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SCOTT'S EMULSION is a
5 fatty food that is more easily
digested than any other form
of fat. A certain amount of
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500. and $1.00 , all druggists.
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COLEMAN.
Win. ileun is at home now for a few weeks.
II. B. Wales sold over $150 worth of butter ,
last year.
Chas. Wales has bought a colt and Harry a
2-year-old.
Mrs. M. IT. Cole returned from Iowa , close
of last week.
W. M. Sharp and Emil Heinlein killed
twenty-three jack rabbits , Tuesday , and five
Wednesday , on the road to McCook.
The annual hunt in this township came off ,
last week. It was the married men against
the boys , and the kids just scooped us old
chaps to a finish. The married men furnished
the oysters , and the supper was at the home
of Matt Droll. A large number were out to
enjoy the treat. There were oysters young
and oysters old , oysters hot and oysters cold ,
oysters stewed and oysters raw , oysters for
each hungry maw , oysters large and oysters
big , oysters fat as Poland pig , oysters scallop
ed , oysters fried. ( Shorty ate until he cried , )
oysters tender none were tough , the kids
filled up and cried "enough. "
BANKSVILLE.
J. II. Relph's children have been sick with
the grip , this week.
The shooting match advertised for Monday
was indefinitely postponed.
J. Pickrell has been suffering with his old
malady , bronchitis , the past week.
George Rowland was hunting his cows
Monday , that drifted away during the storm.
The meetings which were in progress dur
ing the holidays were closed on account of the
storm.
God approves our toil by setting us new
tasks.
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A SLUMBER SONG.
Bleep , my beloved. To sleep and dream is but.
The night to us la peace- ; the day unrest ,
For day , while parted , brings to us but pain ;
In dreams we live the dear past o'er again.
We weep not in our sleep ;
Our tears arc for the day ,
Which smiles , while I but weea ,
For thou art far away.
Hushed be the voices of the garish day.
Its frets and cares and sorrows swept away ;
Forgotten quite the interval of years
Since last we met , with all their bitter tears.
Sleep , love. To drown is best.
Our waking is but pain ;
In sleep alone we rest
And live the past again.
Sleep , my dear love , and be thy dreams of me !
Waking or sleeping , I still think of thee.
But dreams make present time of all the past ;
The night restores thec would my dreams might
last !
Dream , dear , till the day breaks
'And earthly shadows flee ,
Where morn to grief ne'er wakes
And I be one with thec.
Neil Macdonald in Harper's Bazar.
THEY GOT FRESH AtR.
The Door Remained Open After
Very Forcible Argument.
An old story is told of Joseph Robl-
doux , the founder of St. Joseph , that
had Its origin In Holt county In the
early settlement of that section. The
trader who started the city was re
turning to St. Joseph with a number of
red men , and they stopped with an ac
quaintance of Robidoux's close to
the house , and Robidoux went in to re
main overnight as the guest of his
friend.
The settler closed the front door aft
er they had retired , and Robidoux , who
was used to sleeping in the open air ,
went softly to it and opened It The
owner of the house waited until Robi
doux was in bed again , and the settler
closed it. That was repeated a dozen
times. "The next time that door Is
closed there will be trouble , " said the
man who had founded St. Joseph. He
resumed his couch with that.
The owner of the house closed the
door , and Robidoux met him as he was
returning to his bed. They clinched
and fought by the light of the moon
that came in through the window. It
was a hard fight and lasted a long
time , but at last Robidoux had the set
tler on his back and sat astride of him.
He tangled his hands In his hair and
bumped his head against the puncheon
floor. "Open or shut ? " he asked. The
settler struggled , but did not say a
word. His head was bumped many
times , and the question was repeated.
Finally the settler was exhausted.
His head was bumped again , and Ro
bidoux asked , "Open or shut ? "
"Open , " answered the settler , and
they went to bed with the door standIng -
Ing wide open , admitting the fresh air.
-Kansas City Journal.
ARMORED COFFINS.
They "Were Once Used In n. Church
yard In Scotland.
In the earlier half of the nineteenth
century the practice of stealing bodies
from the churchyards for the purpose
of sale as subjects for dissection , which
was known as "body snatching , " was
for a time very rife.
Various plans were made to defeat
the nefarious and sacrilegious proceed
ings of the "body snatchers , " or "resur
rectionists , " as they were sometimes
called , a very common one being the
erection of two or more small watch-
houses whose windows commanded
the whole burying ground , and In
which the friends of tfjie deceased
mounted guard for a number of nights
after the funeral.
A usual method of .the grave robbers
was to dig down to the head of the
coffin and bore in It a large round hole
by means of a specially constructed
center bit. It was to counteract this
maneuver that the two curious coffin-
like relics now lying on eifther side of
the door of the ruined church of Aber-
foyle , in Perthshire , were constructed.
They are solid masses of cast iron of
enormous weight.
"When an interment took place one of
these massive slabs was lowered by
suitable derricks , tackles and chains
on to the top of the coffin , the grave
was filled in , and there It was left for
some considerable time. Later on the
grave was opened and the iron armor
plate was removed and laid aside
ready for another funeral.
These contrivances still lie on the
grass of the lonely little churchyard ,
objects of curiosity to the passing cy
clist and tourist. Scientific American.
The Explanation.
One morning the readers of a certain
newspaper were perplexed to see In
type the announcement that "the Sco-
tus handed down an important deci
sion yesterday. " The afternoon paper
of the town , with which the morning
paper for years had held a bitter con
troversy , interesting none but them
selves , laughed that day , as the poets
say , "in ghoulish glee , " and It was up
to. the morning paper the next day to
explain that "the types" made them
say that the Scotus did so and so when
the telegraph editor should have known
that that word was merely the abbre
viation of the telegrapher for supreme
court of the United States.
Municipal Ownership.
Municipal ownership long ago passed
out of the stage of theory and experi
ment , if , in fact , it ever belonged there.
Centuries before America was discov
ered public ownership of public utili
ties was highly developed. The city
of Rome 2,000 years ago possessed its
splendid public baths , its superb
aqueducts and other utilities owned
and managed by the government.
No wonder they call it roasting a
man to rake him over the coals. Phila
delphia Record.
The man who is afraid he may work
too hard never does. Chicago Times-
Herald.
AVERTED A SMASH UP
HIS SCHEME WAS SIMPLE AND THOR
OUGHLY EFFECTIVE.
& Snfc PInn , Tint Patented. Tlmt May
Be Followed by Hitllruml Tcle rai > li
Operator * Who MuHt Go to Sleep
While on Duty.
"However tired or overworked lie
may be the railroad operator who al
lows trains to smash into each other
while he pounds his ear is n brainless
idiot , " said William James , nn old
timer. "When I was a youngster I
was In charge of a station down in
Pennsylvania. I went to sleep on duty
because I couldn't keep awake. Trains
met there every hour or so , and I was
the only person to run the business at
that point I went to sleep and slept
six hours , and there wasn't any smash
up or the slightest possibility of one so
far as my station was concerned.
"I was 15 years old when I applied
for a job to Superintendent Pitcairn of
the Philadelphia and Erie. He took
me on immediately and sent me out to
Kane. That was the place where Dr.
Kane , the Arctic explorer , once lived ,
and it was named for him. Kane is on
top of a mountain , with Wilcox at the
bottom on one side and AVetrnore on
the other. Oil is the great product
there now , but In18iJ ( the traffic was
In general freight. Big trains met at
Kane , and for a small place the trallic
was considerable.
"I was met at the station by a big ,
wild eyed man , who said that he guess
ed I was the kid that was going to re
lieve him. He said he was glad to get
out , but he guessed I'd like the work.
" 'You'll have the night trick , ' said
he , 'and you'll only have to be here
from G p. in. to 7 a. m. '
"I looked up with dismay , but he
was striding ahead into the station ,
lie instructed me in my duties , told me
of a country tavern about two miles
away and then swung on to the train
that had been waiting 20 minutes for
lunch and was gone.
"When the day man relieved me the
next morning , I put for the hotel and
found it after tramping about for two
hours and made arrangements to stay
there. The proprietor's wife seemed
to take a motherly Interest in me , and
that afternoon when I started for work
she had a bang up lunch of fried chick
en and jam and things.
"Well , that night about 11 o'clock 1
got hungry for that chicken and hauled
out my lunch basket. I had just got
things nicely spread out on the instru
ment table when in come a fat engi
neer.
" 'Hello , kid ! ' said he. 'That's too
good a feed for you. It'll give you bel
lyache , sure's the world. '
"Whereupon he put me on a bench ,
sat on my legs and ate my supper.
Then he got up , sucking liis teeth , and
said :
" 'See them woods over there ? ' pointIng -
Ing across the track. There wasn't
anything else in sight. 'Well , them
woods is 40 miles long an 15 miles
wide an chuck full o * berries. Go'n eat
y'uself t' death. '
"He walked leisurely out to his en
gine , and I went to the lunch shanty
just below the station and ate up two
days' salary before I discovered how
determined the keeper was to have
plenty of money to support his old
age.
"The next day I didn't go to the ho
tel , but staid near the station and
plotted revenge. It was the custom to
telegraph up from Wilcox the number
of passengers who wanted meals at the
Kane lunch shanty , and when I got thp
first message that night after vainly
scheming all day an idea struck me.
The message read , 'Six suppers on 27. '
I made it read 2G and carried it to the
lunch keeper , who fairly danced with
glee at the unexpected rush. He un
doubtedly saw a Fifth avenue mansion
for his old age. Just as 27 pulled in I
rushed into the shanty with a message
purporting to have come from Wilcox
saying that at the last moment 20 pas
sengers had decided to stay there over
night to take part in a local political
celebration. Flynn was furious and
went to the conductor for corrobora-
tion. The latter heard with a grin the
story of the 2G prepared suppers and ,
remembering his own experiences with
Flynn's prices on two or three occa
sions , simply shrugged his shoulders
and said :
" ' ' '
'Howc'nlhelpit ?
"Well , the loss of sleep that day and
the excitement did me up , and about 11
o'clock I found I couldn't keep my eyes
open. I took the red lantern and nail
ed the tin bottom to a tie in the middle
of the track and went to the edge of
the woods and lay down. When I
awoke , the day operator , who had been
dragged out of bed two hours ahead of
time , was getting the Philadelphia and
Erie railroad system into operation
again after a six hour suspension of
service.
"But there wasn't any smash up , and
no lives had been lost , and I got a job
two days afterward at Titusville. "
New York Sun.
Gllberi'B Satire.
W. S. Gilbert meeting the editor of
Punch one day remarked as he was
leaving him :
"By the bye , Burnand , I suppose a
great number of funny stories are sent
into your office ? "
"Oh , yes , " said Mr. Burnantl , "thou
sands. "
"Then , my dear fellow , why don't
you publish them ? " replied Mr. Gil
bert as he put out his hand to say
goodby.
Clilnere Riddles.
What is the fire that has no smoke
and the water that has no fish ?
A glowworm's fire has no smoke , and
well water has no fish.
Mention the name of an object with
two mouths which travels by night and
not by day.
A lantern. Chicago
A SLEEPY GUEST. .
Why the Lady of the Honne WnV In.
Over Ufa Conduct.
There is a well known legal light of
Chicago who Is in deep disgrace with
out the shadow of an excuse for him
self to bolster up his sinking spirits.
He went out to Hyde Park the other
night to dine informally with some
friends , and his hostess , who had been
married but a short time , put herself
out to entertain him. The dinner was ,
excellent , and the judge did full jus
tice to it. They had coll'ee in the libra
ry , and the biggest , most padded leath
er chair was put at the guest's dispos
al. With a sigh he sank into Its cav
ernous depths and prepared for a luxu
rious evening with a good cigar ahead
of him. Brilliantly his hostess rambled
on. She told stories that were witty.
and she gently del'erred to his views ,
but presently he k-ft her to do all the
talking. In the midst of a striking ac
count of a theater party she stopped
with a jerk. There was no response
and a dead sileiicu punctuated only by
a gentle and regular breathing. The
judge was fast asleep in his big chair.
There was no doubt of it. Nothing
could conceal the fact. With one in
dignant and comprehensive glance at
her plainly delighted husband she
arose and majestically swept up stairs.
And she did not go down again.
It was some time later when her
husband apologetically came up after
her. He had not expected her wrath
to last. "Dui did you think you were
badly treated ? " he asked.
"How long did lie sleep ? " asked the
still insulted wife.
Again the grin overspread her hus
band's face , but he spoke in a sad tone ,
as befitted the occasion. "Nearly an
hour , " he breathed. "I wouldn't mind , "
pacifically.
Then it was the worm turned.
"Mind ! " she stormed. "Of course I
wouldn't , only you have grounds now
for the rest of your life for saying 1
talk so much it piits people to sleep ! "
And she wept. Chicago News.
SOMETHING ABOUT ARMIES.
Artillerymen Were Once
ns Mechanics , Not Soldiers.
Until the time of Charles XII of Swe-
dou the artillery was not considered a
part of the army. The men serving in
It were not soldiers , but regarded as
mechanics. The ollicers had no army
rank. Charles XII gave artillery offi
cers a rank and regularly organized the
artillery into companies. The battle of
Pavia demonstrated the superiority of
the gun in the hands of the Spanish
infantry. The musket carried a two
ounce ball and sometimes brought
down at one fire two or three mailed
knights. The French sent a flag of
truce to remonstrate against the use of
such barbarous weapons.
Alexander had four kinds of cavalry
the cataphrscti , or heavy armed horse ;
the light cavalry , carrying spears and
very light armor ; the ncrobalistre , or
mounted archers , used for outposts , pa
trols and reconuoitering duty , and the
dimachoe , or troops expected to act ei
ther as cavalry or infantry. Alexander
the Great reorganized his father's ar
my. The file or lachos of 1C men was
the unit ; two files made a dilochy ;
tAVO dilochies made a tetrarchy ; two
tetrarchies a texiarchy ; two of these a
syntagura ; 1C of these a small phalanx ;
four of these a tetra-phalangarchy , oth
erwise known as a large phalanx.
The Greeks attacked in a phalanx ,
the spears interlocked and shields over
lapping. After the first onset the spears
were dropped , and the day was decid
ed with the sword. The" cavalry at
tacked the enemy in the rear , if possi
ble , and , in case of victory , undertook
the pursuit. rearson's , Weekly.
Xot tlic Conventional "Woman.
"But I don't know you , madam , " the
bank cashier said to the woman who
had presented a check.
But this woman , instead of saying
haughtily , "I do not wish your ac
quaintance , sir , " merely replied , with
on engaging smile :
"Oh , yes , you do , I think. I'm the
'redheaded old virago' next door to you
whose 'scoundrelly little boys' are al
ways reaching through the fence and
picking your flowers. When you start
ed down town this morning , your wife
said : 'Now , Henry , if you want a din
ner fit to eat this evening , you'll have
to leave me a little money. I can't run
this house on the city water and 10
cents a day' "
"Here's your money , madam , " said
the cashier , pushing it toward her and
coughing loudly. Chicago Tribune.
What the Tots Said.
Here are some sayings of children
reported by the Chicago News :
"When small Bobby had worn his
first pair of trousers for an hour , he
went to his mother and begged to have
on his kilt again. 'What for ? ' she ask
ed. 'Because , ' replied Bobby , 'I feel
EO lonesome in pants. '
"A mother recently had occasion to
leave her little 4-year-old son alone at
home while she made a brief call in the
neighborhood. 'Did you get lonesome ,
dear ? ' she asked upon her return. 'Yes ,
mamma , ' replied the little fellow. 'I
felt just like a widower without you. ' "
Diplomacy "Wins.
Ardent Suitor I lay my fortune at
your feet.
Fair Lady Fortune ! I didn't know
you had money.
Ardent Suitor I haven't much , but
it takes very little to cover those tiny
feet.
feet.He
He got her. London Telegraph.
The average man will pay 50 cents
to see a show of fireworks and neglect
to look at the sunset , which he can
see almost every night for nothing.
Louisville Journal.
Something very similar to the tele
phone was used in China 1,000 years
ngo.
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