p , ) '" ., - 's Trntn-MNfUlpil luTrnUoiv Amongst the notlcunblo inventions prautctl to Trans .Mississippi inventors during the Inst week wo find a car coupling of tho jenny pattern (fronted to Ucorgo XV. liickcy of Des Moines, Iowa; a pipe wrench granted to K. U. Frizelle of Sterling, Kansas; a steam sawing machine issued to C II. Hillo brand of Leinars, Iowa; a lottcr box granted to LI J. Hower of Trinidad, Colorado, a simple tire tightener issued to D. L. Leibo of Sidney, Iowa; a reg ister for telephones allowed to E. L. Morey of Portland, Oregon; a metallic basket granted to J. It Coleman of l'crry, Iown; while Dr. Win. L. Ross of Omaha, Xcbraslcn, receives a patent for a furnnce embodying a 6inokc con Burning fcaturo which is adapted to bo used in family residences. Amongst the curious Inventions is a folding bicyclo framo which can bo tnkcu apart nnd folded up; a letter box so nrranged that the mail is automatic ally delivered from tho box to the mail wagon; a bicycle alarm actuated by tho spokes of tho front wheel; a car cuspidoro adapted to bo hinged below the seat and bo out of sight when not in use; a bicyclcattachmentcomprislng a ilcxlblo framo having one wheel adapted to bo attached to an ordinary bicyclo to make a tandem; an engine for producing motive power by means of the heat of tho sun; while a Chicago inventor received a patent comprising a mattress which Is strapped about a horse and upon which he rests in lying down. A copy of any of tho abovo patents will be mailed upon receipt of 10 cts by (J. XV. Sues & Co., United States Patent Solicitors, lieo Uuildlng, Omaha, Nebraska. Curiosities of the I.uw. Meek looking gent "What's tho matter, my good man?" Irato stranger "I'm going to havo that woman arrested. She Inveigled a dollar out of me on false pretenses." "Can you arrest a woman for that?" "Yes, slree!" "My! my! Law is a curious thing. Why, a regular fury of a woman in veigled me into marrying her by falso pretenses pretended she was an angel and the law not only won't let mo arrest her, but makes mo support her." Harper's Weekly. Kcmalo bootb.'acks aro numerous on the streets of Paris. Hall's Cntnrrh Cure Ib taken internally. Price, 7Sc. The New England Cousorvntorv of Music, in lloston Maps., hns furnished instruction to over G0,l)00 pupils ninco 1SJV.1, and itn jiopu arity as au institution of the highest excellence is constantly increasing. Its curriculum is not confined to mwslo u!onc, tut Oratory nnd Modern Languages have finely equipiiod departments and tho best instructors money can procure. Krocinl attention a'so is given to instruction in piunoforto tunlup. 'I ho chnrges are low when comrared with tlio-o of other musical' bdiools. ProB'ectr.s mailed freo on appli cation. Mrs. D. A. McCoy, 711 South 27th St., Omaha, Neb., writes: "I itm an old lady, C7 yearn o!d. 1 have been troubled for tho tn-t twonty years with constipation and indigestion and slcopless nights, hut since tuklntr l)r. Kay's Renovator can bleeji like a chl d and am not troubled iu tho least with tho at.ovo-naiiitxl diseases. Dr. Kay's Renovator is worth its weight in ro!I." It is told by drucRists, 2i cts, and 81, or sent by mail by Dr. B. J. Kny Medical Co., Omaha, Nob. Send stamp for large fciuuple and took.et. Mnnv a loy has turned out bad, because his other tioro dowu too hard on tho grind B.cn?. yrre fiouiff. Another opportunity for immigrants to secure homes free. Nearly 2,000,000 acres of first-class government lands in northern Arkansas now open for set tlement. For full information write to li V. M. Powell, Immigration Agent. Harrison, Arkansas, enclosing 10 cents in silver. Sec display adver tisement in another part of this paper. Doctors afllrm that spirits harden tho tone o. the voko. One 1 ImunHiiit Fiirmer Wantril To j-ettle on one thousand choice farms on the l.neof the Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul Railway in Dakota. These luims are located in twenty different counties, and are to be had now at prices ranging from 87 to 515 per acre; u few months hence their viuue will be doubled. t'or:i homo or for investment no luckier chance in tho West has ever lefore bee u offered. Now Is tho time to invest. No better farming land ex ists anywhere. No greater results can be obtained anywhere. Scnools itnd churches abound every where. Nearby markets for all farm products. South and North Dakota ar the banner diversified farming and stock-raising (.talcs of the West. Everything grows in Dakota except ij nornneo and intemperance. A new boom is on. Take advantage of the tide which leads to Dukata and to for tune. For further information address or call upon XV. E. Powell, (Jeneral Im migration Agent, 410 Old Colony Build ing, Chicago, Ills. The trouble ntout sowing wild oats Is, that the same hand that towi mi lit do the reaj ing. FOR THK NAT.ON'AL CONVENTION PEOPLES PARTY AT ST. LOUIS JULY UND. The Wabash, tho shortest nnd quickest route has I een se.ected as the line from - Netrubta lor de o.ates and their Iriends to travel. All trains are eiuipKd with Re clining Chair Chih, Free, and Pullman Site: ing cam. Connecting Lines wi 1 sell tickets over the Wabash at IUi.k-Fahk. Parties desiring through cars or Bleeping car accommodation can arrange tame by tailing at the AVapakk ticket ollk-e. No. 1415 Fnrnam St., (Paxton Hotel Illock), or write O. N. Ci-ayton, N. XV. P. A., Omaha, Nebr. The railroad journey from New York to Denver covers j,tKtti miles. Orand ICxcurilon to lluffalo Jalj 6th and flth. The National Educational Associa tion will hold its next annual meeting in lluffalo, and the Michigan Central, "The Niagara Falls Route," has made a rate of one fare for the round trip plus S2. 00, association membership fee. (Send stump for "Notes for Teachers," containing valuable information rela tive to HulTalo and Niagara Falls, and 10 cents for u summer note book, fully descriptive and profusely illustrated of the Summer Resorts of the North and East City Ticket Office 110 Adams street, Chicago, 111. O. W. RUGGLES, Gon'l Pass'r and Tk't Ag't- DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON AND JACKSON STILL LIVE. The Coming Nretlnnnl Cimvriitlou Will Kr:nlnit tho I'rlnrlplo nf llm Father of tlin PartyTim TurllT llugatmo More Moon-lllne. To a domocmt: Tho financial plank of tho democratic nntiounl platform to bo adopted in Chicago July 7 will bo tho law of tho party. All loyal demo crats will support it, no matter how strongly it may declare. Un loyal dem- ocrn.18 wno no not uko uio piimorm snouiu voio some oinor uckci. inero enn be no such thing ns two demo cratic tickets. The one nominated at Chicago will bo tho democratic ticket, i You ask why the Republican papers , of Chicago and elsewhere nrc advising j the Democrats to adopt a gold standard I platform at Chicago or go down to cor- I tain defeat In November. In answer j would say that you can find out by ( writing to Joseph Meillll, William 1'cnn Nixon or Times. H. H. Kohlsnnt Udltor the Wool' llottout. Cllmix. Chicago Chronicle: From a Mlnu'o sota editor The Chronicle has received a copy of a circular sent out by a Chi cago wool commission house, which for convenience sake we may call Wool worth & Co., accompanied by tho ques tion, "What can you say to this?" It may not bo necessary to sny much. The circular, which may have been written by the residuary rhetorical leg atee of Sir Boyle Roach, seems to speak for Itself, as It were, "through Kb hat." In their opening paragraph Woolworth & Co. convoy the Information that tho wool situation "Is the gloomiest, on record; it is simply paralyzed." Emerging from their gloomy paralysis, they remind their readers that "tho darkest cloud has Its silver lining, and sometimes covers the most brilliant sunshine." At other times, no doubt, It covers the most silvery moonshine. "We believe," they cheerfully continue, "that furrows In the dark depression of trade are widening; if such be the case wc will soon realize a change, with prosperity and confidence again at the helm." With these parties at the helm of the plow wo may expect the furrows In the dark depression not only to widen but to deepen until they blossom as the rose on the hill tops of Damboozland. It grieves one to learn that "our flocks are Imprisoned behind the tan gled web of uncertainty" and that for eign flocks are increasing in value and In numbers while American wool goes begging for buyers, selling nt a dis count In every market of our country." But It is cheering to learn from tho same high authority that "the price of wool has certainly reached a climax; there is no doubt that the bottom has been touched." There's nothing llko touching bottom, even If It is the bot tom of n climax, or what prosy people might call an anti-climax. What can we says to this? Why, that Woolworth & Co. aro not second in a certain kind of talent to tho mayor of a German town who, in a formal address to the emperor, said: "No Aus tria, no Prussia! Only one Germany! Such are the words which the mouth of your Imperial majesty has always had In Its eye." And In their advice to shepherds to hold their wool in anticipation of the election of McKln ley they are not unlike another illus trious German Count Falkenberg who urged his friends in the reichstag to "seize the stream of time by the forelock." But Is there nothing serious to say to this? Yes. The gist of the circular is this: Hold your wool and vote for McKinley and a high tariff on foreign wool. Thus will you get high prices for your wool. This may be good ad vice for the wool growers, but it over looks the wool consumers, who are much more numerous. It even over looks the average wool grower himself, who, under a McKinley tariff, pays out two or threo times as much in artificial prices for woolen goods as he gets in artificial prices for his wool. The circular assumes that the wool grower will be ruined Irretrievably if the government does not help him get an artificial price for his wool. We heard something like this a number of years ngo, when It was proposed to abolish the internal tax on matches. Under that tax a combine of a few big manufacturers enjoyed a monopoly. Representatives of the combine claim ed that the repeal of the tax would ruin their industry. Notwithstanding their protest the tax was repealed. As a result we now havo cheap matches, and while Diamond Match stock brings 225 In the market wo may safely con clude that the Industry Is not ruined. We may be equally sure that while free wool will give us cheap wool and cheap clothing It will not exterminate our flocks. - Woolworth & Co. are ns mixed In their facts and philosophy as they are in their metaphors. "Pmper I.bor" V v vin. Consul General Judd tcently sent to the state department au official com munication touching upon certain fea tures of the industrial situation In Ger many. Speaking of this communica tion, McKlnley's personal organ in Chicago says: "Mr. Judd Inadvertent ly reveals the fact that the wages of German cloakmakers have been grad ually reduced until an operative is compelled to pay rent and purchase clothing and food on $1.25 per week." It Is entirely safe to say that Mr. Judd dd not reveal that fact Inadvert ently. The McKinley organs have been telling their readers that the tar iff of 1S94 was constructed In the In tereets of foreign workmen. They have I claimed with especial persistence that ! the new law waB n "pudding" for the operatives of Austria nnd Germany, who were prospering mightily at tho expense of American operative. Mr. Jtuld may havo been aware of this i claim of tho McKlnleyltes. He may have revealed the alleged fact regard ( Ing reduction of wngos In Germany ; partly for tho purpose of showing that j our now tariff was not enriching Ger ; man working people to any nlnrmlng extent. j McKlnloy'B Chicago organ proceeds ' to say: j We havo "sweaters" and swentshops In Chicago, hut this Is sweating close j to the starvation point. Freo traders In UiIb country have answered with 1flrs . n1nriltn,, ,,f ,,, T,PntMm,ut w tli referonco tn Mm "nnunor lnhnr nf . . .. ..,..,.... ..,..-r. v . Europe." But Mr. Judd has injudi ciously and wantonly contributed val uable material to the rrote.ctlon litera ture that will be mado available in tho coming campaign by giving ofllclnl tes timony to the fact that there In such a thing aa the "pauper lohor of Eu rope." Here we have the old protectionist trick of setting up a free trade nitn of straw and bnttlng and punching it all over tho ring and out of nil human semblance as If It were a Hying an tagonist. No freo trader has over do nled that working people In Europe get lower money wages than working peo ple in this country get. There Is no reason why they should not admit that. They ndmlt also that tho people of Asiatic countrlcB got much lower wages than the pcoplo of European countries. Tho point that free traders make and that protectionists always dodge Is that working peoplo who get high wages havo nothing to fear from working people who got low wages, and do not need any tariff protection. Working people In free trade England get much higher wagos than working peoplo in protectionist Germany, but they beat the Germans not only in neutral mar- , ketB but even in Germany In many .tJInea of production. Euroneans trot twice as high nominal wages as Asiat ics get, yet they Bend their productB to every accessible part of Asia and sell them In competition with the prod ucts ot Asiatic "pauper labor." Even Robert P. Porter, whose stand ing as a champion of protection is not below that of McKinley, has discovered this fact. Tho protectees havo been trying to create a scare about Japan ese competition, and Porter has been to Japan to sec about it. His report to the very McKinley organ above quoted Is to the effect that western nations have nothing to fear from Japanese competition In manufactures. If the .McKinley organ were both In telligent and sincere It would accept the testimony of ItB own illustrious high tariff correspondent and not pre tend to be Ignorant of the established fact that men who get high wages have nothing to fear from the competition of men who get low wages. It would be too much to expect that a protec tionist should be able to understand why this Is so, but he ought to be hon est enough to admit a notorious fact and leave less fat-witted people to fur nish the explanation. Of course, the shrewd protectees know how it Is. Their victims and certain of their or ganists are the only ones who labor under delusion. Hopkins' Itrclprnclty Scheme. As chairman of a subsection of the ways and means committee Represent ative Hopkins of Illinois took much pains to collect the opinions of Inter ested parties about the Blaine Bcheme of commercial friendship by compul sion. The Interested parties were most ly pork packers, millers, and makers of agricultural implements and ma chinery. From such peoplo Mr. Hop kins obtained a great bulk of opinions, mostly identical in substance, and all of which could be reduced to a very few pages without material Io6s of either eenso oc force. Hopkins prepared a bill after he had accumulated his stock of Identical opin ions looking to the Immediate making of a lot of dickers similar to those of Mr. Blaine. But DIngley and the rest of the full committee sat down on that with all the crushing weight of a dozen Tom Reeds. These gentlemen were too shrewd to commit themselves to a poli cy which they knew could not be work ed again with any degree of success. They Were willing to make the most of the fruit of Mr. Hopkins' labors as campaign material for the , simple minded, but further than that they would not go. Thereupon Hopkins applied himself laboriously to the task of strinclne out ' a report of more than a hundred type written pagos. This he haa completed and the committee w!U take measures to spread it abroad among those who will admire it for its bulk, its profound Ftatlstlcal aspect and its sonorous title page, and then put It away with other profound documents, to remain unread forever. rtfy Mlftrrrs In Concrete. SL Louis Post-Dispatch: The people have known for many yeara that Sena tors and Representatives . have been feathering their own nestE, but they were not prepared for the effrontery with which a majority of the Houbo openly recorded themselves Friday as petty pilferers of the public treasury by voting to each member $1,200 a year for clerk hire, whether he hlros a clerk or not Tou Many iron in the I'irr. Omaha Bee: Huntington ought not to be pushing too many schemes before Congress at the earne time. Between ms ?j,ooo.ooo banta .Monica esiuaidy and his ICO.000.000 Pacific railroad debt funding plan he Is likely to EtrJke a stubborn snog some where. CRICKS OF GLASS, A Now UnlMInc Mnterl.'tl Tlinl Opeim t'p lntrrrntlnc I'n.attilttttfa. Glnsfi bricks nre the Intent novelty In the construction of houses to excite tho wonder and discussion ot nrehltocts, bu.vb tho New York Journal. Tliwo bricks nro mado ot blown glass, with n hollow center containing rarefied air, nnd they nro snld to bo nn strong nnd durable ns tho Clay brlckn now used for building purposes. They freely ad mit the light. A long list of archi tectural possibilities In oponod up by this illficovory. It Is wild that In the near future mon may bo living In glass houses. Windows may bo done nwny with, excopt for purposes of admitting nlr. It will ho possible to look through n brick wall without tho use of nn X ray because tho bricks will be of glass. People may hnvo to use shades on tho Inside of their walls to prevent the public looking In. At tho present time tho glass brlckB nro being used for the construction ot conservatories. For this purpose they have been found es pecially useful, ns they ndmlt light from all sides to tho Ilowors and plants and maintain nn equabla tempcrntmo keeping out tho cold. This experiment wnB first tried In Germany, whore tho bricks were In vented. Tho walls of a plant houso In Berlin wcro made of these bricks. Light enslly passed through tho walls to the potted shrubs within but it was Im possible for the cold to find nn en trance. So successful was thlr, experi ment that inquiries began to be mado from various countrlcB asking for con signmontn of tho brlckB. The first specimens of tho new glass bricks to reach this country woro publicly ux hlhlted a few weoks ngo In the display of the Architectural league In the Fine Arts society building of this city. Enough of the bricks to make n small section of wall wcro there shown to visitors, and they were especially In teresting to the nrchltcctB. It Is said thnt several orders havo now been sent from this country to Germany for tho now bricks which will be used thlB spring In the construction of hot houses along tho Hudson. The bricks are made of blown glass and nro closed under 500 degrees of heat. They can be readily Joined by a white cement. It Is expected that they will be useful In building roofs In the scml-clrcutar form without the need of a supportlng Etructure of steel and iron. TOMB OF AN EARLY BUDDHA. Discovery of nn Intcrlptlon Thnt Chung nn Aerppted Dnte. Dr. Fuhrer, archaeological surveyor In the northwestern provinces of India, has made a discovery which beems to curry tho origin of Buddhism much farther back than tho accepted date In the fifth century beforo Christ, says the Edinburgh Scotsman. In the vil lage of NIJHva, In swamps within tho borders of the state of Nepal, he found an Asoka pillar, surrounded for half a mile by vast brick rulna of monas teries and of a still magnificent domed tomb of Konagamana. The portion of the pillar which is still erect has un Inscription establishing the fact that the Buddha commemorated Is tho same us the Konagamana of the Buddhists of Ceylon, who was the twenty-third mythical predecessor of the historical Buddha. The Napalese speak of the pillar as the smoking pipe of Bhlma Sen, their giant hero. Tho native dur bar, or council, is to bo aBked to sanc tion a scientific Instigation of the ruins of this once great settlement of the Aryan tribe of Sakyas, who settled 112 miles to the northeast of the city of Benares at a date hitherto only con jectural. Gen. Cunningham, who, un der lx)rd Canning, began the archaeo logical survey of India, long ago Identi fied KapllavaBtu, In this region, us the birthplace of the historical Gautama and the capital of the Sakya clan. It is in the 8ub-Hlmaluyan district now called Basti, and must have extended northward Into Nopal, which la still second in sacrcdncss only to Benares. Nepal has now a serious dispute with the Llama government of Lhasa on Its hands', and is always Jealous ot British or foreign visitors. But should the government of India net discourage its propobed campaign In Thibet thp dur bar may be willing to help Dr. Fuhrer to dig on a sufficiently great scale. Nepal is almost as little known as Thibet, although it is a protected state of the government of India, and It seems time that it was opened, as Kas mir has been, to the savant and the traveler. GREAT INUNDATIONS. An Inundation In Cheshire, Engl.ind, A. D. 353. Three thousand persoiiB perish. Glasgow, A. D. 75?. More than 400 families drowned. Dort, April 17, 1421. Seventy-two villages submerged: 100,000 people drowned. General inundation in Holland, A. D. 1530, By failure of dikes; 400,000 said to have been drowned. At Catalonia, A. D. 1617. Fifty thou sand drowned. Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1S89.-By the bursting of a huge reservoir on tho mountains, the town was almost entire ly destroyed, and about 6,000 persons perished. The water In Its passage to Johnstown descended about 250 feet. The theoretical velocity duo to this de scent would be about 127 feet per sec ond or between SG and 87 miles an hour. According to tho best accounts from 15 to 17 minutes were occupied in the paFsage to JohnBtown, a distance of about twelve miles. Thus the average velocity could not have been far short of 60 miles an hour. The impetus of i such a mass of water was irresistible, ' Ae the flood burst through the dam it cut trees away as If they wero stalka &f mullein. Tltrjr Mlcht Hnvo to Ymrn, "It is asserted now," he said, thoughtfully, "that a Chinaman never yawns. If that Is so" Ho unused nnd for n moment seemed burled in thought. "If that is so." ho repeated, turning to his companion, "I feel that I may assert with perfect hafoty that no Chinaman ever mot you when you wcro In a story-telling mood." Then ho chuckled Boftly to himself nnd felt avenged for the hour that ho had put In listening to tales ot preco cious Infants. Chicago Post. Home Wtimrt lltillt In u tiny. Neither nro the obstinate timitidies, to tho rotnowU ot which tho grout corrective, llos tetter's Ploninrh Hitters, In adapted curable In nn hour. Topurslst lit tho uso ot lids Htntulunl remedy Is no niuro tlinu Just. Itll loi siioms constipation, iimlnrlii. rliuiiinn tlsin, Iddni'V complaints and ucrxoiisncss arenmoug tho complaints which It eradicates. An honest man can liovcr bo n friend to a thief. mSQQQQ$QSS9QG 5 'f-L .8 "A Scorcher." Battier PLUG Tobacco Dealers savt that "BATTLE AX" is a "scorcher" because it sells so fast. Tobacco Chewers say, it is a "scorcher" be cause, 5 cents' worth goes so far. Itfs as good as can be made regardless of cost. The 5 cent piece is almost as large as the other fellows' J 0 cent piece. SSSS!SSS FREE HOMES Now Open IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. Tliry rr frrtllr, well-wiUorU, hravlly-tlnitirrrd, tiil prodari, (Train, ir te, frnlu and Tc'aM' In bumllcv. .North Arkaiuai applra ar nolrd. The climate l drllulillul. wlnirra nilM and tuori. TIiim laiiutmviubjti't lo luitnetteatt autrjr ot 1M arrv raru. Ort R TIIK TI8K TO fikT a IIUMK. For furtt.tr In. formallunaddreii rri.rt... 10..L1.1. aiitrr. E. V. M. POWELL, Immigration Agent, Harrison, Ark. UTlitfcni to Hank otltarrlwn and IKkjub I'ountj Hank, lluirlxm. Ark itm yyyvfrfrvyyyyl We have made a study of tires pounded them year in and year out by thousands on our wheel-testing ma chine, tested them for elasticity, for speed, for durability had reports from riders and agents everywhere. The wonder fully elastic and durable tires used on Columbia Bicy cles Hartford Single-Tube Tires are the result. Hartford Single-Tubes are the regular equipment of all Columbia and Hartford Bicycles. We know no tires so good as Hartfords. The makers of Hartford Single -Tubes also make Punlop tires (double-tube), which we will substitute for Single-Tubfi if preferred. Free if JoSm the agent. POPE MFG. CO., oy man xor rwo zent stamps. Smouldering fires of old disease lurk in the blood of many a man, who fancies himself in good health. i L,ct a alight sickness seize lilm, and the old enemy breaks out anew. The fault is the taking of medicines that suppress, in stend of curing disease. You con eradicate disease and purify your blood, If you use the iitamlnril remedy of the world, ' Ayer's Sarsaparilla. From Uncle Sam, HfflBT tan Nearly 2,000,000 Acres of Government Land? to Settlement Sff z TESTING TIRES AND WHEELS. HARTFORD, CONN.