THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
IT. W. BANDKIIS, I'ultllilier.
NEMAHA. NEBRASKA.
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NEW BITS OF JEWELRY.
jUiililiio IitviiH 111 (Jolil, SIIvit mill I'rr-
ClllllN .Sltlllt'N.
. Bow knots of gold, enriched with
gems, nre suitable ornaments for the
Mnrle Antoinette ooillure.
Crystal niiiriiinliide pots, resting1 on
nilver trays, please the eye.
A rabbit's foot, mounted In gold, Is
(evidently u popular ehnrm with both
rexes.
The wearing of imltution and scml
prcclous jewels is no longer n soelal
(crime; these are freely tolerated in the
tfushionable world. Kspeelally 1h tills
rfruc of itonuiu pearls, which figure in
jnnny necklaces In company with real
diamonds.
' TheHilverehafingdish has been intro
Wlticod at the formal dinner and has
(consequently Increased in importance.
The most popular bracelet is flexible,
Wing in gold-chain pattern, with gems
Htttiu nt intervals.
Knnmel work in the Byzantine style
Bs used for a variety of purposes, such as
frames for photographs, handles to pa
per knives, etc.
, Pie dishes show antique silver mounts
tind china linings.
The present style in woman's dress
'demands gorgeous eil'ects, hence the
Ibuttons, buckles and other ornaments
net with fancy stones.
Hand-engraved trays with pierced
borders are in demand and conic in sev
eral si.cs.
The fashionable woman's collection
bf jewels includes in addition to the im
port nut gem collars, tiaras and shoul
lor pieces, an assortment of lesser or
liiameuts mounted ns clasp pins and in
form of stars, crescents, sprn,s and the
flike. These are fastened on the cos
ftunie whenever a dazzling clTcet Is re
mured. I In accordance witii the fashionable
tendency are mirrors in Louis XVL
(frames ornamented witli miniatures.
' Heeded glass jugs with silver lip and
jcorur are used for claret,
i Silver lamps, designed to serve as cor-ticr-pieccs
on the dinner table, nre made
after an old .French pattern and stand
pa two feet.
Seal rings for women come In varie
ties of bloodstones, jasper, onyx, etc.
. Chocolate spoons with deeornted
Dresden handles have silver gilt bowls.
Among popular sets, in cases, are the
Child's spoon, knife, fork and napkin
ring.
Fascinating beasts are represented in
corkscrew handles which employ in
(their making stag, boar and rhinoceros
tusks and gazelle and deers' feet.
There are ornaments in diamonds and
turquoises which can be worn as a
brooch, pendant or hair ornament.
Jewelers' Circular.
SALADS AS A DAILY DIET.
ptlont AVlioIcHomu Food, nml Slioulil llti
. Kitten I2very liny,
I The benuty and wholcsomencss of tho
naiad should commend it to every Amer
ican housekeeper. I do not refer to
those highly-seasoned combinations of
Iiard-boiled eggs and mustard, but to
dainty dinner or luncheon salads, made
with n dressing of olive oil, a few drops
of lemon juice, and a light seasoning
f salt, garlic and pepper.
. The salts necessary for the well-being
of. our blood are bountifully given In
Tthec green vegetables; then, too, it is
a. pleasant way of talcing fatty food.
!All maohlncry must be well-oiled to pre
sent friction, and the wonderful human
engine Is not an exception to tho rule.
Iiook carefully to it that you take sulll
cient fatty food.
j The Americans do not use enough oil
ko keep them in perfect hcnlth. While
(butter is served in some families three
"iiuies a day, and' is better than no fat,
its composition is rather against it ns
compared to a sweet vegetable oil. Futs
"well digested are tho salvation of con
sumptives or those suffering from any
ibrm of tuberculosis. For these reasons
a simple salad composed of any green
(vegetable and a French dressing, should
8e seen on every well-regulated tablo
365 times a year. Those who live out of
town can obtain from the fields sorrel,
long docks, dandelions, and lamb's
quarters, for tho cost of picking,
JWhero desserts arc not used, and I wish,
ifor health's sake, they might bo nbol
anhed, a salad with a bit of cheese and
bread, or water, or cracker, with a small
jup of co flee, may close tho nicaL
Where a dessert Ib uned the salad, cheese
aind wafer nro served just before It, to
prick up the appetite that it may enjoy
more fully tho sweet. At u largo dinner
the snlad is usually served with the
game course. Mrs. S. T. Borer, ia La
dies' ITomo Journal.
Hnow Ptstlillnir.
'Pour ono pint boiling water over half
ji boxful of gelatine and let it stand un
til dissolved. Add one cupful of sugar,
rfho juice of one large lemon and tho
whites of three eggs beaten to n still
froth. Serve cold with the following
custard: Yolks of three eggs, ono pint
jnllk, sweeten and flavor to taste. Set
the dish containing it in another of
boiling water, and stir until a thick
cream. Ladies' World.
Russia's population increases nt
the rate of 1,000,000 annually, and tho
Increase is much greater than that of
isuiy other country in tho world.
JJKIJG-STOUE SECKETtf.
Somo of tho Myatorloa of tho Pro
scr.ptlon Countor.
UriiKKlntn mill IMiarmaclM Do Nut
Out AlotiKT iin Wen an They
Al lull t The Trluln of u
I) r ii if Clerk.
Special IJoston Lottor 1
It was after ten o'clock when the
middle-aged lady stepped into the cor
ner drug store:
"Have you seen Mamie this evening?"
she asked.
The clerk replied thnt the girl and
her chum had pnssed up the street a
few minutes ago, whereupon the old
lady hurried oil In the direction In
dicated. "You had better skip now," tho clerk
whispered to some ono In. the mys-
"HAVE YOU SEEN MAMIE THIS EVEN
ING ?"
terlous seclusion of the prescription
room. A moment later Mamie tumbled into
view and disappeared as quickly across
the street.
"Been having cnllers again?" re
marked the casual visitor who was just
strolling in.
The clerk nodded.
Tho visitor made a move ns though
ho were about to take a look in back of
tho prescription counter, but the
threatening eye of tho cleric stopped
him.
"She's gone now, and there's nothing
to see," ho said
Indeed, if there is any one place in
the commercial world that is u mystery
to the general public, it is the spot
back o'f the prescription counter in a
drug store.
"What 'vc you got back there, any
way?" queried the casual visitor, "keep
lug n harem, eh?"
"Not nt all," said tho drug clerk,
"there's nothing unusual about the
place, although to the ignorant public
the little corner where we practice our
black art, doubtless, has a decided con
notation of mystery."
"You see," ho continued, "so many
costly mistakes have been made in com
pounding prescriptions, that wo in
stinctively object to allowing anyone
in our workshop,"
"Lot'B of trouble in your business,
Isn't there?" suggested tho causal
visitor.
"Well, I should say so. You've heard
nil about the telephone, postage stamp
and directory nuisance, and of course,
you know that n drug clerk must be a
walking encyclopedia of current fact
and fiction, but that doesn't tell half
our woe."
It Is a fact that the end of the cen
tury druggist is confronted with n mnss
of harassing problems. Thirty years
ago tho druggist was on a level with
every other merchant and by serving
a proper apprenticeship any boy could
bccouio a druggist just as ho might a
carpenter. But after the close of the
civil wur, tho hospital stewards who had
acted as assistants to the war doctors
began to open drug stores in all parts
of the country. This raised the ques
tion of legal restrictions on the right to
dispense, und finally phnrmncy was ele
vated to tho rank of n profession as
the druggists like to call it the Bister
profession of medicine.
Hut tho standard of the retail drug
business has Uuctuntcd between that
of a profession aud thnt of it mero
trade. Many pharmacists assert that
their stores should carry no side lines,
but should conflno themselves strictly
to tho salo of drugs nnd to dispensing.
Tho temptation to mnko extra money
has, however, proved too gTent, and so
our American drug stores, quite unlike
those ono finds In Europe, aro delving
In sldo lines galore On tho whole, tho
iucomo from soda, cigars, candies ami
stationery probably exceeds tho pro
ceeds of tho pharmaceutical depart
ment. A most lucrative side line, but ono
that causes endless trouble, illls tho
cups that cheer and Inebriate as well.
A respectablo druggist can generally
got a license to sell Lquor for medicinal
purposes, provided ho enters tho salo
upon his books with tho name nnd ad
dress of tho buyer; but sometimes tho
licenses nro restricted to sales on phy
sicians' prescriptions. Few druggists
live up to tho letter of the law, while
some men open drug stores for the solo
purpose of running a barroom back in
that mysterious corner alleged to be
reserved to tho compounding of pre
pcriptions. Tho whole trade must suf
fer for tho transgressions of these
jpify if
pseudo-druggists. In temperance vi
cinities raids upon drug stores, indis
criminately executed, are of daily oc
currence, und as little ns a half pint
of whisky will be confiscated by tho
olllcors as n "find." Both the pseudo
phnrmaceuttcal saloon keeper and tho
professional spotter sent out by tem
perance leagues are hated and despised
beyond measure by the trade.
In recent years enemies have nrisen
from unexpected qunrters. In the first
place, the growth of the modern depart
ment store with its cut prices on pat
ent medicines is constantly reducing
the side line business of the druggist.
To the profession tills might appear
as an advantuge, but nevertheless It
works great hardship to stores that
have been planned on the old scale.
The patent medicine man is an eye
sore to every druggist. In the first
place, he induces people to buy his
original packages, thus crowding out
tho more lucrative prescription trade,
and, secondly, he encourages the de
partment stores by selling to them nt
cut prices. The growth of huge phar
maceutical laboratories has also worked
inestimable hardship. Two decades ago
the apothecary bought the crude drug,
crushed, distilled and prepared it all In
his little laboratory back of the pre
scription counter. To-dny the finished
product is furnished in liquid form by
the manufacturer, and nil the premium
on pharmaceutical knowledge is taken
away.
Hut the enemy feared most of all is
the physician.
"Those doctors arc really the most
Insolently domineering people conceiv
able," remarked my friend, the drug
clerk. "They ask, or rather demand,
every privilege, nnd we dare not object.
You see, the inllucnce of most family
physicians is so great that a mere re
murk will suillce to send their pntients
to a drug store miles uway. A great
many pructltiouers go so far as to exact
regular monthly commissions from tho
preferred druggist, and often they ab
sorb the bulk of the prolits. Though
the drug journals are always lighting
this practice, it is growing from your to
year even among supposedly respeo
table physicians.
"Still worse are the physicians who
do not prescribe at all. The improve
ments in the manufacture of taoiet
triturates, you know, have enabled tho
physician to carry the stock of a small
drug store in his hand satchel, so that
allopaths, as well as the homeopaths,
may diagnose and dispense directly nt
the bedside of the patient, while tho
druggist hus the privilege of l'urnisn
iug the free lunch telephone."
Just then an old woman entered tho
store. Her little girl, she said, had red
e pots all over her face, and couldn't the
druggist give her something against
that? After a few cross queries tho
clerk disappeared behind the holy of
holies und returned presently with a
bottle which he wrapped up carefully,
and for which, last but not least, ho
collected 40 cents.
That was a clear case of counter
prescribing the converse to physicians
dispensing. The druggist hud no incd-
Mill
4HB-
THE DRUGGIST'S WORST ENEMY.
leal certificate which entitled him to
diagnose nnd prescribe for illness, and
so ho had surely cheated some practi
tioner out of a dollar 'bill. JJoth coun
ter prescribing and satchel dispensing
aro u source of constant irritation be
tween the two professions, and at
tempts at more stringent legislation in
either direction are perennial.
From tho druggist's point of view, n
real square fellow among physicians
will write lots of prescriptions, nnd will
write them in such n way that the drug
gist realizes tho greatest possible profit.
Thus a West end physician wrote a pre
scription last week for an ounce of aqua
distillate (ordinary distilled water) and
n few drops each of tincture of cinna
mon and asafoetida. Threo bottles of
tho concoction were consumed. Tho
druggist charged three times 35 cents,
and now recommends that doctor as a
particularly able physician. What
would tho patient say if he heard that
ho would have been just as well off; had
ho bought a nickel's worth of asafoetida
aud mixed it in water himself?
E. J. GUNDLACIL
Icy ImlllTcreitcc.
"I am nfruid that after being friends
for so many years those two girls have
quarreled beyond reconciliation."
"They have, beyond a doubt," replied
Miss Cnyennc. "1 told ono thnt I had
just seen the other, and she didn't even
nsk me what she had on." Washington.
Star.
TWO DAYS WELL SPENT.
Wostorn Editor Reduces Slffht
Soolng to a System.
AlniuiKcil to Hoc .More of the National
Capitol In Twenty-Knur Hour
Tli a ii .Mont Vlnltors See
In a Week.
Special Washington Letter.
One of the veteran editors of the west
came to Washington recently, and, al
though lie hud but two duys to spare,
he managed to see a great deal of the
national capital in that time.
Thousands of people traveling from
enst to west nunually stop over here
for a day or two, and can of course carry
nwny with them only faint recollec
tions of a city of trees and asphalt pave
ments. Tho itinerary of the editor is
therefore one which everybody coming
here on flying trips might better know
about and keep for future reference.
Tho visitor was wise enough to en
gage apartments at a hotel before com
ing here. Ho knew that when congress
Is in session till of the hotels ure crowd
ed. You may judge from thnt little
bit of forethought that he is somewha:
methodical, and inclined to make prep
arations for coming events.
It was early Tuesday morning when
the editor arrived here, and he went at
once to the hotel, where he had break
fast. He then went down Pennsyl
vania avenue on u cable car, which went
clear around the capitol grounds, and
took him to tho new congressional li
brary building. He spent two hours
there, viewing with wonderment and
amazement the splendors of that mag
nificent building; an edifice which is
now conceded to be, without exception,
the most splendid building in the world.
He then walked across the grand
pluza to the cast front of the capitol
building, and entered the senate wing
beneath the great marble staircase.
Ordinarily n stranger would have
climbed the stairs, but it is n physical
task which Is not necessnry. The en
trance beneath the staircase leads
through a spacious corridor to an ele
vator which quickly lifts the people to
the main floor, or to the gallery floor,
of tho building. Our visiting editor
first walked about the senate floor, and
went to the east front, where he saw
tho bronze doors, containing numerous
ullegoricnl representations in bas re
lief. Then he went to the gallery, and
was admitted to the reserved gallery
becaube ko held a ticket of admission
which had been sent to him with the
compliments of one of the senators
from his state the senator having
leurned thnt the editor was coming to
Washington about that time.
It was just five minutes of 12, noon,
when tho visitor took his seat and began
to study the architectural effects of the
great legislative chamber. He ob
served in tho niches along the wall the
marble busts of tho ex-vice presidents
of tho republic. They are all there, in
cluding one of Adlai F. Stevenson,
whose term of ollice only expired lust
March.
At 12 o'clock he saw Vice President
Ilobart enter the senate chamber, ac
companied by Bev. Dr. Milburn, the
celebrated blind chaplain of the senate.
Ho heard the vice president's gavel
IN TOM REED'S PLACE.
"Where) am I at7 I do declare!"
King Ken replied: "In the speaker's chatr,"
strike tho desk once, lightly, and then
tho vico president said: "The senate
will bo In order. The chaplain will offer
prayer."
With a friend sitting beside him to
point out the notables, the visiting
editor saw Senator Frye, of Maine, the
eloquent republican orator; Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, the patriotic
American statesman who resisted the
British arbitration treaty, and who has
for two years insisted that this country
should stop thnt bloody warfare in
Cuba; Senator Cullom, and Senator
Mason, of Illinois; Senator Davis, of
Minnesota; Senator Burrows, of Michi
gan; Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin;
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska; Sena
tor Baker, of Kansas, nnd many others
of celebrity. Ho several times re
marked: "Tho pictures of public men
which aro prepared nnd printed in the
newspapers nro very good likenesses.
I would know Scnntor Allison, and
Senator Qunj, nnd Senator Hoar, and
many others here, from the pictures
which I hnvc seen in the papers. It Is
exceedingly complimentary to the prog
ress of the profession in these days
that the pictures printed should so well
represent the men."
After an hour spent in the senate
chamber, the visitor went over to the
rotunda, which is the central part of
the capitol, aud there he met Kennedy,
the king of the guides. He is a gentle
man of education, refinement and most
pleasing manners. He knows thtj capi
tol bulldiug, from foundation stones to
the top of the dome. He led the visitor
to statuary hall, the room formerly
used by the house of representatives.
There he showed the marvelous natural
eehos of the place. It would make a
book to write it all in detail.
In the rotunda the guide pointed out
the magnificent fresco work encircling
the Inner pnrt of the dome; and he also
called attention to the lamentable fact
that some of those paintlugB have been
ruined, because, through the negligence
of somebody, the dome hn3 been in a
leaky condition, nnd the paintings ure
smeared and completely destroyed.
Next came a visit to the hall of the
house of representatives. There was no
session, so the guide took his visitor
ou to the floor of the house, nnd polnt-
I nil
"JUST TELL THEM THAT YOU HAW
ME."
ed out all points of interest. The vis
itor ascended the dais, and for a few
moments sat in the speaker's chair;
the chair which is occupied by Tom
Heed, the mighty man from Maine, who
holds the house in the hollow of his
hands.
The speaker's lobby was then visited,
and there, upon the walls along the
lengthy corridor, the portraits of all
the past speakers of the house of rep
resentatives were seen. This completed
the trip over the main floor of the cap
itol building, nnd the visiting editor
took the cars, went down the hill, and
around to the botanical gardens, where
he saw some of nature's marvels.
One of the most interesting things
there seems to be the palm trees, of
various lamllles, which do as. fine weav
ing as spiders, or skilled human work
men. The palms grow in sections, and
they nre so weak that they vould droop
to the ground. But as each leaf is put
forth, little coils of vegetable thread
are wound around and around, so that,
when the tree reaches the height of
from two feet to 30 feet it presents
the appearance of having been wound
about by human hands. That was the
moststrikingthinginthe botanical gar
dens, but there were many other wou
derful things seen there in the course
of half an hour.
The next day was Wednesday. The
first thing done was to talce the elec
tric cars, go careering across the cele
brated Long bridge, and stop at Arling
ton national cemetery. There is the
former home of Gen. Bobert E. Lae,
and around about it skilled landscape
gardeners have beautified the last rest
ing places of 12.000 union soldiers. There
are monuments to generals, colonels,
captains, lieutenants, nnd also to pri
vate soldiers. In front of the old man
sion, overlooking the national capital,
is a splendid monument of Gen. Phil
Sheridan, with his likeness in bronze.
It took nearly all morning to see Ar
lington, and then return to the hotel
for dinner.
In the nftcrnoon there wns a trip to
the bureau of engraving and printing,
the place where all our paper money
and all of our postage stamps are print
ed. It is a wonderful workshop; but
evprylhing Is so barred off that it is
diflicult to see much of the workings of
the bureau. The workingmeu and the
women are all barred In, and the pub
lic barred out, because there are mil
lions upon millions of dollars in money
right there all the time.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the
president gave n public reception, and
our editorinl brother went there. It
wns a great sight. He was ushered Into
the cast room, and there were about 300
people awaiting an opportunity to
shake hands with the president. It was
15 minutes after three o'clock when the
president appeared, ami took his place
at the door leading out into the cor
ridor. The crowd filed past him, one at
a time, in single file, and he took the
hand of each caller, bowed and passed
him on to the hall. It was all over in.
ten minutes, nnd the president went
back to his public duties. But ho can
now say to his associates as ho takes
up his pen to write: "This is the hand
that shook the hand of William Mc
Klnley." Very few people, compara
tively speaking, ever have an oppor
tunity to see one of our presidents,
much less to see him faeo to face, and
clasp his hand.
SMITH D. PRY.
Frequent cutting of the hair makcait
coarse, not thick.
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