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And correction of Irregularities
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FARMERS
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And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
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Dr. Mendenhall’s
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(This Picture on Every Bottle)
Ouh Chills, Favors, Malaria, Bilious*
new. Take it as a General Tonie and at all
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TO CALIFORNIA.
Via Union Pacific. Millions
kave been spent in the improve
ment of this line, and all human
ingenuity has been adopted to
protect its patrons against acci
dent. The line is renowned for
its fast trains and the general su
periority of its service and equip
ment. Fast time, shortest line,
smoothest track, Tourists sleep
ers a speciality. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street, .
St. Louis, Mo.
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TO THE FAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis |
daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
ONE-WAY RATES.
i
Every day from September
15th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will sell
one-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals (Council Bluffs
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows: 1 4 :
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
atchee, Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria,
Oregon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
A m /waI/vd n vtCrtm TVi ncA
utiu ^ lv/ov'*
Correspondingly low rates to
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tilOct. 10.
$100 REWARD, -4100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testi
monials.
Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for
constipation.
MARK HANNA’S COURTSHIP
Bow, When a Young Grocer, He
Wooed and Won the Daughter
of Daniel Rhodes.
Nearly 38 yearsx ago Mark Hanna
was just starting on his business ca
reer as a grocer in Cleveland. He
was poor, plo'dding, and to the casual
observer a very every-day sort of young
man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich
coal owners of the state. He had one
daughter, Gussie, the very idol of his
sqjiI. Around this lovely girl the
brusque old father had wreathed all
the sentiment, all the hopes of his fu
ture existence. Everything was to be
done for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her
fond mother, was a joint idolator at
the daughter’s shrine, and the doting
parents had dreams of a rich, influen
tial suitor, a splendid marriage and a
brilliant social career for Gussie,
when, as usual, the unexpected hap
pened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved
the obscure, poor young man, Mark
Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was astounded
when the daring young grocer called
upon him and asked for the hand of his
daughter. He refused absolutely to
grant the young suitor even time
enough to beg. He said “no” curtly
and sharply, and when he saw his
daughter he tried to scold her, but in
stead he took her in his honest arms
and begged her not to think of “this
unknown man, Hanna.” He said he
never, never could consent to such a
choice for his child.
Gussie Rhodes told her father, with
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con
sent, and she added: “But, papa dear,
I shall never marry any man but Mark
Hanna."
Then she promised her father not to
see her lover or write to him for a
year at least. She kept her promise,
and in the course of a few weeks, ah
though she never audibly murmured,
and was sweetly gentle and loving to
all about her, she grew pale and wan.
She neither ate no slept. The old fa
ther was at his wit’s end. Some one
proposed a foreign tour for that change
of scene which is supposed to work
wonders in heart affections, and,
presto at a few hours’ notice, father,
mother and daughter were on board
an Atlantic liner.
For nearly a year the “change of
«cene”. prescription was faithfully pur
sued and the patient, always cheerfully
submissive, gentle and charming, ob
viously grew frailer day by day. Al
most in despair the old man brought
his child home again and one morn
ing he gathered the courage to ask
her if she till cared for Mark Hanna.
“Why, father,” she replied, “I shall
-Iways love Mark; I told you that,
you know, a year ago.”
Poor old “Uncle Dan” Rhodes! That
was a bitter day for him, but he was
equal to the occasion. Sending for the
obscure young man, he said to him:
“Mr. Hanna, Gussie loves you, that is
my only reason for accepting you as
her future husband. You are poor. I’ll
fix it so Gussie can live as she has
been accustomed to and I suppose I
must see y®u marry her."
Now the coming young man cast ever
so slight a shadow of his future great
ness on the opportunity of the present.
“Mr. Rhodes ” said he, “I most grate
fuify accept the gift of your daughter’s
love. To marry her is for this world to
beconfe a paradise for me, but I cannot
make her my wife unless she will be
content to live as my means will enable
us. I can neither accept aid nor per
mit my wife to accept it from any
one.”
So Mark Hanna and Gussie Rhodes
were married, ana the bride went from
her father’s big house to live in a tiny
little cottage, where with onq maid of
all work, she was as happy as a queen
for some years.
LINE OF CASTE IN ENGLAND
The American in That Country Soon
Becomes Conscious of Its
Restrictions.
What is it, at bottom, that makes
the English atmosphere so difficult
for an American to breathe in freely?
It is, I believe, that he feels himself
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in hi^ own; a country
where a man born in ordinary cir
cumstances expects, and is expected, to
die in ordinary circumstances; where
the scope of his efforts is traced be
forehand by the accident of position;
where he is handicapped in all cases
and crushed in most by the superin
cumbent weight of caste, convention,
"good form” and the deadening artifi
cialities of ffn old society, comments a
writer in the North American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
infects the American air like a sting
and challenge, and braces every Ameri
can with the inspiration that he has a
chance in life; that there are open op
portunities, unreserved possibilities,
no battering at locked doors, no floun
dering in blank alleys; that here, m
short, it is the man himself who
makes his career—is sometning which
the English have so utterly lost as to
be incapable of realizing it.
For Purifying Air.
Pure breathing air can now be main
tained in a small closed space by the
use of machinery. The device consists
of a distributor, which, by the action of
clockwork, drops sodium peroxide into
water at regular intervals, a cubical
steel box and a ventilating fan. The
sodium peroxide is decomposed by the
water with liberation of oxygen, ab
sorption of carbon dioxide and destruc
tion of the other toxic products of res
piration. A refrigerator is ‘also sup
plied to counteract the heating effects
of the chemical reactions. The com
plete apparatus weighs about 26
pounds.—Detroit News-Tribune^
REMEMBER WOMAN’S GLANCE
Ken Hay Forget the Color of Her Hair,
But the Power of Her Eye
Is Potent.
A woman's eyes are the first objects
to attract a man’s attention, and they
are the last things he remembers about
her. Long after he has forgotten the
color of her hair, the dimple in her
chin and the soft, sweet sound of her
voice, the look in her eye remains with
him, says an authority on the sub
ject
He may not be able to single her
glove out. of a pile of keepsakes; he
may have cast her photograph upside
down into the waste basket with a lot
of others; the slippers she made him
may have been worn out by his valet,
but still some particular turn of her
glance, some little trick of dropping
her lashes or lifting her brown eyes
will be as clear to him as the daylight
Ten years after love^has been laid
away in his little satin-lined casket
that glance will rise like Banquo’s
ghost at the feast and startle him just
at the moment when the man is look
ing most intently into the eyes of an
other woman.
It is not the color of a woman's eyes
which a man first observes or last re
members. Nine times out of ten a
man will turn from the glance of a
pair of soft brown, cowlike eyes to
gaze into the green orbs of the red
headed girl on the other side of the
table, and many a doll-like, blue-eyed
beauty weeps because some pug-nosed,
tawny-eyed woman has lured away her
sweetheart.
Ask any man the color of his sister's
eyes and he will look at you blankly.
“Jove,” he will remark, “I—I believe
I’ve forgotten. But they’re all right.
There’s something about them that’s
catchy." And that is positively all that
can be gotten out of him.
The fact that Becky Sharpe’s eyes
were green or that Cleopatra’s eyes
were yellow never interfered with the
machinations of those fascinating la
dies, nor dulled their reputations as
coquettes. Color, size and shape may
! make an eye beautiful, but they never
I can give it that something which so
many beautiful eyes lack and so many
homely ones possess, the power to
make a man break a bank or sell his
overcoat in order to give his wife what
she wants.
When the world was sentimental
men called it “soul.” Then they grew
; practical and apathetic and they called
i it “character.” But no man will ever
know what it is any more than he will
ever know why he married the particu
lar woman he picked out or why the
cook has left. It is a question as
subtle and elusive as either of these.
WONDERS IN MECHANICS.
Some That Were Worked by Young
Americans with a Genius for
Invention.
j A young man who at 21 had been be
fore the mast, had worked in the
chemical department of a mill and had
lectured upon nitrous-oxide gas
throughout the country patented the
viinmuoi tut u j/iq tv/ii 1nug
not considered particularly valuable un
til after his first company that made it
had failed and fights in Texas and with
the Seminoles in Florida proved its
j worth. The Mexican war made a de
i mand for it ,,
The same mechanic, says the
World’s Work, who did so much for
early ax-making developed details In
revolver-making. The American plan
of not hesitating at the cost of new
appliances was never better shown
than in this big armory. The owner
was probably the first man to suggest
the mining of harbors with torpedoes
for defense, and he was the first to lay
a submarine electric cable. One day a
young man from Vermont came to his
works.
“What can you do?” asked the su
perintendent.
“I’m a machinist, a toolmaker and a
diesinker and I can play a horn in a
band,” was the reply.
He went to work the next day. A
few years later he multiplied by 40 the
value of certain labor in another fac
tory, and by another invention saved
the company $50,000 on contracts al
ready made. Later, with a sewing ma
chine company, he torged shuttles from
one piece of bar steel and cut previous
costs in half. Since that time he has
made forgings by the use of drops
weighing as much as a ton dropping
with dies sometimes six feet upon iron,
steel and copper. An example of his in
ventive genius is the instance of his
forging offhand from a single piece of
copper commutator bars for electric
i dynamos after the electrician in charge
had said that such a scheme was im
possible.
Priest and Donkey.
When Archbishop Farley was private
j chamberlain to the late Pope Leo, some
; 20 years ago, he was called upon to meet
: all sorts of persons. Many of them
measured wits with him, and few scored
victory. On one occasion a young
Frenchman tried his best to anger the
prelate, then Mons. Farley, by scoffing
at religion and clergymen. Failing in
| this, he resorted to sheer impudence,
saying: “I am informed that in Mada
gascar, whenever they hang a priest,
they hang a donkey along with him.”
The young man laughed, and Mons.
Farley, looking at him mildly, said:
•'Well, let us both be thankful, my young
friend, that we are not in Madagas
car”
Much More to the Point.
“Ef yer real interested," said Dea
con Skinner, “I’ll tell ye what I want
fur thet horse.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be interested in know
ing thet,” replied Farmer Shoude.
“No?”
“No; but I wouldn’t mind knowin'
1 what ye’d take.”—Philadelphia Preaa.
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as directed. If it fails your druggist will
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handle Paracamph ask him to get for you.
If he won’t do this send direct to us.
But don’t take any substitute because there
is nothing just as good. Paracamph is sold
only in 25 cent, 50 cent, and $1.00 bottles.
The 50 cent size contains three times as
much as the 25 cent size; the $1.00 bottles
eight times as much as the 25 cent size.
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Without change via Union Pa
cific. This route gives you 200
miles along the matchless Colum
bia River, a great part of the
distance the trains running so
close to the river that one can
look from the car window almost
, directly into the water. Two
j through trains daily with accom
' modations for all classes of pas
sengers. This will be the popu
i lar route to the Lewis and Clark
i Exposition 1905. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive Street,
St. Louis, Mo.
THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
VICE TO CALIFONIA.
Commencing Saturday Septem
ber 17th, the Iron Mountain
Route will inaugurate through
car service to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. This is the “True South
ern Route” via Texarkana and
El Paso. Special low rate colo
nists’ tickets to California points
will be on sale September 15th to
October 15th, via Iron Mountain
Route. For tickets and reserva
! tion apply to local agent
H. C. Townsend,
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LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
on sale daily, except on Friday
and Saturday—September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rate
85.60 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
return limit on these tickets
seven davs from date of sale.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agent.