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By COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
News in Brief
. Bound from Port Antonio, Jamacia,
to New York, with a cargo of bananas,
the frnit steamer Banes went ashore
aear Jones beach life-saving station.
The death of John A. Honer of Buf
falo, N. Y., merchant, was due to chol
era morbus and heart disease, and not
to carbolic acid administered by his
-wife.
President Roosevelt unexpectedly
-risked the submarine torpedo boat
Plunger and spent fifty minutes be
neath the waves, laahed to fury by a
torm.
Two men are are dead and three
more in a dying condition as a result
of the bursting of a sixteen-inch steam
pipe in the Danville, III., electric light
plant vester.
The breaker, office, boiler bouse and
engine house of the Pine Hill Coal
company at Minersville, Pa., was de
stroyed by fire today. L06S, $150,000,
partly insured.
The annual report of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company for the year
ending June 30. 1905, shows a net in
come of $5,392.88S, an increase of $1,
137.000 over last year.
A train on the Long Beach division
of the Long Island railway was wreck
ed by a spreading rail near Jekyill isl
and. Many passengers were injured,
but no one was fatally hurt.
The Atlanta city council proposes to
begin impeachment proceedings
against Mayor Woodward for his at
tack on Mayor Dunne at the League
of American Municipalities convention
In Toledo.
Thomas E. Waggaman, under indict
ment for embezzlement, appeared in
the office of the clerk of the criminal
court at "Washington and gave bond
In the sum of $3,000 for his appear
ance In court.
The monthly statement or the col
lections of internal revenue show that
for the month of July, 1905. the col
lections amounted to $20,790,479.
which is an Increase as compared with
July. 1904. of $385,461.
President Roosevelt, in accepting
the position of honorary vice president
of the Public Schools' Athletic League
f New York, says crowded tenement
districts are. responsible for the devel
opment of vicious and unhealthy chil
dren. Dr. M. U. O'SulHvan. senior surgeon
In St. Vincent's and the Woman's col
lege and fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Ireland, is making a tour
of this country studying hospitals, and
from here will go to Melbourne, Aus
tralia. Two deaths from cholera have oc
curred at Lemberg. Austria, and sev
eral suspected cases are under observ
ation. The deaths occurred in the
family of a river boatman who has
been working in the Vistula district
of Prussia.
The Japanese have landed 3,000 in
habitants of the island of Sakhalin at
Decastrles, West Siberia, many of
whom were women and children, and
some sick persons, who were forced
to march to the coast, causing them
terrible suffering.
While engaged in breaking up scrap
iron with a sledgehammer at the Re
public Iron and Steel plant of St
Ixmis, George Jones was probably
blinded for life by the explosion of
an old cannon which his sledge struck
The cannon was loaded.
The delegates to the national Krieg
erbund at Jolict. 111., had a stormy
debate over a resolution increasing as
sessments in the insurance branch.
The resolution finally prevailed. Rates
will be increased on January 1 next
from $1.50 a quarter to $1.75.
Former State Representative James
F. Carey of Haverhill. Mass., was
nominated for governor at the social
ist state convention. Patrick F. Ma
honey of Boston was placed in nomi
nation for lieutenant governor and C.
C. Hitchcock of Ware for secretary of
state.
The annual report of Brigadier Gen
eral Theodore J. Wint. commanding
the department of the Missouri, rec
ommends that army chaplains shall
not be allowed to perform marriages
of soldiers unless previous permission
Bhall have been given by the com
manding officer, the enlistment of mar
ried soldiers being discouraged by the
war department
Mrs. Naomi Aldrich of Frederick,
Mich., after a preliminary examina
tion, was bound over for trial before
the circuit court charged with hav
ing poisoned her two little sons, aged
6 and 8 years, with arsenic. Early in
July. Mrs. Aldrich insured the lives
of her sons for $50 each. The boys
died during the week of August 6, un
der suspicious circumstances.
A dispatch from Baden-Baden says
that W. K. Vanderbilt Is confined to
his room at a hotel in that city.
Don's review of Chicago trade says
all lines of industry are well sustain
ed. Railroad traffic is unusually high,
while lake carrying makes a new rec
ord. WllUsn Jobe. an alleged Ohio mur
derer, is held at Kansas City.
Joe RIcketts, 18 years old, an em
ploye of the Pacific Express company,
was found dead near the Wabash rail
way station at 5ecatur, III., with his
head beaten to a pulp. The murderer
.escaped.
A St Louis firm of architects was
awarded the $5,000 prize for .the best
design of a Chicago courthouse.
Charles F. Ffister of Milwaukee, in
dicted on the chnrge of purloining
$14,000 from the Wisconsin Rendering
Company, was victorious in a suit
against the concern for $6,000.
All records of prices of the" New
York stock exchange seats were brok
en on the 1st by the sale of a seat
for $83,000, which, with the Initiation
fee. makes the price $84,000. The seat
Is said to have been bought by Frank
M. Graves, formerly a financial writer I
pna New York paper.
The Cosmopolitan.
The Cosmopolitan (New York)
hows that it is fully able to live up
to Its claim of being the magazine of
timely Interest At least three arti
cles in the September Issue ar dis
tinctly of that nature. None of the
other periodicals of the month con
tains so interesting and important an
article as that by Garrett P. Serviss
on the "Artificial Creation of Life."
Mr. Serviss describes in great detail
the latest developments of Dr. Loeb's
experiments with parthenogenetks
creation, and also tells so far as may
be of the English scientist Burke's
work to create life by chemical ac
tion. There exists no more fascinat
ing subject than this attack on one of
Nature's most impregnable secrets,
and it behooves every intelligent read
er to keep pace with It
Enamel on Cards.
The enamel on address cards Is
produced by rubbing over the card a
mixture of Kremnitz white, which Is
a fine variety of white lead. When
dry the surface is rubbed with flannel
dipped in powdered talc and polished
by. vigorous rubbing with a hard
brush.
Ole Bull the Patriot.
Ole Bull, the wizard of the violin,
is everywhere known. Ole Bull, the
patriot, Norway's lover and beloved,
is a character less familiar to the
general public. A most fascinating
bit of history is the record of Ole
Bull's passion for his country and his
share in Norway's development; and
this is the subject of Margaret E. No
ble's "Ole Bull as a Patriotic Force."
announced ts appear in the Septem
ber Century. "One of the world
voices," Ole Bull is called, "one of
those world-voices in which perfect
command of a difficult technic is
made, in its turn, only the instrument
of a higher impulse the heart of a
whole people pressing forward to the
utterance." The recent secession of
Norway gives timeliness to Miss No
ble's paper.
Laugh at Sultan's Jokes.
When the Sultan of Turkey "com
mands" a theatrical performance he
orders a number of his own jokes to
be interpolated, the court being care
fully coached that they may laugh at
his creations and politely ignore the
more genuine humor.
Everybody's Magazine, September,
1905.
Comparison of the City of Today
with the City of the Future is a
cheerful exercise. And plenty of ma
terial for the comparison Is offered in
the September Everybody's. There
Is, for instance, the intensely modern
biography of James R. Keene, the
great Wall street magician, whose
contests with Jay Gould and with
Standard Oil" are brilliantly describ
ed by Mr. Lawson in a particularly
absorbing installment of his "Frenzied
Finance." It is a chapter from the
very heart of the life of today, this
story of a man, according to Mr. Law
son, "of infinite strategy and daring."
Japs Are Born Sailors.
A Japanese marine officer has ex
plained why Japan has such good sail
ors. Most of her coast vessels are
small, but there are a great many of
them, and almost any man taken from
a fishing village has had enough ex
perience to enable him to become an
efficient sailor in a short time.
O. Henry, Champion of the Down
Trod. O. Henry's "Unfinished Story" in
the August McClure's was a stinging
lash at the snug employers of girl
labor at starvation wages. Whether
the author had any deeper motive in
writing his caustic little tale than the
compelling force of the tragedy the
conditions suggest, only O. Henry
knows; but down in Texas, the au
thor's native state, the official organ
of the State Federation of Labor lift
ed the story bodily from the magazine
and accompanied it with an editorial
giving it direct application to some
department store owners whom they
accuse by name.
Remarkable Memories.
Extraordinary memories, such as
seem to have been common in the
old times, are still to be encountered
in India, where there are Hindu
priests who can repeat the 300,000
lines of Mahabharata accurately.
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
each package contains 16 oz. one full
pound while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in -pound pack
ages, and 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 De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Bagpipes From Norway.
It Is a curious fact that bagpipes
were invented in Norway and thence
Imported into Scotland in a period
when a portion of the country fell
into Scandinavian hands.
Word from Br'er Williams.
"Yo got de gold fever, all right,"
said Brother Williams, "but you ain't
got de diggin' principle." Atlanta
Constitution.
It is not so irritating to be guilty of
aa error ot judgment; the maddening
part of it Is the knowledge that some
one is standing by ready to shout, "I
told you so."
Usually the son of a self-made man
begin to descend the ladder from the
point at which his father stopped
climbing. Chicago News.
Tn Norway there is a law which
prohibits any person from cutting
djwn a tree unless he plants three
sellings in its place.
NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
Valley will have an agricultural
show September 20 and 21.
Seventeen head of cattle were
killed on the Rock Island railroad in
Sarpy county.
The city council of Tecumseh has
ordered all dogs muzzled.
The reform element of Falls City is
making war on slot machines.
A farm laborer slashed his employ
er with a razor at Wood River and
I escaped.
The general store of Langhoist and
Lathmann Brothers at Fontanelle was
destroyed by fire.
Joe Grave3 and E. M. Harding
were awarded contracts for building
the city hall at Humboldt.
Reports from northeastern Gage
county are to the effect that pinkeye
i has caused the death of several head
of cattle.
Someone forced an entrance to the
Derby saloon in Falls City through the
front door and robbed the cash reg
ister of $20 in silver.
The 'proposed improvements on the
Masonic home in Plattsmouth, which
have been contemplated for some
time, will be commenced in the course
of the next few weeks.
Mrs. John Gilmore was arrested In
Fremont by the police. She wore
male attire and was tramping across
the country in company with a man
who claims to be her husband.
Inquiries are daily being received by
H. Wiggenjost with regard to the un
ion meeting of the brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers which is to be held
in Lincoln September 28 and 29.
The work of laying steel rails be
tween Lincoln and Beatrice on the
Union Pacific, which has long been
delayed, has been resumed. About
100 men are employed on the job.
William Cook, the 19-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Cook of Beat
rice was drowned in the Blue river.
He, with several comrades, were bath
ing when all at once he went under.
A representative body of men own
ing land on the Nemaha bottoms met
at the court house in Falls City and
proceeded to organize a drainage dis
trict to reclaim the land on the bot
toms from overflow.
P. J. Butler of Lincoln, a paving la
borer, suffered several broken ribs
and lacerations by falling from a
freiaht car on the Missouri Pacific
tracks. He struck the handles of a
v.-hr-o' narrow when he fell.
Brown county is going to have the
grandest fair in its history this fall,
commencing September 27. to last
three days. A grand premium list
will be offered of over $1,000 for the
different kinds of stock, grain and
vegetables.
Sheriff Page of Fillmore county
captured Georce Baker near Nebraska
City and brought him to Genera rnd
placed him in jail. Baker is cnarjjed
with doal:ng fc.rr horses ana tw
buggies. Page has been on his track
for- iVre weeks.
Boulder (Colo.) dispatch: While
returning from a picnic excursion to
the Moat lakes. Mrs. Emma Cropsey
of Hastings. Neb., was hurt in a run
away accident. With Mips Charlotte
Boyle and Mrs. Walter Chamberlain
Mrs. Cronsey. was riding in a surrey.
While going down hill the vehicle,
which lacked a brake, ran onto the
horses, which ran away and overturn
ed the surrey over a twenty-one foot
embankment.
The executive committee of the
State Teachers association held a
meeting at. the Limlell hotel in Lin
coln, at which plans were discussed
for fie annual convention of the as
sociation to be held in Lincoln next
December. The following companies
and lecturers have been secured for
the program: George Crampton Con
cert company. Dr. George E. Vincent
of Chicago university. Dr. J. B. De
Motte of Chicago, Dr. C. O. White of
Ypsilanti, Mich.
Dr. C. A". McKim. state veterinarian,
and Dr. A. T. Peters of Lincoln were
at Valley to inspect the prosrress of
the experiment being conducted there
with the horsetail weed. One of the
horses is showing symptoms of pois
oning, while the other sems to thrive
on the wend. They visited the farm
of Grant Burt, who has another sick
horse, and pronounced the disease
swamp fever. Mr. Burt has already
lost five horses and many others have
lost horses from the mysterious dis
ease. Henry Wilson, the colored horse
thief, who was arrested in Omaha
ten days ago, pleaded guilty to the
charges preferred against him in a
special term of district court of How
ard county, and was sentenced to
three years' imprisonment in the
state penitentiary at hard labor. He
effered no defense whatever except to
the statement of an ex-convict that
he was a former inmate of the peni
tentiary, which he insisted, was un
true. In response to inquiries by the
court he claimed to be a native of Co
lumbus. O.
Ralph Powell, 9-year-old son of Ex
ciseman Powell of Lincoln, was
drowned in Salt creek at Roca. The
boy was playing around his father's
mill and accidentally slipped and fell
Into the stream.
Coal contracts for the winter sup
ply of fuel for the Kearney and Peru
normal schools were awarded by the
state board of education. Miles of
Omaha secured the contract for the
Peru school on a bid of $2.80 per ton
in the bin for Novinger nut coal.
George H. Dowing of Kearney got half
the Kearney contract on a bid of $3.25
In the bin for Damfortb nut coal.
LMcnjiive preparations are b!ng
made for the third annual exhibition,
of the Loup Valley Agricultural asso
ciation wlrch is to be held in 0"?
from September 12 to 15, inclusive.
New buildings are to be erected on
the grounds of the society and many
Improvements added.
Victor Alexander, a convict in the
state penitentiary, killed himself In
his cell by tying a cord around his
neck and fastening the other end to
the bars of his cell. He then sat
down on his bunk with his back to
the front of the cell and guards pass
ing failed to see the slender cord.
STATE NEWS
THOUSANDS OF ACRES TAKEN.
Many Entries at North Platte Since
August 1.
NORTH PLATTE Since August 1
about 90,000 acres of land has been tak
en in this district under the Kinkaid
act
Nearly all of these entries were tak
en by persons brought here before Au
gust 16 by articles sent to the Omaha
papers from here by land locators. All
of these entries except about 10,000
were taken by strangers who did not
see the lands before entry and were
entered hastily on representation of
land locaters that they would be gone
unless entered immediately. A large
number of persons were brought here
by the advertisements, but most of the
people went out to look at the country
and of the number who went out but
twenty entries have been made. Some
of them have purchased lands in the
agricultural districts and the others
returned home without doing anything.
Since August 16 there have been on an
average of about 2,500 acres taken up
per day. the number getting less each
day. Quite a number of contests are
being filed against entries made under
the Kinkaid act since June, 1904. when
the former entry men have failed to
comply with the law. There are no
farming lands open for entry in this
district. There is about i,500 acres of
grazing lands that are still open for
entry. It is claimed that the state
ments made that the cattlemen are
trying to keep the settlers out is un
true. Seward Citizens Indignant
SEWARD James A. Dowding was
charged with abusing the 13-year-old
daughter of Charles H. Wullenwaber,
and during the evening a party of
about thirty citizens took him to the
edge of the city and threatened to hang
him. After thoroughly scaring him the
participants of the hanging party let
Dowding return to the city under the
promise that he would leave Seward
the next morning and remain away per
manently. State Treasurer Mortensen has re
ceived word that Seward county will
send in a portion of the $100,000 issue
of bonds voted to erect a new court
house and that later all of the bonds,
with the exception of a few thousand
dollars, will be sold to the state treas
urer. LINCOLN Sault & Assemmacher
of Senaca. Kans., were awarded the
contract for the Peru normal school
library building by the state board of
education for $20,222. F. C. Phillips &
Co. of Lincoln secured the heating and
plumbing for $7,300.
AFTER THE LUMBER DEALERS.
Farmer Grain Dealers' Association
Taking a Hand in the Matter.
LINCOLN Members of the Farm
ers' Grain Dealers' association are go
ing to assist in looking up evidence to
show the existence of a lumber trust,
so a grain dealer intimated in Lincoln.
"Before these trust suits are over,"
said this man, "it will be discovered
that the lumber business has been
done along the same lines as the grain
business. The members in the lumber
association may not make any profit
out of being members of the organiza
tion and may not even know how
much profits other make because of
the association. As a matter of fact
the members of the association are be
ing worked by an inside ring that gets
the big profits while the small dealer
member is safeguarded against compe
tition. I see where the Omaha deal
ers take exceptions to the charge that
they have something to do with the
scalpers. Wait till the evidence Is all
in in the case which Mr. Godfrey has
started in Lancaster county and then
see what the big dealers have to say.
"The end of the lumber dealers' trust
will be just like the grain dealers. If
the Lancaster man digs up the evi
dence he expects to, then the attorney
general will use that evidence in go
ing after the trust, and, you mark my
words, he will get them. I don't know
whether the farmers as an organization
will take part in the suit, but some of
the members will furnish some help
and that can be depended upon."
Number of Cows Poisoned.
PLATTSMOUTH Some of the far
mers in the western part of the county
have recently lost a number of head
of cattle from the effects of poison.
A few days ago J. F. Deming of South
Bend found two of his cows dead.
hlle preparations were being made
to bury them another cow was taken
sick and soon died, with every indica
tion of poison. During the day anoth
er cow was taken sick in the same
manner. The situation became so se
rious that a veterinary surgeon from
Ashland was sent for and he succeed
ed in saving the last cow. The con
tents of the stomachs of two cows were
sent to Lincoln for medical examina
tion. Horse Thief Arrested.
BEATRICE Sheriff Trude received
a telegram from Sheriff Page of Fill
more county, stating that G. H. Baker,
who is wanted here for steling three
horses and a buggy, bad been arrested
at Nebraska City by him. As Baker 13
wanted at Geneva for stealing a team
several years ago it is more than like
ly that he will be taken to Fillmore
county first to stand trial. Sheriff
Trude went to Lincoln to meet Sheriff
Page and his prisoner. Baker was
driving one of the horses stolen here.
Alexander Campbell Dead.
M'COOK Alexander Campbell, for
merly superintendent of the McCook
division of the Burlington railroad in
Nebraska died here after an illness of
about two years with pernicious aene
mia. Prof. Keer Declines It.
BELLEVUE Prof. Willis H. Kerr
has declined an invitation to become
president of Lincoln college at Lincoln,
111. He will continue to occupy the
chair of philosophy at Westminster
college.
PATH OF ECLIPSE
The eclipse of the sun early on the
morning of Wednesday, Aug. 30, was
visible in some partial stage over most
of the United States.
The line of total eclipse passed far
to the north in Canada. The partial
eclipse in the United States started a
few minutes before the sun arose. In
some parts of the northern part of the
country the sun's disk was two-thirds
obscured.
In the above diagram the heavy
black line marks the path of totality.
GETTING INTO BAD HABITS.
Injurious Small Actions Too Frequent
ly Pass Unnoticed.
I wonder how many women who arc
"all nerves" realize that much of
their trouble is due to certain little
everyday habits that pass unnoticed,
but are none the less injurious? For
instance, the manner of sitting. The
average woman assumes a strained
and incorrect position when reading,
writing and sewing yes, even when
resting, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Now, a good habit, like a bad one.
is only repeated action; and a little
thought on the subject would soon ren
der it the most natural thing to as
sume a correct position at all times,
sitting, standing or lying down.
Don't sit with the shoulders drawn
forward, one shoulder higher than the
other, and your head bent down until
the shape of your vertebral column
resembles the letter C.
Another bad fault is slouching down
in your chair until you are literally
sitting on the end of your spine.
Not only should "grown-ups" look to
their own bad habits, but they should
watch closely the small children with
whom they come in daily contact and
try to keep them from acquiring in
jurious habits. Children should be
prevented from their particular fail
ing as much as possible at once, and
it is worth while to give up a few
weeks to the cure, just as you would
if they were suffering from a childish
disease measles, or mumps, for in
stance. The problem is made particularly
difficult in that frequently we find
them established before we have real
ly noticed them.
Bennie's Bait to Catch Devils.
Many years ago, in the village of
Houlton. Me., there lived a young
man named Benjamin Salmon, known
by every one as a simpleton, who was
always doing strange things. One
day a number of boys discovered Bon
nie perched on a fence behind a barn
with a cotton string and pin hook at
tached to a willow stick, fishing in a
pool of stagnant water. This was
great fun for the boys, but their jeers
had no effect on Bennie.
Joshua Smith, a revenue officer, who
was passing, stopped to see what the
fun was. After taking in the situation
he addressed Bennie thus:
"What you fishin for?"
Bennie, without raising his head, re
plied. "Devils."
"Ah, devils, eh," retorted Mr.
Smith; "and what have you on for
bait?"
With the same indifference Bennie
replied, "Revenue officers, sir."
Odd Things About Words.
"Were you in the garden for the
purpose of committing a felony?"
asked the English judge of the small
boy. "No, sir," said the boy; "me and
my cousin were after the gentleman's
fowls and eggs." Forfeiture of lands
and goods and "corruption of blood"
(less of hereditary standing) were for
merly the penalties for felony. Ue
fore they got their technical sense,
however, "felon" and "felony" (con
nected either with Latin "fallere," to
deceive or "fell." gall, bitterness)
connoted wickedness, anger, courage
or melancholy, as the case might be.
"The admiral began to laugh for feb
nnv" savs Caxton. meaninc that he
laughed, not feloniously, but reckless
ly. Also a boil or whitlow was a
"felon" and cholera "felony."
Babies Mixed on Bargain Day.
It was a bargain day on Sixth ave
nue, New York, and twenty baby car
riages, all properly checked, were
ranged up in front of a department
store while the mothers were inside
buying things they didn't need. Sud
denly a baby at one end of the line
stood up, toppled over against the
next carriage, and in a moment all
tne carriages went over like nine
pins, sending the kids sprawling
Auto Opens New Fields.
An automobile milk wagon which
is running in Ohio and doing the
work of two and three horses every
day is one of the recent developments
of the horseless age. Another is an
automobile in the Congo Free State,
where electricity and coal are not to
be considered as power generators,
and where, therefore, wood was mus
tered into service as the only logical
fuel. The wood burning car weighs a
ton and has a maximum speed of
twelve miles an hour. Sheet steel
wheels with heavy pneumatic tire3 are
used. The fifteen horsepower engine
is inclosed in a bullet proof bonnet, as
the vehicle is to be used in transport
ing troops and is expected to be under
fire at times. A third novelty in the
automobile business is the arrange
ment of an enterprising Yankee for a
regular service of motor omnibuses to
the pyramids.
Giant Steamers.
The world's merchant marine of
giant steamers of over 12,000 register
tons now includes fifty-six vessels,
thirty-one of which are under the
Knglish flag.
OF SUN AUGUST 30.
w
The dense shadow of the moon swept
over this narrow belt from west to
east with the velocity of a cannon ball.
The dotted line in the lower part of
the map marks the southern limit of
the eclipse. People living south of
that line saw nothing at all of the
eclipse. The star on the eastern coast
of the United States, near Cape
Charles at the mouth of Chesapeake
bay, shows the place of- "first con
tact," that is, the place which was the
very first on earth to see the eclipse
begin.
about the sidewalk. It took a long
time to identify them, for an attend
ant had put them back Indiscriminate
ly, and they were not checked like
their perambulators. This thrilling
incident shows that the only sure way
to avoid similar catastrophes would
be to brand each child with a num
ber and hang a corresponding number
round the mother's neck, like a bath
room key. Boston Herald.
THE HOTEL BIBLE.
Landlord No Longer Provides Guest
with Gocd Book.
People are not so good as they used
to be. The traveling salesman says
they are not. He attributes their
downfall to the scarcity of Bibles in
hotels.
"There was a time," said the drum
mer, "when every hotel I stayed in
supplied its guests with Bibles. They
were not fine Bibles. Possibly they
cost only 25 cents apiece, but they
were all there and answered the pur
pose just as well as an Oxford edition.
Usually the Bible lay in plain sight on
the table in each bedroom. If it wasn't
there it was in the top bureau drawer
and all us fellows knew enough to look
for it there. And very frequently we
did look. I read the Bible a lot tn
those days, maybe just because it was
handy. I'd come in tired and disgust
ed with life, especially that part repre
sented by the evening paper, which
was about the only thing I had to read
and when I got plumb sick of that I'd
turn to the Bible. Some mighty good
stuff I found there, too. I haven't
come across many of those hotel Bi
bles in the last two years. I've missed
them a lot. I don't know who is re
sponsible for their disappearance. I
understand that some tract society
used to furnish them to the hotels. If
the missionaries really were back of
the movement, and through some mis
representation of facts have come to
the conclusion that the game was not
worth the candle, I'd like to advise
them to set the good work going again
for a lot of us chaps have backslidden
since the Bibles disappeared from ho
tel bedrooms.
His Fatal Error.
They were seated on a park bench
in the gloaming.
"Miss Wiggins Nellie, dear," he
said, "will you marry me?"
"Really, Mr. Goodwin er George,
this is so sudden. But well assure
me that you have no bad habits do
not drink, gamble and the like, and I'll
think about it."
"I never drank a drop of liquor in
my life," answered the young man, "I
never play cards and regard prize
fighting and horse racing with dis
dain." "George." she said, "I er think
you may hope."
"And as for baseball," continued
George. "I detest it. and"
"What!" she exclaimed, "ioii de
test our great and glorious national
game? Then all bets are off. George;
I can never be your wife."
Astor's "Stately Pleasure Dome."
The London Mirror tells or the ac
tivities of our former fellow-citizen.
Mr. W. W. Astor. in making a new
home for himself in England. It seems
that he has bought a property de-
Ascribed as "the historic Hever estate
I in Kent." and is improving it.
It includes 2.O0O acres of land and a
moated castle, nearly six hundred
years old, where at one time Henry
VIII maintained Anne of Cleves. On
this estate Mr. Astor has put to work
about one thousand men, with dbe ap
paratus, and is making changes rated
as improvements which the calculat
ing natives estimate will cost him a
million and a quarter pounds.
He is building a lake, a model vil
lage, roads, bridges and gardens, and
is doubtless having a good deal of the
sort of fun that Mr. Kipling In a re
cent story has suggested as a suitable
recreation for tired Americans.
' NWNWWNVW
Mysterious Cannon Ball.
A three-pounder "live" cannon shell
of foreign make has been found in a
field on the banks of the River num
ber, near Hull, Eng. The startling dis
covery was made by an old naval re
serve man, who at once tooK the pro
jectile to Hull and handed it over to
the police. The chief officer of the
Royal Naval Reserve Battery on ex
amining the shell found that it had
been fired, but it had not exploded. It
is 8 inches long, 3 inches in circum
ference, and copper covered from nose
to base. He considered it dangerous,
and took charge of it. No one seem?
to know how it came there.
Grand Trunk Terminal.
It Is stated on what is said to be
unquestionable authority that Kairn
Island, twenty-five miles south of Port i
Simpson and facing Tucketts inlet.
is to be tr1 sie of Laurier City, the !
western te nnnus of the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway.
America Interests Japs.
Japanese publications are full of
American articles on all kinds of subjects.
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For Health
and Economy
use
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Best by Test"
Used in Millions
of Homes
John Milton in Russia.
The most popular author in all Rus
sia is John Milton, whose "Paradise
Lost" is read in every peasant's cot
tage. "Paradise Ixst" is the booU
most in demand in tiic village libra,
ry At a fair in Moscow thero wer
seen five or six different translations
of "Paradise Lost," with illustrations
at a few pence apiece. Milton is tc
the Russian peasantry wiiat Shako
speare is to the. Germans. Sphere
Two English Golf Stories.
Here are a pair of this season's golf
stories imported from England. A
golfer drove a low ball over a rivci
and a salmon jumped at it with sucr
vigor that it jumped right out on the
bank and was secured with the goll
ball In its mouth. Another player
killed a lark with a golf ball In his
morning round and another with tha
same ball in his afternoon round.
Function of Fish Bladders.
The air bladder of fishes is the pro
vision within their bodies which en
ablcs them to rise or fall in the water
According to the dilation or contrac
ticn of the bladder they may regu
late the depth in tho water at theii
pleasure.
Lesson for Women.
Jersey Shore. Pa.. Aug. 2h (Spe
cial) "Dodd's Kidney Pills have dona
worlds of good for inc." That's what
Mrs. C. B. Earnest of this place has
to say of the Great American Kidney
Remedy.
"I was laid up sick." Mrs. Earnest
continues, "and had not been out of
bed for five weeks. Tiien I began to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills and now I am
so I can work and go to town without
suffering any. I would not be without
Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have good rea
son to "praise them everywhere."
Women who suffer should learn a
lesson from this, and that lesson Is
"cure the kidneys "with Dodd'tf Kidney
Pills and your suffering will cease."
Woman's health depends almost en
tirely on her kidneys. Dodd's Kidney
Pills have never yet failed to mako
healthy kidneys.
Hunter Death to Tigers.
A traveler return from India re
lates that Andarkoh. in central In
dia, he killed four full-grown tigers
with five shots in under six minutes,
the first three being single shots.
CUTICURA GROWS HAIR.
Scalp Cleared of Dandruff and Hair
Restored by One Box of Cuticura
and One Cake of Cuticura
Soap.
A. W. Taft of Independence, Va..
writing under date of Sept. 15, 1D04.
says: "I have had falling hair and
dandruff for twelve years and could
get nothing to help me. Finally I
bought one box of Cuticura Ointment
and one eake of Cuticura Soap, and
they cleared my scalp of the dandruff
and stopped the hair falling. Now
my hair is growing as well as ever. I
am highly pleased with Cuticura Soap
as a toilet soap. (Signed) A. W. Taft.
Independence, Va."
Lake Turns Red.
Lake Morat. in Switzerland, has the
curious property, every tenth year, ol
turning red, owing to the presence of
certain water plants, which are not
found in any other lake In the world.
Plso's Care cannot be too Highly spoken of aa
a couch cure. J. W. O'Bkiex, 22 Third Are.
X.. Minneapolis. Minn., Jan. 8. l&CO.
Feat in Telepathy.
Tom I can read your thoughts.
Clara I can hardly believe it. for If
you could you wouldn't sit so fax
away.
Try One Package.
If "Defiance Starch" does not pleas
you. reurn it to your dealer. If It
does you get one-third more for th
same money. It will give you satis
faction, and will not stick to the iron
Parasite Destroys Cod! in Moth.
A colony of codlin moth parasites
imported from Europe and set free re
cently in the apple orchards of the
Parjaro valley, California, is clearing
them of the orchardists' enemy i
great style.
"Thanks!" is Enough for a Nickel.
A man gave a baby a nickel th:3
morning. The baby is a year old. and
didn't say thank you. "That is the
most Impolite child." tho man said to
I the mother "I ever knew." Atchison
Globe.
