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    Tbe L««f City Northwestern
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LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA
WOMEN TAKE TO THE WATER
N Hu Been Round.
•» Wronger Thai.
Sterner Sea.
Soimming to tbe one outdoor exor
rtoo b wblrb *aeu frequently ex
cede boa Tbe oater to her heritage
but only is tbe laot decode tae she
Ukto pnsstoslna. say* tbe Se» York
Evsmtsg World Plump little Rone
PMomsf. oho covered tbe distaste be
fwwes East Tvretyvlili street. Man
Lattna. aad Osaey tslsad la eight
hears and sexes mtauteo. Is one at s
gras-tag load of graceful, facile oater
By virtue of physical perfect loo aad
•Luslaa Annette KeUermac. the Hthe
(ounhaa girl wbo essayed tbe Rug
tot < hasted, is perhaps tbe header of
three Other noteworthy figures are
Ebbe fieHhf tbe ponerfully built
Hath beach chart psos. Eksson Seers
tbe Seaport sority girl: 13*le Thiel,
•laser at maty sptist*. Adeline
Trapp, a Bradtlya teacher obo has
ctmqoefod Hell Gate Ktbei *Yers
sad Beatrice Dae of Feet Hamilton,
obo bate so am tbe Narrows rad done
still more bfindt feats. Evelyn
Hon eft. tbe Flashing arbaoi girl:
Augusta Gallop aad Clara Hurst, sur
vitors la a race from Brooklyn bridge
to Coney Island. Mme Claire Gat
:nststt has eesspetnd on bvea terms
with an Parbnaa* ta < coming tbe
Setae Mrs. lest Hra:.daeburg at 8t.
Lash tsia tbe fte mile* from Eads
bridge to the AHeobetm just to r*rove
fbat a socaaB of sixty is not as old
W'by. other ibtcg* being equal, dc
«san soim better fhae uses* Be
rause their conform*; ion is veil
adapted ter this exercise Because
there ts usually more adipose tissue
uader the tkit aad ibis protects tbe
body from invading cold. Because
as Doctor Surges? of Harvard says,
“names always are aad roastiturtoa
tOy «jfbt to to raxtor (tos nsrn ”
Origin erf the Club.
Net iafredneetiy women of writ di
rect tMr (kafii against tbe dubs ec
beamed wbd Irtsarcud by mukiid
lb Ralph NeiOIw story of 'Loodoe
iTtae" end their angle nod uers are
auat emamples at vH xu&crf in tb»
■jppmn* direction.
Tbe critical conception of a London
risk wm a retreat to whrb West End
men might betake themselves certain
that tbe trouble* and worrier of tbe
outside world would wet follow them
mio a building which they regarded a*
a temjde of dignified seclusion and re
Brrkap* tbe but dew* rlptkm of a
«lab a* K retried la former day*, was
that given by a wtffjr bishop, wbo de
fined If ns a place "where women
veaaed from uosb'lac and the weary
•erv at rest “
Another ajEOfiag definition war
mace pirn by Uorp Augustus Fain.
“A rich' said Sai*. '1* a weapon
unwed by savage* to keep tbe white
woman at a distar.ee ' —Tooth's Com
pmt&m.
•
H«stary Repeated.
H nas at tbe tTrcus Mniiuiu
The Eapue Xtm leased forward
la spite of bis embonpoint. and
sorbed owe at tbe emperor's ladies is
ealtixg «m tbe shoulder
~f*ardob me Aggripptta.' Le said
In ei-eLett Imtin. "but would you
uitd laklrg down your coiffure, sc
that I can get a look in oa the arena'.
There's a massacre today that I'm
particularly aasamw to see."
Her owl} answer was a sneer of pa
Mrtaa arera Well she knew that
Xrt bad come ta oa a press ticket,
while ac easy Roman suitor bad paid
nsJ Eco-i for her seat
A blew Post erf View.
A youngster bad been very rude tc
bis mother, aad abe bad turned him
over to bis father to be disciplined.
• ben the fattening conversation was
merheard
"Ted did yea aay so and mo to your
Tw. dad -
"Weil, yon will have W settle that
matter with her. becaeae she is your
asetber aad not mine. But she la my
wife, and I win not allow aay man.
i emg or eld. te be rude to her Now
yea nsr apologise to me for being
rude te my wife, and then you can
settle With your mo* her for being
rude to her"
Pftfin"! tor the Part.
The terrible storm had passed and
he angry nates, after eagulfitg many
• gaUaat mil had subsided
The <syU!s at the partially disabled
•toaanship aa land hove la sight, bung
s emtrh oser the starboard how.
"Merely a hit of stage business " he
♦splstaad; "all the papers win say to
marrow mum mg that the great ocean
ts*f came ttmpcng into port '"
Took Hmb in Earnest.
A negro brtrhlayer in Macon. Cm.
naa lying down dnrtag the noon hour.
sl« sgtTif >n the he* sun The clock
Otrwrfc one. the time to pick up his
bod agnm He rone, stretched, and
grnmMed: T wish I wm da id Tain
nsthtn bn* wnk. wnk fruns mawnln
“On Land can scan* ao )ofccs He
las' taboo anything In yearaist "
-g> tea l asm anything on the mush
ALASKA RICH III Oil
Wefls Choked With Debris to Pre
vent Natural Flow.
Conflicting Interests Have Lonr
Sought to Control the Output of
Petroleum in the R*o*i Kat
alia District.
Seattle. Wash.—A strange story
romr* from the Katalia region, it
Alaska. Oil weiis that were borei
half a dozen years ago, and prom
sed great returns in high grade pe
.rolcum. were never allowed to be
-ome producers be< ause of conflicting
ntere.-u that were seeking to drive
•ach other cut. Recently new own
•rafc.p* have prevailed, and the foui
,-rtr.. :;>al wells near the town of Kat
ilia were found to be choked wit!
•crap iron. junk, cud all sorts ot
lebris. When the lead was taker
>ut the wells Cowed 2.100 barrels o
>11 a day.
For 'wo years or more the country
aas been discursing the Alaska ceai
jroblem. pro and con. yet scarcely <t
word is ever said about the oi
Vlds which border the great north
»rn coal areas. The country at largf
hardly realizes that the Alaska oi’
ields are the newest to be developer
m the American continent.
The Katalia belt is a strip of lane
along the coast of Alaska adjoining
he Copper River delta, and extending
m eastward toward Mt St. Elias To
he north is the Bering Lake coal
"ouatry. and through this territory oi’
e-e pages are to be found.
The Indians of that district had no
iced these seepages, and had spoken
if them to the traders along the
oust, but It remained for Thomas
White, a pioneer of Alaska even at
hat time, to mak- the actual discov
ery of petroleum. He was hunting
ind on the trail of a bear, when he
(tumbled across one of these black
<*ois To assure himself that he had
'cund oil be drew out a match
icratched it. and Touched the surface
•f the pond. Jr.siantly be was re
• arded with proof White made the
irst oil location in Alaska, and soon
here was a quiet stampede to the
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Oil Well Near Katalla.
on 1< rn territory. That was 15
■ears ago
White went to Alaska in 1SS9. He
♦ a* a member of the Israel C. Rus
e!l geological expedition that made
ae first ascent of Mt. St. Elias. Again
ie climbed the mountain with the
Juke d'Abruzzl. when the Italian no
ilcrr.an wanted to ascend the highest
nountain on the continent. That was
>efore the discovery of Mt. McKin
ey. in the interior of Alaska.
A cumber of the early claimants
•rganized an oil company which In
urn leased to a second company—a
•anadian concern—and this again
eared to a third company, which
lnally did the well drilling But
he last company was to pay a big
sum of money as soon as oil was dis
covered In commercial quantities.
The four wells drilled produced
41. How much the outside world did
lot know, because the three com
nnles began their long struggle to
freeze' out each other. It was not
ocg ago that a fourth company came
n and got possession of the "old Eng
Ish" property, as it was called, and
spened up the choked wells. Two
ons of stuff was taken from one bore,
ind the oil in Its exuberance at being
eleased. carried away the top of the
lerrick Then It settled down to a
teady flow of 720 barrels a day. Oil
4ond In two of the other wells, but
1 *a* found that when the flow was
itarted with a pump. It continued at
he same rate of its own accord.
Being so light and volatile, wood
ontainers are useless In handling the
iatalla olL Therefore iron and steel
■eceptacles and conveyors were or
iered. and now are being placed in po
rtion. One tank of 30.000 barrels Is
lelng erected at tidewater on Con
roller bay, and two others, one of
:>®00 barrels and the other of 6,000
•arrels. will stand at the wells, about
light miles from the big loading t»nfr
rhe distance Is covered by an Iron
ripe that will deliver 1,500 barrels a
lay.
FHIS FAMILY WITHOUT TEETH
False Molars, Used In Common by In
diana Couple, Broken in a
Fight.
Owood. Ind.—It Is soup, 'h&sb and
(he like for the subsistence of Mary
Myerly and her aged husband now,
neither being able to eat solid food
duce their one set of false teeth,
ehlch they used in common, was bro
! In a fight between the two.
Called before the mayor to explain
| an attack on her helpmate, Mra. Myer
! ty said that her spouse was using the
teeth when It came her time to eat
tapper and that he refused to gir«
them up to her. She ssld that she
then hit him over the head with s
rolling pin. The much used molan
fdB from the old man’s mouth and tb«
piste was broken.
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First of Submarine Cables
■ ■— • - —- 7.
Colonel Colt’s Invention That Ante
dated That o* Samuel Morse, but
Was Dropped* for Manu
facture of Revolvers.
Not long ag 1 I told the story of
how General 7 ichary Taylor uncon
sciously made the revolver popular
after Its invertor, Samuel Colt, had
failed to induce the army and the pub
lic to look kindly upon the new
weapon Colo lei Colt always gave
"Old Rough and Ready” full credit
for making the revolver a commercial
success, and to his intimate friends
•ie sometimes declared that it was
General Taylor, also, who perhaps
kept him from being known to fame
as the Inventor of the transatlantic
cable. One of the friends to whom
he thus expressed himself was Mar
shall Jewell, who was a fellow towns
man of Colt's. In Grant’s cabinet as
postmaster-general, before that minis
ter to Russia and twice governor of
Connecticut, and, like Colt, for many
years one of the leading manufactur
ers of Connecticut.
“When the country was going wild
over the laying of the first Atlantic
cable.” said Governor Jewell, "and :
over the exchange of messages be
tween Queen Victoria and President
Buchanan. Colt told me that a num
ber of years earlier—at about the
time when Profesor Morse was per
fecting his telegraph system—he con
ceived the idea that It would be pos- j
sible to lay a telegraph line upon the
bed of a river or along the coast that
would be successful, and he further
more was of the opinion that there
was nothing in science which stood
In the way of laying a telegraph line
upon the ocean bed from continent to
continent.
"Now Sam Colt w-&s a man who.
when an idea occurred to him Involv
ing Invention and experiment, never
let It lapse unless be had tested it and
found it wanting. So he had a good
many talks with Professor Morse in
the latter's little laboratory on the
top floor of a building facing Wash
ington Square, In New York, and he
learned from Morse that the great ob
stacle that stood In the way of a
submarine telegraph line was inabil- I
ity to secure an insulating medium.
"That statement was sufficient to !
set Sam Colt at work experimenting !
to see whether or not he could find
some inexpensive material which |
would serve as an Insulator to a ;
telegraph wire under water. He made
a good many experiments. Rubber was
out of the question; It was too costly.
But It occurred to him that cotton
yarn was cheap and that if he soaked i
the yarn in beeswax, which is a non- 1
conductor, and put it around a wire,
protecting the whole with asphaltum.
and then carried the wire thus Insul
ated through a lead pipe, he would
overcome the difficulty.
"This scheme -of Insulation worked
perfectly in the laboratory; and Colt
procuring a wire long enough to
stretch from Fire Island to what is
now Coney Island. N. Y„ insulated it
with his mixture, encased the whole
in a lead pipe and sunk it beneath the
waves. This was the first submarine
telegraph cable laid; so far as trans
mission of electric signals was con
cerned it was successful, and Colt,
after the Morse telegraph had been
proved a commercial success a year
or two later, determined to develop
the submarine cable commercially,
first by laying short ocean cables, and
then a transatlantic one.
"But, ’curiously enough.’ as Sam
Colt used to put it to me. Just when
he was all but over the preliminary
work. General Zachary Taylor, then
fighting the Mexicans, sent in to him
an order for a thousand revolvers—
which Colt had ceased to make a num
ber of years before because no one
would buy the weapon—and Colt,
seeing a splendid business chance in
Taylor's order, at once set to work to
fill it. the result being that a large
demand soon grew up for the revol
ver. The meeting of this demand oc
cupied all of Colonel Colt’s time and
energy, and as he saw a fortune rap
idly growing out of the manufacture
and sale of the weapon, he thought
less and less of the submarine cable,
finally dropping from bis mind all hla
old plans in connection with It
"Perhaps, bad be held to those
plans, they might have been success
ful. Sam Colt to the day of his death
always held that they would have
been successful; and be likewise al
ways believed that Cyrus W. Field got
his first Idea of submarine telegraphy
from the little cable that was laid by
Colt in New York harbor back in
18-13."
(Copyright. 1311. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Story of a $50 Bill.
A most charming Philadelphia wom
an came to New York for the day and
her husband handed her a flfty-dollar
bill for tips and small change, relates
the New York Telegraph.
At the station in Philadelphia she
left the Pullman to buy a periodical,
leaving her bag carelessly on the
seat. There was another woman oc
cupying the adjacent chair. Upon her
return the Philadelphia woman opened
her bag and found no flfty-dollar biH
She made no accusation, but when
the other woman fell asleep she quiet
ly opened her bag and abstracted the
bill.
in New York they bowed amicably
and parted. When the Philadelphian
returned home her husband asked her
if she had enjoyed the trip.
"Y'es, but I spent all the money.”
she replied.
“All the money." said the husband.
“Why, I was worrying over the fact
that you left vour flfty-dollar bill on
your dressing table."
Chance Meeting of Enemies
How Isaiah Rhynders, Rabid Pro-Slav
ery Advocate, and William Lloyd
Garrison, Leader of Abolition
ists, Became Acquainted.
The present generation has forgot
ten Isaiah Rhynders. Yet in the ante
bellum days his name was a familiar
one. It symbolized northern pro-siav
ery sentiment Its bearer was regard
ed by the abolitionists as a sort of
ogre, a man dominated by ferocity of
political sentiment. He was, indeed,
one of the most rabid of all the pro
slavery Democrats of the north, and
as United States marshal for the
southern district of New York, to
which office he'was appointed first by
President Pierce, be bent his ener
gies to running down fugitive slaves
and returning them to their masters.
i met Marshal Rhynders in 1S75. To
my surprise. I saw a man of slender
build, a man of most gentle demeanor.
Fate and a Noted Irish Actor
.v
John Brougham's Reminiscences of
the Way Fame and Fortune
Missed Him and Fell
to Others.
"What queer pranks destiny plays
us!" said John Brougham one autumn
evening in 1877. We were sitting in
the New York study of the Irish actor
and playwright whose name was wide
ly known in England and America in
connection with matters theatrical
from 1840 until his death in 18C0.
“I was thinking." Mr. Brougham
continued, "how queerly the fates
have allotted their gifts so far as 1 am
concerned. There is the case of 'Lon
don Assurance.' for Instance, which
has been a favorite with English and
American playgoers ever since its
first production in Covent Garden In
1841 by Dion Boucicault. In the writ
ing of that comedy I colaborated
with Dion Boucicault, yet almost all
of the money which came from Its
production went to Dion, and the play
made his reputation as a playwright,
while John Brougham remained Insig
nificant all the time that it was being
compared favorably with Sheridan's
'The Rivals.'
“Ah. yes', there Is such a thing as
luck In the world of the drama as well
aa In the world of business, and a
later experience, and an even more
striking one than this with ‘London
Assurance,' will serve to illustrate the
point
“ \ot long after my return to the
United States after the close of the
Civil war I was reading over for the
fourth or fifth time Charles Dickens'
'Old Curiosity Shop*—a great favorite
of mine—when the Idea suddenly oc
curred to me that If Just the right act
ress could be found it would be possl
ble to write a play based on the novel
in which the characters of Little Nell
and the Marchioness could be taken
by the same person. 1 realized that It
would require a great deal of dramatic
ability, a wonderful versatility, for
any one to play Little Nell In one act
and the Marchioness in another; but
I kept the idea in mind, and later was
told that a young girl who had not
been in New York many years from
California, where she had appeared
on the stage as a mere child, would
just fit the dual role both in physlqu:
and dramatic ability. It war pro
posed that 1 write a play for this
young girl, Jn which she would appear
alternately as Little I.' " and the
Marchioness, certain terms were men
tioned to me. and I accepted the
proposition and went to work.
"Well, in due time I fixed up the
play, and when it was produced in
1S67 it made one of the greatest suc
cesses of the American stage It
m?de the fame of Charlotte Crabtree,
better known as Lott a It W'as the
basts of the fortune she now possesses
—and she deserves every penny of It,
dear girl. But again John Brougham
was obscure; nor had he more than
a paltry return of money for his work.
Would you have known, if 1 had not
told you just now, thai It was I who
dramatized Little Nell and the
Marchioness?”
The Irish actor-playwright Bmiled
philosophically.
"Ah, me.” he said. ‘T am not com
plaining. It Is all fate, and I presume
this will be my fate until the end.”
Three years later, at the age of 70.
Brougham died, leaving the manu
script of a play upon which be had
based great hopes, but which, by rea
son of his death, was never produced.
(Copyricht, 1(11, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rlshts Reserved.)
I
with a bright and kindly expression in
his eye, and a smile that told of his
fondness for humor. Could this be the
man who had been painted as a
demon in human form not so very
many years before?
As we sat talking reminiscently ot
the days when Rhynders was in the
i thick of events political, the door of
the room of the postmaster of New
I York opened and there entered a gen
j tleman whose manner and features be
j tokened the scholar, the man of custi
j vation and refinement. His height
| must have been something more than
' six feet. His dress was that of a
i man who knows how to dress well but
; not conspicuously.
I saw at once that the postmaster
| was in some embarrassment. He look
ed furtively at Marshal Rhynders.
; then again at the newcomer, and then.
| evidently mustering his courage, he
said:
“1 am very glad of this opportunity
| to bring into acquaintance two men
' who have been known for many years
to each other by name, but who. I pre
sume. have never met personally.
Marshal Rhynders. I take great pleas
' ure in introducing you to my personal
friend. William Lloyd Garrison.”
Mr. Garrison, the great leader of
the Abolitionists, the first in all the
north to agitate against slavery, and
I to teach opposition to the fugitive
slave law. and Marshal Rhynders. typi
fying In his career and symbolizing in
his name the more rabid pro-slavery
party of the decade before the Civil
war. stood facing one another for an
instant. Mr. Garrison was penetrating
the ex United States marshal with his
glance, while Rhynders. on the other
hand, was studying the personality
of the great anti-slavery leader. In
a moment, however, they seemed to
realize fully that the issues which
had given them fame were of the past.
Each extended his hand, they took
seats side by side and a moment or
two later the postmaster and 1 went
out of the room unobserved, for those
two men were engaged in Intimate
conversation.
Perhaps half an hour later William
Lloyd Garrison came from the post
master's room through the anteroom
where he met us. His face was beam
ing. "I found Marshal Rhynders a
most interesting and entertaining
man." he caid. "I atn glad to have
had the opportunity to meet and chat
with him.” Then he went away, and
as he did so Marshal Rhynders
stepped Into the anteroom.
“Garrison is a great man and a
good man." he said, earnestly, sincere
ly. “We became friends. I shall al
ways remember the conversation 1
have just had with him, and I am glad
to think that he may have obtained a
different impression of me than he
had In the days when slavery was a
great Issue.”
(Copyright. MU. by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
“The world's Mins Oyster.**
• Professor Deland had been favored
with tbe acquaintance of most of tbe
members of his son's class, and when
the time of graduation from the high
school approached, William and a
delegation from tbe class asked tbe
professor’s advice as to a suitable de
sign for the medallion.
“We want something to be mounted
on a pin.” said one of the boys, “and
we thought a design that had a boy’s
figure and a globe would be about
right, to show that the whole world
is before us. you know."
“Of course the boy’s figure would be
tbe important thing," said William,
hastily. “We thought perhaps the
globe might be st tbe boy's fset. How
does the idea strike you. father?"
"It la not wholly unfamiliar to me,"
said the professor. “But why have
the globe at the hoy’s feet, William?
Why not have It lying in the palm of
of bit hand?”—Tooth's Companion.
. “Wo are turning a lot of young law
yers out." “Don't worry. They 11 get
bsrk si us by taking us in.”
The Last Hope
When Lemuel Gregg died, a cousin
from a distant town appeared, saying
he had come to settle the estate and
take the residue, as Lemuel's only
kinsman. He had a jaunty air at first,
but at the end of a week he had ac
quired a watchful and anxious expres
sion. When he stepped Into the of
fice of Lawyer Mears. on Saturday
afternoon, he seemed to be extremely
nervous.
"Well, how are you coming out?"
asked the lawyer. "1 suppose it's all
clear sailing, lan't It?”
"Clear sailing!" echoed the executor.
"Do you suppose I'd be here with a
fee to pay if 'twas dear sailing? I'm
desperate, I tell you!
"There Isn’t a thing left of Cousin
Lem’s estate excepting a two-do liar
bill and three pewter plates. I want
to know If there's any way that I
can oblige the town to accept those
plates for the tax hill that sprung up
on me after I thought I’d got every
thing paid? If there is. I’ll give yon •
dollar, and use the other half o’ that
two-dollar bill to get hack to where I
came from, this very night.’*—Youth’*
Companion.
Their Lost Darting.
“Oh. our darling is lost again!" she
cried, as soon as he got Into the
house.
“What little darling r
"You unfeeling m os ter! Our little
darling.’
“Oh. the acroot?”
“Yes, if you must talk like a brute,
the sc root—the mutt—anything you
wish. And I want you to advertise
for him."
He promised to do It, and this la
the ad., aa it appeared:
“Lost—A sausage shaped dog. an
swering. when hungry, to the name of
Baby. A reward will be paid for bla
return to M Dash avenue, dead or
alive."
WONDERS OF LONG LIFETIME
Michigan Nonogsnarlan Who Hat
Lived Through Ninety-one Moet
Marvelous Years.
I'lalnweil, Mich k'rom the slow
plodding of the ssddlo horse and the
groaning ponderosity of the ancient
•tage coach to the rapid rush of the
great locomotive; from the lingering
postman to the wireless message;
from Hi*- crude sailing vessel to the
airship of the present day these are
<omo of the changes witnessed by
inyone who may haw lived through
the most of the past century an
tpoch making period and Mrs Hophla
Hubh of this village, who recently
passed her ninety-first birthday, re
members them all and her lively and
tnclouded mentality still maintains an
nterest in these great things of life,
extraneous though they may be to her
juiet ways of existence.
Grandma Bush, as she is commonly
'ailed, is a remarkable woman, silver
| yf hair and benign of expression, and
?he scans her daily paper without the
tid of spectacles.
She was born at Dingwall in the
aighlands of Scotland. It was a little
town and during her girlhood she re
members seeing there Lord Brougham
: Lord John Russell and William E
i Gladstone, indeed the grandfather ol
' the last named was mayor of the
I town. She remembers distinctly the
festivities incidental to the coronation
j yf Queen Victoria.
She came to America in 1839 by
sailing vessel and the voyage took
five weeks. The few steamboats of
that day were considered entirely toe
dangerous to be trusted. From New
York she came west via the Hudson
| river, Erie canal and the great lakes.
At that time there were only two rail
roads in the United States; one ran
Irom Schenectady to Albany. N. Y„
and the other from Detroit to Ann Ar
bor. Mich. By means of the latter
railway. In a train tha/ was plain,
slow, cramped and jolty, she reached
Ann Arbor. There a man and team
were engaged and for days 6he rode '
through the dense forests to Gun
Plains, Allegan county, where her
home has since been.
In contrast is her latest journey
jpon which she visited Chicago,
j Boarding a parlor car at her home
station, she reached the city without
change, and an automobile took her
to the home of her relatives. She is
not at all nerrous about the “devil
wagons" and rather enjoys a little
speed stunt down the boulevard. In
;oing to the station upon her return
home, she motored past Grant park,
where a dozen aviators were clearing
:he air like birds, in close prophecy
yf yet more wonderful modes of trans
po nation.
ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCEC
Miss Olga Roosevelt, a Popular Younc
Washington Heiress, Soon to
Be Married.
Washington.—Miss Olga Roosevelt
whose engagement to Dr. Brecken
ridge Bayne of Washington has Just
been announced, is the daughter ol
Robert Roosevelt of Washington and
New York. She la the possessor of
several million dollars, which she tn
herlted from her mother, who was
Mr. Roosevelt’s first wife. Miss
Roosevelt made her debut In Wash
Ington two years ago. and Is one ol
tbe most popular of tbe capital's
younger set
Vomits Up a Lizard.
Connellsville. Pa.—Ross Cunning
ham. a retired business man. had suf
fered for eight years from stomach
trouble, which resulted In nervous
collapse. On the advice of his physi
cian, he gave up the use of tobacco
and began to chew tansy, and aa a re
suit be vomited up a four-inch lizard
Thieves Steal a Two-Story house.
Cleveland. O.—Some one stole am
carried away a two-story house be
longing to the city. The building
stood on the West 38th street play
grounds.
WOMAN
ESCAPES
OPERATION
WasCured by LydiaE. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound
Elwood, Ind.—“Your remedies have
cured me aud I have only taken six
bottles of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegeta
Die comuoumi. x
was sick three
months and could
not walk. I suf
fered all the time.
The doctors said I
could not get well
without an opera
tion, for I could
hardlv stand the
pr.ins in my sides,
especially my right
one, and down my
right leg. I began
xo teei Dexxer v.nen i nau xaKen only
one bottle of Compound, but kept on
aa I was afraid to stop too soon.”—Mrs.
Sadie Mlt.i.f.x, 2728 X. B. St., El
wood, Ind.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound?
For thirty years it has been the
standard remedy for female ills, anl
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such ail
ments as displacements, inflammation,
ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregulari
ties, periodic pains, backache, indiges
tion, and nervous prostration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound will help yon,
■write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass., for advice. Your letter
will be absolutely confidential,
and the advice free,
SECOND BIBLE A NECESSITY
Experienced Minister Knew What He
Was Talking About When He
Advised Junior.
‘‘N'ow that you are married,” said
the experienced minister to the young
curate, “you will have to stop using
the church Bible for home study. Oh.
yes, I know how It is. You get at
tached to a certain Bible, and can
study better with that right under
your nose, and would willingly pack
it back and forth for the inspiration
It affords. I’ve been through it. Used
to do that very thing myself, but aft
er half a dozen veils and a pair of
gloves and some little lacey things
that I shall not attempt to specify
floated down from the pulpit on Sun
day mornings in view of the aston
ished and amused congregation, I ac
customed myself to two Bibles. The
women folk will put things into the
Bible to press. It is a habit you can't
break them of, and the first thing
you know these feminine knick
knacks go sailing away to humiliate
you.”
That night the curate turned the
pages of his Bible carefully. -A veil
ar.d a scrap of lace fell out. He sigh
ed. The next day he began to culti
vate an affection for a second Bible.
THEN THE AGENT FLED.
I - ■
I
Insurance Agent—I’d like to write a
policy on your life.
Mr. Brighton Early—Better not. I
was bom under a lucky star. If you'd
insure me today it's ten to one I’d die
tomorrow.
Wifely Sarcasm.
“I hear they are wearing nothing
but old clothes at Plunkville-under
the-Peak. That's the place for you to
go. wife.”
"Yes. I can take seven trunks of
old clothes. If old clothes are the
racket, I can make a splurge.”
In Cold Storage.
“I am afraid, your honor, this pris
oner Is a bad egg.”
‘‘H’m! Then we'd better put him in
the cooler."
How About It?
It may also be true that the roll
ing moss gathers no rocks.
The Flavour
of
Post
Toasties
Is so distinctly pleasing
that it has won the liking
of both young and old
who never before cared
much for cereal food of
any kind.
Served direct from the
package-crisp and fresh,
and
“The Memory Lingers”
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
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