REACH THE SPOT.
To cure an ach
a
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Tlie pains of
rheumatism,
The tired out
feelings.
You must reach
the spot — get at
the cause.
In most cases ’ti3
the kidneys.
Doan’s Kidney
Pills are for tho
kidneys.
Chas. Bierbach,
stone contractor,
living at 2625
a Cnestnut St., Erie,
Pa., says: "For two years I had kid
ney trouble and there was such a
severe pain through my loins and
limbs that I could not stoop or
straighten up without great pain, had
difficulty la getting about and was
unable to rest at night, arising in
the morning tired and worn out. The
kidney secretions were irregular and
deposited a heavy sediment. Doctors
treated me for rheumatism, but failed
to help me. I lost all confidence in
medicine and began to feel as if life
were not worth living. Doan's Kidney
Pills, however, relieved me so quickly
and so thoroughly that I gladly made
a statement to that effect for publica
tion. This was in 1898, and during the
six years which have elapsed 1 have
never known Doan’s Kidney Pills to
fail. They cured my wife of a severe
case of backache in the same thor
ough manner.”
A FREE TRIAD of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr. Bier
bach will be mailed on application to
any part, of the United States. Ad
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.
Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50
cents per box.
Kindness is born of our sense of
kinship to all.
The brilliant manner in which the j
publishers of Everybody’s Magazine ;
have handled the subject of the St.
Louis exposition affords a clew to th<!
success of the publication. The April
number opens with an article on “The
Greatest World’s Fair,” and the two
men most able to do the subject jus- j
tlce have treated it. David R. Francis j
president of the exposition company, !
furnishes the text, and Vernon Howe, !
Bailey, the distinguished young artist,
has done the illustrations. One is
told and shown in the mo3t interesting
way just w'hat to expect at St. Louis
In May, and the prospect is amazing.
No good is found in a difficulty by
Ihe man who crawls around it.
—
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The man who resists a tendency
will never have to regret a habit.
An Asiatic Dowie.
John AJexander Dowie, the Chicago
“prophet,” has his counterpart in In
dia. Indeed, the Oriental product in
some ways outdoes the man who. ac
cording to all accounts, has made a
good thing out of it in Chicago. The
Hindoo’s name is Mirza Gheelan Ah- :
mad, head of a distinct sect of Mo- ,
harumedans, and he lives in the Pun
itub. In fine appearance, denuncia- ;
tion and propnecies he more than
equals Dowie but so far he does not
seem to have developed the sound
business sense of John Alexander.
He lives humbly and only attracted
official attention when he began to
foretell the death of certain oppo
nents. Mirza was “induced” to aban
don this feature of his performance,
a.? it contravened a section of the
penal code. He is 65 years old and
h-is about 10,000 followers.
God, the eternal light of mercy, the
blessing scattered through all the in
finitudes—the hope that vibrates the
music of the spheres—the love that
woos to life the humble flowers of the
world and rolls the stone from sor
row’s sepulcher.—Florida Timcs-Un
ton..
When a woman too frequently enters
upon her household duties with an air
oi resignation, her husband is likely
to give up his job also with an air
resignation.—New York Telegraph.
EMPTY NOW.
How One Woman Quit Medicine.
‘‘While a coffee user my stomach
doubled me for years,” says a lady of
tolumbus, O., “and I had to take medi
cine all the time. I had what I thought
was the best 6tomach medicine I could
get, had to keep getting it filled all
the time at 40 cents a bottle. I did
not know what the cause of my trou
ble was but just dragged along from
day to day, suffering and taking medi
cine all the time.
“About six months ago l quit tea
and coffee and began drinking Postum
and I have not had my prescription
filled since, which is a great surprise
to me for it proves that coffee was the
cau.se of all my trouble although I nev
er suspected it.
“When my friends ask me how I
feel since I have been taking Postum
\ say, ‘To tell the truth I don’t feel
It all only'that I get hungry and eat
fcerything I want and lots of it and it
lever hurts me and I am nappy and
•veil and contented all the time.’
“I could not get my family to drink
Postum for a while until I mixed it in
a little coffee and kept on reducing the
amount of coffee until I got it ail Pos
tum. Now they all like it and they
never belch it up like coffee.
“We all know that Postum is a sun
shine maker. I find it helps one great
ly for we do not have to think of aches
and pains all the time and can use
our minds for other things.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. .
The one who has to bother with
coffee aches and pains is badly handi
capped in tl*3 race for fame and for
tune. Postum i3 a wonderful rebuild
er. There’s a reason.
Look in each package for the fam
ous little book, “The Road to WeU
ville.M
About the Seventh Continent
Fascinating Problems Solved by Daring Discoverers—
Geographers Now Affirm that the South Pole Is
Surrounded by Land Probably Larger than Europe
When geographers affirm, as they
are now doing, that there is no long
er any doubt of the existence of the
antarctic continent, they do not mean
that explorers have followed all its
joast lines, determined its exact shape
jnd crossed it from side to side. This
A'ork has not yet been done; and it
will be a task of such enormous dif
ficulty that it may not be achieved for
many years.
What they mean is simply that the
evidence first supplied by Sir John
Murray and strengthened by later ex
plorers, that the land around the
south pole is continental, has been so
reinforced and confirmed by the work
of the very latest expeditions that in
their opinion there is no longer any
room for doubt of the existence of a
continent there.
Prof. Penck of Vienna, one of the
most distinguished of geographers,
vo'ced the opinion of many leading
ML OTTO MOKOENSEJOLO
tinent in south polar waters. They
knew' it had been proved that ex
tensive masses of land existed within
the Antarctic circle; but the question
wrhetber this land takes the form of a
vast continent or of an archipelago
of islands smothered under an over
load of frozen snow they have regard
ed as a fascinating problem for ex
plorers to solve.
But the evidence that the continent
exists has been accumulating ever
since the Challenger went on its fa
mous voyage and penetrated the Ant
arctic to study the sea floor there.
In all of its journeys over the tropical
and sub-tropical Pacific the Challenger
found no fragments of continental
rocks. Its dredges brought up only
pumice or other fragments of volcanic
rocks such as compose the larger
mass of the oceanic islands.
All the expeditions which have
since visited Antarctic lands have
brought home specimens of many
rocks that are characteristic of con
tinental lands and not of oceanic isl
lands. They have also found fossil
shells, wood and other flora like those
of fossil remains found in other con
tinents, indicating a warmer climate
in the Antarctic regions during some
earlier geological ages. Air move
ments and other phenomena also have
been such as to indicate a continent
around the south pole.
Finally, the last expeditions have
brought home entirely new informa
tion about further discoveries of
coastlines, explorations extended over
parts of the interior, the nature of
the interior ice and the mighty ice
bergs to which the land gives birth.
In ihe map which Sir John Murray
made in 1894. showing what he be
lieved to be the probable position and
extent of Antarctica, he took into con
ing south as far as they could see
from the lofty mountains where they
took their last look from the most
southern point they had reached. They
established the existence of a coast
line of unknown length, but extending
as far as it had been seen about 1,000
miles.
They also penetrated into this land
mass a distance of 142 statute miles
from the sea and found themselves
on top of an ice cap that completely
covered the land and was apparently
as thick as that which covers Green
land. They were 9.000 feet above th»
sea on this ice cap when they turned
back, having found no indication that
the land might not still extend for
hundreds of miles before the oppo
site coasts were reached.
But the British have established an
other most important and significant
fact. As Prof. Penck says, Capt.
Scott the leader of the British expedi
tion, has proved that the Great Ice
Barrier, discovered by Ross about six
ty years ago, is not the wall of an
extensive area of thick pack or sea
ice. as Ross supposed it to be, but it
is the edge of probably the largest
glacier in the world. In other words,
it is the frontage of land ice, a part of
the icecap of Antarctica, with a width
here of at least 700 miles. It is hun
dreds of feet in height, and reaches
the sea by a great plain between the
mountains of Victoria Land and Ed
ward VII Land. The front of the
mighty icecap is pushed off the land
into the sea.
Xo theory appears to be tenable ex
A VIEW ON THE COAST OF WILKES LAND
i .-.—-—
DR. GEORG NEUMAYER
. The ****** Oermi* Mnuu •« heiunW
SIR JOHN MURRAY.
VMkOOO Oirt'lno of th# Prohokto Snoot of tho »WW
tie Continent to Shown on Own Mop. y
THE CREA T ICE BARRIER (VICTORIA LAND) .
V . -- - ^
JL BIT OF GH/WAM LATfD
ur.en of science when he said that j
the British and German expeditions
had made it perfectly clear that a
continent surrounded the south pole.
Since he wrote his article on this
subject we have received the results
of the Swedish expedition in Graham
land, to the south of South America.
The results of its longest sledge jour
ney are in complete accord with those
obtained by the British and German
expeditions in widely separated parts
of the Antarctic ar<*. They mark the
Graham land region as being what
Sir John Murray long ago supposed
It to be, a great peninsula of the Ant
arctic continent.
Prof. Penck xays we cannot tell
how large this southern continent may
be, but it is probably larger than Eu
rope, and its area is likely to be over
4,000,000 square miles. There are
reasons to believe that this is approx
imately correct.
Modern geographers have been slow
to adopt the conception of a great con
sideration not only the known coasts,
but also the depths obtained by all
explorers who had taken soundings
in antarctic waters. The nature of
the deposits found on the sea floor
helped him to some approximations
as to the distance of the land from
these deposits.
Both the British and the Swedish
expeditions have extended our knowl
edge of the known lands by following
their coasts to the south. They have
proved that Victoria land and Gra
ham land are large, but they have not
discovered their limits, though they
have traced the coast lines far to the
south.
It is too early yet to attempt to
describe or discuss the scientific work
ot these expeditions, but some of the
facts bearing on the question of the
southern continent may be mentioned.
The British traced the coast of Vic
toria land over 300 miles south of the
point where previous exploration had
stopped. The coast was still trend
cept that the manufactory of this
colossal icecap must be a laud surface
of continental extent.
In extending the known ccast of
Graham Land further to the south the
Swedish expedition also discovered
great ice plains that had been pushed
off the land into the sea and termin
ated in lofty and precipitous ice wall*
resembling the Ross’s famous ice bai*
rier of Victoria l^and; and like this
barrier it is a true glacier edge and
extends for scores of miles along the
coasts.
Some day this southern land will be
better known. From all that has been
seen of it there is little prospect that
it will be found to be of any economic
importance. But it is quite certain
that the ardor for exploration will not
subside as long as there remains a
land of continental proportions whose
extent and shape have not been ac
curately defined.—Gyrus C. Adams, in’
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Sizing Him Up.
“Not very long ago,” said Chaun
jy M. Depew, "while traveling in an
jrdinary passenger coach on the way
to an up-State town, I got on pretty
good terms with the train boy. When
he had finished his rounds he came
back to me. “to chin a bit,” he said.
“ ‘Do you know,’ he said, ‘that I can
tell by looking at a man mighty near
what he is. Now, there’s that fellow
over there in the corner. He’s a Chi
cago drummer. I can tell him by the
way he lets his money go and the
flip style he has when he talks to peo
ple. And that chap over there .with
the silk hat on is a preacher from a
country town, I’m dead sure. I’ll go
ask him if you say so.’
“I didn’t say so, because I didn’t
care a continental, but I asked him
what he thought I was. He looked me
over for a minute carefully, as if he
felt his reputation depended upon a
correct answer.
“ ‘Well,’ he said at last, ‘you’ve got
plenty of dough, but I ain’t dead sure
whether you’re a politician or % gam*
Mer.’”
Couldn't See the Idea.
Wall street men have been laying
various plans to secure arfeince infor
mation on the Nc rthern Securities
merger decision by the United States
supreme court, and, as related sev
eral days ago, the justices have met
them at their own game and have
barricaded every possible avenue of
information.
A big Chicago firm of stock brokers
have been especially anxious, and last
week they wrote their correspondents
as follows:
“You must get us that decision. As
soon as the judge starts to read it
and before he reaches the final state
ment of the decision the judges on
the bench would doubtless feel re
lieved from secrecy. You might skip
up to the bench and ask one of the
judges what’s doing and give us a
tip."
“Fine,” replied the correspondent.
“Great. And when they throw me into
the ba8tile for contempt of court I
suppose you will fix it with divine
providence, the only place left to ap
peal, to get me out.”
Well-Earned Record.
“To be honest with you, as I
’lowed I’d be,’’ said the old Georgia
farmer, “I can’t tell the age o’ that
mule.”
“You can’t?”
“No—the United States census
couldn’t do it! The man I got him
from had him ten year; an’ the man
he got him from had him twenty; an’
ue’s been in my possession ten year,
an’ I dunno how old he wuz when the
first man got him. All I’m positive
about is his present record. He’s
throwed an’ disabled sixteen candi
dates fer office, sent ftine niggers to
heaven, destroyed whole fields o’ hay
an’ kicked a hole in the tip-top of a
circus tent!”—Atlanta Constitution.
Mascagni Superstitious.
Signor Mascagni, the famous Italian
cpmposer, is one of the most supers
stitioug of men, and always carries in
one of his pockets a remarkable col
lection of talismans to avert misfor
tune. Among them may be mentioned
tiny figures of St. George in ivory and
mother-of-pearl, and small horxvs of
eoral.
Marriage Amenities.
Mrs. Literati (to husband)—I went
to the club to-day, and v/as elected
chairman of a committee, although I
didn’t open my mouth once in the
meeting.
Her Husband—Well, if you had
opened you mouth you probably would
not have been elected.—Woman's
Home Companion.
Usefulness Net Impaired.
Husband (of popular author)—Do
you mean to tell me, doctor, that my
wife is insane?
. “No, not so bad as that, but she is
hopelessly foolish.”
“Well, that’s a relief. I was afraid
her usefulness as a writer was im
paired.”—Life.
Keep It Up.
By Jove! Thish ish my birthday. I
never thought of it—(hie)—I’ve a jolly
good mindsh to go and get drunksh!”
A Russian Pastword.
“Petroff.”
“Yes, lieutenant.”
“The countersign for to-night is Al
exandrovitchykopfostovsk y d r a g o
vitch. Let no nan pass without it.”
“Yes, lieutenant. But it is a bitter
cold night.”
“What of that?”
“The man who gives the password
is likely to freeze to death before he
.'inishes it."
“It is for the glory of the czar,
petroff.”
“Yes, lieutenant.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Faithful to Her Trust.
Mrs. Newed—Xorah, my husband
and I have both noticed that all the
neighbors stare at us very hard. I
hope you haven't been telling any
body that we are newly married?
Nora (a local simple)—Me tell ’em,
mum? Agin express orders? Why,
whinever anybody tried to pump me,
mum, I told ’em you wasn't married
at all.—Scraps.
The Reception He’d Get.
“He's coming to ask for my hand,
papa.” said the beautiful girl. “May
l hide behind the portiers and hear
how he does it?”
“I think you'd better not,” replied
the father considerately. “I would
prefer that you shouldn’t hear me use
violent language.”
Unnecessary.
Kind I^ady—But If I give you th\
dime I’m afraid I will be encouraging
70U to take a drink.
Thirsty Tim—Don’t youse be erlarm
sd on dat score, lady. When it comes
ter takin’ er drink I don’t n£ed no en
couragement.
Geographical Changes.
“I don’t see any use in having wars
i:\ this advanced age,” remarked Mrs.
Suburba, turning up the lamp.
“If you were a mapmaker,” replied
Mr. Suburba. glancing up from the
new atlas on his knees, “you probably
would.”
A Definition.
Mamma—Yes, Willie. Your father
Is going to buy this picture. He’s a
tonnoisseur. Do you know what that
•a?
W'iilie—Yep. It’s a old guy what’lf
lig up a hundred for a dinky picture
when his dear little son's sufferin' for
A billy-goat an’ wagon!
Disappearing.
“Never mind/' said her dearest
friend, “there are as good fish in the
sea as ever were caught out of it.”
“I know it,” said the girl that haa
set her cap for tne foreign count and
failed to get him, “but statistics show
<hat the lobster catch is geting small
er every year.”
It All Depends.
“Do you believe in second mar
riages, Mr. Slimpurse?” asked the fair
divorcee.
“Well—er—that depends,” replied
3ie cautious Mr. S. “How much—er
—alimony did you get out of your
first?”
He Wouldn’t Succeed.
-^George Washington wasn’t much
jf a business man anyway.”
“Why not?”
“He couldn’t tell a lie "
EARLY PICTURES OF JAPAN.
—
Conditions in Island Empire Three
Hundred Years Ago.
Entertaining pictures of Japan and
the Japanese, as they were seen by
English sea captains nearly 300 years
ago, are to be found in the log kept
by Capt. Saris of the first voyage to
Japan to open up trade there for the
East India company. Because of Eng
land's fame as victor over Spain, Sar
is was received very honorably by
“the old King Foyu.” The people, too,
were, as a rule, both civil and cour
teous to him, although rude boys, who
exist everywhere and at all times, oc
casionally followed the English sail
ors through the streets, throwing
stones ami shouting: “Kore, kore. ko>
core ware,” which Saris translated in*
to “You Koreans with false hearts.”
As to their naval enterprise. Saris
says: “About eight of tenne leagues cn
this side the straights of Xemina
Seque we found a large Towne where
lay in a Docke a Juncke of 800 or 1,000
tunnes burthen, sheathed all of yron
with a guard appointed to keep her
from firing and treachery. She was
built in a very homely fashion much
like that which describeth Noah’s Ark
unto us. The Naturals told us that
she served to transport souldiers in any
ot the Hands, it rebellion or warre
should happen.
Saris coasted round to Fushimi,
where he saw the garrison 3,000
strong “shifted.” a change that took
place every three years. “We saw,”
he says, “the old bands march away,
and the new enter in most souldier
like manner, marching five abreast,
and to every ten files an officer which
is called a captaine of fiftie, who kept i
them continually in very good order.”
THE SON OF NUN.
Joshua an Acceptable Name for Par
entless Child.
Not long ago, on a certain Sunday,
a horny-handed son of toil, with his
wife, attended by a few sympathizing
neighbors, appeared before the font of
a small village church in England,
carrying a little foundling which had
been deposited on the villager's door
steps, and which he was bringing up.
“Ah.” exclaimed the minister, who
was acquainted with the little epi
sode; “then you have brought ‘no
body’s child’ to be christened?”
“Yes, sur,” replied the kindly vil
lager; “we ha’ brought the fatherless
and mitherless little orfin for ye to
baptize.”
“And the name?” queried the cler
gyman. as he held out his hand for
the slip of paper which he always re
quired with the name written there
on.
“Well,” replied the-foster father,
“we ain't quite decided yet. Ye see,
we wanted something suited special
for ’im. We thowt first o’ Melchize
dek, as he had neither father nor
mither. but that was too long. Then
we thowt Joshua 'ud do.”
“Ah, yes,” observed the clergyman:
“and pray why did you come to select
‘Joshua?’ ”
“Well,” remarked the hospitable
cottager, as the semblance of a smile
passed over his stolid features, “be
cause he was the son of Nun.”
She Admired It.
“Charming! Exquisite! Perfectly
delightful!” she exclaimed, peering
through her starers at the young
artist’s latest picture.
“I'm glad you like it,” he said, with
becoming modesty.
“Like it? Could anybody help lik
ing it? So original! That queer little
animal with the funny legs in the
right hand foreground! What a deli
cious conceit! How can you imagine
such impossible things, Mr. d’Aubre?”
“Um—er—you mean this?” he asked
pointing to the strange thing in the
lower corner.
“Yes, of course.”
“Er—uh—that is my signature,
madam.”—New York Evening Sun.
Her Prayer.
Gladys had lost two front teeth.
She had been told that God would
give her some new ones. She was to
take part in the Easter exercises a*
Sunday school. In spite of all wish
ing. however, the teeth refused to put
in an appearance, and Easter was at
hand.
One night her mother heard her
talking after she had put her to bed.
She went back and saw her kneeling
beside her bed in the moonlight.
“O. God,” she was saying, “if you
haven’t got my new teeth done, won’t
you please drop my old ones dowt
again till after Easter?”—Lippincott'%
Magazine.
Africa and Her Doom.
And gloomy eyes that spell despair.
She who Is old—yet young of face—
She to whom fell the dark disgrace,
Cain’s evil brood to bear!
She dreams of nations long since deaa
Of millions killed by fire and flood.
And though her parted lips are sweet.
Beneath her slender, tired feet'
Run rivulets of blood!
Misfortune met her at her birth:
Her children bore the brand of Cain;
Her lands the home of savage brutes,
Of songless birds—of bitter fruits—
Of slavery and pain!
Her wealth has tempted many men:
But for herself not one hath sighed.
And lower bows the dusky head.
From somber eyes salt tears are shed,
Of bitter, wounded pride!
—London Spectator.
An Age of Amazons.
Whereas a decade since the aver
age size in women's shoes was three,
five being accounted specially large,
seven and eight are now commonly
asked for. while the average size has
become five.
The little glove has likewise grown
into a good-sized hand-shoe. My
lady’s hosiery has become bigger at
the same time—in short, the average
girl of 1904 could not wear any ar
ticle of apparel that fitted the girl of
1874. And where, one now trembling
ly asks, is this to end?—London
Lady’s Pictorial.
Mail Distribution.
The United States employed 10,555
men in distributing mail last year.
The cost, distributed among 1,400
lines, was $63,594,000. In 373 acci
dents to mail cars eighteen clerks
were killed and seventy-eight serious,
ly Injured.
Luxuries in London.
Hothouse strawberries brought $6 a
^-und In London last month, and th#
test asparagus was $15 a bunch.
How’s This?
Wo offer On* Hundred Dollar* Reward for * ry
ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by lit,.. *
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO„ Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. i henev
for the last 15 year*, and believe him perfectly 1; u
orable In ail bu*tne** transaction* and flnauclgliy
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
Waluino, Kinxax Marvin-,
Wholesale Druggist*. Toledo. O.
HalTs Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surf ices ‘ f tbe
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cent* p«/
bottle. Sold hv all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Fills for oonstlpatloa.
Anyway, old maids don't have to go
down stairs at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing to let in a man who tried to open
the front door with a trunk key.
WIggU*»StiCk hATNDBT BLCF
Wos’d, spilfTy-eak, freeze nor soot clothes
Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth <.f
any other bluinp. If your grocer does not
keep it send 10c for sample :o The I^auudry
Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street. Chicago.
“Hew to the line, let the chips fail
where they may!” When the days is
done the bookies on the line have ac
cumulated most of the chips.
Lewis’ “Single Binder ”straight r*;cigar.
Price to dealers (36.00 per M. They , ,t
some more than other brands, but uo more
than a good 5c cfgar should cost. Lewis’
Factory, Peoria, 111.
You have to handle some people
with kid gloves, other with boxing
gloves, others with bare fists and the
Test with an old-fashioned ax handle
If you don’t get the biggest and
best It’s your own fault. Defiance
Starch Is for sale everywhere and
there is positively nothing to equal
It In quality or quantity.
The only effective criticism of a
poor religion is the creatioin of a bet
ter one.
The bill-poster acquires a great
many stuck-up notions in his busi
ness
When a man ia satisfied he made a
mistake by marrying, he isn't satis
tied.
Goods are among the least of the
rewards for goodness.
The World’s Greatest Railway.
Under the title of “The Great Si
berian Railway,” James W. Davidson.
F. R. G. S.. United States Consul at
Antung, Manchuria, will give much
valuable information in the April Cen
tury about ‘‘the greatest railway
which the world has ever seen.” Trav
elers on the great Siberian railway
will find the many days on the train
wonderfully comfortable. For its pas
sengers the train de luxe plans to pro
vide brass bedsteads, private toilet
rooms, baths, gymnasium, electric fans
and lights, steam heat, and a hand
somely furnished drawing room. Mr.
Davidson estimates that one may enjoy
all this luxury from Paris to Dalny
or Peking for not over $280. including
sleeper, food and all incidental ex
penses.
You never hear any one complain
about “Defiance Starch.” There ts
none to equal it in quality and quan
tity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now
and save your money.
Before arithmetic was invented peo
ple multiplied on the face of the earth.
Physicians Use Carrier Pigeons.
Country Physicians in many in
stances have adopted the use of
pigeons as messengers. A physician
raises a loft of carriers, and when he
visits a patient four or five miles away
he carries with him a basket contain
ing one of his birds. If dangerous
symptoms arise in the night or the
following day the pigeon is released
with a message. Some physicians
with long country routes carry half
a dozen or more of these pigeons on
their rounds and leave one at each
place. A daily report of the different
cases can thus be obtained by pigeon
service. This service has also been
extended on large Western farms.
Some farmers receive daily reports of
the markets from the city in this way
when there are no telephone or tele
graph wires to send the messages.
All that is required is a trip to tha
city once a fortnight to carry back
the birds and some one in the city
to write the reports and release the
pigeons.
Women of the world never use harsh
expressions when condemning their
rivals. Like the savage, they hurl ele
gant arrows, ornamented with feathers
of purple and azure, but with poisoned
pointe.—Chamfort.
How a woman does like to talk about
the doings and the sayings of the man
of whom she is fond.
In the Spring.
Lowndes. Mo., April 4th.—Mrs. H.
C. Harty of this place, says:
“For years I was in very bad health.
Every spring I would get so low that
I was unable to do my own work. I
seemed to be worse in the spring than
any other time of the year. I was
very weak and miserable and had
much pain in my back and head. I
saw Dodd’s Kidney Pills advertised
last spring and began treatment of
them and they have certainly done me
more good than anything I have ever
used.
“I was all right last spring and felt
■ctter than I have for over ten years.
I am fifty years of age and am strong
er to-day than I have been for many
years and I give Dodd's Kidney Pills
credit for the wonderful improve
ment.’'
The statement of Mrs. Harty is only
one of a great many where Dodd's
Kidney Pills have proven themselves
to be the very best spring medicine.
They are unsurpassed as a tonic and
are the only medicine used in thou
sands of families.
I noticed a woman chewing gum
once during the progreis of a mile
race. The race was run in 1:43. She
covered the distance in 1:40 flat.
The United Mutual Hall Ins. Ass’n
is the oldest, Is the strongest. Is the
best; has paid $159,000.00 more for
losses than the combined payments
of all other companies. Paid $53,
596.10 In 1903. Has paid $200,911.80
for losses since Its organization.
'Wants good representatives in every
precinct. Address Home Office, 116
Bouth 10th Street, Lincoln, Neb.
