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H - "&Z&7 2 ".a -? !- , 5. , l S "pw-.- . -- v ' i -- S s js- t i$L--.'v"' .-v.i-i5y-. era-f;'-; iST y-"' ' Columbus Journal PL S. STROTHER, Publisher COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA PERSONAL. Setting Tip the plea of the "unwrit ten law," Mrs. Nancy Murrill was ac quitted of a charge of murdering Miss Mary Terry, in the circuit court at Jackson, Ky. Richard La Gallienne. the journalist and author, is seriously ill in a private sanitarium at New York, suffering from double pneumonia and jaundice. For bravery in rescuing two wound ed comrades in Philippine service, Sergt Seth T. Weld, now stationed at Camp Atascadero, Cal., has been ap pointed second lieutenant of the Phil ippine scouts. Eroughton Brandenburg, the alleged author of the Cleveland letter, in which the ex-president was made to favor the election of Taft in prefer ence to Bryan, was arrested at Day ton, O., on charges of forgery anu grand larceny. M. Gaston Thomson, the French minister of marine, resigned as a re sult ol a vote in the chamber of depu ties deploring the negligence In his department as indicated by the Iena disaster. BULGARIAN SITUATION. A special dispatch to Paris from Constantinople says that negotiations between Austria-Hungary and Turkey have been definitely broken off, the porle refusing to accept the annexa tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an accomplished fact. The latest phase of the Balkan diffi culty points to the possibility of the most serious issues being settled by direct negotiation before the proposed international congress meets, leaving to the congress the work merely of ratifying and legalizing the arrange ments already made. GENERAL NEWS. F. S. Beauve of Plaquemine, La., shot and killed Prof. Fred Van Ingen on a train in Louisiana and tried to shoot Mrs. Van Ingen. The Van In gens were on their bridal tour and the murderer had been a suitor for the young woman's hand. Charged with fomenting a revolu tion on United States soil against a friendly nation, Precillano G. Silva and Lecantio Trevino were found guilty by a jury in the United States court at El Paso, Tex. Speaker Cannon was specifically condemned in a clause in the resolu tions which were passed at the final day's session of the Illinois State Fed eration of Labor at Peoria. The National Woman's Christian Temperance union began its thirty fifth annual convention at the Audi torium at Denver. The series of brilliant functions .which characterized Japan's reception of the American battleship fleet came to a close at Yokohama with a dinner oc board the battleship Fuji. The reconstructed Zeppelin dirigible airship No. 1 made a triumphal re appearance and ascension with ten passengers. After a quarrel with his wife Charles Smith, an aged farmer of Poseyville, Mich., shot and killed Wil liam Duchan, a neighbor, at whose home Mrs. Smith had taken refuge, cna then committed suicide. A disastrous hurricane swept the coast of Nicaragua, destroying the towns of Rio Grande and Prinzapulka. and doing considerable damage in the interior. There was much loss of life. Cracksmen raided the state bank at Heartwell, Kearney county, Nebraska, and secured $3,400. Secretary Root refused to issue a warrant of extradition sought for by Russia in. the case of Jan Janoff Pou ren. a political refugee. Peter Marsoin, 18 years old, of Crawford, N. Y.t who received $250 for walking half way across the continent recently, was struck by lightning and killed near Lawrence, Mass. Joe James, colored, was hanged at Springfield, 111., for the murder of C. A. Ballard on July 3. last The crime. to which James confessed, was largely the cause of the bloody race riots in Springfield. A grandstand at Savannah, Mo., was blown down by a tornado and 23 high school boys were injured, one of them fatally. Congress will be asked to make an appropriation of $35,000,000 for carry ing on the work on the isthmian canal during 1910. Servians were enraged because an envoy from Montenegro to Belgrade was arrested by Austrians at Agram, searched and detained for many hours. The steamer New York of the Al bany line was burned at her pier in New York and four colored waiters were believed to have perished. Sidney C. Tapp of Atlanta, Ga., nominated for president of the United States at a convention of the Liberal party held at Chattanooga, Tenn., was notified at Chicago. About three thousand persons lost their lives in the recent typhoon on the China coast. -The Kentucky racing commission re voked the license of the Latonia Jockey club, because the club violated Ihe rules of the commission. Edward McDonald of New York shot and killed himself and his fiancee, Nellie Waldon, attempted to drown herself. iili FOR THE 8 BUSY MAN x Most Important Happen- X ings of the World R 0 Told in Brie 8 i The verified known death list result ing from the forest fires in Presque Isle and Alpena counties, Michigan, stands at 41, with several people still reported missing and a growing -probability of severe loss of life in North ern Pulawski and Krakow townships in, Presque Isle county. Forest fires driven by high winds were reported to be raging fiercely in the Adirondacks. Sugar Island. Mich., was reported on fire from end to end. Near Detour sevral tdwns were surrounded by for est fires. Fires in Vincennes, Ind., destroyed the 'grain- elevators of Bartlett,Kuhn & Co. and the plant of the Empire Pa per Company. Two sisters, aged 12 and six years, are accused of a long series of rob beries at Beverly, Mass. Two men were killed and five in jured, one fatally, in a wreck of a gasoline speeder on the Newton & Northwestern road near Gowrie, la. Emperor William's fourth son, Prince August William of Prussia, and Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schles-wig-HoIstein were wedded In the chapel of the imperial palace at Berlin. Many thousands of citizens of Tokyo marched iu a lantern parade in honor of the officers of the American fleet, the demonstration being one of the most remarkable ever witnessed in any country. The Italian cruiser Fieramosca has been ordered to await the duke of the Abruzzi at New York, whither the cruiser Etruria also will be dispatched. It is understood that the two warships will escort the duke and his bride to Italy. Mr. Elkins is to be given the title of chevalier of Annunciade. Maurice Tannenholz, a New York jeweler, was robbed of two diamond earrings and fatally shot by the thief. Mayor Tom Johnson and the three cent street car fare suffered a crush ing blow, when the franchise under which the Municipal Traction Com pany is operating the local street rail way lines on the low-fare basis, was defeated by a majority of 879 in the referendum. Train service and business in the northwest were demoralized by a se vere snowstorm and blizzard. The supreme court of Nebraska sus tained the legality of, the Nebraska blue laws forbidding all Sunday busi ness transactions. Seventeen of the women suffragists who were arrested in London during the "storming" of the house of com mons were sentenced to terms of im prisonment varying from three weeks to three months. Benjamin F. Gilbert, aged 18 years, was found guilty at Norfolk, Va., of murder, in the first degree for killing his sweetheart, Miss Amanda Morse. Miss Lucile Mulhall, known as "Ok lahoma's Cowgirl," and Martin Van Burgan, a vaudeville singer, were se cretly married in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sep tember 14, 1907, according to an nouncements made in Topeka, Kan., by the couple. Dr. Irving J. Cook of New York, ac cused of causing the death of a young woman, committed suicide in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Torrential rains caused serious floods in San Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The officers of the American battle ships were entertained at a fine dinner and ball by Premier Katsura at his residence in Tokyo. Col. Zachary Taylor escaped from the mob that murdered Capt Quentin Rankin at Reelfoot lake, Tenn., by a bold dash in a rain of bullets. He was unhurt. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commis sion awarded medals to 48 persons for acts of bravery and gave about $40,000 cash to some of them. Belated reports at Manila indicate that the storm of October 12 in the Cagayan valley was the worst and most destructive within the memory of living inhabitants of the valley. It, is believed 300 lives were lost As a result of ptomaine poisoning three children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hackert of Schenectady, N. Y are dead, the father is critically ill, one son and three daughters are less seri-. ously affected. A grand jury at Coalgate, Okla., exonerated the officials of the Bank of Coalgate and recommended the remov al of H. H. Smock, the examiner who had closed the bank. Frank C. Marrin, formerly a well- known Brooklyn lawyer who was con victed of swindling Mrs. Caroline Barry, a widow, out of $80,000, was sentenced to from 15 to 20 years in state's prison. Three burglars blew the safe of the post office at Mayville, Mich., but were driven away empty-handed by citi zens. Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two children were killed by the explosion of a gasoline stove at SIsseton, S. D. William P. Dillingham and Carroll S. Page were formally elected to rep resent Vermont in the United States senate, at a joint session of the gener al assembly. An incendiary fire destroyed the ele vator of the Hungarian Mills Com pany at Denver, the loss being $450, 000. The timely intervention of a physi cian who was not satisfied with the appearance of the body prevented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, wife of one of the best-known citizens of Ellis, Kan. John W. Kern, Democratic vice presidential candidate, was called home from his campaign tour by the serious illness of his little son in Indi anapolis. By the terms of the will of Gregory Koering, filed in probate court at SL Paul, Minn., $19,000 is left in trust to pay for masses to be held in the Catholic church. ' OBITUARY. Lieut. Arthur J. M. Jephson, king's messenger, is dead at London. He commanded a detachment in the Emin Pasha relief expedition under Henry M. Stanley in 1887-90. In 1904 he married Miss Anna Head, the wealthy daughter of the late Addison T. Head of San Francisco. Richard Hayes, who as general fore man for the Chicago, Milwaukee & SL Paul railway built many of the famous tunneis ana onages along that road, 1 died in Butte, juont. INDICT MIGHT RIDEBS TENNESSEE TO UNRAVEL RANKIN MURDER. THE OFFICIALS POSSESS EVIDENCE Expect to Convict Every Member 'of the Gang that Hanged Former Army Officer. Memphis. What may happen this week as a result of the investigation of the night rider depredations in the north-western section of this state is a matter of conjecture. Monday, with the convening of the circuit court for Obion county in special session at Union City formally to investigate the death of Quinten Rankin, who was killed by a night rider band in the vicinity of Reelfoot lake Monday night last, that section will be under com plete military domination. Five com panies of the Tennessee National Guard will be at the disposal of Col. Tatom. To aid the militia the adjoin ing counties have been drawn on1 for posses of picked men. In the Reelfoot lake district the lake itself isxthe source of r contention. It was asserted by those living in the vicinity that it was their right to ply their vocation as fishermen in its wa ters without molestation, while the owners of the land upon which the lake is located took an opposite view. In the courts the latter, tie Western Tennessee Land company, of which Captain Rankin and Colonel R. Z. Taylor of Trenton as the organizers, are largely interested, were upheld. Then followed night-rider warnings, threatening death to those who op posed the wishes of the band. It was upon the first visit in many months to the lake region that Captain Rankin was killed. Of a number "of men ar rested, ten are being held, and it is promised that when the grand jury Isi convened sufficient evidence will be furnished to secure the indictment of every member of the night-riders or ganization. The sessions of the court will be under military protection. Governors of several states of the south have approved of a suggestion of Governor Patterson, that a conference of the executives be held and plans de vised whereby they can act in concert in an effort to destroy the night-rider organizations. Camp Nemo, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn. Fourty-four more prisoners, including two women, were brought in Sunday as the result of the murder at Walnut Log last week of Captain Rankin by masked night riders. In addition, seven others, including one woman, were arrested by the troops but pa roled. Among those seized are Wil liam Pratt, hotel keeper at Sambarg; J. D. F. Carpenter, Union City attor ney, who, Colonel Taylor charged, wrote letters to Taylor and Rankin which were instrumental in carrying them on the fatal trip to Walnut Log; William Brewer, a CO-year-old farmer, his wife and son. Highwaymen Kill Victim. Pittsburg, Pa. Hugh McGuire of Camp Hill, a suburb, was killed by highway robbers between that place and Carnegie Sunday night. He was rendered unconscious by a the head and then thrown creek, where he drowned. blow on into- the John W. Kern, Jr., is Better. Indianapolis The marked improve ment in the condition of John W. Kern, Jr.. which was noted Sunday will enable his father, democratic nominee for vice president, to con tinue his speech making. SERVIAN RESERVES CALLED. King Peter Orders 300 Maxim Guns and 400 Automobiles. London A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Belgrade says that the Ser vian government has called out all the first reserves and has ordered 300 Maxim guns and 400 military automo biles. According to this dispatch King Peter has informed the Turkish min ister that an alliance probably has been concluded between Servia and Montenegro, hut that this Is in no way interfered with the friendship ot these contries for Turkey. MORE CHOLERA IN MANILA. Slight Increase in New Cases Is Re ported. Manila Seven new cases of chol era were reported in this city for the day ending Sunday night. The slight increase in the spread of the disease is ascribed by the athorities to the many gatherings of the people on Sat urday night and Sunday and the feasts that accompanied these assemblies. The situation is not considered to be grave and the health department feels as though it has the epidemic well under control. Garfield Answers Haskell. Muskogee, Okla. A statement was received at the office of the commis sioner of the Five Civilized Tribes from the interior department at Washington, with instructions to pub lish the same for the information of the Osage Nation, directly concerned, and the Five Civilized Tribes, inci dentally interested, and to take every necessarry step to bring it to the notice of the individual Osage Indians. The statement is an answer to Gov ernor Haskell's charges, for the in formation of the Indians. lowan Dead in Germany. Berlin When the Hamburg-Berlin express arrived at Ludwigslust Sun day moraine the body of a man who had been shot through the right tem ple was found in one of the compart ments which he had occupied alone. A revolver was lying close at hand. The body was Identified by papers as that of Silas C. McFarland of Iowa, the American consul general at large for the European district. Among the papers was his wife's address in Berlin. It was evident that Consul McFarland had committed suicide. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the State. Sugar beets are being delivered from the farms near Sutherland quite rapidly and the yield is about as good as that of last year. The potato yield around Sutherland is very good and as there is a large acreage shipments will be made from that section. A sample of Nebraska corn fields on exhibition in Falls City is a stalk of corn sixteen feet high, with the ear ten feet above the ground. The school board of Elwood let the contract for the erection of a new $12,000 school buidling at Seward. The contract went to Peterson Bros. :of Hastings. ' Mrs. O'Laughlin sued Pawnee City ifor two thousand two hundred sixty 'dollars for a fall on a defective side walfl The jury gave her one thousand dollars. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to get the best service for the least money. Ne braska Telephone Company, 18th and Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the Bell." The large barn on the farm of Mrs. W. G. Rogers of Humboldt was burned together with hog sheds and a number of barn yard buildings, which with the contents, belonged to the renter, Otto ,PowelI. ! While riding on the rear end of a 'buggy the nine-year-old daughter of :Mr. and Mrs. S. Williams of Cleveland sprecinct, Dawson' county, had her limb .caught in the wheel and her thigh badly fractured. ' An accident occurred at the Leona school near Adams while playing ball. Charlie Horton was batting and in throwing the bat, his brother, Fred, was struck knocking out two teeth and splitting his lip. The contract for the erection of the new $10,000 school building at Cook, Johnson county, was secured by W. I. Smoots of Avoca. Elmer Do vel of Auburn has the contract for the heating plant. A. M. Allen of Cozad has Invented an alfalfa meal mill which promises to revolutionize the manufacture of the raw material into the finished product) The Platte Valley Milling company at Gothenburg has put in a new 100 horse power gasoline engine, r At York Leslie Moss narrowly es- 'caped being dragged to death by his foot catching in a stirrup as he was thrown from a horse which slipped and fell on a wet pavement. The horse started to run with the drag jging boy but was fortunately inter cepted b yseveral men nearby. While loading stock in the yards at Alliance, Switchman A. L. Wood was caught between a car and the chutes and crushed so badly that he died in less than thirty minutes. Mr. Wood was well and favorably known, having until recently conducted a small busi ness in Alliance. William Malchow, sr., oldest living settler of Cuming count-, who suf fered the amputation of his leg some weeks ago is now recovering and Is able to walk on crutches. Mr. Mal chow is now at home again and in 'spite of his age, nearly 80 years, is getting along nicely. The board of insanity of Frontier went to Curtis to investigate the con dition of Mrs. Walter Bomar, who, was .alleged to be insane. The board found that her condition was such that she should be committed to the asylum and Sheriff Hickman took her to Hastings. Thomas Hopkins, charged with criminally assaulting the lG-year-oId daughter of James Mecum. near Be atrice, more than a year ago, was arraigned before Judge Snafford. He pleaded not guilty and his case was set for hearing later. In default of $1,000 bond he was remanded to jail. The new Christian church at Ches ter was dedicated last Sunday. Dur ing the afternoon services subscrip tions were solicited to pay for the new structure and in one hour the entire cost of the church. $17,000. iWas raised, six members alone giving $1,000 each. Nebraska City officers caught three men who were trying to work the "short change racket" on several mer chants. When searched at the county jail there was found on them a num ber of knives and other things which they had stolen from the store which they visited. A fire started among the grain stacks ou the farm of Cornelius Old son near Poncar and before it could be "extinguished about $300 worth of grain .was destroyed. The separator owned by Hough Bolton of Ponca was entirely consumed. The machine was Insured for $200, but there was no in surance on the grain. The new barn of Will Rauths, liv lng southwest of Manley, was totally destroyed by fire by children who were playing in the barn with matches. The barn was a large structure, just com pleted this summer, and well filled with hay; it also contained 400 bush els of- oats, 150 bushels of corn and 200 bushels of apples. Fifty farmers have contributed a dollar each toward the establishment of stock yards at Darr in Dawson' county. Ten of twelve New York orphans were provided with good homes in Johnson county near the town of Sterling in one day recently. J. Wr. Swan of University Place and Miss Elmira Hill of New York, with the children in charge, came to Sterling, where the prospective foster parents had the opportunity to come and "take their pick" as it were. Of the twelve waifs the parties had in charge good homes were provided for ten. While the family was away from home some one set fire in the barn yard of Lewis Kohls, about five miles north of Hartington, burning the barn, sheds and -corn cribs to the ground. York is short on carpenters and building operations are retarded thereby. A number of farmers in the vicin ity of Beatrice have begun gathering their corn crop. In some localities the grain is yielding from twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre while in others it runs as high as twenty to twenty-five bushels. THE ME CAPITAL MATTERS OP INTEREST TO ALL CITIZENS. US TO UNCOLLECTED FEES Case Submitted to the Court of Much Interest to Judges and Former County Judges! The Vinsonhaler Case. One case submitted to the full bench of the supreme court and Commission ers Duffiie, Calkins and Epperson Is of a character to make county judges and former county judges sit up and take notice. It is one brought by Douglas county against ex-County Judge Duncan M. Vinsonhaler where; in It is sought to charge Mr. Vinson haler with financial responsibility for about $16,000 worth of uncollected fees. Included in this claim is an item for all marriages performed by the county judge, on the theory that it is his duty to perform such ceremony and that whether or not he collected any fee he is responsible for $3 for each one in which he officiated. The statute of limitations embraces ten years for county judges and upon the decision in this case rests the res ponsibility of all county judges who have held office within that period and who have made their settlements along the old lines of accounting for all fees collected but not for mar-' riages performed or fees collected. As to the marriage fees, it was con tended by attorneys for the defendant that for thirty years or more it had been customary to regard this as a prerequisite of the .office and that it rested with the judge whether or not he charged any fee. In fact many judges, from friendship or other rea sons, have wedded couples free of charge. The contention was that the pudge was not bound to marry a couple or to colect a fee if he did; that it was a long-continued construc tion of a statute by officers whose duty it was to construe that law, and that by reason of Ihis long-continued construction that construction now has the force and effect of law. Judge Vinsonhaler accounted for all fees he received as an officer during his six years as judge, but in this case the effort is being made to make him the insurer of all fees on the theory that as the. law provides that all fees should be collected in advance, it was his duty to have collected them, and not having done so he is liable. STOCK YARDS SWITCH CHARGES. State Railway Commissioner Decides to Reopen the Case. The state railway commission is sued an order re-opaning the case in which the Union Stock Yards company of South Omaha petitions for the privilege of increasing its switching rates for further testimony. A hear ing has been, set for November 5. As the members of the commission understand it, the Stock Yards com pany performs considerable service for the packing companies for which it receives no compensation. It is to get this matter straightened out that the further hearing has been ordered. The two questions upon which the commission wants more definite infor mation are these: "The extent and value of the prop-( erty of the applicant devoted exclu-j sively to the service of the various! industries, especially packing com panies and car companies. AUG CAlGUb UUU IOIUC Ul IUC Cl-,l vice In switching cars between the The extent and value of the ser- storage tracks, icing tracks repair) tracks and docks of the various com-! panies furnished by the petitioner! herein." ) Delayed Blanks Arrive. The railway commission has re ceived the long delayed blanks on which railroad companies are to re port their business for the year end ing August 1, but the railway com mission did not furnish blanks to the roads. The commission was waiting for a new form of report to be re ceived from the state railway commis sion. From two weeks to one month will be required for the roads to fill out the blanks and return them to the commission. Among the annual reports of corpo rations that have been filed with the railway commission is: a report of the Nebraska telephone company, whose principal office is in Omaha. The com pany reports $1,820,474.49 earnings from operation for the year ending June 30. The operating expenses were $1,321,291.25. An explanation is filed In regard to $77,928.31 paid to the American Bell telephone company for rental. It is explained that this is for the use of telephone instruments and for the keeping of the same in repair and replacing instruments and other services. Personal Rights Ticket. The executive committee of the Lincoln personal rights league met at the home of H. A. Fricke, president of the league, and endorsed for the leg islature from this county the following ticket: For the house of representa tives. Leonard C. Foss and Will A. Green, republicans; L. A. Simmon?, democrat; and for the senate. S. W. Burnham, republican. Action on other candidates was deferred. This action of the personal rights league is ex pected again to stir to earnest action the county optionists. Kicks on $1,000 Filing Fee. The Prudential Savings and Loan association of Omaha has applied to the supreme court for permission to file an aplication for a writ of man damus to compel the state banking board to approve its articles of incor poration and to issue a certificate of authority for the association to do business in Nebraska. The board has refused to do this until the company pays the fee for filing articles of in corporation with the secretary of state, which in this case would fcfj $1,000 according to the capital stocR. BY WAY OP COMPARISON. Youngster's First Efforts in the Realm ef Natural History. Four-year-old Clyde was a preco cious youngster very talkative and a close observer. He and his father were strolling through the meadows one morning when Clyde observed, for the first time, some tadpoles in a pond. He waded in and cried out in delight: "Oh, father, what are they?" 'Tadpoles, son," the father replied. "Please, father, let's take them all home with us, then come back and find the mamma and papa, and well have the whole family in our pond at home." The father explained how impossi ble this would be, and as he walked on a few steps a large ugly frog hopped across their path. Clyde's father said: "Look, son, perhaps there is the papa." Clyde was very thoughtful. He looked at the frog, then at his father, then at himself and exclaimed: "Well, father, was there ever so much difference between me and you?" EXPERT. Doc Ahem Ton seem to cough with. considerable difficulty this morn ing. Patient That's very strange. I've been practicing all night! Naming the Culprit. A member of the flocL was nodding with closed eyes during the sermon. The preacher said: "I think mebbe some membah has been up too late durin' the ebenln pre cedin'. He better set up or I'll name him." Failing to. accomplish the desired result the preacher soon stopped his sermon again. Shaking his finger at the culprit, he shouted: "Jim Shepherd, dis is de secon' time I stops to wake yo' up! If I have to stop a third time I'll expose yo' by name to de whole congregashun!" Woman Chosen City Alderman. Mrs. H. J. Gates has just been elect ed one of the six aldermen of Magee, Tenn. For several years she has taken an active interest in the educa tional work of her town and wanted to be elected alderman because it would help her in this work. She is reported to have made about the most aggressive campaign ever witnessed in Magee, if not in Tennessee. The town people seemed pleased with her elec tion, and even those who voted against her believe she will make a first-class alderman. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it Is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using - Defiance Starch, as It can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. Up-to-Date. A little girl six years old gave an afternoon tea to some of her friends, and she wished to make it as perfect a reproduction of those given by her mother as was possible. "What shall you give your friends to eat?" asked the same mother. "I don't know." replied the embryo aesthete, "unless I give them pink tis sue paper and cambric tea. Uncle Tom says that's the most fashionable tbtas." With a smooth Iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt waist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the Iron. All the Difference. Nini George says that my beauty intoxicates him. Elsie I heard that he said you were enough to drive a man to drink. Journal Amusant. Omaha Directory Wkateiala acd Mail 4taltra In awrytMaa- for OaaUcaaa'stabla. iacladlng Tiaa Im porta Tabla ScUcaclt. IIUicralaaoT littla ltaa yo an maabl to ebtala is 7arHomaTowis. writ as far price oa iama, aa wawiUbaaarato bavalt. Xail order" carafbUy filled. lajpoarrcw awo PCUtW iw pure roop 'WODUCTS awp Taste oklioxics COUBTNEY & CO.. Omah. NaW. FursW Aulabauf hs complete catalogue -will show you what you -want. G. N. AULABAUGH BuLM. ISMDwalasSL. 09UUUL TAFrsnnrriLROflVS m 1517 iNflU St., OHM, Ml. ltP t!-Vl r . a. 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I took Peruna for two months, when I became qnite welL I also iu duccil a younjr lady, who was alt rum down and confined to the house, to take Peruna, and after taking Peruna for three months she is able to follow her trade of tailoring. can recommend Peruna for all such who are ill and re quire a tonic." Pe-ru-na Tablets. Some people prefer to take tablets, rather than to take medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna tablets which represent the solid me dicinal injrredients of Peruna. Each tablet is equivalent to oue average dose of Peruna. TROUBLE AHEAD. He I fear the worst. She What's happened, George? He Your father has paid back that $25 'he borrowed. Where Willie Was. There is a humorous story of Mark Twain's "absent-mindedness," but it doesn't match the following: The Professor (at the dinner table) Oh, by the way. Mrs. Chopsticks, have you seen your little boy, Willie, lately? Mrs. Chopsticks No, professor, I have not seen him since ten o'clock, and I can't imagine what has become of him. In fact, I am very much wor ried about him. Professor Well, seeing Martha pour me out that glass of water just now reminds me of something th I had on my mind to tell you some trae ago, but which unfortunately escaped my memory. It was just about ten o'clock. I think, that I saw little Wil lie fall down the welL His Lucid Answers. They were asking the eminent law yer why he took such a large fee from the trust "I think It was its largeness that made it easy to take," he smilingly answered. Then the state's attorneys con ferred. "And didn't you stop to consider that the money was tainted?" they asked him. "No," he ingeniously replied, "I only stopped to count it" This closed the proceedings for the day. Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well with Change of Food. A great scientist has said we can put off "old age" if we can only nourish the body properly. To do this the right kind of food, of course, is necessary. The body manu factures poisons in the stomach and intestinea from certain kinds of food stuffs and unless sufficient of the right kind is used, the injurious elements overcome the good. "My grandmother, 71 years old," writes a N. Y. lady, "had been an in valid for 18 years from what was called consumption of the stomach and bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. "I saw so much about Grape-Nuts that I persuaded Grandmother to try it. She could not keep anything on her stomach for more than a few minutes. "She began Grape-Nuts with only a teaspoonful. As that did net distress her and as she could retain it, she took a little more until she could take all of 4 teaspoonfuls at a meal. "Then she began to gam and grow strong and her trouble In the stomach was gone entirely. 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