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THE SORANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901.
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fe FEATURES OP
NEW ORLEANS
MR. RICHMOND WRITES CON
OERJNIKO HOME OF CREOLES.
OriiMlc Description of the Strange
,-CUy 'and Its People The Creoles
Not a Mixed Race, but the De
scendants of French nnd Spanish
Nobility The Bplendld Electric
Systom, Pleasure Resorts, Cotton
Presses, Oil Mills.
PUUItAfHiV lid lenturc or the city of
New Orleans strikes the visitor ho
favorably us thu splendidly
equipped electric' our system, oticrutcd
by lb(! street railway companies nnd It
Is with no little pride Unit the average
citizen citn put forth the undisputed
stiiteincnl Unit the day Is past for the
large bob-tall enr, drawn by one mule
.111(1 rope traces, us was the wise tin n
previous visit here. Todny New Or
leans has the finest street car service
of any city In the world. The system
operated by the New Orleans City Itnll
road company embraces fifteen lines of
cars (over two-thirds of all the street
cars of the city), reaching from one eiul
of the city to the other and penetrating
every suburb. This company has 114
miles of trade and operates MO to SOO
ears dully, on car routes embracing l0
miles. The cars are of the very latest
design and build, with new cross scats.
Travel Is made pleasant on dusty days
by sprinkling the streets through which
he cars are operated. Four sprinkling
,'ars are constantly used In this ser
vice Canal street being the main busi
ness artery of the city, is the starting
point for all cars of this system,
PLEASURE HHSORTS.
New Orleans Is especially well sup
plied wtlh places of open-air resorts for
summer and winter, In addition to the
numerous squares which stud the resi
dence portion of the city and the city
park. The lake resorts are the most
popular. West End, Spanish Fort and
Milneburg all located on Lake Pon
chartraln and easily reached by elec
tric and steum railroads. Each has a
hotel, a fine restaurant, a theatre, and
other amusements the year round.
While all the country north of Mason's
and Dixon's line is locked in ice, Its
trees leafless, and its homes stormed by
fierce Arctic winds, New Orleans, dur
ing the entire winter, smiles through
the green of orange and magnolia trees.
Her gardens are bright with flowers,
the streets are filled with loungers and
sight-seers; all the open-air resorts are
crowded, and there Is a busy hum of
gaiety and music and laughter every
where. New Orleans has a characteris
tic easy-going music and amusement
loving people.
THE SPANISH FORT.
The resort is some five miles distant,
reached by steam trains. Jt Is a small
village with pleasure gardens, situated
at the mouth of Iiayou St. John, a
stream navigable for schooners and
connects with New Canal Carondelet,
leading to the center of the city. The
fort erected by the Spaniards (called
St. John) was armed and garrisoned by
them during their occupation of the
.olony, being too far inland, was of no
service and abandoned. A part of Us
Ri'iiinmeiit remains, also the contour of
the fortification, which Is built of small
brick, is yet well preserved the vener
able walls showing as little signs of de
cay as when the proud banner of Cas
tile waved over them. Outside of the
fort are pleasure gardens with walks
and flowers all kept in beautiful or
der. Nearby is a concert hall, a sum
mer theater and sundry amusements.
An object of interest In the garden is
an old torpedo boat, llslied up out of
the canal as a relic of the Civil war.
Oneral Jackson occupied this fort In
1SII when he engaged and defeated
i Jen mi Pakcnhaui at Chalmette.
PON'CIIARTRAIN l!AH,ROAIl.
It may interest the reader to know
that this Is the second oldest railroad
in the country, only being ante-dated
by the Charleston and Savannah and
considered In its day a wonder. Along
its Hue were erected the first freight
platforms ever used. The railroads of
England and the Fulled States for
many years unloaded their freight as
wagons unload, until this road Invented
the simple platform which was speed
ily ndopted by all railroads. The car
track was first laid down in the middle
of the canal route which had been
drained: the tops of the ears being level
wtlh the ground and passengers used
to step from the top of the car on
"terra flrnia." It Is also a curious tact
In those days when the primitive loco
motive used then could not generate
steam sufllelent, sails were attached to
the cars to propel the trains. This road
Is owned by the Louisville and Nash
ville railway and reaches Mllnoburg, n
small village and famous resort in early
"Creole" days and named for Milne,
a wealthy Creole citizen. The village
Is composed of a series of restaurants
and bathing houses and at the end of
the long pier Is a light house with a
tlnsh-llglit. Here nre the remains of
fortifications erected by the Confeder
ates during the Civil war to defend the
rear of the city.
COTTON PRESSES,
One of the great sights of the city
are the cotton presses and an examin
ation of their powerful machinery Is
worthy of attention, These compresses
cost from 5SO.00O to $IU0,fl0(i each. Thu
bales of cotton received from the in
terior ure reduced thrce-futirths of their
former size. The cost of compressing
a bale Is fifty cents, which the ship
owner pays, for thus It Is enabled to
take a larger cargo, it is a curious
sight to see thesu steam giants some
twcnty-llvo lu number with their
strong arms at work, The bale Is
seized by stout negroes, rolled Into the
compress and squeezed by It with a
domonlau-llko hissing sound. The iron
bands or ties are tightened and then
this Iron giant lets go Its victim with
a gasp and the bale rolls out reduced
three-fourth In size.
The manufacture of oil from cotton
seed has of late yenrs developed into
a large prnlltablo business in NoV Or
leans. Since the late war a great many
mills have been erected thruogh thu
south and seven are In operation lu this
city. Hero Is the process: Cotton seed
comes lu the form of a seed about the
size of a pea, covered with lint cot
ton. This lint Is removed by the gins
in the country and forms what Is
known as "cotton." The seed comes
from the country in bags and Is pussed
through several very flue gins to re
move the remaining Hut. The seed
pusses through a "huller" which re
moves the hull, leaving a little kernel.
This kernel Is around up, steamed and
Placed lu bags about eighteen Inches
long, these bags are put In presses and
the oil pressed out. The residuum Is a
ht'rd, yellow cuke called "oil cake,"
which is exported for cattle feed nnd
sometimes ground, Into meal 'for the
same purpose, Soap is also made from
the residuum of the oil. This oil is
shipped to Europe, 'there refined, sent
back to America after being mixed with
the crushlngs of olives, as "delicious
French and Italian sweet ollvo oil,"
The hulls are sometimes used for paper
stock, ntso a fuel to run the works and
the ashes us fertilizers.
LEVEES.
To the northerner, perhaps no sight
Is more characteristic of the south,
than the "levees" of New Orleans and
Hie high pressure, double-decked Miss
issippi river steamboats Unit crowd the
wharves. These flat-bottom Ileitis,
loaded tier upon tier, with bales of cot
ton, sugar cane and tobacco leaf, etc.,
appear to the beholder from the streets,
ninny feet below the river bank, like
Moating battlements along the river
front. Hoth side-wheel and stern-wheel
craft, with their swlvcl-actlng gang
planks, are seen, ever pursuing their
crooked and devious channels way
down the "Father of Waters." In the
shallow places or this great shallow
river the unique gang-plank is an In
stitution of utility and Importance. As
the bed of this great river Is slowly ris
ing from the deposits along Its entire
course, It became necessary to add to
the height and strength of the levees,
't'he course of ,111c river, too, Is con
stantly shifting, flowing as It docs,
through a soil which has largely been
deposited by It and the towns along Its
banks may find themselves at any mo
ment, as It were, deserted by the
stream. Near the river, the land nat
urally Is somewhat elevated and slopes
gradually on either side to the swamps
and Lake Poueliartralu, lying to the
rear of the city. In order to protect Its
overflow, lu early times, a levee or
dyke was built and gradually raised
and levelled, until today It forms a
large plaza, several squares wide for
the river since the city was located on
Its banks, has, along most of the front,
withdrawn itself a good ways from the
original channel so that niuiiy soli 1
blocks of buildings stand where the
river once flowed. The constant addi
tions made to the levee, give a gradual
slope up several feet to the river front,
the slope beginning a great distance
buck from the river, the stranger can
hardly realize the fait, he Is going up
hill, or an Incline, to the river, even if
he sees the water lu the gutters flow
ing away from tie- iler Instead of to
ward It and at high water, the steam
ers at the wharves seem on a level with
the second story of the builllngs, pre
senting a novel appearance.
The river here is from half to three
quarters of a mile wide, much narrower
than above or below the city and varies
in depth from (JO to 'J,"0 feet, enabling
the largest vessels to navigate its wa
ters and land at Its wharves. The dis
tance to Its mouth Is 107 miles. All the
landings along the front of the city are
called "levees." This great landing, or
plaza, Is divided into three levees the
"Grain levee," the "Cotton levee" and
the "Sugar levee." On these levees
goods are Ian 'id and sold, and during
the busy season, the levee presents a
bustling scene, sights which Interest
the visitor who Is at nil conversant with
commercial matters. Here are thou
sands of bales of cotton, thousands of
hogsheads and barrels of susrur, also
tobacco, rice, Hour, lumber and fruit
of every known kind. In cases of floods
and overflow of the river, there are
"protection levees" Inside, that lets the
river surplus into canals leading to
Lake Ponchartrain which is some 20 to
:.'." feet lower than the Mississippi. In
early years the city was marked by
frequent and destructive inundations
of the "Father of Waters." The levees
of the city are built mainly of concrete
Instead of earth alone. These huge
walls along the river front which here
forms a letter S for some twelve miles
average from L'O to "5 feet in height and
graded up for several hundred feet, so
that the rise is hardly perceptible. Since
the dyke or embankment system was
flrsL Inaugurated, over $l,"i0,00O,0OU has
been expended by the people of the
lower Mississippi valley for their pro
tection. t the present day the levee
system has beeii perfected to a degree
that excites the wopoct and admiration
or engineers. Along tins immense plaza
extends an almost unlnterupted stretch
of wharves and warehouses with hun
dreds of shins and steamers unloading
or reeeiviiiE cargoes.
CREOLES NATIVE POPULATION'.
The population of New Orleans Is
about :;00,000, composed of various ele
ments and laces: about 40 per cent, are
white, oiii- fourth colored and the bal
ance of the strangest mixture on earth.
The mos interesting class to us was
the native "Ceole."
Strangers often make a great er
ror lu supposing that the Creole popu
lation Is a mixed race of whites and
blacks a people of rich olive complex
Ion, with a strange pedigree dating
back to French and negro origin, or
colored people, partially of African de
scent, when In fact, It Is the reverse,
and the name signifies only one of pure
and unmixed European blood; the de
scendants of the ancient Franch and
Spanish population of Louisiana. The
"Creole" Is a white native of the south
and In beauty unexcelled; charming
and cultured with all the grace and
dignity of manners; equal In birth and
bearing to the most distinguished of
the southern people. One says "there
never was a nobler or purer-blooded
race than the Creoles of Louisiana who
aro proud or their descent from the best
families or France and Spain who
themselves applied the term "Creole"
to distinguish the "old families" of the
state from the families of emigrants of
other ivit'.omilllles, In this sense of
the word "the Creoles lire the Knick
erbockers of Louisiana," and the Puri
tans of New England, The word "Pre-ole'-'
assumes a broad signification, it
menus all that is born, created, manu
factured and produced within Louis
iana limits, be It nnltunto or Inani
mate objects, Everything that is good
in Now Orleans Is "Creole." Tim high
est praise that can bo bestowed upon an
nrli ? for salo among the street? and
in Hit country is to declare Unit 11 Is
"Creole," For Instance, Creole
negroes, to distinguish tho blacks and
colored people that are Louisiana bred
and born nnd French speaking, from
the negroes of other stutes, lu trade
one hears of Creole eggs, Creole chicle
ens, Creole ponies, Creole cattle, Creole
corn, Creole sugar canes, Creole shoes
and Creole vegetables. Tho term is
used to distinguish the commercial
product of Louisiana as Infinitely su
perior to those brought in from the
north and west, It Is very (lllllcult for
a stranger to gain access tu these an
cient Creole homes; ho must coine with
letters of Introduction or bo Introduced
by a native "to the manor horn." Wo
esteem with pardonable pride the ae
quuiutauce and friendship of Judge
James McConnell and William CI. Coyle,
n coal baron of this city, both of "i.'re
olo" descent; also to A. Jt. Rlakely, pro
prietor New St. Charles hotel, and the
editor of the New Orleans Picayune,
to whom wo are Indebted for pcilte at
tention and valuable inemoradua.
3, B. Richmond.
HARGRAVES'
PASSENGER
GRUESOME EXPERIENCE OF AN
OBLIGING WHEELMAN.
He Rides a Bicycle with n Dead Mtin
on His Back Jared Wilcox Nearly
Killed by Ratrf Lela May Shlppec
Predicts Her Own Death Suicide
of Old Tige Political Waifs and
Personal Paragraphs.
Special to Hip flirntiton Tribune
Susquehanna, Nov. 1!). Riding on a
bicycle with a dead man on his back
was the gruesome experience of Er
nest Ilnrgravcs, a Scranton book agent,
on Friday.
Hargraves was on his way to the
Poyntcllo station, to canvass among
the farmers, when he saw u man stag
gering ahead In the highway. The
stranger said he was sick, and Mar
graves Invited hhn to get on the wheel.
The sick man occupied tho seat, feet
hanging free, with his arm nround
Hargraves' neck. The latter allowed
his weight to rest on the crossbar while
pedaling.
Receiving no responsive action to his
command to dismount when a farm
house was reached, and falling to
break the grasp about his neck, Har
graves dismounted and discovered to
his horror that the man was dead, lie
was a stranger to this section. Heart
disease was the probable cause of
death.
ALMOST KILLED HV RATS..
When Jared Wilcox, a farmer resid
ing near Coino, entered his corn barn
last Friday night he found a score of
lingo rats helping themselves to the
grain,
Wilcox picked up a wliinielree and
proceeded to kill the rodents, which
savagely fought for their lives. The
animals swarmed upon him, severely
biting him In many places. Mrs. Wil
cox and the hired help came to Wil
cox's rescue or he would have been
killed. He Is in a critical condition
from his wounds. Twenty rats were
killed.
JCST BETWEEN I,TS.
On the -ntn thc.v urir .-p.itcil,
'Hip rnsMgcmciil win (iiili new;
In a liner lie hail ImiMril
Sim hail pioinNi'il lo lip lnii".
"should .1 doubt r'cr emm- lit'lucm in,"
Mip nuiniutcii wftli a i,ml ;
Hill t lie youth moved up 1-wr
And left no ruom for doubt,
II ii'il of t'niuiidilf.
Hunk your house. And your money
If you can.
Even the woodpecker is out with a
new fall rap.
These are royal days for hot cider and
baked apples If you can get them.
This Is the worst weather we have
had 'since the last spell.
Very few straw hats and seersuckers
are seen on the streets.
Thanksgiving may be all right, but
it has a noticeably fowl odor about it.
A Forest City Sunday school teacher
last Sunday night discovered three
members of his class robbing a lien
roost. It Is not stated what pass
age of Scripture he repeated to them
as llie.v weal sailing over the fence.
M INOIt MENTIONETTES.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Sunday night to burglarize St.
John's Catholic church.
Nicholas Flood, of Carbondale, a
brakeman on Fay's Erie train, fell
from a car at Ararat Summit on Sun
day night and was killed. He leaves n
widow and several children.
Lsnesboro has an epidemic of diph
theria. There have been several deaths,
and the public school has been closed.
A. C. Rarretl, of New Milford, is a
leading Republican candidate for rep
resentative, lie is most popular where
he is the best known, and he would
make a creditable legislator.
Leo ,T. DeWitt. of Now Milford. is a
Democratic candidate for representa
tive. PREDICTED HER OWN DEATH.
Lola May Shippee, of Vestal, died on
Thursday, In strange fulllllment of her
prophecy of her own demise. Severn!
days ago, while on bended knees, Miss
Shippee beheld a beautiful vision In
which she said the realities of the fu
ture life were vividly revealed.
The vision brought almost boundless
joy to the young woman, and she pre
dicted that within two days she would
fall asleep in death. At the time or the
vision Miss Shippee was suffering from
Illness, She at once rapidly grew
worse, and, until she passed Into un
consciousness, she could not be shaken
in her belief that she had been called
from this life In the vision which came
to her. She was about to go to Porto
Rico to teach school.
SOME SHORT ONES.
When the enlargement of the store
room is completed, the Erie will have
an addition of about one hundred peo
ple to its clerical force In Susquehanna.
The headquarters of two departments
will be established here".
The funeral of the late Edward Ed
wards, of Melrose, took place from the
Stevens' Point Methodist church on
Sunday morning. Deceased canio to his
death on Friday from Injuries sustained
by the cars on Saturday, Nov, !.
The Rrldgewater Baptist association
ended a three dayspeclal session at
Auburn, this county, on Saturday.
The Erie Is experiencing a shortage
of coal ears,
There Is n report that the Eric engl
neers ami firemen are to he under I lie
general traveling engineer, Instead of
the division mnster mechanic, as here
tofore. Thanksgiving services will bo held In
Christ Episcopal church on Sunday,
December I.
Erie Hose company, No. 1, will hold
Its thirteenth annual ball In Hogau
opera house on Thanksgiving eve. It
will bo a star social event.
Election Irf about a year away, but
county candidates ure looming up like
mushrooms in a meadow after a warm
rain, There appears to be no law, legal
or moral against a mini being a candi
date, it s a harmless diversion.
Ralph F. Howard, of Thompson, Is a
Republlca l landldate for county com
missioner. CHEERINU. INDEED!
The Susquehanna Transcript copies
tills paragraph from the writers' letter
In I liu Carbondale Leader:
"Cuilte a number of Susquehanna
people nre preparing to lecture in south
ern California,"
It is cheering to see the Transcript
give credit for any thing, If It Is only to
call attention to a typographical error.
WHOLLY I'NPREMEDlTATKD.
Rev. Abljuh Colgrove, Ezeklel Hlood-
good Url Miss Prudence Drake, of
Huckleberry Center, were In our midst
yaiterduy to see about buying some
I Doctors Mystified QmieW Letters from Clired Women-
si - iS-w I ful a thousand limes since I wrote to you for what B
A woman is sick ; some disease peculiar to her sex is
fast developing in her system. She goes to her family
physician ami tells him a story, hut not tho whole story.
She holds something hack, loses her head, becomes
agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally con
ceals what she ought to have told, and thus completely
mystifies the doctor.
Is it any wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to
euro the disease ? Still, wo cannot blame tho woman, for
it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of
her suffering, even to her family physician. It was for
this rw'son that years ago Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass., determined to step iu and help her sox. Having had
considerable experience in treating female ills with her
Vegetable Compound, sho encouraged tho women of Amer
ica to write to her for advice in regard to their complaints,
and being a woman, it was easy for her ailing sisters to
pour into her ears every detail of their suffering.
In this way sho was able to do for them what the phy
sicians wore unable to do, simply because sho had tho
proper information to work upon, and from tho little group
of women who sought her advico years ago, a great army
of her fellow-beings are today constantly applying for
advico and relief, and the fact that more than ono hundred
thousand of them hayo been successfully treated by Mrs.
Pinkham during tho last year is indicative of tho grand
results which aro produced by her unequaled experience
and training.
No physician in the world has had such a training, or
has such an amount of information at hand to assist in tho
treatmont of all kinds of female ills, from tho simplest
local irritation to tho most complicated diseases of tho
womb.
This, thoroforo, is tho reason why Mrs. Pinkham, in
her laboratory at Lynn, Mass., is tiblo to do more for tho
ailing women of America than the family physician. Any
woman, thoroforo, is responsible for her own suffering
who will not take the trouble to write to Mrs. Pinkham
for advico.
Tho testimonials which we aro constantly publishing
from grateful women establish beyond a doubt the power
of Lydia E, Finkhuiu's Vegetable Compound to
conquer femalo diseases.
new niiinuiK books for the Center Hun
day scho(d.--i;schanRc.
Tllr lut is ,11) tlu Hllni'hin.
tml the IruliItT i in I Mi' ch". '
Nil rhappy u "urn Ii" n',
And ukcti nut hi out feuu hoil..
Strawberries aro rlpo iu Texas. Sus
quehanna Is six months ahead of the
Lone Star state. Wo hud strawberries
last June,
A fellow doesn't have to be much of
a sprinter to catch cold this winter.
OLD TlfSE COMMITTED SUJOIDK.
The proprietor of the Alford hotel of
1 Rf REWA
Li tB w Jtl Eu i 13
to any person who will bhow
writers' siicciul pennis-siou.
fered a man a dollar to 1:111 Tiee. his
Ill'teen-year-oM dofr, which was blind
alld a nuisance.
When the man started lo ku his kuii
old Tli;e arose from the tlonr near the
stove, nave a pitiful whine and went
out of doors.
lu half an hour the man returned
with his kuii, but tho dog had dlsap;
pcarrd. Ills mutilated body was found
on the Lackawanna railroad tracks
next morning, lie had committed sul
cido to avoid an Igiiomluous death upon
the hills.
.'r.IS. ?. r.i'a'jaai " Dear Mas. Pinkham : I have been thank-
feM-k i Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has 1
I i-y Tjss, (gwy i
" Dkaii Mus. Tixkham: When I wrote to you some time ago for
advice, I really thought my days were numbered. 1 was .so ill that I
could not stand on my feet for fifteen minutes at a time.
" I had female troubles in many of their worst forms, iiilliimmntion
and ulceration of tins womb, lcucorrhiru, bearing-down pains, headache,
backache, and nervous prostration. My kidneys were out of order and
blood in a bad condition. Every one, and even my doctor, thought I
was going intoconMimption. 1 commenced to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and followed youe advice faithfully for six months,
witli tho result that I becanio a well woman, and it did not cost me,
nearly as much its a doctor's bill for the .same number of weeks. 1 feel
that your medicine saved my life." MRS. SAMUEL BORST, 7 Cczy
Ave., Oneontu, S. V,
"Drat. Mns, Pi.vkhasi: 1 feel that words are but feeble to express
a heart's gratitude, when there is so much to be thankful for as I have.
I sulVercd with womb troubles for live years, and our family physician
said an operation was needed; but 1 dreaded It, and reading of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound one day, I decided to give it a trial
first, To my gicat joy I found that after four months' treatment 1 was
strong and well ; experienced no pain or trouble, and tho Compound
built up my entire system. I shall always bless the day I started to
take your medicine; it proved my grcatcs good," MISS SOl'IUE
RONliAM, 281 Oak St., Chicago, 111.
' Dba u Mas, I'ixkiiaM : I want to toll you what your medicine has
done for me. I believe it saved my life. 1 had womb trouble and in
flammation of the ovaries, and was troubled with Mowing too much. I
hud two doctors, but they did mo no good. A fter writing to you, 1 began
tho use of your remedies, and to-day 1 am well. I cannot say enough in
vmir fuvorand .shall always pralso your Vegetable Compound." MRS.
VUKl). LEO, liox ,r.:.'0, Skowhegan, Maine.
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ihIii;,' to tho fact that some t-kcntlcnl people Ikivo from tiuio to thuo questioned
rmiiueucMi of tlu testimonial letters wo uro constantly publishing, wo have
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deposited with tho National City Dank,
that tho above tetlmoiiliiU nro not genuine,
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Pinkham Muuiui.nk Co,, Lynn, Mass
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Able and sjeiii.i! Colonel Charles C.
l'r.itt. of .Viw MUi'oril, will doubtless
lie tho next st.ite senator from this dis
trict All signs point that way.
Mxtra meetlims continue iu the Meth
odist and Itapllst churches.
The local labor contention is still
With us. Like llaucuo's kIiosI, it
doesn't down worth a cent.
The alleged beautiful snow falls al
most daily, makes miserable mud,'
The repairs and Improvements to the
Avenue .Methodist church ao Hearing
completion.
" Dear Mr.s. Pinkham : I have been thank
ful a thousand limes since I wrote to you for what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me. I followed your advice carefully
and now I feel like a different person.
"My troubles were backache, headache,
nervous .tired feeling, painful menstruation,
and lcucorrhcca. I took four bottles of Vege
table Compound, one box of Liver Pills, and
used ono package of Sanative Wash,, and am
now well.
" I thank you again for the good you have
done me." ELLA E. DRENNER, East Roches
ter, Ohio.
December i!8, 1809.
"Diiai! Mits, Pin'kiiam : I feel that It is my
dutv to write and tell you of the benollt i have de
rived from the u.so of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound I wrote to you last dune nnd
described my hiiflerings.
1 took suvon bottles of your medicine and was
cured of my troubles. Liiht September I was taken
with a very bad kidney trouble I was away from
iiomu nnd was obliged to return, I started to take
your medicine again and was soon well.
When I wrolo to you last hummer I weighed
only one hundred and five. 1 now weigh ono hun
dred and thirteen, 1 am very grateful to you for
the good advice you gavome, and would recommend
your medicine to all who suffer from female weak
ness," MRS, ii. CUNNINUUAM, Oakland, 111.
ot Lynn, Muss., sffi.uuo. which w ill lie paid
or were publUhed before obtaining the
! And even Democratic candidates for
legislative honors are bobbin;,' un In
old Susquehanna county. Well, well'
II we cannot be thankful for no
thing, November -S, let us rejoice tliati
we are no worse off than we are,
That cheerful liar, "the oldest inhab
itant" and the ge-nso bone unite in pre
dicting an open winter. Hut stick to
your llannc'ls and keep good friends
with the coal man.
if you are lu a hurry, bring your
paper hook to The Tribune offlce.
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