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JULY 17, 1903.
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Army
Life Caused Chronic
Headaches
Stomach Trouble All His
Life
Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills
Cured Him of Both
Ho thinks ho has the world's record
for walking.
While he holds this record, he has
never received much pay. He has
never been able to buy a horse, as ho
got only $20 a month. During the
quarter of a century that ho has been
In tho government employ not once
has any charge been brought against
him.
It is Not Settled.
As is very frequently found the
stomach trouble and headache in tho
following case came from the same
cause. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, like
all of Dr. Miles' Remedies, are designed
tc cure the disease, not the symptoms.
This readily explains why these ster
ling medicines can cure such a va
riety of diseases. There is no rem
edy, formula or prescription which in
any way equals Dr. Miles Anti-Pain
Pills for the speedy cure and relief
of headache and kindred ailments.
"Up to the ago of twenty-three my
ecn was greatly troubled with severe
pains in the stomach. After he had
served his term of enlistment with
the army in the Philippines he came
home and was unfit for anything be
cause of terrible headaches. He found
that Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills not
only relieved him of the headaches,
but would prevent an attack if taken
in time. Ho continued their use for
some time and to his surprise and de
light he found they had cured the
stomach trouble also. You may Im
agine how grateful both he and my
self feel to you for the good the Anti
Pain Pills have done him. I may
add that I have used your medicines
in our family for many years- and keep
a bottle of Nervine in the house all
tho time. I think It an ideal house
hold remedy and all thfc remedies are
just what you recommend them to be.
You have my permission to publish
this." Mrs. M. L. Farrar, Walla Wal
la, Wash.
All druggists sell and guarantee
Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They are
xicn-laxative; contain no opiates,
never sold in bulk. 25 doses, 25 cents.
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Walked 124,000 Miles.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch to the
Chicago Inter-Ocean says: As u re
sult of the establfshment of free rural
delivery in Washington county, Will
iam Archer has losthis job after car
rvine the mails over a star route for
twenty-five years and walking the en
tire time.
Archer Is now 45. When he was 20
he got the job of carrying the mail
from Johnson City to Stony Point, a
distance of eight miles. He did the
work for ten years and missed only
one day, and that on account of se
vere illness.
He then got the route from Stony
Point to Watauga Bend, a distance of
ten miles, and hero he carried the
mail for ,ten years, walking contin
ually. He made the round trip of
twenty miles daily.
Five years ago he was transferred
back to his old route between John
son City and Stony Point, and walked
sixteen miles a day. He continued to
carry the mail on this route until the
iostofflce was wiped out with all the
others in the county, and now he Is
without a job. "
Archer in his idleness has been fig
uring up "What he has done for the
government, and he finds by calcula
tion that he has walked 124,000 miles
during his service of twenty-five years,
or lacked about 900 miles of having
walked around the world five times.
That a full supply of money brings
what wo know as easy times "good
times," and a short supply of money
brings what wo know as close times
"hard times," has finally, after all
kinds of campaign falsehoods to tho
contrary,, come to be almost univer
sally recognized as the truth. There
fore it seems to us the people ought
to awake to the importance of tho
question as to whether the govern
ment ought to regulate the quantity
of money or whether this important,
vital, yes, sovereign, prerogative of
making the money and regulating its
value, should be turned over to cor
porations and trusts to bo regulated
through banks of issue. In the
founding of our government this
power to make money and regulate
its value, was reserved to the people
by providing that congress was to
coin money and regulate its value.
This is the point. Congress, and not
corporations, is to perform the duty
of&making money, and under no cir
cumstances should this power be dele
gated to corporations or anyone else.
All of both the gold and silver in
the world is not enough, if coined
into money, to supply the necessary
demand for money to do the business
of the world. Then there must be
added to this, from time to time, Is
sues of naner money, to make up tho
deficiency,. This the government should
issue every dollar of it and in no
event should banks or corporations, or
any one but the government bo al
lowed to issue money or withdraw and
cai.sel money after it is issued Tho
gold and bond manipulators through
their allies, the reDublican party and
the Palmer-Buckner-Cleveland reor
ganizes are making a desperate ef
fort to use only one money metal,
gold, and have the government turn
the making of money over to the
trusts, to be issued by tho banks and
cancelled at the will of the money
power. There is not one-fourth of the
voters in Indiana that want anything
of this kind done. Once the making
of money is placed in the hands of
organ.7td capUal, together with the
power of expanding and contrarrlug Its
quantity, there will be no protection
for the people from the grinding 6f
trusts. Nor will the people have any
power to either put the trusts down, or
restrain them, after tney once nave
control of the making of the money.
The use of both gold and silver,
equally free at the mints, and reg
ulated solely by congress, and the Is
suo and control by the government
of all paper money, is the only sal
vation of the people. So, do not think
e money question is settled. Frank
fort (Ind.) Standard.
portion of tho skull and thus relieved
the deforming pressure. Tho chango
was immediate.
Tho lad forgot his provlous tastes
and habits and was restored to his
paronts a normal and lovable boy, tho
complete antithesis of his former self.
Tho other was a soldier who was In
jured in a skirmish and after his dis
charge for disability became a thief
and burglar. His previous character
had been unexceptionable, his military
record was the best and the chango
was naturally attributed to tho injury
to his head caused by a blow from
tho butt of a musket. When he was
taken in hand by the surgeon he had
about come to tho end of a career of
crime, being paralyzed on one side
and unable to get about except on
crutches. A depression In the skull
sufficient to bring an abnormal local
pressurolipon the brain was found and
an operation was decided upon, which
restored his physical powers as well
as his mental and moral faculties. His
discharge was secured and ho has sinco
lived an industrious and honest life,
with no evidenco of a disposition to go
wrong. New York Times.
A Handsome Banner.
No political club in tho United States
can boast of so handsome a banner as
the Fairvlew Jefforson club. It oc
cupied a place at the Fourth of July
celebration at Mr. Bryan's park and
attracted much attention and favor
able criticism. It was painted by
William Homer Leavitt of Newport.
R. I., who recently painted a picture of
Mr. Bryan. Tho body of tho banner
is white silk with red and blue silk
triangular pieces at tho top. Tho in
scription "Fairvlew Jefferson Club" Is
in gold and the fringe in white. The
painting of Jefferson is in the artist's
best style. Mrs. Paul Holm, of Lin
coln, assisted in designing the banner.
Lincoln (Nob.) Post.
Moral Reform by Knife.
London is just now very much In
terested In two surgical cases giving
results in changing the nature of the
subjects which promise to render val
uable assistance In pointing the way
to the reformation of criminals. One
of these patients was a boy of good
family who had developed brutal In
stincts which seemed to be beyond
control. He gave his time to the in
vention of malicious mischief, delight
ed in killing or wounding, was the
terror of the neighborhood In which
he lived and promised to grow up a
desperado arid criminal. A clever sur
geon took him in hand, examined his
t,oi wit! nam inflated what he con
sidered the seat of trouble, removed a
Strength of Insects.
Everyone in a general way knows
of tho astonishing muscular power
employed by insects, and of tho real
tours do force which they execute
either in the pursuit of prey or in de
fending themselves against their ene
mies. At the same time one rarely
has a precise idea of the strength of
these insects because there are few
standards of comparison, although
nothing is simpler than to make a cor
rect valuation of their strength.
The wing strength of insects Is
known because of the work of Felix
Plateau and Dp Lucy, who showed
that these little creatures could not
raise a weight much heavier than
themselves, no matter what the sur
face of their wings. During tho course
of thfiRn cxneriments a very Interest
ing fact was discovered, namely, that
the size of the wing decreases as the
weight and size of the animal In
creases, a fact wh'lch explains tho slow,
heavy flight of the beetle and the
swift, light movement of the gnat
The case Is entirely different, how
ever, where the creature moves on a
solid surface where its six feet may
obtain points of support. In this case
we can approximately calculate the
force exercised. Take, for example, a
fly by the wings, leaving the legs free
so that they may seize and raise a
match. If a man wished to perform
relatively equal labor he would have to
raise a beam 24 1-2 feet long by 14 1-2
Inches square. The earwig harnessed
to a small chariot, drags without un
ficulty eight matches, which for a
large percheron horse would mean
dragging 330 beams as long and thick
as himself. The man who leaps the
300 meters of the Eiffel tour Is merely
repeating the action of the flea, which,
can leap 200 times Its own height
Finally the Hercules is obliged to
raise 80 large locomotives to equal
fho relative strength of an oyster,
which, in closing Its valves, exercises
a force of 1C kilograms. Thus it is
a much more slmplo thing to calculato
(hq strength of Insects than to equal
It, and our modern athlotes have yet
u long road to travel before they can
compare with animals occupying very
humble positions in the living world.
Public Opinion.
Real Vamplrtfl.
MuclThafl been written In the world
of fiction about vampires and their
awful doings In tho way of bloodsuck
ing. As a matter of fact, there Is
practhally only ono bloodsucking
vampire bat, although there is a
smaller ono which connects the com
mon species with the other members
of the family. Tho first one, the com
mon bloodsucking vamplro, measures
only about three inches in length, is
of a reddish-brown color, nnd Is found
from Central America to Southern
Brazil on the east, and In the west as
far as Chile. From the structure of
this bat it Is moro than probable that
blood actually forms Its entire food.
After a long, heavy sleep all day,
this vamplro comes out at night, hov
ers about in ghostly fashion until It
has selected Its victim, and then sets
to work. In the first place It pro
ceedsshould tho animal bo woolly or
thickly haired to carefully shavo
away the hair or wool, with the thin
part of tho skin, by Its peculiarly
sharp upper Incisor teeth. In this way
tho blood oozes slowly from the small
capillary vessels, when the vampire
bat at once begins to suck, and goes
en sucking the blood until its small
body can contain no, more.
Horses, sheep and cattle are often
served in this way, and as tho opera
tion apparently causes little or 'ho
pain, the animals aro not cognizant of
what Is going on; but should tho at
tacks be ropeated they become weak
and thin and finally become wrecks.
Although this Is the only bat which
subsists on blood, it is possible that
occasionally a few of tho javelin bats
rray vary their ordinary diet in this
way. San Francisco Chronicle.
SLOW 8TAKVAT10N
The Dyspeptic's JDIetlaree no Chance tew
Hcalul)g Strength
Tho dyspeptic who starves body and
brain because food will not digest has
no chance to get strong again because
bodily strength cannot be built up
except on food that will digest.
That is the mission of Grape-Nuts
which any dyspeptic can digest and
vhich will begin to build up and nour
ish at once.
A Wisconsin man says: "For the
last 7 years I have been a great suf
ferer with stomach trouble and for
18 months I could not eat or drink
anything, not even a spoonful of milk,
without great suffering.
"It seemed I had tried every remedy
in the world and I had given up all
hopes of ever getting better when a
friend advised me to eat Grape-Nuts
food. I was just about too much dis
couraged to do so for I expected to
die and all my friends expected I
would, too, but I finally did send for
a sample box an when it came I was
so weak I could not turn over in bed.
"Then I began to take -the Grape
Nuts, just a little bit at first moist
ened with hot milk and from this time
T hflfran to crow stronger and before
I had finished the fourth, package I
could eat and drink anything I wanted
and it did not hurt me In the least
So the right food helped me to health
after everything else had failed.
"Experience, actual use, prcwffl
absolutely tho great power of tUo
scientific food Grape-Nuts." Naw
given by Postum Co., Battle CreaK,
Mich.
Send for particulars by mail of ex
tension of time on the $7,600.00 cook
coritect for 735 money prizes.
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