Miss M. Cartledge gives some
helpful advice te young girls.
Her letter is but one of thou
sands which prove that nothing
is so helpful to young girls who
are just arriving at the period of
womanhood as Lydia E. Piak
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
“ Dear Mrs. Ptickham :—I cannot
prr.ise Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vege
table Compound too highly, for it
is the only medicine I ever tried which
cured me. I suffered much from my
first menstrual period, I felt so weak
and dizzy at times 1 could not pursue
rzy studies with the usual interest.
My thoughts became sluggish, I had
headaches, backaches and sinking
spells, alsc pains in the back and lower
linxbs. In fact, I was sick all over.
“ Finally, after many other remedies
had been tried, we were advised to ret
Lydia E. Piikkam's Vegetable
Compound, and I am pleased to say
that after taking it only two weeks, a
wonderful change for the better took
place, and in a short time 1 was in
perfect health.*-1 felt buoyant, full of
life, and found all work a pastime. I
am indeed glad to tell my experience
with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound, for it made a dif
ferent girl of me. Tours very truly,
Miss M. Cabti.eduk, 533 Whitehall 6t.,
Atlanta, Ga.” — SS909 forfeit If origin*! of
06000 letter proving genuine nose cannot 6*pro4*ood.
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between Defiance Starch
and any ether brand will
be found by comparison.
Defiance Starch stiffens,'
whitens, beautifies with
out rotting.
It gives clothes back
their newness,
ft is absolutely pure,
ft will not injure 'the
jpost delicate fabrics.
For fine things and ail
things use tbe best there
is. Defiance Starch
to cents for id ounces.
r
Other brands k> cents for
la ounces.
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Almost a half million acres of the fertile and
well-watered lands of the Rosebud Indian Res
ervation, in South Dakota, win be thrown open
to settlement by the Government In July. These
lands are best reached by the Chicago & North
Western Railway’s direct through lines from
Chicago to Bonesteel, 8. D. All agents uU
tickets via tuis line.. Special low rates.
HOW TO GET
A HOME
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lion as .d dates of opening and how to secure 100
acres of land at nominal cost, with full descrip
tion of the soil, climate, timber and mineral
resources, towns, schools and churches, oppor
tunities for business openings, railway rataa,
etc., free on application.
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BEGQS’BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES catarrh of the ctoeiech.
A Young Merchant Prince.
J. E. Manis is 38 years old, and a
native of Northampton, Conn. At 14
he swept the floor of a small retail
store in that town and made himself
generally useful at $2 a week. Up to
about ten years ago he was a clerk
of the Edward Malley company, of
New Haven. Today he is president
of a company that represents forty
two large retail stores which do an
anual business of $30,000,000. Here’s
a self-made man for you. He worked
his way from bottom to top. Associ
ated with Mr. Manix is William T.
Barr, son of Thomas Barr, vice presi
dent of the Corn Exchange syndicate
of banks. The head of the company
wears no frills. He is the most cor
dial, genial and approachable of men,
worshiped by his personal staff of
fourteen buyers.
A Cowboy in New York.
Charles M. Russell, a Montana cow
boy artist, who visited New' Jersey re
cently,- has returned to his Montana
home, and in an interview says: “I’d
rather live in a place where I know
somebody and where everybody is
somebody. The style in some of those
New York saloons is something to re
member. The bartender won’t drink
with you even. Now, I like to have
the bartender to drink with ine occa
sionally, out of the same bottle, just
to be sure I ain't getting poison. They
won’t even take your money over the
bar. Instead they give you a check,
with the price of your drink on it,
and you walk yourself sober trying to
find the cashier to pay for it.”
. A Product of Nature’s Art.
In the fine mineral cabinet of John
W. Campbell of Sellwood, Ore., is an
figafee in which is printed the face of
an Indian woman. The face and part
of the figure are so clear cut and dis
tinct that there is no question about
them. The agate was a very com
mon appearing specimen when picked
up on the Siletz Indian reservation.
He saw there was something below
the rude surface and he had that side
polished, when the face made its ap
pearance. Mr. Campbell says that the
face is nature’s photograph. “The
sun caught the face and figure of the
Indian woman as she was walking
along the beach and fastened it on the
agate.”
The German War on Quacks.
The German police have begun a
systematic campaign against quacks
and quack medcines. They estimate
that in ten years the population has
increased 58 per cent, regular medical
men 76 per cent, and quacks 1,567 per
cent. There are more women quacks
than men. Nearly 30 per cent of the
men cited to appear at the police bu
reau have been in jail, of the women
15 per cent. More than 100 samples
of quack medcines w'ere analyzed by
the police, and over 80 per cent were
of absolutely no medicinal value.
New Scheme to Encourage Population.
The latest scheme for the encour
agement of copulation in France is
that of the Paris, Lyons & Mediter
ranean Railway company, which has
adopted the following scale in the
case of employes who have large fam
ilies: Employes whose wages do not
exceed 2,100 francs per annum, and
who have three children or persons to j
provide for, will receive a gratuity of
$6 per annum; for a family of four,
$16; of five, $30; of six. $48; of seven,
$70; of eight, $82; of nine, $166.
Jap Bullets Make Clean Holes.
Russian surgeons say that the Jap
anese rifle bullets, while possessing
a great deal of stopping powder, make
small, clean holes, which can be treat
ed easily, and give excellent oppor
tunities for the early recovery of the
wounded unless some vital organ is
pierced. There have been many cases
of recovery after the intestines have
been penetrated. Interesting contri
butions to surgical science will follow
the ending of hostilities.
There 1* more Catarrh In thii section of the country
than all other diseases put together, arid until the last
few year* was supposed to be incurable. For a great
many yean doctors pronounced It a local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling
to cure with local treatment, pronounced It Incurable.
Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J Cheney
£ Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on
the market. It is taken Internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address; F. J. CHENET £ CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Hail's Family PUla for constipation '
Was Uncle Sam’s Oldest Clerk.
William O. Conway, who had been
employed in the land office in Wash
ington for fifty years, is dead, aged
73. Mr. Conway was appointed from
Maryland and was the oldest clerk in
point of continuous service in Wash
ington. He was appointed to a posi
tion in the land office in February,
1854. He began as a fclerk and was
steadily promoted until he became a
law examiner. Until last Tuesday he
attended to his work at the depart
ment.
To the housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new things
of everyday use in the market and
who is reasonably satisfied with the
old. we would suggest that a trial of
Defiance Cold Water Starch be made
at once. Not alone because it is guar
anteed by the manufacturers to be su
perior to any other brand, but because
each 10c package contains 10 oss.,
while all the other kinds contain but
12 oss. It is safe to say that the lady
who once uses Defiance Starch will use
no other. Quality and quantity must
win.
The recent death of an old and
much loved teacher In Philadelphia
revealed the fact that Bhe had been
married sixteen years. She had kept
her marriages secret, because she
wanted to continue with her teaching,
which the Philadelphia school law
would not allow.
Do Your Feet Ache and Bum?
Shake into your shoes, AUen'B Foot"
Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and
Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Jonah has now been corroborated in
part. A basalt stele found by Father
Scheil In the Archeological museum
at Constantinople has on it an Assyr
ian inscription of King Nobonod, ol
the sixth century before Christ, telling
of the destruction of Nineveh, an
event hitherto found on no monu
ment.
nsfi
The Finsen Light Cure.
United States Consul Frazier at
Copenhagen, Denmark, reports that in
the Finsen Medical Light institute,
now a state sanitarium, 1,367 cases
had been treated up to May, 1903, by
the Finsen rays. Of these most were
lupus vulgaris, and in about 1,000
cases the best results had been attain
ed, so that “in most cases one may
count definitely upon a cure,” to use
the official language. The doctors at
the institute are extremely conserva
tive and never promise to effect a
cure; but the records show that in a
majority of the cases where sufferers
have been encouraged by being ad
mitted as patients cures have been
effected. In the one case of the
American patients where the physi
cians have not yet determined wheth
er they can give relief, it appears the
patient is suffering from a rather
deep-seated cancer, but the Finsen
rays do not cure any but the most
superficial cancers.
Protects From Gases.
One of the greatest dangers with
which the coal miner has to contend
is the generation of deadly gas in
the chamber in which he is at work.
His lantern is so made as to guard
against an explosion of this gas and
even to indicate its proportion in the
atmosphere, but the miner himself
does not take the same precaution
to prevent inhalation of the gas, re
lying on his ability to run out of dan*
ger. Often he is overcome in his
flight and then the companions who
Supplies Oxygen to the Wearer.
have escaped return to search for
him and carry him to safety before it
is too late to resuscitate him. This
work is hampered by the presence of
the deadly gas in the mine and often
a man’s fellows not only fail in his
rescue, but lose their own lives.
There has recently been introduced
an apparatus which makes it possible
for a man to go safely through a mine
charged with deadly gas and come out
without feeling any effects of the
fumes. As here pictured, it consists
of an air-tight hood to fit over the
wearer’s bead and shoulders, with a
compressed air chamber and auto
matic feeding arrangement attached to
the hood. The air for breathing is dis
charged gradually into the hood to re
place the air which has been breathed
The wearer of this apparatus can
spend several hours, if necessary, in
the presence of gas which would kill
a man in a few minutes were it r&
rr.'tted to enter his lungs. The
vention may also be utilized to enter
smoke-filled rooms, affording protec
tion to both the lungs and the eyes.
£xposure-Timing Device.
To the professional photographer
or amateur, who is constantly at work
on his apparatus, making several ex
posures every day, it is a simple mat
ter to take account of the amount of
light which is available for affecting
the sensitive plate and gauge the time
of the exposure properly without the
aid of any scale or a watch. But for
those who use the camera infrequent
ly and are liable to change the brand
of plates from time to time the.scale
is almost a necessity. Then, after
the proper amount of exposure has
been ascertained, he must guess at
the length of the fraction of a second
called for, a very difficult thing to
do without having previously studied
It out by practice.
Now, however, there is no necessity
for experimenting and guessing when
each picture is taken, the operation
having been narrowed down to me
chanical operation by the introduc
tion of a camera attachment. This
timing device is operated in conjunc
tion w’ith the shutter-working buttons,
being so connected that the act of
opening the shutter sets it in motion
and causes it to act on the closing
button at the proper instant. This
timer can be regulated to operate at
any fraction of a second or any num
ber of seconds desired, the operator
laving only to set It by the gauge just
before making the exposure.
William E. Mulholland of Juneau,
Alaska, is the patentee of this device.
Atmospheric Electricity.
Physicians have for many years rec
ognized the fact that atmospheric elec
tricity disseminated by thunderstoms
keenly affects human beings, and in
vestigators have shown that positive
electricity produces vigor and a feel
ing of general good health, while, on
the contrary, negative electricity has
a depressing effect. We are submit
:ed to these contrary effects accord
ing to the state of the atmosphere,
sometimes negative electricity domi
aating, at others the positive element,
*t being possible to determine the elec
;rical condition by means of delicate
.nstruments.
Cable for Alaska.
Oan. Greely, chief signal officer of
the army, has, according to Electricity,
decided to award the contract for
about 625 miles of submarine cable to
a New York firm. The cable will be
used to connect Sitka. Alaska, with
Fort fcdscum, near Valdez, on Prince
William sound. It will be shipped by
rail from New York to Seattle, and
will probably be laid durrig the com
ing summ'”
FLOOR PLAN OF BARN.
Roomy and Comfortable and Can Be
Constructed Cheaply.
J. J. F.—Please publish a floor plan
of a barn ZO by 50 feet, containing
three single horse stalls, one box stall,
feed room, 10 by 12 feet, and stalls for
about 20 head of c&ttlfe 2. A stone
cellar with 2-foot walls admits frost.
How would it answer to stud it up in
side and line it with matched lum
ber?
Ans.—The accompanying plan
should suit J. J. F. The upper floor
would have- a 16-foot mow over the
horse stable, a 12-foot drive floor and
a 22-foot mow over the cattle. The
basement contains 3 single horse
stalls, and box stalls, 14 single cattle
stalls, and feed rooms. The writer
built just such a barn 36 by 48 feet
in 1897, the carpenter work of which
cost $110.
2.—If there were a four-inch brick
wall built on the inside of the cellai
Floor Plan of Stock Barn 30 by 50 Feet.
with a three or four-inch hollow space
between the stone and brick, it would
make the cellar very much warmer,
and would be far better than one
lined up with lumber. If the top were
ceiled over with matched lumber and
covered with sawdust it would keep
the cellar from freezing from the top.
The only drawback to putting in a
wood ceiling is that it decays very
quickly. The writer has arched a good
many outside cellars with a four-inch
row of brick giving the arch a two
inch rise to every foot in width,
three-quarter-inch rods were placed
through the cellar at the spring of
the arch six feet apart to keep it from
spreading. This was covered with
earth or sawdust; the brick never rots
and makes a clean pure cellar.
Manure for Potatoes.
W. D.—1. What is the best manure
to force potatoes? 2. Will new- land
not yet broken produce good potatoes?
3. Would lime help to warm the soil?
Is there any fertility in it?
Well rotted yard manure with an
admixture of poultry manure is con
sidered the best fertilizer for pota
toes. An application of ashes is also
good. 2. New land is well adapted to
the growing of potatoes. A common
method of preparing new ground is
to plow it, harrow it down well and
plant the potatoes with a hoe. 3. If
the land is heavy and cold and appli
cation of lime would warm and mel
low it. Lime is not a fertilizer. It is
necessary for land to contain a good
stock of plant food before lime can be
of any benefit; its function is to liber
ate and turn over to the young plants
that plant food contained in the ma
nure or fertilzer. It is used also for
correction of acidity in the soil. Be
yond these mechanical functions lime
is not considered a fertilizer in a
strict sense of the word.
A Frame Ice House.
B. K.—How should the walls of an
ice house be constructed, and with
what should they be packed? How
can the roof be secured to be cool
enough for storing meat? The build
ing is 12 by 12 feet, with 8 feet posts
and a sharp roof.
A frame ice house should have a
space of six or eight inches between
the inside and outside boards; this
space should be filled with dry saw
dust. In putting in the ice it should
be kept six or eight inches from the
inside boards and filled with sawdust
or dry straw well tamped down.
You cannot keep meat or anything
above an ice house, the ice must be
ibove
*ends. You must have refrigerator
separate from your ice house. You
can get them already and shipped in
sections so that you can put them
together yourself.
Walls of Basement Stable.
J. J. C.—L How thick should the
walls be for a stable 30 by 40 feet?
2. Could I use large stones in the
bottom allowing them to rest against
the bank as high as the surface of
the ground? How many barrels of
Portland cement would be required
for two 40-foot walls, 7 feet 6 inches
high?
1. The footing should be 18 inches
thick and the walls above ground 9
inches thick. 2. Yes, it is only above
ground that stones should be kept
away from the face of the wall. 3.
Two walls 40 feet long 7 feet G inches
high and 15 inches thick at the bot
tom and 7 inches thick at the top
would require 17 barrels of Portland
cement. This is for walls without
doors or windows. The concrete would
be one of cement to seven of gravel,
with field stone as fillers.
Looking to the Future.
Among the large railroad systems to
recognize the importance of tree plant
ing In order to guarantee a supply oi
ties for the future is the Illinois Cen
tral. At a point near Duquoin, III.,
200,000 catalpa trees were planted
three years -ago. These trees are
thriving and in a few years, when the
thinning-out process begins, tranv of
the ties in the Illinois Central rail
road will be cut from this forest ere
ated In the heart of the Illinois
prairie. The same road is planting
similar forests in Mississippi and con
templates the establishment of otters.
CATARRH IS THE CAUSE
OF MOST KIDNEY DISEASES.
PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH.
Captain James L. Dempsey, Captain 2nd Preeinet
Troy Police Force, writes from 198 Ferry St., Troy,
N. Y., as follows:
“Frem my personal experience with Peruna lam
satisfied It la a very floe remedy for catarrhal af
fections, whether of the bead, lungs, stomach or
pelvic organa. It cures colds quickly, sod a tew
doses taken after undue exposure prevents Illness.
••Some of the patrolmen under me have also
found great relief from Peruna. It has eared
chronic cases of kidney and bladder troubles, re
stored men suffering from Indigestion and then*
matism, and I am fully persuaded that II la ag
honest, reliable medicine, hence l fully endorse
and recommend It. ” JAMES L. DEMPSEY.
Officer A. C. Swanson writes from 607 Harriaof
St., Council Bluffs, la., as follows:
i “As my duties compelled me to be out in all Irindf
L of weather I contracted a severe cold from time to
I time, which settled in the kidneys, causing sever*
l. pains and trouble in the pelvic organs.
r> “I am now like a new man, am in splendid
|w and give all praise to I'ttruna.’'—A. C. Swanson.
Samuel R. Sprecher. Junior Beadle Court Angelina,
3,422 I. O. 0. F., 205 New High St., Los Angeles, Cal., yCj
writes:
••I came here a few years ago suffering with catarrh K
of the kidneys, in search of health. I thought the V
climate would cure me, but found 1 was mistaken. \
But what the climate could not do Peruna could and
did do. Seven weeks’ trial convinced me that 1 had
the right medicine, and I was then a well man. I know
of at least twenty friends and members of the lodge
to which I belong who have been cured of catarrh,
bladder and kidney trouble through the use of Peruna,
and it baa a boat of friends in this city. ”
SAMUEL R. SPRECHER.
CAPTAIN JAMES L. DEMPSEY.
Catarrh of the Kidneys a Common
Disease — Kidney Trouble Often
Fails to Be Begarded as Catarrh by
Physicians.
Catafrh of the kidneys is very com
mon indeed. It is a pity this fact is not
better known to the physicians as well
as the people.
People have kidney disease. They
take some diuretic, hoping to get better.
They never once think of catarrh. Kid
ney disease and catarrh are seldom as
sociated in the minds of the people,
and. alas, it is not very often associated
in the minds of the physicians. Too
few physicians reeogni ze catarrh of the
kidneys. They doctor for something
else. They try this remedy and that
remedy. The trouble may be catarrh
all the time. A few bottles of I’eruna
would cure them.
Pe-rn-na Removes the Cause of the
Kidney Trouble.
Peruna strikes at the very centre of
the diff iculty .by eradicating the catarrh
from the kidneys. Catarrh is the cause
of kidney difficulty. Remove the cause
and you remove the effect. tVith un
erring accuracy Peruna goes right to
the spot. The kidneys are soon doing
their work with perfect regularity.
Thousands of Testimonials.
Thousands of testimonials from people
who have had kiuney disease which had
| gont beyond the control of the phy
sician arc received by Dr. Hartnaa
every year, giving Peruna the whole
praise for marvelous cures.
Pe-ru-^a Cures Kidney Disease.
Peruna cureu kidney disease. The
reason it cures kidney disease is berauM
i it cures catarrh. Catarrh of the kidnejt
is the cause of most kidney disease^
Peruna cures catarrh wherever it hap
pens to be located. It rarely fails.
If yon do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case, and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Di. Hartman, President at
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbua, Q.
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When £va are at J. low to know what to serve for
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Aaaong tbs many Libby delicacies are Boneless Chicken. Melrose Pate. f
Veal Loaf, Peerless Wafer-Sliced Dried Beef. Potted Ham and Corned '■
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Austrian Officers for Persia.
The Shah of Persia has made ap
plication to the Austrian government
for the dispatch of twelve competent
military officers to supervise the re
organization of the Persian army. The
shah wants Austrian officers, because
Austria has no political axes to grind
in Persia.
When Your Grocer Saye
be does not have Defiance Starch, you
may be sure he is afraid to keep it un
til his stock «f 12 oz. packages are
sold. Defiance Starch is not only bet
ter than any other Cold Water Starch,
but contains 1« oz. to the package and
Mils for same money as 12 oz. brands.
When a girl ’ angles in the matri
monial sea she is apt to catch a Busk
er Instead of a goldfish.
Mrs. Winslow’s soothing Syrup.
For children teething, soften* the part*, redness 1b>
SJunm*tlott, all*?* pain, cure* wind colic. 25c a bottle,
One good turn deserves another,
particularly if it is a turn-down.
Try me just once and I am sure ts
epme again. Defiance Starch.
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SORE
FEET
SORE
HANDS
One Night
Treatment
with
Soak the feet or hands
on retiring in a strong,
hot, creamy lather of
CUTICURA SOAP.
Dry, and anoint freely
with CUTICURA
OINTMENT, the great
skin cure and purest of
emollients. Bandage
lightly in old, soft cotton
or linen. For itching^
burning, and scaling ec
zema, rashes, inflamma
tion, and chafing, for red
ness, roughness, cracks,
and fissures, with brittle,
shapeless nails, this treat
ment is simply wonderful,
frequently curing in one
night.
Complete Humor Cut*, rontiatlng at CTTKBJ**
B*aei*«at, 40c. i In farm at ChacolaM CmM PUIa, Sc.
Pr via! I.f * i,Oimn>r:it,.Wc.. Soap, »e. f>*pm»i LaaAaa,
Chanrrht.ua* 8c. t I'aria, i Rue da la Pblxi Mamaa. U9
Cotambua Art Putter l)ru* a Cham Carp., lata hat
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W. N. U., Omaha. No. 25—1904
