f 8 rv tf K isft v v i if i I It s wonderful what a comfortable doctrine the survival of the fittest Is to those who survive EXACT SIZE Special Offer The name and address of your shoe dealer and 15c to cover costof mailing- etc willsecure one of the handsome rolled gold pins illustrated above Enam6d in colors and will wear for years These pins were secured by thousands of Worlds Fair visitors Only a few hundred left Write Quick ftoBEKTS Johnson SKand shoe CO ST ifouis MANUFACTURERS OF STAR BRAND SHOES To treat Pimples and Blackheads Red Rough Oily Complexions gently smear the face with Cuti cura Ointment the great Skin Cure but do not rub Wash off the Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water and bathe freely for some minutes Repeat morning and evening At other times use Cuticura Soap for bathing the face as often as agree able No other Skin Soap so pure so sweet so speedily effective Cuticura Soap combines delicate medicinal and emol lient properties deritcd from 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fcdhpted to both sexes and all ues CureB Kidney and lTcr complaint and purines the blood tl all drugglsti It pays to be good if you gtt in the penitentiary it shortens your term I am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago Mns Tnos Bobbins Mape Street Norwich N Y Feb 17 1000 Many great souls have been lost by little sins A WOMANS ORDEAL DREADS DOCTORS QUESTIONS Thousands Write to MrsPInkham Lynn Mass and Receive Valuable Advice Absolutely Confidential and Free There can be no more terrible ordeal to a delicate sensitive refined woman than to be obliged to answer certain questions in regard to her private ills even when those questions are asked by her family physician and many QMrsTCWilladsen Q continue to suffjr rather than submit to examinations which so many physi cians propose in order to intelligently treat the disease and this is the rea son why so many physicians fail to cure female disease This is also the reason why thousands npon thousands of women are corre sponding with Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Mass To her they can confide every detail of their illness and from her great knowledge obtained from years of experience in treating female ills Mrs Pinkham can advise women more wisely than the local physician Read hsw Mrs Pinkham helped Mrs T C Willadsen of Manning la She writes Dear Mrs Pinkham I can truly say that you have saved my life and I cannot express my gratitude in words Before I wrote to you telling you how I felt I had doctored for over two years steady and spent lots of money in medicines besides but it all f aill to do me any good 1 had female trouble and would daily have faint ing spells backache bearing down paius and my monthly periods were very irregular and finally ceased I wrote to you for your ad vice and received a letter full of instructions just what to do andalso commenced to take Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and I have been restored to perfect health Had it not been for you I would have been in my grave to day Mountains of proof establish the fact that no memcine in the world equals Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound for restoring womens health Troths that Strike Home Tour grocer is honest and if he cares to do so can tell you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he sells you How can he know -where it originally came from nun ju nuo ujlcuucu wi VYILii nn or -when roasted If you buy your coffee loose by the pound how can you expect purity and uniform quality 1 HON COFFEE pleader of ALL PACKAGE COFFEES is ol necessity uniform in quality strength and flavor For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LION COFFEE has been the standard coffee in millions of homes LION COFFEE Is caremlly packed at our factories and until opened In your home has no chance of being adul terated or of coming in contact with dust dirt germs or unclean hands In each package of HON COFFEE you get one full pound of Pure Coffee Insist upon getting tho genuine Lion head on every package Save the Lion heads for valuable premiums SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO Toledo Ohio s WINCHESTER LEADER AND REPEATER SHOTGUN SHELLS Carefully inspected shells the best of powder shot and wadding loaded by machines which give invariable results account for the superior ity of Winchester Leader and Repeater Factory Loaded Smokeless Powder Shells Reliability velocity pattern and penetration are determined by scientific apparatus and practical experiments They are THE SHELLS THE CHAMPIONS SHOOT real estate in Holt county 10 per cent and decided on a levy of 7 mills for state purposes A telegram has been received in Nebraska City from Little Rock Ark stating that John R Beausong of that city was instantly killed by falling off a street car The particulars of his death have not been received At a meeting of Company C at Beatrice J C Penrod who has been captain of the company for the past four years tendered his resignation Second Lieutenant Harlan a non-resident also tendered his resignation Governor Mickey and a number of his friends will leave for Portland August 21 where the executive will be present on Nebraska day at the ex position The staff of colonels will not accompany the governor on the next trip The Jones Farm company limited is the name of a new permanent cor poration which has just filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state The company which has a cap ital stock of 16000 purposes to found mmiPM isa NEBRASKA STATE NEWS NEBRASKA BRIEFS Excavating is being done at ONeill tor a 20000 hotel Mrs Henry Corcoran of Coleman precinct Red Willow county who was injured by being run over by a wagon died a few days later The grading for the Great Northern near Fremont is nearly finished ex cept inside of the city limits where on account of having to remove build ings nothing has yet been done The state board of equalization raised the valuation of merchandise in CHANCE FOR HOMESTEADS One Hundred Sections Will Be Open to Settlement in August NORTH PLATTE Neb North Platte is again looking for another land opening and consequent inflow of homeseekers in the middle of August At this time about 100 sections will be thrown open for one section home steads for the first opportunity The land embraced within this opening is no doubt the best that will be offered under the privileges of the homestead law known as the Kinkaid or G40 Douglas county 15 per cent increased acre homestead act The land now to be thrown open lies in Lincoln Keith and McPherson counties the most of it being in the latter two counties It is not strictly a land opening in the full sense of the term but rather an opportunity to home stead land which was covered up by zealous cattlemen At the time of the opening of Feb ruary 14 1905 the cattlemen who were acquainted with the land better than anyone else got an agent named Philetus H Winterstein to secure from old soldiers powers of attorney to file on land and about 100 of these were secured The filing was that of a soldiers declaratory statement which gave the soldier the right to make a regular homestead filing with in six months and reserved the land for this purpose The postoflice ad dresses of these soldiers showed that they were nearly all residents of sol diers homes and that undoubtedly Winterstein went to said homes and secured the authority to file from the soldiers At any rate at the time of the opening Mr Winterstein sot in an immense family estate and fortune ijne and took a number and then got to perpetuate the family name of Jones The Cass couaty mortgage record for July shows that eleven iarm mort gages were filed and eleven released In town property thirteen mortgages were filed and sixteen released in volving the folowing amounts Farm property filed 32950 released 30 650 Town property filed 21007 re leased 15963 The remains of Ward B Kennedy arrived at Alliance He was one of the victims of the Bennington disaster The funeral occurred from the Meth odist church Rev C W Ray officiat ing The funeral was in charge of the Grand Army of the Republic It was conducted with full military rites and was largely attended July was the biggest building month in the history of Omaha Even in the palmy year of 1887 no single month squalled the construction authorized by the city building department in the thirty one days just closed The value af the work for which permits were issued was estimated at 1045650 or 460 per cent more than in July a year ago A Columbus carpenter named Ed Thayer leaped from a low scaffold about quitting time and landed on a large nail projecting up through a piece of wood The nail was forced clear up through his foot and pene trated through the top of his shoe making an ugly and painful wound It will be several days before the out come can be known Chicago dispatch William J Bryan jr is lying at the Presbyterian hos pital where he underwent a surgical operation for the removal of an ab scess on his rght knee brought about by inflammation that began with a corn on his foot Young Bryan was brought to the hospital from Winona Lake Ind on a fast train He is a student at a military academy At Lincoln on the application of At torney General Brown Judge J B Barnes of the supreme court issued an injunction against the officers and members of the grain trust restrain ing them from monopolizing the grain trade of the state accepting rebates from the railways or in any way boy cotting independent elevators or con trolling prices and providing for the forfeiture of charters of the corpor ations which have been in the Grain Dealers association Dr W A Alton of Bayamon Porto Rico is visiting relatives in Platts mouth He describes conditions there as improving under American rule but years of development are necessary before the nieces and nephews of Uncle Sam and Aunt Columbia can be expected to show a high grade of civil ization or refinement Dr Alton is in charge of an orphanage at Bayamon and expects to return to the island within two months Deputy Warden Hunger who has been at work in Madison and Brown counties brought back a report of two convictions at Johnstown Brown county He says that he played the sleuth to catch the offenders holding out his willingness to buy a few plump prairie chickens as the bait The men Walter Farley and Fred Val entine were fined 5 each During the night someone hurled a stone or cinder through Hungers window the latter believes to even up the score Prof M S Pate who has been prin cipal of the Trenton school for the past three years has been elected to the principalship of the Grafton school He succeeds his brother Walter R Pate who resigned to accept the su perintendency of the Sidney schools While Ben Dill of Cass county a farmer was crossing a small bridge with his threshing outfit the structure suddenly gave way and precipitated the engine and coal wagon into the creek a distance of fourteen feet Mr Dill who was caught between the en gine and wagon was seriously injured but it is thought he will recover into line again and again until his last number was at the rear of the column of homeseekers waiting to get their filings He had method with him for his employers had mapped out for him the lands which he was to cover and he filed repeatedly one after another of these soldiers dec laratory statements He was not the only one who did this but he filed more than all the others put together These cost but 2 each and were surely cheap rental of the government land for the season of 1905 In some cases nearly whole townships were covered and because of their famili arity with the country they got the best land before the honest home seeker who was a stranger in the country could find out what was the better location on which to file These declaratory statements ex pire August 13 14 and 15 and a small number during the next few days after these dates YOUNG WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH Wipes Up Gasoline with Apron and It Takes Fire YORK Burned to a crisp and death following was the sad fate of Miss Alverda Kinnison daughter of David Kinnison who lives at their home While lighting the gasoline stove in some way gasoline escaped from the stove and thoughtlessly she wiped up the gasoline from the floor with her apron In an instant the gasoline caught fire and she was en veloped in flame Rushing through her fathers room where he lay in bed helpless to assist her she ran up stairs and lay down on the bed at tempting to extinguish the fire with bedding Her father called for help to put out the fire and assist his daughter and for some reason no help came and the daughter lay on the bed burning up when the chief of the fire department arrived He rushed up stairs and found the bed on fire and nearly every vestige of clothing on the daughter burned from her body Will Go to Portland Governor Mickey says that he will visit the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland August 21 Contrary to the usual practice the governor will not be accompanied by his military staff Besides the governor a few other prominent Nebraskans have been invited by the exposition com mission Lightning Kills Fish HUMBOLDT Local scientists who have investigated claim that light ning and not dynamite is responsible for the destruction of the large num ber of fish which were found floating on the surface of various lakes and the Nemaha river Word has been received in Auburn from Miss Bessie Stull the accom plished daughter of Judge and Mrs John S Stull that she has resigned the position of teacher in the primary department of the city schools at Sheridan Wyo where she has been re elected at an increased salary to accept a like position in the Boise City Idaho schools at a much larger increase in salary The officials of the State University are considering the advisability of framing a test case to determine whether an appropriation lapses when there is a bona fide contract in exist ence calling for the expenditure of the entire amount The question arises in connection with construc tion of the new 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