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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
0'ate of Nebraska. Douglas County, aa:
Charlt- C. Rneewater. general 71r,"s?T
of The Be Publishing company, bel lg n it
worn, says that the actual number of tuii
and complete coplee of The Dally. Mortilng,
Evening and Sunday B printed during
nonm or uecemurr, isms, waa --
1 81,870
11 W.S7W
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4 81.T10
81.T00
81.E90
T 31,880
1 83,080
t 80,830
18 31,750
U 83.180
II 83,050
II..,. 31,680
14 81,890
II 89,170
II 80,400
Total.
1 81.780
II 81,760
a! 39,670
21 31,610
31,800
30,850
14 31,710
81,600
U. . 18,180
17 81,770
II 31,610
it 31,890
10 304100
II SL8i0
.989,380
Lata unsold and returned coplea.. 8,841
Nat total ......873,148
Dally average 31,391
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WHEN OUT OP TOMT1I.
labaerlbara leavles! the city tem
porarily sheela hay Taa Baa
mailed to fheaa. Addreaa will be
rhaaged aa eftea aa raqacated.
Senator Foraker and the Ohio river
show signs of subsiding.
Jamaica is receiving welcome relief
from all Its troubles and afflictions
except Governor -Swettenham.
Senator Bailey's . presidential spe
cial has been stalled, the tracks hav
ing been found greased with Standard
oil. t
The New York legislature Is con
sidering a bill providing for the use
of pure embalming fluid.- It's a grave
subject.
"What is congress for?" asks the
Philadelphia Ledger. Well, for ona
thing, it is for increased pay of con
gressmen. Though Senator Burkett recorded
hla vote against the salary increase
bill, he will doubtless take the money
when It Is thrust upon him.
The senate resents Mr. Tillman's
abertlon that It is a minstrel show,
even If it can not prevent Mr. Tillman
from his dally vaudeville stunt.
A New York paper says "E. II. Har
riman has very few friends In Wall
street." , Evidently, then, the man Is
not as bad as he has been painted.
An assistant surgeon general wants
tea substituted for coffee in the army,
We might get around that anti-can
teen law by using the cold variety.
W, E. Corey and his chorus, girl
bride propose to take a three years'
honeymoon trip abroad. No objection
will be heard on this aide to his add
Ing' twenty years to tho trip.
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, The headquarters of tho Isthmian
Canal commission will be removed
from, Washington to Panama, it hav
ing feeen decided to dig the canal with
shovels instead of typewriters.
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Oregon has just elected the young
est member of the United States sen
ate! They have to pick' them young
out In Oregon to make sure they are
not mixed up with timber frauds.
Uncle Joe Cannon is said to have
cleared up $7,000 on a transaction In
Nebraska farm land. When the
speaker put hli money in Nebraska
sol) he showed where his head Is level.
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi
Is but with a strong endorsement of
Colonel Bryan for the presidential
nomination next year, but It Is only
fair to Colonel Bryan to state that he
could not help It.
'
Toe Utah legislature in considering
a bin which allows amateur dentists
to practice on convicts. That la a clear
violation of the constitutional inhibi
tion against cruel and unusual-punishment.
The Omaha city council has a new
way of getting even with the Ice trust,
which Is sure to be effective. .It has
decided to rut off the Ice supply for
the city hall altogether until the varm
weather makes resumption necessary.
One of the arguments of the South
Omaha anti-annexatlonlsts is that
they want to get more public Improve
ments first before being merged with
Omaha. Judging future by past.
i however, they will only get more law
kj sulta the longer they stay out :
RCSSELL A. ALOER.
The death of Russell A. Alger,
United States senator from Michigan,
removes from public life a man who
hag been prominent and active in na
tional affalra for a quarter of a cen
tury, a commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, a gov
ernor of hla atate, a candidate for the
republican nomination for the presi
dency, a member of the cabinet and a
United States senator.
State pride was evidently the basis
of the Alger presidential boom in
1888, as at that time he had held no
high office except that of governor of
Michigan and had, done nothing to
for, his qualifications for chief execu
tive upon the attention of the nation,
nor did hla later public career show
that he waa ever desirable timber for
presidential use. His candidacy for
the nomination, however, broughi at
tention to his record for brilliancy and
bravery in the civil war. His record
as a soldier, coupled with his activity
In party affairs, won him a place as
secretary of war in President McKtn
ley's cabinet in 189". where he en
countered the first serious trouble of
his public career. As secretary of
war, In the Spanish-American conflict
in Cuba, he bore the brant of the em
balmed beef scandals that were due,
it is now generally admitted, to the In
competence of subordinates. Although
he received the unfaltering support of
President McKInley, public clamor over
the scandals became so great that his
resignation from the cabinet was sub
mitted at the close of 'the war.
Michigan refused to share in the
sentiment against Mr. Alger. Upon
the death of Senator McMillan in 1902,
Mr. Alger was appointed his succes
sor and elected by the legislature for
the unexpired term, ending March 4,
1907. Satisfied with this vindication
of his conduct and warned by ill
health, the senator recently announced
his refusal to be a candidate for re
election. -
CHAIRMAN FHOXTS' RETIREMENT.
The circumstances of the resigna
tion of Theodote P. Shouts as chair
man of the Isthmian Canal commis
sion seem to be altogether different
from those of the retirement of Chief
Engineer Wallace over a year ago.
Chairman Shonts goes out with the
good will and most flattering encom
iums of President Roosevelt.
Mr. Shonts has been in chief ad
ministrative charge of the canal com
mission's work almost two full years
and will leave it with the first great
stage practically completed, so that no
special embarrassment will be Inflicted
upon the government by his retire
ment. The close of that stage is
marked by the taking over of the con
structive operations under private
contract, though of course with effl
clent government control. The bids
were opened at Washington only a
few weeks ago, and the contract will
undoubtedly be let before Mr, Shonts'
resignation goes into effect. , .
While Mr. Shonts relations to the
president, whose every energy has
been strained for the one supreme end
of forwarding the great national en
terprise, the course of the senate has
been Irritating and hampering, so aa
to render his position one of unusual
difficulties. The senate, through Jeal
ousy or sheer perversity, refused to co
operate In Important matters of or
ganization and In many matters In
dulged in what amounted to obstruc
tion. It is to Mr. Shonts' credit that
he nevertheless persevered In faithful
co-operation with the president until
a Juncture has been reached at which
he could retire wtlhout serious detri
ment to public interest and with the
acquiescence of his superiors.
HOMESTEADERS IX THE CAXADIAX
KORTH WEST.
The official statistics show that 12,
485 of the 41,689 homestead filings
last year In (he Canadian northwest
were made by immigrants from the
United States. The number of home
stead settlers from the United States,
although hardly as great as -was ex
pected, is still, more than double the
number from England. It Is also a
material Increase over the record of
the preceding year.
The fact, however, marks a distinct
tendency of farmer emigration across
the boundary into a vast new agricul
tural region that has been made avail
able by railroad construction only
within a few years. These home
steaders in Canada are almost exclu
sively practical farmers from the
states west of Indiana r.nd as far
south as Missouri and Kansas, which
is precisely the section In which the
value of farm lands has enhanced
most rapidly, the last six or eight
years, significant as this movement
sx-ross the boundary is, it would have
reached vastly larger proportions but
for the prosperous times and the re
markable success of farming In the
dryer portions of our own west which
are attracting thousands who other
wise might have looked towards Can
Ada
Opinions, of course, differ as to the
wisdom of a western farmer seeking
a home In the Canadian northwest.
much of which is certainly as arid
as our own public domain available
for the homesteader. While so much
unoccupied land remains here, the
change is -at least questionable, for
the average small farmer who wants
low-priced acres. Nevertheless .this
movement Is a fact to be reckoned
with. The seductions of the land
boomer and immigration promoter
are certain to overpersuade' a multi
tude of our land hungry farmers,. In
spite of the fact that they could with
prudence do better nearer home.
It Is a singular circumstance that
Nebraska, with all Its rich and com
paratlvely low-priced land and ex
tensive areas of government land still
free, should be so large a contributor
to farmer emigration to Canada, al
though our proportion Is less than
that of most of the neighboring west
ern states.
WATER BOARD OHX AMEST!-
Representative Clarke has given
notice that he proposes to fight the
bill Introduced by Representative
Barnes to cut off the salaries of
Omaaa's do-nothing Water board un
til such time as the city shall have
acquired a water works for It to man
age. Members of the school board
and the park board and the library
board, all of whom have Important
work to do, serve without pay, but
members of the water board, who
have done nothing except heap up
costly litigation on the city, are milk
ing the treasury for an aggregate of
$3,600 a year.
Omaha is complaining of Insufficient
funds to maintain Its police and fire
departments on an effective basis and
has been discharging public works In
spectors because -it has no money to
pay them. The $3,600 wasted on the
Water board would give us five more
policemen or six more firemen. Of
course, to use the money for this pur
pose would cut off the rations of the
six Water board sinecures.
Aa a matter of fact the Water board
has been a very costly luxury for the
taxpayers of Omaha In the three and
one-half years since it was called into
being. It has spent nearly $50,000
of public money and contracted obli
gation for much more, and apparently
gotten no nearer the purchase of the
water works than at the start. In
spection of the minutes of the board's
meetings discloses that the proceed
ings have been almost exclusively con
fined to the certifying of vouchers for
their own salaries and for lawyers'
fees and court costs. During the
month of September last no meetings
whatever were held for want of a
quorum and there Is absolutely noth
ing for the board to do now except to
await the outcome of the law suits
pending In the federal courts.
Should the city actually come Into
possession of the water works plant
the Water board might have some re
sponsibilities and some duties to dis
charge that would warrant its mem
bers drawing salaries, but there Is no
assurance now when, if ever, the city
will acquire the water plant, and no
reason why the taxpayers should be
held Indefinitely for salaries for an
orpamental board.
'VKCLK JOE" CANXOS'S FORESIGHT
"Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the
house of representatives in congress,
has been dealing in Nebraska farm
lands, to his liberal profit. He has
just made a profit of $7,000 by the
sale of a Saunders county farm of 320
acres which he bought four years ago
and has just sold at $75 per acre, giv
ing him a little matter of 41 per cent
profit.
Mr. Cannon's investment and re
sultant profit are not surprising, when
it Is remembered that he Is the pos
sessor of large wealth, nearly all of
which has come from dealings in farm
lands. When he was a prosecuting
attorney In the Danville district in
Illinois, about the time of the civil
war, he invested every surplus dollar
of his savings in, farm lands that were
then valued at from $10 to $25 an
acre. With each sale, at an advanced
price, he reinvested his principal and
profits in other farm lands and today
owns large tracts of lands In the vicln
ity of his home town that are valued
at $200 or more per acre. He has kept
In touch with the progress of the mid
dle west and has a keen appreciation
of the worth of landed Investments
in prosperous and growing sections,
He has other real estate holdings In
Nebraska, and doubtless counts them
with his safest investments, mopt cer
tain of Increasing value and higher
promts.
Mr. Cannon may not contend that
all wealth comes from the soil, but he
understands that most of it does and
comes more certainly than from any
other source. His example of invest
ing In Nebraska land is worthy of
emulation.
A bill to make judges Ineligible to
hold other offices during the time
they are on the bench has been ap
proved by the state senate and sent
on to the house for ratification. This
particular bill la designed to meet
conditions that have arisen in Lan
caster county, where complaint is
made that the district judgeship has
come to be regarded simply as polit
ical capital to be used In getting some
thing better. Public sentiment Is un
questionably In favor of divorcing the
judiciary from politics as far as possi
ble. The same principle la Involved
In another bill before the legislature
whose purpose la to put the Omaha
police board out of politics by dlsqual
ifylng members from seeking other
elective and appointive places while
serving as police commissioners. The
political police commissioner swing
Ing the police club for his personal ad
vanceraent has been In evidence at
Omaha even more than the political
judge at Lincoln
Strange what changes are produced
by the whirligig of time. Here we
have the Independent telephone peo
ple antagonising the compulsory con
nectlon of the licea of the different
companies, whereas heretofore they
had been clamoring loudly for just
such relief. The reason, of course
Is easily found in the voting of the
second telephone franchise at Omaha
giving the Independents the entrance
to this city which they so much cov
eted and which they now themselves
want to protect against outside poachers.
Mayor "Jim" likes Denver better
now than ever for several reasons,
which may be gathered from his Inter
views on his return from that city:
Flrat In Denver the mayor appolnta the
police commissioners, the health depart
ment, the atreet department and everything
else.
Second All the big Internets are behind
the mayor and they atand aa a unit to
keep things going ahead. The town la
wide open and everything goea.
Third They have a fund there to pay
for painting the pictures of big public men
and maintain a picture gallery In which to
exhibit them.
Here are some tips for Omaha, If It
wants to do the right thing by "Jim."
Senator Pettus of Alabama, whose
present term does not expire until
March 4, 1909, has been re-elected for
another six-year term. He Is 86 years
of age and, If he survives the term for
which he has now been sentenced, will
be In position to retire from public life
at 92 and resume the practice of law.
His colleague, Senator Morgan, now
9 years of age, has been elected for
another six years, which will give him
time to complete his speech on the
Panama canal question.
The local democratic organ Is trying
to make believe that all Interest in
primary election legislation, has died
out at Lincoln. But If the republicans
were really losing Interest, why
should the fuslonlsts become luke
warm? Both the democratic and the
populist state platforms gave distinct
pledges of a statewide primary law
which the fusion members of the leg
islature are as much bound to redeem
as are the republican members.
The British built their battleship,
the Dreadnaught, in such big lines
that it can not squeeze through the
Suei canal. Accurate dimensions of
the Panama canal should be secured
before the government starts work on
those warships that are to eclipse the
Dreadnaught.
Preaaure oa the Safety Valve.
St. Loula Globe-Democrat.
What a fine privilege the senate enjoys.
It orders the doora cloaed when It feels
that Its anger has reached the explosive
point.
Allies of Doabtfnl Value.
Washington Herald.
Blnce Governor Vardaman came out for
Bryan, the Nebraakan must understand
how good It made Mr. Hearst feel to have
Mr. Murphy announce hla friendship and
support during the late New York fight.
Sadden Change of lane,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The railroads all agree that It Is not
their fault that there la so much traffic
that they cannot carry It nil; but they are
the same railroads who a short time ago
were testifying that they actually had to
give rebates In order to get the business.
"He aa Haa, Glti,"
Indianapolis Newa.
Possibly no one more eagerly awaits the
presidential ship subsidy message than
Messrs. Harrtman, Morgan and Bprecklea,
who are ever eager to promote the pros
perity of the country with such Incidental
usufruct aa may happen aa a result of
good management.
Diplomatic Imaartnlnga.
Bprlngfleld Republican.
Secretary Root's simple social visit to
Ottawa now attracta European attention,
and a leading Parla paper avows that
France cannot be Indifferent to the re
Bulls. The effort to plnce diplomacy on a
level with a 5 o'clock tea Is ancient, and
Mr. Root does not expect anyone to be
really deceived.
Monopoly and Socialism.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The relation of cauae and effect between
preaent-day monopoly and socialism is
reasonably clear; and if the president ahull
be sustained In his effort to extirpate the
baleful monopolistic root there will be little
to apprehend from a no leaa baleful so
cialistic fruit. He sees clearly that the
time In not yet come when the country can
choose only between the two tyrannies rep
resented by monopoly and collectivism.
Great American Spenders.
Cleveland Leader.
It la evident that the accusation often
made against Americans that they straggle
fiercely for money to be piled up beyond
all possible needs or reasonable deslrea.
la no whit more true than the other charge,
often heard, that they are immoderate In
their expenditures. We are a masterful
people in the production and getting of
wealth, and we are the moat successful of
all nationa In saving and accumulating
riches, but wa are certainly extravatunt
and self-indulgent. As a general rule
American spending la at least aa extra
ordinary aa American earning power. It
rather overtops American thrift, because
It Is farther beyond the standard set by
other nationa.
AW EMPIRIC Btll.DKR.
Death of the Maa who Iatrodaeed
Alfalfa lata Thla Coantry.
Chicago Chronicle.
In Topeka, Kan., the other day there
died a man to whom the farmer of the
west and southwest are under- a h-.avy
debt of gratitude.
He was Harrison Parkman, and ha waa
the man who Introduced alfalfa Into this
country from South America. His death
waa far more briefly chronicled than it de
served tQ be. Future generations of Amer
ican farmers will, perhaps, do tardy honor
to his memory.
The plant which Parkman Introduced to
the farmers of the arid and aeml-arld
reglona of the west ha proved to be the
meat valuable, all things considered, of
their crops. Not only In New Mexico and
Arlsona and In southern California, but in
western Kansas and Colorado and western
Nebraaka alfalfa has been the salvation of
the farmer and cattle raiser the sure fod
der crop, the unfailing money earner.
Give It water and the fecundity of
alfalfa la marvelous. In the Imperial val
ley of California, which la now threatened
with submersion by the Salton sea. It has
been said that ranchers have cut a crop of
alfalfa every two montha the year round.
In almost any climate two or three crops
are to be relied upon.
Alfalfa's grtateet glory Is that It Is an
absolutely aure crop. It never fail. It re
produces Itself. If it haa any Insect en
emies tt haa overcome them. It la the
sure reliance of the southwestern rancher.
Alfalfa haa played the moat prominent
part in the reclulmlng of the arid south
west. It is the agricultural backbone of
the region; ao that, although Parkman
may not have realised It, he was the
builder of an empire when he brought the
hardy plant from South America to this
country.
noun AiwtT sew York.
Ripples oa the Correal efl.lf la the
Metropolis.
The automobile show at Madison Square
gsnlon lnt week accurately rrrtected the
wld popularity of the aelf-propcllrd ve
hicle, its vastneaa a a manufacturing In
dustry and the demand for the finished '
product. One hundred and fifty thotiaand
people visited the ahow and ordra to the
amount of lio.rmo.ona wore booked by the
exhibitors. An exhibitor calculated that
s.M cars were to b built for delivery as
a dlrrct rfsull. In addition to orders pre
viously pin rod by agents throughout the
country. The Chicago exhibition next
month will, of course, swell the asles pro
portionately. The new buelneas created m
future for supply houses and dealers In
motor accessories, as well as for the auto
mobile manufacturer themselves, Is not
negligible In this estimate.
Huddled up In one corner near the ra
diator, tho book ngent saw a man who was
fairly aneeslng his head off.
"Seem to have a bad cold." ventured the
agent.
"Awful." sneesed the sufferer.
"Got a doctor?" asked the agent.
"No." said the other man.
"Better get one," the agfnt ndvled. "If
you have no regular rhyslclan I can give
you the name of a man who cures colds
like magic."
He gave the doctor's address and offered
to stop and send him nround If the man
with the cold so desired. That night the
book ngent reviewed his day's work.
"Nary book sold," he said, "but I dis
covered four patients for that Jay doctor
around' the comer, and he'll give me half
of his day's fees. He owes nine-tenths of
his practice to me. He didn't have a pa
tient when I met him. I volunteered to
k?op my eye open for sick people while
tn pursuit of the elusive book trade, and
when I found one who was a stranger In
town and had no regular doctor to try to
work him in. I succeeded so often that
he now haa a decent practice, and I earn
more off my commissions from him than
through my regular business."
Tho cocktail bracelet Is the lastest tor
women. There are fashlomble women of
New Tork City who wear circlets on their
wrists which sometimes contain a Martini
dry or a Manhattan. The bracelets have
one drawback. It is said, and that Is they
will not accommodate the cnerry that goes
with the fairy cocktnll. The other night a
Pittsburg attorney observed a woman of
fashion place her Hps to her bracelet. He
thought that she was paying tribute to
her own loveliness, but learned later she
was merely refreshing her inner self with a
mixture of cordials. The nip contained In
a bracelet cocktail Is so small that It can
not be called a drink, but a cocktail It Is,
nevertheless. Of course the bracelet is
hollow. If large enough it holds three
thlmblefuls of ready-made cocktail, and
pressure on an almoat Invisible spring per
mits the fluid to trickle through a tiny hole
In the gold shell, which Is almost too
small to be seen. With one of those grace
ful movements which appear to be natural
with a woman the drink may be Imbibed
without fear of detection. A Broadway
goldsmith "sells numbers of the bracelets
every week, and as most of the purchasers
prefer secrecy In connection with the
transaction, they pay a pretty penny for
the dubiously useful trinkets.
"By whatever route you reach or leave
Manhattan Island in the evening, the river
lights are beautiful," says a writer In
Harper's Magazine. "On the North river
the spectacle varies according to the hour
and the seasor, for the down-town lights
in Manhattan are more numerous when
the days are short and the tenants of the
great office buildings have to light up to
finish their day's work.- Across from the
lower Jersey ferries late in the afternoon
of a winter day glow and sparkle the great
company of tall shafts grouped against the
sky, each one pierced to the top with reg
ular rows of shining windows. A memor
able sight they moke, those shafts and
huge blocks of gleaming holes, reaching
far above their neighbors that come
between them and the river There is muc
in that spectacle to recompense a tired
man for being a commuter, and nowhere
else on earth Is there the like of it."
New Yorkers are the most extravagant
of all Americans, and New Tork Is the
costliest city on this continent to visit No
matter how much the average Gothamlte's
Income Is, he lives up to it, and often be
yond tt. Manhattan haa so many pace
makers In spending that no matter how
much of a splurge you make, there Is si
ways some fellow ready to go you one
better. In speaking of the people of New
York some one remarked to the late Colonel
Waring: "They devote themselves to
pleasure regardless of expense," and he
replied: "Oh, no, they don t. They devote
themselves to expense regardless of pleas
ure." A New Yorker's Income may in
crease from $6,000 to $10,000 a year, but he
spends one as readily as the ether.
Buyers of mansion sites are still husy
along upper Fifth avenue. They have paid
$0,600,000 during the past few months for
plots on Millionaires' Row. Their ac
tivity is attributed to current business
prosperity. William B. Leeds has directed
his architects to draw plans for a $1,000,000
structure to cover his southeast corner at
Eighty-ninth street. 8. Barton French Is
planning a H.WO.OOO mansion for the Van
Ingen plot, between . Seventy-first and
Seventy-second streets. Jsmes Btlllman
will build on the north corner at Seventy
second street, and Mra. Howard Gould on
the south corner cf Seventy-third street
Edward 8. Harknass will build on the north
corner of Seventy-fifth atreet. Benjamin
Guggenheim on the south corner of Seven
ty-sixth street. Mansions will be planned
for the north comer of Ninety-second street
and two for the south corner of Seventy
fifth street.
The Vnited States circuit court In New
York City the other morning looked
though the sons of Anak had Invaded the
country. Over a dosen men were there
applying for naturalisation papers and more
than half of them stood over six feet tall,
The particular giant of the lot waa Ed
mund Fritscher, an artist born In Auatr.a,
who measures stx feet eight Inches. The
clerk of the court suggested after gla'iclng
at the remarkable aasemblage that perhaps
they had come here to "grow up with the
country."
Fraud by Mall.
St. Paul Ploneer-P'ess.
To transfer to the courts the power of
declining, after a trial, the question
whether a person accused of using the
malls for purposes of fraud shall be barred
from such use, would be to give wide op
portunltv for the continuance of such
fraudulent operations. To that extent it
would make the government connive at
the robbery of the people. Expert lawyers
would, by continuance, appeals and a re
sort to technicalities, make It as difficult
to punish a practitioner of "fraud by mall
as It s now to punish a murderer or an
artist in high finance. The essentials of
Justice are In thla case safvr In the hands
of the postofflce department than they
would be in the court.
Chicago Record-Herald.
James Stlllman. the New York banker
and Standard Oil magnate, aays his health
requlrea that he shall live abroad. Those
Ohio subpoena servers have a depressing
effect upon the aysteofc
TIRED A D SICK
YET MUST WORK
'Man may work from sun to son
but woman's work is never done,"
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well drewwd
and tidy, women overdo and often
suffer In silence, drifting along from
bad to worse, knowing well that
they ought to have help to overcome
the pains and aches which daily
make life a burden. .....
It la to these women that Lydta
B. Piokharo'e Vegetable Compound,
made from native root and herba.
comes a. a blesstng. When the spir-
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reluctance to go anywhere, these are only svmntoma which nnleae
heeded, are soon followed by the worst forms of Female Complaint.
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Inflammation, Uloeration. displacement, and orranlc -M;
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Mrs. Augustus Lvon. of East Earl. Pa., writes: l'
ham: "For a lona; time I suffered from female troubles and had all kinds
of aches and pains in the lower part of back and aides, I could not
sleep and had no appetite. Since taking Lydia E. Pinkham VipUblt
Compound and following the advice which yon gave roe I feel like 8
new woman and I cannot praise your medicine too highly.
Mrs. Pinkham'A Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are lnrltd to
write Mrs Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass. Out of her vast oluroe of ex
perience she probably haa the verv knowledge that will help yoor
wb, ner aavioe is i iro auu iwjr
rEItOV.L XOTES.
It Is reported that the new shah of Persia
will begin business by cutting off a few
heads, llow like a charge of administra
tion In this country!
The duchess of Marlborough I to pay
llOO.Oi') a year for the privilege of using
the title ar.d of wearing t.ie ducal Jewels.
Some luxuries Come high, but still we have
to have them. r
Chicago's latest claim to distinction Is its
display of the "remorse motor," the ad
justable electric kicking and spanking ma
chine, which is warranted to supply
vicarious punishment in quantities adapt
able to any demand put upon It.
One of the strongest evidences of the
ruling passion would appear to be offered
by the Kingston woman who In the face of
the most Imminent danger bribed a servant
to re-enter a tottering hotel and get the
powder puff from her dressing table.
San Francisco has struck the greatest
blow yet for individual Independence
against corporate greed. The street car
patrons hsve formed a "strap-hangers'
league," with appropriate badges, and re
fuse sturdily to pay a fare unless a accom
panied by a seat.
Miss Emma Juch of former days, now
Mrs. Francis L. Wetlman of New York,
retains her vocal powers and is to give a
group of songs written to Shelley's words
at a coming entertainment in aid of the
Keats-Shelley memorial.
Jacques Lebaudy, the self-styled emperor
of Sahara, Is said to be quietly makfng a
tour of the United States. He was seen in
Boston a short time ago. According to
one of his concierges, M. Lebaudy, prior to
his departure, collected five years' rent In
advance on many of his Paris properties.
So far as Boston Is concerned, the hon
ored name of Wlnthrop, once so well known
there. Is becoming Uttle more than a mem
ory. Although the Wlnthrop family has
given the country many strong men and Its
line Is scattered throughout the lana. xne
fact remains that of this Illustrious lamuy
but one man Is now named in the directory
of Boston, capital of New England, the
colony which the Winthrops. father and
son, helped to establish. By way of con
trast there are 2.7O0 Smiths and 2,000 Sulll
vans. RAILROAD WRECKS.
la
Saturday's Record a Messaare of
Despair f
Chicago News.
a,rAav-m aurcesalon of terrible railroad
accidents, by which many human lives were
lost under the most harrowing circum
stances, constitutes a message of despair
to the people or the Uliltea Biuien unless
.k. authorities Bet about compelling
the adoption of necessary safeguards. Re
cent Investigation of fatalities on railroads
r.vMlnd the most abominable viola
tions of rules, or the complete absence of
rational rules, for the protection or uvea
and property. It Is. therefore, a Justifiable
Inference that railroad passengers and
trainmen are being butchered day by daj
because the management of the railroads U
a greater or less degree' is In the hands
of Ignorant, reckless or othorwlse Incom
petent persons.
If men who are directly responsioie ior
v.. ..hiv nt trains are worked to the point
of exhaustion they are rendered incompe
tent by fatigue. That it la noi uncommon
. .....Monta tn hannen from this cause
has been proved by part inquiries Into fatal
wrecks. The LaFollette dim. wnicn pro
hibits railroad employes from working more
than sixteen hours without taking proper
the senate and should be
passed by the house without further d lay.
Steps should bo taken uy congress uiso to
(..-nata thoroughly the causes Of
wrecks on railroads and to provide such
legislation as will compel tne adoption or
mpthndi and appliances that will put a
stop to preventable catastrophes of this
sort.
It Is not necessary that the railroads of
it.i. .oimirv should Day dividends on their
stock while they are making their train
service safe. The question of expense to
those corporations should have little weight
with congress In considering legislation that
la deemed essential to put a stop to the
continual sacrince or Human lire Dy rail-
roada which find it cheaper to kill than
to refrain from killing. This matter must
be taken up In earnest now by the law
makers. In order that It shall be takari
up In earnest the people must cease to sub
mit manklv' liko rattle In A shamhlea tn
the butcheries that are going1 on day by
aay. inry must uumunu uibi muir lliuil-
ferent representatives at Washington pro
tect them from this peril.
INDIA AND CEYLON
Is bound to please the moat critical tate. lu parity, flavor and bo
them' dUT m'nife,iU,d ,n "" of tea pots. Is yours one of
McCORD-BRADY C0 Wholesale Agents. Omaha.
MRS. AUG. LYON
ncii m ..
THE IROl AGE. '
America's Lea a the Fraet aa
I'rodirer.
New York Bun.
Thd development of the iron and steel
Industry durirg the laat quarter of a cen
tury Is one of the most striking facts of
the time.
In 1) the total output of pig Iron
throughout the world was lS.SOO.OOO tons.
Of this total England furnished 7,750,008
tons and the Vnited States 4 OW.OOO, Ger
many supplied 2.600,000 tons.
The estimates for last year show a total
output of about 60,000,000 tons, with thla
country In the lead as a producer. Our
output approximated 25,000.000 tona. or ore
third more than the world's total supply
in 18S0., Germany Increased to ll.75e.008
tons and England to 10.260,000 tons.
During this time England dropped from
first to third place as a producer, and the
output of the t'nlted States Increased until
it now aounies mat oi tne total or notn its
competitors. About 96 per cent of our out
put Is used here at borne. The value of
the material In Its various finished forma
runs up Into billions of dollars.
No comment Is required.
MIRTHFIL REMARKS.
"An oculist ought to be the most poetical
of men."
"I don't see it."
"Isn't his whole time devoted to eye
deals?" Baltimore American.
The bookkeeper timidly approached.
"If you plu&se," he said, "i would like a
raise in pay."
"You. too," fairly moaned the capitalist.
"Say, do you want to sink to the moral
level of a congressman? I won't be a
party to your downfall." Philadelphia
XxMlger.
Sycophantic Friend I've heard that you
con make a goc d speech, and 1 suppose you
sometimes write tor the papers. Did you
ever have the cacoethes scrlbendIT
Mr. Uaswell 1 suppose. I did when I was
a baby. I had. everything there wa.
Chicago Tribune. . .
"The trouble with him Is that he apea
the swell people."
"You're wrong; that's not the whole
trouble. He might ape the swell people
all he pleased if he didn't afterward monkey
with the plum people." Philadelphia Press.
"You are not looking at all well," ob
served the sympathetic neighbor.
"I'm not feeling well, either," said Mrs.
Lnpsling. "I have suitered agonies for the
lam day or two with the defamatory rheu
matism." Philadelphia Press.
"Do vou think that experience on the
lecture platform helps a man In congres
sional debate?"
"No," answered Senator Sorghum; "It
gets him tu much In the habit of expect
ing to talk without being answered back."
Washington Star.
The terms of the western senator waa
approachng an end.
"Only six years," he murmured; "why,
at the price I paid 1 ought to have had
forty, at least."
"If I'd been the judge you'J have got
life," commented one who had overheard.
Philadelphia Ledgur.
He (sentimentally) I was speaking of you
when I heard you coming. Talk of angels,
you know, and you hear the rustle of their
wings.
She (warnlngly) h! What you heard
was my chaperon's coque feathers. Balti
more American.
"I don't suppose," said Subbubs,
W1L lilnlclnir nitoi. a ..., ....... 1 ... . ,
vha
that
there a any Mower that grows higher than
Vie sunflower."
"Nomtena! fliinftwp n pa .11...
- --- -- " " " "l v , ,iuni i- uiiu
oumr nower mat grows
higher than it Is.' Philadelphia Press.
is
THE LYHK THAT Bl'RNs LAID DOWH
The lyre that Robert Burns laid down
At lil l.rlf lit.'. ,i ...
There s none to wake It, ah, there's none
To give the thrill of master hand.
The chords that felt hla passion's breath.
And to his soul responsive grew
Fell Into silence at his death.
And olnce have felt no touch so true.
The flame that warmed his simple verse
Was sometimes so uncouth and wild
'Twould seem no art could make It worse.
But nature loved her wayward chlldT
And from her inmost heart bestowed
Such gifts as others aak In vain.
And ao that rarest feeling flowed
Which charms In every fluent strain.
This lowly and unt raveled bard,
Who loved so well the land of birth.
Whose humble lot was deemd so hard,
Made songs that travel round the earth.
And echo, sweetly echo, still
From lowly cot and mansion walla,
From ocean wave and wooded hill,
From river banks and waterfalls.
In every place where lovers meet.
Where plowmen tread the furrowed field
Where harvesters their fellows greet, '
Where social games their pleasures yield.
The soul that saw the depths of woe
Had pinions, too, for Joyous flight;
The sweetest pleasures mortHls know
He brought to view with wondrous might,
BERIAH F. COCHRAN.
