Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' *, f * f ’ >•>; ; . I WHO SHE WAS SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the “Panic of ’TS” Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, com ing 1 from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert pe ■. \ 4 HSi ir n and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa thetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, 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. Ily tradition and ex perience many of them gained a won derful knowledge of the curative prop 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 harvest- fields 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 ex pressly 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 medi cines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combina tion of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu liar to the female sex, and Lydia E.Pink- ham'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, with out 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 Centen nial year dawned it found their prop erty swept away. Some other source of income had to be found. At this point Lydia E. Pinkham’-. Vegetable Compound was made known to the world. The three sons and the daughter, with their mother, combined forces to restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world. The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medi cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the de mand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts the fam ily had saved enough money to com mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured, until to day Lydia E Pinkham and her Vege table Compound have become house hold words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annu ally in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself. During her long and eventful expe rience she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to pre serve a record of every east* thatcame to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice— and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, includ ing symptoms, treatment and result^ were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collabora tion of information regarding the treatment of woman’s ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. 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 tor passed away. For nearly twenty- five years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. Pinkham dropi>ed her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it up. With women 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 vised how to regain health. Sick wo 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 from simple roots and herbs; the one great medicine for women’s ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. The Gaffney Gity Land and Imp orient Co, Offers for nale KulldinK Lots In Oils HourMilnir town, Ojiltney; also l- .r r- n ;t by aud in reach of the Scnools of Limestone Springs .toil o* this iiiai-e, I kn- to 10U acres n liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent fur Kan., purp 's s For 1 part uiars apply to J. V. SARRATT, A?ent. N.B.—A'l persons are forbidden to enter on. w ilk or ride through or over t>.>- lands c inipanv.iMUtinir and removing timber or flshlnjr hnntlmr. under penalty of law LI V Sutoiis for The Ledger, Sl.00 a year EIGHT MEET DEATH IN MINNEOAPOLIS FIRE E.uza Broke Out In Upper Sto ries of West Hotel. MANY GUESTS MADE ESCAPES THROWS SHADOW OVER STATE. Captain of Fire Company While Res cuing Woman Lost His Balance and Fell Seven Stories to Instant Death. Woman Escaped Slightly Injured. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 10.—Six known dead and possibly more im- pnsoned in their rooms, is the result ot a fire early today in the West lanel. The blaze broke out in the upper stories of the building's, and electric bells immediately sounded the alarm in all the rooms. Many guests es caped down the stairways, but these exits were soon cut off by tlames, and the halls filled with smoke. Captain John Berwin, of the fire department, fell while trying to lower a woman to safety from the fifth lloor and was killed. The woman was caught by another fireman. The dead: Captain John Berwin, of hook and ladder company No. 1, fell from upper lloor. Thomas Somerville, of Springfield, 111., suffocated In room on the sixth floor. Alice Martin, servant, jumped from seventh floor window. W. S. N’ichols, of Nichols & Tay lor, chamber of commerce, suffocated. Two unknown men who jumped from an upper floor window. An unknown man jumped for the roof of an adjoining building from the top floor, but missed it and was killed, while a large middle-aged woman jump' d from the fo-urih floor and met instant death. Mrs. C. H. Wood and her daughter proprietors of the West hotel, were both rescued, rh** latter being carried •iewn a !a.l:!< r to safety. One cf ihe most thrilling rescues was ihat of President Chamberlain of Hie Security bank, and members of his family, who were not awakened in time to make their escape by the usual exits. For many anxious minutes Ihey remained at their window in the top most story at the Fifth street and Hen nepin avenue corner. Mrs. Cham berlain gathered bedding and sheets and made a. rope of them and at the same time the extension ladders were being placed into position, but were found to be too short. The Pompier ladders were rushing to the scene, and a fireman with a rope about him, firm ly placed and scaled the ladder to the cheers of thousands of excited specta tors. Arriving at the window' he took one after the other, lowered them safe ly to the extension ladder two stories beneath by means of the rope, where they were brought to safety. The rescue was accomplished amid deathlike stillness. When the last person had been rescued and the fire man followed, the cheering broke loose. It was one of the most thrill ing scenes at a fire ever witnessed in H is city. Cup-tain John Berwin was carrying a woman down a scaling ladder when the terrified woman tried to jump tc a window ledtre. Captain Berwin thereupon lost his balance, falling sev en stories to his death. Claim ts Cemea. Cincinnati, Jan. 10.—The claim ol \Y. J. Odell to the Holzman seat in the New York '■■lock exchange was de rie l by United S ates Judge Thompson late yesterday, and an injunction wa i sued to preveiu any interference with the sale of the seat. On the outcome cf this litlgr.ion depends the amount to he realized for the creditors of Hoi man & Co., bankrupts, and the recent sale ef the seat for $85,000 is declare 1" the court to he regular and proper TW- case will he ap-pealcd. Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year Governor Heyward, of South Carolina On Dispensary. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 10.—Cover nor D. C. Heyward, in his message submitted to the general assembly ol Scuth Carolina, says: “The only cloud which throws » Shadow over the state is tihe unsatis factory condition of the dispensary. “No one can deny that the present atmosphere surrounding the dispens ary,” he says, “is a grave reflection upon South Carolina for a state insti tution, and any odium which attache to its operation necessarily attaches tc the state." He regards the action of those coun ties voting to abolish dispensaries ar a rebuke to the mode of operation rath er than repudiation of the system. He urges that exisling conditions should be immediately remedied. The gov ernor declares it should never he 1h r policy to force dispensaries upon conn ties, or communities desiring prohibi lion. The messages urges more stringent measures for the prevention of lynch lags. FIND TRUE BILL AGAINST SMITH. Rome Man Charged with Assault with Intent to Murder. Rome, Ga., Jan. 10.—John M. Smith, a prominent Reman, was indicted hi the grand jury for assault with Inten 1 to murder Attorney Wright Willing ham, a prominent and well known Ro man, during the hearing of a bank ruptcy proceeding recently before Ret. eree W. S. Rowell. During the hearing Smith became en raged at Willingham for some remarks made in the course of the argument and threw a heavy brass spittoon at WilLngham, hitting him in the face and inflicting an exceedingly ugly wound. Both men are very prominent, Wil lingham being a leading attorney at the Romd bar and a nephew of Hon. Seaborn Wright. Smith is a prominent merchant and lumberman. Smith is now on trial in the United States court for contempt on account of the same matter. Primary Will Select Men. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 10.—A state primary has been ordered for Aug. 27 by the Democratic executive commit tee. The committee not only ordered a primary for the selection of Demo cratic candidates for governor and United States senators, but it provided further for the succession to the Unit, ed States senate in the event there should be a vacancy caused by death in the next four years. Voters will not only vote for successors to Senators John T. Morgan and Edmund W. Pet- tus. but they will vote for men who are to be appointed by ihe governor in the event either of the two senators die. Woman Guilty of Murder. Chicago, Jan. 10.—A jury in Judge Sn;i:.is coiiit yesterday found Mrs. Virginia B. Troup guilty of murder ing her iiii.-'hand with a penalty of 14 \ e.-.r* in the penitentiary. The verdict was reached a!'< r four hours’ of de- liht-vation. Mrs. Troupe was accused of n:ordering h: :■ husband, William C. Tvi.upe, the nig . of Aug. 9, 1905, in t'; <ii home. i lie shooting is sup- :>nsed to have taken place during a rp.mrrel after Ixi’h had been spending die evening in a saloon. Greene and Gaynor on Trial. Savannah, Or., Jan. 10.—The first day of (lie Greene and Gaynor case ir ihe United States court of the south ern district of Georgia was consun ea in prliminary skirmishes between couu scl with the issue upon the contention advanced still undecided when adjourn mem was taken. It seemed quite pus sihle as one o served the slow progress of the case t :at it might be days be for< the ]>oin of drawing the jury foi the actual trul would be reached, as there are a number of pleas in abate ment and demurrers to Che bills ol indictment yet to be presented to the court and argued. It is a well knowu fact that cotton, or any other crop, produced with Vir- I briutr the highest possible prico on ttio market, "’“'''“"d, early cotton, with lull grown bolls on «.<*.«“o *“ d “■> Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. This is one of the several ways to increase your yields, 1 ncy cout&iu nil tlic mtitoriiilB nectissury to buddIv to vour Inrui tVin Alrw Thumf j 1 l,y rc P ouUs ' 1 cultivation year after year, uncso iortilizers will greatly increase your yields per acre,” for they are making high-grade fertilizers all their hum a 1 n tho proportions t» return to your soil the plant-foods that it needs. Accept no substitute from your dealer. Kichmond, Va. Norfolk, Va. Durham. N. C. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Vlrglnla-Carolina Chemical Co. Atlanta, Oa. Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis. Tenn. Shreveport, La. Increase Yourtc otton | y a j t!es Yl.ka e.r ActHT Ab V ~ r l(j This Space Belongs To;* Shuford & LeMaster. Who are now taking ’stock and getting ready for the New Years business and you may rest assured they will put forth every effort to serve you better, if possi ble, than in the past. : : : : THE DIXIE 1 # Has thrown open wide its doors for the business of 1906. Our progress for the year just passed^ has been most gratifying to us, and we truly thank the public at large for their liberal patronage in the past, and assure them that we are in a‘position|to do as much or more for them in the future. Clothing, Over Shoes, and Men’s Hats at special low prices. We keep everythin?’ to eat or wear. Come to THE DIXIEJor Groceries. Littlejohn Bros. 3000 V A R OS Offered For Sale at Reduced Prices Monday and Tuesday, January 15th and 16th, 1906 This consists of 3 lots of Embroidery at 5 cents, 10 cents and 19 cents per yard. The 5 cents lot is worth from 8 cents to 10 cents per yard. The 10 cents lot is worth from 10 cents to 25 cents per yard. The 19 cents lot is worth from 25 cents to 50 cents per yard. These are Exceptionally Good Values at the Prices. OOKSETS. The $1.00 Vsltjee. All of them at 83 cents, including W B Corsets, Colton’s Invisible Lacing and American Beauty. These prices for CASH ONLY H DK K tQC Ei IEC I-i'vS. On NTonclny and Tuesday "> cent ones at -1 cents. 10 cent ones at 8 cents. 15 cent ones at 12 cents 25 cent ones at 19 cents. The Time for replenishing your stock of Towel8,Table Linen,Sheets,Pillow Cases. Lace Curtains, White Quilts, etc. W. J. WILKINS & COMPANY.