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vou want delicious ilavor, fragrance
and health-giving; qualities, you must buy
good tea and then prepare it correctly.
Defiance Tea is the best tea o use, because it is judi
ciously selected by our own experts from the best tea grown.
It is put up by us in air-tight, parchment-lined packages in
the most cleanly manner.
For these reasons Defiance Tea is high-grade, absolutely pure, full
strength, and hence greater in refreshing and nerve-soothimr qualities. It
goes further than most tea, and is therefore more economical.
Get a half-pound package of Defiance Tea today; prepare it according to directions
printed thereon, and it will prove to you conclusively just why you should always
use it in preference to other brands.
Our valuable free offer, printed opposite, is another important "why." Ask your grocer.
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That soda crackers are the best of all food made from flour.
That Uneeda Biscuit are by far the best of all soda crackers.
That Uneeda Biscuit are always fresh, always crisp, always
nutritious.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
THE BEST INDIA INK.
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T 1u INulitlAiit kf Mfitilr lnl.vt. VI 1 41.
N Gold mill Xvry Costly.
"This India k," said the clover Chi
nese art student, "has no more right to
bo called Indian than your American
redskins have to that name, for India
Ink all comes from China, mid India
never produced n stick of it.
"Annul, my own province, Is the ono
where India Ink Is made. The best of
tlio Ink Is kept at homo for the use of
the royal scribes and the olliclal littera
ti. It Is only the lower grudo that Is
exported. This lower grade sells at
wholesale iu Anliul for $1,500 a ton.
"The very best grade of India Ink,
the kind rich with gold, Is worth $75,
000 n ton.
"The constituents of India ink are
colza oil, pork fat, lampblack, glue,
musk, gold leaf and the oil of a poison
ous tree, the heng, which grows only In
the Yangtse valley.
"After the admixture of the oils the
Iumpblack, the fat and the glue, the re
sultant paste is beaten for many hours
with steel hammers upon wooden an
vils, and during that long beating cer
tain quantities of musk and of gold
leaf are added, the musk to give the
luk perfume, the gold to give it luster.
juiui wiuu uiu mu in uricu iui uiiuu
1 weeks In molds. The stocks are then
l decorated, tlio most artistic scribes
R fMVllnir ilium with vnrv bountiful Chi
nese characters.
"There Is no Ink worthy to be men
tioned In the same breath with ours,
an Ink redolent of musk and bright
with gold." Exchange.
other times he is u free ocean" rover,
extending his trading voyages as far
north as the Islands of Negros and
Panay, south to the Celebes and Bor
neo and westerly to the Palawan. Ho
Is the most successful of smugglers,
and a little act of piracy when chance
offers goes without mention. The Moro
is the most perfect of aquatic beings,
the most skillful small boat sailor or
large "prau" navigator extant. He can
no more drown than can n fish. There
Is no record of u drowned Moro. Ho
can dive to the bottom of the sea at
depths of from twenty-live to n hun
dred feet for the valuable mother-of-pearl
shell, and his life Is largely lived
ut sea from infancy. Along the coast
many of the Moro villages are built
over the water. Colonel Owen J.
Sweet, U. S. A., In Harper's Weekly.
Importance of IIoIiIiIph.
For the well being and stable bal
ance of every mind It Is normally nec
essary that every man should have
some pursuit which shall bo uncon
nected with his business, which he
must pursue with absolute seriousness.
The hobby may be 11 game, it may bo
a collection of some sort (oven stamps)
or It may be somo artistic achievement,
and whether a man scarcely attains
mediocrity even In it matters not nt
all, provided he pursues it with the
flxed idea that nothing clso In the'
world matters. London Queen.
Louis XIV. he uniformed' several regi
ments iu the Croat fashion, with litio
shawls ubout their necks. The fashion
took, ami the shawl diminished In size
to the slight strip of cloth we still have
witli us.
Hcnrany Evidence.
"Boo here, Jokely, I'm surprised to
tlnd you writing such bitter, cynical
things about married life."
"Well er Benedict, you see, tho fact
Is cr"
"Oh, don't apologize. It Isn't that.
What surprises me Is hqw, not being
married, you know all those things."
Boston Transcript.
FrlemlN.
"If a man Is friendless It is his own
fault."
"That's right. Why, there are lino
fellows standing on every corner who
would gladly borrow mouoy from him."
Pittsburg Post.
Social Dictionary.
"Society" is now a combination of
men and women who overdress them
selves at the expense of their trades
men that they may overeat themselves
at tho expense of their friends. Life.
It io wise to savo tho first dollar that
ono makes In business, but wiser to
savo tho last.
THE RESTLESS MORO.
Ho Ih Never Unppy I'iiIcnn on n Mil
ru ml I iim: IHpc illtloii.
The Moro Is brave to fearlessness, a
born pirate and essentially a first chibs
fighting man. Ho is never happy un
less 011 a marauding expedition and
btcaling from his neighbors, friends
and foes alike. The chief who is tho
most successful thief Is tho most re
spected and tho most powerful among
chiefs.
Tho Moro trades with his neighbors
on market days In the various coins
of. tho realm, and forelgu moneys At
Tree Sunken of Ilorneo.
The Hying frogs of the Malays ap- 1
pear to be mythical, but tlio tree snakes
of Borneo are credited with taking fly
ing leaps from the boughs of trees to
the ground, '.it is found that scales on
tho lower part of the body may be
drawn Inward so that the wholo lower ,
surfneo becomes concave. Tho resist- 1
nueo to tho air is thus greatly In
creased and experiments Indicate that I
tho snakes do not fall In writhing colls,
but are let down gently in a direct lino
by the parachute-like action of their
peculiar bodies.
Not Ilia.
"I don't see why Peckham should 1
make n poor mouth nil tho time, no
commands n good salary every week'
of his life." I
"Ho may command it, but his wifol
demands it every week." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Tlie Cravat.
The cravat was once tho name of u
great military nation, tho Croats, or
Cravatos, of tlio Balkans. It was their
fashion to wrap large shawls or pieces
of cloth around their necks nnd shoul
ders, About the middle of the, rejgn of
Wool Goes Up in Smoke,
nuffalo. Wyo., July 17. Tho wool
warohoiiKo nt Clcarmont, containing
about 350,000 pounds of wool, burned.
Tho firo is thought to hnvo originated
from sparks from an engine. Loss,
estimated at $80,000.
Fighting at Four Points.
San Salvador, July 17. Guatemala
Is fighting Salvador and Honduras at
four points on Guatemalan and Hon
duran territory. Both aides fight
bravely, with uncertain results.
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Home-made
Sausages
and meats, fish, and game
in season. Wo think, and
almost know, that wo can
please you. Givo us u
trial.
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Successors to
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Red Cloud, Neb.
LINCOLN
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KANBAS CITY
31. LOUIS and
ill points east and
iotith.
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SAL1 LAKE C'l
PORTLAND
SAM FRAMISCO
and all points
west.
TRAINS LIATK AB roLI.OWil
So, 13. PabseiiKer dally for Oberlln
and St. Prunclh brnnchci. Ox
ford, McCook, Deliver and all
polnm west.. -........... 7 '05 a.m.
So, 14. PaflbCURer dally for St. Joe,
Khiihhd City, Alchlson, St.
LoiiIb, Lincoln via Wymoro
and ah polntH eaxt and nonth 20') a. at
So 15. t'ahnciiKcr. dally. Denver, all
points In Colorado, Utah and
California ........... .. 7:50 p.B.
So. 16. PawieiiRcr, dally for St. Joe,
Kansas City. AtcblEon, St.
Louis and all points eaitand
loutb ....... ....i0:ie a.m.
So. 174. Accommodation. Monday,
Ycdne8day nnd Frldoy,IIat
IncB, Grand Island, Ulack
Illlli and all point In the
northweit ...l:oi p.m.
Sleeping, dining, and reclining chair car,
lieats f reo) on through trains. Tickets sold and
baggage chocked to any point In tht United
States or Canada.
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2S cents. Saniplo free. Address
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