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| BRIEF TELEGRAMS. |
Congressman Littlefield says pub
licity is the real trust remedy.
The Chinese rebellion Is spreading
and may excel In importance the Box
er uprising.
The L. 8. Smith & Bros. Typewriter
company, capitalized at $5,000,000, was
Incorporated at Albany, N. Y.
David Vandolac, widely known as a
breeder and importer of French draft
horses, died at his home at Lexing
ton, ill.
The Utah senate passed a Joint reso
lution memorializing congress to take
favorable action on the territorial om
nibus bill.
Rev. W. P. Washington, colored, has
been sentenced to an Indeterminate
term in the Chester, 111., penitentiary
for forgery.
Afro-Americans have Issued an ad
dress and appeal for the confirmation
of Dr. Crum as collector of customs at
Charlestown.
Edmund W. Pettus was nominated
as United States senator from Ala
bama by the legislature of that state,
in Joint session.
The president has nominated Nelson
E. Nelson of North Dakota to be col
lector of customs for the district of
North and 8outlvrUUu»ta. '
Judge JamjMT Fentress, for twenty
five yeaiy/connected with the legal de
partment of the Illinois Central rath
way, died at his home in Chicago.
The Minnesota senate adopted a
Joint resolution requesting the sena
tors and congressmen from Minnesota
to favor the entire removal of the tar
iff on lumber.
The Jamaican papers express de
dight. at the Bigning of the treaty be
tween the United States and Colombia
{providing for the completion of the
Manama canal.
; Miss Ophelia Odell, the older sister
bf Oovernor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.,
of New York, died at the home of her
(father In Newburgh from oedema of
the lungs, following the grip.
• The tenth anniversary of the death
tUflt
pf Phillips Brooks, who for ( An’f Pe‘
rlod was Episcopal bishop ,|g Ma8sa'
chusetts, was celebrated ii iston
*£•11*1 Impressive ceremonies i a rlnlty
phureh. cut
; Attorney General Miller 1’ given
pn opinion that the election, wa*tenry
JM. Teller as United State ^ *nator
Trom Colorado is legal and nnsjernor
jPeabody will sign the cerl •• te of
his election. t.
The name of C. Inman ntlVnard,
Paris correspondent of the l»rt^ York
Tribune, lias been added to those pre
viously announced as having received
the ranK of chevalier pf the Legion
oi Honor.
President Roosevelt has contributed
$100 to the Christian Herald’s (amine
fund for the relief of the suffering
peasantry of Finland, 400,000 of whom
are reported to be on the verge of
starvation.
• H. Cannon, who has been superin
tendent of the car service of the
Great Northern railroad for several
jyears, has resigned to accept the same
office with the Rock Island road with
headquarters at Chicago.
: The Birmingham Post says that the
Japanese government 1b about to make
a rigorous test of British, American
and Japanese built locomotives, wittl
jthe idea of placing extensive orders:
,for the class most satisfactory.
The house of representatives harj
inaugurated the experiment of hold,
Ing memorial services for deceased
members upon the Sabbath. It will b |
followed hereafter during this sessio:^
and probably will become the gen^
eral practice in the house in the fuj
ture.
Count von Ballestrom nas resigned
the presidency of the German relehs
tag In consequence of disapproval o,(
his attitude during the attempt, Jar(
uary 20, of Herr Vollmer, socialist, til
raise a debate in the house on the
charges brought against the late Heri
Krupp.
At Copenhagen there is a report te
the effect that American mining spec,
ulators have made large purchases o
iron and copper mines in northeri
Sweden and northern Norway, and tha
the great Scandinavian companies ari
likely to be incorporated in the Ameri
can copper trust.
Colonel Henry S. Osgoode, frleui
and campaign manager of James G
Blaine, died at Portland, Me. Colone
Osgoode had beeii manager for th
American Express company in tha
< ity for nearly a quarter of a centurj
He also was principal owner of th
Portland Evening Express.
County Attorney Boarilman of Mil
neapolis has brought suit for lift
thousand dollars against the McClur
Publishing company of New York Cit
for alleged libelous statements pul
llshed in the January issue of Mi
Clure's Magazine under the captioi
“The Fall and Redemption of Minni
«.poli$.”
TilE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches
of the Twenty-Eighth General
Assembly.
SENATE.
When the senate met on the 26th no
j committees were ready to report and con
sequently very little work was done. Sen
ator O’Neill of Lancaster called the atten
1 tion of the senate to the slow progress of
the committees. O’Neill’s bill to prevent
the employment of elevutor conductors
under 1§ years of age passed the commit
tee of the whole after the lengthy discus
sion. Hall of Douglas moved to amend to
make the age limit 34, but this amend
ment was lost. 8. F. 34, a Joint resolu
tion to memoralize congress to establish
■ the status of the First Nebraska militia,
passed the committee of the whole. Bills
on tirst reading included: To amend scc
, tion 3032b, chapter x, title 30, Code of
I Civil Procedure, tenants to be responsible
for reasonable dangers during the pen
dency of action. To provide for establish
ing a public road to and from lands sur
rounded or shut out from a public road in
certain cases.
In the senate on the iu'n the committee
on live stock and grazing, to which was
referred Senator Dietrich’s land leasing
bill, reported unfavorably on the bill and
recommended that It be not passed. The
committee Introduced the following Joint
resolution:
Whereas, A -Mil Is now pending in con
gress, knoWn ns S. F, 6886, Introduced by
HcinT Charles H. Dietrich, contemplating
Abe leasing of the public lands within
the state of Nebraska, as are In their
natural condition valuable only for live
stock, grazing purposes, and are not sus
ceptible of Irrigation; and,
Whereas, The congreslonal delegation of
Nebraska now In Washington has peti
tioned his excellency, Governor J. H.
Mickey, to call the attention of the legis
lature of Nebraska to this proposed na
tional legislation, and requesting that
such action be taken as will Indicate to
our senators and representatives In con
gress the wishes of the people of the state
of Nebraska; and,
Whereas, His excellency, the governor,
has presented to this body such request
with a recommendation that a Joint res
olution be adopted disclosing to our sen
ators and representatives In congress the
attitude of the people of the state of
Nebraska toward said land leasing bill;
i therefore, be It
Resolved by ilie house of representa
tives of (he state of Nebraska, That we
oppose the leasing of the public domain
In Nebraska as proposed In 3. F. 6886.
now pending In congress, for the reason
that such legislation is Inimical, In our
Judgment, to the best development of the
state by actual settlers; be It further
Resolved, That we favor and petition
congress to amend the present homestead
law so that the public lands within this
state, valuable solely for U+e stock pur
poses, and not susceptible to Irrigation,
be opened to homestead entry, allowing
each actual resident u homestead of 640
acres, Instead of 160, as now provided;
and, be It further
Resolved, That we favor the appoint
ment of a commission, ns recommended
by bis excellency, President Roosevelt,
to Investigate and report as to the quality
of said lands and the conditions that
exist In said territory.
In the senate on the 28th the following
bills were reported favorably by the com
mittees and pluced on general file: 8. F.
26, for the appointing of an Insurance
deputy. 8. F. 61, fixing fees to be paid
by foreign corporations to do business
In the state. 8. F. 34, a bill to' memorial
ize congress to establish the status of
the First Nebraska militia, was reported
favorably engrossed and later passed. 8.
F. 40, to prohibit the employment of ele
vator conductors under 18 years of age,
was reported properly engrossed and
passed. A motion was carried to allow
all senate employes pay for six days a
week except the postmaster, mall carrier
and custodian, who are allowed six and
a half days. Warner’s resolution to have
a committee of five appointed to Investi
gate the differences In rates charged by
telephone qpmpunles in different towns
carried without debate and the chair ap
pointed Warner of Dakota, Meredith of
Saunders, O’Neill of Lancaster, Glffln of
Dawson and Brown of Keyn Paha on the
committee.
me Touowing duis were piaceci on sen
atorial tile on the 29th: H. R. 60, appro
priating $4,800 to pay incidental expenses
of the legislature. It was amended to
read $28,000. S. F. 38, entitled guardians
and wards. S. F. 117, in regard to the
Dietrich land leasing bill. The rules were
suspended and the bill was placed at the
head of the list. The following bills were
reported back to the senate with the rec
! ommendatlon that they be passed: S. F.
I 25, giving villages the same right to is
sue bonds for heating and lighting pur
| poses as cities of the first and second
1 classes. To compel the placing of planks
1 on bridges and culverts before crossing
> with engines. Amended that one person
| go 1(H) yards ahead of engines on the road
to prevent accidents. Authorizing county
boards to appropriate money for county
I fairs. To provide for the appointment of
\ an insurance deputy. Fixing fees charged
insurance company and others for filing
k papers. To appropriate $4,800 for inci
dental expenses of the legislature was
\ amended to read $28,000. An act relating
. to township organization was referred
1 back to the committee. Hasty of Furnas
* introduced a resolution to have a com
" mittee of three appointed to investigate
1 the reason of the difference in taxes paid
by insurance Companies in Nebraska and
3 in Iowa.
In the senate on the 30th Secretarj
Allen to the governor announced thai
' Governor Mickey had signed S. F. 10
0 • to legalize issue of bond by cities of firs
y ! and second class. Lieutenant Governoi
i- ! McGiiton signed S. F. 33, reducing schoo
, investments to $50,000* to give school prlv
lieges of normal schools. H. R. 67. com
pelling the city council of Omaha to pur
chase Omaha water works, was read j
. third time and passed. S. F. 82, entitlei
“An act to create a food commission.”
and S. F. S3, providing penalties for adul
terating food, were recommended to be
placed on general file. Hasting’s resolu
tion to have a committee appointed to
investigate insurance companies’ taxes
was called up and adopted. Bills were
introduced: To establish a military code
for the state of Nebraska and to provide
for the organization, government and
compensation of the militia and to pro
vide for the enrollment of the unorgan
ized militia, to conform with an act of
the United States congress “to provide
the efficiency of the militia and for other
purposes.” S. F. 136, by Hastings—To pro
mote the independence of voters at pub
lic elections, to enforce the secrecy of
the ballot, to provide for the selecting
and nominating of all candidates for elec
tive offices, except candidates to be chosen
at any special election, or township or
precinct offices or members of school
boards not members of the boards of ed
ucation, by popular vote at primary elec
tions, and to provide for the manner of
so doing: to provide what qualifications
are necessary to entitle a person to vote
at such primary elections, to provide for
the placing of the names of candidates
for nomination upon the primary election
ballot of their political party and the
manner of so doing, and to provide for
the seelctlng and appointment of judges
and clerks to serve at such primary elec
tion, to provide for the notification to
candidates at such primary elections of
their nomination, and to provide the man
ner of nominating candidates for offices
to be filled at any special election and for
township and precinct offices, and to pro
vide for the order of placing tickets of
political parties upon the ballot for pub
lic elections, and to provide for the print
ing and distribution of ballots to be used
at public elections and primary elections
for nominating candidates for office to
be voted on at public election at public
expenses: to regulate the formation of
new parties and prevent in public elections
or primary elections, and to provide for
the punishment for the violation of the
same.
HOUSE.
The house, on convening on the 26th, Im
mediately took up Governor Mickey’s
message on the Dietrich land leasing bill
as the special order. After the reading of
the governor’s message the resolution sub
mitted Saturday by McAllister of Deuel
was read and a number of resolutions
on the subject Introduced. But on motion
of Sweezy of Adams, consideration of the
entire subject went over one day. The
committee on public printing reported* in
compliance with previous instructions of
tho house, that the contract for printing
house documents was let by Auditor Wes
ton, Treasurer Stueffor and Secretary of
State Marsh, as the State Printing Board,
to the State Journal company at $1.34 a
page of 500 copies, as compared with $1.18
last term, providing for the return of
bills in their order and within three days
after their delivery and a penalty of $25
for each breach of contract. The judi
ciary committee was Instructed to exam
ine the contract let by the State Print
ing Board to the State Journal company
and report as to its legality and binding
effect. H. R’s. from 116 to 119 inclusive, 1
by Gregg of Wayne, relating to schools,
were recommended for passage. IT. R. 26,
by Hathorn of Red Willow’, for the relief
of Russell F. Loomis, was also recom
mended to pass. F. 35, by Fries of Val
ley, substituted for If. R. 5, by Gregg of
Wayne, at latter’s request, reducing from
$100,000 to $50,000 the investment of normal
schools before they shall be authorized
to issue teachers’ certificates, was passed.
New bills introduced included the fol
lowing. Making it a penal offense to re
ceive, conceal or buy any horse, live stock,
mule, cow', steer, bull, heifer or calf,
of any value, or any other personal prop
erty of the value of $35 or more, which
has been stolen in another state or ter
ritory of the United States, knowing the
same to have been stolen. To provide for
the participation by the state of Nebraska
in the Louisiana Purchase exposition, for
the appointment of a state board of com
missioners by the governor; to provide for
a notification by the governor; to provide
for the reimbursement of each member
of said board, for hotel, traveling and in
cidental expenses; to provide for a state
exhibit at said exposition; to define the
duties of the board of commissioners in
relation thereto; for the payment of sal
aries to employes and for the appropria
tion of $75,000.
This resolution was introduced In the
house on the 27th:
Resolved. That all professional lobbyists
be excluded from the floor of this house,
and all that part of the capitol building
over which the house has jurisdiction;
that it is hereby made the duty of the
sergeant-at-arms and his assistants to
enforce this resolution: Provided, that
representatives of corporations may be
heard in public committee meetings upon
request the same as citizens of Nebraska
or their representatives.
Consideration was had of Governor
Mickey’s message on the Dietrich bill. A
half dozen resolutions, all opposed to the
Dietrich bill, but differing in minor de
tails. were submitted and precipitated a
long debate as to the best means of dis
posing of this matter. Finally the house
adopted the substitute of Jones of Otoe
to the McAllister resolution, openly and
simply declaring against the Dietrich bill,
without recommending the adoption of
President Roosevelt’s plan as urged by
Governor Mickey. McAllister’s resolution
provided that the president’s plan be rec
ommmended, having a commission of ex
ports appointed to investigate and report
to congress on the conditions of leasing
and fencing grazing lands. This tlnallj
and decisively settles the matter so fai
as the house is concerned. The following
were introduced: To provide for the bettei
protection of life and property by estab
lishing a board of examining engineers
, t0 inspect s^eam boilers, and providing foi
I* the licensing of persons to operate stean
♦
ators. and to provide for fines and pen
alties for violations of this act. To ex
tend the power of the mayor and council
of cities of 5,000 to 25.000 population that
they can extend the corporate limits so
as to include additional territory, and to
decrease the corporate limits by excluding
lands not laid off into lota of five acres
and less.
The Perry resolution to exclude profes
sional lobbyists from the house was alid
on tlys tabic in the house on the 28th.
There bills were passed: S. F. 10, by
Marshall, to legalize the issuance of
bonds for the establishment and main
tenance of heating and lighting systems
by villages and cities of less than 5,000
inhabitants; H. R. 67. by Gilbert of Doug
las. the Omaha water works bill; H. R.
04, by Douglas of Rock, fixing penalties
roll for carrying concealed weapons. H.
R. 4, by Nelson of Douglas, the measure
providing for a new codification of the
laws regulating negotiable Instruments to
be uniform with the laws of other states,
has created more interest in the house
than any other similar bill. Lawyers of
the house take the position thate it con
tains more legal questions than any other
bill yet introduced or likely to be in
troduced, and will affect the laws of Ne
braska in the most vital manner. It has
been referred back to the judiciary com
mittee. Among new bills introduced were:
Relating to the contracts for repairing
bridges, culverts, etc. To compel annual
statement of the condition of joint stock
legal reserve life insurance companies.
To prevent the organizing of credit guar
anty insurance companies. To provide
| for the funding of county indebtedness.
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H. R. 18, by Douglas of Rock, to entitle
county treasurers to maintain official
seals that would enable them to validate
tax titles occasioned a heated and pro
tracted debate in the house on the 29th.
The bill was placed on general file. H.
R 103, by Jones of Otoe, providing for the
election of county commissioners by an
entire vote of the county in counties not
under township organization, was vigor
ously assailed as a political measure.
Reuse of Hall insisted that it was an at
tempt on the part of cities of the class
of Nebraska City to obtain control of
the county board. Kennedy of Douglas
said that from observation he was con
vinced that regardless of the purpose, the
practical effect of this sort of bill is poli
tical, as suggested by Rouse. The com
mittee on boundaries, county seats and
township organization brought in an ad
verse report on the bill, which was voted
down, allowing the bill to go on general
tile. H. R. 32, by Koetter of Douglas,
compelling Omaha school board to buy
its own books and H. R. 42, fixing salaries
of secretary of school boards were
passed. Bills introduced for first time
were: To establish a military code for
the state of Nebraska, and to provide for
the organization, government and com
pensation of the militia, and to provide
for the enrollment of the unorganized
militia, to conform with an act of the
United States srress “To promote the
efficiency of militia and for other
purposes.” To punish the stealing of do
mestic fowls and to punish perons Re
ceiving or buying stolen domestic fows,
making the offense felony.
In the house on the 30th Speaker Mock
ctt signed H. R. 67, by Gilbert of Doug
las, the Omaha waterworks bill, which
had passed both house and senate. The
senate at this time sent in a communica
tion that it had voted' to adjourn to next
Thursday, the house concurring. The
house voted to refuse to concur in the
senate’s action. These resolutions were
introduced by Christy of Nemaha:
We, the undersigned residents, voters,
citizens, taxpayers and merchants resid
ing and doing business in Otoe county,
realizing that our present laws regard
ing exemptions are unjust and detri
mental to the merchants’ interests and
to the best interests of society, aiding
and abetting dishonest debts, forcing
merchants into bankruptcy and causing
hardship to the people by an increase of
cost in their supplies, petition your hon
orable body to amend, modify or repeal
our exemtption laws to such an extent
at least that the merchants may have
equal protection under the laws to any
other class of citizens.
Whereas, We have heard continued re
ports of extortionate telephone charges,
and as the senate has appointed a com
mittee to Investigate such charges and
1 complaints.
Therefore, I move you that the speaker
j of the house appoint a committee of three
to investigate and report on such charges
to this house.
New bills were introduced: To amend
section 13 of charter Ixxxiia of the Com
piled Statutes, entitled ‘’Soldiers and sail
ors.’’ Provides for honorable burial of
ex-soldiers and sailors by county board
at cost not exceeding $60. Authorizing
the construction on the state fair grounds
of one fish building and one public com
fort building with water closet arrange
ments, and to appropriate for such pur
pose the sum of $15,000. To provide for
the erection of a fireproof building in the
city of Lincoln to be used as a museum
and library building by the Nebraska
Historical society. Appropriates $85,000.
BILL FOR GREATER OMAHA.
Senator Howell of Douglas in the sen
ate laid the first stone in paving a way
for greater Omaha. S. F. 130, Introduced
by Senator Howell, provides for a bill for
a joint resolution to amend article x of
the constitution. The amendment offered
by the Douglas senator is as follows:
‘‘That where more than one-half of the
inhabitants of any county shall reside
within the corporate limits of some or
ganized city the legislature may by law
provide for the creation of such territory
as may be designated within said county
into one political organization to be
known as the city and county of -,
and to be governed by one set of officers,
and the outlying territory, if any there
be. of such county may by legislative act
I be attached to the adjacent county or
counties without the vote of the inhabit
ants, and to such new municipal organiz
ation the right to make its own charter
by a vote of the people within such city
may be granted and regulated by law.
Upon the division of any county undei
this provision the sections so separated
shall each pay its just proportion of the
general indebtedness, to be ascertained
and provided for, as may by law be de
termined.
Sudden Death of Sporting Editor.
NEW YORK—George Stackhouse
sporting editor of the New York Trib
une, died suddenly on Saturday.
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
It costs all the way from $1 to $10
:o spit on the sidewalk in Fremont.
The Zeller Stock Food company is
i new industry for Hooper.
Organized labor of Nebraska City
las perfected the Central Labor un
on.
Pastor Jones of Nebraska City has
•esigned and will remove to Okla
'.oma.
Farm land in Saunders county is
■eaching the highest figure known for
rears.
A telephone exchange has been es
tablished at Ord with about fifty eus
omers.
An elevator with 100,000 bushels ca
pacity is being agitated at Ellis, Gage
county.
Callaway has effected a brass band
irganization. New instruments have
oeen received.
The Central Nebraska Teachers’ as
sociation will meet in Grand Island
April 1, 2 and 3.
' Of two tramps arrested in Fairbury,
me of them proved to be a convict
‘rom Kansas, to which state he was
returned.
The only hotel in the town of West
ern was destroyed by fire a few days
ago. The owner will rebuild bigger
and better.
Mrs. Sarah Kerns of Pawnee county
celebrated her 88th birthday with
fifty-eight of her descendants seated
about the festive board.
Rudolph Wilke, aged about 2G years,
and single, was thrown from his horse
and fatally injured while returning
home from a neighbor's four miles
southeast of Crete.
The vast acreage of wheat sown in
‘erritory tributary to St. Edward the
last few years and the success in
growing this grain justifies the owner
of the flouring mill there in extend
.ng the capacity of the mill.
A team of valuable saddle horses be
longing to B. F. Hefileflnger, who re
iides a few miles south of Beatrice,
was stolen. Two saddles were also
'.aken. The theft is believed to be
the work of local talent.
Food Commissioner Bassett has had
l test made of the brands of vanilla
sold by dealers generally throughout
the state and of the tests made he
las found that three of the brands la
belled vanilla were adulterated.
A new telephone line is being con
structed from Taylor to Brewster, the
xmnty seat of Blaine county. In ad
lition to the Bell and Adamson com
panies at Taylor, there are .five lines
iperated by farmers and ranchmen
entering Taylor, thus giving the coun
y seat of Loup county communication
with the farmer as well as the outside,
world.
Senator Hasty of Furnas is very
anxious that Nebraska should get
nore money out of the insurance com
panies doing business in the state, in
the nature of taxes, and to find out
‘.he reason that Nebraska is not get-1
;ing as much as its sister states he
‘ntroduced a resolution that a com
nittee of three be appointed to in
Captain F. M. Dorrington, register
of the United States land office at Al
•iance, died last week, death being
caused by congestion, the small intes
tines becoming knotted. He was ill
only four days. Captain Dorrington
came to Nebraska in 1860 and located
where Falls City now stands. He
owned and operated the first stage line
between Lincoln and Falls City and
prominently figured in the settling of
western Nebraska.
Farm land in Saunders county
north and west of Ashland is reach
ing the highest figures known in many
years. David Wilson has sold his
farm of 240 acres in Green precinct to
Joel Miller for $19,00, or about $79.17
per acre. S. L. Will purchased a farm
of 160 acres from E. D. Laughlin for
$65 per acre. Land that would not
command $30 per acre six years ago
now sells for not less than $50, and
one farm west of town recently
brought $100 per acre.
Warden Davis of the Nebraska state
penitentiary has filed his report with
the governor. From this it is gath
ered that there are eight females—two
white and six negro—and 278 males in
prison. The total negro population is
34. There are 24 life men in the pris
on. This state has one convict for
every 3,816 of its inhabitants, and it
is confidently believed that no other
commonwealth in the union can make
so good a showing. Certainly Nebras
ua sets its immediate next door neigh
bors too fast a moral pace. Iowa has
a convict to every 1,937 inhabitants;
South Dakota has one to every 2,769;
Kansas, one to every 1,556, while Colo
rado has one man in stripes to every
1,050 of its population.
George B. Haynes, a prominent far
mer in Butler county, dropped dead
from heart disease.
Fifty trade slot machines doing bus
iness in Nebraska City must here
after pay a tax or quit their opera
tions.
Hon. .John Barsby of Fairmont has
been granted a franchise by the city
of Geneva for an independent tele
phone exchange and a good subscrip
tion list has been secured. Work will
begin as soon as all preliminaries can
be settled.
WOMEN SUFFER.
Hard to attend to daily
duties with a back that
aches like the toothache. \
A woman’s kidneys give *
her constant trouble.
Backache is the first
warning of sick kidneys,
and should never be
neglected.
Urinary disorders an
noy, embarrass and worry
womankind.
Dangerous dia
betes, dropsy and
Bright’s disease
are sure to follow
if the kidneys are neglected.
Read how to cure the kidneys and
keep them well.
Mrs. James Beck of 314 West
Whitesboro street, Rome, N. Y., says:
"I was troubled with my kidneys for
eight or nine years; had much pain in
my back; as time went on I could
hardly endure it; I could not stand ^
except for a few moments at a time; I mk
grew weak and exhausted; I could not W
even do light housework, let alone
washing and ironing; I could not stocp
or bend; my head ached severely; I
was in pain from my head down to my
heels; centering In the kidneys It was
a heavy, steady, sickening ache; I
could not rest nights, and got up morn
ings weak and tired. I thought I was
about done for, when I saw Doan’s
Kidney Pills advertised for kidney
complaints, and got them at Broughton
& Graves’ drug store. Within a week
after commencing their use,I began to
improve, and from that time on rapidly
grew better. I used five boxes in all
and was cured. I have recommended
Doan’s Kidney Pills to many others,
and my case ought to convince the
most skeptical sufferer to give them a
fair trial.”
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine, which cured Mrs. James
Beck, will be mailed on application to
any part of the United States. Ad
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists. Price,
50 cents per box.
When a chain of evidence has been x
forged by a police lynx would a pris
oner at the bar be justified in hiring
a backsmith instead of a lawyer?
Stops the Cough and
Works Off the Cold
Laxative Broruo Quinine Tablets. Price25c.
When you meet a worthless man it’s
doughnuts to fudge he can tell you
a sure cure for corns.
WHEN IOUB OKOl'KR SAYS
he does not have Defiance Starch, you
may be sure he Is afraid to keep it until
his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. De
fiance Starch is not only better than any
other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16
oz. to the package and lells for same
money as 12 oz. brands.
There is nothing like leather—not
even the paper imitations.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.—N. \V. S a n p g i.,
Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900.
Wet hoots and expected pleasures
are hard to put off.
You never hear any one complain
about ’’Defiance Starch.” There is
none to equal it in quality and quan
tity. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try It
now and save your money.
Matrimony can never be wholly a
success until hubby forgets mother’s
tooking.
SHORT H A N I) ^V\A
t>KOF. L. L. MARTIN, CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA
About the only satisfactory substi
tute for wisdom is silence.
Mrs. Winslows wootlilng Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces la*
Humiliation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
You can’t tip a waiter enough to yj
make him lose his balance.
WABASH RAILROAD
-SELL
MOBILE and return,.128.89
MKW ORLEANS and return, - #29.50
HAVANA. CUBA, and return, #68.85
The above special rates and many others with
long limits and stop-overs on sale Feb. 17th io
22nd inclusive. All Information at Wabash city
office, 1601 Farnam 8t., or adaress,
HARRY E. MOORES,
Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. Omaha, Nebr.
Single Tax in Practice.
On the coast of Vancouver island,
in British Columbia, the flourishing
town of Naniamo, with its 6,000 in
habitants has no taxes for municipal
purposes save one on land values, lev
ied alike on occupied and unoccupied
land, according to the orthodox inter
pretation of the single tax theory. The
town is a miners’ town, where the doc
trine of "three acres and a cow” is al
most universally realized, as well as
that of "every man his own house
owner.’’ For this result the easy
terms of the London syndicate which
owns the coal and land in the neigh
borhood are largely responsible.
,50.
UNION MADE M
W. L. Douglas makes and malls I
more man’s Goodyear Welt (Hand
Sowed Process) shoes than any othat
manufacturer In the world._
$25,000 REWARD
will be paid to anyone who
can disprove this statement.
Because W. L. Douglas
is the largest manufacturer
he can buy cheaper aiul
produce his shoes at a
lower cost than other con
cems, which enables hint ’
to sell shoes for $3.50 and
$3.00 equal in every
way to those sold else
where for $4 and $5.00.!
W. L. Douglas $3.50 1__ j
and $3 shoes are worn by thousands of men whe
have been paying$4 and $5,not believing thej
could get a first-class shoe for $3.50 or $3.00
lie has convinced them that the style, fit.
and wear of his $3.50 and $3.00 shoes is just
as good. Give them a trial and save money
lYotice I noreuse/1899 Sales:
in Uii«ine«»: (.1902 Sales: ^.5,0554,840,00
A gain of !ft5£,8540,4:»0.'7D in Four Years.
W. L. DOUCLAS $4.00 GILT EDCE LINE,
Worth $S.OO Compared with Other Makes.
The best imported and American leathers. Hey I'6
Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf, Calf Vici Kid. Coronc
Colt, and National Kanaaroo. Fast Color Eyelets.
Pon4ian • The «*nuine Lave W. L. DOUGLAS
bullIIUII ■ name and price etair.ped on bottom.
Shoes by mail. V>c. e.itra. J/lus. Catalog free.
W. 1.. DUIULAJI, UROULTOA, MAAS.
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