I1K1UTAGK OP CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronlr Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely. of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second St., Newton, Kansas, will Interest the thou sands of veterans who came back from the Civil Warsufferlng tor tureswith kidney com plaint. Capt. Ely says: "I contracted kidney ( troubledurlngtheCivtl i War, and the occasional attacks finally devel oped Into a chronic ease. At one time I had to use a crutch and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was la a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills In 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been well ever since - - Bold by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. GREAT STRIDES IN TELEGRAPHY. ULaiwP Messages 8ent and Delivered In Sue V cessful Manner by Pneu matic Operators. What the linotype machine has been to the advancement of the newspaper business, it is claimed the Barclay typewriting telegraph system, Just in troduced for general use, will prove to be to the telegraph business. It is declared to be ond of the greatest steps ever taken toward economy In rending and receiving messages by telegraph. It does with machinery a large part of the work formerly done by hand, and requires no telegraph operators. While it had been Intended to in troduce these machines some months I . ago, the Western Union Telegraph Company was hastened in its purpose by the recent strike of operators. Con sequently, as. soon as possible after the strike the Barclay typewriting telegraph system was put in use, in A InrcA maaanra taVliMr tVia i.,io rf the men who struck. This, it hps een explained. Is one of the reasons the company hns been able to hold trat against the strikers. The recent Installation of the new system In this city marks the begin ning of a large number of Installa tions of this character that are to be made on various trunk line cir cuits leading out of Pittsburg. To prepare a message for trans- mission it is only necessary to strike the letters on a standard typewriter keyboard, which perforates a series of characters similar to those used In the Morse alphabet. On this key board ire extra keys for shifting the type, shifting the paper and the car riage return. After a message has been perforated, which can be done ordinarily In about 20 Beconds, the perforated slip Is then run through an automatic transmitter at the rate of about 100 messages an hour. The message is received at the distant - station on a standard typewriter all completed and ready for delivery, it Is only necessary for the receiving operator to feed the machine with the standard Western Union receiv ing blanks. The instrument at the rwalvlnir Rtation when once adlusted ' seldom renuires readjustment, as all of the mechanism Is operated on a local circuit; the wire can be worked duplex and 200 messages an hour can be handled with ease; that is, 100 messages sent and 100 received. Pittsburg Gazette Times. 38 Why Some Books Last Long. .. ' There are books that have sur vived two or three centuries, the printing In which has Improved In color as they have grown older. Borne paper experts, alluding to this fact, predict that most of the books made now will not "last much longer than fifty or sixty years. Much of tt s paper now used for making books is composed In part of wood pulp, treated with powerful acids, while the Ink Is made of substances naturally at war with the paper it . Is used on. It is reasonable to as sume, therefore, that within fifty or 1f con t-o rViA tnlr will Aof tea waif ' 1 1 .. i . .a i U iw ,, -. 11 n , a r tij throneh the naner. thereby destrov- tng the books. The paper used two or three centuries ago was made of honest rags, and the ink was made of nutgalls. That accounts for the good condition in which they axe now. FOUXD OUT. A Trained Xnrse Made Discovery. No one Is in better position to know the value of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse of Wilkes Barre, Pa., writes: "I used to drink strong coffee myself and suf fered greatly from headaches and in digestion. While on a visit to my brothers I had a good chance to try Postum Food Coffee, for they drank . it altogether in place of ordinary cot fee. In two weeks after using Pos tum I found I was much benefited, and finally my headaches disappeared and alBO the indigestion. "Naturally I have since used Pos tum among my patients, and have no ticed a marked benefit where coffee has been left off and Postum used. "I observed a curious tact about Postum when used among mothers. It greatly helps the flow of milk In eases where coffee is inclined to dry It up, and where tea causes nervous ness, "I find trouble In getting servants to make Postum properly. They most always serve it before it has been boiled long enough. It should be boiled 15 to 20 minutes after boil ing begins and served with cream, when it is certainly a delicious bever age." Bead "The Road to Wellville" la pkgs. "There' a Reason." In the East m'cury is used for making vermlllt,;tl, and in Japan largely in the compounding of a se cret explosive. In 1905 the population of the State of New York was 8,067,308; of the city of New YoVk, 4,013,781. Japan and China now use more mercury than most of the other coun tries, and this is about the on)y metal the price of which has decreased of late. John D. O'Shea,' of Lynn, MasB., the Elk who died In Philadelphia during the Elk's convention, left $2500 and a ring to his old sweet heart. Austria's fishing Industry suffers from the handicap that the fishermen are nearly all in the clutches of us urers. They are compelled to bor row money when the catch is poor, and they are never able to get out of debt again. Last year Sicily exported only 17, 500 tons of sulphur a falling off of 23,200 tons from the year before. The extraordinary development of the sulphur mines of Louisiana is held responsible for that. The "Hanging Gardens of Ea!.r lon" appear to have been constructed, each of them, in the form of an am phitheatre, in terraces, one rising above the other, and ascended by steps, the whole structure supported by hugh arche3 raised on arches. According to the census of the Board of Health, Manila has 11,022 houses of strong material, 1.1,142 of light material, and 3311' of mixed material, a total of 29,745 houses. The population is 223,542, says the Manila Daily Bulletin. J. W. Palmer, the director of agri culture In the Orange River Colony, who has returned to Bloemfonteln after a holiday In England, states that a large London firm is prepared to receive consignments from South Africa of locusts for use In the preparation of bird and poultry food. The "Garden of Eden" has been variously located all the way from the Nile to the Indus, In Egypt, Ara bla, Persia, Asia Minor and India Accordiug to the account in Genesis, the Garden lay somewhere in Meso potamia (now "Turkey in Asia"), be tween the rivers Tigris and Euphra tes. Henry Thomas Spindler, who died recently at Brentford, England, at the age of eighty-four, was for many years conected with the old London Sun. He acted as proofreader to Charles DickenB, and possessed many relics of the great novelist, including proofs with bis alterations ' upon them. TO PRESERVE LINCOLN FARM. Mrs. Russell Sage Gives $25,000, and Will Donate More if Necessary. Mrs. Russell Sage has given 25,000 to the Lincoln Farm Asso ciation, the purpose of which, is to preserve to log cabin and the farm surrounding it, in which Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. The farm, which is located at Hodgenville in that State, has been purchased by Robert Collier and presented by him to the association. The original log cabin has been carefully preserved and will be placed under glass. A larger build ing, designed by a well-known Man hattan architect, as a memorial to the martyred President; will be erected on the farm. Mrs. Sage has made it known to the men who are interested in the preservation of the Lincoln place that in case the benefaction of (25,000 does not bring about the desired re sult she will cheerfully subscribe more. Governor Joseph W. Folk of Mis souri is president of the Lincoln Farm Association and his associate directors include Mark Twain, Car dinal Gibbons anil Robert Collier. Brooklyn Eagle. A Hog Story. John S. Duncan tells the following In the Indianapolis News: In the Htva whan InJI.n. t,stra nr ,1t k. seen in every woods-pasture, a stran- ger on horseback riding along a coun 1 try road saw a lot f hogs acting in a strange way. They would run here and there, first to one tree and then to another, in 'the greatest excite ment, would rub themselves againBt these trees and squeal and squeal as though possessed as were those hogs in Palestine than ran down into the sea. The stranger could not under stand It Riding on a little Turther he came to a farmer in the road. "Are them your hogs?" asked the traveler. "What on airth's the matter with em?" "Wal," said the farmer in a whisper, "I'll tell ye. 'Long last fall, I lost my voice and couldn't poo'r-ee to 'em to come to feed; so I took a club and pounded on a tree. This spring the woods is full of woodpeck ers, and when they tap on the trees, the hogs think they're going to bs led!" THE SALESLADY. 6ay, Mayme! Last night I went ter see a chow; We had orchetrer teats the second row. An' honest, Mamie! Who dyer think I en A-settin' in a box but that there Gladys Green! Remember how she uster holler "Cash!" Arroot the aisle, before site made mash On that ole guy from Pittsburg? Well, now, say! She's got a motor car an' drives around all day. I wonder how my hair would look, all frizzy An' marcelled same as hers I guess I'll try it. An' change its ahade Of course I wouldn't dye it, But bleach it just a bit My style's too quiet. What's that you any? Show you some handkerchief? ,Pny, Lirxie! You wait on thin here lady, I'm too busy. J. Adair Strawson, in Fuck. "Does Jones always speaU the truth?" "I don't know. I never tried to borrow money from him." Detroit Free Press. Gerald "Why did you accept me, if you didn't expect to marry me?" Penelope "I wanted to break it to you gently." Puck. Bacon "Are you doing anything to relieve the Bufferings of your neighbors?" Egbert "Yes, I've Just sold my phonos '" Yonke.s Statesman. Don't blame the barber it' he talks While razoring your skin, Just think, how could he shave a man Without a little chin? Philadelphia Press. Jodd "When I want to get rid of my wife for a few days, I just send for my relatives." Todd "But how do you get rid of your relatives?" Life. "How did Jones make all his money?" "Judicious speculation." "And how did Brown lose his-fortune?" "Dabbling in stocks." Cleveland Leader. Little Edna "What is 'leisure,' mamma?" Mamma "It's the spare time a woman has In which she can do some other kind of work, my dear." Chicago Dally News. Bertie "Well, mother, I don't care what you say. I think she's a regular brick." Mother "Very likely. She certainly seems to be throwing herself at somebody's head." Punch. Poor little Percy Primrose As soon as he could toddle, Because he didn't tight and spat And kill the birds and atone the cat The other youngsters snubbed him flat And called him "mollycoddle." Chicago News. "What do they mean by a chimeri cal issue, In politics, anyway?" "Why, that's an issue which seriously proposes that something actually should be done about some matter which somebody is really Interested in." Puck. "My husband's attention to me when I am away is unremitting. I get a letter every day. You don't hear so often, Mrs. Jones? "No, my huBband'B attention is not of the unremitting kind. He always en closes a check." Baltimore Ameri can. Professor (to graduating class In college) "Voung man, there is one more question I would like to ask, and that 1b, what books have helped you most in your struggles for an education?" loung Scadds (prompt ly speaking up from the foot of the class) "Dad's check book has helped me about .as much as any ot 'em, so far." Judge. Burglar Trust Manager "You will be required to turn night Into day; to throw aside all sentiment; to enter the houses ot the best families regardless ot their feelings; to act the hypocrite, and, if necessary, to go to jail." Applicant "Urn. You don't want an ordinary burglar. What jou want Is a newspaper re porter. " Life. Something New in Poetry. Of course literary judgments are always subject to revision, but It really seems that Miss Vivian Wade (aged thirteen years) has laid the cornerstone of a new school of poetry by the following stanzas, entitled: THE RAG DOLL. (he was my beat rag dollie, The last one that mother had made, With eyea that were blue as the heavens And nose and mouth made of red ink. Her bair was as black as ebony And clustered around her white face, And she had the wee bit of a smile That lasted all the day through. She bad a curve on tier lip that was per fect And ears that were tiny and pink. But she's gone My poor, old rag dollie She's gone in the queerest way: 1 laid her on a chair On the piazza, snugly and comfortably, too, And after the kitty had been tended And after the dog had been fed, I went to get my rag dollie, But lo! she wasn't there. I guess God meant to repay me For the loss of my dear rag doll, r'or close by the chair where 1 bad Wt her Was s poor hungry-looking goat! Aside from its cleverness and !t is decidedly a clever bit of verse you can't deny that this poem pos sesses what critics call a "peculiar elusive touch." As you approach the end of each stanza you're sure the au thor Is going to give you a rhymo, ' and every time she fools you. Although the streets of Nankin are reputed to be the best ot any in terior Chinese city, there is no sew erage system. Household Matters. Jew- s&m w New Flower Pots. Before using new flower pots soak them in a tnb of water. Unhss this Is done they will, by reason it their porosity, rob the plants plsced In them of considerable moisture, of ten sufficient to cause serious Injury before the cause ot the trouble is discovered. Home Chat. To Clean Matting. To clean matting, sweep it thor oughly first with a stiff broom, fol lowing carefully the grain of the straw, heat up a soft broom IV warm water and brush across tlie grain. Finally wash the mattir.g off with warm water, in which a handful of salt has been dissolved. If light In color borax will aid In brightening and preserving the shade. Simple Little Device. Use a wire hairpin for holding the spool when crocheting, with the ends bent in at right angles a quarter of an Inch above each end. Snap the ends into the holes in a spool, or In to the Bides of a ball, hook the head at the pin over a button on the waist or Borne other convenient place, and there is no further risk of soiled wool or silk through dropping. New York Journal. How to Wash Blankets. Take one-half cake of soap, cut Into small pieces and dissolve thor oughly In hot water. Pour this Into enough cold water to cover the blank ets. Add two ounces of pulverized borax and put your blankets to soak all night. In the morning take them out and squeeze most of the water out of them, and rinse thoroughly In cold water In which a little borax has been dissolved. Put them through a second water and then through blu ing water. Do not wring or squeeze them this time, but hang them up to dry. The easiest way is to take them while In the last water out under the line, as it is not convenient to carry them while full of water. Hang them by one end or side. Of course, you want a sunny day for drying them nicely, and If you put them to soak and the next day is stormy, it will not hurt them to soak longer. If the wool is greasy use more soap and borax. Fine flannels and babies' sacks and crocheted skirts are nice when washed in this way, and if you use cold water It prevents shrinking. Vary the proportion of soap and bo rax to suit the quantity of water. Washington Star. White Loaf Cake One coffee cup sugar, halt a tea cup of butter, two egg whites, one tea cup milk, two coffee cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful ex tract of rose. Beat sugar and butter to a cream, add the milk and part of the flour, then tho whites ot eggs beaten Btift and the remaining quan tity of flour mixed with baking pow der, and last the flavoring extract. Walnut Wafers. Cream well to gether one-quarter ot a cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar, add a pinch of salt and one egg and beat again; add one cupful of Hour, one cupful of walnut meats which have been put through the food chopper or pounded until fine, one-quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder, and a little milk, if necessary to make a drop batter. Drop by spoonfuls on greased pans and bake in a moderate oven. Chicken Gnllosch. Cut Into dice two medium-sized new potatoes. Put into a frying pan two tablespoonfult of olive oil and when hot add the potato dice. Stir and cook for five minutes. Then add a daBh of pap rika, a' cupful of barley water, 'a crushed clove of garlic, a cupful ol cold cooked chicken or a can of boned chicken chopped fine, and salt to taste. Cover aad cook until the po tatoes are done, stirring frequently. Chicken Gumbo Dress, clean and cut up a chicken, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and saute in pork fat. Fry one-half fine ly chopped onion In fat remaining in frying, pan. Add four cups sliced okra, sprig ot parsley and one-fourth red pepper finely chopped, and cook slowly fifteen minutes. Add to chicken, with one and one-half cup fuls tomato, three cupfuls boiling water and one and one-half teaspoon fuls salt. Cook slowly until chicken is tender, then add one cupful boiled rice. Orange Pic Grate the rind of two oranges, being careful not to grate below the bright yellow part, as the flavor would be made bitter by al lowing any of the tough lining to get into the grated skin. Put this Into one-half pint ot water and bring to a boll. Beat together one teaspoon ful of butter, the yoiks of two eggs and one cupful of g-anulated sugar until light; add one heaping table spoonful of flour, the juice and pulp ot the oranges, and blend into the boiling mixture. Pour into a pie tin lined with pie crust and bake. i MEN ADMIRE a pretty face, a good figure, but sooner or later learn thnt the. healthy, happy, contented woman ' is most of all to be admired. Women troubled with fainting . spells, irregularities, nervous irrita bility, backache, the "blues," and those dreadful dragging sensations, cannot hope to be happy or popular, and advancement in either home, business or social life Is impossible. The cause of these troubles, how ever, yields quickly to Lydia E. 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The selection of tho leathers ami other materials lor each part of the shoe, and every detail of the making If looked after by the moat (iotnleteorKan!r.Httoii of NuperintciiilentK.i'orenienana skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest traces paid In the shoe indn'try. anil whoso workmanship cannot be exeelled. H I eonld t ike yon Into hit l:trn factories at Brockton. Mass., and show yon how carefully W. I.. Ilonclas shoes are made, you would then understand why they holifthelr shape, tit better, wear Innier and are of aren'ter value than any other make. My $4 tl'lt Edmund & Bold Bond Shorn cannot bo equalled at any nrfrm CAUTION! The aemitne have W. Ji. Uouplas name and price stamped on bottom. Tin mmstirnie. Asa your aeaier lor w. jj. rnrewi hi factory, oiiou. seuteverywuerc of AIRSHIP WITH BULLET'S SPEED Milwaukee Man Expects to Be Whisked to Europe in a Jiffy. The Milwaukee Journal says that Dr. Umlolph Salverston is completing an nirslilp at a Milwaukee factory lind that great things are expected or it. The flyer has a propeller 8 feet in dlnmrtor nntl will. It Is expected, send the Sllwrston ship through the air with the speed of a rifle bullet and "carry the navlpator from Milwaukee to Europe in a few hours." A Milwaukeean of large wealth Is said to be backing the enterprise. FITS,St. Vitus'DHnce:NervouR Diseases ner- rnanontlycured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve nosrorer. y trial ixittle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld.,P.SI Arch St., Phila., Pa. The blood thrown out by the heart travels seven miles In an hour, or 4.292,000 miles In a lifetime of 70 years. mm. iiiKiuw a woining pympror unuaren allays piiiu,curs wind colic, afico bottle Gum Chewing Justified, Persistent gum chewers will prob nbly feel that all their facial energy hns not been wasted If It has pro loneed the nmrlnrMnn of puin until some real use has been aiscoveroa for that article. Two bet ter uses have hern fntinrl far It than merely as an object to distort the mco in idleness. One use is as a tem porary solder to Btop sudden leaks until the tinsmith can ronwilv them The other Is as a preventive for sea sickness. One traveler declares she crossed the turbulent Knrrllah Minn. nel well and in her right mind solely as a result of taking a little pepsin gum and chewing It in private. THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA. Were Trtnlcd at I)iirniiry Did Xot Improve Su floret! S Months , Perfect Cure by Cutirnra. "My three children had eczema for fivs month. A little sore wnulil nppear on the head and seemed very itchy, increasing day after dny. The baby had had it about a week when the second boy look the dis ease nd few sore developed, then tbs third boy took it. For the "first three 'months I look (hem to (be N Diinen- nry, but they did not seem to improve. men usa l.uticura Soap and Cutirnra Ointment, and in a few weeks they had improved, and when their heads were well you could see nothing of the aorea. Mi. Kate Keim, 513 West 59lh St., New York N. Y., Nov. 1, 5, and 7. 1906." Thd BVaMir. KfA nf nn 1 I " i. v i luc ill cut AlliVl lUttll ship Is only 18 years, while that of a British vessel is 26 years. The Scandinavian average Is the best It a .ii j mi o. Last year's record Eyery out of city graduate) located In a satisfactory posi tion We can place you. Writ tor "THE PROOF." TBn S7th year Hand Book of the fore most Business Training School mailed upon request. IMtlsburrr, Pa. EVERY MARRIED WOMAN tho.li) md "Childbirth mide' sy and painless." A short, co. riat Irvatiic comainlnt the brat! thouf ht of former writers o this wbitrl with additional inform.-, two (Itantd from a lartr prattle) or the author. Practicing lis Irach ints aavee woman much suSerln. Price bv mall II CO. w. H Baker. kt.rj.. Brisbane Bide SuSalo.N.YJ If nflllclcd Willi weak ICS Thompson's Eye Watei MISS EMMA RUNT2LER Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice BEST IN THE WORLD nroo W. L. nwmhm A mmtl irougia snoes. 11 ne cannot supply yon, moil, catalog tree. WX.UouB!as, D rook torn, I Winchester Hunting Rifles m From the ten different Winchester repeaters you can surely select a rifle adapted for hunting your favorite game, be it squirrels or grizzly bears. N o matter which model you select you can count on its being well made, ac- ' curate and reliable. 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