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rrpm" 'PB5JR "- v " 1 J 7V Vi.. V i ; 17 I -v ii : 7 " TJ r - LIVING TOOHASTSLY AMERICANWOMENBREAKDOWI. Irregularities and Female Derange ment Kesult Cured by Lydia JS. Pinnham's Vegetable Compound. Owing1 to our mode and manner of living; and the nervous haste of every woman to accomplish just so much cuch dav, it is said that there is not one woman in twanty-fire but what Buffers with some derangement of the female organism, and this is the secret of so many unhappy hemes. No woman can le unliable, light hearted and happy, a joy to her hus band and children, ami perforin the duties incumbent upon her, when she is suffering with backache headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, bearing, down pains displacement of the womb, spinal weakness or ovar'au troubles. Irritability and snappy retorts take Jhe place of pleasantness, and all win shine is driven out of the home, and lives are wrecked by. woman's great enemy womb trouble. Head this letter. Wear Mrs I'nikiirini: " I writ, troubled fr eijrht years with irreu liirities which liroke down my health and brotilit on 'Ttreinc" !irv(iunis and djon-dt-jn-y. Lvdin E I'inkhrmi's W-tftahle ("0111 oiiiii proved to le the only inMicinu whir-ii 1i.-Ihi1 me Day by da' I improved in health while taking it until I was entirely cured. I can attend to tnv social and liou.s-ho)i duties anil thorough! enjoj- life ontv more, as Lvdia K riiikliam's Vegetable ("omjKjtind hasmnile inea well woman, without an ache or a paiii."1 Mrs. Chester Curry, -ti Saratoga Street, Ijist Iloston. Mass At the first indication of ill health, painful or irregular menstruation, pain in the side, headache, backache, lcari:ig-down pain, nervousness or ' the lilucs." secure at once a bottle of Lydia K. I'inkham's Vegetable Com pound and begin its use. 5l!ff S3.C0 SHOES SSi. IV. T. Pouxl.i't in-lic ntut m'IU moro 3Iii !:;..) !ii" tli.'in :uij t!i-r i:i:niiif:i-Itii-r in the i old. :in,ilO'l HTWAliU to asy cue who ru disprove this jUteccxt. IV. T.. Douglas S-:.r.O !tps are tlio jr--"S-Nt M-lli-r-. !i t'.if world !j--:in-e l" tlu-r -xelIiit si e, i-;ty ill t in;- iiinl Mij-rii- uiiir!-' t, :ililj-N. TIhv s.ra ju-t as y. .: ;is t!i b Hint ! l'.-mii ,.(K to S.7.0K. The .-ily HMVr--- i the jrire. W. I.. loim ! fr:.."0 r.liiK- eovt utoru to lu.il.i', tioli! toi-ii- viat lM-tt-r. n-ar lfin.er. :'! arc u( umitir lalm- than any other ;t:t( .-1iin-iii the marUt-t ti-lay. W. 1.. Im!.'m itar-niitt-eH their value tiy M-uupinn hi liainv and rire on tin- Iioltom of aeli line. l.-xK for it. T:i:e no Milotitiile. XV. 1.. DntiKlas ?'t.." sltn- are sotil tlironli IiKoivii retail More- in tln-irin-ial t'il !, ami hy shoe h-al-r. ivrry- iiere. o matter li-r-ou lie. . I.. Uouslns rIiocii are within your rcacU. EQUAL SS.OO SHOES. hare irorn H". l)nugls 31 shrtft for years, ami fonttJtr t.'iem fjuul to inu f'jJiO shoe note on the marltt. Thru hare ffiren rntire taHsfarttnn." ll'm. . Audersun, Jiial Estate. Aycnt, Kansas Citu, Ho. Iloys wear W. L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 jhoes because they fit better, noli! their shape and wear longer than other makes. If". . totiglas uses Corona Coltslin in his fljjt) jAoss. Corona Clt is conceded f e the jinest patent leather produced. Fast Color Eyelets n-lll not wear Brassy. W. L. Iiouclas has the larKi-i-ttOme mailorder tmoiiicsa in tlie wa.rM. N troulili- to Ketatit ly Tiiail. Sfttvutfl extra ir-iayitlelit'vry. If you itt-ire further ititnritiaUon. tritteor JUustrateu Catalogue of Sprtn-j Stvles. W. L. DGUCLAS. Brockton. Man. I Alabastine Your Walls Alabastine produces exquisitely beautiful effects on walls and ceil ings. Easy to apply, simply mix with cold water. Better than kalso mine, paint or wail paper. It is not a kalsomine, it is a sanitary, perman ent, cement coating, which hardens on the walls, destroying disease germs and vermin, never rubbing or scaling. Kalsomtnes mixed with either hot or cold water soon rub and scale-off. spoiling walls, clothing and - . jiture. They contain glue, which decays and nourishes the germs of deadly disease. If your druccist or hardware dealer will not set Alabastine. refuse sub stitutes and imitations and order of us- Send for fiee sample of tints and information about decorating. S ALABASTINE COMPANY Grant Ave.. Grand Rapids, Mich. aaaaNew York OSee. 105 Watar SLaaa 'reMawtkeflaar Greatly Reduced Rites Bound Trip Xiajrara Falls. X. Y.. tickets soW July 17, IS, 19. Toronto. Out., tickets sold June IS, 13. 21. 22. Indianapolis. Ind., tickets sold June 19. 20, 21, 22. Asburv Tark. X. J., tickets sold June !. 29. 30. July 1st. Baltimore. Aid., tickets old July 1. 2. 3. Buffalo. X. Y., tickets sold July 7, S. 9. Lonp limits, stop-overs and many other features can be offered in connection with the above dates. Write me and let me send you maps, descriptive matter, folders, rates f-jm either Omaha or Chi cago and all other information. HARRY E. MOOBES, G. A. P. D AVabaah K. R, Oaaaha, Xebr. Look for this brand on harness, collars, saddles, horse blankets, lap robes, etc Made by farrfhw Int. Cfc. Uk. Jfch. tap lyeaai l MrsChetlor Curry M WwL If il LjAUsv- r Pal r Mmmim JlllL msMaaaaaaaSSS9-. aam?aa' aaaaaaa aaSaaH VaH DEPLORABLE POINTS. Don't judge cigars and women by their wrappers. Don't try to kill two birds with.ono ' stone.- Use a shotgun. Don't ran into debt as long as you t can find a stone wall to run into. j Don't judge a man by things his ! next door neighbors say about him. Don't sit with ycur back to a sight draft; it may get too warm for you. Don't request your grocer to sup ply you with butter of the first rank. Don't punish children by striking them on the head. There are other places. Don't waste your time disputing fig ures. They seldom lie except in gas meters. Don't think because life is short that one set of good resolutions will last a lifetime. Don't forget that the money you intend to save is not drawing inter est at the present writing. Don't worry about trifles. Remem ber the hole that lets the water in your shoe will let it out again. Don't imagine that every sad-eyed woman you meet has loved and lost. It's more than likely she loved and got him. Don't censure a society woman for entering the theater a little late. She probably had to wash the dinner I dishfesv before she started. IT'j A SHAME That a tool and his father's money are soon parted. That a genius can do almost any thing except incke a living. That lortune usually has gloves on when she knocks at a man's door. That many sermons cease to be in teresting -when the dinner hell rings. That sound money is the kind that j'ngles in the other fellow's pockets. That there is no insurance against the flames k.ntiled by a woman's eyes. That a man must make his way in the world while a woman merely has hers That a policeman, like a rainbow, seldom appears until after the storm is over That about the only men who get satisfaction by going to law are the lawyers. That about the time you succeed in breaking in a pair of shoes your feet break out. That the man who has money to throw at the birds is always afraid of spraining his wrist. That some writers never succeed in disturbing the truth that lies at the bottom of an ink wctt. That more than 4.000 coupling de vices have been patented, yet thou sands of bachelors and maids are go ing it alone. That while the fabric of a ready made garment may not be of the best the fabrications of the dealer are usu ally the real thing. ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. V. Fooks. of Salisbury, Md.. wife of G. V. Fooks Sheriff of Wico- . ' 3 . . UHK.KJ mt. t - says: 4i suf fered with kid ney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradu ally. I felt tired and weak, was shor,t of breath and was trou bled with bloating after v r-i- e r."j i '?-'Tr r- r-tvT- lyrrti eating, and my limbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Cright's disease. I was laid up at one time fcr three weeks. I had not taken Doan's Kidney Pills more than three days when the dis tressing achir.g across my back disap peared, and I was scon entirely cured." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Jlilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Courtship. Much intellect is not an advantage in courtship. General topics interfere with particular attentions. A man to be successfully in love, should think only of himself and his mistress. Rochefoucauld observes: That lovers are never tired of each other's com pany, because they are always talking of themselves. Hazlitt. 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AT PLEASANT im dSpESt THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER, Vy doctor aar it act cm!r on tba Mmnseh. lier and kidneys and is a nlaasant laxative. TMa drink ia made from herbs, and is preiare1 for naa a eaaiir aa tM. It is called 'jia- Tea" or "- LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE All drttarvictcrrrlS mat it - atniCA H t gay I.mnr'ii Faailr .Medicine . the we'ln carh daw. In onW Ut tie hlthy thiia Auuin. ,. r. ntwawara. uauoj, ji.a. KY V0LB G0-C42T MB BAST CJUtKUGES direct from manufacturer. We will sell you retail at wholesale pri ces. We carry the best ami finest line west of Chicago. Call or send for Catalogue. Osaka leeit attaa Wtrb U13 Howard. Omaha. Xehi SMOKERS FIND LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER MfCiiOT Jam Jattcr or direct tnm FacMty. V.1P5HJ&JMVTC J UIIJU.M4 WJK P THE MISSING MAN By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of -The Bank Tragedy" Copyright. 1893. by tee and Sfcepard CHAPTER II. A Green-Haired Woman. Amos Talbert, the comfortable, gen ial landlord of the Essex House, had a wife and daughter; the latter tin married, though not of uncertain age, as she had not the least objection to any one's knowing that she was forty two. With her bright complexion, brighter eyes and manners, she was one of the most attractive ladles in I Grovedale, and it was no task, there- icre, ior Mrs. Hamilton to chat with her for a few moments. "Have you many guests in the house now?" she asked Miss Talbert "Very few steady boarders, but a good many 'transients.'" "I wonder if the green-haired lady is gone yet." said Miss Chase, looking up from her work with a smile. "Yes, she went on the seven o'clock train." "On the train with my husband," thought Mrs. Hamilton; hut you may be sure she did not say this. Instead she repeated wonderingly, as she looked at Miss Talbert with po lite interest, "a green-haired lady!" "I am not surprised at your sur prise," said Miss Talhert, laughing. "You would wonder still more if you were to see her. She came on the train last night and went away this morning." "But you don't mean to say her hair is actually green, do you?" "Not a bright, vivid green, but a sheeny emerald tint hard to describe. The sea takes on such a color some times in the shadow of an overhanging cliff. You should see it, Mrs. Hamil ton. She is very pretty, has lovely features, and a sweet voice. I was quite charmed by her." "I think she knows Mr. Hamilton," said the dressmaker, "for she ran out to meet him when he came down the street." "Ah! perhaps you know her, too," said Miss Talbert. looking at Mrs. Hamilton. "Her name was booked as Mrs. Anderson. Newark, N. J." "No, I do not," she answered, "and I have never heard my husband speak of a green-haired acquaintance." This statement in regard to the meeting cf her husband and the green haired lady coincided with the glimpse she had of it from her tower, though at that distance she had not noticed the color of her hair. An accidental meeting, evidently; but they went on in the same train together, perhaps in the same car. If friends, undoubtedly they rode together. Well, what of that? Friends meet each ether at ev ery turn. Her husband might in the past have done.the woman a kindness or some little service. It would be like him. He would tell her all about it on his return. And. with a pleasant adieu to Miss Chase. Mrs. Hamilton went awaj. Site called at the Savings Bank in 'I just want to see passing, and Tony Osborn, with his pen behind his ear, came at once to speak to her. "Good morning, Tony; very busy, I suppose." "Awful, now Ham Mr. Hamilton is awav." "Did he tell you just when to expect him back what day, I mean?" asked Mrs. Hamilton. "Xo. In a week or two, he said. But it's all a joke about my 'being busy, you know, for everything was put in shape before he went." "I'm glad to hear you are not driv en." said Mrs. Hamilton, reflecting that her husband always cleared the way for others, but took the roughest path himself. And then she went on her way. She met Mr. Henderson, who stopped to speak to her, and to ask when her husband would be back. "Only been away six hours and we miss him already! No one can man age like Vane. In a week or two? Yes. that's what he told me. But, by George; he never told me where he was going. Strange! Always goes off in May. Of course you know." She murmured something about Bos ton and rest. "He needs it, by George! Hope hell get it. I shall need a rest when he gets back. Our business grows, Mrs. Hamilton. It's double what it was two years ago. Didn't realize it while Vane was here." "He works too hard, Mr. Hender son. "I know it. Your uncle and I are old fogies, and lazy to boot We put too much on his shoulders. I told him so this morning. 'Carter,' says I, 'Vane's been -working too hard. 'I know it.' says he. 'Vane has lost twenty pounds lately." "Is that so?" asked Constance, startled. "So your uncle said. S'posed you knew it. Well, this will never do, ntccr'jur to talk to pretty women when business is booming at the mill," and the jolly mill-owner passed on, leaving Constance to pursue her way home ward. How hollow the house sounded! How still it was! What would life be without husband or children? Grim walls, staring pictures, lifeless furni ture do not make home, she realized forcibly as she sank into a chair and folded her gloved hands on her lap. "Two weeks pass so quickly," she murmured. "Sometimes I can scarce ly realize they have passed. When he conies back I shall ask him all about it I have never done it but I win now. Secrets ought not to come between man and wife. I will tell him so. They might make trouble. They do sometimes. Mr. Henderson thinks "strange. I could see that, and " if,f Hl4d hH? I does Tony. I must tell Vane about it when he comes back." As you may imagine, with such con tradictory thoughts, and so much alone, Constance did not find the days very swift in passing. Indeed, they lagged terribly, though she made calls, practiced her music and did sundry odd jobs of sewing, the accumulation of the winter months. To add to her anxiety she did not receive one word from her husband. Meanwhile, she had seen and talked with Mrs. Fry about the green-haired lady. Mrs. Fry brought to Mrs. Ham ilton a basket of freshly ironed mus lins the day after Mr. Hamilton's de parture, and immediately launched forth in a description of the green haired woman. "The queerest sight! though there's no denyin she's a dreadful pretty woman." "I caqnot see how a woman with green hair can be pretty," said Mrs. Hamilton. "You would the moment you saw her. But you can ask Mr. Hamilton. He saw her and knew her, too, I guess." "Are you sure?" "She spoke to him. Twas jest as I was a coram to the laundry an' he a comin down the street to take the trainf 'You here?' she says. 'You are mistaken,' says he. 'Oh, yes,' she says, 'I did think an' she looked round at me. Mr. Hamilton looked at her pretty close, as if sort of think in or studyin of her face, an then he spoke again, but what it was he said I didn't hear, because, of course, twan't none of my business. Besides, he spoke too low." "Probably she was Insane." "No, I guess not. She seemed kind er troubled, though, and folks in trouble always go to such folks as your folks. Or else she knew him. Whichever 'twas, she was a nice, modest woman, an' a dreadful pretty one." . What Mrs. Fry told her was but lit tle more than Constance had already heard, but it gave her much to think about for several days, Indeed, until a week had passed. But at the end of that time an incident occurred which surprised and alarmed her not a lit tle. One morning, hearing the door-bell ring, Mrs. Hamilton opened it her self, Tilly being busy, and was sur prised to see Tony Osborn standing there, idly flicking the dust from his boot with a small cane. "Ah. good morning, Mrs. Hamilton. ! Jolly weather, isn't it?" "Very pleasant. Will you come in, Tony?" "Thanks, no. I just want to see Mr. Hamilton." "Mr. Hamilton! Surely you have forgotten that he is away." "But hasn't he got home?" Mr. Hamilton, "Certainly not I don't expect him for a week." "He was at the bank last night, Mrs. Hamilton. Of that, I am cer tain." "Then where can he be now?" 'I don't know. I supposed he was here, and I called over to see him as he didn't come to the bank. Perhaps he is at the mill." "Without coming home. Tony?" Young Osborn bit his lips and thought deeply, but each moment grew more bewildered. "Did you speak to him?" asked Mrs. Hamilton. "Yes, and he spoke to me. Bank ing hours are over at four, you know. and it was just alter dark that I saw him going into the bank as I was passing. 'Hullo!' I said. It was the first thing I thought to say, for I was surprised to see him so soon. 'Hullo,' he said, and laughed a little. 'Didn't expect me back so soon, did you?' 'No, I said, I didn't' Then he went in and shut the door after him, and I went home." "Tony, that couldn't have been Mr. Hamilton." "It certainly was. It was his voice I heard, and his form, features, gait, everything. I couldn't have been mis taken." "Tony," said Mrs. Hamilton, in a low, terrified voice, "I am afraid you have been deceived. It must have fceen a burglar." "Oh, no, there isn't the least doubt in the world that it was Mr. Hamilton; cone at all." "Was everything right this morn ing?" "Yes." "Nothing missing?" "No, nothing at all. AH that sur prises me is that he isn't here." "He would certainly have been if he had come home. That . makes me think you have been deceived." For answer Tony took from his vest pecket a small shirt-stud of unique design and handed it to Mrs. Hamil ton. "I found it on the desk just as it would have fallen if it had become loosened from his shirt front" "Ob;. Tony! What does it mean?" cried Mrs. Hamilton, with white lips. "What can it mean? It is his. I gave him the set myself, and had them marked with his initials. See, this is V." "I noticed It" said Tony, quietly, "and I was sure it was his. Now, how did it happen to be on his desk this ' morning, unless it dropped out last night?" "Perhaps it was laid there, unno ticed, since he went away." "Impossible. I have dusted and nnr ovarrthing Ib nrtfer daily. n Tony's habits of order were incon trovertible. "Cannot you recollect 1 whether he spoke of missing one be fore he went away, Mrs. Hamilton?" j "No, te said nothing about missing ' one." j "Then you will find that I am right," said Tony. "Mr. Hamilton was at the bank last night at about eight o'clock. He must have been " detained some where,, and will, no dcubt, be here shortly. You may expect to see him coming up the street at any moment," he concluded, reassuringly, for he saw that she was terribly shaken. "I hope you are right, but I have felt worried ever since he went away." "Oh, he's all right, sound as a trump. I wouldn't worry, if I were you." and Tony went down the stairs, but paused to ask, "Shall I go around to the mill and ask Mr. Carter if he has seen anything of him?" "Yes, please do, and ask Uncls Car ter to come up to see me, if Vane isn't there." "All right." and he turned away. "1 wi6h everything were all right, but I'm afraid it isn't," he muttered. (To be continued.) DANGER OF DUST IN MINES. Peril is Pointed Out on a Paper by a Noted Engineer. At a recent meeting of mining en gineers held in Leeds. W. H. Picker ing, British mining inspector, read a paper on "The Dust Danger." The im portance of dust as a factor in colliery explosions was. he said, now generally recognized and understood. Provis ions had been introduced in the coal mine regulation act regulating the use of explosives in dry and dusty places and the "explosives-in-coal-mines" or der had been it sued by the home sec retary In a few mines dust was systemati cally laid by watering, but no wide spread effort had been made to strike at the root of the danger. Permitted explosives were only relatively safe, for each one of them was capable of initiating an explosion under certain conditions, and it could not be too often repeated and emphasized that a dust explosion could be started in other ways than by an explosive. Ignition of fire-damp might result from a naked lamp or from a damaged or defective lump or from a spark from a pick or an electric spark, and this might be magnified by dust into a great explosion. Dust also increased the danger of underground fires. i Obviously, the only way of remedy ing the danger was to keep the mines free from coal dust by cutting off the supply or by other means. As long as dusty roads were allowed in the mines the coal industry was under the dark shadow ofa coming great disaster. The looming danger was recognized by all and he submitted that this pe riod of peace and immunity was the time to take practical' steps to avoid the danger. He believed a discussion would show that it was reasonably practicable to keep moist mines com paratively free from dust that was dangerous and this freedom would conduce to safety and to health and comfort as well. The Busy Season. In the sprin a woman's fancy turni to thoughts of Easter hats, while bar weary careworn husband thinks a lot and murmur "Rats!" In the spring the baseball rooter givetli up his 50 cents, and the small boy sees the bat tle through a knothole in the fence. In the sprint; a thinner shadow haunts the poet's pocketbook, and he casts upon each nickel a lean and hungry look. In the spring a brighter yellow blush is on the butterite, and board ers are suspicious of the azure-tinted cream. In the spring the festive angler from the ground extracts a worm, and with fiendish glee impales it on a hook that makes it squirm. In the spring the 'jolly farmer with a chuckle doth begin painting letters on a shingle: "Summer Boarders Taken In." The bunko man gets busy the kite is on the string thus we realize there's always something do in' in the spring. Cincinnati Inquirer. The Teacher Was Horrified. The Sunday school lesson for the day was "Joseph Sold Into Egypt," and the teacher of the infant class asked a bright little boy to tell the lesson story. He went on with it right until he 'said, "His brothers murdered a little child, and dipped Joseph's coat in the blood." "What!" gasped the teacher. "That's what my lesson paper said," persisted the boy. "So did mine." "And mine," added one child after another. "Let me see it," said the teacher, and the children passed up a regular shower of little pink lesson papers. "There, see!" said the boj. "They killed a kid and dipped the coat in the blocd." This actually happened in northern New England, where the children are not familiar with goats. Afraid of Kansas Politicians. . A man from a Kansas town walked up to the cashier's desk at one of the large hotels in Kansas City Saturday and, tossing a check for $100, said: "Cash that, please." "You'll have to be identified, sir," replied the young woman, pleasantly. "Why. I am a director in the bank on which that check's drawn, and I'm quite well known in politics over my way," he said. "Did you say you are a politician?" asked the cashier. "Oh. a sort of a one," replied the man smiling. "That." came from the cashier, "makes posi tive identification all the more neces sary." The man did not ask why. but hunted up a friend and was identified. Kansas City Times. A King's Unconscious Joke. Landseer," says a biographer, was exceedingly fend of telling the follow ing story of his meeting with the king of Portugal, and the latter's unexpect ed greeting. At one of the court balls Landseer attended, and when the king of Portu gal, who was also a guest, was made aware of the presence of the great animal painter, he expressed his de sire for an introduction. ianaseer was presented accordingly, when the king, in his imperfect English, said: "Oh. Mr. Landseer, I am delighted to make your acquaintance I am so fond of beasts!" The Man Knows. Mrs. Crimsonbeak A woman never knows what a man is doing when he's out of her sight, but a man generally knows what a woman is doing. Mr. Crimsonbeak That's right. A man is always pretty sure that a woman is talking. Disenchantment After Marriage. "Did Chumpleigh marry the widow that he couldn't live without?" " Yes) and now he's wondering how her first husband managed to IIto Hi her." Town Topics. GRIP'S UGLY SEOUL KHEES STIFF, HAHDS HELPLESS, RHEUMATISM NSAB HEABT. Hn. Van Scoy Experience Ianrros AXter-EflVcta from Crip and Learns Value of n Blood Kemrdjr. The grip leaves behind it weakened vital powers, thin blood, impaired di gestion and over-sensitive nerves a. condition that makes the system nit easy prey to pneumouin, brouchitis, rheuma tism, nervous prostration, and even con sumption. Tho story told by scores of victims of the grip is substantially the same. Oue was tortured by terrible pains at tho base of the skull; another was left tired, faint and iu every way wretched from anreinin or scantiness of blood; another had horrible headaches, was nervous mid couldn't sleep; another wns left with weak lungs, difficulty in breathing and acnto neuralgia. Iu every case relief was sought iu vain until the great blood bnilder and nerve-tonic, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, was used. For quickness nud thoroughness of action nothing is kuowu that will approach it. Mrs. Vnu Scoy makes a statement that supports this claim. She says : "I had a severe attack of grip and, be fore I had fully recovered, rheumutism set in and tormented mo for threo months. I was iu a badly run-down state. Soon af tor it begun I was so Inuie for a week that I could haftlly walk. It kept growing steadily worse and at last I had to give up completely and for three weelw I was obliged to keep my bed. -My knees were so stiff I couldn't bend them, and my bauds were iwrfectly helpless. Then the pains began to threaten my heart nud thoroughly alarmed me. While I was suffering in this way I chanced to run across a little book that told about the merits of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The statements in it im pressed me unified me to buy n box. These pills proved the very thing I needed. Improvement set iu as soon as I began to take them, and it was very marked by the time I had finished the first box. Four boxes made me a well woman." Mrs. Laura M. Vnn Scoy lives at No. 20 Thorpe street, Danbury, Conn. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are equally well adapted for any other of the diseases that follow iu the 'train of grip. They are old by all druggists. "Skunt." ' You have had crope, roke and drug, and what's the matter with skunt? A young lady a few days ago visited this part of the country who had never seen turpentine worked before and when she return.ed to her home told them that the pine trees down here were "skunt" up to the limbs. Charlotte Observer. Mr. fvinaiow'H oothlnc SjTup. For children teetbtnc, uolsi-n the khib, reduces taV flamnmtloa, allays a!n, cures wind colic 25c t kittle. Woman Does the Wooing. When a single woman amongst a powerful tribe in the Persian moun tains wishes to get married, she mere ly sends a servant to pin a handker chief on the hat of the man of her choice. He is obliged by tribal laws I to marry her. unless he can prove him self too poor to pay the price to her father. Insist on Getting It. Some erot-ors f.iy thoy don't keep Peliance Starch because they have a sfoek in han.l of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold ti a cus tomer ho has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. Sexes in Mutual Di'-trust The sexes just now take up towards each other an attitude of mutual dis trust; we women don't trust men fur ther than we can see them, nor they us. It is all very bad and vety sad, and no one knows who is to blame. Exchange. No chromes or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. BABY CAME NEAR DYING. From an Awful Skin Humor Scratched Till Blood Ran Wasted to a Skeletci Speedily Curd by Cuticura. "When three months old my boy broke out with an itching, watery rash all over his body, and he would scratch till the blood ran. We tried nearly everything, but he grew worse, wasting to a skeleton, and we feared he would die. He slept only when in our arms. The first application of Cuticura soothed him so that he slept In his cradle for the first time in many weeks. One set of Cuticura made a complete and permanent cure. (Signed) Mrs. M. C. Maitland, Jasper, Ontario." Tert cf Good Breeding. To find out how much genuine good breeding a man has, just watch him when he is angry. This is a sure test, as any fool can be agreeable when everything comes his way. Sttx of Onto, Citt or Toledo, .. Lucas Cochtt. f 5 Fbaxk J. Chexkt makes oath that he ! teator partner tf the Ann of F. J. Chexet & Co.. d..oir bualnext la tne C'tty cf ToIed. County and Stale aforesaid, and that cald Arm will par the turn of ONE HUXDKED DOLLAKS fur each and every cae of Catakbii that cannot be cared by the ue of Hall's Cataebji Ccke. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and tubucrlbed In iny prea ence, thU 6th day of December. A. 1. 1RM. i " A. W. OLEASOX. J AL r , l-t Notaet Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the nlud and tnucou aurfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. , .. F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo. X Pold by all Urufrcht. 73c Take Hairs Family Puis for constipation. Fifty Years a Pensioner. James McCardle of Jamaica Plain, Mass., one hundred years old, has since 1852 been drawing a pension as a British soldier at six-pence a day. Largest Island. The largest island in the world is New Guinea, 306,000 square miles; Great Britain is 83,826 square miles. Japanese "Hello!" The Japanese "Hello" at the tele phone is "Moshi moshi," or "Ano ne," with the accent on the "nay." Profit in Ostrich Farming. Ostrich farming in South Africa con tinues a most profitable business. Opportunity. Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go, by him. PIT PITLESS SCALES. For Steel and wood Frames, 525 and up. Write us Dcjore you buy. we save you money. Also Pmnos and xeinA MiUa. KCIHAS IMS.. Ba , bn. W. N. U. Omaha. No. 211905. BMa- .i WHr attsL tUE isMLLL B ,Bjgjj. SosSyrSBjM. M Women of the Kaffirs. The Kaffirs believe that a woman is a necessary appendage to a house hold; the women care for their huts and do all the housework, while the men watch the cattle. They do not always marry as young as they like, and yet the youngest and most at tractive girls often go to the ugly, old men with plenty of money. A man is not worried because he cannot win the favor of the girl he wants. Her likes and dislikes count for little. Bring Messages from Dead. There is a curious burial custom among the Mordovinians, who inhabit the middle Volga provinces of Russia and are professedly Christians. They believe that a deceased relative forty days after interment returns to his' old home. Failing his visible return the next of kin personates him. dress ed in his clothes, and professes to de liver solemn messages from the other side of the grave. How Carpenter Drives Nail. How many hammer strokes does a carpenter use in driving a nail? Per haps not one carpenter in a thousand or one layman in ten times that num ber can tell, or ever thinks of it. The truth of the matter is this: The car penter takes seven strokes in driving a nail into ordinary wood and twelve regular strokes and two finishing taps in driving nails into hardwood. What Actuates a Woman. Tell the average woman that a max imum of mutton means a minimum of morals, and she will probably laugh at you and go on eating mutton (if she likes it). Rut assure her tut a charming complexion will result from vegetarianism and the butcher may justifiably feel forebodings of coming disaster. Exchange. Where the Money Goes. The American people spent as much money last year for gems and jewelry as they spent for pianos and other musical instruments, and more than three times as much as they spent for sewing machines. New York Sun. Societies Give Farmers Machinery. There are no less than 540 agricul tural societies scattered over Servia. which distribute modern agricultural machinery and implements among the farmers. These societies have a cen tral office at Belgrade. The Ycanflf Physician. WHAT HIS EXPERIENCE PROVED. In the early sixties it was usually tho duty of a practicing physician to" rid many miles every dav on his regular round of visits upon bis patients. In thoaedays a young man who li:ul received a splendid medical training in one of the best medical colleges of tliat day was ac customed to ride ten. twenty or thirtv miles or more visiting the sick and alllictcd. His success was soon phenom enal. Doctors and families called him for consultation to towns at considerable, dis tances by rail. One of itis specialties was the cure of those digressing diseases of women. He had early discovered that by combining the vegetable extract of the following medicinal plants in just tho right proportion without the use of alco hol his prescription invariably curo.l such cases. Later, in order to place this remedy lteforetlie public in a shape easily to 00 procured, ne estaniisneu a labora tory at KulTalo. X. Y.. where regularly qualified chemists were put in charge to 1 accurately prepare his prescription and j put it in "shape for shipment to all parts of the United States. This remedy, which he named Dr. I'ierce's Favorite l'rescrip tion. is not a "patent medicine" in tho common acceptance of the term, but a tonic for women, and a regular physi Conviction Follows Trial "When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, hOW do you kflOW What you kf tting ? Some queer stories about coffee that is Hold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use the leader of all package coffees for over n quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? IMs popelar ece LION COFFEE caa te dae oaly to lahereat avcrtC There fa ao stroaaer proof of aerH tfcaa cob tlaar aa laercaslafi popularity. U the verdict of MttXiONS OF OUSEKEEFERS does aot eoavtoce yea el tfee Merits ol LION COFFEE, it costs yea feet a trifle te key a package. II Is the easiest way fa eeavtnce yearaelf, aaa te BMke yea a PERMANENT PtlRCflASEB. LION COFFEE h o!d only in 1 Ib. sealed package, and reaches you " pure and cleaa aa wien it left oar factory. Lion-head on every package. Save tlie-t- Lion-head for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOJ-AtWM oritit uu., Toledo, Craai Prize at St. The PATRIOT SHOE for over stylish yet comfortable lasts, to nt any root. They ar Goodyear watts, which means flexible aoles. with no wax or tacks to Irritate thv foot. Tho MATVXOWEK SHOK for Woaea lscadeiaweluand hand tarns. Is stylish, durable and comfortable. A til your dealer for them. If h does aot handle these shoes, write os direct. They will pleas yoa and yoa will aaTS) from M centi to SI.M per pair ia prices usually charged tor shoes of tbis cnaracier. ISIS HJJ Z7SbmmmWr mr eat " " . gSBa aa aw IIHfljB3BJE.'LBSJBB9BPEjPafffffflBBB laaRiKSfeJCatW ' ''VRciaBHrBBl MbSMHH?. "VSSnR? ' 'jJlmWsiLmaaaaammWF sTMRJbbF.BK iW'v'. -X-C 3tOrl!" 1,BE aB&SB& gVfiy?hSlaWiat':!t!ty '5VVasiHn aBBBBcVW'a''x-'BBBBflBaSLj BBBBar j 9 4 ,-: .TJTw TBBBaTaSsB. IibTbS'S'sI v. -V -:& "xbTbTbTbTbTk w. lw x&&Bfaasfffig: it MISS. MILDRED x KELLER. RESTORED TO HEALTH. TMAWKS TO f E-RU NA. Friends Were Alarmed Advised Change of Climate. Miss Mildred Keller, 71S 13th street, N. W., Washington, 1). C, writes: "I can safely recommend I'erutia for catarrh. I had it for years and it would respond to no kind of treatment, or if it did it was only temporary, and on tho . slightest provocation the trouble would come back. was la smch m state that my Memis were alarmed about me, and I was advised to leave this climate. Them I tried Peruna, ami to my great joy foumd k helped me from the first dose I took, amd a few bottles cured me. "It built up ray constitution, I re gained my appetite, and Lfeel that I am perfectly well and strong."- Mildred Keller. " We have on file many thousand testi- monials like the above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of tho ' vast array of unsolicited endorsements Dr. Ilartman is receiving. $100 Weekly Easily Made wrltlDKbeaithaod accident lnaranre:rxprfrnce ua ecaasanr.Wrtw shakers' Atcisat Csv.Bm sinaa.Ia. cian's proscription, and contains tho toh lowing non-alcoholic ingredients : Lady's Slipper (Cirptipcdlum Pubcsccna). ltlack Cohosh (Cimfctiuii Itacetmwi). Unicorn nwt (ChaimrUrittm Lutcttm). Hhn!Courh(CaiiliiphiillumTlntUvtrldca) Uoldcn Seal (Hytlra.stiH Canadensis). Scientiiically prepared by experienced chemists at the. Laboratory of the World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Kuffalo, N. Y. Dr. Tierce does not claim for his "Fa vorite Prescription" that it is a "cure-all. It is recommended as a most perfect sjM-cinV for woman's peculiar ailments. So uniform are the results which follow the use of this remarkable renwdv, that it can be truly'alliriiied of "Fav'orile Pre scription " that it alicny luijts ami nl most ithraiis cure. Ninetv-eight per cent, of the women who give this medicino a fair and faithful trial-an: cured and remain cured. It is a powerful Invigorating tonic. Im parting health and strength in particular 10 tne wonio and its appendages. Tho local, womanly health is .- intimately related to th. general health that when diseases of the delicate, womanly organs are cured the whole Ix;dy gains in health and strength. For weak and sickly women who an? "worn-out.'" "run-down " or debilitated, especially for women who work iu store. otHce or schoolroom, who sit at the typewriter or sewing machine, or bear heavy household burdens. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will provo a priceless beuelit because of Its health restoring and strength-giving power. The I'uoor. "I want to tell you of the great ImproTo mont in my health since taking your" Favor lie l,recrlptIon.'"s.ays Mrs. II. S. Jones, of Foret. N. V. "When f In-ari its use I was a ' physical wreck and had (IcMinlred of v-r having good health attain. Could not sit up all day. I noted a great Improvement lefore the Hrst bottle wa all used. Was Mifferlnir with almost every pain that a woman Is .sub ject to; had inflammation of the ovaries, painful and suppressed periods, and other symptoms of female lisfn.se. After taklntf six liottles of 'Favorite Prescription.' I felt like a new iiersou. Can ride horseback and take all kinds of exercise and not feel tired. Fkki. Ckanky? Case of constipation. A man or woman who neglects constipa tion suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipa tion. One little "Pellet" is a gentlo laxative-, and two a mild cathartic Coffee, tj0M Ohio. o (Awarded as World's Fa Mem !a m! from aU leatkara. m wAWAWAWKv.-wv 'aawaaaY-xT: IbbbT&bbBf? 'r'r'r'rHBBBBaBBBaBBBaTjBV. BfSBBfKSBTBfSMBfsfsfsfsfS. JvbbLBbbbIbbbK --::-:-- TBfafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafaTaVu .V.V. "afAtafafaBm; ""Si&w 1 MPROVEMENTS recently added to the popular "Mueller" pianos, make them the greatest piano value known. Pros omr factory to the aosae. SAVES $75.00 to $150.00 Our illustrated booklet free for the asking; tells you why. "Write for It today, we'll answer tomorrow. Address the makers. ttMOUERftt MUELLER (We have ao agents.) St. i ! 1 1 1