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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. <br />V• • <br />; <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. <br />WI:44e of the wagoot pad_the gtrt tele be your business to come to my Mg- I <br />111,000.00 <br />For Any Substance Injurious to Health <br />Found In <br />Calumet <br />Baking Powder <br />"Best By Test" <br />The Only High Grade Baking Powder'. <br />Sold at a Moderate Prime. <br />Complies with all STATE and NATIONAL <br />Purl Food Laws. <br />Ail Grocers Are Authorized to Guarantee This <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. <br />ng <br />A lleve you could," as she put both hands <br />e" in his. <br />at , <br />d- <br />ap <br />ng <br />et <br />ID <br />th, <br />ng <br />ot <br />ht. <br />e. <br />Ile <br />d - <br />re <br />o- <br />r. <br />r- <br />e, <br />a <br />e . <br />dI <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 <br />DI not mann yoUr enjoyment by <br />MOW Walt la proem. <br />SAYS <br />IN FOOD <br />and strictly prohibits <br />the sale of alum <br />baking powder— <br />So does France <br />So does Germany <br />ehr-Ze efe <br />4,4 <br />'AS <br />'t:104:44 <br />1If) 4,4 <br />csee.,e 4 . <br />0110 4*: <br />11444.4'' <br />40.4"4.,414i4. <br />'01-414-01 <br />1 el <br />ss, <br />a.' <br />.04ter <br />^' e, <br />,,;5re,-ee:efr, <br />1trw <br />tah°"•Nr•10 <br />*Ole <br />(10 <br />The sale of alum foods <br />has been made illegal in Washington and the District of Colum- <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. <br />BAKING <br />POWDER <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 <br />11-• <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. <br />- <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, <br />We Employ Tailors <br />who do nothing else bat ***Wm' <br />1114•11 end wasen's clothing. We <br />ma put ia sew bindings. linings <br />silk beings, velvet milers. new <br />=tramtor you. Very <br />buttons. eta., or <br />derand big saving to <br />ail our work so se to <br />feu esenomise. teU us what <br />yes West doom <br />V=20:::•Vtergrr. <br />roes Br <br />.1tracteserafterniernew-ead!rtre--sremnweerirwete,ritrewere,weelwri--20-' <br />I <br />