Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
i. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
lOUP CITY, • • NEBRASKA.
We wonder if the people up on Mars
had as much trouble digging their
canals.
There is no such word as graft in
the Japanese language. They just use
the word theft.
A tempest in a teapot is a small af
fair when compared with a. revolution
in a bowl of soup.
“Should a woman wear a hat for
two seasons?” asks a contemporary.
She should, but she won't.
It’s odd, but quite true, that a ham
mock is far more comfortable with
two persons in it than with one.
John Jacob Astor says the automo
bile will be succeeded by the air ship.
And still the horse has not gone.
Newport now has two babies each
worth in its own name $10,000,000—or
less than you would take for yours.
Kang Yu Wei, head of the Chinese
Reform Association, is in New York.
This sounds even more serious tnan
the boycott.
Three hundred thousand people vis
ited Coney Island last Sunday. The
devil continues to regard vacations as
unnecessary.
An eastern man has succeeded in
breeding a scentless variety of skunks.
Let him now try his hand at deodor
izing the autos.
Japan is going to borrow $150,000,
000. Evidently the Japs don’t expect
Russia to be able to pay the indem
nity right away.
Edison says radium will be as cheap
as coal some day. Yet this may only
mean that coal will be as expensive
as radium some day.
In the baseball league standing at
the end of the season, as in the apple
barrel, the best and the ripest fruit is
conspicuous at the top.
King Edward has had another birth
day without doing anything for Wil
liam Waldorf Astor. Yet they say
Edward is a kind-hearted king.
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The price of chloroform has been
reduced 40 per cent. It is evident
that Dr. Osier has not succeeded in
causing the demand to exceed the sup
ply.
We do not know certainly, but we
suspect that the Baltimore man who
said in his will: “The world has not
loved me,” never really loved the
world.
When it comes to picturesque styles
in revolution the South American re
publics are reluctantly compelled to
admit that Russia has them all out
classed.
The man who bought a $3,000 auto
mobile in New York with a bad check
deserved to have it break down with
him before he turned the corner of
the street.
A Chicago man advertises for “a
lady stenographer,” requesting that
she “state her age.” He must think
there are ladies in that town who are
very much in need of jobs.
The 8,600 English immigrants who
entered the port of Boston last year
would have made a very notable addi
tion to the colony of Massachusetts
bay if they had come over 250 years
ago.
Mr. Peary will take with him on his
polar expedition some very delicate in
struments, which will let him know
whether he has discovered the exact
spot or no. This is a necessary pre
caution.
Interesting indeed is the project of
the company that is planning to spend
$5,000,000 in dredging the Tiber, to
make it navigable as far as Rome.
There’s no knowing what the dredg
ers may dig up.
It is said there is a singular lack
of enthusiasm on the part of the
.guests at William Waldorf Astor’s
house pkrties. There may be a lack
of enthusiasm, but there is nothing
singular about it.
A fashion writer tells that the
“short walking skirt is becoming short
er and the long dressy skirt longer.”
Presently the short skirt will grow
longer and the long skirt shorter un
til one becomes the other.
It is not true, as scoffers say, that
the only difference between winter
and summer in New England is that
we spend our summers fishing and
shoveling snow, and that in winter
there’s no fishing.—Boston Globe.
Commander Peary isn’t exactly beg
ging for food, but he says that he can
not make his trip to find the north
pole unless $30,000 worth of supplies
are contributed before he starts.
Courage and confidence are all right
but corned beef and sardines also are
essential.
A European scientist has discovered
that fear is caused by a germ which
may be killed by inoculation. He will
probably find that his theory is wrong
when he inoculates a woman and
then turns a mouse loose in the room.
The New Jersey minister who com
plains that in a Newark church re
cently when the sermon was being
preached the choir were reading a five
cent magazine, adds that it is not an
uncommon thing for a chinch organist
to go out during the sermon to get a
drink of whisky. Why not send som®
missionaries over to New Jersey?
A New York society woman has
started a model dairy in order to pro
vide pure milk for babies. That’s an
other anti-race suicide proposition
which may well be encouraged.
THE TEACHER'S FOE
A LITE ALWAYS THREATHZD BY
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
Oh Who Broko Down from Six Tetn of
Overwork Telia How She Escaped
Misery of Enforced Idleness.
“I had been teaching in the city
schools steadily for six years,”said Miss
James, whose recent return to the work
from which she was driven by nervous
collapse has attracted attention. “They
were greatly overcrowded, especially in
the primary department of which I had
charge, and I had been doing the work
of two teaohers. The strain was too
much for my nerves and two years ago
the crisis came.
“ I was prostrated mentally and phy
sioally, sent in my resignation and never
expected to be able to resume work. It
seemed to me then that I was the most
miserable woman on earth. I was tor
tured by nervous headaches, worn out by
inability to steep, and had so little
blood that I was as white as chalk.
“After my active life, it was hard to
bear idleness, and terribly discouraging
to keep paying out the savings of years
for medicines which did me no good.”
“How did you get back your health V*
“A bare chance and a lot of faith led
me to a core. After I had suffered for
many months, and when I was ou the
▼ery verge of despair, I happened to read
an account of some cures effected by
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The state
ments were so convincing that I some
how felt assured that these pills would
help me. Most people, I think, buy only
one box for a trial, but I purchased sis
boxes at once, and when I had used
them up, I was indeed well and had uc
need of more medicine.
“Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills enriched my
thin blood, gave me back my 6leep, re
stored my appetite, gave me strength to
walk long distances without fatigue, in
fact freed me from all my numerous ail
ments. I have already taught for several
months, and I cannot say enough in
praise of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.”
Miss Margaret M. James is now living
at No. 123 Clay street, Dayton, Ohio
Many of her fellow teachers have also
used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and are
enthusiastic about their merits. Sound
digestion, strength, ambition, and cheer
ful spirits quickly follow their use. They
are sold in every drug store in the
World, _
Men's Heroines Generally “Cats.”
The heroine of tbe average male
novelist is intensely irritating to the
ordinary female reader—she is gener
ally a cat, often underbred, and even
when her manners and methods and
morals are nominally satisfactory you
are left with the firm conviction that,
if she happened to be on your visiting
list, you would find her either dull or
disagreeable, or both!—Dora D’Es
paigne Chapman in London Globe.
Hereros Cattle.
The native cattle of the Hereros in
Southwest Africa, are tall, lean, long
horned and of little value for beef 01
milk, but they are excellent for rid
ing and drawing loads, and, like cam
els, can travel for days without watei
and with little food. They are guided
by reins attached to a stick through
the nose.
Grease the Nails.
Not long ago 1 saw a person trying
to drive a nail through a piece of sea
soned oak an inch and a halt thick.
This was impossible until 1 suggested
he grease the nail, it was then driven
easily and without bending.—National
Magazine.
The Best He Had.
“Is this the best claret, Murphy?”
asked the Irishman of his butler. “It
is not, sorr,” was the answer, “but it’s
the best ye've got."
About two-thirds of a man’s time is
spent in catching cold and trying to
cure it
FROM SAME BOX
Where the Foods Come From.
“Look here, waiter, honest now,
don’t you dip every one of these flaked
breakfast foods out of the same box?”
“Well, yes, boss, we duz, all ’cept
Grape-Nuts, cause that don’t look like
the others and people know ’zackly
what Grape-Nuts looks like. But
there’s 'bout a dozen different ones
named on the bill of fare and they are
all thin rolled flakes so it don’t make
any difference which one a man calls
for, we just take out the order from
one box.”
This talk led to an investigation.
Dozens of factories sprung up about
three years ago, making various kinds
of breakfast foods, seeking to take the
business of the original prepared
breakfast food—Grape-Nuts. These
concerns after a precarious existence,
nearly all failed, leaving thousands of
boxes of their foods in mills and ware
houses. These were in several in
stances bought up for a song by spec
ulators and sold out to grocers and
hotels for little or nothing. The proc
ess of working off this old stock has
been slow. One will see the names
on menus of flaked foods that went
out of business a year and a half or
two years ago. In a few cases where
the abandoned factories have been
bought up, there is an effort to resus
citate the defunct, and by copying the
style of advertising of Grape-Nuts,
seek to influence people to purchase.
But the public has been educated to
the fact that all these thin flaked
foods are simply soaked wheat or oats
rolled thin and dried out and packed.
They are not prepared like Grape
Nuts, In which the thorough baking
and other operations which turn the
starch part of the wheat and barley
into sugar, occupy many hours and re
sult in a food so digestible that small
infants thrive on it, while it also con
tains the selected elements of Phos
phate of Potash and Albumen that
unite in the body to produce the soft
gray substance in brain and nerve
centers. There’s a reason for Grape
Nuts, and there have been many imi
tations, a few of the article itself, but
many more of the kind and character
of the advertising. Imitators are al
ways counterfeiters and their printed
and written statements cannot be ex
pected to be different than their
goods.
This article is published by the
Postum Co. at Battle Creek. Addition
al evidence of the truth can be sup
plied in quantities.
Summer Sown Alfalfa Seed.*
In the usual instructions relative to
the sowing of alfalfa seed, spring is
generally set down as the best time
for that work. This makes it a little
awkward when the alfalfa is to follow
a crop of winter wheat or is to be put
on ground that is turned under after
the hay crop is taken off. Some have
thought that it would be a great thing
if alfalfa seed could be sown in the
summer after the crop of winter wheat
had been harvested, as the loss of the
land for one year would be saved.
Under the common method a piece of
wheat land has to be plowed up in
the summer and fall and allowed to
lie idle for the larger part of a year
before being even seeded. Then it is
not till the next year that a crop of
alfalfa hay can be obtained.
It was with this thought in his mind
that Professor Olin, while at the Iowa
station, tried seeding alfalfa in the
summer. The seeding was made Au
gust 22, 1903, on land that had borne
a wheat crop that year. The first cut
ting was made on the 13th of June,
1904, and Professor Olin brought to
the Farmer’s Review office a sample
of the alfalfa obtained. It was 22
inches in length, and that cutting had
yielded two tons of dried hay per
acre.
It would be a good thing for some
of our farmers to take the hint and
try seeding a piece of wheat land this
year. If the weather conditions are
right the alfalfa should cover the
ground enough by fall to protect it
from the cold of winter. In this part
of the country, where the winter
wheat crop is so important, it will be
a very good arrangement if w*e can ro
tate alfalfa with it or at least follow
wheat with alfalfa. Whether alfalfa
can be made part of the rotation or
not will depend on how long the alfal
fa crop is to be kept on the land.—
Farmers’ Review.
The Chick Pea.
This is known also as Gram and
Idaho pea. It did not, however, origi
nate in Idaho, but in the East, proba
bly Asia Minor. It was the first legu
minous crop to be cultivated and was
well-known to the ancient Greeks and
Romans. It is rather strange that this
once best known legume should now
be so little knowm in this country. It
is, however, largely cultivated in Asia,
and in India 5,000,000 acres of lar>* are
devoted to its culture. There this
Qtam (Cvcer arttUnvmj.
pea is a staple article of horse feed.
The yield of peas there is put at about
10 bushels per acre, though as high
as 25 bushels are grown under ex
ceptional circumstances. It has been
grown experimentally by the United
States Department of Agriculture and
by several stations of the Rocky
Mountain states. Whether it is more
valuable than other legumes in any lo
cation is not yet apparent.
Alfalfa and Innoculation.
We sowed alfalfa a year ago in May
on well prepared sandy loam, worked
down to a fine tilth, it being in a good
state of fertility, sowing about
twenty pounds of seed to the
acre. We inoculated it from an
old field of alfalfa, where a few
plants remained, sowing the dirt
by hand immediately before putting in
the seed. In this process we failed to
make the dirt meet, and when the
alfalfa got started we could readily
see where the soil was inoculated and
where not, by the color and size of the
alfalfa.
However, we got a good stand and
it wintered all right. This spring the
non-inoculated strip offered the same
as it did last summer, and we cov
ered it with good stable manure, tak
ing dirt from a well inoculated spot
and covering each load before scatter
ing. In this process the dirt became
^ell mixed with the manure and
hence was evenly distributed over the
soil. From that time on the weakly
strip began to take on new life,
nodules appearing on the roots, and
when cut, which was on June 13, could
see but a mere trace of them, it being
practically all inoculated and making
about three tons of fine hay from two
acres of ground, first cutting.
C. M. Teegarden.
Kosciusko Co., Ind.
Two Blades of Grass.
One of the oldest sentences in the
world is “He who makes two
blades of grass grow where one
grew before is a public benefactor.”
This saying will be found in
uncountable thousands of addresses
on agricultural topics. Let us not
imagine that it is one that has
been coined of late years, for it is
known to be at least two thousand
years old. The great agricultural
writers of the times of early Rome
used it and even the agricultural writ
ers of Carthage. For all that we know,
its origin may have been further back
still in the misty twilight of the unre
corded past. It has survived because
it tells a great truth. The man that
increases the food supply of the world
benefits the world.
The changing of the raw products
of the soil into high-priced meat Is a
most important industry.
Manure and Drouth.
In my garden it has been notice
able for several years that the land
that had received the most manure
showed the effects of drouth least.
There was one place in the tomato
field where I had dumped a large
amount of manure one fall and where
it had leached till the next spring,
when it was scattered. One summer
a severe drouth came and all the to
mato vines in the field seemed to feel
it except the vines upon that little
piece of ground. They kept right on
growing and bearing as if nothing had
happened. The solution was easy.
The richness of the ground had caused
a great growth of the vines and of
the root systems, and the latter had
struck so deep that they had reached
down into the moist soil, far below
the surface. The ground over most
of the field was so dried out that 1
suppose the roots of most of the to
mato plants could get almost no
water.
The thought naturally came to me
that the best way to fight drouth is
by means of the manure we can work
into our land. The same end may be
gained in the cucumber patch by fill
ing a barrel with manure and running
water into it occasionally, a part of
the water being allowed to leach out
through small holes near the bottom
of the barrel. Jessie Winship.
Clarke Co., Iowa.
Moisture for the Trees.
In the case of all fruit trees that
have been recently set out, the pro
tection of the moisture supply is an
important point. When the trees have
become large their great branches will
so shade the ground that weeds and
grass will make a very meager
growth and the sod will be
hardly existent. But in the
case of young trees the branches
are not of enough consequence to
shut off the light of the sun from the
grass, and the latter will take about
all the moisture that gets into the
soil. If the season is a wet one this
is not of so much consequence, but
in a season where drouth prevails tc
any extent the loss to the tree wiil
be severe. The better way to protect
the trees is to put around them straw
or old hay or masses of weeds that
have been cut down. Where sweet
clover grows it may be made
a great ameliorant of the soil, as it
will protect it and will, on rotting,
furnish it with some nitrogen. We
have found ‘that when the earth
around young trees is simply spaded
up the dirt around the roots dries out
in a dry time and the trees are in
jured seriously.
American Apples in England.
The demand in England for Ameri
can and Canadian apples is good and
seems to be capable of great expan
sion. Our apples are more in favor w ith
the buyers than are the home grown ap
ples, on account of color and flavor.
The foggy climate of England is not
favorable to the development of much
color or flavor, for both of which sun
shine is needed. This is the principal
reason perhaps why the quantity of
apples grown in England is never
large. It is said that the best part
of the English crop last season wras
required to meet the demand of the
city of London alone, and most of it
had disappeared before the holidays.
The climate of England does not seem
to be favorable to the production of
a long-keeping variety. It costs only
from 48 to 72 cents per barrel to
send apples from New York to Lon
don, Hull and Liverpool.
Weeds in the Strawberries.
In the strawberry bed the weed is the
hardest enemy to fight. The grower of
strawberries has little trouble with in
sects in most localities, but he is eter
nally troubled by weeds, among which
is grass. Probably grass is the worst
weed to be met with in the straw
berry patch, unless, indeed, it be the
extra strawherry plants that are per
mitted to grow. The only way to
kesp down grass is to keep the rows
of strawberries narrow and the space
be tween either covered with some
smothering mulch or thoroughly cul
tivated. Where great weeds grow up
in the rows they must be pulled before
they go to seed.
The Oleo Battle.
The oleo battle does not draw much
Interest at this time, for the reason
that the makers, of butter have
little fear that Congress will
again open up the matter with
any serious intention of greatly
reducing the tax on colored oleo. The
oleo manufacturers are claiming that
they cannot hope to compete with
butter unless they are allowed to color
their oleo, and want a greatly reduced
tax. But the oleo law has now been
In existence for a number of years,
and has proved to be a great success.
We hear little now of oleo being sold
for butter.
Two Litters a Year.
The practice of raising but one lit
ter of pigs a year is not one that is to
be commended. There is more profit
in two litters than in one,
and the question of furnishing
a protein food for winter use
need not worry the farmer. There
are so many things that a hog will
eat that it is not much of a task to
select one or two that may be fed in
the winter. Silage made from clover
will prove to be one of the great helps
to the producing of winter pigs, and
winter dairying will be a yet stronger
encouragement. With two broods a
year double interest is being obtained
from the money invested in equip
ment.
Danger of Wool Sorting.
Wool sorters have to be care
ful about the diseases of sheep
that are contagious as regards
man. The most dreaded of these
is anthrax. An Italian chemist
has prepared a serum which is used
by some of the Italian wool sorters
when they believe themselves enaan
gered by the presence of anthrax. 11
is said that with this serum the death
rate has been reduced from 25 pei
cent tjo 6 ner cent.
DISFIGURING ULCER.
People Looked at Her in Amazement
—Pronounced Incurable—Face
Now Clear as Ever—Thanks
God for Cuticura.
Mrs. P. Hackett, of 400 Van Bureti
St., Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I wish to
give thanks for the marvelous cure of
my mother by Cuticura. She had a
severe ulcer, which physicians had
pronounced incurable. It was a ter
rible disfigurement, and people would
stand in amazement and look at her.
After there was no hope from doctors
she began using Cuticura Soap, Oint
ment and Pills, and now, thank God,
she is completely cured, and her face
is as smooth and clear as ever.”
Take a man to ask tor giving away
a secret and hb is sure to send you to
some one else for the facts.—Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Piso’s Cure Is the best medicine we ever used
for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm.
O. Endslet, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10,1900.
Days in America.
Hearty* farewells were extended
last Saturday by the Campania’s pas
sengers to their lellow traveller John
O’Reilly, aged ninety-five, and his
wife, Mary, seventy yers old, as they
came ashore at New York. Mr. O’Reil
ly wore a tall shiny beaver hat,
which he bought fifty years ago, the
kind that Lincoln and Webster wore
at the height of their fame.
When questioned at the landing
O’Reilly said:
“I’ve come back to America to pass
my century mark. It’s nobody’s bust
ness how much money I have or have
not. I may not have a penny and 1
may have plenty, but I’m an Ameri
can citizen and you can’t stop me.’
And they didn’t.
O’Reilly at once bought tickets tc
Dunkirk, N. Y., for himself and wife,
and will return to that place, where
he lived for fifty-eight years before
returning to Ireland a year and a hall
ago.
The real skeleton at the feast is the
man who refuses catsup and them ex
plains to all the table that he never
uses it because he has seen it made
in the factories.
With wrecks happening everywhere,
why should one travel to acquire fin
ish? He may just as easily be fin
ished at home.
Read6 Like a Miracle.
Moravia, N. Y., July 17th.— (Special)
—Bordering on the miraculous is the
case of Mrs. Benj. Wilson, of this
place. Suffering from Sugar Diabetes,
she wasted away till from weighing
200 lbs. she barely tipped the scales at
130 lbs. Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured
her. Speaking of her cure her hus
band, says:
“My wife suffered everything from
Sugar Diabetes. She was sick four
years and doctored with two doctors,
but received no benefit. She had so
much pain all over her that she could
not rest day or night The doctors
said that she could not live.
“Then an advertisement led me to
try Dodd’s Kidney Pills and they
helped he* right from the first. Five
boxes of them cured her. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills were a God-sent remedy to
us and we recommend them to all suf
fering from Kidney Disease.”
• Dodd’s Kidney Pills cure all Kidney
Diseases, including Bright’s disease,
and all Kidney aches, including Rheu
matism.
Oldest Doll in America.
Long, long ago, when William Penn
sailed from England on his second
visit to America, what do you think
he brought with him on the good ship
Canterbury? An English doll. This
passenger is the sole survivor of that
voyage across the Atlantic, which was
made over 200 years ago.
William Penn had a little daughter
nameu Letitia. Letitia heard her fa
ther tell wonderful tales of what he
saw and heard in Pennsylvania on his
first visit to this country, thousands of
miles distant from Letitia’s home. He
often told her about little Miss Ran
kin, who living as she did in the wild
erness of Pennsylvania (for this was
long ago,, remember), had no tops af
all, not even one rag doll.- When
Letitia’s father was getting ready to
again cross the ocean to America his
little girl insisted upon sending a doll
to that lonesome little girl.
The doll was dressed In a court cos
tume of striped and delicately tinted
brocade and velvet. The skirt was held
out by enormous hoops for such was
the fashion ®f the well-dressed ladies
of that period. The doll itself is
twenty inches high and has the long
waist and slender form of the conrt
beauties she left In her native land.
Her hair is. rolled back from her face,
much in the style of today.
This doll now lives in Montgomery
county, Maryland, In the strictest so
elusion. She is only removed froi 1 her
careful wrappings when little girls do
sire the honor of making the acquaint
ance of the oldest doll In America.
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What ft Has Been
Doing.
"Of late years coffee has disagreed
with me,” writes a matron from Rome,
N. Y.; “it’s lightest punishment was to
make me ‘logy* and dizzy, and it
seemed to thicken up my blood.
“The heaviest was when It upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap
petite and making me nervous and irri
table, and sent me to my bed. After
one of these attacks, in which I nearly
lost my life, I concluded to quit and
try Postum Food Coffee.
“It went right to the spot! I found
it not only a most palatable and re
freshing beverage, but a food as well.
"All my ailments, the ‘loginess’ and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
of my blood, my nervousness and irri
tability disappeared in short order and
my sorely afflicted stomach begau
quickly to recover. I began to rebuild
and have steadily continued until now.
Have a good appetite and am rejoic
ing in sound health, which I owe to
the use of Postum Food Coffee.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
There’s a reason.
Read the little book, “The Road to
Wellville,” found in each pkg.
FINDS IT IS NOT POISON.
Darky Explains His Ineffectual Efforts
to Commit Suicide.
There was a man in Atlanta who
once suspected a colored man in his
employ of tampering with the contents
of his wine cellar, especially with a
certain brand of fine whisky. The
employer decided to adopt measures
to verify his suspicions. He allowed
the demijohn holding his “private
stock” to become empty; then, in
stead of refilling it, he placed his pet
brand in bottles, labeling each one
“poison.”
One evening, on returning home un
expectedly, he caught his servant in
“flagrante delicto.” Seizing the bottle
from the darky’s hand the Atlanta
man exclaimed, in a tone of horror,
“Great heavens, Sam! do you know
what you have been doing? This bot
tle is marked ‘poison!’”
The negro took the bottle and sur
veyed it closely. Then he sniffed at
it. A melancholy smile flitted over
his dusky countenance. “ ’Tain’t pizen,
sah,” he said, dejectedly. “Ise been
fooled ag’in."
“Fooled again?” repeated the mas
ter, indignantly. “What do you
mean?”
■“Well, sah,” continued the darky, in
the same tone of depression, “it am dis
way. I knowed from de fust, from de
way you acted ’bout dat demijohn, dat
you had yo’ suspishuns ob me; an’ dat
sho’ made me feel pretty blue. I got
distressed, an’ didn’t care. Why, sah,
fo’ mos' two weeks now Ise been tryin’
to commit suicide outer dat bottle.”—
Woman’s Home Companion.
PASSWORD NOT IN ORDER.
Farmer Abner Benson Astonished
Church Gathering.
This story has been told times
enough to be true, and I presume it is.
Several years ago there lived at North
Paris, Me., a prosperous farmer by the
name of Abner Benson, who was a
good Methodist, and also a member of
the grange. The grange meetings
were held in the church as well as the
religious meetings, and this fact was
the cause of the following contre
temps:
Abner was a red faced, portly man
of rather pompous appearance. The
four words, “he knew it all,” might
have described him very well. One
afternoon as he was riding past the
church he noticed that a meeting was
being held there, and, not knowing
that any church meeting had been
called, he at once took it for granted
that it must be a grange meeting.
He hitched his horse, went into the
entry and knocked on the door, after
the fashion of the grangers; hnd, as it
happened, the doorkeeper of the
grange was there, and on hearing a
knocking, got up and opened the door,
whereupon Abner stepped in, and,with
a pompous bow and flourish, gave, in a
voice loud enough to reach every ear
in the church, the grange password,
“Cul-ti-va-tor!” “Cul-ti-va-tor!” You
can imagine the smile that illuminat
ed that Methodist class meeting.—
Boston Herald.
Got Even With Judge Sewall.
Judge Sewall and Joseph Story were
dining together at an inn, when a jolly
son of Erin appeared at the door and
called for dinner. The landlord told
him he could eat when the gentlemen
had finished.
“Let him dine with us,” whispered i
Judge Sewall, “and we will have some
fun with him.” ;
The Irishman took his seat at the
table. ;
“You were not born in this coun* (
try?” said Story. ,
“No, I was born in Ireland.”
“Is your father living?”
“No, sir.”
“What was his occupation?”
“Trading horses, sir.” \
“Did he ever cheat any one?” !
“I suppose he did, sir.” '
“Where do you suppose he went to?” <
“To heaven, sir.” 1
“Has he ever cheated any, one there?” \
“He has cheated one man, I believe.”
“Was he prosecuted?”
“He was not, sir.”
“Why not?”
“Because they searched the kingdom
of heaven for a lawyer to take the
case and couldn’t find one.”
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The Change In Jim.
They said that Jim was lazy, an’ he did
appear to be
A little bit a-workin’ in the harvest field
with me;
He couldn’t, like the other hands, git
started in the swim.
Until I lost my patience, and I had to fire
him.
From there he went to Amosville an’
got in Mortley’s shop.
An’ sailed into the bizness like a reaper
through the crop.
Took hold of things in earnest—made a
good mechanic, too.
Till Mort remarked: “I don’t see how he
ever loafed fer you.”
An’ which is why I want to say that lots
of laziness
Depends upon the job a man is workin’
at. 1 guess.
Just give a man the Job he likes, like
Jim liked in the shop.
An’ nine times out o’ ten, I guess, the
laziness ’ll stop.
—Detroit Tribune.
Were Prejudiced.
It is known that a jury, theoretical
ly, Is composed of a set of unprejudic
ed men with open minds, still there
may be occasions when a slight per
sonal feeling invades their ranks.
Such was evidently the thought borne
in upon the tailor who, rising to state
his case, and having declined the serv
ices of a lawyer for reasons best
known to himself, looked over the
jurymen and then turned to the judge.
“It’s no use for me to tell you about
this case, your honor,” he said, de
jectedly, “not unless you dismiss that
jury and get a new lot. There isn’t a
man among 'em but owes me some
thing for clothes.”
A Crucial Moment in History.
Phythagoras had just finished his
lecture decrying the use of meat as
food. Suddenly holding up his hands
as a sign that he desired silence on
the part of his pupils, he said:
“And, finally, I would add that beans
are fit only for pigs to eat. They
produce stabismus. thus narrowing
the outlook of the consumer, and
cause fatty degeneration of the
mind.”
Rc-Mzing that he had burned his
bridges in front of him he valked
home, convinced that Boston would
never help to put meaning into his
utterances.—Chicago Record-Herald.
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