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.
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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. The Choctaw a have no ool
lges, but have 1 ISO common schools iu
j which the higher branches are taught.
i Tho expenses of educating the Indians
' are borne by the federal government.
DON'T LET YOUR HARVEST SEASON FIND YOU WITHOUT A
STUDEBAKER WAGON.
'
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following distributing agents; Perfection Pile Preserving Co. Seattle,
"Wash.; Fisher, Thorsen & Co., Portland, Oregon. Whtttier, Coburn &
Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Mitchell Wagons
tt the best that can be made. Nothing;
is or can be superior to a Mitchell Wagon,
because it is made of the best mates'al
by experienced workmen which, cou
pled with 65 years' experience in building
wagons, during which time the manu
facturers have had but one aim, and that
to croduce the best possible to build, is a
guarantee of quality. If you buy a Mitchell Wagon, you get the best that can be made.
AGENTS EVERYWHERE.- It none in your vicinity, we will sell to you direct.
end tor circular.
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PORTLAND, ORECON.
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Mention thin paper.
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Isn't It rrauMinabln to Hupimse that h Urn) of
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will ave money and be well milted If oil eon.
lilt THK JOHN MAKKKTT CO., VI Klr.t
St rent, Portland, Orfon,
Dayton's Fly Killer
Ilxed a few minute even
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No mark or main lH on
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. Work like maRle. Price
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Can find quirk and permanent relief
for cerioii and atreiith deatroviUK
trouble in
Moore's Revealed Remedy
Thousand have lined It and thousand
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mention this paper.
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