TO COBB A COLD 1H OKB DAT. Take Lfiittra Bramo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money it it (ails toouie. Be Catarrh in the Head Suffered with It for Five Years, but Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cured. “ I had catarrh in my head and suffered with it for five years. I was also troubled with weakness. I have taken Hood’s Sar saparilla and it entirely cured the catarrh, built up my system and did me a great deal of good.” W. E. Mkiloway, Co lumbia, Missouri. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in facttbe One True Blood Purifier. Hood’S Pills cure sick headache. SBc. HOW natural It is to watch him wLo “climbs" and we wonder If lie will reach the top. It is | the “ survival of the attest." If you would be at your best you must be healthy. Your body needs to be nourished and re freshed as much as an engine needs fuel to produce steam or you cannot “climb.” The great trouble with so many is they cannot take nourishment and digest it; consequently their engine (or body) cannot run at a high rate of speed. Their food is not digested and converted into good rich blood conse quently they fall behind on the up grade. The trouble is with the whole digestive tract. Not one man in hve whose stomach and whole glandular system is in a good healty condition doing its work properly. The result is he becomes sooner or later in an unhealty condition. He tries this, that and the other remedy but don’t remove the cause and so fails to regain his health fully. His system needs reno yatfng. There is nothing that renovates tne whole system and restores the stomach and whole glandular system to a natupal healthy condition equal to Dr. Kay's Renovator. It removes root of the matter. This Is why It cures such a large variety of diseases which are unable to get help by any other remedy. The cures It has performed are marvelous. Read the following fro-' " ” ~ tulvev. Shaw. Kansas: T?. m.a’T*’ rtl&Ia in right side of head and dud" eye until I became entirely blind. Dr. Kay’s Renovator has done me more good than all tho doctors and patent medicines I ever tried, and I tried a great many. It has helped my eye, head, stomach, and liver, very much and 1 sleep much better.” Also one from Rev. J. B. Wade, Morrison Col. “I.am astonished at the mildness and yet the efflolency of Dr. Kay’s Renovator in mov ing constipated bowels, and in producing a regular natural daily discharge. I have been afflicted with constipation for 25 years.” It is sold bv druggists or sent by us by mail for23cts. or *1.00. Don’t take any substitute • for It has no equal. Write us for our 68 page book. It has 36 valuable -recipes and treats nearly all diseases. Address Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., Omaha, Neb. We also guarantee Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm to cure every kind of cough, Influenza or la-grippe. Write for book. Interstate Commerce Commission Safety Appliances on Freight Cars. I A hearing will be given by the Commission Decent- ; her 1st, 18S7, upon the petitions of those railroad com panies which have by November 16. applied for an ex tension of time within which their freight cars are : required to be equipped with automatic couplers. The time now fixed is January 1, next. All persons interested will then be heard and they may at any tlm$ prior to that date, file statements for or against said petitions, etc. Further information will be furnished by El) W. A. MOSELEY. Secretary. If you are lure rested in thj advantages of Texas for Ummigrar.ts ‘end for a iree sa wple copy o: a new pub.ioation. Address Box G. Dallas,Tex. Labor Statistic!. Gilhooly—I see Hostetter McGinnis walking the streets all day long. What is he doing for himself ? Gus Do Smith—He is looking for employment and congratulating him* self that he can't find any_Texas Siftings rry Graln-O. Ask your grocer today to show you 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 most delicate stomach receives it without distress. *4 the price of coffee. la cents and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Tastes like cof fee. Looks like coffee. Metals That Barn. We hre accustomed to think of metals as incombustible, but the con-' trary is the case. With the exception of the so-called noble metals—gold, silver, platinum and a few others—all ipetals burn or absorb oxygen when heated sufficiently in the air. , Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 60o. or <1. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Neglected Education. Mistress—"Gracious, Bridget, you don't clean this house at all! See, I can write my name in the duat on the mantel." Bridget—“Shure, mum, you’ye got er good edjikashun. That’s more than 1 kin do.”—New York Journal. Everybody Bays so. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wonder ful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on the' kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire Bystem, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 2S, 60 cent. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. To get the good out of years we must learn to live each hour well. FREE, IMPORTANT INFORMATION To men (plain envelope.) How, after ten years’ fruitless doctoring, I was fully re stored to full vigor and robust manhood. No C.O.D. fraud. No money accepted. No connection with medical concerns. Bent absolutely free. Address. Lock Box 288, Chicago, 111. Bend 2-cent stamp if con venient. _ Call a little man great and other lit tle people will throw up their hats. For Lung and chest diseases, Piso's Cure Is the best medicine we have used.—Mrs. J. L. Northcott, Windsor, Ont., Canada. When a man has prosperity, how the people like to see him lose it! Star Tobacco is the leading brand of • the world, because it is the beet. > . No man is better than' his opportu nities. -V f-1 \..t: AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. ft ■. a WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THB EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND Vi. ' i v "PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER’S CASTORIA," the same that has home and does novo >7^ on every bear the foe-simile signature of C/urcctcAy/M wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought Sjp y/tf/t , T* on the and has the svgnature wrap per JTo one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. * March 8, 1897J Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought** BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist, on Having The Kind That Never Failed You? »M* OIHT.uk COMPANY, TT MUSH.V .TNIET. NEW vohk e«rv. CANDY CATHARTIC r v CATHARTIC J HUdCO)l6t& CURE CONSTIPATION ALL DRUGGISTS X GUARANTEED TO CURE ▲ Every Kind of Cough or La Grippe. Y ♦Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm.| Send address for 68-page book with 56 excellent recipes and Free Advice. 4. Address DR. B. J. KAY MEDICAL CO., Western Office, Omaha, Neb. X ♦♦»»»»«»»♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦»♦♦♦♦»»t» BLACK LEG Is prevented by "vaccination.” Mortality in U. S. A. durlnir last 2 years reduced to fine-third of one per cent Thousands of HerdR succeFSfuilv vaccinated. Testimonials, etc. PASTEUR VACCINE CO., 56 Fifth Avenue, Chicago.. - BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, NONE GENUINE WITHOUT OUR TRADE MARK. i.v STEALING LITTLE ONES. " An bdntfj Which la Showins 8i[n> ‘ of BavIvaL Away back in the dark ages when civilization was slow in coining and the barbarities of the vicious members of the human family made Innocent people shudder, there were organized bands of ruffians who made it a part of their business to kidnap children and sometimes grown persons, and hold them until various sums of mon ey were extorted from the agonized parents or friends. Of course children were their favorite prey, as they were more easily kept and could not escape without assistance. Terrified into si lence, shut up in some Interior apart ment of a building, or concealed in a cave, many a child has dragged out a wretched existence, frightened, ne glected and at last murdered or thrown into dens of vice if the demands of the Kidnappers were not complied wun. Since the time when Charley Ross so suddenly and mysteriously passed out of knowledge, but few attempts have been made to disturb the quiet of American households in this way. But of late the disposition to extort money in this manner has seemed to be grow ing, and, in spite of themselves, Am erican parents are feeling more or less concerned because of the dangers that menace their little ones. There is no punishment severe enough for the vil lain who snatches a child from the heart of a quiet and unsuspecting fam ily. There is a moral and emotional phase to such an act that is by no means met if the miserable wretch ends his life at the hands of a justly en raged mob. There is that, however, in the alertness of the American mind that 'makes it somewhat difficult for acts of this sort to go unpunished. It is not the easiest thing in the world for men of the sort who do deeds of this, kind to escape detection. Such things might have been possible when the country was new and sparsely set tled, and when there were unbroken forests an unexplored caverns all about the great hills that environ some of our eastern cities. But the habit of observation is very strong in the average Yankee, and any unusual action or appearance Is quite likely to be observed or commented on. There are towns in the vicinity of New York City into which a stranger cannot go and lounge for six hours without the detective force is warned of it and knows his movements thoroughly. If there is the least suspicious action or expression he is not free from espion age as long as he remains, it is. great ly to the credit of the men to whuui the safety of these places is entrusted that they are rarely mistaken in their | estimation pf the men they shadow. In one town within six years not a mis take has been made, and dozens of stragglers have been apprehended and either put behind the bars or given to understand that in moving on was their only safety. In the case of the Conway child it was developed upon inquiry that if this scheme worked satisfactorily other children were to be similarly captured and held until money could be extorted from the par ents. But the sudden coming to grief of this effort has, it is hoped, shown the persons who contemplate such villainy that the undertaking is altogether too risky to pay. It is a fact that ninety nine out of a hundred crimes are de tected and the criminals are punished. The' hundredth escapes sometimes merely by fortunate circumstances, and sometimes because a thorough sifting reveals the fact that the criminal was too close to the household to be prose cuted. The cold-blooded flendishness of the kidnapper of children is scarcely paralleled by any act in the history of crime. That all efforts should be made to prevent a recurrence of such acts every well disposed member of every community will devoutly wish.—New York Ledger. When Tree* Go to Sleep. Trees and plants have their regular times for going to sleep, as well as boys and girls. They need the same chance to rest from the work of growing and to repair and oil the machinery of life. Some plants do all their sleeping in the winter while the ground is frozen and the limbs are bare of leaves. In tropical countries where the snow nev er falls and it is always growing weath er the trees repose during the rainy season or during periods of drought. They always choose the most unfavor able working time for doing their sleeping, just as mankind chooses the night, when he cannot see to work. In connection with this interesting fact, a Norwegian observer has made some interesting experiments, in which he has tried to chloroform plants, and he has found that the fumes of this an aesthetic or sleep-giver has a marked effect on the plant, making it sleep harder and grow faster when it wakes up. Baek to the Old Home. J. H. Hairston, a colored convict wlio recently escaped from the Virginia penitentiary, has just sent a pathetic appeal to the superintendent of that institution to get him back. That of ficial on Tuesday received a telegram from Hairston, dated at Farmville, in which he said: “Please send up here after me at once.” This is the first time in the history of the institution In which one of the escaped Inmates indicated so much anxiety to return. His wish will be complied with prompt ly.—Ex. An Odd Fence. 1 The most unique fence in Maine is that of a Harpswell fisherman: His front yard Is surrounded by the swords of swordfish, many of which have fig ured in exciting episodes.—Exchange. Uneolb Fare. Chicago, One of the beauty spots of Chicago, I* described In a most beautifully Illustrated book, of 90 pages, now being distributed by the Chicago, Milwaukee tc 8t. Paul Kailway Company. It is full of the finest -alf-tone pictures of one of Creation’s aost cbnrming places of resort for citisens )f the Great Republic. Everyone who has ever visited the park will appreciate the sonvonir, and for those who have not it will lie a revelation of what is to be seen in Chicago. It can only be procured by enclosing twenty-five (35) cents in coin or postnge stamps, to Geo. H. Henfford, gen eral passenger agent, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago, 111. The man who robs others does not make tho best of himself. The ass might sing better If he didn't pitch his tnne so high. i Deafness Cannot Bo I'areo by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion o( the car. There Is only one way to cure dearness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deufness Is caused by an Intlumod condi tion ol the mucous lining ot the JSus tuchlan Tube. When this tube le in flamed you have a rumbling sound or im perfect hearing, and when It Is entirely dosed. Deafness Is the result, and un less the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Us normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases cut of ten are caused by ca tarrh. which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo O. Sold by Druggists, 76c. Hall's Family PlUs are the best. . Vou bet if a young1 husband fails to .kiss bis wife when he comes home, the girls notice it. Educate Your Bowel* With Caacarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c. 23c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. When a man talks too much, It may be said he has a runaway tongue. Dr. Kay's Renovator Is guaranteed to euro d.vspepsB, constipation and to renovate the system. __ Everybody says “Go up higher” to the man who is “getting there.” Coe’s Coash Balsam Is the oldest and best. It will break up a cold quicker than anything else. It Is always reliable. Try it. There is a story on every man that ever lived. Mrs. Winslow’s Sootating Syrap For children teeth lng,sortens the gum a, reduces inflam mation, al.ays pain, cures wind colic, » cents a bottle. The man who looks at a clock five minutesrto see what time it is, is lazy. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartlo. Ido or 25c. If C- C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. Men, p.s a rule, do not like to lie, but their wives ask too many questions. pJh Coleridge's Repartee. “Do you really believe that an an over spoke to Balaam?” queried a man who had prided himself on his In* tellect. Coleridge, to whom the ques tion was put, refleeted very calmly for a few moments, and .then responded: “My friend, I have no doubt whatever that the story is true. I have been spoken to in the same way myself.” Give 0* Rest. This Is the prayer of the nervous who do not sleep well, bet them use llostetter's Stomach Bitters and their prayer will be speedily answered. Insomnia Is the product of Indigestion and nervousness, two associate ailments soon remedied by the Bitters, which also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver complaint, rheumatism and kidney com plaints. __ There are forty-seven papers and magazines in this country edited or managed by women. If you wnnt to operate on the Chicago Board of Trade send for our free I took con taining full Information how to trade. On account of the short wheat crop in foreign countries and the short corn crop In tins country, both corn nncl wheat will sell much higher, nnd now Is the time to make a profit able Investment. 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A good dog is worth more than you can get for it. rr There is a Class of People ■ ^ m Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new pre paration called GRAlN-p, made of pure grainy that takes the place of coffee* The most delicate stouts efi receives it without distress and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost oYer it as much. Children may drink it with great benefit 15 cents and 35 cents per package. Try it,. Ask for GRAIN-a ' '■ - 1 f Try Grain-01 #| V I *e Vegetable )Lj Sicilian , R RENEWER Prevents the hair from fall*, ing out, and makes a new* growth come in. You1' save what you have and get more. No gray hair. nDODQV new discovepV^iim., Vfivro I quick relief and core* wore! _ _ quick relief and e naace. Semi for book of ftMtlraonlala anrt lO dAJl' treatment Free. »r. !LIL6BU1>h»oi§. uksM|s. W. N. U. OMAHA. NO. 45,-16d7. When writing to advertisers, kindly meattsa tills paper. 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