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w l1"" ? k SENATOR PROUD I < i.7 CHARLES CURTIS. UNITED STA1 Who began life as a "Blanket Inc Sleeve Holder. If it were permissible many a youn^ lady would be tempted to use a cuss word every time she puts on her coat. We have all watched her struggle in the attempt to tuck the big, balloon sleeves of her waist in to tne armnoies 01 me coai. i\aiurai]y it must be uncomfortable to have the inner sleeve bunched at the shoulder. An ingenious English woman has invented a simple contrivance which does away with all these trying perplexities, and she thinks so highly of the device that she has had it patented in the United States. As shown in illustration, it comprises a narrow elastic band, having on each end a ring, one being larger than the other. Attached to the band is a double cord. In using this device the band is formed into a lasso (by H~n slipping the smallest ring through the larger one), which is slipped over the end of the sleeve of the waist. The fine end of the band is then secured to the thumb by the ring. The cord is attached to the little finger. After slipping the arm into the sleeve of the coat the ring on the thumb is released and the band pulled out of the armhole by means of the cord. ?Washington Star. Meat Holder. A practical and very useful device recently patented is a meat holder, the invention of a Texas man. Almost everybody is more or less familiar with the difficulties attending the carving of a ham or other larger * nrm \ v i*r r /I wuail II .11 . T."- - - ^ ^ NEW BLOCK HOUSE ON SAN JU/ CORDING THE NAMES OF AMEF Curing a Kicker. i An arrangement such as Bhown in the cut has been suggested as effective to cure a horse which kicks in harness. A heavy strap (P) is attached to the collar and extends back unaer me ouivinfeitj, wiicrc lo 10 tiltached to a heavy ring. Through this ripg is passed a rope or strap (M), which is attached to straps on the hind hocks at S. This is made loose enough so that the animal may walk comfortably, but too ; . <v. r* > v ' \ JF INDIAN LINEAGL * 1 <i- . ^BHHHBBmSBB^MCT? flgSsS^^l^SsE^a^^E B3Pf?SSaBaffi^^?y^?^S2$^^H^:' 5^. f: TES SENATOR FROM KANSAS, iian" on the Kaw Reservation. piece of meat. The object of th meat holder shown in the illustratioi is to overcome these difficulties am render the barving an easy matter The base consists of a wooden plat ter. which can be readily washed It is made large enough to accommo date an ordinary ham. Along twi opposite sides are shafts on whicl are secured a number of pointet clamps. The latter are operated b; means of a lever at the end of on< of the shafts. After the piece o meat has been placed on the plat ter the holders are tightly clamped ii position. The carver is thus able t< use both hands freely and cut th< meat to the best advantage.?Wash ington Star. A New Use For Steel. "In many directions iron and stee are rapidly displacing other materi als for constructive purposes," write the London Iron and Coal Trades Re view. The case of girders for collier; purposes is perhaps one of the mos typical and striking. Some 20,001 tons of pitwood are sent weekly int< Cardiff alone, and, although pitwooi costs 20s., and steel girders abou ?G 10s. per ton, steel is winning it way all along the line, mainly be cause timber is getting scarcer am dearer, and because steel is a mor< convenient and reliable material. I this change became general in th mining world, one can easily imagine that the demand for steel cirder would be enormous, seeing that th world's output of coal is now c!os< on a thousand million tons.*' I MEMORIAL. ' ? lN hill, with tablets reiicanS killed and wounded tight to allow the animal to kicls After wearing this harness a whil the horse will cease to try to kick ii harness and may be driven withou difficulty.? Farm and Home. A Rump-Measuring Machine. An intricate machine which meas ares the bumps on a person's heai and then delivers a circular settini forth the phrenological descriptioi of the victim's character is one of th latest devices for willing dimes fron the pockets of amusement seekers They are very interesting machine and attract big crowds who deligh in seei g the man-who-wants-to know-what-his-character-is put th mouse-trap contrivance over his heac and allow himself to be fastened in So thick were the crowds about on* of these machines the other day tha a policeman notified its operator h< must tell each group that gathered t( beware of pickpockets. This the ex hibitor of the bump machine faith fully did all day, only to discover ii the middle of the afternoon that hi: own pockets had been relieved o $47.?Philadelphia Record. A . IS "The ftuifo/t I 1 I Wl I II I^T I I . A SERMON' fifes I <r?v TJc n T=A/_ Subject: The Church and Amusements. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church. Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his text 1 John 2:17, "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." He said: Happiness is a universal human longing. The search for it is a worldwide human characteristic. The longing of living souls for that which ministers to the satisfaction of the noblest and most lasting of human needs and desires is natural. God created us to be happy. We were not men did we not search for joy. Jehovah meant us to live in the possession and exercise of all that is peaceful and joyous and lovable. It would be strange if we did not seek At: w. 19 tu jjussess uieiu. we are luunau ia we do not use them. Not otherwise pleasure, or the (satisfaction of lesser human desires and human needs, is a universal human craving. As we long for those things that are eternally and finally satisfying, so do we long for those things that are of immediate and of contemporaneous value. And this craving is natural. The desire is divinely ?granted. It is not strange that we want pleasure. But happiness and pleasure are not necessarily to be found in that (and - we shall deliberately circumscribe e the application of the word) which we call amusement. Happiness may be far from the heart that is amused. ^ Many a soul that is seared and heavy ' with sorrow has been amused. But - amusement brings such soul no.abiding joy and ministers no balm of solace to heal their wounds. Pleasure is not amusement. For a man may find much pleasure outside of that which in the common use and acceptation of the term is called amusement. Happiness is a matter, at the base, of subjective satisfaction. Happiness is centrally a concern of the soul. Pleasure may conserve happiness. But a man may be well pleased and yet not be happy. A man m a v ho amiiaori anrl finH nlpaQ ure in the amusement. But a man may be superlatively unhappy though his face may be forced to smiles through the power of amusement. ,For amusement is a diversion, a dissipation, an indication of inward discontent. Happiness indicates contentment. The desire to be amused is very nearly always an indication of the incapacity of a man to achieve happiness! The church expresses happiness in the terms of eternity, of divinity, of conscience. The happiness of man . is, in the mind of the Church of Jesus Christ and in the light of His truth, dependent upon its perdurability, its divineness, upon the clarity of the conscience of the man who possesses it. In the conception of the church happiness is eternal, it is the gift of God and a force that propels man nearer to God; it cannot be enjoyed except the conscience of men are void of the consciousness of their unworthiness before God. A man is not really happy unless his soul is satisfied in an eternal fashion, unless he has the joy and peace that are the gift of God unto those who love Him and who keep His commandments as his innermost possession, unless his mind and heart are certi1 fied of his personal acceptability be fore God. s The church expresses righteous i_ and worthy pleasure in the terms of y the cftnservation of that which is t eternal, the promotion of that which . , is divine, the satisfaction of duty. J Any pleasure that does not augment 0 happiness is unworthy. That is to 3 say, that if our pleasures militate t against our growth in that which is a eternal and divine, if they dull our consciousness of the imperatives of j the Almighty that are law and life to the human soul, they are unright? eous. " Now, the Church measures amuse0 ments by these same standards. She e asks us what our amusements do to s afford us a larger vision of the etere nities, to increase our certainty of e the reality and of our self-possession of divinity, to draw us into correct relationships with God. By these standards we have a right to measure our amusements and by these judgments they must stand or fall. If they can meet these tests they may remain sieaaiasi ana tney win. 11 they cannot be justified by them or squared to them they will fall and they ought to. For life is short. Time advances. Opportunities come and go. There is much to be done. We must do it. We have little time to waste. Our efforts must tend, be they little or momentous, to the eni largement of humanity's comprehen sion of those things that are eternal and divine. If happiness lies in the achievement of these graces we have stipulated then we ought to be about I the Master's business. No country in the world needs the white light of publicity and philosophy and of uncommon sense to glare upon its amusements more than America. For we are amusement crazy. uur catcn-penny, unseiea, gaudy summer places of amusement are evidence of our amusement fever. Our theatres are jammed with people who want not to be compelled to think or to bs brought face to face with reproductions of real life in miniature. They go largely to btamused. Our amusements are almost wholly superficial. They minister to " the needs of the mind that is moe mentarily surfeited, to the jaded a spirit. They are strictly temporal, t They are very nearly always inexpressibly cheap and tawdry when we sift them to the bottom. They are unrelated to duty. For they are primarily intended to aid us to forget ' duty. Of our multitude of amusements ^ we shall consider four: the card 11 table, the dauce, the theatre, the e racetrack. And they arc taken for LI UUIIOlU^l ll IIWU, 11UI- UV^WUOv UllViJ U1 Vi ;. per se evil, but because they have s become perverted, because they are t | the means of entertainment for the mighty majority of our population, because there is wide difference of 0 opinion as to their morality and * propriety in the hands of Christian men and women or of anybody else 3 to-day and under present social cont dit?ns. a It is scarcely necessary for me to } say that a pack of cards in itself is not evil. It is far from my purpose to insinuate that either tiie dance, the theatre or the race is, under nvniinr rnM nnrr.j'i! rnurlifinnct tvinlr 3 eci. Thpy oconw so, however, when f men fon'.r i thnir-. It is far from my inte.uion to assert that theso forms of amusement are incapable ol proper use and that $be host of moral well-meaning Christian people whc indulge in them are m t perfectly sin 1 cere. I have seen cird games thai were harmless, and horse-races thai were above reproach, and theatrica performances that, with a little ref ormation, could have been immacu late, and dances in which it was per fectly safe for young men and womei to glide through the mazes of th< waltz. But on the other hand, I an painfully conscious that I becam< disgusted with cards because of th< profanity, the unbridled vulgarity the total incapacity for self-control the trickery, the dishonesty, of thos< who played the game. The question ableness of most of the performance! upon the American stage make i necessary for even a grown man wh( possesses any remnants of self-re spect to secure a theatrical Baedekei before he attempts to go to see ? show. I have seen so many pure gentle, lovely girls (not in dance halls, but at the dances of approvec and conventional society of the bes1 type) locked in the embraces of lech erous, villainous men whom thej would not allow within a yard oi them in the seclusion and privacy o' their own parlors, t.hat I have passec from wonder to disgust. Any on< who has ever taken a good, honest long look at the class of men who fre quent the racetracks of a metropoli tan district- will be convinced, if h( never was before, that the averag< of the devotees of the turf go to th< track least of all to see the "ponies run." If gambling was disallowed b] law at the tracks half the racing as sociations of the country would g< out of business. All these amusements are supplied In some measure by church people All of them have been so pervertec that they have become stumblinj blocks to human souls. For the] have led many a man over the brinl of wretchedness into the depths o: despair. And these men have'noi infrequently fallen into the meshes of iniquity because of the ostensibly harmless pastimes of Christian mei and women. As an obsession it is paltry for m< to say that they are wholly evil. Foi we are agreed that when they are al lowed to dominate a life they are o: the devil. The question is, sfiall th< Church sanction them or shall sh< ban them? Let us look them over one by one When did a game of cards ministei to the.enlargement of our conscious ness of that which is divine and eter nal? Or when did it increase oui sense of responsibility to the world 01 God? Or when did the theatre or th< dance or the race? Seachingly honestly! The truth is that the more we ar< aware of divinity and eternity, th< more exalted our conception of th< demands of conscience, the less w< need these things and have time foi them. We find cur happiness else where; we secure our pleasun through unquestionable channels We neither care nor need to b; amused. When I know that amuse ments are stultifying the spiritua efficiency of the people of God, whei "I see the flagrant perversions of th( amusements of the day that exist then I am persuaded that the father! were right to condemn these thing! with no uncertain sound. And I an further convinced that it is not onl] the duty of the Church to denounc< them, but also to transform ant purify them. I am certain that it i: our duty to divert the energies o the multitude from following theii cheap amusements to the service o: Aimigniy uoa. Learning How to Pray. Prayer is an art, a holy art, to b< acquired by diligent and persisted effort. "Lord, teach us how to pray,' is a petition that we may well anc frequently offer. "For we know no what we should pray for as. w< ought." Our vision is dulled by sin The weight of material things pressei us down to the earth and forbids ui to rise into the presence of God Right praying is thoughtful, rever ent, humble, sincere, persistent. I is a wise thing to study the prayeri of holy men of all ages, and espe cially wise to study devotional pass ages of the Book of books. So shal our souls be kindled by contact wit! other souls. The Better Part. The Christian is always thi "stronger man," because at the bot torn of human nature there are cer tain points that everyhonest, unsave< man must yield. He must admit tha "whosoever drinketh this water shal thirst again." Material things can not satisfy man. The famous buildei .of Pullman cars had a brother wh< was a minister, the Rev. James Pull man, D. D. The carbuilder wantet his brother to forsake the ministr; and get rich. But before the close o his life the millionaire visited hi: brother. "James," he said/"you havi chosen the better part."?Home Her aid. The Ideal is Attainable. It is ours to keep on trying to di God's will perfectly. Alone, we cer tainly never can. How far toward: the golden goal He will sweep on ou consecrated endeavors we may neve know. We cannot limit God. "A1 things are possible to him that be lieveth." The ideal is no mirage no tantalizing illusion, no fatuou "will-o'-the-wisp." It is attainable else it would not be an ideal at all God's Son once reached it. Some da: He may permit other sons to climl the sunlit heights.?Herbert N. Be vier. Every Day With God. He who never connects God wit' his daily life knows nothing of th< a1 mAfttllnrr on/1 f V* A ncac n uuai mcauiug auu iuu v life; nothing of the calm, strong pa tience with wbich ills may be en dured; of the gentle comfort whicl the Father's love can comfort; of th< blessed rest to be realized in His for giving love, His tender Fatherhood of the deep, peaceful sense of the in finite One ever near, a refuge and i strength.?Canon Farrar. We Shall Rcccivc Strength. It is a great deal easier to do tha which God eives us to do. no matte; how hard it is, than to face the re sponsibility of not doing it. We hav< abundant assurance that we shall re ceive all the strength we need to per form any duty God allots to us.?J R. Miller. He is Useless. The man whom God can only us* to kindle fires cannot understant why those who are strong enough fo: joists are not whittled up as he is. A Wrong Idea. Thorn are men of money who thinl they are lending their gold to tin Lord while the colleges are payin: them hack by degrees. -A T<" t Onr National Apple. Emerson calls the apple our "na' tional fruit" and it has good title to ^ the name both as a wilding and as a t tamed and chosen companion of man. 1 From north to south and irom east . to west it spreads its roots and rears - its trunk. The pioneer when he se lects his newly chosen home plants 1 seeds from the old home orchard i around the newly reared walls of his 5 cabin; the great landowner beautifies ' his acres and enhances their value , with rare and choice selections of , trees, and each tree has a family re3 ceipt for flavor which it implicitly fol" lows; each specie keeping inviolate * the virtue of the mixture. We can j imagine a gossipy Seek-no-further . trying to extract from a youthful r Spitzenberg the secret of its spicy i acid, but it would remain forever un. told. Each one gathers its own store of flavors and mixes them with un* varying skill and always with the same result.?Candace Wheeler, in r the Atlantic. f f The Hardy Cayuse. I Professor Parker probably had the } narrowest escape. He wa3 crossing ? a .swift chute of water above a canon. The Doctor, Printz and I had crossed safely, and the Professor was halfway across when his horse lost his footing and could not regain it. He 3 luckily drifted close to the bank and r was helped ashore Dy tjarriu, Dut ine " horse disappeared from view in the * canon. Three of us went around the , gorge to recover the pack if possible. To our surprise we found the cayuse j alive and not much the worse for his I swim. The pack was intact and a f 30.40 that I had pushed under the c ropes was in working order.?From ' "The Struggle Up Mount McKinley," ; by Belmore H. Browne; in The Out^ ing Magazine. 1 How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be r cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo^O. C We, the undersigned, have known F. J. 5 Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe j him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. ' Warding, Kiftnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act" ing directly upon the blood and mucuoussurP faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. p Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. i Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. ' , X-Rays and Pearls. 3 An interesting application of the 3 X-rays is for the detection of the pearl 3 inside the closed shell of the mollusk. 3 In a paper contributed to the [ "Comptes Rendus" of the Biological " Society, of Paris, R. Dubois gives an account of radiographs which he has ? made, showing a pearl inside a spe cies of pearl-bearing mussel. He 1 notes also that a similar radiograph 1 of a pearl inside a shell was made by } Auguste Lumiere and exhibited at j the Colonial Exhibition at Marseilles 3 in 190G.?London Globe. r A Startling Statement. "I had the good luck to be invited J to dine with|the King at Marlborough > House when I was in London in r June," said a Western millionaire, f "As I didn't know how to dress the part of a royal guest, I wrote to Lord Knollys, the King's secretary, and asked help. Lord Knollys said in .. his reply: 'As no ladies are to be I present, trousers may be worn.' * When I first read that sentence I 6aid 1 to myself: 'What kind of Neronic t revels go on at Marlborough tfouse, 3 any way?' Afterward, though, I learued that Lord Kuolly only meant that at mixed dinners knee breeches were worn at Mariborough House, at ^ stag ones the ordinary evening suit t sufficing."?Kansas City Star. ! A MISSOURI WOMAN I Tells a Story of Awful Suffering and 1 Wonderful Relief. Mrs. J. D. Johnson, of 603 West Hickman St., Columbia, Mo., says: 9 "Following an operation two years - ago, dropsy set in, and my left side was 1 /nu|m 50 swonen me aocior t said he would have to 1 tap out the 'water. W ^ ??8r There was constant P /igf f,ain and a gurgling 5 sensation around my 1 tiear^? anc* * could not ir ' WmIP raise my arm above f V'cVv mJ' head. The ki?*3 'c Dey action was disors dered and passages of the seqretions - too frequent. On the advice of my husband I began using Doau's Kidney Pills. Since using two boxes my trouble has not reappeared. This is 3 wonderful, after suffering two years." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. s Foster-Milburn (jo., Buffalo, N. Y. r f T^JKIAC irrl n?tt A race of men who have never be, fore seen a white man have been diss covcred in the Arctic region. They : will live to regret the incident.?Mex ican Herald./ j ? ?i Pimples : i on the Face j f 1 Those annoying and unsightly pimples that mar the beauty of face and complexion will soon 3 " H disappear with the use of warm I : water and that wonderful skin | beautifier, I i Glenn's t Sulphur Soap Sold by all druggists. , lllira flair and Vi'talsker Uje " g Black or Brown. GOc. Mil HIS01 DOCTOR 5 Sy I. HAMILTON ftYERS A. M? M. 0. - Thu fa a most Valuable Book for the Housebote, 11 * teaching as tt does the eaiily-dlstlnfjulshed Symp- I r toms of different Diseases the Causes and Means oi | Proventlng ?ueb Dlseanps, sntl the Simplest Rem- | edles which will alleviate or t-urn. 5!IS fas**#, Profusely Illuntrnted. WOc. postpaid. Send | p<isfai notes or postage stamps. ltOOK PL'S- 1 HOI.'SE, 134 I.eeuard Ht.. New Vorlt. PUTNAM ' Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any c C&a dye any garment wltbout ripping apart. Wrlto \ mil vimnnA A I UMUIft b Overwhelming Proof tha Vegetable Comp< One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the conquering of woman's dread enemy Tumor, The growth of a tumor is so insidious that frequently its presence is wholly unsuspected until it is well advanced. , So called "wandering pains" may come from its early stages or the presence of danger may be made manifest by excessive monthly periods accompanied by unusual pain, from " * "* * - ?V a nrl tne aoaomen mruu^u uic thigh. If you have mysterious pains, if there are indications of inflammation or displacements, secure a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs, right away and begin its use. The following letters should con vince every suffering woman of its virtue, and that it actually does conquer tumors. Mrs. May Fry, of 830 W. Colfax Ave , South Bend, Ind., writes : Dear Mrs. Plnkham :? "I take great pleasure in writing to thank you for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me. I also took the Blood Purifier in alternate doses with the Compound. Your medicine removed 3 cyst tumor of four years' growth, which three of the best physicians declared I had. They had said that only an operation could help me. I am 1 * ,-i-1 T A?kl 1 mroH u very cnauKiu* tuau * advice and took your medicine. It has made me a strong and well woman and I shall recommend it as long as I live." Mrs.*E. P. Hayes, of 26 RugglesSt., Boston, Mass., writes : Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? "I have been under different doctors' treatment for a long time without relief. They told me I had a fibroid tumor, my abdomen wax swollen and I suffered with great pain. I -wrote to you for advice, you replied and I followed your directions carefully and today I am a well women. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound expelled the tumor and strengthened my whole system." Mrs. Perry Byers, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, writes : ? Versatile. The governing board of an educational institution for colored people in Washington were not a little mys-1 tified as well as amused recently, when, in response to an advertisement inserted by them in the local papers, they received the following communication: "Gentlemen?I noticed your advertisement yesterday for a pianist and music teacher, either white or colored. Having been both for several years, I wish to offer my services." ?Harper's Weekly. Killed With Kindness. A Chauute woman tried to commit suicide, the other day because her husband wanted to send the family wash .to the laundry.?Kansas City Journal. ' FIFTEEN YEARS OF ECZEMA. Terrible Itchiii<? Prevented Sleep? Hands, Arms, and Legs Affected ?Cured in G Days by Cuticura. "I had eczema nearly fifteen years. The affected parts were my hands, arms and legs. They tvere the worst in the winter time and were always itchy, and I could not keep from scratching them. I had to beep both hands bandaged all the time, and at night I would have to scratch through the bandages as the itching was so severe, and at times I would have to tear everything off ray hands to scratch the skin. I could not rest or sleep. I had several physicians tre;:t me, but they could not give me a permanent cure, nor even could they 6top the itching. After using the Cuticura Soap, one box Cuticura Ointment and two bottles Cuticura Resolvent for about six days the itching had ceased, and now the sores have disappeared, and I never felt better in my life than I do now. Edward Worell, Band 30tb, U. S. Infantry, Fort. Crook, Nebraska." Niagara's Power. If the whole of the power of Niagara was utilized it would give three times the horsepower that is used in ruuniug all the blast furnaces in the United States.?Grit. W. L. DOUG $3.00 & $3.50 SHOES fi???SHOES FOR EVERY MEMBER 0 THE FAMILY. AT ALL PRICES o GT fSftfi (To any onow/tocan \Douglas doss not i tnPrniiwxo+rl ) more Men's $3 & $ ncWa"0 (than any other ma. THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are worn in all walks of life than any other make, is b> excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior woj The selection of the leathers and other materia of the-slioe, and every detail of the making is I the moat completeorganization of stiperinteiiden skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest wa; shoe industry, and whose workmanship cannot If I could take you into my large factories at B and suow you now careiuny ?? . l,. nuuci.n muc; would then understand why they hold their xh wear longer and are of er?;iter value than any ( My $4.00 and $5.OH GHt Ed go Shoo CAUTION! The genuine hare W. L. DoubIn No Substitute. Ask your dealer for W. L. I)( direct to factory. Shoes sent everywhere by inai HICKENS EA1N MONI If You Know How WHETHER you rais in Y011 Want SMST^ t( best results;' 1^^ J *3 by the experience of ft Jo all you need to know o by a man v ho made HEjSr^ h Poultry,^ ana in that ti andspentmuchmoney MT tc conduct the business IC ^ A ? 25c in postage stamps. Sftraa II and Cure Disease, how J ft also for Market, which 'If J F ing Purposes and in- JBl di you must know on the si Send postpaid on receipt of 25 c BOOK PUBI FADEL^ ithor dye. One 10c. package colors all fibers. They to: free bockiet-Uon to bye, BleacQ ami lUx CUor . .. 1 jiiis ONQUERED it Lydia E. Pinkham's / sJFp Dund Succeeds. Dear Mrs. Pinkham :? "I was told by my physician that I had a fibroid tumor and that I would have to be operated upon, I wrote to you for advice, which I followed carefnlly and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I am not only cured of the tumor but other female troubles and can do all my own work after eight years of suffering." Mrs. S. J. Barber, of Scott, N. Y. .v-'|j writes: ( . Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? "Sometime ago I wrote yon for advice about i tumor which the doctors thought would have be removed. Instead I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to-day am a well woman." % Mrs. M. M. Funk, VandergriA, Pa., . writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham :? ) "I had a tumor ant ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound removed it for me after two doctors had given me up. I was sick four years before I began to take the Compound. I now recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound far and near." , Such testimony as abo*e is convincing evidence that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 6tand* without a peer as a remedy for Tumor Growths as well as other distressing ills of women, and such symptoms as Bearing-down Sensations, Displace- r,J ments, Irregularities and Backache, etc. Women should remember that it is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that is curing so many women Don't forget to insist upon it when some druggist asks you to accept something else which he calls "just as good." . Mrs. PloKbam's Invitation to Women. ' Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Masq.,' for advice. She is the Mrs. Pinkham who has been advising sick ' women free of charge for more than.-twenty years, and before that she assisted her mother-in-law, Lydia E. Pink* A ham in advising. Thus she is especially fl well qualified to guide cick women Jr back to health. Milk as a Stone. Billiard balls, boxes for handkerchiefs, ink wells, combs, etc., are now made from skimmed milk. Milk stone or "galalitli," as it is called, is a combination of skimmed milk and formaline, and is made by a sim pie- process.?Technical World MagaMany New Foreign Papers. The Postoffice Department reports of newly established newspapers entered for second-class postage .rates show a surprising number of papers ? c Black opals of great beauty are found in Queensland, Australia, besides fifty-six other kinds of precious ?|| stones. N. Y.?39 r^/55* &; I Oli pays the teaman. fcRj Practically destroys ^ . Hi friction. Saves half the rl ' 'zsa jfcqj! wear that coines from V I jolting over rough iroads, Jr| . t3j. aQd lengthens the life ^ jl Pft of a heavy vehicle more ' ft ' ftu than any other one thing. SI' I II Ask the dealer for Mica 1 '"'-' iy J|| j STANDARD OIL JCOMPANY J ;| :r<'j > .*2^1 ijur apprcauccauip UU?k. opportunities for young men mechanically inclined, 16 to 18 years of age, to thoroughly ; learn ihe above trade*. For further information address Box 29, Providence, B.I. STATE AGE AK1) KAT10XAL1TY. 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