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. Five Years of Awful Kidney Disease.
Nat Anderson, Greenwood, S. C,
says: "Kidney trouble began about
five years, ago with
dull backache, which
got so severe in time
that I could not get
around. The kid
ney secretions be
came badly disor
dered, and at times
there was almosta
complete ston of the
flow. I was examined again and again
and treated to no avail, and kept get
ting worse. I have to praise Doan's
Kidney Pills for my final relief and
cure. Since using them I have gained
in strength and flesh and have no sign
of kidney trouble."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
BUSINESS MANAGER FOR CHURCH
Cleveland Institution Plans to Try a
New System.
The Epworth Memorial Methodist
church in Cleveland has decided to try
a new system of church management
A business manager has been ap
pointed who will give his entire time
and attention to the finances of the
church. As executive secretary he
will collect the benevolences, dues of
members, subscriptions, etc., and pay
all expenses. He will serve as sec
retary of the standing committees of
the church and keep a record of their
business for transmission to the offi
cial board. This, it is expected, will
leave the pastor free to give atten
tion to the larger plans of the work
and to his pulpit and pastoral duties.
Epworth Memorial has the largest
membership of all the Protestant
churches in the city. It has an ex
tensive charity work and handles over
535,000 in contributions every year.
Dr. G. K. Morris, district superin
tendent, strongly commends the in
novation. "To my mind," he says, "it
is the ideal of church government. I
expect to see the plan adopted in
many other cities."
15 YEARS OF SUFFERING.
Burning, Painful Sores on Legs
Tortured Day and Night Tried
Many Remedies to No Avail
Cured by Cuticura.
"After an attack of rheumatism,
running sores broke out on my hus
band's legs, from below the knees to
the ankles. There are no words to
tell all the discomforts and great suf
fering he had to endure night and day.
He used every kind of remedy and
three physicians treated him, one after
the other, without any good results
whatever. One day I ordered some
Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment,
and Cuticura Resolvent. He began
to use them and in three weeks all the
sores were died up. The burning fire
stopped, and the pains became bear
able. After three months he was quite
well. I can prove this testimonial at
any time. Mrs. V. V. Albert, Upper
Frenchville, Me., July 21, 1907."
MODESTY.
Teacher (encouragingly) Come,
now, Willie, spell chickens.
Willie I'm afraid I'm too young to
spell chickens, teacher, but you might
try me on eggs.
Time's Wonderful Changes.
Harry Lauder says that when Sir
Alexander Ramsay was constructing
upon his magnificent estate in Scot
land a piece of machinery to drive,
by means of a small stream in his
barnyard, a threshing machine, a win
nowing machine, a circular saw for
splitting trees, a hay press, an oat
roller, etc.. he noticed an old fellow,
who had long been about the place,
looking very attentively at all that
was going on. "Robby," said he, "won
derful things people can do nowadays,
can't they?" "Ay said Robby; "in
deed. Sir Alexander, I'm thinking if
Solomon, was alive now he'd be
thought naething o'!"
PUZZLE SOLVED.
Coffee at Bottom of Trouble.
It takes some people a long time to
find out that coffee is hurting them.
But when once the fact is clear,
most people try to keep away from
the thing which is followed by ever
increasing detriment to the heart,
stomach and nerves.
"Until two years ago I was a heavy
coffee drinker," writes an 111. stock
man, "and had been all my life. I am
now 56 years old.
"About three years ago I began to
have nervous spells and could not
sleep nights, was bothered by indi
gestion, bloating, and gas on stomach
affected my heart.
"I spent lots of money doctoring
one doctor told me I had chronic ca
tarrh of the stomach; another that I
had heart disease and was liable to
die at any time. They all dieted me
until I was nearly starved but I
seemed to get worse instead of better.
"Having heard of the good Postum
had done for nervous people, I dis
carded coffee altogether and began to
use Postum regularly. I soon got bet
ter, and now, after nearly two years,
I can truthfully say I am sound and
well.
"I -sleep well at night, do not have
the nervous spells and am not both
ered with indigestion or palpitation. I
weigh 32 pounds more than when I
began Postum, and am better every
way than I ever was while drinking cof
fee. I can't say too much in praise of
Postum, as I am sure it saved my life."
'There's a Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Jlicb. Read "TheRoad to Well
ville," in pkgs.
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we appear front time to time. Tfcey
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ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF NOAH
WEBSTER CELEBRATED.
Famous American Lexicographer and
Educator Remembered in Connec
ticut His Grammar Still a
. Standard Work.
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New Haven, Conn. The one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the
birth of Noah Webster, the great lex
icographer, was generally observed by
the educational institutions through
out the state the other day. Yale uni
versity, with which he was closely al
though not officially connected, hon
ored him by appropriate classroom ex
ercises and Hartford, his home when
a boy, held exercises of a simple na
ture, largely in the public schools.
Webster gave the schoolboy of
America his dictionary, his grammar
and his spelling book, and. while his
fame might rest impcrishably on any
one of the thrfe achievements, the
triple accomplishment estab'ishes his
i'tie as the greatest American edu
cator. His dictionary, the first since
that of Dr. Johnson, nearly a century
before, unified the English language
in America and made it impossible
for sections of this country to fall into
dialect. His spelling book fixed firm
ly the pronunciation and spelling of
common words, and his grammar has
remained a standard work for a cen
tury. Born in 1758, In Hartford, of a fam
ily distinguished in colonial history,
Webster was sent, at the age of 14
years, by his father, a farmer, to the
parish clergyman to prepare for Yale.
In 1774 when 16 years old, he was
admitted. His studies were inter
rupted by the war of the revolution,
and in his junior year he shouldered
his "nusVet and joined in the campaign
which wound up in the defeat of Bur
goyne. On his return from college in 1778
with a Yale sheepskin his father pre
sented him with four dollars and told
him that in the future he must rely
on his own exertions. Webster pur
sued hie ideal of a legal education, al
though compelled to read law as an
accompaniment to his school teaching
in Goshen. N. Y. With the country
impoverished by the long war, Web
ster found the schools without text
books. He composed a spelling book,
a grammar and a reading bcok the
first of the kind published in the coun
try. No volume has had so wide a
vogue as the spelling book. For years
more than a million copies were sold
annually, toward the close of his life.
From the receipts of the book he was
enabled immediately to pursue his la
bors on his dictionary.
He began the practice of law in
178f, in Hartford, but in 1793 removed
to New York to found a newspaper in
support of President Washington's
policy. The Daily Minerva was his
first venture and then came a semi
weekly, the Herald. In 1798 Webster
removed to this city and continued
to write for his newspapers, which
were continued under another editor,
but he soon disposed of them and de
voted himself to the work on which
his fame was to rest, the preparation
of a new dictionary of the English lan
guage. For years he had contemplated this
work, and in 1807 began it For 20
yeais he toiled. Finding his finances
unequal to living in New Haven, he
removed to Amherst, Mass., in 1812,
where he was instrumental in organiz
ing Amherst college.
The first edition of the dictionary
was published in 1828. Only 2.500
copies were printed in the United
States. Then came an issue of 3,000
copies in England. Dr. Webster was
at this time 70 years of age and an
nounced that he considered his liter
ary labors practically ended. Yet he
revised many of his former works, and
in 1S41 the second edition of the dic
tionary was published, containing sev
eral thousand new words and many
revised definitions. His papers, read
before many learned societies, were
published in 1843. The revising of
the appendix to this edition was his
last labor, and after a four days' ill
ness, rtarting with a cold, he passed
away, Mav 28, 1843.
The Prolific Fly.
"The fight with the fly will be a stiff
one," said Sir James Crichton-Browne
in an address to the sanitary inspec
tors' congress in Liverpool recently.
"One fly, it has been calculated, will
lay 1,000 eggs, and must, onthe snow
ball principle, leave 25,000,000 de
scendants in a season. It is only by
systematic attacks on the breeding
places that we can hope to rout this
multitudinous disease carrier. Tuber
cular diseases are steadily diminishing
throughout Great Britain, and we have
good reason to hope they will be alto
gether abolished in another 30 years."
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A great evolution is taking place in
France, an evolution which has been
working so slowly and so silently that
until some six months ago scarcely
nay one realized all that it meant.
In Anglo-Saxon countries the open
ing of a fresh club for women is con
sidered of about as much importance
as the opening of a fresh newspaper
shop. There Is a certain analogy
between the two, and one merely
wonders instinctively what kind of
news will be circulated and what the
tone of the new enterprise is to be.
In England and America, where
homes are apt to become the hotels
of our numerous friends, clubs are al
most a necessity, if only to relieve the
domestic service of the private house.
They have now, too, become a fash
ion, so that many women pride them
selves on belonging to several clubs.
In Paris the opening of a club for
women, and, what is more, for French
women, came as a surprise and even
as a shock to very many people in
the French capital. This club for
women is unique in France. In order
to account for this fact it is necessary
to explain something of the position of
the French woman. English and Amer
ican women are apt to consider that
their French sisters are very much
behind the times, and to look upon
thsm as domestic slaves because they
have hitherto had no clubs of their
own. As a matter of fact, the French
woman actually needs such an insti
tution far less than her sisters of the
Anglo-Saxon race. In consequence of
the extreme exclusiveness of the
French their home circle is little
known to foreigners. This exclusive
ness is not due to narrowness, as the
Anglo-Saxon so frequently declares. It
is rather due to that science of aelec
tion in social Intercourse of which the
French appear to have the secret, and
which has made the French salon
what it is. Outsiders, therefore, scarce
ly realize how great an influence the
French woman wields. She has a
realm which is entirely her own, a
realm in which she reigns supreme.
Up to the time of the war of 1870
the public sen-ice of women consist
ed chiefly in visiting the sick and in
providing the few poor people of
whom they heard with nourishment
and clothes. t
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commune, the women of France were
needed by their country, and with one
accord mothers and daughters left
their sheltered homes and answered
their country's call.
French women have always been es
tremely patriotic, and in all ema
gencies have given proof of their cour
age and devotion. For very many
years after the war there was much
to be done by the women of France,
and, the more they plunged into the
darker side of life, the more they
found to do. Some 15 or 16 years ago
a little band of women who were all
thus working for the public welfare
decided to have an annual conference
in order to discuss the problems they
found, and help each other to solve
them. This annual conference has
now become one of the great institu
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Father Faith No one allowed on these premises so early in the morning
Hunter And what, then, are you doing?
F. F. Oh, I'm out getting an appetite for my breakfast.
H. Well, I'm out getting a breakfast for my appetite.
sir.
Knows of a Bargain.
Sue If your father had $10,000,000
would you marry a titled foreigner?
liaude I wouldn't wait till he sot
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tions of French women engaged in
humanitarian schemes.
For three long years the French Ly
ceum was engaged in slowly but sure
ly mustering its forces. All kinds of
material obstacles appeared in its
way. Mme. Blanc-Bentzon recommend
ed patience. "We do not like to be
taken by storm," she said. "You.must
give this new idea time. We refuse
to be rushed like Americans, and we
are not impulsive like the Germans.
We are eminently critical, and before
consenting to take up a new thing we
must understand exactly its aims and
objects."
The following year Mme. Blanc-Bentzon
died, and some of the members of
the new club began to get discouraged.
At the end of three years we were a
homeless club of 200 women, without
even as much as an office or a secre
tary. For the sake of keeping up in
terest in the new scheme, a room was
rented at the Hotel Bedford, and lit
erary and musical matinees given, the
program of which was always com
posed of the work of members.
Finally one of the vice-presidents of
the London Lyceum, Miss Alice Wil
liams, came to Paris on a visit. On
seeing the difficulties of the situation,
she volunteered to return to London
and endeavor to raise money enough
to establish the Lyceum in Paris, and
to try it for a year. At the end of
that time we should see whether a
club were really needed by French
women, and if so they could then
take it over themselves. She prom
ised to stay the whole year in Paris
until the household arrangements were
complete.
The inauguration took place last
December, and Duchess Dre. d'Uzes
accepted the office of president.
Her name had been at the head of the
list given by Mme. Taine some four
years previously; but, besieged by let
ters begging her to preside over all
kinds of possible societies, Duchess
d'Uzes had preferred waiting to
see whether this new scheme end
ed with its first prospectus. The in
auguration was a very brilliant cere
mony. Some 3,000 guests came, and
the international side was well rep
resented by ambassadors and their
wives, who had been unofficially in
vited by various members of the com
mittee. So pleased were some of them
with the idea, that among the present
members of the club are some of the
ambassadresses.
With a president so eminently capa
ble and so universally beloved, no
doubts were felt for the future, and
day by day the number of adherents
has steadily increased. There are
now nearly 700 members, so that with
in a year it is expected that the
French Lyceum will be able to pay Its
current expenses.
The president is herself a sculptress
and a writer, and she is also the pres
ident of the Society of Women Paint
ers.
She has written a play which is to
be given at the Lyceum. No presi
dent could be rtiore active and more
interested. She is not only regular
herself in attending all the meetings
of the committee, but she urges on
every member the necessity of this
regularity in the interests of the club.
Two of the most interesting sections
of the Lyceum are those of sociology
and humanitarian work, presided over
respectively by Mme. Schmahl and
Mile. Chaptal. At the monthly meet
ings the members, who nearly all rep
resent some special scheme for the
improvement of the conditions of life,
expose their scheme and show in what
way other members can help them.
Mme. Dejerine-Klumpe will, in time,
form the science and university sec
tions, and Mme. Alphonse Daudet is
most active and energetic In col
lecting books for the library and reading-room.
The greatest benefits of the system
have already been seen in Paris.
Women have come from Australia
and- from America, not knowing a
single person in Paris, and, InBtead of
wandering about desolately and then
returning to a strange hotel, they have
found a home and congenial compan
ionship in an unknown land.
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ten million. I know a lovely titled
foreigner that I could get if we had
only two million. Chicago Record-Herald,
IEI DISTRICTS AND
NEW RAILWAYS
WESTERN CANADA AFFORDS BET-
TER CONDITIONS THAN EVER
FOR SETTLEMENT.
To the Editor Sir: Doubtless
many of your readers will be pleased
to(1have some, word from the, grain,
fields of Western Canada, where such
a large number of Americans have
made their home during the past few
years. It is pleasing to be able to fe-
! port that generally the wheat yield
has been good; it will average about
20 bushels to the acre. There will
be many cases where the yield will go
35 bushels to the acre, and others
where 50 bushels to the acre has
been recorded. The oat and barley
crop has been splendid. The prices
of all grains will bring to the farmers
a magnificent return for their labors.
An instance has been brought to my
notice of a farmer in the Pincher
Creek (Southern Alberta) district
where winter wheat is grown who
made a net profit of $19.55 per acre, or
little less than the selling price of his
land. 30. 40, and 50 bushel yields are
recorded there. The beauty about the'
lands in Western Canada is that they
are so well adapted to grain-raising,
while the luxuriant grasses that grow
everywhere in abundance make the
best possible feed for fattening cattle
or for those used for dairying pur
poses. The new homestead regulations
which went Into force September, 1908,
attracted thousands of new settlers. It
is now possible to secure 160 acres in
addition to the 160 acres as a free
grant, by paying $3.00 an acre for it
Particulars as to how to do this and
as to the railway rates can be se
cured from the Canadian Government
Agents.
"The development throughout West
ern Canada during the next ten years
will probably exceed that of any other
country in the world's history," is not
the statement of an optimistic Cana
dian from the banks of the Saskatche
wan, but of Mr. Leslie M. Shaw of
New York, ex-Secretary of the United
States Treasury under the late Presi
dent McKinley and President Roose
velt, and considered one of the ablest
financiers of the United States. "Our
railway companies sold a good deal
of their land at from three to five dol
lars an acre, and now the owners are
selling the same land at from fifty to
Beventy-five dollars, and buying more
up in Canada at from ten to fifteen."
The editor of the Monticello (Iowa)
Express made a trip through Western
Canada last August, and was greatly
Impressed. He says: "One cannot
cross Western Canada to the moun
tains without being impressed with its
Immensity of territory and its future
prospects. Where I expected to find
frontier villages there were substan
tially built cities and towns with every
modern convenience. It was former
ly supposed that the climate was too
severe for it to be thought of as an
agricultural country, but its wheat
raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
of our best fanners and most progres;
Bive citizens. Now the Americans are
emigrating in greater numbers to
Western Canada. Seventy-five per
cent, of the settlers in that good coun
try located southeast of Moose Jaw
and Regina are Americans. Canada
is well pleased with them and is ready
to welcome thousands more."
The Doctor's Fee.
The average man will give a lawyer
$300 to $500, together with a lifetime's
praise, to keep him out of the peniten
tiary for from .two to ten years, and at
the same time he will raise a phos
phorescent glow and a kick that can
be heard around the world if a doctor
charges him $50 to $100 to. keep him
out of hell for a lifetime. We are the
only people under God's ethereal tent
to-day who keep open shop 24 hours
each day and 365 days in each year.
We are also the only laborers to keep
on working for people who do not pay
I can carry my part of charity with
as good a grace as most men. I can
go through rain, snow or mud and dc
my best, provided the case is one ol
worthy need, but to reward continually
downright rascality, willful drunken
ness and wanton laziness is getting
out of my line. Texas State Journal
of Medicine.
A Queer Harvest.
ft was little Ethel's first visit to
church, and the sermon had for its
text, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
But on her return home she could not
remember it, and In consequence was
chided by her mother for being stupid.
A fortnight later a seamstress came
to the house to do a day's work. After
watching her for awhile fashion old
style garments into those that were
th e vogue, Ethel suddenly exclaimed:
"O mamma, I know now what the
preacher said. It was: 'What yon sew
In the winter yon shall rip in the sum
mer.
Well Prepared.
"I learn," she said reproachfully,
"that you were devoted to no fewer
than five girls before you finally pro
posed to me. How do I know that you
didn't make desperate love to all of
themr
"I did," he replied, promptly-
"You did!" she exclaimed.
"Certainly," he returned. "Yoo
don't suppose for a moment that 1
would be foolhardy enough to try for
such a prize as you are without prac
ticing a little first, do you?"
With a smooth Iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; It will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
Iron.
Need of Joy in One's Work.
Joy in one's work is the consummate
tool, without which the work may be
done indeed, but without which the
work will always be done slowly,
clumsily, and without its finest per
fectness. Phillips Brooks.
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Allen srooUEase furcorn&and bunions, hot. nreatr
callous aching feet. 2ScUDrczKists.
Before attempting to get what yoa
want find out what you want. '
CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE.
Movement for Adequate Buildings for
Conducting the Work.
This statement is made to the gen
eral public for the information of
those who may be in a position to as
sist In meeting the present neces
sities of this organization. The home
is without adequate buildings and fa
cilities to take care of the homeless
and' dependant children in positions
of distress, needing shelter and tem
porary care. - - - "
For several years past the present
buildings have been inadequate to
meet the demands. The old build
ings can -only accommodate comfort
ably about 400. The number appeal
ing for admission has been so large,
hundreds have been refused admis
sion who need temporary assistance.
In spite of the small quarters the In
stitute has sheltered and fed and pro
vided for 2,371 children the past 11
years. During the past 12 months
341 homeless and dependant little
ones have been cared for and 40 of
these are on hand today.
Cottages have been rented for two
or three years past in the neighbor
hood of the Institute in order to ac
commodate children and nurses and
helpers and on account of having
these additional rooms near by the
Institute could shelter more children.
The average number on hand daily
during the past summer has been from
50 to 60. The old buildings are in
such a dilapidated condition that ex
tensive repairs are absolutely neces
sary unless the home can enter at
once upon the work of constructing
new buildings.
The Board of Trustees has been
planning a new building for about
four years, but on account of the Y.
M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. the Audi
toruim, the various hospitals of the
city and other building enterprises
the matter has been postponed from
time to time until the present. Now
the managers of this Institute feel
that the time has come to launch the
enterprise. They are assured by the
leading business men of Omaha and
by friends in the country districts
that the Child Saving Institute has
the right-of-way, an open field and
the sympathy and approval of the
general public in the enterprise to
construct a suitable building for these
dependent little ones.
The Trustees look to the country
district for a large amount of help, to
banners, merchants protesslonal men
and the farmers because this institute
belongs to the whole district for hun
dreds of miles In every direction from
Omaha. A few years ago a message
came from Sidney that the father of
a large family had broken in health
and that he was unable to do anything
for his wife and eight children and
that the county had assumed the bur
den of his case for the rest of his life.
Almost Immediately following this in
formation came the word that the
poor mother of the children, who had
been washing to support them and
struggled against poverty, had sud
denly collapsed and died leaving a
baby and seven little brothers and
sisters. This appeal from the citi
zens was responded to and a repre
sentative of the Institute sent by the
next train to bring in the eight little
children and provide homes for adop
tion for all of them.
During the past summer a message
came from Louisville to come for two
little girls, left absolutely homeless
because their mother had died and
the father was an Invalid and there
were no relatives or friends to take,
care of the children.
Lsss than a month ago three little
children were received from Belgrade,
Neb., whose father was dead and
whose mother was sick, with the hope
of living not more than four to six
weeks longer. There were no friends
or relatives to care for the little ones
and they were sent to the Institute.
Telephone messages have often been
received from Blair, Tekamah and
other towns In Nebraska and from
towns across 'ihe river in western
Iowa to comejtt once to receive little
children thrown out homeless and
destitute and such appeals have al
ways been aswered. '
It Is the policy of the Institute to
find good Christian homes for chil
dren as soon as possible and it is
usually found that two or threo
months time is required in which to
carefully investigate homes by per
sonal visits and to make arrange
ments for placing the children. The
matter of final adoption is carefully
looked after and watchful care exer
cised over the little ones until they
grow up.
Another department of the work
of the Institute is to rescue chil
dren from vile and immoral surround
ings and to prosecute cases in the
courts when necessary to protect
those who need it and in cases where
the parents show themselves abso
lutely unworthy of keeping their chil
dren they are sometimes taken from
them by legal proceedings and placed
in good homes.
It is also the policy of the Institute
to assist parents to keep their chil
dren, believing in all cases where this
can be done parents and children
should be kept together. Temporary
assistance is therefore often given In
the care of little children to help the
mother tide over a hard place until
she can reach a position of self-support
Efforts are made to re-establish
broken homes and to assist in the
reconciliation of husband and wife by
holding out the encouragement that
they can have their children a little
later and that they ought to live for
their children, and the efforts of the
workers have been crowned with suc
cess In scores of cases.
Now the Institute has become so
well known throughout the commun
ity and the volume of the work has
so increased that it Is Impossible to
meet the demands without larger
buildings and suitable buildings for
the work. A building of this kind will
cost, about $50,000 and to secure the
proper grounds and to furnish and
equip the building will cost nearly
$25,000 more, making an outlay of
$75,000 required.
The managers of the Institute are
the following well known business
men: George F. Bidwell, president; ;
Guy C. Barton vice-president; C. W.
Lyman, treasurer; K. C. Barton, sec
retary; Rome Miller, chairman of ex
ecutive board; H. J. Penfold, W. S.
Wright and Arthur C. Smith.
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How many American women in
lonely homes to-day long for fhia
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, bnt
because of some organic derange
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepara
tion for healthy maternity is
accomplished by the use ol
LYDiAEPINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Mrs. Maggie Gilmer, of "West
Union, S. G,writes to Mrs. Finkham :
"I was greatly run-down in health
from a weakness peculiar to my sex,
when Lydia E. Pinkham' 8 Vegetable
Compound was recommended to me. It
not only restored me to perfect health
hut to my delight I am a mother."
Mrs. Josephine IIall,of Bardstown,
Ky., writes :
"I was a very great sufferer from,
female troubles, and my physician failed
to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound not only restored me
to perfect health, but I am now a proud
mother."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands oi
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
LIVED ON TEN CENTS A WEEK.
BUI Doolittle's System a Good One,
But Not Attractive.
"D'y'u find smoking hurts j'nT'
asks Hi Biddle, a Yankee lawyer, in
Willie Brook's story, "The Solar Ma
chine," in Harper's.
"It probably doesn't do me any
good," I said; "but I'd have trouble
quitting it."
"No, y'u wouldn't Smoke this."
He took from his vest pocket the fel
low to the stogey in his mouth and
tossed it across the table to me. "Ever
hear bow Bill Doolittle lived on ten
cents a week?"
I confessed that Bill's economies
had never been brought to my atten
tion. "Wal," said Biddle, "he took dinner
with a friend on Sunday, an' ate
enough to last Mm till Wednesday
Then he bought ten cents' wuth o"
tripe, an' he hated tripe so like thun
der that it lasted 'im the rest o the
week. These seegars work a good
deal like that tripe. You take to
smokin' 'em, an y'u won't want more'n
one or two a day."
Not an Up-to-Date Church.
Two colored sisters living in a su
burban town met on the street one
day, and Sister Washington, who had
recently joined the church, was de
scribing her experiences.
"'Deed Mrs. Johnsing, I'se j'ined the
Baptist church, but I couldn't do all
the j'ining here, 'cause they had to
take me to the city church to baptize
me. You know there ain't no pool
room in the church here." Success.
A Difficult Task.
An old Irish laborer walked into the
luxurious studio of a New York artist
and asked for money to obtain a meal,
as he was too weak to work.
The artist gave him a quarter and
then, seeing possibilities for a sketch
in the queer old fellow, said: "I'll give
you a dollar if you'll let me paint you."
"Sure," said the man, "it's an easy
way to make a dollar, but, but I'm
wonderin' how I'd get It off."
Give Defiance Starch a fair trial
try it for botn hot and cold starching,
and if you don't think you do better
work, in less time and at smaller cost,
return it and your grocer will give yoa
back your money.
When a girl turns a fellow down he
feels like a fool, but he may live to
realize that she would have made a
bigger fool of him by accepting him.
Lewis Single Binder the famous
straight 5c cigar, always bet quality.
Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
Stealing time from sleep Is a poor
way to beat it.
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