The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, October 17, 1906, Image 7
Items of Intercst.
The new "Black- Pope who is the
generai of the order Wf Jesuits was
recentlv elected Jin .Rome by deigates
gathered from the provinces through
out the world, is a German.
A Christian En.eavor Societv -a
Chicago suports five native teachers
in China at :50 a year. two native
teachLs on the C:ono at the sani
cost as wel as four students, f'):
whose raining thev eontribute sixty
dollars.
- News and Notes.
The World's Conference of the W.
C. T. U. including representatives
from more than thirty countries, will
meet in Boston, Mass., October 17
25.
General Funston is to be supereed
ed in the chief military command in
Cuba by Gen. J. Franklin Bell, and
will leave Havana with Taft next
Saturday.
Proverbs and Phrases.
The produce of 1the best of heads is
often defeated by the best of hearts.
Health is the most admirable mani
festation of right living.-Humboldt.
A good heart breaks bad fortune.
From the Spanish.
Tie way to heaven is by weaping
cross.-From the German.
If YOU puli one pig by the tail. all
the rest *ill squ-al.-From the Dhutch
\1ke yourself" honey and the iies
will devour you.-From the Italian.
To be commended by those who
might blame without fear gives great
pleasure.-Agesilaiu.
He who does what he likes. does
not what he ought.-From the Sapn
ish.
Constant complaints never get
pity.-From the German.
He who is a donkey and believes
himself a deer finds out his mistake
at the leaping of the ditch.-From
the Italian.
That folly of old age which is call
ed dortage is peculiar to silly old
men, not to age itself.-Cicero.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
Men dislike to blame themselves
* for their own faults. so they blame
women for theirs.
A man's conscience troubles him
less than the fear of being caught
at it. So. 42-'ou.
INTERFSTING CONTEST.
Heavy Cost of Unpaid Postage.
One of the most curious contesis
ever before the public was conducted
y many thousand persons under the
offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.,
of Battle Creek. Mich., for prizes of
31 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks
to those making the most words outI
of the letters Y-1-O-Grape-Nuts.
The contest -was started in Febru
ary, 1&06,. and It was arranged to
h ave the prit~es awarded on Apr. 30,
1906.
When the public announcement
appeared many persons began to
form the words from these letters,
sometimes the whole family being
occupied evenings, a combination of
amusement and education.
After a while :he lists began to
come ini to the Postum Office, and be
fore long the volume grew until it
required wagons to carry the mail.
Many of the contestants were
thc'gatless enough to send their lists
with -insufficient postage and for a
period it cost the Company from
\ twenty-five to lifty-cight and sixty
dollars a day to pay the unpaid post
age.
weoung ladis, nrall thse ho
and count the correct words. WVeb
ster-s Dictionary vwas the standard,
and each list was very carefully cor
rected, except those which fell below
8000, for it soon bez~me clear that
liothing below that could win. Som e
of the lists 'required the work of a
young lady for a solid week on each
individual list. The work was done
very carefully and accurately, but
the Company had no idea, at the time
the ofr was made, that the people
would respon~d so generally, and they
were cemnelled :o fill every available
space in the oft- s with these young
lady e::amniners, ad notwithstanding
hey worked ste:>Mily, it was impossi
le to complese the examination until
t. 29, over :six months after the
a- should have been awarded.
his delay caused a great many
iries and 1::aturally created some
satisfaction. ft has been thought
st to mnake this report in practi
liy all of the newspapers in the
nited States and many of the mnaga
nes in order to make clear to the
ele the conditions of the contest.
Many- lists contained enormous
numbers of words which, under the
rules, had to be eliminated. "Peg
ger" would count, "Peggers" would
not. Some lists eontained over 50,
000 words, the great majority of
Swhich were cut out. The largest
lists were checked over two and in
son --ases three times to insure ac
curacy.
'The $100.00 gold prize was won by
L. D. Reese. 1227-15th St., Denver,
Colo.. with 9941 correct words. The
hig'est $10.00 gold prize went to S.
K. Fr.aser. Lincoln. Pa., with 9921
correct words.
A complete list of the 331 winners
with their home addresses will be
sent to any contestant enquiring on
a postal card.
Be sure and give name and address
clearly.
This contest has cost the Co. many
thousand dollars. and probably hae
not bren a profitable advertisement.
nevertheless, perhaps some who ha"
never before tried Grape-Nuts food
have been interested in the contest.
and f atm trial of the fool have been
shovwn its wonderful rebuilding pow
ers.
It tehes inl a practical manner
that sitifially gathered foo:1 elr.
ments can be selected from the flel"
*rzins which nature will use for re
builing the nerve centres and brali
In a way that is unmnistak able t:
users of Grape-Nuts.I
THE PUL P1T.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BD
DR. JAMES W. LEE.
Subject: Hrow We Know God.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-For a month the
Rev. Dr. James W. Lee, rastor of
Trinity M. E. Church, South Atlanta,
Ga, acted as pastor of three Brook
lyn churche!s, Bethany Dutch Re
formed, Simpson M. E. and Central
Baptist. These churches united their
congregations into one, and invited
Dr. Lee to serve them. The sermon
last Sunday was at Simpson Chnrch.
The subiect was "Ho-.: to Know
God," and the text Hosea vi:3: "Then
shall we know, if we follow on to
know the Lord." Dr. Lee said:
For a: I our knowledge we are in
debted to three forms of montal ac
tivity wli(b are known as intuition,
reflectior. and recollection, or to use
different forms for the same thines,
we can call them percontion, bv
means o' which we recognize sinele
things; concention. by which we do
duce general frrins from single
things: and recollection, hv which
we recall nrevious percentions and
recollections. Tha. is, the human
mind can know the natural world.
the human world and the sniritual
world, hv the activity of the intuitive,
coneeptive and recollectivr- nowers.
From intuitions man generalizes eon
2eptions or ideas of gr-eater comnro
bensiveness. and he can call hek
;>ast nerc(ntIons and conpcntions
:hrough his powers of recolleftion.
Man has three great intelletinal en
lowments- he can perepive, he can
!onceive, he can remember.
Our tiunitions. our percentions,
may be divided into three c1a--.
We have intuitions of the wo-l'd:
these are sense percontions: we have
Intuitions of ours-lves; tbosa are
;elf-perentions: and we have int-i
tions of the sniritnal world; these
tre religious pereqntions.
It must be understood, however,
that we can have no cognitions or
perceptions of either nature, man or
God, unlss nature, man and God
come bef-re the mind. In every nor
cetion Ihere must be a percaiver.
something perceived. an i an act of
perception. No world can he sen,
unless ti-ere is a world before the
mind; no man can be seen unloQs
there is -. man before the mind. No
man can crepte nerceptions eithor of
nature. man or God. ont of nothing.
For all h percentions of natnre,
man or Cod. he is shut up to the oh
jects which produce them. Te co"11'
no more have religious narcentions
without (od than he could have sofn
perceptiois without man, or sonso
perceptiois without a world. Snirit
ual intuitions are as indubitahla evi
dences of the presen-e of God. as
sense intuitions are of the nreaonee
of the material world, or as self-in
tuitions are of the nresence of man.
If religious intuitions do not imnnly
God, as sense-Dercentions imnly na
ture, and self-cognitions imniv man,
then civiiration is an unsubstan+41
0 -nam. When a person obieetifies
himself into some one else and comes
at length to beli'eve himself a ruler
of a nation when every one of his
friends k-aows he is only .Tohn Smith,
a .iury is called to pass on his sanity.
(f a man continues to talk into one
end of a telenhone and to get an
swers back when there is no one at
the other end of it, a .iury is called to
inquire into the state of his mind.
Now, if for thousands of years the
human race has been perceiving God
in nature, in conscience, in history,
atnd answering back through- prayer
and reverence and song and liturgy
and doctrine and temple, when in
fact no God has been perceived, then
it is evident that human nature is
constitutionally deranged. Tt is re
markable, however, that ,man should
End himself led astray at none of the
gateways through which he holds
comamercc wIth outside reality excent
the religious. The gateway of vinon
opens out alirectly into the kingdom
of light. The gateway of sound et
a-tly adjicins the kingdom of melody.
T he intellect borders on the realm
Struth. The universe fits closely
about and meets and matchos ever~y
human sense excent the religious. If
ma~n woudi breathe, there is the air;
if he wonild satisfy his hunger, there
is food; if he wonid slake his thirst,
there is water; if he would talk th'ere
are vibrations to carry his words.
Every door of the soul and body is
an open port through which there is
eonstant exchange of inside and out
side merchandise, excent the one
Onening into the religious regions.
When through the spiritual sense he
anprehenis what he takes to be di
vine reality, he finids only the nhan
tasmal forms of his own soul filling
the horizon in front of ' in.
If we can know God by exactly the
same meThods we use to know the
world and man, what becomes of
faith? In reply, It may be answered
that we have no knowledge of any
grade of reality whatsoever without
faith. For knowledge of things ma
terial we need sense-faith; for knowl
edge of things human we need self
fait1-.; for knowledge of God we need
religious faith. Faith does not come
at the end of Intellectual processes
by means of which perceptions are
worked up into conceptions and laws
and general ideas. Faith stands et
the outer, door of the mind and all
intuitions, whethe of nature, man or
God, must receive its apnroval bofore
they can be initiated Into the differ
ent degrees of knowledge.
Before we can reason about gravi
tation, force, atoms, and ether we
must accept their existence by~ faith.
Faith goes before proof. \\ e cannt
store up an item of knowledge of to'
tan.;ible world evan without n'*-.
assumpticois ti-t no) one can !'ossibiv
prove. Those scientists who deride
faith and take unction to themselvos
upon believing nothing without evi
dence, should remember that hbore
there can be any experience of any
thing or any demonstration of an"
thing whatsoever, they are un-ler to.
necessity of making assintions
every one of whirh must be acceptci
by faith All c-i fusion of tho zet
on the s ihjet of faith has grmyn u it
of the fact that it has been unt at
end of mental proemsses, w i-n itn
lon.g at the bltuningofim -
function is to initiate i~'n ''eui .
stan.s at the d::.ae ;.i
work is to certify to the validity of
our intuitions. The same argument
that is brought by Haeckel against
the existence of God was brought to
'ume against the existence of man,
aind by Fichte against the existence
of the world. The one thing that
every man knows with the conviction
f absolute certainty is the fact of
'is own e istence. If the self is not
nown, n~thing can be. Yet no one
*ver* with the eye of sense saw him
elf thinking or willing or feelingr.
~~t he has as mueh confidlence in
is self-percentions as in bis conse
orcentions. Faith in our intuitions
of nature, of man nd of o. is he
confition of physical science. psycho
logical scienc and the science of
religion.
Without faith in s!sjs-impressions
we become italisIs. Without faith
in self-imnrexsions we become ag
nostics. Without faith in religious
imrnression-s we becoml matci-alists.
Faith is impossibl without evideilce,
and as so-md :.ii valid evidence is
needed for our faith in God as for
our faith in the world. But the Lvi
denee faith deniands is not such as
the reason presenLi. but such as tbe
intuitions pr;ent.
Nature, u an and God, the three
terms which represent the r-ntire sum
of reality, must each he taken at the
outset on faith based on the evidence
of sense-intuition, self-intuition and
religious intuition. Physical science
is the knowledge f nature: but be
fore the int% i'Fence can make use of
the cognitions of sense out of which
to form it, naiure itseif must be ac
ceited by faith. We must believe
that God is before' we can ever use
the intuitions of Hlim to make theo
logical science.
"Faith is an affirni.tion and an act,
Which bids eternal truth be present
fact."
In denying the existence of God to
begin with, we close the door of the
spirit through which God manifests
Himself. If we start out with the
understanding that there is no God,
religious perceptions are strangled in
their very birth. Of course, we can
have no perceptions of God if we mu
tilate the noblest part of our nature
by putting out the eyes of the relig
ious sense. We have it within our
power to destroy our physical senses.
We can plug- up onr ears and shut
the windows of vision and close all
the doors through which the outside
world impresses us. But one foolish
enough to destroy his physical senses
would be doubly stupid if he imag
ined ,afterward that he had more
commerce with reality than those
who kept onen all the gateways of
the body and soul.
Haeckel says that "human nature
which exalts itself into an imaga of
God * * * has no more value
ror the universe at large than an ant
or the fly of a summer's d:.y."
Unless the knowledge man gets of
himself and the world and God by
the reaction of intelligence on per
ceptions is valid and 'rustworthy,
Haeckel is right; man is not of more
value than the ant, or the fly of a
summer's day. He is not of as much
value as the bee, or the beaver, or
the tailor bird; for they are all art
ists without the tronble of learning
how to be, while he is left to accumu
late knowledge as best he can by the
use of his faculties. They know at
the beginning what It has taken him
thousands of years to find out, and
even now the bee surpasses him in
the application of the principles of
mathematics.
If what man knows, or thinks he
knows, of the world and himself and
God is illusion, then the lower ani
mais have the advantage of him. The
knowledge built into their bodies
does correspond with the facts with
which they have to deal. They are
not disappointed and deceived. The
f vek of wild geese from the Northern
lakes have always fonnd the South
they felt In their blood was there.
The beaver has always found the
mud responsive to his tail, and the
wood of the tree no harder than his
teeth could cut. Bit, if the cogni
tions of man do not corresniondi to
things, but are hallucinations, phan
tasmal forms of his own conscious
ness, then the bears and tigers and
beavers and bees and ants and gnats
have the advantage of him. Human
beings who have exaltod themselves,
as Haeckel says, into images of God,
are the greatest fools, and the only
fools, on 3arth. The universe puts
a higher valne on genuine flat-footed
tigers, who find as they roam on all
fours the jungles matching their
every want and anticinatin g their
every item of constitutional knowl
edge, than upon the so-called lords of
creation,who have only climbed to
the top of animated existence in their.
conceit. They are like a company of
plain laborers, Imagining themselves
to be King Georges, and, instead of
occupying thrones, as they think they
do, they are perched upon stools in
the different rooms of an insane asy
lum. It were better to be a good,
healthy tiger in the tall cane of the
swamp any time than to be a crazy,
self-inflated, self-conceited descend
ant of Adam, running at-large in the
high places of existence. It were bet
ter to be a real cow, grazing in the
meadow, than an unreal human
biped, walking with his head full of
delusions in a paradise of fools.
A Rich Brother.
Mr. Dwight L. Moody used to tell
of a young man he knew of who
went into business in one of our
Western towns. The people thought
he was sure to fail; but he did not.
After he had been going along for
some years, showing no signs of fail
ing, it was discovered that he had a
brother in the East who was very
rich, and who helped him along from
time to time.
Just so is it with us in the Chris
tian life; we have an Elder Brother
who is very rich, and, joined in part
nership with Him, He will help us
to hold out. Joined to Christ we a'
in alliance witai One who is not onlU'
able but willing to give us a.ll neede"
guace and strength. "They that trur
in the Lord shall not want any go
thing." , "God is our refuge ani
strength, a very present help it:
troible." Christian, young or old.
or in whatever circumstance of need.
take courage, take heart, look u"'
The promises of God can never fn'
He is the same "yesterday, to I
and forever." "As thy dlays so shla
thy strength be."-Rev. G. B. F. 1-a.
lock, D.D
The lhan Christian is sure to b
nervous.
Trained to See a Joke.
Can the sense of humor be cutivat
ed? I think of a boy with the literal
directness of a small Briton, the des
,air of his bumntrxous father. A sys
tematic course was bo'gun, in the
hope that the child's life might be
broadened and brigheen& Each week
one or two evenings were~ devoted to
a careful explanationl of the jokes as
they appeared in three of the humer
ous weeklies of the better class. Puna
were avoided, as tney were more eas
iy detected and often enjoyed, while
the father had no desire for a punster
son. At first the evenings were stren
.oas, disliked by both: to the humor
ots s'do so potent to the onlooker,
ather and son alike were oblivious.
But at twenty-five, whnile he is not am
riginal joker, none can excel this
yong man in the ease E~nd quickness
with whixch he detects a hidden men
n. The initiative seems not to be
g.anted him, but a fund of enjoyment
is his, which undoubtedly would
have been lost but for his consistent
Greatest of Bird Travelers.
The greatest of bird travelers is
passing through the United States
on his way from Alaska to Patago
nia. Thil is a distance of 10,.1100
miles. ;nd the night-halk. or "bill
bat, travels it twice a year to get
away lrom; the cold of finter. When
winter begins in Patugonia. Souta
Americo. IL fhlejs to zhe aretit ,r.
When nitier begins, the-re hiereun
a jin 'o he extreme southernnat
lard- in South America. Thus he
travels. 20.000 nies each year in
Sear'b of a elimate that suits hni.
ing that few humal traveler
ever do.
A few of the advance guard 6f the
main army of these rnigrating biriS
have already beer seen on their way
south. They may be seen any even
ing at twilight from now until cold
weather iitting around catching in
seets, but they remain for only one
or two evenings and then are off for
their winter home. What a vast
panaramp of secenery must this great
touri4t of the air behold! Looking
down npxin millions of people. otr
lowering mountains. bv ttiful valleys
dense forests, mighty rivers, and the
blue waters of the ocean.
Nature has so constructed the
wings of this bird that it is capable
of long periods of flight. It soars
through space without any apparent
motion of its wings and moves with
the swiftness of a speeding arrow. --
Exchange.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Am
putation of a Limb.
B. Frank Doremus, veteran. (,
Rooscvelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.,
says: "I had been showing symp
toms of kidney trou
ble from the time I
was mustered out of
the army, but in all
my life I never suf
ie:eI as in 197.
Hevlaches, dizzinues
and sleeplessness
first, and then dropsy.
I was weak and help
less, having run down
from 180 to 125
pounds. I was having terrible pain
In the kidneys and the secretions
passed almost involuntarily. My left
leg swelled until it was thirty-four'
'nches around, and the doctor tapped
'T night and morning until I could no
vinger stand it, and then he advised
-.mputation. I refused, and began
sing Doan's Kidney Pills. The swell
ng subsided gradually, the urine be
-ame iatural and all my pain- and
iches disappeared. I have been weil
-low for nine years since using Doan's
Cidney Pills."
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents
a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
NI. y.
A man's conscience troubles him
ess than the fear of being caught
at it. __________
CUktES CATARRHI.
Disease Comes From Weak Stomach
Wonderful Results Obtained by
Taking Tyner's Dyspepsia
Remedy.
You know the symptoms: hawking
and spitting- by day, swallowing the
poisonous mucus by night; bad
breath, foul taste,
co0nsutip at ion,
- stopped up nose,
Iheadache, dizziness,
W ~that awfuidropping
,~lp ' in the throat, ner
vousness, pains and
aches in back, side
/ or bones. ,It all
~ ) comes from a weak
stomach or dyspepsia. Tyner's'Dys
pepsia Remedy acts on the digestive
fluids, makes new rich1 blood an~d
cures in this way the worst case of
ca,.rrh. Stop using sprays, blood
purifyers or Inaaling medIcated va
'ors, when the real trouble is in the
diseased stomach. Tyner's Dyspepsia
Remedy is the only real cure by
'.rngthening your weak stomach,
curing your indigestion or dyspepsia
and vilest form of catarr~h. Hun
dreds of cuires made after all other
reatments had failea. Druggists or
by express 50 cents a bottle. Money
refunded if it falls to cure. Book,
"Key to Health,'' free by writing to
Tyner Remedy Co., Au'~nsta, Ga.
IWhat a delightful old world this
would he if fussy people would only
lose their tempers for keeps.
born.
HICKS'
CA PUDINE
~-' CURES
ALL ACHES
And Nervousness
Tris betdeI0c At rgi str
Cui
fo
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troubles, and stattng ycer age.
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Address: Ladies' Advisory
Growing importaice of Wheat.
One of the notable agricultural
facts is the increasing attention given
to the wheat crop, not only within
the corn belt, where for years there
was a tendency to neglect it, but also
in the distinctive small grain regions.
Under improved methods and ruling
prices for a series of years wheat
has proven one of the most profitable
erops. even in the old settled eastern
portion of Nebraska, while its possi
bilities have been one of the main
propelling causes of the extraordin
ary movement of farmers westward
into the subhumid region in the
United States and the vast expanses
of the Canadian northwest. Yet
there has been a marked concurrent
tendency of wheat exports to fall
off. An analysis of the fact cover
ing 27 years demonstrates a steady
inereas of domestic consumption,
amounting in the aggregate to 40
per cent., while population has in
creased only 30 per cent. which goes
far to explain the hiteherto puzzling
results. whether as regards prices,
production or exports. For it ap
pears by comparison of five-year per
iods that the per capita wheat con
sumption from IS79 to 1S4 was 4.q4
bushels, from 1901 to 1906 5.03
bushels. Just whey consumption
should so rapidly increase over so
long a period in the face of advanc
practically no new uses in addition
to that of human food, is not made
clear, but the fact of such increase
is established beyond a preadventure.
Different.
"Let me have thirty dollars," said
a prospector one day to a lawyer
friend. "I must have p-cwder and
grub. I'll pay you back within a
week. I've struck it rich. I'm within
three feo t of a million dollars." Two
weeks later the lawyer, who had ac
commodated his friend, met him on
the street. The prospector seemed
anxious to avoid his creditor. -"'The,
last time, I saw you, you were within
three feet of a million dollars," re
marked the lawyer. "What's the news
now?" "Oh, thunderation." said the
prospector, "I'm not within a million
feet of three dollars."-From "The
Story of Mcntana," by C. P. Connolly
in McClure's.
A great deal of energy is wasted
worrying over the criticism of the Bi
ble that would work wonders if ap
plied to the practice of the Bible.
1ERRiBLE SCALP HUMOR.
Head Co-rered With Humor Sores, With
Loss of Hair-Another Speedy Cure
by Cuticu.za Remedies.
"All my life I had been troubled more
or less with humor in my scalp, but about
a year ago it became worse, and my scalp
was covered with little sores, which
itched so it nearly made me crazy; my
hair also began to get dry and fall out. I
tried all kinds of hair restorers with no
effect, and I was neary discouraged, but
one day I was reading in a paper what
the Cuticura kemedies had done for scalp
diseases, and decided to make a trial. I
got a cake of Cuticurf Soap, a box of Cu
tiera Ointment and Cuticura Reso:vent
Pills. I used them according to direc
tions, and soon noticed a difference; the
tiny sores'on my sca:p began to heal, the
itching stopped, and my hair began to
grow thick. I have used only the one
cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Oint,.
ment and one vial of Pills, and now I
ae no humor on my scalp and my hair
is soft and silky. Miss Mayzie C. Atkn,
Box 32, East Orleans, Mass., hMar. 19,
1905."
Asia bought $105,000,000 worth of
American goods in the last fiscal year,
a decrease of $23,000,000 from 1905,
but an increase of $36,500,000 over
1904. -__________
1eware of Olntme' to For Catarrh That
Contain Merc ry,
se mercury will suie y destroy the sons.' of
smell and complete y deran ethe whole -ys
temn waen ente ing iz. throng -t e mu~cous
s irfaces. . uch articles should never be used
except on prescriptions fro~m repiutabul pny
sicians,as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive ro:n
tem. Hall's Ca 'arra Cure, manu a t'ared
by F. y. Caene & Co., Toledo, 0.. contains
no me cury, and is t aken ina~ernally, act ng
directly upon the b ood and mucous surfaces
of the sys.. m. I buying Hall's Catar h Cure
be ure you get the geniuine. It is taken in
te nall and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J. Cheney & o. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists; p. Ice, 75c. per bot'l".
Take Amall's Family Pills for co'istipation.
Railroad detecci, es at Chickasha,
Okla. T., searching for lost tools
taken by shopmuen, found that one
empoye had hauled away a locomo
tve cab and attached it to his house
for use as a kitchen.
Mrs. Winslow'sSoothinlg Syrup for Children.
teeting,softens thegumsreducesmiamma
tion, allayspain,cures wind colic, 25ca bottle
Fools never know when to stop
talking, but the wise men always
know when not to begin.
e . the ordeal of di
the Cardul Hol
Mrs. Ellen Gil
female trouble
and grew wea
began to take
hchrelieved me
meoms m my friends." The
ZLYf eases peculiar to 1
d Intoxicating prepar
We will send you female organs an
wetope, and a va- functions and resl
tment for Women."
Depament, The
0ga, Tena.A tE e
GM9
SKETCH OF THE LIFE
And a True Story of Hom
Had Its Birth and Ho'
It to be Offered for P
This remarkable woman, whos
maiden n:!mie was Estes. was born i
Lynn. Mash., Februa'ry 9th, 1819. com
ing from a good old Quaker family
For some years bhe taught school, an<
became known as a woman of an aler
and investigating -ind, an earnes
eeker after knowledge, and abov<
Ll, puossessed of a w -nderfuly sympa
thetic nature.
In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham
a builder and real estate operator. an:
their early married life was marked b,
prosperity and happiness. They ha<
four children, three sons and 3
aughter.
In those good old fasnioned days i
was common for mothers to 'hak<
their own home medicines from root
nd herbs, nature's own remedies
alhing in a physician only in speciall
rgent cases. By tradition and ex
perience maany of them gained' a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
erties of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interes
in the study of roots and herbs. theii
characteristics and power over disease
She maintained that just as nature s<
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods o.
all kinds; so, if we but take the pain
to fnd them, in the roots and herbi
of the field there are remedies ex
pressly designed to cure the varioui
ills and weaknesses of the body, anc
it was her pleasure to search these out
and prepare simple and-efective medi
eines for her own family and friends
Chief of these was a rare combina
tion of th4 choicest medicinal root:
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses peen
liar to the female sex, and Tsydia.Pink~
ham's friends and neighbors learne<
that her compound relieved and cure<
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struel
Lynn. Its length and severity were to<
much for the large real estate interest
of the Pinkham family, as this elas
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, s" when the Centen
nial year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other soure<
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham'
Vegetable Compound was made know1
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter
with their mother, combined forces t<
1Loaded
Shoo
4" .,.Will
They Al
e de - Neb -o. .oRE~
CH EIST5JANAS PECIA I,-We ofrer handsomn
ous pair. ian .ete bxzn wit mnopalm.
popuar now. DI~ SLOkaN Co., )tailimore, N i
If You F
scribing your sickness by wo
ne Treatment, and see if it wi
sert, of Villa Ridge, Ill., who
and those choking, fainting spe
ker and weaker. Friends cal
right away. Nov 1 am getting alo
merits of Cardul, as a reliable and ei
umen, have been known for the past
ation of vegetable Ingredients, having
I functions. Cardul has been found
ore the disordered org ns to health.
-7 Drud Store In
fIE WAS
OF LYDIA E. PINKIIAM
r the Vegetable Compound
v the "Panic of '73" Caused
'ublic Sale in .Drug Stores.
z restore the family fortune. They
i argued that the medicine which wae
- so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
I women of the whole world.
t The Pinkhama had no money, ad
little credit. Their frst laboratory
was the kitchen, where' roots ana
herbs were steeped on the stove,
gradually filling a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it. for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlete
setting forth the merits of, the medi
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham* -
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons iA
Boston. New York, and 3rooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties of
the medicine were, to a great extent.
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others. and the de
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam.
fly had sared enough money to com
mence newspaper ad-.erti<ng and fro
thAt time the growth and success ot
the enterprise were assured. until to
t day Lydia E Pinkham and her Vege.
e table Compound have become hous.
hold words everywhere, and manav
tons of roots and herbs are used anni
ally in its manufacture.
I Lydia E. Pirkham herself did ne.
live to see the great success'of drie
I work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her worik as
t effectively as she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe
- rienceshe was ever methodical in her
, work and she was always careful to pre
serve a record of every case thateame to
- her attention. The case of every sick
. woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
t careful study.' and the details, includ
ing symptoms. treatment and result@
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records,. together with
hundreds of thousands made sinee. are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent a vast collabora
tion of information -regarding .-Ah
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity'and accuracy,ean hardly
be equaled In any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
daughter - in -law, the p resent Mrs.
-Pinkham. She wascarefullyinstructed
in all- her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she msisted her in her vas
correspondence. --
-To her hands naturally fell.'the*
idirection of the work whena its origina.
jtor passed awa. For nearly twenty
five years ahelhas continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia .E. Pinkham doped her
pen, and the present Mrs. 'mnkham,
now the mother of a large family, took -
it up With woman assistants, some as
C capable as herself, the .present Mrs.
o Pinkham continuies this great work.ana
a probably from the office of no other
s person have so many women been ad
i vised how to regain health. Sick wo
-men. this advice is "Yours for Health'
-freely given if you only write to ask
e for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E..Pink
s ham's Vegetable' Gompound ; made
2 from simple roots and herbs; the one
great medicine for women's ailment.
,and the fitting monument to the noble.
a woman whose name it bears.
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t Strong and Evenly,
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ways Get The Gamne.
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So. 42-'06 _ _
rd ofmouth, why not try
11 not help you, as it did
writes: "I suffered from
11s. I was very nervous,
ne to see me die, but I
Relief.
g fie and recommend it to ail
rfective remedy for all the dis
50 years. It is a pure and non
a peculiar curative effect on the
[ to relieve pain, regulate fitful
Try it.
$1.00 Bottles