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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA OUR NAVY. We notice here and there critical and rather querulous comment on the fact that the first aid to the Americans in Asia Minor and the ill-starred na tive Christians has been given by Eu ropean warships exclusively, says the Hartford Courant. "It is certainly un fortunate for our prestige,” remarks one journal, “that no United States warship is at hand. This absence of any representative of our navy from coasts where its services may be ur % gently required is due to the virtual abolition of what was called for many years' ‘the European station.” ” In those years we had a great mercantile marine; its sails—in the consecrated phrase—whitened all seas. In those years we did not have the Panama un dertaking on our hands, or Hawaii, or the Philippines. At present United States warships are more useful—ac tually and potentially—in home waters and in Asiatic waters than in Euro pean waters. Whatever sympathy may have been felt with the revolutionists at Tabriz, there was no denying that the move ment was against the established gov ernment of Persia, and the grave im propriety of an outsider taking an ac tive part must be apparent. Homer C. Baskerville, a young American who was killed while leading a sortie of the revolutionists, evidently was a gallant and impulsive youth, but he was an American citizen and a missionary in the service of his church. Leading revolutions was quite apart from his political and religious duties. The dis avowal of his acts by the government of the United States and by the church board he served prevented the matter from becoming an international ques tion: but it is pitiful that a young man with so many commendable qualities should fall a victim to grave error of judgment and that thus there should be brought to an untimely end a life full of promise of high usefulness. It seems that as long as the English suffragettes conduct their meetings in a quiet, peaceful, dignified and lady like manner the papers refuse to no tice them. So to have themselves re ported by the public press it is neces sary for them to raid ministers’ houses, attack parliament, chain them selves to posts of advantage, fight po licemen and in other ways lead the strenuous life. This is quite a severe indictment by implication of the chiv alry of the British press, and gives the women justification in saying: "It is all the men's fault.” Peace by disarmament receives a notable impetus trom the order of the war department discontinuing the sale at auction of obsolete firearms dis carded by the United States army. If our friends in Central America are too poor to buy new guns when the notion seizes them to set up a revolution and overthrow a government, they must perforce keep quiet and let the exist ing government alone if they can no longer buy cheap, but good, old guns from us. Thus does war become more and more a luxury reserved for the wealthy. The latest fad in the development of luxury on transatlantic steamers is the report that one of the stewards on a certain liner has charge of a garden patch from which strawberries, let tuce, radishes, etc., are picked on order. The crops of this garden bring high prices, the strawberries going at two dollars for a small box. But it is not likely that there will be a general adoption of gardening on shipboard be cause of the excellence of refrigerator accommodations on the average liner. The Indiana woman wrho has been married ten times is held to have had but nine husbands, because she mar ried one of them the second time, a divorce and one or two other husbands naving intervened. But if the argu ment of those who hold that we have had 27 presidents instead of 26, be cause Cleveland was elected and is counted twice, is sound, then she must on the same line of reasoning have had ten husbands. From all sides come reports of in creased business, notably as regards the railroads and industrial concerns The May dividends are well up to the average and in several cases are be yond the most sanguine expectations. With a little more springlike weather the outlook is likely to be all that could be desired. Society women in Xew York who wanted to put on masculine a'tire to ' play polo were not allowed to do so, but a Connecticut woman was permit ted to work in overalls, on a public road, breaking stone. The ideas of womanly decorum seem to be rather mixed or, perhaps, are geographically defined. Observers in Cincinnati allege that the early morning hours are the best end sweetest of the day. The mat ter is worthy of investigation. Mow Persia, yielding to the progress of reform, is to have a representative elected parliament. The one dictator ruling absolutely thousands or millions of his fellow men by his own whim and pleasure, with the autocratic pow er of life and death over them, will soon join the dodo in the way of exer cising pernicious activity. The Dutch had already taken Hol land, and now with the advent of the new baby, they are prepared to hold it. TALK TO GRADUATES l JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS DISCUS SES RACE PROBLEM. IKE GUBERNATORIAL QUESTION Present Incumbent Is Not Worrying Over the Matter—Other Things at the State Capital. John Sharp Williams’ solution of the race problem in the south, as he l save it in his address to the gradu ating class of the State university, is immigration of the colored people of the south to the north, being so distributed that in no part of the country would the negro be congested. When the moving day conies around, he said, and the negro is as numerous in Nebraska as he is in Mississippi, Mississippi will be as cool in discus sion of race problems as Nebraska is now. Senator Williams refuted the oft repeated statements of politicians and others that education is the I’uination of the colored race, and he denied that education was the panacea of all ills. Some negroes had been helped by education and others had been ruined by it, he declared. Mr. Williams wanted it “distinctly i understood that the negro is not a i white man with a black skin any j more than an ass is a horse with long cars, or a zebra a horse with stripes.’’ Governor Is Not Worrying. “I am aware that a lot of people are anxious to know whether I am going to be a candidate for governor or for senator, but the proposition is not worrying me in the least. I have never been given to plotting in poli tics or looking too far ahead, so I am simply trying to fill the office of gov ernor to the best of my ability and let the future take care of itself. It has been my experience that the people take care of the faithful officer and 1 am willing to trust the people for my political future. It is a long time before the next election of state officers and a senator, and I believe I can better serve the state by attend ing to my office than by plotting for an election to the senate or for a second term as governor." The fore going in substance was the answer of Governor Shallenberger to the ques tion: "Are you a candidate for the senate or for governor?" McBrien Inspects Schools. Jasper L. McBrien, in charge of the extension work of the state univer sity, has returned from a trip out in the northwest part of the state and he reported that the seven young men graduates of the Norfolk High school were all going to attend the university next fall. He also discovered that the Ames (la.) Agricultural college is soliciting students in Nebraska.. Out at Brewster Mr. McBrien found that the people had a school building with two rooms, one of which was used in which to conduct a six months’ school. Wculd Rai™ Telephone Rates. The Central Telephone company cf Broken Bow filed a petition with the railway commission to be permitted to increase its rates at that place. Ansley and Mason City. William Mattley and others were present and objected to the increase. The com pany desires at Broken Bow to cancel its rate for grounded cicuit, $1.50, and install a metallic circuit at $2.00 a month; residence telephones, from $1 to $1.50 a month; farmers' line to $1.50 from $1 and $1.25. At Ansley and Mason City the company desires to make the rate $1.50. Big Penalty for Lobbyists. The legal department of the state will bring suit to recover $100 a day from every corporation or association which failed to file its expense ac count under the anti-lobby law. from two months after the legislature ad journed until the expense account is filed. For other violations of the anti lobby law it is the duty of the county attorney to prosecute, according to the attorney general, the law being specific that it is the duty of the at torney genera! to enforce the penalty clause for failure to file expense ac counts. Express Companies Except. The express companies doing busi ness in Nebraska, through their attor neys. C. .1. Greene and Ralph Breck inridge, have filed exceptions to the findings of Referee Sullivan in the case wherein the state secured an in junction to prevent the corporations from violating the Sibley law. The companies except to the findings of law or conclusions of the referee on the grounds that the conclusions are not based on all the facts brought out Requisition for O’Brien. John O'Brien, under arrest in Den ver will be brought back to South Omaha for trial on a charge of break ing and entering. Governor Shallen berger issued a requisition on the governor of Colorado for his return. Annual Alumni Reunion. Over 300 former graduates of the university turned out to the annual reunion of the alumni at the state farm. The time was utilized in re newing old time acquaintances l>y some of the gray haired graduates of years hack. The former spirit of col lege days filled the air as was well demonstrated by the hearty hand shakes which passed about. The uni virsity yell was given in unison by the alumni as well as co-ed. The an nual banquet took place in the even ing. Mail Matters Discussed. One of the interesting talks before the postmasters' convention here was by B. F. Thomas of Omaha, who dis cussed the “Classification of Mail Mat ter.” and advanced a theory to get rid of tne postoffice deficit. He said in stead of the department handling the mail of the other departments free, a special stamp should be issued for these departments and appropriations made to pay them. This would wipe out the deficit. He believed the head of the postoffice department should have more discretionary powers. EARLY CLOSING LAW. When in Effect, Is Now the Para mount Question. When does the 8 o’clock closing law go Into effect? This is a momentous question for “wet” towns, but of no interest whatever to those that are “dry.” Private Secretary Furse of the gov ernor's office has decided that this law and all other laws not having an emergency clause go into effect July 2. This decision is based on the deci sions of the supreme court in a mur der case in 46th Nebraska court re port, and in the court's decision in the matter of Gov. Sheldon’s veto of the appropriation for a new wing at the Kearney Normal school. Mr. Furse says that all laws without an emergency clause go into effect July 2 unless some one goes to the trou ble to contest the matter in court, and !n such an event they will get a deci sion that the law questioned goes into effect July 5. So if the saloon keep ers desire to reap the rich profit of a day and a night of sales on the na tion's birthday, July 4, they may have a good defense by showing that the legislature did not adjourn until April 4, although it agreed to adjourn on April 1. According to the decisions of the court Mr. Furse believes the record of an adjournment April 1 will stand until proven false. The legisla ture transacted business April 4. as the records will show, in the face of another portion of the record that says the final adjournment was taken April 1. The courts hold that laws without an emergency clause go into effect three months after the adjourn ment of the legislature. In the 46th Nebraska the court held that as the legislature adjourned April 8, the law in question changing the penalty for murder became effective July 9. A man was hanged under this decision. Saloons in every town must close at 8 p. m. after the law goes into ef fect. As to whether or not the license of a saloon man can be taken from him for disobeying the law may de pend upon the local ordinances or up on his conviction of a violation. If the city council or licensing boards wilfully disobey any law that it is their duty to enforce they may be re moved from office. Rock Pile Favored. Lincoln is to have a rock pile. The police judge and the police have tired of hobos stopping over for a few days and getting board and room rent free while resting up for a charge on some other community, so they have decid ed to put every living drunk and hobo to work pounding rock. Postmasters of Nebraska. The postmasters of Nebraska, in convention here, elected officers as follows: F. R. Sizer of Lincoln, presi dent; R F. Thomas of Omaha. C. Hol lingsworth of Beatrice. J. M. Tower of Sutton and W. B. Cox of Waco, vice presidents, and \V. J. Cook of Blair, secretary. The convention next year will again be held in Lincoln. Warning to Ice Cream Men. Food Commissioner Mains has is sued a warning to the ice cream men of Nebraska. He says: “The stand ard for ice cream established by the food, drug and dairy laws of Nebraska is at least 14 per cent butter fat in the finished product and 12 per cent butter fat for fritit cream. The at tention of manufacturers and retail ers is called to this section of the law, as the commissioner expects a strict compliance. Manufacturers and re tailers of ice cream cones, pop and similar beverages are warned against the use of saccharine as a sweetener. It being a coal tar preparation, the use of it is prohibited except where the per cent used is placed upon the label of each indhidual bottle or con tainer.” Valuation of Railroads. The distribution of values of rail road property directed by the state board of assessment has been com pleted by Secretary Henry Seymour and will be taken up by the board for final adoption at its next meeting. The total value of railroad property is in creased $5,742,405. This means an in crease of about $7,000 taxes to be paid annually by the railroads to the state if the state levy is the same as last year. Dr. Clark Quiescent. Dr. A. W. Clark, superintendent of the Child Saving Institute of Omaha, who several days ago informed the State Board of Public Lands and Buldings that he would resort to pub licity unless the board accepted as an inmate of the Home for the Friend less a boy now in the institute, has accepted the decision of the board not to take the boy and has so written to Secretary of State Junkin. Dr. Clark wrote that he had re ceived a letter from Mrs. Johnston, superintendent or the home, in which she asked that Dr. Clark wait until the change is made in the home July 1. when the new law goes into effect. At that time, he said, he would again take the matter up with the board. Under the new law the board will have nothing to do with the Home Crounse Memorial Services. -Memorial services were held in the supreme court for the late Lorenzo Crounse, former judge of the supreme court and former governor of the state. Resolutions which had been prepared by a committee composed of Byron G. Burbank, George B. Lake. E. Wakeley, O. A. Abbott and R. A. Bat ty, were read by Mr. Abbott and or dered spread upon the records of the court by Chief Justice Reese. The resolutions recited the lengthy public service of Judge Crounse and gave to him credit for the work. Seats for State Fair. A contract was let by the state board of agriculture for the furnish ing of 1,518 seats in the new coliseum on the state lair grounds at the price of $1,694. It went to a Chicago firm. The contract calls for individual ad justable divisions on iron frames, with slatted backs and wooden seats. Underneaith each seat will be a hat holder and an umbrella rack. The seats will be numbered by means of nickel plates screwed upon the backs where they can be read easily. NEBRASKA III BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Omaha cadets spent a week in camp at Ashland. Valentine has voted bonds to put in a water system plant. Valley will probably have a bond election to vote $20,000 for electric lights and water works. The city council of Nebraska City will provide a rock pile for offenders that cannot pay fines. Rains in some portions of the state have been so excessive as to interfere with corn cultivation. Returns show that Hastings has well on toward one hundred auto mobiles. Children set fire to James Crom well’s barn in west Geneva and his outbuildings v ere burned with some hogs. John, the 8-year-oUl son of Christo pher Spilker. living northwest of Piek rell, was bitten twice on the foot by a rattlesnake. At last accounts his condition was alarming. Seven Mormon elders arrived in Ponca and held meetings on the street They reported that there have been seventeen Mormon elders in Nebraska since last October. Mrs. Norris Brown, wife of Senator Brown, has returned to Kearney, and is stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bess preparatory to establishing the family in their own home when the senator returns. The record of fines paid in Merrick county during the last eighteen months shows a total af $1,400. This includes ail cash fines paid into the district county and police courts. Two boys between the ages of 15 to 17. originally from Omaha, who had been held in the county jail at Lexing ton awaiting the action of the district court, broke jail and escaped. Albert Gustafson of Osceola, who has been in a private asylum in Lin coln for a short time, was last week adjudged insane and ordered commit ted to the state hospital for the in sane at Norfolk. John Kukla. a section hand, was run over by a string of four cars at Colum bus and had both legs cut off below the knees and a portion of one hand cut off, besides other bruises. His recovery is not looked for. Omaha gets cheaper cabbage and onions. This is the result of the ac tion of the state railway commission in changing the carload lot rates from Bayard, Miniature, Hayward Siding, Scottsbiuff. Mitchell and Morrill. J. H. Absfcire, living four miles west of Sutherland, was seriously in jured in a runaway. He sprang from his vehicle, striking the ground in such manner that both of his legs were broken near the ankles. Chief Justice Reese of the supreme court has gone on a European trip, to be gone for at least three months. The court met and selected Judge Barnes to be the chief justice during the absence of Judge Reese. Report came to Ponca last week that John Cozne. a former resident of that place, now at Burbank. S. D.. was shot by an Italian at Burbank. Cozne is one of Ponca's former citizens who went out of business and out of town when Ponca went “dry.” Rena Hunter has brought suit in federal court against George Lehman of Columbus. Xeb.. for $50,000. She was employed as a pastry cook at a hotel at Columbus, owned by Lehman and operated by Dan E. Peasley. She alleges that on January 25, 1900, she was badly burned by the explosion of acetylene gas. A highly odoriferous package re ceived in the mail at Central City threw a big surprise into the post ofRee employes and caused a grand rush for the open air. The package was found to contain a coyote scalp in a very poor state of preservation Contrary, it is said, to post regula tions, a farmer at Silver Creek mailed it. William Barnett of Bonesteel, S. D., who was arrested upon a Northwest ern passenger train near Lynch. Neb., about six weeks ago. charged with stealing ten head of horses from former Senator O'Neill of Holt county, pleaded guilty to the charge of horse stealing and was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary at hard labor. I ne Masonic Grand L,oage ot Ne braska has chosen officers as follows: M. Dowling of Omaha, grand master; Harry A. Cheney of Creighton, deputy grand master; Henry Gibbon of Kear ney, grand senior warden; James R. Cain of Stella, grand junior warden; J. B. Dinsmore of Sutton, grand treas urer; Francis E. White of Omaha, grand secretary. The committee in charge of the j Fourth of July celebration has re ceived notice that Charles B. Dandis, congressman from Indiana, has ac cepted the engagement to deliver the Fourth of July speech in Fairbury on July 5. The jury in the case of Frank Hoff man. administrator of the eastate of George V. Glover, returned a verdict against the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad company for $20,000 in a suit brought against the railroad company for $30,000 for the death of Glover, tried in district court at O'Neill. The case came from Dawson county. Frank Crowell of Seward will have eighteen months in which to get over his mad spell and feel sorry that he tore up his wife's furniture and burned their house. This is the sentence Judge Good imposed upon him. The State Retail Liquor Dealers’ convention, in session at Fremont, elected officers as follows: President, James Nevels, David City; vice presi dent, A. H. Coup, Lincoln; secretary. Henry Keating, Omaha; treasurer, H. Peterson; F. C. Brunning of Nebras ka City, H. Schram of Omaha and Joe Lachman of Humphrey, executive committee. MODERN METHODS OF SHEEP SHEARING GREAT HELP Many Improvements Over Old Days When Wool Was Gath, ered by Allowing Animals to Rub and Squeeze Hach Other. The earliest method of securing the wool was to drive the sheep quickly through a narrow passage, and the squeezing and rubbing of one against another loosened and detached the wool. Later, an "improved" plan was adopted, which, in our ears, sounds somewhat inhumane, although, as a matter of fact, if done at the right time, there would probably be noth ing painful or severe about it. The sheep were caught, and the wool was pulled from their backs by band. This practice continued for many hun dreds of years, for although Laban and the other great pastoralists of his time clipped their sheep, Pliny tells us that, in his day. when Rome was in the zenith of her glory, "the sheep are not everywhere shorn, but the custom of pulling off the wool con tinues in some places." It is to the old patriarchs, then, that we must give the credit of having set about getting the wool in a business-like way, and from their day until now practically no c hange has taken place m the manner and method of clipping. Most of the clipping on the big Border farms in Great Britain is done by the ordinary shepherding staff. Sheep Shearing Time. Very often a helper is engaged for a fortnight or so, to push the work through, but the heaviest part of the burden rests on the shoulders of the permanent hands. 'Ceedless to say, it is a busy time while it lasts, for all the other work of the farm has to be carried on simultaneously, and it means, for the shepherds, getting up very early—not later than 4:.10, and working late. Tne permanent hands, having their ordinary work to get through as well, do not. of course, clip so many sheep in a day as a clip per specially engaged for the job. About a score per man, or there abouts, is considered a very good day's work: a good hand working full time will turn out, on an average, about thirty. Formerly he used to be paid by the day. but it is more usual now to follow the piecework plan. On both sides of the Border, the Lowland sheep are always washed a week or so before shearing. But many farmers assert that there are other benefits which accrue from it. They say the washing improves the heaiih of the -sheep. Some old writ ers held this view, and Youatt quotes that excellent chemist Vauquelin, who says: “In this respect 1 am inclined to adopt the opinion of those who tnink that the washing of sheep, dur ing dry warm weather, may be use ful to their health and to the quality of the wool." However this may be, it is beyond question that the practice of washing, previous to shearing, is of ancient date, and it is quite probable that its origin is to be found in the belief that it was beneficial from the point of view' of health. In the North Country the clipping is usually done in an open-fronted covered shed, where there is plenty of light. An old sail-cloth, or a covering of boards, is laid over the earthen floor, and these are kept clean by sweeping. The actual method of clipping is very similar, I fancy, in all districts—first the opening out of the head, neck, brisket and thighs, then the curvii. round the ribs from the belly up 10 the back, first on one side and then on the other, and then the quarters. A well-clipped sheep should show the rings formed by the shears running in continuous lines all round its barrel I and up the quarters; there should be ! no break along the back where the ! line traveling up one side meets that i corning up the other. These lines, or little ridges of wool, should be small and of uniform size, and they should all be at the same distance from one 1 another. It is quite wonderful how 1 much better a nicely-shorn sheep looks than one which is carelessly and untidily done. And there is more in it than a mere pleasing of tire eye. A well-clipped lot of sheep, because of their attractive appearance, will bring, as a rule, an appreciably high er price than another lot done in a slovenly manner: this may frequently be seen in the case of clipped hoggs. There is also no loss of wool in the former case; in the latter, too much is frequently left on the ridges, and this, of course, reduces the weight of fleece. The use of clipping machines in stead of hand-shoe~s has made, as yet, little headway in the north; but more attention is being given to the idea year by year. On some of the targer farms, one or perhaps two hand-driven machines arc to be found; none is power driven, ii machines come into general use it will be be-> cause of the difficulty of finding casual clippers rather than for reasons of economy. The farmers do not antici pate any great saving oi expense by the use ot machines; they say that one man with a machine driven by a lad or woman worker will net get through more than the number which two good men could clip—that is to say, about sixty per day. When the woman's wage is added to the cost of cleaning, ciling repairing and de preciation of the machine and is set against the out-of-pocket expenses in c-urred under existing circumstances by a big farmer, there can be little saving by the new method. For it is to be remembered, as stated previous ly, that most of the clipping is al ready done by permanent servants, whose wages have to be paid anyhow. FACTS ABOUT HENS AND EGGS Kow to Make Most Money from Poultry. When cholera appears in the flock give no water except that in which pokerroot has been boiled. This is both a preventative and a cure. An Illi nois man says one of his hens laid an egg two and seven-eighths inches long and one and fifteen-sixteenths inches wide, the measurement being taken with calipers. One man will win with one kind of hen and another man with some other breed. It is with hens as it is with cows. We should choose the breed we like the best and then stay with it. j Fowls are naturally hardy, and con tagion in a flock is due to careless ness on the part of the poultry keeper. This is proved by the fact that ex pert poultry raisers have very few sick chickens. Hens need a better place in which to roost than the trees around the house. Of course, they may survive there: but merely living and returning a profit are two different things. Don't stop feeding the hens shells | just Wbcause they are out of doors and can shift for themselves. There is no line, not even an imaginary one', between the days when the hen likes shells and when she does not. All days are alike in that respect. A woman in Vermont writes that from 60 pullets and 12 yearling Rhode Island hens she sold last year eggs to the amount of $262 62. not counting the eggs used in a family cf four. Feed, advertising, etc., cost $94.77 .making a gain of $1 C7.85. These hens laid 8.745 eggs. To have the chickens mature rapid ly a proper type of breeding fowl should be obtained. Sugar as a Finishing Feed.—A herd of 15 Black Angus cattle which was awarded first prize at the Chicago In ternational Stock show, and which was sold at $17 per hundred pounds live weight, was fattened on a ration which included molasses. Besides pasture feed, corn and oats, the owner led during the last month a mixture of oil meal and oats, to which was added a sprinkling ot molasses. It was found that the molasses added a glossiness to the hides and improved the appear ance of the animals in every way. Alfalfa Seed.—Alfalfa seeds resem ble those of red clover in size, but dif fer in not being so uniform in shape. The coior should be light olive green or greenish yellow. Darkened, discol ored and shriveled seed should be dis carded. as its germinating power is low. Plump, well-matured seed pro duce more plants and stronger plants than do the small and immature. Adulterated Seeds.—Good work in detecting adulterated seeds is being carried in by the department of agri culture. Of 1.471 samples of seeds taken last year, 102 samples were found adulterated or misbranded. The department publishes the results of the test together with the names of the firms that sold the seed. It is claimed that since this work began the trade in adulterated seeds has greatly fallen off. — Japanese Cherries.—The Japanese i cultivate the cherry tree mainly for its blossom, and have parks and ave nues of these trees. When the blos soms are at the height of beauty everybody goes to see the trees, and the mikado gives a garden party to Japanese and European officials for the enjoyment of the sight. Relieving Choking Cow.—One who has successfully tried it says that a choked cow may be relieved by tying a stick in her mouth to hold it open for a while. Her effort to dislodge it will start the obstruction :n the throat. Alfalfa Adulterations.—The most common adulterations of alfalfa seed are burr clover, yellow, trefoil and sweet clover. Crab grass, lib grass and green and yellow foxtail are also found. YOUR BACKACHE WILL YIELD To Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Rockland, Maine.—“I was troubled for a long time with pains in ! and side, and was miserable ia'every way. i dor! until I was dis couraged, ami thought I , . l never get v. ; read a tostiru .1 about Lyd i j;. l’inkham > V<-sta ble Compound,'and thought I would try it. After tak ing tkreo bottles 1 was cured, and never felt so well in all my Hie. 1 recommend I.vdia K. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound to ail my friends.”—Mrs. Will Young, a Columbia Avenue, Eockland. Me. Backache is a symptom ot' female weakness or derangement. It \. u have backache, don’t neglect it. 'T<> get permanent relief you must reach the root of the trouble. Nothing w< know of will do this so saf ely ami .■ are ly as Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegeta 1 c m pound. Cure the cause of tL -e dis tressing aches and pains and you wiil become well and strong. The great volume of unsolicited testimony constantly pourimr in provt s conclusively that Lydia E. 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The general gave chase. “Uncle Davy tore up hill and down dale till he was pretty well out of breath; then he looked back over his shoulder at his master, who bounded after him on slender limbs, blue and thin, his long, while night shirt flut tering in the chill morning. “ To’ de Ian’s sake. Mars' William,’ the exhausted Davy yelled, desperate ly, ‘yo‘ hain t trustin’ yo’se f in dis w ind on dem legs, is you?’ ’’ SHERLOCK HOLMES. Tired Tom (sadly)—Ah, that patch tells me that my old pal, Plodding Pete has been this way. Poor old Pete! Interrupted the Wedding. The other day, at the Shawnee county Court House, Probate Judge Schcch was about to marry a young couple. He pronounced the prelim inary words and told them to jtun hands, and started on the ceremony “He}', there! Hold up a minute! Wait, 1 sav!” This series of startling exclamations came from the door The groom was horrified—the bride badly scared. "Just a minute. 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