THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TiflBDUE TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1896.
ANTHRACITE COAL SUPPLY.
According to Recent Estimates, It Will
Han Oat In a Hundred Years.
The Bond Record has been making a
careful investigation .of tho anthracite
coal industry. No expense has been
spared to obtain correct information,
so that those .interested in the coal car
rying railroads and other companies
owning or leasing coal lands may be
able to judge of the present prospective
values of their properties. Eleven cor
porations control 90 per cent of the
available coal supply.
According to tho summarised es
timate of Tho Bond Record, in 109
years, on the basis of shipments made
in 1895, tho supply of anthracite coal
will be exhausted. The largest propor
tion of the annual increase of tonnage
has been furnished by tho Wyoming
region. In 1894 Lehigh and Schuylkill
furnished 45 per cent and Wyoming 50
per cent of the year's output, but the
Wyoming region is ncaring tho point of
maximum output and increase of ton
nage is likely scon to diminish. The
present annual capacity of the anthra
cite region is about 07,000,000 tons, oi
about 21,000,000 tons in excess of an
nual consumption. It is therefore cleai
that production shculd be reduced, as
the oversupply prostrates the market and
at the same timo encourages waste in
the world. Unless the gross misman
agement and criminal wastefulness that
have characterized the anthracite indus
try fcr tho past few years are stopped
they will result in the ruin of the great
properties cugaged in tho mining and
transportation of ccaL
Could the various interests involved
co-operate and limit the production ot
the mines to meet the requirements ol
the market, at fair prices, before many
years, with the increasing consumption,
the demaud would equal production,
there would bo an end to the present
demoralized markets and these whe
have invested their savings in the stocks
and bonds of these anthracite properties
would eventually get back their invest
ment with interest.
But the great fact which this publica
tion of The Bond Record discloses is the
brief period of time which we can de
pend upon the anthracite coalfields ol
Pennsylvania to supply us with heat
and power. Its place will have to be
supplied by Eome other clement, and
theie is none in sight so admirably
adaptedfor tbe purpose. The supply ot
bituminous coal is practically exhaust
less, but this greasy, scoty, dirty fnel is
a resource from which our generation
ought to bo profoundly thankful it is
spared.
SHE WAS SHY ONE TURK.
Protest of an Audience Against
Bern-
hardt's Loss of a Servant.
Sarah Bernhardt was once playing at
Marseilles in n, spectacular play in
which she made her entree accompanied
by six Turkish slaves. A line r n thr
programme announced that these six
Turks would accompany Hme. Ben
hardt, but when the time came for
them to go on one of the yonngsters
had disappeared. Then a still, small
voice in the gallery murmured some
thing in an indignant tone. Fifty voices
immediately took up tho ttrain, and in
ten seconds more the wholo house waf
shouting the same phrases. Bernhardt
strained every nerve to catch what they
were complaining about. She knew the
phrase began with "Manque," but the
rest of it was lost in the general hub
bub. For a full niinuto the lumtllt con
tinued. Then Sarah, mutteiing things
below her breath, rushed like a fury
down to tho footlights. In the front
row the actress had spotted one man
who was not taking part in tho hulla
baloo. Pointing at him, the actress ex
claimed sternly: "Yon seem to be the
only sensible person in this house. Tell
me what on earth they aro kicking up
this row for?" The man rose, bowed to
the actress and lcmsikcd in very bad
American-French, "Madam, yon are
shy one Turk." New York Evening
Sun.
"Isn't it awfully annoying to be near
sighted?" asked the man who delights
in personal questions.
"If you had waited as I have," an
swered tho afflicted one, "nearly ten min
utes for a blamed little lightning bug
to get by, under the impression that it
was a bicycle beginner coming down the
street, you would know that it was an
noying." Cincinnati Enquirer.
Of what use is genius if the organ is
too convex or concave and cannot find
a focal distance within the actual hori
zon of human life? Emerson.
Many chronological authorities date
from the foundation of the world, but
the widest possible diversity exists as to
when this event occurred.
There is a fascina
tion about a vitrorous.
healthy woman, which
touches every heart.
Physical weakness is
a great drawback to a
woman's social suc
cess. As she loses
healthy plumpness
she loses attractive
ness. A woman had
even better be too
stout than too thin; but either extreme
shows a lack of healthy condition.
If you are not physically up to the mark,
appetite uncertain, digestion poor and a
general sense of weakness and incapacity,
you will find the robust health and energy
you need in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. It renews the blood with the
vital life-giving red corpuscles which drive
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It gives color to the cheeks and firmness
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flabby fat above the normal standard of
health. Taken alternately with Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription for distinctively femi
nine troubles, it constitutes a scientific and
marvelously successful course of treatment
for delicate women.
Mrs. Ella Howell, of Derby. Perry Co., Ind..
writes " In the year of 1S94 I was taken with
stomach trouble nervous dyspepsia. There was
a coldness in my stomach, and a weight which
seemed like a rock. Everything that I ate gave
me great pain ; I had a bearing down sensaUon ;
was swelled across my stomach; had a ridge
'around my right side, and in a short time I was
bloated. I was treated by three of our best phy
sicians but got no relief. Then Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery was recommended to
me and I got it, and commenced the use of it. I
began to see a change for the better. I was so
weak I could not walk across the room without
assistance- I took Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and his ' Favorite Prescription and
one bottle of the 'Pleasant Pellets.' I began to
Improve very fast after the use of a few bottles.
The physicians who attended me said I had
dropsy and that my disease was leading into
pulmonary consumption. I had quite a cough,
and the home phvsidans gave me up to die. I
thank God that my cure is permanent. I do not
feel any symptoms of ray .old disease. I cannot
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The medicines come the nearest to 1 raising the
dead, of any I have ever "known about. They
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Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the
liver, stomach and bowels. . . .
DOUBT AND DISASTER.
Threats of Free Silver Havs
Mads Hard Times.
STILL GEEATEE DA2TG-EE AHEAD.
If the Silver Standard Was Desirable, the
Adoption of the Chicago Platform Would
Have Started Ua Toward Prosperity In
stead We Have Greater Depression.
One argument that hasbeeu repeated
ly given as a reason why Mr. Bryan
should be elected president and a con
gress chosen that would support him in
his financial views is tho need that ex
ists of making a change. In arguments,
both moral and written, that have been
delivered or that have appeared in the
central section of our country the
changes have been rung on tho Etate
ment that times are so bad now that a
silver standard cannot mako them worse ;
that if what wo have been going through
for the past six or eight mouths is the
result of a gold standard of value then
surely a change to a silver standard can
not be attended with serion3 conse
quences, because present conditions are
about as bad as .they could be. This is a
seemingly plausible but entirely delusive
argument, for to say of the condition in
which the United States has been for
some timo past that it is tho result of
the gold standard of value which we
have maintained is very much like as
serting that the remedies used or pre
cautions taken at the time of a great
epidemic as, for example, Asiatic
cholera are the causes of the loug list
of mortality, and that the healthy way
would be to let the disease run its
course without check or hindrance of
any kind.
The trouble with our present finan
cial condition is net that we have a gold
standard, but that for a good while past
we have been threatened with a silver
one and have been compelled to fight
this danger, just as the cholera or yel
low fever has to bo fought, by prevent
ive and remedial measures. The only
way to properly estimate the value of a
gold standard is to take those countries
where a gold standard exists and com
pare them with our own country, where
for years past there has been doubt as
to its continued maintenance. There is
not the least question that for tho last
six months business has been in an ex
ceedingly depressed condition all over
the United States, and yet at tho same
timo the gold standard has been main
tained by the use of exceptional meth
ods. On tho other hand, during this last
six months business in Great Britain
has been carried on in a satisfactory
and profitable manner, in spite of the
fact that last year's harvest was a par
tial failure and the present harvest
docs not promise much better. There
has been in Great Britain during the
last six months not only a gold stand
ard of currency, but a standard without
the shadoof a qualification or doubt;
hence if the use of gold for tho purpose
of determining monetary values is at
tended with such terrible evils as the
silver orators assert, the hopeless gold
condition of England would present a
picture of industrial horror of the black
est description, while in the United
States, where a gold standard has only
been maintained by extraordinary effort,
and where a large number of people are
earnestly working to drop it and adopt
a silver standard, industrial conditions
on the hypothesis wo have just set
forth should be far more favorable.
The crushing and demoralizing effects
of gold assuming such effects to exisjt
should in our case be materially mod
ified by the possibilities of relief that
might come through the use. of silver,
just as the recent hot wave that has
rolled over us from tho west has been
tempered and modified in this part of
the country by tho cooling influences of
a sea breeze.
But in realily the fact that we have
not the same assurance here which exists
in England that tho gold standard of
value will be maintained instead of
proving of benefit to our industrial in
terests has obviously worked to their
immense detriment. England, with its
certain gold standard, has a thriving in
dustrial condition, and the same state
ment holds true of tho nations of conti
nental Europe where the gold'standard
has an established ascendency, but here
in the United States, where we have
enterprise, capital, intelligence and
larger possibilities in tho way of unde
veloped resources than any other section
of tho world, wo have had industry par
alyzed and commerce stagnated just in
proportion as the possibilities of obtain
ing the blessings of a silver currency
have been largest.
We are told, cn tho other hand, by
these silver advocates, that in the silver
using countries of the world, such as
Mexico, Japan, China and India, indus
tries are in a flourishing condition and
hence the change to a silver standard, if
made by the United States, would be
attended by similar industrial improve
ments. But those who make these state
ments fail to inform their hearers that
tho manufacturing activity to which
they refer is brought about and made
possible by the payment to wage earners
of practically no higher wages in silver
now than were paid when that coin was
worth intrinsically about twice as much
as it is, a time when, given in exchange
for most of the necessaries of life, it had
about double its present purchasing
power. In other words, in these silver
using countries industrial activity has
been stimulated because the wages of
operatives have to all intents and pur
poses been cut down by one-half , so that
with this reduction in the cost of pro
duction the owners of mills and work
shops have been able to sell their goods
in markets that they might not other
wise have entered.
This is tho prosperity which silver
promises, tho prosperity cf reduced
wages. Boston Herald.
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Pale, thin, bloodless people eboold use Dr. Sa-w
yer's TJkaUne. It is the greatest remedy in the
world for making the weak strong. Tor sale by F
II. Longley.
THE CZAR'S WIG.
How an Officer Tweaked It and Woa a
Dot end Position.
Paul, the eccentric czar of Russia
assassinated in 1801, was very particu
lar as to his dress, and considered tri
fling matters as of supreme importance.
This peculiarity was once taken, advan
tage of by an officer of the guar, Major
Vaksel, to win . a bet. The major, the
wildest joker in the army, wagered sev
eral hundred rubles that he would
tweak the tail of tho emperor's wig on
parade.
Tho very next day the emperor hap
pened to bo present at an early parade,
and, as destiny ruled it, took a position
for a moment immediately in front of
the daring major. Brpathless with ex
citement and terror, Vaksel's compan
ions beheld that rash officer's right hand
steal slowly frcm his side, rise to the
level of the czar's neck and give the
wig'3 hanging tail a most decided tweak.
In an instant the emperor's face, pale
with fury, was turned upon Vaksel's
countenance, which, however, only re
flected an expression of childlike inno
cence, mingled with the most deferen
tial astonishment.
"Who dared to do that?" asked the
enraged czar, his eyes giving flashing
evidence that his most dangerous mood
was upon him. '
"I did, your majesty," said Vaksel,
who, however his heart may havo flut
tered, managed to preserve outwardly
an unruffled calm, together with an ex
pression of innocent surprise. "It was
crooked, your majesty," he added, in a
confidentialundertone. "I straightened
it for fear tho younger officers should
see."
PanFs countenance cleared at once.
He stared fixedly, however, at Vaksel's
innocent looking face for some seconds.
Vaksel admitted afterward that this
was the trying moment, and he had said
to himself, "If I waver, I'm lost!"
Tnen the czar spoke, and spoke so that
all might hear.
"I thank yon, colonel," he said.
If ever a step in rank was gained by
the purest effrontery it was so acquired
on this occasion, and Vaksel left tho
field, not only promoted to a coveted
position in the guards, but richer by
many hundred rubles as - tho result of
his wager. Temple Bar.
TO MAINTAIN A PRINCIPLE.
A Quaker Firm That Sacrifices Hundreds
of Thousands n Year.
There is probably not another busi
ness firm in the United States, or, for
that matter, in any other country in the
world, that annually sacrifices hundreds
of thousands of dollars of trade simply
to maintain a principle, as Whitall,
Tatum & Co., the Quaker glass manu
facturers of Philadelphia, do and have
done for nearly 75 years.
The firm was established in the early
part of tho century, and its founders
were strict and consistent members of
tho Society of Friends. They did not
believe in war, nor in litigation, nor in
the manufacture or sale of intoxicating
liquors, and they established a rule
which has never been violated.
Whitall, Tatum & Co. have never
made a whisky flask, nor any sort or
description of bottle intended to contain
either malt, vinous or spirituous liquors.
This includes the small vials called
"samples," which are similar to those
made to display samples of illuminating
and lubricating oils. Should an intend
ing purchaser ask for oil "samples"
and say they were to be used for whisky,
he could not buy them at any price.
The army and navy departments of
tho United States havo sought several
times to buy glassware from tho firm,
but the patronage has invariably been
refused on the ground that tho furnish
ing of any sort of supply for tho aid or
comfort of persons engaged in war or
maintaining peace by force of arms was
contrary to the tenets of the Society of
Friends, and therefore could not be
considered. The senior member Gf the
firm, recently deceased, was a typical
Quaker a man of brawn and brain, and
at Go was in as fine a physical condition
as most men who have led a temperate
life are at 40. Grief over the untimely
death of his con, a young man of great
promise, was tho primary causo of Mr.
Whitall's death. Now York Mail and
Express.-
Very Confusing.
An "underground" train from White
chapel was trundling along through the
City one dark and foggy day. An old
Irish lady was a passenger, who was
evidently moving her "home," tied up
in a ragged old apron, from an eastern
to a western "doss house." "How far
will Oi have to go wid this?'.' she asked
of a fellow passenger, thrusting her
ticket in his faca The affable man put
on his spectacles. "Latimer road,
ma'am! Seven stations farther on."
The old lady grunted incredulously.
Some minutes passed, during which the
old lady mused or dozed and took no
thought of stoppages. Then she roused
herself and addressed the same question
to another passenger. "Four stations
on," muttered this one briefly. Tho
Irish dame smiled bitterly, but kept her
own counsel for awhile. Then she sud
denly turned upon a traveler of her own
sex. "Now will yez tell me, ma'am,
how far am Oi from this station?" "It's
the next station of all," said the other
smilingly. The Irish woman cast around
a glance of indignant scorn. "An which
of yez am Oi to believe? Sure ye all tell
a different tale!" Household Words.
Alexis Firon.
Alexis Piron, a native of Dijon, is
perhaps most notorious for his epitaph,
"Here lies Piron, who was nothing
not even an academician." Ono night
he wa3 asked at a party if he could tell
the difference between a woman and a
mirror. "A woman, " he replied, "talks
without reflecting; a mirror, reflects
without talking." Upon this a lady
asked, "Can you now, M. Piron, tell
me the difference between a man and a
mirror?" And, asPiion remained silent,
she went on, 'A mirror is always pol
ished, while a man.. sometimes is not."
The Panic That Threatens,
President Ferdinand T. Hopkins" of
the closed Murray Hill bank, New
York, says:
"I believe, in full appreciation of the
position which I now occupy as presi
dent of a bank which has just been
closed, that if Bryan and Sewall aro
elected this country will experience the
greatest finaucial panic in its history."
Printers and women are somewhat
alike in one respect, as both spend a
good deal of their time in making up
their forms.
ELEPHANT STORIES.
THEY GO TO SHOW THAT THE GREAT
BEASTS CAN REASON.
How One of tho Hugo Fellows Amused
Himself at the Expense of a Hippopota
mus Protecting Themselves 2Trom An
noyance. In my opinion the elephant is the
most intelligent of all animals. He
thinks for himself, and no matter in
what position ho may be placed, or
what emergencies he may bo called up
on to meet, he seems to be endowed
with enough common sense to bo equal
to all occasions. He has also a strong
sense of humor, which at times is so
marked as to be almost human.
This sense of the humorous was un
usually well developed in an elephant I
knew in tho Jardiu des Plantes in Par
is. He was kept in a great inclqsure out
in the open air, so that he had plenty
of room to roam, about. In the same in
closure was a very large hippopotamus,
for whose - comfort and amusement a
great stone basin had" been built and
filled with water, and the hippopotamus
in turn furnished amusement for the
elephant. It was quite early ono morn
ing before the hour for admitting the
public to tho garden when I noticed
the elephant walking around on the
stone edge of the basin, curiously watch
ing the hippopotamus.
I felt quite sure that the elephant was
up to some prank, and I was not mistak
en; for, just as soon as the ears of the
hippopotamus came into view, the ele
phant quickly seized one of them with
his trunk and gave it a sudden pull.
The enraged hippopotamus lifted his
ponderous head clear of the water and
snorted and blew, but every timo he
rose to take breath tho elephant would
recommence his antics. Around and
around the beast would go, keeping a
sharp lookout for tho little ears of the
hippopotamust which he wonld seize the
moment they appeared. His evident de
light in teasing , his huge-neighbor was
very comical, and there could be no
doubt that ho thoroughly enjoyed it
Again, one day the keeper placed
some food for the hippopotamus in a
corner of the inclosure, and at once the
hippopotamus began to leave the water
to get it, but the elephant slowly am
bled over to the same corner, and arriv
ing there first he placed his four feet
over the favorite food in such away that
the hippopotamus could not get at it,
gently swayed his trunk back and forth
and acted altogether as though ho were
there quite accidentally, until the gar
den was thrown open to tho public and
he went forward to receive the daily
contributions of bread, cake, pie, etc.,
which were always offered 'him by his
hosts of admirers.
Elephants appear to take much enjoy
ment in life and exhibit a good natured
spirit even while at work. In the ani
mals' quarters at Bridgeport, some time
ago, two little elephants showed evi
dent pleasure in the tasks that were set
for them. Even in their stable, when
no trainer was about, one little elephant
would stand on its head just it was
used to doing in tho circus and the other
would look anxiously.on until its own
turn came to stand on its head and be
admired by the other.
In his native clime, during the hot
hours of the day, tho elephant usually
seeks the friendly shade of a grove of
trees so as to shield himself from the
burning rays of the sun. Some time ago
in Central park the elephants in sum
mer were kept in an open inclosure
where there were no trees or shade of
any kind, and during the hot days,
when tho mercury was well up in the
nineties, tho heat was almost unbear
able. Intently watching tho elephants
there were always many persons carry
ing sunshades or umbrellas to protect
themselves from the sun's rays.
I wonder how many of these oulook
ers realized that the elephants were
carrying sunshades, too, for such was
really tho case. On the very hot days
the great quadrupeds would take the
hay that was given them, or, when they
could get it the newly mown grasa, and
completely thatch their backs with it
to shield themselves from the sun. They
will sometimes do this same thing in
fly time to protect themselves from be
ing bitten, for, strange as ifc may seem,
the elephant's skin is very sensitive.
In Africa there grows a tree called
the heglik tree, which bears fruit
known by the name of lolobes. Now the
elephant is very fond cf lolobes, but the
fruit grows so high up as to be quite
out of the animal's reach. Of course
that does not deter the elephant from
trying to get it. True, ho cannot climb
a tree, but ho has a big bump of inge
nuity and we may rest assured that he
gets the fruit by some means or other.
Sir Samuel Baker, the great African
traveler, was fortunate enough one day
to see an elephan t in the very act of get
ting tho fruit The elephant would re
tiro a short distance from tho tree and
then rush at tho trunk at full speed,
striking his head against it with such
force as to make the tree tremble in
every limb and so shake down the fruit,
repeating the charge again and again
until enough lolobes had fallen to satis
fy his appetite. Our Animal Friends.
A Trifle Particular.
Bunko Stranger in New York, I see.
Farmer You've jist about struck it,
b'gosh!
Bunko That's what I thought. Now,
let mo give you a ' 'steer. ' '
Farmer Much obleeged, but I'm
rayther long on steers. Ef you kin make
it a couple o' young milk cows, I'll
take 'em, b'gosh. Somerville Journal.
Eli Terry, the wooden clcck genius,
was the first American drummer or
commercial traveler, being obliged to
mako regular trips from his home in
Connecticut over into New York to
dispose of his wares. This in 179G.
The brouze cent was issued in accord
ance with a law passed in 1857, and its
coinage was begun in 1864.
Heat and Silver.
To read the inscription on a silver
coin which by much wear has become
wholly obliterated put a poker in the
fire. When redhot, place the coin upon
it, and tho inscription will plainly ap
pear of a greenish hue, but will disap
pear as the coin cools. This method
was formerly practiced at the mint to
discover the genuine coin when silver
was called in.
Portugal has l.OSOjOOO'women more
than 17 years old.
AMERICANIZED CHINAMEN.
Hew Yankee Sign Painters Sophisticate
Oriental Karnes.
It is rather amusing to note the curi
ous disguises under which Chinese names
appear on tho laundry signboards so
thickly scattered through our cities. It
is the natural result of the Chinaman's
imperfect acquaintance with English
and the sign painter's absolute ignorance
of Chinese.
For instance, John goes to the painter
and explains "Want paint washee
washec."
"All right. What's your name?" asks
the painter.
"Name Cha Li Ling," replies tho
oriental, and down it goes on the sign,
"Charlie Ling."
It is surprising tho number of these
Charlies who wear pigtails, but it al
ways como to pass in tho way just indi
cated. One sign painter did still better. Tho
applicant gave his name as Cha Ku Li.
This in due time appeared on a square
red board as follows: "Chas. Q. Lee,
First Class Chinese Laundry."
It is often alleged that the Chinese
never become truly American, but here
was a Chinaman pretty thoroughly
Americanized, one would fancy.: It was
from the bumptious sign painter, how
ever, that ho got his naturalization pa
pers. Boston Post.
Dancing and Tunnels. -A
boy of 4 asked to be taken with his
elders to a ball. Ho was told that ho
must first learn to dance. Upon this ho
delivered himself as follows: "But I
tan dance, and my way is moro difficult
than your way. I tan dance alone, but
you havo to bo holded up." This was
not smartness, perverted ingenuity, as
some might suppose. Ifc was a bit of
perfectly natural child thought. To tho
little philosopher there seemed nothing
in the nature of things to mako dancers
dance in "pairs" and hold ono another
in,so tight a grip unless it wero to keep
one another from falling.
In many of these naive misinterpreta
tions of what is seen the poinf . of the
humor involves, of course, a sido hit at
grown up weaknesses which lie hid'
from the child. A good example of the
charm of this childish innocence is given
by Mr. Punch when he makes little
Jessie ask her mamma in a railway car
riage, "Why do all the tunnels smell so
strong of brandy?" to the disgust of a
Puritanic looking lady traveler sitting
close by. Here, indeed, I suppose, every
body recognizes that the butt of the joke
is this hypocritical looking lady with
her carefully hidden bottle. National
Review.
Connecticut's Nicknames.
Connecticut enjoys tho proud distinc
tion of having three sobriquets. Ifc has
been called tho "Land of Steady Hab
its," from the sobriety and gravity of
its people; tho "Freestone State," from
the enormous quarries of that descrip
tion of stone, and the "Nutmeg State,"
from the tradition prevalent in sur
rounding comnmnities over 100 ycara
ago that the chief industry of its inhab
itants was the manufacture of nutmegs
of wood, to bG passed off as genuine on
unsuspecting purchasers.
Not Dangerous.
Judge You are accused of carrying a
razor.
Prisoner But, yo' honah, it war' er
Sifety razyah,
-Washington Times.
Mr. A. H. Crausby, of 15S Kerr St.,
Memphis, Tenu., says that his wife
paid no attention to a small lump which
appeared in her breast, but it soon de
veloped iuto a cancer of the worst type,
and notwithstanding the treatment of
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow rapidly, eating two
holes in her breast. The doctors
soon pronounced
her incurable. A
celebrated New York
specialist then treat
ed her, but she con
tinued to grow worse
and when informed
that both her aunt
and grandmother had
died from cancer he
gave the case up as
linnfl ;;-
TWflV Someone then re-
r"' commended S.S.S.
and though little hope remaiued, she
begun it, and an improvement was no
ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and
when she had taken several bottles it
disappeared entirely, and although sev
eral years have elapsed-, not a sign of
the disease has ever returned.
A Real Blood Remedy
S.S.S. guaranteed purely vegetable)
is a real blood remedy, and never fails
to cure Cancer, Eczema, Rheumatism
Scrofula, or any other blood disease.
Our books
will be mailed
free to any ad
dress. Swift
Specific Co.,
Atlanta Ga.
HUMPHREYS
VETERINARYSPEC1F1CS
For Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Ecgs,
AND POULTEY.
SOOPage Book on Treatment of Animals
and Ckart bent Free.
cures cFeversjConceBtieHB.Tnfinmmation
A. A.J Spinal Hcnineitis, Milk Fever.
B. B.Strains, Lameness, RbcHBiatism.
C. C. Distemper, Knsal Discharges
D. D. Dots or Grubs, Worms.
E. E.--Congus, Heaves, PiieHmenia
F. F. Colic or Gripes, Bellyaeke.
G. G. miscarriage, Hemorrhages.
II. II. Urinary and Kidney Diseases
I. T. Eruptive Dlneases, Manprc.
J. K. Diseases of Digestion, Paralysis
Single Bottle (over 50 dosesX - - .CO
Stable Case, -with Specifics. Manual,
Veterinary Cure Oil and Hcdlcator, $7.00
Jar Veterinary Care'Oil, 1.00
Sold b7DrasttU; er teat prrpId Kjnhere ssd la 127
qsasUIr co receipt of price.
HCBPHHETS'SKB. CO., Ill A mwiatai St., Sew York.
HUMPHREYS'
HOMEOPATHIC
28
SPECIFIC N0.1
In use 30 years. The only raccsfnl remedy for
Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness,
and Frostr&tioa. from over-work or ether caascs.
per viil, or 6 rial sad Urgo vial powder, for $5.
Sold hj DmreUu, or (cot pottpld on receipt ot price.
HOXFHBKYS'BEB. CO., Ill A113TCUteaSt.,5ewYork.
Wanied-An Idea
Who can think
01 some simple
thing to patent?
Protect your Ideas: they may brio? yoa wealth. ,
Writ JOHN WEDDEKBtTRN & CO.. Patent Attor-
neys. waaaiBgton, D. c.for tnelr $100 prise offer
aaa list of two hundred laTeatlOBS wanted.
Of the Breast.
''V
BLACKWELL'S
1
Yon will find one coupon
Inside each, tiro ounce bag,
and tzro coapona Inside each
four ounce basy of Blacli
vrrll's Dnrliam. Buy a liajr
of this celebrated tobacco
and read the coapoc which,
gives a list of valuable pres
ents and Iiov to set them.
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Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
PAINTEES' STJI'DPIil'ES,
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ZDIanLarLta, Spectacles. '
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-braZRTIEI PLATTE, - - K"EBE,ASKA
"We aim to liandle tlic 13 est Grades of
Goods, sell tliem at Heasoiiable
Fig-ares, and Warrant Jb very tiling
as Represented..
Orders from the country and along the line of the Union
Pacific railway respectfully solicited.
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WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAP, GOLD
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ESTABLISHED JULY 1863. - - - - 310 SPRUCE STREET-
V
F. J. BEOEKER,
Merchant Tailor I
A well assorted stock of foreign
and domestic piece goods in
stock from which to select. $
Perfect Fit
how Prices.
SPRUCE STREET.
GEO. NAUMAN'S
SIXTH STREET
MEAT MARKET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. " Fish and Game in
season. Sausage jat all
times. Cash paid for Hides.
WA!?Lr hTimiiu
rft SEE?
COAL
SMOKERS
In search of a good cigar
will always find it at J.
F. Schmalzried's. Try t
them and judge.
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We can assure all who suffer with In
ternal Piles that in Hemorrhoidine we
have a positive cure. The treatment is
unlike any thing heretofore used and its
application so perfect that every ves
tipc of the disease is eradicated.' Hem
orrhoidine is a harmless compound, can
be used for an eye ointment, yet posess
e3 such healing power that when ap-
lied to the diseased parts, it at once re
ieves and a cure is the sure result of its
continued use. All who suffer with piles
suffer from Constipation also and Hem
orrhoidine cures both. Price $1 50. For
Sale by Druggists. Will he sent from
the factory on receipt of price. Send to
Tub Foster ManVg Co. Council Bluffs,
Iowa, for testimonials and information.
Sold Toy -a,. 3P. StaroitaK-
Wanted-fln Idea
Who can think
cf "some simple
thing to patent?
SSIa3Btln D.' -or their tLanprta Toffer
aad list of two hundred taTentlons wanted. .