loap City Northwestern J. W. BURLK1GM. Publisher. '•CL'P CITY T . - NEBRASKA FROM DAY 10 DA! general news and notes FRCSH FROM THE WIRE. A WIDE AREA IS CGl'ERED Er-ibraccg a Condensation of Events la Which Reader: Generally Are Interested. Fci tvjn !: • t«:io.*!ic tally r-->»rt 1 .1 Nica ragua that ('apt Godfrey FnwU-r. for UH-riy of the ('cited State*, army, who < •:u3i:tnd'tt General CfemnetTo s ar tillery in Ho* err-.g.-rjent at Ti tua on Tuesday. has ui.-d from his wounds. Th-- reply of the French t 1. eminent *• wc- t.-mry Kill 's piojKi .. .or the • -.tra!:ratios ol the Man. 11:1 in rail i. >*. which was oiBiuiu: tied to Washington two we. V* as < follows tin* In.. * already it... 1 .1 11. news -p; ’ ■ ’.•!». uati ■>. t ..it I' .nee de • -v t.i Hr.- ■>' R .--i;t and .iprri ,i> t' . p.,.: s i-jo t mt -rested .n the matter. V t -on (Pur: 1 «li-, '■ 1. h> way • tv- ."Sjiaiii.-h l.oniter. -avs that ' ■ eo. ri tru n: apparently greatly sfturbed !iy the d:s. in r> ol a w ide -pread revoiut’onary plot. tries.s ot u-tmti are I- ng made daily, t’on -l.-uUal infnrination has reached the authorities that a iargo of arms and aaiut. for the revolutionists is b>w brought tram Germany. lir. Cbarl.-s W. Wallace, who is in 1 option on leave o; ni seiiee from the I nrterstty of Nebraska, granted last • h'uikcr to permit him i London. K Newt in i'rane. former ire-idem of tin- Ain< T..au .--■>< i.-k, presided, hav :ug eu ins right J c.n I. G: tilths, the kuit-r rail consul g-n :al. anu on his 1 William Phil: »- -■■ere! ry of the American embassy. General. The venerable Colonel <1 >rd«m of M.s---tippi made his fare* -H adJre^s the .*•• uat* H:s sue. • - •: has been chosen Battling Nelson will tak<- on “Cy i >ne" Thompson tor a ;urty-!r. e round f.ght at San Francisco. I* K Thompson oi N drank a is ;«s«( ■! with the industrial outlook ut M*-*ieo where he is interested in railway development. I'nited States Marshall H K. Love «. Maska arrived in Seattle on his way to Washington to testify before the ItalllnjcerPinrhot oiuciitter. Si* jie-iple were killed in a snow slide :n the Bitter Root mountains, Montana I*.-arjr may he asked f-i s ibmit proof l#f his discovery of the pole. Th t * * British government suc sfuily overcame the initial attack of opposition forces. Th* Nova Scotia !• cloture as -eaibleii in regular session and was pen-d with th*- customary cere monial. KR’Tuious expansion in postal busi r.e>> i« pr-dict*d by Representative Week*. K- i»rcseniative Helm oi Kentucky •Hacked the ship subsidy bill In a vigorous speech. There is a grand army of 76.673 f. lcphone operators in th*- country, ac cruing to a report suhtjiilted to the -efiate l»y Secretary Nagel of the de lta-intent of commerce and labor IVi ins who live in < ii:*-s and have not mail Iwns in front of their resi dence are liable not tn receive any mail after Jun*- *0. lull. <’«*rtainly they will not If a provision of the post office appropriation bill becomes a law. ktbert Nier of S.vn Francisco joined twenty churches in a week and swin dled the pastors of each of them on 'be pi. .* 1 *t be tid just moved into the city and was destitute. •Senator IVrkitis or California was 1n his s* at in the senate for the first Utne in more than si* weeks. His absence bad been d ie to an injury to his spite . received by tailing on the k*. >*tL'. -»r Tlllm.-in W improving and ;t is now believed be will fully re cover The ar-.ay pm-ihits in the Pbilip t->e.-* continue »’*h great interest to ■ it *»*ecj»t the native* in the moun tain*. who are iri. 1 letted. kYank V Dunn, t rutisment for years l' a theatre al and port ing man. died at h - home ;u l*o-< i e.~tor. Mass. nator Itrown of Nebraska, in a delivered in the senate, dif end wish Uoveraor Hughes on the income tax amendment. The house by a vote of 112 to 8$ do 'ide-d to make pr o. -n for all Indian warehouse* now exit.: ing. Pre-ldent Taft was the principal •p. ;;k*r it tie* h j*l.!n(ton birthday banaoet in New York. Senator C, twford submitted an imrndtu. t.• to ilo- rivers and harbors 1.111 pro|io mg I-- appropriate fl.OOO. to -re * permanent six foot kann.-t betw.- n Kansas City and stows City. At St. l.oif* William \V. Lowe was *,.-M in $2 i <’ « l ond for the federal grand jury after a preliminary hearing to the charge of robbing the mails UU-r holding up a Missouri Pacific train near Kureka ‘a January. Vi- . A ul S .TUian appointed a Coli:u:t« • to ;u-. * ' :gate the high cost A living. Pi.'Ji; mg Ir- h < n resumed between cat.mm*Bl tow and insurgents in Vimragua The MursafrCti* enheim syndicate (•***1 alt:« d u» a *. Bate committee its xctlvi:» it Alaska. It has been learned at Mare Island navy yard that the cruisers West Vir ginia and Maryland were both in pool condition when they reached San Francisco from the orient. The tt ms of thirty members of the United States senate, twenty-four re publicans and six democrats, will ex pire a year hence. Senator Lodge said the facts will b- brought out in the investigation concerning high prices. President Taft was the chief guest and speaker at the Hoard of Trade banquet at Newark. N. .1. Senator Beveridge introduced a bill roviding for the permanent retention bv the government of the Alaskan coal lands A delegation of Kentucky negroes ealed upon President Taft and urged the appointment of Albert S. White a negro lawyer of Louisville, as min ister to Hayti. A decision by the supreme court in ’hi case of the tobacco trust may be | delayed ar.d linked with that of the Standard Oil company. The bill granting right of way to a pipe line across the public lands of Arkansas for oil and gas from the fields of Oklahoma was favorably acted upon by the house committee on public lands. The movement for a Masonic tne tnoriul to George Washington has taken definite form at Alexandria. Va. Decisions handed down by the ' 1'nited States supreat* court show I that substantial progres has been ! made in regulating r:u.roads by state authority. The president has withdrawn tlie : nominations of names constituting tiie ! customs appeals court. Amt racite coal-carrying roads were | declared to be in a conspiracy to stifle trade. Th - French steamer General Chnn/.y vva> wrecked off th - coast of Minorca and one hundred and fifty-six lives were lo.-t. Tiie house concluded consideration of the Indian appropriation bill, which it passed practically in the form recommended by the committee on In dian affairs. In t lie German reichstag Dr. Stresemann, a member of tiie na tional liberal party, referred with so solicitude to the American exhibition of machinery to be made ia Berlin the coining summer. The McComber bill to provide for set -nd homestead entries was ordered favorably reported by the senate com mittee on public lauds. If enacted it would allow second entries under the homestead laws to be made by any person whose first entry had been , forfeit* d or abandoned. Washington. Uncle Sam ought to pay regular fare for his postal clerks who ride in the railway postoffices, in the opinion of E. O. McCormick, assitant traffic director of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific lines. As it is the clerks ride free. With the strict injunction that lie was not to be represented as favoring votes for women. President Taft ac cepted an invitation to address the opening session of the annual conven tion of the national American women's suffrage association, to be held in this city April 14. A dinner in honor of President Taft by Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture was described by ’tie attendant guests as ‘one of the most beautiful dinners ever given in Washington." Sen:r >rs Brown and Burkett intro d-d resolutions from the Knights of Columbus of Greeley and Lincoln demanding proper postal facilities for the official organs of fraternal so cieties. The Knights of Columbus iTint a fraternal paper and they fear that under the postal regulations they will not be allowed to carry adver tising in their columns. Congress, having much to do, is putting in full time. Representatives of grain exchanges made their plea before a house com mittee. The Omaha Commercial club is anx ious that the date on which certain features of the corporation tax law take effect be extended until such time as the supreme court passes on the several cases now pending as to the validity of the law. Resolutions setting forth the appeal of the Omaha organizations were introduced by Senator Burkett. The house passed the Indian appro priation bill. Regulations extending until May 15, the time lor homesteaders to establish residence on lands in several western -dates, were issued by the interior de partment. in accordance with an act recently passed by congress. Personal. An avalanche has overwhelmed H'lifsdal, on Isa Fiord, twenty-three persons being killed. The Johnson-Jeffries prize light will take place in San Francisco July 4. Went Taft called .Senators ! Smoot and Aldrich on the carpet. Critics scuff at the statue of Senator Harlan, recently set up in statuary hall. \Y J Bryan was given a reception at Santiago and dined with President Moutt. Washington's birthday was quite generally celebrated throughout the country. Six hundred policemen listened to ■ an address from President Taft at the 1 Waldorf-Astoria. New York. Barring any unforeseen ooinplica ‘ tiun* physician* say that Senator Till : man w ill now gel well. Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, who was operated on for appendicitis, is sleadily improving. The serv.ee of nearly 200 employes I or the treasury department at Wash 1 ington will he dispensed with July 1. Kx-Covernor She Id no declares for - ate-wide wrol lotion in Nebraska, i w ith exemption for cities mustering thre*‘-iiflhs vote for saloons. Miss Mabel Boardman, the friend and confidante of Mrs. Taft, has en ured hear and soul info the discus on of th<* problems relating to the increased oust of living. LABOR INCOKGRESS NATIONAL BODY IS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS. NO TALK OF ADJOURNEMENT It is Believed, However, That the President’s Measures Will Finally Receive Favorable Action. Washington—Although congress has been in session nearly three months none of the leaders of either party has come forward with a prediction of when tinal adjournment may be ex pected. The uncertainty is due chiefly to the opposition that has developed against some of the ad ministration measures and the fact that debate Is likely to continue ior many weeks in connection with nearly every one of the president's bills. Regardless of the fact that the dis cussion probably will be extended over a long period on most of the bills on which the president has his heart set. it is believed they will ultimately be enacted into law. This is true as to the interstate commerce hill, two of ’ft,conservation measures, court ‘ a falSlslatlon aud pos doctor. alii0,100(1 bil,s- 11 ame, clos^ tae objec;s has retrenator Bever i rhe senate meas -minion that it will The sen:\atiejfal testimony given by former Chief Forester Pinchot before the secret investigating committee ap pointed to sift the charges and countercharges between Mr. Pinchot and some of his associates and Secre tary Ballinger and some of his assist ants in the Interior department is at tracting unusual attention. Mr. Pin chot will continue on the stand when the committee resumes its session Tuesday. The committee will meet Tuesday, Friday and Saturday of this week and the indications are no other witnesses will testify during that time. The senate cost of living investiga tion committee has completed its working program and it is likely that day and night sessions soon will be held. There is still a minority va cancy on the committee, no democrat having been found willing to succeed Senator Chamberlain. It has been suggested that Senator Percy may have this important task thrust upon him when he arrives this week to succeed Colonel James Gordon of Mis sissippi. Practically no business will be done in the senate except the con sideration of appropriation hills until after the vote on Thursday on the postal savings hank hill. Senators hav ing charge of the administration measure do not care to bring them up until the postal savings bank bill is out of the way. The next bill of importance to he considered is the interstate commerce measure. Already it has been report ed from the committee, but the report of the majority has not been prepared. The fact that it will be accompanied with the views of the minority fore casts a bitter fight. Whether the democrats will join Senators Cummins and Clapp in opposition to the Taft Wiokersham hill is not yet clear. The democrats themselves say it probably will be necessary for them to hold a conference before any party program can be announced. An explosion in the Trojan powder works in California killed and injured a number of persons. The senate leaders are taking stock of the Taft policy bills and are preparing to smooth out the creases. Secretary Wilson Authorizes Placing of Seven Hundred Thousand Head. Washington.—The amount of stock which will be authorized to graze on the national forests during the season of 1910, in accordance with the deci sion of Secretary of Agriculture Wil son, shows an increase in the total number, as comprred with last year, of approximately 200,000 cattle and horses and 500,000 sheep and goats. The total allowance for the coming grazing season is 1,957,000 cattle and horses and 8,323,000 sheep and goats. Bryan on the Way Home. Buenos Ayres.—William Jennings Bryan left here Sunday for the United States by wray of England. Tariff Issue, Says Mack. Buffalo.—Chairman Norman Mack of the democratic national committee makes it evident in the March num ber of his magazine, the National Monthly, that he believes the tariff and the high cost of living are to be two of the principal issues of the democratic congressional campaigning of the present year. Still Believes in Cook. Washington.—“I shall believe that Dr. Cook, the explorer, is an honest man until there is definite proof to the contrary,” declared Maurice F. Egan, minister of Denmark, in an address here to members of the Uni versity club. Another Bomb in Chicago. Chicago.—“Bomb No. 36” was ex ploded Sunday night in a West Side grocery store. It wras said the bomt followed letters demanding money. Gondokoro, Soudan—Colonel Roose velt and Kermit, together with the members of their shooting party, who arrived here Saturday evening on the Belgian gunboat Bovich, spent Sunday in resting up, their experience during the last few days in search for giant elands having proved rather fatiguing. An effort was made Sunday to -secure from Colonel Roosevelt a statement on politics and public affairs general ly, but he emphatically refused to dis "uss these matters at the present time. NEBHASKA HAPPENINGS. State News and Notes in Condensed Form. Through the efforts of H. J. Enders a choral society has been organized in Tecumseh. Ex-Governor Sheldon arrived at Ne hawka from his Mississippi plantation early Sunday moruing. The Fremont granite brick and Fre mont cement blocks manufacturing concerns have consolidated their in terests and will operate a joint plant. George Boulton, a well known farmer of Juniata, dropped dead Thursday afternoon while unloading grain. He had been stricken with apo plexy. Rev. Mr. Friar of the Baptist church of David City has opened evangelistic services assisted by Rev. Mr. Mc Dowell. evangelist cf the Baptist church. Twenty-eight persons have filed suit for the $25,000 reward offered by the Union Pacific for the capture of the Overland Limited train robbers, and twenty fill file suits. Harrel Whit aker of South Omaha, nine years of age, is the latest to appear as inter venor in the United States circuit court. He asks $5,000. More school room is needed In Grand Island, despite the fact that about five years ago a $00,000 high school building was erected and is now occupied by some over 200 schol ars. The board is considering the purchase of another block of real es tate five or six blocks from the pres ent high school building. Mrs. Elizabeth Long, who has been an old resident of Nebraska for the last forty years, twenty-six of which have been in Dorchester, passed he;1 ninety-fifth milestone St. Valentine's day. She was born in Ohio February 14. 1815. She still has good health, and her doctor says he thinks she will live to see her hundredth birthday. Horses are in great demand around Dorchester, and are bringing high prices at public farm sales. A young mare sold a few days ago brought $301, whilo Henry Nelson received S290 for one. E. G. Maxfield got $290 for a four-year-old mare. $3St> for a team of eight and nine-year-old mares and $115 for a nineteen-year-old mare. A movement is now on in Kearney to put in several blocks of paved streets. Several petitions are now out and the chances arc good for much of ibis work. One petition has received the required number of signers. The material used for paving will be brick. Mayor Patterson declares that there will be fifty blocks of paved streets before the first of next year. Fremont’s fine, new $75,000 Y. M. C. A. building was in danger of serious damage from fire for a few minutes Wednesday night. Someone careless ly tossed a lighted match into a waste basket and n few minutes later a merry fire was burning the magazine table in the reading room. The fire hose with which the building is equipped was brought promptly into use with the desired effect. Wednesday morning Charles E. Simpson of Riverdale built a fire in the stove of his residence and then went to see a neighbor living near by. A few minutes later the stove became too warm and caught in some inflam mable material lying close to the stove and the house was completely de stroyed along with the contents. Mr. Simpson was a bachelor and lived by himself. The board of directors of the Farm ers’ Grain & Live Stock company of Oakland are busily engaged on plans for the erection of a new elevator to take the place of the one recently de stroyed. In spite of the heavy loss in grain and the total destruction of the elevator, the company is in a very flourishing condition. A 100 per cent dividend in stock was declared at the annual meeting and in addition a 10 per cent cash dividend. The new ele vator is to be modern in every respect and is to be fireproof, and will have a capacity of about 05,000 bushels. Collector Hammond of the internal revenue for the district of Nebraska has forwarded to Washington the first installment of returns from cor porations that are subject to the new corporation excise tax. This install ment consisted of the returns received at the Omaha office February 1. They were forwarded to the office of the commissioner of internal revenue, where the work of preparing assess ments is progressing. They con stituted the reports of about one seventh of all the Nebraska corpora tions that must make an '{recounting. Under the law, every corporation that was in existence at any time during the year 1909, of for the whole year, must file a return before March 1. and the penalty for failure to do so is very severe. Although less than two weeks remain for forwarding these re turns to the collector of this district, there are fully three-fourths of all the Nebraska corporations yet to be heard from. The question of voting a five mill levy in Custer county for the purpose of building a new court house to take the place of that burned some time ago, is now uppermost in the minds of the people. The election is called for March 1. Many farmers in Buffalo county are now busy picking the last year's crop of corn, which they were unable to do earlier in the year on account of the heavy snows. Some fields will scarce ly be husked before the stalk cutter is put at work clearing the ground for the bumper crop expected in 1910. Rev. C. L. Dix, the present M. E. pastor at Ericson, has received a call to take a responsible position in the ministry in Ohio and will leave for that state soon. Rev. Mr. Dix has been in the Nebraska work two years coming here from Columbus, O. The Crawford high school has or ganized a new literary club called the Demonsthenean literary club. It meets once a week. Besides regular literary work, the study of parliamen tary law will be taken up, conducted by Supt. H. Reimund. The club will give a program once a week. ONLY NECESSARY TO TREAT STOMACH, SAYS cooper: The new theory advanced by L. T. Cooper relative to the human stomach has attracted such widespread atten tion that the public in cities visited by the young man has been joined by many physicians in a discussion of his beliefs and medicines. Mr. Cooper says human health is dependent almost entirely upon the stomach. He says that no disease can be conquered without (irst alleviating all stomach disorders. He further says that most men and women of this gen eration are half-sick owing to degen erate stomachs. And lastly, he claims that his New Discovery medicine will rejuvenate the human stomach in 90 days. Cooper has been traveling from one city to another, conducting in each what he calls a campaign of educa tion. For the past year he has met the public in the larger cities of the country, and his success has been phenomenal. Thousands of people have Hocked to his headquarters wherever he has gone, and the sale of his medi cine has been beyond anything of the kind ever before witnessed. Possibly the most interesting fea ture of the attention this young man has attracted is what his army of followers, whom he has converted to his beliefs through his medicines, have to say on the subject. The following statements are from two well-known residents of Chicago and Boston, re spectively, and the enthusiasm of these is characteristic of Cooper's ad- | mirers generally. Mrs. H. B. Mack, of 3201 State street, Chicago, says; “I have been suffering for 12 years from a combina tion of stomach trouble, catarrh and constipation. I had a gnawing pain in the pit of my stomach, a sort of a dull pain that I could not quite under stand. Then there was a dull head- j ache, and my mind seemed to be wan dering continually. 1 could not eat, and what little solid food I did eat I could not retain on my stomach. I tried every remedy 1 could think of, and also tried out a number of patent medicines, hut without any apparent result. It was through one of my friends that I heard of Cooper’s prep aration, and ! immediately decided to try some of it. It is two weeks since I took my first dose of it, and I feel like a new woman. The headache seems to have disappeared, and the pain in my stomach, along with it. The medicine is worth its weight in gold, and 1 want to thank Mr. Cooper for what he has done for me.” Mr. Edwin F. Morse, of 20 Oakley street. Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, says: "For three years I had not a well day. My stomach was in fright ful shape; the mere thought of food would nauseate me. and 1 really had a horror of anything to eat. All solid ; food would cause me extreme indiges tion, bloating and gas on my stomach, and nothing tasted right. Some time ago I got some of this Cooper's medi cine, about which there is so much talk. I actually feel as well and strong as a boy ever since the first bottle. Every sign of stomach trouble has dis appeared, and I have a hearty appe tite and eat threh square meals; every thing seems to taste good. Anyone who knows what chronic indigestion is can appreciate what this means to me. I consider this the most remark able medicine I ever heard of.” Cooper's New Discovery is sold hv all druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you. we will forward you the 1 name of a druggist in your city who I will. Don’t accept “something just as j good.”—The Cooper Medicine Co.. Day- ' ton, Ohio. Talkative Woman. Hewitt—Some men talk and don't say anything. Jewett—Yes, my wife is just that kind of a man. Beautiful Post Cards Free. Semi 4e stamps for five samples of our very best Cioid and Silk Finisli Birthday. Flower and Motto Post Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs. Art Post Card Club, 792 Jaekscn st., Topeka, Kan. Whatsoever you do not wish your neighbor to do to you, do not unto hint. This is the whole law. The rest is a mere exposition of it.—Jewish. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Forchildren teething, softens the gums, reduces in tkumuation.allays pain, cures wind colic. lioea bottle. When a youth begins to sow wild oats it is time for father to start the thrashing machine. ONLY ONE "BROMO QITNINE." That is LAXATIVE BROMO gUlNINK. Look for tin* signature of 11. \V. (iROVK. l.'sed the World over to Cure a Cold in One liay. 25c. Many people want assistance—and a j few really need it. — DATEftlT YOPR IDEAS. They may bring too rMIK.HI wealth. f4-page Book Free. Est. 16SG. Yittgenld AOo.. Pat.Attys..Box K. WashingtonJ).C^ CASH FOR PROPERTY wherever located. If vou want to boy. sell or exchange write ns. SORTBWBSTKRX'BISISESS AGKSCY* Minora poll*, Minn. Baby Smiles— When He Takes tut utst m\aut m ^ugus^%ds if &> pleasant that he Ele» it—and contain, no opi- I ,li ate*. There b nothing like it for Bronchitis, I iW Asthma and all houbie* of the throat and lungs. 1 !9> A Standard Remedy f or half a century. ____ AH Pruggfyta. 2S Cantu — NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY Items of Interest Around the State House Call for Farm Help. “We have more calls for farm help than we can supply,” said Deputy Ea bor Commissioner Maupin Thursday. "Especially is this true of the calls for unmarried men, although we have plenty of applications from farmers who want married men. But right now we have on file a hundred or more ap plications from farmers who want help. If there are any unemployed in the cities who want farm work, this bureau can find them the jobs in short order. Every mail brings as ap plications from farmers, but we are unable to supply the demand. “We have numerous rerpiests from married men for farm positions, in fact, too many to supply. But farm ers who want unmarried help are too numerous for the supply on hand. And we can't strike an average. With the near approach of spring the demand for farm help grows stronger. “Farm wages have shown a much greater increase in the last ten years than wages in the trades. For un married men there are farm jobs awaiting with a $30 a month wage at tached, including board, lodging and washing. For married men the wages run from $25 to $35 with house, cow, garden patch and fuel Supplied in ad dition. This is an increase of from 25 to 40 per cent over the wage that prevailed a few years ago. and is much greater than the wage increase in the cities. “Unemployed men who want farm situations are invited to write to the bureau of labor and they will be fur nished with a list of farmers who are asking for help. That is as far as the department can go. Applications from outside of Nebraska will receive last consideration as this department seeks first to take care of Nebraskans. “In the meantime the bureau of la bor requests all farmers wbo want help to correspond with it. We want to make this department a clearing house for labor.” Laymen’s Missionary Movement. March 15-17, a convention of the Laymen from seventy-five c'ties and towns in south Nebraska, will be held in Lincoln. This convention is part of a great nationwide movement start some three years ago in New York City, contemplating the evangelization of the worid in this generation. That the movement has gripped the minds of the men of all evangelical churches, is evidenced by the great interest in the conventions already he'd. Those who attend this convention will be richly repaid. The auditorium has been secured for the opening banquet on the evening of March 15, and it is expected that 1,200 delegates will be present at this time. The addresses at the dinner—the opening session— are very strong and are worth the whole time and money expended. The ablest speakers on the missionary plat form in America will be present and participate. Delegates should be pres ent at the opening session and remain until the convention Is adjourned. Railroads Resist State Laws. The introduction of testimony by the state in the suits in federal court involving the validity of the Aldrich commodity rate law and the 2-cent passenger fare law was continued Wednesday at the state house before Commissioner Pearsall. The state, through Attorney General Thompson is endeavoring to see that the freight and passenger rate laws are reason able. that tht railroads are charging to interstate business more than its just share of the expenses cf opera tion. The railroads charge nearly 14 per cent of the expense of operation to interstate business while the inter state tonnage is only 4.64 per cent, or more than three times as much on a tonnage basis and twice as much as the state admits is just. General Grant Declines. General Frederick D. Grant has written that he must decline an invi tation to speak on politics at the Ep worth assembly at Lincoln. Neb., dur ing next August, because of the army maneuvers at Pine Camp, which he is to command. Deputy Secretary of State Addison Wait, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, joined in the invitation and received in re ply a regretful declination. General Grant said in his letter: ‘‘I am deeply touched that you should have thought of me and beg to accept my grateful thanks with many repeated regrets that it will be impossible for me to have the honor and happiness of accepting your kind j invitation.” Credit is given the Lincoln hositpal corps of the Nebraska national guard in the final report of Capta'n Heavev, the regular army officer who inspected the guard for the war department. He states in his final report that he found the hospital corps a most splendidly drilled organization, so much so that, he was surprised that the national guard of Nebraska has such ?n organi zation. He said if there was any wav of comparing this company in dr'll j with infantry companies it might be a [ question as to whether or not it is as well or better drilled than any infantry comnnny in the Nebraska national j guard. _ State Railway Regulation. The difference in state and inter state rates on the Rock Island was shown by U. G. Powell of the railway commission, who has been on the witness stand for two days in the railroad rate cases pending in the that a car of oil shipped from Frank lin, Pa., to San Francisco was carried at a rate of 6.7 mills per ton per mile and a shipment horn Omaha to Fair bury was carried at a rate of 24 mills per ton per mile. Asphalt was ship ped as an interstate shipment for 4.13 j mills and an intrastate shipment from | Omaha to Fairbury at 26 mills. Closes Telephone Station. The railway commission has isseud tn order permitting the Nebraska Pelephone company to close its toll !t;Uion at Melica, Sarpy county, and to cancel its Blue Springs toll rate schedule and to make its Wymore -ates apply to Blue Springs. Commis ■ioner Cowgill went to Valley Tucs lay to hear the application of the Oouglas county Telephone company o increase rates. Another member of he commission will go to Cieighton to tear a similar appiieat'on from the lamp Dewey Telephone company. OWES HER LIFE TO Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Chicago, 111.—“I was troubled with falling and inflammation, and the doo torssaiu 1 coma no® get well unless I had an operation. I knew I could not stand the strain of one, so I wrote to you sometime ago about my health and you told me ./hat to do. After taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound and Blood Purifier I ain to-day a well woman.”—Airs. William Akklns, 988 W. 21st St., Chicago, 111. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or harm ful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases of any similar medi cine in the country, and thousands of voluntary testimonials aro on lilt in the Pinkham laboratory at Lvnu, Mass., from women who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inflammation, ul ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains,baekache, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable Compound a trial. If you would like special advice about your case write a confiden tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, and always belpfuL Thompson’s Eye Water THE WORST. Mrs. Blink—The worst is yet tr come. Mr. Blink—What time does your mother arrive? Premature Repentance. The sick man seized his wife's hand in his feeble grasp. “Please tell me the whole, awful truth at once,” he begged, gaspingly. "Oh, William!” cried his wife, “it’s all right, at last. The crisis is past and the doctor assures us that you will recover!” “Is he absolutely sure of that, my dear?” “Perfectly.” “Well, then, darling, please do thi for me at once. Run and telephon* to my partner that I didn't mean w hat 1 said yesterday about not foreclosing that mortgage. He’ll understand tha* I must have been out of my head What It Meant. “Robbie,” asked the school mistn “what does history mean when it say that in the country’s pioneer days some of the settlers didn’t have a io< ‘ over their heads?” “It means that in them days th woman couldn't afford any merry \\id ow hats!” What She Ought to Say. She — Speaking correctly. John should I say “1 will have a new bon net,” or "I shall have a new bonnet? He—Speaking correctly, absolutely correctly, my love, you should say. ; won't have a new bonnet.”—Illustrate ’ Bits. People who do just as they please never please their neighbors. A GOOD CHANGE A Change of Food Works Wonders. The wrong food and drink causes a lot of trouble in this world. To change the food is the first duty of every person that is ill, particularly from stomach and nervous troubles. As an illustration: A lady in Mo. has, with her husband, been brought around to health again by leaving off coffee and some articles of food that did not agree with them. They began us ing Postum and Grape-Nuts food. She says: "For a number of years I suffered with stomach and bowel trouble which kept getting worse unutil I was very ill most of the time. About fou years ago I left off coffee and began taking Postum. My stomach and kowels improved right along, but I was so reduced in flesh and so nervous that the least ihing would overcome me. "Then 1 changed my food and be gan using Grape-Nuts in addition to Postum. I lived on these two prin cipally for about four months. Day by day I gained in flesh and strength until now the nervous trouble has en tirely disappeared and I feel that I owe my life and health to Postum and Grape-Nuts. “Husband is 73 years old and he was troubled for a long time with occa sional cramps, and slept badly. Finally I prevailed upon him to leave off coffee and take Postum. Ho had stood out for a long time, but after he tried Postum for a few days he found that he could sleep and that his cramps disappeared. He was satisfied and has never gone back to coffee. ' “I have a brother in California who has been using Postum for several years; his whole family use it also be cause they have had such good results from it.’’ Look in pkgs. for the little book, “The Road to Wellville.” “There’s a Reason. Ever rend the above letterf A uev one appear* from time to time. The* nre cenuiue.. true, aud fall of human Interest.