personal” that he would marry “a very beautiful, honest lady.” And the doesn't say a word about requiring a fortune! He ought to get some mail. A prominent New York business man is going to build a $12,000 per gola. If any ignorant person asks yon what, a pergola is, tell him you don'* know, but you rather think it is a place to keep fine plants in. A Mississippi postmaster is much vexed because the government will not permit him to resign. What will puz zle other postmasters throughout the country is that the man appears to be entirely sane in ether respects. A “child philosopher” has disap peared from his home in Boston. President Eliot of Harvard has taken a great interest in him and Boston is all wrought up. We can’t see why the loss of one child philosopher cause much of a commetion town. A young New York man was ar rested on a charge of insanity.- He wanted to get married, and the judge discharged him. The young man *as kindly left to his own vindication. t A German province, which is de scribed as “petty,” proposes to tax pianos. People with that much sense should never be described as small. A Buffalo bishop advises young preachers to beware of women. Can It be possible that he doesn’t consider the old preachers worth saving? THE TEACHER’S FOE A LITE ALWAYS THREATENED BY NERVOUS PROSTRATION. One Who Broke Down from Six Tears of Overwork Tells How She Escaped Misery of Enforced Idleness. •*I had been teaching in the city schools steadily for six years,’’said Miss James, whose receut return to the work from which she was driven by nervous collapse has attracted attention. “They were greatly overcrowded, especially in the primary department of which I had charge, and I had been doing the work of two teachers. The strain was too much for my nerves and two years ago the crisis came. “ I was prostrated mentally and phy sically, sent in my resignation and never expected to bo able to resume work. It seemed to me then that I was the most miserable woman on earth. I was tor tured by nervous headaches, worn out by inability to sleep, and had so little blood that I was as white as chalk. “After my active life, it was hard to bear idleness? and terribly discouraging to keep paying out the savings of years for medicines which did mo no good.” “How did you got back your healt h ?” “A bare chance aud a lot of faith led me to a cure. After I had suffered for many months, aud when I was on the very verge of despair, I happened to read an account of some cures effected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The state ments were so convincing that I some how felt assured that these pills would help me. Most people, I think, buy only oue box for a trial, but I purchased six boxes at once, and when I had used them up, I was indeed well aud had no need of more medicine. “Dr. Williams’Pink Pills enriched my thin blood, gave mo back my sleep, re stored my appetite, gave me strength to walk long distances without fatigue, in fact- freed me from all my numerous ail ments. I have already taught for several mouths, aud I cannot say enough in praise of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” Miss Margaret M. James is now living at No. 1:23 Clay street, Dayton, Ohio. Many of her fellow teachers have also used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and are enthusiastic about their merits. Sound digestion, strength,ambition, and cheer ful spirits quickly follow their use. They are sold m every drug store in the World, The “marriage collar” so many hus bands wear is, naturally, one of the “turn down” variety. ANOTHER RECORD IN LAND HUNTING. * - Thi? Spring’s Exodus to Canada Greater Than Ever. It was thought in 1903, when over forty-five thousand people went from the United States to Canada, that the limit of the yearly immigration to the wheat zone of the Continent had been reached. But when in 1904 about as large a number of Ameri can citizens signified their intention of becoming settlers on Canadian lands, the general public were pre pared for the announcement of large numbers in 1905. No surprise there fore will be caused when it is made known that predictions of fully fifty thousand more in 1903 are warranted in the fact that the Spring movement Canadaward is greater than it has ever been. The special trains from Omaha, Chicago. St. Paul, Detroit, and other gateways has been crowd ed. Many have gone to join friends and relatives who have prepared homes for them and others have gone relying upon their own resources, sat isfied that what others have done can also be done by them. This year much newr territory has been opened up by the railroads which are extend ing their main lines and throwing out branches in their march across the best grain and grazing lands on the continent. This new territory has attractions for those desiring to home stead on the one hundred and sixty acres granted each settler by the Canadian Government. Many also take advantage of the opportunity to purchase lands at the low figures at which they are now being offered. It does not require much thought to Convince one that if Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and other lands, with a value of from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars an acre will give a good living by producing ten to thirteen bushels of wheat to the acre and thir ty to fifty bushels of corn to the acre, the lands of Western Canada at seven to ten dollars an acre, producing from twenty to thirty bushels of a superior wheat to the acre should produce a competence to the ordinary farmer in a very few years. These are the facts as they confront tho reader. There are millions of acres of such land in Western Canada in addition to the other millions that are considered to he portion of the biggest and best ranges that ever in vited the cattle and horse producer of the North American continent. What is particularly evident in West ern Canada is the fact that the wheat lands, adjoining the grazing lands, make farming particularly agreeable and profitable. The agents of the Canadian Government, who are al ways willing to give information and advice to intending settlers, say that the acreage put under crop this sea son is greatly in excess of last sea son. The less a man has to say, the greater is his reputation for wisdom. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottleof CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the m Signature of "-- c V, In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Uave Always Bought A floating debt is a poor thing to keep a man’s head above water. Mrs. Winiiow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces tl* flanupatlon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Religious persecution is the effect of an exaggerated vanity rendered fe rocious by the best intentions. CITC permanently cured. No lit* or nervousness afte* III* urst day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Heston. «r. Send tor FBKK >2.00 trial bottle and treatises M. S. 11. Kune, Ltd., loi Arch Street, Philadelphia, 1% Values »t commodities depend on whether you want t« buy or «ell. Our Pleasures Too Costly A Frenchman complained the other day about the unreasonably high prices of American restaurants. “You cater to the pleasure of only the rich man here,” he said. “Don’t you know that there are 99 average men to eve^y rich one? Why, then, don’t you draw the average man out of his shell? Why don’t you make an offer for his custom? “In Paris—in fact, all over France— you can get a good dinner for f.3, or GO cents—a dinner served in a beauti ful restaurant, to the music of a good orchestra, among well dressed and re fined people. This dinner comprises a hors d’oeuvre, soup, fish, a roast meat, a course of vegetables, chicken and salad, dessert and a pint of good red or white wine. “There is in America an idea that a man never leaves home for pleasure without an enormous roll of bank notes and a perfect indifference to ex pense. To dine at a good restaurant with his wife and to go to the theater afterward costs an American—for din ner, $5; for a carriage to and from the play, $3; for a seat, $3 or $4—or $12 in all. That is too much. “Such an evening in Ixmdon would cost—for the dinner, $2.50; for a car riage, 50 cents; for seats, $4—that is to say, $7, or a saving of $5 over America. And the dinner in London would be a table d’hote at the Carlton or the Savoy, with everybody In even ing dress, and dukes and earls and countesses on all sides—a spectacle of splendor such as you couldn’t ob tain with your dinner in America un der a cost of $8 a plate. “In Paris the same evening would cost $5. “No thought is taken for the aver age man's pleasure in America. Cabs, good dinners, good wines, all are put at such exorbitant prices that the aver age man must either do without them or run in debt to get them once, say, a month. “In Europe and in England the aver age man is catered to. He can take a cab, he can eat a good dinner, he can drink a glass of good wine, without first mortgaging his house. “I think it is a sign of the nation’s youth and crudity that the average man obtains no consideration in Amer ica.’’—Philadelphia Telegraph. Need of Farmers’Combines Another protective influence exert ed by the trade association is that of educating its members against the swindles by which the followers of al most every occupation or calling are victimized, writes Charles H. Clark, in Success Magazine. It is a recog nized fact that swindlers and confi dence men ply their craft along rou tine lines—in other words, they move from place to place and “work” men in the same general line of business. Recently a grain buyer in a western town was victimized in this manner: Like all other local elevator men, he followed the practice of advancing to the farmers of his locality a reason able sum of money against the grain which they would soon market. One day two farmers hailing from a rath er remote locality with which he was not particualrly familiar came to him and asked for an advance upon the crops they were cutting. The men appeared to have met by acci dent at the elevator, and claimed to know each other only casually, saying that their farms were some five or six miles apart. As these men were dressed in overalls and hickory shirts, their faces and arms being well browned by the sun, the grain buyer naturally concluded that they were genuine farmers, and, after asking them a few questions as to their acre age, gave them the cash advance on their crops which they asked. Later the elevator man learned to his sor row that they were a pair of confi dence men carefully “made up" in farmer style. They had consistently “worked” the grain buyers of that re gion, being very careful, however, to keep out of the territory covered by the organization. This campaign of swindling could not have been suc cessly prosecuted among buyers who belong to an association, as their first swindle would have been promptly re ported to every member of the organ ization and efforts for the arrest and prosecution of the confidence men would have been made at once. If Sun’s Color Changed A German astronomer has recently published some interesting observa tions on the theoretical effects of a change in the color of the sun. It is amazing to consider the possibilities if our sun were green, blue or red. in stead of what it is. If it were blue there would only be two colors in the world—blue and black. If it were red, then everything would be red or black. If it were yellow everything would be yellow or black. Every one knows that the light of our sun con sists of six colors, and the reason things are different hues is that some . swallow up five of the colors and re flect only one. Thus we have prim roses yellow, because they absorb all but the yellow: roses, red, because they absorb all but the red; violets purple, because they absorb every thing but red and blue, a mixture of which two colors forms purple. In the event of the sun being red, roses, blood, red ink, and all other things that are now red would reflect it. So also would snow, the lily and all things that are now white, but these would, of course, be red. Every thing else would swallow up the red light and apear quite black. Grass, for instance, would be black as ink, and so would the blue of the sky, but the white clouds would be red. The same kind of things would happen if the sun were blue. Everything now blue or white would be blue and everything else black. The whole sky, clouds and all, would be blue. The grass this time f would be blue, not black, for it reflects both blue and yellow. Hair would be all black, the red of the lips would be black and the rest of the face would be a cloudy blue. If the sun were green we would have a little variety. Things that are now yellow" would still be yellow, things that are blue would be blue and things that are green would still be green, but there would be no reds, purples, orange, pinks or any of those cheery hues that make the world look so bright. At a Holland Wedding In Holland two weeks before a mar- i riage takes place cards are sent out declaring that the banns have been published. This is called an “under marriage.” The card also announces when the final marriage is to take place. The wedding itself is a small affair, and the civil marriage is the only one recognized by law. A church wedding is usually looked upon as a concession to either fashion or senti mentality, and is called a “consecra tion of the marriage.” The couple en ter the church behind the family members, bridesmaids and other at tendants. They are shown to seats before the whole assembly, and the clergyman comes in with two wit nesses long after the others have been seated. He first makes a prayer, then delivers a sermon on a suitable text, which usually brings the bride to tears. After that the couple are mar ried. Then a hymn is sung and the blessing given. The whole occupies yibout an hour and a quarter. Before Heaving the church a huge Bible is presented to the bridegroom. During the two weeks of waiting between the “under-marriage’’ and the real marriage all the wedding festivities take place. The happy couple are lit erally surfeited with dinners, balls and theater parties, and all manner of practical jokes are played on the pair. At the dinner toasts innumer able are given, and at each the whole company rises from the table to sound and touch glasses with the bride and groom, who never rise. Among their friends the idea is not to allow the couple a night of sleep, if possible, before the wedding day. In place of wedding cake candies are presented. The Difficulty of Lying Senator N. A. Elsberg of New York was talking in Albany about a notori ously untruthful man. “Like all great liars,” said Senator Elsberg, “he is careless. He fails to keep accurate note of the lies he tells innumerable stories that won’t hold Hence innumerable contradictions, hold together. “If. for instance, he takes a week’s walking trip, he tells A he walked seventy-five miles, B a hundred miles, C a hundred and fifty miles, and then, when he meets A again, he tells him that he covered a full hundred and seventy-five miles on that walk. “It would require a large set of books, a complicated system of book keeping and a force of at least three clerks to keep a chronic liar straight in all his stories, to keep him from contradicting himself or getting con fused.” Senator Elsberg smiled. “The average chronic liar,” he said, “has the luck of a boy I know who enlisted and went to the Philip pines. This boy, whenever he want ed money, would write home from Manila something like this: “‘Dear Father: I have lest anoth er leg in a stiff engagement, and am in hospital without means. Kindly send two hundred at once.” “To the last letter of this sort that the boy wrote home, he received the following answer: ‘“Dear Son: As. according to your letters, this is the fourth leg you have lost, you ought to be accustomed to it by this time. Try and hobble along on any others you may have left.” ^ Patience Be patient, O, be patient! Put your ear against the earth; Listen there how noiselessly the germ o’ the seed has birth; How noiselessly and gently it upheaves its little way Till it parts the scarcely-broken ground, and the blade stands up in the day. Be patient, O be patient! the germs of mighty thought Must have their silent undergrowth, must underground be wrought; But, as sure as ever there’s a Power that makes the grass appear. Our land shall be green with Liberty, the blade-time shall be here. Be patient, O, be patient! go and watch the wheat ears grow, So imperceptibly that we can mark nor change nor throe: Day after day, day after day till the ear is fully grown: And then again day after day, till the ripened field is brown. Be patient, O, be patient! though yet our hopes are green, The harvest-field of Freedom shall be crowned with the sunny sheen. B« ripening, be ripening! mature your silent way Till the whole broad lam3 is tongued with fire on Freedom’s 'liarvest day. —William James Linton. A Mother's Wish. Oh, what would we wish for our girls and boys As we gaze at their Innocent faces In the sweet, pure light of their childish joys. Where stern care has not yet left Its traces. What then Is the depth of our strong de sires. What the height of our fondest ambi tion. What the hopes and dreams to which love aspires. For their dear lives repu ted fruition? Is It beauty, grace, or a sounding name, Honors, riches, and affluent station. Or a brow bedecked by the band of fame. While the world sang her proud com mendation? All of these may be well, yet their glories wane If not crown’d by Life’s full, grander meaning. As the gold to the dross-chaff to ri pened grain They will stand in the great Harvest gleaning. —Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. Commanders Who Failed. “I am glad," said the colonel, “that Gen. Kouropatkin was sent back to the Russian army In Manchuria. As I read of the old general's reception at the front 1 was reminded of a scene in our own war that saddened me when I saw it and that hurts me now whenever it comes up in memory. 1 had been sent back from Fort Gregg on the Petersburg front to our for mer headquarters at Humphrey’s Sta tion, when I came upon Gen. C. K. Warren and three of his staff riding from Five Forks to the rear. "It was raining, and’ men end horses were covered with mud. The general's figure drooped and his face expressed extreme fatigue and utter dejection. lie had been relieved of the command of his corps in the pres ence of the enemy by Gen. Sheridan, who, catching up the flag, led War ren’s men in that impetuous final charge at Five Forks which broke up Pickett’s command and won a great victory. I was in sympathy with Sher idan. but I felt then that if Little Phil had been patient. Warren, within twenty minutes, would have led his own command into battle and achieved the same results. “I had heard the talk at headquar ters about Warren being slow in crossing the Rapidan and dilatory on other occasions, and felt that he de served a reprimand, but after I saw him on his way to the rear I felt that so fine a soldier should have been given another command by Sheridan in that last charge. When I read of Kouropatkln’s return to a subordinate command I felt that in some things the Russians are fairer in the treat ment of officers who do their best and fail than we were in the civil war. And yet I am not sure that in such cases as that cf Warren we were wrong.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. Wartime Incident Recalled. They were talking on a recent evening of coincidences. Finally after the rehearsal of several more or less strange happenings, a middle aged man, who had been an attentive lis tener, said: "I had last autumn the strangest coincidence of my life. When a boy, and during the civil war I lived with my parents on the south shore of Staten Island. Just across the Nar rows was Fort Lafayette, where many irisoners were confined. One hot July day. a short time after the bloody battle of Antietam, I rowed in a boat across the Narrows with two young companions and approached the fort, which, as you know, occupies a small island a few hundred yards from Long Island ^hore. It was always a tempta tion to boys to see how near the sen tries who patrolled the walk around the island would let them approach. On this day the two sentries on guard happened to have both walked on their respective rounds but out of sight, so we were able to get close up underneath the island and near the fort. “A prisoner thrust his head as far as possible between the small bars of a narrow' slit in the fort high up from the ground and called out, ‘What news of the war, boys?’ We called out the the story in brief of the battle of An tietam, of which our fathers had told us that morning. Just then one of the sentries appeared, leveled his musket end shouted to us to keep off. “Last autumn—I am now a man of forty-eight—I was traveling on a beau tiful moonlight night from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. We were passing through the Blue Grass country, and 1 stepped out on the platform of the i ear Pullman to get the air and enjoy the beauty of the peaceful scenery, which I had never before viewed. A tall, white-haired man stepped out and stood beside me. We fell into con versation and he began to tell me cf incidents of the civil war in that section. “ 'I am myself from New Jersey originally,’ he said, ‘but all my people were Southerners, and so I fought on the Confederate side in the struggle. Unhappily, I was captured by the Fed erals at the second Buil Run and spent two years in a Northern prison.’ “Somehow, I know not why, I recall ed and told the incident of my youth above narrated. He listened attentive ly. paused a moment, and replied, ‘You amaze me! Truth is, indeed stranger than fiction. I am Col. Y—, and I was that prisoner in Fort Lafay ette. I recall the day and scene as if it were yesterday. I lost a brother at Antietam. and when the sentry or dered you boys off I remember my presentiment that you had uncon sciously brought me sad tidings.’ ” At Andersonville. Speaking of Andersonville. Melvin Grigsbf, a friend of Capt. Arch Moody, said: “It was about dark when we entered the outer gate. On each side of what seemed a street, leaving room for us to pass in column, we saw a dense mass of human beings. The line each side was composed of livfr~ skel etons, walking mummies, ragged, many of them nearly nude, all skin and bone, with complexions as black as Indians. These men were starving. There they stood, their great eye3 protruding beyond their gaunt and bony cheeks; their limbs, half cover ed, showing enlarged, swollen Joints, bruised knees and elbows, and great puffballs of feet.” Andersonville is situated in a sparse ly settled portion of Georgia. Along the streams is a stretch of swampy land, and the prison was made by en closing sixteen acres of this swamp within a stockade. A small stream ran through the enclosed sixteen acres and was used as a basis for water sup ply and the sewage disposal. The 45,000 men confined in the prison at ono time were given no tents, no blankets. They broke the underbrush from the marsh, and with the instinct of savage men built coverings to pro tect themselves from the rains and the scorching sun. The men were counted off in divisions of ninety each and twelve such divisions was called a detachment. Each detachment was allotted a small portion of ground on which to sleep. Each prisoner was given a scant pint of meal, a quarter of a pound of meat or its equivalent in rice and beans, once a day, and a teaspoonful of salt once a week. The fare was never varied.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Seeks Civil War Heroes. Walter Kimball of Kane county has received a letter from John W. Perry of North Alton, 111., seeking a reunion of members of the Seventh Illinois infantry in the civil war. Per ry, when a boy of 17, was orderly to Mr. Kimball, who was then post quar termaster. At the time of the battle of Pilot Knob, which began Sept. 28, 1804, and continued five days, Mr. Kimball was directed to take a quan tity of supplies to the Seventh regi ment. He was accompanied by Lieut. Tate, now’ a resident of Gainesville, Mo., and there was an escort of twen ty men, including Perry. The party was attacked by the ' Confederates and the supplies cap tured and confiscated. Mr. Kimball fell, but was saved by his orderly, who, with Lieut. Tate, escaped and hid in the woods for ten days. After much hardship the fugitives succeed ed in reaching St. Louis in safety. It has developed that there are quite a number of survivors of that little band. At the reunion of the veterans of Pilot Knob held last Sep tember Mr. Perry was present and decided to institute a search for the members of the party who were at tacked by* the enemy while conveying supplies. He ha3 unearthed a num ber of the veterans, among them be ing Mr. Kimball, who has been a prominent citizen of Kane county for years. It is desired to hold this year at Mr. Kimball’s home a reunion of all the survivors located of the band who made the trip through the woods of Missouri forty years ago.—Chica- ' go Chronicle. Confederate Flags Sent Back. Gen. Ainsworth, the military secre tary, has shipped about 500 old cap tured confederate flags to the govern ors of former secession states. Let ters to the governors were also sent, explaining the provisions of the Lamb law under which the captured banners in the war department are to be turned over to the states whose regiments bore them during the war. AH' of the flags were marked, so that they could be displayed in state houses or museums, if desired, with histories attached. The remainder of the 522 confeder ate banners that have reposed in the war department building for forty years could not be identified, so worn and torn are they. As there is^uo law covering their distribution, they will be placed in boxes and stored away again, although there are a number of historical societies and other organ izations that would like to obtain pos session of one or more of them. The recaptured Union flags now at the department have all been identi fied and arranged, and they will be shipped to the governors of northern states, from New England to the far West. Praise for Seventeenth Illinois. The Seventeenth Illinois captured seven flags in one day. Writing from Cairo" to Col. Marsh of the Twentieth Illinois and referring to the work of this organization and the Seven teenth, Gen. Grant said after the right at Frederickstown: “The reports that have reached me have filled me with the highest admi ration of the valor and patriotism dis played by you and your command in this engagement. Amid the gloom of the reverses of our arms at Leesburg, athwart the clouds its bow of promise. It was your privilege to be among the foremost of that gallant band, who raised our drooping banner and em blazoned it with victory. The import ance of this success cannot be meas ured by any ordinary standard, it has given new life to tens of thou sands of our discouraged soldiers, it has crushed out the rebellion in south east Missouri, and has sustained the prestige of victory to our flag. I ex tend to you and your command a cor dial welcome on your return from the held of battle and victory.” Passing of Civil War Veterans. Grant was a general; so were Hayes and Garfield and Harrison. McKinley was a major. Since Andrew Johnson all the presidents, except Arthur end Cleveland, down to Roosevelt, were soldiers of the civil war. McKinley was the last. The civil war veteran has passed from the president's office to return no more. Senator Bate was perhaps the last of the old confeder ates in the senate from Tennessee. He Is also the last of the old school of southern gentlemen who link the p-st with the present. Turney was the last confederate to serve as gov ernor. It is doubtful whether an other old confederate will be o]eetP<? governor, senator or representative Nashville American. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Definace Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold W ater Starches are put up in %-pound pack ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large let ters and figures "16 ozs.” Demand De fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick ing. Defiance never sticks. The winds of adversity have caused many a love match to flicker out. Try One Package. Tf “Defiance Starch” does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does, you fret one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Trust to luck—if you want to go hungry. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch; it will keep them white—16 ounces for 10 cents. _ It doesn’t take a headstrong fel low' to butt in. When You Buy Starch , buy Defiance and get the best; 16 ounces for 10 cents. 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