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I Will Cure You of
Rheumatism .
No pay until you know it.
After 2,000 experiments, I have
learned how to cure Rheumatism. Not
to turn bony joints into flesh again;
that is Impossible. But I can cure the
disease always, at any state, and for
ever. . I ask for no money. Simply write
me a postal and I will send you an
order on your nearest druggist for six
bottles of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure,
for every druggist keeps it. Use it for
a month, and if it does what I claim
pay your druggist $5.50 for it. If it
doesn't I will pay him myself.
I have no samples. Any medicine
that can affect Rheumatism with but
a few doses must be drugged to the
verge of danger. I use no such drugs.
It is folly to take them. You must get
the disease out of the blood.
My remedy does that, even in the
most difficult, obstinate cases. No
matter how impossible this seems to
you, I know It and I take the risk. I
have cured tens of thousands of cases
In this way, and my records show that
39 out of 40 who get those six bottles
pay, and pay gladly. I have learned
that people In general are honest with
a physician who cures them. That is
all I ask, If I fall I don't expect a
penny from you.
Simply write me a postal card or
letter. Let me send you an order for
the medicine. Take it for a month;
for it won't harm you anyway. If it
cures, pay $5.50. I leave that entirely
to you. I will mail you a book that
tells how I do it, Address Dr. Shoop,
Box 515, Racine, Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, are often
cured by one or two bottles. At all
druggists.
Items of Interest.
the United States during the past year
had 22.43 admissions per thousand
of strength.
There are 751 newspapers and per
iodicals In Sweden, including fifty-two
dailies. Stockholm has twelve dailies
seven published in the morning and
five in the evening, which is a large
number for a city of 320,000 inhabi
tants. It is estimated that the value of land
along rural delivery routes has in
creased from $2 to $5 an acre. Then,
too, there is an educational value in
the rural free delivery, in that thou
sands more magazines and periodicals
are finding their way to people s
homes.
Last year 386 tons of cigarettes, val
ued at $1,737,000, or fully five times as
many as ten years ago, were consumed
in Germany, These cigarettes came
from France, Austria-Hungary, Rus
sia, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria and the
United States, 60 per cent coming from
Egypt.
Notwithstanding the so-called indus
trial crisis in Belgium, trade statistics
just issued show that during the nine
months of the present year the in
crease of -imports over the correspond
ing period of last year Is 2 per cent.
There is, however, a slight falling off
in the exports, amounting to 2 per cent.
The acclimatization of the Scotch
grouse In Siberia, on the east Prussian
Crown moors, and on the Eiffel, has
proved so successful that in the last
mentioned district a thousand birds
are now seen where thirteen months
ago there was not a single one. The
experiment is to be repeated in other
Prussian provinces.
-New York state farmers, are buying
potatoes for their own consumption, a
situation unheard of. there for years.
An American dealer has reduced
the price of ice in Rouen, France, in
one year from 300 francs a ton to. GO
francs.
The Queen of Spain likes good music,
and during her residence at San Se
bastian, in summer, never fails to in
vito Sarasate to her palace for some
priva'te soirees.
A "White Cloud, Kas., man was seen
on the street carrying a rusty stove
pipe. Another fellbw kicked the
stovepipe, and out tumbled several
chickens the man was making way
with.
. The mining of phosphate rock Is one
of the important industries in Flor
ida and South Carolina, and .it
amounts to 1,500,000 tons a year, val
ued at $5,3GO,000 at the point of pro
duction. The British black rat, almost entire
ly exterminated during the last hun
dred years by the brown Norwegian
rat, is carefully protected and pre
served on an estate at Greenlees, Mont
gomery. There seems to be no longer any
doubt that Italy will, within a few
years, turn from a sugar-importing to
a sugar-exporting country. The past
two seasons have witnessed a remark
,ablo development of the beet sugar in -dustry.
The admission rate for alcoholism
in the army as a whole during the year
1900 was 15.34 per thousand of strength
as compared with 14.49 In 1899 and
. with .28.67, the mean annual rate of
the decado 1889-98. Troops serving In
STOPS THJE COUGH
And Works off the Cold.
Laxative Dromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold
., in ono day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents.
TriCrs. "Wlnalow's Soothing Syrup.
Has boen used for ovor butt teaks by mil
lions of mothekb for their cniLDBKN vrniLE
TEETIlINd, with PEEFECT SlJCCEBB. It SOOTHES
tho cnrr.D, eoftkns Iho gums, allays all fain,
cubes wind colic, and is tlio bett remedy for
diaiirikka. Sold by Druggists in every part of
tho world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup," and tako no other kind. Twen-ty-flvo
cents a bottle. It is tho best of all.
The Greatest Hen.
The greatest naturalist was Lin
naeus, - '
The father of modern chemistry was
Lavoisier.
The greatest conqueror of ancient
times was Alexander.
The keenest critic of any age or
country was Voltaire.
Copernicus is justly deemed "The
Father of Modern Astronomy."
Archimedes Is considered to bo the
founder of the science of physics.
B'ossuet was the most gifted orator
the Roman church ever produced.
Herodotus was the greatest histor
ian and the father of all written his
tory. The greatest Methodist was John
Wesley, the founder of this denomina
tion. Cuvler was the most famous com
parative anatomist and the founder of
the science.
The most famous English admiral
was Nelson, who destroyed the French
power at sea.
The most noted Roman orator was
Cicero, who won his renown in his
orations against Catiline.
The most famous tenor was Far!
nelll. It was said of him, "There is
one God and one Farlnelli."
Montaigne was the most effective
essay writer, and the founder of thin
stylo of composition.
The most noted electrician is Edi
son, whose inventions in that line are
numbered by hundreds.
The most lugubrious poet was Jere
miah, His mournful style has given
the world the word "Jeremiad." -St,
Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE STORY OF THE LATE
MRS. BROWN.
It is admitted that her name was not
Brown. For obvious reasons ifc is not
wise to mention names in such a case.
For tho facts of thi life story are so
common that any woman could relate
them to some of her married friends,
and probably might do so, if the name
happened to fit. Therefore a real story
is printed under a wrong name.
When Mrs. Brown married she was
what every ono called a remarkably fine
girl. She was tho very picture of health.
She knew nothing about1 headaches or
nerves, but enjoyed life thoroughly
working or playing. Everybody called
Brown a lucky man, and Brown thought
so himself. After the first baby came,
Mrs. Brown began to feel tired sometimes
at the end of the day. Then there came
another little guest, and the mother used
to feel tired before the end of the day
came. She knew now that she had
nerves, and also had learned the mean
ing of headache. About this time peo
ple used to speak of Mrs. Brown'p falling
off in looks. Her figure lost its graceful
lines, her cheeks their rosy plumpness.
Mr. Brown wasn't losing anything by
the way. He was putting on flesh, and
showed in every way the comfortable
easo of a man who has a good home and
a good wife to manage it. Mr. Brown
believed in large families. Every visit
of the stork was to him a cause of happi
ness. No man could have been more
proud of his family. He didn't realize
either his own selfishness or his wife's
sacrifices. If he had seen a true picture
of his family life it would have shown
him in a cart surrounded by a happy
family and his wifo in tho shafts wearily,
uuu nuiiui, umwiug mo neavy load.
They got just ono too many on tho load
at last, and after that the neighbors
spoke of the late Mrs. Brown.
FAST-LIVING WOMEN.
It is not only the women who turn
night into day and sacrifice health to
pleasure who live fast. The wife and
mother who in household duties and
maternal cares exhausts vitality more
rapidly than it can be supplied, is also
living fast, and fast living does not mean
long living, In a normal condition of"
health a woman is equal to all proper
womanly obligations. She can guide
the house and rear a family, and as
a grandmother still show the signs
of womanly beauty and strength. But
so few women are normally healthy.
Their vitality is of ten lessened by un-
"""J. ", uy uiauuse 01 tne delicate
womanly organs, while the household
cares mcroaso as the family grows. Ev-
motherildAe0tS f S strength from .its
mother should bo relieved Kowry
possible burden and anxioty, instead of
which she carries the household burden
to tho last. Is it any wonder that under
these circumstances her strength fails
and she breaks down under a load which
physical weakness can no longer restrain?
Tile conditions of our life are such
thatwomen do not have, as a rule, fit
opportunity for rest and recreation.
The necessity, therefore, is apparent for
some strength-preserving and strength
creating medicine to euro tho diseases
that woakon women and to strengthen
them for the obligations of maternity.
That medicine exists and has been tho
means of restoring thousands of weak
and sick women to lasting health.
'I had poor health for nine years
(ever since the birth of my child),"
writes Mrs. Armintie Watkins, of Acme,
Kanawha Co., W. Va. "Had fbmale
weakness; was very irregular and would
suffer untold misery. When I wrote I
had no idea that I would ever got well,
but when your letter reached me I began
to have hope. I commenced taking Dr.
jTioiues meaicmes as di
rected and began to im
prove in strength. I was
soon able to do tho work
for my family of six. I
have recommended Dr.
Pierce's medicines to a
number of my friends,
and they think there nev
er were such medicines
in tho world. I think so
myself. I took eight
bottles, three of 'Favor
ite Prescription' and fivo
of 'Golden Medical Dis
covery and two vials of
Pellets"
WOMEN LOSE
. CONFIDENCE
in medicines and doctors
after they have beea
treated "without benefit
and tiak.en medicines
without qurei It is hard
to persuade) such woraon
to mak.Janother trial,
even of JG)r, Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription, with
the testi'mon v of Kn manv
women to its cures. It is
to such-women, discouraged, sick, hope
less, that Dr. Piorce specially oxtonds
his. offer of free c'onsultationTby letter.
Any sick woman is invited to consult
Dr. Pierce, by letter,-. All corres
pondence is held as strictly private and
sacredly confidential. Address Doctor
R. V. Piorce, Buffalo, N. Y.
m "When I wrote to you in March, ask
ing advice as to what to do for myself,"
says Mrs. Ella Reynolds, of Gufflo, Mc
Lean Co., Ky.T "I was expecting to bo
come a mother in Juno, and was sick all
tho time. Had been sick for several
months. Could not got anything to
stay in my stomach, not even water.
Had mishaps twice in six months,
threatening all tho timo with this
one. Had female weakness for several
years. My hips, back and lower bowels
hurt me all the time. Had numbness
from my hips down. Had several hard
cramping spells, and was not able to do
any work at all. I received your answer
ma few days telling me to tako Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I took
three bottles, and before I had taken it
a week I was better, and before I had
taken it a month I was able to'help to-do
my work. On the 27th of May my baby
wa3 born, and I was only sick throe
hours, and had an easy time. Tho doc
tor said I got along nicely. Wo praise
Dr. Pierce's medicine, for it has cured
m. I p better now than I have been
for thirteon years,"
GIVE IT A TRIAL.
No matter how many medicines have
uouil triOU in vnin. thnrn'a slnrnva a
probability of a perfect cure for wom
anly diseases by the use of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. It establishes
regularity, dries weakening drains, heals
inflammation and ulceration, and cures
female weakness. For weak, run-down
women it bf the best of tonics and
nervines, restoring health and strength.
f ' A GIFT.
iDr. Pierce's Medical Adviser, 1C08
pafees, paper covers, is sent free on re
cejpt of 21 one-cent stamps to cover
oxponse of mailing ' only. Address DrJ
R.; V. Pierce, Buffalo, Nj. Y. ;
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