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SH3F: I! K ;' r; M a K I fi -I Columbus Journal By COLUMBUS JOURNAL CO. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. News in Brief Severe shocks of earthquake were recently felt In Venezuela. The first state fair of Wyoming is to be held in the early days of October. Ross J. Alexander, aged 70, Indian commissioner under Cleveland, is dead. Jay Williams, son of R. F. Williams of St Edward. Neb., died at Panama of yellow fever. Oklahoma-Indian Territory bankers have establisned a rate of 10 per cent on colllections. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad company proposes to cut out Sunday excursion trains. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan have start ed on their tour of the world, to be ab sent a year or more. Justice William J. Gaynor declined to accept .the fusion nomination for mayor of New York citj Richard Olney, a member of Presi dent Cleveland's cabinet celebrated bis seventieth birthday on Friday. Rev. Dr. Frank W. Grant Gunsaulus has accepted a chair in the Chicago Theological seminary, which has been established especially for him. John D. Rockefeller, who up-to-date has contributed 14.949,921.91 to the University of Chicago, will make his third visit to that institution next June. Dr. Julius Goebel. who recently was dismissed from Stanford university, is to be head of the department of the Germanic language at Harvard uni versity. Justin McCarthy says that his three objects in life have been attained. They were: To write books, to be a member of Parliament and to live in London. The Japanese minister, Mr. Taka hira, expects to sail for home in Japan In a few weeks to join Mme. Takahira. who hass been over there for nearly two j'ears. A verdict of $100,000 against the city of Chicago was given the Panhandle Tallroad in a damage suit brought be cause of the burning of a number of freight cars. The explosion of a gasoline stove be ing used by a veterinary surgeon in the Stuubs liver;- stable started a fire -which caused loss of $75,000 at Ed wardsville, III. At Springfield, O., heirs of the late Eliza Meharry Jeffers found $10,595, nearly all in gold in a little old black trunk in the attic of the family home of Mrs. Jeffers. John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, sen ior representative from Allegheny county in congress says he is not in favor of any tariff revision at the coming session of congress. The secretary of the interior has or dered the withdrawal from entry of 300,000 acres of land in the Roswell, N. M., land district on account of the Carlsbad irrigation project. Yonkhier R. De Marees van Swin deren, the Netherlands minister to the United States has returned to his post after an absence of several months in his native country. The Canadian fisheries commission will hold a joint session with the fish eries commission of the state of Wash ington to take up returns in Pacific coast fishery. The meeting will open on Nevember 9. The Dagblad has commenced advo cating tne establishment of a Norwe gian republic and expresses the opin ion that in any case the people must be consulted before a new constitu tion is determined upon. The revolutionists at Sabastopol ef fected the escape from prison of a student named Feldman, who is al leged to have been one of the organ izers of the mutiny on the battleship Kniaz Potemkine last June. The party which ill support Dis trict Attorney Jerome in his independ ent campaign in New York for re-election will be known as the "Jerome nominators" and the party emblem will be a solid black square. The Interstate Tunnell Railway com pany of New York was incorporated with a capital of $7,500,000 to con struct and operate a tunnel railroad tinder the waters of the Hudson river between New York City and New Jer sey. The department of commerce and labor issued an order removing Ed ward Boltz and Charles W. Stevenson, Chinese inspectors in the emigration service. They were charged with as sisting in smuggling four Chinamen Into the United States. Following similar attacks on the Roman Catholic cemeteries at Oconto Falls Peshtigo and Birch Creek, van dals have gone through St. Joseph's and St Anne's cemeteries at Escanaba, Mich, and demolished the crosses on over 200 monuments, causing dam ages estimated at $4,000. A painting of Jobs G. Carlisle has been received by the Kentucky Histor ical society and placed in the histori cal rooms at Frankfort. Further slight shocks of earthquake and violent storms extending over the whole of Calabria, Italy, added to the distress of the stricken population. The Sons of Veterans organization is' gaining in strength, there having been 5,000 members added the past past year. Rev. Paul Mathews of Cincinnoti, O., !Was elected bishop coadjutor of the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese on the sixteenth ballot Fusion between the Democrats and Populists of Neebraska was affected by the nomination by both state con ventions of an identical ticket Rev. Paul Matthews, dean of the Cincinnati Cathedral, has been elected bishop-coadjutor of" the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Milwaukee. Presiaent Roosevelt has appointed Arnold Shanklin of St Louis, consul general of the United States at Pan ama, to succeed J. W. Lee. W. C. Albers, the American citizen arrested in Nicaragua, was convicted on serious charges, and the State De partment will make an investigation. LIGHTING LOBE. ACETYLENE EXCELS AS AN ILLU MINANT. Gas for Lighting Formerly Confined to Cities and Large Towns, now in General Use in the Country. The satisfactory lighting of subur ban and country homes requires that the means used shall be convenient, safe, economical and furnish a bril liant, penetrating, effulgent light Everybody admits that these are not the characteristics of the candle or kerosene lamp, which, formerly, were the only feasible means of pro ducing light for domestic use in the rural districts. For generations there was a crying need, a yearning for something better, which was not satisfied. A few years ago deliverance came in the shape of the chemical compound. Calcium Car bide, from which, by the simple ap plication of water, the gas Acetylene is derived. Acetylene meets all the requirements fully and admirably and is being generally used. Common lime and carbon in the form of coke or coal are the raw ma terials which, fused in an intensely, heated furnace, make Calcium Car bide, and there is no difficulty in ob taining it in any part of the country. The machine into which the Cal cium Carbide is fed and from which the Acetylene is distributed through the building to be lighted, is but little larger than a thirty-gallon milk can, and of the same general form. It is easily and cheaply installed, either in the cellar or in an out-building. The light from burning Acetylene Is exquisite, and lighting experts agree that it surpasses all other known illu minants. It does not taint the air nor strain the eyes and is not objection able in any respect Every up-to-date rural residence should be equipped with Acetylene light Had Monkeys Work for Him. During the rush to the gold fields of Yukon an enterprising miner carried five Chinese monkeys to help him in gold washing. The monkeys had been used to severe cold and extremes of a vigorous climate, and the gold search er found his animal workmen most useful. RESTORED HIS HAIR Scalp Humor Cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment After All Else Had Failed. I was troubled with a severe scalp humor and loss of hair that gave me a great deal of annoyance and inconven ience. After unsuccessful efforts with many remedies and so-called hair tonics, a friend induced me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment The humor wa3 cured in a short time, my hair was restored as healthy as ever, and I can gladly say I have since been entirely free from any further annoy ance. I shall always use Cuticura Soap, and I keep the Ointment on hand to use as a dressing for the hair and scalp. (Signed) Fred'k Busche, 213 East 57th St, New York City." See Virtue in Silver Rings. Silver rings are worn by laborers in certain European countries, the own ers being firmly, convinced that such a ring is a sure protection against fits. This idea has probably arisen from the fact that mercury, commonly called quicksilver, was formerly used as a remedy for epilepsy, and by an erro neous process of reasoning silver has been credited with similar virtues. Black Sea Once Inland Lake. The Black Sea, according to chron icles mentioned by Strabo and others, was once an Inland lake, connected with the Caspian, till some catastro phe forced its outlet into the basin of the Mediterranean, cutting off com munication with its eastern sister lake, which, indeed, has gradually shrunk, ever since, but, for awhile may have flooded its shore lands far and near. Blood-Curd ling Cry for Beans. A wild man who recently terrorized the residents of Moultrie, Fla., and who was described as a "tall, ape-like creature, hideous, with long, bristly hair, and giving forth wild, blood curdling cries," proved to be, when captured, a Boston simple life en thusiast who was trying innocently to get close to mother nature. Atlanta Constitution. It is not necessar yto doubt a man's motives if you know he has not the ability to act upon them. GET POWER. The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skil fully selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a poor fire is not a good steam pro ducer. "From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suf fered grievously for a long time from stomach troubles," writes a lady from a little town in Missouri. "It seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that I could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heart-burn and filled my stomach with gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton and in time wxs compelled to keep to my bed. "A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had Buch good effect from the very begin ning that I have kept up its use ever since. I was surprised at the ease with which I digested it It proved to be just what I needed. All my un pleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 98 to 116 lbs., my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do my housework and enjoy it The Grape-Nuts food did it" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days' trial will show anyone some facts about food. "There's a reason." . THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, STATE COMMERCIAL CLUBS WILL SOON HOLD MEETING Executive Committee Session Called for Omaha October 5. SHELTON M. A. Hostetler, presi dent of the State Association of Com mercial Clubs, has called the executive committee of that organization to meet in Omaha at the Commercial club rooms October 5. "The question of the next annual meeting of the as sociation to be held in February will be taken up at that time and the place for the meeting selected. The com mittee will be pleased to hear from any clubs that would like to entertain the .next state meeting. If you can not meet the committee in person, write to the secretary. W. G. Hirons, Pierce. Neb. Each commercial club organization of the state can join the state asso ciation by paying an annual fee of $2, excent organizations in cities of more than 7.000 population shall pav $10 in annual dues. Each club will be entitled to two votes in the asso ciation meeting, but can send as many delegates as it desires. The membership of the executive committee of the state association is as follows: President. M. A. Hostetler, Shelton; vice presidents, W. A. Green wald of Falls City. E. J. McVann of Omaha, J. T. Hanson, of Fremont H. A. Graff of Seward. George F. Mil bourn of Minden, G. B. Darr of Lexing ton; secretary, W. G. Hirons of Pierce; treasurer, O. O. Snyder, O'Neill. A NORFOLK MOTHER HEARS OF SON'S DEATH NORFOLK Today for the first time since the mured at Sacremento, Mrs. Charles Lodge of this city heard the story of the killing of her son, John Lodge, the former Norfolk man, later a wealthy race horse owner, who was shot without provocation on the race track in the California city over a week ago. Charles Lodge and Sam Lodge, father and brother, have returned from California, where they went to bury the dead man. An intoxicated depu tized town marshal murdered John Lodge because the officer believed Lodge had applied an epithet to him which he resented. One of Nebraska's Old-Timers. NORFOLK "Uncle Bill" Lamont. said to have been the oldest among Nebraska pioneers, is dead at Nio brara from disability incident to old age. His patent to land in Nebraska bore the signature of President An drew Jackson and he came west when the country was filled with Indians and antelope. Every business house in Niobrara was closed during the fun eral of the old settler andhis remains were laid to rest in Leau Qui Court cemetery, near that place. During his last illness Lamont was cared for by citizens of the city. School Fund Being Invested. LICOLN At the close of business Wednesday Treasurer Mbrtenson had less than $100,000 uninvested of the permanent school fund having bought up a lot of state warrants. As the taxes will not be coming in before January or February, there is still a chance that the treasury will run low and the buying of warrants will have to be stopped. Kills Wife and Self. NORFOLK Joseph Howell a Bo hemian farmer near Rogers, commit ter suicide by hanging after beating out the brains of his wife with a ham mer. She will die. They had quar reled over a division of property. Laying of Corner Stone. ST. PAUL The corner stone of the new Presbyterian church, which is to replace the building burned last February, was laid with appropriate ceremonies. Governor Mickey has appointed S. F. Nichols of Beatrice and Hon. Peter Jansen of Jansen as members of the delegation to represent this state at the national conference on immigra tion to be held in New York city De cember 6 and 7. MR. AND MRS. BRYAN START ON THEIR TOUR LINCOLN W. J. Bryan. Mrs. Bryan and son and daughter have left for San Francisco, from which place they will start on their tour of the world. They stop first at Japan, where the party will be met by a young Japanese who formerly made his home with the Bryan family, while he at tended the universsity, but who is now conducting a private school in Japan. This young man will be their guide through the flowery kingdom. Nebraskan Injured in Denver. DENVER, Colo. Fred Shilling, a stranger in this city, who arrived here a few days ago from Scotia, Neb., was nearly killed by a street car. Shilling was on Welton street and stepped hur riedly to one side while in the center of the thoroughfare in order to avoid a street car. By so doing, he placed himself directly in front of a car com ing from the opposite direction. The car struck him squarely and a blow upon the head rendered him uncon scious. He is badly bruised and in ternal injuries mar develop. Haddix is Allowed Bail. BROKEN BOW W. S. Haddix, who was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary last week by Judge Host tetler for killing Milvin Butler, was allowed bond by the supreme court, the sum being fixed at $7,000. Charged With Horse Stealing. LONG PINE Marshal McShame ar rested two men here charged with stealing a horse and saddle in Cherry county. One man was driving a horse and buggy and the other rode the horse. OVER THE STATE. Rain greatly interfered with some of the county fairs. Populists of Red Willow county have put a ticket in the field. Hon. W. J. Bryan and a party of hunters bagged 35 prairie chickens. - The Shelby school was two weeks late in starting on account of diph theria. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreinert of Cuming county last week celebrated their golden wedding. The enrollment at the Peru normal on the beginning of the second week, or fourth day of school, was 440. An acetylene gas plant in the hard ware store of R. H. McAllister at Grand Island exploded, causing a damage of probably $1,000. Because his wife was applying for a divorce and refused to live with him, Frank Snear of Beatrice tried to end his life by taking poison. It is said that the Burlington is short of trainmen at Wymore. Twenty-seven new firemen were on duty on the southern division at last report Unconscious for six months, Mrs. W. J. Sloan of Pierce, totally para lyzed, has succumbed. She was 60 years of age and had lived in Pierce county for fifteen years. While sitting in his dooryard J. W. Weaver of Buffalo county was acci dentally shot in the arm by Oliver Poore, who was hunting with a small rifle in a nearby corn field. Mrs. George V. Crossland of Wayne was terribly burned about the hands and arms by the explosion of a gaso line stove tank. Her escape from a frightful death was a miracle. A threshing machine on the farm of H. C. Tibbets, near Wauneta, caught fire while the crew was at dinner. The machine was badly damaged and 150 bushels of grain were burned. John Morrissey, anaeronaut from Omaha, made a balloon ascension from the fair grounds at Tecumseh, going up over 1,000 feet. In coming down he landed in the Nemaha river. Wood River mills have increased their working force and have made longer running hours, this being made necessary by the large crop of wheat which was raised in that vicin ity. While playing with some other boys Sunday, Harry Herron, a young son of Thomas Herron, was pushed over the anks of Death Gulch, Frontier county, and seriously injured by the fall. Lightning struck the farm house of Rush Hartzell, four miles east of Pickrell. The building caught fire and burned to the ground with all its contents. Loss $1,500, partially in sured. Six new brick business houses, one cement block, an $8,000 Young Men's Christian association building, a doz en residences and thousands of feet of cement walks are some of Central City's improvements for this year. The new First Congregational church, which is being built in Ash lash at a cost of $12,-000. will be ready for occupancy about October 1. The main building consists of audito rium with a seating capacity of 400.'' Bertha Hahn, a 17-year-old daugh ter of Lewis Hahn, a Dodge county farmer, eloped with William Calhoon. a farm hand who had been working near the Hahn farm this summer. The father of the girl is hot on their trail. Kelra & Co. of Tecumseh will go Into the manufacturing of cement building block business. They have bought a machine and will buy a suit able building for their shop. They expect to work at the business all winter. Rev. Charles H. Sudbrock of West Point, pastor of the German Metho dist Episcopal church, has been re- J tained in his present charge for the en suing year to the great satisfaction of his parishioners and the people of the town. The east wall and a portion of the floor of the packing house and can ning factory at Fremont fell in. carry ing with them about 20.000 cans of corn which had been boxed but not la beled. The wall was discovered to be in a shaky condition just before the accident, and several men who had been sent under it to examine its con dition had come out only a few min utes before the collapse or they would have been crushed. The packing sea son will be over next week. Frank S. West of Wood River, a prominent stockman, has just return ed from Europe, where he has been for the purpose of buying horses. He purchased them in Belgium, but dur ing his trip visited in England. France and Holland. He states that a Nebraska farmer could easily make a fortune in France, raising hogs. They sell there at ten cents per pound and corn can be shipped from South America for 68 cents a bushel and alfalfa can be successful! raised. Few people, he says, are engaged in this business. Dr. W. T. Hathaway of Nebraska City Is fittingmp a boat and will start down the river the first of next month, and may go as far as New Orleans before thinking of returning home. He will go alone. The amendments to the fish and game laws adopted by the last legis lature are to be tested in the courts. The game department has preferred charges against John Willis of Mar quet. under the new section prohibit ing the possession of more than ten prairie chickens by one individual at any one time during the month of September. The Burlington's shops at Platts mouth are now turning out an aver age of twenty-fiva coache3 and 500 freight cars per month. It Is the in tention to increase the number of coaches to thirty-five per month as soon as a sufficient number of men can be secured. William J. Bryan will donate ten acres of land to Lincoln's new city park and a number of other promi nent and influential citizens, Induced by Mr. Bryan, are seriously consid ering making like contributions of land or money to purchase lots ad-ioininz. NOT WORRYING OVER CONTRACT. No Matter What She Signed, Woman Would Pay When She Likeo. "Do you know what you signed?" asked the man, as the woman laid down her pen. "Why, yes," she replied. "I signed a contract to pay for a piano in so many months at the rate of so many dollars per month." "How do you know you did?" asked the man. "You didn't read the con tract" "I know that." said the woman, tit wasn't necessary. I haven't time for that I know what I told them down at the office yesterday." "That is just like a woman," said the man, impatiently. "They clap their names to any kind of a docu ment without reading it over. So care less are they about such things that half the women in the land would sign their own death warrant and not know it" Then the man read slowly through the written agreement "Here," he said, "is a mistake, first pop. Fortunately you are dealing with a reliable firm that will rectify it If you were buying from some jay con cern that would hold you to your bar gain you would have to make your payments on the 12th of every month, instead of on the 1st, as you wish to do." "Oh, that's nothing," said the woman, serenely. "Don't worry about that I'll pay whenever I get ready, no matter what the contract says." "Oh, excuse me," said the man. "Per haps that explains why all women think it unnecessary to read whatever papers they sign." PROVED TRUTH OF OLD ADAGE. Thirteen at Table Certainly Proved Unlucky for Some. "Ever sat down thirteen to table?" inquired the man with the salmon-pink tie. "Once," said the man with the white mustache. "Well, you never observed any bad luck follow it, did you?" "I'll bet he did," growled the man who believes in these things. "Well," said the white mustache, "it was a trifle unlucky for most of 'em." "Any of 'em die?" asked the man who believed. "Not enough grub to go round?" sneered the salmon-pink tie. "There were no victuals," said the white mustache softly. "It took place In a lawyer's office; it was a meeting of creditors; there were twelve be sides myself sat down to table." There was a long pause, and then the salmon-pink tie spoke again. "In what way did the meeting prove unlucky, may I ask?" "Poor creatures," sighed the white , mustache, "they never got a penny out of me. I was the bankrupt." London . Answers. Didn't Care to Advertise Wealth. One of the wealthy residents in the Wicker park district is a manufactur er who from a street peddler worked himself up into position and has ac cumulated money so that his neigh bors estimate his wealth at about $500,000. Throughout his career he has never learned to write and his figur ing has been upon a system peculiar to himself. A few days ago some of his friends, in the presence of a re porter urged the manufacturer to tell some of his experiences so that an article might be published about him. Pulling out some old tax receipts he said: "It might be nice to get my name in the paper and a writeup which you think might help me so cially. If you print, however, that I am worth $500,000 then the board of review will raise my taxes. I have found that people in society pay for what they claim to have more often than for what they actually possess. I'd rather keep my taxes as they are and let no one know just how much I own." Chicago Chronicle. Cautious Bride. Bride (in railway train) Now, my dear, you must remember not to act as if we were just married. It would be perfectly horrible to have all these strange people know it Sit up a little closer. I want to fix your .necktie. It's all crooked. There's some dust on your coat. I'll brush it off. How white the stuff is! It must be from that rice. One corner of your mustache points down and the other up. It looks too funny for anything. Wait; I'll fix it. I'm tired to death, dear. Sit up closer, so I can rest my head on No, that won't do; I must pretend to read a novel, and I don't know; per haps you'd better go into the smoking car. All the married men do. Groom Well, I'll go, my darling, if you think best. Bride Yes, you must go. Help me off with this glove, dear. You must go and stay real long ten or fifteen min utes. New York Weekly. Don't Use Slang. "A lady used the expression 'Gee' the other night," says an exchange. It had never occurred to her that this was taking the name of the Lord in vain, and probably few of many who indulge in sugar-coated profanity re alize that they are swearing. What is "Gee" though, but a euphemism for "Jesus?" "Dear me" is nothing but the Latin "Deo Meo" (My God), "For Goodness Sake" is only for "God's Sake." "Drat it" is "God rot it" "Judas Priest" is "Jesus Christ" "Gol ly," "Gosh," "Glory," etc.. are only va riations of "Damn it." In short; there is probably not an expression of this sort that cannot be tracked to an oath for its origin. A Street Scene. The American tourist in London was showing some photographs to his English acquaintances. "This," he said, exhibiting a picture taken during the recent blow-out of the Dramatic Order of Khorassan, "is a street scene on Woodward avenue, Detroit, Mich., in the heart of the Rockies." The Englishman expressed much surprise at the large number of fierce .Iooking sheiks and sword-carryius brigands in the crowd, but the Ameri can explained that during the last year 85,764 Turkish and Arabian bri gands had landed in New York city alone. Detroit Tribune. DEATH ALWAYS HE AR ARTIST TELLS OF RISK IN PHO TOGRAPHING WAVES. - The Sea Never to Be Trusted for a Moment Careless and Timid At tendants Add to the Excitement of the Undertaking. There are plenty of adventures to be found in photographing the great waves of the sea. F. J. Mortimer, an Englishman, tells of some rough ex periences in getting pictures of this kind on the stormy coast of the Scilly islands. He says: "One can never trust the sea for a moment. Once I was standing with my back to a cliff, on the top of which was a friend, whose outstretched hands I could just reach. After watching the sea for some time, breaking at a safe dis tance, I turned my back on it for one moment to reach up to my friend for a fresh dark-slide. Fatal movement as fatal as taking one's eyes from a crouching tiger for no sooner had I turned my head than a wave darted in and crashed with terrific force on to my back. I 'was absolutely flattened against the rock, all breath and feel ing were knocked from my body, while my camera was smashed to smither eens. Bruised and gasping, I could only totter home to bed, and two days were passed before I was fit to venture out again. ' "Then thpre was another adven ture." says Mr. Mortimer, again, caused by a rope man who was too careless. He had lowered me down a narrow crevice, a 'chimney' as it is called, and having seen me safely come to ground at the bottom he calmly threw the rope down to me and went off, never thinking that he might be required to haul me up .again. One felance at the sea told me 'that I was in a most dangerous posi tion; the tide was coming in and 'would soon be welling up the chim ney; and only by way of the chimney could I escape. AH intentions of tak ing photographs I threw to the wind; after shouting till I was hoarse. I began the upward climb unaided elbow .work of the Btiffest kind The chimney was 100 feet high aad I spent the rest of the day in getting to the top. "Another time the promptitude of a friend in trying to save my life cost me a valuable outfit. I was photo graphing from the base of a cliff, on the top of which stood my friend, hold ing the rope to which I was attached. Along came a final wave that would have made a magnificent study. While it was yet far distant, a sud den distrust of it entered my friend's soul, and while I was stooping over my things on the ground, without a word of warning he gave a mighty jerk to the rope and hauled me into the air. Dangling helplessly, unable to cry out, I was forced to watch that fine wave roll quietly in, break with a great effect of foam, and as quietly go off with all my apparatus. "I once had an awful fall when des cending a steep bit of cliff on St. Agnes. I was clambering down, verj much incumbered by my camera," which allowed me to cling on with one hand only, supported by toes, knees and elbows, when suddenly a rat leaped from a hole in the rock, brushed against my face and landed on my hand. Now I didn't know that rats inhabited the rock; and my sur prise at this unexpected discovery in natural history, combined with the start I gave when the rat touched my hand, caused me to let go my hold and to fall a distance of thirty feet I landed on my camera case, breaking up my outfit as completely as the sea itself could have desired." James Gray's Dog Partnership. James Gray, once a prominent sin ger of Boston, relates the following in cident of his youth: When a lad of 15 he bought a yellow dog for 50 cents. He took the dog home and told his father about it. Now his father would never have a dog about the house, but, not wishing to disappoint the boy, he offered to give the boy a quarter, and so form a part nership. Gray readily assented, and thereby secured the dog's safety. After carefully locking the animal up James went to bed, very happy. The first thing in the morning he went out to see the dog. and found him gone. He rushed to his father, and cried: "Pa. where is the dog,?" "Well," said the father, "I kicked my half out I don't know what be came of your half." Elder Swan's Prayer at a Mark. Jabez Swan of Connecticut, the noted and eccentric evangelist, was once attending an association meet ing, when the moderator, a driving man for business, laid out the time for the speakers and for the business of the morning. "And now," he said, "there are just three minutes left that are unoccupied. Elder Swan, will you pray?" The elder rose at the call and said: "Well, brethren, I never yet did pray at a mark, but I'll try," and he filled out the allotted time. Whiting Owned "Clear Up." David Whiting, founder of the pres ent firm of D. Whiting & Son, milk contractors, was one day in his mill yard in Wilton. N. H., where two of his men were unloading a load of logs onto a large pile. One of the men said: "It would be well to start a new pile, wouldn't it. Mr. Whiting? "Pile 'em up; pile 'em up; I own clear up," said Mr. Whiting's laconic reply. Boston Herald. Porter's Good-by to "Mark Twain." Gen. Porter tells this story of hi3 farewell to "Mark Twain" once when "Mark" was going away: "I said good by 'Mark'; may God be with you al ways." He drawingly replied: 'I hope em he will, tiit I hope, too, that he may find eo ne leisure moments .to take caro of you." Secures 4,000 Butterflies. Walter Rothschild, M. P., who re cently spent three weeks at Cauterets, in France, near the Pyrenees, brought home to England with him nearly 4,000 specimens of butterflies to add to the I wtll 1i-kn Via nlpomlw I million he already has. mWfW UNI ns wMn Always the Same Calumet Baking Powder b Itst RtiHfcfilt MfhfllfttMM sad EeflMMical www vnra mwotwmji wn Contributors Honored. "We announce the decrease of the new magazine," says an editor "also our inability to pay its contributors: but. in recognition of their services, we have made honorary pall-bearers of all of them, and will give a funeral dinner, at which we hope to see them all." Atlanta Constitution. Britain and the Suez Canal. Theoretically the Suez canal is neu tral. Practically, however. Great Brit ain owns it by purchase of the greater part of the certificates of indebtedness. Likewise that same power has a strat egic cover at each end of the canal. CHROMIC ERYSIPELAS Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink PlHev Althowfjh Whole Body wee Affected. Erysipelas or St. Anthony's fire is a most uncomfortable disease on account of the burning, the pain and the dis figurement ; it ia also a very grave dis order, attended always by the danger of involving vitnl organ's in its spread. The case which follows will Ik; read with great iuterest by all sufferers as it affected the whole Ixniy, and refused to yield to the remedies prescribed by tho phytiiciaii employed. Mrs. Ida A. Col bath, who was the victim of the attack, residing at No. 19 Winter street, New buryporc, Mass., savs : "In June of 19031 wan taken ill with what at first appeared to be a fever. I pent for a physician who pronounced my disease chronic erysipelas and Haiti it would be a long time before I got well. "Inflammation begau on my face and spread all over my body. My eyes were, swollen and Eeemed bulging out of their sockets. I was in a terrible plight and suffered tho most intense pain through out my body. The doctor said my case was a very severe one. Under his treatment, however, the inflamma tion did not diminish and the pain which shot through my body increased in severity. After beiug two mouths un der his care, without any improvement, I dismissed him. "Shortly after this, on the advice of a. friend, I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, two at a do three times a day. After the second lwx had been used I was surprised to notice that the inflammation was going down aud that the pains which used to cause me so ranch agouy had disappeared. Af ter using six boxes of the pills I was up. aud around the house attending to my household duties, as well as ever." Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all dealers in medicine or may Im; ob tained direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N.Y. More people would avoid gettinjc into the fire if they had sense enough to keep out of the frying pan. Important to Mothers. 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