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. NecvafiMtorttr^Vatrialbottlo aad troatfaM^M Dr. K. tf. Kliitm. Ltd., 981 ArohBt.. Phi U..Fa. Qne hundred lire* were )o«t in mehing the Simplon tunnel. TWO QPENJ.ETTERS IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN Km. Mary Dlmmick of Wnnhington telle How Lydia B. Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound Made Her Well. It is with great pleasure we publish the following letters, as they convinc ingly prove the claim wc have so many times made in our columns that Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., is fully qualh fled to give helpful advice to sick women. Read Mrs. Dimmick'a letters. Her first letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— “ I have been a sufferer for the past eight years with a trouble which first originated from painful menstmatiou—the pains were excruciating, with inflammation and ulcera* tion of the womb. The doctor says I must have an operation or I cannot live. I do not want to submit to an operation if I can noarf- bly avoid it Please help me.”—Mrs. Mary Dlmmick, Washington, D. C. Her second letter j Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— “ You will remember my condition when I last wrote you, and that the doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I received your kind letter and followed your ml vice very carefully and am now entirely well. As my cose was so serious it seems a miracle that I am cured. 1 know that I owe not only my health but my life to Lydia E. I’jnkham’s Vegetable Compound and to your advice. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I wish every suffering woman would read this letter and realize what you can do for them.”—Mrs. Mary Dimtaick, 59th and East Capitol Streets, Washington, £>. C. How easy it was for Mrs. Dlmmick to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and how little it coat her—a two-cent stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply! As Mrs. Dlmmick says—it saved her lire. Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands of just such letters’ as the above, and offers ailing women helpful advice. India’s cigarette trade has Increas* Pd 90 per cent in four years. Why Do We Go to Bed at Night T Because the bed will not come to us, but pain in the bowels will, which can be re lieved by Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry Cordial, which cures all bowel troubles. Cures the children when teething. Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, etc. Hold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle. A full-grown elephant can carry three tons ou its back. Dse Allen’s Foot-Base. It Is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Peet,Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, apowder to bo shake^RUo the shoes. Cures while you walk. At Don’t Pheb. ' ncists and Shoe Stores, 25o. "Mtitute. Sample seat LeRoy, N.lf. L r l sins, but BILLY THE KID-A MAN ALL “BAD.” By Arthur Chapman. ^ lor children mr . ces Inflarmna- tnd ooUo,25c.abottle. bull-fighter has married Stress and retired. Plso’s Gurooaunot be too highly spekeno! ssa oough ouro.—J. W. O'Bbibm, 522 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan.O.liMJ, Kyrie Bellew says actors are born and not made. Has Million Butterflies. Walter Rothschild, Lord Roths child’ elder son, has in his enormoua museum, at Tring Park, England, says the Detroit Free Press, a collection of more than 1,000,000 butterflies, the biggest private collection In the world. Besides butterflies It contains stuffed specimens of a great number of rare animals and birds, including the great auk, with two eggs, valued at $1,700 each; a sable antelope and a Mongol ian wild horse. There are 160,000 spec imens of birds. The stories of extravagant prices paid by Rothschild for rare butterflies are commonly made up out of whole cloth. Nor was there, as reported, any special mission to arctic regions for rare fleas. Some whalers in the arctic circle were simply instructed to look out for certain seals, and Mrs. Roths child gave instructions that the skins were to be searched for any rare in sects. A New York journalist board ed the whaler on its return to Amer ica and the tale of the arctic flea went around the world. A COMFORTABLE COMPARISON. “Don’t you feel foolish peddling these nonsensical toys?’’ asked the man of severe ideals. "Yes,’’ answered the street fakir, “I feel rather foolish. But what do you think of the people who buy ’em?” —Washington Star. FEED YOU MONEY. Feed Your Bralu, and It Will Feed You Money and Fame. “Ever since boyhood I have been especially fond of meats, and I am con vinced I ate too rapidly, and failed to masticate my food properly. “The result was that I found myself, a few' years ago, afflicted with ailments of the stomach and kidneys, which in terfered seriously with my business. “At last I took the advice of friends and began to eat Grape-Nuts instead of the heavy meats, etc., that bad consti tuted my former diet. “I found that I was at once benefited by the change, that I was soon relieved from the heart-burn and the indigestion that used to follow my meals, that the pains in my back from my kidney af fection had ceased, showing that those organs bad been healed, and that my nerves, which used to be unsteady, and my brain, which was slow and lethargic from a heavy diet of meats and greasy foods, had, not in a moment, but grad ually, and none the less surely, beeu restored to normal efficiency. Now every nerve is steady and my brain and thinking faculties are quicker and more acute than for years past. “After my old style breakfasts I used to suffer during the forenoon from a feeling of weakness which hindered me seriously in nay work, but since I have begun to use Grape-Nuts food I can work till dinner time with qII ease and comfort.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Read the little book, “The Road to WcUrllle,” in each pkg. T is one of the anomalies of Western life that a pale, slender, high voiced light- haired, and altogether ef feminate Individual named William Antrim, some times called Billy Bonny, and gener ally known as Billy the Kid, should be the worst desperado In the history of the frontier. Yet, in considering the so-called “bad men” of the West, his name must stand forth as tire su perlative of badness. Some of the gun fighters of frontier days killed in self-defense, and others killed when they were in liquor or inflamed with anger—but Billy the Kid was the only white man who slew out of pure wan tonness. Three of his victims—Mexi cans they were—he bowled over “just to see them kick,” as lie laughingly explained afterward. If ho had a grudge against a man he never har bored It long, but simply confronted his victim and slew without making any explanation. Only sturdy John Chisholm bade defiance to Billy to the end of the desperado's red career, and only one man ever proved himself a quicker shot—Patrick A. Garrett, one of the nerviest sheriffs that ever served In the days when the Southwest needed nervy men In that office. Billy the Kid was only twenty-one years of age when he gasped out his life at the feet of his most implaca ble foe, and it was known that he had killed one man for every year of his existence. In early boyhood he was a New York street waif, from where he was sent to Silver City, New Mexico, where a stepfather volunteed to make him a worthy member of society. But at the mature age of fifteen, Billy qGarreled with his stepfather—one of the few quarrels in which the Kid's pistol did not speak the final word— and the youth left home, becoming a waiter in a hotel at Silver City. Soon Billy was convicted of stealing sup plies from the hotel larder, and clothes from a Chinese laundrymnn. He was put in Jail, the jailor little reck oned with the budding desperado it. his charge. Billy worked his slender form up througli the chimney and made his escape. It was not to be ills last successful jail break, for no des perado since the days of Jack 'Shep pard showed the Kid’s wonderful fac ulty of turning the devices of lock smith and the watchfulness of guards to naught. After his escape from the Silver City jail he began life anew as a blacksmith’s apprentice at Camp Apache. But one day he quarreled with the blacksmith. The apprentice shot the forge-master dead ami made his escape. Thereafter Billy’s ways were the ways of the desperado, for at last he had reached the proud dis tinction of having a price put on his head. At the time of Bill's first essay In supreme crime the Lincoln County cat tle war was making Southwestern New Mexico a delectable place for gentle men who cared not so much for clear conscieuces as for well notched gun > ” > ndles. This war was waged between fe Wert'S anft raltte iriwVim one side and the cattle owners on the other. A few bold cattlemen had entered the Pecos country with their herds, despite the fact that In doing so they were invading the haunts of men who had been driven out.of the more settled portions of the Territory by sheriff’s posses and vigilance commit tees. One Class determined to despoil the other class of Its herds and to drive it out of Lincoln County, and the other class determined to fight for its range. A guerrilla warfare went on for two years and upwards, and Emerson Hough, in his “The Story of the Cow boy,” estimates that two or three hun dred men on both sides lost their lives in the long jeries of assassinations. Chief among the stock owners was John Chisholm, whose brand was on thousands of range cattle. Billy worked for Chisholm a short time, hut soon he had his inevitable quarrel with his employer. It was over a question of wages, Billy claiming that Chisholm had not squared their ac count. Only the fact that Chisholm was surrounded by a guard of hard fighting cowboys, with reputations as “killers,” kept him from assassination when he and the young desperado parted. As it was Billy managed final ly to exact a terrible penalty from Chisholm. It was more than likely that the Kid swore his vendetta against Chisholm and other cattle own ers simply ns a matter of course In stead of a punctilious affair of prin ciple. Billy woul . naturally take sides with the rustlers who were making life miserable for honest men in Lin coln County. He soon became a leader of the desperate crew and was in the thick of many cf the deadly encounters that took place during the course of the “war.” It Is estimated that he put a round dozen cf notches on his gun handle during this fiercest of range feuds, every notch representing a human life. Two of his victims were a sheriff and his deputy, who had driven him and part of his gang into an adobe house. The name of Billy the Kid became such a terror in the Southwest that the people of Lincoln County cast about for the right sort of a man to literally camp ou the trail of this outlaw and rid the world of his presence. For thlj sole purpose Fat Garrett was elected. Garret* who is now Collector of Customs at El Faso, and who looks mildly bored when anyone mentions Billy the Kid, had earned a reputation as a man who ne - er wasted speeches or lead. Cool headed at all times, skilled in handling firearms, and thor oughly acquainted with the habits and haunts of the ruffians of tire Southwest the tall, easy-going Garrett was elect ed to try conclusions with the desper ado. It was n-'an enviable task this, to essay too overmatch a man who knew the desert as tire average mati nee idoi knows his Broadway, and whose “gameness” matched his fero city, but Garrett undertook the re sponsibility with, open eyes. He in vaded the territory of Billy the Kid and carried out his plans so cleverly that he succeeded in trapping the des perado. Organizing a posse of twenty-five de termined men, many of whom had lost friends at the hands of the Kid. Garrett set out after his man. Bob Ollinger. who was as brave, faithful and skilled a man as ever hunted a desperado in frontier days, and a dep uty named Stewart, were Garrett’s lieutenants. On the Kid’s side there was a resolute band, including Billy Wilson. Dave Rudebaugh and Tom Pickett, these three being almost as desperate criminals as their beardless i leader. Garrett’s posse divided in two hands, the larger, consisting of fifteen men, being headed by the sheriff and his two lieutenants. Garrett’s party succeeded in bringing the Kid, Billy Wilson, Tom Fickett and one other at bay in an old cabin at Stinking Springs. The outlaws fastened their horses near the cabin and fortified the place. Gar rett stationed his men about fifty yards from the cabin behind some natural rock fortifications, and at 3.110 o’clock in the afternoon the battle opened. A continuous fire was kept up on both sides. The posse kept well under cover and none of Garrett’s men was hurt, but one of the outlaws was killed by a bullet that penetrated the cabin door. About twilight, when their ammunition ran low, the outlaws made a break for liberty. The Kid stole out to where the horses stood, intending to lead them to the cabin where all could mount and ride away. He hesitated in getting the bunch ns far as the door, when one of the ani mals was killed, falling against the entrance in such a way that it was partially blocked. Billy once more took his stand with the besieged, but, when the posse began'to surround the house with the intention of firing it when it became dark, the outlaws con cluded to surrender. Dave Rudebaugh stepped oilt in the dusk and held up his hands, shouting as lie did so that lie surrendered. Billy Wilson and Fickett followed, and all were securely shackled hand and foot and taken to Las Vegas. When it became noised about Las Vegas that Billy the Kid was made captive, a mob was soon formed. Gar rett had anticipated n lynching, and had put his prisoners in a box car, over which he, Ollinger, Stewart and their little band stood guard. Three hundred Mexicans and whites swept down upon Garrett and his men, demanding the prisoners. The sight of the Kid, who shook his manacled hands at the crowd and hogged Garrett to “turn him loose with a brace of pistols,” inflamed the mob to fury. The train could not move for an hour, but during that long sixty minutes Garrett and his bold deputies, with weapons drawn, held the mob at bay. Could the crowd have laid hands on the outlaws, short work would have been made of them-, but every man iil the mob knew’ the temper of Fat Gar rett and the men at his back, ami the train finally pulled out with the des peradoes unscathed. The outlaws were duly tried, and Billy the Kid and Rudebaugh w’ere sentenced to be hanged, the latter for having murdered a jailer at Las Vegas the year before, in an attempt to rescue som6 imprisoned partners in crime. The judge, in pronouncing sentence on Billy the Kid, made it impressive by declaring severely: “And you are sentenced to be hanged by the neck until you are dead dead, dead!” Whereupon the boyish prisoner laughed in the Judge’s face and chant ed iu mockery: “And you cau go to h—1; h—1, h—1!” firr-nninmsMmt did lifre; tuit- fidence desert him. Thom^h shackled hand and foot and guarded, day and night, he was constantly on the watch for a chance to make his escape. When the. day of ins hanging was but two weeks distant, Billy saw tils chance. The redoubtable Ollinger, who was one of the Kid’s guards, was eating supper at a coffee house across the street. Another deputy, J. W. Bell, guarded the Kid while the desperado ate. In order to permit Billy to carry the food to his mouth, both handcuffs had been fastened to one wrist. Bell relaxed liis vigilance for one instant when within striking distance of his prisoner. Quick as thought Billy's manacled hand came down on the deputy’s head, stretching him out, half stunned. Snatching Bell’s pistol, Billy shot the deputy through the body, the man staggering to his feet, and lurching down the back stairs, where he fell dead In the yard. Olliogir heard the shot and rah across the street. As he entered the jail yard someone called his name. Just as the deputy looked up and saw' the Kid at a window’, Billy fired Ollinger’s own shotgun, which was heavily charged with buckshot. Ollinger fell dead, and Billy broke the weapon across the window sill, crying: “There; you won’t corral me with that any more.” Kicking open the door to an adjoin ing room where the weapons were kept, Billy gathered up six rifles and a num ber of revolvers. Then he forced the first person he met to break the shackles from Ids legs and bring up a horse. Taking a Winchester and four revolvers, Billy rendered the rest of the weapons useless and rode away. At the time of the Kid’s escape, Sheriff Garrett was at White Oaks. On his return to Lincoln he a* once took the trail in search of the man who had killed his faithful assistants. But in the meantime Billy's ever-rendy re volver was playing havoc on the bor ders of Lincoln County. Boon after bis escape from the Lincoln jail the Kid killed one William Matthews and a companion, whom he encountered in the desert. Such was the tribute of fear levied by the outlaw, that he was practically sure of securing food and shelter, no matter where he turned. Nor Avere people-likely to give out in formation concerning his whereabouts, for the reason that, if it ever came to the outlaw’s ears, it was equivalent to a dealh-AAtirrant. Now’ camping with sheep herders, now appearing at some round-up camp, and again walking boldly into some settlement, the Kid remained in Lincoln County for weeks, laughing at Garrett’s efforts to trace him. One day the Kid turned up at one of the Chisholm cow-camps. He had not forgotten his old feud with the cattle king of the Pecos. Three of the cow boys were at a fire, cooking supper, and twenty yards away Barrett How ell was hobbling a cow pony. Billy rode tip to Howell and asked him if he worked for John Chisholm. On being answered iu the affirmative, the Kid shot the cowboy through the head, at the same time crying, iu his high- nitched A’oice: “Well, there’s your pay.” Tire cowboys at the fire sprang to their feet, as they saw* their comrade fall, but Billy’s revolver spoke twice more and two of them fell dead. Then, covering the remaining cowboy with his revolver, Billy shrilled this mes sage: ‘ You tell John Chisholm he owes me money. I’ll credit him with five dol lars on the bill every time 1 kill one of his men. If 1 kill him the account is wiped out ” In July, 1881, after Bill at large some two months, S! rett heard that the Kid had iu the vicinity of Fort Sum companled by two deputies, G malned in the vicinity of Fort a week, but Information about the Kid was hard to get, In view of the bonds of terror in which the desperado held the entire community. One night, af ter vainly watching a suspected house until midnight, Garrett suggested that a call be made on Peter Maxwell, who lived iu one of the old buildings at the fort, and who was brave enough to tell Avhat he knew about the Kid’s whereabouts. Garrett stepped into Maxwell’s room to talk to him, while his deputies sat ou the porch In the bright New’ Mexican moonlight. Soon a man, clad in shirt and trousers, and carrying a knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, hurried toward the building, and as he stepped on the porch, cried: “Quien cs? Quien os?” (“Whois it?”) One of the deputies, having no idea that this could be Billy the Kid, told him to put up his guu and not be alarmed. At tbe same time he rose and walked toward Billy, but, lithe as a cat, the desperado leaped through the open doorway into Maxwell’s room. Something—probably the sixth sense said to be given to all hunted things— told Billy that all was not right in the room. Coining into the dark from the bright moonlight he could not make out objects distinctly, consequently he could not see Garrett sitting at tbe foot of tbe bed. Coming to the edge of the bed, and putting his hand on the coverlet within a few inches of Garrett, Billy asked Maxwell: “Say, Fete, who are those fellows out there?” Garrett recognized the voice^as that of Billy the Kid, and slipped his holster around so he could get at his revolver. At tiie same time Billy caught sight of the figure on the bed. Covering Gar rett with his revolver, he sprang back ward, crying: “Quien es?” The instant's pnustf was fatal to Billy the Kid, for, almost before the Spanish w’ords had dropped from the desper ado’s lips, Garrett’s revolver had spoken. The Kid fell to the floor, shot through the heart, his re\’ol\’er being discharged by his couvulsh’e movement as he fell. The qualities that caused Pat Garrett to be known as the coolest head in the Southwest were shown in this encoun ter. As he fired, Garrett leaned to the left, thinking that he could get Billy’s bullet in his right side, “That iA’ould give me a chance to get another shot at him,” explained the Sheriff grimly. As soon as the shots were beard the deputies outside called Garrett’s name, but again the presence of mind of the born gun fighter was manifested. Gar rett did not answer, thinking that per haps his gasping foe on the floor was not fatally Avounded, and that the sound of the Sheriff’s A’oice would give Billy the Kid a chance to get iu an effective shot. Could a Lombroso haA’e studied this mere boy, who seemed to haA’e been born with a tiger's blood thirst, no doubt science would baA r e received an interesting contribution. Without a spark of pity for bis numerous vietims, and with no fear of his enemies Iq his heart, Billy the Kid presented a peculiar phenomenon. His desire ,AA-as to kill, and It seemed to make ^'ittle difference to him whether he Wiled in the most cowardly manner or whether he boldly faced the weapons pf his enemies. Few J)eau» the K.Vi’s ever made a niore terrifying Accord Avith that universal weapon oif the frontier. Dying, as he bed lived, like a fivlkl beast, this beardless, soulless ybuth aa’Iio had about him. none of the attri butes that usually gain the Western desperado a certain sort of admiration, must remain Avholly the most unac countable figure iu frontier history.-* From Outing. A CINEMATOGRAPH MARTYR. Bound and Devoured by Kettl Lions iu the Arena. In a tall, glass roofed building, just outside Paris, high up on the top floor, where the light is good, a strange and interesting spectacle Avas witnessed to day. The building belongs to tbe firm of Fatbe Brothers, and the floor had been converted into a very good imitation of an arena where, for the benefit of the cinematograph operator, a “Chris tian captive” was to be torn to pieces to make “a Roman holiday.” In the corner of the arena an over turned chariot lay, Avhile the cardboard horses which Avbich had drawn it beat the air with their hoofs in an ineffec tual effort to recover their equilibrium. A dead warrior lay near by, and hel mets, swords and ether articles which had figured in the deadly fray were scattered over the ground. On the imperial tribune, Nero, Avith a silver Avreath encircling his broAv, sat among his favorites. When the opera tor was ready to begin, three barehead ed and barelegged slaves came on the scene, rolled away a chariot wheel, and carried out the dead Roman. Then Nero raised his hand, and immediately a procession of slaves and soldiers filed into the arena. —- The slaves Avere scantily attired and wore sandals. The soldiers Avere clad in chain armor, and Avere equipped Avith shields, leg-guards and helmets. In the centre walked a noble-looking Avhite “captiA’e,” and as the rear guard passed me I noticed a copy of the Matin sticking out of one <5T the soldier’s pockets. When the procession had passed once around the arena it drew up In front of the imperial tribune, and the slaves and the noble captives knelt before Nero, shouting, “We who arq about to die salute thee.” Then Iavo guards sprang forward, seized the captive, dragged him, resist ing, to the stake in the centre of t.ie arena, and securely bound him to it The cinematograph stopped clicking. The captive was released and re placed by a dummv figure to which AA'ere attnebed several pieces of meat freshly dipped in blood. Nero nodded once more, and Jul’.ano, a well-known lion tamer, clad l.ke a gladiator, entered the arena. He was quickly followed by four live lions, which roamed about tbe place in search of a victim. Suddenly one of them sigated tbe “Christian” bound to tbe stakfc. With a growl the beast rushed upon him and tore him limb from limb. All this time the cinematograph bad beeu working off its films, and ima very short space of time a realistic; repre sentation of the death of a Ct^ristinn in the arena had been securedi—Lon don Mail. i Artrentlnn’fl Land Area. Of the 720,000,000 acres of ing up the total area of Argeu COO.OOO are arable. The crops ar# corn, wheat and fla HISTORI2 CHIC<AMAUGA PARK ABLAZE WITH ILLUMINATION. ITnlted State* Srntein nf T.l*!itin«r ■Mili tary 1’o«t Pronnnnceit CJratirylneljr Sncoe*«fnl—Sir and One-TInlf Miles of Mains— Slrty-Five Street Ll;hre. Chickamauga Fark.Ga., May31.—The United States Government has here in operation one of the largest acety lene gas plants in the Avorid. The mil itary post at the ecFar.ce of the his torical Chickamauga oattlefield. whore thirty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were lost in the memorable battle of September 19 and 20. 18G3, contains about one hundred buildipgs. the se.venty-five principal ones of which are lighted Avith acetylene. To accom plish this six and one-hnif miles of mains and two miles of serA’ice pipes are in use. Avhile sixty-five street lamps brilliantly illuminate the avenues of the post. In 1903 the War Department in stalled a test acetylene plant at Fort Meyer. Virginia. The results Avere so gratifying and th»* superiority of the I'hrninant so evident that tli- Govern ment. March 20. 1901, placed Hie con tract for the Chickaniautra plant, in which c\'cry citizenof the United States should have his pro rata of pride. But the Gr.A’priiimnt has not confined its acceptance of acetylene to tins mili tary post. Since becoming satisfied of Hie efficiency, superiority and econom ical advantages of this particular il- luminant, the United Stans lias in stalled a number of plants in Indian schools and other Government insti tutions. Acetylene g.'.s is one of ihe simplest as AA'ell ns the most perfect of artificial lights. It is mad- by the contact of water and carbide ta manufactured product for sale at a nominal price), is absolutely safe and gives a beautiful Avliite light soo’hing to the eyes and nerves. It can be produced any where —in the farm home, the village store, the town hall, the church—and is so easily maintained as to be practical for all classes. It Is a matter for national congratu lation that in beautifying so historic a spot as Chickamauga, nothing but the best, including the lighting system, has been deemed good enough for the American people. It was long the boast of American mak. rs of harvesting machinery that they kept about five years ahead of foreign imitators in this manner, and were thus enabled to do business un der their very noses. A similar op portunity would be afforded if elec trical machinery were capable of fur ther development, provided, of course, that the principal competitors of the United States were to exhibit less ori ginality in invention. When the rest of the world has taken the meas ure of Japan in this matter, it avIH know better than it does now how much it has to fear COMPLETELY RESTORED. Mrs. F. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel, stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand Ave., Everett, Wash., says: “For fif teen years I suffered with terrible pain in my \bjick. I did not kno"' Avhat it Avas to enjoy a night’s rest and arose in the morn- liuj^ecling tired /and. unrerjfes’ned. Viy* ferine sometimes was simply indescribable. WHen I finished the first box of Doan’s Kid ney Fills I felt like a different woman. I ‘continued Tintil I had taken fiA’e boxes. Doan’s Kidney Pills act very effecti\’e- ly, very promptly, relieve the aching pains and all other annoying difficul ties.” Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. A man with lots of time on his hands has figured that $25,000,000 ia spent on cabs in London each year, ULCERS FORTHIRTY YEARS Fainriil Kruptions From Knees to Feet Seemed Incurable—Cuticura Finis Misery. Another of those remarkable cures by Cuticura, after doctors and all else bad failed, is testified to by Mr. M. C. Moss, of GainesA'ille, 'iexas, m the following letter: “For over thirty years I suffered from painful ulcers and an eruption from my knees to feet, and could find neither doc tors nor medicine to help me, until 1 used Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, Avhich cured me in six tuon'hs. They helped me the very first time i u=ed them, anti 1 am glad to Avrite this so that others suffering as i did may be saved from miseiy.” Cuba’s immigration last year was SO, * 1 * * * * * * ion. Three-fourths Avere Spaniards. FRKE TO OL’K HEADERS. Botanic Blood Bu!m for the Blood. If you suffer from ulcers, eczema, scrofula, Dlood poison, cancer, eating sores, itching skin, pimples, boils, bone pains, swellings, rheumatism, catarrh, or any blood or skin disease, we advise you to take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. Bi. Especially recommended for old, obstinate, deep-seated eases, cures where all else fails, heals eA’ery sore, makes the blood pure ami rich, gives the skin the rich glow of health. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, 3 bottles £2.50, 6 bottles £5.00, express prepaid. Sample sent free by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Medicine sent at once, pre paid. H.e Died in Several Ways. Records of the ancient city Geor- geans founded in 1C40, better known at the present time as York Harbor, Me., contain many quaint and unusual stories of the early life of tire town. At the entrance to York Harbor a bold promontory, knoAvn as Stage Neck, extends some distance into the sea, from Avhich formerly in stormy weather a temporary light, in the form of a lantern hoisted upon an up right pole, was displayed as a warn ing to mariners. One dark winter night a sloop avis wrecked on these rocks. A survivor, on being questioned about the catas trophe, said: “The vessel struck, turned over on her side, and the skipper relied over board.” The local Coroner was summoned and this somewhat startling verdict Avas returned: “We find that, the deceased fell from the masthead and was killed; he rolled overboard and was drowned; he floated ashore and froze to death, and the rats ate him up alive!”—Portland Advertiser. Japs as Colonizers. When Japan got the island of For mosa from China ten years ago it wa* one of the most savage and unpro gressive places on earth. Since the beginning of the year full forces have been working night and day on the Formosan Government Railway. It is a splendid job, which, when fintshed, will Include several miles of tunnelling and some long bridges. When the two divisions are joined the main line will extend from Killing, in the north, through the western por tion of the Island, to Takow in the south, a distance of about 250 miles, and will afford transportation facili ties between the principal ports and the developed sections of the island. The line is of forty-two-inch gauge and is being permanently laid with sixty-pound rails. An account of the branch-line “feeders” makes odd reading for Americans. These are small tramAvays, from three and one-half to fifteen miles In length, reaching out into the more important productive districts. Chi nese coolies push the cars on these tramways, and Avhile they are minia ture affairs, having a gauge of but nineteen and one-half inches and tho bodies of the cars being but four feet square, they meet the requirements. MISS MARIA DUCHARME. Every ivomanin America is Inter ested in This Young Girl’s Experience. •* o -J •* * y .* •. f . mUf P Ml m 7'iuOSlSZ .W WJsfWlSS J7WIA DUCHARME, \\ W “ ' ’ “ ■ Early Rising No Longer Wise? Prof. J. A. March, of Northwestern University expresses tho vieAv that such proAvrbs as “early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” are out of date in the 20th century. Formerly, he points out, when the problem of satis factory artificial lighting had hot been solved, the night did not lend itself readily to either Avork or recreation. “The scholars of former centuries must study by sunlight or not study at all. 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