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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1907)
Mi wi nermmv uwwjiwniwnmiinwm -VN,V ,w . "v v-w -ysv' - " S him' A. mm, ' v . 7!. .: -X P I, f DM NE WHOUSE -w Jewelers and Optometrists. Got Into the Pulpit. A Ma-Mhon uvunue pastor who likes to be first in the eyes, ears and henrta of hi- congregation had occasion to ills, iiss seriously with his curate ons of that young intin'ti "habits." , 'There have been complaints," said the pastor severely, "that you talk too imi'-h. Not gossip, understand oh, no, ( nothing of that sort but tvrtniu pn rlsliioni'rs havo found you loquacious; long windeil, one might say. At a chi'Nteuiug, at a wedding, al a funeral or at any little meeting over wliieit you may be called to preside you lull: much more than is necessary. That may in time become a serious fault. There are certain prescribed Conns for those occasions, you know. Now, If you would only keep your discourse down to the proper length"--The curate braced himself for tight. "I could keep myself down," he In terrupted, "If I was allowed to talk n little some place else. The trouble Is I'm seething with a certain amount of talk that I've got to get rid of. If 1 was allowed to preach a regular ser mon mice in awhile that might relieve1 the strain, but as I am denied that out-! let I have to seine nil tlio.se other op-' port mil tics and deliver little sermons then. The only way to keep a curate or anybody else from talking too much when he shouldn't talk Is to let him talk some when he has a right to talk." , "Dear me!" said the pastor mildly. I The next Sunday evening the curate occupied the pulpit.--New York Sun. i "n oviiioiiinlion fi.r tile oeCU-'e n doctor of philosophy In thu German universities will be sutllciently Illus trated by giving in brief the require ments in the University of .lenu. The candtdato after gaining permission to enler for the degree presents a short sketch of his life in Latin or Herman, a matiirily certificate, evidence of at least three years of academical study, evidence Hint he has enjoyed a good reputation up to the present time, an original scientific treatise In Herman in his own handwriting and a written declaration on word of honor and oath that the thesis is the candidate's own composition. The payment of 12 10 murks is required. In the oral examination the subject of chief Importance Is that of which the thesis treats, while tho candidate Is allowed to select two mi nor subjects. After this examination and tlio distribution of 'JSO copies of the thesis to the faculty tho degree Is conferred. School Bulletin. J F-' 9inx. ss WE be; lost grae o.isly lo thank you for th a -our twelfth and best Christmas. The peo le appreciated e fact f v we ha assembled the most corn He line of holiday goods eer show i in Red Cloud, and pa" ronized us accordingly. We appre ciate it. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year, and ask ing you to call again, we are Very Truly Yours, vAv A Dislocation. A superintendent In the elementary schools of New York city was making ills dreaded rounds among the te.iehei'i of a girls' school. He suddenly opened the door of one class room and asked the teacher in cliarge: "What are you doing In nature study':" She hurried out of the room and fetched out a basket of hones. "We are taking up the vertebrates." she remarked. "Very good, Indeed." said the superin tendent, and lie hurried out pleased with tills evidence of Industry and in terest in school work. Half an hour later he appeared In u neighboring room and, taking a com prehensive glance, lemarked, "What have you done in nature study?" She, too, from somewhere fetched out a basket of bones. "It seems lo me that 1 have seen thl.s basket of bones in another room be fore," ventured the superintendent. "Sir," she indignantly replied, "these are my own bones!"-Xew York Times. A Talo of Two Parrots. An old maid iiad a parrot whose fa vorite expression was, "I wMi the old woman was dead." This worried her n great deal, and one day when the minister called she spoke to him about It. He said he had a parrot which only said religious things and that he would bring It over some time and see if it would not break her bird from using its favorite expression. So one night they were going lo havo a mooting In her house, and he gather ed up his parrot and look It with him. When he went In ho hung his cage up near where the old maid's was hang ing. The meeting was being opened witli prayer, and all of a sudden her parrot said: "I wish the old woman was dead." The minister's parrot cocked his head and, looking at tho other parrot, In a solemn video said: "We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord." Judge's Library. lib Ar.-... . i "To think." said the visitor, "that you v 111 have to go through life an ox eon v let!" "Well, miss," replied Crowbar Claude, "to tell you the truth, Just at present there ain't nothing I'd llko moro to bo." Kxehaugo. BROTH C, B. & Q. - - n, Breaking tho News. The matrimonial failure of Pat. a barteuler in the center of the city, has been common knowledge for sonic time, and it lias also been no secret that Put really does not blame hii wlfe for her Impatience with his hah its. Pat Is in dead earnest when lie says that his wife really Is too good for him and deserves a divorce, which the self abasing Pal would gladly grant her If II wasn't so expensive. The good faith of Pat in this respect was, however, never more forcibly II lustrated than during the severe at tail; of pneumonia from whll-h lie has just recovered. "Pat, the doctors say you are very sick." said his wife dur ing her visit to the hospital ouo day. "What do they really say? You can't hurt mo by telling the truth," auswci ed Pat. "Well. Pat. they say thai you cannot live," whispered tho wife, final ly yielding to Pat's Insistent demand for the truth. "Don't you believe it. Doctors make a liahit of holding out hopes to the last." diawled Pat hi his wearisome sl.lo. "They are only breaking the news to you gently. I am going to got well." Philadelphia Record. Tolltalo Bibles. A dealer In secondhand books adver tised the other day for old Hlblos be longing to three families thai have lately come Into prominence. "Do they want them as heirlooms?" asked a customer who had read the ad-vertls-einent. "Not a lilt of It." said the dealer. "They want tho Hlblos because they contain a record of births; consequent ly they reveal ages -women's ages, pre sumably. Very often dealers In old hooks are asked to look up Inconven ient documentary evidence of that kind. Kefore days of allliience the family Hl blos got lost In the shullle of moving around. Nobody thought much about tho loss then, but with tho advent of prosperity tlio hooks could easily be come a source of inoitllicatlon to many women If they happened to fall Into tlio hands of malicious persons; henco tho frantic attempts to gather all such records Into tho family." Now York Post. The man who is driven to drink by bad luck would probably have been mined by prosperity. Chicago Itccord-Herald. 1 s S i V V 1 BRS Watch Repairers .rnvv.-A Dogberry's Poetry. Hiving evidence at .Marylelione. a young constable said he found a dag ger on a man he had arrested. "A what?" Mr. Plowdon asked as the eon dlnblo held the weapon up to view. "Why call It a dagger? It has not the slightest resein bianco to one." "Well," faltered the constable, "a sheath knife." Mr. Plowdcu returned: "Yes. Now, try In future to be less picturesque In your descriptions. You cannot be too mat ter of fact In tho witness box. I dare say you have leanings toward poetry In your nature, but you must stlile them In the witness box." London Standard. Ingenious. "Now," said Mrs. Homhirt, "If yon do a little work for me, I'll give you u good meal after awhile." "Say, lady," replied Hungry Hawiuvj, "you'll git oil' cheaper If yer gimme do meal now. Work always gives me a tierce appetite." Kxehange. Not His Fault The Vicar I was surprised to sou your husband walk out In the middle of my sermon last Sunday. Mrs. .lone? You must really forgive him. lie's a .'omnanibiilist und walks In his sleep, you know. Loudon Opinion. Por words nre wise men's counters 1liey do but reckon by them but they ire the money of fools. Hobbos. A' Crunl Inscription. A tombstone unearthed during the demolition of the old churchyard of Radnorshire bore a curiously unloving "In Meiiioriain." Hero It Is: 1 plant tlii'so shrub!) upon your grave, dear wife, That Honicthlui: on this Hpot may boast of life. Shrubs muy wither and all earth must rot; SlirubH may rovlvo, but you, thank heaven, will not. The Cheaper Way. "Do you know, hubby, that when I go to Ostetid I shall dream of you every night?" "If It's all the saine to you, I would prefer to have you stay with mo and (rV'nin of Ostoml."- Fllegendu Hlatter. Why Ho Looked, nojuck Why are yon consulting tho dictionary? I I bought you knew how to spell. Toindlk 1 do. I am not look In for Information, but for corrobora tion. London Tit-Hits. INDIGTMEN1S ARE QUASHED Lend Fraud Cases Will Dc Carried to Supreme Court of United States. lienor, 1J r. .' In llii United Scales dibiii't in, ut lii'M! .Indue It. K. Lewis granted llie motion to qupflh (lu hull Uncut .ituitisl 1-2. M. ll'r.KH, president, and (.'mules I). Mcl'heo and .1. .1 .ti lilmiily, dluror ol tlio Now Mexico Lutrhor cuinpafiy, and Chillies II. Kiociunn and W. W. Nossa until (if Usirango, chatglng them with couspliacy Id deltaud the j;overiinii;iit oT (intlii't land In Atchtilet comity, Colouido. The oi.h-i in (iiasli waa based upon tlu- ;i (i ml il Hint no iilnie nudor tho iedfihl statutt a was shown. Thu touvl also ()iuihril lor tlio sumo ton son th' tnd.iMients iiKahiHt A. T. Snl lonbetgir, (.resident of tlio Pngoau Lumber lonipnny, und ottictu In con nt'i-lluu with the uu'i atltiti of that ccinimuy. The urcltdon of .Midge Lewis In biintd. no to the main point In (ho cam.', upon thu ground IliaL tlio In illitnuiHb ihiiige no tninpcilng with or agm nutit with 'Utrymon prior to the application or tin iiitryiuan fofr tfttidH. Judge Lewis Intimated Hint tho In dtrtiiU'iitH In the coal luiM ouhoii round l.y the Kin".: J'try Inst i.tiniiiici would bIho bo qua'-hed. Tlii' a. - will be carried by tlio po eminent lo I lie supioitio court of tlio United Stales. DISTRUST OF SIlAil SHOWN Persian Ruler Has Not Succeeded In Convincing Subjects. Teheran. Dec. i.,i".--TwcntyfolU, horns' lellectlon seeinu to have con vinced that iniLluii o tlio Persian pule lie which la vols tao constitutionalism that 11 Is bitter to Keep their powdor dry until the shahs pioinlses of re lorin mo convened Into netH. The tit Ui luck ot i-oiillduiiio wits evidenced in Iho ha;:;wiis, wiicio tlio h1io.s that Wf'io leopuiied had their shuttois up ' again. j Small armed crowdtt uro roassem i bling In tlu public squares, hut up to : the prt'seni tiino there bun been no ' nt,'f-rihlou. one ol' tlio chief Icsul ad , vigors of parlianu ;it was hhot at by homo soldiers, but he was not hurt. K Dowlob, who, in accordance with the "shah'ti lunan oath," was banished and ordered to leave. Tehoiiin, refused to go and took rctiiKO at Iho I Mitch location. Naslr III MulU, the fornioi" premier, who was exiled recently, luft Ktizeli for ICiuopc. BAD HEARISKILU8.509 IH YEAR. Returns from Seventeen Cities Show Increase Over Figures of 1906. Chicago, Dec. itf. Tho pace that kills is nut confined to Chicago and New Wk. Fioni widely separated cities como n polls ol an increauod number ot iluillis duo to heait disease. Stati.sUcs lroiu seventeen cities, cov ering practically too out it o United Slates, show that in lUUti the number of victims ot lu ait discitbt) was 1G, li;:t. Intimating the tntallties from this (iiiihu lor tho last ten days of 10((7, the llguies this year will reach the alarming total of IS.obi) an In crease of u.aiii In the cities lrum which figures have been obtained. UtuUti department olllclals and physicians generally iishui that noth ing but a letup in tho "steam pres sure" of Anieilian life will prevent constant inciease of tho peril which bezels tho American nation. cain getslifTiiprisonmeht Sentence Imposed Upon Slayer of Wealthy Iowa Mine Owner. Dos Mol nosi, Dec 13. J. C. Cain, convicted ol milt dei lug C. 11. Morris, u wealthy initio owner, because the latter attempted to drive him out of fii illegal liquor business at one of his mining tamps, was sentenced to life Imprisonment at I'ott Madison. "My life has buui sworn nwtiv." do dared Cain to tho court alter sou Unco had Ik on imposed. "I had no chance acalnst the array of witnesses who eaied nothing for tho truth and only to get me In state's prison." Iowa Has a Rate Problem. Dos .Monies, Dec. 25. The Iowa rail way commission has bt;on asked to solvo a now problem In express charges, It coming from 12. II. Mai tin ol Webster City It Is, "Can an ox press company ehargo the minimum on each of two packagos sent on tlio same bill at the same time to one per son, or should tho two packages ho considered ono consignment and tho regular rate charged?" Tho minimum charge on each package wns jjAj" to Mr. Martin mid brought thigBtO. If it had been one consJJnotli would have cost b0 Morphine Fatal to Children. Marshulltown. la.. Dc-. 25 A boy of four and a girl of three years of ago, son and (laugher of Mr. and Mrs Weiulall Stall, living near Grifiti Mountain, climbed up to the top shelf of the pantry and secured a quantity of morphine pills The boy Is detail and the cirl Is not exuectod to live.