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$100 Reward $100. | Baby on the Doorstep. readers ot this paper will be pleas-| Joplin, Mo., Dec. 26.—H. C. Stokes, learn that there is at least one |» plasterer of this city, was the re- disease that science has been| .'. Ps he od ure in all its stages, and that is | ©ipient of a truly unique Christma: Hall’s ona Cure wa ve | giftlast night in the form ofa girl ive cure known to the medical | a 4 ie a ity. \Catarrh being a constitution- | baby about * week old, which — disease, requires, a constitutional | left on his doorstep. Stokes and his ment. Hall’s Cotarrh Cure is taken | wife were reading in the parlor, an! rnally, acting directly upon the led b \ knock att lood and mucous surfaces of the sys- | were startled by a loud knock at » thereby destroying the foundation | back door. Stokes opened the 1> the disease, and giying the patient ‘ h by building up the constitution jand peered = the darkness. ? assisting nature in doing its work, | ON€ Was In sight. He stepped «to he proprietors haye so much faith in| the yard, when he noticed t'; a curative powers, that they offer One undred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send tor list of testimon- fals, Address F, J. Cusney & Co.,, Toledo, O. ger old bv druggis = 76c. pos! which he had crossed.- He picked it up and unwinding the clothing, he discovered a healthy baby girl, weigh- ing9 pounds. He took it to his wife. A Most Liberal Offer. All our farmer readers shoul! take advantage of the unprecedente:! club- bing offer we this year make, which REDUCED RATES TO FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION, ' From December 2d to 4th, inclusive the Great Rock Island Route will sell ‘excursion tickets fo Chicago from points east of Missouri river and west of Muscatine and Wilton at rate of lus $2 for round trip, with urn limit leaving Chicago 8/1901. These reduced rates | splendid opportunity for a rip to Chicago to attend this exposition which in interest in the number and excellence of bits will surpass any of its kind held. For full information con- it nearest Rock Island ticket agent address JouN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A , Chicago. CHICAGO Stock Indicator, its special Pariners’ Institute Editions and The Poultry Farmer, These three public: tions are the best of their class and ~hould be in every farm home. To them we add, for local, county and general news, our own paper, and make the price of the four one year only $1.25. Never before was so much superior reading matter offered for so small an amount of money. The three pa- pers named, which we club with our own, are well known throughout the West and commend themselves to the reader's favorable attention up- on mere mention, The LiveStock Indicator is the great agricultural and live stoek paper ofthe West and Southwest; The Poultry Farmer is the most practieal poultry paper for the farmer,avhile The Special Farm- ers’ Institute Editions are the most practical publications for the promo- 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trace Marks Desic: CoPyricHts &c. Anyone sending a sketch and Geseription may tees ananabiy patentabye. commurien: abTC. : sptriotly bonfidentials Handbook on Patents dest agency for securing patents, nts taken thre junn & Co. receive notice, without charge, in the i i ake advantage of this yreat offe r, + only, Samples of these papers may be examined by calling at this oftice. 5-6m = handpomely illustrated week! ‘west cir- Tablontgye ay ectentidie urna ers, 83 & BE months, $l.) Sold by. wadealers, & Ci, 20r8resey. New York The correct treatment of sore muscles or tendons is very sim- ple. First take a good warm bath before going to bed, and then wipe yourself dry. This opens up the pores. Then rub Omega Oil into the pores, keep- ing up a brisk rubbing for sev- eral minutes. If you have time when you get up in the morn- ing, rub in some more of the Oil. This cures sore muscles caused by hard work or by severe exercisé of any kind. Omega Oil is the favorite 'rub-down of nearly all prominent athletes in America. It keeps the muscles in fine shape. 4armess' : and saddiery: ; Buootes ne and Hf Surries> - Road Wagons m~ and Sheets and < vx | bundle was lying on the step «ver. includes with this paper Tho Live tion of good farming ever published. | Asie wil hokt-good-tor-wstort-time+ McFARI.,AND BROS, Harness $7 to $25; Second-hand Hurness $6 to $15; Our Vehicles are the latest in 5 ! Farmers in this section are losing TRA VELS IN A BOX. | much stock by feeding shredded corn- sheen stalks. The cattle are allowed to |feed on the green wheat fields and \then transferred to dry cornstalks | without sufficient water. A farmer, \eleven miles northeast of town, lost |twento-two head of cattle.—Har- | risonville Democrat. | 6ASne This signature is on every box of the genuine Laxative Brom-Quinine taviets the remedy thet er: rot tn one day Penniless- Hungarian Crosses the Ocean in a Novel' Way. Ships Himself as Freight and Nearly Perishes from Hunger and Fear During the Fifteen Days of His Imprisonment, The man who was discovered inthe hold of the Hamburg-American steam- er Palatia the other day after having made the trip across the ocean in a box has recovered sufficiently to be able to establish identity positively. He said his name was John Beck and he lived up to about a year ago in Liberty, Mo., December 27.—Wil-| Buda-Pesth, Hungary. i r : ae ne doctors would not allow him to liam Ballard, a well-known citizen of} tel) his story, but enough was learned Clay county, was suddenly taken ill} from him and other sources to show while riding in a buggy on the public| that Beck was a house painter and road to-day and fell out of the vehicle | Bt be had Nain ge ae wap of dead. He had been to his farm, and | {1 “P-TO’2 lager eeameron ek Fell Dead From His Buggy. a the proprietors of which have Ger- wasvoming back-totown. Heleaves| wan ‘Though a-stranger_to a widow and children, them he wrote that he could get no ne aa work Ati Germany and was coming to , . América and hoped the hotel men Don’ t Accept a Substitute ! could find him es aeneyyye to do. When you ask for Cascarets be| ‘Then he fitted up a packing case, sure you get the genuine Cascarets| paid freight charges on it and engaged Candy Cathartic! Don’t “accept | 4 carter to take it to the Hamburg pier fraudulent substitutes, imitations or | at a certain time, He then returned to counterfeits! Genuine tablets stamp- | bis lodging and boxed himself up aft- ace. ¢. Neyer sold in bulk, |e" he had provisioned himself with a All druggists, To. dozen cans of condensed milk, a box z prunes, three dozen cakes of choco- _ late ee in bottles and some bread. Mr. Re®. MeReynolds sold 73 head | The ¢ led and got the box, not of finé hogs of bis own raising to R. | kvewing of its living contents, and a . shipped it. S 7 sday 6 ce PY M, Snodgrass Tuesday at 6 centsper | Reoie declared that he was in the box pound, They brought him until the ship reached the Hoboken $1,000, Mr. McReynolds not only | pier, a period of about 15 days, and raised the hogs but raised the corn | Whee he was found he was almost dead to fatten them, as he had it left over | {em hung land terror. from lust year.—Chilhowee News. aes, over Newton Bennington, a well-known real estate owner and horseman, is said to have interested himself in the H GAABTORIEA.. ease and to have promised to give Roars tho te Kind You Have Always Doug! | Beek work should he recover, Sip /, ne ay NEW LIFEBOAT A SUCCESS. Capt, Mayo, the Inventor, and Party Palmyra, Mo., Dee, 26.—Otho E.| sail Safely Through Heavy Seas “Matthews; a ong ge ariteogctanl i ——4n-€ylindvical Cratt, Mo., and Miss May Anderson were} ¢ married at 2. o’cloek this afternoon, The bride is Palmyra’s city attor- ney. The young couple took the af- ternoon train for St. Louis. Japt. R. D. Mayo and party of three, who started in the Mayo lifeboat from Chicago at four o'clock the othe ernoon, landed in Grand Haven, Mich,, without a mishap at ten o'clock the next morning, The strong southwest wind carried the boat in a direct line CASBSVWVORITA The Barry line steamer Alice Staf- Chies Bears the Tha Kind You Have Always Sought | for the port where they landed, and Signatare 7. va i not A single drop of water was shipped of (has HY tg HW during the trip. x at eight ook the ford, which left o’cloek in the ev vice) ove The west-bound passenger train GAVE UP TO UNARMED MAN. Macon: Merchant Bluffs a Would-Be Burglar. Macon, Mo., Jan. 1.—Ben Williams | a merchant at Ethel, Macon county, | captured a man who broke into his | store last night, and the only weapon he had was a glitering screw driver. Two-robbers tried the front door of the store, but, finding it strongly barred, broke out a window on the | at the residence of Jesse Ciriflit side. Williams, who was sleeping in the rear of the store, was awakened by the noise. He didn’t have a weapon on earth, but saw asmall screw driv- er onatable. The burglars climbed into the room and made for the safe. Williams leveled his serew driver and commanded them to throw up their hands, he would blow their heads off, By the niys of the dark lantern, they saw Williams’ “deadly” weapon, and one stooped and ran back to the win- dow and escaped. The other threw up his hands and surrendered. He gave bis name as Karl Rudolph, and had a complete outfit of tools and explosives on him. When he found out that he had surrendered to an unarmed man his mortifieation was great be located at Mammoth Hot Springs and the other at the lake. The bureau will undertake,to solve a problem that has been puzzling the department for some time. Many storms originating in the northwest, altough headed direetly for Montana, this state, and it isdesired to investi- gate this phenomenon. Storms striking the mountain never seem to reach ym the s and Capt. Larson’s offer o lifeboat 20 miles f due here at 5:45 a. m. was an hour ng port, late Christmas morning owing to accented: hy the -MaworD The a rather pecu@ar accident. An old} oyiindrieal-shaped life craft bobbed soldier dead drunk and blind, to} back and forth in the wake of the steamer and rolled continually over and over, but the persons boot, fell off the train east of Sedalia while the train was clipping along 35, salle were 10 mi hs always in an upris posi 1, owing or 40 miles an hour, One of the pas-| ¢ the outer shell revolvi nani aia sengers spoke to the conductor, say-|inner. The heavy seas no effect whatever on the craft, and it is now demonstrated that it can live in the severest storm. The lifehoat eut from the steamer 22 miles from Grand Haven, ing that some sort of a bundle had fallen from the car. The conductor, investigating, missed his drunken passenger and had the train backed loose ++hreeiailes—to—where—the-old- fellow and that port aac seneed by sailing, was sitting onthe ties talking +o sie patie ce id the ti See : : rougi t » experienc ! ta i himself. He was pract uly unhurt dunage is a aaa. ee Tambwas trkerr on to hisdestinrtion, — - monte the soldier’s home at Leavenworth, | TELEPHONES FOR FARMERS. } —Pleasi ill Times Pleasant Hill Times. Many Lines (re Now Under Course of Coustruction ia Northern Part of iKansns, Many rural telephone fines are be- ing constructed ie 1 tit of “My wife had pimples on her face, but farms H northern Kans o ! | she has been taking CASCARETS and they is built wally connect th have ull disappeared. Thad been troubled | oy .¢y cent. and fra mn ‘ with constipation for some time, but after tak ing the first Cascaret I have had no trouble with this ailment. We cannot speak too high- ly of Cascarets."" Prep WARTMAN, 5703 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. farnier an ONnNee LE \ ly wheth one else called. Th ire now telepbon CANDY plants in most of the Jarger towns | GATHARTIC orthern Wrnsas, and the ta cat converse with anyone they choose vo call up. It is so arranged that. th. ‘ n be e¢ t with the lines, urmer who sa telephone is home and be connected with Atchison, To- Pleasart, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do| pekit, is City, St. Joseph. and, in Gov4, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe, le, 25c, We. «+ CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Bterling Remedy Company, Chieago, Montreal, New York. 314 NO-T0-BA\ “|faect, < within a ost any town he choose radius of s veral hundred Sold and guaranteed by all drug: gists © CUBE Tobacco Habit. are now rural telephones out of Vieits, Downs, Luray, Jewell City, and other towns. The toll line busi- ness is so promising that a company is constructing a ten-wire tance system from points in north western Kansas to Kansas City, by way of Topeka. long Buys Novel Automobile, Frederick Mitchell thy young Bostonian, has | ‘d at Paris a fantastic automobile i own designs, paying for it $2 after a five-hours’ trial. Th is called Quo lt resembles, a fortable living quarters for five peo- ple, including a cook. an en ver and a maid. It is 60 feet !or Jhasa roof garden under an awning on top. There are two independent trucks, like the American railway coach. For fuel petroleum is used. The maximum speed is 12 miles an hour. Mitchell and his wife will travel to Marseilles. Then Quo Vadis will be shipped to Algeria, where the winter will be spent in leisurely exploration. ue, > The Western | Woman, A San Francisco girl is the first ‘leg | Paris. The western girl, says the Chi- cago Record-Herald, continues to get there with both feet, if they some- times are rather large. woman graduate of the Beaux Arts of | range between Montana and Idaho follow it to the park and are there lost sight of, sometimes again ap- pearing in Wyoming and Colorado but Wyoming eseapes them, Observers in the park will make this phenomenon a particular study, OFFERS BODY FOR SALE. To be Delivered After Death for Food Now. Chicago th, tan. 2.=Ezra Parker, living at 16 Clark street, has a liu- man-bodytor-smte: tt He is looking for a doctor or society itis ewer: ‘ians have told him that he’ eould he therefore of barter months, and he is opinion that a contract st article oF He pawned his yesterday to g pay for a wee wants to pawn his bod money ‘s board. He now FORCED TO EAT DOGS. Near Starvation. have reached such an extremity that the authorities at the village of Geben are seriously considerifig: a casses for consumption. Corpse Sat at Table. . New York, Jan. 3.—Stone dead, William Chambers last evening sat scious that anything was wrong. jeoornm not hope to live longer than three his body for a little food and a place} ™*, SNE T to sleep would not run many weess. | { See t vilue tc enough to{ Hard Times in Germany Place Farmers Berlin, Jan. 2.—Distress among the Agrarians is most serious. Far- | mers are flocking to the cities in the| was set on guard but dozens of t\« hope of obtaining food. Many have been compelled to eat their pet dogs | him. in ordertoescape starvation. Things | proposition to open a dog butchery in order to properly prepare the ear-) Osceola Democrat. Heart disease, aggravated by ex- haustion, is supposed to have been the cause. Thinking Chambers had fallen asleep & waiter finally shook him, only to find that he had grasped | THREE WERE KILLED AT A WATCH PARTY. ; Man and Son and Their Slayer Dead | | Another Son Mortally Wounded, and Wife Shot. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 1.—Three pee ple were killed and two wounded last : vhit a night at Robbins, N. €., in ght which occurred during a party giver The participants were white people and well known in this part of try. The dead are G Harry Dunbar and Fletcher Bennett The wounded are Mrs. bar and Arthur Dunbar. A “watch party” was given at the residence of Jesse Grittin, and during the everting William Cobb became in- volved'‘ima dispute, Cobb later left the house, Atter his departure Th quarrel was taken up by Fletcher the coun- Dunbar sore George Dun- Bennett, and Dunbardrew his pistol interfered Dunbar's pistol from him. Bennett suddenly sered the weay» on and shot George Dunbar, killing him instantly, The Harry, came to the defense “but was also killed by Bennett. Arthur Dun- bi the fight and shot Bennett, Grittin, the host, taking latter's son rp another son, also joined in The shooting became general, and Bennett received asecond shot, which us MILO as killed him, and Arthur Dunbar re- esha sing ceived a wound whieh may prove WHERE DO THESE STORMS GO?] fatal Mrs. Dunbar was alse shot SiN A but it is believed she will recover Arthur Dunbar was brought to the Weather Bureau, Puzzled by a Phe- | hospital in Augusta, where the phy nomenon, Will Establish Two sicians pronounced his wounds fatal New Stations, The Dunbars are cousins of W. H Helena, Mont., Jan, 2.—The goy-| Dunbar, former postmaster of Augus ernment weather bureau will estab-|& lish two stations in Yellowstone Na- Many of the blotches, pimples tional Park next summer, Oue will] other affections of theskinare caused titureof the tiverand kidneys Wimpurities, which remat in the system. Herbine will stimu late the diver and kidneys, and ise the system of all: impurities 50e at H. L. Tucker's drug by thie toca store, Exploded Bomb in Palace Paris, Jan, 2.—La Patricia prints a dispatch from Kiely, Russia, whiel reports that a bomb was exploded last night in the palace of Grand Duke Constantine, A) good damage was done but no one was in- jured, the time entertaining friends, — His nurmerous the Nihilists probably ex deal of The duke at was guests ran from building ina panic of fear ploded the bomb, Herbine should be used to enrich and purify the blood eur ll forms of blood disord is especi: ly useful in fevers, skin eruptions boils, pimples, blackheads, serofula salt rheum and every blood itiesritis a eure rae H, L. Tucker, rin of mtr for vents WaT RIGHT TT Resign A r Jegerson City Lik of medical men who will be willing to “s : se i : ak ;: ernor Dock what provide him with ths necessaries of | itdoi Pot life for the privilege of using him for ” ss ei ee resiunation, said purposes of demonstrating after . loath | While T have not yet investivated Parker believes he is dying. Phy j Oh mies) iV Opn tutional right to res “the wants to.” TOBACCO SPIT and SMOK ommeccmmam Your Lifeay ‘ong, M2 taking r by { Anindnstrious farmer r town had an exciting ex] th thort time ago. The scarcity iin drove hordes of rats to des perate circumstances and to appease their hunger they made raids on vex tables in the farmer's cellar. A rodents attacked the dog, disab nawed through heavy boards and carried away nearly a bushel of The party eame to next day and apples wnithe bought a barrel of cement to repair his cellar with, aud fixed a trap for the army of rats To Enlarge Insane Asylun, -The board asylum Nevada, Mo., Jan. of managers of state insane No. 3 has decided to build another for half an hour upright at a table wing to this institution to cost prob- in Montgemery’s restaurant, while ably $30,000, which will accommo- | surrounding him on all sides other] gate 400 more patients patrons ate and chatted, uncon-| pyjlding has 987 patients. Contracts The main will be let at once. The fragile babe and the growing child are strenghtened by White's Cream Vermifuge. it destroys worms ts digestion at work, and so re- Builds the body. Price 25 cents. For sale by H. L. Tucker.