MISS VIRG]N[A GRANES Tells How Hospital Physicians Use and Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. • L DEAR MRS. PINKITAM : Twelvo —ars continuous service at the sick Vjcd in some of our prominent hospi tals, as well as at private homes, has given me varied experiences with the diseases of women. 1 have nursed some IIISS VIRGINIAGRANES, Prosldent of Nurses' Association, Watertown,N.Y. most distressing cases of inflammation and ulceration of tho ovaries and womb. I have known that doctors used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound when everything else failod with their patients. I have advised my patients and friends to use it and have yet to hear of its first failure to cure. " Four years ago I had falling of the womb from straining in lifting a heavy patient, and knowing of the value of your Compound I began to use it at once, and in six weeks I was well once more, and have had no trouble since. I am most pleased to havo had an oppor tunity to say a few words in praise of your Vegetable Compound, and shall take every occasion to recommend it."— Miss VIRGINIA GRANES.— SSOOO forfeit if above testimonial Is not genuine. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has stood the test of time, and has cured thousands- Mrs. Pinkham advi *es sick wo men free. Address, Lynn, Mass. USE OF THE WORD "PLEASE." In England It Is Considered a Serv ant's Word Only. An American just returned from a two years' residence in England was speaking the other day of the differ ent treatment accorded the word "please" there and here. "In England •please' is a servant's word solely; here gentlefolk use it as well," said the American, and when the other Americans said that they, having trav eled themselves, knew that as well as she did. she added: "Yes, but you don't realize it until you've tried to bring up children abroad. At home my youngsters had always been taught to say 'please.' In England I soon found out that they must not say it; if they did it stamped them as un derbred." Poppy cultivation is driving out wheat grownig around Foochow, in China. Opium-producing pays very much better. Nurses' Experience. Medical men say that a good nurse in a difficult case is better than med icine, but when we can get a good nurse and good medicine, the patient stands a much better chance of re covery. The few words of advice given below by nurse Eliza King, are well worthy the attention of all readers: " I have constantly used St. Jacobs Oil in the various situations I have occupied as nurse, and have invariably found it excellent In all cases requiring outward application, such as sprains, bruises, rheumatic affections, neuralgia, etc. In cases of pleurisy it is an excellent remedy—well rubbed in. I can strongly recommend it after several years' use and experience. It should be in every household." Sister CAROLINA, St. Andrew's Hospital, writes: *' I have found St. Jacobs Oil a most efficacious remedy in gout; also in sprains and bruises. Indeed, we cannot say '.OO much in its praise, and our doctor is ordering it constantly." The wonderful medicine, Ripans Tabules, cured me in three weeks after having suffered for five years. My trouble was dyspepsia, and as I believe came from eating too much sweet stuff. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet Is enough for an ordinary occasion. Tito family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply lor a year. fKENSION^KK^ 3jr ra in civil wer, 13 uiUudlcatiuc claims, utty since <old Hedal nt TlnfTalo Exposition. JWcILHENNY'S TABASCO WAN TED—L dy or Gentleman ns sole representative in ti©ir locality; salary or t omutiss o I.FIIII partic ulars, tutoress Phoenix Miff.Co., U6 Broadway,N. Y. P. N. U. 12, 02. f? In time. Sold by druggists. VI Clothe*. Although my clothes are line and gay, They should not make mo vuin; For nurse can take them all away, And put thorn on again. Each flower grows her pretty gown, So does each little weed: Their drosses aro their very own, They may bo proud, indeed! —Abbie Farwell brown, in the Interior. A Queer Bird. There is a bird which seems to be destitute of all natural feeling; a bird without any home instinct or affection for its offspring; a bird, in short, which is an anomaly among birds, and a curious study for the naturalist. This is the cow blackbird of Amer ica. The cockoo of Europe is a bird that nearly approaches the cow black bird in its habits and cvurious in stincts. Both of these birds furnish remarkable exceptions to the rules governing the majority of their kind. The cow blackbird makes its first appearance in western New York early in April. These birds are about seven to seven and a half inches long and of a greenish black or brown color, usually havfng a brown head. The cowbirj makes his chief tood of the insects infesting cattle, so these birds are always found in the vicinity of cattle. When in quest of a dinner they alight with boldness upon the backs of these quadrupeds. It is from this curious habit the bird gets its name of cow blackbird. An observer of their habits says: "These birds are particularly abund ant in the west, or they may appear so, for the numbers that in the east would be spread over a large area, here gather in great (locks, wherever large numbers of cattle are congregat ed. Every wagon train passing over the prairies in summer is attended by numbers of theso birds, and every camp and stock corral, permanent or temporary, is besieged by busy birds, eager to glean their dinner from tho wasted forage. They become no bold that they flutter without fear near men, and sit in rows upon the back bones of the animals, who seem to rather like their attendance." Tho "mother" cow blackbird is a very unnatural and heartless creature. Doing without a nest of her own. she steals away and stealthily seeks the nest of some other bird in order to de posit her eggs. She searches some times a long distance before finding a nest suited to her purpose, or one from which tho owner is absent. In this strange nest the blackbird egg is laid, only one at a time, and then the mother, flying away, displays no fur laere concern about her offspring, which is left entirely to the care of its foster parents. The blackbird shows much cunning in her choice of a nest, usually select ing that of a bird much smaller than herself. Then the foundling, coming from the larger egg, being hatched out first, often gets more attention from the foster mother than her own right ful children. It is bigger and bolder. It grows more rapidly, axid soon more than fills the nest, and takes away the attention which should be be stowed upon tho little sparrow or warbler, whose parents It has de ceived. —Brooklyn Eagle. A New Kind of Vegetable Ktew. "Mamma," cried Alice Newcomb, rushing in the house to her mother, "guess what my dear teacher gave me and what I've got in my hand!" "A book!" guessed Mrs. Newcomb smiling. "An apple? An orange? A paper doll? A picture? No? Then I give it up." "It's a bulb!" cried Alice dancing with pleasure. "And some day, my teacher told me, it will be a beautiful Chinese lily. I must plant it among some pebbles in a dish of water. And then in a few weeks it will send up lovely flowers." "How nice! How very nice!" cried Mrs. Newcomb as sweetly as though she didn't know ail about Chinese lily bulb 3. And then Alice, who always has a dozen things she wants to do on hand, danced off to the kitchen to make candy. Mrs. Newcomb didn't happen to have a glass dish she could spare on hand, and Alice's allowance for the week was all gone. So she put bulb on the lowest shen of the pantry and forgot al about it until Saturday came round. And then—you'd never guess what had happened—there was no lily bulb to plant in the dish! "Where is the bulb Alice placed on the lowest pantry shelf( Anna?" Mr 3. Newcomb asked the maid when Alice was all ready to plant it. Anna, who hadn't been with the fam ily very long, looked amazed. "I haven't seen the bulb, Mrs. New comb," she answered. "What did it look like?" "Like an onion—exactly liko an onion," Alice told her, all eagerness and excitement to get the bulb into place in the bowl. Anna looked at her steadily for about 20 seconds, a.td then then she threw up her hands in dismay. "An onion, ye say. Was it big, an' dry and' had no stalks to it?" she asked solemnly. "Yes, yes," answered Alice, jumping up and down, she was in such a hurry. "What did you do with it, Anna?" "Sure," said Anna sorrowfully, "I didn't go for to do it on purpose, Miss Alice, but —btlt I thought it was an onion, an'—ye awl ate it in the vego table stew I gave ye last Tuesday. Alice could hardly keep from crying she was so vexed and disappointed, but her mother comforted her with promises of another bulb, and another lily to bloom later, and that afternoon they went down town together, Alice and her mother, and bought a bulb that was even bigger than tho one Alice's teacher had given her. And the dear teacher, learning by and by what had happened to the bulb she had given her little pupil, insisted up on replacing it with another, so Alice is now waiting and watching for two beautiful lily Rowers to appear. But Alice's papa, when Alice told him the story, couldn't sympathize for laughing. "Why, Inventors are great people," he said, laughing, "and Anna invented for us a perfectly new kind of vege table stew." —Chicago Record-Hera.,.. A Straggle to the Heath. From the St. Nicholas comes this ex citing description of a fight against an American panther: Frank, accompanied by the three great hounds, did not hesitate to charge this formidable and sudden enemy. But the effect was not what he expected. Instead of bounding away, the great cat, looming larger and more terrible the nearer he ap proached, faced his foes fiercely, crouching above the slain sheep, ready to spring, and yelling screams of de moniac ferocity. The mustang stopped and roared, then stood snort ing and trembling, and could not be force nearer. The groat dogs rushed on. And Frank sat in his saddle and watched the fight, unable to assist, too fascinated to fly. Now he realized the imprudence of leaving his arms, and repented his boyish folly in despising discipline founded upon experience. "Old Strategy" was the leader of the three great dogs. His wise brain did the planning for all, and never did soldiers obey a chief with more careful attention to signals of com mand than the other two great dogs gave to him. He was the fleetest of tho three. "Reserve," who ran in the rear, and always waited the proper time to leap and seize, was the most powerful. "Skirmish," the lightest of the trio, made it his business to dis tract tho quarry by flashing feigned and real attacks all over him, hero, there, and everywhere, to provoke openings for the other two. Just as the battle began, the clouds opened wide, and the brightening moon she.l a distant glimmer over the scene through the mist that rose from the wot grass, disclosing the huge mountain lion standing over his prey, with flattened ears, snarling face, teeth gleaning, claws widely spread, mad with hate, menacing the dogs. And now Old Strategy, warily ob servant, crept, growling, directly in front of the angry lion, tempting and taunting him to spring. Nearer —a little nearer yet. Several times the lion seemed about to leap, judging by his lashing tall and settling haunches; but Skirmish distracted him with a sudden feint, or Reserve threatened his flank. When each dog had a good position, Old Strategy provoked a leap by a sudden movement. The lion sprang, body, limbs and claws spread to strike. But Old Strategy wasn't there when he alighted; and the lion did not alight where he aimed; for the moment he leaped Reserve and Skirmish dashed In and caught him in tho air, ono on his flank, one by a hind kneejolnt, and held back with such force that al three rolled along the grass. Before the lion could retaliate, all three dogs were out of reach, to re peat their provoking tactics. For half an hour this furious battle was continue,!. Leap, charge, rush or strike as he would, the worried lion could not bring Ills treacherous assail ants to a close. But for a few insig nificant scractchcs, the dogs were un hurt, hut the lion showed many marks of the conflict. The dogs gave him no rest from their incessant attacks. Occasionally one of the dogs would lie down, panting, and rest himself, while the other two kepT the game going, but their adversary was not permitted a moment's breathing time. Gradually tho tormented night prowler grew weary and faint. His own fury helped the dogs to exhaust him; for each effort ho made in creased his rage, until he became a veritable demon of frenzied hate, and spent in useless screams the breath he needed for battle. As his powers diminished those of the dogs in creased. Their rushing, leaping grips were more confident, more frequent, and more effective. A little later brave Skirmish made such a prodigious feint, in obedience to some secret sign from Old Strategy, that the lion whirled to strike at him. This gave Old Strategy his chance. He fastened the first grip upon the throat of the great cat, keeping his own body behind and partly under the head of his foo, while Skirmish dragged at a hind leg, and Reserve put all his weight and force into a grip over the loin, stretching their enemy helpless for a moment—but only for a mo ment. As soon as the great cat coulj muster his tired strength, he drew his powerful body into a curve, and thrust at. Old Strategy with his lashing hind logs, compelling the dog to let go. But the instant Old Strat egy was pushed off, the painful grip of Reserve at hi 3 loins made the lion curl down again, to strike with his fore paws, when Old Strategy pinned his throat once' more from the other side. So in five minutes more the battle was ended and the throe dogs had again proved their right to the proud distinction of being the only dogs that could kill a full grown mountain-lion. Ireland Losing Her People. According to the figures of the reg ister general, Ireland Is still losing In population, the decline for the last year being figured at 32,435. This is entirely (accounted for by immigra tion, for there was an excess of births over deaths amounting to 13,853, mak ing the loss by emigration for the year 45,288. The registrar's figures show that last year there were 21,300 mar riages, 101,459 births and 87,G0G deaths. There has been, In compari son with previous years, a slight de cline in both the birth and marriage rates, while the death rate shows an increase, which Is, doubtless, partial ly accounted for by the fact that the reductions of the population by im migration are almost entirely drawn from the ages in which the death rate would be smallest. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, Now York, break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverlshness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists'. 25c. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Lo Roy, N.Y. The hotel man has to be inn keeping with the public. Best For tho BOWAIH. No matter what alls you, headache to a can cer, you will nevec get well until your bowels are put right. CAHCARETS holp nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10cents to start getting your hoalth bock. CARCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Bewaro of imitations. In Germany the yearly number of di vorces exceeds 10,000. Tho clergy of London havo been vaccinated, partly in order to set an example to their parishioners. Eaoh package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. Bold by all druggists. The Russian Minister of Justice has decided to introduce trial by jury as a provisional measure. Earliest Kugslan Millet. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigally prolific millet. 5 to 6 tons of rich hay per acre. Price, 50 lbs., $1.00; 100 lbs., $3.00: low freights. John A. Bolzer Beed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A Even the musical woman may harp too much va one string. FITS permanently cured. No fltsornorvons noss after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervefteatoror.s2 trial bottle and troatisefreo Dr. 11. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Aroh St.. Phila., Pa. The British Electric Traction Com pany has, during the past year, earned £ GOO,OOO in penny fares. I am euro Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mas. THOMAS ROB BI'nb, Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Fob. 17,1900. There is no fluctuation in the price oi wild oats. How'i This 7 We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, havo known F. J.Cho ney for the Inst 15 years, nnd believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions .and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST A TUUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALDINO, KINNANAMARVIN, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hull's Family Pills aro the best. The sun gives 600,000 times as much light as the full moon. jH®ra i I / One may sail the seas and visit every land and everywhere will find, LM ; A \ \ \ \\ that men of aflhlrs, who are well informed, have neither the time 11 pV \ \ \ \ I nor the inclination, whether on pleasure bent or business, to use those II \ \ \ \ \ I medicines which cause excessive purgation and then leave the internal II \ \ \ \ ; \ I organs In a constipated condition. Syrnp of Fig 3is not built on those h :V \ \ \ \ \ I lines. It acts naturally, acts effectively, cteanscs, sweetens and strengthens J j V.-i-X \ \ \ \ P I the Intermd organs and leaves them in a healthy condition. I : \ \ \ \ V I If in need of a laxative remedy the most excellent is Syrup of Figs, but I V \ -, \ I when anything morn tlmn a laxative is required the safe and scientific plan I j '\- \ \ \ I is to consult a competent physician and not to resort to those medicines I : j . . \ \ - I wlilvh claim to euro all mnnuer of diseases. I • , O- I The California Fig Syrup Co. was the first to manufacture a laxative remedy 1 i \ /' ■ < which would give satisfaction to all; a laxative which physicians could 1 \ \ vM-gf-ffi*"?"'"t *T® '• ■ J sanction and one friend recommend to another; so that today its sales probably I \ f \ *i I exceed all other laxatives combined. In some places considerable quantities of I : \ f \ I old-time catliartlcs and modern imitations are still solil, but with the general H './ : ~.\..q T I diffusion of knowledge, as to the best medicinal agents, Syrup of Figs has conic l\ \ / \ ■ \ I into general use with the wall-informed, because it is a remedy of known value IT \ /.>•")' V \ \ \ .... I and ever beneficial action. M y-y \ \ \ \ \ 'W-? Tho quality of Syrup of Figs is due not only to the excellent combination of fY..-- I .'" J\ \ \ \ \ the laxativo and carminative principles of plants, known to act most beneficially IV \ l \ \ \ on tho system, with agreeable and refreshing aromatic liquids, but also to the 1 \ -./ \ \ \ orginal method of manufacture. 11l order to get the genuine and its beneficial I—\ 7 ' ' , \ \ \ effects ono should always note the bill nainc of the Company California Fig I W. Syrup Co.—printed on tho front of every package. I—TV; . i: ' The Railroad as an Educator. Since the outbreak of the troubles in the Philippines there has been a great demand for maps showing the resources of the West, the routes to the Pacific coast and to the islands of the Orient. Last summer one rail road company had 15,000 of these maps printed at a cost of SIO,OOO. They cost G5 cents each, but were cold for 25 cents each, barely enough to pay the express charges. The manage ments of the public schools of lowa, Missouri and Kansas learned of these maps, and to date have caused over 5,000 to be distributed among the schools. They are used by teachers in preference to the regularly sup plied maps, because of the additional information they contain. MllJlil>ll■' inrmi in —it-*! Health I " For 25 years I have never n missed taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla S every spring. It cleanses my 1 blood, makes me feel strong, and a does me good in every way."— H John P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N.Y. | Pure and rich blood I carries new life to every a I part of the body. You I are invigorated, refreshed. | You feel anxious to be § active. You become strong, | steady,courageous. That's | what Ayer's Sarsaparilla i will do for you. ' it 1.03 a bottle. All drusslsta. Ask your doctor ,hut bo 111111113 of Ayer's fit SnrsnnurUin. He know, nil about thin t;roud N oltl family medicine. lollow Ills advlcoonti H yro will bo swtl.fied. fii J. C. ATBR Co.,l.oweu, Mass, jy ,| *''®^^ e oaritri. lirM^ Mf your ntighbors (be coming full fir wed. I: win aur'ely pu/'you* The mot raarvrloa* rrrool and hay f>od on earth, producing from CO to 80 bnsbola W th |t n VEEjEiaBLE SEEDS IMORE THAN HALP ACENTUET! RI v ~ OP EXPERIENCE CUR CUARANTE6 EVERY WATERPROOF OlliU> WS&B, SLICKER (4 ! Sill ©K COAT vLub J Pn) BEARING THISTRAPE MARK. HlluJ ON JALB eVEOTWHERE. BEWARE CP IMITATIONS. .rt\ "IS!i MkW OP GARMENTS AIIP HATS. J Mpl " A.cJ.TOWER CO.,BOSTON.MA3S. ♦. Capsicum Vaseline Put up In Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister tlio most delicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of tills artl le are wonderful. It will stop tho t othajhe at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as tho best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy foj pains in the chest and stomach and all rlietirna'. ic, neuralgic and gouty c implaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to hi invaluable in the household. Many people say "If is the best of nil your preparations." Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or other doalns, or by sending this amount to us iu postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is nt genuine. CULESEBROUGII HANUFACTURING CO., 17 Suto Street, New York City. OIL mm FREE If you nre Interested, write, enclosing two-cent stamp, for Official Geological Oil Maps ol California and Colorado, in colors. Worth two dollars, FREE. Mention this paper. THE IvENDRICK PROMOTION CO.. Exchange Building, Denver, Colorado. DR©P £5 Y N ' E k W DIi ' CO Y ERY: *"*• CM..,. Book of tMll.nc.nUU 2nd I(Td ny Pree. Dr. H. n. GREEK'S 80N8. BOXB. Atlanta, ■*.
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