FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.
fwo Letters fronj Women Helped Through
the "ClmiiRe of Life" hy l,.v,lia E.a-iui.
liaui's Vi'Keulili! Compound.
V Dear Mrs. Pixkham : When first
wrote to you I was in a very bad con
dition. I was passing through the
chanpe of life, ami the doctors said I
fcad bladder and liver trouble. I had
tuffered for nine .years. Doctors failed
to do me any pood. Since 1 have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, my health lias improved very
much. I will gladly recommend your
medicine to others and am sure that it
will prove as ;;-eat a blessing to them
s it has. to me." Mrs. Geo. II. Jvsv,
601 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn. N. Y.
Relief Came Promptly
"DeakMks. Pi.nkham : I had been
under treatment with the doctors tor
four years, and seemed to get. no better,
I thought I would try your medicine.
My trouble was change of life, and I
must say that I never had anything
help mc so much as Lydia 15." Pink"
ham's Vegetable Compound. Relief
came almost immediately. 1 have
. better health now than I ever had. 1
feel like a new woman, perfectly
strong. I give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Compound all the credit, and would
not do without her medicine for any
thing. 1 have recommended it to
several of my friends. There is no
need of women suffering so much for
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are a sure
cure." Mahala Butler,, liridge
water,' III.
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" Dear Mrs. Pixkham : I took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
during change of life and derived great
benefit from its use." Mary E. James,
130 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa.
Nearly every barber's shop in Albauj
has on its shelves a mag labeled "Theo
dore Roosevelt." Yet the governoi
rarely patronizes any of them; he it
usually shaved in a private room of the
executive mansion.
SHARK INTO YOUH SHOES
Allen's Foot-Kase, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nerv
ous feet, ii lid instantly takes the sting out
of corns and bunions. It's the trreiuest
comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot
Kase makes tight or new shoes feel easy.
It is a certain cure for Ingrowing Nails,
sweat) nc, callous and hot. tired, aching
feet. We have over 30.000 testimonial.
Try it today. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores. ' Hy mail for 23u. in stumps.
Trial package 'FUKK. Address, Allen 8.
Olmsted, be I toy, N. Y.
Clouds that move in a contrary direc
tion to that of the surface current indi
cate a change of weather, because they
prove the existence of two air currents,
one warm and the other cold, and the
mingling of these frequently cause rain.
A TOP BUGGY
FOR $50.00...
Would fee too cheap to be good,
but we have Top Buggies for
for $65 Cash that we guaran
tee for one year from date of
purchase. They have good
strong wheels, guaranteed hick
ory spokes, tires 5-16 thick,
round edge and projecting
over the felloe, to protect same.
We have others at $70, $75,
$80, $85 and up.
Road Wagons at $40 and up.
Mitchell Farm Spring Wagom
And Harness.
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
MITCHELL, LEWIS X STRVER GO.
FIRST AND TAYLOR STREETS,
PORTLAND, - OREGON.
Buy reliable goods of a reliable concern
is good oolicy.
CALL ON OCR AGENT.
McCnrmlck All 8tl Hy Rake,
the ilfnt In I ho World.
King of the Meadow. Both Hand Relf-Ptimn.
I feet, 20 or 26 teeth; 12 feet, '62 or 40 teeth; 10
(eel, 26 or 32 teeth.
For catalogue, artdren A. H. BOYLAN, 321
Hawthorn Avenue, Portland, Or.
I'nu.U UVWfUt All (1st IMS.
Bat Cougb Bjrup. Tsales Good. CM
In tlniw. Snld by drnlt.
-ti g ret c i a i m r 11 1. jj
OLD AND NEW TEUNKS
EARUY EXAMPLE OF A NEW YORK
MAKER'S WORK.
Much Smaller and Heavier than the
Specimen of To-day Bureau Trunk
and a Chicago Woman's Improvement
on It Knslivh Leather.
"Yes, I've been G3 years manufactur
ing trunks iu New York City," said a
veteran in the trade to the Kew York
Evening Post.
"That's u long time, but I never real
ize it till I look at this article" and
he gently pulled an oilcloth covering
off a email, dark box, which, when
taken out into the light, revealed what
was acknowledged at the time of Its
manufacture to be the finest trunk
made In New York City. It looked like
a veritable antique, the shriveled little
object emitting a musty odor, which
for the moment carried one away to
the New York of 63 years ago.
"I have kept It always here with
me," Its- owner said, stroking it
thoughtfully and almost fondly, "just
to watch the evolution of the trunk in
my own factory."
The little trunk was covered with
heavy leather, four times ns thick as
the article now commonly used to cov
er the wooden frame. It was strapped
round and round with iron bands fas
tened with big, black headed halls, and
inside the two trays, neatly papered,
have bottoms of latticed tape. The
trunks fit easily in one-half of the
trunks of modern make surrounding it.
The little trunk stood beside the latest
sent out by one of the leading factories
In New York the "bureau" trunk, so
called from its resemblance, when
opened, to that piece of furniture. The
trays are in the form of drawers of
graduated depths, an upper one suffi
ciently deep for large hats. The top
tray, however, which turns up against
the lid In the ordinary way, has vari
ous small compartments, and the in
side of the lid is similarly equipped
on a narrower scale.
When this trunk first came out of
the factory a year ago a Chicago
woman purchased one and asked for
permission to take out a patent on a
proposed improvement, which was
granted her. She fitted the fall of the
top tray, which, when dropped on its
hinges, extended a few inches over
the tiers of drawers or trays below, as
a writing table, and pigeon-holed the
lid of the trunk for letters, writing ma
terial, etc., until It resembled the face
of a writing desk. She received the
patent, and presented trunks to various
friends, who found them useful as
traveling secretaries and trunks com
bined, and. although one of the largest
trunks manufactured. It weighs only a
little over fifty pounds. The trunk Is
covered with the new canvas which is
almost ns durable as leather, and In
side It is a model of neatness and
strength In its fine linen linings and
fittings'. '
"All our finest leather for trunks
romes from England," said the manu
facturer of trunks, "because the Ameri
can is In too great a hurry to make
good leather. Quick chemical process
es have taken the place of slow tan
ning. As a consequence, America pro
duces no such sole leather as England,
where the old methods of tanning are
still employed. In fact, canvas, which
Is now especially manufactured for the
purpose and painted and trented until
It Is as strong or stronger than the split
leather used In trunks, is taking the
place of the leather for reasons of
economy and saving of weight. The
Ideal trunk to-day weighs from forty
eight to sixty pounds. It must be
strong and It must be light. We have
tried aluminum, but It becomes In
dented if not made so thick as to be
too heavy and too expensive at its pres
ent market price. The frame for an
iverage trunk of this metal costs JIG."
ON WHICH SIDE TO SIT.
A Question Which the Horselea Car
riage (suggests.
The question often arises, on which
side ought the driver of an automobile
r.it? In England that question Is an
swered by saying the right-hand side Is
the proper place. The reason for this
' Is, that in Euglaud carriages when
, meeting turn to the left and pass each
cither to the right. A seat on the right-
hand side of the carriage thru en.il es
the driver to see the space letwen
(he carriages and to govern himself ac
cordingly. Ills scat on that sida and
the turning to the left arose from the
necessities of a driver who handles
' I nA Im.-n 1.1. .tt.. I...,l
free, and at the same time be In a posi
tion where he can see between the
passing vehicles. The next question
that arises is In regard to the position
of the driver In America and our meth
ods of turning out. Here we keep to
the right Instead of to the left In meet
ing vehicles and pass vehicles going In
tli same direction to the left, reveta
Ing the English and continental rule.
I This custom has puzzled fo e'gners
is well as Americans. It arose from the
fact that during colonial times the ox
team was In almost universal use. The
driver In those cases almost Invariably
walked, aud always upon the "near"
or left-baud side In ordvr to have his
goad In his right hand over his team. '
In meeting a vehicle, turning to the
right was a necessity. Otherwise It
would have been Impossible to se.
whether the' hubs of the wheels woiil.l
clear each other. As the ox team was
the universal vehicle dining the earlier
years of the colonics, the America :i
rule of the road was thus established.
It Is now too late to change it. but
with an automobile there is no reason!
why the driver should sit on the rlght
haud side, lie no linger needs to have
his right hand free for the whip; in
fact his right liand is needed for levers,
which ought to be placed -near the cen
ter of the carriage. Some manufactur
ers recogniziug this fact are placing tlu!
drivers on the left-hand side, where lia j
belongs, aud where he will be In the
best possible position to avo'd acci
dents when meeting w.th cnrr.ages.
The Automobile.
4wC -m
AN
nvenfion
Among the ns iyct unexplored spots
on the earth which are to be scientifi
cally attacked during the coining year
is Sannikoff Land, lying north of the
New Siberia Islands,1 about 300 miles
from the nearest point on the Siberian
const. A Norwegian party will try to
reach the place in VMl from the north
;-cr.
If
to spend next winter. The coming sum
mer will be consumed In fixing, the
camp on the Lena.
The director of the Geological Survey
has had an appraisement made by ex
perts to determine the value of the
specimens of fossil dinosaurs belonging
to the collection of the late Prof. O. C.
Marsh, which have been turned over to
the National Museum in Washington.
According to this estimate, the skulls
of the monster trloeratops, or "three
horned beast," are worth at least $5,000
apiece, while othfrr skulls' vary in value
from $50 to $250. The head and neck
of the trlceratops were covered by an
enormous bony helmet seven or eight
feet long.
The London Optician reproduces the
views of Dr. Kotz, a Russian physi
cian, on fatigue of the eye. Whether
muscular or retinal, fatigue of the eye,
says Dr. Kotz, may be approximately
measured by the number of the eyelid
movements or involuntary blinks Iu a
specified period. By this system, more
than three movements per minute Indi
cate a thoroughly unsuitable illumina
tion. The experimental results ob
tained by tliis somewhat crude meth
od are given as: Candle llgllt, G.8
movements per minute; gas, 2.8; sun
light, 2.2; electric light, 1.8.
Anti-typhoid Inoculation made by
Prof. A. E. Wright among British
troops In India seem to have given very
promising results. The total number
of men under observation was 11,2!)5,
of whom 2,8:15 had been inoculated and
8,400 had not, and the Inoculated were
mostly newly arrived young men, espe
cially liable to typhoid fever, while the
uninoculated were mainly more sea
soned and less susceptible Individuals.
Yet the percent age of the uninoculated
attacked by typhoid fever was 2.5 and
among the Inoculated It was 0.05. The
deaths were less affected, having been
0.34 per cent, among the uninoculated
and 0.2 among the inoculated. '
J. M. Bacon, the Englishman, who
with his daughter made a lofty balloon
ascent to observe the meteor shower
last November, tells some Interesting
things about the sounds thnt reached
their ears. At the height of 5,000 feet
the ringing of horses' feet on a hard
road could be heard. At 4,000 feet the
splashing sound made by ducks In a
pond was audible. The barking of
dogs and the crowing of cocks could
be heard at 7,000 or 8.000 feet. These
sounds penetrated through a white
floor of cloud which hid the earth from
eight. In the perfect silence of the air
around the balloon they were startled
by what seemed stealthy footsteps
close at hand. Investigation showed
thnt this sound was caused by the
stretching of the ropes and the yielding
of the silk ns the balloon continued
to expand.
There Is visible In the night sky, un
der favorable circumstances, a faint
light, rounded In outline, and situated
nlvays exuetly opposite to the place ot
the sun. It is called the "gegen
schein," and Is one of the most Inex
plicable objects known to astronomers.
Recently Prof. W. II. Pickering has
suggested a new explanation of the
gegenscheln. According to him it
may be "a sort of cometary or meteoric
satellite" attending the earth. lie sup
poses It to be composed of a cloud of
meteors, situated about 1,000,000 miles
from the earth, and revolving around
It' In a period of Just one year, so that
the sun and the meteors are always on
opposite sides of the earth. He esti
mates that the size of this ghostly sat
ellite may 1m nearly the snme as thnt
of the planet Jupiter, viz., about 8U,
000 miles In diameter.
A good many pw pic do not I ke your
"ways."
All some pejple want Is an audience.
FLIGHT EXTRAORDINARY.
feasant Woman Shot from a Monn
taintop to the Volley.
Teresa Faloiola, an Italian peasant
woman, met recently with an extraordi
nary adventure. Near her home. In the
village of Quanta, which nestles iu 11
spacious valley, is a high and wooded
mountain, and there it has been her
custom, as is general there, to go two
or three times a week for the purpose
of collecting firewood. To bring this
wood from the precipitous mountain
was quite an arduous task. Therefore,
It was sent down by means of a strong
metal wire, stretched from the valley
up to the mountain top.
A few weeks ago she and her two
little daughters ascended the mountain
and after gathering three goodly bun
dles of wood prepared to send them
down. Just, however, as the mother
had fastened the first bundle to the wire
and had launched It on Its downward
course her wedding ring became caught
In the rope with which the bundle was
tied, and lu a flash she was carried oft
her feet and swept downward Into the
valley. Half paralyzed with fear, her
little daughters watched her as she
sped from their sight with amazing
swiftness, and then they ran down the
mountain, fully expecting to find her
lying dead nt the end of the wire.
And their fear was quite natural,
since the mountain top from which
their mother had been torn Is 800 yards
above the' valley. Fortunately, their
' fear proved to be groundless. They
found their mother entirely uninjured.
Yet, wouderful indeed was It that her
life was not crushed out of her nt tho
end of her perilous descent. It would
have been If her fall hnd not been
broken as she was reaching the earth
by some friendly branches. The bundle
of wood, too, was in some measure a
bulwark against the rock.
To 1 the Hlgheit Bridge.
The Buffalo branch of the Pennsyl
rania Railroad, which will run through
Bradford from Wilcox, Pa., across the
ridges, by way of Lafayette. AlcKean
county, will cross a deep and moun
tainous george in the latter vicinity
with a steel viaduct nearly 500 feet
high. The bridge, says the Philadel
phia Ledger, will be over 8,000 feet in
length, ami its construction will be
one of the greatest engineering feats on
record. It will be the highest bridge
in the world.
Curloiilly Save Life.
A jiaojiBge marked quinine was secretly
sent to it bright woman, but being -uvinif
she took it to a druggist who vuid it wat
not quinine but arsenic. A like inquiry
into some of the niedieincR offered will cer
tainly detect the falce from the true. Fot
half a century HoKtetler's Moniucli lHt tert
lias been curing imliexiinii, coimiipalt
ilyepepein, liver mid kidney troubles ami
lias never once failed. Try il if yoii teel
weak and tired.
Had a Senna of Humor.
A sense of humor ia a great thing in
helping a man over a hard place, and
the Biddeford Record thinks one of that
city's rumsellers must he possessed of
the aid of this cheerfulness. It was
just after the big seizure of liquors the
other dav that a mat. uhr. didn't Ut,nw
of the raid stepped up to the dismantled
bar aud asked for a drink. The pro-
prietor looked at the man for a second
and then spreading his arms ont on
h i,ar .uirf u. r.i,.0,.i 1,0 i.i
llllfler tlio rirnniiiufutwHii- 'I'm vnrw
sorrv. but I have lust let the lut.t ol mv
stock ot beer go."
EVJorning
Tiredness
Is adfrlmm complaint. It's a warning that
should he heeded. Il U different from an
honest tired feeling. It in a sure oigu of
poor blood. You can cure it by making
your blood rich and pure with Hood's Sar
saparilla. Thnt is wlmt other people do
thousands of them. Take a few bottles ot
inisgood medicine now and you will not
1 J 1 r I- of iU,Hn'l','-,1k' lu,"l'ui,J-
Tired Feeling-"! had that, tin-d;
feeling and did not have life or ambition ti
accomplish my nuiial amount of household
work. Hood's Kanmoarilla ave me mii-t
and. bImo cured a scrofula tende.nev
Mrs. It. Mkkhitt, Dowagiac, Mich.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the liest Medicine Money Can Buy.
Teresa's wii.u ii.umqk.
DR. HUMAN'S AWIGE.
Is Sought by Female Suf
ferers From Ocean
to Ocean..
Mrs.F.W.
G ou 1 d e r ,
130ti Fourth
ave., Rock
Island, 111.,
writes:
"I was
afflicted for
five or six
years with
cat a r 1) h a 1
ditlicul ties
a n d w a s
g r o w i 11 a
worse all
the time. 1
began tak
ing your
Per una with
a marked
improve -meut
from
the first.
Indep end
eut of cur
ing that, the
Peruna has
greatly im
proved my
general
hoalth."
"Every 4ottle of Peruna is worth its
weight in gold; especially to me, for I
Dwe my prseent good health to Peruna.."
All ovoc the country there are women
who have been invalids for many years,
suffering with female derangements
which the family doctor cannot cure.
What a boon to such women is
Dr. Hart man's free advice! So
famous has his skill made him
that hardly a hamlet br town In
the country but knows his name.
He cures tens of thousands, and
he offers to every woman who
will write to him her symptoms
and a history of her trouble, free
advice and treatment.
The medicines lie prescribes can be
obtained at any drug store, and thn
cost is within the reach of any woman.
He describes minutely and carefully
just what she shall do and get to tiTuku
a healthy, robust woman of herself.
The doctor has written a book espec
ially for this class of women, entitled
"Health and Ueauty." This book con
tains many facts of interest to women,
and will be Bent free to any address by
Dr. Nartman, Columbus, O.
Immediately after the outbreak of
the war in South Africa, 221 French
officers resigned their commissions aud
anlisted with the Boers.
PARIS IN 1900.
For the benefit of those who intend
visiting Paris during the exposition,
the Rio Grande Western railway has
gotten ont an attractive folder illustra-
tive and descriptive of tho main feutures
j Jf tho exposition. It contains some
valuable hints for intending visitors
and descriptive articles upon Pluce de
La Concorde, Aro de Triumphs, the
Madeleine, tho Column of July, the
Trocadcro, Hotel de , Ville, Column
Vendome, the Louvre, the Grand opera
house, the Bourse aud the tomb of Na
poleon, in addition to a bird's eye view
jf the exposition grounds. The folder,
or pamphlet, is gotten ont in handy
form, and is written in a pleasant and
httructive style. It, in fact, gives in
little space everything one going to tho
exposition would like to know before
starting on his journey.
For copies of tho Paris exposition
folder and other advertising matter
inscriptive of the Rocky mountains'
famous scenery, tributary to the Rio
Grande Western railway and its con
nections, write
J. D. MANSFIELD, Gen'l Agent,
263 Washington St., Portland, Ore.
The Autninobllo In South America.
In the enterprising cities of Buenos
Ay res automobile carriages are no un
common sight, in tho form both of pri-
, vttte vehicles and of delivery wagons.
cle roads now radiate from Buenos
Ares to iit,,ne8 of 00 and 70 miles
ln the "rroauding country, and under
the care of t,,e Argentine Touring Clnb
these roads are reserved for the use of
bicycles
and automobiles. Youth's
. Companion.
I
I T am sure I'ihu's Cure for Consumption
n ved my life lliree yearn ago. Mhm. thoh.
lioiuiiNM. .Maple Mreet, orvle)i, Is. Y.,
I'fb. 17, 1!HK.
Uncompromising .
Small Boy Wanter buy a dog, mis
ter?
I Mr. Digneilde Not that kind of a
dog. Why, he looks as if he had fleas!
"He has got 'em, but yer got tergiv'
dat dog credit for wnn t'ing."
, "And what's that?"
! "He don't like 'em." Ohio State
Journal.
Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnslow's Sooth-
; Vn.p the best remedy to use for their
1
The Acme of Itll.v.
Chollv Mv bwother is in lnek
,,, ' fJW0f"er is in lnck.
He's got a place as floor walkah in a
dry goods store, lie is there 10 hours
a day. v
Awther 1 cawn't see the lnck.
Cholly You cawn't? Why,- his
pwants can nevah bag at the knees.
N. Y. Weekly.
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