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gists.
REASON FOR EXERCISING.
Am ycu ira:n:a ior a race, Jim
mie?" %
"Naw. we're gain' to have meat for
'linn- r to-day an’ I'm Rettia' up an ap
petite.”
Sometimes Hard to Tell.
G< or *- Eliot says that the expres
sion cn a woman's face when she is
sewing tells the story of the woman’s
heart If she is La.’py and contented,
<>r |* s' bly slovenly and indifferent,
she may smile and look the happi
ness she either feels or Is incapable
of feellag. If she has many things to
worry her and is tiossibly planning
how to make ten cents do a dollar's
worth of prod, or If she is naturally a
vixen It will show in her face, so aft
er ail it is not safe to predicate as to
what her sewing face reveals.
Debts of the Rich and Poor.
I* bts. as a general rule, are harder
to be collected from the rich man
than from the slave of toll, for the
former builds upon his position In so
< icty to excuse him from his obliga
tions while the latter often makes
the a'tempt to discharge his contracts
to preserm bis staudhig la the com
miunty ,
Important *.o Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOK1A a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature off
In I'se For Over :tO Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Not at All Cheeky.
Ethel—Suppose a pretty girl were
to grant you the privilege of kissing
her cither on the right cheek or the
left. wai« n would you choose?
Jac k—Neither, I'd make a choice be
*e« n ’ he fare
If you would not cease to love man
kind, you must not cease to do .th.em
good.—Mac laren.
MY OWN FAMILY USE
PE-RU-NA.
MON. GEOftCC W. HONEY.
lion, worw W. Honey, National
Chaplain U. V. C., ex-Chaplain Fourth
Wisconsin Cavalry, ex-Treuaurer State
of \\ iMontin, and ex-Quartermaster
«iener:il State of Texas li. A. K., writes
from 1700 First Ht., X. E., Washington,
U. C, as follows:
“I cannot t*»> highly rwommemi your
preparation for the relief of catarrhal
troubles In their various forms. Some
lorralwr*of my own family have used
1* with most prratif. ing r.-cults. When
other r-nedies fa i let I, Pc run a proved
most efficacious and I eheerftilly certi
fy to ii ■» curative excellence.”
Mr. Fred It Heluird. for nine years a
leading photographer of Kansas City,
Mo , -at*-«l at the northeast corner of
15*h and Grand Aves,. cheerfully gives
the fol lowing testimony: “Itis a proven
fact that Pecuna will cure catarrh and
la grippe, and as a tonic It has no equal.
Itrugeista have tried to make me take
something else ‘just as good,’ but Peru
na is good enough for me.”
Pe-ru-ca in Tablet Form.
For two years Dr. Hartman and hit
assistants have incessantly labored to
create Peruna in tablet form, and their
strenuous labors have just been crowned
with sucoesa. People who object t«»
liquid medicines can now secure Peru
na tablets, which represent the solid
medicinal ingredients of Peruna.
I* E DUTCH
BOY PAINTER
STANDS FOR
PAINT_QUALITY
IT S FOUND ONtYON
t PURE WHITE LEAD
MADE BY
THE
01-0 DUTCH
BY GEO. V. HOBART
Dear Punch: Ycur letter from
London to hand and contems noted.
Peachrs and I are mighty glad
| you're starting for home in two weeks,
and we'll meet you at the pier with
heila on.
We’re ail well here with the
j exception that Peaches gave an onion
| saongerfest nh:bt before last and I've
j been on the blink ever since.
This onion saengerfest thing may be
! a new one on you, Punch, so I'll
specify.
An onion saengerfest is where a
: bunch of people gather In your parlor
| In the evening and spill a ’ot of cheap
songs all over the carpet while wait
, iug ::'or dinner to be announced.
I don't know just exactly where the
onion comes in, but I suppose that ap
plies to most of the guests.
There were present at the battle I
| speak of Uncle Peter Grant and Aunt
Julia, Bud Hawley and his second
! wife; your sister, Jennie, and her hus
band, Stub Wilson, from Milwaukee.
Oh, I forgot to mention that old Dr.
Guffhander. the celebrated food ex
port was the guest of the evening.
Dr. Guffhander is a great friend of
Uncle Peter’s, and has been using
! him for a meal ticket for several days.
Somehow or ether Uncle Gregory
got on to the fact that Morty Smith
i had sent me a case of Pommerv, and
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Down in the Lehigh Valley—”
lore before the dinner hour Uncle
Greg complained of dust lu the pipes.
He hinted around so hard about the
Pommery that I took him out in the
butler’s pantry, opened a quart of the
only real wine, and let the old geezer
slosh around in the surf.
After Uncle Greg, came to the sur
face he marched back into the parlor
and Insisted upon singing the swan
song from Lohengrin, but his idea of
a swan was sa much like a turkey
gobbler that loving friends had to
put the moccasins to him and run
him out of the room.
Then he went out in the butler's
pantry, hoping to do another splash in
the Pommery, but not finding any, he
began to recite: “Down In the Le
high valley me and my people grew:
I was a blacksmith, cap'n; yes. and
a good one, too! Let me sit down a
minnte, a stone's got into my shoe—"
But It wasn't a stone. It was po
l tato sciad which the Irish cook threw
at him for interfering with her work.
After all the excitement was over
and Unk Greg, was sleeping w ith mag
nificent noises or. the sofa in the
library, your sister Jennie was coaxed
to sing Tosti’s "Good-by.”
Of course you know. Bunch, we're
all very fond of your sister, but I'm
afraid if Mr. Tostl ever heard her sing
his “Good-by” he would say: “The
same to you, and here’s your hat."
Before Jennie married and moved
west I remember she had a very pretty
[ mezzo-concertina voice, but she's been
so long helping Stub Wilson to make
Milwaukee lamotis that nowadays her
'‘Good-By, Summer
top no'.es sound like a cuckoo clock
after It’s been up all night.
1 suppose. Bunch, it’s wrong for me
to pull this on you about your own
flesh and blood, but when a married
woman with six fine children, one of
them at Yale, sidles up in front of the
piano and begins to squeak: “Good-by,
summer! Good-by, summer!” just as
if she were calling the dachshund in to
dinner, I think it’s time she declined
the nomination.
Then Bud Hawley, after figuring it
all out that there was no chance of his
i getting arrested, sat down on the
piano stool and made a few sad state
ments. which in their original state
form the basis of a Scotch ballad
called, "Loch Lomond.”
As you know, Bnnch, Bud’s system
of speaking the English language is
to say with his voice as much of a
word as he can remember, and then
finish the rest with his hands.
You can imagine what Bud would do
to a song with an oatmeal founda
tion like “Loch Lomond.”
When Bud barked out the first few
bars, which say: “By yon bonniebank
and by yon bonnie brae,” you can be
lieve me, Bunch, everybody within
hearing would have cried with joy if
the piano had fallen over on Bud
and flattened his equator.
And when he reached the plot of
the piece, where it says: “You take
the high road and I’ll take the low
road." Uncle Peter took a drink, Jack
Merton took the same, Stub took an
oath and 1 took a walk.
Never in my life, Bunch, have I
hearH a song so roughly handled.
* ml inv «,ui« iiuu a
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tiCNDY
ON
QUESTS
, (“HUGH M'HUGH”)
I there with the glad and winning; smile of
! a catfish on her face, listening with a
heart full of pride while her crime
laden husband chased that helpless
song all over the parlor, and finally
left it unconscious under the sofa.
Bud was just about to pull the cor!;
“Listening with a Heart Full of
Pride.”
I from another ballad when dinner wad
| announced and our lives wore saved
I'm so unstrung over the narrow es
! cape, Bunch, that I’ll wait until later
| to tell you about the eats—which were
what we come for.
With respex, J. H.
'Copyright, 1SW8, by G. W. Dillingham Co.)
WALK THROUGH FIRE.
Ceremony of Sect of Brahmins in
Honor of Gods of Fire and Water.
Six thousand Hindus and a select
few English officials have recently wit
nessed in the neighborhood of Madras
a remarkable religious ceremony, the
principal actors being Soivrastas, e
sect of Brahmins.
The festival was called “the march
through fire,” and it is appropriately
enough named. The proceedings were
in honor of Brahma and Vishnu, the
gods of water and fire.
Preparations for the ceremony had
been going on for a month. A trencL
2'J feet long and 19 feet deep was dug
and in it a fire was kindled. At sun
rise 40 fanatics, who were to demon
strate their asbestos nature, slowly
marched around the furnace bearing
the curious idols. The Soivrastas were
clothed in yellow tunics, and without
hesitation entered the fire trench sing
lng a hymn, the refrain of which was
"Govinda’ Govinda!”
After walking around this artifleia
Gehenna three times they emerged ap
parently none the worse for their ex
pertence, and have established an un
assailable claim for sancitity among
their people.
MINISTER A BUSY MAN.
Virginia Pastor Caters Not Alone to
Souls of His Parishioners.
Mr. R. J. McKay, assistant general
passenger agent Toledo, St. Louis &
Western and Chicago & Alton rail
roads, in his travels through the easl
recently noticed in a certain Virginia
newspaper the following advertise
ment:
REV. GEORGE W. WHARTON
Carries a Full Dine of
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
OH. OYSTERS!
He receives almost daily, fresh, first-class
Oysters, at moderate prices.
FRESH FISH!
Various kinds of Fresh Fish in season,
tiie very best, to tempt the epicurean
taste.
MATRIMONIAL MATTER.
Rev. Mr. Wharton’s residence Is a mecca
for marrying couples. So Just gain the
consent of your best girl, secure the li
cense, and together with a fat fee, give
him a call, and he will perform the cere
mony in the most approved style.
Who Wields Most Power.
In the smoking room of a popular
West End club the other afternoon a
group of men suddenly raised the
query as to which six men. wield the
most power in the world, and very
considerable diversity of opinion was
expressed. By general consent King
Edward was placed at the head of the
list, but it seemed impossible to ar
rive at any agreement as to the re
maining live. After some considerable
argument it was decided to canvass
the whole of the members then in the
building and ask them to write down
the names of the six they considered
the most powerful. The following was
the result, with the order of voting:
First, the king; second, the pope:
third, the czar; fourth, the sultan of
Turkey; fifth, the president of the
I'nited States: sixth, the emperor of
China. Among others who were voted
for very generally were the emperor
of Japan, the French president and
the kaiser.—London Sketch.
Nor a Hospital.
“Talking of our British cousins?" in
quired E. Black Ryan, tax attorney of
the Southern Pacific. “Well, I heard
one the other day. Big fat Britisher
shovec. Into one of those compart
ments at the last moment. There was
an American in there reading his
newspaper.
" it’s 60 miles to my station,’ re
marked the Englishman, and I aay,
old chap. I'm treating myself for a
wounded foot, and I say, If you don’t
mind. I’ll put some of this Iodoform
on my ankle. Beastly smelling stuff.'
“ ‘Go ahead,' said the American. But
when he got the full odor of it, he
shoved up a window, pulled out a
cigar and lighted it, and began puffing
away vigorously.
“ 'Here, here, my good fellow,’ pro
tested the Englishman, ‘this is no
smoking compartment!”’—San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Advice and Example.
He that gives good advice builds
with one hand; he that gives good
counsel and good example builds with
both hands, but he that gives good ad
monition and bad example builds with
one hand and destroys his work with
w
* | rHE Frontier Days Committee has
* has appointed a sub-committee on
rooms, boarding houses and hotels for
the purpose of securing in advance, ac
commodations for anyone who will write
the secretary at Grand Island. Accom
modations can be arranged for any
length of time desired.
COWCOYi AND INDIANS.
To Contest in Steer Roping ar.d Tackle
Outlaw Horses—Open To All.
The great Frontier and Harvest Fes
tival at Grand Island is scheduled for
October 6, 7, and 8. and will be the
most successful and imposing event
of the sort ever attempted in the
state.
The affair is under the auspices of
the Commercial Club. The expense
will be $7,000, and the funds are on
hand to carry it all out. It will be
made the nearest exhibition of actual
frontier days ever displayed, a regu
lar reproduction of the life and sports
of the eajdy day. It will be exciting
from start to finish. There will be
£'2,000 prizes for frontier contests, and
in addition a $250 saddle. $500 ia
prizes for farm products.
Everyone has heard of the "Frontier
Days" at Cheyene. Grand Island will
spare neither time nor money to more
than equal this great drawing card
which attracts thousands to the west.
There will be 100 cowboys and fron
tier heroes from all parts of the west
to take part in the contests. Ten car
loads of outlaw and wild horses have
been engaged. There will be buck
ing and pitching contests, steer rop
ing, wild horses, Indian pony races,
cow pony races, steer-riding, cowgirl
races, potatoe races and other con
I tests. Open to the world.
Two troops of U. S. cavalry will be
on hand with a wonderful exhibition
of evolutions and trick riding. They
will bo encamped in regular army
style, and they will illustiate army life
in camp and on the field of battle.
A large squad of Sioux Indians have
been secured. They will camp on the
grounds and take part in the contests,
Capt. Hardy, the champion shot of
the world will give exhibitions every
day, including the shooting of glass
balls from an automobile speeding at
thirty miles an hour.
There will be free attractions on
the streets of Grand Island forenoons
and evenings, including Lionel Le
j gar ’s spiral tower, rcpe throwing,
! band concerts, acrobats, etc.
There will be a grand display of
farm products, contests open to tie
world with cash prizes.
The grounds are within three blttcki
oi' the main street with an amp:<heate.
seating 5.000 people, with fine sh.i ! •
around two sides of the ground.
The great Dr. Carver diving hr
attraction has been secured, in con
nection with the diving horse Dr. Cul
ver carries with hint a collection of
man-eating brutes, wild outlaw buck
ing horses and other dangerous ani
mals, to show th? difference between
educated horses and those in the w l |
state.
Remember the date. Gran I Island.
October 6, 7, and 8.
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
Mr. Kinneman caught a catfish in
the Missouri river near Plattsmouth
that weighed 77 pounds and he sold it
to Hatt & Son for J7.75.
The paid membership of the Young
Men’s Christian association of Fre
mont has reached 210. The campaign
for membership started ten days ago.
Henry Wolfgan, aired 38, unmar
ried, was scalded to death, by a
threshing machine engine boiler when
it went through a bridge near Nor
folk.
Farmers should all have teleplppnes.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets. Omaha. “Use the
Bell.’
At the meeting of the board of Gib
bon school district last week the $18,
000 of bonds voted for a new high
school building were sold to W. E.
Berkley, jr., of Lincoln at |100 pre
mium. October 9 is the date set for
opening bids on the new building,
which will be almost a counterpart of
the new building at Hooper. Dyer &
Co. of Fremont are the architects.
A telegram was received at Beatrice
stating, that Perry L. Jerman, a Bea
trice boy, was drowned at Rawlins.
Wyo. He left with his wife for that
place about five months ago, where he
was employed as a cook. He was a
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Jerman of
Beatrice and was 23 years of age.
Intelligence by wire from Excelsior
Springs, Mo., was to the effect that
Clark. C. McNish of Fremont had
died at that place. Mr. McNish tvas
one of the most widely known attor
neys in eastern Nebraska and for sev
eral years had been the senior partner
of the law firm of McNish & Graham.
William Luke, who for the past two
years has been secretary of the Crete
Y. M. C. A., has been elected to serve
as secretary of the college Y. M. C
A. Through his efforts a game room
for the college men has already been
installed.
Coroner Reinker of Falls City held
an inquest over the remains of Earl
Frederick Splckerman, who was kill
ed Sunday on a Missouri Pacific
freight. The jury rendered a ver
diet of death due to injuries received
while trespassing on property belong
•nr *» *h» Minpouri Pnriar Raiiwav
Company. '' . i
fssSSJSs:
The third day of the Webster coun
ty fair was marked by a large at
tendance, numerous entries of farm
products and live 9tocU, as well as
close racing.
Word was received at Julian that
Charles W. Brown of that place was
assaulted and robbed by three men
in the business center of Denver
while walking to the union depot to
take a train for home. As he reach
ed an alley the holdups emerged
from the shadow of a building, slip
ped a sack over Brown’s head and
dragged him into the alley. Brown
resisted and was beaten over the
head until unconscious.
An Interesting feature in the list
of fall entertainments is the Fron
tier Days’ Festival to be given at
Grand Island. October C, 7 and 8. The
Commercial club of that city is be
hind the enterprise and has raised
$7,000 to pay the prizes and expenses.
The program will include all the spec
tacular wild west performances, and
will have as adjuncts a troop of
United States cavalry and a band of
Sioux Indians. There is also to be
a display of farm products, with lib
eral prizes.
Judge M. B. Davis of Gage county,
who resigned his position as city at
torney, will leave about the first of
October for Beeville, Texas, where he
has purchased a farm. Judge Davis
will be missed by the people of Gage
county.
The Daughters of Isabella, the aux
iliary society of the Knights of Co
lumbus. organized at Alliance with a
charter roll of forty women. The
work was under the direction of the
McCook council. This is the second
council in Nebraska and the third
will be established at Falls City on
Thanksgiving day.
Officers of the Presbyterian church
of Columbus are disappointed by the
receipt of a message from Lincoln
informing them that Rev. P M. Orr,
who was lately elected pastor of the
local church, would be unable to ac
cept the charge.
Charles A. McKim. state veterinar
ian, and A. T. Peters, M. D. C., pro
fessor of the state experimental sta
tion of Lincoln, were in Butte several
days the past week and finished
clearing up the old glanders deal In
Butte. These gentlemen went to the
v est end of the county, where they
["killed three gimsaefett
The barn belonging to Andrew
Johnson, a farmer three miles north
of Friend, together with eight head
of horses and some tools, burned.
The fire is supposed to have been
caused by spontaneous combustion.
The horses and tools belonged to
the tenant, Charles Long.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Black of Monowi, who have
been visiting Mrs. Black's parents,
the Beems, living near Crofton, was
shot in the stomach with a shotgun
by one of the small Beem boys. The
boy who did the shooting, who is 13
years old, was cleaning the shotgun
when it was accidentally discharged,
hitting the baby lying on a couch.
The baby died.
The remains of Miss Augusta Weg
ner strived from Denver Monday
night, says a Scribner dispatch, and
the funeral was held at the German
Lutheran church Tuesday, conducted
by Rev. Treskow. At the same hour
at the home of Mrs Hansen was held
the funeral of Mary Hansen, the ser
vices beins conducted bv Rev. M V.
Harrison. She was Cie fourth or e
of that family to fall a victim to ty
phoid fever this summer.
Claiming that his fingers have been
permanently damaged, William Hol
land of Dodge county has started suit
for $1,900 against Larson 6z Morrow,
who operate a ditching machine. Hol
land had his hand crushed while in
the employ of the defendants last
summer.
The ground around Herman has be
gun to show the effects of the con
tinued dry weather by cracking, and
the dust seems to be about four
Inches deep. Farmers are not able
to do any fail plowing, and if there
is not rain soon there will be some
dry wells.
The second annual Greeley County
fair opened with a good attendance
and the display in all departments, ex
cept fruit, was much better than last
year. New cattle, horse and hog barns
have been added this year and all are
filled with a fine line of animals.
At a meeting of the business men
held in Kearney it was decided to
hold a corn carnival in that city dur
ing November. The corn crop in
Buffalo county is great and an ex
hibit will be packed for exhibition
at the national show in Omaha. Al
falfa will al3o be one of the leading
' V''. . '
Talk by the Bishop.
Stanton.—At the opening of the con
ference Bishop McIntyre talked fci an
hour and fifteen minutes, giving inc
dents of his life, showing how he
from a brick layer to the bishopric,
saying he had never sought nn r
church or pulpit, but went wher the
powers sent him. The first year in hU
ministry he received a salary of 1-15)
and from that small country pastorate
he was pastor of the second largest
Methodist church in the world. H *
also said he never pulled wires er
strings to get a better appo'ntment.
Farmers Form Organization.
Silver C'reek—At a meeting of
right-of-way farmers near Duncan .»
permanent organization was effected
under the name of "The Platte Va
ley Farmers’ Protective Association
and a constitution adopted. Officer
elected were as follows: Charles
VVooster, president, and Frank O.
Holden, secretary, both of Sllber
Creek; John Engel of Duncan, treat
urer, and J. O. Blodgett of Columbus.
Abner Wltchey and Mart'n Karges.
Jr., of Duncan ar-d Robert Murray,
members of the execute committee.
Wife Complains at Last.
Cairo—J. L Omer is in the hands
of the sheriff on comniaint of hi»
wife for beating and abusing her
She came to the home of Marshal
Clark for protection from her hue <
l and, being badly marked and bruised
from the mistreatment. It seems
that this beating is only one of a
series lasting for years, and she be
came desperate and decided u> put <
stop to it, even though he threatened
worse if she told of it. She went to
Grand Island and put it in the hands
of the county attorney.
Five Invitations to W. C. T. U.
Hastings.—The Woman’s Christia 1
Temperance union referred to the exe
cutive board the matter of selecting a
place for the next annual convention.
Invitations were extended by Fremon:.
Fairbury, Chadron and Pawnee City,
and a lively contest ensued when they
were taken up in the morning. Fremont
seemed in the lead, but the reference
to the executive board was agreeable
to all. The convention adjourned after
business. The session throughout was
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