Among tkoGheroksoons. Interesting items from the women of this wide awake TOWN. From the Sentinel. Cherokee. Kansas. Mrs. A. J. Ausmeus has resided in the Vicinity of Cherokee, Kansas, for a uumbor ®f years and is much esteemed by a wide circle of friends who will rejoice to learn that after many years of suffering she has ffoally been restored to health. Wishing to learn the particulars of Mrs. Ausmeus' won derful cure, a reporter called at her resi dence and asked for an interview. Mrs. * Ausmeus talked freely of her case and made no objections to stating the facts for publi cation. She said: "i nave oeen sorely amicted with stomach ♦ trouble for upward of fifteen yeftrs. The suffering: 1 endured during that time is be yond description. I was taken with a dull pain in the back which never left me. I had to be very careful in my diet as my stomach would stand only certain kinds of rood. For fifteen years I could noteat fruit °I “lod. I was treated by a number of the best physicians in the county without receiving any permanent benefit. Last fall while looking over an Illinois newspaper my attention was attracted to an account of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. I was so im pressed with the statement of a cure these piils liad effected that I made up my mind to give them a trial. I accordingly pur chased a box and began their use, and they helped me from the firat. When I had token three boxes my health was fully re stored and there has been no return of the disease or any of its symptoms. • ‘‘The pain in my back has left me entirely and now I can eat fruit or anything else I desire. I feel better than I have for fifteen years. 1 can cheerfully recommend Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, for they accomplished ' what a number of physicians failed to do.” Mrs. J. P. Morrison, wife of Mr. Fred Morrison, the Ice dealer, of Cherokee, Kan sas, when questioned by a reporter as to the cause of her restoration to health, said: ‘‘For more than three years 1 was a suf :from stomach trouble, 1 bad no appe tite for anything and became so weak and emaciated that 1 could not attend to my househ'old duties. I was treated by the ablest physicians in Cherokee, but received little or no benefit. A neighbor seeing that the doctors had failed to do me any good advised me to try Pink Pills. You know that when you are sick all of your friends know of some sure cure remedy which they Insist upon yon taking. Iliad little faith in any medicine, but I finally consented to give the pills a trial. So I sent to Boyer & Graves’ drug store and got a box of the Pink Pills and began to take them. I took two boxes without feeling much improve ment and was about to discontinue their use when Fred urged me to try another box. I did so and before half of the third box was taken I felt so much better that I became greatly encouraged and kept on toking the pills according to directions. When I got the fourth box of Pink Pills my health was completely restored, and I feel better today and weigh more than I have tor a number of years. I keep a box of Pink Pills in the house and would not be without them. The trouble with most people who use Pink Pills without receiving any behefit is because they do not give them a fair test, bnt abandon them because they do not get immediate relief.” Mrs. Mary Jones, wife of Wm. Jones, the blacksmith, a resident of Cherokee, Kansas, tor twenty years was a sufferer from a se- ■ ▼ere pain in the head and nervous prostra tion. She noticed an advertisement of Pink,, Pills in the Cherokee Sentinel and con cluded to give them a trial. The result wait that one box of Pink Pills restored her to'. complete health. Mrs. Jones is enthusiastic in her praise of Pink Pills. Mrs. Meda Walker, of Cherokee, Kansas, bas probably suffered more with neuralgia than any other woman of her age in the , state. In an interview with a reporter she ysaid: ‘•Ever since I can remember I have been a great sufferer from neuralgia. About three years ago the disease seemed to grow - worse. The paiu in my head became almost . unbearable. X had some decayed teeth ex tracted, thinking that perhaps they had ag gravated the malday, but no relief resulted. 1 was treated by the best physicians, among them a faith cure doctor, but none of them could do anything for me except give tem porary relief. “About a year ago I saw an advertise ment of Pink Pills in the Cherokee Sontine), and thinking they might help me I sent for a box. As soon as I began taking them I commenced to improve, and when I had used two boxes all symptoms of neuralgia had left me. That was about ten months apoand 1 have no1.00,all druggists. Electrical Witchcraft. In 1745- Dr. Watson stretched a Wire across the Thames and sent an . electric shock through It from one i observer to another. He was ac- 1 cused of witchcraft and had much trouble in proving his innocence. I PITS atnppe.d free and permanently cured. No fits • after first day'a nie of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve terer. Free $2 trial bottle and treatise. Keud to Da. Kuna, 951 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 31 antgerlal Forethought. . i She—Why are theater entrances ! always made so wide and.high? He—To let in the hats, of course. > t A THOUSAND IFBANCS. HE silence of death reigned In the gambling ball of the Bank of Monte Carlo. The players and spectators.who were standing around the roulette watching the fas cinating game.were **' In a frenzy of ex citement. The stakes had readied a high point. Even i he keeper of the bank, who usually performed bis disgusting duties in the most mechanical manner, had grown nervous; he looked penetratingly at one' of the players, who stood (here with an apparently indifferent air. He. must have staked very high; his indifference was artificial; this fact did not escape the bankkeeper, shrewd' observer that he was. "Faites votre jeu, mesdames et mes sieurs!” came monotonously across the bankkeeper’s thin, tightly pressed lips; then, with a disdainful smile, he turned to his neighbor, an employe of the bank, and whispered to him: Sui cide candidate!” The latter shrugged his shoulders. The player, who had been aroused from his wonted repose by the human gambling beast and whose intellectual head and proud, distinguished bearing betrayed the man of education and culture, rested his fine, aristocratic hand lightly on the fateful table and awaited the decision with an apparent calm that, under the circumstances, was well-nigh ominous and filled all with astonishment and horror. “Rien ne va plus!” The ball was set rolling. The gen eral excitement reached its highest pitch. Spectators were actually crowd ing about the roulette. Only the pecu liar sound of the rolling ball could be heard. Its motion gradually be came fainter; it seemed to be at a standstill. Red, no, black—red once more—it seemed as if a spirit from hell were playing its tricky ' game. Lost! The last is lost! He turned around; the questioning glance of a strikingly handsome woman met his gaze. ■ - “Lost, Henri?” “All Is lost, Esther!” was the dull re ply ; then they left. There are women of such singular predominating beauty that the first glance at them intoxicates, their near 1 ness charms, their gaze infatuates— women whose beauty cannot be justly described either by the pen of the poet nor reproduced by the brush of the painter or the chisel of the sculptor; women whom one must see in order to understand how womanly beauty may be the noblest, the most Inspiring, the most glorious and withal the most ter rible thing on earth. There is a deep significance in the custom of the orientals that compels women to go about veiled. Not envy, nor egotism, nor petty jealousy have made this custom a law but the wis dom of man, who recognizes and ap preciates the beauty of woman, who has found out by experience that the delicate breath from a beautiful woman's lips may come over people like a hurricane over the cedars of Lebanon. Such was the beauty of the woman who was now walking away at the side of the unfortunate gambler. * * * • • ■ • * • On the following Friday it was an nounced to the director of the bank that the right of admission'was to be debarred to Henri de Laband. Henri de Laband, who had lost his whole fortune, had asked the directors for aid, and had received it. A thou sand francs! Certainly, the bank would grant him that. On the morrow Esther appeared alone at the green table. “He has lost her, too!’ the employes whispered. A SHOT ANSWERED HER. She changed a check for 1,000 france. in case she should lose the 1,000 francs, and he would come to call for her. “Dear Henri Is so peculiar,” she murmured. She staked 100 francs and won. She let the gain stand and won again. "How happy Henri will be!” And thus she won flve times in succession.' "She will break the bank,” the spec tators whispered to one another. She heard nothing. She thought of Henri. Again Esther won. The bankkeeper tossed over 20,000 francs to her. She did not notice this. How strangely Henri had acted. Where could he have procured the money, after having lost everything on the previous day? He told her he had found the check among his papers. Perhaps he had pawned his diamonds. Dear Henri! Again she won. i The bankkeeper looked at her fur iously and shoved 60,000 francs in checks over to her place. Every one crowded about her. •'Parbleu! Madame! Carry off your winnings; you will lose everything if you don't!” She saw and heard nothing—what could be the matter with Henri? Once more the ball was set rolling. It was dusk; the gas jets had been lighted. How pale the bankkeeper looked; how pale was the strangely beautiful player, who was surrounded by admiring spectators; even the most passionate gamblers forgot to stake, io excited were they. The ball rolled; it was the question of a fortune; the bankkeeper wiped the cold perspiration from his brow. Sud denly he jumped up with a curse; the bank was broken. » Every one congratulated the daring woman. When, in her excitement she counted up her money, she bad won 240,000 franca . "A fortune. Henri,” she murmured, “now we will travel far away from this hell!” Concealing the money in her pocket, she seized her late handkerchief and hurried to the door. She went out. Her handsome figure could be recog nized from afar in the reflection of the street lamps. She unfolded hfcr hand kerchief and beckoned. A shot - an swered her; dear Henri had aimed well, for the bullet found its way to his heart. The devil of Monte Carlo had claimed one more victim! Henri de Leband rests in unhalloWed ground; no priest pronounced the bene diction of mankind over his grave. The coarse grave diggers only stood about, shoveling in the earth and talking about the tragic fate of the dead man. "The fool! If I were young and wealthy I would not gamble. It's a sin and a disgrace to throw precious coin into the Jaws of those fellows up there,” and the speaker pointed in the direction of the gambling den. “There are enough of that sort bur ied here,” said the other with a coarse laugh; "too bad about the fine coffins. The prince would do better to put his suicides in alcohol and ctiarge'admls slon.” H "You’ll lose your Job by talking that way,” warned the first.' “I’ll say what I think; we are stand ing on unhallowed ground. Whom should I be afraid ofT Of those fellows down, there? And isn’t my advice good?” sneered the second. "Nonsense! What fault of the prince’s 1» it if people who have lost their money blow out their brains?” “The prince,” laughed the other in mockery, "cannot help It, to be sure. It would be bad for us, too; we certain ly must have work!” The grave had been closed. The grave diggers were on the point of leaving,'when a closely veiled woman approached them, With youthful, elas tic step. “Whose grave is that?” she asked softly. “The grave of a young Frenchman who shot himself yesterday, in front of the gambling hall,” replied one, as he wiped the perspiration from his face with his sleeve. The stranger quickly drew forth her purse and placed a few gold coins in the two grave-diggers’ hands. They were quick of understanding and left the woman there in solitude. Esther folded her pretty hands in prayer. She did not weep, nor did a sigh pass her tightly closed lips, and yet she stood at the grave for a long time. Her steadfast gaze seemed to be able to pierce the crumbling earth. Finally with faltering steps, she left the grave. Why had he not told her that he would shoot himself, at her signal? Poor fellow! HER BICYCLE SURPRISE. It Didn't Pan Ont Quite the Way the Young Woman Expected. “Our pretty gran’daughter,” said old Farmer Grout, dryly, according to the New York World, “donned her cute checkered bloomers yesterday, hopped a-straddle of her bicycle and rode away out here into the country to surprise her gran'ma and me. We were quite a good deal surprised, too, when she scooted up to the house, and I guess we showed It. If I hadn’t been lookin' out of the barn door and hol lered Just in time I reckon her gran’ma, whose eyesight ain’t quite as good as mine, would have scalded her pretty badly with the dipper of b’illln’ water that she grabbed up when she saw what she thought was a new kind of agent cornin’ to the door. And then, whjle the young lady’s gran'ma was haulin’ her into the other room to tear the bloomers off from her, I was feist lln’ the bicycle out to the woodshed, and lookin’ around for the axe. And while I was knockin’ the blamed con traption into a tangle of twisted wires and wigglin’ rubber I rather guess her gran’ma was spankin’ her with a deft ness born of long practice. A little later the young lady, very red-eyed and weepy and clad in one of her gran'ma’s old dresses, which didn't lit her within a mile and a quarter, was bein' hauled back to town in her nice old gran’pa’s market wagon. I don’t know for certain, but I rather guess that the next time she attempts to sur prise her gran’parents she will Stand off as far as possible and holler at ’em through one of them speakln’ horns that Mister Edison has lately invent ed." Rivals In the Hraisy. " There has been a rivalry between dancing clubs at Anderson, Ind., in the matter of long waltzes. Probab ly all records in the state have been broken by Hugh Hays and Miss Mil ler waltzing one hour and thirty-live minutes. Pearl I^ee and others fell from exhaustion. •loo Dtvtril, •too. The readers of this paper will he pleased to learu that there Is at least one urea (Usd disease that science baa I seen able to cure In all Its stones, and that Is catarrh. Mali's Cuturrh Cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. CutaTh, I being a constitutional disease, requires u con- j stltntlonal t'eatment. Halls Catarrh Cure 1 is taken lutixiuilly, acting directly upon the 1 hlood aud mucous sut-Uici s of the system, i thereby destroying the foundation of the ' disease, and giving the twit lent strength bv building up the constitution and assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Hollars for auv case that It falls to cure1. Send for list of t .'stimonluls. Address F. J. C1IKNEV & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold bjMlrujrglsts, 73c. Hall's Family Fills arc the host. They Opposa'd the lint a.* Boston letter carriers are somewhat pleased at the outcome of their oppo sition to the rule of the postal authori ties requiring' the men to purchase their uniforms and accessories from the tailoring firm to which a contract was awarded. The men all along felt that they could havo outfits cheaper If permitted an option in the selection of a dealer. Accordingly the matter was brought to the attention of the authorities at Washington and it has been decided that the carriers may buy of any tailor they desire. WHAT A STUPENDOUS LIE! We bear/a farmer say when he reads that John Brelder, Mishleott, Wis., grew 173 bushels of Salzer’s Silver King Barley per acre In 1896. Don’t you believe it? Just write him! You see Salzer's seeds are bred up to big yields. And Oats 230 bushels, corn 260, Wheat 60 bushels. Potatoes 1,600 bush* els, Grasses 6 tons per acre, etc., etc. • 10.00 FOB lO CENTS. Just Send This Notice With lO Cents stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get 12 farm seed samples, worth $10, to get a start, w.n. A Good Form of 1‘unlihment. In some of the German towns when a man is convicted of beating his wiie he is allowed to go to work as usual, but his wife gets his wages and he is locked up only on Satur* day nights and remains in prison until the following Monday. The pudlshment usually lasts for ten weeks. ____ / sad Face, Cold Bom, Ac. C.a.tlark &Co.,S.H>Ten,Ct. Knew How It Wai tllraieir. Colonol Yerger docs not think it is right to bestow promiscuous charity. A few days agp a beggar met him. and applied to him for pecuniary as* sistance. After considerable reflec tion Colonel Yerger responded with a reluctant quarter and an expression of sympathy. • ••Thank you, colonol,” said the tramp, reckon you xnows how a fellow feels who lias no education, and has to dead-beat his way through tho world. ’’—Texas .Siftings SAVE YOUR EYES. 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Holding up a half-crown, he declared that that was all he had loft of forty thousand pounds, which ho had sunk in the mine. A follow called out: "Andwo’li have that, too.’4 "And so you shall!” cried Davies, and threw the ■ coin among them. This bit of desperation so delighted the men that they straightway determined to go to work again, wages or no Wages. In a few days they found excellent coal, and plenty of it, and Davies was again a rich man.—Argonaut. , V All About Tuia. . , A handsomely illustrated book of 300 pages descriptive of Texas and the re sources of that great, state will be mailed to any address on receipt of eight cents to cover postage. T. J. Price, A. C. P. A., I. & G. N. R. R., Palestine, Texas. They Want Italnmaker*. Indio, on tho Colorado desert, 130 miles south of Los Arigoles, had but .73 of an inch of rain itrlHOO. Usu ally about three inches fall in a year in ono or two Storms. The lowest temperature in wintsr is po and tho highest in summer 116. 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