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.
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