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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1896)
' sfc 11 KANSAS-NEBRASKA. | fe ft ARE NO LONGER THE HOT BED K B OF WILD EYED THEORISTS. j , 5 * 'tSrailaalljr Settling aorta to the Con- % L g. tllUun * Ordained by the Taws o' / 51 Nataro The States Will Right the - • - V ' Del aoo sad Vote Republican TlcUct. ; . * , \ \ 4 Nebraska will be one of the battle , f { -centers in this national campaign. Net ' | f + \ fcraska Is the home state o Bryan. % Because of his nomination for the * s ' • * ? ' ipresulcacy , all the hysterical and nerv- > | su3 mind force of his Nebraska follow- r J'i3. -era will be aroused to its utmost tension - * \ = sion from now until election day. So iar ao Bryan's followers are able to f- ? • • tmalte it so , the campaign will be sen3 r , 'sational. Bryan himself being the very embodiment of sensation , in his atti- ' 4ude3 and in his oratorical effects , and l 4he doctrines which he preaches being isuch. ns to appeal to the .hysterical and . • nervous mind force of the community , the campaign Tvill undoubtedly be one of the most exciting ever witnessed in the country ; and Nebraska will be one -of the centers of this excitement Not only is Bryan himself a breeder , ' * • "OC political hysteria on general prini I y ' < nplesvin his attitudes and in the ef fects which his oratory produces , and -not only is the attitude of the democratic - • • cratic party in espousing so suddenly 1 -the free -silver cause , heavily charged -with sensationalism , but populism , "which is the very essence of sensation- slisnx , being now merged with Bryan- ism and this new democracy , the whole at once becomes a complete aggregation • -of , all the sensational fads that have • characterized the last decade in American - -can politics. Until recent years the mind force * in farming communities has been sup I posed to be phlegmatic in its character , j low in action , and more than any other , -class of people , farmers have been judged aa conservative and deliberate. For the last few years , farmers in INebraska and Kansas have exhibited the very reverse of conservatism to a -degree almost alarming. People in the -cast have been unable to account for 'the universal activity of the mind force I in these western farm communities , I -and especially their tendency 'toward | -sensational doctrines. I In the old world the cities are the • nesting places of sensation. The unus- j | -xial mental activity of the farmers of i Kansas and Nebraska is undoubtedly 1 -due to the physical conditions ; the • clear , bracing atmosphere , the healthy j -and nourishing food , the high altitude 1 and the electrical conditions which i arouse the mental force to the utmost § tension , all combine to make them the 1 i most active and bright minded people I t -on the face of .the earth. It is as impos- I .sible for the mind force of Kansas and I ' Nebraska people to be dull and phleg- I i . tatic as it is for the mind force of the I j people of the south to be bright. I I "Whoever comes from an eastern state n I -and spends a week in Nebraska will m 1 feel upon his own person and in his I "mental faculties this same exhilarating I | zforce. There is no brighter minded boy I * Jn the world than the Nebraska boy. It I ! s said , by those who understand that a I I "man in both mind and body is the B product of the physical conditions I -which surround him , that the future I -will show in the western prairie states I of high altitude , the brightest minded ! anen and women in the world. This S unusual , mental activity , peculiar to i Kansas and Nebraska , makes the peel - l j3le quick to grasp at a new idea and 'tiold to espouse a new cause. This 8 "quickness to act in a new cause , while I § it indicates the bright mental facul- ties df the people , also indicates a reck- | Hessness which would be alarming , were I < It not understood that the community 'is new , that there is gathered on these II Western prairies a heterogeneous mass of men from all sections of the coun try , blending all the isms of a dozen -different types and civilization , not yet • fully settled down into conditions of order and harmony susceptible of the < 3 > est leadership. Any declaimer who • vliad a piece to speak coufti get an au- Idience in Nebraska ; any orator who had lat sensational speech to deliver could jeL applause ; and any theorist who had _ plausible scheme could find ready and eager followers. In the last six years , .liowever , Nebraska and Kansas have tphad much experience. The farmers Sxave listened to many orators and tsnany isms have been expounded and 'exploded. The two per cent per annum ' .government loan proposition which caught the farmers of Kansas like wild Hre six years ago has run its race and Is a dead cause. • The doctrine of the government ownership of railroads no i longer arouses the enthusiasm that it I -did a few years ago , and only plays i I & perfunctory part in giving body to i I Ahe populist platform. I ( , The bitter and relentless attack of a I } ew years ago on railroads , telephones , 1 telegraphs , banks , and all manner of H corporations for which these western H < statce were famous , has subsided , and H now the populist United States sena- K • Ttor , congressman , member of the leg- Hj kslature and the populist official of B { whatever rank , rides on a railroad pass i m whenever can get one with as much M . nonchalance as the most confirmed ; i m * wire-puller of the old parties. H Li the earlier history of the populist ; _ -party , each county and state platform l H | -denounced the politician and office : H -eeker , and each orator declaimed with H sanctimonious unction on the evil ef- B -foots of personal ambition and office > B . uoeeking. B All this is at an tmd in Kansas and : B Nebraska. Now.the populist orator bold- B $ r assorts the doctrine that to the vic- B" , 4ors fiolong the spoils , and in the coun- B y and state conventions they jostle i B 4HLC& other in greedy scramble for place i B | ft& & power , without rebuke from the ! I ; . , % I ' H , . i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmammmmmmmammm pnpuUbt press or protest from the rank J and file. The present campaign will be exciting - ing I and Nebraska will be one of the centers < of battle , but let it be understood - stood that the bright mind force of , these prairie farmers has passed upon the sophistries of populism , and it will be j rejected in this year as It was six years , four years , and two years ago. The voting population of Nebraska has been subject to the Bryan windmill for i six years. Every light grain , every fihriveled kernel , and every empty hull has 1 been blown out into the populist chaff < pile. The republican wheat which remained - mained after the campaign of six years ago , four years ago , and two years ago , remains i still , and there is enough of ' it 3 to make a good round majority for McKinley 3 and protection. Free Trade and free Silver. When Hamlet was about to commit suicide he reasoned with himself as to whether i it was better for a man to be dead ( than alive. When Plato showed him ] how it was impossible for him to destroy ( himself , that he would live on in j the next world , and that there would be 1 trouble there , just as there Is trouble - ble here , he hesitated , saying , "Aye , there's i the rub. " Many a voter in these United States who has listened kindly to the silvery voice of the free silver orator , will pause j before he drops the ballot , and say < to himself , "Ay , there's the rub. " When we have shuffled off the gold bug : and the plutocrat , when we have dismissed < the trained minds from the councils < of the nation , when the boy orator ( is in the presidential chair , and when all the other free silver orators are j in the seats of congress , when the sober , experienced business mind of the republic has been dethroned and the inexperienced , experimental mind is enthroned in power , what ills may come to the American people ? Will Altgeld , Tillman , "Waite , and Peffer , whispering in the ears of the boy president - dent < , bring us peace and financial security - curity , or will they bring us ills that we know not of ? It's an undiscovered country ' , this Beulahiand of silver and two per cent farm loans. They tell us that in this undiscovered country each cloud will have a silver lining , but we cannot see behind the clouds and we know not what storms of ' wreck and revolution may be gath- 'eriug ' there. vihat other new isms will be evolved by the inventive genius of these new and ; inventive statesmen when they sit down ' in council to doctor the financial " system ' of this country ? As they have reamed about among the people like strolling ' minstrels , each has sung his own | particular song and each has start led hie audiences with doctrines unique and ; original. But when they get into congress , these men of new ideas , un der ' the stimulating influence of competition - tition , what new and yet unheard of experiments ' will they not bring forth ? When populism had control in Kansas - sas it enacted stay laVs which were intended to make every borrower a dis- honest repudiator , which drove out of . the state every dollar of conservative low-rate money and cost the borrowers of the state $2,000,000 annually in ad- vanced interest. They defied the laws of the state and surrounded the state capitol ' with armed soldiery. The elec tion of Bryan and a Bryanized con gress may mean to re-enact these Kansas - sas scenes at Washington. It is not so much the intent of these free silver orators to be revolutionary that makes them dangerous , but rather the recklessness - lessness with which they invent new doctrines and their inability to agree among themselves as to just what they do want and as to just how to bring it about. It was two years and three months from the time Cleveland took his seat until the Wilson bill was passed. It will be three years from now before a free silver law can be enacted. What will happen"in the meantime ? Decline of Populism. Now that the populist party has been swallowed bodily by the democratic party , it is interesting to go back to its earlier history and see how far it has drifted from its original moorings. Kansas was its chief nesting place when it made its famous campaign in that state six years ago. Then it had for its chief corner stone the doctrine that the government should issue unlimited - limited quantities of paper fiat money and should loan this money to the farmers of the country , $2,500 on each quarter section of land , at two per cent per annum. This proposition is regarded now as absurd and impractical e > en among the populist farmers themselves ; and yet enly six years * ago it was the one par- ticular doctrine which more than any other was talked of in the farmers' meetings and advocated as a safe and practical measure. ' At that time Frank McGrath , of Beloit - loit , Kas. , then the state president of the Kansas Farmers' alliance , was continually - tinually deluged with letters from Kani sas and Nebraska farmers inquiring as to the two- per cent per annum scheme. In these letters President Mci Grath was urged to hurry the matter forward with alL possible haste , and in some of them 'strong personal appeals were made on the ground that the writi er's mortgage was nearing maturity and that he was exceedingly anxious to change his rate of interest from sevi en per cent per annum to two per cent per annum , and to shift his debt from ] some grasping New England creditor to < the government itself. Frank MoGrath , who is a strong , self- reliant , practical man , had opposed the two per cent government loan scheme < in the populist state convention at To- peka , and it was the greediness with which he saw this doctrine devoured ' " " ' "J - * " " " " ' i ' " , t 'r- , * , . , , - * ? t f - i 1- f - ! J i lit by the populists that made him fir t lose I judgment in these nervous and excited people , and it was this deluge of letters pouring in up&n him during his presidency of the state alliance more than anything else that made him sick of the populist cause and caused him to abandon it , which he did in the following year. Talking to a friend of this mattei , he said : "Many of these lette ' rs were pathetic. They urged that the two per cent government loan proposition should be crowded forward to comple tion with all speed , and many of them desired reply by return mail that they might know just when to expect the money. It was pitiful to see a com munity of honest , well-meaning men so carried away on so flimsy and un reasonable a proposition. " About that time , through an Inter view in the Kansas City Journal , Frank McGrath gave it out that he despaired of success for the Farmers' alliance as .soon as he saw that into the new movement - ment v/as drifting all the hysterical and nervous mind force of the country. He saw that this two per cent govern ment loan proposition was greedily seized by these nervous and excited men. He knew that , though the fal- lacy of the scheme would soon be ap parent , other financial schemes equally - ly catchy and equally unpractical J would be suggested from time to time , and by the appeal of these catchy doctrines and by the ap peal ] to class prejudice the weaker and more hysterical part of the people ple worJd be gathered together by designing - signing leaders into one vast army of excited ' and unreasonable men , and he fp ared that such a condition might be the beginning of the end of the rei public. What Frank McGrath feared six years ago has come to pass. All the hysterical mind force of the American people has been aroused by these catchy doctrines and organized into one mighty impulse to do what ? Does it j know what it w'ill do ? Just now this . impulse is for free and unlimited coinage - age of silver. Six years ago it was for the free and unlimited coinage of government - ernment farm loans. What will it de mand next year ? Should it get into power , this impulsive mind force , -when will it enact this free coinage law ? When Bryan is elected and when his triumph has swept into the national congress all these nervous and unsta ble minds , when will they agree on a fiee coinage law ? And what other dan gerous * and unpractical measures will be gathered in by this mighty drag net , this organization of disorganized mind force , this aggregation of visionany and unpractical men ? THE MA REM MA. Iargo Tract of rn < a'u ! > rIon and Cor dcrlnsr on the Mediterranean. The name of Maremma is given to a large extent of insalubrious land which borders the Mediterranean , whether insalubrious because uncultivated , or uncultivated because insalubrious is a problem which has not yet been solved , says Good Words. Though both modern - ern science and quickened national en terprise have of late years been applied to its solution , the results accomplished have been unconvincing. The Tuscan part of the Maremma stretches inland nearly to Siena ; beginning at the north a few miles from Leghorn , it extends to the ancient frontier of the pontifical states , from whence the same immense tract of sparsely cultivated and malari al territory continues under the name of the Roman Maremma and Campagna to the gates of Rome. There is no hard- and-fast border line between the healthy and the unhealthy land but the transformation is a gradual one , the villages * become rarer , the cultivated land diminishes , stretches of wood and bog are more frequent until we no long er see any houses by the roadside but only here and there in the distance some small gray -hamlet perched on the top of a rocky hill , "like roosting falcon f musing on the chase. " On the hillside 1 near such oases some field , a few olive trees and then again begins the woodland , large forest trees , then groves of beeches and oaks looped con tinually for firewood , the forest full of dangers and alarms , with its ponds and bogs and labyrinths , a hiding place or anything from a ghost to a brigand in ] short , the typical forest of the Maremma. Toward the Mediterranean coast the hills become less abrupt and alsng the shore and up the broader val leys 1 which diverge from it stretch im mense extents of undulating grass lands , seemingly uncultivated but which really are sown piece by piece iD1 regular rotation every ten years. Napoleon l After the Battle of Dresden ' The night of the 7th v/as spent in indecision i as to any one or all of these ideas i but in active preparation for the retreat i ; any contingency might be meter or < a resolve taken when the necessity1 arose. ; During that night the emperor1 took two warm baths. The ( habit of ! drinking strong coffee to prevent drow-1 siness had induced attacks of nervousness - , ness i , and these were not diminished by 1 his load of care. To allay -these and other i ailments he had recourse for ! some i time to frequent tepid baths. ' Much has been written about a mys-r terious 1 malady which had been steadily - ] ily i increasing , but the burden of testi-1 mony i from the emperor's closest asso ciates at this time indicates that in the main i he had enjoyed excellent health throughout the second Saxon cam paign. There were certainly intervala of self-indulgence and of'lassitude , of excessive < emotion and depressing self- examination < , which seemed to require the f offset of a physical stimulus ; bat on the whole natural causes , complex but not inexplicable , sufficiently account - ' count < for the 1 subsequent disasters. - - j Century. - * j * * * * * * • Tiffy % ! ; aMiwyigg otCTaCTn : " * - . ! otCTaCTnJg < -Jg ; ) - < f. . . . . . . _ . ! & i ' ' - -nif "J.1 * " * < . CHILDSBN'S CORNER. i i INSTRUCTIVE | READING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Power of a Child An Up-to-Date Fish Story The Buffalo's Debt Nailed the Baby Down Humming Birds Anec dote of a Cat. JMSm ' OME they brought , her warrior , 1 dead ; I She nor swooned nor uttered cry ; [ I All her maidens J watching said , "She must weeper or she will die. " Then they praised him soft and low Called him worthy to be loved , Truest friend and noblest foe ; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place , Lightly to the warrior stept , Took the grave-cloth from his face , Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years , Set his child upon her knees ; , Like summer tempest came her tears , "Sweet , my child , I live for thee. " Tennyson. A Fish Story. There is an old darky who can be found j any day perched on such freight as may rest on the platform of the little ] station at S up in Maine. He has ] a cheerful word for everyone that will greet him , and was never known to | lose his good humor except on one occasion. One morning he was , as usual \ , perched on a bale of straw but instead j of whittling at a piece of stick , a ; habit of his , he sat with his face in his ] hands , gazing mournfully out over the I little lake that stretched away among : the hills. It was then I noticed that < his nose had assumed enormous proportions ] , almost shutting out his eyes. { "Why , Ike , what's the matter with your nose ? " He shook his head sadly and in quired ' if I had a little "baccy. " I handed ' him some and waited for an explanation - planation about his nose. "I's neber gwan ter fish no mo' , sah no , sah ! neber no mo * ; 'cause dat's whar I's got dat nose , youse see. " "How uid it happen , Ike ? Tell us ; perhaps we can fix you up. " "See dat little neck er-runnin' out past de big mountain ober dar ? Well , round dat neck dere's a cove , and dere's as fine er trout stream runs in dere as dey has 'bout dis place. Ise was er-fishin' i dere de oder day , when Ise seed er big one flittin' by a rock dat's dere. Ise thrashed dat spot by de hour , and dat trout he done come an' look at de fly , an' den yes , sah , den dat trout laugh at me an' swim 'way. I's tried eberyt'ing to ketch him , but 'twan't any use. Den Ise grew er- thinkin' . What he do 'round dat stone all de time ? So Ise rested very quiet and ; watched dat stone. Pretty soon Ise see er bee hummin' 'round close to de water and near de stone , and Ise see de trout make er leap fer him. "Dat settled it ; I'se knew what ter ketch 'im wid. I'se just caught er bee an' put de hook in between ie wings , where it wouldn't hurt him. Den Ise casted. Yah , yah ! he ! he ! Dat trout he made one leap an' he had de bee ; but de fight was awful. He done paid no 'tention .ter me , but he an' de bee wuz er-havin' it out and how dey did fight ! Ise got him on de bank at last , and dere's whar my trouble came in. Ise opened his mouth ter get de hook out , when out flew dat bee , and he wuz mad. Yes , sah , he just been er-waitin' fer me , Ise know , an' he landed plumb on my nose. Youse see de result. But dat's only part ob it. De trout he swelled up de same way. He wuz five pounds when Ise first ketched him , but when he v/as done swellin' he was too heavy ter carry home. " We silently left Ike to continue his mournful contemplation of the lake. Harper's Round Table. Nailed the Baby Dovrn. Tommy Teale was just six years old. Today was his birthday , but instead of having a good time to celebrate such a grand event he had to take care of the baby. The mother had gone out on some errands and left him all alone with his little sister. Tommy felt very , very badly to think such a thing had to happen on his birthday , and besides little Nellie cried a great deal. He did not know what to do with her , of course , he loved her dearly , but did not enjoy taking care of her when she was fretful. As he stood at the window Ned Brown came out to play on the side walk. "Come out , Tommy ! " "I can't , " shouted back the little pris oner , "I've got to tend the baby. " "Shut the door tight , and she can't get out ! " screamed Ned. Tommy thought it over. He knew more about babies than Ned Brown did. He thought Nellie might burn her self , or pull the cover off the table and break the lamp , or some other thing i that babies seem to love to do. Ah ! a bright idea came into Tommy's head. He ran quickly to the closet , got the hammer and tacks and then went over to his baby sister and drove three tacks ! right through her pretty little dress , fastening her down tight to the floor. When this was down he ran out of doors as fast as his little fat legs could i carry him. In such a hurry was ho to 1 get to play that he neglected to shut the door tightly. In about an hour Tommy's mother returned , and much to her surprise she > found her baby daughter out on the top i step ! Both her chubby arms and dim- { y - > . < - - fr ? ? J * \ . ' I WW pled neck were bare , for she had no dress on. Her mother picked her up and carried her into the sitting room. There was the little frock nailed to the floor , in , torn condition , showing how v < ? ry bard baby must have struggled to get away , and of course , it had to bo put into the rag. bag. Tommy came In soon after and was very much astonished at what hi3 mo- ther told him. "I never did see such a baby , " he said. "I thought you only wished to keep her out of mischief , and I felt sure the nails would do that ! " Tommy's mother shook her head , aa much as to say , "I never did see such a boy ! " San Francisco Call. The Bnffalo'd Debt to the Flnmtnco. The buffalo is used as a beast of bur- den in Java. Everywhere you see them grazing lazily in the fields or dragging carts or plows. It is a clumsy animal. Thick folds of superfluous fat and skin hang jc about its neck and limbs , and a constant stream of perspiration runs from its almost hairless body. A beautiful - tiful pair of crescent-shaped horns adorn the forehead of this tropical horse. Flocks of flamingoes and white cranes strut and fly in and out among these beasts. On one occasion I saw a beautiful flamingo parading up and down upon the back of a buffalo cow , which was lying almost immersed in a mud hole by tlje roadside. This bird was feasting his tropical appetite by picking insects and other unwelcome visitors from the shining back of this mammoth beast. ; This kind of thoughtfulness on the part ] of the flamingo is much appreciated - ciated by the cow , and I am convinced there exists between them a pure , platonic - tonic friendship. Hutnmlnc-Bimn. It was long thought ( says a writer in Chamber's Journal ) that hummingbirds - birds would not live in confinement , < and this idea is so far correct that , al- though * easily tamed , they will not live 4 long } in captivity if fed only on syrup , If confined to this food they die in a month or two , apparently starved ; whereas , if kept in a small room , the windows of which are covered with I fine 1 net , so as to allow insects to enter , j they 1 may be preserved for a considerable - ble 1 time in health and beauty. Their j nests ] are very curious ; many of them are j cup-shaped and very small , sometimes - times i no larger than the half of a wal nut shell , and they are often beauti fully decorated on the outside with lichens , so as exactly to resemble the branch in the fork of which they are placed. j They are formed of cottony sub \ stances < and are lined inside with fibers as ; fine and soft as silk. The nests of other species are ham mock-shaped , and are suspended to creepers , ; the Pichincha humming-bird has been known to attach its nest tea a straw rope hanging in a shed ; their eggs are white , and they never lay , more than one or two. Once , when on the Amazon , Mr. Wal lace had a nest of young hummingbirds - birds brought to him , which he tried to feed on syrup , supposing that they would be fed on honey by their parents. To his surprise , however , they not only - ' ly would not swallow the liquid , but ' nearly choked themselves in their efforts - forts to eject it. He then caught some very small flies and dropped one into the wide-open mouth ot the poor little orphan humming-bird ; it closed instantly - stantly with a satisfied gulp and opened again for more. The little creatures , he found , demanded fifteen or twenty flies : each in succession before they . were satisfied , and the process of feed ing and fly-catching together required so ; much time that he was reluctantly compelled to abandon them to their fate. A Oat Story. Many strange anecdotes have Been related which seem to show almost hu man intelligence and reasoning powers in animals ; but the following true in cident , furnished by a correspondent of Youth's Companion , suggests the possession of even higher qualities : On a farm in Indiana there were two cats , and in the barn each had a nest of , kittens about the same age , on opposites - posites sides of the haymow. One of the cats fell sick ; she had a little cough , and wasted away till it became apparent that she would not long be able to take care of her family. One day the two old cats were noticed sitting on a beam in the barn , and the observer was impressel by something unusual in their actions. They seemed to be absorbed in the consideration of seme important question. After this had lasted for some time the well and strong cat got down from the beam , and going to the nest of her afflicted friend proceeded to carry the kittens from it one by one to her own nest on the other side of the haymow. The dying mother watched every motion of her sympathetic friend until the last kitten had been safely trans ferred to the home of the other fam ily , and then she dragged herself from the beam , went out of the barn and was never seen again. The other cat brought up both fam- ilies as one , treating all alike , until th y were old enough to shift for * hea- selves. Wanted to Co Home. I The two small boys who wanted to fight Indians had gotten some distance from home. The romance had dwindled and a discouragement which neither liked to confess had taken possession. "Look here , " said one of them at last , "I've been playin' I'm Sierra Sam i for two days now , haven't I ? " j "Yes , " was the reply. i "Well , I'm kind o * tired o' that game. 1 I think I'll " ' > ' play the prodigal son. r , " _ " % _ uiui iiufJimiiiiuM m'-1 "J Jl lWl w gll * BWHl * \ \ . | J what to Do With Hard-Bollpd Effg * . f t , * 1 | • A man sent his daughter to buy four I , H eggs. She bought them nnd he put/ J riUUmM j them in a sauce pun to boil , sayinff to t jl B 1 "Just " look * at those cjrgs , will JovgLS j M M and take them out when they \iH done. " , . , , . | aalllfl I I He went away and came back in halt f fl H an hour. Finding the eggs still boil- ) \M \ H , \ ing , ho cooly took them off , put thorn 1 AJ.HH j I cold | water , dried thorn and said to his i fj M daughter : \ | "Take those eggs back and say you ) /'ft - afl wanted ducks' eggs , and if they have ' J | H no ducks' eggs , bring the money jl H back. ' " § ' _ _ _ _ _ IMieiiomeno n. A Vfondorful _ _ _ _ K The man who should , pass through Hfo t JI H without oxporionclntwhijju of indigestion. . W H might ] bo lltly regarded us u wondorful. . plie- § _ ? dbubt Prlvileg.od nomonon. * o If such H mortal has ever existed. Itt-o. wo have _ _ B never seen him. But thousands are known JB to bo dally relieved of dyspepsia by Ilostet- jB tor's Stomach Bitters , the popular remedy /9 _ B for that truly tiutlonal complaint , as well us VB ) for fever and ugne. debility , constipation , < jB rheumatism and kidney troubles. -llB - _ _ What a Broken Chain Did. / ! * _ _ _ _ A broken bicycle chain stopped the ) | j _ operation of an entire street railway • ( > j H system in Chicago recently. The chain _ _ B parted and fell from a wheel with one J i _ _ _ end | in the slot of an underground trol- > 1 _ | ley j line. One end of the chain touched y | H the trolley wire , and the other re- -B | _ mained outside , forming a short cir'l Ij H cuit. All the cars suddenly refused to j | H work. The trouble was finally distf ' 4 H covered by a track-walker , who saw a < k | H blue flame where the chain and track , Jy 3 _ B were crossed. When the chain was ' i - _ _ removed the operation of the cars was * Sf ! HH resumed. Exchange. i | i _ _ _ Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consump- ' J _ _ | tion cured me of a bad lung trouble. Mrs.r „ * i / 4 B J. Nichols , Princeton , Ind. March 20 , 1803. f y J _ _ A Census Experience. ) if | In the recent of the of census county , "iH _ London ] , the occupier of a tenement "l B handed ] b.ack a blank paper to the col'f * H lector ] with a confused statement that | it i did not apply to her. "And where , H do you live then ? " asked the bemud- ! H died enumerator , after a lon < r struggle ; H to 1 disentangle witness. "Where do I t B live ? W'y , w'ere should I live but in i H myown'ome ? " "Well , where is your | H home ] ? " "This is my 'orae , of course H it j is. " "But you just now said that H you : did not sleep here last night" "No j H more did J. I never slept a minute all B night j long , and my 'usband ' 11 tell 'o H the same. " Household Words. B HaU'fl Catarrh Cum / H Is a constitutional cure. Price , 75c B Many of the horse shoos Ubcd iu Australia - . H lia 1 are inudo of cowhide. f H Man is name of honor for u king. Chap- / ' H man. ' l _ H : 3 B Your nerves upon rich , red blood and you will ( ! M not be nervous. Blood Is made rich and pure by \ * H Sarsapariila * I The One True Blood rur.fler. AH drugglst3. $1fc H Hood's Pills are always reliable. 25cents. / H Why i pay the sanie - _ price for the inferior "just f G _ H as good" when you " fPlIlw * _ H ; BiAS ' ' i H | | VELVETEEN , SKIRT BINDING JH by asking and insisting ? j B If your dealer WILL NOT l M supply you we will. B Samples sroun ' ng labels and tr.alzrials mailed frez. | " Home Dressmaking Made Fasy. " a nev72 psga mW took ! by Miss Emma M. Hooper.ofthe Ladies'Home mm ioumai. tells in plain words hov. ' to make dresses a' H ome without pre /ious trainingmaiJedfor25c. ; . mm\ \ S. H. &M. Co. , P. O. Box 650 , N. Y. City. B : ' Omalia Bg usc = * z k M THE UNIVERSITY CF HOTflE DAME. Xotre Hume , IniHmiu. \ _ _ Full Conn.in Canity Istitn , Scnir. . Law , nil * . If- _ _ _ _ _ _ eliaolril an I Efrrlrlral rnn rriitr. Thorough [ YrpinUrr H end Innnn.rclal lour.es. Uumi trr < " to ill atu cnts waa H have cumplPteJ thrttwllcc reqoinsl r < > r&-tmli lnn into \ _ _ M the Junior . or Srnlor leir. or uny of the ColIeiMe _ _ U Courses. A llmitel uuralx-r or CanJMutoi tor the HH Ecclcsi . itical state will b * received Rt special rttes. HH . St. MwartT. Half , or fcojs ui der n years is unique In _ | completeness t ts fn.uipm'ntt Tui 105th Term -nlll _ | . . . . . open September JMU. C.t.lv- % cent r e onpnti - _ i ; SOUTH P ! a@Himi tm west ntidduuniD The best fruit section la the WeM. No ? % . _ ? ? SHlh A falure of crops ncvir known. Y _ i Mild climate , irodnutive & 01I. Abundance or I ' < _ good pure water. " H For Maps and Circulars giving lull descrlp- W\\\ \ tion of the Rich .Mineral. Fruit and Agrfcultu- _ | ral Lands ' in bouth West Mi-pouri. writ" to _ | JOHN' M. l'UKDY. Manager of the I.Iis ouri Land and Live Stock Company , Neosho. Newton - ton Co. , Missouri. _ M & 2ft 17 V7E PAT CAS" WEEKLY a-i.1 ' A. \ \ k ST27 ? S iJS a wnnt men erprywlM-re to SELL _ W /F ! STARK W , TREESsr : ? . . IfinO"absolutely be < t. "Superioutntj. . WJ1LiL \ new rtem.STATlKBROTHF.RS , . _ LocisiASA , Mo. , BocsroaT , III. / j H , PATENTS , CLAIMS ' / PENSIONS , . . . * Late Principal . Esaalner U. 'e. Panslra Eieii _ • * jrv. la hut war. U < uijud.catins elatca. Mj. .mc ] - ffoi r3-1 1 * Tanks \ _ _ _ \ TH-S ! 21 a\ hpMJtOWKST . prices. "mWEKKKTCHMER. . lied pale. la. H flPilMHa ! , JLCaredE't-lI . Thousands ' _ U T 3 U ill S" " ' Cheapest acd best cure. FsE Sf Statcease. Da.Ifaasu. 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