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THE JIGGER. It seems to ui that the Jigger haji not received hi share of attention this ummerv-from the literati, we mean and we have succeeded In compiling some Information and collecting some little gems devoted to that small but energetic Insect. We hunted him up In the dictionary the other day and found that the Jigger Is a species of Ilea of the West Indies and South America which bur rows beneath the skin, making painful and sometimes dangerous sores. The name Is erroneously aplied, so Web ster says, to some kinds of mites and ticks, and it Is doubtless one variety ef these mighty mites that makes it self such a nuisance in the hot season. This Insect, small as It It, yet has the privilege of spelling its name in seven different ways: Chigoe, chegoe, chlgre, chegre, chlque, chlgger and Jig ger. This fart calls forth from the pen poei me rouowlng lines, In which we notice some poetic license has been used: ACCORDING TO WEBSTER, Chigoe, chegre, chegoe, chlgre spell it howsoe'er you will Chlque. cheque, chegeur, chlgger 'tis the same old Jigger still. From whence this aggravating mid get came, and why we are atlilcted with It nobody sems to have found out, but it Is here, and apparently here to stay. In fact. Its staying qualities are unusually remarkable. Full many a laf and blade of emerald green Upon their surfac countless Jiggers bear; Full many a man Is doomed to scratch unseen. And voice his suffering to the quiver ing air. It did not require seven years, the author Informs us, to write this little stanza. On the contrary, It was dashed off In an idle moment. This Is a re freshing assurance. It Is so rare to find anyone who has an Idle moment in the Jigger season. There is another excellent thing about these charming little thoughtlets; they are not the fond foolish Imaginings of a romantic mind; they are the result of experience. Then, too, they are so Impressioned and full of feeling. Here Is a bit of wisdom which every thinking person will heartily endorse. It relates to the Jigger's position In so cial circles. There are some things which are not good form; And some are quite Improper, And some to which society has turned the Klondike shoulder. But the Jigger s "strictly in It" That no one doubts a minute And he's pretty sure to stay there un til the weather's colder. The following tragic tale will strike a sympathetic chord: It was a festive Jigger bug that sat upon the grass And waited for some unsophisticated Jayhawker to pass, And sharpened up his forceps while he winked the other eye And thought about the good square mael he'd tackle by and by, The tiny bright red Jigger, The Inflnltesmal Jigger, The pesky itching Jigger that's little, but oh my! "I'm not the only pebble," thought his Jiggershlp, "there's others." Bo when he spied a victim gave the wink unto his brothers, For the Jigger Isn't selfish. If his ways are rather small; And when he sees a good thins ne never wants It all The lithesome, blithesome Jigger, The nimble footed Jigger, The old familiar Jigger that stays from spring to fall. It was a man who used that night a quart of kerosene, A pound of salty butter and a lot of vaseline, And any one who'd seen him scratch -would not have called him lazy. But the Insane board next morning pronounced him raving cracy. And all because of the Jigger, The nineteenth century Jigger They sent him to an asylum for folks with Ideas hazy. Here Is a recipe for annihilating the Jigger, which will be found effective: First catch your Jigger and this Is the way to do It. After a stroll In the blue grass, go Indoors and sit quietly down for an hour or two, and at the first nibble arm yourself with a needle and a search warrant and begin opera tions. If your sight Is good you may find the Jigger, which Is about the size of a pin point and of a bright red color. Carefully Impale him on the needle and he will give you no further trouble. ARTEMISIA ANDIiEWS. SOME LATE INVENTIONS. In a newly designed folding bed the bottom and head and foot boards are formed of sets of lazy tongs, each sW being adjustable In two directions, thuf making the bed changeable as to lt length and width. To permit the use of a photograph fallery at night a photographic light stand has been patented, comprising a vertical distributing pipe with branch es to carry the burners, with adjusta ble reflectors to throw all the light In one direction. To prevent the legs of furniture from tearing the carpet a pad has been de signed, consisting of a spindle to be Inserted In the end of the leg, with a headed portion formed at the lower end. the latter being covered by a cap Of leather or rubber. A handy device for cleaning lamp Umniivi lit fnrmed of four wires twiatoii tr.irether at one end, with slldlnr rlna- attached to a rod leading to the handle, to be pushed down over th wires and cause them to grip a ponge or other material for cleaning the chimney. The cranks of a bicycle can be lengthened by a Chicago man's devlc nnniiilni of a recessed sleeve, having . ku tr h reccntlon of a bolt, to attach It to the crank, the bolt taking the place of the pedal shaft, whll the latter Is Inserted In an extension ef the sleeve beyond the bolt. Commercial travelers will appreciate new sample case designed for their use, having extensible frames set In Slde the case to open In opposite di rections, slides being carried by the frames to support a series of trays wWch arrant themedve In step, when the case Is opened. Jardinieres can be easily drained Without removing the plant Jar by a pew attachment, a hole being formed la the bottom of the Jardiniere for th Insertion of a tube, which bends at Sent angles and has a sliding pipe In uFend to be pushed la and cloee thi at let after draining. DAISY'S FUN. As soon as I have time, said Misi Daisy, as reported In the Chicago Rec ord, seating herself In her Utile red chair, I'm going to tell every person 1 know how to enjoy themselves. It's as easy. You must only have fn That's all. To have fun you've got to have ear rings and things, and If you haven'l got 'em, make 'em! I do. I have nine essqulsite earring; that I made myself outen of beads and things and I'm going to make some more soon. If you can't be took to a matnet make a matnee yourself, and If you can't wear your mamma's organdies, wear Mena's aperuns tied on sort of loose in the back, so's they'll drag good. I make matnees and picnics and go- lng-a-rlding and Sunny-schools and every mortll thing. Once I made a barber shop, and it wa Jest ezzackly like a real one. Mamma made be a big roily man outen a quilt and tied papa's old foot ball on for a head. Then I put him n a big chair and soap-sudded him and shaved him with a knife all day. :nly he was bald. But I used four bottles of hair colic on him, and that was most as much fun as cutting his hair. Then the Sunday school. I had Gran' in' her canary bird and the gold fish in mamma's statuaries of Beenus and Paulbenearus for scholars and we all snjoyed ourselves. Picnics are fun, too, but they are longer to make. First you must get in apple the same as when you go to play butcher shop and a cooky, and uten of 'em make banana and pickles nd cakes and sardines. Then get a match box and pack 'em in and have plenty of bananas made. Then when the lunching Is all ready put on an or fandy or some other grown-up thing ind go to the picnic on the rocking rhalr street car. You know how to make that, of course. Wear earrings ind a shawl and a palrsole. 'cause when you get to the picnic It will rain lwful and you must eat lunching with :he palrsole up. Then, when you re lust as wet as you can be, you must ?o under a tree to get dry. That's the aofa or the hogmany table. Then, when you're all dry and snugly again, eat a few more banana and go home in the rocklng-chalr horse car. Hut a circus. Oh! You must be a Tiri ng lady In a long dress and sit on the lde of a big trunk covered with the red table cloth and have pink paper n your cheeks for paint. Then some limes I play I'm the dancing-legged ady, with my legs going right down into the ends of my toes, but they lon't, very good. Where do dancing legged ladles live? I never saw one on the street, and I've looked and ooked. I asked Uncle John If they were angels, and he said no, they only played angels. And the clownd, too, never saw him on the street. I sup pose he's so white he's 'frald to get olled If he comes out. I don't see how he can ever enjoy himself. Boys' most fun Is when they go skating and freeze their ears and have to have snow rubbed Into them to lieep them from spoiling. Once a boy who used to run away from school and go fishing caught so many fish that he broke his arm carry ing them home, and his ma gave him 10 cents a pound for 'em. Then when he got bigger he could paint plcksures of fishes so good they were smelly, and now he's an arterist and has an artery of his own, and makes fish to sell for an awful lot of money. Papa ay's that's because he was a bad boy and run away from school Instead of being good and learning how to work In an office all day. Now he Just sells fish plcksures. In the summer I have essqulsite lime playing garden. I go over In the lot where that lady keeps her goat and 1 name all the white flowers Lily, all the pink ones Rose and all the blue ones violet. But the most ones are yellow ones and I Just call 'em all darling, so's not to hurt their feelings. I charge a pin for enough flowers to fill the iodrunalre. and I have seven pins In Gran's cushion that I made that way last summer. They're empty-lot flowers, but they're essqulsite. If you take up the little fire shovel and dig all nice around an empty-lot flower and then pour three catchup bottles of water onto It, It will grow as tall as you are and have eight bou quets on top. Then pick them for the Iodrunalre. Did you ever sprinkle a goat? I did In the hot time lust summer. I sprin kled him every day so's he could keep cool and enjoy hlHself. In the hot time I sprinkled every mortll thing I could. Gran's canary, the lettuce on Menna's Sunday hat to keep it from blltherln' and mamma's goldfish. Then you know the big tree on the corner. I poured five livery pills bot tles of water on It every day, beside when I helped the Janitor with the hose. It grew so! It seems as If there's so many things to do a person doesn't have time to go a place or do a mortll thing. There's so much fun, maybe I'll not have time to have It all before I stop being a little girl. You stop at 8 you know, and then begin being a big girl. I'm nfrald I'll cry that day, but, then, maybe big girls 'Joy themselves too! RELIGIOUS NOTES. The Universalis! general convention meets In Boston October 19. The receipts of the American board (Congregational) for the year Just end ed are fi4t,200.S9. A Michigan Methodist minister who for eight years has been lecturing against the Roman Catholics has now Joined that communion. The new catechism recently prepared In Kngland Is being printed In Spanish by the American Tract society and will be circulated in our few Island posses sions. At the dedication of the Jewish syn agogue recently finished at tel Paso an Kplscopal, a Methodist and a Presby terian minister assisted) Rabl Oscar Cohen In the exercises. The American Sunday School union, In closing up Its seventy-five years of continuous labor, points to the organ ization of over 100,000 Sunday schools, with over 500,000 teachers and 4,000,000 scholars. It is stated that Bishop Strere sub stituted a church for a slave market In Zanzibar, and many of the slave children whom the sultan gave the bishop as a compliment are now them selves missionaries. Most of the bishops of the Church of England have Issued letters to their various dioceses ordering the archbish op's decision In regard to ritualistic practices to be held In abeyance. Many of the clergy, It Is stated, frankly an nounce that they will not do so. President Beelye says that "cure by faith Is the very opposite of Christian Science. Christian Science teaches that there Is no such thing as disease; that Is a preposterous falsehood. Faltt teaches that Ood can heal disease; thai Is a sublime truth." 1 NOTES OF THE DAY, America has 208 female lawyers. The use of the fan originated In China. Our clocks and sun dials were in vented in the Orient. German newspapers praise the Amer ican consular service. An energetic temperament and active habits conduce to longevity. The value of hogs Is 1166,272,770 more than the total amount deposited in all the savings banks of the country. The vaccination, or rather anti-vac-einatton, question is a very live on in Kngland, the law there not being com pulsory. The woman who invented satchel-bottom paper bags was offered $20,000 for the patent before she could get away from Washington, During the fiscal year of 1897-98 the United States sold 128,000 worth of type writers In Mexico and 118,000 worth In Argentina. Eggs as an article of diet were first jsed by the Malaccans and when we ipeak of Shanghai chickens we but nention an ABlatic name. Japan has to rely entirely upon for ?lgn countries for her supply of leath er, there being only two tanneries worth .he name in the country. Interference with digestion Is by no neans an uncommon effect of excessive :xerclse, and so far as training Is con cerned it is one of the most destruc ive. - A New York restaurateur recently undertook to cater exclusively for fat eople, but failed because his customers acked perseverance In the "banting" llet served. Near a certain quarry in Italy Is a town In which the Inhabitants pay no rent or taxes. They are quarry em-i ployes, who have dug dwellings in thej ace of a steep rock. Austrian women can be seen in the est restaurants with a huge glass of jeer standing a foot high on the table n front of them, and they consume the Iquor with ease and evident enjoy- nent. They are busily working again at the wonderful quarries of Vltulano, In the Italian province of Venevento, which -harles III., of Naples, first exploited ind from which he built the splendid Palace of Caserts. At Sheffield, England, the scarcity of workmen for the Iron and steel industry las become so acute that measures are 5elng taken for recruiting labor abroad -especially in Sweden, where labor is ncuh cheaper. The American Agriculturist has ;athered and compiled statistics which ihow that of 62,000 students In nearly '.00 colleges and universities In this lountry, nearly 21,000 are from the agrl mltural classes. The Chinese, as most people know, relieve In a future existence; but in :hat future state they are by means :ertaln whether all one's wants are provided for, consequently they have a way of their own of consigning earthly :omforts to their departed friends and elatives in the other world. Ordinary dark hair Is far finer than ed, and more than three dark hairs would generally occupy the place of a ed one, 105,000 hairs being about the iverage crop. Fair-haired people are itlll better off, HO.000 to 160,000 being tulte an ordinary crop of hairs on the ead of a fair man or woman. "The magnetic currents that exist In he earth constitute a problem that iclence has done very little toward ex plaining," remarked a gentleman of .his city, who has had a great deal of ixperience in mining, says the New rleans Times-Democrat. "Apropos of :he subject, I can tell you a curious lit tle story. Some years ago a steel drill vas driven 2,200 feet straight down thro' i deposit of rock salt on Jefferson's Bland. The object was to ascertain the thickness of the stratum, and I nay say Incidentally that In that re- ipect it proved a failure. At the end f 2,200 feet, which you know is nearly Half a mile, the bottom was apparently is far off as ever and for all that was learned to the contrary there may be alt clear through to the Philippines. The first couple of hundred feet or so 3f the hole was in dirt and sand and 'or that distance there was an Iron pipe. The restof the way was through beauti ful hard rock salt, In which there was no nece6ssity for piping. The drill was v steel rod a couple of Inches In dlam jter and made In sections, which were tcrewed one Into the other as it went Jown. When the level I have mention ed was reached I was astonished to find that the drill had become strongly mag netic. If an Iron tool of any sort was wrought near It, It would fly over and ittach itself so tenaciously to the side that It could hardly be pulled loose. There was no Instrument at hand for measuring the exact strength of the ittractlon, but it equaled that of a t-ery powerful electro-magnet. Since then I have noticed the same phenome non In other borings through salt. Something about the condition seems to set up a megnetlc current or else a sub terranean current Is tapped. These, at ny rate, are the facts." LABOR AND INDUSTRY. Texas has three woolen mills. North Carolina has 205 cotton mills. New Jersey ranks first In silk goods. Jersey City has a woman sign palm ar. London printers enjoy the fifty-four- hour week. A Cleveland councilman has prepared an ordinance which will require motor- men to be licensed. , The union clgarmakers of Tampa, Fla., have enforced a demand that cigar factories be scrubbed and cleaned once i month. There are upward of 1,000,000 shippers af produce In the United States and it Is believed that from their ranks a ftrong national organization can be formed. One hundred years ago It was con ldered a wonderful achievement for ten men to mnnufacture 48,000 pins In a day. Now three make 7,500,000 pins In the same time. The demand for men to work In the lumber woods Inthe season that Is Just piienlne Is better than It has been for some years and the wages offered are 25 per cent higher. The tide of workers from the harvest field to the pineries has set In, and yet the demand Is greater than the supply. Mass meetings have been held nightly for the last two weeks In Ottawa, III., for the purpose of raising $165,000 re quired to secure a big glass plant to cost over $1,000,000. The necessary sum Is about raised, one-half being sub scribed by the school teachers, clerks, laboring men and women. Just as soon as arrangements can be made work will be commenced on the buildings. Electric light for the Illumination of railroad cars has been successfully generated In Hoboken though only ex perimentally by power derived from the axles of the moving wheels. Fric tion pulleys placed on the axle run dynamo under the car. A storage bat tery prevents the light from going out when the car stops. The lights cost about 1 cent each for every ten hours. CRUEL AND TREACHEROUS. From the New York Tribune: At thf Plaza Hotel Is William Borda, a ranch man ana sugar planter in Porto Rico who Had an experience during thf siege of the Island by the Americans that would appear well in a novel. A his property, with 2,500 head of cattle, H head or horses and other live stock was confiscated by the Spaniards and he and his family were driven from their house by the soldiers. "I don'1 !lke to say much about it now because it is all over," said Mr. Borda modest ly. "I and my wife and three children were shut up In a hotel In San Juan ind closedly guarded by the soldiers. Although I had spent thirty-one years in Porto Rico, I am and alwayB will be in American. The Spaniards thought that by holding the ax over our head hey could prevent the fleet from be ginning the bombardment. At any rate he military governor came to me and jaid; 'When you hear the first Amer ican gun boom you will know that your ast day and your wife's and your :hlldren's last day has come. You will pe shot. I was almost crazy with with rage and grief to think that my nnocent wife and children were to be daughtered like cattle, but I was help ess and could do nothing but rave, which seemed to delight my Jailers ery much. I had given up all hope, pecause I knew from long experience that the Spaniards were quite cruel enough to carry out their threats. To he American consul at St. Thomas we me our lives. He heard of our pre llcament and by a circuitous cable oute managed to get dispatches to .he English consul at San Juan per lueading him to Interfere In our be palf. "When we were finally released from ur prison It seemed like being restor td to life. Is It any wonder that I am flad the Americans conquered Porto Ftlco? General Brooke restored my property to me and most of my live itock was recovered. The cattle were :o have been disposed of on the day the protocol was signed. If It had been a lay later I wouldn't have had any cat .le. The better class of Porto Ricans hat is, the property-ownig class is re oicing over the American occupation. They know that the American govern nent is strong enough to hold the peo ple In hand, and that It will develop he resources of the Island. Shortly be 'ore the war broke out I was on the point of closing a deal with some Ion lon capitalists who wanted to buy my property. I wouldn't take twice the imount If It were offered to me now, tuch is my faith in America and Amer can methods. What Porto Rico needs s free trade with the United States. iVhen that is established the Island will become Americanized in a day. Justness cannot flourish without It, and is yet the natives have not had an op portunity to observe the benefits of merlcan rule. They have been so long jnder Spain that they are suspicious f all mankind. Then, too, the poll iclans who make a living by their torruptlon are trying to stir up dis content. The Puros party is favorable to America, whereas the Liberals are ncllned to be hostile to us. Three nonths ago one of my overseers, who was a member of the rural police, was issasslnated because he informed on t party of ruffians who killed a calf idonglng to a neighboring ranchman. The assassins, four in number, were iught with unmistakable evidences of -uilt upon them. I told General Henry 'lat he should court-martial them, as, ' they were turned over to the civil lurts they would surely be acquitted, '.ood man that he is, he could not be leve that the Spanish courts were cor upt, and refused to court-martial the irisoners. Three days ago I received vord that they had all been acquitted, rhat Is what Spanish courts are like, ind we will all be very glad to see them abolished. We want American nethods and American capital as soon is possible, but we have no room for ogues and cranks. I would also advise he poor man to stay away for a while el. A PASSPORT IN MISSOURI. "Out In old Missouri core bread, old ashloned, sure-enough pone, Is Btlll lerved in the best families," said a traveling man to the New York Sun, In some of the flrst-clas hotels of that itate they put corn pone unaer me lead of dessert. I reckon you know hat there is also the corn dodger, and hen there Is hoecake, and then there the ashcake all made out of corn .ieal. But the com pone Is the piece e resistance, wnen a stranger goes ito a Missouri house and says he likes ;rn bread, 'specially corn pone, the ockles of the heart of the Mlssourian war mtoward that stranger at once. It pomes mighty nigh being a passport to he best society In my state. I know of one man who was made to feel very much at home by his fa miliarity with corn bread and Its habits m a Missouri home at a time when he was very much under suspicion. He had been sent to investigate a matter y his superior. He arrived at the house it a late hour. The folks had gone to ed. He aroused them by hallooing 'rom the road. When the man of the louse appeared and called off the dogs le asked the stranger what he wanted. "The stranger was not as satisfac tory In his reply as was desired, and the man of the house told him he pad better go further up the road for ntertalnment for himself and beast. The stranger had his reasons for want ing to stay at the house where he had lust made his call. He said it was pret ty hard when a Mlssourian couldn't tlnd shelter In any Missouri home when he made application. The man of th hause asked him: '"Are you a Mlssourian?' "When the stranger replied he had that honor, the man of the house kind p' hesitated, and then asked, 'Have you jot any credentials?' " 'Have you got any corn bread?' asked the stranger. " 'What kind?' was the query. " 'Pone," was the reply. ' "Llgth and come In, was the hosplt ible Invitation. "When the stranger was In the house the Mlssourian apologized for keeping his guest without the gate so long by explaining that there were a good many peddlers about the country, and he was very particular as to whom he admit ted. " 'I don't want you to feel any un certainty about me,' said the stranger, 'and to convince you that 1 am a Mls sourian and entitled to your hospital ity, I can tell you right where that corn bread Is kept. I'll bet I can find it In the dark. It's In a skillet in the lower part of the kitchen cupboard, and the milk that goes with It Is out In the springhouse In the back yard.' The Missouri host extended his hand to the stranger, and, shaking the let ter's hand earnestly, he said: 'You could come mighty nigh gettln' Into our lodge without the grip or the sign." That was an actual experience, and when you are In Missouri and want to be taken care of In the proper way, Just you call at any Mlssourlan's home and say 'corn pone.' " SEVERAL PEOPLE SHOCKED. The Innocent looking red mall box which represents Uncle Sam on the 1 touthwesl corner of Fourth and Doug las streets was loaded yesterday, Bays the Omaha Bee. The mall box is quite n the habit of staying out nights and ;hlngs like that, but it never behaved .n such an unbecoming manner as it lid on this occasion. The fact is It had cot mixed ud in some wnv with nn electric wire which ran down the pole ' on which the mail box is strapped, and between them they had all kinds of fun. I One of the first victims was Mrs. God '.iey Rehms, who keeps the Merchants' I hotel. She stepped up to the box with 1 a letter in one hand, while with the pther she started to lift up the little lion flap. She hadn't got it further than one-hundredth part of an inch when Bhe steped back with a startled exclamation, and suddenly came to the ' sonclUHlon that she might Just as well walk up as far as the office with her letter. J. C. Meacham was another victim, and the shock was strong Enough to stay with him all morning. He started to mail a letter, Just as Mrs. Rehms did, but he didn't mall it. l'wo or three little boys were caught and several other persons, one or two of them, it is said, being knocked flown. T. J. Stone touched the box "Just for fun," and got all he wanted. 'Dennie" O'Meara has knocked about pn the police force long enough and "seen things" frequently enough so as not to be easily shocked, but he didn't monkey with the loaded mall box more than a fractional part of one second. When F. L. Reddy came around to col- ect the mail at this corner he walked up to the box with an excellent rendi tion of "Just as the Sun Went Down" an his lips. He put one hand on the box and came pretty near doing what the sun is said to have done. The condition of things was reported to the electric light company and to the postoffice officials, and electricians were Bent to straighten out the mix up. In a short time the mail box was in good working order again. It Is not lokely, however, that this particular box will be quite as popular with a certain few for the next few weeks. Crossed Railway Bridges. A horse attached to the buggy used by Captain Warren Taylor of the cen tral fire station, became frightened on Tuesday morning while being driven to Taylor's residence to take him to the Harris-Emery fire in Des Moines, and breaking away from the driver itarted eaBt on Lyon street. The dri ver, realizing that the horse was be yond control, leaped from the buggy at Ninth street. Relieved of all re straint, the frantic animal tore east on Ninth to Eighteenth, ran south to Maury, thence east to the Burlington track, which he followed, with the ve hicle bounding along behind, occasion ally hitting the high places and then soaring in the air for the next quarter of a mile. The horse ran east on the ralli'oad track, crossing two small bridges, until he arrived near the starch works, where he stopped, being completely exhausted by the run of nearly three miles. He was found standing In the road near the distil lery an hour afterward, and being Iden tified by the buggy marked with the Initials of the department, he was driv en back to the station and turned over to Captain Taylor. Strange to relate, he was not badly injured, while the buggy showed no signs of the mad race along the rough streets, along railroad tracks and over bridges. Just how the horse escaped falling through the bridges crossed will perhaps never be made clear to the minds of the won dering firemen, but his hoof prints and the marks of the buggy wheels leave no doubt of the course he followed from Maury street to the starch works. Josephine's Necklace. The Empress Josephine's famous pearl necklace, the gift of Napoleon and his favorite of all her jewels, has be come the property of Myron A. Davis, one of the wealthiest citizens of St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Davis Inherited it from an aunt, who was a rich collector of gems, in Amsterdam, Holland. The unhappy Josephine bequeathed the necklace to her daughter, Hortense Beauharnals, who was afterward queen of Holland. The set contains 12,000 pearls. This will seem an Impossible number until it is remembered that latterly the Em press of the French substantially re modeled her once beautiful figure. Wbere age was making her -deficient she supplied the discrepancy with wax forms, so that a few years before her death she went about practically en cased In wax. To conceal this fac-t Bhe wore enormous and clase-woven necklaces. The pearls are strung on horsehair and set in mother of pearl. fThe workmanship Is exceedingly deli cate and the design is exquisite. FRENCH COFFEE. One and one-half cups ground cof fee. Put In a flannel bag, tie top and put in old-fashioned coffee pot; pour on tnree pints or water, boll ten min utes; serve In another coffee pot. A very rich coffee can be made by adding to the grounds first placed in a bowl one egg, shell and all broken, and thoroughly mixed with coffee. Where egg Is used omit soaking: coffee grounds In water. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss.: Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence this 6th day of Decem ber, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal.) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internal ly and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 76c, Hall's Family Pills are the best. jacq of all mm OUR NEW "LITTLE GIANT" lb H. P. GASOLINE ENGINE, WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD TO E7ERT STOCKMAN AND FARMER. How many of yon have lost the pries of this Bnglne In one day on account of lav sufficient wind to operate your wind mills, leaving your stock without water, bet on now to do your pumping when there la no wind or o do it regularly. Weather does noi affect Ita wnrk. hot nr ri.lil met nr Ar ai.H n. I. .11 .u- '. .. . ! ."' Will alM) shell corn, grind feed, saw wood, churn butler and Is handy for a nnndVotfiaV Jobs. In the house or on the farm. Coats nothing to keep when not worklns snd onlwl to 2 cent, per hour when working. Shipped completely set up. ready to run. no fottqQa Hon needed, a gret labor and money atver. Reaulrm nractlcatl no .l..hT IZrH ahaolutely aafn. We make all aliea of Gasoline tui tutumi nnu irin:,ini pi itvih FAIRBANKS, MORSQ KflsOTifla F We're going to Hot Springs, S. D., Via the Northwestern Line, (See Place Low Rates Wagner Palace Sleepers clmost to the doors Of the principal hotels. 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