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We keep nothing : of the slop-shop but
every shoe is made upon honor.
We guarantee every purchase strictly
as represented or your money will be
cheerfully refunded.
Girls' School Shoes. Boys' School Shoes.
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Kangaroo , lace
sizes 2 1-2 to 81-2.
and button , sizes
ici or Box Calf ,
111-2 to 2.
Kangaroo , Calf ,
lace and Button ,
sizes 2 1-2 to 8.
Give us a call and be convinced tnat we can save you money
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DON'T BE FOOLEDI
Take the genuine , original
ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA
Alade only by Madison Medi
cine Co. , Madison , Wls. It
keeps you well. Our trade
mark cut on each package.
Price , 35 cents. Never sold
in bulk. Accept no substi-
iHco po i TCDtoo2 tute. Ask your druggist.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident is narrated by John
Oliver of Philadelphia , as follows : " 1 was in
an awful condition. My skin was almost
yelloxv , eyes sunken , tongue coated , pain con
tinually in back and sides , no appetite , grow
ing weaker day by day. Three physicians
had given me up. Then I was advised to use
Electric Bitters ; to my great joy , the first bottle
made a decided improvement. I continued
their use for three weeks , and am now a well
man. I know they robbed the grave of an
other victim. " No one should fail to try them.
Only 5oc.guaranteed at McConnell & Berry's.
In fashionable circles ball room busts are
classed among the "bare necessities of life. "
Corn huskers' sprained wrists , barbed-wire
cuts , burns , bruises , severe lacerations and ex
ternal injuries of any kind are promptly and
happliy cured by applying Ballard's Snow
Liniment. Price , 25 and 50 cents. A. McMillen.
The failure of the tea crop in Japan will not
seriously effect us on this side of the earth.
The American jimson weed crop was never
finer.
To Cure La Grippe In Two Days.
Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets.
All drucgists refund the money if it fails to
cure. E.V. . Grove's name on every bottle.
250. 4-1-
T
The princess of Wales has $50,000 a year
for pin money , but she doesn't puff in that
amount foi pins , by any means.
"For three days and nights I suffered agony
untold from an attack of cholera morbus
brought on by eating cucumbers , " says M. E.
Lowiher , clerk of the district court , Center-
ville , Iowa. "I thought I should surely die ,
and tried a dozen different medicines but all
to no purpose. I sent fora bottle of Cham
berlains Colic , Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy and three doses relieved me entirely. "
This remedy is for sale by McConnell & Berry.
A Korean bride has her eyelids pasted to
gether until she has been three days a wife.
Instead of having them closed , the girls of this
more enlightened country usually have their
eyes opened by matrimony.
Your blood goes through your body with
jumps and bounds , carrying warmth and ac
tive life to every part of vour body , if you take
Rocky Mountain Tea. Ask your druggist.
The fact that the Kansas sorghum fields
will yield 140 gallons to the acre this season
is enough to set the whole state to singing
"The Sweet By and By. "
This is the season \vhen mothers are
alarmed on account of croup. It is quickly
cured by One Minute Cough Cure , which
children" like to take. McConnell & Berry.
MCCONNfLLS
BALSAM
: \ CURES COUGHS
Job Couldn't Have Stood It
If he'd had Itching Piles. The're terribly
annoyingbut Bucklen's Arnica Salve will cure
the worst case of Piles on earth. It has cured
thousands. For injuries , pains or bloody
eruptions it's the best salve in the world.
Price 25c. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by
McConnell & Berry.
IN 1895 , under'Democratic administration ,
our favorite trade balance was $75,568,200.
During the last three years , under the Re
publican policy of expansion in the world's
markets , our valuable trade balance has aver
aged more than $565,000,000 each year. This
means more work for the mills and more work
for American labor.
Torturing skin eruptions , burns and sores
are soothed at once and promptly healed by
applying DeWitt's \.Vitch Hazel Salve , the
best known cure for piles. Beware of worth
less counterfeits. McConnell & Berry.
A fashion exchange says perfumed note
paper is not used by refined women. Too
scentimental , perhaps.
Happiness depends very much on the con
dition of the liver and kidneys. The ills of
life make but little impression on those whose
digestion is good. You can regulate your liver
and kidneys with Herbine and enjoy health
and buoyancy of spirits. Price , 50 cents. A.
McMillen.
" Y/e have three children. Before the
birth of the last one my wife used four bo.-
tles of MOTHER'S FRIEND. If you had tlic
pictures of our children , you could see al
a glance that the last one
is healthiest , prettiest and
finest-looking of them ail.
My wife thinks Mother's
Friend is the greatest
and grandest
remedy in the
world for expectant -
ant mothers. "
Written by a Ken
tucky Attorney-at
-Law.
prevents nine-tenths of the
suffering incident to child
birth. The coming mother's
disposition and temper remain unrutflcd
throughout the ordeal , because this relax
ing , penetrating liniment relieves the
usual distress. A good-natured mother
is pretty sure to have a good-natured child.
The patient is kept in a strong , healthy
condition , which the child also Inherits.
Mother's Friend takes a wife through the
crisis quickly and almost painlessly. It
assists In her rapid recovery , and wards
off the dangers that so often follow de
livery.
Sold by druggists for $1 a bottle.
THE BRADFIELB REGULATOR CO.
ATLANTA , GA.
Send for our free illustrated book written
expressly for expectant mothers.
State House Ring Diverting
Trade to Their Pets at
Lincoln.
Abraham 'Lincoln Then mid N
Snub ! * the Populist * .
Omnha. Oct. 8. It Is observed tlint
the fuslonists are uot enthusing very
much over Governor Poynter. Espe
cially Is this true of the business men
In the towns where state institutions
are located.
The merchants in these towns have
had anything but a pleasant experi
ence under the Poynter administra
tion. Trade and patronage of the in
stitutions , which should properly go
to them , has been gradually diverted
to pets and favorites of the state house
ring at Lincoln , until finally little of
It goes to the local merchants. Tons
of groceries and supplies have been
shipped from Lincoln to the various
Institutions during the last year and
only such trade has been allotted to
the local business men us could not
well be diverted to Lincoln.
Then , too , the administration "lix-
ers" have been very exacting In deal
ing with the local merchant and very
liberal in dealing with their favorites
at Lincoln. If they treated them both
alike there would be' less cause for
complaint , but the contracts are jug
gled in such a way that if a local mer
chant secures one lie is compelled to
furnish goods at almost cost price ,
whereas the Lincoln dealers are al
lowed to make one bid on all the sup
plies and in addition are given other
advantages denied to others. Every
body knows that bids on a dozen or
more contracts at the same time ,
meaning the supplying of goods in car
load lots , can be made at a lower rate
than for only one contract involving
only the supplies for one institution.
This is one advantage.
HOLDING UP VOUCHERS.
Another advantage shown the Lin
coln dealers over the country mer
chants is the holding u ck of vouchers
and warrants. It is a notorious fact
that bills for groceries from the coun
try merchants lay sometimes for
weeks before they are passed upon and
allowed , while those of the favorites
are promptly paid. In the mercantile
trade 80 or GO days' credit is the same
as cash and if merchants succeed iu
converting their goods into money
within that time they are enabled to
make considerable of a saving in the
way of discounts. In many instances
the country merchants have lost the
benefit of their discounts through the
failure of the Board to pass upon bills
and remit promptly.
It is openly stated that this failure
is only part of a plan to discourage
the local merchants in these towns
from bidding , in order that the pets of
the state house ring may enjoy greater
profits.
Some may infer from this that the
state is deriving benefit from such
manipulations. This is not true. The
records in the auditor's office show
that the expense of maintaining the
state institutions the last two years
has been greatly increased over what
it was , and is greater now than at any
time in the state's history.
Governor Poynter will close his term
with the enormous shortage or defic
iency of $100,000. Not one of the var
ious institutions has been properly
kept up. The grounds , outbuildings
and the like have been sadly neglected.
Not a dollar has gone for labor in
this direction. All the money appro
priated has been expended , but how ,
nothing short of a legislative investi
gating committee can explain.
Dr. Tracy of Milford , the physician
In charge of the Soldier's Home , who
was caught paying house rent and of
fice rent in groceries taken from the
state , has resigned and left the state.
His resignation promptly followed the
exposure.
CRAWFISHING ON EXPANSION.
It is a matter of history that nearly
every Democratic president from Jef
ferson to Buchanan expressed a desire
for the annexation of Cuba to the
United States.
Monroe while president expressed
himself in favor of annexing Cuba , so
did Polk and so did Pierce.
In 1840 President Polk made a propo
sition for the purchase of Cnli.i from
Spain for S100,000.000. Six years be
fore that , or in 1834. what i known
as the Ostend Manifesto was issued ,
and that assorted the right of the
United States to lake and annex Cuba ,
should Spain refuse to sell.
The Ostend Manifesto was an an
nouncement made by President
Pierce's ministers to England , France
and Spain ( Buchanan. Madison and
Soule ) in which they suggested that
an earnest effort be made to purchase
Cuba at a price not to exceed $120.-
000,000 , and added that if this should
be refused by Spain "we should be jus
tified by every law. human and divine ,
in wresting it from Spain if we pos
sess the power , " a proposition of
which Lassing. the historian , says :
"The bald iniquity of this proposition
amazed honest men in both hemi
spheres. "
The manifesto failed of its purpose ,
because the European powers and the
world in general failed to recognize
the justice of acquiring property by
seizure.
Buchanan , who succeeded Pierce to
the presidency , in three of his annual
messages to congress \irged that Cuba
ought to be made by purchase part of
the United States. During Buchanan's
term a bill for that purpose was intro
duced in congress by Senator Seidell ,
later of confederate fame , and that
bill was .strongly supported by the
Democratic members of congress from
the bduthcv" states.
In 1SOO tin * Democratic national con
vention declared in favor of annexing
Cuba and placed the following lu the
platform :
"Resolved , that the Democratic
party are In favor of the acquisition
of the Island of Cuba upon such terms
as shall be honorable to ourselves and
just to Spain. "
President Pierce made a strong effort
to annex Hawaii. The matter was car
ried so far that a treaty for the pur
pose was drartod. On this point Air.
Marcy. who was secretary of state in
Pierce's cabinet , wrote the following
note to Minister Gregg :
"This government will receive the
transfer of the sovereignty of the
Sandwich islands with all proper pro
visions relative to existing rights of
the people thereof , such as are usual
and proper to territorial sovereignty.
The president directs me to say that
he cannot approve of some of the arti
cles of the treaty ; there are in his
mind some strong objections to the im
mediate Incorporation of the Islands in
their present condition into the union
as an independent state. It was ex
pected that the Hawaiian government
would be willing to offer the islands
to the United States as a territory
and leave the question in relation to
their becoming a state to the determi
nation of this government , unembar
rassed by stipulations on that point. "
It will be seen by this that through
out its history the Democratic parti-
has favored expansion. It will also be
observed that in all their messages and
correspondence bearing on the acquisi
tion of territory no reference is made
to "the consent of the governed. " Jel-
ferson , Polk , Pierce , Buchanan , in fact
all the great minds of the Democratic
party , have favored expansion , some of
them going so far as to advocate the
acquisition of island territory by force.
Compared Avith this the splendid rec
ord of the Republican party , and par
ticularly of the McKinley administra
tion , stands out in bold relief.
CZAR THEN PATRIOT NOW.
According to Democratic doctrine in
ISO- * Lincoln was a czar. Now he is a
patriot. In 181)4 , when Lincoln AJUS a
candidate for re-election , the same hue
and cry about "imperialism" was
raised by the Democrats. The Indian
apolis Journal , a Democratic organ , at
that time said :
"The only hope of preserving consti
tutional liberty , the rights of the states
and restoring peace to the union is in
the restoration of the Democratic party
to power. But let Abraham Lincoln be
elected for another term , what will be
the consequence ? Four years more of
abolition , national bankruptcy and Eu
ropean interference. Shall AVG profit
by the teachings of history , and even
by our own experience , or continue the
policy that must end m the overthrow
of one of the best governments the
world ever sa\rV"
Just before the election in 18(54 ( the
same paper had another "nightmare , "
one of the Bryan order , and it said :
"Should Mr. Lincoln be. re-elected the
revolution will be accomplished. This
will be no longer a republic of the
United Stares , but a consolidated em
pire. Every safeguard must sooner or
later give away. The limitation of the
executive power will not be in the
pleasure of the president. We implore
patriotic and intelligent men to pause
and reflect and give their verdict Tues
day next. If the people will not save
their constitution and union it is lost. "
The foregoing is the same sort or
Democratic rot that Bryan is making
use of today. The only difference is
that the man who was pointed out as
a despot then is treated as a patriot
now. Like Lincoln , thirty-six years
from now , if the Populists and the
Democrats in their rapacity for proven
der shall not have eaten each other up ,
the Democratic doctrinaries will be
quoting from McKinley and holding
him up as the ideal statesman and
patriot. Thirty-six years isn't such a
very long time , but it is too long a time
for the people of a great and progres
sive country to wait , when they can
get what they Avant now. The Ameri
can people have kept up with the pro
cession and if the Democratic party
persists in staying thirty-six years be
hind let it stay there.
It will be observed , however , that
Bryan's rant about imperialism is
nothing new. The Democratic party
was carping about it before lie learned
to speak his own name.
Lincoln was abused , and harsher
things Avere said of him than have
ever been said of McKinley. The at
tacks Avere Avnnton and cruel , and the
recoil sent many an aspiring politician I
on the Democratic side into obscurity
and distrust forever.
Bryan is playing upon the same harp
today. It is the instrument of a dema
gogue and its tunes are as deceptive
as the deadly nightshade. But the re
coil the pent uj ) energy of outraged
public opinion is there , and it Avill hit
Bryan just as sure and just as hard
as it has hit many a demairogue before
him , and it Avill drive him into ob cur-
ity and distrust just as it has driven
others who hnvc undertaken to pre
sume too far on public intelligence and
credulity.
credulity.HAS
HAS NOT ACCEPTED.
Bryan has not as yet acknowledged
having received the populist nomina
tion for president. Why have you not
made this acknowledgement. Mr. Bry
an ? Are yon ashamed to do it ? What
is there about the Populist nomination
jou are ashamed of ? If you are not
nshamed of it Avhy have you failed to
accept ?
Is it because you are afraid that if
fou acknoAvledge the populist noinina-
lion you Avill alienate Tammany Hall
and other eastern Democrats ?
Out here in Nebraska you profess to
believe in Populism. But your refusal
to utter a letter accepting the Populist
nomination Avould indicate duplicity.
The Populists nominated you three
months ago. at the same time the Dem
ocrats nominated you. You acknowledged -
edged the Democratic nomination by
letter long since , but your letter accent
ing the Populist nomination Avell , it's
"the letter in the candle" or "the one
that never came. "
Fall and Winter
Goods have come
in great abund
ance. Our store
is filled with New ,
Seasonable Mer
chandise. . . .
We cordially in
vite you to call
and inspect our
stock before you
make your pur
chases of fall
Goods
a
. All goods are new , stylisfrjand
\
, = to = date in every respect. Not
a piece of shop = worn goods in our
store.
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In anaemia and most women's ailments the
digestion is weak , the making of color , flesh
and strength out of food is imperfect , so that
the patient is weak , wan , nervous , and dyspep
tic. This condition can be corrected by taking
a course of Herbine. Price , 50 cents. A. Mc-
Millen.
If some one of those gifted inventors would
perfect a device for preventing cheap trousers
from bagging at the knees , a whole lot of we
warp-legged fellows would rise as one man
and call him blessed.
A "stitch in time saves nine , " and a dose of
Ballard's Horehound Syrup at the beginning
of a cold will save you many weary hours and
even days of distressing and harassing cough.
Price , 25 and 50 cents. A. McMillen.
You should call
and see the many
new things we
have for Fall and
Winter _
New Dress Goods
Ladies' New Tailored Suits
Separate Skirts
Shirt Waists
Capes , Jackets , Furs
Underwear
Shoes , Men's and Boys'
Cloihiro , 2
coats , too.
*
A Thousand Tonyues
Could not express the rapture of Annie E ,
Springer of Philadelphia , when Dr. King's
New Discovery cured her of a hacking coagh
that for many years had made life a burden-
She says : "After all other remedies and doc
tors failed it soon removed the pain in my
chest and I can now sleep soundly , some
thing I can scarcely remember doing before.
I feel like sounding its praises throughout the
universe. " Dr. King's New Discovery is
guaranteed to cure all troubles of the throat ,
chest or lungs. Price We. and 51. Trial
bottles free at McConnell& Beny's.
"What becomes of all the old pins'isn't so
interesting a question as what becomes of all
the old paramount issues ?
You little knew when first we met
That some day you would be
The lucky fellow I'd choose to let
Pay for my Rocky Mountain Tea.
Ask your druggist.