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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. At Natural a» Life. New York has been haring an ex hibition of nearly 200 dolls, collected from all nations, and representing cen turies of doll development. Dolls are in existence which date hack to 4000 B. C. They were found in Egyptian graves, and are simply miniature mum mies. But the oldest dolls of Mrs. ! Starr's unique collection are from Peking, and came from the palace of :he dowager empress. Mrs Starr has lolls representing Dutch fishwives. ; women from Lapland equipped with ■ inowsfaoes, Indian soothsayers, Mex- j can runners, French lacemakers and j New England country girls of a cen tury ago. One Lgyptian doll was made entirely of mud except its hair. An other wag constructed of a - bamboo i stick, dressed in a single garment, and with a mass of long biack hair. The ; pith of a tree was carved into a charm ing doll, and California seaweed was the material of another. A perplexed lady came to the teacher of her grand c hildren,says Youth s Companion, with a weary plaint as to the indifference of the two little girls to the sound knowl edge which interested their three brothers. "The hoys love butterflies and stones and shells and plants, and will read every book I give them on narural science. They are eager to know about everything from the stars In the sky to the weeds by the road side. But Mary and Nelly—what do you supcpose is their one enthusiasm?” she asked, dejectedly. "Delis, I guess, said the wise teacher; “and a healthy passion it Is, too We won't interfere with the course of nature, dear grand rnotber-of-boys-and girls; for until the world turns the other way on its axis, and plants grow with their roots in the air and their blossoms in the ground, we may expect our girl babies to love dolls!" • "Summer baseball” in a matter ■which is already rousing the interest of a great many high-school and col k-ge boys, to some of whom will come excellent opportunities to earn money during vacation by playing on profes- j slonal or semi professional teams. By the athletic ruleB now almost univer sally in use, those who accept such positions will be debarred from playing on any college team The rule was established to keep college sport free from professional ism, and has been regarded as wise. Later, however, a disposition to ques tion its wisdom has been shown by prominent college presidents and pro fessors. They point out that what is wanted is to prevent college boys from giving undue prominence to sport. To this end it is desirable to keep profes sional ballplayers from entering col lego merely to play ball, but that Is no reason why a genuine student, under the necessity of earning bis way through college, should not be left as free to do It by playing ball as by teaching school or selling books. The change of feeling on this matter, says the Youth'B Companion, Is interesting as showing a tendency to look at col lege sport more sanely than has lately been the practice. Signs are appearing that certain good old American traits and habits still persist. Every middle-aged man remembers how the struggles and vir tues of previous presidents were em balmed in books bearing such titles of “The Tailor Hoy Who Became President," “The Tanner Boy,” “Tow Path to White House,” and others which laid stress on the bumble origin of the men in question. It is delight ful to find the same genius at work in the interest of present day candi dates. Mr. Cannon's campaign man agers are putting out "literature” which tells how, in the early days, “his feet were deep in the soil.” M-. Taft’s friends are telling how he used to chase news as a reporter for a Cincinnati paper. Senator Knox Is pictured as holding the plow on his Valley Forge farm, and Judge Gray as holding the throttle of a locomotive. The country is still safe. Statistics of the cost of living in Fiance show a general increase during the five years ending with 15)07, Bread rose 15 per cent., beef, 22; veal, 14; mutton, 25; pork, 27; condiments, 25; pastry, 25; petroleum, 10; essence, 30; butter, 14; cheese, 25; fresh fish, 50; tinned fish, 35; fresh vegetables, 15; dry vegetables, 30; coal, 34; fire wood, 24; coffee, 25; chocolate, 25; candles, 10; household utensils, 25. Do the Frenchmen also blame It on the trusts? The Wisconsin man who dropped $30,000 in an attempt to corner lim burger cheese pleaded that he "thought there were millions in It.” Probably there are, though they may be too small to be Been with the naked eye. The University of Chicago has se cured the skeleton of a huge sea ser pent which died in Kansas 6 000,000 years ago. Can it be possible that the liquor question wac an issue in the Sunflower state as far back as that? There is a strong organization at work in this country developing the use of peat as fuel. It is now utilizing many acres of swamp lands which are being reclaimed for agricultural pur poses. The by-products of the indus try are very promising. Having secured from eminent coun sel an opinion to the effect that a cer tain provision in the will of the lato jay Gould will not stand in court, Prince Helle gamely signifies his wil lingness to take a chance. ❖-<*-*> -<» <* ^ *'* J PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT ■> ■> v •/ <■ ❖ <• -> <• ❖ •:• •> -F MAY LET FORTUNE SUP James Armstrong Chanter, descendant of John Jacob Astor, brother of the lieutenant governor of New York. Columbia, 'S3, chum of the late Stanford White, art patron, and quon dam husband cf Amelie Rives, the author of The Quick or the Dead." goes about free and untrammeled in 45 states of the union. In the forty-mth state. New York. where property in terests of a million dollars in vaJue are held in hi- name, his presence would be the signal for quick descent by the legal aftithorities and re incarceration in Bloomingdale insane asylum. To regain the right to legal sanity and to re cover the property, which is now administered by a committee, be has instituted suit in New York state. He must attend in person, but he Bays c*- wfiuiu rauier give up ms uiiuioa dol lar estate than be returned to an asylum. Mr. Chanter 1b a ton of John Winthrop Cbanler, who died in 1877. His mother was Miss Ward, a granddaughter of John Jacob Astor. His brothers are Ueut.-Gov. Lewis Stu; vesant Chanler of New York. Congressman William Astor Chanler and \Vinthrop Chanler. To his brothers and his cousins, the AstorE, Chanler attribi’v-. tis troubles, and the tiook which he published. "Four Years Behind th* Bars of Bioomingdale; or. The Bankruptcy Law in New York," was a bitter attack upon his itlativirs and upon the conduct of bis keepers while he was und* r restraint. W b«n t. hauler was ly. years c-f age he took m marriage Amene iuim, ; who stood at the height cl her public (ante b> her daring novel. "The Quick . or the Dead." The hero of the : o: v, Jock It ring was Cbanler. Married life to the couple wa - happy—for a time. Then came the Dako- j ta divorce, which Chare ■ did : • resist. Mrs. Chanler shortly afterward married Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, a member of the Russian nobility. Then t came Chanler s commitment to the Bloomingdale asylum. Finally he escaped and went to Lynchburg, Va.. where he remarried six months before his iden tity was discovered, in Virginia the law declared him sane and fully eatable of taking care of his own b .-ire-- :- Net so in New York, however. The trus- i tee refused to recognize the Virginia decree. in his Virginia home Mr. Chanler is a devoted horseman and a close stu- i dent. His divorced wife. ib< Princess Troubetzkoy, was in a private sani tarium for some time, under treatment for a complaint similar to that alleged against Mr. Chanler. CLAIMS GREAT DISCOVERY Rudolph M. Hunter of Philadelphia claims j to have discovered the secret for which man- | kind has been seeking vainly since the days of the ancient Egyptians, that of the transmutation of the baser metals into gold. What the process is he alone knows; for even to his sons he has confided only a part of it. It is his intention that the secret shall remain in his own family. If Mr. Hunter's claim be Justified, and he is rec ognized as a responsible man with a wonderful inventive genius, he will demoralize the curren cy systems of all the countries in the world; they will have to find a new metal as the basis of their currency, for if gold is produced in large quantities it will depreciate in value more than < ven silver has done, it will be no more valu able than copper. The indications are, tco. that Mr Hunter intends to do that very thing, for he announces his intention of producing gold at the rate of $ 100,000,000 a year. At that rate i’ will be a matter of a few years only before the coffers of the banns are filled with the < r.t<■ precious metal for which little or no employment can be found. Mr. Hunter is referred to in the National Cyclopedia of American biog raphy as an inventor of high standing in the world of electric development, a man whose patents are numbered by the hundreds and date back into the ’70s. although he is only 54 years of age The trolley car of to-day was in vented by him in ali material respects in 1881. In 1881! he brought out the first smokeless powder and carried on suc cessful experiments in this country and France. In 1881 he invented the al ternating system of electrical ttvnsmit s.ion. In 1881 he developed the direct method of generation of electricity from slow or cold combustion of carbon. He has been active in the automobile industry and controls 70 important patents. DEFENDER OF PRESIDENT Senator'Samuel H. Piles of Washington *.s one of President's Roosevelt's strongest sup porters. He thicks it a shame the president rant have all the battleships he wants. Mr. Piles fears that the state he represents will prove so attractive to the orientals that they will swarm in by thousands and that the effort to keep the Pacific slope a white man's country will sooner or later involve this country in war with Japan. He has visions in the night of a Japanese fleet sailing up Puget sound and Japan ese soldiers fortifying the passes of the Rocky mountains and overrunning all the country be tween them and the Pacific ocean. To avoid this terrible possibility he would have the coast studded with battleships. It Is only natural that there should ho some thing of the fire-eater In Senator Piles, for he was horn in Kentucky. The family was very wealthy and hundreds of slaves joined iu the celebration when he was horn. At the age of three the civil war swept over that part of the country and the Piles family was reduced almost to beggary. Sometimes they did not even have enough to eat. They continued, however, to give their hoy an education. Me went through college, graduating when he was only 19. Mis troubles were not over yet, however, for Kansas, where he settled, did not prove a remunerative field. Me next tried Arizona, but that also proved disappointing. Then he settled in Washington, took root there and grew up with the country. He ts now one of the ablest lawyers in his section of the country. PLAYWRIGHT AND POLITICIAN Augustus Thomas, the greatest of American playwrights, has entered politics as a champion of W. J. Bryan. He is president of the Bryan Progressive league. Mr. Thomas has had a varied career, hav ing been at different times page boy for con gress, railroad man, special writer and Illustrat or for several of the leading papers, candidate for the legislature, newspaper editor and pro prietor, playwright and member of the National Institute of Art, Science and Letters. He has lived in the west, in the east, in the south and in Fiance. St. Louis, Kansas City, New York, London and Paris each have known Mr. Thomas In one capacity or another, and from each of these cities he has drawn materia] for the plays mat mane nim tamous. Mr. Thomas has turned out wild west melodramas, society plays, farce comedies and a little of everything else. He wrote "In Missouri" for .Vat i Goodwin. “The Earl of Pawtucket” for Lawrence D'Orsay. "The Ranger*” for Dustin Karnum, and in fact has written for nearly all our American actresses of note. In “Mrs. Lefflngwell's Boots" he gave a boost to osteopathy, because an osteopath had saved the life of his child. In each of his plays his aim was to instruct as well as to amuse, and he has had an almost unbroken run of successes. Augustus Thomas was born at St. Louis in 1869, was educated in the public schools and studied law with his father-in-law, John Colby, but never practiced, his versatile mind having been diverted to other pursuits, which was probably a good thing for himself as well as for the public. Extreme Obedience. The Youngs unexpectedly dropped In on the Baileys just as dinner was about to be served. The hostess, considerably disturbed, called her little daughter Helen aside, and explained that there would not be enough oysters to go around, and added: “Now, you and I will just have some of the broth, and please do not make any fuss about It at the table.” Little Helen promised to remember and say nothing. But when the oys ters were served, Helen discovered a «mall ovster In her plate, which had accidentally been ladled up with the broth. This puzzled the little girl, as she could not recall any instructions covering this contingency. After studying a few moments, she dipped the oyster up with her spoon, and, holding it up as high'as she could, piped out: “Mamma, mamma, shouldn't Mrs. Young have this oyster, too?"—Christian Register. News Item. A butcher in Euknow, with a tobac co heart, was told by his doctor to give up smoking hams.—Judee. PERILOUS AUTO TRIP III AFRICA OFFICER OF GERMAN ARMY TELLS OF HAZARDOUS EXPERI ENCE IN DARK CONTINENT. NEAR TO DEATH ON BRIDGE Mozambi River Is Crossed by Means of Shaky Structure Made by the Natives of Sticks and Branches. London.—Lieut. Paul Graetz of the • German army, who is crossing the j heart of Africa from Dar-ee-Salaani. on ! the east coast, to Swakopmund. on the west, is encountering formidable dif ficulties in the tropics. His last stage of 125 miles has occupied nine days. He describes the journey as follows: "Leaving Aborcorn, near the south ern end of Lake Tanganyika, we reached Kasama in nine days through the Chambezi valley. But we and our motor car have had to go through a horrible ordeal. We have faced fear ful trials and hardships under tropical rains; we have been delayed by raging streams and deep marshes. We have had to cross 28 swollen rivers and swamps innumerable, ft e have traveled on bad wooden bridges built by the natives, and often we ’ have crossed over the wretched totter ing remnants of such bridges. We have fought hard against flooding wa ters. "At first we journeyed through *hick brush. Running and jumping near our automobile, a number of Lo beba natives sing as they accompany us. Then a terrible thunderstorm bursts upon us in a fury, and streams of water pour down like huge water spouts. Now the underwood becomes lighter. Haiti Water! The Mozambi river is before us and rolls on its yel lowish course in the middle of a swampy depression 200 yards in breadth. "There is a kind of bridge over swamp and stream, and 1> zigzags like a gigantic centipede. The natives rush through the storm-beaten high grass and gather sticks and branches. They drag them forth and build a small bridgeway over the dangerous deep 1 mire; we widen the existing narrow ! bridge and repair it as best we can. "Finally, after hours of strenuous work In pouring rain, we proceed. The car is pulled forward on the perilous Crossing Over the Tottering Rem nants of a Bridge. path; the driver grips the steering 1 wheel with great steadiness. We I tremble. tVhat if the wheels skid on | the slippery road? We are lost if the ' car moves only one hand's breadth to either side. We are lost If our hands or our nerves give way on these fear ful 200 yards. “The heavy car and ourselves would fall and disappear, without any possi bility of rescue, in the wild stream or in the soft, deep mud. The passage seems to last an eternity. Slowly we creep forward. "We are nearly on the other side, when suddenly the car stops and is dragged backward. We ail burst into a shriek of terror. We realize what has happened. The back wheels have sunk through a hole In the bridge. The front wheels are lifted upward. Hut by a stroke of luck in the midst of our misfortunes the springs of the car have caught in the oblique planks of the bridge and it is wedged fast. "A fresh activity seizes us. WTe fasten a strong rope to the front part of the car. There is no time to waste. A catastrophe is still threatening us. The Hobeba natives are fetched back. The bridge is repaired after a mighty effort, and the natives slowly drag the car forward. The rescue is a suc cess. "The sun Is now piercing through the gray cloudB, and before our eyes gleams the fresh landscape. A few miles’ drive and we come to another river. There are many dangers be fore us. Hidden iu the tall grass are numberless bowlders, branches, roots and tree trunks. “Day after day the difficulties and obstacles increase, and we nearly lose the hope of ever reaching our goal. The car, however, has worked without one break down since we left Abor corn. At last we see, on the hill in front of us. the village of Kasama, the buildings of the magistrate, and the African lake corporation, appearing above the green landscape.” IN JAIL OVER YEAR, MAN FORGOTTEN NO RECORD OF HIS NAME. CRIME. COMMITMENT OR TRIAL CAN BE FOUND. Umontown. Pa.—It would seem in credible that in this age a man could be imprisoned for more than a year in the jail of this county, in this town, not knowing himself the reason or cause of his imprisonment, his identity unknown to the county officials, and no entry reliably affecting him or bis alleged offense to be found any where in the public records, yet it is a fact this is so. The man, a foreigner, was recently released from jail because no ground could be found for hig. further deten tion. nor indeed for his detention at any time. He might still be in prison had there not been a change of sher iffs. The new sheriff is Peter A. Johns. During one of his late official enumera L J “What Are You in Prison For?” tions of the jail inmates nls attention was called for some reason to this man. 'What is your name?” inquired the sheriff. "Elecx Lenchack." “What are you in prison for?” “I don't know.” “How long have you been here?” More than a year.” The sheriff examined the jail regis ter covering a year and longer, but could not find the name of Lenchack. He did the same with the commit ments. but with equal unsuccess. Then he questioned the prisoner more closely. Lenchack could not handle English very well, but he managed to explain that all he knew about it was that he had been w alking across a field at one of the coking plants not far from this town when two men ac costed him. took him before a magis trate and then brought him to jail. it is the sheriff's theory that Len chack had been committed to jail un der one name, that he had got on to the jail register under another name, and on the trial docket of the court under still another name, and that when the name on the trial docket was called during sessions of the court there was no prisoner to answer to it. The poor fellow was so glad to get out that his expressions of gratitude, so lar as he was able to make this sen timent clear, were most pathetic. A foreigner, knowing little or nothing of the habits and customs of this coun try. not understanding the language, homeless, friendless, knowing no one to apply to, he had got into jail for a trivia! offense. There, forgotten, un able to confide in any one even if he had wished, ignorant of how to take steps to get free, he had put in more than a year of his life in a place to which he should not, perhaps, have been sent at any time. PIES BREAK MANS FALL. Tight-Rope Trick on Roof End* in Headlong Plunge. Philadelphia.—While trying to dem onstrate to a friend some of the acro batic tight-rope walking ability which had won him fame in circus life some years ago, Frank Velloski, 25 years old, fell from the third-story roof of his home, to the alley below and was taken to the hospital, suffering from concussion of the brain. His condition is serious, the doctors say. Velloski occupies the fourth floor. Shortly before noon he stepped out of his window on to the roof of the third floor extension, to get a breath of fresh air. Just across the alleyway, on the roof of No. 116 Spruce street, was one of Velloski's friends. “Guess I’ll come over for a while.” he said. I'll show you the way we used to do when I was a circus man,” be added, as he mounted a thin clothes line which stretched between the two houses across the alley. He had successfully gone to the mid dle of the rope when suddenly it snapped. Velloski went crashing down to the hard pavement of the al ley below. A woman In No. 116 had been bak ing pies and half a dozen specimens of her art were out to cool in the al ley. Velloski landed head first into them. The hospital doctors say that it was due to this fact that the former circus man's skull was not fractured. The Nature of the Brute. Ex—Did you ever see an Indian idol? Wy—I never saw one any other way-—Cleveland Leader. I SHAKES INHABIT ATLANTA CELLAR ; GREEN-EYED REPTILES GIVE GEORGIA PLUMBER AN UN PLEASANT EXPERIENCE. IS SENT TO REPAIR PIPES Mistakes Wriggler fcr Walking-Stick —Store Above Place Formerly Rented by “Zulika. the Snake Swallower.” Atlanta. Ga — Last fail No. 53 De I catur street, formerly the heart of At I lanta's bowery, was rented to a ' snake ; swailower. " and thereby hangs a tale. | The store, for it is on the first I floor, is located next to the old Young ! Men’s Library association building i and in the heart of that section of the ; city which likes a show and best of all a side show. Flaming pictures an nounced the fact that Zulika eats them alive." Entering the place ^llika ' would be seen seated on a platform where she took wriggling, : curling snakes into her hands and passed them, seemingly, into her mouth. Instead, however, there was a very eiever funnel arrangement, whereby the snakes went wriggling 1 down the pipe and dropped into the cellar unde: the floor. Zulika" lasted for about two weeks and the store was placed on the market for rent. A tenant was secured last week and a plumber sent to look over the job of repairing it. Dave Yarbrough was the man who got the job. Now, he never attends Decatur street side shows, so. of course, didn't know. Taking a lighted candle in hand, he descended the dark steps to the dungecnous cellar, guided only by the faint light of the candle. Ar riving at the bottom he saw a long S black walking-stick lying on the ground and stooped to pick it up. It wriggled, squirmed and be dropped It in terror, it was an outstretched black snake. Turning quickly to retrace bis steps, the candle was blown out and he was left in stygian darkness. He managed to find the foot of the | steps with his shin and began his wav up to where the door stood ■ open. He caught a glimpee of a half hundred pairs of green eyes He Dropped It in Terror. staring at him out of the darkness, and made a dash for the door, only to hear the door, with the spring lock, ’'bang" and snap." Alone in a cellar with 60 snakes! He had hardly strength to crawl to the top of the steps and to beat feebly against the door. To his in tense surprise it flew open—for it had not caught when it slammed. Hurrying to the offices of Forrest & George Adair, the renting agents, he told of his experience. Weak, scratched, nervous and bruised, he told what he had seen. ••Drown," the janitor of the firm, claiming to be the champion snake killer in the country, was told of the experience and dispatcher to investigate. He went to the cellar armed with a lamp that wouldn’t blow out, and killed by actual count 63 snakes. The snakes had been in there since they first made friends with "Zulika.” Jabs Hatpin Into Man's Leg. Dallas, Tex.—Miss Susan Xiel be came so excited while watching a base ball game the other day she jabbed a hatpin through the thigh of Walter Hutchinson, with whom she had gone to the game. The young woman had removed her hat and had clinched the pin in her hand. When a home run was made she jabbed it downward. The pin was driven with such force j that it passed entirely through the side of the young man s leg and was ; forced into the seat more than an inch. Efforts to remove it caused Hutchin son so much pain that he was forced to wait more than an hour until some one could be brought to sever the pin between his leg and the board. A doctor then removed the pin from his leg. No serious consequences are ' anticipated. Hutchinson, who is a member of the council, says he will introduce an or dinance which will forbid the attend- | ance of women at ball games. WILL NOT SPEAK OB EAT ANT SOLID F GIRLS STRANGE CCNC.C THREEYEARSSArFL JO BE EFFECT CF A COLD Elwood, lad—Oaf f • zlicg cases that has ' : I tiee of doctors here ; ; Dale Goslin. a 14 ear-o.-: - I ter of Mr and Mrs. Ge rz* 1 tag two mile.- nertheas’ :f who has subsisted three liquid food. an*, curing ■: w | cot spoken a word r or When Dale »a 3! e,. eaught a sever' < ■ j w: - 1 school and her th: .-a- - i Her voice gradua • -a: per. and final. y di.-a; a j time she was fed on q : apparently the cold ief: - has not spoken since and - She Atsc ute.y Reuses *i P; • Any Solid FocOe refuses to parade of a... require mastication bef- . lowed. Her health is not affect- : well developed for a g:, weighing 11'.' pounds ano - bly pretty. When spoken t. - what is said to her. and if ; • ! acknowledges it with a n- . head or a smile, hut. while been examined by -urge r. cialists in throat and vocal a* who state "that there is nothing the matter with th- . r ing will induce her t - sf-eak of anything to eat but lit;-: . : Entreaties, cajoling and e — have been tri-'-d. but with The father has spent hundt lars trying to get his dauu. but she will not utter a sr .:. the least intimation tha- -v to converse with her friends. The father has been adv - the girl in some institut; un. » ■ - is believed that the formation friends and s'range. influf-c . roundings will induce her • • again. BURIED ALIVE. HE ESCAPES Expected to Survive lnjur:ts S^eis -- When Trench Caves. Milwaukee.—Although b .ried nearly an hour under a mass : and gravel weighing over a ti r. . a sewer trench caved in. Aug - V dorn, aged 60 years, will pr. j Although the man has five crushed in. a fractured breas- .»n lar bone, and other bruises, the cians at the hospital believ recover. Wendcrn was at work wrh - other men on a sewer, on T» third avenue. He was in the <j-- in flection of the trench while other were working on the surf a-- » without any warning, the walls in and he was buried in the a:-- - * earth. Immediately the laborers i_ shovels and picks and set t • w liberate their companion, whii spectators telephoned for the f: partment to send out apparatus T: company No. 11 responded and the police ambulance. The man was found at the tom of the cave-in. protected : timber which had fallen diaso:. across him. crushing his riel - - but in such a manner as to him from a great share of the clay a: gravel. He was unconsc; » ■ freed and was immediately -ak- n • the hospital, where he revived The bracing is what saved U - - : from death for the timber fell c:> -.~ wise, relieving the weigh' of mass and admitting a sligh- ac. of air. Reunited After Many Years. Lake City. la—Adopted in infa: May Lathrop, now 16. has long ! • • searching for her father, two :>roThf and a sister, while they have made quiries in almost every city for her While the search of years has been going on, the two brothers and the father have been living in Gow - e. within an hour’s ride of the girt. May Lathrop. The queerest feature of the family reunion is that May Lathro; after all these years, cannot speak t • her own father. He is German and speaks not a word of English, having always lived in a German community. May Lathro;. was adopted by Americans who .- ;»ea* only English. Average Age of Accident Victims. The average age at death of people who die by accident is 35V* yea: a. Had No Liking For Mummies i - Servants of Great Writer Did Not Share His Hobby. Pierre Loti, the French novelist, once obtained a new acquisition to his weird and wonderful collection of Egyptian mummies. It was that of a young princess, with gilded face, al most as expressive under Its mask as it must have been in life. This mummy, one of the best in his col lection, accentuated in his study “the smell that creeps from a winding sheet when a mummy is half un rolled." Loti's grievance was that his servants would not move or touch his mummies under any circum stances. “Only think!” he said. “Not one of my servants would touch this beauti ful young woman. They are so super stitious about the dead—I had to car ry her upstairs myself. And. would you believe me, as 1 reached the landing it suddenly flashed through my mind that I was carrying a corpse. I seemed to feel the chill of the dead breast penetrate my own." Noticeable among the other em balmed bodies of dead and gone Egyptians in Loti's study was that of a little three-year-old girl, who stared down with sightless eyes on her owner as he sat writing his n mances and plays in the stiii watch* s of the night. Delight of Varied Lanor. Xone but the fully occupied can ap preciate the delight of suspended <■ rather, of varied labor. It is to,. that creates holidays; there is no r<>va road—yes. that is the royal road to them. Life cannot be mad*. up of recreations, they must be garden s;<>u in well farmed lands.—Mrs Gilbert Ann Taylor.