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Ttie Piattsmooth Journal G- B. MANX, W. li. FOX, Publishers. PLATTSMOUTH, - NEBRASKA Mr. McGovern, like almost all the: est of the great men, didn't quit soon nough. Qneen Wilhelmlna says it was only little spat, and Duke Henry's pawn- Ickets are again hopeful. The crown prince of Servia goes hrougb the streets, whip in band, and brashes all who refuse to lore him. The good will of the United States in such general demand abroad that he European nations may yet quarrel ver it. A company has been formed in Eng and to build flying machines for the rade. Prussic acid, however, is :heaper. First. Sir Thomas Liptoa thought he rouldn't. and now he thinks he will, t is bard to keep a true sport out of he game. King Edward ought not to object to eing anointed at the time of the cor mation exercises. It will do his rbeu natism good. It is not true that Queen Willie Is .hinkicg of coming over and taking up ler residence in Dakota with a view to jetting a divorce. There is talk of sending Aguinaldo to is country to keep him out of temp .ation. It seems hard to break him of .he Insurrection habit. In opposition to the clergymen who ately stigmatized drummers as a god .fss class. Booth-Tucker praises the Irum as a means to salvation. If throwing things at the Monroe 'octrine is a source of pleasure some it the European editors must be jnitn,; the happiest people living. A western judge has decided that ?auage isn't sausage unless It is in links. We may yet have to admit that the color of the hair makes the Jog. London is said to be in the throes of fashionable rage for red. Perhaps that is the reason an American has been chosen to paint the coronation scenery. According to the testimony of Dr. Ortman. curator of invertebrate pale ontology In Princeton university, the lontinents are not living where they csed to live. A peculiar condition exists in respect to the South African war. The Hague ro-rt of arbitration refuses to inter vene, an 3 tte Britons and Boers are cratle :o finish it. The reasons which actuated the Co lombian rebels in evacuating Colon are Z.C. entitled to so much confidence as woull have been the case had tbey not toll them to our marines. The persons who are arranging tc construct a log house on the Kansas reservation at the World's Fair evi dently want something that will be a novelty to the Kansans. Now that the fame of New Jersey's mosquitoes has been wiped out the state has nothing left to make it fa mous but its applejack and the swift course of its judicial processes. There are some new things under the fun. and one of them is stopping a bat tle until railway trains can pass. Per haps the isthmian combatants welcome the locomotive whistle when things get too hot. The example of the thoughtful testa tor of Lynn who has bequeathed J1.50C to a man who once loaned him $1C ought to bring about a boom in. hith erto unquotable I O U's. Let us have a tpare dollar about our clothes after this. The Hartford Times calls the estab lishment of a local police force under state control rampant imperialism. And yet Boston, which is sometimes railed the headquarters of anti-imperialism, manages to exist under this particular species of it. Why is this thus? The British exchequer will now profit something over a million dollars mor by the death duties assessed on the es tate of an American who has Just died over theie. 'Ihe present financial em barrassment of Great Britain would 1 appreciably relieved were the mortalitj among these expatriated millionaires larger. Still, there's no doubt that the Britons are grateful for occasional dis pensations cf this character. In fact the chancellor of the exchequer blunt!) said so in hl3 speech explaining his last budget. A New lork judge decides that i womau is not entitled to alimony fron: the husband from whom she is divorced after she takes a second partner. Some women drawing alimony under thes circumstances may declare it is meat to render such a decision just about Christmas time. Aa American syndicate is reported to hare bought the English "Shell' line of steamers. If this game con tinues much longer John Bull should be able to put his finger right on th place where the little ball is hidden. Chill tells Argentina that she. Chill does not mean war by the construc tion of her roads in the mountains or the boundary of the two countries Nevertheless, Argentina is distrustful , Chill has the reputation of being i rather unpleasant neighbor. Another Perry has risen to distinc tion In our naval service, which fact will make it all the more difficult latei on for superficial readers of Americac history to remem ber the name of th particular Perry tLey are thinkini about . HER. SOLDIER. BOY II II At the open flap of his narrow tent hangs a strip of the midnight skies. Pricked through by a myriad points of light, that flash in his tired eyes; He has waked from a dream of a summer day. and, now, with a throb of pain. He pillows his head on his young: right arm, and summons the dream again. A pathway barred by shadow and shine, a plow in the golden west; A song in the rustling leaves o'erhead. as a bluebird hushes its nest; A slip of a girl in a muslin gown, a cadet in a coat of gray But the slim little hand he clasps in his Is a half of the world away! Under Logwood Blossoms. BY GEORGE BINGHAM. (Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Not far from Cadiz, on the crooked old Kentucky pike, an ox wagon cov ered with a dingy sheet overtook m?. A tall man, who looked lazy, sat on a broken chair In front and drove, while back under the cover five tow-heads were stuck out to watch the slowly changing scenery. Under the shackly, rattling vehicle walked a lazy old brindle dog he could walk nowhere else, being tied to the axle with a rope. A scrub milch cow was tied to the back end of the wagon; the skillets and pans, fasten ed to the sides of the wagon-bed, rat tled and bumped; and buckets and pots swung from the axles beneath, as the wagon slowly passed along the pike. I dropped from the splotch of shade on a rail fence corner where I had sat for some time, and spoke to the man. "Good morning," he answered. "Ir you are going our way, hop up and ride." He reached back, got a handy bucket, turned it over, and I sat down beside him. When I told him my name he said he knew a person in Arkansas by the name of Andy Cobb, but that he was a negro. Then he laughed. He asked me which way I was going, and when I told him I was not particular which way, he said to me: I've been livin' in Arkansaw for a good while, and am on my way to South Carolina to vi3ir my wife's folks." Noticing the gait o? his team, I asked him how long he had been en route, and in an easy manner he re plied: "Oh, little the rise of nine weeks." "When do you expect to get there?" "Kain't tell. Ain't no mor'n ha'f way yet. Who-a-a boys! Sally you and the brats hold tight back there, for here's another creek. You know whut fools these cattle are about water." Then he addressed me. "Ever' creek we come to they break in a run for it." The steers struck a brisk pace and when to the bank made a lunge which nearly upset the wagon. After riding an hour -with him in which time we traveled abou'. three miles I wished them good luck and took the other fork ot the road. True, I wa3 not very particular which way I went, for I had nothing to do. Two months previous I had heard the little town of Snortsville wanted a newspaper, and that being the favorite one of my several voca tions, I went to the place and put forth the Weekly Post, with a dusty outfit that had been abandoned some weeks before. In a few issues I found that the people did not want a local paper as bad as they thought they did, so I wound up my business, which "Something hit the earth." took but a few minutes, and walked out of town, and it was only a few morning! later that I was overtaken by the man going to visit his wife's folks. After leaving Mr. Botts I came to a creek. The banks were pretty with fragrant elder and dogwood blossoms, and birds fluttered over the clear, slowly-moving water, and chattered and chirped In the undergrowth. I heard the sound of rippling water, and going up-stream found a cool, clear, blue spring which rippled and tumbled over recks on its way to the creek. I brushed the old acorns and sticks from a soft mossy slant and stretched out to rest. Through the vibrant hush of the starry night hums the life of a tropic clime. And under the breast of his khaki blouse the heart of the lad beats time. In a land where an endless summer reigns, he dreams of a June gone by And a. wanderlnir wind steals into his tent and carries away a sigh! "Git up here, now, Pud! You derned old fool! Makin' like you air skeered o this place when you come here ever day. Quit that snortin and git in there and drink befo I larrup you with a hickory." i raised to my eioows and saw a barefoot man trying to persuade a mule to drink at the stream. The con trary animal pranced around and went behind a bank, leaving only the rider's head visible to me. Of a sudden it be gan bobbing up and down, and 1 heard him urging the mule to behave, Si' -Z- "Come on back " in language unsuitable to reproduce. His head disappeared, his feet came up in the air. and something hit the earth with a dull sound. When I got to the bank he was brushing the dirt and gravel from his shoulder, and when I asked him the trouble, he re plied: "Nothin. Blasted old mule just tossed me off over her head. "Tuck Buchanan lives right up there on the ridge," he answered when i asked him where I might find some dinner. He spurred the mule in the flanks with his bare heels, and 1 watched the spry little animal pick her way up a rough path; sometimes leading under low branches, which caused the rider to duck his head or push them back. Again I lay down on the moss. Scents of peach and apple blossoms came to me on the soft, lazy air. A farm-bell clanged somewhere up the creek bottom and was followed by an other and another. Plow-mules brayed and hurried toward their rows end, for ten ears of corn and an hour's rest was coming. "Don't you want to walk down to the mill? I don't hear it running. I guess that trlfln fellow I've got at tendln to it is plied up in the corn box asleep as he usually is," said Mr. Buchanan to me the day after I went to his house. We went to the mill and, as he ex pected, we found the miller dozing In the corn-box. "I'd let him go If I had another man. Kit Smith wants the job, but he ain't got any education and couldn't buy wheat or calculate on tolls." Being well satisfied with the sur roundings and desiring to remain In that section. I Insisted that Kit Smith, with my assistance, could operate the mill; and in a few days Mr. Smith and I had the job. Mr. Buchanan was a homely old fel low, his profile at a distance remind ing me of the picture of some great old man I had seen in history, and 1 hardly saw how he could be the father of a girl so pretty and sweet as Miss Fannie. In a month I was also assistant man ager of the big farm, for Mr. Buchan an had decided that the greasy scum on a wet weather spring back In the field was signs of an underground stream of coal oil and was figuring on organizing a stock company to drill. The smiles and kind words of Miss Fannie gave me a feeling a delightful thrill I had never before experienced. A young fellow accompanied her to church one Sunday, and when she re turned that night I knew that I loved her. How lonesome I bad been that day without her. The next night she Invited me to the parlor to engage her in a game of so cial "seven-up." . We had a pleasant time, and hardly before the hour to go to my room, I stopped the game, Pi 1 V grasped her pretty hand and told her my feelings. I bowed my head to kiss her hand, but she pulled it back, said "No, no," and bade me good night. I said to her the next morning, "Miss Fannie, excuse m- last night I couldn't help it, though. Let it pass and think no more of it, but I do "Mr. Cobb, won't you leave? Go ofl and think no more of it, and let me forget you. It will be better, as nothing else can come of it. Leave and let me forget you." Sadly I told her farewell Sunday morning and walked off down the road, again in my aimless wandering. When a half mile away I heard someone coming up behind me on a horse. I went to the side of the road to let it pass. But when the horse came up it stopped and as I looked around. Miss Fannie ran into my arms. "Come on back! You must not leave me! You cannot! The future looks empty without you." Tears of joy came to my eyes, and I bent my head over on hers. I kissed her, said, "God bless my angel," and kissed her again. The horse she rode, seeing it was forgotten, turned and followed us home. A hungry-looking "razor-back" sow with thirteen young pigs, rooting in the dirt and rocks nearby made an unusual lot of noise, and I raised up and found myself still lying on the mossy place by the spring. I had lain there and imagined I would figure in a romance something like the above. If the hogs had allowed me to finish the plot I imagine It would have wound up by me becoming owner of the farm and mill, and several oil wells. I washed my face in the cool blue water, smoothed over my hair and went with some anxiety to the Buchan an home on the ridge. There was no sweet girl Fannie, nor even a Mrs. Buchanan the old man kept bach on a smau gully washed farm. But I went in, ate a dinner of beans and bacon, and went on off down the pike, very seriously thinking. HELEN KELLER'S HAND. riaater Cast of It In Collection of Law rence Hutton. Mr. Lawrence Hutton is making a collection of plaster casts of hands'. says a Trenton special in the New York Sun. He already has about fif teen specimens. He brought back with him from Europe recently the original cast of the hand of Thomas Carlyle, which he picked up in a London shop for a trifling sum. Among others in the collection are likenesses of the hands of Rossetti, Robert Louis Ste venson, Lincoln and Thackeray, and the mummified hands of an Egyptian princess of the time of Moses. These Mr. Hutton has hanging on the walls of his library. He also has a cast of the hand of Helen Keller, the wonder-i ful blind mute, which he regards veryj highly on account of its artistic finish-! All the lines in the skin, and even the little nerve cushions on the tips of her fingers, with which she feels so accu rately, are plainly discernible in the plaster. Beneath each case Mr. Hut ton has written some appropriate lines. Beneath that of Miss Keller's hand is the following: "She is deaf to sounds all about us; What she sees we cannot understand; But her sight's at the tip of her fingers And she hears through the touch of her hands." In the Jacob! t Interest. It is said that Count de Sigrl-- Count of the Roman Empire" will at the next opportunity contest a seat in Parliament in behalf of the Jacobite party, Mid-Gloucestershire being the scene of the electoral strife. Count de Sigri is a picturesque and inter esting figure In Gloucestershire. He claims direct lineal descent on the dis taff side from "Bonnie Prince Char lie." His house at Westend, Easting ton, a considerable village six miles east of the city of Gloucester, Is fur nished throughout with black oak fur niture, all family heirlooms of the Stuart dynast'. He possesses a bed which belonged to Prince Charlie, and is said to attend worship daily at the same private chapel used by that Prince. The Count's favorite costume Is like that worn by Prince Charlie when at the head of his Highlanders, and upon the occasion of any village feast or festival he goes forth in Stu art tartans, with halberdiers, sword bearer, page, and standard bearers. Upon the accession of his majesty the Count's friends nailed a protest upon the doors of the village church. Chi cago Inter-Ocean. Those Keen German Officials. As an example of the exceeding sharpness with which the German cus toms officials are now scrutinizing im ports of manufactured merchandise, the following ruling and classification of recent date will serve to illustrate what may happen whenever any manufactured article is made of two or more component materials. There is a certain snap hook known to the trade as the "covert snap," in German as "carabiner haken," which is made of malleable steel or iron, coated with tin. These have been imported for years under a duty rate of ten shillings per 220 pounds The snap hook has a latch in the form of a sliding bolt, which is thrown by a small spiral spring of brass or bronzed wire, wholly concealed within the shank of the hook. Recently some zealous In spector has dissected one of these snaps, removed the bolt and discovered the hidden brass spring, which forms perhaps one-fortieth of the whole weight of the article, whereupon the covert snap has been reclassified as brass goods, dutiable at twenty-four shillings per 220 pounds, which is said to be practically prohibitory In face of domestic competition. A Sarcestion. Mrs. Hauskeen The dishes you hav I put on the table of late, Bridget, havf proceeding from east to west, in Rus been positively dirty. Now.somethlng's ' si there Is an Aryan invasion going got to be done about it, Bridget from west to east. The center from Yin. mum; av ye only had dark-col- which the Slav emigrations set forth ored wans, mum, they wouldn't show seems to have been the region of the the dirt at all. Philadelphia Press. I Dnieper and Galicia. The upper tribu- t O Fond of ?y V the Weed The effect of tobacco smoking upon he intellect has been exhaustively discussed by physicians and others, aad the position taken by some that it is absurd to allege that smoking is stupefying to the faculties seems to be fortified by a mass of evidence, and in this connection it may not be amiss to consider some admittedly great literary minds. Goethe hated tobacco, and Heinrlch Heine shared the same dis like. Balzac, Victor Hugo and Dumas did not Bmoke, but Alfred de Musset, Eugene Sue, Mme. "George Sand,". Merimee and Paul de Saint Victor were ardent users of the weed. Spen cer In the Fairy Queen calls it "divine tobacco." William Lilly, Queen Eliza beth's court poet, speaks of the "holy herb Nicotian;" Byron's name for it is "sublime tobacco:" Thackerav sines "Meanwhile I will smoke every can ister and tipple my ale in the shade." Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, "I lounge and blow white ring? of smoke." James Russell LQwell had written an ode of thanks to Charles Eliot Nor ton "for certain cigars," and calls it "tobacco, sacred herb." Charles Lamb was willing "for thy sake. Tobacco, I would do anything but die." Delight ful Charles Kingsley's eulogium of smoking is well known and has been I largely quoted. Tom Hood of the "Song of the Shirt," says: "Some sigh for this or that, my wishes don't go far. The world may wag at will. So I have my cigar." Lord Tennyson was an inveterate smoker and so was Thomas Carlyle. The story of Tenny son calling on Carlyle one evening and sitting in solemn silence smoking for hours is well known. "Man Alfred," said Carlyle. as he showed the poet laureate out, "we have ha'en a graund nicht. Come back again soon." Car lyle, like Tennyson, did not care for a cigar, but kept a pipe in his' mouth most of his waking hours, and Thack eray, like Burns, loved to get away by himself and enjoy the flavor of a rank pipe. James Payn, the novelist, can not remember the time when he did 1 The undertaker nodded in friendly manner. "You look healthy enough," he said. "I am healthy," laughed the caller. "Ah!" said he. "Then you didn't come to pick out a coffin for yourself?" "Hardly," was the startled reply. "Do people come here for that purpose?" "Lots of 'em," said he. "A good many more people pick out their own coffins now than when I first . started in business. Then it was a novelty for a man to come in and ask to be shown a comfortable coffin that would fit him. but now such requests are common. Often people in seemingly good health undertake such a quest. They seem to regard the selection of a casket of equal importance to the making of a will, and do not deem it advisable to wait until sickness comes before making preparations for the in evitable. I have on my book now no fewer than two score commissions to provide prospective customers with a certain style ot coffin whenever it may be needed. These coffins are always chosen with strict attention to detail I I Select Their Own Coffins i !; Some Such Customers Drive a Very ', Close Bargain. Draining the Zuyder Zee DUTCH GOVERNMENT POSTPONES CARRYING OUT OF GREAT PROJECT mi :' li The new ministry of the Netherlands has withdrawn from the States General the project for draining the Zuyder Zee on the ground that the present con dition of the Dutch budget renders the undertaking undesirable for the pres enL The enterprise has been discussed for a long time and it seemed about to enter an active stage. A commis sion made an elaborate investigation of the project. Indorsed its practica bility and declared that it would be advantageous to the country thus to add 7.10 square miles to the agricultur al area of Holland. A bill ;was ac cordingly introduced into the Second Chamber of the States General author izing the beginning of the work. Thus the scheme came within the sphere of practical politics. Unfortunately, it reached this stage about the time that the ministerial crisis began which re sulted in the resignation of the cab inet. The new government declines to assume the responsibility for the large expense involved, and therefore the project is indefinitely shelved. It was estimated that the entire expense A BABEL OF TONGUES. sr...t.. Ktnnlre Compoad of More Than 65 Separate peoples. The Russian empire contains more than 65 independent racial groups. It is a veritable tower of Babel. Even with the omission of Siberia and Cen tral Asia there remain in Russia in Europe and the Caucasus alone 46 different peoples. In the northwest the Finns, in the west the Lithuanians and in the east, on the banks of the Volga, numerous groups of Uralo-Al-talc populations, the Tchermlsa, Mord va, Votlaki and Permians. In the southeast there are the Tartars in Crimea and Greeks on the Sea of Azof. Add to this the sporadic groups of Germmis and Jews. AU these nu merous elements have in a great meas ure commingled. The history of Rus sia is the reverse, properly speaking, of tnat Df the United States. While in America there Is an Aryan invasion Men a.nd Women Who Were Par tial to Tobacco. r not smoke. Mark Twain at the age of 30 used to smoke 300 cigars a month. George Augusta Sala bears emphatic testimony in favor of smoking. "The allegation, he says, "as to smoking stupefying a man's faculties, or blunt ing his energy, I take to be mainly nonsense." Oliver Wendell Holmes says of the meerschaum pipe: "He who inhales its vapors takes a thou sand whiffs in a single breath; and one cannot touch it without awakening the old joys that hang around it, as the smell of flowers clings to the dresses of the daughters of the house of Farina." It has been said that Jam's Russell Lowell used a number of ordinary pipes in succession and lay each aside after it had been fairly well smoked down. Later he would gather 'the "dottels," or, as some smokers call them, the "heels," from some half dozen of these pipes and cram them into an enormous tube and have a "real smoke," as he expressed it. An other distinguished Harvard professor once "swore off" for six months and kept strictly to his self-imposed obli gation. He remarked, at the end of the time, when he resumed smoking, that his appetite had been good, he had slept well and his health generally had not suffered, "but." he said, "I lost six months of happiness," and ever afterwards he smoked like a chimney. Kojjarty's New Home. When Walter McElroy Is not acting as solo tenor of the Garden City Cathedral he is an engineer in charge of a couple of hundred laborers on Long Island. The other day he over heard a conversation between a couple of them: "Say. Paddy, d'ye think that Fogarty wint to heaven when he died last week?" "Arrah, no Mike," was the reply, "he was too wicked a man for that. To my way o' thinkin' he wint to the place where you light your pipe with your finger." New York Times. in material and trimming, and some of the future occupants drive a pretty close bargain for their last house. This haggling sems fearfully bad form in persons who will be all over and done for when the commodity in question is brought into requisition, and one cannot help but wonder why they don't wait and let their survivors attend to the scrapping. But not all the people the purchase of whose cof fins is personally conducted come to me. Occasionally I go to them, and I am no longer surprised to receive a summons to bring my samples to in valids who are unable to leave the house but are unwilling to trust the final disposition of their bodies to their friends. There are some who go a step beyond. the selection of a cof fin who buy it outright and store it away in their own home. As a rule all these ultra-particular people are willing to trust to the honesty of the undertaker, and the fraternity honors the confidence by fulfilling to the minutest detail their ante-mortem in structions." New York Press. would be 57,000,090 florins. A dike was to be built across the entrance to the Zuyder Zee which would effectually bar out the North Sea. It was not expect ed to reclaim the whole of the lake, would still remain. But the Zuyder Zee would cease to be an arm of the North for 5C0 square mile3 of water surface Sea. The water courses now draining into the Zuyder Zee would continue to empty into the remaining part of it; ss a canal would be dug for the escape of these waters, the remaining lake would gradually be changed from salt to fresh water. It was expected that about a third of a century would be required to carry out the whole im provement, the money for which was to be raised by a loan and paid off, principal and interest, in sixty years or less. The enormous advantage of the improvement to Holland is ad mitted by all writers; still, as the fi nancial burden would b large, the present ministry has decided not to saddle this debt upon the country at a time when its political affairs are somewhat unsettled. taries of the Dnieper were settled first. The Slavs then reached the Baltic and founded Novgorod the Great Later (from the 11th to the 13th centuries) they Invaded the basin of the" Volga and founded successively Moscow, Niji Novgorod, Saratof and many other cities. This movement is still going on. The American "far west" has a counterpart in the "far east" of Si beria. Nearly 220,000 Russian colon ists settle there every year. But, while the Aryans of America have almost extermniated the population ' of the redskins, the Russian immigrants have commingled with the ancient popula tions of eastern Russia. The Russian people are thus in their sum a total mixture of Slavs and Finns. YVome Looking Than Be Felt. 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