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large one, and received a blow from

large one, and received q blow from
King Georges head that almost shock
the climber loose before he reached
place of safety in the crotch.
For some time-'Phrastus said ''the
hull mornin', but he was in no condi-
ton to judge-King George butted the
tree, bringing down upon himself
fl esh explosions of fearful wrath, and
all the breakable branches 'Phrastus
could reach. Afterward he nibbled
about the vicinity. returning at inter-
walls to renew the assault, and never
going far enough away to permit the
escape of his prisoner.
Aunt 'Scilla's dinner was late, for
Uncle Ben went to the parade; but il
was an exceptionally good one, and
there was a puffy little turnover at
'Phrastus' place. Aunt 'Scilla rang the
little bell, and Uncle Ben rang the big
bell, without bringing any small
nephew forward TO eat it. after all
I've said" declared Aunt Priscilla, her
lirs growing ominously thin and tight,
that boys been and gone to the
p'rade!'
"'Tain't agin nature if he has" said
Uncle Ben. when yol stretch
string too tight. it'll snap"
"Somethingll snap" said Aunt
'Scilla. Her eyes did. I've got to
train up that boy in the way he should
go, and / mean to do it. Don't you
dast say word. Benjamin Arbuclxle,
If he don't learn to go straight now
he'll go crooked all his life"
After dinner she cut two long lilac
sprouts aud trimmed them with osten-
tatious care. While she was washing
dishes in the kitchen Uncle Ben slyly
cut tiny slashes along the whole length
of each switch.
| 1t was the middle of the afternoon
when boy, with !. dirty, tear-marlzed
face and mud-stained clothes, shuffied
/ into the house. Under his arm he
carried dismasted toy schooner and
a dilapidated, five-cent American flag.
$50, Theophrastus Wilson," greeted
Aunt Soil.a, you've been to the
p'rade, af' ~ all. Very well, sir. you're
going to remember this Fourth of July
as long as you live Come straight
here"
| She flourished one of the switches,
and it fell 10 pieces in her astonished
hands.
Guess shell member it," whined
| 'Phrastus II hain't been L the p'rade
i hain't! | stuck up in a tree this
hull everlastin' Fourth. with Turner's
old ram abuntin' at it, tryin to shake
me down. "A had to stayed there all
night, too, likely, if Mr.. Turner's Pete
hadn't come along. You jest asst him"
When Harvey Harris heard of it he
could not resist saying: 80 the
British beat, Ell, 'Phrastus?"
just that once!' said 'Phrastus.-
Mrs. Frank Lee, in Youths Companion.
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A QUEER EPIDEMIC.
General Debility Had Taken Hold on tn
People.

General Debility Had Taken Hold on the
People.
In the prohibition state of Kansas all
the drug-stores which have permits to
sell Intoxicating liquors are obliged by
law to fill out certain printed applica-
tions, stating the amount and kind of
liquor purchased by each customer,
and also the particular malady for
which the liquor is bought. In many
cities the drug-stores have taken adj
vantage of their permits to sell to the
public for drinking purposes, practical
lv turning the stores into saloons.
A recent temperance crusade result
ed in the conviction of several drug
gists who had violated the law. Sew
eral witnesses were called upon to tes-
tifv as to the circumstances attending
the sale of intoxicants. The county
attorney put the following questions:
You say you bought this liquor for
medicinal purposes"
Il did"
'.You bought three bottles of beer on
such date?"
Yes sir.
state to the court and jury the par
ticular disease that required three bot
ties of beer as a medicine.
General debility"
The next witness testified to having
bought half a pint of whisky at the
same store.
And what was your disease?" asked
the attorney.
General debility"
A third witness swore that he bought
at the same place a pint of brandy.
state to the court the particular
malady that required the taking of a
pint of brandy" said the prosecuting
lawyer.
general debility" replied the wit
ness.
A litter went around the court room,
and the county attorney, facing the
jury. said gravely: Gentlemen of the
iurv, this is the first time ! ever knew
that general debility was an epidemic.
and that either beer. whisky or brandy
was an infallible remel w."
The jury brought in verdict OF
guilty without leaving their seats -
Youths Companion.
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Cheap Excursion Rates to the East and
West.

For the various Annual Conventions an
rounced for the summer of 1925 TEE NORTH
WxsTERS LIME &C.. St P, NJ. & .. R'yl
will make cheap excursion rates from Min
neapolls and st Paul. Tickets to be on sale
on dates as follows:
National Republican League-Annual con
vention al Cleveland, o., June 18th. Round
trip rate, s3l.50
EpwOrth League-Annual convention a.
Chattanooga, Tenn. June 25th and Goth.
Round trip rate, SIS IS.
National Educational Association-An-
nusl convention at Dsnyer, Col, July &th 70
It'll. Round trip rate, including member
ship to n. Z. A, SCI 90
Christian Endeavor-Annual convention
est irst-clsss fare for round trip, via route
travelled.
Baptist Young Peoples Union-Aunual
convention at Baltimore, Md, July 18th and
10th. Round trip rate, 5000.
American Pharmaceutical Ass Manual
convention at Denver, Col, Aug. 18th and
18th Round trip 10 Denver, Colorado
Springs, Msnitou or Pueblo. sos 30:
Knights Templar Conclsve - TrienKtal
Conclave at Boston, uass., Aug 10Th 70
24,h. One lowest hrstclass fare for round
trip, via route travelled.
Cheap excursion tickets also on sale daily
TO principal Canadian and New England
points and TO Denver. Salt Lake and Cali
fornia.
For further information about these cheap
excursions and for particulars as TO train
service and superior accommodations or
fered via The NORTH W EsTERS LINE call on
or address the following agents: J A.
O'Brlen, Minneapolis 10 NicOllet House
Block; T. J. McCarty, ST. Paul, corner Rob
srt aud Sixth streets T. W TgAsDALE,
General Passenger Agent.
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MASSIVE and symbolical decorations are

massive and symbolical decorations are
by Prof. Otto Leasing and Westphal.
Outside, in the two large nicEes towards
the wide staircase, relief portraits on
horseback of Frederick the Great and
of the great elector are to be seen. As
to the color effects produced these are
of white and gold, with the single ex-
ception of the bright hues OF the
Hohenzollern crests upon the ceiling
and of the base of the pillars. The
throne, of course, is red and gold-no
other furniture of any kind in this
mighty hall. The total impression thus
produced is that of imposing, chaste
simplicity. 1t is of interest to note that
in this as in the carrying out of all de-
tails the ideas of the emperor have pre-
vailed. He, in fact, was the architect
in-chief to whom the score of artists
and sculptors had to submit, and all
through last year, while the work of
transforming the old hall into the pres
ent one was progressing, it was he who
advised the sculptors and decorators.
The old White hall, the work of
Stueler in 1874, was likewise very fine,
being more ornate and dazzling by its
splendid color effects, but its dimen-
sions were of more modest kind aud
no longer suited to the increased Dig
nifty of occasions when the new inn
perialism of Germany wanted TO show
itself in all its impressive splendor.
The approaches to it and the flight of
stairs, too, leading up to the old White
hall had become insufficient in tho
course of time, so as to occasion excess
sive crowding on days like that of the
coronation and of the order festival.
In its present shape there is ample
room for several thousand at a time in
the hall itself, and on the wide gall
leries running around it another 1000
or 200 may find room.
The present emperor is still young,
but his plans of establishment are ex-
tensive enough to be spread over a
period of thirty or forty years. He in
tends to renovate the whole immense
"Schloss," to do which would swallow
up 100000, 900 or $50, OO0, 900, and he
means to carry out his ideas in his cas-
ties and palaces in Potsdam as we'll,
where his ambition is to erect some
day, when the state OF his treasury
will permit it, an edifice of truly regal
proportions and luxury, something like
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''It must be the English ram Mr..
Turner'S been buying said Harvey,
a. he TUNED TO look. Gave two hun
dred dollars for him. guess I'll walk
down and see him when they take him
out"
Two hundred Il dollars for a
sheep 'Phrastus hoped over the
fence aud trotted alcng by his friends
side. What pile Of money for one
sheep, Say. Harvey. a YOU est as lief
put in box Of matches and a fi'-cent
flag stead OF two o them lunches"
Just exactly.
The wagon turned into Mr. Turner 5
baruyard, and the boys followed it,
Il bet Id never pay them old British
two hundred dollars for a sheep said
'Ph-atus. thrusting his hands deep Into
his pockets as he watched the men
carefully lower the COtSwold ram.
king George MI" to the ground.
What do YOU know about the Bris-
ish. Bube" asked one Of the men.
Il know we whipped EN- twicet--
Fourth Of July" said 'Phrastu@.
well. it seems they can beat us OIL
sheep" laughed the man
II 'spect If Mr.. Turner had locke /
round he'd got Jest as good a one
in 'MerilSer for ten dollars" cried
'Phrastus- They cant bea. rs on
anything
Having reached the ground safely,
King Georre stamped his royal foot
and shook his curved horns Then, as
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STATELINess IN WOMEN.
The Writer Says 1t Never Excites the Ad-
miratlon of the Men.

Tho Writer Says 1t Never Excites the Ad-
miration of the Men.
Stateliness in women proceeds from
sources different from stateliness in
men, says the London Spectator. 1t
is much more independent, to begin
with, of outw ard gifts. Not to mem
ton our own queen, who, as people
who are not courtiers affirm, can be
stately to awfulness, and Queen Isa-
bella of Spain. who. in spite of her
history and her bulk, is regal to an
unusual degree, it is certain that the
stateliness of Maria Theresa impressed
all who came in contact with her, and
certain also that no man as homely
and unreserved as she was in speech
and Il bearing would have been cred
tied with state ineSs.
1t seems to be more allied in women
than in men with independence of
mind. or a sense that the will is its
own justification--an absence. that is,
of fear of external influence. The
personality, suifices toitself, and there
fore there is stateliness. That is, we
think, the secret reason why stateli-
ness in women annoys most men and
many of the same sex. They think
they ought TO he more influential, and
resent what they consider to be aloof-
ness. Unapproacha which, of
course, is one of the conditions of
stateliness, irritates men in women,
being, in fact, faint aifront to their
amour propre, and we think many
women feel that, too. At least, we
notice that this form of praise, when
ever it is given to women, is a little
cold, and that the reverence a stately
woman excites Is apt to be little chilly.
There is reason for that in nature,
the first function of a woman being 10
attract, and a reason, too. in the con-
fusion which most men make in their
thoughts when they are thinking of
women, that stateliness must indicate
either hauteur or un1indlinesS. Very
often it is not so at all, some of the
sweetest women being stately, but the
mistake is nearly always made, and
when a man, or, for that matter, a
woman, attributes to a woman stateli-
ness, ther. is seldom complete cordial
ity in the eulogistic word.
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when the English ship Leopard forced
her to strike her colors in a time of
peace. Uncle Ben's grandfather had
been sailor on the American vessel,
and the story Uncle Ben loved to listen
to as a child he loved to tell to
'Phrastus-
But 'Phrastus hal determined that
those ships should meet again on Mr..
Turner's pond with very different
result.
lie began his preparations. The FIVE
cent flag rendered the Chesapeake top
heavy; so he stuck it into the bank be-
hind her. Truth compels me to confess
that 'Phrastus showed very little
generosity toward his imaginary foes.
The Chesapeake was a full-rigged
schooner, at least eighteen inches long,
with two rows of firecracker guns on
either side. The English ship was only
a third as large-a block of wood whit
tied roughly into the semblance of a
boat, with one crooked, webbing mast.
Her complement of guns was a meager
half-dOzen-three on a side.
For you're bound to be blowed slyer-
higher. anyway, you old Britisher,"
said 'Phrastus-
The two big firecrackers were placed
in position at the Chesapeake's bow
and stern, and the commodore. jOyfully
striking a latch, stooped down to fire
his guns.
Whack. 'Phrastus shot out into the
pond, turning a somersault, and scat
tering ma6ches as he went. His line
of motion was directly across the Ches-
apeake. Both her slender masts
snapped. and the stately vessel ca
reened till her whole armament slid
off into the water.
'Phrastus' first thought. as ne
emerged putting and suffering, was
crackers all at once. But when he got
the water out of his eyes he saw that
the British had received unexpected
reinforcements.
King George NIL, arriving upper
ceived from the rear, had disposed of
the American commodore. and now
turned his attention to the stars and
stripes, which he jammed into the
bank with repeated blows of his woolly
head.
The patriotic blood of 'Phrastus
boiled.
''Git out of that you old British
ram! Lee my dag alone. I'll hit you
with a rock. l will"
lie dug " inly about with his fingers
in the muddy bed of the pond, but
found rothing larger than a small peb-
BILE Meantime King Georges pointed
feet were tramping his ammunition
deep into the soil. 'Phrastus lifted up
his voice in reproaeh and lamentation.
You're the meanest, meanest old
sheep that ever was! We did beat you,
we did, we did, Oh. my fiag-boo-
Observation-Disclosures sp'ilin' every
last one. wish they'd bust and turn
him wrong side Ou-ou-out-"
The howl drew King Georges atten-
ton To the pond. He stood a moment
with lowered horns, and then plunged
threateuingly forward. drawing back.
however, as his feet touched the
water.
At the toward movement 'Phrastus
turned and ran. lie reached the shore
as King George came galloping around
the curve.
Up the nearest tree scrambled the
small American. 1t was not q very
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Are TO Theophrastus Wilson, but the
person to whom he poured out his
woes only twinkled a pair of merry
ewes. Harvey Harris was several years
older than Phratus. but he listened
with an interest very comforting 10 the
smaller boy
she saws / kin take the old boss
pistle n fire il off once down behind
the barn. Nj kin tie dads old flag 10
brOOmstick aud wave it about all
wanter. Who wants an old broomsticlS
round, anyway? That amt no Fourth
of July"
'Phrastus shifted he almost sniveled.
His hearer laughed outright.
''Say. 'PhrastuS. what uuder the can
opy did vou do last Fourth that makes
Aunt 'Scilla settle down on you like
this?"
'Nothin'," said 'Phrastus, sullenly.
"Oh, pshaw, know gJu and l
know Aunt Priscilla. She'd never cor
ner you up So close without some
reason. Honest. now. out with il, and
I'll see what can do for YOU
There was the cat" said 'Phrastus,
digging his toes INTO the ground.
What about the cat?'
''She told me to give him his dinner.
md put firecrackcr under the pan.
1t didn't hurt him none. but he never
come fer week; nd he won't tech cod
fish seuce."
''Oh, no, What else?"
1.-THE settin' hen" said 'Prastus.
scratching his right ear. Il znowed she
wanted her broke mp. n bet couple
o crackers'd do It"
well. did they?"
Guess you'd "a thought so, They
set the nest afire. and most burnt up
the chicken house" 'Phrastus actually
grinned-
''Ah. ma. TO ahead; that wasn't all.
What put on the finishing touch?"
Il s'pOse twas the new wash biler,"
said 'Phrsstus. frowning. I'VE TUX it
out behind the barn 10 light bunch
IN. My. didn't they pop! Then we
forgot il teetotal, and come wash-day
nobody kuowcd where the b'iler was"
And when they found it?'
"Suthin' had stepped ON it, muttered
'Phrastus. Blu: I don't think folks
ought To hold things a hull year"
Harvey threw his head back and
laughed - heartily that 'Phrastus
stopped frowning and giggled.
Now look here. said Harvey, when he
had had his laugh out. Il haven't for
gotten how you found FrOwsy for me
last summer. and if you'll promise not
20 use them round the house or the
barn, or anywhere where they'll dis
turh Aunt 'Scjlia. I'll put half dozen
packs under the big stone behind the
barn for you Fourth of July morning. "
Its awful good Cf you.' 'Phrastus'
cheeks grew shin ing red. There
sha'n't nobody hear EN- 'cept me; I'll
take 'em down to the woods And say
I'll hunt your dog every time he gets
IOst-don't you give any other Teller the
job. What they got in that wagon"
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The small boy will have his way,
even if he burns his clothes. blows off
his fingers and sets mis- fathers house
on fire. 1t is estimated that one and
a half million dollars worth of fire.
works are imported into the United
States each year-three-quarters of
which are used on the Fourth of July.
How many boys bid farewell to fingers
or thumbs is not stated. What an ac-
count John Adams will have TO meet
for that letter to his noble wife in
which he shaped the way in which the
Fourth of July should be observed to
the end.-Christian Inquirer.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs Of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing The system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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Tobacco Destroys Vitality.

Nervous system paralyzed by nicotine
means lost manhood, weak eyes, and gen
eral all gone look and feeling that rObs life
Of its pleasure. Tobacco is the rootof many
an impotent symptom, and No-To-Bac q
vigorous and happy in more ways than one
No-To-Bac guaranteed and sold By Druggists
everywhere. Book, titled "Dou't Tobacco
Spit or Smoke Your Life Away Ad. Ster
ling Remedy Co., New York or Chicago.
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BERLIN'S ROYAL CASTLE.
The Famous White Hall Improved
by Emperor William.
Both the Kaiser and the Municipal Coun-
Gil Desire to Make Berlin. the Hand
soonest and Most artistic
City In Europe.
Especial Berlin Letter.l

When the present young emperor
assembled the throne everybody about
the court knew that a new era had be-
gun, for his love of splendor and luxury,
of elegance a, refinem9't in external
things had been remarked even during
the DAYS when he was plain Prince
William, son of Crown Prince Fred
erick William, and when pis aspirations
and tastes were in strange contrast
with his purse. The you g monarch at
once gave it out that hiSintention was
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Beecham's pills are for bilious

Beecham's pills are for bilious
ness, bilious headache, dyspepsia,
heartburn, torpid liver, dizziness,
sick headache, bad taste in the
mouth, coated tongue, loss Of
appetite, sallow skin, ETC., when
caused by constipation and con-
stipation is the most frequent
cause of all of them.
Go by the book. Pills Ioc and age
box. Book FREE at your druggists or
write B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal Street,
New York.
Annual sales ore than 600 900 boxes
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FREDERICK THE GREAT.

what Frederick the Great meant TO
build for himself shortly before the
seven years war broke out. VIII this
descendant of his, William H., ever
find he leisure and the money to real
ize his wish? These are times which
are not very propitious for palace
building ON gigantic scale.
WOLF Won SCHIERBRAND.
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Dynamite In His Pocket.

j. Baum, farmer of the town of Mo
mence, left his home to go to the farm
to blast some stone. lie took some
dynamite with him, putting part of it
in his vest pocket, and it is thought
that he stumbled and fell, exploding
the stuff. The report of the explosion
was heard some distance away and
neighbors FASTENED to the place, where
Baum was found dead.
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Decrease are made in the following
Important Legislation.

An Important piece of legislati on
was transacted by the state board of
control in the passage of the following
resolution:
NO relative OF any superintendent warden
or steward OF any state hospital for the in
sane, the school for the deaf. tho school for
the blind, the industrial school for bows, the
state prison and the state public schools shall
be on the pay roll OF any such institutions
where such superintendent, warden or stew
ard 1, heated %
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Sarcasm.

"This hasn't sign of clam in IT,"
said the guest who had ordered clam
chowder. Its swindle; that's what
il is"
Excuse me, sir" responded the
waiter, who is too good for that bust
ness, but we only undertake to serve
a chowder; not an aquarium. Life.
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nnn.t CAT scnrrd

II you should hear that in some place to
which you are going malaria is prevalent;
To the air poison which produces cnills ana
fever. bilious remittent and dumb ague there
is safe and thorough antidote and pre-
ventive, viz. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
The great anti malarial specific is also
remedy for biliousness, constipation, dys-
pepsia, rheumatic and kidney trouble, nerV'
business and debility.
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Ma.ons Elect Officers.

The Grand Lodge of NIasons OF Wis
consin in session in Milwaukee ele cted
officers as follows:
Grand master. W. W. Perry, Madison: grand
deputy master. Aldro jerks, DodgeNille;
grand senior warden. w r. Gruenewald, Su-
sau: grand junior warden. f. p AinswortL
River Falls; grand treasurer, John CorScot
Madison: grand secretary J. w Latin, Mil
waukee. The officers we're installed
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


The annual readjustment of the
postmasters' sala res makes many
changes in Wisconsin. There will be
1I9 presidential offices Florence is re-
duced from third 10 fourth class, and
Portage advanced from third to second
class. Increases are made at the fol-
lowing pointS: