THE HASTINGS GAZETT
<br />MINNESOTA
<br />HISTORICAL
<br />SOCIETY,
<br />VOL. L. ---NO. 21.
<br />HASTINGS. )1INN.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1908.
<br />Se pee wear In Advance.
<br />ell pee wear u nee in Arivewee.
<br />Crossing
<br />The Divide.
<br />By AZILE AIDYL.
<br />Copyrighted, 1908, by Je6sle Morgan.
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<br />The stagecoach rattled out of the lit-
<br />tle town of Redding at 8 o'clock on a
<br />snappy,December evening. The driver
<br />swungehis six horses with great flour-
<br />ish and cracking of whip through the
<br />rough but level road of the main street
<br />and out at the north end of the town.
<br />A brilliant dash down the steep in-
<br />cline to the creek, and he brought the
<br />coach far up the road on the other side,
<br />where the mountains rose so suddenly
<br />from the plains. And so began the
<br />climb over the divide.
<br />The three passengers Inside the
<br />coach, a young girl and two men, ap-
<br />parently accustomed to this mode of
<br />traveling, did not brace themselves to
<br />resist the pitching and rolling of the
<br />ponderous vehicle, but allowed them -
<br />'elves to sway with its every motion.
<br />The road was broken and rough from
<br />i
<br />the heavy autumn mins. Once the
<br />coach struck a "chuck hole," which al-
<br />most brought the inmates to their feet
<br />and caused a general friendly laugh.
<br />1Jp to this time the girl had paid no
<br />attention to her fellow travelers. She
<br />had been absorbed with her own home-
<br />sick thoughts. To start the drudgery
<br />of a governess' life, miles from no-
<br />where, with no prospect of returning
<br />home for a year, was depressing. Oh,
<br />well, she must make the beet of it.
<br />She tried to distinguish the men's faces,
<br />but it Wail V30 dark, and both were
<br />muffled in heavy overcoats. Is they
<br />boarded the coach at Redding she had
<br />noticed one was an old man, the other
<br />gray as to hair, broad, strong and
<br />youthful as to shoulders.
<br />The older man sat beside her on the
<br />back seat The two men chatted about
<br />the rich "strike" in Deadwood, where
<br />fortunes were being made in a day.
<br />She gathered that the young -old man
<br />was mining an old hydraulic property
<br />Just beyond Lewiston, and he was on
<br />his way there. Well, she was going
<br />"just beyond Lewiston" also, and she
<br />wondered if this huge person was to
<br />be a neighbor of hers.
<br />Their desultory talk gradually died
<br />away, the old man fell asleep, and his
<br />head bobbed and swayed and ducked
<br />about until he seemed in danger of
<br />Iostug st,-Inits he. stept-uterobtrrithar or
<br />such alarming possibilities.
<br />At 11 o'clock they reached the Half-
<br />way House, and while the driver
<br />changed horses the passengers stretch-
<br />ed their cramped limbs, pacing the
<br />narrow porch of the inn. Later they
<br />went into the low, long dining room,
<br />where a cold lunch and hot coffee were
<br />served them on a table spread with a
<br />red and white cloth. The girl saw
<br />that the young -old giant could not be
<br />more than thirty-seven or thirty-elght
<br />years old, though his hair was silver.
<br />And such blue eyes! They seemed
<br />to belong to a child, so clear and un-
<br />clouded were they.
<br />He supplied her needs at the table
<br />without seeming to do so, and when
<br />the driver called "All aboard!" he
<br />helped her into the coach in the same
<br />unobtrusive manner.
<br />The fresh horses, only four now, as
<br />the heavy clittth was over, pulled the
<br />stage along at a livelier pace, and
<br />' within a half hour they had reached
<br />the summit of the divide and com-
<br />menced the descent
<br />The driver cracked his whip, and
<br />they whirled down the narrow moun-
<br />tain road, swinging the horses far out
<br />on the very edge of the embankment
<br />as they turned the outward curve of
<br />the mountain and then sweeping rapid-
<br />ly in at the bend -as only a stage
<br />driver can and keep his coach in the
<br />middle of the road.
<br />It was a magnificent night, the moon-
<br />light making it clear as day. The
<br />girl from her window could see In-
<br />numerable lofty peaks of the great
<br />coast range stretching 'in what seemed
<br />a level line.
<br />The passengers were startled by a
<br />/dden jerking of the coach and a wild
<br />imprecation from the driver.
<br />"Something's wrong," said the giant,
<br />and ht opened the window on the right
<br />hancrlide and looked out In a mo-
<br />ment he drew back.
<br />"The off lead has broken the inside
<br />trace and Is frightened," be said as he
<br />divested himself of his overcoat The
<br />driver must have some help. "Don't
<br />be nervotts"-thia to the young girl.
<br />"We'll fix It all right"
<br />He opened the door and stood on the
<br />step a second. By this time the terror
<br />of the runaway was communicated to
<br />the other horses, and they were fast
<br />getting beyond control. The coach was
<br />rocking and pitching at a tremendous
<br />pate.
<br />"Close the door after I get on top,"
<br />he called to the old man, who was
<br />thoroughly awake by this time, and
<br />then, waiting until the coach swung
<br />around the Inner curve, he put one
<br />foot halfway up the door on the open
<br />window ledge and, grasping the low
<br />railing above, pulled himself up on to
<br />the top of the coach.
<br />The girt had closed the door and,
<br />leaning far out, watched him as the
<br />swinging coach permitted step to the
<br />seat of the driver and over the dash-
<br />board to the tongue. A terrible lurch
<br />and he had to pause and hold on for a
<br />meanest.
<br />"Pull hard on the wheelers," he said,
<br />to the driver "I'll look after the
<br />others."
<br />Slowly be began moving along the.
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<br />sure he was talking to and reassuring cue."
<br />the horses, for his presence did n
<br />seem to further alarm the poor frigh
<br />ened brutes,
<br />The girl's, hands suddenly eras
<br />the sides of the window as she sa
<br />him near the end of the narrowl
<br />tongue and realized what he purpos
<br />doing. For a moment he paused to p
<br />the neck of the wheeler; then, stan
<br />Ing with one foot on the swinging al
<br />gletree, be gave a tremendous le
<br />and sprang to the back of the ma
<br />dened leader. He drew himself ale
<br />over the foaming creature's should
<br />and, reaching forward, succeeded
<br />freeing the bit from its cinached tee
<br />then, talking softly and gently Patti
<br />its neck, gradually quieted tbe po
<br />animal, which now, responding to t
<br />sawing of the reins, came to a stau
<br />still halfway down the mountain sid
<br />The man sprang to the ground,
<br />did the driver, and together they men
<br />ed the trace and looked over the enti
<br />harness. The horses, steaming an
<br />trembling, were now docile as lambs.
<br />"You'll have no further trouble t
<br />night" said the man to the drive
<br />"These poor brutes are pretty tho
<br />oughly exhausted."
<br />'Smoking Jeboshaphat, but that w
<br />a close shaver' said the driver. "We'
<br />all been In kingdom come if it hadn
<br />been for sou."
<br />"Oh, not as bad as that, 1 guess!
<br />answered the man and, turning to th
<br />horse who had caused all the trout)!
<br />"You would have come to your sense
<br />In time, wouldn't you, old boy?" Th
<br />horse answered by rubbing his hes
<br />against the man's shoulder.
<br />The giant walked back and climbed
<br />into the coach as though nothing un
<br />usual had occurred, but the driver a
<br />he mounted to his seat and gathere
<br />up the reins muttered: "That clod
<br />gasted horse never gee in likeethnt to
<br />anybody in his life before. That fel
<br />Wet" terrier charmer, like the one in
<br />the show at Frisco."
<br />And as the stage rattled on be would
<br />say every few minutes, "A reg'ier
<br />charmer, that's wot he la."
<br />They made fairly good time thereaft-
<br />er and just at dawn pulled up berms.
<br />the door of a small hotel In Lewiston
<br />As the girl, very pale, stepped to tie
<br />ground she held out her hand to th,
<br />silver haired giant, saying.
<br />"I want to thank you. I saw e het
<br />you did, and it was that whieh treed
<br />ened me most. You saved our ilve,
<br />I shall never forget It. Goodby." and
<br />she disappeared into the hotel.
<br />He saw her several tirnos grt,r that
<br />at the Peterson ranch Just is -low his
<br />mine. He learned that she was tie
<br />new governess for the • Peterson chit
<br />dren, but was always busy when he
<br />called at their ranch. And bow often
<br />It seethed necessary to see Petersee
<br />lately, even though he nerer had more
<br />than a moment's talk with her.
<br />One day a terrible storm came up,
<br />and it rained unceasingly, which kept
<br />the giant busy strengthening the reser-
<br />voirs. The next morning he was awak-
<br />ened by the roar of rushing water.
<br />Dressing hurriedly and putting on his
<br />high rubber boots, he was soon down
<br />at the point of the hill where he could
<br />see that Peterson's ranch was entire-
<br />ly submerged, the house 'seeming to
<br />stand in the center of a lake, with
<br />the water gradually rising past the
<br />window sills. He hurried down the
<br />hill and waded through the three feet
<br />a water to the house. He climbed
<br />through a window, and there on the
<br />stairs sat the girt
<br />"Throw something warm over your
<br />head and shoulders and come down,"
<br />he called.
<br />The girl unhesitatingly complied. He
<br />opened the door with great difficulty;
<br />then mounting the stairs halfway he
<br />gathered her in his arms and without
<br />a "by your leave" strode out of the
<br />door through the water to the hills.
<br />"The storm is abating, and the wa-
<br />ter will soon recede, but you could not
<br />remain them My foremen's wife will
<br />make you comfortable."
<br />How small and light she was! He
<br />could carry her so forever! And how
<br />disgustingly narrow the flooded valley
<br />seemed! Reluctantly be placed her ou
<br />the rising ground.
<br />"Where were the Petersons?" he
<br />asked.
<br />"They went to visit relatives on the
<br />X -Bar ranch. Oh, they left the hired
<br />man with me! He had just gone, as
<br />you came, to see what be could get in
<br />the way of a boat or a balloon"
<br />ot"Won't you give me the job for
<br />ure?" be asked eagerly. "1 believe 1
<br />t -
<br />could prevent disaster touching you,
<br />Ded even a flood."
<br />And, looking up into his strong,
<br />powerful face, she answered, "I be.
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<br />Frank Inconsistency.
<br />John Hunter, one of the pioneers in
<br />the practice of medicine over a cen-
<br />tury ago, was absolutely blind to any
<br />theory unsupported by facts. Wbile
<br />many men were guessing out thinp
<br />he was seeking to prove them.
<br />"I love to think," he said to one of
<br />his colleagues, though he afterward
<br />qualified the statement by an almost
<br />contradictory one:
<br />"But why think? Why not make the
<br />experiment?"
<br />Like other men of real genius, be
<br />was not afraid of seeming inconsistent
<br />Sir Astley Cooper once asked him, with
<br />some surprise, if he had not once stat-
<br />ed an opinion directly at variance with
<br />one he had just put forth, and be re-
<br />plied:
<br />"Very likely. I hope I grow wiser
<br />every year."
<br />Again a pupil inquired if be had not
<br />written to a certain effect
<br />"Never ask me what I have said." he
<br />returned, "or what I have writtee.
<br />But if you ask me what my present
<br />opinions are I will tell you."
<br />Sometimes, too, he would say to pu-
<br />pils who were taking down notes;
<br />"You had better not write down that
<br />obeervation. Very likely I shall think
<br />differently next year."
<br />Stevenson as He Talked.
<br />s He used to stand on the hearth rug in
<br />d the smoking room, says Walter Crane
<br />In his "An Artist's Reminiscences" of
<br />Robert Louis Stevenson, the center of
<br />. an admiring circle, and discourse very
<br />much In the same style as that in
<br />which he wrote. It gave one the im-
<br />pression of artificiality rather -I mean
<br />his manner of speaking and choice of
<br />words, as if carefully selected and cul-
<br />tivated. If a remark was offered by
<br />one of tbe company he woukl perhaps
<br />accept it and turn about, much as a
<br />conjurer does when he borrows a hand-
<br />kerchief or a hat from some one In his
<br />audience, or perhaps he would work it
<br />Into les next sentence, returning It to
<br />les interlocutor improved -wrapped in
<br />silver paper, metaphorically speaking.
<br />His personal appearance was quite as
<br />unusual as hie speech -a long, pale,
<br />thin face and lank hair, quick and pen-
<br />etratlug eyes and a rather sardonic
<br />smile. The world in general, especial-
<br />. ly in clubland, wore white shirts and
<br />collars as rt rule, but Stevenson sported
<br />black ones.
<br />Then still in a laughing tone, awaits
<br />her eyes filled, she said, "It seems to
<br />A Queer Ad.
<br />"An Italian with a piano organ was
<br />turning the handle of his machine rap-
<br />idly, but not a note was to be beard. I
<br />stopped at once. What on earth could
<br />be the matter?"
<br />The speaker, an advertising agent,
<br />smiled.
<br />"Finally," he said, "I went up close
<br />to the man.
<br />"1 breakdown? I asked.
<br />"He pointed to a small placard on
<br />the organ's front, and I read:
<br />"The interior or the instrument has
<br />been removed. The relief that in con-
<br />sequence you experience is as nothing
<br />compared with that which immediate-
<br />ly follows a doee of Sure Cure Cough
<br />Mixture.'
<br />"It was an original ad.," the expert
<br />ended, "and I followed it up. From
<br />what the Sure Cure people told me, 1
<br />found that the same ingenuity and
<br />money put in legitimate newspapet
<br />advertising would have brought 50per
<br />cent more returns." - New Orleans
<br />Times -Democrat,
<br />Proving It.
<br />"Keep up your courage, old man,"
<br />said the passenger who was a good
<br />sailor to another who wu leaning
<br />over the railing and paying tribute to
<br />Neptune.
<br />"Never mind me," came the answer
<br />between gasp& Hry. &Pearl beard
<br />that it took travel to thing out wbat
<br />there is in a man."
<br />Pslnfetly
<br />Playwright -Is her settee Ward/
<br />Manager (enthusiaadcaRP -Natant?
<br />Why, when she appeared as the dying
<br />mother last night an Insurance agent
<br />who has her life insured toe $36.000
<br />tatwho was in the sadism ammili
<br />—Landes Tft-ilb. be "
<br />GLASGOW'S SLUMS.
<br />Its Awful Sleeping Quarters and its
<br />"Penny Pawns."
<br />In the Mitigate Monthly there is a
<br />gescriptiou of the "Alsatia of
<br />gow"-the Cowcaddens-where "all
<br />that is most unsalubrions and repellent
<br />Lo our modern life is to be found."
<br />Bide by side witb that is demoralle-
<br />ing live and flourish barpies of rarioue
<br />kinds and degrees. North is so date
<br />gerous to the health of the community
<br />BB she who night after nigbt seeks to
<br />make a dishonest penny by overcrowd-
<br />ing her slummy house. Sanitary in-
<br />spectors find the occupants of over-
<br />crowded houses, in that attempt to
<br />avoid detection, concealed in every
<br />conceivable corner -bidden in cup-
<br />boards, under beds and even on the
<br />boneetops. 'Two tiers of people have
<br />been found in one bed, one on the
<br />boards or mattress, the bed then flung
<br />over, and another living tier on the telt
<br />What ere known u "penny pawns"
<br />abound in the district. A. broker who
<br />keeps one of these can purchase an
<br />article of any value from a penny up-
<br />ward. He 111 compelled to lieep it
<br />for only seven full days, and at the
<br />end of that period be may sell it to
<br />whomsoever he chooses, and that, too,
<br />In all probability, for several hundred
<br />per cent more than he paid for it
<br />Thousands of poo e people are entirely
<br />Ignorant of the difference between a
<br />pavrnbroking establishment and a
<br />"penny pawn," with the result that in
<br />many cases when they go to the latter
<br />they lose goods which, if pledged with
<br />the former, they might have redeemed
<br />In time.
<br />A TERRIBLE REWARD.
<br />Crontwell's Paymett For the Capture
<br />ef Pembroke Castle.
<br />During the struggle between King
<br />Charles and the parliament Pembroke
<br />castle was so well fortified that Crow -
<br />wen, with all his cannon, could not
<br />take it.
<br />alter many failures be gave up his
<br />intention and began to marcb on for
<br />Tenby. But before be bad proceeded
<br />far a country shoemaker came up to
<br />Cromwell and asked him whether he
<br />would reward him If be would tell bin)
<br />how to get the castle into his posses-
<br />sion.
<br />Cromwell, very glad of this offer,
<br />consented. Then this old shoemaker,
<br />glad to get some money, as 00 doubt
<br />he was rather poor, told him that there
<br />was a pipe through which they got
<br />their water and that if he were to cut
<br />the pipe the castle would surrender.
<br />Cromwell said, "I thank you for the
<br />information you have given me, but as
<br />you have turned traitor to your coon
<br />trymen the only reward I win give you
<br />Is that you shall be banged on the very
<br />next tree that I come to."
<br />Cromwell had the shoemaker hanged
<br />and cut the pipe he had told him of,
<br />leading to the castle, which then sur-
<br />rendered. -London Telegraph.
<br />Made It Clear.
<br />When Colonel Edmund Rice was in
<br />command of the Twenty-sixth infantry
<br />(mostly volunteers from New England)
<br />In the Philippines, he organized from
<br />his regiment a company of mounted
<br />scouts. To equip them for this service
<br />he made requisition on headquarters
<br />for the necessary outfit, including
<br />eighty nosebags. Some officious clerk
<br />In the quartermaster's office in Ma-
<br />nila returned the requbiltion to Colo-
<br />nel Rice with these written re-
<br />marks: "Your report abows but sixty
<br />men in your mounted company. Why
<br />do you require eighty nosebags?"
<br />The colonel's explanation was short
<br />and characteristic. It was: "It is true
<br />I have but sixty men, but I have eighty
<br />horses. The nosebags are for the
<br />horses, not for the men."
<br />Inoculation For Smallpox.
<br />Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is gen-
<br />erally credited with having introduced
<br />iiI0C11111:1011 into England from Turkey.
<br />In 1118 she had her son inoculated at
<br />Adrianople with success. She was al-
<br />lowed to have it tried in England on
<br />seven condemned criminals in 1721,
<br />and in 1722 twe members a the royal
<br />family were inoculated. The practice
<br />was bitterly opposed by the clergy un-
<br />til 1760. A Dr. Mead practiced inocu-
<br />lation with success up to 1754, and Dr.
<br />Daudet* of London inoculated Cath-
<br />erine IL of Rusala In 1781 Vaccine In-
<br />oculation was introduced by Dr. Jen -
<br />1»1799. -New York American.
<br />Th. Moors of Today.
<br />Th. Moors of today are the deecend-
<br />ants of those who conquered Spain,
<br />who were practically paramount in
<br />the southern portion for two centuries
<br />and relics of whose wonderful build-
<br />ings are to be found at the present day
<br />in that country. Indeed, it is strange
<br />to consider the position of the Moors
<br />et today when we eft the work of their
<br />bands in put centuries, and the only
<br />explanation lies in the fact that they
<br />are unable to adapt themselves to mod-
<br />ern conditions. -Strand hiaguine.
<br />Crushed.
<br />"Brudder Jones, 1! you didn't smoke,
<br />you might own a brick bootie. 'lite
<br />what I does."
<br />"Look here, man, don't you come
<br />peeterin' wif me like dat. You didn't
<br />git dat brick house by not swain'.
<br />You got it by borrowhf mah news.
<br />paper to read an' mah clothes to wear
<br />aa' mah vittles to eat You may be a
<br />Sy financier, but dat don't gib you no
<br />limes to set up ter a human copy
<br />bookr-Kansas City Independent
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<br />IN FOOD
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<br />the sale of alum
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<br />bia, and alum baking powders are everywhere recognized as
<br />injurious. •
<br />To protect yourself against alum,
<br />when ordering baking powder,
<br />sayithii*-
<br />and be very sure you get Royal.
<br />Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape
<br />Cream of Tartar. It adds to the digestibility and
<br />someness of the food.
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<br />• Trials of Writers.
<br />George Eliot in ono of ber letters,
<br />referring to her novel "Daniel Dame
<br />da," writee as follows: "My book
<br />seems to me so unlikely ever to be
<br />finished in a way that will make it
<br />worth while giving to the world that
<br />it is a kind of glash in wbich I behold
<br />my infirmities." Again of tbe same
<br />work, "As usual, I am suffering much
<br />from doubt as to the worth of what I
<br />am doing and fear lest I may not be
<br />able to complete it so as to make it a
<br />contribution to literature and not a
<br />mere addition to the beep of books."
<br />Montesquieu wrote thus to a friend.
<br />"I thought I should have killed toy
<br />-
<br />self these three months to finish a
<br />morcenu (for his great work) which I
<br />wished to insert on the origin and
<br />revolutions of the chi! laws of France
<br />You will read it in three hours, but I
<br />do assure you that it cost me so mucb
<br />labor that It has whitened my hair."
<br />The eminent modern French writet
<br />Gustave Flaubert suffered tortures in
<br />his efforts to attain perfection. When
<br />composing, he would sometimes spring
<br />to his feet, shriek aloud and call him
<br />self "blockhead." "idiot." No soonet
<br />was one doubt removed than anothei
<br />aroee. At other times he would sit at
<br />his writing table so one magnetized
<br />lost In contemplation. His friend Tur
<br />gene declared that It was exceedingly
<br />touching to see his struggles with Ian
<br />guage. He would work a whole day
<br />and sometimes all night on a singlt
<br />Page.
<br />Traps of the Ant Lion.
<br />We read of the tiger traps In India -
<br />great pits dug in the ground and cov-
<br />ered lightly with pliant bamboo. The
<br />tiger steps upon the false top and be-
<br />fore It can retreat 1.. precipitated hate
<br />a trap. Walking along a sandy road,
<br />look for tiny circular pith sunk below
<br />the surface and then sit down and
<br />watch an exciting episode in the life
<br />of the little setil hunter which has dug
<br />the pitfall. It is invisible, and for
<br />some time the whole affair seems life -
<br />leu. Then an anercome* blundering
<br />along and without warning topples
<br />over the edge and begin. to slide down
<br />the incline. But the Insect fights bard
<br />for life and seems about to make its
<br />escape, when, lo, the sand grains heave
<br />upward at the bottom and with a Jerk
<br />are hurled like a miniature catapult at
<br />the ant, knocking it over and rolling it
<br />to the bottom. The ant lion, for such
<br />It is, now seises its prey and after
<br />sucking its juices casts the dry body
<br />away and mends its pit against tbe
<br />coming of another victim. - Chicago
<br />Record-Heraide-
<br />Scientists' Corner.
<br />Lord Kelvin was burled in West-
<br />minster abbey In the spot which by
<br />analogy we might call scientists' cor-
<br />ner, but it is such a very ugly phrase
<br />If pilgrimages are made there the pit
<br />grime will be of another type from
<br />those whose shrine is poets' corner.
<br />And yet, when one thinks of the poets,
<br />bow many of them have opened up
<br />such wide spaces of Imagination as
<br />Newton and Henschel, Darwin and
<br />Keivba? If Shakespeare had known
<br />such men be would bave admitted
<br />their right th take their place with tbe
<br />lover, the madman and the poet whc
<br />are or "Illearnation all compact." But
<br />this conception has not penetrated the
<br />popular mind, which is hardly equal to
<br />pure imagination unadulterated with
<br />emotion and a good many primitive
<br />instincts. -London Saturday Review,
<br />The Full Particular*.
<br />The other day a lady who lives in
<br />ear town entered a grocery store and
<br />asked to be shown a good kind of
<br />breakfast cereal.
<br />The clerk took down a package and
<br />said:
<br />"Madam, this is a predigested food."
<br />"Oh, is that so? she returned. "And
<br />by whoinr—Wonmals Row Conmen•
<br />A Lion Tamer's Secret
<br />The boarhound growled, and the
<br />great yellow lion leaped back in fear.
<br />"Tbe Hon could kill the bound," the
<br />trainer said, "but he doesn't think so.
<br />Be thinks the hound could easily kill
<br />him."
<br />"When tbe lion was a cub this boar -
<br />hound, full grown, lived in the cage
<br />with him. The big dog could, of
<br />course, lick the little cub, and the cub
<br />therefore feared and respected him.
<br />Now the cub is grown up, but he still
<br />thinks the hound is the better. We
<br />rear a cub with a full grown hound in
<br />tbis way for a reason. The hound 1.11
<br />protection to us trainers afterward
<br />when the cub is grown, for then shtinld
<br />he become rambunctious one look from
<br />tbe dog will send him, eubdued and
<br />ashamed, sllnkLag off to the cage's far-
<br />thest corner."-Phlladelphia Bulletin.
<br />The Story of Zero.
<br />The word "zero" is from the Spanish
<br />and means "empty," hence nothing. It
<br />was first used for a thermometer in
<br />1795 by a Prussian named Fahrenheit.
<br />By experimenting with snow and salt
<br />Fahrenheit found that be could pro-
<br />duce a degree of cold equal to that of
<br />the coldest winter day. It happened
<br />that the day on which be made his
<br />dna] experiment was the coldest tbat
<br />anybody could remember, and, struck
<br />with the coincidence of his scientific
<br />discovery, he hastily concluded that he
<br />had found the lowest degree of tem-
<br />perature, either natural or artificial.
<br />He called the degree "zero" and con-
<br />structed a thermometer graduating up
<br />from zero to boiling point, which be
<br />numbered 212 and the freezing point
<br />82.
<br />When They Are Quiet
<br />like to go to church."
<br />"Why?"
<br />"Well, it's comforting to see a man
<br />keep a hundred women or eo quiet for
<br />an bour."-Bohenitan.
<br />A commondanger produces unanim-
<br />ity. -Latin Proverb.
<br />SO SOOTHING.
<br />Its Influence Has Been Pelt by Bo
<br />Many Hastings Reedits.
<br />The soothing influence of relief
<br />After suffering from itching piles,
<br />From eczema or any itchiness of the
<br />skin,
<br />Makes one feel grateful to the remedy.
<br />Dona's (Antonin has soothecI hundreds.
<br />Here's what one Hastings citizen sass:
<br />Mrs. John E. Nordstrom, west end of
<br />likened Street. Flutings, Minn., says,
<br />"My little child has been troubled with
<br />an eruption of the akin since infancy. I
<br />consulted *doctor -and he pronounced the
<br />trouble a case of hives. A rash would
<br />break out in the night and would itch so
<br />severely that it seemed to nearly drive
<br />the poor baby wild. I had tried every-
<br />thing that was brought to: my 'Mention,
<br />but nothing seemed to prove of beadle
<br />At last I learned of Doan's Ointment and
<br />procured a box at F. W. Finch's drug
<br />store. it seemed to be the remedy the
<br />child required and when applied before
<br />retiring the child would sleep through-
<br />out the night without waking once. It
<br />certainly gives me great pieuure to re-
<br />commend Doan's Ointment."
<br />For sale by all dealers. Prioe 50 Dente.
<br />Foeter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
<br />sole agents for the United States.
<br />Remember tbe name -Dorm's -and take
<br />no other. •
<br />Getting His Money's Worth.
<br />A New Hampshire man tells of a
<br />tight fisted man of affairs in a town
<br />of that state who until recently had
<br />never been observed to take an inter-
<br />est In church matters. Suddenly, how-
<br />ever, he became a regular attendant
<br />at divine service, greatly to the aston-
<br />ishment of his fellow townsmen.
<br />"What do you think of the case of
<br />old Ketchumr said one of the busi-
<br />ness men of the place to a friend. "Is
<br />It true that he has got religion?'
<br />"Well, hardly," replied the other.
<br />"Tbe fact Is it's entirely a matter of
<br />business with him. I am in a position
<br />to know that about a year ago he
<br />loaned the pastor $50, which the latter
<br />was unable to pay. So there remained
<br />nothing for Ketchum but to take It out
<br />la pew rent"
<br />Struck Out,
<br />Dr. C., who always employs two
<br />servants, man and wife, was talking
<br />to a patient one day about a coussle
<br />he had just discharged because the
<br />man drank.
<br />He remarked: "It is so strange, but it
<br />is always the way with a man and
<br />wife. If one is good, the other is no
<br />good."
<br />The patient asked him, "How is It
<br />with you and Mrs. C.?"-Pbeadelphia
<br />Ledger.
<br />Home Life of Genius.
<br />The Actor (before breakfast) -Where
<br />are the papers, my dear? His Wife
<br />(an actress, absentmindedly) -C -curse
<br />you! They are far beyond your reach,
<br />thank heaven! And I'll die a thousand
<br />deaths before you can wr-r-r-r-ring the
<br />secret from-oh-er-Jack, I mean, the
<br />boy forgot to leave them this morning!
<br />A Reason.
<br />"Pa," asked Mr. Henpeck's little boy,
<br />"why did Patrick Henry say, SGive me
<br />liberty or give me death?'"
<br />"Be may have been out five minutes
<br />lifter the curfew rang the night be.
<br />fore." -Chicago Record -Herald.
<br />The Highest Applause.
<br />You would compliment a coxcomb
<br />doing A good act, but you would not
<br />praise an angel. The silence that ac-
<br />cepts merit as the most natural thing
<br />in the world is tbe highest applause.-
<br />.1_4Bereon
<br />mew- ss
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<br />°Y;#4.:
<br />Illostration Showing MI , Panning Scene in
<br />WESTERN CANADA
<br />Some of tbe choicest lands for grain growing,
<br />stock raising and mixed farming In the new dis-
<br />tricts of Saskatchewan azd Alberta have re-
<br />cen11y been Opened for Settlement under the
<br />Revised Homestead Regulations
<br />Entry may now be made by proxy (on certain
<br />condltions), by the father, mother, son, daughter,
<br />brother or sister of an intending homesteader.
<br />Thousands of homesteads of 160 acres each are
<br />thus now easily obtainable in these great grain -
<br />growing, stock -raising and mixed farming sec-
<br />tions.
<br />The you will find healthful climate, good
<br />neighbors, churches for family worship. schools
<br />Inc your children, good laws, splendid crops,
<br />and railroads convenient to tnarket.
<br />Entry fee In each case 1'110.00. For pamphlet.
<br />-Last Best West."particulars as to rates. routes.
<br />beet time to go and where to locate, apply to
<br />E. T. HOLMES
<br />315Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minn.
<br />Canadian Government Agent
<br />MORTGAGE SALE.
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<br />Default has been made in the payment el the
<br />Otto of four hundrad (5103,03) dollers and six
<br />per cent Interest from February 71h,1907, amou nt.
<br />log it all to the sum of four hundred sud twenty-
<br />three and 910-100 (8493.60) dollars, which amount
<br />1. claimed to be due and is due at the date of
<br />Ibis notice upon that oertain mortgage duly
<br />executed by Sidney E. Peck and Mary A. Peck,
<br />hie wife, to Gates A. Johnson, dated February
<br />7th 1905, and duly reoorded in the office of the
<br />ilfninesota, March 13111, 1905. at 4:93 o'clock ti.
<br />ster of deedi in and for Dakota County,
<br />an., in book 91 of mortgages, page 5 thereof,
<br />which said mortgage was duly assigned by said
<br />Gates A. Johnson to Henry H. Fuller, the under.
<br />signed, by deed of assignment dated December
<br />1111, 100n, and duly recorded in the office of said
<br />register aforesaid, December Iltb, 1905, at live
<br />o'clock p. to., in book 90o( mortgages, page 375,
<br />and no action or proceeding bas been instituted
<br />at law to recover the debt remaining secured by
<br />said mortgage, now, therefore, notice la hereby
<br />given hy virtue of the power of sale in said mort-
<br />gage contained and pursuant to the statute in
<br />snob case made and provided. that said mortgage
<br />will be foreclotred by a sale of the premises here.
<br />in after described, at public auction to the high.
<br />est bidder therefor for cash at the front door of
<br />the oourthouse, In the city of Hastings, county
<br />and state aforesaid. on Mordav, March 9th, 1908
<br />at the hour of ten of the clock In the forenoon of
<br />said date, to pay said debt and interest, an also
<br />tiityv
<br />the sum of twenty-five (B15.00) dollars as ttor-
<br />perc fees and all coals and expenses of saidcele.
<br />Said premises so lobe sold are described as I.
<br />lows.to-wit: The northeast quarter of the north-
<br />east quarter (ne14( of ne(t) of section teenty-orie
<br />(seo.21,, In township one hundred fifteen (Twp.
<br />115), north of range twenty (5.90), west of thee fth
<br />prinoipal meridian, containing forty acres more
<br />or leas. according 10 1(18 ('.6. government survey
<br />themof.
<br />Dated January 95th, 1908.
<br />HENRY' B. FULLER,
<br />Assignee of Mortgage.
<br />CHARLES J. BEIRTHILL. Attorney for Assignee,
<br />Et Paul, Minnesota, 90I Germania Life Building,
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