DOCTORS TAILED. RESTORED BY PERUNA. Catarrh of the Lungs Threatened Her Life. Miss Ninette Porter, Braintree, Ver mont, writes: “I have been cured by Peruna. “I had several hemorrhages of the lungs. The doctors did not help me much and would never have cured me “I saw a testimonial in a Peruna almanac of a case similar to mine, and I commenced using it. “I was not able to wait on mysel! when I began using it. I gained very •lowly at first, but I could see that il was helping me. “After I had taken It a while I com fnenred to raise up a stringy, sticky substance from my lungs. This grew less and less in quantity as I continued the treatment. “I grew more fleshy than I had been for a long time, and now 1 call my sol, well.” Deciding the Color Scheme. From the Manchester Guardian. The story of the Irishman, the police man, and the "pale green” trnm has a curious parallel In the case of the elec tric trams at Seacombe, on th Cheshire side of the Mersey, opposite Liverpool. When the tars were blng built one of the men 11#charge of the work went— so tlx story goes—to the manager and asked him what color the cars should be painted “Oh, I don’t know," was the hurried reply of the manager, who was at the moment very busy. "See Green. And the workman not under standing that the deputy manager was meant, went away and painted the ears •'sea green," and sea green they are to this day. Children Who Are Sickly. Mothers should never he without a box of Mother Gray’s .Sweet Powders for Chil dren. They break up colds In 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Constipation. Headache, Teething Disorders and Stomach Trou bles. Over 10,000 testimonials. At all Druggists, 26c:. Aik to-day. Sample mailed FRICK. Address, Allen S. 'Olmsted, J,e Roy, N. V Mr. Roosevelt Kills His First Hippo From "African Game Trails'' by Theodore Roosevelt In the January Scribner. Rut we got within half a mile of Mr Mlllan's house without seeing a hippo, and the light was rapidly fading, Judd announced that we would go home, but took one last look around the next bend, and Instantly sank to Ills knees, beckon ing to me I crept forward on all-fours, and he pointed out to me an object In the stream. 60 yards off. under the overhang ing branch of a tree, which Jutted out from the steep bank opposite. In that light I should not myself have recognized It as a hippo head: but It was one, looking toward ns. with the ears up and the nos trils. eyes and forehead above water. I aimed for the center: the sound told that the bullet had struck somewhere on the head, and the animal disappeared without a splash. Judd was sure I had killed, but I was by no means so confident my self. and there was no way of telling until next morning, for the hippo always sinks when shot, and does not rise to tiie surface for several hours. Accordingly, back we walked to the house. At sunrise next morning Cunlnghame, Judd, and I. with a crowd of porters, were down at the spot. There was a very leaky boat In which Cunlnghame, Judd and t embarked. Intending to drift and paddle downstream while the porters ■walked along the hank. We did not have far to go, for as we rounded the first point we heard the porters break Into gut tural exclamations of delight, and there abend of us. by a little Island of papyrus, was tlie dead hlp[>o. With the help of the boat It was lowed 10 a convenient landing place, and then the porters dragged it .ashore, it was a cow, of good size for one •dwelling in a small river, where they never approach the dimensions of those making their homes In a great lake like the Victoria Nyunza. This one weighed near!.. 2.MO pounds, and I could well be lieve that a big lake bull would weigh between three and four tons. In wild regions hippos rest on sandy bars, and even come ashore to feed, by •day, but wherever there are Inhabitants (they land to feed only at night. New Enterprises. A sweet potato canning plant has been established at Savannah, Cla, and Is han ling 400 bushels of potatoes per day. turning out 800 cans of potatoes dally by operating day and night. A $760.(W steel scraper plant Is to be erected at Steelton, Kansas City, the capacity of which Is Intended to be live carloads of scrapers, etc., per day. A Portland cement plant is to be erect ed near Norfolk, Va., with a capacity of 1,800 barrels per day. The company Is capitalized at $860,000. The Otis Elevator company is to erect a branch factory at Portland, Ore. The nrt of laughing' when one Is not amused conduces to popularity. A WOMAN DOCTOR Was Mitick to See That Coffee Wat Doing the Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisoning and tells it In a way so sim ple and straightforward that literary skill could not improve It. "1 had neuralgic headaches for 12 years," she says, "and suffered untold agony. When 1 ilrst began to have them 1 weighed 14U pounds, but they brought me down to 110. I went to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief. So 1 suffered on, till one day a woman doctor told an- to use Postum. She said 1 looked like I was coffee poisoned. "So 1 began to drink Postum and 1 gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and continued to gain, but not so fast as at first. My headaches be gan to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks—long enough to get the coffee poison out of my sys tem. "Since 1 began to use Postum 1 can gladly say that I never know what a neuralgic headache is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that made me well. Before 1 used Postum 1 never went out alone; 1 would get bewildered and would not know which way to turn. Now 1 go alone and my head is as clear as a bell. My brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years.'1 Head the little hook, "The Hoad to Wollville," in pkgs. "There’s a Hex son." liver read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They art genuine, true, anj full of human interest. EX-BOY MAYOR SEEKS LIVING ON WALL ST. “Sherbie” Becker Buys Seat in Stock Exchange and Startles New York. Sherburn M. Becker, Milwaukee's “Boy Mayor," and one of the most Interesting public characters of the middle west, has made his preparations to lay siege to New York city. "Sherbie," as they call him at home, mayor of Milwaukee at 30 years of age, has come to New York to make a living. To this end he has purchased a seat on the Stock Exchange for the startling sum of $96,000, taken a $30,COO a year suite of rooms at the Plaza and ‘.settled down to wait for Gotham to fall. "I came to New York,” said the young man, "because New York is the greatest financial center in the world. New* York offers the best opportunities to a young man. I expect to do a brokerage busi ness along safe, sane and conservative lines." Young Mr. Becker early showed the spirit which was In him. Finishing at Harvard, he took unto himself a' w’lfe and started on a wedding trip around the world, keeping off the beaten trail of the tourist, exploring the ice channels of the polar regions and Introducing the kodak to the sheiks of the Arabian desert. In Politics. Returning to Milwaukee at the age of 86 years, he announced his intention to mix in local politics. It was a good joke to Milwaukee, which knew “Bherble” as the spoiled son of Washington Becker— at least Milwaukee thought he was spoiled—and It was thought Impossible for the bank president's son to break into pol tlcs. Young Becker thought differently, and In a remarkable house to house canvass ho was elected to represent two wards, one of them the silk-stocking district in which he lived, and the other one of the toughest wards in the city. "Bherble” made good in both places, loading the cotillions at home ami preaching the gos pel of clean politics to the dock-wallopers In I bo ntbor ii'Q ril • ”Sh«rbie’s” first move was to expose the county printing graft, which saved the city $30,000 a year and sent 10 men to jail. His next step was to announce his can didacy for tiie office of mayor. His first political moves should have taught Mil waukee not to regard him as a joke, but they did not. It seemed preposterous that a man of 30 years should oppose Mayor David S. Rose, who was almost a nation al figure in democratic politics, and had four times been elected mayor of Mil waukee. The campaign between the two men was a bitter and sometimes a personal one. Mayor Rose, stung by some of the things which Becker said on the stump, referred to his young opponent as the boy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. “Sherbie” countered neatly and with deadly effect, stating that it was better for a man to be born with a silver spoon in Ills mouth than with a tin horn. They are still talking In Milwaukee about “Sh-erbie’s” circus poster campaign. He beat Rose to the daily papers and the result, was a terrific campaign of printer’s Ink, In which Rose was left at the post. The town was plastered with eight-sheets, until the very walls screamed Becker’s arguments at the passers-by. Three times a week a special edition of a paper was printed which was called ‘‘Becker’s Bulletin,” and this paper poured hot shot Into the Rose machine and urged the claims of the young man “born with the silver spoon In his mouth.” Becker organized the “Young Men’s Becker Club," which had ten thousand members, and the club gave smokers and torchlight parades, and every week a ten-pound box o cjindy was given to the young why Becker should be elected mayor. Kissed Every Baby. This was fair, practical politics for a young man just out of Harvard, but Becker went even further. He killed all the babies In the city; he made tt his bus iness to meet every policeman and every fireman, and he Wrned to call them by their first names. It was a grand battle, and when the votes were counted Milwaukee had a new mayor and a lesson at the same time. Becker’s advertising campaign had won the day for him. Young Becker sought the republican nomination for governor of the state, but failed. Following ids retirement from politics he decided to learn something about the great west. Going Into the matter with his usual [ire and dash. Becker learned to ride out law horses and whirl a lariat with the best of them, and one of the proudest trophies of his life was the one which he won in a roping contest with the plains bred men. This is the .sort of a young man who IV »' II * vin IV/ ocr vuiai will happen. Becker says that he is not a come here simply to earn a living, come here simly to earn a livlty?. How Insects Breathe. From the Chicago Tribune. Landlubber animals have lungs and sea .•reatures have gills. But Insects have neither one nor the other. They have a complex system of tubes running through out the whole length of the body, by means of which air is conveyed to every part of the system. As they are destined to contain nothing but air. they are strongly supported to guard against col lapse from pressure. The support Is fur nished by means of a tine thread running spirally within the walls of the tube, much In the same way that a garden hose is protected with wire. There are generally two of these tubes which run the whole length of the insect’s body. Many flies, as larvae, live in the water. Arranged along each sale of their bodies is a series of exceedingly thin plates,* into each of which runs a series of blood vessels. These plates act and absorb the oxygen con tained in the water. The tail ends in three featherlike projections By means of these tlie larva causes currents of wa ter to flow over the gills and thus their efficiency is increased. The gnat also lives In the water as a larva. Hut it has no gills. Therefore it cannot breathe the oxy gen in the water, but must breathe air. This is done by means of a spicade situ ated at the tip of its tall. Indeed, the tail is ^prolonged into a little tube. The larva floats along head downward in the vrat*>r with this tube just above the surface to enable it to breathe. After some time it is provided with two little tubes which act in the same manner. A Real Catastrophe. From the Delineator. Philip, aged 4. is in the habit of go ing across the street to a neighbor’s house for milk. One day in December he returned home with an empty buck et and a grave face. “We can’t get any more milk,’’ he announced in a tone weighty with the Importance of his message. ‘‘The cow’s dried up." And. as we stared in surprise at him. he suddenly clinched the matter with an observation, evidently of his own— “Thoy don’t think that she'll thaw out till spring." ' mH«ntfih»JBgB8SBn--JJUSJ11IUIBI BACKACHE-A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS A WARNING THAT MUST NOT BE IGNORED Pain in the back is the kidneys' signal of distress! 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They are used and praised Every Picture^ a)l over t^e civilized world. Tells A Story. Doan’s Kidney Pills Make Lasting Cures Mrs. Solomon Sawyer, 420 W. Jaclson St., Charles Hanslng, 524 Bouthillier St.. Galena. Brazil, Ind„ says: "I do not think there Is a 111., says: "I am only too pleased to give Doan's better kidney remedy on the market than Doan’s Kidney Pills my endorsement, in the hope that Kidney Pills. I suffered from kidney and blad- other kidney sufferers will profit by my expert - der trouble for seven or eight years, and there ence. For a month or more I suffered from a was a constant, dull pain Across the small of steady, dull ache across the small of my back, my back which was almost unbearable. Damp and If I sat down for awhile. It was all I weather greatly aggravated the complaint, and c°u'd do to set up. Often I was compelled to there were other annoying kidney disorders that ^ J1??**!'f rmclA mpi ff»pi miserable Mv health finallv he- sever© was th© pain in my back. I did not rest !wtrTJL i with any comfort and any sudden movement sent came affected and the doctors seemed unable to sharp t'lnge3 through my kidneys. After plas me' v>?oaV* my U^ ''nt 0n called to Doan s ters, liniments and various remedies which I Kidney, Pills, I procured a supply at F. W. took had failed to help me, I began using Doan's Schultz s drug store and had taken them only Kidney Pills, and the contents of two boxes &C % a short time when I began to improve. Before fected a cure. I have never lost an opportunity long I was free from the trouble and my kid- of saying a good word for this medicine since.'* neys were restored to a healthy condition." The above statement was given in Feb., 1907, The above statement was made on Sept. 15, and on Mar. 31, 1909, Mr. Hanslng said: "Dur 1906, and on Jan. 4, 1909, Mrs. Sawyer said: "I ing the past two years I have had no need of have more faith in Doan’s Kidney Pills than Doan’s Kidney Pills, having been free from kid ever. I willingly confirm the statement I gave ney complaint. I take pleasure in confirming all in their favor over two years ago, as they de- I have heretofore said regarding the merit of 1.... | ■■■— ■■■■ mmmmmmmmB nerve all the credit that can be given them." this remedy.” . A TRIAL FREE a^'SZ - Mail ^ coupon to FOSTER-MILBURN CO., _ Buffalo, N. Y., and • free trial package will be .. ... iinnini ■ iTliUJlirnB7r» mailed you. We want every sufferer to test |4»D0AN’SKIDNEY pills#] FASHION HINTS Here are two of the season's populai types in small hats. The upper one is of black velvet, banded with ermine, and a fat little willow plums trailing from the left side. The lower one is more “ suity " and is of silk beaver, trimmed with one of the crosses between a quill and a feather, held in place by a dull gold rose. -- Out of the Picture. From the Washington Star. "How pleasant it must be to sit be fore u blazing tire while the wind vain ly rages outside." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel. "1 suppose it would be right pleasant." "Why, you ought to know. You live In the country." "Yes, but l ain't the feller that sits by the fire. I'm the teller that fetches in the wood." While man is trade of dust, woman too often gets the Impression that it should be gold dust. The threat of the suffragets to go Into politics and make man appear ri diculous Is superfluous. It is not nec essary to go half so far. A GOOD COUGH MIXTURE. Simple Home-Made Remedy That Is Free from Opiates and Harm ful Drugs. An effective remedy that will usu ally break up a cold In twenty-four hours, .‘s easily made by mixing to gether in a large bottle two ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces of pure Whisky. Thi3 mixture will cure any cough that Is curable, and Is not expensive, as it makes enough to last the average family art entire year. Virgin Oil of Pine com pound pure Is prepared only in the laboratories of the Leach Chemical Co, Cincinnati. Ohio. Water in Kentucky. x tom Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. Congressman Ollie James was driv ng through a hilly section of Kentucky >n a pleasure jaunt and happening to loieo a well beside a farm house, pulled ip and asked the farmer if he could ;ive him a drink. "No. stih, as much as I would like to eomodate you. sah, I can't do a thing ’or you. Hut If you'll pull in at Joneses bout foh miles ahead you can get somethin'," said the farmer. "But I thought I noticed a fine well li re on your place?" said the big con gressman. "Why I didn't know you wanted wa re. I thought you wanted a drink,” :aid the farmer, who thereupon invited klarse James in to help himself from he iron bound bucket. —-—— A Burning Eruption Covered He» from lleud to Feet. "Four years ago I suffered severelj with a terrible eczema, being a mass of sores from head to feet and for six weeks confined to my bed. During that time 1 suffered continual tor ture from Itching and burning. After being given up by my doctor I was ad vised to try Cuticura Remedies. After the first bath with Cuticura Soap and application of Cuticura Ointment I en loyed the first good sleep during my entire illness. I also used Cuticura Resolvent and the treatment was con tinued for about three weeks. At the ?nd of that time I was able to be about the house, entirely cured, and tiave felt no ill effects since. I wbuld advise any person suffering from any form of skin trouble to try the Cutt •ura uemecnes as l Know wnat tney lid for me. Mrs. Edward Penning. LI 12 Salina St.. Watertown, N. Y., \pr. 11, 1909." He Knew Him. Frojjn New York World. Repreentatlve Charlie Carlin, of Vir ginia, comes from the district that George Washington could have repre sented hail he ever run for congress. “Fairfax county is full of stories of :he father of his country.” said Repre sentative Carlin. “A relative of mine tells of the famous Ben Willetts, of Pohlck. who was the biggest liar in Virginia. Ben served in the revolu tionary war and had recounted his og markable experiences so often that ne had come to believe even the toughest i>f them himself. Some one asked him one day if lie remembered the battle of Monmouth. ” I guess I was thah,' declared Ben. 1 had my right hand pocket full of bullets and my left full of powder, and I had dad's old duckin' gun—seven foot long, bigawd—seven foot long’. I'd put in a handful of bullets on top ot a handful o’ powder, an' I wuz a-knock in’ down redcoats 50 at a bang. ” ‘While I wuz doin' this, up rides General Washington, and he sez. “Ben. stop that; you’re a-doin’ ’em too bad.” 1 jest teched my hat to the general an' I said, “Well general, if yo’ sez so I’ll cease firin', but I think I orter kill a few more o’ them scoundrels." With that the general sprung from his boss an', throwin' hi3 arms round my neck, sez. Ben. don't call me general—call me George!” ’ ’’ V TRIFLING COUGII Will become a ivrmrv nont one unions stopped. Allen a Lung Liusatn wi> surely stop it. Alle bottle U large enough for ttau Soli by all druggists, 25c, 50c aad $1.00 bottles. FEELING HEAT FROM CANDLE AT TWO MILES' DISTANCI If our nerves could feel “the heat fror the flame of a candle at a distance of tw miles," we could not stay a minute in hundred yards of an oil lamp. With nerve that fine, we would feel as If we wer being broiled by the sun with the thei mometer at zero In winter. But it Is sai by Professor Houston, of Princeton un: verslty that a “device called the rad: micrometer, now' renders it possible to df tect the heat from the flame of a candl at a distance of two miles.” The scientific nerves which do this ar very fine mineral threads. A fine threa of filament or quartz is hung between th poles of a powerful magnet. The magn« Is so arranged that the thread of quart answers to changes from heat to cold o cold to heat. It is said to show' as sligh a change as the millionth part of the d€ gree of a common thermometer. This is an Improvement on a device ir vented by Professor Langley. He arrange tw'o fine wires (platinum threads) so tha they balance each other exactly on th two sides of an electrical bridge or bal ance as long as the heat of both wires i exactly the same. He attached a needl to mark any difference shown by heatin one wire more than the other. He wra able In this way to use his electric nerve to show the differences of the thousandt part of a degree, more or less, in heai He went beyond all thermometers then 1 use and beyond w'hnt it is possible actu ally to think. Measuring the milliont part of a degree of heat goes so much fui ther that if we had nerves to feel it, w' could measure the heat in a lump of Ic with the linger tips. We would probabl get the same ideas with nerves of tha kind from touching ice that w'e now ge from touching hot iron. The radio-mi crometer takes the place of nerves whic would be very troublesome. Coal in Rhode Island. 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