Mrs. F. Wright, of O el we in, Iowa, -
is another one of the million women
who have been restored to health by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Overshadowing indeed is the success of Lvdia E. IMiikhnin's Vege
table Compound — compared with it, all other medicines for women ure
experiments. •
Why has it the greatest record for absolute cures of nnj' female medicine
in the world? Why has it lived and thrived and done its glorious work
among women for a quarter of a century? Simply because of its sterling
worth. The reason that no other medicine lias ever reached its success is be
cause there is no other medicine so successful in curing woman’s ills. Re
member tiieso important facts when a druggist tries to sell you something
which he says is just as good.
A Young New York Lady Tells of a Wonderful Cure: —
■ wear mas. 1 in'.viiam: — my iroume was
with the ovaries; i am tall, anil the doctor
said I grew too fast for my strength. I
! suffered dreadfully from inflammation and
doctored contirually, but got no help. I suf
fered from terrible dragging sensations with
the most awful pains low down in the side and
pains in the back, and the most agonizing head
aches. No one knows what I endured. Often
I was sick to the stomach, and every little
while I would be too sick to go to work for
t'.r-e • or four days; I work in a large store,
an 1 I suppose standing on my feet all
day made me worse.
“ At the smrir *stion of a friend of mv
J mother’s I begin to take Lydia E. Pinkhnin’s
Vegetable Compound, and it i.s simply wonderful.
I felt better after the first two or three doses; it seemed as though a
weight was taken off my shoulders; I continued its use until now I
can truthfully say I atn entirely cured. Young girls who are always
paying doctor’s bills without getting any help as l did, ought to take
your medicine. It costs so much less, and it i.s sure to cure them.—
Yours truly, Adelaide Fraud, 174 St. Ann’s Ave., Mew York City.”
Women should not fall to profit by Miss Adelaide Prahl’s
experiences; just as surely as she was cured of the troubles enu
merated in her letter, just so certainly will Lydia E. Pinkliam’s
Vegetable Compound euro others who suffer from womb trou
bles, inflammation of tlic ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous exci
tability, and nervous prostration; remember that it is Lydia E.
Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound that is curing women, and don’t
allow any druggist to sell you anything else in its place.
If there is anything In your cate about which you would like
special advice, write freely to Mrs. Plnkham. She can surely
help you, for no person in America has such a wide experience in
treating female ills as she has had. Address is Lynn, Mass.;
her advice is free ami alway helpful.
ornnn forfeit If we cannot forthwith produce the orlfflnal letter ami signature of
above testimonial, which will prove Its absolute tfenui!»**>'*»**.
yUUUU Lydia K. IMukliam Mtoliclne Co., Lynn, Mau
I
Fish Eggs to Travel Far.
Covered with damp moss In muslin 1
troughs and hermetically scaled in
tin borne 20,000 Irish rainbow trout
eggs are on their way from Innishan
non, County Cork. Ireland, to Tokio,
for the Japan Exhibition.
Linotype for All Kinds of Work.
A double-magazine linotype machine
now on the market enables the oper
ator to set complicated advertising
matter and any ordinary book page
without rising from the keyboard.
DON'T SPOir. VO IT It CI.OTHEB.
Use lied Cross Ball Blue and keep then
white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package.
Sentiment Is growing In favor of the
lino system. It is the system most
profitable to grain dealers. Why not
for farmers, too?
r to no hindrance *o tlw
ruler who wears
L SAWYER’S
$EXCELSIOR BRAND
POMMEL SLICKERS
Man or fin !>11® can nr 18®^ wet.
EXCELSIOR ORAAID
OILED CLOTHING
V X For an kind* of work
[/1 Warrant**!Waterproof
if A uooil for '.rade-mark.
lAJ If noi at ietuer*. write
'll. Jl. lawyer 4 r*«i», OoUirra.
Km' i
If winter left
"all run down,” >
wind up with
Hires
Rootbeer
That will "set you going.”
_ _ A
•£J5£S^"£^T!i«inpioii“* Efo Watif
Can Rsad Print at Twenty Mils*.
A ser.rch light of 100,000-candle
power will render print visible at a
distance of twenty miles. The experi
ment has been tried from the top ol
Mount Washington.
Much Ancient Literature Found.
The researches of the last few
years have furnished us with the lost
Constitution of Aristotle, fragments
of Sappho, Isocrates and Ilyperidos.
When a baby cries in its father's
arms he at once takes steps toward
appointing a receiver.
An industrious agent can disturb
every business man in town for a sin
gle day.
A good fellow is the feilow who has
more dollars than sense.
I<ewis’ “Single Biuder” straight 5c
cigar The highest prior* 5c cigar to thu
dealer and the highest quality for the
smoker. Lewis’ factory, IVoria, 111.
The chronic fault-finder is afraid to
Ia*-;h, lest one would think he was
enjoying himself.
There are some things that should
be done in exclusion. Blowing your
nose is one of them.
Sensible Housekeeper*
will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more foi
the same money, but also because ot
superior quality.
Never look a gift horse pistol In the
muzzle.
If a woman's heart could he bared
with all its scars and bruises what a
sickening sight it would he.
Don't you know that Defiance
Starch besides being absolutely supe
rior to any other, Is put up 16 ounces
In package and sells at same price
as 12-ounce packages of other kinds?
These goo-goo eyes you hoar su
much about—men above fifty do not
as a rule care much for them.
fsvok for thisf radt* mark: " The Klean. Kool
Kitchen Kind.” Tht* stoves witlioutsmoke,
ashes or heat. Make comfortable cooking
When a girl begins to wear her hat**
pompadour, it is one sign that she
looks lingeringly at the boys.
The First Decoration
May 30 is Memorial Day, the day
when pious hands the country over
will place floral tributes upon the
graves of the dead of the civil war.
The following version of the origin of
the custom is told by a veteran who
wore the blue.
‘‘It was just forty years the 13th of
last April," said he. "Two little girls
—children of a Michigan army chap
lain—were the first to lay spring flow
ers on a soldier’s grave dug in Vir
ginian soil, and from that little act of
childish impulse grew up the custom
which is now nationally observed,
north and south.
“1 was a member of the Second
Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Col. J.
B. Richardson commanding, which saw
most of the fighting of the army of the
Potomac until the war was well nigh
ended. The chaplain of the regiment
They must have had in mind the little
arts of remembrance they had seen at
the gravesides in the grass-grown
cemetery at home.
“On their way home the little ones
planned to go next day, gather arm
fuls of flowers and put them on all
the graves. When they were about to
set out on the morrow. Josephine told
Mrs. May of their project, and the
sweet thoughtfulness of this child
fancy appealed to the older woman as
it only could have appealed to a moth
er who knew a hospital camp at first
hand and had folded the hands of mor^
than one young fellow in his last sleep.
With her companion, Mrs. Evans, a
young Red Cross nurse. Mrs. May
joined the children in gathering flow
ers, and together they placed the blos
soms on thirteen graves—all that they
found. Union and Confederate alike.
hand, htts advanced the claim of a
celebration held at Watertown, N. Y.,
May 27. 1868. Certain it is that Gen.
I ogan often referred to his first decor
ation Day order as the ‘proudest act of
his life,’ and the year it was Issued
the first great observance was held at
Arlington cemetery with Gen. Arthur
as the orator of the day. It is equally
certain that further to the south, a
few years before, those two little Mich
igan girls had begun the decoration of
graves in a small way that as certain
ly developed into the rational memor
ial. Yet so far as I know no recogni
tion has been paid to its girlish orig
inators.
‘‘Chaplain May, his wife Marcia, and
their two daughters He buried iu
Mountain Home. Kalamazoo, Mich.
VV’itli the exception of one year, the
chaplain’s family remained with him
throughout the war. Mrs. May was
called 'an angel of mercy from God’
for her work at Alexandria. I recall
circumstances when she literally stole
dying men and smuggled them into the
city hospitals that she might minister
to their wants. She had of course the
connivance of the surgeons—it was
either that or leave them to die of
neglect and lack of nursing, for in
those first months of the war every
thing was 'red tape.’
“Later on she bad a chance to serve
SAILOR DEAD REMEMBERED.
The Sunken Maine Being Decorated by the American Ladies' Memorial Committee.
was Franklin May, a Methodist min
ister. who resigned his charge at the
first call to arms and marched to the
front. There were three Mays in the
regiment, brothers—two chaplains and
the chaplain, for war blood seemed to
run in their veins. Three Mays did I
say? Four, for there was the cap
tain's wife, and no pluckier patriot
served the Union cause than the wom
an who followed him to camp, first at
Arlington and Alexandria and then at
a point near Mount Vernon, which
was known as Camp Michigan. She
brought with her their two daughters,
Josephine; aged thirteen, and Klla,
perhaps five years younger.
“One spring day at Camp Michigan
—it happened to he April 13. the first
anniversary of the fall of Sumter—
the little girls were wild-flower gath
ering. Their hands were filled when
they came across a grave—a rough,
unmarked mound that had closed in
over some northern hoy for whom taps
had sounded that first twelve-month.
“ ‘Oh, let’s put our flowers on this
grave,' cried Josephine, ‘lie is a sol
dier boy.’
“In a trice the two were down on
their knees heaping nosegays over that
hare hillock and clasping their hands
In delight at their happy contrivance.
[ among the thousands that later were
to rest at Arlington and along the
shores of the Potoniae.
"The next year they did the same
tiling, and the next, each time in May.
and now for the soldiers who fell at
Fredericksburg and other battles in
the Old Dominion. What they did
was noticed and soon others began to
do the same. There was opportunity
for all. for as the months went by
graves were multiplying faster than
ever before in history, and before the
close of the war the custom had
spread quite widely.
"In 1868'Gen. John A. Logan issued
that famous order of his as command
er-in-chief of the G. A. It. which set
apart May JO as Memorial Day—a date
chosen late in the spring in order to
give the flowers a chance to outflank
every snowbank in the north, however
late the spring. Since then many of
the states have made the day a legal
holiday.
“There has been some controversy
here and there as to what source to
attribute the honor of suggesting a
decoration day. Gen. Chipman attrib
uted it to a Cincinnati soldier whose
letter concerning such a custom in
Germany he laid before Gen. Logan.
Gen. John B. Murray, on the other
her country as well as humanity. She
was at Alexandria in the spring of '615
when Lee began a series of suspicious
movements, and no plan could be hit
upon to ascertain his intention. Mrs.
May’s woman’s wit found a way. She
would assume her maiden name and
under it visit the wounded and dying
Confederates. As she cared for them
she gained what she could of Lee’s
movements and plans. With the sanc
tion and promised aid of friends at
Washington and Alexandria she then
went to the Mansion House hospital,
ignoring the Union men and offering
sympathy to the prisoners.
‘ She gained not only definite knowl
edge of Lee’s past movements, but a
clue of the future—of his proposed ad
vance on Fairfax. Alexandria and
Washington. She even secured figures
of the supposed strength of his Com
mand and the proposed points of at
tack. These facts she repeated to
Secretary Stanton and accompanied
him to President Lincoln. The presi
dent listened with interest. Soon after
lie made a tour with his cabinet of the
locations referred to, and found them
but lightly fortified. They were at
once reinforced. When, at the exact
day and points anticipated, Lee made
his attack, they were not surprised.
COLON CEMETERY, HAVANA, CUBA.
American Ladies’ Memorial Committee Decorating the Graves of the Crew of the Maine. [
I Mr, B. J. Seanneli, 6t)!> Ware block,
C*maha, Neb., has just receive,I an
other consignment of that “Eczema"
cure which so quickly cured the well
known Hon. W. A. Paxton of Omaha,
and who was so badly afflicted at one
time that he was compelled to make
a trip to Carlsbad and several other
celebrated places in Europe, but re
ceived no help whatever until he se
cured the above mentioned ointment.
Mr. Seanneli is offering it at $2.50 per
box and anyone who knows Mr. Pax
ton is at liberty to writo him tor in
formation.
GtlEATI.Y REDUCED KATES
vlu
WABASH ItAII.P'VAn.
Corinth, Miss., and retufa Sold Mav
fSth and 27th.$21.20
Selmer. Tenu., and return. Sold Why
Stth and 27th.*21 21)
Paducah. Ky., and return. Sold May
26th and 27th.*16.65
Bellofontfline. O.. unit return. Sold
May 2Sth to June 1st.$2(1.10
Indianapolis. Jnd . and return. Sold
June 7th. 8th and 9th. $19 40
St. Louis, Mo, and return. Sold June
16'h and 17th .*1.3 50
Boston, Mass., and return. Sold Juno
30th to July 4th.$.3:1.75
Saratoga, N. Y., and return. Sold July
4th and 5th.$.32 2ft
Detroit. Mich., and return. Sold July
14th and 15th.$21.50
Baltimore, Md , and return. Sold July
17th and 18th. $32 00
For maps irlvlnpr full description,
I-*.ke trips, side trips and all Informa
tion call at Wabash City Office, 1601
F'arnam St., or address,
HARRY E. MOORES
g. a. p. n„
Omaha, Neb,
Few people get high enough up the
ladder of fame to make them dizzy.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Loves does not want a bombastic
declamatory-‘‘I love you” fulfills all
the promises of hope.
Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity, together with the superior
quality of Defiance Starch makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand.
Anyway, a “has-been” is far better
' than a “never-was.”
This Will Interest Mothers.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Child
ren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in
Children’s Home, New York, Cure Fever
ishness, Had Stomach, Teething Disorders,
move and regulate the bowels and destroy
Worms. Sold by all Druggists, 2T>c. rumple
FUEL. Address A. d. Olmsted. Lelioy. N. Y.
Only a newly married man ever
dodges when his wife throws things
at him.
Great men are ordinary ni^n with
their shoes carefully polished.
Shamrock III. Insured for $100,000.
Sir Thomas Lipton evidently values
the Shamrock HI. more highly tiian
either of her predecessors of tlie same
name. The previous Shamrocks were
insured for $60,000 each, but the latest
challenger has been underwritten at
$100,000. Of couise these amounts are
far below the value of the yachts.
No Respector of Persons.
The Italian railway official* are no
respecters of persons i3 shown by an
Incident which occurred the other day,
when the Duchess of Manchester ar
rived at Salsomaggiore. Her grace
had so much baggage that the railway
officials became tirexi of watching the
pndless stream of trunks pouring from
the baggage car. Two porters from
the hotel whither the duchess was go
ing had got into the car to help in un
loading the trunks, but before they
could get out the impatient officials
started the train and they were car
ried off to Parma, with a condiderable
portion of the duchess’ baggage.
Struck Against an Egg Menu.
The servants at Harbor Hills, the
country residence on Ixmg Island of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay. have
gone on strike against a menu consist
ing of eggs three times a day. Aiv
cording to the complaining domestics
it was omelettes, egg sandwiches,
boiled eggs, roasted eggs, stuffed eggs
or some other variety of the same dish
in Lent and out of Lent, until Anally
the chef was petitioned to change the
menu. The man who presented the
memorial was discharged 0:1 the spot,
and then all the other servants but two
went on strike.
BE INDEPENDENT.
It’s Easy to Shake Off the Coffee
Habit.
There are many people who make
the humiliating acknowledgment that
they are dependent upon Coffee to
“brace them up” every little while.
These have never learned the truth
about Postum Cereal Coffee which
makes leaving off coffee a simple
matter and brings health and
strength in place of coffee ills. A
lady of Davenport. Iowa, who used
Postum Food Coffee for Ave years Is
competent to talk upon the subject.
She sayst
“I am a school teacher and during
extra work when I thought I needed
to be braced up I used to Indulge in
rich, strong coffee of which I was
very fond and upon which I thought
I was dependent.
“I began to have serious heart pal
pitation and at times had sharp
pains around the heart and more or
less stomach trouble. I read about
Postum and got some to try. I drop
ped coffee, took up the Postum and
it worked si: h wonders for me that
many of my friends took it up.
“In a short tiino 1 was well again,
even able to attend evening socials.
And I did not miss my coffee at all.
Now I can truthfully say that I have
been repaid fully for the change I
nade. I have no indications of heart
disease and not once in the past four
years have I had a sick headache or
bilious spell.
“My father, 78 years old, is a Pos
tum enthusiast, and feels that his
good health In a large measure is due
to the ti cups of good Postum which
he enjoys each day.” Name furnished
by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich,
i There is a reason.