!aVaSaVaVAAAVaaVaa 4 t fcni tfriS$uPrior FODDER LXilLtvv VICTORIA RAPE About lttmtlrtKtmduf MiiuMM, iu vmur Mud iHunuurit( .jimijif. it Rtatktil pUaht lOlfrtm' aWHl MIiil njWp auxl mitie all onr AmnH nt If. ft It.. It it twj (Slant incarnate Clover Produ" a luiurtaUit willun Hi Htwki alter and loti of imiturmite bowdf. WUi ik well Grass, Clovers and Fodder Plant Oar caUlnfM If brtuiftil o( i li Tl.'.iiiar.t. ini"l '1 Tr'";f f'Tf - itcmw-tntf in f udder uf r arm ; frtlA(: Kiwi. wliril'ilM ltulll and 4 luoa of uar PC acre, HUUoa Sal ay's Crasa MtefwM r Yleldliaj ton of mMUlflMnl hay and an tndMa tiww fnoriMto 6 fona of Hay P" cr Tn f rt fraa of tit. fntury . crowing w ln-rtT toil t found. Our irrtat raUlofue. wurtti tla an t wide ifUl American garj-fiw or famiir, la mailr.1 u you will, mauy farm m4 aauiylM, upoa laratal of bul 10 eanu puMaa. a- ( alalug aloua ula fur ivUfe. JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY. U Crotse. Wii. Hides. Pelts. The o,des ' ' Pays the Furs, Wool. commission tif.ll tec Id uap. U Bl I' IMS WUfT, tM but ltttU vaav- olio. la hipul crated Hmpn9j tta4a ill eoooM 1 1 oaks md. lar oatort. aJr ta ofttm it. ETry ITUtVMiMd. Olhir ilia to AO U. P. fUa4 M W abr Oaja Cur' m toffttM r., U l IIs iaMW CllT, w. 150 Kindt for 16c. lllii f. I U-mt -altr'i tffthl m! (lower , tu ir found in mon- tfavruniK 1 ftiitl on niiira faint i Utan ant of)r 1 In Aiiierl-'aV. Ttiru ihiuhi for ihn. Weovn mid fiJTairijTT r fur we niavka in luiiwwtiig uuyrec- for f 6 Centm PomtpMA Vt 114. nf rami lurlaia pa4Ubta, 1 12 aaf iimii aanwai miuu, IS aa-t gloplarw Uanlaat, flarlaa ItlltM art II a, Wr II BplaaelUI kt aorta. ffBalj feaaallfa.1 t a4a, 111 aUI ISO KID'IB pOtttlTflT lUmlftltmff tmittli of ehAnnlrtir llowrnj una a lot ima. ,iU of frtoti-6 Tifclhli,i UmMtttir with our n-3t -tltffu Oti i4 Hrontuflftml Hiaf Hz. onion eci ai v. a pound. n.i oni i or . in iiampt. v riu io iOHH A. SALZMSCE0CO.t Lt CrotM, WU. Tka WEBER g- raaalai 0la4an, iar4- art. nam. taaWI. Ma, m all mm. lakar Ou . lim CUr. 34. THE IMPROVED KIMBALL BROS. CO, Mf. J601 th St. - - - Council Bluffs, la. Omaha Office, - - - 1010 11th St. When writing, mention this paper. The Wabash nt"WilirJealor" 0 PumDer uu srjsrf ,...p A 1 l I ! With Its own rails from Omaha. Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago to Buffalo. N. Y., for all points Kast. Soulh and Southeast. Reduced rates to all the winter resorts of the south. Ask your nearest Ticket ent to route you via THK WABASH. Kor descriptive matter, rates Agen and all information, call on or ger Department, 1415 Farrmm S The Chicago Limited mmrniio Chicago .JS.ilHkM 7 .o-iM--" FUtinc. r- ..I. jr ' Tdcet Off.ce.1504 FarnamSt-Ornaba. BOYD COUNTY, NEBRASKA. I. one of the best agricultural and tock raising counties In North Ne braaka. lis noil is exceedingly rich; ta a black loam from three to six feet ieep with dy "'""" Ku"y ,W tar cent of the land In Boyd county can b cuilivaieu, me ii excellent pasture, and It Is stated that upon every quarter section there Is a eattler. It Is situated between the Missouri and Niobrara rivers, with the Keya Paha river and l'onca creek running through It, thus Insuring a better av erage rainfall than many olher food farming counties. I-and I. now .elling at an average price of 12000 per acre, but with the proposed and sur. extension of the Verdlgre branch of the Fremont, Klk taorn Missouri Valley K. It. through the heart or tne coumy ihc . summer, land value, win nw-i--v COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO, Philadelphia Pre..: Mr. Ulghllcy nich-Whul! You want to marry my daughter? Why, you ain't able to support yourself. Young Mr. Uaul.-y Bluegoi.-Exactly. That's tha very xcusu I gav my fsmlly for wanting to marry. The growth of the United Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners at lh! praaent time is unparalleled In hi" his tor. Twelve hundred new member, wars adds last month and .( ex andnl for d.atb bsnaflt. Plants liwftif Kmpi Rapein erop thiwiftt tmll aWdlriK ami mis nil l uuuint long auywbce. lr.o tlK,rcurriljr IMlM farm liollar Gnat, ek., etc. amount of paatuna oa any fann in A merle. Established 1878 Hide House in Nebrka highest market prlcasn a., o charged - prompt retnrn thos, Mcculloch 9IO Q Street. Lincoln, Nebr. 15 Cents, Send 15 cents In 2-cent pastage stamps and secure a copy of our bu'k8kibbon HOLIDAY EDITION to be published Jan. 15, 1902. Thirty-six pages beautifully illustrated and replete with information. $1 00 will secure the large Blue Rib bon Holiday Kditlon and the Week ly Spirit of the West one year. Ad dress. SPIRIT OK THK WKST. Des Moines, la. PILES CURED FREE Absolutely Cured Never To Return. A boon to sufferers. Acts like magic. In reach of everybody. A home treat ment that can be handled to perfec tion In the most humble home. Why sufTer so long when you can find out how to be cured at home by address ing Loudon I'lle Cure Cn.,Cordova, 12th &'l'enn, Kansas City .Mo. Please mention this paper. 1 CENT A GRAIN For STEPHEN'S Prolific Drouth Withstanding Corn. Mammoth crop good years; big crop dry years. Yielded 50 bushels to the acre on high ground with three culti vations this year, and adjoining corn, with five cultivation., yielded ten bush els. Send 25 cents for 25 grains enough for a .tartTlnd examination. Stephen's Prolific Corn Co. 3743 Euclid Ave., - Kansas City, Mo. Please mention this paper. FOR MEN ONLY. ara Drink ! We will aend our elefanilta . . pa., book lo any one wuo i amtcled and In need oa retlueMl ot informa tion. Our book li the lineal bonk o( tbe kind ever publiabed and it of great value to a or one wbelber In need of medical treatment or not. We end ibe book in plain entekrpe sealed. W rite for It today by poMal card or letter - Address DBS. FELLOWS ft FELLOWS. 321 W. Walnut St., Das Moines, la. Route... write, Harry K. t., Omaha, Neb. Moines, (lent. Passen- a u kWStJ rapidly, a. all that the county now lacks to make It an Ideal farming and stock raising countiy Is direct rail road communication with Omaha ami other markets. Corn, wheat, rye. potatoes, and. In fact, nil products of lli farm that are ralsi-d In the same latitude In lo'a, are successfully raised In Boyd coun ty. Small fruit of all kinds does well here, and many thrifty on hard s are s altered through the county. With the exception f 1K9I. ' this county has raised good crops, and the many valuable Improvements In lit" way of comfortable and elegant farm buildings, the amount of live stock on each farm altewl the fact thai the farming proposition In Boyd couuly has long been settled In the alllriu allve. Butte Is the county seal, with a population of neai ly I. Win. OMAHA, Vol. 5 - No. 5 -1902 The bnrlron woi kers, 25.000 In ntiiii-b-r, had their wage, advanced bectuiia of the .dvance In their product. The employes of the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads also had til. Ir pay rulsed lnt week on account of the excellent earnings tiie roads were making. Philadelphia Press: Tes Bess Is going to mnrry an optician. Jess-Is r wealthy? Te..-I think so; at any rsl, she "y there's a lot of money In sight for him. -. , iif VfaWiUU. l iii aai w aira tt a, h,v.ia.u.v ! THE IMMENSE The Great Value of as Shown By the The United States Census Bureau has Just made up Its statistics of the chicken Industry In the United States. The results are so astounding that the American hen must be proclaimed the greatest of birds, now and oreverniore. The chickens of the United States In tha year 1900 weighed 821,715 tons. T Rrir.rrjTip tti" ngures it muni be known that all the big and llttlo fife-htlng- ships In the United States navy these chickens was 284,000,000, and they laid 10,000,000,000 eggs. The weight of these eggs was 820,033 tons, and their bulk was forty times that of the earth. The value of these eggs would have paid every cent of the expenses of the United States war department for the year. Missouri is the first state In chickens and eggs. In the year 1900 the hens of MIhsouiI laid more than $o,000,000 worth of eggs beyond the need of their owners, the egg crop bringing the women of Missouri as much cash as the wheat crop brought the men. The American hen is the greatest of birds. Plain, plump and possessing no gorgeous plumage, she Is still the real bird of paradise, creating a heaven on earth for men. The wonderful hen of the United States earned more money In the year 19O0 than did the United Slates postal system, though I he one had the aid of a great government and the other did her own cackling and eathered her own nest. She receives no handicap over any other Institution In the coun try, being strictly a scratch contest ant. When the census bureau gets all Its reports together it promises figures and facts about this diffident creature and her staple product that will make a lot of United States treasury depart ment figures look literally like thirty cents, for that Is the proportion some of the biggest items In the budget will bear as compared with the value of the work of the American hen. In the last year she has laid enough eggs to pay the expenses of the entire war department from top to bottom. She has changed the balance of trade In eggs. She has earned more with her (juiet endeavor than the entire nostal system did. All the vessels built in the country in the laft year do not weigh as much as do the eggs that Bhe luld. The American hen is a bird. There are enough of her in the coun try to feed our entire standing army for eleven years, giving each soldier and officer one chicken a day. If all the chickens In the country were to conceive a passion for roosting only on railroad tracks, there are plen ty ot them to block every line in the country, for there would be one chick en to every three and a half feet of railway. If each locomotive In the country were to kill one chicken a day, the railroads would have to keep up the killing for twenty years to annihilate all the chickens. If all the chickens of the country had to be transported on any one day, al most all the 1,323.084 freight cars in the United States would be needed for the work. It Is lucky that hens are not drink ers of alcoholic liquors. If they were, all the bourbon and rye whisky dis tilled In the United States In 1900 would be drunk in no time by the American hen and the American tank would have to go dry. All the distilled spirits made In 190" In the whole United States would last them only a few days. The eggs laid by the American h"ii In 1900 amounted to enough value In dollars to pay the entire expenses for that year of the United States Marine Hospital service, the United! States coast and geodetic survey, the steam boat Inspection servlce.the running ex penses of forts and fortifications, the bureau of labor and the department of justice, and then there would be plenty left to pay 95 per cent of the total ap propriations for 1'JOl for invalid and other pensions. The Inhabitant, of New York Clt alone ate enough eggs In the year U . 4r Where Divorces Flourish, Sat1 n AKK TWAIN said he would lik. to make a llltle visit to hades, because he wanted to meet some of 'he entertaining people that were there. In the same way, Sioux. Falls Is not a good place, but mighty Interesting for those who like tjiut urt of thing. For It is the greatest divorce colony In the United Stales. The young men who married thro' folly; the young women who woul 1 have been good whvs to other hus bands; the nilddle-ugets, who had stood their spouses half a llfi time, but who could not go another step; and the old roues who never should have married at all. are all there, and mostly at the same hotel. What yarns could be swapped on thai hotel pla'.xa; between the women boarders, and cross the little round, polished tables In the cafe, If I lie guests of that hotel would only loosen up ami talk. Some of the rich eniterners, V ho have learned that one can get a di vorce after seven months' resldeii in South Oakuta, with a codicil on th decree to be used us a license for an other marriage, pay seven months' hoard at the hotel, thereby establish ing their residence, and live Inn k home. These absentee residents ate warned 111 elm Inn tones by Ihe South Dakota press that tiny had belter really live In the state (and tinwlro their greenback bales) lest, when they lake new spouses lliey discover sud 1enly they ore blgniubts. The law was rustle with the frank ivowul that It would Btliint "suetid- VALUE OF THE AMERICAN HEN. the Chicken Industry Census Bureau. weigh 133,544 tons. The number of pay for another Brooklyn bridge. Getting away from finance and en tering the realm of physics, the cal culations become still more bewilder ing. For instance, all the eggs laid in 1900, if combined in one vast body of pro portionate dimensions, would make a planet forty times greater in diameter than the earth, five timet greater than that of Saturn and four and one-half times greater than that of Jupiter. But It would be an Impossible and flimsy planet so flimsy that It could not hold together, but would burst and All the planetary system with a novel mete oric shower of yolk. In weight the eggs of the year com bined would not make a big body com pared with the earth. A diagram showing the eaith as a globe two feet In diameter would have to show the globe made by the eggs with a mere dot. But the eggs would make a huge body all the same, even if Judged by weight alone. So huge a body would be made or all the ee-KS laid by the American hen In 1900 that if it were to be dropped from the sky on the entire American navy the 13 battleships, all the cruis ers, all the gunboats, all the monitors and torpedo boats and converted craft and colliers and supply vessels and tugboats, and even the launches and whaleboats the mighty egg would an nihilate them all In an Instant. If it were to lie on the sea alongside of the navy, that one great composite egg would hide the ships, for In tonnage it would be far more than they all are combined. All the chickens In the country com bined in one vast fowl would make a bird so huge that the Atlantic ocean would be only a puddle for it. It could peck out battleships aa the present real hen pecks up bit. of gravel and stone to help In her digestion. That mighty composite fowl would not find room enough on the earth to strut. It could reach half way to the moon, and If It were put into a gigantic scale almost one-flfth of the entire merchant marine of the country would have to be put in the opposite side to balance It. The eggs of 1900 weighed more than four times aa much as our entire do mestic produce of wool, three and three-quarter times as much as our do mestic pro'duce of cane sugar, more than two times as much as the cop per output of 1900. more than two and three-times as much as the tin plates manufactured during the year and 30 limes as much as the whole output of gold. The value of those eggs at the lowest market price was more than one-half he total Income derived by the United States In 1900 from the customs rev enue. If all the banks of the country had been called on suddenly to pay the value of the eggs In specie It would have required more than one-third of all the specie held by the 3,871 national banks. There are so many chickens In the country that, If they were divided -qually among the populations (leaving ers to tne state anu inereoy inn the volume of current circulation cf South Dukota. Its effect is thus de scribed by the Sioux Falls Journal: "The divorce colony as a whole !s a pretty good thing for the merchants of this city. They ate all money spenders, and those who have the coin want the best there is going. They are nnturally a restless lot. having nothing In particular wlih which to Interest themselves during their so journ here, and are naturally ready for anything thut will pass the lime, which accounts for some of them get ting reputations for being gay." A peculiarity about the women np pllcanls for single blesi-dncHS which Is constantly nollced Is that every Fliiule (or would-be single) one of I hem is good looking. The explana tion lias never been satisfactorily made, but a number of them have been attempted. One Is that a plain woman gets ho many causes for di vorce at home that she can euMily it a decree any time without having to travel clear to the cow country. The nmle colonists, however, are not even good looking. The Sioux Falls paper says of them with some warmth and much truth: "Among the nmle divorces there me some Unit certainly nc-d to be cnae'l. It would undoubtedly be a disagree able experience for tin in If thvy should be riding In the country and meet some farmer lad who wo out hunting. The farmer lad would be Justified In thinking he saw mint new f a l . out Hawaiian), each numan oeing m the United States and the dependencies would have to carry around with him three chickens, or, to be exact, 3.72 chickens. And each human being would be entitled to 141, or to eb ex act, 141.352 eggs a year. The estimate is that in 1900 the Unit ed States contained in round numbers 284,000,000 chickens and that the totaJ output of eggs was 10,000,000,000. The value of the ess at 16 cents a dozen was 1108,000,000 in round :iutn- bers. These round numbers are well undet the sums that are reached by close fig uring. They are given because they are not only modest, but easy to re member. For the mathematical person who loves to pore over figures it may b. interesting to know all the exact fig ures. Assuming that the Increase in chick ens In the past ten years had kept In pace with the population, we would have 312,712,613 chickens in the coun try for 1900. On the basis of the egg exports, however, still allowing to each chicken only the average of 37.998 eggs a year, shown In the figures for 190, the total number of chickens in 1900 would be only 263,183,653. To be well within the facts, it has been considered safe to assume a mean figure of 283, 635,605 chickens for 1900. That this 1. a very moderate estimate Is shown by all the statistics that have been stud ied. For instance, In assuming that the average annual number or eggs has not been increased largely since 1S90, there is probably an underesti mate of fact, for the farmers have been devoting more study and time to the egg producing qualities of chick ens in the past few years than they ever did before. Again, no allowance has been made for the known increase in hatcheries and the natural ratio of increase In production of fowls. The record of suicides In this coun try during the past year tells a sad story. In 1901 7,245 persons "shuffled off this mortal coil," as compared with 6,755 in 1900. The steady increase in the suicide habit, largely due to the ease with which poison may be ob tained, this being the most common agency employed, Is shown by the fol lowing record of cases In a series of years: In 1890, 2,040; 1891, 3,531; 1892, 3,860; 1893, 4,436; 1894, 4,912; 1895, 5,759; 1896, 6,530; 1897, 6,600; 1898, 5,920; 1899, 5,340; 1900, 6,755; 1901, 7,245. The action of the United States in acting on the principle that tubercu losis Is contagious, has been strongly criticised by Dr. S. A. Knopf, the con sumption expert. He holds that tu berculosis is not contagious if tha sputum is correctly collected and dis posed of. He recommends that the government appoint a commission to give the matter an exhaustive inves tigation. The London Times In a recent issue publishes three papers which it says were secured from the Chinese gov ernment by Dr. Ular, a prominent scholar, and which show the existence of a bargain between Russia and LI Hung Chang, by which Russia was to occupy Manchuria and in return would protect the dowager empress against the eastern powers. From Manila comes the startling re port that breakdowns of government employes have been frequently recent ly, Including members of the United States commission. They are feeling the effect, of overwork. A meeting of the commission will be held to con sider the mutter and a Saturday half holiday will be Inaugurated. Brooklyn Life: Judge What ars your grounds for divorce, sir? Plain tiff My wife married me to reform me, and after we settled down didn't have sense enough to give up the Idea. Judge Granted. species of something and take a shot at It. Then there are the female di vorcees, nearly all of whom are good luokir.s. Some are qu!t and rtemnre sort of individuals, and have their brothers (?) with thein, while there are others who are trying to turn the heads of some of the traveling men and gay members of this city, and are aparently succeeding In pretty good hiiape." Detroit Journal: A St. Louis di vine, Hev. Charles L. Kloss, pastor of a fashionable church In that city, star tled his congregation recently by say ing In his pulpit that he advised the young women to propose marriage to the young men. It is not known yet whether Mr. Kloss was sufely married before he made that statement or whether he Is one of the shy young men that Is too timid and modest to offer himself to a young woman, or it may be there are so many lovely young women In his flock that he can not decide on one. Whatever It Is, he has so declared himself, Hnd hence forth he will be the "dear puslor," such as he never was before. Wheth er he can withstand the avalanche of proposals he will probably receive or not remains to be seen. It may be that murrlage fees were slow In his congregation and he wanted to hurry them up. It Is said that his theory Is that If the men refuse to propose to the girls, the latter will be more dis posed to murrlage. Chicago Tribune: "Amelia," fullered the young man, "I love you." "Oh, Herbert!" she mtltl, clasping her hands together. "What a long, lung time It bus taken you to say so." Ajruu. Tar Leu Jf.l. Use Jl i, .-.t1 hr 1i U(it'itt. -v SOME FARMER PROVERBS. One fat cow is worth a poor caack and scrubby six. A moitgage on the farm is harder to dig out tha na sod of wire grass. Elbow grease and self-denial wiE make a farmer rich on trial. Double the manure pile and yo may double the crop. It is better tha bulng a new farm. Nut every egg is sound that seema so, und a lame horse makes a lama farmer. Waste leads to want, and want leads to woe; before you start, consider which way you go. If nine-tenths of the dogs' tails wera cut off to the ears, the country woul be better off a thousand-fold. The corn row will not be straigtit iC you look behind you. Plant memorial trees on the birth days and your children will always have a monument. The best codling moth trap has not been patented. It is the Jaws ot a, pig. A weak fence makes a weak farmer. Some hens will do a dime's worth ot cackling over a cent's worth of egga. A razonback hog is a bad beast t ride to dinner on. A little salt on the farm helps t put salt in the dish. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will b pleased to. learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh. Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca tarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there by destroying the foundation ot the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address, F. J. CHUNKY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists. 75c. Halls' Family Pills are the best. Thirteen hundred employes of Liptoa the cup chaser, struck for an increase of wages recently. The fools are not all dead; their fool ishness and Rheumatism would botk be cured with Hamlin's Wizard Oil! Pittsburg's United Mine Workers ar considering Carnegie's offer to con struct a workers' hospital there. Hamlin's Wizard Oil is the proper remedy to use in Rheumatism, Neu ralgia, aches, pains, bruises, soreness; almost everyone knows it. Ireland has had many long-live' people. The oldest person now livimjr there is said to be 'an old wouui named Mclvor, who was born near Londonderry in 1792, and who remem bers the Irish rebellion of 1798 and Na poleon's wars. She has lived a harii life, breaking stones in a quarry anS tending cattle in her yoanger days, wfiile living in a rough tent. Now sha is more comfortable and Uvea in a little hut. Troy has twenty-seven factories aa which collars, cuffs and shirts ara made. They employ 15,000 persons, af which four-fifths are women. TlrtVFPCM VbV sfit J Largest growers of I rr.lr.ver. Timothy and a' riraaaca. Oiirmirthern crown ClOVM, fnr vlvnr frnafr anrl drnnth resisting 1 oroDcrlies. hasjustly become famous. J f SUPERIOR CLOYU. bl. K.N: 100 IM. W W I - . . a , Li Crossi mat Bow, bi.lS.M; 100 IM. U.21 1 Samples ClOYtr, Timottir m Grus and fwt I kalaiof annul yam ik at nouaic. JOHN A. SALZER f1 Seed Co.fM i a SALZER'S SEEDS Great catalogue, with large number of seed samples, mulled on receipt of 10 cts. Worth $10.00 to get a start. Stilzer's Magic Crushed Shells. Best on earth, xi.sii per iw 10. oag; for 500 lbs.; $5.50 for 1.000 lbs. JOHN A. 8ALZKU SEF.D CO., La Crosse, Wis. DR. McGREW. HI'EC'I al.lMT Trunin all forma mt Diseases and Disorders tt Men Only. . 26 years eaporlac IS )Cira is Oaaatia Charge low. Cures guaranteed OVER 20,000 uetuMty. low of vl lalli., and all unniiiunil weukiinnu . of mm. hlclney aim Hinder lllsfiiNC mid nil (iloijg IIIfi sm h l ined lor Hie. Vallll.lil l-.l.l-.cuietf In If thitn todays TreiiMnvnt by imill. I'. U. liox 7). (Ifflua nver 2II ftiutli 14th Ml., i elweeu ram am and JJoiiKlitH Nth., OMAHA. N KB. When writing, mention this paper. A Wheeling, W. Va., couple elopi-d, to (liilllopolls, O., where I hey wei-a miirrlid, and upon their ri turn, W aro told "they were lecelved wllh opea nriiis." Considering thut Un brloV weighed 452 pounds those receptive arms lnimt have been very widely upen. The lii'it census showed thit thcra were In the whole country 5,427, 7f biichelors, aguinnt 3,224,494 siiln.itei nil execw of 68 per cent of v.tfhelw o'er tl.w uniiini ili d numtn. ;, 1 t i it