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Palestine Daily Herald
W il H V Hamilton Pubs i J
PALESTINE TEXAS
A Cleveland man drank a quart ot
whisky on a wager The undertaker
won out
The paragraphcrs who have been
Joking about the Pctropavlovsk disas-
ter do not realize it
Some men Mr Carnegie acquiro
the title of hero only to have it en-
graved on their tombstones
A Kansas paper states that a New
Jersey man while getting out of bed
broke two legs Job for the carpen-
ter
A scientist claims that lie has dis-
covered that fish can talk Good gra-
cious what lies they might contra
2ict
The British are learning something
about Tibet and the Tibetans arc
learning a great deal more about the
British
Bad news for the pesky moths The
price of camphor gum has dropped
from ninetythree to seventynine cents
a pound
A Yale professor is credited with
saying that the masses cat loo much
He said this doubtless for the benefit
of the classes
A New York man is learning to
talk without a tongue This is new
but many people have learned to talk
without brains
Some people will not consider vot-
ing machines a success until they
shell out two dollars when the right
button is pressed
It is comparatively easy to discover
the germ that produces disease Tho
real trick Is to present the germ from
discovering his victim
At Kandy the mountain capital ol
Ceylon is the famous temple of the
Tooth Sweet tooth doubtless Must
be a paradise for dentists
When Charles M Schwab opens his
palatial new residence in New York
it is said that champagne will be serv-
ed in buckets Why not in a trough
Prof B Benjamin Andrews lias fig-
ured it out that no family ought to
have more than ten children But
suppose the problem is complicated
by twins
Do not drink whisky if jou wish
o avoid typhoid fever urges Dr
George W Webster Dr Webster is
a spendthrift of words Whats the
use of tho Inst seven
The Washington girl who visited
heaven in a trance says she saw a
great many people there I et us hate
something more explicit did she see
any escongrepsmen there
Presiding Elder Palmer must be a
lively preacher At all events lie told
the conference in New York of I he
difficulty of supporting a sealskin
wife on a inuskrat salary
Conservative estimates place the
winters cleanup of tho Alaskan gold-
fields at amillion and a quarter Ours
was something like that at least wc
cleaned up about a quarter
We should lllo to see that school-
teacher who is boasting so loudly
about being tho champion speller of
tho world go up against a few of the
worxls that wriggle through the cen-
sor
The Tibetans who visited the Brit-
ish camp at ChumbI took the maxim
guns for comical toys No uncivil-
ized race that gets in John Bulls way
Is permitted to remain long In that de-
lusion
Says John L Sullivan Id like
to get Into office so some decent laws
could get passed Meanwhile John
might focus his powers on a revised
version of the Marquis of Qtiocns
betry code
Philosophy and religion hae
brown mnny fits in endeavoring to
xplain tho nature of human hnppi
oess It is very simple Good health
financial independence and Ioe are
its ingredients
Manager Conried has gone so far as
to talk of producing Parsifal in San
Francisco And if the horrorstricken
widow of Wagner lives long enough
she may even hear that it has lien
produced in vaudeville
That insane tramp In Connecticut
who recovered his reason tlnough be-
ing struck on the head with a brick
does not represent an isolated case
Many a man has come to his senses
by leeching a severe jolt
The Chicago judge who has enjoin
rd a Boston man from working must
have political ambitions There are
many patriots who would like to vitc
for him upon assurance that he
mians to follow his own precedent on
jJl occasions
Two hundred and ninetyseven men
at Silver City New arc yearning for
wives It might be well however for
girls who desire to annex the joys of
matrimony to try again before start-
ing for Silver City which li a hard
place to jet aw ay from
S METHODISTS IN CONFERENCE
IN CITY OF LOS ANGELES
CAT WITH ONLY TWO LEGS
Remarkable Animal the Pride of Eng-
lish Hotelkeeper
i Ipsey the pride of the Foicst Hill
hotel near London is a cut with no
She was born so at Bedford
forelegs
three years ago Beneath her fur w here
her front legs should be are two bony
projections On thecc she rests as she
pushes herself across the room with
alternate wide straddling strides of
hrr back legs which stretch out like
a hares in ungainly fashion on either
side Before she scls out on her paln
fullnoking journeys from point to
point she sits up kangaroo sljle and
gazes for signs of dnngr
She ban climb upstairs as quickly
as a man can walk once she gets go-
ing on her two legs She enjoys a
great local reputation as a high jump-
er Bcforo she lakes off she rears
up and down and waves herself queer-
ly from side to side but alights upon
the spot at which she alius clearly
and neatly Philadelphia Telegraph
i British Poet Has a Pull
j Austin Uobsou draws pensions from
j I lie British treasury amounting to the
i tidy sum of 3 < i < i Mr Dobsons ser
vice to the state and to letters con
stats of rather suecoijHfiU efforts in
j doing vers < Ie societe He Is quite a
dabster at that sort of Iblng Mr Ual
ifour defended this pension on the
ground that the ward was discretion-
ary and as justifiable In the case of
Dolmon as in that of Matthew Arnold
It seems that Dnlmon composer of
j pretty trifles drawn in pensions 250
more than the poet laureate himself
and the same rum as Ju titi McCarthy
and tho indefatigable lexicographer
Dr lames A Murrav
Had Mania for Litigation
The life of Miss Jenner who died
1 in Wales recently afforded a curious
I parallel with thai of Miss Pllto in
i Bleak House Jllss Flite was con-
stantly seen in the courts while the
i interminable case of Jstrndyce vs
Jaind > c > wab on and Miss Jen
ner had as strong a mania for liti-
gation She spent some forty > ears
of her life in an endeavor to nrove
a right to the Wen toe castle estates
Another hobby of hers was to petition
the home secretary on lielmlf of
women sentenced to death
Illl 1111 Will I fc < H W
J3Z5ffOP ffiTWLL
The thirtythird qnadrennlnl gener-
al conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church In irogress at Los
Angeles is composed of delegates
from the regular conference divisions
of the church and during the session
i
laws for the government of the church
are enacted bishops arc elected and
the larger affairs of the gteat organi-
zation pertaining to the educational
institutions supported by the church
and its policy upon public questions
are adjusted for another four years
The largest educational project in
which the Methodist church is Inter
iested is the American university now
in course of construction at Washing-
ton The institution as originally
projected was to have an endowment
of 1000000 and an agreement was
reached at a former general confer-
ence that the university should not
bo opened until this money was in
band About 2500000 has been col-
lected and several large buildings
erected Many Methodists now op-
pose the idea of letting this property
stand idle for an indefinite period and
this question rescinding t or aflirmy
Ing Uie action of a
regarding the university
be one of the most imiiortaut to he set-
tled by the present conference
Another Important duty before the
conference is the election ol bishops
three to fill vacancies and throe or
four to lake the plnccs of bishops who
have reached the age which iiicapacl
talcs them for further active duty
One of the vacancies to be filled was
caused l > > the resignation of Bishop
Merrill of Chicago who after nearly
sixty years of active service in the
church asked to be placed on the re-
tired or superannuate list
0
Bishop Merrill Is the senior bishop
of ills church and has spent fiftynlne
of his seventynine years of life In ac-
tive service as minister editor and
bishop
As early a 1S08 Bishop Merrill had
made his mark in the general confer-
ences His mental cquitKiisc an J mas-
tery of constitutional principles made
him editor of the Western Christian
Advocate in 1SCS and made him bisli
op in 1S72 He has been from that
time the law giver or constitutional
interpreter of the Methodist church
and his retirement means much tr
Methodism
When Bishop Merrill entered upon
his ministry nearly sixty years ago
the Methodist Episcopal church had
1171000 members It has now3000
000 There were then 42S2 preacher
in the Held there arc now nearly IS
H00 In the thirtytwo years of Bishop
Merrills episcopacy the church bai
doubled its membership and has great-
ly increased its influence
Of the eight bishops consecrated In
former conference jHaTo n ndrostcr
will therefore Bowman was dccla
am
ednoneffectfre In
ISftfi Bishops Merrill and Andrews
born in the same year remained long
pit in active service and this meant
in spile of age the highest degree ol
effectiveness
A great wave of religious enthusi
asmswept over the city of los An-
geles on Sunday The pulpits of all
the churches of Ios Angeles and the
surrounding country were occupied b >
the prominent preachers or the con-
ference Great audience filled all the
churches many of them to overflow-
ing
t
STRANGE METAL OF MONTANA I
Scientific Men Making Study of the
Substance Known as Radiumite
Experts arc making investigation
at Butte to determine in what quanti-
ties the strange curative mineral used
bv the miners as a charm known
as radiumite which was discovered
recently by Dr G D Bryant can be
obtained Further tests of its quality
are being made
Herman von Millz a German scien-
tist is investigating the discovery uu
dcr the dinctions of his government
and says that Ills tests have thus far
been confirmatory of the report made
by Ii BryanL
Samples or the mineral were sent to
Paris lo be tested by M and Mme
Curie the discoverers of radium and
the reiKirted that the substance could
not be classified as the mineral was
unknown to science They added thaf
it was highly probable that It con-
tained radium to some extent New
York Sun
Chinese Ambassador Witty
Sir Cbcntung the Chinese nmhasci
dor cannot lie induced to make a di
reel reference to the wnr but that
II occupies a prominent place in hta
mind was shown at a recent banquet
in New York Several speaker had
lauded the ability that Clictnnj lad
shown while al college In thi counlrj
at baseball and football One of the
ambassador ncighbois overcome
by the oecHjion shouted Bah rail
rah for the three balls basebrU
football and highball Make It four
answered the Chinese minister his
eyes narrowing In two long lines ot
grim siinRestiveness add a rourth
cannon IihII
Expect Distinguished Writer
Bjornstjerne BJornison the Norvve
gian author ma > attend the unvellint
ol the statue In his honor at Fargo N mCcrS nlnc > vo frt Ion
ilwo somewhat slender western towers
D Ma 1 i The committee in charge
ol the celebration in now In communi-
cation with him The statue to be tin
veiled Is < if stone Imiiorted from lcan
dlnnvia The nnvclliliK will be madi
more noteworth by takltiK place or
May 17 the Norpxiiiii Fourth ol
July It Is expected that not lew i
than SO00 Scanditiaviann from Minnc
ii iinyi WW i i hiix i l j immm
sarcziz CQsozzpcwzivr
Prior to the year 000 only wooden
otilldings were erected in Norway and
the art of building and artistically
adorning dwelling houses viking halls
and heathen temples attained a high
degree of development The temples
were all demolished at the introduc-
tion of Christianity about the begin-
ning of the eleventh century and the
petty kings ami Influential families
in their numerous feuds frequently
burned eacli others house to say
nothing of the ordinarv natural causes
of decay
At Vos not far from Bergen how-
ever still stands such an old building
the only surviving wooden structure
from the heathen period in Norway
the celebrated Kinncloft Finns loft
or the Laplanders house whose age
is estimated by archaeologists at
i about 1000 years It is a twostory
building of cry heavy material and
CITIES WERE ONCE FORTS
Amid Marvelous Scenery
somewhat ornamental exterior site
atcd on an incline
The FInncIoft was purchased a few
years ago by the Association for the
Preservation of Norwegian Monu-
ments of Antiquity and carefully re-
paired and renovated Publicspirited
men of the district have made gifts
of old and characteristic furniture
national costumes household utensils
etc which objects are put on exhibi-
tion in the Finnclnlt which now
forms a unique and most interesting
museum of its own
In tho year W5 Olav Trygvcsson a
descendant of King Harold Haarfagre
mc from Ejiglanil to Norway to
yitfiSufi3rffeejyndinro iu cjugh ris
juKBtt KwAynUaBnvrSy n thtrilttle
islandYfJiostcro fa Sondliordland
Ioar Bergen and caused mass to he
snid in n ttnt put up for the purpose
He then proceeded o the mainland
and In a series of rncrnntcrs with the
heathen inhabitants rapid succeeded
in crushing all opposition and became
sole king r Norway in 030 He then
returned to thi Island otiru where
he built a church on the very spot
where the firi > t Christian wdrchip had
been held on the soil of Norway The
material he ehi e vas stone that
the edifice might constitute a last-
ing monumrnt to tin slory of God
The church of Motero still in ex-
istence Is In the AngloSaxon form
of the Norman style of architecture
It has no tower but a choir lower
and narrower than the main body of
the church and never fails to attract
the attention of the passengers on
passing ships It has the distinction
of being the first church ever built in
Norway and the oldest existing Chris-
tian temple in Scandinavia
Tho chinch or St Marv Bergen
popularly called the German church
located In the Ilnnsenflc quarter Is
believed to he the oldest building
now existing in the old regal city It
is mentioned for the first time in 11S3
King Sverres saga and was In tho
possession of the Hnn a trader from
140S till 17iW and till within thirty
and a gothlc choir eteneion listing
from about the jear 1260 Its In-
terior is very beautiful especially the
pulpit and the altar piece Four
iquare innsslve pillars on caci side
lepnrate the main IkmIv or tho church
from the side aisles and over the
lrches runs a beautiful tpillery In
I8 rhrch
1 s
sota and the Dakota will attend th
celebration avaj l Pre and I wa again
GRAVES OF THEIR ANCESTORS
Typical Norwegian Home
years ago a German rmon wa >
preached every sicom Sunday
The church of St Mary was built
of soapstone In the AnrloNorman
style of architecture It is twent nine
n date for a marriage or a funeral
to the location of a eitj The site
of everv elty town or village has
In en lcd by geomancers after con-
sulting the iracle each community
has Its gtiRrdlan dragon or some such
hypothetical monster mid woe betide
the individual who proposes to cut it
in two with tunnel or railway track
Engineering Magazine
Wrote Easter Sermon in Verse
Itev T M Eastwood pastor of
the First Baptist church of Burling-
ton N J wrote his Easter sermon
entlrelv In verse which made a mark-
ed Impre loc upon his hearer
burned in 1075 Between the years
1SKI1SC7 it underwent an expensive
restoration
Nearly All Modern Towns Had Foes
Menacing From Without
Nearly ril the large cities of the
world were onco merely frontier
camps or lorts built to shelter and
protect from tho foes the few hardy
pioneers who founded them In all
early schemes for defense the inclos
ed square was considered the best
From the time when wagons were
merely parked on the plain to the
time when buildings were constructed
with blank walls to the enemy and
their facades to the open square this
plan has been universally adopted
and many of the great squares or
market places of famous cities still
Ideal Building Material
Heloxyle is tho nana given In
Germany to peat fib or compressed and
hardened by a special process into
sheets tllo3 plates and blocks for
various building purposes It Is used
for lining walls ceilings window and
door frames to underlay wooden floor
lag and even as flooring Itself It has
about the consistency and atomlo
weight of sound cork and is an al-
most perfect nonconductor of beat
moisture sound and vibration It Is
Impregnated with somo material which
renders It practically incombustible
j United States Oyoter Farms
While tho greater portion of the
j United States is under snow and In
I the grasp of winter our oyster farm
ers are busy harvesting their crop
which requires no fertilizer food or
fencing and costs only for the seed
tho sowing and the harvesting and
which pays a good dividend on the In-
vestment From 12000 to 15000 hands
re engaged in the oyster work In east-
ern Virginia It is an odd sort of farm-
ing and the oyster farmers in winter
become corn farmers in summer
i Country Gentleman
The child mortality Is three times
as large In East London as in West
j being thvee hundred and fifty per thou-
sand
The only two great European cap
tals that never have been occupied
i by a foreign foe are London and St
Petersburg
Half Time In Bed
Mount Hor Ky May 9th The rec-
ords of medicine in this state do not
contain a more interesting and in-
structive case than that of Mrs Liilio
Jacobs of Mount Hor Mrs Jacob3
tells the particulars of her case as
follows
For six years I had to keep to my
bed half the time When I did get up-
I was not able to walk across tho
houso without Just gasping for breath
I had kidney trouble in the worst
form in fact I was a total wreck It
pained mo fearfully to urinate and my
back ached all the time
Now I am well for Dodds Kidney
Pills have entirely cured me I saw
an advertisement of this remedy and
show undeniable evidences of these bought one box I experienced so
precautions for defense much benefit from this that I kept on
In the old city of Brussels the till I was cured completely
square upon which faces its wonderful I can do my own housework and can
t
city hall Is approached1 by streets so walk around as well as ever with per
narrow that they must surely have feet ease and strength Just now I
been constructed with the idea of de am helping to make garden I feel
fensc in mind Were it possible to like a new woman and I owe it all to
forecast the rapid development of Dodds Kidney Pills
cities or to predict which of our many
cities is to become a metropolis the A man in Texas hauls a load cj
problem might not be such a difficult I sand to town mps it on the road
one but such unfortunately is notan < i takes back a load of manure in
Ho docs the double work
the case Even the most vivid imngi payment
road and at tte 6am
nation would scarcely have been able I L
to predict the enormous increase ot
population and the consequent archl Qn a recent voyage of tb9 French
tectural development of modern cities cruiser sny in the Bed Soa the tern
The rapid growth of American cities perature in her stokehold went up te
is well known but few realize that over 150 degrees Fahrenheit and
the older cities of Europe have had many of the stokers < wero prostrated
a similar experience The recent in-
crease In Berlin has exceeded that Tn the devout villages of Catholic
of Chicago and what Is true cr Ber1 countries the first thirteen station
lln Is true of many other European i ° t the cross are often erected out ol
center It ta then not surprising to too the Wit station being th
note that In Hanover Hamburg Neu 8urine of the village church
rcmberg Ieipsic Ieiguitz St Johan
The coral reefs are made up entirely
c r I M dSbrs m 0Icrn mu
andlalgae
fM 1r of the skeletons of animate
nlclpal buildings of great importance
s d b bori to a d th ot
have recently been or are now being
pacflo
more than 1000 fcet n the
constructed lsand ot Funafuti
A lock of hair from the head of
Prince Charlie the Scottish pretend
Chinese Sell Them for 10 Shillings to er ane one from his wifes sold at
Railwaymakers auction In London tho other day for
Ancestral graves prove one of the 5116
most serious obstacles to railway mak-
ing in China and whenever possible Tho Russian law which compels aU
the engineers have avoided them Jews to live in tho ghettos of the
Sometimes exorbitant prices are is no 1 modified even In the
asc ° f invalids who mJshtsavo their
manded fot the removal of an ances1
VP3 by a change of air
tors remains but through the in
fiuence of Chinese interested In tho
railway something like uniformity has Tho oman ° r P 001 Jfan
been arrived at and tho average price vcs f f M fJll °
her mother did There is now a law
now pad for a grave is 4 taels about
for divorce b mMml consenU om
in shillings en ccturers are not cn0wn
1cng Shui presents another oh1
The literal translation of tho
stacle
Eight hundred young men and worn
term is wind water but it Is best en > representing twenty universities
explained as a system or geomancy attended a recent conference of stu
which rules the daily action of the dent volunteers at Edinburgh to dis
Chinese as a race from the settling of cuss The Evangelization of tho World
in This Generation
IN AN OLD TRUNK
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It
While the mother was unpacking
an old trunk a little 18 months old
baby got bold of a bottle of carbolic
acid while playing on the floor and
bis stomach was so badly burned it
was feared he would not live for he
could not cat ordinary foods The
mother says in telling of the case
It was all two doctors could do to
save him as it burnt his throat and
stomach so 4iad that for two months
after ho took tho poison nothing
would lay on his stomach Finally I
took him into the country and tried
new milk c d that was no better for
hire His Grandma finally suggested
GrapeNuts and 1 am thankful I adopt-
ed the food for he commenced to get
better right away and would not eat
an > thing else He commenced to get
fleshy and his checks like red roses
and now ho Is entirely well
I took him to Mataraoras on visit
and every placo we went to stay to
cat ho called for GrapeNuts and I
would have to explain how he came
to call for It as it was his mala food
Tho names of the physicians who
attended the baby are Dr Eddy of
this town and Dr Geo Gale of New-
port O and any one can write to
mo or to them and learn what Grape
1 Nuts food will do for children and
1 grownups too Name given by
I Postum Co Battle Creek Mich
Look in each pkg for the famoue
j Uttls book Th Road to Wellvill
t j MMai a itaatorttffciiaattfc
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