TkLonp City Northwestern
J w BrRLEIGH. Publisher
LOUP CITY. - - NEBRASKA
FAULT OF AMERICANS ABROAD
Native Marmeritrrt Exaggerated and
keemmgty Held in Dertsicn of
Foreign Opinion.
It U i carious but Inevitable Irony
’hat the American temperament, so
c-oturiou* lor Sts overweening ronfl
dance and self-esteem, should he of all
temperaments least redectivc. and for
til Its seif-c-ossr tout ness. should
Know itself so til \Vfc«-n criticised,
it Is either perplexed or amused;
when challenged, apologetic ally toast
fat. and seemingly delight* is mlscon
ceptio® and m isrepr* sent n lion. A
striking instance of this singular
trait is the way Americans abroad ex
agger*re their native mannerisms and
••come veritable caricatures of them
selves te good natured tntmi-ry of the
national type. In its extreme form
the tendency might he characterized
ns living up to a libel to save the
trouble and expense of legal proceed
ngs Whether this be due to a sort
d mistaken ehirairy or to mere child
isk irresponsibility Is as hard to de
term.nc as It is unnecessary—either
Is reprehensible There is la this
somethin* of a native shrewdness for
Judging **hers by their opinion of
one s self, but much more is to be at
Artbuted to an instinctive aversion
from the pangs of introspection and a
childish capacity for using other peo
fde as mirrors. No other nation, per
Laps has played so sensational a role
but no other nation ha* stood so in
need ot Its audicttre The histrionic
demesne r of Americans abroad, at
times so eery like the behavior o!
vcitft off the stage, exacting calcium
-‘ght duty ot the sun. is a real clue
to the national temperament. If only
by the reactions of others do arc
achieve any definite nation of what
we ouneivee are. it is small wonder
that w* have cultivated the actor's
taster aad [csrtlr* hi* arts, only It
1* s strange art for an otherwise in
artistic nation, a curious dependence
lor s free people — Alain Locke, in
the North American Review
Morgan** Protege Stricken.
Hand sea* tine seines the baby eyes
that so attracted the attention of J
fWtpet Morgan that he caused tbelr
f»aed to be elee'ed a life member of
the Xe« Torh Metropolitan Museum
d An It was learned the other night
a« the ese of beautiful Virginia Harie
hurttge's third birthday htat a cata
ract had grown com;.!e*ely over the
-tUds right eye and that the other
-» rapidly becoming dimmed The-child
la too young to be successfully
Jperwted upon now. When six months
9*d little Virginia was taken in arms
by her mother to a Metropolitan ex
hibitlua aad Mr Morgan, pleased with
the babe s looks aad at the unique in
rtdent at ter appearance amongst the
distinguished crowd present, paid the
|l.(dt fee required of life members.
Rowgn on tee Turtles.
Creek Indians In the vicinity of
Wetumka. Ok la . are resorting to an
rtret tribal eastern* in an attempt to
obtain a rainfall One of their cus
toms, which has been widely followed
daring the past few days, is to stake
mud turtles on the edge of a stream
Just far enough away from the water
ae that they cannot reach It. It is
the Ind-an* belief that the turtles de
•pairing ia their attempts to reach
the water. Invoke the aid of the great
•pSrtt to send rain *o that the stream
will be raised aad brought near them.
Since the turtles were first staked
owl. several rains have fallen The
Indians believe their prayers are be
lag answered and they are fastening
Bp more t .rtles to pray for a greater
rainfall.
Substitute for Platinum.
It has been suggested that, in the
prevailing scarcity of platinum, the
metal palladium might be a practicable
substitute it belongs to the platinum
group, aad has many of the qualities
id platinum, ali.ogh in some respects
M resembles silver. Among its valu
able characteristic* ar«- hardness, due
Uliiy aad malleability It is also de
rldsdly noe-corrodible It occurs
along wfth nickel, copper, silver, gold,
platinum, iridium and rhodium, in the
ores of the nickel miles ia Ontario.
Owl cd 5»*u.««j* tons of these ore* about
S.kM ounces of palladium are annual
ly prod need.
Woman Has Unique Distinction.
The first woman In the world tc
take a stitch cm a sewing machine, ■
hks Kaskrtt St Kill bourne, has just
paaaed her eigfcty-«rst birthday at
her hiaae at Wtested In the early fif
Has Mi»s K'. bourn, was a sc hool teach
er in Xew Hartford when Elias Howe j
investor of the sewing machine, had a
shop there One day. while calling on
Howe, the Inventor invited her te
■an the machine he wan working, and
Origin of Bod lam
Bedlam is a name derived from
Bethlehem hospital In London, which
was used aa early aa the first ytmrj
of the Sixteenth restory for the recep
Do* of Clot reded persons, had very
limited rewowrres. and frequently dia
charged patients who were not yet
A Bure Cure.
Police Chief—Too say your doctet
recommended that you get a place or
the force What la your affliction?
Applicant—Insomnia.—Judge.
A Technical Mind
"What Is the came of commot
sense are yon arresting me for?*
ashed the motorist who had accident
ally violated a regulation -| ain't
la the name of com
" replied the rustic sheriff
f yoa la the name of the
IBW
She Admits It.
"Hr y belle, ft a'.at be delightful to
ha as beautiful as a Greek god
*k b,*
Saved Lives of Scientists
in the Arctic
Thrilling Experiences of Museum
Agents in the Country Where
Even the Polar Bears Have
Chills aid Where Letters Writ
ten in March Lie in the Mail
Bag Until July Before They Are
Started Toward Civilization.
—
X the authority of Dr. Ru
dolph X'. Anderson, whose
word is as good as a first
mortgage bond in the
world of science, the
three-year-old carcass of a
bowbead. while slightly acrid and a
bit mussy, is certainly filling. The
doctor knows because he ate a few
double portion slices. It was bow
bead or nothing. As the doctor had
had plenty of the latter he welcomed
the bowhead
It was in that forlorn country, where
even the polar bears have chills. 4.000
miles to the west and more than 1,000
north, and then some, that he made
the choice, relates the Xew York
\\ orld. He and V. Stefansson, as rep
resentatives of the American Museum
of National History, were up there
staring death in the face looking for
specimens. They are now returning,
after two years- absence Stories of
ibelr hardships have got here first.
Etching the mails Is no joke up there.
To get a letter in the letter box at
MacPherson in time for the July de
livery Mr. Stefasson wrote on March
l i If a letter is carried around in
lie's pocket over night the folks at
home have to wait another six months
for news.
Mr. Stefansson and Dr. Anderson
left New York on April 5. 1908. They
made their way by railroad to Edmon
ton. Canada, the furtherest point to
which human ingenuity and daring
had been able to push the steel rails,
the advance agents of progress. From
Edmonton the two explorers made
their way to Athabasca, at the head
waters of the Mackenzie, where, the
river being free from ice. they would
find sturdy little steamers ready to
carry them one step further into the
wilderness of ice and snow The mo
ment they left the deck of the little
boat that had servtd their purpose to
•he test of its ability the two adven
turers plunged into the terrible fast
nessess of the great silent north.
Two Year* in the lee.
r.r ainiOM two years tGe great
sweeps of snow and ice hid the two
men fr: m the rest of the world almost
as completely as the walls of a tomb.
Once an Eskimo, traveling far from
his hr me down into the haunts of
sturdy white folks who were fighting
for exi-tenre on the very edge of
the arctic circle, brought with him
a story cf two white men up above the
circle. Only one other time did word
ome from the men. Then, by long
and tedious sled journeys, did an Es
kimo attached to their party carrv a
letter to the daring skipper of a flsh
.ng smack that bad literally forced Its
way through the ice into the far
north.
Now the men are making their way
lack- bringing with them de
rails of a story the mere hints of
which have outdone the dreams of
writers of fiction who love to tell of
Imaginary adventures in the frozen
north And the men who faced perils
and hardships that would have tried
the courage and strength of the hard
est; who Eet out on long and painful
journeys when the mercury froze in
•he thermometer; who were forced to
camp on mountain ridges and peaks
at the height of blizzards—they have
sent a plain, impassioned rejmrt of
heir journeys without giving a hint
that they encountered aught but what
•hey expected when they left New
York.
Hardships of the Trip.
It would require far more space
•han the limits of this article permit
’o give more than a mere skeleton of
the story of the two years' trip, as It
is now in the possession of Dr. H. C.
Humpus. director of the Museum of
Natural History, who authorized the
expedition. When the men themselves
arrive they will fill in with detail the
story of periods of ten days and more
that often clasped without a morsel of
sustaining food passing their lips, and
Map of the Wanderings of Dr. Ander son and V. Stefansscn in the Frozen
North.
which they dismissed with a single
sentence in their preliminary report.
In many respects the trip of Mr.
Stefansson and Dr. Anderson sur
passes any other expedition ever made
into the north by white men. The dif
ficulties with which they had to con
tend, because of the very nature of
their journey, exceeded even those
which confronted Commander Peary
on his dash to the north pole. His
was a hurried trip across several hun
dred miles of ice to the pole and
back. Carefully constructed sleds
drawn by the finest Eskimo dogs in
the arctic circle carried provisions :
a-plenty.
Not so with Stefansson and Ander
son. Their mission was the collection
of sjiecimens that would enlighten the
rest of the world as to human, animal
and vegetable life within the arctic
circle. They had no single objective
point. Their wanderings and search
es took them a part of the time out
over the ice of the Arctic ocean and a [
part of the time across mountain ran- ;
ges that rise thousands of feet in the
air.
Food Stolen by Wild Beasts.
They also had plenty of provisions !
wheu they started. As though, how- j
ever, the ordinary perils of the coun- I
try were not sufficient, the real own- 1
ers of the country, polar bears and 1
wolverines, added to their dangers.
Time after time the daring scientists,
wearied by months of privation, would
seek the stores of food they had hid
den in caches for Just such emergen
cies, only to find that four-footed ma
rauders had broken in and stolen hun
dreds of pounds of food.
Stefansson, as the actual leader of
the expedition, has reserved all but
the briefest summary for his personal
report to Dr. Bumpus. A brief ten
pages sufficed for him to announce the
results of the two years' journey, as
well as to outline his plan for a last
dash into the country of the hostile
Coppernine people, Eskimos who
viewed with jealous eyes any attempt
on the part of white men to penetrate
their country.
On the map you will find a tiny
point of land projecting into the Arc
tic ocean and named Cape Parry.
Nothing illustrates better, perhaps,
the uncertainty of the position of the
explorers than the very first para
graph of Mr. Stefansson’s letter,
which was written from that place on
March 13 of this year.
“An Eskimo (the same 'Jimmy' Me
na-ran-na who accompanied Captain
Amundsen in 1905-6 from Herschel
island to the Yukon)," wrote Mr. Ste
fansson, “has come here from Baillie
island and intends starting tomorrow
for the Mackenzie delta. 1 am giving
him this letter, hoping it may get into
I the July mail at Macpherson.”
Just think of it—grave doubts as to
whether a letter will reach a mail
postAliflMur months' time!
“xflMPkimos.” he wrote, "are in
deadi/rcar of the Coppernine people,
who have the reputation of being a
murderous lot. While they have
agreed to accompany me, I can never
tell on what night they may have a
dream which they will construe as a
warning not to go and I will be left
to make the journey alone.”
The dangers from the people them
selves were not the greatest obstacles
to this, the climax of his trip, as Mr.
Stefansson hinted in his letter. The
trip would require, all conditions be
ing favorable, at least 16 days going
and the same time returning, to say
nothing of the time that must be
spent in gathering scientific data. Six
days’ provisions, however, were all
that Mr. Stefansson had. For the rest j
of his food he must depend upon a i
country in which even the Esquimaux ;
found it exceedingly difficult to find j
sufficient food to sustain their lives. |
The possibility of starvation, how
ever, did not deter the adventurer.
That he made the trip, secured his
specimens and is now safely on his
return is all that those who are most
deeply interested in his welfare know.
Dr. Anderson, who. shortly after he
set out from the friendly deck of the
little river steamer on the Mackenzie,
separated from Mr. Stefansson and
headed a party of Esquimaux into the
country, has written a little more at
length of his two years’ trip. He too
has found a sentence quite sufficient
to tell of experiences that must have :
tried the heart and courage of every
member of the party.
Baillie island, in the Arctic ocean,
was the headquarters chosen by Dr.
Anderson for his party. From there
he wrote his report, which by its very
simplicity and directness is one of the
most remarkable documents ever sent
through the mails of the United States.
Day by day has Dr. Anderson de
tailed his journey. Of the entire first
year spent in the north his report says
nothing, the letter he had sent out
earlier on one of the two occasions
word was received from the adven
turers being sufficient in his opinion
to cover that period. Of the second
year, when the provisions taken north
by the party had either been eaten
or stolen by the bears and wolverines,
he says but little more.
At the end of their trip, when death
and starvation stared them in the face,
they stumbled across the carcass of
a bowhead whale. Dr. Anderson, writ
ing of the find, said, "The carcass was
evidently two or three years old, but
the meat was fairly well preserved."
Although it was still early in the aft
ernoon the party camped immediately
and there dogs and men feasted side
by side. “The meat,” wrote Dr. An
derson. "was fairly palatable, slightly
acrid but not offensive and all in all
was very filling."
At the conclusion of their letters
both Mr. Stefansson and Dr. Ander
son express themselves as being de
sirous of returning again to the coun
try in which they spent two such ter
rible years to complete the work they
started.
The first specimens gathered by Mr.
Stefansson and Dr. Anderson have ar
rived at the Museum of Natural His
tory. The men will reach New York
in the near future. •
Caring for Work Horses.
The New York Woman's League for
Animals Is making great effort this
hot weather to teach owners of horses
how to take care of them. Summer
bridles and fly nets have been dis
tributed to the drivers of work horses,
and the league has a farm where tired
horses may be sent for a few weeks’
rest, which often restores them to
health. Mrs. James Speyer is the
president of the league, and Mrs. Rus
sell Sage is one of the women deeply
Interested in it.
Held Feet to Their Rights.
Our ancestors were never inconsid
erate enough to trust those rights
which God and nature had given them
into the hands of princes.—James
Warren.
His Stock.
"Has that man got much business?”
"Much business? Why, he has or
ders to burn.”
“But 1 thought he dealt in asbes
tos goods.”
“WEEPING” TREES IN FAVOR
Many Varieties Are Really Ornamen
tal, and Freaks Should Always
Be Shunned.
“There have been altogether too
many weeping trees planted in this
country." declares a writer In Subur
ban Lite. “Most ot them unfortunate
ly have been of the freak type.
“The weeping trees can be divided
into two general classe. those which
are upright in growth and have nat
urally pendulous branches and those
which are grafted on standard stocks
several feet above the ground, the
long willowy branches banging down
ward to the ground. The former class
are as a rule plants worth having
when planted in their proper place,
but the latter are usually deformed
freaks which will spoil any garden
picture
"Of those with naturally pendulous
branches the weeping birch is the
best. It grows from sixty to seventy
feet high and makes a perfectly up
i right growth out the long pendulcus
branches give the tree a decided
weeping character, which, however, is
not developed until the tree has at
tained several years of growth.
“Next in importance is the weep
ing. or as it is sometimes called the
Napoleon, willow. This is the fastest
growing weeping tree. It attains a
height of about forty feet, and is fa
miliar because of its frequent planting
in cemeteries.
"It is not necessary to have a damp
place for this tree to grow in. although
one commonly thinks of the willows
as being plants which inhabit damp
ground. It will grow in almost any
soil that is not a desert. The weeping
willow has proved a successful tree in
seaside planting where good soil is to
be had.
“The weeping beech when well
grown as a specimen tree makes a
beautiful and somewhat curious tree
for the lawn. It will attain a height
of fifty or sixty feet. The branches
grow upright and then droop.
“A tree which always delights the
children because of its canopylike
head, which makes a splendid place
for them to play under, is the Cam
perdown elm. This Is one of the trees
grafted on a standard stock, about
eight feet high, but the branches, in
stead of drooping down immediately,
extend outward. Sometimes the Cam
perdown elm reaches a diameter of
thirty feet. It is a rank grower, the
limbs making a somewhat zigzag
growth of several feet in a single sea
son. The branches are so close that
the large dark green glossy leaves
make a complete canopy through
which the sun does not penetrate.
"It should be planted as an iso- !
lated specimen, and as a rule it is bet
ter to plant it in a somewhat incon
spicuous place yet convenient for the
children to use as a playhouse. It will
succeed in almost any locality, but
like the other elms it prefers plenty
of moisture.
“The best tall canopy tree is the
weeping ash. which will grow ulti
mately fifty feet high. It is a rapid
grower and must be given plenty of
space. All that has been said about
the Cam perdown elm as an arbor tree
will apply to this tree, but of course
on a much larger seal*."
IE3S
IFE without hope draws nec
tar In a sieve:
,A**u Hope without an object cannot live.
Speak a kind word to sweeten a sorrow.
Do the kind deed you would leave till to
morrow.
PICKLING TIME.
Do not delay putting down some ten
der little cucumber pickles for winter
use. Here is a recipe, easy to pre
pare. and most successful in results:
Take a pound of good ground mus
tard. a pint of salt and a gallon of
vinegar. Mix the mustard and salt
until free from lumps, then add the
vinegar in a large, open-mouthed jar.
Gather the small cucumbers from
day to day. wash carefully and add
to the vinegar, putting a plate with a
weight on the pickles to keep them
under the vinegar. When the jar is
sufficiently full cover with a cloth and
put away to be used at any time. The
weight must always be left on so that
none of the cucumbers are exposed to
the air. If a little sweetening is de
sired. sugar and spices to taste may
be added.
Mushroom Catsup.—When mush
rooms are plenty in the cool fall morff
j ings. gather a basket full, look them
over carefully to see that none are
wormy, and put them in a large
mouthed jar In layers, with salt be
tween. Don't be too generous witn
the salt, or you will spoil the catsup.
Let them stand in a warm place
twenty-four hours covered with a tow
el. The next day mash and strain
them through a coarse sieve. To
every quart of the liquor add an ounce
of pepper corns and cook a half hour,
then add one-fourth of an ounce of
cloves, half an ounce of ginger root,
one dozen whole cloves, three blades
of mace and cook fifteen minutes.
Take from the fire and strain again:
reheat, fill small bottles and dip the
corks in wax to seal. The housewife
who does not feel that she can afford
to have these delicacies when bought
from the grocery, will be able, at lit
tle expense to put them up. have them
for herself and a few bottles for her
friends.
The canned sweet red pepper Is
such an addition to so many dishes
and in the fall when they may be had
from your own garden a few cans
will be easily put up. This is a tried
recipe of Miss Farmers', and one only
has to use the right proportions to
have success: Wash and cut the
stems from a peck of red peppers, re
move the seeds and cut the peppers
in thin rings, round and round with
the scissors. Plunge into boiling
water and let stand two minutes,
drain and plunge into Ice water. Let
stand ten minutes, drain and pack
Into glass jars. Boll one quart of vin
egar and two cups of sugar fifteen
minutes. Pour over the peppers to
overflow the jars, seal and keep in a
cool place.
I 1 III M ■ V i. - I
tc THAT tiath never warred
with misery
.'ui orr tuggeu wiyi Vf 1 V...
tress.
Hath had no occasion nor no field to
try
The strength and forces of his worthi
ness.
A DINNER FOR A BUSY DAY.
A busy Ironing day. or a day when
using the kitchen range tor other
things is a good time to have a whole
dinner, except perhaps the dessert and
a salad, cooked in one dish. Buy a
piece of beef for stewing, a bit of veal,
and if you have a broiled chop or two
of lamb left from yesterday's dinner,
so much the tetter. Cut the meat in
pieces large enohgh for a serving,
and brown well in ^ frying pan. using
a little suet " 1 '
to the frying
meat Place the meat in a stone-cov
ered dish, pour over the liquid from
the frying pan. and put into a hot
oven. After half an hour's cooking
add a few carrots, onions and poia
toes. Baste them with the broth oc
casionally, and serve them from the
casserole.
A simple salad to be served with
this dinner is lettuce and French
dressing. Prepare the lettuce early,
and place on the Ice, wrapped In a
cloth. AH water should be drained
from the leaves, as the dressing will
not stay on wet leaves. Prepare the
dressing by beating together & ta
blespoonful of vinegar to three of oil.
a half teaspoonful of salt and a few
dashes of paprika or red pepper; a
teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce
or one of catsup, or both, may be used.
When the dressing is thick and well
blended pour over the lettuce. Serve
at once, as the dressing will wilt the
lettuce in a few moments.
For dessert on this busy day, a dish
of fruit and a cooky or cheese, crack
ers aAd coffee may be served.
A very dainty dessert easy to pre
pare and most delicious is musk mel
ons. Cut the edible portion into
cubes, add a little lempn juice and
sugar and serve with small cakes or
crackers.
When making pastry, bake sev
eral shells, and when a fruit
_ __
pie is wanted in hurry, crush
the fruit, cover with a meringue
and brown in a hot oven. This same
pie may be served with the fruit cov
ered with whipped cream instead of
the meringue.
ii s pouna xo jro on sninins wutri* mo
good Lord thinks it*s best.
—Florence M. Day
—
OVEN HINTS. ■
It Is always better in baking flour
mixtures to have a moderate heat at
first, until the cake or biscuit is fully
risen, then increase the heat so that
it will brown over quickly. If too ex
treme heat is used at first the dough
is stiffened before it has an oppor
tunity to rise; the result is a cracked
and unsightly surface.
Biscuits and pastries are baked in
a very hot oven, as the cut surfaces
allow the gases to escape readily.
Pastry, unless baked quickly, will be
soggy.
Have a strong under heat for baking
pastry.
Small ovens cool quickly and should
be heated hotter than large ones. Do
not cool the oven by keeping the door
[ open too much.
The length of time for roasting or
baking fish depends upon the extent
of the surface exposed to the heat
more than on the number of pounds.
For example, a thin large roast, be
cause of its large surface exposed
would take less time to roast than a
roll roast of the same number of
pounds.
A steak an inch thick requires six
to ten minutes for broiling; an inch
and a half, eight to fifteen minutes.
Lamb should never be served rare;
mutton may.
In baking angel food a very slow
oven is maintained throughout the
first half of the baking, then a little
increase and finish with heat enough
to brown the cake a rich brown.
A layer cake needs a hot oven and
should bake in twelve to twenty min
utes. Molasses and fruit cakes should
have slower ovens. An ordinary gin
ger bread will bake in a good oven
in forty-five minutes.
The small ovens used on the top
of gas stoves are a great convenience
and economy.
ONLY myself could talk to
myself /
as i Knew mm a year ago
I could tell him a lot
That would save him a lot.
Of things he ought to know.
—Kipling.
THINGS WE LIKE TO KNOW.
Aluminium vessels are more expen
sive than granite, but in the end they
are safer. If a dish boils dry and
burns, the granite surface is apt tc
crack and break off. and a *bruis«
or fall cracks and breaks it
Pieces of granite in chicken feed are
not objectionable, but the human
stomach is not able to manage suet
questionable things with safety.
The use of enamel spoons for stir !
ring foods Is one to be deprecated foi j
the same reason. A wooden spoon is
lighter and easier on the hand. Now
one can buy small wooden spoons, nol
at all like the old-fashioned great i
horn spoon.
Remember to tack pieces of ole !
cast-off rubbers on to the bottom ol
the step ladder to keep it from slip
ping on a slippery floor. Many brok j
en hips and legs would be saved il i
this advice was followed in each
household.
Cabbage and onions are more dell
cate if. after boiling for a while, they
are drained into a colander and cold I
water run over them; then return to !
finish cooking.
As soon as a bottle or jelly glass is I
emptied, wash it and put it away for j
future use. <
When cooking a spare rib. sprinkle .
it when putting to roast with minced
onion and a tittle powdered sage.
Put a little cold coffee occasionally j
on your ferns and palms. They need
stimulating as well as we.
Grease the cork of the cement hot
tie and there will need no force to
open the bottle when needed.
Rubber heels on shoes will sav«
many a back ache and over-wrought
nerve.
Use kerosene oil to save elbow
grease In cleaning the sink.
Necessary Labor.
Everything within and about ui
f*ows that It never was Intended that
tnan should be Idle. Our own health
and comfort and the welfare and hap
piness of those around us. all require
that man should labor. Mind. body,
soul, all alike suffer and rust out by
Idleness, the Idler is a source of men
tal and moral offense to everybody
around. He Is a nuisance In the
vsorld and needs abatement for the
public good, like any other source ot
pestilence.
An Alpine Garden.
The highest garden in the world
is said to be the Alpine garden of
botany, which was laid out by the late
Canon Chanoux. formerly rector of
the Hospice of Little St. Bernard. It
Is situated at an elevation of 2.200
meters, or 7,150 feet Here are to be
found almost all species of mountain
flowers, not only those common in the
Alps. Pyrennes. Carpathians, the Cau
casus and the Balkans, but even from
Tar off Himalaya The canon conceiv
ed the Idea In 1588. but it was not un
til 1902 that his project became effec
tive. In the latter year the commune
of Thuile gave him the land.
No Change.
"1 met the Dunkey today for the
first time for years. He hasn't changed
much.”
■‘Oh. he hasn't changed at all. bm
he doesn't seem to realise it”
"How do you mean?" '
“Oh. he's f«rev$r talking about
‘what a fool he used to be.’ ”_Red
Han.
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BEST SHE COULD SAY.
Myrtle—I understand Miss Critic
paid me a compliment last night.
Xatica—Not quite, but she came as
near it as you could ever expect from
her. She said you were charming,
but—
LAWYER CURED OF ECZEMA
_
“While attending school at Lebanon,
Ohio, in 18S2, I became afflicted with
boils, which lasted for about two
years, when the affliction assumed the
form of an eczema on my face, the
lower part of my face being inflamed
most of the time. There would be
water-blisters rise up and open, and
wherever the water would touch it
would burn, and cause another one to
rise. After the blister would open
the place would scab over, and would
burn and Itch so as to be almost un
bearable at times. In this way the
Bores would Epread from one place to
another, back and forth over the
whole of my upper lip and chin, and
at times the whole lower part of my
face would be a solid sore. This con
dition continued for four or five years
without getting any better, and in fact
got worse all the time, so much so
that my wife became alarmed lest it
prove fatal.
“During all this time of boils and
eczema, I dcctored with the best phy
sicians of this part of the country, but
to no avail. Finally I decided to try
Cuticura Remedies, which I did, tak
ing the Cuticura Resolvent, applying
the Cuticura Ointment to the sores,
and using the Cuticura Soap for wash
ing. In a very short time I began to
notice improvement, and continued to
use the Cuticura Remedies until I was
well again, and have not had a re
currence of the trouble since, which is
over twenty years. I have recom
mended Cuticura Remedies to others
ever since, and have great faith in
them as remedies for skin diseases.”
(Signed) A. C. Brandon, Attorney-at
Law, Greenville, O., Jan. 17, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment are sold everywhere, a samplo
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to “Cuti
cura,” Dept. 3 K, Boston.
Could Take Her Choice.
As the railroad train was stopping,
an old lady not accustomed to travel
ing hailed the passing conductor and
asked:
"Conductor, what door shall I get
out by?”
"Either door, ma’am,” graciously
answered the conductor. “The car
stops at both ends.”—Galesburg Mail
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An Experiment.
Nurse—What is the matter?
Johnny—The baby is a fake: •
threw him on the floor, and he didn't
bounce a bit.
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A crowd is not company, and faces
are but a gallery of pictures, and talk
a tinkling cymbal, where there is no
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Firmness is feminine and obstinacy
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