Nebraska Newspapers

    Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Increase of Gold.
Gold was the substance for which
all the world hungered, and yet when
Columbus discovered America there
was less than $250,000,000 of it in all
Europe. Surely it has been a difficult
substance to find. Centuries had
passed, during which this yellow metal
had been carefully hoarded, and yet
all of Europe held less than a quarter
of a billion of it. That was a master
of 415 years ago. When the great ex
plorer set sail for unknown shores the
world was increasing its stock of gold
at the rate of less than $4,000,000 an
nually. It would therefore take Eu
rope 60 years to duplicate its gold
holdings. When another hundred
years had passed the output had in
creased to $6,000,000 annually. There
was nothing startling in such an in
crease. To bring this about it has
been necessary to ransack the treas
ures of Peru, Mexico and other new
countries. Once more we move the
hand of time forward a hundred years
until we come to 1700, in which year
the average gold production is only
$7,000,000 yearly. Certain there was
no reason to fear an over-production
of gold. Another hundred years
brings us to 1800, in which compara
tively modern time the annual produc
tion of gold was only $12,000,000.
Thus we find, says Frederick U.
Adams, in Success, that, during the
three centuries following the discovery
of America, the world’s average an
nual increase in gold was $26,666. Had
this modest ratio been maintained for
the next hundred years, the total pro
duction of gold in 1900 would have
been about $15,000,000. How much do
you suppose it actually was? Double
that amount? Three times it? Make
another guess. It was $262,220,915!
Reprehensible Habits.
One of the strangest paradoxes in
human nature is that men and women,
struggling apparently with all their
might to succeed, are yet constantly
doing things, saying things, and think
ing things which drive the very suc
cess they are after away from them.
They are all the time counteracting
their efforts by some indiscretion.
Men work like Trojans to get a cov
eted position, and then, by getting
puffed up with conceit, or by some
foolish or weak act, knock the scaf
folding, which they have been years
in building, out from under them, and
down they go. Their lives are a series
of successive climbs and tumbles, so
that they never get anywhere, never
accomplish anything worth while.
There are thousands of men who are
working in very ordinary salaried po
sitions, says New York Weekly,
who might have been employers them
selves but for some unfortunate weak
ness, some little deficiency in their
natures, or some peculiarity—some
thing which might have been reme
died by a little discipline and self
study in youth. Others are always
driving success away from them by
their doubts, their fears, their lack of
courage, their lack of confidence—
driving It away by reprehensible hab
its which repel success conditions.
One by one Chicago is losing the
laurels forced upon it by jealous
rivals. A few days ago statistics
were published showing that Switzer
land led us as a divorce center and
now a doctor who has been down on
his knees to see rises to say that the
girls of Great Britain are developing
feet that will make the Chicago girl’s
trilbys look like those Cinderella wore
when she made her great hit. With
the head of the male Briton growing
smaller and the foot of the female
Briton growing larger, remarks the
Chicago News, we may well accept
the deduction that man over there is
soon to be the weaker sex. It is to
be hoped that the girls will be kind .
to him when, at last, he has found his j
proper place. By racking his memory
doubtless he will be able to recall
many times when he was kind to
them during the days of his supposed
superiority.
Automobile sore throat and influen
za is the latest disease. It is not, how
ever, as some may think, or even
hope, the person who rides in an auto
mobile who gets the disease, but the
people who have to breathe the dust
that they stir up. Long Island resi
dents, whose roads are favorite thor
oughfares for the hated vehicles, are
the only ones so far who are suffering
from this malady, but of course it will
spread.
Perhaps the thread trust craftily
put out the story that the price of
cotton was to be advanced to ten
cents a spool so that the public could
feel so relieved when it was denied
as to forget ail about the advance
from five to six cents at retail.
“You furnish the girl and we will
furnish the house,” says an advertise
ment. That sounds good, says the
Kansas City Journal, but it doesn't tell
the whole story. You will also be
expected to furnish the wherewith.
One of the ministers declares that
p woman has uo sense when she is
in Jove. Of course a man always re
tails lull possession of his reasoning
faculties when he lias become con
vinced that some woman with an up
Uifed nose and a raspy voice is an
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AfaxJm Gorky says the Americans
WO "a silenf, gipowy people." |t
must be remembered fbat he didn't
fo to the roof gardens much while he
remained in Now York.
HELPING THE TOWN
HINTS AS TO MAKING THE HOME
MARKET BETTER.
HANDLING OF FARM PRODUCE
How Merchants and Farmers Can Co
Operate to Their Mutual Advan
tage in a Business Way.
Many agricultural towns could be
vastly improved by affording farmers
better markets for the produce that
they have to disj>ose of. In the ra
dius of every country village there
is sufficient buttei and eggs and other
products to be marketed, the hand
ling of which would make a profitable
business.
The custom that has prevailed for
many years of storekeepers indiscrim
inately handling produce does not ap
pear to be to the best interests of
towns or it may be said, to the mer
chants or the farmers. In the first
place the average storekeeper has
no facilities for the proper handling
of perishable products. He may not
receive sufficient to enable him to dis
pose of the product to the greatest
advantage. Therefore instead of mak
ing any profit upon what he handles,
many times he is the loser and looks
for his compensation in the trade that
may be given him by the farmers who
bring in the produce.
It is important to a town whether
it is reputed to be a good produce
market or otherwise. Where the
farmer can receive a cent or two
more for his butter and eggs he is
likely to turn his attention. In some
towns there are regular buyers of
produce, but often these methods are
such as to be unsatisfactory and re
sult in loss of trade to the place.
Merchants generally exchange goods
for whatever produce may be brought
to uieiu. lu man} [Mares iiil-} win
not pay cash, and it has been known
where cash has been paid that it im
mediately found its way to some other
town where goods was purchased.
Each town that has any consider
able patronage from the farming com
munity surrounding it, should have
a small cold storage plant. One plan
that has been found practicable in
many towns is the organization of a
produce company in which merchants
of the town as well as the farmers
are stockholders. These concerns pro
vide every facility for the proper
packing and storage of eggs and but
ter and other perishable produce, and
sometimes include a butter renovat
ing plant. Where such companies are
operated the merchants refuse to
handle produce, referring all who have
such to sell to the produce company.
The company pays the highest mar
ket price for what it buys. Instead
of paying cash, due bills are issued
which are accepted the same as cash
at all the stores in town. Each week
the merchants who receive these due
bills in exchange for goods have them
cashed at the office of the produce
company.
By paying from a cent to two cents
a dozen more for eggs or per pound
for butter these produce companies
have been wonderful factors in bring
ing trade to the place. Not alone do
they benefit the town by bringing ad
ditional patronage to the merchants,
but the business can be highly profit
able if managed rightly. It requires
but little capital to operate such an
establishment. It is well when organ
ization is taken up to limit the
amount of stock that each shareholder
receives to one or two shares of a
par value of $50 or $100. An efTort
should be made to have as many mer
chants as possible shareholders. Also
to secure as many shareholders among
the farmers as can be had. It should
be understood that instead of paying
cash, farmers pay for their shares
of stock in produce at prevailing mar
ket prices. With all the merchants
in the town interested in the suc
cess of the company, and the farmers
throughout the country also share
holders and participants in profits that
may be made, it will be soon found
that the produce company will be
handling all the produce business that
originates in the community.
In many localities where this plan
has been put in operation the farmers
have discovered that they could re
ceive better prices for their butter
and cream and eggs than#under the
old system. Being associated in a
way with the business interests of the
place they become more interested in
all affairs of the town and are more
inclined to work in harmony with the
merchants towards anything, that has
the improvement of the home town
in view. One of the desirable things
about this plan is its tendency to
lessen the practice of residents of
rural communities trading with mail
order houses and department stores
in the large cities. Another admir
able feature is the adding of an
additional labor-saving industry to
the town and the keeping of the earn
ings of the people In circulation in
the community.
Drugs in Food.
“The ;?ravy from roast beef is near
ly as elective as any iron prepara
tion in the relief of anaemia, and con
sequently also of the heart discomfort
accompanying it.” In addition, how
ever, to red meat, many vegetables, it
must be remembered, are able to con
tribute valuable proportions of iron to
the dietary scheme. This is particu
larly true of the beet, yellow turnip,
tomato and spinach.
Roof Party for Two.
"Nearly every night they have a
roof parly on the roof across the area
from my window,” said the woman.
“It is very simple. It is a lighted red
lantern hung on a clothes line and a
boy and a girl in the shadow of the
chimney just far enough away from
the light of it.”—N. Y. Press.
Whence “Strawberry.”
The name strawberry has puzzled
a good many people who like to find
the origin of names. Many suppose it
used to be the custom to string the
berries on straws and sell them in
that way, hence the name. But the'
real name is strayberry, due to the
running habits of the vine.
WHERE THE MERCHANT FAILS.
An Iowa Farmer Tells Him He Should
Advertise, and How.
An Iowa farmer contributes to the
Des Moines Capitol the following ver>
pertinent suggestion as to why the
mail order houses succeed in getting
the business of the rural communities
away from local merchants:
“If the mail order houses got $1,000
out of this county each month that be
longs to the home merchants the fault
is with the merchants themselves. Tb'j
mail order houses advertise and give
us prices on everything they offer for
sale. They tell us what they have
and what they want for it. Of course
we get soaked once in awhile and if
we do we can try some other house.
Most of the home merchants who ad
vertise at all don’t quote prices. They
neglect to tell us what we want to
know—the price. Of course we can go
to the store and ask the price of this
article, and that, but you know how
it is—one doesn’t know so well exact
ly what he wants to buy when he gets
in a store as when he is at home. And
there is where the mail order houses
make their hit. They send us their
advertising matter into homes and we
read it when we haven’t anything else
to do and every member of the family
who reads their stuff usually finds
something that he or some other mem
ber of the family wants and many or
ders are made up and sent out just at
such times.
“Right here is where the home mer
chant falls down. If he talked up his
business to us in our homes the same
as the mail order houses do the people
would be in to see him the next time
they came to town and in many cases
extra trips would be made to get the
things at once that we didn't know
we wanted until they were brought
to our attention.
“The home merchant can save the
expense of getting up a catalogue. We
people read the home papers more
carefully than we do the catalogue,
and if the merchant wants to talk
business with us let him put his talk
in the home papers, and put it in so
that we know he means business. The
home merchant likely, nine times out
of ten, sells his goods as cheap as the
mail order houses, and I believe on
many things they are much cheaper,
but how are we to know if he doesn't
tell us about it.
“A merhant must not think that
even his best customers know his
goods so well that they can tell what
he has without being shown.
“It is none of my business how the
home merchant runs his business, but
I don’t like to see these roasts in the
papers all the time about us fellows
who get a little stuff shipped in once
in awhile and never anything said on
the other side. There are always two
sides of a question, and I have given
you mine. If it is worth anything to
you you can take it.”
BANKERS GETTING WISE.
They See Danger in the Mail-Order
System of Business.
It is only lately that bankers of the
west have come to a. realization that
the mail-order system of business has
been a serious injury to them, killing
off the business of their towns, taking
out of circulation money that should
help swell the local bank deposits and
otherwise interfering with town pro
gress.
The trouble has been with many
bankers that they failed to consider
the buying-goods-away-from-home evil
as anything of particular concern to
them. When Farmer Smith would
buy a draft, for $50 or $100 to send
to Chicago, the banker got his ten
cents exchange and thought he was
that much ahead, while the facts re
mained that if he could keep the
money from being sent from home
that $50 of the farmer for the banker
might make a dollar or two of profit.
It was only when the catalogue
houses started in to solicit deposits of
the people of country towns and farm
ing communities that the bankers
took a tumble.
Then again some bankers have such
an exalted idea of their position in
the town that the goods to be had
from the local merchants are not good
enough for themselves and families,
and set a bad example before the peo
ple by sending away themselves for
what they desire in the way of staples
and luxuries. Bankers are conserva
tive; and are not forward in making
suggestions to their patrons as to
what they should do with their money,
but in this matter it appears sufficient
ly important to justify the exercise of
what influence the banker can com
mand in behalf of home patronage. It
is the business of the town and sur
rounding country that affords a profit
to the bank. The greater this volume
of business can be made the better
for the banker and every interest of
the town, and the farmers and other
laborers as well.
D. M. CARR.
What, Indeed?
A duchess requiring a lady’B maid
had an interview with one, to whom,
after having examined her appearance,
she said: “Of course, you will be able
to .dress my hair for me?” "Oh, yes,”
replied the girl; “it never takes me
more than half an hour to dress a
lady’s hair.” “Half an hour, my
child!” exclaimed the duchess, in ac
cents of terror, “and what on earth,
then, should I be able to do with my
self all the remainder of the morn
ing?”
Buttermilk Cocktail.
Throat parched? Irrigate it with a
buttermilk cocktail.
This is a new brand of dampness
which was devised at the University
of Chicago. The buttermilk cocktail
is constructed according to the fol
lowing recipe: Take a tall, thin
glass, drop in a chunk of ice; insert
a long slice of ’ cucumber, then fill
v/th buttermilk. That’s all!
Reliable Sign of Death.
A Frenchman has received a prize
for discovering a reliable sign of
death. The test consists of the sub
cutaneous injection of a solution of
fiouresceine, which, if the blood is
still circulating, in the course of a
few hours causes the skin to turn yel
low. i
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TYPE OF fi/SW OCFStiOER_
That another struggle for the
America’s cup will come next year is
now tacitly admitted by the New York
Yacht club, the custodians of the
trophy, and it is further conceded that
this coming battle will bring about the
most important change in the con
struction of over-sea challengers and
home defenders that the yachting
world has seen since the fin-keel type
replaced the skimming dish.
Mr. Irving Cox, the well-known de
signer. neatly summed up the situa
tion. "It is recognized,” he said, “that
a race is to be held next year. It is
also recognized that it must be sailed
under the new rules of the New York
Yacht club. This brings America's
Cup affairs back to the time when the
English, challenging with the Genes
ta, were defeated by the Puritan. That
was in 1S85. Year by year there has
been developed since then a type of
racing machine that eventually found
its extreme expression in the Reliance.
"Now, at one stride, when we go
back 22 years—not retrogression,
rather reversion from a racing ma
chine which had reached the limit of
refinement—a reversion from this to
what may be called a normal yacht.
The defender, under the new rules,
will compare with the Reliance just
about as the Avenger now compares
with the Humma. The essential differ
ence will be that the new defenders,
after they have served their turn at
defending the cup, will not be relegat
ed to the scrap heap, but will be able
and comfortable cruisers.
"The situation which the custodians
of the cup may soon be called upon to
face is one far more interesting than
any that has come about in many
years. By this reversion to a more
normal type—one made absolutely
necessary by the new rules—America
relinquishes the point of vantage
which it held over England for so long
a time. This advantage was in the fact
that we had developed a faster type
on a given water line. Now, having
run to the extreme in that direction
we have got to evolve another type,
and one on a more normal model.
This type, L-should say, will be long
on the water line, fine-ended, heavy
displacement, with comparatively
short overhang, and with lofty, but not
excessive sail power.
"One other important feature. We
have nothing of this type built. Ever
since the Puritan-Genesta race our de
fenders have always had a ‘trial
horse,’ and by having such craft it has
been possible to compare the perform
ance of the defender and her trial
mate, and, with an approximate esti
mate of what the challenger is ca
pable of, this has hitherto given a
more or less accurate line on the ulti
mate result. But with the reversion
back to the older type, we have noth
ing now built that could be raced with
any new defender built under the new
rules for purposes of comparison.
Therefore it is quite clear that at
least two, and perhaps three, boats
must be contracted for when the chal
lenge comes.”
The challenge has not come yet, but
it is well understood that Sir Thomas
Lipton means to issue one at the end
of the present racing season; also that
his challenge will stipulate that the
race be under the new rules.
Although no canvass of the New
York Yacht club—custodians of the
cup—has been made, yet it is quite
certain that a defense of the cup under
the present rules will be more wel
come than one under the old. For this
matter of cup keeping, when Its re
tention involves the building of ex
pensive racing machines that have no
further use after their little day of
victory, is a costly thing. It is esti
mated that the building, fitting, and
racing of the Columbia and the Reli
ance cost fully a half million and
more.
All will be agreed that that is much
to spend for the mere glory of de
fending a trophy. The expense was not
nearly so much when the Puritan and
“normal” yachts of her type were
fending off the efforts of over-sea chal
lengers to take from these shores ’that
most famous of ail cups. For after
these had been sailed to victory they
were just as useful as cruising yachts
as they were notable as cup defend
ers. But with the advent of the “rac
ing machine,” as it has come first to
the finish in these latter days, it came
about that when the races were over
the racers themselves were done.
Imperial Caesar, dead, and turn'd to
clay,
Might stop a, hole to keep the wind
away.
The Reliance was a skimming dish
with a great depth of keel, which en
abled her to carry a tremendous sail
spread. While nominally constructed
on a ninety-foot waterline, she had
tremendous overhangs which served,
when she was heeled over by a nor
mal breeze, to make the length on
which she sailed much greater. By
these two means she chcf.ted the rule
and got speed which English boats
could not equal, because a boat built
to beat her on similar lines could not
with safety cross the ocean to race.
The new rules sought to restrict this
tendency to utilize tremendous over
hangs and to restrict the draught.
The first thing that was done was
to abandon the old measurement of
water-line and measure the actual line
on which the boat sailed. This made
the big overhang useless. To insure
their abandonment it was decided that
the sailing length could not be great
er than 115 per cent, of the water-line.
To offset the depth of keel it was de
cided that the draught should not ex
ceed 15 per cent, of the waterline by
more than two and one-half feet, while
a premium was placed on displace
ment. The new rule declared that the
greater the displacement of the boat
the lower her rating should bfe, and
further discountenanced the building
of skimming dish models by this
means. The exact restrictions that
were laid down were the outgrowth of
the most careful study by the clever
est naval architects in America, and
they did their work most effectively.
The new type did produce boats that
were comfortable and at the same
time fast.
So far as known, the king of Eng
land is the only person of note now
living who saw the start and finish of
the race which won the America cup.
All who took part in building, de
signing, and racing the America have
passed away. Commodore J. C. Stev
ens died at a comparatively early age,
Sept. 10, 1857. Hamilton Wilks died at
Pau, France, Dec. 26, 1852; Edward A.
Stevens in August, 1868, and the last
surviving owner, George L. Schuyler,
July 31, 1891. George Steers, who de
signed and built the America, met
with a sad and sudden death. Just as
he was in the prime of life, in his
thirty-fourth year, he was accident
ally killed. His family had been spend
ing the summer at Little Neck, L. I.,
and Sept. 25, 1856, with a horse and
carry-all, he started on his journey to
bring them home. His horse took
fright and ran away, throwing him out
and killing him.
TABLEAU WITH A MORAL.
Boy’s Idea of Married Life Too Often
That of His Elders.
Dr. Albert Paliner, who won the
blue ribbon at the recent Chicago hus
band show, was talking to a reporter
about marriage.
“Marriage will grow happier," said
Dr. Palmer, “as men learn to regard it
more unselfishly. Men are still too
much like the savage. They still in
cline to consider their wives too much
in the light of servants.
“Why, not long ago at the seashore,
do you know what I saw? I saw a
little tableau that revealed to me
in miniature the chief cause of un
happy marriages.
“A little boy and a little girl were
digging in tho white sand with toy
spades and buckets. The little boy
laid down his tools and said:
*' Clara, do you want to bo my
wife?’
“ ‘Yes,’ said the little girl, with a
happy smile.
“The boy sat down on the sand and
put his feet toward her.
“ ‘Then,’ he said gruffly, ‘take off my
shoes and stockings.’ ”
Copperhead Good Eating.
If a copperhead is real fat he is
good eating—provided he has not com
mitted suicide. There is nothing finer
than rattlesnake steak properly
cooked. It beats eel to death. White I
and black men have eaten it with re
joicing. The poison of a snake, taken
internally, isn’t much w’orse than a
dram of bad whisky composed of wood
alcohol and fusel oil. It doesn’t enter
into the circulation unless it comes in
contact with a sore or wound.—San
Francisco Bulletin.
A Way Out.
The girl said, albeit regretfully, that
she could not marry him, that she was
wedded to her art.
“No other reason?” he asked.
“None.”
"Well,” he responded, “I’ve said I’d
date anything for you, and I’m wi'ling
to run the risk of bigamy.”
After reflection she was, too.
WHAT THE WOMEN WORE.
Of Course the Story Teller Didn’t
Really Mean Just That.
A gentleman recently returned from
that quiet little Maryland resort,
Ocean City, has a tale to tell of con
ditions that are really sensational.
And the worst of it was that he did
not know they were sensational at all.
He was out calling the other evening,
and the conversation started with the
shirtwaist man, who, the returned
wanderer said, was to be found in
great quantities at the summer resort.
Then he told about the habit every
body down there had contracted of
going without hats. This is the way
he told it to an interested company:
“You see everybody down there
going about just the same. The men
never wear coats; they go about in
just their shirts and trousers, and the
women are just like them.”
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FOR SELFISH ENDS.
The Efforts Being Made by the Ameri
can Medical Association.
The Political activity of the Ameri
can Medical Association has become
so pronounced as to cause comment
in political circles especially as the
the avowed purpose of the Doctors of
the “Regular” or Allopathic school, of
which the Association is chiefly com
posed, is to secure the passage of such
laws as will not only prevent the
sale of so-called “Patent” medicines,
but will restrict the practice of medi
cine and healing to the “schools” now
recognized. This in many states would
prevent the growing practice of Os
teopathy, and in nearly every state
would prevent the healers of the
Christian Science and mental science
belief from practicing those sciences
in which the faith of so many intelli
gem. people is so urmiy rooiea.
The American Medical Association
has a “Committee on Legislation,”
and the committee has correspond
ents in practically every township —
seme 16,000 correspondents in all.
This committee at the last session of
the American Medical Association
held in June of this year expressed a
hope that a larger number of physi
cians than heretofore will offer them
selves as candidates for Congress at
the first opportunity. In its annual
report this Committee said: “To meet
the growing demands of the move
ment, however, particularly if the
work of active participation in State
legislation is undertaken, a larger
clerical force must be employed.”
This is almost the first time in the
history of the United States that any
organized class has frankly avowed
the purpose of capturing legislatures
and dominating legislation in their
own selfish interests.
The American Medical Association
has about 65,000 members of whom
27,000 are “fully constituted mem
bers” and the rest, are members be
cause of their affiliation with state or
local societies. The Association owns
real estate in Chicago valued at $111,
781.91 and its total assets are $291,
567.89. Its liabilities, at the time of
the annual report which was made at
the June meeting, amounted to only
$21,906. The excess of assets over
liabilities is increasing at the rate of
about $30,000 a year, and the purpose
of the organization is to dominate
the field of medicine, and by crushing
all competitions by securing the pas
sage of prohibitive legislation, compev
all of the people of the United States
to pay a doctor’s fee every time the
most aimple remedy is needed.
Deaths from X-Rays.
The death of Dr. Weigel, a surgeon
of Rochester, from a disease due to
the constant use of the X-rays makes
the fourth who has lost his life from
this cause, says the Chistian Advo
cate.
The others were an assistant of
Thomas Edison, a Boston physician
and a woman of San Francisco named
Fleischman. In the case of Dr. Wei
gel since 1904, when his right hand
and all but the thumb and a finger
of the left hand were removed, there
had been four operations in trying
to save his life. The first removed
a part of the right shoulder; then a
part of the muscles covering the right
breast.
Mystery completely envelops the
cause of death, the disease being un
known to medical science, though it
is believed to involve some great prin
ciple of life. Dr. Weigel was presi
dent of the Rochester Academy of
Medicine and the American Ortho
paedic society.
Due Process of Law.
At the time of the famous Eastman
trial in Cambridge, Mass., two Irish
men, standing on a street corner, were
overheard discussing the trial. One of
them was trying to enlighten the other
concerning a jury.
“Bedad!” he explained. “You’re ar
risted. Thin if ye gets th’ shmartest
lawyer, ye’re innicint; but if th’ other
man gets th’ best lawyer, ye’re guilty.”
—Life. __
Horrible Example.
“My dear,” fcaid Mrs. Strongmind, “I
want you to accompany me to the
town hall to-morrow evening.”
“What for?” queried the meek and
lowly other half of the combine.
“I am to lecture on the ‘Dark Side
of Married Life,’ ” explained Mrs. S.,
“and I want you to sit on the plat
form and pose as one of the illustra
tions.”
Peculiar Medical Remedy.
It was stated at an inquest on a
peasant in a Servian village that the
man died from swallowing too many
bullets, which he was accustomed to
take, in common with all the peasants
in that district whenever he felt ill.
In Self-Defense.
Gabriel—Say, what did you let that
pestiferous party in for?
Stv Peter (wearily)—He used to be
an insurance agent and 1 either had to
let him in or be talked to death.
Self-Forgetfulness.
Self-forgetfulness in love for others
has a foremost place in the ideal char
acter and represents the true end of
humani ty.—Peabody.
No impulse Is too splendid for the
simplest task; no task is too simple
for the most splendid impulse.—Phil
lips Brooks;
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Copyright 1906, by The Manilla OQ»
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President Castro’s Conceit.
Many stories have been told of
Cipriano Castro, president of Venezue
la, and of his monumental conceit.
During the Russo-Japanese war the
fall of Port Arthur was being ex
plained to him.
“Pshaw!” he exclaimed. “With 500
Venezuelans I could have taken it in
four days.”
“With a thousand, in one day, your
excellency,” said the diplomatic rep
resentative of a European power.
Castro was so pleased at what was
intenued to be sarcasm that, it is said,
the diplomat succeeded next day In se
curing satisfaction of a claim that his
government had been vainly pressing
for years.
Stopped “Seeing Things.”
Enthusiastic Nature Lover (to Re
formed Tramp)—Ah, my friend, how
well you must know the face of na
ture, and know it in all its moods.
Have you ever seen the sun sinking
in such a glare of glory that it swal
lows. up the whole horizon with its
passionate fire? Have you seen the
mist gliding like a specter down the
shrinking hillside, or the pale moon
struggling to shake off the grip of the
ragged storm cloud?
Reformed Tramp—No, sir; not
since I signed the pledge.
Of the Cabbage Patch.
Cigar Maker—Here's a new cigar
I’ve just been putting up and I haven’t
any name for it. Suppose you suggest
one.
Friend (after smoking it)—They’re
naming a good many after characters
in fiction now. Why don’t you call
this “Mrs. Wiggs?”
Few Runaways in New York.
Although New York is a “hitching
postless” city there are fewer runa
way horses in its streets than in the’
average city of one-tenth of its popu
lation.
New York's Gdowth.
Builders in New York city invest
J500.000 each day in land and new
houses for apartment dwellers.
Life is made up trials and chances
given to us to see how we will act and
improve ourselves.—Grimshaw.
It’s a
Good v
Time now
to see what a good “staying”
breakfast can be made without
high-priced
TRY
A Little Fruit.
A Dish of Grape-Nuts and Cream,
A Soft-Boiled Egg,
Some Nice, Crisp Toast,
Cup of Postum Food Coffee.
That’s all, and all very easy of diges
tion and full to the brim with
nourishment and strength.
REPEAT FOR LUNCHEON OR SUP
PER,
and have a meat and vegetable
dinner either at noon or evening,
as you prefer. ->
We predict for you an increase in
physical and mental power.
“ There’s a Reason.”
Read the “UtUe health classic,” “The Rmvd to
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