The Concordia Blade from Concordia, Kansas • Page 3

CUBAN RATS The council held a meeting Saturday night to hear the report of the water committee on their investigation relative to the water supply, but being hardly ready to report the committee was granted further time until Tuesday. iTtS HE.NEWEST Asa Burch has been granted an increase of pension to $14 a month. For sprains, swellings and lameness there is nothing so good as Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Try it. For sale by W.

L. McCarty Co. Commissioner Price is adding a handsome porch to his Ninth street residence property. Reed Scott is doing the work. We have just Wi line of new bound jik popular authors, embracing the best literature of the day, 82 the many, the following: tec The of Honev Island.

In the Palace of the King. Alice of Old Yincennes. The House of DeMailly. A Dream of Empire. Souls of Passage.

Red Blood and Blue. Eleanor. D'ri and I. Uncle Terrv. Xorman Holt.

Eben Holden. The Crisis. The Octopus. fSSSl You are cordially invited to inspect our elegant line of books and stationary. I H.

J. M. LAKE CO. i wmWdmmmwmwmmwMmm News of Concordia and Vicinity Interesting Local Items Gathered by persona! "jjl Interviews and Reading a Week's Exchanges c.T.; At Three Feet Long, and Are Good tm Est. Washington Special to New York World: The expedition sent to Cuba by the Smithsonian institution to collect strange animals and plants has returned loaded down with specimens and "With tales of adrenture more strange than the freaks they brought with them.

Rats of an edible species some three feet long, including the tail, and weighing eighteen pounds were cap tured, but none were brought back to this country alive. All were eaten by the hungry adventurers. These rats nd the snakes on the island, none of which are venomous have nearly all been eaten by the famished Cubans and are very scarce. Ferocious giant lizards (iguanas) were captured and were brought back alive. These lizards are also eaten by Cubans, but the scientists "passed them up." Cuba has more than thirty species of bats, and many, including white bats, were captured will be stuffed and added to the Smithsonian collection.

la capturing the white bats, In a cave 103 feet underground, where thousands were hiding, several of the party were bitten. Numerous snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, giant spiders and huge dragon flies were taken. The collec tion is also enriched by many native birds, some with brilliant plumage. and numerou? rare plants. Bicher In Quality than mosl 10 Cigars LEVIS' BINDER straight5ccigar Compare them with other Cigars id you find good reasons for their costing the dealer more than other brands FRANK LEWIS.

PEORU.IIL ORIGINATOR TIN FOIL SMOKER PACKAGE WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. Painful Menstruation Cured. The Unitersal Common Sense Home Treatment for Diseases of omen. "TIIE SURE ROAD TO HEALTH." Agents wanted. Address confidential.

National Home Remedy Go. 212 Sheidley Building. Kansas City, Mo. DISEASES of 51 EH ONLY. The preatest and most successful Institute for Diseases of Men.

Consultation free at office or by letter. BOOK printed In DR. J. WALSH. President.

EnKit.h, German and Swedish, Explaining Ilealth and IIpplnes sentsealed in plain envelope for four cents in stamps, an iptiri answfrpd in clain envelope Vari cocele cured in five days. Call or address Ghicago Medical Institute, 518 Francis Street, ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI' DO YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY? Send in vour name and address and get our catalogue of all kinds of merchandise at prices defying competition. Fully illustrated catalogue sent on receipt of 10c for postage. KAHN.

GREEN BERGER, 237to2fil, Dearborn Street, Illinois Catalogue mailed during July. A NICE POSITION CfT7 VAN I Hoyers' romhination de-rUn TUUi scriptive Wiitch Catalogue in buyers' hands and you share profits and be our permanent representative. Only standard makes with factory guaranty. Catalogueun- dersells everylody and dot the work. lOl (iET THK MONKT.

Send 10c (coin or stamps) for catalogue and full instructions and secure territory, aioney rriunueu wmi first order. Address r. fctftti 330 Dearborn t. Chicago. III.

HEADACHE Li! At all drug stores. 2SO. THE LADIES' FRIEND. E0PMS' BLEJLCHIfiG ELDVES. Made from the Best Glove Black.Wine.Tan.and Chocolate.

Just the thing for House Cleaning, Gardening, Driving, -Wheeling, Outing, Golf. etc. Sizes. 3. 4, o.o, Write for terms to agents.

Hopkiaa Glove Apollo Bldg, Cia. This signature is on every box o. the genuine Laxative BronioQuinine Tabieu the remedy that cure ac Id In one da7 Don't Be Fooled Take the genuine, original ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA Made toly by Madison Medl cine Madison, Wis. It keeps you well. Our trade mark cut on each package.

Price, 35 cents. Never soU in hulk. Accent no ubstl n.atco,.., tute. Ask your druggist. 1) Aw IB 4.ny wife had pimples on her face, but she n.A3 been taking CASCARETS and they have all disappeared.

I had been troubled with constipation for some time, but after taking the first Cascaret I have had no trouble with this ailment. We cannot speak too highly of Cascarets." Frkd Wartmas, 6703 Gennantown Philadelphia, Pa. CANDY CATHARTIC TRAOt MANN MOD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent Taste Good.

Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. tOc. 2ac, SOo.

CURE CONSTIPATION. Sttrflaf Bat47 CHJ, Chirac, Mlinl, In Yarfc. SU Hn.Tfl.RlP Sold and enaranteed by alldrog-nU-IU-DAU gist to ct'K Tobacco Habit A. O. SAGE, D.

D. S. Dentist. Fine Gold Fillings, Crown and Bridge Work a Snecialtv. Office in Caldwell Block, Up Stairs.

r. w. Corner Mxtn and Washington Drs. RAINES NELSON Homeopathic Ftiysiclans and Surgeczs. Office over Citizens' National Bank.

Residence: Brick, first door east of Presby- teriaH Church. ISAAC ALBERT RIGBY, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office in front rooms over Snearer Book Store. CONCORDIA, KANSAS. PALACE DRUG STORE.

B. n. McECKRON SON. Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods. 14 Washington Are.

W. R. PRIEST, fl. D.f Physician and Surgeon. special attention giTen to Surgery and Dis eases of the Eye.

Office in rooms over Neitzel Drug toro. BARBER SHOP. The finest and most completelj equipped in Kansas. Fine porcelain bath tubs. Skilled workmen.

WM. O'REILLY, Proprietor. FIRST NATIONAL BANK oOF CONCORDIA, KS. Capital, $100,000 SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS. OFFICERS ND DIRECTORS: F.

J. Atwood, President. C. E. iWEET, Vice President.

W. W. Bowman, II. C. Woses, Ass't Csshler.

C. A. Betournay, A. E. Lasnier, Theo.

Laing. The Cloud County Bank CONGORDIA, KANSAS. (incorporated) CAPITAL. $100,000 OFFICERS: W. H.

Wrioht, President. Geo. H. Yocnu, Vice President. Wm.

M. Peck. Cashier. II. W.

Barbek, Assist. Cashier. DIRECTORS: Wilson D. Nuttinjr, W. II.

Geo. II. Youn, Wm. O. Harrison, I), ll.

Harrison, Homer Kenaett, C. N. Peck, H. W. Barber, W.

M. Peck. THE CONCORDIA BLADE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Auctioneer G. L.

Gre, the old and reliable Auctioneer, is afrain ready to cry your sales. Call on me at Clyde before you make a date and get mv terms. Refer you to W. M.Peck, Cashier Cloud County Back, and F. J.

Atwood, President First National Bank, of Concordia, as to my ability to get more money for what you have to sell than any other man in northern Kansas. Secure your dates as far ahead as possible as I am often engaged thirty day3 ahead. Telephone me at my expense. Yours truly, G. L.

GREGG, Clyde, Kansas. received an elegant books by the most including, among An additional helper has been added to the postal service on the Central Branch. For the best flour, feed and field and garden seeds telephone 133. 22tf DeWaide Bcshoxg. The Cloud County bank has been greatly improved outside with fresh paint and inside bv papering and painting.

DeWaide Bushong, 'phone 133 will promptly fill all all orders for flour and feed of all kinds. See them or field and garden seeds. 22tf Charlie Hill's new cottage ou Ninth street is nearly completed. Charlie isn't married, but there is an event ahead. We, the jury, find that the deceased came to his death from heart failure, caused by not taking Rocky Mountain Tea made by Madison Medicine Co.

35c. Ask your druggist. Manager Sweezy, of the Western Union office here, has resigned and gone to Arkansas. He is succeeded by Mr. McDonald, late of Hastings, Neb.

We have seen the frail infant when the faint struggle for existence seemed almost ended, resuscitated made strong by the use of White's Cream Vermifuge. Price 25 cents. W. L. McCarty Co.

A pleasant time was had at the Elk's social session last Saturday evening, when the Schumann opera com pan were the attraction. The affair, as usual with Elk functions, was a complete success. When you have no appetite, do not relish your food and feel dull after eating vou mav know that you ueeu a aose oi namoenain jt i Stomach and Liver tablets. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at W.

McCartv Co's. drug store. The Republicans of the Third dis trict in Cloud county ha'e nominat ed Murt Daily for commissioner He will be elected, and will make an excellent county officer. Mr. Daily has lots of friends up this way who are sorry they can't cast a ballot for him.

Beloit Gazette. Happiness depends very much on the condition of the liver and kidneys. The ills of life make but little impression on those whose digestion is good. You can regulate your liver and kidneys with Herbine and enjoy health and buoyancy of spirits. Price 50 cents.

W. L. 51c- Cartv Co. A "stitch in time saves nine," and a dose of Ballard's Horehound Syrup at the beginning of a cold will save you many weary hours and even days of distressing and harassing cough. Price, 25 and 50 cents.

W. L. McCarty Co. John Campbell and Levi Moore had a lively street fight Saturday. The latter was getting the worst of it when Sheriff Moore separated them and in doing so accidentally got a thump that bloodied his nose.

The combatants were arrested and fined. Corn-huskers' sprained wrists, barbed wire cuts, burns, bruises, severe lacerations and external in juries of any kind are promptly and happily cured by applying Ballard's Snow Liniment. Price, 25 and 50 cents. W. L.

McCartv Co. The gas well at Abilene is down GOO feet, but has not yet given any indications of gas or oil. The drills have gone through clay beds that are usually the accompaniment of oil and the work will be pushed to the full depth, 1,500 feet andper-haps to 2,500 feet. Many of our readers need pure whiskey for medicinal purposes. To all these we desire to call attention to the Hayner Distilling Co.

advertisement in this issue. It tells you how to get four full quarts of strictly pure whiskey in a plain package for $3.20. An old and wealthy resident of Cloud county died a couple of years ago, and as usual a very large per cent of his estate has been devoured by the lawyers in the case. Two of the lawyers are now busy telling the people, through the newspapers, whose fault it was. Same old story.

Abilene Democrat. In anaemia and most women's ail ments the digestion is weak, the making of color, flesh and strength out of food is imperfect, so that the patient is weak, wan, nervous and dyspeptic. This condition can be corrected by taking a course of Herbine. Price 50 cents. W.

McCarty Co. Harry Wright, teacher of the Sibley school, died at the home of his mother in this city Sunday after noon of sciatic rheumatism after an illness of several weeks. He was 26 years of age and one of the county's most popular teachers. The funeral occurred Tuesday from the Methodist church. The sensible way to buy whiskey isto get it direct from the distillery.

This saves wholesale and retail dealers, profits, also insures pure goods. The Hayner Distilling St. Louis will ship you four full quarts Seven-Year-Old Rye. express pre paid, for $3.20. See large advertise ment in this issue.

J. F. Simms, division superin tendent of the Central Branch, is in Atchison conducting a school of instruction for Central Branch train men, under the standard rules, which are to be adopted November 1. Trainmen running into Atchison will be examined there, and train men on the west end of the Branch, at Downs. When 3rou cannot sleep for cough ing, it is hardly, neeessary that any one should tell you that you need a few doses of Chamberlain's Cough remedy to allay the irritation of the throat, and make sleep possible.

It is good. Try it. For sale by W. L. McCartv Co.

A pamphlet from the state board of health has been received by the county clerk urging timely action in the handling of smallpox cases, and divine extensive directions for the handling of the disease. Many plans which tend to prevent the spread of the contagion are treated at length in the sjate board's circular. Another Respected Citizen Gone to the city to take treatment for his stomach trouble. The amount of money he paid for railroad fare to get there would have bought enough of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to to have kept him and his entire famiiy in goodhealth for six months.

You can't suffer from Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Headache or Stomach Troubles if you take this remedy. In 50c and $1.00 bottles. Sold by W. F. Neitzel.

Good wheat farm for rent 12 miles south of Concordia. Inquire of Geo. M. Culver, Concordia, Kan. Reta Chenoworth was run over by Cartuey's delivery wagon at Sixth Washington streets Saturday evening and slightly hurt.

A millionaire appetite, with a scant income, has made many a dyspeptic. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin will cure dyspepsia. Sold by W. F.

Neitzel. Mrs. Sherb Lewis was reported to be dyincr last Thursday, but the report proved false. She got an overdose of medicine, but was relieved in time to save her. "It was almost a miracle.

Burdock Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible breaking out all over the body. I am very grateful. Miss Julin Filbridge, West Conweli, Conn. Harker Sou have a fine piece of scenic work in their shop, the product of Tuffley. It is a farm scene, devoted chiefly to cattle, and is an excellent thing.

The most careful miller in the world cannot avoid an occasional poor sack of flour. Concordia flour is fully guaranteed. If you get a poor sack let us give you a good one for it. tf. Beloit has an ordinance which makes it a mis demeanor to throw handbills or waste paper on the streets.

That is a good ordinance and helps keep the town clean. Makes assimilation perfect, healthy blood, firm muscles, strong nerves. Quickens the brain, makes and keeps rou well. Great medicine, Rocky Mountain Tea. 35c.

Ask your druggist. The Fraternal Aid is enjoyiDg quite a boom. M. P. Shearer, dis- rict organizer, who has been here for several weeks past, has added about 30 to the local membership.

A new remedy for biliousness is now on sale at W. L. McCarty Co's. drug store. It is called Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver tablets.

It gives quick relief and will prevent the attack if giveu as soon as the first indication of the disease appears. Price, 25 cents per box. Sample free- In digging the trenches for the sewers the contractors have run into a couple of cess pools that had been sunk in alleys and the council Saturday night ordered all property owners who had dug cesspools in streets or alleys to at once pump them out and put the thoroughfares in the condition in which they found them. Lssssiz If young girls would look ahead it would sometimes save them from serious collision with the men they marry. It is here that ignorance is almost a crime.

The young husband cannot understand it when the wife changes to a peevish, nervous, querulous woman. And the young wife does not understand it herself. She only knows that she is very miserable. If ever there is a time when nature needs help it is when the young girl is adjusting herself to the new conditions of wifehood. Dr.

Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It promotes regularity, dries debilitating drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. rierce, by letter, free. All womanly gn omarded with strict pro fessional privacy.

Write without fear or fee to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.

I will drop vou a few lines to-day to let yoa know that I am feeling well now." writes Mis Annie Stephens, of Belleville. Wood est Va. "I feel like a new woman. I took several bottles of the Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical I have no neaaacne now, no backache, and no pain in my siae any Cr hfarinjjlnim TWIT! aOV mOK. I Dr.

Pierce's medicine. I thank vou very much for what you have done for me your medicine has done me so much good." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness and sick headache. vmm. REMOVED.

Kenneit Peck, attorneys-at-law to rooms over Cloud County bank. There was a killing frost Sunday nirht. The best baker in this part of Kansas uses 3 P's flour exclusively. Do you? tf. The Populists have accepted the name "Peoples" ticket and will go on the ballot under that appellation.

Order anything you want in the bakery line from G. H. Rose. 'Phone 149. Messrs.

Harry and Charles Davies have their claim in the El Reno district, realizing a good price for it. What cures aod keeps you free from Sick Headache? Why, Dr. Cald wells Pepsin. Sold by W. F.

Neitzel. Thos. McCall, of Jamestown, has been granted a pension of $10 a month for disabilities resulting from his service in the army during the war with Spain. i that's all. No energy, no vim, no vigor, no ambition.

The head aches, thoughts are confused, memory tails. Life becomes a round of work but half accomplished, of eating that does not nourish, of sleep that fails to refresh and of resting that never rests. That's the beginning of nervous prostration. I was very nervous and so tired and exhausted that I could not do my vk ork. One dose of Dr.

Miles' Nervine quieted my nerves and drove away the lassitude. Seven bottles did wonders in restoring rny health." Mrs. M. E. Lacy, Fortville, Ind.

I Df Miles' evme strengthens the worn-out nerves, refreshes the tired brain and restores health. Sold by druggists on guarantee. Br. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind. 7.