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About Semi-weekly news-herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1895-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1899)
NEW : ADVERTISEMENTS, k-f-J.i- -wiililt -Til HAIfr BALSAM Cliwii...-. ami 1 nnliti... H o hair. 1 froiiioti n a liixiiimnt irrtit)l. . .1 INnviT FallH to HrM'.ro Jry lliitr to im YouMitiil Color. ,f- '1 JUL. Ice water wlfl rlill! tho stomach, but It will iimko you fetrl wariin-r. HIRES Rootbecr will cool thr Mood iiml nmko you really cool. It'H Urn ilrluk for wurm dHyn. TIIKOUKl.tN V. IIIIIKSIO., riill.l.l.hl, 1'a. k tinker. ,f nir. rMfnl-iiHf'l nil. fejftrry Khpmf fT Tliirtty Timtt." H.nt tnm. 11 K)rU tiStnf IVl1 ltd. and M)c arid wo will send you Oils beautiful Mandnltnu l)J express. J. J. V- HUHJUCt '-' Ciaujiun- (4 rou cn pay tins express apintour se-JM.- 1 lAIiOii'Ett price. 6.00 less tuefi'J cents, I Or CD-OU ana Pipr CUB llltOgl'B. imr n a. . . i - fue rwi it, jtrunn-n t.n 1 Irt n mcwnnil hodv. fanr.v nearl and el)onv checkered I, W Dlate,roHewKU flneeriard am! nickel tail 11 -i Mn V,..,m l...r -v. r..1. .lln.t I P1 I'll I'tiu uau iLu . 1 (4 jhiitar.HaujoorV.oUn on the same terms. (A ArtJress, A- HoBie, Oinafatt, Neb. W 1 1 vw I I In It JX iwiri xii ii,iivUi ' " ft . a JUST AS f OF OLD 9 Wc arc selling tlic best footwear on earth for the f least profit. Y Wc said I TII10 I 6 J BICST... i I 4 -I g Joseph Fclxcr, North Side Main Street. h first- NATIONAL BANK OK i'LATTS MOUTH, NKB. PAID UP CAPITAL.. - $50,000 Otfers the very best facilities tor the prompt transaction of Legitimate Banking Business. TOOKS, bonds, gold. Kovernmput :md eeourltles Doutrht mid nlii. Deposits re ceived and Interest ullownd on the certfi cutea. Drafts drawn, available In :iny part of the U. and .ill the principle towns of Europe. Collections made and promptly remitted. Highest market rice paid for tounty warrants, state and county bonds. DIRECTORS: H. N. Dovey, P. Hawksworth S. Waugh F. E. White. G. E. Dovey. Geo. E. Davey, Pres., S. Waugh. Cashier, H. N. Dovev. Asst. Cashier. Dyspepsia Cure, J 1 1 . X n hAt)-t.E--!l haul abigip.fi fjn you grease S ,; '-z the wafjoii j, '' '' wheels with. ii KiCA Axle Greasa Ly , J Oct a box and lenrn why It's tho V'5-, p; 'f I llfnl (jrvilNI tfVl.T lllt Oil 1111 IIXll. Ho lil I'ViTywIiifri), Made by V,' J- j7 . iwinoaki on. cu. 50c COCOA PURE! HEALTHFUL H It artificially digestsne ioouj nu uius Nature in strengthening : and recon itriictinethe exhausted digestive or n 1 1 iVthe latest discovered dipest gano J tonic No other preparation ant and tonic. r" "-,ripcy it in- C?D rreneviJand ra3kly cuJes gtantly r.eUVTendiLrestion, Heartburn, F. G. FRlCKf: & CO. . . . M J J .IJ. The Semi-Weekly News-Heral PUBLISHED ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS . . . IIV THE . . . NKWS rUHLISHINd COMPANY, I.I".. MAKMIA 1. 1.. Ilusirx.-Hs M;.n:.ir. DAILY KDITION. Out! Y:ir, in mlviinrtj, . . . . Sit MfttitliH Oiw VVM'k, Sinlo (')ifs, S l: Ml I - V KKKIiY KDITION. Out; Yciir, in hIvhti', . . . Six Monlh-t, (Kl r,o 10 5 oo 50 81 tup LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Cass "ounty Paper. FRIDAY, .JULY 1 'I'n K 'L'.i'.'ilt- rin- l!i.-inir tli. ir ho;);n on tl. iiiocvatW; siu'i;;:.--a in tlti-; country next. v:ir. I'mtr "ii-jiniH Mai:v KM.rx I.i:a.-i h.-is nfrtiin m)i-U')'' in'f i'i i.:r!iM'' C;, not in :i puli t i c-:i i v.i) li. t st" a !-pi ri ttitil ist . Tiik i' .y rnii.'iti'jf in whi-'h m-n arc itvi-nx f.:ti. i.-tfil to 'o to tin; 1 'hili ;;-pin-s U (ii.-c. tu- iojiiii: to tin- ricmo- Cf.ltS. li:."HN .MAI;!'.'!' llnratCb to t'il tlm rtiM:atc i i vc-l i 1 1 i no- tu mi in i 1 1 va iihout 111-' r. -count fr;nnl.- Tliis would mal.' i ii 1 -ti r it r ead i n fs. 'I n K i ta! k of moviny the army hojulqutirtcrri Iroiii Omalia to St. Louis). Omaha will in- kn a th-spTsitt lioht to prevent such a mvo nn! it is hoped she will succcoil. , In A yuiir the t . the treasury h: i (100,000 to 'JlO.t'O ..0 try's su ppi . ! I $'J75,O00,(iMl, 1 III : nation. . in iiiiit of (.'old it! .! from $ls, ' . iii! the coini i ' ;i - iitme up to '.'i-r-i held )y one What I alt-mouth should do thiti fall is to hiTd ,i street fair or corn carnival Wu did not celehrato the Fourth, ui.d now let us make up for that by holding a rousing street fair. Como on, boys! Tiik paltry sum of $20 per month id not much to steal, but when this is carried on for a number of months it counts up. However, this is only one item thut of tho rent of ex Governor Ifolci-mb'o house. Ql.l ycf ! Kldlir Koot. ti.e nowly appointed secretary .f i , :v mighty vply fiontnr iiie. oui h-. will inidoubtedly m vke a cap si lo lli r. lie is a lawyer of interna.', iot a! re ;u. lion .--nd a man well likr'! atu: p 'io.-el of t'lis srieat energy , On H .'opu ! is!, p i !o:- in th-- wes'ern pvrt of iho ato ' k'- n strong plea to its siil-- ri !;:: .-. :o 't i th il -;i.v their t r;ul i ruin -o ti hants r's ilo not snlw.r I Ixt lo . 15 ' '.-:o, i : order that poldbusri-oi! i,..li! ' :l'nvm d. 'I'his is a little the rankest proposition that has come to light. Says the Kearney Hub: "lltyan has undoubtedly got his foot in it good and plenty in taking sides be tween Harrison .and Altgold', and it doesn't matter what he may do from this time henceforth, ho will he ground between these two millstones. It will be a trifio hard on tho mill stones, but that can't be helped. " TllK president of the national asso ciation of silver clubs, George II. Keeney, tells a New York Times re porter that IJryan can not win by at tacking republicans on tho war ad ministration, or imperialism, and ex presses the opinion that free silver coinage will not bo m:id? the principal isue in the campaign next year. He declares that it will not do for Bryan to put himself against the brains and patriotism of the country, and he be lieves that Bryan is losing ground be cause of his attacks upon the adminis tration. SlXCK the Cass county fair ir da id and jrone, why would it not be a pood idea for l'iattsmouth to hold a street fair? It has been tried in other places and was entirely successful. Booths could be arranged on both North and South Sixth street and on Main street, where agricultural and other ex hibits could be displayed to excellent advantage. During the fair various kinds of amusemets could be given balloon ascensions, bicycle races, ball games, etc. The novelty of tho fair would bo sure to attract large crowds to the citv. The agreement between the local merchants and tho cigarui.ikers' union, whereby the former are to handle nothing but union m.ide cigars, has already resulted in much good to both tho union and tho town. Five addi tional cigarmakers have gone to o-k in the various factories this week and there are more positions open. This means that 8300 more a month will be paid out in salaries, which amount will be expended at homo. The cigar bus iness is one of tho loading industries in 1'lattsmouth and should bo assisted by everyone who wants to help tho town. A NKW FKATL'KK. A new feature in the Philippine op erations is tho chasing of robjer bands by our soldiers and it is not unlikely that this may develop into serious business, says the Bee. At present it is confined to tho island of Negros, whore bandits appear to bo numerous, but there 19 every reason to expect that wo shall Qnd robber bands in other islands, possibly some that will irive our 'soldiers moro trouble titan they apjear to have had with the bandits in tho Cobu mountains. Ac cording lo the reports theso have mndo no very great resistance to our troops, yet pursuit of then: has cost Borne American lives. This is a part and it may prove not an insignificant part of the tttfck of es tablishing American rule in tho Phil ippines. Tho probability is that brig andage extensively prova'ls there, es pecially in the mountainous sections, and if so its suppression will bo no easy or i ncjc pensive task., We cannot dx pect to accomplish anything with bandits by measures of conciliation. Thoy must he summarily dealt with hunted down and killed or captured. Per haps not a very large force would be rtfiuircd for this purpose, but the ex perience our tr.iops are having with robber bands in Negros indicates that this feature of our task in the Philip pines may be found exceedingly troublesome. ECHO OF THE BRYAN DINNER. . WMit. r at tti- Dollar It imitixt T -l n l'limiy Storit-H of tin- AIT.ur. One of the waiters at a popular local restaurant is a bird of passage frem tin; Bowery and was a member of the small at my that served tho famous "doll.r dinner" in New York last April. A good many stories have been toid of that memorable event, but noi.e. of them surpasses ins own in point of piciurt'&iincucHS and inside de link "It w:is tho funniest, push I was ever in ii: me life," he says, confiden tially. "The kitchen was so small they had to coon everything on the uuiside, and when it got there it wiis dead cold. The .second course was haddock, and each lirb came served in u lit en hag, so wj could put 'em in tubs of hot water and warm 'em up s.:i ? W'i-1', some of the boys got rat tled and served 'em bags and all, with egg sauce over the outside. Say, you'd of died laughing seeing then; fellers trying to carve their fish. 'This is the toughest auld haddock I iver tackled in me life,' says oho Tammany man at the h'eud tablt ; 'it's got, a skin like a rh'nocyris,' says he. In the kitchen there was a riot all night long. It was so small the waiters couMn't reach the diohers-up, and they get to scrapping for front places in the line. One man was knocked still with a turkey, and when they picked him up I thought he was dead. I did, on the level. But it wasn't blood. It was only cranberry sauce. Another II un key fell into the salad, and one of tho cooks ;ut ti can of ice cream in the oven thinking it was brown gravy for tho boef. That's on tho square just as I'm tellin' you! But the worst of all was when we come to tho wine. It was 'Mericau champagne in half pints, without ice, and of all the kicking and hollering! One fresh gent toid mo it was the only thing he. had had that, night was good and warm, and he had hardly said it when a waiter that, was a little j'gged accidentally poured about a quart of boiliu' eolToe ilow n the back r.f his neck. S iy, you ought of hea' d him cussl Between you and me, a pood many waiters pot to hit ting t h: wine, and they found one of 'em with fifteen empty bottlos in hi.- pants leg. That's honest. I S'iw it myself. It wan the hottest banquet I was over at." New Oi loans TfmeB Bemocr.at. IMOKM.Vl lON AND OPINION. The Prus'si-in government is about to stort sewing schools for the peas ants, not the f'incy noodlework school familiar in America, but glovo sewing fchools. It appears that while nearly $1,000, 000 worth of gioves are made in Breslau each year the gioves have to he sent to Austria and Beipiuru to be sewed, the German girls never having acouircd the knack. The fact that daylight and da'kuess are alike to the Rov. Mr. David, a well known northwest Missouri Bap tist minister, owing to his blindness, was responsible for a rather ur usual and somewhat amusirg situation dur ing the services conducted by him in tho Maryviilo Baptist church Sunday nigbt. Mr. D.ivid Pad but just pot started iu his discourse when the elec tric, lights m !d nly went out, leaving the congregation in total darkness. The minister, however, knew nothing of it and preached light along, his auditors remaining perfectly quiet un til the close of the sermon. T hen, fol lowir g the announcement of the hymn, the chorister rose and said: "Brother David, the lights have been out almost half an hour and we can not see to sing." And then a light, although not the one "'that failed," dawned upon the sightless orato.- and "he hurriedly pronounced the benedic tion and dismissed his congregation. Kansas City Journal. Says an exchange: "The fool killer i neglecting his business. A few weeks ago a daring athiete rode a bi cycle behind a railroad train going at a mile a minute speed. Had anything happened to the train he would have been dashed to pieces agaiust the rear car. Had the wheel broken down un der the tremendous etrain his life would have pono out in a puddle of blood. Now it is announced that an other wheelman, who lacks tho better part of courage, will ride on the top of a big smokestack 105 feet high. If he falls outside the chimney he will afTord the spectators n most thrilling sensation moro painful to them than to him. If he falls inside, tho imag ination will have to supply the details of his t ikiag oil. Vhen tho royal geographical society asked tho British government for pe cuniary aid to the proposed Anarctic expedition, the sum specified was $300, 000. Pledges for ?200,0o0 had pre v iously been secured from other sources and tho society wanted enough moro to ralso tho total to .00,noo. Tho precise amount, which tho first lord of tho treasury now promises to sock from parliament is only $2-5,000, and ovori this is is made conditional upon the so ciety raising a similar sum. Between tho pre-ent time and next winter tho society ought to have little difliculty in making up the deficiency. A very peculiar lady and a rather queer horse were referred to by an advertiser in a Sacramento paper. lie announced that a good price would be paid for "a horse for n lady of dark color, a pood trotter, and of stylish action." Tho advertiser further stipu lated that "the horso must ho young, and ha vn a long- tail about fiteen hands high." A farmer in Huron, Kan., was in trouble, and ho thus wrote to. the edi tor of tho loe-il paper: "What ails my hens? Bvery morning I find ono or more of them keeled over, to rise no moro." Tho obliging editor promptly replied: "The fowls are dead. It is an old complaint, and nothing can be done except to bury them." The number of Indians in this coun try, instead of decreasing, is said to be slowly but surely growing larger. Tho records now show I bat there are 0,000 Indians in the western states alone; mid several thousand moro dwell in oile r parts of the country. A prominent census bureau oMScial estimates that tho n:xt census will in clude upward of 300,000 aborigines. - The Men lion ites, a religious colony in Pennsylvania, whose religious con ference recently interdicted the use of tobacco in any form, do not propose to let this prohibition inteifcre with thoir worldly flairs. The farmers of the colony keep right on planting to bacco, getting around it by saying thut if their industry is so displeasing to tho Lord the tobacco will not grow. The outlook at present is for a bounti ful crop. Eighteen months ago a p- rty of thirteen took ship from Beston for Alaska They had a journey around tho Horn of 105 days, encount ;rcd a succession of frightful tropical storms and lost one man overboard. Arrived in Alaska, they found no gold to t-peak of, had the scurvy, lost fheir ship on a sandbar in Resurrection bay, and the survivors are now coming home broke. The Thirteen club ought lo welcome them back with a dinner. Comte Walsin Ksterhazy in a state ment to a Paris paper said that ho forged the bordereau in order to con vict Dreyfm at Col. Sand iicrr's com mand. The war mini-tors and leading generals know of and approved tho forgery. x A crusade bos been started in Lon don against the "Sunday-baked lo a'." It appears that there is an act of George IV making it i i legal to bake bread on Sunday in tho city .of London, though iho fact has long been ignored. The que-tion of Sunday baking is now to ho taken up iti parliament. Judge Clayton, of the Oklahoma su preme court, has rendered a deoi-dori to the effect that h'ip ale id sufliciently ir.loxieatirig to make its sale a viola tion of the prohibition law of the territory. Heretofore saloon men have been selling the, drink and dodg ing tho act which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors, but all of the joints are now to be closed. The state department has made pub lic the substance of reports just re ceivec from Commissioner D .nby and General Otis, which contradict the statemen s of the correspondents as to the condition of affairs in the Philip pines. From these it appers that the experiment of establishing municipal government for the towns in Manila and Cavite has been a great success; that a number of ports have been opened ti) trade and "a disposition to accept American soverigr.ty "is every where manifested; thut the only large force of rehtls which holds together is about 4,000 in Taiiac province and Northern Pampauija, and that "the only hope of the, insurgent leaders is in aid from the United States,"' and that this is the influence which en ables them lo hold out. Quickly cure constipation and re build ani in vigorate the entire system never grip-3 or nauseate De Witt's Little Early Risers. F. G. Fricke & Co. The Exception. Orator No, gentlemen, I tell you that if you want a thing done well yo-a must always do it yourself. Voice from the crowd How about getting your hair cut? Tit-Bits. ETld-utly, She (approvingly) And so you won her hand? He I suppose so I've been under her thumb ever since. Tit-Bits. Those w ho live on farms are liable to many accidental cuts burns and bruise, which heal rapidly when Bal lard's Snow Liniment is promptly ap plied. Price 25 and 50 cs. F. G. Fricke & Co. Germany and Nin-. The figure 9 has a peculiar connec tion with the career of the German emperor. His majesty is the ninth king of Prussia. He was horn in the fifty-ninth year of the century, entered the army in 1SC9 and completed his university career in 1879. The dates of his birth and marriage, Jan. 27 and Feb. 27. both make nine if the figures 2 and 7 are added together. 1 1 L . . . ; oliirc-p Tllwt .Nil ilil ( mi r. Him for a Druy. Washington Post: "You don't catch me ever doing anything for any girl ialn as long as I live," said tho young man with the polka dot band on hl nat. "No, slrce. I was an caRy mark once, hut I've got wise to myself now. Miss Peach went to Capo May last Thursday, n4 whn I h&rd tb wm going I tad to WbbTc la and mt ft I might ccwtb amd carry her bag IC the train. I Ws bound to make a grand stand play with her, you under stand. She said I might, and you couldn't have held me. I waa up at her house before the doors were open, and there she was with a bag the size of a trunk, all knobby and lumpy on the outside from the things she'd Jammed Into It you know how a woman packs puts five Saratogas full of things Into one small steamer trunk and gets the janitor to ait on the lid so It'll go shut. Well, that's the way Miss Peach's bag was packed, and it weighed a ton at that. I picked it up gayly it and a crate of umbrellas and para sols, and a box of candy, and a basket of fruit, and a rug and a Jacket and a bandbox and a bundle of magaztBes and a few other trifles, and we set off. When we got to the station I lugged ! prepared it tastes like tho finest cof the things into the waiting-room, and feo but is ftoo from (lU iu injurioUH iat down with the bag on my knees Pretty soon I looked down and thei was a stream of something black run ning out of It and soaking my new gray trousers. Did that girl say she was sorry? Did she say she was a llkfl that in a bag? Did she tell me I was an angel of light? No, she didn't. She just looked at me haughtily. 'Oh, Mr. Skaggs,' says she; 'there you've gond and spilled all my shoe polish, How awfully careless of you!' Never again, and you watch me. No more helping girls get out of town for me. They're all selfish brutes, girls are, and I'm a wise guy to learn it so early." THE QUICK-FIRING CRAZE. Fust Kt-HcIiiiiK the l'.iim of Absolut Absurdity. The Austrian press, including even the military Journal Reichswehr, has been giving prominence to the alleged invention of a remark a Ik' quick-firing rifle, says the London CJiobe. This truly wonderful weapon -will in the hands of a "trained soldier," emit no fewer than. 2,700 bullets an hour, or forty-five in one minute. Thus ip an engagement which lasted several hours each soldier could loose off a cartload of ammunition, if he had it at his el bow; and an army of 50,000 men mere handful of men As continental armies go would require 50,000 cart' loads with the firing line in one seri ous engagement. For a fftmpaign of invasion eaoh soldier would require to be followed by a magazine; and a shell exploding In a company would produce as many devastating explosions as there were men. If, on the other nand, eacn soldier marched with, say, his own 200 rounds, he could fire th: m all in less than fivo minutes and be left without ammunition for the rest of the. engage ment. Such considerations are. of course, extreme; but they show that the "reductio ad absurdum" of quick firing rifles is easily reached. Even now th difficulty is to get enough am munition to the firing line and to keep control of the fire. If rapidity of fire is much increased without some entire ly new method of bringing up ammu nition the occasional advantage of be ing able to pour in a deadly hall of bul lets for a minute or two will be dearly purchased at the cost of whole bri gades perhaps being rendered "hors de combat" for want of ammunition aX the beginning of a fight. What applies to rifle fire applies also to artillery; and the armies which have been in a hurry to arm themselves with so-called quick-firing artillery before the ma chinery was perfect or the ammunition problem solved may find themselves in a worse quandary than if they had re tained .heir old weapons. NOVEL MANNER. In Which the Popularity of a Telephone Hot Was Spoiled. Chicago Chronicle: No sign had ever been tacked above the door oi the county comptroller's office Inviting persons of a talkative nature to trip across the Brussels carpet and use the telephone that had been secured for the exclusive use of the occupants. But Chief Clerk McCarthy had proved of an indulgent disposition, and after a dozen or more requests had been made for the service of the wire folks forgot all about askii permission and locked themselves in the telephone room. never dreaming that men on the comp troller's staff had even occasional want for the apparatus. Mr. McCarthy did not lose his temper, but his subordi nates became very angry, and, after holding an indignation meeting re cently, resolved to put a stop to the indiscriminate use of their quarters. A hole was bored In the top of the telephone booth and a cylinder with stop attachment placed directly abova the mouthpiece. A string running from the slide in the bottom of the cylinder controlled the infernal ma chine. Flour was placed in the chimney-looking article, and upon the oc cupancy of the booth a half-quart of the white stuff was dropped on the neck of the introduer. Within half an hour there was a marked falling off in the patronage of the telephone, and before noon no one could be persdaded to use the room. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures obstinate summer cotghs and colds. "I consider it a most wonder ful medicine, quick and safe." W. W. Merton, Mayhew, Wis. F. G. Fricke & Co. Coffee Is s Heed. Many of the children do not know that coffee grains are only the seed of a fruit which is very much like a cherry. It Is very 6weet and has a good taste. When the fruit Is dried It shrivels up around the coffee grains, of which there are two in each one of the round balls, placed with the Sat eides together. Sometimes in th cheaper kinds of coffee these little dried balls are found with their two coffee grains snugly held Inside. A BOON TO MANKIND! DR-TABLER'S BUCKEYE -n mm . m L-r-ir o c III A New Discovery for the Certain Cure of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL PILES, WITHOUT PAIN. CURES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAILED. Tubes, by Mail, 75 Cents; bottles, 60 Cents. JAMES F. BALLARD, Sole Proprietor, - - 3f0 North Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. F. G. Fricke & Co. Ulvr the ClilPlreii m Itrlnk callod Grain-C). It is a delicious, ap petizing, nourishing food drink totako i tho placo of coffee. When properly properties. Grain -t) aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benofit. Costs about onc- ! fourth as much as coffee 15 and 25e. at grocers. ItuMila Knoerul.l Ml., is. The emerald mines ah n;-, liie 'I ' '.'-w river, in the Russian ; ro.nn : ol Ekaterlnoslav, are owned by the gov ernment. A peasant foui-d th'- first tine in 1839 in the roots of a tree that had been blown down. The government mined on its own account until 1M2. then leased the mines to contractors, who have lobt money on them, be caus the best emeralds lie near the surfaced Those dug up f rom a dept h j o infnrli f?ftwl wilft:l ll III vil'W .... . , , ,,, , ... nobility was measured y the number of their growing scarcity, ount ll f .. ' J i of clients who mustered In the morn hold their value well. . ...... . . . Bismarck's Iron Nerve Was tho result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous en ergy are not found where stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and tho success thoy bring, use I)r. King's New Life Pills. They develop every power of brain and body. Only 2"c at F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drug store. Largest line of cotton and rubber garden hose ever brought, lo tho city. Ebinger Hardware company. Itiirlllitnil Kouti- Half Kitten to Lincoln August 2 and !, on account of Ne braska Epvvorth assembly. Tho assembly management has ar ranged a program of rt m-irkahln in terest a program extending over a poriod of nine-, days aim comprising much that is amusing ai.d more that is instructive and edifying. Many of the best known lecturers, philoso phers, teachers, divines, and temper ance workers in the oouniry will take part. Tho assembly will be held at Lincoln park, which is wonderfully well adapted for such a purpose. Music by the famous Ilagenow Miii tarv band and tho Kentucky Colonel's quartet. Bacteria an ScuvriitTH. Bacteria are of the utmost impor tance merely as scavengers. Certain kinds have the power of breaking down the complex compounds which make up the animal and plant tissues into their simple componeut9. This process la known as decomposition or decay; and with a single tCpt!on (in thff case of the hard, woody structure of some plants, the first part of the hnge Is caused by moulds), Is en tirely caused by the activities of these ame bacteria. Were it not for this most necessary removalyOf dead mat ter, the whole surface of the eartll vould become covered, in the course f time, with the remains of dead dants and animals, undergoing hardly ny change. Ladles Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bunion-. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures swollen feet, blisters and callou- spots. Allen's Fopt-Lase is a cei tain cure for ingrowing nails, sweating, hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 2oc. Trial package free by mail. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmstead, LeRoy N. Y. F. G. Fricke & Co., druggists. Full line of Quick Meal gasoline and Blue Flame oil stoves at Eoinger Hardware Co., at reasonable prices. White's Cream Vermifuge not only effectually expels worms, but is un equalled as a tonic, and is a certain and permanent cure for chills and fever In children. Price 2o c F. G. Fricke & Co. Literary Swltr.erland. A French statistician declares that Switzerland produces annually more books than any other country in pro portion to the number of Inhabitants, namely, one to every 3.oOQ. Germany comes next with one for every 3.200; Italy with one for 3.300; France, one for 3,500; England, one for 6,500; Unit- ed States, one for 12.400. To eradicate worms from tho sys'em i give the child puin, nourishing fo d ' and White's Cream Vermifuge. The result will be, the worms will disap pear and thechild become healthy and cheerful. Price 50 eta F. (. Fricke Co. Three for $1. Laundered Percale Shirts Elson, the Clothier. The "Gut IIeil"5-cent cigar has an enviable reputation among smokers, i Union made. For sale by all dealers. Otto Wurl, Manufacturer. PILE m FS2rr" 7iPll TUBE 3Af.V CURE THE GRAFFITI AT ROME. How Illr AVhllrd Auy tho I.iri;tnic !. Here in the Forum wore the soldiers lounging In groups or advancing with measured tread among the unordered throngs, pushing all authoritatively aside and preserving order, says Alns leo'a Magazine. Here, too, gathered all those people without any oocujKition, who apixtared every week at the store houses on the Tiber for train, who fought for lottery tickets to the cir cus, who spent their nights in rickety houses in districts beyond the river, their sunny, warm days under covered porticoes and In foul eating-houses of the Kuhurra, on the Milvhan bridge, or before the "insulae" of the great, where from time to time remnants from tho tables of slaves were thrown out to them. Last of all, portions of these al ways took advantage of that custom of the Roman nobles, who desired to shine as patrons of the public, to make themselves ha ngers-on. It must be re-liicinU-ied that In those days a patron's in aim Miiuica mm on ins nr. si. niij.-ai-ance on the balcony of his house. Thereafter they lounged for the re mainder of the day in the temples and porticoes of the Forum. They whlled away the lagging hours which sepa rated them from the hoped-for invita tion to dine with their patron by scratching rude verses or coar.-se jests on the walls or pillars against which they leaned, or by tracing on the pave ments gaming tables whereon to play dice. Here, then, and In places partak ing of a similar atmosphere, were scratched those graffiti which come un rtw the first or pagan subdivision of the new science. Idd the crowd open from time to time before the litter of some famous senator or some re nowned beauty, an idler might trace the features of the o:cupaiit or write Bomp ribald remarks for his own sar castic beguilment. Did a few soldiers or loungers agree to gamble, they would trace on the stone pavement their square, marking on each side their gains or Josses. Sometimes, an In tho illustration of the gambling graffiti, the victor would herfp sarcasm upon the departing loser, a- was done in this one: "Vanquished ; get thee gone; thou knowest not how to play; give thy place to some one who does." In another place some lounger dan gling his legs comfortably over tho Bide of a temple portico, no doubt would Idly sketch things which he had Keen. What these might have been Is well illustrated by the graffiti found on the temple. Baltimore, Md., labor unions are iigilating the formation of a labor lyc um a lyeeum d ihti nctly industrial in its character, broad in its scope, ele vating in princi pleand having for its foundation tho uplifting of labor and the, general betterment of humanity in general. 5 Cents Buys a hom.-titched handkerchief of Elson. thn Clothier. American wooien mills employ .'Hi, 100 women . IT PAYS To Look Around Before you make purchanos. After you have looked elsewhere, come to us and we guarantee you will be pleased. 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