AN ITALIAN CAPTAIN
Cured by Pe-ru-na of Catarrh of the
Stomach After Doctors Failed.
Hon. J. D. Botkin, Congressman
from Kansas Writes an Interesting
Letter.
Si
captain o. bertolettq
C'aptain'O. Bcrtoletto of tlio Italian
_ Barque “Lincelles,” in a recent letter
from the chief officer of the Italiau
Barque Lincelles, Pensacola, Fla.,
writes:
<•/ have suffered for several years
with chronic catarrh of the stomach.
The doctors prescribed for me without
my receiving the least benefit. Through
one of your pamphlets 1 began the use
of Peruna, and two bottles have en
tirely cured me. I recommend Peruna
to all my friends.’’—O. Bertoletto.
In catarrh of the stomach, as well as
catarrh of any part of the body, Peruna
is the remedy. As has been often said
if Peruna will cure catarrh of one part,
it will cure catarrh of any other part of
the body.
Catarrh is catarrh whever located,
and the remedy that will cure it any
where will cure it everywhere.
1 he following letter from Congress
man Botkin speaks for itself:
IIou*k OK Bknhcsentativkf, )
Washington, D. C. J
Dr. R. B. Hartmjin, Columbus, O.:
My Dear Doctor—It pi ves me pleasure
to certify to the excel lent curative qu&l
itiesot yourmed- r
ioines— I'eruna J
and Manalin. 1 <
have been af- <
dieted more or j
less for a quarter «
of a century with <
catarrii of the 1
stomach and con- J
stipation. A rcsi- «
dence in Wash- J
inpton has in- <
creased these <
troubles. A few J
bottles of your 4 ' 4
medicine have »»»»'
given me almost complete relief, and I
am sure that a continuation of them
will effect a permanent cure. Peruna
is surely a wonderful remedy for ca
tarrhal affections —J. D. Botkin.
This is a case of catarrh of the stom
ach which had run for twenty-five
years, according to his statement, and
Peruna has at once come to his relief,
promptly accomplishing for him more
benefit than he had been able to find
in all other remedies during a quarter
of a century.
It stands to reason that a man of
wealth and influence, like a Congress
man of the great United States, has left
no ordinary means untried and no stone
unturned to find a cure.
If such cures as these do not verify
theclaim not only that dyspepsia is due
to catarrh of the stomach, but also that
Peruna will cure catarrh of the stomach,
it is impossible to imagine how any
evidence could do so.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
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fvAINTY SUMMER GIRLS USE CUTICURA SOAP assisted by
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rashes, tan, sunburn, bites and stings of insects, lameness and soreness
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fcy-Uuch that .ill should know about the skin, scalp, and hair is told la
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WOODCHUCK TO BURN I
CLEVER SCHEME OF MAINE MAN
IS WELL REWARDED.
Ice-Cream-Filled Pet the Means of
Keeping His Larder Well Supplied
With the Toothsome Dainty—Sim
ple But Deadly Trap.
If Pelts,' Sprague hadn't had a ten
der heart he never would have been
able to discover how to catch more
woodchucks than he and his family
could eat, says a Linn (Maine) cor
respondent of the New York Sun.
Just because he was good to a tame
woodchuck of his own and tried to
relieve it from agony, he was able to
study the habits of wild woodchucks,
and thereby learned a fact in natural
history which has cleared the farms
of an annoying pest and has furnished
the neighborhood with palatable roast
woodchuck since early in June.
One morning when Sprague was
driving his cows to pasture he found
a poor, emaciated woodchuck lying in
the dust of the highway, nearly dead
for want of water. The animal had
started for a stream with its compan
ions and its strength had given out
before it could reach the nearest
brook.
It was not in Sprague’s nature to
see anything suffer, so he picked up
the dying creature, and, taking it
home, fed it on warm milk and clover
until it was a!t#e to care Tor itself.
By the time heavy frosts fell the
wooddehuck was as large as a bull
terrier and nearly as serviceable in a
rough and tumble fight. It grew so
belligerent that Sprague resolved to
have a woodchuck roast the following
Sunday, but was foiled in his plan by
the woodchuck's going into winter
cpiarters two days before it was to
he executed.
Coming out lean and hungry in the
spring, the woodchuck devoted its
endeawrs to putting on fat, in which
it was encouraged by Sprague, who
knew how good is roast woodchuck
when taken in conjunction with boiled
onions and hard cider.
The first warm Sunday that arrived
in June Sprague hunted up his freezer
ar.ii made ice cream for himself and
family. Having more than could be
eaten, and wishing to fatten the wood
chuck as rapidly as possible, he gave
the surplus cream to liis pet. The
woodchuck, being unaccustomed to
eating ice at any time, was taken with
a sudden chill, and would have suf
fered an attack of pneumonia had not
Sprague wrapped it in warm blankets
and placed it on a sunny hillside to
recover.
While the sick animal was lying in
the grass suffering from ague, a wild
woodchuck came along looking for
fresh clover. No sooner did it hear
the teeth of the pet animal chattering
with cold than it took the sound as a
challenge to fight and went in with
fury. The sick animal, being as
saulted at a time when it could not
defend itself, beat a hasty retreat to
the house, followed by its victorious
enemy, who thus came within easy
range* of a club in Sprague's hand, and
was served up as roast woodchuck at
Monday's dinner.
Sprague keeps a can of ice cream
constantly in his ice bouse since
then. Whenever he feels the need
of roast woodchuck for dinner he
gorges his pet with ice cream and
sends it to the hillside, where its
teeth chatter so loudly with chills ami
fever that every wild woodchuck comes
from its hole to join in deadly com
bat. As one woodchuck cannot hope
to win against a host, the pet falls
back to Its fortifications in the cellar,
thus giving Sprague a chance to se
lect the fattest animal in the herd.
Tickets Six Feet Long.
One of the passenger agents of one
of the largest systems centering in
Chicago the other day produced for
inspection a ticket which represents
about all the vices of individual form
run wild. The ticket, issued by an
eastern road for a comparatively
short trip, was nearly six feet in
length. To be exact, the passenger
agent applied a rule to it an.i found it
to be 5 feet 8 inches long. There were
two little inconspicuous coupons at
tached to this roll of paper, the cou
pons being less than two inches long.
The remainder of the ticket was
made up of seven or eight contracts,
each of which if made operative nulll
fled the conditions under which the
holder of the ticket was to be allowed
to travel, stop over, changed routes
or delay the time of return. It was
estimated that if the whole long strip
of reading matter making up the tick
et were printed In the ordinary news
paper it would make over two col
umns of solid matter.
Unique Love Letter.
An ingenious liawker, who appeared
at the Southwark Police Court, de
scribed his occupation as the sale of
love letters in insinuating language.
One of the specimens given was of
very superior >atinity: "Most Amiable
Madam: After a long consideration I
nave a great inclination to become
your relation, and to give demonstra
tion to this my estimation, without
equivocation, I am making prepara
tion, by a speedy navigation, to re
move my habitation to a nearer situa
tion for to pay you adoration, and if
this my declaration, may hut meet
your approbation, it will dispose an
Dbligation without dissimilation from
generation to generation.’
The ingeunlty and insidousness of
the language had inadequate effect on
the magistrate. The hawker was fined
for bad language, lie bad found ona
rhyme too many for "at ion.”—-Lon
don G,ril'o
*
When a woman admits u thing r.he
expects a man to admit that kar ad
mission doesn't count.
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AND KENTUCKY Tickets sold
September 2. 0, 16, 23.
I.KPS than half rates to Washington, P.
C., and return. Tickets sold Octo
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Toronto, Niagara Falls. Pittsburg,
Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus and
many points in MICHIGAN.
INDIANA, OHIO. PENNSYL
VANIA. WEST VIRGINIA AND
KENTUCKY. TICKETS sold Oc
tober 2. 3. 4. 5.
HALF RATES. Boston, Mass., and re
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LONG LIMITS and STOPOVERS AL
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on above tickets.
For rates and nil information call at
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nnm St., Omaha, or write Ilatrv E.
M . res, Gen'l Act. Pass. Dept,, Omaha,
Neb.
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RUPTURE permanently cured In 30 to
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Many women arc like walking dolls
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Ohio mid I mil aria * • a r «*t and lu lulling line «. mu n
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ium Co. or the De
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ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE RAILROADS Of NEBRASKA,
Will it Pay to Attempt “Freak Taxation?”
Reason for Comparison with Other States.
In the bulletins which have immediately preceded this, we have given the details of taxes paid by the rail
roads of Nebraska, and the amounts they have paid in the several counties of the State, and it will be noticed that
in the footnotes which accompany the figures given, there is a line of touparisons, showing what other states
have done in regard to the taxation of railroads which run through their commonwealths. In the matter of
taxation, ;is in any other business matter, the people of Nebraska desire to, and naturally should keep in line
with what is done in other states. No greater disaster could occur to the State of Nebraska, than if, by ill-ad
vised action, it should throw Itself out of line regarding matters of taxation of corporate property or of any
property.
it may be a taking proposition for a demagogue to advocate the over taxing of railroad companies and
thereby work a hardship against them that would not accrue to other lines of property within the State, but it
would be an advertisement that wou d pass through the whole United States, proclaiming that the people of
Nebraska did not intend to be as fair with capital as other states of the Union. It would reproduce here in
Nebraska that prejudice which took Kansas a term of at least ten years to dispel.
The comparisons which we have made in these foregoing statements include every state in the Union,
with the exception of Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, New York, and several other states, laws have been
passed which work a hardship against railroad corporations. In New York, the onereus tax paid by the New
York Central railroad is being tested in the courts; its ill-advised law is working a hardship against that road,
while not Injuring the others in the State to any extent. In Massaehuset's, through a contract made in the
early days between the corporations and the State, and their excise laws, the taxes are out of line with what is
done in other states, and there is a general movement among the business people in that State looking to the
correction of this abuse.
In Harper’s Weekly of February 15, 1902, the following is an extract from an editorial in regard to this
matter:
‘ There is a very strong movement In the State of Massachusetts for rational corporation laws. The com
monwealth is waking up to the fact that, under its present laws, large modern corporations cannot be organized
in the State, and Massachusetts capital is seeking investment elsewhere. Not only the corporation law is re
strictive and narrow, but the tax laws are as unreasonable as those of New York. Both states tax all the
property of a corporation wherever it is situated, and this is double tax ■ tion • • • An effort is being made
in New York and will be made in Massachusetts to put an end to this system of double taxation. There is a
feeling abroad that New Jersey should not remain the refuge of all comidnations which want liberal treatment.’'
In Wisconsin it appears that they have an entirely different form of taxation for railroad corporations from
other states, as the taxes are collected in the form of an excise tax. being collected on the gross earnings of
the companies in such a way that while the tax is heavy on those roads which have a large earning capacity, it
is very light on those which are operating at a loss. This form of taxation looks fair, but it would not be
popular in Nebraska, because all of the taxes charged against railroad (orporations in Wisconsin are turned
into the State Treasury and they are relieved from paying taxes locally akng their lines. In the poorer counties
of Nebraska, this would mean practically bankruptcy. In Wisconsin ther Is a general movement looking to
wards a change in the form of taxation. After having tried a law something of the same character of Wiscon
sin, Michigan has returned to the direct form of taxation.
This whole subject of the payment of taxes on the part of the railroad corporations resolves itself into a
question as to how much of their revenue should be diverted to this purpose.
If the taxes were out of reason, it wrould place Nebraska in an unenviable light before all investors.
For political reasons, a few men have made themselves prominent by advocating a system of double taxa
tion of railroad property in \he State, but when the people once understand what is done, and how it is done,
we do not believe their efforts will avail.
The railroads of Nebraska, up to the present time, have not earned an undue amount on the investment
made; for a series of years there was no proflt derived from the investment as a whole on Nebraska railroads,
and while during 1900 two of the railroads paid a fair dividend on the capital invested, very many of the rail
roads in the State failed to render any returns whatever to their owners.
Nebraska has not as yet got the population, nor the completed system of railroads which would warrant
this State in imposing such obligations on the corporations which now exist, that would drive all future in
vestors in such property from the S ate.
The figures which have been given are all from reliable data which ( an be investigated by anyone so dis
posed; the averages per mile being from the report of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and the details of
the business of the different reads are taken from their official reports, while the figures here in Nebraska are
taken from the Auditors’ offices of the different railroads.
We will now continue our comparisons with oth^r property in the S ate, showing some remarkable facts
concerning the changes in values In various counties, and how by these changes, the railroads have been obliged
to carry mors than their proportionate sbare of taxation.
