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Mud All the world knows of the wonder ful cure which have been made by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, yet nome women do not realize that all that is claimed for it is abso lutely true. If all Buffering women could be made to believe that Mrs. I'inkham can do all she says she can, their suffering would be at an end, for they would at once profit by her advice and be cured. There is no more puzzling thing than that women will suffer great pain month after month when every woman knows of some woman whom Mrs. I'inkham has helped, as the letters from grateful women are constantly being published at their own request. The same derangements which make Sainful or irregular periods .with ull backaches and headaches, and dragging-down sensations, presently develop into those serious inflamma tions of the feminine organs which completely wreck health. Mrs. I'inkham invites women to write freely and confidentially to her about their health and get the benefit of her great, experience witli the suf ferings of women. No living person can advise you so well. No remedy in the world has the magnificent record of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound for absolute cures of female ills. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. Threo Letters from One Woman, Showing how She Sought Mrs. Pinkham's Aid, and was cured of Suppression of the Men ses and Inflammation of the Ovaries. "DkakMrs. Pinkiiam I have been In bed a year. Doctors say I have female weakness. I have a bad dis charge mid much soreness across my ovaries, bearing-down pains and have not menstruated for a year. Doctors say the menses will never appear again. Hope to hear from you." Mhs. J. F. Urown, llolton, Kan's., April 1, 1898. "Dear Mas. Pinkiiam I received your letter. I have taken one bottle and a half of your Vegetable Com pound, and used two packages of your Wash, and feel stronger and better. I can walk a few steps, but could not before taking your Compound. I still have the discharge and am sore across the ovaries, but not w bad. Every one thinks I look better since taking your Vegetable Compound." Mrs. J. F. Urown, llolton, Kans., Aug. 13, 18B8. " Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam I think it is my duty to let you know the good that Lydia K. Pinkham's Compound has done mo. After I took three bottles, men sea appeared, and I began to feel itronger and nil my pain was gone. Yours is the only medicine that ever helped me. I am able now to work around the house, something I did no xpect to do again." Mrs J.F. Hrown, llolton, Kans., Jan. 25, 1899. Throe Mora Letters from Ono Woman, Relating how She was Cured of Irreg ular Menstruation, Leu vorrhasa and Backache. " Dear Mrs. I'inkham I am suffer ing and need your aid. I have pains In both sides of the womb and a drag ging sensation in the groin. Men itruatlon irregular and painful; have leucorrhiBU, bearing-down pains, sore ness and swelling of the abdomen, headache, backache; nervousness, and can neither eat nor sleep." Mks. Car KlK Piiim.IPh, Annu, 111., July 19, 1897. "Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam 1 want to thank you for what you have done for nie. lieu l wrote to you I was a total wreck. Since taking your Vege table Compound, Liver Pills und Sana tive Wash, my nerves are stronger and more steady than ever before, and my backache and those terrible puins are gone, Before I took youi medi cine 1 weighed less than one hundred and thirty pounds. 1 now weigh ono hundred and fifty-five pounds. Your medicine is a godsend to poor weak women. 1 would like to ask you why I cannot have a child. 1 have been married nearly three years." M hs.Car Mik Puii.i.ii's, Aiuia, 111., Dec. 1, 1897. " Dear Mrs. I'inkham I did just as ?ou advised me, and now 1 am the iappy mother of a fine baby girl. I believe 1 never would have had her without your Vegetable Compound." Mrs. Carrie Phillips, Anua, 111., Jan. 17, 1809. Proof that Falling of the Womb Is Overcome by Lydia . Pinkham's Vege table Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkiiam When I wrote to you some time ago, 1 had bean suffering from falling of the womb for many years without obtain ing relief. Was obliged to wear baudage all the time; also had bad headache and backache, felt tired and woru out. After taking six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Cora- Sound and four boxes of Liver Pills, 1 iscarded my bandage and have not had to wear it since. 1 am entirely cured." Mrs. J. P. Troutuan, Hoe 44, Hamilton, Ohio. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham For nearly two years 1 was unable to work, "i was very weak and could not stand on my feot but a few minutes at a tiu- TRe fioetorn said I had faliiner and hp. flammatioa of the womb. I began to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and after using five bottles I feel like a new woman." Mt. P. N. Blake, Confluence, VV. Va. A Bag Full of Breath. The "pneumatopher," an Austrian invention for enabling miners, firemen etc., to breathe when surrounded by after damp, smoke or noxious fumes of any kind, consists of an air tight rubber bag containing a steel bottle of pure oxygen at a pressure of 100 liters, and a metal protected glass Itottle con taining a 25 per cent solution of caustic soda. The oxygen can he admitted by a hand screw into the bug and drawn into the mouth through a rubber tube, the nose being cloned by a clip. The turn of another handscrew breaks the glass bottle, allowing the caustic soda to flow out and be absorbed by a knitted network in the bag to absorb the car bonic acid exhaled, allowing the oxygen to be rebreathed, the apparatus being capable of furnishing oxygen enough to last from thirty to ninety minutes, as has been attested by numerous experi ments. A SIGNIFICANT LETTER. New York City, Feb. 15, 1U00. My Dear Carlton: I know it will please you to learn that my homeward journey from Sun Francisco was more thnn pleasant. One striking feature that added very much to my comfort was the diniug car service on the Kio Grande Western and the Denver & Rio Grande. This is the finest service of this description I have ever seen anv where, either in this country or abroad; the food and cooking was all that could be desired, and at very moderate prices. If you happen to know the Rio Grande Western people, I wish you would Buy to them that it will afford me the greatest pleasure at all times to bear testimony anywhere to the above facts. Very truly yours, (Signed) J. ADDISON BAKER. 2nd. 'alt Lake Tribune. The Rio Grande Western Railway now operates through Pullman sleeping cais between San Francisco and Chi cago, without change. The route via Salt Lake City is unequalled iu attrac tiveness and wealth of novel interest. Three through trains daily. Write for information, rates, etc., to J. D. Mans field, General Agent, 253 Washington street, Portland, Ore., or Geo. W. lleiutz, General Passenger agent, Salt Lake City. IIUZIiritullH lillKillflKM. Life Insurance Agent (filling out ap plication) Your general health is good, is it not? Applicant Never had a sick day in my life. Agent Uml You do not contem plate entering upon any hazardous un dertaking, I suppose? Applicant Well, yen, 1 am afraid I do. I am going to get married next Wednesday. London Answers. Glnzed Paper and Kyeiilght. Some German physicians have con cluded that much harm may be done to the eyes by the highly glazed paper used in some modern books. Especi ally for school children it is believed to be injurious. Reference is made to the books of the last generation, whose ongluzcd, nou-rcllccting surface did not fatigue the eyes. Their New Fame. "Mabel," said Willie, who had eaten his apple, "let's play Adam and Eve. You be Eve and I'll be Adam." "All right," said Mabel. "How do we play it?" "Well," said Willie, "you just try to make me eat your apple, and I'll say 'no,' but after a while I'll do it." Ilrlilgx llurncil With F.lrrtrlclty. A novel method of destoying a wooden bridge has recently been tried with complete success. Weighted wires are placed across certain beams and heated by means of electricity; the wires burn their way through the wood, aided by tho weights, and the bridge falls. A C.mitle Hint. He Ida, are you interested in ath letic sports? She (who has waited) Yea; I am very much interested in the ring jut-t now. To clean hot water copper boilers, get three cents' worth of oxalic acid at your druggist's, put it in a pint bottle and fill it with cold water. Pour it over tho boiler while it is hot, rubbing it down quickly with a cloth, and pol ishing it over with a dry piece of flan nel. The bottle should be marked "poison." The pay of the operatives in the em ploy of the Nonantum and Newton Worsted Companies was advanced 10 pr cent. This means au actual in crease and not a restoraton. It affects about 600 hands. The rod mill men employed by the American Steel and Wire Company, in Cleveland, struck, demanding au in crease of 10 per cent, instead of the 7 H granted by the company on January 1. To remove paint from cotton, silk or woolen goods saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours, then rub it between the hands. It will crumble away without injuring either the color or tenture ol the article. LORE OF THE WOODS. WATER EXTRACTED FROM TREES IN THE SOUTH. Ihe Experienced Sportsman Procures the Pure Drinking Fluid by Boring Into Cottonwood and Willow Trees -Natural Weils of the Forest. In many sections of the forest lauds of the South during the dry season a man may walk for miles without find ing a stream of water or a spring by which to quench his thirst. If, how ever, he Is an experienced hunter aud woodsman he will not have to drink water from the stagnant pools to order to keep life In his body. Queer as It may seem, an experienced man can hunt for days through such dry tracts aud yet experience no Incon venience on account of the lack of wa ter. Nature has provided a menus which Is only knowu to the Initiated. Every old huntsman carries with him when going on a long hunt a small auger by Avklch he can secure a refresh lug drink and water to cook with at any moment. A cottonwood tree or a willow Is the well which the wily huntsman taps, lie examines each tree until he finds one that has what a woodsman calls a "vein." It Is simply an attenuated pro tuberance. Ry boring Into this "vein" a stream of clear water will flow out. It is not sap, but clear, pure water. The LuiiUaicu .-ay that the water U bi t ter than the average to be had from ordinary wells. There Is no sweetish taste about It. but It has a strong flavor of sulphur and is slightly carbonated. The reason for this phenomenon can not easily be explained, but that a sup ply of water can be contained In a tree Is not so surprising. The fact of Its flowing Is the wonderful feature, show ing that It must be under pressure or, in other words, that there Is more at the source of the supply. When It Is con sidered that the trees furnish the water In the dry season aud that the ground Is literally baked It Is the more remark able, especially when the roots of the trees do not extend to 'any great depth Into the ground. Owing to the fact that water can be obtained by tapping cottonwod and wil low trees, very peculiar testimony was recently heard in a case in the Federal court here. About twenty years ago. at a certain point ou the Mississippi River, line of the islands which was formed by the channel forking and sur rounding a large tract of land was de serted by the stream on tho Tennessee side. Years afterward this land was claimed by the man who owned prop erty In Tennessee adjoining the former Island. His cla.hn was that the Island had been washed away and that the present laud was formed by accretion. The former owner, to prove that the land had not been washed away, sawed off the top of a cottonwood stump that was on the lisland and showed that it contained fifty-six circles or rings, be ginning at the heart. His statement was that a ring was formed In the tree for every year, hence the tree was a sapling fifty-five years ago and was consequently growing there thirty-six years lief ore the island became a part of Tennessee. In order to prove that a ring was formed every year he testified that while huntlug about twenty miles from that pla co iu ISt Ki lie had tapped a cot tonwood tree for water and had put a plug In the hole afterward to keep the water from wasting. His theory was that the tree in Its growth would have covered up the plug and that the num ber of rings from this plug to the bark of the tree would be In lSD'.t thirty-four, showing that a ring had been formed for every one of the thirty-four years it had been Imbedded In the wood. The tree was found and sawed up. The plug was discovered and was dis tant from the outside of the tree exact ly thirty-four rings. Although such U'sti'inony would not be doubted by a woodsman It was not received as evidence by tho court. Memphis SHmltar. AMERICANS CLING TO BUTTONS. Useless Sartorial Accessories that Are Deemed Indispensable by Men. Americans cling to old customs near ly as much as do foreigners. Probably nothing Is more useless than the but tons ou the back of a man's coat or on the under side of his sleeves, aud yet they have wme down through many years aud no coat Is considered com plete without them. Iu the old days, when every gentleman wore a sword, nothing detracted more from his dJg nlty than to have the sword bolt sag down In the back. The buttons were placed ou tho coat so that the belt might rest ou them aud be even all around. Later, when swords were dis carded and In the revolutionary days, the geulleineu wore coats with flowing skirts. The skirts were considered highly ornamental when the wearer was standing still, but when he went for his walk the flapping of the skirts caused him to present an appearance more ridiculous than dignified, so the skirts were made with a small button hole lu the corner and our forefather I buttoned the skirts on the back of the I coat when they sallied forth with their zhium aud suuff Ihjxcs. The buttons are all that remain to as of the costumes of those days. The buttons on the sleeves come from the same times. The gentlemen wore neither mittens nor gloves, but Instead he had the sleeves of his coat made long, so that he could draw them over his bands, even to the tips of his fin gers. It added more to the dignity of the gentleman's appearance to go forth with his bauds clasped In front of him and his sleeves meeting so as to cover them than It would have done to wear large and clumsy mittens. On warm days the gentleman did not desire to have his hands covered, so the sleeves were made with a slit back to the wrists and the gentleman turned back the sleeves and buttoned them so that they made a cuff. Hence the buttons on the sleeves and the slit In the sleeve frequently made and carefully sewed up ou the coats of the present day. Indianapolis Prnss. GENERAL WARREN. Has Und un Kx tended Experience in South African Warfare. A strong man and an accomplished soldier, Sir Charles Warren has had a more extended experience of South Af rican warfare than any of the divis ional generals already appointed, and his conduct of the Hechuanaland expe dition of 1884-85 was conspicuously successful. A Royal Engineer of close upon forty-two years' standing. Sli Charles Warren did not see active ser vice until 1877. when, after serving for a year as a loundary commissioner In Grlqualand West, he was given the command first of the Diamond Fields Horse and subsequently of the Field Force in the Orlqua and Bechuana campaigns of 187!). Here he saw a great deal of "rough-and tumble" fight ing, and emerged with several men- sir chari.ks wariiex. tlons lu dispatches and a brevet lieu tenant colonelcy. In the Egyptian ex pedition of 1882 Sir Charles was em ployed on special service among the Reduin in connection with the murder of lrof. Palmer a duty for which his previous experience in Palestine explo ration was a useful qualification. In 1884-85 he led the Bechuanahind expe dition, having under him, as command er of "Methuen's Horse." the officer now in charge of Sir Redvers Ruller's First infantry division. In 188i; Sir Charles commanded at Suaklin, and from 188(5-88 he was chief commission er of the Metropolitan iollce. From 1SSSMU he was in the Straits Settle ments as colonel on the staff, and sub sequently as brigadier general. In IS!).") lie was appoluted to the command of the Thames district, which he relin quished In September of last year. VIRGINIA'S BIG APFLE TREES. Some Giants lliut Grow at the Foot of the Mountains. Near Stuart, Va., at the foot of a spur of the Rlue Ridge Mountains, there is an apple tree which measures nine feet and five inches around, says the Philadelphia Record. Five feot from the ground are four branches, the largest being six feet around, the next 5 feet 0 Inches, the next 5 feet, the smallest 4 feet 5 Inches. The tree Is fifty-two feet high and seventy-one feet broad. Although it is about 70 years old, It bore this year a very large crop. It has been known to produce 110 bushels In a season, and, as might be supposed, the soil In which It grows Is exceedingly rich. On a neighboring farm there Is au apple tree which Is 8 feet 5 Inches around. In 1880 eighty-five bushels of nice picked apples were gathered from it and sold at the apple house for $((). The tree is 75 years old and is still bearing. Two miles from Stuart, on the farm of ,T. W. Robertson, stands the famous Robertson apple tree, the parent of all the apple trees of that name lu the I'ulted States. It bears a large red apple, which keeps well, and It has produced at one bearing eighty-five bushels, Is about 80 yenrs old, and is still lu bearing. A few years ago there was on n farm near Stuart au apple tree which pro duced at one bearing 1.10 bushels. It shaded at meridian n'nyty feit of ground iu diameter. Apple trees grow very large iu Patrick County, and the flavor of the fruit Is unsurpassed. It Is uot work that hurts a man; it h WOITV. TREATING BRONCHITIS. Medicament Introduced Into the Orifice of the Tracheal Conduit. Dr. Mendel, of Paris, recently sent to the French Academy of Medicine a most Interesting communication on the subject of a now treatment of diseases of the bronchial tubes and of the chest, says the European edition of the New York Herald. Hitherto these maladies have been treated by means of medi cines absorbed by the stomach. The originality of Dr. Mendel's treatment consists in the Introduction of the medicaments directly into the respira tory passages. As the Illustration shows, the physi cian uses a syringe with a curved tube, aud Introduces the point Into the orifice of the tracheal coudult by which air enters Into the chest. The medicament used descends the conduit without pro ducing the slightest disagreeable sensa tion. The patient feels a mild warmth diffuse Itself in the chest and breathes more freely for some hours. The medicaments thus introduced (oil containing in solution vegetable es sences) are volatile and kill the mi crobes. As soon as they are projected Into the chest they evaporate, saturate the air breathed and fill the lungs. Thus Is established an Inhalation of an ex ceptional Intensity, because the center Of Inhalation, Instead of being outside, sear treatixo nnoxcnm. Is In the midst of the respiratory or gans. At the end of a few hours the medicaient Injected Is absorbed, enters the blood, and leaves the system by the lungs, Influencing them for the second time. M. Mendel continues these Injections daily for a month at least. The daily dose Is ten cubic centimeters. He has tried the treatment on fifty patients, of whom forty-five were tuberculous and the rest non-tuberculous (bronchitis, asthma and pulmonary congestion), aud obtained numerous as well as last ing successes In the form of the cessa tion of coughing and expectoration, the return of appetite, sleep aud strength, aud an Increase iu weight. What Is especially curious and upsets many Ideas Is the perfect submission of the throat and chest to the injections, which nre by uo means unpleasant, and never bring on coughing. Another ad vantage Is that patients are not com pelled to take medicines that upset the stomach. They maintain their appetite and the good worklug of the digestive orgaus. HUMAN HAIR HARVEST. High Prices Paid for Beautiful Braids and Kinglets. In Paris, France, beautiful, fine hu man hair of fashionable color is sold for as much as $250 a pound by deal ers who cater to the aristocracy. Most of this hair comes from Rrlttany, where peasant women and girls annu- TUB CRUEL DEKD DOXE. ally have their hair cut off and sold to traveling merchants. These peasants get very little in return, the merchant usually paying in kind exchanging a gaudy shawl, a flashy shirt or bodice, a bright ornament, for the heavy tresses. In the picture the rapacious mother is shown covering the scalp of her shorn little daughter with a coarse net, while the child looks very discon solate. New Latin Dictionary. Philologists In Germany have united to bring out a complete Latin diction ary, a 'Thesaurus Lingual Latlnae," and expect to begin printing next fall. The standard Is still Forceillnl and Fao clolntl's "Lexicon Totlus La'tlnltatls,, compiled 150 years ago and revised r peatedly by Italian scholars. 1