Health Was Shattered
South Boston Woman Tells
How She Suffered Before
Doan’s Cured Her.
“I was in awful shape from kidney
disease,” says Mrs. W. F. Sterritt, 767
Dorchester Ave., South Boston, Mass.
“My health was shattered and I would
often fall in a heap. Had someone
stabbed me in the back with a knife,
the pains could not have been worse.
“I lost thirty pounds,
was terribly nervous
and could not do my
housework. Fainting
spells came on and my
feet and limbs swelled
so badly I couldn’t wear
my shoes. Puffy sacs
came u-uler my eyes,
my skin looked shiny
fltiy, Sterritt an<i the impression of a
finger left a dent that
remained for some time.
“My kidneys were in awful shape
and it seemed that I had to pass the
secretions every hour. The passages
were scant and- terribly distressing.
I was feverish at night and perspired
profusely.
“I was discouraged until told about
Doan's Kidney Pills. They brought
improvement from the first and
about a dozen boxes cured me. My
cure has lasted.”
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FQ3TER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y.
SOMETHI G HE WON’T FORGET
Soldier’s Foolishness in Using His
Mask Bag for Mail Pouch Nearly
Cost Him His Life.
Don’t carry anything in your gab
musk bag that doesn’t belong there.
That isn't a general order, but the
fruit of at least one man’s experience.
He had gone over the top on a pa
trol. Somebody smelled gas; on went
the masks. He bit into it, clamped his
nose on tight, and started to breathe.
That is, lie tried to. For several ago
pizing minutes lie struggled to get wind
through it, and then lie found it was
p false alarm.
Thanking liis stars that it hadn’t
fteen a real attack to he endured with
a safety appliance that was as dan
gerous as the German pizen itself, he
went to his lieutenant at the first op
portunity and told him that the thing
didn’t work.
The lieutenant looked at it.
“What’s this?" he asked.
From the slot at the base of the
Respirator lie drew a postcard that had
Stuck there.
/ “Now try it,” ho said.
’ ' It worked. That man isn’t using his
hiask lmg as a jnail poucli any more.—
Stars and Stripes.
State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho la
senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney
ft Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that
gild firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
RED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this th day of December,
A. D. 1888.
(Seal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak
en Internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Druggists. 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J, Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The American Sailor's Dollar.
Here Is a story of American good
will and its sequel, told to me by Mr.
George llobey. An American sailor
had paid for a gallery seat at his Liv
w^erpool concert last Sunday. The sail
or said to the program seller: “I want
to buy one of those programs and help
the French Red Cross. But I've only
got one dollar note—the last of ’em.
Could you change it?” The girl gave
liim two half crowns for it and he in
sisted on giving one for the cause.
Itobey told the story on tlie Liverpool
Exchange next morning, and sold the
Sailor’s dollar bill for £31. He is going
to sell it again Sunday.—London Eve
ning News.
Perverse Arts.
Cupt. Archie Freeman, the Los An
geles sportsman who is now teaching
machine gunnery to American aviators
In France, said one day to u machine
gun class:
“lion’t he discouraged, boys, if your
bursts are all misses, at first. The
machine guti is a perverse tiling, and
to learn it is like learning to automo
bile and to golf.
“It took me several years to mas
ter these arts, and .while learning to
automobile I lilt everything," whereas,
while learning to golf, 1 hit nothing!"
We’ve seen many a bati'e in which
if.l the honor went to the loser.
A friend In need seldom hesitates to
tell you so.
L ’ll"111 . ——•—t—“
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Post
, Toasties
I (Made of Corn)
| Taste twice as
* good now cause
| £ know they
Help
Save
the
Wheal
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THE poor condition of seed corn in the northern Corn Belt will no doubt
result In a very poor stand of com In many fields. In some cases
entire fields will have to be replanted.
Many farmers cannot replant because of the scarcity of seed, and
substitute crops must be planted or the land will remain idle.
In this emergency the growing of millet, sorghum, or even Sudan grass, Is
worthy of consideration.
Perhaps the best of these substitute* for the northern Com Belt Is
sorghum. The Early Amber variety Is good for either syrup or forage purposes.
Other good varieties are the Orange, Red Top, nnd Gooseneck. For growing as
forage, sorghum can be sown as late as August 1, and will make more or less
of an enormous growth, depending upon the soil and season.
1 When grown for hay It may be sown broadcast or with a grain drill, using
from 50 to 70 pounds of seed to the acre. Or It can be sown In rows like com.
using ;.-jm five to ten
pounds of seed per
acre, cultivated and cut
for silage with a corn
binder.
I When used ns silage
It should be cut when
the seed begins to har
den. For silage It is
nearly equal to corn
and under good grow
ing conditions will pro
iduce more tons to the
acre.
1 When sowed for hay
it should be cut with a
grain binder and shock
ed. Later it can be
hauled to the barn or
feed lot and put in the
mow or stacked, to be
fed whole or run
through a cutting box.
As It is hard to cure, it
may be best to leave it
outside In shocks or a
small stack, ns the
weather does not dam
Foxtail Millet—Can Bo Sown After Wheat and Oats
Are Harvested-—Makes Coed Catch Cran.
age it
; There are two types of millet—the broom corn type, which has spreading
heads, and the foxtail type, which has one spike head.
I Millet can be sown as late as July as a catch crop. It can be sown after
jWheat and oats are harvested._Use about three pecks of seed to the acre and
cut for hay when the head? begin to show.
j Sudan grass Is ns yet new to the Corn Belt. It belongs to the sorghum
family. It may be sown broadcast, or drilled, and It makes no difference in the
| yield of hay whether 10 pounds or 30 pounds of seed are sown to the acre, as it
is a great stooler.
! Sudan grass can be sown as late as July 15 or 20, and the early seeding
'sometimes makes two cuttings. It should be cut as soon as the bloom begins
;to drop and handled the same as sorghum. If the weather is hot and dry It can
be cured into hay and stored.
In securing Sudan grass seed care must be taken to make sure you do not
get Johnson grass seed Instead. Johnson grass la a great pest and Its seed so
closely resembles the seed of Sudan grass that the average person cannot tell
the difference. ^ ^
ARMY KITCHENS ARE
CARED FOR CAREFULLY
British Officers Look Closely
After the Welfare of the Men
In Their Commands.
Behind the British Bines In France,
(by mail)—The importance of the
kitchen department of the army can
not be overrated, for If men are to
work hard and efficiently they must
be decently fed. For fids reason the
"king's regulations" provide that it is
the first duty of every commanding
officer to see that the soldier's meals
are "properly and sufficiently provid
ed.' It Is further ordered that an of
ficer must insoect the kitchens and
cookhouses every day, while the same
officer must visit the barrack rooms
and mess tents during the breakfast,
dinner and super hours to find out if
there is any cause for complaint.
The kitchen establishment of a Brit
ish army camp varies widely under
different circumstances. At garrison
centers in France, the cookhouse is a
large building shared by several units,
and is under the charge of a sergeant
chef who has -ben through a special
course in military cooking. It is his
duty to superintend personally all
cooking done in the regimental cook
house. Each unit, in its turn, has a
chief cook who is responsible for all
the meals of his unit.
In the field, however, the cook
Vouse is a thing of mushroom growth.
When a unit is on the march the
simplest method of constructing a tem
porary kitchen is to place a number
of kettles on the ground in two paral
lel rows, block the leeward end of the
passage thus formed with another ket
tle and light a fire in this improvised
trench. As soon as the fife has been
started, one or two rows of kettles can
be placed on top of those already In
position.
If the stay at a particular spot is
likely to be for any appreciable length
of time, a good field kitchen is im
provised by digging a narrow trench
for the fires, and placing the camp ket
tles above this. Sometimes a chimney
is built of sods.
For a stay . f three or four days, reg
ular "field ovens" are constructed. An
arch of sheet iron is erected and on
top of this a layer of clay is piled.
With this oven it is possible to give
the men roast meat for dinner as often
as tlie Joints are forthcoming from the
supply column. Enough bread to feed
a whole battery can be baked in one of
these ovens.
DEATH TAKESMAKER
OF CONFEDERATE FLAG
Wilson, N. C,,' (by mall).—Mrs. Re
becca Winborne, 87 years old, who
died recently, is said to have been the
woman who made the first Confederate
flag.
The banner, designed by Captain
Orren Randolph Smith, of Henderson,
N. C., was made by Mrs. Winborne
when she was Miss Rebecca Murphy,
at Wilson, in February, 1861. A sister
refused to aid in making the flag, it
is said, because she was engaged to a
northern army officer. A few weeks
after the flag was completed it was
adopted by tiie confederate congress at
Montgomery. Ala., as the standard of
the confederacy. The first banner con
tained only seven stars, representing
the number of states that had seceded, j
hut tills number was soon increased <
to 11 by the withdrawal of other states I
from the union. By an act cf the cun- !
federate congress it was named "The !
Stars and Bars."
At a reunion of confederate veterans ;
at Norfolk, Va„ in 1910, Captain Smith
explained the meaning of the various
colors in the flag, as follows:
"The idea of my flag I took from
the Trinity. The three bars were for
church, state and press, all bound to
gether by a field of blue (the heavene
over all), bearing a star for each state
in the confederation. The seven white
stars, all the same sire, were placed
In a circle, showing that each state
had equal rights and privileges, Irre
spective of size or population.
INJURED SOLDIERS TO
BE GIVEN REAL TRAINING
The following is authorized by the
Federal board of Vocational Educa
tion:
There appears to exist in the minds
of many persons a misconception of
what vocational re-education is, as ap
plied to disabled soldiers and sailors.
The Federal Board for Vocational Edu
cation, which is charged with the duty
of re-educating the Injured men, Is
constantly receiving communications
from persons who have tills, that, or
the other supposed art or craft which
they offer as being just the thing to
teach the wounded soldiers. These
suggestions run all tho way from mak
ing artcraft out of sealing wax,
making paper flowers and gilding pine
cones to constructing alleged orna
ments out of putty.
The federal board does not intend
to teach useless things. The educa
tion to be given, in the main, wall be
in highly specialized occupations which i
are good paying, recognized, and manly 1
callings that have a definite, useful
place in the business world.
There seems to be a misunderstand
ing concerning what occupational the
rapeutics and vocational education are,
or the part that they play. The for
mer is given to divert the patient’s
mind, to exercise some particular set
of muscles or a limb, or perhaps mere
ly to relieve the tedium of convales
cence. These activities have little, if
any, practical value beyond the im
mediate purpose they serve, nor are
they Intended to have any other value.
But even now in occupational therapy
the idea is to give that sort of training
which will be preliminary to the real
vocational education which is lo begin
soon as *he nat’erf Is able to go
further along, if, for instance, the pa-'
tlent was formerly a sheet metal
worker, nnd is now debarred from the
use of physical strength, he is started*,
perhaps, as a designer or architectural
expert' in cornices, sheet metal and ar
citectural work. His practical know
ledge is thus built upon and focused
in a specialty suited to his capabilities.
The patient is furnished with a set of
Instruments, a bed drawing board, nnd
textbooks. Then he is given able in
struction. The weeks in bed or in the
wheel chair are utilized practically.
When he is able to go into the work
shops, the convalescent is well along as
a technician, and ready for further in
tensive training.
So it is with other lines. The busi
ness of edpcatlon is, first of all, com
mon sense and practical. The idea Is
to turn out thoroughly trained men
for men’s Jobs at men's pay, despite
any physical handicap which may have
rendered the men useless in their for
mer callings.
epidemic of'(Torse thieves.
Amsterdam.—The German newspap
ers are much agitated over an epi
demic of horse stealing in Berlin, in
a single week recently horses valued
at $25,000 were stolen in Berlin, most
of them while standing in the streets
in daylight. The animals are sold in
the provinces, where they fetch fancy
prices, or are used for clandestine
butchering In Berlin. A pair of fine
race horses recently disappeared dur
ing a race meeting at the Grunewald
Course
LIFT OFF CORNS! I
.
With fingers! Corns and cal
luses lift off. No pain!
"Slagle! Just drop n little Freezone
on that touchy corn, Instantly It stops
aching, then you lift the corn off with
the Angers. Truly! No humbug!
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“UNCLE SAM” IDEAL FIGURE
Old Gentleman Happy Blending of the
Cardinal Virtues Typical of the j|
American.
My father used to tell me that hit*
great-uncle. Major Samuel Wilson, was
quartermaster in Washington's army,
nud that when the supplies came in
marked ‘IT. S.‘ the boys In the army
used to say, ‘More food for Uncle
Sam!’ When the war was over the
army took tills saying to every part
of tire land, and ‘Uncle Sam’ soon dis
placed ‘Brother Jonathan’ ns the fa
vorite nickname for our country.
"In picture and phrase, ‘Unde Suin’
is still, for good or ill, our national
figure. He lncnrnntes tlie Amerle.au
diameter. What can you see in him?
“To me it means a happy blending
if four cardinal virtues which are
l.vplcal of the American—shrewdness
iml energy, kindness and hnjjior. If
Uncle Sam were only shrewd and ener
getic, be might lie a very stingy oljl
specimen, not at nil to lie admired.
Sometimes our good friends across the
water have only seen this side of him.
if Uncle Sum were only kind and
humorous, lie might lie a shiftless
good-for-nothing. But, fortunately for
11s all, energy and shrewdness give him
power without waste, while kindness
find humor make him human and
friendly.’’— H. N. Muecracken in St.
Nicholas.
Get New Kidneys!
The kidneys are the most overworked
jrgans of the human body, and when they
fall in their work of altering out find
throwing off the poisons developed in the
system, things begin to happen.
One of the first warnings is pain or stiff
ness in the lower part of the back; highly
colored urine; loss of appetite; indiges
tion; irritation, or even stone in the bjjid
ter. These symptoms indicate a eondil .on
that may lead to that dreaded und fatal
malady, Bright's disease, for which there
is said to be no cure.
Do not delay a minute. At the first in
lication of trouble in the kidney, liver,
bladder or urinary oigans start takjng
Hold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, ana
save yourself before it is too late. Instant
treatment is necessary in kidney and blad
der troubles. A delay is often fatal.
Yon can almost certainly find immediate
relief in Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules,
for more than 200 years this famous prep
lration lias been an unfailing remedy for
ill kidney, bladder and urinary troubles.
It is the pure, original Haarlem Oil your
STcat-grandmother used. About two cap
sules each day will keep you toned up and
feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, tnd
if it does not give you almost immediate
relief, your money will be refunded. Be
sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brt.nd.
None other genuine. In boxes, three
sizes.—Adv.
A Correction.
“When a Boche finds himself In n
fight place lie warbles out ‘Kamerad,
I’ve got a wife and tl. -ee children.’
l’hen one of our boys sings out:
You’re a damned litir. 1 u’ve got a
widow and three orphan; ”—I' oni a
Soldier’s Letter to the Knobnosier
Gem.
Hoses for the dead are all right if
you’ve given praises to the living.
Germany makes a bread without
lour.
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Ask him about them. If he
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Interrupted Lesson.
An ancient French schoolhouse, de
serted In the (light of the villagers,
was taken over by the Americans as
part of the headquarters of a field
ambulance. The Interrupted lesson
could he read upon the bulletin hoard
by the Yankee wounded, carried
through, and a Daudet among them
could have woven u masterpiece from
II. The moral that the teacher was
Inculcating when he held his “deruiere
class” was this: '
"The free inau obeys Ids conscience
and the laws of his country."
And the phrase set before the pu
pils for their composition exercise that
day—the date was written on the
hoard. 20 Mai, i01S— was:
“Un Jour de grand vent."
They might have written It: “The
day of the big wind.”—Stars and
Stripes.
Rough on Pa.
Father—What does the teacher say
about your poor arithmetic work?
Willie—She says she’d rather you
' wouldn’t help me with it.—Boston
Evening Transcript.
A bird that caii’t sing and will sing
Is a logical potpie candidate.
Try Freezoue! Your druggist sells a
tiny bottle fcr a few cents, sufficient to
rid your feet of every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, und
calluses, without one particle of pain,
soreness or Irritation. Freezone is the
discovery of a noted Cincinnati genius.
—Adv.
Where He Is Expert.
' “So you’ve joined the army, Mose?”
“Yes, sail.”
“What branch of the service are you
In?”
“Well, snh, All's In de infantry, but '•
when we gits t’ France Ah’s done ask
ed de captln to put me on dot night I
rnid wo’k. Gittin’ into de odder fel- ,
low’s back yard durln’ de night hours :
is a job Ah considers liiahse’f particu- i
larly experienced at.”—Detroit Free
Press. . j
\ n- , r. . .
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, nnd see that It
In Use for Over 30Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Natural.
Kidder—The crown prince certainly ;
has n great little head for heating It
back toward Berlin.
Klddee—Whatju mean, head?
Kidder—Receding chin and retreat
ing forehead.
RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Insures snowy white beautiful clothes
on washday. Buy Red Cross Blue,
not just cheap liquid blue which makes
your clothes greenish yellow. Red Cross
Ball Blue large packages cost only 5
cents. All good grocers sell it.—Adv.
Many an honest mnn might be oth
erwise If an opportunity worth while
knocked at his door.
.* .ik. 'M .jbJtst
Proof that Some Women
dd Avoid Operations
Mrs. Etta Dorion, of Ogderoburg, Wis., says:
**I suffered from female troubles which caused piercing pains
like a knife through my back and side. I finally lost all my
strength so I had to go to bed. The doctor advised an operation
but I would not listen to it I thought of what I had read about
Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound and tried it. The first
bottle brought great relief and six bottles have entirely cured me.
All women who have female trouble of any kind should try
Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound.”
How Mrs. Boyd Avoided an Operation.
: Canton, Ohio.—‘T suffered from a female trouble which
caused me much suffering, and two doctors decided that
I would have to go through an operation before 1 could
1 get well. i
| > “Mymother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, advised me to try it be
fore submitting to an operation. It relieved me from
my troubles so I can do jpy house work without any
difficulty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with
female troubles to give Lydia E. Finkham’s Vege
j table Compound a trial and it will do as much i
for them.’— Mrs. Manns Boyd, 1421 6th 6t., ( s/t
IT. E., Canton, Ohio. j /
I Every Sick Woman ShottldMlVy/f H jj
' LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE, COMPOUND
Before Submitting To An Operation)
You Are Dying By Acid
When you have Heartburn, Gas, Bloat, and that Full ~
_ after eating. TAKE ONE
FATONI
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Get rid of the Overload and Excess Acid and you will fairly fee!
the GAS driven out of your body—THE BLOAT GOES WITH IT.
IT GIVES YOU REAL STOMACH COMFORT*
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