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Imp City Northwestern J. W. IURLIMH, PvfcNtft**. Science Is slowly getting a strangle bold on the New Orleans mosquito. Some people are so afraid of a boss that they won’t enjoy a particle of lib erty. Mrs. Harry Lehr says she is "very proud of her pet poodle.” But Harry has her affections. Genius does not live on glory. It has an account at the corner grocery just like the rest of us. Another racing motorist has gone through the fence, but there is no sigt of stopping the foolishness. Castro announces that he is “going to fight the Yankees.” “Yankees” must be a new kind of booze. Jupiter will be surprised to learn that several new moons have been dis covered hanging around him lately. Will the men who are to be expelled from the Daughters of Liberty get revenge by starting a rival organiza tion? A Boston spinster has written a novel which she calls “Paradise.” It contains many more male than female characters. A Philadelphia cow is giving pink milk. She ought to be able to dis pose of her entire output for Philadel phia’s pink teas. Venezuela is preparing for war, but up to the hour of going to press has not come to a decision as to the iden tity of the enemy. Sailors say the Gulf stream has nev er before been as strong as it is at present. Perhaps it has merely caught the fever for fast going. As soon as this cruel war is over the work of rebuilding navies and otherwise preparing for the next big struggle will be commenced. President Roosevelt occasionally wears a suit of $4 clothes. And the dudes doubtless think that he always wears a shape of collar to match. With prophetic insight the author of the hymn beginning, "I would not live alway; I ask not to stay,” must have written it for the automobilists. One would Judge by the headlines of the papers that it is nearly as danger ous to run an automobile as It is to keep an empty shotgun about the house. The empress dowager of China has expressed a wish to see Secretary Taft. And there is no doubt the sec retary would measure up to her ex pectations. American welcomes Russia’s new parliament but it is hardly probr.ble that Gosudarstvendad Douma will ever become a household name ir the United States. An English burglar says thieves who are always very superstitious, will never rob a house in which a cross-eyed servant is employed. Save your cross-eyed servants. A Philadelphia girl saved her fath er’s life by catching a hot foul from a baseball player’s bat. Thus we see that there was at least one person in Philadlephia who wasn’t asleep. A Cleveland woman has been held on a charge of manslaughter because she ran over and killed a man with her automobile. She, too, will be like ly to decide that the age of chivalry is past. It is claimed by one of our modern philosophers that no man can be hap py while destroying his conscience. Some people can do the destroying so quickly that their unhappiness is of silght duration. Sultan Klran’s proposal to Miss Roosevelt, it appears, was only a mat ter of form. When an oriental poten tate wishes to be especially polite to a lady he throws in a proposal Just as a delicate courtesy. A Cincinnati judge has decided that bowleggedness is too common to be depended upon as a mark of identifica tion. Its prevalence in Cincinnati is caused, probably, by the constant strain of walking up and down the steep hills. A contemporary prints the astound ing information that “infernal ma chines of a deadly character” were sent to New York millionaires. Strange that the would-be assassins did not send infernal machines of a harmless character. Down in Arizona a judge is accused of presiding over the court with his feet on the desk. This compels attor neys to address themselves to the soles of two shoes, and also further deprives them of a full-sized target in the event of any disagreement with the court. Photographs of Baron Komura, the principal Japanese envoy, show that he wears a “pot hat” with a frock coat. This debars him from the circles of high diplomacy and reduces him to the ranks of mere rustlers. The London Spectator says it is “im possible for the cleverest American novelist to draw a recognizable Eng lishman.” In this respect the cleverest American novelist seems to labor un der the same difficulty that weighs upon the cleverest English novelist when he endeavors to draw an Amer ican. A woman who was worth $100,000 died alone and friendless the other day in a New York hovel. Happy woman. The fear of ending her days in the poorhouse will never assail her again. READ ON OLD TOMBSTONES. Two Quaint inzr-vrtiona That Gave Strong Testimony. I was a visitor to the West cemetery In Litchfield a few days ago (where my bones will ultimately rest, unless I am uafortunately drowned at sea), and after inspecting the tombstones of ancestors I was interested in read ing the inscriptions on some others, to-wit: Here lies the body of Mary, wife of Dr. John Buel, Esq. She died Nov. 4th, 1768, aet. 94, having had 13 children, 101 grandchildren, 274 great grandchildren, 22 great-great-grand children—total 410; 336 survive her.” Another: “Sacred to the memory of Inestimable worth of Unrivalled Ex cellence & Virtue. Mrs. Rachel, wife of Jerome B. Woodruff, daughter of Norman & Lois Barber, whose etherial parts became a seraph May 24, 1835, in the 22 y’r of her age.”—Correspond ence Hartford Courant. ' 1 --~4T- ~ Hindu Customs. It is in order that sons may perform the father’s funeral ceremonies each year that it is ordained that the son shall inherit the father’s property. It is a rule of our faith that by the son’s performance of such acts the father obtains heaven. For this reason, if he has no male child, the father will adopt a boy in order that, after his own death, his funeral ceremonies may be performed by the adopted son. —Mysore Standard, Bangalore. DONT MISS THI8. A Cure for Stomach Trouble—A New Method by Absorption—No Drugs. DO YOU BELCH? It means a dis eased stomach. Are you afflicted witl short breath, gas, sour eructations, heart pains, indigestion, dyspepsia, burning pains and lead weight in pit of stomach, acid stomach, distended abdo men, dizziness, BAD BREATH, or any other stomach torture? Let us send you a box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers free to convince you that it cures. Nothing else like it known. It's sure and very pleasant. Cures by absorption. Uarmless. No drugs. Stomach trouble jau't be cured otherwise—so says med ical science. Drugs won't do—they eat «p the stomach and make you worse. We know Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers jure and we want you to know it, hence this offer. SPECIAL OFFER. — The regular price of Mull’s Anti-Belch Wafers is 50c. a box. but to introduce it to thousands of sufferers we will send two (2) boxes upon receipt of 75c. and this advertise ment, or we will send yoa a sample free for this coupon. FREE BOX 114 Send this coupon with your name and address and druggist's name who does NOT sell it, for a free box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers to Mull's Grape Tonic Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, 111. Give full address and write plainly. Sold at all druggists, 50c. per box. Dying, Thought of Reputation. Sergeant Weir of the Scats Grays, as paymaster of his troop, was exempt from active service at the battle of Waterloo, in which he nevertheless fought and fell. When the field was searched for the dead and wounded, Corporal Scot of the same regiment found the body of Sergeant Weir with his name written in blood with his dying hand upon his forehead. Thl3, explained the corporal, was obviously done in order that the sergeant's body might be found and identified, and that thereby all suspicion of his hav ing absconded with the money of his troop might be averted. College Don’s Mistake. Jewet enjoyed the company of the pretty women whom he invited to Balliol, but I never heard of his be ing in love. One day a young lady told him it would make her so happy if he would marry her. Upon which he assured her that he was much touched by her proposal, but that he could not entertain it, as he had long given up all thoughts of matrimony. She hastened to explain that she was engaged to some one else, and that she had only ventured to ask him to perform the ceremony.—Levenson Gower’s “Bygone Years.’’ Sure Cure at Last Monticello, Miss., Sept. 4 (Special) —Lawrence County is almost daily In receipt of fresh evidence that a sure cure for all Kidney Troubles has at last been found, and that cure is Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Among those who have reason to bless the Great American Kidney Rem edy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett of this place. Mrs. Baggett had dropsy. Dodd’s Kid ney Pills cured her. “I was troubled with my kidneys,’’ Mrs. Baggett says In recommending Dodd’s Kidney Pills to her friends, “my urine would hardly pass. The Doctors said I had Dropsy. I have taken Dodd’s Kidney Pills as directed and am now a well woman.” Dodd’s Kidney Pills cure the kid neys. Cured Kidneys strain all the Impurities out of the blood. That means pure blood and a sound, ener getic body. Dodd’s Kidney pills are the greatest tonic the world has ever known. Rural Postman in France. Inhabitants of the rural districts of France may now obtain from the post men on their rounds postal orders, etc., and may hand them money for deposit in the savings banks, thus avoiding the trouble of going to the nearest postofflce for these purposes. Here Is Relief for Women. Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, dis covered a pleasant herb remedy for women’s ills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. It is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney and Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by mail 60 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeKoy, N. Y. Typhoid Hard to Control. PripceJy fortunes have been spent in an effort to check the ravages of typhoid without satisfactory results: science has labored unceasingly, but In vain, to discover a serum which would alleviate the conditions which have depopulated communities and swept thousands to untimely graves. A gentleman cf Yorkshire, England, is ready to make affidavit that whi’e he was sitting by the river Leven a pike jumped from the water, bit him severly on the foot and jumped hack again. TO CURE HABIT OF BLUSHING. Open Air Exercise and Companionship Will Do It. The habit of blushing is almost in variably a cause cf great annoyance to its possessors. Very frequently it se riously hampers them in the ordinary affairs of life, for blushing is accom panied by confusion of mind, nervous ness and hesitancy. The two main points in the treatment of shyness, which is the great cause of blushing, are, first, open-air exercise, and, sec ond, the society of others. Open-air exercise is good for all morbi ddisor jers, such as excessive shyness, hhile the social life makes for self-control and that savoir faire we all seek to attain; for the latter enables us to go through life without betraying awk wardness and timidity. Abnormally sensitive people may find the cure a lengthy one, but if they nreserv^re the very mental effort which is put forth to accomplish the remedy will aid them in acquiring control over their tell-tale blushes.—New Orleans Times Democrat. Found in Smoke Wat^p. A scientist finds in smoke water in a vaporous state, soot or free carbon, carbonic acid, carbonic oxide and oily nicotine in which are found acetic, formic, butyric, valeric and propionic acids, prussic acid, creosote and car bolic acid, ammonia, sulphuretted hyd rogen, pyridine, viridine, picoline, luti dine, collodine, parvoline, coridine and rubedene. ‘ YELLOW CRUST ON BABY Would Crack Open and Scab Causing Terrible Itching—Cured by Cuticura. “Our baby had a yellow crust on his head which I could not keep away. When I thought I had succeeded in getting his head clear, It would start again by the crown of his head, crack and scale, and cause terrible itching. I then got Cuticura Soap and Oint ment, washing the scalp with the soap and then applying the Ointment. A few treatments made a complete cure. I have advised a number of mothers to use Cuticura, when I have been asked about the same ailment of their babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pine Bush, N. Y." _ HAD MADE GOOD HAUL. Banker’s Hunt for Chickens Met with Much Success. A banker in a western city bought some chickens of a ranchman and told the man to deliver them at his house. When be went home at noon his wife met him at the door and told him with great consternation that tho man brought the chickens, he had promised, but instead of putting them in the henhouse, had left them on the lawn, and they had all disappeared. Forgetting his dinner, he started off in no very amiable frame of mind in pursuit of the missing fowls. After scouring the neighboring alleys for some time, he came back triumphant ly driving the lost chicks. When in a few days he met the of fending ranchman, he demanded, se verely: “What did you mean by leav ing those chickens on my lawn the other day? I hunted the neighbor hood over for them and then could find only eleven!” “You did mighty well,” was the mild reply. “I only left six.”—Grace M. Crawford in Harper’s. SPENDING MONEY TO MAKE IT. •__ Benjamin Franklin’s Illustration of Sound Business Policy. The good policy of letting riches fly to bring more back is quaintly illus trated by Benjamin Franklm, while postmaster general,1 in telling of the American postofflce as it was before the revolution. In his inimitable way he says: “The American office never had hitherto paid anything to that of Great Britain. We were to have $3,000 a year if we could make that sum out of the profits of the office. To do this a variety of improvements were necessary. Some of these were Inevitably at first expensive, so that in the first four years the office be came about $4,500 in debt to us. But It soon began to repay us and before I was displaced by a freak of the min isters we had brought it to yield three times as much clear revenue to the crown as the postofflce of Ireland.” OUST THE DEMON. A Tussle with Coffee. There is something fairly demoni acal in the way coffee sometimes wreaks its fiendish malice on those who use it. A lady writing from Calif, says: — “My husband and I, both lovers of eoffee, suffered for some time from a very annoying form of nervousness, accompanied by most frightful head aches. In my own case there was eventually developed some sort of af fection of the nerves leading from the spine to the head, f ”1 was unable to nokl my ncaa up straight, the tension of the nerves drew it to one side, causing me the most intense pain. We got no relief from medicine, and were puzzled as to what caused the trouble, until a friend suggested that possibly the cof fee we drank had something to do with it, and advised that we quit it and try Postum Coffee. “We followed his advice, and from the day that we began to use Postum we both began to improve, and in a very short time both of us were entirely relieved. The nerves became steady once more, the headaches ceased, the muscles in the back of my neck relaxed, my head straightened up and the dreadful pain that had so punished me while I used the old kind of coffee vanished. “We have never resumed the use of the old coffee, bnt relish our Postum every day as well as we did the former beverage. And we are de lighted to find that we can give it freely to our children also, something we never dared to do with the old kind of coffee.’’ Name given by Pos tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum Coffee contains absolutely no drugs of any kind, but relieves the coffew drinker from the old drug poison. 1 There's a reason. MEMORIAL TO HERO OF TICONDEROGA MONUMENT IN GREEN MOUNTAIN CEMETERY. MEMORIAL TOWER ON THE ALLEN FARM Vermont’s one state holiday, Ben nington battle day, which falls on Aug. 16, was this year marked by the gath ering in Burlington of more distin guished men than have for some years been assembled in the Green Moun tain state. On that day there was ded icated on the farm at one time owned by Gen. Ethan Allen of revolutionary fame a tower in memory of the hero of Ticonderoga. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior and a lineal descendant of Ethan Allen was present as the official representative of President Roosevelt, and other prominent men in attend ance were Vice President Fairbanks, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, As sistant Secretary of the Navy Darling, United States Senator Redfield Proc tor, formerly United States Senator G. F. Edmunds, Govs. Bell of Vermont and "McLane of New Hampshire, and James D. Hancock, president general of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of the Vice President, represented the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is a past president, and prominent Ver monters from all parts of the state swelled the attendance. The rarm on which the tower has been erected contains about 300 acres and is located within the limits of the city of Burlington, about three miles from the City Hall. Before the time of the revolution it was owned by a stanch Tory, who on account of his disloyalty to the then embryo state of Vermont was forced to leave the coun try. His estate was subsequently con fiscated by the state of Vermont and the property turned over to the land commissioner of the state. By him it was sold to Gen. Ethan Allen, and he was living upon it at the time of his death in February, 1789. The farm then became the property of Gov. Van Ness and was known as the Van Ness farm for half a century. In 1902 the farm was purchased by Mayor W. J. Van Patten of Burlington, who tendered to the Vermont Society, Sons of the American Revolution, a rocky ridge known as "Indian rock,” rising some 300 feet above the rest of the farm, with about 15 acres of ad joining land, upon condition that an observation tow'er of stone should be erected on the rock, as a memorial to the Vermont hero and patriot. The society accepted the offer and raised the needed funds among its members. It is a massive structure, 24 feet square at the base and 40 feet in height, and will remind traveled visitors of the monument to Sir Wil liam Wallace, the Scottish patriot, on Abbey Craig, at Sterling. Scotland. The tower commands a wide pano rama, comprising the full sweep of the Adirondacks; I^ike Champlain from Cumberland Head on the north to the Four Brothers and Juniper islands and Split Rock mountain on the south; the valley of the Winooski, winding through fertile intervales, and the Green mountain range on the east, presenting views of unsurpassed beauty toward every point of the com pass. (The tower will be a conspicuous object from the lake and all the sur rounding region. The name Indian Rock has been giv en to the spot by reason of the legend, which is said to be well established, that it was the point of outlook for the Indians for long ages before the white man came to this country. The nat ural picturesqueness of the location is enhanced by the rugged rocks which comprise the bluff, and which give a wildness to the whole scene which one would hafdly expect to find so near the city. The date selected for the dedication of the tower was the 128th anniversary of the battle of Bennington. The cere monies comprised an imposing mili tary parade, consisting of a larger body of regular cavalry, artillery and infantry than has been seen in Ver mont by any one now living, and the National Guard of Vermont, composed of 12 companies; an oration by Vice President Fairbanks; a poem written for the occasion by Vermont's gifted poet, Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, an histor ical address by the Hon. Robert D. Benedict of New York, presentation of the land by W. J. Van Patten, presen tation of the tower by former Gov. U. A. Woodbury, chairman of the build ing committee; presentation of flags by Miss Mary Roberts, regent of the Society of the Daughters of the Revo lution; acceptance by Dr. H. D. Hol ton, president of the Vermont Society, Sons of the Revolution; salute by a United States battery; congratulations by Secretary Hitchcock, representing President Roosevelt; by Gov. Bell, representing Vermont; by Congress man D. J. Foster, representing Bur lington; by President-General James D. Hancock, representing the national Society, Sons of the Revolution, and by Gov. McLane, representing New Hampshire; music by several bands and vocal selections. The state of Vermont has many times paid tribute to the memory of Ethan Allen, one of the most marked official acts being the erection of a monument over his grave in Green Mountain cemetery in this city. The Legislature of 1855 appropriated money for the purpose. The base of the pedestal is eight feet square on the ground, and con sists of two steps of granite, on which rests a die of solid granite six feet square, in the four faces of which are set panels of white marble bearing several inscriptions which pay tribute to Allen's valor. Above the pedestal rises a tuscan shaft of granite 4 feet in diameter and 12 feet in height. Upon its capital, on a base bearing the word Ticonderoga, stands a heroic statue of Allen, 8 feet 4 inches high, modeled by Peter Stephenson, a Bos ton sculptor, now deceased, and cut in Italy. The monument is protected by a fence of original design, the cor ner posts of which are iron cannon and the pales muskets, with bayonets, resting on a base of cut granite. The statue was paid for by private subscription, and was unveiled July 4, 1873. The hero is represented as de manding the surrender of Fort Ticon deroga on the morning of May 1« 1775. Another marble statue of Allet stands at the entrance to the state capitol in Montpelier. Ten years age Green Mountain chapter, Daughters ol the American Revolution, placed a me morial tablet of bronze on a bowlder at the base of Indian rock, on which is located the tower which is to be ded icated next Wednesday. The tablet bears this inscription: "This farm became the home of Gen Ethan Allen, A. D. 1787, and near this spot he died Feb. 12, 1789. Erected bj Green Mountain chapter, Daughters ol American Revolution, A. D. 1895.” Chance for Inventors. If you have a little device, all your own and effective, for protecting your eyes from rain while automobiling there is in France a man who will look it over and sent you in October, if he finds it the best of its kind, a medal, or rather, a considerable sum of money. From dust and dirt and flies and sun there are now available fairly satisfactory protectors, but the rain that beats into your eyes when you have nothing over them makes seeing when driving a pretty difficult matter. And glasses become regular water spouts in a good downpour, through which it is impossible to see what is going on, and when it is rain ing hard there is likely to be very much going on. So, if in your own ingenious way, you have solved the problem let the Due de Valencay into the secret and leave it to him to see that automobilists everywhere are put in possession of it.—Boston Trans cript. How Col. Morrison Kept Cool.#. Col. William Morrison and his wife were once staying at a hotel, when in the night they were aroused from their slumbers by the cry that the hotel was afire.. “Now, my dear,” said the colonel, “I will put into practice what I have always preached. Put on all your in dispensable apparel, and keep cool. Then he slipped his watch into his vest pocket and walked with his wife out of the hotel. When all the danger wa« past he said: "Now, you see how necessary it is to keep cool.” Mrs. Morrison for the first time glanced at her husband. “Yes, William,” she said, “it is a grand thing, but if I were you I would have put on my trousers.” Much Benefit in Reform Spelling *T Millions of Dollars and an Im mense Amount of Time Could Bs Saved by Common Sense Method of Writing. Reform spelling would save the English speaking world more than $100,000,000 annually, say the scien tific orthographers, if it were to be substituted for the traditional way of putting letters together. More than four billion written communications pass through the mails in a single year, and one-sixth of all this work is superfluous, because reform spell ing would do away with it. A child in the public school has to spend two years before it can get the hang of our present irregular spelling, and, not counting the time lost, this is an ex pense of several million dollars in teachers’ salaries, and it is an obstacle for the immigrants who settle here to learn the language. The average time allotted to spell _ __ - - _ ____— ing, reading and dictating in the school is 32.2 per cent of the time de voted to general instruction. A child attending school for eight years ex pends 2,320 school hours in these ex ercises. At least 720 hours devoted exclusively to spelling could be done away with entirely in the school life of a child if reform spelling were in troduced. 'The saving would be enor mous. The current spelling of Eng lish contains too many superfluous and misleading letters, which greatly increase the cost of reading and writ ing and printing. The removal of the silent “e’s” would save 4 per cent ol all the letters on a common printed page, and the removal of one conson ant of each pair of duplicated con sonants would save 1.6 per cent. In the New Testament, printed in reiorm orthography, one hundred letters and spaces are represented by eighty three. As far as printing and paper goes, a $6 book could sell for $5. ■ —- —-■ — ^ ^_I Secrets of the Indian Trail. The Indian trail has immense value In the wilderness. It may be the thread on which a man’s life hangs —throughout vast stretches of the North It was the only line of com munication. No one man laid out these primitive paths. They are the result of the joint judgment of genera tions of men. They are a product of centuries of travel by the red men, who camped in the trackless wilder ness many days in order that the trail should go right. These trails crossed the range at just the proper point. The white hunter sees this; the engineer follows the hunter, and the palace car rolls after. The white man’s trail is laid by the compass. The Indian laid his trail by the con junction of the stars and the moun tain peaks. It approaches a hillside with caution and follows a lakeside with leisure. There is no mark of the ax on such a trail. It is never direct, but always indirect. It alarms noth ing—it woos every wild thing. It seems to love grass and water—it lingers by the side of sunlit streams and keeps close to the ripple of waves on the beeches of woodland lakes. All that nature has she shows to him who follows the Indian trail. She hides her choicest things from the railroad, the turnpike and the lane; to tread the trail is to be made reterend of nature.—From the Na tional Magazine. Sketch of Baron Komura. Baron Komura is a diplomat of the purely Oriental type, suave and un readable. In appearance he is small, black-eyed and slender. His counte nance is wrinkled like old parchment, his jaw pointed and firmly set, and his moustache black, scanty and stiff. His bristly hair is streaked with gray. He is well versed in diplomatic usages and especially with the effective round about diplomacy characteristic of the Russians.—New York World. Japanese Honor Slain Soldiers. At the Shokonsha festival, which is held in Japan every May, the names of all soldiers who fell in battle *be previously year are officially printed. The soldiers who succumb to disease are not thus honored. t Street Gamin Understood. There are many touches of nature which make “the whole world kin.” That the little street gamin is con scious of the same weakness that in fluence some presumably wiser people is shown by an anecdote told by a contributor to The Atlantic. It was early autumn, and I wajs go ing through a city street, carrying a large and beautifully colored branch of leaves. A small, dirty street boy stopped me with: “Oh, give me one!” The look on the little chap’s face was unmistak ably appreciative. I picked out the very smallest leaf, feeling exceedingly shabby all the time, and gave it to the boy. “I know I’m terribly stingy,” I said “Never mind,” replied the little fel low in a big, masculine sort of a way “I know just how you feel.” Aid to Stamp Collectors. Stamp collectors will profit by the separation of Norway from Sweden All the stamps that Bear the portrait of King Oscar ceased to be valid on July 30 FEVER’S AFTER EFFECTS Did Not Disappear Until the Blood Was Renewed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Typhoid fever is sometimes called ner ♦oas fever. Daring the course of the fever the nerves are always profoundly disturbed, and wheu it is over they are left so sensitive that the patient has to be guarded against all excitement. In the tonic treatment then demanded, regard must be paid not only to building up flesh but also to strengthening the nerves. A remedy that will do both, make sound flesh to repair waste and give new vigor to feeble nerves, is the most convenient and economical. Such a remedy is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. One proof of this is the experience of Mr. Charles Worth, of East Vassal boro, Maine. He says: “ I had a severe at tack of typhoid fever late in the fall which left me very weak aud debilitated. My heart palpitated, my breathing be came difficult after the least exertion and there was numbness in both hands. I Buffered in that way for fully six months. As I did not grow out of it, did uot in fact see the slightest improvement as time passed, I decided to use Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills as I knew of some cure* they had effected in cases like mine. ‘‘Almost as soon as I began taking them I could see decided improvement and after keeping ou with them for several weeks I was completely well. I consider Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills a most valuable remedy, and I am in the habit of recommending them toothers afflicted as I was.” When the nerves ache and trem ble it means that they are starving. The only way to feed them is through the blood, and the best food is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. They are absolutely guaran teed to be free from opiates or other harm ful drugs. They are sold by all drug gists. or may be obtained directly from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Scheueo lody, N. Y. First English Guineas. The guinea was first coined in Charles IPs reign, together with the five-guinea, two-guinea, and half guinea pieces, and came to be so call ed because many of the new coins were minted from gold brought from Guinea by the company of Royal Ad venturers of England trading into Africa. The royal order to the mint added that these pieces were to be marked “with a little elephant in such convenient place as you shall judge fitting, which we intend as a marke of distinction and an encouragement unto the said company in the import ing of gold and silver to be coined.” COMMON SENSE. • > A large Minneapolis manufacturing concern, The Pillsbury Co., are em ploying a unique method in advertis ing their product, “Pillsbury’s Vitos. The Meat of the Wheat,” in appealing to the “Common Sense” of the Amer ican public. Their assertions are modest as com pared to most of the cereal food ad vertisements of the last few years, but they carry a ring of truth. Their reasoning is certainly rational; here is some of it; "We all believe that Wheat is the best cereal the Creator has given mankind. Pillsbury’s Vitos is nothing more nor less than the white heart of this wheat kernel, cut out by steel ma chinery, and sterilized—nothing add ed—nothing taken away—no adultera tion—no flavoring—no coloring—no cooking. This product comes to your table in its pure, white, granular form, an appetizing dish for young and old. Easily digested because it retains its granular form when cooked, never lumpy or pasty. A two-pound package makes twelve pounds of pure white cooked food, and Pillsbury quality too. Two gen erous dishes for one cent. , We have no competitors because we are the largest millers in the world and get the best wheat. Your grocer will gladly fill your order for Pillsbury’s Vitos because he knows he sells you satisfaction. Vitos is put up only in two pound packages—air tight. Price 15c. Don’t be without It."_ Cheese and cottage complicate life if your digestion is weak and your de sire urban. So poverty is a less sim ple state than the possession of an in come, because you are forced, if not into envy—the chief deficiency from simplicity—into a struggle with unes sential details, with the effort to get hold of something which is of no mat ter.—London Outlook. The poet Dryden is said to have in vented the word "witticism.” It Cures Colds. Coughs. Sore Throat, Croup. Influenza, Whooping Cough. Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect aftet taking the first dose. Sold by dealers every where. Large bottle* 25 cents and 50 cents. HAVE YOU COWS? If you have cream to separate a good Cream Separator is the most profitable in vestment you can possibly make. Delay means daily waste of time, labor and product. DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS save $10.- per cow per year e every year of use over all f gravity setting systems and $5.- per cow over all imitating separators. They received the Grand Prize or Highest Award at St. Louis. % m m m oujru-ig uaany uasn-m-auvance Bepa rators is penny wise, dollar foolish. Such machines quickly lose their cost instead of saving it. If you haven’t the ready DE LAVAL machines may be bought on suoh liberal terms that they actually pay for themselves. Send today for new catalogue and name of nearest local agent. The De Laval Separator Co. ■ssSolph 4 Casst su. , 74 Cartlaadt Str*«t Chicago I new York