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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. P CITY, • • NEBRASKA. Last year's bathing suits are being worn shorter. They shrank. You cannot always tell what a man means by quoting the bad things he says. Twelve adult New Yorkers lunched on one hard-boiled egg. Miracle? No. Ostrich. The sweet girl graduate will con tinue to be sweet for three or four years, at least. A new $20 bill is going to be put into circulation and lots of people will never know the difference. We often wonder if those oiu philos ophers had any business other than that of thinking for a living. They must be still a little shy on statesmen in Spain, since they have to put Gen. Weyler into a cabinet job. It is charged against the seventeen year locust that it sometimes gets its dates mixed and comes out ahead of time. There is no slackening of the en ergy with which the reckless chauf feur contributes to the mortality sta tistics. In addition to its other objectionable qualities the seventeen-year locust la bors under the hallucination that it can sing. That man in New York with two hearts ought to be a winner all right, providing he centers them both on the same girl. Radium, according to an English scientist, contains the secret of life. But the spunky thing refuses to di vulge the secret. A passing glance at M. Nelidoff's whiskers will be ^enough to convince some people that Russia is going to get the worst of it. With the sultan of Morocco himself taking a hand by granting concessions, the Franco-Deutsch muddle becomes even more interesting. Every once in a while a Canadian court finds a spare moment in which to enter some different kind of ruling in the Gaynor-Greene case. The Chicago Chronicle says the Turk is a nice man—when he is asleep but it is a more famous saying that “no man is a saint in his sleep.” Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia is said to have discarded his crown for an American hat, but he hasn’t yet acquired our habit of talking through it. The London scientist who evoked life from sterilized bouillon by putting in some radium has only proved that he didn’t sterilize the bouillon com pletely. A Boston editor is writing editorials on “Advice to College Graduates.” Next thing you know that man will be nervy enough to attempt to control his office boy. A Tennessee congressman has been arrested because he got into a fight over a laundry bill. Down with the heathen Chinee and let us insist on the open door. In St. Louis a few days ago a man and a woman were married on a mer ry-go-round while it was in operation. Later they will be likely to take matri mony more seriously. President Wheeler of the University of California advises everybody to lead the “abundant life.” Everybody would like to and would, too, if money weren’t so blamed scarce. Sunday is a day of rest, but just the same, the recorders of facts al ways prepare for a big grist of auto mobile, boat, bathing, trolley and ac cidents. We rest strenuously. At a banquet in honor of Whitelaw Reid in London, Sir Henry Irving read a poem composed for the occasion by Sir Alfred Austin. Otherwise it ap pears to have been a rather cheerful affair. Washington says the brewers, through increase^ taxes, are to pay for digging the Panama canal. And through the increased thirst produced by digging it, they'll sell enough extra beer to fill it. Perhaps Lord Curzon’s independent attitude and readiness to resign as viceroy of India is due to the fact that he will still have that bully good job as warden of the Cinque Ports to fall, back on. A Chicago woman wants a divorce becau*se her husband developed a tendency to take an actress on tours in his automobile. She must be in a terrible hurry, or have cause to know that he *s an unusually careful man at the wheel. , - | Down in New Jersey a judge has de cided that a man must pay the bills contracted by his wife before' their marriage. If this kind of law holds good some cautious men will^ insist hereafter in having a look at the re ceipts before starting for the church. It is rumored tha*t Lords Kitchener and Curzon have had a set-to over in India and that Lord Curzon will, as a consequence, resign his job. Well, he needn’t care. Let him come over to New York and get $50,000 or $60,000 a year for taking charge of a subway or running a life insurance company. Some amiable persons are about to ask Carnegie to give them $30,000,000 to promote universal peace. They seem to overlook the fact that there would be an awful fight’to share in the distribution of thirty millions. IS ABSOLUTELY PURE NATURE’S OWN RESTORATIVES IN FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION. Dr. Pierce Announces the Ingredients of the Family Medicines Which Have Made His Name a Household Word in the World. With all the recent talk about patent medicines and the determined effort in certain quarters to cast discredit upon til household remedies which come un der that head, the fact remains that some of these medicines are so firmly established in popular favor and con fidence, have so proved their worth and value, that all the denunciations af bigots cannot destroy the people’s faith in them. One of the best known of these rem edies is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion, a medicine which for years has been accepted by the people as a stan dard preparation for the cure of those ailments to which women alone are subject and which has proved to be a certain cure in nine cases out of ten and a sure relief in the other one. There is nothing to conceal about the Favorite Prescription. It is an ab solutely pure medicine—made of roots and herbs, Nature’s own restoratives. Dr. Pierce is perfectly willing to let every one know that his Favorite Pre scription contains Blue Cohosh (Caulo phyllum Thalictroides), Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga Racemosa), Lady’s Slip per (Cypripedium Pubescens) and Golden Seal (Hydrastis Canadensis). Every doctor knows that such a pre scription is beneficial in the diseases of women and when properly com pounded is certain to effect a cure in practically all cases when given a fair trial. Hereafter every bottle of the Favorite Prescription will plainly tell of what the medicine is composed. Thus Dr. Pierce will once more prove to the world his own confidence in the remedy which for forty years has borne his name and which is known all over the world as a sovereign cure for those diseases which, unchecked, make our women old before their time. There is no alcohol in the favorite Prescription. Dr. Pierce never be lieved in using alcohol in the prepara tion of his famous household remedies. For it he substituted chemically pure glycerine, which has wonderful prop erties for extracting the medicinal principles of roots and herbs and barks and preserving them at their full strength, without any deleterious ef fect whatever. Your druggist sells the Favorite Prescription and also that famous alterative and blood purifier, the Gold en Medical Discovery. Write to Dr. Pierce about your case. He is a w’ell qualified physician and will treat your caSe as confidential and without charge for correspondence. Address him at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., of which he is Chief Consulting Surgeon. Every time a man makes love to his wife he makes a profitable investment Ask Your Dealer for Allen’s Foot-Ease. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address, Allan fc», Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Against the Newest Methods. The greatest boons that medicine has ever conferred upon humanity have been met at first with the most violent opposition, amounting in some cases almost to persecution. When Pare introduced the ligature he was greeted with a perfect storm of ridi cule and abuse, and finally, in self defense had to show that the Idea was not strictly original, but might be traced in the writings of Hippo crates. Pearls In Clam Shells. About one mussel In a thousand yields a pearl worth $100. The aver age pearl is worth about $6. But the daily finds runs from $2 to $20. Al though a farmer many never find a valuable pearl in his clam bed, he may find enough common ones to yield him a comfortable sum aside xrom the money received for the shells. No One Claims the Price. Unawarded for a long time, and therefore still on the list of the Lom bardy institute, is the special prize by Commeno for the discovery of hy drophobia poison. A woman usually is as brave as a lion when telling what she would do it she should face sudden danger. Occasionally a bachelor kisses a baby girl Decause he hasn't the nerve to tackle one nearer his own size. WANTED TO SLEEP Curious That a Tired Preacher Should Have Such Desire. A minister speaks of the curious ef fect of Grape Nuts food on him and how it has relieved him. “You will doubtless understand how the suffering with indigestion with which I used to be troubled made my work an almost unendurable burden, and why it was that after my Sabbath duties had been performed, sleep was a stranger to my pillow till nearly day light. “I had to be very careful as to wha* I ate, and even with all ray care I ex perienced poignant physical distress after meals, and my food never satis fied me. “Six months have elapsed since I began to use Grape-Nuts food, and the benefits I have derived from it are very definite. I no longer suffer from indigestion, and I began to improve from the time Grape-Nuts appeared on our table. I find that by eating a dish of it after my Sabbath work is done (and I always do so now) my nerves are quieted and rest and refreshing sleep are ensured me. I feel that I could not possibly do without Grape Nuts food, now that I know* its value. It is invariably on our table—we feel that we need it to complete the meal —and our children will eat Grape Nuts when they cannot be persuaded to touch anything else.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s, a reason. Read the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville,” in each pkg. “The Dear Old Days.” Gimme back the dear old days—all tlM boys in line— “Boy stood on the burnin’ deck,” an’ “Bingen on the Rhine!” ’Twas midnight; in his guarded tent” —we spoke it high and low. While Mary trotted out that lamb "whose fleece was white as snow!” Gimme back the dear old days that Mem’ry loves to keep. With “Pilot, ’tis a fearful night—there’s danger on the deep!” The old-time, awkward gestures—the jerk, meant for a bow— We said that "Curfew should not ring,” but Lord, it's ringin’ now! Gimme back the dear old days—the path way through the dells To the schoolhouse in the blossoms; the sound of far-off bells Tinklin’ 'crost the meadows; the song of the bird an’ brook; The old-time dictionary, an’ the blue back spellin’ book! Gone, like a dream forever!—A city s hid the place , Where stood tne ol’ log schoolhouse; an no familiar face Is smilin' there in welcome beneath a mornin' sky— , There’s a bridge acrost the river; an we've crossed, an’ said "good-by. —Atlanta Constitution. Confederates in Union Ranks. “Soon after we left Atlanta on the march to the sea,” said Capt. Fowler, “we captured two guns of a battery that had been taken from us a few weeks before. The whole outfit of guns and caissons, cannoneers, driv ers and horses was turned over to me, and as just at that time I could not put my hands on artillerymen or drivers to take charge, I kept the cap tured men in their places and sent them forward under guard. For all that day Sherman’s army had on the march a section of a battery manned by men in gray. “The prisoners accepted the situa tion cheerfully and talked jocularly about doing duty in Sherman’s army. In the evening they went into camp id regulation order, and when I came up I found my own men accepting as gifts the cedar canteens and other parts of the equipment of the rebs that struck their fancy. I called a halt on this and informed my men that they could buy or trade for the possessions of the prisoners, but they could not levy on them. Every rebel carried a curious little keg of cedar wood instead of a canteen, and most of them were eager to trade their lit tle kegs for our tin canteens and most of my men were as eager to trade canteens for kegs. “For an hour or more there was lively trading, the rebel artillerymen receiving many things they wanted and my own company of horse artil lery coming into possession of many curiosities. The next morning the prisoners took their places with oth er prisoners and I lost sight of them. We were well toward Savannah when, as I was riding by the column of men captured on the march. I was sur prised by a cheer. This came from my detachment of rebel artillerymen, who remembereu me as associated with their first and only day’s serv ice in Sherman’s army.” “Do you remember,” said the ser geant, “Capt. Lucius H. Drury of the Old Badger, or Third Wisconsin bat tery? Just previous to the battle of Chickamauga he was Gen. Van Cleve’s chief of artillery, and when Critten den, commanding the Twenty-first corps, ordered Gen. Van Cleve to make a reconnoissance from Gordon’s Mills toward Lafayette, to feel the en emy, but not to bring on an engage ment, Drury managed the artillery part of the program. This was Sept. 13, 1863, and we soon ‘felt the en emy.’ As our regiment emerged from the woods in about the center of our line a rebel battery opened on us. and we were soon flat on the ground to escape the shot and shell. “I was not satisfied with the situa tion and was looking for a hole or a depression in the ground, when Maj. Drury, chief of artillery, and Capt. John J. McCook, now of New York, rode past our line and proceeded* quite a distance to the front. Drury was seeking a position for his artil lery and Capt. McCook was to report the situation in front to corps head quarters. As they rode forward they were fired on by the rebel sharpshoot ers and one of the first shots struck Drury just above the belt plate and passed straight through his body to the spine. He said to McCook: ‘The blanked rebels have pinked me, but don’t let them have the satisfaction of knowing it.’ “Capt. McCook knew with such a wound the major could not retain con sciousness long. As they were in close range of the enemy McCook grasped Drury’s sword belt with one hand to keep the major from falling off his horse, and taking the bridle rein with the other hand guided both horses into the woods for cover. Mc Cook kept himself all the time be tween the major and the enemy, and by zigzagging among the trees es caped the bullets fired at him. Reach ing a sheltered spot McCook dis mounted and assisted the major off his horse. The latter lost conscious ness almost as soon as he was placed upon the ground, and the stretcher bearers brought him through our line. The wound was then pronounced mor tal, but the bullet was removed and the major was in the saddle again in four weeks and was in active service to the close of the war.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. First Time he Swung a Gun. "I met Gen. George H. Harries the other day,” said the captain. “He is guard of the District of Columbia, and now in command of the national and is doing a great work under the eyes of the soldiers who know what work is. However, I knew him thirty years ago, when he was in the regular army, and was with Crook on the Rosebud. He prided himself on the training he had received in English military schools and in the volunteer army in this country, and thought he was up to all the tricks of hard fighting. "But when the ranks closed in for a hand-to-hand struggle at the battle of the Rosebud and his comrades, old Indian fighters, clubbed their rifles for the last onslaught he was appalled by the thought that he had had abso lutely no experience in using a mus ket or a rifle as a club. But the In dians came with a rush, and the men around him were at work, handling their guns as they would short clubs, and with great skill. “Harries in desperation caught his gun by the barrel and laid about him with all the strength of his stalwart figure. After he had struck the first blow and had broken the head of a particularly aggressive Indian, he ex perienced a sort of ecstasy, felt like another man who knew just how to handle a clubbed rifle to do the most harm. He did great execution and, seeing that he understood his busi ness, his comrades gave him room to swing his gun with the greatest pos sible freedom. "When the fight was over and the Indians had been driven off and Har ries was trying to get his breath, Gen. Crook rode up and said: ‘That was magnificent, my man. I said to my self as I saw you swing Vour gun that you must have been born in Wales and have lived in the stone age. There was something primitive and savage in that club action, and it was effect ive.’ Harries still maintains that that was the proudest moment of his life." -- ■ Reminiscences Exchanged. In Albany recently Gen. Fitzhugh Lee made an address to the members of William A. Jackson post in the Grand Army headquarters in the county building. Every Grand Army post in the city was represented. Gen. Lee dwelt upon the effects of the Spanish-American war, saying it brought all sections of the country more closely together and taught other countries what a great nation this is. An incident of note, and which came as a great surprise, oc curred during the evening. Maj. Al exander Barnie, a member of U. S. Grant Post No. 327, Brooklyn, got up from his seat in the rear of the room and when given the privilege of the floor asked Gen. Lee if he was in com mand of the division that made the charge upon the Federal line near Falls Church, Virginia, in November, 1801. Gen. Lee had some difficulty at first in recalling the event, but Com rade Barnie helped him out with a few suggestions, among which was one that Gen. Lee rode a bay horse on the occasion, the animal was shot from under him and the chaplain ol the regiment, Chicester by name, who rode beside Lee, was killed. Gen. Lee then recalled all the circumstances and was even able to supply details Major Barnie then brought down the house by saying: “I married the wid ow of the man who shot your horse His name was Lieut. J. M. Grumman, of the Fourteenth Regular Infantry.’• Major Barnie and General Lee were then both able to recall that Lieuten ant Grumman was taken prisoner after the incident. Past Department Commander Clark told how at one time during a campangn in Virginia he and his command surrounded the house in which General Lee was sup posed to be hidden and tried to cap ture him, but were hnsuccessful. Fifty-Eighth Illinois. The story of the Fifty-eighth Illi nois is a most interesting one. On Feb. 11, 1862, before the regimenl was thoroughly organized and when it was practically without arms, and only having advantage of a few W’eeks drill, it was ordered to the front and reached Fort Donaldson two days later, being plunged immediately intc that bloody action. The boys had nc haversacks, were short of rations anc their arms were practically worthless They were without tents or fires dur ing the whole engagement, and yet we are told the new regiment bore all its hardships with the greatest courage and cheerfulness. On the morning of the 6th of March near Pittsburg Landing, the regiment got its first real taste of frontal action Orders were issued by the officer com manding the brigade that the Fifty eighth should cut its way through the enemy’s position, and it proceeded unhesitatingly, to obey instructions A number were killed and woundec and the battle flag now in possession of the Secretary of War was taken at that time. Only three companies sue ceeded in getting through the rebel lines, the balance all being taken pris oners. Over 250 of them were confined in various rebel prisons in Alabama and Georgia for about seven months, their number being cut in two during that time through privation and cruel treat ment. Meanwhile the three companies not taker prisoners fought' at Iuka and the siege of Corinth, being scat tered among other regiments, with out any real organization of their own. Baltimore G. A. R. Officers. The newly elected officers of the De partment of Maryland, G. A. R., are as follows: Department commander, Richard N Bowerman: senior vice commander, Fred C. Tarr; junior vice commander, James Fitzgerald: medi cal director. Dr. C. Lane Taneyhill; chaplain, Charles A. Rotan. General Bowerman is one of the most distin guished Maryland soldiers of the Civil war. He was born in Baltimore 74 years ago. At the outbreak of the civil war he was a corporal in Com pany C, Seventh regiment, N. Y. S M., and went to Washington with thal command. He then became a first lieutenant in the Eleventh New York Volunteers (Elsworth Fire Zouaves) and was soon promoted to captain. He then was promoted to lieutenant colo nel of the Fourth Maryland Infantry and became colonel of that command in 1863. He was brevetted brigadiei general in 1865 for gallant and meri torious conduct at the battle of Five Forks, where he was dangerously wounded in leading a charge of the Maryland bfigade, of which he was ir command. He was also wounded at the battle of Weldon railroad. At the close of the civil war he was coramis sioned lieutenant colonel of the Thirty first United States infantry, but short ly afterward resigned from the regulai army and returned to Maryland tr engage in private business. The Corn Kernel. By tne kernel of the corn it is pos sible to tell much about the quality of com >ne is growing. As a matter of instruction, we publish the accompany ing cuts, which were designed under the direction of Professor Hopkins of the University of Illinois. The first one shows a kernel of low protein corn. The proportion of crown starch LOW PROTEIN CORN. in this kernel to the other portions is seen to be very large, as is also the horny starch, while the proportion of protein in all forms is seen to be small. This can be determined by taking a sharp knife and cutting open several kernels of corn and making compari sons. The kernels having a large amount of protein will look like the second kernel shown here. The proportion of crown starch will be found to be com paratively small, while the horny gluten will be found in large supply. While a considerable portion of the horny matter is starch, yet this same horny matter is so rich in protein that it may be accepted as a rule that the greater the proportion of horny matter the greater the proportion of protein in the corn kernel. The size of the germ also indicates the comparative amount of protein. Any man that expects to do much in the breeding of corn or even in the growing of corn must make a study of the plant and its seed. He must educate himself to be able to tell by value of different kinds of corn. This making a mechanical analysis the real sort of an education is not the work HIGH PROTEIN CORN. of a day or a week, but it requires much study, much thought and much comparison of different varieties of corn and of different ears of the same variety. Summer Made Manure. Summer made manure general ly loses a larger proportion of its manurial contents than does the manure made at any other time of year. This is for two ■principal reasons. One of these is because the manure is dropped here and there in the barnyard and is not kept in a pile as is the manure made in winter. The other reason is that the air and sun are more effective in dissipating the manurial elements in summer than in winter. The only way to in part check the operation of these forces is to keep the yard clean ed up and the manure in a place where it will be largely protected from the sun and wind and, at fre quent intervals apply it to the ground that is being plowed or turned for so*ne purpose. Applying manure as a top dressing in midsummer is waste ful. The Prepotent Sire. Prepotency is of so much value in any kind of an animal that it cannot be overlooked. A sire that has proved prepotent should be kept as long as possible on the farm, for in changing to a younger animal there is always the possibility of changing to an inferior animal. The practice on some farms of U6ing a sire for only a short time and then chang ing to anotuer without regard to what the first sire has done is rather of a lottery, as it is not possible to know within a year or two the results of the prepotency of the animal in ques tion. The old sire that has proved himself a prepotent breeder should be purchased in preference to a young animal that has not proved his prepo tence, but too often this is not the rule that is followed. Danish Dairymen. The Danes are great dairymen, and there are no people in the world that pay more attention to their cows than do these peo ple. A traveler that has spent some time in Denmark says that all the stables he visited had concrete floors and were fireproof. Water was in abundance and could be used in any quantity for the washing out of the stables. Danish dairymen like to know what their cows are doing, and in many of the stables keep a tablet behind each cow giving data relative to the cow, while a slate bears the dairy record of pounds of milk pro duced and sometimes its test. noRiiaiii! A Blighting Orchard. A subscriber writes us: “I have an orchard four years old that is blight ing very badly. I have sprayed it with a mixture of blue vitriol, Paris green and lime. What further can I do for it?-’ The spraying is all right, but is of doubtful efficacy in the case of blight. We would, howrever, approve of the spray, for a man should spray his orchard whether he knows there is anything the matter with it or not. Spraying may help keep down the blight' and probably does, but it is not generally considered an effective rem edy. The lime doubtless does pre vent the spread of the blight to some extent by deterring bees and other insects from visiting the tender ends of the twigs. Blight is produced by a fungus that lives over winter in the live wood of a blighted tree. In the .spring there is an exudation from the tree and this liquid is partaken of by the bees and other insects, which then fly to the blossoms of apple and other trees and carry some of the spores of the fun gus with them. Sometimes the tender shoots are visited and the spores left on them. The tender open tissues per mit the blight spore to send in a fila ment at the time of its germination and thus the disease begins. The spores are sueKy ana cannot he mown by the wind, and must be carried by insects or some other moving things. As the fungi are inside of the wood it is easily seen that spraying cannot reach the blight after it has become settled in a tree. The only thing that can be done is to cut off the blighted portions, hoping to get below the seat of the disease. The dead twigs con tain only dead fungi. The living fun gi are in the live wood joining the blighted portions. The parts trimmed off should be burned at once to pre vent the spread of possible spores. Likewise precautions must be taken against carrying spores from infected to healthy wood, and so it is neces sary to sterilize the.knife or saw after every amputation. This may be done by using some germ destroying liquid. Professor Evarts Weed says that the cutting should be done a foot below the blighted wood.—Farmers’ Review’. Intensive Horticulture. We must have a more intense horti culture if we are to realize large prof its from our horticultural operations. The more intensive are our operations the more certain will we be to reap a rich rew’ard for our work. In the coun tries that are making most out of their horticultural enterprises the gar dens and orchards are living exam ples of intensive farming. The intensive horticulturist is the one that has put many years of labor on the study of soils, fertilization, pruning, and development of varie ties. The realm of horticulture is in finite, and the lore learnable about any one operation of gardening or orchard ing is very great. We have not yet fully learned the lessons of the ad vantages of pruning or how much or how little to prune. The man that becomes an expert in the raising of fruits, vegetables or flowers need not sell his service to others, for he can himself make a living from his own labors. Intensive horticulture is old in Eu rope, but new in America. We have a land that invites us to do extensive rather than intensive work. But it cannot be doubted that in most situa tions and in most circumstances it is the intensive culture that pays best here as well as in Europe. Cool the Fruit. Fruit should not be picked on a warm day and put immediately into cold storage or into cars for shipment. It should be put into some place where it will have a chance to cool off and permit the latent heat to work out. Putting fruit into close cars where no refrigeration is provided is a fruit ful source of trouble in the shipping of fruit. The heat in the fruit causes rapid spoiling, especially with fruit that is of short keeping quality, like some of the apples that ripen in the summer. If the nights are cool, fruit can be cooled off by simply leaving it over night exposed to the air, but not to the dew. In other cases cellars are found deep enough to have a tempera ture of under 60 degrees. These can be used in such cases. In some parts of the territory over which this paper circulates storage pits have been dug into the side hills and these may be used as storage places. Sod Bound Trees. Sod bound trees are not very common, but they are to be met with. When a tree has made a good growth and has spread out its top to cover its feet there is little danger of its becoming sod bound, for the branches of the tree catch most of the sunshine and the grass growth be low is meager. The sod bound condi tion comes when the tree is either very young or so old that the leaves are thin and few. The young tree that is set in grass ground and has never obtained a very good hold of the ground is the one most likely to be come sod bound, which means that the roots of the grass have taken pos session of the soil and are taking most of the plant food and moisture. Such a tree can be relieved only by digging out the grass and giving its roots the entire use of the ground. Washing Without Soap. Clothes washing by electricity, with out soap, is the idea of a Hungarian. The stream of electrified water is claimed to remove all spots and dirt, and the 300 garments held by the ma chine are washed in less than fifteen minutes. Pass word to the Tower of London. The password to the London Tower is so carefully guarded that only one man in Loir’cn outside the Tower is intrustec; with it and that is the Lord Mayer. The password is given to him bj the order of the king. A stitch in time may save nine, ii you can find the needle. ATAXIA fills FOLLOWS MALARIA CONTRACTED IN SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Victim ITad Become Ilelple** When |j» Tried I>r. William*’ Pink Pill*. but Was Cured in Four Month*. Because he did not know that there jj n remedy for ataxia, Mr. Ariel endured four years of weakness, pain and the misery of thinking his case incurable. “At the outbreak of the Spanish American war,” he says, “I went with Company B, Eighth Regiment, M.V.M., into camp at Cliickamauga, and while there my system became thoroughly poisoned with malaria. When I was mustered out, I carried that disease home with me. After a while locomotor ataxia appeared.” “ How did the ataxia begin?” “ I first noticed a pain in my ankles and knee joints. This was followed by a numb feeling in my legs. At times I had to drag myself around; my legs would shake or become perfectly dead. I had constant trouble in getting about in the dark. I kept a light burning in my room at night as I could not balance myself in the darkness. Even with the aid of a light I wobbled, aud would reach out and catch hold of chairs to prevent myself from falling?” “ How long were you a sufferer?” “Four years in all. During the last three years I was confined to bed, some times for a week, again fur three or four weeks at a time. When I was lying down the pain in mv baek was fre quently so severe that i had to be helped, up and put in a chair to get a little re lief. I had considerable pain in my bowels and no control over my kidneys. The worst of all was that the doctor could give me no hope of recovery.” “How were you cured?” “ I read that Dr. Williams’ Piuk Pills had cured locomotor ataxia and one or two friends spoke to me abont them. In the fall of 19031 began to take them for myself and I had not used moro than one box before I found that the pains in my knees and ankles were greatly relieved. Four months after ward I became a perfectly well man, and I am today enjoying the best of health.” Mr. Edward H. Ariel lives at No. 43 Powow street, Amesbury, Mass. Every sufferer from locomotor ataxia should try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills without delay. Any druggist can supply them. Parsees Bar Converts. In recent years several wealthy Par sees have married European wives and brought them into the Parsee fold. Now the Parsees have decided that thev will admit no more converts. Even the children of the Parsees mar ried to Christian mates will not be recognized as Parsees. Avoid the Cheap and “Big Can” Bak ing Powders. The cheap baking powders have but one recommendation: they certainly give the purchaser plenty of powder for his money. These powders are so carelessly made from inferior ma terials that they will not make light, wholesome food. Further, these cheap baking powders have a very small per centage of leavening gas; therefore it takes from two to three times as much of such powder to raise the cake or biscuit as it does of Calumet Baking Powder. Therefore, in the long run, the actual cost to the consumer of such powders is more than Calumet would be. Cheap baking powrder3 leave the bread sometimes bleached and acid, sometimes yellow and alka line, and always unpalatable. They are never of uniform strength and quality. Why not buy a perfectly wholesome baking powder like Caiumet, that »s at the same time moderate in price and oue which can be relied upon? Calu met is always the same, keeps indef initely and gives the cook the least trouble. Sermon Moved the Stones. This curious tale of the Venerable Bede is told in the medieval “Golden Legend”: One day, when he was old and blind, the desire to preacji c-amo upon him. An attendant led him to a spot where he faced a heap of stones, and Bede, believing that a human audience was before him, de livered an eloquent sermon. At the end, it is gravely recorded, the stones cried “Amen!”—no doubt to save Bede’s feelings. Dahomy Sweet Potato. A new variety of sweet potato hav ing great economic value has been ac climated in the experimental gardens of Bordeaux. It is a native of Da homy and very prolific. The leaves of the plant can be used as a sub stitute for spinach, and the tubers, containing a higher percentage of su gar than beets, are fine flavored and make exceptionally good food for live stock. _ Go to Aid Lepers. Three sisters of charity sailed from Vancouver. B. C., by the steamship Empress of India recently to spend their lives in the leper colony at Ku mantu, Japan, where there are 400 lepers. Arriving at a Verdict. Kushequa, Pa., July 10.—(Special)— In this section of Pennsylvania there Is a growing belief that for such Kid ney Diseases as Rheumatism and Lame Back there is only one sure 'cure and that is Dodd’s Kidney Pills. This belief grows from such cases as that of Mrs. M. L. Davison of this place. She tells the story herself as follows: "I have suffered from Rheumatism for thirty years and find that Dodd s Kidney Pills have done tne more good than any medicine I have ever taken. I was also bothered with Lame Back and I can only say that my back hasn t bothered me since I took Dodd s Kid ney Mils.” Considering that Mrs. Davison only took two boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, the result vrould be considered wonder ful if it were not that others are re porting similar results daily. Kushe qua is fast arriving at a verdict that "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the one sure cur* for Rheumatism.” Removing Nicotine from Tobacco. Poisonous nicotine in tobacco is r^ moved By steeping the leaves in a solution of tannic acid. This is the method adopted by a German chemist.
