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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. India’s Curse. One of the great perils of India Is the danger from serpents and wild beasts, which annually cause enor mous loss of life in that part of the jworld. There is a belief in many pagan minds which prevents the kill ing of wild animals, no matter how ferocious they may be, and which ■ leaves, undisturbed the most venom ous snakes. The awful havoc wrought by serpents is made the subject of official mention in a report by William IH. Michal, the American consul gen eral at Calcutta, in which that gentle jman says: “The serpent question is ,still a very ‘live,’ very serious ques tion In India. Snake bites occur fre quently, and they are generally in flicted by venomous snakes, like the cobra.” Then he relates that last |year there were reported 21,797 deaths from snake bite. But jt is admitted that the statistics are kept very loosely, and it is believed the actual fatalities will exceed the quoted figures by at least 50 per cent. This sort of thing has gone on indefi nitely, and for at least 30 years the total has averaged as high as that of 1906. Add to this the ravages of flesh-eating beasts, including the tigers and lions, many of which be come “man killers,” and some concep tion may be formed of the result. India is a country of many millions population, but the census would show still greater growth were there some* well-organized effort in the way of disposing of its noxious wild crea tures. Plea for Enlisting. No man who will look carefully into the work of the army of the navy can fail to realize that a career in either branch of our military service is one to which any man may give himself with the fullest devotion and with the highest ideals. Americans, as a rule, know little about the actual work of either of these services, and few realize that when a man enters the service of the army or of the navy, whether as officer or as enlist ed man, he enters a great school, a school in which is taught not only the discipline of self-restraint, of cleanli ness, of devotion to duty, but in which are taught also the elements of an education, says H. S. Pritchett, in Atlantic. An enlisted man who enters a regiment of the army, barely able to read or write, comes out, if he be a man of ambition and industry*, at the end of three years, in posses sion of the fundamentals of an Eng lish education. His officer stands to him not only in the relation of a mili tary director, but in the relation also of a teacher and of a friend. There is no career open to an American boy, unless it be that of a teacher, which offers a larger opportunity than that of the army or navy officer to minis ter to the service of men. A Consumptive Flood. The flocking of consumptives from all parts of the country to the south west has created problems in the lat ter region with which the various states are dealing in different ways. In Texas the state health officer has just issued a statement in which he says that victims of tuberculosis in its advanced stages will be debarred from entering or remaining in that state. He declares that conditions make such a rule imperative. So many indigent consumptives have been pouring in and becoming charges on the public that the people of cer tain sections are seriously burdened in caring for such patients. This in crease of the pauper population not only works hardships on taxpayers, but the scattering throughout the state of throngs of tuberculosis suffer ers of all classes causes an inability to control the spread of the disease. This is rather hard on health seekers, but Texas surely cannot be blamed. Vanishing Forests. The old forests of Kentucky are vanishing. In all the good farming regions men saved fine bits of forest, set with old beeches, oaks, ashes, poplars, hickories, elms and walnuts. When the undergrowth was taken away the grass set about the trees and grew luxuriantly. Now these i trees are very old, and many are in decay. The beech Is an especially fine tree, and it is worthy of note that there is not one beech to a thousand old and decaying trees! Some day, says Our Country, the beech will be an extinct tree in all the more fertile and cultivated regions. Smokers who have been longing to break themselves of the tobacco habit will rejoice to know that a French doctor has invented a fluid called nic otyl, one drop of which will cause a man to have nausea at the mere thought of tobacco. By a process of kite flying the weather men of the country are go ing to promulgate new rules for weather forecasting. Prognostications concerning the weather are usually a little “up in the air,” anyhow. An Englishman claims to have gone around the world in 40 days and a few hours, and yet some persons now living, even if they didn't fight with Garibaldi, remember when Jules Verne made up an 80-day story that was supposed to be just inside the im possible. They say that a Jap wrestler about to come to this country weighs 360 pounds. What a target a Japanese army would make if its soldiers were all of that style of architecture! V State Levy Seven Mills. The state board of assessment com pleted its work, with the exception of entering a final order, by ordering an Increase of i5 per cent in the valua tion of merchandise in Douglas county and a reduction of 5 per cent on mer chandise in Lancaster county and levying a total state tax of 7 mills on the dollar valuation. This is the same levy that was made last year, but under the in crreased valuation of all property in the state will produce a larger reve nue. The 1 mill tax for the redemp tion of outstanding state warrants and the 1 mill tax for the support of the university are levies required by law and the board cannot change them. The levy for the general fund was Increased from 4^ mills to 5 mills, making a total of 7 mills. No levy was made for a school tax. A section of the statute requires such a tax. but the legislature sought to re peal this tax and showed its intention by repealing a section of the statute that provides for a tax of that nature and defines how the tax shall be ex pended. It was the opinion of the board that in view of the repealing act of the legislature and the further fact that the legislature appropriated $100,000 for the support of weak school districts and high schools no school tax should be levied. The total assessed valuation of the state will not be definitely known un til Secretary Bennett makes compila tions embodying changes in values or dered by the board. With the excep tion "of the 5 per cent reduction in merchandise in Lancaster county no values were decreased by the board, and many increases were ordered. The total assessed valuation of the state before the board equalized was $328,700,337. On this basis the an. nual tax for state purposes for the general fund will be $1,643,500, or $3,. 287,000 for the biennium. The legis lature appropriated $3,358,729 charge able to the general fund for the bi ennium, exclusive of items vetoed by Governor Sheldon. With consider able revenue from fees and other sources the geners.1 fund levy, it is confidently expected, will cover the expenditures authorized by the legis lature and for the first time in many years the state will keep within its Income. At the same time the 7 'mill levy will provide $328,700 annu ally for the wiping out of the state debt and the same amount annually for the university, and $50,000 annu ally for the school district and $50,000 for high schools. State Treasurer’s Report. State Treasurer L. G. Brian’s re port for the month of July fehows a balance of $439,175.23 on hand, of which $433,671.35 is cash on deposit in state depositories and $5,503.88 cash on hand. The redemption fund, derived from a one-mill tax levy, amounted to $23,109.69 during the month and about the same amount was paid out for the redemption of outstanding state warrants. The to tal trust funds uninvested, including $145,550.22 in the permanent school fund, is $148,680.55. The total state funds invested in interest bearing se curities is now $7,672,167.82, an in crease of $64,332.62 during the month. These Investments comprise $6,635, 137.35 in bondB and $1,037,030.47 in state warrants. Jones Owns Traction Stock. Mr. Jones of the State Journal was a witness In the suit filed before the [state railway commission by the city ‘to compel the Lincoln Traction com pany to sell six fares for 25 cents. ' Jones said he owned some stock in .the traction company, but It never .had influenced him in the least when .writing editorials for ttts paper. H« ,'said the people who controlled the i Journal did not own traction stock. »It was brought out that the Citizen’s ^company got power cheaper from the '.gas company than the traction com pany could get it. Railroads Stop Discrimination. The complaint of the poultry dealer at Aurora that the railroads discrim inated against him by charging him local rates when he filled a car with poultry en route to San Francisco and allowed the packing companies the benefit of the through rates, has had results. All are now charged the same rate. Seward Wants Track 8cales. A number of citizens of Seward have petitioned the state railway com mission to compel the railroads enter ing that town to put In track scales for the weighing of coal, grain and merchandise in carload lots, as pro vided by law. Checking Up Express Reports. The state railway commission is go. ing to investigate cm its own account the finances of the various express companies doing business in this state. An expert will be sent out to check up the receipts and expendi' tures at some of the stations and the original entries locked into. These will be used in connection with the reports filed with the commislson by the express companies. The commis sion probably will make no order in the matter of express rates until this has been attended to. Terminal Company Files Statement. Outstanding bonds amounting to 11,75(1,000 at 5 per cent interest are listed in the annual report of the Om aha Bridge and'Terminal company filed with the state railway commis sion. The company says that the Illi nois Central operates Its trains, but fails to state the amount of traffic It has handled during the year, its roadbed, one and one-half miles long, and Its bridge across the Missouri river are listed at 11,500,000. The ex penses and taxes of the bridge and terminals last year were 920,340.96. ;.JU—_ Railroads Turned Down. The official record of the board ol equalization, much debated, has at last been adopted. The state board disavowed former resolutions intro duced by the Union Pacific attorneys and adopted the following, after con sulting with Attorney General Thomp son: Whereas, The board having had un der consideration and investigation abstracts of the property assessed for taxation in the several counties in the state returned to this board, and hav ing heard all the testimony adduced by the Union Pacific and Burlington railroad companies reduced to writ ing, as well as other evidence con sidered by the board and not reduced to writing, and having knowledge con cerning the valuation of the different classes of property within the several counties of this state, and after hear ing the argument of counsel and be ing fully advised in the premises therefore be it Resolved, That the classes of prop erty designated below in the counties hereinafter named shall be increased and decreased by a per centum as fol lows: Be it further Resolved, adjudged and ordered by said board of equalization and assess ment of the state of Nebraska, That the classes of property indicated in the above named counties be increased and decreased by the percentum here inbefore named, and that the assess ments in all counties not increased or decreased be adjudged to be the proper, fair, true and equitable assess ment and equalization in such coun ties; that the assessments made in the several counties of this state and returned to this board by the county boards of this state, as equalized by this board and as set forth in this resolution, is a fair, true and equitable assessment and equalization of all the property within this state; and that the protest, petition and remonstrance of the Union Pacific Railroad company be overruled and denied; to which the Union Pacific Railroad company excepts. The Anti-Bucket Shop Bill. Attorney General Thompson has given County Attorney Tyrrell, of Lancaster county an opinion in re gard to the meaning of the auti bucket shop bill. Mr. Tyrrell has re ceived the opinion, but has not an nounced what course he intends to pursue in regard to prosecution of persons who may be operating in violation of the law. The attorney general lays stress on the terms of the bill which make it unlawful for any person to keep an of fice for the pretended buying or sell ing of grain or stocks or bonds with out any intention of receiving and puaying for the propeerty so bought or without any intention of delivering the property. This is the offense con demned by the statute. The fact that the buyer has the means of Cor ing does not alter the case if he keeps a place with the intention stated. “In my opinion, therefore,” says the attorney general, “it would be a vio lation of the act quoted for one hav ing bona fide connections with the Chi cago board of trade or a board of like organization and plan, to carry on within this state a brokerage commis sion business, take orders that are transmitted to the board of trade without the state, the members of the board of trade having grain storage elevators and guarantees and is at all times prepared to make actual deliv eries of the commodities contracted for, which such a business involves pretended sales without any intention of delivery. Otherwise, storage and delivery facilities could be mere de vices to evade the law.” Threshing Machine Center. Lincoln is a center of the thresh ing machine industry. This year it will stand second as a distributing center for threshing machines in the United States, being exceeded only by Minneapolis. Heretofore Kansas City has been ahead of Lincoln, but the poor crop in the south has cut down their sales materially. Conservative estimates put the sales of threshing machines from Lincoln at $1,000,000 this year, and say that this is a drop from last year. That means that 200 complete outfits and more than that many separators will be shipped from that city this season. Assessment of Interurbans. Values corresponding with the as sessments of the various county as sessors were fixed by the state board of assessment and equalization on the lntenirban railroads of Nebraska. The Omaha, Lincoln ft Beatrice road was valued at about $90,000, the Om aha ft Southern lnterurban at $90,000 and the Sioux City, Crystaf Lake ft Homer road at $10,000. First Arrest Under New Law. County Attorney McCutchan of Boyd county has reported the arrest of a butcher of that county charged with selling diseased meat. This Is the first arrest under the new pure food law. Food Commisioner Johnson ordered a vigorous prosecution of the case. A fine of $100 Is provided for the offense. 8heldon and McBrien at Normal. The visit of Governor Sheldon and State Superintendent McBrien to the McCook junior normal school was a notable event. The governor and state superintendent both addressed the normal and the third annual grad uating exercises of the eighth grade of the Red Willow county schools. In the evening a reception was ten dered the governor at the McCook commercial club rooms, where hun dreds of citizens and members of the, junior normal paid their respects to the chief executive of the state. Last of Assessors’ Reports. The last of the abstracts of county assessors has been received and the grand assessment roil as fixed by the county assessors is $328,700,337.29. in 1906 it was $313,080,301.02, making the increase this year $15,640,036.27. As the Increase in the personal prop erty assessment is practically $10,000, 000 and the increase in the assess ment of railroads practically $5,000, 000, it is thought the state board oi equalization will change the returns of the county assessors very little. There probably will be some changes. NEW ENGLISH AUTO TRACK Mr. S. F. Edge Trying for a New 24-Hour Record. FARMERS BUYING AUTOS. NEW SIGNS OF PROSPERITY OB-j SERVED IN THE WEST. Manufacturers of Motor Cars Cannot Make Machines Fast Enough to Supply Demand from Tillers of the Soil. Lincoln, Neb.—Western agents of automobile factories assert that if the machines could be obtained hundreds of autos could be old this summer to the farmers of Nebraska and Kansas. As it is, the residents of the country towns and the farmers are buying more of the benzine buggies than the cities, and there is scarcely a country town in Nebraska in which there are not more automobiles in proportion to the population than in Lincoln or Omaha. The prosperity of western farmers has become an old story, and this pros perity is going to be augmented this year by another big crop of wheat and corn and oats. Most of the farmers in the state could buy a medium-priced machine just as a luxury if they want ed to, but the manner in which they have amassed their money does not lead to extravagance of that kind. When a Nebraska agriculturist adds to his machinery collection he buys only that which will be of use. That is why he is just now turning to the automobile. The favorite farm type is the runabout, largely because of its low first cost. The prudent farmer figures that with good carriage horses bringing $150 to $250 each in the mar ket he is foolish to utilize them in the pleasure jaunts and his journeyings to and from church. If he uses his work horses to go to town or about the country, he deducts just that much from their working capacity on the farm. By using an auto he saves the horses fresh for the farm work, he can transact his busi ness quicker and get back to the farm in a short time, to his financial better ment. LAD OF 7 CROSSES SEA ALONE. Adorned with Many Tags Before He Reaches New York from Russia. New York.—Adorned with a motley array of tags, which were pinned on his coat, shirt and troupers in many cities on the route from far off Minsk, Russia, .to this city, seven-year-old Benjamin Meyerson is quartered in the Hebrew home for immigrants in this city. He is bound for Omaha, where his parents, who left Russia several years ago, now reside. The boy remained with his uncle until recently, when his parents sent for him and he was started alone on what probably has been the most re markable journey ever taken by a lit tle fellow of his age. Benjamin’s uncle tagged him so that the railroad men might know where to ship the tiny human freight. He also appended to the boy’s coat a re quest that wherever the wee journey er stopped he should be bathed. The child has been scrubbed in a score of cities. At each point where the boy changed cars he was retagged until, when he arrived two days ago on the Etruria he looked like a misshaped trunk that had gone through the grand tour. Woman of 92 Fine Sprinter. London.—Sydney Talbot, the 98 year-old American marine engineer whose activity has been told of, has rivals. At a charitable fete given for the aged poor in Buckinghamshire prizes for fiat races were won by two men aged 83 and 86 years respective ly. In one woman’s race a dame of 92 sprinted finely, but was beaten by a younger competitor. A SMALL COIN BLOCKS CARS. New York Motorman Searches Tracks Fifteen Minutes for Quarter. New York.—There was much excite ment on the Bowery the other day when a motorman on a south-bound Third avenue surface car tied up the line for nearly 15 minutes trying to find a 25-cent piece he had spied in the center of the track. The coin was lying in the groove of the rail. When he brought the car to a stop the wheels of the truck were directly over it. This the motorman did not know, and he crawled under the car to search for the coin. A large crowd soon gathered, thinking something was wrong. The discovery was made at Grand street, just at the time when the streets were badly congested and traffic was at its height. Several po licemen soon arrived and wanted to know what all the trouble was about. It wasn’t long before the crowd learn ed what the motorman was after. Several men and boys, Including a couple of street-cleaning sweepers, im mediately joined in the search. After crawling about for ten minutes in vain the motorman had an inspiration that the coin might be under the wheel. He told the conductor to start the car on about a foot. Then there was a scramble. Boys, men and street-clean ing sweepers made a rush for the bit of money at the same time. The mo torman, who was the nearest to it, after a hard struggle, knocking the men and boys aside, finally got it. By this time the street was blocked, and the drivers of trucks were yelling like madmen. A string of cars ex tended back almost to Fourteenth street. A crowd of nearly 1,000 per sons had gathered and the police had their hands full in dispersing it. The Limit. “Is your wife the queen of your home ?” “Yep—absolute despot.’’—Cleveland Leader. Catches a Young Beaver with a Fly. Fisherman Makes the Queerest Catch on Record. Bangor, Me.—While W. E. Dill, of Eustis was fly fishing on the Dead river, near Ledge Falls, he noticed a young beaver suddenly come to the surface of the water within 50 feet of where he was casting from a rock In the stream. Not having had many rises that day and being ready for any diversion from the monotony of the constant casting and only occasional strike, in pure sportiveness he decid ed to try his skill in tempting the beaver to taste his white miller. Making one of the best casts he had ever made, the fly dropped just in front of the inattentive animal within two feet of its jaws. By the careful maneuvering of the leader and a quick jig at the right moment the beaver was soon firmly grasping the white fly When completely tired out by his struggles of 20 minutes, the beaver consented^ to be captured, and after exhibiting hl;> at the Shaw house for a few hours Mr. Dill carefully return ed him to his native home. He did not seem to t* very wild, and would not offer to bite, as some of the women and children held him in their arms. Mr. Dill thinks he is the only man who ever landed a beaver on a split bamboo fly rod. Any one at Eustis will vouch for this. Wed Again to Please Mother. St. Louis.—To satisfy the bride groom's mother, who was ill, Robert Elliott Chamberlain and his wife, who had until a few hours before been Miss Maud Cronhardt, were married a sec ond time, a few hours after their re turn from Alton, 111., where the first ceremony was performed. No license was obtained in St. Louis, the second ceremony being regarded by the young people and the minister as merely a ratification of the first. The Buspicious seek in others what they have hidden in themselves. BRIDGE WHIST CRAZE SUMMER COLONY AT NEWPORT WILD OVER GAME. Many Prominent Society Women Give Up Their Whole Time to It— Golf Clubs Again Popu lar as a Result. Newport, R. I.—Newport has the bridge whist craze. So has Narragan sett Pier and Bar Harbor, but it is at Newport that the epidemic is most virulent. , Here pursuit of the game has be come an obsession. Big sums of money are won and lost every day at the tables. Women in most instances are the most inveterate of the gamblers. The flushed face of the woman gam bler can be seen daily in carriages that flash along Bellevue avenue. Her ner vous, eager manner betrays her. At ordinary social functions she waits pa tiently for the outsiders to depart in order that the elect few may creep away to the boudoir of the hostess for an hour at bridge. Bridge is not the only game. More than one splendid villa here now con ceals a dainty roulette wheel and a private faro layout for the delectation of the elect To such an extent has the passion for play gone that some -of the older heads are seriously discussing the or ganization of an anti-gambling crusade. The effect of gambling on the nerves of some women in the younger set, as well as on their pocketbooks, is cre ating alarm. And then the golf club claims atten tion. The golf club had run to seed. It was so far away it didn’t offer any particular diversion after one had made i the long journey out to the place. Of late, however, unwonted prosperity has come to the club. Bridge whist did it. Confronted with a situation that spelled ruin for the club the man agers appointed a women's committee to take matters in hand. The commit tee turned to bridge whist. Now the golf club has become one of the most popular 'institutions at Newport. Mem bers even occasionally play golf as a recreation after several hours of en ervating play at the tables. Here it is that the passion for bridge is seen at its height. On a recent afternoon tfiere were eight tables go ing. Refreshing breezes swept in from the ocean. Half a dozen of the best known women in New York and Phil adelphia society lounged outside on the terrace. Within at least 20 young women and a few men toiled feverish ly at bridge. Among the stories they tell sub rosa at the golf club is one of a young wom an who has won enough during this season to buy a handsome automobile, and another young woman who lost so much that her father threatened to cut off her allowance and refuse to stand responsible for any of her debts If she does not quit the game. There are other stories of matrons who are heavily in debt to their fellow-players, and a couple of men who practically support themselves by means of their winnings. ---- WEDS GIRL, WON’T TELL NAME. Millionaire Hearne Married to a Miss of Seventeen. New York.—A millionaire of 50 marrying a beautiful brunette of 17 summers is the latest romance of the : Waldorf-Astoria. The groom is W. H. Hearne, of Wheeling, W. Va., a member of the Pennsylvania staff and a brother of the late Col. Frank J. Hearne, at one time president of the Colorado Fuel i and Iron company. The identity of the bride is not re vealed. Her husband says, “It’s none of the public’s business.” Just where the marriage took place cannot be learned, but it is supposed in the west. The couple met for the first time a few weeks ago at Kansas City, while Mr. Hearne was visiting his sister, Mrs. Annie Armour, and his bride was the guest of Mrs. Kirk Ar mour. Soon after Mr. Hearne’s daughter, Mrs. Archibald Mitchell, was sur prised on receiving this telegram from her father: “Meet me in Wheeling. Am going to be married.” The daughter hurried to Wheeling, but her father failed to appear. A few days ago he and his bride arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria. Their devotion to each other attracted considerable attention. Danger In Handcuff Game. Washington, Pa.—As a result of his efforts to emulate a handcuff expert whom he saw at a traveling show, Thomas Garbert, aged 22 years, is dead at his home at Roscoe. The young man kept up his practice daily and learned to release himself from all kinds of locks and entanglements. While trying to free himself from an especially difficult position recently he strained himself so badly that dropsy set in, resulting in death. Find Skeleton 314 Feet Long. Baggs, Wyo.—The most important discovery ever made in the great fos sil beds of Wyoming is the skeleton of the animal of the lizard type, just found, which shows a length of 314 feet. It is by far the largest prehis toric animal yet discovered. The skeleton is in a perfect state of pres ervation, every bone seeming to have been in place when petrification set in. One of the vertebrae, which has been removed, weighed more than 1,000 pounds. Mermaid Babe Born. Elkins, W. Va.—Shaped like the mermaid of fable, a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Campbell, of this city, is puzzling local physicians. The infant has two distinct leg bones, but there is only one leg. There are ten toes and one heel. Abnormal as the infant is from the waist down, it seems to enjoy the vitality of the or dinary infant. Its body describes a triangle, the one leg curved up to ward the head. ( Many a young wife lookB back to the time she was in love and won ders what could have possessed her. TIRED BACKS. The kidneys have a great work to do in keeping the blood pure. When tney get out ot oroer it causes backache, headaches, dizziness languor and distress ing urinary troubles. Keep the kidneys well and all these suffer ings will be saved you. Mrs. S.A. Moore, proprietor of a res taurant at Wat.er ville. Mo., spys: “Be fore using Doan s Kianey P.lls I suf fered everything from kidney troubles for a year and a half. I had pain in the back and head, and almost contin uous in the loins and felt weary all the time. A few doses of Doan's Kid ney Pills brought great relief, and 1 kept on taking-them until in a short time I was cured. I think Doan’s Kid ney Pills are wonderful.” For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The Sad Sea. The thin, pale man in the large bathing suit, standing knee-deep in the water, sighed. “Why,” we asked, “are you so sad?” “Alas.” he answered, “the sea is the grave of my first wife.” Our lips curled superciliously. “But you married again.” we mur mured. “Yes,” said be, “and my second wife won’t go near the water.” The Sad Sea. The thin, pale man in the large bathing suit, standing knee-deep in the water, sighed. "Why,” we asked, “are you so sad?” “Alas,” he answered, “the sea Is the grave of my first wife.” Our lips curled superciliously. j “But you married again,” we mur mured. “Yes,” said he, “and my second wife won’t go near the water.” Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. Iu order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. Concerning His Business. A Boston lawyer, who brought his wit from his native Dublin, while cross-examining the plaintiff in a di vorce trial, brought forth the follow ing: “You wish to divorce this woman because she drinks?” “Yes, sir.” “Do you drink yourself?” “That’s my business!”—-angrily. Whereupon the unmoved lawyer asked: “Have you any other business?”— Everybody's. Long Time to Sweep. Everything, even a magnificent church, must be regarded from the point of view of the beholder. A Lon don paper says that two country girls, who acted as if they might be enjoy ing a holiday from domestic service, were observed walking down the aisles of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Under the great dome one of them stood and gazed around her with an air of such wonder that a spectator might well suppose that she was awestruck by her solemn surroundings. But when she spoke, the idea was dissi pated. “Oh, Sarah," she exclaimed, “wouldn’t this place take a long time to sweep?” The Advantage of Reading. “Beg pardon, sir,” said the weary hobo as he stood at the farmhouse door, "but might I sleep in your barn to-night? I haven't had a roof over my head for ten days.” “I congratulate you,” said the kind ly farmer. “That is a splendid thing. 1 have just read in one of my ten-cent magazines that it is not too much to say that to the delicate, highly-strung, easily-knocked-up individual the ad vantages of sleeping in the open air are enormous. Pallid cheeks take on a ruddy hue, colds are unknown, nerves are forgotten, and irritability becomes a phase of the past. A small plot and a little perseverence are the only necessaries and the re sult is assured. You are very wel come to the use of my potato patch, and my sky is at your disposal.’’— Judge. Brains arc Built from certain kinds of FOOD Try Grape-Nuts j “America has become a land of ner vous emo|Jonalists, largely owing to our sins against the dietetic health law’s of nature. “Only outdoor exercise in a cold cli mate would enable vigorous individ uals of our species to digest the viands forced upon alimentary organs enfee bled by sedfentary occupations," wrote Dr. Felix Oswald. Brain workers must have different food than laborers, because brain work uses up parts of the brain and nerve centers, while physical labor uses up other parts of the body. Grape-Nuts, a food for brain work ers, prepared by scientific food makers, is a pure, natural food made from se lected parts of field grains known to contain the natural phosphate of pot ash and other elements required by the system in rebuilding and repair ing the brain and nerve centers. This food is skillfully cooked at the factory > and Is ready to be served instantly with cream. At all first-class grocers and made by the Postum Co., at Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little health classic, “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”