9 mm PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE ia Em Plnkfaam's The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not be- it is a stimulant , not because it palliative , but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and recon- Btructor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs , positively curing disease and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured , trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians \vho have recognized the virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound , and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and openlnmdreds of them would acknowl edge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound in severe cases of female ills , as they know by experience it can be re lied upon to effect a cure. The follow ing letter proves it. Dr. S. C. Brigham , of 4 Brigham Park , Fitchburg , Mass. , writes : "It gives mo jjreat pleasure to .say that 1 have found Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetabls Compound very efficacious , and often pre scribe it in my practice for female difficulties. "My oldest daughter found it very benefi cial fora femaletrouble some time ago.andmy youngest daughter is now tailing it for a fe male weakness , and is surely gaining in health and strength. " I advocate it most reliable freely as a spe cific in all diseases to which women are sub ject , and give it honest endorsement. " Y romen who are troubled with pain ful or irregular periods , bloating { or flatulency ) , weakness of organs , dis placements , inflammation orulceration , can be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If advice is needed write to Mrs. Pinkham , at Lynn , Mass. She is daughter-in-law ; of Lydia E. Pinkhana and for twenty- five years has been advising sick women free of charge. No other liwng person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has - guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if sha tvants to be strong and well. " POMMEL WATERPROOF CLOTHING. Isrnade ofthe best SIGN OFTHE FISH TCY.TR CAKAOUH COJURTO. AJTOWCR CO. TORONTO. CAN. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dis tress from. Dyspepsia , In digestion , and Too Hearty Eating ; A perfect rem edy for Dizziness , Nausea , Drowsiness , Bad Taste In tlia Mouth , Coated Tongue. Pain In the Side. TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE BARTERS Genuine Must Bear ITTLE Fac-Simile Signature IVER PILLS. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. Three preat pursuits have again showrr wonderful results on the FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS OF WES7ERH CANADA Magnificent climate. Farmers plowing In their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. "All are bound to bo more than pleued with tb * final runltl of the past teuon'i banreits. " Extract. Coal , wood , water , hay in abundance ; schools , t churches , markets convenient. THIS IS 'THE ' ERA. OF * si.oo WHEAT. Apply fo-lnfo-njation to Superintendent of Imtaigra. It ion. O tawa , Canada , or to E. T. Holmes. 315 Jackion Kt. . St.l'uul. Minn. , and J. M. MoLachlan. Box 116. Wntortown , So.Dakotu , Authorized Government AcinU PJotse ear wbero jou MW thi * &dTcrtitti&e&t. A Positive CATARRH CURE Ely's Cream Balm is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at Once. It cleanses , soothes ! heals and protects , the diseased znem- 1 brane. It cures Ca tarrh and drives , away a Cold in the | Head quickly. o-f etores the Senses ofil Taste and Smell. Full size 60 cts. , at Drug. gists or by mail ; Trial Size 10 cts. by mail Ely Brothers , C6 Warren Street. New York. It costs a motorcyclist $12.50 a year for licenses to drive Sii St. Louis and Immediate vicinity in St .Louis county. Him. tYln low * SOOTKOM Bntrr lor hinr : cofMna th ( nms , rtdocM ioflsmmmuoa , * > pala. curu Triad oollc. c au * bottl * . Many of the Jarjje ocean greyhounds carry cats as mascots , these pets being .well known to globe trotters. I BIG BUILDING BOOM NOW EXISTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Heal Estate Craze I on and Middle Went Farm Valuew Soar Evi dences of "Wide-Hpread Increase * in Value Never Before Equaled. The United States is now in the midst of one of the greatest real estate and building booms in its history. So general is the tendency to invest iu farms , building lots , homes , sky scrapers and business blocks that the banks in the great money centers are Incommoded by lack of money. Every" man with a few hundred or a few thou sand dollars is investing it In realty. In all the boroughs of Greater /Jew York there Is enormous and constant buying of real estate and it is impossi ble to get men and supplies for all the building projected. In Buffalo the industrial growth is unprecedented. During the past year 27,000 skilled mechanics have been added to the city's population , brought there through the location of new plants and the expansion of those al ready established. The housing of the Increased population has required every vacant house in the city and the best efforts of the builders have been unable to keep up with the demand for flats , apartment houses and busi ness blocks. In Philadelphia , especially in West Philadelphia , the increase in real es tate values has been from 25 to 30 per cent , largely due to the construction of the elevated railway. During the first three months of this year permits have been issued for the erection of 28,000 two , three and four story dwell ings , at an estimated cost of $7,000,000. In Pittsburg everybody is sjecuLit- Ing in real estate. Every man with $1,000 or more is dabbling in it. Prices are soaring in a way to give the blush to a western land booom. No. 510 Wood street , bought In 1901 for $7G,000. sold last month for $200,000. Xo. 518 Wood street , bought in 1902 for $75.- 000 , sold last February for $180,000. A corner on Penn avenue was pur chased last winter for $200,000 and was sold last week for $240,000. A corner at Fourth aveiuie and Decatur street , bought in 1902 for $42,000 , sold last month for $100,000. Xo. 210 Fourth avenue , bought three years ago for $90,000 , sold last mouth for $150,000. Hundreds of such examples might be quoted. In Baltimore the area destroyed by the great fire has oeen rebuilt and $100.000,000 worth of improvements are projected or are under way. Not in a quarter of a century has there been such a boom in real estate values in Omaha and Nebraska. Ne braska farms are to-day worth $100.- 000,000 more than they were worth five years ago. Lands which five years ago were worth $35 an acre are now valued at $00 to $100. Western Ne braska range land which was worth 50 cents an acre five years ago is now quoted at from $8 to $15. In the cities the increase in values has kept pace with that of the farm lands. For ex ample : A church purchased two years ago for $18,000 was sold last week for $48,000. St. Louis is erecting an average of two sky-scrapers a month and other building is in proportion. The prosperity among Illinois farm ers is unparalleled. Farm land has in creased from 35 to 100 per cent , in five years. Chicago real estate men say the prospect is the brightest in twenty years. In the corn belt of Iowa land is worth $100 an acre , while in sections reached by the interurban railways land readily brings $600 an acre which five years ago could be bought for $80. For five years real estate in the Bir mingham ( Alabama ) district has grown rapidly in value. In the city building permits granted for buildings now in course of construction repre sent a value of $3,000,000. From Montana , Washington , Vir ginia , West Virginia , Minnesota and nearly every State the reports indicate a prosperity never before equaled. A ? 5 , OOO Organ Ordered. With the funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Levi P. Morton the authorities of the new cathedral of St. John the Di vine of New York are expecting to pos sess the finest organ in this country , if not in the world. The instrument is to be built jointly by Robert Hope-Jones , who constructed the organ in Norchester cathedral , England , now known as the most powerful in the world , and Ernest M. Skinner , who built the organs in Grace church , New York , and Plymouth church , Brooklyn. The proposed organ will be constructed in a new factory at Boston. The Hope-Jones method of tone producing will be employed. He depends upon the vibration of a metal tongue against an opening in the pipe and dis cards the reed pipes. He operates the organ by electricity , utilizing an electric blower and a piston , which alternately admits and excludes the air. He uses cubes , oblong spheres and other shapes for his resonators. Harmless Bullets for Practice. A bullet that hits the mark , but does not kill , has just been invented by Dr. Deirliers of Paris. The details of its con struction are not mentioned , but it is said to be hollow and can be used several times. In a test for duel practice pistols were used with steel guards resembling a sword hilt , because , though the bullet .loes not penetrate the clothing , it will wound naked flesh. Botli men wore gog gles. Out of 272 shots , 202 struck soma t of the bodies of the duelists. Old papers lor sale at this office. GERMANY'S CHURCH CRISIS. Only 25 Per Cent of Her Pjistora Be lieve In CIirlKt'.s Divinity. Emperor William of Germany and his oilicial advisors are deeply concerned ov > r the imminent church crisis in Prussia , the gravest since the reformation. The ques tion of the divinity of Christ now threat ens to rend German Protestantism into two great parties , the one liberal , the othei orthodox. The revolt in liberal church circles against orthodoxy has been fanned into a Same by the refusal of the consistory and the Supreme Court to sanction the selection of Rev. Mr. Rowen as pastor of the church at Rem- scheid , in Westphalia. His offense was that he preached ser mons in which he repudiated the divine parentage of Christ , characterizing "it as a myth ki spired by Greco-Pagan influ ences. More than 1,300 mass meetings have been held to discuss the religious situa tion. Taken together , they form an as tonishing revolution of the enormous ex tent of the growth of the so-called liberal church doctrines. The ferment is increasing daily , hourly. The liberal pastors and their congrega tions threaten secession unless the bounds of the creed are widened bj the elimina tion of what they call the supernatural articles. A leading theologian , who occupies a university chair , says that out of 8,000 German Protestant pastors in active ser vice at the present time not more than one-quarter are believers in the literal ttxt of the apostles' creed , and only one- tenth hold to the divine inspiration of the Bible. Should the Kaiser call a general council to recast the creed , the cataclysm may be prevented. Otherwise it is predicted on all sides the Reformed church of Ger many will soon be split into warring fac tions. MODERN STEEL STRUCTURES. Trip Through Fire-Swept Frlsoo Shows Their Superiority. A trip through the burned districts of San Francisco after the fire revealed a scene of unspeakable desolation. From many paints on Market street , as far as the eye could roach in any direction , there was nothing but skeleton wa-lls and suiold- uring rains. It was fire that wrought the great devastatien and wiped out the en tire business section and half the resi dence section of the city. The great mod ern steel structures were practically un injured by the earthquake except for cracked walls and. displaced plaster. All these great structures , of course , subse quently were utterly ruined by the flames so far as the interior construction is con cerned , but the walls are in most cases intact. The most notable cases of prac tical immunity from the shock were the St. Francis hotel , the Fairmont hotel , the Flood building , the Mills building , the Spreckels building , the Chronicle building , and scores of other modern steel structures. The branch of the United States mint on Fifth street and the new postoffice at Seventh and Mission streets are striking examples of the superiority of the work manship put into federal buildings. The United States mint building , surrounded by a wide space of pavement , was abso lutely unharmed. The new postofBce building was also virtually undamaged by fire. The earthquake did some damage to the different entrances to the building , but the walls were uninjured. Every win dow pane , of course , > r s broken. The Fairmont hotel , while damaged in the interior , is left intact as to the walls. WHEAT CONDITIONS GOOD. \Vinter Has Lifted Its Embargo and the Outlook Is Promising. Winter has lifted its embargo from the fields and the winter wheat crop stands forth a strong , likely youngster , ready to try for records of the past , even if he should not reach or surpass them. Pres ent conditions foretoken a big yield , and , unless there are disasters between this and the gardening time , the crop of 190G will be a fit mate for that of last year. Indorsement of this prediction ccrmes in dispatches to Chicago from all the big wheat-producing States. Some of these States are already blasting that thii year's yield will exceed that of any pre vious seasons. Kansas , Indiana , Illinois , Ohio , Ten nessee , Kentucky , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Indian Territory and Pennsylvania are enthusiastic over the outlook. Of these , Ohio , Kansas , Oklahoma and Nebraska in particular send information that there has been a marked improvement in gen eral conditions since the last government report in December. The school teachers of Pittston , Pa. , re cently dismissed their pupils and told them not to return until the school board should pay back salaries due the teachers. Judge Mack of Chicago has invited a conference with the school board with a view to stopping the practice of suspend ing disorderly or unruly pupils , on the ground that it contributes to the juvenile delinquency cases in court. Following are some Ohio statistics : Children of school age , 1,230,000 ; children in school attendance , 800,000 ; children out of school , 450,000 ; children within scope of labor law , 900,000 ; children il legally employed , 100,000. The school authorities of Waynesboro , Pa. , having declined to enforce the State vaccination law , the matter is to go into the courts. The Attorney General has given the opinion that parents whose chil dren have been debarred because of fail ure to be vaccinated cannot be fined un der the compulsory education law. The most notable Mature of the latest census bulletin relating to illiteracy among our population is the -statement that there are fewer illiterates among the children of foreign-born parents than among those of the natives. This is variously accounted for , but the chief rea son for it appears to be based on the fact that the greatest portion of the foreign- born children live in cities , where the educational opportunities are better than in the country. In the country the illit eracy among children is 89 per 1,000 ; in cities of over 25,000 inhabitants it IB only 10 per 1,000. TRUST MUST SHOW BOOKS. Federal Inquiry Into Conl Mine OT.viicrship by IlnilrimdH. Unless the plans of the government go wren * entirely there will be before long a sensational investigation of the coal roads , which will attract as much atten tion throughout the country in ita way as the inquiry into the insurance com panies did. Thus writes a Washington correspondent. It will be run by the same man , and if he has. luck the coal roads will be com pelled to come into court and produce all their books and secret records to prove the existence of a combination to control the price of coal in defiance of law. Charles E. Hughes is to be given a free hand in the prosecution of the coal carry ing railroads. Immunity or no immunity , he will be instructed to get atvfhe facts , and it is the belief of government offi cials that under the recent decisions of the Supreme Court he will be enabled to go into the whole business of the coal road combination. Mr. Hughes' capacity as an investiga tor was demonstrated by the spectacular success of his inquiry into the insurance business. He began that investigation with only the power behind him of a committee of the New York Legislature , whereas he will go into the study of the coal combination backed up by the power of the United State * government in a fedj eral court , and with the moral and mate rial support of the Prejident and the At torney General. Under the anti-trust law , as well as under the interstate commerce law and the Elkins law , a railroad corporation can be directly punished by fine. Its officers can be summoned and made to tes- tify. They may claim immunity for themselves , but not for their corporation. Mr. Hughes' subpo-na will unlock every record of every railroad , it will compel the officers of the roads to testify as to the acts of the corporations , and if Mr. Hughes is as successful aa the government officials believe he will be , the result will be to rip open the coal combination , because - cause afijisbne railroad is convicted of conspirat waptr maintain prices the same evidence witl operate on another , and so on until the whole combination is broken lip. < The coming prosecution in the federal" court may hae a beawng. on the settle ment of the coul strike , but whether it does or not the prosecution w.ifl be one of the most sensational ever known in this country. Enough evidence a&eady had been Developed by the inter&tate com merce commission to justify the prosecu tion , not only of the railroads but of some of the officials as well. John C. Brecken'ridge has been appoint- i ft consulting engineer for the New York Caotral and will be engaged in the instal lation of electricity on the New York end of the line. The Northern Pacific is said to have an option on the Pacific and Idaho Northern , which it will exercise with a view to building a line from Cotlouwood to Lewiston - iston , Idaho. President Johnson and other Norfolk and Western officials are inspecting the "Short Line" from Columbus to Sandus- ky with a view , it is said , to purchasing it from the Pennsylvania. After a trial of two years with a lim ited number of omnibuses in the streets of London , England , the London power omnibus company has ordered seventy-five double-decked buses and has begun the construction of the largest garage iu Eu rope , with a floor area of 200x90 feet. The fuel Is stored in two 1,000-gallon tanks , from which six cars may be charged at one time. Nearly all of the great trunk lines have reported increased gross earnings during the first three months of the year , and notably the New York Central , the AYabash and the Chicago Great Western. Bank clearings have broken all records for any three months in the history of the country , according to Bradstreet's , and the number of failures were 2.791. era a decrease of 5 per cent as compared with the first quarter of last year. The sixteen railroads constituting the Chicago Car Service Association have served notice on the International Har vester Company or harvester trust that owing to the freight car shortage it will be impossible to permit cars to go off the tracks of the company owning them. Be cause the trust owns the Illinois North ern railroad , it claims the right to the 25 cents a day charge for car demurrage. But the railroads insist upon $1 per day , as charged to all other manufacturers or shippers. Railroads in Ohio may hereafter charge not more than two cents a mile for carry ing passengers. The new law went into pffect in March. On the same day that the new rule became operative the presi dent of a New England railroad company , whose main line connects Boston and New York , announced that a uniform two- cent rate would be adopted by his com pany at once. The agitation for sucli a rate is now in progress in New York , Pennsylvania , Virginia. Iowa. Illinois. In diana and Nebraska. In Michigan there is a graduated rate based on the earning power of the road. It starts at two cents and runs up to four cents. Wherever the rate has been reduced the receipts from passenger traffic have increased , as in creased facilities for travel always induce people to go about. The general office of the Lake Shore at Cleveland announce that the Twentieth Century Limited made 108 miles in one hour and thirty-nine minutes between Cleveland and Toledo. This is thought to establish a new speed record for regular train service. The report of the Missouri Pacific rail way for 1903 ? hews a deficit of $18- 205 , as compared with a surplus of over $2,000,000 the preceding year. In expla nation of this President Gould refers to the disastrous blizzards and floods of the first half of the year and to the yellow ferer quarantine. The Frencli Bricklayer. Samuel Gouipers , the re-elected chief of the American Federation of Labor , was pointing out the good that unions had done for workmen. I "In France , " he said , "there are few unions , and a French bricklayer told me the other day that wages were , In consequence , unreasonably low there. "The bricklayer said with a laugh that a friend of his In Nice , out of work , bought on the Avenue de la Gare a newspaper. He took the paper home ! to his attic in the squalid Rue Felix , ! nnd his wife , after turning to the ad vertisements , said eagerly : "The very thing ! You must look Into this , Marcel. It says a man Is wanted at the Palais de la Jetee , and he won't be worked to death , and will be paid enough to live on. ' "The man started. " 'Won't be worked to .death ? he muttered. I " 'Yes , ' said his wife ; * an paid enough to live on. ' "He frowned. ' 'Ha , ' he said. 'Some catch about that. ' " Bridge Built on Wool. At the little town of Wadebridge , j Cornwall. England , there is a bridge 1 1of a unique character. Owing to the strength of the current , ordinary stone 1 foundations would not hold , and nu merous devices were tried without suc cess. Eventually bags of wool were sunk In the stream and the piles driv en in , and this strange foundation has proved wonderfully firm and satisfac tory. j . - Dr. Williams'Pink Pills Restored the Patient to Perfect HeOlth , ' And Strength. Mrs. Mary Gagner , of No. 570 South Summer street , Holyoke , Mass. , lias passed through an experience which proves tiijat some of tb.p greatest bless- wigs of life may lie twiiiiu easy reach nud-yjjt be foiuul o ily by nieru ehsiuce. A fewyearsngo-\vliilfi she was employed iu die iwijl * fahe was suddenly seized with diaziuess and grqat weakness. " I so weak at times , " she says , "that fras nardly stand , aud my h'ead be came so dizzy that it seemed aa if the floor was moving around. "My condition at last became so bad that I was obliged to pive up work in the mill , and later still I became so feebly that I could not even attend to me household duties. After the slightest xertiou I had to lie down and rest until t regained strength. "A friend who had used Dr.Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People urged rue to try them. I bought a box and began to take them. The benefit was so positive and so quickly evident that I continued to use the pills until I had taken altogether - ' gether six boxes. By thafc time I was Entirely cured , aud for two years I luive baxl no return of my trouble. I am now i In the best of health and able to attend | to all my duties. I am glad to ackuowl- | edge the benefit I received and I hope j that my statement may be the means of inducing others who may suffer 111 this \vay to try this wonderful medicine. " The secret of the power of Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills in cases of debility , such as Mrs. Gaguer's lies in the fact that they make new blood , and every or gan and even every tiny nerve in the body feels the stir of a new tide of strength. Dr. Williams'Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or will be sent , postpaid , on receipt of price , 50 cents per box , six boxes for ยง 2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company , Schenectady , 1ST. Y. Don't be angry with the coal man. Ko is doing you the best he can. CUBES CONSTIPATION It is just about impossible to be sick when the bowels are right and not posssible to be well when they are wrong- . Through its action on the bowels , t * p * t * My cleans the body inside and leaves no lodging place for disease. If for once you wish to know how it feels to be thoroughly wei , Jve this famous laxative tea a trial. Sold by all dealers at 250. and 500. I An EstnljH.tlicri Reputation. A deputy sheriff and chief of of a Rhode Island city , known In his lifetime as a man whose word conkJ always be taken , once gave a whimsi cal demonstration of his straightfor wardness. One day , according to a writer in the Boston Herald , a grocer went to him for Information about a certain Joe White , who had applied for- credit at his store. "Good-morniug , Sheriff ! " "Morning ! " "Do you know Joe White ? " "Yes. " "What kind of a feller is he ? " "Putty fair. " "Is he honest ? " "Honest ? I should say so. Dec * arrested twice for stealing , and quitted both times. " LAS W. L. Douglas S4.OO CHt Edge Lsno cannot be equalled atany price. * ' w fs S/KCS JULY 6. I86- CAPITAI.C W. L * DOUGLAS MAXES & SELLS R1OSJE MEK'S $3.SO SHOESTHANAfiYOTHEifL MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. < M fl ( inn REWARD to anyone who ca.i 0 I UjUUU disprove this statement. ! i I could take you into my three large factorles > - at Brockton , Mass. , and show you the infinite- care with which every pair of shoes la made , you would realize why \V. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make , why they hold their shnpr. tit better , wear longer , and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Douglas Sfpong tifiade Skoco for , $2.5O , $2.GD. Boys' School & CAUTION.Insist upon having W.L.Doag- Ins shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine- without his name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelets used ; they will not wear brassy , Write for Illustrated Catalog. W. I , . 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We v.-iU sell you one direct from our factory at a price very close to actual costof mao- ufacturins. and let you pay for it. if you prefer , En Payments to Suit You. For over 25 years the Lakeside Orjrans have beca recognised as the bstt lor tone , durability and appear ance. What more can be desired ? Nearly 50.CGO ncvr in use. A creat variety of styles of cases to select from. The Act Jens embrace every combination possible to put ia a reed organ. SOLD ALWAYS WITH A 10-YEAR GUARANTEE Write to us before buying : elsewhere. If you -want an organ and v/ant the Best &i Lowest Price you caa easily secure it from us. ILLUSTBATED BOOKLET FEEE. It win pay you to write for it to-day. Ack all the questions you desire we will cheerfully answer them. LAKESIDE ORGAN COMPANY , 246-250 W. Lake St. , CHICAGO Sale Ten Million Boxes a Year. THE FAMILY'S FAVORITE HEDECSKE CATHAR.TIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS