Mandolin'* Popularity. • the mandolin is stealing ^ c ^,Xrity enjoyed by the 1 former instru At anv rate, the former instru „ becoming a greater favorite in ■ind shop windows show them e frequently now than here .'onnerly all the mandolins ,|,is country were imported . •■■nanv and Italy; now nearly ,,e 'used here-and a great ...'used—are made in this eoun I,' tiie past year and a half or ' the mandolin has become here, and its popularity signs of diminishing. The de fur mandolins comes from all |K. oountry. and it is so great that ,1c dealers in musicai instru ct, „ot alwavs able to keep up promptly. It is said that we n this country mandolins better • he imported, and the same ia American guitars. Guitars „ this country are now used ,;„uit the land, and they are also to all Spanish-American conn l hiladephia Bulletin. I,crying » Kentucky Audience. , ,iel Kaintuck—Talking about i of hand, the most mysterious 11 t!v(.r saw was in a little town I in Kentnekv- The man wasn't rVssional. either, but just a bright ,, ;,,|i,nv wlio has a genius for such Ho tool; a glass of water and ;t up before us all, and then we r a big tablecloth over him. In minutes he threw off the cloth— ;ln re was the glass empty; yes, sir, i drop in it. lend - Perhaps he drank it. onel Kaintuck—By Jove! Maybe id. Never thought of it.—New : Weekly. Pino Iteward Bluff. renders nf this paper will be pleased in that there is nt least one dreaded lethal science lias been able to euro its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's >rh Cnro is tlie only positive euro li to the medical fraternity. Catarrh a constitutional disease, requires a it nt ionai treatment. Hall's Catarrh is taken internally, acting directly i!:i- iijimil nitil mucous surfaces of the in. thereby destroying the foundation ie disease, and giving the patient (>tli tiv building up the constitution esistiiig imt lire in doing its work. The •i. iors hare so much faith in its cura [,oners, that they oiTer One Hundred its for any case that it fails to djre. for list of testimonials. tf boss. K.J. CHENEY & CO., ToledJ, O. •o;,i Iiv Druggists, 7oc. 1 it's iiiniily Tills line. Hi* Needs. , ;i inn's boy would do tiptop if hi i string long enough,” said one i.hor to another. iion'1 know what use a business can nut a string to,” said neigh \uinlier Two. 'ell. if lie could tie up all the loose that lie leaves dangling, tie hitn liown to his work, tic his pocket together, and then tie his tongue wouldn’t wag so busy, he’d be as nl a man as we have got in town. 1 doubt if it can be done. It would considerable string.” Diamonds. ie diamond is believed to be of re geological formation, and a micro ■ examination often discloses in id stance minute plants and vegeta HHYS1CAL STRENGTH, 'fill spirits and the ability to fully } life, come only with a healthy J.1IC VUUIlt man who suffers from nerv ous debility, impaired mem ory, low spirits, irrita s->. I)le temper, and the « \ thousand and one de V \ rangeuients of mind result from, un natural, pernici ous liabils usual ly contracted in youth, tlaough ignorance, is thereby incapac itated to thor oughly enjoy life. He feels tired, spiritless, and drowsy ; his deep isdisturbed a ini does not re I It ■ llle will power is weakened, ,m"nl him al>d mav result , hypochondria, or'melan •Vv (.'."r11 ^'"g of the brain, lls )* paralysis, locomotor ‘ e\en m dread insanity. t], i!:: ^ >e;tch, >rtnivitn« * 'u,,'i jcsiore SUCH aim of u° hea, \!* aml happiness, is publishers of a book of written in plain Imt chaste r||.,(J, . * IIIIL VI [i.ii?,.: ? , 1,riture» symptoms and ' ,,v nmne-treatment, of such ;^r., l,c“tuiuu, Ol SUCI1 laiiVom. i,s x>° : *)e sent sealed, 'Vill. tonof >1,is no sta,,,Ps* for post Is^oci r*1' ^orld's Dispensary Med* Buffalo, k. Y/ Brians'5,!a oil llorruvrlux — I'mleslralite Imiiilgriint* -- No Kscape 1 for llonnelly. | Flnaiirlerliur l''xti'riorilliiary. • Perhaps tho most curious tiling j about tho present national adininis : tration is. not. that it has tried to do j molish the protective system although tho mere menace of free trade par alyzed industry and business, but that I it lias at the same time plunged tho government into debt and iupieriled I the stability of tho currency without any reasonable excuse whatever. A slashing of protective duties was promised by the Democratic national convention of 1«92. The party was pledged to enact "a tariff for rovonue only” and to provide a revenue suffi cient to meet tho needs of tho gov ernment “economically administered.” This meant, of course, the abrogation of protective rates of duty and the raising of necessary revenue from other sources—from duties on non competing articles, and also by direct taxation—enough revenue to enable the government to pay its obligations when due and maintain the currency on a sound basis. [ .Congress and the president seemed to totally lose sight of the vital mat ter of revenue in their zeal for “tariff reform,” says the Cincinnati Times Star. Notwithstanding receipts were rapidly decreasing and the demand upon the treasury for gold was in creasing and tho national finances wore falling into chaos, the Fifty third congress at its lirst regular ses sion passed a tariff bill reducing the rovenue, without cutting down expen dituros. 'J'ho Wilson bill would have brought $50,000,000 less revenue than the (Borman law provides. Yet that measure was ardently championed by President Cleveland in face of the fact that he had been compelled to borrow 100,000,001) to cover a deficit! Wliat would bo thought of a business man who, dee]) in debt and getting deeper in every day. needlessly sacrificed part of his income just after borrowing largely to avoid bankruptcy? That was and is the Cleveland policy of administering the government. The (iorman law, much better than the Wilson destroyer, failed to avert an other crisis in the treasury, and a second loan of 150,000,000 was ne gotiated. In his message President Cleveland declared that he would borrow money whenever it might be necessary to do so to preserve the public credit. That is u wise and patriotic resolution. But it only heightens the general aston ishment at the inconceivable folly of preferring to borrow rather than to take the practical, business-like course of raising more revenue. The message contained no suggestion on this subject. It indicated no alarm, but a stolid indifference as to the future. Not only were now taxes or .new duties net recommended, but the president urged congress to lop off some of the existing duties, which are expected to yield at least $80,000,000 a year: this, despite the assurance of treasury experts that there will be a deficit at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1895, of between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000. On the heels of a lxmd issue, the president would fur ther reduce the revenue from customs, with the certainty confronting the treasury that the revenue for the cur rent fiscal year will fall far below re quirements! If Mr. Cleveland pursues his present policy, bond issues will follow one an other at short intervals until he leaves office. March 4, 1897, and his adminis tration will increase the public, debf more than President Harrison reduced it. Tariff agitation in itself is injurious to business. The Republican parti therefore will not disturb tlio taritl till it regains sufficient power to ac complish something. When Cleve land steps down and makes way for a Republican president the Republican congress then sitting will frame and enact suitable tariff legislation. The •congress recently elected is not pro posing to change the existing law, foi the very excellent reason that it b powerless to do so. The Republican' party is not recreant to the cause o! protection. When the proper time comes it will take prompt steps to re store industrial prosperity by the en actment of a vigorous protective measure—a measure that will stimu late the home market ana pro tee' home labor as fully as the McKinlej law did, and possibly more so. Mast Be the City. All Ohio paper lias a laudatory arti cle on “Cleveland’s Growth in th< ' Humanities.” According to well-ac cepted definitions the humanities meat music, art and literature, and we inns: therefore suppose that the reference is to a city in Ohio by the name o: Cleveland. Wo cannot possibly call t< mind any person of the name who i: growing in that way. Ihs riaco for Willie. If President Cleveland is so anxious to find an oflioo worthy of being adorned by William I.. Wilson, ht i might name that gentleman for secre tary of the exterior. That would just about lit Wilson—X. Y. Tribune. No Escape for IlOTinellj Ignatius Donnelly's letter resigning the presidency of the Farmers’ Alli ance of Minnesota is a jut the tie bul unconvincing document. It may be true,as M«. Donnelly therein observes | that he “has a brain busy wit! | schemes for the welfare of men and a heart full of benevolent impulses," but it is equally true that ho employed most unwise methods to further his ends. On the other hand, it is not true that eorpornto inHuoncos alone have built an Impassable, wall of lire around him. The defeat of the Minne sota Populists was duo to a general distrust of their methods, not to any single foree. When Donnelly allied himself with them he invited tho fate of all impractical reformers—failure— und he cannot escape his own respon sibility—now—Philadelphia Inquirer. I’mlAftiruble InimiKrauh. The old country is still trying to empty its weak, helpless and poor into the generous lap of America in spite of immigration laws made by the United .States in an attempt to put an end to the practice. > That was a queer lot of passengers which arrived at. Philadelphia from Liverpool on the steamship Ohio u few days ago. Among them were one violent case of insanity, a helpless mute, a batch of weak-minded chil dren and a number of assisted immi grants, women and children whoso way to America had l>eon paid by the charitable societies of England. Still another of the assisted passengers had so little heart for encountering the unknown life in the new world that she preferred the bottom of the sea and committed suicide on the voyage. In all tiftoen passengers were re turned from where they came from. That assisted immigration should bo attempted on so largo a scale would seem to indicate that tho charity-lov ing people of Europe, whoso charity does not begin at homo, must succeed in ridding their country even yet of a great many people who are entirely unworthy of being permitted to como to this country. The only present remedy is tho strictest possible interpretation of the laws restricting immigration and a prompt return to Europe ot all persons who should not bo permitted to land here. But in tho near future tiie lax laws themselves should bo made stricter. Tho negligence of the coun try's law-makers in respect to this question has given birth to a number of patriotic organizations whose votes and agitation in favor of keeping America for Americans, or for such Europeans as are fit to become Ameri cans, are at least beginning to make an impression.—Kansas City Journal. Kalina; Robbery. IIow little justice there is in the in discriminate clamor against railways appears from tho fact that freight rates in this country are lower than in any other part of the world. Com petition brought losses this year on much of the business done. The inter state commerce commission in its annual report says that although the traffic has largely decreased during the year, the rates have also declined. There has been sharp bidding for the diminished business. It is the opinion of tho commission that “a largo amount of competitive traffic has been handled at a loss to the railways” and “had reasonable rates been maintained the revenue from the traffic would have been more nearly adequate to meet the fixed charges of the roads.-’ In this report congress is urged to confer upon the commission the power to prescribe minimum as well as maximum rates. A more remarkablo contrast could hardly be conceived than that pre sented by the facts here stated and the howls of the Populists in the West.—■ Times-Stur. I Mr. Cleveland'. Peril! Undoubtedly congress should take early cognizance of the sentry box which Mr. Cleveland has had placed on the lawn in front of the White house. It was our impression that General lament had made no reference to this in his report to congress, and a careful re-reading of the document confirms this impression. Not a line appears there about it. Is some new danger threatened? The American people, whoso president Mr. Cleveland is, are entitled to all the facts. Mr. Cleveland’s well known indifference to peril may have led him to underestimate the gravity of the situation which confronts him. If congress looks into the matter per haps it will appear that the White house should be further protected by drawbridge and portcullis in order that Mr. Cleveland’s consecrated per son may lie absolutely secure from the invader. Let us take no chances. If need be let the secretary of war sloe)) on a cot in the hali.—New York Advertiser. The Kuffalo Pocket and It* Stick. Mr. Cleveland went up like a sky rocket. Ilis rise was even more phe nomenal than that of the great Napo leon. But how he has come down!' He is to-day utterly without influence.1 lie has no following but the men who are hunting after offices, and when ho has no more to give he will go out of the office—the most unpopular man in tho LTnited States. .Jerry I* Right. Jerry Simpson owns that if prosper ous times should come the Populist party would no longer have any rea son tor existence. The Republican party always has had a raison d'etre. 1 Sometimes it’s to restore good times; j other times it’s only to keep them up. ! How Pennsylvania l>ld It. The Republican majority in Penn ! sylvania this year is larger than ali ( the combined Republican majorities i in that state for thirty-five years past, j That's what tho Pennsylvania peoplo ! think of the Democratic tariff reform. No suit in Democrat Land. , Paul du Chaillu, the traveler, it ■ lecturing in Washington on •■The Land of tho Midnight Sun.” It has j no reference to the Democratic finan ciers groping around in the dark for a , treasury surplus. You can make better food with ABSOLUTELY PURE Lighter, sweeter, more wholesome. ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO. 106 WALL 8T., NEW-YORK. How tti« Mlnkftkln Cost So “That is a very fine mlukskin you you have," said a citizen to Mr. t rank Wotefnhr. “It ought to he a good one, " was tho reply; “it cost mo enough.” Further inquiry elicited the informa tion that tho mink had been killed on Mr. Uotcfuhr’s place, up on Cornell mountain. Jthnd made way with four teen of his prize chickens, valued at #14, and was then caught in a trap set, by a man iu charge. When it was found that the animal was trapped, the man took out a lino shotgun to kill it, but. concluded it was not worth while to waste the powder and shot on so small a varmint, struck at it with the butt of the (run. The mink dodged the blow, and tho man. becoming excited, whaled away at it again and smashed tlic stock of the gun. ’The making good of this damage cost Si:.’ more, so the minkskin cost S:.ti net. Mr. Hotefuhr is not anxious to pet enough skins at tiie same price to line an overcoat.— Portland Oregonian. illnernnli'n Method of Writing. It was Kmerson's practice to set down in his journal his detached thoughts as soon as they had taken shape. Whenever he had a lecture to prepare, he selected from his journal those sentences which seemed to bear on the subject of his discourse, adding whatever other illustrations or anec dotes suggested themselves to him at the moment. "In writing my thouglis," he declared, “I seek no ordel* or harmony, or results. I nrn not care ful to see how they comport with other thoughts and other words: 1 trust them for that. Any more than how any ono minute of the year is related to any other remote minute which yet I know is so related. The thoughts and the minutes obey their own magnetism, and will certainly reveal themselves in time.” Tlie Unexpected Discharge of a Cannon Close by would not have a more disturbing ef feet upon nerves which lire vigorous titan an ordinary noise upon those that are weak and unstrung. As a nervine, Hosteller's Stomach Bitters is unrivalled. By promoting digestion and assimilation they overcome that gastric disorder, which is the most prolific cause of nervous debility, and which, so long us Itexists, defeats in large measure the action of sedatives and opiates. Such remedies, moreover, neces sitate the use of increasing doses, and finally cease to act altogether, except in dangerous quantities. They never reach the fountain head of the trouble, and quiet the nerves only by senil-parulyaing them. Equully objection able are ttery uuinedieated alcoholic stimulants. Kidney, bladder and liver trouble, malaria, con stipation and rheumatism are relieved by the Bitters, which also promotes appetite and nightly repose. Ineoinea In Country and City. Five thousand dollars in a country town is affluence, if the beucliciary is content to stay there; but in a city the family ntan with only that income, provided he is ambitious, can only just live, and might fairly be described as the cousin german to a mendicant. And yet there are some worthy citizens still, who doubtless would be aghast at these statements, and would wish to know'how one is to spend 85,000 a year without extravagance. 1 am entiroly cured of hemorrhage of lungs liy Pino's Cure for Consumption.— Lot ISA Ciniiaman. Bethany, Mo., Jan. S, 04. Property flights Among lllrdfl. Meehans’ Monthly: Birds anil other creatures apportion the earth among themselves just about as man does. A bear has boundaries beyond which his fellow' bear does not trespass with im punity—the wild rabbit you see on rour lawn is the same little innocent •eature you have boon seeing every eight all the summertime—and even the robbin that gathers the early worm for his breakfast from your garden will show fight when another comes mar auding on his preserve. Nor does this last a year only, for there is good evi dence that the same bird will come back to the claim it staked off the year previous. Low Hate Excursions January 15, 1805. On the above date, the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route will soli tickets at half rates, (plus 12.00) Ironi Nt. Louis, Cairo and Missouri river gate-ways to all points on their lines in Arkansas, Louisiana, including points on the K. t.\ W. G.; to all points in Texas, Reining. X. M., and Pecos Valley i>oints in New Mexico. Will aiso soil from and through St. Louis to joints in Missouri South and West of Har. risonvilJe; from and through St. Louis, Kansas City, Leavenworth. Atchison, St. Joseph and Omaha to points in Kansas, Ne l raska and Colorado. For particulars re garding imit. stop-over privileges, and fur ther information, see nearest ticket agent. 1L C. Townsexd. General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. Awfully Embarrass lug. Stic—Did j'ou hear about Blanche's terrible embarrassing experience at the theater the other night? Nell—No: tell me about it. **llcr hair came down.” 4*Ilowexcessively annoying.” “Rut that wasn't the worst of it. It rolled under the seats and was only re covered after a good deal of trouble, and then 3*011 can fancy what condition it was in”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph. 1 Chinese Dentistry. The Chinese dentist makes artificial teeth from the femur of an ox. and in serts them by passing a copper wire through them and fastening them to the adjoining teeth. The fool thinks bis death would leave a ho e in the wor d. How a locomotive engineer ran make his own boadlight—by drin' inj too much. l’Hl'n Kiiltl, In tint Duct nr. “One of tho most remarkable eases of faith I have over seen,” said u well known physician, “occurred when 1 was a student in Philadelphia. I had a patient, un Irishman, who lind a broken leg1. When tho plaster ban dage was removed and a lighter one put in its place, I noticed that one of the pins went in with great difficulty, and I could not understand it. A week afterward, in removing this pin, 1 found it stuck hard and fast, and I was forced to remove it with forceps. What was my astonishment on making un examination to find tiiat the pin hud been run through the skin twieo in stead of through tho cloth. ‘Why, Pat,’ said i, ‘didn’t you know tiiat pin was sticking in you?’ ‘To bo sure, 1 did,' replied Put, ‘but I thought yon knowed your business, und so 1 hilt me tongue.' ” ■VefTernniilau Simplicity 1‘uncl nretl. A pleasing story of .IcIVerson's inau guration that lias long been current, represents him as riding to the eapitol and tying his horse to the fence, und then entering almost unattended to take the outh of olllce. Tills fable has been dispersed. Current accounts re late his ceremonial installation into of fice surrounded by martial music, ban ners and guns. Salvos of artillery an nounced his arrival and departure from the eapitol, und the militia paraded in front of liis lodgings before lie left for the ceremony.—Scribner's. ltcttar Kvery VrtP. Time was when the “glorious elf mate ot ('alifornia'1 did not attract tourists Hilt ycnr after year the tide of travel sets in strongor and stronger every fail and winter toward this favored region. There is no climate like it on thin rout incut for a win ter resort, and the usual tine servire on the Union Pacific Hystem lias this season lieen ! brought to a degree of | erfeetlou which leaves nothing to he desired. Uor further information call on your nearest ticket agent or address K. L. LOMAX, (General I’ass. and Ticket Agent, Omaha, Xeb. When to Sell. A potato grower of long experience, discussing the question of whether il ' was better to sell or hold the crop says: ! “My opinion is that it is undoubtedly best to sell at 50 cents per bushel ut digging time, even if one were assured of double the price four months after storing. Handling, shrinkage and de cay in four months usually reduce the amount stored about one-third, and I have never found out when to market a well-grown crop. Winter Tourist Tickets Via the Wabash Ilallroad Are now on sale to all the winter resorts of the South, good returning until dune 1st, ’115. Al-SO HAH VEST liXCl'KSION Tkkki-s to all points south on excursion dates. In ad dition to above. Railroad and Steamship tickets to all points in the Uxiteii States and Ecnocr.. ut lowest rates. Kor rates, tickets, excursion dutes uud full informa tion or a copy of Iho Home Seekers Uuiile, call at Wakash Uliice, 150it Fuinum street, or write O. X. Cl.AVTON, N. W. P. Agt, Omaha. Xeb. Untied the Embarrassment. An old man in a Cheshire workhouse lately admitted to the poor law guar dians that he had i'5 in his possession to provide for his being buried beside his wife. The guardians decided that as he was not destitute he hud no busi ness in the workhouse, and ordered him to be turned out. At dinner the next day the poor man seized a knife, ! cut his throat anti so relieved the guar j dians of their embarressinent. 1“————————————— | Victims of Wild Animals In India. Ferocious as the rogue elephant ap peurs to bo its record us a man killer is fur below I but of other anlmuls in In dia. Thus in India, in 1885, the tigers killed Si’S persons anil 13,433 domestic unimuls; wolves killed 1,001 persous; leopards, 187 persons and 10,158 domes tic animals; while the elephant is charged with but sixty-one persons killed and six domestic animals. Rogue tigers, wolves unil leopards are far more to be dreaded than rogue ele phants. liegemen's ('nntplior Ice wltli Qlyetrint, t Hire* < 'immiotl HuiiU* le, second-hand. For isle cheap. Apply to or address, II. C. Akin, oil H. 13th Bt., Omaha, Neb. There may be plenty of room at tho top, but happiness doesn't always get there. It is better to fail in trying to do good than it is not to try. 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