FROM MISERY TO HEALTH. A Prominent Club Woman, of Kansas City, Writes to Thank Doan’s Kid ney Pills for a Quick Cure Miss Nellie Davis, of 1216 Michigan Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., society leader and club' woman, writes: “I cannot say too much in praise of Doan’s Kidney Pills, for they effected a corn* ' plete cure in a very snort time when I was suffering from kidney troubles brought on by a cold. I had severe pains in the back ,and sick headaches, and felt miserable all lover. A few boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills made me a well woman, without an ache cr pain, and I feel compelled to recommend this reliable remedy.” (Signed) .Nellie Davis. A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Forget One’s Self. ' If one will but *try to forget one's self and think only of the comfort, the pleasure and the happiness of oth ers, there can be no self-conscious ness. If in the company of the oppo site sex, do not be always? thinking of whether you are producing a good impression or otherwise: be constant ly on the alert to find what your com panion or companions are most inter ested in, and turn the conversation in that direction. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Definace Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Watei Starches are put up in -%-poiind pack ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious cheat' icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he hair a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance; He knows that Defiance Starch ha* printed on every package in large let ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand De fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick ing. Defiance never sticks. Close Prisoner for 21 Years. Twentyr-one years ago a peasant in the village of Jaennersdorf. near Ost priegnitz. placed his son in a small building, and, after walling him in. kept him there. Food was handed in through a small opening not many inches in diameter, which was the only channel for light and air within The peasant is now aged 90, his wife 86 and the son 46. ’ Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOC AL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot rea'-b the seat of the disease. Catarrh Is a beuai or consti tutional disease ,.nd Inorl r t -ctire !; yon must take Internal remedies. Hall** Catarrh Cura 1* taken In ternally, an 1 a. rs directly on the blood atnl mucou* surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Care 1* n >t a quack medl cine. It was proscribed by one of the !>e-t phvstctani In this country foryearsand Is a regular p-e«crlprIon It m composed of the be*t tonic* known, combined with the best bf-od purifier* act Inc directly on the mu ami a surfaces. The perfect c« ;nb!m»t!«n of thy two Ingredients Is what pr- do -'** such wonderful re • tills In curing catarrh Send for testlrton'ars free K -I. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo, O Sold by Prutreist*. prieo 7.'--. Take Hail's Family Pilis for constipation. All Carried Walking Sticks. Walking sticks wore in the fashior in Greece about four and twenty' con turies ago, when the man who ap peared in the streets of Athens with out a stick was liable to be arrestet as a disorderly person. Has Appropriate Monument. A German pencil-maker, recently deceased, has over his grave a gigan tic stone representation of halt i lead-pencil set as a tombstone. It is of red standstone. with a core ol graphite 8 inches in diameter. Sarcasm from Dear Old Punch. The absurd tale that Lady Hoptor Wood’s pretty little Manx cat was sut fering from diseased liver lias nc foundation in fact. The liver was per fectlv good, and similar to that usual ly supplied.—Ixmdon Punch. Artificial Foot for Dog. Mr. William H. Peers, a wealthj New York broker, whose pet St. Ber nard dog had its forefoot crushed b$ a car, has ordered an artificial fooi made for the dog, regardless of cost Large Sutn for Historic Door. Five thousand dollars was recent!} paid in Paris for the door through which, during the French revolution Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Cordaj and Danton went out to execution. Swore on His Own Bible. A cautious grand juror at the Ole Bailey, London, brought his own Bibb with him, to be sworn upon and s( took no risk of microbes. Bounty for Rats. An international league for the ex termination of rat,3 has been formee In Denmark. In Berlin the municipa authorities are offering a penny fo; every rat's tail delivered. Longest Straight Railway. The longest straight piece of rail way line in the world is from Nyngar to Mourke, in New South Wales. This railway runs 136 miles on a level ir a perfectly straight line. Black Tupi! in Luzon. A black lily, or tulip, with a flowei eight inches in diameter, has beer found on the island of Luzon, in the PhilippinesJ Coveteous Engineers. The civil engineer often wishes with a sigh that he were really mon arch of all that he surveys.—Somer ville Journal. Japanese Marry Young. It is stated that not one bride was over twenty-two years old in the 346, 690 marriages in Japan last year. Denmark’s army is the cheapest Ir Europe. It costs only $120 a head against $565 spent by Groat Britain To some women affe« tion means nothing more than self-interest or gratilicPl‘on of van’‘v. Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. It's a good thing to make your mon ey last as long as it will, but it's bet ter to make it first. A man in Baltimore, John Healey, takes thirty hour naps. Orioles should ship him home to Philadelphia. If young Mr. Hyde had had to work his way up from a $12 a week job things might have been different. A Minneapolis paper refers to "the aroma of the cold wave.” Watch for it the next time a cold wave comes. The alleged "Frenchman” who says that American women do not know how to walk is surely an imposter. ! Russian grand dukes will not be overburdened in the future with re plies to their want ads for coachmen. You may do some close guessing, but you can't always swear to a man’s politics by the button he wears. Because a woman weeps is no sign that she is unhappy. She may be en joying herself making somebody else miserable. It is reported that the public is | again buying in Wall street. How i soon the public forgets after the blis i ters are gone. A Chicago woman has been granted damages of $1 for being hugged. Dave Hill will probably regard it as au ex j erbitant price. There ! beard is over eight feet long and is still growing. Other occupation, if any, not stated. Dorothy Russell says that the idea of a divorce is obnoxious to her, but she must have one. Cannot overcome the hereditary influence. A quiet, peaceable man. who hap pened to be living in Russia just now might be pardoned for wanting to move into another flat. An American consul says there are some rare business openings in Man churia. There should be a big busi ness there for enterprising undertak ers. It is an unmistakable sign of prog ress that the women of China are making a vigorous kick for the right to wear their feet as nature made them. The man who has sued his physi cian for $30,000 damages on account ; o: a pockmarked face would compro j mise, doubtless, for a smaller sum in j spot cash. King Alfonso of Spain vows that the girl who becomes his queen must be beautiful. Evidently he line decided not to look for a wife among the princesses. The American woman ought to be particularly interested in Rider Hag gard’s visit over here. He wrote a book once with the title “She Who Must Be Obeyed.” The movement in favor of knee breeches is reported to be making considerable progress in England. The bow-legged men can't have much influence over there. Two rnen have arrived at Monte Carlo with mechanical schemes de signed to break the bank. If they are prudent, they also have return tickets to their respective homes. That New York practical joker who held up citizens lor fun ought to he satisfied with the success of his joke. He has just been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. A well known writer observes that, oice you know' a woman’s age, you krow the woman. Which simply shows how careful mo=t women are about ex j tending the circle of their acquaini | ance. One of Rockefeller’s college profes I sors says women are not good mathe l maticians. Yet he will have to admit that women's figures are generally \ considered superior to those of col lege professors. The recrudescence of fisealitis is re j ported from London. There is some ' apprehension that it may crowd out the religious revival there. The Hon. Joseph Chamberlain is reckoned the wicked devil in the case. There are four times as many words in the English language as in the French, but young writers always feel that it is necessary to work in a French phrase here and there in order to make their meaning clear. They say the circus managers are to “cut out” the chariots, the gilded chariots, this year on account of the cost of transporting them. Well, why r.ot cut out the calliope and the ele phants and call the parade off alto gether? Two prizes have been offered in France, one of $1,^00 and the other of $600, to be awarded for the best pa pers on rational food for man. These must he written in French and handed in before Jan. 1. 1006. T.et’s see. what’s the French for pork and beans? According to a Louisville paper, the economically minded papas of Ken tucky are encouraging elopements as being less expensive than formal weddings. This is really worse than the Connecticut father, who made his children write small in order to save Ink. A fashion authority, talking of spring materials, says that small checks will be favored. If this means the checks that hubby will have to drawr in favor of the dressmakers, why not hold a jubilation meeting? Complain of Varying Currencies. Canadians who travel in the United States and Americans who travel in Canada alike complain of the embar rassments incident to the different money issues of the two countiers. Zulus Swift Runners. The rate at which the Zulus can run in an emergency is astonishing. Some will cover as much as fifty miles in six hours. Eight miles in an hour is an ordinary feat. Liniment of Cedar Oil. Cedar oil is a valuable liniment, and as a general pain killer had im piense vogue at one time among pat ent medicine men. Guides and trap pers still believe in it. Where Inventor Got Idea. It was from watching his wife fold up a pair of stockings that the in ventor of the modern India rubber to bacco pouch first got his idea. Turn Hose on Natives. The method employed by the cap tains of the Nile boats to keep tho natives away on landing is to turn the hose on them. Cost of Extinguishing Fires. It costs on an average $200 to put out a fire in London, and $700 to ex tinguish one in New York. Doing Great Work. Ward, Ark., March Cth.— (Special.) —From all over the West reports . come of cures of different forms of Kidney Disease by Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and this place is not without evidence of the great work the Great | American Kidney Remedy is doing. Among the cured here is Mr. J. V. j Waggoner, a well known citizen, who, i in an interview, says: “Dodd's Kidney Pills have dene wonders for me. My kidneys and bladder were badly out of order. I used many medicines, but got nothing to cure me till I tried Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Two boxes of them fixed me up so that 1 have been well ever since. “Tell the poor kidney and bladder diseased people to take Dodd's Kid- j ney Pills and get well.” No case of kidney complaint is too far gone for Dodd's Kidney Pills to I cure. They are the only remedy that ' has ever cured Bright’s Disease. Believed Smallest Shetland Pony. A Blackburn (England) man owns a Shetland pony which is believed to ' be the smallest in the United King dom F.our years old, fully grown, jet black, with a long, shaggy coat, it is only twenty-seven and one-halt inches high, or one-half inch short of ^even hands. Tobacco and Deafness. Tobacco has been discovered to have a selective action upon the au- 1 ditory nerve. Moderation in the use of the drug, and avoiding it altogether ■ where deafness has already begun, or where there is a family history of ! such troubles, is advisable. Curious Weather Vane. An Englishman has erected a curi ous weather van on his house along side the road near Westerliam. It depicts a motor car running over a pedestrian, while at the arrow end | of the vane stands the avenger—a po- l liceman with uplifted arm. What London Spends cn Cabs. A statistician has arrived at the conclusion that $25,000,000 is spent yearly by the public of London on cabs. He also estimates that of that great sum perhaps $7,500,000 repre sents tips and overcharges. Frost-Resisting Plants. At the government sation Lulea, In Sweden, experiments are being made to secure varieties of plants not like ly to be injured by frost. THE TRICKS. Coffee Plays on Some. It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for it is some times humiliating to think of after wards. “When I was a young girl I was a lover of coffee but was sick so much the doctor told me to quit and I did but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink it again as he did not think it was the coffee caused the troubles. “So I commenced it again and con tinued about C months until my stom ach commenced acting bad and chok ing as if I had swallowed something the size of an egg. One doctor said it was neuralgia and indigestion. “One day I took a drive with my husband three miles in the country and I drank a cup of coffee for dinner. I thought sure I would die before I got back to town to a doctor. I was drawn double in the buggy and when my husband hitched the horse to get me out into the doctor's office, misery came up in my threat and seemed to shut my breath off entirely, then left all in a flash and went to my heart. The doctor pronounced it ner vous heart trouble and when I got home I was so weak I could not sit up. “My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup of hot cof fee but I said: ‘Take that back, dear, I will never drink another cup of cof fee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it is just killing me.’ lie and the others laughed at me and said: “ ‘The idea of coffee killing any body.’ “ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘it is nothing else but coffee that is doing it.’ “In the grocery one day my hus band was persuaded to buy a box of Postum which he brought home and I made it for dinner and we both thought how good it was but said nothing to the hired men and they thought they had drunk coffee until we laughed and told them. Well we kept on with Postum and it was not long before the color came back to my cheeks and I got stout and felt as good as I ever did in my life. I have no more stomach trouble and I know I owe it all to Postum in place of coffee. “My husband has gained good health on Postum, as well as baby and I, and we ail think nothing is too good to say about it.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. —— MAKING tURE OF HIM. Bishop Potter tells the following story on his distinguished friend Phillips Brooks: Some years ago Bishop Brooks was recovering from an illness and was denying himself to all visitors, when Robert Ingersoll called. The bishop received him at once. “I appreciate this very much,” said Mr. Ingersoll, “but why do you see me when you deny yourself to your friends?” “It is this way,” said the bishop. “I feel confident of see ing my friends in the next world, but this may be my last chance ol‘ seeing you.” HISTORICAL PRECEDENT. Two clergymen of very different training met recently at the confer ence of their faith in Philadelphia. The following conversation was re ported afterward by Bishop Vincent, who is known as the author of more than one good story. The first clergy man accosted his friend with “I hear you have got a degree at college.” The second assented. “Well,” said the first, “I thank the Lord that he opened my mouth without learning.” “Yes,” was the rejoinder, ”1 have read of a similar instance in Balaam’s time.” KNEW THEIR PLACES. During a trip to Ireland some time ago Mark Tw ain visited, among other places, several of the higher courts. He tells the following experience as a fact and places it in Cork: It was the first day of the trial, and the jury were assembled for the first time. The court officer was addressing them in the usual formal way. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said he. “will you he so kind as to take your accustomed places, , if you please?" And thereupon, according to Mark Twain. every one of them, as though from long familiarity, walked straight into the dock. TELLING TIME BY THE SCALES. “I happened to he in a butcher shop up in Harlem the other afternoon,” said Mr. Edward Morgan, the assist ant paymaster of New York, "when in came a woman of ample proportions and unmistakable Hibernian extrac tion. The scales were the old fash ioned kind, with a round brass dial, on which a pointer swung around to indicate the pounds. “After she had waited some time her eye happened to light on that dial, and she jumped like a deer as she al most. shouted: “'For the love o’ Hiven, give me that, mate quick. It’s six o’clock!’” AN EXEMPLARY CONGREGATION. “Taking them one with another,” said a well-known Chicago clergyman at a recent dinner at Delmonico’s, “I believe my congregation to be the — ^vagc-„. . 'H'.'ti—II » » i , lt > w $ WWW f 1 9 rn M I »|«MJL . | Ml most exemplary observers of the re- I ligious ordinances.” “Why so.” asked his neighbor, a lawyer with the cross-questioning habit strong upon him. “Because the poor in this congre gation of mine keep all the fasts and the rich all the feasts.” MACARONI AND TAPERS. “My cook and I are not on speaking terms at present,” said Mr. George Starge of comic opera fame. “1 came home late the other night and went to the butler's pantry for a taper to ; light way about in the library. It : so happened that the cook had put a box of macaroni in about the same place? where the box of tapers was usually kept. Of course I took a stick of macaroni and tried to light it and failed. Then I tried again and again and again and it wouldn’t light. And ! I tric*d more sticks and they would not light. 1 suspect that I lost my tem per and made audible remarks that woke the house up. At any rate, I spoiled a very select box of macaroni, made an awful mess of it and upset the next day’s bill of fare. The cook has not forgiven me yet. It is a lucky thing she did not think to retaliate and cook the* tapers.” CHINESE PECULIARITIES. In giving his opinion of China, Capf. Faulkner, of the artillery corps, epi tomized the Chinese characteristics so cleverly that some of his listeners copied down his words. “China.” said Capt. Faulkner, “Is a country where the roses have no fra grance and the women no petticoats; where the laborer has no Sunday and the magistrate no sense of honor; where the roads bear no vehicles and the ships no keels; where old men fly kites and the needle points to the. south; where the place of honor is on the left hand and the seat of intellect in the stomach; where to take off your hat is an insolent gesture and to wear white garments is to be in mourning; a country w hich has a literature with out an alphabet and a language with out a grammar.” BEING A MATINEE IDOL. “The mistakes a young actor makes ! ccme home to roost with him after he has been ten years or so on the stage,” said Mr. James K. Hackett. “When I was first called a matinee idol I thought it was a great compli ment and gloried in it. Xow I know it is a stigma that works almost un told Injury to an actor. Mr. Kyrle Fcllew is also a sufferer from it and can sympathize with me. For sever al years he has been working hard to live down the reputation of being a matinee idol. For myself, I know’ that the title has cost me a good many thousands of dollars. “The very words are abhorrent to me. I would prefer to be called a bad actor rather than a matinee idol.” A SURE PREVENTIVE. "About the best advice that I ever ha adopted a resolution that during its year of office the mayor and city°high sheriff should not accept British hon ors. DERANGED NERVES DISTRESSING TROUBLES LEFT ET ST. VITUS AND GRIP. Woman Afflfrtrd for Year* bv «t < »«•> SprlU of NuinbiifM an >• Kecovm I'erfect Health. When she was fourteen year Ida L. Brown had St. Vitus’ d She finally got over the most liuti features of the'strange ailment, hi: \\ 6till troubled by very uncomfortab! - t sat ions, which she recently descru i folloAvs: “One hand, half at my face, and lm f of niv tongue would get cold and ntwt These feelings would come on, Inst f> r ; about ten minutes, and then r » ! several times a day. Besiil* > I \ i j have palpitation of the hear, an ; s» v strength would get so low the i hardly breathe. As time went • spells kept coming"oftener ami _ worse. 'Themnnimes.s would s extend over half my body.” “ How di«l you get rid of tl -v:' * • “It seemed for a longtime as i j could get rid of them. It wa ■ ! about six years ago that I found .: tlmt hail virtue enough in it t i . :■ v case. That was Dr. Williams’l*i! 1 ! for Pale People, and they hu\*. .~:u tirelv cored me.” “ Did it take long to effect a c • ” “No! I hadn’t taken the wh . r * * j first box before I saw a gr< r in., I raeiit. So I kept on using th -m. gt better all the time, tin til I had rak c . _ 1 boxes and then I wa- perf* •»’ v w. I have remained in good Leal:.: » • r ; since with one exception.” “ Wlrnt was that ? ” ^ “Oh! that was when I had • r ■ T was in bed, under the it .-r r'. | for two weeks. When I g ■< up I J dreadful attacks of dizzim 1, j grasp hold of something or I w 1 f ■ fight down. I was just mi ■ when I saw the doctor v is i ii me, I began to take Dr. Will. . >’ ij Pills again. In a short time r d meof that trouble too, and I laiv i. i ; had any dizzy spells since.” Mrs. Brown lives at No. 170' D Wi r j street. Mat toon, Illinois. Dr. Wd. j Pink Pills are without an equal 1 .• t rapid and thorough cure of uerv .u s i >; tration. They expel the poi -mi d ::: r • system by such diseases as grip i a the best of tonics in all ens* s : \ ,k uess. They are sold by every drug 1st* The worst sins are the on s wo don't do. Rarlient Green Onion*. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La (>«->» — Wia., always have something nev thing valuable. This year they • r ! among their new money making \ . | tables, an Kariiest Green Ka-;n_ It is a winner, Mr. Farmer and G u .. . ■ V ■( I I l ..+ T * JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 1 O , and they will send vou their lug • ■ | seed catalog, together with enuugu »■. *d to grow 1.00Q fine, solid Cahbnee?, 2,000 rich, jtn«y Turn p<. 2.000 blanching, nuttv Celery, 2.000 rich, buttery Lettuce, 1.000 splendid Onions. 1,000 rare, luscious Kadi*he<=, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Kb -« , In all over 10,POO plants—tc> . , fa made to get you to test thOir vegetable seed* and ALL FOR BIT ICC POSTAGE, providing you will return this n< e, t>- 1 if you will send them 20c in post; ’ will add to the above a big j ■ Baker’s Fourth of duly Sweet Corn earliest on earth—10 days earlier u Cory, Peep o’Day, First of Ad,etc. i>\ .}> A dreamy religion never die r’ I the devil. YELLOW CRUST ON BABY _ Would Crack Open and Scab Causirg Terrible Itching—Cured by Cuticura. “Our baby had a yellow crust r • head which I could not keep av> When I thought I had succeeded • getting his head clear, it woul . >r.s; again by the crown of his head, c: and scale, and cause terrible itch.: • 1 then got Cuticura Soap and O ment. washing the scalp with the >< ,, and then applying the Ointmei.v A few treatments made a com pi* : I have ad\ised a number of n to use Cuticura. when I hav** i asked about the same ailment of * babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pme D N. Y.” Piety does not turn a man in;, putty. \_ IMPERIAL HERNIA CURE. Dr. O. S. Wood cures Ruptui * v a new process, in a few weeks, v. tf out loss of time or inconven; Rectal diseases cured without t knife. Send for circular. O. S. W M. D., 521 N. Y. Life Bldg.. Omaha. No man climbs to heaven bv ta talk. Insist on Getting It. Pome grocers say they don’t k* ■ Defiance Starch. This is becau.- ■ ti have a stock on hand of other t r r containing only 12 ounces in a , age, which they won’t be ab! t . < first, because Defiance contains ounces for the same money. Do you want 16 ounces instead of i ounces for same money? Then !> v i ' fiance Starch. Requires no cooking The world will not be save! ‘ stained glass saint’s. Mother Cray’s Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Grav, nurse in the Children’s Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach. Teething Disorders, move and regulate ti ■* Bowels and Destroy Wormt. Over > coi?L?nialS,’ At a11 dru«tg'sts, 25c. Sami _* f KLL. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. Love leaps over the grave. Defiance Starch ; should be in every household; n good, besides 4 ounces more for i > starihUny °ther brand cold.i i- • You can only sell honor once. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of C a safe and sure remedy for infanta and tn tart see that it Bears the ** Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Day by day—on the calendar.