Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH. Publisher.
liOUP CITT, ... NEBRASKA.
Most Unusual Story.
There comes from New York a very
entertaining story relating to the set
dement of the affairs of a concern
Ihat had gone into bankruptcy sever
al years ago. Two lawyers took
charge of the company’s affairs and
nn Thursday they made a report to
the judge of the United States dis
trict court. They reported that the
creditors would get 100 cents on the
dollar and that there was yet remain
ing an unexpended balance, and this,
too, after the lawyers had been al
lowed |1,000 for their labor. This
sort of a report was made possible by
the pushing of claims made by the
alleged bankrupts and the recovery
of money due by the processes of the
courts. And very properly, the judge
to whom the accounting was made
complimented the two lawyers for
their fine work. The average returns
from the settlement of bankrupt ac
counts is about 25 per centum but
upon one occasion now recalled a re
turn of 92 percentum was made. One
hundred percentum is so very unusu
al that no wonder there is surprise.
tAnd it can be set down as a fact that
the bankruptcy case was treated
fairly and squarely, and that both the
company and its counsel were honest
men. Decidedly refreshing it is, re
marks the Wilmington (Del.) News,
to hear of such an instance in these
days of heavy failures and no returns
for the creditors. Honest failures al
ways create sympathy for the unfor
tunates, but dishonest failures ought
to result in sending somebody to
prison.
Proving His Stories.
De Rougemont, the adventurer who
some years ago deceived the Royal
Geographical society and the public
in London by Munchausen tales of
his extraordinary experiences among
the natives of Australia, until the
Daily Chronicle exposed him, has
turned up again. One of his early
yarns was that, when shipwrecked on
one occasion, he saved himself by be
striding a great turtle which carried
him to the shore. Even this was
swallowed until the final expose. But
now De Rougemont has actually tak
en such a ride in the tank of a Lon
don playhouse. It is said that he
had never seen the tortoise, or turtle,
until he was introduced to it in the
water. After making some passes, he
successfully crossed the tank on its
back, incessantly calling out: "Jah
tallah!” a word which we cannot
translate owing to the absence of our
turtle and tortoise dictionary. De
Rougemont now claims that he has
proved the truth of his original story
and says that he will take a trip
from Margate towards France on tur
tle-back to silence all doubters.
The record-breaking balloon ascen
sion of two Philadelphia doctors for
the purpose of studying the physio
logical effects of great altitudes, is a
natural incident of ballooning's pres
ent popularity. There is sure to be
discovered—probably it has been in
Paris already—some aerial equiva
lent of the "automobile face,” the
■‘bicycle heart,” the ‘‘croquet stoop,”
the "ping pong wrist,” and the like
ailments. When the subway was
opened, says the New York Post
even, there was predicted a great
epidemic of "subway eye,” a pe
culiar overstrain caused by rushing
by white painted pillars. It may not
he true that these peculiar dangers
are themselves attractions in new
sports. Yet, there is undeniably a
certain grisly satisfaction in think
ing of the perils which beset innocent
and domestic amusements. We may
not fall off mountain peaks like the
Alpine club member, or be spared by
savages like those who indulge in the
expensive sport of exploration; but
at an outlay of a few thousand dol
lars and without abstention from
business, there are still to be ac
quired permanent squints and other
marks of the enthusiast.
The Commercial club of Birming
ham, Ala., is convinced that there is
a profitable field in that district for
the manufacture of cotton-mill ma
chinery, steel and wooden railway
cars, wagons, iron beds, spring beds,
wire furniture, brickmaking machine
ry, window glass, bottle glass, shovels,
office fixtures and furniture, paper
boxes, radiators, galvanized metal,
horseshoes, wrapping paper and paper
bags. Few industrial centers of the
south or southwest can duplicate this
list of opportunities, but most of
them can pick something from it that
they can make with advantage.
When Wellman does find the pole,
it is easy to see he will have to re
vert to the obsolete vertical appa
ratus for wireless telegraphy, unless
the pole is inserted horizontally.
Denmark advertises for a reliable,
sturdy executioner. In the business
of decapitation one who is not afraid
to work seems to have the chief qual
ification.
It costs the czar $185,000,000 a year
to keep his army, not to mention the
sleepless nights.
Two fatal accidents to baseball
players in a single day point to the
fact that even the great American
game is not without Jts serious dan
gers.
An accurate dog census probably
would reveal the fact that the visit
of the Igorrotes to this country has
,not been entirely in vain.
Germany is thinking of buying the
bouse in which Louis Stevenson lived
in Vailima as a residence for the
covernor.
Hayashi, the Foremost
Diplomat of Japan
Notable Career of the Man Just Appointed Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
Viscount Hayashi, who has just
been made minister of foreign affairs
in the Japanese cabinet, is a states
man of the flowery kingdom who has
achieved notable triumphs in diplo
macy, and who will in his new ad
vanced position, come much into con
tact with the United States and the
other nations of the world.
Viscount Hayashi is only 56 years
of age, having been born in February,
1850, at Sakura, a little town about
80 miles northeast of Tokio. His fa
ther is Dr. Taizen Sato, a prominent
Dutch scholar, who was physician to
Baron Sakura. To understand the cir
cumstances under which Hayashi was
brought up it will be necessary to re
view the part played by Dutch schol
ars under the old regime in Japan.
After Iyemitsu Tokugawa closed the
doors of Japan against European coun
tries in 1637 the only means of com
municating with the outside world
was through Deshima, a little island
in front of Nagasaki. Here a few
Dutch traders and scholars were al
lowed to stay. Through these men,
however, Japan is under obligation to
Holland for instruction in engineer
ing. mining, astronomy and medicine.
Dr. Kaempfer, for instance, stayed
in Deshima for two years (1690-1691)
instructing Katsurakawa, the first
Japanese who practiced medicine af
ter the western fashion. Later Dr.
litical science and familiarize himself
with Anglo-Saxon civilization.
In 1891, when Admiral Enomoto
took the office of minister for foreign
affairs, Hayashi was appointed vice
minister, and began his diplomatic
life. This office he held until 1896.
As soon as the war with China was
over he was sent as minister to China
and stayed at Peking for three years,
from 1896 to 1898.
Hayashi’s success in this post was
brilliant. His chief achievement was
the commercial treaty between China
and Japan negotiated and signed by
him in 1896.
In 1898 he was sent to Russia as
minister, and eight months later he
was transferred to London. There he
remained until May of the present
year, first as minister and then as am
bassador.
How active he was in the capital
of England both before and during the
Russo-Japanese war is well known to
every one. It was he who negotiated
and signed the treaty of alliance be
tween England and Japan, joining the
hands of east and west. It was he
who during the war acted as the
mouthpiece of the Japanese govern
ment, declaring the political will of
Japan to western powers through the
press, and it was he who signed the
final revision of the British alliance
treaty, so favorable to the peace of
Viscount Hayashi, New Japan ese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Rlotaku Maeno, of Nakatsu, and Dr.
Genpaku Sugita, of Obama, became
prominent scholars under similar Cir
cumstances.
It was to these men that Japan, for
some 200 years before the reopening
of her doors, owed what knowledge
she had of the sciences and progress
of the western world. Viscount Hay
ashi's father, Dr. Sato, was one of
these men, and Viscount Hayashi’s
brother, Baron Matsumoto, the first
organizer of the department of army
surgeons, was trained under them.
After he had been graduated from
the Kalseisho, young Hayashi learned
the English language under the in
struction of Dr. Hepburn, a pioneer
medical missionary to Japan, who is
now living at Orange, N. J.
While the future minister of for
eign affairs was reading Dutch books
at the Kalseisho Japan was passing a
critical point in her history, being
subjected to strong foreign pressure
from outside and being torn inter
nally by the struggles of three parties,
radical, progressive and conservative.
Then came the trouble with Amer
ica, England, France and Holland,
which led to serious internal disor
ders.
During the struggle, Hayashi, to
gether with Admiral Enomoto, went to
Ezo, or Hokkaido, the northeastern
island of Japan, with eight men-of
war. Their purpose was to establish
a republic in the island and to op
pose the new regime. The project
was a failure.
Before this struggle began Hayashi
had been sent to England to study po
GOT A FINAL AFFIRMA TIVE.
Frenchman Persistent, But Doubtful,
in the Questionings.
A young northern woman once went
out to visit the famous old chapel and
cemetery of St. Roch, near New Or
leans. The eccentric old Frenchman
in charge was delighted to show her
about, and when they came to one of
the “stations” where hung a painting
of the Crucifixion, wishing to make
sure of a firm foundation for her ap
preciation of the subject, he inquired:
“Madam is an artist?”
“No,” modestly replied “madame;”
only a student.”
The old man was visibly disappoint
ed, but, taking new courage, he tried
again:
“Madam has traveled much. Per
chance to Paris?”
"No,” replied the lady, with proper
regret: “I have never been to Paris.”
Increased disappointment, almost
reaching the point of disapproval, but
followed by another brave attempt at
the world. For the neg Jtiation of
this treaty he was created viscount
in 1902.
Hayashi is a scrupulous and single
minded man. He is never deceitful
his admirers say. Sagacious in his
methods, sound in judgment, refined
in his taste, and loyal to his duty, ht
is a true son of the Samurai.
Viscountess Hayashi, his wife, is a
sister uf Admiral Enomoto and is fa
miliar with European culture, speak
ing English and French fluently.
While in London Hayashi and his
wife were inflential figures in society.
They contributed time and money to
English philanthropic work.
A few weeks ago, when Sir Claude
MacDonald, British ambassador to
Japan, made a short speech at a din
ner of the Japan Society of London
held in Tokio, he said, referring to
Hayashi:
"He has by his kindliness, his will,
ingness to do the least service in tha
cause of charity or any other good
cause, his close study of and sym
pathy with British life and British
character, won the hearts of all my
countrymen, and I am sure the vis
countess will bear with me when 1
say all my countrywomen. He has
thus assisted most nobly in bringing
the two nations into close sympathy—
an inestimable service to the two na
tions concerned, and indeed to the
whole civilized world."
Strictly Up to Date.
The largest department store in
London has a night order service for
early morning delivery.
establishing mutual interest and un
derstanding.
"Madam is a good Catholic?"
“No,” replied the unfortunate wom
an, a trifle uncomfortable, although
amused.
“Well,” in desperation, “this paint
ing is by a great artist—a French ar
tist who lives in Paris. It represents
the Christ who long ago was crucified
upon a cross. You have heard of
Him?”—Everybody’s Magazine.
Li Wondered Why.
When Richard Harding Davis met
the Viceroy, Li Hung Chang. In St
Petersburg he was asked how old and
how rich he was, and what he did.
He replied: “I write books.” "Why
do you write?” said LI; “are you not
strong enough to work?”
Beauty from Within.
Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry It
with us or wo find it not—Ralph Wal
do Emerson.
SOUNDING DEPTHS OF SEA.
GOVERNMENT HAS LEARNED SE
CRETS OF OCEAN BED.
Wonderful Apparatus by Which a
Depth of Six Miles Has Been Un
covered by the Prying Eyes of
the Scientist.
The oceanographer knows the floor
of the sea to-day almost as thorough
ly as the georgrapher knows the con
figuration of the land, but not more
than 35 years ago it was believed by
even some men of science that there
were places in the ocean abyss that
were fathomless. Navigators a few
years ago solemnly assured credulous
landlubbers that they knew the loca
tion of certain holes that never could
be sounded, because they were bottom
less.
There are tremendous deeps, but
the greatest that a ship properly
equipped with sounding apparatus has
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ever passed over, has been found and
recorded by an infallible method.
The ship was the United States
steam collier Nero, and it was inciden
tal to a thorough exploration of the
Pacific for a transpacific cable that
she picked up a few handfuls of the
remotest bottom, 75 miles east-south
east of the Island of Guam, six years
ago. The spot was christened tho
"Nero Deep” and no sounding rod has
ever gone further into any ocean. The
depth was 5,269 fathoms, or only 66
feet less than six statute miles. The
peak of the highest mountain on earth
is not so tall.
The work of the Nero probably
never has been equaled by any other
vessel surveying for a cable route.
Incidental to the soundings the natur
alist of the ship collected much ma
terial relating to the character of the
bottom, adding something to the
great stock of knowledge already ac
quired. The Nero made soundings
every ten miles over a zigzag course
of 21,519.5 natuical miles. The ex
ploration practically covered a sea
territory 14 miles wide and 6,000 miles
long, and for tborougness has never
been excelled.
The pressure at six miles below the
surface is about five tons to the square
inch, which the tissues of the deep
sea animals are formed to resist.
Some of them are so soft that they dis
integrate when they are hauled into
the air. All come up dead. The sud
den and enormous decrease of the
pressure as they ascend and the im
mersion in a temperature of 80 de
grees from a temperature of 35 de
grees is enough to destroy any sort of
animal life.
The first accurate knowledge of
deep sea conditions and life was ob
tained by the experts of the famous
Challenger expedition around the:
world, beginning in 1872 and lasting
about four years. Even the Chal
lenger, which sounded great depths
and brought up many new animals
and specimens from the ocean floor,
used the old-fashioned and unreliable
rope sounding apparatus. Sir William
Thomson, who devised the machine
for sounding with piano wire, had one
put aboard the Challenger, but the
British conservatism of the explorers
made them stick to the rope which
served them well rather than experi
ment with new fangled things. So
Sir William’s device was consigned to
the storeroom.
The United States navy and coast
survey profited by Sir William’s inven
tion, however. It was only a few
months after tho Challenger expedi
tion had started that Capt. George E.
Belknap, of the navy, in the steamer
Tuscarora, fitted up for sounding for a
submarine cable from California to
Japan, took one of the wire machines
along. He used it by attaching the
wire to hi3 own improved apparatus.
It is Capt. Belknap’s sounding ma
chine, perfected by then Lieutenant
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, that is
now in use on the most famous and
complete of all sea searching vessels,
the Albatross of the United States
fish commission.
This machine is here illustrated. The
globular part is the sinker or shot,
which is detached by the impact of the
rod running through It against the
bottom or by the slacking of the
sounding wire. The weight of the
shot, including the thermometer, is
about 70 pounds. When the project
ing bottom of the rod is forced by the
weight of the shot into the sea floor it
lifts a valve and fills the cylinder with
specimen soil. The shot Is detached
automatically. When the rod begins
to ascend the valves are closed and
the contents of the rod are protected
from wash.
A A A A A A A tA Mh A A A A tV A
MAKE STEEL FROM SAND.
BLACK SOIL OF PACIFIC COAST
TO YIELD WEALTH.
By a New Electrical Process Is Ex
pected That a New Industry Will
Soon Be Established.
The Pacific coast has no ore mines,
but what may prove more productive,
it has a black sand which promises to
yield a good grade of steel, and in
stead of the blast furnaces of the
east, it is expected that electrical fur
naces will soon be devouring the black
sands greedily, and will be pouring
forth a stream of steel ingots.
“Within four months we will be
making steel on the Pacific coast, the
first time that steel has ever been pro
duced there in commercial qualities.”
So spake C. E. Wilson, who was the
electrical expert at the Lewis and
Clark exposition at Portland, and who
had charge of the electrical smelting
operations conducted by the govern
ment there.
“We will make our steel on the Pa
cific coast from iron contained in the
black sands,” Mr. Wilson went on to
say, “and instead of the blast furnace
that is used in the east, we will use
the electrical furnace. There is enough
iron in the black sands of the pacific
coast to supply the needs of the world
in the shape of steel for generations
to come. That it has never been
utilized before is simply because no
way of separating the iron from the
sands had ever been devised.”
The ingenuity of a Chicago man,
Thomas J. Lovett, is said to have
solved the problem of how to do this,
and the Lovett separator it is expected
to readily obtain the iron.
The Lovett separator, it is claimed,
will handle the sands either wet or
dry, and, in fact, will do better work
when they are wet than when they
are dry. All over the Pacific coast
these sands abound, and many of them
carry iron ranging from 600 to 700
pounds to the ton. This iron, when
separated from the sands, is of the
highest grade. It is very fine, being
carried down in the beds of the rivers
by erosion, and is absolutely free from
sulphur.
Because of its fineness, this iron
cannot be smelted in the ordinary
blast furnace. It would be blown out
when the blast was put on. With the
electrical furnace, however, this dif
ficulty is overcome.
But it is said that the Lovett sep
arator is not alone for the recovery of
iron, but for the recovery of the gold
and other valuable minerals with
which all the black sands of the Pa
cific coast abound. For years and
years it has been the object and the
ceaseless efTort of the miner to get
rid of this iron in the sand. The miner
called it the “thief," because it robbed
him of the precious metal that he was
seeking to recover. As he would run
the gold bearing sand over his sluice
the iron in the sand would drop down
and choke up the riffles. Consequent
ly the gold, which is very fine and is
known as flour gold, would run off'
with the water.
By running these sand3 through the
Lovett separator the iron is pulled out
of the sand by powerful magnets.
Then the sand is ready for the placer
miner operation, and, being freed from
the magnetite or Iron, the gold is read
ily concentrated, as well as any other
precious mineral that the sands may
contain. The United States govern
ment has for some years been con
ducting a series of experiments with
the black sands of the Pacific coast,
but the object of these experiments
was solely to see if they did not con
tgin platinum in greater or less quan
tities. The supply of platinum in the
world is extremely limited, and main
ly comes from Russia, and at the out
break of the Russian and Japanese
war this supply was seriously threat
ened.
A few years ago congress voted an
appropriation of $50,000 to the United
States geological survey, and the in
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First Steel Ingot From the Electric
Furnace.
vestigations of this body found that
the black sands did contain platinum,
but also found that in many cases
they carried gold values ranging as
high as $600 and $700 to the ton. Only
a small proportion of this value, how
ever, could ever be recovered, because
of the presence of iron in such large
quantities.
ANNIVERSARIES IN THE HOME.
Little Celebrations That Mean Much
in Fostering Sentiment.
The happiest households are those
that do not let die out the sentiment
connected with various anniversaries.
Although gift-giving or recognition ot
such events in a suitable way may be
out of the question owing to the
straitened circumstances of those
“within the g3t.es,” there can yet be
a little air of festivity when mother's
or father’s birthday comes round, or
some wedding anniversary is to be cel
ebrated, says the Indianapolis News.
An extra dish, a little bunch of flow
ers, or some special music prepared
for the occasion, will show the kindly
spirit and the loving remembrance
that count far more than the money
value of any gift. As the children
grow up, if these festivals are encour
aged, they will have much to look for
ward to and much more to remember
in the years to come when they go
out to do battle with the world and
find that sentiment is crushed under
foot and affection is regarded only as
a side issue.
Insomnia Cure.
An excellent way to cure insomnia
is to bandage the eyes with a band
kerchief before retiring. The com
press seems to drive away the blood
from the eyes and so cure, or at least
temporarily relieve, that feeling so
often experienced by sufferers l''om
sleeplessness, of trying to see in 'he
dark.
Under Difficulties
The girl with the raspberry-color
plume curling underneath her hat
seated herself with a sigh of exhaus
tJon. “It is simply dreadful to have to
come back to town to shop,” she said,
“Isn’t it!” agreed the girl with the
tanned arms. But her tone was ab
stracted. “I really didn’t need any
thing and should not have come at all
only I wasn’t going to let that egotist
ical Millie Adams win out,” she added.
“Whadshedo?” asked the girl with
the raspberry plume.
Her friend sighed. “My dear,” she
said, leaning over the table, “that girl
is selfishness incarnate! Anyhow, I
don’t see how I could be expected to
know all about it! I’m sure nobody
could blame me because Gordon Lane
haunted my very footsteps up at the
camp. Whenever there was any place
to go or anything to do Gordon was on
band. He was devotion itself and he
certainly has a way of looking at a
person that—well, when he told me
his sister had written him that she
was coming up and intended to bring
one of the girls along, I said that was
perfectly lovely and I should try to
help give them a good time.”
“Of course,” agreed the other girl.
“We had a row down to the station
to get them,” went on the girl with
the tanned arms. “There was a
broiling sun and it was three miles
and I had to steer, for it was a big
boat. We got there simply exhausted
and I had the worst sunburn on my
face and hands you ever saw, but I
never mentioned it, because Gordon
likes girls who are keen on outdoor
sports.
“‘There they are!’ Gordon said, as
we saw the two come down the plat
form. ‘ I wonder what girl Dot has
brought with her?’
“Then, as he looked, he gave a
funny little choke and said something
I did not catch. Dot Lane came run
ning up with her face beaming and
kissed her brother enthusiastically.
“ T thought I’d bring you a surprise,’
she cried. ‘I knew there was no one
on earth you’d rather see than Millie,
especially as you didn’t expect her.
But she came back from the east
ahead of time, so I just brought her
along.’ Then she pushed forward a
regular dream of a girl in cool linen,
with the most carefully kept complex
ion and angelic hands.
“I knew right away that I never
should like Millie. She seemed so ab
solutely sure that Gordon was per
fectly delighted to see her that I felt
so sorry for the poor boy! He seemed
dreadfully embarrassed for some rea
son and if I hadn’t known his real
feelings I would have said he seemed
glad. too. but I knew he just put it on
to be polite. Millie walked away with
him toward the boat with the most
brazen assurance, leaving me to fol
low with his sister.
"Dot just beamed as she watched
them. ‘Gordon is so surprised and
pleased, dear boy,’ she murmured,
‘that he is *quite upset. They aren’t
really engaged, but we all know how
matters stand. Really, his devotion
to Millie has been something beautiful
and it has gone on for two years now.
I don’t believe he even thinks of an
other girl!’
“I just stared at her and thought of
all the things I might say, but I was
too diplomatic. I decided that I’d let
actions speak for themselves. I knew
that Gordon couldn't drop me simply
because this conceited Millie Adams
fancied he cared for her. I had no
doubt it was just a little flirtation
that she had taken seriously and
nothing like the deep feeling he had
for me. Why, the beautiful things he
had said to me!
"‘I can’t say we had very good times,
for Gordon acted so subdued, though
I tried hard to show him that I knew
I was really first in his thoughts. Mil
lie tried to do the same thing, too,
and I thought it pretty forward of
her. I think these girls with delicate
complexions are always selfish, don’t
you?
“Gordon and I never had a minute
to ourselves; not one minute! To be
sure, neither did Millie and he, but
that was different entirely. His sister
seemed so worried. She said she
couldn’t imagine what had come over
her brother, that he was getting thin
and did not seem happy. It was so
stupid of her not to see it was the
persecutions of Millie Adams that
were spoiling his vacation for him.
“She looked so triumphant when
she told me that Gordon was going
back to town with her and his sister
that my heart bled for the poor boy.
I gave him one comforting glance and
said what a jolly party we’d be, be
cause I intended to take that train,
too, to go in for some shopping. I
wish you could have seen her face!
And Gordon gave a little groan—of
relief, I am certain. Men are so help
less in a situation like that and I
knew he’d admire my cleverness!”
“He certainly must have done so,”
said the girl with the raspberry
plume, fervently. “By the way, I met
him just before I came in here, rush
ing toward a car with a suitcase. I
asked where he was going and he
looked at me in a strange way and
said to the farthest point of the earth
his money would carry him. I didn’t
understand what he meant then,
but—”
“O-oh!" wailed the girl with the
tanned arms, “I just knew that Millie
Adams’ running after him would drive
him to do something rash! Djd you
find out what his address would be? I
suppose, though, a letter would be for
warded to him.”—Chicago Daily
News.
Will Sue Many Railroads.
Attorney General Moody has di
rected that suits be brought against
a large number of railroad com
panies to recover penalties for viola
tion of the safety appliance law
through failure to keep their equip
ment in proper condition. The largest
number of violations attributed to
any road is 52 against the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad company.
No Leisure Class.
Strictly speaking, we have no
leisure class. Where we are doing
nothing else, we are getting divorced.
—Pack.
ERRORS ABOUT THE W*|TE
HOUSE.
To the Editor:
I noticed somewhere recently—:
would not say positively that it wasii
your columns—an article on the White
House which contained several mis
Btatements.
In the first place It was Btated the
White House was first occupied in
1809 and that its first occupant was
President Madison. The fact is, its
first occupant was President Adams,
who took up his residence there in
1800.
The original mansion was begun in
1792. In 1814 it was burned by the
British and rebuilt in 1818.
Another of the errors in the article
referred to was the statement that
ready-prepared paint is used on the
White House to make it beautifully
white.
I noticed this especially because I
have used considerable paint myself
and wondered that “canned” paint
should be used on such an important
building when all painters know that
pure white lead and linseed oil make
the best paint
it so happened also that I knew
white lead and linseed oil—not ready
mixed paint—were used on the White
House, because I had just read a book
let published by a firm of ready-mixed
paint manufacturers who also manu
facture pure white lead. In that book
the manufacturers admitted that for
the White House nothing but "the
best and purest of paint could be
used,” and said that their pure white
lead had been selected.
Above all people, those who attempt
to write on historical subjects should
give us facts, even if it is oDly a date
or a statement about wood, or brick,
or paint, or other building material.
Yours for truth,
i.
First Use of Modern Trousers.
Trousers, in their present shape,
were introduced into the British army
in 1813, and tolerated as a legitimate
portion of evening dress in 1816.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOltlA,
a safe and pure remedy for iufants and children,
and see that it
Bear? the
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Ilave Always Bough:
Another Triumph for X-Rays.
So successful has the application of
the X-rays been in the tratment of
children suffring from ringworm, that
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Lon
don, has been enabled to discontinue
the use of one of the two institutions
reserved for such cases.
With a smooth iron and Defiant*
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the gocds,
and it will be a positive p’easure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron, _
California’s New Idea.
A California ostrich farmer is about
to open a branch office in London,
where he will have a collection of os
triches, and incredulous customers
will be treated to feathers cut direct
from the backs of the ostriches, man
ufacturad under the customers’ eyes,
and sold to them across the counter
“at a price they never heard of.”
Immense Leaves of Palm.
The palm family bears longer
leaves than any other known tree
The Inaga palm, growing on the
franks of the Amazon, has leaves
which reach from 35 to 50 feet in
length, and 10 to 12 feet in breadth
Specimens of the talepot palm, a na
live of Ceylon, has been met with 2t
feet long and 18 feet broad. These
leaves are used by the natives to
make tents, and, thus employed, they
make very efficient shelters from rain
The leaves of the double cocoanut
palm are often 30 feet long and sev
eral wide. The leaves of the canni
bal tree of Australia resemble broad
planks and are frequently 15 feet
long, 20 inches broad and 1VS feet
thick at the base. These boardlike
leaves all shoot ou* at the top and
hang down so as to form a sort of
umbrella around the stem. The um
brella tree of Ceylon has leaves of
such enormous size that a single one
trill cover from 15 to £.0 men, and
often serves as a canopy to a b^t,
or a tent for soldiers. A specimen
leaf taken to England measured 36
feet round.
GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP.
Mo Medicine so Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nigbts makes It bard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take “tonics and stimu
bints” under such circumstances is
like setting the house on fire to see
if you can put it out.
The right kind of food promotes re
freshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way of
eating, to Grape-Nuts, and says:
"For about three years I had beet
a great sufferer from Indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medi
cine, the doctor would ask me to drop
oil potatoes, then meat, and so on,
but in a few days that craving, gnaw
[Eg feeling would start up. and I
would vomit everything I ate and
drank.
“When I started on Grape-Nuts,
vomiting stopped, and the bloating
feeling which was so distressing dis
appeared entirely.
“My mother was very much both
ered with diarrhea before commenc
ing the Grape-Nuts, because her stom
ach was so weak she could not digest
her food. Since using Grape-Nuts she
Is well, and says she don’t think 6he
cculd live without it.
“It is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound
an.d undisturbed after a supper of
Grape-Nuts as in the old days when
[ could not realize what they meant
by a “bad stomach.” There is no
medicine so beneficial to nerves and
brain as a good night’s sleep, each as
you can enjoy after eating Grape
Nuts.”
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.”