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'HHii ? i 99 Eleventh Street. ) 1 Milwaukee, II is. \ L - **A short time ayo 1 found my eon- \ dlti'on very serious. I hadheadacltes, i pain.* In the back, and frequent dizzy 1 7tellswhlch grew tcorscevery month. I J tried tiro rented ten before Prruna. I 1 and iran disco ttrayed when 1 took ] the first dose, but my courage soon | 1 returned. In lest than two months i my health was restored. "?Mrs. ,M. i ' Brickner. The reason of so many failures to cure ! cases similar to the above is the fact that J diseases peculiar 1 msz2^ t0 the female 1 as cataksh. *x fre not com; 3 ?; inonly recognized ] aa^being caused by catarrh. Catarrh ot one organ is exactly the same as catarrh of any other organ. What will cure catarrh of the head will also cure ^ ^ catarrh of the pelvic organs. Peruna cures these cases simply because it cures the catarrh. If you have catarrh write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. " Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. 0. ^ 22. Does His Duty Without Fear. Francis I. Henry, the special Unitec States district attorney who broughl Senator Mitchell and others to indict ment In Oregon, fears nothing and has a record for absolute integrity. In his early days he practiced law in Ari zona. A woman came to him for helj in securing a divorce on account o! her husband's cruelty, but assured hinr that her husband threatened to kil any lawyer who would take up bis * wife's case. "Oh. that is a matter thai will come up later." said Henry calm ly. He got the woman her divorce anc text day met the former husband ir the street. The latter took a revolvei out of his pocket, whereupon Henry being quicker "on the draw," shot thf man aeac. 1 , For Systematic Scientific Research 1 Prof. Pearson, the English scientist , has been considering the suggestion t of Prof. Simon N'ewcomb looking tc ? the systematize ion of scientific re i search by organizing investigators lntc 1 what might be termed battalions. Dr. 1 Pearson says that what science needs 1 at present is to get rid of most of its 1 t data and investigators with brains ( enough to interpret what is left. "Al , least 50 per cent cf the observations j made and the data collected," says i Pi of. Pearson, "i3 worthless, and r.c ! man. however able, could deduce any < result from thera at all. In engineer's ' language, we need to 'scrap-heap about 50 per cent of the products oi j nineteenth century science." Cur** Bio-xl Pj'.soa. Cancer, Ulcer*. If you have offensive pimples or erup- ' tions, ulcers ou any par: ol the body, ach - ; lag bones or joints, falling hair, mucous * patches, swollen giands, skin itches and 1 \ burns, sore lips or guins. eating, festering i sores, sharp, gnawing pains, then you suf- i fer from serious biood poison or t he begin- j nings of deadly cancer. You may be pery" manently cured tv taking Botanic Blood Balm (B! B. B.) made especially to cure th? ' worst blood and skin diseases. Reals every < sore or ulcer, even deadly cancer, stops all < a i*V ac nn/i nninc nml roH n Aau oil S OTj? lll'n (TC 1 WUC3 uuu puiuo a.?v? twiwvvM w > , Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant < blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and ] scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, . Scrofula. Druggists, ifl per large bottle. 3 bottles #2.50, 6 bottles ?5, express prepaid. 1 * To prove It cures, sample of Blood Balm i aent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm i Co., Atlanta. Ga. Describe trouble and free l medical advice sent in sealed letter. ( . f ] Tho Sensation in Iler Knees. Erma was riding with nor father. 1 They reached the railroad track just in time to cross before a freight trair. rumbled by. Little Erraa was quite frightened to hear the train so close. In belting nbo^ H sai^ ..... * ' My knees were just dizzy when we got over that track."?Little Chronicle. State or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, I Lucas Count*. j ' Frank J. Cheney make oath that he It senior partner of the llrm of F. J. Chenf.t <fc Co., doing business iu the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay too sum ol one honored dollars for earn and every cose of catarrh that cannot be cured bv the us* of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in iny . ?, presence, this Gth day of Deceaii seal. [ ber.A.D.. ltKJti. A.W.Gleason, ' ?v?1' Sotary Public. Hall's Catarr a Cu re is taken internally, an 1 actsdlrectly on the blood and mucous surfaces ot tne system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chenev A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. t- l- dille #aw iUAU liiui 9 JC rnunj tim ivi PirparodDeti. ilJegin the morjiiug by saying to tby y self, 1 shall meet the busybody, the ?' ungrateful, arrogant, doceitfu', envious * ami unsocial, but 1, who have seen the nature of the good, that it is beautiful, ami that of the bad, that it is ugly, can be injured by none of tlieu).?Marcus Aurelius. FITS permanently en red. Noflts or nervous nossafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great N?rveRestoror,1i2trialbottle and treatise free Dr. R. H.Klink.Ltd.,931 Arch St.. riiila.. Pa. Vers* few person* understand the value of regularity of habits. ' ; Mrs.Wiaslow'3Soot'ningSvuo forohildreu ; toething,soften the gums, reduces iafir.mma- | tion.allayspain,cures wind colic,'.'5c.abottle. , Professor Hollander has been investigating Dominican finance*. Piso's Cure is thebest medicine we ever used j for all affections of throat and lungs.?Ww. . O. Expblkt. Yai.buroa. Ind.. Fob. 10, 1900. ; A loafer is a man who loafs and has P| - no bank account, 1 THE TULTIT. '[ A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. JOHN C. ACAR. . | frubjfcl: The Kir*t Temptation. Brooklyn, N. V.?Sunday morning. In ! tlie Church of the New Jerusalem ! (tfwedeiiborgiaio. ue pastor, the Itev. ' John C. Ager, preached on "The First i Temptatior.." The text was from Mar- i thew iv:l-4: "Then was Jestis led up into the desert by he spirit, to be tempted by the *evil. And having j fasted forty da>s and forty niglits, he after that was hungry. And the tempter eaine to Him and said. If thou art the Son of Cod speak, in order that-i these stones may become loaves. But lie answering said, It has been written, Not by bread alone shall a man live, but by every word that goetli ] forth from the mouth of God." Mr. j agcr sum: The gcspel d; Matthew describes | specifically thro temptations of the i Lord in tlu? wilderness imuiedial.dy ifter His baptism. The form of the narrative suggests at once- that these stories are not history, hut are [ arables, which picture the three general ways in which fallen humanity is approached and enticed infernal influences. And when so understood1 they become in the fullest seii9e a revelation of divine truth to men. And j so understood they suggest at once ; that there is some sort of threefold- i ness in our spiritual experiences. And j when we examine our spiritual ex- I [ eriences carefully we are able to dis- I tinguish in our inner life three distinct i [ lanes of thought and feeling. The first or lower of these three j planes of life we are all familiar with. ! If inr-liidps nil thonchts and feelines. i ill motives and impulses and appetites ' duit liave reference exclusively to our I ife In this world. This we call the i natural man. % Distinctly above this lies what we i 'all ordinarily the religious life. Its I thoughts and feelings and motives ( linve primary reference to those inter- j >sts that outlive our life in this world, j Its largest and dominant factors are Taitb. conviction and duty. Faith uid conviction are beliefs, though beiefs'liave been touched and quickened [?y religious emotion. Duty is the couJuet thai belief or faith or conviction ! in poses ;\hat is. the dominiou of truth iver the lower impulses and appetites, j Consequently this realm of the life is ; predominantly intellectual. Its dom- : mailt impulse is love of truth and loy- j ilty to truth. It lies distinctly above j :he natural man and is called the spir- 1 itual man. These two realms of thought, feeling j ind action we can easily distinguish, j Flsey make up the twofold life of every ' man who is honestly trying to live a i Irne life in the world. But they evi- j lently do not include the highest spir- j tual possibilities of human life. There j ? another realm of life clearly set be- ' rore us in the divine word, although j few Christians know practically much j ibout it. It is. iu fact, the essence of ill religious life. It is the life that is ; tennea ana enjoinea in me two greui | oin maud meats, to love the Lord our ! iod with all our heart and soul and mind and strength, and to love our teighbor as ourselves. This means that the essence of the heavenly life is ove and whenever that gains possesdon of us. faith, conviction and duty iviil all be swallowed up in love. We ihjill see with the eyes of love and act tlwnys from the impulse of love. Love | joing upward to <J!od and outward to nan will be the sole motive power of ;he life. This is the highest state of nan. the highest attainment of human intnre. and may very properly he termed distinctively the heavenly or celestial life. There are, then, three distinct rerions of life in us. The complete man s a three-storied being. Consequently : ;here must he a corresponding threefoldness in all our spiritual experiences. And it is this distinction that s pictured in these three typical teniptrtions of our Lord. The first is a type )f the temptations that belong to the ower or natural degree of the mind, the second to spiritual and the third :o the celestial or heavenly. The first temptation is pictured as an tppenl to a physical appetite. After the forty days and nights of fasting lesus was hungry and there was notling to satisfy His hunger, and it is suggested by the tempter that He conrert into loaves of bread some of the stones that covered the ground. This physical picture lias very evilently a spiritual meaning, which teals, not with the mere body and its cravings. nuc wiui me esseimai iusui iiid his cravings and requirements. It [leais with the most universal fact of human nature, hich is hunger. From the merely material activities of his physical body up to the highest activ- j Ity of his spiritual nature man is, in a sense, a mere bundle of hungers. And this is true because he is merely a recipient; and every minutest vesicle of both body and soul is a mouth clamoring to be fed. But it is only a small part, of this universal hunger that we are conscious of. As in the body some of the more general orgaus make us conscious of tlieir needs when they are not supplied, while the needs" of the mimhftv'nec c m o 1 !<-if /\vrro nc <1 n/1 rocloinc I ?4lJ?llltrl VIg?lU0 tlUVl ire met by physical processes that wo arc wholly unconscious of, S9 of the universal hunger ol the spirit only i small part ever falls within our consciousness. And this is so because the Lord requires of us only so much as He must require of us to make us images and likenesses of Pimself. To be that it is necessary that we should contribute to our life a certam measure of activity aud efiort and co-operatlou and reciprocation. And to secure that, some of the more external hungers of the body and of the mind appeal to us strongly enough to prompt us to such action as is necessary to satisfy thpni. But in our present condition all the hungers of our natural life are more or less perverted hungers, which seek for perverted and unhealthy satisfactions. And this we begin to recognize as soon as we begin to see what the true life of man is. The first evils the truth reveals to us are the indulgences of wrong appetites, and passions, and rravincs. and 11ip lirst task the truth imposes on us is to refuse to these wrong hungers or cravings the satisfaction they demand. This repudiation of those cravings we should find a hard task to begin with if we were not helped in it l?y a counteracting hunger. Among the sweetest of the satisfactions it: life* Js the approval of those whose approval we prize. And our strong hunger for this approval makes it easy for ns to discard reprehensible indulgences and pleasures. This is, of course, a purely seltlsh aim. and yet any aim or effort, even so dubious a one as this, to see what is evil in our life and to put it away, opens the mind to more and higher truth, -which brings all things into clearer light, and this higher truth makes clear to us that disreputable evils are not the only evils we have to deal with, that there are many practices that are approved ^and freely m T indulged in by thelworld about us that are sins we no lo|ger tolerate, so our clarified conscience now demands that our life shall be purged of these conventional and reputable evils. And in this task we are not helped by the approval of public opinion. But there is another selfish satisfaction that does help us. It is the sweet satisfaction of feeling that we are good and are deserving of all the happiness the Lord lias in store for all who are good. This feeling takes many forms in the uiind, but in general it is the feeling that we are as virtuous as most of those we { know and far more virtuous and kindly and self-denying than very many whom we know. This is the sweetest satisfaction our merely natural life is capable of, and in many wonderful ways it holds us up to the work of re- j pressing external evils and discarding i all lower satisfactions. So. when the hunger for a better life | has been thus far quickened in us. this j is tne way in wuicii we are always templed to satisfy it. It is described here as a temptation to make the stones of the desert into bread. The stones of the desert are the aspect that spiritual trntji takes on when it is apprehended by the natural mind or the self-life. This is the aspect that spiritual truth takes on in the letter of the word, which is truth adapted to the lowest spiritual needs of men. There reward and punishment are presented as the motives for refraining from evil and doing right. It is an appeal to what is called enlightened selfishness. This aspect of the truth is necessary to start us on the way toward the heavenly life. But to convert these stones into broad is to be permanently satisfied wRh these purely selfish aspects of truth and with this selfish stage of right living, this doing right and refraining from wrong doing for the sake of the approval of others, and for the sake of the self-satisfaction it affords. To stop at this point, to be content with this attainment, which is a temptation that confronts us all again and again, is to appropriate to ourselves the letter that killetb and to shut our eyes to the spirit that niaketh a live, r or u is mailing ine leuer vi the food into bread in this way that makes it destructive of spiritual life. The Lord's answer to the tempter teaches us how we must meet this temptation. This answer is quoted from His words of warning to thecliil-. dreu of Israel when they had just passed through their forty years of trial in the wilderness. To them He said. "Thou shalt remember all the ways which the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty years in the desert. * And He suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not: neither did thy fathers know that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live." These words, now quoted in part by the Lord as His reply to the tempter, contain the truth by which this temptation must always be met. The temptation is to permit ourselves to rest in the sense of our own goodness and to go on multiplying our good works of all kinds and refraining from all outward evils, that we may multiply our spiritual riches and increase and deepen our self satisfaction. This is the besetting temptation in it-- ?1:_! li/? Ac tlio llJt* Ifll^iuus iiir ui inn UIXJV. Ail iMv old falsity of faitli alone lias faded out of religious belief, this more subtle and attractive falsity lias taken its place. Goodness is everywhere being made tbe test and measure of religious character with very little regard for the quality of the goodness. To this temptation the divine answer is: "Not by bread alone shall man live." Man can 110 more live by charity or good works alone, which are symbolized by bread than he can live by faith alone. What man must live by is every word that goeth forth from the mouth of God. We live by getting our life Into its true relation to the divine life. And that cannot be done by recognizing this or that particular aspect of truth and trying to live by that. It can be done only by an earnest and persistent effort to shape all our thinking and all our willing and all our doing by every word that goeth forth from the mouth of God. The J>l?conrace<i Sinn. Discouragement cuts the nerve of present effort and darkens the sky of hope for better tilings. The evangelist who coined the phrase, "God cannot use a discouraged man." was a wise preacher: he might also have said that the world has no use for a discouraged man. Booker T. Washington, in his "Up From Slavery," gives the keynote of his own success in the following sensible words: "I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish. 1 have begun everything with tbe idea that 1 could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed." Such a spirit ...Ml a..tliwntirrli AVAT*r /HffipilltV 111 I'itllJ UUC lUlVUjll and over every obstacle. Speaking of a young man who was to come, an old prophet said: "He shall not fall or bq discouraged." The reason he did not fail was because he refused to be discouraged. The old doggerel. "O, do not be discouraged." had a big message even though it was wretched poetry and worse music. The sky is ever dark to him who keeps his eyes Su the grodud!?Service. * t*?' Matching Order*, The Duke of Wellington called the "Go ye into all the word and preach the Gospel." the Christian's "marching orders." The old soldier saw clearly that th'e command of the Commanderin-Chief was to His followers to engage in the work of recruiting. The obligation to win men to Christ is the immediate and imperative duty of every Christian. It is his first business ir. the Flick's Time of Surprise. "Of the many things that have taken place during my baseball career. I think the one that has most forcibly impressed itself upon my memory is the fact that I subbed for 1 Larry at second base last season," | says Elmer Flick, the Cleveland ball tosser. "When Armour told me to go out to second and see how well I could do, I never felt queerer in my life. A most peculiar feeling went j over me. I thought to myself. 'Here I am, going out to take the place of the greatest second baseman in the business?me. a man that has never played second base and has not put the ball on a runner since the days I used to catch about the lots.' Well. I went out. and, as you know. I played second base for a week without making ar. error. My, but I felt iunny. In I fact, I used to laugh to myself out there around second to think that I, i who had been playing the outfield for seven years, was actually playing ; second base without a moment's j warning. I used to pinch myself occasionally to see if I were really ! awake." " j "I _ . T He Cheered Me Oft. "His words have cheered me oft," thej eald. As he in peace was lying. With folded hands, upon his bed, Bevond the stress of dying. He hod no art to gather gold.? He loved too well his brother? But. "Much I loved him!"?thus they tolc Their thought to one another. My Father, through this life of mine Lead through the valley lowly: Though half ttnwrit's the thought divint That thou has whispered wholly, Yet when I die. and visions soft Through my long sleep are pressing. I Let fond hearts say, "He cheered rn? i oft."? I ask no other blessing. ? t* .1 1 WitorhflMQC Ifl Success MflCfl ?j i rcu ?i - ? , ; zine. A True Snake Story. "The affair happened on Saturda; night," says the Bulawago Chronicle "in a room on the outskirts of Rayl I ton. Four card players were intent on a game of whist and the window 1 was open to allow of some fresh air Suddenly, out of the darkness, five feet of black mamba hurled itseli through the open window into the room. For a moment every one was | paralyzed, and then one of the occupants seized hold of the most bandy | weapon and flung it at the intruder. It happened to be a water bag and the snake received a cold douche, which was evidently not to its liking, for it vanished Just as suddenly as it had come, by the same route. A | search of the premises discovered the creature in an adjoining room, j but it again made its escape, and, as the police would say, is 'still at [ large."' | Sun Parlor for Baby. ^ , Sunning the baby is the latest thing In baby culture. No household is too poor to possess one of these patent adjustable sun parlors. They are made of some kind of hard wood and built by the carpenter to extend beyond the window. The top and sides of the little platform arc covered with glass, and strips of carpet are laid on the floor to ctop up any cracks there may he. .\o mauer now i fiercely the winds may blow or how low the thermbmeter may sink the sun parlor Is always ready for the baby. A pillow Is placed on the carpeted floor, then the baby Is warmly dressed and well covered for Its morning or afternoon nap. Mothers who have tried this method of sunning the baby are boasting of tbo gain in weight and health and have the proud satisfaction of knowing they are strictly up to date. Trousers and Jacket in Wood. The president of a large wholesale company In Van Buren street has recently received from a customer, who lives in Akron, Ohio, a -curio consisting of a natural growth of maples so fashioned as to resemble a pair of Mexican trousers and part of a close fitting jacket. The "trousers" f are about long enough for a man six feet tall. The Ohio customer has a farm near ' his home city. While exploring the woods a few weeks ago he discovered a tree whose peculiarity startled him. Soon afterward he had the tree felled and. cutting out the unique section, sent it by freight to the Chicago firm, ?Chicago News. Dog Announces Crossings. A blind man and a spaniel dog lead irg him with the aid of chain fur nished a curious sight on Chestnut ' street the other day. Pedestrians looked on in amazement and man? followed the blind man and his friend to see if anything curious would j happen when they reached a street crossing. Strange enough, the do& barked when the curbstone was I reached and in that way informed the j blind man that he should be careful j and step down.?Philadelphia Press. Picked Up Swarm of Bees. A swarm of bees took possession oi j a ventilator on the ship Diana of the British navy while she lay alongside ! the mole at Gibraltar. A clever seaman succeeded in getting the swarm ! transferred to an old soap box and sold the whole thing to a local bee j raiser. There is said to be a lot of grafters in Delaware of both the peach tree and J political varieties. BOOK OP BOOKS. Over 30,000,000 PnblUIied. An Oakland lady who has a taste for good literature, tells what a happy time she had on "The Road to Wellvllje." She says: I drunk coffee freely for eight years i before I began to perceive any evil effects from it. Then I noticed that I was becoming very nervous, and that my stomach was gradually losing the power to properly assimilate my food. In time I got so weak that I dreaded to leave the house?for no rea#n whatTver but because of the miserable condition of my nerves and stomach. I attributed the trouble to anything in the world but coffee, of course. I dosed myself with medicines, which in the end would leave me In a worse condition than at first. I was most wretched and discouraged?not 30 years old and feeling that life was a failure! 0 "I had given up all ho^V of ever enjoying myself like other people, till one day I read the little book, "The Road to Wellville." It opened my eyes, and | taught me a lesson I shall never forget and cannot value too highly. I immediately quit the use of the old kind of | coffee and began to drink Postum Food ; Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an improvement iu the whole tone of my | system, after only two days use of the new drink, and in a very short time j realized that I could go about like | other people without the least return of j the nervous dread that formerly gave I me so much trouble. In fact, my nerv- j ousness disappeared entirely and has | ucver returned, although it is now a | | year that I have been drinking fostum j Food Coffee. And ray stomach is now ! like iron?nothing can upset it! "Last week, during the big Conclave in ?San Francisco, I was on the go day and night without the slightest fatigue; { and as I stood in the immense crowd j watching the great parade -that lasted ; for hours, I thought to myself, 'This strength is what Postuin jfood Coffee has given me!'" Xanje givefc by Postum Co., Battle Cre<?k, Mich. There's a reason. \ The little book," The Bead to Well1 Tille.*' may be found In every pkg. . ? jfcPiiin * I,' lOft ; Backache, i >f Both Symptoms of < Women?Thousands i Juit Discrimination In Railway Rate*. All railroad men qualified to spea j ?n the subject in a responsible wa : are likely to agree with President San | uel Spencer, of the Southern Railway i when he says: "There is no division c i opinion as to the desirability of stoj | piug all secret or. unjustly discriniiui tory devices and practices of whatsi ever character." Mr. Spencer, in speaking of "nnjus ]y discriminatory" rates and device: ! makes a distinction which is at out apparent to common sense. There ina be discrimination in freight rati which is just, reasonable and imp**r: r tively required by the complex con mercial and geographical couditioi with which expert rate makers have t deal. To abolish such open anil hone: discrimination might paralyze the ii dustries of cities. States hnd whole se< tions of our national territory. This distinction between just an unjust discrimination is clearly recoj ni?f?d in tlm conclusions of the Into: national Railway Congress, publislie yesterday: 'Tariffs should bo based on eommerci: principles, taking into account the specie conditions which bear upon the eommerci value ot the sendees rendered. With tt reservation that rates shall be charged witl out arbitrary discrimination to all shippe: alike under like conditions, the making < rates should as tar as possible have all tt elasticity necessary to permit the develo] ment of the trafflc'and to produce the grea est results to the public and to the railroac themselves." The present proposal is. as Mr. Wall er D. Hines, of Louisville, showed i bis remarkable testimony the otb? day before the Senate Committee A Washington, to crystalize flexible pn Justly discriminatory rates into iixe Government rates which cannot b changed except by tbe intervention c some Government tribuual. aud by tbi very process to increase "the temptf tion to depart from the published rat and tbe lawful rate in order to met *omc overpowering and urgent eon. mercial condition."?New York Sun. Nothing beats a good wife?excel a bad husband. So. 22. BABY CAME NEAR DYINC From *n Avfal Skin Humor?scratch* Till Blood K?n-\Ya?tf<l tc a Skeleton?Speedily Cured by Cuticura. "W hen three months old my boy brok out with an itching, watery rash all ove his body, and he would scratch till tli blood ran. We tried nearly everything but he grew worse, wasting to a skeleton and we feared he would die. He slept onl; when in our arms. The first applicatioi of Cuticura soothed him so that lie slept ii his cradle for the first time in n any weeks One set of Cuticura made a complete am permanent cure. (Signed) Airs. M. C Maitland, Jasper. Ontario." Sglililer'* Father's Willi. Apropos of the Friedrlch Sebllle centenary it is interesting to recal that when the news of the birth of th poet reached his father, the latter be sought Cod to bestow upon the bo; "those gifts of mind and soul to wbicJ he himself, through lack of education had never attained." THE MODERN FARMER. How He Lives as Compared With Ftftj Tears Ago. THE farming life of to-<lay, as contrasted with that of iiftj years ago, is a paradise ol comfort and convenience. Tin lonely loghouse, remote from inarke and devoid of advantages that a liali cycle of time has made possible, wouli scarcely appeal to the prcieut dnj farmer. The twentieth century soil tiller hni nrnetien IIv nil the modern comforts His mail is delivered daily. He lia; telephonic connection with the buyiu; and selling world, affording the bes opportunities for marketing to advan tage. His home is of recent nrcliitec ture, constructed of wood, brick o stone, and well furnished. He ha modern plumbing and modern healing and with the advent of acetylene gas he has modern lighting. At night hi home Is as attractively illuminated a that of his city brother, for it Is a sug gestive fact that "acetylene for conn try homes" has so appealed to the farm er that of the SO.OttO users of acety lene gas In the United States the farm er is one of the largest of all classes Ever seeking the best, he has not hesi tated iu availing himself of this net light. The continued growth and progres of this fjreat country, ever a cause o wonderment, has no greater exempli fication than Solution on the farnr Already the farmer is becoming th most envied of meti?the freest, th healthiest, the happiest! Jets and Flashes. It is easier to start a rumor than i Is to head it off. A girl Is never satisfied until sh draws her beau into a knot. That charity which begins at hom would rather patronize an excursio boat than paddle his own canoe? Are the Packer* Receiving Fair Play? When the Garfield report on tli< business methods of the packers ap peared, after eight months' investign tion. it was severely criticised atu roundly denounced. After three month: of publicity it is significant that tliosi who attempted to discredit it liav< failed to controvert the figures con tained in that exhaustive document The pulilic is beginning to notice tliii omission, and the feeling is rapid): growing that the sensational charge out of which the "Beef Investigation' arose were without foundation. If tin official statements of the report an susceptible of contradiction, a goo< many people are now asking why th facts and figures are not furnished v contradict them. The truth seems to be that most o the charges contaiu unfounded sensa tionnl assertions. A flagrant exarnpl of this appeared in a recent article ii an Eastern magazine, to the effect tha "forty Iowa banks we forced to clos their doors in 19(w4 by the Bee Trust's manipulation^^ cattle prices. Chief Clerk Cox, of t?e banking de - " V ll-l.. A .. Jllau1 pariinenr or me lowa jmie auunor office, has tabulate^^ro list of bank given in the magaWne article and lia publicly denounced the statement a utterly untrue. lie gives separatel; the reasons for each failure mcntione and officially states that they hnv been caused by unwise speculations an by reckless banking methods. It ma, be well to suspend judgment upon th packers until the charges against tber are proved. - - " ^ How often do we hear women say: *\ jf seems as though my back would break ie or "Don't speak to me, I am all out < 3- sorts?" These significant remarks proi t- that the system requires attention. 13 . Backache and " the blues" are direi symptoms of an inward trouble whic will sooner or later declare itself, u. may be caused by diseased kidneys < m some uterine derangement. Natui ft requires assistance and at once, at j Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Cor j pound instantly asserts its curatr powers in all those peculiar ailments < e women. It has been the standby < intelligent American women for twenl s years, and the ablest specialists agT< i- that it is the most universally succes e ful remedy for woman's ills known 1 medicine. j. The following letters from Mr Holmes and Mrs. Cotrely are amon the manv thousands which Mrs. Pinl )t ham has received this year from thos whom she has relieved. Surely such testimony is convincinj N Mrs.J.G. Holmes, of Larimore, Nort 3 Dakota, writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? 11 "I have suffered everything with baekacl and womb trouble?I let the trouble run c until my system was in such a condition thi 1 was unable to be about, and then it was f commenced to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg r table Compound. If I had only known ho t much suffering I would have saved, I shou] > have taken it months sooner?for a fe weeks' treatment made me well and stroni ' My backaches and headaches are all gone ar I "suffer no pain at ray menstrual period 1 whereas before I took Lvdia E. Pinkbam a Vegetable Compound I suffered intense pain j Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 109 East 12t i Street, New York City, writes: Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice-A Wo ; I Say Plainly I 1 That jou want LIO> 9 being a square man, w; 9 thing else. You may ] r I What About the Uni i 8 of housekeepers who ] 1 for over a quartei g Is there any stronger Lion-head or I?! Save these Lion-heat ; | SOLD BY GROCI 1 Hi CUES WHERE All EUE FAILS. 3 U Boat Coutfh Hrrcp. Tuiea iood. Lee J1 Iri in time. Sold by drufttl-u. f agprnzoffiiaiEnaQ i- n^TECTITE WORK?Fe??W sbed 15 yeer I louuu Secret Herri e men?more belntr edded ever ' Udiy. Sent! ns ronreaee. A'Tire by m?ll tree. Ai e drees American Detecttre Ase'n. I-.dlaanpolia. In. e ggsg Thompson's Eye Wats Ever the greatest of fish begin lif t on a small scale. e An Ex-Chief Justice'! Opinion. Judge O. E. Lochrane, or ueorgia. in letter to {>r. Biggers, states that he nev? e suffers himself to be without a bottle of D n Biggers' Huckleberry Cordial for the relic Qt all bowel troubles, Dysentery, Diarrhoei etc. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle. 1 The magazine short story is too o * ten pointless. This is not the cas - with a tale called "Hickory Dock," t 1 Eleanor A. Hallowell. appearing in ti s June Llppjncott. It is a love-story n< p unconnected with a clock, as the tit! e indicates, and it passes the readi through some very charming emotior to a happy climax. EVERY WALK IN LIFE, r s A. A. Bojce, a farmer living thre the aching in my back and side I'or a time I was unable to walk : g all, and every makeshift I tried an s all the medicine I took had not tl ? slightest effect. My back continued i ? grow weaker until I began takin y Doan's Kidney Pills, and I must sa j I was more than surprised and gral p tied to notice the backache disappea d ing gradually until it finally stopped y Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all dea e ers or by mail on receipt of price. 5 u cents per box. FosUr-Milbur/i C< Buffalo, N. Y. ; ! 'j: "The Blues" j Organic Derangement in of Sufferers Find Relief. It Dear Mrs. Pinkbam:? i" " I feel it my duty to tell all suffering women of the relief 1 have found in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. When I eommenced taking the Compound I suffered , every thing with backaches, headaches, menct strual and ovarian troubles. I am completeh ly cured and enjoy the best of health, and I It owe it all to you." jr When women are troubled with irregr(j ular, suppressed or painful menstruald tion, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacea* ment or ulceration of the womb, that 1 'e bearing down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating'(or flatulence), general debility, indigesy tion and nervous prostration, or are be-e set with such symptoms as dizziness, s" faintness, lassitude, excitability, irrita ? bility. nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and " want-to-bes* left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessg ness, they should remember there is one c* tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkie ham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. ?. ; v No other medicine in the world haa received such widespread and unqualfied endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female le troubles. Refuse to buy any substitute. ? 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