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COLUMBUS,
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS OP THE DAY HELD TO
FEW LINES.
DAW EVENTS BOILED DOWN
Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to the
General Reader
Washington. ' l
James Keeley, general manager of
the Chicago Tribune, swore out a war
rant for the arrest of George O. Glav
is, of Chicago, charging him with
stealing books, documents and papers
the Tribune's property, said to con
cern evidence of "moral turptitude of
a United States senator and other
government officers."
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin
made protest to the senate commit
tee on the judiciary against the con
firmation of Guy D. Goff as district
attorney for the eastern district of
that state. Mr. La Follette complained
that he had not been consulted on Mr.
Golf's appointment, and that he sup
posed this slight had been due to his.
opposition to the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill.
Investigation of "chronic titleitis,"
described as a disease of "rich, trust
made women, is urged in a resolu
tion introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Sabath of Illinois, who
would have the state department in
quire why only two dozen American
peeresses .have been permitted to
take part in the coronation ceremo
nies in London and to ascertain the
amount this country is sending across
the Atlantic annually to maintain the
titles.
Chief Moore, of the government
weather bureau, has filed with the
house committee on expenditures in
the department of agriculture, a num
ber of a voluntary commendation of
the weather service which were sent
him by western fruit growers. The
commendations were based on the
statement given out through Chair
man Moss of the house committee
that western fruit growers had filed
with the committee charges that the
service was of no value to them.
General.
President Taft discussed currency
reform at a meeting of New York
bankers.
A tax on automobiles to make
froood roads is the plan of Senator
Simmons.
Bruno Oscar Klein, composer, con
ductor and teacher of music, is dead
at his home in New York.
Old and dreary Westminster abbey
was transformed into a scene of light
and beauty at the coronation.
Lir Noble B. McKee, superintendent
ot the Missouri school for the deaf,
died of heart disease, aged fifty
eight.
senator Gallinger said Canadian
reciprocity was the opening wedge
that would pry loose the protection
system.
Sarah Bernhardt sailed for France
after a tour of America. She said
that she probably will return for an
other tour in 1915.
Sylvester Smith, former general
manager of the Union Pacific railway
and of the Denver Rio Grande, died
in Chicago, aged 72.
Approximately 20,000,000 gallons of
liquors are shipped by express,
principally from mail order houses di
rect to consumers in prohibition
6tates.
Habeas corpus proceedings looking
to the release of Charles W. Morse,
the New York banker, from the fed
eral prison at Atlanta, will be begun
In the United States court
Dr. David Jayne Hill, who recent
ly resigned his post as American am
bassador to Germany, left for Kiel to
present his letters of recall to Em
peror William.
It was held by the interstate com
merce commission that a privilege
savoring of a gratuity can not be or
dered continued by the commission
unless the original granting of the
privilege rest" n some legal obli
gation. William I. )unne, former American
newspaper man imprisoned at Mont
erey, Mexico, for participation in an
alleged plot to kill Francisco I. Ma
dero, and freed of the charge, arrived
at San Antonio. Tex., bearing tales of
horrible atrocities perpetrated upon
m while in jail.
Advices from Fez, Morocco, under
date of June 12, state that George C.
Reed of Weeping Water, Neb., the
secretary of Moroccan mission of the
Gospel union, is safe, but still a pris
oner of the rebellion tribesmen in the
mountains near Sefroo.
President Taft nominated Robert
W. Kemp as receiver of public mon
eys at Missoula, Mont.
Philip Bracken Fleming of Nebras
ka, was the honor man of the gradu
ating class at the West Point mili
tary school.
A committee said to represent the
Gould interests have purchased the
International & Great Northern rail
road at receivership sale.
At Cincinnati Edgar S. Cooke was
declared not guilty of embezzling $24,
C00 from the Eig Four railroad. The
jury was out about three minutes
less than two hours.
Every common railway carier will
be required, after July 1, 1911, to re
port to the Interstate Commerce com
mission by telegraph "any collision,
derailment or other accident," result
ing in the death of one or more per
sons. Reports from thirty-two counties In
northwestern Iowa, eastern South Da
kota and northeastern Nebraska indi
cate that the prospects for a bumper
crop never was better. In those sec
tions wnere wneai is raisea on a
large scale the reports show that a
good crop is in sight. Only in a few
counties win ine narvcii ue iigm. J
NEBRASKA. dinS anniversary.
Talking to Yale students. Attorney
General Wickersham declared against
the Arizona constitution.
The campaign publicity bill was
cast aside in the senate.
The United States has officially rec
ognized the republic of Portugal.
President Taft will be unable to
visit Huron, S. D., during his west
ern trip.
The American medical association
convention will meet this month im
Los Angeles.
The London public got a new
glimpse of royalty in the second day
parade of the streets.
Fourteen secretaries of retail lum
ber dealers associations were indict
ed by a Chicago grand jury.
President Taft sent a message to
congress urging amendment to the
pure food and drugs act.
Under orders from Washington
many mail cars are now being hauled
behind the baggage cars.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendment on direct election
of United States senators.
The senate is in such an ugly snarl
that the fate of the reciprocity bill
is hanging in the balance.
Anselmo Braamcamp was elected
president of the republic of Portugal
by the constituent assembly.
Testimony at the sugar hearing dis
closed that Havemeyer was a silent
partner of the Mormon church.
Insurgent republicans and demo
crats of the senate have formed a
new combine to force tariff legisla
tion. The Panama bond sale shows that
Uncle Sam is in good health and the
business men of the country convales
cent. James Proctor Knott, former gov
ernor of Kentucky, and prominent for
many years in congress, died at Leba
non, Ky.
In an address at the Yale alumni
luncheon the president spoke in
praise of recent supreme court de
cisions. Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has
succeeded to the command of the At
lantic fleet, taking the place of Ad
miral Schroeder.
A storm which included hail, wind,
lightning and rain swept central Kan
sas, doing thousands of dollars' dam
age to farm property.
Ferdinand Edmund Duez, receiver
for the dissolved religious congrega
tions of France, was convicted by a
jury of embezzling $1,200,000.
Mrs. Mary L. Cox, formerly of Day
ton, O., was granted a divorce from
Congressman James M. Cox, newspa
per publisher and financier of that
city.
Governor Wilson gave out a state
ment expressing his pleasure over
the success of the commission gov
ernment movement in Trenton, N. J.
Subscriptions to the British portion
of the $30,000,000 Hukwang railway
loan to China were opened and im
mediately closed, having been over
subscribed. Four members of the H. O. Mills
paugh family at Westnort, S. D., are
lying at the point of death from
trichinae poisoning, due to eating
raw ham.
Rev. Dr. John Clifford of London,
England, president of the Baptist
world alliance took a "decided stand
against any "unitey of organizations"
among the christian churches.
The death of Syed Ali Belgraml at
Hardor, Oudh, from heart disease,
aged 57, removes one of the most ver
satile and eminent Indian scholars.
He spoke a dozen tongues, and could
read, write and think in twenty.
Apparently uneasy over the grow
ing habit of mineral water drinking
by senators and their office staffs.
Senator Lodge introduced and had
adopted a resolution which is expected
to check the practice.
George Burns, Cleveland, O., aged
fifteen, fatally shot his father, Seward
Burns, aged forty-five, when he came
and found his father abusing his
mother.
Senatorial reports of crop damage
in the northwest made the Chicago
market go skyward.
The battleship Florida, now nearing
completion at the New York navy
yard, was ordered placed in commis
sion on September 15. Her sister ship.
the Utah, is expected to be completed
on August 1.
The reports emanating from Vienna
of fatalities resulting from the recent
hurricane were greatly exaggerated.
So far as known, not more than twenty-five
lives were lost.
Edward Valentine Lee, under ar
rest at Buffalo, charged with the
theft of $46,000 from the paymaster's
safe while serving as a clerk on the
battleship Georgia at Havana last
February,, married Miss Audrey F.
Kelsey of Washington. After the
ROOTS AMENDMENT
WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE DE
FEATED IN THE SENATE.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
News NeUs of Interest from Varloua
Sections.'
INSURGENTS WILL COME OUT
Sparring for Proper Sort of Opening
and Look to La Follette aa
Leader.
Washington. The Root amendment
to the wood pulp and paper schedule
of the Canadian reciprocity bill,
which the administration has been
fighting as fatal to the agreement,
undoubtedly will be defeated before
the senate adjourns.
The wool tariff and the free list
bills as the house passed them do
not exactly meet the approval of the
democratic force in the senate nor
that of the republican insurgents, but
they form the basis for the fight that
is to bring Canadian reciprocity and
the whole tariff question Into the
open for a protracted debate.
The extent to which the insurgent
republican senators will be Inclined
to go is expected to be made clear
during the tariff discussion this
week. So far only indefinitely out
lining their course they have" indi
cated that they favor all the valu
able tariff reductions that- they can
squeeze out of the situation.
Some of them have asserted their
readiness to put on to the recip
rocity bill any amendments they
think susceptible of successfully
threading the executive and legisla
tive channels, even in the face of the
president's veto threat.
There is a decided lack of demo
cratic support, however, for the pro
posals that the insurgents have hint
ed at. Senator Bailey will fight for
an amending of the Canadian agree
ment to exempt from free trade the
products of the farm, but while he
will have some democratic and much
insurgent support for this plan, it Is
not expected to prevail.
Senator La Follette is working on
general amendments that he will of
fer to the reciprocity measure and to
the wool and free list bills. He i3 de
termined to lead a hard fight for a
general plan of revision of the more
Important schedules on the tariff
law.
His action and his amendments
and arguments are being awaited by
many of the insurgents who do not
care to open up a fight until they
have had the opportunity of seeing
what he proposes and the effect his
arguments have. Meantime they are
preparing for the fight which prom
ises to be confined principally to In
surgents and a few democrats.
The direct election of senators will
come up again early in the week.
The house has voted down the Bris
tow amendment, attached to the bill
in the senate, and has asked for a
conference on the measure. The con
ference committee of the two houses
is expected to be named within a
day or two.
The senate will also receive the
territory bill, passed by the house
early in the week. The territories
committee approved the bill as pas
sed by the house, admitting Arizona
and New Mexico without the ap
proval of their constitutions.
Awaiting a clearing up of the po
litical situation in the senate and
more definite knowledge as to wheth
er tariff legislation which the lower
branch may originate will have any
chance of passage by the senate, the
house this week practically will mark
time.
Wok on the new postofflce build
ing at Franklin has begun.
Prof. S. S. Wolf, of a Lincoln bust-
ness college, goes to Aurora July 1
to assume the presidency of Aurora
college.
George Geisler, of Burt county, 12
years old, was killed by being -thrown
into a barbed wire fence by a pony
he was riding.
Neligh votel bonds in the sum of
$10,000 for sewerage. Strong opposi
tion was in evidence, but the propo
sition carried by ten majorityr
Former County Treasurer Fred
Thietje of Cuming county with hia
daughters, Erna and Laverne, left
West Point for Germany for a four
months visit. Mr. Thietje is a native
of Schleswig-Holstein and will spend
the summer visiting the scenes of his
boyhood days.
A big crop of corn is expected this
year near Albion, Neb., according to
F. M. Weitzel, banker of that city.
Wheat is as good as usual while oats
is a little below the average. Much
is expected of the corn crop provided
conditions are as good from now on
as they were during the late spring
and fore -part of June.
The brick house on the Mooney
farm west of Rulo, long a landmark
in that part of the country, was en
tirely destroyed by fire, and the loss
is fully $5,000. James Mooney, jr
and his sister Maggie were in Rulo to
attend a circus. Their mother started
a fire in the oil stove and went out of
doors. Upon her return she found the
kitchen in flames.
Boone county has appealed to the
supreme court from a judgment ob
tained by four towns in the county for
the return of half the road tax col
lected on city property since 1883.
The city of Albion obtained a judg
ment for $5,466.53, Petersburg got
judgment for $821.25. Cedar Rapids
had a judgment for $2,265.80 and St.
Edwards obtained judgment for $1,-
Isaiib' s Prophecy
CoBceniif Seuacherib
tmUf2, 1911
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SpedUbr Anwiffd for This 1
LE88ON TEXT-Iaalah 37:14-35.
MEMORY VERSES-33-35.
GOLDEN TEXT "God Is our refute
and strength, a very present help in trou
ble." Pss. 46'i.
TIME Probably, B. C. 701-697. toward
the close of Hexeklah's reign.
PLACE-Jerusalem and vicinity. The
destruction of the army was probably
southwest of Judah toward Egypt.
THE MAINE EXPLOSION.
Will
Secret of Destruction of Ship
Never Be Known.
Tampa, Fla. "The secret of the
destruction of the battleship Maine
will never be known," said General
W. H. Bixby, chief of engineers in
charge of the work of raising the
Maine, upon his arrival here from
Havana. The destruction to the ves
sel was such, says General Bixby,
and the deterioration has been so
great that it will be impossible to tell
whether the ship was blown up from
a force within or without. The great
est force, however, was from the in
side, indicating that the forward
magazine had exploded. Whether
this was from a sympathetic explo
sion caused by a torpedo from the
outside may forever remain a mystery.
ceremony he returned to his celL
Personal.
The will of Mrs. Eddy, founder of
the Christian Science church, was ad
mitted to probate.
Among lumber dealers secretaries
indicted by the federal grand jury
were two Nebraskans.
Edgar S. Cooke denied that a cent
had been stolen from the Big Four
railroad by either himself or War
riner. Woodmen of the World selected
Jacksonville, Fla., for the 1913 con
vention. Kainkaid was the only member of
the Nebraska house delegation to
vote against the wool bill.
Horace Havemeyer, son of the dead
sugar king, testified at the hearing
before the house committee.
Cyrus McCormick, of the Interna
tional Harvester company, gave tes
timony in the Lorimer investigtlon.
Two aviators were killed near Vin
cennes. France, and several others
were mjurod.
Former President Diaz of Mexico
may decide to reside in Spain.
President Hadly delivered the bac
calaureate sermon before the gradu
ating class at Yale.
Madero was again acclaimed on his
return to Mexico City.
Chairman Penrose or the senate fl.
nance committee says he can mus
ter sixty votes for the reciprocity biilL
Secretary Knox has been sum
moned by the house committee to ex
plain an expenditure of $5,000.
Cholera Suspect on Ship.
New York. The steamer Ham.
burg, from Genoa and Naples, which
arrived here, was detained at quar
antine for observation. She reported
the death at sea, six days ago, of a
5-year-old boy from an ailment symp
tomatic, the health officers say, of
cholera.
The executive board of Centenary
M. E. church of Beatrice has unani
mously decided to ask the general
conference to return Rev. U. G.
Brown to the pastorate for another
year. Rev. Brown has been in charge
of the local church for five years, and
is very popular with the members of
his church and with the community
at large.,
The prospect well which a number
of Mason City and Litchfield farmers
are now drilling east of Mason City is
going down at a fair rate. The money,
$2,500, was raised several weeks ago.
S. R. Martin of Broken Bow assisting
in the financing. When R. Keller,
the driller, placed his machinery on
the ground he discovered it inade
quate to drill the well and sent for
other machinery, which arrived and
has been put to work. The promoters
expect to strike gas.
J. P. Whittingill. a tax ferret living
at Owensboro. Ky., desires to get a
job from the state of Nebraska hunt
ing down delinquent taxpayers and
uncovering propesty that has escaped
taxation. He has written a letter to
Secretary Henry Seymour of the state
board of assessment asking for work
and promises that he will not make
angry one man in a thousand, and
that the state will be surprised to see
how much property that is unassessed
which he will uncover.
The Broken Bow junior normal lays
claim to having the oldest student en
rolled of any of the state junior nor
mals, or normal schools, in the person
of J. M. McCormick, aged 57, who also
has a daughter enrolled in the same
course. Mr. McCormick is and has
been for years a teacher in the
schools of Custer county. He doesnt
have to attend the normal, but was
then to brush up his teaching methods
and keep as up-todate as the younger
teachers.
County Assessor H. A. Edwards of
Hall count, is the. second county as.
Bessor to file an abstract of equaliza
tion. His report shows that the total
assessed value of all property in Hall
county has increased from $6,814,044
as returned last year, to $6,951,221 as
returned this year. The personal
property was assessed at $2,622,114
last year and $2,665,222 this year.
Lands and improvements were as
sessed at $2,984,137 last year and $2.
999.834 this year.
Douglas county veterans will hold
their reunion again this year at Flor
ence, the dates being August 15 to 19.
Seven men recently paid fines for
violating the game laws of Nebraska.
All were arrested by Chief Game War
den Miller during a trip to northern
The Importance of the event which
forma the subject of this lesson la"
shown by the fact that Its history is
given In three books of the Bible, and
probably referred to In another, oc
cupying aeven or eight chapter, be
sides the clay cylinder on which Sen
nacherib made bis own record.
It was a great crisis in Israel's his
tory like the exodus, and return from
captivity, a signal landmark, to teach
and warn and encourage and comfort
Israel in other great crises, and the
nations and individuals of all times.
Hezekiah, although the son of a bad
father (but a good mother), began his
reign with a thorough and widespread
reformation and revival of the true re
ligion, even while the Assyrians were
invading the Northern Kingdom. He
cleansed and repaired the temple, re
stored the temple services, and pro
vided for the support of the Levites
and for popular religious instruction
from the books of the law, thus bring
ing about a great uprising against
Idolatry.
The result was most happy. "Heze
kiah had exceeding much riches and
honor." His kingdom was tranquil,
strong and wealthy. But one constant
danger threatened Judah the grow
ing power of Assyria, whose overlord
ship Ahaz had acknowledged, against
the urgent protests of Isaiah.
In 701 B. C. the great invasion of
Palestine was made by Sennacherib,
with a double siege of Jerusalem.
Sennacherib sent an army demanding
the surrender of Jerusalem. He may
have felt that It was a mistake to
leave In his rear so powerful a fort
ress, while he had still to complete
the overthrow of the Egyptians."
The Assyrians, coming near to the
walls of the city and speaking through
Rabshakeh, the chief officer of Sen
nacherib, made the contest one be
tween Jehovah and the Assyrian idols,
between the true religion, the one
means of redeeming the world, and
Hezekiah, and Isaiah, and apparently
the scribes and elders, clothed in
sackcloth, went into the temple and
prayed from their inmost souls.
Note how afflictions lead to prayer.
Hezekiah saw before him captivity,
suffering, probably death, the loss of
his kingdom, the extinction of his
line, the exile of his people. But above
all he saw the fall of true religion,
the dishonor of God's name, a relig
ious and moral loss to the world. We
should pray for temporal blessings,
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Trouble With SedimenL
With spraying solutions, such as
bordeaux and lime-sulphur, the prob
lem is to get rid of the sediment. With
the ordinary strainer there is sooner
Strainer for Fungicides.
or later a clogging of the sieve if
placed at the bottom or the end of the
receptacle. With the strainer per
fected by Prof. J. P. Stewart of Penn
sylvania state college no such trouble
sm occur. The illustrations show,
that the liquid must pass upward to
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a pint for listeria aatlseptics or per
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on cleansing, genaicidal, healing
and deodorlzlag antiseptic solmUoa
with oae 25c box of Pastime, a sol
able antiseptic powder, obtainable at
any drag store.
Paxtlne destroya germs that causa
disease, decay and odors, that la why
It la the beat awatb wash and gargle-,
and why it parlies the breath,
cleanse and preserves the teeth bet
ter than ordlaary dentifrices, aad im
sponge bathing it completely eradi
cate perspiratlom and other disagree
able body odors. Every dainty worn
aa appreciates this and itaitaay other
toilet and hygienic sees.
Paxtlne la splendid for sore throat,
inflamed eyes aad to parity moat
aad breath after smoking. Toa cam
get Paxtlne Toilet Antiseptic at any
drag store, price 25c aad 50c, or by
stall postpaid from The Paxtoa Toi
let Co.. Boston. Mas., who will send
Too a free sample If yoalvoald UM
to try it before buying. '
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The Arctic Explorer Say, can you
tell me where I can find the North
Pole?
The Eskimo Nix. If I knew I'd
nave had it In a museum long ago.
HIRAM CARPENTER'S WONDER
FUL CURE OF PSORIASIS.
On Outlay of $15 Pr Acre Man la
Able to Clear Not More Than
$200 Keeps Full Record.
The cost last year for labor and
teams to cultivate our orchard was
about $15 an acre. It cost us more
the first year to cultivate our currants
because they were planted on a piece
of land which was full of quack, says
a writer in the American Agriculturist.
We cultivated that field 50 times dur-
same time we should never let the de- j ng Bjx months. On those 13 acres of
Hotel Partly Wrecked.
Estes. Park, Colo. The Stanley
hotel, built at a cost of $500,000. waa
partially destroyed by an explosion
of gas. Eight persons were injured,
one seriously.
Waif Gets Big Estate.
Los Angeles, Cal. The 7-year-old
waif of unknown parents gets the
bulk of the big estate left by William.
C. Hess, a retired farmer of Charter
Oak, la., according to a decision of
the court settling the contest brought
by Hess' son.
Mexican Women Want Votes.
Mexico City A suffrage movement
which promises to become a factor in
Mexican politics was launched here
by a woman's club, numbering in its
membership many of the more promi
nent women of the capital, under the
new regime. In the petition directed
to Emilie Vasquez Gomes, minister
of the interior, more than 500 women
who style themselves "friends of the
people," demand the right to vote
and hold office. They announce their
rhrilra tV npActrlaitf anH rlnm rnel.
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dent
Nebraska. A total of $25 and costs
was assessed against three Syrian la
borers who shot a prairie chicken on
the railroad tracks nine miles east
of Valentine, in Cherry county. In
Antelope county Frank Fisher. H. H.
Bradford, Fritz Hoenscbeit and Clar
ence Hanson were arrested for con
structing a fish trap of gunny sacks
and chasing the fish into it. They
paid $10 and costs each.
The new Christian church at Brad
sbaw was recently dedicated and is
now being regularly occupied. The
building was dedicated free front
debt.
Of the 660 state banks in Nebraska,
all but about four have sent reports
to the banking department showing
their average deposits during the six
months from December 1 to June 1.
These reports will furnish the basis
of the first assessment to be made
under the guaranty law. The assess
ment will amount to one-fourth of 1
per cent on the deposits. It is to be
made in July.
"Hank" Busey, of Beatrice, was ar
rested on a bootlegging charge pre
ferred by Officer H. Haydcn. The in
formation that led to Busey's arrest
was given by Dan Cave, who is at
present serving' out a $100 fine for a
like offense.
Local men are planning for the
holding of an agricultural exposition
in Lincoln next winter in connection
with the meetings or organized agri
culture. It is the intention to have
florists' products and an extensive
display of apples and other fruit ia
connection with the rest of the exposition.
siro for earthly things overshadow the
larger and more important spiritual
interests; but rather, as in Hezekiah's
case, the pressure of personal need
should make more intense the desire
for God's cause and kingdom.
Then came a message from God
through Isaiah. Hitherto Isaiah's mes
sage had been one of warning to
Judah, in order to make them so obe
dient to God that the relief could
come to them as a blessing. Now his
message concerns the Assyrians, but
also shows Judah why God comes to
their help.
The wonderful deliverance came
when the angel of the Lord smote
of the Assyrians a hundred and four
score and five thousand. Just where
this occurred -we do not know. But
Sennacherib was marching toward
Egypt. The deliverance was a deliv
erance of Egypt as well as of Judah.
The scene may well have been near
Egypt. Whether it was by a storm,
or pestilence, no one knows. It Is
remarkable that the histories of both
bis chief rivals In this campaign, Ju
dah and Egypt, should contain inde
pendent reminiscences of so sudden
and miraculous a disaster to his host
From Egyptian sources there has
come down through Herodotus a story
that a king of Egypt, being deserted
by the military caste, when Senna
cherib, king of the Arabs and Assy
rians invaded his country, entered hia
sanctuary and appealed with weeping
to his god: that the god appeared and
cheered him; that he raised an army
of artisans and marched to meet Sen
nacherib in Pelusium; that by night
a multitude of field mice ate up the
quivers, bowstrings and sbieldstraps
of the Assyrians; and that, as these
fled on the morrow, very many of
them fell. A stone statue of the king,
adds Herodotus, stood in the temple
of Hephaestus, having a mouse in the
hand. Now, since the mouse was a
symbol of sudden destruction, and
even of the plague, this story of
Herodotus seems to be merely a pic
turesque form of a tradition that pesti
lence broke out In the Assyrian camp-
There Is nothing In the Bible record
that contradicts the belief that the
disaster occurred in the neighborhood
of Pelusium and the Serbonian bog In
northeastern Egypt It was a place
terrible for filth and miasma. A Per
alan army was decimated here in
the middle of the fourth century be
fore Christ Napoleon's army barely
escaped destruction here.
The amount of the Assyrian lost
was enormous, and implies of course
a much higher figure for the army
which was vast enough to suffer it;
but here are some instances for com
parison. In the early German inva
sions of Italy whole armies and camps
were swept away by the pestilential
climate. The' losses of the First cru
sade were over 300.000. The soldiers
of the Third crusade, upon the scene
of Sennacherib's war, were reckoned
at more than half a million, and theit
losses by disease alone at over 100,000
The grand army of Napoleon entered
Russia 250.000, but came out, having
suffered no decisive defeat, only 12,
000; on the retreat from Moscow
alone 90,000 perished. ,But It was un
der God's control and It was his sal
vation that saved Jerusalem
currants in the spring we find it
necessary to keep one man on the
field all the time. We can work it
with only one horse now since the
bushes are large. We keep an exact
record of all work done on each field.
Each man has his time sheet, and his
time and that of his team are charged
up to each field each night. So far we
have not been able to secure more
than $200 an acre, gross, on our bear
ing orchards. We hope to get more.
We hear such stories about some of
the orchards of the west yielding from
$S00 to $1,500 an acre that one is led
to wonder whether their acres are av
erage acres or not. I was in a four
acre block of Twenty Ounce and Alex
ander apples this year at Hilton. N.
Y., and the fruit from it was sold two
years ago for $6,400, or $1,600 an acre.
and I judge it would make about the
same money this year. This repre
sents what is obtainable.
Plant Overgrowths.
After investigating, the cause of
plant overgrowths, or galls, as they
are more commonly called, the depart
ment of agriculture has arrived at the
conclusion that the gall is due to bac
teria and is infectious, being readily
transmitted not only from plant to
plant of the same kind, but also to
many plants of widely different fami
lies. A bulletin on the subject shows
that the growth is not only of itself
Injurious to the plant, but also may
form an open wound through which
other parasites are likely to enter,
such as the fungus of root rot, and the
bacteria, which cause blight of apples
and pears.
Restriction on Cherry Culture.
Cherries are expensive to gather
and are not adapted to a distant mar
ket, that is a market that is several
days away. Perhaps this Is the reason
why they are not raised more ex
tensively on the Pacific coast, where
they grow in certain limited areas
with most gratifying success. Cherries
do not thrive well beyond a certain
limit of latitude, either north or south.
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Nebraska and
Kansas are notably well located in
this respect
"I have been afflicted for twenty
years with an obstinate skin disease,
called by some M. D.'s. psoriasis, and
others leprosy, commencing on my
scalp; and in spite of all I could do.
with the help of the most skilful doc
tors, It slowly but surely extended un
til a year ago this winter it covered
my entire person in the form of dry
scales. For the last three years 1 have
been unable to do any labor, and
suffering intensely all the time. Every
morning there would be nearly a dust
panful of scales taken from the sheet
on my bed, some of them half as large
as the envelope containing this letter.
In the latter part of winter my skin
commenced cracking open. I tried
everything, almost, that could be
thought of, without any relief. The
12th of June I started West, in hopes
I could reach the Hot Springs. I
reached Detroit and was so low I
thought I should have to go to the'
hospital, but finally got as far as Lan
sing, Mich., where I had a sister liv
ing. One Dr. treated me about
two weeks, but did me no good. All
thought I bad but a short time to live.
I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked,
through the skin all over my back.,
across my ribs, arms, bands, limbs;
feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off;
finger-nails dead and hard as a bone;
hair dead, dry and lifeless as old
straw. O my God! how I did suffer.
"My sister wouldn't give up; said,
We will try Cuticura.' Some was ap
plied to one hand and arm. Eureka!
there was relief; stopped the terrible
burning sensation from the word go.
They immediately got Cuticura Re
solvent, ointment and soap. I com
menced by taking Cuticura Resolvent
three times a day after meals; had a
bath once a day, water about blood
heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; ap
plied Cuticura Ointment morning and
evening. Result: returned to my
home In just six weeks from the time
I left, and my skin as smooth as this
sheet of paper. Hiram E. Carpenter.
Henderson, N. Y."
The above remarkable testimonial
was written January 19, 1880, and is
republished because of the perman
ency of the cure. Under date of April
22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his
present home, 610 Walnut St. So.,
Lansing, Mich.: "I have never suf
fered a return of the psoriasis and al
though many years have passed I have
not forgotten the terrible suffering I
endured before using the Cuticura
Remedies."
Life without love is like a good din
ner without an appetite.
Lewi Sinzle Binder cigar in revet
doped only tobacco in its natural atate.
Most sharp retorts
blunt language.
are made ia
Plum Clusters reed Brown Rot.
Wherever plums hang in clusters
touching one another, brown rot devel
opment is favored, in susceptible varie
ties. The spores are washed down by
rains and any which came to lodge
between two plums that touch are apt
to be held there, and to find conditions
favorable to growth. If one plum of a
cluster is seen to be diseased it should
be removed and destroyed at once, as
others in the cluster are almost sure
to go if the rotting ones hang long in
contact with them.
GOODP
SHE
IT IS
a
Care of Orchard Trees.
If your favorite cherry tree is badly
decayed, clean out everything in the
cavity as carefally as your dentist
would prepare a tooth for filling; then
spray thoroughly with a 2 per cent
solution of formalin, fill the cavity
solid with cement and paint over alL
Go over the young apple trees and
cut off every water .sprout with a
I sharp knife close to the trunk. Do it
early and they will heal this season.
HOSTETTER'S
ST0MGH
BITTERS
It's Good when the
stomach is bad.
It's Good when the
bowels are clogged.
It's Good when the
liver is inactive.
It's Good in any
malarial disorder.
TRY A BOTTLE TODAY
AVOID SUBSTITUTES
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