ONE WOMAN'S ENDURANCE. Southern Woman Suffers For Years. Racked and tornwith terrific pains, nightly annoyed by kidney irfagatari. ties, Mrs. A. 8. Payne, of 801 2 ra Ave, So., Columbus, Miss, suffered for years. She says: "The pains in my back, sides and loins were so terrible that I often smoth- ered a scream. Every move meant agony. My rest was broken by a troublesome weakness and the secretions scemed to burn like acid. 1 was in an awful condition and doctors did not seem to help. Doan's Kidney Pills bene- fited me from the first and soon made me & strong and healthy woman." For sale by all dealers. HO centsa box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Tortures Earns His Wages, the middle of tne flat Suffolk field there is little wo show that he is not the ordinary inanimate scarecrow. He stands mo- tionless for five minutes at a time, and only when a bird is tempted by the fresh corn just appearing above tue ground does he show any of life. But then it is that scarecrow moves: he hits an old tin- can with with the rusty handle of a shovel and frightens the birds and makes them fly quickly out of sight. So he spends his day, this old, bent man, and at the end he is paid 18 pence, He is the village scare- crow. How Scarecrow As he stands in sign t he Hicks' Capudine Cures Headache, Whether from Cold, Heat, Stomach, or Mental Strain. No Acetanilid or dangerous drugs. It's Liquid. Effects immediately. 10¢., 25¢., and 50c., at drug stores. Average Length Of Life. who lives until more than a century old and the child who dies in infancy alike included in the law of averages. They balance each other's chances, as were, Of age of ten he 18 The man are at the live to R2.254 49 will only 9 aver- has at » 100,000 people living only 95.614 will the age of twenty-one, only will be living at forty, only be living at ninety-six, and at ninety-seven. At thirty, the age man may take it that under thirty-five years to forty, under twenty-eight fifty, under twenty-one years, al ty under fourteen years In each and all of how he lives will determine he will have a longer life or life, but average will work out within a space yvears.—Cassell’s Saturday he live; years; a s8iXx- these whet a shorte r infallibly of ninety Journal. cases, her the Whale Impaled © On Pile Driver. An immense blackfish or finback whale feet located itself under a pile driver at a tray location near the entrance to tion Pass a few days ago was pushed clear throug h body ®f the fish and was into the tide lands underneat the heavy driving hammer The struggles of the pile driver so violently loftman fell from the seco: of the driver rigging to and was rescued from drowning oniy by the prompt action of John Neison, working on the deck. thirty long Ael isa the hu younded h by ¥ i 1 € the fish shook that tha id station the deck, Won't Help. Being of a bouvant nature won't help you any if fall overboard Boston Transcript. you Tuan Fang shops in the and he clo Fe] According to Viceroy there are 1,220 opium Shanghai foreign settlements, wants orders from Peking to them. cost of supplying 1.- 000,000 galions of water, based on the report of 22 cities, is $82. This sum includes operating expenses and interest on bonds. The average A woman will airs long before she that bring them acknowledge will the gray years “TWO TOPERS."™ A Teacher's Experience, “My friends call me ‘The Postum Preacher,”” writes a Minn. school teacher, "because 1 preach the gospel of Postum everywhere I go, and have been the means of liberating many ‘coffee-pot siaves.’ “I don't care what they call me so jong as I can help others to see what they lose by sticking to coffee, and can show them the way to steady nerves, clear brain and general good health by using Postum. “While a school girl I drank coffee and had fits of trembling and went through a siege of nervous prostra- tion, which took me three years to rally from. "Mother coaxed me to use Postum, but I thought coffee would give me strength. B8o things went, and when I married I found my husband and 1 were both coffee topers and I can sympathize with a drunkard who tries to leave off his cups. “At last in sheer desperation, | bought a package of Postum, fol lowed directions about bolling it, served it with good eream, and asked my husband how he liked the coffee. “We each drank three cups aplece and what a satisfied feeling it left Our conversion has lasted several years and will continue as long as we live, for it has made us new-- nerves are steady, appetites good, sleep sound and refreshing.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Ever read theabove letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of haman interest, ——— FIGHT FOR dh BLIC HEALTH. first ol The Commissioner Harrisburg annual report Health Dixon, tion and Depart 1905, (Special) of covering the organiza- by State from 16806, work done the of Health to December 31, come the The report shows the excellent working organization that Health Commissioner Dixon effected in the first year and a half after the Legis lature of 1905 had created the new department under health laws that have since become the models for many States throughout After reviewing this and the general work of the ment, Health Commissioner Dixon sets out the operations of the various divisions, the Division of Medical In- spection, the Bureau of Vital Sta- Morbidity Statistics, Marriage Statistics, the Division Sanitary Engineering, the work de- partment's laboratories, the survey for mosquito control, the division for the free distribution of diphtheria antitoxin and the financial report Pennsylvania's new Department of Health at once attracted the atten- tion of sanitarians all over the coun- try by adding a number of commu- nicable diseases to the those usually required to be by physicians The wisdom of this reform has been fully acknowledged, and the physicians in every part the State have co-operated with Health Commi 10 secure prompt reporting and sanitary trol 1nd CASeS In th Dixon cases June 6, has just ment from printer's hands tistics, of of the list of ted reg Or the the the con dis sgioner comma able renlosgis Dr of essential, on the of the the ropordns partment part uthorities hiding places {f the fight properly disease ease could wage a placarding of houses ith me whooping chickenpox and other but highly communicable was another ant inno the new State Departm of which prove of widesp i Dr Dixon pace to the and de first infected ough so-called minor dis *ABIO8, f imr of port vation the results read deve vital tate lares thi i successful Pennsylvaniz and he part of laborate of statistic hom tistics The ides tions in Seven ' 15 age Vears The sh homicides ily increase, nia hunt thro istration are The average jation in t} from for 159068 in Years 1801 and in Pennsyl on * in inti in relat natural 0. G00 inoual population i= at The work of the Sanitar: neering Division shows the Health Commission Dixon has en to carry out the provisions of law to protect waters of the State from sewage and guard people against ure water sup On, ROW yout Engi er tak- the poiution to im thn Lile mp i BOY HANGS SELP TO PRESS. Chambersburg (Special? The remarkable suicide Frankl room most in the Regis veare, David in n County took place People's of the boy of 16 Shilling, took life by hanging The lad tied his to the fly- wheel of a newspaper press with the fute twine used to tie bundles of paper. He then the twine about his neck and fastened the end to a job press nearvy slipping off press do nded press ter,” when a his feet tied the ley wheel pul npon which the inal floor, and Then ne of must the small have sat to body hung suspe« just escaping strangled to death The boy was em] Noyed in the office and was a son of Mrs. Anna Shilling His father Philadelphia The lad was subject to epileptic fits and was a reader of dime novels, He had made threats of hanging him- self, but they were not taken serious- ly. or ow form he Ne i w Orks n OBJECT TO NORMAL TRUSTEES. Stroudsburg (Bpecial).—East Stroudsburg State Normal School af- faire are again before the public. A hearing was held before Governor Stuart at Harrisburg In relation to the appointments of trustees for the school. Certain stockholders filed a pro- test against the appointment of Charles H. Worman, Franklin J. Kistler and A. R. Wallace as trustees. These men have been serving as loca! trustees for the stockholders and the majority in control of the school de- sires to have them renamed as State trustees, BRUIN BADLY FRIGHTENED. Altoona (Special). — While boat- ing on the Juniata, near Mill Creek. Harry Lindsay put in to shore to quench his thirst. He had no cup, #0 he lay flat down to drink from a spring. A noise attracted hie attention and he looked up to find a bear within few feet of him. Paralyzed with fear he didn't move until the bear discovered him. Then both fled, Lindsay to his boat anl the bear to the mountains. 3 # LABOR PLANING A BIG DEMON- STRATION. Harrisburg (Special)—Every Cen- Union in Pennsylvania invited to send representa- to a great labor demonstration Labor will be tives The Central, made up of delegates from every union in this city and vicinity, has delegated the arrange- ment of a program to the Executive Committee, which announces that the celebration will be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in Central the coming Labor Day. of Harrisburg, issued to John prominent men there will be ad- labor leaders of Invitations Mitchell and to be present, and dresses by several national prominence, whose names the committee is not ready to an- nounce. The demonstration will in- clude a big parade, in which out-of- ganizations will have a prom- place, will be other HOLD FIRST FLOWER SHOW, than profes- More amateur and flower growers competed prizes at the first annual floral show of the Bethlehems in Market Hall It was the first floral show ever held in the Lehigh Valley. The origin of the idea was Chief Burgess Fred Conlin, and Industrial Com- mission which is doing so much to boom the town With fountains there, the Market a huge tropical garden hundred viewed dis- play One of freak plants shown Wis a green by OO. C. Brunne The clergymen of Bethlehem were judges, as Revs. B. 8B. B. Macintosh, H. H Erb, D. L. McCarthy, W. D. C. Keiter lethlehem thousand sional (Special) ane for ator the playing here and House represente d th More thar people the the rose follows Ww Thael H er, Smith, CHURCH MUSIC CRITICISED. Allentown { Special Present- day tendency give prominence to church serv- sed nt the musicians of which was held gymen and attendance, A Musgie in the Rev. Dr. F. F York, precipita music vaerely rumential WAKE 8sev in critict church Lutheran Church, city, 200 cler being in instrumental repared by Buermeyer, of { ted ussion Many of the cle ticipated in the opinion of or- pa- per on tCaurch,” NOW the disc rgymen who pa debate expressed that musical instrume as | sitile that and me congrega- from the service, be given singing. Dr. A Phil red 2 h wae the ¢ when it old 1al phia, sed playing most slop- decla nles with rEan WILL: SERVE THE STATE. Harrisburg (Special) Gov arnor St pointments A. J Levi I. Shoemaker I. Pegg. Danville, the Board of Trustees Hospital for the art announced the following ap Scran- Rohert of Connell, and members the State Insane, at Danville Ethan Allen Weaver, John W. Jor dan, Julius F. Sachse, Philadelphia: Frank R Diffenderfer, Lancaster, and Boyd Crumrine, Washington, Pa.. to be members of the Advisory Commission for the Preservation of the Public Records. John W. Jordan, John T. Wind- rim, Philadelphia, and W., H. Sayre, Wayne, be Commissioners of Val i ley Forge. Jacob M. Shenk, Lebanon; Thomas C., Zimmerman, Reading, and Walter T. Bradley, Philadelphia, to be mem- bers of the State Asylum for Chronie Insane of Pennsylvania, at Werners- ville. Lom; tO be of to FRANK IRVINE IN (Special) .- Frank vine, one of the men indicted Capitol case now on trial, | Norristown Insane Hosbital When Irvine broke down mentally the third week of the trial the was discontinued as far as he was concerned, a severance being granied He had treatment in Phil adelphia and was then sent to Hynd.- man, Bedford County, for rest, but failed to improve When he returned to Philadephia an examination was made and he was found so deranged that he was gent to Norristown. ASYLUM. Ir in the at the Harrisburg in in Case Fire Destroys Old Roadhouse. Allentown (Special). — Fire de- siroyed the Idlewild Hotel, one of tie oldest road houses on the Lehigh Mountain, on the road from Phila- delphia to this city, causing a loss of about $10,000. Fire fighting ap- paratus from this city was seat tn the scene of the blaze, but arrived too late to be of service, STATE ITEMS, George A. Stegmaler, of Wilkes- Barre, won the first prize in the miner declamation contest at the Hilman Academy. The second prize was awarded to Frederick G. John- son and third prize to Julius L. Stern. George Moneghan, of York, who attempted to spoil Miss Bertha Wit- mer's beauty by throwing acid upon her, was arrested and given a hear ing before Alderman Keech, In de- fault of $1000 ball he was commit- ted to jail. Richard P. Halligan, of Scranton, fell from the Lackawanna Bridge now under construction, at Seranton, and was killed, ; Miss Ray McQuillan, aged 20 years, of Tyrone, attempted suicide by breaking a glass bottle and swale lowing the fragments. Bhe is in tical * It Brings Health And Hair, the to the bald are sure to follow use of his chest shield, according the verison of H, C. Dexter, its ventor, He has just been cured rehumatism, he declares; has felt his lungs expand and hiz heart leap with youth, although he is now eighty- one years old, and has grown hair on a head that was bald, The chest shield which resembles a baseball catcher's mask, is ture of light wire soldered It is eight inches square. It has a convex curve that is 13% inches al the greatest height and slopes gradu- ! ally back to the outer rims. The framework is hung about the neck by a string of elastic and is intend- ed to rest directly over the heart and lungs. “Anybody,” said Mr. Dexter, ‘can obtain benefit from this simple and valuable device. [It rests next to the skin and keeps the undershirt from subsiding upon the chest in a dead | BOE. In this way the air circulates over the heart and lungs and imparts new life. It is economical, too, for it neither eats, drinks, nor chews tobacco, I have been working on this little invention for forty-four years, and at last | have the right shape and size.”—N. Y. American for together, Fooling The Ladies, Two men were standing together in a corridor of a postoffice. One of them happened to notice that a post- card held in the fingers of the other was addressed to the holder “Why, what does this mean? asked. “Do you address letters yourself?" “In this case, ves,’ “That's funny.” “Well, not so very. { side.” He | read: he to the was * Answer, ! ! { See the other other side Blank There will the 1. G. OO. B. B., hall, the evening of transact special busi- | ness. Members not present will {| fined 85 N. B. , Becretary.” “Yes, but I don't exactly catch on,” | protested the innocent. “Oh. you don't Well, 1 got | cards printed myself; the society all a myth. When | want to get out of an evening 1 direct one of these cards | to my house, I reach home, and my | wife hands it to me with a sigh, 1 | offer to stay home and stand the fine of the fiver, hut, of eaurse, she won't allow that. That's all, my friend, | except that the scheme {8 worked by hundreds of others, and our poor de- luded wives haven't tumbled to it yet.” News Book held it up, and the irother be a meeting of No. 387, at the October 1, to he the iB Storing Icicles For Summer Use. South pure large stories, Gern from Use a Iwo ana produce ice winter They framework six square Nans water In wooden about six yards high. Each story is with a floos of 18 parallel beams, in the of which a tube is incased in rises beyond the upper floors tube is connected with wale; main and the water issues through a rotating disk which sends a moving spray on the beams As water drops from the beams icicles are formed which reach middle floor and finally the ground T Wf water is regulated the temperature of As refains fasalated col ns, it is easily and removed The stored use in 8 3 Tribun« yards covered center wood This his the the the he volume v8 § ws accorqging 1o the jee tha iss 8 8 3 ne 10% the shape broken i - 9 is then Chicago ire w oy $07 immer 3 | Thrill For Nitroglycerin Handler. Fram Hall, a local ofl well shooter, had a “scary” experience recentl { He was carrying a can contain | eight quarts of nitroglycerin past th end of a pile of casing at a drilling well just a sthe driller came from | the derrick floor and stepped on a { joint of the pipe It was balanced in “he middle his weight caused other end tip up. striking the bottom of the can carried by Hall Both the men held their breaths for an instant awaiting the explosion that they had good cause to expect would foliow, i but they were agreeably surprised { In nothing of the kind occurring The tin bottom was dented, but there was enough spring in the tis to absorb the shock of the collision without disturbing to the exploding point the dangerous contents, — Oil City Derrick. and the Lil io in i Uses Of A London Church. The Church of All Hallows, Lon don Wall, presents a strange appear- ance every morning The building is opened early for the accommoda tion of girls and women who arrive tin the city by the “workmen's rains, which frequently are rum at such an hour as to compel .the pas- sengers to make a long wait after arriving in the eity for their places of business to open. A short service is conducted and then the congrega- ton is permitted and even encourag- *d to employ themselves with needle- work or with reading. The women and girls are provided with reading matter, though care is taken that ii shall not be too narrow in its range. On New England Tombstones. There were several epitaphs which fascinated you for awhile, epitaphs like that of “Solon Tyndall, Killed by a Fall from the Main Topsail Yard of the Bark Amazon, in the Harbor of Buenos Ayres, on March 12, 1850. He as a seaman did his duty well, L But his foot slipped and from alof* he fell, “ell, but to rise and climb shrouds on high, And greet his Master with a glad “Aye, aye." Or that which recorded the fale “Absalom Peters, Shot in the 3resk by the Explosion of his own un." the A Part Of The belleve,” sald Dr. John M. | Kitchen, ‘1 was the firgt physician in Northern Indiana to nhake use of chloroform. 1 was a young fellow not much past 21 vears old, the ink { hardly dry on my sheepskin, when a man came into my office to have an taching tooth pulled out “1 had a small bottle form, and with the hardihood of youth 1 made up my mind to use it. He readily went under the influ- ence of the new anesthetic, 1 pulled manfully and the grinder came out 1 waited, but the patient did not re turn to consciousness 1 was badly | frightened, and hastily seizing a bucket with about two gallons water in it I poured it over him Gasping, he came from the in | fluence of the chloroform Then he ‘wanted to know what | meant by giving him such a soaking “"Mustering all my professional sang froid 1 calmly replied “Tha! gir, is part of the treatment,’ and he went away, greatly my relief, en tirely satisfied.” Treatment, “q of chloro- ol Ot tO Hicks' Capudine Cures Women's Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness, | and Headache, [t's I. qu id. Effects imme diately. Prescribed by p hysicians with best | results. 10c., 25¢., and b0c., st drug stores Under the tary training new compulsory mili- defence scheme it | estimated that In eight vears Aus- tralia will have 214,000 men trained and equipped for war. To Drive Out Malaria and Build Up the System Take the Old Standard Grove's Tasre tess Cie Toxic. Yoi know what you are taking. The formuls is plainly prit uted on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui- nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual forum. Yor grown people and children, 5k in the | Railway | AMONE pe nalty been posted Pennsylvania Orders shop of the system prohibiting swear! the men while at work will be an enforced ng The Yacalion FITS St. Vitus Dance: Nervous Diseases per. | manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, #2 trial bottle and treatise free, Dr. H R. Kline, 14.981 Arch St. Phila, Pa | In Germany t and clerks above than $5 year insure INVALID'S SAD PLIGHT. Alter Inflammatory Rheumatism, | Hair Came Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed Sores Developed — Only Cuticura Proved Successful. * About four years ago I had a very vere attack of mflammatory rheumation My skin peeled, and the high fever played havoe with my hair, which out in bunches. 1 also had three large bed sores on my back. I did not gain very rapidly, and my appetite was very poor. 1 many ‘sure cures’ but of litt help, and until I tried 1 had had no real relief. Then my plexion cleared and soon 1 felt better, bed sores went very soon cations of Cuticura Ointment, used Cuticura Soap and Ont hair, it began to regain its § appearance. Mrs. Lavina J 138 Broad St, Stamford, C and 12, 1907.7 Our leading physician recommends Catie cura for eczema. Mrs. Algy Cockburn, Shiloh, O., June 11, 1807." workmen, servan getting obliged by law | Age all al 16 and jess are old 00 a to against Be. came ine they were Cuticura Resolvent com The after a few appl and ment lor when | mm) mer glossy Henderson, nn., March ¢ Austria h Kater than any ot it is sald that ag duced more fins countrs nro pre her Mrs Winslow ‘% Boothi ng Syru pt ar Chi dren teething softens thegums, reducesinflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 35ca bottle The women of Russia and the of Japan are the most expert needle workers in the world The Generali Demand { the Well-Informed of the World has ways been for a simple, men pleasant and value; a laxative which Physic ans could sanction for family use because its com them to be in effect gentle, y ponent parts are known to 1 wholesome and truly beneficial acceptable to the system and prompt, in action in supplying that demand with its ox cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remark. | { i That is one of many reasons why | Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given | thé preference by the Well-Informed lo get its beneficial effects always buy | he genuine-—manufactured by the Cali ornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale | by all leading druggists. 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