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TIME TO ACT. When the back aches and you are always tired out, d e - [pressed and nervous — when sleep’ is disturbed by pain and r by urinary ills, it’s time to act. The kidneys are sick. Doan’s Kidney Pills rare sick kidneys quickly and perma nently. Here’s proof. Mrs. W. S.' Marshall, R. F. D. No. 1, Dawson, Ga., says: “My husband’s back and hips were so stiff and sore that he could not get up from a "iiair without help. I got him a box of Doan’s Kidney Fills. He felt re lief in three days. One box cured him.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine which cured Mr. Mar shall will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box._ A money spendthrift is a moral sui cide. PLEASE TELL YOUR READERS Our Big 50-Cent Catalogue Is Now Fr=*. 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If you have one of our big cata logues or have ever seen one you know what it is, the most complete, most dp to date and lowest-priced cat alogue ever published. If you haven’t eur big catalogue don’t fail to send for one at once. If you have the big kook please tell your friends and keighbors that the book is now free Bnd they can get one for the asking, gimply on a postal card or in a letter lay, “Send me your Big Catalogue,’’ ind the big new book, our regular 50 cent catalogue, will go to you by re turn mail, postpaid, free with our com pliments. Please don’t forget to tell your neighbor who hasn’t the big book that the big 50-cent book is now free to anyone for the asking. Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. Virtue for a wage is first cousin to vice. free to Twenty-five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the 8t. Louis Exposition, to five ladies In each of the following states: Illi nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri wh will send in the largest Bomber of trade marks cut from a ten cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, any where in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition- Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up 16 oz. (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by * registered mail September 6ta. Starch for sale by all dealers. Homo-made yokes are always heav iest WlggIe*Stick LArXDKT BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send 10c for samnle to The Laundry Ulus C®., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Some families keep a servant girl end several of her relations. Lewis’ “Single Binder” straight 5c Aigar. Made by hand of ripe, thoroughly eared tobacco, which insures a rich, satis fying smoke. You pay lOe for cigars not so good. Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Nothing spoils the life like living for the spoils. Defiance Starch should be In every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. The cursa cannot get beyond Cal ▼ary. Mr*. Winslow's soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the guns, reduces (O l*mm»fton, allay a pstn, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. • __ Our victories depend on how we lake our defeats. Ptoo** Com for Consumption Is an Infallible medicine for coughs and ooldc,—N. W. 3 am urn* Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1M(X Giving happiness is the only secret of getting it All Up to Date Housekeepers nee Defiance Cold Water Starch, because ft Is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. _ It is the opportunity we make that makes us. The Best Results In Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for wne money—no cooking required. Better a deluded enthusiasm than a dead heart. When You Buy Starch >Voy Defiance and get the best. IS oz. tor I# cents. Once used, always used. Power of a Drop of Water. You have probably heard that the constant falling of a drop of water will wear away the hardest stone. Here is an easy way to test the force of a single water drop, which we will take as a unit for all the bil lions of water drops it takes to wear away the stone, and then perhaps you may get a slight idea of tho stupen- ! dous force all those water drops would exert if they were combined into one mammoth water drop—and it dropped! You wouldn’t care to be under it. Cut a notch in the center of a match, then bend so as to form an acute angle. Lay it across the mouth Match, Coin and Water Drop. of a bottle and place a penny on the match. You are now ready to demon strate the force of the water drop— and also ready to do a neat little trick to surprise some oalooking friend. Ask your friend to get the coin into the bottle without touching either the match or the bottle. After he has puz zled over it for a while dip your finger in a glass of water, hold it above the place where the match is notched and let a drop fall on the point. The pow er of the water as it strikes the match is strong enough to force the sides of the angle to spring apart, thus making the opening large enough for the pen ny to fall into the bottle. Your trick is performed, while the water drop’s power is illustrated at the same time. Some Riddles and Answers. The first lady of the land in three letters? Eve. Relating to civil life in five letters? Civic. A legal document in four letters? Deed. What baby says about candy in four letters? “Dood.” Something the most stupid person can see through in three letters? Eye. A gentle domestic animal in three letters? Ewe. One of the famous pair of giants in three letters? Gog. Something used by burglars in three letters? Gag. Part of the verb to do in three let ters? Did. A small vehicle in three letters? Gig. The condition of the grass in the morning in five letters? Dewed. The cry of a bird or a chick in four letters? Peep. Twilight time in three letters? Eve. Giving Sheep Their Dew Three hundred years ago one ques tion used to bother the English farm ers. There were more sheep in Eng land than in any other country in the world (it isn’t so now, but that is an other story), and yet the “silly” crea tures were seldom seen to drink. To such an extent was this abstinence observed that when a sheep was no ticed drinking it was thought, so an | old writer declared, “a prodigious thing that sheep should drinke.” There w'as, he said, a cause for their never suffering much thirst—“There is so moch dew on the grasse that they need no other water.” Ancient authors, like Aristotle, were quite mis taken “in thinking that the northern sheep had more neede of water than the southern. In Spaine those sheep bear the best fleeces of wool that drinke least.” But if the animals can not get dew they must have water. In the seasons of great draught that sometimes afflict the Australian sheep farmers the flocks perish by the thou sand. Game of Bouquet. This is a jolly game for a number of children to play. Sit down in a cir cle around your leader. Let the lead er give each one a flower for his name —violet, daisy, sweet william, black eyed susan, etc. Then let her tell you a story, “made up out of her own head,” in which she brings in every one of the flower names. Whenever a child hears his flower name mentioned he must get up, turn around and sit down. Whenever the leader uses the word “bouquet” all the children must jump up and change places, at which time the leader tries to capture a seat. Whoever gets “left” must then be come leader. schoolhouse door, but did not venture there. After he had eaten every mor sel he went slowly back to the woods. His visits soon became of daily regularity, and as it was evident that he came with no evil intent the teach er and now and then the pupils took to tossing him an apple or other deli cacy. From that to feeding him out of their hands was an easy step, until now the bear never plays truant and lunches regularly with the children and their teacher. Basting Threads. A dear little girl once came unto me. Her eyes as the stars In their constancy: Her face quite a picture, with cheeks ail aglow. As 8he earnestly questioned me, “Oh, do you know My beautiful lady—the one over there— The one tnat I love with the white and black hair?” “Why, yes," 1 replied, “but her hair is called ‘gray’— I’ve known her for many and many a day.” The little maid listened with pitying face. Then with arch look replied—was in genuous grace— A look that said plainly: “What is it you lack? A knowledge of colors? Her hair is quite black! With now and then'*—pause—a wise shak ing head— “With now and then just a—white basting thread.’’ And I thought me straightway of a truth that is old. Eternal as ages and priceless to hold. Of the roadway - of life—with entangle ments wild. We are safe there if led by the hand of a child. God bless them, the children, God bless them each one! May our faith be like theirs ere life's journey is done. E’en though black clouds of sorrow fall o’er our heads. May our faith grasp the sunshine. “The white basting threads!” —Boston Transcript. Spider Web. Fatten to the hall chandelier as many lengths of red, yellow, green, blue aid white twine as there are boy and girl players. Tell each child to take a length of twine and follow’ it through the dif ferent rooms until he finds the other end, winding the twine into a bail as ho goes. #: will lead him up stairs and down, around table legs, through cracks in doors, in and out through the banis ters, and so on. At the end you should previously have fastened some pleasant surprise, like a tiny box of bon-bons or an or ange. .When Boys Play Minstrete. When you boys want to blacken up your faces for a minstrel play or any other kind of fun, here is a good way for you to blacken up: Take a few galls, bruise them to a fine powder, and strew the powder nicely upon a towel; then put a little ground copperas into a basin of wa ter, which will dissolve and leave the water perfectly transparent. After any person has washed in this water and wiped on the towel on which the galls were strewed, his hands and face will immediately become black. Circle Puzzle. Draw three equal squares inside the large circle, each square to contain five of the smaller circles, and leav ing three spaces outside each contain ing five of the smaller circles. A Soapsuds Surprise. Here is an experiment with soap suds in which there is no blowing of bubbles. Fasten two knitting needles or other small rods together with threads of equal length so as to form a rectangular frame. A third thread attached to the upper rod enables you to hold up the frame without touching it. Plunge the frame into strong soap suds and lift it out slowly by this third thread. You find the frame filled by a transparent liquid film, .like a pane of glass. Break this film and attach to the vertical threads, about one-third of their length from the bottom, the ends of another thread which is no longer than the knitting needle, so that it hangs down in a curve, and to the middle of this thread fasten still an other thread by one end, leaving the other end hanging down. Now dip the frame again In the soapsuds and lift it out. The last two threads will appear as irregular lines embedded in the film of liquid. BreaK the lower part of the film, and you will see the upper part contract, draw ing the loose thread up with it into l the form of a circular arch. Now take hold of the free hanging thread below the lower rod and pull downward. The single arch becomes a double arch but resumes its former shape as soon as you release the hang ing thread. These experiments, which might bo Frame for the Films. varied in many ways, show that the liquid film is like a stretched elastic membrane or sheet of india rubber. It always makes itself as small as pos sible, as the last experiment proves, and if stretched out by force it con tracts again as soon as the force ceases to act. It affords, therefore, an interesting example of the ‘•surface tension” pos sessed by liquids. The film has two parallel surfaces and their tensions act together. Domino Fortune Telling. Lay them on their faces on the table ; and shuffle them; then draw one and see the number, which has its mean ing as follows: Double six, receiving a handsome jum money. Six-five, going to a place of amuse ment. Six-four, lawsuits and trouble, which can only be avoided by great care. Six-three, a ride in a carriage. Six-two, a present of clothing. Six-one, you will soon perform a friendly action. Six-blank, guard against scandal, or you will suffer by your inattention. Double five, a new abode to your advantage. Five-four, a fortunate speculation in business. Five-three, a visit from a superior. Five-two, a pleasant excursion on the water. Five-one, love, intrigue. Five-blank, a funeral, but not a rela tive. ® Double four, drinking liquor at 3 distance. Four-three, a false alarm of fire. Four-two, beware of thieves and swindlers. Four-one, expect trouble from cred itors. Four-blank, you will receive a letter from an angry friend. [ The Number Nine. It is a curious thing, which every one does not know, that you cannot destroy the integrity of the figure !) by multiplication. To make plain: 9x9—81. Add 8 and 1 (the product) and you have 9. Take any other number, say 122; 123 times 9 equals 1107. Add the figures of the product again and they equal 9. Again, a times 33 equals 297, which added gives us two 9s by adding 7 and 2, or the three figures added equal 18, or 2x9. Whether the number is small or large, the sum of the figures of the product will always be divisible by 9. How to Make a Flute. A little flute from which a good deal of amusement can be derived can be made by wrapping a piece of paper around a pencil to make a tube. Paste the edge flat, and to one end of the tube fasten a triangular piece of pa per, somewhat larger than the open ing. To play the flute, draw In your breath through the open end of the tube; the difference In pitch will do pend upon how hard you breathe.— holiday Magazine. A FIVE-POINTED STAR. The Finished Star and Diagram of its Construction. There are many ways of making five-pointed stars. For the method here described you will need a pair of compasses. With these draw a circle of any size. Draw a line across the circle, going through the center. Draw another line from the center to the top of the circle. Find the middle point of the right half of the first line. The hand in the picture points it out. Use that point for one end of the compass. Place the pencil end al the top of the circle and draw a curve downward until it touches the line running across the circle. The dis tance between the crossing point anc the top of the circle is the exact die tance between the points of a five pointed star drawn in that circle. A star drawn on stiff paper may be cut out and used as a pattern in mak ing flags or ornaments Bear Goes to School. This is the story of a bear, in Win nipeg, who goes regularly to school and will be entitled to a prize for punctual attendance, even if he fails in Greek and mathematics. He came slouching out of the woods one day and advanced directly on the schoolhouse. Some of the children had eaten their luncheon on the grass in front of the building. The bear stopped and licked up the crumbs and scattered remnants of the repast and then stuck his head in at the school* house door. The children and the school teacher screamed, and the big fellow was so frightened that he took to his lumber ing Keels. The next day, however, he came to the schoolhouse at the same hour and ate the crumbs and crusts as before. He looked at the tasscr _ e^nd - Iwsntion. To Prevent Rear-End Collisions. A model illustrating a method of iverting a large class of railway acci lents that are known as rear-end col isions was exhibited a short time ago .n New York city. On the track, 30 feet from the ordi nary semaphore, is placed a dwarf semaphore, whose movements are made to correspond with those of the jther, whether the latter is operated by hand or electricity. From the side bf the locomotive projects downward i rod of glass, in such a position that It will strike the dwarf semaphore when the signal is set at danger. Con tact breaks the glass. The immediate effect of this is to bring into play in the cab a steam mechanism which shuts the throttle, lock§ it, applies the air brakes, and finally deposits sand on the track. Only when the train stops can the engineer unlock his throttle. He must first adjust a fresh glass rod in place of the broken one. Thus an effective safeguard is provid ed against running past a signal on account of the sickness, death or care lessness of the engineer, or fog or smoke. The apparatus is so designed that if the engineer, having hi\ wits about him, and having his train under fcon trol, wishes to do so. he can prevent the smashing of the glass rod. and run slowly to the main semaphore. To keep the rod from hitting the dwrarf semaphore, he touches a mechanism in the cab which shifts the position of the “destructible member,” and saves it from injury. When he does so, however, a record of the time is made automatically on an indicator, so that he cannot play any tricks without the fact being known. Each Spout Is a Handle. To obviate this difficulty many a hostess provides both in sufficient quantity to meet the wants of her guests, necessitating the use of two pots and two stands. Why not dis pense with this trouble and utilize the combination tea and cofTee pot which has recently been designed by a Pennsylvania inventor? As the il lustration shows, it is capable of pour ing a cup of either beverage on a moment’s notice, and that, too, with out burning the hand by contact with either spout handle. As will be seen, the two spouts, which also serve as handles for the pot, are surrounded by coils of wire, which prevent the hand from grasping the heated metal when reversing the pot to pour a cup of drink from the spout that has pre viously been used as the handle. The pot is divided through the center by a partition which reaches from top to bottom, and when it is not desired to utilize it for brewing two beverages at the same time one side can be Slled with hot water, for the double purpose of maintaining the warmth of the coffee or tea and for use in weakening the beverage should it prove too strong. Harry W. Gander of Rudy, Pa., is the inventor. A Collapsible Stretcher. It has been said that Japan went to war with China simply to secure the discipline and training necessary for the impending conflict with Russia, which is but another example of a nation profiting by the motto, though admittedly peculiar in the manner in which it was carried out. But nations are not alone in heeding this admoni tion. The inventor has taken it upon himself at all times to strive for tfyo improvement and advancement of all that goes to make war terrible, kom the ship-burning mirror of Archime des to the rapid-fire gun of the modern inventor. But if war has been made more horrible, the hospital equipment has in a measure kept pace with it from the humane point of view, u: - til the sick or wounded men can now be properly cared for until claimed by the grim reaper or restored to healtl . with the chances more in favor of the latter outcome than they were even a few years ago. • In the matter of stretchers for carry ing the wounded from the field of bat tle the hospital corps may be Inter ested In the idea of a Swiss inventor. It consists principally of a set of lazy tongs, with a canvas cloth extending from head to foot when the stretcher Is extended. The handles by which the carrier Is lifted are attached to the lower section .of the folding frame, serving to fold the stretcher when they are turned down against the legs and to extend It when in po sition to carry a wounded soldier off the field. Human Passions Photographed. Soma photographic records cf hu man emotions, obtained at Geneva bv Dr. E. Magnin and M. Edward Flegcn heimer, are of remarkable interest The experiments have been made upon a very susceptible hypnotic sub ject. who has been influenced by both musical and oral suggestion, and the entire range of human passions—Joy, anger, fear, sadness, gluttony, greed, etc.—have been recorded in about §00 photographs of the woman under the various forms of suggestion.- The in tensity of the expressions is said to have been rarely equalled by the great artists. Tea or Coffee, Which? Why is It that if you have tea when company comes to dine they seem to desire coffee, and vice versa? Of course, they assure the one presiding over the bererage that it really make3 no difference and that they prefer whichever the hostess happens to have on the table, but there generally follows the uncomfortable feeling that the drink which is not to be had is the one most desired. 3\.rvi\tt i? Ol ct ivc Here i*? a plan for an attractive cot tage that can surely be built for $1, 000 any where. Entering the house you find yourself in a fairly large hall, with an attractive staircase immedi ately before you, and on the right a cheerful sitting room. The staircase is designed with a seat at one side, and is an open stair to the first land ing, with nicely turned balusters and rail. The space under the stair is used as the stair to the basement from the combined dining room and kitchen. The sitting room has a corner ar rangement, showing a pleasant bay to form a sort of circular alcove addition to the room, yet the expense of it is not great, as it is partly supported and rcofed by the porch, and the re mainder extends over the foundation. The dining room and kitchen are combined, with a pantry and wash room. The downstairs bedroom can he used as a library, if desired, cut ting out the closet, and having a large cased opening between this room and the sitting room. On the second floor there are two bedrooms, cnc on each side of the hall, which are lighted by the dor mers, as is seen by the exterior view. This dormer also gives good ventila tion, as the transoms over the bed room deers give a circulation of air through the second story rooms. Al though it may appear in the exterior that there are sloping ceilings in the second floor bedrooms, such is not the case to a great extent. There is only a foot cut off of the wall and ceiling for the roef. There is a single chimney, and it i3 nicely located for heating the house either with stoves or a furnace. At each side of the second floor bedrooms are large spaces left under the roof, which make excellent storage closets. The house is 24 by 28 feet. The in terior woodwork is finished in natur al finish, and half of the space under the first floor is excavated for a large cellar. Cream Needed fer Pound of Butter. Mrs. W. H. P.—How much cream is required to make one pound of but ter? Replying to the foregoing question I would say, at the outset, that it is dif ficult to give a definite answer to it, as cream varies so much in butter-fat content. It is nothing unusual to meet cream obtained from the deep-settiag process which contains considerably less than 20 per cent butter fat, while shallow pan cream is usually consid erably richer, and cream obtained by the use of a separator will test all the way from 20 to 40 per cent. Cream testing 20 per cent butter fat—a very common test for cream from the deep setting process—will make between 2 and 2 y2 pounds of butter per gallon of cream, or about one pound of butter per pounds of cream.—J. W. M. Cement Anchor Posts. C. C.—How would cement answer for constructing anchor pests for a fence of 11 stramls of coil spring wire; the posts would he sunk 5 or 8 feet in the ground. In what propor tion should cement and sand be mixed? Cement answers well for making ordinary fence posts, but where there would be a side strain, as on an anchor post it would be well to build iron rods into each post; this would add greatly to their strength. The cost of concrete anchor posts would require to be composed of one part cement to five parts of gravel, which would require a barrel of cement for 20 cubic feet of posts, so that each post would require nearly half a bar rel o£ cement. A Tonic for Fowls. Mrs. M.—Would a small quantity of ground gentian, ray a quarter of a teaspoenful, ftd in a mash once a day to a dozen hens, be harmful or beneficial to the fowls? They get no vegetables, cniy a few boiled potatoes daily. If the hens appear to be down in condition and need tening up, a small quantity of ground gentian fed daily as indicated would undoubtedly prove beneficial. It is net advisable, how ever, to be dosing healthy fowls, but a light tonic at the end of a long win ter should be all right until the birds can get cut to the green grass. Feed for Chickens. Mrs. J. P.—Last* year I hatched chickens with an incubator, but they died when a few da;-s old; They ap peared to have bowel trouble. I gave them curd and bread soaked in milk \Va3 this proper feed for them? Chickens should receive no food for the first thirty-cia hours, and then they shcul i have light food such as bread soaked in milk and squeezed almost dry. besides coarse cracked wheat cr oats greats. Curd is very indigestible and likely to cause bowel trouble. Crbba^s Ivirggot. F. R —What will destroy the little white grubs that ere hatched around the rents of young and early cabbage plants? For the cabbage maggot, probably the easiest and best remedy Is pulling away the se ll down to the true roots and pouring in abcut a teacupful of a t9asmade by soaking one or- twe ounces, of pyreihrnm msect powder in a* gallon of warm w-4ter and then pull ir~ the earth around tho roots again. Sa'A the Hun-an Fright. Maud—Did you hear abcut that fright George got cn his wedding dayl Mabel—Yes, I was there. I saw" her Living Republican ex-Chairmen. Only two former executive repub lican chairmen are now living. Mat thew Stanley Quay, United States senator from Pennsylvania, who had charge of Harrison’s first campaign in 1888 is still in the land of the living. He is often spoken of as the best executive chairman, save Han na, that the party has ever had. Mr. Quay’s age and other considerations would prevent him from serving this year, even were he inclined that way, which he is not. Thomas Henry Car ter of Montana who managed Harri son’s second campaign in 1892, and whose work was not crowned by suc cess, as Quay’s was, has never since thought of attempting national cam paign management again. De Res2Kes Not to Return. It Beems unlikely that the great tenor, Jean de Reszke. will return to this country next season, either for the Metropolitan or elsewhere. Nor may his brother, Edouard, the bass, be expected. Several offers have been made by various managers; one Is said to promise $5,000 an appearance for fifty, concerts. But as they do not need the money, the will probably re main in Europe, where there are {>-... er hardships and less magnificent «• tances to cover in a concert tour. Cure for Backache. Randolph, Neb., May 30.—Cedar county has seldom heard of a more wonderful case than that of Mrs. Lucy Nicolls of this place. For a long t r * Mrs. Nicolls suffered with very se vere pains in the back uud almost in stantly these pains left her. She i.as tried doctors and everything, but nothing had helped her till she us- d Dodd’s Kidney Pill9. She says: “Dodd’s Kidney Pills did me so much good I can’t tell, it was so won derful. My back hurt me all the time. I doctored and tried everything but did not feel any better. I thought my life was short on earth, but now I fe-. 1 like & new person. I used one !*>x of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and I do not feel the slightest ache or pain. I can turn and twist any way without feeiing it and I feel so proud of it I cannot hardly express my gratitude to Dodd'* Kidney Pills for what they have done for me.” The average married woman Is bound to divide her affections; if she is not devoted to her kin, she has a club which makes demands upon her. How’s This ? We offer One Huadred Dollar* Reward for a <y case of Catarrh that cuuuui be cured by Ha., i Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHEXET * CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned. hare known F. J. Cheat r for the last 15 year*, and bollere him perfectly t. . arable In all business transactions and fl::a.. a .) able to carry out any obligations made by Lis firm. Waldixu, Kixxas ft MaJinx, Wholesale Druggist*. Toledo. O. Hall's Cstarrh Core Is taken lutemally. a tin.; directly upon the blood sad mucous surf j of U.« system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold bv all Druggist*. Take Hall's Fsialiy Pills for ccastlpstioa. A fortified town calls itself a Gib raltar witu as little excuse as some women call themselves Madonnas. OVERHEARD OX THE PIKE. Mr. Easy—"Why should people visiting The Ft position at night, use mure Allen's Fool-Easo tbsa in daytime?” Mlsa Foote—“Because nnderthe brilliant l!!uir‘n atUn of the grounds, every fout Secames *n act* Mr. Easy—"Fair, Only fair! Pray, conduct n.s to the nearest drug store sad I promise never to accept a substitute for you or for Allen’s Foot Ease.” • • • • FOOT NOTE—The twain teili be made one in June. The queen of England ha3 a favor ite teapot of which she is very fond and which is in frequent use at Sand ringham. It i* In the shape of a bar rel of wine, with a stout old Dutch man sitting astride. His cap serves for a lid, and a gold tap lets out th® beverage. BUSINESS PRUDENCE means careful buying of the small things as well as the large. Parag a Typewriter Ribbons bear the special guarantee of the Remington Type writer Company. They sell singly for 75 cents each. If you buy the Para gon Ribbon coupon books, you get them for 58 1-3 cents. Lots of inferior goods cost more than that. We have noticed that when women go to a world’s fair they have more boasting to do about how little it cost them than about what they saw while there. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep De fiance Starch. 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