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The most remarkable instance ot
longevity in the history of the Nutmeg
State perhaps is noted in the Kimball
family of the town of Preston one
member of it Mrs Abby S Cook who
is passing the closing years of her life
in the home of her daughter Mrs Will
iam H Cook of Franklin street this
city having celebrated on Tuesday the
90th anniversary of her birthday Mrs
Cook is the widow of the late Isaac H
Cook of Preston A large number of
her relatives friends and neighbors
called at her home on her anniversary
day ard congratulated her and the
venerable lady who is still hale and
active and of a cheerful spirit enter
tained them
Mrs Cook is a member of a family of
eight children sons and daughters of
Elisha and Lucy Lathrop Kimball all
of whom are alive and in vigorous
health with the exception of Mrs Sybil
A Branch the eldest who died two
years ago at Itoxbury Mass aged 00
years and 4 months
Here are the names and ages of the
surviving members of the band Abby
S Cook 90 years old Sarah Greeii
Iowa SS Sarah L Brown Chicago So
Nelson L Kimball Iowa S2 Frances
De Wolf Chicago 80 Lucius T Kim
ball Iowa 7S and Rev Nathaniel Kim
ball Iowa 7G The united ages of the
brothers and sisters are GOO years in
cluding that of Mrs Branch
The Modern Beau I y
hrives on goo 1 lood and sunshine with
plenty of exercise m the open air Her
form glows with health and her face
blooms with its beauty If her system
needs the cleansing action of a laxative
remedy she uses the gentle and pleasant
Syiup of Figs Made by the California
Fig Syrup Company
With many readers brilliancy of
style passes for affluence of thought
They mistake buttercups in the grass
for immeasurable gold mines under
ground
A Great Railway
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul
Hail way Co owns and operates 61G9 miles
of road
It operates its own Sleeping Cats and
Dining Cars
It traverses the best portion of the
States of Illinois Wisconsin Northern
Michigan Iowa Missouri Minnesota
South and North Dakota
Its Sleeping and Dining Car service is
first class ir every respect
It runs stibuled steam heated and
electric lighted trains
It has the absolute block S3rstem
It uses all modem appliances for the
comfort and safety of its patrons
Its train employes are civil and obliging
It tries to give each passenger value
leceived forlus money and
Its General Passenger Agent asks every
man woman and child to buy tickets over
the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Hail
way for it is A Gieit Railway
The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn
recently had four grandchildren born
in one day One of her daughters had
a son then another had a daughter
and finally a third had twins
Justice is in the mind a conditio J
analogous to good health and strength
in body
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KENNEDYS
MEDICAL JJISGOVERY
DONALD KENNEDY OF ROXBURY MASS
Has discovered in one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor from the worst Scrofula
down to a common Pimple
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases and never failed except in two cases
both thunder humor He has now in his
possession over two hundred certificates
of its value all within twenty miles of
Boston Send postal card for book
A benefit is always experienced from
the first bottle and aperfect cure is war
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When the lungs are affected it causes
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after taking- it Read the label
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WONDER James said Mrs
Meek doubtfully to ber bus
band one morning if you
could get your own dinner to night
You see Ive bad to let tbe servant go
on ber holidays for a day or two and
they want me desperately at tbe Wom
ans Aid and Relief bazar to help them
with their high tea from 430 to 830
If you thought you could manage by
yourself
Ill try to survive it observed Mr
Meek good naturedly I dont fancy
it will prove fatal
Ill get a roast and cook it this morn
ing then went on Mrs Meek cheer
fully and you can have it cold for
dinner
Thank you replied Mr Meek you
will do nothing of the kind I fancy I
havent gone camping pretty much
every year of my life for nothing I
suspect I can manage a hot dinner
about as well as most women
Mrs Meek bad her doubts and un
like most wives expressed them
Mr Meek viewed his wifes doubts
with supreme contempt and unlike
most husbands expressed it
Thus it finally resulted that Mrs
Meek abandoned all idea of preparing
Mr Meeks dinner for him and betook
herself to the bazar So it resulted
furthermore that Mr Meek left his
office about 4 oclock that afternoon
and proceeded to collect on liis way
home the necessary supplies for a
dainty little dinner
An alluring display of chickens were
the first thing to catch his eye and he
was just on th point of securing one
of them when by good luck or more
probably through the natural sagacity
of the man he recollected that well
that you dont as a rule cook chickens
as they are In the momentary reac
tion that followed this feat of mem
ory he bought a couple of mutton
chops and three tomatoes
Ill have a good plain old fashioned
English dinner thought he as he hur
ried past the deceitful chickens with
something almost akin to reproach
None of your finiky poultry dinners
for me
By jove he exclaimed a moment
later Til have an apple pudding and
some oyster soup to begin on
He was so tickled with this idea thnt
he promptly rushed into a grocery shop
and purchased half a peck of their best
eating apples and then hurried home
without a thought of the cab he was
to order for his wife at S30 sharp
By 5 oclock he had the fire going
beautifully and everything ready for
a start
By G oclock he was just beginning
to enjoy the thing the tomatoes were
stewing divinely the potatoes were
boiling to their hearts content and the
milk for the oyster soup was simmering
contentedly on the back of the stove
The oysters by the by had not ar
rived
Dear me thought the ambitions
gentleman I wish I bad thought of it
in time and Id have had some oyster
patties for a sort of final dessert Hel
lo whats this By thunder if that
everlasting pig headed woman hasnt
left me some cold ham and a custard
pie By tbe Lord Harry for 2 cents Id
throw the whole tiling out into the
back yard
The natural docility of his nature
however prevailed and he left tbe
obnoxious viands unmolested and pro
ceeded with his dinner At G30 he put
the chops on to broil as in the good
old days of yore this poetic allusion
to the style of cooking being occasioned
by one of them accidentally dropping
into the fire whence he rescued it with
great presence of mind by the joint as
sistance of the stove lifter and one of
the best table napkins By the time the
chop was thus rescued both it and the
table napkin were fairly well done
to say nothing stronger This trifling
difficulty he got over by putting the
erring chop on the window sill to cool
and the napkin into the fire to do the
other thing
This accomplished and with one chop
gently cooking on the gridiron and the
other one cooling on the window silJ
he started to construct the paste for his
apple pudding This proved most fas
cinating He placed a large quantity
of Hour in a small bowl emptied a jug
of water on top of it added butter to
taste and proceeded to mold it deftly
into shape as he had often seen his
wife do The flour and water promptly
forsook the bowl and took themselves
to his hands Then the milk for the
soup began to burn just as the potatoes
boiled dry- He rushed to the rescue and
left the major portion of the paste fair
ly evenly divided between the bandies
of the two saucepans and the stove lift
er At this juncture the tomatoes starr
ed in to see if they couldnt surpass the
milk in burning They succeeded The
cat which was accustomed to a G0
dinner walked off with the chop on
the window sill while the chop on the
fire grew beautifully black on the
down side So many things were
now burning all at tbe same time that
Mr Meek gave up all hope of trying to
discover which one was burning most
Let the dashed things burn till theyiv
sick of It was the extremely broad
minded way in which he summed ip
tbe situation With the astuteness that
characterized him as distinguished
from his fellow men he at once gave
up all efforts to track the truant paste
and simply popped his apples into the
OTen to bake
It was now about 730 and the fire
was getting hotter than pretty much
anything on earthy unless perhaps it
was Mr Meek He turned all the damp
ers opened all the doors and took off
all the lids This resulted most satis
factory the fire began to cool It didnt
stop
It got if anything a little low After
that it got very low Then it went out
He rushed for kindling and nearly took
his head off on a clothesline Just as
he had got through nicely expressing
his views on clotheslines in general and
that clothesline in particular he went
about twice as far toward taking his
head off on the same clothesline on bis
way back
The gentlest of natures when roused
are often the most terrible Mr Meeic
became very terrible He used up
enough kindling profanity and coal oil
to have ignited the pyramids of Egypt
He stamped and shoved and poked and
banged and cursed and shook till even
the cat and it had had its dinner was
displeased with him and departed to
the outer kitchen to try the oysters
which the dilatory grocer had just de
posited on the table without waiting to
parley with Mr Meek He was a wise
grocer and had heard enough
When about five minutes later Mr
Meek discovered that the cat had found
the oysters to its taste he became even
less calm Had the cat been around
but like the grocer it had heard
enough and taken an unobtrusive de
partureis it hugely probable that a
considerable majority of its nine lives
would have come to an abrupt termina
tion
At this stage to console the unfortu
nate man the fire began to go again
Once started it didnt stop In about
five minutes it bad burned up what ie
mained of pretty much everything ex
cept a large pot of green tea and a small
portion of Mr Meek The chop that the
cat hadnt eaten was especially well
done It could be quite safely left on
the window sill with a whole legion of
cats around it Mr Meek however
simply left it in the coal bin In point
of either color or hardness it would
have been difficult to have found a
more fitting place for it
Then there came over Mr Meeks face
a terrible expression He brought in
a pail it was the scrubbing pail which
he had mistaken for the scrap pail but
no matter and poured the soup careful
ly into it throwing the pan about five
feet into the sink Next he scraped the
potatoes into the same pail and again
another pan followed the course of the
first in getting to the sink Then he
poured the tomatoes on top of the
potatoes and still a third pan got to
the sinklvith unusual rapidity It can
not be definitely stated whether or not
Mr Meek in doing this was actuated
by the desire to prepare some famous
hunters dish relished in the dear old
camping days gone by but certain it is
no sooner did he get the tomatoes nicely
on top of the potatoes than he took the
whole thing and tossed it pail and all
into the outer lane
This accomplished he proceeded to
make a meal off the cold ham and some
bread and butter the cooking butter
of course
Just as he was finishing Mrs Meek
returned Why James she cried
cheerfully you never sent the cab for
me and I waited nearly an hour
No said her husband calmly Iv
been terribly busy Men from New
York just got home a little while ago
This is a very good ham a shade over
done isnt it
Perhaps a shade less wouldnt have
hurt it Liet me set you a piece of pie
No thank you No cold pie for me
when theres hot apples in the oven
Ill tell you what you might do You
might bring em in if youre not too
tired
Mrs Meek departed on her mission
In a few moments she reappeared ami
without moving a muscle placed the
plate of baked apples before ber lord
and master They were about the si c
of walnuts and the color of ebony
Judging by tbe way they rattled on the
plate they were rather harder than
flint
Mr Meek rose with an awful look in
his eye
Im -afraid observed his wife they
are like the ham just a shade over
done
If I ever catch that cat remarked
Mr Meek as that sleek feline purred
past him with a playful frisk of itr
tail Ill break every bone in its body
only he described its body with sun
dry adjectives that wei e very strange
to the ears of Mrs Meek At leat so
she said when she described the occur
rence to her bosom friend Mrs Mug
gins next day New York Truth
An Old Loar
The Soar family of Ambaston Derby
shire England have a curious heirloom
in the shape of a loaf of
over 1500 years old The founders
of the family it appears were great
friends of King John When that mon
arch died he made several land grants
to the Soars One of these tracts it
appears had always been conveyed
with a loaf of bread along with the
writings and the deed and the loaf
are both kept to this day as sacred
relics
Wild Horses m Quoecslantf
Wild horses have increased to such
an extent in Queensland that the ani
mals are being shot with a lf7 to re
duce the numbers
APOSTMASTERS WIFE
A LEEDS WOMAN WHO ASTON
ISHED HER FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBORS
Near to Death but Kestored So Com
pletely that She HaH Been Accepted
by a Life Insurance Company as a
Good Kisk
From the Journal Letcirton Me
A bright little woman rosy and fresh
from her household duties dropped into a
dinir before the writer and talked with
enthusiasm shining in iier snapping black
eyes
The people in the pretty village of
Leeds Center Me have watched with
some interest the restoration to complete
health of Mrs W L Francis wife of the
postmaster So general wore the com
ments on this interesting case that the
writer who visited Mrs Francis and
learnedjfroin 3ier that the statements re
garding her troubles and her subsequent
exfrlcation therefrom are entirely true
That others may be benefited by her
experience Mrs Francis has consented
to allow her story to appear in print
If there is anything on earth I dread
more than another she said it is to see
my name in the papers But in this case
I conquer my repugnance and give pub
licly the same credit to the savior of my
life as I would to one who had dragged
me from a death beneath the waves In
fact I have extolled my preserver so
enthusiastically and unreservedly have
sought out sufferers and recommended the
remedy to so many friends and ac
quaintances that already my neighbors
jocularly call me Pink Pills Francis
Butrreallv my recovery is something that
I consider wonderful I know that there
are so many testimonials of medicine in
the papers nowadays that people do not
pay as much heed as formerly but I do
wish folks who are suffering would re
member that what I say comes right from
the heart of a woman wno feels that she
had a new lease of happy life given to her
Eleven years ago I was afflicted with
nervous prostration My existence until
two years ago was one of dragging mis
ery Anyone in the village will tell you
of my condition My blood seemed ex
hausted from my veins and month after
month I grew weaker I was able to
undertake only the lightest household
work and even then I could perform it
only by slow and careful movements
During all these sorry months and years
I was under the care of this doctor and
that but their medicines helped me only
spasmodically and then I fell into re
lapses more prostrating than ever
In the night I used to be awakened
by the most excruciating pains in my
heart and side and was obliged to use
pellets of powerful medicine that the doc
tor gave me for relief in such attacks
At last my condition became so grave that
I went out only infrequently We live
up stairs you notice over my husbands
store and in descending the stairway I
frequently was obliged to sort of fall and
slide over the steps in order to descend
such was the strain on my system re
sulting from even this slight exertion Oc
casionally I visited the neighbors but I
was obliged to sit and rest to recover
breath while ascending any elevation In
short it did not seem that I could live
One day I saw an advertisement of
Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
and although my faith in remedies was
weak by that time I sent for a box and
tried them That was two years ago
Now I call myself a well woman Isnt
it wonderful
I havent had one of those excruciat
ing pains in the heart for a year and a
half Why even the first box of pills
helped me I can walk miles now can do
my work easily have gained in weight
constantly and you would scarcely be
lieve it but a little while ago I was ex
amined for endowment life insurance and
was accepted unhesitatingly after a care
ful examination by the physician
Do you wonder that Im shouting
Pink Pills all through our village I
havent taken any of the remedy for
some months for it has completely built
me up but at the first sign of trouble I
know to what refuge to flee
Last year my aunt airs M A Blos
som of Dixfield P O was here visiting
me She was suffering from lack of vi
tality and heart trouble but she was
skeptical about my remedy that I was
so enthusiastically advocating At last
however she tried it and carried some
home with her when she went A little
while ago I received a letter from her
and in it said I am cured thanks to God
and Pink Tills She also wrote that her
husband had been prostrated but had
been restored by the remedy
We feel up this way that such a sover
eign cure cannot be too widely known
That is the only reason why I allow my
name to be used in this connection I
know also that by personally recommend
ing them I have helped many of my
friends back to health for I never let an
opportunity pass when a word of counsel
may direct some one
One of the persons to whom Mrs Fran
cis recommended Pink Pills is Station
Agent O H Foster of Leeds Center and
the reporter found him patrolling the plat
form awaiting the arrival of the morning
train Mr Foster who Is one of the most
trustworthy capable and energetic men
in the employ of the Maine Central RR
appeared in usual good health and spirits
and we made inquiry as to the cause
Do you know replied he I think
Ive made a discovery or at least Mrs
Francis has for me I have been in poor
health for a long time with a heart trou
ble variously complicated We have been
so fully interested in Mrs Francis won
derful recovery that I at once determined
to give the medicine recommended a thor
ough test So about two months ago I
bought the first box of Dr Williams Pink
Pills Only two months please note yet
already I am so much improved so much
better able to fulfill my duties so san
guine that I am on the road to recovery
that I feel like a new man
I can now walk without the fatigue I
once experienced my heart affection ap
pears to be relieved and I have joined
the Pink Pills Band in our community
Mr Foster commenced taking the pills
at a time when he was completely pros
trated after he had suffered such a severe
attack of heart trouble that it was neces
sary to carry him home from his office
Since then he has faithfully adhered to
the remedy and is constantly improving
so much so as to excite his enthusiasm
and his gratitude
Dr Williams Pink Pills contain in a
condensed form all the elements neces
sary to give new life ana richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves Pink
Pills are sold by all dealers or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price 50 cents
a box or six boxes for 250 by addressing
Dr Williams Med Co SchenectadyNi
Two of a Kind
A literary anecdote is told in the
Bookman of a young lady in Provi
dence R I who was asked the other
day by her uncle to make some pur
chases for him of wihich he gave her a
written list The first item was Scotts
Emulsion and after glancing at it
tbe intelligent young woman made
straight for a certain large book shop
where she was received by an equally
intelligent salesman I want a copy
of Scotts Emulsion said she casual
ly1 Scotts what said the clerk
ScotTs Emulsion replied the maid
en aOh yes was the answer well
you see we dont sell Scotts works ex
cept in complete sets
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If Remote from 3Icdical Help
Doubly essential Is It that you should be pro
vided with some reliable family medicine
Hostetters Stomach Hitters Is tbe best of
Its class remedying thoroughly as It does
such common ailments as Indigestion con
stipation and biliousness and affording safe
and speedy help in malarial cases rheuma
tism and Inactivity of the kidneys
If Abdul Hamid Kahn Sultan of Tur
key should lose his job he could prob
ably get work as a cowboy He has a
stable of two thousand horses and be
can break a dozen glass vases with a re
volver while galloping past them
Hulls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally Price 75 cents
Some of the hungriest people in the
world are those who have the most
wealth
He was madly passionately in love
won by the matchless beauty of her com
plexion Glenns Sulphur Soap had im
parted the charm Of druggists
Good advice and timely assistance
alleviate much human suffering
For lung and chest diseases Pisos Cure
is the best medicine we have used Mrs
J L Northcott Windsor Ont Canada
In all things it is better to hope than
to despair
Buy 5 1 worth Dobbns Floating Borax Soap of ymr
rocer Mnd wrappers to Dobbins oap Mfjr Co Ph
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uiiiproIuely Illustrated Otter good till Aug Ion
To be contented with what we have
is about the same as to own the earth
Mrs Windows Soothing Sybup for Children
teetMng Eottena the gums reaiices IiillnmniatHia
UaK rain cure lisd colic V3 cents a bottle
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Hoods
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A woman knows what a bargain
really is She knows better than a man
BATTLE AX is selected every time
by wives who buy tobacco for their hus
bands They select it because it is an honest
bargain It is the biggest in size the
smallest in price and the best in quality
The 5 cent piece is almost as large as the
10 cent piece of other high grade brands
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Jorn P Allison Treasurer AND LIVE YES A D Colliek Secretary
Shoemaker Consumption Cure Co
OF SIOUX CITY IOWA
Has
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