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v 10 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 12. 190C. A v NO MORE CITY COUNCIL HERE Eouitoi Decide to Get Alone Without Municipal Legislature. - GOYIRNMENT BY COMMISSION WINS Year's Bxaerleaee with the Pl Demonstrates It Superiority Otn lb Old Method ( Doing Thing.. "Oovernment by commission" hoe btcn demonstrated to be a success In Houston. Tex., for the Inst year. For many years the city ha4 been under political bondage. The system of government was that In vogue In most American cities, a mayor And a common council, made up of mem born selected from wards, and each repre senting his own ward or subdivision thereof ' particularly and the city a a whole only Inellentally. The success of the Galveston commission caused a close study to be made of the plan In vogue there, and Thomaa H. Stone, then city attorney, finally evolved a plan wherein there were aome Improvements on the Galveston sys tem. This la the plan which haa been adopted In Houston. It must be understood that Houston haa been badly misgoverned In the past.There haa been no wholesale corruption; the grafting was on the cheap order and en riched no particular man or set of men. nut .the wasting waa great and the city's revenues were frittered away In paying salaries to uselem subordinate officials and In 'tli ways common In most cities. There has been grafting, and it was well known that the system existed. Rut the graft waa cut up Into such small pieces that there waa no general outcry. Brian Last July. The charter providing for the commission government went Into effect July 8, 19Cfi. The old board of aldermen, composed of twr-lve. members, was done away With and ward, lines were abolished In the selection of the new board. The commission Is com posed of a mayor, or president of the board, and four aldermen. Tbey must de vote their whole, time to the business of tlie city, whereas tinder the old system the aldermen devoted about three hours a week to the business bf the city, though they put in considerable time on their pri vate political business and called it work ing for the city. The mayor haa an oversight over all departments. Each Of the aldermen or commissioners haa a separate department, for which he Is held responsible directly, and he Is also supposed to be consulted by. the other commissioners aa to general policy, though not aa to details. The com missioners hold dally sessions, but only once a week Is a public session held at which decisions on " petitions are made known and the public Invited to attend and present their motions, grievances or Bnggestlona. . Rao I.Ike Private Dullness. The commission ' plan, in brief, is as nearly aa possible to conduct the business of the municipality upon the same lines that the business' of a corporation for private profit Is conducted. This Is the secret of the success which has been acored by the Houston commission In Its first year. The revenues of the city which may be used for general revenue pur poses (half the Income from the taxes must go to the sinking- fund)' amount to about $750,000 a year. When the commis sion took charge there was a floating in debtedness of about $385,000, and there were no funds In the treasury with which to meet It. This has been wiped out, and everything purchased Is paid for In cash; that la, the bills are all paid on the intt o? each month, which la the date for sot tl.ng accounta In vogue In the city. The city had a valuable plant for dis posing of the sewage, which wsthe .ocs. een for a bomf TSTTeof about W0.000, and It was so nearly ruined that it prac I .'Gotag .Ont 1 Towi I I TMs Slimmer? I HF YOU ARE, why not arrange OMAHA address may be changed, as often as desired The subscription price to any address in the United States, Canada or Mexico, payable in advance, iss ft CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT r ' OMAHA. NEB. Dear Sir: f lease send THE BEE for .'....beginning with issue of. ............. , 1906, to me at the following address: Name Town State tically was of no use. Thla big plant haa been cleaned, repaired and put In shape to perform the work far which It waa built, raring for the Streets, The city lies In a soil which makes black mud In rainy perloda, and as only the business portion haa been paved aa It should be, thla mud ,was hauled on the pavementa and there caked, oauslng the strepts to have an untidy appearance, and the dirt generally found Ha way Into the storm sewers, choking them. There Is now not only a perfect system of cleaning the streets at a small expense, but the com mission haa bought with cash from the revenues (all other paving has been done by IsHiilrg bonds) three million brick with which to do a lot of additional paving the coming year. In the residence quartet1 a number of men are kept employed on ' the streets ditching them, so that the water may not stand, and grading them, so that the water may flow into the ditches and prevent the accumulation of mud. Just aa many men were employed under the old system, but they didn't do the work, being partisans of one alderman or another. Now they are hired by the day, and If they don't work they are turned off at once. Dividing the city Is Buffalo bayou, an arm of Galveston bay. A number of bridges span thla at different points, and under the old system these bridges had fallen Into ench condition that aome of them were actually unsafe. It was no one'a busi ness to see that they were repaired and kept In order, and there wasn't any money to spare with which to do the work. Under the new system one of the com missioners is In charge of the streets and bridges. The commissioners have spent $.K,0(Xl on the bridges, all of them have been repaired and repainted and ire adjudged safe hy the Inspector. Such a aum as $30,009 would not under the old Isystcm have done one-third the work or done It one-third as well. chonl Honeea are Provided. for the last several years there has been a crying need for more school houses. A number of them have been built at con siderable expense, but they were no more than completed than another was needed. The old council was frank In saying that If any more school houses were built there would have to be more bond Issues. The commission has promised to spend $100,000 on three new school buildings the coming year, and is a'ueady advertising for bids for the first one. That sum would have built two schools under the old system, and there would have been bonds to pay 5 per cent per annum on for forty years. The commission will get the money out of the general revenue. Under the old system there was much property- that escaped taxation altogether, some of It never having been on the assess ment rolls. The commission has Instituted a system whereby every bit of the land within the city's limits haa been listed and put on the rolls. A general raising of the assessment values has been made (though there la a lack of system to this which amounts to injustice), the tax rate has been slightly reduced and the reve nues of the city will be considerably In creased another year. The tax department for the first time In, the history of theyrlty Is being run on a business basis. All fCmpIoyea Work by Month. The greatest reform which haa been In stituted lies In the fact that, aside from the mayor and four aldermen, there Is no employe of the city who has a "term." The chief of police, the chief of the fire department, the tax assessor and collector, the heads of departments and the men working under them are employed by the month. If they do not do their work they may be removed at any time. Just aa the employe of a business house la re moved, paid off and told that his services 1 ire no longer needed. In that one thing lies more of the success of commission government than In any other reform which haa been Instituted. Under the old a3tflhe iu4e of departments we're elected: they had terms of two years, and It would have taken two years to remove BEE sent to you by .35 -for two weeks .70 for one month 1.50 for three months 3.00 for six months Postage to foreign coun'rles, 60c a month additional fill. OUT THIS FORM AND OIVI TO YOU CARRIE The Cheapest Form of Health Insurance TT can buy Health Insurance now, Jr Several food 'Accident" T Companies sell IU Slity dollar, per year wit j bring you $25.00 per week, for every week you are sick. j But, your time alone may be worth fai more than that. And $200 per week might not pay (or your 'suffering. That a why "Cacaret', Insurance, which prevents Sickness, Is worth ten times as much money as ether "Health" Insurance. Yet "Caacaret" Insurance win cost you less than Ten Cents a week. That five you a "Vest Pocket" Bo, ta carry constantly. a One tablet taken whenever yeu suspect you need It will Insure you against 90 pet cent of all other Ills likely to attack you. Because 90 per cent of these Ills begin In the Bowels, or exist through poor Nutrition. Casearets don't purge, don't weaken, don't irritate, nor upset your stomach. No, they act like Exercise on the Bowels, Instead. They stimulate the Bowel-Muscles to contract arid propel the Food naturally past the little valves that mis Digestive Juice with Food. The time to take a Cascarat is the very minute you suspect you need one; When you have a touch of Heart-burn, Cas-belchlng, Acld-rlsing-ln-throat, or a Comlng-on-CoId. Carry the "Vest Pocket" Box ready for business where It belongs. Just as you would your Watch, Pocket-knife or Lead penclt. It costs only K cents. At any druggist. Be sure you get the genuine, made only by the Sterling Remedy Company, and never sold In bulk. Every tablet stamped "CCC." tj ment "fired" a man there was an appeal to the alderman from his ward, and then to the council and possibly to the courts, before he waa finally taken away from the clty'a payroll. Every employe felt sure of his Job for two years, ao what waa the need of working while the Job waa young? GLASGOW SELLS TELEPHONES Scotch City Gives I'p One Experiment of Municipal Pnblle Service. The city of Glasgow, Scotland, haa sold the municipal telephone plant which waa established six years ago to compete with a private company. It waa found that the municipal plant waa not a paying venture, and the town council decided to sell the business to the postofflce at a losa of 200,000. When the sale waa decided upon, more than $1,000,000 had been spent on equipment and a further expenditure of $500,000 had been found necessary. The Glasgow Herald, commenting upon the failure of the venture, asserted that the undertaking waa a mistake in the beginning, and the cltlsens should con gratulate themselves that the loss la not more. New Tork 8un. lf you have anything to trade advertise It In the For Exchange column of The Bee Want Ad page. to have THE mail? The ST, ANNE HEALS A CRIPPLE acred Belio of a faint Makes Little Mary Clements Whole. MIRACLE WROUGHT IN NEWY0RK CHURCH Child Who Haa Beea Paralysed for Nearly Two Years Finda Her Childhood Again on l-ast Day of the JSovena, ' Yesterday was the feast of Bt. Anne at the Church of St. Jean Bapttste. It waa the last day of the novena, or nine days worship of the sainted mother of the Vir gin, the day upon which the halfiwed relies are removed from the reliquary In the crypt of the church and pasd by the priests over the afflicted parte of the maimed and the crippled who come In faith to seek a cure through supplication. Among the hundreds who came yesterday to beseech the spirit of St. Anne to enter Into them and make them whole was seven-year-old Mary Clements, for almost two years a helpless paralytic. Her sponsors say for her that 8t. Anne haa showed her healing mercy, to the crippled girl and made sound her twisted limbs. The good St. Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin, did on her holy day work a mir acle and bring surcease from suffering to little Mary Clements, one of her afflicted suppliants. So say the fathers of the Holy Sacrament at the Church of St. Jean Rnptlste in East Seventy-sixth street, and so testifies the mother of Mary Clements, who lives In a two room flat at 137 East Eighty-first street. Crippled for Many Months. ' For a year and nine months Mary had sat In a wheeled chair before the window in her mother'a room and watched the children In the street at their play. Time had been, and it waa long, long ago to Mary of the white face and the shrivelled, nerveless hands, when she used to romp on the pavement and Juggle Jackstonea with her playmates. One day she was run over by an express wagon. That waa the last day of her childhood up to now. Since that day she had been in bed or propped kip with pillows In a chair before the window. Doctors had said that she could not walk again. Her arms and her legs had been nerveless and beyond her control. In the alcove lere the child-woman had sat day by, day for many months there were placed on brackets where the sun could shine on them three geranium pots. A yellow canary In his cage hung from a hook Just over the geraniums. Mary's mother explains that the yellow canary waa Prince Flory and that each of the geranium planta represents respectively the king, the queen and the king's grand mother, all members of Prince Flory's court. Each day that Mary's chair was moved Into the sunny lnsle was a day in the history of the court of Fairyland. For over a year had the chronicles of the king dom of Prince Flory been faithfully noted and made a part of the life of the child whose hands could not be outstretched even in obeisance to her liege and the grandmother of her Urge's royal father. Yesterday afternoon, the day of St. Anne, Mary's mother had her lifted downstairs In her wheeled chair and she trundled the little invalid down to the dingy brick church, where repose the holy relics of the saint, two wrlstbones, brought from the Cathedral of St. Anne In Apt of Province, France. Over a thousand others cripples, blind, palsied and paralytic had passed along the pavements thither and were still crowding the church steps when Mrs. Clem ents and her invalid child reached there. Mother Dears Child Forward. One of the six policemen from the East Sixty-seventh atreet atation, who were de tailed to keep the throng of devotees in order, helped lift the chair down the steps into the crypt. Then the mother loosened the straps about the girl's waist and lifted the light burden in her arms. She Joined- the solid ranks of worshippers that filled the center aisle and moved step by step down to the altar rail. The church's crypt waa dark, aave at the altar end, where burned scopes of candles, set In circular candelabra. Branching fila ments of braes overhead aupported each lta blood red cup of oil, wherein a low burn ing wick fluttered. Beneath this radiance from the altar the stream of worshipers moving slowly down the main aisle and the acattered congregation bent In prayer over the benches on either side all ahowed black and shadowy. There were fully 500 persons In the narrow crypt at one time. The voice of a priest at the altar chanted at intervals In booming diapason. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women." Then would rise In unison the full re sponse of the packed throng in the aisle, made treble by the resounding walls. "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for ua sinners, now and at the hour of our death." By Inches the woman with the dangling burden In her arms drew nearer the altar. Aa she moved she chanted the responses and the Hps of the sick girl In her arms formed the words haltingly. Her Prayer and Answer. They knelt at the altar. The mother held her child out almost at arm's length aa the priest passed down the line of dev otees. He carried In hla hand the sacred relic, bound In gold. Some kissed this. Some pointed to their eyes, others to their back or their temples, and the priest awtftly touched each afflicted spot. He paused before Mary Clements and passed the ahlning orb down the whole length of her body, down her arms and across her shriv elled fingers. "A miracle, good St. Anne," whispered the child's mother aa she bowed her head. "A miracle, a miracle," she pleaded over and over again as she wheeled the crippled girl home. She moved Mary's chair up to the window where Prince Flory hung and where all the court of Fairyland waa as sembled. The mother left the girt there before the geraniums and went out on the street . to get bread for the evening meal. She heard the shrill voice of her little one call ing her aa she returned and she hurried up stairs. Mary aat In the sunlight with three blos soms of the geranluma plucked and hud dled to her face in the ecstacy of tender ness. Through the mercy of Bt. Anne her withered, handa had been freed of their bonds and she hugged cloae to her Hps the august countenances of the king, the queen and the king's grandmother, while Prince Flory aang a te deum overhead. New York Sun. ' Exehnngra of Good Behavior. At the dinner at the Elysee given In honor of Slsowath, the Cambodian minis ter of the interior waa seated next to the daughter of one of the French mlnistera. Aa he speaks French very well, having learned It at the French school at Pnom penh, he asked hla fair neighbor to tell blm if he made any blunder, as that waa the first time In which he had dined In the European fashion, and added that he placed himself under her protection. She waa much flattered by the compliment, and 'advised shim to Imitate her and do ex actly as" she did. The Cambodian minis ter did so, and acquitted himself ao well that no or., suspected thst he waa not thoroughly accustomed to dining a la 1 Ftancalse. It la doubtful if an Westerner suddenly called upon to dine In the Cam bodian manner would have done so well. London Sketch. HAVOC WROUGHT BY FIRE High Flaares of Losses and la.ar aaee Payments Covering m Centner. In ISM David D. Dana published In Bos ton his work called. "The Fireman," In which he glvea a list of what he denomi nates large fires (today they would be called conflagrations) which had occurred In this country In the previous fifty years. The record, aa a matter of fact, beglna with the fire In Boston, March 30, KfiO; but thia la the only city where any data are given previous to the year hence the Hat given by Dana may be said to repre aent the fire loss for the first half cen tury from what were called large fires. Dana does not enumerate any fire where the l5ss was less than 20.oro. There are, however, a very few possibly not over 6 per cent, as low as this figure, and from that point the upper limit Is 17.000,0n0. There were two fires In the first half of the nineteenth century which reached thla 117,000,000 figure, one being the fire In New York City In 1M5, while the other was the fire In San Francisco In 151. Dana's statistics appear to be quite complete probably as complete as could be gathered. The aggregate produced by his researches makes a total of I191.np6.000. caused by so called large or conflagration flres. Fifty years later or, to be more exact, forty-eight years the National Board of Fire Underwriters, In their report for 190t, publish a list of what they call conflagra tions, which occurred between 1806 and 190. In other words, they practically cover the flfty years succeeding Dana'a record. No fire enumerated by the national board Involved a loss of less than ssoo.onn. and the largest were, of course, the well known Chicago nre of 1871, of t1fi6.ono.onn, and the Boston fire of the succeeding year, of ro.OOO.Offl. while the third Is the Baltimore fire of 1904, with a loss of TiO,000,ono. The total amounts to $567,000.0u. It should be noted that the minimum Are enumerated by the national board Is twenty-five times greater than the mini mum fire enumerated by Dana: and yet, In the second half century, with a minimum twenty-five times higher than In the first half of the century, the loss from large fires or conflagrations Is nearly three times as large as It waa In the earlier period. The maximum fire enumerated In the first period la $17,000,000, while In the second period It is (Chicago) $185,000,000, or practl cnlly ten times as large. The statistics for the last period are from the National Board of Fire Under writers up to the close of 1906. Since then the San Francisco conflagration has oc curred, end with a fire loss of $?BO,000,000. a new maximum Is established. This maxi mum la fifteen times greater for the latter period, as compared with the earlier. The first period haa twenty-six Area with losses equal to or in excua of $1,000,000, while the second period has, to the close of 1!V)6, seventy-eight such fires. These mll-flon-dollar fires thus show an Increase of three times for the latter, aa compared with the earlier period. The totals given above are the total fire or property loss, aa distinguished from the Insurance loss.- The first .represents the total loss caused by Are, while the latter Is that portion of the loss which Is re turned to the Insured by the Insurer. In the long run the Insurance loss Is about SO per cent of the total property loss. Thus, for a period of thirty years 1875 to ino4. Inclusive the Chronicle Are tables report a property loss of $3.600.nnn,ooo, while the Insurance loss was $2,207,900,000, which Is 61 per cent. During this same period 1R75 to 1904. Inclusive the property loss from large or conflagration Ares, aa listed by the national board, amounted to $27!,000, 000, and the insurance loss, being so per cent of this, was $1fi3,000.000 practically T per cent of either the property or Insur ance loss caused by all Ares. Journal of Fire. VALENTINE STARTS LAW SUITS One of the Comic Variety Provokes Family Row and Action for Libel. That Philadelphia eomle valentine case has reached another Interesting stage. It began with the sending of the offending missive last February, and waa then en livened by the recipient's lawyer demand ing that the sender be brought Into court to answer to the charge of criminal libel. Both the complainant and defendant are women and related by marriage, and the proceedings ahow an added bitterness on this account. Several montha after the charge waa made the grand Jury returned a bill of indictment, and then the lawyer for the defendant flled a demurrer to have this Indictment quashed, presenting Ave lengthy and technical reasons why the de murrer should be sustained. But the Judge, after prolonged consideration, re- rusea to sustain It. He declared that valen tines of the character of the one under dis cussion, in which the recipient waa al luded to aa a acandalmonger, a busybody, a mlschlefmaker and a person of unre strained mendacity, afford ample grounds for aulta of the character Instituted, and that when auch a libelous valentine leavea the sender's possession it Is clearly In cir culation according to the letter of the law. For all of which and sundry other reasons the trial of the valentine sender must go on. It la possible that this Philadelphia case will prove a warning and a deterrent for those persona who under the cloak of anonymity use the so-called comic valen tine aa a means of venting their malice. If so. It will not be prosecuted in vain. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Protertlon for Swimmers. The physician, slim In his blue Aannel bathing suit, had hla ears stuffed with cot ton. "This cotton," he said, "should be used by all those who swim out beyond their depth. You know how often good swim mers of that type drown, don't you? Their drowning Is imputed to cramp, but you will never And one of the drowned with hla ears stuffed with cotton. "Why? I'll tell yqu why. Because it isn't cramp that causes these drownings. It Is a perforation of the eardrum, fol lowed by unconsciousness, due to the pressure of the water. "Cramp Isn't, after all, the deadly thing It la made out to be. If you get a cramp In your leg while swimming. It Is easy enough to roll over on your back and Aoat. The cramp won't kill you. But a perforation of the eardrum la different. It takes away your senses, and down you go like a log. So alwaya. If you are go ing to do much swimming, stuff cottoif In your ears." New York Press. Decrees of Efflrleney. There Is a member of congress from the southwest who had a trying experience In learning to run the big motor car be pur chased last winter. One day a friend asid: "How are you getting along with the thing?" "Oh, I'm making progress," waa the modest reply of the southweaterner. "Doing pretty well, ehT" "Yea," resumed the congressman, gravely, "I can spit new and aoon I expect to be able to raise my ha' "American Spectator. Bee Want Ada for Business Booster POLICE CHASE A DYING MOAN It Came in Over the Telephone in the Darkest Hour. STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF THE COPPERS Central Told the Haas, the floss Told the roMce and the rnllre Hot Hoay and Soiled the Mystery. The dark and ghastly hour that precedes the dawn was drawing to a close. Beautiful Katie, our heroine, was sitting In the night and her chair before the switchboard of the Orchard street telephone exchange. The self-winding clock struck 4 and the mlnuto hand started toward 6. A tiny bulb on the switchboard flashed cruelly. Bang! and 2300 Orchard bit the ! dust. Fearlessly Beautiful Kntie plugged a hole In the switchboard with an easy grace that a countess might envy and at the same time arranged her acute blond locks. She had flnlshed chapter xxxl and was turning the page, but still no one had asked for a number from 3no Orchard. Our he roine thought this strange, but as she al ways minded her own business and never spoke till spoken to she made no comment. Suddenly through the night air there came to Katie over the wire a groan. Then another. And another. After some time there was another! Then between the ghastly' groans came guttural, muttered curses as If the flrst tenor and the soprano were In the death throes of Act 1. "Geo. golls!" cried Katie, "takea lls-ten," while she sprang to her feet with a srream. Everything swsm before her eyes as If she were In tin Aquarium as she realized that at 2.W0 Orchard a dark and bloody deed was being done while the sufferer tried to gur gle for help. She could almost hear the blood drip. Chief Operator Gets Itnsy. Out from Minnie's room rushed Minnie and Mnile. and In a few mlnutns a bevy of beauty was standing In line, each Indy awaiting her turn to take a lesson. Finally the chief operator called up C. J. Cnrlsnn Of the Cortland exchange, the head ofllce of the district at night, who aftr-r sampling a few groans telephoned to police head quarters and Sergeant John Mangln an swered the call. "Snrge, we think there's thront cutting In the delicatessen store of Kostluk Bros., at J07 East Houston street," explained Night Superintendent Carlson. "Somebody has taken off the receiver, but all we can got from the store is a moan every now end then. Perhaps you better send someone around." With a remark that perhaps a Ilmburger cheese was taking advantage of the ab sence of the members of the Arm to attack another cheese, the sergeant caller? up the Eldrldge street station and told the desk there of the trouble. Roundsman Quirk hurried around from the Eldrldge street station to the delicatessen store, only to And the doors and windows locked. By the dim light of a flickering gns Jet In the store the roundsman saw at a glance thai even the cheeses had nestled to aleop. From the street he could see that the tele phone receiver was off the hook, but tfs there did not seem to be any evidence of life within he reported to headquartera that there wjs nothing doing. Sergeant Mangln told Superintendent Carlson the result of the roundsman's visit, but Carlson Insisted that 2300 Orchard's light bulb still burned on the switchboard and that the moaning had not ceased. Roundsman Gets the Key. Quirk waa sent back to the store 'with orders to break In the door, but on his seq ond trip the roundsman remembered that the Kostiuka live at 220 East Houston street. He aroused Mrs. Jennie Kostluk, who hurried over to the store and unlocked the door. Mrs. Kostluk's poodle, Bossle, was the only living thing In the place, so far as the policeman could see. A brisk li tie bark came from the frankfurter section as Bossle stood near It and watched the roundsman, but all else was still. Quirk replaced the telephone receiver on Its hook and waa about to leave the at'ore when out from behind a case of canned goods ran a rat. The rat rande for a hole In the wall near the telephone like Hundred-to-One Nigger Mike on he stretch. Bossle cut across lots after the rat, skidded across the desk on which the telephone stood and knocked the receiver off the hook again. Then Bossle took a position near the telephone and with eyes glued to the rat hole began to groan ghastly groans mixed with gut teral, muttered curses as If the first tenor and the soprano were In the death throes of Act 1. Little remains to be told, gentle reader. Roundsman Quirk once again put the re ceiver on the hook and withdrew from the scene of the crime. Beautiful Katie down at Orchard shifted her chewing gum and turned to chapter xxxll. And down through Houston street broke the pitiless day. Honest Man. "Will you love me when I am old?" asked the kittenish damsel with the cork- The laws of nature and heredity are fixed and invariable. Parents who are related by the ties of blood, or who have a consumptive tendency, or family blood taint, are Bure to transmit it to their children in the form of Scrofula. Swollen glands, brittle bones, weak eyes, hip disease, pale, waxy complexions, emaciated bodies, running sores and ulcers, and general weak constitutions are the principal ways in which the disease is manifested. Those who have inherited this blighting trouble may succeed in holding it in check during young, vigorous life; but after a gpell of sickness, or when the system has begun to weaken and lose its natural vitality, the ravages of the disease will become manifest and sometimes run into Consumption. S. S. S. goes down into the circulation kills the germs and completely cures the disease. It cuangea the quality ol the blood by removing all impurities ami poisons and supplying this vital fluid with rich, health-sustaining qualities. S. S. S. is a purely vegetable medicine and is especially adapted to systems which have been weakened and poorly nourished by Bcrofulous blood. Literature on Scrofula and medical advice free. m SWiFT SPECIFIC CO., A TIAN7A. CAm WE CUM MEN F DR. SEAIiLUN 6EAKLE. 1 4th FORTUNES FOR ALL WHO INVEST NOW, Greatest Electrical Discovery ot the Age. SAVES $9,711,655 A YEAR I'nlversnl Opportunity Now Offered the Man of Smalt Means to Iteeom lu(lcK iilcntly Itlch. Every great electrical Invention haa made fortunes for Its original stockholders. The,, American-Bell Telephone Company has paid $:'tX),0no for each 1 Invested In Its stock at lis organlsatii.n. Temple then laughed at the Idea of their rver being a general need for the telephone. It Has bard to make in vestors see the possibilities of the business. Those who did are uinong the world a rich est people. Such chances arc not often offered the small Investor. The flrst such opportunity in a great many years, that gives every promise of duplicating the telephone in profits and universal demand, ib the Elec tric ttlgnagraph and Semaphore. Some of the best known railroad experts In America declare these instruments will prevent railroad collisions. They give ab solute privacy to party telephones, make it possible for a train to be stopped by Hi. train dispatcher at any point on hla divi sion, and permit the sending of private tele grams to any one of luO or more telegraph offices without the knowledge of other op erators and without In any way Interfering with the regular telegraph circuit. RAIMtOAIt AltOPTS 1 STKM. No extra wires are required. The cost la so small and the advantages, are so great that It Is predicted by some of the best ex perts In America that all railroads will adopt the system- The Denver, Northwest ern & Pacific has already ordered the Slgn agruph and Semaphore for Its entire lines. The Independent Telephone Company asso ciation has offered 25 cents a month rental for the Slgnagritph, to be used on party telephone lines. They have 7,0u0,0i0 tele phones, most of them on party lines. One Slgnagraph Is required for each telephone. Only 30D.U00 Instruments will earn the stock holders of the Electric Slgnagraph and Se.maphore Company 300,0uO a year. There are 300,000 miles of railroad In the United Slates, less than 10 per cent of which Is equipped with a signal service be cause of the Inefficient systems heretofore used and their great cost. If only one twentieth of this mileage lens than t per cent were equipped with the Slgnagraph and Semaphore the stockholders would earn ItWO.uw a year lat per cent on the present selling price of the sunk. In addi tion to the revenue offered by Uie tele phone company. , .M0 I.IVES LOST. More than 49.000,000 were lost last year In property destroyed in railroad collisions, and 60,000 persons were killed or Injured. This amount w uld cover the entire cost of the Slgnagraph and Semaphore system over every mile of railroad in the United States for two years and make the hor rors of railroad collisions unknown. Experts admit the necessity for these Instruments. Far-sighted Investors are put ting their money Into the company. Not a single person who has examined the in struments with an Idea of Investing haa failed to put his money Into the Company after the most thorough investigation. Every atatement made herein will be verified to the letter. A limited amount of the treasury stock Is now for sale. No one will be asked to Invest a cent until he has thoroughly satlslled himself of the merita of the proposition. All who can are urged to come and see these Instruments in operation. Those who cannot and want to know the full details of the company, Its organisation, It patents, and what experts say of it should write at once for full particulars. Stock is now rapidly selling at 25 cents a share, par value fl.OU, fully paid, and non assessable. Payments are accepted In cash or Installments of one-fourth down and one-fourth the flrst of each month until paid for. Stock will be advanced 20 per cent very aon. fto subscription of less than 100 shares will be accepted. Address all Inquiries or call In person on National Mortgage and Bond Company, J. Renwlck Preston, treasurer, 641 First Na tional Bunk Building, Chicago. screw curia, the fatae frlxxes, the sus piciously bright teeth and the large bunk account. 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