“Pape's Diapepsin” fixes sick, sour, gassy stomachs in five minutes. Time it! In five minutes all stomach distress will go. So indigestion, heart burn. sourness or belching of gas, acid, or eructations of undigested fgod, no dizziness, bloating, or foul breath. Pape'6 Diapepsin is noted for its speed in regulating upset stomachs. It is the surest, quickest and most cer tain indigestion remedy in the whole world, and besides it is harmless Please for your Bake. get.a large fifty-cent case of Papes Diapepsin from any store and put your stomach right. Don't keep on being miserable —life is too short—you are not here long, so make your stay agreeable. Eat what you like and digest it; en joy it. without dread of rebellion in the stomach. Pape's Diapepsin belongs in your home anyway. Should one of the fam ily eat something which don't agree with them, or in case of an attack of indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritisf or j stomach derangement at daytime or ! during the night, it is handy to give the quickest relief known. Adv. E Pluribus. A small boy of three was playing in the street between the car tracks j while a bigger boy of eleven or there abouts stood on the sidewalks and looked on. The Good Samaritan passed that | way. He addressed the bigger boy. ''Is the little fellow your brother?" I he asked. 'Yep.” "Then bring him in from between ' the tracks: he might get run over.” "Aw.” replied the bigger boy, “that don’t make no difference, we got plan ty like him to home.”—New York j Washington Post. IS CHILD CROSS, FEVERISH, SICK Look. Mother! If tongue is j coated, give "California Syrup of Figs.” « Children love this “fruit laxative,” and nothing else cleanses, the tender Btomach. liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result la they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don’t eat, sleep or act naturally, breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomacb-ache or diarrhoea. Listen, Mother: See if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes) out of the sys tem. and you have a well child again. Millions of mothers give "California Syrug of Figs” because it is perfectly harmless; children love it. and it nev er fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle i of “California Syrup of Figs,” which j has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. Sift the talk that you hear and you 1 will have one part wheat and nine i parts chaff. /* Norway produces enough hay for ; home consumption and exports quan- : titles to countries farther south. The worst thing you can do for ! some men is praise them. Nebraska Directory I BOILER REPAIRS! I Expert boiler makers Pent anrwhere—anytime. I I WILSON STEAM BOILER CO.. Omaha | Try Os—St Will Pay You Consign yocr stock to ns forgood prices, good flila ! and prompt remittance. Write or wire ns for any : desired Information regarding the market. A11 com munications answered promptly We are working i for your interest and appreciate »otr business. 1 FARRIS PURINTON & AflARCY Vjcrrvaorg to ». k. Arkor k C«. Live Stock Commission Imn 110-112 Exchange Bldg Stock Tds Station. S Oaaha.fttl — 30,500 Bell Telephones in Omaha Bell Lines Reach 668 Nebraska Towns; — Talk lo Omaha Over the Bell Telephone Opium Culture lit Persi»L§S8a ,e M GZ[?7iZ7tf2>lF H&Xjg?2K?OB<£ + omj7r &faxzivirra fzr-uaf rmneass rl HE cold Mason in south ern Persia is short, but occasionally so severe that snow falls plentiful ly round about Shiraz, the capital of Fars; but in most winters only heavy rains prevail. There Is a considerable variation in the tempera ture on the coast and on the lofty plateau in the interior of the country A beautiful spring follows the intense cold, and in the month of March, while the highest mountains still carry white snowcaps. the valleys are growing green; wild flowers blossom every where. and the well-known roses in the gardens round about Shiraz are already in bud. Very soon the re freshing spring showers cease, sum mer approaches rapidly, in this part of the world, and with the hot weath er. gusts of wind, driving before them clouds of dust, rush through the partly cultivated plains and over the ripen ing fields. When this time arrives, the poppies are in full blossom and the breeze is laden far beyond these pret ty poppy plantations with the narcotic odors of the large, delicate white flow ers that are mixed here and there with beautiful shaded violet ones. Af ter a favorable rainy season the poppy fields are a lovely ^ight, and a beau tiful feature in the landscape. The flowers Btand high and healthy on their tall, straight stems, and within them soon appears a large fleshy poppy-head which contains the opium juice, and also later, when dry, the valuable poppy seeds. Such a sight is a delight to the owner of the plan tation, for he sees in prospect a glo rious harvest. Round about Shiraz as far as Ispahan, southward to the coun try of the date palm, a great deal of opium Is grown, and several thousand chests are shipped from Shiraz to China and various places In Europe, every season. The collecting of the opium juice begins in dune, when, the flowers having faded and the leaves fallen, the poppy heads are ready to be “bled.” For this purpose a peculiar knife is employed. It has a thick handle in which several thin, short blades, an inch in length, are set and with which several parallel cuts may be made with one stroke. When the sun stands low on the western horizon, the men with the above-mentioned tools start their ^ork, making one or two incisions in the fleshy green skin of the heads on the side towards the set ting sun. During the cool night hours the brown, strong-smelling, viscous juice oozes out and collects in pearl like drops on the surface of the seed vessel. Before the rising sun gains sufficient power to dry or crystallize the sticky substance, the gathering is in full swing. Stepping carefully from plant to plant, the men gather the opium on the broad blades of their crescent-shaped collecting knives, which have an upturned back about an inch high to prevent the juice from dropping off. As soon as a knife is full it is handed to the owner of the field or his foreman, who stands among the collectors to see that none of the precious drops are hidden away by the workers to increase their daily wages. As soon as the morning's work is over, the fields are deserted until the afternoon, when new inci sions have tc be made. Each plant is tapped twice, and a large poppy-head gives from twenty to thirty grains of opium. A few days are sufficient to finish a field; then the poppy heads are left alone and. robbed of their nourishing juice, the sun dries them up In a few days they begin to shrink and change color, and when they are quite withered and have as sumed a yellow brownish tint they are gathered by children, collected in heaps on a suitable spot and threshed out with long sticks by women. The seed is then winnowed preparatory to its sale and export. It contains about forty per cent, of oil, which is largely used in France and other countries in the place of olive oil, which it re sembles closely. R contains no opi && fzow&z or on^iyrorr^ uni. The juice is sold in large cop per vessels by the grower to the mer chant. in whose hands it undergoes several processes in order to preserve it from fermentation and decay. On 6unny, line, hot days the Per ! sian caravapseri where opium dealers have their fofflepg present an interest ing feature. The juice is brought out | to be made into cakes for export. Orr large wooden boards, two and a half i feet long and one and a half feet broad, the sticky mass is spread out with spade-like tools to permit the water it contains to evaporate. Expe rienced workers move from board to board, turning over the layers, every now- and then that the heat and sun may dry up the exposed surfaces and render the opium fit for making into cake.s. In favorable weather this proc ess takes only an hour or so, and the opium is ready for the next manipula tion. ’t is now scraped off and is rolled into stifT dough-like lumps and handed to a man. who divides it into smaller portions, weighing one pound each, which he passes on to the mold er, by whom they are pressed into the wooden forms and then laid on a large board for the final drying proc ess. Whep this is completed the cakes are rolled up in red paper im ported specially from China, and are then tied up with red strings. The j cakes are then ready for packing. One hundred and forty-four are put in tin lined wooden cases with poppy-stem chaff as packing. The wooden cases are covered with stong hides and sack ing. Two cases form a mule load Tbe percentage of morphia in Persian opium varies from nine per cent, to twelve per cent In former years the Persian opium had a very bad reputa SHAKESPEARE A POACHER Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, Eng land. (e the place in which, according ; to tradition, William Shakespeare in dulged in poaching. The great gates ■ of the park are here pictured. tion Id the London market, for it was frequently adulterated with a sub i stance named “Gunjedah,” but the fraud was, of course, easily detected, and a good many dealers were ruined. : Much opium is used in Persia itself; in fact, the consumption has grown to a deplorable extent, which causes considerable anxiety to the authorities. There are opium dens in every large town, and the sickening sweet smell arising from the opium pipes streams out of every tea and coffee house in the country. The distressing specta 1 cle of intoxicated opium smokers may be seen everywhere in Persia, and those who do not care to smoke the : drug have taken to the small pill box found in every Persian's breast pocket. Now and then efforts are made to put a stop to this excessive use of opium. ; but in vain; and so long as the highest ! officials indulge In Its abuse, no re strictions will be effective in prevent ing the lower classes from raining themselves. Persia is doomed, and its downfall cannot be arrested. SOME POSTSCRIPTS The German army expects to spend i nearly $25,000,000 In the next five years for dirigible balloons and aero planes and the navy half as much. More than 2,000,000 American farm | era are now using telephones In their I homes, more than 100,000 having In* ! stalled instruments within a year. An Italian scientist has succeeded in telephoning with wireless appara i tus between Rome and Tripoli, a dis tance of 600 miles, mainly over sea. A new bayonet lies along the bar rel of a rifle normally, but is thrown j into position for service by pressing a button on the stock of the weapon. Electric production of ferro-silicon as well as potash will be carried out by a new method*in Sweden employ i ing current from hydro-electric plants. I A lock which, when the key Is turned, shuts off the gasoline and dis connects the battery and magneto is a new invention to foil automobile 1 thieves. A window recently patented by a French inventor consists of a number of pivoted sections, which may be moved to any desired angle by pull ing a chain. Government horticulturists at W'ash ! ington are trying to develop a rose | that will grow in the United States from which attar of rose can be dis I tilled. How the End Will Come. The professor of natural phenomena hadpicquired a gasoline car. “'The day . is coming.” be said to his class a few weeks later, “when the tire will sag | and punctures pierce the inner tube and the casing blister—and then this old earth of ours will have a blowout I that may shake the Dog Star from its kennel and hurl the Dipper to king dom come!” __ i Excellent Precept*. If you would relish your food, labor for it; if you would enjoy the raiment, pay for it before you wear it; If you would sleep soundly, take a clear con science to bed with yon. PASTIME AT CHILD’S PARTY Amusement Afforded Little Folks by Having Doll Hunt—Little Ginger Bread Dolls as Souvenirs. A very clever and interesting man ner in which to entertain children at a child's party is to have a doll hunt. Little girls never have enough dollies, and so no better plan could be found than to send them on a hunt, at the end of which a little doll is the re ward. This hunt is on the same order as the cobweb game. Each little girl I is given the end of a colored cord,: which is wound in and out as much of , the house as the hostess sees fit. At the end of each string is a girl’s name.! meaning the name of the dolly. All j of the strings are gathered in the par-: lor from which point the hunt starts i and each little girl finds a pretty, ; though not expensive, doll waiting for her. The string then leads into the dining rom, where a little clothes line [ is stretched out, and on it is pinned ! the clothes belonging to the various j dolls. Each little dress is labeled While the good time is going on in the dining room, where the dollies are dressed, refreshments are served. Each child’s place 1b marked by a pa per doll with her name upon it Little ginger bread dolls are given as sou venirs. Not Society's Fault. Gibbs How did that rich boor * man age to get introduced into society? Hibbs—He wasn’t introduced; be was injected.—Judge. Red Men Get Auto Fever. ' As long as tbe Indians of the Uma tilla, Ore., reservation saw only white men riding in automobiles they were immune to joy riding, but the recent spectacle of two visiting Indians bonk ,honking with their big car proved too much for the redskins and they have succumbed to an epidemic of autoitis in its most virulent form. Otis Half Moon and Edward Kasb Kask drove over from the Nes Perce reservation at Lapwai, Idaho, in rec ord time, covering tbe distance be i tween Lewiston and Pendleton In H bonrs. and during their stay set the i Umatilla braves gas wagon cratty.— | Xew York Sun. The Argument That Wins. • Ah.” she sighed, “the great men are all dead." "But the beautiful women are not,” he answered. Then she looked soulfully up Into his eyes and told him she had said it just to be contrary and not because she thought it for a moment. To Dissolve Chewing Gum. If you were ever unfortunate enough to find a piece of chewing gum stick ing tenaciously to your shoe or your chair or your rug or any of your other belongings, you probably came to the righteous conclusion that chewing gum was the most tenacious and stick iest substance in the world. There is one thing that will dissolve it com pletely and quickly, and that is gaso line. So if ever again you are trou bled by Its unasked presence, dissolve it with gasoline. THOUGHT HIM TOO STRENUOUS Evidently There Are Points About Athletic Game That Are New to Mrs. Casey. Mrs. Casey was proud of her strong, i muscular son. and still more proud of him when he went into a gymnasitig* and made himseit locally famous. Then one day a rumor reached her ears which she didn’t like, and when Michael came home that night she proceeded to take him to task. “look here, Mike Casey, what's ! this I’m hearing about yer doin’s at ‘ •the gymnasium? Don’t ye know it’s ! poor we are, an’ havin’ no money to pay for yer destructive carryin’ on?” “Why. what do ye mean, mither?” asked the astonished Mike. ' Ain't they sayin’ all over town that ye have broke two o'? their best records down there?" she howled.— National Magazine. ERUPTION ON CHILD'S BODY R F B No. 2. Jackson, Mo.—“Our daughter who is ten months old was suffering from an eruption all over the body. 2n the beginning they were small red spots and afterwards turned to Moody sores. We tried all sorts of ointments but they did not procure any relief for our child. She cried almost day and night and we scarcely could touch her, because she was cov ered with sores from head to foot. “We had heard about the Cuticura Soar and Ointment and made a trial w.th them and after using the reme dies. that is to say. the Soap and the Ointment only a few days passed and cur child could sleep well and after cue week she was totally well.” Signed August F. Bartels. Nov. 25, 2 ITS Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free with 22-p Skin Book. Address post card "Cuticura Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv. New World Democracy. The. story that the kaiser loves most to tell his intimates, declares Hr. William Armstrong in the Woman s Magazine concerns the visit of his brother. Prince Henry of Prussia, to America. The nriden: happened just as the prince was landing at New York. Be side him on deck stood Admiral von Tirpiti. On the dock was a dense crowd From its midst a stentorian voice called "Henry! Henry!” The prince d.d not understand that the hat! waE meant for him until the admiral, smiling broadly, said, “Your royal highness, I think some one ■wants to speak to you.” Then Prince Kenry looked over to ward the human megaphone, who still continued to bawl out his name. See ing that be had caught the royal gaze the owner of the voice shouted. "How's Bill?”—Youth's Companion. I _ Enterprising Farmer. A farmer and hie wife in an out-of the-way but interesting corner of Galloway had made their only visitor very comfortable indeed. As the road ended with the farm and passere-by were excessively rare, the guest asked the farmer why he did not try the effect of an advertise ment in one of the daily newspapers. '‘Ay,” he said, /’that's a fine notion, and we have made up our minds to do it. We are just waiting till we see a bit vacant corner in the paper, and then we'il send up a line or two."— Christian Endeavor World. Ar Australian Drummer. Temperance Orator—And is your father a teetotaler, my boy? The Boy—No, sir; he's a commer cial traveler —Sydney Bulletin. its Place. 'What do you think of eating camel’s meat?” "I suppose that is done as a dessert course.” , No thoughtful person uses liquid blue. It's a pinch of blue in a large lot tie of water. Ask for Bet