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OMAHA PEOPLE GREATLY EXCITED THE GREAT COOPER A3 HE IS CALLED HAS STIRRED UP THAT CITY TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE. Omaha, Nebraska, January 26. Thl city is at present in the midst of an excitement beyond anything that" it has experienced in recent years. Old and young, rich and poor, all seem to have become beside them selves over an individual who was a trangor to Omaha up to two weeks ago. The man who has created all this turmoil is L. T. Cooper, President of the Cooper Medicine Co., of Dayton, Ohio, who is at present introducing his preparations in this city for the first time. Cooper is a man about thirty years of age and has acquired a fortune within the past two years by the sale of some preparations of which he is the owner. Reports from eastern cities that pre- ceeded the young man here were of the most startling nature, many of the leading dailies going so far as to state that he had nightly cured in public places rheumatism of years' standing with one of his preparations. The physicians of the East contradict ed this statement, claiming the thing to be impossible, but the facts seemed to bear out the statement that Cooper actually did so. In consequence people flocked to him by thousands and his prepara tions sold like wildfire. Many of these stories were regard ed as uctltlous in Omaha and until Cooper actually reached this city little attention was paid to them. Hardly had the young man arrived, however. when be began giving demonstrations, as he calls them, in public, and daily met people afflicted with rheumatism, and with a single application of one of his preparations actually made them walk without the aid of either caues or crutches. In addition to this work Cooper ad vanced the theory that stomach trou ble is the foundation of nine out of ten diseases and claimed to have a preparation that would restore the stomach to working order and thus get rid of such troubles as catarrh and affections of the kidneys and liver, in about two weeks time. This statement seems to have been borne out by the remarkable results obtained through the use of his prep aration, and now all Omaha is ap parently trad over the young man. How long the tremendous interest In Cooper will last is hard to estimate, At present there seems to be no sign of a let-up. Reputable physicians claim it to be a fad that wiil die out as soon as Cooper leaves. , In justice to him, however, it must be said that he seems to have accom plished a great deal for" the sick of this city with his preparations. ' Childish Inference. Little Julia was taking her after noon walk with her mother. Her at tention was attracted for the first time to a large church edifice on one of the street corners. "Oh, mother!" she exclaimed, "whose nice big house is that?" "That.- Julia, Is God's house," ex plained the mother. "Some time later it happened that the child was again taken by the church, this time on Sunday evening when services were in progress. Julia, 'noticing the brilliantly lighted windows, drew her own conclusions. "Oh, look, mother," sho called out, "God must be having a party." AUen'n Lmiiu tiHlHim carps when all other remedies Mil. 1 iiihomi n'lmniu mi-aii'iur nun oeen sola xur otareijeura. Kc. buu.ii-uuouiuus. .auaeaiurs. Cheap notoriety often turns out to be an expensive luxury. Nebraska Directory Money Back if Uncle Sam Breakfast Food Does not relieve you of Constipation Every package bears the above guarantee and not one has yet asked for their money. Ask jour grocer. He Certainly Knows JOlin DEERE PLOWS ARC THE BEST AfK TOI'K TiOCAI, DEAI.m OB JOHN DKERE PLOW CO., OMAHA, NEB. Beatrice Creamery Go. Pays the highest price tor KODAKS AND KODAK FINISHING Mull orlpr KlTon nH'ltil attention. AM kinds auuiU-'Dr ftuppliiia btrli'lly Inh. Mnd lorcatnlutfua. LINCOLN PHOTO SUPPLY CO. Lincoln, Neo. . UncoSnTannery EcBtS Specialty. Itlphost Price paid for JUidea. rVul for prU'a nmt tng. HCN1Y HOLM. 134 So. 8th Street.. Lincoln, Nib. Why does Great . Britain buy oatmeal of us? Certainly it seems like carrying coals to Newcastle to speak of export ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every year the Quaker Oats Company sends hundreds of thousands of cases of Quaker Oats to Great Britain and Europe. The reason is simple; while the English and Scotch have for centuries eaten .oatmeal in quantities and with a regularity that has made them the most rugged physically, and active mentally of all people, the American has been eating oatmeal and trying all the time to improve the methods of manufacture so that he might get that desirable foreign trade. How well he has succeeded would he seen at a glance at the export re ports of Quaker Oats. This brand is recognized as without a rival in clean liness and delicious flavor. 51 WHERE IT WORKED- "While we were on our honeymoon, I always spoke French to ray husband. bo that no one should understand us. "So you went to France, did you?" EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH VILLAGE "In Dowlais, South Wales, about fif teen years ago, families were strick en wholesale by a disease known as the itch. Believe me, it is the most terrible disease of its kind that I know of, as it itches all through your body and makes your life an inferno. Sleep is out of the question and you feel as if a million mosquitoes were attacking you at the same time. I knew a dozen families that were so affected. 'The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail what ever. Then the families tried a drug gist who was noted far and wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treatment, but his medicine made matters still worse, as a last resort the,, were advised by a friend to use the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days' treat ment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonder ful and the- result was a perfect cure in all cases. 'I may add that my three brothers, three sisters, myself and all our fam ilies have been users of the Cuticura Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas Hugh, 1650 West Huron St, Chicago, III., June 29. 1909." Whiskers. A Roman poet told of the pride one of the late Caesars took in his great whiskers. On some of the wildwood Hill Billies I have seen beards some feet long, a switch of the loose ends hanging out from under the waistcoat. Others braided the growth and tied it around the neck, while still others braided it around the waist, tying it behind like apron strings. One told me he combed and plaited his every night, and put it away into a long linen bag or nightgown, so as to keep it from getting all tangled up with his wife and his feet. New York Press. Professional Conduct. One of the best stories told about Mr. Birrell concerns a poor client. whose case he took up for nothing. When the case had been won, the cli ent gratefully sent him the sum of 15s, which he accepted in order not to give offense. A colleague reproached him, however, for this "unprofessional con duct" in taking less than gold. "But I too kail the poor beggar had," said Mr. Birrell, "and I consider that is not unprofessional." M. A. P. How It Struck. Him. "Behold the wondrous beauties of yon sunset sky," exclaimed the poet. "How prodigal nature is with its re splendent glories." "Yes," answered the busy publisher, In an absent-minded tone, "it is going some to throw in a colored supple ment every day." Mock'ChTcken. Pie. ' pieces mar. are ten Irora a stuffed roasted fresh shoulder, put in an agate dish, cover with water and boll slowly two or three hours, and when near time to put in oven put gravy and dressing all in with meat If put In dish too soon it might burn on bottom. Add flour, to thicken a little. If you have enough left-over pie crust, moisten one 'easpoonfof baking powaer ana aaa to pie crust If not. make biscuit dough with a heaping rooking spoon of lard. Roll it so that It will be a little, larger than the top ci the dish, so as to fill on sides. Put in hot oven. Novel Baked Apples. Peel some sound cooking apples ot medium size, take out the core and roughen the outside of the fruit with a fork. Now roll the apples in coarse brown sugar, stand them' in a large buttered pie dish, fill the hole in each apple with any red preserve, and bake slowly until tender. Haste the fruit while cooking with the Juice that rune from it. When done allow the fruit to get cold before setting in a dish to servo. Very rich if served with oram. A. purse containing $200 and a handsome diamond ring were lost in a New Jtrsey penitentiary, and found and r?stoied by two prisoners. Such an astonhblng amount of honesty ought not to o losJw An Embarrassment of Riches By MARY (Copyright, by Short The student gazed with bewildered blue eyes at the lawyer. The lawyer repeated: "Eighteen hundred thou sand dollars in your own, unlimited right. Tou lucky dog!" The student seemed to be weighing the literary value of the phrase "lucky dog." Personal application of any thing seemed out of his line, so the impatient lawyer began to think. The idea of a young man taking such an announcement in such a way! "I should not know what to do with it," the student said slowly, with al most a frightened look, which molli fied the lawyer. "That wouldn't worry most young men; it wouldn't worry, me." ' "What would you do with it?" "Why, I'd oh, I'd have a good time." It really was not so easy to specify, at a breath's notice, what one would do with eighteen hundred thousand. He felt nearer to the dreamy youth. "But would that mean the same to any two people having a good time?' Really, the young man had a way of asking questions when he was fewakened. "No-o," said the lawyer doubtfully. 'To old Booze over there, it would mean all the bad whisky he could pour in; to young Snob yonder, a card to the Millionaires' club, and London fashions; to Miss Mincing, sealskins, diamonds and her coach; to me, perhaps, after I had had a little ordinary fling and had let the good wife burn a few greenbacks, the pro fessional honors I have missed; to you, I suppose," glancing from the general shabbiness of things to the few books that even he, a Philistine, could not but see were rare and precious of date, binding and author ship "more books." "What would books be to me that I merely bought with my uncle's grudged money? Adopted children, dear perhaps for their merit; but the books I have are flesh of my flesh. bone of my bone, blood of my blood!" But he didn't grudge it. Only for his last words, they would never have guessed your existence." "What did he say?" This was, at least, human curiosity; the lawyer grew confidential. He said: 'No, no will. I've had the good of my money in my way; let my fool of a nephew, Searle Kynett, have it in his. He'll spend it patenting a new way to bind books or in digging up Billy Shakespeare's rent receipts, perhaps; but if there is any blood in those watery veins of his, it is my own brother's. Let him have it!' Not very complimentary, but yon probably knew his , way. I mention it for the hint it gave his administrators, of a relative. They traced you to this city, and the odd name and hint at your tastes did the rest, I having the honor of bringing the search to this ah happy conclusion." "Yes." the student mused. "I knew I Ms way, He wanted to help me, but we could not agree. He sent for me to order his library. I would hae given him one fit for Solomon, but what he wanted was binding to match the cases and furniture of a barbaric modern chamber of upholstered hor rors, and he wished the 'popular au thors! 'Didn't care for freaks, in books or persons,' he said." The lawyer sighed. The student intuitively answered: "You find me a troublesome .client. I realize that I am unlike other young men. I don t say that in a Pharisaical manner;" he hastened to add, "I'm not better, but I suppose I'm queer." Then he, too, sighed. After ten days of fruitless thought, the problem was but little nearer so lution. The student cried despairing ly: "I cannot simply invest that amount and have a preposterous in come tumbling upon me in successive shocks, like Tarpeia's bracelets. cannot have my solitude and study broken by specious pleaders with their worldly schemes, of which I have little understanding, even were they most practical. I shall be forced to leave even these obscure lodgings, since there is but one way of egress and no escape from these harpies." ) The lawyer grinned. There was a chance for his assistance, after all. "Send them to me, my dear boy." "Find me, a place, a retired place yet Bafe, with many doors and win dows; a place suitable for for books." Jones found the place and reported to his client. "But, do I understand that the wom an sells to me outright, or " "She is a widow of 60 and over," said the lawyer deprecatingly. "She Is attached to her home. You would h3 obliged to have a housekeeper. All she seeks is a little suite of rooms that you would not need, rent-free, and she wili undertake to keep things cleanly, and, ir you wish, to prepare your meals and do anything neces sary. She understands that you re quire solitude and quiet, and will not obtrude. You have each an entrance and staircase, separated by the screen partition, and you need known noth ing1 of her presence." "Very good. Women are are try ing, you know," recalling a thin, shrill, scolding voice that had punctuated his childupod'Jnto unhappy periods. His only other experience of them was of a few ruffled and perfumed creatures who had brushed by him In his eager C PADEN Stories Co., Ltd.) overturning of treasure-trove on book- counters, to order shallow, effusive. much begilt and crimsoned book-personalities. He turned suddenly on poor Jones with a desperation that startled - that good man: "Find me a good, genuine use for this money within 30 days; or, after paying you for your trouble and set ting aside barely enough to secure me bread and water, a quiet roof and decent disposal of my body, I swear I shall convert this pile into green backs, and, not in the vulgar idiom of the day, but actually burn them, and sit down to peaceful study without this nightmare of responsibility! Then Lawyer Jones found it was not easy to place one million odd in just the right place. , Lawyer Jones began to feel a vicarious irritation. He, too, wished to slash the Gordian knot Mrs. Jones thought she saw the simplest end to pull, unraveling it all. "If he would just marry!" she said oracularly. One particular evening Kynett had enjoyed extraordinarily a dainty tea awaiting him, served as invisibly as a prisoner's when his back was turned or he was in another room; also, an extra handful of coals in the yawning grate. "This won't do!" he said, suddenly, recalling himself. "I shall turn gour met and sybarite. I caught myself several times to-day turning from my book and pen to wonder what dainty would be served me this night, and what delicate mending, as of a hand worthy to tool a delicate cover, I should find In my hitherto neglected clothes-basket." "O, Granny, what a wizard old Geof fry is!" this with familiar love, not irreverence. "How he knows the spirit of spring that stirs the restless heart in all of us and makes us long to go and grow and be and do and enjoy!" - Was that what ailed him, too the restless spring? asked Kynett. And had he needed a girlish voice to trans late one of his Masters? ' An older voice answered: "That is the way of youth, dearies. To us it brings memories.", "But it stirs you, too!" This im pulsively. "I saw it in your eyes; it thrilled in your voice." ; "You are restless to-night dearies. What ails you?" "Oh, I want " She threw her fair arms over her head, the soft laces falling away from them. What ethereal boon . did this an gelic soul crave? Something angels alone could grant surely! "I want money!" The hidden door creaked again be hind the portiere. , "Fie! What to do with it?" .-"Do? I'd never stop doing. I'd never stop to think what I'd do. I wouldn't trouble to plan; Just start a river of good and keep it going. Do? Well, to start, I'd see that: those hands of yours rested eight hours a day. I wouldn't slave in that bindery but spend oh, all the time I could spare from doing good in a book shop. I'd see that poor Mr. Kynett had three good meals a day and a few pair of socks that were not pepper boxes for holes, and other things. I'd even buy silly little Mimette 100; yards of ribbon of all colors, since shei loves ribbons. I'd " But Searle guiltily slid the door into, place and retired to his dull quarters.' One morning he remembered what it was Lawyer Jones had said women liked. He had thought it trivial at the time, but Was delighted to recall now sealskin, diamonds, a coach. He went to the great furriers and selecting a small saleswoman, ordered the most magnificent coat they had, to fit one of her build, and ordered it sent, spite of the season. Where? He gravely dictated, - amid the smiles ot the saleswomen: i , ' ' Dearie, care of Widow Gray. There was amazement on the other side of the curio-house 1 that night, since there was no clew to the Bender of the magnificent gift. Next morning, a grave . coachman stopped a fine pair of horses, with an irreproachable turnout, at the Gray door, and he and the footman report ed to "Miss Dearie." The widow questioned to some pur pose, in the confusion following her announcement that there was no stable. She went to Mr. Kynett. "Let one be built," he decreed, as Haroun might. . . ' Then the widow declared she must send for Lawyer Jones. The grave coachman suggested a commission of lunacy aside, but Dearie spoke up blushingly: ' ' "The poor fellow is only over worked and undernourished. We will take care of him and bring him through." Searle submitted to this role until the two good souls thought they had effected a cure and Grannie consented to be mother to him, and Dearie to roam the fields' of higher literature with him, when his socks did not need footing. Then, alas! he had a relapse, and the diamonds came for Dearie. But the method in his madness was soon made clear to all, and, at the happy wedding; Motner Jones said: . "I told you it would all come right u he would only marry!" ' Tne Ruling Passion. An old Irishwoman, in describing a "gone but not forgotten," said: "Mike was the foine man entoirely and he'd be living now, if it wasn't for the dhrink. He had a dog and sure that baste would bring him home from the saloon whin he was so blind : wid. liquor he couldn't see a shtep before him. And whin he died 'tis the truth I'm shpaking -his ghost walked at night, both back and foorth, bet,une the saloon and his house and bedad 'twas so dhrunk his dog knew him ! " A Modest Doctor. ' While on his vacation, a city doctor attended the Sunday morning service at a little country church. 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