What Ails You? r Do you feel weak, tired, despondent, j Uxave frequent headaches, coated tongue, : titter or bad taste in morning, "heartburn," belching of gas, acid risings in throat after eating, stomach gnaw or burn, foul breath, dizzy spells, poor or variable appetite, nausea at times and kindred symptoms? If yoiSi^ve any considerable number of tb^^boveSyiBMoms you are suffering frcxn^Uiousnass^t^rpid liver with indiDr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery j&_madc up of the most valuable medicine! principles known to anedveal science for the permanent cure of :such ahnormaLcofldUlojts. it is a zhosl efficient liver invigorator. stomach tonic, bowel regulator and nerve strengthened The "Golden Medical Discovery " is not - ? nr sorrnt. nostrum. n, I full list of its ingredients being printed on its bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. A glance at its formula will show "that it contains no alcohol, or harmful '.habit-forming drugs. It is a fluid extract made with pure, triple-refined glycerine, -of proper strength, from the roots of the . " following native American forest plants, "viz.. Golden Seal root. Stone root, Black ^Cherrybark, Queen's root, Bloodroot, and mandrake root. The following" leading medical authorities. 3usong a host of others, extol the foregoing Tools for the cure of just such ailments as tho above symptoms indicate: Prof.It. Bartholcw, M. !>.. of Jefferson Med. College. Phila.: Prof. ,H. C.Wood. M. D.. of Univ.of Pa.: Prof.Edwin JL Hale. M. D., of Hahnemann Med. College. " - "Chicago: Prof. John King. M. D.. Author of .Amerlcaji Dispensatory: Prof. Jno. M. Scud hair is soft and silky. Miss Mayzie C. Atkins, ' Pox 32, East Orleans, Mass., Mat. 19, MS." . f Indians Not Dying Out. 1 & popular Impression prevails that * the Indians are dying out. Those who 2iave given the subject study believe sthene are more Indians today in the TJnlted. States than there were when Oolnzc-b&s landed. The Indians were 1 \ soever populous. They were too much war. They roamed the prairies and lranied through the forests, but they aiever had local habitations and were ; rusrer many in one spot j The first 'actual census of the In- < diana was taken seventy years ago. 1 At that time there were found to be '253,464. Prior to that time everything i had been by guess. Beginning with : fthe count of 1836 the official reports 1 ?t Indian population are as follows: 1 Ia 1S60, at the beginning of the civil j -*rar, there were 254,200. Twenty 1 years later, in 1880, there were 256,- 1 ' 127. In 1900 there were 272,023. To day, by count of the Indian agents on 1 . reservations of the country, there are - 284,000 Indiana ] i ? ( 3 .Mo linman Tiand touches m MICE'S v WHEAT FLAKE CELERY from its first process of manu-; facture until it is served for the \ stable. It is composed of Wheat, i ^Celery and Salt. Not a trace of j any other substance. Its daily ! *ise has a tonic and laxative ef- \ feet. 35; W cents a package. For caSs by a33 Grocers A j*. ' . * , ^ S ~ . STONE FENCES DISAPPEARING. ! i In Connecticut They Are Bought Up ! for Building Materials Connecticut's stone fences arc j doomed and .before many years these j picturesque features of the rural sections of the State will be but a mem- j ory. The popularity of stone houses I and the increasq in the number of summer homes have lei to the utilization of the stone fences for building purposes. In place of the stone fences are miles of wire fen'ces. When Now Yorkers beran to seek the country in the summer time Con neeticut became dotted with an ever i increasing number of costly cottages, for the construction of which stone | was the best and most durable mater- j ial. Then it was that the builders i turned to the fences, from which stone could he obtained without the labor of quarrying. Contractors went' aoout buying up stone fences, and farmers, eager to realize on this crop that their ancestors had tilled for them, found that even after new wire fences had been put up they had a good profit from the sale of the stones. Farmers like wire fences, too, because they take up practically no room, and can be kept clean, whereas the stcno fences were fringed by weeds and bushes that could never be mowed cr ploughed out. In any other State the wire fences would not be unattractive, but here they seem strangely out of place., and to lovers of old time Connecticut the absence of the stone fences will bo a loss that the handsome modern country places cannot compensate loq ?New York SuA. The Cost of New York. New York city's budget next year will be $116,80S,490.37. This is onefifth of the total expenditures of the 151 cities of the United States having a population of over 30,000. Including the bond issues, New York spends one-third. New' York spends more than the six next largest cities?Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston and Cleveland. Although its population is only twice Chicago's, its government costs four times as much. Its debt is mere than a third of the aggregate oity debt, which is larger than the national debt. The per capita debt of ail these , cities is $57, or less than half New York's. . New York's expenditures exceed those of any foreign city. The.London Council uses only $50,000,000 a year. Paris expenditures do not bring the total to the New York figure. The expenditures of the German empire are less than five times as great, those of the kingdom of Prussia six times as great, those of Spain only a quarter larger.?New York World. NOT COMPLIMENTARY. John Henry (reading aloud)?The fortqne left by Mr. Bailey, the circus king, amounts to several millions. Mrs. John Henry?Why don't you go into the circus business, John? John Henry?It takes a lot of cap ital and experienced partners to start a circus. Mrs. John Henry?Haven't you got enough for a sideshow? John Henry?Do you mean a show of freaks? Mrs. John Henry?Yes. You certain, ly could start that all alane* ~Cleve land Plain Dealer. HOW IT WORKS. "Muck raking is getting into such disrepute," remarked State Senator Graball, "that thieveiy is becoming positively respectable by comparison." And he proceeded to frame up another little game of loot. .The chewing gum habit is increasing. According to the last report of the gum trust, about 572,000 pieces are masticated in New York city each day. NO DAWDLING 1 Man of 70 After Finding Coffee Hurt Him, Stopped Short. When a man has lived to be 70 , rears old with a 40-year-old habit J 2jrown to him like a knot on a tree, i jhances are he'll stick to the habit ;ill he dies. But occasionally the spirit of youth ind determination remains in some men to the last day of their lives. When such men do find any habit of ife has been doing them harm, they mrnrisfi the Oslerites by a degree of will power that is supposed to belong :o men under 40, only. "I had been a user of coffee until three years ago?a period of 40 years ?and am now 70," writes a N. Dak. man. "I was extremely nervous and debilitated, and saw plainly that I must make a change. "I am thankful to say I had the nerve to quit coffee at once and take on Postum without any dawdling, ind experienced no ill effects. On the contrary, I commenced to gain, losing my nervousness within two months, j also gaining strength and health ! otherwise. "For a man of my age, I am very well and hearty. I sometimes meet j persons who have not made their Postum right and don't like it. But j I tell them to boil it long enough, j and call their attention to my looks now, and before I used it, that seems convincing. ?'Vmv wh'pn T have writing to do, ! or long columns of figures to cast'up, ! I feel equal to it and can get through ' my work without the fagged out feeling of old." Name given by the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." A Leading Am JOHN LA i__ Scientific Slaughter-Houses. Paris, with her genius for organization, probably leads the world in her scientifically conducted slaughterhouses. Almost perfect precautions for public safety are taken by means of the rigorous inspection of the meat by the police. There are two immense municipal abattoirs ' and the charge for slaughtering, known as the "slaughcer-house tax," is two francs per hundred kilograms, or a! out $4.22 per ten, which the city sets aside .0 defray the cost of maintaining and repairing the abattoirs. In round numbers the city receives $760,000 a year. The cattle market and the slaughter-houses occupy over 100 acres. The market consists of a branch line connecting with the railways running 1 into Paris, stables, fountains, three large covered market buildings, and the cattle pecs. "The inspection 01 live stock is carried out with great thoroughness by a large staff of veterinary surgeons, or their assistants, attached to the prefecture of police," says Frederic Lees in the London French Method . of Disinfecting Slaughter-Houses. i World's Work and Play "The disinfection of the pens w?.t. a solution of eau de Javel goes on dally?I might almost say hourly. "On the conclusion of a sale, the animals are generally at once transferred to the abattoirs. Here the buildings, some forty to fifty in number, consist of slaughter-houses, stables, singeing house, auctionr9om for the sale of small quantities of meat, octroi building, administrative offices, electric-lighting station, ice manufactory, janitor's lodge, clock-tower, etc. The slaughterhouses. which are solidly built and arranged on a fan-shaped plan, are separated into equal groups by three perpendicular and three transversal streets which cross at right angles. Oxen are killed in open courtyards, and these, in addition to the echaudoirs, where animals are cut up and dressed ready for sale to butchers, are carefully cemented, the ground ! sloping toward a central trough j which leads direct to the drains. j There is a plentiful supply of water ; and the whole place is kept so scrup-1 ulously clean that,* toward one; o'clock in the afternoon, when killing is over for the day and buying commences, you would never imagine that it had so recently been the scene of the slaughter of thousands of animals. "After each carcass has beer, dressed and suspended on the stands with stout iron pegs which can be seen both inside and outside each echaudoir, it is examined by one of the numerous inspectors of the prefecture of police, who, on finding it to be sound and of good quality, stamps it in violet ink with the letters PP (prefecture of police). Should he find that it is diseased, he immediately reports the matter to his superior officer; the special cart which collects unsounc meat is sem around, and the carcass is removed, either to be rendered useless for sal" as human food by sprinkling it with petroleum or to be given to the Jardin des Plantes for the use of the wild animals. In this way, not a single 1 pound of meat is offered for sale in j Paris without it having been exam- j ined. Before each carcass leaves the i I abattoirs the officials at the exit looK : to see that it is properly stamped i and at the same time that it ' weighed." j j The Bermudas have a Parliamo * of thirty-si x members, while t_ ' number of voters is only 1200. t # lerican Artist. FARGE* New Wire Flower Holder. A new flower holder for table use is described by Harper's Bazar. The holder consists of a wire frame stand- ' ing in a water bowl. Jhe wire, of course, becomes concealed by the flowers ana ionage. one auvaumgc this holder has is that the wires may be bent in any direction, so that a number of effects may be obtained with the same frame. x Both Perfectly Safe. Two acquaintances met at the en' trance to a public dining room, hung up their hats in the hallway and went inside. "Higgins," said the smaller one of the two, "that's a fine hat of yours. Aren't you a little affaid to leave It out there, where somebody might make a mistake and walk off with it?" ' "Not a bit," responded the larger man. "My size is seven and threequarters. If any other man should put it on his head it would come down to his ears. But how about you, Hawkins? Yours is a fine hat, too. Isn't it a bit risky to leave it there?" "I should say not," answered Hawkins. "Mine is six and one-half. There isn't one man in a thousand that could get it far enough on his 1 3 A ? T o Vi /Mi Irl n ' + neau iu uia^e 11 ^ia.v uii.?i juuuiuu l be afraid to hang it up in the anteroom at a ward caucus."?Youth's Companion. RUSSIA'S GRAND OLD MAN. Isk r_ & MtiBNtossg ! COUNT TOLSTOY. f " WHO SI SKETCH OF THE LIFE And a True Story of How Had Its Birth ajnd How It to be Offered for Pu This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1330, coming from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert win inn and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic nature. ' In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkhara, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four ohildren, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies? calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and experience many of them gained a won-"''nl era t.Ha rnirn.t.i va nron. erties of the various roots and herbs. Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over disease. She maintained that just as nature so bountifully provides in the harvestfields and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds; so, if we but take the pains to find them, in the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies expressly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effective medicines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combination of the chcAcest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses peculiar to the female sex, and Lydia E.Pinkham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them; All this so far was done freely, without money and without price, as a. labor of love. But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. Some other source of income had to be found. At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world. The three sons and the daughter, ? n witn weir mumer, cuuiuiucu iv>^o? w V/hen you buy WET ?>f WEATHER tldfci ' CLOTHING yQU want '/ -tpwf-xV complete protection m, JSjl / ILr^ and long ^\uLJ/ " service. v 1Y These and many "* // i I '/ i v other good points , JL^> '/ are combined in CZJ&y / TOWER'S f\ FISH BRAND f ? / OILED CLOTHING/ "You cant afford ' J / to bt[y any other // j J U J U TOWI* CO BO?TO?? w? A 413 TOwt* C*- live to see the great success of this ^ work. She passed to her reward yeara PJii ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work aa\ jeffectively as she could have done it herself. , fy'm During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her * gj| worK anu sno waa mwuya uvic>ui ^poserve a record of every case thatcameto - ; ':<5| her attention. v The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice? and there were thousands?received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and ' |^ to-day these records, together with . hundreds of thou sands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a'vast collabora- v tzon .of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which authenticity and accuracy can hardly : be equaled in any library in the ' ^ world. | With Lydia E. Pinkham worked he* daughter-in-law, the present Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and . for years she assisted her in her vast ' correspondence. To her hands naturally fell the direction of the work when its origina- V'i tor passed away. For nearly twenty live years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the Vy* first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her . pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, Jgm now the mother of a large family, took *S|| it up. With woman assistants,-some as ' capable as herself, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great work.and ||? probably from the office of no other . person have So many women, been ad- v vised how to regain health. Sick wo- ' x-* men, this advice is "Yours for Health" freely given if you only write to ask ; ^ for it. \ .Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound; made irom simple roots and herbs; the one great medicine for women's ailment^ and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. A Million to Fight Insects. x ;? British hop growers have had to maintain this season one of their hardest fights to save their crop from the ravages of the aphis, or green fly, and it is not improbable that this warfare has added $1,000,00(1 to the Ft, cost of raising the crop. ~