AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. Wo are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA " and “PITt HKK S CASTORIA." as our Trade Mark. I, Dr. Snmuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachu setts, was the originator of “PITCHER'S CAS TORIA," the, same that has borne and does now hear the fac-similo signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER ou every wrapper. This is the original “PITCHER'S CASTORIA" which has been used in tho homos of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look carefully at the wrapper and see that it is "the kind you have always bought." and has the signature of ChXs. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is president, March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M. D. Most men fall in love about a dozen times when they are boys, three times while they arc at college, and after that as often as they get the chance.— New York Press. For some time the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway company has been experimenting with crude oil for kindling fires in locomotives, in place of using cord wood, and the re sults obtained have been so satisfac tory that it will hereafter be used on the whole line. During the month of November, 1897, at the company’s shops, which are located at Washing ton, Ind., and Chillicothe, Ohio, 1,226 fires were started with crude oil at a cost of $17.32, or 1.41 cents per fire. To have started the same number of fires with wood the cost would have been $306.00, or 24.96 cents per fire. This represents a saving of $288.68, and is very satisfactory. A Handsome Metal Paper Cutter and Book Mark Combined. Sent free of postage under sealed cov er on receipt of ten cents in silver or stamps. The latest, best and most serviceable adjunct to every library and office. Address Geo. II. Heafford, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago, 111. Don’t look for a bankrupt at a char ity soup-liouse. That’s where his vic tims congregate. . Beauty Is Biood Beep. Clean blood means aclenn skin. Nobcauty without it. Cascarets. t'and v Cat hart ic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all Impurities from the body. Bogin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets.— beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfac tion guaranteed. 10c. 25c. 50c. Why are borrowed skates so easily broken? I Why don't they have buffet cars on j a train of disasters? Star Tobacco is the leading brand of the world, because it is the best. Why is the sole of a sled called a runner when it merely slides? Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved me large doctor bills.—C. L. Baker, 422S Re gent Sq.. Pin adelphia. Pa.. 1 lec. 8, 18i)5. Why does a gun always fail to do j good execution when it hangs fire? The city of Florence will on May 23 commemorate the four hundredth birthday of Hans Holbein. The Port ugese also will celebrate in May, with magnificent fetes, the fourth centen ary of Vasco da Gama's discovery of the cape route to India, which oc curred in 149$, exactly six years after the discovery of the new world. On June 29 there will be festivities in Ancona in honor of Leopardi, one of the greatst poets Italy has'produced, who was born there in 1798, and on August the centenary of Jules Miche let, the historian, will be celebrated by the municipal council of Paris with appropriate meetings and ban quets. Customs Cases Derided. The general appraisers of goods passing through the Custom House have made several decisions lately which, until passed upon by the Secretary of t lie Treasury, will hold good. But wlille there is stability in that quarter, no system failing in strength can tie properly sustained without the aid of llostctter.s stomach Bitters, a genial tonic and remedy for malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia, consti pation and biliousness. If an up-to-date girl is pressed to tell a man she loves him she lets him keep right on pressing. Crescent Hotel, Kurcha Springs, Ark. Opens March 1st. In heart of Ozark Mountains, climate mild and bracing, scenery wild and beautiful. Unequaled medicinal waters. Excursion rates, through sleepers, via Frisco Lino. Address Manager Crescent, Eureka Springs, or .Geo. T. Nicholson, G. P. A., Frisco Line, St. Louis, Mo. In the United States and Canada there arc 9G0.094 Odd Fellows and 837 395 Free Masons. Laplanders are swift and graceful skaters. They often skate 150 miles a day. • Mother Grayy Swo-n Cmrnerg for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething’ Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all druggists, L’5c. Sample FREE. Ad. Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The parchments of the best banjos is made of wolfskin. To Caro Constipation Forever. Take Cascarcjts Candy Cathartic. 10c or 20c. If C.C.O. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Two ounces of unmelted butter are as large as an egg of medium size. From Baby In the High Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-0 Is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired substitute for coffee. Nev er upsets the nerves or injures the di gestion. Made from pure grains It is a food In itself. Has the taste and ap pearance of the best coffee at V* frhe price. It is a genuine and scientific ar ticle and is come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. One cupful of wet or dry material is a half a pint. that kill are not distinguished by any mark or sign from coughs that fail to be fatal. Any cough neglected, may sap the strength and undermine the health until recovery is impossible. All coughs lead to lung trouble, if not stopped. Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Cures Coughs. “My little daughter was taken with a distressing congli, which for three years defied all the remedies I tried. At length on the urgent recommendation of a friend, I began to give her Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. After using one ' bottle I found to my grea. surprise that she was improving. Three bottles completely cured her.”—-.1. A. OKAY, Trav. Salesman Wrought Iron Range Co., St. Louis, Mo. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Is put up in half sixe bottles at half price « . BO cents A HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE A HOUSE*. FUL OF SHAME.” CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO The If Klondike ■ If you arc interested and wish to post yourself about the Gold Fields of the Yukon Valley, when to go and how to get there, write for a Descriptive Folder and Map of Alaska. It will be sent free upon application to T. A. GRADY, Ex cursion Manager C. 15. & Q. R. R., ei i Clark Street, Chicago. FOR 14 CENTS; Wowipb.tosrami:>G,OC’Onewcufl )»' toiuere, fiiuTheureotter _ _Pk|f. i:>Uay liadish, 10o 1 Pkg. Harljr Spring Turnip, lib 1 “ KarheKt lted Beet, lOo 1 Bismarck Cucumber, 10c \ .« #?**’? Victoria Lettuce, loo 1 * Klondyko Melon. 15c 1 u Jumbo («iant Onion, loo o " Brilliant l'lower Seeds, lie Worth $1.00, for 14 cents. Above 10 pkgs. worth §1.00, wo will mail yon free, together with our grent Plant and Seed Catalogue upon receipt of this notice and 14e. postage. We invit o your trade and know when yon once trv Salzer’s • need9 you wi! 1 no ver get a I ong w i t h - jl out them. Potatoe.HatNl.SO a a. llbl. Catalog alone &c. No. 1X7.11 8KEf» (ft., I.A CROSSE, WT9. You are constipated. We tell you what | Cascarets will do. I You buy a dollar’s i wort h—two 50c boxes, two months ; treatment, and if ! they don’t do what we say they will You Get Your Dollar Back. CANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION, is THIS SQUARE ? The world’s most meritorious laxative. So nice to eat, so gentle of action, never gripe, always effective. Sold entirely on merit. A booklet and sample free for the asking, or you can buy a box for xoc, 25c, 50c, at your I drug store. Satisfaction guaranteed. 75 ! The Sterling Remedy Co.,Chicago.Mon’real.NewYork. | NO-TO-BAC SoM an Duell, of Rochester, N. Y., entered upon his du ties as commissioner of V patents. The new com missloner will find an £ able assistant In Acting Commissioner A. P. Gree ICJT, U(U UlCie mill ill uu« ably be no Important changes at least for the present. Amongst the peculiar patents issued last week is one for a speed wagon, the box of which is shaped like a cigar, front and rear, by means of which the operator hopes to make better time. Another pecu liar device is a stocking to the bottom of which is secured a flexible slipper. Sues & Co., Omaha, have Just issued a new inventors hand book, including some 100 illustrations which may be obtained free upon application. In ventors desiring information as to the law and practice of patents should ad dress Sues & Co., registered patent lawyers, Bee Building, Omaha, Neb. If men are always juuged by their company It Is pretty tough on some men w^o are alone. Coe'a Couirh Hal«nrn Is the oldest and best It will break up & co’d qulckei than anything else. It is always reliable. Try it If a man tries to teach a pretty girl to ride a wheel he has a good, steady job. TO CURE A COLD IX ONE DAT. Take Laxative Hrnmo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money if it fails to c arc. d6o The child will laugh and cry; the youth will primp and sigh; the man will twist and lie, and all will groan and die. I I i IN A BUNCH. Bunch all the worst pains Iti a lump like this: RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, ST. JACOBS OIL SCIATICA, LUMBAGO. IT WILL CURE THEM ALL. SEPARATELY. SURELY. QUICKLY. guaranteed to cure lmufjind tln oat troulilec*. 8cmt ior proof of it* It docs not eicken or disagree with tlio stomach. .Safe /or all ages. Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm. Write us, giving nil symptoms plainly and our Physician wilt give T' It I: H AI>VIG’E, it as pa go honk of w Solti ltv I.rn ggists or sent liv mall, recipes anil a FREE SAMPLE, Price, to cents anti 23 cents. SR Address Dr. B. J. KAY MEDICAL CO., (Western Office) Omaha, Neb. IN 3 OR * YEARS AN independenceisas sured if you take up youc home in Western Canada, the land of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, giving experi ence of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced railway rates, can be had on application to Department Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to W. V. Dennett, N. Y. Life building, Omaha, Neb., Agent for Canadian Government. DR. McCREW IS THE ONI.Y SPECIALIST ) i itr A 1 b A 1.1j PRIVATE DISEASES Weakness & Disorder of MEN ONLY 20 Year*. Experience. 10 Years In (miuha. Pook free. 1‘oitsultation and Examination Free. 14th & Farnam Sts.. OMAHA, NEB. CURE YOURSELF! ■ Tie© Big tt for unnatural | disrharfres, iutiauunationg, | Irritations or uicerutions of in ii c o u s membranes. --— J’aiulesH, and not astrio* ilTHtEvANSCHEyiCALUO. g'Ut or poisonous. \ClNCiNN«TI.O.L J Sold by DragglitSi *or sent In plain wrapper, by express, prepaid, for *1.00. or 3 bottles, |2.~5. Circular nent on request Colorado for Consumptives. “ There is no better place on earth for sufferers from pulmonary trouble than the Eastern plateau of the Rocky Mountains.”—Lewis M.Iddings in Scrib ner's Magazine. Disinterested and reliable information about the various parts of Colorado can be had by addressing J. Francis, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Noli. rnrmUT niill °n an orders of 2000 sq. ft. of Ml till 111 r*IU footing or Wall and Celling Manilla. Wr te for samples and prices. The Fay 31 mill I a It voting Coiupuiiy, Camden, 3.J. MORPHINE and WHISKY HABITS. HoMKCL'KE. Hook Kit EE. Dil. J. HOFFMAN, KabcllaBldg., CHICAGO, ILL. 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