One Stroi( Point. ••I don’t know what will ever be -eome of you. Tommy," said his moth L- er. '‘You tear your clothes, knock the soles off your shoes, punch holes into your hats, lose your school books, fool away your toys and play things, and don’t take care of any thing. You waste a great deal by your heedlessness. Tommy. ” “I don't waste nothin’ in hand k'chiefs, mamma," snuffled Tommy indignantly.—Chicago Tribune nail’s Catarrh Cora Is taken internally. Price, 75e. Cheap Tickets Via the Omaha & St. Louis R. R. and Wabash R. R. St. Louis, one way, <9.19, round trip, 815.35. On sale every Tues days and Thursdays. St. Louis: Round trip October 3d to 8th, 811.50. Home seekers’ Excursions. South: Septem ber 31, October 5 and 19. One fare the round trip, plus 83. Springfield, 111.: Round trip, 813.35; on sale September 18, 19, 30. For tickets and further in formation call at 1415 Farnam St. (Pax ton Hotel block), Omaha, dr write O.' 21. Clayton, Omaha, Neb. ■■ Don't Tobsees Spit snd Smoke Tour LDo Anqr. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To ll ac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or $1. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. **I wish, sir, to ask for the hand of youc daughter in marriage." "Bui are you in a position to support a fam ily?” “Oh, I think so, sir.” "Yes; but yon must consider the matter pretty carefully, for there are ten of us.” Bnormosa Treasures In India. It is estimated that the treasure ly ing idle in India in . the shape of hoards or ornaments amounts to £350. 000,000. A competent authority cal culates that • 'in Amritsar City alone there are jewels to the value of £2, - ' OuO. 000 sterling.” FABRCLL'S BCD STAB EXTRACT IB The best; si! grocer* will refund youi mossy If yes Are not aatlafled with It. Rev. Dr. Hale of Boston, is. collect- 1 Ing for comparison and analysis the 1 cavings of children.. John McDonald of the New ■ York bar, is said to bear a remarkable re semblance physically to President Cleveland. Bdneate Tour Bowels With Cascarsts. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forevsr. (Do. If C. C. C. fail, dcuzslsts refund money. No man-can do good its he has op portunity without enjoying the occu pation. iii . , ....... , Call the day lost on which you have not been anxious to make somebody happy. John Howard I'ljnt't Claim. When John Howard Payne, the au thor of ‘•Home, Sweet Home,” died in Tunis, in 1852, the government owed him $205.92 salary as consul at that place. It has been owing it ever since. Payne's, heirs are now trying to get congress to make an appropriation to discharge the obli gation. If compound interest should be reckoned on the sum? for the for ty-one years that have elapsed the heirs of the poet would receive a comfortable, fortune. However, the bill that has been introduced „for their relief only appropriates the amount of the original claim, $205.92, which is not enough to . fight over. The government does not allow in terest on unclaimed money left in its possession. j’afcjr- uinhsib./j, ^| | Ask your grocer today to show yon a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink, that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without Injury as well as the adult All who try It like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it Is made from pure grains, and the mast delicate stomach receives it without distress. 34 the price of coffee. 15 cents and 26 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Tastes like cof fee. Looks like coffee. “Has man a perfect organ of speech?” “Yes.” “Has woman also?” “No; hers is made without stops.” The electric lamp industry of New York gives employment to between 2.00J and 3,000 girls. It is piece work, and pays about 99 a week. Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only cough medicine used in my house.—D. C. Albright, Mifllinburg, Pa., Dec. 11, ’95. A Collection or Fans. The most celebrated collection of fans in the world is now in the print room of the British museum. It was brought together by Lady Charlotte Scribner, who presented the fans to the museum. Dr. Kay’s Renovator is all that it* name would indicate. It restores to healthy ac tion the functional organs, curesconstipa tion, dyspepsia, liver and kidney diaordm. Trial size, 25c. See advt. , ' - Ex-Treasurer P. E. Spihnef, 'who had more autographs in other people’s hands than any man of his time, is to .have an eight-foot monument, costing 910,000, erected to his memory in Washington. To Cure Constipation Forever, Tnke Cnscarcts Candy. Cathartic. 10c orOo. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Many a girl who marries for leisure repents in haste. A good way to keep all the boys on the farms would be to keep all the girls there. The Blue and the Gray. Both men and women are apt to feel a little blue, when the gray hairs begin to Bhow. It’s ■ a very natural feeling. In the normal condition ' of things gray hairs belong to advanced age. They have no business whitening the head of man or woman, who has not begun to go down the slope of life. As a matter of fact, the hair turns gray regardless of age, or of life's seasons ; sometimes it is whitened by sickness, but more often from lack of care. When the hair fades or turns gray there's no need to resort to hair dyes. The normal color of the hair is restored and retained by the use of ’s Hair Ayer's CnrebooV, story of cores told T>y the cured.* Y free. .JU C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Safe Coasting is hoi a certainty on any bicycle, btti the nearest to it is coasting on a Colam- 4 bia. The 5% Nickel Steel Tubing, used only in Coiumbias, is the strongest material known in bicycle construction. "Columbia Bicycles STANDARD OF THE WORLD at j here snottia be no question in your mind •what •wheel to buy* J897 Hartfords..$50 Hartfords, Pattern 2, * * * , 45 Hartfords, ‘Pattern J, . * ia',1 40 ~ . ‘ _’ - •' 1f ■ ’ j ' POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Coon.- . El Colombia* an not property rcpreacnted in year -vicinity, let n* know. Walter Baker & Co.’s (Breakfast COCOA Pure, Delicious, Nutritious. Coeta Leas than ONJ5 CENT a cap. Be cure that the package bear* our Trade-Mark. Walter Baker & Co. Limited, ! (Eatabliahed 1780.) ■*4 I ■ Dorchester, Maes. I % EDWARD SPURR IN ‘'OUTING." The Famous Yukon Riven In Outing for September Edward Spurr, of the United Statea Geological Survey, speaks as follows of the great JUhskan river: “Only two routes are available. One must either go to St. Michael, in the Behring sea, and thence up the River Yukon, from its outlet to the begin ning of its headwaters, some 1,500 miles, or land at some point of the Pacific, cross the head of land and tap the headwaters of the Yukon at their source. “In either event the Journey must be completed before September, when the Yukon freezes, and Alaska's arctic win ter of the utmost rigor sets in and grips its vise. “At the little town of Juneau we left the steamer and made preparations to turn our backs for good upon civiliza tion. Our proposed route lay across the coast mountains to the headwaters of the Yukon and thence down that river as a highway, making such excursions from it as became necessary. “Alaska is a most difficult country for traveling, even in the only available short season of its arctic summer, there being no roads; and even Indian trails, on account of the small number of na tives, are very rare. The surface is rough, being traversed by many ranges of mountains. Even in the more levfel portions travel is hindered in the sum mer by the wet moss which grows knee-deep, and by the insect pests; in the winter it is made impossible by the intense cold. In view of all these diffi culties, the peculiar relation of the Yu kon river to the coast is such that one might fancy Nature had arranged it es pecially for a highway, through this inaccessible Interior, in partal compen sation to man for the obstacles she has put in his way. me neaawaiers or me networK or streams that ultimately drain into the Yukon river fortunately lie within about thirty miles of the sea. Just on the northern or inland side of a range of mountains which runs along the southern coast of Alaska. From this point the river flows north, away from the sea, far toward the Arctic Ocean; then, suddenly changing its mind, turns west; and ,finally, after traversing the whole width of Alaska, arrives at the Behring Sea, its entire course being considerably over two thousand miles. For a considerable distance it Is a broad and deep stream, so that one may go quite through the center of Alaska, from sea to sea, by crossing only thirty miles or so of land. There are various routes across the coast mountains to the various heads of this river. Of these we chose that over the Chilkoot Pass, which is the shortest, although the mountains which must be thereby crossed are higher than any of the other routes. Hardship* of the Trip to the Klondike. "We were huddled together so closely that we perforce became speedily ac quainted, for although the space on the floor was large enough for all of us to sit down, there was hardly room to stretch out. When we grew weary of chatting, however, and of listening to the sound of the water as the boat threshed its way onward, we were forced by drowsiness to sleep where we could, and soon sleepers were scattered around in the most grotesque and un comfortable attitudes. I had coveted a space on or under the little table used for eating purposes, but found that choice position fully occupied before I made up my mind to retire; but I fin ally wedged myself into a narrow space between the boiler and the pilot .house, where, throughout %the night, passers continually stepped on my head. How ever, I slept several hours. The system of eating is worthy of note. The table accommodated about six at a time, whereas, as I have men tioned, ^ were fifty or sixty in all. At each meal one or two, or sometimes three, sets of passengers would be fed; then the captain, the sailors, the Chi nese cook, and the dish-washer, after which the rest of us got our rations, in good time. As we grew very hun gry during this process, we would stand around patiently waiting our chance to slip in; but.sometimes be fore we had tasted the.tempting liver and coffee (to say nothing or the beans), we would be summarily ejected by the dish-washer, who was a very young man of dashing exterior and pe culiar vocabulary, and who would dis perse us with the assertion that “By -. the crew is going to eat now.” Croulni the Now Famous Chilknot Pass. “The trip from salt water to the head of the navigable waters of the Yukon is usually made in two stages, of each about fifteen miles. The trader at Dyea had brought in a few horses, and we engaged him to transport our camp outfit and provisions over the first stage, where the trail, though rough, can be gone over by pack-animals. Some of the miners, however, engaged Indians immediately at Dyea to pack the whole distance, and, as it afterward proved, this was the wiser plan. We could also have obtained saddle ani mals, but our little party preferred to walk for the sake of getting toughened for the harder journeys that were to follow. "The trip turned out to be exception ally fatiguing, a large part of the dis tance being through sand and loose gravels in the bed of a stream, where it was impossible to find a firm footing; several times also we had to wade the stream. The valley along-whose bot tom we Were thus traveling waa narrow and canyon-like, with steep bare mountains rising high on either side. The tops of these mountains, so far as We could see, were capped with ice; &nd this great glac'cr stretched out long fingers down Into the valley along , each of the gulches or recesses in the mountain wall. Finally, crossing the river a last time on a fallen tree, we followed the trail up into the more rocky and difficult portion of the val ley; and some miles of this brought us, thoroughly tired, to our halting place. "From Sheep Camp, where we were, the only way to get our supplies over the pass was to get Indians to carry them. Although these Indians are no stronger than average white men, yet they greatly excel them in point of endurance, and they willingly under Atter awhile the well-beaten trail faded to almost nothing, and at the same time the snow-slope became of excessive steepness. Wo were obliged to kick footholds for every step, on a surface so smooth and steep that a slip would have sent us sliding into depths which we could not see. Looking down It seemed a bottomless pit, shapeless and fathomless. In the eddying fog. On the other side of the summit a short but steep declivity led down to a small frozen lake, named by the miners Crater Lake, on account of the steep, crater-llke walls which sur round It on three sides. On one side, however, this wall opens out Into a valley, through which a small stream runs; the lake Is, therefore one of the ultimate sources of the Yukon, and It was with a feeling of relief that we stepped upon its frozen surface. The Chllkoot Indian ranker*. “At Dyea Is a small trading-post, kept by a white man, around which is gathered a village of Indians or Slwaah, belonging to the Chllkoot tribe. They are by no means 111-looking people. The men are strong and well-formed; the women (naturally, when one con siders their mode of life) are Inferior to the men in good looks. These wo men have a habit of painting their faces uniformly black with a mixture of soot and grease, a covering which is said to prevent snow-blindness In the winter and to be a protection In sum mer against the mosquitoes. Some have only the upper part of their faces painted, and the black part terminates In a straight line, giving the effect of a half-mask. At the time of our ar 'rival the Indians were engaged very busily in catching and drying a small fish. This fish Is very oily, and when dried can be lighted at one end and used as a candle; and for this purpose It is stored away against the long win ter night. Oram of the Klondike, “Although there are very few peo ple in the country, one la continually surprised at first by perceiving a soli tary white tent standing on some prom inent point or cliff which overlooks the river. At first this looks cheerful, and we sent many a hearty hall across the water to such habitations; but, our calls were never answered, for these are not dwellings of the living but of the dead. Inside each of these tents, which are ordinarily made of white cloth, though sometimes of woven matting. Is a dead Indian, and near him are laid his rifle, snowshoes, orna ments and other personal effects- I do not think the custom of leaving these HIGH SUMMER IN THE CHILKOOT PASS. go extreme fatigue for any limited period. At this time, however, the trail was so bad, on account of the soft ening of the snows in the hot June sun, that they concluded to strike for higher wages. This was the cause of some little delay for us. Once we saw the Siwash safely start ed with their packs, we set out our selves, at about 6 o'clock in the after noon. At this time of year the trip { is usually timed by the Indians, so that the deepest snow will be crossed between 12 o'clock at midnight and 3 in the morning; for in these hours a crust forms, which in daytime is soft ened by the warm sun. Our way soon led us on to a glacier-like field of snow, which often sounded hollow to our feet as we trod, and at Intervals we could hear the water rushing beneath. The grade became steep, and the fog closed around us thickly, joining with the twilight of the Alaska June night to make a peculiar obscurity which gave things a weird, ghostly appear ance. As we toiled up the steep in cline of hardened snow, those ahead of Us looked like huge giants; while those on whom we looked down were ugly, sprawling dwarfs. All the rest of the climb was over snow, the ascent being very steep, with cliffs on all sides, which loomed up gigantic and ghostly. It is im possible to describe the effect pro duced by these bare, jagged rocks ris ing out of the snow field, in the silence, the fog and the twilight. We were forcibly reminded of some of Dore's imaginative drawings. ■ in iMr ■■■ ■ ■ DRIVING A BARGAIN WITH THE NATIVES. articles at the graves implies any be lief that they will be used by the dead man in another world, but simply sig nifies that he will have no more use for the things which were so dear and necessary to him in life—just as, among ourselves, articles which have been used by some dead friend are henceforth laid aside and used' no long er. , A Ballot Box That Coanta. Something novel in the way of voting machinery has recently been patented in England by Arthur B. Collins, city engineer of Norwich. The ballots are printed on stiff paper or card, bound up in books, each leaf being so perfor ated that it can be. torn off like a check from its stub. The voter goes into a screened room, where he sees a row ot boxes supported on a frame. Each box bears the name and other insignia of a party or a candidate. A conspicuous indicator points the voter to a slot in the box. Into this the bal lot Is thurst without any marking or folding, and after a few seconds it falls through to a glass box, into which all the other boxes discharge. An elec tion official, on one side, and the voter on the other, can both see the ballot and be sure that it is all right; but the official cannot tell by which route it entered the glass-walled receptacle, and therefore cannot tell how the man has voted. Just within the slot, in each ballot box there is an inked roller and some type, which print a number on the back of the ballot. These numbers run in succession. Consequently, they count each party's vote as it is cast. Both the type and the highest number on the ballots, finally taken out, record this, and. therefore, must agree when the polls close. Each ballot, after re maining an instant in the glass box for inspection, drops still further, and goes into a much bigger reservoir that is sealed. Deaf-Mute Miner*. In the house of a deaf mute brother and sister, William and Julia Barnes, who have lived alone on a farm near Columbus, Mo., an investigation com mittee of neighbors found after the death of the brother at 77 years,money to the amount of $6,000 hidden about in all sorts of places. Nervousness, and Insomnia. A PROMINENT FARMER OFXAN SAS FINDS A CURE. From the Capit.il, St. John, Kansas. • v Hearing that J. H. Petwiler, a prosperous fanner who resides about three miles east of HI. John, Kansas, bad been using Hr. Williams’ Pink Pills with marvelous bene* licial results, a reporter of the Kansas City Htar called upon him for an interview re garding the matter. We found Mr. Det wiler a tail, and apparently well preserved man of seventy years. Upon on. interro gating him concerning his use of Pink Pills be gave us the following, and with his en tire consent to its publication. "1 had been troubled for several years with extreme nervousness. At first ittftd not prevent me from attending to tpy .farm duties. About three years ago, however, I tiegan to grow rapidly worse, then my uigbts became sleepless, and I could not sleep two hours in an entire night. I came terribly affected too with indigestion. 1 became alarmed at my condition, and con sulted a physician. One doctor tojd'ioe the trouble was insomnia, and took bis medicine for that, but without relief. An other told me it was nervous prostration, but bis medicine had no more affect than the same amount of water. Finally, see ing I>r. Williams' Pink Pills advertised, and noticing particularly the testimony cf a person who had been cured by them oi a very similar disease to mine, 1 determined lo try them. I called upon our local drug gist, Mr. J. Stivers and procured a supply, I tiegan taking them, and in a very snort time my nervousness was less severe. After I iiad given them a thorough trial, 1 found., uiyself entirely cured. 1 can now lie down at. night and go to sleep without the slight- 1 est trouble. Furthermore the cure baa -, been permanent, and 1 can recommend Pink Fills to all who are afflicted as I was, for their equal cannot be found. Hr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are now given to the public as an unfailing, blood builder and nerve restorer, coring alT forms of weakness arising from a watery ' condition of the blood or shattered hervcii.1 ’ The pills are sold by all dealers, or will lie 'sent post paid on receipt of price, SO cents a 1k>x, or six boxes for *2.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Hr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. ' Curiosity la one of the permanent and certnln characteristics of n vigor ous intellect. . 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