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i V IM .1 M Columbus Journal By COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. News in Brief The Shah of Persia, before leaving St. Petersburg, donated $2,500 for the relief of the Russian wounded. The new Sable island station of the Marconi wireless telegraph company is now in successful operation. A bomb was thrown at the commis sioner of police of Bielostak, Russia. The commissioner was wounded. It is expected that Maxim Gorky, the author, will be a candidate for election to the assembly in Russia. Seven athletic organizations of the middle west will compete for honors at' the swimming races to be held :a Milwaukee September 29. The sugar syndicate, which was or ganized in Mexico several mouths ago, is now estimated to have practically cornered seven-eighths of the existing supply. At Burnside, Miss., on the Pearl river, the last spike was driven to con nect the north and south divisions of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City railroad. Four children, ranging in age from 6 to 11 years, daughters of Peter Stubblefield, a railroad porter, were burned to death in their home near Rolla, Mo. Secretary Hester's annual report was issued in full Friday. He puts the cotton crop for 1904-5 at 13,5C5,SS." bales, an increase of 3,554,511 over that of 1903-4. The Erie railroad has placed an or der for the construction of 3,500 steel underfram box cars of SO.000 pounds capacity and American Railway asso ciation dimensions. The French authorities are not yet taking energetic measures in the mat ter of the Venezuelan authorities clos ing all the offices of the French cable company excepting the La Guayra of fice. The aggregate value of all assessed property in New York state for 1904-5 is $7,738.1C5,C40. The amount of $7, 051,455,025 is represented in real es tate and $758,893,005 in personal prop erty. At Algonac, Mich., while trying to save the life of one of his employes who had grasped a "live wire." Mana ger Alex H. Howie of the Howie Roof ing company of Detroit was himself killed. M. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, the first minister to the United States from the republic of Panama, and Mme. Varilla were guests at dinner Friday night of President and Mrs. Roose velt The Panama canal commission re ceived a dispatch from Chief Engineer Stevens denying the rumor that a general congestion of freight exists on the isthmus of Panama as a result of sanitary regulations. The fear of an epidemic of typhoid fever in Columbia, Mo., is causing much alarm among the city officials and the authorities of the Missouri state university, there being fifty-nine typhoid cases in the city. When placed under arrest at his home in St Charles, Mo.. Edward M. Selby seized a bottle of carbolic ac:d and with the words, "You'll never put me into jail," drank the acid and fell dying at the officers' feet. All the Norwegian papers express regret that it will be impossible o award to President Roosevelt the No Iicl peace prize this year, owing to tha requirements that candidates for the prize be nominated before February. The municipal council of Vienna proposes to perpetuate the memory of President Roosevelt's success in re storing peace by re-naming a street Theodore Roosevelt strasse and ca bling the thanks of the city of Vienna. Auditing and passenger officials of the Santa Fe at Topeka ridicule the statement to the effect that there is a general conspiracy on the part of some telegraph operators in Colorado to defraud the company out of thou sands of dollars. Lord Charles Beresford, command ,ng the British Mediterranean flee, has created a sensation in the fleet at Malta bay by ordering the prosecu tion of an engineer commander for al lowing the bearings of machinery of his vessel to become hot. At the preliminary hearing of For sythe. Mont., of C. AY. Bailey, Harrv G. Wright, Luther Turret and J. V. Selvidge, well known citizens of Rose bud county, on a charge of defrauding the state out of several thousand dol lars by a system of alleged fraudulent bounty warrants. Bailey and Selvidge were held for trial. All records for the tonnage of ves sels clearing from the district of Chi cago in one month were broken in August, when 1.208 ships of all kind-?, with a registered tonnage of 1,289,953 tons, departed. During the same pe riod 1.202 vessels, with a tonnage of 1.2S0.302 tons, arrived. Rev. "NY. J. Dawson, the London evangelist, arrived in Boston to begin a second revival tour of this country. Sir Walter George Phillimore, judge of the King's Bench division of the English high court of justice, was elected president of the international law conference. Germany is engaged in a hard fight to pnt down cholera, which continues to spread in western Prussia. Ameri cans take precautions. Tipping servants or corporation pur chasing agents for the purpose of in fluencing trade is made a crime under New York's latest law. Senator Clark's new railroad through the desert from Salt Lake City to the Pacific coast promises to be a boon to Los Angeles. The steamship Sierrn, which ar rived at Honolulu from Australia, re ports a large volcanic outbreak on the island of Savali, in the Samoan group. President Palma of Cuba has ap proved the action of Governor Nunez in suspending the liberal members of the Havana municipal council. A. F. Warden, chairman of the dem ocratic state central committee of Wisconsin, resigned that office, be cause of his removal toOskaloosa. A WOMAN'S SUFFERINGS. Weak, Irregular, Racked with Pains Made Well and 36 Pounds Heavier. Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main St, Haverhill, Mass., says: "In 1898 I was suffering so with sharp pains in the small of the back and had such fre quent dizzy spells that I could scarcely get about the house. The urinary pas sages were also quite irregular. Monthly periods were so distress ijjpjJ ing I dreaded This was my condi their approach. tion for four years. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away when I began with them, and three boxes cured me permanently." r'oster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers Price, 50 cents per box. A Graceful Carriage. A graceful carriage is as necessary :o good health as to good looks. Cer tain exercises will do much for the woman who hasn't always cultivated the habit of standing and walking correctly, says the Brooklyn Times. A great aid in the development of a good position is to raise the crown Df the head as high as possible and then try to make the chest meet the chin. This will make a graceful car riage smaller stomach, a fuller chest and more lung power. To reach either above the head as far as pjs sible or to the floor without bending the knees will decrease the size ol the waist and round it; also fill in the hollow in front of the arms. DISFIGURED BY ECZEMA. Wonderful Change in a Night In Month Face Was Clear as Ever Another Cure by Cuticura. "I had eczema on the face for five months, during which time I was in the care of physicians. My face was so disfigured I could not go out, and it was going from bad to worse. A friend recommended Cuticura. The first night after I washed my face with Cuticura Soap, and used Cuticura Ointment and Resolvent, it changed wonderfully. From, that day I was able to go out, and in a month the treatment had removed all scales and scabs, and my face was as clear as ever. (Signed) T. J. Soth, 317 Stagg Street, Brooklyn, N. Y." Great Churchman Was Modest. St Bonaventurt. called "the ser aphic doctor," who was general of the order of Franciscans, had a reluctance to receiving awards which is worthy of mention. With tears and entreat ies he prevailed upon one pope not to make him archbishop of York. But when he had been instrumental in se curing the election of Gregory X he feared that he would be rewarded and fled to Paris. The pope ordered him to return to Italy and become a car dinal, and the messengers sent to in vest him found him at a monaster? near Florence humbly washing up the dishes. He bade them hang the cardinal's hat on a bough until he had finished. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cole Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 1C oz. one ful' pound while all other Cold Watei Starches are put up in -pound pack ages, and the price is the same, 1C 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 tc dispose of before he puts in Defiance He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large let ters and figures "1G ozs." Demand De fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick ing. Defiance never sticks. Lamp Post Cellarette. A novel cellarette has been found in the shape of a lamp post, with a letter box attached. On the front of the letter box in place usually occu pied by the placard giving the hours of collection, there is a list of bibulous deliveries, including everything from the morning cocktail to the night cap. Insist on Getting It. Pome grocers say they don't keer Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. If the grandeour of living depended on surroundings and occupations, they are few who would ever feel its in spiration; but it has its seat in the soul that looks out upon its vissitudes and opportunities. John Ruskin. Tou never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to eiual it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot. I am sure Piso's Cure lor Consumption saved my lite three years ago. Mrs. Thos. Robbiss, Map'e Street, Norwich, X. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The chief end of man is to make both ends meet CQTCd. ICO fltfl OF IICCBflBNB ftfMP rmt ria v Tl nf Tr. 1THfi' flmtt VfY Mof Affe r. Send for FREE S.OO trial bottle sad treatiae. OB. B.U.KUXC.LKL, 831 Arch Street. flillxVilptll,g Be sure you are right, and then take another look. FARMS FOR RENT OR SALE ON" CROP payments. J. MCLU ALL, Sioux City, la. Don't court trouble unless you want to marry it Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 1( ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. It's a wise chicken that knows its own incubator. I THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA STATE PAYS $107 FOR LAND. OVER THE STATE. Gives $22,000 for Tract Near the Pen itentiary. The state board of public lands and buildings bought a tract of land north of the penitentiary for $22,000. It was bought with funds derived from the sale of penitentiary lands in Sew ard and Lancaster counties, some of which was sold for $25 an acre. The tract was bought for a lump sum. Some dispute occurred recently as to whether tne option held by the state said, the price was to be $100 an acre or $22,000 for the tract. There was supposed to be 220 acres, but between eleven and thirteen acres have been taken by railroads for right of way. The price paid by the board was about $107 an acre. The land belongs to a banking company in Ohio which claims to have taken it on a mortgage for S22.000. W. M. Folsom of Lincoln represented the owner in the deal. When the written option was present ed to the board it was found to con tain a statement that the land could be bought for $100 an acre and that it could be had for $22,000. Twenty acres bought recently cost $100 an acre. The board preferred the land north of the prison, although they had an opportunity to buy some east of it and some farther away for $90 and $85 an acre. KELSO IS CALLED TO COME INTO COURT PENDER. In the suit brought at Pender one month ago by George, John, Helen and Eva Johnson, minor Indians, against their legal guardian, D. A. Kelso, deputy sheriff of Thurs ton county, the thirty days' time to give an account to the county court of the income and of the expenses of said minors having elapsed. County Judge King signed an order for D. A. Kelso's arrest and he was brought into the court and given three hours to turn in his accounts. It is alleged Kelso has so far failed to account for over $600. Fell From Burlington Train. CHESTER David Scott, a Denver passenger from Falls City to Denver on train 15, fell from the train about three miles east of Chester, and was badly bruised. The train was running in a double-header and was stopped and parties set out for the search. His injuries are such that he may not live. Killed by Live Wire. ALBION Jay Lumpkin, aged years, while working in Torrey & Hair's restaurant was killed by con tact with an electric live wire. He came here from Elgin. NEARLY STUNG TO DEATH BY HONEY BEES HAMPTON August Striplimr. a well known farmer living alout a mile from town, was badly stung by a swarm of wild bees. While mowing hay he mowed over the swarm, arous ing the bees. He at once started the team for the house, but before he could reach it he fell from the ma chine unconscious. Dr. Gleason was sent for at once. The doctor worked with the man for about three hours before any sign of life could be detect ed. By prying his jaws open medicine was administered. Mr. Stripling will probably recover. Burglar Hides Identity. DAYID CITY The burglar who broke into the residence of Dr. R. G. Rich gave his name as Henry C. Hill. He was arraigned in justice court, pleaded guilty, waived preliminary hearing and asked that he be given a hearing in the district court as soon as possible. He was arraigned in dis trict court and pleaded guilty to all three counts, the judge sentencing him to ten years in the penitentiary. Horsethief Is Sentenced. WAHOO William Hill, the horse thief, whose name has appeared in print very miu-h of late, appeared be fore Judge Good, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary. Holcomb Not a Candidate. Ciif Justice Silas A. Holcomb will not be a candidate for re-election. The other day he authorized the statemen: that owing to the condition of his health he would not be a candidate for the democratic nomination and if the nomination were tendered him he would be compelled to decline it. Speaker Cannon Visits Farm. PENDER Speaker Cannon of the national house of representatives came in on the train the other day. He drove out to his farm on the Lo gan valley to view the crops. Boy Is Smothered. BARTLEY Francis Sipe. 9 years old. lost his life in the Duff Grain company's elevator here. NThe boy's father, James Sipe. is the company's agent at this place and had commenc ed to load a car from the bin in which Francis and his younger brother were playing. The elevator runs by horse power and the boys were kept there to drive the horse. There being no grain to elevate at that time, they climbed into the wheat bin to play, and thus the boy lost his life. Farmer Is in Trouble. FREMONT Fred Grover. who is being held at the police station on the charge of leaving his horses unpro tected five hours in a burning sun, will probably be made defendant in a criminal action charging the theft of hogs. York Corn Looks Good. YORK Corn is considerably ad vanced and Is uniformly good. It is estimated by the middle of this month over one-half of the corn crop in York comity, will be out of the way of frost The residence of Mrs. Sarah Hol land of Tecumseh was destroyed by fire. The slot machines which have been in use for so many years in the busi ness houses and saloons of West .roint, have been ordered taken out The management of the Fillmore county fair feel greatly encouraged over the prospects for an unusually successful fair September 12 to 15. A horse was stolen from the barn of August Zilmer, living two miles west of Stanton and one of the old settlers of this county. The animal is valued at $110. Doctor Edwin Oxford of Omaha and a son of Doctor Charles Oxford of West - omt, has been made assistant physician of tne Mormon hospital of Salt Lake City. Utah. Rev. Mr. Winter, who has been pas tor of the Le'gh German Lutheran church of Leigh for the last six years, has resigned and accepted a similar pastorate in Minnesota. The 12-year-old granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Squires of Decatur is dead, as the result of being scalded from head to foot by steam from a toy engine, which exploded. Work has been begun on the actual survey of the new town of Uehling, on the Great Northern railway, three miles east and a half-mile south of the southeast corner of Cuming county. J. F. Berger of Dakota county, suf fered from the loss of his barn, seven head of horses, three calves, one colt, besides harness, machinery, etc., to the amount of about 2,000, by fire. Frank lams of St. Paul arrived from Europe with his annual importation of draft stalions. This year's shipment is th'e largest he has ever made. They are mostly Belgians and Percherons. Harry Moore, a young freight brake man, while making a coupling at Ash land, slipped under the cars and was run over, the wheels- taking off one leg and an arm. It is thought he cannot live. The insanity committee heard the evidence in the case of Sadie Woods of Wymore, charged with being an habitual drunkard and sentenced her to three years in the insane hospital at Lincoln. Philip Manshis of Buffalo county, a farm hand who has been working for Henry Newman of Prairie Center, at tempted to commit suicide by slash ing his throat and both wrists with a. pocket knife in a cornfield on the New-, man farm. '. During a severe windstorm the' framework of the tower on the new church at Monterey was blown down and completely wrecked. The tower was 100 feet high, fifty-eight feet of brick and forty-two of frame and gal vanized iron. ' P. S. Heacock, one of the largest buyers of grain in the southeastern part of the state, has purchased the William Douglas mill in Falls City and wil run it in connection with the grain business. Of eighteen candidates for enlist ment in the United States navy ex amined at the recruiting station in Lincoln last week but six were accept ed. All of the others were turned down for defective eyesight. Lightning struck the residence of Harry Peard, cashier of the bank of Phillips, and tore off a lot of shingles and entered the house without making any hole. It shocked their two-year-old boy, but no one else was hurt In the district court of Dodge coun ty Mrs. Clara Steward was granted a divorce from her husband, R. W. Stew art, on the ground of failure to sup port and also received $900 alimony. The parties are prominent in social circles. E. Williams of Leavitt is in the Dodge county jail awaiting a hearing on the charge of bootlegging. The sugar town is dry, but the employes of the factory have apparently had plenty of booze lately, which was brought to them from Fremont. Charles Fox of Omaha, but formerly of Brownville, Nemaha county, at the fair picked the pocket of G. W. Mer shon and stole from him his gold watch. Fox was detected in the act by Mershon, who gave chase and over hauled the transgressor. The Methodist church of Albion is making extensive arrangements to en tertain the ministers of that district who will attend the annual conference that convenes on September 15. It is expected that about 150 members of the conferene will be in attendane. Robert List, a farm hand employed by William Oahlerking, who resides near Dakota City, became viiolently in sane while the family was waiting for breakfast, and taking his pocket knife out of his pocket made a lunge after Mrs. Oahlerking, who was preparing the morning meal, and attempted to cut her, at tne same time demanding of her why she was putting poison in the victuals. Deba Rees, 2-year-old daughter of . r. and Mrs. D. Rees of Norfolk, was seriously burned as the result of her clothes catching fire from an alcohol lamp. Enveloped by the flame, her face and hands were burned and her hair singed off. It is thought she will recover. The large barn on the James Rich ardson farm five miles southwest of Sterling, was destroyed by fire togeth er with considerable corn and cats and two nearby stacks of straw and hay. None of his live stock perished. It is believed that children with matches started the fire. Robert Milller, the eldest son of D. K. Miller, president of the State bank of Table Rock who lives on his father's farm, half-way between there and Pawnee City, was kicked by a broncho and remained unconscious for half an hour or more. The claim of the Kearney Hardware company for $1,080 for hardware fur nished the Kearney normal school, which was allowed by the state nor mal board on August 29, has been held up by Auditor Searle for investigation. C. H. Gregg, a member of the state Kearney Hardware company. I LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE IS SOLD KENTUCKY FARM UNDER HAMMER HOUSE IN WHICH ABRAHAM LIN COLN WAS BORN. itf0 --1VgrsTtgjj ffJT - Rock Spring farm in Laure county, cabin stands, was sold (Reproduced from Ida M. Tarbell's S. S. McClure, Rock Spring farm, on which Abra ham Lincoln was born, has been sold by Commissioner Handley for $3,G00. R. J. Collier of New York was the purchaser. There were three other bidders on the property, John E. Bur ton, of Philadelphia; W. D. Frost, of Chicago, and E. J. McDermott, of Louisville, representing New York in terests. Mr. Collier will get possession In December. He has not yet decided what he will do with it, and proba bly it was bought as an investment The farm contains 110 acres and the price was not much more than the property is worth for farming purposes. Just previous to the sale Chicago parties telegraphed to have the farm bought for them, but the arrangements could not be perfected in time. Since the birth of Lincoln, on Feb ruary 12, 1S09, the farm had changed hands only twice. Thomas Lincoln, the father of the President, sold the land to Richard Creel about the time the Lincoln family moved to Indiana. The property continued in the hands of this family until something like fif ten years ago, when A. W. Dennette, Sews Life Away For Lack of Cash In the top of one of the tall sky scrapers in State street, in the heart of downtown Chicago, a young woman sits every day at her sewing table, stitching out her life. There is no Thomas Hood to sing of it. for long ago sanitary law took away the ma terial squalor which made the "Song of the Shirt" a revolutionary procla mation. "Stitch, stitch, stitch, in squalor, hunger and dirt" was some thing to stir all England when the condition existed. Now. to sit in the modern, airy and well-lighted shop, stitching out one's life, may be more or less a matter of course. But this condition in the State street building: The young woman is there, stitching, stitching, stitching. Some thing more than her own soul and body has appealed to her in her work. She has a sister dying of consumption who must be cared for out of her wages. More than a year ago this wage earner began to cough a dry, hacking cough, a warning of her con dition. The cough has grown no bet ter. The temperature averages high er. But from a nearby building some sympathetic physicians have been at tracted to her, and a diagnosis of the case shows that under the simplest of sanitarium ministrations this young woman could get well. Sister Has Same Disease. But there is stitching to be done, stitching of endless threads into the endless seams of endless finery, and unless this young woman keeps up the stitch, stitch, someone else will take her place, someone who will not care for that helpless sister, who is slow ly dying of the same dread disease. One physician has written to Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. asking that Dr. Trudeau. founder of the sanitarium there, make room for this sufferer, who this time next year will be lying dead somewhere unless the stitch, stitch, stitch of her necessities shall be taken from her. But the reply is hopeless in itself: "Dear Doctor: It would be impos sible for me to admit your patient to the sanitarium. Apart from the fact that she has had tuberculosis for a year, and that the best time for recov ery is past, we are simply swamped with applications of people right here who are ready to enter at any time, and many of whom are excellent cases." 18,000 Consumption Cases. There are 18,000 cases of consamp- Saved by Imitations, The man who invented the sewing machine would have died of starva tion if imitations had not sprung up. In fact, his fortune was made by the in fringement of his patents. Elias Howe could not even borrow sufficient money to patent his first sewing-machine, and for some time he put by a little out of his eighteen shillings weekly until he had sufficient to take out the patents. After that he worked his way about England and the States, in the fruitless endeavor to get his ma chine taken up. Didn't Want to Lose Her. A bride and bridegroom from "up state" went into a Kansas City hotel recently and asked for a room. They were assigned to one on the top floor. "Is that very high up?" asked the bridegroom. "It's on the top floor, but It's a fine " the clerk began. "Gim- me something on the first floor up." , interrupted the bridegroom; "if they i should be a fire or anything want to get Nellie out. I had a hard 'nough time gittin' that woman to take chances on Iosin her this soon." 1 Kentucky, on which this historic log at public auction rcently. "Early Life of Lincoln," published by New York, 1S9C.) of New York, bought the place for $3,500. During the last decade or so many attempts have been made to perfect plans looking to the converting of the property into a national park, and, while these efforts have aroused some comment, nothing substantial has resulted. The farm derives its name from a large spring about 100 yards from the log cabin in which Lincoln was born. In its present state the tract is cut by a broad picturesque thor oughfare. Two miles on the north is this village, typical of Kentucky, with a population of about 1,000. A branch of the Illinois Central con nects the town with the outside world, and a combination freight and passenger train makes two trips daily to Cecilia, seventeen miles away. The records of Hardin county show that the farm was bought by Thomas Lincoln in 1S03 with funds which he had earned as a carpenter. Thomas Lincoln was not yet 25, showing that he was a man possessed of more than ordinary thrift, instead of care less and shiftless, as some biograph ers have depicted him. tion in Chicago to-day in all stages and affecting all ages, sexes and condi tions. Some of these afflicted ones will get well without ever knowing they Jiave had the disease in any de gree. Others will wrestle with the malady, working on when they can work, and nursing, and resting, and fighting the disease and working still as they can. Still others, fortunate enough to have friends, and means. anu opportunities, may go into re treats, where, if taken in time, tuber culosis is regarded as one of the mild ly infectious diseases, responding rap idly to scientific nursing, exercising and medication. And a few others, stitching, cough ing, stitching, coughing, and stitching and stitching still, will go out of life with the threaded needle lying be tween the nerveless fingers. But in the meantime the young sew ing girl, stricken with an infectious disease that may be more relentless than the fabled fates works on, a mar tyr to the grim necessities of a civil ized life in a Christian land. ............. ..... : DEAD! SHE WAS TOO POOR : : AND FRIENDLESS TO LIVE! : ..... ................. ............. This is the epitaph that will not be chiseled in stone when she is gone. It will not be trusted to paper, even, in the death records of the city. But it will be a grim, uncompromising, eter nal truth that should strike home somewhere. Veteran Mail Carrier Dead. From Salem. Ore., comes the report of the death of L. C. Scovell, one of the oldest of the veteran stage drivers and mail carriers of the Pacific coast He went from Iowa in 1S53 and drove the first stage coach between Corval lis and Oregon City a year later. In 1SG0 the California Stage Company was organized and a line established between Portland and Los Angeles. Scovell drove the first stage of that line out of Portland and he continued driving until the abandonment of the service in 1S72, when the Oregon & California railroad was built. Charitabie Man Dead. The newspapers of Milan report the death at the age of 7S of Senator Tullo Massarani. He was extremely wealthy and noted for his charitable bequests. He had also made a repu tation as a painter and a writer on literary subjects. He knew German literature thoroughly and it was through his writings that the poet Heine exerted for several decades a considerable influence in Italian belles lettres. mr. oiacKmars Gift to G. A. R. Mrs. W. W. Blackrear has presented to the G. A. R. the superb saddle bridle and blanket that the late Gen Blackmar, commander in chief of the G. A. R. had ordered for his use at ! tne thirty-ninth annual national en campment The equipment is of the finest quality, and will be used for the first time by the general's successor Gen. King. Henceforth the articles will be used by each succeeding com mander in chief at each national en campment. the quartermaster genera.' having the custody of them. Shrewd Chinese Thief. A Chinaman carrying a ladder walk ed into one of the police courts in Singapore the oiher day. Removing his hat he 1 owed with grace to the judge on : e bench. Over the Iatter's seat was a valuable clock. This John CHtaman quietly removed, tucked it under one arm and the ladder under the other, bowed again to tho mn again to the maris. trate and withdrew. Some day elapsed and the clock was not return' ed. It had been stolen while tho ri was sitting. Calumet Baking Powder A wonderful powder of rare merit and unrivaled strength. - Making Children "Show Off." Here is something with which few mothers will agree, and yet it is tho opinion of one of the leading physi cians of New York. Says this au thority: "It is cruel for mothers to try to make their children be smart and show off before people when they are little. Above all things let a child be stupid not only stupid, but ugly. If it is allowed to be stupid and ugly when it is little and growing it will have a much better chance of becom ing bright and beautiful. Little minds ire overtaxed by being made to mem orize verses to say before people, by being taught this, that and tho other thing for showing off. Children should be left to grow up just what they are little animals." Good Housekeeping. The Stranger Needed a Knife. "I was traveling some mouths ago in the mountains of North Carolina." said Mr. J. P. Dickens of Boston, "and stopped at the log cabin of a farmer to get a little rest and a bite to eat. The farmers' wife was a kind-hearted soul and set about getting me a din ner with most hearty hospitality. At the table one of her children, a lad of 12, said to her in a loud tone: 'Maw. give the stranger a knife.' His mother answered that she had given me one, which was true, but again the youngster piped up: '.Maw, I tell you Jo give him a knife; don't you see he is eatin' his greens with a fork?'" Washington Post. Cure to Stay Cured. Wapello. Iowa. Sept. 11th (Special) One of the most remarkable cures ever recorded in Louisa County is that of Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place. Mrs. Hart was in bed for eight months and when she was able to sit up she was all drawn up on one side and could not walk across the room. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. Speak ing of her cure. Mrs. Hart says: "Yes, Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me after I was in bed for eight months and I know the cure was complete for that was three years ago and I have not been down since. In four weeks from the time I started taking them I was able to make my garden. No body can know how thankful I am to be cured or how much I feel I owe to Dodd's Kidney Pills." This case again points out how much the general health depends on the Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with Dodd's Kidney Pills and nine-tenths of the suffering the human family is heir to, will disappear. Grow Up with the Children. A busy woman once said that she never knew how much she could ac complish until she became the com panion of her young sons, sharing their sports and limiting her own working hours to theirs. Today they are young men and she looks like their sister, says the Brooklyn Times. There are other young mothers of grown men. and they are rather for midable rivals to younger women. The sons unconsciously make com parisons, generally in favor of mother, it is beautiful to "grow up" in this fashion with one's children, to keep pace with them in new studies anil new thoughts, something like a sec ond youth. We are so quick to put away youthful things unless we have some such incentive to hold them The biggest willow in the state is at Norridgewock. I: measures twenty three feet i:i circumference at the base mil has a ponderous spreading top. Its largest diameter is a little more than eight feet. The age of the tree is about 10O years. The tradition is that a man traveling from New Hamp shire (in horseback stepped to give the horse water there and stuck his whip, which was a small willow twig, m the ground and gorgol to take it. "It's funny about divorces," said little Johnny to hi- pa. "If either party wants to and the other doesn't, ;he application will more than likely ne granted. Bur lot them both want to! Then the court wil! be indignant, ind deny the plta. and have both par ties indicted for conspiracy." Judge. STRONGER THAN MEAT. A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nuts. A gentleman who has acquired a judicial turn of mind from experience on the bench out in the Sunflower State, writes a carefully considered opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts as food. He says: "For the past ." years Grape-Nuts has been a prominent feature in our bill of fare. "The crisp food with the delicious, nutty flavor has become an indispensa ble necessity in mv family's everyday life. "It has proved to be most healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and pies from our table, for the children prefer Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and unwholesome food. "Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect physical condition as a preventive of disease it is beyond value. I have been particularly impressed by the benefi cial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by ladies who are troubled with face blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. It clears up the complexion wonderfully. "As to its nutritive qualities, my ex perience is that one small dish of Grape-Nuts is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which is an im portant consideration for anyone. It satisfies the appetite and strengthens the power of resisting fatigue.whilo its use involves none of the disagree able consequences that sometimes fol low a meat breakfast" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. i I .