Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1893 — Page 3

ftk XI ; ■ - — r - ' ( ipir-PraaarvlnK Train of Bird*. The attttudai that »omo large birds place themselves In would protect them In comparatively opon placet. Unless one bad teen It one would hardly give the raptorea credit for thia, but they practice It to perfection. The eagle, for one, placet himself in a strange position, a mere bnndled-up bunch of feathers to look at. A friend of mine who recently visited Achlll Island, the Island of the eagle, was on the cliffs with his wife and some other friends when the lady saw In the cleft of the rocks close to her what she thought was a splendid tuff of feathers that had been blown there by the wind. On stooping to pick them up out from the cleft dashed a magnificent eagle, leaving behind him a tnft of feathers as a memento. Vigilant as the bird Is. he Is frequently walked over. After gorging he gets drowsy. Indeed, it is only under these circumstances that such a thing could take place.— Cornbill Magazine. X Caution to Customers. Nothing of original or superior merit bnt has Its imitations and counterfeits,even to imperiling the health of communities. For this reason the proprietors of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters caution their patrons to scrutinize every bottle offered (and it la sold only in bottles) and verify its many marks of genuineness. A sufficient warning to those meditating fraud can be found in the unbroken line of judicial decisions, exposing and severely punishing every one defected in counterfeiting the Bitters, and the redoubled efforts that are being made to protect the public from the deception of these unprincipled pirates. Remember the Bitters is sold in bottles only, never by tho gallon or in bulk. Could Be Funny. At one of the New York music halls (says Vogue), a hard-faced variety actor came on near the end of the bill, tho other night, and proceeded to tell stories and jokes that were meant to be sidesplitting. The audience failed to see any point in them, and did not laugh once. As a matter of fact, the auditors yawned and a few left The actor was plainly disturbed, but undaunted. He kept on. So did the audience—yawning. Finally heeaw that everything was falling flat, and walking down to the footlights, he said, in a sympathetic tone: “Ladies and gentlemen, I hope I am not keeping you up." , Beware of Olntm-nts for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system Whop entering it through the muoons surfaces. Buch articles should never be used except on pNAeripUons from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is tenfold to the good you cgtr pogslbly derive from them. Ball’s Catarrh Corp, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Tole&O,0., contains be mercury, and is taken Internally, su'd acts directly upon the blood and muboue surfaces of the system. In buying Basil’s Catarrh Cnre be sure you get the genuine. ,It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. • WSold by Druggists, price 750 per bottle. I,eft a Track of Corn. The other day a burglar at Silvertown Was tracked in a queer manner. Not content with valuable booty, he carried off a bag of corn. From a small hole In the bag some grains dropped at intervals, sufficient to make a trail, which a sharp detective followed right up to the thief’s resort, and there arrested the criminal wjth the property in his possession.— London Answers. Ask your grocer for a dollar’s worth of Dobbins' nety Perfect Soap, 5c a bar. If ho hasn’t it he will get it A bar is worth twb bars of any other 5c soap ever made. Suicide. “What! Smoking, Fred? Thought, your doctor told you it would kill you?" “So he did and I quit. But at.the end of a week I wanted to die, so I'm smoking again.” Work for Workers. Are you ready to work, and do you want Co make money? Then write to B. F. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Ya, and see if they can help yon. * There are very few sisters of limited means who do not pool their clothes. One dose of Beecham’s Pills relieves sick headache in twenty minutes. For sale by all druggists. 25 cents a box. The meanest thief in the world is the one who steals busy people’s time.

Mrs. Theresa Hartson Albion, Pa. Misery Turned io Comfort Kidney Troubles, Sleeplessness, Distress In the Stomach— All CURED. “At,bion. Erie Co.. Pa., Feb. la, ’93. "I can truly say that Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done more for ino than all the prescriptions and other medicines I have ever taken. For fourteen years I have suffered with kidney troubles, my back being so lame at times that I Could Not Raise Myself np out of my chair. Nor could I turn myself in bed. I could not sleep, and suffered great distress with my food. I have taken four bottles of Hood's barsaparilla with the most gratifying results. I feel like a new person, and my terrible sufferings have all gone. Life Is Comfort compared to the misery it used to be. I can now go to bed and hove a good night’s rest; can cat heartily without any distress. 1 am Hood’s p“>“» Cures willing this should be published for others' good.” Mbs. Theresa Hartson. Hood** rills enre Constipation by restow Ing the peristaltic action of the u.imenUry canal. ■HBIMMIBBHI Am relief ICIMTMI KISSER'S PABTILLEB.«X™ uu& niTEUVO THOMAS P. SIMPSON. Washington, PS I tR I O I». C. No atty’s fee until Patent ohp * ** * ulned. Write for Inven tor’s Oulde. BEST POLISH IN THE WORLP. DO NOT BE DECEIVED with Pastes, Enamels, and Paints which ■tain the hands, injure the iron, and burn rod. The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odorless, and Durable. Each package contains six ounces; when moistened will make several boxu of Paste Pollgh. HAS AN ANNUAL SALE OF 3,000 TONS.

yHOW TO KILL COMBINES FACTS FOR THE TRUST CONVENTION TO CONSIDER. AU the Different Kinds of Syndicates Are Dependent Upon Special Legislation and Special Privileges—How Monopolies Are Fostered—McKinley's Poor Excuse. A Proper Move. At the suggestion of the lion. Knute Nelson, Governor of Minnesota, the Governors of twenty-six States have already decided to appoint ten delegates from each State to a convention to he held in Chicago to consider remedies for the evils of the coal and other combines and trusts. There Is great need ofsuch aconvention.and if tho right men are appointed delegates the convention will come to conclusions which will open the eyes not only of such men as James G. Blaine, who regarded trusts as “private affairs;" Andrew Carnegie, who said, “the public may regard trusts or combinations with serene confidence;" and Senator Sherman, who thought to rid the country of these ugly monsters by a single law spread out on our statute books, but of all Republicans or Democrats who imagine that any laws or sets of laws which simply declare trusts or combines Illegal; make the trustees or officers guilty of misdemeanor or crime and impose fines and penalties of any kind or extent, will abolish trusts. All such laws, like Sherman’s anti-trust law (which has had no effect except to make it advisable for a few trusts to change their names), will have about the same effect upon trusts as pruning the “water sprouts” has upon a vigorous apple tree; or as a clod In the way has upon a growing potato vine. • The truth is, that so long as there exists a rich monopoly soil, irrigated by numerous acts of special legislation, we may expect the omnipresent seeds of selfishness and greed to take root and grow and spread into giant monopoly plants. It is a waste of time to cut off the branches or even to pull up individual plants by the roots. The conditions which give life to this plant must be changed, or the plant will be a source of constant annoyance and harm. What these conditions are and how they can be changed for the better can be easily discovered by the convention if it starts inquiry, in the right direction. The things essential to trusts, the conditions that make it possible for producers to control production and fix prices so as to make enormous profits, must first be sought after. To illustrate, suppose wo select as samples a dozen of the worst lawbreakers now preying upon consumers and laborers, and producing paupers, tramps and criminals by the thousand. The sugar, cordage, window glass, steel rail, borax, saw. ax, cop-1 per ingot, Standard oil, Reading i coal, starch and rubber trusts are well known and generally hated. What are the conditions which foster these monopolies? The sugar trust has a monopoly of the refining business in this country. The cost of refining sugar is about J cent per pound, and the price of refined sugar should not exceed the price of the raw sugar, from which it is made, by more than A or $ of a cent Yet the trust now pays 4 cents for raw and gets 5 J cents for refined sugar, and has maintained about this difference for the last three years. As vye consume about seventy pounds of sugar per capita, this mefins that Che trust is making a profit of $40,000,000, or would do so if it were doing a strictly legitimate business and. was not paying unreasonable prices for opposition refineries, many of which it holds idle. As it is, the trust is making a net profit of about $25,000,000 a year from a nominal capital of $75,000,000 j and an actual capital of perhaps | $35,000,000. It is not difficult to determine the j Ji*.: *1,..4 i-— i:i

condition that makes lite desirable to this trust. It is the duty of I i cent, per pound on refined sugar, j Abolish this duty and the prices of I raw and refined sugar must stay as close to each other as they do in En- i gland; otherwise we wou.d use im-! ported sugar. This move would wipe out over $20,000,000 of the trust’s profits and would probably kill the monster, as the extra profits tt> be, : had from combination would not cover the interest on capital invest-i ed in idle or useless plants and the ■ risk of attempting to manipulate' markets and stocks. Competition would again be free and consumers i would pay less for refined and pro- ■ ducers get more for raw sugar. Substantially the same argument! holds in regard to the steel rail, the window-glass, thef starch, the rubber, and scores of other trusts of which these are but samples. Special tariff legislation gives them life, health, and profits. Undo this legislation and this class of trusts will either cease to exist or be powerless to accomplish great evil. Besides the class of trusts directly dependent upon import duties which prevent foreign trade there is another large class indirectly dependent upon or greatly aided by these duties. In fact, there are not half a dozen im- j portant trusts in this Country that are not benefited by the McKinley tariff. Suppose we consider the saw I trust. It might exist without a tariff I because it is now selling circular, hand, and cross-cut saws in all parts of the world. To the careless observer the trust is therefore independent of foreign competition. But consider! These saws are sold for about 25 per cent, more in our “frotected” than in foreign unprotected markets. Why? Because the import duties prevent outside competition in this, but not in foreign unprotected markets. With free trade we could at least get our saws as cheaply as foreigners, because, if necessary, we could buy th&m in the same market and reimport them. What is true of the saw is true of the ax, cordage, and dozens of other trusts engaged in this nefarious business of selling lower abroad than at home. There is still another class of trusts like the Reading coal, the Borax and the Standard Oil Trusts Which usually derive nourishment from tariffs, hut which are mainly dependent upon other kinds of special privileges-*-;the j right to monopolize what may be called natural opportunity, such as. i the only available route on ot be- ’

tween certain mines, deposits oi cities, and the privilege of exclusive | ownership Os mines, deposits, waterways, and other of nature’s bounties. So long as one corporation or individual is permitted to own and have the exclusive USb and benefit of the only anthracite coal beds in this country, the price of “hard” coal will be as high as the trust can make It—of course limited to the extent that a too high price would freeze out cus tomers and reduce profits. The dutj of 75 cents per ton on bituminous coal helps the anthracite coal trust to sustain prices where there would be real competition from foreign coal, but the backbone of this trust—and it is still strong—will not be broken until the right to monopolize nature’s bounties is abolished. It Is probable that this could lie most easily accomplished by taxing the owners of these natural opportunities as much as they could get if they should hire out or sell the use of<* such privileges. If the owners of the coal beds, the petroleum fields or the borax deposits had to pay in taxes all that these privileges yield them above their profits, these monopolies would at once kick up their heels and expire. The Reading Company could not then afford to pay millions of dollars a year interest on mortgages on coal lands which were bought and held idle simply to obtain a monopoly. Nor could I* N. Smith afford to buy up and hold idle all of the borax deposits in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. The Standard oil tiust would never have existed to make dozens of multi-millionaires. It is special legislation which restricts trusts and competition and laws that give special privileges to those who, by fair or foul means, get control of nature’s store-house that have made trusts possible. 11 the trust convention sifts these mat ters to the bottom it will recommend the abrogation of all such laws and privileges.—Byron H. Holt. The French McKinley’s Struggle. The French McKinley, M. Meline, recently made a speech before the Association of French Industries, oi which he is the president, and from it we learn that protection in France is withstood in the same wicked and irrational ways as in this country. A benevolent high tariff there cannot escape the efforts of bad men to repeal it any more than here, and there is the same need of appealing to the voters to “save the country" over again at each election. There is, too, the same complaint that the educated people of the country are mostly mere doctrinaires, caring more for foreigners than for their own fellow countrymen, and also that the influential newspapers are all against protection. It seemed a horrible thing to M. Meline that the Parisian press should be almost a unit against him, and he called upon the j association to establish a powerful daily paper to “defend the interests of French producers.” This suggestion I was received with favor, and it was unanimously voted that “a great daily journal” should be founded. We.call the attention of some of our own protectionist editors, temporarily out of office and out of work, to this opening. Finally, we find M. Meline in the stress of an electoral contest, discovering as sudden a love for foreign trade as McKinley did last summer, and, like his great American prototype, putting his hand on his heart and declaring that his tariff was the most unselfish and patriotic law ever enacted. With a flourish worthy of himself, M. Meline wound up by saying: “I assure you on my conscience that the duties in my tariff are not too high. ” —New York Evening Post. A I’oor Excuse. Gov. McKinleyis still saying that at the national election of last November his tariff was so young that the I people had not had time to underi stand it and to see that it was a I measure of the greatest beneficence j and philanthropy. At the dinner of

“ “ “ --xv ■ the Home Market Club in Boston i Wednesday evening, he said: “When ! defeat has come it has usually fol- ! lowed some great public measure where sufficient time had not elapsed ■ to demonstrate its wisdom and ex- ■ pediency. That has been true of all | our defeats.” That was th? plea of ' the advocates of McKinleylsm after the overwhelming defeat of 1890, ■ th* McKinley bill having become a law one month be- : fore the election. But when the ; election of 1892 took place the Mci Kinley tariff was more than two years old. Had there not been time ; enough then for the American people I to arrive at a sound conclusion as to ■ the “wisdom and expediency” of the statute? The allowance of time was ’ ample, but the “wisdom and expediency” were not seen by a great majority of voters, and never will be ! discovered by them. Among those who learned by sad experience that those were deceived who saw wisdom in the McKinley bill was the Ohio manufacturer whose ruin was hastened by the increased cost of tin plate, and by whose fall McKinley’s own fortune was swept away.—New York Times. Medical Education. Dr. Bluepills—O, bother your pollI tics! What's the tariff got to do with I us, Bleeder? I Dr. Bleeder—Got to do with us! ! Well, it doesn’t take much medical education to see that there won’t be half the work for us doctors when they get the duty off from wools and woolens. Protection takes wqolcus off from people as effectually as sheep shears take wool off from sheep, and you know yourself that there is nothing like cotton and shoddy to put folks on their backs and make them send for a doctor.—New Crusade. Tax the Tax-Dodgers. “A tax on incomes of over $10,000,” says the New York World, “will fall on those who receive most protection from the Government and are best able to bear its burdens.” And it may be added, incidentally, on those who are least willing to bear them and have dodged them most successfully heretofore. —Charleston News. The canyon of the Colorado is 300 miles long, and the cities on either side i are from 5,000 to 6,000 feel above the : wa.er. The most wonderful vegetable in the ' world is the truffle; it has neither roots, 1 stem, leaves, flowers, nor seeds, ft •

£rain surgery. ' lame ot the DsUsM* Operation* Made to gave Human Lite. There is a form of cranial Injury In which surgical aid is especially beneilclal, andJn which by prompt action life may frequently be saved. A man falls down an area, for instance,striking his head on the hard substance below. He is stunned lor a few minutes and then partially recovers consciousness, which, however, is ' gradually lost and profound stupor sets in. In such an instance there is propably tho rupture of a blood vessel in I the membranes of the brain between i this organ and the skull and the blood i is effused, which by its pressure on the brain produces stupor and event--1 ually death. Such cases were until i within the last few years invariably i fatal, and even now such is the usual, I for comparatively few surgeons know i what great advances have recently ! been made in the science and art of i brain surgery, remarks Dr. William ’ A. Hammond. I Only a few weeks ago a case of this Kind occurred in Washington City, in : which a man was passively allowed to die, when In all probability his life i could have been saved by an operation, i And this operation is a very simple ! one. We ascertain from an inspeci t!on of the seat of injury on what i part of the skull the blow has been I received,and we are further strength- , ened in our search for evidence by I the symptoms exhibited by the pa- > tient. We trephine the skull at the in- • jured point and let out the blood that 1 has been extravasated. As soon as i the pressure is relieved consciousness , is regained and the patient lives. ’ Quite recently operations have been i performed upon the skull in cases of - idiocy innate’ or acquired with the 1 view of thus removing a supposed dis--1 proportion between the side of the brain and the skull, and thus allowing the organ space in which to grow. A trench surgeon proposed the re--1 inoval of stripsof thecranium in cases j of idiocy in which the skull was unduly small and in which, as he sup- ’ posed, there was no room for the j brain to expand. Several of his cases and those per- ’ formed according to his method by other surgeons have been in a measure successful, so that there is decided ( encouragement to persevere with the ; operation in instances in which it appears to be suitable. Several yjars ( before the publication of his results ! the writer had performed similar ’ operations for the cure of epilepsy, ’ and in a few cases with complete sucj ! cess.—North American Review. u , 1 It Could Be Heard 25,000 Miles, If it were possible to control sound 5 waves in such a manner as to prevent t their ascending and losing themselves 1 in the great sea of ether which sur--1 rounds the globe.and to compel them f to “move off ata tangent,” we might 1 get some results of startling interest. > Now that we have considered the 1 possibility of guiding sound at will, ■ let us consider what volume would be r necessary in order to propagate waves •’ of sufficient magnitude to make them--3 selves heard and felt to the nether--5 most parts of the earth. With the > atmosphere in good condition lor - transmitting sound, the “great guns’* of modern navies can be heard for a 1 distance of titty miles, at least the ’ authorities so state. These guns f weigh from 100 to 125 tons, and the ' charge of powder used each time is 1 500 pounds. Now, in order that the I concussion might break through the r atmosphere with sufficient violence to 1 make sound waves that would have ' the power to travel around the world, it would be necessary to make a gun 500 times larger than the 125-ton gun ; of to-day, and to charge it with 250,- " 000 pounds of powder! This enor- > mous amount of explosives would load \ ten freight cars to their utmost capact ity. |.)Brewer relates an instance where p the human voice was heard for a disx _ c xL ; i.. , . . v-

, tance of three miles, the owner being , an English parson. Eight thousand . three hundred and thirty-three men with lung | o#lt equal to Brewer’s [ stencor, could transmit a message . around the world, and not overtax [ themselves, either. —St. Louis lief public. ' Logic of His Scientific Idea. The soft light of the. morning was ■ creeping under the curtains when she awoke after a night of watching, ! which had ended hi a troubled a <1 dreamy slumber. As her eyes took ’ in the details of the room she, saw ! her husband of a year trying to look 1 unconscious while placing his shoe on ’ the towel rack aud- his hat on the 1 j fioor. ’l “John; - ” she asked-softly, ‘“lsn’t it almost midnight'?’’ J “Yesh, m’dear,” he said, “I fen ! j 'tish. Been workin’ on booksh at of- ’ flee. Go sleep, dear.” “John,” she said, still more sofly, 1 “whence comes tliis alcohol! ■ odor.-” 1 “My dear.” said John, “schience ‘ tells us there is alcohol in infintesh—--1 tes—(hie)—imal quantities in all ’ tilings. Whv, m’dear, there is alcq- ' hoi in new-made bread.” ‘■Then, John, said she, her voice quavering, “I fear yen have been . plundering a large bakery.” i And in the silence that ensued the cook was heard in the kit hen assasi sinating with a rolling-pin a bee.fI steak for breakfast —Minneapolis , Journal. I Bat Bananas and Turn Brunette. Those who eat heartily of bananas i may run some risk of becoming tawny 1 or copper colored. This may be inferred possibly from the peculiarities i of plumage in the turaccs of Africa. |As long as the weatfier’is dry these birds are gay, the primary and secondary leathers being gorgeously" crimson, but when rain comes the color is washed out. and the birds seem to be humiliated and ashamed at the transformation. But. the color returns in dry weather. The cause of the coloration has been traced to copper in a very pure state. A single leather burned gives the characteristic indication. The source cf the turacin has now been traced to bananas, on which the turacos feed chiefly, All the. aborigines who make bananas a diet are very deeply tinted but tlrir color is sooty rather than red. The North American Indian cannot owe his coppery line to bananas.,) He has only known of this fruit on reservations, and chiefly by the peelings.— 'San Franc sea Call.

■: A Matter of Health :: ? s r TT costs more to make Royal Baking Powder f p 1 than any other, because its ingredients 5 < [ are more highly refined and expensive. But J b the Royal is correspondingly purer and # Ji higher in leavening strength, and of greater a P money value to the consumer. The difference £ ] ' in cost of Royal over the best of the others > ij does not equal the difference in leavening j $ strength, nor make good the inferior work 5 b of the cheaper powders, nor remove the l b impurities which such powders leave in <> ? the food. o 5 Where the finest food is required, the J £ Royal Baking Powder only can be used. S ? <Where the question of health is considered, $ 4 no baking powder but Royal can be used I r with safety. All others are shown by official £ I $ analyses to contain lime, ammonia or alum. J

How CTo Grow Old. The late Professor Faraday adopted the theory that the natural age of man 18,100 years. The duration of life he believed to be measured by the time of growth. In the camel this takes eight. In the horse five, in the lion four, in the dog two, in the rabbit one year. The natural termination is five removes from these several points. Man being 20 years in growing, lives five times 20 years —that Is, 17)0; the camel is eight years In growing, and lives 40 years, and so with other animals. The man who does npt die of sickness Ilves anywhere from 80 to 100 years. The Professor divided life into equal halves—growth and decline —and these into infancy, youth, virility, and age. Infancy extends to the 20th year; yonth to the 50th, because it is In this period the tissues become firm; virility from 50 to 75, during which the organism remains complete, and at 72 years old age commences, to last as the diminution ot reserved forces is hastened or retarded. A Paper Match. Not many improvements are recorded nowadays in’the manufacture of matches, but it has lately been proposed to substitute for the ordinary article a novel kind of paper arrangement described as resembling in its general construction the coilea tape measure used oy tailors. The coil thus employed is a roll of paraffined paper inclosed in a metallic case, one end Os the paper projecting after the manner of the tape measure, and ac regular Intervals on the paper are small points covered with an igniting substance. In practice one has only to give the end of the paper a smart pull, bringing the igniting point in contact with a small steel plate, and a light is struck which burns slowJy and evenly, and. on the roll being thus exhausted from use, a fresh one can be inserted in its place. Matches of this description can be manufactured with great rapidity and at very small cost. Needles and Their Origin. Originally, all the needles used in Europe must have come from the East; and it seems passing strange that no record has been kept of the time at which these useful little instruments were first manufactured there, but it must have been at a very early period. They were made in Nuremberg in great quantities in the fourteenth century. Their manufacture was introduced into England under Queen Elizabeth, and flourished to such an extent that the workmen soon constituted a guild, for we read that in 1597 the “Pinners and Needier’s petitioned the Queen not to allow foreign pins and needles to be imported. Just to Name It. Bartlett dislikes churches and lets ministers severely alone. The other day, Bartlett took his 6-months-old baby to

' church to have it christened. Next day, old Mrs. Gadder met Bartlett ou the street and spoke to him about it. . “Why, Mr. Bartlett, I’m so glad to welcome you to the church. Have you seen the errors of your ways’?” , “No, ma’am,” replied Bartlett. “Then why did you take your baby to the church?” Bartlett looked out of the corner of his eye at the sharp-nosed gossip, and answered: “Simply for the name of the tiling.” a A Nice Distinction. Five-year-old Mary had fretted and made herself generally disagreeable, and at night her older sister’put her to bed with a feeling of relief. “There, child,” she said, as she kissed her good-night. “I hope you won’t be so cross to-morrow.” Mary had cuddled down under the blankets, tut at this speech she sat upright again. “Ahl” said she. “when it’s me,vou say ‘cross;’ when it's you, you say ‘nervous.’” Pleasure ot Ocean Travel. • On the Ocean Steamer —Does the Captain say whether we shall break the record or not? - ’ “Yes, ho says the record or the boiler must go.” “How lovely!”—Texas Siftings. More Comfortable. “You seem an honest fellow and I feel an interest in you. Could anything be done to make you more comfortable?” said a prison visitor. “You bet!” “What 9 ” “Lot me out!” — Wavorloy Magazine. The one thing that all hate the most, cah never be helped; we all hate to grow old. ‘ - m A FULL STOMACH ought to cause you no discomJKj fort whatever. If it does, though—if there’s any trouble BSsSa. after eating—take Dr. Pierce's IftSEgg Pleasant Pellets. They're a fe'SJhF P erfect antl convenient vestpocket remedy. One of these tiny, sugar-coated, anti-bilious granules at a dose regulates K and corrects the entire system. Sick or Bilious Headaches, Constipation. Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the liver. stomach, and bowels are prevented, relieved, and permanently cured. They’re the smallest, easiest to take, | cheapest, and best. They’re guaranteed ; to give satisfaction, or money is returned. . « is perfectly, permanently, HI Yr positively cured bv Doctor Jem | J Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. The proprietors of this medI > icine prove that by their I W offer. It’s SSOO cash for a A w case of Catarrh which they eannot cure. By all druggists, 50 cents. -» ' fr. ’

Lost. I Among the puzzling questions put to I young men and women in collegiate ex- I aminations is this: “What are the ten i days in the world’s history in which ! nothing was eaten, nothing drunk, and nothing spoken?” The answer is, of course, the period between October 5 and 15, in the year 1582, when Pope Gregory Xlll. sliced ten days off the calender. That was the beginning of the Gregorian calendar. From 1582 to 1700 the difference between the old and new styles was ten days. In the eighteenth century it was eleven days. In the present century it is twelve days. From 1900 to 2100 it will be thirteen days. THE LADIES. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use the California liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the bottom of the package. An indorsement. Mrs. Bloobumper—Pm glad you indorsed what the minister said in his sermon. Bloobumper (surprised)—lndorsed? Mrs. Bloobumper—Certainly. Didn’t I see you nodding all through it? New Train Service. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. on Sunday, May 7. added eome important trains to their already excellent service, and travelers en route to Denver. Pueblo, Colorado Springs, or to> Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sioux Falls should note this fact. The new train West is called the Rocky ' Mountain Limited, runs via Omaha and Lincoln. and leaves Chicago daily at 10:25 a. m.. arriving at Denver next day at 6:40 p. m.. Colorado Springs at 6:55 p. m.. Pueblo at 8:35 p. m. The new train to the Northwest is called the “Twin City,” and leaves Chicago daily at 3:50 p. m.. arriving at Minneapolis and St. Paul early the next morning. Both these trains are vestibuled. carry Pullman’s superb service, as weH as the ever popular Rock Island Dining Car Service. Take the Great Rock Island Route. The Twin. City Express leaving Chicago daily at 3:50 p. m. carries through sleepers to Kansas City, arriving there at 8:30 a. m. Jno. Sebastian, Gen'l Paas. Agt. The Kind of Quantity. , Baggs—Pennywise always carries his load well. He seems able to drink any quantity of champagne. Snagsfs—l never saw Pennywise buy a bottle of chauipagne. Baggs—Of course, I mean any given quantity.—Puck. FREE TO HOME-SEEKERS. The JVbrf/itresfem Home Seeker is the name of a newspaper just issued, giving valuable information regarding the agricultural. mineral aud-other resources of South I Dakota. This new State is enjoying a wonderful ■ prosperity and any person looking for a j

desirable location, or interested in obtaining information concerning the diversified resources of South Dakota, will be mailed a copy of tin-- paper free of charge bv sending their address to W. A. Thrall. General Passenger Agent North-Western Line, Chicago. ' A man can always see how women look around home by noticing their attire at a fire. For weak tin ! inllamed eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson s Lye-water. It is a carefully ; prepared physician's prescription. a man is watching his enemies, his friends get awav with him, For Pneumonia, no other cough syrup equals Hate! s Universal. 25e. , Tnr wisest man is the dead man; he never does anything wrong, N. K.'Brown’s Essence Jamaica Ginger is a wonderful tvnic. None better. Try it. 20 Cents'. Many crimes, are committed in the name of insanity.

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