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OPERATION AVOIDED EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLEY «he Was Told That an Operation Wai Inevitable. How She Escaped It When a physician tells a woman suf fering with ovarian or womb trouble that an operation is necessary, the very thought of the knife and the operating table strikes terror to her heart, and ear hospitals are full of women coming lor ovarian or womb operations. There are cases where nn operation lathe only resource, but when one con siders the great number of eases of ovarian and womb trouble cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound after physicians have advised operations, no womun should submit to one without Best trying the Vegetable Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free. Miss Margret Merkley of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkbam: — "Low of strength, extreme nervousness ■hooting pains through the pelvic organs, (waring down paiiis and cramps compelled OM to seek medical dll vice. 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Hew York Sun; Little Bo Peep ltai lost her sheep nnd didn't know when to find them. “Did you think of looking in th butcher's under the name of sprlni lamb?” we asked. Accepting the clew, she joyfully start «d out to uncover the alias. India's cigaret trade has Increased 3 per cent, in four years. The amoun Gf cigaret tobacco imported last yea eras 2,240,300 pounds. THE MASTER OF APPLEBY; | | > ■ ■ ■ - ■: ^=rr= By Francis Lyndo. . ■ . _j ,_j < "Nay Dick; if lie thrusts me out, you must not take up my Quarrel. I know not where you learned to twirl the steel, or how, but you may be sure he I would spit you like a trussed fowl In the first bout. I have seen him kill a man who was reckoned the best short sword In my old regiment of the I Blues." "Content yourself." said my young Hotspur, gramily. “If you spare him he shall answer to me for that tiling he said of Madge Slalr; this though I know not what it was he said." I smiled at his fuming ardor, and glancing at the pair of pistols hanging from ids saddle-bow, asked if he could shoot. "Indifferent well." "Then make him challenge you and ; ( hoose your own weapon. 'Tis your I only hope, and poor enough at that, I fear. I have heard he can clip a guinea i at ten paces." From that we fell silent again, be ing but a little way from (he rendez vous, and so continued until, at a sud den turn in the road, we came in sight of a rude barricade of felled trees bar ring the way. Jennifer saw it first and pulled up short, loosing his pistols in their eases as he drew rein. '"Ware the wood!” he said sharply, and none too soon, for even as he spoke the glade at our left filled as by magic with a motley troop deploying Into the road as to surround us. "Now, who are these'.”’ I asked; "friends or foes’.’” "Foes who will hang you In your own halter strap; Jan Howart’s Tories— the same that burned the Westeotts In their cabin a fortnight since. Will your horse take that barricade, think you?” ; "Aye—standing, If need be.” "Then at them, In God’s name, j Charge!” I It needed but the word and we were | In the thick of It. I remembered my I aid field marshal’s mixlm. Von Felnden I umrlngt. ist die Kelt zu zersclimettern; i and truly, being so plentifully outnum bered, we did strike both first and hard. I A line of the ragged horsemen strung 'Itself awkwardly across the road to guard the flimsy barricade, and at Mils we charged, stirrup to stirrup, In the dash there was a scattering volley from the wood, answered instantly by the bellowlngs of Jennifer's great pistols; and then we came to steel. It was my first fleshing of the good old Andrea, and a better balanced blade l had never swung in hand-to-hand tnellay. As we closed with the half dozen defenders of the barrier, Jennifer reined aside to Rive me room to play to light and left, and in the midst of it went nigh to death because he held his hand to watch a cut and double i thrust of mine. | “Over with you!" I shouted, pricking [the man who would have mowed him I down with a great scythe handled as a : sword. j outer man a mask to cover all cmo I tion, and the plasters fin his cheek drew | the smile into a grimace that was all I but devilish. The seconds fell back, but when Jen nifer would have given the signal J stopped him. “One moment, please. Sir Francis Falconnet, you know me?” The thin-lidded eyes were veiled foi an Instant, and then he lied smoothly “Your pardon. Captain Ireton, I have not that honor.” ''Tis a small matter, but you do lie this morning as basely as you lied to Richard Coverdale nine years agone,” said I; and then I signed Jennifer to give the word. “Attention, gentlemen! On guard!" My enemy's sword leaped to meet mine, and at the same instant 1 heard another click of steel betokening that the seconds had fallen to in a bit of by-play between themselves, as was then the fashion. After that I heard nothing for a time save the sibilant whisperings of the Ferara avl the Ger man long sword, and saw nothing save the fierce eyes glaring at me out of the midst of the plaster-marred smile. Recreant though he was, I must do my adversary Justice to say that he was a skillful master of fence, agile as a French dancer, and withal well breathed and persevering. Twice, nay. thrice, before I found my advantage he had pricked me lightly with that extra inch of slender point. Rut when I had fairly felt his wrist I knew that his heavier weapon would shortly prove his undoing; knew that the quick parry and lightning-like thrust would pres ently lag a little, and then I should have him. Something of this prophecy of tri umph he must have read in my eyes, for on the instant he was up and on me like a madman, and I had my work well cut out to hold him at the blade's lengtii. I was so holding him; was, in my turn, beginning to press him slow ly, when there came a drumming of hoofbents on the soft turf, and then a woman's cry. I looked aside, and to my dying day I shall swear that my antagonist did likewise. What I saw was Mistress Margery Stair riding down upon us at A hand-gallop, and I lowered my point, as any gentleman would. In the very act—’twas while Jennifer was clutching at her bridle rein to stay' her from riding fair between us—I felt the hot-wire prick of the steel In my shoulder and I knew that my enemy had run me through as I stood. Of what befell afterward I have but dim memories. There were more lioof tramplings, and then I felt the dewy turf under my hands and soft Ungers tremblingly busy at my neckerchief. Then I saw swimmingly, as through a veil of mist, a woman’s face just above my own; and it was full of horror; and I heard my enemy say; “'Twas most unfortunate and 1 do heartily re gret it, Mr. Jennifer. I saw not why he had lowered his point. Can I say more?” How Richard Jennifer made answer to this lie 1 knew not; nor do I know aught else, save by hearsay, of any further happening in that grassy glade beneath my father's oaks. For the big German blade was a shrewd blood letter, and I fell asleep what time my lady was trying to stanch with her ker chief the ebbing tide of life. ! lug leap, straining themselves for the ! race beyond. When we had pulled them down to a foot pace we were safely out of rifle shot and there was apace to count the cost. There was no cost worth counting. A saddle horn bullet-shattered for me, and the back of Jennifer’s sword hand scored lightly across by another of the random missiles summed up our woundings. Dick whipped out his ker chief to twist about the scored bund, while I glanced back to see if any Tory cared to follow. "Lord, Jack! I owe you one to keep ind one to pay back,” quoth my young ster, warmly. "I never saw a swords man till this day!" "Mere tricks, Dick, my lad; I have had fifteen years In which to learn them. And these were but country yokels armed with farming tools. The two with swords had little wit to use them.” S "Oh, come!" said he. "I knhw a pret ty bit of sword play when I see it. If we come whole out of this adventure with the baronet you shall teach me Borne of these ’mhre tricks' of yours." I I promised, glancing back toward the dust-veiled barrier in the distance. "Dick, you passed this way an hour »go; was that breastwork in the road then ?" I "Not a stick of it.” “Then we may dare say our volun teer captain fights unwillingly." I “How so?” he demanded, being much too straightforward himself to sispect duplicity In others. ! " Tis plain enough. This was a trap, meant to-stop or delay us. and I'll wager high it was the baronet who set and baited it. It would please him well to be able to say what our failure to come would give him warrant for. Let us gallop a bit, lest we be late and bo play into his hand.” Jennifer smiled grimly and gave his horse the rein. "1 think you’d charge the Fall of,Man to him if that would give you better leave to kill him. I'd hate to own you for my enemy, John ireton." | For all our swift speeding we were yet a little late at the rendezvous un der the tall oaks. When we came on the ground the baronet was walking up and down arm in arm with his second, I a broad-shouldered young Britou, fait ' of skin and ruddy of face. | If Falconnet had set the Tory trap for us he veiled his disappointment at Its failure. His face, dark and inscrut able as it always was, was made more sinister by the plasters knitting up his broken cheek, but I was right glad tc make sure that my blow had spared his eyes. Richly as he deserved his fate l thought It would be ill to think or afterward that I had had him at a dis advantage of my own making. There was little time wasted in th< preliminaries. When Falconnet saw us he dropped his second’s arm and be gan to make ready. I gave my swore to Jennifer, and the seconds went apar together. There was some measuring and balancing of weapons, and thei Richard cume back. I "The baronet’s sword Is a good incl longer thun yours in the blade, and h somewhat heavier. Tybee has brough a pair of French short swords whicl he offers. Will you change you; , terms?" i "No; I am content to fight with m; ! own weapon." Jennifer nodded. “So I told him.' 'And then: "There was no surgeon tc i be had in tow n, Dr. Carew having gon , I with the minute men to join Mr. Ru (herford. Tybee says ’tis scarce in at l cordance with the later ruling to ligh without one.” "To the devil with their hairsplit tings!" said I. "Let us have done witl them and be at it.” Falconnet was removing his coal 1 and I stripped mine. The seconds chos ' the ground where the turf was shot and firm, and yet yielding enough t ! give good footing. We faced each oth • er, my antagonist baring an arm whicl despite the bejeweled hand, was to th ' full as big-muscled as my own. M glance went from his weapon, a rathe heavy German blade, straight and slen • der-pointed. to his face. He was smll J (lng a* one who strives to make th l CllArTUK IV. WHICH MAY BE PASSED OVER LIGHTLY. When I came back to some clearer sensing of things, I found myself abed In a room which was strange and yet strangely familiar. Barring a great oaken clothes press In one corner, a raree show of curious china on the shelves where the books should have been, and the face of an armored sol dier staring down at me from Its frame over the chlmneypiece, where I should have looked to see my mother’s por trait, the room was a counterpart of my old bedchamber at Appleby Hundred. There was even a faint odor of lavender in the bed linen; and the sense of smell, which hath ever a better memory than any other, carried me swiftly back to rny boyhood, and to the remembrance that my mother had always kept a spray or two of that sweet herb In her linen closet. At the bedside there was claw-footed table, which also had the look of an old friend; and on It a dainty porringer, filled with cuttings of fragrant sweet briar. This was some womanly con ceit, 1 said to myself; and then I laughed, though the laugh set a pair of wolf’s jaws at work on my shoulder. For you must know that I had lived the full half of King David's span of three-score and ten years, and more, and what womanly softness had fallen to my lot had been well got and paid for. I closed my eyes the better to remem ber what bad befallen, and when 1 opened them again was fain to wonder If the moment of back-reaching stood not for some longer time. In the deep bay of the window was a great chaii of Indian wickerwork, and 1 could have sworn it had but now been empty. Yet when 1 looked again a woman sat In It. Now of a truth I had seen this wom an's face but twice and once it wore a smile of teasing mockery and once was full of terror; but 1 thought I should live long and suffer much before the winsome challenging beauty of It would let me be as I had been before I had looked upon it. She knew not that I was awake anc slaking the thirst of my eyes upon the sweetness of her, and so I saw her.ther • as few ever saw her, I think, with the womanly barriers of defense all down 'Tis a hard test, and one that makes £ blank of many a face beautiful enougl : In action; but though this lady's face was to the full as changeful as an; April sky, it was never less than tri umphantly beautiful. , I had sale! her eyes were blue, bu | now they were deep wells reflecting thi soft gray of the clouded sky beyond th< ■ window panes. [ had made sure tha her lips lent themselves most readily t( • mocking smiles scornful of any wit les trenchant than her own; but now thesi ■ mocking lips were pensive, and witl i the rounded cheek and chin gave he . the look of a sweet child wanting to b kissed. I had said her hair was brigh in the sunlight, and so, indee^ It was t but lacking the sun it still held the dul luster of burnished copper In Us masse - and her simple, care-free dressing o i it at a time when les grandes dame were frizzing and powdering and add , ing art to art to mar the woman' ? crown of glory, gave her yet more tli t look of a child. > Lastly, I had called her small, an - certainly her figure was girlish besld , those grenadier dames of Mari e Theresa's court to whom my old field f marshal had once presented me. Be r when she rose and went to stund In th - window-bay I marked this; that nc - any duchess or margravine of them a e had a more queenly bearing, or, wit all their stays and furbelows, could match her supple grace and lissom fig* ure. What with th“ blood-lettings and the wound fever, coupled with the subtle witchery of her presence thus In my sick room, it Is little to be wondered at that a curious madness came over me, or that I forgot for the moment the loyalty due to my dear lady. Could I have stood before her and, reading but half consent in the deep welled ! eyes, have dipt her In my arms and laid my lips to hers, I would have run to pay the prife, in earth or heaven or I hell, I thought, deeming the fierce joy I of it well worth any penalty, i At this I should have stirred, I sup I pose, for she came quickly and stood beside me. j “You have slept long and well, Cup 1 tain Ireton.’’ she said: and in all the thrilling joy of her nearer presence I found space to mark that her voice had I In it that sweet quality of sympathy I which is all womanly. "They say I am good only to fetch and carry—may I j fetch you anything?” I fear the madness of the moment | must still have been upon me, for I said: “Since you are here yourself, | dear lady, I need naught else.” | At a flash I had my whipping in a [ low dipped curtsy and a mocking smile like that she had flung to Falconnet. ’’Mercl! mon Capitaine,” she said; and for all my winclngs under the sharp lash of her sarcasm I was moved to wonder how she had the French of • It. And then she added: “Is it the custom for her Apostolic Majesty’s offi cers to come out of a death-wound only to pay pretty compliments?" " ’Twas no compliment,” I denied; and, indeed, I meant it. Then I asked where I was, and to whom Indebted, though I had long since guessed the answer to both questions. In a trice the mocking mood was gone i and she became my lady hostess, steeped to her Anger tips in gracious dignity. aic nuuuiru, is:i . 'Twas here they fetched you because there was no other house so near, and you were sorely hurt. Richard Jenni fer and my black boy made a litter of the saddle cloths, and with Sir Fran cis and Mr. Tybee to help—” I think she must have seen that this thrust was sharper than that of the CJerman long-sword, for she stopped in mid sentence and looked away from me. And, surely, I thought It was the very irony of fate that I should thus be brought half dead to the house that was my father’s, with my enemy and his second to share the burden of me. "But your father?" I queried, when the silence had grown over long. “My father Is away at Queensbor ough. so you must e'en trust yourself to my tender mercies, Captain Ireton. Are you strong enough to have your wound dressed?” She asked, but waited for no answer of mine. Summoning a black boy to hold the basin of water, she fell to upon the wound-dressing with as little ado as if she had been a surgeon's appren tice on a battle field, and I a bloodless ancient too old to thrill at the touch of a woman's hands. "Dear heart! 'tis a monstrous ugly hurt," she declared, replacing the wrap pings with deft fingers. “How came you to go about picking a quarrel with Sir Francis?” “ 'Twas not of my seeking,” I re turned, and then I could have cursed my foolish tongue. "Is that generous, Captain Ireton? We hear something of the talk of the town, and that says—" "That says I struck him without suf ficient cause. I am content to let it stand so.” “Nay, but you should not be content. Is there not strife enough in this un happy land without these causeless bickerings?" Here was my lady turned preacher all in a breath and I with no words to answer her. But I could not let it go thus. “I knew Sir Francis Falconnet in Kngland,” said I, hoping to turn her safe aside. “Ah; then there was a cause. Tell It me.” "Nay. that I may not.” Though she was hurting me sorely In the wound-dressing, and knew it, she laughed. " 'Tis most ungallant to deny a lady, sir. But I shall know without the tell ing: 'twas about a woman. Tell me, Captain Ireton, is she fair?” Seeing that her mood had changed again, 1 tried to give her quip for Jest; but what with the pain of the sword thrust and the sweet agony of her touches I could only set my teeth against a groan. She went on drawing the bandageings, little heedful how she racked me. I thought; and yet when all was done she stood beside me all of a tremble, as any tender-hearted woman might. "There,” she said: '"tis over for a time, and 1 make no doubt you are glad enough. Now you have nothing to do save to lie quiet till it heals." “And how long will that be, think you?” "We shall see; a long time, I hope. You shall be punished properly for your hot temper, 1 promise you, Cap tain Ireton." (Continued Next Week.) Not a Speculator. Brooklyn Bugle: “Pa," said the specu lator's son, “1 want some money for a little speculation.” “I am pleased my boy," returned the father, as he lished a 15 bill from his pocket, "to see that you are taking an Interest In the business affairs of life. Now, 1 won't ask you what this specula tion is, but I will go halves with you on It. I will furnish the money and you en gineer the business, and we will go halves on the profits. Of course, if there are none 1 lose my money and you your time. “All right, pa. I’ll make the Investment today and report progress tomorrow." The next evening, when the father re turned home, he inquired about the “deal.” “Swamped!" was the sententious remark of the youth. “Swamped"’ exclaimed the old man, in surprise. "Yes, swamped," replied the boy. "Nev er saw such a decline in stocks In my life. Shrunk clear out of sight. It was a good investment yesterday—goods worth their face value then—but today you couldn’t give them away.” "But for heaven's sake, George, what did you Invest in?" “Theater tickets for last night’s per formance.” 1 The old man thought very hard for a ' time, and then expressed himself to the ! effect that the boy was fitted for a con 1 ttdenee operator rather than a speculator. New Literary Style. t | New York Times: Mr. Munkittrick, the ; ' editor of Judge, tells a good story of one 1 i of his neighbors out in the wilds of New c i Jersey. ‘ The said neighbor, w hile In a t j preparatory school, concluded he would 3 one day startle the world with his lofty - literary style. 3 Having devoured many works of rhet 3 orle, he finally landed in Harvard, where he determined to begin with his "start I ling” tactics. He prepared, at great e length, an essay that he says he eonsld j, ered a masterpiece of sublime and lofty - style. When it came back he was quite t astonished to find the following briet h, criticism written across its face in larg< t blue pencil letters: 1 "Don’t you think you took a pretty h I long run for so short a sllda!” Boken off Short. Even an extraordinarily good busi ness woman makes a poor silent part ner. A friend in need Is one that is mos1 likely to make a touch. You can never tell what Is in a man or a cigar until you test them. If your joke lacks a point, there is no danger that anyone will get much stuck on it. A man may avoid a lot of hard work by frankly admitting that he is lazy. A fish diet strengthens the brain. That may be why the imagination ol a man just returning from a fishing trip is so remarkably invigorated. There are about a dozen lieutenants of idleness to one captain of in dustry. A man may smile when he sees his wife wearing a new bonnet, but the smile will come off when ho sees the Dili.—Chicago Tribune. In Cramped Quarters. New York Times: “Funny dog you have there. His tail goes up and down like a pump handle when he wags it.” “Yes, I live in a Harlem flat, you know, and Carlo has no room to wag his tail from side to side." A Wonderful Discovery. Broadlands, S. D., April 17.—Quite a sensation has been created here by the publication of the story of G. W. Gray, who after a special treatment lor three months was prostrate and helpless and given up to die with Bright's disease. Bright's disease has always been considered incurable, hut evidently from the story told by Mr. Gray, there is a remedy which will cure it, even in the most advanced stages. This is what he says: “I was helpless as a little babe. My w-ife and I searched everything and read everything we could find about Bright's disease, hoping that 1 would he able to find a remedy. After many failures my wife insisted that I should try Dodd's Kidney Pills. I praise God for the day when I decided to do so. for this remedy met every phase of my case and in a short time I was able to get out of bed and after a few weeks' treatment I was a strong, well man. Dodd's Kidney Pills saved my life." A remedy that will cure Bright's dis ease will, cure any lesser Kidney dis ease. Dodd’s Kidney Pills are certain ly the most wonderful discovery which modern medical research has given to the world. A Qnarrv nnvcccv How Maxim Gorky's Work Reflects the Life He Has Lived. ‘‘Maxim Gorky,” by Christian Brinton, in Everybody’s Magazine for April: Tt Is Impossible not to feel that the bitter pri vations of the forlorn and shabby Odys sey that Maxim Gorky has been—the ceaseless heartache and bodily anguish wore precisely those factors which con tributed most to his development. The young man wVio blundered Into the oftice of the Tiflis Kavkaz in soiled smock and mud-stained boots knew little of literature, but a vast deal of life. During all those years of hopeless, baffled effort, when he trrmped over the sun-scorched or snow driven expanse of Russia he had beer studying human nature at first hand. II was not merely observation, but experi ence, for he himself knew the blackest misery and despair. On one occasion he evon tried suicide, but was unwillingly nursed back to life on a crude hospital cot in Kazan. The bits of color and ol character which caught his eye or burned themselves into his brain formed the raw material of each story, each sketch that now flowed so freely from his pen. In its outward traits, Gorky’s work is a re flex, a record of the life he has lived. Within it is a passionate protest against the conditions, social and economic, ot his native land. Because only the strong can exist among such rigorous surround ings he almost defies strength—sheer brute force and cunning. The relentless creat 'jres who surge through his stormy, tor ured pages arc invariably rebels. They <11 show the savage hatred, the implacable jony of the dethroned. They are out casts and are the enemies of those who lave east them out. You may call this ndividualism, you may call it anarchy, tut whatever it is, it appeals powerfully o the Russian masses. They have long been looking for their savior, their strong man: he has not yet come, though he seems at times on the way. He Hated It. Life: Hotel Clerk—We have only- one room left, sir, and tho bed is only- big enough for one. "Well, I subboso we'll haf to dako it. But I hale to liaf my wife sleeb on der floor.” Accepts New Position. J. Edgar Mills, formerly manager of the Pelletier Dry- Goods company, has accepted a similar position with the T. S. Martin company, Sioux City’s old est dry goods house, where he will be pleased to meet his customers and friends. HONEST CONFESSION. A Doctor'* Talk on Food. There are no fairer set of men or earth than the doctors, and when thej find they have been in error they art usually apt to make honest and manlj confession of the fact. A case In point is that of an emi nent practitioner, one of the good ole school, who lives in Texas. His plain unvarnished tale needs no dressing up ‘ I had always had nn intense preju dice, which I can now see was unwur ntntable and unreasonable, against a! muchly advertised foods. Hence, 1 never read a line of the many ‘ads.’ ol Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food til last winter. "While in Corpus Christi for nn health, and visiting my youngest son who has four of the ruddiest, health! est little boys I ever saw. I ate in,\ first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup per with my little grandsons. I be came exceedingly fond of it and havt eaten a package of it every week since and find it a delicious, refreshing am 1 strengthening food, leaving no ill ef ! l’eets whatever, causing no eructation i (with which I was formerly much tron | bled), no sense of fullness, nausea, noi j distress of stomach in any way. "There is no other food that agree. with me so well, or sits as lightly oi pleasantly upon my stomach as thi: does. 1 am stronger and more aetivt since I began the use of Grapo-Nub than I have been for ten years, and a:i no longer troubled with nausea and in digestion.’’ Name given by l'ostui: Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. l,oo^ in each pkg, for the famo little book, "The Road to WeMville.’’ BEEF TRUST DETECTIVE SYSTEM How Efforts of Chief of Bureau of Cor poration Were Foiled. "On February 18, 190.1. tbe federal court at Chicago enjoined the beef trust from doing certain things," says Charles E. Russell in Everybody's1 April .instalment of "The Greatest Trust in „,Jhei World." "Every day since then it has done tha identical things it was enjoined from do ing. From time to time spasmodic efforts are made to discover why a federal court Injunction, binding on everybody else, is not binding on the beef trust. The de mands for an investigation .wereAparticu larly urgent at the time of the stock yards strike last summer Cabout which 1 shall have a little st,ory to tel! hereafter*, and in August Mr. Garfield, chfeffot'the bureau of corporations at Washington,, sent some of his men to Chicago to collect the neces sary evidence of tho law-breaking. Ample warning was sent from Washington, I do not know by whom, and when Mr. Gar deni's men arrived in Chicago they were met by trust detectives who never let the Washington men out of their sight by day or night. The course of the investi gation led naturally into the railroad of fices. Whenever one of Mr. Garfield’s agents entered such a place he was fol lowed within twenty-four hours by a con fidential representative of the trust, who said to the railroad officer: " ‘One Of Garfield’s men was in hero yesterday. What did you tell him? Did you toll him anything about our arrange ments?’ "These questions wore not put lightly, but with a menance of tone that conveyed to the railroad man what he might expect If he were indiscreet. Naturally enough Mr. Garfield gleaned no information from the railroads." The meeting of the suffrage club was on In earnest. "How can we keep men at a dis tance?" screamed the woman in the* derby hat. "By wearing crinoline," responded the one in the raglan. RESTORED HIS HAIR. Scalp Humor Cured hy Cuticura Soap and Ointment After AH Klee Hail Failed. “I was troubled with a severe scalp humor and loss of hair that gave m^ a great deal of annoyance and incon venience. A.frer .unsuccessful- efforts with many remedies and SQ-caHed hair tonics, a friend induced me to try Cu tlcura Soap and Ointment. The hu mor was cured in a short time, my hair was restored as healthy as ever, and I can gladly say I have since been entirely free from any further annoy ance. I shall always use Cuticftra Soap, and 1 keep the Ointment on hand to use as a dressing for the hair and scalp. (Signed) Fred’k Busehe, 213 East 57th St., New York City.” Cruel Fate. Ernestine—How did your automobile elopement turn out? Myrtilla—Awfully sad. Ernestine—How was that? Myrtilla—Why, Harry had only $1!) when we started and after some rural sheriff find him the fuii amount for fast riding- he didn’t have any left for the license or preacher. State or Ohio. City of Toledo, t Lucas County, (**• Frank ,1. Cheney makes oatti ttiat he is the senior partner of the firm of F. ,1. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City cJ Toledo. County ami State aforesaid, and thabsatd firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catahrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my prae enee. this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. j ~ T i A. W. GLEASON, j SEAL j Notary Publio. Hall's Catarrh Cur© Is taken Internally and act* directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of th* system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. (X Sold by Druggists. 76c. Hall's Family Pill* are the best. A Big Collector. Public Ledger: The South and Central American republics owe about. $1,000,000.«XX) to European creditors. If Uncle Sam is to collect and guarantee that debt he will b* the greatest collector and guarantor lit history. Many School Children Are Sickly. 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President Knapp of the Commission states that since this law was passed, rebate paying has been as rare as forgery. Would Snock Him. “Oh, dear, dear! How shocked and grieved your poor father would be to se« you two naughty boys smoking like this at your age!” “Rather! These are his most expensive cigars!'’ Doesn’t Think So. Washington Star: “Some day you may be president of the United States,” said the patronizing person. "I hardly think so.” answered the small boy with spectacles. “My parents would never consent to my standing out of doors on a March day to be in augurated.'’ SIGH HEADAGHI Positively cured by these liittie Pills. They also relieve Dis tress from Dyspepsia, In digestion and Too Hearty Eating. A perfect rem edy for Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Had TastH In the Mouth, Coaled Tongue, Pain In the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE, SHALL PRICE. ICARTFRSl Genuine Must Bear Iittle Fac-Simile Signature POls! Mi—I REFUSE SlIBSTrTUTES.