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A TEUPERAHCE WORKER. Says Pe-ru-na is a Valuable A'ervt and Blood Jiemedy. v fs ; v r , - A . . . MISS BESSIE FARRELU M1 flSS BESSIE FAKRELIi lOlt Third Ave.. Brooklyn. N. Y.. is Presi dent of the Yonnir People's Christian Temperance Association. Sbe writes: "Peruna is certainly a valuable nerve and blood remedy, calculated to build .up the broken-down health of worn-out 'women. I have found by personal ex perience that it acts as a wonderful re storer of lost strength,' assisting' the stomach to assimilate and digest the food, and building ui wornrout tissues. In my work I have had occasion to recommend it freely, especially to women. "I know of nothing which is better to build npthe strengt h or a yonnff mother, in fact, all the ailments peculiar to women, so I am pleased to give it my hearty endorsement." Dr. Hart man has prescribed Peruna for many thousand women, and he never fails to receive a multitude of ' letters like the above, thanking him . for the wonderful benents received. Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative. THE ONLY i Sanitary Durable It is marvellous what a beautiful color effect can be secured in a room when the wall is tinted with Alabastine. There -is a richness as weir as a freshness and a dalnti ness about it that no other material gives. Alabastine Co. Grand rapids, Mich. ' new york city 16 Baurtifiil Tint. I pkg. covin 300 ta 430 (quart fart efWill. All Good Deal er Sail It. Do Hot Tako AaySibttitttk. MONEY FOR RECIPES Prizes of Fifty Dollar ($50.00) In Gold for the Best Recipes. 1 For our syndicate Bertie to newspapers through out the country we wish to obtain from tne Uunse- wires of the United Htates their choicest recipes for . appending aisnes. r ire mtes in uuia ox i-en uoi nru (IllMW each will be paid every month fur the Class 1BRHA1. Class SCAKB. Class 3 PIES. Class 4 DB88ERTS. Class 5-ANT ORIGINAL DISH OF TOUR OWN INVENTION. When we print the Piise Recipes In the papers of the U ni tea Suites the winners' names will be attached. To help cover cost of advertising an entrance fee of 26 cents ( silver or money order) must be sent wnn tne recipe in eacn ciast om you may kiMl more than one reclneln a sinsrle class with but the one entrance fee. Hhould von naveaffood recloe (or more than one) In tick of the five classes. One tioiiar unsteaa 01 i.a win ne aeceniea as mil entmnce fee. And remember that as long as this advertisement aoDcarH the Prizes In Oold will be v paid every W tbiy for the recipes received duiiny the current month. If yon do not receive a prise this month, yon may the next-. We reserve the rifrht to purcnaae at our rcvuiar raies, rocn recipes a may prove ox went out uo no win prises. This Is a splendid opportunity for every Housewife to earn lira nay sumoi i cq uoiiars (or morei in worn hv hnr hklllaaa ctMik; and to have the satisfaction of knowing that thousands of other Housewives will know that she devised the dish. A list of the Prise Winners will be printed here each month, or mailed ai recto receipt ox sunup. Dontdelayln entering this nnlgne and Instructive gftBirononncai rnu ompeuuon. INTERNATIONAL PRESS BUREAU. 84 La Salla Street.' - Chicago, UL SICK HEADACHE I , , I 1 Positively cored by lb All I trto Lmmm ,( I They also relieve Dla- 11 JITT1F I twss from Dyspepsia, Ir l riap ldtfrestlonandToiHearty II I I VLK I Eating. A perfect rem I I illll ledy tor DlMloeaB, Nat Ul I I !.. ea, Drowsiness, Bad I ft I Taste In the Mouth, Coat- f I jej onirae. Pain in the " ""-I TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SHALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS Genuine Must Bear. Fao-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. HFAflFPQ of .this paper de- aawaavaaat su siring to buy any thing advertised in Its columns should Insist upon having wnai in tutes or what they ask for. refusing all substi- r imitations. I ' ' xl.-l SAVED BY THE TYKE INSTANCE OF QUICK THINKING ON CRITICAL OCCASION. Probable Total Loss of Man-of-War Averted by Mere Apprentice Hia Warrant Officer'a Uni form Well Merited. Quite a number of former appren tices are wearing the uniforms of war rant officers in our service because they were quick thinking boys on critical occasions. X One of them was extraordinarily handy with his knife one day when the ship on board of which he was serving as apprentice had a swell chance to go to the bottom, but for him. They were - having heavy gun and conning tower practice. The skip per was doing some firing from his position in the conning tower by touch ing the electric button alongside of him. The apprentice was acting as the skipper's messenger during that practice. Projectile and charge had been rammed Into one of the six-inch guns on the main deck. Some confusion in orders came about. At any rate the skipper had his finger within a couple of inches of the electric button ready to press it and thus discharge the ix inoh gun, when the apprentice was on the job. Standing just outside the conning tower and having from that position a- view of the gun ahead to be fired, the youngster observed that the breech of the six-inch gun hadn't yet been closed, and there was the skipper on the very pin point of touching the button that would fire the gun with the unlocked breech. If the gun went oft in that condition there was the finest kind of a chance for the recoil of the immense piece to drive the gun right through the ship's bottom. The apprentice didn't have much time to think, but he didn't need much. He figured.it all out in an instant that if he yelled at the skipper that the breech wasn't locked the suddenness of the yell might so startle the skipper that his finger would involuntarily come down on the button and thus discharge the gun. The boy's ship's knife with the big blade was in his left hand shirt pocket hanging there for its lanyard. He had it out and the blade open in an incredibly short space of time, and he made one cat like dab with the sharp blade of the knife at the electric wire belonging to the button that led right alongside where the boy was standing by the conning tower. The blade cut the wire .in two a fraction of a second be fore the skipper's finger reached the button, breaking the electric connec tion and in every likelihood prevent ing a tremendous calamity. The boy was only a tyke and not very strong, and just as soon as he slashed the wire . he Jell forward on his face in a dead faint an odd thing, too, that, for a boy serving on a man-o'-war, and yet the incident wasn't any ordinary one. The skipper raised his head the instant he touched the button and saw what had happened; the loose ends of the cut electric wire, the prone boy and all the rest of it. Then he darted out of the conning tower and saw the breech of the big gun still unlocked. He understood it all' long before the boy was brought around to consciousness. That boy had no sooner finished his days of ap prenticeship before he wore the war rant officer's uniform of a gunner. Remarkable Criminal Record. To-day a remarkable execution has taken place in this city, the like of which has never happened even in the annals of Chinese executions. The man who was executed was found guilty of highway robbery and sentenced to be beheaded. He is the seventh of the family - to suffer the extreme penalty in this city. The parents gave birth to eight boys, and from whatever causes it is Impossible for me to say, the whole family have just given themselves Jip body and soul to evil. The poor old mother escorted this, her seventh son, to the execution ground wailing hei dreadful fate the. whole way. On ar rival the magistrate, fearing she might cause trouble. bad her forcibly re moved outside the crowd until all was over, when she ran back to. the bleed ing headless . body of ber poor boy and again took Tip her wailing. Sui fnu correspondence Shanghai Mercury, Coat Made from Loons' Breasts. The breasts of 365 loons made into a coat! Tnis is the strange garment shown in the window of a downtown shoe , company. . The manager knows little of the history of the coat except what is told on the card exhibited in the window. I "The company is sending the coat around to be shown in its various stores," he said. "How it came into its possession I do not know." The breast of a loon is about four inches square and each bears a white spot in its center. ' The number of pieces in the coat, therefore, can be counted readily. As these birds are very difficult to shoot, many years BQUst have been required to make the collection. Kansas City Star.' Has Found River's 8ources. Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ex plorer, states that he has discovered the true sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus. The Brahmaputra, he says, is the Kubitsampso, which rises from an enormous glacier on the northern side of the . northern-most parallel range of the Himalayas. The Marium chu, which has hitherto been regarded as the source, is merely a small tribu tary flowing in from the west. HERt GOOD FORTUNE. After Years Spent in Vain Effort. Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cam bridge, N. Y., says: - "Five years ago I had a bad fall and It affected my kid neys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges fol lowed any exertion. The kidney - secre- 'vh i'' i tions were badly dls 1 'colored. I lost flesh and grew too weak to work. . Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. I am now in ex cellent health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. With an Eye to the Future. Queen Alexandra " attended last spring's annual Mansion House fete in London, and because of that auspicious fact there is a tale to tell and worth the while. One of the diminutive flow er maidens was both pretty and plump, and when her majesty stopped for an instant to smile down upon her, what did she do but pnt up her wee (and tempting) mouth for a kiss, which she received. "Molly!" gasped her ' astounded mother, and after the distinguished visitor had passed on, "how could you!" And Molly gave a good reason. "I fought," said she. "It 'uld be interest In' to tell- my grandchildren." Har per's Weekly. CURED HER CHILDREN. Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema Baby Had a Tender Skin, Too Relied on Cuticura Remedies. "Some years .ago my three little girls had a very bad form of eczema Itching eruptions formed on the backs of their heads which were simply cov ered. I tried almost everything, but failed. Then my mother recommended the Cuticura Remedies. I washed -my children's heads -with Cuticura Soap and then applied the wonderful oint ment, Cuticura. I did this four or five times and I can say that they have been entirely cured. I have another baby who is so plump that the folds of skin on his neck were broken and even bled. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuti cura Ointment and the next morning the trouble had disappeared. ' Mme. Napoleon Duceppe, 41 Duluth St., Montreal, Que., May 21, 1907." - Give Them Titles? By ' granting titles of nobility - to American men we might stop the flow of good American money into the coffers - of titled foreigners who marry American girls, but the remedy would be worse than the disease.. Billion Dollar Grass. Most remarkable grass of the century. Good for three rousing crops annually. One Iowa farmer on 100 acres -sold $3, 800.00 worth of seed and had 300 tons of hay besides. It is immense. Do try it. Fob 10c and this kotice send to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis..- to pay postage, etc' ana they will mail you the only original seed catalog published in America with sam ples of Billion Dollar Grass, Macaroni Wheat, the sly miller mixer, Sainfoin the dry soil luxuriator. Victoria Rape, the 20c a ton green food producer, Silver , King Barley yielding 173 bu. per acre, etc.; etc., etc. And if you send 14c we will add a pack age of new farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, K. & W. The "Patrolium" Wagon. The telephone In police -headquarters rang. "Is this the police station?" in quired a woman's voice. "It Is," said C. E. McVey, the desk sergeant. -- "Well, I wish you all'd send the pa trolium wagon over to Fourth and Oak streets right away. Ole Bill's got drunk again and he's, just raising Cain. And say," the voice added, "if you all don't send that wagon mighty quick you all might as well Bend a hearse, 'cause I'm goln' to hit that fool nigger in a minute." . " The wagon made a'"hurry" run, but returned empty a .few minutes later. The driver reported that he could Bnd no trouble. Kansas City .Star. -.-- Heard at the Drama.! . Mrs. Ryetop -John, how much time elapses between the second and third acts? ' . ' .'.:.; . . .;' '',"-:, Mr. Ryetop The program says six months, Maria. . .... .. . Mrs. Ryetop (aghast) Six months, John? 'Lands, we can't wait!.' Why, them buckwheat cakes I left to "riz will have gone clear Jthrough the roof by that time. -- v - : ' P11KS CURED IN B TO 14 DATS. P7(l l vicn I - . . , . . ... ' inn any case of itcblng. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles In tits, llifui.... . m ........ ........ r.it.. , Some silence may be golden, but much of it is ironical. WHiee Rim Down I ' B as WINTER WHEAT CROP HE REALIZED $38 PER ACRE. HIS OATS $37 PER ACRE IN SOUTH ERN ALBERTA, WESTERN ' V ,. CANADA. ! Coaldale, Alta, Can., Nov. 19, 1907. - Sir: I beg to say that" this year we had 349 acres of grain, consisting of 197 acres of spring wheat and 152 acres , of oats. The average yield of wheat was 38 bushels per acre and oats 74 bushels. We were offered $1.00 per bushel for wheat and 50 cents for oats, making the acre val ues for the two crops $38.00 and $37.00 respectively. We also had 50 tons of hay worth $13.00 per ton, and 500 bushels of potatoes,-worth 60 cents per bushel, the latter off 2 acres of ground. Our best yields this year -were 107 i.eres of wheat, making 41 bushels per acre at $1. 00 per bushel, would be $41.00 per acre; 47 acres of oats, yield ing 95 bushels per acre were Bold for 50 cents per bushel. Proceeds, $47.00 per acre. I might add that 50 acres of our oats were "stubbled in." ' During the spring of 1906, we hired about 300 acres broken by steam. We put in and harvested 55 acres of grain last year, did the remainder of our breaking, worked up the ground and seeded this year's entire crop, put in seven acres of alfalfa and five acres of garden potatoes, trees, etc., all with one four-horse team. During har vest we hired other teams, but, aside from this, and part of the breaking, the one team did the work of raising practically 19,000 bushels of' grain, worth $12,000. Yours truly, W. H. PAWSON, JR. WINTER WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSH ELS TO THE ACRE IN SOUTH ERN ALBERTA. . Warner, Alta, Canada, Jan. 9, 1908. Dear Sir: This is the first year of farming in this settlement. Mr. A. L. Warner raised twenty-five hundred and fifteen bushels of fine winter wheat on one hundred acres of break ing and Tenny' brothers had sixty acres that went thirty bushels per acre. The' winter wheat that is in this year looks fi ne. Spring wheat here went thirty bush els per acre, oats fifty to eighty, bar ley fifty,1 and flax ten to fifteen on sod. ' The settlers ' here are all well I pleased with the country. The stock have not required any feed except the grass up to this date and are all fat. Yours truly. F. S. LEFFINGWELL. (Information as to how to reach these districts, rates, etc., can be secured from any agent of the Canadi anf government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere. Ed. - i , , -j. . . -v " "Inhere is only one key to success, and that is perseverance. Let noth ing daunt you and, if really in earnest and resolved to conquer, you must win. De Sales. ' - It is her winning ways that often enable a woman to get the better of a man in tbe matrimonaial game. 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