A system of school savings banks Imported from Europe In 1885, is now kin operation in eleven states. Ab:u‘. Ttweuty-eight thousand pupils are de Sositors, with $140,000 to their credit. , Jr. Fifleld, an authority on the sub t Ject, says that the prime object of the school savings bank system is not so much tae saving of money, as the inculcation of the principles of thrift, honesty and self responsibility. A pauper may not, because of his Insanity, be entitled to extravangant fare or gorgeous surrounding. The Caban Scare. Although the diplomatic entanglement with Spain over Cuba Is to some extent In fluencing the stock market, Wall street ex pects no serious complications. Neverthe less serious complication with other mnludles maybe expected to follow an attack of bil iousness which Is not checked at the outset. The mosteffectual means to this end Is Hos tetters’s Stomach Bitters, an admirable rem edy, moreover, for dyspepsia, malaria, kid ney trouble, constipation and nervousness. Dancing came first of all the public arts. It antedates music, singing and sculpture. Beauty, Utility and Valoa Are happily combined in Hood’s Sarsapa rilla Coupon Calendar for 1898. The lovely child's head in an embossed gold frame, surrounded by sprays of flowers in mosaic, the harmonious pad in blue with clear fig ures, and the Coupons by means of which many valuable books and other articles may be obtained, make up the most de sirable Calender we have ever seen. The first coupon article is Hood's Practical Cook’s Book, a handsome, useful volume of 850 pages. Ask your druggist for Hood’s Coupon Calendar, or send 6 cents in stamps for one to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass. "So you clubbed together and got your janitor a Christmas present, eh? What was it? “A beautiful frame, with the motto Inside, ‘Let the Lower Liights be Burning’. ”—Chicago News. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C.C.C. fail, druggists refund money. Every citizen of this country has the right to get to the sea of his prod uct. ■UWWttttW rm is like a plant. What makes the plant fade and wither? Usually lack of necessary nourishment. The reason why. Dr. Ayer’s Hair Vigor restores gray or faded hair to its normal color, stops hair from falling, and makes it grow, is because it supplies the nourishment the hair needs. “ When a girl at school, in Reading, Ohio, I had a severe attack of brain fever. On my recovery, I found myself perfectly bald and, for a long time, I feared I should be permanently so. Friends urged me to use Dr. Ayer’s Hair Vigor, and, on doing so, my hair immediately began to grow, and I now have as heavy and fine a head of hair as one could wish for, being changed, however, from blonde to dark brown.”—Mrs. J. H. Korsnydep, 152 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, Cal. y,.., Shyer's Stair 'Vigor. FARM SEEDS Sailer’s Seeds are Warranted to Frodcee. E. Waller, LeRavsvillc. Pa., astonished the. world by growing2,V) bu'slid* Salzer's corn; J. lireider, Wls'iiv.ott, Wld., 173 bush. barley, and P. Sinuot, U iuctalia, Iowa, bv growing I9f» bush, Sailer's outs per aero. If you duubt, write them. We wish to gala 250.0J0 now customers, bouce will send on trial 10 DOLLAR8 WORTH FOCI 10c. 11 pkgv of rare farm seeds, nog Pea, 8and Vetch, ‘40c. Wheat,' Slump Rape. Jerusalem Coi n, etc., in cluding ourmatnnmih Seed Catalogue, telling all about the 8<00 gold prizes for best name for our new marvelous corn and onta, “Prodigies," also sample of same, all mailed you upon receipt of but 10c. postage, positively worth |10, to get a stnrt. 100,000 hbls, Seed I’otntoea »t $1.50 a bbi. 35 pkgA. earliest veGCtablo seeds, $1.00. ^a___ „ . Oataloc alone, 6c. KOaWaC< •end this atdv. along, $ PENSIONS GetyourPenslon DOUBLE QUICK Write CAPT. O’FARRELL, Pension Agent, *425 New York Avenue. WASHINOTON, D. C. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JOHNW. MORRIS, WASHINGTON. 0. C, Lata Principal Examiner U. 8. Pension Bureau. S/rs. lu last war, 15 adjudicating claims, a tty. *iuc* TRIAL BOTTLE i SENT Ifree. UK. TAKT BROS., (ElmSt., l(oche»ter, N. V. ROOFING' i The beat Rod Rope Roofing for 11«. per aq. ft., caps and nnl i In* * lidad Hnbat ♦titoa fr»r I*U«ter fiamplea free. The fay bamlla kooilnu co.tcwd*a,K J. FLORIDA Full illustrated descriptive immi gration literature Free. Postage, 10c. STATE PRESS RlllRAl, Tallahassee. 25RS£T!S 1 Thompson’s Eye Water. I n Vheo Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. CURES AND MA If You or Frlendt The following lo [Trado Mark.] Swan-on kHKi’MvncCcRitCo.,Chicaflro. Gentlemen: bj vonr wonderful medicine “5 DROPS.’* In cation of diseases. being acute iullaminatiou of all the < months, having but one chance in a hundred of recover nettling in my kidneys and bladder. 1 had also indices ceases twice a week on the prostrate gland, hemorrhage rheumatism in the palms of my hands extending to •peciaiist In the state could tell me what they were or t then the shakes would be^in and 1 would shake from on* 1 hud no strength left; the after effects were more like more, all under the most intense pain. All the spei TThe X-ray was put on by one of the city’s most eminen mutt use plenty of morphine or suffer. Soon after 1 sa from the celebrated physician. Dr. Lloyd, whom l knev (iwanson KheumaWc Cure Co., and received an answer to begin on. Just before 1 re-eived it I had one of t'. yjaars 1 had a kidney backache, a hot stinging pain t '■^r^d henr of< but could get no relief until 1 hej of slay. 1807. at r.oon, and in less than an hour the bad lpr three weeks and ke| t getting better; at the eud Mf of four weeks tlie rheumatism was no more, shakes are rone: my heart failure and dyspepsia went my God daily for having put me in the way < vicinity and is still curing afflicted ones who take it st« “5 DROPS” cure* Kheumat l*m..Sf thin great medicine. It has cured many in this adily and want to be cured. BL’UNS K. WH1TK. utralgla,Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma. Hay Nervous and neuralgic Headaches. Karache, K* La Grippe, Malaria, Creeping Numbness. 8rtre “5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a >• id by mall, for 25 cents, a sample bottle will con >tiL’C*.for*2,50, Rot sold by druggists, only by us and Write u« to-day. 107-160 Dearborn St* CHICAGO, ILL*. FREE FARM OF 160 ACRES, Would Ton Llk« to Ha Abjolnta Owner of Your Own Farm? WOULD you like a farm that pro duces upon an average of 30 bushels of wheat per acre? WOULD you like a farm that grows from 60 to 90 bushels of oats per acre? WOULD you like a farm that grows from 40 to 60 bushels of barley per acre? WOULD you like a farm that grows more bushels of potatoes per acre than any farm in Michigan? WOULD you like a farm that pro duces all kinds of roots and vegetables in abundance? WOULD you like a farm that pro duces the heaviest and fattest beef cat tle that goes to the English market? WOULD you like a farm that pro duces butter and cheese equal to the finest Danish? WOULD you like to own a farm in a country where cattle are never stabled winter or summer? WOULD you like to live in a country where taxes are very low, the principal taxation being for schools, and the government pays 76 per cent of that? WOULD you like to live in a country where every person is happy and con tented, excepting the doctors and un dertakers? WOULD you like to be where each or your sons can get 160 acres free, when they reach 18 years of age? If so, consult the advertisement of the Canadian, government free lands, appearing elsewhere. It rain3 on an average 208 days in. the year in Ireland, about 150 in Eng land, at Kezan about t- days and in Siberia only 60 days. An inspiration that produces no re sult, is no better than agreeable rec ollection. To Caro Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 21c. IfC.C.G. fail to cure, druggists refuud money. If the pockets are deep enough a boy’s first pair of trousers always fit. A Breeding Male. "Thus far and no farther,'* was Na ture’s edict when she permitted the apparent inconsistent creation of the mule, by crossing the jack upon the mare, and to all Intents and purposes the end is reached by the one cross, mare mules, as a rule, not possessing the power to reproduce their kind, though coming in heat, periodically, as other mares do, says Indiana Farmer. There are, however, Isolated cases on record of a mule conceiving to the ser I vice of a stallion and producing a foal, though It Is not shown that the foal ever lived beyond a period of a few months. One case of the kind is related that occurred in Virginia over fifty years ago waB not suspected until the arrival of the foal; the dam having been constantly at work until the strange event took place. It Is said that she showed a little or no udder development, but milk secretion was evidently in a natural condition for the foal which arrived in a skinny and del icate shape soon began to pick up and thrive, but at five months of age It sickened and died. The following year, the same mule produced another foal, having been served.by a young stallion running in the pasture with her; this foal, as with the other, partook more of the characteristics of the horse than of those of the dam, and was a strong, healthy fellow until he had reached about a year old, then he died, despite the care and skill that were used to save his life. The mother of these colts was a mule lp every sense of the word and without the shadow of a doubt and the experience is a very re markable one. There are probably other such cases, but in them all they seem to have come into the world as monstrous and unwelcome exceptions to Nature’s decree, soon to perish and pass out of existence. It is well that it is so; the mule is a serviceable, use ful servant to man’s requirements, but when it comes to a further perpetuation of the species, no improvement, gain or good can result therefrom and any attempt in that direction can result in nothing but infinite disorder and con fusion. , |, Live Stock Feeders end Breeden. I take this opportunity of advising all Interested of the calling of the American Livestock Feeders’ and Breeders’ convention at the state capl tol rooms, St. Paul. January 11 and 12 next. Its objects will be, first, to dis cuss the breeding of the best types of live stock to meet the demands of the market ;second, kinds of food and manner of feeding to produce an ani mal that will bring the top market price; third, marketing live stock. Dur ing the past several years the live stock interest has increased very rapidly in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and over the Northwest generally; and there are hundreds, even thousands, of new be ginners in this business, who are steadily increasing their herds. The meeting, however, will be national in its scope, and is Intended to represent the live stock interests for discussion of the important points above men tioned, both of the United States and Canada. Its object is to bring together beginners in stock raising, and exper ienced breeders and feeders, in order that there may be a mutual exchange of views and methods in the manner of feeding and breeding live stock. Low railway rates, both cast and west of St. Paul, are expected, and eminent ex perts in breeding and feeding have al ready signified their intention of be ing prese'nt, from Pittsburg on the East, to the Pacific ocean on the West. The various live stock organizations throughout the United States and Can ada are invited to appoint delegates to be in attendance to represent their or ganizations, and in addition, all persons interested in the breeding and feeding of live stock will be accepted as dele gates, by reporting their names and addresses to the secretary upon the day of their arrival at St. Paul. The council of arrangements extends to your paper a most cordial invitation to bo represented at the convention. The ripe experience of your editorial staff cannot but be highly beneficial in the deliberations of the meeting. David R. McGinnis, Executive Manager. Feed and Fat.—In each section of Canada government experiment farms have been established as centers ot education and object lessons to the sur rounding farmers. Here tests are made under the best scientific conditions, and the results' applied for the betterment of the methods of the average farmer. Thus at one of tho government farms we find 20,000 distinct samples of milk tested to establish one fact—namely, that when a cow has reached her max imum percentage of solids in the milk she produces, an increase of richness in the ration she is fed on does not yield an increase in the richness of her milk, but only an increase in the total quantity of milk she produces.—Lon don Chronicle. Fattening Hogs.—A hog fattens more quickly by being fed no more at any time than it will eat. It should Al ways clean up all in the trough. When it has fed, clean the trough out and do not feed again util the animal shows plainly that it is hungry. If overfed so that it feeds indifferently it will lose less weight to permit it to go without food a day than it would by continuing to feed beyond its appetite. Probably no other animal is so sensitive to in jury from overfeeding as the hog.—Ex. Weeds have grown well all through the drouth, and this is due to the fact that most weeds are adapted to the ground in which they have obtained a foothold, and also to the further fact that many varieties are provided with powerful roots that reach far down in to the soil. Keep an account of the profits and losses in your poultry yard, by keeping an account of the number of eggs laid, poultry sold and loss by disease. QAINED FORTY-EIGHT POUNDS “I had a strong appetite for liquor which was tho beginning of the breaking down of my health. 1 was also a slave to tea and coffee drinking. 1 took the gold cure but it did not help me.” I This is a portion of nn interview clipped from the Oaily Herald, of Clinton, Iowa. It might well be taken for the subject of a temperance lecture but that is not our ob ject in publishing it. It is to show how a system, run down by driok and disease, may be restored. We cannot do better than auote further from the same: “r or yearn' I was » nuable to do my work. 1 could not sleep nights or rest days on account of' continuous pains in( my stomach and' hack. 1 was unable to digest my food. • Headaches and' painful urination were frequent, and my heart's action became increased. 1 left my farm and retired to city life, for I was a confirm ed invalid, and the doctor said 1 would' never be well again. •“Soou after I hap pened to use four 1)0X08 of Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills for inio X vupio UUU J UCIIICU L'r l/tiy since then have been free from all pain, headache and dyspepsia. 1 eat heartily and have no appetite for strong drin'x I or tea or cotl’ee. and foel twenty years younger. * “Mil weight hat incic.mcd 48 pounds. I cannot say too much for l)r. Williams’ Pink Pills and claim that they have cured me. John B. Cook.” Subscribed and sworn to before me this sixteenth day of February, 1SU7. A. P. Bakkeii, Notary IHiMic. To people run down in health from what* ever cause—drink or disease—the above in terview will be of interest. The truth of it is undoubted as the statement is sworn to, and we reproduce the oath here. For any further facts concerning this mediciuo write to Ur. Williams’ Medicine Company, | Schenectady, N. Y. The name and address of the subject of above interview is John U. Cook, of Slid Kouth 5th Street, Lyon, Iowa. "Why do you think Bingle would make a good alderman. He’s as deaf as a post.” That’s the very reason he would be a Bate man. Your briber never puts a proposition in black and white.”—Chicago News. Vo Yon Vance To-NIghtT Shake into your Shoes Allen’s Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns. Bunions, Chilblains and Sweat ing Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. __ Oysters grow on trees in Cape Bren ton, Nova Scotia. It not unusual for a tre branch which dips into the lake to have oyster spat deposited upon it, and in time the branch b.c^me3 c vered with fat r--»ters. New Inventions. The United States patent office last week Issued 48S patents. Amongst the curious of these were included a cycle embodying but a single wheel ntia known as a unicycle, the patent being Issued to an Iowa inventor. While another Iowa inventor re ceived a patent for a centrifugal cream separator. It remained for a Utica, N. Y., inventor to provide a running gear for a baby carriage, by which the forward wheels can be dropped downward so that the carriage body may be held horizontal while the baby carriage is being wheeled up and down stairs.' Most people have realized the dangers attending convey ing a child in a baby buggy up or down flights of stairs, which is en tirely overcome by the new invention. Above we show a simple movement by means of which the wheel A re volves the larger wheel D in opposite directions. Inventors desiring free Information may obtain the same in addressing Sues & Co., registered pat ent agents, Omahr* Neb. About the worse piece of luck that can happen to a busy man is to make a favorable impression upon a bore.— Atchison Globe. Iowa Patent Office Report. DES MOINES. Jan. 5—W. T. M. asks: If a person shou'.d use a ratchet in an improved window shade roller, similar to Hartshorn's, would it be an infringement? Is not the principle of such a ratchet too common to patent? Without searching the records to see Hartshorn’s claims, I will en deavor to answer your question and make the matter plain to you. Suppose Hartshorn’3 claim is for the combination of a ratchet, a pawl or detent, a spring and a roller for oper ating a curtain, all the parts may be common but the combination thereof new and patentable. To improve any one part or element in that combina tion, or to add another part thereto, to gain anew or improved result thereby, would be patentable, but not clear of the prior broad combination claim, and an infringement, if used without license. But if one of the four parts of the original combination claim 13 left out, then the combination U broken, and it wold not be an in fringement cf the claim that had four parts in it. Valuable information about obtain ing, valuing and selling patents sent free to any address. THOMAS G. & J. RALPH ORWIG. Solicitors of Patents. If Noah were alive today he would probably build another ark and get some Kentucky belle .o christen it.— Chicago Daily News. liow’H Till.! We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh Wiuc cunnol be cured by Hull's Cuiurrli Cure. F. J. CHENEV At CC*. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the lust ID years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and tlnaricially able to carry out any obligations mude by their firm. West A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.; Waldlng. Kiimau At Marvin, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and rau cous surfaces of the system. Testimo nials sent free. Price 7f»c per bottle, bold by all druggists. Hall's Famllv Pills are the bes* The only windows in Korean houses are pieces of glass about the size of a nickel. The next chapter of Charles A. Dana’s “Reminiscences of Men and Events of the Civil War.” now pub lishing In McClure’s Magazine, wl.l glvo Mr. Dana’s experiences and ob servations in dally life with Grant at the selge and fall of Vicksburg. It will contain more of the unpublished correspondence between himself and Mr. Stanton, and afford new light gen erally on people and Incidents. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS, We are asserting In the courts our right to the exclusive use of tho word "CASTORIA ” and • PITCHER S CASTORIA," as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannls, Massachu setts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CAS TORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-slmile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original “PITCHER S CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thl rty years. Look oarefully at the wrapper and see that It is “the kind you have always bought." and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my namo except The Centaur Company of which Chaa. H. Fletcher Is President. March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M. IX To get comfortably fitting Bhoes, buy them in the afternoon, when the exer cise of the day has spread tho feet to their largest extent. WONDERS NEVER CEASE. Salzer’s great catalogue paints four vegetable wonders, a Pig, a Peach and a Strawberry Tomato, also an Orange Vine; genuine, splendid novelties. His Golden Rind Watermelon created a tremendous sensation in 1897 and took 1,000 first prizes, selling at $1.00 apiece. His Lightning Cabbage is 18 days ahead of other seedsmen’s earliest, while his Early Peas, Radishes, To matoes, Melons, BeetB. etc., ripen weeks before their relatives. If Ion Will Send thl* Notice and SO eta. to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will get free their big cata logue (tells all about gardening) and above four vegetable wonders, w.n.o. The servants of the public sLould not be inferior to the servants of in dividuals. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean bloodunenns a clean skin. No beauty Without It. Oascnrets. Candy Cathartic deans your blond and keeps It clean, by stlrrlnjc up the lazy liver and driving all Impurities.from the body, Itcgln to-day to banish pimples, bolls, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarots.— beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfac tion guaranteed, 10c. 23c. 30c. If some men had to eat their own words they would soon die of Indiges tion. _^ Smoke Sledge Cigarettes, 30 for 5 eta. There were fewer railroads bank ruptcies In 1897 than for ten years. _'mettC «•*»« ▼▼•/▼wvvv 7ws6W"V'w^V%^w'» «f . GUARANTEED TO CURE every kind of Cough, La Grippe, Hoarseness, etc. §Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm i t «► Write us all of YOUR SYMPTOMS plainly. Our physician will Rive II Sold by FREE ADVICE, || DRUCCIST8, 68-page book of rosipes, and FREE SAMPLE. oi sent by malL PRICE, lOc and 25c. J j Address DR. B. J. KAY MEDICAL CO., (Western Office), Omaha, Neb. 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Typewriters were Invented twenty lire years ago, but in 1714 a patent was obtained for a machine that “would write print characters." The public gets less for Its money than Individuals get for theirs. Go to your grocer to-day and get a 15c. package of TO CURB A COLD IN ONE DAT. Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tablets. Alt Druggists refund the money it U falls to cure, tto . Ai-i IVMWMWWWWMWW I POTATOES IjrffHl Swd POTATO |i»w»r» In Awi-rlw. Thu “Karel Sw-Tirlfr" glm HtUrr’t Karllmt a ;lfld «f Ml biihfli per acre. Prltn dirt cheap. One Oreat KeeJ llook, II Para* Ber4 Knaplrt, VFortk $10, to pel a atari, Far 10c. and IhU notice. JOHN A. HAL7.KH 8F.KD tO., La Irnas*, ffti. W.f. EASTERN 0REG0N1 Fa At Coni Inc to th«Front .choice _ ___bargains In Crain. Hay7 Fruit and Stork Hancbws. l'e* liable Mining iiroi erty. Firnt Morteatrea netting ? i or oont. For WM. H. MARORNT, Lu (Imndc, Oregon. information addiea* nDODQV HEW DISCOVERY; M$ IP I quirk relief awl ourra wont cast*. Bond fur book of teatliiionlal* and 10 daf*' trout meat Frov. Ur. U.H.UIAKkn'sbo^. AiiaaU.4ia» W. N. U. OMAHA. NO. 4.-1898. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper.