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CORRESPONDENCE
Interesting Items Gathered
by Our County R-cporters
HIGHLAND, KAN.
Harvey Morrill of Dutch Flat was In
Highland Tuesday.
Ruby Boyco has opened up n tonso
rinl parlor in North Branch.
Fred and Clara Liggett wore doing
business in Rod Cloud Suturday.
A number of men from NorthBruuoh
will open up 11 huge department storo
in the near future.
Miss Blanche McCartney of Gar
field spent 11 few days this week with
her sister, Mrs. Ida Young, before
leaving for Omaha Friday to take up
her duties as a professional nurse.
Rninoy Boycc, who had the internal
part of his anatomy ralsod a short
timo ogo with little giant baking pow
der, had the misfortune to run a snag
in his oar and it is feared his drum is
punctured.
If tho big Injun would open up his
heart and offer some of those two bit
checks, which ho seems to be so flush
with to his needy corrrspondent-. in
place of bestowing his wompum on his
brother editor, who is already burden
ed with more things than he can curry,
tho hereafter would look much
brighter for tho correspondent, at
least. To bo sure two bits isn't much,
but from little there is but little ex
pected. See!
BLADEN
C. H. Keed returned to Boise City,
Idaho, last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reed spent
Sunday at the home of II. B. Boyd.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Letner visited
ut tho home of Mr. Snyder last Sun
day.
Mrs. Wheeler of Chicago is ho. ) vis
iting at the home of her father in-law,
Mr. Wheelor.
Miss Gladys Reed returned homo
Tuesday from a several days visit with
uncle, Fred Reed.
Mr. and Mrs. Juntos Ray wont to
Grand Island Monday to visit his
brother Wulluce.
John Krall returned from Beatrice
Wednesday, where ho had been visit
ing his brother George.
Mrs. Georgo Newhouse returned to
her homo Thursday, after spending u
week visiting here with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. MoBrido of Cowles
drove up Sunday and spent the day
with relatives. Jim returned in tho
evening, but Mrs. McBride will spond
tho week visiting relatives and friends.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS Al
KANSAS CITY.
TJHE WEEK'S TRADE REPORTED BY
CLAY. ROBINSON & COMPANY,
(LIVC STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
C?PICG AT OHIOAQO, KAN8A8 OITY,
OMAHA, SIOUX CITY. ST. JOSEPH
AND DENVER.
Kansas City, June 20. Receipts of
cattle Monday wero 80000; trade for
beef steers generally 10 cents highor,
top $5.60; strong to 10 conts higher for
cows and heifers; stockors ird feeders
firm to irregularly higher Receipts
today wero 7000 and the market steady
to 10 cents higher for all grades.
Tho following table gives prices
now ruling.
Extra prime corn-fed steers. .S5 50-5 75
BlfiViiaMlJrS
4 oo-r m
4 25-4 05
4 7-5 00
4 35-i C!5
.1 no 4 oo
4 25-4 HO
.'J 75-4 00
.'1 25-3 50
2 25-2 75
4 00-4 50
.'175-4 00
.1 25 -.165
2 50-3 00
5 00-0 25
3 75-4 25
3 25-3 50
2 75-iJ 50
i Feeders
Fair
Good to choico heavy brand
j ed horned feedors
Fair
i Common
Good to choico stock heifers
4 25-1 05
4 00-4 25
3 25-4 00
3 00-il 50
2 50-3 00
3 00 3 25
2 50-2 75
8 75-1 25
3 25 3 50
3 25-3 50
2 75-3 25
Fair
Good to choico stock calves,
steers
Fair
Good to choice stock calves,
hoifers
Fair
Receipts of hogs Monday wero 8500
and the market steady to strong, clos
ing work. Receipts today wero 12,000,
market steady to 5 cents highor, clos
ing strong, bulk of sales $0.35 to 0.50;
top 80.55.
Receipts of sheep Monday wore 11,-
1 000, market active and strgng. Ari
I zona grass Iambs brought $7.85;
(wether?, $0.50; ewes, $5.75. Receipts
today were lu,uou market tirm.
WOMEN HOTEL CLERKS.
Dntr Tlione In Kurope IiiiprpMftril n
IVoinnii Traveler.
In most European hotels In the small-
w places tiie visitor is mot at tne iiesit
by a woman Instead of by the perfunc
tory clerk so familiar to Americans at
homo. I think this Is because u wo
in tin can be more successful In the art
of common, everyday robbery. One
doesn't like to argue about the prices
with a sweet, smiling little lady, who
seems to be exerting herself to nu ex
treme degree to secure one's comfort
and happiness, but If one happens to
ho making short stopH here and there it
is wise to put awuy suavity for the
time being to the extent nt least of an
occasional mild protestation.
When in n dn me smiles benignly and
tells you that the room you have chosen,
with everything Included, will be 20
francs a day It Is well to remember
that "everything Included" doesn't In
clude everything by ony means. There
are n hundred and one little "extras,''
like tea, after dinner coffee, coffee and
rolls In your room In the morning and
such like luxuries, to say nothing of
service, which must be paid for first
hand If It Is to bo enjoyed at all. So
III j iiittii,t UMiwtiiKU in iriuuuii ittiv-
lug chances ngalnst n protest and will
bo enormously pleased with herself If
.none Is forthcoming. It Is the same all
up and down the scale of prices, but I
suppose those who can afford to go up
the scale never care particularly.
Eleanor Franklin In Leslie's Weekly.
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SOURCE OF SHELLAC.
The EliNt India InncctH That Produce
the IlcNtnouM SiiIiNtance.
India Is the home of the Coccus lac
ca, the Insects that produce the resin
ous substance known as shellac. Tho
( females puncture the twigs of several
different kinds of trees, among them
the bo, the blluir and the butea, and the
' twigs become lucrusted with u hard,
nearly transparent, reddish, resinous
substance that serves the double pur
pose of protecting the eggs and finally
furnishing food for the young Insects.
Tho lucrusted twigs are broken from
tho trees before the young Insects es
cape and are thoroughly dried In the
sun. These dried twigs are called
"stick-lac," and from them shellac and
a dye nnalogous to cochineal are pre
pared. "Seed-lac" Is tho resinous con
cretion separated from the twigs,
coarsely pounded and triturated, with
Health
Calumet makes
light, digestible
wholesome food.
Economy
Only one heap
ing teaspoonful
is needed for one
quart of flour.
Good corn fed steers
Ordinary corn fed stoors ....
Clioico corn fed heifers
Good corn fed heifers
Medium corn fod heifers. . . .
Choico corn fod cows
Good
Medium ............ .... ....
dinners
Clioico stilus
Choice fed bulls
Good
Bolognabulls
Veal calves
Good to "choico native or
western stockers
Fair
Common
Good to choico heavy nativo
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water fii o mortar, by which' nearly all
of the coloring matter Is removed.
To prepare shellac the sccd-lae Is put
Into oblong cotton cloth bags and
warmed over a charcoal fire. When the
rosin begins to melt the bags are twist
ed, and the pure, clear rosin Is allowed
to flow over fig wood planks or the
smooth stems of the banyan tree and
cools In the thin plates or shells which
constitute shellac.
Pure shellac Is very valuable. It Is
much harder than colophony and Is
easily soluble in alcohol.
FIGHTING FISH.
I'pcnllnr AnlmnlN Tlint Arc Fonntl
Only In Slnmcno Wnr.
A favorite recreation In Slam Is
watching the fighting fish, a species of
fish found In tho waters of no other
country. The fish cannot live In unity,
and If two are placed In a howl they
will Instantly engage In u struggle "to
the death."
It is no unusual thing to sec in the
streets of Slam crowds of natives chat
tering and gesticulating nround n bowl
containing a number of these flsh,
which they bet on In the same way as
more civilized people do on race horses.
Intense excitement reigns among the
natives as they watch the fish fighting
within tho bowl.
These peculiarly quarrelsome fish are
very similar to tho common pike In ap
pearance, with Uie exception that they
are not In the possession of gills. Their
fins, too, nre remarkably sharp, and
these they use with terrible effect upon
one another. Blood oozes from their
sides, and yet they persist In fighting
until perhaps only two are left alive,
and then the survivors turn on one an
other until only one Is left out of per
haps a dozen placed in the tub.
Although the fighting fish ore ex
ceptionally good to eat, the majority of
natives esteem them only for their
fighting propensities, which affords
them amusement and excitement every
day. '
I.nnilon'n Lnnt Pnlille HnnftlnK.
The grewsomc spectacle of a public
execution in England Is happily u thing
of the past. The scaffold used to be
erected In the roadway outside the
prison, and crowds would assemble to
witness the sight, the last time a man
was hanged in public being when Mi
chael Barrett suffered the extreme pen
alty lu Muy, 1808, in Old Bailey, out
side Newgate prison, for exploding a
cask of gunpowder under the walls of
Cl'erkenwcll prison to release the Fe
nian prisoners Burke and Casey, a mad
act that killed several and injured still
more. London Graphic.
"THE SONG OF THE SHIRT."
It Proved the Moat Popular Thins
Hood Ever Wrote.
During his last illness Tom Hood in
an Idle moment made an Imaginative
sketch of his own tombstone. He drew
himself reclining at full length on a
thick slab of stone, on the edge of
which In large capitals he wrote, "He
Sang tho 'Song of the Shirt.'" This
was the only Inscription, and, as he
himself has sulci, Tom Hood needs no
other.
How much he felt and prided him
self upon the song by which he became
known and loved by millions Is shown
by this and the following fact: "If I
were ennobled these nre the arms I
should adopt," said he one day, show
ing n rough vignette to a friend. The
sketch contained a very beautiful and
pathetic Idea. It represented a heart
pierced by a needle threaded with sil
ver tears, and beneath was the motto
he had inscribed on tho imaginary
i tombstone.
"The Song of the Shirt" appeared In
the Christmas number of the fifth vol
ume of Punch. It was unsigned, but
every paper in the land quoted it, and
it speedily became the talk of tho day.
Hood himself did not think It very re-;
markable, but Mrs. nood had said to
him as she folded It for press: "Now,
i mind; Hood, mark my words, this will
I tell wonderfully. It Is one of tho best
things you over did."
Mrs. Hood was right. The song was
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translated Into French, German and
Italian. It was printed on cheap cot
ton handherchlefs and parodied times
without number.
THE FIRST MONEY.
It la Credited to the I.ydlnnn of Aula
Minor.
i It Is difficult to realize that prior to
B. C. 700 there wero no true coins, that
ingots or buttons of gold and silver
! were weighed nt every mercantile
transaction. The Lydlans of Asia Mi
nor are credited with having been tho
first to cast and stamp with an official
device small oval gold ingots of defi
nite fixed weight, nn Invention strungc-
i ly delayed, but of Inestimable "impor
tance to industry and commerce. A
coin has been described as "a piece of
metal of fixed weight, stamped by au
thority of government nud employed
ns n medium of exchange." Mednls,
though struck by authority, oro only
historical records and have no currency
vnlue.
The bright far flashing Intellect of
Greece saw the import of ho Ly an
Invention and adopted it quickly, and
every Greek state, nearly every city,
Island and colony, established a mint,
generally ot some ono of tho great tern
njesj for jill early coin, types nrojrelj-
OUR MOTTO: "Satisfaction or
your money back"
combined with plain figure
prices steadily adhered to,
has brought us a constantly
growing business. Quality
first, price next. Nothing but
standard made, reputable
goods at lowest profit prices.
Always willing to
and compare prices
or Chicago houses.
Newhouse Bros.,
Jewelers and Opticians. B. 6, M. Wntch Inspectors
glous In character. Tiiey0enr symbols
of some god as a pledge of good faith.
The offerings, tithes and rents of the
worshipers wero coined and circulated
as money. Temples thus became both
mints and banks. Our word "money"
Is said to hnvo been derived from the
Roman shrine of Juno, Moncta, tho
earliest Latin mint.
The first shape of these early coins
was that of an enlarged coffee berry,
punched on the rounded side with offi
cial letters or sinkings, as they are
called.
Earth Carvatnre and Vision.
One of the "seven wonders of the an
cient world" was the Pharos, or light
tower at Alexandria. If you have a
popular account of that great structure
handy, read It carefully and note that
you ure Informed that the tower could
bo seen nt a distance of from 100 to
150 miles. Let us see if this could pos
sibly be true. The curvature of the
globe is 0.09 inches to tho mile. This
being true, wo find that an object 100
feet high can only be seen at a frac
tion over thirteen miles. Figuring on
tho basis of an earth curvature of even
seven Inches to the mile, we find that
the light tower In question must have
been over a mile in height If visible
even at n distance of 100 miles.
Old Workmen,
An Englishman who Is a large em
ployer of labor has been Investigating
the arguments of ttiose who say that a
worklngman under modern conditions
becomes at an early age valueless. Ho
has kept a record of all accidents that
have incapacitated his men for three
days and upward. The people engaged
lu hlB employment are from fifteen to
sixty-five years of age, and he asserts
that more accidents occur to men un
der thirty than to those over fifty. He
says, "I would much rather Intrust nu
exceptionally dangerous Job to n man
over fifty than to one of thirty years
of age."
SOUPS AND BROTHS.
They Are Stimulating, bat Ilave Lit
tle Nutritive Value.
Soups and broths made of the meat
Pe8 alo fnd w,tuout tue "J?"10"
tt innnf unhatn lien nirffB. VPCOtnlllPH Or
of meat substance, eggs, vegetables or
cereals have little nutritive value, al
though they do possess stimulating
properties.
A dog would starve to death In ten
days If fed upon beef broth pure and
simple.
Soup interferes with digestion when
ever u full meal is eaten. I consider it
as being entirely superfluous and ad
vise Its discontinuance in n substantial
dinner menu.
Soup, being practically all wuter,
plays an Important part In conjunction
with the large quantities of other
liquids injected during mealtime in de
laying and Interfering with digestion
and iaylug u foundation for stomach
trouble. Through It and the other
liquids used the stomach Is not only
overfilled and unnecessarily burdened,
but the gastric secretions are so weak
ened by dilution that they can act but
slowly upon tho food mass. Here
again we havo the food remaining In
the Btomach for too long u period, and
thero Is likely to bo produced all of tho
symptoms and signs of an intoxication
(dhe 7bso pUon in o tlrsystem
decomposed foods.
, -',, liv Ito,r ' llh n h
Soup eaten by Itself or with a light
meal, ns u rulo, does not act harmfully.
-What to Bat
show our goods
with either local
FEED PLUMB
Has just received a
complete line of
FRESH
Bvilk
Garden
Seeds
Also handles
Flow Feed
Telephone 51.
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Miss Jessie Wert
INSTRUCTOR OF
Piano, Organ and Voice
Studio at Mrs. Josie Moran-
villo's, two blocks oast of
. school houBo. Phoho 201.
DR. W. S. SMITH
OSTEOPATH
LINDSEY BLOCK!
Red Cloud, - Neb.
I HAVE
Six Companies
8oo policies represent
ing over $2,000,000 in
surance in Webster
county. Now is the
time to get in the
Band Wagon.
O. C. TEEL,
Insurance and Notary.
Telephones: Country, No. SG;
Boll, No. 08. '
Te Cure Cold a In Om Day.
Take Laxative Bromn quinine tab
lets. Druggists refund money if it
fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature
is on eucb box. 25 cents.
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