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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA. When Suspicion goes a-hunting it will always find Insincerity lurking in the bushes. There is one form of swearing off that is never broken, and that's swearing off taxes. If France has any idea that war is a picnic it should consult its ally, Russia, on the subject. Dr. Emil Reich says “the American woman is not a woman." Right you are, doc. She’s an angel. There are three things which no woman can hope to understand—base ball, time tables and husbands. Once more the doughty Fitz is find ing married life a sweet song and time will tell how long it will be. The world’s output of gold last year was $375,000, though we do not say so of our own personal knowledge. However, we can testify that a man doesn’t have to be a czar in order to have his bills larger than his in come. The papers are printing a story about a man in Massachusetts who has lived for forty years on nuts. Doughnuts? As if it wasn’t hard enough to reach the north pole by the ordinary route this man Wellman proposes to go there in an airship. Yes, Rollo; you are right in sup posing that “martial law” and “mar ital law” are not the same thing. They are spelled differently. . "■ — ■■■ • Gertrude Atherton says there is no place in this country quiet enough for her to write in. Gertie writes very noisy stuff, you know. It develops that Pittsburg’s heiress servant girl is no heiress. Perhaps she just tried to figure out relation ship to Jacob Schiff's cook. Belgium and Holland can hardly be blamed for feeling a little nervous, considering how their big neighbors on both sides are carrying on. Now Dr. Wiley announces that dan ger lurks in the average barber shop. Well, some of us have had mighty close slaves there, that’s a fact. The girls are getting pretty stren uous when twelve Chicago men have to form an organization and take an oath to keep from getting married. Persia is threatened with a rebel lion. Perhaps the boy got the cards mixed on the Christmas presents which the shah bought for the harem. The value of New York's real es tate has increased $40,000,000 in the past year. That is what comes of be ing an island entirely surrounded with water. Sir Thomas Lipton feels sure he can win the America’s cup this time. Sir Thomas should take something for that sure feeling or it will break him yet. Zadkiel, the London astrologer, gives these instructions for to-day: "Keep quiet. Do not quarrel.” Even an astrologer says sensible things sometimes. A man is dead who had read 8,000 novels and for month after month “all the leading magazines." There is no dispute but that he died from natural causes. A New York lawyer has explained his challenge of a juror on the ground that he doesn’t like newspaper men on juries. Well, newspaper men gen erally are intelligent. A patent medicine firm prints a pic ture of a man sawing wood as "Grand pa’s Cure.” Nonsense, grandpa never sawed the wood. He made his be loved grandson saw it. From Tacoma, Wash., comes the story of a rat two feet in length. Of course, a community that can sustain a rodent of that size is an excellent place for the growth of anything. Intercollegiate football reform is getting somewhat involved and com plicated. It might be well to issue a blue book on the subject to show the wayfarer about how far it has progressed. It seems that there are 676 em ployes in the departments at Wash ington who have reached the age of 70, but experience has shown that some men are younger at 70 than others are at 32. If you want to go to Athens this year, it is suggested that you try for a place on the American team at the Olympic games. Somebody will go on it; why not you, you narrow-chest ed, spindle-shanked, string-arm? Why not? Sir Thomas Llpton has given an other cup for an ocean yacht race. The eminent tea merchant has found that it is more blessed—and easier— to give than to receive. Still he’s a good old sport, and we wish him all kinds of luck in his cups. An attempt is being made in a will case to show that the testator was insane because, among other things, he always slept at all season of the year with his windows wide open. The time may come when the contrary habit will be regarded as prima facie evidence of an unsound mind. Baron Takahaskl says that Japan will distribute 175,000,000 among the officers and men of her army and navy as a bonus, in addition to pen sions. This will make things easier in case Japan has another v • : - . A DESPAIRING WOMAN. Weak, Nervous and Wretched From Wasting Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Henry A. Reamer, Main and Garst Sts., South Bend, Ind., says: i ^ “When I began using Doan's Kid ney rails i was so weak I could hardly drag my self across the P, vous, and had : backache, bear ing-down pain, headache, dizzl JK'JkKt ness an<* weak v'-'V eyes. Dropsy set in and bloating of the chest choked me and threatened the heart. I had little hope, but to my untold surprise Doan’s Kidney Pills brought me re lief and saved my life, I shall never forget it." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Getting on to the ropes of trickery ends in getting into them. Rich, Juicy Radishes Free. Everybody loves juicy, tender radishes. Salzer knows this, hence he offers to send you absolutely free sufficient radish seed to keep you in tender radishes all sum mer long and his great SALZEB'S BARGAIN SEED BOOK, with its wonderful surprises and great bargains in seeds at bargain prices. 1 Tlie enormous cro w on our seed farms the past season compel us to issue this special catalogue. BEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAT. and receive the radishes and the wonder ful Bargain Book free. Remit 4c and we add a package of Cos mos the most fashionable, serviceable, beautiful annual flower. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Drawer W., La Croese, Wis. Words of a silent man are never repeated in court. Worth Knowing —that Alleock's are the original and only genuine porous plasters: all other so-called porous plasters are imitations. There is a remedy for ignorance but none for knowing too much. Acme Dyspepsia Cure. Positive cure for all diseases of vtomach. liver, and bowels. Recommended by leading physician*. The jure that cure*. 100 tablet* 11.00. Send money with jrder to Acme Dyspepsia Cure Co.v Ironia, New Jersey. Many a man is breaking his back under a bag of shadows. 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. White Means Weddings. “To get married, dress in white,” is advice that is offered to would-be prides, for it is estimated that, in doors or out, morning, afternoon or •vening, marriage proposals are often 5r made to girls when they are wear ing white than when they are dressed in material of any other shade. Largest Oak Tree. In the Friends’ burial grounds, in Salem. N. J., there stands the largest oak tree in the state, and possibly the largest in the United States. It is now used as the “trade mark” of the New Jersey Forestry association. rou HAVE NO RIGHT TO 8UFFER From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to C3rry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary janal where it decays and poisons the en tire system. Eventually the results are death under the name of some other dis sase. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach ' and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of na ture promptly. Lack of exercise. Exces sive brain work. Mental emotion and im proper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation ? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheu matism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. It is the one disease that starts all others. Indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, loss of sleep and strength are its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its consequences are known to all physicians, but few sufferers realize their condition until it is too late. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this? JL Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is “are you constipated?” That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The oominon error is to resort to physics, such as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil, in jections, etc., every one of which is in jurious. They weaken and increase the malady. You know this by your own ex perience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic at once. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively cure Constipation and Stomach Trouble in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has before been known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. Q. What is Mull's Grape Tonic? A. It is a Compound with 40 per cent, of the juice of Concord Graj>es. It exerts a peculiar strengthening, healing influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unaided. The process is gradual, but sure. It is not a physic, but it cures Constipation. Dysentery, Stomach and Bowel Trouble. Having a rich, fruity grape flavor, it is pleasant to take. As a tonic it is unequalled, insuring the system against disease. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. . Where can Mull’s Grape Tonic be ? A. Your druggist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50 cent size. Good for ailing children and nursing mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. . MO FREE BOTTLE *36 FREE, fiend this coupon with your name and I address, your druggist's name and 10c. to pay postage and we will supply you a sample free. If you have never used Mull's Grape Tonic, and will also send you a certificate good for il.uo toward the purchase of more Tonic from your druggist. Moll's Goafs Tonic Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, 111. Oiv* Full Addrttt and WriU Plainly. 89 cent, 90 cent and s 1.00 bottles at all druggists. The 8UW bottle contains about six times as much as the 33 cent bottle and about three times as mnch as the 90 cent bottle. There Is a great saving In buying the 61.00 size. The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from Tour druggist. \ Pekin Ducks The Pekin ducks take the lead over all other ducks, first, on account of their rapid growth. If they are prop erly cared for they can be made to weigh five pounds at ten weeks old, and can be marketed when prices are the highest. Second, on account of their strong, healthy frames and long bodies there is never anything amiss with them. They should have plenty of water to drink, but do not need any to swim in. Care should be taken that they always have plenty of sharp grit where they can get it I usually keep a box of grit in their drinking dishes. Here in the west ducks are not mated until about February 1st, but the eastern breeders have large droves of young ducks by that time. They raise them for the New York and Boston markets, where the people have had their taste educated to like green duck. The people of Chicago have not yet reached the point where they are willing to pay eastern prices for green duck. I try to have my ducks begin laying In February. Most of the eggs first layed are not very fertile. To obviate this difficulty I generally set two ducks at a time. If part of the eggs are infertile, this can be found out by testing them and the fertile eggs put in one incubator, if he is using incubators. February is not too early to commence incubation. My first feed is infertile eggs chopped fine with bread crumbs, to which is added a little chick grit. After about a week I take johnny cake, made from one half shorts, one-half corn meal, \**iich I feed about one more week. I then take about one-third corn meal, one third bran and one-third shorts, and use these for the feed. We cannot always get bran or shorts here. 1 have had drakes hatched about July 10th weigh ten pounds early in Decem ber. There is no class of poultry so easily raised, nor is there anything in the animal kingdom that can be turned into money as quickly as ducks. They never have lice except head lice. We always put a little grease on their heads. Bees will kill ducks if they run where tnere is white clover. They will catch the bees and the latter will sting them in the throat. This causes suffocation. Ducks not yarded nights will run themselves to death moon light nights.—Mrs. Charles Jones, Illi nois. How Far Can Fowls Ce Shipped? I have made many shipments of fowls to Australia and New Zealand, as well as to Germany, Argentine Re public, Honolulu and England, and have for some years covered North America with shipments practically every month in the year. I have found it almost without exception to be advisable to ship fowls if properly crated and under proper conditions to any part of the Globe, and believe that arrangements could be made to for ward a pen of thrifty birds around the world, without any special detri ment to them. It is not advisable to ship eggs to such distances as will take more than seven or eight days to forward them. Conditions are all against them; though I have a customer who is anxious to try the shipping of a set ting to Australia. It would take from thirty to sixty days to land them in bis hands. * ua*c uittuc rtrpemeu snipmenis oi eggs from the very eastern part of Massachusetts as far west as Van couver, and had my customer get as good results from them as though they were In the next state. I think that the above answer covers some what the radius of the territory which can be covered by one who advertises widely. I am at thp present time using a South African advertising medium and expect results from it. Shall have to state to you frankly that 1 have found in mop' instances that it is only the English speaking people who are ready to pay a price such as to make a satisfactory foreign traae, for the expense of shipping stock and to get a fair value for them is such that as yet the foreign speaking people are not ready to make many or liberal pur chases, with the exception of Ger many. One reason for this is, I think, that it takes poultry exhibitions to create a demand for fancy stock, and these, if conducted at all, are in a small way with other people than the English speaking. I find it no more difllcult to hold customers at a distance than those who are located near by, fur with the mail order business the same as with a face to face trade, it is the satisfied customer who comes again.—Arthur G. Duston, Middlesex Co., Mass. The Use of Whitewash. Whitewash cannot be used too frequently In the hen houses or is at least not likely to be. It Is a great germicide and when disease germs and poultry lice are buried under it their course is fin ished. Whitewash has the virtue of filling up the unsightly places, and a rough board holds more of it than a smooth one. Some men whitewash their poultry houses only once a year; some twice a year, but the man that gives a monthly application is taking one of the surest ways of protecting h.s flock against lice and disease. Height of the Roosts. There is no necessity in having roosts more than two or three feet from the ground, and if they are all on a level so much the better for the fowls. Where the roosts are four or five feet above the ground, the heavy fowls find it very difficult to get up to them and some times equally difficult to get down. Many a heavy fowl has her leg broken or breast bone twisted or the wings bruised by jumping from a four-foot perch to a hard wooden floor. Letter Tangle. Whole: I am a jewel rare. Beheaded: A nobleman, I declare. Curtailed: A luscious fruit I give to you. Beheaded and curtailed: Without me you’d dislike to do. —Farmer’s Sentinel. Mushrooms In the Cellar. The winter is a good time for the farmer with an experimental turn of mind to try growing some mushrooms. He doubtless has his furnace going and the temperature of his cellar will vary from 50 to 70 degrees. This tem perature is well suited to the growing of mushrooms. Spawn will cost about 25c per pound, but a single pound will go a long way. The material used for foundation is horse manure. This should be thrown into a heap, first rak ing out the loose straw. Make a pile of this in the stable in some corner and tramp it firm. After ten days this mass will be found to be heating, when it should be forked over and again packed tight. In a few days this mass will again be heating, but need not be disturbed unless the heating reaches the point of “flre-fang ing.” At this time this can be put into boxes in the cellar, putting about 18 inches in each box. It should be watched for a few days, and if it be found that the temperature is drop ping the spawn may be put into it. The spawn should be broken up into pieces perhaps an inch through and inserted for an inch or two under the surface. No water should be applied at this time, but the bed should be packed firmly. At the end of a week the bed may be opened a little to see if the spawn is spreading. This will be in dicated by white threads running all through the mass. These threads are the body of the mushroon plant and each thread is known as a mycelium. Masses of these combine to form one plant, and when they have permeated the soil thoroughly, they draw nour ishment from all parts to develop fruit. This fruit is pushed out towards the surface and is the part that we call the mushroom. It in turn produces seeds which are known as spores, and In the case of Agaricus campestrus, which is the ordinary mushroom of commerce, these spores are pink in color, and for that reason people say that these mushrooms have pink gills* The most delicious mushrooms are those that are gathered when they are in the button stage, which is the mush room before the cap is expanded. This is not, however, the most econoro'ial time at which to gather the mush rooms. It is better to wait until they have attained the diameter of two or three Inches, at which time the cap will be fully expanded and the stem well developed. The stem of this variety is more valuable than the stems of most varieties, and it is al most solid. Many varieties of mush rooms have hollow stems. The mush room should be more widely cultivated for home use than it has been. To a certain extent it takes the place ol meat, as in its habits it leans more towards the animal kingdom than the vegetable kingdom. Most vegetables throw off oxygen and take in carbon The mushroom throws off carhop, as do the animals, and takes in oxygen It is very rich in nitrogen and in many localities of Europe takes the place ol meat. To Orchard a Hilltop. A reader of the Farmers’ Review asks if it will be safe for him to plant an orchard on a grassy hillside. It is difficult to give reliable advice on a question of this kind without being “on the ground.” so much depends on location, condition of land, object in planting and, above all, the man be hind the venture. If the land has been growing good grass for many years the soil is pretty well filled with roots and it would be safe to plow all the ground as the sod and roots would prevent washing for a season or two I would plow lengthwise of the hill also plant trees and do all cultivation same way—never up and down Ground should be kept loose and cleaD for at least four feet around the trees all season. I would plant some kind of hoed crop, as potatoes, beans, ot even corn the first year, after which cow peas make an ideal orchard crop Tjiey may be cut for hay, or, bettei yet, be left on the ground as a winter covering, to prevent erosion and pro vide an abundance of plant food for future use of trees. In four or five years the trees ought to begin to bear, and I would then sow grass again, which would be cut and piled under the trees or left unraked on the ground, to decay Witu this treatment I believe a good orchard can be grown on hillsides, and made to produce profitable crops with out the use of fertilizers, for many years at least. If for any reason the planter feels certain that the above treatment will not hold the soil', my plan would be to dig a place for each tree. Then spade up the ground for a few feet around them and mulch heavily with the cut grass as soon as possible in the season. While I am not an advo cate of this method of growing trees in sod ground by mulching, I am con . vinced there are certain conditions under which it might succeed.—Jno. A. Gage, Jefferson Co., 111., in Farmers’ Review. tnecuve miik strainers. The matter of strainers for milk Is not a small one, as every man knows that has tried to produce sanitary milk. So unsatisfactory has been the use of st-alners that there are here and there creameries tt-at win not accept strain ed milk. They say that the farmer must produce milk so clean that it will not have to be strained, and that the strainer helps to wash the filth from one lot of milk into all subsequent lots of milk. Recent news from Europe tells, however of a strainer invented by a Swede that seems to be very effective. It consist of two wire strainers with an Interposed lay er of cotton. After the milk had been strained, tests were made to discover if it was free from bacteria, and the general result was that it was found to contain none of the disease germs which were known to be in the milk before being strained. The strained milk also kept much longer than the unstrained milk, which went to show that it was improved by the straining process. VIIOG'RESS MADE /A CHIJVA “When a little company of the for eign women living in Shanghai form ed themselves into the Tien Tsu Hui (Natural-Feet society), they were greeted with derision by everybody,” writes Mrs. Archibald Little. “But they gave and collected little sums of money, gave prizes for essays, se lected tracts and had them printed, and themselves circulated them throughout the length and breadth of the vast empire—as big as Europe. When Chinese men in their tens of thousands assembled for their annual or triennial examinations little assort ments of these tracts were given to each competitor to take back to his native village. At last the dowager empress issued an imperial edict. Then one, by one, the great Chinese viceroys issued proclamations against binding generally in response to an in terview or a letter from the organiz ing secretary of the Natural-Feet so ciety. “And now, by last post, a letter from the far west of China says: ‘China is changing in a rapid way; unbound feet is the order of the day for little girls now; foreign style of clothes for boys, and drill every where.’ While from Shanghai comes the most delightful report of the most encouraging side of the movement. The rich Shanghai officials have start ed a Tien Tsu Hui girls’ school for the girls of good family who have either not bound their feet or have unbound them, with the hope that tne girls there educated may eventually become teachers in other schools all □ver China. “Although onl7 Just started, eighty young ladies are already boarding at this school, and when it finished its term the place was packed, chiefly with Chinese gentlemen, to see the results. The granddaughter of the highest official in Shanghai recited 'Mary Had a Little Li mb,’ with great distinctness; a party of little girls sung in chorus, ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Lit tle Star.’ Then all sung a Chinese anti foot-binding song, and there were short piano solos. A feature of the afternoon was a vigorous speech by Mrs. Wang, the greatest lady scholar China boasts. Then all the scholars showed what progress they had made In physical drill. "Thus the unbinding of the feet of the girls of China is gradually de veloping into a movement for their higher education. And when the 200,. 0C 0,000 women of China are set upon their feet again, qualified to learn to sew, to wash, to clean their houses and their children, as well as to learn the elegant accomplishments of Eng lish and music, we may look for an improvement in the whole Chinese race.” STOWES OF THE V/fCAJVJVy Norwegians are much concerned over a strange incident of the fes tivities which welcomed King HaakoD to Christiania. A newspaper thus de scribes it: “At the very time when the royai procession had to pass the ancient fortress of Akerhus there was assembled there a great number of spectators, mostly military, in order to see the new king drive past. While the spectators were waiting to see the king in great excitement a jing ling sound was heard and suddenly the crowned statue of King Oscar fell to the ground. At the same moment the crown fell off and was crushed in the fall. For a moment everyone present felt a little uncomfortable on witnessing this incident; but it was immediately forgotten in watching the royal procession. A few days later some members of the same company were assembled in another part of the town in the house of one of the leaders of the government. The conversation turned on the strange in cident of the statue. In the midst of the conversation a scraping sound was heard and the portrait of King Oscar glided down from the wall and fell to the ground.” A singular dream is related in a well-known British magazine. A wom an suffering from anxiety caused by reduced circumstances dreamed that she went to church. “The people be gat. to go out one by one. I looked around and inquired why they were leaving the church. They said: ‘To look for the magic bird in the church yard.’ I thought I would try and find it, went out and swept away the fall en leaves and found a speckled thrush and as soon as I took it up it dropped £1 ($5) in my hand. The next morn ing I went into our back garden and there among the fallen leaves was the speckled thrush, which had just been killed by a cat. It was yet warm. I said: ‘Here is the magic bird and the money I know will come by post.’ The hope was justified, for £1 came in the morning and a check from a friend in the evening.” A ghost story from the sea: Early in the morning of July 10 the steamer Ettrickdale, when off the Boompjes light, on the north coast of Java, col lided with an Indian bark. One of the Ettriokdale’s firemen, a Greek, jumped overboard and was eaten by sharks. The steamer afterward pro ceeded on her way and for a portion of her voyage was haunted, the crew declare, by the ghost of the Greek. THE T*R\7TH A30VT SAKHALIN Sakhalin Is a Chinese word mean ing black, and is the first word in the Chinese description of the northern half of the island, as “cliffs or rocks at the mouth of the black river.” The island has by no means such a damp, foggy and miserable climate as is generally supposed. A writer says: “Not only does the visitor to the is land in summer experience some of the finest weather he could wish for, but the official meteorological records show the same for past years. In August and September the days are often very hot, though at night the temperature falls to nearly freezing point: but it is not till October that the first snow appears on the hill tops and the winter begins with its dry, healthy cold, like that of Canada, lasting till the following April or May. The island is about 600 miles long and sixteen to 100 miles wide, giv ing an area approximately equal to that of Greece. A mountainous ridge runs along the Island for the whole of its length, flanked by low sand stone hills to the east and west, but of greater extent on the east. “On the western, the warmer side,” 1 the same writer continues, “the forest stretches down to the sea, but on the eastern, as one approaches the Okhotsk sea, whence comes cold, piercing winds, the ‘taiga’’ (Siberian virgin forest) gives place to hills cov ered with white reindeer moss and but few trees, or to broad stretches of tundra near the river mouths. Both hills and valleys in the interior are, for the most part, clad with dense pine forest, three-quarters of the island being so covered. The flora shows a strange admixture of polar and subtropical species, the latter be ing more especially in evidence in the southwest of the island, where the vegetation and scenery resemble that of northern Japan. “To the north the forests are com posed chiefly of larch, pine, birch and other north temperate or polar spe cies, with wild raspberry, bog-myrtle and other undergrowth. On the coasts, on the broad stretches of Si berian tundra, occur various small polar plants. To the south are maple, oak, ash, bamboo, cork tree and other subtropical trees or shrubs. The fauna shows a similar variety.” ELKS If4 CI'RCLE 1)AJVCE The grand curious amusement or the elk, one which many hunters have witnessed, may be called their circle dance. H. W. Skinner of Chi cago sends me his observations in this performance, says Ernest Thomp son Seton in Scribner’s: “About 4 o’clock one afternoon late in August, 1890, I was riding north east up a small stream flowing into one of the tributaries of the Green river, near its source in northwestern Wyoming. The intense heat was only relieved by an occasional faint breath of breeze from the north. My atten tion was attracted by a column of fine, dark brown dust rising ahead of me and on the opposite side of the creek (I was on the south side). “The column of dust looked almost as if caused by a whirlwind. On reaching a point as close to it as 1 could get without crossing the creek —I was perhaps 100 yards from it—1 found that it was caused by a band of elk numbering from twelve to twenty, who seemed to be trotting quite rapidly, with ocasionally awk ward galloping plunges in a circle perhaps thirty feet in diameter. They were going in the same direction as the hands of a watch, in the edge of a little belt of second-growth timber, mainly, I think, quaking asp. “They were moving, not with heads up, but with noses only a foot or two from the ground. My impression is that they were all bulls. Owing to 1 the dense clouds of dust, which oc- | casional light puffs of wind blew al- i most toward me, I could not see very 1 clearly. It seemed to me that they 1 were running about as ‘milling’ cat tle do, except that I never knew cat- I tie to ‘mill’ in such a small bunch. I have related this incident several > times to hunters and trappers, who could offer no explanation of it. There I were large numbers of elk in that i country at the time in bands of vari- I ous sizes.” The remarkable exercise s has no obvious relation to the sexual t instinct or to hygiene, and marks sev- 1 eral important steps in the evolution i of amusement. If to it we could add a little music we should have the es sentials of social dancing. c _____ . TALES OF THE HOffErMOOfi “One of the strangest vocations, to my mind," said a Union square pub lisher, according to the New York Press, “is that of purveyor of honey moon diaries. A woman has all the business in this town. She is a former society leader, and, on the quiet, a sort cf money lender. In her salad days she had many girl friends. She told her story and how she worked these friends for a good liv ing when her husband died, leaving her a silver door plate and a pile of unpaid bills. “It seems that all the girls of a senior class in a certain fashionable seminary decided to keep honeymoon diaries, if they ever had the chance to. The society leader remembered the oath through the years, and when poverty came knocking at her door she laughed at him and went 'c:th to hunt up the diaries. She gained in formation little by little. Then she published her own honeymoon diary anonymously in gilt and red. It had a big circulation among tne select curious. First one and then another E classmate yielded and gave their diaries to be published, and after a bit she had quite a library of them. 1 They are big sellers. The climax ( came when some wag sent her a diary f by mail. It had the first names of all her set, and seemed so natural and intimate that she printed it in purple and silver. “When it was well circulated the wag put a note in a weekly paper, telling the real author of the book. This didn’t feaze the woman much. She just add«' 1 on the title page, ‘By a disgrun*,''d husband, one of the ones i^er.ioned in a previous volume, who wanted to get even.’ “How much are honeymoon diaries? All the way from $2 to $5. People buy them thinking they are going to be let into a. big secret. Very often the reading matter is inane and soft; but Idiotic sayings of intimate friends are occasionally worth a big price.” Whose Say-so is Best? With nearly all medicines put up for sale through druggists, one has to take the maker's say-so alone as to their cura tive value. Of course, such testimony is not that of a disinterested party and accordingly is not to be given the same credit as if written from disinterested motives. Dr. Pierce's medicines, how ever. form a single and therefore striking exception to this rule. Their claims to the confidence of invalids does not rest solely upon their makers’ sav-so or praise. Their ingredients are matters of public knowledge, being printed on each separate bottle wrapper. Thus invalid sufferers are taken Into Dr. Pierce’s full confidence. Scores of leading medical men have written enough to till volumes in praise of the curative value of the several ingredients entering into these well-known medicines. i Amongst these writers we find such tried- * ical lights as Prof. Finley Ellingwood. M. D„ of Bennet Medical College. Chicago; Prof. Hale.of the same clD': Prof. John M. Scud der. M. D.. late of Cincinnati, Ohio; Prof. John King. M. D.. late of Cincinnati. Ohio; Dr. Grover Coo. of New York; Dr. Bartho low. of Jefferson Medical College, of Pa„ and scores of others equally eminent. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures the worst cases of female weakness, prolap sus, anteversion and retroversion and correct* irregularities, cures painful periods, dries up disagreeable and weakening drains, some times known as pelvic catarrh and a multi tude of other diseases peculiar to women. Bear in mind, it Is not a patent nor even a secret medicine, hut the "I avorlte Prescrip tion” of a regularly educated physician, of large experience in the cure of woman’s peculiar ailments who frankly and confid ingly takes his patients Into his full con fidence by telling them lust what his "Pre scription ” is composed of. Of no other medi cine put up for woman's special maladies and sold through druggists, can it be said that the maker is not afraid to deal thus frankly, openly and honorably, by letting every patient using the same know exactly what she is taking. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond ence i9 guarded as sacredly secret and womanly contidences are protected by professional privacy. Address Dr. R. \. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. How to preserve health and beauty i« told in Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Med ical Adviser. It is free. For a paper covered copy send Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buf falo. N. Y., 21 one-cent stamps to cover mailing only; in cloth binding 31 stamps. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation. Sahara’s Area and Population. The Sahara has over one-half the area of the United States. Its popula tion is very small for its area. The Libyan and Nbuian deserts are only a continuation of it to the Red Sea. DOCTOR CURED OF ECZEMA. Maryland Physician Cures Himself—* Dr. Fisher Says: “Cuticura Rem edies Possess True Merit.” "My face was afflicted with eczema in the year 1897. I used the Cuticura Remedies, and was entirely cured. I am a practicing physician, and very often prescribe Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Soap in cases of eczema, and they have cured where other for mulas have failed. I am not in the habit of endorsing patent medicines, but when I find remedies possessing true merit, such as the Cuticura Rem edies do, I am broad-minded enough to proclaim their virtues to the world. I have been practicing medicine for sixteen years, and must say I find your Remedies A No. 1. You are at liberty to publish this letter. G. M. Fisher, M. D., Big Pool, Md., May 24, 1905.” _ Bees are partial to sweet things, put that is poor consolation to the girl who happens to be stung by one. N. A. GARDNER AGAIN PROMOTED General Manager of the Northwestern Is Made a Vice-President. Chicago, Jan. 21st.—Announcement las been made to-day of the pro notion of General Manager William K. Gardner of the Chicago & North western railroad to be a vlce-pree dent of the road. This is an pther chapter in the steady rise of Mr. Gardner since he first entered the service of that road in 1878 as a elegrapher. Other changes have been made imong the vice-presidents of the •oad, who are now four In number, ind each has charge of a certain de partment of the administration of the •oad’s affairs. According to the slate josted they are as follows: Hiram R. McCullough, in charge of freight pas senger traffic; William A. Gardner, n charge of the operation and main enance of the railway of the com pany and of its proprietary railways; Marshall M. Kirkman, in charge of ■eceipts and disbursements, and John M. Whitman, in charge of location and instruction of new lines. William A. Gardner was born in Gardner. 111., March 8, 1859. Since 1878 he has held many positions with :he road, until Dec. 1, 1900, when he was appointed general manager. Game Slaughter in South Africa. Game has become depleted in Africa rom the ruthless slaughter engaged n by reckless hunters. One of these s said to have shot, for no useful lurposes, 150 rhinoceroses, while a lompanion killed 140 more; wheu, rery - appropriately, the hunter was :illed by a rhinoceros. Highest Buildings in Italy. The highest buildinfgs in Italy are he National Museum, at Turin, which 3 342 feet; St. Peter’s Cathedral, 455 eet, and the Church of Gaudenzio, t Novara, 382 feet in height. The lighest structure in the world is the Jiffel tower, in Paris, nearly 1,000 feet a height. Consumption of Tea. The world’s consumption of tea utside of the countries in which it 3 grown may be taken to be about 00,000,000 pounds per annum, valued t 885,000,000. About 90 per cent, of he tea exported from Asia is eon umed by English-speaking people. Japanese men are among the best eedle workers in the world, their nly equals being the women of Rus ia.