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ti e r 1 -,,„w, 1 HE ir: ,IASTIN e—T----, S GAZETTE. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. L. ---NO. 28. HASTINGS. MINN.. SATURDAY. APRIL 41 1908. Ila per Year l■ Advance. H far 1 J2 Homecoming 23y Ceclly Allen. Copyrighted, 10)8, by Homer Sprague. She was extremely fair to look opo To Nat Gregory the realization this fact was nothing uew. But so how Just at this particular moment was borne In upon him afresh and a novel angle. Her hair was blue black, so w her lashes, and her eyes were a w derful blue, which, somehow, som times, turned to an equally wonder violet. The last time that Nat had look into them his own had been full stinging uushed tears. How could stand six months in Panama with light of those blue (or were they viol eyes denied him? But her notes had been so brief a unsatisfactory that even In hot, la Panama he had caught himself rea ing between the flues and finding the a selfish soul, the small narrow soul the girt given to personal conques the soul steeped in admiration and f on compliments. She was smiling at him now acro the car's broad aisle and above a gre "granny" muff of gray squirrel. Th huge mass of fur made her face loo all the 'more piquant and dainty. Occasionally the man ou the rig intercepted the friendly glances whi Peggy Barton shot at the newly r turned Gregory, and he glowered. N Gregory knew just how the chap fe He had intercepted the same sort glances, and they had made hl squirm too. She simulated a tiny cough and 1 stantly raised the muff again. T cough was a good excuse for a fetc ing pose, but somehow the absurd lltt deception annoyed Nat Gregory. It so sometimes with men who have ha their minds and souls opened au broadened by travel and contact wit men of affairs. So he let his glance wander to th girl next to Peggy. She smiled at th returned traveler, too, but it was different sort of smile, a wholesom friendly smile, without any vagu sense of ownership behind it. Peggy Barton always assumed that air with men—her sister Janet, never. For, you see, Janet was the ugh duckling of the Barton family, famon for its pretty daughters land the good matches they mllde. Janet was th youngest, and she might not have bee considered homely if Peggy had no been so brilliantly, scintillatingly beau tlful by contrast. There were those, principally wome and young men without prospects, wh said that Peggy Barton always drag ged her younger and less attractive sis- ter around with her as a toil. Something of this was passin through Nat Gregory's head as he ea watching the little comedy. The other chap would be furious if Nat crossed the aisle and talked with Peggy, and Peggy would be furious if he did not. So he would strike a happy medium He would join the party and talk to Janet How well he could remember their many trips together—Peggy, Janet and himself—to the links, where be and Peggy played golf and Janet sat on the veranda or disappeared in the woods where wild flowers were thick; to the matinee, where between the acts he and Peggy discussed the love interest of the play as if it were a personal matter, while Janet read the advertise- ments in the programme; to the rink, where he and Peggy skated together and Janet found some girl friend as a skating partner or sat against the wall making humorous mental comment on b the circling tide before her. What a jolly little beggar Janet had been in those days! If she had been bored she had never shown it, and— He was standing before the trio now. The man, Fred Marsden, had been duly introduced. Peggy had turned the full battery of her wonderful eyes without the aid of the "granny" muff upon Gregory's tanned and clean cut face, and Janet had murmured some- thing about "old times." "I haven't skated—why, it Is nearly a year since I've been on ice," he was saying to Janet. "I've a good mind to get admittance to this party and give you all a chance to laugh at my awk- wardness. Do you think I could rent a decent pair of skates at the rink?" Marsden was politely but not effu- sively reassuring. Peggy was mis- chievously pleased to pit the rivals on skates, and Janet just murmured, "Do come." "I wonder how it will feel to the lit- tle girl if she has a real partner all afternoon," thought Gregory as he locked his skates. Before he and Ja- net had circled the rink a dozen times he realized that she was a splendid little person on the ice and a most ap- preciative listener, never giving thought to the tricksy steel beneath her trim boots. No, she was not "out" yet. Next winter perhaps she might come out at a tea. She was still the little sister of the reigning beauty. And didn't he think Peggy handsomer than ever? He did, and he said so, with a heartiness and a lack of tenderness that a more experienced girl than Janet would have interpreted correctly. They lingered so late that the rush of home going toilers caught them in its swirl on the return trip. When they reached Gregory's corner, Janet mechanically extended her hand. "Indeed, I'm not going to leave you In this crush. T know m (t ___ Used by Millions Calume Baking Powder pompllee with the Fwd Law. of evert tat.. ed member of this quartet, but Mars- den bas his hands full to steer Peggy through the crush. You'll need me." Janet flushed and dimpled. Nat al- most gasped. He had never seen a dimple In her chin before, but then Janet bad never laughed up into his eyes In just that way. "I'm coming up to call tomorrow night 1f I may," said Gregory as they drew near the Barton -home. "You'd better ask Peggy if she'll be home," said Janet soberly. "I think there's a dance on at the St. Andrew tomorrow evening." "But you said you were not 'out' yet. You can't go to a St. Andrew dance," he said, with a fine assumption of elder brotherliness. "Oh!" said Janet. And again the dimple cleft her chin. "Fred Marsden la so tiresome," said Peggy as she permitted Janet to unlace her boots and spread out her dinner frock. "He seemed to think that Nat Gregory had no right to skate with me. And we were old friends before Fred moved here. Nat has improved, too, don't you think so?" Janet bent down to plait a chiffon flounce that had not come unplalted. "Oh, I can't see that he has changed any," she fibbed, her face now as rosy as the pink chiffon. At that particular moment Nat Greg- ory was sitting before the grate fire In his room, fingering a parcel of letters tied with deep violet ribbons, Then he laughed—a short, chuckling, eloquent laugh—and laid the letters, ribbon and all, on the glowing coals. "It was just when she peeped at me above that silly big muff! Of course I never really cared for her, but some- how I knew it was all up when she gave me that look to make the other fellow squirm. Heavens, how I used to squirm too! Now, Janet wouldn't make a man squirm. And where in time do you suppose she had been hid- ing that dimple? By Jove, come to think of it, I never looked to see whether she had a dimple or not in the old days." For a few minutes he sat very quiet- ly watching the mass of letters turn from flame color to yellowish,pink and to pinkish gray. Then, whistling, he went down to the library, closed the door and picked up the desk telephone. "Is Janet In? Yes, Miss Janet Bar- ton. All right. Hello, Janet, is this you? This. is Nat—Nat Gregory. Oh, I just happened to think that you did not answer my question. Are you going to the St. Andrew dance tomorrow night? No, you did not answer my question. All right, then, I'm coming, about 8:30. Nonsense! I used to call on—er--other girls before they came 'out.' All right goodby. Oh, wait a minute. Say, I want to know—would you mind telling me—did you always have a dimple in your chin? No, really, I never did— goodby." He hung up the receiver, crossed to the mantel and by the aid of the low, broad mirror readjusted hie tie. But evidently this wail done mechanically, for what he said very gently to the tanned, clean cut reflection in the glass Was: "Funny how some girls can say 'of course' and make it sound like some- thing ever so much better. Funny—no, just great!" And then he leaned back in the most comfortable chair in the room and sighed contentedly. This was better than squirming, decidedly bet- ter. Half a Loaf. The negro'e love of titles of whatever sort is amusingly illustrated by a story told by the governor of a southern state. It appears that the congregation of a colored church in Georgia conceived the notion that it would add greatly to their dignity if the pastor of the chukch were enabled to add the initials D. D. to bis name. A member, hearing of an institution In the north which would, for value received, confer such a de- gree, entered into correspondence with that end In view. Reply came to the effect that the sum of $75 would obtain the desired dignity. A difficulty arose, however, in that the congregation were unable to raise more than $89. Finally, after much confabulation, the congregation dele- gated one of their number to see the thing out. The following message was sent to the institution mentioned: "Kindly forward our pastor one D., we being unable to afford the other at this tlme."—Harper's Weekly. Seized Her Opportunity. He was not a very rapid wooer, and she was getting a bit anxious. Again he called, and they eat togeth. er in the parlor, "just those -two." A loud rap came at the front door. "Oh, bother!" she said. "Who can be calling?" • "Say you're out," said the deceiver. "Oh, no; that would be untrue," mur- mured utmured the ingenuous one. "Then say you're engaged," he urged. "Ob, may I, Charlie?" she cried as she threw herself in his arms. And the man kept on knocking at the front door,—Illustrated Bits. County Board I Rowan Edward, guerillas jail.,.,-•,,,,, saga . claimed 14.00 State of Minnesota, County of Sachs John, oats p, r ..................... Dakota,auditor's office, Hastings March , saucer Mat, guudtngiail...,....... . ia 2401 1908. I Schutt Fred, boarding. rlsoners........ Serpaff Rev, grave fort,,' Vincent SPECIAL SESSION. i Steffen B. meals for jurors The county board convened this day SulicitViohn,guatrdf geftutl..".°..,,,.,, pursuant to the call of the county am olalmed.'00 Tapiln G H, wood c h..7..... ......... 4 co auditor. Present Come. Parry, Meter, , Tspuo 0 H, hauling ashes c h 300 Werden, Cahill and chairman Beerse Neal•T ult°X la rsmo..:: eo 00 Verling Rudolph, whoop j o.......... , 1 12 Visnoveo George wood'p f 28 e7 W arweg Geo H. feed p f Id 46 Wella 0 W, justice fees....4 90 Weyh Wm, witness jc ., It, Zabel Wm, witness) o ... j 53 100stf 00 1000' 455 12 1 -ea presiding. The petition for the county road in the township of Lebanon and Rose- mount, was read and also a remon- strance against Bald petition was read, and then the matter was considered by the board and arguments beard On motion of Com. Werden adjour- ned to one o'clock p. m. Board con- vened at one o'clock p. m. All members present. The petition for the county road was again taken up and upon request the same was withdrawn until some future time. Applications for abatements were taken up and were considered as follows: E. W. Rifler, lots 7 and 8, block 11. B Michael's Add. recommended. James E. Rowe, personal, Inver Grove, recommended. J. A. Palmer part of lot 13, block 33, Hastings, recommended. F. L. Clure personal, Hastings, re- commended. F. Aiohele, lots 17, 18, 19, block 1, Matnzer's add. rejected. Adolph ' Bartsh, lot 3, block 1, Buena Vista add. recommended, J. J. Hynes personal, Lakeville Vil. recommended. Mrs. A. C. White, lot 1, block 117, Hastings, recommended. The fee reports of the county officers were read and fled. The remainder of the forenoon was taken up in auditing claims against the county. On motion of Com. Cahill the board adjourned to 7:30 o'clock p. m. Board convened at 7:30 o'clock p. m. all members present. The matter of installing sanitary plumbing in the poor house was taken up and plans considered and the county auditor was instructed to advertise for bids. On motion of Com Cahill adjourned to March 25th 1908 at 9 o'clock a. m. Board convened March 25th at 9 o'clock a. in. all members present. The following estimates of the architect on jail was approved: Geo. Regelsberger & Co plumbing $ 218.50 N. P. Franaen, building 191.25 Deibald Safe & Look Oo,oells, 4,788.60 Jail matters were taken up tor con- sideration. Board adjourned to 1 o'olook p, m. Board convened at 1 o'clock p. m. all members present. Claims against the county were taken up for consideration as appears of re- cord on pages 198, 199, 200. Register of claims "B" On motion of Com. Cahill the chair- man was authorized to appoint a com- mittee of two to secure the services of an engineer on the state road and re- port to the county auditor. On motion adjourned sine die. The following bills were allowed: Bernard Geo D, & Co minute book...../ 17 50 Bernard Geo D,& Co tax lists and dupil• cater. 173 76 Bartsh Adolph, groceries poor farm78 02 Barnum C L, hauling wood to poor 12 CO Bergin August, witness c 1 36 Batten Albert, witness! c 1 13 Blerden Frank. repairs c b 760 Brady T J, & Son repairs windmill Brown Fred, witness j c 1 12 2 Burkle George, witness j c 1 12 Cahill John, som salary .. 75 00 Cherry Cummings, witness] e 1 12 Cooley Charles, witness o 1 13 Diebold sate and lock Co, est for jail cells..... 4,7x5 60 Doss C C, justice fees...... 47 60 amount claimed 164.35 Dozen Gay, hauling wood to poor 6 30 Dow Louis F, Co rebinding judgment books.... 25 00 Dow Louts F, Co School land recelpts. 16 20 Emmons Charles 8, guarding jail (Brennan) 1 0) amount olalmed 12.00 Engel F A. coal c h.... 16 66 Estergreen F E. coal o h 37 60 Eureka Town of contagious disease ex. 9 25 amount claimed 115.60 Finch F W. mdse o h............. ....... 22 50 Foster George witness j...... 21 115 Fransen N P. est jail contract 191 76 Free Prean Ptg Co, probate blanks 7010 Gaffney Dr T J, witness j claimed MO M 1 11 Gannon &Campeon, grooeries p 1 40 77 Garvey Edward, groceriesp t Gazette The, pub del tax list 117 7665 Gazette The, pub notices ........... a 46 Gazette The, stationery 3 76 Gerber Wm A. boarding prisoners Jan- 176 38 Gerber Wm A, boarding prisoners Feb44 73 Gillen John witness j o Gillen Theodore, nursing H L Clemons18 120 Gray W A. justice lees 11 75 Grace J C, witness Jo 1 11 Hampton Town cont. disease exp10 60 Hanson Bros, mdse c p at claimed sem 50 Hastings E L. & W P Co wiring and 4 Hastings fixtures L & W P,Co light Feb SS al Heisler Jacob, repairs sheriff's house15 90 Hoag Geo, witness) c LI Hurley D W, burial of V F Vlnoent 10 000 Johnson 1) J, clothing p f 91 es Johnson J 0, cement floors o h - 91 71 Keel Louts, witness j o 1 11 Lambert J B, stationery-- ....... 7 7o Lewis C8,constable fees ... ,.,.... • .. 1910 Lundquist P J, committing prisoners4 00 Lundquist P J. boarding prisoners 16 93 Margaret Leme, witness j o •1 17 Martin Ed, wood p f 66 00 Mertz A 0, cor fees.... 14 35 Mertz J G & Son, burls' of Huth/wiz,Mrs Short, Gust Codha Meyer C W. postage and express Meyer C W, team expense Nikkei-Dsv1s Ptg Co, blanks auditor.,.. Mlller•Dsvls Pig Co, certificate of award Miller -Davis Ptg Co, probate blanks.., Moeller Adolph, soft wood Moran Edward, witness j o......., McDevitt Frank, sheriff's tees McGill -Warner Co, real est tax jndg- meat books Nemitz R 0, witness j o Piszarol Ialdor, interpreter j o ...... Raetz John, fees Brennan rennanlPRueoatrgziDJc oWMhn.DeraWi1,J,nngasotircebefa.tea.tri .l...ags..e...o..t.,.,., amount claimed MT 60 ReRatzlogreiafluberger Ch, Geo woodR ppOof, ...pl.umbing........ .$51.... ., Roth Elisabeth, wataw la 56 60 14 41 of 56 15 00 4465 6136 411 90 4 40 31 50 11776 1630 (Seal) . NV. E. BEERSE, Attest: Chal rtnan. P. A. HOFFMAN, County Auditor. SEA AND LAND. The Way They Meet and Clash and Finally Menrwniae. In "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils," translated from the Swedish of Selma Lagerlof by Velma Swaneton Howard, is the following pretty de- scription of how sea and land meet: You see that sea nod land can meet in many different ways. In tunny places the land comes down toward the sea with flat, tufted meadows, and the sea meets the land with dying sand, which piles ,up in mounds and drifts. It appears its though they both disliked each otbe so much that they only wished to show the poorest they possessed. But 1t can also happen that when the land comes toward the sea It raises u wall of hills in front of it, as though the den were something dangerous. When the land does this. the sen comes up to it with fiery wrath and beats and roars and lashes against the rocks and looks as It it would tear the land hill to pieces. But in Blekioge It 1s altogether differ- ent when sea ail, land meet There the land breaks itself up into points and islands and Islets, and the sea di- vides itself Into fiords and bays and sounds, and it is perhaps this which makes It look as if they must meet In happiness and harmony. Think now first and foremost of the sea! Far out it Iles desolate and emp- ty and big and has nothing else to do but to roll its gray billows. When it Mmes toward the land it happens across the first obstacle. This it imme- diately overpowers, tears away every- thing green and makes It as gray as Itself. Then It meets still another obstacle. With this it does the same thing. And still another—yes, the same thing happens to this also. It is stripped and plundered as if it had fallen into robbersK_bands. Then the obstacles come nearer and nearer to- gether, and then the sea must under- stand that the land sends toward it est children in order to more it to ty. It also becomes more friendly farther in 1t comes, rolls its waves high, moderates its storms, lets green things stay in cracks and Crevices, separates itself into small founds and Inlets and becomes at last so harmless In the land that little boats dare venture out upon It. It eer- talaly cannot recognize itself, so mild and friendly has it grown. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. A Display of Courtesy "In Memory of Old Virginia." All the Seats were taken in the car which I entered one morning In early April. An old colored man sat next the door. It Is not often In these days that I see that type of black man. I used to see that kind on the old Virginia plan- tation, where he was "Ung Lige" or "Ung Rambo" to all the household. His days were devoted to useful toll and his evenings to bis banjo and the old plantation melodies that no one can ever sing again as musically as they were sung then. "Take this seat, mistis," he said, ris- ing promptly. "Mlstla" sounded very bomey" and pleasant to me. It bad been so long since I was "mistis" to anybody. "Thank you, uncle," said 1. "Keep your seat. I would just as lief stand." "Sense me, please, mistis, but 'tain't Stten fer you ter sten'; you mus' set" hi admonished respectfully. I took the seat, thanking him for his courtesy. Soon a departing passenger left a vacancy. "There 1s a sett fok you," 1 said to the old man. "Between the ladies, ma'am?" He hesitated. "Yes," I said. He bowed apologetically to right and lett and took the vacant place. Just before leaving the ear I slipped a s11 - ver piece into his hand, saying, "Un- cle, get you a nice luncheon with this —in memory of old Virginia." "Thank you, my mistis," he said, opening his hand to look at the little gift and then closing 1t I left the car With a sunnier feeling in my heart be- cause of the chance meeting, but with no thought that I should ever again bear of my old Virginian. That afternoon I received a bunch of arbutus which had been left for me by an old colored man—"fer the tall lady With a long blue coat an' white hair— in memory of ole Virginia an' dem old time days."—Lfpptncott'a Magazine. A Distinction Without a Difference. Five-yearold Deborah had been in- vited to take luncheon at a restaurant with Mia K. "Do you like cocoa?" she Wail asked. Wbea the answer was "Yee," the beverage was duly brought, but re- mained untested. At let Miss K. said, "Why don't you drink your cocoa, 1Beborah, when you said you wanted it?" 71 "I didn't say 1 wanted ]t," replied 11110 the child politely. "I only said that I 1 it nbd it."—Woman's Home Companion. r :) Absolutely Pure 1 10 frt. (1• it* (4.111-h talk, cob wx of vima,45 Vi ( From Grapes, the most healthful of fruits, comes chief ingredient of ROYAL, The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Cosh a little more thea the *rims gem et phosphate of lime powders, bra with Royal you are sire of pure, healthful food. >✓ COSTLY MATTRESSES. I VALUE OF PUBLICITY. The Kind That Are Used on the Big Plate Blass Wagons. Probably about as cosily a sort of mattress as any 1s one that is made not to sleep on at all, but to spread on the long, broad table or platform of the wagons built for carrying plate glass. These mattresses, which are wade of curled hair, are very thin, scarcely thicker than a comfortable, and must be made with the greatest care to in- sure perfect,unifornhity of thickness. A lump anywhere would be likely to break the plate of gloss resting upou it and there would be still greater danger if the weight of two plates of Steve Brodie, the Bridge Jumper, as a Self Advertiser. Curiously enough, the man who, in my opinion, had the keenest intuition of the value of publicity and used it to the greatest personal advantage, when we consider his humble begin- nings and the limited sphere of his en- deavor, never really knew bow to read and write. I knew him first as a young street urchin, making his living by selling newspapers, blacking boots, run- ning errands and doing such odd Jobe as fell 1n his way, and it was chiefly through selling newspapers, whose headlines alone he was barely able to glass was rester! on the lump at Duce. decipher, that he gained that kaowl- A mattress fora plate glass wagon edge of what Park row calls "news costs, according to size, from gap to values," which one finds to every traln- $75. In use the corners of smaller ed and efficient die gditor. plates carried on It cut into the tick. It washtn the strength went this a da !ng covering, and sooner or later It has ' edge that this bootblack one day to be made over. imply to make over to a well known wholesale liquor deal - such a mattress colts from 520 to 825. erh on the east aide and proposed that on On the table lopped and mattress 'should establish biro In a saloon on covered glasstwngone the biggest lower Bowery, The liquor dealer was platen are carried with confidence and aghast at his presumption until he safety. The table is built to remain learned his scheme; then be capitulated absolutely rigid, and the thin but uni- form mattress protects the plate from jar. Before plate glass store fronts had come into common use, when the han- dling of a big plate was counted as a at once, and within a few days tbe pa- pers had been signed and twenty-four hours' option secured on rickety and. from nearly every imaginable point of view, undesirable premises near Canal street and directly under the noisiest good deal more of a job than it is now, and dustleet and oiliest part of the ale they used to carry a great pane of sated railroad This done, the boot - glass in a sort of frame, which was put on the wagon with the glass in it At its destination this frame or sup- port was worked carefully across the sidewalk to the store front, where the glass was dislodged from 1t to be set, and altogether the setting of a great plate of glass was then quite an un- dertaking. Now, with the setting of such plates a common daily occurrence and with men skilled in the handling of them, they simply carry a big plate out and lay it on their mattress covered table topped wagon and carry it to wbere it is to go and there slide It off, to rest It for a moment on blocks on the side- walk, and then they pick It up and carry it to the window front. Then they run under the lower edge of the glass lifting straps, by which men standlnl inside the window as well as men standing outside can lift on it when the glass is put into place in the window frame. There again it is raised on blocks until the straps can be withdrawn, and then the blocks are taken out and the gleam secured in place, all this being done with great care, but still with comparative ease and quickness and with certainty, and in these times great panes of glass are thus mored and set on all but the windiest days.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. On Yawning. I have come to the conclusion that if a man yawns and you don't want to yawn, too, the only way to prevent 1t is to blow your nose. A man of my acquaintance boasts that he can set a whole railway carriage full of people yawning by merely taking time over it himself, and I believe he can.—Fry's Magazine. The Pules. First Y'ftllor—Moet interesting coun- try round about here. Have you seen the ruins? Second Visitor (wbo bas just paid his bill)—Yea; I suppose you mean the guests tearing this hotel.— London Answers. • Same Old Reason. "I've played the pontes to my grief year in, year out, day after day." "Then why do you keep at It?" "Well, I've got a good thing for to- morrow."—Louisville C`.ourfer-Journal. Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak, hut they show what he is.—Thomas a Kemple. black made his way to the very center of the Brooklyn bridge, climbed hastily to the top of the parapet and, heedless of the warning shouts of the horrified onlookers and the swift rush of a pant- ing cop, dropped Into the seething wa- ter. below. It was an unknown youth with an earning capacity of a few dollars a week who disappeared beneath the sur- face of the East river, but It was an enterprising young man, an east side celebrity, In fact, all ready for the di- vine oil of publicity and with an as- sured income and possible fortune 1n his grasp, whose nose reappeared very shortly above the muddy surface of the water and who was helped by will- ing and officious hands into a rowboat, where dry clothing awaited him, to- gether with hearty congratulations on the fact that he alone, of all those who had attempted to jump the bridge, bad escaped with his lite. The next day the name of Steve Brodie wu flashed fro one end of the country to the oth- er, Ynd within a very few hours after his discharge from custody—he was arrested on the charge of trying to take his own life—he was standing be- hind his own bar, serving drinks to the crowds who came to gape at Stave Brodie, the bridge jumper, and to pour their money into his coffee.—James L. Ford in Siamese Magazine. The Sins of Hatters. If any tradesman has a lot to answer for it is surely the batter. Ile will mat unblushingly tell you that a cer- tain type of hat is suited to your par- ticular style of beauty, knowing that the information is false, and all the while you have a dull suspicion that you don't look well in it Yet you are obliged to believe him. lib persuasive powers are so cultivated that I amply believe he would make a dwarf think himself "a ane figure of a man."— Fry's Magnin. A Gnat Man. "Father," said little Rollo, 'what is a great man?" "A great man, my son, Is one wbo manages to gather about him a whole lot of assistants wbo will take the blame for 611 mistakes while be gots the credit for their good ideas." "The best lightning rod fur your pro- tection," r ..lection," nays Ralph Waldo 111104111110111. 'i your own spies." HOLLAND MUSTARD. Some of the Virtues Ascribed to It and One Way to Make It. Hollanders use enormous quantities' of mustard and thrive on the condi- ment. 'There is a smell spot In Orerys- sel, I think It Is near (roor, .where the land slopes gently down to the ricer ljsel and is a brown gray clay. This is fashioned Into the cutest little jugs you ever saw, holding about a pint each, and the genuine Dutch mustard, made only in that pocket borough, ac- cording to a secret process handed down for many generations, Is hermet- ically sealed theretu. It will keep for years and is as delicious as the finest confection. It is butter, cheese and condiment to the Hollanders who can afford It. And there is no other place on earth where that mustard can be bought r You might ask, "Why do the Hol- landers eat so much mustard?" The answer is: The Holland mustard is a most delightful stomach stimulant. "It makes the food slide down." It cures the worst cases of dyspepsia. It keeps the liver in fine shape. It 1s an anti- dote for the most deadly poison—cor- rosive sublimate. It is in large doses a non -nauseating emetic. It Is the only counterirritant handed down to us by our grandmothers—the mustard plas- ter. The Dutch girls use it sparingly on their velvet cheeks to give a rosy complexion. When a person is down and nearly out a drink made of pure mustard and oil will fetch hem around. A mustard "stoop" era certain cure for catarrh in the nasal cavity. Here is one Dutch- method of pre- paring mustard for the table: Mix equal portions of black and white seeds and grind to a fine powder. Boll this in the best vinegar till thoroughly mixed. Grate some fresh horseradish, squeeze out the juice and add to the mustard. Then put in a little salt, a little sugar, a little turmeric, a little fenugreek and a little white honey. You will eat this on your bread, cake, battercakes and waffles, your meats, fish, game and poultry.—New York Press. PRESENCE OF MIND. A Madhouse Doctor's Experience With His Crazy Cooks. A celebrated Scotch physician tells a story of a madhouse doctor whose presence of mind alone saved his life: "A great friend of mine was for a considerable time the medical superin- tendent of a lunatic asylum near (;las• sow, "One night in making his customary rounds he had occasion to visit the pa- tients In the kitchen, who were pre- paring the dinner. There were seven of them, all big, sturdy fellows, who were believed to be harmless. The keeper only looked in upon them now and again, feeling that his constant .presence was unnecessary. "The doctor unlocked tbe iron barred door of the kitchen and went in among the lunatics. "There were five large boilers con- taining scalding water ready for mak- ing the day's dinner for the patients. "One of the lunatics pointed at, the boilers full of hot water and, laying his hand upon the doctor's shoulder, said, 'Doctor, you'll make a fine pot of broth.' And the words had no soon- er been uttered than the other six mad- men shouted to a voice of delight, 'Jnet the thing,' and, seizing the doc- tor, were in the very act of putting him into one of the large boilers of scalding water when the doctor had the presence of mind to say, but not a second too soon: "'Capital broth! But it would taste better if I took my clothes off.' "The madmen, with a yell of delight, said 'Yes,' and the doctor asked them to wait a moment while he went and took hls'lothes off. But as soon as he got out of the kitchen he turned the key in the door and ordered the keep- er to see to the lunatics being put un- der restraint. "The doctor's presence of mind saved him, it is true, from a terrible death, but be died shortly after raving mad. The experience had destroyed his rea- son." Origin of the Postal Card. In 1889, while Professor Emanuel Herrmann of Vienna was seeking a Tut amount of information by corre- spondence for his notable book, "The Guide to the Study of National Econ- omy," the thought occurred to him that many advantages would result from the adoption of a means of cor- respondence cheaper than the sealed let- ter. On Jan. 26 he went before the Austrian post director with his idea, an open, stamped card, and his sugges- tion was almost Immediately adopted. Within a month the Austrian postal authorities printed and sold 1,000,000 postal cards and thus established this Indispensable means of communication. An Unconscious Toast. Lord Clyde one day after dinner ask- ed a chaplain to one of the regiments 1a India for a toast, who, after con- sidering some time, at length exclaim- ed, with great simplicity: "Alas and alack a day! What can I give?" "Nothing better," replied his lordship. "Come, gentlemen; we'll give a bumper to the parson's toast, 'A lass and a lac . A lac means 100,000 rupees, or $25,- 000, which L certainly an income to make one bappy.—London Chronicle. Excusable, Mei. Suburbanite --John, that's twice mere come home and forgotten to being the lard. Mr. Suburbanite-1ra so greasy It dipped my mind.—J adge. ..5'