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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1905)
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA. STATE PAYS RAILROAD FARE. Two Officers Draw on Traveling Funds. LINCOLN—State Superintendent McBrien yesterday bought $150 worth of railroad mileage, paying therefor i with money from a 510,000 fund ap propriated by the last legislature for his office. The appropriation is for supplies, printing and other purposes, including traveling expenses. Attor ney General Norris Bown has pre sented to the state auditor a voucher for $35 for railroad mileage. The voucher is drawn on a fund of $4,400 appropriated by the last legislature for the use of the attorney general in prosecutions. Both state officers have returned their railroad passes, but they have plenty of state funds to draw on for travelling expenses and will do so in the future. The attor ney general travels very little, but j at present is engaged in defending \ the state in the injunction suits insti tuted in the federal court at Omaha by the Burlington and Union Pacific roads for the purpose of preventing county treasurers from collecting the tax levied last year against railroad property. The records at the state house dis close that the last legislature appro priated $119,000 which may be used for travelling expenses if the persons having control of the funds care to go without some other things for which the money can be legally used. Governor Mickey who has returned | his passes has no fund for travelling expenses and he has paid $50 for two railroad mileage books out of his own pocket. SAYS BEET HARVEST IS ON IN FULL FORCE K GRAND ISI^AND—The harvesting of the sugar beets is now on in full force. The local factory of the Amer ican B«set Sugar company will com mence the campaign of 1905 next week, when a sufficient supply of beets will be on hand. The early part of the season was very unfavorable, owing to the sur plus of moisture and water, beets in low places particularly having to be replanted. The fall season has been quite moist also causing a slowness in ripening, but the entire season has been somewhat more to the advantage of the farmer, the beets growing large and heavy, making a big tonnage per acre, and since the contracts are for a flat price, regardless of the per cent of sugar, over a certain minimum which only the poorest of beets do not over take, the result of the season’s grow ing is probably more in favor of the . farmer than of the factory. However, a profitable season for both is at this time anticipated. Buildings are Not Satisfactory. LJNCOLN—Secretary of State Gal usha has returned from an inspection of the new cottages at the Norfolk insane asylum and declares that he is greatly displeased with the condi tion of affairs. He finds fault with the construction of the new buildings and says that no bath rooms have been provided for the inmates on the third floors of either building. As a result sick patients must be carried up and down stairs by the attendants when they are to be bathed. Despondent Farmer Suicides. WILBER—Joseph Slama, a Bohem-! ian fanner, aged fifty, committed sui cide at his home, nine miles south west of here, by taking carbolic acid. A little over a month ago his wife mysteriously disappeared, taking with her a step-daughter of she and her own babe of about a year. After a search j of several days, in which fully 250 , people took part, they were found at the home of a friend in the west part of the county. The woman refused to return home. Mutual Company in Trouble. The German-American Fire Insur ance company of Hastings, a mutual concern, has signified its intention to ask for a receiver to settle up its af fairs. Some time ago the insurance department came into possession of facts which tended to show that the company was unable to meet its obli gations and requested a showing. Loses An Arm. GRAND ISLAND—Fred Graver, a young farmer residing five miles northeast of the city was a victim of the loaded-gun-in-the-wagon habit, los ing his right arm, at the elbow. Am putation from the wound became nec essary. Youthful Horsethlef Returned. KEARNEY—Sheriff Sammons re turned here from Emerson, Neb., hav ing in custody Martin Bly, who is wanted here for horse stealing. Bly is about 20 years of age. Verdict for $12,000. PLATTSMOUTH — Advices have been received here that Mrs. Lillian Coyle of this city has been given dam ages in the sum of $12,000 against the Great Western Railway company, at St Joseph, Mo. The plaintiff lost both legs in an accident. Parker Held for Murder. PENDER—The trial of Samuel Par ker for the killing of Andrew Johnson was concluded and Parker was bound over to appear at the next term of district court. North Nebraska Corn Safe. NORFOLK—The magnificent corn crop in northern Nebraska is out of the way of frost. The recent hot winds put the growing crop to the good and it is now all ready to be husked. Adjudged a Dipsomanic. PLATTSMOUTH—Wosley Baar of Greenwood was examined before the board of insanity upon a charge wh’cb' was filed under the chronic inebriate law. He was ordered sent to th* *sy-l Lun at Lincoln for treatment OVER THE STATE. A new telephone company is seek ing to get a franchise in Omaha. Sheridan county had a most success ful fair, both in exhibits and attend ance. The members of the Tecumseh Ad vent Christian church have called El der J. J. Schamberg of Lincoln to the pastorate. The passenger train on the Bloom field branch of the Omaha railroad was wrecked near Bloomfield, two persons receiving injuries in the accident. Ex-Chief of Police O. Schoonover, of Nebraska City, charged with false imprisonment and usurpation of office, has been acquitted by the jury in the district court of Otoe county. The boys and girls engaged in the corn growing contest being held by the state department of education are to be entertained at a corn banquet in Lincoln early in December. C. A. Gleason, for the last two years pastor of the Congregational church in West Point has severed his relations with his congregation and has accept ed a call to the church at Fairmont, this state. The grocery store of Bell Bros.. Beatrice, was closed by creditors, the amount of their liabilities being $2.50. The stock will invoice about $1,300 and the outstanding accounts will reach $750. Pat Cavanaugh, a •well known horse man of Verdigree, was probably fa tally injured in a race on the Creigh ton track during the progress of the county fair there. He was thrown from his horse. The special committee of the south east Nebraska conference, which was hearing the evidence in the Rev. F. P. Blakemore case, at Falls City, re turned a verdict of guilty, which expels him from its church. Prof. W. C. T. Adams. Ph. D., late dean of the normal department of Up per Iowa university, has been elected to the chair of psychology and peda gogy in Bellevue college in place of Prof. Randalls, resigned. At Geneva the grades in the school have become so crowded that the school board has secured the Freewill Baptist church for a portion of the Fifth grade and have had it seated and furnished for this purpose. James Jones of Greely county, who last winter shipped a number of prairie chickens and quail in a barrel of sauer kraut, which later was confiscated | by the state fish and game commis sioner, has beem fined $25 and costs. The first new corn has been brought to this market It was in the ear and of excellent quality. It sold to a local feed dealer for 35 cents per bushel. Taking eighty pounds for a bushel, the yield was sixty-five bushels to the acre. The Tecumseh Military band has been engaged by the management of the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben festival to par ticipate in the parades in the metrop olis during the carnival. The dates on which the band will appear are Oct. 4 and 5. The Cooper & Linn electric light plant of Humboldt was put out of bus iness by an accident to the machinery, in which the engineer, Will H. Lon neke. had a narrow escape from death or serious injury. The fly wheel bursted. The fanners of Avoca and vicinity, ; at a recent meeting, discussed the ' project of organizing a farmer’s ele ! vator company. It was decided to i build an elevator at once for handling the grain products of those interested ! in the project. Adjutant General Culver has with drawn his claim filed with Auditor Searle for $240 fo? expenses of himself | and rifle team to Sea Girt. General ! Culver will get the money from the ! general government. Judge E. F. Perkins of Tecumseh, has been appointed by the state board of health as local registrar of vital statistics for Tecumseh and vicinity, under a new law passed by the last legislature requiring the regestration of all deaths in the state of Nebraska. Horses are being shipped in for the Omaha Horse show, which will be held at the Auditorium during the week of October 9, and every Indication points to one of the most successful horse shows which any town has ever held. The initial show of the asso ciation, held last fall, carried off the •palm of all first shows and from the present indications this show will fol low right in its wake. The ring has been built and the local horses are being given their daily turn in the tan bark a.'ena to accustom them to the short turns and to the people who stand around the rail and by their nresence frighten the horses. All of the picturesque features known to horse shows will be on the program at the Omaha show. Tandems, road fours, coach fours, spike teams, cock horses, the jumpers and the hunt clubs, not to mention the cowboys, are some of the interesting features of the show. Surveyors in the employ of the Great Northern have got as far east as Elk horn with the line they are running from Fremont to Omaha. Through the kindness of Miss Flor ence Zink, of Rock county, the “Grass Widow,” who attracted so much at tention at the state fair, has become the property of the state normal school at Peru. The dress was made by Miss Florence Zink and her sister, Bessie, who is attending the normal, md contains sixty-three kinds of Rock county grasses woven with ar tistic skill into the form of an ex quisite dress. Hon. A. B. Allen of Tecumseh, who is private secretary to Governor Mickey, has left Lincoln for an extend ed visit to the northwest. He will stop in Spokane, Seattle, Portland and other points of interest in Washington and Oreeon and will return home by way of Salt Lake City and Denver. Fred Burnett, a young man, shot himself at the home of his grandfather !n Vincent precinct, near Beaver City. His body was found in his room by his mother. He had killed himself with a j small rifle, the shot entering the heart , and death was instantaneous. He was | despondent because of being a crippi* 1 The outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans recalls the scourge of 1878 when 12,000 American citizens were killed and some 125.000 disabled. Since then Uncle Sam has taken pre cautions to guard against the recur rence of such an epidemic. To-day diseased soldiers of the United States Treasury’s reorganized public health and marine hospital service have their coast defences—twenty-seven coast de fences lining the seaboard. They have their land posts—twenty-two hospitals and 121 relief stations. Then. too. they have their foot soldiers and field artillery, all organized under uri formed officers as fearless as the mili tary men who fight the visible, though not less treacherous, foe. Moreover, they have their camps of tents; their attaches, alert in foreign lands; their smart fleet of war vessels, which dart out to challenge the demon pestilence before it may have an opportunity to land And the result has been that— although yellow jack gained a foot hold in the New England ports in jears back—whereas, in the nine teenth century the years when he did not ravage the shores of the United States somewhere could be counted upon your fingers—this year's success ful attack is counted as an exception and its spread is not anticipated. How these disease soldiers are now working against this scourge of the tropics, his cohorts of microbes and his aerial artillery of mosquitoes is an interesting story, says the Mon treal Herald. At the headquarters in Washington there sits, with the war charts before him, the indefatigable commander-in-chief. United States Surgeon General Walter Wyman. His staff consists of six assistant surgeons general, selected from a corps of over a hundred commissioned and uni formed medical officers, under whom work a force of over 800 medical as sistants. At eight of the principal fruit ports of Central America, at various other yellow fever hotbeds in Mexico and South America, officers are stationed in the United States Consulates for the inspection of vessels bound for the United States. Moreover, as soon as a vessel sails into any United States port from a foreign yellow fever port, a public health boat sails out from quarantine to meet it. Medical offi cers board it, the passengers and crew being carefully examined before al lowed to land. All persons suspected of having exposed themselves to the infection are taken off and detained within the quarantine enclosure suffi ciently long for the disease to devel op. Until some five years ago yellow fever ships were boarded by a disin fecting corps, armed with portable sulphur fumigators, which resembled fire engines. Disinfecting solutions were sprayed upon the infected parts of the ship and all baggage was steamed upon metallic racks wheeled upon a truck into an immense steam chamber. But, although these devices are still resorted to in combating oth er foreign infections aboard ships, mosquito study, so zealously carried on by scientists in the past few years, resulted in a complete revolution of quarantine laws applying to yellow fe ver. Disinfection of baggage is no longer required unless it be suspected that mosquitoes are harbored therein. Instead of the sulphur furnaces and sprays for killing the yellow fever germ directly, there now are applied in necessary cases agencies for free ing the vessels entirely of mosquitoes. The yellow fever mosquito of the tropics is. then, the undoubted carrier of the germ. This was proven a few years back by Surgeon Walter Reed, United States army. He confined in one house not screened from mos quitoes volunteers clad in the most im maculate night garments and covered by the cleanest bed clothing which it was possible to obtain. In another house completely screened against mosquitoes he shut up volunteers who used the night clothes and bed cover ings taken from patients in a yellow tever hospital. The men in the first building contracted the disease, while those in the second escaped, whereby it was proven that the suspected mos quito and not the supposedly infected clothing was the agency of transmis sion. So much for the preventive cam paign of the disease soldiers who lie in watch for Yellow Jack from their lonely, often isolated, quarantine sta tions. $en anb ink Jflocal BratotngS ©otf) featisfactocp anb artistic. In the opinion of many people wash drawing, pencil and color are the most effective mediums for flower reproduc tion. Pen and ink, however, produce most satisfactory and artistic results when care is taken with the work, and in the opinion of those who have made a study of such drawings they possess advantages over all other pictorial mediums. The advantages are said to consist in the matter of vigor and di rectness, in availability of the draw ings for illustrative or decorative work and for use as memoranda for botanical purposes. The secret of success in pen and ink work of this description is in making just the right number of lines and those of a telling description. In the accompanying group the effectiveness of this style of work is demonstrated and, apropos of pen and ink drawing j of flowers, an authority of internation al repute says: “The representation of color is. of course, the greatest difficulty we meet with In drawing flowers in pen and ink, though it will surprise many workers to find in the course of their study what suggestion of color can be given even with combinations of black lines. One great inducement, how ever, to begin drawing flowers is that our subjects range in form from the simplest to the most complex, and we recommend beginners to take, say, a primrose or a daisy, and after study ing one of these thoroughly to pass on to the mare elaborate, specimens of the floral world. “Another difficulty with beginners is to know what to leave out. If we try to include every little detail before us we only end in making the work unin y teresting and crowded looking. Our object, therefore, should be to seize the characteristic points of the sub ject, leaving out any defects and blem isnes, and try to present a typical rep resentation of each particular flower we draw. “Attention must be given to light and shade. We do not want our flow ers to have a flat, characterless look, as if they had been pressed between the leaves of a book. A pleasing ar rangement of light and shade will of ten redeem what might otherwise be considered an uninteresting composi tion, and by placing the subjects thoughtfully-in the best manner, so as to get as large a variety of lighting as possible, we can emphasize the vari ous parts of the flowers, and present the whole in its most attractive form. —Brooklyn Eagle. Never Too Late To Learn. Talking the other day to the Car dinals who had come to congratulate him on his seventieth birthday. Pius X. said: "I never thought I would learn as much in my old days as I am doing. For instance." he added with a sunny smile. “I can now write my name without mussing up a carsock worth 200 francs.” And he explain ed: "For years I indulged in tne hab it of wiping my pen on the left sleeve of my coat before I began and during the writing. Of course, that didn't matter much as long as I wore black clothes, but when I donned the white Papal habit things looked different, and so did I when I came from my writing room. For a time ray valet didn't know where to get enough clothes for me to wear. Then I de termined to break with this bad habit, and I did. One can give up anything if one but tries hard enough.'—Mon treal Herald. Freak Dinners. Attacks having been made in the newspapers on the “freak” dinners of millionaires, the secretary of the Savoy Hotel. London, replies that they are good for the trade. The cele brated “gondola dinner,” given by an American recently, gave employ ment to 100 carpenters, thirty paint ers and twenty decorators all at “fancy” wages and put money into the pockets of numerous electricians, florists, artists and other workers. Modern Author Uses Quilt Pen. George Meredith is one of the group of authors who remain faithful to the old-fashioned quill pen. There be those who believe that no work of genius can be produced with anything else in the way of pens and the au thorities of the British museum seem to agree with them, for they still offer to visiters the good old goose quill. Patriotic Frenchman Dead. Gen. Pierron, who. at S,dan, burn ed the colors of the French regiments so luai they might net 1 11 into the hands of Germans, has just died at Versailles. • Safe. Sarah, a colored auntie of the old type, had come to bring home the weekly wash and was told that one of the family was ill with typhoid fever. The following conversation was over heard: “Miss Mary. dey. tells me downstairs dat Mr. John has de tyford. Is dat true?’’ “Yes, Sarah, that's what the doctor fears. And it’s such a dreadful dis ease! Are you afraid of it ” “I used to he, honey, I sutn’ly used to be afeared of dat zizeeze; but two years ago when it was so bad aroun’ here, de doctor tol’ John Henry dat tyford always comes from germs, an’ since dat time I pours all our drinkln’ water through a tea-strainer; one of dem fine wire ones, dat nothin’ can crawl through less I see -it. My min’ is a restin’ easy about tyford in dese days, honey.” Distinction for Loubet. President Loubet will be the first chief of the third republic to retire under normal conditions at the com pletion of his term. Thiers resigned, so did MacMahon, and though M. Grevy completed one term he had to quit office before the expiration of his second. Ca-not was murdered. Casi rair-Perier left the Elysee in disgust and Felix Faure's career was cut short by his sudden death. Mrs. Herrick an Anthropologist. Mrs. R. F. Herrick, mother of the governor of Ohio, who has lived in California for forty-five years, is much interested in anthropology. At. a meet ing in San Francisco several days ago of the American Anthropological asso ciation she read a paper on “Indians of Humboldt, Nev.,” which created i much interest. Gas Replaces Electricity. It is proposed to dispense with elec tric light in the streets of Preston, Eneiand, and to substitute incandes cent gas lamps. Advocates of the change consider that they will get a— better light than now at lower cost. Forgot Her Dines. She was a pretty girl and the mo ment she entered the grocery store the youthful members of the stafT of clerks all made a rush, eager to take her order. Each was sure she must be the daughter of a. millionaire or the ward of some wealthy citizen. She was at tired in the breeziest of summer frocks, and enjoyed a complexion of the peach-blow tint and a profile of the Murillo-Gibson type. “I wish hawf a pound of tea,” she began. “Anything else?” asked the clerk as he tied up the package. “Yaws, I wish several pounds of sugah—I think about faw pounds will suffice; and I want some fresh peaches, too—one tires so of the beastly cawned stuff, don't you know; an’—lemme see—what time do yous shut here?”—Judge. Like* New Points in Law. Justice Gaynor. whom the New York city fusionists have been talk ing of as a possible candidate for mayor is a man with a peculiarity. He seldom looks at a question from the point of view taken by other men. As a result, lawyers who offer an un usual plea or an argument based on grounds not generally chosen in law like to take their cases before Gaynor. Returns to America. Lady Harcourt, who has arrived at New York from Europe, after an ab sence of many years, is the daughter of the American diplomat and his torian, John Lothrop Motley, and the widow of the late Sir William Ver non Harcourt, one of the most emi nent leaders and statesmen of the Liberal party. Lese Majeste in Saxony. A governess named Kathie Schmidt is to be prosecuted for lese majeste because she wrote her name in a vis itors’ book at a hotel at Gross-Lichter felde immediately beneath the sig natures of the King of Saxony an£ the fwo princesses Soldiers Used Comrade as a Shield British Trooper Who Served Against the Boers Lives to Tel! of Terrible Experience on South African Fields. Probably not another man alive has had the terrible experience of Pri vate Dunning, formerly of the North umberland fusiliers, whose body was used as a firing shield by his com rades during an affair of outposts in the South African war. The Soldiers and Sailors’ Help So ciety, which has done so much good work among disabled soldiers, has been employing Dunning at light car pentry work, but he has now become so weak that it has been necessary to transfer him to the lighter task of basket making. The story of his experience was modestly told bv Dunning to a London Express representative recently. He was one of a detachment of 500 guarding a convoy from Wolmar anstad to Klerksdorp, which was at tacked by 3.000 Boers near the latter place. "I could see nothing but one big man on a big gray horse, moving about among the trees fifty yards away,” he said. "I thought of nothing but him and kept saying to myself: ‘I must bring him down.’ "I knelt down and fired carefully. The big man came down like a shot. iad the gray horse bolted. At the ^ame instant about a dozen men broke over twenty yards away and fired at ne. I was hit in several places and *ent down. I was still conscious, but our men thought I was dead and used me and the bodies of other men as a rampart to fire over, until, one by one, they were all silenced. "I remember some men dragging my clothes off me later on. They left me stark naked, but one of them put my water bottle to my mouth and said: 'Good-by, chap; you’re going.” Dunning bad eight bullets in his body and a broken arm. Some of the bullets were not extracted until be reached Krugersdorp, eight days lat er. Practically all the ribs on the right side have been shot away, and he now wears a thick felt jacket with steel supports to keep him from col lapsing. He has a pension of 1 shilling 15 pence a day, which he supplements a little by basket making. Even this light work, however, is obviously a severe task upon him and he is fre quently unable to carry it on. He is 30 years old and has one child and a young and pretty wife, who, it is plain, idolizes the broken soldier. *• Real Son of the American Revolution —— ' ■ ____ James M. Edwards of Toledo. Ohio, Has Unqualified Right to Bear That Proud Title—Son of a Minute Man. To be one of about fifteen of the surviving Sons of the American Revo lution and to be the only surviving son of a participator in the* historic battle of Lexington is the proud dis tinction borne by Jas. M. Edwards of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Edwards is in his ninety-second year, and lives with his son. The fact that he is the only sur viving son is not to be wondered at when we consider that peace has teen declared for more than 120 years. Ac cording to the roster of the Sons of the American Revolution prepared early in 1904 there were then twenty one surviving sons. But since that time it is known that six at least have died. J. M. Edwards is the son of Eben ; ezer Edwards, who was a minute man from Acton. Mass., and who fired one of the first guns in defense of Con cord road and stood by Capt. Davis when he was struck down by the first English gun fired in the revolutionary struggle. Ebenezer Edwards was born in 1757 in Acton, and was a carpenter by trade. At the age of 18 he ran away and enlisted. He was finally transferred to "Fort Dorchester, where he spent some time. After three years of service he received an honorable discharge and went to the Green Hills of New Hampshire. There he married Lydia Wheeler, and by her had eleven children, all of whom are dead. He married Mary Flint in 1801, and by her he had four children, the youngest be ing James M., who is the sole survi vor. Ebenezer died in 1826. James M. Edwards was born Dec. 27, 1814, and was married to Elizabeth Moffitt of Cambridge March 6, 1854; they recently celebrated their fifty first anniversary together. Four chil dren blessed this union, all of whom are living. They are Frank M., an attorney in Boston; Herbert, a pro fessional man of Toledo, Ohio; Eliza beth of St. Paul and Mrs. Augusta Seers of Chico, Cal. Mr. Edwards wit first a banker in Boston a number of years, and later was in the wholesale lumber business in Grand Rapids. Mich. Rapid Growth of World's Great Cities United States the Only Country that Can Boast of Three Con taining Over One Million In habitants. There are now in the world nine cities of more than one million in habitants each. Three of these— namely, New York, Chicago and Phil adelphia—are cities of that new world which was only dreamed of 500 years ago and was undreamed of when Thebes, Babylon and Nineveh vaunted themselves as important centers of civilization. No other nation than the United States has more than one of these big towns, the other being London. Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Can ton and Tokio. The new census will probably show a population m New York city of close upon 4,000,000 in habitants. The unrevised figure is 3, 087,696. This is a gain of over 100,000 a year since 1900, when the first enu meration after the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn showed a population in Greater New York of 3, 437,000. London has a population at present of 4,536,641. New York is thns a close second, and in all prob ability will overtake and pass London within another generation. The con tention that this is improbable be cause the metropolitan area of Lon don includes 6,581.372 inhabitants, is unfounded, because it must be remem bered that the actual urban district of New York city includes Jersey City, Hoboken. Newark, Elizabeth, Pater son and Yonkers, which are not com prehended in the municipal corpora tion of New York city. For ten years past the opinion has been gaining ground that the rapid growth of great cities in the nineteenth century will not continue throughout the twenti eth. The new developments already achieved and to be expected in the utilization of electricity are undoubt edly to make life relatively comfort able in the country and in the suburb an villages. The trolley car and the telephone wonderfully extend the area within which the man whose business is in the city may choose his resi dence. Electricity is increasing also the possibility of conducting manufac turing operations in relatively isolat ed snots. His Proposal Made in Original Manner — *-—.. __ Girl of Hi* Heart Helped Out Baehful Youth to Some Pur* poee — Just a Hint and the Reet Wae Eaey. My girl and I bad been keeping company*1 for two years, and at last I realized that something definite most be done. I carefully prepared—in of fice hours—various short and pithy speeches, but, strange to say, when I came into the presence of my sweet heart, they seemed to melt away, and so I decided to put the proposal off till next time. Thus it went on for another six months. My sweetheart now—as it seemed to me—began to look at me in a re proachful manner, and I became des perate. I suddenly hit upon the plan of lending her two books to read, one of which was “How to be Happy, Though Married. She returned them in a fortnight, and 6aid, with a beau tiful smile, that she liked them very much. I thought this was a good be ginning, and my heart beat high, with hope. Next week I lent her another care i fully selected book in, which the hero in's name was Jennie. This was also my sweetheart’s name. Before doing so I had previously read the book, and on different pages I had underlined certain words, which words when placed together would read thus: "Jennie, I love you dearly. Will you be my wife?” During the next fornlght Jennie said nothing, and I feared she had not tumbled to the situation. But I was mistaken. She returned the book with verbal expressions of gratitude and I delight, but never another word. On reaching home I opened the book, and behold? I saw tucked in at the first page an advertisement with the following heading. "You get the girl, we do the rest. How to furnish a small house for $435. Apply for catalogue to—” After this the rest was easy. I im mediately got a catakmge, and, when we met on the following Thursday, .we had a good laugh, went through the catalogue, and fixed the matter up right away.—New York Weekly. In Little Danger of Becoming Toper - M----. Woman Drank Beer on Advice of Physician. but Brewery Would Not Get Rich on Her Custom. "Speaking of homeopathy,’' said the doctor, "reminds me of the case of Miss N-. To appreciate the cir cumstances you must know that Miss N- traces her ancestry back through a long line to the Puritans, and has imbibed from them strong and unyielding principles, particular- j ly as regards saloons and liquor. ■ “For some time," the doctor con tinued, "Miss N-has been troubled with insomnia, and has tried various forms of exercise and all sorts of rem edies. Finally, she told me of her trouble. Perhaps you can imagine her horror when I suggested that beer might help her to woo sleep, and even went so far as to insist that it would do her good to take it several times a day. After a time, however, she de cided to try my prescription. , "Then it took her a week to brace I her courage up to the point of order I ing the beer, and having it delivered at the house in full view of the neigh bors. She discounted public opinion in a measure, however, by consulting with the aforesaid neighbors as to her intention, so that the whole block was thoroughly posted when at last a beer peddler stopped at her door and left a dozen bottles. "The beer man thought he had struck a new center for business and returned in about three days for the empty bottles. "‘My dear man,’ said Miss N-, "the bottles are not yet empty.’ "The beer man waited several dav» more and again appeared. “ 'Your bottles are perfectly safe,* Miss N- told him, and then a thought struck her, ‘but if you need them I have one nearly empty which you may have.’ “ ‘I guess you don’t drink it very fast.’ suggested the man. " ‘Why,’ replied Miss N-, 'I take two teaspoonfuls twice a day.’”—Chi cago Record-Henld.