AN OPERATION _AVERTED FHtadtlptia. Pa--‘‘One year afro I in very airc and 1 raffered with pains - —1— tin nay side and back unui 1 nearly went erary. I went to different doctors and t they all aatd I had female trouble and would not get any |i relief until I would be of'crated on. I , bad suffered forfour ■years before this ■ time.but 1 kept get - - . a ■c—x: .r.g witm me more msAcini I trek. Every Booth since I wai a young jrr! 1 had suffered with erarrp# m my iiie* at periods and was a« I sent my husband to the r« at once for a bottle of Lydia • am' » Ve getable Compound, ar.d s . • me. I *o.y re .tired a change and •hen 1 had fHiwtoed the third t • • a* .r- si and never felt better. I grant yuu ti - pri ge u. my letter si am. ot. j loo glad to let other women • - of my ure. ’* — Si re. Tbos. ftlcGON* nviila Street, Phila., Pa. KIDNEY ut&£a:,v#»*Tk TROL BLE ■iM 4'*T! know *• If s , vam € A .19 r by uari Dr. '* -*=er. Bwae r-Maot. th- ct-„t kidney - ■ At ar .**:*•» In ffty c«*it and •r »•!*» As- t.Ss > r* bottle tn Parcel »' *-*■ psitipt let telitng you about It. „* '*• * : K ' -»t * Co Binghamton. T and -t- lose ten vents, also men twa this taper. DR. KNOLLENBERG, D. C. S^wiaiuM aa all fcrutf «f Artxciar Rheumatism. Enlarged Joints, Kidney Trouble and Nervousness 1 tn*t g *r* C'*r« tur Inarnarv afwc.al study « - I grjr mi la a i b> vJrt.gr.*’ am IJhTA'Ah#*'. Um«tfl(V **d by at.i • ia! 1a t rr f* • •’•^'Ut.aA. (UNIM1IM rtf P. I* nVrfiAK .iAl **e I Are-rjit yvu* cast I will AAA -- a » ntktti f -ArA&tvre My Guaraaiaa To Voui T '*• l bAJ if I f A- -. tf JMMI r»K.«,r. 1C my ■_* ad*. l*.i.4rr aiy CAff Alsd trrAtffi*fcl. Lr. *th a * .^Skffhraivtl teC ft at At Or. W. M. Knoltenbcrg 24? tag trass Su Omaha At Doagtn 7296. Dl irV18X515 WIT mevwteb DLAU\*ei;rT“,^c*“s LEG S a, ‘ _v p 19sr-s s»s E »ea.ss r at. Si 30 hs*u tip Ss«S'«« r**s. P M .. • II li * A * * r wth II '1 ( ■ - *. 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The two talked over lau they wished done with their •■dos in the event of either being * •*' Oi,« wished to lie cremated; 1 ■ oil • r !«• tic sent home to his wife, i i 1m i. 'i ej asked the one in the bot tom <.f the boat what his wish was, . : ! vi hen he "came to” enough to talk he said: ' V' ; .-an just pour me back in the j bottle.” __ • III : YES! MAGICALLY! i CORNS LIFT OUT | ’ FINGERS ! T You say to the drug store man, "'•He me a small bottle of freezone.” This will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether com ;• :nd applied directly upon a tender, a hing corn relieves the soreness in ■ nd soon t!o- entire corn or ‘•alius, root and all. dries up and can be lifted off with the fingers. This new way to rid one’s feet of corn - was introduced by a Cincinnati n. «ho says that freezone dries in a i: ::i«nt. and simply shrivels up the •m or callus without irritating the surrounding skin. I- your druggist hasn't any freezone t»*ll him to order a small Ixittle from liis wholesale drug house for you.—adv. Practical Painter. 1'irst A" -tant—Would you marry a girl that paints. s omI Assistant—Yes. if she is an r - • and has had any experience in painting barns. The Chicken Only. Homely Aunt—Do you suppose those young men tire following us? Pretty Niece—One of us. auntie. An inxisihle cause frequently pro •luces a visible effect. CASTOIIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always / . Bears the Signature/JMr 4wr Aj* Use \Jr For Over Thirty Veers CASTDBU j ^4 Age Advances the Liver Requires I __;nn.l .licrht stimulation. I CARTER’S rarUTTLE LJ1ER P,LLS |jy« CONSTIPATION L— ■ ■» I : . c ^t4»orPa!e FacA*u*“Uy‘,Mlic*t**l,*Bb,e?ceof ^ -m „ £Lgf&C«rter’»lronPiU» | Ballad of Memorial Day * Famous Organization Had Its In ception Before the Close of the Civil War. GATHERED PATRIOTS IN FOLD To Inculcate Loyalty to the Nation Which They Saved, and the Uphold ing of Its institutions, the Foundation Stone of the Great Order. THE earliest reliable written rec ords of the Grand Army of the Republic were consumed at Bos ton during the great contlagra tion nn Memorial day, 1S73. Fortunate ly. however, although the early pre liminary history is lost to the coun try, enough of printed and written rec ords in other locations was found to enable the historians of tlxe G. A. It. to piece out the interesting story of its birth. In the quaint old hall of records at the national G. A. It. headquarters in Independence square. Philadelphia, the original minute-book of the nation al encampments, beginning with the Soldiers and Sailors' convention at Pittsburgh, September 25, 18€6. may be seen carefully preserved among oth er historic G. A. R. literature. It is a heavy sheepskin folio in good condition, of 780 pages, of which 353 nre written upon. The minutes cover the story of the national encampments for the first six years, from 1S67 to 1872, after which the proceedings were printed. These records and others of the departments contain the history of the Grand Army organization after it became an embodied fact. There is, however, because of the lost records a nebulous atmosphere about the movements leading up to its forma tion. But the organization, it is clear ly known, is the evolution of the active political and social movements among the soldiers in the 12 months succeed ing the close of the war. IT SEEMS a far cry from the mod ern era of prosperous commercial and industrial peace in the United States hack to the troubled days of '65 and '66, “when Johnny came march ing home.” The discharged soldiers came hack to meet and conquer with a soldier's courage a difficulty more complex and intangible than that of fighting an en emy—the problem of his own read justment of the workaday world which he had left. Previous to > war the general feeling had prevailed, as voiced by Gov. John A. Andrews, speaking of tfce people of Massachusetts, that the family of every man who enlisted should be fully provided for. The re turn of the soldier in health made it possible for him to resume responsi bility. All he needed was an oppor tunity. THE sentiment of patriotic support ers of the army was that the men who had given up their chance of advancement at home and of support ing their families ic the many avenues of trade and commerce stimulated by the war who had returned with good record of service, wounded or disa bled. should he entitled to considera tion !n the distribution of offices un der the local, state and national gov ernment. Places of honor and profit. It was held, should he given to the veterans whose services and sacrifices had been so great. But politicians in trenched in office were not willing to retire in favor of the army men: con sequently clubs and societies of sol diers and their supporters for the pro motion of their candidacy for positions of trust and emolument sprang up everywhere. There was soon a great host of organizations, among them the Boys in Blue, Soldiers and Sailors' league, Conservative Army and Navy Union. White Boys in Blue. Colored Soldiers' league—a vast mass of varied tinted bodies of assorted minds, who were destined to form the nucleus for the all-embracing G. A. It. THE idea of the organization of the Grand Army of the Uepuhllc was really conceived, however. Itefore the close of the war. The signer of the j first general order, calling the firs* * THE wind was cold, th: hill-top bare; 5 ' We marched and iook our stand Smith was the army we had there. With Hawkms in command VuV E placed a flag above the mound ** And from a book I read The Lord God bless this hallowed ground Where lies the nation s dead " HEN to the road we turned again * Hawkins and Smith and i. The same as though a thousand men Were in our company COR not alone we three had epme I To that one soldier's grave; The wide land rife with tramp and drum. Its immanent presence gave. ITS voice, which filled the wayside pine. Chanted of martial days: It’s great soul through our slender line. Rendered memorial praise. Stephen Tracy Livingston, in Harper's Weekly. encampment in Indianapolis, Novem ber 20. 1866. carefully preserver! in the venerable general order book in the Hall of Records at Philadelphia, was Muj. Benjamin Franklin Stephen son. provisional commander in chief in 1866 and the founder of the Grand Army of the Republic. Major Stephenson was a native of Wayne county, Illinois, where he was born in 1S22. Reared in poverty, but managing to wrest an education from difficult conditions, he. entered the medical profession, graduating from I Rush Medical college. Chicago, in 1851, and practicing in Petersburg. 111. He enlisted and served three years as sur geon of the Fourteenth Illinois in fantry and Immediately after the war he resumed the practice of his profes sion. locating at Springfield. III. Major Stephenson during the war was close ly associated with Chaplain William Rutledge, a Virginian by birth, r. resi dent of Illinois and a Methodist preach er, who was his tentmate and bosom companion. IT WAS while upon the campaign of Sherman’s expedition to Meridian. Fla., in 1864, that Chaplain Rutledge is said to have made the fruitful sug- ; gestinn to Major Stephenson that j “soldiers so closely allied in fellow ship of suffering would when mustered out desire some form of association to preserve the friendship and the memo ries of their common trials and dan gers.” The two friends agreed that if spared they would work out together some plan of allegiance to meet the need. This suggestion and agreement proved to lie the germ of the Grand Army of the Republic, the greatest and most influential body of veterans in the world. It was not until nearly a year after the grand muster out that Major Stephenson and Chaplain Rutledge , met in Springfield and laid the founda- j tion plans for the new national order, j The work of a Missouri organization called the Grand Army of Progress suggested the form of ritual which was adopted and which was printed in great secrecy. FOURTEEN charter members of the Grand Army participated in the first conference, and united 15 from the first historic pioneer G. A. R. post at Decatur. 111., April 6. 1866. These men were Col. John M. Snyder, Dr. James Hamilton, Maj. U. 51. Woods and 11 others. The makers of the G. A. R., it up pears, adopted, in part, the “title ol officers" and the ge-icral organizatioi of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the essential difference in hering in the terms of eligibility to office, the Loyal Legion restricting membership of the first class to offi cers. The plan of organization embraced, first, the formation of precincts, called, posts; second, county unions, called districts; third, state associations, known as departments, and the na tional organization formed originally of two delegates from each depart ment. The declaration of principles, a clear statement of the fraternal, patriotic and charitable purpose of the new or ganization, was introduced by a para graph in high-sounding and rounded phraseology after the style of the times, as follows: I|T HE soldiers of the Volunteer 1 Army of the United States dur ing the war of 1861-1865 actuated by the impulse and convictions of pa triotism and eternal right; combined in the strong bonds of fellowship and unity by the toils, the dangers and the victories of a long and vigorously waged war. feel themselves called on to declare in definite form of words, and in determined co-operative ac tion. those principles and rules which should guide the earnest patriot, the enlightened freeman and the Chris tian citizen in his course of action, and to agree ujton those plans and laws which should govern them in a united and systematic working meth od with which in some measure shall be effected the preservation of the grand results of *he war, the fruits of their labor and toil, so as »o bene fit the deserving aud worthy.” The Grand Army organization, it appears, at first made little headway in the various states. In two years but thirteen states were permanently or ganized. the order being Illinois, Wis consin. Pennsylvania, Ohio. New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jer sey. Maine, California, Nevada, Rhode Island. New Hampshire and Vermont. The chief cause of the slow progress seemed to be that the soldiers had be come weary of organization in the in effective clubs already referred to, which had grown into popular disfavor, and almost total disruption was threat-, ened by the indifference and opposition of those who at first conceived the G. A. R. to be some sort of secret so ciety of partisan proclivities. MANY wise heads, however, recog nized the power for good in the or ganization. and its future prosperity was happily assured by the adoption of a resolution of the national en campment of 1863 that the purpose of the G. A. R. is “to secure the rights of these defenders of their country, by all moral, social and jiolitical means in our control.” Emphasis was appropriately placed on the primary objects of the organi zation to maintain and strengthen the fraternal feelings which bind together the soldiers and marines of the Civil, war, to perpetuate the memory and, history of those who have died, and to' lend assistance to the needy and to their widows and orphans, and all dis tinctions of party, creed, rank or color were eliminated. PROUD BADGE OF HONOR IS THAT LITTLE BUTTON Every day it passes Ity yon. Toil see it—the little bronze button of the O. A. K. proudly worn on tlie lapel of frrny -set* haired veterans. growing fewer and fewer every day. You see the old men totter along on cane or crutch, Quietly, modestly, hut with the air of a prince of the loyal honor of America. Are you sure you I'll UUVI Him pret fully the significance of the button—that modest little badge of patriotic service? Perhaps you do. Perhaps you don't. If you do not. ask him. He knows what it means now. Fraternity, charity, loyalty, and wherever he sees it he recognizes in its wearer a brother. It symbolizes all he knows or feels of a comrade ship born in the tiros of hatrle. weld ed. cemented !>; :» fraternal devotion bo pen ever yet defined. It means a lot more to hint than you | "Ot. All there is of America, past, present and future, blazons in that button. At its talismanic touch tlie gates of the past fly open and the i old days come back, with ail their holy j memories. No knight of chivalry, no soldier of Tancred, Richard the Lion ! Hearted. Godfrey, or any hero of the i Crusades, or the Wars of the Roses, ever had emblazoned on his shield, or wore later on, on coats of arms, or 1 later still, transmitted with heraldry a prouder badge of honor and knight hood than this little bronze button. That button no man can wear who was coward or laggard when his country called. It rolls hack the curtain of time until you can see the transcend ent vision of hosts of men in blue lighting to save the life of the nation. And they saved it. All it is or can lie you owe to these men who wear the insignia of American royalty_the only aristocracy of America. You cannot buy it any more than you could buy a seat in heaven. Its value is above gold, silver or precious stones. It was bought with blood, the best blood that ever flouts! in human j heart or vein. Young man. take off your lint when and wherever you see that button until the last Boy In Blue I is in his grave.—Private Dalzell. - _ IW. L. DOUGLAS! “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE ' $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 $7 & $8 aJ8"wBKh ■Jdvc iTiuncy uy wearing vy• u uougias . shoes. For sale by over9000 shoe dealers. yC The Best Known Shoes in the World. d© W7 L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the hot- / , C’' tom of all shoes at the factory. 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Every precaution is being taken to prevent the charts from falling into the hands of German agents or sym pathizers. The printers are required to account for every sheet of paper they use. If there is a slight in ac curacy in the printing the damaged sheet is destroyed. The printer, with an official of the department as a wit ness. goes to the engine room and throws the damaged sheet into the fire. THE 3 D’S IN DODD'S Mr. Robert W. Ferguson, Hingham, Mass,, writes: I suffered from kid ney disorder for years. Had incessant backache and trouble. Nearly died irom u at one time while in Vancouver, but overcame it by a persistent use of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Finally I was com pletely cllred. I oc casionally use the remedy now in or der to keep the kid neys regulated. I nave tne nignest praise for Dodd s. Be sure to get “DODD'S,” the name with the three D’s for deranged, disordered, diseased kidneys, just as Mr. Fergu son did. No similar named article will do.—Adv. Aniline Dye Industry. A laboratory for research work In the possibilities of coal tar products is to be established at Johns Hopkins university, with the co-operation of gas companies of Philadelphia and Balti more. The purpose is to develop the aniline dye industry. A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. Experience teaches us that the first robin is usually too optimistic. Depends on Kind of Corn. lie admits he cannot he expected to “know it all” just because he sells a few stocks and hands now and then, hut his friends were surprised v. hen lie sprang this question a few days ago when Governor Goodrich's re quest that more corn lie planted was being discussed: “But how far apart do you have to plant the rows of corn to keep one row from shading the other?"—Indian apolis News. 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