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41 THE WEALTH MAKERS. November 8, 1894. THE FARM AND HOME. HOW TO AVOID PARTURIENT APOPLEXY IN COWS. Milk Fr Stiff Kack la Shaap Sclanc and Practloa ToolhcuaM In FUlda Farm Not and Bom HlnU. Parturient Apoptaxjr. Those who have witnessed the death of any of the animal kind from parturient apoplexy or milk fever would gladly avoid a repetition of the scene, for of all the various aches and ' pains, this appears to be the worst. In such cases, the peritoneum is in volved, and peritonitis causes the most excruciating pains possible for lower animals or human beings. I would rather see a cow of mine drop dead than see her in this agony, al though she should even recover, writes Galen Wilson in the Country Gentleman. It is a mercy to the faithful beasts so to care for them as to avoid the difficulty. With this thought in mind, I have taken some pains to collate what others have said upon the subject and report it here, together with what personal experience I have had with the dis ease. ' The difficulty is most likely to afflict cows in "good habit" and flesh, and usually good milkers. It seems to attack the best, as birds pick at the best fruit Upon post mortems it Is generally revealed that the stomach is more or loss im pacted with dry food, and often with grain food at that. That the dis ease is incurable when weH-fixed is as certain as it is avoidable in most cases. It is sometimes the result of taking cold Immediately after calv ing. This can surely be prevented by proper care at the time; and so it can, in large measure, by not allow ing food to become impact in the stomach and by guarding against constipation of the bowels. Some as sert that only dry food is likely to impact. This is a mistake. I had a cow die of the disease in June, when on fresh grass; but she was in good flesh and a deep milker. The grass in her stomach had dried and im pacted. She had not had grain feed. At such times there is unusual inter 'nal heat, which dries out and im pacts the food. This indicates that a febrifuge or cooling, loosening lo tion should be administered season ably. An English writer, after having lost several valuable cows by this dis ease, studied up on the question and adopted precautionary measures, the substance of which I give below, and his animals escaped after that. He kept his cows on short rations eight or ten days previous to calving. What food was given was of a cooling, re laxing nature. Just before calving he gave a pound of salts and a pint of treacle in three pints of tepid water mixed with wheat bran, into a thin gruel. This aoted freely. After calv ing, she was given a pail of water with the chill taken off. She was fed nothing until six or eight hours after calving and then was given a liberal bran mash with linseed meal added. He used old "fusty" bedding lest she should eat that. If her udder was painfully distended before calving, he milked out enough occasionally to re lieve her. She was not permitted to eat her "cleansing" as cows are apt to do, and for the purpose, probably of a natural physio. The bran and 'oilmeal performed that service. It was noticed that cows did not eat the cleansing unless constipation of the bowels was present. And now comes what I regard an important point in after treatment. The calf was left with the cow three days and she was "not stripped at all, as is the usual custom. He drew no milk for the three days; but permit ted the calf to run with Jaer that time and help itself at will. , Here is a cogent reason for it in his own words: "By milking a cow clean, Just after calving, you cause an unnatural flow of the milk and all Borts of complica tions ensue. Whereas, by following nature's laws no excessive strain is put on the system." The cow, of course, was brought on to full feed 'gradually. There is great danger to be appre hended in milking a cow up to calv ing and continuing her full feed up to that time, especially if she is a deep milker. Better let her rest a month and be on short rations. This is also better for her offspring. The following are the preventive measures adopted by the late E. F. Bowditoh, as he reported them to a Western paper on inquiry: "In answer to your question about the best treatment for milk fever, I would say that I formerly used to have trouble and loss from this dis ease, but for about ten years have hardly had a case, and no losses, owing, I believe, to the following rules, which are always strictly car ried out on my farm: "As soon as the cow is dry before calving, usually four to six weeks, I begin to feed old-process oil meal, in creasing the quantity from a pint per day, gradually, till I get up to two quarts per day, and continue that - amount till the caliif .dropped- "As soon as the calf is born, give in a quart of warm water, with the addition of a tablespoonful of ground ginger or a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, a dose of salts, varying the quantity from a pound, for a small two-year-old, to nearly twopounds.for a full-sized cow (1,200 ft.). If this does not operate in fifteen or sixteen hours, give another dose of one pound of salts, prepared as before, or 1 pints of raw linseed oil. Keep the cow short of food and water till her bag and general condition are rights and then increase herfeed gradually to the usual rations. While on star vation diet the bowels must be kept loose by linseed gruel, or something of thaf nature." With all this Information before them, nine out of ten who lose cows by parturient apoplexy are criminally guilty of cruelty to animals. Stiff Neck In nlienp. This symptom is one of others that indicate inflammation of the periton eum or lining membrane of the abdo men. This disease causes blood poisoning when it has advanced to a , late stage, and this produces the : stiffness of the muscles which be comes a prominent symptom, mostly ' perceived when the disorder has gone beyond any availing treatment. fhe abdomen becomes filled with an effu sion of serum from the blood, and the urine is darkly tinged with the red matter with which the blood then be comes overloaded. There is little hope from any treatment, but as the disease usually affects many of the flock, those that have not yet shown the marked symptoms may be saved by the use of one ounce doses of sul phate of magnesia with a teaspoonful of powdered gentian root and alter nately with this, and giv.en daily, a teaspoonful of hyposulphite of soda. Coleman's Rural World. Toolhouaea to DUtant Field. Where a farm is a large one a tool house at the corner where four fields meet in the part most distant from the house is a paying investment. It need not be large enough to hold a reaper of mowing machine, but of suf- ncicnt size to give sneiter during a sudden shower to men working in the fields, and to save from , loss their tools when they leave work at night. The first of this kind we saw was built for use in maple sugar making times but was kept, or rather rebuilt, after the maple orchard had been cut away. Farm Notes. , There is nothing gained by a scant supply of bedding. There cannot be a thrifty growth without good care. After applying manure do not plow it under too deep. v With growing stock the food should not be too heating. On many farms good management is as necessary as hard work. Do not allow an animal to have food for twelve hours before killing. To make the most with stock, feed liberally, regularly and thoroughly. The season most favorable to nlant growth is the most favorable to ani- i uiais. Strictly first-class horses will al ways command a ready sale, and the better the breed the better the de mand. An improvement in the oualitv of the cows kept by patrons is one of the good advantaffes of a ere' v in the neighborhood. , Specialty farming under favorable conditions may be carried on indefi nitely with success, but good manage ment is very essential. Good breeding will show out in similarity of form and sreneral apnear- ance, color, style and form, to make up tne animal of the breeder's ideal. If there is anv rliffamnnA mna pains should be taken to have the best quality when prices are low, so as to get the best prices obtainable. One reason whv ho2 manure is coorl H , o 0 for potatoes is on account of the corn cobs usually mixed with it; corn cods contain a good per cent of pot ash. The gap between prices for com mon, ordinary horses and those that are first-class widens everv vear. with the chances asalnst the Poorer horses. Home llluta. All broiled meats should be served the moment they are cooked. Never keep cheese under wood. EiMier a glass or earthen cover should be provided. ' Glass should be washed in cold water, which gives it a brighter and dearer look than when cleansed with warm water. For washing .the hair, particularly such as inclined to be oily, nothing is better than the common hard soap of the kitchen. '" An excellent addition to codfish balls or minced fish of any kind, and one which takes the place of butter, Is the oil left from a box of sardines. Every housekeeper should have a" blank book, in which to oopy or paste useful hints or directions about cook ing and other housework. This book should be (kept in the kitchen. ; Vinegar is better than ice for keep. Ing fish. By putting a little vinegar on the fish it will keep perfectly well, even in very hot weather. Fish is often improved in flavor under this treatment. Sable, chinchilla, squirrel and mon key skin may be very nicely cleaned with hot bran. Get a small bran meal and heat it in the oven until it is quite warm. Rub stiffly into the fur and leave for a few minutes be fore shaking to free it from the bran. It is a good plan to keep a crock of fuller's earth in the kitchen for re moving spots of grease from carpets, boards, marble, etc. If applied im mediately and well rubbed jp. Jtwill absorb the grease, and may then be brushed of dry without injuring the color of fabric. a" Boston chips are easily made. Pare the potatoes, throw them into cold water for an hour, then cut them into thin slices the long way of the potato. Do not wet them after the slicing. Have a kettle of fat at moderate tern perature. . Put the chips into a bas ket, dip down into the fat, let them stay for a moment, lift, put down again, lift again, and allow them to frjLH.BtUdmbjiP.wiU. 3SR JWfl..a colander, dust with salt, stand in oven for a momeat, ' and they are ready to serve. Blew In t A lb i Pra rie To Bishop Hmooth.Smoothtown, Mass. Dkbk Silt: I huts ter disterbyeye Ink so kmnfertubel Iik alyin ther awl kurld up apurrin yeinelf into hevin, but when I think how much intrust yewer bankur keenedge tuk in my soles welfair I feel ez I must tel yer wel ive got religun at last an ive got it bad two it mast hev kura down ofen the rokys with a siklon fer et has skooped in clos onto too millions uv us awl ter wunst an rekrewts es akumin in awl the tim bildin churches es outer Mm kwestshun for ther aint no 4 walls on erth ez ud bold the blamd thing its takin awl out doars an ower preechers is mostli in the newspaper bisenesa so yew neednt be afeered ez weer agoin to kawl on ye fer funs fer mishun werk yeseeetawlkum abowt in this way an old sojer down in kansas whair the air iz cleer and theisites good got areedin nv hes bibel an he kum akrost sumthin iik this fer awl the law es fulfilled in wun werd evenia this thow shalt luv thi nabur ez thiseif an he kep aporin an aporin over et ez ef he hed struk a new leed pritty sune he shets np the buk with a slain ayellin out thats good enuf fer me I sees et awl now thet air law ez good poly tiks an good bisness Bveryda in the weak only it aint bin preeched rite et aint no cry fercharity ets a kawl fer fare pi a and jest meens this kwit steelin ez plane ez the knows on yer fose so he gets out on the prery uv a sunda nit with too torches an a driguds box an he lets fli et oz boitt lik this sais he bois this poverty bisness ez' awl. rong its rong in too wais ets at the rong end uv the town te start with an its a rong an a elite upon god almighty hisself aint he giv uz awl a inortel ken ask fer aint he give uz the soil an the bans an the ma sheenry to get it with en yet et seems lik the harder a man werks the porer hecets while the les he dus the bigger bis pile gios now bois youve seed a little grane uv korn gro eighteen fut hi out uv kan Bas mud and I tel yer what et ez ef youl give a werkinman the saim soil an enuf water heel gro rite up inter hevin itsself poverty aint no soil for nnthin ef ye find a feller askulkin ronn the barn everv tim yew lews a mewl hees liabel to get shet fer a theef an jest so et iz with poverty fer ets awlwais te be fowud akeepin kum peny with krim an smalpox tho thers enuf krim God nose en hi sassietv they hef to steel to get ther the wa things iz now sais he thairs a kaus fer poverty jest the saim ez enithiu els an the kaws iz greed an iggnerence an they gets in ther werK tnrew intrust an rent land an mun- e.v ye see sais he aint lik nuthin els an un til ye find thet owt youl alwais be slaivs to ytr cussed iggnerence which Ieumtims think iz theonli hell ther iz yess sais he this ez a kampain uv edewkashun an no sain man pn erth ken study thees things without bekumiu a kristiun weel kal this church the kingdum kum an weel tak in awl kreeashun therl bee no kwestiuns ast only wun naimli blak whit er veller do yew beeleeve in intrust er rent er gettiu ii t . i i . . Huiiiumi ier nuimn kus ei ye new we aint got no ust fer ye theas owr kreed an w went hom to brekmst then we got to reedin poverty an progres alukin bak- werds ten men uv muny eyelend and thi sevin flnanshul konspiresses an sum nther five sent buks when the prery tuk fire ef ye lik deer biebup weel send yea few buks an sum misshunarys fer the harvest ef ye think yer grane ez ripe spiritchewally speekin uf eoars mishun arys awlways go eest ye no et seems lik a law uv nachur yours fer the onli law ez iz werth a sent vox popyewiy. J. T. R. G. An Amusing Episode Rushville, Neb., Oct. 30, 1894. Editor Wealth Makers: I has long beeu known that the grand old party would steal, but it was not known that they would go so far as to try and steal a Populist meeting. But they had the cheek here at Gordon last Saturday to try that game. The circum stances are these: Senator H. G. Stewart and Judge Rioker and other Populist were advertis ed to speak at Gordon on October 27, both afternoon and evening, liut when the Populist committee went to hire the town ball they were told that tney could have it for that afternoon, but not at night, as it had been hired by the Repub licans at night for their speakers. So the Populists had their meeting in said hall that afternoon, and it was a success. The hall was crowded for standingroom. But the Populist committee was not idle. They rustled around and hired a large agricultural warehouse and put men to work to have it emptied of wagons and buggies, cleaned and seated for the even ing meeting; and about 7 p. m., it was crowded full of people that wished to hear the truth, in spite of the fact that it was raniing. And behold, the Republican hali was empty, although their men had adver tised it well. But here the fun began. When their speaker could get no crowd at his hall he marched right into our meeting and took the speakers stand (our speakers had not yet got there) and said, "Ladies and. Gentlemen, keep as quiet as possible, as I wish to address your on the issues of the times. It will tako me about two hours." Here he was interrupted by cries, "We don't want yourspeech." He looked surprised and said, aint this the Republican hojl? lie was informed that it was not, and he departed. The Republicans had no meeting. Ours was a grand success, aud this in Gordon, the Republican stronghold of this, Sheridan county. The g. o. p. is struggling. Boys, do your duty and down . them. Boys, pull to- Cbee.Vy "It was the attempt of the Populists to make a little money that brought all this confusion upon the treasury." This is the State Journal's closing paragraph on the loss of. the state through the Mosher-bank failure. Hut it fails to state that the depository law was passed on the supposition that the executive officers were honest and shrewd enough to take good and sufficient security from the bank. What kind of security was taken, who were the bonds men, and who approved the bond? Governor Crounse failed to enlighten us "."ir tiKiwr V''t'ii8'",ocii3r'iive5ing. Antelope Tribune. , Erery woman needs Dr. Miles' Pain Pflu. Unavoidably Crowded oat Last week Superioh, Neb., 1894. Editor Wealth Makers: I wish to make a statement in regard to the appropriations of the 22nd ses sion of the legislature in the year 1891. The Republican campaign orators are claiming the Independents raised the appropriations. I can prove by the Senate Journal that the appropriations were not raised by the Independents, but by the combine of the Republicans and Democrats, assisted by a few Indepen dents that voted with them where they had a state institution in their district. I do not think there is a single instance where a majority of the Independents voted to raise the appropriations, but in almost every case a majority of the Republicans and Democrats voted to raise tbem. I will refer you to page 920 of the Senate Journal of 1891, to an amendment to the report of the com mittee of the whole on the appropriation bill offered by Senator Stevens, an Inde pendent, which amendment, had it been adopted, would have decreased the appropriations $522,432. There were 9 Independents voted to adopt it. Every Republican (7) and 6 Democrats and 6 Independents voted against adopting it. You will also find on page 602 of the Senate Journal for 1893 an amendment to the report of the committee of the whole, on the approporiation bill, offered by Dysart, which, if it had been adopted, would have decreased the appropriations for 1893 more than $152,298. The vote was as follows: tor the amendment 13 Independents; against the amendment 13 Kepu blicans, 4 Democrats. 1 Independent So you see the Independents were the only Senators that made any effort to reduce the appropriations. In 1891 a great portion of the appropriations were of an unusual occurrence, for instance: the $200,000 for drouth sufferers. $50.- 000 for Columbian Exposition, $24,000 for suppression of Indian war, $1 3,000 for transportation of troops and $58,000 for extra district judges a total of $343 000; and in addition to these extras there were deficiencies from the legisla ture of 1889, for which we had to make appropriations which should be charged n p to the session of 1 889. The folio wing is a list of the deficiencies which can be found in the Auditor's report for 1891: bounty on wild animals $15,000; Ox nard sugar bounty $8,364; to Adjutant General, $8,000; Insane Asylum at Hast ings, $28,000; Industrial school at Kear ney, $5,200; Industrial Home at Mil'ord, $3,800; Insane Asylum at Lincoln, $12, 000; stenographer for governor, $$300; bookkeeper for governor, $225; messen ger for governor, $225; a total of $80, 114.4 I heard a Republican speaker stand up and : enumerate these very appropriations and accuse the Indepen dents of extravagance, when they are deficiencies from the time the state was under Republican management. They passed the laws allowing the bounties on sugar and wild animals, but made no appropriations to pay them. The legislature of 1889 had 58 more employes than the legislature of 1891. the actual expense of 1889 for officers members and employes was $190,000, that of 1891, $175,000, a difference of $15,000 iq favor of 1891. Hoping to see one of the grandest In dependent victories this fall ever witness ed in the state, I am yours for success. (senator) YY m. Dysart. A Letter From Oklahoma Perry, O. T., Oct. 15, 1894. Editor Wealth Makers: Dear Sir: Yours informing me that my paper needed a little financial aid if continued longer to my address, and having been a subscriber since the papers birth, I take pleasure in enclosing an other year's subscription. Having the last past spring left Ne braska and located in the beautiful city of Perry, Oklahoma, I do not think 1 could be "easy in my mind" without re liable Populist news from Nebraska. It fell to the lot of your humble ser vant to publish a little six-column folio paper in the early days, way up in Ham ilton county that supported Peter Cooper for president and is recorded as the oldest of its kind in the state. It was a wild and woolly little thing but it made the boys hump when it got onto the Republi can racket of paying the State Journal company sixty to eighty dollars per book for the clerk's use, and other crookedness in proportion. One county clerk was compelled, owing to the condition of the atmosphere to pay back into the general fund of the county $1,500 of stolen fees, and the rest of them surrendered their offices all of them- tothegreenbackers. A tall, beardless young man. a law student, was once our candidate , for county superintendent of schools, and was defeated by, a few votes, owing to misrepresentation. If the gentleman will now go out and work and vote for Silas A. Holcomb, the law student, for govern or of Nebraska, I think the Lord will for give him for the misrepresentation. That genial, large-hearted gentleman, Judge Stark, shottld receive every vote in his district; he is worthy the vote of every man who desires good govern nient. But while we are talking politics I wish to mildly remark that the boys in Okla homa are in the middle of the road, and the campaign is a hummer. The weather is mild and beautiful, with a warm rain about every week; wheat is looking fine, grass is abundant, health is good, and if we had any money in cir culation the people would be happy. Ralph Beaumont heads the Populist ticket for delegate to Congress: Every county in the territory has a ticket in the field, is well organized, aud the result we think will cause the bristles to rise on the heads of the hard money HtradJ!?T&. Yours truly, G. W. Bailey. Box 394, Perry, O. T. The Right Way to Reckon ; A Montgomery County farmer went in to a store in Norristown lost week and bought a suit of clothes. After the bar gain was made the stoorekeeper said: "There, that is the cheapest suit of clothes you ever bought." "Oh, no," said the farmer, "thissuit cost me twenty l.itol.nln nf nitinii 4- I kn nnwttn w, 't A uuniiviD niicaii, tiaru ncv ci uaiuuicr clothes before." That farmer's vision is clear. (Philadelphia Press. Creation of Millionaire and Panprra Monroe, Ore., Oct 22, 1894. Editor Wealti Makers: We recently saw in one of our metro politan newspapers a list of nearly one hundred names of American millionaires whose individual wealth is $10,000,000 or in excess of that amount. The aggre gate of their wealth is $2,721,000,000. Another prominent paper of New York City some months ago stated in defense of the great prosperity of our country and of the protective policy of our gov ernment that we have 3,000 millionaires. To assert, then, that the millionaires aud multi-millionaires of our country possess $4,000,000,000 of the wealth is not exaggeration. Fewer than one thousand men possess that amount, millions of people are in circumstances of destitu tion. There is a want of equilibrium in the balances of justice. It is obvious, even without careful observation and profound reflection, that the inequality of distribution of wealth is great. , No one denies that our country, as a unit, has been prosperous. It possesses wealth enough, but this unequal distribu tion of wealth makes opulence on one hand, and want, suffering and depression on. the other.. We do not advocate the principles of agrarian ism, but we shall portray to your minds a picture that would represent the effects of an equality of wealth. Were the $4,000,000,000, which is held by fewer than 1.000 persons divided into $1,000 parcels, and held by an equal number of heads of families, the families consisting of five persons, 20,- 000,000, or nearly one-third v of our population would possess homes worth $1,000 each, homes that would be highly prized, homes that would change the dis content of one-third of our present popu lation to content, happiness and pros, perity. This condition would do away with the paying of rents. There is noth ing more satisfactory to man than the knowledge that the roof over him is his own. When the misfortune of sickness comes npon him, he has the consolation of knowing that no monthly rent is accruing. But we say weare notagrarians. While we do not approve this principle and can not make an equal distribution of the wealth already accumulated, it is well that we learn what are the causes of this terrible condition and what the remedy, if any, to avert further direful results. Let the great common people gain wis dom and hereafter prevent vicious, un just legislation. Now, let us see how the millionaire was made. Did he amass his magnificent and colossal fortune by hard toil, or by arti fice? By physical strength, or , by intellectual acumen? At the beginning of the war the Wall Street capitalists hoarded the ' gold. Ostensibly it was bis purpose to make loans to the government atan enormous premium or high rate of interest, when the government, in its extremity, should be forced to borrow. The government, unwilling to accede to Shylock s unjust and unreasonable terms, devised a medium for meeting its obligations with out Shylock's gold. The government issued demand notes good for all debts, public and private. Robber Shylock, to thwart the designs of the government, and to create an absolutedemand for his gold, deceived and corrupted enongh of the members of the suDerior branch of our national legislative body to secure the passage of an amendment to the law authorizing government issue of notes, whereby the famous, or rather infamous "exception clause" was inserted, making those notes good for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt. The im porter, being compelled to have gold with which to pay nis import auties, must oi necessity go the the bankers of Wall Street to get it. The benevolent lord of Wall Street, knowing the compnisory nature of the importer's case, extorted outrageous premium,s reaching at .one time $1.85, or.in other words, it cost the importer $2.85 to get a gold dollar. Thus, Shylock received for hi $100,000 in gold the sum of $285,000 in currency. These greenbacks being good for all debts, except those that would conflict with Shylock's interests, the extortioner of Wall Street bought $285,000 worth of U. S. interest bearing bonds, with interest payable in advance, in gold. The interest on $285,000 at 6 per cent., the rate at that time, was $17,100, in gold. Disposing of this to the next im porter, he therefore receives $48,735, which he reinvests in bonds, receiving gold interest in advance to the amount of $2,924. Now, the amount he has re ceived thus far for his original $100,000 in gold is $330,659. In addition to this the government out of kindness for the poverty-stricken bondholders, graciously returns to him 90 per cent, of the face value of the bonds, in bank notes, which is equivalent to $300,361. This added to the face of his bonds, together with his $2,924 of gold interest, equals $637, 020, or a profit of $537,020 on $100,000 all of which could have been done within a month's time. It does not stop here. Money was at that time in great demand At times during the great conflict, he might have loaned, within a few week's time, one-half ($120,000) of his bank notes. Money loaned at that time at a high rate. Not desiring to exaggerate his profits, we shall compute his interest at 15 percent, which is below the aver age. SFioiirdtie ioaii but one-naif of his notes at 15 per cent, we have $22,500 interest. Remember that bankers' inter est, like bond interest, is payable in ad vance, and may be reloaned. Add this $22,500 to his already accumulated pro fits, and we find that he has a profit of $559,520 on his $100,000. Is it myste rious, then, that millionaires have been created? And it was this same nefarious legislation that made the pauper. Thirty years ago the mass of our wealth was in the hands of the great common populace Now the great mass of the wealth, ac cording to the Sherman investigation and according to the statement of the i r i iTesi;f n t ni a f i-s fin an , J. J. Ingalls, whom the Kansas Alliance martyred four years ago, is in the hands of ab5ut 31,000 poplev or one two thoiiHHndth part of our population. We might presume that our government might ultimately satiate its spirit of liberality for poor Shylock; but time proves to us that her tendency to per form good deeds, for the undeserving, is limitless, so she graciously deposits in the millionaires' banks millions of gov ernment funds, and the poor banker loans this money at a high rate to the citizens of this glorious free land. This is all done in behalf of the poor man, onyiocic. But did not Shylock' accumulate his massive wealth legitimately? Did not the law confer on him the legal privilege of conducting such a business? It did. He fully complied with the requirements of the la w. Shylock, too, has one redeem ing feature. He liberally gives for charit able purposes. When the contribution box make its regular tour, he contribu- ittb uut'iaiij, mat D, iu iuq aunuai . - ruption fund." This acceptable sacrifice makes immaculate his avaricious soul. Through the influence of these redeeming contributions the poor old parties retain coutrol, and laws framed in the inter est of the impoverished bondholder and manufacturer are enacted. The wealthy producer, the farmer, who is burdened with an over-production of his products, is relieved of his burdens by giving the bulk of them to the poor railroad mono polist for transuortation. This is a glorious country, and unless some innovation soon comes, heavy bounties will be laid on its glory, and the producer must pay it. If we be bruve men, if we prize that blood-bought herit age, liberty, which caused our ancestors such untold suffering and sacrifice, let us show it by stamping out this nefarious legislation. The ballot box is ours; and unless we manfully use it, the last vestige of Our declining liberties will soon be filched from us. A. C. Guthuiu. A A Oase of Files of Eighteen Tears' Standing, Cured by the Pyramid Pile Cure. There are plenty of pile cures which give relief ana sometimes cure a mild case of piles, but there is only one which can be depended upon with certainty to cure obstinate long standing cases, and that is the Pyramid Pile cure. Endorsements and testimonials are re ceived daily from men and women whose integrity and reliability are above ques tion, and in this connection a letter re ceived from the Rev. Jas. H. Wesbmok of Bowne, Mich., may be of interest to pile sufferers who have sought in vain for a cure. He says: I have used the Pyramid Pile Cure and I know that it is all that is claimed for it. I had been troubled with piles more or less for about eighteen years and I had tried other remedies, but the piles grew worse until about ten months ago I used the Pyramid Pile Cure. It gave almost instant relief and 1 have been free from piles ever since. Rev. Jas. II. Wes brook. r The remedy seems to act equally well in every form of piles, blind, bleeding, protruding or itching. It stops all pain almost immediately, allays irritation and removes constipation, and anyone who has suffered the annoyance and pain of a rectal trouble will appreciate the ex cellent results which invariably follow the first application of the Pyramid. The Pyramid Pile Cure is prepared by the Pyramid Drng Co. of Albion, Mich., aud for sale by druggists everywhere. Tho Burling o..'s New Shott Line. The Burlington Route is a notable ex ception to the general run of western railroads. During a period when railroad build ing in this country has been almost at a standstill, it has been steadily pushing forward its northwest extension and now takes much pleasure in announcing its completion to Billings, Mont.,.838 miles from Lincoln. At Billings connection is made with the Northern Pacific Railroad and, under a traffic agreement with that company, business of all classes is exchanged there, or, more properly speaking, routed through that point to and from every statiou on or reached via the Northern Pacific and Burlington Systems. This New Short Line--for that is ex. actly what it is reduces the distance be tween Lincoln, Kansas City, St. Louis aud the territory south and southeast of those cities, on the one band, and Mon tana, Northern Idaho and Puget Sound points, on the other, all the way from 50 to 473 miles. It thus becomes an im portant factor in bringing the vast scope of country served by the Northern Puciflc into closer relationship with the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys. Just to illustrate things: The New Short Line saves 294 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Helena, 224 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Butte, 371 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Spokane, 54 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Tacoma, 49 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Seattle. The New Line has been constructed in a most substantial manner. Excellently ballasted, laid with the heaviest steel npon inore than the usual numberof ties, it equals the best and oldest portions of the Burlington System. People whose opinion is worth having, pronounce it superior to any new track ever built in the western states. The traiu-service will consist of Pull man Palace Sleeping Cars, Reclining Chair Cars (seats free), and Standard Burlington Route Day Coaches, Omaha and Lincoln to Billings daily. As a Scenic Route the New Line takes high rank. The rich farms of eastern and central Nebraska; the more sparsely settled ?OEJ?trj that lies betweeu Ravpnna and the boundary line separating Nebraska and South Dakota; the canons, peaks and swelling meadow-lands of the Black Hills, the wonderful ' Devil's Tower" the irrigated districts of northern Wyoming; Custer Battlefield; the picturesque wind ings of the Little Big Horn; the glorious valleys of the great Crow Indian Reser vationall these are seen from the car window. Full information relative to the train service, rates or other features of the New Short Line will be gladly furnished upon npplimtinn to J. Francis, G. P. A. Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb., or G. W.' Bi.i.t'i:, C. P. & T. A., Lincoln, Neb. Subscribe for The Wealth Makers. REMARKABLE CURE