Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - - NEBRASKA.
The per capita wealth of the United
States at this present time is $31.73.
Got yours?
That Russian who shot himself to
prove his honesty merely returned a
Scotch verdict.
If Rockefeller loans $200,000,000 to
Russia we know who will own Russia
a few years hence.
The Japanese are animated, per
haps. by a laudable ambition to grow
up with their country.
After living in New York a while,
Mark Twain defines a gentleman as a
biped who is not a lady.
In order to be on the safe side it
may be just as well to eat the un
canned varieties of fish.
Mr. Balfour has managed to squeeze
Into parliament, but he is likely to
find it a very lonesome place.
It is announced that shoes are to
cost more. But let us hope on. It may
presently be cheaper to ride than to
walk.
Granting the correctness of the the
ory of evolution, there must have been
a time when there was no stork.
What?
Yvette Guilbert is back in New
York, but is said to have no naughty
songs. Humph! Why, then, is she in
New York?
Count Witte’s cabinet is breaking
up. This ought to relieve any kind
ling wood stringency that may exist
at St. Petersburg.
The savant who says everybody is
going blind because of electricity
can’t scare us worth a cent. We’ve
seen about everything.
At least Washington should be
made as much of a “model city” as is
possible with frequent congressional
sessions on the premises.
The feeling of Paris toward Jimmy
Hyde is very cordial, says a cable dis
patch. Any time Paris is cross with
a man who has $4,000,000!
Mark Twain insists that he knows
veracity when he sees it a block away.
Then why doesn’t he cross the street
and make its acquaintance?
Boni de Castellane says he is going
to be good hereafter, unless, of
course, he should have the luck to get
his hands on some more money.
The Englishman who says that he
can measure the one-seventy-millionth
part of an inch can safely defy doubt
ers to prove that he is only boasting.
The Chinese, even under Japanese
leadership, are not yet ready to fight
the foreign devil. A premature move
ment will land them in the chop
suey.
A Pennsylvania woman drank caus
tic potash because her hair was turn
ing gray. It did not restore the natural
color, but she won’t worry about it
any longer.
A Boston man who discovered that
he hasn't any bad habits to give up
during Lent says that he won’t be
caught that way again next year.—
Boston Globe.
The Japanese have begun to use
beer instead of sake. This may not
make them taller, but it is likely to
necessitate their letting out their
waistbands occasionally.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned editor who never used to fill a
gap in one of his columns by asking
“what has become of the old-fash
ioned” something or other?
The doctor who predicts that the
world will soon go blind from the ef
fects of electricity might give good
testimony on the progressive soften
ing of the brain from causes unknown.
. Scientists claim that insanity is
caused by microbes. If proof is want
ed they can point to a large number
of people who have grown crazy over
microbes and others who are still go
ing.
It has been decided that men may
eat dinner at the big restaurants in
New York without wearing evening
dress. This is another Important tri
umph for the advocates of personal
liberty. •
_•
Speaking of human nature, the man
who kicks the hardest about the In
crease of IQ cents a hundred pounds
in the price of ice is generally the
man who pays 15 cents for two ounces
of it in a highball.
Now that Pierpont Morgan has paid
$50,000 for some Robert Burns manu
scripts, the conviction of the average
contemporary poet will be strength
ened that all he needs to get good
prices for his stuff is to be dead a
hundred years.
A New York doctor says that skele
tons should not be used in women’s
classes in teaching the principles 'of
first aid to the injured. “Women,” he
declares, “are too feminine to see
skeletons—it makes them nervous.”
And yet every woman has one.
Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes),
when interviewed in London on her
return from this country, said: “Amer
ican women don’t have large families.
* • • America is the paradise
Iof women.” We guess we know where
Mrs. Craigie stands on the race sui
cide question.
Gen. Ramon Guerra, just released
by President Castro after more than
four years’ imprisonment because of
alleged participation in political con
spiracy, is now open to offers from the
editors of enterprising magazines.
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1. Covered Freight Car, All Steel,
Twenty-Fjve Tons Capacity.
2. A Cutting in Khor Kamobsana.
3. Hadendoa Arabs Helping to
Erect a Bridge. t
4. One of the Railway Bridges. £
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5. Map Showing the Connections oi
ie New Line With the Egyptian
tate Railways and the Soudan Gov
rnmsnt Railau/ue
The new line between Atbara Junc
tion and Port Soudan was opened by
Lord Cromer Jan. 27. The work has
been directed by Col. Macauley, R.
E., and has been in progress since
August, 1904. The line, which is 307
miles long, runs from Atbara Junction
to Port Soudan. This last is a better
harbor than Suakin, but Suakin was
used as the eastern base for the con
struction, owing to the greater facili
ties there existing when the line was
begun. The highest point of the rail
way is 3,010 feet above the Red sea.
DETERMINED TO TAKE CHANCE.
Man of Toil Decided to Hold on to His
Pickles.
There were two politicians occupy
ing the same seat in the smoking car
and talking together, and in the seat
ahead was a farmer. Presently one
of the men said:
“Don’t you think China is the slow
and old-fashioned country the news
papers speak of. She is having her
armies officered by the best military
talent in the world, and she is arming
with the latest muskets and artillery.
I tell you, she will be heard from
within another decade.”
“Do you think she will bring on an
other war?” was asked.
“I have no doubt of It. Yes, sir, I
expect to see a war between China
and Russia within another decade.”
“So you think another war is bound
to come, do you?” asked the farmer,
is he turned around.
"I haven’t the slightest doubt of it,
my man.”
“And will it afTect us?”
“It is certain to, more or less.”
The man of toil turned back and
hought things over for a few minutes
nd then wheeled to say:
“Well I think I’ll take my chances
am in the pickle business. Pickles
mght to be worth $3 a bar’l, but they
re selling for 25 cents less. I guess
11 hang on, war or no war, ’till they
come up to my figger. Durn a man
who hasn’t got some sporting blood
a his veins.”
Perfume 3,000 Year* Old.
The curator of the . museum un
priced an ancient alabaster vase.
“Smell this,” he said.
The odor was delicious. From the
ase emanated an odor sweeter than
iolets, roses or lilies of the valley.
“You are now smelling," said the
•urator, “an Egyptian perfume 3,000
.ears old. This perfume was made
n Egypt before Christ’s birth, and it
'."as buried with an Egyptian princess
—there she is, over there.
“How well it must have been made
to keep strong and sweet for over thir
ty centuries! It is only rarely that
we find perfumes in mummy cases,
but when we do they are always deli
cate and pure.
“Marvelous perfumers the Egyp
tians must have been! Beat us all
hollow!”
British Fisheries.
Eleven million hundredweight of
fish, valued at £6,500,000, is the toll
taken from the sea in British boats in
1904. The amount is greater and the
value less than in the two or three
previous years, and, in fact, the nlle
seems to be that the greater the catch
the less is the value. The latest fig
ures give an average price of nine and
one-half pounds for a shilling as the
value of the fish when it touches land.
—London News.
Jap Designs on Australia.
Many Australians have an idea that
Japan is looking covetously on their
island-continent. Their suspicions
were increased the other day by the
discovery in the baggage of two Japa
nese, who were traveling in Australia
as merchants, of a complete set of the
secret plans of the Sydney fortifica
tions.
Knew Duke of Wellington.
Mrs. Harvey, of Marvel, Isle of
Wight, died recently. She was 100
years old, and, as a girl, knew the
Duke of Wellington.—London Mail.
HAD NOT WASTED THE MONEY.
Candidate Handled Political Contribu
tions to Advantage.
A practical politician of the first wa
ter came to light in a small Indiana
town not long ago. In this town there
in an officer, designated as Inspector
of Streets and Roadways, who receives
the munificent salary of $250 per year.
As the opposing political parties are
very nearly balanced in this town,
there is keen opposition, so that when
this office became vacant and the au
thorities ordered an election to fill it,
there was a lively campaign for this
small plum, no other elections being
near. One candidate was a rather
shrewd old fellow by the name of
Ezekiel Hicks, and it looked as though
he would be successful, as a neat lit
tle sum had been subscribed and
turned over to him as a campaign
fund. To the astonishment of every
body, however, he was defeated.
“I can’t account for it,” one of the
leaders said, gloomily. ‘‘With that
money we should have won. How did
you lay it out, Ezekiel?”
"Hum,” Ezekiel said, slowly, pull
ing his whiskers. “Yer see, that of
fice only pays $250 a year salary, an’
I didn’t see no sense in payin’ $900
out to get the office, so I jest bought
me a little truck farm instead.”—New
York Journal.
An Incredible Fact.
In a frenzy, the astronomer ran his
long, white fingers through his gray
hair.
“How can I explain to you,” he cried
“the immensity of the universe, and,
by contrast, the littleness of the earth,
the petty futility of ma|?
“Light travels at the rate of 186,000
miles a second. The inhabitants of
Sirius, if they are looking at us now
through their telescopes, are behold
ing the destruction of Jerusalem,
which took place over 1,800 years ago.
“So far away is Sirius that the light
of the world, with what this light
illuminates, traveling 186,000 miles a
second, takes nearly 2,000 years to
reach Sirius.”
Building Up to Requirement*.
A Kansas City man purchased a
city lot with the restriction that he
should not build a house on it to cost
less than $2,500. After having paid
for the lot he decided to build a $1,500
cottage.
Before he had completed it the real
estate man from whom he had bought
the lot threatened to sue him for
breach of contract. "This little shack
you are building,” said the real estate
man, “lacks a whole lot of being a
$2,500 house such as you agreed to
build.”
"Don't form too hasty Judgment,”
replied the owner. "True, it hasn't
cost that much yet, but I intend to
put a solid gold brick in the chimney.”
—Kansas City Times.
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Too Hot to Get Warm There.
During my experience as traveling
agent for a certain railroad i was one
day obliged to call on an agent whose
station was located in the mountains
in northern Vermont. It was a bitter
cold day in February, and, although
there was a roaring fire in the sta
tion, the building was so loose one
had to almost sit on the stove to feel
any warmth.
Soon after I arrived an old gentle
man came in, and, walking to the
stove, extended his hands, but it was
so hot he was obliged to retreat a few
steps, and after making several unsuc
cessful attempts to get near the fire
he remarked: “It’s so gol durned hot
here I can’t get warm.”
Blind Barrister is Dead.
George Summers Griffiths, who was
well known on the Oxford circuit and
in the criminal courts in London for
many years as “the blind barrister,”
has just died. About twenty-five years
ago he became totally blind from a
gunshot wound, but bravely stuck to
his profession, going on circuits reg- 1
ularlv, led about by his clerk.
TOWNS MADE WHILE YOU WAIT
Additional Specks on the May Made
. With Rapidity.
In the clearings the log house is a
rarity, because the portable sawmil
goes along with the timberman anu
slits the log into framing and boards
for the dwelling—while you wait. And
the people are even in touch with the
world. If they have no time to plant
telephone poles, they nail the insulat
or to trees and run the wire through
the woods. In the old days of the
“Plains West” the town was born
when the saloon, the smithshop and
the corner store threw open its doors.
In this Northwest the community
springs into existence with everything
ready for the daily life of its inhabi
tants. Not only are the stores pre
pared for trade, but the schoolhouse
is awaiting the children, the church in
vites to Sunday worship, and it is
strange if the town newspaper does
not come off the press to its readers
within a month or so after the birth
of the future city—Outing Magazine.
Not a Good Advertisement.
A Welsh judge had before him a
case In which a printer sued a pork
butcher for the value of a large par
cel of paper bags with the butcher’s
advertisement printed thereon.
The printer, having no suitable il
lustration to embellish the work,
thought he improved the occasion by
putting an elaborate royal arms above
the man's name and address, but ulti
mately the latter refused to pay.
The judge, looking over a specimen,
observed that for his part he thought
the lion and the unicorn were much
nicer than an old fat pig.
"O well.” answered the butcher,
“perhaps your honor likes to eat ani
male like that, but my customer’s
don’t. I don’t kill Hens and unicorns
—I only kill fat pigs!”
Verdict for defendant.—New York
World.
Rapid Progress of the Angentine.
No South American oountry has
made such strides in every respect In
recent years as the Argentine repub
lic. It has established intelligent and
stable government and its rate of
movement recently has been on a
large scale, with rapidly increasing
acceleration. A very few figures will
show this: For the first nine months
of 1905 imports were $155,651,460 and
exports $247,110,133, showing an in
crease of imports of $16,899,197 and of
exports of $43,917,214 over the same
period for the previous year. This
enormous export trade was substan
tially all agricultural and pastoral,
while the imports were miscellaneous,
the largest items being clothing and
textiles, metal and manufactures
thereof, lumber, agricultural imple
ments and railroad appliances and pot
tery. Great Britain leads both as sell
er and buyer.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Sons Dislike Politics.
In recent years no political leader
In New York state has had a son with
a taste for politics. Senator Platt’s
son shows neither aptitude nor in
clination for the game. Boss Tweed
left no son, and Boss Kelly died child
less, while Murphy, the present leader
of Tammany, is in the same position
Richard Croker had three boys, bui
none of them cared for politics. Rich
ard, the only remaining one, has not
voted in years.
Shears with Every Paper.
The Cavalry Journal, which is the
latest British military journal, and is
edited by Gen. Baden-Powell, has its
pages perforated, postage stamp fash
ion, on the inside line, so that if a
reader wishes to save a page for ref
erence or send it to a friend he can
easily tear it out.
American Editor in London.
Ralph D. TMumenfield, editor of the
London Express, is an American, hav
ing been born in Milwaukee. He
learned his profession in Chicago and
New York.
Iff THE MALAy TEfflffSVLA
Life In the Malay peninsula has
plenty of variety and sprightliness.
The Penang corfespondent of the
Straits Times of Singapore writes:
"Since all our dogs have been chained
up, muzzled or shot, pussy has had it
all her own way. What I object to
very strongly is the vagabond cat,
that lives nowhere and looks it. My
compound is overrun with them at
present and they are of all sizes,
breeds and colors, and only agree in
one particular, which happens to be
the unpleasantness of their voices.
They’ve eaten my canary and are now
levying toll upon the cook’s chickens.
I wish you could tell me if there is
any great demand for catskins in
Singapore. I am also writing for full
particulars of the rabbit-canning in
dustry, for I fancy that might be added
to the fur-dealing business with profit.
"Most of the milk sold in Penang
is shocking stuff. The Indian milk
men are the biggest rogues in crea
tion. The other day I found the milk
particularly weak. I called up the
cook and expostulated mildly but
firmly about it. He told me next day
that the milkman was very sorry;
he’d given me milk out of the wrong
tin! Further investigation showed
that the man had two tins, one of
which contained ‘sahib's’ and the
other—what? I was rather relieved
to hear that I was a real sahib, but
I explained to the milkman when I
paid his bill that in the future I
should have a sanitary inspector or
something of the sort hidden behind
the door to take samples of his wares
now and again. Since then my milk
has been overpoweringly 3trong.
“The men sent out by the Kedah
authorities to hunt down the Situl
gang of robbers, or pirates, have suc
ceeded in killing the ringleader. Like
many other Malay bad characters, he
was popularly supposed to be invul
nerable and I am gravely told by a
Malay friend that the punitive expe
dition found him absolutely invulner
able to bullet or spear. Bullets sim
ply bounded off his body like peas off
a drumhead, while, when he was
thrust at with spears, they either
snapped or had their points blunted
directly they touched his skin. He
would not have been killed at all if
one of his pursuers, wiser than the
rest of the party and versed in witch
craft, had not thought of the expe
dient of a spear made from the spike
of a sting ray’s tail. He was stabbed
eventually with this and so killed.’’
ALL DISAGREE OVETt EVEJV
The location of the earthly paradise
or garden of Eden is still a matter of
dispute among Orientalists and scrip
tural scholars of highest reputation,
says the Brooklyn Citizen. Some
have endeavored to locate it by the
fruits and mineral productions named
in the biblical descriptions as they ap
pear in the second chapter of Gene
sis; others by the rivers mentioned in
verses 11 to 14 of the above men
tioned chapter. The weight of inves
tigation and tradition inclines to an
agreement that the Tigris and the
Euphrates of modern geography are
the third and fourth rivers mentioned
in the biblical description of the gar
den. Those who agree so far differ
widely as to what rivers should now
be regarded as the ancient Pison and
Gihon. The Buddhistic scholars, al
though they reject our Bible in great
er part, incline to the opinion that the
Pison is the sacred Ganges, and that
the Gihon is none other than the Nile.
As to the last, it is altogether probable
that they are correct on that point,
because the biblical account plainly
says that Gihon “compasseth the
whole land of Ethopia.”
Some investigations confirm that
Eden was a spot of comparatively
small area located on the tablelands
of what is now Armenia, from which
rise the Tigris and the Euphrates. A
few scholars of distinction argue that
the Adamic paradise was located in
Africa, in the vicinity of the moun
tains of the Moon. Still another
school of Orientalists locate the cele
brated garden in the vicinity of the
ancient city of Babylon.
You will notice, however, that none
of these theorists has been able to
get the four rivers mentioned in the
biblical account properly located.
Neither have they found a place
where one great river “separates into
four heads.” This being the case, It
is hardly necessary to add that the
exact location of Eden is a mystery
that will probably never be solved.
LOCATING MEff Iff SffOWSLIDE
Ell Smith is credited with having
saved the lives of twenty-five men at
Sheep Camp in the spring of 1898 at
the time of the great snowslide on
the Dyea trail. It will be recalled that
sixty-three men were killed by the
slide, most of them suffocating before
rescuers could reach them. Smith
was on the trail several miles below
the slide. He came up three-quarters
of an hour after the tragedy and found
the survivors frantically tryiDg to dig
the victims out.
"Give me that stick,” said Smith to
a man who had a flat lathlike piece of
wood in his hand.
The stick was turned over to Smith,
who immediately whittled the end so
that he could insert it in his mouth
and grasp it firmly with his back
teeth. Then he thrust the stick in the
snow and held the end in his mouth,
apparently listening. He repeated the
operation at several points in the
slide. Finally he shouted:
“Come! Dig here, quick!”
At a depth of nine feet the rescuers
took out three men, unconscious, but
alive. Those three men recovered and
were all right by morning.
In the same manner Smith pointed
out other places, which resulted in the
locating of many bodies and the un
covering in all of twenty-five men
whose lives were saved.
“Where did you learn that trick?”
Smith was asked the other day.
“I learned that in Idaho, at Wood
river,” said he. “The Indians know
that trick. I guess a wire would be
better than a stick, but they don’t
keep wire in stock out in the wilds,
so Indians always use a stick. You
see if a feller is alive, you can sort
of hear him breathe, or I guess it’s
more like feelin’ him breathe. If he
is kicking or moving around you
can hear him plain. You just put the
stick down into the snow two or three
feet and you can hear a feller breath
ing, even if he’s twenty feet further
down.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
TWO AftECDOTES OF CHAJ4E
A New York newspaper man who
knew Stephen Crane, one of the most
promising writers of English of his
generation—who died before he was
30—when he was in London just after
his return from the Graeco-Turkish
war, relates some amusing stories con
cerning that erratic genius.
One morning Crane dropped into a
newspaper office to borrow a sover
eign from a friend. He said that he
was going to luncheon with Harold
Frederic, now also dead, for whom he
had an admiration almost amounting
to awe, but with whom he was then
only slightly acquainted, though they
afterward became inseparable friends.
In the middle of the afternoon
Crane came back for another sover
eign and told a tale of woe. He had
asked Frederic into a “pub” to have
an' appetizer on their way to luncheon,
and had handed out the sovereign he
had just borrowed in payment there
for. The barmaid had laid the change
down before Frederic, who, engaged
in an earnest discussion with Crane,
had mechanically picked it up and
put it in his pocket, without pausing
for a moment in his conversation.
Crane’s reverence for his fellow
craftsman was so profound that he
preferred to lose the money rather
than embarrass him by asking for it.
Acquaintances of S. S. McClure, pro
prietor of McClure’s Magazine, will
appreciate Crane’s emotions on an
other occasion about the same period.
McClure has two brothers, and the
three bear a striking resemblance to
(ne another, with their pronounced
Scotch features and fair hair and mus
taches. Crane rushed up to a friend
in Trafalgar Square one morning in
a condition of great excitement.
“I’ve had a terrible shock,” he said.
“I was coming through the Strand just
now and I saw three S. S. McClures
standing at the corner of Bedford
Street”
A/fD FOSDICK SOLD OUT
When it was announced in Brookby
that Albert Fosdick had decided to
give up the grocery business, nobody
was much surprised; Albert’s methods
had not been of the sort to commend
themselves to the ordinary shopkeep
er.
‘ But I expect he’d have kep’ it up
for years if it hadn’t been for that
kind of a cyclone we had summer be
fore last,” said a Brookby resident to
a returned native. “You see, ’twas
Albert’s custom to keep his hat on all
the time, he being so bald, and he’d
write what folks had bought on little
slips of paper, and stick ’em inside
the lining of his hat, and come Satur
day night he’d figure ’em up at home,
with his wife to help him.
“Well, the cyclone, or whatever
’twas, struck us Saturday afternoon.
Albert had just stepped to the door
when the wind struck him. His hat
was tron off'n his head, and nobody
ever knew where it went.
“I don’t consider that Mis’ Fosdick
had ever thought he was a real stir
ring business man, and folks said they
had high words that night. I expect
mcst of the Brookby fam’lies paid up
pretty well, but there’s a mess of peo
ple down toward the river that aren’t
overscrup’lous. Anyway, Mis’ Fosdick
told Albert if he hadn't realized but
$9.17 on his week’s sales, and had got
a hat to buy, too, she thought ’twas
about time he retired from active bus
iness, and accordingly he did so.
“He is now engaged in driving her
about to sell soap and get subscrip
tions for ‘The World’s History in
Field and Rock,’ and I notice she car
ries a reticule.”—Youth's Companion.
WOMAfl A STD THE HAI'RPI/i
Whenever her switch would grow sudden
She'wouU^fasten it up with a hairpin;
And if her belt buckle grew too weak for
She "would fasten it up with a hairpin.
Of mornings, when she wished to open
Or if in a "magazine she read a tale
And wished to cut pages, this maid young
Reached up" in her hair for a hairpin.
A man might call for a whole box of
She simply reached up for a hairpin,
A man might spend years in mechanical
To learn what she did with a hairpin;
A man would get flustered, and frown.
And ask*3 who^the dickens had taken his
When'foir some repairing such stuff he'd
require—
ciVie aiwavs relied on a hairpin.
A scissors, a knife, or a tweezers or awl—
She did very well with a hairpin.
She found that the stairway that rose
from her hall
Was measured quite well with a hair
pin;
An egg heater broken? A laundry pipe
plugged?
A corkscrew not found? Then her shoul
ders she shrugged
And reached, while her sense of content
ment she hugged.
Right up to her hair for a hairpin.
A manicure set. and a button hook, too.
She always could find in a hairpin;
In fact, there was nothing a person could
do
That she couldn’t do with a hairpin.
One day she was wrecked in a passanger
train;
The crew cried: “We’ll have to send back
for a crane!”
£he .murmured, her arm through a
cracked window pane:
“Don’t bother. I’ll lend you a hairpin/
There le no Rochelle Salto, Alum,.
Limeor Ammonia Infood made wltf»
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Compllea with the Puro Food Laws
of all Statee.
Contradiction in Nature.
For hundreds of years, perhaps
thousands, the Australian black has
accepted the doctrine of a trinity in
heaven and the theory or evolution.
In some respects he is far superior
to his civilized contemporary. Yet
he curls himself round like a dog and
sinks to sleep on the bare ground at
sunset. In the dark he is a veritable
coward.
Astonishing!
It Is astonishing, though, how far
a good complexion will carry a girl.
I verily believe that nine out of every
ten men are more attracted by a
really good complexion and a healthy,
color than by fine eyes or pretty hair,
or even a good figure—which is an
other valuable asset for a girl to pos
sess.—“Ambrosia,” in The World.
Tends Monkeys and Men.
The monkey house at the London
zoo is being cleaned, disinfected and
partly reconstructed. The Field re
marks: “The work will be done under
the supervision of Dr. Gordon, the
expert, who has been in charge of the
sanitation of the House of Commons.”'
Shale* Into Y*ur aha**
Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures pain
ful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing
nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A
certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by
all Druggists, 25c. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Family Umbrella.
There has been discovered at
Greenock, England, an old-fashioned
umbrella with whalebone ribs, which
must be quite 120 years old. When
opened it affords shelter for a whole
family.
Spring!
Time to cleanse the system and purify
the blood. Take Garfield Tea, Nature’s
perfect axatlve: it is the best blood purifier
-nown It cures sick headache, regulates
the 1 ver, lneys, tomach and bowels.
3end for sample. Garfield Tea Co., Brook
1. n, N. Y. _
The most mistaken endeavor and
fervor is better than sleek apathy and
indifference.
Smokers appreciate the quality value of
Lewis' Single Binder cigar. Your dealer
or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
Many Tailed Kittens.
Cats with nine lives and cats with
out tails have always been plentiful in
Wapakoneta, O., but cats with two or
three tails were never seen there be
fore. Peisler brothers are the proud
possessors of three kittens with seven
tails, two have two tails each, and
one has only one common tail. The
extra tails grow out of the kittens’
backs along the backbone, are fully
developed and almost as long as the
natural tails.—Exchange.
French Rural Postmen.
The French postman of rural neigh
borhoods ekes out the small salary of
his governmental position by doing all
kinds of errands in the village for
people who live along his route. He
makes a small income from the fees
received for his services. In sum
mer nowadays, he sometimes goes
his rounds on a bicycle, but in winter
he has to walk.
French Tailor’s English.
A French tailor, who advertised
“English spoken,” was sometimes at
a loss for the right word. On one
occasion, wishing to tell a customer
that her girdle was too high, he hesi
tated a moment, then, with a look of
inspiration he said: “Madyame your
curvature is too upstairs.”
Book Worth r"0.
The most valuable book in the Brit
ish Museum is “The Coder Alexan
drinus,” said to be worth 500,000.
GRAND TO LIVE.
And the Last Laugh la Always the
Best.
"Six months ago I would have
laughed at the idea that there could
be anything better for a table bever
age than coffee.” writes an Ohio wom
an—"now I laugh to know there is.”
"Since childhood I drank coffee as
freely as any other member of the
family. The result was a puny' sick
ly girl, and as I grew into womanhood
I did not gain in health, but was af.
flicted with heart trouble, a weak and
disordered stomach, wrecked nerves
and a general breaking down, till last
winter, at the age of 38 I seemed to
be on the verge of consumption. My
friends greeted me with ‘How bad you
look! What a terrible color!’ and this
was not very comforting.
“The doctors and patent medicines
did me absolutely no good. I was
thoroughly discouraged.
“Then I gave up coffee and com
menced Postum Food Coffee. At first
I didn’t like it, but after a few trials
and following the directions exactly, it
was grand. It was refreshing and
satisfying. In a couple of weeks I
noticed a great change. I became
stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was
not troubled with forgetfulness as in
coffee times, my power of endurance
was more than doubled. The heart
trouble and indlgesyon disappeared
and my nerves became steady and
strong.
“I began to take an interest in
th’ngs about me. Housework and
home-making became a pleasure. My
friends have marveled at the change
and when they inquire what brought
it about, I answer ‘Postum Food Cof
fee, and nothing else in the world.’ ”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason. Read the little
book, “The Road to Wellville,” in
pkgs.