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backache nerves shat
tered headache tcrrl
hlc pain no appetite
poor digestion In nine
casc3 out of ten its be
cause the kidneya fall
to do their work of
filtering the poisonous
system waste from the
blood The kidneys
arc wealc and need the
strengthening help of
Doans Kidney Pills Read how these
pills repair a weakened physical con
dition when this condition is caused
by sick kidneys
Mrs Sadie Mettles of 394 W 4th
Ave Columbus Ohio says Prior to
the year 189S I suffered considerably
from backache pain In the head lan
guor and depression and weakness of
the action of the kidneys The pain
was always worse in the morning and
I felt miserable 1 was induced to
procure a box of Doans Kidney Pills
and I began their use They proved
prompt and effective They cured mo
and there has been -no return of the
trouble since taking them- I owe all
the credit to Doans Kidney Pills
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr3 Met
tles will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States - Ad
dress Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N
Y For sale by all druggists price 50
cents per box
That which is within ones grasp
yet unobtainable makes our greatest
sorrows
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tTse Red Cross Ball Blre and make them
white again Largo 2 oz package cents
Few men can argue about religion
and keep cool
Superior quality ana extra quantity
must win This is why Defiance
Starch is taking the place of all
others
One way to dodge the divorce courts
is to stay single
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For children teethlnc sof tons tho guras rodncesir
flammatiua allays pain cures wind colic lacobDttlc
If a man is satisfied with one meal
a day he can afford to write poetry
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Then why not keep in view the
fact that the farming lands of
fsfjpjj Western
Hi Ganada
are sufficient to support a population of SOCOO000
or over The immigration for the past six jears
has been phenomena
FREE Honstoad Lands
easily accessible while other lands may be pur
chased from Railway and Land Companies The
crain and Brazing lands of Western Canada are the
best on the continent prodacinc the best srain
and cattle fed on srau alone ready for market
Markets Schools KaiUvay and nil other
conditions make IVchtern Canada an envi
nhle spot for tho settler
Write to Superintendent
for a descriptive Atlas and other information
or to the authorized Canadian Government Acent
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Omaha Nc
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Kites as Scapegoats
Everybody knows the fondness of
the adult Cnincse for kite Hying The
Korean however puis this pastime to
a use altogether novel When tho
time of good resolutions comes around
at the now year tho Korean writes
on a kite all his faults Evil disposi
tion impatience bad words street
lights etc It was so dark says
one American residing in Korea re
lating such an instance that no kito
could bo seen but when he had run
the string out to its full length he
cut it and let it go Imagining that so
he had rid himself of his enemies and
could begin the new year with new
courage
A California senator who recently
returned to his home from a European
tour has been telling a story of his
adventures which redounds to the
credit of the London bus conductor
On a very rainy day the senator got
into an omnibus Very soon he no
ticed that dvops of water were patter
ing down upon his head from the roof
At that moment tho conductor entered
to collect the fares Whats the mat
er with the roof said the damp sen
ator does it do this always No
sir replied the sensible conductor
only when it rains
Prophet Joseph Smith of the Mor
mon church says that for a man to
live with but one wife is as bad as
to be an infidel as polygamy was com
manded by God direct If a man has
a wife and she objects direct to a
second or a third she will be de
stroyed Now will the woman be good
Death is one thing that never fails
to come to the man who waits
It is the interest of every member
of the STATE FARMERS MUTUAL
INSURANCE CO to help it along
The Company belongs to the members
The officers are their servants Each
member is only liable for his share of
losses and expenses according to the
amount of insurance he carries
Members are assessed at the end
of two years after the insurance was
first written upon all their policies
for the time insured and assessment
follows every two years
We have paid our members over
G0000 in losses Cannot you help
some of your neighbors to its bene
fits
B R STOUFFER Sccy
South Omaha Nebr
A womans idea of mutual pleasure
is to scnd the money her husband
earns by the sweat of his brow
To the housewife who has not yst
become acquainted with the new
things of everyday use in the market
and who is reasonably satisfied with
the old we would suggest that a trial
or Defiance Cold Water Starch be
mndc at once Not alone because it
is guaranteed by the manufacturers
to be superior to any other brand
but because each 10c package con
tains 1G ozs while ail the other kinds
contain but 12 ozs It is safe to say
that the lady who once uses Defiance
Starch wiil use no other Qualitj
and quantity must win
How many things one could do if
conditions were different
TJand Power Cay Tress S2800
Greatest simplest best invention of
the age A boy can make regular
sized 14xlSx4S in bales like fun and
two boys can bale three tons per day
easily
SEK3 THIS KOTICE TO DAT
to the John A Salzer Seed Co La
Crosse Wis with ac stamps for mail
ing and get their big catalog fullj de
scribing this great Hay Press so also
hundreds of tools and thousands of va
rieties of Farm and Vegetable Seeds
W N U
Sardou represents a distinct type
of the drama which he originated
said a pupil in Brander Matthews
dramatic literature class at Columbia
university What description of that
type do you offer asked Professor
Matthews Theatrical plays closely
packed with interest mark the Sardine
drama replied the young man
promptly and earnestly Young man
laughed the professor with a can
opener you may yet evolve the great
American play
No chromos or cheap premiums
but a better quality and one third
more of Defiance Starch for the same
price of other starches
At an at home a young man came
in and made his way to the hostess
greeting her and apologzing for his
lateness Awfully glad to see you
Mr Blank said the hostess so good
of you to ccme But where is your
brother I am commissioned tc
tender his regrets You see we are
so busy just now that is is impossible
for both of us to get away so we
tossed up to see which of us should
come How nice Such an original
idea And you won No said the
young man absently I lost
Waiting for chances js apt to pro
duce indifference to opoprtunity
A Bad Fix I
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B the fjesh tender to the touch when i
Soreness and Stiffhess
V makes every motion cf the body painful the surest j
R sad quickest way out of the trouble Is to use 3
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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
LOOK TO GOOD INSURANCE
Complaints Pcuring in from Nebraska
Policy Holders
LINCOLN Complaints from Ne
braska policy holders have been pour
ing into the office of Deputy Auditor
Pierce at a lively rate during the last
few days and as a result he 1ms de
clared war on wildcat concerns
These are companies not authorized
to do business in the state They
solicit policies by mail and their
tempting offers have led many farm
ers to oite
Mr Pierce has notified the public
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in a statement that the Mercantile
Fire Insurance company of Chicago
which has been flooding the state
with circulars i3 not authorized to do
business in Nebraska The American
Underwriters of Chicago is in the
same shape also R A Potter Co
of Chicago and the Union Fire of
Chicago None of these companies
are authorized to solicit in Nebraska
or Illinois The following other com
panies are not authorized to do busi
ness in this state Security Fire of
Chicago and the Firemens Fire of
Chicago
Policies in wildcat companies are
void in Nebraska but a policy in an
unauthorized insurance company
which has complied with the provi
sions of the -insurance brokerage sec
tion of uie laws may be recovered on
None of tho companies named have
complied with either the insurance
or brokerage sections of the lav con
sequently their- policies are void un
der the statute which reads as fol
lows
All fire insurance policies issued
to residents of this state or upon
property situated in whole or in part
in this state by companies corpora
tions associations partnerships or
persons who have not complied with
the laws of the state1 unless procur
ed under and by the provisions of
this act are hereby declared void
WIFE DESERTER SENTENCED
Hunter Gets Six Months in the Peni
tentiary
NEBRASKA CITY John L Hun
ter who was arrested and brought
back here from Carbon la charged
with wife desertion was taken before
Judge Jessen and pleaded guilty He
could not give bond for the support of
his wife and children so he was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for si
mouths This is the first conviction
in this county for this crime although
it is the second case that has been
in the courts here
The county assessor has returned
neirly all of the schedules to his dep
uties in the country precincts to be
corrected and the value of live stock
raised
Promised to Be Good
DAKOTA CITY Upon promise to
the court that he would provide for
Ins wife and family and be a good
and true husband the case against
William Salisbury in Judge Eimers
court was continued for thirty days
and Salisbury was released from cus
tody on his own recognizance in the
sum of 200 Salisbury was arrested
and placed in jail on complaint of his
wife that he had failed to maintain
and support herself and their children
and that he had wilfully abandoned
them
Sustained the Demurrer
LINCOLN The district court has
sustained the demurrers of the state
in the Boyd county land cases The
attorneys for the settlers immediately
asked leave to file amended petitions
and this was granted Attorney Gen
eral Prout has returned from Boyd
county The cases now go over to the
next session
THIEVES ON PASSENGER TRAIN
Relieve Discharged Soldiers of Eighty
Dollars and Decamp
NEBRASKA CITY H A Jennings
was robbed of 80 near this city on
the Missouri Pacific passenger due
here at 1240 Jennings and two oth
er men were in a game of cards and
when they drew near this city one
of the men covered Jennings with a
gun wlrle the other relieved him of
80 The man with the gun kept Jen
nings covered till the other was safely
off the train and then he too tcok
to the woods Jennings stopped off
and reported the matter to the author
ities but so far the police have been
unable to find the robbers
Bin Fire Crrckers Barred
GRAND ISLANDtAt the meeting
of the cir council an ordinance pro
hibiting the sale of fire crackers of
greater dimensions than three inches
in length and half an inch in diameter
the sale of dynamite canes or other
dynamite exploding contrivances and
of blank cartridge pistols was passed
on its first reading
Carl Markov Drowned
LINCOLN Word has been receiv
ed by the Lincoln relatives that Carl
Markow second mate of a
ocean merchantman was drown
ed in the harbor of San Francisco
Few details of the accident have as
yet been learned Mr Markow was
well known in Lincoln having visited
in this city at several different times
Two brothers and two sisters of tne
drowned man are residents of this
place Mr Markow had expected to
visited his Lincoln relatives during
this spring
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THE STATE IN BRIEF
Farmers about Waverly have decid
ed to build an elevator
Fairfield changed from dry to vot
at tho recent election
If deputy assessors in Lancaster
county do not list property at full
cash value they will lose their jobs
W J Willefords residence at To
bias was destroyed by fire The loss
was about 1200 partially covered
by insurance
The contract has been let on the
new system of water works which
will bo constructed in Spencer and
work will begin immediately
The State Board of Public Lands
and Buildings a few days ago awarded
the contract for the erection of the
hospital at Milford to H T Ward of
Tecumseh for18G90
A two headed sheep is the latest ac
quisition to the museum of freakish
animals in northern Nebraska It
came to Norfolk from Emcrick and is
being prepared for mounting
Detail plans of the normal school
to be erected at Kearney are on exhi
bition at the office of State Superin
tendent Fowler Bids for the erection
of the school will be opened April 20
Mrs Sarah L Blair sister of Ezra
Rogers of Auburn dropped dead at
the home of her nephew Alva Rog
ers She was in her usual health
having walked from the home of her
brother
The town of Auburn is much
wrought up over the sudden disap
pearance of Robert Watson who has
left a wife destitute A saloon busi
ness which he had is in the hands
of creditors
A prairie fire started in the eastern
part of McPherson county and driven
by a hard wind swept the country for
thirty miles nearly to the North
Platte river No casualties have yet
been reported
Sunday evening saw the close of a
five weeks series of successful evan
gelistic meetings in Norfolk under the
leadership of Rev Milford II Lyon
of Chicago and his singer Mr Coul
ter resulting in 450 converts
Deputy county assessors in Lancas
ter must list property at full value
So announced County Assessor Miller
He called a meeting to investigate
the reports that the officials were
following the methods of last year
William T Turley the Grand Is
land man who was sentenced to sev
enteen yoars in the penitentiary for
murder in the second degree was
granted a stay of sentence pending a
hearing on his appeal from the lower
court
Heroic efforts on the part of Ster
lings fire brigade and a heavy rain
saved Sterling from what might have
been total destruction by fire As it
was four store buildings and most of
the contents were destroyed entailing
a loss of nearly 15000
A petition is being circulated by
the W C T U in Grand Island ask
ing the city authorities to have all
screens removed from saloons to
close up promptly at 12 oclock each
night and to remove offensive signs
from the windows and doorways
The Burlington bridge nearly a
mile long spanning the Platte river
between Grand Island and Phillips
was found to be on fire Section men
from Grand Island and Aurora were
sent and short before noon got the
fire under control with the aid of
farmers
Payson youngest son of John T
Marshall was seriously injured on
the head with a baseball bat at the
school grounds in Panama He was
carried to the office of Dr Was who
made an examination and found the
skull to be fractured An operation
was performed on the head with good
results
F J McGee of Fremont Ralph Osh
ton of ONeil and Milton N Dodds of
Omaha have been appointed railway
mail clerks
Jane Abbott librarian at the Fre
mont library has been elected libra
rian of the Public library at South
Omaha and will probably enter upon
iher duties at that place soon Miss
Abbott has made a specialty of library
work for many years and was at one
time acting librarian of the North
Carolina State library
Edward A Reimcrs died at the
Sioux Falls S D penitentiary last
week The Reimcrs father and son
were sentenced to five years in the
Sioux Falls prison by the United
States court for wrecking the First
National bank of Neligh Neb the
elder Reimer C A being the pres
ident of the bank and the son the as
sistant cashier
Alarmed by the numerous capitol
fires Representative Sweezy of Webs
ter county will have a bill to present
to the next legislature to appropriate
125000 for a fire proof wing to the
state house This will be used as a
library and storage room for state rec
ords
Lylle Landred and Charles Mentzer
of Schuyler havo been fined 5 and
costs each for failing eye sight They
killed a couple of quail under the im
pression that they were ducks and
were arrested by Deputy Game War
den Hunger The trial was before
Judge Allen of Schuyler
The Grand Island Board of Educa
tion following the intention xf the
state law that appliances outside of
exterior fire escapes and ladders be
provided one to every twenty five
persons occupying buildings of two
stories or more has purchased six
fire escapes that will be put up
wm A prominent Southern lady Mrs ft
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Blanchard of Nashville Tenn tells how
she was cured of backache dizziness pain
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BrjAit Mrs Pinkiiam I have been
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