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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOTJP CITT, . . NEBRASKA. No matter who wins the New York election contest the lawyers can not lose. Ill luck Is still pursuing the Russian prisoners in Japan. They are to be sent home. The university presidents can tackle football, but they don’t seem to be able to score. Artist Gibson has left the country, but the girls will continue the effort to live up to his pictures. Two French generals are about to fight a duel. A careful inspection of the moon discloses no blood. One vote for Mark Twain was cast at the election in New York. What joke there was was on the voter. The recent revolution in Brazil-last ed only a few hours. Some saloon keeper must have capitulated early. The state of New Jersey is out of debt and has $3,000,000 in the treasury. Of course, everybody knows it's taint ed money. A St. Louis woman's club decides that women can not love man and art at the same time. Then let art be passed up. Why is it that a wise suggestion from a foolish man never gets the at tention given to a foolish proposition by a wise man? Spanish students are rioting now. Possibly football is a good thing after all for the purpose of working oft the students’ surplus energy. If John Kendrick Bangs carries out his intention to become a New Eng land farmer, he will find that farming in New England is no joke. It is ungrateful of Russia not to use W. T. Stead’s remedies for a dis tressed nation, considering the fact that he has not patented them. Russia is going to have a douma and China is going to have a parlia ment. Why is it none of these for eign nations ever wants a congress? Russian prisoners at Kishinev re volted in a body and set fire to the jail. The simple life did not appeal to them when so much was going on out side. That $100,000 package of securities has been found intact in the street in Philadelphia. Now somebody will probably assume that it was hidden in the grass. The Detroit man who has erected a statue of Satan in his front yard and has to guard it from the good little boys may be sure of the earnest sym pathy of Miss Mary MacLane. Being an optimist, Mr. Stead pro phesies the loss of 100,000 lives in Russia. If he were a pessimist, he adds, he would say two millions. But Mr. Stead always was emotional. It is gratifying to observe that the descendants of Pocahontas have been thoughtful enough at last to arrange for a suitable monument to the mem ory of their illustrious ancestress. These articles telling people how to be as tall as they should be. do not meet the popular demand. 'W^iat people really want to know is how not to be so short as they mostly are. A Chicago wife wants a divorce be cause her* husband spent all his money. That is a crime, as all wives will agree. Husbands should bring all their money home and leave it on the bureau. A telegraph line is soon to be ex tended to Timbuctoo, but the office there will probably never achieve such importance as has at times been at tributed to the ones at Mole St. Nicho las and Che Foo. A fire in New York was started by the burning of a pile of letters ignited by the heat from a radiator. Unless they were love letters one janitor, must be doing all that can reasonably be expected of him. The king of Spain is a skilfull and fearless rider, a keen motorist, a dead ly shot with either rifle or revolver, a splendid fencer and an exceptionally clever boxer. The people hope that he will also be a good king. Prof. Jim Jeffries’ remark that he “wouldn’t play football for $1,000 a minute” shows clearly how the princely income of a successful prize fighter makes him arrogant when discussing a question of wages. Prince Louis cabled from New York to the London Times: ‘‘We find twen ty-four hours in the day a wholly in sufficient allowance for the daily fare of American hospitality.” Royalty never did care much about an eight hour day. Jan Kubelik, the violinist, is going to make a tour of the United States, and will bring with him Mrs. Kubelik and the twins. This ought to keep emotional young women from going crazy as they used to do when Pade rewski played. The retirement of Constantine Pe trovilch Pobiedonostseff, the aged chief procurator of the holy synod of the Russian church, will not be seri ously regretted by newspaper men who every, now and then have had to write hie name. It is proposed in Russia to bring the Julian calendar up to date by shorten ing the Russian February by thirteen days and beginning March 1 in the Gregorian style. When people get to fooling with the calendar, February al ways get it in the neck. The Wheeze-Makers. New York play reviewers are prone to lighten the weight of their com ments with jokes twisted from the titles or the plays under considera tion. For some time this has worried Frank Wilstach, who writes: “Lucky is the dramatist who can find a name for his play which the facetious New York critic cannot use as a handle for ridicule. The follow ing illustrate the point: ‘Who Goes There?’ was presented at the Princess theater, and one critic answered the title; ‘“Nobody Goes There,” or, is likely to.’ Wilson Barrett’s play, ‘Lucky Durham,’ was presented at the Knickerbocker by Mr. Willard, when one brilliant young man said the play was A cross between Bull Durham and Lucky Strike.’ When ‘The Money-Makers’ was offered at the Liberty, one pigeon-toed joker said: ‘While “The Money-Makers” is the title, no real money is likely to be made out of it.’ Clyde Fitch has been rather successful in heading off the joker who might brand his play with a jest, yet when Maxine Elliott presented ‘Her Great Match’ with great success at the Criterion a pro tege of Joe Miller could not refrain from saying: ‘ “Her Great Match” failed to strike!’ “The temptation was too great to resist. The wheeze-makers are al ready busy with Mr. Fitch’s play writ ten for Viola Allen, ‘The Toast of the Town.’ One of them has asked whether the play is from ‘Bred in Old Kentucky,’ or whether it is the drama tization of a bakery. The next thing that one may expect is that one of them will say it is called ‘The Toast of the Town,’ because it is dry, over looking the fact that good dramatic toast is crisp. Imagine a play by Clyde Fitch being dry! Mr. Mansfield puts on ‘Don Carlos.’ How, in hea ven’s name, are they going to make a joke out of that? Finally, Nat C. Goodwin is out with a gun looking for the ninnyhammer who said ‘ “The Beauty and the Barge” went down with all hands!’ ” Personal Mention. Ellen Terry will not visit this coun try until next season and then she will be heard in readings and not in theatrical productions. In Lincoln J. Carter’s new romantic drama, “The Flaming Arrow,” many of the scenes are actual representa tions of historical places in the West. James J. Corbett is to be starred in “The Little Church Around the Cor ner,” In Cambridge, Mass., has sent out many footlight favorites—Marion Ballou, Christine McDonald, Blanche Ring and Minnie Ashley being some 'of the most prominent. Harry B. Smith is the first Ameri can libretist who has had the cour age to satirize the nouveauriche Amer ican in his aspirations in Europe. He is said to do this very successfully in "Miss Dolly Dollars.” In the role of the Hon. Jefferson Jackson Clover, secretary of the de partment of agriculture in the new musical satire, “Cloverdell,” Henry Clay Barnabee is said to have a role in which he is perfectly fitted. Edmund Breese’s first appearance in public was made in an amateur pro duction of “Romeo and Juliet,” in which he was cast as Friar Lawrence, but owing to the illness of the Romeo was pressed into service for that role. The Aborn Production company has secured the rights from M. Whitmark & Sons for the Bostonians’ most suc cessful opera, “Robin Hood.” The company began a tour Nov. 13, in Troy. Vivia Brewster sings Maid Mariam. Corinne, the leading lady of “The Rogers Brothers in Ireland,” made her first stir in the Boston amusement world when she won the first prize in the greatest baby show ever held in Boston at Horticultural Hall on Tre mont street. Fumagalli, the Italian actor, has un dertaken to give Rome an entire sea son of Shakespeare. The bard is popular in Italy, and it is said that no Italian actor considers that he has sounded all the depths of art until he has played him. Countess Kinsky-Palmay, a Hun garian soubrette, well known in Eu rope, will appear at the Irving Place theater. New York, in December un der the direction of Heinrich Conrad in “Heisses Blut,” the piece on which the book of “The Rollicking Girl” was based. “The Belle of Mexico,” a new comic opera by R. B. Smith and Raymond Hubbell, who are responsible for “Fantana.” is soon to be produced by the Shuberts. James T. Powers will be the chief fun maker of this new production. Christie McDonald will be seen in the title role. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Faversham in New York last week, and the boy and his beautiful mother are doing splendidly. And “The Squaw Man.” in which Mr. Fa versham is appearing at Wallack’s, is SAM BERNARD. Principal Comedian in the Clever Musical play, “The Rollicking Girl.” January in Bernard Shaw's romance, “Cashel Byron’s Profession,” which has been arranged for stage pur poses by Stanislaus Stange. Miss Irene Cromwell of the “Babes in Toyland” company is a veritable Cinderella as far as the size of her foot is concerned. Miss Cromwell plays Little Miss Muffet. Grace Elliston’s scene in “The Lion and the Mouse,” where she poses as a newspaper woman, is the nearest approach to the genuine article the American stage has ever seen. Among the cast selected by Mau rice Campbell for “The Little Gray Lady” will be Julia Deane, Edgar Sel wyn, Dorothy Donnelly, William Humphreys and Alfred Hudson. Douglas Fairbanks is making such a pronounced hit as Lute Ludlam in “As Ye Sow” that Messrs. Brady and Grismer are looking for a comedy in which to feature him next season. Henry B. Harris has secured from Charles Klein the English rights of “The Lion and the Mouse,” and has arranged with Charles Frohman to produce the same in the immediate future. John Oliver Hobbs (Mrs. Craigie), the famous novelist and dramatist, will be the next celebrity to make a tour of America. She comes under the direction of the J. B. Pond Lyceum bureau. Contracts have been signed by Mau rice Campbell, whereby Henrietta Crosman will begin her New York en gagement at the Garrick theater, in “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” on Christmas day. Paulina Edwardes’ new opera, which will be produced presently, is to be en titled “Queen Beggar.” It was writ ten by Harry Paulton and Alfred Bob byn, who composed the music of “The Yankee Consul.” A New York impresario has offered Lina Cavaleria a three years’ engage ment at $1,200 nightly for the first season and an enormous increase for the second and third. Cavaleria has not yet accepted. Frank Gilmore, the Rev. John St. John of “As Ye Sow,” made his first stage appearance as a boy of 12 in pantomime. His earlier experiences were on the London stage, but in 1892 he came to this country. a genuine New York success. Sc there is a happy family. Will F. Granger, one of the members of a company playing a melodrama at Toledo, Ohio, was shot in the eye dur ing the progress of the play one night last week. The action of the drama includes the rescue of a girl from a cage of lions. One of the lions showed anger and a revolver carried by the rescuer was accidentally dis charged. Graham may lose his sight. Mme. Schumann-Heink, who is now on the road in “Love’s Lottery,” un der the management of Fred C. Whit ney, will close her tour in six weeks and return to her home in Germany, where she will rest for the remainder of the season. Her health this sea son has been very poor, and the form er grand opera prima donna has been compelled to remain away from many performances on that account. Mme. Modjeska began her farewell tour of the United States at the new Lyceum theater, Harrisburg, Pa., last week, presenting “Mary Stuart.” This was her first appearance in America since 1903. Several New York theat rical managers and state officials ot Pennsylvania were in the audience Mme. Modjeska will appear only in “Mary Stuart.” “Macbeth” and “Much Ado About Nothing” on her farewell tour. The success of Miss Nethersole in “The Labyrinth” has led to a change in her original tour. Her manage ment has arranged to have her open her New York engagement at the Herald Square theater Nov. 27. The original tour as booked embraced a portion of Canada, Baltimore, Phila delphia and Boston, but all except the Canadian engagements have been canceled to allow her to get to New York as soon as possible. In “The American Lord,” a comedy “pure and simple,” which has been prepared for his use by George Broad hurst and Charles T. Dazey, William H. Crane will have the role of a hustling westerner who is forced by circumstances to go to England and take charge of an old estate. His inno vations on a place and among a people who have come to look with disfavor on any alterations made in the estab lished order of things afford mnch of the fun of the piece. 2HAV£B LOJ4ELIJ4ESS FO'R WEALTHj - With Alaska furs valued at $25,000 from Nulato, on the Lower Yukan, Garrett Busch has arrived in Seattle after eight years spent in trafficking with the Indians in the wilderness which he was the first white man to penetrate as a trader. When Mr. Busch reached Nulato. Aug. 12,1897, with a miner’s outfit as his sole pos session, he foresaw in that gloomy solitude a trade in the furs which pro tect animal life from arctic winters which would exceed in returns the reasonable possibilities of mining ven tures. Mr. Busch settled down at the place where the little town of Nulato now stands. He built a one-story cabin with lumber which he sawed from the native timber and began to trade his miners’ supplies to the natives for the furs which they knew so well how to trap, but of whose value they had no conception. Through the first win ter he lived alone, except when an oc casional squad of Indian trappers came by and stopped in curiosity to learn what manner of man had set tled in so lonely a spot. To these In dians he traded his humble supplies, except the provisions which he actu ally needed to sustain his own exist ence until spring. The visits of the Indians were few and far between. The solitary trader was often homesick as he sat through the almost perpetual darkness of the arctic winter. In the short hours of glimmering daylight he gathered his little stores of firewood, dragging them through the snow, and then sat through the long night counting off the days on the calendar until spring. His nearest white neighbors were at Anvik, 200 miles down the Yukon, and at Weare, 240 miles up the stream. He never saw a white face until near ly a year after his arrival at Nulato. When spring broke upon the lonely hermit life- assumed a more cheerful aspect. The fame of the new white trader had spread far through the In dian settlements, and the natives be gan calling regularly at the post with their stock of furs. They came from Koyokuk, from Innoko and from Kus hokwin, some of them traveling near ly 500 miles.—Seattle Times. VM'B'RELLA TELLS OF T'RACE'Dy “Look at me! Just look at me!” It was the umbrella that spoke, or, rather, the remains of what once ha<l been an umbrella. A sloppy, flabby, muddy patch of silk, a dozen bent wires and a broken stick carved at one end, was all one could now see. “Only look at me! Fifteen minutes ago I was a handsome, new silk um brella, proud of myself, an-1 my voting owner’s pride. Now I am trampled under the hoofs of horses and run over by every kind of wheel—not worth two cents. Look at me! "And it all happened in a jiffy! My, I should be dizzy yet if I didn’t feel so dreadfully flat. Harry was coming up the avenue, swinging me admiring ly and of course wishing for a shower. And would you believe it, he got his wish! “Harry felt the first drop, and up I was pushed. Joe, who wis walking beside him, declared it did not rain, and called Harry proud for wanting to show me off. Harry told Joe he was only jealous because he didn’t have a fine new umbrella. “Well, it soon rained hard, and then Joe changed his tune. He wanted to walk under me, but Harry pushed him roughly away. “Joe pushed back; he shoved Harry fairly out in the street. “Perhaps Harry wasn’t angry, and I don’t blame him .either, though I wish he hadn’t laid me down while he went to give Joe the pummeling he de served. “But we had just come to that fear fully gusty corner, where the wind blows seventeen ways a second. The instant Harry let go of me one of the crazy puffs reached under me and made me so light-headed I jumped up to the seventh story windows in one bound. “I felt like a balloon until five other puffs seized me, all pulling different ways. I turned thirty somersaults, landing plump in front of a big ugly auto! “And remember, please, I never harmed so little a thing as a grass hopper. But just look at me!” GLOWING COLORS OF SYRIA The crowning glory of a Syrian landscape, however, is its brilliant coloring. Before I left America, says Lewis Gaston Leary in The World To Day, it seemed to me that the vivid tints of Tissot’s pictures must be ex aggerated, but they fall short of the reality. Of course, no artist can hope to reproduce the marvelous warmth and depth of the colors in an eastern landscape, or to imitate the vague, soft hues that are so characteristic of the Syrian atmosphere: but it would be almost as impossible for him to find tints that were overbright or to arrange them in an order too daring to be matched by the Syrian sun. The very nights are full of color. The moonlight is so brilliant that it is easy to read a guide book and, even on a moonlight night and in the wild erness, far from any city’s glare, the starlight has been so bright that I could see the second hand of my watch and could find quite a distinct shadow cast by Jupiter. A moonlit scene at home gives only the impres sion of light spots and dark spots; everything is black or white or gray; but here in- Syria the moonlight shows all the colors of the rainbow. The green of the trees and grain, the red of the tile roofs, the blue of sea and sky and the white of the distant mountains are softer and more deli cate, but hardly less distinct, one from the other, than in the sunlight. But the sunset colors are the best of all, especially when the mountains come close to the sea. I hesitate to compare Beirut with Naples; yet we have as clear skies here, the sweep of the bay is much the same and, in stead of smoky Vesuvius, there is the splendid range of Lebanon, culminat ing in Jebel Sunnin, almost twice as high as the Italian mountain, and for half the year crowned with dazzling snow. -RICHES Iff JEWELETt'S SWEEVIflGS The waste of gold In a manufactur ing jeweler’s premises is likely to be so considerable that the most strin gent measures have to be taken to avoid loss by reason of the gold dust falling to the floor, getting caught In the workers’ clothes, getting washed off his hands, and in many other ways. Some time ago a gold and silver manufacturing firm had occasion to put in a new floor in its working room and the man who made the change took the old floor in payment of his work, and was well paid. In the process of manufacture It is impossible to avoid small particles of the precious metal flying upon the floor, where they are trodden into the crevices until the floor is satu rated with them. The floor in a manufacturing jeweler's workshop which has become so worn that it must be replaced contains fully suf ficient gold to pay for a new one. The sweepings are sent to the refiner for the gold to be extracted. The process of extracting the gold from these sweepings is simple. They are burnt, and the ashes are carefully collected. The buyer selects samples here and there, taking a portion from every part of the heap. These he weighs, puts through a grinder and sieve, then thoroughly mixes the prod uct, takes a sample of it, weighs it, leflnes it, and calculates how much gold there is in the whole quantity of ashes. From this he forms an esti mate of the value and pays accord ingly. Even the water in which gold is washed when a ring or other article of jewelry is cleaned is preserved until there is a sufficient quantity to make it worth while to separate the gold from it. FEW MEET ALL 'REQVI'REMEffTS There are some good jobs on the railroads which the going begging to-day because there is no one to fill them. In this territory several posi tions as passenger and freight solici tors are open and men are want®.. The roads upon which the vacancies exist are searching every corner to find the proper man. The old story that the sons, cousins, nephews, brothers-in-law and what not of the general manager are given preference does not seem to hold good here. Per haps all of the preferred relatives have been provided for. But the fact is that good men are scarce and are wanted. Out of the thousands em ployed it seemed peculiar that but few were really eligible to promotion. An old railroader explained it. The present day demands upon those who have to meet the public are numerous. One eligible was bright, but slovenly. He would not keep his face shaved and his linen clean. Another had the other qualifi cations, but he had sporting proclivi ties which made him unreliable and objectionable to a certain class of people with whom he would have to deal. Another had many qualifica tions except the ambition. He was rot a pusher. A fourth was an honest worker, but did not have the address. He would be unable to present his case well. And so the whole gamut of human failings was gone througn. The all-around man, who lives up to his opportunities and is broad gauge, is hard to find. Or, if he is found, he stands in his own light by neglect of the conventionalities and the things which are tremendous aids to suc cess.—Cleveland Leader. FOKTVSiE LOST TH-ROVCH HASTE Some years ago a man in England had an aged aunt who died, leaving him sole legatee of all her personal estate. When he came to examine into her effects there was nothing worth carrying away. Of the diamonds and money which she had possessed in abundance nothing could be found. In an attic was an old chest, filled with ancient, worn-out corsets, and, worse still, old curl papers. In his anger and disappointment he had this carried down into the garden and a bonfire made of the whole. As the fire burned he savagely thrust in his stick and turned over one of the discolered curl-papers. It unrolled and discov ered itself as a banknote of large de nomination. Frantically ha dashed his hands among the flaming corsets to recover the rest of the despised curl papers, but he succeeded in saving only a few. The rest were destroyed. So he called a servant, had the dust and debris swept up and the whole carted off by scavengers. He had managed to scrape up only a few hundred dollars from the estate, where he had expected more than that number of thousands. He could not understand it; but there the matter stood for some days. Then he came across an old woman who had previously been in the serv ice of his aunt. He told her of his mystification at being unable to find any of the diamonds. “Why, yes, sir," was the response. “I knows misses always had a lot of diamonds. She stitched ’em all into her old corsets and put ’em away in a box." ON THE ENGINEER’S LAST RUN His Story of How He Lived His Life All Over in a Flash. “Drowning is not the only experi ence that causes a man to read his own biography in the flash of a sec ond,” said F. C. Roberts, a locomotive engineer. “I was running on the passenger trains between Atlanta and Macon several years ago, and I was to meet the north-bound train at a certain sta tion on the road. Well, it was all my fault. I hadn’t slept any for five nights, and the only rest I had was in my cab. The last stop that we made before this experience of which I speak the fireman had to wake me up when the signal to go ahead was received. I had gone to sleep in my cab. “As wre approached the next station the conductor may have signaled me, as he claimed he did, hut we dashed through the town at about forty miles an hour before I heard the down brakes signal. The minute I heard it I saw the headlight of the north bound train, less than 300 yards away, coming around a curve. I threw on the air brakes and reversed, but it all looked too late. The fireman jumped, but I was paralyzed. The two great engines, one bearing a special train, rushed together like angry bulls, and I was frozen there, and while those trains rushed to gether, I saw every incident of my life just as plainly as the day it hap pened. That's all I know' about it.—• Louisville Courier-Journal. MONEY IN ABANDONED FARMS. Country Life in America Points Out Important Facts. • The great mass of conservative opin ion seems to be firmly set against ad vising the public to buy cheap lands, says Country Life in America. “Ten dollar-an-acre land is no good for farm ing,” the experts say. “Farming re quires more capital than formerly, and the day of general farming in the East is past. A thousand dollars at least is necessary. The best ‘abandoned farms' have been transferred into summer homes; the others should never have been attempted.” In the hope that there might be some exceptions to these pessimistic statements, Country Life in America began an investigation, which has brought to light the following hopeful facts: First—Many people have suc ceeded at general farming within the last ten years on land costing $5 to $10 an acre. Second—General farming is often better than special farming for the beginner without experience—at least for the first year. Third—There is plenty of suitable land in New Eng land and the South that can be bought for $10 an acre or less. Fourth—Much of this land is not abandoned; it is still worked for profit. It can be had at bargain prices for three permanent ly legitimate reasons—old age, ill health, the settlement of an estate. Fifth—People do not know how to find out where these cheap lands are. My Forces. I’m no self-made man. for I dearly can Trace each force that fashioned me From the years long ago, when a babe new born, I lay on my mother’s knee. Then God above in His Heaven of love To the angels gave control Life undefiled of this little child— And they breathed in me a soul. Then the love that lies in a mother’s eyes Woke that soul to active life. And from all alarms, her sheltering arms Protected me in the strife. Her tender care and her loving prayer As the boy grew into man. My nature drew to a full growth true. As only a mother can. In no college walls, in no learned halls, Found my brain its forming tool; But in the press of work's hard stress, I learned in the world’s great school. The god of life and the evil's strife, I struggled on to find. And the labor to gain, the work to at tain. Sharpened and shaped my mind. Then Into life with its hardships rife When success was almost won. Came a keener sight and a brighter light. As through clouds burst the sun. Work lighter grew, gray skies were blue, A new light seemed to start— A heaven this of new found bliss— And love awoke my heart! —Baltimore American. Ted’s Beginning. The new assistant rector was trying to impress upon the mind of his young son the difference between his own po sition and that of his superior. “Now, Ted,” he ended, “I want you to re member to be very polite to the rector. We are strangers, and I am only the assistant; it becomes us to be ex tremely courteous. Some day, perhaps, I shall be rector myself.” The next day the boy was walking with his father when they met the dig nified rector. “Hello!” promptly began Tedd. “Pop’s been tellin’ me ’bout you— how you're the real thing, an’ he's just the hired man an’ we got to knuckle under. But some day he may be It himself, an’ then you’ll see!”— Woman's Home Companion. Break by a Nervous Husband. After the execution of Prof. Web ster of Harvard for the murder of Mr. Parkman, Mrs. Webster went away, and was gone for a long period. On her return to Boston two of her old friends went to call upon her, a gen tleman and his wife. Both were in a state of nervous excitement while waiting in the parlor for her to ap pear. "Now, remember,” whispered the wife to her nervous husband, “don't say anything to recall to Mrs. Web ster’s mind the awful experience she has been through.” Just then Mrs. Webster entered, and the nervous man exclaimed, with outstretched hands: “Why, my dear Mrs. Parkman, I am so glad to see you back!” Followed McClintock’s Orders. A young man who afterward be came a successful reporter on a Bos ton daily relates one of his first ex periences in endeavoring to get work as follows: “I walked into the office of John N. McCIintock, editor and publisher of the Granite Morthly, a New Hamp shire magazine and asked for an op jortunitv to show what I could do. I was ask9.1 what I could write about, ard with a John L. Sullivan con fidence replied: ‘Oh, I can write about anything.’ Like a shot came the re sponse: ’Well, right about face, then* That settled me. I did.” CONVINCING EVIDENCE That Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Will Cure Rheumatism. “ People can care themselves of a Rood many common ailments at a very small cost if they go about it the right way,” said Mr. Hoar, recently. “For instance. I have just cured myself of a very pain ful disease. I might have begun to treat it sooner, that’s all the mistake I made in the matter. But I found the ro"t of the difficulty and I picked out the right remedy without the aid of t* doctor. “ It was really all in my blood. I first felt a twinge in my left foot and ankle in the middle of last January, following ! exposure to cold. I realized I had rheu I mat ism and I knew that really comes from bad blood. Cold simply (level* ! - I it. Then my hands and feet were cold 1 and clammy even in hot weather ami numb a great part of tin* time. 1 c< n eluded that my blood was thin and p-oi and the circnlatiou sluggish. “After a time my feet and ankles ; swelled so badly that I could only tie i my shoes half way no. My legs swelled terribly ami I could walk only a short S distance before giving out completely “When I read of the cures ,.f all amis of blood diseases, that ha 1 been eff-eted by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, I was con ; vinced that they were just the remedy j for my case, and so it proved. I could see that they were benefiting me beft.ro I had quite used up the first box The improvement was decidedly markrd af ter I had taken two boxes. Three more boxes restored my hands and feer, and legs to natural size and feeling and then I stopped taking medicine and have since been perfectly well.” Mr. F. Le Roy Hoar lives at No. 13i Constitution street, Bristol R I. Any one can get convincing evidence that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have -ured antemia, rheumatism, erysipelas ami other serions diseases of the blood by simply writing to the Dr William* Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. _ Parisian Market Porters. The porters of the market plare in Paris carry, strapped on their backs, great baskets full of garden produce Often one sees a man with a load of cabbage that is bigger than himself. Value of Private Cars. A few years ago only men of grpat fortune possessed private cars. Now adays there are so many of these palaces on wheels that their value is estimated at $72,000,000. Symbol of the Cross. The symbol of the cross is used in the religions of the aborigines of North and South America, and by the most ancient nations of Europe, as well as by Christians. River Rises Forty Feet. The famous Tugela river, in South Africa, is said on one occasion to have risen forty feet during a single night, owing to thunderstorms on the mourn tains. Old Mother Nature. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.—Emerson. Idaho Joins. Fraser, Idaho, Nov. 27th (SpeeiaD— Mrs. Martha J. Lee has given for pub lication the following statement, con cerning Dodd's Kidney Pills: “I was down with Rheumatism : three times,” she says, “and each time Dodd's Kidney Pills helped me. The last time they cured me, and now I am able to get around and do all my work, though 1 am fifty-eight and I can walk to Sunday School every Sunday. Before I took Dodd's Kidney Pills I was so bad I could use neither band nor foot. I shall keep Dodd's Pills on hand all the time.” Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid crystallizing in the muscles. Healthy kidneys remove all Uric Acid from the blood. Diseased Kid~sys cannot remove this Acid which collects in the blood and poisons every vein and artery. 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