Nebraska Newspapers

    loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
It’s an unusual week nowadays
when a bomb isn’t thrown somewhere
at somebody in Russia.
The prediction of a shortage of 10,
000,000 pounds in the California prune
crop will be comforting to some.
About twenty-seven cabmen were
killed by the bomb intended for the
sultan, so the energy wasn’t entirely
wasted.
Pittsburg has decided to annex the
tillage of Bon Air. That certainly is
what Pittsburg needs more than any
thing else.
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That “famous football player” who
has started business on the New York
stock exchange is in a fair way to get
■horn at last.
European sovereigns that have en
tertained the shah of Persia are quite
willing he should do all his visiting in
the United States.
A New York woman wants a divorce
because her husband plays poker. She
must find it hard to discover any
change in his pockets.
The assertion that Newport is on
the decline was contradicted imme
diately by the announcement ol a big
jewel robbery down there.
Even if it does cost anywhere from
$1,500 to $40,000 a month to run an
up-to-date steam yacht, only think
what a lot of fun you have!
One of Holland’s islands in the
East Indies is in rebellion. There
must be some fighting germ that has
atacked the world’s islands.
The Shah of Persia Is reported to be
Buffering from melancholia. He’s a
foolish man. We understand that he
has his coal all in and paid for.
New York’s society swells now have
their giant minds centered upon the
important task of pulling off a race
between a coach dog and a bull pup.
Considering the result of efforts to
“dash” to the pole there may be some
thing in the idea of a Philadelphia
explorer who proposes to “drift”
thither.
The Sultan of Morocco has ordered
the building of a stone pier at Tan
gier, probably with a hope that his
next royal visitor will run into it and
founder.
Cassie Chadwick’s main trouble just
now is said to be a rat who gives
matinee races lound her cell. She
will either get a trap or move out of
the prison.
The Atlantic ocean contains an area
of about 40,000,000 square miles, and
yet some people act as if they felt big
enough to make tfc§ tide rise when
they go in bathing.
I
'The editor of an Atlanta paper
whipped a member of the Georgia
legislature the other day. The edi
tor must have felt thqt his fist was
mightier than his pen.
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The spooners are grieved because
the man in the moon has left town,
says one of our bright young men.
Don’t you believe it, sonny. On the
contrary. Quite the reverse.
Rojestvensky ascribes his defeat to
bad shells, incompetent gunners, and
mutinous crews. A combination like
that was clearly no match for the vir
tues of the mikado’s ancestors.
There is much argument just now
on the question of who was the father
of thp American navy. W’hy bother
over the father when we have the
child, and such a fine, healthy child,
too!
Writing in an eastern paper, a
grouchy citizen says that patients who
fall in love with their nurses usually
do so merely because of “peripheral
propinquity.” Those dreadful germs
again.
If the recording angel has kept a
careful account of the remarks made
by the 80,000,000 of the American peo
ple about the weather recently, he
Hmst hare a busy set of shorthand
clerks.
Of course we all know what ought
to have happened to the ailing small
boy whose mother gave him tea cents
to go to the drug store to get a dose
of castor oil and who spent it for an
ice cream soda.
For the first time in 200 years the
governor of St. Pierre-Miquelon is vis
iting the governor of Newfoundland
for a couple of days. Of course it has
not been the same governor all the
time, on either side.
Annie Besant’s assertion that she
knows what becomes of us when we
are asleep reminds us of the widow
who said there was some consolation
in the fact that, now she had buried
her husband, she knew where he was
nights.
Massachusetts requires some work
from tramps if they are to receive
food, and it reduced the number in the
state last year from 800 to 300. Work
seems to be one of the best remedies
for the tramp disease that has yet
been discovered.
These medical papers are very en
tertaining, anyway. One of them tells
about a young woman who was greatly
troubled with headache. Somebody
advised her when she went to sleep
to turn her face from the wall, and
she did. and she has never had a head
ache since.
The officers of a steamer that re
cently arrived in New York, saw not
only a tremendous iceberg, but an in
verted iceberg on top of it, caused by
a mirage. If this doesn’t make you
feel any cooler, don’t blame us.
FEAR FOR NIAGARA
IMMENSE VOLUME OF WATER
DIVERTED FROM FALLS.
Commercial Enterprises are Making
Heavy Drjinq on This Famoue Show
Place—Its Tremendous Electrical
Power the InducemenL
Niagara Falls, August 7:—The
volume of water being diverted
from the historic Niagara Falla is
reaching such proportions that the
people of the State are trying to pass
laws which will prevent the possibil
ity of a practical wiping out of this
sublime natural spectacle.
Water sufficient to develop nearly
five hundred thousand horse-power
continuously, twenty-four hours per
day, for industrial purposes, is now
being taken from the river above the
Falls, and further developments re
quiring more water are contemplated.
Probably the largest user of the
electricity produced by the waters of
the mighty river-is the concern which
by the five or six thousand degree
heat of the electric furnace brings
lime and coke into unwilling ^’on,
thereby producing what is kno as
Calcium Carbide.
Dry calcium carbide is lifeless as
so much broken rock, but in contact
with water it springs Into activity and
begets abundantly the gas Acetylene.
The light resulting from the ignition
of acetylene is the nearest approach
to sunlight known.
These facts, though of compara
tively recent discovery, were soon
seised by men with an eye to the com
mercial possibilities and to-day cal
cium carbide is being shipped every
where and used for dispelling dark
ness in buildings of all descriptions,
from the ordinary barn of the farmer
to the country villa of the wealthy, as
well as for lighting the streets of a
large number of towns. Acetylene
can be easily and cheaply Installed,
and the manufacture and sale of
acetylene generators has become a
business of recognised standing, has
assumed large proportions and Is
steadily growing.
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Soldiers as Beeer Testers.
The following order was Issued to a
company of garrison artillery at Alla
habad, India: “The following N. C.
O.'s and men will report themselves
to the quartermaster-sergeant tomor
row, June 1. at 9 a. m., for the pur
pose of testing beer at the supply and
transport go-down. These N. C. O.’s
and men will be held strictly responsi
ble and liable for the beer selected,
and will have to pay for any beer that
may have to be returned.”
Contents of Fish’s Stomach.
A female pike, thirty-two Inches In
length, which was caught on Barton
Broad, Norfolk, England, some time
ago, when opened was found to con
tain two roaches, measuring seven
inches and four inches respectively;
two piecees of wire, each eight inches
long; two steel spanners, two keys,
which were tied together; a portion
of a saw, a fragment of iron, and a
piece of a spanner.
Beautiful Savages?
Women more nearly attain the stat
ure of men among savages than
among civilized ’•aces. Our athletic
voung ladies, with free-swinging
*imbs and beautiful, clear, penetrart
ng voices, as Mr. H. G. Wells de
scribes them, may, after all be a re
version.—Mind.
Sound as a Dollar.
Monticello, Minn., Aug. 7th.—Mr. J.
W. Moore of this place stands as a liv
ing proof of the fact that Bright’s Dis
ease, even in the last stages, may be
perfectly and permanently cured by
Dodd’s Kidney Pills.
Mr. Moore says: “In 1898 thrse
reputable physicians after a careful
examination told me that I would die
with Bright’s Disease inside of a year.
My feet and ankles and legs were
badly swollen; I could hardly stand
on my feet and had given up all hopes
of getting cured when a traveling
salesman told me that he himself had
been cured of Bright’s Disease two
years before.
"He said he had taken to bis bed
and expected to die with it, but that
he had been cured by a remedy called
Dodd’s Kidney Pills.
“I commenced taking them at once
and I am thankful to say that they
Baved my life. After a short treat
ment I was completely restored to
good health and I am now as sound M
a dollar.”
Metaphyscians can unsettle things
but they can erect nothing. They can
pull down a church, but they cannot
build a hovel.—Cecil.
STRANGE, ISNT IT?
A woman sees a hat or bonnet In a
milliner's window. It is in the latest
style, so she determines to have that
hat—or one just like it.
No use to try to dissuade her—she
wants that kind of a hat! No other
will suit her.
There she displays her will power,
and probably does the same with
everything she buys for herself or her
family. She makes, as it were, & fem
inine “declaration of independence.’*
Is it not surprising, therefore, to find
some few worm n who still allow their
grocers to choose for them in import
ant matters like foodstuffs?
In spite of the fact that grocers as a
rule have long ago realized the neces
sity of catering to their customers'
rather than their own desires, there
are still a few of the other kind left,
who show a marked inclination to per
suade customers to take what they do
not ask for, or desire.
Take Lion Coffee, for Instance, the
leader of all package cofTees, an estab
lished favorite for over twenty-five
years in millions of homes, on account
of its absolutely pure and uniform
quality.
Wouldn’t you thing it Impossible
that a single grocer can still exist who
would oppose such an invincible argu
ment of merit, by trying to persuade
a customer to buy loose coffee In pref
erence to Lion Coffee?
Loose coffee has no standard quality
—nobody can guarantee that It is
even clean.
Of course, really independent and
intelligent women know this, and so
do up-to-date grocers, but If women
were as particular about coffee aa
about hats, no kind of grocer could be
without Lion Coffee.
A woman’s Idea of a sensible man
is one who makes a fool of himself
over her.
Try me Just once and I am sure t*
c»me aga.n. Defiance Starch.
American League Notes.
Jack Chesbro still works the “spit
ball.”
The Cleveland Leader now styles
them “The Napless Naps.”
Owen has done consistently good
work on the rubber for Chicago.
The Athletic Club loaned Catcher
Mike Powers to New York temporar
ily.
It is reported that St. Louis has
sold Pitcher Willie Sudhoff to Indian
apolis.
Catcher Heydon has been playing
gilt-edged ball behind the bat for the
Nationals.
Elberfeld has been doing tall field
ing and batting for the Highlanders
since he got back into the game.
Manager Griffith is reported as hav
ing signed a Washington semi-profes
sional catcher named “Dude” Gates.
Chase has been hitting and stealing
bases at a wholesale rate since the
New York Americans took to the road.
Manager Jake Stahl is of the opin
ion that the umpires are largely re
sponsible for the Nationals’ low stand
ing.
Griffith seems to find it difficult to
get rid of Pat Dougherty. He has
tried several deals for him, but with
out avail.
Jimmy Collins has signed Catcher C.
A. Armbruster of the New London
team of the Connecticut League, pay
ing |1,750 for hirh.
Hickman ought to help Washington
a whole lot with the stick and win
many games thereby. Washington
will be his fourth abode in the Amer
ican. League.
“Red” Dopahue, the Cleveland pitch
er, has been secured by a Cincinnati
candy firm ^o Represent its chocolate
interests in Philadelphia the coming
winter. ▲ sweet job.
National League News.
Harry Dolan Is playing an impres
sive game for Boston.
Barney Dreyfuss says he is not try
ing to sign “Doc” Hillebrand..
Miller Huggins is daily proving his
worth atf a member of Keeley's outfit.
The latest report anent Ned Han
lon is that he will manage the Car
dinals next year.
Jack Taylor says he is using the
"spit” hall but little nowadays, as it
affects the arm.
Oscar Jones’ motion in pitching
throws him off his balance tas he de
livers the ball.
Pittsburg’s new catcher, Gibson, is
a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., but
lives in Canada.
Seymour, of Cincinnati, was the first
batsman to make one hundred Bafe
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! Woodruff is a grand all-around play
er, and has made himself solid with
the Louisville f^ns by his earnest play
ing at all times.
Arthur Irwin is doing a little experi
menting out in Kansas City by playing
pitcher Frantz on the infield. He is
said to be a fine fielder and a strong
hitter.
The Association second basemen are
doubtless the best in any minor
league. They are: Demont, Wrigley,
Brashear, Bonner, Farrell, Fox, Mar
can and McCormick.
Western Association.
Outfielder “Dusty” Miller has joined
the Wichita team.
The Joplin Club has signed pitcher
Companion, late of Colorado Springs.
The Topeka Club has released out
fielder Charles Crum, and signed out
fielder Abel Lezotte, late of St. Joseph.
Ed McKelvey, last year with Enid,
in the Oklahoma State League, has
joined the Guthrie Senators' pitching
staff.
Topeka couldn’t get any of the Pa
cific National Leaguers, but Wichita
got a rattling good shortstop in Ferris,
of Spokane.
“Skinny” Blackburn, now with To
peka, started with Oklahoma, went to
Guthrie and then to Sedalia. He
seems to fit in with the Sox.
Trestrail, the newr pitcher recently
acquired by Sedalia through President
D. M. Shively, has been released.
“Too many men on the pay roll” is
the reason advanced.
Nick Kahl, who was with Nevada in
the first year of the Missouri Valley
League's existence, is now utility man
for Cleveland. He is no relation to
second baseman Kahl, of Leaven
worth.
Central League.
The Springfield club has released
Catcher Chapman to the Terre Haute
club.
Springfield has released Vizzard and
has signed Osteen of Indianapolis and
Gene Curtis, an outfielder.
Ex-President George W. Bement will
manage the Ft. Wayne team until a
new owner and home Is found for it
Pitcher Knoell of the Chicago Mar
quettes has been signed by Manager
Jimmy Ryan of the Evansville Central
League team.
Jack Thornton, who used to play,
baseball for Fort Wayne, and who is
now in the Western League, has writ
ten Jimmy Ryan for a job. Jimmy is
favorably considering his application
Magager “Hub” Knoll of Dayton is
back in the game after several weeks ,
idleness owing to injury. He has re
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Shortstop of the Athletic American League Club.
hits; Donlin, of New York, was sec
ond.
The St. Louis Club has turned out
fielder Josh Clark and catcher Dave
Zearfoss over to Toledo.
The Pittsburg Club has failed to
squelch betting In its stands and hot
speculation is again going on In the
open.
Jimmy Casey, of the Chicagos, al
ways considered a fine batsman, Is
unable this season to pass the .200
mark.
President Herrmann joined his Cin
cinnati team at Boston with a view
to making a round of the Eastern
cities.
In an interview at Boston Joe Kel
ley states that in his opinion the
Pirates have an excellent chance to
land the flag.
Umpire Klem is the most active
man on Pulliam’s staff. Before the
season opened he went through a reg
ular training season in the South with
the New Jersey independents, the
same as a hall player.
American Association.
Wyatt Lee will be Toledo’s regular
first baseman hereafter.
It la rumored that Dick Padden is
slated for the managership of the
Colonels.
The Toledo Club has released pitch
er “Lefty” Qeyer, who had been algned
for ft trial.
Manager Barrow is after Jaeger,
Hynea or Thomas, of the Millers’ staff
of pitchers.
The Indianapolis Club has signed
pitcher Jamea Lucaa, of the Zanesville
(O.) independent team.
Oraham, of the Millers, Is ft fins all
round player. Besides bslng ft first
class pitcher and utility man, he Is ft
reliable batter.
leased Second Baseman Cameron and
brought Paskert lu from the outfield
to fill the position.
Three-I League.
Pitcher Johnny Fisher, borrowed by
Peoria from Indianapolis, who jumped
Peoria, Is now playing with the Frank
fort (Ky.) team.
Mike Peer, a member of one of the
disbanding Pacific National league
clubs, waa given a try by Manager
Hayes at Davenport, but liia first game
was an unlucky one for him.
The half-way post lu the Threo-Kye*
League pennant race was passed ou
July 5, ami never In the history of the
Three-Eyes League, and rarely in any
league, waa the entire circuit so well
bunched.
Bolden Hill has signed first base
man Don Cameron, of last year's Hook
ford team, and has moved hlmseli
over to his old position at third, put
Spencer at second, ami sent Ball agalu
Into the box.
HavHand has been added to Du
buque's twlrlorH and Pat Saoy to Hook
Island's. Haey, who was formerly with
tho St. Joseph Western, Is a strapping
big fellow, and will doubtless prova •
great help to McConnell’s team.
Western League.
Outfielder Friable, once with tb«
Bostons and New Yorks, of the Na
tlonal League, and afterward with tbs
Colorado Springs and Des Molnci
clubs, has been made manager of the
Burlington (Iowa) club.
Louie Manske, the Milwaukee bor
who Is pitching such good ball for tb«
Dea Molnea club, celebrated hla twe»
ty-flrst birthday on the Fourth of July
and now ts a reel man. He kept nj
the celebration by defeating 8t Jot
and allowing only five hits.
With the Cavalry.
Now look away, you doughboy men, an’
stick to them trenches tight.
Peek, if you wanter, over yer dirt and
see a purty fight.
Look to yer cinches, one an’ all, here goes
th’ fightin’ crew,
Hoo-ki! Hang onter yer hat—th’ cavalry’s
cornin’ through.
It’s rat-tlty-tat on th’ dusty road,
Here's where th’ devil ’ll git a load—
Hoo-ki! an' th’ air is blue
When th' cavalry’s cornin’ through.
There’s some wot likes th’ doughboy line,
some likes th’ battery.
Some is stuck on th’ engineers—for mine
th’ cavalry.
With yer legs a-straddle a good old horse
—a horse wot’s kind and true.
Then it’s hoo-ki! Hang onter yer hat—th
cavalry's cornin’ through.
Clackety-clack, spit out th’ dust,
Foller yer leader if you bust—
Wee-ow-wow! There's a hulla-baloo
When th’ cavalry’s cornin’ through.
This “fight on feet” ain’t Just my style,
feel safer on a horse.
When 1 feel his quiver beneath my knees
an’ th’ captain shows th' course.
Sing, gun in hand, an’ yell In my teeth,
then I knows wliat ter do,
Hoo-ki! Hang onter yer hat—the cavalry’s
cornin’ through.
Ta-ta-ra th’ bugle sings—
Feels 's 'f you was on wings—
Yee-ow-wow! An' then wa-hoo.
When th’ cavalry’s cornin’ through.
—Leslie’s Weekly.
“Mother Ransom’s” Experiences.
Mrs. Eleanor C. Ransom, affection
ately known as “Mother Ransom,” not
only by the boys in blue whom she so
faithfully nursed, but by a multitude
of friends, is now residing at the
Ransom Industrial Home in the quiet
seclusion of that sheltered vale that
lies just over the bluff from Garvanza,
Cal., and which is one of several insti
tutions of the same character that
“Mother Ransom” has founded in var
ious parts of the country. She is now
nearly 90 years old and so feeble that
she spends most of her time in her
room, where a Times representative
found her—a veritable old saint happy
in her Christian faith and love.
“It was in February, 1863,” she said,
“that I went to Memphis in company
with twenty-five women, all from In
diana, where I had resided for more
than thirty years, in response to a call
from Gov. Morton, ‘the old war gov
ernor’ as he was called. I was as
signed to the Gayoso general hospital
and later was assigned by our sur
geon to the Washington hospital to
assist in opening and getting it in
good running condition. In the fall I
returned to Memphis and remained
there all winter. The following spring
I received from headquarters in In
dianapolis a commission authorizing
me to receive and distribute sanitary
supplies and allowing me to go when
and where I was most needed. I rec
ollect that on the first Sabbath in Au
gust, 1864, it was my precious privi
lege to spend that whole day in wash
ing the feet of our poor wounded men.
They wept great tears of gratitude
which spoke louder than words. In the
fall I went to New Orleans to ascer
tain the condition of the Indiana
troops stationed there and spent weeks
ministering to the poor prisoners
brought up from Galveston who were
so starved that many of them were
idiotic and could not tell their own
names or give any information of their
friends at home.
‘‘My most thrilling experience as an
army nurse was the shipwreck of the
North America. I was sent by the
medical director as aid to the surgeon,
Dr. McClintock, in charge of the sick
soldiers who were being transferred
from New Orleans to New York. The
North America, a steamship and the
same vessel that brought up those
prisoners from Texas, was detailed to
take the sick men to the North. We
left New Orleans on Dec. 16, 1864, and
on the 22d of the same month we
were shipwrecked. We had on board
203 enlisted men. We arrived in New
York city Jan. 1, 1865, with fifteen
soldiers—all that were rescued from
the sinking ship. While memory has
her seat I can never forget the horror
of that scene. A terrible gale arose on
the evening of the fifth day out. All
night and the next day the storm con
tinued with increasing fury. Just off
the coast of Florida the steamer was
reported as leaking badly forward.
They cut away the ceiling and stuffed
in blankets, but the leak admitted as
much water in five minutes as could
be bailed out in an hour. There seemed
no hope whatever but that all must be
lost, when a sail was reported in sight.
wnicn proven 10 ue me uhik mary c,.
IJbby. txjund from Cuba to Portland.
Me. She saw our signals of distress
and spoke us through her trumpet, Im
mediately heading toward us. As she
bore down upon us the two ships col
lided and it looked for a time as if
both were doomed. The Libby drifted
off and repaired damages sufficiently
to be able to take us on board and
sent us her lifeboat, the ships being
three miles apart when the first boat
load was rescued and when the last
one went over they had drifted six
miles apart. The Libby rolled so in
that fearful sea that it was a long
time before anyone could be trans
ferred to her deck. Four women be
side the stewardess and fifteen soldier
hoys were rescued. Eight boatloads
were attempted to be transferred, but
one, manned by the purser and tw’o
assistants, was swamped and all on
hoard were lost. The North America
went down with 194 of our brave sol
dier boys on board, but even had they
all been rescued the Libby, which had
supplies only for her own crew of
fourteen men, could not have offered
us sufficient food to keep us alive.
They divided what they had with us,
apportioning both food and water and
wo were almost famished when we
reached New York. My health was so
impaired by the shock and strain and
the grief for my dear lost soldier boys
that I was unable to do anything for
some time. I afterward returned to
Memphis and reported to the Adams
general hospital."
"Mother Ransom" served in five dif
ferent hospitals during the war and
ever since has been actively engaged
In philanthropic work, her long life of
almost a century being marked by
constant loving service to the unfor
tunate and the needy.—Los Angeles
Times.
A Psrsonil Story of Grant.
"I am going to tell you an incident
ifai the life of Gen. UlysBes S. Grant
which has never appeared in print
that I know of, but which happens to
come within my cognizance,” said Sen
ator Daniel of Virginia when in Chi
cago as the guest of the Hamilton
club.
‘‘Along in January or February,
1865, a young Virginia soldier, about
17 or 18 years of age (and I want you
to understand that every boy In Vir
ginia from 13 to 14 years of age up
ward was carrying arms at that
time), was instructed by his comman
der, who was Colonel John S. Mosby,
to cross the Potomac to a certain
postofflce in Maryland and to bring to
him the mail. He wanted it for the
military information he could get out
of it.
‘‘This young man was in his full
confederate uniform and with a com
rade or two proceeded to execute the
order. He arrived at the postofflce,
and the inconvenient postmaster
showed fight. He killed him. He got
the mall and brought it and delivered
it to his commander. A short time
afterward he was captured. He was
taken to the City of Washington. He
was court-martialed and condemned to
be shot for murder.
‘‘At that stage of the proceedings
bis father and mother, whom I knew
well—and there were no more respect
able and reptuable people in Virginia
—went to the City of Washington and
laid the case before the President of
the United States, Andrew Johnson.
He referred them to General Grant.
‘‘General Grant sent for the papers
and read them over and wrote upon
the back of them words to this effect:
‘This young soldier in full uniform
obeyed the orders of his commander;
if he had not done so he ought to have
been shot. As he did so it would be
murder to shoot him. He should be
instantly discharged.' And that is one
reason why I am here and why I am
glad to pay the respect of a soldiei
to the brave, true and honorable
American soldier, Ulysses S. Grant.”
Encampment Arrangement*.
A recent visit of the commander-in
chief to Denver, Col., convinces him
that the committee of arrangements is
making every effort to insure the suc
cess of the thirty-ninth National G. A.
R. encampment in that city during the
week beginning Sept. 4 next. A per
sonal inspection of the route of parade
shows the length to be within the two
mile limit prescribed by the national
encampment, and over asphalt pave
ment the entire distance. Ample ac
commodations in hotels, boarding
and lodging bouses and balls are at
the disposal of the sub-committee on
accommodations, the chairman of
which, Col. George W. Cook, No. 1725
Stout street, Denver, will cheerfully
acknowledge all communications and
attend to the assignments of all appli
cants.
Attention is called by the command
er-in-chief to the custom in military
bands of playing marching music to
the time adopted by the National
Guard, which is 120 beat* to the min
ute. In consequence of such quick
time much fatigue and suffering have
been caused to the comrades of the
Grand Army of the Republic who have
so pluckily endeavored to keep step.
All persons charged with the duty of
employing bands for the national pa
rade in Denver are requested to stipu
late that music played on that occa
sion shall not exceed ninety beats to
the minute, “the time to which we
marched from 1861 to 1865.’’
Much progress has been made in the
arrangements for the transportation
of visitors. In brief, the passenger as
sociations east of Denver have grant
ed a rate of practically one cent a
mile, with time limit on depositing
ticket* in Denver, good to return up to
and including Oct. 7, 1905.
The Medal of Honor.
The recent change in the design of
the Medal of Honor again calls atten
tion to the decoration which stands
for the highest honor our government
can bestow upon its soldiers—a deco
ration ranking in the same class with
the famous Victoria Cross of Great
Britain and the eagerly coveted Iron
Cross of Germany. The Medal of
Honor is conferred by act of Congress
only for some distinguished deed of
bravery or gallantry while in service.
In the winning of it officer and pri
vate met on common ground, and such
care is exercised by the War depart
ment to prevent the honor from being
unworthily bestowed that out of more
than two millions and a half of men
who served in the civil war less than
two thousand have been awarded Med
als of Honor. And of these nearly
one-half were voted outright to an
entire regiment, the Twenty-seventh
Maine Volunteer Infantry, whose term
of service expired on the eve of the
battle of Gettysburg, but whose mem
bers volunteered to remain and enter
that fight.
Tallest G. A. R. Veteran.
The tallest G. A. R. veteran in the
United States is W. P. Bane of Nine
veh, Pa. Mr. Bane stands seven feet
In his stockings. He weighs 200
pounds, wears a seven and a half size
hat and a No. 15 shoe. Everything he
wears, except his collars and neckties,
has to be made especially for him.
He has never yet found the mao that
he could not look down upon. During
the civil war Mr. Bane was a member
of the Twenty-second Pennsylvania
cavalry. Being so tall it has been the
great wonder of his comrades that he
was not among the first to fall in bat
tle. He has attended all the Grand
Army encampments since 1892 except
the one at St. Paul and xyill in all
probability attend the one this year.
Speaking of some of his army experi
ences he laughingly remarks that
when he would lie down in a tent one
third of him remained out at the one
side of the tent and one-third at the
opposite side.
New Judge Advocate General.
Cor-raue Oscar L. Moore, Post No.
3. Abilene, Kan., has been appointed
judge advocate general to fill the va
cancy caused by the deat’i of Com
rade Amos M. Thayer.
TWENTY YEARS OF IT.
Emaciated by Diabetes; Tortured’
with Gravel and Kidney Pains.
Henry Soule, cobbler, of Ham*
mondsport, N. Y., says: “Sinee Doan’s
Kidney Pills cured me eight years
ago. I’ve reached 70 and hope to live
many years long
er. But twenty
years ago I had
kidney trouble so
bad I could not
work. Backache
was persistent
and It was agony
to lift anything.
Gravel, whirling
headaches, dizzi
ness and terrible
urinary disorder* ran m® down from
168 to 100 pounds. Doctors told mo '
had diabetes and could not live,
was wretched and hopeless when
began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, bm
they cured me eight years ago and
I’ve been w'ell ever since.”
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all dealers. Price, 5&
cent* per box.
The tones of human voices ar®>
mightier than strings of brass to move
the soul.—Klopstock.
NO SLEEP FOR MOTHER
Baby Covered With Sorss and Scale*
—Csuld Not Tell What She
Leaked Like—Marvelous
Curs by Cuticura.
“At four months old my baby’9 face
and body were so covered with sores
and large scales you could not toll
what sho looked like. No child over
had a worso case. Her face was being
eaten away, and even her finger nails
fell off. It itch«d so she could not
sleep, and for manv weary tights we
oould get no rest. At last we got
Cuticura Soop and Ointment. The
sores began to heal at once, and she
oould sleep at night, and in one month
she had not one sore on her face or
body.—Mrs. Mery Sanders, 709 Spring
St., Camden, N. J.”
Sympathy goes a great way toward
creating a feeling that can be mis
taken for love.
To ths housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new things
of everyday use in the market and
who is reasonably satisfied with the
old, w« would suggest that a trial of
Defiance Cold Water Starch be made
at once. Not alone because it is guar
anteed by the manufacturers to be su
perior to any other brand, but because
each 10c package contains 16 ozs.,
while all the other kinds contain but
12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady
who once uses Defiance Starch will use
no other. Quality and quantity must
win.
The better the reputation the hard
er Is it to secure the rewards which,
really belong to it.
Every person thinking of visiting the
Uintah Indian reoervatien In eastern Utah,
to be opened for settlement August llth,
should nave a Homsset-kers' Guide sn<l
sectional map. It tells everything. Sent
postpaid for Me. Addraas W. FL Em
mons. 70# 17th 8t., Denver, Colorado.
The path to perdition is lubricated!
with smooth talk.
Here ie Relief for Wemen.
Mother Gray, a nurse ia New York, dis
covered a pleasant barb remedy for women's
Ills, called AUSTRAUAN-LEAF. It is the
&nly certeia monthly regulator. Cares
female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney and
L rinary troubles. At all Druggists or by
mail 50 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address,
rhe Mother Gray Co., Leftoy, N. Y.
Masqueraded as Criminals.
Original was the idea of a Berlin
loctor who gave a ball at which the
fuests were obliged to masquerade
ia well known criminals. Naturally
ligh-born malefactors of history, such
is the Borgiaa, ia that they afforded
nost acope for artistic coetumee,
vere chiefly in favor, though one of
.he hits of the evening was made by
in Englishman, who, got up as Charles.
Peace, the notorious burglar, mingled
vith the aristocracy of crime.
Cere for Pauper Children.
The plans of maintaining the chil
dren of the poor—or such as may be
ln the poorhouses or "unions”—in cot
tages and homes of that character, ia
flnding a very general adoption in
England, no less than 128 "unions’”
aow maintaining the children away
from the pauperising effects or poor
house association. The county of Lon
don paid out 72 cents a head of its
population for the half-year on poor
account.
Chirography Was Puxsle.
Harvey Walters, an expert on pat
ent cases, had occasion to write Rufus-.
Choate on some important question,,
md when he received the reply was
unable to read a word of it, so took
the missive to Mr. Choate and asked
him what hp had written. Mr. Choate
replied: "I n^ver can read my writ
ing after the ink is dry, but if you will
tell me what it is about I will tell youi
what I have written.” And he did.
BABY’S INSTINCT
Showe He Knew Whet Food to Stick:
To.
Forwarding a photo of a splendidly
handsome and healthy young boy, a.
happy mother writes from an Ohio*
town:
"The enclosed picture shows ray 4
year-old Grape-Nuts hoy.
"Since he was 2 years old he has.
eaten nothing but GrapeNuts. He*
demands and gets this food three
times a day. This may seem rather
unusual, but he does not care for any
thing else after he has eaten his.
Grape-Nuts, which he uses with milk
or cream, and then he is through with
his meal. Even on Thanksgiving day
he refused turkey and all the good
things that make up that great din
ner, and ate his dish of Grape-Nuts,
and cream with the best results and
none of the evils that the other fool
ish members of the family experi
enced.
"He is never sick, has a beautiful)
complexion, and is considered a very
handsome boy. May the Postum Com*
pany prosper and long oontinue to fur*
nish their wholesome food!” Name*
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
There’s a reason. Read the little,
book. “The Road to WellvUle," in ew»
ery pk*.