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    DAVIS FOB SENATOR
1RKANSA3 GOVERNOR TO SUC
Cj-^D JAilES H. BERRY.
‘Cornfield Lawyer,” Nominated at
State Primaries by Popuiar Vote,
a Picturesque Being—Is a
Crafty Politic.an.
Little ilock. Ark.—Arkansas is going
to scad to tae Lnited Blates benute
Gov. jeft Davis, wao is, like Tinman,
a ‘•coraaeid lawyer," and proud o£ it.
Staid o.u ber.nior James H. Berry has
been ueieated in the state primary,
anu Davis nomination by the Demo
cratic party is believed to be equiva
lent to e.etucn. i.e is a politician wuo
flourishes at close range with a con
stituency that depends upon oral, not
priuteu, campaign arguments, i.e has
been attorney general once, and thrice
governor, ue is 44 years olu.
••Jeui," as he is familiarly known,
knows what turn will please the class
of voters which he wishes to reach.
The absence of an issue is no bar to
him. He is the issue himself. He al
ways has appealed to the "back coun
ty” farmer and the laborer, playing
upon their sympathies and on their
prejudices. He is a good story-teller
and a nun of great personal magnet
ism, which he knows how to employ to
advantage. In his campaigns “Jed”
devotes the greater part of his time
to the smaller towns and to the cotin
try districts, for here his strength
lies.
In nis first campaign for governor
Davis devised an appeal to sympathy
which incidentally proved a great ad
vertisement for a proprietary medi
cine, and he went through antics that
a street fakir could well have copied
as an aid tn selling the compound.
Charges of trickery and fraud were
being hurled at him, trom which he
Claimed he was tinder great nervous
strain. He would stop in the midd'e
of a vigorous address, the perspiration
pouring from his face, and dramat
ically uncork a bottle and pour the
contents down his back and bosom.
He was charged by his opponents with
spending more money for this medi
cine than for his railroad fare in the
campaign.
His recent race for United States
senator was devoid of many of the pic
GOV. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
("Arkansas Jeff.” Who Will Undoubtedly
Succeed Senator iserry.J
turesque plays which indelibly im
pressed his personality upon the minds
of the people of his native state.
"Do you know what is the matter
with those fellows down there in
Little Hock?” he would say. “I can
tell you. They’re mad. They're mad
as can be, because they’re net in of
fice any more. I turned the whoie set
of high-collared roosters out when 1
was first elected your governor, and
put the men from the picw handles in
their places.’
tor ail that, he had a well-oiled,
efficient political machine.
in his second campaign lor governor
Davis wore an old white hat similar to
those worn by the residents of the dis
tricts which he visited. A pair of
honte-kuit white socks could be plainly
seen above his shoetops, while fas
tened diagonally across his shoulders
would be a single suspender strap.
“Those city folks down there won’t
speak to me,” he would s-ay. "I’m
not dressed up enougn for them,” and
off the coat would come and expose
the one ’’gallus.”
Before his third term as governor
Davis made a campaign for vindica
tion, so he styied it. He had been
charged with appropriating part of his
contingent fund, allowed by the state,
to his personal use. He was arraigned
before a special committee of the legis
lature, and impeachment was much
talked of, but it failed.
"I am a strong believer in the prin
ciples that ihe United States senators
should be elected, as they are in ibis
state, by popular vote,” said Senator
Elect Davis, in a recent interview.
“The people ought to select the of
ficers without the legislature, and in
this way do away with the fraud and
corruption in the legislature in sena
torial matters, 'i his will give the poor
man a chance.”
Davis recently closed all the gam
bling houses, pool rooms and Sunday
saloons iu tioi Springs, and appointed
a prosecuting attorney, on the recom
mendaticn of the ministers of that city,
who, he believed,, would enforce the
law. This followed a coolness be
tween him and the Hot Springs offi
cials, who were for Berry in the sena
torial race.
Davis political promises always have
been made good after election, and he
has made tartful use of his appointive
power. He is quick to see a deception,
Vis a master of details, knows "every
body in * r'-«r>vns,” and is conceded to
be a good lawyer.
, Returned wi*li Thirds.
\ “I come,” began the poor wyman la
thin shawl, "to ask you for sore
tliVa to keen the wolf from (he door.”
\ Mie manuracturer took some:h:ng
j /ron\the shelf.
“Tflere is one of our patented game
i .traps. Set it a litt'e distance way,
5 and th» wolf will never reach the
I door.”—Royal Magazine.
(Grouchy.
"Does your rheumatism bother you
much T”
“I should say it did. Every idiot. I
meet asks questions about it”—Cleve
land Leader.
POWER OF F.. . CH cal:net
Clemenceau, Minister of the Interior,
Is a Genius in ~-.ar.y
Lines.
Paris.—It is agreed on all sldei
th u the domia^n. figi.e in h:
French cabinet is not riarr.e.i, h
premier and the mi .liter o. j s i e,
nor even B urg ois, the fo ei n mi -
[ ister, bat C.emenceau, ihe mm ster ol
j the interior.
Clemenceau came in o prominence
in France on the revoi io larv ave
j that fodowed the Franc -Ge m n
war. he l> c e i.ed with having de
; vised the Doula ist mo e nen . Boa
; langer, by ad.o a in ex tens me s
: ures against Ger n ny in revenue for
; the de.eat su e ed by rra. ee n he
war, a quired a wi’e popu ar ty.
There was a rlTt on he p-’rt o ita -
i a s, ana •• h ts end Oriean s s. o
make Bo.t'a r er di tato••. T e Ti
I. .. 1
GEORGES B. CLEMENCEAU.
(Minister of Interior and Mainstay of the
French Cabinet.)
rard cabinet was form d for the pur
pose ol suppressing this movement.
Boulanger was sentenced to life im
prisonment. He esc ped and uied ii
exile, 'ihe failure of Boulangi in a d
the Panama scan al turne 1 Clemer
teau out of politics and he en.er d
the newspaper field.
Clemenceau is a genius. He Is mas
ter of a Liti.ig s y.e of oratory. He
is called “Wrecker of Ministries.”
He is a brilliant journalist who ,e
duces his enemies to p wder, as he
did in the Dreyfus easy H - is an ex
cellent hand with a rapier oa the
duelling ground. He is <? doctor of
medicine and publishes trea i e. o.
anaiomy. He is a metaphysician who
comments profoundly o i Mil’s the
ories. He Is a Cr;tk s ho ar and an
authority on modern and By ant ne
literature. He is also a novelis ,
whose chief romance, “The Stio g
est,” is counted a masterpiece.
MUCH HORN FROM ONE ELK
Six Pairs of Great Antlers from Large
Specimen Made Into Chair for
the President.
Tacoma, Wash.—The elk “Roose
velt,” from woe hea i six re s of
antlers were j reserved and made Into
a chair for the presided., died reccn -
ly in this city In captivity. Th ■ anl
mal was an un sually large specimen
of the prairie elk end its antlers rre
said to be ihe larrest grown in hr
northwest. The average male elk i i
a lifetime grows and she is 12
pounds of horn. The six ant ers 1 >
the president's chair weign loO
; THE HORNS OF THIS ( HAIR WERE
ALL GROWN BY ONE ELK.
pounds. Tae two sets whi h form the
back and front are among the larg
est antlers on retord. There is p:ac
tically no material ot' er ihan bon
used in the chair’s constructioa. T e
- prongs are adjusted in a way that
gives the chair considerable firm
ness, and only a few steel bo’.ts w re
used to hold ths antlers together
; The chair is valued at $1,000 and w. 3
pres n Led to Pre ident Roosevelt by
the citizens of Tacoma.
Sugar Cane from Afghanistan.
l-nuer the auspices of King Habibul
I ]ah, of Afghanistan, the cultivation of
| the sugar cane in the lowlands about
Je’.alabad, near the Indian frontier, has
become an accomplished fact. Samples
presented to him during his visit to
that place ware so good in quality that
he ordered that a large supply of the
best kinds of cane slips for planting
■ shall be obtained from India.
Drummers in Switzerland.
Eng.ana was represented in Switzer
land last year by 53 commercial travel
ers; Germany, which enjoys the lion’s
share of the Swiss import trade, em
ploys an army of nearly 5,000 “drum
mers,” and is followed by France, with
| 1.K8C of these enterprising agents, who
> annually sell $10,0u0,000 worth of
French merchandise.
England Buys Parnell’s Home.
1 he old Avondale house and estate
in County Wicklow, once the home and
property of Charles Stewart Parnell,
the Irish nationalist leader, has been
| purchased by the government, which
j will turn the place into a forestry
i school lor Ireland. The rooms former
ly occupied by Mr. Parnell are to be
kept as they were in his lifetime.
Justice.
"Yes, Skinner was quite prosperous
at one time, but he's having bis trials
now.”
“Yes, and he’s guilty an avary'
count.”—Philadelphia Preaa.
\
GIVE THE UNPOPULAR TEACHER
A CHANCE.
Schoolgirls Often Prejudice Them
selves Unreasonably Against a
Teacher — The Native Diffidence
and Shyness of Some Teachers
Hake Them Appear Stiff end
Stern — Unprepossessing Teachers
Often Heroines—Oiris Have a Way
of Worshiping the Teacher with
the Lovely Eyes—Charm Is Capital
—Give a New Teacher Your Confi
dence.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
Two bright heads were bent together
over the same book. As they reached
the last page Susan looked at Penelope
and sighed.
“There," she said, "that is ended.
We shall recite to-morrow to dear Miss
M., and then next week will see us
in Miss B.'s classroom, and good
by to good times tor six months. Every
girl who has ever been with Miss B. ;
fairly hates her, unless she happens to
be one of her pets. She has pets,j
and they may do anything, but the
reot of the class are always getting de-:
merits and being scolded and made to
do extra work. I wish 1 could be Rip
Van Winkle and sleep straight through
the next grade. Miss W., who has
the class higher than Miss B., is a
darling. But one can’t reach her with
out having to undergo the misery of
the class below.”
“Aren’t you exaggerating?” asked
Penelope. “I have seen Miss B. a num
ber of times, and she looks harm
less. I cannot understand why she is
so unpopular. The teachers appear ta
find her pleasant.”
"Oh, she is pleasant enough, with
them and with visiting parents,” ex
claimed Sue. "It is ou.y her owa
girls to whom she is a tyrant. You
have not lived here very long, but I
have gone through this school, frora
the kindergarten up, and so have my
sisters. Lucy and Mildred and their
friends have the same opinion that 1
have. Everybody dreads Miss B.”
Penelope's dark eyes grew thought
ful. “Well, Sue," she said, “my fa
ther has always taught me to value
fair play, and it does not look to me
like fair play to begin in a new class
with one’s mind made ud that she is
going to dislike the teacher. That cre
ates a false situation at the outset. Whv
should we blindly accept what other j
people say without waiting to see for
ourselves where the truth of the mat
ter lies? Poor Miss B has a hard
road to travel, if the girls do not trust
her before they have given her tha
slightest trial. I, for one, shall do my
work in the best way l can, and i
shall try to love Miss B. and to make
hre love me.”
Susan gave her head a toss. "I pre
dict, Penelope, that you will be a fa
vorite.” she said, scornfully.
"Not at all, but 1 have a conscience,
and I am going to give my teacher the
benefit of a chance. 1 wish you would
Join me. Perhaps if you and I take
the lead, some of the others will fo -
low, and Miss B. for once may have
the pleasure of teaching a class who
are not determined to misunderstand
her intentions and who ere not doing
what they can to make ner work hart.
I believe in making my teacher’s end
easy, if I can. Mother was a teacher
before her marriage, and she has told
me a good deal about the seamy side
of a teacher s life.”
• • • • •
Penelope had in her girlish wisdom i
caught the thread of a clew that had j
tangled itself and led far back into j
the years during which the unpopular i
teacher had occupied her chair. Miss
B. was exceptionally well equipped,
a student painstaking and profound,
the graduate of one co'lege and file
successful prize-winner in post-gradu
ate work in another, she lacked the
magnetism which in itself makes some
women adorable and adored. In truth,
she was more and more afraid of the
girls she taught; her native diffident
and shyness made her seem stiff and
stern; she encrusted herself as diffi
dent people often do in a chain-armor
of reserve. She recoiled from the
unspoken criticism of the girls who
sat before her, and though she hon
estly tried she was seldofn able to
make them feel that she cared foi
them personally. They supposed tha;
in her view they were so many pegs
in a row or pawns on a chessboard,
and they resented the impersonality
of her near-sighted gaze. Girls are
sometimes very heartless, and insteal
of feeling pitiful when occasionally
they saw a quiver of pain cross Miss
B.’s countenance, such a token of sen
sitiveness on her part only made them
dislike her the more. In her endeavor
to be just and to exact the best work
of which the class was capable, shi
often went too far and marked too se
verely any failure. If right relations
are not existent between teacher and
scholars it Is very difficult for either
to accomplish much. Often it would
be for the benefit of all concerned were i
the teacher to be transplanted to a
now environment where she could be
gin unhampered by unfriendly tradi
tions.
it a teacher in the depths of her
own soul is aware that she is no dis
ciplinarian, she probably makes ef
forts in the direction where she is
weak, and the result is a continual \
conflict between her class and herself. 1
TIi# resistance may not be open, but '
it !• always ready to break out like
a smouldering fire. Nothing on earth
Is ltarder to vanquish *han a preju
dice, and the less reasonable it be the
more stubborn it probably is in main
taining its ground.
I wish I could persuade girls to imi
tate Penelope and be fair to the un
popular teacher in whose interest i
am holding a brief. She may no*
be happy and at ease in her home
life. In the background there may
be an ailing father or mother whose
welfare is a matter of deep anxiety
to her, and whose care robs her of
sleep. For instance, I know a teacher
rather unpopular in the classroom, who
for several years lost half of her
night's rest in sitting up with and
ministering to an invalid sister. Thera
was no one else to taka her place.
and in consequence she brought with
her to school an- atmosphere of fa
tigue which made Itself felt without
her knowledge. Irritability Is often
born of weariness.
• • • • •
Girls are by the waz of worship
ing teachers because of little externals
that have not very much to do with
the teacher’s efficiency. A teacher who
has lovely eyes and beautiful hair, and
the suspicion of a dimple when she
smiles, or who wears pretty thing!
and is very attractive as to waists and
stocks, has a great advantage over her
plainer associate, who is indifferent to
dress.
On the whole, I sympatnlze with
girls in admiring the teacher who is
invariably immaculate and tidy, and
who has about her the bright attract
iveness of perfect health and the
beauty that is typical of womanly
goodness. It is our duty whether wo
are girls in our teens or women be
yond them always to look as charm
ing and to behave as amiable as we
can. When the unpopular teacher for
gets this fact or ignores it, when
she is willfully eccentric or lapses into
mannerisms that are awkward and un
gainly, she sacrifices part of her cap
ital and makes It a foregone conclu
sion that she will not succeed as sha
ought.
But I put It to every one of you. Is
it fair to start new worn with a new
teacher without being a* least willing
to give her your confidence? Or if
you are already in a class and do
not like your teacher, is it never worth
while to be honest and candid and in
quire if you are not just a little bit
to blame for the state of things your
selves? In this world a lot of troub'e
springs from misunderstandings that
might as well never come to the
front, and people who should be goo l
friends stand aloof and never get ac
quainted because they let a trifling and
non-essential thing keep them apart.
A very thoughtful writer has sal 1
that in every human soul there is ae
innermost room, and that if we could
discover it we should learn secret
that we never find out when we are
only in the outer courts. This mar
be too philosophical fo>- you, dear
girls, but I want you to believe that
there is something very sweet about
the most unpopular teacher you have
ever had, if you will take pains ti
search for it.
“There's so much good in the worst
of us,
And so much bad in the best of us.
That it ill behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us."
(Copyright. 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
A SIMPLE PRETTY BODICE.
Full Directions for Staking and About
the Kinds and Quantity of
Materials Bequired.
Here is a simple and pretty bodies
for malting to a dress of woolen ma
terial. It has a tight-fitting lining,
fastening down the center front; tc
this the lace vest is attached. It is
sewn to the right front and made to
hook over to the left. The material
back is tucked three times down the
I
BODICE FOR AFTERNOON DRESS.
center btfore being set to the lining;
the fronts are aiso tucked from the
shoulders to the bust. The left front
wraps the right, and is ornamented
with tiny velvet buttons. The collar
is faced with velvet, and fans o*'
cream soft lace fall from under the
ends in front. Leg-of-mutton sleevfes
with velvet cuffs, above which are
sewn tiny buttons on the outside of
arm. The shaped waistband is of
material. Materials required: Two
yards 4G inches wide, two yards lin
ing one-quarter yard lace, and one
half yard velvet.
THE HOME DOCTOR.
To soothe the pain of a bruised finger
hold the damaged finger in hot water.
It will relieve the paia more quickly
than any other remedy.
Cure for Warts.—To cure warts oc
the hands, rub a title castor oil o?i
them after washing the hands. A lit
tle should also oe put on at night.
After a few applications, the warts
will begin to dry up.
I^ood for Nervous People.—As a
rule, salt meat is not adapted to the
requirements of nervous people, as
nutritious juices go into the brine to
a great extent. Fish of all kinds is
good for them. Itaw eggs, contrary
to the common opinion, are not as
digestible as those that have been
well cooked. Good bread, sweet but
ter and lean meat are the best food
for the nerves. People troubled wita
insomnia and nervous starting from
sleep and sensations of fal.iug can
often be cured by limiting them
selves to a diet of milk alone for a
time. An adult should take a pint at
a meal, and take four meals a day.
People with weakened nerves require
frequently a larger quantity of water
than those whose nerves and brains
are strong. It aids the digestion of
these by making it soluble, and
seems to have a direct tonic effect.
—Good Literature.
To Friends in Mourning.
Cards of invitation should be sent to
acquaintances and friends that are in
mourning, giving them the privilege of
declining.
THAT IS, IN HIS OWN PAR
TICULAR LINE.
Freeman Griggs, A. M., Proved Bight
to Title He Had Conferred Upon
Himself—Had Henshaw at
Disadvantage.
Henshaw Is one of those men who, if
not exactly dishonest, certainly justly
wins the reputation of being “slow
pay." He hates to pay a bill—especially
a small bill; it's like pulling teeth to
extract money from his purse, and he
therefore has a well-defined suspicion
that every unknown visitor to his office
is a dun. He has hedged himself about
with more guards and has made himself
more difficult of approach than J. Pier
pont Morgan. He jiiways sends out front
to see if the way is clear before he ven
tures out of his office to go home, and
when close pressed has a private egress
AKTKR MONEY.” ’
Into a back hall and so escapes by the
rear stairway and the freight door of
the building.
The other day the boy brought in a
card which he read with suspicion.
“Freeman Griggs. A. M.," he repeated.
“Do I know the man, boy?”
“I don’t think so,” replied the buEer.
“X never rememoer of seeing him be
fore.”
“Hem! ‘Freeman Griggs, A. M.,‘ ” re
peated Henshaw. “ ‘Master of Arts.’
College man. Look like a professor,
boy?”
“Well, he’s got eyeglasses on,” admit
ted the dbubtfu! youngster.
Now, if Henshaw has a weakness at
all, it is for education, culture and the
long-haired cult. He has written and
published a pamrhlet himself on some
thing that nobo ly eise is interested in,
and therefore feels himself e'jual to
fraternizing with men whose names
carry any weight of abbreviations after
them.
“Send him in,” said Henshaw.
In bustled a wideawake looking
young man. He had removed his eye
glasses before he got to the door, and
he bore down on Henshaw, drawing a
billcase from his pocket as though pre
pared to "hold him up” at the point of it.
“I’m collector for Campbell & Gore.
Here’s a little bill against you. My
clients want their money,” he said,
slapping the document down upon Hen
shaw's desk.
Henshaw bristled and stared from
the card to his visitor. “Vv no let you in
here?” he demanded.
“Why, the boy. Just sent in my card,
you know. You’ve got it in your hand,
there.”
“Huh! This your card?” grunted the1
disgusted Henshaw. “ ’Freeman
Griggs, A. M.?’ ”
“That’s me. Freeman Griggs.”
“I’d like to know where you took your
degree, young man," said Henshaw,
with scorn.
“ ‘Degree?’ Oh, you mean those let
ters? Rather a bright idea, don’t you
think? My own. I’m Freeman Griggs,
A. M.—after money. And I’m after
money now; do I get it?”
He got it.
ORGAN CF ANCIENT DATE.
Alusuical Instrument That Was In
vented During the Reign of
Alfred tire Great.
This picture shows one of the first
organs ever made. It was invented
(luring the reign of Alfred the Great,
who was a great patron of music and
was just finding its way into the
churches about 900 A. D.
OWL AND MINK IN FIGHT.
Bird Had Seized P'w*. Found
Itself Unable to Carry
It on.
While hauling wood on the Matta
wamkeag river A. W. Rollins, of
Wvtopitlock, discovered a moving ob
ject a short distance from the road,:
and leaving his team he ha-tened to
ascertain what it was when, to his!
surprise, he found it to be a large
owl in combat with a good sized mink,
says a Lewiston (Me.) dispatch.
After a struggle of several moments
the owl attempted to rise with its
prey, but wa3 able to a=read only a
few feet when the mink fell to the
ground, wtnre it was soon killed by
several well-directed blows from Rol
lins’ whip.
_-_
Queer Swiss Miser.
An extraordin-.ry miser was "Fa
ther” Aeby, who died the other day
in Rerne, Switzerland. He has been
referred to by newspaper correspon
dents as "the most miserable miser
in all Europe.” Since he was 20
years of age, when he inherited a
large fortune, he had lived on char
ity and an expenditure of three cent3
a day. He died at the age of 70 and
hia body was so emaciated that it re
sembled a mummy. He left securities
valued at $750,000. $100,000 in gold .
and aflver coin concealed about bis
house and so relati ea. i
RETURN TO IDOL WORSHIP.
Russian Tribes Take Peculiar Advan
tage of Recent Edict Issued
by the Czar.
Four villages of Uschum circuit in
Russia have informed the govern
ment that in accordance with the
czar’s edict, guaranteeing freedom of
worship, they returned to their old
religion, the worship of the idols.
These people call themselves Tschere
misses and belong to an ancient Fin
nish tribe. Their chief idol is a curi
ous rock "sacred to the god Chum
balat.” It is situated near a public
road, and the travelers in the post
chaise can witntss the worship paid
to this ancient god by slaughtering
chickens and small game at the foot
of the holy rock, allowing the earth
to drink the blood.
Chumbalat the heathens esteem the
chief of their many gods; be is said
to be able to send one suffering, sick
ness and even death. The name
means "Old Man on the Mountain.”
The god Is supposed to reside under
the great rock. “If the tribe should
ever be in danger, Chumbalat will
rise from beneath the rock and de
fend us,” say the people. “He wears
golden armor and rides a mighty war
horse.”
Nicholas is distressed that his edict
should have resulted in the revival of
heathenism, but cannot forbid idola
try under the terms of the published
ukase.
TIMEPIECE IS VERY OLD.
Clock Recently Exhibited in Berlin a
Work of Art of the Mid
dle Ages.
This clock, which was exhibited in
Berlin, dates from the sixteenth c^n
■—
tury. At that time it was evident
ly used in traveling.
ARE AT HOME IN WATER.
Nature Has So Equipped the Caribou
That Swimming Is No Task
for Him.
Clad with a coat of oily wool next his
skin, the caribou is covered exteriorly
with a dense pelage of fine quills.
Every caribou, indeed, wears a cork
jacket, and when this is prime the crea
ture seems on the water rather than in
the water. No other quadruped that I
know swims as high as the caribou.
Their speed afloat is so great that it
takes the best of canoemen to overtake
a vigorous buck. A good paddler is sup
posed to cover about six miles an hour,
so the caribou probably goes five. There
are many kinds of woodland and rough
country over which the caribou cannot
travel so fast as this.
What wonder, then, that they are sc
ready to take to the water as soon as
they find it in their course. Mr. Munn
assured me that several times he saw
caribou swim a broad bay that was in
their line, though a trifling deflection
would have given them easy wralking
along the shore to the same point, and
with but little increase of distance.
CUT ON POLISHED SHELL.
Prehistoric artists nave left ut
works of art engraved on polished
shell. The most anci nt are the
masks upon which the human face
is depicted.
LIVE DUCKS FOR DECOYS.
Arkansas Hunter Has Evolved Scheme
Which Brings the Best
o£ Besuits.
J. F. Berger, of Anthony, who if
an enthusiastic duck shoot r, Las se
cured two pairs of domesticated mal
lard ducks for decoys. 1
The ducks are taken to the hunting
grounds in small coverei baskets. Tc
keep them from flying when in use a ,
light leather strap vith a buckl d j
novise attached to a long shore cord j
is placed about their necks and a j
weight or anchor tied to one foot.
This, however, do s not diminish
their ability to swim, and when placed ,
in the water, th y go to the limit ol ,
their shore cord. For results they ‘
pake the old-fashioned wooden de
?oys look like 30 cents.—Arkansas City'
rraveler.
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Not Much Wasted. t
Ma Twaddle—You car less boy— i
you've spilled your milk all over youi 1
lew spring clothes! S
Tommy Twaddles—Well, isn’t there *
my more milk?—Cleveland Leader. c
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An Old Story. f
Mr. Subub—What’s new, dear?
Mrs. Subub (dejectedly)—The cook’s
jone!
Mr. Subub—My dear, I asked what’s 3
iewT—Puck.
JAPANESE ARMY SUTLERS.
The Canteen Follows Closely in the
Wake of the Moving
Troops.
One who was with the Japanes*
army in Manchuria for six months
says: "Old foreign campaigners re
marked in the field that no army prob
ably ever had so many canteens in its
wake. When the army was not
marching there was always a canteen
or two not far to the rear of every
division. When it settled down t»
recuperate after a battle canteen*
were quickly established in Mancha
houses. These carried cigarettes,
writing paper, postcards, beer, imita
tion brandy, imitation whisky, imita
tion port, imitation sherry, sake and
sometimes Manila cigars.
"Japanese are keen traders. Not
200 feet back of the Nanshan batter*
one day in the seven-day battle of the
Shaho there was a Japanese peddler
selling cigarettes, Chinese sweetcakes,
rice and beer to the reserves. Dur.ng
the same battle the canteens were
never more than three miles back of
the front line of trenches.
As the Japanese soldier’s pay 1*
only $1.36 a month and the army sav
ing banks had, considering that,
phenomenal deposits, there was not
much spending money in the army.
A bottle of beer cost ten cents and a
packet of cigarettes about threa
cents.
"Whenever tnere was a triing bat
tle the commander-in-cliief would or
der sake distributed as a ration. Ob
the mikado’s birthday a year ago one
extra double packet of cigarettes wa*
distributed to each man in the field.
This cost the emperor more than $15.
000. Otherwise when the distribution
was possible ten cigarettes a day went
with the regular ration.
"One day in an American periodical
received at camp there was a solemn
poem celebrating the abstinence of
the Japanese from drink.
“This caused concern among th«
Japanese officers, who disliked th*
emphasis laid upon the difference be
tween their army and a European
army and the commissary general
told the foreign observers:
“ 'Our soldiers like drink as well as
any other soldiers. Sometimes they
need it when they cannot get it an I
we send it to them in the trenches.’
As a matter of fact, though the peas
ant at home has a hard enough tim*
to supply himself with food, he is not
more averse than other people to
strong liquor once he learns the tas;*
of it. Many a man will go home from
the campaign with tastes he never
had betore. The manufacture of beer
is still a young industry in Japan, but
from the time the process was import
ed it nas grown to enormous propor
tions. Headquarters, even battalion
headquarters in underground bom*
proof trenches, were always supplied
with beer or sweet wine. Marshal
Oyama liked sw-eet champagne. Th*
strategist of the war. Gen. Kodema,
drank claret with every meal.”
INCIDENTAL INSOMNIA.
Bleep May Be Wooed by Taking a
Series of Deep Inspir
ations.
It commonly happens that persons
otherwise apparently in good health
find a difficulty in sleeping without a
break, their night's rest being inter
ruptid by turns of wakefulness; after t
falling asleep for an hour or two they
awaken—a modified or incidental in
somnia takes the place of normal re
pose, says a correspondent of the Lon
don Lancet. I believe, and 1 suggest,
that this may be due to a disturbance
of the equilibrium of the cerebral cir
culation. The cause of the disturbance
may be various. I do not propose to
enter into the question of cause, but I
have in many instances successfully
count racted the result by forced in
spiratory movements by assisting and
encouraging the return flow of blood to
the heart; by a rapid and thorough ex
pansion of the chest cavity, by tho
vacuity produced, the blood in tho
great veins of the neck and upper thor
ax is sucktd in and hastened on to its
ultimate destination.
The large serrati muscles (costo
scapulares) are more especially called
on for this duty. The serratus. by its
hindermost attchment to the pos
terior border of the scapula, as a
muscle of “extraordinary” inspiration,
requires for its action in thi3 ca
pacity that the scapula should be
iteadily and firmly held to the spine
by the muscles allocated to this end
—in other words, by the shoulders be
ng vigorously held backward. The
leep breathing thus carried out for
i, 12 or 15 inspirations usually suf
Ices to induce the wished for s >mno
enLe. Anyway, it is an experiment
tasily tried and without risk.
The influence of respiratory move
nents is demonstrated by the effect of
i prolonged and forced expiratory ac
ton. The impediment to the return
low of blood Is easily to be observed
vhen a vocalist with an uncovered
leek is singing a long-sustained high
lote; the external jugular veins will
je seen in their course across the
iterno-mastoid muscle in a state of
xtreme distension, accompanied by
ongestion of fhe veins of the head
md face, Indicating hindrance to the
flood current toward the heart.
Dwindling Republic.
San Marino, the smallest republic in
he world, will soon be without volers
t its rate of emigration keeps up. it
ias only 1,700, including widows, but
t is still a good repuoiic. Recently
:s assembly decided to abolish the
xecutive council, the members of
vhich have been elected for life
lereafter members wi.l bo elected for
hree years only.
Skippers’ Town.
Searsport, Me., is a town of man/t
kippers, having been represented on
he high seas by 142 captains of fuir
lgged ships The year 1885 was the
est in her history in this respect for
i ears port then had 77 captains’ in
ctive service. They were not all resi
ents of the town, but all either lived
here or were born there, so that was
he place they hailed from. f
In the Usual Way. jf
Friend—Do thoughts that came ta Cb
ou long ago ever return?
Scribbler—O, yes—if I incl0Be 1
tamped envelope.—Stray Stories. 1