i Miss Nettie Blackmore, Min- ■ neapolis, tells how any young woman may be permanently cured of monthly pains by tak ing Lydia E. Pinkbatn’s Vege table Compound. “ Yvimo Womex :—I had frequent headaches of a severe nature, dark spots before my eyes, and at my men strual periods I suffered untold agony. A member of the lodge adrised me to try Lydia F. Plnkbam’s Vege table Compound, but I only scorned good advice and felt that my case was hopeless, but she kept at me until I bought a bottle and started taking it. 1 soon had the best reason In the world to change my opinion of the medicine, as each day my health im proved. and finally I was entirely with otft pain at my menstruation periods. I am most grateful.’' — Nbttib Black mors, 28 Central Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. -$5000 forfait If original of oiooo lot tor prot‘ng ganuinonoot cannot bo protocot. If there Is anything about your ease about Which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. She will hold your letter in strict confidence. Hhe can Riirely help you, for no person in America can speak from a wider experience in treat ing female ills. She has helped hundreds of thousands of women hack to health. Her address Is Lynn, Mass.; her advice is free. Complete External and Internal Treatment ONE DOLLAR Consisting of Cuticura Soap to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; CUTI CURA Ointment to in stantly allay itching, irrita tion, and inflammation, and soothe and heal ; and CU TI CURA Pills to cool and cleanse the blond and expel humor germs. A SINGLE SET, costing but ONE DOLLAR, is often suffi cient to cure the most tor turing, disfiguring skin, scalp and blood humors, ec zemas, rashes, itchings, and irritations, with loss of hair, from infancy to age, when the best physicians and all other remedies fail. •old tar Ufaru* t* i**" FOR RENT OR WAVE On Cm. Fajmentn, SEVERAL OROICX FARMS, dud for UiL J. MILHALL, Sioux CKy, lovrt, The February Atlantic offers a group of leading articles which can be neglected by no person earnestly concerned about the urgent issues in America today. These papers, in which subjects of the first importance are treated by the men best qualified to discuss them with authority and vigor, are: "Wall Street and the Country," by Charles A. Cor.ant, a treatise on the uses and abuses of the money power, with which the number opens: followed by a sensible and dispassionate paper on "Lynch ing : a Southern View." by Clarence H. Poe, and a thoughtful discussion of the question. “Is Commercialism in Disgrace?" by John Graham Brooks. The ministry will never be a soft j snap to the man with a sensitive soul. Cheap Excursions to the South, j On February 16, March 1 and 15, the Kansas City Southern railway w?fl offer to the public the extremely low rate of $10.00 for the round trip to all points on the Port Arthur Route, in cluding Beaumont, Port Arthur, I>ake Charles, Shreveport. Texarkana, Fort Smith, Mena. De Queen and all inter mediate points. The return limit on these tickete will be twenty-one day a from date of sale, with stopover privi leges at all points south of Kansas City on the going trip. Any informa, tips desired by the publio relative to these cheap excursions will be chsor fully furnished upon application to S. Q. Warner, G. P. and T. A., Kansas City, Mo. No. Cordelia, a long headed man Isn't necessarily narrow minded. IVIggle»Stlck laundry blur Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothea. Costs 10 cents and equals 30 rents worth of any other bluing, lr your grocer does not keep it send 10c for sample to The foundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.—Ruskin. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. A man may be short on love and still be long on constancy. Mr®. Winslow'® Root bln? Mymp. For children teething, softens tb® gurus, reduce® ft* flfcinmaiiou, si lays psin, cures wind collo. 25c ® bottle. Some people imagine they lose caste by speaking civilly. I do not believe F'so's Cure tor Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—Joss F Butts, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. .5, 19ua Time loosely spent will not agaiu be won.—R. Greene. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This Is why Defiance Starch la taking the place of all others, M Harper's Weekly says that Great Britain provides the world’s largest market for motor cars. The great majority of these machines come from the continent, the importation figures for last year being 3,500 cars, valued at $5,230,000; for the current year the figures have Increased to 5,330 cars, amounting in value to $8,000,000. It is said that most of the expense is a matter of wages, as the raw material of the machiues Is of little compara tive value. American Born Diplomat. Count Frederick Hoyos, the young secretary of the Austrian embassy, who has lately arrived in the capital, comes from Vienna, where he has been residing for the last year. Ilia last foreign post was Pekin, China. [He is 26 years old and speaks Eng gllsh fluently, thanks to his English mother, who was Miss Whitehead, : daughter of the Invention of a tor i pedo and owner oT a large torpedo factory In Hungary. Count Hoyos is the brother of the Princess Bismarck, one of the brightest young women of Europe and reputed author of “Eliz abeth and Her German Garden'* Count Hoyos was born In Washing ton atp:l is the son of Count Hoyos. ! who was minister from Austria from 1376 to 1373. A Physician's Advice. Yorktown. Ark., March 7th.—Dodd’s Kidney Pills must not be confounded I with the ordinary patent medicine, i They are a new discovery, a specific for all diseases of the Kidneys and have been accepted by physicians only after careful tests In extreme cases. Dr. 1,eland Williamson, of this place heartily indorses Dodd's Kld j nev Pills “as a remedy for the vari | ous forms of the diseases of the Kid ; neys. pains in the back, soreness in j the region of the Kidneys, foul-smell ! ing urine and cloudy or thickened con dition of the urine, discharges of pus or corruption. Gout, Rheumatism, In flammation and Congest Ion of the Kid neys and all kindred complaints.” Continuing he says: “I could mention many cases in which I have prescribed Dodd's Kid ney Pills with success. For instance, Mr Robert Weeks farmer, malaria, haematuria or swamp fever three times, kidneys weakened, continual pain and soreness in back, which made him very nervous, had a little fever and sometimes chilly. Urine changeable, but generally very high colored; an old chronic case who had taken much medicine with little ef fect. After taking Dodd's Kidney Pills about six weeks he was entirely cured and bad gained fifteen pounds In weight. The last time I saw him he was the picture of perfect man hood." When tne flying machine Is perfect ed we can ail get up in the air. If we want to. | NEBRASKA STATE NEWS | NEIGENFIND EXECUTION COSTS. After a Long Wait the Money Has Bsen Peid Over. LINCOLN—At last the expenses in curred by the state for the execution of Ncigenfind have been paid. The money was taken from the peniten tiary cash fund for the purpose and of the last payment made $50 went to Douglas county for the scaffold and $130 is charged up to "execution ex pensos.” Of the amount allowed George Stryker, the Omaha specialist, received $73.80. In all the board of public lands and buildings appropri ated *25.i.83 for this execution and the payments have been made in install ments from the penitentiary cash fund, the auditor having refused to audit the account. The original bill hand ed in by the warden was for $300, but the board thought this excessive. Be cause of all the squabble in settling the account of Neigenfiend's taking off the board adopted a resolution to pay in the future only $150 for an execu tion, the warden to receive tnat amount and pay the expenses. This was done in the Rhea case, and Stry ker received $73 for his part of the affair, though all of the bill has not yet been paid. MUST USE THE WATER EARLY. Likely to Be Shortage for Irrigation Purposes Late in Season. LINCOLN—State Irrigation Engi neer Dobson is authority for the state ment that the termers along the North Platte who depend on irrigation for their crops will run risks of not hav ing enough water unless they take their supply early while the river is carrying away the spring rise. He says that the small snowfall in the mountains makes the outlook rather poor for a normal flow late in the sea son and advises land owners to flow their lands in June or the beginning of July in order to have the soil thor oughly soaked when the crops need moisture. In this way he believes they can escape the threatened diffi culties which confront them. Found Dead in Pasture. STELLA—Jacob Mann was found dead in the pasture o. his brother a ; few miles northwest of Stella. Mr. Mann was a widower and had made | liis home with his brother. John I Mann, for a iong time. He was an eccentric character and rarely left the farm. After dinner he started to an adjoining pasture to water the stock and he was gone so long the family became uneasy and made a search for him. finding him dead, ap- | parently having been dead for several ; hours. He is supposed to nave died j from a paralytic stroke. Fire at Peru Normal School. PERI', Neb.—Eire threatened the ; Peru Normal school ami for a time j the whole building was expected to burn. The. fire originated in the up- j per stories of the main building and | burned through the floor to the rooms above. The authorities sent to Ne braska City for aid and a special was made up to take the local department down. The fire was soon got under cont rol. Jails in Bad Shape. LINCOLN—The State Prison asso ciation. in its annual report, vigorous ly assails the methods employed in handling prisoners in the various coun ty jails and the penitentiary. The matter will be taken up at a meet ing to be held Tuesday night at the I.indell hotel. Matinee Races May 30. BEATRICE—At a meeting of the board of managers of the Beatrice Driving association it was decided to hold the first matinee race in this city Decoration day. May 3U. Hotly Contested Land Case Settled. NEBRASKA CITY—In the county court Mike Gardner of that city, charged with selling land without title, was discharged. This case was hotly contested, numerous counsel on both sides presenting tlie arguments. The defc ndant applied for a writ of habeas corpus and claimed that there was no intent to defraud ami this was sustained by the county judge. Seized Barrels of Vinegar. LINCOLN — Food Commissioner Thompson has seized a consignment of six barrels of vinegar sent to Au burn. The vinegar was manufactur ed in Paducah, Ky„ and Mr. Thomp son claims tliar it is made with acid instead of being of the pure eider va riety. Accidentally Killed by Brother. OXFORD—George Lynch. 16 years of age* was killed in bis home, four teen miles north of this place, by the accidental discharge of a shot gun in the hands of an older brother. The victim was struck in the side, while seated at an organ, and died thirty minutes later. Young Girl is Burned to Death. WYMORE A terrible accident oc curred at the home of L. \Y. Welch, living three miles east of Blue Springs. The family had retired for the night, with the exception of one girl, who was just ready to go to bed and start ed to blow out the light. As she did so a terrific explosion occurred, the flames igniting her clothing and a number of articles in the room. After u night of fearful agony the girl died. The accident was due to the fact that the lamp bad been filled with | gasoline instead of coal oil. NEWS IN BRIEF. A prairie fire in .Mira Valley, in Valley county, destroyed considerable property. The State Banking hoard denied the application of tho Farm Land Investment company of Omaha to do business in the state. The members of the Tectimseh Christian church- have called Eider C. W. Cooper of Hartford, Kan., to the pastorate the*1 to serve half time. Tho Germans of the Lutheran faith have just, completed a substantial church four miles south of Grafton. The church was dedicated Sunday. Thirty-three of the thirty-five coun ty assessors of (’.age county met with County Assessor \V. W. Scott and dis cussed the new revenue law as it per tains to assessments. A. K. Smith of Brainard sold to Joseph Moravec ami Jacob Sokup four hundred and eighty acres of land in Richardson township for $-...750. This land is but lit He improved. Josephine, the wife of Joseph Steele, of Falls City, died several da; m ago in Chicago alter a long illness following a surgical operation. She was brought, home for burial. A movement is on foot to organize a building and loan association in Te cumseh and indications have it the plan will be successful. Something over 200 shares have already been subscribed. Word was received at Elk Crete that Harvey Alspoch, a young man residing east of that, place wilh his brother in Nemaha county, met with a serious accident by having his foot caught in a horse power. At a mass meeting of voters in 1 e cumseh it was decided to give the license question a direct vote at the coming municipal election. Two can didates were chosen for eacli of the offices to lie filled and party iiolitica will play no part in the election. .1. L. McLain, a young mechanic who came to Humboldt during the winter and opened a blacksmith shop, quietly took his departure the other day without informing any of his creditors and friends of his intention. The barn, cattleshed, granary and eorncrib belonging to A. McLaugh lin. one mile west of Edgar, took fire and were entirely consumed. The fire is supposed to have been set bv sparks from tlie engine of a freight train. The coming of spring will mark the inauguration til a building boom in Humboldt and present indications are that more business olooka will lie erected than have been put up during any year recently. Material is al ready on tlie ground lor some of the structures. The county commissioners of Col fax county have employed an auditor to go through the county books, re quiring him to file a bond for tlie correct and faithful performance of the work in the sum of $10,000. Frank E. Moore has just completed such auditing of the records of ex-Treas urer F. W. Shonka. Carbolic acid was the method and a Northwestern refrigerator car the place chosen by Douglas W. Edwards, familiarly known to his friends as "Pete,” in a successful attempt to end his life at Fremont He drank the liquid at 12:55 and died within half an hour thereafter, lie was mar died and leaves a wife and two chil dren. C. Vincent, a representative of the Farmers' Co-operative Elevator com pany, has organized a branch of the association at Davey and also one at Prairie Home. At Davey he secured fifty-five members and $1,700 was sub scribed. Mr. Vincent said that the Havelock association had marketed 24,000 bushels oT wheat since -,s or ganization and had saved the mem bership $800. J. H. Ludwick, a pioneer furniture dealer of McCook, was found dead in bed. Deceased had been in poor health for months, but was feeling quite well upon retiring. Heart dis ease was cause ot sudden demise. Following is a summary of the mortgages filed and released in Col lax county during w.c month of Feb ruary: Farm mortgages filed, 30, amounting to J07,130; released, 14. amounting to $13,232.31. Town and city mortgages filed, 15, amounting to $5,088; released, 12, amounting to $8. 072.02. Chattel mortgages filed. 20 amounting to $8,250.25; released, 17, amounting to $2,958.02. Diving through a plale glass win dow, Virgil Kelley, a man of 20 years, attempted to escape from the store | of the Sprague Drug company, I.in- ' coin, at an early hour. He was caught rifling the casn drawer by W. K. Sprague, who had stood guard over the store during the night, suspecting that burglars bad designs on the place. The police were called and, j after an exciting chase, Kelley was t captured. The habeas corpus case instituted by ,1. A. Johnson of Omaha to secure possession of two daughters now liv ing with their grandparents in the northern part of Gage county, is be ing contested by every available I means. A dispatch was received in Nebras i ka City stating that the oldest son of E. E. Bordwell. who left some time | ago to make his home at Elk, Wash., j had died from the injuries received ihe day before while coasting. Mr. Bordwell was for years traveling aurtl ! tor for the Edw ards Bradford Lumber I comyany. BO YOCR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? Ifio. use Red Pros* Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 os. package A cents. Our Idea of an unpopular man is one with a fad for collecting bills. Billion Dollar Gras*. When we Introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did we 4ream It would be the most talked-of glass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earlh; but this ha* come to pass. Agr. Editors wrote about it, Agr. Col. lege Professors lectured about It, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, while in the farm home by the quiet fireside. In the corner grocery, in the village postufllee, at the creamery, at the de pot; In fact wherever farmers gath ered, Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, that wonderful grass, good for 5 to 14 tons per acre, and lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farm er's voice. Then comes Brornus Inermls, than which there is no better grass or bet ter permanent hay producer on earth. Grows wherever soli is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer'a Teo sinte, which will produce 100 stocks from one kernel of seed, IX ft. high, In 100 days, rich In nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and 1* good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which tan be grown at 25c a ton. and Speltz at 20c a bu., both great food for cattle, also come in for their share In the discussion. JUST SESD^IOC IS 8T1MPS and this notice to John A. Salter Seed Co., l,a Crosse, Wis.. for their big cat alog and farm seed sample*. (W. N. U.J A positively selfish woman has the most to say about the unkindness of the world at large. Mothor