Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
As long as peekaboo waists are in
fashion, the bachelor maid statistics
will stay down.
James H. Hyde possesses one of the
finest stables in America and a pair
almost as expensive.
Many persons who may not have
heard of the whisky war will be sur
prised to learn that it is still on.
Water, Lord Brassey the famous
yachtsman declares, is his passion—
though not perhaps as a beverage.
"Our liquor bill.” says the Atlanta
Constitution, ‘‘is $1,000,000,000 per an
num.” Why not try the water wagon?
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell says that cats
bring terror into many lives. To be
exact, cats are the terrors of nine
lives.
Carnegie has given Great Britain a
diplodocus, and the scientists are hunt
ing for its parasite already, before it
spreads.
A Chicago man advertises that he
would like to marry an amiable Ger
man lady. Perhaps he wants to learn
German.
Some of this year’s shirt waists are
so absolutely stunning that dentists’
assistants are wearing them to save
laughing gas.
New York lawyers have the habit of
chewing gum in court. Probably to
rest their voices and still keep their
jaws in practice.
An English paper says that Ameri
cans make the best husbands, but it
will have hard work convincing Pitts
burg heiresses that its statement is
true.
“The brass band as it exists,” says
a London paper, “is merely in its in
fancy.” Possibly the London editor
has never heard any but little German
bands.
Says the New York Herald, “We
drank 1,494.191,325 gallons of beer
last year.” If any one of our German
editors can match that record let him
speak up.
“There is good and there is bad
on the stage,” says Bishop Potter. He
cautiously refrains, however, from
causing a rush to the bad by telling
where it is.
The prominent New York politician
who is putting in a burglar alarm at
his home apparently fears that some
midnight marauder may not recognize
the profession.
The article in a contemporary head
ed “How to Fit a Waist” must be in
tended exclusively for feminine read
ers. The young men, as a rule, do not
need instruction.
Women’s stockings must match all
shades in their summer suits this year
to be correct. Those who can’t afford
to keep up with the styles will have to
be particularly careful.
Tong Pao Tung, a Massachusetts
school boy, was run over by two
wheels of a big touring car, but got up
and smilingly walked away. You can’t
keep the Chinese aown.
Nature never makes any mistakes,
of course, but Maryland people won
der why the oyster was not provided
with a more adequate means of de
fense against the starfish.
An Indiana tramp was fined $37 for
having one cigarette paper in his pos
session. Why didn't he plead that
the offending paper was but a tissue
slip fallen from between his calling
cards?
In Reno. Nev., a setter dog is caring
for a brood of motherless chickens.
This isn’t as strange as it might ap
pear. Poultry yard records show that
a good setter almost always makes a
good mother.
The assertion made at the monthly
meeting of the Chicago dressmakers'
club that every woman in the coun
try will have hoopskirts on before fall
is manifesily erroneous. There’s Dr.
Mary Walker.
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The marksman at the New York
Hippodrome who shoots the buttons
off his wife’s dress would appear far
more wonderful to some of the audi
ence were he able by a shot to hook
up the dress in the back.
It is reported that King Leopold
thinks of getting married again. That
is not half as remarkable, however,
as the fact that there are several
young princesses in Europe who are
willing to have him come around.
Whether Bernard Shaw wrote some
of his most famous plays on an empty
stomach or not, doesn’t seem to be ol
enough importance to justify the dis
pute among the critics. In any case,
most dramatists will continue to pre
fer paper.
The lemon pie of commerce, accord
ing to the pure food commissioner ol
Chicago, contains no eggs, no butter,
and but precious little fruit juice ol
any kind. Whether this discovery will
restrain the pie habit is much to be
doubted.—Rochester Herald.
It turns out that the real reason
Jim Jeffries has quit the prize ring
is that his wife told him to. No man
can truthfully claim the title of cham
pion of the world if he is married.
Of course, If hoopskirts are coming
into fashion again, Edward Atkinson
will have to revise his figures as to
the yearly cost of feminine apparel.
That California rainmaker can make
a pile by hiring out to the baseball
managers and bringing up a storm in
time to save the home team.
GOVERNMENT LIGHT.
HISTORIC CHICKAMAUGA PARK
ABLAZE WITH ILLUMINATION.
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United States System of Lighting Mili
tary Post Pronounced Gratifyingly
Successful—Six and One-Half Milfcs
of Mains—Sixty-Five Street Lights.
Chickamauga Park Ga., May 31.—
Vhe United States government has here
in operation one of the largest acety
lene gas plants in the world. The mili
tary post at the entrance of the histor
ical Chickamauga battlefield where
thirty thousand Union and Confederate
soldiers were lost in the memorable
battle of Sept. 19 and 20,1863, contains
about one hundred buildings, the
seventy-five principal ones of which are
lighted with acetylene. To accom
plish this six and one-half miles of
mains and two miles of service pipes
are in use, while sixty-five street
lamps brilliantly illuminate the ave
nues of the post.
In 1903 the War Department in
stalled a test acetylene plant at Fort
Meyer, Virginia. The results were
bo gratifying and the superiority
of the illuminant so evident that the
government, March 20, 1904, placed
the contract for the Chickamauga
plant, in which every citizen of the
United States should have his pro
rata of pride.
But the government has not con
fined its acceptance of acetylene to
this military post. Since becoming
satisfied of the efficiency, superiority
and economical advantages of this
particular illuminant, the United
States has installed a number of
plants in Indian schools and other gov
f^nment institutions.
Acetylene gas is one of the simplest
as well as the most perfect of artificial
lights. It is made by the contact
of water and carbide, (a manufactured
product for sale at a nominal price),
Is absolutely safe and gives* a beau
tiful white light soothing to the eyes
and nerves. It can be produced any
where—in the farm home, the village
store, the town hall, the church—and
is so easily maintained as to
be practical for all classes.
It is a matter for national congratu
lation that in beautifying so historic
a spot as Chickamauga, nothing ljut
the best, including the lighting sys
tem. has been deemed good enough
for American people.
Boston Tot Asks a Blessing.
“And, dear Heavenly Father,” fin
ished a Boston child at prayer time,
•please bless my cat. Bless every
part of him. for I love him so much
that the very whiskers of his face
are numbered. Bless his emerald
eyes, his little rice teeth, his crush*
edstrawberry tongue and the little
baked beans beneath his feet.”
Shortest Title of a Novel.
The shortest title ever given to a
noval was “B”—sub-title “An Auto
biography”—by E. Dyne Denton, in
three volumes. Whyte Melville, in
1S69, published a novel to which he
gave the title “M or N?” a term
well known to every student of the
Church of England Cathechism.
Length of Rivers.
The longest river in the world Is
the Nile, 4,000 miles; in Europe the
Volgo, 2,1114 miles; in Asia, the
Yangtse Kiang, 3,160 miles; in Ameri
ca the Mississippi-Missouri, 3.656
miles; in Australia the Murray, 2,350
miles. The short important river in
the world is the Thames, 215 miles.
Horse on Him.
The magistrate with steely eyes
gazed on the man below, who trem
bled as he realized that justice was
the foe: “Pray let me go,” the culprit
rried, his soul full of remorse. “Pay
fifty first,” the judge replied, "and
then go get a horse!”—New York
Herald.
A politician never gives up politics
for good until he is convinced that he
has got his full share of coin out of
the game.
r JOK OF BOOKS.
Over 30,000,000 Published.
An Oakland lady who has a taste
for good literature, tells what a happy
time she had on “The Road to Well
ville.” She says:
"1 drank coffee freely for eight
years before I began to perceive any
evil effects from it. Then I noticed
that I was becoming very nervous,
and that my stomach was gradually
losing the power to properly assimi
late my food. In time I got so weak
that I dreaded to leave the house—
for no reason whatever but because of
the miserable condition of my nerves
and stomach. I attributed the trouble
to anything in the world but coffee,
of course. I dosed myself with medi
cines, which in the end would leave
me in a worse condition than at first.
I was most wretched and discourag
ed—not 30 years old and feeling that
life was a failure!
“I had given up all hope of ever
enjoying myself like other people, till
one day I read the little book “The
Road to Wellville.” It opened my
eyes, and taught me a lesson I shall
never forget and cannot value too
highly. I immediately quit the use
of the old kind of coffee and began to
drink Postum Food Coffee. I noticed
the beginning of an improvement in
the whole tone of my system, after
only two days’ use of the new drink,
»nd in a very short time realized that
I could go about like other people
without the least return of the ner
vous dread that formerly gave me so
much trouble. In fact my nervous
ness disappeared entirely and has
never returned, although it is now a
year that I have been drinking Postum
Food Coffee. And my stomach is now
like iron—nothing can upset it!
“Last week, during the big Con
clave in San Francisco, I was on the
go day and night without the slight
est fatigue; and as I stood In the im
mense crowd watching the great par
ade that lasted for hours, I thought
to myself, ‘This strength is what Pos
tum Food Coffee has given me!’”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason.
The 'jttle book “The Road to Well
/ille” i tay be found in every pkg.
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Sonp.
You that have seen how the world and
its glory
Change and grow old like the love of a
friend;
You that have come to the end of the
story.
You that were tired ere you came to
the end:
You that are weary of laughter and sor
row.
t Pain and pleasure, labor and sin.
Sick of the midnight and dreading the
morrow.
Ah, come in; come in.
You that are bearing the load of the
ages;
You that have loved overmuch and too
late.
You that confute all the saws of the
sages;
You that served only because you must
wait.
Knowing your work was a wasted en
deavor;
You that have lost and yet triumphed
therein,
Add loss to your losses and triumph for
ever;
Ah, come in; come In.
—Blackwood’s Magazine.
Quickly Made Good Soldiers.
“I was surprised.” said the doctor,
“that the newspapers didn’t give more
attention to Field Marshal Oyama's
characterization of the modern Japan
ese army. After explaining that un
der the old rule military service was
limited to the hereditary fighting or
soldier class, the general pointed to
the result of breaking away from the
cild rule and calling men of all classes
into the army. He insisted that an
army including all classes had a finer
national spirit and fought better than
the old army made up exclusively of
professional fighters.
“This interested me greatly, be
cause it called to mind experiences
in the Union army of the civil war
which illustrated the processes by
which the average man of patriotic
impulse was transformed into a sol
dier. It is impossible for the pres
ent generation to understand how ut
terly ignorant the men of 1861 were of
the simplest details of military ser
vice. There were then very few mili
tary companies outside the large cities
and the members of the few carried
themselves as superior beings.
“When Fort Sumter was fired on the
members of the military companies
in the county towns constituted a sort
of fighting caste, and they became the
drill masters of the thousands of
patriotic young men, not one of whom
could come to an about face. It re
member well when a hundred of our
best young men organized a military
company. They sent to Capt. Branch
in the nearest city, asking him to send
one of his crack company out to drill
us. A private in the company donned
a lieutenant’s uniform and came out
to act as instructor at $5 an hour, and
he lorded it over a hundred as earnest
and intelligent men as ever lived.
“So anxious were we to learn, and
so much respect had we for a man who
knew military things that we bore
with the autocratic impertinences of
the drill master and conceded all he
demanded in the way of deference to
himself. He seemed to us a grat man,
although we discovered later that he
taught us very little. We went for
ward rapidly, however, after he left
us, and were soon at the front, where
we learned in a few months more than
any crack holiday soldier could teach
us. After several campaigns we were
with Buell's advance to Shiloh, and as
we climbed the bank of the river,
where thousands of stragglers were
gathered, I heard a voice that I
knew.
“The men of the company bid been
in service nearly a year. They consti
tuted the crack company of a fight
ing regiment. They were going up
the river bank into battle, and they
were ready and eager to meet the ene
my. Imagine their surprise when they
saw their pompous little drill master
of the previous April standing among
the stragglers declaiming to the new
comers about the glory, and death,
that awaited them in front.
“The captain, who had been among
the humblest of the learners, in April,
1861, and was in April, 1862, one of the
most resourceful officers in the regi
ment, looked at the declaimer in won
der. The orderly, who had been
roundly abused because he could not
hold his hands still, said quietly to
the shouting straggler: ‘If you want
to go to the front and glory fall in
at the rear of the company.’ Then
came the marching men, whose swing
into line and soldierly bearing si
lenced the man who had lorded it
over them for $5 an hour less than a
year before. They had become fight
ing soldiers, while he had stood still
at $13 a i*onth.”—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
mere naa Deen surprises and dis
appointments in the company, of
course. In the first forced march five
of the strongest and finest looking
men fell by the way, and three of
them did not recover their health for
several years. Slender young fellows,
given three months to break down,
stood that march and all others well.
Men of refinement and education had
come into close fellowship with men
who could not write their names, and
the hodcarrier had become the com
rade of his old employer, but the thin
ning out and the leveling processes
had made dependable soldiers of all.”
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Last at Appomattox.
Writing in the Richmond (Va.)
Times-Dispatch, a Confederate veteran
gives the following description of the
last days of the Confederacy:
“I had not seen, until recently,
anything of the action recently taken
by the state of North Caroline in erect
ing a monument at Appomattox, and
of the claim now made that the men
from said state fired the first guns of
the civil war In Virginia, at Bethel,
and also that they fired the last guns
at Appomattox, nor have I seen any
thing of a protest. I h%ve no knowl
edge of what transpired at Bethel, but
the scene at Appomattox is as fresh
in my memory to-day as it was forty
years ago, and it will ever be recalled
as the most notable event in my life
that I was there. It is true I was only
a private, and so had but limited op
portunities for observation and would
not enter the list of those who might
contend over the matter, but for feel
ing that I have the highest authority
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for what I state, and that in no less a
person than Gen. John B. Gordon, of
Georgia.
“I was a private in Hardaway’s
Battalion, Virginia Artillery, composed
at that time of the Rockbridge Bat
tery, Dance’s Powhatan Battery, the
Third Company of Richmond Howit
zers. and Griffin’s Battery from Roa
noke county, Virginia, commanded
then by Lieut.-Col. R. A. Hardaway of
Opelika, Ala. Griffin's Battery had
changed position several times during
the morning of April 9, 1865, and was
•last stationed on the brow of the hill
on which the village of Appomattox
stands, about 250 yards east of the
courthouse, from which position we
were firing the remnant of ammuni
tion we had left at the Federal cav
alry, which was massing on the hill
in our front. I remember very well
the arival in our rear of the piece of
Federal artillery, which the North
Carolinians claim to have captured,
and this 1 do not question, but if they
stopped firing then, they certainly did
not fire the last shots from our army
as we continued firing for some time
after that, and did not cease until the
arrival of a courier, sent specially
by General Lee, ordering ur to do so,
which order was of so peremptory a
nature that the officer in command
would not allow' a charge to he fired
which was already in one of our guns,
but ordered it withdrawn, which was
dope, and there was no firing after
that, with the exception of about fifty
rifle shots, fired by a regiment of en
gineers, which had been brought into
line, into an enthusiastic Yankee sol
dier who had advanced ahead of his
lines, and who was calling upon them
to surrender.”
Monument to Hebrew Soldiers.
The Hebrew- Union Veteran Associa
tion of New York recently unveiled a
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Monument to
Hebrew Union Soldiers
monument which has been erected by
them at Salem Fields cemetery, Cy
press Hills, L. I., to the memory of the
soldiers and sailors of the Hebrew
faith who gave their lives for theii
country during the civil war, and tc
those who have died since the wai
closed. The situation of this monu
ment is immediately adjoining the na
tional cemetery, where thousands oi
their comrades lie buried.
The monument is of handsome de
sign, fifty-two feet in height, sur
mounted by a bronze eagle measuring
six feet from tip to tip of wings. At
the base are two pyramids of shells,
donated by the government. Twc
cannon will be placed in position, and
when all is completed it will be a
monument to the patriotism of the
Jew who gave up his life that the na
tion might live.
Children’s Aid in the War.
“We often hear words of commenda
tion for the soldiers and the women on
both sides during the civil war,” said
Mr. D. K. Green, who is a son of a
civil war veteran, “and of their sac
rifices and heroism, but never about
the children of the war and their lit
tie sacrifices for their fighting men at
the front. I very well recall my little
aid to the men who wore the blue in
the sixties. I was but a wee lad then
but I was full of patriotism and did
my childish part. In our village upin
Maine the pupils of the school,, after
the hours of tuition, assembled nearly
every day in the schoolroom and
picked lint for the wounded soldiers or
helped to make bandages. Then, too,
I have seen the boys and girls line the
roadways as the feoldiers were going
away to fight for the flag and their
country, and throw apples and other
fruit and pretty bouquets to them,
with merry shouts and ‘God-bless
yous.’ These children showed their
patriotism and love for the American
soldiers, and I think there should be
one little chapter in history given
them.”—Washington Star.
New York W. R. C.
Mrs. Florence M. Westcott, depart
ment president, Woman’s Relief Corps
of New York, says the twenty-second
annual convention of the Woman’s Re
lief Corps, Department of New York,
will be held at Syracuse on June 21
and 22. Headquarters will be estab
lished at the Yates. Tabulated reports
of department secretary and treasurer
for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1904,
show: Members in good standing,
9,176; gained during the quarter, 371;
cash expended for relief, $1,231.35; es
t> reted value of relief other than
. money, $1,326.06; turned over to postr.
I $720.29 ,
EVERY WALK IN LIFE.
A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three
and a half
miles from
Trenton,
Mo., says: 1
“A severe!
cold settled i
in my kid- ^
neys and de- -
veloped s o f
quickly that *
I was obliged -j
to lay off s;
work on ac
count or tne *m*sr*jK
aching in my
back and sides. For a time I was un
able to walk at all, and every make
shift I tried and all the medicine 1
took had not the slightest effect. My
back continued to grow weaker until
I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills,
and I must say I was more than sur
prised and gratified to notice the back
ache disappearing gradually until it
finally stopped.”
Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all deal
ers or by mail on receipt of price, 50
cents per dox. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Fatigue of Work Feels Good.
Says a railroad man: ‘‘Men who
grumble at work oi; fret about an
eight-hour working day forget that a
man will be tired at the end of the
day whether he works or not. The
fatigue of work is much better than
the fatigue of idleness, and there is no
pleasure like that which comes from
the consciousness of having accom
plished something.”
Returned the Salute.
A traveler who visited the small
Siberian town of Kansk tells how sur
prised he was by an incident in the
theater. The first actress who made
an appearance on the stage bowed to
the audience, whereupon the whole
gathering rose as one man and return
ed the bow in the most polite manner.
Soy Bean Cheese.
The municipal laboratory of Paris
has been examining the experiments
made by Dr. Vogel.who has manufac
tured a very succulent cheese from the
small Chinese beans known as ‘‘soy
beans.” The doctor finds that the
pulp of these beans contains many of
the caseine qualities, and that the re
sulting composition is both nourishing
and pleasant to the taste.
Position Long in Family,
Since 1639 the post of sexton in the
Derbyshire (Eng.) village of Crich has
been held by a family named Wetton,
and the last representative, John Wet
ton, who has just died, leaves a de
scendant of his name to carry on the
tradition.
Women Wash the Streets.
It is not an unusual sight in many
of the German cities to see women
cleaning the streets. On the way to
the opera in the afternoon one may
see women hard at work cleaning a
street, even in the blinding rain.
In Record Time.
Piney Flats, Tenn., May 29th.—
(Special)—Cured in two days of Rheu
matism that had made his life a tor
ture for two years. D. S. Hilton of
this place naturally wants every
other sufferer from rheumatism to
know what cured him. It was Dodd's
Kidney Pills.
“Dodd’s Kidney Pills are the grand
est pill on earth" says Mr. Hilton,
"I would not take any sum of money
for what they did for me. For two
years I had what the doctors called
rheumatism. I could hardly walk
around the house. It seemed to be
In my back and hip and legs. I tried
everything but nothing helped me till
I got Dodd’s Kidney Pills.”
“Two days after T took the first
dose all pain left me and it has never
come back since. I can’t praise Dodd’s
Kidney Pills too much.”
Rheumatism is caused by uric acid
in the blood. Healthy kidneys take
all the Uric Acid out of the blood.
Dodds’ Kidney Pills make healthy
kidneys.
Cure for Consumption.
A six months’ tour by bullocyk in
South Africa is the latest cure for
consumption, as advertised by a Lon
don doctor. Your own milch cow ac
companies you, the pace is only two
miles an hour, there are frequent out
spans, and vegetables, butter, butch
er’s meat, fowls and eggs are -easily
obtainable, it is said. The total cost
is only $525.
The Boy View of It.
Bert and Leslie, hardy sons of im
pecunious parents, called for the’r
chum Leonard, a tender stripling of
wealth, to go fishing. Now. Leonard,
having wet his feet and got a head
ache, could not go, and, as the boys
started off without him, Leslie said:
“It’s better to be poor and tough than
rich and tender.”
In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE.
A powder. It cures painful, smarting, nerv
ous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the
greatest comfort discovery of the age.
Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for
sweating feet. Sold by all druggists, 25c.
Trial package FREE. Address A. S.
Olmsted, L© Roy, N. Y.
Says the Whistling Whittier.
“A horse in a burnin’ stable an’ a
man in love resemble each other a
great Seal in one respect,” remarked
the whistling whittler.” “No matter
how hard you try to lead ’em out,
they’ll rush right back into danger.”
—Detroit Journal.
2 am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.—Mns. Thos. Robbins.
Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,190C.
Trees in Iceland.
Iceland possesses a large number
of trees, although it is only credited
with having one. The climate and
soil are by no means unfavorable to
tree-growing, and evidence exists to
show that Iceland was once covered
with trees.
Clothing Injures Health.
The South African native affairs
commission reports that while the
adoption of European clothing by the
natives has promoted public decency
it has Injured the health of the wear
ers.
CHOOSE YOUR FLOWER.
There are certain flowers that cer
tain people ought to wear either in
the*r natural or artificial guise. It is
all a matter of years and height.
Daisies belong only to youth.
Banksia roses are for the debutante.
Lilacs can only be well worn by a
tall figure.
Violets are charming for either
youth or age.
Crocuses are pretty for the young;
tulips are not.
Lilies of the valley are for youth
or middle age.
Thistles are for the elderly woman
with white hair.
Neither are poppies for the petite
nor things that grow in branch form.
Pansies seem fitted for riper age,
though the pansy-eyed girl looks well
in them.
Mignonette does not belong to youth
nor do sweet peas and daffodils be
long to age.
Chrysanthemums look well on youth
‘or maturity, but do not seem to be
long to age.
Roses belong to all ages, but need
to be chosen with care as to their
color and size.
Snowdrops that would look foolish
on a middle-aged woman look sweet
on a young debutante
Are the Packers Receiving Fair Play?
When the Garfield report on the
business methods of the packers ap
peared, after eight months’ investiga
tion, it was severely criticised and
ror/idly denounced. After three
months of publicity it is significant
that those who attempted to discredit
it have failed to controvert the figures
contained in that exhaustive docu
ment. The public is beginning to no
tice this omission, and the feeling is
rapidly growing that the sensational
charges out of which the “Beef In
vestigation’’ arose were without foun
dation. If the official statements of
the report are susceptible of contra
diction, a good many people are now
asking why the facts and figures are
not furnished to contradict them.
The truth seems to be that most of
the charges contain unfounded sensa
tional assertions. A flagrant example
of this appeared in a recent article in
an Eastern magazine, to the effect
that “forty Iowa banks were forced
to close their doors in 1903-4 by the
Beef Trust’s manipulation of cattle
prices.” Chief Clerk Cox, of the bank
ing department of the Iowa State Au
ditor’s office, has tabulated the list of
banks given in the magazine article
and has publicly denounced the state
ment as utterly untrue. He gives
separately the reasons for each fail
ure mentioned and officially states
that they have been caused by unwise
speculations and by reckless banking
methods. It may be well to suspend
judgment upon the packers until the
charges against them are proved.
Self-Denial Without- Restraint.
One of the newest “cures” is to eat
as much as you can for three weeks
of the month, and diet yourself rigor
ously during the fourth. In this way
it is found possible to combine the
advantage of self-denied with the
pleasures of the table.
It’s a Hard World.
“My one and only suit,” said the
hard-luck philosopher, “failed to keep
me warm during the winter, and I sup
pose that through the approaching
summer it will also fail to keep me'
cool. Such is life.”—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Fine Walls in Palace.
One room at Tsaikoe, the czar’s
palace near St. Petersburg, has walls
of lapis lazuli and a floor of ebony in
laid with mother-of-pearl. Another has
walls of carved ember, and the walls
of a third are laid thick with beaten
gold. _
To What End?
Everything is made for some end.
The sun itself has its business assign- j
ed. But pray, what were you made ;
for? For pleasure? Common sense
will not brook such an answer.—Mar
cus Aurelis.
_
Better a dry morsel and quietness
therewith than a house full of sacri
fices with strife.—Bible.
WORTH KNOWING.
The average consumer of bak'n^
powder does not know that a reaction
occurs in the process of baking. Food
prepared with a cream of tartar bak
ing powder does not contain any
cream of tartar. A loaf of bread r.ade
from a quart of flcur leaven* i with
cream of tartar baking powder cot:*a:ns
forty-five grains more of R< • >
Salts than is contained in one s* *z
powder. Some eminent Boston p* - *
cians testified against the healthful*
ness of Rochelle Salts.
Therefore, why should the consurr* r
pay forty-five or fifty cents per p i- ‘
for the cream of tartar or Trust bat
ing powders when the best having
powder in the world can be made to
retail at twenty-five cents per pound
(the price asked for Calumet Baking
Powder) and leave a fair manufactur
er’s profit?
The manufacturers of Calumet Rak
ing Powder have for years made a
standing offer of One Thousand l)«d
lars for any substance injurious to
health found in food prepared from it
Bread made from Calumet Baking
Powder is entirely free from Roche!:-*
Salts, alum, lime or ammonia.
Stomach Not Always First.
Not half so many divorces ar«
caused by cold coffee as by a cold -
position. Whoever heard of a man
seeking a separation because 1.; w fi
let the biscuits burn while she k:>>- -l
him in the morning? Nobody! Rut
there are dozens of good cooks ~ -
ing for the husbands they forg a •*
kiss while they were busy w;*h mak
ing the battercakes.— Helen Row
land’s "Digressions of Polly.”
Grows Six Inches a Day.
Catalpa grows at the rate of a third
of an inch in diameter a year « n g< ml
soil, says a writer in Country Life in
America. There are fine st;mm* r da- -
when the sprouts on a stump of -'ur :.
root growth will grow six inches :n
the tw’enty-four hours. You can ~ee
catalpa grow, you can hear it grow
Gigantic Lily.
A gigantic lily, flie phormium t nax
is a valuable plant peculiar to New
Zealand. Its leaves are nine or t> r.
feet long, and are so tough tha' i y
splitting one into narrow ribbons at 1
joining the ends the New Zealan .tr
has a first-class rope ready to hand.
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance O 1
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, hut becau
each package contains 16 oz.— »no full
pound—while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in -pound pa k
ages, and the price is the -ame. 1“
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious !.* rv.
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he ha.
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 anti money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
When a woman wants to call her
husband down before company she
doesn’t say a word, but just looks at
him in a peculiar way.
Greatly
Muted Rates
Round Trip
Niagara Falls. N. Y-, tickets sold
July 17, IS, 19.
Toronto, Ont., tickets sold June 18,
19, 21. 22.
Indianapolis, Ind., tickets sold June
19. 20. 21, 22.
Asbury Park. N. J.. tickets sold
June 29. 30, July 1st.
Baltimore, Md., tickets old July 1,
2. 3.
Buffalo, N. Y., tickets sold July 7,
8. 9.
Long limits, stop-overs and many
other features can be offered in
connection with the above dates
Write me and let me send you
maps, descriptive matter, folder
rates from either Omaha or Chi
cago and all other information.
HARRY E. MOORES, t;. A. I*. D..
Wabash R. It., Onialin, >ebr.
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