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i r.4 ■** r PAGI 6 BAHWm, MWTCTXL. BAUfWXLL, 8. 0. S£ THE MAKING OF A FAMOUS MEDICINE J How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Is Prepared For Woman's Use. A visit to the laboratory where this iccesaful remedy is made impresses even the casual looker-on with the reli- QvtiVrr<4 OusajvCk^ THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL DISEASES tory successful remedy is made impresses even the casual looker-or ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness which attends the making of this great medicine for Woman’s ills. Over 350,000 pounds of various herbs are used anually and all have to be S thered at the season of the year when eir natural juices and medicinal sub* stances are at their best. The most successful solvents are used to extract the medicinal properties from these herbs. Every utensfl and tank that comes is contact with the medicine Is sterilized and as a final precaution in cleanliness the medicine is pasteurized and sealed In sterile bottles. It is the wonderful combination of roots and herbs, together with the skiil and care used in its preparation which has made this famous medicine so successful in the treatment of female ills. The letters from women who have been restored to health by the use of Lydia EL Pinkham’s Vegetable Com* K und which we are continually pub* hing attest to its virtue: HOW TO GET RID ~ OF YOUR COLO The quick way it to use Dr. King’s New Discovery' D ON’T put off until tonight what you can do today. Step Into your druggist’s and buy a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery. Start taking It at once. By the time you reach home you’ll bo on the way to recovery. This standard family friend has been breaking colds, coughs, grippe attacks, and croup for more than fifty It’s used wherever sure-fire rel •pgreclajed. Children and grownups fty years, lief Is ce can use It—there Is no disagree able after-effect. Your druggist has it. 60c. and $1.20 bottles. *■ i Bowels Begging for Help Torpid liver pleading for assistance? How careless to neglect these things when Dr. Klng’a New Life Pills so promptly, to their i ingi - . “Hdlj. yet effectively come their relief 1 Living the system uncleaned, clog- red bowels unmoved, results In health- aestructlve after-effects. Let stlmu- !f.L ln *V».f. on l c * ln * act,on D*"* King’s New Life Pills bring you the happiness of regular, normal bowels and ilver func tioning. Keep feeling fit, doing the work of a man or woman who finds fellah In it. All druggls ts—25c. r'l Backache The intense pain from a lame back la quickly alleviated by a prompt application of Yager’s Lini* mmnt Sufferers from rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia,sprains, etc. should always keep a bottle of “Yager’s” handy as ita penetrative qualities quickly bring relief from pain. At all dealer*. Price 35 cents. The large bottle of Yager's Liniment con* tame twice ee much aa ae the usual 50c bottle of liniment. YAGER'S LINIMENT RELIEVES PAIN (© by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.; ;T was Christmas eve and “Weston” was alive with guyety. „ From every win dow In the old brick' house the mellow light of Innumer able candles glimmered out Into the night, and soft voices and llght-heurted laughter min gled with the vibrant notes of a violin us It soared above the deeper tones of the piano. In my secluded room the music reached me as I turned, the leaves of u yellow', time-stained book. My own name was written In tarnished letters iilion tli*. cover. The date was 17C5. One hundred years* before a girlish hand han traced the faded words, und I, the great-great-grandniece and namesake, glanced with tenderness at the little story therein written. It was a love story, sweet and whole some. The spelling and peculiar use of capital letters made It difficult to read, but 1 soon accustomed myself to the writing and my Interest grew with every word. “It Is u white Christmas, the first I have ever known, nnd l have slipped | away to look oncg more upon the won I derful outside world. For hours the 1 snow has been -coming .down In great flakes, covering the pansies, the crocus and the hyacinths blooming In the shel- : ter of the box.hedge. I am wearing ; a (Muster of heartsease, picked by—no I matter whom. Not even to you. my diary, who knows my dearest thoughts. , can I whisper the happiness that I* In my heart. But we picked them to gether under the hedge, as the snow was hiding them from sight, and Charles—dear me! I could not help It. He 86 fills m»v thoughts that I have thought for little else, and before me is his beautiful minintufv. Ids first gift. “ ’TIs a pretty fancy—giff giving and how proud I will be to wear his be fore dUrt world. Vet ’tis a strange custom, that all young maids must wear the miniature of their betrothed when they appear in public. I do not think maids more fickle than those charming gentlemen who swear eter- nul devotion upon their knees, but ’tis VZTT w vL.‘ No organs of th« human body are ao Important to health and long life as the kidneys. When they slow up and com- rtience to lag in their (fifties, look out! Manger is in sight. Find out what the trouble is—with out delay. Whenever you feel hervous, weak, dizzy, suffer from sleeplessness, or have pains in the back, wake up at once. Your kidneys need help. These are signs to warn you that your kidneys are not performing their functions properly. They are only half doing their work and are allowing impurities to accumulate and be converted into uric acid and other poisons, which are causing you distress and will de stroy you unless they are driven' from your system. - - / Get some GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules at once. They are an old, tried paeparation used all oVer tha world for centuries. They contain only old-fashioned, soothing; oils combined with strength-giving and system-cleans ing herbs, well known and used by phy sicians in their daily practice. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules are im ported direct from the laboratories in Holland. They are convenient to take, and will either give prompt relief or your money will be refunded. Ask for them at any drug store, but be sura to get the original imported GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no substitute!. In sealed packages. Three sizes. D« EVERY STABLE (of SPOHN'S DISTEMPER COMPOUND Is the one indispensable remedy for contagious and infec tious diseases among horses and mules. Its success as a preventive' and cure for DISTEMPER, PINK BST1B, COUGHS and COLDS for more thah twenty-five years is the highest tribute to .its merit as a medicine. It is en dorsed by the best horsemen and live stock men in Amer ica. Buy it of your druggist. • SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Goehrs, lad., U. S. A. A woman seldom laughs at a man’s jokes unless she has pretty teeth. Dr. Pesrr’s “Dead Shot” Is not a “losence” or “ayrap. * but a real' old-fashioned dose of medicine which cleans out Worms or Tape worm with a slnsle doss. Adv. You can doubtless mention a number of persons who took too much—In cluding yourself. New Terms. The toast at the breakfast table was rather dry, especially the piece little Joseph got. He surveyed It in con cern for g_4pinute and turned to the maid who was fixing his oatmeal “Milk it, Mary, milk it,” he com manded. -, Important to Mothera Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORLA. that famous old remery foT infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of ( In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria When "a~uuirr and a wivman have broken hearts the woman all the sympathy. hoth gets TONIGHT! Take "Cascarets” if sick. Bilious, Constipated. Enjoy life! Straighten up! Your system is filled with liver and bowel poison which keeps your skin sallow, your stomach upset, your head dull and aching. Your meals arg turning Into poison and you cannot feel right. Don’t,stay'bilious or constipated. Feel splendid always by taking Cascnrets occasionally. They act without grip ing or inconvenience. They never sick en you like Calomel. Salts. Oil .or nasty, harsh pills. They cost so little too—CaS- carets work while you sleep.—Adv. KEEP IT HANDY If you paid a specialist $25.00 for a prescription, you would not get any thing that would- give quicker relief for Croup, Catarrh, < Colds, or Sore Throat, than VACHER BALM, which only costs 25c In Jars, or tnbes. Write for Samples and Agent’s Prices. Beware of imitations. E. W. Vacher, Inc.. New Orleans, La.—Adv. VASSAR GIRLS DRESS DOLLS from me. I was happier for that little moment with him. alone, and when he left I gave my thm.,;hts to Christ inns finery. I feared Indeed ’twould nut he here in time, hut It came two days before the dance. I would not for all the world miss the Calverts’ dance. * * e “January 2d: 'I high and courtesled with the utmost , dignity, hut I could not altogether hide - Accident. In Everyday Life 1 am tired. disgraceful to he not wed before eight- tlred . but , oh r whaf p , enTOrp to rP . een, and when love comes all the world m em!>er j must know.* ’Tis .full young to be a wife, but Charles begs for an earty wedding day; yet I know not—still— perhaps-— « > • • • “Christmas day. The slaves awak ened us at daybreak, I heir soft voices ringing clear in the old. song* so dear to them, and. shivering. I ciWt from my warm lied into the clothe^ Mammy had ready for me. There was a roar ing fire in the dining room, and out side our people waited fov papa and for me. It is good to be loved as they love us, and ’twas u pleasure to see their black faces as my hand went into my reticule to pupa’s into has waist coat pocket. But none were so glad as old Uncle Phlll when he opened the Every day, every hour, filled with Joy. „I fear me I showed • too much my happiness, for cousin Elinor Carrol reprimanded me and told papa my spirits should be kept In check. Papa only langhed nnd pinched my cheek. Cross old thing! She look* as If she never had been young. “Such lovely thing* as pupa gave my pleasure. I fear he thought me but a foolish maid, yet when he kissed my hand he asked me for it souvenir, and gave in return for my faded rose the t;ihlH)n from his sword hilt. I “Charles did pretend hltneelf much tired, j angered and thought to quarrel with me; but ’takes two to make a quarrel, nnd I would none of it. Will I ever he so happy again? Farewell my beau tiful Christmas. Farewell! Farewell!” Though not generally known. It Is a fact thnt from two to three times as many fatal accidents occur in Ameri can homes, streets und mads each year as in the Industrie* of the coun- f fo b< .j u<ve fhnt college girl* are In- Students at Famous College Revive Old Custom for the Benefit of Neighborhood Children. People who have been brought tip I read no further. From out the pnsf a message reached a heart sick with longing, a hewrf. that had fillet! with happiness, thn-t had given place to a surging, jealous* rage. I had left try. As the death or Incapacitation of a skilled workman has the same effect on industry whether the acrl- dent occurs in the shops or out of them, the national safety council con- >»iders Itself almost as vitally Inter ested fn public safety as in Industrial accident prevention. We lost 50.150 men In the war,- and In the same j*e- rlod 126.000 person* through accident. —Scientific American. evltahly of masculine type might he Interested to know that the students at Vassar.college are at present In the midst of a doll-dressing contest. Nor Is this contest a new event at Vassar. Every year shortly before Thanksgiv ing OOO dolls are bought by the <T»r1»- flnn association and distributed among the sjintents to he dressed In time for Christmas for the children of the surmnndlng ncfgfilmrhood. At an me for the Christinas ball, besides my ! the ga.r crowd, unheedfaf of my lover’s pink brocade rhwt will stand alone. Charles t<\kf me I wn» charming when he saw me in if. but trnjy It was'my beautiful gown. I feif shy and un*- comfortahle wfth hf» miniature resting: upon my neck for nil to see. and T thought to die of shame at the free apoken words. Why rmrst such tilings explanation of that which needed no explanation. I myself had hung the mistletoe in a place so'tfiat none should miss so' charming an opportunity. Why. them, should I object to a hasty kiss given to another rfmn myself. Ashametf, I quickly pinwed n cluster of heartsease upon my breast: .We he. that maids - mu^r Mush and hang bad picked' them together from under | the cut timbers were slid was over a their heads for rliaf so near their rhe sheltering box hedge irs the snow ; mfle long, and the big sticks attained package, that had come all Ui* way; hearts? I knew anr where to hid** iny began to fall. I had cast them aside ' a tremendous velocity. One that from England for Mm. It was a fid- blushing fnce and sad confusion. But a* I entered my room. bir{ now they » “Jkrmped the track” on the way. shnt- dle. A beimHful, shining fiddle; that^ ’twas* a magnificent • bn I’l and all the -nestled in their rightful pi arcs over my j tered a 24-ln. bnk tree in its course, pat** had ordered after hearing him world was there. i li'fart. As F left the room to go hack i without material damage to itself.— play* on the long-necked gourd with i “The young people (fenced and I to'the crowd 1 below, and' trr the hnppi- I Popular Mechanics Magazine, horsehair strings that he had made, danced, but tftCinvUMnc- of my hep- j mms that waited there for me. I whis; | j appointed time the flails are nssetn- Logs S,et Afire by Friction. hied their respective owner?* and The ^ous spectacle of gmit logs nm . row for Inspection. The best-dressed doll Is selected nnd her owner rewarded with a prize. TTiis custom ’ has been observed at Vassar for many years. For the Inst two years, however, it has been omlt- tra. owing to the exigencies of war work. But now that flues* services are not needed the work has been taken up again with an nddod inter est nnd enthusiasm. set afire by friction of their rapid de scent in a long chirf« was witnessed recently In the mountains of Washing ton state. F»gs of exceptional length were needed for special water-front piling, and cauld he found only at a great height. The chute down which GILBERT BROS. * CO.. Baltimore, U* Cuticura Heals Itching Burning Skin Troubles All drotgiftn: Soap 25, Ointment S and SO. Talcum & Sample each tree of “battear*. Z. *o*»on." In very joy the old man danced a hoe- down, with the tears streaming down his wrinkled face. I thoughf-nnew he ■would hug papa, but Instead he caught bis hand and thanked him over a«d over again. He will play for us dance tonight. piness was bubbling:over when Colqfiel pered to myself: Washington did me rite honor to dance •“’Takes twu> tc to make a qwnrrel, nnd , I Safety First. A prominent manuf'id^urer said, the a minuet with me: T hefd my head i I * ill none of it.’ Clement C. Moore M4 fw 80 Tun. FOK HALAMA, CJILLS AN& FETEL AIm • rtM (kurtl StraLitafcUi TmU. At Ail Dnj Stwm, Why Pay More Bicycles. • •. $35.00 Tires •••••« 3.50 ' Writ# QUEEN CITY CYCLE CO. Charlotte, N. C. y .’ M v*hile the children all over the land “Such a day as It has been. I knew ar(j m . rupi(Ml wlth the gift* left them not ( had so many kinfolk. T felt *o h Santa C laus m«nv -New York chil- sofry for tha tired and hungry littr* | f ,' ren wI11 Kat , H . r n ,. pny » tribute to children that T took them into the up-! memory of the man wfto knew SiTn- j per hall, where Uncle Alec hnd m«#e| ta Claus best . Clement'( Tarke. Moor**. (1 a splendid tine, nnd they played hilrrd wfjo wrote ** * Tw «e the eight l»efore man’s huff and hunt the slipper- until Christmas” Is buried inTrinltv Churcii worn on) Then Jphnrlea told them the ( ^ met ery. at Rlvowide dri ve and 155tli drollest stories, lie. must have j street . and there the ch*Mren will go a mischievous boy. and he oertal*ir | on C { lfist , lins rooming t«* fay a wreath is good to look nt. Jack Rogers also upon )iis j, rave> helped amuse the children, and T dtaaht | Tlip nian who wrote the poem Hved^ home not he, too. Is full of old nick. j (JS a j )OV j n a fojg house :vt Ninth avenue * * * ! and Tw»»nty-second street in the days “December 26: There is something ; when Greenwich village seem^I far ror CROUP, COLDS, INFLUENZA A PNEUMONIA Mrttora ■boald keep » Ju«f Braine’t V»po- m-ciUi. *.!▼• ooDT.nl.ot- Wb#o Cnjpp, lnfla- UU or Pn®oiBJBhk thra»t*iu Ul» d«ll*htf*l it;,, robbed wall Into tbs throat. cbMt mod nnarr tb« tnM. will r*lt*r* th* ctrAlof.-bnafc oob«mUoo and proMOta reattal alaap. curma Urania DrafTa. !■ Wllhai had C<allege whille the Colonie* still a king. There^Tmie* Clement Clarfce-sMoore was bom on- July 15, 1TS!>. If was on*» of his, neighbors, ai resl-cheeked Dutch farmer's son, who ifcst told the iittfe hoy the' story of Saint Nicholas, wrtose name the Dutch children had sllortened he-Santa Claus. “So the littile boy. who find no broth- ens and sisters to play With, watched fiw Santa Claus every Christmas eve. ! He did not lose faith eve® when he j went to Chtumbia, an<V irv 1822, when i lire was married and living in' the old I witifc its wide fireplaces, he 1 wrote the' poem for liis own hoys nnd girls. The chifdren had a Christmas guest. other day, to one of fiTs workmen: 5 “Lf*nrn to keep your temper, my friend. ? Believe me, nobody else wants it.”— i Ladies 1 Home Journal. His Excuse. “I’m going »o striker* asserted the farm hand. “There’s too dod-busted much work around this place!” “But you seem to do very little of ft.” we' *evi*rely said, “so why shiwild you strike?” “It makes me tired to see anybody else—yaw-w-wn !—working,” he re plied.—Kansas City Star/ Nervous? Restless at Night? Ever Have Headaches? In the air that keeps us all \n*pTiver with Interest. The gentlemen are-grave nnd there i? talk of war. In one of the towns the people carried a black coffin through the streets to show the king they despised his commands about the stamp act. But we young folk still make merry. Yet my heart Is filled with fgar. What If there should be war, and Charles—! “I told him of my lack of courage, and he hut laughed and pinched my cheei and took me in his arm*, as If to ward off all danger and uuhappiness away from New York. The big square* the daughter of Dr.. RutMr. a minister house had been limit by his grand-; in Troy v and .she copied the poem father, an English army officer who. in her fll'luim. The next year she gave came over to help the Colonists in ; It to th***editor at the Troy Sentinel the French) ami Indian wars and stay-j «bd he printed it in his paper, ed to make his home in the N>w At first Dr. Muore was not pleased. World. ' X / He muued his Mg white fiou.se on top of a illII. Chelsea In memory-of the big army ’hospital IfT Loncloo. He left ,lt to his dangUtcr Charity, who married a young/minlster, ffterward Bishop Moor^. president of Columhia College, which was called King’s for-lie thought the poem was not very good, company f.u* his Greek and He- i>rew dictionary. He was professor of oriental languages ia a theological seminary. He lived to see Hie poem translated into all the languages of the world. He died In Newport in 1SG3. The Yule Log | love for , iVr.atnia* trees. The r houMP were heated by mean* of gnat tended by everybody, old and young. The ceremony «»f rolling It Into the fireplace (in Christmas eve was one fn former rtmee Englishmen tmxl -no ■«» *ummIhI and enjoyed hy every ineofher *»f the family/ If the log burned steadily all night on tfco hearth. t*d lurk was lh*Might to he predicted for the year to rutae; If It 32% Akokoi ISO Ms CUw taOh. EZIT Alatst lastaitly ... open fireplace*, and the bringing b* . of their sabot it ate. the YwlelMg- *M ; one of the the year. Every memhar of the family m the hew»M f A. *»• ^ . v l ;• U rn*m •oat. 1U lark was looked up* as lAevitahle. * that the Chris! hay dnte puliii at the time of th© winter 1 solstice. * The GrtH‘ks mil Christmas the “Fmst of I.igtirw.” nnd that'make* ru ihlnk of the custom” «*Y fiUf!!liff MUITV !J uo. the Chrisunas tree. Agee ami ages ago a faiauu* minstrel named Woifnn oang „f a custom of his day of going In the fhnsboMf of houses with green hranefues oraameatod with randies to Ma pNfia . . How about yodr daily cup of coffee? Suppose you try a change to * - V* ■ ’ Instant Postum • * This delightful cereal beverage possesses a fine coffee-like fla vor, but has none of the harm ful after-effects thru which coffee so often prevents vigor- - ous, red-blooded health. Costs left, too " " "Z ” Made by Canal Company, Battle Creek, Michigan / I