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' \1: "-'4. 'n"*v,. ••' '•••' . "v. A • m \ v « y**Ki rf\ 1 --il .... , * ./ - <foV- " " \ -'J^r^'.x.-V-A.v V-J&f.*V\. ^ ?Hi ':S& j* t.£ •&.&..?') Don't Wait until your sufferings have driven you to despair, with your nerves all shattered and your courage gone. Help and happiness surely awaits you if you accept Mrs. Pinkham's ad vice. Disease makes women nervous, irritable, ana easily annoyed by children and household duties; such women need the counsel and help of a woman who understands the peculiar troubles of her sex; that woman is Mrs. Pinkham, who with her famous medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, have restored more sick and dis­ couraged women to health and happiness than any other one person. Her address is Lynn, Mass, and her advice is free. Write today, do not wait "Will not the volumes of letters from women who have been made strong by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound con­ vince others of the virtues of this great medicine? "When a medicine has been successful In more than A million cases, is it justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it would help me ? " • Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and. sick and dls* eouraged, exhausted with each day's work. If yon have some de­ rangement of the feminine organism try Lydla & Pinhham'l Vegetable Compound. It will surely help yon. Mrs. Emilie Seering, 174 St. Ann's Ave., New] York City, writes: If women who are always blue and depressed and nervous would take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound they would find it the medi­ cine they need to bring them to a more cheerful frame of mind. I was terribly worried and downcast, and was thin and bloodless. My back ached all the time, no matter how hard I tried to forget |it or change my position to ease it, and the pain at the base of my brain was so bad that I sometimes thought that I would grow crazy; 1 had the blues so much and was always so depressed I could not seem to shake them off ; half of the time 1 did not seem to hare the courage to do my work; everything seemed to go wrong with me, and I was always worrying and fearing the worst. I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound. After the first few doses a load seemed lifted from my shoulders. I felt better in every way. The blues left me and my head stopped aching; before long my back was better too, and I looked younger and stronger I took six bottles in all, and it is with thankfulness that I acknowledge that my Eresent good health is doe to the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN. If. there is anything in your case about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. No man will see your letter. She can surely help you, for no person in America has such a wide experience in treating female ills as she has had. She has helped hundreds of thousands of women back to health. Her address is Lynn, Masŝ and her advice is free. You are very fool- - lsh if you do not accept her kind invitation. hDBAX MRS. Fomix $5000 FORFEIT If we cannot forthwith produce the original letter And ilputnn at shore testimonial, which will prove its absolute gennineneM. I^dia £. rinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Maes. START k STEAM LAUNDRY Write us. Paradox Machinery Co., 1B1 E. Division St., Chicago, in your town. Smell capital required end big retuniB on the investment assured.Wo make all kinds of Laundry Machinery. 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Magical Influence of Some Old-Time Tunes That Originated in i School Concerts Before the Qvii f|fc "What has become of the Sunday school concert?" said a man who came out of a church In Fifth avenue after a visit to the Sunday school room. "Maybe you never had Sunday school concerts in New York? "We did not call them that In my part of the country, but that Is what they were. The Sunday schools were held in the afternoon. About an hour was devoted to music, to singing. It was the sort of music which children could sing, and the words were so simple that a mere tot could under­ stand them. "Every now and thea I read or hear about a concert of civil war songs. I should like to hear some of the old Sunday school music which Sam Mc- Gibbons used to direct. "Of course you never heard of Sam McGibbons. He was a Boston com­ mercial drummer, but on Sunday he was a singer. He was employed to conduct the Sunday school music In my town and he gave up the road and established business where he could give his time to the Sunday school concerts. - "There was a lot of new Sunday school music about that time which nobody ever hears n^w. Sam McGib­ bons was the first man In my country to bring out 'There's a Light In the Window for Thee.' "He 6ang it first himself, and then he drilled the Sunday school to it until every- boy and man In town whistled it on the street. "About the same time there was an­ other Sunday school favorite, 'March­ ing Along.' The chorus of that old song had a swing to it like 'Marching Through Georgia.' When Sam McGib­ bons swung his baton for the Sunday school to come in on that chorus the standees joined in until the windows rattled. "When Col. Sam Curtis, who com­ manded the First Iowa infantry--he afterward became a major-general- was stationed in my town for a while in the beginning of the civil war, he went up to the Sunday school one day and heard that song. He got Sam Mc­ Gibbons to go to the camp and sing It for his regiment, and they picked it up quickly. \ "Col. Curtis said If he could get hit men to sing ft "when they went into battle he believed they would be In­ vincible. I den't know whether he ever tried it on or not. Like unto it was the old song: 'I'm glad I'm In this army, and I'll battle for the cause.' "Another Sunday school favorite of that time was 'Homeward Bound.' If 'Marching Along' was a good army song, surely 'Homeward Bound' must have been popular In the navy. "Sam McGibbons used to sing alone a song called 'My Mother's Bible.' With a good voice, such as McGibbons had, It was as effective as Sankey's "Ninety and Nine.' The civil war songs, however, began to come in along about that time, and the old Sun­ day school songs went to the rear. I reckon it was about that time that the Sunday school concerts ceased."--New Tork Sun. WHERE SILENCE WAS GOLDEN. Effective "Argument1* by Which Missouri Lawyer Von Verdict far Hb Client Against a Railroad Company. Bert Norton! of Macon, Mo., won a lawsuit in the Federal court at Hanni­ bal a few days ago In a way unusual among lawyers--by silence. Mrs. Mar­ tha B. Phipps of Macon sued the At­ chison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway company for $15,000. She claimed that a spark from one of its engines caused the burning of her deceased husband's business property at Ethel. The tes­ timony showed that the Santa Fe train stopped at Ethel four minutes the night of the fire, but also that the fire was well under way before the train pulled out, and the road's attor­ neys argued that it was ridiculous to maintain that a fire could be started by a spark and get well under way in such a short time. Mr. Norton devoted practically his entire argument to this point. "He said," says the Macon Repub­ lican, "if a young fellow was sitting on a sofa, 'playing hands' with his girl, time traveled like an express train, but If you dumped a lot of engine sparks on the pine roof of a dry build­ ing In summer time, four minutes were ample to Bettle the fate of the struc­ ture in spite of all efforts to save it. There were some incredulous smiles at this. The attorney took out his watch and handed it to Juryman L. S. Har­ lan, a banker of Clifton Hill, Randolph county, and requested him to signal when four minutes had elapsed. The Jurymen leaned over and looked down at the watch. Then they got tired and settled back in their seats. Mr. Harlan lowered his hand and rested it on his knee. The attorney shifted his feet a few times and sat down \n a chair. "Judge Adams looked at the clock and thea out of the window. A deputy marshal put his head In at the door to see what the matter was and waited the result of the curious scene. Near­ ly every man In the room that had a watch was studying its face. The speaker was sacrificing four minutes of his allotted time, but he felt that it was well invested. At last Juror Har- lan announced the four minutes bad expired and handed the watch back to Mr. Nortoni. Only four minutes, and yet to every man In the room it had seemed, under the suppressed tension, to have been twice as long. The court remarked after the case had been de­ cided that it appeared fully fifteen minutes. The wearisome suspense was an effective object lesson to the jury, and was a startling exposition of what might transpire in that time. The jury found that the defendant's engine had ample time In four minutes to fire the restaurant building, and they brought in a verdict for the plaintiff for $14,198.28--the exact sum her proof showed her loss to be. The case had been pending in the courts ten years."--Kansas City vMo.) Journal. ORGANIZATION OF THE G. A. R. Veteran Printer Tells Some Interesting Facts in Connection With the "Setting UpM of the First RituaL THE BRIGHT CHILD AGAIN. DOIITTIEL'S PILK 0k w,n "x,,: ® cage of Pllei. Tie •jnr. Ko cure, no pay. Full Inforiuallim neut KKKfc. Irr Remedy Co., 107 Clifton St., Cleveland. Ohio. HPODQV NEW DISCOVERY: plvcs ^ V quick relief undourew worst CSSU Book of testimonials uud 10 DAYS treatment nu. Dr. JUL 6BJSEJTB SO If S. Box K. Atlanta. (>• 1-At> 1ES--Agents wantrd to sell an article lndl». penalhle to every lady. $l.s to $26 weekly; samples 60c. Catalogue free. Summit Specialty Co.; Akron, Ohio. drunri Salesmen wanted every state; (sell tobacco andclgars- experience uiineeetibary; salary full time or romni'a. slonslde Hue W. C. Hurt Tobacco Co., Danville, Va. C O N S U M P T I O N ^ AGENTS Wanted Everywhere. SendlOoenta for Ideal Spoon Holder; hundreds of One novelties Large catalogue KKKE. Write at once; don 't wait. Peoria Supply Co., mi V. Adama St., Peoria, in. eOAA 'WEEK Straight salary and ex- w ̂ v pauses to men wlthrl* to Introduce our i'ouitry Mixture in coantrjiTeafi con­ tract; weekly i>u\. A<l<lreaa with itamp, Mfg 1 1 "Do you know," said "Farmer" Col- trln, a well-known old-time compositor of central Illinois, "that if Joe Pryor and me hadn't been printers Decatur might not have been the birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic? "Stephenson and Routh, the origina­ tors of the Grand Army, planned to make it a secret affair. They got up a ritual which contained a lot of stuff and were anxious that nobody but old soldiers should see it Routh came to Decatur from Springfield and engaged Pryor and me to set it up. They took up subscriptions among the old sol­ diers to pay us for our work. "It was intended to organize at Springfield, but the Decatur veterans became interested, and it was tried on them first, and that is how Deca­ tur defeated Springfield for the dis­ tinction of being the birthplace of the G. A. R. The ritual had a lot of stuff in it that was afterward cut out. The Sons of Malta was the thing then, and the G. A. R. ritual was patterned considerably after that of the Malta*. "The 'copy* of Stephenson and Routh was a badly mlzed-up mess, and Dick Steele re-wrote it so that it became Intelligible for the composi­ tors. It had long eulogies of Lincoln and Douglas, and did not resemble LAKE COATED WITH SALT. Inland 8ea of Siberia Roofed Over With Crystalline Deposit. Probably the most remakable lake In the world is one with a coating of salt ft)at completely conceals the water. It may be seen at any time during the year, fully exposed, being seen at its best when the sun is shin­ ing directly upon it. This wonderful body of water is one of the saltiest of the salt lakes, and is situated near Obdorak, Siberia. The lake is nine miles wide and seventeen long, and within the memory of man was entire­ ly roofed over by the salt deposit. Originally evaporation played the most prominent part in coating the lake over with salt, but at the present time the salt springs which surround It are adding fast to the thickness of the crust In the long ago evaporation of the lake's waters left great salt crystals on the surface. In course of time these caked together. Thus the waters were finally entirely covered. In 1878 the lake found an underground outlet Into the River Obi. which lower­ ed its surface about three feet The salt crust was so thick, however, that | it retained Its old level, and now i pros slits tha carious spectacle of a j that In use by the Grand Army to-day to any appreciable extent I read H all some time ago, when the conten­ tion came up between Decatur and Rockford as to which had the better authenticated claim to having tha first post, and I had to make affidavit to it "The organization was different then, and had a somewhat different idea. You will remember that It be­ came involved in politics and c^ma near going to pieces until Gen. John A. Logan was chosen national com­ mander. Its Idea was to uphold tha government, and it was a sort of patriotic vigilance committee. It even passed resolutions asking for the re­ moval of some office-holders whose records did not suit the old soldiers. Right after the war things were In bad shape, and it did not take much to excite the public mind. "I don't know but what Routh ought to have the most credit for starting the. order, though I guess Stephenson thought of It first. I thought more of Routh. He was a genius and of greater caliber than Stephenson. I had lot of the original rituals we printed stored at my house for a good many years, but I finally destroyed them."-- Bloomington Correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean. salt-roofed lake. The salt coat In­ creases six inches in thickness every year. The many islands with which the lake is studded are said to act as braces and to keep the arched salt crust in position. The Necessity of Courage. When a man is depressed he may be sure that the indulgence in physi­ cal actions characteristic of depres­ sion, sucnt as moping and sighing, will still more increase his depres­ sion, while his first attempt at more sensible conduct will prove that the deliberate and at first artificial as­ sumption of cheerfulness and activity will, after a while, actually bring about a more cheerful frame of mind. Slow movements, slow speech, physi­ cal action of every kind deliberately rendered slow, is an antidote to the irritation of a man harassed and pressed with affairs, which good sense will suggest to him, although he may know nothing about the psychological theory of attaining a desired condition of mental quiet by, at first, imitating the bodily gesture of a calm mind. On the other hand, the giving way to quick, irritated bodily movements is sure to cause an accession of irritable ity- Remark of Observant Youngster Em­ barrassed His Father. "Have you ever encountered the Child who, in the matter of smart sayings and straight truths, is an ab­ solute terror to all with whom he may chance to come in contact?" saia an anxious parent recently. "Because, if not, I SQould like to introduce you to that boy of mine." "What has your boy done, then?" in- Quired his friend. "What has he done?" said the par­ ent "Why, he's always at it* Only this morning he came to me and asked what it meant to be apprenticed. I told him that It meant the binding of one person to another by agreement, and that one person so bound had to teach the other all he could of his trade or profession, while the other had to watch and learn how things were done and had to make himself useful in every possible way." , "Well, what then?" "Why, after a few moments the young rascal edged up to me and said: "Then I suppose you're apprenticed to ma, ain't you, dad?" Few Old Men Can Say This. Lakefield, Minn., Feb. 2d.--Wm. E. Gentry of this place makes the follow­ ing statement: "For over forty years I suffered with misery In my back and at times I could not pass water without great pain and a burning sensation. I have had to make water as often as sixteen times during one night--just a little at a time. I tried many kinds of kid­ ney medicines, but all without any good result till at last I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills, and my pains are all gone." "I took six boxes and I am cured completely. I am 77 years of age and I feel better now than I have for over fifty years and I attribute It all to Dodd's Kidney Pills." Dodd's Kidney Pills hare made some remarkable cures In this part of the state, and many old men and women are praising them highly as a cure for lame back, kidney and bladder trou­ bles. No "Win" in His Family. Someone asked Congressman Mer­ cer of Nebraska: "Are you any re­ lation to the baseball player named Mercer who killed himself out west the other day?" "None whatever," was the answer. "His name, I see, was Win, and there has not been a win In my family since before elec­ tion." Great, even fruitful^ profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for build­ ing up in manful purposes and works are the words of those that In their day were men.--Carlyle. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it In quality and quan­ tity, IS ounces, 10 cents. Try It now and save your money. Nearly 1,000,000 acres of coffee or­ chards in Central America are owned by Germans. <» - The most universally successful hunters are those who bunt trouble. CATARRH THIRTY YEARS. N CONGRESSMAN MEEK I SON OF OHIO. Hon. David Meekison is well known not only in his own State, but throughout America. He began his political carcer by serving feur consecutive terms as Mayor at the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Na|X)ieon, Ohio. He was elected to the Filty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in hissectionof t be Slale. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman. Ca­ tarrh with its insidious approach and tcnacious grasp was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Porvaa came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: "/ have used several bottles of Peruaa and I tee!greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the bead. I feel encouraged to believe that it I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease ad thirty years' standing."--David Meekison, Member of Congress. THE season of catching cold is upon us. The cough and the sneere and the nasal twang are to be heard on every hand. Tbeorigin of chronic catarrh, the most common and dreadful of diseases, is a cold. This is the way the chronic catarrh gen­ erally begins. A person catches cold, which hangs on longer than usual. The cold gen­ erally starts in the head and throat. Then follows sensitiveness of the air passages which incline one to catch cold very easily. At last the person has a cold all the while seemingly, more or less discharge from the nose, hawking, spitting, frequent clearing of the throat, nostrils stopped up, fulPfeel- ing in the head, and sore, inflamed throat. The best time to treat catarrh is aft the very beginning. A bottle of Feruna prop­ erly used, never fails to cure a common cold, thus preventing chronic catarrh. | While many people have been onred ot chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Feraas, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh becooca thoroughly fixed more than one bottle m necessary to complete a cure. Feruna baa 1 cured cases innumerable of catarrh of twenty years' standing. It is the beat, if not the only internal remedy lor chronic (catarrh in existence. I But prevention is far better than cm ' Every person subject to catching coMshoaM take Feruna at once at the slightest symp- , torn of cold or sore throat at this season of the year and thus prevent what is almost certain to end in chronic catarrh. Send (or free book on catarrh, eatftM "Winter Catarrh," by Dr. l^artmaa. " Health and Beauty " sent free to www only. '•V'a * Ask your druggist for a free Pe-ru-na Almanac* THE CHILDREN ENJOY Life out of doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoy­ ment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their happiness when grown. When a laxative is needed the remedy which is given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs on which it acts, should be such as physicians would sanction, because its component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents, well-informed, approve and ^rec^jmmend and which the little ones enjoy, because of its pleasant flavopt its gentle action and its beneficial effects, is-- Syrup of Figs--and for the/same reason it is the only laxative which should he used by fathers and motners. Syrup of Figs is the Only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and naturally without griping, irritating, or nauseating and which cleanses the system effectually, without producing that constipated habit which results from the use of the old-time cathartics and modern imitations, and against which the children should be so carefully guarded. If you would have them grow to manhood and womanhood, strong, healthy^.and happy, do not give them medicines, when medicines are not needed, and when nature needs assistance in the way of a laxative, give them only the simple, pleasant and gentle--Syrup of Figs. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices, bnt also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of the little ones, do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous deal­ ers sometimes offer to increase their profits. The genuine article may be bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please to remember, the full name of the Company -- CALIFORNIA FIG SYKl/P CO.-is printed on the front of every pack­ age. In order to get its beneficial effects it is al­ ways necessary to buy the genuine only. iiMiMlifiiy U j , . • s - v ; if c». HAMLINS WIZARD OIL &MI1I r°R RHEUMATISM. LAME BACK. NEURALGIA. Pmlaf HEADACHE EARACHE CUTS. WOUNDS. \# T ̂ SPRAINS. BRUISES. BURNS. SCALDS. V I i SORE THROAT. DIPHTHERIA. SORES ULCERS «">PAIN. SORENESS. LAMENESS. 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