FEBRUARY 14,1907
THE NEBRASKA
INDEPENDENT
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a story of a man in his county who
bought a pair of glasses from a trav
eling optician which made him see
double. "This man," declared Mr.
Lahners, "went out hunting and when
he shot at a rabbit he always saw two
and never hit the right one, and when
he got back home he found two wom
en in his house when he had left only
one there. The Lord knows one wom
an is enough."
Dodge of Douglas rose one morning
last week to speak to a motion called
forth by the absence of a large num
ber of members. "Mr. Speaker," said
Mr. Dodge, "I see no reason whatever
of passing this motion. As I look
around over this body, I fail to see
the face of a single absentee."
The ease with which a bill will
sometimes go through a legislative
body was shown by the way the Uaper
bill abolishing capital punishment
slipped through the house in commit
tee of the whole. The bill had been
recommended favorably by the com
mittee, was on general file and came
up for consideration at the conclusion
of a long day's work. It looked inno
cent enough, merely being an amend
ment to one section of the criminal
code, and was not over twelve lines
long. Best of Douglas, who cam? down
especially interested in preventing the
passage of any such measure, noticed
who was the introducer, and moved to
order it to third reading without .dis
cussion. The members voted unani
mously and did not know what they
luxd done until the next morning they
read It in the newspapers. Then Best
himself led the light to kill the bilL
Members of the committees on pub
lic lands and buildings declare that
they like the work of the committe.es
and would enjoy the task of visiting
the state institutions were it not for
the fact that invariably the superin
tendents of the institutions seize the
opportunity of the visit of the "big
chiefs" from the legislature to . ask
them to make speeches. Most of the
legislators are great on getting votes
and know how to tell a man that white
Is black, but some of them dislike to
puH the tail feathers out of the eagle.
This was the case at Milford when
after a visit to the soldiers' home,
some of the committee were taken
over to the home for women. In tell
ing about it, Representative Fries of
Howard said: "All the fellows balked
on going over because they thought
they would have to get up and make
a speech, but, speech or no speech, I
intended to do my duty, and sure
enough, I got over there and they were
laying for me. Well, I told the girls
there that the world wasn't as bad as
it was painted and that there was
somebody outside who would lend
them a helping hand and that they
should never give up. I looked around
and saw the two other members who
were going to be called upon after me
twisting in their seats and figuring ji
what they were going to say, so I
turned to them and referred to them
SKIN -DISEASE
HUMORS IN THE BLOOD
When the blood is pure, fresh and healthy, the skin will be soft, smooth;
and free from blemishes, but when some acid humor takes root in the circu
lation its presence is manifested by a skin eruption or disease. These
humors get into the blood, generally because of an inactive or sluggish
condition of the members of the body whose duty it is to collect and carry
off the waste and refuse matter of the system. This unhealthy matter is left
to sour and ferment and soon the circulation becomes charged with the acid
poison. The blood begins to throw off the humors and acids through the
pores and glands of the skin, producing Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis,
Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually
with a slight redness of the skin followed by pustules from which there
flows a sticky fluid that dries and forms a crust, and the itching is intense.
It is generally on the back, breast, face, arms and legs, though other parts
of the body may be affected. In Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds ;
the acid in the blood dries up the natural oils of the skin, which are intended
to keep it soft and pliant, causing a dry, feverish condition and giving it a
hard, leathery appearance. Acne makes its appearance on the face in the
. . u. , . . fonn of pimples and black heads, while
JJSfMui rsoriasis comes in scaly patches on differ
euro mo until I tried s. S. s. I cnt parts of the body One of the worst
itSSiii&iiii forms of skin trouble is Salt Rheum;
form from -which there flowed a iu favorite point of attack is the scalp,
atickyfluid; crusts would come on t.n r. , r .i-
the tkin uud when ecratched on Sometimes causing baldness. Poison Oak
the ekia was loft as raw a pieco and Ivy are also disagreeable types of skin
K.i'V'SS iffi&i? biS disease. The humor producing the trouble
when I ujeds. s.s.i found a per- lies
rocs cur, iners n nvrieu wiw. .
ny return cf the troubi. Winter
C.lLliVANS,
PtcK-kmnn, JJeh.
PURELY VEGETABE
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l-ccause they do not reach the Mood. S. 8. S. got s down into the circulation
an If 'ttvstmt every particle cf foreign matter and restore the Mood to it:i
nenral, J vce "Edition, thereby ntianusUy curii g tverv form ft skin
affe-vt, on. Took i n S in I Erases and any medical advice desirtd seat frc
t9 v U v.! v.iitc . H. ?. h I n ra!( at all firt da drug tnn-s.
rix$wrrr$pfc:nc vo.t atlahja. ca
as the orators of the house. You
ought to have heard them talk after
I had covered the whole subject."
SIDELIGHTS
HERE has been found the true anc
ideal flat owner. He will paper
! n vmi rrp.;s the button. Will IlX
the plumbing and cut another door
where you wish it. He has the money
to do thLs because his tenants all pay
him promptly, regularly and (believe,
it as you will) they pay him cheeriully.
The have no grudges against his grow
ing walth. in his house rent day is
welcomed with a smile. When it has
passed they count the hours till tho
next one arrives.
This sounds like sarcasm. The tale
is unbelievably fantastic. But hark to
the truth. This true and ideal land
owner lives, and lives in Paris. On
the door of every suit a number is
painted. When quarter day comes
this landlord draws a lottery, in which
are as many tickets as there are flats
in the house. The owner of the win
ning number 13 relieved from paying
his rent that quarter.
The lucky house is in the Rue Paul
Bert, but it would be useless to publish
its number for the benefit of those who
might not object to go to Paris and live
In It, in spite of the neighborhood,
which Is not aristocratic. The house
is permanently full up, and there Is
no room for that half of the world
which would desire to dwell under &uch
an admirable regime.
The hairdressers of Paris are a van
ishing sect. They have been dyeing
for a long time. Now they are dying
in a more seilous sense of the word
and are dying by their own hand.
And, when you think of It, everything
dies by its own hand. A man perishes
of the most innocent case of pneu
monia, or so it seems; but in reality
he has killed himself with his own
ignorance of how to have saved him
self from that disease. The hairdress
ers of Paris, that great center of halr
dressing, have i-nded their career by
their exceeding In depend en 29. Parisian
ladies are more and more breaking
away from these tyrants of the dress
ing table. Their lack of punctuality
has succeeded in making whole fami
lies miserable. For a few francs a
month the Parisian lady was accus
tomed to have a hairdresser come to
the house at an appointed hour every
morning. The hairdre&ser came but
never at the appointed hour. As a re
sult the ladies of Paris very often
went with uncombed locks until the
evening. This had often very disas
trous consequences. Dinners were de
layed, engagements were broken, wed
dings were indefinitely postponed, di
vorces grew to be epidemic.
Finally the Parisian lady took mat
ters into her own hands, and decided
dormant in the Mood through the!
.v .. i 4t.
lo break out and torment the
suncrcrwun me return t Spring. 1 he best
treatment for all skin diseases is S. S. S.
It neutralizes the neick and remove the
humors m that the skin instead of lig
Irritated and diseased, h nourished by a
supply of frvh, healthy Mood. External
application.-! f salves, washes, lotions, etc.,
while they tiootlic the itching caused by
fl in affections, can tuver cure the trouble
to do without the hairdresser Alto
gether; There were two reasons which
enabled her to adopt uch drastic meth
ods She grets .up early it is no louder
fashionable in Paris to lie abed late
into the morning1. But above all, she
can now dress her own hair.
The Parisian lady has aids In. her
noble endeavors. She can now buy
"store hair." She selects the lovely
waves, the puffs and the curls at the
hair store and pirs them on herself
The puffs come in little bunches 2 for
5, and it i3 inconceivable how many
bunches of pull's can be pinned on.
The front wave comos way down Ov'er
the forehead and is often bordered
with a soft fringe of hair. The wave
and even the fringe come from the
hair store, but it is no longer called
a wig or false front as formerly it is
a 'transformation." - -
Happily for - the ladies who now
dress their own hair, the fashion of
wearing the hair low in the neck which
threatened to become prevalent, was
but a passing one. And there ha also
been a compromise on the cry: "Away
with the blondes." As to being a
blonde, the law now is "one may," not
"one must." So fortune favors the
Parisienne, who combs her own hair
and rejoices in her independence while
monsieur the hairdresser scks other
employment.
Not for a long while has anything
in Paris clubland so stirred it
habitues as the precipitate flight a few
days ago of over forty of the most
familiar figures In the best known
gambling clubs in this citv, savs the
Manchester Chronicle.
One night these gentlemen were all
at their accustomed places, the next
they had completely vanished.
The police could not find them, and
they were more anxious to find them
than anybody else, for they held de
crees from the minister of the interior
informing them that their presence
was no longer desired in France, and
that they would be obliged to see them
safely over the frontier.
Prance is pretty tolerant in most
things, gambling included, provided it
is done decently and in order, but
when a number of recent arrivals from
Belgium came along with a new game,
which, because of its deadlv renults,
was known among its victims as the
"Faucheuse," a game whicn gave the
unhappy player no chance, and when
these same gentlemen in a few weeks
swept into their capacious pockets
over 200,000 pounds, the authorities
considered it was time to make in
quiries. Then they discovered that the club
men of Paris and Nice, of Pau and
Biarritz, were practically in the hands
of a disreputable gang of nondescripts
Belgians, Spaniards, and Argentines
who were making tons of money by
playing what they termed "baccarat
a untableau," a game something sim
ilar to railway baccarat, with this dif
lerence, that in the new game the
banker always deals the cards.
The moving spirit in the whole af
fair the Napolean of the game was
Belgian named Marquet, at one time
a cafe waiter, who, having made some
money at gambling, organized a band
f cropiers and accomplices. Being
obliged to leave Beleium. when tum
bling was prohibited in that country,
he descended with his acolytes on
Paris.
The best clubs refused to admit the
compatriots of King Leopold, but in
the second and third rate clubs Mar
quet simply hired the gaming tables
at so much a night usually less than
a hundred pounds and only allowed
"baccarat a un tableau" to be played.
How long he was in getting: back his
money may easily be guessed when it
is stated that at the Modern club in
the avenue MacMahon the losses in
one night .sometimes totalled more
than 4,000 pounds.
One of the worst features of the
scandal that has just been brought
to light was that in certain west-end
clubs where women are admitted the
fair gamblers became so infatuated
with the new game that, once fairly
launched on the path of treacherous
chance, they v-ould not stop until
every sou was gone.
IS yen then they did not stop, Wit
snatching their jewels from their necks
and fingers, they kept on playing In
desperation until they had not a sin
gle article of jewelry left.
Senator Ktwx is quitted as saying,
whin informed that his sun had
"eloped" and been married as simply
as it rural clergyman could do It: "I
find this morning that I have acquired
a very charming daughter-in-law with
out any of the trouble Incidental to a
conventional weddinif." This hint.
merit, with Its undercurrent of hwtrt j
felt gratitude, rul.e (he largo que. !
Hon, who in It, if ii body, that really !
enjoys 'eonventloii.il wedding?" j
Th H-iimor, It win lt noticed, corn- i
menu th New Yoik Time, spoke off
"trouble," not "esi.cti," rid us ho I ',
thf father of the lrldegrMi, nt of
the l.ri.b-. lotnpurMtlvely few i f H
nwjrliirwM it i id abruMt nt bin of th
com tt "function" would (.- t fli
on htm, .nd H h vw gl.d to ap
the at Itrtrieiiu and publicities of
M rddliif TMt i.i.tii). If i.t uttutt,
bu.-'.tt.! .i-l' l-k forward t !!,'
cere monie:; with something between
panic, fear and deadly haired is too
well known to need assertion, and the
fact that they do so might well be
made a topic of discussion in President
Koosevelt's next lecture or essay on
"The Family and the Increasing Re
luctance For Accepting Family lte
sponsibilities." It seems to be true, however, that
the great majority of women like elab
orate weddings, either as spectators or
as one of the principals, and the more
elaborate the weddings are the better
the women like them. They are, to be
sure extremely prone to weep while the
ceremony is in progress, but apparent
ly the tears are happy, or at least
near happy, tears, and all the prepar
atory toils that fall upon them they
perform with the utmost cheerfulness.
As for the expense, there was no par
ticular need to count on it In this case
and probably it is very rarely be
grudged, even when It somewhat ex
ceeds the amount approved by practi
cal common sense that grim and
rather obnoxious virtue.
A stout man with florid cheeks and
choleric blue eyes slipped and fell on
the slush-covered sidewalks at Wall
and William streets, says the New
York Post. In an attempt to rise
quickly and gracefully he stumbled
and fell again. With a look of deep
disgust he remained in a sitting pos
ture for a few seconds as though de
termined not to arise just for spite."
In the meantime a crowd had collect
ed. They surrounded the man. They
looked at him; he looked at them.
Finally he spoke: "Well, gentleman,
what is the trouble?" he said. The
crowd without a single reply disinte
grated, and the fallen man regained
his feet in splendid isolation.
"What I like," said a doctor, "is a
patient of experience. Next to no pa
tients at all, the greatest trial for a
doctor Is to have a lot of green hands
under treatment. Experience counts in
taking medicine as in everything else.
The new recruit to the ranks of the 111
Is afraid of many things. His eye is
untrained and his hand unsteady. He
exaggerates danger at every point. He
may get the spoon too full or not full
enough; he may pour out a drop too
few or a drop too many. In his per
plexity, he sees but one sure way to
avoid either horn of, the dilemma, and
that is to take no medicine at all. He
is intractable in many ways. He stays
indoors when ho should go out, and he
goes out when he should stay in.
"The old stager who has saturated
himself with medicine until his pores
ooze oils and tonics is the fellow who
brings joy to the heart of his physi
cian. He knows what medicine is for,
he takes it faithfully, scientifically,
and even joyfully. He watches his
symptoms and the effect of the drugs.
He knows all about his tongue, his
temperature, and his pulse, and can
determine for himself whether one
pellet or two is the proper dose. That
self-analysis saves the doctor a lot of
trouble. Hence the doctor's partiality
for a visiting list made up of persons
who know how to be sick."
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$2.50 Worth of New Treatment Will
Be Sent Free by the Well-Known
Specialist, Franklin Miles,
M. D., LL. B.
At first no disease is apparently
more harmless than dropsy, a little
puffing of the eyelids or hands or a
slight swelling of the feet, ankles or
abdomen. Then there is great short
ness of breath, smothering spells, sit
ting up to breathe, cough, faint spells,
sometimes nausea and vomiting even
bursting of the limbs and if not re
lieved a lingering and wretched death
Dr. Miles is known as a leading spe
cialist in this class of diseases for 25
years. His liberal offer Is certainly
worthy of serious consideration, an
other opportunity may not occur.
Kach treatment consists of his
Grand Dropsy Cure, which includes
the three best dropsy remedies in one
Tonic tablets, a box of Pura-Uixa for
regulating the bowels Hnd removing
the water. This treatment is at
three, time ns icce.v-ri.s ass that
most physicians.
Mr. rt. Trimmer of Green Snih.kr in
writes: "Your Social Tmn merit Vurct
Mrs. T. of mious heiirt dlM-j!...
uropxy after many physicians had tir.
nounccd her ca.- huni '
MrVM'.fM M"r,a" l!K"t. Ohio,
sayw Dr Mi ! .ive. my life by r-.o n
mi of that awful il an... dniv iti,l
he,m trouble; f Buffered rrlt.h Mi,
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lotion. -ncln TMiiiHtit for dro, jf w
nt ulv ult K'n . nfo-r iw !u.t.,HM,. af,,
two homfopitiliic phynleUn l4 rt,ii,i
Mr. A. 1. N.O.irn of MlrntirtK. I . wrile
'Dr. Mllep' Trfti inert t h i i t f.'.riM ,j :
mirwrle fr Mrt uftr ter t. ,UTnt
from dri-v "
.V all unsifted rentier ni.iv have
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ni. M- fatly i.Up?. to their cu.
frr. vr Would advls.- thcin . n 1 f ir
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