The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, October 05, 1906, Image 2
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
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He Who Chews Will Know
The Proof is in the Chewing
him hot
lode -so
was not
MEET YOUR FRIENDS
AT
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Oct. 22 to 27, 1906
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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.
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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.
As to him the writer says;
Some men have made snug for
tunes from their work- in the chan- |
tauqua field. More public men are
going into the work every year
Most of them admit they like it.
The Chautauqua season is rapidly
drawing to a close, and it has been
the most prosperous of any yet held.
Senator Tillman has been the great
drawing card.
He has made more money out of
it than any other Chautauqua attract
ion. He had a fairly good reputation
before the season began, but the rail
road'rate hill in congress last winter
brought him into such notoriety that
every farmer in the land wanted to
eet a look at him. Many of them
wanted to hear him and all of them
were willing to pay the admission
fee.
Tillman saw the humor in the
whole thing, hut at the same time he
did not overlook- the money. He told
a South Carolina political audience
that he made the Yankees pay him
for the privilege of hearing him call
them a lot of hypocrites on the ne
gro question.
Mr. Tillman could not begin to fill
th» engagements offered to him this
season. Three lecture bureaus com
peted for his time and his price was
$250 a lecture.
For a few special engagements he
received a higher price At one place
in Iowa he received $500. At another
in Illinois he received $300. His sea
son was probably worth $25,000 to
him.
Next to Mr. Tillman. Senator La
Follette, of Wisconscin, was the great
est attraction. Tillman lectured on
the rate question purely from the
Southern point of view. Senator La
Follette discussed the railroads and
defended his course in the senate on
rate legislation. For all of this the
farmers gladly paid.
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Bobbie, for Bobbie’s college education’
his European trip, and, "oh, dear!”
sin; always adds, "Bobbie’s wife.”
Wearying of a continual spell of ex
travagance .she’ll buy a lot of dear, de
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cured. her hair shampooed and take
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costs.” And Bobbie’s wife won’t
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Good people who fail to die young
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