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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 0 T f Ta win H ' """ i TIIK y-yNEWYORK Jr H TiIRICE-i-W WORLD, EEK EDITION lnro-er than anv weekly or semi- weekly paper published! will beo pe tfial advantage to you during the PKtSI DENTIAL CAMPAIGN, as it is published every other day, except Sunday, and has all the freshness and timeliness of a daily. It combines all the news with a long list of interesting departments, unique fea tures.cartobns and graphic illustrations, the latter being a specialty. The price is one dollar per year. We offer this unequaled newspaper and THE Nebraska Independent together one year for $1.50. i. Buy a Smooth White Skin MORPHINE HABIT CURED. A YOUNG HAfl B uaj. WITH DISEASE LED TO THE USE OF THIS DRUG. Ho Fought Heroically and Finally Found a Cure for Both the Dis ease and the Habit. What He Has to Say About it. For Your Face! It probably need rene-dng, for It to roue, red. freckled, blotched or pimpled, until it has become MDulsive Instead of attractive. 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Cornell. C. P. & T. A. Oolng From Lincoln to Pacific CoaatT For quickest time, best service, lowest rates, address A. S. Fielding, C. T. A. Northwestern Line, 117 So. 10th St. Comfort to California. Yes, and economy, too. If you take the Burlington Route's personally conducted once-a-week excursions which leave Lincoln every Thursday morningr, Throutth tourist sleepers clean, bright, comfortable from Lincoln to San Francisco and Los Anoreles. Second class tickets accepted. Only $5 for a double berth, wideenuugh and big enough for two. c Write for folder giving full Information. Or, call at B. 4 M. depot or city office, corner 10th and O Sts., Lincoln, Neb. Gto. W. BOKHILL, C P. T. A. ALL ABOUT IT. An Illustrated Journal telling all about the Workings of a LIVE school in a LIVE city that is making a specialty of training LIVE business men. COMMERCIAL STUDIES, Shorthand, Typewriting, eta. Ton caa'ttmagfns how much It will help yon in the selection of the right school to attend without seeing a copy. Glad to send It tree. D. B. LILLIBRIDGE. Prei , Lincoln Basinets College, Lincoln, Neb Going to Europe This Year? Now is the time to secure the best ac commodations. We are agents for all first class lines, and guarantee lowest rates. Ask for rate sheets, sailing lists, etc. A. S. Fielding, City Ticket Agent, 117 S. 10th St. S. A. Mosher, G. A. Fom Me Register, Iola, Kaunas. Two years ago last May, Eugene Ihrig, a young farmer living near Iola, Kansas, anfWpH n. aevera attack of SCiatlCft, re uniting frnm a snrain followed by ex posure in wet weather. Four of the best phvsiciaus of the town attended bim at different times, but iu spite of all they lil Ho he irrew steadily worse. For nine montns he suffered as only tne vic tims of this malady can suffer. During three months of that time he was con fiued to his bed, and for five months he could not walk except on crutches, on account of the excrutiatmg pain in his hips. Finally his condition became so had that ho could not walk at all and the phvsiciaus could hold out but little hone of recoverv. After lying thus for two weeks he was induced hv a friend to besriu taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Teople. He had no faith in them, but everythingelse hn.i failed and so in desperation he tried these. In a week he began to Buffer less and to retrain his appetite. v Within two weeks he could get around on crutches and before he had taken one box of the pills he could walk with only the aid of a Within a month he could walk without any assistance, and six weeks after he took the first pill he was doing . man's work on the farm. It is nearly vnr now since he beirhn taking the medinine and he recrards himself as com nletelv cured as he has no recurrence of his old maladv. except occasional slight r.wmces durinir wet weather, ana tnese rendilv vield to a few doses of the pills, v .... . - . But the pills have done even more lor itn than to cure him of sciatica. They i)va rnred him of the morphine habit. fn order to relieve the first pains ol rheumatism, uoon the advice of nhvsicion.'he becan taking morphine, The habit Boon became fixed, and at tne time he began taking Pink Pills his sys tem had hecome so permeated with the noison that he could take-half a tea- spoonful at a single dose. His last doc tor had told him thai ne coma never ue cured of sciata so long as he continued to take the morphine, and he tried he roically to break the habit, but without aval . When he becan taKing nuK rui he still continued the use of the morphine, takine it both internally and by inieo tion. But in a little while ne iouna mat. he no longer wan ted it. and from that dav to this he has not had the slightest craving for the drug. He regards his de liverance from the morphine uaDit as no less a boon than the cure of his sciatica, and he gives all the credit for both to Pink Pills. To confirm the a Dove pe- yond all douht, Mr. Ihrig made the fol lowing statement: I, Eugene Ihrig, being ot lawiui age, ao solemnly swear that I have read the foregoing article and that all the state ments therein made regarding my illness and its cure are true. I feel sure that I owe my present health and strength, if not my life to Pink Pills. rSiizned.1 Jcgene jhrig. Sworn and subscribed to before me, a notary public, in and for the County of Allen, state ot Kansas, this urn aay 01 January, 1896. J. H. Vanndys, f notary ruouc. I hereby certify that I have personal knowledge of the case above cited and that the statements made in the fore going article are true. Signed. . j. i-va.ns, Druggist. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple are nota patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first com pounded as a prescription and used as such in general - practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Med icine Company, Schenectady, N. 1., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 52.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr Williams' Med. to. A llfMigeron Mail. Tbeestwhile railroad attorney, Thomas D. Heed, in his contemptible treatment of the members of thepeople s party in congress representing over ou million and a quarter voters or 0,000,000 peo ple, proves bevonu pern a venture, iu small nature of the man, his total lacic of broad statesmanlike qualities, and is total lack of any conception 01 toe deals of republican government. Thomas 15. Reed should have been Dorn four hundred years Tago: his arbitrary and esentially despotic rulings, none the less repulsive because veiled ueumu a him one of the most dan gerous men that we can conceive of to be honored with a responsioie pusmui ... republic. From the way the go u 1 gans and mugwump sneers are his praises, it is eviueni me siuuir. y. Wall Street and the bank of England s renresentatives would greatly rejoice to ' . . . mi a see him nominated. iue Areun. FIVE FACTS. ii Great -THE- Rock Island Routs! Cheap Outing Excursions. First For the National Edncational Meetlaa at Denver, opening Jnly 6th, the rate will be one fare plus $2.00 tor ronnd trip Tickets good to ntnrn nd time nn to and Including Sept. 1st, Second The regular Tourist Car to California via Kansas City run once a week, and leave Chicago erery Thursday at 6 p.m., Kansas City at 10.60 a,m. every . Friday. Tickets based on aacnnd class rate, and car runs on fastest trains. and known as the Phillips-Hock Island Tourist Excursions. Car arrives at Colorado Springs KutnrrlHT. 7:116 a.m. Third Home-Seeker't Excursions to Texas and New Mexico. Next one June 11th. Rate, on i- in, .nnnil t.rfn. Tickets rood twentv davs, Fourth For Mexico City the Kock Island runs a through sleeper from Kansas City dally t. x-m n.m. via Toneka.McFarland. Wichita and Fort Worth and Anstln to San Antonio. Two rnntas from there are international R. R. to Laredo, and Mexican National to the City ot Mexico; Southern Pacific and Mexican Interna tional via Snofford and Eagl Pa to City of Mat Inn. Connections ar also made at Fort Worth via the Texas Pacific to El Paso, and over the Mexi can Central to Citv of Mexico. Fitch Send to address below for a Souvenir called the "Tourist Teacher," that gives much Information to tourists. Sent free. JOHN SEBASTAIN, O. P. A., Chicago, GOING TO GOING TO OING TO, Chicago? St. Paul? Black Hills? Central Wyoming? San Francisco? LosAngolos? Portland? by KORTH-WESTEM LINE. CITY OFFICE: 7 So. 10th St., - LINCOLN, NEB totlinio 1 itt Sorvleo ;ost Rati J AN OLD NEBRASKA. SETTLER. The Mate Sugar Tteet Bulletin. The experiment station of the Univer- aifir nf phrnkft has mst issued bulletin vi . ' . . . ....... .in. No i containing a tiescnpuou m tuo exneriments in the culture ol tne sugar 1 beet in Nebraska during the years ly anA The bulletin explains at length aud by means of carefully pre. pared data the cause of the failure ol beets to lay by a large amount of sugar of '95. The reasons for this are summed up in me louowiug words: September opened wi.h a gen eral rain covering nearly tne wnoie oi the state. This was followed oy a penou of high temperature. The nearly ripened beets responding to tne moisture ouu warmth began a period of growth, drawing sustenance from the sugar al ready stored. Before they could again bigin elaborating sugar, a period of cold weather set in, checkiug growth and leaving them in an immature conuiuon. This is a condition of weather totally un precedented in Nebraska, and one mat may never occur ngnm. The experiments at the station farm have been continued along tne same lines as heretofore, and are making of sugar beet culture a safer snd simpler operation for the farmer. Several new va rieties developed in Europe nave im i trioH hut, hnve not done well as the well- known Vilmorin and Klein Wanzlebener varieties. The test ol potasn rertuizers has been continued with the same results oa Unra nnmplv that thev cannot be ln vtviv, " " nfiiohln nRPfl at nresent. A number of chemical analyses of the sugar factory products are given. The so-called "pulp" from the extracted beets is shown to be an excellent cattle food, oanpflirtllv for milch cows. Analyses of the frozen and unfrozen pulp indicate that frcprino-m detrimental not only to the keeping qualities but to the feeding value. A comparison of sugar beets with pulp shows that weight for weight tin hoata contain more nutritious mat ter, owing to the greater amount of water in the pulp, but that the dry mat tpr nf the niiln is more nutritious than that, nf heets. An analyses of the "lime cake" given away at the factory shows it, tn be a verv desirable fertilizer. Thin valuable bulletin is sent free to nil nnnlieants. Address the Director o the Experiment station, University Nebraska, Lincoln. IS IT A TRIFLE? Now How Lone Oh! Lord, How long? How much longer will the moneyed in terests throuch the urofeseors they em ploy in theUniversities, their daily press, and other "tools," keep the people in ig norance of the plain facts of history and of their sophisms. There is, under exist ing conditions, no valid objection to in dependent action on the part of the Unit ed states. National tsimetainst. Acid dj8pep8ia,commonly called heart burn or sour stomach, is a form ol indi gestion resulting from fermentatiou of the food. The stomacn oeing too wean to promptly digest it, the food remains until fermentation uegmi?, "ie 111 utnmnch with eras, and a bitter, sour hiirnine taste in the mouth is otten pres ent. This condition onen necomes chronic and being an every day occurence istriven but little attention, uecause dyspepsia is not immediately fatal, many nenn do nothinir tor tne trouoie. Within a recent geriod a remedy has heen discovered weDared solely to cure dyspepnia and stomach troubles. It is , - L' ',. Ii;.,.,r,.,;i ToKlpfaonrl it is now becoming rapidly used and prescribed as a radical cure for every form of dvsnepsia, Stuart's Dvsoepsia Tablets nave been placed begore the public aud are sold by druggists everv wnere ai ou ueum per ONE IN EVERT lOUE. Prom One Person in Ev-.ry Pour Enffers Pilef, ' '. Ahout one person in every four suffers from some form of rectal disease. The most common and annoying is itching niles. indicated by warmth, slight moiS' ture and intense, uncontrollable itching in the parts affected. The usual treatment has been some sirrmle ointment or salve which some times give temporary relief, but nothing like a permanent cure can oe exptcieu from such stinerflcial treatment, 1 The only permanent cure for itching piles yet discovered is the Pyramid Pile Cure, not only for itching piles, but for every other form of piles, blind, bleeding or protruding. The first application gives instant relief and the continued use for a short time causes a permanent re moval of the tumors or the small para sites which cause the intense itching and discomfort ef itching piles. Many physicians for a long time sup posed thrft the remarkable relief afforded by the Pyramid Pile Cure was because it was suDDOsed to contain cocaine, opium or similar drugs, but such is not the case. A recent careful analysis of the remedy showed it to be absolutely free from any cocaine, opium, or in fact any poisonous, injurious drugs whatever Sold by druggists at 50 cents per pack, age. This paper and the Silver Knight both for one year for $1.15. See our clubbing list for rates with other papers. THAT COMMON TKOUBiiS ACID DYSPEPSIA OE SOUB STOMACH. Recognized as a Cause Sexioua Disease. Ha Hal Kept Ttb on Republican Thieves " , for Twenty-five Years The first thing politically that at tracted my attention after landing in Lincoln was the impeachment of Gov ernor Butler. The charges against him were that he had loaned public money to himself and thathehad loaued to others on second mortgage. For several years it was counted that the state had lost several thousand dollars but finally the advance in price of property brought back all the money with interest, that governor Butler loaned and his impeach ment was expunged iroin tne recorus. Lieutenant Governor James was made governor to fill the vacancy made by the impeachment ol Governor liutier. nis most noted act of statesmanship was the souanderinir of thirteen thousand dollars of school money which had to be replaced by the legislature from the gen eral fund. Nothing was done about pun ishing the criminal. . The next act of brilliant statesman. ship was one authorizing the courts to give judgment against the state. Under this law Stout obtained a judgment of forty or fifty thousand. The attorney general allowed the matter to go upon thn record in such a shape that It was difficult to open the case before the su preme court, but Marquette did it at the request ot tne governor, in auimiou vo his rearular salary for serving the state, the attorney general received from some one a soan of horses, harness and new wagon. But tne law and judgment was aer, aside bv the supreme court. The next legislature passed a Dili to rrnv the same man seven thousand aoi- nrafnr tne Stone CHIOS leit Oil mo I'kui tentiary grounds. It was unoerstoou that this was a comDromise to mollify the decision of the supreme court in the ntlipr raw). " - The next was the paving ot a Din hrnncrhr, hv the Journal company contract was made in writing to do a f-prtnin amount of printing for a certain sum. The work was done and the audit or paid as the contract read, uut tne company wanted about seven thousand ir nm more. i ne auuicur wuuju uuv riav it. An appeal was made to the su nreme court for a mandamus order com . - ... . ...i iL. . . pelting tne auditor to pay, uui me wm decided the bill had been paid in full. The next legislature yielded and the Dill ivns nniil the second time, . . . Away bacK, Deiore me war, mnjui Ppnrmnn was scared out pt a year crrnwth hv som Indians out oa the Platte. The bill to pay him four thou .nnil Hollars was ud in every legislature, but as long as anyone was present wno tnon nf the mutter it failed to pass. Finally in 1889 it went through and tue money was paid. , Next came the ivenoau scnooi iwiu steal. Three or four wealthy men pre- tpnriprf tn hnv or lease all the oosiraoie oihnnl 1 ,1 n il in the state. Then when rrotniino nurchaser or leaser came, th land which he wanted was taken but for a hundred or two dollars it could do got tpn Sn everv actual settler was bled thousands of acres left not either sold or rented. It is so today, hundreds of thousands of our school fund are lay ing idle so far as yielding a revenue for our schools, but some one gets the inter est on that money. The testimony given in the trial of the state officers three years ago is fresh in the minds of the people. Not less than one hundred thousand dollars was stoien from the state treasury under guise of bills for the penitentiary and the several insane asylums. The court decided that state officers could not be punished when thev stole by proxy. The crowning glory of republican statesmanship was attained under Gov ernor Crounse. Making two bankers the custodian of public funds without bonds men. The loss to tha state of 236, 000.00 was the fruit of such foolishness. Then his bull-headed ness in keeping Hil ton, oil inspector, in office, saddling a loss upon the state of not less than six thousand dollars was equally commend able. We will say nothing about the centennial Fair commissioner and other appointeeB of this noble governor. To gather up the thefts and defalca tion of counties and cities will require an-nthpi- Phanter. It is clear to be seen that republican rogues in office feel safe in the hands of republican courts. Public of ficers are more and more tree witn puo of of from lied f lvenlft She who owns a bed of lavender may make It a very pretty and poetical source of pocket money, as well aa an artistic delight. From its 'fragrant blue depths she can gather many a sil ver dollar in the course of a summer, aa its treasures find a ready sale among women who love dainty things. Ia Southern California good-sized laven der beds keep many women supplied with spending money, for tne long, Blender stems In blossom sell readily for a cent apiece, and those whose nurse of plenty and hours of leisure admit of luxurious bits of fancy work, see a poetical fitness in working up the lovely old-fashioned flower into choice and dainty articles. For birthday and holiday gifts, and for church fairs and bazaars nothing could be sweeter man pretty things that can be made rrom lavender stalks. A beauty-loving little woman has re cently fashioned some exquisite arti cles of fancy work,' which are useful, too, In a very dainty way, using as her material long, smooth lavender otalks In bloom and many yards of lavender colored baby-ribbon. With taste and skill her deft fingers wove in and out, between the slender stalks, smning rows of ribbon, until at last mere iay a shimmering lavender-tinted and lavender-scented fan large and substan tial enough for actual use, but so fairy- like and delicate that one would be con tent to admire its beauty aa a ran which might be used, but ahould not. The fraerant blue blossoms were first folded down upon their stems, and babv-ribbon woven very closely ana firmly in between the stems whjch cov ered them, the blossoms being in me nan tor This makes a firm, smooth handle, which tapers toward the r.rt This la broad and nat line m old-time palm-leaf fana that went with nm- e-randmothers to meeting. stems are then expanded and trimmed with scissors into proper shape to make a rounding edge. This flat surface, from about two inches above the han dle is closelv woven with the baby- ribbon, and a full cluster ia fastened at the top. as is also a rosette of loop? at the smallest part of the handle. Another very popular way of using lavender is the making of "lavender sticks." These are .similar to the handle of the fan described, and three nr four are loined together in a cluster, by large, full bows of baby-ribbon of any delicate color, iney are uuu against lace curtains or ovr chair hacks, and the pungent, spicy odoi tnm tha hidden blossoms fills the room. As a gift for some dear old lady, whose earliest years are somehow as sociated with the sweet, old-fashioned lavender nothing can be more dainty and aDDrODriate tnan a lavenuer wu nentlv swavina the lightsome, airy thine, tender i thoughts of long-past o-irihood will come to her as familiar fragrance floats out upon the air Memories of that sweet pleasure of "going to meeting," with a sprig of lavender laid primly upon tne buuwj folded handkerchief, or pressed be tween the leaves of the bible, will come to her with tenderest meaning, and vis ions of mother's lavender bed wui ne with her all day long, Many a dainty woman loves the scent of lavender in her bearoom anu uyuu her clothing and household belongings, and bunches of this fragrant nern inclosed in some very fine fabric, tied with lavender ribbons, given to a tas- tidious friend to lay away in her bureau wardrobe, would be a useful gut, Love of delicate odors is an evidence of refinement, and the very act ot scenting a garment presupposes its immalculate pipaniiness. Then how oretty ana dainty It is to scatter blossoms from the lavender bed throughout one's pos sessions and to .let the good, old-fashioned perfume become a part of one's daily life. Ladies Home Journal. MAILED OBSCENE MATTER Knot Afoul lie money and the end is not yet. n w ti H. W. Hardy. ARMAGEDDON. The new industrial and political song book. . , T oAnfoina 1 Kfl TMMTeB 7x9 lnChCS S1Z6, Chemical Co., Marshall, Micb., and while it promptly and effectually restores a vigorous digestion, at tne same xime n ik perfectly harmless and will not injure the most delicate stomacn, improves ine appetite and makes life worth living. Wanted- An Agent , . . A A rt a in every section, to canvasB, .uu to $5.00 a day made, sells at sight; also a man i sell staple goods to dealers, best side line,$75.00 a month. Salary or large commission made, experience unneces sary. For sealed particulars send stamp. Clifton Soap & Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mention xnebhaska Independent. 48-52-t A Great Song Book. There is nothing like popular songs to attract crowds and stir up enthusiasm in the people's cause. And there is no song book on the market that can for a moment compare with Armagkddon. Its words and music make the pulses leap. Patriotic, pathetic, humorousand powerful. It is just the book for the times, and is most highly commended and endorsed by the leaders of the popu list party and by all our singers and musicians, it is not a collection oi aog- nounced by all incomparably superior to anv book that has yet appeared, ti v T.nhMu, bavii nf It: 'It Is the best sonibook yet published. Introdm It Into every household in the land. Onr local campaign speakers and committees oognt to sm that it has the widest circulation.' Hartlord City Arena: "Any glee club supplied with it will com mand ths crowds.' Kockv Mountain News: "Best of anything la the line that we have seen." ..nnri World: "It fills a long felt want." Han Von TlAFvnnpt I eonarratnlate yon on vonr ireat work. Ths whole country wUl sing this music." New York Voice: "A collection of songs for the times, with brlghtucatchy words and good stir ring music" The Sledge Hammer: "Every one of the songs aeem. No chaff in the whole book." uaMhaiiiftvn f TavaI Pnnullst: "Should be In h.mta ntpvorvone who wishes to make bit dnrlnir the campaign." Prof. Georne D. Herron: "I believe your book m will he of Immeasurable and divine ser vice In quickening and pervading the gratmove i. t .ni.ii i-hnnini which is manifesting Iteell every where among the common people. It will inspire the people with courage and cheer and fellowship In the great struggle that Is be fore them," Prof. W. M. Ross of Indiana, the great solo shifter of "The Van Bennett Nationals Team," . iiu... f.t.n nRim to rnn throunh the rrir and nrononnce it a grand collection ol words and a hiA order of music." The Farm Field and Fireside says: "It has been left to Mr. George Howard Gibson to Intro duce a new tone Into the songs ot ths party, and to write a series ot patriotic song which ara hardly surpassed by any In our literature tor loftiness ot motive ana real mem irum a un A Privileged Visitor. Mrs. Keedick Did I understand you to say that you saw uueen victoria when you were in England, Mrs. Trot- ta.-? Mrs. Trotter Yes; I saw the queen and the heir-consumptive. Judge. trerel. with the air of half a dozen worn OUt Sunday Bchool tunes, and "Marching point of view, while at the sametlme they art not through Georgia." to sing it to, but new atj sll lacking I In the musical quality o-Wch must words an new music principally, just enough choice old music to please. Send to this office for a copy, if you have not seen it. See in another column what peo ple say who have seen it. Single copy 30 cents, $3.00 a dozen. Ton will need some good music at your populist meetings this year. It will be a hot, lively campaign. Get ready for it in each town and neighborhood by buy ing a dozen copies of Armageddon, the popnlist eong book. Thirty cenU a copy. See ad in this issue. necessarily bs present before any song touchsa th. hnrd of ooDularltv, They are remarkable for their fervid patriotism and broad humanity. In fact, If the People's party rises to ths patriotic level of these songs, we have little doubt ol Its ultimate success aa a party. The songs strlks the whole oetava of hams sympathy. Spark ling humor, ksen wit and biting sarcasm, aa well as the loftier patriotic themes, are to naked la tarabytka talented author." M Copies' of Armageddon for sale at this office, will be mailed to any address at 30 cent each, or 3.00 per dozen. The Tree-Killer. One of the curious forest growths of the Isthmus of Panama and Lower Cen tral America in general is the vine which the Spaniards call matapalo, or "tree-killer." This vine first starts in life as a climber upon the trunks of the large trees, and, owing to its marvelous ly rapid growth, soon reaches the lower branches. At this point.it first begins to put out its "f eelers"--tender, harmless looking root shoots, which soon reach the ground and become as firmly fixed as the parent stem. These hundreds of additional sap tubes give the whole vine a renewed lease of life. and it begins to send out its aerial tendrils in all directions. These en twine themselves lightly around every limb of the tree," even creeping to the very farthermost tips and squeezing the life out of both bark and leaf. Things go at this rate but a short while before the forest giant is compelled to suc cumb to the gigantic parasite which is sapping its life's blood. Within a very few years the tree rots and falls away, leaving the matapalo standing erect and hollow, like a mouster vegetable devil-fish lying upon its back with its horrid tentacles clasped together high In the air. Core-like arbors of mata palo are to be seen in all directions, each testifying to the llgerlng death of some .sylvan giant that formerly sup ported it Information. Young Farmer Jfenr Trumbull of I'tirl Sam. Hastings, Neb., May 6.A farmer named T. J. Pudgeon, near Trumbull, was brought to Hastings by Deputy United States Marshal Frank White and given a preliminary examination yesterday morning before Judge Bailey on the charge of violating the laws by sending profane and obscene matter through the mails. He was placed under $300 bond to appear before the United States circuit court at Omaha May 15 for trial. ' A Smooth Travelling Man. LrxcoLX, Neb., May 6.Not long ago a smooth travelling man came, to the city and hired a lot. of boys. The ob ject of this wholesale expenditure oC monev was simply a little scheme on his part to advertise. He sent the boys around to every store in the city to ask for a certrin kind of gum. Th. merchants did not have it ana couiu not sell the boys any other kind. The result was that each mercnam, bwuio he would slip up on his brother mer chants and lay in a stock of that gum tlrst. Before they had time to cool oft and give the matter much thought, the travelling man dropped in and sold them nice order of the gum. row mo is well stocked and the mercnants ro wondering whether or not there ia another such lot of easily worked men nywhere in the west. Severely Injured. Table Rock, Neb.. May 8.--T. G. McLaughlin and wife, an aged couple living four miles northeast of here, were seriously injured in a runsw.j accident yesterday. Iey naa a youug colt hitched up, whiohTueked over the tongue and started to run, when one of the lines broke and brought the wagon to a sharp turn causing it upset, throwing the occupants out. It is tearetltneageacouijio uio Internal injuries. Skipped Afcross the Muddy. Nebraska Citt, Neb., May 6. Late Monday afternoon "Zip waw u Charles Turner had some trouoie aim in the fight that followed Straw bit off a good portion of Turner's nose. Offi cer Dixon went to arrest Straw, fcnt the latter took to his heels ana was swift for the officer, and the last seen of him he was on the Iowa bottoms. The trouble grew out of a dispute over difference of 45 cents. Wants a Divorce. Fbemost, Neb., May e.Mrs. Lena Ilaglund has commenced suit in tne district court for a divorce from her, husband, Charles Haglund. The peti tion sets forth that she was marnea to the defendant in 1891 and that in the following year she was aesertea ana since that time she has not been pro vided for. The petition lurtner asK that an absolute divorce be granted and her maiden name, Miss Lena Brught be restored. ' Arranging for Decoration Day. , Superior, Neb., May 6. Arrange ments have been completed by the members of Old Abo post, G. A.- R-. and theW. R. C, for the proper observa tion of Memorial and Decoration days. Past Department Commander C. L. Adams will deliver the address Memor ial Sunday, and Gen. John M. Thayer and Senior Vice Commander J. A. hhr hardt have been engaged for Decora tion day services. Thedford Tales, Thkdford, Neb., May6.--Mrs. Doyle, wife of John Doyle of the firm of Doyle & McMillan, died yesterday morning of diphtheria. Thomas county has had two and a half inches of rain during the past week. The ground is thoroughly soaked anrl crrefin oastures are now good. The, crop prospect was never better than at the present time. New Association Formed. nASTXNOS, Neb., May 6. -The Hast ings building and loan association, ah organization to take the place of the one now being wound up, has been or-i ganized. Articles of incorporation and constitution and bylaws have been adopted, which will be submitted to the banning Doara ior approval. otdu hundred shares have been subscribed. Death of a Weeping Water Lady. WEKPise Water, Neb., May 6. Mrs. C. H. King, one . of the oldest residents of the county, died at her home in thi city Sunday evening after a proiraotea illness. An autopsy was held Monday afternoon, which revealed extensive cancer of the stomach. Her daughter, Mrs. John P. Hlggins of West Lincoln, was present, and also her soa. Editor Greenfield of the Union Ledger. Get R, R. and Steamship tickrte at 117 Bo. 10th St. How Staa Lived a Ilnndred Tears. "I have taken pretty good care of my health and let others do the worry, ing," is the testimony ol a hale old woman In Indiana, who celebrated her 100th birthday in September. A. O. C. W. Memorial Exercises. Hebron, Neb., May 6. The local lodge of A. 0. U. W. held its memorial exercises at the Christian church Sun day. Rev. C. M. McCurdy of Bethany, formerly pastor of the church, delivered; the memorial address. After the ad dress the members proceeded to the cemetery and placed their tributes of flowers upon the graves of departed brothers. - Observed Floral Day. Elmwood, Neb., May . Excelsior lodge No. 144, A. O. U. W., observed floral day Sunday bymeetlng at Its hall and marching in a body to the Christian church, where Elder Cyfus Alton de livered an appropriate sermon. Thv lodge at this place has not lost a mem ber, although it has been organized about ten years. Sidewalk Was Faulty. Faibbubt, Neb., May 6.- While re turning home from church Sunday night through the storm W. H. McCoy fell from the sidewalk over a ravine, a distance of about ten feet to the ground, breaking his left arm below the elbow. Anniversary to be Observed. Gobdqk, Neb., May 6. The Metho dist Episcopal church will celebrate its twelfth anniversary on Sunrlay, May 10, with appropriate exercises. Rev. J. A. Scamahorn, the present pastor, was the founder of the little colony thai Brat settled Gordon.