Nebraska Newspapers

    The Loop City Northwester!
J W. BIKUSIGH. Publisher
LOUP CITY. - NEBRASKA
COLLEGE MEN WHO FAIL.
tn every college there Is * class of
Htndo-sHls generally composed of
the tcu of the rich They go to col
*ege lor the Hfe there, to take part In
serial festivities. etc., and they care
scry little about study College is to
them merely an excuse for persuading
betr purest* to permit them to s;>end
four years la riotous laziaeuF. At
some colleges three are special «ojr*
eu. "'easy courses." for such pupils.
The college is aot to lie blasn—d lit
the inherent weakness of those tnca.
although blame hoes attach to them
ior permitting students to waste their
sppoffuuitles and their time. The
•mailer coiieges are much more care
ful at the morals at those In attend
ince than are the great universities.
• b»r- students are s :ppc>»« d to have
"each*4 the age of discretion, say*
the Chariton Ness and Ceurier. llis
ftpHne In the universities is largely a
juestioa at surr >u: ding*. Profersarr
are there to teach, act to spend their
aue U ealocrtnc dis'ipHee The re
mit Is hod. not because the older men
tt* unable U> sstrra themselves but
because so many parents .. »»t jb
seod-ug mere Wys to universities
Where they ought to be sent. U to the
-mall ou!leg* finishing their work, if
weed be at the university, when they
fait had enough experience to appre
-late freedom from rigid c and
to k-jt>w bow to manage themselves.
Ta send s boy at II to a university
where the vast majority of those in
attendance are grown men Is to in
>lto hts ruin.
It bus long been a favorite that
this ate sciar-er than boys, especial
V h school and college t>r. Taylor,
president of Vassar explains the tea
asm •Wetnea " he say s " go to col
lege to learn: men do not. While a
•nod many m«-o do socreed. • h«re are
many mare who are interested in
•port, and even those who do study
do wot take aay pride in letting the 1
• hers know they are working Girls
are emstitetkies; they are far mure
burnt Holed hy failure than men."' lir
Taylor admits ther* are physioiogical
reason* why the girl is smarter than
the man at the "Ouege age. wsys the
Sr» Turk American Bet it is also
probable that the restrictions im
posed on girls ia the past Itave tended
to make them -onwetrate aitentioB
m their studies «.‘allege men have
as many Interests as their Inclina
tma* prefer, it I* usually not until
after they graduate that they settle
down to making a living. Meanwhile
♦hey can afford to yield th- paltn to i
• heir imov lor superiority in youth
fwl schatanvhip
A Oevriaad man * ho has divorced
ns* wife explained to the rourt that he
hnd to buy gowns costing 112: each
fur the iwdy. -.hut she pold from $ZZ
to S'* *nch fee her hats that her
tsuff se« him hock and that she
Hiotaie-i on having a %Z‘Jt diamond
ring Owing to the fa«t that tie need
ed a few thing- ta wear fciu.s* If had
to pay It* a month for a flat and k< ep
a maid, nod to men'loa the necessity
f putruaiging the grocer and butcher,
he was unable to oontiau* the ar
HMRMMMt so a salary of *1*00 a
>•**■ Borne m*w seem to be such
poor managers
Piattewm ta taking pata* to era
itottr that It la mar* valuable than
•aid. Ha price bailee per up to HZ
|or ma A tuarr* r of a century
a«o Ha prior was prarticaUy the amt
aa that <d gold bet it* industrial arid
tdcnflfir nee baa mermaed an as to
—fcanoe Ha Talne Tbe rte in the
past at* months has been fin per
oanee la 1MC H * la up to $4«. and
a year la**-r had dropped to fro. whies
indPaiea apeewlaUte operations rath
«*■ more rtrongy than the depreciation
id c*d
Ksory day or tao ee boar of wo*
nrh Anriiras who has rented a los
dv paOare tor coronation serk. W>
ha*e personal aaeuraaces. tweeter,
the* a Maker of IxmdosM-rs wfH be
tb»re tor the catenate. 9
*'• nre told that a yewh in Wash
melon m about to •ere a widow of V.
rwara and fi.tdw.OOO Lore may laugh
«* InrhamMha hat H smiles moat be
hCMatly an hash r£i
Thr, have Just ended the fuaerij
»tar the body of the late
<d lam. who died October ».
.!» aid be a «reat relic!
P wtdoos
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The drat etc* of hard umea «U1 be
mm editorial In some neaapaprr on
The Paaimg of the Automobile.“
The worst about the man who say s
It COM BHhoot sartnc" la that be
•fum says H wit boot »«‘nc
Tight trovers are twsiaf Into style
hot the tailors hills will refuse
cat smaller
There are people who a— u use tao
tkmal that they or-ter become excited
The tarexa shirt la plural. Some
write 1C »Us ip Hurt they abcali
mmr zkxa.'
PIONEER OF HAREM SKIRT
Woman Fell in With Bloomer Craze
Forty Years Ago, and Has
Kept It Up.
Jersey City.—Talking of your Broad
way beauties in their freakish harem
skirts, why not give a little attention
to this old lady, trio has worn 'em for
ever since the early bloomer move
ment long before those Broadway
freaks were born and wears 'em with
entire satisfaction to herself at least
’ to this very day. She is Miss Fowler
rf Vineland N. J. She donned the cos
: :ume she is seen wearing in the illus
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Forty Years in Bloomers.
traticn at the time the bloomer move
ment first started 40 years or more
ago What has become of the other
bloomerites no one knows, but this
(•articular bioomerite blooms on in her
quaint old costume, and doesn't conde
sc end to notice skittish rivals whc
rranre up Broadway wearing duds that
are feeble variations of her original
dress.
CATTLE GUARD IS EFFECTIVE
Novel Device Prevents Cow From
Wandering on Rails and Meeting
Injury.
Chicago—The old story about some
one asking George Stephenson, the in
v-ntor of the locomotive, what would
happen to a train If a cow wandered
on the line, to which the latter re
plied he would “be very sorry for the
cow. seems to have found a sym
pathetic echo in the western states in
the form of a novel cattle guard on
rails ays. the practical utility of which
is demonstrated In the illustration.
The device claims to effectually pre
vent cattle straying up. the railway
line and thus meeting with injury or
death from oncoming trains. As the
cow walks along the track she meets
a tilting plstform between the rails
which tips up as she steps upon It.
Th*- cow. Imagining her progress to
be barred and not endowed by nature
with a superabundance of intelligence
Novel Cattle Guard.
—S fact which the wily inventor must
have borne in mind—instead of walk
lot round the obstruction proceed? tc
compliment th<- exceeding ingenuity
and foresight of It? originator by walk
irg off ihe line altogether.
SAUERKRAUT LONGEVITY AID
Rev. Flynn of California Makes Some
Peppery Remarks on Diet and
Fat—Two Meala Enough.
Cincinnati.—"Any man who is so
fat that be cannot see his feet while
walking, ought to be arrested.” said
the Rev Karl Flynn of Berkeley, Cal..
to a Y. M «C. A. audience the other
day. "Two meals a day are enough
for the average person to eat and
remain in a healthy condition. The
person who eats three meals a day
needs 12 hours sleep to refresh him
seif "
Mr Fl>nn, who Is 75 years old. con
tinued:
"The food which collects the long
evltr germ is sauerkraut. The man
or woman who keeps on a diet of this
kind, ought to live a century or more.
Sauerkraut is very nutritious and
should be on the table of everybody.”
, Continuing bis health talk. Mr.
i j *rbrnn wound up with saying: “To bo
healthy every minister must sweat
,w'c* * week. A good many mlnis
ters only sweat once a month, when
' ,h*r draw their ralartes.”
The Deg and the Flea.
Dog fanciers realise the difficulty of
separating the animals from the fleas
I which often Inhabit them. Few of the
,; older methods are entirely satlsfac
torT- but a Chicago electrical man Is
j •“•hority tor the statement that the
j|w*j“*jthe vacuum cleaner is most ef
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•»US» Ever Be Before U*
But. were all its representations of
objects, deeds and men. which are
. °* **• r*t*e of our sights. obUter
I *t*B. ®nit of the globe end Its
aistory weald no more exist to our
notorial leases than the scenery and
Otalra of other planet*
, ARMY OFFICERS TO LEARN SCIENCE OF FLYING
v v - ^ - • »- .*?■** - •■•' .• *v ' •. >-• r^n&s&Ljzziim - v .as^i^wj
c£ZH-^nl /V- cc'a?dy //v m<$ biplane- ^
ACCORDING to Brig. Gen. Janies Allen, chief of the signal Torps, the United States army is to take up avia
tion in earnest, and a number of young officers will be taught how to fly. Twenty or thirty aeroplanes of
American make will be purchased for this purpose. Aviator McCurdy has betrn giving the army men some
most convincing demonstrations of late, and their enthusiasm has been aroused as never before. The signal
corps' aerodrome at College Park, near Washington, will be open soon.
BABY’S REAL VALUE
Professors of Economy Differ in
Their Opinions.
Prof. Thomas Nixon Carter, Head of
Economics at Harvard, Discovers
That $20 Is Pair Estimate
on Average Person.
Cambridge, Mas6.—The California
state board of health recently fixed
the value of a baby at $4,000. a sum
considered far too low by Prof. Edwin '
R. A. Seligman of Columbia univers- !
ity, who declares that a baby less 1
than a year old represents an eco- |
nomic value of at least $150,000. Now
comes Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver,
who is at the head of the chair of j
economics at Harvard, who using a
hypothetical case discovers that $20
is a fair value for the average person,
and that “it would be a losing invest
ment to buy a baby at that price.”
“How much is a baby worth?” asks
Professor Carver.
"Of course, the first thing to be de
cided in the discussion of this kina.”
he says, “is what is meant by the
value of a baby. To its own parents
after they have got used to it a baby
is an exceedingly precious thing, but
their estimate is not necessarily the
same as that of their neighbors, or
that of society in general. For ex
ample. a certain man is reported to
have said that he regarded each of
his children as worth $100,000,000, but
that he would not give 5 cents for an
other one. Therefore, we must ex
clude from consideration the value of
existing babies to their parents.
"One way of finding the real eco
nomic value of a man is to find out
how much the community would lose
If he were to die or to emigrate. The
community would lose the value of
his labor, but it would save 'what he
consumed. In case he was consuming
more than he was producing by his
own individual labor the community
would gain by his death. In other
words, such a man is worth less than
nothing.
“This brings out the fatal defect in
a great deal of the reasoning regard
ing the economic value of the man.
viz.: The failure to take account of
the cost of keeping him. The man
who earns $600 a year and consumes
exactly that sum is worth exactly
nothing. How much would you give
for a cow that would produce $100
worth of milk and $10 worth of veal
in a year and consume $110 worth of
feed while she was doing it? The
man who earns $600 in a year and
consumes $500 of it. using the other
$100 to employ a toolmaker in mak
ing tools—that is. invests it In some
form of productive capital—is worth
$100 a year to the community. By
reason of his existence the commu
nity has $200 worth of productive
power or tools more than It vould
otherwise have had.”
The only logical conclusion is that
no person is of an economic value
whatever unless he is by his own in
dividual efforts performing some kind
of serviceable labor, and of these only
those of a positive value whose serv
iceable labor is worth more than the
food, clothing, house room, furniture,
street car seats and other consumable
goods and services which they are
using up.
PORK AND BEANS ARE BEST
Sir Hudson Maxim Praises Americar
Dish and Offers to Teach Women
How to Cook Them.
London.—The food controversy ir
London has elicited from Sir Hudson
Maxim a glowing letter in praise of
what he calls the American national
, dish—pork and beans. Sfr Hudson
closes his tribute to the "best dish Id
the world" by offering to give cooking
lessons at his laboratory to English
housewives who do not know how tc
prepare this nutritious food. His let- j
ter states:
"No food in existence is so benefi
cial to man as pork and beans. It j
has been proven scientifically that
pork and beans excel cod liver oil as
a stimulating food in cases of con
sumption.”
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Find Washington's Sword.
Albany. X. Y.—George Washington's
sword has been recovered from the
ruins of the New York state library.
The weapon is little damaged. It was
at first believed that the sword had
been demolished by the heat and
■ flames.
PLAN TO ISOLATE SNORERS
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Men In Different Organizations Who
Make Unearthly Noises in Sleep
Are to Be Grouped.
Chicago.—Chicago will have a
unique organization of fire fighters if
; suggestions made by Fire Marshal
j Charles F. Seyferlich are carried out
; by the head of the department. The
proposal Is nothing less than that all
| of the confirmed snorers of the fire de
partment be gathered together as
members of the same company and
quartered In the same firehouse. A
man to qualify must prove his ability
1 to snore and snore loudly.
What there is about the work of a
fire fighter that fosters and encour
j ages the snoring habit would.be hard
! to say, but the fact remains that
among firemen are often found men
| who can always shake the putty out
of the windows when they once start
snoring. Possibly their bronchial tubes
and lungs are affected by the large
quantities of smoke they inhale.
The members of a fire company all
sleep in one large room and when
KEY TO EGYPTIAN HISTORIES
i Inscriptions Which Heretofore Have
Defied Savants Near Decipher
ing by Recent Find.
riairo.—An important discovery has
been made y Professor Sayce, who
| is engaged in digging on the site of
! Meroe. in the Sudan. Many ancient
; inscription in the Sudan are written
J in the hieroglyphics of Egypt. But
many others are in a language that
has. up to now, successfully resisted
all attempts at identification. This
mysterious writing is known aB the
Meroitic. Its pictorial characters are
similar to the ancient Egyptian hiero
glyphics. and is styled a “demotic al
phabetic writing.” Dr. H. Brugsch
and Dr. H. Schafer have tri:a to de
If
cipher it in vain, but Professor Sayee
writes that ne has just obtained some
Egyptian translations of Merotic
words. Thus, ow-ing to this discovery,
the unknown Merotic script may be
read by Egyptian hieroglyphists for
the first time, just as the'-key to the
latter was obtained from the demotic
and Greek translations on the Rosetta
stone.
Professor Sayce has also discovered
the names of some new kings. Some
of them call themselves kings of
Egypt, and as they belong to the ob
scure period of the twenty-seventh
dynasty, the Inscriptions are expect
ed to throw some light on Egyptian
history.
ever there is a member who has pecu
liarly strong snoring powers the other
laddies often find it difficult to get ,
needed rest. Cases have come up
where the offending firemen found
j their cots transferred to a rear room,
where they were less likely to dis
turb the peace of the night.
Now the suggestion has been made
to Marshai Seyferlich that one of two
things should be done. The snorers
should all be made members of the
same company where they could have
no excuse for grumbling if kept awake
at night, or provision should be made
at the firehouses for separate quar
ters for snorers, so that the other
members can have peace. The de
velopment of the snoring habit with
some of the firemen is responsible for
the latest propositions and also for
bringing out the fact that it is not
considered a trivial subject of com
plaint. though there is nothing per
sonal in the matter. As a rule firemen
who snore are among the bravest, j
hardiest workers and most popular ;
members of the department.
At one engine house a string is tied
to the foot of a loud srorer and the
other firemen keep jerking it during
the night to prevent the man going tc
sleep before they do. At still another ;
house the champion snorer Is forced
to sleep near the pole hole, so that
the man on watch in the station be
low can prod him during the night to •
prevent him from awakening the
other members of the company.
In the fire department snoring Is not
considered a physical defect, for many j
of the men who show the most agility ,
at fires are snorers who can easily
scale buildings.
Birds Roused the Police.
The hammering of woodpeckers on
a tin sign, near King's bridge. New
York city, was mistaken for plstoi
shots and caused two hours' activity
by the police.
LONG TUNNEL THROUGH ALPS
Last Obstruction Pierced After Five
and One-Half Years’ Work and
Outlay of $20,000,000.
Berne, Switzerland.—The final ob
struction to the Loetschberg tunnel,
through the Bhrnese Alps, was pierced
by the laborers the other day, after
five and a half years' work and the ex
penditure of $20,000,000. The tunnel,
which is the third longest in Europe,
measures about nine miles.
With the completion of tbe bore,
which was planned to give tbe Sim
plon line a direct connection with tbe
rallwayb which traverse Switzerland
from north to south, there will be a
direct through route from Milan to
' Berne and thence to Calais and Bon
tague.
Might Advertise.
"1 am learning to speak Esperanto,
but It is slow work learning from a
textbook.”
“Why don't you hire some native to
converse with you? They say that's
the best way to learn a language.”
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RUNS OVER SUNKEN FOREST
Long Planned Water Way In North
Carolina Reveals Prehistoric Rel
ics—Cost $425,000.
Kaieigh. N. C.—The long projected
c-anal from Pamlico sound to Beaufort
inlet. North Carolina, to connect the
waters of Norfolk harbor with the
Cape Fear rlrer, at Wilmington, has
been completed, at a cost of $425,000.
The money was provided by the rivers
and harbors bill approved by congress
March 2. 1907.
The north end of the canal Is fresh
water from the Neuse river; the lower
end is salt water, and is in about four
miles of Beaufort Inlet. The canal
will be of the greatest use to all small
craft and coasters, and yachts going
south will use It this season to special
advantage. It cuts off all the capes
except Cape Fear, and shortens the
distance more than eighty miles, as
compared with the old and uncertain
route.
In excavating four miles of the canal
through solid earth two sunken for
rests were found, one below the other
The work of clearing the right of way,
through a dense forest of immense
trees, some cypresses being ten feet
in diameter, began October 1, 1908.
The total length of cutting is 95,527
feet, of which 23.177 feet in Adams
creek is 250 feet wide, with side slopes
of three on one; 5.25S feet is 125 feet
wide, with side slopes of three on
one; 34,018 feet Is ninety feet The
next 12,514 feet is 125 feet wide, with
side slopes of three on one, and the
remaining 20,560 feet, is 260 feet wide
with side slopes of three on one.
The total length of cutting is 95,527
feet, solid earth, at an average eleva
ticn of eight feet above mean low wa
ter. The remainder was in the old
channels of Adams creek and Core
creek and Newport river, which wer*
widened and deepened to conform tc
the adopted prism.
To find cubic igphes in a ball mul
tiply cube of diameter by .5236,
ORIGIN OF MAIL GOO
Railway Postal Servioe First Op
erated in Missouri.
William A. Davis, Before the War,
Postmaster at St. Joseph, Devised
System Now in Vogue for Dis
tributing Mail En Route.
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St. Joseph. Mo.—Progress in the
carrying and distribution of United
States mails has been remarkable in
this country in the last fifty years. A
oal? century age the first railroad west
of the Mississippi river, from Hannibal
to St. Joseph. Mo., was constructed,
and on this road the railway mail serv
ice of the country had its origin and
inception. Then, only the mai'.s for the
whole western country came in bulk
on freight and passenger trains to be
distributed in ton lots and carried to
many destinations by courier, by buck
board. horseback and siage lines, the
only methods in those days.
It remained for William A. Davis,
postmaster at St. Joseph from 1855 to
18G1. to invent and inaugurate the
great system now in vogue. Before
this time the mails, all mixed and in
bulk, were carried to some central dis
tributing point. Independence, Mo.,
was one of these and St. Joseph later
was another. When the railroad was
built the task all came to the St. Jo
seph office, in distributing the entire
overland mail.
The idea occurred to Mr. Davis that
these mails could be distributed while
in transit. It seemed to him in every
way possible and desirable. So he
wrote to the people in Washington for
authority to fit up some cars on the
Hannibal &. St. Joseph railroad to try
out the experiment. The authority
came and Mr. Davis went to the rail
way headquarters at Hannibal and su
ierintended the arrangement of sev
eral way cars with pigeon holes, doors
windows and other conveniences and
William A. Davis.
the initial run with a carload of mail
was made from Hannibal to St. Joseph
in record time, the mails properly dis
tributed and ready'for the overland
stages, couriers, etc.
The first trial was so satisfactory
that other cars were brought into re
quisition and soon a most remarkable
change for the better was made in the
receipt and distribution of mails. The
great railway mail service had been
inaugurated!
The problem of forwarding overland
mails without delay was solved, and
Mr. Davis was soon made a special
agent of the department and given full
charge of the branch of the service
which he had originated.
William A. Davis, inventor of the
railway mail service, was born in Bar
ren County. Kentucky, in September
1S09. In early youth he went to Vir
ginia. where he entered the postal
service, at Richmond and other places,
and with his career in St. Joseph he
had been in the postal service about
fifty years.
The first car for the distribution ol
the mails was an old-time ‘'way” car.
fitted up with pigeon holes. Extra
windows were arranged and the “dis
tributors" used candles to assist in
lighting the cars. Mr. Davis made a
trip on the first car as far as Palmyra
Mo., and then left the work with an as
sistant while he returned to Hannibai
for the second car. There are many
old railroaders yet alive who remem
ber the first mail cars.
GEESE ON THE STAGE REBEL
Object to Understudy for Singer in
Halle Performance of Humper
dinck’s “Konigskinder.”
Berlin.—An amusing incident oc I
.urred this week at a performance of j
Humperdinck s “Konigskinder” at the j
Halle opera house.
Live geese are employed for the !
Halle production in contrast to the
papier mache variety which indulge in
make believe cackles at Berlin. The ;
prima donna who regularly sings the j
part of the goose maid was taken ill I
suddenly and it became necessary to ;
obtain an understudy. When the lat
ter, however, went on the stage the
geese rebelled against the intrusion of
a stranger. They became so enraged
they threatened to do the singer bod
ily injury.
The conductor of the orchestra had
ip stop the performance until the
geese could be quelled. They refused
to subside until the familiar figures of
the wood chopper and the broom mak
er came upon the scene.
Effect of Mind on MVter.
Heavy thoughts bring on physical
maladies; when the soul is oppressed
so is the body. When cares, heary
captations, sorrows and passions
superaoound they weaken the body,
which, without the soul is dead, or
like a horse without a driver. But
when the heart Is at rest and quiet,
then it takes' care of the body and
rives it what pertains thereunto
Therefore we ought to abandon and
resist anxious thoughts by all possible
means.—Luther's Table Talk.
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Avcid the Cheap and "Big Can" Bak
ing Powders.
The cheap baking powders have but one
recommendation: they certainly give the
purchaser plenty of powder for his money
nut it's not all taking powder; the bulk
is made up of cheap materials that have
no leavening power. These powders are
so carelessly made from interior mate
rials that they will not make light, whole
some food. Further. the-e cheap baking
powders have a very small percentage of
leavening gas; therefore it takes from two
to three times as much of such powder to
raise the cake or biscuit as it does of Calu
met Baking Powder. Therefore, in the long
run, the actual cost to the consumer of ths
cheap jiowders is more than Calumet
would be.
Why not buy a perfectly wholesome bak
ing powder like Calumet, that is at the
same time moderate in price and one
which can be relied upon? Calumet gives
the cook the least trouble.
Xo man becomes a jailbird just for
& lark.
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To keep the blood pure and the skin
clear, drink Garfield Tea before retiring.
The truth is that the love of dress
is. next after drink and gambling, one
of the curses cf our country.—Mrs.
Humphrey.
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Your Drujcsrist Mill Tell Yon
Murine Eye Remedy Relieves Sore Eyes,
Strengthens Weak Eyes. Doesn't Smart,
Soothes Eye Pain. Try it in Baby's
i Eyes for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation.
One of the loudest of the many
strange cries which fill the air today
is the cry fer universal independence.
! —Mrs. H. R. Haweis.
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A pin scratch may cause blood poison,
a ru-tv mil cut i« very apt to do so.
Hamlins Wizard Oil used at once draws
cut all -nfection and makes blood poison
impossible.
Justified.
Wagge — Why did Henpeck leave
1 the church?
Jaggs—Somebody told him mar
riages were made in heaven.—Judge.
F.D GEERS, "The grand old man.” he
is called for he is so honest handling
horses in races. He savs: “I have used
SPOIIX'S DISTEMPER CURE for 12
years, always with best success. It is the
only remedy I know to cure all forms of
distemper and prevent horses in same sta
ble having the disea-e.” 50c and $1 a bot
; tie. All druggists, or manuficturers. Spohn
i Medical Co.. Chemists. Goshen. Ind.
Close Guess.
Schmidt — Ve got ** new baby py
our house yesterday.
Schmaltz—Yas iss; poy or girl?
Schmidt—I vond dell you. You hef
got to gess it.
Schmaltz—Iss id a girl?
Schmidt—You cho-o-ost missed it.—
: Youngstown Telegram.
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Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
j wash goods when new, owe much of
j their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
■ manner to enhance their textile beau
I ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, tjie first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
i the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
I you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Clearing Kansas of Grasshoppers.
A live grasshopper will eat a dead
grasshopper. A farmer mixed paris
green and bran together and let a
grasshopper eat it. It died and 20
grasshoppers ate it up, and they died.
Four hundred ate these 20 and they
died. Eight thousand ate those 400
and they died. A hundred and sixty
thousand ate those 8,000 and died, and
the farmer was troubled no more.—
Anthony Bulletin.
Labrador's Future.
According to statements made the
other dsy by Dr. Grenfell of Labrador,
the Cinderella of British possessions
I has a brilliant future before it. Dr.
Grenfell, who has lived twenty years
\ in that snowy country, says that in
days to come it will carry a popula
tion as easily as Norway does today.
It is, he says, a better country than
Iceland, and to be greatly preferred
to Lapland, Finland, Siberia and
Northern Alaska.
Open-Air Schools Increasing.
Since January 1. 1907. sixty-five open
air schools for children afflicted with
j or predisposed to tuberculosis have
been established in twenty-eight cities,
according to an announcement made
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Tne first open air school in the United
States was established on January 1,
1907, by the board of education of
Providence, R. I., at the instance of
Dr. Ellen A. Stone. The next school
was established In May of the same
year at Pittsburg, and the third at
Boston in July. 1908. According to
the reports received by the national
! association, the result of the open air
i class-work has been to restore most
! of the children to normal health and
s efficiency. One of these open air
j schools or classes should be estab
lished for each 25,000 population, es
j peciallv in cities.