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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,
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pain in the side, headache, backache,
lcari:ig-down pain, nervousness or
' the lilucs." secure at once a bottle of
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3Iii !:;..) !ii" tli.'in :uij t!i-r
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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
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ANOTHER LIFE SAVED.
Mrs. G. V. Fooks. of Salisbury, Md..
wife of G. V. Fooks Sheriff of Wico-
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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."
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Much intellect is not an advantage
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Rochefoucauld observes: That lovers
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pany, because they are always talking
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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