THE PRESENT WORLD.
This world's a pretty good sort of world,
Talcing it altogether.
In spite of the grief aad sorrow we meet,
In spite of the gloomy weather,
There are friends to love and hopes to cheer
And plenty ol compensation
For every ache, for these who make
The best of the situation.
—Josephine Follard.
* A DOCTOR'S STORY, 112
BY B. M. NEILL. 112
When M. D.was tacked to my name,
I bowed at two shrines, my profession
and—my Angelina. Her name was
not Angelina, but my wife being a
modest little lady, desires she shall
not be dragged Wefore an inquisitive
public. Let, then, Angelina represent
the real woman.
Of course 1 had a rival; name,
Richard Somers; age, twenty-six;
general appearauce, striking and hand
some; character, very bad.
Neither my affection for this gentle
man nor his affection for me would
have caused a conflagration on any
river of which I know. We disliked
each other heartily from the first.
Being a much handsomer man thau
myself, he might have been a danger
ous rival. However, he saved me all
trouble. He committed a forgery
was discovered sooner than he
expected. He was arrested for the
offense, tried and convicted. I was
one of the principal witnesses against j
him. When the sentence was passed i
upon him, he requested a moment's
conversation with me. I shall never
forget the look of hatred upon his
face as he hissed out:
"Ton have ruined my love and my
life. Bemember that, and fear me!"
I attached but little importance to
his threat. I thought it simply the
bluster of a self-defeated and disgraced
tival.
Shortly after, Angelina and I were
Jiarried, and for two years I heard
liothingof Somers. His sentence had
Jbeen a comparatively light one—a year
,jud six months. After his discharge
jrom prison, however, I neither saw
heard of him.
For so young a man, I had been
jery successful as a physician, prin
cipally due to my strict attention to
practice. No matter how late, or dark
*u stormy, might be the eight, I
promptly attended to all summonses
to the bedside of suffering.
One night, a little while before the
Jiour of retiring, the door-bell rang,
and shortly afterward a man entered
the room where we were sit
ting. He was not prepossessing. His
liair was short and thick, arid the
general cast of his feature< villaiuous.
Without hesitation, I put on my '
/oat and hat aud prepared togo with j
him.
"A gentleman, "he said, "had broken !
his leg."
I thought it a pity that, if the gen
tleman were anything like his mes- I
s ngsr, he hadn't broken his neck. I
did not tell my wife where I was
going, for it was a distant part of the
town, and in anything but u respect
able neighborhood. I did not wish to i
make the little woman nervous.
On our way, the unprepossessing man ;
was very uncommunicative. He an- ;
ewered my inquiries about the injured i
gentleman in surly monosyllables. He
was apparently in no haste, for he !
walked very slowly—more slowly, I I
Ihoaght, than was consistent with the |
welfare of my patient.
At last we arrived at our destina- ;
Hon. It was a very dark-looking I
house, in a very dark street.
My guide led mo up two flights of
very dirty and rickety stairs, that ;
freaked objections to our weight upon
the in. In the third story, we stopped |
before a door, which, to my surprise, I
jny companion opened with a key |
which ho took from his pocket. Was I
lie afraid that a man with a broken i
leg would escape? I was still more
furprised when,on entering the room,
I found it empty!
He motioned me to a chair, and, re
marking he would return soon,left the
(room.
For the first time I was somewhat
Jiervous and suspicious. The empty
room—the last action of my guide—
his carelessness,on our way, as to the
health of the supposed injured mau—
the lonely house aud neighborhood—
all combined to make me suspect foul
play.
I stepped to the door, only to find
it locked from the outside—to the
window,only to find escape impossible
there. It was many feet from the
ground.
My suspicions were now certainties.
X was trapped. None of my friends,
jfcot even my wife knew where I was.
I might be murdered in this den, and
<oay death remain a mystery.
I suppose I waited about an hour
before I heard the key turn in the
door. Theu, to my dismay, half a
jozen men entered.
When nature made the jail-bird who
had led me into this trap, she did not
break the mould. These men were of
the same pattern. All wore the same
hang-dog, murderous look. One of
them raised the light in the room,
which had been burning low. With
hardly a gla'ye at me, they took seats
upon the 'j/or, and began to play
cards. /
Soo>yrfne door opened, and another
mau >ftered. I hardly had a hope as
I looked at him,for I saw the exulting
face of my enemy—Dick Somers!
At a glance he saw that I recognized
him. With a malicions leer, he
stejiped forward,and, quoting his own
words of two years bofore, said:
"You have mined my love and my
life. Remember that, and fear me!"
I saw in his face, at once showing
his revenge and desperation, that noth
ing could turn him aside from his pur
pose.
"Vomers," I said, "I know that you
have trapped me here for the purpose
of revenging yourself upon me, but
remember, sir, that I have friends 1
Remember law and justice!"
"I fear nothing," he answered. "I
defy man and God! Bevenge on you
is dearer to me than life; and though
for me the bottomless pit were yawn
ing, I would have it."
I saw it was useless to appeal to
him, and I sullenly waited for what
seemed fate.
At his command the ruffians
searched me. One of them, who ap
peared to be kind of treasurer for the
gang, secured my watch and pocket
book. Then they tied me with stout
ropes to a chair.
Homers did not address me again,
but sat upon the floor and gambled
with the rest. Presently he r6se,and,
saying he would return by daybreak,
left the room. He evidently felt I was
in his power and seemed in no hurry
to complete his revenge.
When he had gone the card-playing
was kept up for a couple of hours.
Then the men all stretched themselves
upon the floor and slept. The door
opened inward, and across it was the
burly form of the treasurer. In spite
of the apparent hopelessness of the
trial, I set about devising some plan
of escape.
The first thing to do was to free
myself. I have large wrists and small
hands. In tying me they had not
taken this into consideration. With
out much difficulty I liberated my
hands; then, of course, it was the
work of but a few minutes to entirely
free myself from my bonds.
Taking the precaution to place the
ropes in such a position, that, should
the gang waken, I would still appear
to be bound. I thought upon my
chances of escape. They certainly
appeared very few and small. The
fact of the men upon the floor being
asleep, seemed little in my favor. I
conld not move the ruffian who was
sleepiug at the door without waking
him. Escape by the window was im
possible. Every plan that suggested
itself had insurmountable objections
to it. I had almost given up schem
ing in despair, and concluded to adopt
some hopelessly desperate measure,
when I thought of the contents of a
bottle I had in my pocket.
In starching me, the ruffians had
not disturbed it, thinking it Of no im
portance. It contained chloroform. I
also hud a sponge in my pocket. In a
moment I resolved whnt to do. Draw
ing the bottle from my pocket, I
soaked the sponge thoroughly with its
contents.
Slowly, painfully (I could hear my
heart beat), with all the caution that
a man uses when his life may depend
upon the slightest noise, I stepped to
the side of the nearest ruffian.
I placed the saturated sponge to his
nose. I saw him quickly yield to the
influence of the vapor. From man to
man I stepped. One by one they were
made senseless, helpless.
The man at the door was the last. I
drew him away, first securing my
watch and pocketbook. I also found
in his possession a blackjack, which I
took the liberty of appropriating.
Then, openiug the door, I stepped out
into the hall.
I still moved cautiously, feeling that
all danger was not past. I thought
there might be a watcher there, but,
to my relief, I saw no one. I de
scended the first flight of stairs, and
reached the second story in safety.
I had gone about half way down the
second flight. My heart stood still,
for I heard some one enter below,
then, in the muttered oath, I recog
nized Soiners' voice. I crouched down
upon the stair nest the wall, hoping
he might pass me. But, as he came
up, his hand brushed my face.
In a moment be had me by the
throat. I knew him to be by far the
more powerful man, and it was not a
time for scruples. Quickly, it being
so dark ho could not see the action, I
raised tho blackjack—l had held it
since I left the 100111 —and brought it
down heavily upon his skull.
His hand left my throat, and he
rolled down stairs. I found him at
the foot, quite still. I made good mj
escape, not stopping to see if I had
killed him. I do not know to this day
whether he is living or dead. 1 never
saw nor heard of him again.
When I arrived home, I found a very
frightened little woman, but I did not
tell her till long afterward the history
of that night. I have never since been
in such a fix, and if discretion and a
reasonable supply of timidity <-au pre
vent it,never will will be in the future.
—Saturday Night.
Mttrtlmonlal Coincidence.
Mr. S. E. McMillan, who has re
cently moved to Charlotte from South
Carolina, gives an interesting account
of a matrimonial coincidence that oc
curred in his family last year.
About the first of last July Mr. Mc-
Millan received a letter from his
brother iu Lake End, La., saying: "I
will be married on the Bth of this
month. Meet us at Nashville, Tenn.,
and join us for a trip to Colorado
City."
At the time he reoeived this letter
Mr. McMillan was making arrange
ments for his own wedding, which
was dated for July 8, and at this
time he says he was living in the
sand hills of South Carolina, the soil
there having become proverbial for its
poverty.
On about the 10th of July he re
ceived a letter from another brother,
J. D. McMillan of Cataline Island, off
the west coast of California, saying:
"I was married on the Bth of this
month to Miss In contrast
with the sand hills of South Carolina,
Cataline Island is one of the most fer
tile districts in the world.
AH three brothers married on the
Bth of July and it was impossible for
them to have any concerted plans
about the date as they had not heard
from each other in months.—Charlotte
(N. C".) Democrats
HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
Hn. S. T. Borer's Strawberry Shortcake.
To make strawberry shortcake, pre
pare a dough precisely the same as for
fingers. 801l this into a sheet an
inch thick, cut it into an oblong
shape, brush it with milk, and bake
in a quick oven for fifteen minutes.
Have the strawberries mashed and
sugared. When the cake is done,
pull it gently into halves; butter each
half a little; put the lower half on
the serving-dish and cover it thickly
with strawberries. Put the remain
ing strawberries over the top. Serve
at once with cream and powdered su
gar.—Mrs. S. T. Borer in the La
dies' Home Journal.
A Potato Surprise for an Invalid.
Take a smooth, medium-sized pota
to, wash and cut the small end partly
off, leaving just enough attached to
■ form a little hinge, scoop out part of
the raw potato and fill with beef or
mutton that has been prepared by re
moving all gristle and fat, chopped
very fine and seasoned. When filled
tie the potato cover on and bake until
tender. When done take from the
oven, raise the cover, and if the meat
looks dry turn over it a little dress
ing made with butter, water and flour,
or, if there is any on hand, a little
meat gravy. Serve in the skin, and,
as its name suggests, it will be a
tempting surprise. Or, for a change,
simply bake the potato, and when
done cut off the little end and scoop
out all inside; season this with butter,
salt and chopped celery; beat up fine
and light, then refill the skin and
serve.
Veal Croquettes.
Small scraps of cooked veal may be
easily used in croquettes. If there is
only a cup of cold veal add a cup of
rice and putin a quarter of a cup of
mushrooms. Where there is abun
dance of meat use only a quarter of
a cup of rice and a cup and three
quarters of minced meat. In place
of the mushrooms half a cup of
minced and cooked sweetbreads or of
calf's brains can be used. Add sea
soning of three or four drops of onion
juice, a sprig of minced parsley, a
spray of celery and one of thyme.
Moisten vhe mixture with three-quar
ters of a cup of white stock, which
should be jellied, if it can be ob
tained. Add a saltspoonful of salt
and a few shakes of a caster of white
pepper. Finally stir one egg yolk in
the mixture and cook it in a fi ving
pan for two or three minutes. Tour
the croquette mixture out on a platter,
and when it is cold form it into cro
quettes. Dip it in the beaten yolk of
an egg mixed with two tablespoonfuls
of milk. Roll the croquettes in sift
ed breadcrumbs and fry them in boil
ing hot fat until they are a delicate
brown. It should take about two
minutes.
A Brown Chicken I'le.
Chop a small onion, two crisp,
white stalks of celery, and a good
sized sprig of parsley, tine. Put into
a small saucepan with half a cup of
water, and one teaspoonful of butter
and let it simmer awhile.
Put a tablespoonful ofc butter in a
fryingpan, and when it browns putin
the chicken (which should be cooked
as for an ordinary pie), and when well
browned on both sides, pour in the
contents of the saucepan and shake
until well mixed. Add a pint of the
broth iu which the chicken was boiled,
and cover closely, letting it simmer
for fifteen minutes.
Drain the chicken and put it into
the crust. Slice four hard-boiled eggs
and putin layers over the chicken
with bits of butter; a heaping tea
spoonful, cut fine, is sufficient on each
layer. Two is enough, making three
with the chicken.
When all is ready for the top crust,
stir a little thickenyig into the gravy
which has been kept hot. A table
spoonful of flour mixed to a smooth
paste with cold water or milk, is
enough, and when it boils up remove
from fire. Add a bit of cayenne pep
per, or black, and salt to make it well
seasoned. Put on the top crust, hav
ing two or three slits across the top,
and bake.
Household Hints.
A speck is what you can take ou the
tip of a penknife.
Never pierce meat while cooking, or
the juice will escape.
Veal must never be laid on a dish,
but hung in an airy place till cooked.
Egg shells should be thrown into
a stock-pot directly the contents are
used.
Choose butter by its fresh odor,
freedom from buttermilk and streaks
of color.
To give an appetizing flavor too
broiled beefsteak, rub a cut onion
over the hot platter with the butter.
To scald milk, put it in a jug or ba
sin in a pan of cold water over the
flre. When the water boils the milk
is scalded.
A cup is all the cup will hold with
out running over—full to the brim.
A scant cupful is within a fourth of an
inch of the top.
Fish for frying should always be
dried thoroughly and dredged thickly
with flour before being brushed ovei
with egg and breadcrumbs.
To improve sweetbreads and give
them a fine flavor, soak them in mild
lemon juice water an hour, and then
boil twenty minutes in beef stock.
When flavoring soup, never use
powdered spices, as they form a sedi
ment at the bottom of the plate and
spoil the appearance. Whole cloves
and other spices should be stuck into
the vegetables while boiling. Long
pepper is superior to ground, but it
requires several hours' boiling.
"JVC
FM*M
Treatment of Verbena Seed.
Verbena seed should be soaked
three or four hours iu tepid water be
fore being plan'ed in a shallow bos of
joil with good drainage. It will ger
minate in twelve or fourteen days.
Water well, but judiciously; if you
give too much the plants will damp
off. When the young plants are out
of the seed leaf transplant into pots,
and when large enough set iuthe open
ground. The verbena, like the phlox
and portulaca, likes the sun. One of
its good qualities—and it has many—
is that it lasts a long time iu water.
Plowing Under Clover for Corn,
Where clover is a new seeding, by
which is meant such as was sown a
year ago this season, it may pay to
let it grow until nearly the first of
June and then plow it under as a
preparation for corn or potatoes.
There will in the latter part of May be
considerable clover growth, which be
ing succulent and rich, will rot vapidly
in the soil. But for the second year's
clover ley there is no use in waiting.
More or less June grass will have
como among the clover by the second
year, and this needs to be plowed
early, so as to set it to rotting as
quickly as possible.
Notes for Shepherds.
Sheep fertilize the pastures.
Sheep are death to wild mustard.
Eastern Australia has 100,000,000
sheep.
Don't keep a flock iu unventilated
quarters.
The Merino matures too slowly for
a profitable mutton sheep.
The demand for stock sheep has
been very strong this season.
Second growth clover is highly rec
ommended for lambs aftor weaning.
Once iu a while the stables should
have an extra and a thorough clean
in 8-
Dry feed and nothing else will like
ly cause sick sheep before spring. Oil
meal is a remedy.
The ram is by no means a coward,
and we have seen oue put up a suc
cessful fight against a dog.
To compel the ewe to raise a lamb
and grow a big fleece the same year is
too much work for her.
The breeding of lamb rams is a
serious mistake to both the breeder
and customer, saj-s a flockmaster.—
Western Plowman.
Manure and I'ear RligHt.
Pear blight is probably a fungous
disease which works in the sap under
certain conditions. It is more likely
to attack trees which have au excess
of stable manure, even though they
have a sufficiency of the mineral fer
tilizers, potash and phosphate. The
best pear growers now use stable man
ure very sparingly, and ouly at sea
sons when its effect will be mostly
passed before the hot weather of sum
mer. If the manure is applied late in
spring, as is most often done, because
manure is most plentiful then, its
greatest effect tcomes iu July and
August. The pear trees thus man
ured will most certainly blight. Top
dressing the trees in early fall makes
the increased growth come iu the
spring. If the trees are bearing they
should have extra heavy supplies of
potash and phosphate without auy ad
ditional nitrogen. We have seen
pear trees blight which we believe
would have been saved if the roots
could find enough potash to perfect
the fruit. The pear blight most often
attacks trees that are bearing, at just
the time the fruit should be forming
its seeds. There is a suggestion in
this that a plentiful supply of potash
early in the season would have kept
the sap in healthy condition.
How to Restore Denuded Forests.
Dr. Kothrock, the state forestry
commissioner, in a speech at the re
cent annual meeting of the Lumber
man's Exchange, described the strip
ping of the forests of Pennsylvania by
the lumbermen and tauners since
1879. So far as effect was concerned
this was much like locking the stable
after the horse has been stolen. The
denuded hillsides, stretching all the
way from Williaiusport on the west
branch of the Susquehanna to the
Allegheny, will not be recovered with
forests by speechuiaking. Had some
sensible system of removing the
merchantable timber been employed,
leaving the rest to come to maturity,
these denuded hillsides, would still be
forest covered.
While the picture of present deso
lation, where once mighty forests
overspread the country, cannot be
presented too often as au object les
son upon how not to treat our re
maining timbered area, the most prac
tical work for reforesting a part of
our forest-stripped domain will be
some agitation for protecting these
sections against forest fires. Land
that has been stripped of all its tim
ber and burned to a condition of bar
reu desolation will reforest itself in
course of time if protected from fire,
and the state bureau of forestry should
bend its every energy to the securing
and effectual enforcement of letrisU-
tion that will put an end to forest
fires.
All that Dr. Kothrock says about
the desolated timber counties of the
state is true and it cannot be too
strongly stated, but the present prob
lem is that of repairing by gradual
growth the destruction that has been
rapid and widespread. Protect the
stripped forest area and forests of
some kind will grow again, and in no
other way can this desirable end be
secured. Lamenting what is passed
will not replace a single tree, but sen
sible protecting of the young forest
growth will in time furnish new for
ests.—Philadelphia Times.
Value of a Manure Spreader.
B. C. Mitchell, a Pennsylvania ex
pert says: "A great many writers rec
ommend composting. Others soy,
keep the manure under shelter and
fork it over until a well rotted pile of
manure is secured, then haul out after
harvest and plow under, or haul out
in the spring. In my judgment and
experience I would most severely con
demn any such methods of handling
or utilizing manure. If pile lin ever
so small heaps it will heat in less than
24 hours and begin to deteriorate.
There is nothing in comx>osting. If
you have anything to put on the land,
put it on and do not keep it six months
or a year, as you cannot add one par
ticle of value to it by so doing. Man
ure is never of any more value than
when it is first made.
It is a ruinous practice that some
farmers have of throwing their man
ure out into the barnyard and letting
it remain for six mouths or a year,
where it will lose over CO per cent, of
its value. For the last six years I
have made it an imperative rule to
save all of my manure, liquid and
solid, as near as possible, and top
dress my ground by means of a man
ure spreader. This is the proper way
to apply manure under all circum
stances. Take off one crop before
turning it down, so that it will become
thoroughly incorporated in the soil.
By so doing you will increase your
crop and the amount of humus. The
manure spreader has been the key
note to my success in farming. When
I began 13 years ago I found that
there had been a great improvement
in the farm implements, such as the
binder, the mowing machine, the ted
der, the horse rake, the grain drill.
All are grand labor-saving machines,
but a manure spreader, unlike any
other farm machinery, can be profit
ably used at all times. One of them
can spread more manure than ten
men and do it a great deal better. It
tears the material to pieces aud dis
tributes it so evenly that the plants
will all receive a benefit. The spreader
can be regulated quickly to put on,
five, ten, fifteen or twenty loads to the
acre. It will spread a load in three
minutes where you put fifteen loads to
the acre.
Poultry Notes.
Cull out the poor layers and give the
prolific hens more room to work.
After the second year the hen's
value as a winter egg-producer les
sens.
Green rye is the best form for feed
ing; as a grain it is a poor poultry
food.
Make the hens work. Exercise
helps digestion. Feed all they will
eat up clean.
Do not throw long grass to the
fowls unless it be a sod. It will not
take long to run it through a cutter;
then feed it in troughs. It should not
be over an inch long.
Let the fowls have drinking troughs
into which it will be impossible for
them to get with their feet. Their
water becomes foul, and to it we may
attribute many diseases.
One of the difficulties in early set
tings of eggs is that they often become
chilled before being put under the
hen. Do not keep them in metal puns
as the custom is too often.
Everything which is in the egg must
be supplied in the food, and the sub
ject of feeding should be a study. Let
us at least remember that an egg con
tains oil, phosphorous, sulphur, lime
and uitrogeu.
The egg shell is porous and when
ever it comes in contact with filth of
any kind the quality of the egg is very
quickly injured. Eggs for hatching
should be washed in warm water be
fore being set, that all closed pores
may be opened.
Geese profit from a good grass pas
ture, but they should not be allowed
to run in a field where there is any
other stock. They foul the grass
quickly so that horses aud cattle will
not eat it. Ther should have an en
closure to themselves.
Even carbolic acid is not sure death
to all forms of parasites. Lime is
much more potent, and if poultry
houses are whitewashed from time to
time the nuisance will be more surely
abated, although they breed fast.
Grease the perches occasionally and
even dip their ends in solid grease.
There is often a sad lack of profit
with chickens just because there is a
sad lack of management. Countless
little things, which no one caa teach
another, are essentials,and these have
more to do with it than do general
rules. On the list of necessary things
are good blood, warm shelter, proper
food, but only the practical man learns
those which are not written.
Try Allen's Foot-Eaat.
A powder to be shaken Into the shoes.
Kt this season your feet (eel swollen, ner
vous and hot, and get tired easily. If you
bave smarting feet or tight shoes, try Al
len's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and
makes walking easy. Cures swollen and
sweating feet, blisters nnd onllons spots.
Believer corns and bunions of all rutin and
gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold
by ail druggists and shoe stores for 23c.
Trial package FREE. Address, AHen S
Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y.
The cultivation of the ramphor tree in
Florida has proved a decided success.
Appetite—Strength
Without the First You Cannot
Have the Last.
Hood's Sarsaparllla gives both. It
gently tones and strengthens the stomach
and gives digestive power, creates an ap
petite and invigorates the whole system.
By making the blood rich and pure it
strengthens the nerves and gives refreshing
sleep. Bemombet
Hood's Sarsaparilla
la America's Greatest Medicine. ; *IX fT
Hood's Pills cute all liver ills, '-io cents.
Tlie Persian Way.
The Shah of Persia may be only ia
the 2.30 class in matters of diplomacy
anil he does not dare exactly to slap
Queen Victoria of Kaiser William on
the back when the potentates chance
to meet; bat, so far as matters in Per
sia are concerned, when the Shah
makes a law it ia generally enforced
to the letter. Persian laws, as tra
dition informs us, have always had a
fashion of getting themselves obeyed
and the habit lias continued even
through the nineteenth century.
A case in point may be cited in the
matter of Persian lamb skins. Per
sian lamb skins are and bave long
been an article of staple demand in
the commercial world. They bave
commanded such good prices that the
supply was hardly equal to the de
maud. Consequently, when the Shah
one day ordered spring lamb with
mint sauce, the cook was obliged to
confess that tbe dish was beyond the
command of the Persian treasury. Of
course tbe cook wtyj promptly be
headed, but the Shah could not find
another cook wbo would agree to
furnish spring lamb whenever his
majesty desired to indulge in that
4elicacy.
This naturally irritated the Shab.
After consulting with three or four of
his most trusted advisers, who could
see no way out of the difficulty aud
who consequently disappeared from
their homes aud society in a mysteri
ous manner, the Shah finally decided
that tbe commerce of Persia was
threatened by tbe extinction of Per
sian sheep aud Persian lambs. Con
sequently, he made a decree that any
person found with lamb skins in his
possession for purposes of trade or
commerce would be fined heavily.
Since then tbe export trade in Persian
lamb skins has stopped with a blunt
and nauseating jar.—Boston Adver
tiser.
The British Army rifle has eighty
two component parts, in the produc
tion of wbich 952 machines are em
ployed as well as various process
which do not require machinery.
STRONG STATEMENTS.
Three Women Relieved of Female
Troubles by Mrs. Pinkhaca.
From Mrs. A. W. Smith, 59 Summer
St., Biddeford, Me.:
" For several years I suffered with
various diseases peculiar to my sex.
Was troubled with a burning.sensation
across the small of my back, that all
gone feeling, was despondent, fretful
and discouraged; the least exertion
tired me. I tried several doctors but
received little benefit. At last I de
cided to give your Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a trial. The ef
fect of the first bottle was magical.
Those symptoms of weakness that I
was afflicted with, vanished like vapor
before the sun. I cannot speak too
highly of your valuable remedy. It is
truly a boon to woman."
From Mrs. Mf.i.issa Pirrr,i.ir3, Lex
ington, Ind., to Mrs. Pinkham:
"Before I began takingyour medicine
I had suffered for two years with that
tired feeling, headache, backache, no ap
petite, and a run-down condition of the
system. I could not walk across the
room. I have taken four bottles of the
Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver
Pills and used one package of Sanative
Wash, and now feci like a new woman,
and am able to do my work."
From Mrs. Mollie E. ller3el, Pow
sll Station, Tenn.:
"For three years I suffered with such a
weakness of the back, I could not
perform my household duties. I also
had falling of the womb, terrible bear
ing-down pains nnd headache. I hare
taken two bottles of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound and feel
like a new woman. I recommend your
medicine to evcrv woman I know."
Goto your grocer to-day
Ita and get als c. package ol
| Grain-0
It takes the place of cof-
Vtr ice at l the cost.
Made from pure graini ;
is nourishing and healj >/
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