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J V V ft" ""ff- I. f- . j : --, MY LADY'S SONG BT JOSEPH TBlTXaX, . O. ladYaiiBe. Yoar rare dltT of tee Bhiael Xjorelj Tlstoas rise aad float Oa the wave afeaca fall Bote; SUver- daybreaks bfishtea alow. Bassets bUsa on asoaatafa bow, feoaligfct salvers oa the sea, AatsBaa boras 1b bush sad tree, Aad a chana lights ererrtaiag As I luteal sad job sing. Bknriag willows band sad sigh, Whispering rivers wsnder by, Tbrosgn the fines sweep sea-toBes soft, Sslling rooks shout loud aloft, Wildfowl crooning cross the mere, lhrostles in the dawn call clear. Vanished faces gleam and go. Silenced voices manner low. Gentlest snemories come and cling As I listen and you stag. Ahl repeat the music's tale. Zor sfcoU perish not, nor fail! I forget the fear of death, Breathe la thought Immortal breatn I beliete fa broadening truth. In the generous creeds of youth, In consoling hopes that climb Up to some triumphal time. And a dream of splendor bring As I lis tenandyousing. THE OLD FLINT LOCK. BY IAKKY OXKAKY. Then is an old flint lock pistol here !n my library which has an interesting aistory. It was formerly one of a collection of antique firearms belonging to a family named Herbin. A number of unex pected deaths had reduced this family to an old grandmother, a young man named George Herbin, and an idiot boy called Morg, an abbreviation of Mor gan. To all the wealth of the family the idiot Morxr was heir. He was a silly looking little fellow, who went around with hw forearms projecting, his hands hanging limply, his head thrown back most of the time and his mouth wide open. He was 10 or 12 years old, sound in body, and would probably live to an advanced age. This latter fact was a great aggrava tion to George, for in case of the idiot's death he would come into the possession rf the estate. When he looked at the old mansion and tbe beautiful grounds, he became greatly exasperated to think that it all belonged to a person who had not the slightest capacity for enjoying it, while he, a man of educated tastes and much refinement, must spend his days in poverty. George Herbin brooded on his mis fortune until he became morose and sullen. Often lie would waich the idiot boy for hours just for the pleasure of hating him. He heartily wished the child dead. "It would be better for him and for me," said George. Morg'sonly pleasure was imitating the actions of those near him. Often he played in the yard and watched the people passing by. If ne saw a man raue his hat to" a lady, he would raise his very poberly as if wondering what it was for. He seemed to have a slight curiosity to know things, and occasion ally even seemed to be trying to think. But no gleam of intelligence ever came to him. However he never failed to imitate the actions of others. If he saw the gard ener raking, he got a stick and went throush the motions himself. If the gardener stopped to scratch his head, the boy scratched his, too. If the hostler curried the horses, the boy imitated him. Through all the years that he had been able to toddle around this had been his constant, employment There was not the slightest probability that there would ever come to him a mental dawn. His silly laugh and laden eye remained always the same. One day George was in the library. He was sitting in a great leather-cushioned chair. He had been trying to read, but hb mind was full of dark and gloomy thoughts and he had hardly turned a page. Presently he heard a clatter of heavy shoes on the porch and on the threshold. It was Morg entering the room. George did not look around. The scowl on his face grew darker. He was not a man of pure up right princip'es. He was one .ot those who, in favorable circum stances, will lead honorable lives, but when crowded to the wall by adversity, or for some reason made dissatisfied with their lot, will do dark deeds. Thinking on this idiot boy as the only barrier to his becoming a wealthy man, was rapidly making George Her bin bad. He wished the boy were dead. Is it not a dark soul that can have such a wish? Rising from his seat George threw the book on the floor and strode over to the mantle. Morg picked up he book and threw it down just as George had doce. George smiled wickedly, devilishly. On the wall there were fastened some old swords and pistols. One of the latter had become loosened from its fastenings and lay on the mantle. George picked it up and turned it over and over, looking at every part atten tively. It was an old duelling pistol and had been used in more than one ocounter. Morg reached up to get it, but he was not high enough; and George laid it down again. Then he leaned his elbow on the mantle and fell to thinking. He was wishing as usual that the imbecile at his side were dead and that he were rich. Suddenly George's face became very red, then very pale. His eyes stared fixedly at the old flint-lock pistol. A terrible thought had come into George's mind. It staggered him for a moment, but his month soon took on that set expression which indicates de termination. Xhe child was watching closely. George picked up the pistol, drew back the hammer) and held the muzzle close to his forehead. It happened that there was a red birth mark visible where the muzzle ' touched. George usually had his hair brushed down over it, but it was now ' to be seen plainly. The child was watching closely. George pulled the trigger. The sparks flew as the flint 6truck. The child laughed and again reached apfor the pistol. George cocked it again and laid it on the mantle. Then he left the room. When it was dark George entered the library, stealthily. By the mantle there was a chair as if a child had stood aa it. The pistol lav near where he had placed it The trigger had been palled again and the flint was just over the open pan. George drew a paper of powder from his pocket and poured a quantity of it is the pistol. Then he took a ball from aether pocket and rammed it down. Some finer powder he placed in the pan. After cocking the pistol here plseed it oa the mantle and left the -Jt was a bright moonlight night Than were many deep shadows of aarab and tree oat on the lawn, and George strolled through them for hears, basy with his own thoughts. ffia dark, moody feelings were gone. He fait macb, brighter and looked te the futare with pleasure. True, he fatt- a aaaae of guilt, for he believed the law weald find the aistol lyina: on the tae aext osy. waa laenr sloaggedhkshoaldera. raaoaldl carer ha thoagat -The boy k a curse. He is a nothing. It will ha batter for all waea he is Whv need I feelaoT mave otaaac. If something aaoald oc- r, aat I to bhme? Well, perhaps, a Satwaawiuaaowr- But what if this "something" should BOt occur? Then what? Poverty and dependence. George's face grew dark. However it was only for an instant He was very sure. Tired of walking, George sat down on a chair just outside the library window. Meanwhile the brain of the little im becile was more active than it had ever been before. Henad climbed upon the chair, taken the pistol and snapped it delighted to see the sparks fly. His nurse had fonnd him there on the chair at dusk and bad taken the pistol from him. Morg was put to bed, but he did not aleep. He lay quite still for a long time until his nurse went away. Then he got out of bed laughing, for he was vaguely aware of having played a trick on her. The great house was quiet and dark. He stole along the hallways, down the stairs, into the library. Climbing up on the chair, he soon had the flintlock in his hands. He got down and went over by the window where he could see his new plaything by the light of the moon. It gave him the greatest de light, and he was gently laughing in his silly way. He reached the window without mak ing a noise, for he was barefooted. Just outside sat George, wholly absorbed in his own thoughts. The moonlight shone on his forehead. The wind gently blew back his hair. There was the birth mark. The idiot boy opened his eyes wider. That red spot on the white forehead was connected in his feeble mind with the muzzle of the old flintlock. Slowly, as if not knowing just what he was doing, he lowered the pis tol until the muzzle was within an inch of tbe man's head. George had not heard a sound. Now he saw. He turned quickly to find him self confronted with the death he had prepared for another. His wild, terrified expression fright ened the child. There was a flash and a report George fell back in his chair and a stream of blood flowed from his head near the red spot The idiot boy dropped the pistol, amazed at the report Then he laughed and ran away. George Herbin had reaped what he had sown. The Tunnel Seemed ong. A thrilling experience, although not ending fatally, was had by a railway mail clerk who acted as distributor on a local train, says the Washington Star. He had a car to himself, and at one station up in the Alleghany Mountains had left his car for a minute or two to run forward to the engine, which was taking water. The water tank was directly west of the great tunnel, and when the tender was filled and the train started the clerk sprang for his car. The entrance to the car was on the side and a solitary handle was grasped, whereby the clerk pulled himself up to the door. To his horror he found the door had been jarred shut and could not be opened from the outside, and the second that he discovered this fact the train shot into the tunnel. With a desperation born of a terrible death staring him in the face the clerk ham mered and kicked on the door and shrieked aloud for help, but the noise of the train drowned his crios, and with both hands grasping the handle his feet on the iron step and his body glued to the side of the car, for fear of being dashed off by the jagged sides, he was carried through the tunnel. As the tunnel is a mile long and the atmosphere therein is almost stifling this luckless mail clerk's experience can be better imagined than described. When the train shot into daylight again the engineer looked back, as is the custom, to see if his train was following all right, and discovered the clerk in his harrowing position. Quickly stopping his engine the engineer ran back, and with the assistance of the conductor, helped the almost demented man to the f ground, where he utterly collapsed, tue strain upon his nerves being too great For six months he was under a physi cian's care, and after he had become a well man again, he said: "I thought that tunnel was ten miles long, and my head, I imagined, was hollow, with the dense smoke rushing in my mouth and nostrils and coming out of my ears like steam pipes. Whenever I think of that ride my brain reels and I feel myself crouching as I did upon the outside of the car during that horrifying experi ence. Bow They Drive la fwondoa. England is the only place I know of where they drive to the left English drivers say that by sitting on the right and driving to the left they can better watch the hubs of approaching vehicles, and thus prevent collisions. I don't exactly understand this, but it is the explanation they give for driving to the left Quick-going vehicles will turn a cor ner sharply, but the driver raises his whip to notify the vehicle in his im mediate rear that he is about to turn. "Cabbies' are more considerate concern ing fellow-drivers than they are thought ful about the lives and limbs of pedes trians. All their attention is given to the roadway. Pedestrians mnst look out for themselves or be run over. That is why co many of the Lodon police are engaged solely in attending to street traffic. Yet vrith all their vigilance, more accidents occur in London propor tionately, than elsewhere. London drivers are polite and very civil to each other. If an obstruction appears in front of a horse, or if for any reason, he is obliged to suddenly slow up, the driver will immediately notify the driver in the rear by holding out horizontally his left arm; and this sign is passed down from one driver to another until the venTend of the line of blocked ve hicles u reached. New York Home Journal. Dew to Fear the Sance. "Have you any idea why this Wor cestershire sauce botle has such a pe culiarly shaped stopi er ?" asked a noto rious bon vivant of The Man About Town the other evening over a bit of cold roast, a horse-radish jar and some "steins." The Man About Town had often no ticed the long, slender glass stopper, but had never wasted any thought as to its particular use. He ventured a guess that it was given that shape for the pur pose of .keeping the strength of the aauce unimpaired. - "No, that's not it Not one person in a thousand can tell, not one person in a thousand knows how to pour out this sauce properly. If you simply pour the sauce out of the bottle, you are apt to get more than you want; besides, an untidy stream of the brown condi ment will trickle down the side of the bottle and stain the wrapper. Now, take the stopper, hold it up against the mouth of the bottle with three fingers of the left hand and pour out the sauce. You can direct the sauce, limit the amount and when yon are through not a drop of it will flow down the neck of the bottle. This is the decantation principle in chemistry. St. Louis Be public " Pretty Certain. A well-known Detroit millionaire Baying to his confidential clerk the other day: "Now I've arranged those papers for mv wife and children all right so that if I die" "If you die," interrupted the secre tary, "say when you die; there's no if about dying." The man who-is true to the beat ha kaowB will do to trust anywhere REAL RURAL READING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PARTMENT. DE- ef Small arass Aa laaaar- taat Saaject far Fai aims ts Disease Bow t Make a Drtaaia Feaatala tor FoBltrr Idve-Steck Nates-Taa Dairy, Ueaaefcold, aad Kltehea. THE FARM. Beads. NE of the most important subjects that farmers can discuss at their in stitutes is the im prove men t of country roads. Within the last quarter of a centu ry marvelous im provements have been made in rail way and ocean transportation.but within that time there has been lit tle or no progress in tbo making or improving of com- mon country roads. Railroad transportation rates have been reduced until it costs no more to carry a bushel of grain to the seaboard than it does to haul it the avcrago dis tance from the farm to the railroad. It does npt look very well, then, to bo grumbling about freight rates when there Is such an enormous waste of power dragging loads of grain from the farm to town over bad roads. Good roads would greatly lower the cost of transportation, and bring tho farmer nearer the market In no better way can the selling value of the average farm be increased than by good roads. The popular way to make any expense abhor red is to show it up as a tax. A very gooa application of this can be made to bad roads. Some of the taxes about which the farmer is urged to grumblo are ut terly insigniGcant in comparison with tho indirect taxation of the bad road over and often through which he hauls his products to market It costs money to build good roads, but they are worth all they cost It costs a good deal more to travel over bad ones than it does to build good ones. One of the best things the farmers of any community could do for themselves and the common welfare is to unite and thoroughly improve tho high ways. Tho best methods of doing this should be discussed and decided upon at tho institutes, and organized efforts made to carry out tho Improvements. Farm and Fireside. -Importance er Small Farms. The most successful farming I have ever seen has been on small farms, says Waldo F. Brown in Country Gentle man, and in my own practice the most profitable and pleasant farming I ever did was on a farm of forty acres. A ma jority of farmers, I think have too many acres, and would make more money and do less bard work if a part of their land were sold and tho money invested in im proving tho acres left. Many farmers act as though they considered the great object in life to die possessed of many acres, while undoubtedly it ought to be to enjoy comfort as they pass along their journey. I have had a chance to con trast tho large and small farms to somo extent the past winter, and I have been confirmed in the opinion that as a rule the man with a small farm has less care and a larger per cunt of profit than one with a large farm. On a large farm there is a loss of time in drawing the crops, taking out manure, and in getting around to feed stock, and the owner can not give that personal attention to which tho owner ot a small farm can, and as a consequence there must be innumerable small losses which aggregate a large sum. Tho man who manages a small farm, first to supply his family all that he pos sibly can for their support and comfort and then chooses wisely some specialty for a money product, will, as a rule, bo found prosperous even in hard times. I have not met a butter specialist at tho institutes the past winter who was com plaining of hard times. I have known poultry farms run at a handsome profit, and various specialties which have brought comfort and competence to their owners. Tbo family with a full supply of fruit vegetables, poultry and dairy products, meats and brcadstuffs sup plied by the farm, and which has a sur plus'of each to disposo of to pay bills, can live easily and comforably on a small farm, and? will not need to cultivate a great breadth to meet- expenses, for theso cln bo kept down to a low limit It is not tho acres we cultivate, nor even the bushels of grain produced, that de termine tho profit of farming, but the most important factor of all is the art of production, and next to that is tho wis dom with which we feed and sell the products of the farm. A common mis take and one which often means life long bondage for the farmer and his wife Is to buy a second farm after they reach middle life and run in debt for a part of it and increase their cares and labor without increasing their nut profits. Ditcher for Surface Drainage la Wheat. The generally accepted opinion among leading farmers is that land for winter wheat should not be plowed near the time of sowing, but should receive fre quent shallow cultivation and be com pacted as much as possible. This top cultivation naturally fills up the furrows. To re-epen theso use a ditcher. Easily made and costs little. This implement used before not after the drill will lift tho soil out of the furrows and the wings will spread it back evenly, leaving the land nicely rounded to be crossed at right angles by the drill, and tho little chan nels made by the feet of the drill should be left unmolested to form a ready oxit for superfluous water. Description: A pole 7 feet long, 10 inches in diameter. B wings 4 feet long and 4 inches by Hi inches, screwed to the upper part of A with one or two braces further back. C point, the foot of an old cultivator will do. D about 2 feet of old sleigh shoeing attached to A and C by the same two bolts. E piece of old saw or sharp edged tool projecting downward through A to act as a rudder. Total cost: A little ingenuity, one and one half hours' work and a blacksmith's bill of 45 cents. J. If. Cannon, in Practical Farmer. Livestock States. The following notes on stock are from the columns of the Xorthicestern Farmer. Ix the Summer at least mill feeds can be purchased and fed to pigs with profit. If you are breeding pigs to sell young raise the onesjnost sought for in your vicinity. Wheat middlings is a good material for growth, and corn one of the very best to fatten. Pigs naturally have a strong, quick digestion when it is not over crowded or clogged. Improper feeding of the dam often causes serious disorders with the pigs. Use care in this respect With pigs, youn? animals give a bet ter return for the food given than those ""SSiSr..- mw,a urtC.l, . rri,i i. rt ,, w.7.r ?iTwlwmnStnfit 8urestWyof clearing the most profit If you arc feeding for profit see that the pigs have a good pasture, fresh water, and a comfortable shade. Properly fed out a ton of wheat mid- dlings will go farther in making growth with pigs than a ton of corn. Ose advantage in letting pigs have the run of a good pasture is that they will usually take all needed exercise. Wnai they can be secured at a able cost threshed oats make a splendid feed for a young growing pigs. The secret of good breeding is that the extra food digested goes to profit while if there is no gain it is wasted. . It Is poor economy to keep a pig poor and lean all summer in order to give him a good appetite for corn in theTalL Youiro growing pigs crave a variety of food, and it can be given In their slops to a better advance than In any other way. The sow or boar that has nothing to recommend it but pedigree, should be fattened and marketed as soon as pos sible. THE POULTRY YARD. Parities; Eke After procuring baskets of light tough material and proper sizes, writes F. E. Nuss to Fancier and Farm Journal, I place a lining of two or threo thick nesses of paper on the sides and bottom of basket Place a layer of Excelsior three-fourth or one inch deep in bottom. men laite escu KK aim wrap ii separ ately in one or two thicknessess of paper (any kind of tough paper will answer.) Taking a small bunch of excelsior wrap each egg, seeing that it is completely covered with a thin layer. Place them in the basket close together largo end down, as they will stand long transpor tation and rougher usage better in this way than any other. When they arc all in, press excelsior between sides of basket and eggs; then put a lawyer of same on top of eggs one to one and a half inches thick; then lay two or three thicknesses of paper on this. Take strong muslin, cut out a piece a little larger than the inside of tho basket. Take a strong needle (a small sack needle is best) and twine, aud sew through the sides of tho basket and edge of muslin, drawing tho muslin down tight Now, fasten your card on. the muslin; tie shipping tag, with purchaser's name and address, on the handle of basket Then you have a package that you may feci sure will reach its destina tion safely, if any of them will. The lining of the basket and the wrapping of tho eggs with paper may be dispensed with later in the season, when danger of tho eggs becoming chilled is passed. Drinking Fountain. Charles 1. Junkin, in the Practical Farmer, thus tells how to make a drink ing fountain for poultry. Materials: An old or new baking pan, the larger the better, and an old box, large enough to hold the pan. Run the pan into tho box like the bottom drawer of a bureau, allowing it to protrude two inches, and then board up the rest of the box. Six advantages: 1st Cheap. 2d. Easily made. 3d. Shaded from the sun. 4th. Cannot bo upset. 5th. Water cannot be soiled. 6th. Easily filled and easily cleaned. .foaltrjr Notes. Never expect hens to pay for them selves in winter unless you give them a little extra care. Never fail to have a good supply of gravel where it Is available for use when the snow is on the ground. Never begrudge a few dollars for some fresh blood each year, for it will always be worth moro than it cost you if you get the right stuff. Never cheat yourself with tho idea that there is as much profit in an old hen as there is in a young one. An old hen will lay quite likely, but not so many eggs as will a young one. Never feed your chickens three times a day, twice is often enough unless ifc be in cold stormy weather, when it is a good plan to throw a handful of fine grain in the straw and litter at odd times to keep the hens busy. Never forget that every poultry fancier has his hobby and that each and every breed has its merits, but the fowl that can stand tho test of the common market is the fowl for the poor man. THE DAIRY. Aerating Milk. The system of aeration, or cooling milk by air, as it passes through tho milk, cools every drop and removes, all tho odors and gases. When we sur round milk with ice and cold water, we reduce the temperature before the ani mal heat and gas has been displaced from the milk. So soon as the milk gets back to tho temperature of the out side air, the gasscs re-act and rapid fer mentation soon spoils the milk. Never apply cold water or ice to milk until it has first bcn aerated. This great invention of aerating milk not only removes the heat odors and gasscs, but will largely neutralize the bad effects of impure water or impure food. If milk were properly aerated before being taken into tho system, tho liabil ity of sickness from that cause would be removed. Grange Homes. THE HOUSEHOLD. Iloasehold Bints. A little salt will bring up a low lire if throwu on. Pixe floors can be treated to a coating of boiled linseed oil. A dulled "steel pen can bo improved by heating it in a gas jet Scratches on furniture can bo rubbed with beeswax melted in linseed oil. A bag of charcoal hung in a cistern of water will absorb all tho bad odor. Good lap rugs for use when washing a baby are made of Canton flannel. Kerosene oil will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and rlew. To keep render them as pliable as butter hard, without Jce, flower-pot wash it clean, take a new put it in a wet cloth. and set it over the butter. Salts of lemon equal parts of pow dered oxalic acid and tartaric acid applied to rust and ink spots on cloth ing will remove them. To destroy the odor of paint in a newly painted room, put a handlul of fresh hay In a bucket of water and let it stand in the room over night THE KITCHEN. Kitchen Bad pea. Cream Candy. Three cups of white sugar. A little more of water than enough to cover. Do not stir while cook ing. Let it boil till it ropes, then before taking it off the stove add a teaspoonf ul of cream of tartar moistened with the flavoring you choose. When cold, pull it until perfectly white. Potato Croquettes. Season cold mash potato with pepper, salt and nut meg. Beat to a cream with a table spoonful of melted butter to every cup ful of potato. Bind with two or three beaten eggs, and add some minced pars; ley. Roll into oval balls, dip in beaten egg, then in bread-crnmbs, and fry in hot lard or drippings. Pile in a pyramid upon a flat dish, and serve. Chocolate Creams. Two cops of white sugar: one-half cup of water. 1 Cook rapidly twenty minutes. Turn out on a platter, and with a large spoon stir 1 until cold when it will be cream. Butter I the fingers and work it up into small , b gtfck upon , n Md dp mto ; chocolate set over a steamer and melted; a upon a grea8ed platter to dry. Molasses CooKD2s.-Three cupfuls of j moiMsea and two tablespoonfuls of soda 8tfrred together td a froth; add three well beaten eggs, a cupful of lard, a teaspoon- f UI of ginger, and one of salt Stir stiff. mix very stiff; they cannot be too stiff. Good ingredients are necessary tomaka these cakes alee. t S5?i TOUCHING HEART-STRINGS. Away Back la Bar Fas She Heac taw Faster 1 a Baey'aShee. I was rambling through a quaint, crooked old street in old New York the other day, and I found a quaint, queer old place to match the street. It was a little old building of wood, battered and time-worn, a relie of the last centu ry. It was crowded full of such goods as the poor and lowly have to part with whan the blood chills for want of fuel and weakness comes from want of food. There were poor and ragged clothing, old boots and shoes, quaint old-hats and caps, bedding, tinware, hardware, win dow curtains, rngs, tools a veritable museum of relics, and each and every article having its tale of want and dis couragement of woe and misery. Aye! even as I elbowed about, seeking I knew not what, a forlorn-looking wo man came in with a worn and faded shawl and sold it for money to buy bread. And by and by, as I rummaged about, I found something to take away with me a babv's shoe! Do you smile? Well, God made us to go each his way, and each and every one to work out his own mission. It was a red morocco shoe, old and worn and faded a shoe which had covered the chubby foot of somebody's baby as he crept about the floor or stood on his feet beside a chair. Not some rich mother's baby, but the offspring of some mother whose days and nights were ter rified by the presence of cold and hun ger. That wee shoe told me the story of a garret room of hope and despair, of misery long drawn out of a mother's love and a mother's broken heart I wanted it to lay away among my relics, bo that I might look at it now and then when men told me that the world no longer had a heart At the door as I went out I stumbled against an old wo man half helpless from drink a wo man whose red and bloated face and scandalous tongue would have shamed the lowest vagabond of New York's lowest dive. She struck and kicked at me. She dared me to fight She showered oaths and sneers and gibes at me until I was too astonished to move away. I had that baby shoe in my hand as she railed at me. Her eyes were red and inflamed and I thought her half blind. All at once she ceased her vituperations, bent forward for a closer look and asked in a woman's soft voice: "Is it a baby's shoe you have there?" "Yes." "And you found it?" "In the store here." "Give it to me! Please give it to me! I'm sorry for what I said. I didn't mean a word of it Plea-e do a poor old body a kindness!" "And do you really want this little shoe?" I asked. "Ido! Please sir, but I'm old and poor! It's a bit of a wee, red shoe, and it's worn at the toe, and and please give it to mel" I handed it to her, and she sat down on the step and hugged it in both hands and rocked her body to and fro and wept and crooned and talked to it as a mother might to a living child. Curious," wasn't it, and yet it was not curious. Men may tell you that human nature can be degraded until every sen timent worthy of humanity is burned out of the heart. It is not true, xou have only to touch the right chord and the heart will open and the tears come, and the evil passions are slow in taking root again. Old hinful degraded and yet, as I listened to her crooning and saw her tears fall I wondered who of us dared to jndge her who dared to even blame her for being what she was. Away back in tho darkness of the past she heard tho pit-a-pat of baby's shoes as ho learned to walk. There may have been the curse of drink the stings of pover tythe midnight of despair. God alone knows how much she suffered and what she has endured. The world thought her a vicious old hag, steeped in vice and wickedness, and men and women stopped and looked on in won der a3 the little red shoe touched the chord so long silent and opened the heart of a wife and mother. And so, while I have not added to my store of relics, it may be that the angel of record has turned the leaves of his book and given bumanitv another credit-mark to count at the last day. ATew York World. Americas Women and Alen. American is the direct descendant of Irish beauty; the lovely hair, teeth, eyes, and complexion of Erin's .daugh ters transplanted across the Atlantic de rived in the second or third generation, from change of climate and diet and various other favorable influences, a character of refinement (as well as inter-marriage with Americans) which in not Irish: the features become sharper, the figure lighter, the hands and feet smaller, and the whole result is that delicate and brilliant beauty; re markable alike for elegance of form and vividness of color by which American women are distinguished. You ask me if American men are like tho English. No; American gentlemen are a cross between the English and Frsnch men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than "Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough than English men. Their brains are finer and flimsier; their bodies less vigorous and robust than ours. We are the finer animals and they the subtler spirits. Their intelleetuartendency is to excite ment and psanity, and ours to stag nation and stupidity. Fanny Kemble. Wby the Screw Was Reduced. Itisalwivsa matter of surprise to the uninitiated that so small an object as the regulation screw can send a huge ocean steamer through the water at twenty miles an hcur. The small size of the screw is not duo to tho perception of any inventor of its greater effect as compared with a larger one, but purely to accident At tirht screws for steamers were made as large as possible, it being the theory that tbe greater the diameter the higher the speed. A vessel was placed on Lake Erie with a screw so large that it was deemed best to cast each blade in two parts, and then weld them together. During a storm all there blade of tho propeller broke at the weldinff, reducing the diameter by raoie than two-third. To the surprise cf the cantain the vessel shot forward at a speed such as had never been attained before. En.aneeM theu experimented with small lirojeHera, and discovered that thev were ranch more effective than large one. Had it not been for that accideut wo miirht have gone on u-ing the largebladed screws to the present day. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Conlila'c root Her 1'apa. The daughter of a well-known De troiter ha been in love for a year or more with an Eastern youth, and he did not like it at all. The other morning he calied her into his library. u What do you want to marry that fellow for?" he inquired. "He has no visible means of supnort" "Ob, yes he has paps," she protest ed, with a queer little smile which be did not fail to note. " "Don't try to work any of your funny business, o"a me, my child," he said sternly. "I know exactly what you were going to give me, but it will not go. liis lather in not in it. He left town veterday with all the bank's fuudt lie. could get his hands on, and to-day he is the most invi-ible man on the whole list of our acquaintance." Free Press. ' . Vaa 1Mb. 'It la astonishing," remarked Sam Cooly at the breakfast table, "how ex- tremes meet In this world." "To what extremes do you refer, Mr. Cooly?" asked the landlady, who was pouring out the coffee. Well, you. for Instance, are "very stout, and the coffee is so very thin," and he stirred up the mixture and smiled Iti a. atrirlr sort of a WBV. "It's not as thin as your excuse for not paying your board bill regularly." Sam has not said coffee since. BoWi Tear UrarT A very aaneceaeary qaesUoa to ask a maa whose kin aad eyeballs are aaSroa-tlated. Of coarse his tonga, too, la furred, bowels ooatti Ited, head bothered with aches, right rib re gion plagued with constant uneasy sensations. These yon may take- for granted, although ha may net particularise them, because they are among the lBTariable acooxnpanimenta of liver trouble. Are they ehronio? If so, you aiay be ante be does not, as he ought to do, taheHot tetter's Stomach Bitters, tbe leading regulator of livers that are opt of order. Commend it to himas highly aa you please, you cant aay a word too much in its behalf. Biek headaches, constipation, nausea, dyspepsia, and the yellow hue of the skin speedily depart when this re? liable corrective is resorted to. Malaria, rheu matism and la grippe are also among maladies which it remedies and prevents. A winegUsaful three times a day confers appetite anddigestion. liberty. No creature that God made on earth has so little liberty to do as he pleases as man, unless he pleases to obey nat ural laws. Taa Only Oae Ever Prlated Caa Tea Flad the Word? Each week a different three-Inch display Is published la this paper. There are no two words alike in either ad., except One word. This word will be found 'in the ad. for Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic, Little Liver Pills and. Wild Cherry Bitters. Look for "Crescent" trade-mark. Read the ad. carefully, aad when you find the word send it to them and they will return yoa a book, beautiful lithographs and sample free. If troubled with a headache try the simultaneous application of hot water to the feot and the back of the neck. When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatcria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, When she became Mies, aha clung to Castoria, snahthrfrMisaaMvelhemCaitCTla When the Japanese hitch a horse in the street, they do so by tying his four legs together. Hitching posts are never used in Japan or Corca, except by for- Stop That Headache Hubbard's Cap sules cure headache, aids Indigestion. No cure, no pay. Mail, 25c. H. C. Ilubbard, Ilumboldt, I:u A false report does not last long, and the life one leads is always the best apology for that which one has led. ALBERT BURCH, West Toledo, Ohio, Says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life." Write him for particulars. Sold by Drug gists. 7oc. Mrs. Mart Loweix, of New York, a practical electrician, has invented a contrivance by which she is enabled to lijjht her kitchen fire from her bed room. . Best, easiest to uso and cheapest. Bexnedy for Catarrh. By druggists. AUGUST PLIES. Piso's 50c The avcraeo life of a tradesman is about two-thirds that of a farmer. Wk are always complaining our days arc few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. It is better to try to make your home heaven than to try to make heaven your home. By means of a powerful jet ot com pressed air a German engineer drives dry cement down into the sand or mud at the bottom of a stream so that the water immediately fixes the cement and it becomes like solid rock, suitable for foundations. r ITS. An ms stopped nee br Dr.Kline's Great Kerta Restorer. No its after flntt drs nse. Mar vellous cure. TreaUbe aud S-'JM trial boule tree to FitrasM. Send to Dr. Kline. March St. Phils, Pa At the head of all blood-purifiers is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. But it's different from all of them. What ever is claimed for this, it's guaran teed to do. Tho money is refunded in every case where it fails to bene fit or cure. It's because it is differ ent that it can bo sold so. All diseases originating from a torpid liver or impure blood yield to it. It cleanses and purifies the system, freeing it from all manner of blood poisons, no matter 'from what cause they have arisen. For Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Scrofula, Salt-rheum, Tetter, Erysipelas, or any blood taint or disorder, it is an unequaled remedy. Nothing else can take its place. "Golden Medical Discovery" contains no alcohol to inebriate, and io syrup,, or sugar to derange digestion. It's a concentrated vegetable ex tract; put up in large bottles; pleasant to the taste, and equally good for adults or children ; worn equally well aU the year round. tt$nRlCoonc KAXUXAXi BEXXDTTO pfleatfe Fits, Faniag Sfckae, Hyster ics, St. Titaa Baace. KeTTaaaaess. Hyaadreaairia, HeIaahUa, la cMtja 8tetea!a Dix- IralaaaslSal- atf Weakattaee This medicine has direct action upon the nerve centers, allaying; all irritabili ties, and increasing the flow and power of nerve fluid. It is perfectly harmless and leaves no unpleasant effects. A Talaaato Book aa Herveaa Diseases sent free to aw address. I ULL ttiaaalS aad peer patterns can. aiso nan Ida free er caaraaw n.t. --tohu hum ntanoaj brtka Bar read Pastor Koeaic. of Tort wayae. lad, ataeeisavaad uaowareparedandarliis direction by tae KOCNIC MED. CO.. Chicago, IN. Irsetaae,ai.7S. PIUS 'AKAKESIS dseslastaat relief, md :s aa DITaLLI BLB UUE for PUIS. Price. $1: at drosatsu or br wail. Sa-npiea fre. Addre-i. ".tNAKK-ilS." box 2415. Nkw Yob Crrr. c ". v. aalm. E H A. Summer Weakness Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, and That Tired Feeling, are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. $UAQs ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleansesthe sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures haBitual constipation: Syrup cf Figs is the only remedy of its,iind;-"ever pro duced, pleasingtatlietRste and ac ceptable to theifoinalch, prompt in its action and truly Tieneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and SI bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KK NEW YORK, K.t. Tuft's Pills stimulate the torpid llrer, strengthen taa dlcestlTe organs, regulate tbe bowcls,aaal are aaeqnalcd aa an Anti-Bilious Medicine. EtegantlyKttgarcoated. Dosesmnll. Frica 25 cents. Oiiice, 3t & 41 l"ark 1'lace. M. X. "tall Ail." 5 puzzle :. Brum! new. i& on sale ereiywhcre, Aui ucunt & .6oo! nacni-o ..w, SV11 Itself. rica?es 1'apa. M uma tatv'hs. Tommy tries it. Kittio cnn ilo it. f5.00 worth of pure fun tor Lie. Agents wanted ;ell hundreds daily- Mailed postpaid on receipt of price. riSSIB.WISOILt. QatiYouDolt? ni.. arra.1 aiaaM7IU, aiu WE SHIP THRESHERS GOAL Throngboat the Northwest. COAL RUN COAI. CO., Strcator, La Salle Co,, 111. rackac ntatr. a gallon.. I'clmou.. imiKIimc t ( fUMo. Sold bt all dalt. A butlrul Tirture Poo "! Car U arm trtr at tar MBdicf Uiclr alitrcu to Tfc. C K. 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