Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLBIQH, Publish*?.
LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA.
Mr. Paine who, with the mercury at
90, invented a new brandy cocktail, is
well named.
Of all hypocrites the cantaloupe Is
the most consistent. It always looks
better than it is.
To weaken an enemy’s navy a good
plan would be to make it a present of
a few submarine boats.
Of course Marshall Wilder’s new
baby isn’t old enough yet to appreciate
fully how funny papa is.
RighJ away after Dr. Osier an
nounced that freckled girls made the
best wives the sun got busy.
James M. Beck says many Ameri
cans suffer from moneyphobia. Can
furnish him with one immune.
A Chicago doctor says that two va
cations a year are needed to keep one
in good health. Show this to the boss.
Dr. Adler says he has discovered
perpetual motion. Perhaps he has
been down cellar observing the gas
meter.
It Is well to have a gray cat for the
mascot of the Peary expedition, be
cause the cat has such a trick of com
ing back.
Inspired, doubtless, by the example
of the maple scale and the seventeen
year locust, the army worm has mo
bilized again.
J. Pierpont Morgan has fallen from
his high estate. He now talks for
hours with such unimportant people
as King Leopold.
A New York doctor claims to have
selved the problem of perpetual mo
tion, but Edison is still working on his
horse-must-go battery.
Now that it has had its picture
taken again the sun spot may retire
and quit trying to attract attention
by making trouble on earth.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts is of
opinion that harping on Waterloo and
Trafalgar is a poor substitute for con
sidering the existing situation.
Prof. H. W. Wiley, the government
expert, has gone abroad to study Irish
and Scotch whiskies. It’s a great priv
ilege to be a government expert.
"Girls with plump arms appear par
ticularly attractive with short sleeves,”
says a fashion note. The same sort of
girls don’t look bad with short skirts.
Edward Everett Hale says every
body should sleep ten hours out of
each twenty-four. Mr. Hale is an old
man now and has no baby in the
house.
A Wisconsin boy saved four heir
esses from death by drowning the
other day. The laws of Wisconsin
make it impossible for him to marry
them all.
“Seems like the boll wTeevil wasn't
King Cotton’s worst enemy, after all,”
says the Boston Traveler. At last our
country is united. Boston uses At
lanta English.
New York's smart set is not as
smart as one might guess from read
ing the small bills, judging from the
way it allowed a common blackmailer
to play horse with it.
It is proposed to christen the battle
Ehip Vermont with p^nle sirup. Ver
mont maple sirup is ia sweet and
sticky compound made of glucose and
molasses in Chicago.
The New York incendiary who dived
six stories to save himself from cap
ture did the best job of his life. lie
won't dive again, and incidentally he
won’t set any more fires.
Giovani Morosini, the New York
banker, has during the hot spell slept
on a bed over which six electric fans
were kept going constantly. It some
times pays to have money.
Denver will have the largest Ameri
can flag ever made at the coming G.
A. R. encampment. It will be 115 feet
long and 55 feet wide. There cannot
be too much of “Old Glory” around.
If it is really possible to go from
the Atlantic to the Pacific in two days
and a half by train—although nobody
has ever done it yet—what’s the use
of trying to perfect the flying ma
chine?
The British Gen. Moody says the
nickname “Tommy” applied to Brit
ish soldiers prevents self-respecting
men from enlisting. The nickname
“Jackie” applied to our sailors does
not work that way.
China rises to remark that she will
not recognize any disposition of Man
churia upon which she has not been
consulted. But her note is so worded
as not to call- for a reply, so she will
not be told to “go %way back and sit
down.”
“If the sweet girl is thrifty,” says a
contemporary, “she should be able to
use the graduating gowm for the wed
ding dress.” There are people, it
seems, who are mean enough to de
prive some of the girls of one of the
chief incentives for having a wedding.
A New England editor in a sage dis
sertation on the crops' remarks that
haying is now in full blast. This must
be the sort of haying they do on one
of tjiose rocky Massachusetts farms
where the seed has to be crowded
down between the bowlders with a
putty knife.
A requisition has just been made on
the army medical department for
* thirty-eight tons of insect powder for
use at the isthmus. This makes one
understand Mr. Wallace’s hasty re
treat, even if not approving it.
THE PLAYWRIGHT-STAR.
Odette Tyler, Famous Actress, Values
Doane’s Kidney 9111s.
Miss Odette Tyler Is not only one of
the best known dramatic stars in
America, but has written and pro
duced a successful play of her own.
Mtss Tyler has written the following
g ateful note, expressing her appre
ciation of Doan’s Kidney Pills:
Foster-Milburn
Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.
Gentlemen:—
My experience
with your valu
able remedy
has been equal
ly gratifying to
both myself and
friends.
(Signed)
ODETTE
TYLEB.
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For sale by all dealers. Price, 50
cents per box.
Started Newspaper and Left It.
Practically nothing is known of the
founder of one of the most prosperous
newspapers in England, the Sheffield
Telegraph. It was started in June,
1855. G. Benson, a stranger, appeared
in Sheffield when the Crimean wax
was at its height, arranged with a
local printer to start a daily paper,
bought It out, looked after it for ten
days and then disappeared forever.
Damage Done by Volcano.
In 1698 the summit of Carguairazo,
a burning mountain near Quito, 1,806
feet high, crumbled together, so that
nothing more than two enormous
rocky horns of the crater's edge re
mained, and the country for nearly
two square miles was desolated with
liquid tufa, hnd argillaceous mud, en
closing dead fishes.
Hardly Too Much to Ask.
Of the Due d’Aumont this story is
told: "Hie father was the most orig
inal and the most slovenly man in
trance. Once when looking at him
self in a mirror he said: ‘D’Aumont,
God made you a gentleman; the king
made you a duke. You might do
something in your turn—at least, you
might go and shave.’ ”
Voice from Arkansas.
Cleveland, Ark., July 31st.—-(Spe
cial)—Nearly every newspaper tells
of some wonderful cure of some form
of Kidney Disease by the Great Amer
ican Remedy, Dodd’s Kidney Pills,
and this part of Arkansas is not with
out its share of evidence that no case
is too deeply rooted for Dodd’s Kidney
Pills to cure. ]
Mr. A. E. Carlile, well know^ and
highly respected here, tells of his cure
after nearly a quarter of a century’s
suffering. Mr. Carlile says:
“I want to let the public know what
I think of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I
think they are the best remedy for
sick kidneys ever made.
‘‘I had Kidney Trouble for 23 years
and never found anything that did me
so much good as Dodd’s Kidney Pills.
I recommend them to all sufferers.”
There is no uncertain sound about
Mr. Carlile’s statement. He knows
that Dodd’s Kidney Pills rescued him
from a life of suffering and he wants
the public to know it. Dodd’s Kidney
Pills cure all Kidney ills from Back
ache to Bright’s Disease.
Early Mirth Not Advisable.
If you sing In bed you will cry next
day. If you sing before breakfast you
will cry before night
WHY DO AMERICANS SUCCEED?
Why do we lead all the nations of
the earth in prosperity, happiness and
individual contentment?
"Why are we, as a people, regarded as
an invincible power of impregnable
strength?
And why do we compel the admira
tion of the whole world—at times
grudgingly given, but given, anyhow?
It is because we are free and inde
;enden.t in the truest meaning of the
words.
We think for ourselves, act for our
selves, govern ourselves more than the
people of any other nation.
We are absolutely self-reliant, a na
tional trait that renders us independ
ent of all other nations. Independence
is the keynote of our supremacy.
And this is the reason why up-to
date grocers and storekeepers appreci
ate the fact that Americans of both
sexes have strong wills of their own,
and do not need interested advice.
Every up-to-date grocer knows per
fectly well that for more than a quar
ter of a Century Lion Coffee has been
the leading package coffee and a wel
come drink at the tables of millions of
American homes.
He knows—and everybody else knows
—that it has always kept its old
friends and steadily made new ones.
Good, reliable, trustworthy grocers
willingly acknowledge this, and all in
dependent housekeepers will insist up
on having Lion Coffee and no other, no
matter what kind of an argument gro
cers of obstinate principles may ad
vap^e.
Americans want the best, and they
get the best and purest in Lion Coffee.
Most men can get more real enjoy
ment out of a street piano for a dime
than they can out of a $3 opera ticket
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,
For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces ftp
flammaiiou, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Many a man will wear wings who
cannot tie an Ascot tie.
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■C*ARMS FOR RENT OR SALE ON CROP i
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If you cannot see heaven here you
will never see it anywhere.
More Flexible and Lasting,
won’t shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better re
sults than possible with any other
brand and one-third more for sama
money.
To the hypocrite one man’s religion
Is another man’s revenue.
C|T« permanently cured. Wo Sts or nervousness aftw*
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The cream of the base ball club
should be found in the pitcher.
"Dr* David Kennedy's Fsrorlte Remedy
Rve me prompt and cmplete relief from dyspepala and
er derangement.” X. T. Trowbridge, Harlem R.K, N/t
The religion that lacks sunshine Is
ill moonshine.
Blessed is the sorrow that cures of
selfishness.
Flat-Headed Apple Tree Borer.
This Is a very abundant insect,
though it is not so destructive as the
round-headed borer. The adult insect
measures about half an inch in
length. It is flattened above, resem
bling a snapping beetle. The antennae
are short, the eyes large and the fore
legs are armed in front with a con
spicuous tooth. The upper surface
of the body is dark metallic brown,
and fresh specimens are coated here
and there with a powdery gray sub
stance, which is easily rubbed off.
Unlike the round-headed borer, this
insect works in the day time, being
most active in the heat of the day.
It is also frequently found on pros
trate trees basking in the sun. The
beetles are active creatures, running
rapidly and flying readily. This species
attacks by preference diseased or dying
Fig. fL—Chry&tbotJiru femorattr: a, larra;
b, beetle; e, bead of male; d, pupa—twice uafr
Ural size (‘■'tlirinal'
trees, innaDiis an parts or a tree irom
the base of the trunk to the limbs
and is not restricted in ks ravages to
fruit trees.
It is injurious chiefly to young
trees, its injuries being practically
confined to newly-planted nursery
stock and to trees that have been
weakened through any cause, such as
careless pruning or insufficient nour
ishment due to poor soil or drouth.
Some writers claim that healthy trees
are not injured at all.
It is a well-known fact that many
forms of boring insects prefer injured
plants, but when these are wanting
do not hesitate to attack perfectly
sound growth, and records show con
clusively that, the present species is
.ncluded in this category.
Infestation may be detected by the
discoloration of the bark. Give the
orchard good care, feeding the trees
freely through their roots, and little
damage will result. Washes of vari
ous kinds are good for the trees, espe
cially the lime wash. These check
borers.
Mildew on Gooseberries.
For a long time it was impossible to
rcise the large English varieties of
gooseberry in this country, on account
'of the tendency to mildew; now the
cause of the trouble is better under
stood and can be obviated in various
ways, so that it is comparatively easy
to grow many of the very large sorts.
Some new large varieties have been
produced which are less liable to
mildew than the older ones, though .
most of them will do so more or less
in unfavorable seasons, unless great
care is exercised. In the first place,
the bushes should have plenty of room
as a crowded condition is one of the
causes of the trouble. They should
not be planted in a place where the
wind cannot blow freely among them,
but in an airy situation where there
will be less tendency to dampness.
The dampness alone is not so bad, as
the effect of the hot sun on the
bushes after a prolonged wet spell.
Judicious pruning has much to do
with the prevention of mildew, as
where the old wood is removed and
the extra branches taken out the air
has a. better chance for circulation and
less mildew will be the result.
To sum up the matter, the best way
to obviate the difficulty is to plant the
bushes where there is a good circula
tion of air, in partial shade during the
heat of the day, and keep the busnes
well thinned,of branches. If the fruit
is so heavy as to bear the branches
down to the ground, a frame should be
provided to hold them up.
When mildew' appears in spite of all
precaution, a spray can be applied
that will effectually check it, as mil
dew yields more readily to the fungi
cide than almost any other fungus. To
make it dissolve one-half ounce of
liver of sulphur In one gallon of water,
and spray the bushes thoroughly, be
ginning when the disease first begins
and repeating if necessary. In damp
seasons the work will be needed more
often.
Bordeaux mixture has also proved a
valuable help in this work, four appli
cations being necessary during the
season, two before blooming and two
after. If currant worms are also
working, add a little parts green or
white hellebore to kill them.
It will not be found a hard task to
fight mildew, as it does not appear
every season, often being years be
tween. In our experience of many
years we have had it but once, and
think our freedom from it due to the
care in planting and pruning.
Pear Culture Expensive.
The culture of pears has proved
itself so far an expensive enterprise.
Many a man, who has tried to grow
pears, has given it up with the declara
tion that all the pears he ever suc
ceeded in growing cost him more than
oranges. This has been due to a sin
gle obstacle—the susceptibility of the
pear tree to blight. More often than
not the pear orchard falls before the
scourge. Any man that can develop
a blight-proof pear tree that bears
fruit of good quality will make his
fortune.
The Strawberry Bed After Fruiting.
The strawberry bed should receive
attention as Soon as the harvest is
ended. Where large beds of strawber
ries are grown, the mower can be
used in clipping off the old vines, and
as weeds will have grown up quite
thickly in the rows and between the
rows where a mulch has not been
used, the second work is to cultivate
between the rows to destroy the
weeds. If the rows are narrowed up
considerably and the growth of vines
is luxuriant, the problem of keeping
down the weeds will be more easily
solved.
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Sorrel as a Pest.
In many parts of the country red
sorrel is very abundant and wherever
it is found in abundance it must be
extirpated. The farmers that have
been casting about them for a means
of getting rid of this pest will find that
liming the land helps greatly. The
writer of this was recently in a part
of Illinois where red sorrel has spread
everywhere. The fields are red with
it and the fanners complain that it is
so abundant that it interferes greatly
with their crops. There was one field
where lime had been used in part of
the field and the rest left without
lime. In the part that had been limed
there was little sorrel, w'hile on the
other part it grew in abundance. It
was evident that it found lime not tc
its liking.
The popular impression is that sor
rel indicates sour land, and this belief
doubtless has in it some truth; though
sorrel will grow on land that is sweet.
It is like some other plants, it has its
preference, and in this case it is for
land that is too acid for the growing
of some other plants. The very fact
that other plants do not do well on it
helps the sorrel, for it leaves the land
free for its use. Sorrel can be best
fought by liming the land, if it is in
clined toward sourness and then put
ting it into a crop that needs cultiva
tion. We have never seen the sorrel
persist under such treatment. We
solicit communications from our read
ers on this point.
Rot-Infected Potatoes.
The Maine station carried on some
experiments to determine how late
blight-infected potatoes should be dug
The conclusions reached by the exper
imenters were:
The infection of the potatoes with
the fungus occurs chiefly, if not en
tirely, in the field before digging.
The infection is usually the result
of diseased vines.
The disease is transmitted, in the
majority of cases, not directly through
the vine, but indirectly through the
soil.
Potatoes may be infected directly ir
the field from spores introduced in the
manure, or from rotten potatoes
spread upon or left in the land the
preceding year.
Jones and Morse conclude that the
mycelium which produces the rot nor
ieally passes into a dormant stage
after infesting the potato, but that
abnormal conditions of moisture 01
temperature may cause abnormal ac
tivity in the fungus, and hence the rot
ting of the tubers.
Whatever may be the explanation
these experiments all agree in show
ing that, whether the vines have o’
have not been protected with Bor
deaux mixture, there is far less liabil
ity of loss from rotting in the cellai
in the case of late dug potatoes.
Renovated Blitter in Michigan.
The laws of Michigan are rigid re
garding the sale of renovated butter
Two of the sections state that who
ever has for sale “renovated butter,’
as defined in a previous section, shal’
have the words “Renovated Butter"
conspicuously marked, so that the
words cannot be easily effaced, upon
two sides of the container of the but
ter. When renovated butter is sold
in print, roll or other form, before be
ing delivered to the purchaser it shal1
be done up in wrappers upon which is
stamped in plain view of the pur
chaser, with no other printing there
on, the words “Renovated Butter.’
Any violation of this act will be con
sidered a misdemeanor and shall be
punishable by a fine of not less than
$25 or more than $500 and the costs
of prosecution, or by imprisonment
for not less than six months or more
than three years, or by both fine and
imprisonment according to the dis
cretion of the court.
What You Do, Do Well.
When a boy, we sometimes became
impatient with having our father say,
“Whatever is worth doing at all, is
worth doing well.’’ Time has passed
on and many years have elapsed since
we have heard this oft given advice,
and the longer we have lived the more
force we have seen in it. The habit of
doing things well or otherwise grows
with our growth and finally becomes
second nature. No farmer should be
content with being only a good farm
er. He should strive to be the best
farmer in the neighborhood. Strive
to raise the best crops, have the best
stock, keep the neatest place. In
short, do your best every day, and
strive to know more about your busi
ness and you will sutceed.—A. M.
Caldwell.
The June Berry.
Qne of the fruits yet to come prom
inently into notice is the June berry.
This berry has a wide range of habi
tat. The writer used to pick the berry
on the Maine coast, where it was
known as the Sugar Plum. It grew
wild there, and no one seemed to
think of cultivating it. Two years
ago he saw It growing wild on the
north branch of the Saskatchewan
River, in British America, where it is
called the Sackatoon berry. A native
being asked why they did not try to
cultivate small fruits, replied: “We
have enough wild fruits, as the Suska
toon and other berries grow in great
abundance.” The bushes seen by the
writer grew ten feet high, and were
loaded with fruit in all stages of ripe
ness. This was the 20th of June.
A few weeks ago in southern Illi
nois we picked ripe June berries from
bushes six feet high, growing in a
domesticated stabe. Afterward we had
the pleasure of eating the berries,
which had been canned with goose
berries the previous year. It is safe
to say that this fruit has in it much
that is worthy of development The
June berry of the future may be as
different from Its present wild form
as is our most perfect apple different
from the wild crab from which it has
been evolved.
Are the flat Irons becoming rusty
and rough? Then keep on hand a
piece of beeswax tied in a cloth and
rub them with this, afterward rubbing
them with salt on a cloth.
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Birds with Lar^e Appetites
Despite the fact that "the appetite
of a bird” has become a common
phrase for light eating, investigations
show that birds are tremendous feed
ers. The diet of the average kestrel
(a small European hawk) is calculat
ed at 1,000 mice a month, to say noth
ing of insects and worms. The barn
owl is as voracious as the kestrel. An
Investigator, after caging one of these
birds gave it seven mice one after
the other. The first six immediately
disappeared, each with a gobble and a
gulp, and the owl did its very best to
treat the seventh in a like manner.
Limitations of abdominal capacity,
however, prevented, and though the
gobble came off the gulp did not, so
that for twenty minutes or so the tail
of the seventh mouse dangled from
the corner of the bird’s beak. But in
due course it swallowed the body, and
three hours later the pangs of hun
ger reasserted themselves and the
owl ate four more mice.
Experiments with a caged robin led
to some surprising results. At the end
of three weeks it was found That in
order to keep up its weight the bird
required about fourteen feet of earth
worms, a day, or an equivalent in
other solid food. A robin in good con
dition weighs as nearly as possible
one ounce. Fourteen feet of earth
worms weigh two ounces and a half. '
In other words the bird devours, in
health, about two and a half times its
own weight of solid food in the course
of every twenty-four hours, A man
of 168 pounds, if he were to equal this
performance in proportion to his size,
would require a dally allowance of
forty large legs of mutton.
Four pounds would be a heavy
weight for a heron. Yet one of those
birds, which was trapped in England
in 1890, disgorged two recently swal
lowed trout, one of which weighed
two pounds and the other one and one
half pounds. Another, captured in
1893, had contrived to put away three
trout averaging three-quarters of a
pound apiece, although it was only 4
months old, and another had dined
upon seven small trout, together with
a mouse and a thrush.
Among the greediest birds are wood
pigeons, which will continue to gulp
down food until their crops are almost
at the bursting point. From one of
these birds, shot as it was returning
from a raid in the fields, no fewer
than 800 grains of wheat were taken.
Another had contrived to cram down
no fewer than 600 peas. A third was
endeavoring to sustain nature with
180 beech nuts and a fourth with sixty
acorns.
Early Days in California
In his “Gold Hunters of California”
Thomas E. Farish tells some interest
ing anecdotes of tho men of the early
days. The following concerns “Fight
ing Jack” Hayes, the first sheriff of
San Francisco county: “Hayes never
drilled his command; with him it was
‘Come on, boys,’ and they followed
where he led. After the battle of
Monterey, in which his gallantry was
conspicuous, a number of young lieu
tenants, graduates of West Point,
visited his camp to pay their compli
ments to ‘Fighting Jack.' They found
him frying bacon, surrounded by sol
diers, with nothing to distinguish him
from those about him. ‘Where can we
find Col. Hayes?’ inquired the spokes
man. ‘I think you will find him over
yonder,’ pointing to a group of men
about a hundred yards away. Riding
over to the group indicated the young
men made the same inquiry. They
were informed that the man with the
frying pan was the officer they were in
search of. They rode back to their
headquarters without further -eSort
to make his apquaintance.”
Speaking of Henry Miller, a western
W W T 4
cattle king, Mr. Farish says that none
knew better than he the value of a
reliable, efficient man. “Once, on one
of his Kern county ranches, he had a
foreman with whom he quarreled. The
foreman said: ‘If it were not that you
are a smaller man than I, I w’ould
beat you half to death.’ At this Miller
threw off his coat and went for the
man. The foreman succeeded in giv
ing him a good trouncing, then de
manded a settlement, which was
made. Then all over with, Miller apol
ogized and hired the man over again,
with an advance in wages. He knew
he had a good man.’’
Another story of Miller: “I remem
ber Miller once at Firebaugh’s ferry,
on the San Joaquin river, when he
was buying so much land. It was at
breakfast and a man called ‘Hog’
Johnson began to criticise Miller’s
purchases, when Miller turned to him
and said: ‘Hog, you knows dere iss
more peoples born into de world effery
year dan dies out of it, don’t you?'
‘Yes,’ admitted Hog. ‘Veil, dey all haf
to lif off de land and dere iss no more
land borned every year.’ ”
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Doctors Under Heavy strain
The premature death of physicians
has long been known, but it receives
too little comment, as a study of the
causes must suggest a remedy or two.
The fifty-fifth annual report of the
registrar general shows that the dis
eases which claim the most victims
among physicians relatively to all
males are gout and diabetes, and that
there is a high relative mortality from
diseases of the nervous system, cir
culatory system and kidneys.
From the nature of his habits the
physician is not subject to accidents,
and though he is brought into con
tact with infection to a greater extent
thin other men, his preventive means
are*successful and his mortality from
infection is low. Freedom from pro
longed muscular strains and high
blood tension apparently saves him
from arteriosclerosis, but suicide
claims many, and so do the drug hab
its acquired by the nervously exhaust
ed. It has been said that three
fourths of French morphine users are
physicians.
The cause of the physician’s early
death is evidently the excessive ner
vous expenditure, insufficient rest and
defective nutrition inseparable from
his calling with its broken and re
stricted sleep, irregular hours of work,
rest and meals, the worry when lives
depend upon his judgment and the
lack of a day of complete relaxation
in each week. No race can survive
unless its customs provide for numer
ous holidays when care is thrown to
the winds, for no nervous system is 1
capable of constant strain. i
The physician who sees his patients 1
every day in the week, month after (
month, and can not learn to forget I
them when he goes home merely
burns the candle at both ends. He i
violates the law obeyed by every oth
er animal, that there shall be short
periods of moderate exertion inter
rupted by longer periods *of rest when
repairs are made. It is not to much
work as a rule, but scattered work
which prevents rests.—American
Medicine.
Captain Nick’s Queer Dream
During one of those religious reviv
als at Searsffort for which that Maine
town is famous, while Capt. Nick,
with others, was sitting by the stove
in the country store, toasting his
shins, and telling stories, the village
preacher entered, and, being desirous
of converts, drew into the circle of
story-tellers. A momentary silence
followed and then Capt. Nick remark
ed: “I had a dream last night. I
dreamed I died and went to heaven.”
The preacher asked to have the
dream told, and the captain proceed
ed: “Having died, I was directed to
go to heaven. I started, and, after
traveling some time, came to a fork
i^the road, nor could I remember the
directions as to which fork to take.
I chose the left-hand fork and, going
on, came to a large iron gate, from
which arose wailing and sounds of
gnashing of teeth. I hesitated, but,
not daring to turn back, went up to
the gate and knocked.
“It was partially opened, and out
stepped the devil, tined fork in hand,
his horns poised ominously, his eyes
bloodshot.
“‘Who are you?’ he said, savagely.
“‘Capt. Nick, from # Searsport, Me.,’
I made answer.
“ ‘Get yourself away from here,
then’, said the devil, ‘we are chock
full of Searsporters now.'
“Right glad was I to get away, and
hurrying back, I took the right-hand
fork, which soon brought me to a
beautiful marble palace, wherein was
music and song.
“The gate swung gently open, at my
knock, and the good St. Peter said, in
a soft, sweet voice, ‘Who art thou?’
I answered as at the first gate, ‘Capt.
Nick from Searsport, Me.’
“ ‘Walk in,’ said he, ‘thou good and
faithful servant; thou art the first
one we have had from Searsport,
Me.’ ”
With the Advance Guard
In the dream of the northern poets,
The brave who in battle die
Fight on in shadowy phalanx
In the field of the upper sky;
And as we read the sounding rhyme,
The reverent fancy hears
The ghostly ring of the viewless sWords
And the clash of the spectral spears.
We think with imperious questionings
Of the brothers whom we have lost.
And we strive to track in death’s mys
. tery
The flight of each valiant ghost.
The northern myth comes back to us.
And we feel, through our sorrow s night.
That those young souls are striving still
Somewhere for the truth and light.
It was not their time for rest and sleep;
Their hearts beat high and strong;
In their fresh veins the blood of youth
Was singing its hot, sweet song.
The open heaven bent over them.
Mid flowers their lithe feet trod.
Their lives lay livid in light, and blest
By the smiles of women and God.
Again they come! Again I hear
The tread of that goodly band;
I know the flash of Ellsworth s eye
And the grasp of his hard, warm hand; •
And Putnam, and Shaw, of the lion heart, J
And an eye like a Boston girl s; '
And I see the light of heaven which lay
On Ulric Dahlgien’s curls.
There is no power in the gloom cf hell
To quench those spirits' fire;
There is no power In the bliss of heaven
To bid them not aspire;
But somewhere in the eternal plan
That strength, that life survive.
And like the files on Lookout's crest,
Above death’s clouds they strive.
A chosen corps, they are marching on
In a wider field than ours;
Those bright battalions still fulfill
The scheme of heavenly powers;
And high brave thoughts float down to us,
The echoes of that far fight.
Like the flash of a distant picket’s gun
Through the shades of the severing
night.
No fear for them! In our lower field
Let us keep our arms unstained.
That at last we be worthy to stand with
them
On the shining heights they’ve gained.
We shall meet and greet in closing ranks
In Time’s declining sun,
When the bugles of God shall sound re
call
And the battle of life be won.
—From “Poems by John Hay,’’ published
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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A Massachusetts clergyman stood
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kindness to animals. The innovation
made a strong impression, but there
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what dangerous precedent Will t ie
next Massachusetts clergyman who in
relghs against horse racing find it
necessary to use a live horse for an
object lesson? Or if he discusses on
the dangers that surround the de
voted missionary in Oriental lands,
will he feel obliged to illustrate his
tbene with the tiger of the jungle and
i the elephant of the foothills?
There are few good things in this
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