Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY. - - NEBRASKA.
The Diplomatist.
It used to be said that a diplomatist
was a man who was sent abroad to lie
for his country. To-day it would be
much nearer the truth to say that a
diplomatist is a man who is sent
abroad to tell the truth for his coun
try. A most interesting account has
recently been given of the petition for
better treatment of the j4ws, and the
protest against the Kishinef massa
cres. In order to gratify the signers
of the petition, the state department
forwarded it to Ambassador McOor
mick at St. Petersburg, although well
aware that the Russian government
could take no official cognizance of it.
When the paper was ldid on the table
before Count Lamsdorf, he said, “You
know I cannot receive this." Then,
according to the story which is re
ported by Collier’s, Mr. McCormick re
plied, “Let us talk for a few minuted
as man to man. You are Count Lams
dorf, and I am not an "ambassador, but
merely Mr. McCormick. The time has
come when you can no longer disre
gard public opinion. The whole world
is aroused. Do me the great favor,
personally, of keeping this for two or
. three days. Then if you are still of
the same mind, send it back to me,
and no more will be said.” In the end
Count Lamsdorf showed the petition
to the czar, who was sufficiently im
pressed by it to ameliorate somewhat
the condition of the Jews.
Science Vs. Charlatanism.
Nothing in years has made the
chemists rage together so furiously as
the exploited “discovery” of a com
pound which will make ashes burn
better than coal. Of one formula—
we are aware that this was not the
one tried in a hotel boiler room the
other day—Prof. Gill, of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology, says:
“It contains nothing, nor can it make
anything, that in any way will aid
combustion."’ Even if the inventor’s
preposterous theory of its working be
accepted, the professor says that the
heating capacity of a gallon of the
mixture would be about equal to that
of a piece of coal the size of a pea.
“Why,” the scientific men all ask,
“does this piece of charlatanism get
itself spread broadcast over the coun
try when discoveries of real scientific
importance go unheralded?” We do
not know of any reason which wonld
not apply equally to medical nostrums.
They create sensations because of the
prodigious value they would have if
they were only real. The inventors of
ash-burning formulae, remarks the
New York Post, might wrell ask their
academic critics to point to any
achievement of science within, say,
years that would benefit directly and
indirectly so many people as a method
for burning ashes.
Naming the Spanish baby the prince
of the Asturias is just a temporary ar
rangement until the geographers and
th^ philologists can get together and,
with the aid of relays of stenograph
ers, fix up a' permanent name for the
helpless infant. The real and ofllcial
name of a Spanish king is like a Chi
nese play. You read part of it to-day
and come back to-morrow and the day
after to get the rest. It embraces
everything that the historians can
think of and a few more smooth
bounding words thrown in for good
Measure. One would judge from read
ing the official title of King Alfonso
XIII., for instance, that he was the su
ipren>e ruler of the earth, the air, the
waters under the earth and New Mexi
co, Alaska, Patagonia and all inter
mediate points. If you will notice,
their photographs show that nearly all
the recent kings of Spain were stoop
shouldered. That came from trying to
carry their full names around with
them.
One of the modern improvements in
mail service which the United States
government has been foremost in
adopting is the establishment of “sea
post offices.” This means the provid
ing of facilities on ocean-going steam
ers by which mail is assorted on
board and delivery thereby expedited.
It is represented that mail thus dis
posed of reaches the intended destina
tion i2 hours earlier than by the old
system. Postmaster General Meyer
approves the plan and contemplates
extension of the arrangement. He is
preparing to create at least two more
of these “post offices” on vessels car
rying American mail to Europe, the
result of which will be highly pleasing
to postal patrons.
The German press is strongly op
posed to the kaiser’s fifth son making
a tour of America, saying that “only
evil can come to him in that land of
dollars and machines.” Can it be that
the prowess of our automobiles has
extended to the Fatherland?
A man out in Montana predicts that
the world will come to an end in ten
days, and is selling oft his property
in anticipation of the coming finale.
But what does he propose to do with
the money?
Some of the French visitors to the
Carnegie.institute are said to have
been offended by the playing of “Die
Wacht am Rhein," which they regard
ed as an affront. Now, if they had
been treated to “Nothing fromkNoth
ing Leaves You,” or some such indig
enous selection, they might have had
cause foricomplaint
Watseka, 111., is to have a fountain
in the shape of*a stork. The
trough accompanying it ought to
In the form of a cradle.
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
UNCLE SAM IS HUNTING
FOR NAVAL SURGEONS
WASHINGTON. — Notwithstanding
the superior inducements which a
naval career offers for a young physic
ian over the uncertain and overworked
lines of the average struggling general
practitioner the medical corps of the
navy has not found it possible to se
cure enough naval surgeons to meet
the needs of the service.
Admiral Rixey, surgeon general of
the navy, has adopted extraordinary
measures to meet the case, even going
so far as to send circulars to many of
tne best medical colleges soliciting
applications from the graduates for
appointment as naval surgeons. And
to make the offer more tempting the
surgeon general has undertaken to
give temporary appointments as “act
ing; assistant surgeons” to the young
men who will pass a satisfactory pre
liminary examination and come to
Washington for instruction.
They will receive six months’ spe
cial training at the naval medical
school and hospital recently establish
ed here or ai the Mare island naval
hospital in the case of applicants from
the Pacific coast. At the end of that
course the graduates will receive ap
pointments as assistant surgeons with
an annual salary of $1,750, supple
mented by allowances of $432 and
mileage and other Inducements.
The dulHculty In securing applicants
lies in the fear of the examination to
which they must submit. Admiral
Rixey insists that this* fear is un
founded if the applicant has been prop
erly grounded in the principles of med
icine, while for the “collateral exam
ination” which the candidates must
take, this is nothing more than an
elementary test of the candidate’s
general knowledge of English, arith
metic and literature, and even knowl
edge of foreign languages is not es
sential.
Not even these comparatively sim
ple requirements, however, it is
stated, are met by the majority of ap
plicants, which in the opinion of the
naval medical corps is a severe com
>mentary upon the training afforded by
many medical institutions. The short
age of doctors in the navy has become
really serious. To-day there are 64 va
cancies in a corps that ,at its maxi
mum should number only 350, and un
less the deficiency can be supplied
normally before the end of the calen
dar year congress will be asked to add
to the inducements now held out to
applicants by considerably increasing
the pay of naval surgeons.
OLD CLERKS IN LAND
OFFICE TO LOSE JOBS
COMMISSIONER BALLINGER of the
general land office has recommend
ed. to Secretary Garfield a general re
organization of the force of his office.
The secretary has the matter under
consideration and while no official an
nouncement has been made of his in
tentions it is known that he approves
Mr. Ballinger’s plan and it is expect
ed that it will soon be put into effect.
The first dismissals will be made in
the division of the office in which
land patents are proposed. There are
about 75 clerks in that division, and
of those about 15 cr 20 will be relieved
from duty. The reason for immediate
action is the fact that the law pro
vides for the typewriting of the pat
ents and the recorded copies of them.
Many of the employes' are elderly per
sons who have been on the rolls for
a long time and vrho can not use the
typewriter.
The lowest salaries paid in the di
vision is $900 per annum, and the com
missioner complains that many of the
employes can not earn that amount.
Where possible places paying less will
be provided, but there are compara
tively few of those positions, and even
those are all occupied, so that appoint
ments to them will compel other re
movals.
There is not such urgency in other
divisions, but there are said to be
many clerks throughout the bureau
who are incapacitated by age or other
infirmities and whose service can not,
therefore, be retained in justice to the
department.
The commissioner expresses deep
regret for the necessity which compels
his course, but justifies it on the
ground that no less radical course
would insure the proficiency of the
office.
It is said that many of the persons
who will be relieved have strong po
litical backing and it is anticipated
that the execution of the commission
er’s plans will cause vigorous protests.
It is understood that the president has
full knowledge of the programme for
reorganization.
ROOSEVELT’S AMBITION
ONCE WAS TO BE SAILOR
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT made his
first speech when he was ten years
old. At that time he would a bold
sailor be. He had read all the marvel
ous tales of the sea and his ambition
was to sail the ocean blue in command
of a stanch craft that would carry
him to the uttermost parts of the
earth. He was i>ermitted by his gov
erness to spend much time about the
wharves of New York and he thus be
came personally acquainted with many
of the most famous skippers of that
time. Chief among his heroes was a
certain Captain Doane, commander of
the clipper ship Rival.
This old sea dog used to fill the
mind of the future hero of San Juan
with astonishing stories of storms at
sea and hairbreadth escapes from a
sepulcher in Davy Jones’ locker. It
fired the imagini.tion of the youth and
stirred his ambition. In 18G8, the boy
who is now president raised a fund by
popular subscription for the purpose
of a library for the officers and crew
of the Rival, all of whom were his
friends.
At the head of a delegation of
youngsters he visited the ship when it
next came into port and with due
ceremony presented the library, con
sisting of 45 volumes, to the skipper.
The presentation speech was made by
Mr. Roosevelt. When reminded a few
days ago of this event by an old friend
the president said he remembered it
perfectly and that frequently he had
wondered if ar-r of the officers or crew
of the Rival were still alive, and, if
so, if they remembered his speech.
“I thought it was a mighty fine
speech,” said he, “and so did Captain
Doane.”
THE “GOVERNMENT SHAPE”
CAUSES MUCH COMMENT
fair workers the “government shape.”
It is said this shape was created by
the civil service" commission for the
women employes of the bureau where
the paper money and stamps are print
ed, and that it is now the proper thing
for women in that branch to refer to
their figures as the “government
shape.”
According to regulations of the civil
service commission the measurements
call for women who are “tall and slen
der and sinuous!” height, 5 feet 8
inches; weight, 154 pounds; bust, 36
Inches; waist &> inches: hips 43
inches, and bask 15Vk inches.
A case of the rejection of a young
woman from Michigan is cited be
cause she was not tall enough for her
width to mee?; the requirements, al
though her percentage in other direc
tions was said to have been high. It
is explained, tliat it is necessary for a
woman to be tall In order that she
pay reach the notes while on the
press. A woman of short stature
could not teach the notes, while one
rlERE is considerable breezy com
ment among certain women em
ployes of Uncle Sam’s two open shops
—the government printing office and
the bureau of engraving and printing
—over what is termed by some of the
of unusual girth would not have room
to stoop between the presses In the
process of printing.
A LIFE SAVED.
Mr. Simkins (wildly)—You must be
mine.. Say “yes,” or I will drown my
self.
Miss Prettie—You will at least wait
until I have had time to think it. over,
I am sure.
Mr. Simkins—How long? It is now
September. Will you give me my'
answer in October?
Miss Prettie—I will if I can. - If not,
you will have to wait longer.
Miss Prettie (the following Decem
ber)—What! Still in the land of tlie
living? It is a month, nearly, since I
refused you, and you know you were
to drown yourself if I said “no.”
Mr. Simkins (despondently)—Yes,
but you waited so long that the—the
water got too cold.—N. Y. Weekly.
Possibly.
Klkker—There's Just one thing I
like about this restaurant They don’t
keep me waiting for my ctfec^.
Nokker—No; the waiters probably
have found that there’s no use in hold
ing it till you are ready to go—you
never tip ’em, anyway.—Chicago Trib
FOR TH» WEDDING FEAST.
Chicken Salad One of the Meat De
pendable of Relishes.
Chicken salad is the most dependa
ble relish to serve at the wedding
feast. It never holds the possibilities
of ptomaine poisoning as fish may and
it does not wilt as a green salad would,
if the reception runs for some length.
Here is an old family recipe: This
quantity should make very nearly two
quarts of salad, sufficient for 20 peo
ple, if served with sandwiches and
ices. Select two plump fowl, not too
old, simmer in boiling water until ten
der. Do not cut them' up before cook
ing, and do not cook in cold water, as
this draws out the juice. When ten
der, remove from the liquor, cool and
cut into dice. Add one pint of celery
cut in dice, mixed lightly, sprinkled
with a little salt. If you do not like
oil use this dressing: Beat the yolks
of seven eggs, add seven pinches of
mustard, seven teaspoonfuls of sugar:
place in a porcelain stew pan, add
slowly seven tablespoonfuls of boiling
vinegar. Cook slowly until thick; mix
with the chicken, add one cupful of
good sweet cream, whipped light, and
salt and pepper to taste. If you like
oil try this mayonnaise dressing: Into
the well-beaten yolk of one egg add
drop by drop one pint of olive oil.
Boil two eggs hard; rub into the yolks
a dash of cayenne pepper, one-half
spoonful of salt. Add this to the yolks
and oil. Mow add finely chopped whites
of the eggs and juice of half a lemon;
mix well, then add the well-beaten
white of the uncooked egg, and the
dressing is ready for use.
“HAY STOVE" IS HANDY.
Saves Fuel and Discomfort During the
Hot Weather.
Here is a good way to keep the
kitchen cool and also to save fuel:
Take an old trunk or a wooden bos
about the size of a trunk, fill with hay,
pack tightly and make four or five
holes in the hay to accommodate pots
of different sizes. Prepare your meat,
vegetables, rice, fruit or whatever you
wish to cock, put on gas stove and let
come to boiling point. Take ofi" and
put into holes in your hay stove; have
a tightly fitting cover on each pot and
close the lid, which must also be lined
with hay and lastly with netting or
cheesecloth to keep the hay from spill
ing. If put in while preparing lunch
eon or just after everything will come
out nicely and thoroughly done for a
seven o'clock dinner. Oatmeal may be
cooked over night. Have tried this in
the house and in camp during summer
when we would put cfr dinner to cook
;at daybreak, go on an excursion, come
'back at noon hungry and tired, lift the
.lid of our hay stove and find our din
ner ready to be served and eaten.
Everything gets thoroughly done with
out burning or boiling dry.
Macaroni a la Creole.
Take the required amount of maca
roni or spaghetti; put over to boil in
slightly salted boiling water; take
•three or four generous slices of break
fast bacon, rather fat. cut up in small
dice, put in frying pan and fry; cut up
•one or two good-sized onions and a
very little garlic (if liked), fry in ba
con fat but do not burn; now open a
good sized can of tomatoes and pour
contents in with bacon and onions,
cook until tomatoes are all dissolved;
take one-half pound common cheese,
cut in small pieces, put in with the to
matoes; when cheese is melted pour
all over the macaroni, which has pre
viously been drained in colander; stir
all together and serve. Don’t forget
to season with salt and pepper to suit
taste. This is a southern dish and is
fine.
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Good Treatment for Floor.
The simplest and one of the pretti
est of treatments for a floor is as fol
lows: Wash the floor well and let it
dry- Then go over it with a cloth
dipped from time to time in coal oil,
which not only cleanses, but pene
trates the floor so that less of the boil
ed oil is required. In two quarts of
boiled oil put beeswax the size of half
of an egg and boil together till melted
and thoroughly mixed. The utmost
care must be taken in doing this, as
both materials are inflammable.
'.While the oil is still warm apply with
a wide paint brush. If the wood has
a handsome grain, the oil brings it
out beautifully. It only requires dust
ing from week to week.
Caramel Junket.
If one is fond of caramel or plain
junket, there is no dessert for sum
mer more delicate. Two cups of
milk, one-third cup of sugar, one-third
cup of boiling water, one junket tab
let, a pinch of sail, one teaspoonful
of vanilla. Heat milk until blood
warm. Caramelize sugar, add boiling
water, and cook until syrup is re
duced to one-third cup. Cool, and
add milk slowly to syrup. Break the
tablet into small bits, or powder it,
add to mixture, with salt and vanilla.
Turn into cups or dish, let stand until
the junket congeals. Then place in
the refrigerator to chill. Just before
serving cover the top with whipped
cream and chopped nuts.
If plain junket is preferred it may
be flavored with sherry wine or nut
meg instead of vanilla.
Pineapple Marmalade.
Peel and grate or chop as many
pineapples as are desired, using a sil
ver knife or fork in the operation.
Measure or weigh and allow a *pound
of sugar to each pound of fruit.
Mix well,and stand in a cool place
over night In the morning cook for
half an hour or until soft enough to
put through a coarse sieve. Strain,
return to the preserving kettle, and
continue cooking, stirring almost con
stantly for half an hour or longer un
til a clear amber jelly that will thick
en into a paste as it cools. Put into
small jars and seal when cool.
Pineapple Souffle.
One can grated pineapple, one
scant cup sugar, one-half box gelatin,
one pint cream whipped. Boil pine
apple and sugar 20 minutes, cool, and
add cooled prepared gelatin. Mix and
stir often while it is setting. When
It is almost stiff add the cream, which
has been whipped and put in a mold.
Pat in a cool place to harden and
' of whipped cream on
MAKING FARMERS.
FIRST STATE TO START COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.
Movement for Improvement of Rural
School System by Which Special
Needs of Farming Communi*
ties Will Be Served.
Every state in the union has its ag
ricultural college where the student of
agriculture may fit himself for scien
tific farming, but little has been done
in providing elemental studies in agri
culture for rural schools. The subject
has been discussed much of recent
years, and there is no doubt that in the
near future provision will be made in
most rural districts for instruction in
agricultural topics along practical lines
which will specially interest and pre
pare the boys and girls for the busi
ness of farming. *
Wisconsin is the first state to crys
tallize this thought of elementary ag
ricultural instruction by the establish
ment of the first county schools of ag
riculture and domestic economy in
America. The legislature as far back
as 1900 appointed Hon. D. L. Harvey,
then acting as state superintendent of
public instruction, a comniissioner to
investigate the conditions of the rural
school systems of other states and for
eign countries and to report to the leg
islature of 1901 the needs of the rural
schools of Wisconsin. Upon the rec
ommendation of the commissioner, two
of these schools were authorized by
the legislature of 1901, and that of
Marathon county was the first to open,
on Oct. 6, 1902. The citizens of Mara'
than county have heretofore been
largely engaged in the lumber indus
try, but they are now turning their at
tention mainly to agriculture.
The courses taught in the schools
are as follows: First year for boys—
The soil, manual training, carpentry,
English, business arithmetic, fertil
izers, library reading, plant life, veg
etables, flower and fruit gardening,
poultry. Second year for boys—Plant
life, manual training, blacksmithing,
United States history, economics, li
brary reading, animal husbandry, rural
architecture, civil government, vegeta
ble, flower and fruit gardening, and
economics of agriculture. First year
for girls—Cooking, sewing, domestic
hygiene, English, business arithmetic,
home economy, library reading, veg
etable, flower and fruit gardening.
Second year for girls—Cooking, sew
ing, laundry. United States history, li
brary reading, chemistry of foods, civil
government, millinery, home nursing,
poultry, vegetable, flower and fruit gar
dening.
To any student outside of the regu
lar courses, who may have the time, a
brief course in the theory of farm
dairying is offered. There are studied
in the course buttermaking, the differ
ent steps in the process, cheese
making, method of making American
Main Building of Marathon County
School of Agriculture.
ehedder cheese, testing n'.ilk and its
products, and the Babcock test for
butter fat.
It is the aim of the school of agri
culture and domestic economy to make
good farmers and good citizens. The
training received by students of this
school is calculated to broaden the in
terests and quicken the powers of ob
servation, in that the farmer in the
competition and struggle of his profes
sion, may obtain results which com
pare favorably with the results ob
tained in other avocations on a simi
tar footing.
It is only a question of time when
the schools of agriculture and domes
tic economy will be the leading insti
tutions of every state in the union.
ALCOHOL TO BURN.
DENATURED ARTICLE OPENS UP
NEW ERA OF POSSIBILITIES.
Department of Agriculture, Under
Whose Supervision the Develop
ment Is Being Made, San
guine of Success.
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural
department sees a great future for de
natured alcohol, believing that in the
new product there are unlimited possi
bilities. He confidently expects that
it will largely supplant gasolene as a
power generator, and that it will be
come generally used in communities
where other fuel is scarce or expen
r
Yautia Root, a Prolific Producer of Al
cohol. It will grow 15 Tons of
Roots to the Acre.
sive. That plants yielding large quan
tities of alcohol producing starches
may be introduced generally in the
United States and grown inexpensive
ly is being shown by careful experi
ment on the part of that department.
That each farmer may be taught to
raise a small patch of the special alco
hol producers and from that make;
alcohol for his own use, not only as an
illuminant, but for heating, cooking
and the running of machinery, is the
ideal condition which the farsighted
ones believe they see in the future.
The idea of Secretary Wilson and
the department of agriculture is not to
develop an industry that will be profit
able to a few manufacturers, but to
show how each individual farmer, with
a little still of his own, may utilize his
waste products and on rainy days
when other work is delayed keep the
hired man or the boys busy at home in
the distillation of the alcohol for the
family use and perhaps to sell a few
barrels to the village grocer.
The region offering the greatest in
ducement to the manufacture of the
alcohol is probably the great wheat
producing lands of the Dakotas, where
there is an entire absence of timber,
a scarcity of coal and insufficiency of
transportation. To aid th®new indus
try in this region the department of
agriculture has introduced a large,
rough potato, wfcich has been grown
for a long time in Germany and Rus-'
sia, where industrial alcohol has been\
used to a considerable extent for many
years. This potato has been bred with'
the idea of developing its starch pro
ducing qualities and the yield to the
acre. So productive has it become
that yields of 15 tons to the acre have
been recorded. The alcohol potato
will produce from 25 to 30 gallons of
alcohol to a ton, and a quarter of an
acre wrill yield enough to supply the
farmer with fuel, illuminatton and
power for the running of all the farm
machinery.
Cassava is another root plant with a
high percentage of starch and yield to
the acre. It has been introduced from
the West Indies into the southern
states, coming originally from Brazil,
where it has been used for centuries
as a food for the natives, producing,
when pulverized, a palatable and nu
tritious flour. It thirves particularly
in the moist, lands of the south and
has been known to yield as great a
crop as 30 tons to the acre.
Probably the greatest and most
widely diversified starch producer as
to the possibility of growth is, how
ever. the yautia. This is a plant orig
inating in tropical America. It is sim
ilar in appearance to the ordinary or
namental plant known as the ele
phant’s ear. It has a root which pro
duces a tuber as does the potato, and
is planted as the potato, from cutting
up the tubers and planting the "eyes.”
The crop that may be harvested
ranges from seven to 15 tons to the
acre, and the yield of starch is little
less than that of the cassava. It has
been cultivated in tie United States
extensively for the manufacture of
starch and has been used to a cer
tain extent as a food in the way the
potato has been used. There are many
varieties, and some of these may be
grown as far north as Canada. Be
cause of its hardiness and the wide
latitude in which it may be grown it
offers opportunities of cultivation as
an alcohol producer that are probably
greater than any other plant now un
der the consideration of the depart
ment of agriculture.
Perseverance.
The mistress of a large, fashionable
home had just secured a new maid of
Irish extraction, and who had just
come from the “ould sod." Being on
friendly terms with her neighbor, she
told the maid that the neighbor could
use anything she desired.
One day the mistress wept out for
all morning. On her return she found
that the telephone which had been in
stalled in the hall was gone. Calling
the maid, she inquired for it.
“Plaise, mum," answered Bridget,
“th’ lady across th’ shtrate ashed me
if she cud use th’ tilephone, an’ Oi
sint it over to her; but Oi hod an
awful toime to git it unshcrewed.”—
Judge. _
Too Clumsy.
"No,” said the customer in the pho
nograph emporium, “I don’t like this
style of horn.”
“You don’t?” replied the clerk in
surprise. “Why, that style of horn
breaks the record.”
“That’s .just the trouble. It breaks
the record every time I put It on.”—
Chicago Dally News.
&
Mean of Him.
“John,” snapped Mrs. Blazeup, at
supper, “you take those long rides all
alone in your automobile and I bet you
never even think' of me?”
“That’s where you are wrong, Ma
ria,” replied Mr. Blazeup, as he filled
his gasoline tank, “I think of you
every time I look at the machine."
“Indeed, sir. And what is the re
semblange?”
“Why, it is so expensive, contrary
and highly explosive.”
And then he ran over and shut him
self up in the garage.”—Chicago Daily
News.
Didn't Get Over It.
Tw6 young men were having a heat
ed argument over a problem which
needed a great deal of mental calcu
lation.
“I tell you,” said one, “that you are
entirely wrong.”
x“But I am not,” said the other.
"Didn’t I go to school, stupid?” al
most roared his opponent.
“Yes,” was the calm reply; “and
you came back stupid.”
That ehded it. ^ '
Don’t Use “Practically
Pure” White Lead
There is no other pigment that is
“practically” White Lead—no other
paint that has the properties of Pure
White Lead Paint.
Pure White Lead, good paint that
it is, cannot carry adulterants without
having its efficiency impaired. To get
Pure White Lead durability, see to
it that every keg bears the Dutch Boy
trade mark—a guarantee that the con
tents are absolutely Pure White Lead
made by the Old Dutch Process.
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Don’t PugiJf
The horse can draw the
load w ithout help, if you
reduce friction to almost
nothin'* by applying /j
iMieaAxl
to the wheels.
No other lubri
cant ever made
wears so long
and saves so much
horsepower. Next time
try Mica Axle Grease.
Standard Oil Co.
Incorporated
A Sad Mistake.
In my father’s native village lives
Mr. S., a very deaf old man. During
the summer months he lets his spare
rooms to some of the many pleasure
seekers who frequent the place, says
a Boston Herald writer, and one day
last summer, while Mr. S. was in his
garden, a young man of the village
chanced by, and the following conver
sation took place:
"Good morning, Mr. S."
“Mawnin’.”
“You’ve got your house full of board
ers this summer.”
Mr. S. was picking potato bugs oft
from his plants, but he managed to
stop long enough to answer, “Yes.”
"Some nice looking young ladies
among them,” continued the young
man.
Mr. S. stood up and eyed the pota
toes critically, then answered:
“Well, they’d ought to look purty
good. I just picked two quarts ot
bugs oft ’em.”
Medicine of Bamboo Sap.
In India the sap of the female bam
boo tree is used for medicinal pur
poses. “Tabasheer,” or "banslochan.”
is sold in all Indian bazars, as it ha3
been known from the earliest times as
a medicinal agent. It is also known
in Borneo, and was an article of com
merce with early Arab traders of the
east Its properties are said to be
strengthening, tonic and cooling. It
has been analyzed and has been shown
to consist almost entirely of silica,
with traces of lime and potash. From
its remarkable occurrence in the hol
lows of bamboos the eastern mind has
long associated it with miraculous
powers.
Something New.
A lady novelist thus describes the
youth of her heroine:
“In that w'alled-in garden of a place
she, so young, so brilliant, so alluring,
grew with the air of a Shirley poppy.
That was the flower she most resem
bled, both in color and in her step.”
We confess to having seen a door
step, but it has not been our privilege
to witness the ambulatory exercise ol
a poppy.—Westminster Gazette.
CHILDREN SHOWED IT
Effect of Their Warm Drink in the
Morning. *
“A year ago I was a wreck from
coffee drinking and was on the point
of giving up my position in the school
room because of nervousness.
“I was telling a friend about it and
she said, ‘We drink nothing at meal
time but Postum Food Coffee, and it is
such a comfort to have something we
can enjoy drinking with the children.’
"I was astonished that she would al
low the children to drink any kind of
coffee, but she said Postdin was the
most healthful drink in the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that the condition of both the children
and adults showed that to be a fact.
"My first trial was a failure. The
' cook boiled it four or five minutes and
it tasted so flat that I was in despair
but determined to give it one more
trial. This time we followed the di
rections and boiled it fifteen minutes
after the boiling began. It was a de
cided success and I was completely
won by its rich delicious flavour. In a
short time I noticed a decided im
provement in my condition and kept
growing better and better month after
month, until now I am perfectly
healthy, and do my work in the school
room with ease and pleasure. I woultL'
not return to the nerve-destroying reg?
ular coffee for any money.”
“There’s a Reason.” Read the fa
mous little "Health Classic,” "The
Road to Wellville,” in pkga.