WEAK, PALE, THIN Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Restored Mrsi Robbins To Health and Also Cured Her Daughter of Anaemia. Mrs. Jo:ie Robbins, of 1121 Clar St.. Decatur, 111., says: “I was weak, thin and troubled with headaches. Mj appetite failed so that I did not rel ish my food. I was unable to do my work because my limbs pained me so and my feet were swollen. I got numb and dizzy, my tongue seemed at times to be paralyzed so that I couldn’t speak distinctly. My extrem ities, when in this numb state, felt as if some one was sticking needles into me all over their surface. Through my shoulders at times I had such pain that I couldn’t sleep. Many times I awoke with a smothering sensation. “When the physician’s remedies failed to benefit me I began to look for something that would. My sister, Mrs. McDaniel, of Decatur, recom mended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to me and I at once purchased some. I was greatly encouraged when I saw how they acted on my nervous condi tion and continued using them until cured. I am now able to attend to my duties and have not consulted a phys ician since. “I also gave them to my daughter who had always been weak and who at this time seemed to lack vitality. Her cheeks were colorless and she was thin and spiritless. She had an aemia and we feared consumption, be cause every time she went out doors if it was at ail cold or damp she would take cold and cough. But Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills brought color back to her cheeks and strength to her body.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or sent postpaid, on re ceipt of price. 50 cents per box. six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. T. PENMANSHIP A FINE ART. Typewriting Has Not Driven Hand Work from the Field. There is a renasissance in penman ship, despite the speedy comforts of the typewriters. Ten years ago it prob ably would not have occurred to any one to show a page of manuscript at any exhibition; to-day pages or books of script form a feature of ever# show which takes to itself the name of arts and crafts. Some of the work is in Roman capitals, but the form cf letter usually adopted is the unciel or half unciel. Apparently all the writers have founded themselves in these models. Within these last few years not only has the art attracted a good deal of attention, but it has become quite the rage, so that in some circles it creates no more surprise now to learn that an amateur is taking les sons in script than it would have done some years back to be told that he or she had taken to poker work. From one viewpoint it is difficult to say where writing ends and illustration begins, but though in the recent re vival the two arts naturally have gone hand in hand, the scribe and the illum inator are not necessarily one and the same person. Some of the illumina tions show most elaborate and minute figure decoration, so delicate in color ing and so refined in treatment that it challenges comparison with the best of old work. Oldest Living Scotchman. James Grieve, who was born in Borchilly, Glenquoich, in Glengarry, on New Year's day, 1800, is the oldest living Scotchman. He was a shepherd up to a few years ago. He can remem ber incidents of nearly a century ago. He lives very simply and seldom eats meat. He married in 1322, three of his 14 children ■urvive.— Greenoch Herald. MORE BOXES OF GOLD And Many Greenbacks. 325 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks will be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letters of experience on the following topics: 1. How have you been affected by coffee drinking and by changing from coffee to Postum. 2. Give name and account of one or more coffee drinkers who have been hurt by it and have been induced t) quit and use Postum. 3. Do you know any one who has been driven away from Postum be cause it came to the table weak and characterless at the first trial? 4. Did you set such a person right regarding the easy way to make it clear, black, and with a snappy, rich taste? 5. Have 'you ever found a better way to make it than to use four heap ing teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, let stand on stove until real boiling begins, and beginning at that time when actual boiling starts, boil full 15 minutes more to extract the flavor and food value. (A piece of butter the size of a pea will prevent boiling over.) This contest is confined to those who have used Postum prior to the date of this advertisement. Be honest and truthful, don’t write poetry or fanciful letters, just plain, truthful statements. Contest will close June 1st, 1907, and no letters received after that date will be admitted. Examinations of letters will be made by three judges, not members of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. 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Address your letter to the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., writing your own name and address clearly,_ HOW TO MAKE MAYONNAISE. Recipe That Is Sure to Please the Most Fastidious. To make mayonnaise is indeed a fine art in cookery; unless the great est care is observed the dressing will be either too thick or too thin, or it will curdle at the stage when the oil is poured in. Here is a famous recipe for mayonnaise that cannot fail to please the most fastidious: Peat the yolks of two eggs until they are creamy and then add, very slowly, three or four tablespoonfuls high-grade salad oil, and next two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, slowly, as the oil. Now pour the contents from the mixer into a saucepan of boiling water. You are to continue stirring until the dressing begins to get thick, when it is to be removed from the water and stirred until cool. Now add one-half teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls French mustard, one .teaspoonful sugar. Having previously beaten the whites of the two eggs and a fourth of a tumbler of cream, stir these in with the dressing in the order named. As this will make a rather large quan tity of dressing you may save half for another time and in that case do not add the \ jipped cream until you are almost ready to serve at table. ADDING A PILLOW RUFFLE. Work Requires Care and Attention for Success. In putting a ruffle on a sofa pillow be sure to allow plenty of fullness at the corners. Itaste it carefully, with the right side of the ruffle to the right side of the embroidered front; on top of this baste the other half of the pil j low, right side ,ln. Sew in a seam an eighth of an inch deep around three sides, leaving a big enough space on the fourth side to turn the cover and slip in the pillow. When the cover is turned and pressed the pillow should be put in, care being taken to work it down well to the corners. The real pressing, by the way, if an embroidered top is used, should be done before the back is basted on, leaving just a final “rub off” for afterward. As embroidery must always be pressed on the wrong side, and preferably on some soft, thick substance, the iron should be slipped inside the cover. Be sure, first, that it is not hot enough to scorch. After the pillow is in. the cover may have the open edges neatly blind stitched together, or they can be turned back, whipped to prevent fray ing and fastened with small hooks and buttonholed loops. Spinach Cream Soup. Put your spinach into a saucepan with a cupful of cold water, and bring to a fast boil. Keep this up until the spinach is tender and broken to pieces. Turn into a chopping tray, straining off the water in which it was cooked, but not draining the vegetable. It must be quite moist. Chop very fine and run through the vegetable press. It should be a soft paste. Have ready a scant quart of boiling milk in a farina kettle. Never forget to drop a pinch of soda into milk when you boil it. In a frying-pan melt two table spoonfuls of butter and stir into it a tablespoonful of flour. Cook and stir smooth, add to the spinach paste. Let the whole simmer for a minute. Pour in the hot milk, stirring all the time; take from the fire, season to taste with salt, pepper, a little sugar and a dash of nutmeg and pour out. Strew sip pets of fried bread on the surface of each plateful. . Sewing Hints. Metal eyes which protrude beyond the edge of the material, where a hook and eye fastening is employed, should always be carefully and neatly covered with buttonhole stitching. Needles should never be kept in flannel-lined needle books, as sulphur often enters into the composition of this material. Sulphur invariably rusts the needles in time. Bent pieces of whalebone can be strengthened by being placed in cold water for two or three hours. This will make them pliable. They should than be pressed under a heavy weight. When making a skirt it is always best to try it on the first time on the wrong si dish and pour over the syrup. Cool and serve with whipped cream slightly sweetened and flavored with lemon. Vermicelli Pudding. Boil one cupful broken Italian ver micelli in well-salted water to cover for ten minutes, then add to a pint and a half boiling milk. Simmer 20 minutes in a double boiler, then take from the fire and pour over four well beaten eggs stirred together with one cup sugar and a large tablenpoonful butter. Flavor with a teaspoonful va nilla, turn into a well-buttered pudding dish and bake in a rather slow but steady oven for half an hour. Serve with cream sauce. Dried Dates. Dried dates make a nice breakfast fruit if slightly simmered in boiling water and servid with rich cream, either hot or cold; they are a whole some fruit for everybody to taka at this time of year. i HEREDITY IS NOT ALL. Physicians Now Believe Less in Trans mission of Disease. Medical men are coming round to the view that it is the personal his tory that is of primary importance, or, in other words, that a man's own man ner of life, his record of health, and his circumstances should be more carefully considered than the illnesses that his ancestors died of. Dr. Rabag liati, a medical examiner for insurance companies, who is well known in the profession which he adorns, and of high repute in the north of England, has devoted much thought to this question of heredity from a life insur ance point of view. In his opinion it is not so much disease that is trans mitted from one generation to an other, but organization, or “human ity,” as he expresses it. Any member of the human family may suffer from any disease to which humanity is sub ject, and when an individual so suffers It is the cause of the ailment that must be inquired into. Exposure to this or that set of conditions brings varying results. If the body Is exposed to one set of conditions it will take on gout; if to another, consumption; if to a third, cancer; and so on. SOME WIVES ARE DIFFERENT. Quiet Cynicism, or Good Honest Row —Which Is the Better? “Most men,” said the man of experi ence, “think it must be awfully nico to have a wife who takes things as coolly as Dave Potter’s wife takes them; but others, more discriminat ing. prefer a good honest row to her style of quiet cynicism. The way she behaved the other day when she found a letter in Dave’s pocket from a girl is an example of her method. “ ‘I don’t see,' wrote this girl, ‘how on earth I can ever live without you.’ "Dave's wife read that gush, and a lot more just like it, without ever turn ing a hair. “ ‘Well,’ she said, quietly, ‘that girl Is a fool. If she knew you as well as I do she would be wondering how on earth she could ever live witn you.’ “And that, In the opinion of the dis criminating few, cuts a whole lot deeper than a common, everyday rum Pn rhe bi.HKi and mucous surface* of the system, bend for testimonial*, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all DrnTrials, 75c. \ Take Hall s Family Pill* for constipation. — j If you nave knowledge, let others | light their candles at it.—T. Fuller. \ The General Condemnation of So-Called Patent / N or Secret Medicines Ui 1 of an injurious character, which indulge in extravagant and unfounded pretensions M ■ to cure all manner of ills, and the M B National Legislation Enacted to Restrict their Sale B m have established more clearly than could have been accomplished in any other way B fl The Value and Importance oi Ethical Remedies. U 1 Remedies which physicians sanction for family use, as they act most beneficially and fll W M are gentle yet prompt in effect, and called ethical, because they are of \W m Known Excellence and Quality and of Known Component Parts. 1 B To gain the full confidence of the Well-Informed of the world and the approval of B B the most eminent physicians, it is essential that the component parts be known to and B B . approved by them, and, therefore, the California Fig Syrup Company has published for many B M M years past in its advertisements and upon every package a full statement thereof. 'The per- . B m B feet purity and uniformity of product which they demand in a laxative remedy of an ethical k fl character arc assured by the California Fig Syrup Company’s original method of manufacture, k| known to the Company only. HT There are other ethical remedies approved by physicians, but the product of BB W the California Fig Syrup Company possesses the advantage over all other family laxatives VS ■ that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts, without ^B ■V disturbing the natural functions or any debilitating after effects and without having to gi IIV increase the quantity from time to time. ^3 BB This valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of mfk Syrup of Figs, and has attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excellent of UM B w laxatives, and as its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well B " known to physicians and the Well-Informed of the world to be the best of natural BB fl laxatives, we have adopted the more elaborate name of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of * I fl Senna, as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtlessly it will always be fl fl called for by the shorter name of Syrup of Figs; and to get its beneficial effects, B fl always note, when purchasing, the full name of the Company—California F'ig Syrup Co.— B V plainly printed on the front of every package, whether you simply call for Svrup B 1 of Figs, or by the full name, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, as Syrup of Figs M I and Elixir of Senna is the one laxative remedy manufactured by the California Fig M B 1 Syrup Company, and the same heretofore known by the name, Syrup of Figs, which I a has -given satisfaction to millions. 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