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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1900)
THE HEALTH OF YOUNG WOMEN Two of Them Helped by Mrs. Pinkbam Read their Letter. " Dear Mrs. Pixkham : I am sixteen years old and am troubled with my monthly sickness. It is very irreg-ular, occurring only once in two or three months, and also very painful. I also suffer with cramps and once in awhile pain strikes me in the heart and I have drowsy headaches. If there is anything you can do for me, I will gladly follow your aavice. Miss Mart Gouks, Aptos,' Cel., July 31, 1898, "Dear Mrs. Pihkham : After receiv ing your letter I becan the use of your reme dies, taking both Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable ( pound and Blood Purifier. I am now regular every month and suffer no pain. Your medicine is the best that any suf fering girl can take." Miss Miar Gomes, Aptos, Cal., July 6, 1899. Nervous and Dizzy "Dear Mrs. Pink ham : I wish to express my thanks to you for the great benefit I have received from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I suffered constantly from ter rible sideache, had chills, was nervous and dizzy. I had tried different kinds of medicine but they all failed entirely. After taking three bottles of Vegetable Compound nnd t.)ire of Purifier I am all right. I cannot thank you enough for what your remedies have done for me." Miss Matilda Jensen, Box IS, Ogdensburg, Wis., June 10, 1899. Klevatloti Oeairuble. Lady (with high hat) I beg your pardon, but I foigot my opera class. Would you kindly lend ine yours just a moment? Tyrant Man (in the seat behind) Very sorry, madam, but I need it to sit on. N. Y. Weekly. Try Allen' Foot Ease, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired etisilv. If voii liuve smarting; feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet aiiii makes walking easy. Cures ingrowing nails. woolen and sweating feet, blisters ami callous spots. Kelieves corns mill bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. We have 30,000 testimonials. Try it todav. Sold by all druggists and shoe' dealers for 2Th: Trial package Fit KK. Address Allen S. Ohnstcad, LeKoy. N. Y. If you want to make trouble for an enemy, tell his wife that a daughter in the family has musical talents which must not be buried. PASSING OF GAS LIGHTERS, CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature Religion Conserving Power. "' Man today begins life in a garden of innocence and purity, wherein are the divinest possinilities, but where there is also the subtle spirit awaiting the chance to beguile. In every walk, as he grows to muturity, are impressions made on the plastic soul, and ever present is the intelligence, working of ten for good, but which may in sell iifflciency beguile to evil paths. It is here religion seaks, reminding men of (iod. Rev. J. K. Hnivth. aeut tn'e out it ppan but onc,. ylUrl i Vjjj i 1 M m sliifh ffrK pjtiiiir!p MC-lll rV 'i5r.iie"iMr.fr5iir S TO F1 W1 Increasing Use of Electric Lamps I Leaving-1 hem Without Work. They are getting after the nimble youug man who trots around the streets In tlie gloaming with a torch on the end of along pole, touching off tbe gas lamps ont- by one and leaving a trail of more or less light after him, says the Chicago Chronicle. The Irresistible march of science and progress and the other things which are making changes in the world is sweeping the lamp-lighter out of the .way. In 1887, before there were any munic ipal electric street lights In service in Chicago, about 400 young men, old men and barefoot boys trudged nightly through all the city streets lighting th gas lamps. In the chill dawn they mnd the rounds again, putting out the lights. Now a handful of employes in- the electrical department of the city throw a few switches In the electric light sta tions every evening and Instantly 3,5(Xi electric arc lights spring to life along the streets which the boys formerly' paced so laboriously, and in the morn ing the switches are thrown back once more and the lights die out. It Is all done by a simple turn of the wrist. But the lamp-lighter has not been en tirely superseded as yet, notwithstand ing City Electrician Ellioott's anxiety to extend the electric lighting system until It Includes the entire city, which Is to be done as soon as machinery can be Installed to use the water power of the drainage channel at Ixwkport. There are still tbont 18.510 gas lumps In nightly operation, and, as each light er cares for an average of low of these, there are still nearly 200 lighters mak ing their rounds nightly. Mi -poof) wmnx, -dtufl anor) tg Kin I. AM PLIGHTS K AT WOBR. Just how many boys and men are em ployed It is difficult to learn accurately. They all work for the gas company, as the city pays $?.0 a year for each gas lamp and the company "maintains" it that Is, pays for lighting, extinguish ing, cleaning and repairs. But while the company allots an ev erage of 100 lamps to each lighter, and pays a fixed rate per lamp for their maintenance, the lighters sub-let the contracts In some cases, hiring little lads for almost nothing to do part of the work, of which, of course, the com pany has no record. Some old men who, for many years, have been employed as lamp-lighters, swear their sons Into the service and make a family affair of it. Therefore, It Is probable that more than 200 peo ple are employed to care for the 18,500 gas lamps which are still In service. Although the electric lighting sys tem of Chicago was inaugurated only thirteen years ago and has grown slow ly, few iieople realize that the city has the largest municipal street lighting system in the world, Including 3,502 arc lamps, each of 2,000 candle power. In addition to the gas lamps, there areapproximately 10,000 gasoline lamps in service In outlying districts not touched by the mains of the gas com panies, and these are rented by the city from private corporations. These, too, are being displaced gradually by the extension of the electric lighting system. TRAVELS OF THE JIGGER. ThU Industrious Little Flea Is Clrcum nuviKatinic the World. The very small species of the flea, commonly kuowu as the jigger, whose native home is tropical and subtrop ical America, set out In 1872 to clr cumuavlgate the world and has now half completed his journey, says a writer In the New York Sun. Ill's ar rival in India and Madagascar is al most simultaneously reported. On Lis conquering way he has badly fright ened many barbarous tribes by his pro pensity to bore through the skin and And lodgment under It, and many vil lages and sometimes whole districts were abandoned by the natives during his journey across Africa. In September, 1872, a sailing vessel from Brazil dumped a quantity of sand ballast on the beach at Ambrfz, a little couth of the Congo. This event has historic importance from the fact that the jigger crossed the ocean !n this sand, and it is believed to have been his first Introduction to foreign terri tory. His rate of ndvance-across Africa depended upon the means of transpor tation at hand, for the jigger will not hop when he may ride. It was thir teen years before he struck t'j. enra van route to Stanley Pool, and then he journeyed quickly andcomfortably with the porters In the freight .service to that starting point of the upper Congo steamers, which carried him halfway across Africa. Twenty years after his arrival In Africa the jigger appeared on. the shores of Victoria Xynnza, and six years later he was hopping along the iuiiiis of Zanzibar Island. The jigger was thus established In 1808 at the busy mart whence many vessels sail for the East Indies and Oceaulca. It wns predicted that he would soon invade India, and sure enough his arrival at Bombay, whither he had been brought by coolies return lug from Africa, is now reported. Le Tour du Monde says he may be ex pected In French Indio-China at any time, and that he will evidently ;u vnde the whole of Southern Asia, and letters from Nossi Be, in Northwest Madagascar, report his advent there nnd on the adjoining Islands, where he Is flourishing and multiplying In the sandy soil. v We may next expect to hear of this persevering and successful traveler among the Pacific Islands, and all re gions in or near the tropics seem des tined to mnke his acquaintance. HOW EXPRESSES DROP MEN. Cnstom that Is a Drain on the Rail road Crew. "While coming from Chicago last week," said a prominent business man of this city, "I noticed a peculiar rail road custom which Interested me con siderably. I happened to be In the last car of the limited when the train stop ped in a desolate spot between stations. The rear brakemau, of course, dropped off and went down the track with a flag to .warn any train that might be fol lowing us. In a moment or two we started up again, but minus the brake man. I wondered at this, but was still more surprised later on to see the same thing repeated when we were obliged to stop Tin account of a threatened hot box. Upon Inquiry 1 found that this was the custom on fast trains. 'Some times, if we have lots of time,' said the conductor, 'we whistle for the men to come in, but In most cases we leave them to be picked up by the next train, or to walk to the nearest station.' " 'But Isn't that rather hard on the men?' I asked. 'Oh, it's part of the business,' he replied. 'I have kuown of cases where men dropped off in this way were frozen to death or waylaid by tramps, but the railroads have to make the time, and that's why It's done. I have seen trains running with only a conductor aboard them, at times, because the rest of the crew hod h' left behind In just this war.' " Xew I I. ... II J ior man auu express. Did Not Want the Hone. Willie Woodard tells the following story at the expense of one of the now well-known turfmen of the Middle West racing circuit: "A few years ago," snld Willie, "our friend came down from Central Kentucky with a few home-bred horses to the Ixnilsvllle track. His first starter was put In a selling race, which he won. After the race was tun the horse was led up in front of the stand. The track auc tioneer went through the routine with $300 the owner's bid. The trainer and owner rushed up excitedly and yelled: 'Here, hold on. I didn't bid on that "hoss." Just give me the purse and keep the horse, 'cause I don't want him about the barn." Droutbti and Famine In India. The British government expects a drought In India about twice in every nine years, aud a great famine like the present about twice In a century. Stole the Bridegroom. A young man In a convivial party at a Broad street hotel told the following story: "I had a good time at a wedding last week. It was the wedding of a friend of mine, and I and some of the boys played a good Joke on him, and he didn't get mad either. The joke was to steal him. Yes, right after the cere mony we grabbed him up, banged him Into a cab, and then drove hhn out six teen miles Into the country, where we locked him up In a barn and kept hire there three days. The bride yilted for him in a royal suite of rooms In an As bury Tark hotel. We had persuaded her to travel down alone, promising her the groom would arrive at any minute. Every evening, after our day's work was done, we trotted out into the coun try to see the groom, with baskets of food and liquid. Pretty good-natured about it the duffer was. too, I tell you, though, those three days were different slightly from what he and the girl, had been counting on." Philadelphia Record. Mild Climate the Rest. More people over 100 years old are found In mild climates than In the higher latitudes. With time and patience the mulberry A husband waiting for his wife at leaf becomes silk, which in turn it-; bargain sale Is about the cheapest tblnj comes a woman, ' in sight. A Xew Romantic NoTelUt. The Century Company announces the discovery of a new romantic novelist in a young Xew Yorker, .Miss Bertha Kunkle, whose maiden effort is to be Tha Century's leading piece of fiction for the next eight months, beginning in the August number. It is described as a dramatic romance of love and ad venture, and is entitled "The Helmet of Navarre." The scene is Paris dur ing the siege by Ueuiy of Navarre, and the action occupies but four days ol the week preceding the Sunday when Henry entered the city. The "story is full of vigorous action, and the plot is said to be one of fascinating interest. The Truiit Problem To a thoughtful mind is one of serious im port, for it creeps upon society before you are aware of its existence, in this respect much resembling the various disorders which attack the stomach, such as consti pation, indigestion uud dyspepsia, llos tetter's Stomach Hitlers is 'the one reliable remedy for all such ailments. Warm Weather Weakness Is Quickly Overcome. The cooling, toning, unil blood euric;iing qualities of Hood's Sarsaparilla are won lierful. It strengthens tbe stomach :uil digestive organs and creates an appetite. It has hii unequal record of cures of '.scrof ula, salt, rheum, boils, pimples and other diseases cm used by impure blood. j Is America's Greatest Medicine. Price $1. I repareu oy u. 1. Hood & t o., Lowell, Mass. Hood's I'n.i- cure IndiReMtlon. Price 2T rents. One result of the installation of the corn kitchen at the Paris fair has been a widespread agitation in that country in favor of the appointment of a com mission by the government for the pur pose of visiting the United States and ascertaining the best means of introduc ing corn in France. ; I could get along with a confession of faith containing but the little that Jesus said when He was trying to make a Christian of Xicodemus: "(od. so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever be lieveth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." That srives to us the doctrine of God's unlimited love, human guilt, the divuity of Christ, sul vaton through Cluist, faith in Christ, immortality; every word Saxon, three quarters of the words monosyllables, profound enough for any. elder, simple enough for any four-year old. Dr. C. II. Parkhurst. ry ' 'appearing at perfect ease iu so ciety," is meant that one laughs ami talks as loud as if on the back porch at home. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to use for thr r sbildren during the teething period. The gossips in Bible days must have had a good time, if they knew of the things going on that the Bible tells about. P.iso's Cure cannot be too Ingblv spoken of H8 a cough cure. J. VV. O'Hrikn, Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0, KHJ0. It is better to be defeated in a good cause than to be victorious in an un righteous one. United Presbyterian. Down In the IHtmtx. Slid, with n heavy, anxious feeling -the blues! The liver needs quirk aiieiitlou. Take Cascareis Candy Cathartic at once! All druggists, 10e, l'5c', 50c. The problem of Indian education seeniB to be solved by the Indians them selves. In the territory tho Chicka saws have five colleges and the Creek 'have 10. 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