The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, June 17, 1897, Image 7
P s u - u m v v X eF ENLARGED JOINTS FROMRKEJMATIS Such a Condition Indicates a Chnlky Deposit and Ie Seldom Cured Thore la Hope in Sonic Cases However from tin Enrichinir of the Blod From rte Jiccord and Union Rochester iliiw Mrs Elizabeth Pratt wife of Mr John Pratt one of the oldest settlera in Ohu stenl County Minnesota for many years lias been painfully afflicted vrith rheuma tism Mrs Pratt Ls well kuowu in the vicinity of Viola baring during one ad ministration held the responsible position of iostmistross She tells Che tale of her affliction and subsequent restoration to health which is printed in order that others similarly suffering mar road and adopt the same remedy she did Viola Olmstead Co Minn Aug 24 1S9C A little over ten years ago I discovered that the joints of my fingera were enlarg ing and very sore I consulted many physicans with some slight relief at times from pain but the joints grew larger and larger and my neck shoulders and limbs were so stiff that I could not move them without great pain My toes too were swollen out of all shape and my fingers- were so drawn and the muscles so contracted -that I could not use them I had given up all hope of cure when my attention was called about three years ago to the wonderful cures effected by tlie use of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and I procured a supply It was not long after I began taking them before I experienced considerable relief and I continued using them accord ing to directions until I have taken alto gether about three dozen boxes My lin gers are now straight and flexible and the joints reduced to their normal size the rheumatic pains are almost gone and now though I always keep Pink Pills by me I never use them unless I catcQi cold or get wet through I am willing lluU this testimonial shall be published in order that the extraordinary curative H powers of Dr Williams medicine may be known to rheumatic sufferers Signed MRS E A PRATT Dr Williams Pink Pills contain in a condensed form all the elements neces sary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females such as suppressions irregulari ties and all forms of weakness They build up the blood and restore the glow iof health to pnlo nnd sallow cheeks In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry overwork or excesses of whatever nature Pink Pills are sold in boxes never in loose bulk at T0 cents a box or six boxes for 250 and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Com pany Scheuectady N Y Hissing Hissing is not invariably an expres sion of disfavor In West Africa the natives hiss -when they are astonished in the New Hebrides -when they see anything beautiful The Basutos ap plaud a popular orator in their assem blies by hissing at him The Japanese show their reverence by a hiss Shake Into Your Shoes Allens Foot Ease a powder for the feet It cures painful swollen smart ing feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions Its the greatest comfort discovery of the age Allens Foot Ease makes tight fitting or new shoes feel easy It is a certain cure for sweating callous and hot tired aching feot Try it to day Sold by all druggists and shoe stores By mail for 25 cents in stamps Trial package FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y The difference between winter and spring wheat is merely a matter of cul tivation Halls Catarrh Cnre Is taken internally Price 75 cents - Tutting little thoughts in big words dont make them weigh any more Halls Hair Renewer renders the hair lustrous and silken gives it an even color and enables women lo put it up in a great variety of styles The Vatican contains 20S staircases and 1100 different rooms Picos Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures George W Lotz Fa bacher La Aug 2G 1S95 He that takes no holiday hastens a long rest Whats the best disinfectant and remedy for skin irri taUons and defects Glenns Sulphur Soap Hills Hair and hisker Lire black or brown 5 c Weaving by hand is increasing in Switzerland Mrs Whislows Soornixo Stub for Children teething softens the sums reduces lnnauimation allays pain cures wind colic 25 cents a bottle It is easier to hold an anacondas tail than a fools tomrue A woman is sick some disease pecul sex is fast developing in lier system to her family physician and tells him story but not the whole story Sheholdssomethingback loses her head becomes agitated forgets what she v to say and finally conceals what ought to have told and thus comple mystifies the doctor Is it any wonder therefore that the doctor fails to cure the disease Still we cannot blame the wo man foritis very embarrassing to detail some of the symp toms of her suffering even to her family physician It was for this reason that years ago Mrs Lydia E Pink- a Faulty Rule Wvjc is a citizen in this town who hai always experienced the greatest difficulty in fitting their proper names and identity to acquaintances whose faces he knows perfectly well So marked ls this falling that he has often been placed in exceedingly awkward situations even with friends whom he has known for several years Some time ago lie Injt upon what he consid ered a rather ingenious plan for find ing out the name of the man to whom he was talking After one or two safe- ly commonplace remarks upon the weather or any not too personal topic he would ask In an apparently casual manner Well how is business with you now pretty fair It almost invariably happened that hi unsuspecting companion would say something in reply which would reveal the nature 6f his occupation This wa all Mr A wanted As soon as he knew this particular he knew his man Many successful experiments with tins method soon gave him a fatal amouut of confidence in his infallibility Fear less of detection he put the same In quiry unblushingly on every occasion which found hi in unable to identify an acquaintance Last week the shock came and now his faith is sadly shak en by what he admits was a conspicu ous failure Dropping into a seat in the cable car one morning Jie found himself beside a gentleman who greeted him familiarly and proceeded to make inquiries re garding his family which showed him to be a comparatively intimate friend Mr a knowing his face but en tirely at a loss for his name merely awaited a good opportunity And how is business with you now brisk His companion stared a moment then laughed I guess you dont know me Mr A now admit it Well I why stammered the oth er awkwardly cursing his wretched memory you are Bishop L I think my business is about as lively as usual you know Healthfulness of Lemons Tery many people know the benefii of lemonade before breakfast but few know that it is more than double be taking another at night also The way to get the better of the bil ious system without blue pills or qui nine is to take the juice of one two or three lemons as appetite craves in as much ice water as makes it pleasant to drink with sugar before going to bed In the morning on rising at least a half hour before breakfast take the juice of one lemon in a goblet of water This will clear the system of bile with efficiency without any weakening ef fects of calomel or mineral water People should not irritate the stom ach by eating lemons clear the power ful acid of the juice which is always most corrosive invariably produces in flammation after a while but properly diluted so tliat it does not burn nor draw the throat it does its medical work without harm and when the stomach is clear of food lias an abun dant opportunity to work over the sys tem thoroughly Wild Canary Biras Many of the very best canary birds tre captured wild in the United States Southern California is full of wild cana ries and there are no better singers in the world In some sections the air seems to be tilled with melody They are so plentiful that the boys kill them in great numbers with sling shots and they are little more thought of than sparrows Some dealers prefer tho American canaries to the imported and there does not seem to be any danger that the supply will ever run short Didnt Hurt Him Much At West Brattleboro Vt a man who had jumped from a load of hay looked up just in time to be struck by a hay fork One tine entered his face just under the eye and went through the roof of his mouth but the wound did not seriously inconvenience him WHY SO MANY EEGULAE PHYSICIANS FAIL To Cure Female Bis Somo True Reasons Why Mrs Pinkham is More Successful Than the Family Doctors tolier She goes igHiiOl a KflnKt3 fA WiPcSSnSfS Vr H5L3Mr iiXkrlfi ants AgSgw ESJAy fe ZMtt she 1ISI Jn3 if JPlllllil 7 fyW ham at Lynn Mass determined to step in andhelp her sex Having had consid erable experience in treating female ills with her Vegetable Compound she en couraged the women of America to write to her for advice in regard to their complaints and being a woman it was easy for her ailing sisters to pour into her ears every detail of their suffering In this way she was able to do for them what the physicians were unable to do simply because she had the proper information to work upon and from the little group of women who sought her advice years ago a great army of her fellow beings are to day constantly applying for advice and re lief and the fact that more than one hundred thousand of them have been successfully treated by Mrs Pinkham during the last year is indicative of the grand results which are produced by her unequaled experience and training No phjsician in the world has had such a training or has such an amount of information at hand to assist in the treatment of all kinds of female ills from the simplest local irritation to the most complicated diseases of the womb This therefore is the reason why Mrs Pinkham in her laboratory at Lynn Mass is able to do more for the ailing women of America than the family physician Any woman therefore is responsible for her own suffering who will not take the trouble to write to Mrs Pinkham for advice The testimonials which we are constantly publishing from grateful women establish beyond a doubt the power of Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Com pound to conquer female diseases BLUE AND THE GfiAf BRAVE MEN WHO MET ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE rhHllinK Storied of the Rebellion Old Boldicra and Sailors Relate Remi niecences of Life in Camp ami oa tli yield Incidents of the War Letters n War Time During the civil war the government expended infinite pains in forwarding mail to the troops in the field says an Did arrnv man We talk now of tlie wonders of our postoffice organization but perfect as the system is it is not more perfect than was the system which carried thousands of letters un erringly to the million or more of men in distant camps in a hostile country even to the line of battle formed for at tack There was carelessness in direc tion then as there is now but the ex perts traced out the man whose name was misspelled and whose regiment was confused with some other and whose company wa not given until Qnally the letter reached the right man The custom then was for a letter to be addressed to the company regiment brigade and division of the army in which the soldier was supposed to be Mall for a certain division went to the headquarters was distributed to tle brigades and regiments and by the regimental headquarters to the com panies and by the company officers to the men It sometimes happened that a letter in case of army reorganization was addressed to the Fourth DivTsion when it should have gone to the Third went to the Fourth Corps when it should have gone to the Fourteenth but if the number of the regiment v as correctly grren it reached its destina tion The government provided that all letters from the soldiers should be forwarded without postage if they bore the frank of the adjutant or colonel This was a great convenience to the men because it was almost impossible for them to secure or carry postage stamps Packages of papers sent to the boys were more conscientiously de livered than they are in these times In fact the postal system of the army was a wonderful thing I remember losing but one letter and that was on a train captured by John Morgan The pathetic side of the letter busi ness came when the warm messages of affection and love from sweethearts sisters and mothers came to the men who had been shot or fatally wounded or who were raving with fever in tlie Hospital Tlie most trying duty of com pany or regimental officers was the handling of such correspondence It required tact sympathy and under standing of human nature and a heart full of consideration and tenderness Occasionally there would come to a man dead a letter full of reproaches and petty complaints written by a woman whese nerves were on tlie edge nnd who complained to her absent hus band through force of habit The plain blunt misspelled words and misshapen tetters seemed in such cases instruments of torture stopped by the dead heart In one case of this kind the captain wrote simply a formal statement of the soldiers death assuming that a woman who could write so many petulant thirgs could have little sentiment or Avarm feeling He Avas surprised to re ceive in reply a most touching letter asking for all details and particulars and explaining Ikjav precious Avas the memory of everything connected with the dead soldier This letter reveflled the real Avoman and Avhen Ave returned Ave found in her home so many relics of the men of the company and such hero Avorship of the husband who had died in battle that recollection of the petu lant complaining letter v out out of mind There were many men in the service who could neither read nor write We had half a dozen men of this kind in our company and it fell to my lot to conduct the correspondence of some of them They Avere line looking braA e felloAvs and for several months not many knew that they could not read nor Avrite They affected a knowledge they did not have One day a burly young fellow sidled up to me in a bash ful confiding sort of Avay and inquired if I could read all kinds of writing I supposed that he AA anted to knoAV if I could read German or French and I explained that I could only read En glish and he explained that ho only wanted me to read English Avritten by an Irish girl Thereupon he pulled out of an inner pocket six letters unopened which he had received from his daugh ter Taking up the letters in order I read the moet remarkable chapters in a young life that ever came AAithin tlie i line of one mans observation This girl was in the poorhouse She began by telling Iioav comfortably she was situated In the next letter she admit ted that she Avas not comfortable but if her father could send her a very Mt tle money she Avould not be miserable In the next letter she told of persecu tion and trouble In the next which came from another postoffice she told the story of her running aAAay from the infirmary and of her seeking a home among strangers The letters were girls letters but they told the xiory and the stout strong fellow before roe cowered like he had been struck With the pitiful appeal in the Last letter he broke dOAYH The thought that he had carr these letters all the time not showing them because of a false pride and through this false pride closing his art to the appeals of his Laughter he explained the only creature in the world that loved him the thought that lie could have helped and had not wjw a very bitter one I took up the corre spondence at that point My first let ter evidently failed to reach the girl I wrote another and another and fiwUly there came a note in reply When mmiication was once opened relief was reads The father could not do too much for the daughter and all his sav ings went to her Through influence exerted by the officers of the company she was placed in school and after the war became one of the most influential women in her circle in a Southern city Gncrrillns Feared bv 3Iii1cf Tlie worst fright I ever had was caused by a drove of young mules said Frank James avIio Avas one of Quantrells most daring night riders A detachment of Quantrells com mand Avas suddenly and unexpectedly unhorsed in Western Kentucky about the middle of the Avar I was one of them There Avere ten of us in the par ty We hustled around in lively fash ion for neAV horses and could not af ford to be very squeamish about the style of the animal or the means em ployed in acquiring them for the ene my Avas close upon us and pursuing ua hotly Along toward night we came upon a pasture filled Avith a motley ar ray of horses and Ave helped ourselves to them In the buuen was an old mare Avith a big bell tied around her neck Of course Ave knew that this meant she was the leader of the drove But we pressed her into service any way and aAvay Ave struck doAvn a rocky branch road You dont know what a rocky branch road is unless you have had to travel over one in Western Kentucky It is no road at all but sim ply a level bank along a branch or small creek that Aoavs through a val ley between the high hills which in most any other country would be call ed mountains Well we were going lickity split clown this rocky branch road toward our command It was soon after dark but It Avas as black aAvay down in that ravine as the innermost recesses of the infernal regions are supposed to be Though we were riding fast and mak ing a good deal of noise we could hear a tremendous commotion in our rear We halted to determine the nature and cause of it The uproar sounded like a cavalry charge and we concluded that a whole division of Federal caAalry was pursuing us We resumed our course under whip and spur and loud- er ed grew the noise in our rear It sound- exactly as if the enemy Aras gaining on us at every lap and I suggested that we shy off into the bushes and wait for the Yanks to come up Then we could surprise and rout them On the mad rush came Avith a mighty clat ter of hoofs on that rocky branch road As the uproar greAV louder and more distinct we knew the enemy was near ing us and we threw ourselves Into line of battle Pretty soon we heard the clatter just over tlie brow of a hill from our position and we cocked our guns ready to throAV a broadside into the onrushing Yanks as soon as they shoAved them selves on the hills crest In another Instant a black mass could be seen sweeping over the knoll Then Ave thought probably It might be some of our own men and that before sending our deadly fire into the mass it would be best to find out what composed it We shouted Halt at the top o our voices but still the mass continued to sweep toward us Then Ave fired a vol ley into it The flash of our guns made a brilliant red streak in the inky black ness and through it Ave saw a lot of young mules They had broken out of the pasture when they discovered the absence of tlie bell mare and their in stinct had guided them in our direction In search of her I have no idea how many of them we killed but I do Iciioav that I Avas ants mad enough when I got over my fright to shoot them all down and AAonld probably have done so if it had not been for the fear that the cannon ading Ave had already indulged in had aroused the enemy and put him onto tlie direction Ave had taken St Louis Republic TIcafle and His Icn General Horace Porter relates the following anecdote of General Meade in his Campaigning Avith Grant in the Century General Meade was a most accocn plislied officer He had been thorough ly educated in his profession and had a complete knowledge of both the sci ence and tlie art of Avar in all its branches He was Avell read possessed of a vast amount of interesting infor mation had cultivated his mind as a linguist and spoke French AA ith fluen cy When foreign officers visited the front they were invariably charmed by their interviews with the commander of the Army of the Potomac He was a disciplinarian to the point of sever ity was entirely subordinate to Ins su periors and no one was more prompt than lie to obey orders to the letter In his intercourse Avith his officers the bluntness of the soldier was always conspicuous and he never took pains to smooth any ones ruffled feelings There was an officer serving in tlie Army of the Potomac avIio had former ly been a surgeon One day he appear- ed at Meades headquarters in a high state of indignation and said General as I was riding over here some of the men in the adjoining camps shouted af ter me and called me Old Pills and I woukl like to have it stopped Meade joet at that moment was not in the best possible frame of mind to be approach ed with such a complaint He seized hod of the eye glasses conspicuously large in fcoze wliich he always wore clapped them astride of his nose with both haixls glared through them at the officer and exclaimed Well Avlial of tiurt How can I prevent it Why I hear that wiien I rode out the other day roe of tliera called a d d okl gogge erl snapping turtle and I cant even stop that Tlie officer hwl to content himself with this ex plostre expreeeron of a sympathetic fellow feeling and to take his chances tbwafter as to obnoxious opitbets A Neglected Pain One of the beneficient arrangements of Divine Prividence is pain It Is the signal of danger the telegraphic alarm from the outposts intimating the pres ence of an enemy Without the protec tion of pain a man Avarming his feet might burn them off and tlie human system might be destroyed if it were not for the protection afforded by pain Many people neglect the intimations of pain they use narcotics to deaden the sense of pain they treat pains Avarnings as if they were of no account and by and by Avhen it is too late they find that they have done themselves mischief which they can never repair Every pain has its use and if Ave are to enjoy health Ave must pay attention to the admonitions of pain Most pains if taken in season can be promptly relieved Rubbing heating bathing and similar means frequently bring immediate relief and if pains are obstinate the effort to relieve them Should be the more persistent but on no account should we treat pain Avith indifference it is like an alarm bell it is a Avarning note uttered for our pro tection and for our safety We should thank God for pains Avhich caution us Avarn us and protect us and should immediately seek to remove tlie causes Avhich produce pains and so guard our health and lengthen our live Unwieldy Legal Tender Copper Avas actually used in Sweden during the last century as the chief medium of exchange and at times mer chants had to take Avheelbarrows Avith them Avhen they AAent to receive pay ment in large sums Fame In France France has set about 300 monuments to more or less distinguished French men during the hist tAventy five years and there are noAV 127 committees col lecting monej for more AN OPEN A Ftout Bnckhone Is ns essential to physical health as to politi cal conslotoncy For weakness of the buck rheumatism unci disorders of the kidneys tUi tonic and dietetic action of Ilostetter Stomach Hitters ls the one tlilm u red f til The stomach is the mainstay of every other orran iiud liy invigorating the digestion Willi this preparation the spinal column and nil Its dependencies are sympathetically strengthened The dyspeptiu and bilious will lind it a pure vegetable stimulant and tonic Density of Newfoundland Fox A Newfoundland fog is frequently so thick that for the bowsprit of a Aessel to be seen emerging from the mist while not a trace of the masts or hull is perceptible is as common as Is the spectacle of a vessel the topmasts of Avhich are basking in the sunshine while the creAV beloAV cannot see from stem to stern Wervous S75 RDEA Weak Tl ed Thousands are in this condi tion They are despondent and gloomy cannot sleep have no appetite no energy no arulition Hoods Sarsapanlla soon brings help to such people It gives them pure rich blood cures nt rvonsne s creates an appetite tones and strengthens tue 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