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    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«<r m ar I mw your advertise
taet-t in tie i • wspaper and the picture
of a woman a ho had been saved from
ar operation and this picture was im
[■ • stf ' mind. The doctor had
g Bf only two R.ure days to make
v c.jr ttiiikl sc> 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
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No Servant Problem Here.
' •'* <hf Woman's Home
T* ttart 92 per eeat of
'*'• worn.n in ibis country do all their
own nr rk. ami the writer adds that her
l«i ■ liar domestic problem has been
-oh..l try a scientifically planned and
jTei.j kitchen that serves as a dining
rrsi.a also. Numerous devices and in
novations have heen contrived hy her
that make this room artistic and at
tractive as Well as useful,
“We think that for us we have elim
inated the servant problem.” sh£ de
<iar.f. r to my mind, if one's life
b> M. pi: nnetl that daily wants are
t«> tin minimum, ami eflieient
agencies bv which t<> supply those
the a ..ximum the en
tire problem lias been met and solved.”
HEAL BABY RASHES
Thit Itch, Burn and Torture With Cuti.
cura—Trial Free.
A hot Outt urn Soap bath is soothing
to irritated 'kins when followed by
■tion of Cuticura Oint
ment. | se i uticura for every-day toi
ls to prevent sueh trou
t ies. After this treatment baby sleeps
mother rest' and heainieut follows.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
' - : i'uticura. Dept. L,
Bosti a. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
His Wisn.
T1ir« v men went out for a day's
-■ They took a bottle with
bait They drank too much.
A s’.'rta i; me up. tind two of them
Til"ugl ■ :'e y were going to tie drown*
as asleep in the hot
'‘’t!i ef tlie beat. 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.”
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: YES! MAGICALLY!
i CORNS LIFT OUT
| ’ FINGERS
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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
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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.
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GUARD CHARTS FROM ENEMY
Employees of Hydrographic Office
Work at Top Speed in Turning Out
Maps for Naval Officials.
Employees ol the hydrographic of
fice in Washington are being driven at
top speed in turning out maps and
charts for the benefit of the naval of
ficials. Special attention is being given
to the charts of harbors which have
been mined. Each chart that is pre
pared shows the exact location of the
mines. All told, there are some 1..100
charts on which the office has been at
work since the severing of diplomatic
relations with Germany. It has been
found necessary to make minor
changes in many of the original charts
in the files of the office.
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.
Noncommittal.
“What do you think of Wallace be
! ing preferred to Washington as a na
tional hero?” “Great Scot!”
Turkeys derived their name from
, the fact that they were imported first
into Europe through Turkey.
Some people appreciate beautiful
things, but most people merely cure
for ornaments.
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The Purchase of a Saxon
Insures Riding Satisfaction
Saxon cars are today generally recognized as
the best cars in their price classes.
Their greater value has been definitely and
decisively established by their performance
records in the hands of thousands of owners in
all parts of the country.
The Saxon Motor Car Corporation has earned
one of the biggest successes in the automobile
industry. It owes its success to the policy of
building good cars and building them in quan
tities. Its cars have won the respect of the
motor buying public.
Such absolute satisfaction as is represented in
the following testimonial is the big reason back
of Saxon success:
"I want to say that Saxon ‘Six’ U an automo
bile that will do all the Saxon Motor Car Cor
poration claimi it will do — and more.
"We have driven our car many thousand
miles and can honestly say it is the easiest
riding car we ever rode in.”
JOHN A. DIXON. Seneca. S. D.
Saxon Motor Car Corporation
Detroit, Michigan
There is still some good territory open for
Saxon dealers. For information you should
apply to
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Omaha, Nebr.