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Word from Br'er Williams. “When you see Trouble cornin’ Sown de big road, des start de house lol’ ter singing', en w'en he knock at de do’, tell him dat you havin’ of a concert, en dat he cai’t come in wid cut a invitation, en dar's no free tick ets!”—Atlanta Constitution. As to “Company Manners.” “Never think you can be a nigger when the door is shut and a white man when it is opened,” said Max Adeler. ‘The best you can do is to come out speckled.” Platonic Love. Platonic love is a high personal re gard in which no physical influence exists. There are three noted instan ces of platonic attachments—Petrarch and Laura, and Dante and Beatrice, and Joanna Baillie and Sir Walter Scott.—The Pilgrim. Doctor’s Pee is Small. Many doctors in the poorer districts af London, as was shown in court re cently, charge only 12 cents for their professional services, in an ordinary cflBce call. WOMEN WHO SUFFER Or. Williams’ Pink Pills the One Remedy Particularly Suited For Feminine Ills. To women who suffer Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are worth their weight in gold. At special periods a woman needs medicine to regulate her blood supply or her life will be a round of pain and suf fering. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are absolutely the finest medicine that ever a woman took. They actually make new blood. They are good for men too —but they are good in a special way for women. “ It was three years ago last spring that ray health failed me,” says Mrs Arthur Conklin, of No. 6 Cold water street, Battle Creek, Mich. "I suffered from leucorrhoea and other troubles that, I presume, were caused by the weakness it produced. I had sinking spells, nervous hendaches, was wenk and exhausted all the time and looked like a walking skeleton. “My back and limbs would ache al most continually and there were days when I was absolutely helpless from sick headache. I tried one doctor after another but cannot say that they helped me at all. My liver was sluggish and I was troubled some with constipation “ One dnv a physician who has now retired from practice met my husband on the street aud inquired about my health. He advised my husband to get some of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for me, said they were a good medicine, better for my trouble than he could put up. I tried them, improved steadily" and soon was entirely cured. As soou as the leucorrhoea was cured the headaches and other pains stopped. I am entirely well now but intend to continue to use Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills as a spring tonic.” The genuine Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by all druggists and by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Scheneo tady, N. Y. Queen’s Bethrothal Kiss. No more celebrated kiss was ever given than that bestowed on Nov. 22, 1682, in the gallery of Greenwich jalace, by Queen Elizabeth upon the Due d'Aleneon. one of the suitors for vValsingham and Leicester, she kissed jpon his coarse lips and, placing her •ing upon his finger, presented to her jourtiers as aheir future master. AWFUL ITCHING ON SCALP. Hair Finally Had to Be Cut to Save Any—Scalp Now in Good Condition Cured by Cuticura. “I used the Cuticura Soap and Oint ment for a diseased scalp, dandruff, and constantly falling of hair. Fin ally I had to cut my hair to save any at all. Just at that time I read about the Cuticura Remedies. Once every week I shampooed my hair with the Cuticura Soap, and I used the Oint ment twice a week. In two months’ time my hair was long enough to do up in French twist. That is now five years ago, and I have a lovely head of hair. The length Is six inches below my waist line, my scalp is In very good condition, and no more dandruff or Itching of the scalp. I used other remedies that were recommended to me as good, but with no results. Mrs. W. F. Griess, Clay Center, Neb., Oct. 23, 1905,” _ A joker is near akin $6 a buffoon; ind neither of them is the least re lated to wit.—Chesterfield. Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease, “I tried ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE recent ly aud have just bought another supply. It lias cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be with out it now."—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden! N. J ’’ Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Give the average woman a hairpin and she can dispense with all other inventions.—Chicago News. The more we know of our ills, the easier and sooner relief will come. Pains and aches of the flesh, joints and muscles are Rheumatic The mission of the Old-Monk Cure St Jacobs Oil is to rare, and the world knows it does it safely and surely. Price, 35c. sad JOc. I_ yOVtfG GI'RL HVGGEB BEAK. Bear hugging is an amusement which few people, especially young women, would care to indulge in, and it is seldom that one would have the chance to embrace a real live Bruin in his native haunts, even if he—or she—had the nerve and the inclination to try It, says the Seattle Post-Intelli gencer. The opportunity, however, came not long ago to Miss Bessie Wells, a pretty little Texas lass, who visited in Seattle recently, and she startled W. D. Cameron, who happened to be with her at the time, by giving a full-grown cinnamon bear in Yellow stone park a good squeeze around the neck. The bear, however, much to the relief of Miss Wells’ companion, did not reciprocate the caress, although he seemed to enjoy it. Miss Wells is the 15-year-old daugh ter of a wealthy cotton dealer of Aus tin, Tex. She is a beauty of the true southern type, imbued with the daring spirit and nerve that so often are found in the western plains girl, and is large for her age. Mr. Cameron, who came to this city a few days ago, described Miss Wells' daring escapade as follows: “Our party had stopped for the noon hour luncheon and while the meal was being prepared Miss Wells and I started out to pick a few berries. We had gone hut a short distance when, about a hundred feet away, we saw a large cinnamon bear browsing among the bushes. Knowing that all the an imals in the park are more or less tame,* we approached the beast. I held up my hand and the bear, thinking that I had something for him to eat, stood on his hind feet and reached up, but, finding that he had been de ceived, shook his head angrily and walked away. My young companion then ran back to the wagon and re turned with a few cookies. Again we approached the bear and Miss Wells held one of the cookies in her hand. The bear repeated the same perform ance he had gone through with me, but this time he found something. Miss Wells gradually drew back her hand while the bear was reaching for it, until the animal’s head was over her shoulder, and then, while he was eating the cookie, she reached around his neck with her other arm and hugged him tightly. My heart seemed to stop beating, but I dared not yell, for the animal would be startled and attack the girl. When he had finished eating the cookie, she reached around dropped down on all fours again and sauntered oft into the brush. In all my experiences I had never seen a more reckless or daring and even dangerous action by a young lads.” THE FELLOW MUCH WITHE "Before the days of cheap twine and cheap wire on spools,” said Bill Remick, “when a farmer or a woods man wanted to fasten anything so that it would be there when he called the next time he used a withe. I suppose most of the rail fences used by the first settlers in Maine were held in place with yellow birch withes. “I have seen them used to bale hay, and tie up bags of grain, and splice cart tongues, and keep grindstones from leaping out of frames, and to tie out calves while feeding, and to fasten the hames of work horses about the collars, and to hinge the swinging part of a threshing flail to the handle, and to bind loads of wood and pota toes and apples and hay when they were taken to market. “Fifty years ago a bundle of withes was as necessary at a funeral as a dead body. All coffins were made by the local carpenters then, without paint or varnish. Such articles as beckets were unknown. “Instead of having silver mounted handles, a bundle of stout withes was twisted about the coffin near the head and near^be foot, and when the bear ers were ready to proceed they took a firm hold of the withes and went along. “Last spring when I was digging for a den of young foxes in the old Mariaville burying ground I came up on a rotten coffin that had been wrapped in birch withes for more than seventy-five years. The ash boards crumbled at the touch of my spade. The coffin plate was rusted so that I could not make out any name. But those coiled and twisted limbs of sapling yellow birch were still strong enough to hold a yoke of oxen. "It seems as if those old chaps who cleared up farms for us and then im poverished the soil so it could grow no crops were associated pretty inti mately with withes from the time they came into the world until they quit it for good. The hood of the cradle was made from yellow birch limbs woven in basket work. “The first time and every time the child went wrong he received an ap plication of yellow birch in the place where yellow birch did most good. From early manhood to old age withes were the most useful and the most needful articles about the farm, and when death stepped in and wound up the business a sheaf of birch withes enwrapped the coffin and held it in shape until all inside had turned to dust.”—New York Sun. AJVJWAL T*REK. OF CAIUBOV The great autumn trek of the cari bou is over, says a dispatch from Bay of Islands, N. F. In the third week of November the vanguard of the deer was leisurely making its way south, feeding as it went, its line extending for some miles in depth. Whenever a watercouse went even approximately in the same direction, numbers of the deer took its base for their road. Perhaps this was in con sequence of inherited fear of being chased by animals following by scent. Or it is possible that the abundance of food supplies in the way of eel grass and the moss on the submerged boulders and banks tempted them. To a sportsman it was an impres sive sight to see these handsome creatures, many of them with their neck markings as white and as perfect as white cravats could be, all head ing in the tame direction and travel ing in simple obedience to a primal law. The fawns were fat and frolic some, and were in many instances fully half as tall as their mothers. The parents had their horns fully de veloped, of a rich brown at the base, shaded to a light drab at the tips. The long loose hoofs clattered nois ily whenever the animals moved briskly. When, as was often the case, fifty or eighty of the animals went by together, the rattling of their feet gave out a curious sound, unlike any thing else in nature’s wilds. The writer saw hundreds of them passing one day over the Topsails, as the highest mountain ridge on the island is called. There is very little shelter there, as, owing to the alti tude, the trees are dwarfed, but little if any cover is needed by the hunter at such times, provided the direction of the wind is carefully noted. More than ever was it made clear upon this expedition that the caribou does not rely particularly upon its eyesight, but places its main depend ence upon its sense of smell. For hours the animals sauntered along, many of them almost within touch, dozens of them in full sight of their human observers. About the head waters of the Harry river the caribou appear to herd more closely than elsewhere, and it was here that 500 caribou were actually counted at one time, no notice being taken of fawns. Many, of them had from thirty to forty points on their out from under a dry thicket of dead horns, and when several werfe close branches. . MAfly SHAKES IJ* SARAWAK In a recent number of the Sarawak Gazette is an article on the snakes of that part of Borneo. Of the poisonous reptiles it says: “The cobra (naja tri podians) is a black snake which raises its head to strike when irri tated, at the same time expanding the hood at either side of the neck. It spit6 at intruders and hisses like a cat, whence it is known as ‘ular te dong puss,’ in some parts, too as ‘te dong mata hari.’ The word ‘tedong’ in Sarawak is apparently applied to all large snakes, which Malays consider to be poisonous, and, as our Malays are but ill-acquainted with these ani mals, quite a number of large but harmless forms are designated by this term. The hamadryad (naja bun garus) is a brown snake, considerably bigger but rarer than the cobra. It Is rather shy, but when cornered, like the cobra, it raises its head and expands the hood before striking. Its food is chiefly other Bnakes. “Less dangerous than these najas are the vipers, of which the most com , mon species is the green viper, which reaches a length of two feet or more. : The head is large and shaped like an ace of spades. This creature is a tree snake and very sluggish. The ‘bungarus’ are of several Bpecies, one ‘bungarus fasciatus,’ of length up to four feet, being black with yellow rings. It is called the ‘ular buku tebu' (sugar-cane joints) by natives. There are also sea snakes of many species. The tail of a sea snake is flattened and oarlike.” Sarawak has other snakes: "Of the pythons there are two species. ‘Python reticulatus' grows to an enor mous size, over twenty feet. It is very fond of pigs, but varies its diet by various animals, including even children. The oil of this snake is used by Malays as an embrocation for bruises. The other species of py thon, ‘python curtus,’ is interesting in that its flesh tastes like that of fowl, at least so Dvaks say, and they are authorities on snake flesh, for they eat a number of the large snakes." A/fTS T.EACHET) THE SVCAH. “Ants are intelligent enough to know when to come in out of the wet,” said a mining man of Colorado, “and I have seen them find food under puz zling circumstances. Only a few months ago a swarm of ants invaded a little cabin that I and three of my mates lived in. We drove them out of everything except the sugar, and noth ing we did could keep them away from that. We put the sugar in a bowl and set that in the middle of a tin dish full of water. We reckoned the ants that succeeded in swimming across the water to the bowl would deserve the sugar. "Sure enough, next morning the bowl was swarming with black regi ments of ants. And the curious thing was that there was only one ant drowned in the water. That went on for three or four nights, and I decided to sit up and watch the campaign. About midnight a scouring party of ants came up the table leg and ma neuvered along the top of the dish. Half a dozen of them climbed the tin side and poised on the edge. One fel low crept down the rim into the wa ter. The others watched his strug gles for a while and then went back to their friends on the table top. They held a council of war and swung around in echelon and left the table by one of the legs. I was getting curi ous. Then a thin, black line ascended the wall and wriggled along the ceil ing. It broke into reconnoitorial par ties, and then one group formed up there right over the Bugar bowl. I watched that group spellbound. The scouts were called back and every ant on that ceiling made for the group over the bowl. Then the group moved and one ant dropped from the ceiling —straight into the sugar bowl. Then another and another followed, until there was a perfect line of ants falling from the ceiling into the bowl. When the fall finished I woke the other boys up and showed them the bowl full of ants. Never saw anything like it be fore in my life—never. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TOi SUFFER From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sicknesst A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal where it decays and poisons the en tire system. Eventually the results are death nnder the name of some other dis ease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of na ture promptly. Lack of exeroise. Exces sive brain work. Mental emotion and im proper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheu matism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. It is the one disease that starts all others. Indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, loss of sleep and strength are its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its consequences are known to all physicians, but few sufferers realize their condition until it is too late. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this? A. Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is ‘‘are you constipated?” That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The common error is to resort to physics, such as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil, in jections, etc., every one of which is in jurious. They weaken and increase the malady. You know this by your own ex perience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A Get a bottle of Mull’s Grape Tonic at once. Mull’s Grape Tonic will positively cure Constipation and Stomach Trouble in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has before been known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. Q. What is Mull’s Grape Tonic? A It is a Compound with 40 per cent, of the juice of Concord Grapes. It exerts a peculiar strengthening, healing influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unaided. The process is gradual, but sure. It is not a physic, but it cures Constipation. Dysentery, Stomach and Bowel Trouble. Having a rich, fruity grape flavor, it is pleasant to take. As a tonic it is unequalled, insuring the svstem against disease. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. Q. Where can Mull’s Grape Tonic be had? A. Your druggist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50 cent size. Good for ailing children and nursing mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. 140 FREE BOTTLE 1138 FREE. Send this coupon with yonr name and address, your druggist's name and loc. to pay postage and we wit! supply you a sample free. If you have never used Muil's Grape Tonic, and will also send you a certificate good for 41.uO toward the purchase of more Tonic from your druggist. Mull’s Grape Tonic Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island. 111. Give Full Address and Write Plainly. 35 cent. 50 cent andsI.Ou bottles at all druggists. The St.no bottle contains about six times as much as the35ceut bottle and about three times as much as the 50 cent bottle. There Is a great saving In buying the sl.U) size. The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from your druggist. Offered Real Curiosity. A recent visitor to the churchyard in Beaconsfield, England, asked a mid dle-aged native of the village to be di rected to the graves of Burke and Waller. The man said he had no recol lection of any such persons having been buried there. "But.” he added, ‘you see that little chemist’s shop over there? That's the shop where Dever eux, the trunk-murder man, used to be an apprentice!” Benefit of Full Breathing. Full use of the lungs always means strength. Throughout the brute crea tion from the mouse, which breathes 150 times a minute, to the elephant, which breathes only six times a min ute, one rule holds good—the larger and stronger the animal, the more slowly and deeply it breathes. State or Ohio, Cttt or Tolhik>, I Lucas County. f Fhawk J. Cheney make* oath that he !• senior Sartner of the Srm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing uslness In the City of Toledo. Coumy and Stale aforesaid, and that raid 8rm will pay the snm of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Cataebh that cannot be cnred by the use of Hall's Cataebh Cube. FRANK J. CHENET. Sworn to before me and subscribed In uiy pres ence. this 6th day of December. A. D. 1SS6. . —‘— | A. W. GLEASON, I ,,*l‘ f Notabt Public. H all'* Catarrh Core la taken Internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. O. 6old by all Druggists. 75c. Taka Hall's Family Pill* for constipation. Bloomer Costume Waitresses. ‘‘Wanted—Two waitresses, bloomer costume. Railway Dining-rooms.” is an advertisement which recently ap peared in an Australian journal. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CA8TOEIA, a safe and an re remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over SO Tears. The Kind Ton Bare Always Bought Radium Enhances Diamond Values. The value of diamonds as fancy stones can be materially increased by the action of radium. If you don't get the biggest and best its your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in qual ity or quantity. Pay for Attonding Church. At Fulboum, England, the poor re ceive six pence each for regular church attendance. Have You Noticed That— Gratitude is the thing you feel when you hope that some more of the same agreeable kind is coming? All Meat for Parisans. A street sign that amazes American visitors in Paris reads: “Butchery of Horse, Ass and Mule a Specialty.” Advantage of Suez Canal. The Suez Canal reduces the dis tance from England to India for ships by nearly 4,000 miles. Lafayette’s Watch. S. S. Wertz, of Altoona, Pa., is the proud possessor of the watch once owned by .Lafayette. Tourists Pay More. In Swiss restaurants natives gener ally pay a few cents less for food cr drink than tourists. REMARKABLE TREE OF INDIA. Many Products Yielded by the Famous Mahwa. In northern India, close to the foot of the Himalayas, grows the mahwa tree. Sugar is made from its flowers as well as a cordial and the tree proves itself useful in other ways. As a nut-bearing tree it has been known for many ages. It belongs to the sapotaceae (star-apple) family. Its blooming period lasts from the end of February till April. Quickly after the pollen is formed,the whitish tubular flowers swell to balls about as large as cherries, which contain a large amount of invert sugar (honey). The flower tubes fall, covering the ground in the greatest profusion. They are eagerly gathered by natives and eaten. A tree yields from 200 to 300 pounds of flowers. Rice is usually mixed with the fruit before it is eaten. The dried flowers have very much the taste and appear ance of raisins. They are exported to Europe as curiosities, and are also used as food for animals. Distillation yields a large percentage of spirits, which diluted with water makes “davu" a native drink very much used. It comes on the market in oaken bar rels, and is highly esteemed by Euro peans. Besides the flowers the seed is of considerable use. They contain a fat of butter-like consistency, which serves as a foodstuff. It is called “mowra" and the crude stuff is known as “illipe" and is used by the Euro peans largely for making candles, soaps and the like. The wood is very hard and lasting and is much used for making wheels of the native bullock carts. ANCIENT MANSION TO BE SOLD. A Historic Spot Built by One of Na poleon’s Followers. One of the landmarks of New Or leans will be sold at auction in a few days, says the New Orleans Picayune. It is the historic and typical residence on North Peters and Jourdan avenue, which was built nearly seventy-five years ago for Gen. Jourdan, a French emigre, who came to Louisiana after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, and invested in real estate in the Third District of New Orleans. The house is of the colonial architectural style, with wide galleries on three sides and massive columns. It fronts on the Mississippi river and the grounds belonging to the old mansion are more than one square in extent. Gen. Jourdan was a local celebrity in his time and Jourdan avenue, a thor oughfare in the lower part of the city, was named in his honor. He sold his property to M. Lavigne, who oc cupied it for many years, and it was acquired from the Lavigne estate by the late Judge C. H. Luzenburg. who was presiding magistrate of one ol the sections of the criminal district court and subsequently district attor ney. When Judge Luzenburg died the property was sold to Capt. R. A. Cor bin, who resided on it and improved the grounds, but did not alter the stately outlines of the house. Now the ancient structure, yet in a good state of preservation, and one o1 the city’s beauty spots, will again pass into new hands. What Dr. Holmes Prescribed. More than sixty years ago, when I was a child, a younger sister and my self had an attack of scarlet fever. We were living on Montgomery place, now Hamilton place. Dr. Holmes lived a few doors from us, and, being a friend of my mother's family, he was the attending physician. I had been very sick, and, being convalescent, was naturally extremely hungry. So I teased my mother for beefsteak. She did not dare to give me any, but told me to ask Dr. H. when he came if I could have some. So the next time he came I said: “Doctor, I am so hungry; can’t I have a piece of beefsteak?” The doctor gave me one of his queer looks, and said: "I think you had bet ter have a piece of my coat-tail fried.” —Boston Herald. Simeon Was Given No Choice. Amos Saunders of Rowley, Mass., once employed a boy to turn the grind stone for him. The boy turned until he was tired and then stopped. “Turn. Simeon, turn,” commanded Mr. Saunders. “I can’t; I’m tired,” was the reply. "Turn, Simeon; turn or die,” thun dered Saunders. “I'll die. then,” said Simeon. “You can’t have your choice," re turned Saunders; “turn, Simeon, turn.’’ Ju-Jitsu Champion. The champion ju-jitsu (not jiu jitsu) wrestler of Japan offers $5,000 to any man who will come forward and defeat him. This is no betting matter. The opponent puts up no stake. Tarro also promises $100 to any man he fails to defeat in ten min utes, and $5 a minute to any one who stands before him five minutes without being forced to acknowledge that he had been “bested” in the struggle.—New York Press. Football in Austria-Hungary. Football of the Association pattern is the fashion in Austria-Hungary. The two leading clubs at Prague have recently been reinforced by one com posed entirely of nobility. Oxford and Cambridge teams are to visit Bo hemia soon to pl^y the “Prinzbaron garfen,” as the new club is popularly called. English in Japan. Evidences of the influence of the Anglo-Japanese treaty multiply. A Tokio journal issued a special num ber commemorating the war. In the advertisement of a milk dealer, under a cut representing cows assembled at the milking hour, we have: "The squeeze-out place of the milk dealera." Keyless Locks for B<jilding. Alfred V. Falkman is having a two story combination flat and business building erected at Grand avenue and EaBt Taylor street that will not be provided with a single key for its many doors. Every lock will be a keyless and operated with a combina tion lock.—Portland Oregonian. Headache. Headache may often be cured by binding on the forehead a handker chief in the folds of which has been sprinkled black pepper and the wnole saturated in camphor. When the cloth becomes dry again saturate it. Relief will come in a few minutes and sleep will be induced. Priestly Humorists. Five of the greatest humorists that ever made the worW ring with laugh ter were priests—Rabelais. Scarrno, \ Swift, Sterne and Sidney Smith. The Chronic Bachelor. “They accuse me,” said the chronic bachelor, “of always looking out for number one. But I'm not—I’m try ing to evade her.”—Cleveland Leader. Capital in Motor Cars. The British motor car trade, though less than a decade old, already in volves the sum of $20:000,000 a year. Motor Repair Wagons. The London county council now uses motor repair wagons to attend to breakdowns on the street railways. DOES YOUR BACK ACHE? Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will Never Return. Only one sure way to cure an ach ing back. Cure the cause, the kid neys. Thousands tell of cures made by Doan's Kidney Pills. John C. Coleman, a prominent merchant | of Swainsboro, Ga„ ' says: “For several yearn my kidneys were affected, and my back ached day and night. I was languid, nervous and lame in the morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away, and the great relief I found has been permanent. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Beginning Early. My little nephew recently asked his mother to let him have her fashion oook. “What do you want it for?” was his mother’s amused query. “I want to see the winter styles in over coats for young men of four,” he re plied gravely.—New York World. Every housekeeper should know that If they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package i contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put np in %-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that ; Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoy ance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Substitute for the Saloon. . A man. who after being addicted to drink, had taken the pledge, was per suaded to attend classes m “first aid to the injured.” A clergyman interest ed in the ex-drunkard s reform after ward called on the man’s wife and asked her how her husband was. “He’s a changed man. sir.” said the wife. “Instead of spending his even ings in the saloon he stays at home every night and bandages the cat.” Lewis’ Single Binder straight Be cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Medicinal Value of Perfumes. Most of the perfumes were thought by the ancients to have a medicinal value. Thyme was thought to have a tonic quality and lavender a soothing one. Patchouli was cheering, jasmine stimulating, while heliotrope was irri tating, unless used in small quantities. Some people today believe that sandal is a tonic, and its virtue was known to the Greeks, who annointed them selves with it when they entered the Olympian games. Highest Inhabitated Spots. The highest inhabited spots in the world are Chupiquana, a mining dis trict in Chili, 18,480 feet above the level of the sea; Quispisija. also a mining district in Peru, 16.200 feet; Cachani, in Peru. 15.800 feet, and Thok Djalonng. in Thibet, 15,200 feet. The highest inhabited spot in the United States is the Pike’s Peak ob servatory, in Colorado, 14250 feet above sea level. De Lesseps' Perseverance. When Ferdinand de Lesseps began to talk of cutting the Suez Canal no one believed him, and, as a matter of fact, as he himself confessed, he was on the wrong track at first. But grad ually his forceful optimism persuaded individual after individual, and then nation after nation, that the thing could and should be done, despite the belief of great engineers that the task was impossible. Conscience Stricken. The sheriff of Sonoma county, Cali fornia. has received a letter from a man in Brooklyn, N. Y., saying that in the fall of 1895 he went the rounds of the Santa Nora ranches, stealing many other things, but is now convert ed and wants a list of those whom he despoiled so that he can make restitution. Storekeepers report that the extra 1 quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Sarch, makes it j next to impossible to sell any other brand. _ “De average argument,” said Uncle Eben, "doesn’t settle nuffin. It’s jes’ dest an’ talk de loudest.”—Washing ton Star. May Make Good Diamonds. Experiments lately made in France and England strengthen the belief that it may be possible, some day, to produce in the laboratory -of the chemist diamonds of sufficient size and perfection to compete with nat ural diamonds. Life’s Railway. Mankind—and especially woman kind—travel on the railroad of life. They are equally human, though they pay different prices for their tickets and are thrown out at different sta Nearly 2,400 Chinese students, the greater part of whom are supported by the government and the viceroys of various provinces, are now study ing in Japan, while a very great num ber of Japanese teachers are engaged in educational work in China. From picking up an apple while on a march and not dropping it im mediately, when ordered to do so by a sergeant, a soldier of the Sixty ninth (German) infantry has been sentenced to eight months’ imprison--, ment at Treves. There is in life no blessing life af fection; it soothes, it hallows, ele vates, subdues and bringeth down to earth its native heaven; life has naught else that may supply its places —L.. E. Landon. Dealers say that as soon as a cus tomer tries Defiance Starch it is im possible to sell them any other cold water starch, it can be used cold or boiled. Similar to certain delicate plants which need a soft atmosphere, there are natures which come into bloom only under the balmy breath of happi ness.—Viscountess de Lerchey. Don’t you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in pack age and sells at same price as 12 ounce packages of other kinds? The common lot is the best thing that this life has to offer, and, luckily for us, the best of us are fit for noth ing better—for there is nothing bet ter this side of heaven.—E. T. Fowler. TO CUKE A COED IN ONE DAT Take LAXATIVE IIBOMO Quinine Tubists. I'rujf gist* refund money If It fails to cure. £. W» ttHUVE’B signature is on each box. 23c. Even failure is only a relative term, you know. And that which the world, calls failure may have some better name in another planet.—Beatrice Harraden. In the latest division of modern so ciety the classes ride in motor carB and the masses are merely persona who get run over. 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That Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight and headache, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circum stances it acts in harmony with t^e female system. It corrects Irregularity, Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak ness of the Stomach. Indigestion, Bloat ing, Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility. Also Dizziness, Faintness, Extreme Lassitude, “don’t-care” and “ want-to-be-left-alone ” feeling, excit ability, irritability, nervousness, sleep lessness. flatulency, melancholy or the “ blues,” and backache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, some derangement of the organs. For Kidney Complaints and Backache of either rex the Vegeta ble Compound is unequalled. You can write Mrs. Pinkham about yourself in strictest confidence. UMA X. PI SET! AM MEB. GO., Emm, , iThompson's Eyo Watoc DEFIANCE Cold Water Starch makes laundry work a pleasure. 16 oz. pkg. 10c. When Answering Advertisements Please Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Omaha. No. 2—1906. ANTI-GRIPINE IS COARAXTEED TO CVKI GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AHD NEURALGIA. I won’t Mil A.W Crt.1— to n dealer who wontfiaaiaatM