Figuratively Speaking. 0nce while touring England Mr. Irv . T’c ooinnany stopped at a small city interior. The play for that night lD' ••The Merchant of Venice.” "Shortly before the performance the nr took aside bis five assist hPilli supt*! --— saaciOt c who were new at the business, ‘“^'started in to give them their in .-uctions. Among the five was an . who paid his instructor the vnerican. , - ,y0w." said the head super, endeav . n„ to impress his words upon his ‘ ,j% when Shylock comes on in the pupil! must throw him a look silence for a moment. ij.'t scene you of a'e-" There was _ ____ - the American spoke up, “How Then ■an we ilo that, sir. when we're only jrey_ Boston Budget a number one rough cure. Mr. James H Barnet, 213 Cedar St., Buffalo, N. Y., .rites thus: “I am using Dr. Bull's Cough Svrup in my family and deem it a number one niedi ine for coughs and colds, and my bouse shall never be without it.” Cncle Sam pays about 1100 a minute in interest on the national debt, The man goes to bed tired who spends the day looking for an easy place. ;t is by all odds the best liniment. Mr. Chns. Metzger, 217 Geyer Ave., St. Louis, jlo is of the same opinion. He says: ■•Salvation Oil is the best remedy we have ever used in our family. It is the best rem edy on eartl^”_ Teacher—What are we taught by the story of the loaves and fishes? Johnnie, whose mother keeps boarders -That there’s some boarders don't want pie three times a day. Oo South Via the Wabash. Tourists' tickets now on sale to all points. Romeseekers’ tickets at half fare on ex cursion dates, Dec. 12th, Jan. 9th, Feb. 18tb, March 13th, April 10th and May 8th. For rates or folders giving full description of lands, climate, ftc., call at Wabash Ticket office, No. 1502 Farnam Street, or write Uio. N. Clayton, N. w. P. Agt., Omaha, Hah. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. £yrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. “Almost as Palatable as Milk” This is a fact with regard to Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. The difference between the oil, in its plain state, is very apparent. In Scott’s Emulsion you detect no fish-oil taste. As it is a help to diges tion there is no after effect except good effect. Keep in mind that Scott’s Emulsion is the best promoter of flesh and strength known to science. ^ropcrcd^yScottABownOILY^AndirqKK*^^ V Vh brk»® . *W"Too4ilI»At«0«lfcobMt WATERPROOF COAT SEES? to the Worid t __ A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS. . V.L DOUGLAS Cl SHOT ■equals custom work, costing from P *4 to $6, best value lor the money Lie the world..rN/Ame and *pce \ stnmpod on fWSottom. “ Every war warranted. Taka no substi lute. See local papers lor Full description of our complete ^lilies for ladies and gen k tlemen or send for Jl Inst rated Catalog tie giving’ in '» structions ___ _ how to or t'v mail. Postajrt free. You ran get the best 0ar£ains of dealers who push our shoes. _ Patents. Trade-Marks. , Ex.iniimtioo oo4 Adrico u to PotmtoMltty ot ■otection. 8«d4 for “lovonton* Guide, or How to Got •*'uom.» tasa punaSt. viannwos, ». a GOOD ROAD PROBLEM.1 THE BEQ'NNINO OF MODERN ROAD systems described. Importance of Garefnl Contraction and ®*P«rt Supervision of County Road*. B,vvtik'.uCCIIn,500 to <6,000 each. It is estimated that every thousand years the human race grows an inch taller. The early English and French kings took “moneyers” with them on their travels, who coined money as it was needed. At the end of the eighteenth cen tury the annual average mortality was estimated at 50 per .1,000, and in 1893 it had dropped to 19.1 per 1,000. The alevrodes citri, a minute white fly, is reported to prevail to an alarm ing extent in many sections of Flor ida, and is proving a dangerous pest to orange trees. The use of hypodermic injections of sheeps' brains looks like a mutton head notion, but they are recommend ed by an eminent bacteriologist as a cure for epilepsy. • .What is believed to be the oldest piece of metal money ever made is at the mint in Philadelphia. It was minted in iEgina about 700 B. C. The design is in high relief, representing a tortoise crawling along the face of the coin. The town of Carmel,' Maine, has for four months kept in prison Wm. Davis because he refused to tell any thing about his financial standing in a suit for damages for injuring a boy who had hung up a burlesque May basket on his premises. A scheme has been propounded in a French town for slinging huge cables from point to point over the house tops and rigging up cars on them that will whisk people along at the rate of' fifteen miles an hour. The motive power will be electricity. From Millitsch, in Silesia, an extra ordinary case of trance is reported. Some delay occurred in the burial of a lady, owing to the grave not being rfeady. She was the wife of a major in the army. On the fourth day after her supposed death, the maid was placing fresh flowers round the coffin, when she was startled at seeing the body move. Finally the supposed corpse assumed an erect position. She had evidently been in a state of coma during these four davs. SENSE AND NONSENSE. “What made Spendthrift promise his bride that as long as he had a dol lar she could have fifty cents of it.” “Because she had all the money.” “This is a somewhat free transla tion,” said the literary young woman in the book store. “No, miss,” re plied the new clerk. “It cost a dollar and a half.” “I don’t see how you can afford to give a pair of rubbers with every pair of shoes.” “My friend, there is noth ing equal to a pair of rubbers for get ting away with shoes; see?” Customer—-Among the other items on this bill you've got “four and a half hours’ work.” You worked just ex actly four hours by the clock. Paper hanger—Yes, sir, but it took me half an hour to make out the bill. “I have no ‘objection, Tommy, to your playing with the rich banker’s son,” said the poor widow, “if he is a good boy. Bu‘ you don’t toady to him, orch, ' He did get home first antf*"he found this notice in his wife's handwriting in a conspicuous place on the front door; * Dear Fred: I have hidden the key so that no one can find it bat you. It is under the left corner of the door mat.” A seventeen-year-old giant in Australia measures eight feet and three and one-fourth inches and weighs 300 pounds. Midwinter Surf Battling. > Sea bathing in late January) It i* 11 o'clock in the morning, and here are bathers just out of the surf. The tom* pernture of the water was 70 degrees-* just right for n saltwater plunge and much warmer than the ocean will a rer age at tne New Fngland coast resorts in summer. The air was only slightly warmer than the sea. The mercury at noon registered 7t! degrees. There was a good sea running, and the surf comb* ed over toward the sands most grace* fully and invitingly. It would break over the head and shoulders of a grown person standing up to the waist in the water. The color of the sea here ap pears to be paler than that of the ocean farther north, and at high noon today, with a cloudless sky overhead and the rays of tho sun glinting on the cre. ts of the wnves, few have ever seen a more strikingly beautiful combination pf sea, land and sky.—Ormond (Kin.) Cor. Atlanta Constitution. Principle* that should Govern Modern Omlnna Architecture. ' A Greek temple can never be any thing but a Greek temple, a gothic ca thedral must always be a Gothic cathe dral, a modern office building must always be an office building. The glory of each is its individuality and the directness with which it expresses its object The Greek temple was a de velopment of the Greek ideal in archi tecture; the Gothic cathedral was the development of the mediaeval idea; the modern office building, if it is to have the rank in architecture to which its importance entitles it, must be the de velopment of modern needs, ideas, ne cesities. The question is uot one of styles, nor of suitabilities of styles; it is the natural treatment of complicated and difficult conditions in a natural manner. - Life or DrsthY ft is of vital Importance that It should he understood by persons whose kidney - are inactive, that this condition of things Is Anally Inductive of a-tale of the organs where life tilings In the balance. I-right's disease, diabetes, albuminuria are all dis eases of a very obstinate character In their mature stage, and a I have a futal tendency. They often baffle the most practised med ical skill, i nd the mo t appioved remedies of materia med.ca. Hut opposed uttheout set-that Is to say, when the kidneys begin to discharge their functions Inactively— with liostetter’s Stomach Illltcrs, the dan gerous tendency Is checked. Very useful, also. Is till- household medicine for ihose ailments of common ucciirronco constipa tion, biliousness, dyspepsia and nervous ness. It a a safeguaid ngalust malaria and Hvt-r s chronic rheumatism. Tons of Petrified Flab. In tlie northwestern part of Colorado there isu region several hundred square miles in extent which is literally a vast deposit of petrified fish of all sir.es and shapes. These fish beds—shale contain ing fish remains—arc about 150 feet in thickness and extend up and down the Green river for a distance of 150 or 200 mi’es.—Detroit Times. There Is more Catarrh In this*sectIon of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a groat many years doo tors pronounced It a local disease, and pre scribed local remedies, and by constantly fall ing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken Internally In doses from 10 drops to a tcaspoonful. It act* directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. Send for cir culars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, a tarSold by Druggists, 75c. He Old Not Smile. They were rival candidates for a vacant seat in parliament, and they smiled patronizingly when they met together in a railway carriage. . “My good sir,” said the first rival kindly, “whatever on earth has prompted you to oppose me in the forthcoming election? You haveu’t a chance to win. It's a donkey to a strawberry against you!” “Indeedl" said the second rival dubi ously. “That certainly doesn’t sound very encouraging, but perhaps you wouldn’t mind apologizing for the lib erty you've taken in calling me a straw berry!” And you could have heard a fly sneeze in the awkward silence that followed the last remark.—Tit-Hits. fCAKLY COHN IIVK1I 1 FOOT 1.0IfU. Salzer illustrates in a colored plate a new early corn, a giant of its kind, and offers 9300 in gold for the largest ear in 1801. In addition to this early Giant corn, which yielded in 1803110 bushels per acre, he has over twenty other pro lific field corns. He has the best fodder corn in the world. He is the largest grower of farm seeds, snch as oats, barley, wheat, millet, potatoes, etc., in America. Fifty kinds of grasses and clovers. ir Von Will Cut This Out and Bend It With 15c to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Croaae, Wls., you will receive a large pack age of above Giant corn and his mammoth catalogue. w Yon will soon beorae poor in earnest if you try to keep all you get. If you are not made better by giving, double your gilt. ROGERS recommend the * ROYAL BAKING POWDER because they de sire to please their custom ers, and customers are most pleased when they get the best and the most for their money. ROYAL BAKING POW- • DER is absolutely pure, goes | further, and makes better food than any other leavening agent. ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., lOt WALL BT., NEW YORK. (lovrrniucnt Ownership of Hatlroads mill Public Safety. In proportion to the number travel ing, there are thirteen times a* many accidents in the United States as in Germany, where government owner ship of railways obtains, and ' six or seven times as many accidents to em? ployes in proportion to the total num ber. And no wonder! The first thing which attracts attention in Germany is tlie careful protection to life and limb. Accidents of daily occurrence in Chica go are impossible in lterlin, a city of equal size. Contsast the efforts of the United States to save life as seen in our truly admirable life-saving service on our coasts with the conduct of those railway presidents who rush to Wash ington and to our state capitals to pre vent the passage of laws to compel the railways to use well-known and ap proved safety appliunces! It Is claimed that there is greater freedom in the’ service of the government than in the service of the vast corporations which manage natural monopolies. And the freedom Of the employed may be still further increased by better civil service regulations. The nobility of public service is of importance to the wage earner of every grade. The ttniform of government is an honor, while the livery of private service is considered a badge of inferiority. It is public ser vice which has developed the great leaders of our civilization.—North American Review. Ths Throat. —“Hroum'e Bronchial Troche•” act directly oa the organs of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. There are 10,000 mineral springs in the country. now c-ueap Nome people win Neil inem selveH for the promise of spot cash. “ llanna'i Nagle Corn Halva.” Warranted to cure or money refunded. Aok your drugglKl for It. Price 15 veute. Private Secretary Thurter is admired for tils Ibsenian crop of hair. Coe’s t'oagh Balaam It the oldest and beet. It will break up aCold aulek* er than anything elee. It la always reliable. Try it The Chinese language is spoken by fully J00,(XX),000 people.__ •3.38 to California. This is our sleeping car rate on (he Pliillips-Rock Island tourist excursions from Des Moines to Los Angeles or Kan Francisco, via Omaha. Lincoln and the scenic route and Ogden. You can go with . Phillips, the best of all excursion managers, for he has each party accompanied by a special agent who goes the entire trip with patrons. These personally conducted excursions leave Des Moines once a week, Wednesday. We have also a daily tourist car ser vice, via our Southern route, through the beautiful Indian Territory and Fort Worth to Los Angeles and. San Francisco. Apply to Charles Kennedy, O. N.-W. Pass. Agt., Omaha, Neb. John Sebastian, Q. P. A., C. B. I. & P. R’y, Chicago. Some very good looking people are dR' formed on the inside. No Time to Lose. While living in lloston, Edison bought . Faraday's works on electricity, com*’ nienced to read them at 3 o'clock in the morning and continued until his room* mate arose, when they started on their long walk to get breakfast That end, however, was entirely subordinated in Edison's mind to Earaday, and he sud denly remarked to his friend, "Adams, ; I have got bo much to do and life is so short that 1 have got to hustle.” And with that he started off on a dead runi for his breakfast—Argonaut Shiloh's Cmamptloa Care l« Mad on a nerintM. It rurm Incipient Consume, Hon. It is tbs Imt Oousb Cura, ft uts., flluis. a siXK The Newspapers Nowhere. • Mrs. Brickrow—Why don't the news papers tell something that everybody doesn't know? Here's a great long artiele about the "Unemplpyed"—tens of thousands of people out of work. I > knew that weeks ago. Mr. Brickrow—You knew It? How? Mrs. Brickrow—1 advertised for a girl and got three answers.—Puck. Mbuicat. sclent e ban achieved a great tri umph in the production of Beecham's Pills, which replace a medicine chest. 26 cents. A regular routine in dairying is one ot the essentials;_ Italy's estimated population Is 30,000,000. The man who thinks he has arrived at a state of perfection is very far from it. ku yuu uuw my win baa Im mproved alnce (he Ixnn the uee ot tout “ Fevorlte Preacrlp Son," ooupled with “6. [. D.” She bee no more trouble with falling of the womb, end nerer feoli ujr petal unleee (he (tenda too lone. She hue no beer* Inf-down peine einae am begen the nee of Xour remedlee. She oee nearly ell of bar pwp houeework now* ” -*r — uul onun m com* Mu. Lxwia. menoed bUif your . . remedial, ibe could hardly walk acroaa the room, I do not know how to thank you for all the food your remedial bare done her, for the beat doctor* had riven her cue up aa in curable. Tour* LEWIS. I PIERCE--. CURE OB HONEY HETTONED. TRAl NGINES. Thresher* and Hone Powers} Write tor Illustrated Catalogue, mailed Frees.' M. RUMELY CO- La PORTE. IN a: SWEETS*, w ■ No experience reo Direction! tor eproutln T.J. SKINNER, Oc TANKS: Sen* out to - --- — — olures. No experience required. Direction! for oprouting free. Addren, T. J. SKINNER. Columbu*. Kantn. WATER TANKStor Htockorreoervolr. Any kite, ell •hopes, at Low in ___prices. FrlceLlat free. Ad dress K. Khstcuuku, tied Oak. Iowa. IF YOU WANT TO FEEL A PERFECT CURE PROMPTLY, OF LUMBAGO. ST. JACORS OIL WILL 00 IT AS NOTHING ELSE CAN Da MSI M @ @ GOOD BLOOD IS ESSENTIAL .TO HEALTH. You cannot hope to be well If your BLOOD IS IMPURE. 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