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TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1S97.
Among his many qualifications
for secretary- of state. Senator
Sherman has a record of uncondi
tional sympathy for Cuba and be
lief in her right to be recognized as
an independent nation.
Ik just forty-four days the "four
vears more of G rover and clover"
will end. It has been the longest four
years in the history of the United
States, and the people will gladly
exchange "Srover and clover" for
McKiuley and prosperity.
Ax exchauge very truthfully re
marks that the men who have made
"eiffht hours a legal davs work"
for all the trades have carefully
avoided shortening- up the sixteen
hours' work in the homes of mil
lions of women.
Is that right.
It is announced, and authenti
cally so, that Senator Sherman has
accepted McKinley's invitation to
become secretarjr of state. The se
lection is as pleasing to the repub
licans as it is displeasing to the
popocrats, especially to those of the
latter party who fancy that Sena
tor Sherman brought about that
awful crime of '73.
Since January 1st the subtreasury
at New York has been receiving a
daily average of 5600,000 in soiled
and mutilated bills for redemption.
These bills were all right so long
as they were stuffed in old socks or
buried, but now that business is re
viving and there is an opportunity to
use money, the owners of the bills
want them exchanged for new crisp
ones that will stand handling.
The statement of the receivers
of the suspended bank of Minnesota
at St. Paul shows that the officers
and directors borrowed $785,000
from the institution. This was
evidently one of the chief causes of
the failure, and certainly the law
should make such recklessness im
possible on the part ot those who
are entrusted with other people's
money in the form of bank de-
Because Senator Allen has the
courage of his convictions, and dare
.say. in the United States senate
that he believes the sugar industry
developed in Nebraska would be a
godsend to the farmer, there are
already pop papers threatening to
'turn him down." Advancement,
improvement m Nebraska farming
would kill populism hence the
alarm concerning their senator.
Grand Island Independent.
An exchange does great injustice
togeneral Weyler. It sars; 'Wey
ler has cost Spain $120,000,000 in
less than a year. At this figure
another TVeyler will surely be im
possible." General "Weyler is not
the cause of Spain's failure. It is
due to Spaiu herself and her long
years of oppressive rule in Cuba.
It is not likely that any general in
Spain would have done more for
Spanish interests. "Weyeler has
obeyed orders, and no one accuses
him of lack of courage, of deficiency
in the arts of war. Inter Ocean.
In the banks of New York City
alone there has been an increase of
deposits since November 3d to the
enormous extent of $109,000,000.
And 3et our free silver friends
""would have us believe that confi
dence is not being restored. What
is true of the New York banks is
true of banks in every section of
the country. As the revival in bus
iness continues and grows greater
this idle money will be gradually
absorb and people in all vocations
will be benefitted.
New York's Board of Health
agrees with that of Philadelphia in
saying that consumption is an ab
solutely preventable disease and
that it can be stamped out by the
efficient enforcement of simple, well
understood and easily applied
measure of cleanliness, disinfection
and isolation. The New York
board estimates that 6000 persons
died from consumption in that city
last year, and that there are now
20,000 cases among the citizens, of
whom from thirty to fifty are in
fected daily. After declaring in
the most positive terms that the
malady can be almost exterminated
the board recommends that it be
officially declared a communicable
disease; that institutions admitting
cases of it be subject to regular in
spection, and that accommoda
tions be secured at once for poor
patients. It seems that boards ot
health all over the world are begin
ning to move in this impartant matter.
DOES GOLD GROW?
6oir.3 Veteran Miners Who Pretend t
Seliovo That It Does.
They were all weather beaten trail
"blazers who had led the march of
civilization into the mountains, and
their conversation wandered from
the departed glories of other days
to the latest discoveries in science.
2ohn Helehan had just finished
reading from a mining journal about
Professor Emmons' discovery of the
method of transmuting silver into
gold.
"I think Emmons is a humbug,"
said old J udge Longly, a California
argonaut "The old alchemists, you
know, tried that, but they might as
well have tried to make an applo
seed. Nature holds the germ, and all
the scientists who imitate her can
do is to quicken its growth."
"I've heard tell of gold growing,"
remarked Will Bobbins.
"So have I," said the judge, "but
you have never seen it grow, have
you? I don't believe all tho yarns
these exports spin anyhow."
"Boys," spoke up John Treanor,
"perhaps I lmvo got somo queer old
notions stowed away under this dig
gin hat of mine, but for 30 years,
man and hoy, I've been a prcsiiect
or. and I've been doin some think
in. And I tell you now that I be
lieve gold does grow. Twenty years
ago I struck the Locust and sank a
shaft. It was silver ore, and after
diggiu for awhile I gave it up in dis
gust. Then I wandered over to the
other side of the range and located
the Banner, a copper mine now in
tho possession of the Anaconda com
pany. I moseyed around for awhile,
and eight years ago I went back to
my old love, the Locust.
"Hang me if I could believe my
eyes, hoys, when I found the pret
tiest ledge of gold ore right where
the silver ledge was. It was as pret
ty as a picture, and I kept right on
diggin and have been diggin in that
hole ever since. It seemed to me
that in the places where the water
struck it it grew richer. I run in
three tunnels at the bottom, but
found tho gold was not yet ripe, so
I just closed up the tunnels and let
them rest for a few years."
"Blame me if I don't think Hank
Stebbins does the same thing," said
Jack Flice. "Hank lives up in Soap
gulch and has a claim he calls the
Belcher. He discovered it 30 years
ago, when Wash Stapleton was mak
ing bullets in his lead mine to kill
Indians with. It is in a funny for
mation for that part of the country.
It is in a reef of sand lying between
the lime formation that borders on
the Melrose valley and the stratified
gneiss formation that runs from that
point to the base of Red mountain.
Thirty years ago Hank discovered
that there were globules of silver in
the sand and located, but there was
not enough mineral to pay, and he
abandoned it Ten years ago he
went back to the old mine and began
turning over the sand. He began to
find chunks of gold instead of sil
ver. He has a good tiling of it now.
He mines it like the Mexicans used
to mine it years ago. He cuts stairs
in the sand and takes the sand up
in a candle box and sorts it over.
Now all he has got to do when he
wants to make a stake is to go down
to tho sand pile and wiggle a crow
bar around for a few minutes when
up comes a piece of shining gold.
Several capitalists have attempted
to get hold of the mine, nnd one of
Heinze's agents made him a good
offer for it, but Hank won't sell, for
he is suro he has a fortune if tho
gold keeps on growing. " Butter In
ter Mountain.
Physicians' Prescriptions.
The president of the American
Pharmaceutical association has an
alyzed 27,000 prescriptions and ex
amined over 200,000 additional.
These examinations showed that
only 17 vegetable drugs were pre
scribed and 10 with a metallic basis.
Over one hundred vegetable drugs
recognized by the pharmacoxiceia
were not used at all. It was further
demonstrated that a large number
of physieians used proprietary arti
cles, not including elixirs, pills, tab
lets and fluid extracts. In this same
connection it may bo remarked that
medical men are returning to the
old practice of leaving medicines
with their patients. In the old sad
dlebag days, when drug stores were
few and medicines difficult if not
impossible to obtain, the doctor al
ways brought his drug store with
him and doled out his pills and iow
ders to suit the needs of the patient.
Latterly the physician has been in
the habit of writing his prescription,
which is filled out at the pharmacy.
There have been very many cases,
however, when the wrong drugs
were xnrescribed, and, if the druggist
saw fit, articles not mentioned in
the prescription were substituted.
This has usually been done when
the supidy had run out. In any
event, it is a most culxablexractice.
So much of this has been done that
doctors have found it necessary, in
order to feel sure of the effect of
their remedies, to secure medicines
prepared by reliable firms and
known to be according to rexresenta
tion. This course has its advantage
both to doctor and iiatient, and as
the custom of carrying these arti
cles increases it will no doubfc be
come more iiopular. New York
Lederer.
Sonvcuisnee.
."Mrs. Hoskins, is your new flat
convenient?"
"I should say so. We can sit at
the dining table and turn our own
batter cakes on the kitchen stove."
Chicago Record.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
How
They Operate In tho' Countries
Across the Ocean.
The experience of France, Eng
land, Belgium, Sweden, Holland,
Russia, Austria, Hungary, Canada
and Australia with postal savings
banks is to tho effect that the masses
of the people derive decided advan
tages from having among them
everywhere safe depositories for
their small savings, managed in
connection with the postofiico de
partment. It is claimed in behalf cf
such banks that they benefit a class
not reached by other savings banks.
Their function is thus described by
a distinguished French writer:
"It is the savings bank which has
taught the workman of Franco how
ho can become a capitalist, in mod
erating his consumption to bring it
within his production and in amass
ing tho excess, called savings. From
the bank he learns how capital is
formed and how it can he produced.
The savings bank is in facta school
which seems to be created for the
apprenticeship of industrial busi
ness. It teaches a man to govern
himself, to resist bad or useless im
pulses, and so aids in building ux) a
sound discretion, which is tho first
success in life. Tho presence of fa
cilities for saving and obtaining a
small interest on ono's accumula
tions affects tho character as woll as
the wealth of tho peoxlo. Not only
is caxntal created and the rainy day
provided against, but habits of so
briety and thrift, which aro ele
ments of moral excellence, arc great
ly xn'omoted."
In the "Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science" there is an article by E.
T. Hcyn on "Postal Savings Banks, "
in which are enumerated the advan
tages to bo derived, in the writer's
ox)inion, from adding a savings bank
feature to the oiicratlons of our j)ost
office department These advantages
are as follows: Postal savings banks
would furnish a safe place for the
earnings of the laboring classes and
stimulate them to habits of saving.
At xresent such sums as they hoard
are kept out of use, io the aggregate
amount of hundreds of millions,
thus producing a scarcity of money,
whereas if their savings were put
in bonk they would be restored to
active use. After a few years tho
amount deposited with tho postoffico
department would axproach $1,000,
000,000, and if aimlied to the retire
ment of government bonds would
wholly extinguish the public debt
to bondholders. Not only would the
moral tone of citizens be improved
by becoming depositors, but the
stability of the government would
be increased by the practical inter
est depositors would have in its wel
fare. In the United Kingdom deposits
are now received at 11, 000 postoffices
from 9 a. m. to G x- m. The dexiosit
or receives from the postmaster a
passbook, in which are recorded the
deposits and withdrawals. Any
sum from 5 cents up to $250 may be
deposited in one year, and interest is
paid on any sum that is a multiple
of $5 and is compounded. With
drawals may be speedily effected, by
telegraph or otherwise. A depositor
may, if he chooses, have his accu
mulated deposits invested in gov
ernment bonds. Small savings may
be mado by tho purchase of postage
stamps, which, when they reach a
certain amount, aro recorded as de
posits. There are 6,000 schools in which
the children are encouraged to save
through the machinery of the post
office, a clerk coming to the school
at intervals to receivo the stamps
and furnish xassbooks. The aggre
gate dex)osits in iiostal savings banks
at the end of 1893 was $402,500,000,
the year's increase being $23,500,
000. Besides this, G9,131 depositors
held $31,500,000 of government
bonds. One out of every seven per
sons in England is now a depositor
in the postal banks. In 1893 there
were 9, 83b, 198 deposits mado, aggre
gating $123,000,000, and withdraw
als aggregated $108,500,000. Opera
tions are conducted on a similarly
large scale in the postal savings fea
tures of other countries. Various
public officials have at times urged
upon congress the idea of utilizing
the xostQffige,i for the accumulation
as well as the transmission of mon
ey, insisting uiion its utility in the.
agricultural districts, but so far
congress has not deemed the matter
ripe for action. Baltimore Sun.
Something' Small.
Visitor I am grieved to learn of
your mistress' illness. Nothing se
rious; no great cause for alarm, I
trust?
The New French Maid No, mon
sieur, nozzing beeg, nozzing grande.
Something what you call leetle,
petite. What zey call ze leetle
small smallpox. Boston Travel
ler. Conditional.
"Doctor, do you think that a little
mince pie now and then would hurt
me?"
"Not if you can have it in the
house without oating any of it"
Detroit Free Press.
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S ENGLAND DISAPPEARING?
Five Tillies of Coast In Kent Swallowed
Up by the Sea.
This is a serious question: Is Eng
land disappearing? Readers may
pucker up their lips and ejaculate
"Absurd!" says the London Tit
Bits, but facts nevertheless remain
and show pretty clearly that Eng
land is positively disappearing and
may in years to come be marked on
the map as a vanished isle.
On the coast the sea is encroach
ing upon the land at an astonishing
rate. Seaside towns and villages,
holiday resorts, are gradually being
eaten up and the inhabitants driven
inland. In many parts the sea runs
upon a beach which was once far
inland. In other cases churches
which were at one time far from
the sea now stand at the edge of
cliffs and have the sea lapx)ing al
most at their doors.
The Goodwin sands, about five
miles off tho coast of Kent, were at
one time a iiortion of the mainland
itself and the xrdperty of Earl Good
win. But tho sea has swallowed
them ux).
Tne coast or JNorioiK is minus
threo villages which it once possess
ed Shipden, Eccles and Wimpwell
all of which have been take into
tho arms of the encroaching ocean.
The Cromer of today stands miles
inland of tho original Cromer
Auburn and Harlbnrn, two York
shire villages, once promised to de
velop into seaxiort towns of consid
erable importance ; but, like the ivill
of the Can ate, the will of the inhab
itants of these villages was ignored
by the rising sea, and Auburn and
Harlburn now exist in mere names
and sand banks.
DunAvich, on the coast of Suffolk,
is gradually being swallowed up.
Every now and then the inhabitants
move a distance inland, rebuild their
houses and shops and wait patiently
and philosophically for the next
"notice to quit" from the sea. Many
other seaside x'laces have suffered
or arc suffering a similar fate.
It may be argued, on the other
hand, that some seaside towns are
gradually becoming inland towns
by the failure of the sea to "come
up to mark" and running out only
to run in for a shorter distance.
Winchelsea, Sandwich, Ryo and
Southport are all suffering in this
way. Winchelsea and Rye were orig
inally two of our cinque xorts, but
the sea has left them standing high
and dry. Sandwich was once a
highly important seaport town. It
now stands two or three miles in
land. The sea is leaving Southport quite
in the lurch, so much so indeed
that the inhabitants have had to
sink extensive lakes down on th
beach to keep the sea from running
off altogether and leaving merely
an ordinary inland town.
But the extension of our island in
this way is very much less than the
encroachment of the sea at other
points, and while our land is certain
ly becoming more extensive in one
direction it is contracting, and with
much greater rapidity, in some oth
er. And tho ultimate effect may he
that our mountain xeaks may form
small islands and eventually be
pointed out by posterity as, "the po
sition in which Great Britain is rer
puted to have stood."
Tho Shepherd nnd His Sheep.
A gentleman and his wife travel
ing in the Holy Land, while resting
by the roadside became interested
in a shepherd as he sought to lead
his flock over a stream. In vain he
called to his sheex to follow him
through the shallow waters, and
again and again he coaxed them on.
They would come so. far and no far
ther. At last, as a final resort, he
caught a little lamb and bore it tq
the other side. Immediately the dam
followed, and then the entire flock
crossed safely to better pastures and
cooler shade, There was a lesson in
that little incident for the two travr
elers. It had been necessary in their
case, too, that the Good Shexmerd
should bear their only child across
tho stream in order to draw them
closer to him. But their hearts had
rebelled against the will of God,
and they had sought to bury their
sorrow in distraction. As the mean
ing of the lesson came more fully
upon them they acceited the great
truth it taught, and not only did
they find healing for their own bro
ken hearts and shattered hopes, but
were used of God in bringing hope
and comfort into many another bur.
dened and darkened life. Dwight
L. Moody in Ladies' Home Journal,
aiust Bo an Astrologer.
Ignorant people think that an as
tronomer is also an astrologer. Sir
John Herschel once received a let
ter asking him to cast the writer's
horoscope. Another letter writer re
quested the distinguished astrono
mer to consult the stars and answer
these two questions, "Shall I mar
ry?" and "Have I seen her?"
Maria Mitchell records in her jour
nal that on an Atlantic steamer an
Irish woman, learning that she was
an astronomer, asked her what she
ponld tell. Miss Mitchell answered
that she could tell when the moon
would rise, when the pun wouhf
rise, and when there would he an
eclipse of the moon or of tho sun.
"Oh, " exclaimed the disaxmointed
woman in a tone which plainly said,
"Is that all?" She expected to have
her fortune told.
Once in a town not far from Bos-
ton, during a very mild winter, a
lad, driving a team,' called out to
Miss Mitchell on the street, saying,
"I want to ask you a question, Miss
Mitchell." She stopped. He asked,
"Shall we lose our ice crop this win
ter?" Youth's Cornpanion.
TRUM PETER FANNING.
His Heroic Fight In the Sudan In Deiciise
. of His Wounded Colonel.
Only those who have been engaged
in active warfare in the Sudan can
realize to what extent the religious
fanaticism of the Mahdi's followers
will carry them m timo ot war
Reckless as to death, they rush mad
ly into the thick of the fray. Fear
less, bold and resolute is a true de
scription of tho Hadendown tribe of
Sudanese warriors, whose home lies
in the wild and mountainous dis
tricts of the eastern Sudan.
This warlike tribe of warriors had
never known what it was to suffer
defeat at the hands of an enemy un
til they received their first check
from the British troops at the battle
of El-Teb. Many a brave young
fellow shed his life's blood fighting
hand to hand with this warlike
tribe in defense of his country on
the field of battle that day, and
many a poor mother at home in Eng-
land mourned the loss of
ereat ioy of her heart
tho one
nni lmi
home was left desolate and bare
now that the beloved one had ic
ished gallantly fighting on the
plains of the Sudan. The disastrous
defeats of Hicks Pasha on the Kile
and the intrepid Baker Pasha in the
eastern Sudan led ux to tho subse
quent events which I am about to
narrate.
At the battle of El-Teb (Feb. 29,
1884) Colonel Barrow and Trumpet
er Fanning, a young fellow of 19
years, were leading a wing of the
Nineteenth hussars in the charge
against the Arab forces, who were
cut off from the main body of the
regiment by a superior force of the
enemy. Colonel Barrow had al
ready been badly wounded in the
charge,having been sxeared through
the left arm and side, and was there
fore powerless to defend himself.
Trumpeter Fanning, who was rid
ing by his side, took in the whole
situation at a glance, and quickly
dismounting from his horse stood
on the defensive over the body of
his fallen colonel and fought with
that indomitable pluck and courage
which only a heroic
soldier can do
when put to the test
Drawincrhisre-
volver and with a determined look
to do or die upon his manly young
face, he calmly awaited the on-
slaught of the savage horde. Not a
shot was wasted. Every bullet had
its mark, for Fanning knew only
too well his chances would be small
once his revolver was empty.
At last the critical moment came
and he had tired his last shot. Draw-
ing his sword, he awaited the attack
with a firm grip, and now came a
terrific hand to hand struggle, in
which he fought like a lion until,
Stabbed in the right arm with a
spear, the gallant fellow, through
weakness and loss pf blood, was
conrpelled to relinquish his hold ui-
on his sword.
Nothing daunted, however, the
gallant, trumpeter seized his trumpet
with his left hand and again fought
the enemy hand to hand until liter-
ally borne to the ground by sheer
force of numbers. Here they fell
upon him and hacked his body with
their short stabbing spears and
knives and left him aud the colonel
for dead upon the field.
"When we recovered the bodies,
they were taken back to camp,
ilere wp- fount that Fanning was
stabbed in 17 different places, yet
despite this fact the gallant fellow
lingered for five days afterward and
died at Victoria liosital, Suez,
where he was buried. Needless to
say had he recovered from his
wounds he would have received the
Victoria cross for his bravery. He
left a widowed mother to mourn his
loss.
The trumpet which bore such
mute testimony by the blood stain
etl linger marks in his deathly grasp
of the gallant stand made by the
heroic youth, was afterward recov
ered and preserved as a memento
by his comrades. T.olpneJ Barrow
afterward died froin the effepts of
his wounds, although not until he
had rendered excellent services on
the Nile expedition.-London Tit-
Bits.
Whnt Jarred,
"Come, old man," said the kind
friend, "cheer up. There are others. ' '
"I don't mind her breaking the
engagement so very much, ' ' said the
despondent young man, "but to
think that I have got to go on pay
ing the installments on the ring for
a year to come yet! That is what
-jars." London Fun.
Tlic 3IosqultQ.
Baron do la Tour estimates that
the mosquito vibratep its wings 50
times a second. This incpnceiyably
rapid motion is said to be due to the
fact that the muscles moving the
wings are veiy curiously arranged
in groups or clusters, and while one
set is in motion another is at rest.
A Sight.
"Did Sai-donix encourage you to
offer your picture?" asked the art
ist's friend.
"Yes. He intimaced that it ought
to be exhibited."
"What did he say?"
"He said it was a sight." Wash
ington Star.
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WOOD LATHING DOOMED.
Growing Demand From Nearly All Archt
tects For Iron or Steel Devices.
One industry which is declining
in this country is the manufacture
of wooden laths. It is not owing to
any general decrease of building,
nor to business depression, but to
the growing demand from nearly
all architects for metallic lathing in
the construction of the partitions of
modem buildings. Metallic lathing
is used less with a view to making tho
buildings fireproof than to making
the walls and iiartitions stronger
and less likely to crack. Ordinary
wooden lath3 are nailed to the stud
dings while still green or Avet from
exposure to the weather. It would
niako no difference if they were per
fectly diy, for tho mortar would
quickly moisten them. Then come
the drying out process. Ah tho laths
dry thoy twist and turn, cracking
the mortar and weakening the wall
The wooden lath in doomed except
ior tne coiiHtrucrioii m tne (mealiest
kind of buildinirH. Tho advantages
of any form of metal laths aro ho
great that architect have no diffi
culty in XiiiVtiumYmiz jjroHpective
builders to use them to the exclu
sion of wood.
The evolution of the lath is rather
interesting. In tho early days, just
after the log cabin era in this coun
try, a xdastered wall was looked ux
on as a luxury. Studdings were
hewn from hard wood and the laths
were riven by hand from tho
Btraightest grained timber obtain
able and occasionally dressed with
the drawknife or spokeshave when
too thick for use. They were fasten
ed to the studding with handmade
nails costing 2 or 3 shillings a xound,
and before the rough coat of mor
tar and hair was put on the lathed
wall xresented a rugged apxiearance,
baying no straight lines anywhere
and showing chinks varying from a
mere crack up to fully an inch when
a crooked lath came in juxtaposi
tion to a moderately straight one.
Then came the sawed Jaths, each
one ripped from the edge of an inch
and a quarter plank with a handsaw.
Next came the laths made one at a
time with circular saws, and then
-came tho gangsaw machines, which
made scores of laths at one cut.
These laths were cut from the losr
with a shaving knife and chopped
into widths as toothpicks and cigar
lighters arc.
The next innovation wa3 a metal
lath made of thin sheet iron strips
ribbed or having the edges turned
over to give
Perforated
sheet iron with ragged punctures,
in which the mortar would clinch,
succeeded tho strips, and wire net-
ting lathing was introduced. It was
generally strengthened with ribs of
poarser wire and is still extensively
used, not only for partitions, but
for concrete floors as well.
Within a few years scores of pat-
ents have been granted for metallic
lathing, ant in almost eyery in-
stanco they have been for making
sheet steel plates provided with slits
or perforations to hold the mortar.
Several varieties are designed to get
more surface out of the metal sheet
than by mere perforating and are
known as expanded metal lathing.
One company has had almost a mo
nopoly of expanding metal in this
manner by the use of an ingenious
machine, upon which it has patents
here and abroad. The sales run up
to considerably more than 1,000,
000 a year in the United States, it is
said. This lath is paid fully to dou-
oie me vmux or, xjje original piate
from which it is cut. Recently an
other company has produced a ma
chine by which even more cxtuui-
sion is gained by an ingenious form
of cutting and corrugating. All this
is clear gain, and the effort is being
directed to getting the greatest stiff-
ness with the lightest metal, which
means more gam to tne makers.
Stfew York Sun.
JVilliani rorri3.
r -.
It was not long before his death
uiaiiiumi iii uuuauiuuu, j
"I have enjoy.-i my life; few men ;
TTr:n: ir . . i x - .1 I id
nxoresQ. NY lien no was, taiKcu to
.concerning tap peri or sucn a me
pf intellectual tension as his, he
hed at the talker, "Look at
Gladstone," he would say. "Look
at those wise owls, your chancellors
and your judges. Don't they live all
the longer for woi'k? It is rust that
LiTI,. 4- 1, "
His concentration was marvelous.
"The Lovei'S of Gudrun," which
many of his readers delight in as
his most beautiful poem, was prac
tically produced at a sitting. He
worked at it fi-om -1 o?clock in the
morning till 4 in the afternpon, and
when he rose from the table he had
written 750 lines. .
Tho Primula,
Many amateur gardeners have
found themselves troubled with
temporary skin complaints without
being able in the least to account
for them. The cause has at last
been traced to one of the most pop
ular of decorative flowers, tho prim
ula. Some, if not all, of the va
rieties of this plant contain a poison
in minute quantities in their leaves.
The Tomato.
The charge that the tomato pro
duces cancer is no longer credited,
but now Dr. W. T. English of the
Western university of Pennsylvania
says that it acts as a heart'poison,
and in aggravated cases it sets, up
an active fermentation in the entii'O
alimentary tract.- The heart action
is rendered jiTegular, the sufferer
gasps for breath, and a steady use
of the vegetable as a food is likely
to produce organic as woll as func
tional trouble. He admits that the
symptoms of poisoning are not
marked except in rare cases.
in a moiucui vi
neril oeonle often
J ' lose their heads."
Sometimes at a fire
a frantic woman
jumps to her death
just as rescue is at
hand.
Women who suf
fer with some dis-
ease or weaKiiess
until it becomes un
bearable, often jump
into worse trouble and
still further endanger their
health by taking some so
called remedy prepared by
an incompetent, uneducated '
V person, perhaps a mere
nurse who has no knowledge of medi
cine and no experience in prescribing for
complicated diseases.
The safe and sensible course is to con
sult an educated, experienced physician.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physi
cian of the Invalids Hotel aud Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., may be con
sulted free of charge, either personally
or by letter, and will give sound profes
sional advice to any woman who writes
him. He is one ot the moat eminent
living socialists in women's diseases,
and his "Favorite Prescription" has
cured more troubles of this kind than
any other remedy known to medical
science.
-1 trily bcl'evc that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre
script Km saved my life, "writes Mrs. Maud Prarce.
of StoHtuvinc. Fairfield Co., Ohio. " It i n sure
and certain cure for ' female troubles. I am
having per'ect health. I am stout and can do
all -my housework. Nothing did mc any good
until I hcar:l of you. Now I am well at last by
taking vr-r medtcine?. My good health pleases
me ait'I yezac my httbatMT lie wants me to
jfhre you hi v.irA wishes. Every invalid tadv
ithould Uke Dr. Pierce' Favorite Prescription.
Por obstinate constipation, Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are the most natural and
truly scientific laxative; and curative in
the world. They reflate and invigorate
stomach, liv-r and bow H; cure bilious
ness, indi;4'rMtion and kindred ailments.
Soid by druggists.
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ATTOJIXETS-AT-LA F,
.OKTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA
Office over North Platto National Bank.
D
R. X. F. DONALDSON,
Assistant Surceon Union Pac-fic Rp,,,
and Member at Pension Board,
NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA.
Office over StroItzV Drug Store.
B. XO.RTHRUP,
DENTIST,
Room Xo. G, Ottenstein Building;
XORTH PLATTE, XEB.
pREXCH & BALDWIN,
ATTOUKE TS-AT-LA TP,
N"ORTiI PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA.
Office over N. P. Xtl. Bank.
rp C. PATTERSON,
Ofliee First National B-mk BJdff.,
XORTH PLATTE, NEB-
GEO. NAUMAN'S
SIXTH STREET
Meafs at wholesale and re
tail. H ish ;ind (rrirrm
in
all
season. Sausage at
times. Cash paid for Hides.
h
Pf! S
L5
mki Tinworker
General Repairer.
Special attention given to
I!
WHEELS TO RENT
Claude Weiipt
DEALER IN
Coal Oil,
Gasoline,
Gas Tar,
And Crude Petroleum.
Leave orders at office
in Broeker's tailor shop.
A Cure for Piles.
"We can assure all who suffer -with In
ternal I'ihvs tbat in Hemorrhoidine we
have a positive cure. The treatment is
unlike any thing heretofore u?ed and its
application so perfect that every yps;-ti-e
of t he disease is eradicated. Hcm:
orrhoidinc is a harmless compound, can
be used for an eye ointment, yet p'oes!i
es puch healing power that when an
plied to the diseased parts, it at oncere:
heves and a cure is the sure result qf its
continued use. All who suffer with piles
suffer-from Constipation also and Hem
orrhoidine cures bodi. Price $1 6Q7r
Sale by Pmppista Will bo eont'from
tho factory on receipt of price, Send te
Tx Foster Ma.xVg Co, Council Bluffii.
Iowa, for testimonials and information.
SOLD BY A. F. STREITZ.
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