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I'einirn.Mitly locat.d la m ifca. mook iree. llili and Kurnamfts.. SI A HA, - XEB. Hood Yjawr ti ti vS V K vll ft ' "ft !;! tola ' t Ktr I'5B sHnl lELY'S CREAM BALM CURES l'l avvr"C3raTiBiawf jA K7,4 f f J If -j PRICE50CENTS. ALL DRUSGISTshjl Mr 4, iBaaaaaaBaAiBkw NEBKASKA-KANSAS BILL ANNIVERSARY OF A DAY FULL OF LOCAL INTEREST. An Occasion that Poesefi recnllar Im portance to the People or Kansas and Nebraska Organization of the Terri tories or. These Two States 3IcmorlaI Day Likewise the Anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska. Kill An Epoch that Poshed Aside Compromises of the Past and Joined Slavery and Freedom In XInrtal Combat. A Day With Double Interest. Specially I tepared for the Western News paper I'n on The annually recurring1 Memorial Day is nowhere more patriotically ob served than in Kansas and Nebraska. When the call came for volunteers, those young- territories were amonj; the first to respond, and the regiments the furnished fought with bravery and gal lantry inferior to none. They were es sentially loyal territories, and their few thousand inhabitants furnished more recruits to the population than many New England and Middle states. Then, too, Nebraska and Kansas are largely fcettled by the veterans of the civil war and their descendants more largely than sister commonwealths cast and west. It is but natural, therefore, that the irost hallowed holiday, the tribute of a ii ition to the loyalt of its defend ers, should be so patriotically kept in these two states. Hut aside from feelings of gratitude to the fallen, and of reverence to de parted comrade, Memorial Day pos sesses a peculiar interest'for the citizens of Nebraska and Kansas not less patri otic or grateful because so particularly local. It was a most felicitous chance that placed Memorial Day on the an niversary of the Nebraska and Kan sas bill, for it is certainly fitting to observe the last sacred rites of our civil war on the anniversary of one of the material factors in preparing the nation for that war. The bill did more than organize two frontier territories; it pushed aside the compromises of the past, and joined slavery and freedom in mortal combat In IS 14, public attention was first di rected to the "Nebraska Country,' as the vast prairies of the Louisiana pur chase yet unorganized, extending from the MKvouri to the Ifockies, and from the compromise line 30 degrees 30 min utes to the Itritish possessions were popularly called. At that time, peti tions were presented to congress, ask ing that this country be organ ted into a territory with the name "Nebraska."' I Though advoated b such a man as Stephen A. Douglas, the prayer of the petitions was totally unheeded. The vast expanse greater in extent than the present two largest states was given over to the murderous Indian tribes, and had no white inhabitants who were not legally trespassers. The trackless plains were unexplored and popularly supposed to be an arid waste. Hut with the wild rush to the west in M'J, the country became better known: the Indians more under subjection; and settlers multiplied along the rivers of the prairies no longer regarded as des ert. With the increase of population, came a more favorable reception to the requests for the organization of a trans Mirsouri territory. Kach congress up to the thirty-second considered the mat ter, but until the second session of that congress, the proposals did not get be yond the committee stage. A week after the opening of that session, on the 13th of De cember. 1 ".-,, Representative Wil lard P. Hall, of Missouri, intro duced a bill for the organization of the "Territory of the Platte"' to comprise what in former proposals had "been called "Nebraska."' Tor nearly two months the bill was under the consid eration of the committee on territories, which then reported it back with the name changed to "Nebraska." The bill met the bitterest opposition of the southern members. Jy the terms of the Missouii compromise of lS-'O. the territorial location of Ne braska would eventually secure its ad mission as a free state. This the south ern members were determined to pre vent if possible. Though thesouth had been favored by war and l3' legislation, it was still insatiate. The" war of LSI.', the Missouri compromise, the annexa tion of Texas, the Mexican war, the compromises of 15(1, had all been brought about by the efforts of the slave-holding south, and intended to redound to sectional advantage. Yet the south had lot by ail these at tempts. The north now had control of the sen ate, and the slave power could no longer dictate measures without making north ern alliances. For these reasons, the south resisted further extensions of free state territory, and as long as the Mis souri compromise remained effective, would oppose the organization of the Nebraska country from motives of policy. Many northern members were op posed to the passage of the biil on ac count of its conflicting with cxistin" treaties with the Indian tribes guaran teeing them the occupancy of the land. Again, they argued that the population was insufficient, and to organize such a territory would only impose a need less burden upon the national treasury. If it was urged that the country was now populated by thousands of indus trious inhabitants, they answered that the laws of the times made all such trespassers and law breakers. In the committee of the whole house, the rejection of the bill was recom mended, but in some unexplicable m in ner, its friends managed to prevent its defeat at that stage, and secured its passage by a -vote of Its to 43. On the next day the bill was sent to the senate. There it met a strongly organized opposition determined on"its defeat. In the usual course, it was re ferred to i-enator Douglas" committee on territories, and after that all efforts to secure a repurt were unavailing. In the closing hours of the session the frsem's of the bill became desperate. On the last day but one, a motion to take it up for action was lost by a close vote. 2H to .'.-.. The next da in the last hours, another attenint was made to bring up the bill. This time its friend were but too successful, for it was taken up anil tabled to prevent further waste of the few precious mo ments left of the dying session by their filibustering. On the folimving day. Franklin i lerce was inaugurated president. Mr. licreewasa democrat, a resident of New Hampshire. His election over l.encral "coit, the whig candidate, had been o triumphant that the nation had good cause to express its astonish ment, the campaign had 1 een with out issues. Moth parties were in union m regarding the compromise measures of l-oo, relative to the admission of California, as a final settlement of the slavery question. Each presidential candidate expressed h.s hope that the dangerous discussion had been forever closed, and the inaugural addros of i u-rce declare 1 the strife ended, and expressed the president's, determination io prevent its renewal. For several months the country en joyed a second era of good feeling. 1 he politicians of the day had no troublesome issues of national impor tance over which to quarrel. Pierce was popular, and exercised rare tact in the selection of his cabinet advisers. Hut the slavery question was only ap parent y sett ed. for a few months later the agitation was to be renewed in all us terrible strength and animosity by the faction which had most strenu ously inisied on the finality of the comprom ises of is:p. r On the r.th of December, 1S.-.3, the r.nd congress met iu iih tirst session The organization of the senate had scarcely been completed w ieu a imva senator, Augustus C. Dodge, gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill for the organization of the territory of Ne braska. The nextday President Pierce submitted his message to congress. After congratulating the country on the successful settlement of the slavery question as raised by the acquisition of vast territory through the Mexican war, he expressed a hope that the dis cussion was over, and announced his determination to prevent any further shock to the confederacy thereby. On the 14th, Senator Dodge intro duced his bill. On examination it was found to be practically identical with the one so sarcastically killed at the close of the preceding session. Noth ing was said in any way as to slavery. Uy implication, the Missouri compro mise would govern, and the new terri tory would come in as a free state. After the first and second readings, the bill was referred to the committee on territories, with Douglas again chairman. The next day after com mitment, it was reported back with a number of amendments. Some of these caused a mild sensation, for they seemed plain enough, yet their import was scarcely credible. On the 4th of .lanuary, 18.11, the committee made a special report which left no doubt as to the meaning of the amendments. The committee unequivocally declared the compromise of IS'JO no longer oper tive, it having been repealed as inconsistent with the compromise measures of JS'JO. The latter, the committee said, rested "upon the great principles of self government, that the people should be allowed to decide the questions of their local in stitutions for themselves." As a corol lary, the right of congress to interfere with slavery was denied. An indignant protest came from every hamlet and citj- of the north. For more than thirt' years, the compromise of lSr-'O had stood so revered that it seemed almost a part of the constitu tion. At the time of its adoption, noth ing else could have saved the country from civil w ar. Though there had been talk of its repeal, su.di had never been seriously regarded. If such a compact could bethriistaside from caprice, what assurance was there that the constitu tion, the lives, the liberties of flie na tion were safe? It was as Sumner said; the conscience of the people was nroused. The sudden, audacious change in the bill is accounted for in two ways. ly some, it is alleged that in the preceding congress a conspiracy had been found to give the south additional slave terri tory. This theory supposes that the Hall bill of that congress had been killed to make way for a measure more faorable to the slavery interests. This seems plausible, as the new congress was seated a day after the liist bill was tabled, and was well known to be of strong slavery s3mpathies. Then, many supposed that Mr, Douglas' ambition for the Presidency had led him to associate himself with the most radical clement of the domi nant slaveociacy. Uut from whatever motives amended, the committee's re port speedily changed the conditions and made thcu-c who had formerly championed the measure its inot un tiring foes On the second day after the special report, Archibald Dixon, tl.e late Whig Oovernor of Kentucky and the succes sor of Henry (. lay in the senate, gave notice that when the Nebraska bill should conic befoie the senate, he would move to amend, so that "The Missouri Compromise shall be repealed, anil that the citizens of the several states shall be at liberty to take and hold their slaves within any of the ter ritories.' His amendment was soon in disfavor with those who would, if frank, have expressed their satisfaction witli it. The committee had taken the stand that the compromise of Is'Jt) was already repealed: Dixon's amendment was too candid in openly raising the real issue of repeal. Hut even if con cealed in a mas of technical verbiage, the only question befoie congress and the country was the repeal of the Mis souri compromise. Four months the stormy debates pro gressed. Each day made the issue clearer on the extension or limitation of slavery. During the discussion, agents of the Nebraska country arrived in Washington, with petitions asking the division of the proposed territory, and suggesting that to avoid divid ing the (.heiokec country the boundary be placed at 3Tdeg. instead of 3ideg. 3') inin. These suggestions, lecominend ed by the lowaand Missouri delegations, were adopted by the coiniirttcc, and the proposed territory divided along the 40th parallel into "Kansas" in the south anil "Nebraska" in the north. Tnjs division further excited the north. The avowed purpose of the south wns to secure Kansas, tiie south ern territory, and to contemptuously give Nebraska to the free states Fur ther, the two territories would be twice as expensive as on", and one t -rritorial government was thought to be a need loss luxury. '1 he slave-holders coveted Kansas It was of easy access to .Mis souri and Texas, slave states. It was by climate better adapted t J the negro Nebraska was too frigitl, and too much surrounded by free territory to be of great desirability to them. Hut the north was determined to prevent either territory becoming slavery ground, and desperately contested every inch. The bill passed the senate after four months debate. substantially as reported by the committee. An amendment by enator Chase, making the apparent issue ju t what the disguised issue was, the repeal of the Clay compromise, was defeated. Senator Claj-ton of Delaware, on the day before the passage of the bill, amended by disfranchising and making ineligible to office foreigners who had merely declared their in tentions of becoming citiens. With this amendment, the bill passed by a vote of 37 to 1 1. The southern whigs joined the democratic senators in supporting the measure, now a test of loyalty to the administration. On .lanuary 31st, a week or so after the report of the committee dividing the propo-ed territory into Kansas and Nelusska, Chairman Kiclrirdson o the house committee on territories, reported a bill which had been recommended by a majority of the committee, and which became the subject of as much debate as the senate bill. The condition of the public mind, in the meantime, seems incicdibly excited. Citizens of every condition: clergymen of every creed; so cieties of every kind: legislatures of many states petitioned congress in op position to the bill. The excitement about the time the bill passed the sen ate was intense, but as unpopular amendments appeared to insure its de feat in the house, the public mind once more 1 ecaine quieted. The discussion was resumed on the th of May, after Mr. Richardson offered the senate bill as an amendment to the committee's bill. Public interest was re-awakened in an intensified degiee. That fort night of national anxiety was never equalled in any time of peace or war. On the --d of May, the bill was placed on its final passage in the house. A last desperate clfort was made to pre vent a vote. Every conceivable means of dilatory procedure was tried in vain to prevent.the inevitable. The house was in session nearly twelve hours, and in that time no less than twenty-iiinc roll calls were demanded and ordered. Just before midnight, the roll was tailed for the last time, and the house commit tee's substitute bill passed by a vote of 1 13 to 100. 'J his bill was identical with the senate measure in all its provis ions, except the Clayton amendment, which was ommitted On the 2.1th, the senate too' up the house substitute. The opposition rec ognized the uselessness of further at temp to secure its defeat, and sol emnly warned the majority of the effects of the odious measuie. It was finally passed at the end of a thirteen hour session. No roll call was ordered, but the dilatory motions during the night session showed that the bill had neither made nor lot votes since its first passage by the senate. The final passage was really at I oeio-k on Sun day morning, the VCth day of May, but the senate was still sitting in the legis lative session of the 3.1th. Thursday, the 30th of May, 1S54, President Pierce approved the bill. The long struggle ceased with universal ill feeling that lasted until the close of the war struck at the root of the trouble; and two more frontier territories were duly organ ized. The effects of the bill seem scarcely conceivable. The whig party was wiped out of existence, and the democratic party suffered most terrible northern losses. A new party sprang up, a big oted, secret organization that soon sank back into forgetfulness. Party lines were then in reality drawn on the slavery or bondage of the negro, what ever were the nominal issues. The dis cussion may have been unnecessarily revived, but its effect was tremendous. In the forty years of their organized government, Nebraska and Kansas have made most marvelous progress. Although shorn of much of their former territory, the population is now mill ions to the thousands of those days. The rough ox cart has given way to the luxurious overland flyer; the pine shanty to the sybaritic palace; Father Hamilton's little mission to the arched cathedral. What the future will bring forth we may not conjecture; but if as full of progress as the past. "Oh, what wonderful things will our grand children see!" PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR. .Mark Twain will build a cottage , near Fort Phenix, Mass., on a site recently presented to him. ' Figures of Grant and Lincoln in high relief are being modeled in New , York by O'Donovan for the Hrooklyn arch. Yang Yu, the Chinese minister at Washington, is cutting a very wide swath. His costume, carriage and ' mansion outshine those of any other diplomate. Frank Russell of Cheboygan Wis., has succeeded in domesticating a sea gull, which is now running about his farm with a broo.l of chickens, of no earthly use to an3body. Lord Roscberv's son ana heir, who bears the title of Lord Dalmcny, is a bright boy about 12 years old. There arc also several little daughters in the big mansion in Berkeley square. London. Evelyn Abbott, fellow of Halliol college, Oxford, has been chosen by the present master and fellows to prepare the biography of the late Professor Jowett, so long the master of Halliol. Lady Hutlcr is engaged on a pict ure of "Waterloo," which may possi bly rival her wonderful "Roll Call" in public estimation. She is now set tled at Aldershot with her husband, Sir William Hutlor, and her five chil dren. William Finney Teeple, who died at Manchester, Pa., a few days ago at the age of 70 years, was famous as a deer slayer. He began killing them when he was 1 1 years old, and is said , to have shot not less than 3,000 of t tll'Mll. j The richest actor in the world is M. Coquelin. whose fortune is estimated atSl.00n.003. Next to him, in point of wealth, is probably Henry Irving. Of actresses, Mme. Sirah Bernhardt has made the most money, and spent the most. A man in Paris wrote to Henry Irv ing for a loan on the ground that his resemblance to the English actor had becom- burdensome to him on account of the frequency with whic'i he was mistaken for the latter. Henry mailed him a shilling and advised him to.end his misfortunes by having his hair cut. The ancient Warner house in Ports month. N. II.. is noted as being the oldest dwelling in the city, but is chiefly interesting from the faet that Colonel Warner, who occupied the house, more than a century ago. en gaged Hen Franklin, in whose elec trical experiments he was interested, to erect a lightning ro I on it. This was the first lightning rod put up in New Hampshire, and it is still in use after a service of 131 j'cars. The late Professor Billroth of Vien na attained his greatest fame in 1 881, when he performed for the first time with success the excision of the pyloric end of the stom ich for cancer. This achievement made his reputation world wide. His long military ser vice made him jO'n-MViiat of a in lrti net in his clinic, vh-rc the strictest d'scipline prevaile:. but h's pupils revered if thej did not love him. For the ten years preceding his death he ranked as the first virgeon of Europe. THEY MEAN BUSINESS. In the Northern districts of Mani toba dog trains are still in use. and very satisfactory time is made by the animals, who skim over the frozen snow at a rapid rate. A Georgia undertaker has adopted a novel method for increasing h's busi ness. His advertisement reads: "Fun-Mais on the installment plan. Two dollars a week will bury jour best friend."' .los'ah Hoopcs of Westchester, Pa., has been collecting An erican birds for forty years pas', and now has. carefully mounted, what is believed to be one of the finest collections in the I'nited States. It numbers 0.000 specimens. He is still continuing the work. The successor of the Fifth avenue bank of New York, in offering special facilities for womn, has been fol lowed in Hrooklyn, where a new foin't is to be located in the magnificent storage building just opened in the center of the business district. It will hax-e a special entrance for women and their business will be catered to. A charter has been issue 1 to the Hluetield elect-ic railway company, composed of Philadelphia capitalists. The company proposes tj build an electric railway about twenty miles in length to connect six towns in the Blueficld coal region of West Virginia. The railway will carry both freight an 1 passenger., and will be the first of its kind in the state. WAGES. The king of Prussia's salary is S3,-S5-003. The king of Greece draws S200.000 yearly. Virginia convicts are hired out to shoe contractors and railroads. In Russia the fees of physicians arc regulated by a government edict Cashiers in the stores of Smyrna, Turkey, receive an average salary of 514 per week. The regular salary of the superin tendent of a Cuban sugar plantation is S100 a month. Station laborers on the German rail- ' roads are required to be on duty from .1:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. seven days iu the week. It is claimed that the laborers in ever occupation are paid from two to five times as much in the United States as in any country in Europe. A street sight that interests people is the carving of the ornamental work on the fronts of buildings in course of construction. Stone carvers get from S4..10 to S.1..10 a day for eight hour.' j work. Thej- are expert workmen. j gltc gonsclwld K-e-Keepins In Cuba. The honey-bee was introduced into Cuba from Spain at a very early pe riod of its history; and being a land of perpetual flowers, with no winter to impede their labor, they soon spread to all parts of the island, and bee keeping has long since become one of the established industries, says a writer in Gleanings. There is prob ably no other country of equal extent on the globe which has furnished an equal amount of honey and beeswax. The latter has, for more than two cen turies, illuminated the churches of both this island and the mother coun try, besides furnishing the supply needed for other purposes, while the former has found a remunerative mar ket in all civilized countries, chiefly in Germany, England, France and the United States. A Cuban bee-hive is very simple, consisting merely of a hollow palm log, or oblong wooden box, 10 to 15 inches in diameter, and 5 to G feet in length, open at both ends. These hives are arranged in a horizon tal position, three or four feet high, supported on a framework of long t bamboo poles resting on posts driven into the ground. When these hives are full of honey, the Cuban bee-keeper, after thoroughly smoking the bees, thrusts, into one end of the hive, a long sword shaped knife and cuts the combs loose from the inside walls. He then in serts a long iron rod, flattened at the end, and bent in the form of a right angle, clear into the brood nest (which generally occupies about fifteen inches in length of the center of the hive), cuts the combs, and pulls them out one by one. He then performs the same operation on the other end of the hive, and so continues until the whole apiary is gone over. The combs are now submitted to pressure, and the wav separated from the honey. Of course, the honey so obtained is not very pure, being mixed with pollen, propol's, dead bees, and the juices of larv, all of which tends to cause fer mentation. Cuban honey (than which, when pure, there is no finer in the world) has gained an unenviable repu tation. Native apiaries, of from .10 to 300 or 100 hives, arc frequent, and sometimes as many as 2,000 are kept in a single yard. The season for sur plus honey extends from October to April, the height of the How being from the middle of December to the middle of February; but there is al most always a sufficiency for breeding purposes, and hence the Cuban bee keeper never resorts to feeding. He "robs" his hives only once or twice during the year, and seems satisfied with an average production of 7.1 to 100 pounds of honey, and fouror five pounds of beeswax per hive. Hutter. Tiik annual report of Secretary Hutchins of the Elgin Butter ex change shows that during iS93 30,00, 52.1 pounds of butter were sold by members for SS,0.10,4-.G, and 0,301,703 pounds of cheese forS.172,501. The to tal production for twenty years has been: Butter, 213,104,101 pounds: cheese, 130,305,41.1 pounds. The aver age price for Io93 was: Butter, 20 cents; cheese, 0 cents. In 1802, but ter, 2.1K cents; cheese, S- cents. The total cash transactions for twenty-two years was SGI, 507,594.80. The average price for twenty-two years was: But ter, 2SK cents; cheese, S"4 cents. The number of factories represented is 3.19; members, 293. There was dur ing the j-ear an increase in the production of butter; but a de crease of cheese. Owing to the fact that a number of factory men shipped their milk and cream during six months of the year, the increase in the production of butter is not so great as it would otherwise have been. During 1893, more than 78,090,000 pounds of milk were produced in the district, which have not entered into the production of cither butter or cheese, he finds. More than 1,500,000 pounds of butter and 1,. 100,000 pounds of cheese had been produced in facto ries in the district, which arc not pre rcsentcd on the board. Farmers' 'Re view. Statistics given in a census bul letin just issued disclose that the increase in the capital employed in the manufacturing establishments of the I country, ana in iiie wages pam uicie in, during the decade ending in ls90, has been out of all proportion to the increase in the number of such estab lishments, though that has been suffi ciently marked. The number of man ufacturing establishments increased from 2.13.852 in 1SS0 to 355,401 in 1590, an increase of 101,549 establishments, or a little over 40 per cent The capi tal employed, on the other hand, in creased from S2,790,272,00" to S",521, 17.1 301 in 1890, an increase of S3.73 1,202.099 in ten years, or over 130 per cent. During the same period the amount of wages paid increased from S947,953,795 to 52,282, 823,20.1, an in crease of SI, 334, o09, 170, or an increase of over 140 per cent. The cost of ma tciials increased from S3,390,j3,519 in 1880 to .5, 158,808,3.13 in 1890, and the value of products increased during the same period from S5,309,579, 191 to 59.370,107,024. These comparisons have to be taken with the qualification that some industries which are included in the statistics for 189o were omitted in those for 1880, but even with this qualification the showing of progress made is a sufficiently striking one. Why a Cw is Symihm.icai. of I.iiikk . The right of covering the head was in early times a mark of liberty, slaves only going bareheaded. When a slave was given his freedom, it was customary for his late master to pla"e on his head a small red cloth cap, called pileus. When this had been done, he was termed libcrtinus (a frccdman) and his name was regis tered in the city tribes. In 203 H. C, Saturnius, on taking possession of the capital, hoisted a cap on the top of his spear to indicate that all slaves who joined his standard should be free. Marias used the same symbol when he incited the slaves against Sylla. When Ciesar was murdered, the conspirators marched forth with a cap on a spear as a token of liberty. The Goddess of Liberty in the Aventihc mount was represented as holding in her hand a cap. In France the Jacobins wore a red cap. In England a blue cap bor dered in white, with the word liberty in gold, is a symbol of the constitu tional liberty of the nation, and in our country the statue of Liberty always wears a cap Oyster Plant. After scraping cut across iu thin slices; put in water suf ficient to cover them, using a piece of salt codfish for seasoning, and stew until quite tender, removing the codfish before serving; add flour and butter mixed together for thickening; put slices of toasted bread on a dish and pour over 11k enjoys much who is thankful for a little. A grateful mind is a great mind. Rest Islander. mm Kltcftca ta Tfcre-w. We read of peculiar things happening in life, and a wise man should be sur prised at nothing. In like manner a comely and modest woman has often found a fortune in her face if she knows how beauty should become her. To wit: During the troubles in the reign of King Charles I., a country girl came up to London in search of a place as servant maid; but, not succeeding, she applied herself to carrying ont beer from a brew-house, and was one of those then-called tnb-women. The brewer, observing a well-looking girl in this low occupation, took her into his family as a servant, and, after a while, she be having with so much prudence and de corum, he married her; he died when she was yet a young woman and left her a large fortune. The business of the brewery was dropped, and the young woman was recommended to Mr. Hyde as a gentleman of skill in the law to settle her affairs. Hj de (who was after ward the great Earl of Clarendon), find ing the widow's fortune very considera ble, married her. Of this marriage there was no other issue than a daugh ter, who was afterward the wife of James II., and mother of Mary and Anne, Qneens of England. Land and Water. The Watches of the Night When of the repeated Kind experienced by persons troubled with insomnia, soon brinx a'eout an alarming condition of the tier on system. Thcshakin hand, confusion of I he h'rain, lapeof memory and los of appetite indicate, with terrible, precision, the rav ages produced by Io--, of sleep, which if un remedied must destroy mental equilibrium altogether. No hotter and thorough nerv ine exists than l!olctter' Stomach Hitlers. Common ense and experience point to its early and steady Use In cases of insomnia. It strengthen neat, and relaxes the tension of overstrained nerves, which, by the way. a retort to tinincrilcaled stimulants will necr do permanently, while the after effect or such excitants N most prejudicial. Cnder the influence of thi- benijxn invisorant. ap petite, digestion and sleep leturn. and 1 ocl ilv comfort and health aic alike promoted It' is invaluable in chills and fever, liver complaint, constipation, rheumatic and kid ney trouble. Wealth Not Omnipotent. Wealth is potent in its own sphere, font impotent beyond ir. It can put a telegraph under the sea anil cover the land with a network of wires as with a spider's wob. It can build railroads and foridgo oceans. It can buy houses and lands and every material advantage ; hut hero its power stops. It cannot pur chase goodness, or justice, or gentleness, or patience, or love, or true friendship. It cannot make character stronger, or life sweeter. It can say to the minister, I will feed you nnd clothe you while you are makinrr men better, and to the teacher, I will take care of you while you are making men wiser, but it can do nothing without the bruin of wisdom or the heart of goodness. It can build railroads, but it is powerless to build rieii. CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS. Detrolt.Mich., says: "The effect of Hall's Catanh Cure is wonderful." Write him about it Sold by Druggists, 75c Effect of Tea on Hie Skin. If you place a few drops of strong tea upon a piece of iron, a knife blade, for instance, the tanuate of iron is formed, which is black. If you mix tea with iron filings, or pulverized iron, you can make i fair article of ink. If you mix it with fresh human blood, it forms with the inwi of the blood the tannate of iron. Take human skin and let it soak for a time in strong tea, and it will lecome leather. Now, when we remember that the liquids which enter the stomach are rapidly a' sorbed by the venous absor bents of the stomach, nnd enter into the circulation and are thrown out of the svh tem fov the skin, lungs, and kidnevs, it is probable that a drink so common as tea, I nnd so abundantly used, uill have borne effect. Can it be possible that tannin, in ! traduced with so much liquid-producing I respiration, will have no effect upon the skin ? Look at the tea-drinkers of Rus sia, the Chinese, and the old women of America, who have so long continued the habit of drinking strong tea. Are they not dark-colored and leather skinned ? The World's Columbian Exposition , Will be of x-alitc to the world by illus trating the improvements in the me chanical arts and eminent physicians will tell you that the progress in med I icinal agents, has been of equal impor ! tance, and as a strengthening laxative that Syrup of Figs is far in advance of all others. I Oliver Wendell Holmes contends that true greatness has never yet been able to master a pretty hand in pen manship. IIrgemnn'ainplinr Ire with Glycerine. Tin in iginal and unit ci-niiini. Cun.;iiapri! II:imN and Kac', Cold Sore. Ae. C.G.UurICo.,X.Haen.c.i- It never iny to end the ehi'drcn into the street to j;ei quiet in the j ur'or. Triile is n bard snale to kill entirely dead. The ninn who trave's down hill makes rapid progress. llanon" Nnj;lc Corn Salr." Wamintml tociiri'or iiin:n n furiilm!. .Vk our drugo-i-t for it. 1'ru 1". i-at. Never nttetnj.t to compliment a nian when ho knows he has tnnriea fnilure. The sound must seem nn e ho to the sens-e. 1'oj e. In rase deaf as the ea: Pasty as the fire. Slinkesj-eare. Mnn is the merriest sreeics of the crea tion. Addion. ("ourase is something that n coward can only imitate. Billiard Table, jerond-hind. For Tt'e (heap. Arpij-toor nildress. II. C Akin, .111 S. 12th St . Omaha, Neb. Unselfish Ioe is the only thins that can Le truly great. Western American Scrnery. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y hns now reaily for distribution a sixteen rnp,e iwt folio of scenes alons; its line, hnlf tones, of the sie of the World's Fair ort folios lately issued. They are only ten cents eacli and can le obtained without delay by remitting the amount to Geo. II. IlE.rroi:i, Uenernl Pass. Agent, Chii-ago. 111. There is a yonug lady who follows the fashions so closely that she will not eat oysters unless they are Ecnlloped. v CURES PROMPTLY LAMENESS. '9 SOOTHES. SUBDUES. CURES. TOURIST TRAVEL To COLORADO RESOBTS Will vt in early this jear. and the Creat JKock Island Route h ultvauiy nu'o ndjt-.ct .r nnif-meni ti trnprt .! many bbo will VaKe le the lovely cool of Colorado's HIGH ALTITUDES. The Track Is porfect. and iloutilw orer tmportint HlTlsion. Train Fqnlpment the jery bt. and . so.td -sUbuIi Train cllwl the BIO FIVE '""".S'?'"' diilr at 10 p. m.and arrle i'il morning at l-nc or Colorado Sprins tor breakfaH An) Coupon Ticket Aint can plre yon ;'" further Information fill te chejrfolly and quickly re- -ponledtouyaddrewinir JNO S.E5 General Passenger Agent, Chicago. aiglMJOX W.-TIOHKIS, IMLPIOl UU WanlilncioM, B.C. 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. iroPririClpal Examiner U S. Pension Bureau. a 3 yrsln last war, ISadjudlcatiug cluma, attyeuice. tflAnat.flwf.fl and DCODle wl,r havn wk Inntranr Asth na.saoulduie liso scare lor Consumption, it bus enrew ttMMsaaad.. It ha not Injur ed one. It is tot bud to take. II IS me Des.cijiiKn syrup. boia evcrv-Kncri ..c. U.I'UHH.s.M-1 You want the Best Royal Baking Powder never disappoints; never makes sour, soggy, or husky food; never spoils good materials ; never leaves lumps of alkali in the biscuit or cake ; while all these things do happen with the best cf cooks who clins: to the old-fashioned methods, or who use other baking powders. If you want the best food, ROYAL Baking Powder is indispensable. ROYAL BAHifia POWDCR CO., 1C9 WAIL T., NCW-1CRK. Tap Wisdom of Dumas. Brunettes deceive blondes betray. Give money, but never lend it. Giv ing it only makes a man ungrateful; lending it makes him an enemy. If men would spend in doing good to others a quarter of the money they spend in doing harm to themselves, misery would vanish from the earth. Man was created to utilize everything even sorrow. A woman's venality is the punishment of the man that buys her. The only thing I am astonished at is that people are astonished at anything. Coffee Custard. Make a good, strong extract of coffee by dripping it as slowly as possible for ten people you will want two cnpfuls; take eight of tho same measures of milk, and beat into the milk yelk of six eggs; add three ounces of powdered sugar ; mix into this the two cnpfuls of coffee; as coffee differs in strength, better taste to see that is sweet enough; pour the mixture into cups, and put the cups in a not-too-deep pan with boiling water; the level of tho water ought not to stand higher than the cup; do not try and boil tho water too hard; about 15 minutes of boilincris necessary. We should try to find the golden mean, and neither be " lavish nor stingy. H6 hits his money best sient who has the lest wife. The husband may earn money, but only the wi'e can save it. "A wiso woman btiildcth her house." The wife, it seems, according to Solo mon, is the builder or tho real puller lown. A man can not prosper till ho gets his wife's leave. A thrifty house wife u better than a great income. A good wife and health are man's best wealth. Charlc II. Spurtcon. Th subject of the above portrait i th Rev. Clias. Proser,a much le!oved and most devout minister of the gospel at Mount Car mel, Northumberland Co., Pa. Mr. Prosser's usefulness, was, for a long time, greatly im paired bv a distressing, obstinate disease, how his "malady was finally conquered we will let him tell in his own language. He eavs : " I was a great sufferer from dyspep sia, and I had suffered so long that I was a wreck ; life was rendered undesirable nnd it seemed death wns near : but I came in contact with Dr. Pien-e's Golden Medical Discovery and his ' Pleasant Pellets.' I took twelve Iwttles of .' Discovery,' nnd several bottles of the 'Pellets,' and followed tho hygenic advice of Dr. Pierce, and I nm happy to ay it was indeed a cure, for life L$ worth living now." For dvspepsia. or indigestion, " liver com plnint,"or torpid liver, biliousness, constipa tion, chronic diarrhea and nil derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels, Doctor Pierce"s Golden Medical Discovery effects porfect cures when nil other medicines fail. It has a specific tonic effect upon the lining membranes of the stomach and bowels. As an invigorating, restorative tonic it gives strength to the whole system nnd builds up ynlid flesh to the healthy standard, when re duced by "wasting diseases" Mr. J." F. Hudson, a prominent lawyer of Wbitchervilte, Selwstinn Co., Ark., write : ' Having suffered severely, for a long time, from a torpid liver, indigestion, constipa tion, nervousness and general debility, nnd finding no relief in mv efforts to regain my health, I was induced to try Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and 'Pleasant Pellets.' Under this treatment, I improved very much and in a few months was abl to attend to my professional duties." Yours truly. .'J'. tfU To purifv, enrich nnd vitalize the blood, and thereby invigorate the liver and diges tive organs, brace up the nerve", and put tho system in order generally ; also to build SWELLINGS, BACK-ACHE, ovifcncooi WELL MACHINERY ninstrated catalogae shoving WELL AUGERS. BOUK UIUI.LM. II) UttAULIU ArD llliiu jiA,iii.ij,j, (; Sent Thwm. nave Deen tested ana all irarmnfra. Sioux lty Knalne A Iron Work, slcccmou ;o itcojiik i . I Nlouz Itjr. lawn. 1J17 Union Are.. Kansas City, Mo. WORN NIGHT AND DAY., -BsKaBTSasHsafc HoM th worst nip- I -X ,fa9LBBEBBr9r'B. tun with raseunileralk I D ""TT"?"""""rc"""'icircumstan-es. lVrfct fcj MM BlABf I yVM"l A.l lu-t m-nt. romfoil I rH. ffimrtmm BflarxiOin- wPtnW g "a- UOO JB fanmmwill illTv f HBW"HH"IBHr tfd eatalofrae snd t C4 VBiC"BiaH"BW ntlr for iir masur m. DmrM mnt sent fffflrii T Wr M led. G. V HOUSfc C W MFG. CO., 744 Broad- r 'r way. ftew TforH City. CD EC I Madame FAGEILEIC1 rillibi Ruppert's AprfCIt-csT!ifwtttthor.33'HUofIHl cf tn U.S. rTt nito'eJ my Fe BJcfa.on jktCtftlfit of rw, vrhirh l I T ', tn-i Iner lr that ail m riiril a fair trial. I tirf pfTa J. rn rr M f '!- FACE BM:.OI r rMtM -a-ni "'- ai-..-!! ' frrkI'n.l-lilh.M.lfcJ. lw f -.! ft !. riIil.'rwiC'' kit .! Ifcli teial V!tB. A&IrrM Mme. A. RUPPERT,G E. 14th 8t.,M.r.Cltf iiv II I rm i i r-wVnaVH ar-f TohCi. The.-e 13 nothing like youth. The sunsh:.. streams upon the flowers. The bloo. rushes wildly through tho veins. Tho air is full of music, and echoes of happy laughter are borno on every irecze. All tho world seems wrapped in golden mist, and hope, a white-winged angel, shines iu tho rosy heaven of the future. For age, tho rustle of the doad leaves! For sorrow, the wail of tho autumn wind, the gad November twilight, and tho lonesomo splashing of the rain 1 What have age and sorrow to do with life? Let them thrust away their doleful gloom while for youth and beauty, and love and mirth, the silver bolls ring, tho wino sparkles, and tho earth is strewn with roses. William Winter. Mil Ion's Consumption furo t oM on n ciinranti-o. It rtirrn Im-ipU-nl I on'tmr tiuo. It is the t-st Couxh Cur. 25ct..SOciwft !JMl 1'arsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips and especially mangel-wurzel, will all fatten pigs. These roots ought not to be given in a raw state, bnt always cooked and mixed with beans, peas, Indian corn, oats or barley, all of which must be ground into meal. When pigs are fed on such cooked food as wo have stated, the pork acquires a peculiarly rich flavor, and is much esteemed, es pecially for family use. Y ....... i..... ....... .in.r..i ...A. is t IEEIIIM 111,19 nil' ii wimui'i mi mi-ui- eine for any bilious or nervous disorder, such a sick headache, etc Price, 21 cent a Lox. TrnNirs are healthful for horse. They should be cut in slices, or, what is better, pulped finely and mixed with a little meal and some salt. Itutabagas are better than white turnips. up both solid fTesh nnd strength after prip. pneumonia, fevers and other prostrating diseases, "Golden Medical Discovery" lias no equal. It does not make fat peoiue niop coqmlent, but builds up t-nlul, rchutewmc f'ih. Do you feel dull, languid, low--spirited, have fullnessor bloating nltereating.tongun coated, bitter or bad taste m mouth, irregu lar appetite, frequent headaches, "floating sjeeks" lief ore eyes, nervous prostration ami drowsiness after meals I If you have nny considerable nuniler of these symptoms, you are suffering from torpid "fiver, nssocinted with dyspepsia, or indigestion. The more complicated your disease the greater the iiiiiiiIkt of symptoms. No matter what stage it Ins reached. Dr. Pierco's Golden Medical Discovery will sub due it. Nervousness, sleeplessness, nervous prrs tration, nervous debility, nnd kindred dis turbances nro generally due to impoverished blood. Tho nervous system suffers for want of pure, rich blood to nourish and sustain it. Purify, enrich and vitalise tho blood by taking "Golden Medical Discovery" and all these nervous troubles vanish. The "Golden Medical Disi-ovey" is far better for this purpose than the much nil vertised nervines nnd other compounds, so loudly recommended for nervous prostration, as they "put the nerve to sleep," but do not invigorate, braco up and so strengthen the nervous system ns do. thi " Discovery,"' thus giving cnnanent benefit and a radicul cure. Bit' of reliable dealers. AVith nny othr. something el.-- that twys them l-tfr will probably lie urged ns " ju-t n good.' Per haps it is, for them; but it can't l, lor you. A Book (ISO pages) treating of the fore going diseases and tointing out successful means of home cure, nNo containing vast numbers of testimonials, (with phototyiM loitraits of writers), references and other valuable information, will Ik sent on reieipS of six cents, to pay postage. Address, World's DisiK'iisary Medical Association. Invalid' Hotel nnd Surgical InsUtUtc, WZt Muin Street, Buffalo, tf. Y. YES! 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