nave an Abiding Faith in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. After rears of struggle to attain and merit public confidence, with a firm and steadfast belief that some day others would recognize in us the truth, good faith, and honesty of purpose which we know we possess, what a genu ine satisfaction it is to succeed, and to realize the uplifting influence of the merited confidence of a vast army of our fellow beings. Thus stands the Pinkham name in New England, and all over America, and nowhere is the faith in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound greater than in New England, its home. Merit, and merit alone, can gain this. ORGANIC. INIT.AiUrtlA I ION. “Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I was troubled very badly with inflamma tion of the bladder, was sick in bed with if. 1 had two doctors, but they did me no good. A friend gave me Lydia E. P’ukham's Vegetable Com pound, and it helped me. 1 have now taken three bottles of it, and 1 am entirely cured. It is a God-sond to any woman, and I would recommend it to any one suffering as 1 was. I think, if most of the women would take more of your medicine instead of going to the doctors, they would be better off. The Compound has also cured my husband of kidney trouble." blits. Marei. Gookin, Box ICO. Mechanic Falls, Maine. NERVOUS PROSTRATION. “ For two years I suffered from nervous prostration, the result of female weakness. I had leueorrhoea very badly, and at time of menstrua tion would be obliged to go to bed. Also Buffered with headaches, pain across back, and in lower part of abdomen. I was so discouraged. I had read of Lydia E. Pinkliam's Com round, and concluded to give it a trial. wrote to Mrs. Pinkham, and received a very nice letter in return. I began at once the use of her Vegetable Com pound and Blood Purifier, and am now feeling splendid. I have no more pain &t monthly periods, can do my own work, and have gained ten pounds. I would not be without your Vegetable Compound. It is a splendid medicine. I ain very thankful for what ithasdone for me."—Mrs. J. W. ,T., 76 Carolina Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. If Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable C not you —you cannot tell until you tr get well, commence its use at once, am that he has something of his own wl him to produce the evidence we do. PAINI UL FtKIUUS. • i I cannot help but feel that it is my duty to do something in regard to recommending your wonderful medi rinn T mncf tnr if — — — - is the grandest (me^Vine on earth, and have advised a great many suf fering with female 1 troubles to take it. >1 tell people I wish 11 could go on the platform and lec ’turo on it. V FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS J i the winning combination in the held or at I | the trap. All dealers sell them. ►WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. J | 18.J Winchester Avb., Nkw Haven, Conn. 1 i i > ! Winchester ► | Factor}'loaded [ shotgun shells, | “NEWRIVAL," ► “LEADER,"and | “ KEFEATER." ► A trial 's ill prove * their superiority. » W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & $3.59 SH9ES SKSg The real worth of in/ ft:i.00 and JLi.'iO shoes compared with oth. i main . la S-MI0 to £'•.00. M> $1.00Gllt Kdgc lane canuol L»o tMJU ilied at any price. Dent in lb** world for m« n. 1 i:mke mill *«*ll nmrr inpu’h Him* *!•«»«••, domlyenr iVfM l#r«*n<*u«*>, limn najr ulher miinuiuc. tun r is»» be %v**rl«i 1 t«l|i(Div$t,000loan) ouewhocun |i:uvu that my n not trnr. {MiKNrdl IV. I.. Dougina. 'Tube* no •nb«itfntef I jfdst on having W. L. IkuiKla.^ shoes vv.tl name ami price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should krum them ; I u ve one him. In the storm be could not find a single familiar landmark. After hours of aimless wandering night fell, and the farmer s son was still struggling through th»* ; snow. The next morning dawned bright ! and clear. The blizzard had passed , [ on toward the Great Lakes. Dowling found himself within a hundred yards of his own home. Hut lie could not walk further, and nis voice could not he heard five feet away. He rank down exhausted, almost within reach of his home and gave up all hope of reach ing it. But his mother saw him fall onjj on w n *n Jjiji !.*lp 1lPIT\ he reached the house. It was found that his face, hands, feet and legs were badly frozen. A doctor was summoned and declared it was neces sary to amputate the boy’s hands and legs. This was done, and barely twen ty-four hours after lie had left homo to go to town he was a helpless crip ple. One leg was amputated above tho • knee, the other above th“ ankle, his left arm at the elbow and all the fin gers of the. right hand. When tho doctors left all that remained of the hoy’s ten lingers and ten toes was tho stump of one thumb amputated at tho second joint. Dowling's father was a poor man and to the young man no future wai apparent but a useless existence, a burden and an eyesore to all about him. But worse was in store for him. He soon became a public charge. Tho three commissioners of Yellow Medi cine met to decide as to his fate. The close-fisted commissioners made him sign an agreement not to return to Yellow Medicine county after being supplied with artificial limbs and a year's schooling. They congratulated themselves for thus saving the county the expense of caring for a helpless cripple indefinitely. But Dowling was determined and ambitious. He got a good education, became an adept on artificial limbs, returned to Renville, a county ndjolning the one from which he had been banished, was elect ed to a small local public office, work ed into tlie ownership of a weekly newspaper, tin n appeared in the ses sions of the state elgisulture as a clerk and next became secretary of a nation al political organization, being nomi nated to that position as the “Frozen Son of Minnesota.” He secured recog nition as a man of executive ability and a good campaigner. He was next heard of as a newspaper correspondent in the Philippines. Returning from the Philippines Dowling reached tho United Suites in time to attend tho national convi ntion at Philadelphia. His peaked Philippine hat was one of the sights of tlie convention. I-ater lie became a candidate for the legis lature, won easily, and immediately an nounced bis i indidacy for the speak ership. An Illuminat ing Mineral • \ ONLY SUBSTANCE OF J) THE KIND IN THE • WORLD DISCOVERED ; IN IDAHO % <91I*t«X« X•x•.•) A mineral possessing illuminating power lias been discovered in Idaho. The people of Boise City are very much excited over the event. Assav isfs have been unable, as yet, to de termine what the strange substance is. The discoverey was made by George F. Ayres, a well known mining man of Boise, several weeks ago, in one of his claims, about sixty miles from the city. At the time he did not think much of the matter and therefore paid no attention to it. The further he went into the mine, how ever, the brighter the light became, until, aftr a few feet had been worked, it was not necessary for him to use a lamp. It was then that lie took some of the mineral to Bois“, and had it ex amined by an assayer. Terry I>. Williams of Boise, who is interested with Mr. Ayres, was in Ta coma, Wash., recently, and had a piece of the mineral with him. lie will have an assay of it made and expects that its true worth will be determined. "So far we have not been able to find nny person who is able to tell -what kind of a mineral it is." he said, when exhibiting it, “and it is for .'hat pur pose I have brought it here. There Is a large body of it at the mine where this was taken out about sixty miles from Boise City. Mr. Ayres, owner of the mine, found it four weeks ago at a depth of 300 feet from the surface. He was running a moss cut tunnel to tap his ledge at this depth, when lie struck this deposit. At first it attracted his attention by giving forth a dull light. As ho worked further in the light be came brighter, and at the end of three days’ work he was able to go ahead without the aid of a lamp. Then tho mineral became a curiosity and some of it was taken to Boise. It was ex amined. but there has been no one who is able to tell Just what It is. ' Mr. Ayres took a piece of it to his cabin, and after night tried to make it show a light, hut it was not so bright as it had been in the tunnel. This is at tributed to the atmospheric conditions, and is undoubtedly true, for in the ex periments that have been made with it in Boise we have been able to re produce the atmospheric conditions in water that prevail where the mineral is found, and therefore it is not thought that we will have any trouble in getting the desired result. "So far as we have been able to learn, this is the first of the mineral ever found in the world. All assayers to whom we have shown it say they never heard of it before, and they are not able to tel! what it is. We will go ahead and try to put it to some us®, and even at the present time are rea sonably sure of success. If it does come out as we expect, the mine will be more valuable than we ever ba lieved. "There is a large body of the deposit, and the farther we go in the stronger becomes the light. Another thing that we are convinced of is that, if we can make it practical, it will be a perpetual light, for in the throwing off of its rays there does not appear to be any waste of tiie mineral. Since the discovery there has been a largo number of visit ors to the mine, and the outcome Is being watched by nil In the vicinity of where the deposit was uncovered.” ONE OF EYflRTS* JOKES | m m . m , m m • l • l «Y5 I • » •/•Y« »'• /• {% (% I •'■ 9 t • .• <•Y #Y# I • <*• , •Y£Y« Imi mYrnYi ^ The late Secretary Kvarts liked fun. and there was a dry wit in his public utterances at times that nearly con vulsed those who dearly understood his meaning. It was almost Impossible for him to avoid being deep, even in humor, and many a good fling at po litical opponents was lost, because he talked above the heads of his audience, or becauea his sentences were too in volved. At the time when the mug wumps were just beginning to show their teeth, he delivered one of his long political speeches from the stage of the Grand opera house. New York, and in the course of it remarked that lie believed the republican party need not fear the mugwumps as the latter were a lot of ‘ marsupials.” Some 3,500 men heard the word, and after the meeting groups got together to discuss the meaning of the word and its ap plication. Sonn went home to look at their dictionaries, while others called on Mr. Evarts for an explanation. "Marsupials,” said he, "are horn ex tremely small, imperfect and quite helpless, and have to bo carried in pouches on the bellies of their moth ers.” Wt’igiifpg Fowl for Cnftlr. The accepted manner of feeding is hy measure, although all grain food for cattle is sold by weight, a given number of pounds constituting a bush el. This being the ease, and because of the great difference In the feeding value of the different ground feeds, all feeding should be done hy weight ra ther than by the bushel. The aver age farmer will claim he can get. bet ter result# from coarse floury mid dlings and corn meal than from wheat bran and gluten meal, which is so strongly advocated, hut does he? Cer | tainly not. if ho calculates tile feeding value of a given incisure and Its rich ness in protein. Eight quarts of mid dlings and four quarts of corn meal ; weigh 11.8 pounds, and furnish 1.5 pounds of digestible protein. Eight quarts of eoarse bran and four quarts of gluten meal weigh only 8.8 pounds, tint furnish 1.5 pounds of protein, with a difference in cost in favor of tho latter ration of nearly S cents. A man can always manage to attract attention by either raising whiskers or Vnving them shaved off.