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' MILLIONS OF SUFFERE INTft WHARF. FSP.F.S 1111v iiuvujj i avuw Facts That Will Aid Generous t Impossible in This Land ol 1 i __________ By E. R. When Vesuvius showers hot dus *nd ashes or pours out molten lava when San Francisco shudders an< 1 writhes into consuming flame, whei Kingston passes out of order int< ihaos in the earthquake throes, th< heart of Christendom beats in sym pathy. Thousands of dollars are in stantly ready to the hands of the af flicted and the stricken. This is a: it should be. For more than three months thi region in Northern China, known a: "Kianpeh" (meaning "north of th< ,river," the river being the Yangtse) has been in the grasp of famine an< famine-bred disease. All the calami ties named in the opening paragraph if rolled into one stupendous horror " could not have caused a tithe of th suffering the forty days' rain and th< consequent floods wrought upon th< 40,000 square miles (an area nearl; as great as that of New York State! of affected territory with its 15,000, 000 of people. Before new crops cai BSj i^l . TREES DENUDED OF BARK, WI / CHI be raised the death list will be ap palling?will be greater by a hue dredfold than that chronicled in Na pies, San Francisco and Jamaica. Death and anguish of body an< mind wiil reign in Kianpeh fo months, despite the most sympathiz ing efforts. But Americans can miti gate suffering and lower the deat! rate by contributing the smalles tithe of their possessions. One dolla will prevent one death for one week That warm-hearted readers ma appreciate, as far as possible at thi distance, conditions that amaze th onlooker and call forth his deepes sympathy, I append extracts from th : most recent letter of William T. Ellis a trustworthy and capable corre spondent of the Christian Herald, o: the "spot. Mr. Ellis writes after ; tour through a camp of 30,000 starv ing refugees, and later will tell o other greater camps where the'con ditions are worse than those he por trays: "Little more than an ?bour ago saw two women, presumably mothe and grandmother, wailing over th , tiny coffin of a child^hat had bee: part of grim famin^|Aily toil. "It Is all so so overpow lug, so hauntio^K heartrending that one cannot wrire of it in an or derly fashion. It seems as if onl the repeated cry of 'Help! Help Help!' can be fashioned for the ear of the prosperous American people to whom God has given a year o plenty, while the poor of China per ish from want. "Out of the awful mass of sufferin: a succession of individual picture come trooping before my visior There was the man, too weak to stan erect, who bore on his back, as olde brothers carry babies in China, hi blind old mother, the mere skin-and bone framework of a woman. The wanted heln and Dleaded for it in th thin whine of the utterly miserabl ?and I dared not give them so muc' as a copper! "Or that mother, hard-eyed an rigid, who stood against a wall wit her six children gathered about he tattered skirts, staring out uncarin on a company of living refugees wh are a more melancholy sight than th thousands of ancient graves amon which they are encamped. They ha been fed; one portion of thin, water * ~ rice porridge for them all, and mr they must wait in the cold for ar other twenty-four hours before the can be fed again?and even thei some stronger ones may push thei aside and steal their turn at th meagre relief. "Strange incongruities flash int one's mind as he walks about amon these 30,000 refugees. As I passe this morning an old, old woman, coi ered only by a few rags, who sat o the cold bare ground, sharing hf small bowl of rice with a babe ( twelve or eighteen months, evident! her grandchild, who sat on her knee I thought of some grandmothei o " - ' ~ " " THE 500,000 GALLON WINE 1 ONY IN f?*? 1 | -i in i i ? ' :* . ' , ??< ' *' ' 'mai One hundred couples danced ir k A colored man up at Leavenwort f has broken the record for living u] der difficulties. A surgical open < A . V : . . ,RS IN NORTHERN CHINA DEATH STARES DAILY laericans in Appreciating Conditions Plenty. - JOHNSTONE. t whom I know In America?sweet, faced, comfortable and kindly, whose 1 evening of life is made pleasant by 3 the love of children and grandchil3 dren, and who know not the word e want. And I recalled some baby - friends?sweet, ruddy little dears, - wrapped in the finest linen, with - wardrobes upon which love has lavs ished its generosity, and whose food is a matter of careful consultation s with physicians and friends. Of r course I cannot ipiagine these deJib cately nurtured babes in dirty tatters , hnq exposed to iiie corn ujl wiuici 3 night and day, week after week, yet, - somehow, one picture suggests the , other. Just so, when a refugee mother accosted us this morningand asked us e to accept her child as a gift, imaginae tion brought instantly to view the e preciousness of the American children 7 I know. ) "Incidents could be piled upon in cidents; every one of these 30,000 a refugees incarnates a story?a story ?Courtesy Christian Herald. II C? IS EATEN BY THE STARVING NESE. ? i- of a home abandoned; of toilsome i- journeys to this southern district in the hope of finding a pittance of food to allay that awful gnawing of hund ger; of the eager hunt for a sheltered r nook in a doorway; of being driven from sp&t to spot until at last a few [- feet of bare earth are secured out b. among the graves with the other t refugees?a space no bigger than a r Chinese grave suffices for an entire family; of the daily and nightly hudy dling together in one mass for the s sake of human warmth; of the search e for dry grass with which to make a t tiny fire; of the morning struggle for e a portion of the government rice and !, of that indescribable, terrible, primi( tive duel between life and starvation a which the Chinese so dauntlessly en a dure. "In all this, I write of the best, and f not of the worst. This is only the - first outpost of the famine district." Speaking of the causes of the famine?already comparatively well I known in this country?Mr, Ellis r says: e "Heavy summer rains, the overa flowing of the banks of all streams and of the Grand Canal, simply flood ed the country and made of promising rice and grain fields only a desert - waste of water. The crops were uty terly ruined. It is of interest that in ! this section of China wheat and maize s as well as rice are grown; that is why ;, cornmeal and flour, the former even f the more acceptable of the two, is - the popular form of relief. The Chinese live closer to. actual starvation g than it is possible for a Westerner to s comprehend; they are always poor, i. So the failure of the crops?not to d mention the destruction of their r homes by flood?at once placed them s in a state of actual destitution wmcn 1- can only be relieved when the wheat y crop is harvested in July. Meane while, owing to lack of seed, only half e of the spring wheat crop has been h planted." There are stories of cannibalism d too grewsome to write. Suffice It h that horror is piled upon horror's r head in Kianpeh until the call for g outside help is as imperative as it is o justified. e These sufferers, under ordinary g conditions, are frugal, cleanly, hond est, hardworking. They can wring a y mere livelihood from their petty fields sv in the best of times by the hardest i- kind of work and in the mass are y noted for morality and decency of i, life. Already the Christian Herald, n of New York, has sent $35,000 in ? rnsVi fnr thf> nllpvintinn nf Rnffprins'. and has pledged itself to the State ,o Department in Washington to furg nish at least $200,000 more. It can d only do this with the co-operation of ir- the American people. Hence the plea n for contributions, the transmission ?r and expenditure of which is guarded )f most carefully?as was the case with iy the funds provided from the same s, source for the famished in Finland, :s India, Russia, Japan and Cuba. ?ANK OF AN ITALIAN-SWISS COLCALIFORNIA. iside this tank when it was completed. h tion showed that he had lived a weei a- with a blod clot in his brain as large a- as a man's hand. ^ A jfjfelf *aNDAmm nl1 SfcRMON iUUULin Subject: Christ's Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "Christ's Agony and Ours." the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text Luke 13:34, "Arid yfe would not." He said: The lamentation of Jesus over the City of Jerusalem was occasioned by His clear vision of "the depth of her need, of the completeness of her rejection of Himself and tbe revelation of and from the Father that He brought, and by His firm conviction that disdain for His Gospel meant death for herself. Feeling in His inmost heart that His was the truth that could save the city of His people from its sin; knowing, as He did, that He was the long-heralded Messiah who should lead His countrymen into the liberty of that life within Jehovah which should satisfy their - - * " -1 - TT* souis; ana experiencing, ?s ne uau, i the .temper of the minds of the ecclesiastical and clerical leaders of the synagogues, Jesus was sick at heart over the spiritual doom that was sure to overtake His people. To Jesus sin was the most awful, the most terrifying, jtlie most fearful thing in the world. For Him the word "sin" summed up, short and quick, all those agencies which were anti-Godly and which led men far from the Father. Sin meant destruction, disapproval in the eyes of God, and its wages were the seeds of death. The Gospel, on the other hand, held for Jesus the kernel and the conclusion of all those forces that should gain men life eternal and the full, enthusiastic favor of the King, their Guide. Being born again of God and entering into the freedom of the spiritual life divine, Jesus conceived these men, His brethren, as obtaining deliverance from eternal death. With this philosophy and this vision of the need and the issue?both of which Jesus had direct from God ?is it any wonder that He wept over the City of Jerusalem? Sin is death. Jtfy Gospel is the way of sure salvation?the 6nly way?and the true guide unto life that is eternal. Thus reasons Jesus. These men are bound 4*k aw/1 eln Unw crl 9 H1V Wrtllld I teach to them those spiritual truths that should save'them, but they will not. Sin is their choice, separation from the Father is their self-willed death. Do you wonder why the Savior suffered unto bitter agony and tears? His was the wide and comprehensive view of the world, its sin, its need, its salvation, its denial, its destruction. Any smaller or less comprehending insighD would have been of none avail. A '~reat, limitless, universal understanding of the situation as it was?and is?was the one means to stir the soul of the Christ to its depths. A weaker man with a smaller horizon would have become discouraged or disgusted. A big man, full of heart and grit, with the richness of God's love flooding all his being, was the only one who could mourn. Jesus wept?not from disgust, or discouragement, but because His whole soul yearned to lead His dying brethren into life for evermore. The weight of their guilt, the cer' tainty of their dying, the uselessness and the wickedness of it all came upon the ^oul of Christ with resistless force and wrung His heart in agony. And now, beloved, this lesson from the life of our Lord points a threefold duty for each of us. The acceptance by us of this triple obligation which the agony of the Master calls to our attention, will prove to the world about us that our Christ wept not in vain. And the duties three are these: First, we must be convicted of the awfulness of that sin whose logical outcome is death. Secondly, we must have an experimental and distinct knowledge that the only sure salvation from this death-dealing sin is through Jesus Christ. Thirdly, we must, with weeping hearts, go forth into the world as living evangels to preach to all mankind salvation from this deathly sin through Jesus Christ j our Lord. The awfulness of sin is a byword | rather than a belief among men to-' day. In our earnest and quite legitimate endeavor to publish the glory of the love of God for the sinner, we have lost to a great extent our consciousness and our former denunciation of the hideousness of sin. In our endeavor to escape from the unreasonable curse of a bodily hell we have, many of us, rushed to the other extreme?that is to say, no hell at all. In our earnest preaching of the love of God toward the sinner we have become, I fear, too lenient with 6in. My friends, the love of God is a reality. The punishment and the death of man brings no joy to the Father's heart. Jehovah wants every man to live witliin the light of His countenance of love. To the end that we might have life and that more abundantly He sent His Son our Savior to reveal Himself to us. But sin i is always hateful to God. His whole nature shrinks from it, as should our natures, as from a thing unclean. He ; can have no communion with it?nor should we. Its, pleasures are dead fruit,, its enjoyments are transient ' and a mockery, its wages is death. Mnrhan ^vnprience haa nroved this * to be so, and the word of the living God sustains the charge. Sin is death. In strict union within God is life. Sin and God can have no commerce. Where sin is, God cannot be. Where the Father is, sin is eclipsed, for with Him there is no evil, but only the fullness of eternal life. Sin is death. Death is the lack of life. The ruddy apple drops from the leafy, living bough and dies. The seeds of quick consumption strike the human heart and death ensues. In each case +>.o oiamont nf ripstrnctirm has en tered. And as with the physical, so with the spiritual. Godliness is life. Life is union with the principle of life. The dainty apple-blossom holds closely to the budding branch and soon we pluck the sound and luscious, wholesome fruit. The life that seems so near the brink of death's dark stream, the heart that weakly beats, the blood that boils at fever heat, all seize upon the remedies that cure, and health and healing vigor rush through the weakened frame. In each case the , principle of life has been at work. As with the natural, so with the spiritual. i Ah, yes, beloved, sin is bondage, death, disgrace, unprofitable. Godi liness is great gain and it will surely bring contentment. Sin is distance from God and there is no worse death [ or hell. Jesus leads us nearer > Heaven, and within Him is the most RAlW.'H EN "tt E.f=-AMP05' Df$NE> Agony and Outs' life and the best. But sin Is ueath and the sooner the world finds it out and we Christians really realize its awfulness the better for us and the world.. , This sin, however, is susceptible of defeat. Our lives may be freed from its power and made victorious, above its strength. The means are not various, nor is the way hard. There is but one means and one true and happy way. That means and that way Jesus has revealed. Coming to Him for healing we may find easement-for our souls. Trust in Him will gain release from evil. A whole me spent in ms service win reap a rich reward. His is the only gospel that contains the truth entirq. His is the one' salvation that our spirits need. His is the gift of life forever unto all who hear, believe and live for Him. Being certain that sin is death, we must preach to men the way to life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The trouble with much of our testimony is that we are a little shaky on our own foundations and that too much of our testimony is from the mouth out and is not welling up from hearts that have tasted of the joys of the Christblessed life. Too much of our knowledge of spiritual truths comes to us at second-hand and too little arises from the depths of personal experience. Our ideas must be cut clear as to what is the state and the future of men who are continuing in sin. We must feel that Jesus is the need and the Savior of other men, as He has been the need and the Savior of each of us. We must get that vision of the world which shall make us weep as did our Lord, which shall make us say with Paul, "Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel." Ah, yes, beloved, we must, with weeping hearts go forth to lead men up to God. If sin is death and we possess and know the way to life everlasting, we must not rest until tve, too, have brought some brother home to safety. I say we must. I cannot say we may. Our orders read "go thou," not "won't you please go." Christ pleads with the sinner, but His word is law, and so It should be, to those who are His. Come with me into the busy street on any working-day, or to any ^audy concert-hall on sunny Sabbath days, and I will show you why you should weep and work. There they are! heedless, unhearing, uncaring, bound more intent to make money or to while the hours away than to save their immortal souls. Young and old, rich and poor, hardened sinners and youths who are just entering the road to death?each of them, all of them, caring little, and thinking less of the awfulness of their sin and the outcome of their shame. Good men who are wise in everything but their conceptions of their need of Christ. Pure men who will come to Jesus if so be some one will only put them to the test. Leaders in the church who profess the Christ, but who mis[ represent Him. A weary, heavyladen host ? and we can lift the crushing weight of sin. Look at them and consider. Is it any wonder now that Jesus wept? Ah, beloved, we ought to weep?weep like Jesus because men are dying right before, our eyes, within reach of our hands; weep?weep unlikfe Jesus because we are unworthy servants of our Master, because we are recreant to our duty and our trust. My friends, men who sin are I A/NotviA/1 /InofVi OViriaf ontora I uuumcu cv/ v. w in the life and saves. To each of us the question of our God comes clear and strong to-day as it came to Isaiah the prophet in the year that King Uzziah died, "Whom shall I send and who will go for us." Will you refuse the Father or will you say with Isaiah, "Here am I, send me." The Piety of Usefulness. Someone once said to Cromwell: "You, sire, know well the usefulness of piety!" 'I know something better," Cromwell replied, "the piety of usefulness." The phrase works both ways. Piety is useful, and usefulness is a function or activity of piety. If it is meant that simply to be busy is to be religious, a subtle terror lurks in the remark of Cromwell. But if the meaning is that the piety demanded by the age is not a self-engrossed religiousness which dwells apart in reflective unconcern, but the practical kind of faith that is busy in the King's business, an Important truth is thus brought to bur notice. The God We Need. One of the great events of Elijah'6 ministry was the trial of gods?as to whether Baal or Jehovah was the true God. Baal's prophets prayed long. But no fire fell. Elijah prayed and the answer (Same at once. The test of Carmel is being repeated every day in thousands of places on the earth. Burdened ones are praying, and God in Heaven is hearing and giving answer. Blessings are dropping out of the skies upon the needy, suffering lives, in response to their earnest, faith-filled pleading. The God who answers prayers is the God we all need. The Master's Pupils. We should be very glad that we are Christ's disciples, says J. R. Miller. When students of music or of art spend a time witn some great composer or master in Europe, they are very proud, when they come home, to announce themselves as his pupils. They put it on their advertisements and announcements and on their professional cards. We should regard it as a high honor to tell people that we are pupils of Christ's; that we have learned of Him how to live. The Soul's Greatest Need. Rest is the deepest want in the soul of man. All men do not desire pleasure; all men do not crave intellectual food; but all men long foi rest. It is the need which sometimes makes the quiet of the grave an ob JGCX 01 aeep uesire. mere me weaiji are at rest. And it is this which, consciously or unconsciously, is the real wish that lies at the bottom oi all others. The Chnrch's Duty. Part of the Church's duty Is tc press on to their duty Christians already won to Christ; to care for theii spiritual development; but first ol all, and above all, the Church is here to evangelize the world.?Archbishoj of Canterbury. ' .r' ' . ' ? ? African Hospitality. Hospitality may be considered as one of the characteristics of not only the Veis, but of the whole African race. It is considered tb6 duty of every citizen to entertain vstrangers without the smallest compensation. Places of rest stand open, and when these are found occupied by strangers a man' goes and tells his wife, who will uend her servants with water for the strangers to wash their feet, for, as-they wear no 6hoes, they naturally need such an accommodation. Afterward rooms and cloth A The General s ( \ of an injurious character 8 National Leg ' m ^ave established more, cle JM The Valu< jU i | Remedies which phy: W a a're gentle yet prompt in eff< a Known Excellenci m To gain the full con m the most eminent, physich M * approved by them/ and, thei MA years past in its advertiseme m PUI"ity and uniformity c character are assured by the known to the Company onlj There are other el IF the California Fig Syrup C that it cleanses, sweetens WL disturbing the natural fun UlV increase the quantity from .This valuable remec Syrup of Figs, and has MW family laxatives, and as H J known to physicians and I laxatives, we have adoptee V Senna, as more fully dei called for by the shorter always note, when purchasi m plainly printed on the frc 1 of Figs, or by the full n 1 and Elixir of Senna is th A 1 Syrup Company, and the III has given satisfaction to 1M throughout the United Sta 1 of which is fifty cents per be K Every bottle is sole 1 Secretary of Agriculture> i fl branded within the meanin L CALIFC J Louisville, Ky. PUTNAM Ootar more goods brighter and faster oolora than any t qy any garment wlUioat ripping apart. Writ* Cor French theatres \give ten per cent, oi their incomes to the poor. FITS, St. Vitus' Dance, Nervous Diseases per . manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great- Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.H. R. KJine,Ld.,931 Arch St.,Phila.,Pa, * * Jerusalem is becoming again a Jewish city. ' _ , Take Garfield Tea, the herb remedy that has for its object Good Health! It purifies the blood, ^leanses the system, makes people well. 1 Guaranteed under the Pure Food law. Educators say that the next generation > will be left handed as well as right. \ . Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup tor Children v teething,80i'tens thegums,reducesinflammation, aliayB pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottlo Law and Morals. A Missouri graduate in law, says a politician of that State, wrote to a prominent lawyer in Arkansas to inquire what chance there was in that section for such a one as he described himself to be. He said: "I am a Republican in politics and an honest young lawyer." The reply that came seemed en-' couraging in its interest: "If you are a Republican, the game laws here will protect you, and if you are an honest lawyer, you will have no competition."?Harper's Weekly. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be oleaccd to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure ib tne only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken ipter nally, acting directly upon toe Diooa ana mucous surfaces of the pyBtem, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con' Btitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith t in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any caso that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CnENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by DrupgistB. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. i Often, in France a man servant is employed to do housework which in America generally is regarded a? woman's work. The Domestic Hen a Wonder. , Scratching a living here and there, killing thousands of bugs and worms, which would cause much loss of crops > if allowed to live, the ordinary barni yard hen is a wonderful combination ' of productive forces. In five years' | time she will lay 700 eggs, each containing 650 grains of water, 125 of fat, 108 of lime, 80 of albumen, 26 C of sugar and 10 of ash?the most condensed and strengthening form of food offered to man. Every person having a little plot of ground is able , to keep from half a dozen to many i dozen of these wonders and so add to the family income. To do this to the ' greatest advantage, one must know * how to care for his fowls?to guard " against, detect and cure disease; which fowls to save for breeding pur| poses, etc. The simplest and most > satisfactory way of securing this knowledge is to buy it from some person who has made a success of fowl raising as a business. Such a ? book, giving the experience of twen. ty-five years, >3 obtainable for 25 cents in stamps from the Book Pub lishing House, 134 Leonard St., New 1 York City. It is an Invaluable work. ' The life of one chicken saved would i pay for the book several times over. m . wrappers are given them, food is brought from all quarters or they are invited to eat with the people. They continue to be so provided for even ^ n+ntr + TViaI* woumflntc ii lijcj oia/ iixuutuo. ^ ucii gaimcuvo are also washed and returned to them. On leaving they generally make a small gift to the wife of the host, though not more than two or three coin nuts or two or three English pennies.?Century. Revised. When you are in Rome, he done by the Romans. Condemnation o! So )r Secret Medicines , which indulge in extravagant ?n< to cure all manner of. ills, and the ;islation Enacted to Restrict arly than could have been accomp ; and Importance o! Ethical 1 sicians sanction for family use, as they ;ct, and called ethical, because they e and Quality and of Known C tfidence of the Well-informed of the ins, it is essential that the componei efore, the California Fig Syrup Compz :nts and upon every package a full, sta f product which they demand in a laxi i California Fig Syrup Company's origii r# :hical remedies approved by physic ompany possesses the advantage over and relieves the internal organs o ctions or any debilitating after effeci time to time. ly has been long and favorably kn attained to world-tfide acceptance its pure laxative principles, obtain the Well-informed of the world ti 1 the more elaborate name of Syrv scriptive of the remedy, but doub name of Syrup of Figs; and to ng, the full name of the Company?< >nt of every package, whether you ame, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of e one laxative remedy manufacture same heretofore known by the nan millions. The genuine is for sale ites in original packages of one si; ttle. 1 under the general guarantee of th< it Washington, D. C., the remedy i: g of the Food and Drugs Act, June IRNIA FIG SYRI San. Francisco, CaL U. S. A. London, England. FADELE ttwdya, One lOo. package colon all fiber* Thaydr DooMaO?a?w lo JDra. Bleach irvfl Mlt Ootocfc Ql SPSS Thompson's Eye Wafer When Every One is Beautlfnl. It has been said in cold print that men and women are. growing more and more beautiful, and that the progress of, civilization, the better understanding of the laws of health, is to bring a time when all of us wiil be of absolutely perfect beauty ? or, rather not us. but our ultimate re mote descendants. It is a little difficult to feel envy, hatred and malice for one's descendants, but this news is enough to induce that evil state of mind. However, the prospect affects one writer quite otherwise. "After all," says he, "our lovely descendants will pot have so gay a time. For if every one is good looking, what on earth is the good of being good looking? So, after all, there are some advantages in living nowadays. Few of us have no dear friends uglier than ourselves. What is the use of a friend if she is not a little?well, plain? The 2000 Osages in Oklahoma are the richest community on the face of the globe, and they are getting richer.' N.Y.?12 .{Women Avoid Operations When a woman suffering from female trouble is told that an operation is necessary, it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the hospital, the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an ope' ration is the only resource, but a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after an operation has been decided upon as the only cure, The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come fr Lydia E. Pinkham's1 made from native roots and herbs, ' evidenced by Miss Ros^ Moore'b case. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-"Lydia E. cured me of the very worst lorm 01 to you my deepest gratitude. I sufl I was unable to attend to my duties doctored and doctored with only tem] to an operation which I was advised E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; and I am now in better health than This and other such coses shouli dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compoui Mrs. Pinkham's Standii Women suffering from any fori promptly communicate with Mrs. P symptoms given, the trouble may b< way of recovery advised. W. L. DOli $3.00 AND $3.50 SH W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00 GILT EDGE SHOES CANNOT BE SHOES FOR EVERYBODY A Men's Shoes, 85 to SI .BO. Boys' Shoes, J Shoes, S4 to SI.50. Misses* <& Children's W. L. Douglas shoes aro recognized by ex to be the best in style, fit and wear produce part of the shoe and every detail of the ma and watched over by skilled shoemakers, time or cost. If I could take you into m tfrocKton, Mass., ana snow you novr carei shoes are made, you would then underst3i wear longer, and are of greater value than i W. L. Donsrla* name and price Is stamped on the prices and inferior shoes. Take No 8ab#tlti fait CoUr E\tku uttd txclutixtly. Catalog matted* 1^1 Tossing the Pancake. '^ ^1 The ancient custom of "tossing the - ' pancake" was observed yesterday in the great hall of Westminster School. There were the usual ceremonies. The school cook threw the pancake into the air over the beam, and &ere was a great struggle by the boys 'or . the coveted prize.'. J. Ainger threw himself on the cake, and when the allotted period expired he was in possession oi three-quarters of it. As the winner he received the customary gift of one guinea.?London Daily* Called Patent / | i unfounded pretensions M ' Their Sale 1 I /| lished in any other way Remedies. |i| ' act most beneficially and ! omponent Parts. 1/ world and the approval of 1ft at parts be known to and my has' published for many vgffi temen: thereof. The per- . I itive remedy of an ethical L I aal method of manufacture, ||| jans, duc tne proauci 01 m|B [all other family laxatives n which it acts, without :s and without having to . own under the name of Mlm as the most excellent of UV l,?jj ed from Senna, are well 0 be the best of natural VI ip of Figs and Elixir of f I Vj| itlessly it will always be I get its beneficial effects, B California* Fig Syrup Co.? V 1 simply call for Syrup M Senna, as Syrup of Figs E d by the California Fig m . 'tig ae, Syrup of Figs, which I*a by ail leading druggists se only, the regular^price Iff i Company, filed with the u s not adulterated or mis JP CO. \ New York, N. 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