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Man's Place In the Universe.
What is man but the great musi
cian of the universe? The universe Is
a great organ with mighty pipea.
Space, time, eternity, are like the
throats of this great organ; and man
a little creature, puts his fingers on
the keys, and wakes the universe to
thunders of harmony, stirring up the
whole creation to mightiest acclama
tions of praise. Charles Spurgeon.
Peacemaker Is Stabbed.
Seeing two men fighting in front at
bis house, M. Dujardin. of the Con
servatoire of Music, Paris, took bis
violin and began to play in order to
soothe the combatants by his music.
Bat one of the men at once turhde on
him and stabbed him. and he was
taken in a dying condition to a hos
pital. The Swiss engineers have worked
out plans for tapping the Lake of Slls
in the Engadine and letting the water
drop down the mountain side, thus
creating a fall that would yield 50.000
horse power. During the tourist sea
son the lake would resume its normal
appearance, owing to the necessity of
storing the water.
Could Get No Rest.
Freeborn. Minn.. October 17 (Spe
cial) Mr. R. E. Goward. a well-known
nan here is rejoicing in the relief
from suffering be has obtained
through using Dodd's Kidney rills.
His experience is well worth repeating
as It should point the road to health
to many another in a similar condi
tion. . "1 had an aggravating case of Kiw
Bey Trouble," says Mr. Goward. "that
gave me no rest day or night but
using a few boxes of Dodd's Kiduey
Pills put new life in me and I feel like
a new man.
"1 am happy to state I have received
great and wonderful benefit from
Dodd's Kidney Pills. I would heartily
recommend all sufferers from Kidney
Trouble to give Dodd's Kidney Pills a
fair trial as 1 have every reason to be
lieve it would never be regretted."
Dodd's Kidney Pills make you feel
like a new man or woman because
they cure the kidneys. Cured kidneys
mean pure blood and pure blood
means bounding health and energy in
every part of the body.
A Cincinnati man recently went to
sleep in a dental chair while the den
tist was repairing his teeth. They
were false teeth.
The Wabash is the Only Line Landing
You at the World's Fair.
Rround trip rates from Omaha are
as follows: 8.50 sold daily except
Friday and Saturday, good 7 days.
$12.80 sold daily, good 15 days. The
Wabash Is the only line that laud's
.assener tit the main entrance of the
World's Fair grounds. Also the only
ilae that ran check your baggage to
.he World' Fair .station. Think what
saving of time, annoyance and ex
:ra car fare.
All agents cau sell you through
ticket and route you over the Wabash.
Very low rates to many itoints South.
Southeast. For beautiful World's Fair
folder ana all information call at 1G01
Farnam St. or address Harry 15.
Moores. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. Wab.
R. R.. Omaha. Neb.
The Danger Signal.
When a girl begins to lecture a
young man on economy it's up to bim
to call on the marriage license clerk
Dr take to the tall timber.
Every housekeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
sach package contains 16 oz. one full
pound while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up la ft-pound pack
ages, am1 the price is the same. 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Another Drunkenness Cure.
Drunkenness has been added to the
already imposing list of maladies
which oculists pretend to care by the
relief of eyestrain.
Nebraska Day at World's Fair.
October 25th has been selected as
Nebraska Dav. The Wabash is the
line all Nebraskans will use. as it
lands all passengers at the World's
Fair Stations, main entrance World's
Fair grounds, thus saving extra car
fare, time and much annoyance.
A very low rate has been made
from all stations. For Nebraska Day
badge. World's Fair guide and all in
formation call at Wabash Citv offlr
1601 Faraam St. or address
HARRY E. MOORES,
G. A. P. D. Wab. R. R..
Omaha. Neb.
P. S. All agents can sell you
through and route you via Wabash!
Many Children Are Sickly.
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Hoaw, New York, cure Sumner Complaint
tVreriafcaeM,Headache.Stomach Troubles!
Teeth! ay Disorders and Dertroy Worms. At
il Druggists', 25c. Sample mai'ed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Lo Roy. X. Y.
Affections Are Not All.
Women are always it'danger of liv
ing too exclusively in the affections;
aad though our affections are perhaps
the best gifts we have, we cught also
to have our share of the more inde
peadeat life some joy in things for
their own shake. George Eliot.
. Traces ef Ancient Villa.
;. There'aave been unearthed at Bury
BC Edmunds. England. . traces of a
villa, "yielding fragments of
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By COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO. ,
OOLUMBTJ&, - NEBRASKA.
FIGHT CONTINUES
TIDE OF BATTLE NOW NEARER
AiUKUEN.
MUKDEN There war, a lull in the
battle Saturday, but fighting was con
tinued Sunday on th right. The
army is southwest of here ten miles.
It is now certain that the army will
be able to extricate itself. The losses
amount to aO.OOO. It has been a big
ger battle than Liao Yang.
Evening The firing to the south
west Is less violent. The men are
tired out and food has been insuffi
cient. Every available gun and man
are being used. The troops have be
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Bird's-eye view of Port Arthur, showing inner basin in which the warships
have been lying at anchor, and forts captured by the Japanese which
command the harbor. Cross marks location of the basin and stars
show location of Etseshan, Wolf Hill and Takushan forts. Dotted
lines mark direction of artillery fire which renders the harbor unten
able for the fleet.
haved most gallantly, hurling them
selves repeatedly against impregnable
positions. The heavy storm of Octo
ber 14 added to the misery of the
troops. There is great depression, but
solid tenacity among the men. There
has been great sacrifice of officers.
The plain occupied by the retiring
Russians is covered with bursting
shrapnel. The gunners shovelled
shells into the breeches of the guns as
btokers shovel coal into furnaces.
Howitzers are used by the eastern
army. The Russian guns have super
ior range and burst shrapnel at 6.000
jards. There is a scarcity of reliable
maps. Two divisional commanders
hae lost their chieff staff officers, one
of them being killed, and many com
manding officers have met death hc
toically leading their regiments.
Shrapnel fell near (General Kouro
patkiu. He showed desperate energy
and even in the darkest hour remain
cJ hopeful. Tiie Japanese must feel
tne strain.
Sunday evening the Janauese seem
ed no nearer. Fires are burning to
the iouth. About twelve miles from
here the eastern ari'iy is retiring
without fighting.
Russian Dead More Than 10.C00.
WASHINGTON The Japanese lega
tion has received the following advices
from Tokio. under date of Octobes 16:
"Marshal Oyama reports that the
number of Russians found dead on
the field in front of our right army
on the loth amounted to 4.500. beside
many more yet unaccounted for and
hundreds of new prisoners. The esti
mated total Russian loss in this quar
ter alone exceeds 20.000. The Russian
losses in front of our center and left
armies are being investigated.
"The number of Russian corpses
buried bv us previously, amounting to
2.000. refers to the quarter cf our lelt
army alone.
"Oyama further imports that he es
timates the number of Russian
corpses left on the field in front of
our center army at 2,500.
"The total number of Russian
eorpses so far ascertained reach S.S50.
"The above does not include the re
sult of the fierce engagement with our
left army and many more yet undis
covered in all cuarters."
Attendance at World's Fair.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The following
statement of the attendance at the
World's fair was given out: Total for
week ending October 15. 939.774;
total since the opening of the fair.
14.216.220.
Two Stories About Chinese.
LONDON. Bennett Burleigh re
ports from Shanghai to the Daily Tele
graph that the Chinese are becoming
restless and anxious to attack the
Russians. The correspondent of the
Times telegraphs fromra Peking that
after traveling through the northern
'provinces tf China he has arrived at
the conclusion that the reports of un
rest and anti-foreign disturbances
have little foundation in fact and are
largely disseminated through the in
fluence of the Russian legation for in
terested mot'ves.
Helan Kellar at the Fair.
ST. LOUIS. Miss Helen Keller of
Wrenthan. Mass.. who has gained a
national reputation through her man
ner of acquiring an education, al
though born deaf, dummb and blind,
arrived to attend the conference of
superintendents of America schools
for the deaf and dumb which convenes
Monday, and also to be present at
the exercises in honor of "Helen Kel
ler day" at the WTorId's fair on Oc
tober 18. She is the first perpon in
whose honor a special day has been
designated by the World's fair.
Mikado Thanks His Army.
LONDON. The correspondent of
the Times at Tokio savs the mikado
has warmly thanked the Manchurian
army for defeating the offensive move
mments of the Russians and driving
them back after many days of se
vere fighting.
They Know Better.
Very few men, although they talk
so much about wanting to live again
the happy days of choldhood. would
Pt la much of the time eating green
apples.
" THZ arvies :.:eet.
But at Present AH ths News Is Un
official. ST. PETERSBURG No official
news of the result of today's battle
south of Mukden is available zt this
hour. General Kuropatkin doubtless
has communicated his regular report
to Emperor Nichclu, but the dispatch
was not sent back to the general 3taS
tonight. So the latest word from Rus
sian sources Is contained in the As
sociated Press dispatch from Mukden.
As is natural, the absence of official
news is pessimistically interpreted in
many quarters, but the general staff,
though reticent, counsel patience,
pointing out that the offensive move
ment was planned on a large scale
and has not yet reached a stage where
a decisive reverse could have been at
tained. The frontal attack on thhe Yental
mines developed a desperate battle In
which probably 100.000 men are en
gaged, but though V.i2 dispatchas so
MUST LEAVE PORT ARTHUR.
far deal almost exclusively with this
feature of the battle, it is pointed out
that there is a much wider field in
volved. A fight on the Russian left
flank has not yet developed and pos
sibly here General Kuropatkin intends
to deliver his main blow. What force
is pushing forward in this direction
behind the screen containing the col
umn at Shantiutaidze is unknown, but
the appearatc tonight of a Russian
column at Tzeyauchan. thirty miles
southeast of Mukden, striking at Field
Marshal Oyama's communications with
the Yalu. and the knowledge that an
other column is alrcadv across the
Taitse river, gives evidence of the
wide nature of the turning movement.
It is possible that the attack on the
Yentai mines may simply be intendeJ
to hold the main Japanese force sta
tionary and that the outcome of the
Yentai fight may have little bearing
on the result of the genera: engage
ment. While it Is now asserted th3t Gen
eral Kuropatkin enjoys a considerable
numerical superiority, the main fear
expressed is that this superiority is in
sufficient to enable him to carry out
the big operations he has undertaken.
Apprehension is caused by the To
kio dis::'.tch saying that Field .Mar
shal Oyama reports that he is gaining
ground and has cut off a Russian col
umn below the Taitse river. It is only
natural, after the repeated reverses
already suffered, that Russians fully
realize how much General Kuropatkin
has staked on the assumption of the
offensive. The battle now in progress
undoubtedly will outweigh in import
ance tire hard fight at Liao Yang. For
Kuropatkin victory, partial or com
plete, is necessary.
NEW PHASE OF MAIL SEIZURE.
Pouch Destined to American Warship
Tampered With.
WASHINGTON It developed Fri
day that a pouch containing mail for
the United States cruiser Cincinnati,
then at Nagasaki. Japan, which was
aboard the British steamer Calchas.
when that vessel was seized by the
Russian Vladivostok squadron, had
been opened while in the possession
of the Russian officials, subsequently
resealed and sent on to its destina
tion. This information came to the
postoffice department Friday in a com
munication from the Japanese postal
administration, in conformity with a
practice always followed when there
has been any mishap in the delivery
of mail ;ouches. The matter will be
referred to the state department for
action, as was done with the case of
the ordinary United States mail on
the vessel at the time she was seized.
Chicago to Have Big Hotel.
CHICAGO The News of Thursday
says that Chicago is to have the larg
est hotel in the world." It will cost
$10,000,000. he twenty-two stories high
and dwarf in size and magnificence,
it is promised, any structure of the
kind ever erected. The builders and
owners will be a syndicate of Chicago
and eastern capitalists, headed by
Otto Young. The hotel will occupy
property measuring 400 feet in length
by 171 feet In depth in Michigan ave
nue, two blocks south of the Audi
torium. Sends Notes to the Nations.
WASHINGTON The president is
preparing to redeem his promise to
the delegates to the interparliament
ary peace conference to secure an
other meeting of plenipotentiaries of
the iowers signatory to The Hague
convention with a view to revising
and adding to that instrument. The
state department will address separ
ate notes to every government repre
sented at the last, conference, invit
ing suggestions as. to the time and
place of meeting of the proposed con
ference.
Japanese Lose Gunboat.
TOKIO The Japanese gunboat
Heyen struck a mine in Pigeon bay
west of Port Arthur, September 18,
and sank. Only four of its crew
were rescued. It is reported that the
Russians have crossed the Hun river
in heavy force and are aggressively
attacking the Japanese forces, which
were moving northward. A genera
engagement is said to be in progress
The loss of the armored gunboat He
Yen is announced and permission was
granted by the authorities to publlsl
details.
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CHAPTER XXI Continued.
So complete was her preoccupation
that she disregarded another thing.
tne highway along which they v-ere
traveling. It was Rcnnalin who first
awoke to a consciousness that the
noise of the rabble had become very
faint behind them, that no sounds at
all broke the stillness ahead of them,
that the uneven weed-grown path they
were treading was very different froaJ
tie smooth hardness of the Watling
street. For the first time, she spoke
to the son of Lodbrok. who had silent
ly taken his place at her side.
"This is not the Watling Street!
Itet we have not turned . Where
are we?"
Rothgar gnawed at his heavy mus
tache as though the answer were dif
ficult to frame.
"You are still on the Watiir.g
Street," he said. "It is only that this
is the old bod of it. It leads alto to
Saint Peter's Monastery on Thor
nej Stung with fear. Elfgiva tried .to
snatch the lines from him. "I am not
going to a monastery! I am going to
the palace."
As a cliff stands against the '.retting
of waves, his grasp stood against
hers; and his voice was as immovable
as his hand.
"The palace where the king is," he
said, "is the palace for a 'queen."
At first it either seemed that she
would scratch out his eyes or throw
herself from her saddle. But in the
end she did neither, for a sense of her
helplessness turned her faint. To one
who has always ruled undisputed
there is something benumbing in the
first collision with the pitiless hand of
Force. "If I had the good luck to see
a bee caught in a brier. I should wisli
yoar death," she threatened. But she
said it under her breath; and after
that, rode with urooping head and
eyes that saw nothing of the scene
before her.
CHAPTER XXII.
The King's Wife.
The fact that King Edgar lad slept
nnder Its uneven roof, on some visit
to Dunstan's monkish colony, was
scarcely sufficient to make a palace of
the rambling rookery which a waa
separated from the West Minster. "It
s the waste-place of ruins." Elfgiva
-aid on the day of their arrival.
To-day, a fortnight later, Randalin
repeated the comment with a des
pondent addition. "The king will
never come to this rubbish heap.
Here we are buried no less than if we
lay in a mound. It is not likely that
we shall get news by an easier way
than by going to bim."
Straining her eyes out over the
"Let ms through
mist-robed river, 'she tried for the
thousandth time to think of some bait
alluring enough to tempt Elfgiva to
that point of daring. "I will try once
more to entice her to the palace, so
that I can get tidings," she determin
ed. "I wonder what Kind of humor
she is in."
it was not necessary to go far to
obtain a hint as to that. Even as sh?
entered the passage, she heard the
scramble of scurrying feet, and then
screams and the thud of blows.
"Now it ia heard that she is not sulk
ing among her cushions." Randalin
observed. "When her temper is r.:
she is little afraid of doing things
which she else would not dare do."
According to that her expectations
should have mounted high, as she
drew aside the door curtain, for the
1-t.dy of Northampton was far from
sulking. Partially disrobed, as she
had sprung up from before her mir
ror, she was holding the luckless
Dearwyn with one hand while witu
the other she administered pitiless
punishment from a long club-like
candle which she had snatched from
its holder.
"Come not betwixt, or I will treat
you in a like manner." the mistress
panted.
But the Valkyria's fear of Elfgiva's
tongue did not extend to Elfgiva's
hands. Catching the dimpled wrists,
she held them off with perfect cool
ness, as she said soothingly. "Now
you tire yourself much. lady: and
you will tire yourself more if Vu
consent to the entertainment I came
hither to propose. I was thinkinu
how it might cause amusement to us
to ride into the city and bee what
the goldsmiths have in their booths."
Elfgiva threw aside the candle to
come close and lay her hands upon
the girl's breast. "Do jou think it
likely that I might fall in with the
king somewhere in the city?"
This was going a bit faster than
Randalin bad planned, and her breath
came quickly, but she took the risk
and admitted it. "I did hope that
it might happen that we would see
the king." she said, "and what i
mor important to us that the king
might see you."
Slowly, the king's wife went back
to her seat before the mirror, and
sat there fingering and turning the
jeweled rouge-pots in a deep study.
"Deliver me your opinion of this.
Teboen?" she said, at last, to the
big raw-boned British woman who
was her nurse and also the female
majordomo of her household.
Teboen. after becoming delibera
tion, replied. that she thought rather
favorably of the plan, that certainly
It could do no harm, while It would
Ha almost sure to do good if the
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K'.nc, c&uld be rednded of how beau
tiful a woiran he was neglectisg.
Elfgiv&'s laughter was like return
ing sunshine. "How! You say so?
Then will we make ready without
delay! Tata, I could find it in my
rdnd to scold you for net thinking of
this before. You must mouth me
order for the horses, though." she
added as an afterthought. "I should
expect it would be told me that I am
a prisoner, whereat I should weep
foi rage."
Another flash of daring lighted Ran
ualin's eyes, though her mouth re
mained quiet. "A good way to keep
them from thinking you a prisoner,
lady, is to act like a free woman." she
said. "I shall tell ihem that you arc
going to the pair.ee to see jour hus
band." Sowing her eed, she left it
to take root, and went away to con
vince the head of the grooms.
As she had foretold, he was too un
certain regarding their position to
dare contest their order, little as he
liked it. In something less than an
hour, the five women, fur-wrapped
and flanked by. pages and soldiers,
were passing under the deep arch of
the New Gate into the great city
itself.
"Do you purpose to visit the palace
first, noble one?' the leader of the
guards inquired with a respectful, i:
ureasy salute.
The seed had rooted so far that Elf
giva did not disclaim the intention;
but she hesitated a long time, pulling
nervously at the embroidered top of
her riding glove. "Which way lies the
palace?"
"Down the lane on your left, noble
on
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"Turn then to the left."
They obeyed her, but their gay
chatter died on their lips. If the road
bore none of thu repulshenesi. of the
shambles, ii was .still little more
cheerful than the graveyard. On
their right, an ice-stiffened marsh
reached to the great city wall, while
a remnant of the primeval beech for
est lay along their Itft, leafless, wind
lashed and groaning. Ahead, behind
its walls and above Jts gardens of
clustering fruit-trees, rose the towers
and gilded spires f the king's pal
ace. As they n eared the arched gateway,
red with the cloaks of the royal
guards, it seemed to Kandulin that an
icy hand had closed about her heart.
The blood was ebbing from Elfgiva's
face, and it could be seen that she
wa forced to keep moistening her
lips with her tongue. Nearer now
they were in front of the entrance
All at once, the lady thrust a spur
into her horse as lie was slackening
hi pace in obedience to her tightened
rein.
to my husband!"
"To the goldsmith's first." she or
I tred. "On our way back " Her
word:; were lost on the frosty wind.
The master of the first booth in the
row of wretched little .stalls was
humped with steaming breath over
a brazier of glowing coals. He leaped
to greet such splendid ladies with a
piofusion of salaams and a mouthful
of pretty speeches that brought some
of the color back 10 Elfgira's cheeks.
"Do not have me in contempt.
Tata." she admonished with a laimh
of rome unsteadiness. "Let me sharp
en my weapon for some space anion:'
these precious things, and it may be
that I shall go hence panting for the
field."
"Ah. gracious lady, you must needs
buy my whole stock." the merchant
cried with ingratiating smiles, "for I
can never endure to sell to another
what I have once seen rear your
face."
Certainly the jeweled bugs, the
golden snakes, the strands ot amber
and jet and pearl, seemed to act as
tonics upon the Northampton lady.
If she had not traded away, at the
first two stalls, every ornament in her
possession, she would have Investi
gated each booth in the t-quare. Sh
came out in bubbling spirits to the
waiting horses and the half frozen
guards.
j "This Cheapside is a very fairy gar
I den." she prattled, lingering with her
i foot in the hand of the kneeling
groom. "Everything in beds and rows
as they were herbs null: down thit
lane, soap down that, jewels, lab
lics " She turned with a sudden in
spiration. "Maidens, would not this
be a merry thougnt? To find out
where the fabric? are kept and try
some cloth of gold asain?t these
pearks?"
As the servile murmur answered.
Randalin's brow darkened. Cloth c
gold and pearls when a wolf was
tearing away at her heart. She spoke
desperately. "I wish that the way to
the fabrics might lie past the king's
house, lady."
The king's wife sent her a glance,
half r 'sentful. half questioning. "Why
do you say that?"
Eecause it Canute could see you as
yen look now. with your cheeks
a-flower. and that ermine, like snow,
upon our hair, there is tothing in
the world he could refuse you."
Elfgiva's mcuth curved bewitchingly.
You speak as though you had jewels
to sell. What fine manners they have,
these London merchants! Tell me.
Candida. Leonorine. does she speak
the truth? On your crses. has not
the cold reddened my nose? Or
pinched the bloom off my lips?"
If the murmur that answered lacked
&S
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a.2. heartiness, their mistress did notjj
orcoive ii. tor every man wiuuu
?trshot swelled it with reassurance--
thinking perhaps of tho hot splce-a
-.vino in the king's cups.
After a moment of hesitation, ETf-
eiva flew up to her saddle like
bird. "Co you all think so?" she
lughed. "Certainly I never felt ,inJ
!utisr spirits, i declare inai i wm
try it. Hasten, berore he roses wilt
in my cheeks, forward I To the pal
ace!" CHAPTER XXIII.
In the Judgment Hall.
While he kept a firm hold upon
the spear which he had dropped like
?. gilded bar across the door, the Eng
lish sentinel repeated for the tenth
time his respectful denial: "I will
take it upon me to admit you to the
gallery, noble lady; but though you
weremhe queen herself, I dare not let
you In to the lower part. There be
none but men with the king, and it ii
not fitting"
"And is the son of a Saxon serf
to decide where it is fitting for me
to go?" the Lady of Northampton
demanded, facing him in a tempest
of angry beauty. "Whatsoever you
shall do by my direction, deg, will in
all respects be available to your
credit. Let me through to my hus
band, or I can tell jou that you will
find your wariness terribly mis
placed!" (To be continued.)
GOPHERS USED THEIR WITS.
Evolved Clever Scheme by Which
They Got the Bread.
An Arizona friend of mine lately
told me this interesting Incident
about the gopheis that infested his
cabin when he was a miner. The go
phers ate up his bread. He - could
not hide it from them nor put it be
yond their reach.
Finallv he betthought him to stick
his loaf on the end ot a long iron
poker that he had and then stand up
tho poker in the middle of his floor.
Still when he came back to his cabin
he would find his loaf eaten full of
holes. One day. having nothing to
do. he concluded to watch and see
how the gophers reached the bread,
and this was what he saw:
The animals climbed up the side of
his log cabin, ran along one of the
logs to a point opposite the bread,
and then sprang out sidewise toward
the loaf, which each one struck, but
upon which only one seemed able tc
to effect a lodgement. Then this onw
would cling to the loaf and act as a
t-fop to liis fellows when they tried
a second time, his body affording
them the barrier they, required. Mj
friend felt sure tnat this leader delib
erately and consciously aided the
others in securing a footing on the
loaf. Outing.
COULD NOT BE MOVED.
Chinese Story of the Unwelcome, Im
perturbable Guest.
"A certain man was very fond of
calling upon his friends, and. unfor
tunately, when he once- got into their
houses it was very difficult to eet
him out of them again. One day an
individual whom lie was honoring
with a !ong visit got very tired of his
company, but did not know how to
get rid cf him. as he could not very
well tell him point blank to go. So
he got up and looked at the sky.
Clouds are gathering.' he said, ciig
gestively. 'it will soon rain.' His vis
itor replied with alacrity. If it is
going to lain I mustn't go; it might
lain before I reach home.' So he did
not go. The unhappy host, finding
this plan unavailing, racked his brains
for another, and by and by he rose
and looked out again. 'The clouds are
scattering.' he ?aid: "perhaps it won't
rain alter all." 'If it is not going to
rain.' remarked the imperturbable
guest, 'there is no need to hurry; 1
can stay on. "From the Chinese.
Blue Stockings of To-day.
The last few years have seen mark
ed changes for the better in the "blue
stocking." She has. after causing
much distress to her relatives and
friends, come to the conclusion that
the "ologies" and pretty frocks are,
after all. not so incompatible as at
one time they seemed, and that her
learning, combined with a pleasing
outward seeming, carries far more
weight than it did when she wore
shapeles garments and neglected her
coiflure.
The "blue stocking" is indeed giv
ing up the "tailor-made" for festive
occasions, the severe tie and collar
and rigidly plain hat which was one
of her phages, and she has begun to
revel with her more frivolous sister in
friii nnd furbelows, and a hundred
pn-tty things which a comparatively
short period ago she would have felt
it incumbent upon her to scorn, says
Woman's Life.
She is acquiring a taste for the
joys of suitable attire which marks
the well dressed woman, and she has
by no means made the pathway of
learning easier Tor the rising genera
tion, whose parents will no longer
put stumbling blocks in the path now
that eccentricity and a "sweet girl
graduate" may be things apart. All
mothers and the majority of fathers
strongly object to seeing their daugh
ters sacrifice looks to learning.
A. Man's Excursion.
Mrs. C. the wife of an ardent lover
of "The Wilds and the Wilderness,'
accompanied her husband on one of
his "out-of-the-way trips." and this is
what she wrote home of "a man's
pleasure excursion":
"First of all. I made up all sorts of
costumes to keep us from being eaten
alive by green flies mosquitoes and
fleas; then we get up in the middle
of the night and took a train, and
went juat as far as it wouiu go; uteu
wo climbed into a rickety old wagon
and rode to the limit: then we got
irto a boat, and followed the waters
course to its finish; and then we
walked till we dropped down dead
an(1fKe is happy!" Chicago Record
Herald. Fail to Recoup Donations.
The citizens of Cambridge sub
scribed liberally toward the expenses
Of the recent meeting of the British
association there, expecting to be able
to recoup themselves by the custom
of the visitors. But the colleges re
ceived the members of the association
as paying guests and boardod and
lodged them. Now the citizens are an
gry.
He Wanted Peace.
"I notice you don't wear a campaign
"No; I'm altogether too fond of
peace and comfort for that."
"Afraid it will get you into an argu
ment with people you meet on the
street?"
"Oh. no; I can hold my end with
them, but well, you see. my wife
doesn't agree with me politically."
Money for
The best snap with any show ' is
that of sellins tickets." said the vet
eran circus 2n. - "Give rae the walk-a-aray
money of any gaoi sized shqw,
and I care sot who ret the big sal
aries. "The walkaway money Is the vaVy
ing pile of coin that is left behind by
e hasty men who forget about hav
ing change coming to them, and it
amounts to many dollars in the
course of a month. With even the
smallest shows it amounts to consid
erable, and with the big ones it will
go as high as 25 a performance some
times. "On nearly every occasion when- a
show is in town some fellow will go
home sore and charge that he was
short changed, when the fact is be
was at fault himself. There is always
a rush at the wagon, and when a man
sticks a dollar inside the window he
is In a hurry to get inside the big tent
and see the animals.
"He will either grab the change at
the same time he gets his ticket or
he will walk away and leave it be
hind. If he doesn't return with a hol
ler the money is shoved to one side in
the walkaway pile, and goes into the
ticket man's pocket after the sale is
over.
"The rakeoff is a perquisite of the
ticket seller, because when there is
any shortage, when ihe tickets at
F
In the Dark, Continent
Although the Batwa or pygmy tribe
of central Africa have certain bodily
resemblances to monkeys, the similar
ity does not apply to their brains, ac
cording to the Rev. A. B. Fisher, who
has spent much time among them.
"If we are to look to them physically
for Darwin's missing link, we cannot
do so psychologically." he says. "As
regards mental caliber. I should say
they are much in advance ot the
tribes living outside the fore-t. It
may be that, being continually on
their guard again.it the wild animals
that infest the forest, their minds
have become mre alert and act he.
Certain it is that they show a quick
ness for learning, and I have noticed
that, while seeking to instruct a
mixed class representing fixe differ
ent tribes th' Pigmy will grasp an
idea more readily and correctly than
his competitors.
"Constant defense against their
stronger neighbors has made them a
In the Judgment Book
Xow, this N :i t.i!f of .1 owHi- ifitm. who
died hi V. tt.-lKht .f y-.ir-.
And wlngMl hU tliK.it to the portal.
bright wilti notiiii!' of doubt or
fears.
Sob"r and Merii was the life h-"d led: his
record from i.111 v..i free.
. ... . . . . -
So ooiuiy ne KimtKeti re tne .sie! un
locked, and loudly a:u! oi'-ar raid he;
"Onrn the a ..-. !or I ve ttitn-'d zny icst
in the tity ot cridle-.- o.iy.
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cheated, nor sworn, nor lied. t "Your ..-i:isnu. t.-me :s a million more.
So open the Kate' tor u tularin v.aits to '' do m.l itiiu'i faith
enter hi- home i:h pride.' f lint t'n ivroii j.hi ha- done to your
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TALK ON ADVERTISING
By C. W. Post to Publishers
The sunshine that makes a business
plant grow is advertising.
'Growing a business nowadays is
something like growing an apple-tree.
You may select good seed, plant it in
good soil, water and work with it. but
the tree will not produce truit until
another and ino-t powertul. energis
ing and life-gm'ng element is brought
to bear. You must have sunshine and
lots of it. Can you expect to ripen
apples in the dark? Can you expect
to s;row a profitable business plant
nowadays without the sunshine of pub
lic favor produced by advertising".'
This Postum plant is a good illus
tration of that law. It seems bat a
short time aK when I put a few men
at work in the carriage house of the
barn you have seen to-day. where we
began making Postum coffee.
The seed then planted, less than i
years ago, was a new kind of apple
seed and it was not altogether certain
how the people would like the apples.
We did our work thoroughly and
plenty of it. We knew we had a good
Pure Food Factories that Maks
pple tree of fin? quality but how to
develop our work and turn the apple
fee into a productive and proiitable
tree was another question.
It needed suuihine and the kind of
sunshine that is .spread by the news
papers and masaInes It is an abso
lute certainty that without the pub
licity thus Riven in other words, the
Eiinshinc the business never would
have developed.
You have seen to-day factory build
ings thirteen or fouruen in number
covering many acres of ground, em
ploying hundreds of workpeople, pro
ducing food and drink in an aggregaft:
of four million packages per month.
which goes to every civilized country
on the globe, and yer the entire enter
prise is less than 'J years old. We
have found it necessary, inasmuch as
the tree has grown and the apples ma
tured by hard work and sunshine, to
continue the work and the sunshine
day in and day out. month in and
month out, the sunshine appropriation
amounting to approximately a million
dollars a year for advertising, for ex
perience teaches that if you mature
the tree under strong sunshine, and
bring It up to a thrifty and healthful
state where it produces profitable ap
ples, you can not withdraw that sun
hine else the tree will gradually die.
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Ticket Sellet
tie door do aot correspond with the
cash on hand. .vac makes good. ".'.;
"The "West is the rich Zzd f?r -tkf
ticket seller. Out at Cripple Creek-twenty-dollar
gold' piscsj ire more'
flentiful than dollars, and there hav
been times in -tkst region when tkV
walkaway money amcunted to aV
tatica ss $150 a day.
"The miners all turn out to a show
and they all pay m gold. A, man wil
come up. slap down a twenty-doikti
gold piece and walk away without
his change, because, his'- attention i
momentarily attracted by a eonversa
tion or a call irom a friend. One oi
two come "back to make a yelp, ami
their money is promptly handed out
to them.
"With a big show the rakeoff from
this source will run up to an average
of nearly $50 a day. If a man com-?
around and puts up a kick about beine
short-changed he cannot get up aa
argument with the ticket seller. Hit
orders are that as long as he has any
walkaway money iu sight he Is te
shell out.
"Of course, if there has been non
lett behind at that particular perform
ance the kicker gets turned down. b
cause he is known to be a liar, but a
a general proposition a man wht
wants to lie for half a dollar car.
make it pay by backing up to a ticket
seller after a lively rush for tickets.
New York Sun.
tearful and vindictive little folks. The
semi obscurity of the forest doubtless
has resulted in their stunted growth.
Their bodies are covered with an al
most imperceptible down, which
gn,?s n the arms in the same direc
tion as on the monkeys that is. it
meets toward ihe elbows. As thy
always; sit with arms clasped round
the neck, the constant rains fallinj
off tin: tr es might account for this.
"From all the information 1 could
i gather during my visit of six weekfc in
I the Mbozra uistrb-t of the forest ;m
lrom personal intercourse with then
I should say they are. not a numerous
tribe. They have suffered terribly
frou famine ami smallpox in recent
ears. They do not cultivate, but live
on bunting spoil ami plunder. An
eleiihant i-; the biggest bag and th
tusks ;:re exchanged with the Uaamba
l tjr bananas, who use them for trad
ing, or with the Hahuku. who eouvert
the small (iirs into war horns."
I A thotii-.itii! juiti.i ists in tm-rcy" l.l-:
, " i-h-moes t.. pardon "-"''.
' I';' 'J!";' ?"? -:'
i
"A Iliou.-.-.ml ri.i-s vklu-u your tl.irK'H4'd
i uiooil von thriix. m jour trietids
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' llltllt I'll tw JkV'fcll tH flUllll
Of j. -1-. th.it r.i'i'l:Nil. .1 Ituuit.-i.'.l ai-tt:
it ! ii: 11 li:i U'it ili flow 11
Vf v.rK w:th t;n-,- .mil envious llinrfs
f v wri I. h .1 thoiisiimt ijtiwii."
&u!lv tlio .mj.-1 -lii.l In !ioh iiiiiI yuiif
to the 1 rliiifinir r:itfh
v.-t.o di.d i.-. ht WtlTif ot i.irs
;,,; ui.iK-ed ii.s tik-ht to ih,.
, hl ,.,, f fll
.H.l'll II" Itlillt M lit" IM till
?r;'ht v.itti nttfji!i f li;Ht or
l:nt !i" must !M" for ;i tun,-- oiits!4!-i-?te
it..-. . . inn .1 !, ,l' .III .(.aillt
Kf- i Uan'."! over ; t I....!-.iih! Ii-urt
while -i-.ir.r ti- selfish so.il.
x'cit.li-it itluft- Nonpareil.
na' i.tt urn uv t4i;ii i,i i iii i m roil
at Banquet at Battle Creek
Some thoughtful man might say that
if wiiut you manufacture has merit,
once jou get u trade tiatablished peo
ple will continue to purchase, uvea if
ihe advertising is stopped, but t act
on that eoiH-lusion uuuM b: u fatal
mistake, for there are a!wa bright
men on the lookout to tcal oitr tip
ples, and if you gie them th chance
they will come iu and take the fruit,
sure Right here let us drive a nail,
iit a shingle uail hut a forty penny
spi1'. Your article must have merit,
r.-u" and away bt-yond the ordinary un
aitvertlsod thing. It should be the
very best that human intelligence and
ingenuity can produce. Then you have
a foundation to build upon that will
not slip out trom under when tht
building grows heavy. There are per
muis ignorant enough to believe that
a poor article can be advertised intt
a success. It cannot ami any one who
tries the experiment will pay heavily
for his experience. Critically examine
any wc1! known and advertised article
that has been years on the market ami
Postum and Crape-Nuts.
it will be found to possess exceptional
merit.
In ancient days newspaper publi'sh--crs
considered an advertisement an
evil but a uet-vsstirv evil, and that it
should be hidden away as carefully
as tn.tsible. : that no one would. dis
cover that the paper was trying to
make a little money by inserting pub
He a: nounceinents. A paper run, that
way to day wouI: fail.
The most successful exponents of
the new plan of doing business with
Ink and paper are using evry possi
ble means to make the announcements
rttractive and sought after by thfe
readers.
It is safe to say, that thousands or
women read the newspaper not the
telegraphic page, but the pages con
taining announcements of bargains In
stockings, skirts, hats, gloves, pianos,
furniture, food for the table, etc.
You have beoa Invited to viwit Bat
tle Creek for the purpose of viewing
one of the most unique advertising
buildings in the world, also to- Iqok '
over a large business built up. sus
tained, nourished and kept active by
sunshine, and. at the same time., have
an opportunity to see one of. the moat":
thrifty, active and prosperous towns
of its size in, the world, fcuilt up .large ".
ly by the same, kind of .sunshine.- :
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