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1 fa r r r V CURE YOUR KIDNEYS Vhen the Back Aches and Bladder Troubles Set In Get at the Cause Dont make the mistake of believing back ache and bladder ills to be local ailments Get at the cause and cure the kidneys Use Doans Kidney Pills which have cured thousands Captain S D Hunter of En gine No 14 Pitts burg Pa Fire Department and residing at 2729 Wylie avenue says It was three years ago that I used Doans Kidney Pills for an attack of kidney trouble that was mostly back ache and they fixed me up fine There is no mistake about that and if 1 should ever be troubled again I would get them first thing as I know what they are For sale by all dealers Price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY Getting Closer to Heaven Once in the Pacific coast forests the writer came upon a magnificent sugar pine the only tree of its kind for miles around and a landmark even in that region of giant trees My guide as he looked up at the top which lifted itself almost into the clouds remarked If a man could climb that tree on a Christmas morn ing he could hear the church bells ringing in heaven Exchange Find Buried Treasure In the immediate neighborhood of the little town of Klingman in Swit zerland a case was found containing an assortment of 829 gold coins Most of the coins are of the years from 1G02 to 1704 It is thought that the sold was buried at the time of the Spanish war of succession The gold value of the coins is estimated at 35 00 and the numismatic value at over 100000 francs Bacilli Are Scarce in Egypt A German physician has discovered that the air of the Egyptian desert is about as free from bacterial life as the polar regions or the high seas Tubercle bacilli are killed when ex posed six hours in the sunlight He considers the desert especially suit able for rheumatics and patients suf fering from kidney diseases and tu lerculosis For Growing Girls West Pembroke Me April 24 Mrs A L Smith of this place says that Dodds Kidney Pills are the best remedy for growing girls Mrs Smith emphasizes her recommendation by the following experience My daughter was thirteen years old last November and it is now two years since she was first taken with Crazy Spells that would last a week and would then pass off In a month she would have the spells again At these times she would eat very little and was very yellow even the whites of her eyes would be yellow The doctors gave us no encourage ment they all said they could not help her After taking- one box of Dodds Kidney Pills she has not had one bad spell Of course we continued the treatment until she had used in all about a dozen boxes and we still give them to her occasionally when she is not feeling well Dodds Kidney Pills are certainly the best medicine for growing girls Mothers should heed the advice of Mrs Smith for by so doing they may save their daughters much pain and sickness and ensure a healthy happy future for them True Greatness True greatness first of all is a thing of the heart It is all alive with robust and generous sympathies It is neither behind its age nor too fax before it It is up with its age and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march It cannot slumber for activity is a necessity oi its existence It is no reservoir but a fountain President Roosevelt THE CITY SAVINGS BANK This bank was organized in 18S4 and has been in continuous operation since Through the trials and vicis situdes of the last twenty years it has proven to savers that its system is thorough and its security unquestion ed It is governed by state law and supervised by the State Banking Board its purpose is to assist those who are systematic savers How thor oughly it is doing so is evidenced by the 6500 people who are its customers It pays 4 per cent interest on depos its and maintains strict secrecy in its relations with its customers If you desire the opportunity of laying aside a bit of money and re ceive a liberal rate of interest for it or desire to conduct your business through an old established bank where it will receive prompt and sat isfactory attention write for particu lars to the City Sa vings Bank 201 So 16th St Omaha Nebraska Growth of Crystals There is no limit to the minuteness of fragments which may under favor able conditions grow into perfect crystals no bounds as to the time during which the crystaline growtl may be suspended and then continue again For Rent or Sale Two Ranches 3000 Acres Each Xocated in Custer county on Soutt Loup river consists of 500 acres good corn land 60 alfalfa 320 meadow and the balance in pasture good improve ments Inquire of Victor H Coffman Omaha Neb IjSUISSANA BY a Hary gEVEREUX WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DON C WILSON CCcfyrfgAt OJ 6y I tffc Bnxm erx Cbnpwy CHAPTER XXIX Less than a week later one early afternoon the members of the house hold at La Tete des Eauxwere start led by the booming of cannon in the direction of Lake Borgne What had happened was this An English fleet with twelve hundred men had with the intention of throw ing an attacking force across Lakes Borgne and Pontchartain sailed into Lake Borgne and opened an attack up on the Americans whose presence was a surprise to the enemy as Capt Lockyer commanding the latter had understood that this point was de fenseless A fierce battle followed resulting in a partial victory for the English who were now masters of Lake Borgne It was the Shapira who late in the afternoon brought this news to La Tete des Eaux The house was soon in a bustle of preparation the inmates packing has tily the few things they were to take with them in their flight and conceal ing such property as would be likely to attract thieving bands among the enemy who would with little doubt visit the plantation as Shapira report ed the woods about Lake Borgne to be filled with British soldiers Madame Riefet when not absorbed by other matters did not hesitate to express her reluctance toward accept ing the assistance of this swarthy brigandish looking man whom she had never before seen and whose very existence had been unknown to her I know something of him spoke up Mademoiselle Rose He is the man of whom grandpere rented Ka auahana Didnt you know it Yes Lazalie added before Mad ame Riefet had time to frame a fitting reply and we have seen him many times about the woods here Rose and I once saw Captain Jean talking with him and I think he is very oblig ing But all this he tells us of a cave One of his own craft commanded by Baptistine was yng off the Owls Point awaiting the signal which would announce the coming of Lafitte who bent upon a private mission in the neighborhood had not reckoned upon the present denouement But now in view of all the circum stances he considered this the boat a more desirable means for conveying the ladies directly to Shell Island where now were only -old Scipio Ju niper and the boy Nato Waiting therefore until he saw Sha pira start for the Colonneh followed by the now quiet slaves Lafitte who had meantime explained his pla n to his own charges told them to follow him and set out hurriedly in an op posite direction from that taken by Shapira and his dusky retinue The forest was darkening with late afternoon shadows as the fleeing par ty followed in comparative silence the tall form that led them At length the party emerged from the deeper shadows of their wooded way and came Into a cleared space where the knoll known as The Owls Point projected into the bayou and halting here Lafitte locked about him while the others stood grouped a little distance away awaiting quietly his movements But before he could give the signal to Baptistine whose craft was con cealed around the bend of the bayou two men burst from the cover of a thicket opposite Lafitte a gun was leveled at his breast and a hoarse voice shouted Surrender you cursed pirate Rose de Cazeneau with a wild cry rushed between the weapon and La fitte while Barbe who had been star ing as though he were a ghost at the holder of the gun echoed the shriek of her mistress Do not do not shoot your child she screamed and at her words old Zeney who stood nearest the strang er gave him one searching look and rushed in turn between her mistress Surrender you cursed pirate where we can hide right here on the plantation yet which no one has ever heard of before and no one except ing Captain Jean and himself seems to know anything about sounds very strange and incredible Did your grandpere know of this cave Mig nonne I do not know but I think not I never heard of such a thing Yet madame it surely is safer to trust this man who tells us that Captain Jean sent him than to stay here and risk a visit from those dreadful soldiers We dare not stay and so we must trust him said Madame with a weak attempt at resolution as she slid a jewel box into the bundle Violet was preparing to fasten Old Zeney had come over from Kanauhana having insisted upon be ing taken away with her beloved young mistress and now she entered the room to announce that Captain Jean was below stairs Never had his arrival at the planta tion been so welcome as now Mad ame Riefet catching up her out-of-door wraps from the bed ordered that the various bundles be brought down stairs for the phlegmatic Barbe had finished tying up the last one as Chloe handed Senorita Lazalie the lace scarf for her head while Maam Brig ida was fastening the long cloak she had insisted that her nursling should wear You may feel yourself fortunate Madame Riefet that you are able to leave here by daylight and not like some people I know be roused from sleep to find yourself a prisoner in English hands said Lafitte as they joined him on the stairway As they were descending the stairs ne called to Shapira who was stand ing on the veranda and then hurry ing down gave the latter some in structions which the others did not hear as they passed out of the house and faced the slaves now huddled in to a terrified mass with their faces full of despairing expectancy Some of the women began lament ing wildly when they found that they were not to go away But Lafitte In his usual authoritative fashion quiet ed the hubbub and ordered Shapira to take them to the Colonneh which as he now decided was not to be used as a hiding place for those whom he himself had so unexpectedly been able to assist and the gun just as it shot out a jet of flame A second report mingled so closely with the first as to make them seem but one and Zeney with the man who had shot her fell to the ground All had happened so quickly that Lafitte who was for an instant un nerved by Rose de Cazeneaus effort to save him had scarcely time to draw a pistol before his unknown as sailant fell as if from the discharge of his own weapon which had killed Zeney In their surprise and fright and by reason ofthe confusion no one except Lafitte had comprehended any mean ing in the words which followed the wild cry of Barbe who now stood sob bing hysterically with her arms around her half swooning mistress while Lazalie with dilating nostrils and blazing eyes sought to release herself from Madame Riefet Baptistine who had heard the shots reached the shore in a small boat pulled by some of his crew soon after Shapira appeared at the edge of the thick woods from whence had come the bullet that had killed Zeneys slay er The English sailor at Lafittes com mand now surrendered his arms to Shapira and was promised freedom m exchange for a truthful statement of the motive winch brought his com panion and himself to the spot He said that the other man had been unknown to him until that same morn ing and all he now knew of him was that he was a scout picked up from among the Indians and bought to serve the English Capt Lockyer who was in command of the English fleet upon Lake Borgne having learned that Lafitte was in that vicin ity had selected this scout to find and capture the man upon whom he longed to execute personal vengeance His orders had been to bring Lafitte to him alive if possible and dead rather than not at all and the sailor having been one of the crew who rowed the British officers to their mortifying conference at Grande Terre had been sent with the scout in order to identify Lafitte Such was the end of the man in whom Barbe had recognized the bril liant officer of former years recog nized despite the shock of grizzled hair and the changes wrought by time and a lawless life in the face and form that had tempted the now years elopement Meantime Baptistine had landed and leaving his men in the boat he came leisurely to where Lafitte was questioning the English sailor Tho Baratarians shrewd eyes had glanced over the scene and the fallen bodies the group of excited women all that ho saw told Ixis alert perceptions what had presumably taken place while the sight of his commander standing unharmed and Shapiras at titude as he leaned upon his gun as sured him that the danger such as it might have been was past Hence his nonchalant strolling gait to where Lafitte stood The latter saw him at once and in terrupted himself to bid Shapira see that the sailor awaited his further or ders Then drawing Baptistine aside he gave him instructions in regard to placing the ladies and their maids aboard his boat But it seems very dreadful to leave poor Zeney lying there said Rose with a tearful backward look as La fitte was assisting her into the small boat It is not possible to do otherwise child he answered gently tightening his pressure upon the small hand he was holding All that can be done for her now I will see is done before I join you Will you not trust me to do that The expression of the tear stained eyes raised to meet his look answered him without the need of speech You are not coming with us she began when Madame Riefet inter rupted her with a shrill Not coming with us Oh Capt Lafitte we can not go without you And these strange men Indeed now angrily we will not He had put Rose aboard the boat and turned to assist Lazalie while he answered Madame Riefets outburst calmly although there was evidence of impatience held in check I intend to escort you personally to Shell Island madame but it is best that you all go aboard the boat my captain here has waiting around the point He will take you to it and then return for me as I have a duty here which I cannot very well perform until you and the other ladies have gone There may be other English men prowling in the vicinity and the sound of the firing may bring them this way If this should happen I can manage matters to far better ad vantage by knowing that you are out of harms way Madame made no reply but permit ted him to place her in the boat Mamam Brigida followed her Violet coming last and the sailors pushed off as Baptistine sprang aboard Why does not Barbe come with us Madame Riefet demanded ab ruptly as she saw the French woman walk to where Shapira was bending over the body of Zeney intending as ordered by Lafitte to carry it into the woods for burial Lafitte answered from the shore Barbe will come with me there is something I wish her to do Madame Riefet if you will kindly permit He had unnoticed by the others laid a detaining hand on Earbes arm and whispered I wish to speak with you wait here until the boat returns She gave no sign of having heard him but stood silently until as Violet was following Brigida into the boat she turned and walked over to where lay the dead To be continued Duly Qualified Kisses Some individual with oceans of time on his hands has conceived the idea of hunting through the works of Eng lish novelists for the purpose of find ing all the adjectives used to qualify the word kiss The result is as fol lows Cold warm icy burning chilly cool loving indifferent balsamic fragrant blissful passionate aroma tic with tears bedewed long soft hast intoxicating dissembling deli cious pious tender beguiling hearty distracted frantic breathing fire divine satanic glad sad superficial quiet loud fond heavenly execrable devouring omi nous fervent parching nervous soul less stupefying slight careless anx ious painful sweet refreshing em barrassed shy mute ravishing holy sacred firm hurried faithless nar cotic feverish immoderate sisterly brotherly and paradisaical The task seemed interminable and he gave up at this stage Australias Rabbit Plague The last spell of heat cleared off a multitude of rabbits directly around Broken Hill and although there are still many about they are not nearly so plentiful as a few weeks ago However apparently there has been no diminution on the holdings a few miles from Broken Hill At one well known station the lessee has been trapping the rabbits at the tank when they come to drink In this way no fewer than 35000 rabbits have been exterminated at one tank in a fort night A cartload containing 700 rab bits was put on the scales and weighed one ton Melbourne Argus Historic Thimbles In Mrs Vanderbilts collection of thimbles which is the envy of her friends there are several that are not only very beautiful but historically valuable as well Among the latter and probably most highly valued by their fortunate owner is one which was originally worn by Queen Eliza beth another which shows its royal owner knew its use was the property of Princess Alice still another dainty conception in gold and enamel once belonged to the Princess of Wales while most valued of all is one said to have been used by Queen Victoria when she was a girl NEBRASKA STATE NEWS NEBRASKA BRIEFS McCook now has a full fledged com mercial club Knights of Pythias of Beatrice have reorganized their lodge Barneston sustained quite a loss of fire with not much Insurance Women of the G A R of Wayne have organized a relief corps Alma has authorized bonds for a water and electric light plant Tho United Brethren church at Beatrice has been formally dedicated Henry Peters of Fremont has been finel 25 for selling liquor on Sunday Forty residence and a number of business houses are being built at Alma Fire bugs continue to operate at Norfolk keeping the people in much trepidation Richardson countys mortgage rec ord shows an increase of about 23 000 for March It is rumored that the Burlington will greatly improve the capacity of its shops at Plattsmouth Robert T Maxwell a brother of the late Samuel T Maxwell former con gressman died at Omaha Frank Thompson was bound over by the district court of Dodge county on the charge of horse stealing A contract for furnishing fuel for the public building at Norfolk Neb has been awarded to C W Braasch The April term of the district court of Polk county will be short as there are but twelve cases to be disposed of It is said that work on a new Burl ington depot for Beatrice will begin as soon as the depot at Crete is com pleted In a free-for-all fight near Adams one of the participants Harm Harms was stabbed in three places and dan gerously wounded Earl Fairbanks aged 18 is under arrest at Norfolk charged with being responsible for the large number of fires which have occurred there this year The town of Adams is very much elated over the now assured erection of a new mill and elevator which Messrs W E Bryson and J A Miller are erecting Complete rural free delivery service has been established in Otoe county The total number of routs in the coun ty is nineteen of which route No 3 Palmyra is new Beaver City is enjoying a healthful growth this spring and while it is by no means a boom its propor tions are gratifying to citizens inter ested in the welfare of the town J L Fletcher and David King two neighbors about four miles northeast of Moorehead had trouble over stock which resulted in a shooting in which King was shot through the right hand At a number of places in northwest Nebraska the Northwestern has be gun or is arranging to begin line straightening and grade reduction newer and more modern bridges will follow It is the intention of the men who will build Fremonts new auditorium to have the work commence about June 1 The company has not yet been organized but enough money for the carrying out of the project has been subscribed Ten of the old soldiers graves in the Osceola cemetery are now mark ed with stones received from the gov ernment Through the efforts of the senior commander of the Grand Army of the Republic post of Osceola these monuments were secured The lighting machine which oper ates the acetylene plant in McDowell Ramseys drug store at Tecumseh exploded without serious results Oc cupants of the building were not near when the explosion occurred other wise results might have been serious Nebraska university debaters were given the decision over those of Washington university of St Louis The representatievs of Nebraska were John D Ringer Albert M Lavy and Joseph Swensen Washingtons debaters were Fred Armstrong Jr Graham C Stevens and Henry T Fer ris Indications point to a success in the movement to establish a new brick plant at Humboldt Investigation by experts regarding the deposits of clay have without exception proven the adaptability of it for the purposes re quired and it is expected the promo ters will soon take active steps to ward the organization of a stock com pany Philadelphia dispatch Because she intended leaving the theatrical company of which both were mem bers Edward Smedes shot Bessie Hel en Davis at a theatrical hotel where they were both staying inflicting a probably fatal wound near the heart and then attempted to kill himself The woman was known on the stage as Bessie Dale She was 25 years old and her home is in Hebron Neb The State Journal company filed a demurrer in the supreme court to the suit filed by the state for the recov ery of 82500 alleged to be due the state because the Journal sold su preme court reports to that amount The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the district court of Doug las county in the damage suit of Vic tor G Lindgren against the Omaha Street Railway company finding for the street railway company The ac tion was a suit for injuries received in a collision between a street car and buggy in which the plaintiff was ridine BROADWELL WILL REMAIN Bingham Loses in Contest for Clerk of District Court LINCOLN William W Bingham has lost out in his contest for tho office of district clerk of Douglas coun ty which Is now held and wllU con tinue to bo held by Frank A Broad well Tho supreme court so decided The opinion Is written by Commis sioner Ames and concludes as fol lows Whatever may be said of Individ uals and of special interest It will not do to presume that the mass of tho voters are fraudulent or corrupt When if ever the time shall come that such a presumption shall bo just the only means if any of the preser vation of society will bo the abandon ment of the experiment of free gov ernment In the present instance no specific charge or pretense of corrup tion or of fraudulent intent is made but we aro asked to infer such an offense from apparently accidental or awkward or ignorant marking or mutilation of some 150 ballots select ed from some two score precincts a part of them varying from one to six or eight and the average being about four or five or else we arc expected to hold them constructively fraudu lent We doubt if tho doctrine of con structive fraud is applicable to such cases but if it were so the presume tion would be rebutted by circum stances The very fact that the bal lots were collected from such scatter ed sources in such small number pre cludes the idea of combination or de sign or that they were cast with other than an honest intent BARTLEY BOND CASE AGAIN Attorney General Asks Court to Final ly Dispose of Litigation LINCOLN After having dragged itself through the supreme court three times during the last seven years the Bartley bond suit is again before tho judges of that tribunal and in his brief the attorney general asks the court to make this the final appear ance of the case by basing its opinion on the facts and definitely establish ing the rights of the state in the mat ter The case was brought up by the state from tho Douglas county dis trict court and this morning was ad vanced on the docket and submitted on briers The suit was originally brought in 1897 in Douglas county by the state against Joseph S Bartley ex state treasurer and the sureties on his offi cial bond The amount alleged as shortage was in round numbers 550 000 During the several trials the case has been adjudicated as to all surety defendants and Joseph S Bartley the principal except the defendants W A Paxton E E Brown John H Ames Amos Swobe C C McNish and Cadet Taylor who are tho defendants in error in this proceeding Tho state seeks a reversal of the decision of the lower court which ordered the case dismissed Attorney General Brown holds the evidence before the lower court was entirely insufficient to sustain the ver dict He divides the shortage into three divisions as follows First Excessive deposits in state depositories amounting to 18000 Second The conversion of stato funds on deposit in the Omaha Na tional bank on the 2nd of January 1897 amounting to 20188405 Third School or trust funds unac counted for amounting to 32G03458 Life Loses Its Charm Infatuated with Mrs A F Foreman has landlady Oscar Hansen of Lin coln committed suicide by taking a dose of morphine He was an electri cian about 25 years of age and has relatives a mother and a sister liv ing in Wahoo David City Chautauqua DAVID CITY The fifth annual ses sion of the David City Chautauqua as sembly will be held July 21 to 30 in clusive H H Harmon of Columbus Indiana continues as superintendent E Williams and G W Gates man agers and L B Fuller secretary The management assures the public that this session will be far superior to that of any previous assembly Goes Back to Germany COLUMBUS Having made suffi cient money in this country to live in luxury in the old world Louis Dandier who has resided for many years near Shelby left for Lechinich Germany with the expectation of making that place his permanent home in the fu ture Dan Wilson of Broken Bow is laid up with a broken leg received while playing base ball PAPILLION James H Preston a about a year ago examined by the In sanity board and sent to the St Ber nard hospital at Council Bluffs was up before the board again and pro nounced insane He will be taken to the asylum at Lincoln BRADSHAW A change will take place in the business managers of the farmers shipping association at this place Mr James W Graham who has been agent for the company ever since its organization will retire and Mr George B Steadman will take his place