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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 *73” Caused It to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Ma-ss., February 9th, 1819, chin ing from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert m 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 operat jr, 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— nailing In a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and ex perience many of them gained a won derful knowledge of the curative prop erties of the various routs 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 tils and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effective medi eines 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 ■iai year dawned it found their prop- orty 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, j 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 case that came 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 results 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 Mr*. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed iu all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her in her vast correspondence. To her bands 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 dropped 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 lira. 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 “Youra 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 herba; the one great medicine for women's ailmentei and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. diners Who’ve Spent Their Lives Seeking Source of Gold. "If you are going to hunt for gold, don’t fail to get inoculated for the ‘mother lode fever,’’’ said a man who has b'en digging for precious metals r or forty odd years. “In my time, in California, In South Africa and In the Klondike. I have seen many expe rienced miners fall ill of that disease.” "You get out among a big gang of men where everybody is struggling to inearth treasures and you "et in that fren/.v that makes yon work with su ’'rhuman strength and • endurance. But if you have heard or read some where that those deposits of precious metals in the streams and all others that, are located similarly have been washed down from up there in the hills that stofy will echo in your ears while you work, and at night it would 1 •- i Vi m v’jjr $*1 IMS He Who Chews Will Know The Proof is in the Chewing him hot lode -so was not MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT The State Fair Oct. 22 to 27, 1906 Finest Programme Ever Arranged. Races Every Day—Great. South Carolinians from everywhere will be at the Fair for “Home Coming” Celebra tion. Cheapest Railroad Rates. ONE FARE ROUND TR3? Get Ready and Come. gfciiaw he the subject of your dreams Then you’d have the ‘mother lode fever.’ “That is, you’d have it unless you were an uncommonly well educated miner or one endowed with a rare quantity of good sense, or one of those lazy beggars that think it's true that everything comes to him who’ll wait. ‘In many ways the theory of the mother lode seems plausible. Even the scientists haven’t decided for sure that there’s nothing in it. It is sug- gest-'d that the gold discovered in the -ireams, as so much of it was in Pal ilornia and the Klondike, comes from the mountains and was lodged there by convulsions of nature in by-gone j days. The theory of the mother lode | is that in those convulsions great | quantitp's of gold were deposited in the mountain ranges and that what the average miner finds is that part that lias been washed down by the water. Sounds plausible enough, j doesn’t it? ‘fine who has set his mind on | reachin" the great fountain head of tli.> stream of gold is thoroughly, con vinced that somewhere back in the mountains, where the mountains ex plorations have not yet been made, lies the great deposit. To he sure, he might pick and wash here in the stream and gather timelier enough to j give him a fair competence for life; , tmt why potter about with the small | things when there, just above, lies wealth that would make of him a : modern Midas? ‘ Ever hear of Lem Hollister? 1 first met Lem in California, and found ; on the trail of the mother j he thought. Placer mining j very profitabk- then—it had j been played out. I didn’t know much | | about the mother lode theory then; j nobody did, I guess, for it was some-J tiling new. Lem had nicked up the theory somewhere and he was sure) it would pay him in the end. "He was a secretive cuss, Lem was. He’d work at placer mining for quite ; a stiell, never saying anything to us, but always seeming to be thinking a lot. When he’d gathered up a little Pile he’d sell out his mine, whether i he’d worked it or not, and away he’d go up in the mountains, alone. He ; ser ined to think he could discover the | mother lode without assistance; he didn’t want to have to divy with any one. Of course he never found It. When his stake was gone he’d come | back again and dig in again to make i another. “Next time I saw Lorn was at Nome. 1 was one of the first ones to go there \ from the States, but I^m w'as there j ahead of me. We staked claims in ! the same locality and Lem worked faithfully, and did well. “ ‘You’ll soon have enough to make you independent,’ I him one day. ” ‘Yes, I’m doin’ fairly well, consid erin’ ’ he said. “ ‘You don’t think you’ll find the centre lode up here, do you?’ I asked. “ ‘Not if I keep diggin’ awav here,’ he replied, somewhat sourly. I thought. I wondered then if he still clung to his crazy idea, but didn’t say any more. A few days later he disap peared. I felt pretty certain as to where he’d gone. I’d heard others talking of finding the mother lode in the Klondike. “One day several months later I met Hollister In Dawson. Hig first expedition had failed; he had re turned. made another stake and was going out again His recent experi ence had told on him: he didn’t look fit for another joumer into these un known regions. “‘Lem,’ I to'.d hjm. ‘don’t you be a fool. now. You’re getting on fairly w " here and you ought to he satis fied.’ “‘Fairly wed,’ he sneered. "‘Better than lots of the boys,’ I argued. * What, you’ve got doesn’t j h ok big hen , but down in tine States j it will. You won't have to work any i o e if you live to be 150 if you k^ep ; m a p1< cer an 1 hang onto your find- ! ;ng.s.’ “ Ii s too s ow and too hard.’ he •nib d. I might as well he working ti tee section. I’ve looked into this mother lode matter carefully and my tie r search-s have taught me a lot. hi be a fool to give up now. Why. -u oil the point of finding it. That’s ’•algiit.’ 1 might as well have argued with c. e wind. He never came bach. I got pretty much interested in ! the mother lode theory myself, hut I .ever got the idea into mv head that could find it. Not I. I’d seen too I • any of its victims.” The wholesome flavor and delight ful, appetizing aroma of the tobacco grown in the famous Piedmont to bacco belt continues to create and popularize man’s fondness for chew ing tobacco. Lovers of real tobacco pass the good thing along—one chewer makes another chewer—un til there are now many more chewers and more pounds of tobacco chewed, to the population, in those States where SCHNAPPS tobacco was first sold, than there are in the States where SCHNAPPS has not yet been offered to the trade. Only choice selections of well ma tured, thoroughly cured tobaccos, grown in the famous Piedmont tobacco belt, are used in making SCHNAPPS. That’s why it has a better quality and more lasting flavor than the tobacco formerly sold to chewers at double the price they now pay for SCHNAPPS. Thai’s why a 10-cent plug of SCHNAPPS is more economical than a much larger plug of cheap tobacco. That’s why SCHNAPPS wins all classes of chewers: the rich, because they do not find a chew to really please them better at any price; the poor, because they get their money’s worth of the real snappy chew and flavor not found in the highly sweet ened mixtures. Neither the rich nor the poor wish to chew tobacco so intensely sweet that its true flavor and tooth-preserving quality are lost. Look for the word “SCHNAPPS” on the tag, and on the plug under the tag and then you have it— the most wholesome tobacco produced, with just enough sweetening to preserve the quality and bring out the flavor the real tobacco flavor that stim ulates and satisfies. Sold at 50c. per pound in 5c. cuts. Strictly 10c. and 15c. plugs. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C. I; * y&as/ V \\ \a'kT TILLMAN’S EARNINGS. laid by said to Subscribe for The Ledger; $1 a year. In the Lecture Field They Amount to $25,000. The New York Sim in Us Sunday issue has an interesting article on "Now I so for Our Statesmen,” in j which tiio groat demand for them as j h'eturers in Chautauqua fields is ooint- i od out. There is “great money” in it , if a statesman happens to he in de mand. judging from the estimate that | Senator Tillman has taken $25,000 j this soason. 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