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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA COMPELLED TO BE PUNCTUAL Business Men Come to Look Upon Habit as a Virtue, But Their Wives Do Not. Most men are compelled to be punctual, otherwise they lose oppor tunities and often their jobs. Thus men get the habit of punctuality, and they come to regard it as one of the cardinal virtues. Most women are un der no such compulsion, and the hab it is accordingly, in many cases, un developed. The instinct to do things "on the minute” is lacking. The for mula “in a minute” takes its place, says the editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The result is that men and women come to have different ideals of right conduct. The woman seems to the man to 'be deficient in a spe cies of morals to which he attaches great value. Her unpunctuality irri tates him out of all proportion to the offense. The compositor who sets up the familiar verse: “They also serve,” so that it read: “They also swear who only stand and wait," had been standing and waiting and swear ing. Of this state of mind his wife had been but dimly conscious. The hour for dinner had gone by, or an agreement to leave at 7:30 had final ly found the clock at 8, and the man was mad. It is not wise to make the man mad without necessity. Domes tic tragedies are commonly accumula tions of small distastes, added togeth er during a term of years. Domestic happiness depends on minor morals, on consideration for even unreason able feelings, and is much assisted by a conscientious punctuality. The man who answered the question: “Why do married men live longer than single men?” by saying: “They don’t live longer; it only seems long er,” had an unpunctual wife. Asks New Trial Because Jury Posed. Counsel for Eugene Tucker, who was convicted ot murder in the first degree in the criminal court in Spring field recently, and sentenced to be hanged, will raise the point in an application for a new trial that the members of the jury while delib erating on their verdict and before re turning the same to court repaired in a body to a local photograph gallery and had a group picture taken. Tucker’s counsel will make the point that in appearing in so public a place under such circumstances the jury was practically without the juris diction of the court and was guilty of an infraction of the law governing the conduct of juries in first degree murder cases.—St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. Her Capacity. “If teeth do just as well without nerves?” she said to the dentist, "and stay just as white and don't break any quicker, why are the nerves put there 'in the first place?” “I’ve often wondered myself,” said he. “I don’t know unless it is so you can suffer the pain of losing them. You’d be too happy, you know, unless you underwent a little suffering now’ and then.” “A little!” she shrieked. “You re member that tooth of mine last win ter, and how I came within an ace of dying with the pain?” “I remember,” said he, “but you have a great capacity for suffering. I’ve seen other people lose four and suffer less.” The Turk Is a Fatalist. War is one thing that can rouse the Turk from his apathy. When the fight is over, the Mussulman returns at once to his "Kief." Why get excited about politics, science, philosophy and literature? Is not everything foreor dained? Leave it to Allah. With a whole nation in this frame of mind, it is not strange that the Turk has neither thirst for knowledge nor any great passion. It is not strange that be has but little curiosity and no de sire to travel, and that officials dis play such ignorance in regard to the elementary things.—Collier's Weekly. Entitled to All Praise. “He endeared hiirse:t to guardians, visitors, inmates and staff, and his beautiful Christian demeanor, con stant cheerfulness and good temper made him beloved by all,” is the epitaph of the Huddersfield, England, guardians upon a pauper who, after spending 20 years in the parish work house, recently died there at the age og 94. "Even in a palace life may be lived well,” says Matthew Arnold; but most people would find it quite as hard, if not harder, to maintain a blameless character in a workhouse. —Youth’s Companion. Traffic Shows Good Increase. Traffic between the eastern and western coasts of the United States by way .of isthmus railways and steamstip lines amounted to $40, 000,000 in value in 1908, a marked in crease over any earlier year. The Difference. An opera singer, having snubbed an other of her kind, was approached by a reporter in quest of information. “Will you deign to tell me,” said the reporter, bowing low, “ why a song bird invariably has a nasty temper, ruffling her feathers and pecking at the rest of the flock?” "Your question,” responded the opera singer, “arises from the igno rance of the laity, who are unable to distinguish between the temper of a virago and the temperament of an arti6te.” Urges Relief Party for Dr. Cook. Rear-Admiral Schley (retired), who brought home the survivors of the Greely expedition in 1884 and is now president of the Arctic club, makes an urgent appeal for $30,000 to fit out a relief party to rescue Dr. Cook, who started in 1907 to explore the arctic regions and has not been heard from in over a year. Illiteracy in , Roumania. The most illiterate country of Eu rope is Roumania. Two-thirds of the population can neither read nor write. IS SMALL, ACCORDING TO JUN KIN’S INVESTIGATION. APPEALED TO COUNTY CLERKS August Muller, a Trusty at the Peni tentiary, Caught Supplying Dope to the Convicts. The action of the railroad tax agents in insisting that farm lands are as sessed at only 75 per cent or less of their actual value, while the railroads are assessed at a full value, and are entitled to earn G per cent at least on the full value, has led to an investiga tion by Secretary of State Junkin of the earnings of farm lands. Mr. Junkin wrote to the county clerks in some 27 counties, and he has received numerous replies. The answers are to the effect that farmers realize an income of from 2 to 5 per cent on the assessed value of their lands after all expenses have been paid. Following is the rate of interest earned ou the assessed value of lands as shown in the answers received to date: Johnson county, 4 per cent; Washington county, little less than 4 per cent; Clay county. 5 per cent; Madison county, 1 per cent; Furnas county, 2 per cent; Frontier county, 5 per cent; Nance county, 4to 5 per cent; Richardson county, G per cent; Buffalo county, 4 to 5 per cent; York county, 41,3 to 5 per cent; Wayne county, 3>,i to 4 per cent; Jefferson county, 5 per cent; Saunders county, 5 per cent; Otoe county, 31& per cent; Phelps county, Stfc to 4 per cent; Keith county less than 5 per cent. In several instances the county clerk wrote that the lands in his county were overvalued, insofar as making interest on an investment is concerned, the prices being raised by parties who had bought places for homes, rather than for investments. Mr. Junkin asked the county clerks to consult with the assessors and others to secure the information. From the income of the farm he asked that there be deducted insur ance. taxes, the keeping up of im provements, and a reasonable amount for waste and diminish for the fertil ity of the soil. Ex-Convict Supplied Dope. August Muller, a convict in the state penitentiary, caught by Warden Smith smuggling in morphine, made affidavit that he had received the dope from George Scharton, an ex convict of Lincoln. County Attorney Tyrrell has sworn to a complaint against the named. Nineteen ounces of morphine were taken from Muller. Muller was a trusty under the late Warden Beemer, and the latter told Warden Smith that he was reliable in every way. For some time Muller had been in charge of the hog barn, in which he slept, enjoying practical freedom. Warden Smith became suspicious some days ago and searched Muller 'or dope, but found none. Then the warden set a trap for his man and discovered where he had hid eleven ounces of the poison, in the barn. Muller was then thrown in the dun geon, with the statement that he would remain there until he told at what drug store he got the dope. For several days the man refused to di vulge the information, but finally he made his affidavit, implicating Schar ton. According to the information re ceived by the warden, Muller would sneak out of the barn at night and meet the ex-convict on the railroad | track and pay him for the poison at the rate of 35 cents an ounce. He would then bring it to the prison and retail it to the other convicts. Frank L. Dinsmore, who is steward of the hospital, was said to have bought five ounces from him at the rate of $1 an ounce. In turn, Dins more retailed the dope at the rate of from $3 to $5 an ounce. Warden Smith has discovered that the convicts have a system for get ting money from each other that bor ders on high finance. The convict who has cash will exchange it with another convict who has money com ing to him at the office at the rate o:i $1 for $2. This system made it un necessary for many of the convicts to draw money at the office, but they simply had the transfer made on the records of the warden. Wesleyan Confers Diplomas. About 100 college diplomas and teachers’ certificates were conferred by the Wesleyan university at the commencement exercises last week. Money for Soldiers’ Homes. Gov. Shallenberger has received two checks for $5,575 and $3,100 from the federal government for the support of the soldiers' homes. The state pro vides for the maintenance of the homes, the federal government pro viding for the expenses of the soldiers at the rate of $100 per year per man. Military Orders Disobeyed. Adjutant General Hartigan’s orders for Company F of the Second regi ment to participate in the Memorial day exercises in Lincoln were dis obeyed by the company and the adju tant general is up against the proposi tion of figuring on what punishment to mete out to the soldiers. This com pany was ordered to report to the com mander of the post Grand Army of the Republic, and obey orders not in con flict with the laws. The company failed to report and its duties were taken over by the hospital corps. Kearney Normal is Popular. The Kearney Normal school has re ceived 1,000 applications from stud ents who desire to take the summer course at that institution. The school is able to accommodate some four hundred students, but Superintendent Thomas is trying to make arrange ments to board the boys and girls around town and secure the use of the high school building to help care for them in classes. Since it was built the schol has matriculated 2,200 pu pils; enrolled 4,000 and gradtated five hundred teachers. A GOOD SUGGESTION Id Made by Dr. Bessey of the State University. In a letter to Deputy Commissioner of Daior Maupin, Dr. Charles E. Bes sey of the University of Nebraska makes a suggestion that will be of in terest to Nebraskans. Dr. Bessey sug gests that at all future fairs, state and county, the exhibitors of goods manu factured in Nebraska make the fact known by attaching "Made in Nebras ka” cards to all sucu exhibits. He says that this custom is followed at all of the fairs held in the Dominion of Canada and believes that it could tie followed to great advantage in Ne braska. Dr. Bessey was led to make this sug gestion by learning from the last bi ennial report of the bureau of labor and industrial statistics that Nebraska manufacturing institutions turned out S!151,000,000 worth of iinished products in loos, a large proportion of which was made up from raw material fur nished in Nebrasaa. Nine million dol lars were paid in wages to the work ers in these manufacturing institu tions. and to this enormous wage roll should be added the wages paid to workers in other than strictly manu facturing plants—railroad men, print ers, pressmen and other skilled work men. The total wage roll would doubt less exceed $20,000,000. “Nebraska's place in the agricul tural world is well known and abso lutely sure,” said Deputy Commission er Maupin today. “Why not proceed now to let the world know that we are progressing along other lines of pro ductive endeavor?” State School Apportionment. State Superintendent Bishop is cer tifying out to the various county super intendents the semi-annual school ap portionments, which amounts to a total of $293,192.49, or $0.79272 for each pupil, there being 369,855 school children enrolled during tne last six months. One year ago the apportionment amounted to $334,376.b8. The amount allotted to Douglas county, out of this apportionment this year was derived from the following sources: State tax. $2,381.49; interest on school and saiine lands sold, $90, 099.53; interest on school and saline lands leased, $o<,308.64; interest on bonds, $117,301.43; interest on state warrants, $12,866.65; from the sale of fish and game licenses, >3,050; district bonds, $134.98; final dividend from the uuffalo county bank, $50.10. Armory Funds Apportioned. At a meeting of the state military board the legislative appropriation for armory rent for companies of the Ne braska national guard was apportion ed. The brigade headquarters, each of the two regimental headquarters and each of the two regimental bands is to have $100. Companies of the First regiment are to have $250 each with the exception of Company L, Omaha, which is to have $400 a year. Company A at Kearney, C at Nebras ka City, D at Fairbury and F at Lin coln, au of the Second regiment, are to have $300 each, while the two Oma ha companies of this regiment, G and 1, are to have $400 each. Companies B, H, K, L and M get $250. The sig nal corps at Fremont is given $250 and the hospital corps at Lincoln gets $300 a year. This is the first apportion ment. Dr. Clark Threatens State Board. Dr. A. W. Clark, head of the Child Saving Institute at Omaha, has noti fied the State o3ard of Public Lands and Buildings that unless the aboard accepts as an inmate a child named Maxle, now in the Saving Institute, he will turn loose the war dogs of publicity and gave tne facts to the people of ,the state. Dr. Clark gave tae board until June 1 to get right. Pearsall Will Take Testimony. The attorneys for the state and for the railroads in the case wherein the railroads are objecting to a reduction to 2 cents per mile in their passenger rates, have agreed upon Charles Pear sall of Omaha to take the testimony. The case is pending in the federal court. New Savings Bank. Stockholders of the First National bank of Friend have organized the First Trust and Savings bank of Friend, with a paid up capital stock of $12,000. The incorporators are L. E. Southwick, M. M. Southwick and H. J. Southwick. Report of State Treasurer. The report of State Treasurer Brian filed with the state auditor for the month of May, showing the condition of the treasury during that period, shows a balance on hand in all funds of $872,GS9.61, against a balance the first of the month of $682,256.72. Dur ing the month there has been received $860,153.89, and paid out $615,721. There is cash on hand and cash items $246,689.61; cash on deposit, $626,000. Flag Day. The governor has issued a procla mation lor flag day, naming Tuesday, June 15, as the time to' hang out Old Glory. Gift Goes Begging. Lewis M. Seaver, secretary and treasurer of the National Humane al liance, has made a trip from New York to Lincoln to find out whether or not the people of Lincoln want the thou sand dollar drinking fountain for ani mals sent by the alliance more than a year ago. If it is not wanted here, Mr. Seaver says that he will be very glad to take it to South Omaha, where it is wanted, and that he has more than forty applicants on the waiting list. The fountain has lain for a year unpacked. Called on Lincoun Long Ago. Addison Wait, deputy secretary of state, last week celebrated a birthday by recalling that just torty-five years ago, on his eighteenth birthday, he called upon President Lincoln in the White house and talked with him. Mr Wait's company was at that time in charge of Fort Whipple. He and four companions secured a furlough and went to Washington and caded upon the president. As he left them tue president remarked: “We are going to wrind this thing up soon, boys, and you can go home.” NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Friend has decided to have a big celebration on the Fourth. The McCook band has been engaged for a two days’ engagement at the Hastings Chautauqua. The Midwest Life wants more gen eral and local agents. Write to N. Z. Snell, president, Lincoln, Nenra'ska. The fund of $75,000 for the new Child Saving Institute building at Omaha has been raised, and the work of construction will soon commence. Gov. Shallenberger delivered the address of the thirty-eighth annual commencement of Peru Normal be fore the largest class in the Normal's history. The new' Heme Telephone company system at Beatrice and Wymore has passed into the hands of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph company, known as the automatic. Taylor, the Minden man who last September assaulted and murdered his sister-in-law, has been found guilty and sentenced to hang. Ef forts will be made by his lawyer for a new trial. County Treasurer John Ward of Gage county, owing to continued ill health. has departed for his ranch near Cody, Wyo., where he will spend the summer. His family will join him there late in June. Johnny Schneider, 12 years of age, is in the county jail at Hastings, awaiting a hearing on a charge of bur glary. He was caught in a building with a glass cutter, cold chisel, small hammer, knife and other articles in his possession. New Haven (Conn.) dispatch: Among the students who will receive the bachelor of laws degree at Yale law school commencement, June 25, ij Chauncey Church Jones of Trenton, Neb. He is a B. A. graduate of Doane college, ’04. John Buhr was kicked to death by a horse while adjusting its harness, on his farm near Pauline. He was struck several times on the head and about the body and was unconscious when picked up by a farmer who went to his aid. Local democratic workers met at Kearney and perfected preliminary arrangements for a dollar dinner, at which 200 guests are expected. The date was fixed for June 19, this being the only date available on which Gov. Shallenberger can be present. The Midwest Life of Lincoln now has $1,600,000 of insurance in force. It is an old line company doing busi ness only in Nebraska. It offers lib eral agents’ contracts to reliable men with or without experience in the sale of insurance. Write N. Z. Snell for particulars. The village treasurer of Chapman has been enjoined from paying out any of the funds in his care. This is a development in a troubled state of municipal affairs caused by two vil lage boards claiming to have the le gal legislative powers. The injunc tion was secured by Williom Cor nelius. A large number of persons at the Electrical Show in the Auditorium building, Omaha, recently witnessed one of the most remarkable demon strations of "wireless” energy hereto fore made in any country—in fact, a feat not accomplished before in the world's history, so far as is known— when Dr. Frederick H. Millener, ex perimental electrician, Union Pacific Railroad company, Omaha, turned on the lights in the building, the impulse being sent from the Fort Orralia wire less tower, six miles distant. This demonstration was made possible through the courtesy of Colonel Glass ford, Signal Corps, U. S. A. The wireless impulse operated on a spe cially constructed coherer (which is very delicate and will receive the faintest impulse) similar in construc tion to that used about a year ago on the electrically controlled (by “wire less”) truck in the shop yards of the Union Pacific, at Omaha. By means of a large solenoid switch, which is closed when the impulse passes through the coherer, seventy-five horse power were turned on and the Audi torium lighted. By means of a simi lar mechanism the power was turned off and the operation repeated several times—in other words, the local cir cuits in the Auditorium were closed by wireless impulse from Fort Omaha. The public is beginning to realize the immensity and the importance of the work being done by Union Pacific rail road in its efforts to safeguard the lives of its passengers and the property of shippers, via its lines, and. by reason of the experimental work being done by it, what an important factor it is in this country's progress. While Henry Seymour is acting as secretary of the state board of assess ment, several parties have made ap plication for the job made vacant by the death of Chris Setiavland. Frank Helvey of Nebraska City, who was the head of the publicity bureau of the republican state committee, is one of the persons who has applied for the place, says a Lincoln dispatch. Katie Timm, aged about 22 years, committed suicide in her room at 106 South Eleventh street, Omaha, by swallowing carbolic acid. It is thought that jealousy caused her to take her life. Her parents live in Fremont. While working on the section, three miles east of Central City, Steppen Gallos, a Greek, was struck and in stantly killed by Union Pacific train No. 7. There may be exceptions made again this year as there were last year to the rule of “nothing less than two cents a mile” by western roads. The Western Passenger association has recommended that all western roads grant a rate of one and one-half fares for the round trip for all state fairs and for all large conventions which shall give promise of sufficient business to warrant a low rate. SO QOfITRAC TOR'S ‘ fi/LL, L UOM/WC WORTH \TROfl GOLD HILL J PEDRO M!GL'EL LOCH, IOOH/PG aourp. It is predicted and hoped in official circles that the Panama canal will be completed and doing business by not later than January 15, 1915. The only item ot uncertainty as to the canal being ready for vessels then is the length of time it will require to com plete the big locks. These are to be 1 000 feet long. 110 feet wide and built in duplicate to provide for the passing of vessels going in opposite direc tions. By this method a series of locks and huge dams many feet above sea level have to be constructed, the purpose being to elevate the largest ocean-go ing vessels a height of 85 feet above sea level at cne end of the canal and permitting them to drop through the sections of the canal, protected and lowered by the locks to sea level at the opposite end of the canal. The canal as it is being constructed has a width at the bottom of 300 feet for 25 per cent of its length. Fifty per cent, of the length the width is 500 to 800 feet, and for the remainder, 1,000 feet. The locks are practically the same as those in use in the "Soo” canal, the latter being almost as large as those being constructed in the Panama, canal. Indeed, the '•Soo” canal has been constructed to carry vessels fully as large as any that will utilize the Panama canal. The total cost of the Panama canal, when completed, including interest on moneys as they are being expended; cost of sanitation and government of the zone and $50,000,000 paid to France by the United States govern ment is estimated at $375,000,000 when finally completed. President Taft believes, and presents facts and figures to substantiate his belief, that a sea level canal would have cost ap proximately $477,000,000 and then would not have been so safe nor expe ditious In the carrying of vessels as the lock plan. One of the greatest difficulties to have been confronted in the construc tion of a sea level canal, were the annual freshets of the Changres river and the streams pouring into it It is estimated that even with the most elaborate and expensive dam facilities that it would have been possible to construct, at the period of high water I the canal current would have been at least three miles an hour. The only route of a sea level canal that was completed and submitted for approval made the turns and curvatures in the canal much more frequent than those in the Suez canal. By the experience of vessels in the Suez canal it is es timated that in a current of this ve locity in the Panama canal of a sea level character, the danger to the ves sels would have been such that com merce would have been delayed a con siderable portion of the year. In addi tion to this would have been the diffi culty of the larger vessels passing each other while in motion. Being un able to pass without one of them stop ping and tying up would have been a constant cause of delay of serious consequence in the rapid handling of traffic. Considerable of the recent criticism of the lock canal as it is being pushed to completion arose as the result of the Bliding after an excessively heavy rain fall of a part of the bank of the Gatun dam. The whole mass that slid ! in this way was not more than 200 j feet across, and nothing more than an ordinary slide. •Similar slides occur frequently in the construction of rail road banks and similar operations where the banks are not properly bal anced, and do not have the proper slope. \ ; The material taken out of the exca vation contains a great deal of clay which, as is well known, is slippery. It is the positive statement of Presi dent Taft, as well as of the foremost engineers engaged in the work, that future slides of this nature can be provided against. The many public improvements un dertaken by the Panama government and the establishment of new indus tries, of which note is constantly be ing made, render of significance the fact that in the disbursement of moneys for 1009, public works and public instruction, taken conjointly, are apportioned the highest propor tion of budget expenditure. For the former nearly $2,000,000 are appropri ated and nearly a million and a quar ter for the latter. According to information furnished by the consul general of the United States at Panama, a special feature of the present administration of national affairs is the determination to im prove the harbors and highways of the republic and to operate street car lines for city traffic. The appointment has been made of a chief engineer from the United States who is to report concerning that section of the republic lying be tween the canal zone and the Costa Rican boundary, and between the Pa cific ocean and the Caribbean sea. Al ready a complete system of water works and sewerage has been installed in Panama and Colon, paving done and roads constructed. Sehoolbouses and public buildings have been erected or I are in process of construction in the principal towns, and the government is co-operating with the residents in improving special localities. The steamship company operating between David and Panama has five steamers on the line, which is proving a paying investment. Goid mining in the vicinity of the Panama consulate has given good results and the Santi ago district has proven of value. IS A PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS Austrian Wise Men at a Loss to Ac count for Memory Displayed by Idiot Boy. An extraordinary case of memory in a ten-year-old bey was presented at the last meeting of the Vienna Psychological and Neurological soci ety. the New York Sun says. Without a moment's hesitation he could tell the day of the week of any date mentioned, also the name, day and the date of the movable feasts in any year. He answered immediately and accurately such questions as ‘‘What day was June 14, 1S08?” “When is Ash Wednesday, 1917?” "How long is the carnival in 1924?” When is Easter. 1929?” His answers were given without hesitation and were invariably correct. Curiously enough, his range of mem ory was bounded sharply by the years 1000 and 2000 A. D. Before the first named year or after the last he knew nothing of the calendar at all. The boy is the son of an army of ficer, now dead. Asked how he could give so promptly the day of the week of any date in a thousand years he re plied by giving one of the existing formulas for such matters, which he appeared to have learned out of an almanac. The director of the asylum where the boy is an inmate said it was easi ly ascertained that he made no use at all of such formulas. These formu las would not aid him in giving dates of the movable feasts, and, moreover, they apply equally to the years before and after 2000 A. D. It would appear that the boy’s knowledge must be based in some way upon memorized material. Breaking the Soil. "Do you never indulge in the pleas ure of getting out and turning up the fresh earth?” “It's no pleasure to me,” answered the novice at golf. “Every time 1 go to the club 1 get nothing but. harsh looks for my activities in that direc tion.” SIBERIA RAPIDL V FILLING UP Immigration Is Making a New Nation ] in That Rich and Fertile Country. A writer in the Yokohama, Japan, Advertiser, in an article relating to Russian migration, says: “A great new nation is forming in Siberia. One of the greatest migra tions in history has been proceeding so quietly that the world generally has not noticed the movement. Dur ing the past 12 months over 500,000 Russians have gone to Siberia, or equal to half the number of immi grants the United States received dur ing that period from the whole world. •'Prince Vassiltchikoff, minister of agriculture, has furnished the durna with the following figures of the em igration across the Ural mountains: For several years before 1906 it was CO,000 annually; in 1900 it was 180. 000; in 1907 it was 400,000; in the first three months of this year it was 420, 000, comprising 70,000 families. “The accounts of Siberia brought home by the soldiers returning from the Russo-Japanese war impressed the poverty-stricken moujiks with glowing ideas of Siberia's wealth. “The emigrants seldom go singly or even in families, but gather in col onies for the exodus.”1 Prolific Pheasants. It is reported that the whole of Van couver island is now well stocked with pheasants which have long been thoroughly acclimatized and bred free ly. The history of pheasant acclima tization in Vancouver is simplicity itself. In 1883 C. W. R. Thompson oi Victoria imported 25 birds from China, kept them in captivity till young had been hatched out and set all at lib erty as soon as the chicks were strong enough. In 1886 Mr. Musgrave imported 11 more birds and turned them out, and from these 36 pheasants the whole of Vancouver and many of the adjacent islands have beer* stocked.—Baily’s Magazine. BILL’S AFFLICTION. “Why, uncle, how are all the folks?” “They’re all well, thanks, ’cept Bill. He’s got the baseball fever!” SKIN ROUGH AS BARK. Baby Boy Had Intense Itching Humor —Scratched Till Blood Ran. Found a Cure in Cuticura. “Our son, two years old, was afflicted with a rash. After he suffered wish the trouble several weeks I took him to the doctor but it got worse. The rash ran together and made large blisters. The little fellow didn't want to do anything but scratch and we had to wrap his hands up to keep him from tearing the flesh open till the blood would run. The Itching was in tense. The skin on his back became hard and rough like the bark of a tree. He suffered intensely for about three months. But I found a remedy in Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint ment. The result was almost mag ical. That was more than two years ago and there has not been the slight est symptom of it since he was cured. J. W. Lauck, Yukon, Okla., Aug. 2S and Sept 17, 1908.” Potter Drug & Chetu. Corp., Solo Props., Boston. Prominent Women Aid Good Cause. A large number of women occupy ing prominent positions in society, or on the stage, are taking an active in terest in the anti-tuberculosis cam paign. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has re cently given $1,000,000 for sanitary homes for consumptives. Mrs. Keith Spalding of Chicago has erected a sanitarium for the Chicago Tuberculo sis institute at a cost of about $50, 000; Mrs. Collis P. Huntington and Mrs. Borden Harriman have given largely to the consumption tight. In Porto Rico, Mrs. Albert Norton Wood, wife of a prominent army officer sta tioned at San Juan, has stirred the en tire island through the anti-tubercu losis crusade she inaugurated. Mme. Emma Calve is a most enthusiastic worker, and has given largely of her talent and money for the relief of tuberculosis sufferers, and Miss Olga Nethersole has even lectured before the public on tuberculosis. Englishman's Withering Reply. The best of us sometimes forget the beam in our own eyes while we search for a mote in another's. An American traveling abroad met an Englishman with the rather remarkable name of Pthorne, which was pronounced Thorne. "What’s the good of the ‘P?‘ ” the American queried; “you don't pro nounce it, do you?” The Englishman gazed at him with the manner of one wrho, while he pities, is bored. “What’s the good of ‘h’ in -orse?”he questioned, convincingly.—Spare Mo ments. Obedience. Prompt and unquestioning obedi ence is the corner stone of the foun dation of succes in life. No man can give orders properly who has not learned to take them, and “save he serve, no man may rule.” It will be found that the men who have won their way to positions of power and responsibility have invariably been the men who did not reason or argue or even "respectfully represent," but who promptly did as they were com manded without questioning. It is the large man, not the little man, who recognizes a superior authority. Predatory Instincts. The inherited predatory tendency of men to seize upon the fruits of other people’s labor is still very strong, and while we have nothing more to fear from kings, we may yet have trouble enough from commercial monopolies and favored industries, marching to the polls their hordes of bribed retain ers. Well, indeed, has it been said eternal vigilance is the price of liber ty. God never meant that in this fair but treacherous world in which he has placed us we should earn salvation without steadfast labor.—John Fiske. MAKING SUNSHINE It Is Often Found in Pure Food. The improper selection of food drives many a healthy person into the depths of despairing illness. Indeed, much sickness comes from wrong food and just so surely as that is the case right food will make the sun shine once more. An old veteran of Newburyport, Mass., says: “In October, I was taken sick and went to bed, losing 47 pounds in about 60 days. I had doctor after doctor, food hurt me and I had to live almost entirely on magnesia and soda. All solid food distressed me so that water would run out of my mouth in little streams. “I had terrible night sweats, and my doctor finally said I had consumption and must die. My good wife gave up all hope. We were at Old Orchard, Me., at that time and my wife saw Grape-Nuts in a grocery there. She bought some and persuaded me to try it. “I had no faith in it, but took it to please her. To my surprise it did not distress me as all other food had done and before I had taken the fifth pack age I was well on the mend. The pains left my head, my mind became clearer and I gained weight rapidly. “I went back to my work again and now after six weeks’ use of the food I am better and stronger than ever be fore in my life. Grape-Nuts surely saved my life and made me a strong hearty man, 15 pounds heavier than before I was taken 111. “Both my good wife and I are will ing to make affidavit to the truth of this.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a reason.” Ever rend the above letter? a new one nppearN from time to time. They «r. genuine, true, and full of human In erevt*