WORKS OF ART. Bow n Ur'lne»» House Ha* Made II Possible for Ever; One to Possess Them. Probably at no time in the world's history has so mucu attention been paid to the interior decoration o£ homes as at present. No home, no matter how bumble, is without its handiwork that helps to beautify the apartments and make the surround ings more cheerful. Tbe taste of me American people has kept pace with tbe age, and almost every day brings lorth something new in the way of a picture, a draping, a piece of furniture or some lorm of mure I decoration. One of the latest of these has been given to the world by tbe celebrated artist, Aluville, in a series of four handsome porcelain game plaques. Not for years has anything as hand some In this line been seen. The sub jects represented by these plaques are American Will Ducks, American Pheasant, American (Juail and English Snipe. They are handsome paintings and are especially designed for bang ing on dining-room walls, thougn their richness and beauty entitles them to a place In the parlor of any home, 'these original plaques have been pur chased at a cost of $6u,u0d by J. C. Hublnger Bros. Co., manufacturers of the celebrated Elastic Starch, and in order to enable their numerous cus tomers to become possessors of these handsome works of art they have had them reproduced by a special process in all tbe rich colors and beauty .if tbe original. They are finished on heavy cardboard, pressed and em bossed in the shape of a plaque and trimmed with a heavy band of gold. They measure forty inches in circum ference and contain no reading matter or advertisement woaiever. Until October 1 Messrs. J. C. Hubln ger Bros. Co. propose to distribute tLege plaques free to their customers. Every purchaser of three ten-cent packages of Elastic Starch, flat-iron brand, manufactured by J. C. llubin ger Bros. Co., Is entitled to receive one of these handsome plaques free from their grocer. Old and new cus tomers alike are entitled to the bene fits of this offer. These plaques will not be sent through the mail, the only way to obtain them being from your grocer. Every grocery store in the country has Elastic Starch for sale. It Is the oldest and best laundry starch on the market, and is the most perfect cold process starch ever invented. It is the only starch made by men who thoroughly understand the laundry business, and the only starch that will not injure the finest fabric. It has been tha standard for a quarter of a cen tury, and as an evidence of bow good it is twenty-two million packages were sold last year. Ask your dealer to show you the plaques and tell you about Elastic Starch. Accept no sub stitute. Bear in mind that this offer bolds good a short time only, and should be taken advantage of without delay. ___ If dreams art of no earthly use they at least don’t bother a man when he's busy. Ileauty I* llloort TTeep. Cleas blood meant aclean akin No beauty without It. tlascarel». Tandy IJuthnr'Jc cleans your blood and keens It clean, by stir ring Ub the lar.y liver and driving all Impu rities from Hie body. Begin today to banish pimples. l.olls. blotches, b ackneaus. Hint that sickly bilious complexion by taking Casca rets—beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c, 83c. Me. Don’t think for a minute that a man really wants but little here below'. FURNITURE. $50,000 Stock of all grades of Furniture recently bought at the very lowest cash price will be of fered during the next few months at special prices. Customers visiting Omaha will find this the largest and oldest ; furniture store here, and we will make every effort to please both In goods aud prices. Chas. Shiverick & Co., FURNITURE, 1203 Douglas St, Omaha. Next to Millard Hotel. Wot*—To satisfy ourselves as to whether this advertisement is read we will make a discount of 1 per cent on the purchase of any customer who will t«*u us they were directed to us by It and that they will ce<’<»tnmend us to their friends If tbs goods they buy arc satisfactory. SpeoUl to Ladies; We oivs Tradina Stomps Or. Kay’s Renovator, sia. constipation, liver uml kidney diseases.bfl liousness, headache, etc. At druggists :*5e A. #1. ' FAIRBANKS SCALES at Or. Kay’s Lung Balm Bg: The September .tlartie, to appear August 27th. w ll contain a clear and concise editorial review of the inter national situation and the new duties and respons'biliies devolvng upon the United States in consequence of the restoration of peace. HEROES OF WAR. From the Chicago Tuncf-Hnc.lt The feeling of admiration for heroes of war (seems to be inuute in the human heart, and is brought to the surface as the oppor ■ tunity and object, for such hero worship presents itself. Among those who proved their heroism during our Civil \V*r was A. Schilleuoder, or lot fseag wick Slreet, Chicago. He is an Australian by birth, came to America at the age of twenty, an 1 soon became in American cil i/eu. Ho was liviug at Mil ' waukee when thecnllforvol unteera came, early in 18(52, and lie prompt ly enhstod in Company A, of lit received a wound. the l wenty-sixt 1 Wisconsin Volunteers. In the Army of the Potomac our hero saw much fighting, (ampaiguing in the Shen andoah Valley. ^ In the first day's fighting at the battle of Gettysburg, Hchiffeneder received a wound in the right side, which afterward caused him much trouble. With a portion of his regiment ho was captured and imprisoned nt Hell Island nml Andersonville, and after ward exchanged. He returned to his regi imeut, which whs transferred to the army of General Hliernmn. and man bed w ith him through Georgia to the sea. In this campaign Mr. Hchiffeneder's old wound began to trouble him and lie was sent to the hospital and then home. Ho had also contracted catarrh of the stomach and found no rebel for years. ”1 happened to. lead an account of Dr. William’s Pink Pills for Pale People about a year ago,” he said, “and thought that they might bo good for my trouble. I con cluded to try the m. 1 bought one box and began totakethein according Indirections. They gave me great relief. After finishing that box I bought another, and when 1 had taken tho pills I felt that I was cured. 1 recovered my npj etite and ate heartily. 1 can tedify to the good the pills did me.” Mr. Hchiffeneder iso prominent Grand Army mau in Chicago, whither ho moved some years ago with his family. Tho wife who chases her husband with a poker rules him with a rod of iron. Office IluKineftfi. Dcs Moines. Iowa, Auk. 25. 1898 There were 42,120 applications for patents filed In the 1’. S. Patent office during the year ending June 30, ’98. and 22.731 patents granted during tho same time. This indicates that nearly half of the applications filed have been rejected. Possibly many of the sub jects of the applications were not pat entable inventions. But it is more probable that many of the applications were not properly prepared and pros ecuted. Many that were finally reject ed by the Primary Examiners would possibly have been allowed upon appeal to the Board-of-Examiners-in chief. But. to file an appeal a $10 fee must be paid to the Commis sioner to eorret the error of the Pri mary Examiner if he committed an error. Costs do not follow suit in the series of tribunals through which an application for a patent may be fully adjudiated and therefore many appli cations for patents for meritorious in ventions are abandoned. All of these causes undoubtedly contribute to pro duce the large disparity between the number of applications for patents anil the number of patents granted in a given time. Valuable information about prepar ing, prosecuting and selling patents sent free. THOMAS O. ORWIG & CO., Proprietors of the Iowa Patent Office. No-To-Bac rar Firty Cents. Gu»rani*’*d tobacco habit cure, makes weak men siroiiF. olood pure, ftir.fl. Allflruggists. In Switzerland laborers work 11 hours a dav. HAGERMAN PASS. 11,580 feet high, Is the route used by the Colorado Mid land and the highest point reached by a standard gauge railway. The scen ery on the Colorado Midland through the mountains is incomparable, train service the best and rates always as low as the lowest. If you have a trip in view through the Rocky Mountains write to the General Passenger Agent, Colorado Midland Railway, Denver, for information as to rates, train service, etc. Printed matter, including hand some illustrated pamphlets, furnished upon application. More people over 100 years old are found in m Id climates than in the higher latitudes. FROM FACTORY TO USER DIRECTr We make fine surreys. Buggies, rhaeionsami au wagon*. gaBaaa city Ware* Our goods hate been favorably known to tbe trade for year*. rO0Mh and outre, W e now Bell direct to the oner a' Wk*|e»«|« Price*. 1 he shield |y<)h Weal 11th 8t. buyer prefer* to deal with the factory. He get* of us tine work at less price than agents ask for low grade vehicles. We ship auywhere. subject to examination. "K ukMMvKon board c ars Kansas City. Mo., or t.osben, X Ind., ae may suit purebaser, send for catalogue with prices plainly printed. _A IT’S FKKK. Write today. We sell sewing Machines and the uomikn IJM YCI * as J well. All at Wholesale Price*, am. noon. No matter where you live, you areuot ■J too far awav to do business with us end save nionev. Address. . EDWARD W. WALKER CARRIAGE ( 0..(i»silKN. INDIANA. FARMERS,STOCKMEN, MERCHANTS When visiting Omaha t his fail, don’t forget to look us up I BUGGY or i buy a good / CARRIAGE. it pays WILI. WKAR lO YEARS. GENl’INK. ORIGINAL COLUMBUS BUGGY CO. 1314 A 1316 DODGE STREET. Hf CUT THIS AI) OUT TO REMEMBER LOCATION. *THERE IS SCIENCE IN NEATNESS.” BE WISE AND USE SAPOLIO AUTOMATIC GRIP NECK YOKE.AN AC£'ff.gA';LMF.EA'KSgm» Oreateit Neck Yoke ever Invented, ooinhlolntr atrend'h, durability and ratety. Handiotneiv painted. Will not allow tonaue to drop If tiart# become ior,ae. No rattle. Price*: Plata, unnlckeled.#1.00 Nickel Loop# and Acorn Head#. 1.90 Nickel ( enter*. 1.28 Nickel Tin* and Center* . 175 Center*, without Yoke.55 Farm Wagon Grip King.65 Made In three size*. to flt | ole tit ■ it* to le gend fur rnaa Illustrated circular. AUTOMATIC CRIP NECK YOKE CO., 81 Harding St., Indianapolis, Ind. LETTER FROM CAMP. Says Betty, who lias spread her small person and voluminous many-ruftled dainty skirts as much as possible over the whole window seat: “Lovey dear, such a nice letter from poor old Freddy. He says—listen to this: 'The weather is industriously engaged in raining rap id blows upon our defenceless camp and the wind is endeavoring to fold ray tent about mo and bear me tip to my rightful place in the world. Every thing in sight, blankets and bed in cluded, is soaked and 1 feel as if I were tunning a pawnshop as I gaze around on the rheerful prospect. Scudday just slopped in as wet as a sponge, but as chipper as a sparrow. He says: "If you're writing to Betty, tell her that she could wipe up the floor with me now, as she always used to, with eome real advantage to the floor." I am writing this, my—er—er ’ ” "Esteemed friend,” suggests the lit tle girl whom every one has come to call Ixivey Dear, an endearing title be stowed by the Irrepressible Bobby Smythe, who chased her all around the garden with a siphon of soda-water one afternoon in endeavoring, so he said, to perform the ceremony of baptism in a perfectly legal way. That the name fits her goes without saying, for. however droll he may be, Bobby is incapable of that would-be funny sarcasm which makes unkind cuts of one's small eccentricities of ap pearance or personality, and if she were not Just the sweetest, gentlest, and altogether most lovable of young creatures Mr. Smythe would have dub bed her otherwise or not at all. At any rate he never would leave a loop hole through which a less chivalric na ture might poke ridicule. Betty laughs and blushes charmingly. “Yes, thanks," says she, “that's it—er — Where was 1? Oh, yes, ‘I am writ ing this, my esteemed friend, on the back of my mess plate, which is the only writing desk the quarters afford, and my Impressive style makes it go “ker-plunk, ker-plunk” at every word. I have placed a few lumps of moist sod beneath my feet to keep them out of the pleasant pool of water which has found a resting place in the tent, and as I sit here more or less drenched. 1 must confess, my—er—er—esteemed friend, that the damper which has spread it self over my person threatens to even permeate my patriotism, and 1 don’t believe anything except a sunny letter from you will dry It off. 1 cannot help, under these circumstances, turning a longing retrospective eye upon that dear old room where, at about this time in the afternoon. Lovey Dear, in her gray gown, was wont to pour tea for a thirsty mob, while you and I turned up to treat them to—perhaps I ought to say inflict them with—what Bobby Smythe with a perverted and distress ing 6ense of humor called a Deweyett,’’ lingering on the ett, as he always ling ers at any suggestion of eat,’ ” Betty paused to laugh gaily. “That was good,” cries she. “Freddy is awfully funny, don't you think, Lov ey Dear?” “No, I don’t think,” answers Lovey Dear, in a gently injured way. To dis parage,be it ever so lightly, that home i “KER PLUNK, KER PLUNK." ly, obstreperous young Bobby Is al ways to step on the tail of her coat. "Oh, well dear,” says Betty, "Bob by's appetite is such an acknowledged success that-” “I have eaten my way into even the most reserved larders of the social set, “finishes a cheerful voice from the doorway. "Howdy, girls! I knew you'd be glad to see me! Betty singing my praises, as usual? I declare the. way that old lady does rave over me! It is embarrassing, really. But I can not conscientiously give her encourage ment, Lovey dear; there Is such a differences in our ages, and for me to wed Betty would be mating May to December, would it not? 'Pon my soul as I notice how aged and decrepit she is getting it reminds me of a story—” "Help! Help! Help!” cries Betty, faintly. "Of a story?” says Lovey Dear, en couragingly, though Bobby needs none. An entire roomful of people all pro testing violently against hearing one of his tales have many a time bees made to stand and hearken to the bitter end. for no man has ever been known to prevent Bobby spin ning a yarn which he thinks funny or appropriate. Therefore, it goes with out saying that Betty's appealing wail has no effect. The girld laughed lightly, possibly from the force of habitual politeness, and Bobby, as usual, doubles up and howls at the wit of his own yarn. Peo ple, unkind critics, are wont to ascribe Bobby's persistence of anecdotes to this laugh of his. They say he roars so himself and makes such a noise that he tl.inks every one else is enjoying !t. “Bobby,” remarks Betty when at last Mr. Smythe’s mirth has subsided, “it has just occurred to me that you are still in town—that you haven’t gone to war with the rest ct the bov3. I declare I'm ashamed of you. and Lovey Dear must be, too. I know, for she eahl yesterday that it was better to die a hero than live a nothing; didn't you, Lovey Dear?” For a second a keen observer might notice how white Bobby gets; what an anxious look flashes in his eyes; what a firm set his mouth takes. Then he answers quietly: "I wanted to go awfully, Betty, and it gave me a pretty good wrench to see the other fellow's shoulder their guns and go off to fight around the old flag; but my mother, you know—well, I etip port her first. Uncle Fam next.” Anil there is a little ring In his voice as he says this that brings a light into Lovey Dear’s soft gray eyes—a light that, perhaps, who knows, may never fail. "Yen are a good boy. Bobby," re marks Betty, "and what will you do if I tell you there is a watermelon on ice in the refrigerator?" "Have spasms in rapid succession until it is produced," replied Mr. Smythe promptly. Whereupon, iather than expose her self to the danger of hydrophobia, so Betty says, she leads the way dining roomwards, where, in the luscious Juice of a round slice of really indecent size, Bobby buries his homely vtcage and apparently the gravity that was his a moment ago. Presently Betty, being small and easily satisfied, rises. "I leave you two budding boa con strictors to gorge yourselves out of proportion while I go and write a line to Freddy; and, Bobby, for mercy’s sake wipe that melon off the end of your nose! Why can’t you eat re spectably, like other people?” "Well,” answers Bobby, grinning over a half moon of rind, "you know a quill-driver must be so much around a pen that he loses style, (rood-by, dear. If there were not another pros pective slice of melon between us, Betty, 1 should be tempted to eat you —you look like a stick of peppermint candy in t hat red and white get-up." "Candied compliment,” says Betty, and disappears to avoid reproaches. For a moment there is silence in the room, then Bobby looks up with the same odd. grave expression on his face that was there a while ago. “I know,” observes he, speaking hurriedly, "that you girls think ban ners and fireworks of the fellows who are going to tight for all that is best in Cuba. It must seem tame to you for me not to go. Did you,” jerkily now, “er—do you—er—like—er—me less, think less—er—of me for it, Lovey Dear?” And Ix)vey Dear (how the name fits her) answers gently: “0, no; not less of you, Bobby. There are even higher duties than those which one owes to one's country, and the best nnd the bravest and the grandest battles fought are the battles that no one sees; and the greatest heroes are the silent ones who must stand fast to the plain things while others go marching on.” “Lovey Dear,” and though Bobby is beaming like the midday sun and his pleasant, homely fare is wreathed in smiles, his voice breaks in an odd little way, and there is something besides light shining in his eyes, “Lovey Dear, you’re a brick! Have another slice of melon with me!"—New Or leans Times-Democrat. KuoniMlreli In tli« Early Congri-Miie.. Durand tells us that Tom Paine, who was then the secretary of the commit tee on foreign affaire, and of course knew all its secrets, was engaged by the French minister, for $1,000 a year, "to inspire the people with sentiments favorable to France.” No doubt the rascal earned his money, but who the other members were that were thus in spired we do not know. That such “in spiration,” however, was uoed to a greater or less extent, there can be no possible doubt. One of the biograph ers of John Jay relates that some thir ty years after the events here men tioned Gouverueur Morris went over from Morrisania to visit, his old friend Jay at Bedford. During their conver sation Morris suddenly ejaculated through clouds of smoke: “Jay, what a set of damned scoundrels we had in that second congress!” “Yes,” said Jay, “that we had,” and the venerable ex-chief justice knocked the ashes from his pipe.—Charles Kendall Adams in the August Atlantic. Smuggler* Foiled. Even Saxon courtesy may be car ried a little too far. When about to return from a Bchemian village to a frontier town in Saxony, the occupants of a sledge had their foot-warmers carefully rinsed out and replenished with full-bodied Hungarian wine. Thus they passed the guard post without let or hindrance to the merry jingling of the slcighbells. Laughing and joking at the success of their little dodge, they called at a wayside inn for refresh ments. On resuming their seats one of the party exclaimed: "Why, the foot-warmers are quite hot!” Then the boots of the inn stepped forward and said, with a friendly grin: “The foot warmers were quite cold, gentlemen, so just to oblige you. 1 emptied and filled them again with hot water.”— Weekly Telegraph. Following In Chicago'* l.cml. The street cars tn Belfast, Ireland, contain a notice to this effect: "The habit of spitting in a public convey ance is a flith.v one, and renders the person so offending a subject for the loathing of his fellow-passengera.” New Novelty In Woman'* lire**. The new woman's latest novelty in jewelry is a set of gold shirt waist studs, three in number, in one of which is a watch that Keeps excellent time, the dial being about three-eighths of aj Inch in diamater. 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