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wmm A Child Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentle iictiop and soollitojg effects of Syrwp of Figs, when •in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or byious, the most gratifying results folloxv its use; so that it is the best family remedy known, and every family should have a^bottle. Ferdinand Gumbert, who died "recent­ ly in Germany at the age of 7S, wrote 460 songs which, in their time, were as popular as those of Abt, but they are fast falling into neglect. NEY'S EXECUTION A Veil of Misft i Rising at morning or evening from some lon- lii.ml* often carrttR in its folds the seeds of niji'luriii. Where malurlal fever prevails no one is safe, e.niess'prottfted by some efficient medicinal safeguard. Hostefter's Stomach Hitters is both a protection and a remedy. No person who inhabits or sojourns in a inias- Hiatic region or country should omit to pro-, < uw tiiis fortifying agent, which is. also the tinest known remedy for dyspepsia, consti­ pation,, kidney trouble and. rheumatism. Personal; ANY ONE who has been benefited by the use of Dr. vrilliams' Pink Pills will receive information of much value .tad in­ terest by writing to "Pink Pills." P. v>„ Bos lottt. Philadelphia. i . ;--, I Prof* Roentgen lias had the honorary citizenship of his native town. Lennep, iu Rhenish Prussia, conferred on ldm. Two bottl.es of Piso's Cure for Consump­ tion cured IUC of a bad lung trouble.-- Mr*. .1. Nichols, Princeton, Ind..v- Mar. 2l>. , Whenever you make a mistake make it teach you something. Absurd Attempts to Prove tlial'lklar* »hal Ney Ke^aped to America. "A family Record of Xey's Execu­ tion." written by Mine. Cam pan, is con­ tributed to the Century by a relative of this lady,' George Clinton Genet of Greenbusli, N. Y. Mr. Genet, in a preparatory note, feays: An absurd at­ tempt has been made recently "to prove In a published volume that Ney was not shot ill 1S15, but escaped to Amer­ ica, and became a schoolmaster in North Carolina, where lie lately died. An alleged facsimile of liis writing is given in the book, as Well as one of the writings of the old Fi'ehcli cavalry man who, it is alleged, when drunk on a cer­ tain occasion, declared himself to be,- the Duke of Elchingen. The writing which it claimed is the genuine writing of the marshal seems doubtful when compared with that known to lie iiis, and the assumed similarity between that and the writing of the old French soldier of North Carolina is inconceiv­ able. It is absurd to suppose that Ney should have proclaimed himself to be the Duke of Elchingen. since at the time of his execution he was Prince of Moskown, .raid no longer Duke of Elch­ ingen. It Is Impossible that, as is asserted in the book referred to. Ney should have consented to the siibterfuge of being shot at by muskets charged with pow­ der alone, and after fallingr and pre­ tending to be dead, should have suffer­ ed himself to be.carried. iiito exile in a. otrange land. At the battle of Water­ loo Ney vainly sought death wherever the battle was fiercest. ' ' With an army of sixty thousand inch still left, lie capitulated under the walls of Paris, upon <-ondiiion of general amnesty of offenses both civil and military. These terms were basely violated, and to satisfy the clamor of the returned aris­ tocrats of the old regime. Ney was ex­ ecuted. Wellington could have pre­ vented this crime after the condemna­ tion by tiie chamber of peers, but did not. for reasons best known to him­ self. Ney was offered an opportunity to escape, but refused. 11c asked the &t»ldiers to lire at his heart* and they uw "(jporeover, at\ the time,, when it is claimed that Ney was concealing him­ self in North Carolina. Joseph Bona­ parte was living at Bordentown, and his house and his fortune would have been at Nev's disposal. Moreover, after tlu' fall of the Bourbons there would have been no reason why Ney should not have returned to France. In 1 S.'IL1 Eugene Ney, his third son, visited the United States, and went to the house of his kinsman Gonet. who resided on the Hudson, near Albany, but never heard of this alleged Duke of Elchin­ gen. It is useless to follow these ab­ surdities further. Ney is luiried in Pere la, Chaise at Paris, .with two of his sons and his brother-in-law (liiinnl. A plain sin 1» marks the place. <»n the spot where he was executed stands a monument erected by the French Gov- eminent. It appears that- Harold Frederic is Hie author of the novel, "March Hares,"-' which recently appeared anonymously in London. Catulle Mendes lias written a new volume which he calls "L'Homme-Or- cliestre." The work is said to be as whimsical as the title, which is saying a good deal. Richard Le Qalllenne's "Search for the GoldehtTirl" is pronounced by those who have seen the proofsheets to be by far his best work. . The British sea stories by Crockett, Parker. Frederic, Quiller-Couch, and Clark Russell, which appeared in the Idler, are to be published in the autumn under the title, "Tales of Our Coast." Mr. Barrie lias acceded to an invita­ tion from his"American publishers and will visit this country in the autunin. accompanied by Dr. Robertson Nicoll. the editor of the European edition-of the Bookman. In the Metaphysical Magazine, for July Prof. Elmer Gates, formerly of the Smithsonian Institution, announces for'the first" time the results of his ex- toned. psychological , experiments and 'researches. The Bookman is authority for the announcement that Copeland &• Day. will" discontinue the .American edition of the London Yellow Book, as its popi ular vogue seems to have declined since Aubrey Beardsley left it for tin Savoy. "Bound in Shallows," Eva Wilder Brodhead's new serial, is a Kentucky story which attempts again the solu­ tion of that mooted conuiiilrniu. "Should a girl marry a man that site may reform him?" Jaalcoff Prelooker is engaged upon an Anglo-Russian romance to be called "Palasha and Masha," which narrates Hie fortunes of two Russian sisters, daughters of Dissenters, introducing tragic episodes which the author claims to be facts. The publication of John Davidson's volume of short stories, ".Miss Arm­ strong's and Other Circumstances." leaves him free to devote all his ener­ gies to the poems with which he hopes to increase the fame he won by his "Fleet Street Eclogues." A new story by Edna I.vail is en- tilled "How the Children Raised the Wind." and flu? clever cover design, re­ produced in the current Bookman, is the work of a talented young artist, Miss Ethel Belle. Appel. Among those whosenames have been lidded to Librarian Spofford's copyright lisls in the last week is Prof. Zella Allen Dixon, librarian of the Univers­ ity of Chicago. The new book is a con­ tribution to bibliography and will ap- pear among the fall publications. , The London Literary World says that a very important and lucrative literary position was recently offered to Edward W. Bok. one detail of the offer being a ten-year lease of a mansion in (iros.veiior Square. Mr. Bok was much dined and wined in his recent London sojourn, and once lie danced with a real live Ducliess. Win a child's heart, and you will have something that will brighten two lives-- yours and his. . • A PAIR OF BLOOMERS Hall's Catarrh Care. Is taiien internally. 1'riee «j cents. Half Rates to Omaha, Via The Northwestern Line (Chicago aud Northwestern lt 'y), Aug. 1.1. 10 and 17, 2SJM1--one fare for the round trip. On Aug. 24 excursion tickets at very low rates will also be sold from Omaha" to Denver and the famous Hot Springs of South Dakota. For full information ap­ ply to ticket agents of connecting lines or address W\ B. Kmskeru, G. P. & T. A., Chicago; BEFORE bicycling became a craze with women there had never been even so much as the shadow of a quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Cran­ ston. But after Mrs. Crahston bought a bicycle and learned to ride well there was a disagreement which came very near breaking up a happy home. They had been married three years, and they had often said that their married life had been one long honeymoon. - Tom had yielded so readily to all of his wife's whims that slie had uncon­ sciously gained an opinion that her word was to him like the laws of the Modes and the Persians. ,•* . / But this idea was all .^knocked to, pieces when one morning :< ;as they .sat (at breakfast Mrs, Cranston said "Tom, I'm going" to order my dress­ maker to make a suit of bloomers for me to-day. 1 do so much bicycling now,; that skirts are too heavy for me." ; "What!" shouted Tom,, dropping his spoon in the-oatmeal and spattering milk all over his necktie, looking at her as though she had announced that she was going to commit suicide. Mrs. Cranston also dropped her spoon and looked in surprise at her husband. "I said," she repeated, "that I was go­ ing to get a bloomer suit. What strikes you as particularly strange about, that 7" "What strikes me as particularly strangeV" he repeated, with a wild look In his eyes. "Do you think for one in­ stant that I will allow my wife to race around town looking like a lithograph of a variety entertainment'? Not much." "But, Tom," said Louise, in a tone that had never failed to persuade her husband that she was right and that he was wrong. "I don't see why I can't have bloomers. Mrs. Kynastou and Mrs. Bent ley and Mrs. Jennings all wear them and their husbands don't object, so why should you?" "Itmakesnodiffercnce why I should." said Tom, doggedly. "I don't intend to have my friends on the exchange coming to me and saying 'Tom. 1 see your wife's wearing bloomers." Not if I know it." "But, Tom.' she began. "I " "Oh. don't lalk any more nonsense. Louise," he broke in. "I am sick of it. You sha'u't wear bloomers, so that set­ tles it." And Mr. Cranston, whose ap­ petite had been entirely taken away by his wife's announcement, got up from the table and started for the door. "Good-by," he called from the hall, and then the door sla'mmed. and Louise sat at the breakfast table wondering how it was that she had never before known that her husband had a will of his own. She had told all of iter friends, only the day before, that she would be wear­ ing bloomers within a week, and when they had suggested that her husband might object she had said "What! Tom object? Why, he never objects to anything." And now Tom had absolutely refused to allow her to wear them, with a facial expression which showed that he would not stop short of the divorce courts to prevent it. Finally she arose from the table and went to her room. She had an idea which she thought, if properlycarried out. vo.vld gain Tom's consent to the wearing of bloomers. She wrote a hurried note to her dressmaker ordering a bloomer suit of a pattern which she had; already selected, and then donned her old bicycle suit to pay a call on Mrs. Kynastou. who had a husband that did not object to bloom­ ers. She told her troubles to the vivacious Mrs. Kynastou. who was not sparing iu her sympathy for the poor friend who had a narrow-minded husband who ob­ jected to a convenient bicycle dress. "Why. how foolish of him," she said. "I dou't believe the poor man lias ever seen a proper bicycling costume. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll all go bicycling this afternoon, and.come back by your house at just the time your hus­ band gets home, and he will see what a bloomer suit looks like." ., . And so the bicycle party was arrang­ ed, and when Thomas Cranston .arrived at his house that evening he saw five women riding in,front of the house and four of them were in full bloomer cos­ tume. The fifth, who wore skirts, was his wife. lie was not so badly shocked as he thought he would be. and he wished that he had not been so decided in his refusal of his wife's request, but he made up his mind that it would be un­ manly to yield after his remarks .of the morning, and so with a bow to his wife and her .companions he went indoors and began to dresg.for dinner. That night Louise again broached tlie subject of bloomers, but her husband si­ lenced her by saying: "Now. see here. Louise, don't speak to me abontabloomers again. You may go in for women's rights if you like, and you may wear standing collars and men's waistcoats, but you shall not wear trousers, even if bicycling does justify it in your eyes." "Trousers!" cried Louise, indignantly. "Who said anything about trousers? I was talking about bloomers." "I know you were." said Mr. Cran­ ston. "and please dou't talk about them any more. I'm tired of it. and I won't hear it mentioned again." The next morning when Mr. Cranston put on his coat to start for his office his wife called him back and said: "Tom. I'll promise you never to men­ tion bloomers again, but if you over change your mind about them please tell me. for I'm really very-anxious to wear't beni." The smile which for .twenty-four hours had been absent from Tom Cran­ ston's face came again, and he kissed his wife. "That's a dear good girl. Louise." he said. "1 hated to refuse your . equest. but really 1 don't like the idea of your wearing those: things-. And now if there is anything else you want ihe to do for you just name it, and I'll do it." Of 35.000.000 codfish heads gathered at Lofoten in a season. 0,000,000 were used for feeding cattle, while the rest were used in the manufacture of guano. Medicinal value. | wonderful cares, more skill, care, expense, more , and more curative power \m We cannot define it. but there seems to -bt> an "aroma of love" about every young lady whose complexion lias been beauti­ fied by (ilenii's Sulphur Soap. Dandruff is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spreads and dries, form-' in;: scurf and,causing the lia,ir to fall out. Hall's llair- Hi-newer cures it. An Heroic Remedy. .There was once a little girl who was so yery intelligent that her parents feared she would die. But an aged, aunt, who bad crossed the. Atlantic in a sailing'vessel, -said: "My dear, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of bin-self that it will probably, save her life."--Century.;, Sarsaparilia Than 'la- any other. Be suft to ?et only Hood's. Hood's, Pills cure biliousness, indicestien It is folly tro expect Col to for while we arc hating others. Jluy $i worth rtobb IHS Bora* Soap oi y--vir Birecer, seat) wrappers t'vDobbuis x»at» Mtir. Co .Pan- «tiel)>hU..Pa. -They xriti cciid you. fr-i-ol vijtrs.-. |mm- tialtl. i. \tfoitwsie.i--"PoWvet 1) ciionjiry. ifi.s puge*. ci.rth- bound; prolustiLv illustrated o.u.csooiH.ll A:IK. I MA LA; NEW--N ii U spectacle*, l.y uia.l 1.0c, LocL Cox 78a, N- lrork. OLD EYES IN wr'ting to Advertisers, plejise <io not fall to mention this paper. Advertisers liko Xo.kaow iv hat mediums pay '*•!«•»«» best. IB*. Wtnslow's Sarifjnxr, SriuTr for Children leetluni?: doltesis the sums, reduces int1:unmation. ailiivS putn. eareii wind colic. US cents a bottle, • We ppend the second half of life in niciwing down in our hearts all that; we grew there in the hi'St half; and, this \\*<e call acquiring experience. OH! WHAT A RELIEF. in.i n, b'io i •» ; 'w Tfrr I suffered yvith terrible pains iii my /eft ovary and womb. My back ached all the time. ( r*'.I had, lisidiicyi trouble badly. . Doc­ tors prescribed, for mo, and I followed their adviqe, but,fqund no relief until I took jLydia E. Pinkham 's Vegetable /TX { A y Cempoijnd. ,0h! what Ys^v^ a . reliel it is, not to / V j) have that tired feel- 'T- ing day after day, in f' " ^4-. "J the. morning as much as at night after a hard clay's work, and to be free from all pains caused by Ovarian and Womb troubles. 1 cannot express my grati­ tude, , 1 hope and pray that other suf­ fering women will realize the truth and importance of my statement, and accept the relief that is sure to attend the use of the Pinlrliam Medicine."-- MRS . JAMES PARRISII , 2501 Marshall JSt., N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. Judgment!! BICYCLISTS SHOULD Strangely Tongue-Tied. A singular story of how Jack Frost captured a burglar comes from Fort Henton, Montana, by way of a dis­ patch to the Philadelphia Times. Dur­ ing the severely cold weather in .Jan­ uary Tip Hurbauk. a notorious robber, went out alone one night to make a raid on the First .National Hank of this place. His plan was to enter through a window at the rear of the building and make bis way through tlie offices to ilie vault. An iron grating protected the window. The night was intensely cold and the streets were like glass, a heavy snow having melted as it fell and then frozen smooth and hard. While Tip was tiling the first bar of the grating his foot slipped, throwing him forward vio­ lently against the window. As luck would have it. the fall jerk­ ed bis mouth open, ills tongue was forced between his lips, and froze in­ stantly to the icy iron bars. All ef­ forts to release himself were vain, as nothing short of pulling his tongue out by the roots would have effected this, aud he could not bring himself to that. A watchman making his rounds found him a half-hour later almost dead with cold. Tip is alive and safely housed in jail now, but his tongue will never wag again. It is completely aud hopelessly paralyzed. t The umpire now decides that £ " BATTLE AX" is not only r. decidedly bigger in size than any r other 5 cent piece of tobacco, but the k - quality is the finest he ever saw, and T- the flavor delicious* You will never r know just how good it is until f you try it* to An Oriental Kite. Only those who have studied Ryzan- tine history can have any Idea of bow closely the ceremonial of the Moscow coronation resembles, even in its min­ utest details, that which used to be ob­ served at ine coronation of the Hyzau- tine emperors. Although the IinssjjU) Church did not separate from that of Koine until 'the twelfth century--that is. nearly 4.)0 years later than the schism of Phot ins, which rent the West­ ern and Eastern churches asunder-- nevertheless it retained its oriental rile. Iu 1184 a Russian commission arrived in Byzantium io study the etiquette and ceremonial, ecclesiastical and pro­ fane. of the court and church of that capital. On their return to their native country a great change took place In the national costume, architecture aiul ceremonial. When Moscow became the sacred city par excellence of the em­ pire, the Kremlin was rebuilt on the same lines as the Blachernae Palace, on the land walls of Constantinople. Like its Creek model it consisted of a series of liaiis and apartments--kiosks, as the Turks call them--linked togeth­ er by gardens, and interspersed with scores of churches aud monasteries, the whole surrounded by a wall and en­ tered by strongly fortitied gates, above which were icons of the Virgin and saints. Burnt down early in the cen­ tury, it has been rebuilt in plainer ar­ chitecture, but on the same Byzantine plan.--London Chronicle. KENNEDY'S 2? cts. aWash DONALD KENNEDY, OF RQX3URY, MASS., f;as discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst'Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benelit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is war­ ranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through then); ithe same with the Liver or Bowels. ;Jhjs is caused by the ducts being stopped, and-.always disappears in a week after taking it. Read the label. " ft. the stomach is l '6ui or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the* best you can get, and enough of it. Do$e>-pne tablespoonful in water at bed­ time. Sold by ali Druggists. The Dead of St. Peter's. And far below all are buried the great of the earth, deep down in the crypt. There lies the chief apostle, and there lie many maHyred bishops side by side: men who fame from far lands to die the holy death in Home--from Athens, from Bethlehem, from Syria, from Africa. There lie the last of the Stuarts, with Uleir pitiful kingly names. James 111.. Charles II!., and Henry IX.; ihe Emperor Otlio II. has lain there a thousand years; Pope Boniface VIII. of the Caetani. whom Sciarra Cololina struck in ihe f.n-e at Anagni. is there, and Itodrigo Borgia; Alexander VI. lay there awhile, and Agnese Colonua. and Queen Christina of Sweden, and the Creat Countess, and many more besides, both good and bad--even the Caterina Oornaro. Queen of Cyprus, of romantic memory.--Ceu- tury. The Sea n 11 Is a Benefactor. The sea gull is doubly the benefactor of man. It not only follows the plow (ou farms near the coast), in order io eat the" freshly-turned grubs, but i* scours the surface of the sea near tlu. shore, and frequents harbors to seizu on lloat ing garbage, dead tislj. or otinr putrefying morsels. The service of these birds have saved many a seaport town and village, round which they hover, from plague and pestilence. Yet every year they are massacred by thousands for idle and cowardly sport or for the sake of their wings to be used iu millinery. Their eggs are pltri- dered wholesale for museums and to li 11 the shop windows of naturalists. One man*boasted a year ago that lie had killed 4.000 kittiwake gulls iu a single season with his own gun. and an order was given and executed from one London house for .10.000 pairs of wings. At this rate gulls must soon disappear altogether. The carrion crow, the raven and oth­ ers which follow their example, more or less, confer an immense boon ou mankind. Sparrows clear the gutters and" places which they inhabit from a vast quantity of scattered fragments. Though too small to be seen, these un­ savory morsels would soon become dan­ gerous to human life and health.-- Spare Moments. Seaside; and Lountr\ • c/ 3owrrs"need , r ' i"J GJsiv® Duxbak _ TO THE FARM LANDS AND PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE Old Missouri. Col. .T.V.Brower.Minnesoia. State ge ographer. has made the sensational dis covery that the source of the Missouri River is not Red Rock Lake. .Montana, as has been stated. Col. Rmwer ha:* explored the whole region of the rppi^ Missouri," aud now makes public the result of his discoveries. He says the longest upper branch of the Missouri does hot How through the lower Red Rock Lake in Montana, but comes from a hole in the mountains, volcanic in irs character, at the summit of the Rocky Mountains, west of Helery's'Lake. Ida­ ho. and at a point bordering the ]>oui : dary between that State and Montana. The Burlington Route and many Eastern Railroads will sell Excursion Tickets at VERY LOW ROUND-TRIP RATES --r=r: OJJ - ' August 4,18, Sept. 1,15,29, and October 6,20. Take this opportunity to go and see the splendid crops thfct Nebraska, Northern Kansas and other Western sections have produced this year. Ask your nearest Ticket Agent for particulars, and see that your ticket reads via the BURLINGTON ROUTE. Send to the undersigned for M pamphlet (no charge* about Western Farm Lands. P. S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Passenger Agt., CHICAGO, ILL. "l'lie 103(1 i Witt Often TVESBlY, SK^KMBEH 3d, 1898. Full Cairsos in Classics. Letters. Science. Law. Civil and TiSechaftisa! Engineering. Tlioro'iph I'raiuwattny-ami Ooiumerelal Course*. M. Kilwarti's H <ti for lioy.-.unUer t;i i< unique in the trdmplfftmirtw of its ec|Y;ijvuent. Cntat hent.n««MMirftt!p!i<v*tiAn to JtBV. axd'ukw M<!ci- KISSKS". >Otr« Int. K. N. li. " Mo. 31--Wo WHEN YOU WANT TO LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS, USE 4 Antiquity of the Hornpipe. The dance called hornpipe dates as far back as l.."»t)(>. aud took its name from the instrument, the pib-eorn, to the music of which it was danced. ' We have- noticed that just before a church attempfs to raise a lot of money tbe pastor delivers a high tribute to .women. ,V fc.When a woman becomes poor she laever thiiVks of going to, work, but of ^jelling a book, and blackmailing her ifriends. - « •sii •? • • • • ' ' uuats BiltKfc ALL tLSt kkliS. Bast Cougli Syrup. Tastas Good. Use In ti-ce. Sold br crqgglsta. -