In t4»cntuade iu^mM ittrit half » j century (lotasbw trm »a«<■» tWiiHwlnit of B«tUdu, Hwtn wr s Sesart «m»n wasastandard Wvc It* ''k-toriesoeerd&eases. ■knikv^Ui ttn>«M aKW>c *- j*_ __j _w .nwe bow. which Ui«t iowa m< tn Iterahie rates Mood Ittiigi, violent put ratlua. the vae of emetic* ut the empioy •utni v( .wrwltv uhI ctaittUElTt ponson* is '-.mpte rases of lieer u4 malarial ctxn f iaint. waste fact the worst of uaphiioatmby. ..*>at rary alike to tiro laws of true medicinal of hyytene and of omudoa sense. BUiocsness. constipation and chills and fever. as now treated by the Bitter*, i.remptiy yield where before they obstt ctwij resisted old fashioned medication, s* do dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney jo a; plaint—ail surely conquerable by this safe and really philosophic remedy. What ship contains more people than the Great East era’ Courtship. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and i tends to personal enjoyment when 1 rightly «a The many,'who live bet* j ter than others and enjoy life more, with ' lees expenditure, by more promptly i adapting the world’s best products to' the needs of physical being, trill attest the value to health of the pare liquid j laxative principles embraced in the1 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- | a tire: effectually cleansing the system, j dispelling colds, headaches and fevers' ana permanently coring constipation.! It has given satisfaction to millions and > met with the approval of the medical | profession, because it acts on the Kid-t neys, Liver and Bowels without weak-1 ening them and it is perfectly free from t every objectionable substance. j Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drc^; gists in 50c and $i bottles, bat it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup - Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Svrap of Figs, f and being well informed, you will not j accept any substitute if offered. j *Ks s£ => . “.r i £ xJ"" . -gi? d 1; - Sq >cffi ' kZ U mol*. I Tfie Housawites BEST FRIEND. MHKM»f UC1 CAN LABEL t« rat r»i. WASHING RECEIPT an* it Jtwj —— BUY XT AMD BE SURPRISE!! | W.L.DOUGLA3 83 SHOB I equais custom neri, costing from 1 $4 to Ji, best value tor the money in the world. Name and price stamped on the bottom. Every ^pair warranted. Take no substi tute local papers for fell ■scription of our complete .tines for ladies and gen ■ ' rV i!cmw or «cnd for // ^ W'*«lastrated Catalogue ““. giving in structions how tOMOr derbym2it. postage free. You can get the beat bargains of dealers who push ©cr shoes. Ely's craam Balm will cim CATARRH I Price co Cents. ] .AM v Balm into each txKtrfL S£r8toc*,r ~ * - ,63 Wvreo Buh.Y. RUMELY ' TRACTION AND PORTABLE I F' Ei mThreshers and Horse Powers. ^^■Wrte for IBmastcdCSUIocse, milhd FMe. •ft. RUMELY CO. LA PORTE. IN b NGINES. : i :: J MPTION A of position in gaeoftl* Loa* *» book booses Sells me t>>«« the tkf ikk^Kohman katto; os iatertst • tine bidding for Bismarck's utr toyrmphy u they bod for Stanley's "Through Darkest Africa." Cnwisely. perhaps, the (ivu bosu statesmaa f»™ o®* the fact that be eras working at bis tntohiapiplir. aad since that tine be has been practically Hooded with offers. One anthoritaiive offer consisted of a payneot of S1QC.0CO for the complete rights for England aad America. Bat ruts to this, which is bettered to be the nest gene roes offer made, the great Bismarck has mate so response. The fact of the matter b, as my friend who has Just returned from a eisit to Bismarck as an emissary of a I-ondon booh boose writes me. the auto biography is not yet eren completed. For that matter, it is scareelr written. During bis recovery Bismarck gave some attention to the work, aad wrote dictated several pages per day—as much as bis returning strength would reruns. The prince is not ready with the pen. TteM In VuM “"Yes. sir: — ——♦ —-|—111 n m of Srst-ciass (kanctK tod ability to rtftt scat ns. imotj oar npantunn at* many of the noblest and test awn in Aama and parties of that stamp can al tars End a splendid opfcrtmutT at oar es tabtehment. " That is the eat Hr B. F Johnson, of the Ena of B. F. Johnson A CO.. Richmond. Vs. stated thecas* in reference to their adrertismeat in this paper. See Teo SIS la a certain part of West Virginia some years ago there seas a local coart presided orer by an honest odd farmer, who in his earlier years, had been aa attemer at be. The judge was a quick tempered, impatient mas. but by ao means ungenerous, and possessed at a keen sense of humor. One day while on the bench he saw in the audience aa old negro whom he had engaged to haul some timber from his sawmill near by. bat who had been afterward per suaded to do the same kind of tabor for another person to the neglect of the judiciary. As soon as he caught sight of his recreant toiler the judge sus pended the trial, quitted the wool sack and approaching the old African, said, with great indignation and a very red face: “You old rascal! Why didn’t yon haul timber for me, as yoo promised to do? You'll hare to be taught a lesson?* The old negro gare one look at the indignant judge, then squared oft and throwing his coat to a bystander said, cheerfully: ‘tomeon. massa! Disole chile use to spank yo’ when yo's a triflin' boy. an' I reckon he can jis do it again if it's necessitous!'' The judge's motion was overruled an that occasion, as the court resounded with merriment, in which he was obliged to join. Hov'i tkial We offer One Hundred Doliare Revsrd Cor »ny case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. i. CHENEY ft CO.. Prop*.. Toledo, a We, the undersigned, hare known F. J. Chen.y for the rast 15 rears, and br lie re him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry cat any obliga tion made by their firm. West ft Tnrax, Wholesale Druggist*. Toledo, O. \Vildi56, rvisNAX ft Kitrm, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cere is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price T5e. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials freet A series of unpublished letters of the first Napoleon appeared in Paris recent ly. In one characteristic epistle the autocrat tells the minister of police to arrest Mr. Kahn, the American consul at Genoa, as a wearer of the cross of Malta, given by an agent of the British government. The emperor adds: "This individual, having received a foreign decoration, is no longer an American. I am sorry, however, that you commu nicated with the United States embas sies. I am master ehez moi, and when 1 suspect a man 1 cause him to be ar rested. I would even cause the embas sador of Austria to be arrested if he plotted against the state.” A MOTHER’S OPINION. Mrs. L. A. Lyford, Proprietress of “The Hollywood” 116 Turk street. San Francisco, says: “I am absolutely amazed at the great good Calderwood's Rheumatism Cure did my daughter Fannie. She was afflicted in her feet and ankles with inflammatory rheuma tism and had to use cratches to get about My family physician treated her for several weeks but the girl grew worse and so I sent $5 to the office of Calderwood's Rheumatism Cure, on the corner of Market and Fourth streets, San Francisco, and soon a messenger came back with three bottles of the remedy which she began using, and before' the medicine was gone she had thrown away her crutches and is now sound and well. Hurry and worry are both great enemies to health. _ “ HaaaM'a Magic < arm JCIt*," Warrantee to cure or imott rrfunoro. yocr dressal lor it 1T(,r 13 real, | The man who can’t control himself gen erally wants to toss the most. Go South Vim tbo Wabash. Tourists' tickets now on sale to all points. Homeeeekers’ tickets at half fare on ex cursion dates. April l .th and May Sth. For rates or folders giving full description of lands, climate. &c., call at Wabash Ticket office, Ho. 15u2 Farnam Street, or write Ono. S. Clxttox, 5. W. P. lit, Omaha, Neb. The young mouse feels complimented when it sees a trap >9S Your Hearts Is the most important part of your organism. Three* fourths of the complaints to which the system is subject are due to impurities in the blood. You can therefore realize how vital it is to Keep ,4 pure For which nothing equals S. S. S. It effectually removes all Impurities, cleanses the blood thor oughly and builds up the general health. ^ SW,FT SPEC,FIC kmi’ s.s.s. ►V HAND.WHITING EXPERTS. Begarding the methods •» yrp of to determine authorship special ists are naturally rettceak Some of sEwm have admitted. toww, the nature at tie leading principles wliicfe. guide theta. Tm philosophy of the matter rests mainly os the fact that it is very care far two par sons to wrtte hands similar enough to deceive a eareful observer. unless one is imitating tie other. HPwfcs." faces, hare ail sms special idv'eynerasy. and the imitator has not merely to copy that ©f someone : else, hat to disguise his ovs By careful and frequent practice he mar succeed well enough to de ceiTe the ordinary man. hat is rarely successful m onttissr the expert. Even the most skillful culprit cannot wholly hide his individuality, as he is sure to relapse into his ordinary method occasionally. Then, again, great care has to he used, and this can_ be detected by the traces of hesitancy, the substitution of carves for angles, and vice versa, which : come oat very plainly when the writ ing is examined under the taicro scope, as it usually is by the expert. A plan of detection which t«« I been adopted with great success is to i cat out each letter in a doubtful piece of writing, and paste ait the A's, B’s. 4e., on separate sheets of paper. The process is also gone through with a genuine bit of calli graphy of the imitator or the imi tated. as the case may be. Compari son almost invariably shows that the letters are less uniform if imitation | has been attempted, the writer being ! occasionally betrayed into some ap ; proach to his ordinary caiigraphy. I or into momentary forgetfulness of | some special point in the handwrit I ing he is simulating. | Xo point is too small to escape an -Xpert's attention, says Chamber's Journal. The dotting of i's, the | crossing of t’s» the carts and flour ishes. the intervals between the words, the thinness of the upstroke ; and the thickness of the downstroke. | are all noted and carefully compared. Where only a signature has been : forged, and that by means of trac ings from the original, the resest blanee is often so exact as to deceive 1 even the supposed author, bat In those cases the microscope is gen erally effective in determining not merely the forgery bat the method by which it was accomplished. It is some comfort to know that the can ning of the forger is overmatched by the scientific skill of the trained ex pert. The title of prince in Russia is so common that it has little signifi cance. The bearers oi the distinc tion. says a foreign journal, are more numerous than “the wearers of the legion of honor in a French cafe, or colonels in the Southern states of America.” The truth of this state ment is illustrated in a report in the last edition of the military gazette. Rusk! Invalid- It records the ueath of thirteen officers of the militia, of whom nine were princes. “In the Caucasus.” says the journal above referred to, “every owner of a large dock of sheep calls himself a ‘prince.’ All of these sheep princes are ad dressed as ‘highness.’ the same as the sons of the oldest princely fami lies. “When one of these sheep owners goes to foreign countries he places the title of ‘prince’ on his card, and play3 a certain part in uninitiated circles. The same thing is true of the many representatives in Russia of the Tartar ‘princely’ families. Many ancient families, such as the Naryschkin, Wajewoloshki. etc., en titled to the prefix, prinee. before their names.decline to use it for fear of being confounded with these ap parent princes. Representatives of these families are content with the use of the coat-of-arms. Nest-Ball dins Fish. One of the queerest denizens of the deep and one which would very properly be called an ichthyological wonder, is the gouramis. the famous nest-building fish of tne Oriental seas. These fish are very plentiful in the waters of Cochin China. Java, Sumatra and Borneo. At the breed ing they pair off like birds and. se lecting a favorite spot in the grasses, build large spherical nests of floating weeds and plaster them over witn mad. The broad, fiat fins used in this last operation are attached to the abdomen and arc wholly ditferent from anything in the fin line known to naturalists. The full-grown fe male gouramis is six feet long and weighs impounds. The eggs of this queer fish, which are deposited in the mud-plastered nest, number from SUO to 1,00 A His Daily Bread. When the boarder came down to breakfast he was as ugly as if he had been having a beautiful time ail night, and he found fault with every thing, but particularly the bread. He scolded about that to such an ex tent that at last the landlady re sented it. „ dpn’t care to hear.anything more about* thatr bread, ” she said. ^ "and f want you to drop^it ” He glowered at her. “It will knock a hole in the floor if I do.” he retorted, and she left the table. Something Surprising. j Manager—Yes. I want a new play, but I want something novel, some thing startling, something never seen or heard of before.” Author—I’ve got it: just the thing. The plot leads up to a train robbery.” ••Mothing new about that” “Yes, there is. The passengers rise as one man and smash the robbers.” MYSTERY Or THE PYRAMIDS* - TTkir the pyramid* mn Wilt Ws : always prueed to to a perplexing , Eoestion. For woe reason the build- j ♦« of the (wnuaats of Egypt appear 1 to Wt» concealed th« objoot of these ; stracswre*. and this to aaccessfally j ! a*>t «rai a tnlttioa has nae!t«4 » »kiek purports to Wn> W*a i ■ WaW down froa the date of Cheer construction- laelwdiag ancient and i modern theories we dad a wide range ! of choice. Some hare thought that j; these buildings were associated wlth: l the religion of the early Egyptians.} i others ha»e suggested that thee were ; tombs; others that they combined the t purpose of tombs and temples, that !: they were ul rvnomicat observatories. f defenses against the sands of the' great desert, granaries like those; made nnder Joseph's direction, ori places of resort daring excess ire oeer>! flows of the Nile, while Aristotle says: that the work was set on foot to keep! ; the common people well employed »~I j’ Wsr in earning' their daily bread so | that they should have no leisure tor conspiring against their rulers. Ac cording to the late Professor Proctor, I none of these ideas is found on close ! examination to be tenable as repre- j , seating the sole purpose of the pyr*- f mids. and he suggested that they must1 have been intended to serve some use- ' fnl purpose during the lifetime of the [ builder, and that they were built by! . each different king in order that as- £ tronomical observations might be con-1 tinned throughout his life, to de- j wrmiM bis future, to ascertain what epochs were dan^ron or propitious for him and to note such unusual phe* ; nomena among the eelestial bodies as seemed to bode him good or eril for tune- Astrology is in fact the key i note of his theory, which is perhaps, on the whole, the most satisfactory that has been evolved. It has been stated by experts that the great pyra mid could not bow be built at a less cost than Slt5.300i.0Qa. -Brava'i BnwkW Ttwhw" are widely known as an admirable remedy for Bron chitis, Hoarseness, Coughs and Threat troubles. Su&l ta tuna Pnehsss ud Viceroy. I heard a rather amusing story in which Lord Houghton, the viceroy of Ireland and the Dncheas of Manchester played a part, says a writer in the Philadelphia Press: They met the other day on the steam er running from Kingston to Holyhead. Houghton imagined, uo doubt, that he was stitl among the gloomy magnifi cence of his vice-regal court, most gra ciously beckoned to the duchess to take a seat, and was even affable enough to indicate the right chair adjacent to him. where he was pleased to permit ker to sit by a vice-regal pat with two fingers. The duchess was a little taken bock by the condescending manner of the young viceroy, whom she had known from babyhood. She. however, complied with the signal, and during the voyage across exerted herself to be pleasant. But the moment she set her foot on Holyhead she considered her duty fulfilled, for his excellency the viceroy in Ireland is nothing but plain Lord Houghton in England- It was with the most imperative ring in her voice that she turned to him and ex claimed: "Here. Bobby, Bobby, bring me my dressing bag. please, and now run ahead and find me a good compart ment.” _ Sri* op the liver, remove disease, promote good cheer and good health, by the use of Beechnut's Pills. , The Horse*' Food. The horse's natural food is grass. There is nothing else upon which he will do so well or live so long. His in ternal economy can accommodate itself to the dried, seedless stalks of winter, the luxuriant foliage of spring or the highly nutritious seed pods of summer. The stalks preserve his health, the green foliage fattens him and the seed pods invigorate and strengthen him. No horse, however lightly worked, should be fed on hay alone. The ra tion should include grass or roots and when the work is hard enough a suita ble quantity of grain. No horse that is lightly worked should be lightly fed or grain. It is a common and costly practice which causes many a horse to be discarded long before his time Can’s VMfk Babul btbnabkm ud best, h >111 bnai ap aCoU«bk> truss aurthiecalKk II b ilwan ratiablr. Try a Small Frail Dbciwcd. R. J. Coe of Fort Atkinson, a practi cal fruit grower, had for his theme “Strawberry Culture,” at the Wiscon ain horticultural meeting and made the following points: Never plant strawberries after straw berries, for if rotation is good practice everywhere, it surely is for the straw berry bed. Don't use plants from an old bed, nor small, inferior specimens from a new one, but always choose good, strong plants from new beds. Prepare the ground the year before by having it well manured. Sow rye in the fall and turn it under earlv in the spring. Dig the plants a few days before setting and keep in a moderately cool, shady place until the roots begin to start. Mark rows perfectly straight and cultivate once a week through the season. Pick off all plossoms and treat the first runners as weeds. Trim up the rows to eighteen or twenty-four inches. Cover in autumn with marshy hay or other litter which is free from weed seeds. Mow the bed as soon as picked and, when dry, burn mulch and all. Never keep a bed over two crops. Mr. Woodward of New York would use commercial fertilizers at the rate of Billiard Table, second-hand. For sale cheap. Apply to or address, H. C. Akin, 511 8. 12th St., Omaha, Neb. To keep a closet or pantry dry and sweet, {dace a box of lime upon one of the shelves. Truth never touches a nun and leaves him as it found him. All other powders are cheaper made and in ferior, and leave either * acid or alkali in the food cevAi. tAAmis romec* co. >«• waul. st. nawBMtktniM. C. H. HtaUtm of WUcoatia un on this tobjtcl: Tb»j would grow anywhere, but would choose level ground. atUdruMd, and toil made rich with a liberal dress' in* of well-rotted barnyard atanara riant In rows seven feet apart and three feet in the row. Some low-grow tag crop can be raised the first year be tween the rows Give the plants win ter protection by laying down and cot- i cr.ag with earth 1 use wire to protect j ! the plants and set posts or stakes, ! ! about twenty feet apart, on which to . | fasten the wirea Match with (ntn clover and pinch off the young eaucs as ! | soon as they get to be twenty Inches or | \ two feet high. The same plantation I j can be kept twenty years. 1 have one j ! fifteen years old which is apparently ns ! i it ever was. 1 usually let all the plants | which come up in the hiil remain until i : the following spring, then reduce to ; four or five, and treat all other plants i | between hills and rows as weeds ! CMMIIi Mi M Mtdni. «mm (iw i|a t value- ^ W» lion, having irautioailf allowed hi* tail to stray into an adjoining ca(*. tk» tail was stored hr aa rtililttpavd leopard, close to the lion's body. when, as the lion attempted to escape, almost the whole of the akin of his tail waa -v stripped off. This was followed by such aa amount of ip Ha in motion that the lion's life was in danger. Surgeon Major Miller, brother of the tale IVof. Miller of Edinburg, the surgeon to tha < governor of Madras, volunteered to perform amputation. The lion wan seised In his cage and his head covered with a cap containing a eoaiiderabia i; quantity of chloroform He was then dragged to the edge of the cage sad the tail passed through the bars, where Dr. Miller cleverly performed his oper ation. The animal made a good re- *'* co very. _ Send paper will whitee ivory tatfe han dles which have become yellow from age and constant use. It wfl^pvtapa, require • little stretch of tbe imagination oo the part of the reader to recognize tbe fact that tbe two portrait* at the head of thie article are of tbe same in dividual ; and yet the y are truthinl sketches marie from photographs, taken only a few monthe apart, of a very much esteemed citi aea of Illinois—Ur. C. H_ Harris, whose ad dons. 1,*M Beeood Avenue, Rock Island, I1L Tbe following extract from a let ; ter written by Ur. Harris explains tbe mar vekmscbaium in his personal appearance. He writes: *' Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery sared my life and has made me a ; man. Uy home physician says I am gocd for forty yetrs yet sou will remanber that I was just between life and death, and all of my friends were sure it wss a case of death, until I commenced taking a second bottle of ■ Golden Medical Discovery,’ when I became able to sit op and tbe cougn was very much better, and <*» bltsding from w«y hays stopped, and before I bad taken six bottles of the ’ Golden Medical Discovery1 my cough i ceased and I waa a new man and ready for I now feel that it is a duty that I owa to mj fellow-meu to recommend to them the * Golden Medical Discovery * which saved my life when doctors and all other nnotirinaa failed to do me any good. I send to yon with this letter two of mr photonnphs: one taken a few weeks before! was taken down sick in bed, and the other was taken after I wee waU.’’ These two pho tographs are faithfully rw-prodoced at the bead of Ihfes article. Mr. Harris's experience in the use of “ Gold en Medical Discovery” is not an exceptional one. Thousands of eminent people in all ports of the world testify, in just as emphatic i language, to its marvelous curative powers 01W all chronic bronchial, throat snii lung dlwasee, chronic nasal catarrh, sett. ^ kindred discs ess Eminent physicians prescribe “Golden ; Medical Discovery” when any of their dear ones* lives are imperilled by that dread dto ease. Consumption. Under such circum stances only the Beast reliable remedy would ) be depended upon. The following letter is to ; the point. It Is from an eminent phe^dan of > Stamps, Lafayette Oo. Ark. He ears: i “ Consumption is hereditary in my wifek family : some have already died with the dis !«o»u Mr wife has a sister, Mrs. B. A. Cleary, that was taken with consumption. She need Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery, and, to the surprise of her manv friends, she got well. My wife has also bad hem orrhages from the lungs, and her sister in sisted on her using the ‘ Golden Medical Die -I consented to her wfegit. and M cored her. Elbe has had no symptoms of con pm* si* year*. hoph ha Ting this disease can take no bettor into* «J.“ Yours very truty, From the Buckeye State comes the follow ing: “ I was pronounced to hare ecaauam **°° .•?•?> °* our best doctors. I spent nearly #300. and Has no better. I concluded —v ”*y» »nai » ieet joss at aw to-day as 1 did at twenty-fire, and aan do fast f* F*** •.‘‘•y’* WOT't on the farm, although! bed not dune any work for several yean?* Truly, your friend, Mr. Dulaney's address is Campbell, Ohio. “I bad catarrh in the bead for years and trauhle srith my left long at the a™ time You put so much faith in your remedies that I concluded to try one bottle or two, and 1 derived much benefit therefrom. 1 and un Uiree bottles of Dr. Sere's Catarrh Remedy, fire bottles of your “ Gulden Medical Discov ery,” and in four moo the 1 wasmyealf again. I could not deep on my Idl aids, and noar I can sleep and eat heartily. So lean as I has* your medicines on band 1 bare no need of a doctor; I do not think my boom to ctdr without them. Yours truly, Harlow, Baldwin Co., Ala, B It would be any more convincing, era could eattly fill the columns of tbit paper with letters testifying to the cure of the severest diseases of the throat, bronchia and lungs, by the use of “Golden Medical Discovery? To build up solid jtvsh and strength after the grip, pneumonia, lung fever’*), — fevers, and other proatratiiw djemew, it hto It does itot make/at like cod Hvsr oil and ite natty compounds, W asHd, sU» tom* jlesk. A complete treaties on Throat, Bronchial, and Lung Disco sea ; aim including *«**»— and Chronic Nasal Catarrh, and pointing out mocessful means of home treatment for theea maladies, will be mailed to any address by the World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N. Y., on receipt of sis cants to stamps, to pay postage. T. JACOBS OILp.^^ BURNS, BRUISES, SCALDS, CUTS AND WOUNDS. Patents. Trade-Marks. 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