Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA.
An exchange speaks cheerfully of
the “plethora of gold." Congratula
tions.
Mabelle Gilman says Pittsburg mil
lionaires lack culture. Mabelle ought
to know.
Ultra-fashionable dogs in New York
are now wearing earrings. But don’t
blame the dogs.
Gen. William Booth says he has eat
en no meat in seven years. Vege
tarian or trust buster?
A Cleveland broker committed sui
cide because he lost |500,000. It hap
pened to be his own money.
Be kind to the rich, gentle reader.
Just think of the things that will be
printed about them after they die.
We question the old saying,
“There’s nothing so bad that it might
not be worse.” How about a rotten
egg?
A Detroit man has invented a safe
air ship. Details are not given, but jot
necessity it must run along the ground
on wheels.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst says that no
man ought to swear. Correct! And
no man ought to do anything to make
other people swear.
Wall street has been worried for
a few weeks by “tight money.” Now
it knows how the most of us feel
the whole year ’round.
Any one can become famous easily.
Just write a letter to somebody advo
cating that people be chloroformed
for some reason or other.
Congressman Sulzer has found out
thaty Croesus was worth onl about
$11,000,000, but some of us would like
to be even as rich as that.
A woman died in Pennsylvania the
other day, leaving 114 descendants.
Would it not be well to have her por
trait put on a postage stamp?
Another reason why an elastic cur
rency would be popular is that woip
en could then use it for garters in
stead of carrying it in their stockings.
A New York actress has left the
income from $15,000 for the care of
a dog, a parrot, and a cage of love
birds. It ought to be worth more than
that.
Of course. Secretary Wilson’s plan
of reforming the American hen will
include instructions to do all her lay
ing at home and her scratching at the
neighbor’s.
Whenever Castro takes up his
morning paper and finds that the
world isn’t talking about him he hur
ries out and insults the French diplo
matic agent.
Until it is known whether John
Gibson Hale is a husband and father
his remarks on marriage and child
rearing will not be permitted to go
in the record.
Some of the young men at the An
napolis naval academy insist that it
doesn’t hurt a cadet to compel him t©
stand on his head. But does it really
do him any good?
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Andrew Carnegie Is awakened every
morning at 7 o’clock by the notes of
an organ. If the average man were
as rich as Andrew he would have that
organ set for 10 o’clock.
The Louisville Courier-Journal's
suggestion that before we attempt to
discover the north polo in an airship
we had better first discover an airship
is pertinent and to the point.
If Dr. Osier and Prof. Norton are
right, why not adopt the Spanish
method and have a series of duels
like that between the Marquis de
Amijo, ager 82, and Gen. Rios, aged
77?
a nypnoust in Wisconsin was
knocked out by one of his subjects
as he came out of a trance. Some
hypnotists ought to be knocked out
as soon as they begin waving their
hands.
Benjamin Franklin would be deep
ly Interested, no doubt, if he could
come to life now and see a modern
newspaper, but he would hardly be
surprised. Benjamin Franklin was
far-seeing.
A Chicago woman who kept a
boarding house claims she was drug
ged and married against her will by
the star boarder. Some men will do
anything to escape the necessity of
working for their living.
Dr. Charles Eliot Norton also wants
to put the insane, the hopelessly dis
eased and victims of accidents to a
peaceful death. He might include the
hopelessly useless; but, confound
them, they won’t stand still and be
killed.
Prof. Wilder of Cornell takes the
trouble to write to the papers to say
that the baboon and the gorilla should
not be confounded. We pass this
along for the benefit of the excited
orators in the next heated political
campaign.
A New York banker says there will
be a terrible panic unless we hasten
to secure an elastic currency. People
who wear their money below the gar
ter will, however, be likely to cling to
the opinion that our currency is elas
tic enough.
A perfect lady, writing for the Chi
cago Tribune, says that Mr. McDon
ough “has presented to the trustees
of the British Museum the skull and
limb bones of the great race horse
Ormonde." By limbs the writer doubt
less means legs If so, say so.
PAIN IN THE JOINTS
Rheumatic Tortures Ceeee When Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills Make
New Blood.
The first sign of rhenmatism is fre
quently a paiu and swelling in one of
the joints. If not combated in the
blood, which is the seat of the disease,
the poison spreads, affecting other joints
and tissues. Sometimes rheumatism at
tacks the heart and is quickly fatal.
The one remedy that has cured
rheumatism so that it stays cured is Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills. These pills expel
the poison from the blood and restore
the system, so that the poisonous matter
is passed off as nature intended.
Mrs. I. T Pitcher, of No. 130 Mon
mouth street, Newark, N. J., suffered
for about three years from rhenmatism
before she found this cure. She says:
“ It began with a queer feeling in my
fingers. In a little time it seemed ns
though the finger joints had lumps oil
them and I could not get my gloves on.
“Then it grew worse and spread to
my knees. I could not stand up and I
could not sleep nights. My suffering
was more than I can describe. I took a
great deal of medicine, but nothing even
gave me relief until I tried Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.
“ I read an account of a cure in a case
that was exactly like mine and my hus
band got me some of the pills. I took
them for three weeks before I really felt
better but they finally cured me. ”
Mr. Pitcher, who is a veteran and a
member of E. D. Morgan Post, No. 307
of New York, substantiates his wife’s
statement and says that she now walks
without difficulty, whereas a year ago
he was compelled to push her about in a
wheeled chair. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Pitcher are enthusiastic in their praise
of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
For further information, address the
Dr.Williams Medicine Company, Sche
nectady, N.Y.
Peculiar Cause for Murder.
A young man named Gautier mur
dered his stepfather recently at Nan
tes, France, in order that the term of
his service as a conscript might be
one year instead of two years, as the
"only son of a widow.”
CONCERNING .COMMON .SENSE.
The man who knows when not to
talk, possesses judgment of a high
order. People everywhere are dis
playing good judgment by eating
Pillsbury’s Vitos for breakfast. It's
a mighty good thing to be outside of;
try It. _
Publishers Hire Prima Donnas.
In the course of a lawsuit in Lon
don a music publisher stated that
even the greatest composers employ
prima donnas to sing their new songs
all over the country. Otherwise, the
songs would never get known at all.
When Your Grocer Says
he does not have Defiance Starch, you
may be sure he is afraid to keep it
until his stock of 12 oz. packages are
sold. Defiance Starch is not only bet
ter than any other Cold Water Starch,
but contains 16 oz. to the package and
sells for same money as 12 oz. brands.
A Good Heart.
A good heart makes a good face—
perhaps not beautiful or classic, but
fine, sincere and noble. The face will
shine with od behind it. There are
some faces that are quiet even today
that at times seem to have a glow
upon them. There are faces that art
quiet and uninteresting in repose that
light up amazingly with the animation
of talking. There are some who can
never get a good photograph, because
the camera cannot catch the subtle
sparkle of the eye, in which the whole
individuality lies. There are some
whom you would not at first call hand
some, whose faces grow on you with
the constant acquaintance until they
become beautiful to you. For you see
the soul shining; you see the splendor
of a noble character glorifying every
feature. A true beauty in the soul
will come out in the sweetness, the
brightness, the quiet glory of the
face.
Real Elixir of Life.
Contentment is the real elixir of
life. It is the real fountain from
which flows the waters of perennial
youth. Sometimes it costs an effort, a
tremendous effort, to say it is all right,
but the man or woman who can say it
is much better off for thus looking at
the sunny side of the world than the
person who harbors grievances against
all mankind and walks through the
world burdened with the somber
thoughts of his disappointments. The
discontented perhaps never stop to
think how much worse off they could
be; that, no matter how few their
pleasures, there are those in the world
who have few or none at all; that
given health and strength and the full
possession of the senses, they are ad
advantaged and blessed In the race ol
existence.
THE LITTLE WIDOW.
A Mighty Cood Sort of Neighbor to
Have.
“A little widow, a neighbor of mine,
persuaded me to try Grape-Nuts when
my stomach was so weak that it
would not retain food of any other
kind,” writes a grateful woman, from
San Bernardino Co., Cal.
“I had been ill and confined to my
bed with fever and nervous prostra
tion for three long months after the
birth of my second boy. We were in
despair until the little widow’s advice
brought relief.
“I liked Grape-Nuts food from the
beginning, and in an Incredibly short
time it gave me such strength that 1
was able to leave my bed and enjoy
my three good meals a day. In two
months my weight increased from 95
to 113 pounds, my nerves had steadied
down and I felt ready for anything.
My neighbors were amazed to see me
gain so rapidly and still more so
when they heard that Grape-Nuts
alone had brought the change,
“My 4-year-oid boy had eczema,
very bad, last spring and lost his ap
petite entirely, which made him cross
and peevish. I put him on a diet of
Grape-Nuts, which he relished at once.
He improved from the beginning, the
eczema disappeared and now he is
fat and rosy, with a delightfully soft,
clear skin. The Grape-Nuts diet did
it. I will wllbngly answer all in
quirles.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason. Read the little
book, “The Roud to Wellville,” in
pkgt.
When Bernhardt "Faked.”
Some time ago a story was printed
narrating how Mme. Bernhardt once,
in Detroit, delivered an impassioned
speech in one of her plays, which was
composed of invective in choice
French, against the Detroit hotels.
During the delivery she wept cop
iously, grew furious, went through all
her paces, and the audience, thinking
it was beholding and hearing some
thing grand and tragic, thrilled and
applauded. Some have seen fit to
question the veracity of this story,
which was told by a man who sat in
that audience and heard all that was
spoken. But if confirmation is need
ed it can now be furnished, and on
the authority of a man, not at pres
ent in this country, whose name was
long connected with the management
of French players and grand opera
singers—particularly the latter. It
was in Mme. Bernhardt’s engagement
at the Standard theater, some years
ago, that she affirmed one night be
fore the play began that the Ameri
can public were the easiest to fool
of any in the world, and to prove her
point she went out on the stage and in
dulged, during a highly emotional
scene, in the most utterly incongruous
impromptu dialogue. Her scene was
rewarded with tremendous applause,
and, coming off through the flies, she
remarked triumphantly, "You see? I
told you so!”
Some people may consider this a
triumph of histrionic ability. Others
may dub it by the harsh term artis
tic insincerity, and think twice about
using the word artistic. Anyhow,
such are the facts.
Plant for Sothern and Marlowe.
E. H. Sothern has made the follow
ing announcement concerning the
plans for the future of his artistic
alliance with Julia Marlowe: “Next
season we plan to produce ‘Cymbe
line,’ ‘As You Like It’—in which I
shall play Touchstone—and ‘King
Lear.’ In addition to these three re
vivals we shall also use the six in
which we have already been seen, so
that we shall next season have a rep
ertory of nine Shakespearan plays.
Miss Marlowe and myself hope to be
associated professionally for some
years to come. We have in mind
other than Shakespeare’s plays. As
a matter of fact, both Miss Marlowe
and myself have a number of such
plays in hand and still others are be
ing written for us. We shall also
make a revival of Hauptmann’s play,
‘The Sunken Bell,’ which I did a few
years ago. Another of our plays will
undoubtedly be ‘Fenris the Wolf,’ by
Percy Mackaye, a son of the late
Steele Mackaye. The piece appeals
to me greatly. I consider it W’ag
nerian in theme and treatment, and
I am desirous of producing it.
Apropos, when we next present ‘Ham
let’ it will be done with all the in
cidental music used in the play by
Ludwig Barnay.”
Eddie Foy’s Confidence.
Eddie Foy of “The Earl and the
Girl” has no patience with men
ashamed of their race or nativity.
“Are you Irish?” he asked one day
of a well known player, whose name
was the question's best answer.
“No,” replied that gentleman. “I
came originally from Washington.”
Then he added: “Are you Irish?”
“I should say not!” responded Mr.
Foy, with mock indignation. “I came
originally from heaven!”
Pergonal Mention.
Blanche Walsh has never played In
a modern society comedy since “Aris
tocracy” until she took up “The Wom
an in the Case.”
Wagenhals & Kemper are to^man
age Annie Russell for five years, be
ginning next September. Three plays
have been obtained for her.
Mrs. Charles G. Craig, the famous
character actress is this season play
ing the unique role of the old Negro
mammy in “A Wife’s Secret.”
Miss Clara Martin, who has been
singing the Lutey character in “Peggy
from Paris” company, is about to re
tire from the stage to be married.
Viola Allen’s first appearances in
anything but a Shakespearian play in
two seasons are being made in “The
Toast of the Town,” by Clyde Fitch.
William Gillette might be said to
havp a monopoly upon the use of the
hypodermic syringe on the stage. It
figures in both “Clarice” and “Sher
lock Holmes.”
James K. Hackett has decided to
interrupt the long engagement at the
Savoy of “The Walls of Jericho," and
replace it by Herman K. Viele’s "The
House of Silence.”
Blanche Walsh’s gowns for "The
Woman in the Case” this season were
all designed for her in New York. It
is an American play, and she wears
American costumes.
One of the features of Lottie Blair
Parker's “Under Southern Skies” at
the Globe, will be the singing by a
sextet of the old plantation melodies
famous a generation ago.
Miss Julia Sanderson, the celebrat
ed beauty and prima donna in “Fan
tana,” was born in 1885 in Philadel
phia, and made her professional debut
in the chorus of “Winsome Winnie”
at the Casino in New York.
Doris Keene stepped from the best
circles of New York society to one of
Charles Frohman's traveling com
panies. Last season she was in "The
Other Girl,” and this year she plays
the ingenue role in “De Lancey.”
So great a success has been the
production of the musical comedy,
“The Belle of New York,” at the
Bijou that Mrs. Spooner is negotiat
ing for an original musical comedy
that will have its premiere at the
Bijou.
Mme. Bernhardt considers Miss
Margaret Anglin the greatest Ameri
can actress, and Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell the greatest English actress;
Richard Mansfield the greatest Ameri
can actor, Forbes Robertson the great
est English actor.
William Collier will continue in “On
the Quiet” throughout the present
season. His new play, “The Heart of
a Sparrow,” which he will produce
in Boston, will be presented for only
one week this season, returning after
that week to “On the Quiet.”
Kate Lester, Joseph Kilgour, Bijou
Fernandez, Luke Martin, Herbert
Mackenzie, Richard Lambert, John C.
Dixon, Marion Little, Margaret Wych
erly and James J. Corbett oomplete
the cast' for Stanislaus Stange's ver
sion of Bernard Shaw’s “Cashel By
ron's Profession,” which will soon be
staged.
miss Virginia Harnea nas closed
her season in Pierre Berton’s play,
“La Belle Marseillaise,” and as yet
has made no definite arrangements
for her appearance in another star
ring vehicle under the management
of Charles Frohman, who produced
the Berton drama at the Knicker
bocker theater.
Charles Frohman states that, al
though Sothern and Marlowe propose
producing "Jeanne d’Arc” within a
year, it has not been arranged that the
production shall be under his manage
ment, as his contract with Sothern
and Marlowe does not extend to that
time. This production may be made
at the expiration of his contract.
It now is announced in New York
that Clara Morris will be seen again
on the stage. She has signed a con
tract with Henry Miller which binds
her to appear in a new play which will
be produced in the early spring under
his management. The play is by a
young and unknown author and the
role Miss Morris will assume is that
of the mother of the hero. She is
dumb, but it is an important factor
in the plot. The entire role will be
played in pantomime.
Charles Frohman has arranged by
cable to extend for a long run at the
Comedy theater, London, “The Moun
tain Climber,” which he produced at
that theater about a month ago with
Huntley Wright. The play has scored
tremendously as a laugh maker,
equally the hit of “Are You a Mason?”
With this is used the one-act play,
“The Little Father of the Wilderness,”
which is now being played by Francis
Wilson In this country. “The Moun
tain Climber” will be produced in New
York at Easter with Mr. Wilson in
Wright’s role.
Eleanor Robson has begun the re
hearsals of Clyde Fitch's new play,
“The Girl Who Has Everything,” and
will produce it at the Euclid avenue
opera house in Cleveland on Feb. 1.
The plot of the comedy is kept a pro
found secret by all concerned, but it
is made known that Miss Robson will
have the role of Sylvia Lang, a young
woman who starts out with "every
thing” but who finds herself face to
face with many responsibilities which
she meets with the courage and
cheerfulness that characterize the
American woman at her best. The
pivot of the play is a triumph of char
acter and soul over environment.
Three of the acts take place in a
fashionable quarter of New York and
a fourth in a Harlem apartment house.
Mr. Fitch is supervising the rehear
sals.
Hearth Mates.
In the long, long nights of winter.
When the frost is at the door.
When the wind cries round the casement:
"Summer comes no mor°"—
Memory, smiling, brings us treasure
From her store.
When the lonely storm, grown wilder,
Shrieks Its rune of death and fate,
When misfortune's footsteps linger
Near the close barred gate—
Hope, beside the hearthstone nestled,
Whispers: "Wait!”
Over road and doorway drifted
Heaps the star dust of the snow,
Yet we reck not—since beside us.
In the firelight’s glow.
Leaps the deep-eyed Love that all men
Fain would know.
—Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald in New
Orleans Tlmes-Demucrat.
Kind Deed Received Reward.
‘‘Not long ago,' said the major, “I
found Capt. Samuel Hart is at one of
the colored kindergartens on the
South 'Side. He seemed greatly in
terested, not only in the children and
teachers, but in all the colored peo
ple. He told me later that on one oc
casion, while in command of a detach
ment of his regiment, the Fifth Michi
gan cavalry, he lost his way, and
would have ridden into a strong force
of rebels, had not a young colored
man explained the situation so clearly
as to enable him to avoid the enemy.
‘‘This led him to observe closely,
and in the last year of the war he was
cognizant of so many cases in which
the loyalty and sympathy of colored
men were put to a severe test that he
became the friend of their race for
all time. Capt. Harris, by the way
commanded a detachment at the fam
ous Dahlgren raid on Richmond, in
March, 1864. He led the charge on
the Westham road, in which he was
severely wounded. He was captured
a few days later, was taken to Rich
mond, and, on the theory that the
Dahlgren raiders had intended to
capture Jefferson Davis, was sentenc
ed by a drum head court-martial to be
hanged.
“Two months before he started on
the raid Capt. Harris had found a
Mrs. Brooke and four children starv
ing. He secured food for them and
provided for them the ordinary com
forts of life. Mrs. Brooke told him
that her husband was in the Confed
erate army, and that she herself had
been the schoolmate and friend of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis. A few days later she
w’rote Mrs. Davis at Richmond tell
ing the story of the Union officer's
kindness to herself and children, and
saying in conclusion: ‘If Lieut. Sam
uel Harris of the Fifth Michigan cav
alry should ever fall into your hands
do what you can for him for my sake.’
“This letter reached Mrs. Davis,
and when it was announced to ‘Mr.
Davis that one of the officers of the
Dahlgren raiders who had penetrated
the outer fortifications of Richmond,
had been sentenced to death and was
to be executed at once, Mrs. Davis
asked his name. On being told that
the wounded officer waiting in a
wagon outside was Lieut. Samuel Har
ris, she reminded her husband of
Mrs. Brooke’s letter, and sent Capt.
Waller of Davis’ staff to inquire as to
the identity of the officer under sen
tence of death. Waller came to the
wagon, and after a few questions told
Harris that he would not be hanged.
Mrs. Davis had secured a reprieve.
"Harris was sent to Libby prison,
where his wounds received careful at
tention. All of Mr. Davis’ cabinet in
sisted that he should be hanged, but
Mr. Davis declared that he should be
treated as any other prisoner of war.
The surgeon gave Harris one chance
in a hundred to live, but he recovered
and is active in business in Chicago
to-day. In 1895 Capt. Harris visited
Mrs. Davis at Narragansett Pier and
thanked her for saving his life in
1864. All the circumstances were re
called, and the captain learned by a
visit to Richmond the whereabouts
of the daughter of Mrs. Brooke and
others who had played a part in his
little war drama. In 1897 Capt. Har
ris met In New Orleans Col. Armand
Hawkins, provost marshal in Rich
mond in 1864, who was preparing to
hang Harris when he received an or
der from Mr. Davis not to do so. All
of Capt. Harris’ friends know this
story, but it is worth the telling again
and again.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
First Uniforms of Gray.
“Gen. Robert E. Lee was the first
man who discovered that all armies
were improperly uniformed,” observ
ed a well known army officer, "and he
was so strongly convinced that he
was right that he abolished the blue
uniform worn by the cadets at West
Point, and substituted the gray,
which has been worn ever since in its
place.
"Gen. Lee was In. command of the
military academy at West Point some
years before the civil war, and it
was there he put his ideas and re
forms into operation. He was, accord
ing to the records, the first officer
in any army who favored inconspicu
ous uniforms. The khakis, drab and
blue, which are universally used by
the armies of the world to-day as
campaign uniforms, are the direct
result of his original thought and con
sideration. Other officers may have
thought along the same lines with
him, but he was the first to start the
reform. Of course, he met with vio
lent opposition, for soldier people, as
a rule, are in favor of as much dis
play as possible, but he never let up.
"The first organization that adopt
ed his suggestion was the famous
Seventh regiment of New York city
and which has worn gray since, fol
lowed soon by the equally famous
Fifth regiment of Baltimore. Mary
land, national guard. Others soon
fell into line. Only recently, in study
ing over the reports on this subject
on file in the war department at
Washington I ran across the reports
of the then Major Lee. His only
fault in the matter, like those of all
pioneers, was that he was fifty years
ahead of his times, which always he '
been, and, I presume, always will be,
an unpardonable sin.
"In these reports M”Jor Lee not
only urged the abolition of conspicu
ous uniforms for campaigns, but he
went even further in recommending
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that arms, accoutrements, cannon and
all the things used in the business
of war should be without polish or
glisten. His idea has also been uni
versally adopted by all the armies ot
the world, and to-day it would be a
violation of all rules for a soldier in
a campaign to have anything about
him, even to a button on his cloth
ing, which has even the slightest pol
ish or even susceptible of polish.
“For play soldiers and dress par
ades fancy colors, polish and glisten
will do well enough, but for cam
paigns it is a thing of the past. Had
the armies of Europe discovered this
years before they did their lists of
killed and wounded would have been
considerably less than what they
were.
“Nine-tenths of the people of the
north and south think that gray had
some connection with the south on its
own account, never dreaming that
gray was first worn in the north by
the cadets of West Point, where it
is still used as a dress uniform, and
by the leading military organizations
of the north, notably in New York
and Boston. General Lee, when
called upon to organize the army of
the south, put into practical operation
the ideas he had formed long before
he had even dreamed of the civil
war.
“This explains also the reason why
he was less strict in having the sol
diers of the confederate army wear
their pretty clothes during the war.
He had found out by his study and
observation that the less show and
display meant the less casualties, and
he sought the latter. The campaign
uniform of to-day the world over was
his ideal, and he did all he could to
carry it into effect.”—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Christmas in the Army.
Recollections sometimes go by con
trasts.
Christmas beigg a season of abund
ance and good cheer, of happy greet
ings and the exchange of tokens of
affection, I am reminded of the
Christmas of 1863—of a cheerless,
anxious Christmas of hardtack, beans
and coffee.
The shelter was a tent, the weather
was bitter cold, the place Chattanoo
ga, the winter headquarters of the
Union army. I was a second lieuten
ant in command of a company. Our
army was being reorganized prepara
tory to an advance upon Atlanta.
We had about recovered from
Chickamauga, Lookout mountain and
Missionary ridge, and had driven
Bragg back. J. C. Johnson had taken
command. Grant had been trans
ferred to the army of the Potomac
Supplies were scarce, and it was a
period of great anxiety to all who
took a broad view of the military sit
uation.
I remember Christmas day—I don’t
know why the rest of the Christmases
of the war period are not impressed
on my recollection; perhaps it was
because of the unusual absence of all
that goes to make the day and season
one of joy and of thanksgiving. There
was no deviation from the routine to
mark the day. The rations were the
same old be»ns, the same hard tack
and pork, and I don’t remember that
anybody got or gave a present. It
was a dark gray Christmas—an excel
lent background for more cheery ones
which were to follow.—Senator For
aker of Ohio.
Lunatic’s Big Pension.
An accrued pension of $9,348 in a
lump sum, together with payments oi
$30 a month, has just been awarded
by Pension Commissioner Warner tc
an old soldier of the civil war, whc
is a patient in the government hos
pita! for the insane here, says the
New York Tribune. It is the largest
pension claim settled by the new com
missioner since he has been in office
The sum has been accumulating for
many years, the soldier himself, on
account of his unbalanced mental
condition, not being aware that he
was entitled to a pension. It was
brought to the attention of the pen
sion authorities by the superintend
ent of the insane asylum.
The pension was allowed on the
ground that the soldier, who fought
in the Twenty-first United States In
fantry, contracted insanity in the ser
vices of the United States. The un
usual thing about this pension case is
that the money allowed for the claim
is simply transferred by one depart
ment of the government to another
The pensioner gets no special bene
fit out of his new-found fortune, as it
goes to pay the expenses for his main
tenance ever since he lost his mind
The additional fund, which is being
paid in monthly installments, how
ever, will be sufficient to give him add
ed comforts. The unfortunate man’s
condition is such that he will not be
able to realize the sudden good for
tune that has been thrust on him.
Unrecognized Heroes of the War.
We often recall the courage, forti
tude, the splendid manhood of the
engineers on the military railroads
not to mention other trainmen, says
Lieut.-Col. J. A. Watrous. Thousands
of trains loaded with soldiers or pro
visions for soldiers or war equipment
were courageously engineered through
sections of the south where not a
mile was made without danger o*
loss of life, but there is not a cast
on record where one of these brave
patriotic men hesitated to go. no mat
ter how great the danger or how little
chance of reaching the point of des
tination.
First "Carnegie” Library.
In thcs~ lays when Carnegie librar
ies p-c so plentiful it will come as a
-c*t. r of surprise that the little town
>f Rowe (Mass.) was the first to get
one. Search of the old records ol
the town shows that in the very
early days a man by the name of Car
negie gave what was then a liberal
amount of money for building a
library for the town.
There le no Rochelle Salts, Alum,
Llmeor Ammonia In food made with
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Perfect In quality.
Moderate In price.
Names Children After States.
S. T. Dodson, a farmer of the South
Canadian valley, proved himself very
patriotic in naming his ten children
after some of tha states of Uncle
Sam’s empire. His six daughters are
named Virginia, Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Idaho and Jersey. The Dod
son boys are na-red Missouri, Ohio,
Tennessee and Texas.—Kansas City
Journal.
How’s This ?
We offer One Hundred Doliar, Reward for any
Crane of Catarrh that canuot be cured by Had'a
Catarrh Cure.
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ne. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hon
orable In all business transaction* and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
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directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation.
A Substitute.
"Are you going to get that automo
bile which the doctor ordered for
your wife?” "Can’t afford it, but we
have almost the real thing. She puts
on a pair of gasoline cleaned gloves,
takes a long, long ride on the front
seat of a trolley car, and walks back ”
Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children,
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
In the Children’s Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 tes
timonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N.Y.
Balmy Sleep.
"Blessed be he who first invented
sleep.” Dew old Sancho Panza. You
were quite right. A monument Im
pressive as Bartholdi’s to liberty in
New York bay ought to rise to that in
ventor of “balmy sleep.”
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES.
Itching. Blind. Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Drug
gists are authorized to refund money If PAZO
OINTMENT falls to cure In 6 to 14 days. 50c.
A man does not make an owl of
himself by making a donkey of others.
ACME DYSPEPSIA CURE
Positive cure for all diB^aseaof stomach, liver,
and bowels. Recommended by loading physi
cians The cure that cures 100 tablets *1.00.
Send money with order to Acme Dyspepsia
Cure Co., Ironist New Jersey.
The heart that burns with love is
the only thing that overcomes hatred.
Lewis’ Single Binder Cigar has a rich
taste. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory,
Peoria, ILL
It is well enough to die happy, but
it is far better to live that way.
Try me just once amt I am sure to
come again. Defiance Starch.
Bad Spelling.
Bad spelling, Says Benjamin Frank
lin in one of his letters, is generally
the best, as conforming to the sounds
of the letters and words. To give you
an instance. A gentleman received a
letter in which were these words:
“Not finding Brown at hom, I delivered
your meseg to his yf.” The gentleman,
finding it bad spelling and, therefore,
not very intelligible, called his lady to
help him to read it. Between them
they picked out the meaning of all but
the yf, which they could not under
stand. The lady proposed to call her
chambermaid, because “Betty,” says
she “ha the best knack of reading
bad spelling of any one I know.” Betty
was surprised that they could not tell
who yf was . “Why,” says she, “yf
spells wife, what else can it spell?”
Knew Better Than Before
One day recently, says the Roman
correspondent of the London Tablet,
Cardinal Macchi administered solemn
baptism, in the chapel of the little
Company of Mary, to a sturdy little
American convert of eleven years.
His mother did her best to argue him
out of his desire to become a Catholic,
but ever she capitulated when, after
reminding him how much his dead
father was opposed to Catholics the
little fellow replied: “Oh mother, I
guess papa knows more now.”
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