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p"'* SV ' ^ v ' ' ' ^ ̂ " r " - : V * > " * ./U^'.V':: - • • '•'•'•'-' 'S ".-' ^c ' ....IV'. '.-*.V,.K **" .K./ .M".**... • v *- ••»*» '-•>- *>'w , j>y. ' '• ,-w^( "> , 5 „„ ,j "?\ ,'-, THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY ROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW IT w- tnGifly •WWWT.f*? •. W .Kt l¥. CRAGO. 'fePij:::-:: i:;: dnnWri. ilriiSiSfe*'-- To Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney Remedy# Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of this paper May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail. Weak and unhealthy kidneys aro responsible for more •iekness and suffering than any other disease, therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble Is permitted to continue, fatal results are sure to follow. Your other organs may nerd attention--but your kidneys most, because they do most and need attention first. If you are s»ck or "feel badly," begin taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, because mx soon as your kidneys begin to get better they will help all the •Cher organs to healtft. A trial will convince anyone. Tbe aSd aad immediate effect of Dr. JEci-'s ST* arc Root, the great kidney bladder remedy, is soon realized. It --tbe highest for its wonderful cures ai the nest distressing cases. Swamp- Root will set your whole system right, and the best proof of this is a trial. S3 CBRMI ST.. MELROSE. MASS. DCU Sa: JAM. 11th, 1904. "tiu dace I was ia the Army. I had more or lenkidne; trouble, asd within the ps^tyear it be­ came so severe and complicated that I suffered ererjthiac and eras much alarmed--my strength aad power was fast leaving me. 1 saw an adver­ tisement of Swamp-Root aad wrote asking for ad­ vice. 1 becan the use of the medicine and noted a decided improvement alter takinc Swamp-Root only a short time. I continued its use and am thankful to say that I MB entirely cured and strong. In order to be very •ore about this. 1 had a doctor examine some of mj water to-day and he pronounced it all right and ia splendid condition. I know that your Swamp-Root i* purely vegeta­ ble and does not contain any harmful drugs. Thanking yon for my complete recovery and rec- mmm rM'- y Swamp-Root to all sufferers, I am. Very truly yours, 1. C. RICHARDSON." Too may have a sample bottle of this famous kidney remedy, Swamp-Root, sent free by mail, postpaid, by which you may test its virtues for such disorders as kidney, Madder and oric acid diseases, poor diges­ tion, being obliged to pass yoar water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickdust or sediment in the nrine, headache, backache, lama back, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trou­ ble, skin eruptions from bad blood, neural­ gia, rheumatism, diabetes, bloating, irritabil­ ity, wornout feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh,sallow complexion,or Bright's disease. If your water, when allowed to remain undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty- four hours, forms a sediment or settling or has a cloudy appearance, it is evidence that your kidneys and bladder need imme­ diate attention. Swamp-Root is the great discovery of Dr. Kilmer, the eminent kidney and blad­ der specialist. Hospitals use it with won­ derful success in both slight and severe cases. Doctors recommend it to their patients and use it in their own families, because they recognize in Swamp-Root the greatest and most successful remedy. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is for sale at drug stores the world over in bottles of two sizes and two prices--fifty cents and one dollar. Remember the name. Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address* Bing- hamton, N. Y., on every bottle. EDITORIAL NOTICE.--If yon have the slightest symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble:, or if there is a trace of it ia your family history, send at once to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., who will gladly send you by mail, immediately,with­ out cost to you, a sample bottle of Swamp- Root and a book containing many of the thonsands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured. In writing, be sure to say that yoo read this generous offer in this paper. COUPON. Please write or fill in this coupon with yonr name and address and Dr. Kilmer 4 Co. will send you a Free Sample Bottle «1 Swaap-Root UM Great Kidney Remedy. Name St. and No City or Town State Mention this paper. Save Your Thresh Bill The ordinary old-style small cylin­ der wastes enough grain and time to pay yoar thresh bill. Why not save the grain ordinarily put into the straw stack? Why not save the time which the ordinary threshing outfit wastes for you? This can be done by employing the KED RIVER SPECIAL It has the Big Cylinder, with lots of concave and grate surface. It has the Man Behind the Qua, that does most of the separating right at the cylinder. Besides these, it has all the separat­ ing capacity of other machines. It runs right along, saving your grain and saving time, regardless of conditions. There has come improvements in threshing machinery the same as in •verything else. As the modern self-binder is ahead of the old reaper of forty years ago, so is the Big Cylinder and Mao Behind the dun ahead of the small cylinder old-style thresher. The old-style thresher with Its small cylinder and limited separating capac­ ity, has stood for years without im­ provement. The RED RIVER SPECIAL is fully up with the times. It is built for modern, up-to-date work; to thresh well; to thresh fast; to save time and money for both the thresherman and farmer. It does it. There are reasons why. Send tot our new book on threshing, it gives them and it is free. Employ the RED RIVER SPECIAL, It Is the only machine which has the Maa Behind the dun, and saves enough grain and time to pay your thresh bill. 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These arc »onie reasons that lnstare us an Immedi­ ate and profitable market; other reasons will be glad­ ly explained ou request. We offer investors Preferred Guaranteed stock at par value i Si.OO.) Not leaa than 100 shares sold, however. The guarantee of a strong financial Institution, and deposit In escrow of United States Government Bonds to make good our obligation, are features tbst make our Investment absolutely safe, and unusually at­ tractive. Eirly application Is now necessary to Insure stock be.ng held for you. ADDBXSS AMERICAN MORTAR BHICK CO.. Hannibal. Missouri. Or our New York Ar^nt. B, O. Ruxton, Banker & Broker, 82 Broad-way, It. T. FATE OF AN EXPLORER. Made Ail Idiot By Tortures Inflicted By Tibetans. His last journey was to the North, into the strange countries that In­ close the Himalayas, and when they found him again, he was like that-- again Colin pointed to the portrait of the stricken man's son. He was like that--only worse--far worse! He had set out young, vigorous, alert; he came back bowed as if with age, his hair white, his face sunken and furrowed, his mind disordered, and peculiarly horrible must have been the expression of his eyes. For the lids had been slit across the middle, and were now but half healed. He Is said to have tottered into the station without knowing it for what it was; as though he had been led to a point in the road and left to take his chance. Thus he returned again, and no one knew where he had been or what great trials had so changed him; for he had no answer to the ques­ tions tliey put, and he was alone; he knew nothing, his memory and with it his whole past seemed lost to him, nor did he even recognize the friends into whose care, he had come. They sent him home after a while, to this house; and here he was won back to some semblance of life by the de­ voted woman, whom, later on, he married--the mother of his son. He lived here quietly for a numbelv^of years, he and his wife and the bo^? and then one night he blew his brains out.--Metropolitan Magazine. DAN DALY AND THE EDITOR. Comedian Had Rather the Best of Short Controversy. Dan Daly in his younger days es­ sayed to write fiction, and went to the editor of a Boston paper with his first effusion. The editor criticised the work severely and advised the future comedian to study Nathaniel Hawthorne. The vein of humor peculiar to Daly had developed even at that early date. He said reflectively: "If my story were printed it would measure about half a column, would it not?" "About that," replied the editor, wondering what that had to do with it "Your rate of payment la |6 per column, I believer* pursued the young man. "Yes." "Good day. I like to be pleasant and agreeable and popular with every­ body; I am even willing to dethrone Hawthorne to please an editor--but not for $2, not for $2."* Whereupon he casually departed.-- New York Times. Tract Has Bloody Record. On the six miles between the two rivers, North and South Canadians, there have been forty-two lives lost, all being in good health at the time of their death. On this six miles of railroad and wagon road, running parallel with the railroad, seven ne­ groes, twenty whites and thirteen In­ dians have been killed one way or another. Twenty-four of these went the gun route, one committed suicide, two were killed by being run over by wagons, three by driving on the rail­ road right-of-way, two were killed by horses on right-of-way, a tramp was burned to death, a bridge hand met death by falling off a bridge, one, a woman, not known how she came to her death, one boy was killed by a horse. Out of this great lot of killed only seven were killed by officers; two by Creek Indian officers, who were ex­ ecuted by shooting. In this lot of deaths there was no accidental shoot­ ing; they all knew that the gun was loaded and used it to kill.-- City Journal. Compromised With the Rat. A Portland man who maintains a summer cottage on the cape has dur­ ing the past winter exercised a bit of diplomacy that achieved the de­ sired result nicely. During last fall a large rat made its appearance about the cottage that defied ail ef­ forts to trap or exterminate it, and the aggressive campaign was aband­ oned in despali*. But it would not do to leave the rodent in fall and free possession of the premises, as the mischief it might Inflict on the fur­ nishings during the winter would be considerable. The owner concluded to try an expedient that suggested It­ self to him, and, as before stated, the plan proved an emphatic success. At least once a week the cottage has been visited and a quantity of food left in the cellar. This arrangement was at once ratified by the rodent, which has abstained from depreda­ tions in consideration for the bounty upon which it has waxed sleek.-- Kennebec JournaL i "THE STANDARD" SCALES - "Quality Higher Than Price." ^--JBTAMOARD SCALE & SUPPLY CO., LTD. •W,127-120 Market 6t., CHICAGO. BAD BLOOD TELLS. Free Advice on Alt Blood Disease*. BE. A. M. K&BOH, 120 W. 42d Bt.. Kew Yorlt OVER $20,000,000.00 In sro'd and Bllver ts the pr. duotlcn of IDAHO SPRIHGS and vlclolty, lint It l» only a BIIIKII | ceuUitfe of tthat the future production will be wlih the lmproved metlwilK for ttie cxtrHrtlou of the precious metals. BEATON HODflTAlU lias pru- duced Just one-tialf < f thin enormous output! W« are developing an aggregation <>f rich inInluK claim, on thin mountain and ofler y< u an lntereMt In the company at tw.> ci nta per thare. Send for pron- peciui* which will tell all about It. Only a amall clock of charter member stock will be offered aa price advances noon. C:i«h or InHtallnient reserva­ tions made while you investigate and thirty days given to satisfy yournelf of the merit of the propo­ sition. Keisular reports leaned. Highest bank and other references. Par value 11, fully paid, non- Mnesaable. WRITE AT OSCE. THE BIG REVENUE GOLD BULLION MINING CO* Bo. 8 Ireland Block, • Idaho Springs, Col*. ; Thompson's Eye Water iZfcblfc] ClltSJHEIC AU f LS£ FAItl. t Cough Syrup. Tastee Oood. Us in tut. Bold by druggists. BEGIN TO INVEST. Ton must start sometime. Make your moneT work. Au Investment proposition that will paT 8 per cent, and probably sell considerably higher- Write at once for particulars. Agent wanted for each couuty. Notc-We will pay one dollar per share for the privilege of buying this Rt<. till e;ul i,f tlilb year) at fn doll urn per shar over the price at which li In now offer CONKLE & CO MP A m BTCMI Bvildiax, rUUialfhU, t*. stock (good hare advance 'MiY, The Poet'a Prayer. Almighty Father! let thy lowlr child, one In his love of truth, oe bold-- wisely PROVED EARTH DID NOT TURN. . patriot bard, by sychophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die oldl Let poor men's children, pleased to read his lays. Love, for his sake, the scenes where he hath been. And when he ends his pilgrimage of days. Let him be burled where tbe grass Is green, Where daisies, blooming earliest, linger late To hear the bee his busy note prolong; There let him slumber, and In peaoe await Tlie dawning morn, far from tlas sen­ sual throng. Who scorn the windflower's blush, the redbreast's lonely song. --Kbenecer Hlllott. Ructie Philosopher'® Schema UpMt All the Theories cf Science. "Don't tell me 'bout the world turnin' clean over every night," said old Downrow, who did not take to school teachers. "I've hearn that offen nuff, an' proved It ain't so many er time. No longer en las' night I put a heavy iern wedge on top of a,gate post an' it wuz thar when I went out this mawnin'. the world bad er turned over indurin' the night don't you know that thar wedge would er fell offen that post? Well, if you don't I do, en that settles hit. "Same kind er folks says that some er the stars Is ez big er biggern the world, Jes* ez ef we can't see the stars an' khow how big they a'r. Nobody ever seen a star biggern a biscuit, ef ez big^ 'Sides, my mammy seen the stars when they fell, 'bout sixty years ergo. Now ef they is any of 'em big as the world, how could theyer lit on the earth by thousands an' laid thar? An* any man that says my mammy lied I'd lick hijzr ef he wuz ez big ez Jack the Giant Killer. That's whar I stan'." "I ThlnK I Know." Salesville, Ohio, May 2nd.--Tlliere Is a Civil War veteran in this place who is very positive in his wajr and when he makes a statement everyone knows ho means it and that it is true. His name is Mr. N. J. Stephens, and he as written for publication the follcw- letter: '"M have been a sufferer with Kidney Disease since the Civil War. Some­ times my back would hurt me so that could not dress myself for weeks. I took a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and have found great relief. They have done me a great deal of good. "My general health is much better since using Dodd's Kidney Pills. I can recommend this remedy to be the best thing for the Kidneys that is on the market. I have taken a heap of medicine for my back and Kidneys and I think I know what helps me. "I am 63 years old and was through the Civil War as a soldier." Mr. Stephens knows that Dodd's K:dney Pills helped him. They will cure any case of Backache. Want No Educational Test. It is said that the recent sugges tion of the Lancet that young men should undergo an intellectual test before being allowed to marry has spread dismay among English girls, As conditions now stand the gentler sex are In the overwhelming major­ ity, and such a requirement, they de­ clare, would certainly swell the ranks of unmarried women to a considera­ ble extent. Long-Lived Married Women. By far the greater part of the cen­ tenarians who died In 1903 were worn en, and nearly all of them were mar­ ried. One of these specimens of lon­ gevity had not slept out of London for sixty years, which fact the I^ady's Pictorial takes as a proof of the purity and invigorating power of Lon­ don air. Sulzer Given Indian Name. Congressman Sulzer of New York has been battling for the Seneca In­ dians of his state, whose lands the Standard Oil company is endeavoring to secure. So pleased are the red men that they have named him Our Friend Who Wields the Tomahawk in Congress. One day Mr. Sibley re­ ferred to the New York man as "the tomahawk of congress," and the name bids fair to stick. Will Complete Life's Work. Dr. Ewald Flugel, professor of Eng­ lish philology in Leland Stanford uni­ versity, has been granted leave of absence for three years, during which time he will undertake the completion and publication of the Chaucer dic­ tionary, upon which he has spent all his leisure hours during the last four­ teen years. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'* Catarrh Cure. , „ F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known K. J. Cheney for the teat 15 years, and believe him perfectly hon­ orable In all banlne&H transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDINU. K IXNAX & MABVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface* of th« system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cent* pel bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Gov. Jelks in III Health. Gov. Jelks of Alabama has gone td New Mexico in the hope of regaining his health. He is said to be suffering from tuberculosis of the liver, a dis­ ease that invariably results fatally. Ask Tour Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Cofns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot,Callous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Ac­ cept no substitute. Sample mailed FRBB. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A Supreme Indorsement. 'He is an egotistic person." 'Very. He is one of these people who cannot possibly think of a higher compliment than the remark, 'I agree with you.'" Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alcne because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. T, Rapid Telegraphy. The result of a cricket match In Melbourne was cabled to London, 17,- 000 miles, through nine relays, in two and a half minutes. Wiggle'Stick LACNDBT blub Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of nny other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Opens Way to White Men. Much of the country through which the Siberian railway passes had never been traversed by white men before the surveyors came. Don't you know that Defiance Starch, besides being absolutely supe­ rior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in packages and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? Stronger Than Dynamite. Maximite, the secret explosive used in shells by the United States, is 50 per cent stronger than dyna­ mite. Economy in Threshing. • great deal of grain is wasted by nslng old style Threshing Machines. This wast­ age can be entirely eliminated if you use the new and improved machine made by Nichols Si Shepard Co., Battle Croek, Mich. According to the dispatches, the Korean emperor is a trifle nervous. He would be something more or lesa than human if he were not. Dealers say that as soon as a cm tomer tries Defiance Starch It is im­ possible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Speaking of current political repar­ tee, how would yon like to be call«4 * cipher with the rim off? GREAT ARTIST CALLS AMERICAN THE MOST LOVELY WOMAN MRS. BENJAMIN D. WOODWARD. 'The most beautiful of created be­ ings! Madam, I must paint your por­ trait! It shall make us famous for­ ever!" That was the unconventional re­ sponse made by Thaddeus on being presented to Mrs. Benjamin D. Wood­ ward, for painters, like poets, have li­ cense. But the object of the artist's outspoken admiration was unprepared for such a testimony to her loveliness. She is only 19 years old, and a bride of six months. She dropped rather than sat on a convenient chair, and stared at the appreciative painter in wide-eyed wonder. Then came ex­ planations, a tentative consent, and now Mrs. Woodward, whose husband was Commissioner General to the Paris Exposition, is having, her fea­ tures reproduced on canvas. The artist, H. J. Thaddeus, arrived in this country for his first visit in the middle of the winter, and has on ex­ hibition at Knoedler's art gallery in New York portrait^ of the new Pope, of Cardinal Merry del Val, Sir H. Mor­ timer Durand, the British Ambassa­ dor to Washington, and of Mrs. Ixjril- lard Ronalds and Mrs. Philip Lydig. UNLIKE HIS GREAT FATHER. SAW CONDITIONS FOR HIMSELF. 8on of Cyrus Field Has Had a Check­ ered Career. Edward M. Field, son of the late Cyrus Field of Atlantic cable fame, is in Bellevue hospital, New York, in the psycopathic ward, where an examina­ tion is being made into his mental condition. This Is the first time Field has bobbed into public notice since he was arrested as a tramp in 1900. Before that time his career had been a sensational one. Edward M. Field was originally started in the business in the early '70's as a partner in a banking and brokerage firni. The firm made money and later the partnership became the house of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co. In November, 1901, the firm failed for |3,000,000, and prac­ tically no assets could be discovered. Field was charged with causing the failure. HA8 MADE INDIANS GOOD. Excellent Work for Temperance Done by American. Commissioner Hugh J. Lee, the newspaper man of Meriden, Mass., who two years ago went to Wales, Alaska, for the United States govern­ ment to look after the reindeer and the natives there, has established a temperance camp there. In a year there has been but one case of drunk­ enness there. Before his arrival, be says, the natives were a lawless set, given to drinking, but in his first ex­ perience as a justice of the peace he sent one transgressor to the federal jail for three months and since that time law and order have prevailed. Would Abandon Port Arthur. Gen. Dragomiroff, one of the chief military authorities in Russia, is said to have been from the outset in favor of the abandonment of Port Arthur and to have declared after the first Japanese attack that it was untenable and that efforts to hold it would prove costly and finally ineffective. Dra­ gomiroff would have had the fleet make for the open sea and fight there. This general was one of the principal figures in the Russo-Turkish war, commanded the advance guard in the passage of the Danube and was with Kuropatkin at Plevna. He is known as a tactician. Secretary Cortelyou Makes Unexpect­ ed Visit to Ellis Island. Secretary Cortelyou essayed the role of Haroun-al-Raschid last week. Late one evening he called up Com­ missioner General Sargent of the bu­ reau of immigration by telephone and asked him to get ready at once for a trip to New York and be at the sta­ tion in time for the midnight train. That was the first notice anyone had of the secretary's intention to visit Ellis island. He appeared at the im­ migration station the next morning bright and early and when h«vre- turned, three days later, it was with a lot of first-hand information, which he thinks will prove very useful in handling the Washington end of the service. SENATOR LOST HIS TEMPER. And the United States Is Out One Handsome Cuspidor. Senator Cockrell sat at his desk ab­ sorbed in a letter which he had just received from a constituent. In the, middle of the letter he determined to consult a colleague on the other side of the chamber. He arose hastily and stumbled against a handsome cus­ pidor which stood by his desk. Re­ covering his balance, he immediately repeated the misstep. Then, with a blessing not loud, but deep, he swung the senatorial foot .against the trouble­ some cuspidor, which was shattered into a dozen pieces by the blow. The senator looked rather foolish for a moment, but finally joined in the gen­ eral smile and proceeded on his way. Traded Horses by Signs. An unusual decision was rendered in Rutland county, Vt., court in the case of John Rodo, a Polander vs. Isadore Trepania, a Frenchman. In the suit Rodo sought to recover dam­ ages from Trepania, who, it is claim­ ed, sold him a balky horse. Neither understood the language of the other, causing a misunderstanding of the animal's condition. The court decid­ ed that the defendant must take back the horse and the plaintiff must pay him the damage done the animal while in his possession. From Breaker Boy to Artist. John J. Boyle, 18 years old, for a number of years a resident of Ger- mantown, Pa., has been elected a member of the National Society of Fine Arts of Paris on account of a painting which was this year exhibit­ ed in the salon. Boyle until he was 12 years old worked as a breaker boy in the anthracite regions. He fell a vic­ tim to a spinal trouble and was taken up by a philanthropic citizen of Scran- ton. This aid enubled him to develop his talent for paintlrg. Words of Anthem Unknown. King Edward, while visiting at the residence of one of his subjects re­ cently, saw proor-that not many Eng­ lishmen know the^vords of their national anthem. He was waiting at the station for his train when a few of the ultra-loyal began to sing "God Save the King,' but each In succes­ sion came to a sudden pause and la­ mentably broke down. A desperate fianal attempt failed most ignomini- ously, greatly to the amusement of his majesty, who vainly tried to con­ ceal his smiles under cover of a part­ ing chat with his noble and slightly embarrassed hostess. Faithful to Old Master. Richard Bullock Seawell, the oldest native-born resident of Raleigh, N. C., died a few days ago. The pallbearers at his funeral were six of his former slaves and among the principal mourn­ ers was Harry Boykin, who was for many years his slave and for whom Mr. Seawell called repeatedly during his last illness. Though Harry is more than 80 years old, is feeble and lives several miles from the Seawell home, he went there every day, and when his old master died stood weep­ ing at the foot of the bed. Their Relative Importance. The president gave a private audi­ ence the other day to the Harvard baseball team, headed by Capt. Walter Clarkson. Mr. Roosevelt received the twenty-six undergraduates cordially and was wishing them good luck on the diamond when the veteran door­ keeper came in with a senator's card. "Yes, I know," said the president, "the ante-room is full of senators and rep- rentatlves, but" -- laughing -- "they must be taught their place when • Harvard delegation is about." WOMEN'S WOES. ^ Much at women's fflfcily woe is due to kidney trouble. Sick kidneys cause back­ ache, languor, blind headaches, dizzi­ ness, insomnia and urinary troubles. To cure yourself you must cure the kid­ neys. Profit by the experience of oth­ ers who have been cured. Mrs. William W. Brown, profession­ al nurse, of 16 Jane St., Paterson, N. J., says: "I have not only seen much suf­ fering and many deaths from kidney trouble, but I have suffered myself. At one time I- thought I could not live. My back ached, there were frequent headaches and dizzy spells, and the kidney secretions were disordered. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me from the first, and soon relieved me entire­ ly of all the distressing and painful symptoms." A FREE TRIAL of this great kid­ ney medicine which cured Mrs. Brown will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists; price 60 cents per box. Value of New York Aldermen. Gen. "Dan" Sickles is coming'to be regarded as the economist of the New York board of aldermen. At a meet­ ing last week he objected to hiring a new stenographer at $1,350 per year when "all the good stenographers needed can be had at $800." The gen­ eral pointed out that aldermen only feet $1,000 salary, "but then," he added on reflection, "perhaps that is more than we are worth to the city." K. C. 8. Almanac for 1904. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company's Annual Almanac is now ready for distribution. It contains the usual monthly calendars, many useful household hints and information con­ cerning the country in Missouri, Ar­ kansas, the Indian \ Tejmory, Texas and Louisiana. Wrift£ for a copy to S. G. Warner, Generar Passenger and Ticket Agent, K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. Kipling's Brief Acknowledgment. Rudyard Kipling, like every author of repute, is a butt for the autograph hunter. The ingenious individual who seeks for signatures is as indefatiga­ ble in his addresses to the famous man as a cat is to a mouse. When Kipling was living up in the "great pie belt" of New England one who had heard that Kipling's compositions were worth about 25 cents a word wrote, inclosing that amount, and asking him if he would be so good as to forward an autograph. Kipling's reply was characteristic. "Thanks" was all that a huge sheet of foolscap paper con­ tained. /• i Legs and Brains. Senator Piatt of New York, is abont the same age as Mr. T. E. Roessle, proprietor of the Arlington hotel, where Senator and Mrs. Piatt make their Washington home. The other evening Senator Piatt came rather slowly and a bit painfully into the hotel lobby and met Mr. Rpossle, sil­ ver haired and bearded, striding brisk­ ly across the floor. The two greeted each other. Mine Host Roessle remarked apro­ pos of nothing at all: "Senator, I wish I had your brains." "Huh!" returned Senator Piatt, glancing at the firmly planted pedal extremities of his companion. "If I can have your legs you can have my brains." Small Pay for Preachers. The poverty of rural clergymen is traditional in this country, but in ear­ lier days the people among whom they 'worked were as poor as they. Every­ body had land, and if the land was fer­ tile the farmers' families had good and abundant food. The people in the par­ sonage did not eat poorer food or wear poorer clothes than the people of the congregation. The position of a rural clergyman was one of relative comfort as well as of dignity and honor. But for forty years at least the general level of expenditure has raised, while cash plays a larger part and barter and self-production a smaller one in the support of families even in the coun­ try. Yet in many cases the salaries of the country minister have not been raised, although the money of the min­ ister of to-day will not go nearly so far as it would have done forty or fifty years ago.--Brooklyn Eagle. 80AKED IN COFFEE. Until Too Stiff to Bend Over. "When I drank coffee I often had sick headaches, nervousness and bil­ iousness much of the 4lime but about 2 years ago I went to visit a friend and got in the habit of drinking Poe- tum. "I have never touched coffee sine* and the result has been that I have been entirely cured of all my stomach and'nervous trouble. "My mother was just the same way, we all drink Postum now and hav« never had any other coffee in the house for two years and we are all well. "A neighbor of mine a g*eat coffee drinker, was troubled with pains in her side for years and was an invalid. She was ^t able to do her work and could not even mend clothes or do anything at all where she would have to bend foward. If she tried to do a little hard work she would get such pains that she would have to lie down for the rest of the day. "I persuaded her at iast to stop drinking coffee and try Postum Food Coffee and she did so and she has used Postum ever since; the result has been that she can now do her work, can sit for a whole day and. mend and can sew on the machine and she never feels the least bit of pain in her side, in fact she has got well and It shows coffee was the cause of the whole trouble. "I could also tell you about several other neighbors who have been curetl* by quitting coffee and using Postum In its place." Name g'ven by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look In each pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville."