Doctors Said
Suffered with Throat Trouble
" > ' . Mr. B. W.
, 3D. Barnes ,
ex - Sheriff
Ct Warren
County ,
Tennessee ,
i 'in. a letter
JL 1 r o m Mo
il i n n vllle ,
fT e n nessee ,
jrrites :
"I had
throat
trouble
And had
three doc-
lors treating-
in e. All
bailed to do
an e any
Jgood , and
1 > r onounced
in y health
* one. IconMr. . B. W. D. Barnes.
Oludcd to
-try Peruna , and after using four bottles -
-tles can say I was entirely cured. "
Unable to Work.
t
* Mr. Gustav Hlmmelrelcb , Hochhelm ,
JTexas , writes :
"For a number of years I suffered
whenever I took cold , with severe attacks -
tacks of asthma , which usually yielded
-to the common home remedies.
"JLast year , however , I suffered for
Ight months -without Interruption so
that I could not do any work at all.
* JThe various medicines that were pre
scribed brought me no relief.
"After taking1 six bottles of Peruna ,
-two of Lacupla and two of Manalln , I
-m free of my trouble so that I can do
. * ! ! my farm work again. I can heart-
: JIy recommend this medicine to anyOne
-One who suffers with this annoying
-complaint and believe that they will
Obtain good results. "
Due might fight a lie and still not
follow the truth.
Take Garfield Tea to arouse a sluggish
4iver all druggists sell it.
Cheap Form of Fuel.
A Welsh rabbit may be cooked on
-an electrical chafing dish at an ex
pense of 1 % cents for current
No Purchase Recorded.
There was a dealer who tried to sell
.a horse to the late Senator Daniel of
'Virginia. He exhibited the merits of
the horse , and said , "This horse is a
reproduction of the horse that General
Washington rode at the battle of
"Trenton. It has the pedigree that will
-.show he descended from that horse
; and looks like" him in every particu
lar. "
"Yes , so much so , " said Senator
Daniel , "that I am inclined to believe
3t Is the same horse. "
Queen Mary's Trousseau.
Queen Mary is following the ex-
simple set by her mother , the duchess
of Teck , who at the time of her daugh
ter's wedding with the present king
-declared that for the trousseau "not a
jyard of cambric or linen , of flannel or
tweed , of lace or ribbon , should be
bought outside the kingdom , " and
who kept to her word. Queen Mary
is having her coronation robes and
.gowns for court functions as well as
the opening of parliament gown made
fcy a British firm or all British mate
rial. She has ordered eight dresses so
far , and work on them has commenc
ed. London correspondent New York
Sun.
A Fairly Wet World.
The Pacific ocean covers 68,000,000
miles , the Atlantic 30,000,000 and the
Indian , Arctic and Antarctic 42,000,000.
To stow away the contents of the Pa-
ciflc It would be necessary to fill a
tank one mile long , one mile wide and
one mile deep every day for 440 years.
Put in figures , the Pacific holds In
; welght 948,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The Atlantic averages a depth of
aiot quite three miles. Its water weighs
325,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons , and a
tank to contain it would have each of
its sides 43 miles long. The figures
of the other oceans are In the same
startling proportions. It would take
: all the sea water in the world 2,000,000
.years to flow over Niagara ,
Women
Appreciate
Step-savers and Tinle-savers.
Toasties
FOOD
is fully cooked , ready to serve
direct from the package with
cream or milk , and is a
deliciously good part of any
meal.
A trial 'package usually
establishes it as a favorite
breakfast cereal.
"The Memory Lingers"
POSTUM CEREAL CO. , Ltd. .
Battle Creek , Mich.
REPOSE nlE II
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
AGAIN DODGED BY HOUSE.
DISCOURAGED BY FIRST TRY
Made Special Orde. ' for Next Mon
day and House Proceeds to Tax
Ferret Bill Members _ Go
to Omaha.
A'ter in vain trying to take up the
consideration of the Initiative and
referendum bill and after half an hour
had been wasted in a discussion as
to which end of the bill to take hold
of , the house has- voted to put off the
heavy labor' until next Monday after
noon. It then grappled with Quacken-
bush's bill to enact into Nebraska
law the Iowa tax ferret , law , which is
now before that body in an effort to
secure its repeal. No conclusions
were reached , discussion of the prin
ciple of tax collecting involved taking
up all the time and several members
being still loaded with ammunition. It
will become the first order of busi
ness in the next committee of the
whole.
\
Tax Ferret Bill.
Quackenbush has had a bill on gen
eral file for ten days , relating to
methods of listing taxable property in
the state. He has had it put down
from time to time , but has asked , to
have it considered. The bill is copied
from the- Iowa law and provides for
a tax ferret who shall for a consider
ation ferret out hidden property for
taxation purposes , and- provides that
the county treasurer shall place such
hidden property on the assessment
rolls any time it is found unless more
than five years since the escape has
elapsed. The ferret is to get 30 per
cent of all taxes collected on proper
ty which has been hidden from the
regular assessor.
Probing Committee at Omaha.
Two legislative committees , con
sisting of five from the senate and
five from the house , are talcing up the
Investigation of election frauds in
Omaha , under the charges made by
Governor Aldrich in his Special mes
sage to the legislature that there were
wholesale frauds in Omaha , * and that
the number of votes cast in the Third
ward at the last election was nearly
three times as large as the number
of male's of voting age. The hearing
began at the Paxton hotel Monday.
Difficult to Settle.
Members of the legislature find it a
rather difficult task to settle for them
selves just wtiat their constituents de
sire them to do. Just at present the
house members are being bombarded
by petitions upon the Sunday baseball
question. Some of the peitions re
quest them to vote * for the Bartling
bill and others ask them to vote
against it.
"What ought a member to do ? "
asked Representative Eastman , as he
looked up this morning from a pile of
petitions he had just opened. "Here
is one signed by fifty persons asking
me to vote for the bill. Here's an
other with exactly fifty-five names on
It asking me to vote against the bill. "
No More Trading Stamps.
Housh's bill to prohibit raffles and
the use of trading stamps was recom
mended for passage by the almost
unanimous * vote of the committee.
Evans declared that trading stamps
were dishonest in that the price of the
article was put up to cover the cost
of the prize and the conditions im
posed are such that only a small part
of the stamps are redeemed. Skeen
was against the bill because he want
ed the right to buy baking powder.
If he desired with which dishes are
given away. Taylor of Merrick said
that if it would prohibit piano prize
contests among newspaper owners he
was in favor of it.
Analysis of Capital Removal Vote.
Analysis of the vote cast in the
lower house of the legislature upon
the capital removal bill last week re
veals the interesting fact that a large
majority of the members from central
and western Nebraska were opposed
to the measure. It has been claimed
for some time that the capital removal
issue was not seriously regarded in
that -part of the state , and the roll
call bears out this assertion.
*
Senator Tanner's Biil.
Senator Tanners bill providing for
the re-location of county seats has
been killed in the committee room.
Substantially the only change con
templated in the measure , introduced
by the member from Douglas , was in
the majority necessary to swing the
removal proposition , the required
three-fourths as now called for being
cut down to three-fifths under the
Tanner bill.
Will Receive Investigation.
In addition to the investigation now
being carried on as to the advisabili
ty of moving the state university bodily
ily to the state farm campus and the
advisability of maintaining a depart
ment of medicine , the connection be
tween the so-called university school
of music and the university may re
ceive some attention. State Auditor
Barton has made the unchallenged
declaration that this school is a dis
tinctly private enterprise , using the
brandof the state for its own private
financial
SENATE AND HOUSE HAVE DEALT
WITH IMPORTANT ISSUES.
Decided progress was made by the
legislature the past week. The sen
ate agreed upon an initiative and ref
erendum bill and has disposed of the
vexing questions of county option and
Sunday baseball , defeating the first
and passing the second. The house
has settled one form of capital re
moval by decisively defeating it , has
passed a bill for the establishment of
a secondary school of agriculture in
Southwestern -Nebraska and has put
through quite a quantity of bills of
minor importance.
The house committee on privileges
and elections disagreed in the Scheele-
Wertman contest from Seward county ,
and this question may be finally set
tled in the house during tfae current
week. One of the most encouraging
signs of progress has been the early
introduction of the salary appropvia-
tion bill , something never before ac
complished. In addition to this feat
word comes from the finance ways
and means committee that it may
have the general maintenance appro
priation bill ready for introduction to
ward the end of this week. Even if
the bill does not get in until next
week this committee will have per
formed another unprecedented feat in
accomplishing an early drafting of the
bill.
Senator Volpp Aspires.
Senator Fred Volpp has his cam
paign for the gubernatorial nomina
tion well under way. He is grooming
himself now to look like a governor.
In order to keep up his spirits when
adversity arises he nan prepared a
little book in which he pastes all
newspaper comment on his candidacy.
Recently a Bohemian paper in Chica
go mentioned his aspirations. Volpp
had the article translated into Eng
lish and German and is displaying the
notice tohis friends.
Pure Food Law Amendments.
The departmental pure food amend
ments to the present pure food law
were seriously hacked topieces by
the house before it would consent to
recommend them for "passage. Inter
est in the measure seemed to center
among a few men the viva voce voting
ing being noticeably weak and unin
terested. The bill was drafted along
the lines suggested- the retiring
pure food commissioner , S. L. Mains.
Will Not Be a Walkaway.
The Sunday baseball bill is due for
some hard sledding , according to re-
.port. It is asserted that Governor
Aldrich , following out the policy indi
cated in his county option campaign ,
his appeal for the church vote and his
accusations of election fraud in Oma
ha , will refuse to sign the measure.
It would probably be impossible to
pass the bill over the governor's veto.
Wants to' Endorse Reciprocity.
Senator Jansen of Gage county in
troduced a resolution favoring the ra
tification of the proposed reciprocity
agreement with Canada at the after
noon session of the senate on Monday.
Senator Reagan of Douglas introduced
a substitute resolution asking that the
resolution be referred to the commit
tee on commerce , but later withdrew
his substitute.
Will Buy the Statutes.
After spending the usual time in
discussion , a reoccurence of each leg
islative session , the senate decided
to buy 400 copies of Cobbey's sta
tutes , at $9 per set. C .C. Smith of
fered to amend by reducing the num
ber to 72 sets. This amendment was
beaten , 11 to 7 in committee of the
whole.
Agricultural Education Bills.
Agricultural education has been
given a whirl in the house in discus
sion over two bills , one to appropri
ate $50,000 for agricultural education
in high schools , and the other creat
ing the office of deputy county super
intendent , whose dut it shall be to
supervise agricultural training in dis
trict schools.
Passed by Vote of AM Present.
.Without a dissenting vote the initi
ative and referendum bill , -S. F. No. 1 ,
introduced by Skiles of Butler , has
been passed by the senate and will
now go to the house for the approval
of that branch of the legislature.
Every one of the twenty-six senators
present voted for the measure.
Liquor Law Held Legal.
Topeka. The supreme court holds
the new liquor law constitutional. The
law prohibits the sale of liquor for
medicinal or mechanical purposes. The
court held that the legislature has
the right to prohibit the sale of liquor
for any purpose whatever.
As the result of a little reflection
and research on the part of the radical
supporters of an initiative and refer
endum bill , Senator Sidles has asked
unanimous consent to amend senate
file No. 1
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has recommended for
passage Volpp's bill , requiring stu
dents to vote at their parental home
and not at the place of their student
residence if they receive help from
home. This bill , if passed , will elim
inate the student vote In Lincoln.
The claims committee has voted to
allow C. A. Whedon $5,000 for his
work in defending the bank guaranty
law , and has given Judge I. L. Albert ,
at .present state senator , $2,500 for bii
work.
PRIVATE THEATER IN WASHINGTON IS OPENED
. The home of the
WASHINGTON.
new Playhouse club , one of the
most artistic theaters in the country ,
was formally opened , the evening of
February 9 , when a play by Count de
Buisseret , the Belgian minister , was
presented by prominent society people.
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REVIVE LOST ART
Ohicagoans Are to Be Taught
How to Play.
Professor Chubb of University of New
York Says Children Are Losing
True Spirit of Youth and Get
ting Into Adult Ways.
Chicago. Prof. Perclval Chubb of
New York university and head of the
department of English and pageants
in the Ethical Culture school of New
York ; lectured 'here ' the 'other night
under the auspices of the Chicago
Ethical society. He sought to give Im
petus-to the Playground association of
Chicago and to other agencies which
are attempting to teach children and
grown people how to play , for he de
clares that It Is a lost art.
"The old-time play spirit has been
almost entirely forgotten , " he said.
"Children do not know how to amuse
themselves. They no longer play
games at parties ; they don't Indulge
In puppet shows and minstrels.
"The Sunday comic papers are
among the chief offenders against
children. In the schools , for example ,
we work to develop a certain stand
ard of literary and aesthetic tastes in
children. Constantly , in school and
out of school , the Sunday supplement
works against any educative efforts.
In place of better qualities , in the
trough of the comic sheets children
learn smartness , vulgarity , 'money
tricks' and Irreverence.
"Besides establishing bad habits of
taste the Sunday supplements make
for a 'scatter-brain' state of mind
among children. The habit of sus
tained attention is lost I for one
would prohibit these papers to chil
dren until they are sixteen years old.
"The whole environment of the child
Is that of the adult. On the streets ,
for example , the advertisements greet
him. Some of them suggest that ,
child as he Is , one brand of whisky
would be good for him. Another sign
suggests that If he has a headache by
drinking certain preparations the ache
will be r.nred.
"Advertisements take the place of
the old criers. We have forbidden the
noise of one as a nuisance , but the
appeal of the more recent method is
just as loud , just as ugly as the older
street cries. The whole glaring , blink
ing system tends to lower the stand
ards of things. Children become
precocious adults before their time.
"The same state of affairs Is true
when you come to the amusements of
children. They are all adult amuse
ments. The theaters , the songs , the
gutter ditties and the ragtime , even
the moving pictures which have im
proved in tone , present things unfit
for children. I don't mean necessarily
immoral things , but Ideas which are
not intended for children.
"I would urge a system of festivals
and pageants In which schools and
settlements should unite. At Hull
House children's plays are given
weekly. Already dancing is becom
ing a fad in New York , and In Chicago
cage , also , I suppose. Dances to some
extent fall short because in them
selves alone they do not carry any
great Idea. This Is what the pageant
accomplishes. The pageant recalls
old-folk arts , old songs , dances , and
gives them place In an artistic and
aesthetic culture.
' 1 am opposed to the idea that edu
cation is for work alone. I am in
favor of an education for leisure. TJn-
( Jer , the modern system of industrial
organization , if a manja soul Is to be
saved , he must fall back on his leisure
hours. We must educate him for this.
We must create or draw out new ca
pacities for enjoyment so that he can
fall back on himself. "
MAKING A NURSE OF FATHER
Boston Baby Association Plans to
Have Male Parent Aid In Bring
ing Up Infants.
Boston. A new and novel plan has
been set on foot by the Boston Asso
ciation for the Care of the Baby and
Its Food , whereby the father as well
as the mother is to be given careful
and concise instruction as to what is
for the best Interests In the upbring
ing of the child and the care of the
mother.
This departure , after much expe
rience In mother instruction , has been
deemed as one of the essentials in
perfecting the knowledge among the
poor concerning the health of the
child.
The fathers are to be got hold of
through the mothers who apply at the
different milk stations.
Whites' Food Kills Eskimos.
Chicago. The Eskimos of Alaska
are fast becoming extinct , according
to David Johnson Elliott , former gov
ernment educator , who has spent the
last twenty years in Alaska educating
that race and investigating gold min
ing companies.
"The natives are passing away rap
idly , " he said in an address before
the Hawkeye Fellowship club. "They
can't live on the white man's food ,
chiefly becausethey cannot cook it
The children die of Indigestion. "
Mr. Elliott claims the honor of be
ing the first white man to nd gold in
Anvil creek , near Nome.
DOG GUARDS BIG RHINOCEROS
Little Fox Terrier Fights Off Rate In
Central Park Menagerie and
Smiles Is Happy.
New York. Jim , a little fox terriei
that Is one of the privileged charac *
ters around the Central Park men
agerie , Is sleeping every night now in
the cage with Smiles , the rhinoceros ,
to protect the latter from rats. He
Is the best rat catcher that has ever
been around the menagerie , outclass
ing all the traps by a ratio of 2 to 1.
For a long time Smiles was not liv
ing up to his name. The rats fright
ened him until he became sullen.
Now that Jim Is on the job every
night the rhinoceros has a grin on
his face that will not come off.
A cat keeps the rats out of the lion
house , but all the other houses are
badly infested with the rodents , which
care not to go near any of the traps
set for them.
SNOWS GRUB WORMS IN EAST
Connecticut Man , Stanch Member of
Temperance Party , Testifies
to Phenomenon.
Winsted , Conn. Abram C. Shelly ,
an aged and stanch member of the
temperance party , while walking along
Torringford street the other morning
during a snowstorm , perceived hun
dreds of live grub worms on top of
the snow. He gathered a handful of
them and brought them to Winsted to
corroborate his statement In a warm
room the worms appeared as lively as
in the summer.
Shelly Is certain the worms did not
crawl up through five inches of snow ,
and the only way he can account for
their presence on the snow is that the
winds picked them up in the South
and they came down in Winsted with
the snowstorm.
BUY GEMS FOR CORONATION \
j
Jewels Rise In Price From 20 to 25
Per Cent. In Nine Months
Will Go Higher.
London. Buy your jewelry for the
coronation now , for in a short time it
will cost you more.
Every kind of precious stone , with
the exception of the ruby and opal ,
has risen In price from 20 to 25 per
cent , during the last nine months.
"The reason for the rise is , " a well-
known jeweler said recently , "that
the Americans * have recovered from
their recent slump and are buying
every fine jewel they can lay their
hands on.
"At the present moment we are
paving from 25 to 30 per cent , more
for diamonds. Consequently , a stone
costing 100 a year ago cannot be
bought now for less than 125 or
130 ,
"Sapphires have risen 20 to 30 per
cent. , and the other stones , with the
exception of rubies and opals , are
correspondingly higher. The artifi
cial stones keep the prices down.
Opals went out of fashion after Queen
Victoria died.
"Finding that the precious stones
are so much higher in price , people
are buying the semi-precious stones ,
such as the amethyst , topaz , peridot ,
tourmaline and green garnet As a
result , these stones , which , a few
years ago could be had for 4s to 5s ,
are now worth 2 to 2 10s.
"Comparing the prices of stones to
day with those of ten years ago , the
percentages of rises are very much
greater. Emeralds today are fetchIng -
Ing prices then undreamt of. A fine
stone would have been worth 100
then would cost 300 now.
"Pearls , Queen Mary's favorite
stone , also fetch enhanced prices.
Some of the finer specimens are four
times the price they were ten years
ago. "
HEN SELECTS FERTILE EGGS
Leghorn Chicken of Fine Pedigree and
Remarkable Nature Casts Out
"Unhatchable. "
Johnstown , N. Y. Giles Freeman , a
farm hand employed by Eddie Hale ,
owns a brown leghorn hen of fine pedi
gree and a remarkable nature.
Before he bought the fowl from
Hale , Freeman noticed whenever the
hen was put on a new setting she
would kick several eggs from the
nest
Marking these eggs and placing
them under other setting hens , Free
man found not one would hatca. The
remaining eggs invariably brought
forth chickens.
Tired of buying setting eggs for a
ben to scatter over the floor , Hale 'jj
sold the fowl to Freeman. He chris
tened her Minerva.
Freeman now uses her only to sort
j worthless eggs from the settings ot
t farmers who come for milea to hav
the bird pass judgment on their as
sorted eggs.