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By COLUMBUS JOURNAL Co.
COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.
I General News
R. J. McLaughlin, a capitalist from
Detroit, dropped dead. In his room in
the Washington hotel in Seattle.
Fire that broke out In the fifth
story of the Douglass office building
at Los Angeles did $70,000 damage.
With the approach of the Algeciras
convention on Moroccan reforms, the
newspapers in Paris devote greater
space to discussion of the question.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell has
given $75,000 to the Volta bureau of
Washington, D. C, as a memorial to
his father. Prof. Alexander Melville
Bell.
It comes from White House circles
that a meeting of the New York state
Republican committee is to be called
within a month and Chairman Odell
ousted.
John H. Converse, of Philadelphia,
has endowed the chair of homilctics
and pastoral theology of the Presby
terian Theological seminary of Omaha
with $50,000.
The death of Brigadier General John
Campbell last week leaves but eigh
teen officers on the retired list of the
army who served during the Mexican
war. four having died since 1904.
The German emperor, the king of
Italy, the youthful king of Spain, the
queen of Holland, the king of Bavaria
and the king of Saxony have never
taken the trouble to be crowned.
General W. E. Mickie. adjutant gen
eral, makes official announcement that
the sixteenth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans will be
held in New Orleans, April 26 and
27.
An ordinance granting a fran
chise to the Kansas City Gas com
pany to supply gas for thirty years at
25 cents a thousand feet was passed
bv the upper house of the city coun
cil. Representatives Murphy, Fulkerson
and Lyndall, of the Missouri delega
ton in congress, have been admitted
to practice before the supreme court
of the United States through Sam B.
Jeffries.
The Stonybrook Box Board com
pany's mills at Painville. N. Y., owned
by Louis F. Payne, former state sup
erintendent of insurance, were de
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at $150,000.
Dr. Thomas F. Richardson of the
marine hospital service has been des
ignated by its chief. Dr. Wyman, to
go to Honduras, at a salary of $7,500 a
year from that country, to act at its
health officer.
Nathan Wesley Hale, republican con
gressman from Tennessee, can claim
descendance from Oliver Cromwell,
and his ancestors. General Nathan
Towson, was a quartermaster general
under George Washington.
Word has been received -at Seward
of the death of Mrs. D. J. Brown at
Milan, O. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were
until recently residents of Seward
county. Mr. Brown served two terms
as legislator from the county.
The general assembly of the mem
bers of the British Royal Academy
has elected Augustis Saint Gaudens,
the American sculptor, and Josef Is
raels, the Dutch painter, honorary for
eign members of the academy.
Fire In the New York state build
ing at Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Ga.,
destroyed that structure, the Fine Arts
building and the cafe and kitchen of
the Piedmont Driving park. The
buildings were erected for the Cotton
State exposition in 1895.
A magnificent silver punch bowl,
the gift of the city of Charleston, S.
C, was presented to the United States
cruiser Charleston. The presentation
was made by Mayor Rhett on board
the gaily-decorated cruiser and in the
presence of 1,000 invited guests.
A Joint resolution was introduced
in the Ohio house, by Mr. Kealy of
Hamilton county providing for the ap
pointment of a Joint legislative com
mittee to investigate municipal affairs
in Cincinnati. The resolution was
made a special order for January 7.
The house committee of public
lands decided to report favorably on
bills providing for the quit-claiming
back to settlers of land with imperfect
titles which had been deeded to
the United States for forest reserva
tion, providing punishment for extor
tion in connection with government
land trasactions ad creating a land
office at Billings. Mont
The Natonal Negro Business league
of New York City was incorporated
to promote the commercial and finan
cial development of the negroes of
the United States by thoroughly or
ganizing them into local leagues in all
the states and territories for system
atic instruction, conference and en
couragement in commercial enter
prises and the proper use and saving
of money.
The plant of the Virginia-Caroline
Chemical company, near Charlotte, N.
C, was damaged $125,000 by fire.
In his annual address to the Salva
tion Army, General Booth attributes
his robust health to the fact that for
the last seven years he has been a
strict vegetarian.
Very Rev. Gilbert Francais, a noted
French educator, has arrived in Amer
ica and will in future live in Notre
Dame, Ind.
Mrs. Stella Brennan, convicted at
Minneapolis. Minn., for murdering her
three stepchildren, has been sentenced
to life imprisonment.
A telegram from Athens says: "It
Is announced that King Edward will
come to Athens in the spring to at
tend the Olympian games."
President Roosevelt is to be non
ary president of the American Bison
society, which has for its object the
preservation of the American buffalo.
An additional guard of 500 men has
been stationed on the Finish frontier
to prevent the importation of arms
into Russia.
Judge Paynter, "Joe" Blackburn's
successor, is said to be the first sena
tor from Kentucky in forty years who
.didn't serve In the confederate army.
OF THE
WE8T.
CANADIAN
The Greatest Wheat Crop of the Con
tinent.
The year that has Just closed has
lone a great deal toward showing
the possibilities of Western Canada
from an agricultural standpoint. The
wheat crop has run very near to the
100.000,000 bushel limit that was look
ed upon as too sanguine an estimate
only a short time ago, and the area
that has been broken to fall wheat
for the coming harvest will go a long
way towards enabling the farmers of
the West to overlap on the 100,000,000
bushel estimate next year. And while
the spring and winter wheat have
been doing so well during the past few
years, the other cereals have been
keeping up with the procession. Rye
and barley have made immense
strides, and peas and flax have been
moving steadily along. Dairying,
also, has been successfully carried on
in the new provinces, and in every
stage the farmer has been "striking
it rich." To such an extent has the
success of the West taken hold of the
outsiders that the rush of our Ameri
cans to Saskatchewan and Alberta,
which was looked upon as marvelous
last year, bids fair to be largely ex
ceeded in 1906, and as there are still
millions of acres of free homesteads
available, which the building of the
new railways will render accessible
to the markets, new wheat lands will
be opened ere long. Amongst the
first to avail himself of the opportun
settler. In a large number of Ameri
Ity presented will be the American
can cities Dominion Government
Agents are located, who are able and
willing to give the latest and best in
formation in regard to the new dis
tricts which the railways will open
up, and there will be no abatement of
the rush to the Canadian prairies dur
ing the coming season. Some time
since a poet in the columns of the
"Toronto Star" had the following
stirring lines, which throb of the
Western spirit:
There's a stir in the air, there's a
thrill through the land,
There's a movement toward the
great West;
And the eyes of all men for the mo
ment are turned
To the country that we love the
best
For 'tis Canada's day in the world's
calendar,
And to this merry toast let us sup:
"Here's to the land, the young giant
of the North,
Where the prairies are opening up!"
They come from the East, and they
come from the South,
They come o'er the deep rolling
sea
They come, for they know they will
dwell 'neath a flag
That makes all men equal and free.
Then, once more the toast, and let
every man rise
And cheer ere he sips from the cup:
"Here's to the land, the young giant
of the North,
Where the prairies are opening up!"
A Lesson in Good Manners.
A well-known lawyer is telling a
good story about himself and his ef
forts to correct the manners of his
office boy. One morning, not long ago,
relates the Brooklyn Citizen, the
young autocrat of the office blew into
the office and, tossing his cap at a
hook, exclaimed: "Say, Mr. Blank,
there's a ball game down at the park
park today and I am going down."
Now the attorney was not a hard
hearted man, and was willing the boy
should go, but thought he would
teach him a lesson in good manners.
"Jimmie" he said, kindly, "that isn't
the way to ask a favor. Now you
come over here and sit down and I'll
show you how to do it" The boy
took the office chair and his employer
picked up his cap and stepped outside.
He then opened the door softly and,
holding the cap in his hand, said,
quietly, to the small boy In the big
chair: "Please sir, there is a ball
game at the park today. If you can
spare me I would like to get away
for the afternoon." In a flash the boy
responded. "Why, certainly, Jimmie,
and here is fifty cents to pay your way
in."
There are no more lessons in man
ners in that office.
Dont Wait
Hanna, Wyo., Jan. 15th (Special)
Delays are dangerous. Don't wait un
til all the awful symptoms of Kidney
Disease develop in your system, and
your physician shakes his head grave
ly as he diagnoses your case. If you
suspect your kidneys, turn at once to
the great Kidney Specific Dodd's
Kidney Pills. You can do so with
every confidence. A few of Dodd's
Kidney Pills taken in time have saved
many a life. The early symptoms of
Kidney Disorder may be the forerun
ners of Bright's Disease, Diabetes and
Dropsy. Dr. W. H. Jeffries, a resi
dent here, tells below how he treated
an attack of Kidney Trouble. He
says:
"Before I commenced taking Dodd's
Kidney Pills, I had always a tired
feeling every morning when I got out
of my bed, and my Kidneys were in
very bad shape. There was always
a dull heavy pain across my loins, and
I had ha-d work to stoop. I took two
boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the tired
feeling and back pains have entirely
(one, and I am now cured."
It is much harder and more meritor
ious to ask another to do a charitable
thing than to do it ourselves when it
is in our power.
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
ill other Cold Water Starches are put
np in 3-pound packages, and the price
Is the same, 10 cents. Then again
because Defiance Starch Is free from
all injurious chemicals. 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 letters and figures
16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save
much time and money and the annoy
ance of the Iron sticking. Defiance
never sticks.
THK CALL
NEBRASKA
COMPANIES MUST PAY
OR STOP BUSINESS
LINCOLN After a conference with
Attorney General Brown, Insurance
Auditor Pierce announced that fire
companies in other state which have
refused to pay the 2 per cent recipro
cal tax, as required by the statute,
must pay up within a reasonable time
or be barred from doing business in
this state.
Thirty-six fire insurance companies
are involved. In the states in which
they are organized Nebraska compa
nies must pay a special tax, and Neb
raska desires to play even. Compa
nies located in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri and
California are chiefly affected by this
order.
When the Nebraska law went into
effect the companies brought a test
case and won in the supreme court.
Later Mr. Brown got a rehearing and
the court held that the law was good.
The companies immediately filed a
motion for another hearing, and this
matter is now pending in court. A
ruling was expected by Judge Hol
comb, who heard the case originally,
before he went out of office, but none
was given.
Some $30,000 is involved, and Mr.
Pierce proposes to get after the com
panies in an endeavor to collect the
money, most of it being delinquent for
two years. The attorney general in
formed him that as long as the law is
upon the books and no final decision
of the courts is against it it is his
duty to enforce collection. One Min
nesota company owes $4,600, and the
auditor thinks that if he waits much
longer before going after the com
panies some of them will prefer to
forfeit their Nebraska business rather
than pay up the back tax.
BUTTER INJURED BY
BAD CREAMERY HANDLING
LINCOLN Nebraska dairymen are
sadly wrought up over what they
term the careless handling of cream
by shippers and creameries alike, and
at the coming state convention this
question is to be taken up and de
bated.
The assertion is made that the
farmers do not take the care of their
separators that they should and that
the creameries have aided and abetted
in the wastefulness by fixing no stand
ard for the product to which they in
sist upon adherence. The result has
been a general lowering of the grade
of butter.
Secretary Bassett Is of the opinion
that tens of thousands of dollars are
annually lost to dairymen by reason
of these facts. Some of the cream
eries have begun to grade cream, and
this will prove a great help in mak
ing the farmers more careful. Their
principal fault lies in their neglect to
keep their separators free from bac
teria and the result is that the product
deteriorates rapidly.
"One of the burning questions in
connection with the dairy industry in
Nebraska at this time," says Secre
tary Bassett "is the securing of a
better quality of hand-separator cream.
In the commercial markets there are
thre grades of butter, known as
extras,' 'first and 'seconds.' When
extras are worth 25 cents, first sell at
about 21 cents and seconds at aoout
17 cents per pound.
DOUBT ABOUT BEET FACTORY
Lincoln County Farmers Are Making
Trouble.
NORTH PLATTE Last summer
the Standard Beet Sugar company
agreed to erect a $500,000 factory in
Lincoln county, ready for work in the
fall of 1906, if contract were pro
cured from farmers in this vicinty to
raise 60,000 acres of sugar beets for
three years. Such contrasts were
readily procured, and the Standard
company has placed its order for ma
chinery and material for a factory, to
be commenced as soon as spring
opens. But now comes a lot of the
farmers who signed contracts for cer
tain acreages of beets for three years
commencing with 1906. and say they
will not raise the beets according to
their contract, because they claim that
the company has failed to take the
beets raised by them in the year 1905
as rapidly as they expected. Now,
the important question is. will the
Standard company put $500,000 in a
factory here unless the prospects are
fair for beets sufficient to feed such
a factory? The general feeling is
that only irresponsible persons will
go back on their contracts, and that if
the company will erect their factory
beets will be forthcoming to feed the
same. A general meeting is to be
held soon to discuss the matter and
determine what to do.
Hundred Years' Strenuous Life.
PLATTSMOUTH Grandma Davis,
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
at her son's, southeast of Plattsmouth.
Only a few days ago she came to
town, walked about the streets and
went into the stores with quite elastic
steps. The furrows of time are writ
ten upon her brow and cheeks, but she
is not much gray and stoops slightly.
She has had a rough, toiling life of it,
much of the time working out of
doors, sometimes husking corn in the
fields, sometimes driving to town on
a wagon piled high with wood.
Requisition by the Governor.
Governor Mickey issued a requisi
tion for the return to Seward county
of J. C. Morgan, who is wanted there
on a charge of appropriating to his
own use some $200 belonging to his
employer, Joseph Brown. Morgan is
under arrest in Cass county, la.
Woman Fatally Burned.
ULYSSES Rebecca Mcintosh, one
of the pioneer 6etflers of Ulysses,
died aged sixty-seven years. Death
was caused by being burned while
building a fire.
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STATE NEWS
NEBRASKA BRIEFS
Oakland reports a highly prosper
ous year in 1905.
A charter has been granted by the
state banking department to the Citi
zens' bank of Giltner.
The barn of William Brown of Ne
braska City was destroyed by fire, to
gether with a fine team of horses.
The Hastings Building and Loan as
sociation has fined its twentieth year
of operation without having foreclosed
a single mortgage. It now has $81,000
of loans in force.
E. G. Rathbun, a farmer and stock
raiser who has lived near Ellis for
many years, was adjudged insane by
the board of insanity commissioners
and ordered taken to the asylum.
A number of local capitalists have
taken hold of the brick plant proposi
tion at Humboldt a second time, and
it now looks like the project would
be pushed through at early date.
J. C. Hobart of Lincoln tossed an
old sheet into the fire, and after it
had been reduced to ashes he remem
bered that $140 in currency had been
pinned on its inside for safe keeping.
The Presbyterian Theological semi
nary of Omaha has received $50,000 as
a gift from John H. Converse, one
of the controlling factors of the Bald
win Locomotive works of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Fred Snyder of Vesta precinct,
Johnson county, was quite seriously
burned. She was standing with her
back to a red hot stove when her dress
caught fire and she became enveloped
in flames.
Jacob Cool, a farmer residing seven
miles northeast of Callaway, disfig
ured his face with a corn knife-while
sharpening the implement The upper
lip was cut through and one side or
the nose badly lacerated.
Rev. Van Dyke Wight remains un
til June 13 president of Hastings col
lege, his resignation of that office to
enable him to devote all his' time to
his work as pastor of the Presbyter
ian church taking effect then.
Judge Harrington arrived at Ains
worth and gave sentence to the fol
lowing criminals: Fred J. Zylman,
one year for stealing a watch and $12
in money; Bert Valentine, three years
and six months for stealing two
horses, wagon and set of harness.
Governor Mickey has announced the
appointment of Adam Breede of the
Hastings Tribune and Ross Hammond
of the Fremont Tribune to represent
Nebraska at the "Seeing America" con
ference to be held at Salt Lake Janu
ary 25.
Will Neff, a young man living near
Ruby, met with a severe accident while
skating on a pond near that place. He
tripped and fell and the ice gave way
and a sharp edge of the ice cut his
head open from the eye to the back
of his ear.
While Albert Fleishman and his
brother, Otto, of Etmwood of Cass
county were hunting the latter shot
at a rabbit, but the whole charge of
shot entered his brother's limbs and
left arm. About sixty shot entered
the arm and body.
The horse stolen in Auburn and be
longing to Lafe Higgins was discov
ered three miles northwest of John
son. The Nemaha County Farmers
Protective association had men out
looking for the animal and a reward
of $75 was offered.
The safe in the Bank of Salem was
blown open. Cashier R. B. Huston
found the doors wrecked but the in
ner door still firm and the money safe.
Postage stamps to the value of $100
which had been left by the postmaster
and not locked up, were taken.
With 100 marriage proposals on her
list as a result of holding a claim on
the Rosebud reservation Miss Ella
Rogers, a young newspaper woman of
Ames, la., passed through Norfolk en
route to the Rosebud reservation to
make final proof on her property.
The Union Pacific is active in build
ing up the North Platte river. About
fifteen miles of track has been laid,
and the work is still progressing. No
work except survey has been made
by the Burlington, yet the general im
pression is that both of the roads will
build to the west along the valley of
the North Platte as soon as spring
opens up.
Judge Paul Jessen of Nebraska City
has awarded a new trial in Miss 01
lie Holbrook's personal damage suit
against'William Leibold. In this case
Miss Holbrook sued for $10,000 dam
ages for the loss of her scalp through
an accident that occurred while she
was employed in the Leibold bakery.
The jury heard the case at the present
term of court, finding in favor of the
defendant.
A circular which will doubtless
arouse much interest among the boys
and girls of Nebraska farms, as it tells
how they may secure books, has been
issued by Miss Edna D. Bullock, sec
retary of the Nebraska Public Library
commission. Any inquiries as to par
ticulars may be obtained by address
ing this commission at the capital
building.
The Elm Grove Telephone company,
another independent concern, filed ar
ticles of incorporation with the secre
tary of state. The Hurst school house
in Elm precinct, Antelope county, is
specified as the company's business
headquarters, while the capital stock
is fixed at $5,000.
An epidemic of hog cholera, or what
some of the farmers consider pneu
monia, has been afflicting the herds
southeast and east of Wood River, and
many of the farmers have lost large
numbers of hogs. One man lost his
entire herd of thirty-five head, three to
five dying in a week.
C. Benway, brakeman, was crushea
while coupling cars on the hill west
of Moorfield and taken back to Curtis
by the crew immediately after the ac
cident for medical attention, and died
from his injuries shortly after arriv
ing in Curtis.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hoerger, near Baker, walked
into an ice hole on the Keya Paha
river in Boyd county, and was drown
ed. His mother was visiting a sister
at Baker when the child, who was
playing out of doors, disappeared. His
body was not found for several hours
under the ice.
Miss Emilie Grigsby
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Photograph of Beautiful Young Woman Infatuation for Whom Caused the
Break in Charles T. Yerkes' Family.
CHINA SURPRISING THE WORLD.
Civil Service Reform the First' of
Many to Come.
A year of so ago the world heard
that the Chinese civil service was to
be reorganized on a modern basis.
The world thought it a good joke.
Still later the news went forth that
the old lady was taking steps pre
paratory to setting up parliamentary
government. Still the world laughed.
Now comes the word that the first
mentioned reform is actually in op
eration. The civil service examina
tions for this year deal not with Chi
nese classics but with the most prac
tical of live problems. Candidates
will be asked,, among other things, to
state how the resources of China can
best be developed; to describe the
educational systems of western coun
tries; to speculate on the bearing of
the Siberian railway and the Panama
canal upon Chinese interests; to ex
plain the meaning of free trade and
protection and to describe Herbert
Spencer's views on sociology. A year
ago a man who would govern a prov
ince, run a railroad or tend a draw
bridge had only to know his Confu
cius. The contrast is startling.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Relics of H. E. Abbey's Regime.
The pathetic end of an operatic
dynasty was recalled the other day
by an exhibit' in a New York auction
room. Offered for sale by a ware
house which had kept them in storage
for nearly a decade were several
opera cloaks, now shabby and faded,
and some furs made up in the old
fashioned modes of an earlier day.
The tickets on them imparted the
knowledge that they had been the
property of Mrs. Henry E. Abbey.
She is now in London, but has been
lost to the light of her American
friends since Henry E. Abbey, the
greatest amusement plunger of his
day, died practically penniless.
Has No Use for Umbrellas.
Speaker Cannon long ago aban
doned, if he ever contracted, the um
brella habit. The other day in Wash
ington, in the midst of a drenching
rain, he visited the white house with
some papers which he wished the
president to see. In the lobby he met
a friend coming out. The latter was
carefully galoshed and mackintoshed.
In response to an astonished query
Mr. Cannon said: "If I had an um
brella when I left the house to walk
up here I wouldn't have it now. The
umbrella habit would be mighty ex
pensive for me."
New Yorkers Living in Hotels.
Wealthy New Yorkers manifest an
Increasing tendency to live out of the
city. Social observers go so far as
to say there are indications that ere
long the families who have longest
been identified with New York will
choose to make their homes in a sub
urb and will be satisfied with an oc
casional visit to town. What is more,
most of these persons, even to the
richest, will prefer to put up at a
hotel or to live in an apartment hotel
when they do come to town instead of
maintaining an establishment of their
own.
Not Popular With Constituents.
The reading world and a part of
the playgoing world know Hall Caine
as a tireless worker in the fields of
literature, but few people know that
he represents Ramsay in the Manx
house of keys. One is sorry to learn
that the good folk of Ramsay are not
altogether satisfied with the represen
tation. They declare that the gifted
Manxman is so often away from Gree
ba castle that they are practically dis
franchised. Proof Easily Obtainable.
A Connecticut girl lost a locket
while skating and later found it in a
cake of ice which the iceman had de
livered to her home. If any one
doubts this story let him take his map
of the United States and examine it
carefully. He will find Connecticut
there, all right. Kansas City Star.
Gathering of Temperate Peop'c.
At the annual Boswell Philips fam
ily reunion at Beloit, Wis., a few day3
ago of forty-one guests present not
one had ever used tobacco or intoxi
cating Honor.
CASTOR OIL AS A LUBRICANT.
Has
Many Qualities That Make It
Best for the Purpose.
Castor oil as a lubricant is In ex
tensive use in some countries. In
Australia, which imported 7C9,o92 gal
lons in 1S9S, the chief use of this oil
is officially stated to be as lamp oil,
and the decline in imports in 1902 to
less than 500,000 gallons is attributed
to the substitution of petroleum for
the castor oil. It may also be noted
that in the Cape of Good Hope, where
the oil is probably largely used for
tho same purpose. 307.72S gallons
were imported in 1902. To a limited
extent this oil is used for lubricating
purposes in the United States. As
is well known, the mechanical func
tion of lubricating oils is to form a
coating or cushion between rotary
surfaces, thus keeping them free from
contact and preventing loss of power
through friction. To this purpose
castor oil, being heavy bodied, vis
cous, and nondrying. is in most cases
well adapted. It is the heaviest of
fatty oils, having a density of 0.9C,
and is particularly adapted to the oil
ing of fast moving machinery because
the heat generated keeps it in a liquid
state.
Engineer Has Fine Record.
Thomas Ridley of Pittsburg, for
merly an engineer on the Pennsyl
vania road, was retired on a pension
two years ago. When Andrew Carne
gie was a poor young fellow Ridley
helped him once or twice and the two
have been close friends for many
years. "Old Tom," as he is called,
visited the multimillionaire recently.
The latter presented him with a book
on the flyleaf of which is the inscrip
tion, "Old Tim Ridley, one of my first
and one of my best friends. One of
the few, rapidly growing fewer, who
called me Andy and have the right to
do so. New York, Dec. 15, 1905. An
drew Carnegie." Ridley, who is 80
years old, carries a $525 gold watch,
with a 74 pennyweight gold chain,
bearing an inscription stating that it
was presented in recognition of his
courage and loyalty in refusing to run
his train into a fire In Pittsburg on
July 22, 1S77, as ordered to do by a
committee of rioters.
Has Done Good Work in China.
One of the most interesting women
visitors in this country in many years
Is Lady Hart, an English woman who
has given time and fortune to the
work of the Chinese mission schools
of Hongkong. Throughout the war
Lady Hart remained at her post and
continued her good work of instruct
ing the Chinese Into some idea of
modern sanitation. She is not a
proselytizer and though nominally the
mission is for the spreading of Chris
tianity she gives most of her time to
instructing women and young girls in
principles of morality and domestic
science. She reports a rather con
fused notion on marital obligations
and on the commandment which deals
with the taking of what belongs to
another, but on the whole she finds
the work compensating. She is on
her way to London, where she will set
foot for the fiist time in almost ten
years.
Library Will Be Magnificent
J. Pierpont Morgan's private library
will e assembled and the thousands
of valuable volumes gathered by him
and his agents will be in their places
on the shelves by the first of the
year. Two hundred cases of books,
including many rare volumes, have
been removed from the Lenox library,
in New York, to the private library
on Thirty-sixth street, near Madison
avenue. These cases represent the
acquisitions of two vears. As fast as
Mr. Morgan or his representatives
gathered them in Europe they were
shipped to this country and stored in
the Lenox library.
Shock for Boston.
Boston pee, e are accustomed to
hear of r ivinds of gatherings in
historic raneuil hall, but none has
Ik in more curious than those con
ducted by a religious organization the
members of which call themselves
"Jumpers of the Burning Bush." The
antics of the fanatics have roused
some talk as to the propriety of per
mitting the enactment of such scenes
In the cradle of liberty.
AN EVERY-DAY STRUGGLE.
Too Many Women Carry the Heavy
Load of Kidney Sickness.
Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main
street Haverhill, Mass., says: "In
1898 I was suffering
so with sharp pains
in the small of the
back and had such
frequent dizzy spells
that I could scarce
ly get about the
house. The urinary
passages were also
quit e Irregular.
Monthly periods were so distressing I
dreaded their approach. This was my
condition for four years. Doan's Kid
ney Pills helped me right away when
I began with them and three boxes
cured me permanently."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The darkest shadows of life are
.hose which a man himself makes
when he stands in his own light.
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Had to Use Crutches "Outicura
Remedies the Best on Earth."
"In the year 1S99 the side or my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel, and the physi
cian who had charge of nie was try
ing to sew up the side of my foot, but
with no success. At last my whole
foot and way up above my calf was.
nothing but proud flesh. I suffered un
told agonies for four years, and tried
different physicians and all kinds of
ointments. I could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks aftcwards I
saw a change in my limb. Then I be
gan using Cuticura Soap and Ointment
often during the day, and kept it up
for seven months, when my limb was
healed up just the same as if 1 never
had trouble. It is eight months now
since I stopped using Cuticura Reme
dies, the best on God's earth. 1 am
working at the present day after five
years of suffering. The cost of Cuti
cura Ointment and Soap was only $tl.
but the doctors bills were more like
$600. John M. LIoyd.71S S. Arch Ave..
Alliance, Ohio. June 27. 1905."
If the best man's faults were written
on his forehead, he would have to
wear his hat well down over his eyes.
Worth Knotting
that Allcock's are tho original and only
genuine porous plasters; all other so-called
porous planters are imitations.
Every day is a littl e life, and
whole life is but a day repeated.
our
A C.CAKANTKF.I CI'KK FOR l'lI.FN.
Itching. Ullmi. lcieeilln. l'rotriiilliin PIN--. I'ruic
kIhm are authorized to refund money If i'.VZt
OINTMENT I ilN to cure In blull .! . 50c.
Fiction has no right to exist unless
.t is more beautiful than rcalitv.
Smokers appreciate the quality T?alue of
icwis sinrle Hinder ciirar. i our dealer
or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
No good word is done by men who
do not put their heart in the work.
Fiso's Cure cannot lc too highly .piken cf as
a coutrh cure. J. W. O'IIiues, XJ Tbird Ave.
X., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. C. 1MX).
Don't Be Too Sensitive.
There are people Yes, many peo
ple always looking out for slights.
They can not carry on the daily In
tercourse of the family without find
ing that some offense is designed.
They are as touchy as hairtriggera. If
they meet an acquaintance who hap
pens to be pre-occupied with business
they attribute his distraction in some
way personal to themselves, and tako
umbrage accordingly. They lay on
others the fruit of their irritability.
Their disposition makes them sec im
pertinence in every one they come in
contact with. Innocent persons, who
never dreamed of giving offense, are
astonished to find some unfortunate
word of momentary tactiturnity mis
taken for an insult. To say the least,
the habit is unfortunate. It is far
wiser to take the more charitable
view of our fellowbeings. and not sup
pose that a slight is intended unless
the neglect is open and direct. After
all. too, life takes its hues in a great
degree from the color of our own
mind. If we are frank and generous.
the world will treat us kindly; if on
the contrary, we are suspicious, men
learn to be cold and cautious to u.
Let a person get the reputation of bo-
ing "touchy" and everybody is under
restraint; and in this way the chances
of an imaginary offense are vastly in
creased. All the people in the universe be
lieving a lie would not make it a
truth.
UNCONSCIOUS POISONING.
How It Often Happens From Cof.'ee.
"I had no Idea," writes a Duluth
man, "that it was the coffee I had
been drinking all my life that was
responsible for the headaches which
were growing upon me. for the dyspep
sia that no medicines would relieve.
and for the acute nervousness which
unfitted me not only tor work but also
for the most ordinary social functions.
"But at last the truth dawned upon
me I forthwith bade the harmful bev
erage a prompt farewell, ordered in
some Postum and began to use it. The
good effects of the new food drink
were apparent within a very few days.
My headaches grew less frequent,
and decreased in violence, my stom
ach grew strong and able to digest
my food without distress of any kind,
my nervousness has gone and I am
able to enjoy life with my neighbors
and sleep soundly o' nights. My
physical strength and nerve power
have increased so much that I can do
double the work I used to do, and
feel no undue fatigue afterwards.
"This improvement set In jut as
soon as the old coffee poison had so
worked out of my system as to allow
the food elements in the Postum toa
get a hold to build me up again. l'
cheerfully testify that it was Postum
and Postum alone that did all this, for
when I began to drink it I 'threw
physic to the dogs. " Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the famous
little book "The Road to Wellville" i
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