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GOODS Jfc dal Travelers.
Queer as some kinds of business arc ,
the work of the drummers who trav
el In those , lines seem queerer yet It
might not seem odd to know that big
houses deal exclusively in glass eyes
or in telescopic adjustable coffins , but
when a commercial traveler goes out
on the road to work up these lines
there appears something weird about
his occupation. The fascination of a
glass eye In a person's face is remark
ablo. As a rule it looks as if it stared
at you , whether it does or not , there
Is an unconquerable desire to stare
at 16. But there Is something still
more uncanny about the one-eyed
drummer who opens his sample cose ,
takes out scores of eyes and fits them
into the sightless orifice in his face to
show you just how natural they look.
The drummer scarcely can carry glass
eyes representing all kinds , because no
doubt his home house has a sample
stock of 10,000 eyes , and no two alike.
This , of course , is because the eyes
of no two human beings are exactly
alike , and this is sometimes the case
with the eyes of one person. So the
drummer can give only a hint of the
great variety the trade affords. The
finest quality of glass eyes come from
France and German , principally the
latter country. America has learned
everything in the art except how to
glaze properly. We get the shape and
the color , but our glaze is soft and
worn through easily. Possibly most
persons with natural eyes couldn't tell
the difference , but an expert can , and
so can a person whom fate has decreed
shall go henceforth through the world
with one glass eye. How the German
and the French do it Is a trade secret
that is guarded jealously. The glass
eye isn't solid , but a thin shell of
porcelain with the Iris blown In the
center. Some of the most expensive
have the white about the Iris hand-
painted daintily , with even the delicate
blood vessels showing. The drummer
has the most difficulty.In fitting gray
eyes , for the markings are so varied.
Sometimes a house has to send abroad
for the correct thing , which Is made es
pecially to order. A drummer in glass
eyes keeps at work pretty actively , for
the life of an artificial eye is only two
or three years at the most , and some
times only as many months. As a burnt
child dreads the fire , so does a person ,
with a gloss eye , if he has had experl-
Money Without
. . .Owners. . .
The number of money orders Issued
in the United States and which are
never presented for payment is very
great , says an official of the Washing
ton postoffice department. These orders
disappear in various ways. Some are
burned or torn up instead of the re
ceipts. Some are sent in letters which
are not addressed atall or are incor
rectly addressed , and these , together
with thousands of other orders , find
their way to the dead letter office. Ulti
mately most of these letters find their
way back to the remitters or duplicates
are applied for.
There is today an accumulation of
over 12,5000,000 in the-Treasury of
these unclaimed money orders which
has been gradually piling up year af
ter year during the 35 years the gJv-
ernment has been conducting a money
order business. With each individual
order the government has made a spe
cial effort to effect payment to the
payee or restore the amount to the remitter -
_ mitter , and , failing , can do naught but
'keep the amount. The fact that 50,000
duplicate orders are annually Issued
would appear to Indicate that the
American people are extremely care
less in the handling of these money
vouchers. Where the originals go or
how they are disposed of would fill
a volume.
The government has isued $4,000-
000,000 In money orders , and has paid
every cent of this great sum except the
? 2,500,000 I have mentioned. A single
order may be Issued up to ? 100 in
amount , and the average is about $7.50 ,
the smaller offices issuing the great
bulk of orders and the larger offices
cashing 95 per cent of them.
Traveling men , circus men , railroad
employes and others , whose business
requires them to move from place to
place , are very fond of buying orders
payable to themselves. They cannot
spend an order as a bill and as no one
The Duchess of Cleveland , mother
of Lord Roseberry , tells a good story
of her father , the Earl of Stanhope.
One night when the earl was walking
alone in the Kentish lanes-a man
jumped out of the hedge , leveled a
pistol , and demanded his purse.
"My good man , I have no money
with me , " said Lord Stanhope in his
remarkably slow tones. The robber
laid hands on his watch.
"No , " Lord Stanhope went on , "that
watch you must not have ; it was given
me by one I love ; it is worth filOO.
If you will trust me I will so back to
Chevening and bring you a 100 note
nnd place it in the hollow of that tree.
I cannot lose my watch. "
The man did trust him. The earl
did bring the note. Years after Lord
ence. Coming from the cold outdoor
air into a heated house and stepping
up to the fire to warm is likely to re
sult In the eye cracking and dropping
out of the head. False eyes , like false
teeth , are taken out at night , thereby
increasing the chance of breakage or
loss. So , altogether , the business of
a drummer in glass eyes is likely to
bo brisk all the year round. Then
there's the man who sells telescopic
coffins , which will fit a corpse of any
height and width. His certainly Is a
ghastly calling , but not much more
so than of the fellow who travels with
skeletons and bones for students , hos
pitals and museums. Flea powder and
flea traps are out of the ordinary lines
of commercial traveling , yet there are
men who make a good living by sup
plying smaller houses with such things
and the same may be said of "push
ers" for rat and mouse poisons. Down
among the farmers of Long Island are
men who go about with samples of
fish , which , because of the * phosphorus
they contain , are guaranteed to be the
finest kind of fertilizers for worn-out
land. In . Africa American drummers
of certain lines have the whole con
tinent for their field exclusively. If
they get an order once in six months
they are well repaid for their labor.
These few men deal In iron bridges ,
like that which an American firm re
cently built over the Atbara River ,
taking the contract for rapid work
when Englishmen would not touch it.
There's a man In England who has
traveled through the British isles with
mummies to dispose of to museums at
from ? 150 to ? 300 each. He strayed
into this line accidentally , for at the
time ho was doing nothing , and a
friend , a civil engineer in Egypt , had
a chance to buy a job lot of Ptolomies ,
which he forwarded to England with
instructions how and where to sell
them. Then there are drummers in
battlefield relics swords and guns ,
bullets and cannon balls dug up on the
field of Waterloo. Possibly they were
dug up there , but if so , it was because
they wera planted a few weeks before.
Still it's far more likely that they ac
quired their rusty look in soil far from
blood-soaked field. These
the - partic
ular relics find a ready sale to the
tourists in Belgium who want to take
something home with them. " New
York Press.
Uncle Sa.m Holds $2-
-500.000 of Unclaimed
Posta.1 Orders.
but themselves or the indorsees may
secure the amount of the orders" they
are just as much ahead when they get
into the next town , making themselves
their own bankers with the govern
ment as a depository. Sometimes an
actor or circus man will present a doz
en orders at the close of the season
which he has bought from time to
time , and their amount represents sav
ings which otherwise would have been
spent.
Humorous Entries for Cenina.
The usual humorous incidents were
not lacking in the recently taken Brit
ish census. An immigrant In New
Zealand stated to the'authorities that
his mother was a Kaffir , his father an
Irishman who hacl become a natural
ized American , but afterward served
in the French army , and that he was
born on the passage between Yokohama
hama and Colombo in a Spanish vessel.
"Put him down a Scotchman ! " was the
official decision. A man brought up at
Bow street was accosted by eight lin
guists and a professor in seventy-five
languages without a response. But
a test case for the census officials is
that of a man in Wales "who asserts
that he was found on a derelict vessel
( date unknown ) and knows nothing
about his father or mother. A house
holder could not tell how many chil
dren he had , while still another en
tered two pigs and a sheep dog as
"members of his family. " A West
Indian entered himself as a duck
stealer. A high-church clergyman , who
had a very low-church son ( also a
clergyman ) staying with him , is al
leged to have registered him as a "lun
atic" in the proper column.
Elbow sleeves are increasing in
popularity for evening wear , and In
any cases deep frills are added with
graceful effect.
A : R ROSE. TO WEALTH.
Stanhope was at a city dinner and
next to him sat a London alderman of
great wealth , a man highly respected.
Sle and the earl talked of many
things and found each other mutually
entertaining. Next day Lord Stan
hope received a letter , out of which
dropped a 100 note. "It was your
lordship's kind loan of this sum , " said
the nee , "that started me in life and
enabled me to have the honor of sitting
nest to your lordship at dinner. "
The United States is now ahead of
Germany in naval strength by about
3,000 tons , and thus is entitled to
'fourth place among naval powers.
Nearly all the organizations for de
bate in Kentucky bear the name of the
"Henry Clay Debating Club. "
Wonderful Deaf , Dumb and Blind Girl.
Helen Keller's daily themes , to the
number of eleven , are printed In the
current Issues of the Radcliffe maga
zine and are very remarkable , warrant
ing the high praise they receive from
her instructors. Her critical work , they
say , notably in appreciation of German
literature , would be unusual from any
student of her age in possession of all
the senses.
Great Mill Building.
Manchester , N. H. , is to have what
It. is claimed will be the largest single
mill building ever erected. It is nearly
completed and is 770 feet long , with
two wings of 330 feet , all of an average
width of 100 feet , and five stories in
height , including basement.
Bcrnhnrdt In Tears.
Coquelln Is responsible for a story to
the effect that just before Bernhardt
last left Europe Rostand read to her
his latest tragedy , and the actress ,
bursting into tears over the , story , was
confined to her bed for several days.
A Joke IVItu Cats.
Unknown practical jokers created a
sensation In Rochwood , N.VJ. . , one ev
ening last week by bringing to town
and turning loose a swarm of strange
cats , which have oeen making life
miserable for the residents ever since.
A Blacksmith's Strange Experience.
Goodland , Kan. , June 3. N. E. Al-
bertson , our leading blacksmith has
been a great sufferer from rheumatism.
He was so bad that he could not sleep
for the great pain In his arms and
shoulders. He had been afflicted for
years , but lately he was so mucn worse ,
that he thought he would have to give
up his shop altogether.
Then a strange thing happened. A
friend of his recommended a new
medicine called Dodd's Kidney Pills ,
said to be a cure for Rheumatism. He
commenced to use them , and at once
began to recover. His pain has all left
him , and he Is a well man today , and
entirely free from any symptom of
Rheumatism.
To say that he is thankful , is putting
it very mildly. He is delighted.
Dodd's Kidney Pills deserve credit
for having cured this very severe and
almost hopeless case.
From recent reports , there does not
seem to be anything that they will not
cure , as very bad cases of Bright's Dis
ease , Diabetes , Dropsy , Rheumatism ,
and Heart Trouble , have been cured by
Dodd's Kidney Pills , even after having
been given up by our best doctors.
Victoria's Letters Are Valuable.
Letters written by Queen Victoria
are already increasing in value in Lon
don , and the other day a brief three-
line note of hers , written in her own
hand , sold for $25.
What Do the Children Drink ?
Don't give them tea or coffee. Have yon
tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O ?
It is delicious and nourishing , and takes the
place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give
the children the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain-O is made of
pure grains , and when properly prepared
tastes like the choice grades of coffee , but
costs about & es much. All grocere sell it.
15oand25c.
A wife is either a man's best pos
session or his very worst.
Are You Using : Allen's Foot Base ?
It is the only cure for Swollen ,
Smarting , Burning , Sweating Feet , .
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's
Foot-Ease , a powder to be shaken Into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores , 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress , Allen S. Olmsted , LeRoy , N. Y.
Women's thoughts of men are mostly
afterthoughts.
He who defies danger defeats defeat
BACKACHE
HOULD
MISS LUCY ANNIE HEISER , OP MINNEAPOLIS , MINN.
Miss Lucy Annie Heiser , a graduated nurse of nine years' experience ,
trained and graduated from the Homeopathic Hospital of Minneapolis , Minn. ,
writes as follows : _
Albert Lea , Minn. , Nov. 8 , 1899.
The Peruna Medicine Co. , Columbus , Ohio :
Gentlemen "Although my school doss not believe in patent medicines , I
have found It to be a tact that Peruna Is a grand and valuable medicine. I
have known It to cure Mrs. Sampson , suffering with an Inflamed womb , aggra
vated by malaria , after the doctors had failed to help her. Another of my
former patients suffered with a complication of female diseases ; she was so
thin , nothing but skin and bones , but Peruna cured her and she Is to-day In
good health and good flesh. Facts prove that Peruna revives lost strength and
restores to the sick that most wonderful blessing of life health.
Lucy Annie Heiser ,
If all the tired women and all the nervous women , and all the women that
needed a tonic would read and heed the words of these fair ladies who have
spoken right to the point , how many invalids would be prevented and how
many wretched lives be made happy.
Peruna restores health in a normal way.
Peruna puts right all the mucous m embranes of the body , and in this way
restores the functions ol every organ.
Soloists With Bellstedt.
There are many soloista in the fa
mous Bellstedt band , now fulfilling a
month's engagement in Omaha at the
Musical Festival , among them being
Messrs. Emil Kopp , George Kernst and
Charles B. Jones , all famed as cornet-
ists , each having been at some time
chief virtuoso in some of the leading
bands of the country. Mr. Karl Mey
er , clarinet virtuoso , has filled that po
sition with the best musical organiza
tions. Some of these gentlemen are
heard with great delight at nearly ev
ery concert. It is rare that a band is
placed before the public that contains
as many soloists of acknowledged
merit as Bellstedt's , and those who
fail to attend some of the concerts
will miss a treat not often 9 be taken
advantage of. The concerts were be
gun June 1st and will continue the en
tire month , two concerts being given
each day. Railroads within a radius
of 150 miles of Omaha will give re
duced rates.
The bandmaster likes to have the
public's money play into his hands.
"Sirs. TVlnsiows Soothing Syrnp.
For children teettlng , softens the gums , reduces In
flammation , allays pala. cures wind colic. 23c n bottle.
Every cloud has its silver lining , and
even a dark lanter has its bright side.
Most people eat more than is good for them. The stomach tries to digest all that's put into it , but if repeatedly overloaded , it goes on
a strike. That's Indigestion. Rich , over-sweet , indigestible food weakens the stomach and makes it unable to take care of the material put
Into It. More food taken into a weakened stomach than the stomach can digest , stays there , forms gases and rots , bringing on all the horrors of
dyspepsia. The only way to cure dyspepsia is to clean out the digestive canal with CAS&ARETS. Keep it clean wifh Cascarets , eat light
food sparingly , and give the stomach a chance to rest up and get strong again.
Be sure you § ef She genuine GARGARETS !
when he is pr. losing to a heiress , do you ? 01
-Indianapolis uournal.
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* For six yearn I rraa a victim oftJys-
popala in its worst form. I could eat nothing
but xnUk toast , and at times my stomach
would not retain and digest even that. Last
March I began takinj CASCARETS and stacc
then I have steadily Iznprored , until I cm as
well as I ever was in my life , "
DAVID H. MUEPHr , Newark , O.
The discovery , by the "shbora ft a
BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER.
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NEVER SOLD IN BULK.
THE TABLFT
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Dad breath , bad blood , wind on tha ctomacb , bloated bovrel * , foal month ,
headache. Indigestion , pimple * , palna after catlnz , llrer trouble , sallow cotn-
ntaxlon and duzlneii. Vrneti your bowels don't move reculu.rly yon are
netttnc itlcb. Coastlpntlon Jtllli more people than oil other dUczues tecether.
It Ic a. starter .for the ehrouie ailment * and lees years of raftering that come
afterward * . No raatter trhnt oils yea , ctArt taklnjr CA6CAII > ETa today , f r
yon will never cet xvoll and bewell all the time until yon put your bowel *
right. TaJto onr advice ; ctart tvlth OASCAJXETS today , under an aaoliite
Enaranteo to euro or money refunded.
SOZODONT for the Teeth and Breath 25 °
At all Stores , or by Mall for th * price. HALL & RUGKEL , New York.
He's the best physician that knows
the worthlessness of the most medi
cines.
Tamlin's Wizard Oil Co. send song
book free. Your druggist sells the oil
and it stops pain.
The heart of the fool is In his
mouth , but the mouth of the wise man
is in his heart.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH , the only 1C oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
The quill pens now used in England
come from Germany and the Nether
lands.
GT/AKAXTEED TO CUKE : Flve'ycnrs JIRO the Cnt box of CA8-
CAKET3 wa * colt ! . How It Is over ix million boxea n year , greater than any
almilar medicine In th < - world. This la absolute proof of ercat merit , and
oar bent testimonial. We have faith , and will self CABCM-ICETS absolutely
tmaranteed to cure or money refunded. Co huy today , tx\o ROe bose , clvo
them a , fklr , honest trial , ax per tlnple direction * , and ifynu are not ntI Ocd
after n lne one GOc liox. retnrn the unased GOc box und the empty box to
us bytaall , or the drmrzl C from trhora yon purchased It , nnd gctyour money
baelt for both boxes , 'fake our advice no matter \vhnt ails yea start todny.
Health will noictly follow and yon trill blcc lb clny you tint started the use
ofCASCAZUETS. .Boot free by mall. Add : ETb&tUa JUUUDX CO. , Sew Tor
Some men have penny wisdom and
dollar foolishness.
Many a laboring man's down in the
world digging gold.
From Mrs. Amanda Bbumakor , what
has charge of the Grammar Department
of-tho Public Schools of Columbia City ,
Wash. , also Past Grand of Independ
ent Order of Good Templars , Dr. Hartman -
man received the following letter :
Columbia City , Waste
"I can speak only good words of the
repeated benefits I have had from the
use of Peruna.
"Too constant application to work
last winter caused me to have severe
head and backache and dragging pains.
I could not stop my work , neither was
I fit to go on. Reading of the benc
tidal results from the use of Peruna I
purchased a bottle and \vlthln a few
days after using it , began to feel better.
"I constantly Improved and before
the seventh bottle was completely
used , all pains were gone , my strength
was restored , and I now seem ton
years' younger.
"If I get tired or feel bad , Peruna at
once helps me , and I feel you deserve
praise for placing such a conscientious
medicine before a suffering public. "
Mrs. Amanda Shumakor.
Mattle B. Curtis , Secretary Legion of
Loyal Women , Hotel Salem , Boston ,
Mass. , writes :
" / suffered for [
over a year with :
general weakness :
and debility ,
manifested es- :
peclallyin severe :
backache and-
headache.
"My physician
prescriJred differ- " -
e n t medicines , :
n o n e of which :
seemed to help :
me any until a \
Mattle B. Curt ! * .
club associate :
advised mo to BTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTTTT p
try Peruna as it cured her of constitu
tional headache and stomach troubles.
I at once ordered a bottle and before
it was used , felt greatly Improved.
"I have taken four bottles and for
two months have been entirely free
from these maladies. Several of my
friends are using Peruna with bene
ficial results , especially in cases of
troubles with the kidneys and other
pelvic organs , together with weak
nesses peculiar to women. "
Peruna is a specific for the catarrhal
derangements of women.
If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Pe
runa , write at once to Dr. Hartman ,
giving a full statement of your case
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman , President of
The Hartman Sanitarium , Columbus , 0.
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A Fnll.Elie SI Treatment of Dr. O.
Phelps Urown's Great Kemeily for
Fits , Epilepsy and all Nervous Diseases. Address
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Illustrated pamphlets.
Bivlng experiences of
farmers who have be
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Ins wheat , reports of
delegates , etc.and full
information as to reduced railway rates can bo
had on application to the Superintendent of
Immigration , Department of Interior. Ottawa ,
Canada , or to W V. Bennett , 801 New York
Life Bldg. , Omaha. Neb.
DO YOU SHOOT ? ,
If you do you should send your name and address on a postal card for a
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It illustrates and describes all the different Winchester Rifles , Shotguns and
Ammunition , and contains much valuable information. Send at once to the
Winchester Repeating Arms Co. , New Haven , Conn.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH , the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.