WOMEN
Says Dr M C Gee of San Francisco
CONSTANTLY increasing number of
A physicians prescribe Peruna in their
regular practice
It has proven its merits so thoroughly
that eien the doctors have overcome their
prejudice against so called patent medicines
and recommend it to their patients
I Advise Women to Use
Says Dr Gsc
Dr M C Geo is one of the physicians
who endorse Peruna In a letter written
from 513 Jones street San Francisco Calv
he says
There is a general objection on the part
of the practicing j hysician to advocate
patent medicines but when any one medi
cine cures hundreds of people it demon
strates its own value and dees net need the
endorsement cf the profession
Peruna has performed s6lmzay
wonderful cures In Fin hrancisco that
I am convinced that It is a valuable
remedy I have frequently advised its
use for women as I find it insures
regular and painless menstruation
cures leucorrhcea and ovarian troubles
and builds up the entire system I also
consider it one of the finest catarrh remedies
1 know of I heartily endorse your medi
cine M C Gee M D
Mrs R T Gaddis Marion N C is
one of Dr Hart mans grateful patients
She consulted him by letter followed his
directions and is no v able to say the fol
lowing
Before I commenced totale Peruna J
coule not do any hard work without suffer
ing great pain I took Peruna and can say
with pleasure that it has done more for me
than any other mediciue I have ever taken
Now I am as well as ever I do all my own
work and it never hurts me at all I think
Peruna is a great medicine for woman
3ind Mrs E T Gaddis
Women are especially liable to pelvic
catarrh female weakness as it is commonly
called
MYSTERY OF WILD ANIMAL
What Becomes of Those That Die
4 Natural Deaths in the Woods
The forest has many mysteries
said an old Pennsylvania woodman
but none deeper than that of wild
animals that die natural deaths
Tlio four footed dwellers of the
woods certainly do not live forever
-Age and disease must carry them off
regularly as human beings are carried
eft but what becomes of their bodies
I never heard of any ones coming
across a wjld dead bear or deer or
wildcat or fox that had died from
natural causes I found the carcass
of a big five pronged buck in the
woods once but a rattlesnake also
dead had its fangs buried in one of
the deers nostrils There had evi
dently been a fight to the death be
tween the reptile and the beast
Another time I followed the trail
cf a bear from a clearing where it
had stolen a half grown lamb I came
upon the headless body of the lamb a
mile or so out en the trail and a half
mile further on near the edge of a
Wamp I was surprised to find the
body of the bear
Its jaws were open and its glassy
eyes were pushed far cut of its head
1 held a post morten examination of
the dead bear and found the lambs
head lodged in its throat How or
why the bear ever permitted it to
get there I am unable to explain
I have many times found other
dead animals in the woods but never
one that did not show unquestionable
evidence of having died from violence
of some kind Every woodsman will
-tell you the same What becomes of
the dead wild animals that die nat
ural deaths
Information Wanted
I always smile when misfortune
overtakes me said the clerical look
ing passenger
Tnats a good idea rejoined the
hardware drummer but what uo
you do when it overtakes ycu in a
prohibition town
CLOTHES ARE UXSIGIITIY
Keep them white with Red Cr6s Ball Blue
All grocers sell largo 2 oz package 5 cents
Legal Technicality
A Chelsea England hospital is
mourning the loss cf a bequest of
6000 through a legal informality The
testator signed his will in his bed
room and the witnesses thoughtlessly
carried it into another room before
signing it thus making the document
invalid
The Best Results in Starching
cm bo obtained only by using Defiance
htarch besides getting 4 oz more for same
money no cooking required
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Peruna occupies a unique position in
medical science It is the only internal
systemic catarrh remedy known to the
medical profession to day Catarrh as
everyone will admit is the cause of one
half the diseases which afflict mankind
Catarrh and catarrhal diseases afflict
one half of the people of the United
States
you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from j
the use of Peruna write at once to ur nartman giving a full
statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis
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Columbus Ohio
The larger the exaggeration
smaller it looks
the
All Up to Date Housekeepers
use Defiance Cold Wator Starch because it
Is better and 4 oz moro cf it for same
money
Makes the Blind See
A discovery of which there are few
details to hand is announced froi
France A professor appears to have
produced an apparatus by which he
asserts the blind will see and not only
those who have lost their vision in
middle life but even those persons
who were born blind will be able to
see uuder certain stated conditions
With this apparatus Dr Caze says that
he can go into a totally dark room
and see every object as celarly as
in daylight It is described as being
on the same scientific basis as the
telephone and it transmits light to a
certain part of the brain in the same
way as a telephone transmits sounds
to the ear
Miles and the Irishman
General Miles is quoted by a fellow
officer as telling the following story
en himselt It was during our pur
suit of Chief Joseph said the gen
eral One exceedingly stormy night
we encountered on our march in the
Bearpaw mountains a few woodchop
pers cabins The woodsmen were not
inclined to be very hospitable but we
finally induced them to snare with us
the protection their huts afforded
They consented however only upon
condition that they should not under
any circumstances be compelled to
give up their beds It fell to my lot
to share the bunk of the boss a very
stern Irishman who was not delighted
with his guest Hoping to establish
an entente cordiale I said banteringly
as we were preparing to retire Come
now Patrick you know youd be a
long time in Ireland before youd geb
a chance to sleep with a general
And its Oi that am thinking he in
stantly retorted that youd be a long
time in Ireland before youd iver be
made a gineral
SUMMER FOOD
Has Other Advantages
Many people have tried the food
Grape Nuts simply with the idea of
avoiding the trouble of cooking food
in the hot months
All of these have found something
besides the ready cooked food idea for
Grape Nuts is a scientific food that
tones up and restores a sick stomach
as well as repairs the waste tissue in
brain and nerve center
For two years I had been a sufferer
from catarrh of the stomach due to
improper food and to relieve this con
dition 1 had tried nearly every pre
pared food on the market without any
success until six months ago my wife
purchased a box of Grape Nuts think
ing it would be a desirable cereal for
As Defined the summer months
Mamma asked small Floramay we soon maae a discovery we were
what is a synonym encnantea wiin tne aengnuui navor oi
A synonym my dear is a word the food and to my surprise I began to
that can be used in the place of an- get well My breakfast now consists
other when you dont know how to of a little fruit four teaspoonfuls of
spell the other replied the mother Grape Nuts a cup of Postum which I
who happened to be a trifle shy on prefer to coffee graham bread or toast
orthography and two boiled eggs I never suffer
the least distress after eating this and
EJTc pmnneiiBrcureii soahornervonsaessartBp j my stomach is perfect and general
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Burglar Balks at Jewels
Though not taking all the money he
could find a burglar who broke into a
womans house in Paris left a note
saying he cculd not find it in his heart
to take her jewels lest tney were heir
looms
Heathen A person who does not
believe in the same God you do
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ful preparation It was only a little
time after starting on it that wife and
I both felt younger more vigorous
and in all ways stronger This has
been our experience
P S The addition of a little salt
in place of sugar seems to me to im
prove the food Name given by Pos
tum Co Battle Creek Mich
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LYNCHED BY MOB
CROWD BREAKS IN JAIL AND
SHOOTS MURDERER
SHERIFF KILLED BY A VOLLEY
One Priconer Escapes but is After
wards Recaptured and Shot to
Death Jail Doors Battered Down by
a Telegraph Pole
BUTTE Mont A special to the
Miner from Red Lodge Mont says
Jim Gorman who killed his brother
about a year ago and ran off with his
brothers wife and a man named Wal
ters who killed a widow named
Hoover at Hot Springs two years ago
were lynched at Basin Wyo early
Sunday C E Pierce a dviuty sheriff
was killed during the attack on the
jail
A state of lawlessness now prevails
in northwestern Wyoming as a result
of which all law and order seems to
have been abolished From President
Moffett of the Montana Wyoming
Telephone company vho is now mak
ing a tour of inspection of his com
panys lines comes the news of the
lynching and of an appeal for help
from Sheriff Fenton of Big Horn coun
ty who has arrested a number of
prominent cattlemen from Thermopo
lis and has appealed to the governor
of Wyoming for the assistance of the
militia in getting his men to Basin
It was reported by the sheriff Wed
nesday morning that a mob was com
ing up to Basin from Hyatsville and
Tonslip for the purpose of lynching
Gorman and Walters As a measure
of precauation the sheriff took these
two men and a horsethief out of the
jail and secreted them in a gulley near
town under guard of Deputy Sheriffs
Felix Alston and C E Pierce
Gorman managed to slip his hand
cuffs and make his escape He swam
the Big Horn river an unprecedented
feat and made for the mountains A
possce of seven men quickly organiz
ed and Gorman was recaptured about
fifty miles from Basin A mob of about
fifty unmasked men rode up the bank
of the Big Horn and compelled the
ferryman o carry them across the
river
The mob proceeded at once to the
county jail and fired a volley into the
building Deputy Moore and Special
Deputy Meade were guarding the men
at the time One bullet grazed Meades
shoulders and entered Pierces heart
Members of the mob quickly procured
two telephone poles and battered
the jail doors down They first came
to Walters who was crouched in his
cell piteously begging tor mercy No
needleess torture was resorted to
Walters was shot instantly
The mob next found Gorman whose
body was pierced by five bullets and
was left presumably dead He linger
ed however for some time
IDEAS OF CORONZR BURKE
Will Suppress the Details of All
Suicides
CLEVELAND O Coroner Burke
said that he will make an attempt to
suppress details in the cases of all
suicides
The publication of suicide stories
under glaring headlines giving every
detail of the crime said Coroner
Burke is mest harmful to the public
at large and is the direct cause of
so many suicides I have noticed
that when a suicide is printed a num
ber of suicides immediately follow
all taking their lives in the same man
ner
Coroner Burke said he would ask
the co operation of the managing edi
tors of the local press in his efforts
to carry out his ideas
New Bug inthe Corn
COLUMBUS Mo Prof Stedman of
the department of horticulture of the
Missouri university after a tour
through St Charles St Louis and
Franklin counties reports that a pecu
liar bug is injuring corn Prof Sted
man is going to collect a quantity of
these bugs for experimentation He
hopes to be able to inoculate them just
as the chinch bugs are inoculated
Burlington Borrows 5000000
NEW YORK It was serai officially
announced Tuesday that the Chicago
Burlington Quincy railroad had so
cured a temporary loan of 5000000
on notes due next March at 5 per
cent interest plus one half per cent
commission making a total rate of 15
per cent The Burlington company
will use most of the money for pend
ing improvements
Wealthy Manufacturer Dies
TERRE HAUTE Indv Andrew J
Crawford aged 65 a millionaire iron
manufacturer and coal operator died
here Sunday Mr Crawford was
president of the Vigo iron works the
Terre Haute Iron and Steel company
and the Wabash Iron companv three
concerns which recently sold out to
the Republic Iron and Steel com
pany He was a director in several
of the largest financial institutions in
the state
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DOTH OPIUM dILLS TABLED
Philippine Commission Will Probe
Regulations EloewheYe
MANILA The Philippine commis
sion has tabled both the opium bills
The first bill provides for the pro
posed opium monopoly the second is
a substitute making the importation
of opium unlawful except by pharma
cists and permitting its sale on a
physicians certificate
A commission was appointed to vis
it Oriental countries and Investigate
the regulations in force there
Governor Taft has championed the
theory of regulation and has demon
strated that the passage of the first
bill meant the prohibition of the drug
to the 8000000 Filipinos and Moros
aud an effective regulation for the
100000 Chinese in the archipelago
more stringent than the English reg
ulations He declared that it was
generallv known that the opium hab
it as practiced by nearly all China
men was less pernicious than whisky
drinking and mercilessly exposed the
corrupt combinations of Chinese deal
ers who are circulating falsely signed
protests and raising money for the de
feat of the bill
IN A STATE Or COMA
The Popes Condition Now of the
Gravest Character
ROME The pope lies this Sun
day night in a state of coma and
there are grave doubts in the minds
of his doctors whether he will ever
completely emerge His immediate
dissolution seems only averted by the
reliability of the action of his heart
His pulse though weak continues
steady Shortly before midnight Dr
Laponni said to the correspondent of
the Associated Press
The pope at the present moment
is in a state of coma which may be
called a condition preceding the last
agony the duration of which it is im
possible to forecast although every
thing leads to the belief that in this
condition he cannot last long To be
more exact he is still in a state of
torpor and stupor from which how
ever he rouses occasionally when ho
hears sharp sounds
HE CANT SPEAK AT BOTH
Bryan Will Choose Between Conven
tion and Chautauqua
URBANA O The Urbana Chau
tauqua has made arrangements for
William J Bryan to deliver an ad
dress on August 5 The democratic
county central committee decided to
hold the county convention on the
same day in order that Mr Bryan
might address the convention
The Chautauqua managers have
just met and decided that the editor
of the Commoner shall not address
the democratic convention They
think his speech at the assembly
would not draw such a large crowd
to the assembly if Mr Bryan also de
livered a speech at the convention
If Mr Bryan insists on addressing
the convention ho will not be permit
ted to deliver his lecture at the Chau
tauqua
APPRECIATE HIS TELEGRAM
Vatican Wires Thanks to President
for His Sympathy
ROME President Roosevelts tele
gram expressing the presidents sym
pathy for his holiness in this hour of
supreme anxiety and asking to be in
formed of the condition of the vener
able patient has been received
The Vatican authorities are deeply
appreciative of this expression of sym
pathy and recall the cordial personal
exchanges between the president and
the pope when the volumes of the
presidential messages and papal ency
clicals were exchanged Cardinal
Rampolla sent an answer to the mes
sage which contained the thanks of
the Vatican authorities for the solic
itude expressed by the president and
also the latest information concerning
the condition of the pope
Storm Keeps President In
OYSTER BAY N Y President
Roosevelt did not attend church Sun
day In company with President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
university and Dr Lambert his old
family physician and friend he re
mained at oagamore Hill quietly dur
ing the day which on account of a
persistent storm was dismal and dis
agreeable until evening Mrs Roose
vent and the children attended serv
ices at Christ Episcopal church
When David takes Goliaths weapon
he loses his heavenly ally
New Trajning Ship
VALLEJO Cal The official speci
ncations of the new steel training
ship to be built at the Mare Island
navy yard have just been received
here The vessel which will be
christened the Intrepid will have only
sail power and will be bark rigged
The estimates of the material requir
ed in the construction will be made
up and the work will be commenced
en September 1 The cost is not to
i exceed 370000
ADOUT RURAL MAIL DELIVERY
Postofflce Department Makes an Ex
planation of Its Position
WASHINGTON D C The postof
flce department has made public the
following
There seems to be a wide misun
derstanding as to the present attitude
of the department regarding rural
free delivery The statement has been
published quite generally particularly
In tho west that rural routes that do
not handlo 3000 pieces of mail per
month and supply 100 families are to
be discontinued It is not the pur
pose of tho department to disturb
routes alreaay established unless they
are manifestly unnecessary There
are now on file in the department pe
titions for more routes that will sup
ply more than 100 families than can
be established with tho present appro
priation This being the case the de
partment does not feel it wise equita
ble or just to establish a route supply
ing less than 100 families the great
est good to the greatest number being
the fundamental principle upon which
rural free delivery is being establish
ed As long as all the routes asked
for cannot be established because of
the lack of sufficient money the routes
that will supply the greater number
of families should certainly have pref
erence
ROOT AND MOODY ORDER
Army and Navy Now Work To
nether
WASHINGTON D C Secretaries
Root and Moody issued the tollowing
joint order
The department of war and the de
partment of the navy ha agreed
upon the formation of a joint board
to be composed of four officers of the
army and four officers of the navy to
hold stated sessions and such extraor
dinary sessions as shall appear ad
visable for the purpose of conferring
upon discussing and reaching com
mon conclusions regarding all matters
calling for the co operation of the two
services Any matters which seem to
either department to call for such con
sideration may be referred by that de
partment to the board thus formed
All reports of the board shall be made
in duplicate one to each depart
ment AH reports and proceedings
of the board shall be confidential The
senior member of the board present
will preside at its meetings and the
junior member of the boaro present
will act as its recorder
ROOT BACK FROM OYSTER BAY
Conferred With President Roosevelt
on Army Promotions
WASHINGTON D C Secretary
Root returned to Washington at a late
hour Tuesday night from Oyster Bay
where he had been in conference with
the president on various war depart
ment matters A number of army pro
motions and retirements were deter
mined on while the secretary was at
Oyster Bay and these will be announc
ed in a few days
Secretary Root declined to make
any statement bearing on the subject
of his retirement from the cabinet He
will not discuss the matter in any way
The secretary expects that the work
of the Alaskan boundary commission
will be completed in season to enable
him to submit his annual report to
congress on the assembling of that
body in regular session in December
WANTS LOAN OF 35000000
President Palma Would Send Commis
sion to Negotiate
HAVANA President Palma has
sent a messageHcrcongress recom
mending tho appointment of a mem
ber of each house to act with an ap
pointee of the executive commission
ers to proceed to the united States
and negotiate the 35000000 lean
The senate held an extended ses
sion Monday evening but did not
reach the matter of ratification of the
United States naval stations treaty
It approved President Palmas rec
ommendation to move the penitentiary
to Principe castle from the presidio
The latter is situated on the harbor
front and is desired for the erection
ot a great hotel
Good Vheat Yield in Russia
LONDON The Standards corre
spondent at Odessa says the cessation
of the recent heavy rains followed
by hot and ripening weather has
saved the crops at the eleventh hour
Harvesting is now in lull swing
throughout the whole of South Rus
sia and a fairly abundant yield
is assured
Investigating the Riot
EVANSVILLE Ind Coroner Wai
lang who has been for the past week
conducting an investigation of the re
cent riot will finish Thursday A
large number of witnesses were exam
ined by the coroner Wednesday Tho
grand jury also examined several wit
nesses but no more indictments were
returned One of the witnesses be
tore the coroner Wednesday was Jo
seph Allman father of the girl who
was killed in the riot
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NO PLUMBING IN THOSE DAYS
But the Moat Might Be Used in tho
Absence of Baths
Tho girl whom her friends called
Tho American Beauty was engaged
to a Frenclr duke The dukes sl3tor
complaisant and anxious to please
was visiting tho girls parents in Mil
waukee
Of course she was saying one
day it would be nicer if there wero
i king of France then tho duko would
have all his rights and privileges
which are suspended during the re
public But it is the political and
financial rights only that are dead
Just thing of my brothers castle par
cxemple
Is it a very big one questioned
the American Beauty resting her chin
In her palms
Oh very big mon aniie It dates
from the time of Charlemagne and is
a wonderful place with towers and
dungeons and a moat and awful oub
liettes whero tiey used to put pris
oners you know and forget all about
them for years and years
How cheerful laughed the
Beauty Do you know I think
I should welcome oulfllottes if only
I might consign to them a few people
whom I know to deserve such a fate
But even with oubliettes I dont think
such a castle would have much charm
for me You seeI am devoted to
modern improvements and I suppose
theres no plumbing in the dukes
castle
Plumbing mon amie exclaimed
the dukes sister with an air of hor
ror ui course not There was no
plumbing in Charlemagnes time
Oh dear me sighed the American
Beauty And I am so fond cf my tub
I suppose I would have to bathe in the
moat Wouldnt that be dismal
CITIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Frightful Conditions That Prevailed
Throughout Europe
Greeks and Romans paid special
attention to the pnysical culture of
their youth to public water supplies
and baths and Athens and Rome
were provided with sewers early in
their history During the middle ages
sanitation received a decided check
Ignorance and brutal prejudice pre
vailed and this was the mc3t unsani
tary period in history Most Euro
pean towns were built compactly and
surrounced by walls The streets
were narrow aud winding and light
and air were excluded The accu
mulation or filth was frightful
Stables and houses were close neigh
bors The dead wero buried within
the churchyards or in the churches
Wells were fed with polluted water
AH conditions were favorable for the
spread of infectious diseases and in
the fourteenth century alone the
oriental or bubonic plague the black
death of recent historians carried
off a fourth of the population of Eu
rope The birth rate was much less
than the death rate normally The
cities had to be continually repopu
lated from the country because the
people died so rapidly
The Chemical National Bank
Early last century a charter was
granted a company to set up a chemi
cal works in New York and in con
sideration of the boon these works
would be a clause was added grant
ing banking privileges The astute
men at the head of the concern saw
possibilities of development on bank
ing lines not apparent in the manu
facture of chemicals and decided to
make the business a banking one To
retain the privilege however it was
necessary to manufacture chemicals
and so then as to day an admirable
pretense was made of doing this In
the fine establishment of the great
Chemical National bank on Broadway
a little shop is apportioned to a manu
facturing chemist who potters about
mixing ingredients He is not much
troubled with business but now and
again a New York citizen will startle
a visitor by taking him into this fine
bank and asking for a dimes worth
of castor oil which is supplied This
was the only bank which did not sus
pend specie payments during the civil
war
Sweet Carolines
The spare ribs in the frying- nan
Are sputtering with delight
The sweet potato s wells with pride
And bursts its jacket tight
And then I see a picture rise
Of Marion and his men
With sweet potatoes in the fire
Beside a reedy fen
O Carolina with the plumes
Of green palmettos crowned
The glory of your garden state
is the tuber in tho muni
It is not so much to look at like
Some honest folks we
Eut underneath a rough brown akin
Its heart is sound and sweet
It bears to tables far away
The music of your name
It fills your coffers with its gold
And shares your meed of fame
So plant a sweet potato pray
Ipon the gilded field
Beneath the tali palmetto tre
That flourish in your shield
Minna Irving in Leslies Weekly
The Latest Utopian Society
A Utopian society has established
itself in Ascona a little place on the
borders of Italy and Switzerland This
little society which numbers thirty
eight individuals seeks to solve the
problem of how to live happily The
members are pledged to observe cer
tain simple rules of living which they
have carried out now for three years
They eat no meat but live principally
on fruits and herbs and they wear
one simple garment only and no hats-
There are sixteen women in The sect
Tiiey know no laws save those of na
ture and they amuse thmselves with
Wagnerian music The founder of the
colony is a Belgian Each new mem
ber Is initiated on his finding sufficient
money to buy a plot of land by the
cultivation of which he Is expected to
support himself
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