Ej Eirrista Press-Jouul m. ev ncnxa, raariLxrou NEBRASKA Belcjr uut of debt is lue Leal iLiu, When a woman lusts ber temper she ivLowa her a;;e. Lots of people come to grief by tiettinr trouble half war. About the lime love lets up oa a ian rheumatism takes a fall out of kirn. Shortly after getting the political bee tii his lionuet the average man gets it l.i the neck. If a'.l noYm-u who ooi back were fumed into salt pillars the streets softd fx- full of Mat ues. - Another feature of the Japanese - Itussi ui struggle is that it is a con - lest U'tween m.-at eaters and vegi - tariaii.s. It always a uxor a Rirl who breaks (T an engagement if the young man In the raw refuses to make a fus Ibout it. When a young man is old enough to cast his tirst vote what he doesn't know alMiiit running the country isn't worth knowing. It may be that every college pro fessor needs a wife, but the question is. How can he support her in the ktylo to which slie has leen aeeus lomed? A court has decided that a man mst treat his mother-in-law with respect. Mighty few mothers-in-law aeed any order of the court to make the young man do the proper thing. Uut if China should get courage riiough to cry. "Asia for the Asiatics." would it he so very different in priu ripie from 'lermany for the (Ser inans." or "America for the Ameri nins.' Walking on all fours is said to he I ruro for appendicitis. Why not have parties where the guests may cure their appendicitis in this way ami at the same time compete for prizes, the ne who can go it on all fours long est and most gracefully taking the honors? The negro in tie South is coming to the front as a money-maker. If the cotton crop yields $a;Tii.i)tio,Xi lie will get VXuf of it. He is lietter off than ever lief ore. i'.ut this prosper ity is said to have made him uneasy l nd migrator'. Still very few of the pre.-it mass of negro workers emigrate to the North. The fact is that the Hotith is growing rapidly. The white population of Mississippi, the banner negro State, is growing faster than the black. It is said that Egyptian and Turk ish unreins are lming demoralized by the fashion plates. The European "delineators'" tempt the plural wires of the eastern potentates to extrava gant expenditures for dress, aud it is becoming impossible for the poor kings and prf.iccft to keep more than one wife dressed iii the Parisian fashion. Iimtead of 'Jim wives, some of the old fellows are rinding it difficult to stip nrt two. it is said. The Mrue evil raue is producing what we Americans call a desirable reform in Utah. The modern mormon finds it too expensive to support a hunch of wives. He finda it cheaper to obey the law of monog ii my. The ashes of Chicago were not cold when teniorary places of business were provided and men were making contracts for the upbuilding of their warehouses, their stores and their homes. In a couple of years nearly u whoie of the burned district waa again covered. In Boston the lossea were much less and the local capital was greater. Baltimore la making ar rangements to rebuild her business center at once, and in a handsomer ii!"! more substantial manner than be fore. The tire in which granite crum bles and steel melts does not destroy the ground or the commercial advant ages of the city's location. Very much of the property of the people is beyond its reach, and their courage and their credit a very great part of the stock in trade of any community are alisoiutely proof against it , All over the land there is a dearth of schoolmistresses. Even in th' East, where women are superabundant and the schoolma'am was always not ed for her staying qualities, there Is now a cry for more teachers. School agencies say that never before were so few well-trained women instructors ob tainable. All give marriage as the enuse. Time was when the school mistress was a drug on the matri monial market. A woman put off as far as possible the evil day of enter ing the schoolroom, knowing that lt meant for bar a lonely life with no hope of marriage. "Old maid school teacher" waa the offensive phrase which labeled her fecial states. All that la now changed and the scbool mistress is having things fear own war. Hr college education, fear ra re tkm trips abroad, her leaderahip in dabs, have made her a moat deUght fal companion, fitted for any aoeUl (ta ttoo, the baa free scope for the de rfttopment of her talents and is natng bar ofpertitlsB to adnata. Men have been quck to sea Jars (earned that saw Che tmi is the mnxl i,tiiitaniftiLalle aofif etfu-b-nt of women. She U skilled ii .household arts and in kinderparteniu ; as well as in ilie ancient ami modern ( iantfua.-s. he understands how I ; kivp the home sanitary and how to aiake the purse nerve the bent interest! ' of the entire fami'y. What wonder then, that board of education ant j school superintendents are at the. I I wits' end- to secure tcacber willing t sia a eon tract containing an au'l i marriage c!au-' covering a specifi ' period. Tti"V will mdii have to i- thankful if they tan g-t them on anj tern; which the women themselvw t are pleased to make, for just now tin way to the scboojbouse seeu)8 to U ti the direct ro;id to matrimony. The chairman of the Western Vul j seuger Association says the great ht crease in immigration during 11 3 war due largely to the inducements offerer , by the railroads to settler ou tin ; anu lands in the northwest, the wuth I and the far west. Nearly all thi : railway systems, it is said, have thcii ; agents in Ktiroiio drumming up Imim 1 grants. When the mi.-Mion of restrict ' b'g Immigration by imposing an edu i-ational niinliticnlion was In-fore tie last Congress representatives of sev eral large western roads were heard il opposition to it. They did not say that the proposed restriction would in terfere with the work the roads are d lug In planting settlers on their ow( lands or ou other unfilled lands in thi regions traveled by their lines. It wnt claimed then that the railroads wen hard put to it to get all the eommoi labor they needed and that it wouH be an iujiirv to them to cut off th Kuropemi supply in w hole or part. Th railroads do not feel so prosperous ai they did two years ago. They havi not the need of hilior they had then or which (heir officers said they had Immigration is stimulated now not b get lalior but to get settlers and alw to get the sums which they pay fo their transportation. It has been sur mised that as the steamship lines so licit immigration liecause they mak money out of it, so many railroads an governed by the same motive. 1 will lie admitted that an immigrsn' planted on a western farm Is a desir able acquisition. That is not neces sarily true of an immigrant who, whei he lauds, plunges into the orercrowdc slums of New York City and stayi tlo-re either localise Ik prefers to Ftiij or has not the money with which ti make his escape, only a small pro portion of the steerage passengers o) V.(l appear to have found their way t the far west. While 4"S fettled it Colorado, 2.4 .TS in Texas, 0.007 it Washington, and '.'.M in Oregon. 2.V1. 4-15 made their homes in New York 177.1W in Pennsylvania, and m,7,-7 i Massachusetts. There came to Illinoii sj,r,7S but of those who remained her the larger unrulier probably settled in Chicago. If last year's increase if immigration was dup largely to tin efforts of the railroads the roads die much more to increase the populatiof of the great cities of the east than r. the rural districts of the west. It maj be that their efforts brought more un desirable than desirable immigrants It this country. Itailroads and steamshif companies should let the matter of im migration regulate itself and not at tpmpt to stimulate and direct it I promote Ihelr selfish interests. Taking No Chances. A new reason "why men do not g to church'' has recently been discovem by an English clergyman. Walkiiq along a lane one day, says Tlt-Bll the village rector noticed an old mac ahead of him. Seeing that It was on of his congregation who had not lieer to church of late, the vicar hurried antf soon caught up with hltn. Hallo, John:" said he. "How is ii that I haven't seen you at church late lyr At first the rector could get noth'uij out of him. but after a little persnasio the parishioner said: "Well, zfr. It lie your youngest dar ter, Nelly, I be afeard of." "What, afraid of Nelly, a girl nineteen, and only Jut returned frou school;-' "Y'es, air. You see," replied John "when I went courtin' an old forcbin teller told me as "ow I should be spiled three times. First to gray, an' then ti 2 ye!lr, n then to s ginger. Now when I buried my poor yeller Sail; three months ago, an' your darter wl the ginger 'air coined 'ome fro:i schule. I says to myself, I says, 'That i ; that's the ginger 'un: an' if don't keep away from church she'l nab me.'" .No Elciu-lllenl In Tanama under the ColuinMi! regime, one could get up a "revolution almost at a moment's notice. Sue slight matters, says the New Yor Times, scarcely Interrupted the roiitln of business. One day n number of American tr;iv elers had taken their seals at break1 fast when they were startled by io, i shouts In the street. They hastcne to the window, and saw a crowd n men In greasy, nigged clothes, nisi, log along, brandishing machtes. "What is the trouble?" one of then asked their Colombia u host. "Why," he said, apologetically, -i a; afrald It la a revolution." The travelers Intra n to Is- exclle but were calmed by the sweet voice . the hostess, addressing her husband ordinary tones: "Did I pnt enough sugar iu your c fee, Gabriel?" Involved instnrhsm-e. Parker We've moved again. Barker--You have? Parker Yes; our children were noisy that we couldn't stand what t neighbors said al:out them. He r. Tree Press. SUICIDE AND ITS CAUSES. Intcmtioir l't Relative to the Meoia for feclf-ltevtractloii. There is much of public interest Ihe motives that prompt tueu an.l women, aud ut infrequently children, :o take their ou lives. Kmleri k Hoffman. w!io is interested in life hi cram e, ha t;ikeu the trouble to coin pile mii statii-ti.-s concerning tlil Milijet, wlii.h will prove of interest It Appears from the figures pieseute. mt lhi iiiiutal.ty from se f d'-Mrjc lioii is nearly or quite twi-c as bire ii itics as in ilie f:ir:uiug di.-trict. A:i-ith- r remarkable fact is that iu llu foriu r the rate is on the ijcreae uiuu.ii.g r.p the result i:i fifty of thi largest cities nf the Cnltisl Mates, it ij-pem that the average number ol ; suicides in 1SC was 1J per bm.ioi. while in I'o'l it bad grown to Pi.ii. A I no time in the t wrlv e-year perils! dc! the rule fall below the minimum hi r given, l ot in 1:-! and ls;is it ro ( tet iporari'y to I'M. TU sie.uly pros ress shown l-y this compi! ri-oii h-.uli ' M. I!:l::::i3 " i'"i: lint -i fonti-i increase in the suiciri.il t,-n. i.-iny ia.iv l e eij-ecttsl ill the next d i aile. I A r.-flier b:.!v p'.ix.iuig e.iti-p.ir.soi is tint whie!i Mr. IIofiuaii i:iaes Im twcei uditliT' i.t -i ut -is if opiilatioo ii this count y. 'I nk in tin- average f : the wliol- teii-ve.ic pcr.o-1 in.ing v, iit. l'.ml, b- tilnls that there n? ''." 7 sui clih-s fur every pm.mi pero- s in St Louis, while the rat-1 in Trenton wai on'y ."..I and in l all itiver 2.'.'. llu pen-enlage in several ojier cities wa almost as high as that in St. Louis The figures for Chicago are 2 i.": llo boken. 2.'5; nakluud. Cat, 21... and tl.a Iart of New York City included in tl;i boroughs of .Manhattan and the Bronx .Hi.ft. Even in Newark the rate is Pi.2 while that for I'.noktyn Is only 1,." itostou maki-s a better showing 1.4 while Jersey City's tlgurus arc still loner H.ii. Whv one suburb of tlie metrorxilis on the west shore of the Hudson should have a higher rate that ,"ew York City anil another one verj much lower is a conundrum to whict it is not easy to find the answer. Causes of death are of special in terest to life insurance companies, nnc the latter have collected statistics re gardilig the same. One iiisurani-e coal pany has records going back more that half a century. These show that among the Insured, presumably a clast of people A little superior to the aver age of mankind, the mortality fin;r suicide Ix'tween lM.'i mid iv-i. was l.i per cent of all deaths among the coin pany's policyholder", while lielwect IKs. and ISIiS it was 2.4 per cent i' perceptible increase. This showing cor roborafes the other figures pi'e nt by Mr. Hoffman. It also aj pears fwf the company's tallies that v Ii ie li.'.t p I cent of de.iths from all causes between 1V.M1 and lWis among men uiuler 1 years of age were due to suicide nn! (!2 per cent between the ages of -13 and IK', the rate for men of 'I i and ovei is only i.7 per cent, iillhougli the ac tual number of deaths for its tlir groups was alKiut the same, either v little alsive or a little below ..mi. A Wish rtngrrg;tt on llldo'l Miarv One of the local churches was heav ily in debt, and In order that the deln might be cleared it was suggested am1 agreed that one of the best money rais ers iu New York Slate be brought he: and hy his efforts secure the amou. ( needed to reduce the debt. The paste came and liegan his work with that effort which was characteristic of him. When the Hllotti-d time hud arrived for him to have secured the amount n discouraging moment faced him wher he discovered he needed but fi le wipe out the long standing debt. ' Telling of the discouraging circtmi stiiiii-cs under which he labored, hf concluded by asking if there was no one in the congregation who would do nate the amount. After vainly brinj ing into play every word in bis vocabu lary one memlx-r of the congregation arose and said: "Rather than see yotil plans defeated. I will give you ?ilC of the amount." Jubilant at his success and wishing to pay a flattering compliment to th donor the pus tor said: "Bless you. brother; may your business Increast many fold during the coming year." rl that a smile crept over the fac of every one present, for the donatot was no less than one of the eity'i w t-ii-kimwn undi-rta Ucrs. Wilkes' ant Leader. He'll IKi. "He'll do." said a gentleman, de cisively, speaking of an office ioy w lit had been ill his employ but a singlt day. "What makes you think so'r" "liccatise he gives himself up so en tireiy to the task in hand. I watched bini while he swept the office, and al though a procession with three or foui brass hands in it went by the olliei while he was at work he paid no at tentlon to it. but swept on as if th sweeping of that room was the onlj ;thing of any consep:ience on this eartl at that time. Then I set him to ad dressing some envelopes, and althongl there were a lot of picture papers an other papers on the desk at wblcb lit sat. he paid no attention to them, but kept right on addressing those en velopes nntil the last one of them wat done. He'll do, because be Is thor ongb, and In dead earnest about every thing." You may naturally be a verj smart person; you may be so glfteo that yon can do almost anything; but all that yon do will lack perfection II yon do not do it with all your heart an strength. Explained. "Jenka seems to be pretty prosperous now. He says bis income la oat of lfbt." "I eboaM think it would be. Ht (Ives so far beyond IL" Philadelphia STILL A CHILD OJd Man "What! Marry that cblidr" Suiter "Toar dauel ter U no longer a child, sir; the is a wtman (Ud Man "Nor-sense! Why. she Isn't a bit bs? yet." SMALL BILLS Fileod "If your wastier wom!iD c' argea by the piece it must be rather expensive." Young Ilousr keeper "Ob, no. She loses so ruaoy things thai ber bills are never hlKb." In the prtug. Lowndes, Mo., April 4th. Mrs. ti C. Harty. of this place, says: "For years I was in very bad health. Every spring I wojld get so low that I was unable to do n.y own work. 1 seemed to be worse in the spring than any other time of the year. I was very weak and miserable and bad much pain in my -back and h"ad. I saw Iiodd'ii Kidney Tills advertised last fpring and tx-gan treatment of them End !;are cer'n'v'y dope y irmr piKiI tlnin anyth'n.; I have ever used "I was ail right last spring and felt lietter than 1 have for over ten years I am fifty years of age nnd am strong i-r toduy than I have lwen for many years, and I give Itod-t s Kidney I!li credit for the wonderful Improvement.' The statement of Mrs. Harty Is only l ne of a great many w here Iodd's Kid fey Pills have proven themselves to be Ihe very lest spring medicine. They ire unsurpassed a tonic and are the frnly medicine used in thousands of fa ml lies. Truth wltnesfts In vain where malice la tbe Judge. Ram's Horn. Among tbe state bul'dlngs MIs I'url Iyiulslana, Oklab un, Arizona, Utah, Connecticut and Nevada ate titiislicd. Iowa and Kansas are (ft per cent fiDlshed and work on the remaltjlng pivillions is suftlciently i lvauced to warrant tbe statement that all will be completed bf the day set for Ibe opening of tbe Ex position, April 30. Everybody trims his sills to (tetcn tbe wind, whether on sea or land. fruit acids will not stain goods dyeo wltb PUTNAM FAliKI.ESS DYES. A woman likes to be suspicious s the can feel so confbieut afierward-i We u I'lso's Cure for Coiimirnptioa it rferenc to nv other cough Dielicln' -Mr. s. K. Borden. -112 I" ttrret, Wish at Jn. U. C, My 25, 1U01. f-OVELY WOMAN.S' AMIAB1L- 1TY Mrs. Jinks "If yoj are so fonr it phylng piker, why don't joi each me, aud speed your evetilnfit it borne?" Jinks "Urn suppose I should w-n" Mrs. Jinks "I have plenty ol coney, hit Mttht down" Mr. Jinks (the next day)-"No man can undeistand women. Tbev ire mysterious. Why, sir, my wlf '.oslsted oo my plvlng poker wltl Her last nlgbt. Of course, I w n a pile from ber. Well, air, she paid tver tbe money with a smile on bei face 'didn't mind It a bit." Caller "Beg pardon, but I am Mr. Houseowoers' gent, aod have called for the rent." . Mr. Jinks "Why don't you go to the bouse as usual? I left tbe rent Doney there for you a week ago." Caller "I Just came from there, lira. Jinks said she gave tbe monej to you last night" Samuel Mail of Grand Rapids, sflcb., Is tbe holder for tbe present year of tbe fellowship In gas engineer Ing supported at tbe University ol Michigan by tbe Mlcblgao Gas Air -:lation. EMPTY NOW. How One Womaa Quit Medicine. "While a coffee oser my stomach troubled me for years," says a lady f Columbus, Ohio, "aud I bad to take medicine all tbe time. I bad what I thought was the best stomach medlcini I could get had to keep getting It hi led all the time at 40 cents a bottle. I did not know what the cause of my trouble was, but Just dragged along from day to day suffering and taking medicine all the time. "About six months ago 1 quit tea and coffee and began drinking I'osum, and I have not had my prescription filled since, which is a great surprise to me, for lt proves, that coffee was the cause of all m trouble, although I never suspected it. "When my friends ask me bow 1 feel since I have been taking Post urn I say, 'To fe'l tbe trulb I don't fed at all only that I get hungry and eat everything I want and lota of it and it never hurts me, and I am happy and well and contented all Uie time.' "I could not get my family to drink Postum for a while until I mixed It In a little coffee and kept on reducing tbe amount of coffee until I grit It all Postum. Now they all like It and they never belch It up like coffee. "We all know that Postum Is a sun ablne maker. I And It helps one great ly, for we do not have to think of aches and palna all the time and can use our minds for other thingi." Name given by Postnm Ov, Battle Oroek, Mich. Tbe one wbo has to bofner wl.h cof fee achea and pains la baffty handi capped In tbe race for fane and for tune. Postum la a wonderful rebuild er. There's reason. Look la each pkg. for tbe famous Utile book, 'Tbe Bone! to WeUvttle." LIGHT WORK Touils (io Utib)-"Pulganiy co longer practiced, I am told." Ex-Mormao (dejectedly) "20 sod It's a shame. Only one wife! What good is one lf.? Just a liLtl, test's all." "Ho so" "Everylblrg Is t sixes and sevens. Nothing ever done. Hultons t-ff, meals half cooked everything wrung. In tbe g od old daji e bad one wife to s-w on tutbuns, another to daru stockings, another to boss tbe servants, another to do tbe shopli g. and aootber to attend to tbe dutbs i f S'jclety. A man bad some com fort then." HE WOULDN'T DO Railroad Super IntendeQt "Yes, I have decided to pen a bureau of Information, for the arc mniodatloo of nasietgers who wish to know about trails, and 1 am I oklotf for a good nido to fuii il." App'iesot "Well, sir, I have been a railroad ticket a'tnt fur a good niaiiv years. " .Superliiteodent "1 ben you won't do. I want a man who Is accustomed to glvln information." Til E ONLY ALTERNATIVE Cbolly "What's the mittaa wltb Algy. He's cutting all bis flerjds dead." Cbapple "lis has to, poor fellah. Heca-wo't master the new English handshake, don't cher know." Now we get far more illunlnatlon from eb-ctrlclty than from gas. Ac cording ti rgariS Just Issued from the Census Orrtce there aie neatly 4,000 elclrlc llglH stations Io tbe Uulted Mates, and not quite k thousand gas plants The electric ilcbt plants are earning ab ut IM,- 000 000 a year, and tbe gas placts I73,000,0C0 a year. No one Is useless In this world who lightens the harden for some one else. Dickeos. HASf HANDS MAKE Mrs. Haskell, Worthy Vice Templar, Inde pendent Order Good Templars, of Silver Lake, Mass., tells of her cure by the use of Lydia E Puikham's Vegetable Compound. " Dsua Mns. Pkkbam : Four years ago I was nearly dead with Inflaaa mation and ulceration. I endured dally untold agony, and life was a burden to me. I had used medicines and washes internally and externally until I made up my mind that there was no relief for me. Calling at the home of a fnend. I noticed a bottle of LydU E. Pinkbara'a Vegetable Compound. My friend endorsed it highly and I decided to give it a trial to see If itwouU hAln tnlt It tstnlr nal arm a n H j , . . . . . . - j, rr : J: "r 1 WM ,n 0M conaition, ana i used Lvdla L, Plnkliani'it Vegetable Compound for nearly five montha before I waa cured, hut what . .hn. j , . ' , . misery to the delightful exhilarating , K J.tii,..i ..Ml not change back for a thousand dollars, and your Vegetable Compound le a grand medicine. " 1 wish everv I wish everv sick woman would Hasrei.l, Kilver Lake, Mass. Good Templars. Worthy When a medicine baa been successful In more than a million oases. Ii it Justke to yourself to nay, without trying It, "I do not believe it would help me"? Surely you cannot wish to remain weak, and sick and dia couraged, exhausted with each day's work. You have some deraKeiner,t of the femln ne organism, and LydU H. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound will help you Just as surely aa It bus other. flssfl . r a a i irs. i line nart, of 1 f lUaen the rbetimatlsm. The tlredml feellnga. Too most reack the spot get a the cause. In most eases) 'tla the kidneys. Doan's Kldnef Tills are for tbe kidneys. C h s r I s Bier bach, stone con tractor, living ai Zv Chestnut sireet, Erie. Ta.. seysl Tor two years 1 had kidney trouble and there was such s severe psln through my loins and limb that I could not stoop or straighten up wltsx out great pain, had difficulty In getting alniiit and was unable to rest at night, arising In the morning tired and wor out. The kidney secretions wers irre ul.ir and ib-iiosil.il a heavy sediment lioctors treated me for rheumatlscst but failed to help me. I lost all couflj deuce In medicine and began to fsej as if life were not worth 1! !''. Dcaal Kidney Fills, however, relieved me se ipilckly and so Cioroughly that I gladj ly made a Mate nt to that effect foi publication. Tins was 1n lfilW, ae4 duilng the six jears which have elapss 1 I have never known Hoan's Kidney Fills to fall, They cured my wife of a severe case of backache In tb same thorough manner." A KKEE Tit I A I, of this great kldj ney medicine which cured Mr. Blsf hath will tie mailed on application i any part of the I.'nlted states, kit dress Koster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, It Y. Kor sale by all druggists, price Sf cents per box. ' The npfr. riltd reb. 1, sbowi that nearly all of tba main exhibit palaces are ptai-tically 11 Dished. Tbi main Art I'alare, whlcD la petsuay eot structure, Is tbe moat backwud, and It Is DO per cent flnlihed. Yung man, do jure best, aod Jean It to others to best It If they its. Yu mlte si well preach pblloeopbj to a lot ov va- irant sots as to preacl It to manklad; mD will listen t4 yu, and say: "'.'e,s so," and that' ail they care about It. ii L" Z .7; r7 . from feelln health il.ir. t,ri. I would lr- it v. i i ... Vice Templar, Independent Order of Larimore, N. D., says: ,.r ii ji mna- i"ham: I might have been epared many monthi of suffering and pain If I DaB.i.ur f Lldla l" P,nk bam a Vegetable Compound a few montha sooner, for I tried many remedies without find- Ing anything which helped me before I tried tbe Vegetable Compound. 1 dreaded the approach of the menstrual period every month, as it meant much suffering and pain, home months the now waa very scanty and others it waa pro- t'tlL1 hA U"d th Compound for two months I became regular and natural, and so I continued until I felt perfectly well and the parts were strengthened to perform the work without assistance and pain. Tlll ent woman now, where before I did not care to live, and I am pleaaed to testify aa to the good your Vegetable Compound haa done for iT" 81 noerely yours, Mas. Trtxra Bm, Larimore,N.D 'd.tAke haa stood the test of Unte, and It haa hundreds of thousands of cotm to Its credit. Women should "naldiVlt wf J!!?kh,n whOM address Is Lm.