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r 1 'i i 4 fii i IS UP TO CONGRESS CAN STOP UNJUST DISCRIMINA TION OY RAILROADS. No Question of the Power of the Leg islative Body to do This, but Cor porations Control and Reform I Very Unlikely. It Is announced from Waflhlncton that th executive eommlite-e of the 'titer state lomracree law has com menced a vlKorems campaign to cure the pannage; of the hill now :n the caK-ndar of the peuate for the amend ra.-nt of the intend ate torn-incre-e law. It Is Mgh time the law was bo amended a to make It of some value to the public. For mar) year we have had a law, we have had a eeim n.Hslon, and the rommlHHlon has In vestigated many things and made voluminous report, ome of them of value to utatlstUal historians, hut that Is ahont all. It is popularly supposed that the law was passed and the e-ernmisBierf was created principally for the purl-one of protecting persons and places against unjust discrimination hy the i ail road corporations. Notoriously Uiat purpose has not f heen accomplished to any preat ox latent. What with fiirt decisions de nning the powers of the commission under the law and the influence of the tailroad lohhy and lv rallnad at torneys in the two.. es of Congress in preventing the amendment of the law In such wise as to make it effect ive, discrimination has heen practiced since the law was passed to about the same extent as it was before. The commission has not been clothed with adequate iower and the law has been found to be beautifully easy by the corporation lawyers. ThJ commission can do practically noth ing; of Itself. Every question must go Into court If the corporations please, and they always do. Proceedings there are spun out indefinitely, and by the time an ultimate decision is at last near at hand some new device of evasion Is all ready to go over the same old road. ' It is easy enough to amend the law so as to bring the corporations to time. Congress has absolute power over Interstate commerce as it has over foreign commerce except that it cannot apply to the former the tariff method by which It destroys much of the latter. A tithe of the Ingenuity wliich is exercised to cripple or destroy for eign commerce would have provided a law to stop unjust railroad discrimi nation long ago. Will it be exercised during the com ing session? Koubtful. The session H short and the corporations are pow erful. It is a suspicious circumstance that the pending bill is in charge of Senator Elkins, who Is understood to be not unkind to corporations. Another Tribute to Tariff. Emigration from the United States to Canada has been attracting serious attention in Europe as well as in this country. It is attaining proportions Tvhich justify surprise. Investigation shows that within our boundaries we have chiefly tenant farmers who can never hope to own their farms. Why cannot our tenant farmers hope to become owners of their farms? Ask cur tariff. To enrich privileged classes of our R.anufacturers the Republican party lias Impoverished our farmers in dull times and diminished their profits in prosperous times. Although land is the chief source of wealth, the Repub lican party has defied the farmers in a spurious theory of "protection" and ac cumulated special legislation to en rich manufacturers at the expense of the farmers. "What with the tariff-increased price of everything he had to buy and the oppression of monopolies controlling transportation rates, the American farmer has remained for the most part a mere tenant. That his lot is some what better In good times than that of tenant farmers in Ireland or Rus sia is due to the raster areas of our agricultural regions and the lighter pressure of population upon space. Were the tariff joke removed from the neck of the American farmer he would not be a mere tenant. Land un der a foreign monarch would offer no attraction to him or his children. Trust Moguls Not Alarmed. Simultaneously with the announce ment that the president has summoned a number of the headlights of his party to Washington to consult about amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law comes the statement from New York that the trust moguls are not worrying. They accept this move on the part f Mr. Roosevelt, we are told, as a necessary effort on the part of the ad ministration to do something to sat isfy the popular demand for the re straints of trusts, but they believe and they assume that t" President and his headlights believ. that there will be no legislation and no effort to en force the existing law which will be strennous enough to hurt anybody. In other words, the trust moguls be lieve that Mr. Roosevelt and the rest are deliberately planning to fool the American peopU hat they believe bad trusts, like ba, hisky. do not ex ist, and that they - no intention of making serious Ie for any trust, good or bad. It re is such a tiling as a bad trust. ' Ar the trust moguls right? They have much reason to think that they are. Thejr have been per mitted to go on organizing their vast monopoly combines since the Repub lican victory of 1896 to an extent al most beyond belief, and cot a finger has been lifted to apply the criminal provisions of the law in any case, and only in two cases has the Ineffectual injunction remedy been invoked. This would seem to justify the con clusion that the talk about amending the law Is mere buncombe. The manifest purpose not to deprive Oe trusts of their tariff shelter in the least degree also goes to justify that conclusion. ' The Trusts Will Control. The speakership fight is only a part V". the play. It' really doesn't make any difference whether it shall bo lal zell or Cannon as far as the trusts are concerned. One Is as much of their friend and dependent as the other, t Neither can possibly win without the consent of ' . powerful aggregation of monopol; control the Repub lican party, t,. xnnon la more like ly to win than Da. ell. The latter ia too flagrantly a mere attorney of the tariff barons. His election to the speakership would be too open an af front to the low tariff sentiment which is becoming Insistent and sullen in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and some other western and northwestern states. Taking It Out of Consumers. (.'lone on the heels of the 10 per cent advance in railroad wages an advance of night rates all over the country is in contemplation sufficient to cover the increase In wages twice over. The general mass of consumers are, it seems, to "pay the freight" for every Ndy. They are now paying $1 per ton more for coal than last year before it !: even decided whether coal miners' wages shall be advanced at all. They are to pay twice as much in freight rates as will cover the 10 per cent rise in railroad wages. And the general mass of consumers include the wage earners, who will feel the further rise in the cost of living more quickly than any other class. The Country Needs Rest. What our country needs is rest rest from the manufacture of new se curities, from flare-ups in Wall street and from "corners" in Chicago and a chance to pull itself together, find out where it is at, pay off its foreign debts and readjust credits at home after the several years of speculative debauch through which it has passed. This must be done if we are to avoid a crash in financing and speculative cir cles, which would react to the injury of the legitimate industrial and mer cantile interests, which are now so prosperous. This is no time for fire works. Power of Republican Leaders. Is it not a well-known fact that cer tain Republican leaders in New York and Pennsylvania have gained what amounts to an ownership of the party organization In those states by becom ing the repositories of a secret fund amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, with which they pay the cost of political campaigns and elections, thereby securing control of legislatures and of the lawmaking power? Revision Regardless of Trusts. If to revise the tariff is logical and proper let us revise on the. merits, whether it shall prove that the trusts are hurt or helped. Reciprocity is a revision of the tariff, and If It can be made broad enough will attain most ol the ends desired. Congress must do something or the people will eventual ly elect a congress that may go be yond even the fears of the Wall street men. Not Much Afraid of Knox. Notwithstanding the dark and sin ister hints dropped by Philandei Chase Knox respecting the awful things that are in store for the pro jected packers' trust, the pulse, tem perature and respiration of the beef barons were strictly normal at an early hour this morning. The cool ness of some men in the face of over shadowing peril is something marvel ous. It Is Bound to Die Young. There are no good trusts now in operation. A trust may be good at the start, but if it wishes to live it becomes bad. If it is prepared to die it remains good, and if it remains good it is marked for an early grava. In considering the trust question we may just as well eliminate the good trust, for if we don't it will eliminate itself. Up to Expectations. "Your father was disappointed in your monthly report, of course," said the school teacher. "No. ma'am," replied the dull scholar. "No? You don't mean to tell me he was satisfied with it?" "No. ma'am, but he said he hadn't expected to be satisfied with it." Tariff Commissions Are Useless. The scheme of a tariff commission, whether permanent or temporary, can wait. We have had tariff commissions before, and experience teaches that their work is absolutely useless as an influence upon legislation by congress. Why not give the people at once the relief for which they are clamoring? Both Are Revisionists. Verhaps accuracy requires that both Payne and Babcock be counted as "re visionists" of the thirty-third degree. Either will revise his own views upon anything to suit the needs of what ever situation confronts his party and that upon the shortest possible notice and without a whimper or a frown. It Will Come Ultimately. Massachusetts may whistle for free hides and free coal and free iron and not get this relief for our industries It Mr. Lodge and Mr. Roosevelt can prevent it. But our people have made a pretty fair start toward enforcing their demands. It may need only one more election to do the business. Healthy Sentiment Aroused. The vigorous opposition to the ship subsidy grab waged for the past three years has thus far borne fruit in the stimulation of a healthy sentiment in favor of the protection of the federal treasury against the more brazeii schemes of individual favoritism. Reform Comes a Little Late. After receiving 100,000 illegal votes in Philadelphia Governor Elect Penny packer says he expects to reform po litical methods in Pennsylvania. If those methods had been reformed be fore the elecetion Pennypacker would not have been chosen governor. Decrease in Wages. "Wat : cf the working people of the United Kingdom, according to official statistics, showed a decrease of $7, S2C.0O0 last year, compared with the preceding year.' ALL OF ONE FAMILY. Deanon Unable to Resist the Demand of the Tramp. While the Christian Endeavorers were in Boston recently holding their annual convention many tridents oc :urrd provocative of mirth. Among the stories told to them was one con rerninfe a peripatetic of the barefooted variety and a farmer, who was also a church deacon. The deacon was taking; lunch under his own vine and fig treje and unto him the peripatetic said: "Sir. I'm very hungry." 'You haven't been shaved," replied the deacon. "No. but I'm very hungry." "You're very i'z'-j lnt the bar Cain." "Yep, bat I'm very hungry." "'Well, can you say tho Lord's prayer?" "No. I can't." "Will you say It for a piece of bread?" "I will." The deacon started in with "Our Father," at the same time cutting off a slice as he enunciated the words. Tho tramp repeated "Our Father," then suddenly asked: "Did you sy 'Our Father?' " ' "Yes, 'Our Father. " "Stop a moment' continued the dirty man. "You mean your father and my father." "I do," answered the deacon. "Then we are brothers," triumph en tly proceeded the unshaved. "We are." "Then, for our father's sake, cut that bread thicker and cut It quicker." GIVES UP A FORTUNE. One of England's Temperance Re fomers Is the Son of a Brewer. F. N. Charington, the English tem perance reformer, who has conceived the idea of a teetotal paradise sur rounded by water, has had one of the most remarkable careers in the his tory of the temperance movement." What situation more dramatic has any work of fiction to show than Char rington's assembly hall, where the huge canvas advertisement of temper ance meetings is almost permanently hung out in the close proximity of Charington's brewery, whence are sup plied hundreds of public houses in the neighborhood. Born in 1850, a por tion of his education was received at Marlborough. Rather than go to the university he preferred, after a con tinental tour, to take his place in the brewery of his father. Meanwhile he was . "converted." After some .time spent In assisting mission and evan gelistic work the irony of his position overwhelmed him and he cut himself from the prospect of a vast fortune with a comparative pittance. "I won der what you get for wearing that blue ribbon?" said a cynic to him once. "I am not certain of the exact amount," he replied, "but I know it costs me 20,000 a year." An Author's Wrath. An interesting copy of George Mere dith's "Shaving of Shagpat" was sold In London recently. It was the copy which Frederic Locker-Lampson, tha verse writer, possessed, and it bears some doggerel lines in Mr. Locker's autograph. The book had formerly belonged to a Mr. Wilde, whose name is on the flyleaf, and who had jagged the edges in the careless cutting of them. Thereon Mr. Locker-Lampson wrote in his small, neat handwriting: "Who is this Wilde this graceless cuss. Who mutilates Meredith's pages thus? "Who over his barber tales can't linger, Who cleaves its leaves w'th his fat forefinger? "Would, O Wilde, had the luck been mine, To stick a knife in that fist of thine!" A distinguished man who was fond of fishing tells the following about the decorations of his country home: "Our fish are all carefully weighed and those over five pounds are traced out on a cardboard, painted, and form a handsome frieze round the sitting room, the names of the sportsmen be ing appended underneath. As an en couragement to our guests I have had the following inscription painted large over the entrance porch of my house. The result is eminently satisfactory: "'The fisherman goeth forth In the early morning. Disturbing the whole household. He returneth in the evening, whn The smell of whisky is upon him And the truth is not in him." THE WAY TO SING. The birds must know, who wisely nIng- Will sing as they; The common air has generous wings. Song's make their way. No messenger to run before, Devising plan; Xo mention of the place or hour To any man; No waiting till some sound betrays A listening ear; No different voice, no new delays, If steps draw near. "What bird is that? Its song is good.- And eager eyes Go peering through the dusky wood In glad surprise. Then late at night when by his fire The traveler sits, T7tching the flame grow brighter, higa r. The sweet sons; flits By snatches through his weary brain To help him rest; Vt'lmn wit he goes that road again. An empty nest On leaflets bough will make him sigh, "Ah me! last spring Just here I heard, in passing by. That rare bird sing!" But while he sighs, remembering Ifow sweet the song. The litt.o bird on tireless wins Is borne along In other air and other men "WU1 weary feet. On other r-oads. the simple strain Are finding sweet. The birds must know. Who wif ely sings. Will sing as they: The common mlr has generous rings. Songs make their way. Helen Hunt Jackson. To Look After Soldiers' Feet. Lord Roberts approves of the ap pointment of one chiropodist for each battalion. If you analyse love you may find a motive that will take all the conceit out of you. , TThen the heart is youcj who crrc CONVINCING PROOF. Cafe No. 41.20G.Capt. Alfred O. Rlglr of Hose Company No. 4, Can ton, Ohio, says: "I had a weak back ever since I was a boy, and about tlx years ago the cause developed into rather a bad case of kidney com plaint. It was not a little backache now and then, but backache which caused actual suffering day and night, and the harder I tried to get rid of it the worse it became. When the attacks were in the acute stage it was difficult to sit down, and when down it was Just as hard to re gain an erect position, on account of the twinges of pain in the kidneys. I can only describe some of the pangs as similar to that received from a knife thrust. Ia time, distressing and terribly inconvenient urinary weakness result ed, causing annoying embarrassment during the day and loss of sleep dur ing the night. I took everything which came to my notice from reading, from observa tion, and which my friends and ac quaintances advised. I consulted physicians, but none of them were able to relieve the trouble, let alone stop it. It became so well known that I had a pronounced case of kidney com plaint that I often received circulars from medical companies offering to cure me, and one day eighteen letters were handed to me by the mail car rier. When Doan's Kidney Pills attracted my attention I wanted to try them, just as I had tried everything else, and Mrs. Rigler went to Durban & Wright Co.'s drug store for a box. Relief followed. I knew after a dose or two that the medicine was acting directly on the kidneys from the altered condi tion of the kidney secretions, and. encouraged, I continued the treat ment. Finally, the backache and other complications stopped. Let me sum up my opinion about Doan's Kidney Pills by saying, I would willingly pay one month's wages for a box of them if I could not buy them for less. You can refer any one to me about Doan's Kidney Pills and I will convince them that they act just as represented." Four Years After. "Lapse of time has strengthened my appreciation of Doan's Kidney Pills. I gave this remedy my unquali fied endorsement in the summer of 1896, because of the results I obtained from a course of the treatment. I can now add to my original endorse ment the experience of a number of others who are just as enthusiastic, when they express their opinion of Doan's Kidney Pills, as I." A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine ' which cured Mr. Rig ler, will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Out of a male population of less than 600 the Wiltshire (England) vil lage of Box sent thirty-six men to the war. Seafnens Cannot Be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of tno ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by consti tutional remedies. Deafness is caused bv an Inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the bustacman Tuoe. When this tube is inflamed tou have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear ing, and when it is entirely closed deafness Is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for sirculars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. Sol, oy Drupstists. 75c Hull's Family Pills are the best. Japanese national flags are alleged to be practically unobtainable just now in London. Don't you know that Defiance Starch, besides being absolutely su perior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as lz-ounce packages of other kinds? The modern theatrical hit have a blush in every line. must THE ST. PAUL CALENDAR FOR 1903 tlx sheets 10x15 inches, of beautiful reproductions, in colors, of pastel drawings by Bryson, is now ready for distribution and will be mailed on re ceipt of twenty-five (25) cents coin or stamps. Address F. A. Miller, Gen eral Passenger Agent, Chicago. It is only after love is dead that people dissect it. :i : ! 5 yrvip.of thfrbc-st a It is pure. It is gentle. It is pleasant. It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for children. " It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. It is used by millions of families the world over. It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world ' produces. - mm HALF RATES TO CANADIAN POINTS. The TTabaxh will nrll tickets from Chi cago to many points In Ctinaria IW. 18. 19. 20. 21st. koimI returning until Jun. 10th. 1SK3. For rates and all information call at the Wabush oftlce. 1001 Farnum Ft., or uddress Harry K. Moore. CI. A. 1'. D., Omaha, Neb. It needs but a slight scratch of the pen to turn pathos into bathos. BKrIANCE STAKCB should be In vrv household, none so good, besides 4 or. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Old age would be bereft of a gener ous share of its comforts if It. could not boast of when "I was young." Valuable Pointers About Texas. A 144-page book, profusely illustrat ed, of present day conditions and prospects in the Lone Star State. It is worth your while to get a copy; free on request. James Barker, Gen'l Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 501 Wain wright Bldg., St. Louis. Every old bank where the wild thyme grows pays interest on deios its. Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. There is wonderful material be tween the lines of the youthful essay. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch Is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. There are boards made of wood and wooden boards. PIso's Curs is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lunps. Wm. O. nisljct, Vanburen. lad.. Feb. 10, 1300. Self-preservation is the first law of politics. Defiance Starch is put up 10 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. You can view life through either stained glass windows or an old piece of smoked glass. A mule or a woman could never be happy unless they could kick about something or other. A London View of Wood. The day after the threo American generals lunched with King Edward the St James Gazette spoke of Major General Leonard Wood as being "in his 80th year." This will be news in Chicago, where the general used to be well known as a practicing physician The Gazette also informed its readers that "General Wood has had an ex citing life of nearly eighty years on the frontiers. It is his boast that he took part in all the battles of his corps during the civil war. The general is really about 42 or 43 years old. A Sphinx for Si. Louis. The suggestion that the ancient Egyptian sphinx be reproduced in St. Louis for the world's fair has been received by Mayor Rolla Wells from Mrs. Bertie Cortland Longworth of Paris, France. Mrs. Longworth is a sculptor and has made a plaster mod el of the sphinx after four years of study, this being the only model in ex istence. The idea is to reproduce the sphinx in cement, making it more du rable than stone. Mrs. Longworth says the sphinx is crumbling, owing to the bringing of rains into Egypt as the result of the extension of irri gation. The Hansons Are Happy. Ashley, N. D., Dec. 8th. Cured of that most dangerous of all Diseases, Rheumatism of the Heart, J. H. Han con of this place loses no opportunity of singing the praises of Dodd's Kid ney Piils. "I am able to work again," says Mr. Hanson. "And am feeling better than I have for five years. Broken down and fairly used up and suffering from Rheumatism of the Heart and Dropsy I was in very bad shape. "Then I started taking Dodd's Kid ney Pills and well, you can see how I look and I feel as well as I look. My Rheumatism is gone and the Dropsy with it. "I don't think they'll ever bother me again, but if they do I'll just get some more of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I know that will fix them." Mrs. Hanson, too, whose health was far from good, took the same remedy and she joins with her husband in recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills. Britain last year imported no less than 1.352,000 worth of musical in struments 750,000 worth from Ger many alone. Why i&my laxative- Fids "Distinction" for Prussian Teachers. Tho Prussian ministry ol education has resolved on conferring u special mark of distinction uMn lay teachers in the municipal schools when they retire from service. It has been felt that years of faithful and exception ally valuable service in the cause of education call for recognition cm tho part of the government, and the min istry, convinced that the thing should be done handsomely, therefore dec id ed that each teacher who has display ed marked ability In the performance of her duties shall, on retirement, re ceive a colored portrait of the empress in a gilt frame. Mld.lli' ag.-d teach ers who fail to attain the prize? may console thcm.se Ives with the reflect ion that an ariclo or this kind is to be obtained for a shilling or so In most art shops in Berlin. Ton of "Star Spangled Banner." Over a ton or "Star Spanned Ban ner" is an item that the; Brooklyn navy yard has just got rid er to the- junk man. Flags that hud done- nohle ser vice on warships and cruise-is, and had visited nearly every port on the face of tho earth. Ragged and unflt for longer usage, they were consignee! to the junk room to b added to the motley collection of other useless ar ticles, all to be sold fer scrap. Sen timentalists might consider this cen signing of "Old Glory" to the rubbish heap with broken boats, use-less crock ery, old hammocks canteens, pumps, canned beef and salt pork that wouldn't last much longe r, somewhat in the light of desecration, but it some times happens that most cherished idols must b robbed of the glamour of sentiment. Sultan a Poor Paymaster. An official Investigation proven that 72 jter cent of all the employs of the state in Turkey that is. the officers and men of the army and navy, the gendarmes and police forces, and all members of all branches of the civil service; never recedve more than half of the salaries and wages due to them Twenty-six per cent obtain from sev en to ten months' salary in the y-ar, and the remaining 2 per cent are ha py in getting their full due. Marrried women who are reformers generally get the fever after the wed ding. KlopM tlm Tough anel Works Off the Cold Laxative linuiio Quinine Tablets. Price !Zm Adversity is the sauce of life, but a lot of us don't care for sauce. DO TOCK C LOT I IKS fXIOK TRLUIVf If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will niaka tneru white as Know. ' oz. package S cents A man of resources isn't always a man of means. Mrs. Wliialow-s dooming nyrup. For rl;lllren teething, nofti-un iuc kiiiiik, r-lu-e tlv flumiimtluu.Bilayi pHtu.cure wlnil colic. 25c twills. The sermon mapes the pulpit; pure heart makes the altar. FlfC permanently rnrtm. No flu or ncrroaincu artor w ant Uy' une of Dr. Kltne'a Orrat Nerre Keiitoi. er. 8nd for FKKK K3.UO trial bottle and treatiM. I- K. U. Klimb, Ltd., Ktl Anil Street, i'klladelvbi.'" In the union of limburger and beer there is strength. TIIK BEST ItKHUS IN KTAKCHINO can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch. besMes Retting 4 oz. more for same money r.o cooking required. Criminal Substitution in China. In China it is nothing out of the way for a criminal under sentence of death to secure, at a price, a substi tute to die for him at the' hands of the executioner. A remarkable case of such substitution is reported from l-'oo-Chow. When a certain childless criminal there was adjudged to death, his family met to see what should be done. The superstition of the land ran counter to a man dying without leaving a son. at least, to worship him after death. The criminal had a brother who had so many sons that he had no fear of being left without worshipers. The family decided to put him in as a substitute for the childless one, so that the latter could live on to get a son. The military mandarin concerned was bought over, the criminal was set free and his guiltless brother's head was cut off. Many Foods Are Adulterated. The Stewards' club of Cleveland. representing the leading clubs and hotels of that city, has just completed an investigation of the character of food products sold there with surpris ing results. Of 175 samples of oleo margarine examined. 170 were found to contain impurities; of 460 milk samples, 132 were impure; 27 per cent of the mustards tested were adul terated and 32 per cent cf the flavor ing extracts were doctored. Many other food products fell far short of the standard. Over 15,000 rabbits have been trapped during the past year in the municipal rabbit warren of Torquay. Beer arouse. Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. It contains the laxative principles of plants. It contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste. All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to the originality and simplicity of the combination. To get its beneiacial effects buy the genuine. Manufactured by San Fro. n cisco. C&L Louisville. Ky. New York. N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADJXO DRUGGISTS. , ep ijj Many women and doctor do not recognize tho real Hj nrptonii of derangement of the female orgauH until too latc.v "I bad terrible pains ' along- my spinal cord for two years and auflereel dreadfully. I was given different medicines, vvero planters; none of these things helped me. Reading of thecureKtli.it Lydia IS. lMnkliam s VKtn.bIo Compound h brought about, 1 somehow felt that it was what I needed and bought a lottle to take. How glad I am that I did so; two tattles brought me immense re lirf. and after tihiutf thaee bottles more I felt new life end blood surging' through my veins. It seemed as though there had Wen arrgtdar house c-leuninf" through my system, that all the hickncNft and jHtlson had been taken out and new life given me instead. I have Hd vised dozens of my friends to usn I.ydia K. PJnkliain'M VeRCfnMo Compound. Jood health Is ludU- renH.-tL.Ift to complete happiness, and ,ydia i:. Plnklium'H Vegetable) Compound has M-cured this to inc.'" Mint. Laiua L. lliiKMrn, Crown I'oint, Indiana, Secretary Ludles Relief Corps. $5000 f off tit If original of abov htfr proving genulntneti cannot bo produrtd. Kvory i-k woman who dos not understand lier ailment tlieuld writ Mm. Pinkhain. Iynn. Mac. Her ndvico in ireo and always helpful. " Se-eretary Shaw tells thin story of his second race for governor In Iowu, when he failed te c arry his own coun ty: He was chatting with a witty Irish cobbler, who dryly congratulated him on his election. " "m glad to be elected," Hald Mr, .naw, "hut I'm t.orry to have lost the rounty where I live." I'at didn't say a word. "What do you think about it, I'at?" persisted the suee-essful candidate. "IJegorra. It's the devil's own pity ye didn't live In every county of the shtate," was the explosive reply. It's Worth the While To know of the prosperity and un equaled inducements in the; South west. Illustrated pamphlets, "Indian Territory." "Te-xas." "Old Mexico," "Winter Tours." "Trado Follows the Flag," etc., will be sent free by writ ing. James Darker, (ion' I I 'ass. Ac Tkt. Agt., M., K. & T. Hy., 520 Wain wrlght lildg., St. Ivouls. In all Egypt there are only 1,211 medical men. of all nationalities; C04 of them are liumpeans. 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