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Ghastly Plague EpUotles.
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/ UL11IUUU9 ill IJL1C UC lUOUivv a* V j
employing many devices to elude the
officials seeking for plague cases. One
man who had died was set up at a
table "with cards in his hands, while J
his friends sat around him making be- |
lieve that they were playing a game, j
The stolid expression on the corpse's >
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its shoulder, when it fell over to the j
floor. In Yella Keddi two girls were I
dying. Their relatives cut their '
throats and buried the bodies before !
the coming of the officials.
Discording Torpedo >>et*.
The French navy is doing away with
all nets, which were considered for a
long time as an effectual safeguard |
against torpedoes. The Minister of I
the Navy has decided to remove them, '
not only from the battleships in ser- j
vice, bat also from all vessels of the j
French navy afloat. The nets will ;
probably be utilized for harbor de
lense, as weji as ior sireugnjcmnjj .
dams and for other industrial purposes.
Putnam'* Tree.
The stump of the t^e to which Israel
Putnam was owes tied in the j
French and Indian War is still stand- j
ing in the little village of Crown ;
PciEt, a town in the upper part of
New York. It was in the course of a
skirmish near Wood Creek, at the ;
time of the French invasion in August,
1758, that he was captured by the Indians
and tied to this tree. While
v the flames were searing his flesh he
& was saved by Captain Molang, o
.M nffioer xchn rushed thrOUCrb
fthe crowd, scattered the firebrands, !
cuffed and upbraided the Indians and i
released their victim. Putnam was ,
V taken to Montreal and presently freed j
by exchange. A great many strangers i
who go to the town and hear the story
chip off pieces of the stump as relics.
The tree is about three feet in diameter.
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Demand For War Kellcs.
"The battlefields of Virginia and the
other Southern States have been pretty
voll /Oennorl rvf minio liallci slnrrc nlfl
baycnets and other evidences of the I
late -war," observed a gentleman -who i
has done considerable collecting of j
battlefield curios for various museums, j
"and those who pride themselves on j
I their collections of that kind of maI
terial, and it can be 6aid that the busi|
ness is about ended. Time was when
I collectors could purchase any amount
W of this kind of stuff from farm hands
f and others, but now a tour of the
L country rarely pays its expenses, for
m. - there is nothing in that line to be had,
n it matters not what amount of money
is offered for it. Some rather clever j
colored fellows in the neighborhood
of Fredericksburg turned a few dollars
a couple of months ac;o by reporting
that they had made a big find of i
minie balls. It transpired, however, i
that they had molded the balls themselves.
They sold them at the rate
of about one dollar a pound, which
was about ninety cents profit per
pound for them, for the lead and their
labor was not worth over ten cents a
pound. I have customers now for
about one hundred old war sabers, but
bo far have not been able to supply
them, though I have made considerable
effort in that direction."?Washington
Star.
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Fasten this to a stick or rod four or
five feet long. This device can be
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Biippeu uvcr iuu PABa >Yituvui uuj unficulty.
Practical rointa In Orcharding.
Select the varieties that have been
found successful in the locality. Much
of the failure in growing apples results
from neglect. The trees are generally
left in sod, unpruned and unsprayed,
and the loss due to this practice is
more than could be made from several
times the number of acres of farm
crops. Although my farming operations
have been fairly successful, I
have averaged for seven years from
forty acres of bearing apples trees, S55
per acre, which was more than came
from the other 200 acres in farm crops.
I plow the orchard in the spring and
sow field peas, upon which hogs are
turned about August 1. They eat off
the peas, stir up the soil and devour
the wormy apples.
I spray with bordeaux mixture and
paris green and consider the gain from
that alone in 1895 equal to ?500. In
gathering the fruit the windfalls are
first picked up, and then the apples
ate taken from the trees and hauled to
the barn, where they are placed in
bins and packed and shipped as soon
as possible. Baldwins and Kings are
among the greatest favorites for shipment.?New
England Homestead.
A Practical Wheelbarrow.
In market gardening there is much
work that can be done with a wheelbarrow.
While resting my aching
arms one day I concluded that the
wheel of the ordinary barrow was not
bearing its share of the burden, so I
maae one in wmcn we axie was piacea
up nearer the body of the barrow, the
MARKET GARDENERS' BARROW.
wheel extending inside. A cap was
fitted over this, inside the body, and I
found that wheeling was then much
easier. The new barrow weighed
forty-nine pounds. "With 239 pounds
of saud there is a weight of fifty-six
pounds on the handles, while with the
ordinary barrow the weight is ninetynine
pounds. The handles are 5 feet
long, ljxlj inches at front and smaller
toward the back. The -wheel is 22
inches diameter with a 2-inch tire.
The barrow frame is 19 inches at front,
2 feet at back; the body is 3 feet by 13
inches, while the legs are 2 feet 10
inches from the front.?R. Bingham,
of New Jersey, in American Agriculturist.
Dntcli Belted Cattle.
Mr. Orson D. Munn, one of the
editors of the Scientific American, is
justly proud of the haudsome herd of
Dutch belted cattle which are much admired
by the lovers of fine stock who
visit his place, Llewellyn Park,
Orange, N. J. At the New Jersey
State Fair out of thirteen head exhibited
seven took first prizes and to
two were awarded second. At the live
stock exhibition held in Madison
Square Garden in 1895 thirteen prizes
were awarded for the herd and separate
animals composing it. A herd of
sixteen Dutch belted cattle, it will be
remembered by breeders, was awarded
the highest per cent, of prizes obi.^^^.1
i . _ :u:i. ~i.
luiueu uy uuy uuiut; cauiuh ut vuc
World's Fair, when there were probably
more cattle of various breeds
gathered fbgether than ever before.
"Tiie Dutch belted or blanket breed
of cows," said Mr. Munn, "are natives
'of Holland and are a distinct family
from the Holsteins, with which many
confound them. Comparatively few
have as yet been imported into this
country, although the breed antedates
the seventeenth century. In Holland
they are owned and controlled by the
nobility. In color they are very black,
with a continuous pure white belt
around their body, which makes a
strikingly beautiful contrast. Their
form is usually very tine and their
constitutions most hardy, enabling
them to stand sudden changes in climate
and to thrive on any variety of
fodder. As milk producers they are
excellent."
vui uu|, m. ny b iuc jjjiir.
The hog grows cheapest on the pasture
au<l beside the field that grows his
grains. He is most profitable as a
subordinate department, because he
cannot consume the coarse fodders of
the farm. He furnishes the best market
in which to sell the by-products of
the mill and dairy. He assimilates
more of the most concentrated feed
stuffs than any other animal on the
farm. Quicker returns come from hiin
than from horses, cattle or sheep. He
pays the rents in European countries,
lifts the mortgages in the Northern
Aiofpu nml in ivm inn wiili flip
cow he will redeem the wornout cotton
tobacco fields of the South. Avoid
permanent residences for the hog;
move him about, so that his environments
may be clean and uncontaminated
by germs that develop rapidly
where they have suitable media. Avoid
close breeding, as it intensifies predisposition
to disease. Select your breeding
from good milkers, as this is the
best indication of fecundity.
No agricultural people thrive who
buy grain or meats and pay for them
with the price of other farm products.
We compete now, through improved
and cheapening transportation, with
all the world. The farmer is most in
dependent who finds at least sustenance
for liis family from bis fields,
flocks and herds.?Professor Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture.
Demand for Safe Horses.
The hue and cry that on account of
the electric car and the bicycle and
horseless carriage, the noble horse was
doomed to go out of iise in the cities,
has about died away, and still the
horse is in demand.
J
The liverymen and hackmen may
have felt the effect of the change in
the new method of individual trans*
portation in the cities; yet the horse
is still in demand for the saddle and
for family carriages and buggies, and
this demand will increase just in proportion
to the common use of the electric
car and the wheel.
Already ladies who do not like tha
wheel have taken to the. saddle to get
the exercise and the airing that the
wheelist has found so beneficial from
her spin in the country. This habit
will soon increase until there will soon
be a demand for safe saddle horses for
ladies.
Tha bustle and careless movement of
cars ami wheels on the streets require
for the safety of those in carriages
that their horses should be accustomed
to these things as well as to the sudden
noises which they are apt to hear in
the city. The horse to be used in the
city for family safety, either under the
saddle or in the carriage, must be
trained for city life. The horses, therefore,
which will be in special demand
in the cities must be trained for the
purpose. This will require selection
in the breeding, and especial care in
handling from their first years until
they are prepared for use.
The number of accidents which have
happened in the last few years through
the frightened horse and the accompanying
runaway has become alarming,
and calls for a remedy.
This must be found in the proper
training of the horses to be used. The
horse breeders who wish to secure
good prices for the horses they would
sell in the home market, will do well
to take note of the kind of norse in
demand. Buyers for this kind of a
horse are alwavs nlentv. and fchev dn
not hesitate to give high prices, when
they can be assured that the horse they
purchase has the sense and the training
he needs to be perfectly safe in the
cities.
Good saddle horses and stylish and
safe carriage horses will always bring
high prices and can be as easily raised
as others. Thejittle extra care they
need in training will be well paid for
when they are sold.?Farm News.
The Corn Harvest.
Harvesting the corn crop is being
made easier every year by improvements
in labor-saving machinery and
devices. Large commercial cro2>s are
cut, tied and left in straight rows by
the improved corn harvester,while the
bundles placed in shocks or stooks of
12 to 20 bundles to cure are then drawn
to the barn and run through the
shredder. Farmers who cannot afford
trie latest ana improved macninery, or
who have small areas of corn, cut by
sled, as illustrated below, or by hand
cutter. The armfuls thus cut have to
be tied in bundles, various materials
being used for that purpose, some using
two or three cornstalks, others a
small handful of long, strong straw,
swamp grass or willows. But whether
cut by improved machinery or by hand
cutter, the large bundles, shocks or
stooks have to be securely fastened to
withstand the fall wind and storms.
To make a corn cutter, as portrayed
herewith, make a platform with
runners six feet long and two inches
thick; the higher the runners the
higher it will cut; eight-inch plank
should mortise three crosspieces of
HOMEMADE CORK CUTTER.
two by four into top of runners. Nail
boards on cross ties to make a platform
30 inches wide and nearly six
feet long. Get a good steel knife and
make it very sharp, say 22 inches long
and five inches wide. Bevel tho edge
from the bottom or underside. Have
a rod made with an eye in the centre
and curved, in order to fasten either
end to a runner and hitch a horse in
the centre. This rod should be of
one-half inch round iron, and
long enough to work nicely, as
shown at a. Bore a hole in platform
or runner, and put in a stake about
six inches high (b) even across with
the base of rod (c). Another stake
of the same size, but twenty inches
high, on the right side of platform
near the edge, and 21 inches from the
front of platform (d). Take a rod of
five-eighth-inch iron 67 in,ches long
and weld a piece of flat iron onehalf
inch thick and eight inches long
to the end of it, bolt the flat piece to
platform (13 inches from centre to back
of platform) and bend the rod forward
17 inches above the platform, as in e.
Bend the rod so as to have it extend
out over the edge of the platform, over
and back of the knife (h), then bend
the rod in so as to extend about two
inches over the platform at the centre
two by four cross brace (f). From
tiiere bend tlie rod out to g. lie sure
to have it carry the same height all
the time.
The bends in the rod are made in
order to bring in the corn and lay it
across the platform without the help
of a man. In this way the danger of
standing over the knife is averted.
Nail a ?mall stick something like a latb
from top of stake d to the outside runner
a few inches ahead of the knife.
Bolt the knife to platform about 20
inches from back part of platform with
I two bolts, and have the knife slant
bnck considerably. I put a scrap piece
of two-inch plank under the platform
! at c and h, to make the platform mere
j solid where the large rod and knife
were bolted fast. The large roil from
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g 10 e SI1UUHI lib \>im uuuua uu mutier*
long. Directly across it is 48 inches,
thus using two inches for bends. The
large rod is outside of stake d about
five inches. Hitch on a quiet horse,
hang the lines on d and ride on rear
of platform, and when a large pile of
corn is cut and laid across the sled,
: stop and shock it up.?Farm and
Home.
There are more than 50,000 people
i of Welsh birth in London.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Pnrosfir r>nmmiqsion ATS and otlier
interested people have taken up the I
subject and prizes are off&red for the
propagation and distribution of insecteating
spiders in forests.
, Professor Palazzi has made experiments
which show that smoke kills the
microbes of various diseases in one to
four hours, and he therefore recom- '
mends it as a disinfectant superior to
gases.
Vandervyver, a Belgian, states that
the length of exposu re for radiographs
through limbs of different dimensions
varies as the cubes of their thickness.
M. Bondeard states that Roentgen ,
rays can diagnose pleurisy and similar
complaints.
Scientists measure by the contraction
of petroleum ether temperatures
several hundred degrees below zero
Fahrenheit. At 310 degrees below i
zero, the temperature at which liquid
air boils, petroleum ether remains in
a semi-liquid condition and contracts
with the decrease of temperature.
Condensation is the result of chilling
the air. The ascent of the lower
strata of the atmosphere into the higher
regions and the consequent expan- :
sion and loss of heat is the most probable
cause of rain, and it is not impossible
that the air near the ground,
being made to rise by being artificially
heated, might tend to^produce the de
sired downpour.
Sudden and great fluctuations in the
level of water in wells in stormy
weather, closely corresponding to the
fluctuations in wind velocity recorded
by Professor Langley, have been ob- <
served by Dr. Romei Martini. This i
explains the popular tradition that bad
weather may be predicted from the I
sudden rise and fall of wells. Curiously,
however, small and rapid
changes of barometer are more certain
! to affect wells than large changes. 1
The applications of the X-rays to the (
study of phenomena invisible without
their aid continually increase in number.
Some of the results are rather
curious than useful, but substantial
additions to knowledge are being made
in this way. One of the latest scien- ,
tiflc uses found for the rays is in revealing
the inuer structure of flowers
and fruit buds. In some respects this
is a better method than dissecting for j
the study of certain parts of plants.
M. Janssen, the eminent astrono
mer, has left Paris to inspect his Mont
Blanc observatory. The scientific
caravan will start from Chamounix
soon to take meteorological readings
| at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the high- |
est station in the world. M. Perrotin,
director of the Nico Observatory, is
expected to join the party in order to
study the morning elongation of Venus
: and to ascertain the period of the
I planet's rotation, now a debated ques- 1
I tion among astronomers.
The Strangest Laboratory.
The strangest laboratory ever seen
Is thatwhich;has just been inaugurated
in the Museum of Natural History in
Paris. Instead of rising from the ;
' ground, it is buried deep under the
! earth, and spreads its galleries under
j the feet of visitors to the Jardin des
Plantes. It avoidb the light with as
much care as others seek it.
This laboratory has been created
with the special object of studying the
evolution of animals, and of ascertaining
experimentally how different 1
species of animals are modified and
changed from one to another. This is
nothing less than the doctrine of ev- ^
olution proved by experiment.
We intend to deal with representatives
of all the animals. Already we
i have insects, crustaceans, fish, bai
trachians and mammals. Already the 1 |
| latter?guinea pigs in this case?have 1
reproduced, and we have already one
generation which has never perceived '
and will never perceive the light of
day. We employ a very feeble red
lantern when attending to them in
order to reduce to a minimum the
light used.
We do not forget that many of the
experiments which we are undertak- i
ing will require considerable time,
centuries it may be, while others will <
probably be compieiea m a iew
months. i
It is useless to add that this labora- J
tory is absolutely closed to the public, i
but will be wide open to men of sci- 1
ence and investigators who wish to
work there. In addition to the experiments
in zoological physiology which
we undertake, there are a number of
others which could be tried with sue- j '
cess, and Mr. Milne-Edwards will i
welcome all genuine investigators who '
wish to carry on work in our subter- '
ranean passage.?New York Journal. '
How to Brink Water. (
The effects produced by the drink- '
I ing of water vary witn tne manner in
j which it is drunk. If, for instance, a
i pint of cold water be swallowed as a ^
| large draught, or if it be taken in two
I portions, with a short interval between,
j certain definite effects follow?effects
! which differ from those which would
' have resulted from the same quantity ^
| taken by sipping. Sipping is a pow- (
' erful stimulant to the circulation?a j
j thing which ordinary drinking is not. I ^
| During the act of sipping the action J j
! of the nerve which shows the beats of
j the heart is abolished, and aB a conse- \
! ^uence that organ contracts much more ! J
j rapidly, the pulse beats more quickly,
and the circulation in various parts of
j the body is increased. In addition to
this we also find that the pressure j \
| under which the bile is secreted is i j
raised by the sippiug of fluid.?American
Cultivator. r
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Sweet Singer an ft Llfe-.Snver. j ?
Patti has had the role of life-saver
I thrust upon her by ail old blind woman t
j who lives in the neighborhood of
J Craig-y-Nos, Wales. When the latter
lay very ill she insisted that her health 1
j would be rest red if only the famous
i songstress would sin? to her. t
Her friends, anxious to please her, (
I persuaded a sweet-voiced young girl 1
i from a distance to come over to the 8
' cottage to sing one song, and led the <
| blind woman to believe that Mine.
! Patti had consented to grant her re!
quest. But the flrst verse was
i enough. n
I "Vr> tin it's nnt, lipi-nflf " prieil tlifi fl
invalid. The deception bad failed, i
But I'll live now till I do bear bev
< again," sbe cried angrily. "I won't S
j be done out of wbat I'd made up my t
I mind to!" (
And sbe did live\until long after lier ?
j wish was gratified. e
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR I
LOVERS OF FUN. I
fi
rhe Enfant Terrible?It* Only Flaw? V
Exactly So?It* Use?Progress? Ought 0
to lie Reversed?Mean Thing?Doubted i;
His Reception?Apparently, Etc., Etc. q
"All Js over between us!" she cried, s
But quick she discovered her blunder; T
A. giggle beneath the settee
Soon showed there was still something
under.
?Judge.
Its Only Flaw. ,
"That story would be good if it were 1
not for one thing." ,
"What is that?" ,
"It isn't."?Chicago Post. - ?
1
Apparently. ^
She?"It is wonderful how these 1
stories travel." ?
He?"Yes, indeed! I think Dame *
Rumor must ride a wheel."?Puck. ?
Progress. I
She?"Isn't it wonderful how the t
use of electric fans has increased?" <
He?"Yes, indeed! They are used s
for all purposes except flirting."? 1
Puck.
Ought to Be Reversed.
TV?,11aw Wn??r?ai? csqttd i
IjLllU ieS -L/UUICJT MDIIIOI UUJ u ?u?. j
gum-chewing is a remedy for grief."
"It would be better if grief were a
remedy for gum-chewing."?Chicago
Record.
3
Exactly So.
Eackett?"The old man fired me out J
Df the house day before yesterday and
again to-day."
Hackett?"Then yesterday you were
between two fires."?Judge.
*
Harmonious.
Jabbers?"Why have you and Mer- !
riman quarreled?"
Havers?"Oh, he's such a perfect
iss!"
"Then I should think you'd get
along all right."?Life.
t
Its U?e?
Teacher?"What do you know about '
a kangaroo?"
Boy?"It has a pouch.**
Teacher?"What does it do with it?"
Boy?"When it is hunted it gets
Inside."?Pick-Me-Up.
A Vanished Delight.
"Little Dick has cried ever since
we came home from the seashore."
"What ails him?"
"He had some sand between his toes
that he wanted to bring home, and he
lost it."?Chicago Record.
Susceptible Masculines.
"Before a man is thirty he falls in
love with every pretty girl he looks
at."
"Yes? And after he is thirty he
falls in love with every pretty girl who
looks at him."?Chicago Record.
i '
Doubted His Reception.
His Friend?"Why don't you go
right in and ask the old man for her
to-night?"
The College Sprinter?"L can t tonight.
I haven't got on my running
trousers."?Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mean Thing.
Miss Chatter?"I knew you would
be here to-day to see sister."
Mr. Cudler (Interrog.) ? "Intuition?"
Miss Chatter?"No?observation.
Ton always appear on the same day
that Ethel refuses onions at dinner."
?Judge.
Knew He Was an Artist.
Miss Lakeside (of Chicago)?"The
gentleman you just bowed to is an artist,
isn't he?"
Mis3 Gotham?"Yes, ? great artist.
You divined his profession from his
finely chiseled features, I presume." j
Miss Lakeside?"No, 1 smelled the ;
turpentine."?New York Weekly.
At His Mercy.
Pease?"I had an awful time at the
dentist's.'"
Hubbard?"Worse than you expected?"
Pease?"I should say so. He put
3ome of his confounded instruments in
my mouth so' that I couldn't talk back,
and then he told me that his wheel
svas better than mine."?Puck.
' I
Utter Ingratitude.
"Madam," said. Meandering Mike,
"have ye another pie like de wan ye
gimme yestiddy?"
"Are you hungry?"
"Yes'm. But dat ain't why I want
le pie. Dere's a felly down de road
lat has punctured his bicycle tire,
and I t'ought I'd get 'im a piece o'
3at crust fur a patch."?Washington
Star.
No Monotony.
According to the statement of the
ten-year-old daughter of a Massachu- j
jetts . clergyman, there are ways of
naking an old sermon seem almost
ae\v.
"Molly," said one of the friends of
;his young critic, "does your father
jver preach the same sermon twice?"
"I think perhaps he does," returned
Molly, cautiously, "but I think
je talks loud and soft in different "
places the second time, so it doesn't I
sound the same at all."?Youth's Comjanion.
?
A
Left Him in Doubt.
He was in doubt. He didn't know s
whether he should be angry or pleased, %
md a great deal depended upon it. P
They were sitting on the sofa to- ?
jether, and once, when the conversa- :ion
seemed to drag a little, he had f
luggested: "
"Don't you think it is rather close
,o-night?" |
"It might be closer," she replied.
It was a terrible predicament in
vhicli to place a man who was anx- |
??" rnnl.-o tliA nf his nntinr- !
unities. Should he take advantage
>f what seemed an invitation to get a I
ittle nearer to her or should he be aj
tngry at being termed an "it"??Chi- c
:ago Record. t,
ai
The Loud of an Oyster Sloop. I |c
An oyster sloop can carry as many i m
^ 125,000 oysters a trip, though few i u'
re loaded beyond the fifty-thousand \ w
uark. The sloopmen get about S3.50 I J*1
, thousaud for the small oysters and 1 ,n
16.50 for the lorge. A boatload would j ^
hus come to about S100 at the most, pi
)ne hundred and fifty large oysters ! vr
ill a bushel basket. There are 250 j J"
mall ones in a bushel. I
\
Pet Spaniel Saves Its Mistress.
Through the devotion of a pet co
r-apaniel its little mistress was sa^
rom death by drowning at AlexanJ
Jay, N. Y. While Mary O'Leary,
ve-year-old daughter of one of
isitors. -wns nlavimz with her spai
n a clock she lost her balance and :
nto the water. Her faithful pet
nee sprang after her, and had aim
ucceeded in carrying her to sh
/hen help arrived.
Queer Things About Steel Shtpg.
A qiueer thing has been discovei
n connection with the big steel cai
hips built recently in the Gr
jakes. The John Scott Russell, af
>eing loaded a few days ago, sank
ore she had gone a mile from her pi
!t was found that many rivets w
nissing from her bottom and sid
md investigation showed that tl
? ~ '"J nknADAfl 1-VTT !"? A O + Vrtirtl
1UU UCCU 9UCU1CU vii tJJ IIUO ouaiuj
md grinding of her steel plates caui
)y her pitching when she was n
ling light. It is believed now t:
he total loss three years ago of 1
}ilcher and Western Reserve, b(
iteel ships of the latest type, was i
;o the same fault.
WE(jLECr
%
Plain Words From Mrs. Pink
Dunmore, That O
Women i
If yon were drowning and frien<
refused it, you would be committinj
Yet that is precisely what worn
ilmost dead with misery, yet refuse
Commenc
Compound.
been cured by it. Keep your bow
and if you want further advice, w
ing freely all your symptoms?si
the very best advice. She has g
suffering justlike yourself, many of i
cian. Her marvelous Vegetable
many thousands of women. It c:
respectable drug store.
Mrs. Charles Dunjioee, 102 Frer
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night; my doctor did not seem to h<
not seem to find any relief until 11
ham's Vegetable Compound. I ha
the womb, a bearing-down pain, ;
badly. The pain was so intense tha
night. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's'
and am now all right. Before thi
was a great mistake, for the relief
am so thankful to be relieved of m
thing terrible. I am, indeed, very
dies have done me."
Get Out \
Colui
Then take a cold bath
will do you lots of g<
Columbia a bit.
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at A small pond on the farm of R. H.
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ore ten years ago into a chain of fish ponds,
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Wood for Paper.
red French paper makers have for some
rgo time been using wood pnlp to make
eat paper. Most of this has come from * -ffM
ter Scandinavia, but a trial is being given
be- to Canada pulp. As this material can
er. be had more cheaply than the Scan
ere tlmavian, tne price 01 paper may oe
es> reduced by the process.
ing A statute mile is 5280 feet long, an
sed English nautical mile 6080 feet, an
in- American nautical mile 6080.27. The
bat nautical mile, theoretically, is one*
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r IS SUICIDE,
ham, Corroborated by Mrs. Charles
ught to Bring Suffering
x> Their Senses.
ily hands shoved a plank to you, and you
j suicide 1
ien are doing if they go about their homes
to grasp the kindly hand held out to theml
I to go day alter aay witn mat ami, conpain
in' the region of the womb and that
ng heat and tenderness of the abdomen,
which make the weight of your clothes an
almost intolerable burden to you. It is not
natural to suffer so in merely emptying the
bladder. Does not that special form of suf,
fering tell you that there is inflammation 3
somewhere?
,11 I tell you what it is?
9 inflammation of the wombl 1
on, polypus, or tumor, or cancer will set in.
e the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Thousands of women in this condition have
els open with Mrs. Pinkham's Livefc Pills,
rite to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., stattie
stands ready and willing to give yon
iven the helping hand to thousands '-jp
whom lived miles away from a physi*
Compound has cured an
be found at any
s in pain day and
;lp me. could
J inflommoflATI A#
Ikasrsss I
,t I could not sleep at ' ^-caSi ^
Vegetable Compound for eight |*Vy months,
it I took morphine pills for my pain; that
was only momentary and the effect Tile. I
y sufferings, for the pains I had were some*
grateful for the good Mrs. Pinkham'a reme*
'our
nbia and take a ten-mile run.
i and a good rub down. It .
Dod and it won't hurt your
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