rj IH J lfe I t Mtv r F 0 r ThelSlopfolkflccas Dewey Is on his way homo bnt he will not roach New Yoik until October Andrew Carnegie has already given nwny more than 17000000 hut still has 100000000 nion to dNpetiFO Tho world is made poorer by tho death of such an artist as Kcmi Honahour and such n statesman as Ktnilio Castelnr If tho CuImih n iilly dont want tho money UneloSnm hi generously nllors thorn there aro plenty of newspaper mon who will appreciate It Queen Victoria is sittl to bo in falling health This U unilnubtidly true but Is not necossardy ulnrininir It is hardly to bo expected that a woman who has just parsed her 80th birthday Ib gaining in strength Tho suggestion in made by n demo cratlo paper that ir tho people give Dowey a house in Washington thoy givo him tho whlto house Hut It for nets that Dewey is in favor of keeping tho Philippines An enterprising Texas boy 10 years of ago proposes to walk around tho earth Ho will start from Fort Worth luno 1st and go to St Louis Chicago and liohton sail for Greenland walk through Scotland and England Europe Asia tho Philippines and roturn by way of San Francisco Ho will pay his way by writing accounts of his trip for thovnowspaporsj Out in southern California tho farm ers of lledhmd Pasadena and Pomona aro offering 5000 to u Tain maker to cause one single Inch of rain to fall upon tho parched snrraco of tho soil Horo In drouth stricken Nebraska a larger fund might easily bo raised for unyono who could successfully provont tho rain from falling for awhile at lenst long onough for farmers to got all their tloldB planted Tho news comes across tho water from tho Philippines that tho men of tho Yorktown who wero captured by the Filipinos somo weeks ago aro recoiving most cruel treatment from their captors This is in violation of tho law of nations aud very plainly shows what kind of n condition of affairs would oxist if Again aldo wero nllowed to sot up a govern ment of hiB own Tho currout facts of history aro making tho position of tho little Americans as pitiable as It is con tomntiblo Tho United States would deservo tho scorn of tho civilized world If it nllowed theso people to bo loft to themselves It would mean tholr de struction Tho viows of no ouo man on tho Phil ippine question aro of moro valuo thnn thoso of Admiral Dowoy Ho has had a chanco to study tho situation at closo range In an interviow whilo ho was at Hong Kong Dewoy said I havo tho greatest enthusiasm in tho futuro of tho Philippines I hopo to spo America possessions tho koy to oriental commerce and civilization Tho brains of our great country will develop tho untold agricultural and miuoral richness of tho islands Wo must novor soil them Such nn act would bring another great wnr Wo will novor part with the Phil ippines I nm suro and in futuro years tho idea that anybody should havo seri ously suggested it will bo ouo of the curiosities of history By comparison with any other state as to climnte sanitary conditions rural landscapes aud tremendous capabilities of production Nobrnska is always a gainer Relative to nil other states Ne braska is the best cattle cereal swino and fruit producing stato in tho uuiou By comparison with tho Golds of Franco Belgium Germany and England the lielda of Nebraska aro mado more valu nblo more beautiful Nowhero on this continent nowhere in Europe can lands be found in this latitado as easily worked as Inexhaustible as productive and as generously remunerative to its cultivators and homebuilders By com parison Nebraska lands grow in estima tion If all Nebraska farmers could 6ee all tho farms aud farmers outsido of Ne braska there would be a marking up of prices ou these luxuriant plains which would make each acre adequate to twico its present power to buy mouey Tho Conservative An exchange very pertiueutly calls at tention to one of the smaller things which ore a hindrance to tho prosperity of bo many communities and which de serves the attention of every man who dees business It is tinio that a com plete change of front wus mado in tho payment of small bills Thero is lots of good hard Bense and sound advice in tho following We want to say a good word for tho man who promptly pays all his Email obligations Thero is too few of him and tho breed needs encouraging Most meu will pay somo time but only the few promptly Almost nuy business man doing a credit business will testify that counting time postago bookkoep iug interest and tho like it costs all some accounts are worth to collect them and still the man owing it to them is per fectly good in a financial way It often happens that the worst siuuers in this particular aro the men best nblo to pay Wo have known mere than one case where a mau having money on deposit - in tho bank drawing interest mado a poor llttlo shopkeeper wait aud wait for IiIr pay nearly a year so that tho debtor might get tho benefit or tho I per cent interest which his bank deposit drew Clod bleos tho man who Is uneasy just as long us ho owes a man a dollar and who when ho has tho money to pay with will hunt up his creditor with as much energy as somo creditors aro forced to uro In hunting up their dobt ors Tho everyday business of ovory community would bo Immonsoly bono fitted by tho prompt payment by nil of tho small obligations for a dollar can do a lot of buslnoss in twonty four hours when it is on tho road traveling Tho slackness of a fow mon in thisporticulnr in a community makcH It harder for all to carry this plan Into effect If you havo been ono of theso slack ones turn over a now leaf Tho Memphis Commercial Appeal democratic says Populism is n thing of tho past Thoso who control tho wreckago and paraphernalia may meet together now and then for tho pur pose of dickering with tho old parties but n representative convention of pop ulists is not likely to bo held within tho lifetlmo of tho propont generation In other words tho democratic party Btart od out to bonovolontly nssiniilato tho pops and under tho disguise of fusion havo succeeded in swallowing them alto gether Thero aro signs of disoontont howovor hero in Nobrnska and tho out look is not altogether a poacoful ono Tlioro aro men in this Muto who aro pop ulists boforo thoy aro democrat a and thoy aro likely to niako a llvoly protost against absoluto burial or absorption AllcriliiUl Snoh exorcises as wero held at Norfolk and tho countloss other cities of tho land aro of priceless valuo to us as a pooplo Who can estimate tho incentives to pa triotism unci lovo of country that such scones inspiro Tho respect wo owo to tho dead is unquestioned but our admi ration for tholr deeds grows upon ub In tho contemplation of what thoy did for us Not only what thoy did on tho bat tlefields which havo mado thoir nnmos historic and imperishable but what thoy aro still doing for us every year by theso recurring Memorial Days Tho veterans aro growing old There nro no longer nuy young men among them But ns tholr ranks thin year by yoar thoso who aro loft grow moro prec ious in our Bight What thoy stand for tho indivisibility of n great and glori ous union assumes moro signiucanco each year Whilo thoy havo been grow ing old tho nation has boon growing great This wns rendered possiblo only by thoir labors Tho Grand Army of tho Republic is tho grandest organiza tion uudor tho protection of tho ling bo causo by it tho flag wns protected and saved Ilouor tho veterans It was fitting that tho fironien should havo a prominent place in yesterdays particle Wo owo much to thorn Thoy aro heroes who at tho risk of lifo and limb often do deods ns bravo and cour ageous ns auy poi formed on battlefields Thoy too deservo our appreciation nnd kindliest consideration aud should al ways havo a genorous recognition from every citizen In time of clangor whon our homes nro threatened by tho fire fiend it is to thorn wo turn for help nnd they never fail us Tho boys who had next place to the old soldiers yesterday wero in tho right placo at the right tinio Gou Garfield ouco said that ho felt like taking off his hat in the preseuco of a boy becauso ho was suoh n bundlo of latent and unde veloped possibilities Wo all noed moro of that feeling Boys nro so apt to bo cast ouo sido and iguorod when it is to thorn wo must look for tho futuro pa triots of the land If thoir wooden guns of their own manufacturo looked some what grotesque if their marching was not very exnet llttlo does it niattor Tho bare legged angular youth in the Kentucky and Indiana forests was not particularly presentable and yet in his final development ho became next to George Washington Amoricas greatest character Thero was stuff in that boy Way down among tho hills of Ver inout n half century ago could be noted a growing boy a good deal like other boys Ho had the same general charac teristics restless untrained and crude A year ago that boy stood ou a battle ship dlrectiug a great nnval engagement and as n result tho stars and stripes float over Manila and now everybody is wait ing impatiently Deweys return to his native land Thero was stun in that boy Who shall say that when tho trials come iu our natlounl lifo duriugtho next half century aud como thoy will some of these kids who marched with tho veterans of Norfolk in lc 9l may not make their names illustrious Who doubts that they will at least prove he roes God bless tho boys 1 It is safe to say that loynlty received added emphasis in this community yes terday The address of Hon W M Robertson was liko a fresh breeze from the uorthclearly setting forth that patri otisin is somethiug real nnd that in n groat wariu which a nutiou is involved Stephen A Douglas words always hold true Thero can bo no neutrals nil must bo either patriots or traitors -A limp Itntr On tho first nnd third Tuesdays of each month up to nnd including Octo ber tho Southern Railway offers to hoincseokcrs and settlors tho advantages of cheap ono way nnd round trip tlckots to practically all polntB in Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carollnn Virginia and Florida Uomeseokors tlckots will be sold tit tho rato of ono faro plus J for tho round trip tickets good 21 days from dato of salo in which to return Tho southeastern territory offers to tho prospector and settlor moro advant ages than tiny othor part of tho United States and tho Southern Railway has nrrauged for tho snlo of tickets on tho dates mentioned nbovo nt low enough rates to onnblo nuy ono to go South nnd investigate tho opportunities offered in that territory For illustrated matter rates and fur ther particulars address Wm II Taylor A G P A Louisvillo Ky J O Bkam JitN W P A SO Adams St Chicago Ills Hi itl Kntnut TriuiMorft Tho following trniiBfors of ronl cstato aro reported by Chester A Fuller man ager of tho Madison county abstract oillco at Norfolk Arohio Robiuson to Rufus Pryor wd lot S block in R R addi tion to Nowmnn Grove 50 00 Carl Roinecclus and wlfo to W 13 Reed wd no- 1 7 i 1 -1 1510 00 F J Halo and wife to Joseph Dlttrlck wd lots 1 2 It and -1 block 0 Days addition Battle Creek 100 00 William II Mnlo to Fred J f Keller wd lot 1 block o Mnth owsoiib addition Norfolk 050 00 Frederick Shopllin and wlfo to Caroliuo Llnstadt wd ei uw f and w noii -0-21-3 1 00 Milindn R Webster to Andrew O Lnrson wd sojjf 18-22-1 2000 00 Carl Linstndt to Cnrolluo htndt wd o no 20-21- 1 00 A Clump rami ami a food One Do you want a good farm whero you can work outdoors in your shirt alcoves for ten months in tho year and whero your stock can forage for itsolf till tho year round If so write to P Sid Joucb Passongor Agout Birmingham Aln or Dr It BCrawfordTraveliug Passenger Agent 0 Rookory building Chicago 111 Do you want to go down and look at somo of tho gnrden spots of this country Tho Louisvillo Ss Nashvillo railroad pro vides tho way and the opportunity on tho first and third Tuesday of each month with excursions at only two dollars over ouo faro for round trip tickets Writo Mr C P Atmoro General Passenger Agout Louisvillo Ky for particulars Do you want to read about thorn foro going Then send 10 cents in silver or postago stamps for a copy of Garden Spots to Mr Atmore ltollof In Six Hour Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by New Great South Aineilcan Kidney Cure It is i grcnt surprise on account of its exceeding promptness n oievini pain in bladder kldrcys and bacK n male or female Relieve rstsntion of water almost immediately If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy Sold by Kocnigsteln Phar macy Norfolk Neb Dock Collet Areu With You If not drink Graiu O mado from puro grains A lady writes Tho first tinio I mado Grain O I did not like it but ufter using it for ono week nothing would iuduco mo to go backto coffee It nourishes aud feeds tho system Tho children can drink it freely with great benefit It is tho strengthening sub stauco of puro graius Get a package today from your grocer follow the directions in making it and you will havo a delicious and healthful table beverage for old and young 10 and 25c Give tho Children u Drink callod Grain O It is a delicious appe tizing nourishing food drink to tako the placo of coffee Sold by all grocers and liked by all who havo used it be causo when properly prepared it tastes liko the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties Graiu 0 aids digestion and strengthens the nerves It is not a stimulant but a health builder and children as well as adults can drink it with great benefit Costs about one fourth us much as coffee 15 and 25 cents Letter List List of letters remaining uncalled for at tho postofllco May 29 1899 Miss Hazel Bailey Miss Annie Carton Alvio Ellison M E Hughes Mr John Miller Mrs Jack Ninss Johannes Ohm John Plulmcek M E Russell If not called for in 10 days will bo sent to tho dead letter office Parties calling for any of the above please say advertised P F SlKECIIEK P M It is now reported thnt Aguinaldo will quit fighting aud como to tho Uuited States aud stump tho couutry for tho anti imperinlists in 1900 Tho trade of tho United States with China during tho last fiscal year was 20000000 This is three times what it nuiounted to a deoado ngo Speculators nro beginuiug to talk about a short wheat crop iu this country this year but the grain keeps oil growing just the same and in ix or eight weeks I the actual conditions will tell tho story i ft TJIENOKFOLK NEWS THURSDAY JUNE 1 1800 CoiiiiiiImIoiktu Irncccdliign Madison May ill 1S01 1 p m Board of county commissioners met pur sunlit to adjournment with A O John son II W Winter nnd John J Hughes present Minutes of Inst meeting rend and on motion approved On motion tho clerk wits instructed to striko from the tax list taxes levied on lots 1 nnd 2 block 22 F W Barnes Second addition to tho town of Mndison for tho yoars 1K81 and 1882 tho records showing thnt said lota wore tho property of school district No 1 and wero used for school purposes during said years Letter from O U Sprnguo superin tendent stnting thnt tho sum of 57 Ib duo tho institute for feoblo minded youth account of Tliomns Shnlloy was rofotrcd to Commissioner Hughes Tho clerk wns on motion requested to notify tho Clinton Biidgo company thnt several pllo bridges must bo erected nt ouco On motion cleric wns directed to ad vertiso for bids for hauling gravel on road two miles north of Meadow Grovo Frank Reed appeared beforo tho board for tho purpose of consummating a sottlemout of alleged diimugos sustained ou account of lovy on threshing mnchino nud power nnd tho matter was compro mised to tho effect that tho county pny him li On motion board adjourned for supper nud mot nt 7 I0 p m On motion claims wero allowed ns fol lows Hammond Bros Stephens record books nud blanks for county superin tendent ijItdoO Stnto Jonrnnl reoard books for county clork 1700 Union Typewriter company type writer ribbons ii50 Madison Water works plumbers sup plies for county jail ijl 05 Madison Water works water rent 750 E G Reeves meals for jurors sjU 23 Thomas Parage plumbing in jail 12 less personal tax 75 cents balance 1125 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tnx Thomas Farage 1808 73 cents J F Altstadt work on bridges 1300 F M Martin 2 days work with team 000 allowed nt 500 less personal tax 100 balance U0 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax F M Mnrtiu 1 CO James Hughes work on bridges 2250 S P Tyrrell work on bridge 150 applied on personal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax S P Tyrrell 1893 150 Andrew Miller work on bridge 160 applied on porsonal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax Andrew Miller 150 Wm Horshaiu work on bridge 150 applied on personal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax Wm Horshaiu 150 J II DeGroot work ou bridge 150 Frank Webb work on bridge 1 50 John J Malone work on bridge 150 John Malone work on bridge 300 applied on personal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax John Malone 300 Charley Clark work on bridge 150 applied on personal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax Charley Clark 150 R E F Crozior renovating residence part of jail building 1925 Charles Fuller riprapping 300 Hnrley Doud riprapping 150 H E Lewis riprapping 1000 less personal tax 325 balance 475 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax H E Lewis 1805 525 J B Donovan printing for county ofilcials 550 applied on personal tax Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax J B Donovan 350 Chicago Lumber company lumber for bridges SU0 Johu H Hulf printing stationary 28 50 On motion board adjourned until to morrow morning at 8 00 a in Board met at 8 00 a m May 25 1809 Claims were on motion allowed towit O M Forney medicino for relief of A Smith 1 15 Brown 90 cents total 235 Dr E N Smart medical attendance aud medicino to James Harden 1750 Gray at Thirty Nothing tells of age bo quickly as gray hair Auers Hair Vigor i is a youth renower It novcr fails to restoro color to gray hair It stops tho hair from coming out Thin hair becomes thick hair and short hair bccomo3 long hair It cleanses the scalp removes dandruff 100 a bottle All druggists If yon do not obtain nil tho benefits you exrocted from tho uso ot the Vigor vfllv iuu uuciur iivuu Du J O ATElt Lowell Mass I t less personnl tax 001 balance f 1053 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tnx Dr Sinnrt 001 G F Fox labor performed nnd lum ber used in riprapping river nt Meadow Grovo 09 10 O W Fox assisting 3102 totnl 15072 Theodore Willo hauling piling etc 81 00 C A Willo hauling lumber for rip rnpping 12 50 Joseph Sheets hnnliug trees 3300 F II Gossett timber furnished and hauled 22 50 lloruinn Lewis work nt riprapping 1200 Philander Doud riprapping 350 lees porsonal tax 218 balauco 132 Carl Wildo county treasurer account tax P Doud 218 Robert Alyea timber for riprapping 2 50 npplicd on personal tax Ctrl Wilde county treasurer account tax 11 Alycn 250 O M Boylcs riprapping 000 ap plied on personal tax Carl Wildo couutv treasurer account tax O M Boyles 000 Jacob Sheets riprapping 450 less personal tax 321 balance 120 Carl Wildo county treasurer account tax Jacob Sheets 321 Fred Nichols riprapping 1575 Davenport Bros rubber boots 800 W G Irvin now counter in clerks oflico aud removiug storm windows 5275 C W Crum county superintendent salary for April 10000 F 11 Gossett and Joseph Sheets 12 wolf scalps 2400 less personal tax 278 balauco 2122 Carl Wildo county treasurer account tax Gossett 150 tax Joseph Sheets 152 J O Reeves ono wolf scalp 2 00 Wilson Cloyd seven wolf scnlps 1400 applied on personal tax Carl Wildo county treasurer account tax Wilson Cloyd 14 00 Mike Richnrdsou eight wolf scalps 1000 T II Sesler eight wolf scnlps 1000 less peronnl tax 170 balance 1130 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax T H Sesler 470 W B Tyler 10 wolf scalps 2000 Bert Hooker four wolf scalps S0O F Wheeler ouo wolf scalp 2 00 H E Cunningham five wolf scalps 1000 Eli Collins four wolf scalps 800 less personal tnx 100 balance 340 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax Eli Collins 100 B B Hetrick six wolf scnlps 1200 less personal tax 800 balauce 400 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax Hetrick 800 W V Gambill four wolf scalps 800 less personal tax 390 balance 410 Carl Wilde county treasurer account tax W V Gambill 390 Mike Richardson 12 wolf scalps 2400 On motion Wm R Daniel wns ap pointed road overseer in and for district No 11 On motion C A Wakely wns ap pointed road overseer district No 24 On motion board ndjourned to meet as a board of equalization at 1 oclock p m on Tuesday June 13 1899 E G Heilman Comity Clerk WOMEN IN TROUBLE Tho Approach of Motherhood is tho Occacion of Iduch Anxloty to All Every woman dreads tho ordeal through which sho must pass in becom ing a mother Tho pnin nnd suffering which is in storo for her is n sourco of constant anxiety fear nnd drend to say nothing of tho danger which tho coming incident entails Tho joyous anticipations with which sho looks for ward to babys coming gives way to nn Indescribable drend of tho ordeal when sho fully realizes 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when most needed Every woman may some day need MotherB Friend The little book Beforo Baby is Born telling all about it and when it Bhould bo used will prove of great interest and benefit to nil expectant mothers and will bo sent freo to any address upon application to the Brndiield Regulator Company Atlanta Ga Attention runners Do sou ilesiro to secure linuderds of t ampu cojiIob of ngricultrrul journals mnnztnn newe tmparB books cntnloROeR unit circnlars of tho It Ht improved fiirm imploirents nnd mncliir u iiml bo kept pritodnn improved toods nud Block for two jears or moro If to eeud iib Miiimnmo with tau cants itiBilver iind wo will insert thoMimo in tho American KurmprB Uirec or whirli itoob wbirlinT nil over tho United SHtcs to ptibllhlicrn merchants nnd mnnufne t iru h Yon will cot more food readlDK matter tlninjon conld ptuchnso tor many timos tho email coBt of ton cents Wo nut overi farmers nntno in tho United States in our directory nt ouco FABMriid DittKoroKY Co Depn nentllB 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