What Do They Cure? The above question Is often asked con cerning Dr. Pierce's two leading medi cines, "Golden Medical Discovery" and Favorite Prescription." The answer Is that "Golden Medical Discovery " is a most potent alterative or blood-purlfle.r, and tonic or invigorator and acts especially favorably in a cura tive way upon all tho mucous lining sur faces, as of the nnsal passages, throat, bronchial .tubes, stomach, bowels and bladdencuring a large per cent or catar rhal cases whether he. disease affects the nasal parages, the iliw.it, larynx, bron chia, stomachNfas cntnrHjl dyspepsia ), bowels (as miioi4raistfiivL bladder, uterus or other pFVvIc orgirn Even In the rhrnn'c pr "'"" 'Wp Mflff1" nl tlirtii affections, it I often successful Inspect ing cures. The" favorite rresfrlnton"ls advise j for the cure g una class i'f diseases those peculiar weTi? "Bi'fllW'llffflts anj Irregidarltleriricideiit lawmen, ou,ly.Tt Is a powerful yet gently aciiiig invigorate ing tonic and nervine. For weak worn out, over-worked women no matter what hag caused the break-down, "Favorite Prescription "will bo found most effective In building up the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of the whole system. A book of particulars wraps each bottle giving the formula; of both medicines and quoting what scores of eminent med ical authors, whoso works are consulted by physicians of all the schools of practice as guide in prescribing, say of each In gredient entering into these medicines. The words of praiso bestowed on the Several Ingredients entering into Doctor Pierce's medicines by such writers should bave moro weight than any amount of lion - professional testimonials, because such men are writing for the guidance of their medical brethren and know whereof they speak. Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non secret, and contain no harmful habit forming drugs, being composed of glyceric extracts of the roots of native, American medicinal forest plants They are both sold by dealers in medicine. You can't afford to accept as a substitute for one of these medicines of known composition, any secret nostrum. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and In vigorate stomach, liver and bowels. OATMEAL AND RICKETS Inquired Asks Why Disease is Preva lent in Scotland. The latest contribution to the per ennial ditcussion of the value of oat meal as an article of human diet takes the form of a question directed to the editor of the scientific notos In a London paper. "How do you explain," the ques tioner asks, "why for generations the rickets were more prevalent In Scot and than in any other part of the empire, notwithstanding that quanti ties of oatmeal were consumed by the Scotch people?" The editor has not yet explained. Lincoln's Last Law Case. Lincoln tried his last law case in Chicago. It was the case of Jones vs. Johnson, in April and May, 1860, in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Drummond. The case involved the title to land of very great value, the accretion on the shore of Lake Michigan. During the trial Judge Drummond and all the counsel on both sides, including Lin coln, dined together at the house of Isaac N. Arnold. At the conclusion of the dinner this toast was propos ed: ".May Illinois furnish the next President of the United States." It was drunk with great enthusiasm by the friends of both Lincoln and Doug las. Chicago Record-Herald. Victorian Cross Carries Pension. The. Victoria Cross carries a ien slon of about $."0 a year for private and non-commissioned officers. The cross is worn on the left breast, sus pended by a red ribbon for the army a blue for the navy. Winchester For Rifles and Pistols Winchester make of ' cartridges in all calibers from .22 to .50 are accu rate, sure fire and relia ble. In forty years of gun making we have learned many things about am munition that no one could learn in any other way. When you buy Winchester make of cartridges you get the benefit of this experience Winchester Repeating Arms Co., NEW HAVEN, CONN. , THE DAISY FLY KILLER octroy, .tithe eue tutu BuuiuIUVWlUtt UltJVUlJ UUUttl 111 (J III UlR JH in. Riecinntr-roitui fti'd ail places where flu-i troublnnme. Cltn, neat, ana will not pot of Injure anything. Try thm once and you will off er be without Tbftu. If not kept b rtralern. neat prepaid for e. B AttOLJ) feOMKIta. ltt ltoJudl) if... Braeklya. X. T. CQMETHING NEW J2Z'gSX5!'' Rttlond Buysri' Union. 1 3 leonert at, Hew York. " P. N. U. 24, 1K07. If nfftlcied wild weak HIM Thonipson'sEyeWatei' ONLY 19 MONTHS LEFT Prophet Spangler Predicts That the End Will Come Next Year. Lee L. Spangler, of York, Pa., vho styled himself "The Last of the Prophets," has issued another of his remarkable bulletins. He assert.! that the world will come to an end in 19 months. He warns all people to look out for the dissolution. He says there will be no more sea sons, that summer and winter will bo as one, and there will not be any way of telling one from the other. Snow in July need not be a surprise, and sleigh riding Is likely to be one of the summer pastimes. He adds: "There will be more black spots to occur In the sun's disk, and by the latter part of 1!)08 the sun will be entirely black. The earthquakes will shake all the principal cities of the nations. Great excursion wrecks will occur, and there will be great dis tress In the land until the end shall come." Wigs Mads of Spun Glass. The enormous feminine demand for artificial coils and toupees Is leading to a famine in human hair. Former ly Swiss, German and Hungarian girls supplied the world of fashion able women with luxuriant tresses of all tints. Hut the governments of many countries are now making it illegal for a girl to sell her hair or for an agent to buy it. The supply In consequence is running short and the prices of real hair are trebling. A series of successful experiments point to spun glass as the most ef fective substitute for human hair. Wigs made from spun glass are won derfuly light and fine, and the tex ture soft and beautiful. It is easy to produce any' shade desired, while curls, and waves can be manufac tured at will to suit the fashion of the moment. The imitation is so real istic and true to life that it is im possible to detect the difference be tween it and real hair grown on the head. London Mall. 68, BUT PEKFECTLY WELL. The Happy Experience of a New Cas tic, Pa., Woman. Mrs. John Mansell, 614 So. Jeffer son St., New Castle, Pa., says: "For years I was run ning down with kidney trouble without knowing what it was, and finally got so bad I was givca up. The 3t'JUV-. tTi-mn-ir ,riciai .rati n&SSSJf i- were painful, some times scanty and again very profuse. My limbs, feet and ankles bloated dreadfully, and sometimes my whole body. My heart palpitated and I had smothering spells. A week's treat ment with Doan's Kidney Pills helped me and a few noses cured me. At OS 1 am strong and well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y. Negro Slave Owners. The Charleston News and Courier, in the course of Its studies of "The Old South" and the status of the free negroes before the civil war, has dug up the very Interesting fact that free persons of color owned Blaves. The list of Charleston taxpayers for 1S60 enumerates 132 "free persons of col or," who paid the local impost of $3 per capita on one or more slaves they possessed. Two of these made re turn of the ownership of 14 slaves, one of 11 and three of 12. These slave owning colored men were pretty well to do, and "operated" their gangs by contract. All this goes to show that evil communication simply reinforced old African traditions ac cording to which slavery was an In stitution not at all "peculiar." It is related that in Columbus, Ga., a free colored woman owned her husband, and took the proceeds of his labor, eventually in a spirit of commercial Ism, selling him to a white slave owner. Cure for Insomnia. Janirs Benham, a Cleveland gro cer, has discovered a cure for insom nia in Btcrm-producing ap'paratus used on the stage. His wife had not slept for a week. " Henham and his son pot a sheet of crinkled sheet iron which, when shaken, sounded like thunder, and a lightning machine worked by bringing together two charged wires. With these and a hose with a spray nozzle Penham's son climber upon the roof over Mrs. rtonham's bedroom at dusk. First it thundered, then lightning flashed and later rained. Mrs. Hrnharn s'oon was fast asleep. This process ws re pented several nights, and now Ben ham says his wife is cured. AX OLD EDITOR Found $2000 Worth of Food. The editor of a paper out in Okla. said: "Yes, It Is true when I got hold of Grape-Nuts food it wag worth more than a $2000 doctor bill to me, for it made me a well man. I have gained 25 pounds in weight, my strength has returned tenfold, my brain power has been given hack to me, and that is an absolute essential, for 1 am an editor and have been for Z5 years. 1 "My pen shall always be ready to speak a good word for this powerful nutritive food. I had of course often read the advertisements regarding Grape-Nuts, but never thought to ap j.ly the food to ray own use, until, in my extremity and sickness the thought came to me that It might fit my case. The statements in regard to the food are absolutely correct, as I have proven in my own case. One very fortunate thins about the food is that while it is the most scientific ally made and highly nourishing, con centrated food I have ever known, it has so delicious a taste that it wins and holds friends." "There's a Rea son." Read "Tho Road to Wellvllle," in pkgs. St Seeing the Improvements. . By HAYDEN CARRVHI. . Folks have more time to make it pleasant for one another in small townB than they have in cities. If the court requires any expert evi dence on this point, a-subpoena may be Issued for Mr. S , of Cleveland. Bays be: "I made a 'little visit recently to th) town where I was born. Every body there knows me, and they all call me 'Charlie,' and slap me on the back, and that sort of thing. I got there in the evening, and the first thing next morning dropped around to Judge PIngtree's office. He got up from his desk and paralyzed my hand with his grasp; then without asking me to sit down, he said: 'I'm sorry, Charlie, but I've got a lot of mail to look over, and must attend to it; but Jim Doollttle is in the next room you remember Jim and you just walk out with him and see the Improvements on the west side of town.' So he called Jim in, and we started out. "Jim was a good walker, and he took me to the farthest edge of town. I failed to see many improvements, though there was no lack of signs of decay; but I enjoyed the walk, which must have been over two miles in length, out and back. When we en tered the ofilce the Judge was deep in a confidential talk with a client, but after a moment he looked up and said, 'Oh, hello! back, are you?' Then he lowered his voice and con tinued: 'Sorry, old boy, but a deucedly important case has just come in,' and I can't give you a sec ond now. But it won't make any dif ference, because you want to see the improvements on the east side of town, of course, and Joe Easy you remember Joe was just saying that he'd like to take you over.' At this Joe came up, and we started out. "The east side of town seemed to Bhow less improvement than the west; but again, on account of old associations, I enjoyed the walk, though It was somewhat longer than the other, and I was beginning to feel a bit tired when we got back. We met the telegraph operator at the office door, and found the Judge in tently reeding a dispatch. 'Hello!' he cried again. 'Well, here it goes once more important telegram that needs immediato attention. But after that I will be free; and in the meantime you go up and see the Im provements on the north side. Here's Tom Dodgetoil you remember Tom -and he'll go with you. You know, I'm interested in the north side. See you later!' came cheerfully as I went off with Tom. On this trip I walked three miles, and saw the shabbiest part of town which had yet presented itself. I was beginning to be sus picious, but the Judge had seemed so innocent, and the others had worked so hard to interest me, that I couldn't doubt their sincerity. "But I was genuinely tired when we got back to the office. This time the Judge met me with radiant face. 'Well, I'm free at last,' he exclaimed. Visions of an easy-chair and a famil iar chat came to me; but he went on: 'Now you just come with me and see the improvements in our best part of town the south side; you won't know it now.' He took my arm and we started out. On the threshold an excited man met us, seized the Judge by the lapel and led him into a re mote corner of his office. After a moment the Judge approached me, his face the .picture of woe. 'This man's liberty and perhaps his life de pend on my giving him half an hour now. It's most unfortunate but no matter,' he added, hurriedly, as he saw me advancing toward a chair; "here's Uncle Asa Pokeabout you remember Uncle Asa he'll Just take you down and show you the south side as well as I could do it myself or better.' Uncle Asa grasped my hand with a cackling laugh, and then hopped away along the sidewalk with his cane, calling on me to come. The Judge rushed back to his client. There was nothing to do but to fol low the old inhabitant, though I was beginning to feel morally csrtain that the whole thing was a put-up job. I was more than ever convinced of it when I saw that the entire south side had tumbled into doddering decay. You might better have looked in Pompeii for improvements. But Uncle Asa toddled resolutely onward, talking to me of incidents which hap pened before I was born, as if of course I remembered all about them, end I could only follow. Finally we came to the last house, and I paused, expecting he would turn back. Not he; he begged of me that I would go a half-mile out into the country to see Hen Podsworthy's new barn. I was desperate, and went. The struc ture was about fifteen by twenty, unpainted, and standing on blocks, like a stove in a railroad waiting room. After I had duly gushed over it, we started back; and although Uncle Asa appeared to have been born sonie time in the century before last, he steamed along at the rate of about five knots an hour, while I struggled behind. I was tired enough to drop when we got back to the office, and somewhat excited, too. That scoun drel of a Judge met me with the blandest smile I ever saw. 'I hope you enjoyed seeing the advances that the old sauth side has made,' he said. Then he went on: e'N'ow here is Bill Shirker you remember Bill I want you to go with Bill up to the north west side to see the ' " 'You dastardly wretch!' I shout ed. 'I won't do it! You've shot me about this time as if I was a croquet ball -as much as you are going to!' There was a roar of laughter which shook the windows, and the whole male population of the place crowdej in from an adjoining room, wtlle the Judge collapsed 1 1 bis chair, anj Uncle Asa choked until the doctor bad to pound him. 1 1) the back. The upshot of it was that it cost me four dollars and eighty-five cents to buy cider and cigars for that crowd; but I guess I enjoyed it as much as any of them when I recovered my equili brium. After all, it's in these small towns that they enjoy life." Har per's Magazine. A BLOW IX THE HEAD Which Changed a Man's Character and Set Him to Work. What effect a blow on the head may have upon the one who receives it no man can predict. Stories have been written the turning point of which was the recovery of memory lost by such a blow. In more recent times instances have come to light through modern psychological treatment in which personality was apparently quite changed by a blow on the head. Many a backward schoolboy, even when apparently eager to do criminal things, has been found to be suffering from the effect of such a Bhock received years before and to be curable by surgery. Seldom is such a story more thrill ing than the true one which changed the life of a young writer who died recently In a Western city. From his earliest boyhood he had been incorrigible. He began running away from home before he was three years old, and as soon as he was of school age became a terror to his teacher. He stole from his mother, led other boys astray, and by his misadventures and his habit of going on long journeys with the roughest of tramps kept his mother on the verge of nervous prostration. Every imaginable plea was tried In vain with him. He made promises, only to break them. He seemed unable to resist the mad impulse to vaga bondage which Impelled him. Several times his parents had him examined for sanity, and the verdict of the alienists was that there was some cause of mental disturbance which they could not determine. The po lice of many States came to know him. At last his behavior so wore on his mother that she was driven to Europe in order that she might rest for a time out of hearing of his ad ventures. Even in Europe, however, she was not free from him, for, tramping through the Continent, he encountered her in a public park. No one could have been more dis reputable in appearance than the tramp who thus confronted her, but the mother's heart went out to him, and she persuaded Mm to remain a little while. "At least," she said, "it you must do this way, let me provide you with money. Let me hear from you once in a while. Let me know you are safe and well." All this he promised to do, and having a desire to see South America went with her consent to England to embark on a sailing vessel for a tramp through that Continent. As they lay at anchor in the harbor mouth waiting for clearer weather, a fellow passenger and he stood in the bow, looking out into the fog. Suddenly, without warning, a huge steamship crashed into them and cut far into the sailing ship's wooden hull. Spars fell from aloft, and the fellow passenger was instantly killed. The American was picked up uncon scious, with a jagged wound in his head where a spar had struck him. He lay unconscious in the hospital for a long time, tenderly nursed by his mother, and then passed through a siege of brain fever. But when tho illness was over and he was rational and conscious again a change had been .wrought. Something had been altered in his brain, and all the pas sion for vagabondage had left him. Ho cared for tramping no longer. . "I only want to go to work to turn my knowledge of the tramp's world to account," he said, "so that I may prevent as many other boys as pos sible from going the terrible road I went." To that end he long devoted him self. He wrote many stories of tramping days, but through them all ran the note of sorrow that so many years of his life had been lost in dis reputable wanderings. Youth's Com panion. His Apology. Rather thoughtlessly, writes a cor respondent, I had placed my hat on t'ue seat in a somewhat dim corner of a city cafe, with the result that a stout middle-aged uin of prosperous appearance, who entered with a friend, sat upon it in decisive man ner and crushed it beyond recogni tion. Ho rose hastily, and held the broken article up in the air, with a look of surprise. I awaited his pro found apologies, only to hear him cry, in. a toud, combative voice: "No liability for a hat left on the seat like that, sir!" He said no more. Man chester Guardian. ' Snakes Kill 75,000 Yearly. An inexpensive instrument called the "snake-bite lancet," the Inven tion of Sir Lander Brunton, has been introduced in India with splendid re sults. It is being introduced by tht Government in an effort to reduce the fearful loss of life which amounts to 75,000 persons each year.' A report by one person is to the effect that be had saved the lives of twenty persons bitten by cobriu and karalts within the last year by the use of one lancet. The total income of the 14,117 In cumbents of the Anglican Church of England and Wales is just over three aud a half ml! liens. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Is acknowledged to be the most suc cessful remedy in the country for those painful ailments peculiar to women. For more than 80 years it has been curing Female Complaints, such as Inflammation, and Ulcera tion, Falling and Displacements, and consequent Spinal Weakness, Backache, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. Records show that it has cured more cases of Female Ills than any other one remedy known. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound dissolves and expels Tumors at an early stage of development. Dragging Sensations causing pain.weight, and headache are relieved and permanently cured by its use. It corrects Irregularities or Painful Functions, Weakness of the Stomach. Indigestion. Moating. Nervous Prostration. Headache, Gene ral Debility; also. Dizziness. Faintncss Extreme Lassitude. "Don't care and wanttobeleft alone" feeling. Irritabilitv. Nervousness, Sleeplessness. Flatulency, Melancholia or the "Blues." These are sure Indications of female weakness or some organic derangement. For Kidney Complaints of either sex Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a most excellent remedy. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing invitation to Women Women suffering1 from anv form of female weakness are Invited to write Mrs Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. for advice. .She is the Mrs. Plnkham who has been advising sick women free of charge for more thnn twenty years, and before that she assisted her mother-in-law Lydia E. Pinkham in advisimr. Thus she is well qualified to puide sick women back to health. Her advice is free and always helpful. Some Old Political Jobbery. Of the corrupt customs that mark ed old-time English politics a writer In the London Chronicle says: "Dur ing the reign of George III. 388 peers were created, most of them for po litical jobbery. The favorite type of jobbery was the manufacture of con stituencies ' guaranteed to return faithful supporters of the govern ment. 'It was a common practice,' writes a historian of the period, 'to carry an election by splitting up one freehold Into ten. thus multiplying ten-fold the influence of a local mag nate.' Lord Melville, so late as the first quarter of the nineteenth cen ti'ry, was nble to return 39 out of the 45 niPinbers for Scotland." BABY ITCHED TERRIBLY. Fare and Neck Covered With In flamed Skin Doctors No Avail Cured by Cuticnra Remedies. "My baby's face and neck were covered with itching skin similar to eczema, and she suffered terribly for over a year. I took her to a number of doctors, and also to different colleges, to no avail. Then Cutiiourn Remedies were reeommended to me by Miss G . I did not use it at first. es I had tried 10 many other remedies without any favorable results. At last I tried Cuticura Sonp, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills, and to my surprise noticed an improvement. After using three boxes of the Cuticura Oint ment, together with the Soap and Fills, I am pleased to say she is altogether s dif ferent child and the picture of health. Mrs. A. C. Brestlin, 171 N. Lincoln St., Chicago, 111., Oct. 20 and 30. 19(16." Increase In Rifle Practice. The increase in rifle shooting Is manifested by the fact that work now going on in the States will add 800 targets to those liow available. Much of this will be possible because of the recent Increase In the funds al lotted by the government to the sup port of the militia. Special Trains Xat'l Ed. Ass'n. and Chr. Endeavor Conventions. Personally conducted special trains via the Chicago, Union Pacific & North-Western Line leave early in July for the Pacific Coast. Special all-eipense tours at very low rates for the round trip, including sleeping car accommodations, meals, etc. All the advantages of a delightful and carefully arranged tour in congenial company. Write for itineraries and full particulars. S. A. Hutchison, Manager Tourist Department, 212 Clark Street, Chicago. The utilization of herring for fer tilizer, has been stepped by the Cana dian Government. 24 For cool cooking, less XW-T iWim"1"1,-" 'MEg- '-v NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Ceok-Slove the ideal stove for summen. Does everything that any other kind of stove will do. Any degree of heat instantly. Made in three sizes and fully warranted. At your dealer's, or write our n nearest agency for he JL-XTi-k Q JteybLamp a throughout and beaut::ully nickeled. 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