Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Real Love Stories.
One of the great daily newspapers
has been making a feature of late of
the personal history of citizens who,
by means of their prominence, are
supposed to be known to its readers.
In & series of articles entitled, “Real
Love Stories," it has told bow they
won their wives and pictured the life
of the family. More than 50 of the
stories have been published. Since
they are romantic In the best sense,
and since they gratify that harmless
curiosity which is inspired by admira
tion and respect, there is no reason to
regret their popularity. One might
go a little further, indeed, and say
that the fact bears opportunely and
conclusively on a comment by an
English traveler which was recently
printed in another newspaper. “There's
no home life in this country, you know,
among people of my class,” he is re
ported to have said. “Your men are
business men and marry for commer
cial reasons; many of your women do
the same; and if the result is not
alienation, it is liable to be unpleas
antness.” The reader will wonder
what kind of people the unlucky tour
ist has met Men and women who
know the United States, because they
live In it, seldom find any who answer
his description. The couples who fig
ure in the “stories” married for love
and reared happy homes upon that un
commercial basis, declares the Youth's
Companion, and persons who are not,
as they are. In the public eye, are do
ing the same thing everywhere and
every day. Family quarrels and do
mestic scandals get into the newspa
pers and are talked about simply
because they are exceptional events.
Behind most marriages in this country
there Ts a real love story, and it is al
ways “to be continued.”
Can anything be more convincing
a3 to the extent to which American
ideas are enlightening the earth than
the spreading popularity of that dis
tinctively American game, baseball?
The New York Times remarks: “ ‘J.
Vannaita played third bag for the
Kams and showed up well with the
stick. H. Chillingworth handled the
initial sack for the Jewels.’ So runs
the report of a baseball game played
,lq Hawaii between the Kamehamehas
iand the Diamond Heads. The lingo
follows the flag.” Even Japanese, Fil
ipino, Hindoo and other students from
abroad take to the sport as soon ns
they reach our shores, and discuss the
fine points in choice ‘‘baseballese.”
The national game is doing glorious
work as an international unifier.
The bread eaters and the corn eat
ers and the meat eaters and all dealers
in farm products and those who sell
merchandise are again invited to cheer
up about Kansas. As the floods sub
side and the waters recede it is
learned that nothing has been
‘‘drowned out" in Kansas but the cat
worms and the chinch bugs and the
Hessian fly and the weevil and the
like. The wheat and the corn and the
millet and the alfalfa, says the Kansas
City Star, are standing up thick and
'sassy" in the fields, and are giving
the verdant and golden “ha! ha!" to
the croakers who issued, a week or so
ago, advance notices of a crop failure
in Kansas.
Arrangements are rapidly making to
take advantage of the new emergency
currency law. The bureau of printing
and engraving is busy making the
plates for the new currency, and the
national banks In the large cities are
forming associations to take charge of
the new Issues in their territory.
Plans will be perfected and the cur
rency ready for issue by the time it
will be needed for moving the crops in
the autumn. As the prospect for un
usually large crops is good, the de
mand for money is likely to be very
great. Fortunately, this year there is
no danger of a money famine simul
taneously with agricultural plenty.
A man in Chicago died of Imaginary
poisoning, the result of auto sugges
tion, and it is said by doctors that
many people do die from this cause.
If auto suggestion is so powerful as to
kill a man who has really nothing the
matter with him, why can’t it act
otherwise and allow people to persuade
themselves when the atmosphere Is
.sizzling loud enough to compete with
a trolley gong that they are enjoying
cool and pleasant breezes? It Is a poor
—a very poor—rule which will not
.work both ways.
A 20-mlnute version of “Hamlet” Is
being advertised in New York. It
would be interesting to hear wbat one
William Shakespeare would say If he
•knew his work was being “boiled
down” to suit the demands of the 20
mlnute vaudeville sketch circuit
A French traveler says that where
Roosevelt is going to hunt in Africa
the natives eat white men. A certain
jjarty Is liable to brand him as a na
ture faker.
A persistent rumor that President
and Mrs. Roosevelt will visit England
next year is current in American cir
cles abroad. It is said that he will stay
six months in London with his family
and will study the organization of the
navy and the management of the
dockyards.
A one-armed man takes up the Col
lection in a church at Topeka, Kan.,
which seems at least as good a scheme
as that of the Chicago pastor who sug
gests cash registers.
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: PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT j
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SIMS WILL TRY AGAIN
“I Edwin W. Sims, United States district attor
ney at Chicago, whose hard earned victory over
the Standard Oil Company has just been set
aside by Judge Grosscup, is preparing to renew
the government’s fight upon the trust. Mr. Sims
is a Canadian by birth, but was reared and edu
cated in Michigan. He found journalism a pre
paratory experience to the law, and beginning
as a cub reporter, he had worked up to the
point where he was city editor of the old Bay
City Post, when he decided to let go of a certain
job with a stipulated income in exchange for the
uncertain field that opened the way for his am
k bition.
He studied in the University of Michigan,
graduated in 1S94, and soon after went to Chica
lU luuuic. u Luun tumc umc aiiu o ucai kjl
walking up and down to land a place in an office where he could exchange
his ambition and what he didn't yet know about law for enough money to pay
board, lodging and laundry bills. But he found the place, with a prominent
old lawyer, and went to work. He was to be paid $5 a week, and to do any
thing and everything.
One day the old lawyer told him to draw up a legal opinion upon a
certain matter connected with maritime law. Sims did it, and used practi
cally a day doing it. Then he took it to his employer. The latter read it
carefully through, signed his name to it and put it in an envelope, together
with a bill for $500 for an opinion.
Some difference between $5 for a week's work and $500 for a day's work
—and the young man thought a long time. Then he went out, rented an
office, hung out his own gilt-lettered sign and began to hustle. He hustled in
a political way, too, and that brought him clients and then jobs. First he
was made county attorney. Then he was made a district attorney for the
state. When the department of commerce and labor was organized he was
appointed its solicitor. And from there he went to his present position.
INDEPENDENCE PARTY LEADER
Thomas L. Hisgen, the man nominated by
the Independence party as its candidate for
president, is a resident of Massachusetts, al
though originally hailing from Indiana. His
parents were German people who first located
at Albany, N. Y. In 1857 William Hisgen, the
father, emigrated with the family to Petersburg,
Ind., where he opened a store. On November
26 of the following year Thomas was born.
The opportunities for education were mea
ger in the fifties and especially in the country
district where the Hisgen family lived, so Thom
as took his education as opportunity presented
itself in the shape of the ordinary country
school.
A constantly increasing family with far from
H LUI leamiii-ip, 1UB1COOC m nunuij fcuwua ucvtc
sitated Thomas and his brothers early in life taking up a part of the burden of
j their father.
But Thomas Hisgen was ambitious, and the lack of opportunity of secur
' ing an education proved an incentive for him to make the opportunity. Lord
Bacon says that reading rnaketh a full man, so Thomas Hisgen became a
reader of good books, which have given depth to his grasp of affairs and
scope to his view of life.
facture the grease in 1888, but the following year the little factory was de
stroyed by fire.
When Hisgen was about 16 years of age his father moved back to Al
bany, where Thomas and his two brothers became clerks in a clothing store.
The elder Hisgen had some knowledge of chemistry, and he began trying to
invent a compound of patent axle grease.
The brothers were at first inclined to discredit their father's attempt,
but later experiments that Thomas made demonstrated that the patent was a
commercial possibility.
Thomas surrendered a favorite violin, another brother sacrificed a dia
mond pin, while the others gave up their keepsakes which brought $95 from
a pawnbroker, and they began over again. Ten years after they took up the
work they owned the largest axle grease factory in the world, with a floor
space of 75,000 feet in Albany.
Hisgen married Miss Barbara Fox of Albany in 1900, and three children
are the result of the union.
Hisgen ran for state auditor on the Democratic and Independence League
ticket in 1906, polling 150,000 votes, and the following year he ran on the straight
Independence League ticket for governor, receiving 75,000 votes and placing
his party in the second place in political power in the state of Massachusetts.
STANDARDS CHIEF ATTORNEY
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John S. Miller, chief attorney for the Stand
ard Oil Company in the Indiana railroad rebate
cases, which have just come through the United
States court of appeals with a reversal, which
means a great victory for the Rockefeller forces
by the lifting of the $29,240,000 fine assessed by
Judge Landis, is one of the best equipped at
torneys practicing in the federal courts. A short
time before he entered upon the trial of the
Standard Oil cases in Chicago he whipped the
United States to a standstill in the beef trust
cases, and by so doing led President Roosevelt
to rage in a special message to congress against
the law that prevents the government from ap
pealing from “'an unjust decision of a federal
judge.” He also had charge of the John R.
Walsh case for the defense, and has been in
much important litigation in the past few years.
Miller is a Chicago man and was corporation counsel under Mayors Hemp
stead Washburne and George 13. Swift. In that capacity he won several big
cases for the city. He is 58 years old, a man of family and known in clubdom
as “a jolly good fellow.”
W?hen Judge Landis assessed the $29,240,000 fine against the oil men Mil
ler was disconsolate. The oil men were correspondingly enraged, and while
Miller assured them that he could knock out the verdict in a higher court, his
clients hid much doubt in his claims. The lawyer piersevered, however, and
maintained his position in the matter. He carried the case up to the appel
late division, and when that tribunal declared in his favor the attorney was
overjoyed.
The inception of the “immunity bath” is credited to Miller, who coined
the phrase when he successfully yanked the beef trust packers out of the
court’s grasp just before sentence was to be pronounced against them. He
secured a verdict and defeated the national department of justice.
PRINCE OF WALES IN AMERICA
George, prince of Wales, who is now in Canada
where he went to take part in the Quebec
Tercentennial celebration, may visit the United
States before his return to England. Europe
can boast few scions of royalty who have the
personal popularity of the British heir apparent.
He is the second son of the king and came to
the succession by the death of his elder brother.
Prince Edward, in January, 1892. In appearance
he resembles his father somewhat, and his plain
manner and dislike for ostentation have en
deared him to the English people. He is a sail
or, his service having begun when he was 12,
and at 27 he was made a commander of the
royal navy. He was in command of the gunboat
Thrush when he previously visited Canada, and
in that capacity ho was permitted to indulge his
| own desire for quiet strolls about the streets of old Quebec and for plain
j mingling with the officers about the clubs upon equal terms.
On the present occasion, however, he has seen the city under different
I conditions. He is the second man of the kingdom now—its future king—he
is hedged about with dignity and state, while his own actions are confined
within comparatively narrow limits. While in Quebec he occupied quarters
that were elaborately furnished and decorated in the old citadel, that grim and
frowning fortress that looks as grandly terrible as it did in other days when
it had some claim in being literally the “Gibraltar of America.”
It is not so much an impregnable fort now and might be taken without
much difficulty, perhaps. It has a rugged grandeur, nevertheless, that can
hardly fail to impress the observer.
The prince is accompanied by his wife and a brilliant staff, headed by
Lord Roberts, the veteran whose praises many writers besides Kipling have
delighted to sing.
A woman of Wahring, Bohemia, and
her two daughters attempted to com
mit suicide because the local newspa
per had hinted not only that they were
extravagant in dress, but that they
dressed with bad taste.
IN ANOTHER WAY
AMERICA LEADS
ALL THE WORLD
United States Almost Alone in Free
dom and Opportunity That Is
Afforded to Gentler Sex
in Anno pica. Women Are the
Avowed. Rulers o/Joeiet.y'
T IS in the United States
j^SpV that women revel in beds
V g‘ V c'over a,1£l walk on vel
vet and roses, an ample
reason, no doubt, for their
celebrated wit, charm and
beauty. For they are free to develop
their mental faculties, free to enjoy
social life and fiee to work.
In America women who want learn
ing and Latin have fewest restrictions
placed upon their place and manner of
education. In America and in Amer
ica alone they are the avowed leaders
of society. And in America they have
the largest liberty in choosing a pro
fession.
Although in Russia clubs are only
beginning to be lawful, and in France
and Germany conditions are little bet
ter, in America 4,000,000 wives, moth
ers and spinsters are organized into
clubs and societies; and of the 300 oc
cupations recognized by the United
States census women are represented
in all but nine.
Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of
labor, declares that it is plain that
"woman is in open rebellion against,
the traditional curse, against the doc
trine of the Pauli estimate of women's
sphere; that she has determined to
assert her equality in many directions
and that she has entered and occupied
the great field of remunerative em
ployment.”
American Women Not Humble.
The woman of America Is charac
terized as "independent, forceful, capa
ble and far from humble. Obedience
is furthest from her thoughts. Civil
marriages rarely contain the word
obey; some of the churches have
dropped it; when it is uttered it is
either regarded as a joke or explained
as a desire to please, prompted by
love—something which would be
equally applicable to the husband.
‘‘Self sacrifice, formerly a cardinal
womanly virtue, is no longer in high
favor. Self-development is rapidly
taking its place. The American wom
an has imbibed a new doctrine, that
of freedom and happiness. She does
not believe that she should be sub
missive, that her life should be hedged
with limitations, or that she is fore
doomed to sufTer for the sins of others.
Foreigners coming to this country
never are known to comment upon
the American woman as clinging,
timid, humble, dependent, submissive
self-sacrificing, without confidence in
her abilities or inclination to protect
her rights and convinced of the su
periority of man.”
On the contrary, as Mrs. Lydia
Klugsmll! Commander testifies in her
scientific study of American woman,
she is always remarked for her self
reliance. force, freedom, intelligence
and capacity. She is iutent upon be
ing herself, not the pale reflection of
some one else, and upon developing
the possibilities of life to the utmost.
She has great respect, and she com
mands (he respect of others.
Sexes Stand on an Equality.
' Naturally women sustaining such al
tered relations to society and so
changed in character hold a different
relation to men. The sexes are more
on a parity, says Mrs. Commander.
Their lives are more closely associ
ated, they have more in common, and
they understand one another as never
before. The womeu nre not something
apart from the national life, a sort
of annex to the race, kept entirely for
domestic service cud reproduction;
they are becoming people, half the na
tion, and growing to be considered
and respected as such. Their opinions
on pubHc questions are not ignored.
Their ideas in business, law, medicine
or education are not despised, for their
share of the national activities and
responsibilities claims recognition and
respect.
A natural accompaniment of wom
an's inferior share in the industrial
and social institutions of a nation is
her subordinate position in the home.
She is not living in a world where her
wishes are accorded much considera
tion. Keligion, education, politics and
business are in the hands of men, who
give to the other sex such quantity
and quality of each as seem to them
fitting.
Old Idea of “Ownership” Gone.
In America, however, as is outlined
by Mrs. Commander and is observed
by all observers, the old relationship
of owner and owned is giving place to
one of equality and comradeship. Man
does not marry with the idea of secur
ing a patient chattel with enough in
telligence to work for him, wait on
him and minister to his physical de
sires. He seeks a friend, a compan
ion, a comrade, a woman of independ
ent personality, who will be congenial
in her tastes and habits, but who will
live a life of her own, not be absorbed
in and lost by his.
American husbands are proud of
wives who succeed in the business,
professional, artistic, literary or dra
It li In the United States that Women.
Walk In Beds of Cloven
matic world; who attain positions of
prominence in philanthropic, educa
tional, or reform organization, or who
are possessed of any special ability or
knowledge.
In the conservative countries mar
riage is all important to a woman and
of secondary interest to a man. The
stories end with the wedding of the
heroine, for it settles her career. She
is now merged In her husband and no
more is expected or heard of her.
Meanwhile the man pursues the even
tenor of his way, his marriage being
but a more or less important incident.
But the American w-oman's growth
of interests outside of marriage has
increased the importance of marriage
to men. The more developed woman
of the United States touches her hus
band’s nature at many points and Alls
a larger place In his life. He discusses
public affairs with her, confides in her
the details of his business, asks her
opinion, and frequently follows her
advice. In matters of common inter
ests her wishes carry equal weight
with his. In brief, the American wife
holds a position in the respect as well
as the affection of her husband that
makes the American man a proverbial
matrimonial prize.
Of course, all American women are
not free, respected and happy. There
are wives in the United States who
are bullied and bossed, treated with
contempt, beaten and even murdered.
But in these also are many instances
where, so far from the wife obeying,
the opposite extreme almost holds
true. There are many American hus
bands who, instead of exacting self
sacrifice of their wives, yield it to the
fullest measure, men who make a
fetich of their wives’ wishes and
work unceasingly and uncomplain
ingly to gratify even their whims.
And the every day American hus
band recognizes his wife as a
person with tastes, desires, ambi
tions and interests of her own, and
acknowledges her right to their de
velopment and gratification. He con
siders, her as a human being, analogous
to himself.
Women for Clubs and Societies.
Even the most conservative of Ameri
can husbands allow their women to
join a W. C. T. U., a missionary so
ciety, or a woman's club. Nor is
there objection to the wife turning an
honest penny in her spare time. She
may do dressmaking or give music
le sons in the intervals pf housework.
It is even generally conceded that she
may under stress of necessity enter
the industrial world without prejudice
of her femininity. The most domestic
housewife incurs no disgrace if, hav
FORGOT AN IMPORT AN! POINT
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Boston Carpenter Overlooked Davy
Crockett’s Immortal Advice.
Apropos of the fat man who built
his trlfe a table In the cellar too big
to go through the door, a reader de
clares that he knows of a man who
did very much the same trick. The
man in question, a Boston carpenter,
was having a dull season, and aB
spring was coming on he decided to
Duua ntnisen a ooat lor use in nts
toric Boston bay. After due considera
tion the carpenter decided to use his
own cellar as a workshop, as he had
plenty of room and all materials were
handy. He did not once think of get
ting the boat out until after weeks of
hard work he bad finished a fine 18
foot vessel. Of course It would not
go through a mere door, and as there
was no double door entrance the car
penter was up against it. He was de- I
ing a sick husband or being left a
widow, she work for bread.
In a recent editorial of a conserva
tive newspaper it was argued tha
‘ Marriage does not rob a woman ol
the right still to be a wage earner un
der approved conditions. Many wives
are justly proud of the ability to main
tain their own resources and even con
tribute to the household fund.”
The well-worn maxim has it that the
treatment of women is an index to c
nation's rank in civilization. And un
deniably true this adage proves to thf
traveler who tours the world and find
in the most primitive states the most
debased and injured womankind, and
in the most advanced states the lofti
est and freest women.
Herbert Spencer wrote mournful and
great words when he observed that in
the history of humanity as written the
saddest part concerns the treatment of
women. "And if we had before us its
unwritten history we should find this
part still sadder. I say the saddest
because though there have been man;
things more conspicuously dreadful
cannibalism, the torturing of prisoners,
1 the sacriflcings of victims to ghosts
and gods—these have been but occa
sional;' whereas the brutal treatment
of women lias been universal and con
stant.
“If, looking first at their state of
subjection during the semi-civilized,
we pass to the uncivilized, and observe
the lives of hardship borne by nearly
all of them, if we then think what
must have gone on among those still
under peoples, who for so many thou
sands of years roamed over the uncul
’tured earth, we shall infer that the
amount of suffering which has been
and is borne by women is utterly be
j yond imagination.
“Utter absence of sympathy made it
inevitable that women should suffer
from the egoism of men, without any
limit as to their ability to bear the en
tailed hardships. Passing this limit,
the ill-treatment by rendering the
women incapable of rearing a due
number of children brought about dis
appearance of the tribe; and we may
safely assume that multitudes of
tribes disappeared from this cause
leaving behind those in which the ill
treatment was less extreme.”
Australian Does Not Love Wife.
In Australia Sir John Lubbock
found little real affection exists be
tween husbands and wives, and young
men value a wife principally for her
service as a slave; in fact, when asked
why they are anxious to obtain wives
’their usual reply is that they may get
wood, water and food for them and
carry whatever property they may
possess.
The Australian women are treated
with the utmost brutality, beaten and
speared in the limbs on the most
trivial provocation.
“Few women will be found upon ex
amination to be free from frightful
| scars upon the head or the marks of
; spear wounds about the body,” say?
! he. "I have seen a young woman
who, from the number of these marks.
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Kn the United States had
I Bows Down to Womarrj>. 1
appeared to have been almost riddled
with spear wounds. If at all good
looking their position is. if possible,
even worse than otherwise.”
Paul du Chaillu during his adven
tures in central Africa found two dis
tressing cases of apparently wanton
torture of women. Among the Kaffirs,
relates Herbert Spencer, besides her
domestic duties the woman has to per
form all the hard work; she is her hus
band's ox, a Kaffir remarked to a
traveler; she had' been bought, he
argued, and must therefore labor.
Chieftain’s Wife a Complete Slave.
Prof. Ward observes that the com
plete slavery of woman to man is
shown by the account of a Malagary
chief who had scarcely seated himself
f.t his door when his wife came out,
crawling on her hands and knees till
she came to him, and then licked his i
feet. All the women in the town sa- \
luted their husbands in the same man- !
ner. Almost everywhere in Africa^, re- !
ports Letourneau, woman is the prop- j
erty of her husband, who has the right 1
to use her as a beast of burden, and
almost always makes her work as he '
does his oxen.
In certain Himalayan regions the
women are a veritable merchandise
which is bought and sold. At the time
of Fraser’s visit a woman among the
termined to have his boat, though,
and he tore out the entire end of his
house to get it out of his cellar. He
got his boat, and also had more hard
work to do in his dull season, for it
was several weeks before he finished
repairing the house.
Wind the Cause of Wreck.
There was no mystery as to why
the California Southern Limited ran
away from Summit Station, Tehachapi
Pass, in the winter of 1883. The wind
was blowing with hurricane force
[ peasants cost from five to six dollar
a sum, "which it was pleasant to
ceive but painful to expend."
The daughters also are freely so
and the brothers of each family bought
a common wife whom they rent-.:
without hesitation to strangers In
New Zealand, according to Moerenha
and Ward, a father or brother, in g
»ing his daughter or his sister to h*
future husband, wotil i .-ay: “If y t
are not satisfied wi- tv—, sell hi
ter; you u.e absolir
Women of Tahiti I k If -starved.
Almost at the or' 't of sociei
writes Letourncau • was si;
jugated by her con; - we havi
seen her become in -ion boa
01 burden, slave, mini , . object, hi 1
aloof from a free, active life, ofti t
maltreated, oppressed, punished wit
fury for acts that her male own
would commit with impunity befo
her eyes.
In the Soudan, where the removal
clothes is a sign of obeisance, wom> ?>
may only come unclothed Into th*
presence of the sultan of llclli un
even the sultan's daughters must eon
form to this custom. At the court i
Uganda stark naked, full grown won.
en are the valets. Indeed, throughout
the primitive world women are be.i
of burden, servants, slaves.
Not only the wife of the negro, tin
Hindu, and the Keighis, but also th.
wife of the present Slav of the Balkan
peninsula and of Russia, is the mi?
used slave of her husband, and as th
result of the effort to escape labor, w<*
see the unwholesome interchange of
wife and child labor in the factories
which would make great--; gains fro;
the laborer at the expense of wife an-!
child.
Indeed, in its origin th-* family
held to have been “simi l;, an it
tion for the more complt t< . ->ug; ti
mid enslavement of women and ci.
dren. for the subversion of nature
method in which the mother is th
queen, dictates who shell he fath
and guards her offspring by the
stinct of maternal affection planted -
her for that purpose."
Japanese Widows Blacken Teeth.
In India the subjection of wont' -i
has had its headquarters. The suttx
or the burning of widows on th»
funeral pyres of their husbands is no
yet wholly extinct, although forbidden
by law; and the remarriage of widow
is only beginning to be permitted. Th*
widow at best leads an isolated ex
istence, cut off from her natural asso
c-iates. condemned to base foods and a
life of practical servitude.
In Japan the widow must blacken
her teeth and shave her eyebrows
Throughout the orient women art
taught to address their husbands a
master or lord, whereas the irn n
=peak to their wives as slaves ami
servants. The oriental proverbs dt
ciare that "woman is like a slipper
made to order; wear it if it fits you,
throw it away if it does not."
"Woman is like a snake, charming
as well as venomous.”
"Woman should always he in good
humor and revere her husband, even
though unfaithful, as a god."
When Nerves Are Jangled
"Diseased nerves play queer
pranks,” said the specialist. “1 had a
patient who once spent five months in
a hospital, taking a rest cure. He sui
fered from insomnia constantly. To
reach his home it was necessary t>
spend a night on the cars, and In
looked forward to this with great
dread. Even when well he had always
slept poorly on a train, and he looked
forward to an absolutely wide-awake
night. So he supplied himself with a
powder in the hope that it might ln-lp
a little.
"He didn't need the drug, however
He slept eight solid hours, far better
than in the quiet of the hospital. Now
a little coffee or smoking or any ex
citement in the evening will give hint
insomnia. Yet when he once gets to
sleep he is the hardest person in the
house to awaken. The firecrackers on
the nights of July 3 and 4 he never
hears. A big fire on the block, with
all the noise of the engines, didn't
arouse him.
“Then there was a woman who had
nervous prostration so badly that she
was confined to bed and had to have a
In India, Man Reigns Supreme.
trained nurse. Early one evening her
family were startled by an awful com
motion and shrieking in her room.
They rushed up to find her in a corner
killing a mouse with the back of a hair
brush, while the nurse stood in the
center of the bed, screaming.”
Weight of Human Heart.
The weight of the human heart aver
ages from nine to 11 ounces.
across the razor-edged backbone of the
mountains, and it took possession of
the train and forced it back down the
steep track up which it had Just
climbed. Faster and ever faster tho
wheels revolved, louder and ever
louder shrieked the gale in its glee,
until presently the doomed express
jumped the track, toppled over a
precipice, and disappeared. When as
sistance arrived, nearly a hundred
lead adults were taken from the
wreck; and one baby, alive and un
lurt.