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M/X5D6EC0ND GROWTH
N/iT(/m REFORESTATION
The region in Ohio under considera
tion constitutes a belt through what
was at one time probably the finest
hardwood forest in the United States.
Here grew, in a high degree of per
fection, white and red oak. walnut,
hickory, maple, elm, beech, locust,
sycamore, wild cherry, cottonwood,
poplar. Kentucky coffee-tree and chest
nut, not to mention several less valu
able kinds of trees. The quality of
this timber was the very finest
throughout the entire belt.
As in every timber country, the first
work of the pioneers in this region was
to clear sufficient land in the forest to
raise the necessary crops. Much of
the finest timber was "deadened." or
girdled, and when, after two or three
seasons it had dried sufficiently, it
was felled in great heaps and burned.
Only the straightest most perfect
sticks of walnut and oak were used in
building the log houses and barns. The
sterling quality of this timber is mani
fest in the remarkably well preserved
log structures still standing in consid
erable numbers throughout the region.
The roofs of these buildings were made
of clapboards, rived with frow and bee
tle from only the finest sticks of oak.
and it was not uncommon for such a
roof to last for 40 years or more
During the first half of the last cen
*ury there was a large demand for tan
bark to supply the needs of the grow
ing leather industries of Cincinnati
and the neighboring towns. To meet
this demand, the cak timber was ruth
lessly slaught 1 ■ srer an area of 75
to ltfO ir.iies radius. The fine logs,
then useless, were piled together and
burned. These old-time log-rollings,
with their attendant barbecues, were
the festival occasions of the frontier
communities.
To the early settlers these forests
ccmstituted the arch enemy, to be driv
en back and destroyed by ax and fire.
Little did these men think of the value
of the forests. To them it meant only
a fight for life and success against
the forces and conditions of nature.
Unfortunately, this instinct for timber
destruction, born of necessity among
the pioneers, has developed among
their descendants into a blind un
reasoning mania.
Immense damage to the timber of
this region has resulted from too close
pasture of the woodlands. The writer
had an opportunity to keep under ob
servation for several years a tract of
fine oak timber in which were kept
large numbers of hogs. The soil was
constantly overturned by the hogs, and
many < f the smaller roots of the trees
were c.-p1 sf-d and destroyed. After a
few years the trees began to die at the
tops ;ind the owner was obliged to sell
the timber for only a fraction of what
it would have been worth at the pres
ent time if it had been more carefully
■ ■---served. Close pasturing by cattle
and sheep has proved equally destruc
tive in many cases.
White the general relation of cli
mate to forests is yet a mooted ques
tion. it seems fairly well established
that, in the region under consideration.
I jc:»1 "blizzards" are more frequent and
more severe while the summer winds
are i tore < fien dry than they were a
■-•ie .ifion ago. Spring floods and
u,;!:.; i droughts, formerly quite un
known. are growing more common.
Many of the hills, denuded of their for
ests and later of their soil, are now
quite barren. Throughout the region
the growing of fruit orchards is becom
[ in? constantly more difficult. This is.
no doubt, due, in part at least, to the
increased exposure of the trees to an
ever more fickle climate, as well as to
the more persistent attacks of tree
infesting insects, which are deprived
at once of their natural enemies. For
as a consequence of the destruction of
the forests the insectivorous birds
have been greatly reduced in num
bers.
The southern four counties in this
range have long been noted for their
splendid'natural water supply. Along
| every stream valley the ground-water
outcrops at frequent intervals from
strata of coarse sand and gravel over
lying the limestone. Many of these
| springs for a hundred years never
known to fail. have, since the removal
of the back-lying forest, become but
"wet-weather springs," absolutely drv
in late summer. Over large parts of
this area the ground-water level has
fallen several feet in the last 20 years,
so that wells have had to be dug or
drilled to a greater depth to insure a
; constant water supply. At the same
: time the problem of drainage is grow
ing more difficult. Small creeks and
! open ditches, formerly well filled with
water the year around, now run almost
, dry during a good part of the summer,
'• and become choked with a rank
growth of weeds which must be re
moved. else the stream will be com
pletely filled with silt at the next flood
season.
As stated before, however, there is
but little if any interest shown by the
people in the matter of tree planting.
It is true that shade-trees are quite
commonly planted along the streets of
towns and villages, and in public
grounds generally, but this practice
has not yet extended to the public
highway, or even, to any extent, to the
rural school-grounds. Most of the
counties report a growing interest in
Arbor day among the schools, but that
interest seems for the most part to be
only short-lived and ineffective. The
trees most commonly planted for shade
and ornament are soft maple. American
| elm, and Carolina poplar. Fortunately
most of the region has gotten over the
craze for the unsightly Catalpa bigno
nioides. Evergreens are but little
known, except for cemetery and lawn
decoration. Juniperus communis grows
native to some extent as an insignifi
cant shrub. Xo doubt the more useful
oaks and walnuts would be more gen
erally planted if the people knew how
to handle these less tolerant trees suc
cessfully.
In no region is there more urgent
need of popular education in matters
pertaining to forestry and timber sup
ply. For generations these people
have been learning and practicing the
art of forest destruction. Before they
can be expected to show an active in
terest in the preservation and renewal
of forests, there must be created in
their minds a totally new conception
of the whole problem. Very few of
the land owners give any attention to
preserving and making the most of
the farm wood-lo*. Xo precautions are
taken to prolong the usefulness of
f rice posts and timber. From sheer
necessity, substitutes for wood in
to■.e construction are being intro
duced. Brick, stone and concrete
blocks are slowly coming into use for
this purpose. a. b. plowman.
Department of Botany, Bt-iv-r College.
What’s the good of being good if
you do not let people know it?
WHAT GHOSTS ARE MADE OF
Washington Professor Says They
Can Be Made Artificially.
Science, exact and practical. has
come to the aid of the "psychical re
search” investigators with an entirely
new theory in regard to ghosts. The
discovery", though as yet only hypo
thetical. is that such phantoms raay in
fact exist, and that they are sufficient
ly material in their nature to admit of
study, and even of detailed analysis.
According to this idea, indeed, the
ghost of reality is properly to be re
garded as a chemical phenomenon. It
has a recognizable substance, however
tenuous and intangible, and may act
ually be reproduced experimentally in
the laboratory.
For authority on this point the
writer is fermitted to refer to one of
the foremost of living chemisrs. Prof.
Charles E. Munrce, dean of the
George Washington university, in
Washington. He is not only a be
lievertin ghosts—at all events, in the
possfbftty of such phenomenon—but
j he says that they can be made artifi
| c:a!ly. It is. he thinks, not at all
unlikely that the laboratory process
for making counterfeit specters is
merely a reproduction of nature's own
j method of ghost manufacture.
Apparitions, of course, are usually
associated in cne way or another with
tragedies. Somebody, for example,
is,murdered under exceptionally dis
tressing and picturesque cireumstnces.
and—the corpse being hidden by the
perpetrator of the deed—the ghost
thereafter haunts the scene, forlornly
striving to attract sympathetic atten
tion. and unable to find rest until the
body shall be discovered and provided
; with Christian burial.—Rene Bache,
I in Technical World.
But Plain?
! Marine—It was so silly for me to
: quarrel evith George; sometimes I
i think I'm just a plain fool.
Grayce—You're too hard on yourself,
; dear; I don't consider you the least
. bit of a feel.
SHED LIGHT ON
DARK PLACES
OF THE EARTH
CONTINENTS ARE BEING MAPPED
Marvelous Results Achieved by Sys
tematic Exploration
Tremendous Tracts Have Been Opened Up in the Lest
One Hundied Years—Northern Asia Still a Field
tor the Venturesome—Peary Now Undertaking One
of the Greatest Feats.
PEARY’S new expedition to the
north poi3 opens up an inter
esting field of thought, writes
Edmund Noble in the Boston
Sunday Herald. It emphasizes
some of the inconsistencies of
.luman achievement. This is an age
of scientific marvels. Man has har
nessed nature to do his bidding, and is
daily discovering new forces or new
ways of utilizing them. After pene
trating to the depths of the sea, he is
already aspiring to the dominion of
the air. He weighs planets and suns
In his balances, and writes down th'eir
composition in the unerring formulae
of the chemical laboratory. His tele
scopes- and prisms fetch exact infor
mation from the very "confines of the
universe.” He has not yet completed
the survey of his own planet. The
night skies have become to him as
an open book, yet there are worlds
at his very elbow which the most re
sent geographical science is compelled
to class as "unknown."
This delay in mapping the earth
is less surprising when it is remem
bered that geographical science could
begin only at a late stage in the evo
lution of man. For its very possibil
ity, systematic exploration of the
planet needed highly civilized peo
ples, good at conquering, as well as in
trade and travel. The earliest pro
moters of geographical knowledge
were thus peoples like the Babyloni
ans, Assyrians, Egyptians. Phoeni
cians and Greeks. None of them knew
:he shape of the planet on which they
lived; many of them believed it to be
a flat plAe, diversified by hills and
valleys; some pictured the territory
of their "known world" as surrounded
at distance by a wide river called
ocean.
Five hundred years B. C. this nu
cleus of culture, from which modern
civilization was to come forth, com
prised a patch of territory considera
bly smaller than the United States,
reaching from the confines of the Per
sian empire on the east to Spain and
the coast of Africa on the west, the
whole bounded to the north by the
"Hyperboreans." The subsequent ex
pansion of these limirs up to the be
ginning of the Christian era was main
ly the work of the Greeks, the Cartha
ginians and the Latins. The "known
world" of the Roman empire reached
Africa as Known in 1800.
from Britain to India and China. Ger
many had then come into view, and
Scandinavia was outlined. The north
ern fringe of Africa had widened
somewhat, but the ancients continued
to style northern Asia as "Schythian."
by 1,000 A. D. Iceland and Greenland
were talked about: •Russia" had tak
en the place of “Sarmatia;” Mongolia
and Manchuria found mention on the
maps: and there were recorded "land
falls" on the coasts of North America.
It took 500 or 600 years more to
trace out the general features of the
seas, islands and continents. The
chief steps in this advance, which in
cluded the brilliant exploit of Magel
lan, whose ship, the Victoria, first cir
cumnavigated the globe, were the dis
covery of the Americas and of Aus
tralia, and the partial exploration of
i Africa and Siberia'. Columbus reached
\ San Salvador in 1192, and his suc
! ceeding voyages revealed Jamaica.
| Trinidad and the Orinoco. Amerigo
! Vespucci coasted down the continent
of South America in 1501, and Magel
j lan discovered Patagonia and Terre
| del Fuego in 1520. Mexico was added
‘ to the map in 151& by Grijalva and
t California visited in 1532 by Cortez.
For 300 years thereafter the work of I
exploring the Americas proceeded by
leaps and bounds, yet in IS00 more
; than half of their territories remain
geographically unknown. The whole
region west of the Mississippi was
then a blank on the maps, and Alaska
utterly untraveled. There are still
patches of North America which need
description, and vast areas of South j
America on which the zeal of the ex
plorer is yet to cast light.
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Great Continent Has Only Recently
Been Opened Up.
AFRICA is another great continent
with which the world made late
acquaintance. Egypt, the 'shepherd
kings," the Nile, the pyramids, make
up its classic period. Modern Africa
began for geography when, about 450
A. D.. Hanno, the Carthaginian, sailed
| down its west coast as far as Sierra
Leone, and the knowledge of it was !
advanced a further stage when in the
fifteenth century Portuguese explor
ers, including Vasco da Gama, rounded
the cape. In Africa, exploration has
followed the flow of the great rivers,
and will ever be associated with such
names as Livingstone, Mungo Park,
Bruce, Baker, Stanley, Speke.
Schweinfurt. Du Chaillu Serpa Pinto,
Wissmann and Donaldson. The Niger
had its course determined in the early
part of the nineteenth century. "To
day,” says a geographical expert, “the
Nile has been scientifically explored
for its entire length of 3,400 miles; the
Niger, with the exception of a small
portion of its middle course, for 2,600
miles; the Zambesi for 1,500 miles;
and the Congo, which in volume is ex
ceeded only by the Amazon, for near
ly 3.000 miles." In Africa, where vast
areas are still dark" for geography,
'he politician has sometimes followed, !
has now and then accompanied the ex
i plorer. This immense continent first
fed the demand for slaves, then satis
Africa as Known in 1900.
i tied the greed for territory. Unlike
China, it was not coveted too late to
be partitioned, and to-day. outside Mo- '
rocco and Abyssinia, there is not a
square mile of its area which is not !
claimed and owned by one or other :
of the European powers.
AREA STILL UNEXPLORED.
Vast Extent cf Unknown Territory in
Northern A3 a.
T111E grea.. territory of northern Asia
I out of which Chinghis Khan !
emerged with his Tartar-Mongols in
the thirteenth century to be the terror j
of Europe, has resisted the geograph
ical investigator longest of all. From
Marco Polo to Prjevalsky and Sven
Hedin, a succession of explorers has
been at tvork in this still mysterious
section of the earth's surface, ren
dered all the more inaccessible by
strange languages, st-aager customs,
and rooted distrust of the "foreigner.”
It was the Russians who were first
showed the way frora Europe to the
Pacific, for after Yermak had reached
Sibir in 157S, the successive stages of
their advance could not but end in .the
regions of the Amur, the Sea of Ok
hotsk, Kamschatka and Behring
straits. Central and southern Asia
have been actively explored for two
centuries past, yet there are still un
known areas of considerable extent in
Burma. Thibet and China.
Australia, now the home of a civ
ilized people living below the equator,
is of peculiar interest to Americans.
Prior to the sixteenth century this im
mense continent, with its population
of over t>,000.u|)o, was totally unknown
to the world. The Spanish, following
n the wake of Magellan, were the
first to sight it; the Dutch explored its
coast lines, and alter the voyage of
Capt. Cook in the latter end of the
eighteenth century, the English took
ip the work of colonizing and explor
ing what was originally called "New
Holland.’ Even in 1.S00 it was an un
known waste, peopled by savages in
teresting to the anthropologist and
supporting flora and fauna of consider
able value for the purposes of descrip
tive natural history. But by and by
settlers appeared, and a few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth,
had been offered by the British parlia
ment in 1763. By an equally success
ful feat in 1S7S-79, Baron N'ordensk
jold, the Swedish scientist, made the
“•northeast passage in the Vega by pass
ing from Norway along the Asiatic
coast into the Pacific ocean.
FRANKLIN'S FATAL JOURNEY.
One of the Most Terrible Episodes of
Arctit Exploration.
0\E of the most terrible episodes of
Arctic exploration was the loss of
Sir John Franklin and his crew of
129 men. He began his voyage in
May, 1845. A year later his vessels,
the Erebus and Terror, became ice
bound near King William Land. After
the death of their commander in
June, 1S47. the crew made a vain ef
fort to fight their way over the ice to
Great Fish river. Many expeditions
were sent out, both by land and sea,
to search for the missing, but they
succeeded only in finding three graves
of men who had died at an early stage
and had been buried in Beechev
island. In 1S54 Rae met a young Es
kimo who told him that four years
previously 40 white men had been
seen dragging a beat to the south on
the west shore of King William Land,
and that a few months later he had
found the bodies of 30 of these men.
In 1858-59 MeClintock discovered in
King William land a human skeleton
lying on its face, and his companion.
Hobson, found a record of the Frank
Arctic Regions as Known in 18C0
Arctic Regions as Known in 1900.
’Ivans. Sturt, Burke. Willis, Warbur
ton, Forest and Giles, a large part of
the interior has been explored.
EXPEDITIONS TO POLES.
Last Portions of Planet’s Surface to
Be Reached.
THE last portions of the planet's sur
face to be reached and explored
are the poles, both of them more or
less ice-bound. The south pole, espe
cially remote from the great centers
of civilization, has never attracted
more than a scientific interest. The first
work done in the geography of the ant
arctics was done by the discovery of
the South Shetland islands in 1816 by
Capt. Smith. Various "lands" have
since been revealed—among them En
derby Land and Graham Land by Bis
coe in 1S31, Wilkes’and in 1840, by
Wilkes, and Victoria Land by Sir
James Ross, two years later—but it
is not yet definitely known whether
these are mere islands or parts of a
continent. Extensive land areas
around the south pole are meanwhile
suggested by the slope of the ocean
floor and by the character of the ant
arctic icebergs. The coasts are fronted
with glaciers, which project for long
distances into the sea. showing that if
an antarctic continent exists it must
be covered everywhere by immense
sheets of ice. Ross passed an ice
front 200 feet high and 150 miles long,
he saw great mountain ranges on Vic
toria Land, including two volcanic
peaks whose height he estimated at
from 7,000 to 15,000 feet. One of these
was in eruption, pouring forth its lava
upon the surrounding snow. The sup
posed antarctic continent, if one ex
ists, has been estimated at nearly
4,000.000 square m.les. Up to the
present, and in spite of several recent
expeditions, navigators are much far
ther from the south than from the
north pole. In 1842 Ross reached 7S
degrees 10 minutes, one of the latest
records is that of Borehgrevink, who
in 1S99, gained 78 degrees 50 minutes
by using sledges in a dash over the
ice.
The romance of polar exploration—
of its perils and its heroism—centers
in the north. The arctic pole is much
nearer to civilization than the antarct- '
ic, has a closer connection with the
great continents, and is or ought to be
somewhat in the line of the world's
travel. The movement northward be
gan with the discovery of Greenland
by Gunbiorn at the beginning of the
tenth century, and with the planting :
of colonies on its shores by Eric the j
Red in 985. Nearly ten centuries
thereafter were spent by explorers,
first from the Asiatic, then from the i
American side, in discovering and de
fining the contours of the Arctic
coasts. Both mercantile and scientific
aims were in evidence. On the one
hand was the search for the northwest
passage by Davis. Frobishtr. Hudson
and Baffin; on the other the no less
eager pursuit of the northeast passage
by Barentz. Chancellor and others. In
1830-54 McClure successfully accom
plished the northwest passage, and
gained the reward of $50,000 which
Jin expedition, stating its history be
tween 1845 and 1S48. Further
searches were continued up to 1879.
in which year Lieut. F. Schwatka of
the United States army, discovered
several graves and skeletons.
The northward movement, after ex
hausting mercantile, exploratory and
humanitarian motives, finally became
purely scientific and culminated in the
“dash for the north pole.” In 1827,
with the aid of sledges. Parry reached
82 degrees 45 minutes. Nearly 50
years later Markham raised this rec
ord to 83 degrees 20 minutes. In 1883,
as a member of the Greely expedition,
Lieut. Lockwood succeeded at S3 de
grees 24 minutes in coming within
450 miles of the pole. The year 1895
marked the attainment of 86 degrees
14 minutes by Nansen, who had
adopted the ''drift" method f attack.
The Abruzzi expedition came in 1900,
when Cagni raised the figures to 86
degrees 33 minutes.
"Farthest north" is now 200 miles
from the pole. It was attained by
Commander Robert E. Peary in his
last expedition of 1905-6. Leaving civ
ilization in the Roosevelt, Peary spent
three weeks in boring through the nar
row ice-swept channel between Green
land and America, only to have his
ship driven ashore into winter quar
ters at Cape Sheridan. In a subse
quent sledge trip over the ice. the ex
plorer was cut of! from his support
ing parties. The final dash, with eight
men and six teams of dogs, enabled
him to reach 87 degrees 6 minutes,
where the condition of the ice and
lack of food compelled immediate re
turn.
Caught on the Rebound.
“John, dear." said Mrs. Skimpem, as
she poured the coffee at the breakfast
table, “if I remember rightly, you
have often said you disliked to see a
woman constantly getting herself into
print."
“That's right," rejoined Skimpem.
“You consider it indelicate and un
w-omanly, don't you?"
“I certainly do.”
“And you don't think a sensible man
would allow his wife to do anything
like that?"
"Most assuredly not.”
"Well, John. I’m glad you have such
radical views on the subject, because
they justify me in asking you for a
new silk dress.”
"W—what?”
“You heard what I said. John. For
the last five years I've had nothing
but bargain counter calico, and I'm
tired of getting into print.”
And what could poor John do?
Dentists Will Rejoice.
Comment is being made in the pub
lic press on the fact that in recent
photographs of public persons most of
them are represented with their
mouths open and quantities of teeth
showing. As it happens in most of
the cases referred to the effect is very
good, but it will not do for the public
generally to have itself so photo
gra; hed.
YOUNG MEN HAVE NO CHANCE.
Striking Difference Between British
and American Practice.
While age is no bar to the service
of a Brtish prime minister, neither
does youth disqualify from cabinet of
fice. In both respects the British
practice differs strikingly from the
American. No American has held the
presidency above the age of 69. The
minimum age of a member of the I'ni
ted States cabinet is not on record.
The reorganization of the British
ministry invites attention to this dif
ference. Five members are in their
thirties. Lord Lucas, one of the un
der secretaries, is 32, Winston Spencer
Churchill 33, F. D. Ackland 34, C. F.
Masterman 35, and Walter Runciman
38. Gladstone, Salisbury, Rosebery,
Peel, Fox, all entered the cabinet be
fore they were 40. Palmerston was
secretary of state for war at 25, and I
William Pitt made a record by being
prime minister at 24.
Contrast this with the Roosevelt
cabinet, in which the youngest mem
ber, Mr. Garfield, was appointed at
^Ir. Cortelyou took a secretary
ship at 41 five years ago. Most of the
members are decidedly beyond middle
age. Secretary Wilson, the oldest, is
nearly *3. In view of the fact thab
brilliant achievements in other fields
than politics are cf'en credited to men
in their thirties or even younger, it is
a fair inference that the nation is un
reasonably depriving itself of services
that ought to be at its disposal.
In at least one great department of
politics, the house of representatives,
that barrier is evident. The rules of
the house, coupled with ihe procedure
that makes desirable committee as
signments go by seniority, must hold
down young men. The house is no
longer a debating body. It does its
work almost exclusively through com
mittees, which are in turn subject to
the domination of the speaker and his
party colleagues on the committee on
rules. If a capable young man is sent
to Washington he is assigned to some
unimportant committees and he is
bound and gagged so effectively that it
is almost a miracle if he manages to
break away and let anybody know of
his existence.—Kansas City Star.
A ■* A A i ^yyyyyyyy^.
DID HIS DUTY AS HE SAW IT.
But Still Some of the Automobile
Tourists Might Have Got Lost.
The Glidden trail up Main street in
Saco was lost the other day because
1 of the agility displayed by Charles
j Schofield, head pusher of the refuse
| department. He is employed in pick
| *n" lIP paper, sticks,and rubbish that
| collect on Main street. He looks after
this branch of work with such faithful
ness that a piece of paper larger than
a postage stamp cannot be found along
j the principal thoroughfare.
Recently when the advance guard of
the Glidden auto tourists passed
through Saco they left a trail of con
fetti. This was for the benefit of
these who followed. The city man
saw the streak of paper hits on the
I pavement and immediately got busy.
“Confound the scamps who dumped
this rubbish:’’ he muttered as he
worked. "If I knew who the culprit
was I would notify City Marshal Wig
j gin.” He had destroyed a good part
| of the white trail on the pavement
when some one tumbled- to what he
was doing.
About this time the tall marshal
came alohg and said: "Mr. Man. you
will confer a favor upon the Gftidea
tourists who are touring 1.600 miles
in competition for the Glidden and
Hower trophies in the 1008 tour of the
American Automobile association if
you in your capacity as rubbish gath
erer would allow the paper to remain
where it has been deposited until the ;
last automobile has proceeded through
this municipality. I hope that you will j
have no supersensitiveness regarding |
this request, for it is essential that
this trail remain lest the automobiles
might make a detour about this city
and eventually become lost in an
thropomorphic ability.”
"[ m only doing my duty,” respond
ed Mr. Schofield.—Biddleford Record.
Equally Unpleasant.
A Pennsylvania man while eating
pie swallowed his knife. This wasn't
good form, but it may be some com
fort to the victim to realize that swal
lowing a fork would be equally un
pleasant.
Truth and
Quality
\ appeal to the Well-Informed in every
I walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
anil Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any debilitating
after effe-’ts and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objcction
alle substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine- -
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
THE “LESS" AGE.
i intuitnlv
Cholly—It's wonderful, bah Jove!
Riding without hawses, telegraphing
without wires, and all these things.
Maude—Yes and thinking without
brains.
THE TIME TEST.
That Is What Proves True Merit.
Doan's Kidney Pills bring the quick
est of relief from backache and kid
utfjr iruuuies. is mai
relief lasting? Let
Mrs. James M. Long,
of 113 N. Augusta
St., Staunton, Va,
tell you. On January
31st, 1903, Mrs. Long
wrote: "Doan's Kid
ney Pills have cured
me" (of pain in the
back, urinarr frmt
bles, bearing down sensations, etc.).
On June 20th. 1907, four and one-half
years later, she said: "1 haven't had
kidney trouble since. I repeat my
testimony.”
bold by all dealers, 50 cents a bos.
Foster-ililburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Cruel Kindness.
Aged Belle—You know, Mr. Sey
mour, I have always had the greatest
horror of growing old.
Green Youth—But I hope, dear lady,
that you have not found it as bad as
you anticipated.
Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single
Binder cigar to grt it. Your dealer or
Lewis' Factory* Peoria, HI.
It's sometimes easier to catch on
than it is to let go.
This woman says that after
months of suffering Lydia K.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
made her as well as ever.
Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg,Van
writes to Mrs. l’inkham:
“ 1 want other suffering women to
know what Lydia E. I’inkham's Vege
table Compound has done for me. For
months I suffered from feminine ills
so that I thought I could not live. 1
wrote you. and after taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
using the treatment you prescribed I
felt like a new woman. I am now
strong, and well as ever, and thank von
for the good you have done me.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities.,
periodic pains, backache, that l>ear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
SICK HEADACHE
CARTERiS
ITTLE
IVER
PILLS.
Posit! vely cured by
these Little Pills.
They also relieve Dis
tress from Dyspepsia, In
digestion and Too Hearty
Eating. A perfect rem
edy for Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Bad
Taste in the Month, Coat
ed Tongue, Pain in the
Side, TORPID LIVER.
They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable.
SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
Genuine Must Bear
Fac-Simile Signature
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.