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- PLATTSMOUTIL WEEk-Jk. i ti imlHSUAY, AUGUST 20, 1888. POPULAR ERRORS. M1STAKE8 THAT ARE REPEATED FOR MANY GENERATIONS. Kiooho Manner in IVhlrh Trrni Are A p plled What I u Gopher? The rrairie Dog Fiction II uk anil Worm The 'JTore Flair Snake" Syoamorr. A volume could be written on popular errors on wientifio subjects. So few poop It observe for themselves, aud bo many accept what they hear from others, or what they read, that it is a wonder there are not more errors fixed in tho popular mind on such sub jects. One hardly knows where to begin on tho list, but attention is flrbt coiled to the loose manner in which terms, especially names, uro applied. Tuke the common gopher as an example. Tho true gopher is of a gray color, and is about tho size of a largo rat. lie has largo touches on each sido of Lis mouth in which ho carries dirt when making his burrows in the ground. Ilia front tooth stand out tho most prominently in any of tho greut family of gnawers rodentia. His tall is short and looks very much like that of a rat. In some parts of tho country a gray ground squirrel is called a gopher. In other parts a striped squirrel or prairie chipmunk is called by that name, while in Kansas, Nebraska and many parts of the west, a small marmot, which is closely allied to tho prairie dog, is called a gopher. These marmots aro quito common iu the country around this city. In most parts of the south west a skunk is called u jiolecat and a polecat is called a mink for tho western so called mink is nothing but a polecat. It took 2C0 years for tho popular belief to bo given up that beavers uso their tails for trowels. In Bomo places yet school readers can bo found that teach such nonsense. THE I'RAIIIIE DOO FICTION'. Another popular llction is that if one shoots a prairio dog his mates will rush out and carry him into one of their dens beforo it is possible to get possession of him. It is- true that such things have actually occurred. Hats havo been known to io the same thing, Imfc tho instances aro rare. Usually a coun try thr.t is inhabited by prairie dogs, or more properly by prairio marmots, has a dry, thin atmosphere. This condition deceives the hunter and causes him to shoot so far at the little creatures that iu tho larger number of cases ho misses entirely. In tho second place, these animals never stop when danger is near until they are at the mouth of a hole. Then they will stop and sit upon their haunches in such a manner that if they are shot they ore nearly sure to fall inside tho hole. Tbo prairie marmots, mentioned above, that one sees in tho country around this city, have tho same habit that of stopping at the mouth of their holes and sitting upon their haunches to look around. Another error is the calling of nearly every insect a bug. Potato beetles Juno beetles, May beetles, etc., are all called bugs, when they aro beetles. The bed bug and the chinch bug are true bugs, but nearly everything else usually called by that name belongs to the great family of beetles. A beetle opens bis mouth sidewise, whilo the bug ipeus his perpendicularly as we open ours. Worms are all regarded as worms whether they are true worms or not. Anglo or fish worms aro true types of worms. Host other wcrnis that ono sees are tho larvaj of insects, and will become imagos or perfect insects in time. The common "grub worm" becomes a May beetle. Tho large white "grub worms" that nave a bluish list down their backs be come "I'imble bugs," the true scavenger beetles. People often speak of "eight legged insects" or "ten legged insects," unmindful of the fact that an insect Las six legs, and no jnore or no less. Spiders, then, having eight legs are not insects. We speak of the time when tho "grasshoppers destroyed the crops," when wo mean that the locusts destroyed the crops, and tho insects we usually call locusts are the seventeen year cicada?. THE "HORSE HAIR S.VAKE." The "horso 'jair snake" is another common source of error. Tho creature that is usually called by that name originates and has a life history as follows: A small flesh colored niite is in water. It changes to a purplish lead color and comes to the top of tho water, where it sports for a time, and when looking across water of a still evening, especially if looking towards the setting sun, ono can see masses of theso tiny creatures that look like smoke on the water. Whn they reach this etage of development they leave the water and get out on tho leaves and grass. Here, as opportunity offers, they attach themselves to tho feet of larje insects, especially of grasshoppers, katydids, etc The legs of these insects being hollow, they cxawi up them, where they grow till they fill the legs and sometimes the cavities of the bodies of these largo insects. This accounts for the fat, clumsy condition of many of these in sects. After a rain, in which tho insects drown, the full fledged "horso hair snakes" come forth to delight the small boy and to interest the student of nature, after which they lay eggs iu the water, if it does not dry up too 6O0u, and curl around them for a time, and about the time the eggs hatch into the little fiesh colored mites first described the "snakes" die. It is not claimed that this is the history of all "horso hair snakes," but it is the true history of all that I know any thing about. Another error in the application of names is noticeable in the vegetable world. This is to the so called sycamore. The true syca more acer pst'jdo platantus grows only in England, or, at most, the British Isles. Our tree platantus occidentalis should be called buttonwood. Tho true sycamore is as worthless as buckeye or horse chestnut. Another error is held regarding the Virginia creeper ampelopsis cinque folium that grows so abundantly along our fences and in ur forests. It is a beautiful plant and per fectly harmless. It can bo trained over stone or brick walls, over windows, doors, lattices or arbors, so as to give a mcst pleasing effect ; but most people think it is poisonous. They mistake it for tho poison ivy rhus toxico dendron which also grows abundantly throughout the country. The beautiful Vir ginia creeper, or American ivy, grows plen tifully along the Missouri river bluffs and along old fence rows on tho uplands. The Virginia creeper has five leaflets on each leaf Btalk, whilo the poison ivy has three leaflets. .The creeper is a dark, rich green, and in au tumn changes to a vivid russet. The poison ivy is of a lighter green color, but changes to a maroon or magent i in autumn. It also lias many more lateral tendrils than the creeper has, and consequently sticks closer to whatever it grows upon, Edwin Walters in Bt. Louis Republic. A Very Remarkable Story. I. This remarkable tale comes from France iend do affidavit goes with it: In the forest of Esterel a man and a woman were at work iwhile their infant child, aged 6. months, lay in a cradle in front of their cottage within fclgbt. Suddenly an enormous eagle swooped idown, seized the babe and flew off. Thefa kher rushed into the hut, picked up his gun, End returning, fired at the bird, which dropped to the earth d ad, while the father, bolding out his hands, caught the infant as St fell and returned it to the cradlo without ' scratch. Kew York dun, x , . --- EFFECTS OF CITY LIFE. XacIc of Arm and Shoulder Kiercla In cetaaut Nole Shock. An English physician of distinction, Dr. Walter 1$. 1'latt, contributes to Tho Popular Science Monthly a suggestive paiier on cer tain "Injurious Influences of City Life." He confines his observations to these points: (1) The disuse of the arms for any considerable muscular exertion by the great majority of men and women. (2) The incessant noise of a large city. (J) Jarring of the brain and spinal cord by continual treading upon pave ments. Tho effect of these Influences, according to Dr. Piatt, is to undermine the stability of the nervous system and to impair the circu lation and general nutrition. These effects accumulate with each successive generation of city dwellers, and it is asserted thut there aro very few families now living in London who, with their predecessors, have resided there continuously for threo generations. In regard to the lack of arm and shoulder exercise, the doctor points out that it has an important liearing on tho general health of both men and women, since it increases tho capacity of the chest and thereby the surface of tho lung tissue, so essential to the proper purification of the blood. In the city the mass of people can only get this benefit through gymnasium work, or some form of homo exercise, like pulling weights, dumb bells or Indian clubs. The writer insists upon arm exercise as necessary to a perfect physical condition and to tho prevention of nervous irritability and consequent mental disorder. Tho injurious effect of incessant noiso as an irritant to tho nerve centers has been demonstrated by experiment, us well as con firmed by observation. A large share of this noise in tho residential portions of cities is unnecessary, and should be stopped. "The loud ringing of church bells at all hours of tho day and night, in this age, when every cno knows the hour of service, hardly recom mends the religion of goodwill to men," says the doctor. Streets of residences should be paved with asphalt; underground roads should supplant elevated structures, and all unnecessary noises of street trade and vend ing should be forbidden. To prevent the shock to the brain and spinal cord caused by tho jar of walking on brick or stone the doctor suggests an elastic rubber boot heel. In this country very little heed is paid to the nerves of the people; they are lucky to escape with their lives from tho many perils. But anything that tends to mako city life more agreeable tnd beautiful ought certainly to be encouraged. New York World. The Writer As He Writes. When you just bogiu to bo an author the sight of the blank sheet of paper gives you an appetite instead of depriving you cf it. You long to be at work and cover it with ink marks. A new writer not only enjoys writ ing, but rewriting also ; I have known authors who will copy out a piece, over and over again, until the pago appears without an erasir-o. That is not a bad thing by way of practice, and would no doubt be advocated by tho printers. But it is not likely to be kept up more than two or three years. After that the writer knows what ho is going to write before he writes it; he has learned tbo art of j utting the contents of his mind di rectly on the paper ; besides, he has not the time to make copper plate reproductions of his work. He is more apt to put it off to tho last practicable moment, and then to do it as rapidly as he can. And by and by it will bo irksomo to him to do it at all; and he will wish that fortune would present him with a year's vacation, during which he could lie on his back and do nothing. 'There is a period in the writing of every book when it seems impossible it should ever be finished. What has gone before seems bad, and what is to come is either a blank, or it promises to be worse than the beginning. An apathy, a paralysis, settles upon the worker; he wishas he had taken up butchering or liquor selling for a living. Every day that ho postpones the completion of his task it ap pears more hopeless; his mind is gloomy, his conscience oppressed; he haunts his study, bub effects no more than a ghost might; he draws pictures on scraps of paper, reads books iliac do not interest him, or even plans out work that can only be executed at somo indefinite future opportunity; at last his final moment of grace expires, and he sits down in desperation and plunges his pen into the inkstand. Tho work goes on, and theu hs wonders how he could have imagined any difficulty. The word "Finis" is written, and he experiences an uplifting of the spirit. Thackeray, according to all accounts, was subject to distressful periods of this kind; but he declares, in one of his essays, that after dishing a given book it was his custom always to begin another before going to bed in the mood of reactionary lightheadedness following upon his depression. Julian Haw thorne iu America. Driving Oat the Cattlemen. Immigration is coming with a resistless tido. Ex-Governor Routt, one of the great cattlo owners of the west, when speaking of how t;:o ranges were being so rapidly set tied, recently said: "The cow must give way to NaiK-y and the baby." The first indica tion of the coming of this great tide of im migration was manifested by cattlemen put ting up wire fences and inclosing vast areas of land. This sufficed for a time, but immi gration still continued, and then after much litigation the courts said: "Take down your wire fences." As the cattlemen occupied these great ranges for a quarter of a century before it was ever thought possible for them to have any valuo for agricultural purposes, it is not strange that they should have mad-j the determined fight they have. The plow share now glistens in the old "American Desert"' and tho old cattle trails are being turned into farms. The east can hardly realize the wonderful changes that are tak ing plnco. Within twenty-five years the buffalo, which used to roam these plains by the tons of thousands, are almost extinct. The great herds of the cattle kings took the place of the bison, but now the cattle ranges aro being turned into farms. What will be the result? The general im pression is that there will be more cattle, but with more owners. The public domain will soon all bo taken, which will necessitate the dividing and subdividing of the great herds. The result will come about in a natural way and without loss, but rather with profit. As tho grns-ing area becomes more circumscribed the greater the necessity for winter feeding and tho production of some kind of feed that will mora readily prepare stock for the marked Such feed consists of alfalfa, sorghum hay, Johnson and other varieties of farm grasses, oil cake, roots, etc., while in parts of western and southern Texas prickly pear (a species of cacti) is being largely used with cotton seed, meal or oil cake, with which it is claimed cattle may be easily fat tened. The beef from animals thus fed is said to bo of a most excellent quality and flavor. Denver Cor. Globe-Democrat. The principal foreign missionary societies of the United States send In tho aggregate $3,50C,'2.io annually for the spread of the Gos pel iu heathen lands. Great Britain through her various societies expends on missionaries HGJ9CCi ....... THE FISHERMAN'S SIGNS. HE STOUTLY IS AT ALL DENIES THAT HE SUPERSTITIOUS. Hut He Relieves That a Wet Sunday Al ways follow a Wet Friday Rati Luck To Break a Looking GlaM Other Mys terieit. "Next Sunday will be wet" "How can you tell?" "Wet Friday, wet Sunday, replied an old fisherman who was smoking a well colored meerschaum pipe and discussing a cup of strong, black coffee in an eating saloon. He was a typical fisherman. He had large, clear blue eyes, a bushy head of hair, and a hand as hard as a inarlinspike. lie stoutly denied that sailors were superstitious, and maintained that their reasonings were founded on fact and not fiction. No book for him. In spite of his denial, however, fish ermen are probably the most superstitious class of jieoplo on earth. "Just tell me something about a fisherman's life and his superstition," asked the rejiorter of the veteran. "Fishermen don't have any superstitions, sir, and if they havo they are far below those that you laud lubbers aro a prey to." "You just now mentioned one; 4 wet Friday, wet Sunday.' " "That's no superstition; that's a fact and ono you can't alter. I'vo grown old in the business, and as long as I can remember I've uover seen a wet Friday that was not fol lowed by a wet Sunday." AN CNLUCKY DAY. "Don't you think it superstitions not to go fishing on Friday? Why should you select that as being an unlucky day?" "No, I don't. Just so long as fish have lived in the water and men have taken them out. Friday has been an unlucky day for our trade. You just try it and you'll find that I'm right." "Why is it that you never allow whistling on board a fishing boat?" "Becauso, me boy, it's calling on old Nick to make his appearance, aud ho always brings wind with him." "Fishermen don't like to begin any under taking on Monday. What's the reason of that superstition?" "I told you a minute ego tkat it was not a superstition. The meaning of it is bad Moiv day, bad week." "Now, if one of your shipmates should smash a looking glass on board ship you give up all hope of getting a good haul." "Yes, sir; I never saw it fail yet, and I have seen a good many broken in my time, and just as sure as it occurred a gale came on and blew great guns, and we were compelled to run for shelter. If that failed, then we saught no fish. I've known men that had to 50 out of the business because they were ilways smashing things, and no one would sail with them. I dare say you would laugh at me if I told you that I got a good drubbing from a skipper under whom I once sailed be cause I shoved tho dory off from tho side of the ship with her head ointing to the sun." "What did that signify?" "It means simply defying the elements, and whenever you do that take my word that nothing good comes from it." 'How is it that you are so certain of your storm prediction?" SIGNS OF THE HEAVENS. "Oh, that is simple. Year in and year out we study tho signs of tho heavens, which aro very accurate. Certain stars, bright or dull, mean certain things. The wind from a given certain quarter in a certain month is almost sure to bring stormy, fair, dry or wet weather, as the case may be. The moon gives us a good deal of information; if sho fs on her back, then lookout for a storm; if her horns are well pointed then you may ex pect cool or cold weather, according to the season of tho year. If there is a large, hazy circle around the moon, then you may look out for a good rain storm or a steady rain falL Then the big and little bears give us some useful knowledge, according to the dif ferent positions they assume." "When going on a fishing trip I mean, of course, deep sea fishing how is it that you can tell exactly where to set your net or cast your lines?" ''That's as easy as smoking your pipe. You see, a rock or a bank is situated exactly by tho compass in a certain bearing 0 locality. Well, we can tell just as well without a com pass, and it is very simple. Suppose the fishing ground is ten, twenty or thirty miles from the land. We sail in the direction of it uutil wo get two headlands in one, as it were. Then we can tell to a dot how far we ore out, and consequently we know where the fishing bank is, but we sail on until one of the headlands or baijks is visible; that gives us so many miles, just as exactly as if you measured it with a tape, so that we know where we are. A high church steeple, a lighthouse or a land bluff all tend to. show the accustomed eye of a fisherman where he is." Then it isn't true that you can tell by tho water?" 4 'In some cases we can, but as a general rule our land bearings aro the niost reliable," "There is no emergency that would compel a fisherman to make any repairs on Sunday, either in tbo sail department, rigging or hull of the vessel." "Experience has taught us that Sundays must be kept. If you drive a nail in the piece of the wood of 3-our vessel on Sunday look out, for that is what we call nailing the trip. Should you mend your sails, the first wind rips them again, and if you fix or mend your rigging it will come down about your head or ears the moment you go out. I have myself had needles break in my hand when I attempted to sew on Sunday. That was when I was a youngster, and thought it would be a big thing to defy the rules," Lewiston Journal. Burning Bricks iu a Kiln, Burning bricks in a kiln seems to be a very easy matter, but if one looks into the busi ness he will find that such an impression is entirely incorrect. I have been at the busi ness twenty-five years, and I believe that I am in a position to speak intelligently on the subject. When the bricks leave the press they are taken to the kilns and piled in such a manner as to permit the heat to reach every brick. Of course, the layers near the fires are always burned harder than those on top, and it is the amount of heat that regulates tho grades. The bricks that get the most heat are 6trictly hard; further up you will find the medium, and on the top of the kilns we get the salmon, the softest grade, used for filling up between the walls. When the fires are started the greatest care must be exer cised, and If the burner who has charge of tho kiln don't understand his business, ho may ruin the bricks. Too much heat will bring about such a result just the same as an insufficient amount. The stock brick, which are formed in finer molds, are burned In different kilns from the other grades, and, as they are very hard, you can see that they must be subjected to an intense heat. Brick Burner in Globe-Democrat James Whitcomb Riley complains that tome conscienceless scribes are palming off cheap imitations of his poetry, with his name attached, upon certain gullible editors. BROOKLYN LAUNDRIES. CONVERSATION WITH "JOHN CHI NAMAN" AS TO THE BUSINESS. A Woman' Opinion on Hand Work and Steam Work Heat of the Drying Room. Visit to a Steam Laundry Mac hi 110 Work. Chancing ono day to 13 passing a Chinese laundry which had the name James L. Yu on the door, the thought suggested itself to the scribe to step in and see how tho laundry business is carried on. "Hello," 6oid the reporter, "how is busi ness?" "Oh, business no good, reople all gone to country; no make much now." "Will you tell mo how much you average of a week and how much you pay your assist ant?" "Make about $15 a week in winter, some times $'JO or (25. Pay him (his assistant) $10 a week. Then have to pay $20 a month for house, and coal and wood, light and rice, vegetables andmeat cost." "Will you let me see the back room?' "Yes, I let you see, but no stay long here now; want you go homo." Tho reporter startad back into tho kitchen, which was to hot that nobody but a China man could stand it any longer than five min utes. Thero was nothing in it but n few pans, a rac k, a table, two chairs and a redhot stove. Between the store and the kitchen, in a sort of passageway, were two bunks, very much on tho plan of stateroom berths, one over tho other. Chinamen, generally speaking, live on rice and vegetables very little meat. They eat tho rice with chop sticks, and when eating they never sit on a chair properly, but place their feet on the chair and assume a sort of doubled up position. In writing they uso a long reed with camel's hair stuck in ono end in tho shape of a brush. This instrument is called a "bid." "Do you go to Sunday school?" asked the reporter. "Yes, I go to Methodist Sunday school in Atlantic street. No burn 'Joss' stick no more, no worship him no more. Now you go home?" said ho suddenly. Walking up Fulton street the reporter came to a laundry kept by a native. Would sho give any information? "Oh, certainly; with pleasure." "Will you tell me how long you have been in thi3 business, and if it pays'?" "Well, I've been in it about three or four years now. As to its paying, I think it does. I manage to mako a good living out of it, be side giving employment to eight women, not counting two girls who stand behind the counter to do up tho clothes and wait on the customers. And it is all hand work, too." "Do you not find it very warm in the sum mer?" "Oh, yes, it is warm all the time, winter and summer, in the drying room ;" here she showed a small room in the back of the store and opening tho door, said: "This is the dry ing room. As you can see we have a stove red hot all the time, and this room is lined with sheet iron, so that there is no danger from it and all the heat remains within." "Do you think this business is injurious to health?" "Not a bit of it. It would be probable if wo had to be over that hot stove all day, but you seo I havo another stove going down in tho kitchen, and that is whero the irons aro heated. Of course, it is hot, but not nearly so hot as the drying room." ''What do you think of the steam laun dries?" "I don't think much of them, to tell the truth. I suppose it lightens the labor a good deal to havo rollers to iron with by steam, but then you'll find that the collars and cuffs and other things will eventually be worn out beforo their time by that system." "What do you think of the Chinese?" "The Chinese, is it? Well I never look at a Chinaman but what ho puts me in mind of a dried up monkey. But as for them washing and ironing any Christian's garments, I tell you if I never had anything washed I wouldn't get a Chinaman to do it Fudge, I can't bear them." The next visit was to a steam laundry. "Do you employ many hands?" "Well, between twenty and thirty, I think. And I would not be surprised but what next winter we will have to employ more, as th3 kind of work is constantly increasing. People don't care to have their white- goods done at homo. Whether it is because they are not done up nice enough for them, I don't know, but in nine cases cut of ten you will find that all the white goods find their way to tho different laundries in the city." " What do you mean by white goods'' ":ph, collars, cuffs, shirts, ladies' collars, skirts, etc. Of course, we do more of a busi ness in men's collars, culls and shirts than anything else," "In your opinion, does it injure clothes any, this steam workP' "Why, bless your heart, no? How could it Sonio people have an idea that wfe merely souse the things once or twice in the water, starch and dry them and then put them through the ironing rollers. But we don't do anything of the sort The clothes in this lanndry are thoroughly and carefully washed, and as carefully finished off before they leave our hands,'1 "How many drying rooms have you?" " Wo have only one drying room, but it contains no less than five medium sized stoves, and it extends nearly the full length of the cellar. Do you know I think we have the best drying room in the city? Why if yea put a new shirt in there, in five minuter after you put it in you can take it out bone dry." "How does hand work compave with this steam work?" "Well, I don't preten.J to know half as much as some people, but my opinion is that when a machine can lighten the labor, why I say uso tho machine by all means, no mat ter what the motive power. As for hand work, well it's all well enough in its way, but let thoso who like it do it Steam work is the thing; why, whilo a woman at the old hand work system is finishing one collar we can finish two every tinus; of course skirts have ta be done by hand." 'Do you know if the other steam laundries take in skirts?" "Well as to that I couldn't say. There is not much in them, in fact there's more bother than their worth, but then you know if a lady saj'S she want3 a thing done it has got to be done, and that's an end of it" "Can you tell me about how much you average a day or week?" "Well I would not like to tell that, but you can see for yourself that if this laundry em ploys about twenty people all summer round, and ten or fifteen more in the winter, with the fact that business is constantly improv ing, why then of course, we do take in a little money." "F. C." in Brooklyn Eagle. Eotli End II an gry. Two littlo boys were at the circus, looking at the elephant After the elder boy had given tho animal several peanuts, the little fellow cried out: "Oh, Pa, can't 1 give his other tail some peanuts, too?" The Epoch. Drunkennewsor th Lluuor Habit PoH lively Cured y Adminilriny Dr. Haineu' Golden Speci fie. It can 1) given in 11 cup of coffee or tea without tin- knowledge of the person taking it; is absolutely harmless and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is :i moderate drink er or an ulcoholie. wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken Ooldcii Specific in their coffee without their knowledge.and to-day believe they quit drinking of tlnir own free will. IT NEVKK FAILS. The system once impregnated with tin; Speci fic it becomes an utter impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist. For full particulars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., lo Race St., Cincinnati, O. 0:1-1 V While Mr. Thunnaii was delivering a speech from a car plalfom the other day, the conductor felt a tired sensation creep ing over him and started the train, right when the Old Roman was getting beau tifully eloquent over the unfortunate la boring man who swings a taxed pick axe all day in order to earn enough money to cat a taxed supper and sleep in a taxed bed. Some of the grand old statesmen have a roe key road to travel, and no mistake. Li ncol u J ourn al, A Warning. The modes of death's approach are va rious, and statistics show conclusively that more persons die from disease of the hroat and lungs thaw any other. It is probable that everyone, without excep tion, receives vast numbers of Tubercle Germs in'o the system and where these germs fall upon suitable soil they start into life and develop, at first slowly and is shown l3 a slight tickling sensation in the throat aud if allowed to continue their ravages they extend to the lungs produc ing Consumption and to the head, caus ing Catarrh. Now all this is dangerous and if allowed to continue will in time cause death. At the onset you must act with promptness; allowing a cold to go without attention is dangerous and may loose you your life. As soon ns you feel that something is wrong with your throat, lungs or nostrils, obtain a bottle of 1'os shee's German Srup. It will giye you immediate relief. For Sale. We have 150 native feeding steers for sale for cash, or on time, with approved security. Skyuoi.ijt & IIoi.mks. Enquire of C. M. Holmes, Checkered burn, Plattsinouth, Neb. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I Lucas county, ss. ' ( Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city Toledo, County and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and eyery case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of IIai.is Catakimi Cuke. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this fith day of December, a! d. 'sg. a. w. gleaso:-- (Seal) Notary TuMic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is tuken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. Z. Ciienky & Co., Toledo, Ohio. 5SoUl by Druggists, 75 cents. Wor'.h Knowing. Mr. W. II. Morgan, merchant, Lake City, Fla., was taken with a severe Cold, attended with a distressing Cough and running into consumption in its first stages. He tried many socalled popular cough remedies and steadily grew worse. Waa reduced in flesh, had difficulty in breathing and was unable to sleep. "Fin ally tried Dr. Kiug's New Discovery for Consumption and found immediate relief, and after using about a half dozen bot tles found himself well and has had no return of the disease. No other remedy can show so grand a record of cures, as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion Guaranteed to do just what is claim ed for it. Trial bottle free at F. G. Fricke & Co's Drug Store. 4 For Salo- A thorough bred, Polled Angus bull calf, enquire of Judge W. II. Newel or C. Parra 1c tf Wm. Gilmolu. BAD BLOOD. There is not one thing that puts a man or woman at such disadvantage before the w rid as a vitiated state of the blood Your ambition is gone. Your courage has failed. Your vitality has left you. Your languid step and listjess ac tion? show that you need a powerful in vigorator, one bottle of Begjjs' Rlood Purifier and Blood Maker will put new life in a worn out system, and if it does not it will cost you nothing. O. P. Smith & Co., Druggists. Base ball catchers are muzzled but dogs are- not. This is a discrimination in fa vor of dogs which should not bo tolerated. Lincoln Jounal. Itch. Prairie Mange, and Scratches of every kind cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. A pure cure and perfectly harmless. Warranted by F G Fricke & Co. druggist, Plattsinouth Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was sick, -are gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When Bhe became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria OH! MY HEAD. The pain from Neuralgia find ltn companion disease, Kheuniatinin is fxeriiciuting. Thousands who could e quickly cured are needlessly Mjf-foring- Ath-lo-plio-ros will do for other what it did for the following parties : Williamx.rt. ln . Oct. 8 flaring Imn aillicl'1 nli iioiirnlKla fur Uin pant fouryur.ra. and tryinu almimt i.vr' thiiiK lut tn ain. I liually hivinl of Atlilu i.lior.. After takiiiK ohm 1h.mI I f.iuinl tt to U hu'jmiK mu. ami aftr UJiiie f.mr tx.t. tin of Alhlophoroaaau one of I'llK I finI tbat I wa entirely wi'll. 1 tllllik tUt uieill- cine 1 ixjuitively a mim " Cikuni'ki B. UrnnirK. Mt Carml. III.. Ic 3. Ix7. I h nmxi Atlilopli'Toa "','"' ,IU''" n,, find it to lw tlie ifreateat mmlnmi" for nu ralxia in eiuittinuH. and liavirm hod Itijlaimn fanUtiind nixn me for I tio pout IHlynara I know wliurrof I Biwnk. Mub. Jui.ia l uilton. 4 J-Send tiectiU for th U-autlful colored 1c turo. " Moorish Maiden." THE A THL0PH0R0S CO. 11? Wall St. N. Y. Thoroushly clemiHo the Mood, which Is the fountain of fieallli, by unii)": lr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery, and Rood digestion, a fuir skin, tmoynnt spirits, find bodily health and viKor will be cuiuMi lied. Golden Medical Dincoverv cures all humors, from tho common idniplu, biotcli. or eruption, to tho worst Scrofula, or Mood-poison, l'.s- eeially has It proven lt cmcacy m curmW uf rl.niiin r Tetter. Ke.elilH. I'.rVBipelas. Viivnr ai ires. Hin-loint Disease. Scrofulous Sores and Kwclliii", Enlarged tilandH, Goi tre or Thick Keek, and Eatlnif tores or Ulcers. Golden Medical Discovery cures Connump tion (which is Scrofula of the LunRS), by its wonderful blood - purifying. invitroriitifKr. nud nutritive properties, if tnken In timii. For Wenk I-uiirh. Sittin- of illood. Short ness of Ilreath, ( utRirti in tho Head. Bron chitis. Severe Coughs, Asthma, and kindred nlTectionfl, it is a sovereign remedy. Jt promptly cures tho severest Coughs. For Torpid blvcr, Uillousneps. or "Liver Complaint," DyBpepfia, and indigestion, it Is an unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists, l'rico gl.UO, or six bottles for 5.00. r.ttnfQ Wrun- ah hsf jams r?i Ecstt'oiitrh Kyrup. Tuhtea tfood. Uso Krl I.. : LJ..1.1 i. . I fc-VSt jij 1 1 111 r" ur i uy in r w I bclievo Piso's Curo for Consumption rhvoi! my life. A. II. Doweli,, Kditor Enquirer, Eden ton, N. C, April 2.'5, 1887. Tho best Cough Medi cine is I'iso's Curb for Consumption. Children tako it without objection. Uy all druggists'. 25c. CUHES WHEhE ALL ELSE 1AI1S. Best Couch fjj-ru p. Taftett pood. Jso in iimo. miii ny 'iniirt'ii'' . F'"-;jrV "wanst-a ttIm ix-antlllr the hair. ' f V.1- V . 1 i-iaip 4.- VfMifnF.il i PACKER'S GiHQF.RTQmG In valuable for Cougha, Cold.), Inward Pains, ExliauKtioiv THE OLD RELIABLE. B. A. WATERMAN k SOH Wholesale and Ketail Dealer In D 1. 1 1- E Shingles, Lath, ,Sah, oors.Biinds. Can supply every demand of the trade Call aud o;et terms. Fourth street In Hear of Opera IIou.se. read II;!-; ;u;d then net - tlipv will fin1 li 1.1. V. rn'p I oyniPiit tlmt will 1101. mem iroiil Iliejr iHillic Ulid f.-iuiiiif h. '1 lu pi on i s ill1- liin.e arm su' j for cvej y Industrious peison, in:u;y have mr K and arc now making ceveial hundred do' :j rs per month, it is easy fcr anyone to ruv.ke .0 and uiitvards per Iay. win is xvih'exr l.r. w.rk Either sex, young or t.ln ; capital not m-eded -we st;-rt yen, Ki t hiin new. speeiai ability required, you, reader, can do it as well . any one. NS rite to us r.t uw-n lor full par ticulars which we mail ?re. Andrews Stli oii & Co., Portland, .Maiir.-. Sea Woiid'-rs exist in thou . and of form, but. are S'r passed by the inarveln of in vention. Those who are in need of pro.'itable work that can lie done while living at home should at c:n;p send t!mip !lilitrr.u-' II..1I....I. t T, ., , ... . .1.. .. ...,..iv.,n UlllrtlirUAI.il.. Portia!!-., Maine, and receive free full informa tion how either, nex, of all ajjes. ran earn trout j to ?'. per day and upwards w lierever they live. 011 are started free : capita! not iiee..jl h me have macie over ss in one day ai. tfifs work. AIluee:ed. nven ..in ot Will It hat can lie p erformed all 'ver ttie country without setiaratinji the woik' r lrom their homes. Pay liberal ;tnv5ont V. j ... i- . . - ? 'jm ea'i ii'j in ""in- ipiiied. cYuftal not needer X'SL rV 'started f.":e; Cut this out aniref ri; to us and we w bl si-im jou iree. Homeiiiiner ,..,. inuiortalic Mini V.I, 1.. ti. , fl...r,.,f Of tTie.ll llllMUl.lli - which will lrinK '., ' til! V',nAne-S M.t away than anytft . ? n 'VrH.ld ouuji iree. Address ' .,.,,.... M... 1 rue v".. ""I- '-' It. C. WixnnAV, Notary JOIlX A. PAVII-S", f". Public. Notary Public. ilttor' T,r,. oar e over 15an5i cf "a-s County. Plaits' jiocTir, N tKRAIKA F-9 ESS t;;iiSCai Si 1 II Lumber Yard LUM mnni v H H 1 , has re voiutiQ. li7e,i rhf! world dunr lie I I I I w""d-rsor illVpntivo I W I I progi-ec ' . method ! i V 1 1 3 1 .i I 2 ; 1. li .1
