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-at MiP ' .-:?. 4. u 'jTr".-v"?" " " 1ji- --; .r N s& -, j ... e- 4 . r t r.J- . -; , v VOLUME XXVL-NUMBER 25. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,325. ?, partial X W,- ' Tgeoi! Bar av r.-::-' : VJEAS BE AREAL HERO? .. . - "--" . .'.'i.'B: McManui. in. Hani's Horn.'): "THINK I-never at- tended a funeral - that.gae me as .little-, satisfaction -as "iim's . did .4im .Hewitt's", an old and . well-beloved'- : "friend of mine, w.hq - pMssel away after - only a day's-illness, ". . before it. was real- -uetl that he .was But it Tvas like Jim seriously jsitie .to die" suddenly,-for -it was-a fashion .'. f. his never -to givef'any one any trou- - liln. -t .J.. a.' i hie; riot -that -there were many who ' 1 - ti bbh ".. .would have greatlj put themselves out V- for him. "The-'sermon was a long and . .. tiregome"pne,made up, Qf commonplace ."." remarks "' a.nd exasperatfn-; " platitudes, -that-had; but lit'ye- bearing-upon "the :- 'case.inhand. There-wag-a weary hour """ fit ."drillihs and- wandering in of fum-. Wing -about' in n-nimlcss, -objectless "-" 'vay -that-was calculated-io do harm to --'." lte;":c.aus'i o.-.'the - Christian religion. . . X QcneraUtieSy- however glittering, would "-Sf fit"..t"his..occasiori and there was no " ..." iiecd-o'r 'them,- as the preacher had .." knownlJim for many .years, and might ". '-.-.' UV?. nifintioned "his quiet,"' noble, self- , .sacrificing life; -his. j-ears of -perpetual- -m '" "and urieqmplainihg. .elf-denial and liv- ."-Vsing.fqr others.- He .did not allude to ": ""his'-chcerful, swtfet life which it seems .'"""qj'hifi tliat a minister at least ought to '. y Have understood and nppreciatedl. The ' :.oiily-c6mlorta"ble-''and-comfortrag thing . -. there ns -about the'discourse was that . - " ::U,'n""'lvas-"P"robably. happily-unconscious '. .."flJ-the'perf.orroancci .-. ..The choir sang-in an erijpty, soulless :..-- jay, some. SM-eet eld" hymns that even .-.-iK'gligencc. and 'carelessness -could -not - ..""-'de.prive of all their-beauty and comli- ." ness.. the -eyes of tlie "singers wandering ': ' " '.fnrtl'vely down to their "black Jack" 1.-" :.V'"-. stuck on .the back of their -chairs. Oh,. y . ZsZZ. ? 'y'rj&kfM ':-:s&:zjam-s3i sgai-'i n ' KX --.u ', ,U7-.- . - .r cv i :i'-py x m. - . - 'isCr " .-."". . X.J .--" ulJ'- . . . j. tViv- r riZTv) Trfw . vt s-:r,-rA iiv.n v ':----':'-'''WiL14te "LINGERING. THERE BY THE NEW MADE MOUND '.''. . - HERO." .. if'.thcy had' ouly thought to think of brave old Jim .as "he.was, they would .never have. sung 'that way. "They would ". have.- made", the- hymns speak, of an ' .earnest, faithful -life that had entered . "into "a glorious rest, ..-The mourners were -few and siis "laine'd themselves with a fortitude that '"."betokened, a statejof calm and. 'dignified 'resignation, and aTte.r. the grave" was filled "sauhtered'sTowly ..and becomingly '" away-"and 3oined-in properly subdued J; conversation in the scanty gossip of the neighborhood. . ;. I.a.m.iiot, as'a.rule, hard to please or prone.'to"' bo critical of ordinary events, but as I took my way. homeward across J '.the fields I could not help .but reflect '.thatJim's' .funeral had been a failure .a""'stereotypod. farce a. kind of pious ' sarcasm. ... ; . Jim was -the oldest -of a large family . .'of"-boys:and girls. "His;, father .had a - "genius ibr. idleness -and .was .what his neighbors lermetl. a. " do-less fellow; jiatureoV tor exasperation and -shiftless. beyond the expected Ttuits of v shlftiessnes's. . " . 'Jim was just -entering manhood when --. his father's -deatH-occurred. ' The -wife . was -a. "happy complement to the" hus .'b.an'd. a shallow, selfish woman, to . : -.whom 'even motherhood brought, but ' - .little grace or generosity or sweetness " ;"of character, .and. it was a mystery .to --'niee. while yet a lad and all through . "life -"how Jim could .have been "the off ".. 'spring of such unpromising parents. -. "My friend was born for a scholar, the -"'love'of learning having been implanted ". in "--him. somehow.- .In books he out-, " .stripped us all not that this feat "re quired, much alacrity, but his advance- -. "m'ent -in. study, was something beyond - Ms -years, and" his greatest happiness was.'hv them. On 'the death of his father'his limited opportunities and-ad ntages of-learning-ceased and he be- ,. vat came the.head of an unwieldly, helpless famKy. " ' The farm a lucky - legacy to the parents became his schoolroom, .which knew .him constantly forever afterwards He" bravely put- away ail Thoughts .-of.-self and long-cherished ambitions,-directing his energy to the VapDOFt' of the-dependent household.. "Jim told me rears afterwards that it was with a geod deal qf bitterness and' after-many, a boyish" cry that he. could - bring, himself to abandon his ambi--lion to'-make .something of himself "by 'm'eansof an education.'- But he entered " '"""ravely -and ' manfully .upon what--. p'roved.. "an ungrateful task: ."The jnoCher, vain and -querulous,, gave him but little-aid) which made his brphan- 'agC-.cbm'plete; He had not even -the . comfort of encouragement and appre ciation, .and" he stood isolated and. alone I - by- his own thronged fireside. ."' -"Four -years after the' father's --death "the -mother' became an. In-valid hope- le'ss'-and confirmed, with only energy. - enough remaining in her to make -her- ibelf and all about unspeakably -miser- able and -unhappy. Selfish and exact-ing;'-JDreasonable and unthankful, she quickly frittered away such respect and love -as -her younger children had once borne her, and only. Jim was-left td pay tfie tribute of a child's 'veneration for its mother. And even his love she well nigh killed, and with a guilty con sciousness .that it was almost dead, he redoubled his care, and his best and . truest thoughts -were for her comfort and happiness. His task was an un grateful one. Such love as her loveless nature possessed " she bestowed else where, giving to Jim ingratitude and unkindnes3. For twenty years she lived thus; or there" were twenty years, of her dying ,and-to the end of this weary score, there was but "one to. love or care for her. To the -uttermost and to- the last with ..cares- and anxieties crowding land filling his life, Jim was faithful. honoring by deed where, no honor was -inspired and loving as best he might where no- love was sought or cared for;' untiring to the end, never faltering o.ut wardly, nor "growing weary, and the only one to shed a tear or tenderly call her mother when the coffin lid closed down upon her wasted, useless life. In her grave -was buried many of Jim's best years, and if he wept for those even as .he wept, for the- dead, it 'need "..not seem strange. Lingering there bj' the new-made mound, I count him. a. hero this Jim Hewitt whom, to-day, twenty years afterwards we buried. God helped him in tliat long trial. I know this because his heart was always warm and free from bit' J terness. Meanwhile there was the family of brothers and sisters to be cared for, and he bravely faced tho inevitable and looked .the hard necessities of his life ' unflinchingly in the face. That Jim was willing1 to sacrifice himself had i" long ago been discovered, and those about hint chose to make the most -of his kindness. One brother and strimgely,. the one Jim loved best, and tiie one who loved Jim best In return 1 COUNT HIM A was like the father, almost an aggra vated copy of him good-natured, idle and worthless. Because of his affection Jim could not cast him off, he had so little of love in life he could not spare even this useless devotion. Nothing could rouse him to work or usefulness a nature endowed without purpose or energy a human gristle without bone or muscle. He lived a willing pensioner upon Jim's bounty and added without a thought to his many troubles and burdens. An epidemic that swept the neighborhood ended his career, allow ing that a mere empty existence could be called a career. Another brother inherited. Or became possessed of Jim's love of books, and in him he hoped to sec what he him self might have been had his conditions and surroundings been kinder. With such scanty means as he could com mand hardly and wearily earned he aided and encouraged the brother in his "aspirations and ambinons, and bv Jim's help, or rather byjlis help alone.'The inventor of soap was a friend of in the fulness of time became a saW cessiui man inJwciio en urofeaCion. Jim's pride in mi was srreat. UUt his honest vanity :as his only calhnens.-v alhnensx- lion. With male than corafnon success and a fairly Jillihnt carir came for- getfulnesjp"he one to wlom he owed all", andas years went J"y his elden brotherAecamc as- anfe tradition t him affunpleasantn-eminder of a 1'a iiy and a past of ufiich he was eeeilmgry proud orrcared to. vyttiHaVre- memner. Thisjp a cruelvhurt. and one night nojflbng ago Jinijiold mc of it in his kim. forgiving way; but he laid his heawipon the tabjp and cried. The son m this hvoii was at" tn funeral u-ray a tiire manly looki young fellow, fashiqpably dressed,jith a wild marguerite 'in his button' hole which he .had 'Pick!d in ,one "ff , the groves. He listened intently .and there was a look on his face' that I liked, and yet I could tell that his father had never told him of Jim. Two sisters his youngest charges1 inherited the beauty and vanity .of the mother, leavened w'ith the good-natured harmliessness of the father. He- was brother, guardian and friend to them and reared tliem as carefully as he" could. -Their demands were-constant and absorbed his hard earnings with out a;thought of thankfulness or grati tude. With some advantages which by self-denial he" .was able to give them, united with their, weak, pretty, faces, both made favorable marriages that is, for themselves. -Like their brother in the city with prosperity and." inde-. pendence, came forgetfulnesa and ob literation of - their living . benefactor from their minds; their hearts had never been envolvcd.and the process re quired but a brief time. They and some of their children stood by Jim's grave to-day, but nothing save their stylish muorning indicated that the humble sleeper was or had ever been anything to them. I nope he never realized how little he was loved by; those who had great reason to love him well. Jim Hewitt did his dnty as he saw it"; did it quietly, so uncomplainingly; did it with such courage and such bravery. Men like him are not born every day. It is a good deal to five up a' life and then have so little to show for it 1 have' been asking myself some questions: Is a man a he'ro if he wages no. wars save those of self-denial and self-sacrifice? Is a man a hero in plain clothes, with hands hardened with toil for others? As' the world reckons heroes and remembers them with shaft and tablet, the man of whom I have been writing was scarcely one, but somehow I can't help but think that in the sight of God Jim Hewitt will stand as' good a chance of notice and his name will be written as fair in the Lamb's Book of Life, as those who fought on hattlefields and commanded and conquered armies. MALE AND FEMALE. But the MagUtrat. Who Ym to' Marry Them Conldo't Tell. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning two young people in bifurcated garments entered. Justice "Murphy's office in the city hall and asked to be joined in matrimony, says Chicago-Tribune. The justice said he would' be very much pleased, but .asked': "Where is the young lady?" Then he discovered his mistake. The young woman laughed good naturedly at the justice's mistake, while he' hid his blushes behind the marriage license, which authorized Eva Mac Christen, aged 19 years,- and George W. Clarke, aged 21 years, to wed. Their costumes yesterday were ex actly alike, both of gray .tweed.-' The bride wore a white shirt waist under a Norfolk jacket, a white silk Windsor tie, and leggings to match the costume. The groom wore a white". Sweater-and their peaked caps were identical. "This is not the first case of bloomers we kmp: we have had uerc in connection with marriage license," 6ald Clerk Sal- nson j-esteraay. "About thre onths ago a couple came here in case the girl and took . the the bride's at- bloomers, but in that asked the questions papers." After the ceremony tendant. Miss Rogers, confidentially in formed Justice Murphy she was soon to wed and was having, an elaborate pair of- bloomers fashioned for the oc casion. The bridal party mounted thejhk wnceis lmnieuiajgiyauer mo ceremony and went bowlftig "merrily down toward Michigajhdrfenue. & '' Wlro Fenre Tel Wire-fence telephoi on many Australian ations, are found to be municating be outlying gyle of Gunbower station, Gunbower, Victoria, describes his experience of the wire-fence telephone in the Scien tific American as .follows: "Some two years ago I satisfactorily utilized the top wire of thelxlsting fences "on this station fojlephonic use. First of all, 1 may jthat since nHr8fation was satisfactorily served bjl this inexpen sive method (2s. Gd. jje'r mile) of tele phoning I have bieri inundated jfrfli letters from all pvts of AustraljJind that at the preMR time thereaemany hundreds otJmles of .stpftfon fences throughouThis and thr neighboring colonies ''Drought into,Tequisition for the purpose. Our climate, as you arq-j aware, is very dry (average rainfall S inches to 9 inches): in consequence insulation is not such an important matter. On this property w.e have 1 about six hundred posts to the mile- of fencing, the wire passing through an' auger hole in the ordinary way; the rust that forms on the wire makes a sufficiently thick skin to insulate it from slight moisture. At the straining posts' we file the rust off the wire at either side, and tightly screw or key en a piece of clean wire to carry the current around the post; at knots or loop joints we make a continuous con nection in the same way: We use the ordinary long-distance . microphone transmitters at either end, .with the dynamo call bells and receivers. In addition, we have a portable instru ment, which can be attached to wire at any point when out on the run, and-in this way can send messages to the homestead. Our longest service is 16 miles, but one run has a continuous service of 28 miles, and from my ex perience there is no reason why in a dry climate it could not be utilized on much longer lengths." TRUTHS. . the gospel. No matter how safe sin. may look,. "s enu is uuaiu. It doesn't take much money to make a good man rich. ' To have money often 'mean's to have, the devil for a master. ' No prayer ever hurts a prayer meet ing b being.too" short.-- . - WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING. Lady Salisbury has a habit of turning away her head when shaking hands with a stranger. rs. A. S. Palmer, who died recently li Cleveland, taught James A. Garfield his alphabet. Miss Llelewyn -Davis, the leader of the woman suffragists-of Great Britain, is a remarkably, handsome woman. Among the employes of the treasury. department at-Washington is Mrs. Wil- cox, a grandniece of President Jackson. It is said that-Mrs. William R. Mor rison, who for years has been her hus band's. constant adviser, is a very able politician. - Mrs. Mary F. Hansel, ofEllenville, N. Y., became enough of a lawyer to be debarred for fraudulent methods in executing pension vouchers. Mrs. Harmon, the wife of the new attorney general, is said to- be an tin-"' usually fine conversationalist -and a woman- of rare intellectual powers. . In St. John's church, Moline Ala., the largest church in 'the state (Episcopa lian), the power.to vote in parish meet ings is expressly granted' to women. Miss Marnie Mackenzie, daughter of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London, is likely .to make the stage her profes sion. Miss Douglass, the' champion ama teur markswoman of England, recently scored fifty-seven bhll'seyes in succes sion with a revolver at twenty yards' r range. HaVaties.- ks are now fled andlhey iamWKreai. DOODHrcom- Jffeen the homjstead and bowffdary huts. Jrr. E. Ar- BY AN EYEWITNESS. STOfcY OF THE MASSACRES AT CHELLYECOOZAN. MoofUfa, a Kardteh Bricaari, Tdl. a Graphic Story of the Terrible Klaaghter HeartreadtBg; Sceaea of Fiendish -'Cruelty He Saw. at Sassoon. OT yet' closed is that awful chap ter of history, the atrocious crimes of Kurdish ' brig ands and Turkish troops in the val leys of Armenia. Out 'from- the' depths of those bosky glades the cries of the wretch ed survivors of the massacres, now be reft of half their kinsfolk, and in the midst of a waste -and desolate land, ring. The history of those' horrors is slowly being pieced together, the nar rative now assuming a clear and con tinuous form, unprejudiced and free from falsehood. A Kurdish brigand, Moostafa, who was not only a' witness of the frightful scenes of Ghellyegoazan, but who was a participant in them as well, and-who murdered the helpless Armenians right and left with his own sword, 'recently talked at Constantinople to an English correspondent with the utmost freedom. - Hitherto the stories of the outrages have come from the sufferers themselves alone. , Now that the first word from the other side is heard, it is to be seen that those stories were not exaggerated, that their only fault was: in painting the horrors too- dully and in not laying on with glaring pigments the vivid, dreadful terrors of those valleys where a defenseless people" were subjected- to every indignity and to tortures that must forever be hidden, for the reason that they cannot be printed. Moostafa saw it all. All the burn ings, the sticking of human beings as if they were pigs, the murdering of in nocent children by catching them' by a limb and" hurling them through the air, the .ravishing of. women, the. thousand and one keen tortures of these lewd men of the hills and still lewder sol diers "of the Sultan, passed before his eyes. The very fact "that he failed .to see anything wrong in this massacre of the Christians, but took it quite as a matter of course, gives his story keener interest and additional picturesqueness. -"We jpnrds -are nop the bloodthirsty. rumajpr. people sawe are, "is of we arejpr. .mat is; sajgawarc; but theya""lthe .worst", antfwe don't hold with them: We donWmind scat tering the brains of a feCiaours when we are pillaging aiwnor running off with a few girls-the Prophet himself says that is all'right. Even plunging a dagger into an infidel's heart or bowels j is a-thing that we have to do often, but that is our business. How else are we" to live? Armenians have sh'eenrnd fields and corn; we have only nfr guns and daggers." As the Kurd said thlse words he sprang to his feetAphCuresque objec. he was as he stapelRo tell his story, a superb specjmen of the man Qf the' "steppes. HisRostume was gUdy-coI-ored, and ifas surmountedByliTur ban on nsiiead and a ,hooL4round his neck. Brown werehisas, and of a deep tanned leathjfntwas his -face. Along, dark mudtche, untrimmed and ragged, produced; an effect of fierceness, and from under it came a low-pitched, deep and' sonorous voice. This wasjhe man in repose. As he' went on witft his tale some idea couhT.be gained jK the wild beast that he becanpaa-rirn he scented plunder. r "Sly name," the Kvamsh -miscreant chanted rather than sd, "is Moostafa. I am a Kurd of the tribe of Haider anli no .better man in the Hamidieh regiments of the Padishah. Ifvfwith the Haideranll in Alashkerd,- and I wish j I were well back there again. - But Al lah alone knows .whether I can soon go home. f I am not a toren (a no ble) only a "raya (a subject). There is the same difference between the two that' there is between 'a Kurd and any Armenian, or very nearly. . ' "The pits in which the Armenians were buried when killed -were in a .valley. There were several. 'The bodies '"Ti:--- - ,&& .'-.- &;3mr BBBBfeBBBBBal '' Tf '?lafS''-v V. es. n L. hi SviJJP!i'lH. S - A were thrown Into them during the night. The bodies of the dead? They were not "all dead. . Some were only wounded, and might perhaps have lived if they, got a ehance, but they did not. Some were killed outright,- like that priest I told you of. only they were a very long time about it. "But afterward they were tried, and they ran a bayonet a couple of times' through a man's body and left him lying. Then he was dropped into one of the pits; Afterwards some soldier's came along and prodded the bodies on the top, just to see if they, were really dead, and if anyone moved he was prodded; too. with a bayonet. But that's all. Some who were down below were not dead, but .nobody touched them. They died in time." "- rt was without the turning of a hair that. Moostafa 'told the lion "bio story of the dread pit of Ghellyegoozan. With a touch that was quite as lightsome and careless, he then began to speak of the prisoners. . "We kept them in tents, that is thp female prisoners who were to be sent to the harems. No men were taken not until after the massacre, when Moorad and his comrades were- -surprised In a cave. The soldiers -always stood guard, not the Kurds.- The ofli- J cers gave all the orders, and. there was one head officer, but I don't know his name It was kept dark. .-I-helped to; fix tip. his tent. He carried a tube to. look through: He talked much to the officers, but we, never heard him speak. They were. all afraid of him. - We were afraid- of them, and didn't like to have to carry out their orders. What we came to Sassoon for was not to kill, but to plunder. "I did not see '-any "women or girls. SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. dishonored by "the soldiers, but I hear it was done" iu camp, and I know that many women and girls werc'takeri otT to Dlarbek'ir, across the hills, and. some in the direction, of Mossoul. I heard of one girl "or woman who was taken to the harem of a Kurd' in the Plain of Djaiv bekir and then ran away disguised as a .Kurd. I saw a very, fine girl in camp. A-colonel took her to Erzhigan. to his harem. Czarin and the Wotnmi Oncttmi. The influence of .the Russian empress is strongly felt in the sphere of intel lectual "progress. She-has manifested great interest in ".the growth- of- the woman movement, and. in court circles this subject is one that engrosses much attention. It is related- that. a. .meet ing of feminists was recently about to be held" in the capital, and that, the empress 'was-.anxious" -to obtain fuller information about the precise aims of he saiiLihadvan'ced Russian women than she was likely to get from the. St. Petersburg press.... The ladies of the court, as well-. as the. czar himself, wfre questioned on the subject.-but-. at .that time their knowledge of the matter was riot very extensive. The empre'ss. therefore dis patched one of her. secretaries to the "j. meeting, with orders to take a full re port of the proceedings. This she -has also" done on every similar occasion subsequently, so there is every appear- ance that the "court will-nqw.be kept Well in touch with the aspirations of the pioneers of feminism in Ru5ia. - .In AfttoniMhius; IMsrncr. Ah astonishing discovery in regard to the-production of electricity is an nounced, which, if genuine, will do away with the necessity of burning coal. Dr. Borchers, of Driesburg. Germany, says that Jie has found that electricity, is generated by th'e conversion of hydro carbon, and carbonic oxide into car bonic' acid, and as this is the same thing that takes place in burning -coal 'he accomplishes the same end by chem ical means by" what he calls the wet process. While ar steam' engine utilizes about 12 per cent." of .the theoretical energy and a gas engine 20 per cent., Dr. Borchers 'claims that his new proc ess gives no less than 8 per cent. Try It aaU ee, .' A pair of wrought iron tongs,, or a piece of hoop heated and .bent until the ends form a circuit like the feet of tongs, will magnetize a knife blade laid upon them and r'ubed with another piece of steel. The cause is. not yet satisfactorily explained. When the temperance society makes fracts the devil I supposed to make tracks hi an "opposite direction. KEIR HAROIE AS A CRITIC. Halt the Bowery aad Ki!e 0r the .Brooklyn IT'ririgt-. Kelr Hnrdy recently visited the Bow ery says New York Sun. He" whs dis appointed at finding' it "n pfeuy-.safe thoroughfare and not at all the Bowery it was-when William M. Thackeray, the novelist,described the "Bowery Boy." Mr. Hardie was'seen by n Sun-reporter !. at the Broadway Central iiotei after he had returned from Brooklyn and had been put under fire by Lucien Sanial. Daniel". de 1-eon. and several other" so cialists. He hail discarded the mining- cap for a straw hat. The only thing that pleased him was the Brooklyn bridge, which he thought a wonderful piece of engineering. He was very un favorably, impressed with the architec ture of the business part of New York. "1 wtmt along Broadway." he said, "rnd was surprised at the utter lack of uni formity in the buildings. You would find a ten-story building cheek by jowl with a four-story structure, and as far a&tho architecture is concerned. I could see no .pure specimen of any kind. On the contrary. Grecian. Roman, Gothic, and Renaissance and sometimes mixed up in the one building. The result is very incongruous. I 'think the New York -merchant princes, with the money, they spent on -these nuildusgs. might have had had results pleasantcr to Jui artistic taste. In London the buildings in the business streets are more uniform, aud, in niy opinion, in finitely .better from ah artistic point of view. "What do you think of the- condition- of the stree.s?". "I think the condition very bad. .If it was worse at any tjme it- must have .'been deplorable. Such a. condition of affairs would not be tolerated in any fourth-rate" provincial townin England. In London there is a system by whit-buoys -with scoops at every block or iwo take away every bit of dirt or dust as it appears to stationary covered dust bins, You would see no-town which claims to be of any. importance" in England as dirty as New York." . here Wni" l.oul -in Vlntrhlfc Twenty years record of coeducation at Cornell University -show that the women lead in scholarship." They hav'e a "higher record throughout the four 'years course-than the men; more women than meii 'reeeived"'"ih'e highest icconl for scholarship, and. with thi exception of oratory, women took more than their proportional share of honors and prize?. . MORE OR LESS" HUMOROUS. ' "t ie acrobat's lor is :pi iin'ortmia.." one,- for no mailer--ii.w much he makes. ,e is subject io reverses. . Baltimore American.- " - . . . Cumso: "Are "you goiug to. tne .pic nic?' Cawker: . "No." Cumso: '"Why" not.' Cawker--.. I went to a picnic once." Judge.1 "Speaking of racing, what gait does'a .man strike when ho Is going to th- den tist .to have "a 'tooth" pulled oat?" "Tooth-hurty." Shoe and Leather Re porter. " . - " " The sufferer: "Do vou think- it would I felie'vc my. toothache .if I should -hold !a little liquor in my. mouth?". His wife:- "It might. if you could do it." Liie. " "- . " .... hhe: 1 11 marry you. George, if you can satisfy father that you can 'support me." He:. "Do you think 1. could get him to play poker with me just onceT" Mrs. Hushmore: "You'll have to set-" tie up or leave." Summer boarder: "Thanks, awfully! The last place 1 was at" they made me do both." Illus trated Paper. - . . ... . Mr. .Upton (acrosst the airshaft): ".I wish you folks wouldn't make so .much .noise; you're keeping" our baby awake.' Mr. Forthflohr (blandly): "Oh. we- are. j are we? Well," just ask your baby how I he likes it himself.'" Puck. , A kind husband: "Wifey, dear, I have , just brought you two bottles of extra' old Barolo for your birthday." "But you -know - very well I -never drink wine." "Well, I'll drink it myself to your good health.'". r II Motto per Ridero. Blevins: "The comic papers are al-. ways talking about women looking un der their beds' to see if there Is a man there.. Now, do you think "a woman, ever found a man under the bed?".Hen peckt: "Oh, yes. Married women often. i do "Truth. m CURE 1STHIM. c rilyal -! tho The majority of sufferers .from Asthma and kindred complaint, after trying: Doctors and numberless Reme dies advertised as positive cures, with out avail, have come to the conclusion that there is no cure for this most dis tressing disease; and these same per sons will be the more in doubt and skep tical when they learn through th col umns of the press that Dr. Rudolph SchlfTmann, the recognised authority, who has treated more-cases of these dis eases than any' living Doctor, has achieved success byperfectiac " edy which not only gives relief la the worst cases, but has positively cured thousands of sufferers who were con sidered Incurable. These were just aa skeptical as some of our readers now are. Dr. Schiffmann's remedy ao 'doubt possesses the merit which Is claimed for it or he would not authorize-this paper to announce' that he is not only willine to give free to each person suffering;, from Asthma. Hay Fever, Phthisic, or Bronchitis one free liberal trial package of his cure, but' urgently requests all sufferers .to send him their Basse" and address and "receive a package, abexv lutely free tf charge, knowing- that la making, the claim he does for his cure a strong- doubt may arise in the -minds of many and that a personal test, as he offers to all. will be. more convincing and-prove Its merits than the publishing- of thousands of testimonials from others, who have" been permanently cured by the use of his Asthma cure. "Dr. Schiffmann's" Asthma Cure," as. it Is called, has been sold by all drug gists ever since It was first introduced, although many persons may never have heard of.it. and it -is with a view to reaching these that he makes this offer. This is certainly a most generous ana" fair offer.and all who are suffering; from' any of the above- complaints should "write to him at once -and avail them selves of the same, "as positively bo free samples cnu be obtained after Oct. 10. Ad dress Dr. K. KchhTnian, 335 "Rosabel street, St. Panl, Minn. A WI- Choir. A-younff lady'in charge of-the cap fain of a P. & O. boat had tvo suitors on board, and a'p'ug- do-r. Tlie latter fell overboard and one of her swains instantly, jumped after it into' the sea. The other confined himself to leaning over the side and' crying, -'l'oordpjr-gie'" When the rescuer came on board, dripp'n?. the young lady turned to the captain and' asked him "which of her two lovers, after such an incident, he -would recommend her to take.-. He was a" practical- man and replied.V'fake the dry one," which she accordingly did. . No I'iligrr Work. Dean Hole tells of -an oki-fashioned cathedral verger, lord' of tlie aisles,"" who one noon found a pious visitor on his knee's in the sacred building. The verger hastened up to him and said, in -alone-of indfrrnant excitement. -TKe serviccsin this cathedral are"at-10in the morning and at.-l ih the afternoon. and wo don't have no fancy prayers." Argonaut. . - r . tlniwins the l.'nr.- She had fidgeted in her chair for a pood hour, until she could stand it no longer." Said she. in accents which told how she had suffered: 't'eo. McStay cr, yon are not indifferent to ine. I will be.your'wife if you .viil only ask me. anil if you don't want mcKiysO. But there .is one thing- you must under-stai:-r once for all this is not a con tinuous performance house." Boston Transcript. - . RAM'S HORNS. Selfishness is a bard snake to kill. Th 'Toss of Christ -is-, the key to" heaven. Everything. God gives us to do needs. to be done. Christians get along faster when they travel in pairs." " God's-fire in the hcartsoon melts at: the lead in the feet.- Whoever takes.Chrtstfor.a'topIc will eoon have him for a guest. " The better we know the Bible,- the plainer God can talk to us. If we talk about Christ we will never run out of something to say. . It takes the man who carries God'i message a long while to get tired. Many hear the voice of Christ before they know who It Is that speaks. Whatever Christ has given the churcn to do, every Christian should gladly try to do. " Police Justice What's the charge against this man? Policeman Im personating an -officer. "What did he .do?" "He walked, up to a street ven der's stand and took a handful of pea nuts." Chicago Record. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL, A Vlrgiala Faper Braaght te Tessas Tsy the Aaaericaa Beak Ceaiaaay. ' A dispatch from Norfolk, Vs., says: "The American Book company of "New York has last nined. signal victory fat the courts of. Virginia aad has received aa ab solute and complete vindication after a long and exhaustive trial by special jury la the Circuit -court of this city. .The Pilot news paper of tail city, upon the awarding" of the contract for schoot books to the Amer ican Book company, printed a long articl written and prepared ty IL E.Byrd, aa agent and attorney for.Gma & Co.. of Sew York, in which it was charged that the state- superintendent had beea. bribed by the American Book company. The Pilot was immediately seed for libel, and, after a five weeks' trial, which created aa im mense amount of- interest throughout the state, a verdict for punitive damages wan recently awarded, and the jary found that ihe statements made were fake and a delii-erate libeL Not only so, but the. company, .upon unimpeachable evidence, wns proved to have dealt honorably aad np-rigktly-in every particular ia their negotia tions with the state officials. It was furth er proved at the trial that ao better terms Liul beea made with any other state for hcli-.ol I .'C h. In fact", the attorney-general-of Virginia stated that the Americas' Book company-'seemed to throw open their whole business to us,' and after fall aad complete examination of all the original contracts made with the various states he expressed bimself as absolutely satisfied that the prices were the same fa all cases sad that no dLcrimination whatever had beea made against the state of Virginia. Furtheraaore be mentioned tbataoaeof the statements of the American Book company bad beea accepted until every one of .them had beea absolutely verified by direct reference to the governors of some fifteen states, with whom contracts had been made. -This proved conclusivelythattherepreBeatatioBs of the American Book company were cor rect in toto. This celebrated case has thus ended in a complete triumph ia every re spect for. the American Book company, aad has shown in clear contrast the clean and business-like methods in which they csrrtr on their great industry as compared with" the attempted ase of political palls. sad misstatements by their opponents." Chi cago Tribune. 1 here i no true greatness' except -the greatness .of usefuines. New Mexico spent $45,000 for churche sad $t,4S"",0l" for liquor last year. Tho despised milkweed' can be used to' advantage. Its seed yields a.f-nepil. O'ocd pasture makes flesh and growth more rapidly than dry food does.' ' Frederick Tennyson, the elder brother of Alfred, will soon publish a sew volume of verses. Indieerlminate breeding is one of the causes of lessened proita with sheep. Nearly allthe 'Loadou newspapers Ley their 'iriat paper in Getmaay. !- GdnBgl-8l flsfllWtt uHIIMB Yes sslcJr BUYS GOOi NOTES - emcns -ax? BoncroTst: . . ; Lbaiidkk 0Oauu),:lre,t, '. -B. H. 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