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Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The dressmakers declare the sylph
like figure must go. The pad is the
fad.
Selecting a bauk president is as
much of a lottery as selecting a wife
these days.
One of the new fads Is to get wet.
With people who can’t help getting
wet it is no fad.
After wearing in public men's attire
in Hamlet, Sarah Bernhardt now
comes out and says it is ridiculous.
In New York it is found that, the
couple about to commit matrimony
takts little interest in the gas Ques
tion.
Maxim Gorky is the "tramp au
thor" of Russia, but his bank account
would reflect credit on any Weary
Willie
The statement that North Carolina
has raised a “surplus of .strawber
ries" is not believed by anybody up
:nis way.
School authorities of Huron, S. D.,
want to secure some "unmarriage
able’’ girls as teachers. There are no
such girls.
Earl Grey has presented a canary
to the Montreal jail to teach the in
mates to be cheerful in imprison
ment, perhaps.
“If you want to live long learn to
love work,” says an English professor,
who probabiv never had to hunt for
a job in his life.
"All a women asks is to be loved.”
says the latest poet who has swept
the lyre. But that was written after
Easter had passed.
Overworked woman will have a hol
iday by and by. Some genius has
invented a darning machine that even
a mere man can work.
A fool with a pistol in his pocket
and whisky in his insides can cause
more trouble in five minutes than
generations can outlive.
The most Christian act recorded
this spring is that of the man who ac
tually believed his friend’s tale of a
seven-pound brook trout.
The Klondike’s output of gold for
this year is estimated at $22,000,000,
a mere drop in the bucket that Mr.
Rockefeller would never miss.
Boston is quoted as favoring the
revival of the hoopskirt. That quaint
old New England town is and always
has been inordinately fond of spec
tacles.
Harry Lehr says his lawyers have
advised him not to talk. If they really
desire to do a good turn for Harry
they should also advise him to quit
acting.
Young swells at an eastern univer
sity have been ordered to give up
their bulfdogs. Sympathy for dumb
animals is growing in this country all
the time.
Somebody has started a report to
the effect that the automobile is serv
ing to spread brown tail moths. This
has the appearance of downright
maliciousness.
A J.ouisville man, it is said, not long
ago drank thirty-five bottles of beer
in four hours. The primary empha
sis is on “Louisville.” The second
ary is on “beer.”
That New Jersey man who claims
to have committed a crime while un
der the spell of the devil must have
known that he was taking risks by
living in New Jersey.
The statisticians have estimated
the average number of children in
an American family to be two and
three-eighths. No wonder there are
so many fractious children.
Luther Burbank, the Califorria wiz
ard. has produced a yellow ealla lily.
When Mr. Burbank can produce an
onion without a breath there is going
to be genuine rejoicing in this coun
try.
A woman in Jersey chese prison
rather than live with her husband.
Tnis seems incredible until you have
looked up the history of the Jersey
husband in general; then you under
stand.
A New York Italian persisted In
serenading another with an accordion
and the latter serenaded the musician
with a pistol. It has since been as
certained that the latter serenade
was the more painful.
According to the Pittsburg Gazette a
young man of West Virginia, aged 119,
is going west to grow up with the
country. We dislike being finical, but
it is incorrect to speak of him as a
young man. He must be ip his third
childhood..
A bachelor says that the average
young woman seems to think life is
one grand waltz, with ice cream and
new gowns in the breathing spells.
After a man marries he is greatly em
barrassed to explain the cynical re
marks he made when a bachelor.
What the wife of Jacob Riis was
to him may be judged from the trio
ute that he paid to her in one of his
published books. He says: “When I
was a boy l thought women were
angels. Now that I have been mar
ried nineteen years, I know that they
are. Woman is man’s guardian angel,
truly and always his better half.”
A Chicago woman got a divorce in
one minute, but as this was an ex
ceptional case, her husband being a
convict, it can hardly be taken into
account In the official speed records.
COMPLETELY RESTORED.
Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel,
stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand
Ave., Everett, Wash., says: “For fif
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with terrible pain in
my back. I did not
know what it was to
enjoy a night’s reat
and arose in the
morning feeling tired
and unrefreshed. My
suffering primetimes
was simply inde
scribable. When 1
finished the first box
of Doan’s Kidney
Pills I felt like a
different woman. I
continued until I had
taken five boxes.
Doan s Kidney Pills act very effective
ly, very promptly, relieve the aching
pains and all other annoying difficul
ties.”
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists. Price 50
cents per box.
Money talks convincingly at times,
and again there are times when it
gets badly rattled.
Just Discrimination in Railway Rates.
All railroad men qualified to speak
on the subject in a responsible way
are likely to agree with President
Samuel Spencer of the Southern Rail
way when he says: "There is no di
vision of opinion as to the desirability
of stopping all secret or unjustly dis
criminatory devices and practises of
whatsoever character.”
Mr. Spencer, in speaking of "un
justly discriminatory” rates jand de
vices, makes a distinction which is at
once apparent to common sense. Thero
may be discrimination in freight rates
which is just, reasonable and impera
tively required by the complex com
mercial and geographical conditions
with which expert rate makers have
to deal. To abolish such open and
honest discrimination might paralyze
the industries of cities, states and
whole sections of our national terri
tory.
This distinction between just and
unjust discrimination is clearly recog
nized in the conclusions of the Inter
national Railway Congress, published
yesterday:
"Tariffs should be based on commer
cial principles, taking into account the
special conditions which bear upon the
commercial value of the services ren
dered. With the reservation that rates
shall be charged without arbitrary dis
crimination to all shippers alike under
like conditiop.3, the making of rated
should as far as possible have all the
elasticity necessary to permit the devel
opment of the traffic and to produce the
greatest results to the public and to the
railroads themselves.”
The present proposal is, as Mr.
Walker D. Hines of Louisville showed
In his remarkable testimony the other
day before the Senate Committee at
Washington, to crystallize flexible and
justly discriminatory rates into fixed
government rates which cannot be
changed except by the intervention of
•ome government tribunal, and by this
very process to increase “the tempta
tion to depart from the published rate
and the lawful rate in order to meet
some overpowering and urgent com
mercial condition.”—New York Sun.
Free Theater Refreshments.
Manager Masgrove has commenced
supplying patrons of the circle and
front stalls of the Lyceum (Sydney)
with refreshments free of charge.
Another manager is said to be think
ing of following his lead. It seems
to be an unwise thing to begin; if
managers don't look out it’ll become
as big a curse to them as counter
lunches to publicans.—Sydney Bulle
tin.
How to Economize in Soap.
All soaps, toilet or laundry or house
hold go much farther if kept for some
time in a dry place before using. New
soap lathers too freely to waste, there
fore it is more economical to buy a
quantity and keep the bars or cakes
some time, instead of buying it as you
actually want it.
Does Tobacco Cause Blindness?
A doctor stated in an English coun
ty court recently that he considered
one and a half ounces of tobacco quite
sufficient to impair the eyesight, and
that he had known a case where a
man of middle age was a sufferer
from the effects of half an ounce a
week.
But It Won’t Be.
While looking in a draper’s shop^ a
Clapbam lady wras injured by an elec
tric light globe falling on her head.
Husbands hope that this will be a les
son to ladies not to look in drapers’
shop windows.—London Answers.
FEED YOU MONEY.
Feed Your Brain, and It Will Feed
You Money and Fame.
“Ever since boyhood I have been
especially fond of meats, and I am
convinced I ate too rapidly, and failed
to masticate my food properly.
“The result was that I found my
self, a few' years ago, afflicted with
ailments of the stomach and kidneys,
which interfered seriously with my
business.
“At last I took the advice of friends
and began to eat Grape-Nuts instead
of the heavy meats, etc., that had con
stituted my former diet.
“I found that I was at once benefited
by the change, that I was soon reliev
ed from the heart-burn and the indi
gestion that used to follow my meals,
that the pains in my back from my
kidney affection had ceased, showine
that those organs had been healed, an
that my nerves, which used to be u»
steady, and my brain, which was slow
and lethargic from a heavy diet ot
meats and greasy foods, had, not in a
moment, but gradually, and none tno
less surely, been restored to normal
efficiency. Now every nerve is steady
and my brain and thinking faculties
are quicker and more acute than for
years past.
“After my old style breakfasts I
used to suffer during the forenoon
from a feeling of weakness which hin
dered me seriously in my work, but
since I have begun to use Grape-Nuts
food I can work till dinner lime with
all ease and comfort.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” in each pkg.
Old Glory.
From Islands asleep in tho tropical deep.
Past shores where the billows are beat
ing.
O'er hill capped with -green and fair val
leys between.
Speed on when the dawn smiles her
greeting;
O’er broad, fertile plains where the god
Plenty reigns,
O'er mountains snow-crested and
hoary.
Sweep westward, but know that where
ever you go
The sunrise illumines Old Glory.
Through Golden Gate flee to the Isles of
the sea.
Its folds ate still rippling before you;
Wherever you roam that fair emblem of
home
Pends light to the day that shines o'er
you.
It gleams on tho seas as a promise of
peace.
Aut flaps o'er the battlefield gory
At Liberty's call, a protection for all;
The sun ever shines on Old Glory.
Wherever it waves, there the shackles of
slaves
Must crumble and vanish forever;
The country whose winds kiss its colors,
it binds
With ties that no foe can dissever.
Its blue and its stars tell of Liberty’s
wars.
And all men are learning its story;
It floats 'round the world like a new hope
unfurled:
The sun nev er sets on Old Glory.
—J. A. Edgerton. in National Magazine.
Mementoes of the War.
“John Brown's soul goes marching
on,” and seems destined to until the
end of American history. While rum
maging through an attic the other day
Judge Rufus G. Fairbanks came across
some evidence from company E of
Medway and a reference to the John
Brown affair not previously published.
The letter is dated Charlestown, Va.„
March 9, 1862, and is as follows:
“Friend Calvin: As you like to hear
from me, no doubt, I now take this
opportunity to drop you a few lines.
Our troops are in this town, and com
pany E is quartered in the court house
and I now write this letter in the very
room where John Brown received his
sentence of death.
“Inclosed you will find one of the
many letters found in the county
clerk’s office and a bond of a rebel sol
dier. and you think what you will of
it. It was only one of the same sort
which was found in the office of the
Country club.
“I am well and hearty, and we boys
are getting tired of waiting for a brush
with the rebels. Company E went out
the other day with one Indian com
pany and got 123 barrels of flour from
the rebels and came home from it,
but the rebel pickets were thick as
grasshoppers in the hay time, but they
ran like thunder when they see us
fellows. Answer soon.
“A. A. B.”
“P. S.: I did not know but you
would like a keepsake of the John
Brown affair, so I send in this letter
a small brass plate I took from the
jury door in the court house, also a
sample letter. “A. A. B.”
The sample letter is as follows:
“To the Clerk of Court—Dear Sir:
I have wrote you before, but I now
take the liberty to write again. If
John Brown be injured, he shall have
vengeance. By the gods of war, he
shall' have vengeance. He may not
live to see it, but he shall have it,
sooner or later.
“He may be hung, but vengeance
he shall have. Houses and barns shall
be burned, and Gov. Wise shall have
his neck rung rooner or later, and
when he does he shall be put in mind
of it, and before he dies I shall tell
him what he dies for. I shall be hap
pay to die in such a cause, and so
shall John Brown.
“Please tell the people that it may
not be right away they may look for
me. for I shall come upon them un
awares. Remember waat I have said.
This is the instrument I shall use.”
(A pen drawing of a pistol.)
Here is another letf *r of local inter
est:
"CULPEPrEK. va., Aug. 14, 1862.
“Mr. Calvin Fairbanks:
“Dear Sir—I am well and have a
pretty hard time of it so far. Passed
:hrough without trouble. How do
hings go with you. Please give us all
the news you know. We had a battle
cn Saturday, but we were not in the
fighting front of the field, but were
close enough to have shell scatter
among us so we had to skedaddle.
“George H. Ide and Herman Spar- j
-ow were killed and seventeen wound- ‘
ed. Tom Casey, Hutch and Fitzsim
mons and Warren Cook are likely to
lose their arms. Bert Clark is
wounded in the thigh. Jim May is '
wounded. Dave Mock and Sid Allen
are wounded in the hand with buck
shot. Sam Matthews’ leg is broke
bad. Charles Whitney was hit with a
spent ball. John Coombs is here.
“My respects to all your folks.
Send us nine recruits if you can.
Write right off. Respectfully yours,
“AARON BROWN. CUSHING, NEILU,
ADAMS, OSGOOD. BATES, PICK
ERING, BERT, WILEY & CO.
“Direct to 2d regiment, M. V. M.,
care of Capt. Quincy, Col. Cordon’s
regiment, Washington, D. C.”—Boston
Herald.
Peculiar Mortal Wound.
“Speaking of what cannon balls
were capable of doing, while seeming
ly harmless,’’ said Dan R. Anderson,
‘brings to memory a strange case of
an Ohio soldier at the battle of Mis
sionary Ridge, Nov. 23 or 24, 1863. He
was brought to the general field hospi
tal, Army of the Cumberland, and was
put in a tent near the commissary
tert, so that I could hear him groan
In his agony. His groaning was ex
cessive and something altogether uh
lsual—so much so that it caused me
to go to him. I met one of the con
tract surgeons coming from the tent
and asked h'.m what was the cause.
He said: “There’s nothing the mat
ter at all. He is playing off and I am
going to send him to his regiment.’ I
went in to the sufferer, asking him
where he was wounded. He said all
he knaw about it. was that as he was
^oing up the ridge a shell from a rifle
cannon had passed in front of him so
close that it book him off his feet,
knocking the breath out of him, and
that when he came to his senses he
experienced the most unusual Dain in
his bowels, and that there Has no iet
to it.
“There was no visible discoloration.
His pulse was normal and the only
thing to indicate anything wrong was
his respiration, which was like
that in a case of lung fever. I called
the doctor's attention to his way of
breathing, and they all, except the
major in charge, who was not pres
ent, said, ‘Malingerer!’ and one of
them took hold of him in no gentle
manner and tried to pull him off the
cot, and said mean things to him. I
can see now' the agonizing look the
poor fellow gave the doctor, pleading
all the time that he was mortally
hurt, and he died while yet the doctor
was tugging at him, and in the pres
ence of more than a dozen persons,
one of whom was Mother Bickerdike.
Was Mother Bickerdike indignant?
Well, I should say she was! And
there were others that were, and there
is one who hasn't got over it yet and
who spoke nis piece at the time. In
honor of Americans I will say that
that assistant contract surgeon was a
Canadian, and. further, that if he will
call at my address, I will give him
the best in the shop.
“The soldier was not long dead be
fore the doctors had him on the am
putating table holding a post-mortem.
1 was allowed to be present and saw
one of the most unique cases on rec
ord brought to light. The man had
sustained a complete disintegration
of his small intestines—torn all to
pieces—and yet there was no swell
ing of the,abdomen to indicate any
such condition. That Canadian got
his walking papers that day. The
facts in this case can be found in the
official papers of the general field hos
pital. Army of the Cumberland, on
file at Washington, and if this should
meet the eye of any of those present
at the time I would be pleased to
hear from them. The commissary ser
geant of that day is very much alive
yet.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Reunion at Manassas, Va.
The thirty-sixth annual reunion of
the Society of the Army of the Poto
mac, of which Gen. Horatio C. King
is president, was held at Manassas,
Va., on May 10 and 11. Forty years
ago the soldiers of the Army of the
Potomac, on their last march from
Appomattox, crossed Bull Run oa their
way to the grand review. At that time
they were so impressed by memories
of the field where they took their
first lessons in actual war, that they
marked two historic spots with rude
monuments, which they solemnly ded
icated with imposing ceremonies to
the memory of their brothers who fell
in the beginning of the conflict. It is
an interesting fact that this battle
field, the nearest to the national cap
ital, was the only one thus marked by
the soldiers themselves before they
went home.
The citizens of Manassas invited
the Society of the Army of the Poto
mac, at its Hartford meeting last
year, to hold its reunion for 1905 on
their historic plains. This invitation
was unanimously accepted. The ap
prehension that Manassas could not
properly accommodate the society was
entirely removed by the erection of a
new and beautiful hotel, which has
recently been opened. The corps and
society business meetings and the pub
lic exercises were held in the new
court house on Grant avenue. Public
exercises were held the first day, May
10, with a campfire at night. The
next day, May 11, there was a drive
over the battlefield, with a luncheon
at the Henry House. The Rev. Newell
Dwight Hillis, D. D., pastor of Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, was the ora
tor for the reunion.
Three Years Without Drink.
Benjamin McGraw, a civil war vet
eran, has no use whatever for water
as a beverage, despite the statements
of scientists that five pints of the
fluid per day are required to lubricate
the human system.
Mr. McGraw always thought pretty
well of water until August, 1902. In
fact, he consumed enormous quanti
ties of it—drank so much that people
used to refer to him as the human
tank, although he never tasted a drop
of intoxicating liquor in his life.
On that fateful day in 1902 McGraw
took his last drink—of water. For
some reason it did not taste good to
him. The next day he tried to take
another drink, but even the sight of
water caused nausea. From that time
to this he has not tasted water or
any fluid.
Within the last week McGraw be
came ill and physicians were called in.
After an examination they declared
that his illness was caused by being
off the water wagon for so long. Phy
sicians declare that if he does not
drink water soon he will die.—Dun
bar (Penn.) correspondence Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Marked Andersonville Stockade.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Turner, past na
tional president of the Woman’s Re
lief Corps, and who has done such
wonderfully good work in the matter
of the Andersonville prison site, re
turned recently from a visit to Ander
sonville and reports everything there
in excellent shape. Her visit this time
was for the purpose of marking the
lines of the stockade with white posts.
There Is a growing interest in the site
of that old torture pen among the
comrades and their auxiliaries.—New
York Press.
Deserving of Recognition.
When Ex-Gov. Perham of Maine first
suggested the granting of a pension of
$2 a month to soldiers’ orphans, the
objection was made that there were a
large number of minors who would
thus come in for a ebars of the pen
sion fund. “Why,” said one man, “I
know of the widow of a private sol
dier who has ten children. “Weil,”
said Mr. Perham, “if the widow of a
private soldier h?s ten minor children
she ought to ha»e the extra $20 per
month. Let he.- have it to aid in
clothing and educating the children of
a patriot.”
Fine View from Gibralta^j
“It is not a very hard climb to the
signal station on the sumimt of Gib
raltar,” writes a traveler. “The
height is no more than 1,350 feet. I
visited the station with a friend on a
fine November day. The path zigzags
up the precipitous western face of the
mighty rock; now and again we
passed a sentry and had to show our
passport. Once we had gained the
summit we felt ourselves more than
amply repaid. Whichever way one
turns the views are truly superb.
Westward, across the bay of Gibral
tar, with its magnificent setting of
hill and mountain, lay the extreme
south of beautiful Andalusia. North
and east stretched Malaga and Gra
nada, with the splendid heignts of
the Sierra Nevada in the far distance.
(Eastward rolled the blue Mediter
ranean; the white canvas of a sailing
bark showed right beneath us, and
steamships plied, like gigantic water
beetles, pushing steadily on their
course. Southward, close at hand, the
nearest point no more than about fif
teen miles distant, the wild land of
Morocco met our gaze, rugged chains
of mountains corrugating its surface;
while far away, in dimmest distance,
rose a blue range, which was pointed
out to us as the mighty Atlas itself.
It was a fine, clear day, and the pan
orama, whichever way we looked, was
unspeakably grand. It seemed that
one could never tire of feasting one’s
eyes on so sublime and so historic a
prospect.
‘ No trees exist, but a good deal of
bu^h and shrub clothes the parched
surface. There still lingers about
the upper portion of the rock the last
remnant of the troops of Barbary
apes, which once roamed freely about
Gibraltar. No more than half a dozen
now exist and modern fortifications
and other necessary works are, I fear,
making Gibraltar much too busy a
place to shelter these shy creatures.
Still, it is just posible that this feeble
remnant of the only wild apes known
to Europe may yet survive and in
crease. At one time, from much per
secution, they had sunk to three in
dividuals; yet in 1893 the numbers
had risen again to at least thirty.
“These apes are baboonlike crea
tures exactly similar to the tailless
Barbary ape found in Morocco. They
are supposed by some to be clear evi
dences of the fact that Africa and
Spain were once joined. It is by no
means certain that they are indigen
ous to the rock. A large number were
introduced in 1740 and in 1863 fresh
blood was again imported. These
apes have been known to scientists
for long ages and Galen, the renowned
Roman physician, in his day studied
and even dissected them.”
Actors as Wood Carvers
During the nine tranquil years that
intervene between productions of the
passion play at Oberammergau most
of the actors in that wonderful drama
support themselves through their re
markably developed art of wood carv
ing, says the Boston Post. Almost
exclusively they devote their skill to
the production of sacred figures and
objects.
A world-wide reputation is enjoyed
by the “Christ carvers’’ of Oberam
mergau, as they are called. A i>opu
lar play bears that name, and speci
mens of their wonderful handiwork
may be found in nearly every city of
the globe.
Many of the carvings are sold to
such tourists, while others are sent to
near-by cities and placed upon the
market, drifting eventually all over
the world.
Peter Rendl, the curly-haired per
former of the part of St. John, is one
of Guido I>ang's ablest assistants and
an enthusiastic as well as devout car
ver of the figures of Christ.
The entire family of Anton Bang en
gages in wood carving. It is typical
of the home industry that the old peo
ple and young children take part in
the less difficult tasks.
A carving school is conducted, in
which the boys are trained to follow
the trade of their fathers. As a rule
these pupils perfect themselves in the
manufacture of toys before they at
tempt figures.
Men who take leading parts in the
passion play direct the wood-carving
industry. It is their pride that the re
productions of the characters they so
devoutly represent on the stage shall
be true to life.
In the workshop of Anton Lang,who
in the passion play assumes the role
of Christ, particularly may be seen
the earnest artists at work, surround
ed by all sorts of carved objects, in
cluding, in addition to the well-known
figures in the sacred drama, orna
ments for churches and altars.
Anton Lang and his brother, Guido,
have practically a monopoly of the
sale of carvings. They own studios
and exhibition rooms and these are
visited by hundreds of tourists annu
ally.
He Didn’t Know Jefferson
My agent had been a manager in
Australia some years before, so he
knew everybody, wrote Joseph Jeffer
son in his autobiography. We went
to the theater, where he introduced
me to the manager, and as I shall
have some little business relations
with this gentleman of an interesting
sort, perhaps it will be as well to de
scribe him. he being almost a histor
ical character. He was an undersized,
round-shouldered little cockney,
named Rolamo. Where he got his re
markable Italian appellation I cannot
say, but if his ancestors belonged to
the land of song they must have
strayed into the very heart of White
chapel just previous to the birth of
their son and heir, as his dialect was
strongly impregnated with the drawl
ing twang of that locality. It is re
corded of him that he never was
known to put an h in the right place,
and his talent for reversing the w and
v almost amounted to genius. He had
originally been lamplighter in the the
ater, but by his industry and intelli
gence he rose to be its manager, ^jjd
he was in the zenith of his fame when
I arrived in Australia. After my
agent had introduced me to Mr. Ro
lamo as the coming man who was to
make his (the manager's) fortune,
that worthy cast a patronizing eye
over me, but did not seem at all over
whelmed, taking my arrival with pro
voking coolness. This chilling atmos
phere pervaded the office until my
agent unrolled some highly inflamma
ble printed matter, the novel charac
ter of which seemed to attract the
great man's attention, and conde
scending to address me, he said: “You
see, Mr. Jeffries—oh, I beg pardon,
Jimmison. I mean—with all due re
spect to you, there 'as been so many
blawsted Yankee comics over ’ere that
we are kind o’ sick on ’em.. You
may be a hextra good lot for all I
know, but lately the queerest mum
mers we've ’ad ’ave come from Amer
ikee. This printed stuff you’ve got
looks spicy—in fact. I don't know as
I ever see spicier—but it don't prove
nothing, does it?’’
Opportunity Here for All
i
That no form of government yet
adopted by civilized man is more ben
eficial to those who live under it than
that of the United States is instanced
in the daily life of every one. The op
portunities for every man to make of
himself what he will, providing na
ture has endowed him with the brain
element of success, are greater in this
country than anyw'here else on earth.
It has never been questioned by stu
dents of the constitution, yet seldom
is such a striking case discovered as
one in the pension bureau.
Some eighty years ago a French
refugee landed on one of the islands
of the West Indies, where he set him
self up in business as a small planter.
Success attended his diligence, and he
acquired a competence and a number
of slaves. A few years prior to the
civil war he sold out his business and
came to the United States to make his
home.
One slave whom he brought with
him he freed in Baltimore, securing i
for him an occupation. After the I
death of the Frenchman, who left a
small family, the negro continued to
prosper along the lines he had set for
himself, rearing a family and sending
one son to the war for the Union. Two
of the sons of his old master also
fought for the flag in a Maryland regi
ment.
After the war these young soldiers
settled down to retrieve their for
tunes, reduced by the conflict and en
forced neglect. It was a hard strug
gle, but they did fairly well. The se
quel of the story is this: To-day at
the same work, in the same office, a
grandson of the French refugee and a
grandson of the slave whom he freed
in Baltimore years ago are employed
by the government they helped to
save, and the story of their lives is
known to few, even of the clerks who
work with them. They are both rated
as good clerks, and the fact of their
both being there maintains the origi
nal statement of equal opportunities
for all men born under the banner of
the great republic.—Washington Star.
Incident of Naval Battle
This strange incident of a great
naval battle is told by Commander
McGiffin of one of the Chinese war
ships in the battle of the Yalu, be
tween the Chinese and the Japanese
fleets in 1894. “About this time the
Chih Yuen boldly, if somewhat fool
hardily, bore down on the Japanese
squadron's line. Just what happened
no one seems to know, but apparently
she was strucK below the water line
by a heavy shell—either a ten-inch or
i thirteen inch. Be that as it may,
she took a heavy list and thus fatally
Injured, her commander, Tang Shi
a most courageous, albeit a
most obstinate, officer, resolved at
least to avenge himself, and charged
one of the largest of the enemy’s
ships, intending to ram.
“A hurricane of project^es from
both heavy and machine guns swept
iown upon his ship. The list became
more pronounced and just before get
:ing home to his intended victim his
ship rolled over and then plunged.
I
I bows first, into the depths. She right
! ed herself as she sunk, her screws
j whirling in the air and carrying down
! all hands, including her chief engin
| eer. Mr. Purvis, shut up in the engine
room. Seven of her crew clung to
! one of the circular life buoys kept on
j the bridge and were drifted by the
tide toward the coast, where they
were rescued by a junk.
“Stories told by these men vary
so much as to be unreliable, but all
agree on one incident: Capt. Tang
had a large dog of most vicious tem
per, unruly at times even with his
master. After the ship sunk Capt.
Tang, who could not swim, managed
to get an oar or some small piece of
wood. This would have been enough
to support L*m had not his dog swum
to h'~., and, climbing up on him, forc
ed aim to release his grasp. Thus
be miserably drowned and the brute i
shared Ills fate—perhaps the only case <
on reccrd of a man being drowned
by his dog.”
Health
Calumet makes
light, digestible
wholesome food.
Economy
Only one heap
ing teaspoonful
is needed for one
quart of flour*
Rehearsal Before Performance.
A real, bona-fide engagement Is
nothing more or less than a dress re
hearsal for matrimony. Sometimes
the original rehearsing company are
married at once, but generally the
'eading man and leading lady are
changed several times before you find
the two who just fit the opi>osing
-oles.—Helen Rowland’s “Digressions
of Polly.”
Man's First Weapon.
Man’s first weapon seems to have
been the sword. When the Spaniards
came to Mexico they found the native
Indians armed with wooden swords,
and this was probably the most primi
tive form of the weapon, but, after the
discovery of medals, bronze swords
were introduced, of which many have
at different times have been found.
As to Love and War.
A fine old soldier passed by. “There
goes Gen. -said a man about
town who knows everybody by sight.
The visitor stared at the veteran.
“Great fighter.” he remarked. “Yes,”
returned the other, “but they say his
daughter has been through more en
gagements than the old man.”—New
York Press.
Thought She Couldn’t Live.
Moravia, N. Y., June 5 —Mr. Benja
min Wilson, a highly respected resident
of this place, came very near losing
his wife and noXv that she is cured and
restored to good health his gratitude
knows no bounds. He says:
“My wife has suffered everything
with Sugar Diabetes. She has been
sick four years. She doctored with
two good doctors but kept growing
worse. The doctors said she could
not live. She failed from 200 pounds
down to 130 pounds. This was her
weight when she began to use Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and now she weighs 190,
is well and feeling stronger every
day.
“She used to have rheumatism so
bad that it would raise great bumps
all over her body and this is all gone
too.
“Dodd’s Kidney Pills are a God send
to those who suffer as my wife did.
rhey are all that saved her. We can t
praise them enough.’’
It is pretty hard to make some peo
ple understand why there should be
>ld bachelor uncles in this world if
hey don’t know’ enough to get rich.
How’s This ?
We offer Oce Hundred Hollar* Reward for mr
ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'*
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
we. the undersigned. ha\e known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 year*, and be Neve him perfectly hon
orable In all huaineta transact!, m* and Bnuualally
able to carry out any Obligation* made by h!« flriu.
Waldixo. Kixxax & M'arvix,
„ _ . _ Wholesale Druggist*, Toledo, O.
Hall • Catarrh Cure 1* taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surface* of the
system. Testimonials Bent free. I’rlce 73 cent* Der
bottle. Sold by all Druggist*. v
Take Hall's Family Rills for constipation.
The more hat a man can buy- for $2
the less bonnet a woman can buy for
$20; yet people still harp on the eter
nal fitness of things.
To Launder Delicate Muslins.
Many muslin dresses may be suc
cessfully laundered at home, which, if
put in the ordinary wash, would be
hopelessly ruined. Wash quickly
through warm Ivory Soap suds; rinse,
dip in rice water, and dry in-doors, as
the air will frequently fade delicate
colors. Iron with a moderately hot
Iron.—Eleanor R. Parker.
It’s usually the alimony he has to
pay that causes a man to figure in a
divorce suit.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOR! \
a safe and sure remedy Tor infanta and children’
and sec that it
Bears the
Signature of
la Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Japan has very few millionaire
practically no multi-millionaires.
s ant)
Try One Package.
If “Defiance Starch" does not pleas,
you. reurn it to your dealer if 7
does you get one-third mure' for th.
same money. It will give you
faction, and will not stick to theTron
A dollar in your hand is worth iwc
in the other chap’s pocket.
<
Piso s Cure for Consumption is au Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. W. Samuel.
Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17.1900.
Hold fast to an opinion ur> .-. some
thing better is found to supplant it.
