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.
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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*