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PAINFUL PERIODS Suggestions How to Find Relief from Such Suffering. THE RESERVE. BT 2IABIOV COUTHOUT 6MITJT. While no woman is entirely free from C riodical suffering', it does not seem to the plan of nature that women should suffer so severely. Menstrua tion is a severe strain on a woman’s vitality. If it is painful or irregular something is wrong which should be set right or it will lead to a serious de rangement of the whole female organ ism. More than fifty thousand women have testified in grateful letters to Mrs. Pinkham that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable (Compound overcomes pain ful and irregular menstruation. It provides a safe and sure way of es cape from distressing and dangerous weaknesses and diseases. The two following letters tell so con vincingly what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will do for ular, suppressed or painful menstrua- Vegetable Compound sooner; fori have tried so many remedies without help. “ I dreaded the approach or my menstrual period every month, as it meant so much pain apd suffering for mo. but after I had used the Compound two months I became regular and natural and am now perfectly well and free from pain at my monthly periods. I am very grateful for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound has done for me.” Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing evidence that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound stands without a peer as a remedy for all the distressing ills of women. The success of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound rests upon the well-earned gratitude of American women. When women are troubled with irreg- I stand .v Ik re rolliag vapors shroud The golden hills that spread so fair: Pale light is fi*tered through the cloud. Ihick moisture weights the clinging air. I see no flash beyond the gloom. Yet there the flame of battle run*. And thence is borne the cry of doom. The broken thunder of the guns! Mv soul is shaken with their din. Pocked with the standards borne high; I feel the sweeping charge begin; _Mv heart i« spent with those who die! Yet hack and forth with measured pace. Beside the breastwork* blank and tall, I march the track with unmoved face. And hold my manhood’s blood in t on thrall. T! he war-horse neigh* behind the gate. T!:e horseman soothes him. at his side; I cuarrl the patient ranks that wait. Heart-spurred, but silent—restle.ss-eyed. They may not break the bound that keeps Each man an atom in his place; Xo baser is the puard that sleeps Than lie who leaps the appointed space! With steady tramp, with closc-lockcd iip ( I bear inert the silent gun. See how the standards rise and dip. There—where the scattering vapors run! Who calls? Who passes? Who complains! Who gives the challenge and reply? My heart is tugging at its chains, AnJ pleading to the smoke-dimmed sky! Noon dies—nor finds the fighting done: Still shriek the guns beyond the hill; We know not if the day be won. We trust the word that holds us still. Bravest when we at last despair Of summons swift by bugle-call— Ah, praise us, comrades! for we bear A strain that makes your struggle small! O glorious ranks that break and charge. That feel the fierce unchecked desire— The hope that stings—the impulse large That spurns the force of steel and fire! W ith what high hearts you play your fate, Meet scathe or death, and cheering fall! Take ye Godspeed from us who wait, Mute guards beneath the barrack wall! —Youth’s Companion. The Captive Maiden By HELEN FORREST CRAVES. m women, they cannot fail to bring hope to thousands of sufferers. Miss Nellie Holmes of 540 N. Davi- *ion Street, Buffalo, N. Y., writes: Doar Mrs. Pinkham:— “ Your medicine is indeed an ideal medicine for women. I suffered misery for years with painful periods, headaches, and bearing-dowu pains. I consulted two different physicians out failed to get any relief. A mond from the East advised me to try Lydia E. Pink- ham'a Vegetable Compound. I did so, and no longer suffer as 1 did before. My periods are natural: every ache and pain is gone, and my general health is much improved. I advise all women who suffer to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.” Mrs. Tillic Hart, of Larimore, N. D., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “I might have have been spared many tion, leucorrhoea, displacement or ul ceration of the womb, that bearing- down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, bank ache, bloating, (or flatu lency). general debility, indigestion and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness lassitude, excitability, irritability, ner vousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Don’t hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about your sickness you do not understand. She will treat you with kindness and her advice is iroc. No woman ever regretted writing her and she has helped months of suffering and pain had I only „ ... . - known of the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkham’s ! thousands. Address Lynn, Mass. Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice-A Wtman Best Understands a Woman's Ills. DIMENSIONS. Uncle John—My goodness, Tommy you eat an awful lot for such a little fellow. Tommy—I ’spect I aren’t so little as I looks from the outside.—Worn an’s Home Companion. stage Realism, SlOO Reward. SIOO. P ft P er w111 be pleasedto that there Is at least one dreaded dis ease that soienoe has beea able to cure in all Usstages, and that Is Uatarrn. Hall’s Catarrh CureU tneoaly positive cure now known to ;S?n^fV. rat9ralty ’ Catarrh being a con- Mltutional disease, retires a constitutional treatment. Hall a CatarrhCureis takenintor- naUy.actlagdireetly upon the blood and mu- tbe m. thereby destroy- Ingthetoaudatlonof the disease, and giving the patient strength hy building up the c#n- assisting nature la doing its work. The proprietors haveso muchfalthin itscurative powers that they offer One Hun- *^7 c a?e that it falls to euro. . for af ta»flM>iilal9i Address k rf ’ J * * Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Half’s Family Pills for constipation. NEED ’EM NOW. "Pa, what were these suits of arm or used for?” “People wore ’em in olden times, son.” “What sort of people, pa?” "Oh, life insurance agents, I sup pose.” Cares Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood Poison. Greatest Blood Purifler Free. If your blood Is impure, thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema. Itching, risings and lumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) accord ing to directions. Soon all sores heal, aches and pairs stop, the blood is made pure and rich, b aving the skin free from every emption, and giving the rich glow of perfect health to the skin. At the same timeB. B. B. improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with directions for home cure. Samplo free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. B. B. B. is es pecially advised for chronic, deep-seated eases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after'all else falls. Plays in Which Live Lions Appeared on the Beards. The introduction of a flock of sheep l Into a stage spectacle seems from j newspaper ctTmment to have given the ■ impression that livestock is new or the stage. This, of course, is wide oi the mark. A tragedy referred to It this column the other day.had its in ception in a play written round foui j lions and a lioness which used to play nightly at Astley’s. There was an opera which revolved arounj a Span ish bull, until one night the latter demolished the mock arena on the stage and stampeded the whole com pany. A real Derby winner used each night to rewin his triumph be fore the footlights, and plays such as “The Still Alarm” and “Ben-Hur” owed much of their success to their quadrupeds. The most realistic scene of modern days was staged in Paris. The writer had the story of it from Herr Smith, the principal player in it. Six of his lions were turned into the arena, with thirteen to which he was a stranger. Lay figures, about which horseflesh was concealed, were thrown In, and these Ore lions rtrt, as the forbears rent the early Christians in the arenas of Rome. At the psychological mo ment Seeth entered to Interrupt the feast and subdue the feasters. The moment the door closed behind him he tripped and as he fell a lion seized him by the thigh. The others follow ed—all save one, the patriarch of his own troupe. This fought for him. The others wrestled and fought and tore aver his body, while the pioneer unin terruptedly crunched his leg. A blow with a crowbar through the throat of this brute billed him, and in the re sultant pause attendants dragged 3eetA out, in a horrible plight. He vas nice months in a hospital, and that scene never again was staged.— 3t. James Gazette. OU are not going out to __ walk again with that Mr. O y' O Ellfslie, Meta?” cried Miss GeorgiamT Triptou, aus- SfG*?' terely. “Yes, I am,” said Meta Graham, saucily. “Why shouldn’t 1?” “Its very unfeniinine to spend all one’s time running after the gentle men,” snapped Miss Georgiana. “But it’s just the other way in my case, Cousin Georgiana,” said Meta, demurely, “The gentlemen run after me.” “Pshaw!” “Mr. Elleslie asked me to walk through the cemetery with him this afternoon,” added Meta, commanding her temper with admirable equanimity. “I did not ask him.” And away tripped the little lassie, humming a popular air, in the sauefest and most fascinating manner possible. Georgiana Triptou was seven-and- thirty, and Meta Graham was seven teen, consequently it can easily be com prehended that there was no great sympathy between the two cousins. Georgiana was bilious and yellow, ex acting and Irritable—Meta fresh and rosy as Aurora’s self, with a temper sweet ns a May morning, and a score of lovers at her feet. Love was as yet only Meta’s plaything, but matrimony in the eyes of Georgiana Tripton was the one serious business of life. She had made up her mind to marry Frank Elleslie, albeit that young law yer was ten good years younger than herself, and as both happened to be sojourning at the same hotel, fate for once seemed 'inclined to favor her. But when Meta Graham came down from the city in all the glittering armor of her golden-haired beauty, rose-and-snow complexion and dimpled smiles, Miss Georgiana saw at once that her cause was lost. Frank Elleslie deserted basely to the enemy at the very first flutter of those irrestistible banners of youth and beau ty; but Georgiana secretly resolved that if she could not marry the young lawyer, Meta Graham should not, either. “I’ll keep my eye on ’em at all THE MARCH OF EXPOSURE. “What are youse cry!’ fer?” asked the first urchin. "Me conscience fcodders me,” re piled the second urchin. "Last weeV I robber me little brudder’s bank.” “Don’t worry. It’ll be some time before Mister Lawson gits around tc youse.” Stirring anything over a hot stove often causes brittle finger nails. Try rubbing a little a’mond oil in every night and keep a pair of loose gloves to slip on when cooking. BOX OF WAFERS FREE-NO DRUGS -CURES BY ABSORPTION. Cure* Belclilne of Ga*—Bad Breath and Batt St^maeh—Short Breath— Bloatirig—Sour Kmctatlons— Irregular Heart, Etc. Take a Mull's Wafer any time of the day or night, and note the immediate good ef fect on your stomach. It absorbs the gas, disinfects the stomach, kills the poison germs and cures the disease. Catarrh of the head and throat, unwholesome food and overeating make bad stomachs. Scarcely any stomach is entirely free from taint of some kind. Mull’s Anti-Belch SVafers will make your stomach healthy by absorbing foul gases which arise from the undigested food and by re-enforcing ! the lining of the stomach, enabling it to thoroughiv mix the food with the gastric i juices. This cures stomach trouble, pro motes digestion, sweetens the breath, stops belching and fermentation. Heart action becomes strong and regular through this | process. Discard drugs, as you know from experi- j ence they do not cure stomach trouble. : Try a common-sense (Nature’s) method that does cure. A soothing, healing sen sation results instantly. We know Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers will [ do this, and we want vou to know it. Special Offer.—Tlie regular price of 1 Mull’s Anti-Belch Wafers is oOe. a box. but to introduce it to thousands of sufferers we will send two (2) boxes upon receipt of 75c. and this advertisement, or we will | send you a free sample for this coupon. FITSpermanentlycured. No fltsor'nervous- nessafter first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NerveKestorer,': 2trialbottleand treatise free Dr.R. H. Kline, Ltd.. '■ SI Arch F.t.,Phila.,Pa A box couch may not be found as comfortable as some others, but if one has little closet room, it will be con venient for storing away clothes, bed ding. etc. events,” thought Miss Georgiana, vie- should ontyfi 12165 FREE COUPON. 129 Send this coupon with your name and address and name of a druggist who does not sell it for a free sample box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers to Mull’s Grape Toxic Co., 328 Third Ave., Rock Island, 111. Oive Full Addrets and Write Plainly. milk crust on BAB v Lost All His Hair—gcrateheil TUI Blood Ran—Grateful Mother TelU of His Cure by Cuticura For 75c. “When our baby boy was three months old he had the milk crust very badly on his head, so that al! the hair came out, and it itched so t*id he would scratch until the .ood ran. I got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. 1 applied the Cuticura and put a thin cap on his head, and before I had used half of the box it was entirely cured, his hair com menced to grow out nicely again, and he has had no return of the trouble. (Signed) Mis. H. P. Holmes, Ashland, Ore. 0 DESCRIBING IT. Farmer Sosede—What’s thet book yer readin’ about, Mandy. Aunt Mandy—'Bout the war. Josh- na. It’s one o’ tho=e here hysterica/ novels.—Brookl>n Life. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup tor Children teething.softensthegu ms. reduces inflamma tion,allays pain,cures wind colic,25c. a bottle Hundreds of millions of dollars are annu ally spent in advertising. watching the sun go down Into the river below, In a red panoply of bright ness and to Miss Georgiana’s Intense disappointment, saying not a word of lovesick sentiment, such as she had longed and expected to hear; then they lose up and strolled away down one of the broad graveled paths that led to the eastern gates of the cemetery. “Poh!” thought Miss Tripton, discon tentedly. “That wasn’t worth listen ing to.” , But as she essayed to unlatch and open the iron vault gate, she discov ered, to her dismay, that it was fast. Some unsee or unsuspected catch in the iron mechanism of the gate had caged her safely in the recesses of the dis mal old vault. In vain she shook the fastenings— the stone and iron were too firmly welded together to admit of any tam pering with their rivets. “Dear, dear!” thought Miss Georgi ana, beginning to tremble all over with a sense of the very disagreeable posi tion in which she had placed herself. “What shall I do? They can’t have gone far. I’ll scream.” She lifted up her voice, in a femi nine scream—“Help! he-e-lp!” But only the rustling of the leaves and the piping of the summer insects replied. She screamed again, this time at the very top of her voice; stir no answer. And then Miss Georgiana. forgetting all her strong-mindedness and self- praise, sank down all in a heap in the corner of the vault and began to cry piteqnsly. “It's growing darker every minute!” she whispered, “and I shall have to stay here all night, with the ghosts apd the spiders, and the horrid, horrid dead men’s bones. All night! and to morrow is Sunday, and the cemetery gates will be locked, and who knows but I shall die with fright and hunger before I can get out of this hideous place. Oh, dear, dear! I’ll never, never listen again! I’ll let Meta marry who) she likes, and never interfere, if on I get alive out of this dismal vaull Why did I come here? Why couldn' I have minded my own business? Ol Aunt Polly Parkes always said FRIES Of MOTORISTS . Eno?Ai»ns &uins Contributed to the Law lit* • by Speed Fiend*. The tribute levied upon motorists by the magistrates of the United Kingdom during 1904 reached the enormous sum of £218,000. This amount averages very nearly £10 per head for eyery car Astonishing as these figures are, it is probable that when the total of this year’s fines can be made up it will reach well over £300,000. The increase this year is due to the persistent manner in which the police in many parts of the country, and espe cially in the southern counties, have pursued their campaign against motor cars by means of traps. “The latest form of police trap is an electrical arrangement,” says Stenson Cooke, Secretary of the Automobile Association. “A piece of rope is almost buried across the road at the start of a measured furlong. When the car touches the rope it starts a timepiece. Another rope is laid at the end of the trap, and when the ear touches this it stops the timepiece. This is the most just and reliable form of trap, for it does not depend for its accuracy upon cheap stop watches and unskilled po lice as timekeepers. “By tbq. system of patrols which the Automobile Association has established many of tbe police traps have been completely nullified. At Guildford sdme time ago as much as £105 was taken in flues from mptorists in on’e day. Now that our scouts are at work thin^ are very different. “On two main roads, working two days a Week, the patrols exercised the necessary restrain on 29f motor cars. But for the association’s efforts at least half o£ these would have been finejj. We estimate that we save £100 a week on each road.”—London Express | J am sure Ptso’s Cure lor Consumption saved | my liio three years ago.—Mrs. Thomas Rob- s erts. Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17,1900 The earliest known cook book was | printed in Venice in 1475. I aid by all druggists, 50c. per box, or sent by mail. MEDIEVAL W'T “My wife,” complained the Duke de - Doolittle, ‘says she’s obliged tc keep her room. Yet I .«ee nothing the matter with the dame.” “Put her In the secret chamber,’ j advised the Count de Funnicuss. “She ; Will then never keep that.” Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gam and Mullen is Nature’s great remedy—Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption, and all throat and lung troubles. At drug gists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. The only Englishman who ever became Pope was Adrian IV. Itch cured in 39 minutes by Woolford’r- Sanitary Lotion: never fails. Sold by Druggists. Mail orders promptly filled by Dr. Detohon. Crawfordsville, Ind. $1. Few Russian trains travel at a faster rate than twenty-two miles an hour. iously. “The cemetery is as free for me to walk in as it is for them.” So Miss Tripton hurriedly invested herself in outdoor attire and took the crosscut over the fields toward the beautiful rural cemetery, which was the pride and ornament of all the neighborhood for miles around. “I shall get there first,” thought Georgiana; “for, of course, they’ll dawdle along under the shade of the trees and be twice as long as they need to. I’ve no patience with such senti mentalism. But I’ll be even with that pert little Merta yet. I'll listen to all their nonsense, and I’ll write such an account of it to my Uncle Graham that my young lady will find herself recall'ed home the very first she knows. Of course, they’ll go to the Livingdale monument—there is a green bench there and an arbor of sweet honey suckle, and I can hide just beyond.” Miss Tripton smiled grinijy to her self as she mentally surveyed this pro gram of battle against true love, and pretty little Meta Graham, whose only tangible offense was youth and beauty. But when was the dragon in the fairy tales ever known to spare the bright eyed princess just because her eyes were bright and her face pure oval? The sprays of white and huff-blos somed honeysuckle were waving softly about in the delicious summer air as Miss Tripton stole into the green glade where the exquisitely carved statue that surmounted the Livingdale monu ment kept its still watch in the liquid gold and odorous sweetness of the sunshine. It was a marble tribute to the memory of a girl who had died young, and whose features were sup posed to he perpetuated in the grace ful lines of the statue. But just now Miss Georgiana Tripton had neither time nor attention to waste on gleam ing marble or exquisite outline. Just beyond, a grim old granite vault seemed to hide itself in the side slope of a hill, with its iron gate swing ing idly to and fro at the will of the wind. Georgiana stole into this vault, shrinking beneath its damp, sepulchral shadows, as the sound of footsteps on the green turf beyond, and the ringing sound of Meta Graham’s laughter, be tokened the near approach of the young lovers. “A cankered old maid!” pronounced Mr. Frank Elleslie. not without em phasis. “So she thinks it very wrong of you to walk with me, does she? I’ll wager nobody troubles themselves much to walk with her?” “But she isn’t to blame for being so old and so yellow, and so disagree able. Frank. She can’t help it,” plead ed Meta, with an innocent toleration, which made Georgiana TYipton’s fin gers quiver to box her pretty little pink ears. “She cannot help being so ill-tem pered and venomous, I suppose? But come. Meta dear, don't let us waste our precious time talking about such an old vinegar cruet as she is. Sit down here in the shade of those fragrant honeysuckles, and let us enjoy the sweet air and the bird-songs.” “Oh!” cried Meta, with a slight start, “what clanging noise was that?” “Only the gate of yonder gray , vault swinging in the wind.” Meta looked earnestly toward it. “Oh, Frank. I am sure I saw some-, thing move back tb*re in the shad ows!” ! “Nonsense, Meta! what could possi bly be there but the dead bones of : some ancient Dutch burgomaster?” And Meta could not but join in the merry laugh at her own childish folly and forget it. They sat there some ten minutes. people’s affairs, and her words have h come gospel—true at last!” And once more, in a paroxysm despair, Miss Georgiana raised h voice and wailed aloud for help. Meta Graham, who was pausing a little wayside fountain, where a cr; tal-elear stream of water bubbled into a marble basin, whose edge was nearly hidden in blossiming water-flags and aquatic plants, stopped to listen with the tin cup at her lips. “Frank!” she said, gravely, “I cer tainly do hear something!” "So do I!” said Mr. Elleslie. “I hear the water dripping into the fountain, and the sound of the wind rushing through the treetops, and two black birds singing in the hedges!” “But I hear a human vpice crying out for help!” “Nonsense!” Meta pursed up her lips and nodded her head. “Listen for yourself. Frank!” she urged. “Hark!‘there it is again!” “Well, it docs sound like a voice,” admitted Mr. Elleslie. “Shall we go back? Perhaps some one has lost his way in tbe winding paths, or,” and his eyes twinkled mischievously, “some ghost is crying out for its freedom!” “Ob, Frank, don’t talk so!” pleaded Meta, clinging nervously to his arm. “Let us go back at once, and see what it means!” And a few’ monutes only had elapsed before Frank and Meta bad retraced their steps to tbe green glade where the marble statue gleamed faintly through the darkening twilight, and the honeysuckles diffused their heavy fragrance on the air. “Why!” ejaculated Meta, “it is Cousin Georgy peering out from behind the iron bars like a wild beast in a cage.” “How on earth came you here. Miss Tripton!” rather unceremoniously de manded Mr. Elleslie; and Georgiana, well frightened for her duplicity, con fessed the truth. Frank burst out laughing—Meta drew herself up, flushed and indignant. “Under the circumstances,” she said, “I can hardly -pity your involuntary captivity as much as I might otherwise do!” “But I’ll never do such a thing again if you'll only let me out this time,” pleaded Georgiana. And Mr. Elleslie went for tbe gate keeper and the keys, and before an other half hour had elapsed Georgiana Tripton was safe at home, in the com panionship of red lavender, valerain and smelling salts. She was hysterical for a week afterward, but she dogged the footsteps of the young lovers no longer! “It was as bad as being buried alive,” she faltered, whenever—which was not often—she could bring herself to allude to the adventure in the cem#ery. “And to think I never heard anything worth listening to, after all!”—New York Weekly. Tappicg Titicaca. It is reported that Lake Titicaca, the highest great lake in the world, the ancient wonder of Peru—where the hi | great Luca race had its mysterious ori gin—is to be tapped to furnish electric energy for traction and manufacturing purposes. The lake is 12,645 feet above sea level, and it is estimated that after furnishing the power necessary for traction there will be a surplus of something like 6000 horsepower, which the Government can sell to factories.— New York Globe. r ^ High Class Druggists AND — OTHERS. ... , WORDS OF WISDOM. , The only sure defense Is selfr-defensd. The only sure dependence is self-de pendence. j Therms a gjeater power than might; its namt is right. TJiere are things dearer than life, higher than peace. is an idle rascal who objects to work—between meals. Learn to govern yourselves and to be gentle And patient. The earnest believer in a good time coming will help to make it come. Guard your tgmper, espepially in seasons of ill-health, irritation and trouble. Remember that valuable as is the gift of speech, silence is often more valuable. "*Words are the carriage in which thoughts ride, so the human body is &hf soul’s chariot. t < ‘ ■ \ Increase tlie Coat of Living. The proposition favored by the al leged reformers who have so viciously attacked the proprietary medicine bus iness is that nil family medicines shall be put under the ban of the law, and that no medicine shall be taken except on the prescription and that no ope save a physician possessing certain qualifications as to diploma, etc., shall prescribe. is easy to see where this would ct the manufacturer, but the ef- ; there would be insignificant as pared with the increase it would e in the cost of living of a large her of people. Nearly fifty-three per cent, of the iiies recorded in the last Federal us lived outside of incorporated ns. They rely on “home reme- ” to an extent known only to e who are actually residing in 1 districts or who have liv*ed out- of the towns. To do away with “poterrt” medicines would be to the rural fifty-three per cenK not only a hardship, but would actually endanger health. The rural fifty-three per cent, are not the only ones to be affected, how ever. Of the 15,964,000 families recorded in the last census thirty- three per cent, had annual incomes of $400 or less. The average number of persons to a family was five, so that a third of the families had incomes of ?S0, or less, per individual, per year. To compel every one to throw away their home remedies and employ a physician for each ailment of every member of the family would be adding expense unnecessarily and increasing the difficulties that surround the prob lems of life. Only twenty per cent, of the 15,964,- 000 families in the United States had incomes of more than $1200 annually for an average of five persons, only five per cent, had incomes of over $3000 per family. At a conservative estimate ninety-five per cent, of the people have “patent” medicines handy, for instant use when needed. This ninety-five per cent, could, if It desired, discard “patent” medicines without passage of laws and would do so but for one reason. That is that “patent” medicines are well known to them as reliable remedies, which no household could be without and which have cured the ailments of three geu* erations of American people. The better class of druggists, everywhere, are men of scientific attainments and high integrity, who devote their lives to the welfare of their fellow men in supplying the best of remedies and purest medicinal agents of known value, in accordance with physicians’ prescriptions and scientific formula. Druggists of the better class manufacture many excellent remedies, but always under original or officinal names and they never sell false brands, or imitation medicines. They are the men to deal with when in need of anything in their line, which usually includes all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy and the finest and best of toilet articles and preparations and many useful accessories and remedial appliances. The earning of a fair living, with the satisfaction which arises from a knowledge of the benefits conferred upon their patrons and assistance to the medical profesaj.on, is usually their greatest reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. They all know that Syrup of Figs is an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives universal satisfaction, and therefore they are selling many millions of bottles annually to the well informed purchasers of the choicest remedies, and they always take pleasure in handing out the genuine article bearing the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package. They know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by biliousness and constipation and of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from irregular habits, indigestion, or over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant, prompt and beneficial in its effects as Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives universal satisfaction. Owing to the excellence of Syrup of Figs, the universal satisfaction which it gives and the immense demand for it, imitations have been made, tried and condemned, but there are individual druggists to be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignity and principles of the' profession and whose greed gets the better of their judgment, and who do not hesitate to recommend and try to sell the imitations in order to make a larger profit. Such preparations sometimes have the name—“ Syrup of Figs”—or “Fig Syrup” and of some piratical concern, or fictitious fig syrup company, printed on the package, but they never have the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of the package. The imitations should bo rejected because they are injurious to the system. In order to sell the imitations they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception, and whenever a dealer passes off on a customer a preparation under the name of “Syrup of Figs” or “Fig Syrup,” which does not bear the full name of the California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front of the package, he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so unfortunate ns to enter his establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts to misrepresentation and and deception in one case he will do so with other medicinal agents, and in the filling of physicians’ prescriptions, and should be avoided by every one who values health and happiness. Knowing that the great majority of druggists are reliable, we supply the immense demand for our excellent remedy entirely through the druggists, of whom it may be purchased every where, in original packages only, at the regular price of fifty cents per bottle, but as exceptions exist it is necessary to inform the public of the facts, in order that all may decline or return any imitation which may be sold to them. If it does not bear the full name of the Company— California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package, do not hesitate to return the article and to demand the return of your money, and in future go to one of the better class of druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything in his line at reasonable prices. THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL. The Great Engineering Feat Means In creased Safety in Travel. The second tube of the New York & New Jersey Railroad Coarpany’s tun nel under the Hudson is completed, and the use of the tunnel by electric cars running to Thirty-fourth street and Broadway becomes only a ques tion of months, or a year at the most. A great engineering feat has been ac complished with small loss of life, and the problem of linking the New York and New Jersey shores by a hole In the earth under the bed of tho great river has been solved for all time. The safety of transportation in the tunnel needs no demonstration, for trains will run in a steel tube the strength of which to resist pressure has been carefully worked out. Be ing laid from fifteen to fifty feet be low the river bed It can not be affect ed by the action of tidewater. The tube is a steel-lined hole in the earth, and expect for collisions due to oper ating blunders the risk of travel ought to-be fril- Patrons will have to get accustomed to the uncanny feeling of being carried along In the bowels of the earth, far down below the flow of a great river, but about their safety there ought not to be a single tremor. Tunnelling under the Hudson hav ing been proved practicable, the Penn sylvania Railroad undertaking will be pushed rapidly, and it im-ay be ex pected that in course of time every trunk line cominig into Jersey City will have its own tunnel. The East river piercings do not present much of a problem. In less than five years trains ought to be running from Phil adelphia to Boston with no water to be crossed. In less than ten years we may see elertric trains making the journey from New York to Philadel phia in one hour.—New York Evening Sun. PR.IG1&, .25 Ct* ro CURE THE GRIP i IN ONE DAY patiPiNE j**?. ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD GOLD, HEADACHE AHD KEURALGIA. I won’t eell Antl-Grlplne to a dealer wbo won’t Ouarantee It, Call for your MON EXT BACK. IF IT DOESN’T CVKB. JF. IF. I)inner, 31.D., Manufacturac fjpringJleUt, Mm. DATE ’EM When you buy a Pair of Shoes for your boy or girl. Write the Date in the lining, in ink. Clover Brand SHOES STAND EVERY TEST <Set tho DICTIONARY m shoes Women, disguised as men, have often L ived as soldiers- A Football Dilemma. The village football cieven was about to begin in the great match of the season with a rival team. Just before the game was timed to begin, the captain of the home team appeared with a worried look and dejectedly counted the spectators. They consist ed _pf two farmer boys, a militiaman, and the local chimney-sweep. He counted them over twice, but failed to make any more of them. As both teams took the field the home captain exclaimed: “There won’t be no match tc-day. We scratch.” “Wot are you talkin’ about?” said the opposition captain. “You can’t scratch now!” “We’ve got ter,” replied the home captain, dolefully; “we ain’t took enough gate money to get the ball out o’ pawn.”—Harper’s Weekly. Cripple’s Patient Work, Benjamin J. Morgan, a cripple, has completed a wonderful piece of work which is attracting considerable at tention. Inside a bottle inches long, 4)4 inches in diameter and Vz Inch at the neck he has made a minia ture representation of the Litchfield County Choral Union giving its con cert at the armory. Twenty-five of the singers are rep resented on six rows, the women be ing attired in white and the men in black, each singer having a red cov ered choral book In his or her hand. The twenty-five dolls representing the singers ere 2 * 1 * / £ inches in length, Inches across the shoulders, each doll having to be separated into twelve pieces in order to get it through the neck of the bottle. After they were passed through the neck they were glued together. There are 781 pieces in all in the glass ves- lel. The stopper of the battle repre sents the front of the armory.— Winsted Correspondence Waterbury Republican. Thmt Is FREE with ovory pair ot Wohator’a from a Ixo 1 V up. IF YOUR r DEALER SAYS“J HE IS REFUSING YOU^ .YOUR MONEY* _WORTl Jffrrtljrtmrr-i&aarta S’ljor Co. IARQEST F1NB SHOE EXCLUSIVISTS ST, LOUIS. U. S. A. CONTENT. "Is your son doing well at college?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntos- eel. “He had his picture took aftei the football game, and it showed be had his regular share of arms an' legs. I should say he was doin’ well.” —Washington Star. AILING WOMEN. Malsby & Co. 41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. A BRAIN WORKER Must Have tlie Kind of Food Thnt Naut- ishe* Drain. Why Don’t Wo Put more faith in ourselves and less f in the promises of others? Learu how small is the value of tbe spoken word? Humor our consciences instead of our prid2? Cultivate a decent respect for other people's opinions? Determine to possess the courage of the consequences as well as the courage of convictions? Judge people by tUel^ efforts, not by tbe results of their labor? Criticise less where we can suggest no practical remedies? Listen graciously to advice, kindly given, whether or not we intend to take it? Admit that a suppression of the truth is not always to be condemned; I-’ecognize our own satisfaction as .? greatest possible reward in this •rid? “I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little pa tience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grape-Nuts food. “I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate think ing. I always felt heavy and sluggish in mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. “I tried foods easy of digestion, but fouud them usually deficient in nutri ment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape- Nuts. And then the problem was solved. “Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfect ly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so m%ny other prepared foods lack. “I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape- Nuts food contains all the elements needed by the brain and nervous sys tem of the hard working pnblic writ er.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat tle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Read the little book, “The Boad to Wellville,” in pkgs. Keep the Kidney* Well and the Kidney* Will Keep You Well. Sick, suffering, languid women are learning the true cause of bad backs and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis, of Groesbeck, Texas, says; “Back aches .•’urt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headache v ere frequent and tb ’. action of the the kidneys was ir regular. Soon after I began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills I passed several gravel stones. I got well and the trouble has not returned. My back is good and strong and my general health better.” Sold by all dealers. 50 eevts a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y, Portable and Stationary Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Complete, line Carried in stock for IMMEDIA TE DELI VER Y. Best Machinery, Lowest Prices and Beet Term* Write us for catalogue, prices, etc., before buying. STILL HOPE. Don’t worry if they take brutality From football; for—oh, glad reality! — They’ll put it in some oth^r rare, Rough game, and we can view it there. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. MOZ LEY’S LEMON ELIXIR —A 8VRR CUKE FOB— CONSTIPATION, BILIOUSNESS and all disorder* of the Stomach and How el*. GOr. a bottle at drug store*. One Dollar for a Postal Card This company will give one dollar for I the first reliable information of an ' opportunity to sell a steam engine or boiler of our standard types within our range of sizes. This does not I include vertical, traction or gas en gines. If you know of anybody in- [ tending to buy an engine or boiler tell us. A Postal will do. ATLAS ENGINES AND BOILERS have for year* been the standard for *11 ateam plant* Beat of miterl*l and workmanship. Our btg output enables us to tell on small prof-. Ita. An Atlas, the best in tbe world, costs no more than tbe other kind. Write today for oar special oiler ATLAS ENGINE WORKS Selling agencies in all cities INDIANAPOLIS | Owl Im Engines Highspeed Engines Water Tube Boilers FourValTf Engines Compound Engines Tubular Boilers Automatic Engines Throttling Engines Portable Boiierr, Atlas Engines in serrloe S,000,000 H. P. Atlas Boilers in serried 4,000,000 H. P. Limit! You too would have to build 'bigger barns If you would onlv listen to reason and “in crease your yields per acre” by enricbinK your soil and feeding your plants with that wonder-worker, Yirgiflia 3 Carolina Fertilizer. It has been tho tremendous success of many furmers all over tho South, who started life with only a few acres and a one-horse plow. Now,alter using these fertilizers for many years, these farmers arc rich. Read what they say in ouralmanac. Ask your dealer for it, or send uc. in stamps to pay cost of wrap ping and postage on a copy. lie sure and ask for Virginia-Carolina iertili- zera, and accept no substitute. n Virginlx-Carolina Chemical Co., Richmond. Va. Atlanta. Oa. j Norfolk. Va. Durham, N. C. Savannah. Oa. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. bhreveport. La. < C ON SUM PT.ON FOR WOMEN troubled with ills peculiar to tbeii sex, used as a douche is marvelously suc cessful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs, stops discharges, heals inflammation and local soreness, cures leucorrhoea and nasal catarrh. Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and U far more cleansing, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptic* for all TOILET AND WOMEN’S SPECIAL USES eat sale a. druggists, 50 cents a box. Trial Box and Book ot Instructions Free. Tsc R. Paxton company Boston, Mas*. (At50-’05) Thompson’s Eyewater