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A WOMAN’S ORDEAL DREADS DOCTOR’S QUESTIONS ThooMkiida Write to MreJlnkhem, Lynn, M*-t and Beoalve Valuable Advloe ▲beolutely Oonfldentlal and Free There can be no more terrible ordeal to a delicate, sensitive, refined woman than to be obliged to answer certain questions in regard to her private ills, even when those questions are asked by her family physician, and many THE MOON OF ROSES Wondrous moon of roses— Moon of roses red— Watch o’er my lady Till night has lied. Tender moon of roses— Moon of rose* white— Uleant On her purely With thy pale ligut. Lovely moon of roses— Moon of roses red— Guide her through dreamland. Guard thou her bed. Blessed moon of roses— Moon of roses white— Whisper, “i love her,” All through the night. ^•Anne P. L. Field, in the Century. * THE MANKiLLER. •> "'ixLriTiriJTJxrijriJTJxriJxriJxruxiajxnxuTrLriii By David Buffum. continue to suffer rather than submit to examinations which so many physi cians propose in order to intelligently treat the disease ; and this Is the rea son why so many physicians fail to cure female disease. This is also the reason why thousands upon thousands of women are corre sponding with Mrs. Pinkhaxn, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can confide every detail of their illness, and from her great knowledge, obtained from S ears of experience in treating female Is, Mrs. Pinkham can advise women more wisely than the local phvsiclan. Bead how Mrs. Piukham helped Mra. T. C. Willadseu, of Manning, la. Sne writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— ' I can truly say that you have saved my ot < * life, and I cannot express my gratitude in words. Before I wrote to you telling you had female trouble and would daily have faint ing spells, backache, bearing-down pains, and lust What to do, and also commenced to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com] and I have been restored to perfect Had It not been for you I would have L have been In my grave to-day.” Mountains of proof establish the fact that no medicine in the world equals Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound for restoring women’s health. THEREIS MONEYS CORN STALL Write tor free catalog. I. A. Madden.Atlanta,Ga. ANCIENT LONDON CHURCH. All Hallows in the WaJI an Interesting Relic. All Hallows in the Wall la one of the London city churches which have a special Interest for the antiquary, because adjoining It Is a piece of the old wall of London. The church Itself, however Is not a thing of beauty or in terest. Dance, Jr., who built It In 1766-67, not having been exactly a great architect, says the London Graphic. The first church that stood on the Bite, its north wall probably resting, as the present one does, on the ancient wall -of the city, was built, it Is said, in the eighth century, the city wall be ing then 500 years old. Later the church, of course, became Gothic, and an old print shows it as a small build ing with two aisles and a low tower of timber. Old Stowe evidently thought little of it, for in his survey he merely mentions t-ho fact that the chlirch Is called "Allhallowes in the Wall of standing close to the Wall of the .Citie." After mentioning some monu ments of his own period, and the fact that the hounds of the parish contain no great extent of ground, and are "needless to be spoken of,” he ends his brief account by recording the fcttt that “Mr. Andrew Geneway, the parson, used him there very kindly.” The New View of London (1703) says that the church was of the Gothic and Tuscan orders, and “not having been consumed by the late fire, is not so beautiful as those that are wholly new erected.” The really interesting part of the church is Its vestry, which is formed of ono of the bastions of the wall, and from which a flight of stairs leads through the north wall of the church into the pulpit. Now there Is exposed a part of the Gothic church of All Hallow’s in the Wall w’hich is not mentioned by tho guide books, old or new, so far as the present writer is aware.- In New Broad street behind the church, that is to say, beyond its north side, a row of nine fine old eighteenth century houses Is being domolished to make way for new’ offices, and you can walk right through any of them and obtain a view of the north side of the church. There, In ruins, but of exceeding in terest and high picturesqueness, are some considerable remains of appar ently tho fourteenth century architec ture of All Hallows. An Anecdote. A writer in Harper’s Weekly tells an interesting anecdote of Charles J. Bonaparte, the new Secretary of the Nayy. It appears that during Mr. Bonaparte’s connection with tho Bal timore Reform League It was decided to Investigate the conduct of a prom inent Federal office holder. Friends of the crooked officer learned this, end resolved to "pack” the council, so that the report might be voted down. Mr. Bonaparte listened attentively to the arguments against the report and then rose to give his own views, bit terly attacking the officer, and urging that the changes be immediately ac cepted. Ho saw, however, that his words would have little effeot on that portion of the audience which sided wrlth the accused man, so when he had finished his discourse ho began over again, repeating his Speech word for word, pause for pause, gesture for ges ture—not once, but a dozen times, un til toward morning the friends of tho accused officer were fast asleep. Mr. Bonaparte and his associates then ap proved and adopted tho report. BABY’S INSTINCT - ~ Shows He Knew What Food to Stick To Forwarding a photo of a splendidly, landsome and health}' young boy, a inppy mother writes from an Ohio :owu: “The enclosed picture shows my 4- tear-old Grape-Nuts boy. “Since he was 2 years old he has eat- in nothing but Grape-Nut*. He de- nnnds and gets this food three times a lay. This may seem rather unusual, nit he does not care for anything else ifter he has eaten his Grape-Nuts, vhieh he uses with milk or cream, and hen he is through with his meal. Even in Thanksgiving Day he refused tur- cey and all the good things that make ip that groat dinner, and ate his dish »f Grape-Nuts and cream with the best esults and none of the evils that the ►ther foolish members of the family ixperienced. “He is never sick, has a beautiful I lomplexion. and is considered a very landsome boy. May the Postum Com- • >any prosper and long continue to fur- , ilsh their wholesome food.” Name jiven by Postum Co., Battle Creek, dick. There’s a reason. Read the little ►ook. “The Road to Wellville,’’ In very pkg. HERE was little wonder that Black Peter's disposl- 0 8 0 tion was bad, for his moth- M ^ or was a peevish, irritable, 'WOW' vicious mare. Sam Per kins, who owned -her, bought her cheap; she was only a mongrel, any how, and her Intolerable temper made her still less valuable. “But she'll do to raise a colt from,” observed Sam, a remark profoundly foolish/ but by no means original, as is evident to any horseman who lias wit nessed the occasional stock-breeding performances in those districts where few horses are raised. Peter’s father was a thoroughbred, and from him Peter inherited many noble qualities. There was not another j horse in all Perkins’ Neck who could I show such clean, flat limbs as Peter. ' or who could travel so far without j weariness, or who was so fearless of j objects along the roads. Noi^Jiad Peter I any bad habits in harness. But over j all this the bad disposition hung like a Cloud. It manifested itself in a thousand J surly looks and Impatient ways, and in I a disposition to hurt all people who | came near him. This inclination I seemed irresistible at times,' at others | held painfully in check. It was as If two spirits were struggling for the J mastery in the black horse. He bit or kicked every farm-hand, I until none would consent to take care I of him. Upon Sam, who was thus constrained to the disagreeable duty, he left so many marks that one day. in sheer exasperation, Sam tied tho horse to a tree, and with a nicely trimmed birch sapling gave him a thrashing, “He ain’t wuth his barn room an’ keep,” said Sam. This sentiment was echoed by every person on the farm except Ruth, Sam’s sixteeu-ycar-old daughter. For Ruth, alone of them all, understood, and when the others abused him she said, “Poor follow I’’ And did Peter never injure Ruth? Yes, once. On her white shoulder there Is still the mark of his teeth. But that was before he learned all the sympathy there was in that kind little heart. Life is no brighter for a surly horse than for a surly man or woman, ami when Ruth visited the stable, Peter would lay his cheek wearily against hers, and a sad look replaced the an gry glitter in his eyes, as if he were saying, “Oh, why am I In this wretch ed world at all—I who by every law of humanity and common sense ought never to have been bred, never to have been born!” One day—It was shortly after the thrashing—Sam essayed to enter Pe ter’s stall, although a peculiarly wicked look in the horse’s eyes might have warned him to take special cave. Out flew the iron-shod heels, and Sam received an injury to his thigh that kept him confined to the house for a week. It was thou decided that if any one was fool enough to buy him Peter should be sold. A customer soon appeared in the person of a Mg, red-headed Irishman, named Patrick Rafferty. “Sure, It’s mesilf can break any horse in the wurruld av his vices,” said Pat. On arriving home with his new pur chase, ho discovered promptly that he had some vices to break. For after leading Peter Into a stall and tying him, the Irishman found no way of getting out. If ho tried to come out as he went In, the horse was ready with a pair of very wicked heels; and If he climbed ignomJuiously forward through the manger, a strong set of teeth was in waiting to harass him. A dozen times did he back the horse out, kick him savagely In the belly with his cowhide boots, and then lead him back and renew the attempt, but to no purpose. Pat was puzzled as well as furiously angry. He bad “broken’’ a number of mongrels, but Peter was half-thorough bred—a very different thing. Pat had heard of the expediency of laying down n horse in a ease like this; in fact, had once seen it done, with excellent results. He resolved to try it. Bftt he proposed a few improve ments on the original method, which was too simple and humane to suit his ideas. Mike, his son, suggested the pro priety of repairing to the pasture, where the ground was soft, but Pat laughed him to scort'. “An’ make it nisy for him, is it?” lie bellowed, his face crimson with rage. “It’s here on the cobblestones I’ll throw him, for it ain’t for his pleasure I’m throwiu’ him!” With Mike’s assistance Peter’s off forefoot was now strapped up, a sur cingle buckled round him. and a piece of clothes-line run through it and fast ened to his near forefoot. A push sidewise, a jerk on the line, and the game was on. Peter leaped into the air like a tiger when he found his two fore legs tied up, so high, indeed, that Pat was con strained to let go the bridle-rein, but lie kept his hold on the clothes-line. Then down Peter cam? upon the cob blestone pavement, crushing his beau tifully formed knees nearly to the bqpe. Up once more, a wild spring into the air, and again the crushed and bleed ing knees were brought down with terrible force upon the pavement. This time Pat succeeded in catching the rein, and the horse went over on his side. “And now, Mike,” shrieked Pat, “hand me that cart-stake!” Of the heart-sickening punishment that followed I need only say that it is as cowardly to strike a horse when he is down as it is to strike a man when he is down. Moreover, had Pat been more of a horseman, he would have known that he had no hands to spare for wielding a club; both were needed to handle the rein and line. And noiv the horse did something which Pat had never experienced be fore—he roared: not an ordinary neigh, but a roar, such as horses rarely give, but which, when they do give it. is so awful as to strike terror into braver men than Pat. As Pat valued his life, this was the time to hold the line strongly; but be leaped back, dropping it in his excitement. Mike ran, terror- stricken to the house, and in a moment Peter was up! His off forefoot, it is tru’, was still strapped-up, but be could handle liirti- self on throe legs. TVith another roar he reared and struck fiercely at his tor mentor with his free forefoot. The. blow struck him fairly and squarely on the head—and Patrick’s career as ft horse-trainer was permanently closed Peter was now that most shunned and dreaded thing among horses—a mankiller. There Is little doubt that he realized fully what he had done, but if he had any thoughts on the sub ject they were probably those of satis faction. But he was too sore, too lame to think of much besides his own suffer ings. lie wandered aimlessly about the yard, and as his excitement grad ually left him, became desperately thirsty and longed greatly for some soft ground, where he might lie down. After a long time—for help had to be summoned from a neighboring farm—people came and removed Pat rick’s body; but except for “standing him off” with whips and clubs no one paid any attention to Peter. Two days later, Bridget, Pat’s wid ow. came into the yard. The horse being now too exhausted and lame to cause her any fear, she cut loose the strap that confined his forefoot, re moved the bridle and surcingle, nnd turned him into an adjoining pasture, where was a brook of running water. Here Peter ran for many weeks, and fully recovered from his injuries, although the ugly scars on his knees of oonrse remained, as well as some of tho marks left by the cart-stake. On the side of the pasture next the highway was a white board, bearing the notice, “For sale, sound young horse, warranted kind In harness.” People looked at the s’gn and smiled derisively ns they drove by. From time to time, however, the more curious stopped nnd looked over the fence. It was not every day one could see a real mnnkiller. But they always gave the horse a wide berth. At last, one day, came Ruth; and Peter, although with some hesitation, walked slowly up to the fence where she stood. Ruth had not intended to speak to him or caress him—this inankiliing was too horrible—but when she saw his broken knees and, all over bis body, the scars left by the heavy cart-stake, she relented. “Poor Peter!” shg said. “Poor, poor fellow!” Then Ruth fell to musing on the pos sibilities for good and evil that’often exist In the same individual, and the kind of discipline needed to hold the evil Impulses in cheek. “Whatever the right discipline is, Pe ter has never had it,” she said. She was a wise little horsewoman, was Ruth. But a purchaser had been found for Peter before, end a purchaser was again forthcoming. This time It was Hobbs, wbo ran tbe coal and wood yard in the village, and he wanted the horse to put In his tread-power. He had always used cheap horses for this purpose, and here was a chance to ob tain for a small sum a good young horse, who would last for a long time. Peter gave a snort of relief when he was taken from the lonely pasture, where for many weeks he had had neither equine nor human companion ship. Use was far better than this enforced Isolation. He looked almost pleasant r.s Hobbs put on his halter and led him out of the field, and he trotted along behind the buggy with bis head up, bis thin nostrils distended and his warm blood leaping In bis veins. Half way to the village Hobbs met Ruth. He halted to tell her of bis pur chase and the use to which he intend ed to put the horse. Ruth looked aghast. “Peter in a tread-power? Why, lie’s half thor oughbred!” she exclaimed. “So much the more reason why he’ll stand up to that hard work,” said Hobbs. “I ain’t much of a hossman, but accordin’ to wbat I’m told, thor oughbreds don’t quit.” “No, and I’ll guarantee Peter not to quit,” said Ruth, with a little ring of pride In her voice, “but that kind of work is too far removed from what nature intended him for. It’ll break his heart.” Hobbs shrugged his shoulders. “Maybe,” be said. “But if be does bis work I ain’t frettin’ about bis heart.” And he drove on. Peter bad a good supper and a fine bed that night, for Hobbs, although he worked his horses hard, fed and stabled them well. In the morning Peter was led out to the tread-power, and it was evident to him that he was expected to enter It. It was a strange-looking thing, but Peter had never yet shown fear. He entered it at once, and stood perfectly still while the cross-bar was put across behind him and his head tied firmly down, so that he could not jump out. Then the brake was taken off and the floor began to slide backward under him. Peter gave a spring forward, but, fast as bo went, <he floor moved back ward with equal speed. He was for ever going up a very short hill, but never reaching the top. Nothing could possibly be more discouraging or more destructive to a horse's ambition. At last he gave up the struggle and settled down to a nervous, quick stride, a half-wild and hunted expression in his eyes. All the forenoon he climbed that interminable hill; then, .after an hour’s rest, he was again put in, and climbed till night. In a week he was a greatly changed horse. It was not the severity of his work, hard as it was, that done it, for those deep lungs of his, that short, strong back and those clean, flat, sinewy limbs would have carried him tri umphantly through still harder tasks. It was the absolute hopelessness of it. the traveling for ever and never get ting anywhere, the ignominy, the shame, the mockery of the whole thing. But although the horse showed less disposition -than formerly to bite and kick, his subjection bad not been of the right kind, and his mind did not run in a healthy, normal chancel. As the phrase aptly expresses it, his heart was broken. For three months Peter worked in the tread-power and no horse hal ever stood the work so well before. But he was no longer a horse; he was a ma chine, an automaton, a part of the mechanism he was running. Then Hobbs was taken sick, and af ter a short Illness, died, and soon af terward all of his effects. Including Peter, were advertised to be sold at auction. Peter stood listlessly in the yard on the day of the sale, and his dull eyes looked over the assembled throng with out any sign of Interest. Np one would bid much for tbe mankiller, and it made little difference to him now who owned him. * But suddenly his eyes grew a shade brighter, and he gave a faint whinny,' for over in the corner of the yard he saw Ruth. She came up to him and took his head between her two little bauds. “I haven’t much money, Peter,” she said, making sure he understood her, “but you won’t bring much, poor fel low, and I'm going to buy you if I can.” And if you had watched closely you might have seen in Peter’s eyes a trace—Just a trace, mind you, for he had little feeliug left—of the sad, sym pathy-craving expression with which he used to lay his cheek against hers in the old days at Sam Perkins’ farm. Meanwhile the sale was going on, and at last came the time for putting up the horses. Presently came the turn of “Black Peter, half-thoroughbred, seven years old, sound and with no blemish except scars on his knees and body.” He was sold to Ruth Perkins for the sum of sixteen dollars nnd twenty-five cents. Ruth took the halter-rope herself and led the horse home. She was not afraid of him, and both she and he knew that she had no reason to be. There is but iffle more to tell. Ruth still keeps Peter for her riding nnd driving hors?. Under her treatment his temper has so far improved that, although it frequently shows Itself, he is no longer dangerous. I wish that I could conclude by say ing that his old spirit and ambition had returned, but that Is not to be. Break ft horse’s heart, and his am bition is gono forever. Peter does cheerfully whatever his little mis tress requires of him, nnd he is as sound as ever in wind and limb; but lie no longer looks eagerly for the further end of a long road or exhibits that keen satisfaction in surmounting ob stacles that was once a part of his nature. “There is no help for it now,” says little Ruth, as she rubs down his glossy black coat. “It is too late, and I’m glad that he is at least as happy as a horse of his temperament could be, nnd that he Is being treated properly at last. But the saddest part of It all to mo is that the dreadful experiences he went through were unnecessary, nnd that bis whole career, up to the time I bought him, was a chapter of human mistakes and wrongs.”— Youth’s Companion. ANCIENT WAR SHIPS. V/hat Ho Meant Mr. Griggsfleld was a man who meant well, but was unfortunately ad dicted to the habit of saying the wrong thing at all times and In all cir cumstances. An acquaintance of his had suffered severe injuries in a rail way wreck, Including a broken nose, the loss of three or four teeth, and a gash across one of his cheeks; but his hurts were not serious, and he was scon on the street again, some what disfigured, but In good working order. One of the first men to greet him after his recovery was Mr. Griggs- fi.eld, who graspel him cordially by *be hand and exclaimed: “Hello, Williams! I understand you have been pretty badly hurt. I am glad to see you so much im proved.” Later, when he reflected upon It, he understood why Mr. Williams re sponded to this greeting with such a queer smile.—Youth’s Companion. He Was Done, But Wouldn’t Stop. Chaplain Horton, of the Massachu setts Legislature, told a story about I a long winded member of that body. The legislator was delivering an ad- | dress in a town not far from Boston, and the village folk gathered in the Town Hall to hear it. “He had been speaking quite a while,” said Dr. Horton, “when final ly an old Schotchman arose and walk ed out of the hall. At the door one of his countrymen was waiting with his hack to drive the orator to the station. “ ‘Is he done yet, Sandy?’ asked tho Scot on the box. “The old man turned about. “ ’Ay,’ said he, ‘he’s done lang ago, but he will na stop.’ ”—Hartford Times. Larjjc Vessels of the Egyptians, Phoeni cians and Greeks. The inventions of the Alexandrian age were both numerous and varied. Under the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt ships were built of lengths varying from 312 to 420 feet, the latter carry ing 4000 rowers, 400 sailors and 2850 soldiers, altogether more than 7000 per sons in oue vessel. Demosthenes men tions a merchant ship which, besides the cargo, slaves and crew, carried more than 300 freemen as passengers (Boaekt, GO). Archimedes built a skip for Hiero, of Syracuse, which was pro- vided with dining rooms, galleries, gardens, fish ponds, stables, mills, baths, eight large towers and an engine for hurling stones of 300 pounds weight and spears thirty-six feet long. Its decks were Inlaid with scenes from the Iliad, and it contained a temple of Ve nus and other wonders. Although this huge vessel may have been more use ful as a pleasure boat than a man-of- war, yet the Greeks of this age con structed fighting ships of scarcely less gigantic dimensions. Not only this, but they accomplished in them the most distant voyages. That of Pytheas to the Baltic has been already men tioned. They also sent ships to the In dies, and several around the Cape of Good Hope, which, nfter having made the voyage from the coast of Spain, were found wrecked on the shores of Arabia. Eudoxus also made tho same voyage, though in the opposite direc tion. However, this feat had already been performed by the Phoenicians un der Pharaoh Neeho, 611-605 B. C., and by the Carthaginians under Hanno. The art of sailing on a bowline, or against the wind,” if not also antici pated by the Phoenicians, belongs to the Alexandrian age. The invention of an inclosed basin or dock, for ships. Is also of the same age. Philon con structed one at Athens, which har bored 1000 ships. The Maritime Code and the Colossus of Rhodes were of the same age.—Seientifie American. Too Cordial. King Oscar of Sweden had a curious experience a short, time ago, while visiting ono of the principal towns In the south of his kingdom. The town was brightly decorated through out, but the best-decorated house was a largo building, and outside it was hanging in largo letters, "Welcome, Your Majesty!” “What house is that?” asked the king, of an attendant. “The (own prison, your Majesty.” “I appreciate their loyalty,” he said, “but really it Is a little too cordial!” Penny Pictorial. His Strenuous Finish. “Yes,” said the sad-faced young man in the smoking car, “I’m out of baseball for keeps. Why, in my first game this season they got onto me In the third inning and pounded me all over the field.” “Oh, you shouldn’t let a little thing like that discourage you," replied the hardware drummer. “Many a good pitcher has been tip against similar luck.” “Yes,” continued the victim, "but, you see, I wasn’t the pitcher; 1 hap pened to be the umpire.”—Chicagc Daily News. FITSpermanently cured. No fits or nervous* ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Groat NerveIlestorer,f2'trlaI bottleand treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd.,931 Arch Bt., Phlla., Pa. Caruso, the celebrated Italian tenor, is the son of a Naples engineer. d Fiso’s Cure Is the host medicine weaver used lor all affections of throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Excslet, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The State Forester of Massachusetts urges the study of forestry. Chalcedony. With the rage for semi-precioue stones the beautiful chalcedony be comes of unusual interest. It is imi tated in various ways. One of the last vases to be added to the collec tion of favrile glass in Memorial Hall is in Mood, red shadings of chalcedony. Chalcedony, by tbe way, is an v.n- crystallized, translucent variety of quartz. It is usually of a white color. It has a lustre quite like wax. Chalcedony of different colors, ar ranged in stripes or layers, is called agate. If the stripes in chalcedony be all horizontal it is known as onyx. The exquisite and much admired ehrysophrase is but green chalcedony. That splendid, tiesh-red shade of dial- cedony knowy as earneliau. Sard is the grayish red variety cf this many-colored stone. It takes its name from Chalccdon, a town in Asia Minor opposite Byzan tium. The mineral has been famous for its beauty for ages. In Revelation it is set down as the stone which adorns the third foundation of the walls cf the New Jerusalem.—Philadelphia Rec ord. ITanl to Play On. The experiences cf George B. Ccr- telyou, chairman of the Republican National Committee, during the recent campaign were many and varied. With keen relish he tells of one that came under his notice. A country club about to give a par ade was debating as to the number of transparencies to be had in line. It was about settled that twelve would be the proper number, when an old fellow with his trousers tucked in his boots arose and said: “I guess two will be about right. ’Tain’t at all likely more’n two wil! know how to play on ’em.”—Success Magazine. Crisp Dehaltlong. It is the boys who furnish the crisp definitions: “Irony is small articles made out of iron.” “Antieiimax is a brand of chewing tobacco.” “Facile, a litt’? face.” “An autograph is a money- grabbing scheme s t on foot by one ma i.” “Antifat and antitoxin are those new, cheap breakfa ;t foods.” “A bliz- zarl is something inside of a hen.” “O'W ancestors are cur back relations.” “A'i octagon is an eight-sided devil fish.” Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, soften tho gums.reduces inflamma tion,allays paln.oureswind colic, 25c.abottlo, A brochure is a small book, stitched, not bound. ■ » Is It Ktglit? Is it right for you to lose $4.20 that a dealer may make 50 cents more by selling fourteen gallons of ready-for-use paint, at $1.30 per gallon, than our agent will make by selling you eight gallons ot L. & M., and six gallons of linseeu oil, which make four teen gallons of a better paint, at $1.20 per gallon? Is it right? Sold everywhere and by Longman & Martinez, New York. Paint Makers for Fifty Y’cars. “By-law” owes the first part of itself to the word “bye.” For Instant Itollef and Fpeedy Cnre of Kaw aixt Sculy Humor. Itching Day and Night—Suffered For Months. “I wish you would publish this letter so that others suffering as I have may be helped. For months awful sores covered my face and neck, scabs forming, itching terribly day and night, breaking open, and running blood and matter. 1 had tried many remedies, but was growing worse, when I started with Cuticura. The first application gave me instant relief, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, 1 was completely cured. (Signed) Miss Nel lie Vander Wiele, Lakeside, N. Y .” FEMININE SUBSTITUTE. Myer—I wonder why young De Bullyon does not marry? He has all kinds of money. Gyer—Oh, I suppose he thinks a wife isn’t necessary. Money talks, you know.—Chicago Dally News. TWENTY YEARS OF IT. FEAR FOR NIAGARA IMMENSE VOLUME OF WATER OU VERTED FROM FALLS. GRATEFUL TO CUTICURA Coinmerclat KnterprHes Are Making Heavy Drain* on'Thl* Famoa* £h >w- 1’lace—It* Tremendous Electrical Fow cr thu Inducement. Niagara Falls, August 7.—The vol ume of water being diverted from tbe historic Niagara Falls is reaching such proportions that the people of the State are trying to pass laws which will pre vent the possibility of a practical wip ing out of this sublime natural spec tacle. Water sufficient to develop nearly five hundred thousand horse-power continuously, twenty-four hours per day, for Industrial purposes, is now be ing taken from tbe river above the Falls, and further developments re quiring more water are contemplated. Probably tbe largest user of tbe elec tricity produced by tbe waters of tbe mighty river is the concern which by the five or six thousand degree heat of the electric furnace brings lime nnd coke into unwilling union, thereby pro- ducUig what is known as Calcium Car- bide. Dry calcium carbide is lifeless as so much broken rock, but in contact with water it springs into activity and be gets abundantly tbe gas Acetylene. Tbe light resulting from tbe ignition of acetylene Is the nearest approach to sunlight known. ’Phese facts, though of comparatively recent discovery, were soon seized by men with an eye to the commercial possibilities and to-day calcium carbide is being shipped everywhere and used for dispelling darkness in buildings of nil descriptions, from tbe ordinary barn of the farmer to the country villa of the wealthy, ns well ns for lighting the streets of a large number of towns. Acetylene can be easily and cheaply Installed, and the manufacture and sale of acetylene generators has become a business of recognized standing, has assumed large proportions and Is stead ily growing. STANDARD OIL PIPE LINES. The Cost of Building and Operating 40,000 Miles of Its Carrying System. Detailed information as to the cost of building and operatnlg pipe lines Is not now available, and no official figures have ever been published show ing the total mileage of existing pipe lines—because it Is the settled policy of the Standard to keep these facta securely locked against public scrut iny. But the Investigation of 1899 de veloped two very significant admis sions. In that year Mr, Rockefeller stated, under oath, that “to perfect tho pipe line system transportation re quired in the neighborhood of $50,000,- 00 of capital.” In the two years 1m- tnedlately following—1900 and 1901— the cash dividends declared and paid by the Standard Oil Company amount ed to $96,000,000—nearly double the sum needed to "perfect” the entire pipe line system then in use, and with in $4,000,000 of the entire capital of the company, which is $100,000,000. That- clearly demonstrates the low cost of pipe line construction, as re lated to tho enormous profits of tho Industry. In the same year, 1899, Henry H. Rogers testified as to, the existing mileage of the Standard pipe lines: “We probably have 35,000 miles or more scattered all over the country.” Since that time many additions and extensions have been laid In every oil field in the United States; the oil regions of Kansas and Indian Terri tory have been largely developed, and a trunk line is building from the Kan sas fields to Chicago. Thus we are entirely safe in assuming that fully 40,000 miles of pipe line are now em braced In the Standard oil system. This means simply that the Stand ard Oil Company is now in complete, arbitrary and exclusive control of more miles of transportation facilities than three of the greatest railroad systems of the world! Here are the official figures, as reported in 1904: Track Ry. systems Employes mileage Pennsylvania 160,706 19,720 New York Central... 45,842 7,158 Baltimore and Ohio.. 45,000 7,359 Cmaclated by Diabetes; Tortured With Gravel and Kidney 1’nlns. Henry Soule, cobbler, of Hammonds- port, N. Y\, says: ‘Since Doan’s Kid ney Pills cured me eight years ago, I’ve reached sev enty and hope to live many years longer. But twenty years ago 1 had kidney trouble so bad I could not work. Backache was persistent and it was agony to lift anything. Gravel, whirling headaches, dizziness and ter rible urinary disorders ran me down from 168 to l OO pounds. Doctors told me I bad diabetes and could not live. I was wretched and hopeless when 1 began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, but they cured me eight ye-ars ago and I’ve been well ever since.” Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents per box. Grand totals 251,548 34,237 But oil Is cheap, you say? Y r es; much cheaper than it used to be, be cause of the enormous increase in production—but not nearly so cheap as it would be under free and fair com petition. The Cruel “Range.” There would appear to be no sea son of the year In which calamity in s/me form does not lie in wait for cattle left to shift for themselves on the great plains. In winter they slow ly perish from long-continued cold anj lack of food. In the spring storrr.< de stray the young and the less enduring of the older stock. Later they perish from summer and autumnal droughts. The Indications are that the range steer Is going out of existence In a similarly perverse way. With him goes the cowboy, the most picturesque figure of an immature Western civil izatlon. He gives us some fine types Did not Roosevelt himself develop from a cowboy? But even Roosevelt today condemn! the range system, with its wastefu use of land and its necessary monop olles, as well as its cruelties. So ii will not be long ere the spectacle o: cattle perishing in thousands as th« result of a heartless system will hav< become a thing of the past. Th( r ‘Western stockman” will have to be come a farmer.—St. Paul Pioneei Press. M M jES&. ■m m m m ^ ^ ^ YOU CAN LIVE IN A. SWAMP AND STILL BE WELL Chilli and Fevers will have no terrors lor you if you use OXIDINE Made in Regular and Tasteless Formi. For sale by all Druggists. M’f’d by ^A'XTTTO**-WORSM.n.IVt DRUG CO., ;k 50 Cents Dallas, Texas axu YlEiirms, Tkxkessek. m m m m Truths that Strike Home Your grocer is honest anil—if he cares to do so—enn tell you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he sells you. How can he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended—or With What —or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality ? LION COFFEE, the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, Is o* necessity uniform In quality, strength and llavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE has been the standard coliee In millions of homes. O LION COFFEE Is carefully packed ■t our factories, and until opened In your home, has no chance of being adul terated, or of coming In contact with dust, dirt, fierms. or unclean hands. In each package of LION COFFEE you get one full pound of Pure Coffee. Insist upon getting the genuine. (Lion head on every package.) ("Save the Lion-heads for valuable premiums.) SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Chin. WINCHESTER RIFLE AND PISTOL CARTRIDGES Winchester Rifle and Pistol Cartridges of all calibers are loaded by machinery which sizes the shells, supplies the exact quantity of powder, and seats the bullets properly. By using first-class materials and this up-to-date system of loading, the reputation of Win chester Cartridges for accuracy, reliability and excellence is maintained. Ask for them. __ THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD A Brittany Wedding Feast. Mile. Anne Mario Guynamant, daughter of the Mayor of Serignac, has been married to M. Blanchard, a solicitor’s clerk, at Poullaouen, ac cording to the rites of their native Brittany. Over one thousand guests were bidden to the rejoicings. They sat down to the feast in a field be longing to the bride’s father. Tables had been built in a simple way by digging trenches. The diners sat on one edge of the ditches and the meal was served on the other. Fires were lit in the middle of the field, at which seventeen bullocks were roasted, be sides a dozen calves and a score or so of sheep. The service was easily managed by relatives of the happy pair, driving round the field in hay- carts and filling up the plates as they passed.-—London Telegraph. COTTON GINS WITHOUT BELTS GANTT’S NOISKI.KSS GKAKFD GINS Completely does away with the brush belt and pulleys. This means satisfaction. Time and money saved to you In tfinniiiK cotton. I’radically No Wear-Out to It. We guarantee satisfaction. Write foi prices and Illustrated catalogue. GANTT Ml'G. CO., Macon, Ga. JUST LIKE A MAN. 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