Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
Trolley Roads and Farm Values.
A recent item notes that farmers in
Ohio are complaining that the exten
sion of trolley roads through the rural
districts increases the facilities for
the young people to leave the farms
and go to the cities. ... If the country
trolley roads were taking young people
away so that the farms cannot be
worked as well as formerly, the na
tural effect would be to depreciate the
value of farm property. The contrary
effect has been noted, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. Only the other day it
was commented on that the opening of
an electric road in western Pennsylva
nia had enhanced the value of farms,
formerly offered at $100 per acre, to an
asking price of $750 to $1,000. The
same result has been observed in other
cases. It is quite possible that these
advances may in some cases prove to
be overdone, as the spread of electric
roads is bringing a vast range of farm
property into the market. But it is a
notorious fact that this improvement
of local coimuimication increases the
ability to make farm life pleasant, so
that it brings a large element of new
purchasers into the market and almost
invariably appreciates the value of
farms.
Mr. Roosevelt says that liis friends
will make a hit with him by just call
ing him 'mister." There is nothing
quite so clumsy as the way we speak
of those who were chief executives of
the nation. “Ex-president” or "former
president" is about the extent of the
titles that may be applied to these
eminent persons, and both of them
suggest a state of has-been rather than
a condition of honored retirement.
Even the grand mogul who goes
through the chairs in a common lodge
has a more exalted title and usually is
known as the grand and worshipful
past high kicker or something else that
savors of honor. We do not know ex
actly what the title of an ex-prcsident
should be, says the Chicago Daily
News, but if some one will donate a
toothpick we will offer it as a reward
for the best suggestion as to how to
designate a once-upon-a-time president.
The association of life insurance
presidents is apparently somewhat
skeptical whether or not Prof. Irving
Fisher is correct in his contention
that 15 years can be added to the
span of human life by the adoption ol
certain practical hygenic reforms,
but their appointment of a human
life extension committee indicates
that they are not disposed to reject
it altogether. They are willing to
look into the subject. Why shouldn't
they? One of the great life insurance
companies lately showed that a death
occurred among their policyholders
every six minutes. What if they could
extend this interval to seven or eight
minutes? It would make a vast differ
ence in their financial exhibits, to say
nothing of the benefits that would thus
be conferred upon mankind generally.
It is well worth the effort involved.
The New York Medical Journal says
that there is a.decided reduction in the
number of medical students as com
pared with the immediate past, and at
tributes it to "arbitrary standards in
medfc-al education." The decline is
probably due to the fact that during
the past decade there has been a great
outpouring of young doctors from the
various medical schools, with a rapid
multiplication of "shingles" of practi
tioners and a corresponding splitting
up of the business from a financial
standpoint. The same has been true
of the bar. There has been too great
a rush to the professions, with a conse
quent overstocking of the markets.
Superstitions of the sea should have
their edge taken off by the disaster off
the coast of Malta last fall. The Sar
dinia was due to sail from the home
port on Friday, November 13, a day
which was doubly unlucky'. It is even
difficult to get a sailor to sail on Fri
day, let alone the 13th of so horrid a
month as November. So the men de
manded delay—and they sailed on No
vember 14, and came to grief notwith
standing.
Perhaps Radcliffe college, in select
ing a new dean, may follow the exam
ple of Barnard college, the trustees of
which are said to be considering Wil
liam T. Brewster, professor of English
there, as the new incumbent of the
office. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia university, of which
Barnard is the woman's undergraduate
department, is said to have recom
mended the election of a man.
To avoid the troubles besetting com
passes on steel ships, the metal of
which deflects the needle, a German
inventor has devised a needleless one,
in the form of a gyroscope, the axis
of which always adjusts itself parallel
to the earth’s axis.
Wright brothers have been made
doctors of flying or something of the
sort by a technical school in Munich.
Presumably that will help them a lot
when they have to set a broken wing
of a flying machine.
How can even a bank employe afford
to eat nine pounds of beefsteak at a
meal and make the luxury steady diet?
Did the steak or the cost thereof throw
the Marshall man off his mental bal
ance? His books are no doubt all
straight, but how stand the accounts
of the butcher?__
Reports from Africa indicate that
the jangles are subject to an epidemic
of acute nervousness closely rivaling
that which afflicted Wall street up to
• recent date.
A DAYLIGHT SALOON
THIS HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY
THE LEGISLATURE.
VOTE IN THE HOUSE IS CLOSE
f
Put Through, It is Said, as a Measure
of Retaliation Against Omaha
Legislators.
Closing hours of the legislature
were marked by passage by the house
of the bill by Senator Wiltse. amend
ed. to close all saloons in the state
at 8 o'clock in the evening and to
open at 7 a. in. The bill was at
once taken to the senate and the
amendments concurred in there. The
bill received 51 votes in the house.
"The action of the legislature,”
says the Omaha Bee correspondent,
"in passing this temperance measure
at the last minute of the last day of
the session after killing a 7 o'clock
closing bill, is credited to the Omaha
senators. The action of the senators
in. standing out for the interest of
the stock yards angered many mem
bers of the house, who took the op
portunity to get even. Gov. Shallen
berger also came in for his share of
credit because he vetoed the Fort
Crook bill and thus lost one vote
against the S o'clock closing measure.
When the bill was discussed in the
house the day previous it was amend
ed to leave Omaha out entirely, bui
after the report of the conference
committee on the physical valuation
bill and its adoption by the house,
Omaha was at once put back in the
Wiltse bill in retaliation.
“That the news came as a shock
to’Omaha expresses the feeling mild
ly. It was not believed that the bill
could be passed, and when it was
given out early in the evening that
it had been passed the surprise of
everybody soon gave way to a feel
ing of wonderment as to what would
be the outcome. It means a crush
ing blow to the brewery and saloon
men of the city, and the .hotels and
restaurants will also suffer. Theater
parties will have to go to the restau
rants before seeing the play if they
want to sip a glass of wine or beer;
the lobster or the rarebit will, if
taken after the play, have to be ac
companied by pure water or a cup
of coffee.”
The bill originally provided that
saloons which sold liquor on Sunday
should lose their license and the
house judiciary committee amended
it to close the saloons at 8 o’clock.
Senator Wiltse brought up in the
senate the matter of concurrence in
the house amendments to f.. F. 282
during the afternoon and it was
pushed to vote with scarcely a word
of debate.
Woman's Suffrage Defeated.
The senate put the last touch of de
feat to the efforts of the suffrage
workers when H. R. 421, by Taylor of
Custer, providing for municipal suf
frage for women owning property was
not advanced to third reading.
Signed by Governor.
The following bills were signed by
the governor:
House Roll 112. by Fries of Howard
—One mill levy for building or repair
ing bridges in emergency case.
House Roll 131, by Bowman of Nuck
olls—Forbidding intimidation of vot
. ers.
House Roll 242. by McVicker of
Dodge—Providing for publicity of
campaign contributions.
House Roll 270, by Blystone of Lan
caster—Appropriating $1,000 for main
tenance of the G. A. R. rooms at the
state capitol.
House Roll 397, by Taylor of Hitch
cock—Providing for resurvey of the
fifth guide meridian through Dundy
county.
House Roll 123. by Committee on
Schools—Appropriates $75,000 for
state aid to weak school districts.
House Roll 150, by Thomas of
Douglas—Raising salary of Douglas
county district court bailiffs to $1,200
a year.
House Roll 236, by Miller of Custer
—Providing for transmission of pre
scribed course of study to teachers.
House Roll 254, by Smith of Cass—
Providing for special levy for the pur
pose of erecting school houses.
House Roll 533, by Wilson of Polk
—Provides for recharter of national
banks under state law and for permit
ting national banks to take advantage
of state guaranty law. *
House Roll 4, by Evans of Hamilton
—Provides for settling grain shipment
damages.
House Roll 19, by Stoecker of Doug
las—Provides for electing members of
Omaha school board by wards.
House Roll 144. by Taylor of Hitch
cock—Provides that judgments may
not be revived after l>eing dormant for
five years.
House Roll 179. by Bushee of Kim
ball—Provides for the appointment of
field superintendents to measure water
to users in irrigation districts.
Closing Hours of Legislature.
The closing hours of the senate
were calm and peaceful, that body in
dulging in no undignified antics while
waiting for the engrossing clerks to
complete their work so adjournment
could be taken. Not so with the
house. Speaker Pool was presented
with a gold watch by the members
and employes, and after this was off
its hands the lively times com
menced. At 0 o'clock Friday it was
seen the engrossing clerks could not
complete their labors, and a recess
was taken until 8 o'clock Saturday.
College Bill Passes.
Tin- maintenance bill, with its sen
ate amendments appropriating $20,000
to buy a site for an Omaha branch of
the university medical college, and
$100,000 for a flue stock museum at
the state fair grounds was passed In
the senate by a vote oi 32 to 0. tt
will now go back to the house for
concurrence in the amendments. The
house bill appropriating $30,000 for
a building at the institute for the deaf
and dumb at Omaha, was favorably
recommended by the finance commit
tea.
THE SENATE LIBERAL.
Adds $97,000 to the General Main
tenance Bill.
Ninety-seven thousand dollars in
appropriations was added to the gen
eral maintenance bill by the senate
committee of the whole above the fig
ures of the senate finance committee,
which carried an increase of $321,000
over the bill as it came from the
house. The house bill carried an ap
propriation of $1,905,128. The sen
ate committee recommended changes,
making the figures $2,286,418, and
the senate committee of the whole
added enough to make the total
$2,383,418.
The new items were as follows:
Site for hospital in connection
with medical school in
Omaha .$20,000
New building for nurses and
attendants at Norfolk. 12.000
Traveling expenses for district
judges . 6,000
Increase for employes at Mil
ford Soldiers’ home . 1,000
Wing for State Historical so
ciety building . 25,000
Hog cholera investigations.... 5,000
Overruling the cut to $50,000
of $75,000 house appropria
tion for normal training in
high schools, making differ
ence in bill . 25,000
For attorney general prosecu
tion expenses, increase. 3,000
Total .$97,000
The Right to Eater.
Tlie house recommended for pass
age a bill which has already passed
the senate which gives to an agent of
the state the right to enter any dwel
ling if he believes a dependent child
! of the state is secreted or detained
there.
The agent is given power to
forcibly enter the house and if the
owner thereof offers any objections lie
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
This great anthoriiV is given to an
agent of the state in S. F. 350, by Mil
ler of Lancaster, which provides that
the governor shall appoint a commis
sion of three persons to have charge
of a school for dependent children to
be conducted at the Home for the
Friendless. This board or commis
sion shall have complete charge of
the school and shall have power to ap
point an agent at $1,500 a year to look
after the children. If a member of
the school runs away and this agen'
has reason to believe that he is being
detained or is concealed in any house
he may forcibly enter and make a
search.
Building for School for Deaf.
Tlit> senate finance committee de
cided to recommend for favorable ac
tion the bills appropriating $30,000 for
a new building at the institute for the
deaf and dumb at Omaha, and $18,000
for completion and furnishings of
buildings at the Norfolk asylum.
The senate amended Smith's pure
food bill, as if came from the house,
so that under it now only packages of
confectionery, fish products and other
small articles are exempt from the
law that requires the stamping of the
weight or the measure and the con
tents oil each package, and all other
packages have to be stamped.
The Smith hill as originally intro
duced provided lor the bleaching of
flour, and in the house an amendment
was introduced to strike out the pres
ent law. requiring the contents,
weight or measure to be stamped on
every package, and the national law,
providing that if the weight or meas
ure should be put on the package it
must be correct was inserted in its
place.
Senate King's amendment as in
troduced provides that all packages
that are to be sold in Nebraska, con
taining dairy products, meat, wheat,
oats or corn products, molasses sugar,
syrup, tea, coffee or fruit, must be
stamped with the correct weight or
measure.
Senators King and YViltse argued
that the people should know the exact
weight of every package, that the law
was saving them several millions of
dollars, and that a corporation wanted
the present law repealed, hence it
should not be done.
Senators Tibbets, Ransom, Howell
and Banning replied that because of
the shrinkage, it was difficult to fix
the exact weight, tl at the people
knew the quantity of goods that each
package contained, and didn't care \
how much it weighed, and so it was
their own fault if they were cheated;
that this would not help the consum
er but would offer impediments to
business, that the packers wrapped
hams and bacon in summer to prevent
pollution by insects and they would
be inclined to do away with this
practice if required to stamp all, when
the meat was subject to shrinkage.
The amendment which was carried
by a vote of 21 to 11, also contained
a provision that this should not apply
to any goods in ihe hands of retailers
a; ihe time of the taking effect of this
act.
For Occupation Tax.
Whatever figure appropriations total
ttis session, alter the house and sen
ate have settled their differences, the
legislature will provide for meeting
some of them by a new form of in
creasing revenue of the state. This
increase is provided for in a bill for
levying an occupation tax upon all
corporations, foreign or domestic,
which do business within the state.
While the amount to be assessed
against any individual corporation is
comparatively small, the total revenue
will be $150,000.
Regulate Insurance Dividends.
The senate 'killed Senator Bartos'
b 11 providing that life insurance com
panies should not pay to their stock
holders dividends greater than 8 per
cent of the paid up capital stock, and
providing a fine of from $1,000 to
$5,000 and suspension of a charter for
one year for violation thereof. Sena
tor Bartos had charged that certain
insurance companies were paying as
high as 27 per cent, and he thought
the policyholders ought to get the ben
efit of the surplus earnings of premi
ums, etc.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
The Midwest Life (old line) wants
good local agents all over Nebraska.
Write to Home Office at Lincoln for
particulars.
A life insurance company is a finan
cial institution which furnishes money
to the family of the man who dies
holding a policy in the company, it
stands in precisely the same relation
to the individual that the fire insur
ance company does to the house in
which he lives. If your home is fully
insured in a fire company and it burns
you are paid its value. If it is not in
sured the fire company pays you
nothing. You carried your own risk,
and not the company. But you can
not carry the risk on your own life,
although you may on your property.
This risk must he carried either by
your family or some life insurance
company. Which of the two is the
better able to assume it. the family or
the company? Upon which of the two
will the loss be; less severe? And upon
whom do you prefer to leave the risk,
upon the family or the company?
The Midwest Life of Lincoln issues j
all the standard forms of policies.
Nursery companies are reporting
large sales in the line of fruit trees.
The fiscal year ending With March.
1909, has proven the most prosperous
one for the Seward postoffice in its
history.
Pierce lias won the championship
of the north central district of the
Nebraska high schol debating league
by winning from Albion.
The other day a horse was missing
from the barn of Mr. Dean, three
miles northeast of Neligh. Lee Hun.
a hired hand, is sIfo missing.
Fred Kelso, implicated In connec
tion with the robbery of $400 from
Sid Grave at Pender, waived exami
nation. His bond was fixed at $1,000.
which has not been furnished.
The York colleges report a larger 1
attendance than ever before. One
thousand students are attending the
college, the I’rsuline academy and
the York Business and Normal col
lege.
Ira Rigsby, a young man charged
with criminally assaulting Mable
Meyers, the 14-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Meyers of Glen
over. Gage county, was bound over to
the district court.
Will Nolan, the young Dodge coun
ty farmer who caused so much excite
ment and speculation by disappearing
about three years ago. was in Fre
mont last week on his way home. He
has been living in Montana.
Frank Zoubet, a farmer living nine
miles northeast of Tobias, was found
dead in his held under a stalk cutter.
The broken seat indicated the cause
of the fatal accident. He leaves a
wife and live children.
While Claud Morgan, who resides
on the Missouri river bottoms east of
Plattsmouth. was cleaning a 22-caliber
rifle, it was 'accidentally discharged,
and the bullet entered the groin and
lodged in his abdomen. He is in a
critical condition.
Steps toward probating and settle
ment of the estate of William Earhart
who died at Louisville. develops the
fact that he left an estate of about
$400,000. Thirty thousand of it is in
life insurance, all payable to bis
widow.
Articles of incorporation of the Mc
Clintock Hotel company, with a capi
tal stock of $100,000, in shares of $10u
each, were filed in Grand island, and
negotiations are pending for the pur
chase of the Koehler hotel of that
city.
Sheriff' Dunkei of Hall county ar
rived at Salina. Kas.. to bring John
Cole, who enticed from her home
Miss Irene Soule of Grand Island,
back for trial. Cole had been placed
under $500 bonds at Salina. but when
the sheriff arrived there the bird had
tlowu and the bond was declared for
feited.
News reached Alliance of a brutal
double murder near a small town
named Provo, just across the line in
South Dakota. The man who did the
killing was Dick Barton, and the vic
tims were the parents of his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Tucker. The murder was a
fiendish one, the brains of the victims
having been beaten out with an ax.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hinsey, who reside on a
farm two miles west of Nebraska City
was seriously, if not fatally burned.
She was playing about the kitchen in
the absence of the parents and her
clothing caught Are, and before the
Aames could be extinguished she was
badly burned on both legs and arms
and about the side of the head. Her
recovery is doubtful.
Ashland is greatly in need of resi
dences to accommodate new comers.
Dr. H. L. Mathers, for forty years a
physician at Auburn, died last week,
aged 80 years.
A' clock has been installed in the
tower of the new city hall at Schuy
ler. It has a good elevation and four
dials, so that it can be seen from
every direction, and it strikes the
hours and half hours. It cost about
$900.
W. B. Roberts, living south of Ash
land. last week sold fifty-three live
chickens in the local market for $41.
or an average of 77 cents a fowl.
John Clary, aged 20. and Mary Mil
ler. aged 16, who eloped from Cul
bertson and went to Boulder, Colo.,
were arrested at Akron, Colo., as the
train pulled into that town, on orders
from the girl’s father.
Claiming his divorce was obtained
by fraud, and that It was on account
of his cruei treatment of her that
she was driven from home, Mrs.
Mary King in the district court of
Dodge county commenced suit against
her former husband, Thomas King of
Cuming county, asking the court for
a division of his property, said to be
worth $20,000.
THE CRACKING OF PAINT.
Property Owners Can Save Money
by Learning the Cause.
Do you know what is wrong when
paint peels, or cracks, or otherwise
necessitates premature re-painting?
Well, sometimes it hasn't been
properly applied—the surface being
damp or there being too much turpen
tine or too much drier.
But, nine times out of ten, the
trouble is caused by adulterated
white lead.
To avoid all such trouble, every
houseowner should know in a genera)
way, when a surface is in proper con
dition to receive paint, what kind of
primer and finishing coats different
surfaces require, and how to avoid
adulteration in materials.
A complete painting guide, include
ing a book of color schemes, specifi
cations for all kinds of painting work,
and an instrument for detecting adul
terations in painting materials, with
directions for using it. can be had
free by writing National Lead Com
pany, 1902 Trinity Bldg., New York,
and asking for Houseowner’s Paint
ing Outfit No. 19.
This company, the largest makers
of pure white lead, invite tests, by
means of the blowpipe (included in
outfit), or in any other way, of the
purity of the white lead sold under
their famous “Dutch Boy Painter’
trademark. That trademark on a keg
of white lead is in itself an absolute
guarantee of purity and quality.
NOT A WEIGHT LIFTER.
"Is the baby strong?"
“Well, rather! You know what a
tremendous voice lie has?”
“Yes.”
“Well, he lifts that live or six times
an hour!”
CHILD ATE CUTICURA OINTMENT.
Spread Whole Box of It on Crackers
—Not the Least Injury Resulted.
C-titicura Thus Proven Pure and Sweet.
A New York friend of Cuticura
writes;
“My three year old son and heir,
after being put to bed on a trip ac ross
the Atlantic, investigated the state
room and located a box of graham
crackers and a box of Cuticura Oint
ment. When a search was made for
the box, it was found empty and the
kid admitted that he had ea,en the
contents of the entire box spread on
the crackers. It cured him of a bad
cold and I don’t know what else.”
No more conclusive evidence could
be offered that every ingredient of Cu
ticura Ointment is absolutely pure,
sweet and harmless. If it may be
safely eaten by a young child, none but
the most beneficial results can be ex
pected to attend its application to
pected to attend its application to even
the tenderest skin or youngest Infant.
Potter Drutf A Cheat. Corp., Soto Props, Boston.
Tongue Twisters.
“Tongue twisters are the actor's
bane.” an actor said. “Lose your head
on the stage, and you are bound to
say 'Now Kababbas was a bobber,’
for ‘Barabbas was a robber.’
“On a first night I beard a tragedian
refer to the Deity as 'a shoving leop
ard,’ when he meant 'a loving shep
herd.’
“Yon make me a boff and a sky
word!' I once shouted in a tank
drama.
“My uncle, a divine, concluded an
address on the suffrage before a wom
en's club with the terrible words; 'But
I bore you: l will cease; I do not wish
to address a lot of beery wenches.’
My poor uncle meant weary benches.’
"1 was a duke in a recent problem
play, and when my servant asked me
one night if I had any luggage. I re
plied: ’Only two rags and a bug.'”
His Day of Reckoning.
As the stout man whose appetite
had excited the envy of the other
hoarders turned to leave the parlor,
he looked down at his waistcoat. "I
declare. I’ve lost two buttons off my
vest,” be said, ruefully.
Me was a new boarder, but his land
lady saw no reason for further delay
In showing her banner •’Watchfulness
and Economy for all.” She gave him
the benefit of the chill gaze so famil
iar to her older boarders.
“I think without doubt you will find
them both in the dining room.” she
announced, clearly.—Youth's Compan
ion.
SISTER’S TRICK
But It All Came Out Right.
How a sister played a trick that
brought rosy health to a coffee fiend is
an interesting tale:
"I was a coffee fiend—a trembling,
nervous, physical wreck, yet clinging
to the poison that stole away my
strength. 1 mocked at Postum and
would have none of it.
"One day my sister substituted a
cup of Postum piping hot for my morn
ing cup of coffee but did not tell me
what it was. I noticed the richness of
it and remarked that the coffee tasted
fine but my sister did not tell me
I was drinking Postum for fear I might
not take any more.
“She kept the secret and kept giv
ing me Postum instead of coffee until
I grew stronger, more tireless, got a
better color in my sallow cheeks and
a clearness to my eyes, then she told
me of the health-giving, nerve
strengthening life-saver she had given
me in place of my morning coffee.
From that time 1 became a disciple of
Postum and no words can do justice
in telling the good this cereal drink
did me. I will not try to tell it, for
only after having used it can one be
convinced of its merits.”
Ten days' trial shows Postum’s pow
er to rebuild what coffee has de
stroyed. "There’s a Reason.”
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville."
Ever read the above letterf A aew
oae appears from time to time. They
are seaalae, tree, and fall of bamaa j
1 laterest.
VISITS WITH
1 *l/MMBY 1
The Circean Cup.
Progeny often go by contraries, the
antithesis of forebears. Among my
earliest recollec
tions is that of
A b n e r Fenton,
tall, cadaverous, a
shining example
of sobriety and a
fit disciple of
Pythagoras. He
looked upon Bac
chus as the arch j
fiend, the Devil of
cloven hoof and
attenuated a p
pendage. Wher
ever he went, lie
preached the wis
dom of abnega
tion. In bis daily
labors, behind the
grocery stove at
night, his theme
w’as ever that of
the succulent
grape as the way
to Satin r.alian or
gies of despair
and ruin. His
long, sinewy form,
stooped from hard
work, towered
above his fellows
as he argued the
curse of strong
drink, and h i s
ascetic face was
lighted with the
torch of earnest
ness even as was
the lace of John
the Baptist,
preaching in the wilderness tor me re ,
claiming of the souls of men.
Fenton liad one son, a doughty lad.
wilh a disposition to wobble like ;t
wheelbarrow. This boy was encased '
in a diatribe of teeotalism orally ad
ministered by the watchful parent. He
was sent to Sunday school and im
mersed in the piety of a home where
self-restraint and forbearance were
the watchwords!
He grew' up in the atmosphere of
the lily and came home one night
smelling of the gutter. Old Man Fen
ion questioned his own reasoning pow
ers that night. He told himself he
must have gone insane. His boy
drunk? It were as possible that the
tars should be dug up in the coal
mines, the moon be found wallowing
in the Stygian way.
When the real truth swept aside his
protest, his flesh became as a bitter
herb, every drop of his blood was
aloe, every beat of his pulse a shud
der. Out into the highways and the
byways he went, railing and trying
against the demon rum. This is the :
way it affected Fenton—but it broke
his wife's heart. The mother-love of
the woman arose that night to meet
the heavens, but her heart's blood
flowed as a libation to grief and to de
spair.
I This was years ago. To-day as I
trod the grasses of the quaint and
beautiful old cemetery at C- to pay
tribute to a loved one there, 1 came
uiion an aged couple standing beside
a grave. Her hair was as white as
hoar frost on a December morning, his
form as bent and gnarled as a knotted
woodbine striving to climb abort the
Intercepting trunk of some half-fallen
monarch of the wood. Trembling with
age and emotion, they knelt beside
that mound.
"Oh," cried the man, letting his
tears drop unrestrained upon the
grasses, "lie might have been such a
line man by now—if he had not yielded
to the cursed [tower of drink!”
But the mother, bending low above
the grave, pressed one hand against
her heart and with the ether placed a
wreath upon her sacred ground!
Speechless she arose, took the weep
ing husband gently by the arm and
turned away, but as she walked her
eyes were turned upward in a mother's
supplication to One who is infinitely
greater than Bacchus and the Circean
cup!
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Splinters of Thought.
There is a time for ail things, but it
wouldn’t hurt to pray a little when
you are down on your knees looking
under the bed for your collar button!
it- ☆ •£•
Jud. Lewis,, of the Houston Post,
says the forest gets redheaded about
a little frost. Wonder if those red
beaded widows Jud. brags about have
been frostbitten?
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A country editor says you cannot
win a girl by talking about the weath
er. Oh. 1 don't know. Suppose he
said upon meeting her, "Beautiful
morning, isn't it!" She would reply
that it was be-u-ti-ful! Then he would
say, "Gee, look out: it's raining!"
Wouldn't she reply, dodging under his
coat, “Oh, this is so sudden”?
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Dresden has a bathing establish
ment for dogs. So wonder Thomas
W. Lawson kicks about the passing of
the mother hubbard.
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Finding the Advertisement.
Tin- following local is credited to an
Irish advertiser in a weekly paper: Don’t
fall to read the ad. of IV.I O’Brien in an
other column. If you have mislaid tills
paper you can hnd the ad. in last week’s
issue.
—BYRON WILLIAMS.
When Success Came.
‘‘Was lie a drinking man?" asked j
counsel of a woman who was testify- ,
ing on the stand in regard to the hab
its of her husband. “Well," was the
reply, "for the first six months after I
our marriage he didn't drink any to :
speak of, but after that he drank to 1
great success.” ]
Only Road to Happiness.
The only way you'll ever be happy !
in life is through unselfishness. Being ;
self-centered never brought any last- j
ing good to anybody. •
PERUNA
For Cramps in the Stomach of Six Years’
Standing.
“I was troubled with cramps in the
stomach for six years. I tried many
kinds of medicine, also was treated
by three doctors.
••They said that I had nervous dys
pepsia. I took the medicine *or two
years, then I got sick again and gave
up all hopes of getting cured.
“I saw a testimonial of a man whose
case was similar to mine, being cured
by Peruna, so thought I would give it
a trial. I procured a bottle at once,
and commenced taking it.
“I have taken nineteen bottles, and
am entirely cured. I believe Peruna
is all that is claimed for it.”—Mrs. J.
C. Jamison, 6 I Marchant St., Watson
ville, Cal.
ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
He—Before Jones got married he
used to command a large salary.
She—And now?
He—Now he only earns if. His wife
commands it!
More Than One.
A young fellow, whose belter-half
had just presented him with a pui * o!
bouncing twins, attended church on*
Sunday.
During the discourse the clergyman
looked right out at our innocent friend
and s.tid with thiilliug eloquence:
"Young man. you have an im; ant
responsibility thrust upon you."
The newly fledged dad. supposing
I lie preacher alluded to his peculiar
home event, considerably startled the
audience by exclaiming: "Yes. ! Lav
two of ’em."—Liverpool Mercury.
Laundry work a*, home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
From Plutarch.
Neither rich furniture nor abun
dance of gold, nor a descant from ..n
illustrious family, nor greatness of
authority, nor eloquence and all the
charms of speaking, can produce -c
great a serenity of life as a mind free
from guilt, kept untainted, not <>»'•
from actions, but purposes that are
wicked.—Plutarch.
Wise people use Hamlins Wizard Oil
to stop pahi because they know it alu.,,
limkes good. Foolish people try experi
ments. Ask your druggists about it.
At the Butcher’s.
"Is this meat dear?”
“No, ma'am, sheep!”
PtI.KS ri’RED IN C TO It D VY<
PAXO OINTMKNT i sfptarantecd to r::n» mr . ...
••t lo-hinir. Blind. Bloedlr.s: or l*mtnidlng !' s
b .u 14 days or money refunded, ooc.
It's difficult to get a crooked man
interested in the scenery ulorig the
straight and narrow path.
Lewis' Single Binder straight A cigar.
Made of extra quakty tobacco \ cur
dealer or Lewis’ Factory, l’e- ru. 111.
When a man gives more than a dol
lar to charity he usually usaaag. to
get caught in the act.
Dyspepsia and const ipation are i-oidab'e
miseries take Garfield Tea. Nature s Hero
laxative.
Samson was the first actor on record
to bring down the house.
AUeu's Foot-Ktiso. a Piiwdsr
I* or swollen, pw«*atin* feet. taivcsinsUmr relief Th«
original powder for the feet. :3<: at all Drugg-M
From the blackmailer’s viewpoint,
keeping secrets is a paying business.
WORTH
MOUNTAINS
OF GOLD
During Change of Life,
says Mrs. Chas. Barclay
Graniteville, Vt.--“I was passing
through the Changeof Life and suite red
"lirom nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms, and 1
can truly say that
LydiaE.lMukiiam’s
Vegetable Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
C'f gold to me, as it
restored my health
and strength. I
never forget to tell
ray friends what
LydiaE.Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying iieriod. Complete
restoration to health means so ranch
to me that for the sake of other suffer
ing women I am willing to make mv
trouble pnhhc so yon may publish
this letter.”—Mrs. Cilvs. Barclay
B.F.D.,Granite ville, Vt. ’
No other medicine for woman’s ids
has received such wide-spread and un
qualified endorsement. No other ni d
icine we know of lias such a record
of cures of female ills as has LvdiaE.
1 inkham s Vegetable Compound
For more than 80 years it has'been
curing female complaints such «
inflammation ulceration, local weak
nesses, fibroid tumors, irregulariti, <
periodic pains, backache, SSSion
and nervous prostration and it is
unequalled for carrying women «afdv
through the period of chanre of u /
It costs but little to try Xvdia F
^I^ham’s Vegetable CompoS mid.'
asMrs.Barclaysays.it is “wopta^r1*0,
tains of gold ’'to suffering^wooffl”,m