Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r Tuattra la tb? lit* of Mm. Ia the matter of taxation the tale ' of Man Is unique. There are do In* come tax, do succession duties cberpvahle against the estates of deceased persons, do highway or turnpike tolls. Boads are maintained by the revenue from two sources?a small tax upon every wheel aod shod hoof aod a levy upon every male iobabitaot who must : give a day's work on the road, or its equivalent in cash. There are no tamp duties on receipts, cheques, promissory notes, etc.. Id fact stamps re used only for postage. Irtr; Great Mu'i Experlrac*. nnma " until th? rPTWrtPT tO a* man who bad found a rich gold mine in bis back yard and thus suddenly been made famous, "to get some anecdotes about you. We would like fto have a few stories of your experiences as a boy. Were you ever caught op In your neighbor's cberry tree, or Is there still living some one who tangbi school where you learned to read and who boxed your ears because you threw paper wad*? We would " "Speaking of schoolboy days," said the great man, "reminds me of a little experience I bad once when we all gave recitations on a Friday afternoon. 1 wasn't much of a speaker In them days, but tbe teacher said I had to peak and picked out a piece for me k to learn. Well. 1 studied it bard for i about a week, and at last tbe day /' when we bad to go through the performance came along, and when It was my turn I went up on the plat form and started in as fine as jon i please, till I came to tbe place where !t says 'Greece her knee,' and then 1 couldn't ** Something in tbe reporter's manner made the great man look at him with wonder. "What's the matter?" be asked at last. MYon ain't ever beard about that l happen In' to anybody else, bare you? Well I'U be switched. Ill bet forty dollars the feller that told me that story got it oat of some paper. And yit be told me It was a bran' new one that happened to himself."?Chicago . Record-Herald. Crowded Stattoas. The London County Council street railway experts bare drawn up an interesting table setting forth tbe number of passengers using per year some of the moat important termini in the world. Here it is: Grand Central. . New York. 14,000,000; South Union. Boston. 21,000,000; North Union. Boston. 23.206.uu0; Broad Street. London. 27,000,000; Park 8trcet 8- jway. Boston. 27.400.000; Waterloo. London, 2& 659.000; 8L La tare. Paris. 42.002.000: Liverpool Street. Liverpool. 44,b 377,000. Btatz or Omo, Crrr or Tolxdo, i Lccas Copstt. f Pun J. Cbebxy, make oath that heisth* settlor partner of the Arm of F. J. Cbsvkt k - Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said Om will bat the sum of oxr IDXOUD dol uia for each and every case of cataubb that eennot be cured by tbe use of Hall's 'Citaui Cobb. Fbabb J. Cbxbbt. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my )?>U | A. D., 18&6. A. W. Gleasob, ? ? ? ' Xotary PvbKc. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken internally, and Mia directly on the blood aad mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, tree. 7. J. Cbbbbt 4 Co., Toledo, O. Bold by Drugjtfsts,75c. Hall's Family Pills are tbe best. Tie biggest average farm in the world is in Soutn Australia, where the average squatter holds 78,000 acres. fsMisw aad Prntmst*. Three million packages of Putnam Fade, i less Dyes are put up every year. To do this : asoessttstrs the handling of one hundred thousand pounds of dye stuff. Tbe peonages are Oiled by dipping the dye feaff up with a large wooden spoon and plnekg In an envelope. Five ear loads of dye rtaff handled with a wooden spoon! This is aooomplished every year by tne dozens of young ladies employed bv the Putnam Fade* leas Dye Co., Unionvllle. Mo. London requires 600,000 cows to aupply it with daily products. Mmmy Mm) CMIdrea Ave ftlekiy. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, wed bv Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's one, New York, break up Colds in 34 hours, ewe Feveiishness, Headache, Stomach TfimblM TMthlDt Disorders and Destrov I Worms. At all drujwl?tii', 25c. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Boy, N.Y. Scabbard* worn by Russian officers are made of p&picr-macbc. VMt For Uw Bowel*. Ho matter what alia you, headache to * oanear, you will never get well until your bowels are pat right. Cascassts help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to Clart getting your health back. Cascabbts Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metal hoses, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on It. Beware of imitations. Electric cab service in Paris has proved very unprofitable. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Herre Restorer. #2 trial bottle and treatise!ree Dr. R. U. Ktasa. Ltd., W1 Arch 8t.,Phlla., Pa. The metropolitan police of London look ftcr 8330 miles of roads and streets. Ppniis fidtum Dtbs are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by all druggists. Shetland's shortcut night is five hours, bat her longest is over eighteen hours. f Mao's Car? is tb? be A medietas we ever used for all affections of JuxmU and lungs.?Wit. 0. I?d*ut, Yanburen, lad., Fob. 10, 1800. Ratio of mortality in Switzerland ha* decreased one-fourth in thirty years. Tired CWj " I vu very poorly and could 1 hardly (et about the bouse. I vas a tired out all the time. Then I tried I Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only I ?k KoniM ?a make me feel I I perfectly well."? Mr*. N. S.Swinney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time, way ? Your blood is impure, that's the reason. You are living on the 4 border line of nerve exhaustion. Take Ayer's c . tnrl he II ^11 sapaiina . I quickly cured. S/itSE: fi Aakyovr doctor what bo think* of Ayr?* aafMpftrtUa. Ht kaov* oil about tblitrrat'd old tolly iMdldwo, Mtov hia iMto a?4 w win bo aotiafted. I J- C. Am CO., Lmrtll, Xu*. IF WE COUt D KNOW. If we could know to-morrow'* secrets?see Just where to-mArow'? light* and shade* tthall be. If we could pull the curtain back and jasc Down all the smooth and up the stony ways, I wonder who would wait complacently? For yoa there might be fortune and for me Gray woe* from which I fain would turn and flee? I wonder who would sing the songs of praise, If we could know! Death might be grinning at us there, if we "ould draw the curtain: You might bend the knee In suppliance while I rushed forth to raise Such wild and joyful shouts as should amaze? I wonder which would shrink?men's woe or glee. If we could know? -S. E. Kiser. |W MQBVOt&B i SI '<6 Ir was quite an event for Sageville when Silas Stanford, tbe political boss of eleven counties, registered at tbe Bellerue Hotel and became tbe loadstone for nil tbe local poll* ticlans. But It was something of a ibock and more of a joke for Sageville wben the news leaked out tbat young Max Watson was "after tbe aominatlon for sheriff." Max was a boy. Just twenty-two, wltb "no record" except tbat of a ' bright Kansas boy. Bora In Sagevllle, only child of tbe late Judge Elmer (VatMin Ha ?? rlr>h In th<? nnsspssioil )f $2000 and a half-section of corn land which came to bis band when be attained majority. His grandfather and grandmother had reared him out at the Watson homestead on the edge of town, but be did sot respond to all their ideas of bringing up. Since be left the high school he had repulsed all efforts to send him to the university. preferring to loaf about the fire iepartment in town or sit on dry goods boxes talking politics with the precocious acumen of the typical Kansas I mA His political services thus far bad consisted In carrying torches In tbe perennial "rallies" of bis party and casting bis first vote for tbe regular ticket. Being an amiable idler everybody liked bim. Tall, athletic, even handsome, with tbe blue eyes, yellow, closely cropped balr and florid skin of his forbears. Max bad slipped from ooyhood to fine physical maturity ^ _ DXSGOTSXZD THE TRAIL IX THE MUDDY BOTTOM LAXD. without doing anything to awaken his neighbors to the fact that be was a man. He had no trade and soucht none. When be got bis patrimony be boogbt a saddle horse, a new ningusine shotgun and two pistols. bat be contiaue<l to run with the firemen and more than once showed his mettle as a volunteer rescuer of life and property. Hoke Mudge, sheriff incumbent, candidate for re-election and an old wheel borse of tbe party in 8ageville. laughed loudly in his long whiskers when be saw in the Daily Banner an announcement that Max Watson bad "approached" the redoubtable 8ilas Stanford on the subject of tbe nomination for sheriff. Hoke Mudge was eloquent -be could talk so fast and so interminably that his awed constituent* were beginning to make plan* for Bending him to Tom?kn. He hadn't mn<l<> ictly a brilliuDt record or sh:f!ff. but then tbe county bad been so placidly law-abiding during bis term tbat there wasn't much room for brilliance. "Sheriff ain't good enough for Mudge," tbe voters would say. "He oughter be up t'Topeky aehowin' them feller* how t'make a fust-rate speech." Whereupon Hoke Mudge would expand his chest, stroke his loug heard and with benign condescension murmur: "Never heerd me uayin* a word ,'bout Topeky, did ye?" But deep down in his heart he knew that he hadn't the Dene to go after so lofty a place and tbat bis position as sheriff was for him a dizzy pinnacle. But fate was preparing an awful test for Hoke. It was three days Ik* I iuri- lut* imKiwiauous mat iwo ucsperate lior#e thieves broke Jail at Truxton and reached timl?er with a pood start before the jailer was through telephoning to the j>hf>riff. The pursuit from Truxtoo and the direction of the wooded valley to which they bad fled forced them toward Sagevllle. and by 10 o'clock In the morning every available citizen in the county seat had lieen added to Madge's posse and was sent forth to chase and capture | the Jail breakers. Max was one ofj the first to volunteer, and coining to the riieriff with a frank challenge in kl? IJ? t 1 i -4 > Iuio uiur r^rs, unu^ iut? ur?i aiuiru i?an in town and Icnowio? tb<> nntiTim? . \ -A . New York City.?Severely plain but stylish Is this shirt waist of linen striped with green. The combination is delightfully cool and one that will rejfioa better than any boater present, Hoke Mudge could not refuse bis ser vices. Max led the obese afoot, Mudge following him with jeulous assiduity on horseback as if be feared tbe boy would snatch from bim tbc glory of tbe only notable deed bis official career Lad offered. It was noon wben tbe boy's eyes discovered tbe trail in tbe muddy bottom land. Two pairs of footprints pointing south were all tbe signs he needed, and away be ran through the tangled brake like a greyhound coursing a jack. Tbe sheriff galloping along tbe margin could scarcely keep up with him. All bnt ten of the mounted posse had been distanced. end wben at last Max emerged from tbe thicket, and pointed up the bill toward his grandfather's bouse he could hardly gasp out the words, "Headed for grandpa's!" Mndge gained as they climbed tb^ hill, and as ho stopped Jt and the Watson home came in sight be paused and waited to instruct bis few remaining adherents. The rest were scattered in different directions, led astray by their own straggling footprints. Mudgc, being a coward and sure of his belief that the fugitives would hardly venture into tbe Watson bouse, bade bis men surround tbe place, V.I.T.W wno An o hUlfnn wHIIa Ha filnflO approached the residence to ask old Watson if be or bis wife bad seen tbe runaways. Max ran 'ronnd to tbe rear of tbe barn and tbe others made a cordon at a respectful distance so as to prevent escape. Mudge dismounted at tbe fence and entered by tbe front door. His men waited ten. fifteen, twenty minutes, tbeu drew nearer, scared, wondering, alert. In an hour tbey ventured Into tbe yard fearing their sheriff bad met foul play. Suddenly an ill-visaged stranger, bearing a cocked Winchester, stepped out on tbe porcb, shouting: "We've got your sheriff foul and >? VIII l.l? I ?l.l AAimln ?ha Uf 11 Alii U1UJ QUU IUIO V1U VVUf/MT IUV I minute you open lire on us. My part- j ner has 'em settln' In a row against tbe wall. Tbe fust sbot you fellers Arc we'll kill 'em all, an' tben we'll ; go after you." Then Mudge was pushed out with i the rifle at bis back. He. too, appealed j to bis posse to "give in." He said be i didn't care for bis own life, bat be | didn't want to bring death on *thls j poor ole couple." His eye rested on : Max as be pleaded with his men to help him save tbe Watsons by with- j drawing. When be went back into the | bouse Max bade tbem withdraw to a 1 respectable distance or go home as they saw flt. Five sneaked for Sage-' ville. The others lingered beyona , range. Max slipped back into tbe I barn. Just before dusk Mudge, band* I ???a 1 a? i.i. n-nJ i cuuru ulil' iu ujo RIWIiiuk na? thrust oat. Tbe two fugitives, one bearing tbe sheriff's rifle and tbe other with bis pistols at tbe back of Madge's bead, followed. Tbey paused while one shouted: "First move yon fellers make, first shot you fire, Madge dies." , Then they hastened at a quickstep in Indian file across the yard and down tbe road into tbe night. The warning was repeated at Intervals as tbey ran. till at last. Max, leading bis horse out of tbe stable, leaped into the Middle, sat still a moment and cried out: "Ob, grandpa r Tbe old man came out at tbe front door, bis frightened old wife after bim, both handcuffed. "I'll turn you loose in & minuter* Max shouted, and dashed for the roadj "Now I will run for sheriff," he muttered as he laid away into tbe dark* ness with bis magazine gun across tbe saddle bow. Half a mile down the j road be saw in tbe gloaming 'shadows by tbe road, plodding back toward town, the dejected form of Mudge. But be did not stop. It was 9 o'clock that night when the reassured sheriff and bis defeated posse returned to rescue Max. Tbey met bim driving a sullen prisoner slowly along in tbe dark. "Go up and cut grandpa and grand* ma loose." be shouted hoarsely, "I'm afraid to chance it" Wt .lAmntiilAil " \v aere me uuici uuc < ucunuiwu Mudpe, plucking up courage when be saw tbe poise of Max's gun. "He's down in Creep Hollow," roared tbe tnutupbant Watson. "You can fetcb bim iu on a shutter." Tbe Sagcville Banner gave Its front page to this story tbe next morning, and an bour before tbe convention as* sent bled tbe county commissioner go< a telegram from Silas Stanford, tbe iwlitical boss of eleven counties, wblcb read: "Make tbat boy of Judge Watson'0 sheriff. I'll tlx Mudge."?John H. Raftery, In tbe Chicago Rccord-Herald. tka Pal It* Cold notor. "Sit a little closer, please!" It Is tbe polite street car conductor who thus adjures his passengers. "Sit a little closer, please?* Again tbey crowd together, while ten more people get aboard. "Sit a little closer, please!" The passengers squeeze Into yet smaller space. From tbe press of people a hand if seeu urgently signaling the conductor. He approaches the hand and tracea it to its owner. "What Is It, sir?" be courteously inquires. "I'll give you a hundred dollars a J-~ nt? oavillno /ton. UU) IV DUjirt iuivuu UJj oatuiuc vuu nery." gasps tbe moo at tbe end of the arm attached to the hand.?Baltimore American. Effect of Lyddite. The extraordinary effect of lydditt has lieen revealed by tbe statement that, during tbe recent experiments I with the hulk of the old battleship ! Ik'llisle. shells containing that explosive refracted fragments upon tbe attacking vessels, which were 300 yards distant. Other fragments dropped close to a gunboat situated 2000 yards abeam of tbe line of fire. Tbe deduction drawn is that when lyddite is usmi mere is uauper lor a friendly vessel at least ?UUO yards away. Tbe London Outlook compares lyddite witb a boomerang, and points out tbat. to be of any service, it must be dropped rigbt on board a hostile vessel, as. "It tbe projectile does not bit tbe rigbt place it will fly back and slay tbe slayer." LAO 1X8' TAILOB MADS 6 HI XT WAIST. be very popular during the coming season. The foundation is a gloveUtted lining, wbicb closes In tbe centre front. Tbis may be omitted and tbe with ahntilder and Un Tf UJOl aujupivu ??? dcrarm seams If preferred. It fits smoothly across tbe shoulders and Is drawn down close to tbe belt, wbere there are small gathers. A smooth adjustment is maintained under tbe arms. The waist closes in the centre front with small crystal buttons and buttonholes worked through a narrow space between two box pleats that are | flatly stitched. There is slight fullness at the neck, and the waist forms a de a i?u j elded blouse over me vejvei oen. A plain collar completes the neck, j and fastens at the back. It is provided wltt embroidered protectors and a stock of heavy black satin. The regulation shirt sleeves are fitted close to the arm with inside seams. They are finished with deep, straight enffs, and a facing at the back, where the aleeve is slashed. Waists In this mode are made of j % JAUNTY NORI heavy pea a de sole, bengallne or moire, to be irorn with tailor made suits, and beautiful buttons are used 1 *? -1? ? ?'? !? It fa nlan nn ior me leuue viusiu^. ... ? appropriate mode for wash fabrics, as | j it will launder easily. To make the waist in the medium size will require two yards of thirty- j six inch material. I Norfolk Jacket With Applied Pleat*. Norfolk jackets possess certain inherent advantages, and ore always smart and jaunty. The admirable May Manton model shown in the large drawing is adapted alike to the jacket suit and the general wrap, and Is suited to all cloths, cheviots, tweeds, and the like; but, in the original, is of to bacco brown frieze. stitcbed witn conicelli silk, and makes part of walking costume made with flounced skirt that Just clears tbc ground. Tbe back is snug fitting and includes a centre seam that is curved to tbe figure, tbe fronts are'fitted by single darts which are concealed ander tbe applied pleats. Tbe pleats are graduated in width, so producing a tapering effect at the waist and are applied over the jacket The belt, whicb Is merely an ornamental feature, passes under those at tbe back and terminates in pointed ends over those in front. and can be omitted when the Jacket * 1 18 preiernu |n?iu. The yoke Is pointed and the neck Is finished with regulation collar that rt "s over with the fronts to form "Is. The sleeves. In coat style, have . ing pointed cuffs that open at tbe bu. cut this jacket for a woman of medium sixe three and one-half yards of material twenty inches wide, two and tbree-elRhth yards forty-four inches wide, or two yards fifty inches wide wili b? required. Tbe LatMt Scarf*. Have you Keen tbe new. tbe very j aew. scarf? It can be made of fur crj lace, of a strip of cloth or a two- j faced ribbon. It mast be narrow and ? -?? easily arrangeu uruuuu ???.- ?>. *.*<. , method of wearing It is unique. It is brought around the shoulders, be it fur or chiffon, lace or velvet, no matter what its texture, and fastened upon the bust with a pin. The pin should be a large one. and there are handsome medallions that come for this purpose, and lovely miniature pins the size of a young butter dish. Little sable scar/s, ? wi/io nn ihw fiucers. come to "oe thrown around the neck and pinned upon the chest. A Black CI any Collar A dark blue serge gown has a little Eton Jacket, cut with coat-tails In the back. Over the shoulder* goes a wida collar of black cluny lace. Tbla la an extremely smart finish to the bodice and relieves it of the bald plainness which it would otherwise present to view. A little neckband la covered with white cloth, and shows a braided design In black, dark blue and silver. Wftn Vino nncoHn slf>PVP?. With DD -? "c M?w? ? r-n- . dersleeves of white cloth gathered Into a narrow wristband, with design of the same embroidery. The skirt is on' trimmed, except with rows of machine W*er Orwa If aslia. Cool-looking dotted Swiss comes in mauve, primrose yellow, delectable | mjosotis blue, and also In water green, j This Is not a clear stem green, for it has a bluish tinge, instead of the yel- | lowish reflections visible in most | -i?i? />/ moan It la nntternpd with an ! SUOUCO VA QI VX.M, ? arrangement of coarse threads, loosely knotted and thrown ou the surface. | The bodice has a yoke of soft em- I broidery in white and a fichu of the white embroidered edging and knotted at the waist line. There are elbow sleeves edged with a frill. The skirt has a full graduated flounce. stitching. Puplllti Are Ornamental. Various ornaments are used to trim that feminine stand-by, a black silk dress. They vary from the stiff masse* of silk and beaded passementerie which is almost like a coat of mail. Very ornamental are pampllles, arrangement! of glossy black chenille with headed nnrin or the soft silk blades of satin fabric, the length nud shape of grass blades, here and there a-glitter with a jetted drop or two. Chenille buttons in clusters ore styled "grappes," evidently from their resemblance to bunches of grapes. Striped Chambray Oum. The daintiest of airy-fairy fabrics it called striped cbambray gauze. It is composed of alternate stripes of satin Liberty and sheerest gauze, the stripes being each an eighth of an inch la width. Over all this is printed a complicated Persian design, every pin-point of space entering into the lovely scheme. Over white silk or a very del L : , ?OLK JACKET. I Icate tint this gauzy fabric dJscoven unsuspected beauties and is mysteriously fascinating. A New Saab Ribbon. Latest and loveliest in sasb ribbon! Is a very broad beauty in palest blue satin Liberty. The ground is strewn with satin brocbe dots in tbe self color9 But all tbis is bardly noted because tbe whole is strewn with warp-printed garlands of faded roses, with an occasional nosegay in the same soft dull pinks. Wsmu'l Fancy Shirt WkiM. Shirt waists increase in popularity and variety with each season as It comes. This novel design, with the deep pleats at the shoulders, is eminently smart, and well adapted to all tbe season's cotton and linen fabrics, as well as to wool and silk waistings. As shown It is of Tabite pique with embroidered dots and trimming of needlework, and is made without the lining; but taffeta, moire velours, flannel and the like are more satisfactory when the fitted lining is used. Tbe foundation is smoothly fitted and extends to the fashionable waist line. Tbe back proper is plain across tbe shoulders, simply drawn down in gathers at the waist line; but the fronts are laid in deep pleats at the shoulders that are stitched near the edge for a short distance, then allowed to fall in soft folds, giving a broad tapering rest effect. The lining closes at the centre front, but the waist is hooked over, invisibly, beneath the inner pleat at the left side. The sleeves are in bishop style with pointed cuffs, and the neck Is finished with a regulation stock. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size three and one-half yards A NOVEL FANCY SHIRT WAITT. ! of materia) twenty Inchon wide, tlnee i 1? BAKnlt innltna irllla nr 1 Hfl varus l?rui,i -aciwu IUVUC0 n IMV, v. .ranis forty-four inches wide will be required. ? ,i IIMI What Mad Han Don*. Mud. that at flrat fiance seems so on. | sightly, Is Id truth the annual blessing of the lowlands to which It is being borne. We sometimes feel impatient at the way In which sediment clones the mouths of our rivers and Impedes navigation, ir we could see a map of our country, with a red line surround"?? ?" tiin nnrftnn* that linrp been built I Ufe ? ?UV ? _ _ oat of this silt, I think It would startle most of us to recognize bow much of our best land Is tbe gift of tbese muddy streams.?Professor 8. C. Schmucker, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Mrs. Francis Podrr T. U., Saranac JLak Her Health to Lydia table Compound. R< "Dear Mrs. Pinkham : ? Fo was bora I felt a peculiar wcaknesi before, with severe pains in the ?v; " I tried the doctor's medicine wasted. A friend who had been ct Pinkham's Vegetable Camp so, also your Sanative Wash, anc such relief before. 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Tbe annual report ou tbe lands of tbe province shows that in 1901 no less than 10,080 acres were so granted to sixty-three families. Special Rates Announced rla Ronthera By. New York to Charleston ao<l return, ?22.55. Round-trip tickets at greatly ieduced rates, good for eleven (11) days. The Charleston Exjx>?ition Flyer, which leaves New York daily at 3.25 p. m., carrying through Pullman Sleeping-oar Coaches and Dining Cars, N<-w York to Charleston. #50.00 California. Will sell Colonist tickets, months of March and April. New York to California, at t50.00. Tourist Sleeping Cars operated Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; Washington, 1). C., to Kan Francisco without change. Berth rate* Washington, D. C.. to San Francisco, 7.00. For full particulars, information, etc., call on or address New York ofilee. 271 l and 1185 Broadway. Alex. S. Thweatt, Ea.?t. Paw. Agt., 1185 Broadway. ?w York, N. Y. Paper currency of Spair now stand* at forty-three per cent, loss on the gold standard. 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Tbe car* bine is to be merely a dummy weapon, the idea being to make tbe officer as little distinguishable from bis men as possible, but at tbe same time to prevent blm from yielding to tbe temptation to shoot when be should be looking after bis men.?Allahabad Pioneer. r^2 lore, President W. C. e, New York, Owes E. Pinkhams Vegeead Her Letter. il ? r*.? l^i A.14 r several yean uia my un wum i, such as I never had experienced tries and frequent headaches. :s and found it money worse than ired through the use of Lydl* E. ound advised me to tiy it I did 1 I must say I never experienced eks I wis like another woman. I it Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable If I ever feel bad or tired a few . Francis Podmoke. VE LETTER IS NOT GEHUOTk Lh irregular, suppressed or painful a, displacement or ulceration of the iflammationof the ovaries, backache^ )ility, indigestion, and nervous proaboms as HforinAaa, fafatn^aa, lassitude, sa, sleeplessness, melancholy, "aH> " feelings, blues and hopelessness, ) tried and true remedy. Lydia B? id at once removes such troubles. tor you need the beat ik|e smallpox:: L i U and other disease ) genni are nurtured ? oatlng aad dimem- ' : and scale inated by wall paper | * re can be, at ? coat to yes, 1 healthful homea. Address < * st Dv 6rand Rapids, Mich. J IMI# For heecUrhe (?Mt? elck or Barrow). iMtk < ho, tv-areljrt*, rhatimtlUm, lam ! **?, pell* ntd week new to the b*rk. iHie of ki iiyn mIimM the liter, pleurisy, wellla* ofthe>o!nl? end p^JU or ell k-nae, the application of tUlnrt Iwtir !? lief will afford lmm?ltet? eeee, end Ite j3W dm lot e few dejre effects e permanent cure. \ CUKEM AND PtSVKNT* Colds. 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