TO YOUNG^LADIES. From the Treasurer of the Young People's Christian Tem perance Association, Elizabeth Caine, Fond du Lac, Wis. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:— I want to tell you and all the young ladies of the oountry, how grateful I am to you for all the benefits I have received from using Lydia E. Pinklmm's Vege table Compound. I suffered for MISS ELIZABETH CAINE. eight months from suppressed men struation, and it effected my entire Bystera until I became weak and debil itated, and at times felt that I had a hundred aches in as many places. I only used the Compound for a few weeks, but it wrought a change in me which I felt from the very beginning. I have been very regular since, have no pains, and find that my entire body is as if it was renewed. I gladly recom mend Ijya.ia E. Pinklium's Vege table Compound to everybody."— Miss ELIZABETH CAINE, CO \V. Division St., Fond du Lac, Wis.— ssooo forfeit If above testimonial Is not genuine. At such a time the greatest aid to nature is Eydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the young system for the coming change, and is the surest reliance for woman's ills of every nature. ' Mrs. Pinklmm invites all young- women wlio are ill to write her for freo advice. Ad dress Lynn, Mass. Natives Keep Valuable Secret. The Antaimoro, one of the oldest tribes of Madagascar, po.-sees the sec ret of making, from the pulp of a na tive shrub, a very beautiful and endur ing kind of paper, resembling parch ment. Each family possesses a few sheets of this papeh, 0:1 which Its chronicles and traditions are recorded and the same paper is used for trans cribing the laws of Mohammedanism. The paper is said to have been invent ed in the middle of the ninth century by a Mohammedan shipwrecked on ths coast, who desired to transcribe his torn and, water-soaked copy of the Koran in an enduring form. The An taimoro will only make the paper foi sale when some pressing necessity arises. The more you flatter some people the more they rise in their own estimation. FITS permanently ourod. No fits or nervous- ness after lirst day's U9© of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveltostoror.s2 trial bottle and troatisefrea Dr. It. 11. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Pkila., Pa. Over one-third of the manufactured goods which are made in France are the products of female labor. CntAri-li Cannot Jl Cured With local applications, as they cannot roach tho soat of tlio disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disoaso, and in order to cure it you must tako internal roinodies. Ilall'd Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfuco. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack modicino. It was prescribed by one of tho best physi cians in this country for years, and is a reg ular prescription, It is composed of tho best tonics known, combinod with tho best blood purifiers, acting dirootly on tho mu cous surfaces. Tho perfect combination of tho two ingredients is what producos such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Bend for testimonials, frco. F. J. CHENEY Co., Props., Tolodo, O. Sold by druggists, price, 75c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho bost. The largest order of merit in the world is the French Legion of Ilonor, which now y. has reached half a million members. A NBtv Practice. A nasty practice is what the Chicago In ter Ocean calls the pasting of repeated lay ers of wall paper, one upon another, thus covering up tho filth and germs of disease that may be propagated in the very absorb ent and decaying mass of flour paste, paper, animal gluo, colors, etc. They give opinions of eminent health offi cers and sanitarians, urging that such prao tice should be stopped by legal enactment, and also take occusion to say that these sanitarians recommend Alabastine as a dur able, pure and sanitary coating for walls. The Inter Ocean says: "This is a very im portant question, and, as It costs nothing to avoid this dangor, why take any chances?" How much of the alarming spread of small pox and other diseases may be due to unsan itary wall coverings? The planetoids, of which there are over 300 known, have all been discovered gince January 1. 1801. j, Lost His ♦ R.Ke\E medism By the use of a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil. SERGEANT JEREMIAH MAHKR, of Ard cath, Royal Irish Constabulary, says: "My friend, Air. Thomas Hand, has been a great sufferer from rheumatism in the back and joints for the last four years, during which time he has employed many different methods of treatment, but obtained no relief whatever, and for the last two years has been unable to walk without a stick, and sometimes t\yo sticks, and was in great pain constantly. 1 induced him to procure a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, which he applied with the most astonishing and marvellous effects. Before he had finished using the contents of the first bottle he could walk readily without the aid of a stick, and after a few applications from the second bottle he was free from pain, and ha 9 been ever since; and although fifty years of age and a farmer, can walk and work without experiencing ftny pain or difficulty whatever." Voc,nt.Bß's Ci'RATXvn COMPOUND, the great remedy which make* people we'l -, 11 1* made from the formula . of an eminent f ondon physician. Send to St. Jacobs A Oil, Ltd., Baltimore. Mil., for a free u%!< bottle. MYSTERIES OF THE MIND SOME INEXPLICABLE PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH THE BRAIN. People of Great ARC Remember More Clearly the Events of Their Youth Than They Do Those of Later Life— Strange Healing Powers. There is no subject so important for all of us to study as the constitution of our minds writes Garrett P. Ser viss, in the New York Journal. Some of the most remarkable and inexplic able phenomena of the mind relate to the power of memory. A very curious side light Is thrown upon this matter by a sentence at the close of a letter from the famous as tronomer, Otto Scruve, to Mr. W. J Hussey, of the 1-lck Observatory, pub lished in the latest number of the Pro ceedings of that celebrated Institution. The letter was written in acknowl edgment of the receipt of a copy of Mr. Hussey's volume of observation on the double stars originally dis covered by Struve. At the close of the letter the venerable astronomer says: "I must ask your pardon that in answering your letter I make use of my mother tongue—the German. Formerly it was very easy for me to write Euglish and to speak it, but now It would be a severe task for a man standing iu his eighty-third year." This is iu accord with the common experience that people of great age remember more clearly the events of their youth than those of later life. But it might I o supposed that this tendency would not hold good with the acquirements made by a mind of more than ordinary power like that of Struve, in its period of greatest activ ity. It would be Interesting to know whether is a common experience with those who have in the course of their lives acquired the ability to write and talk with ease in some other language than their native speech. Of course, disuse always weakens one's hold upon a language, and a per son may, in that manner, even forget his mother tongue, but Struve says nothing of this, and ascribes his loss of command over English entirely to his advanced age, averring that a great effort would now De required to write a language which formerly he wrote with ease. May not the tendency of the memory In the latest years of life to recur to youthful scenes and expressions fur nish a sufficient explanation of the childishness of old age? All of the nobler faculties of the mind must. In a greater or less degree, be dependent for their exercise upon the material supplied by the memory. A man without absolutely no mem ory though in full possession of his reasoning powers, would be unable to manifest any intellectual strength, and the general character of our men tal operations must always be largely, if not mainly, governed by what mem ory presents to the mind. So, in ex treme age, when the only pictures in ' memory's gallery that remain clear and distinct are those impressed in early youth, the entire frame of the mind becomes cast in a corresponding mold. In some instances the vagaries of the memory may supply an explanation of apparently supernatural occur rences. Wo hud a case of that kind in a story related by the celebrated Dr. John Abercrombie: A lady suffering from an incurable disease was sent from London into the country, but, feeling death approach, she begged that her infant daughter be brought from the city to see her. The child was taken to her mother's bedside, there was an affecting scene of parting, and the two never met again. As the child grew up she had no recollection whatever of her mother. When she had become a woman, one day, be mere accident, she entered the room where the parting had occurred and was at once strangely agitated. She said, byway of explanation: "I have a distinct impression of having been in this room before, and that a lady who lay in that corner, and seemed very ill, leaned over me and wept." The singular persistence and the stimulating power of early memories are well illustrated by another story, told by Dr. Benjamin Itush, the fa mous physician who signed the De claration of Independence: In his youth he had been acquainted with a little girl, a farmer's daughter, and the two had often watched an eagle's nest in the top of a dead tree. Many years afterward he was called to attend his former playmate, now a married woman, when ahe was des perately ill at the lowest stage of ty phus fever. "Upon entering the rcom," he says, "I caught her eye and with a cheer ful tone said only. 'The cagfe's ncsti' She seized my hand, without being able to speak, and I discovered strong emotions of pleasure in her counte nance. From that time she began to re cover and she is now living." So there is a power of healing that resides in the mind and often it Is through the abiding memories of child hood that its power Is manifested. Farmer O'Neal's Lumber Teotli. Farmer Foley O'Neal Is using a set of false teeth he made himseif out of a piece of seasoned apple tree root with no other tool than his pocketknlfe. The teeth are of perfect shape and reg ularity, and the plate, which is of the same piece of wood, fits his mouth as well as if fashioned by a plaster im pression. I-Ie can crack corn with these teeth.—Philadelphia Record. Each person in the civilized world consumes an average of eighty pounds of meat yearly. BREAD AND BUTTER STATE. Now Name Gained For Minnesota by Its Dairy Products and Flour. Minnesota has heretofore been known as the Gopher State. Now it is be ginning to be called the Bread and Butter State. The reason of the change becomes clear when It is said that last year its mills turned out 20,030,000 bar rels of Hour, and there were churned in the State 50,000,000 pounds of but ter. In the product of spring wheat Min nesota stands at the head of the States of the country ahd its flour mills are noted not only throughout the North west, but In foreign countries as well. The extensive development of its dairy interests is comparatively recent. The combination of wheat and flour with milk and butter is more clearly marked in Minnesota than iu any other State. New York and Illinois are important dairy States, but the value of the wheat crop in New York is less than one-third the value of its oat crop, and less than one-eighth the value of its hay crop, wheat being now one of the minor agricultural products of New York, once the chief wheat State. Illinois raises a fair amount of wheat, but the corn crop, which Is of very much more importance, yields in a year $8 to every dollar received from the product of wheat.—Sun. WISE WORDS. In misfortune even to smile Is to of fend.—Bacon. Sweet mercy Is nobility's true badge. —Shakespeare. You may follow luck to ruin, but not to success.—Garfield. An infallible characteristic of mean ness is cruelty.—Johnson. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. —George Eliot. The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.—Ruskin. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.—Frank lin. Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler vir tues.—Goldsmith. To persevere in one's duty and 1)3 silent is the best answer to calumny.— George Washington. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a dis tance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.—Carlylc. Patience and strength are what we need; an earnest use of what we have now; and all the time an earnest dis content until we come to what we ought to be.—Phillips Brooks. Every day I see more how neeessnry it is to be consistent, uncompromising and gentle; for often, perhaps, wheu a word would not be borne, an act of forbearance or self-denial might be re membered in a cooler moment.—A. Hare. Where Scienco Beats Nature. The eye and ear have long been regarded as marvels of mechanism, quite the most wonderful things in the world. But compared with the imple ments of the present-day laboratory, the sensitiveness of all human organs seems gross enough. A photographic plate, coupled with a telescope, will reveal the presence of millions of stars whose light does not affect the retina in the, least. The microscope, too, with its revelations of the world of the infinitely small, tells us how crude,, after all is this most delicate of the senses. Indeed, we may liken it to a piano where only a single octavo towards the middle, sounds. From the ultra violet to the lowest reaches of the spectrum is a range of some nine oc taves of light variations, of which, save for our new mechanical senses, we should never have been conscious of but one. The ear hears little of what is go ing on around us. By means of a mi crophone the tread of a fly sounds like the tramp of cavalry. Our heat sense is very vague; we need a variation of at least one-fifth of a degree on a thermometer to realize any difference in temperature. Professor Langley's little bolometer will note the differeaca of a millionth of a degree. It is 200,- 000 times as sensitive as our skin.— Harper's Magazine. Seven Farthings Capital. What is the smallest amount for which a company can legally ba floated? In a lecture, delivered at tilt- London Institution, G. F. Emory snid it was seven farthings. As long as ho had the necessary seven share holders a promoter could make tin shares oue farthing each, and no legal question could be raised. Mr. Emory told some amusing stories of the wilea of the hogus promoter. One was about an astute gentleman who actually in duced a London banker to subscribe $2500 towards a mining property in Africa which was nothing more than a barren field. Wheu the banker dis covered the fraud he wrote an angry letter, demanding the return of his $2500. The promoter replied thrcugh a lawyer to the effect that the ban ker's letter amounted to au attempt to obtnin money by threats, and, as that was a punishable offense, he thought of taking proceedings at the Mansion Ileuse. That disposed of the banker.—London Chronicle. n.alth Slates. "Antiseptic elates" are the thln-s that the careful, germ-fearing mother buys for her children nowadays. Tliey are made of some lightweight ma terial, papier maehe, perhaps, and there is no temptation to spit on this slate or even to use a sponge on it. A piece of cotton flannel is all that is necessary for au eraser.—New York Press. LARGER PENSION AT 103. Hiram Cronk the Last Pensioner of War of 1812. A bill is pending in the House to increase the pension of Hiram Cronk, of Oneida county, New York, who is said to be the sole survivor of the War of 1812, from sl2 to $25 per month. Hiram Cronk is said to be 103 years old. There are now on the pen sion rolls 1,527 names of widows cred ited to soldiers of the War of 1812, but the most of these married men much older than themselves, and their hero soldier boys have long since passed away. Personally Cronk took no part in the fighting, but he enlist ed and was ready to meet the British. As his services were not required he was discharged. Next day he was in Watertown, and in the night was aroused by the sound of cannonading. A day later he learned that a British gunboat had passed and fired a few shots at the defenses of Sackett's Har bor. Cronk went home, but enlisted again on October 8, 1814. He served 40 days as a private, and assisted in building log barracks along the shore at Sackett's Harbor. He was honor ably discharged November 16 follow ing. Hiram Cronk married Polly Thornton at Western (now Western ville), Oneida county, March 21, 1825, and in the years that followed sev eral children were born to them. He subsequently received from the Fed eral government two military bounty land warrants, one for 120 acres and one for 40 acres, but sold them. In 1871 he filed a pension claim, but it was rejected. It was reopened in 1878, and $8 a month was allowed him. In 1886 his pension was increased to sl2 a month. Of late years he has been quite feeble, and has required a guard ian. He lives on a little farm (mort gaged to almost its full value), and his daughter and son-in-law live with him. The daughter is 70 years old. Cronk stil! takes an interest in war matters and current politics. His eye sight and hearing are still fairly good. New Petroleum Motor. A new invention is announced, which, if all that Is said of it be true, will revolutionize the petroleum motor. As is known, engines of the kind, in their present form, require the Introduction into the cylinder of air, the latter producing with the pe troleum vapor a mixture which is ex ploded by the electric spark. Car bonic acid gas Is thrown off through the escape pipes. The new invention Is that of a chemical process, still kept secret, by which, it is said, the escape of gas in question can be utilized pre cisely to feed the cylinder. A contin uous series of chemical transforma tions, so to speak, Is established. The twofold result of the process is that the engine, first, does not deprive the atmosphere of pure oxygon by appro priating the gas for its own consump tion; and, secondly, does ont further reduce the proportion of pure oxygen In the air around by throwing out car bonic acid gas. The invention is chiefly of importance for submarine navigation, and Its author is said to be a naval engineer. Hitherto, sub marine boats have necessarily been propelled by electric power. If the petroleum motor can be Improved so that it does not impoverish the air around, it will he applicable to vessels of the kind. This will be an obvlouß saving of weight and bulk in the en gines of submarine boats. Apart from this consideration the new invention will obviously effect a considerable economy of weight in the petroleum motor itself, an advantage of import ance for automobilism generally and in particular for aerial navigation. It requires no experience to dvo with Pur- KAM FADELESS DIES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that Is necessary. Sold by all druggists. It Is expected that the railway now being built to connect Valparaiso with the Rio de la Plata will he com pleted In five or six years. ltent For trie SOITAII, tfomattorwhat alls you, headuoheto ■ dan cer, you will never get woll until your bowel* are put right. CABCARETS help nature, oure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. OABOARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metal boxes, every tnblot has C. C. C. stamped on it. Bewaro of imitations. Camels are the only animals that cannot swim. flfunjr School Children Are Mlcklv. Hothor Gray'o Swoot Fo wdcrs for Children, need by Mother Gray, a nurse In Children's Homo, New York, break up Colds In 24 hours, euro Foverishnoss, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists', 26c. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leltoy, N.Y. Germany is to expend $75,000 on mili tary motor-cars. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of ns n cough cure.— J. W. O'BRIEN, 822 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0, 1900 The favorite air of the average girl is a n^Jlionaire. WW " I suffered terribly and was ex tremely weak for 12 years. The doctors said my Mood was all turning to water. At last I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and was soon feeling all right again." Mrs. J. W. Fiala, Hadlyme, Ct. No matter how long you have been ill, nor how poorly you may be today, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine you can take for purifying and en | riching the blood. I Don't doubt it, put your whole trust in it, throw I away everything else. § SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. I Ask your doctor what ho thinks of Ayer's J| Barsaparilla. He knowsnll about this grand R old family medicine. Follow his advice and H we will be satisfied. if J. C. AVKR Co., Lowell. Mass. H DAN 6BOSVENOB SAYS: "Pe°rii-na is an Excellent Spring Catarrh Remedy—l am as Well as Ever." HON. DAN. A. GttOSYENOB, OF TIIE FAMOUS OHIO FAMILY. Hon. Dan. A. Grosveuor, Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a let ter -written from Washington, D. G., says: " Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week lias brought won. derful changes and lam now ns well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring: tonics It Is an excellent catarrh remedy." ...DAN. A. OROSVENOR. In a recent letter he says: "I consider Peruna really mo I wrote you last. I receive numi all over the Country asking me invariably answer, yes."---Dan A CungreMinua'ii Letter. Hon. H. W. Ogden, Congressman from Louisiana, in a letter written nt Washington, D. C„ says the following of Peruna, the national catarrh rem edy: *'l can connoientiounly recom mend pour I'eruna an a fine tonic and all around good medicine to thone who arc In need of a catarrh remedy. It hi in been commended to me by people who have used It, an a remedy parlieatarly effective In the cure of catarrh. - For thone who need a good catarrh medicine 1 know of nothing better." — H. IF. Ogden. Treat Catarrh In Spring. The spring is the time to treat ca tarrh. Cold, wet winter weather often retards a cure of catarrh. If a course Rest Your Eyes. Strong eyes are said to give their possessor both pleasure and confi dence, while weak eyes that feel and look hot and tired certainly give no delight to their owner nor to those who look back into them. It rests the eyes to shut them, if only for a min ute at a time, in some convenient in terval, and if it is any way possible to lie fiat on the back for any length of time the gain to the eyes as well as to the whole body is Immense. England's War Expenses. The army estimates issued in Eng land show a grand total for the year 1902-03 of $301,550,000, which Is in tended to provide for 420,000 men, of which 219,700 men are for the ordi nary army service and 200,300 for war services. The estimates, of which $200,000,000 is required for war, show a decrease under this head of $116,- 250,000 compared with 1901-02. One of the Buenos Ayres newspa pers has a consultation room in which the poor can get medical aid and med icine free. ISOSra 7 4a, 70S I'.lr.f f. ■—ata—a laim Htiß.i ■.' Fab-.. [. ■Hin iHHim ii in mi L 19001=1,251), 154 Pairs. ■nsßKiiEXHrcaKraanEii 1901 = l,s(i(;,?■■>() Pairs. I 111 illH Wli 111 ■! I ■ Mill I 111 11 mi I II Business More Than Doubled In Four Yearn. son n,o re u and sß,Soahoea than any 01 her twonutnufiw-t .ireis. W. L. Douglas SB.OO And $1.60 shoes placed aide by aide with $5.00 and ffl.oo slices of otner make* nre found to be just as good. They will outwear two J paira of ordinary $3.00 and $3.60 shoes. f i Made of the best leathers. Including Patent y Corona Kid, Corona Colt and National Kangaroo. H Fa. l Color Krelet. and AI ear. niaek Hooks t'sod. H •V.L. Douglas 84 ••011l Kilre Llr*" cannot be equalled, fl Shoe* by mall. 25 <>tA. extra. Catalog M fr£fl nam** ¥-Sm, fin bri OILED CLOTHING WET WEATHER PROTECTION 13 dI'ARAHTfcCD DUCES THIS TRADE MARK. OUR PULL LINE OP WATERPROOF CLOTHING IS SOLD BY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE EVERYWHERE. A. J.TOWER CO.. BOSTON. MASS. , 6 Capsicum Vaseline Put up In Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Superior to T.lnstard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. Tho pain allaying: and curative qua'ities of thisartl le are wonderful. It will stop the t othache at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. • We recommeud it as tho best and safest external counter-irrltent known, also am nn external remedy for pains In tne chest an l sto nacli and all rheumatic, nonrolgic and gouty o unplnints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will bo found to bo invaluable in the household. Many people say "It Is tho best of nil yuur preparations." Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or other deal ■■ a, or by sending this amount to us la postage s.ampt we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be occep:e l by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CIIEESHBROUGH riANUrACTURING CO., 17 St to Street, New York City. I have used Ripans for several years in my general practice as a first-class extempore remedy for late dinners' distress, and have carried them in my vest pocket in the little paper cartons. At ban quets and at lodge meetings I have often passed one to an adjacent brother. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for nn ordinary occasion. The family bottle, CO cents, contains a supply lor a year. SALZER'S SEEDS. Great catalogue, with large number of sued sample*, mailed on re eipt of M