■ j*W^khiv^]yih*k^ Every mother possesses information of vital value to her young daughter, fnat daughter is a precious legacy, and the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of the mother. Ihe mysterious change that develops the thought less girl into the thoughtful woman should find the moUier on the watch day and night. As she cares for the physical well-being of her daughter, so will the woman be, and her children also. When the young girl's thoughts become sluggish, when she experiences headaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for the society of other girls, when she is a mystery to herself and friends, then the mother should go to her aid promptly At such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young system for the coming change, and is the surest reliance in this hour of trial. * The flowing letters from Miss Good are practical proof ot Mrs. irinkham s efficient advice to young women. Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for Help. 4t -p. .„ T>. T , .Tune 12th, 1899. .. PINKHAM :-~I have been very much bothered for some time with my monthly periods being irregular. I will tell you all about it, and put myself in your care, for I have heard so much of you. Each month menstruation would become less and less, until it entirely stopped for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have become Very ner vous and of a very bad color. lam a young girl and have always had to ■ ' "oal wor " very hard. 1 would be very much pleased if fyou would tell rao what todo."—Sliss PKAUI.GOOD, Cor. mil Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. The Happy Result. . _ February 10th, 1900. BEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enough. It is iust simply wonderful the change your medicine has made in me. I feel like another person. My work is now a pleasure to me, while before using vour medicine it was a burden. To-day 1 am a healthy and happy girl. I think if more women would use your Vegetable Compound there would be less suffering in the world. I cannot express the relief I have experienced by using Lydia E. Pink- MLBS PEARL GOOD , M S * E £CTABLE Compound."— Miss PEAKI. GOOD, I 1 1 1 -—"— 1 '■■—*) Cor. 20th Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. bew/WD sgggsgm yj ft 90 U fig with the National City Bank"!,)' Ba) |B ffl |JB jf which rial is'n't ? " V pcr "" n wh " ra " show ,h,t thc above I VaA W W writer', special permission.—Lvofa £ U Pinkham C MED°c'*ECo. the Blacksmitliing Without a Firo. A blacksmith's shop without a forge seems a novelty, indeed, but there are several in operation, declares the Chi cago Inter-Ocean. In these shops there is applied a patent horseshoe made *i a special steel which is soft enough to permit of its being hammered and shap ed, as far as may be necessary, without heating. There are anvils here, and hammers are used, so that these tinv honorcd accessories of the blacksmith's shop still remain here, but there is no fire, no bellows, with a grimy, swarthy, stalwart blacksmith swaying on the han dle with one hand, while he gently pukes the burning coal in the forge with the other. There is no smoke here and no flying sparks, nor is there the long fa miliar odor of the burning hoof when the hot shoe is laid up against it. These places are horseshoeing parlors. One of these horseshoeing shops oc cupies a long room that was designed for a store in a building that stands on a corner. The shop proper, occupying the greater part of the space, opens on the side street. The office, or reception room, of the horseshoeing parlor, at the front end of the store, occupies a square of space of the width of the building, and running back about 20 feet, where an office railing is placed, dividing the reception room from the blacksmith shop. On the floor of the office, or reception room, there is a S2OO rug; there are comfortable chairs about, for visitors or for customers; there is a desk for the manager, and there are potted palms. And all this is separated from the shop itself only by that office railing across the inner end of this reception room, beyond which one sees down the length of the shop men busily engaged shoeing horses in this blacksmith's shop with out a fire. Forestry—lts Need In This Country. American forestry has not yet gone beyond the preservation of our old for ests, for general reasons. Tree culture for profit, which forestry signifies in the Old World, here not thought of—nor will it be while wc have forests to burn. In the Old World forestry is a business. The artificial, hand-made forests of France, and especially Germany, supply most of the timber used in those coun tries. England depends on outside sources almost wholly for its timber. England paid about SIO.OOO,COJ for for eign timber last year. Her bill is an nually growing larger. But it is slow work to make a profit on timber plant ing. Thirtv-five years is long to wait.— Mcchan's Weekly. Canada's foreign trade has grown $46,000,000 during the past year. I All the flowers of the Arctic region are either white or yellow, and there arc ': 762 varieties. Retraro of Ointment* for Catarrh Thut Contain Mercury. 1 us mercury will surely the sense of , smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except 011 I prescriptions f■ om reputable physicians, as the 1 damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hud's < atarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney Ar Co., ; Toledo, ()., contains no mercury, and is taken , internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying • Hull's • "atarrh < lire be sure to get the genuine- It is taken internally, an I is made in Toledo, . Ohio, by F. J. < heney&i o. T stimonials free. fcfVSold by Druggists; price, 75c. per buttle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Two British ships, each over a cen i turv old, were still sailing the seas last • year. Heat For the Bowels. I No matter what ails you, headache to a •ancer, you wiii never get well until your bowels are nut right. CAHCARICTH help I nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, 1 produce easy natural movements, coat you 1 just 10 ceuts to start getting your health . back. OASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the j genuine, put up iu metal boxes, every tab let has O.C.G. stamped on It. Beware of imitations. It is a noteworthy fact that farm wages run highest in Scotland, where schooling has long been better than else where. It requires no experionco to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods iu tbe dye is all that is uecossary. > It is estimated that rural free mail de- livery is increasing the value of land . in Colorado, where it is in operation, $5 1 a;: acre. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE RROMO QOININB TABLETS. All druggists refund the m >ney If It falls to cure. H. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box. 25c. The distance from Liverpool, Eng land, to Halifax, N. S., is 2,450 miles. Plso's Cure for Coiisumptlon Is an lnfalli ! ble medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. i SAMUEL Oeenn Grove, N.TJ.. Feb. 17, 1900. | The prairie chicken, it is predicted, will soon become extinct in Kansas. The Best Prescription for Chills ?, N(1 F 27 ER ,B BOTTL ° GROVE'S TASTELESS CIIII.L TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price GOc. 1 A watch will tick 1fx3.144.000 times in a year ii it is kept continuously running. Druss have their use, but don't store them in your stomach. Peeman's Pep<lu Gum aids nature to perform its functions. 1 Paris consumes more than 2,c00 tons of snails annually. A POWERFUL CE BREAKER. A New Nos© HAS Keen Put on the Unlqac KumUb Craft. The Ice-breaker Erraack, which was built lat year by Messrs. Armstrong, Whitwortli & Co., from the designs of Admiral Makaroff, for the Russian navy, was recently returned to New castle, In order that the hull might he leugtboned, nud the form of her THE BOWBESS ICE BREAKER. bow altered. The vessel has, therefore, been cut in two, as much of the bow being removed as possible without placing the boat iu dry dock. The sec ond stage in the operations lias just been reached, and the launching of the now bow successfully carried out. The new bow is of such a shape that, uu pi IB' 1 LAUNCHING THE NEW BOW FOR THE ERMACK. aided, the structure would have been unable to maintain an upright posi tion, and therefore a large steel pon toon was built, and securely riveted to the sides of the bow. Ballast was carefully placed, to prevent any ten dency of the bow to tip during the a f h'._ Vi> %•--aP- !' • Wwa©® if v ft ;\{ i 4' - SL THE NEW BOW OF THE EKSIACK IN THE WATER. launching, and special precautions in the way of shoring and timbering were carried out. Th' curious-looking structure went into the water without the slightest difficulty, and floated I within an incli of the calculated draught. The length of the now bow is seveuty-fiVe feet, and the launching weight was nearly 500 tons. AN HONORED SCOTSMAN. Donald Gordon, tho Queen's New fligTi land Attendant. | The London Graphic says; Consta : bio Donald Gordon, of Motherwell, lias just been appointed to the post of | Highland Attendant to the Queen. Gordon was summoned before Her Majesty, at Balmoral, on Thursday last, and receiving the appointment left Motherwell to take up bis duties. He is twenty-eight years of age, and has been connected with the Lanarkshire Con stabulary in Motherwell for tho past four years. It may be mentioned that &> DONALD GORDON. Gordon has previously been In the service of the Queen, having been for a considerable time mounted messen ger to Her Majesty. His father has also been for a long period in the Queen's private service. Gordon's fel low constables presented him before leaving with n dressing case and oilier articles as a token of their esteem. New Implement For Soldiers. An implement to he added to the soldier's kit, which can he used as n spade, pick-axe or saw and also as n shield for protection from bullets, hiu been invented by the Earl of Wemyss It is said that the contrivance is t( be adopted by the British army. Defects in Public Schools. The public school authorities are com pelled by circumstances to proceed on the theory that what is good and suf ficient for one child is good and suifi | cient for all children, says Joel Chand- I ler Harris in the Saturday Evening I Post. There is practically no remedy | for this in our common schools, which j are made up of a conglomerate mass ol I humanity, seething and various—a mass l which must be dealt with in haste and |on the run. In these schools the child i is taken up, taught with the mass of ! pupils, and compelled to conform to the "grades" which have been invented for ! the convenience of the teachers; and is i presently thrust out and sent about its : business, knowing how to read and | write, indeed, but possessing only the ' vaguest ideas in regard to the fund rf j knowledge which education is supposed . I jto impart and preserve, j But a specially devised system of | training and education should be com- ' pelled to give a different and a better i I account of itself. If it cannot be made | adjustable to the individuality, the dis- j position and natural bent and tendency | j of each child that is to partake of its I benefits—if it cannot be extended or : modified to fit the demands of each and all—then it is not only not scientific, it is absurd. The special beauty of child | hood and youth, the captivating mystery of humanity, consists mainly of the in finite, the endless variations of person ' : ality, individuality, tendency, tempera ment—the qualities and characteristics that are native to each individual and to I no other—and if these special devices, which are put forward so confidently, 1 do not conform to. and aid in bringing out and developing the most promising j tendencies of the individual, they are j unworthy of serious consideration. Must Learn the Life Spots. j The first task of a Chinese medical ' student upon entering the Imperial col lege at Shanghai is to learn the 300 "life ! spots" in the human body. A "life ; spot" is supposed to be a place through which a needle may be passed without , causing death. The Chinese believe ! firmly in demoniacal possessions, and i their doctors do a great deal of stab -1 I bing and prodding to make holes for | the purpose of letting out the evil spir ; its that arc causing the sickness. I was ; called in to see one poor fellow who I was dying of jaundice, and counted ; over eighty punctures in his chest and i arms. The Chinese practitioners had furnished the demon with plenty of exits, but he declined to depart. When I a criminal is executed the native doc- I tors are nearly always on hand to se ; cure sections of the body to use in coni i pounding their medicines. A powder | made of the thigh bones is believed to I be a specific for the disease known to 1 science as "miner's anaemia." which is I caused by a parasite and easily controll ! Ed by proper remedies.—New Orleans Times Democrat. London Has Forbidden Gates. There are two gates in London which it is an honor equal to the star of an ! order to be allowed to drive through. 1 One is the gate in the arch of the Horse Guards, and the other is that of the Mar ble Arch. The Horse Guards' arch is guarded by a stalwart trooper, who stands in the way of any carriage that attempts to go through, and, should the ; occupant not have the right to pass, [ j turns it back. The Bishop of London, , ;it may be remembered, was stopped once ! by a sentry, who did not know that his j lordship is one of the privileged per ' j sons. When there is any disputed claim, if the occupant of the vehicle who wishes to go through the arch has I patience enough to wait, he can remain , j until one of the high court officials has I given his decision acocrding to imme ; morial custom. —London Telegraph. ' Loon at your tongue. N Then you have a bad J taste in your mouth every 4 4 morning. Your appetite >j is poor, and food dis- . 1 ! ft tresses you. You have 'J 4 frequent headaches and <> are often dizzy. Your ft stomach is weak and your bowels are always J] >• constipated. 4 ft There's an old and re- ► . | liable cure: ft ! i Pils I Y1 < I 4 Don't take a cathartic > - ' 4 l> ter take a laxative dose j < each night, just enough to ► causeonegood freemove- 4 ft ment the day followag. ► 4 You feel better the c ► very next day. Your , ft appetite returns, your ► r > j dyspepsia is cured, your ft ft headaches pass away, k * < your tongue clears up, j> ■ > your liver acts well, and 4 ft your bowels no longer > 4 give you trouble. ft C ► A Price, 25 cents. All druggists. a 44 1 lmvo taken A yer's Tills for .15 years, antl I consider thcin the best > y inado. One pill does rao morogood r s 1 u than half a box of any other kind I havo over tried." y 1 ► , Mrs N. E. Talbot, \J. \ A AW V A V A V < w.*Jk r .VruM!Thompson'- Eye Water FADED IN HER YOUTH * Pretty faces and graceful forms of young women ! Why is it they are so soon replaced by plainness and lankness ? It is because the young girl jusfc entering into womanhood does not know how to take care of herself and has no one competent to instruct her. It is not necessary that there should be anything weakening or wearying about the functions of a female organism. Parents of young i2R|fsf{ girls should inform themselves and prevent their "yr dear ones from making costly errors. That young woman has a just cause of com* plaint, who is permitted to believe that great Jffijjjfoy periodic suffering is to be expected, that severe mysterious pains and aches are part of her jy) Or. Greene's TH 11 or an d Nerves ) I Bil s|l Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy; NHSwIM m bBI ff r( ' a L medicine, all the womanly duties may be ® aturo assists their development into glow- V u Dr. Greene's Nervura made a wonderful hn prove* face. friends hardly know me. I have gained fle^ The nervousness in women which invariably comes with pain is of itself certain to stop the The beautiful curves which make women so attractive are not possible when the female organism is out of order, as it surely is when discomfort and pain are always or even periodically present. It is only necessary to look in the faces of young women everywhere to see that this must be so. Else why are they so pale and thin ? GET FREE ADVIGE FROM DR. GREECE Real beauty is rare. It belongs to perfect health. It is possible to every woman who takes the matter In hand intelligently. Get advice from Dr. Greene, the great specialist In these matters. He will tell you why all this Is so, and show you how to avoid the stumbling blocks that bar woman's way to happiness. You may consult Dr. Greene without cost by calling or ing to him at his office, 35 West 14th Street. New York City. Don't throw away your beauty. Write to Dr. Greene to-day. An Imperial Trophy. Captain Potts, of the Maxim Com pany of the Hongkong volunteer corps, has just secured an extraordinary trophy of war—nothing less than the Order of the Black Eagle, set with precious stones, which the German emperor sent out by Prince Henry to the emperor of China. He has also the autograph let ter from the kaiser which accompanied the decoration. The lucky captain obtained this re markable relic of war in a quite hap hazard fashion. Recently at Tien-Tsin he came across some Russian soldiers who had been present at the looting of Peking. One of the Russians had the rarely bestowed order among his share of the loot, but he was too ignorant to recognize its great value. Captain Potts had no difficulty in arriving at the cor rect conclusion when he set eyes on the insignia and the Emperor William's let ter, and for a trifling sum he secured possession of the two. When the cap tain arrived at Shanghai and exhibited his prize the German consul said that he must take charge of it, but Captain Potts declined to part. He said that he was not at all anxious to sell, and put a fab ulous price on the trophy. The consul immediately cabled to Rerlin. for instructions and Captain Potts is now calmly awaiting the reply. —London Daily Mail. Politics is Now a Trade. In modern politics I have many times known of more money spent in a single ward for the election of a councilman than the entire amount contributed -n iB6O to carry the Pennsylvania election in October that gave the Republicans absolute victory in November, says Colonel A. K. McClure, in the Satur day Evening Post. There is not an ear nestly contested legislative district in" this city that does not cost thousands of dollars to run the campaign and pay the party workers; and a recent contest for nomination in one of the senatorial districts of Philadelphia cost the op posing factional leaders not less than SIOO,OOO. Under our present system political leaders make politics a trade, and every ward and precinct have a host of men who live by politics and who refuse to give political service of any kind unless liberally paid. In iB6O there was not an attempt made to buy a vote for Curtin in the entire State, and. excepting in rare instances where special and unusual service was reauired. the entire work ol that great battle, that revolutionized a Nation, was willingly performed with-1 out pay as a matter of patriotic duty. | Rich An'iquarian Find in Turkey. At the village of Anhar. near Erpli, close to the ancient town of Iconium. a sarcophagus has been uncovered entire ly composed of marble, on which flow ers, animals and figures of warriors are sculptured, says a foreign correspond ent. The period to which the relic be longs is not yet known, but the work manship is exquisite, and is said to be superior to anything of the kind in the Stamboul Museum, which contains the sarcophagus of Alexander the Greo The new'y discovered monument weighs 30 tons. The German emperor possesses in nil tn residences. The supreme court of Illinois has iust decided by a unanimous vote that hard cider is an intoxicating drink. Fits permnnontly cured. No fits or nerronß• l' ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle at.d treatise tree. Dr.lt.il.Klink.Ltd.UJl Arch SLl'hiia.i'fc f In Zululand the atmosphere is so - clear that objects can be clearly seen by 1 starlight at a distance of seven miles. Mrs.Winalow'RSoothingßyr<ip foroliildrrn teethi n;', sol tons the gum- , reduces inflmmr> " tiou, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a buttle. l > The florists aver that London cx f pends £5,000 a day upon cut flowers. • Dr. Bull's "" 1 ** uoubltH. I'eople praise Cough Syrup Refuse substitutes. Get lb . Bull's Cough Syrup. C90a *A ■ J 'J • TEN GENTS ' S i * Libby's soups are as good as soups • • can be. Some cooks may know • ' • how to make soups as good. None { ; 0 can make them better none so • • cheaply. Six plates of delicious • o soup for 1 o cents and think of 2 2 the bother saved! • • S Oxtail, Mullagatawny, Chicken, { 2 Mock Turtle, Tomato, Vegetable, • © and Chicken Gumbo. - ® • i • At your grocers, in cans ready for instant # ® serving —just heat tbom. # g LI2BY, McNEIP.L & LIBBY S 2 Chicago • O Write for our booklet, "How to Make S Good Things to Eat." # § ©o©DO®©CCCGGtfe® 30 CSC ©*>• I PP P" V'Q D N W "L Ly • V ■* t. ■ O Frev'H Venn t fug i* the best worm destroyer I have ever fouiul. . louse L send me some right away. D Mrs. li. i\ Kyitan,' Gordonsville, Va.: B% fkil 1 find Frey's Vermifuge the very I best one I have over used. I write ■ t* you direct as I must liuve this ■ |J kind and no other. A perfect tonic nnd V ■••• lint It h builder. I At drntrirlste, niiin* I ; try stores or by mail, 25 ets. The rh l lren's iriend. l j fa. ds 8. FtCKY, llal. iuiore, Ud. Uon't Stop i Tobacco Suddenly! It injures nervous system to do so. RAPO Pllßfl is the only eur tint Itenllv Cures LAUU-liUnu , and notifies you when to stop. Sold with a uunr mitee tliui three boxes will en re itity case. RAPT Plldll ve-etible mil harmless. It has Bllud-bU.'l'J mred tlioiis no, it w.ll cure vou. At all druvkrists or by mad I'lej.ui ', s I .OO box; :i boxes, it J.riO, Booklet tree. Wr.C. lil'ltKliA I'll K.tiK.'A I. CO., I.n Cto.iie, \V*. DRO ensen. Bo >u of tuHt inomali, and 1()da vs t.*.nmonk Free. Dr. H. U. QuEEHS Burt h, Lex 11 Atlanta, (la. r. N. U. 4 *, 11)00. I "■ [l'm!
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