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When a cheerful, brave and light-hearted -woman is sud
denly plunged into that perfection of misery, the blues, it is
a sad picture.
It is usually this way :
She has been feeling out of sorts for some time, experi
encing severe headache and backache; sleeps very poorly
and is exceedingly nervous.
Sometimes she is nearly overcome by faintness, dizzi
ness, and palpitation of tho heart; then that bearing-down
feeling is dreadfully wearing.
Her husband says, "Now. don't get the blues ! You will
be all right after you have taken the doctor's medicine."
But she does not get ail right. She grows worse day by
day, until all at once she realizes that a distressing female
complaint is established.
Her doctor has made a mistake.
She loses faith ; hope vanishes ; then comes the morbid,
melancholy, everlasting blues. She should have been told
.just what the trouble was, but probably she withheld some
information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to
accurately locate her particular illness.
Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from
rust this kind of trouble, and now retains their grateful
letters in her library as proof of the great assistance she has
rendered them. This same assistance awaits every sick
woman in the land.
Mrs " Wir " {red Allender's Letter.
" DEA " MRS. PINKHAM:—I feel it my duty to write
rnd tell you of the benefit I have received from your
wonderful remedies. Before taking Lvdia E. P'ink
ham's Vegetable Compound, 1 was a misery to my
fljjlaSEy r self and every one around me. 1 suffered terrible
flffiyajy P a ' n la my back, head, and right side, was very
nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear
VH \ ) sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three
krgl / or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not
"Ci / sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my
"J heart that would almost cause me to fall.
"My mother coaxed me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. I had no' faith in it, but to
please her I did so. The first bottle helped me so
much that I continued its use. lam now well and
MRS.WiNIFRED AUENOtK weigh more than I ever did In my life."—MßS.
=1 WINIFRED A I ,LENDER, Farmington.lll.
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feii 1111 "tWAIisI
Pwß H H dtpcsifcdi wkh the National City
CLSI vV*F testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the
writer s special permission.—l<YDlA K. PINKHAM MEDICINE Co.
■i WM [ The straw-plaiting industry of Ens
flg land gives employment to about 50,000
G J CURES WMTRT ML "isfc women and 4,000 t- > 5,000 m^n.
J jjfJY LH EWr "s 'TABASCO.'
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 & $3.50 SHOES VKS2 Lw 1
Tho real worth of my gW.OO and p. 1.50 shoos oomparod with RN£Sf
other makes Is j?4.no to My .00 <> 111 Kdge Lluo cannot bo t : 7 %]}
any price. Bcs£ in tho world for men. t" PJ
Take no *abtitiif'! Insist ori Jiaving W. L. Douglas shoes
with naino and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer tdiouhl /fjwhi
direct from factory, enclosing price and 25c. extra tor carriage. jtSfcu. -
Over 1,000,0U0 satisfied wearers. New Spring Catalog free. : r, &■: v> '
Fast Color Eyelets used exclusively. W. L DOUGLAS. Brockton, MdSS. 1 HtfwrAWi ]yl
j=i — M'~ e —and keep the cook
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;!| IIP' I or carry, no waiting for the fire to come
I k-jliL I JJ up or die down; a fraction of the expense
t^C or^ stove * A
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Oil Stove _y
will boil, bake, broil or fry better than a Jr iMiiiiflMlliiiym wSfewafW
coal stove. It is safe and cleanly—can 0 "*\sr^
not become greasy, can not emit any B fjiXuH
odor. Made in several sizes, from one B Plr Bh'iillj! §j
burner to five. If your dealer does not B '] \ f ' |f|ij;jj|| 3
have them, write to nearest agency of
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foat Growth In Arctic Eommer.
Things grow very fast in the 6hori
Arctic summer. As soon as the enow
melts oil in many places the ground la
covered with a vine which bears a
small berry something like a huckle
berry, porwong It is called. It is eour
and has a pungent taste, and the In
dians leave off work and go porwong
hunting, cramming themselves with
the berries.
Three miles from the village of Krls
| uvik, in the great volcanic district of
! Iceland, there Is a whole mountain
composed of eruptive clays and pure
white sulphur. A beautiful grotto pen
! etrates the western elope to an un
i known deDth.
PDTNAM FADELESS DYES aro fast to tun.
j light, washing and rubbing. Sold by all drug
| gists.
| In 1840 Europe produced four-fifths of
! all the grain in the world. Now she grows
I barely half.
| In the real estate busincsss a great deal
j depends upon putting up a good front.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Rase,
A powder to shake into your shoes ; rests the
feet. Cnres Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore,
Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and In
growing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new
or tight shoes easy. At all druggists and
shoo stores, 21 cts. Sample mailed FREE.
| Address Allen H. Olmsted, Loltoy, N. Y.
| Navigation between British ports is not
restricted to vessels flying the British flag.
Frey's srmifuge
Has been curing children of worms for GO yrß.
25 cents. At Druggists and country stores..
Some seventy different varieties of
olives are grown in California.
If You Have Rheumatism
Bend no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Raoine,
Wis.. Box 148, for six bottles of Dr. Sboop's
Rheumatic Cure, exp. paid. If cured pay $5.50.
If not, it is free.
The branches of the Mississippi have
an aggregate length of 15,000 miles.
Among the many remedies offered for tho
cure of headaches nothing equals tho Qarflold
Headache Powders; they euro quickly and
surely, and have no bad after effect.
A man may be pardoned for shouting
"rubber" in a Turkish bath.
Prosperity makes more fools than ad
versity.
The stomach has to work hard, grinding the
food we crowd iuto it. Make its work easy Ly
chewing Beeman'e Pepsin Gum.
There are six species of mosquito found
in New England.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25cabottla
Athletic spores are taking strong hold
in the European universities.
I do not believe Fiso's Cure for Consump
tion has an equal for coughs and colds.— JOHN
F. BoYan, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
Vertical writing has been abandoned in
the Toronto (Out.) schools.
In 1840 the silk factories of Prussia em
ployed 14,000 operators.
F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0., Props, of
! Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer SIOO reward for any
' case of catarrh that oannot bo cured by taking
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bond for testimonials,
' i'ree. Bold by Druggists, 75c.
Alaska has only .11 of an inhabitant to
the square mile.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. IX. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phtla., Pa.
France has 584 towns with more than
5000 inhabitants.
When the head begans to aoho, tako a Gar
field Headache Powder and immediate relief
will bo your reward. Bend to Garfield Tea
I Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for samples. They are
harmless and genuinely good.
I The first tavern in Boston opened in
1033, and stood on Merchants' row.
WAY GET SOAKED
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WILL KEEP YOU DRY
HARDEST STORM?
LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
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! SHOWING PULL LINE Op GARMENTS AND HATS.
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Do the Work That's Nearest.
Do the work that's nearest,
Though it's dull at whiles;
Helping when you meet them.
Lame dogs over stiles;
See in every hedgerow
Marks of angels' feet.
Epics in each pebble
Underneuth our feet.
Charles Kingsley.
The Moments Well Employed.
"When I was a freshman in Williams
college," said Garfield, "I looked out
one night and saw in the window of
my only competitor for first place in
mathematics a light twinkling a few
minutes longer than I was wont to
keep mine burning. t then and
there determined to invest a little
more time in preparation for the next
day's recitation. I did so, and passed
above my rival. I smile today at the
old rivalry, but I am thankful for the
way my attention was called to the
value of a little margin of time, well
employed. I have since learned that
it is just such a margin, whether of
time or attention, or earnestness of
power, that wins in every battle, great
or small."
Strange Capture of a Catfish.
A farmer and his son, living near
Jefferson City, Mo., were recently fish
ing in the Moreau river. They were
standing on the trunk of a big syca
more tree that had fallen out over the
stream and was partly submerged in
the water, when a peculiar bumping
noise that came from the inside of the
log attracted their attention, and they
began to investigate. They supposed
at first that there was some sort of a
wild animal in the hollow of the log,
and on cutting it open were astounded
to find that it was a 65-pound catfish.
It had evidently made a dip into the
hollow log during high water and did
not attempt to get out until after the
freshet had gone down, and then was
stranded, as there was not sufficient
water in the log to permit his exit. It
was a blue channel cat and furnished
choice steaks for the farmer's table for
a week.
Can Water I low UphillT
That question may at once be an
swered in the negative, for water, like
everything else, is subject to the law of
gravitation, and cannot, therefore, flow
uphill. How is it then, it may be
asked, that the Mississippi river pours
its waters into the Quit of Mexico at a
point that is three miles farther from
the centre of the earth than its source?
The earth, it must be remembered,
is not a perfect sphere, but a
spheroid; that is to say. it bulges
at the equator, and is flattened
at the poles. If it were all covered
with water, therefore, the sur
face of the water would have the form
of a spheroid. That is the form that
the surface of the ocean has, and the
scientists call it a surface of equilibri
um, because the water has no tendency,
without some disturbing influence, to
flow in any direction.
If. therefore, the country through
which the Missiissippi flows had the
level that an ocean would have if one
were there, it would not flow at all;
but if an ocean were there, its surface
at the point where the mouth of the
river is would be three and one-half
miles further from the centre of the
earth than the point where the head
of the river is. This we know, be
cause that Is the determined curvature
of the earth along that lino.
But as the mouth of the river is only
three miles farther from the centre of
the earth than its source, it is half a
mile below the regular curvature of the
earth at that point, and it is this de
pression that gives the river a fall of
half a mile from its surface to Its
mouth. It does not flow uphill, there
fore, but down hill, in obedience to the
law of gravitation.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
I'ollstcß, tlse I'aper Mnker.
Hiding in some crevice about your
house or the school building there is
probably a wasp which naturalists call
Po-lls-tes. Sho has been there ever
I since the cold weather came. In the
spring you may see her tearing oTf
pieces of wood from some unpainted
building or weather-worn fence. Let
us see what she is going to do.
This wasp is the founder of a colony.
The first thing she does is to select a
place for her home. Then she makes a
few cells —only a few for she has no
help. When you find her nost
you will see how the comb is
fastened to the roof or a tree
or to the under side of a stone. As
soon as the cells are completed the
mother lays an egg in each. From
these eggs the larvae are hatched.
They are fed by the mother until they
become pupae. The cells are sealed
' over while the wasps are in the pupa
j state. They have to break open the
seals before they can come out.
All of the first brood are workers.
As .oon as they are hatched the mother
has nothing to do but to provide eggs.
They clean out the cells in which they
passed their early days; they make ad
ditions to the nests; they take care of
the young. Do you remember how tho
Vespa workers prepared food for the
larvae in their colony and what they
fofi them? The young Polistes are
cared for in tho same way.
You may see the workers flying
about in your garden this summer,
j getting the sweets from the flowers
I that you have planted. You will know
why they are so busy through the lng
I tunny days. You will think of the
hungry little wasps waiting for their
dinner. You will wonder whether
they put their heads out of the cells
when the workers feed them. —Cornell,
Junior Naturalist Monthly.
A Spltler'a Home.
"What ails our new clock?" said
papa one day as he came home from
his work and found mamma just put
ting on the potato kettle in order to
get dinner. "It is 12 o'clock now, and
our clock lacks a whole half-hour of
the right time."
"I don't know," said mamma: "It
has always kept very good time until
now."
Jußt then Elsa came running in from
school, saying, "O mamma, I was late
at school this morning, and Miss
Prentiss was so sorry because sho had
been teaching the children a new song
that I missed!"
Papa moved both hands of the clock
around until both pointed straight up.
Now Elsa knew what time it was, and
guesed why she had been late that
morning. "Now, Elsa," said papa, "run
over to Aunt Jennie's to see if we can
borrow her watch for a day. If our
clock keeps on telling the wrong time,
we might be late again tomorrow
without the watch."
Elsa skipped away, pleased to help
papa, and pleased to think that Aunt
Jennie might slip the watch-chain
around her neck and the pretty watch
into her apron pockei, so that she
could wear it all way home. When
she came back the watcli was hung up
on a nail beside the clock. The next
morning, when papa looked, he found
that the clock was slower than ever;
but he again set is right with the
watch. It would not keep up, but grew
slower and slower, until finally it
stopped altogether.
"Now," said papa, "I will open the
door that has always been tightly
closed, to see if I can find out the
trouble with our new clock." Elsa
and mamma peeped over his shoulder;
and what do you suppose they saw?
Why, somebody's home, all fixed up
there among the pretty wheels, with
curtains, draperies and other silken
things. The one who made .11 this
was scampering way as fast as his six
little legs could carry him.
"That's right," said papa, "hurry
away, for you have just tied our clock
up with so much spinning that it can
not go at all. Y"ou and the clock are
both such busy workers; but you can
not work together, so you had better
fix up a home somewhere else."
Papa brushed the spider's work all
away, when the wheels commenced
turning, and the pendulum said its
I soft "tick-toek" again. Baby waved
bis tiny hand to show how the clock
goes; for he had been watching, too.
Papa set the hands again with Aunt
Jennie's witch, and the next morning
both were telling the right time. The
watch was now carried home to Aunt
Jennie, and after this the clock told
papa just when to get up, mamma just
when to get breakfast, Elsa just when
to get ready for school, and nobody
need be late any more on account of
| not knowing the right time. —The
: Child's Garden.
Color. of tlio O.vHtpr Shell.
Of all the delicate and wonderful in
struments invented by scientists there
is hardly one that is not duplicated in
nature. However ingenious it may
seem and however original, Mother Na
[ ture generally has its counterpart hid
j away somewhere. When the astron
omers began to analyze sunlight they
j found that it was made up of many dlf-
J ferent colors. A plain bar of white
! light passing through a prism was
broken up into a very rainbow, each
separate color of which was found tc
represent a chemical element —iron,
sodium, or some other ingredient of
which the sun is composed. But prisms
did not seem to divide light finely
enough to suit the astronomers, so they
went to work and made something bet
! ter. Upon a plate of metal they
I scratched an infinite number of invisi
i bio lines—scratched then in a marvel
j ous machine which they invented for
i the purpose, 20,000 of them to a single
inch—and called the metal plate a
| "diffraction grating." With this in
j strument and a long scries of calcula
tions and experiments they were able
to arrive at very correct ideas of the
sun's chemistry, and later they found
that the light of a star could be taken
to pieces in the same way. It was a
great discovery and the astronomers
| took a great deal of pride in it.
But, 10, Mother Nature had been us
ing the same principle for ages, the
countless changing tints of an oyster
shell were so beautiful of themselves
that most people had been content to
enjoy them withoutseekingtlieircause.
But everything has a cause —usually a
j most interesting one —and the irides
cent mother of pearl resembled the as
j tronomers' diffraction grating so close
ly that they decided to look Into the
matter. Everything lipon our little
world obtains its color by dissecting
white sunlight in its own peculiar fash
ion, and when the oyster shell was put
I under a microscope it was seem to be
simply a diffraction grating, nothing
more. Its apparently smooth surface
was made up of thousands of minute
' lines and it got its rainbow tints by
j dividing the sunlight into its original
| elements. The wings of iridescent lu
| sects- —beetles, for example- -were ruled
in the same way. and an impression
of them in white sealing wax gave oft
I tho same colors. So the astronomers,
who were not in the least jealous, dc
j cided that If any patents rights were
due on the invention they belonged to
Mother Nature by priority of discovery.
—Chicago Record.
In Tripoli barley constitutes the bulk
jof the food of the people. The area
| under this crop constitutes about three
| fourths of the cultivated land, and the
annua! crop is from 1,400,000 to 2,000,-
I 000 bushels.
A FORTUNATE KICK.
Vnceremoniotiftly Quitted From Train. It
Made Thin Mail Wealthy.
During a recent conclave of rail
road magnates in New Orleans some
thing reminded a well known general
manager of a whimsical story, says
the Times-Democrat of that city. "I
am afraid there is no particular moral
to this yarn," he said; "but it happens
to be true, and I'll give it to you for
what the newspaper boys call 'human
interest.' Not long ago the million
aire president of a big manufacturing
concern up in Ohio made a speech at
a banquet, and to illustrate how seem
ing misfortunes may prove blessings
in disguise he said that he got his start
in life through being kicked off of an
accommodation train in the dead of
winter, it was during the hard times
of the 'Bos, he went on to relate, and
although a skilful mechanic and some
thing of an engineer, he found it im
possible to procure work of any kind,
even manual labor. Things went from
bad to worse, and at last he found
himself stranded somewhere in south
ern Ohio. He was stone broke and
desperate, and wanted to get to Day
ton, where he had heard vaguely there
was something doing in his trade. So
one bitter cold evening he slipped on
board an accommodation train, hop
ing to be able to talk the conductor
into carrying him, but he failed igno
miniously. He begged and pleaded,
and told his story with all the elo
quence of despair, but tue ticket punch
er refused to melt- On the contrary,
he pulled the bell rope when they came
to the next station, grabbed the un
happy young mechanic and propelled
him off the car with a series of swift
kicks. He landed in a snow bank and
slept in a freight shed, but next day
his chance came. A span suddenly
gave way in a new iron bridge over a
big creek at the edge of the town, and
the whole structure threatened to go
down before experts could arrive from
the builders' foundry. At that critical
juncture the stranger jumped into the
breach, built a temporary supporting
trestle out of logs and crosstles, and
saved something like $20,000 worth of
work. Of course the bridge people
were delighted, and when they saw
what a really scientific job he had done
they offered the shabby engineer a
handsome position in their establish
ment. From that on his rise was rap
id, and, in concluding the 'little tale,
he laid special stress on the apparent
hopelessness of his position the night
he was ejected from the train and
made the point that one should never
give way to despair. "If that con
ductor had carried me on instead of
kicking me off," he said, "I would have
missed the great chance of my life,
and might be working now at the
bench. I am really indebted to him
for my start in the world, and I have
often wished that I could meet him
and tell him about it"
Might and Might Not.
It was consoling to a well known
East End resident a short time ago
when he called a physician to go into
consultation with the family doctor
and diagnose a case. A little son was
seriously ill, and the father wanted
everything done that was known in
materia medica. After the two physi
cians had been in consultation for
some time the father asked of the con
sulting physician what they thought of
the case.
"Well," said the physician who had
been called, "your son may get well
and he may not."
"Can that be possible?" said the
father. "I ought to have called a mo
torman. I've made a mistake."
"About what?" asked the physician.
"In calling you. A motorman could
have told me the same thing, and I
knew my little boy would either get
well or he wouldn't before I sent for
you"
Now the physician wants the father
to pay $5 consultation fee, and the
father swears he never will. The child
recovered. —Louisville (Ky.) Commer
cial.
Ho Returned It.
Wit has often saved an offender
from punishment in military as well as
in civil life.
Not long since a non-commissioned
officer entering a barrack gate in Dub
lin was mistaken by the "fresh one '
on sentry, who immediately "came to
the shoulder."
The noncom., unaware that his colo
nel was just behind, returned the sa
lute—a thing not permissible in the
circumstances. Arrived at his quar
ters, he shortly received an order to
attend before the colonel.
On presenting himself he was asked
how he came to return the salute,
knowing full well he was not entitled
to it.
Not in the least embarrassed, he
promptly answered:
"Sir, I always return everything I
am not entitled to."
His ready wit pleased the colonel,
who laughingly dismissed him.—Lon
don Spare Moments.
Observations.
A gentleman is told by his deeds, a
parvenue by his "breaks."
By refusing to listen to secrets one
is saved unlimited trouble.
The sweetheart of a poor man de
lights in little social sacrifices—if she
is a sweetheart.
To be beautiful and wise is not com
mon, but to be neat and loyal is pos
sible to all women.
A man of the world may treat his
equal cavalierly, but ho never will
those dependent upon him.
Courtesy is to man what daintiness
is to woman—a beautiful thing to he
known by.
When a woman is popular with men
she is astounded to find any who lack
| polish and gallantry toward her—Phil
adelphia Record.