FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.
tiro letters front Women Helped Through
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ham's Vegetable Compound.
" Dear Mrs. Pixkham : When I first
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is it has to me. 'Mrs. Geo. H. Juse,
801 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Relief Came Promptly
"Dear Mrs. Pixkham: I had been
under treatment with the doctors for
four years, and seemed to get no better,
I thought I would try your medicine.
My trouble was change of life, and I
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feel like a new woman, perfectly
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Another Woman Helped
Dear Mrs. Pikkham : I took Lydia
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during change of life and derived great
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130 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa.
Help Wanted.
Mistress How did you happen to let
the fire eo out?
New Girl I'm sure I don't know
ma'am, unless vou happened to forget
to tell me to put coal on. Chicago
Evening News.
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Affairs can easily reach a crisis, but
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Road Wagons at $40 and up.
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SOLDIER OF '98 JOINS THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
Since the close of the war with Spain Memorial day has assumed a new sig
nificance. The dead of two wars are honored, and the real meaning of the day
is brought home to the later generation as it never has been bfore. The haziness
that time gives to memories of those who have gone to their last resting place
is brushed aside and the real import of the day stands out with more distinctness.
One day in the year may well be given over entirely to honoring our soldier dead.
It is not too much. They gave up their lives, some to hold the eouutry undivided
and some to relieve a down-trodden people at the threshold of our republic. We
owe them a debt of gratitude that we never ean repay, whether they fought in
the civil war or the war with. Spain. Their devotion and their courage entitle
them to the grateful remembrance we show, and the recent additions to their
number make the real significance of the exercises more distinct.
DECORATION DAY.
War, now. It don't seem like a year hev
gone a hull roun' year
Sence we was Tallin' Into line to celebrate
It don't seem possible, ylt that's the trick
time anus piuyo, -
N' every year'H git more short twixt Dec
oration nays.
N' every year the roll-call '11 be glttin'
snorter, iuu ,
We're mlssln' lots o' faces that we alun t
use to do. ... . ' t, v.
rhe names Is droppln" off no tellin which
one OI lis may
Be counted out at muster on next Decoration
Day.
It's glttin' kinder funny, too, to see the o'
, i
gray uchuh , ,
Fer blame If every one of us ain't showln
silver threads. i
W fellers! yes, the youngest aln t got notn-
ln eise to say ;
tt war'n't so ten years ago on Decoration
Day.
Why, we was on'y boys mere boys ten
years ago; but then
We'd somehow got the notion up to think
ourselves ol' men; "
'N' so, p'r'aps ten years from now, If any
OI us stay, , ...
We'll think that we was on'y boys this
uecorauuu uay.
Then close In, veter'ns, close in, men; OT
comrades, git In line,
Touch elbows once again that's right It
warms vou ud like wine.
Pr'aps 'taln't often more we'll meet brace
up 'n' step out gay;
We might be angels touchln' wings next
Decoration Day.
io close in, veter'ns, close in, men; oF com
rades, git In step;
Play up the tunes we used to march we'll
keep the time we kep'.
We ain't too oT fer three times three; God
save the flag, hurray!
Shake hands all roun' 'n' fall in, boys, fer
Decoration Day.
-Madeline S. Bridges.
t ON THE ROLL
? OF HONOR. I
E always knew when Mike was
coming; the manner of his en
trance never left room for doubt.
There was always the confused murmur
of a wordy dispute with the elevator boy
downstairs who refused to operate his
machine for newsboys, the quick rush of
bare feet up the stairs to the shrill ac
companment of "Mah Coal Black Lady,"
or "Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose;" the
door would fly open with a crash and
Mike would be in the center of the room
shouting "Ev'nen Journal! Lat'st war
news!" from a golden imagination yellow
ing the already very yellow news of his
paper in a manner that must have won
him an editorship could the proprietor of
the sheet have heard him. This partic
ular May afternoon the method of bis
entrance differed in no way from the
asual routine, save that the door flew
open a little more suddenly and swung
to again with a little louder crash if pos
sible. But once inside it was evident
that Mike was unduly excited. The pa
pers which he usually held out in front at
arm's length to display to the best advan
tage their half-page scar heads were
tucked securely under one arm; his big
black eyes danced jubilantly and he en
tirely forgot business and the startling
news of his papers in the vastly greater
importance of his own news.
"Sav. wot ver tink! lie ol man s 'list
ed fer a soger; he's go'n t'war! Ain't he
t bird?" he shouted.
"Whose old man?" I inquired.
"Mine! Me dad! Whose'd yer sup
pose? Git de wool out o yer t inker! he
replied scornfully.
'But. Mike, who is going to support the
family?" I inquired, remembering a vivid
lescription Mike had once given me of six
ittle MurphyB of whom he was the eld-
?st and only " 'leven" at that.
"De fam ly s all right. Dad says dat
f he goes off to de scrap de folks wot
stays home is boun' to take care uv his
fam'ly. Say, yer ought to see 'im. He's
ill right, ye bet! De reg'ment marches
to-morrer."
It was the first time I had ever heard
Mike speak of his father with anything
like respect. I knew him to be a drunken
ne'er-do-well, who abused his wife and
children and contributed little to their
support. The days wore on. Regiment
after regiment passed through the city
in route for the South and Mike was joy
ously full of excitement. Every after
noon he blew into the office and every day
his stories of the uews grew bigger and
more yellow. He followed every move of
the army and his imagination rau riot
with the possibilities of the worid-chang-
ng drama being enacted. Every scrap of
lews in regard to his father's regiment
n-as on his tongue's end, and 1 soon found
hat with the donning of his blue coat his
father had become a hero. As for Mike
limself he was the same impudent, sharp
yed, dirty, ragged little gamin as of
fore, one of the most successful newsboys
n the street, an inveterate scrapper and
rambler, and on his own confession, rare
st night having more than half his
lay's earnings to take home. When I
remonstrated with him and pointed out
hat he should take bis father's place, he
was always ready with an answers f v
ing back on the old argument that if his
father fought for his country it was his
country s place to look after his family.
The summer wore on. The Fourth of
July dawned hot and sultry. The temper
ature rose with the sun; at 10 o'clock it
was 80; at 11 o'clock 90 and at noon it
registered 9(3 in the shade. The glare from
the asphalt streets blinded the eyes. Men
panted for breath and now and then one
fell. The water front and the parks were
tnronged with women and children seek
ing relief. Those who succumbed were
taken to the hospitals, but no one minded
them. Down before Santiago 16,000 men
in dingy brown canvas blue trimmed uni
forms in the blistering heat of a tropical
climate were fighting against overwhelm
ing odds. On the day before had come
the news of a disastrous defeat, and the
night had closed down in gloom. To-day
the defeat had been turned into a victory
and the cable had flashed home the details
of a great naval victory besides. The
great city sweltt-ied and sweated and
waited for confirmation and for the list of
dead.
That afternoon business calied me te
the office. For an hour I worked and
then fell to thinking of the great tragedy
being enacted. Suddenly I became aware
that someone was standing b7 my desk
"Ev'nen Journal, sir? List uv dead and
wounded."
It was Mike, but I hardly recognized
the voice. All the impudence, the old-
time braggadocio was gone, aud he had
come in so quietly. Why, Mike
began. Then I noticed the trace of tears
furrowed through the dirt on the two
grimy cheeks. There was an unwonted
seriousness in the deep black eyes and
an unmistakable quiver in the voice as he
repeated, Ev nen Journal, sir? Extra,
jes' out 'Plete list uv dead an' wound
ed."
I snatched the pape, eagerly and tossed
Mike a nickel. "Never mind the change,"
I said, and plunged into the details of the
fight. When I glanced up Mike was still
there.
"If yer please, sir," he began, standing
on one leg and uneasily rubbing it with
the dirty brown foot of the o:her. "If
yer please, sir, could I count yer reg'lar
fer a poiper every night? Oi Oi got ter
s port de fam ly now 'cause Oi'ni th' head
uv it. He he's dere, sir," he finished
with a dry sob, pointing to the open page
before me. Glancing down the column
in heavy black, bold-faced type, I saw the
name of Private Dennis A. Murphy on
the roll of honor with the brief, explana
tory line, "Shot through the head."
Mike drew a step nearer. "Say," he
said, with just a touch of his old-time
eagerness, "he's a hero now, nin't he?"
Mike has several regular customers in
the office now, but he no longer blows in
like a miniature hurricane. He comes
and goes quickly but quietly. He is full
of business, and although his former im
pudence now and then flashes out it is in
a guarded way that will lose him no cus
tomers. He is always ready for a scrap
when anyone intrudes upon his rights,
but he has given up fighting for the fun
of the thing, and he no longer pitches
pennies and gambles away his hard-earned
money. "Yer see, Oi'm de head uv de
fam'ly now, an' have ter help me mither,"
he explains.
The other day he came into the office
with the old-time rush. "They've got me
father's body, an' it's ter be buried here,"
he cried. Then after a moment's thought
he inquired wistfully. "Say, do yer s'pose
de sogers' U march ter his grave an' put a
flag an' flowers on it 'Morial day?"
Thornton N. Burgess, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
Their Tents of Green.
Marching steadily, loyal and true.
Come the survivors clad In blue.
While the Old Flag floating overhead.
Greets the living, honors the dead.
Worthy of honor as king or queen,
Silent 'neath their tents of green.
With 'sleeping lilies dipp'd in dew.
Youth and beauty their graves shall strew
To memories grim, of bygone years,
We tribute pay In falling tears.
There's many a grave we cannot place,
That hides an unforgotten face.
May orioles sing their sweetest lay.
O'er mounded earth of blue or gray.
For those that sleep 'neath the ocean's blue.
Our hearts are throbbing ever true.
Beyond the sunset's beautiful gate.
Are gleaming tents where angels wait,
To guide the swinging columns through
The golden streets beyond the blue.
American Cultivator.
rrn.. T, i .t i . .
x ue oi iiisu guveruuieui maaes 1)0 ex- i
animation to determine the validity oi
a device for which a patent is asked,
but takes it for granted that every in- '
vention is new and grants a patent to
every applicant, leaving his claim. If
contested, to be subsequently deter
mined by the courts.
To Be tne Highest Bridge.
The Buffalo branch of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, which will rnn through
Bradford from Wiloox, Pa., aoross the
ridges, hy way of Lafayette. MoKean
county, will cross a deep and moun
tainous george In the latter vicinity
with a steel viaduct nearly 600 feet
high. The bridge, says the Philadel
phia Ledger, will be over 8,000 feet in
length, and its construction will be
oue of the greatest engineering feats on
record. It will be the highest bridge
in the world.
Curiosity Hares Life.
A package marked quinine was secretly
sent to a bright woman, but being curious
she took it to a druggist who said it was
not quinine but arsenic. A like inquiry
into some of the medicines offered will cer
tainly detect the false from the true. For
half a century Hostetter's stomach Bitters
has been curing indigestion, constipation,
dyspepsia, liver and kidney troubles and
nas never once iaueu.
weak and tired.
Try it if you feel
PEDDLERS OF THE OCEAN.
Nautical Prototype of the Man with
the Pack.
The man with a pack on his back,
trudging from village to village and
offering for sale at cottage and farm
bouse a miscellaneous collection of
wares, has his counterpart In the ocean
peddler, ranging in size from a schoon
er trading among the islands of the
Pacific to a steamer of one or two
thousand tons burden.
The ocean peddler starts out from
Hamburg or San Francisco, the chief
home ports of the trade, with a defin
ite object in view. Sailing from the
former city, the course Is generally
laid either to the coast of Africa or
South America, having In the hold a
varied assortment of goods likely to be
marketable in the regions visited
cotton fabrics, trinkets, arms, ammu
nition, liquors, and all spare room
filled up with coal.
As the largest profits are often de
rived from the sale of contraband
goods, such as munitions of war to in
surgent bodies, and as detection by reg
ular authorities would lead to confisca
tion, several thousand rounds of car
tridges are probably done up in Innocent-looking
cases stamped "Canned
beef," and a few stands of discarded
German army rifles in packages label
ed "Glass, with care."
The captain of such a vessel must
possess not only ability as a navigator,
but an expert knowledge of the re
quirements of his trade in addition to
a plausible tongue wherewith to barter
and win over the good will of an ill
disposed official. If he does not own
an interest in the ship It Is generally
required that he shall in her cargo.
Trudging along over the ocean at a
seven or eight knot gait, saving his
coal as much as possible, the peddler
opens his trade by casting anchor in,
say, a South or Central American
port, when, having squared the com
mandante, he invites merchants and
others on board to Inspect his stock.
Duty, of course, has to be paid by the
Durchaser. hut I II r.rirtoi'n .... . I .
, . . '""'! only get rid ol tnat weak, languid, ex
u'm 18 overcome by the visitor to hausted feeling, but it will make vou feel
Had a sense of Humor.
A sense of humor is a great thing in
helping a man over a hard place, and
the Biddeford Record thinks one of that
city's ramsellers must be possessed of
the aid of this cheerfulness. It was
just after the big seizure of liquors the
other day that a man who didn't know
of the raid stepped up to the dismantled
bar and asked for a drink. The pro
prietor looked at the man for a second
and then spreading his arms out on
the bar, said, as pleasantly as he could
under the circumstance:;: "I'm very
sorry, but I have just let the last oi my
stock of beer go."
PARIS IN 1900.
Morning
Tiredness
Is a serious complaint. It's a warning that
should be heeded. It is different from an
honest tired feeling. It is a sure sign of
poor blood. You can cure it by making
your blood rich and pure with Hood's Sar
saparil la. That is what other people do
thousands of them. Take a few bottles of
this good medicine now and you will not
get rid ol tnat weak, languid
the ship going ashore swollen out ner
haps, to three times his normal size by
as many new suits of clothing.
The greatest good fortune that pan
fall in the way of an ocean peddler is 1 and aIso
ror an American or British man-of-war
to put In to some out-of-the-way port
In which he Is lying, short of coaL
Then from his spare stock he sells a
few hundred tons at as hard a bar
gain as the necessity of the purchaser
permits him to drive.
On the Central American coast the
peddler usually times his visit at about
the opening of the coffee season, that
is, early in the new year, so that when
he has sold out his wares he is able to
load up, almost to the water line, with
the principal export of the country.
That the ocean-peddling trade Is not
without Its dangers is illustrated by a
story told by a mate of one of those
vessels. In order to preserve his re
spectable character the contraband
goods are sometimes stored In places
likely to escape the vigilant eye of the
customs officer, and, in the case In !
question, the mate's bunk was chosen ;
as the safest repository for certain !
packages of dynamite consigned to the '
leaders of a Nicaraguan revolution. All
went well until the night before the
ship was due to arrive at her destina-
tion, when a thunderstorm occurred
the lightning playing about the masts
In an alarming manner. The mate '
confessed that the Idea of turning in !
upon a bed of dynamite under such cir- I
cumstances was not conducive to
peaceful repose, even to one accustom
ed to sleep through all manner of dan
gers; but with the reflection that If a
flash found its way to his bunk he
would not be likely to be made aware
of the fact he slumbered serenely
through his watch below, and next day
delivered the "canned tomatoes" safe
ly to the consignees.
The ocean-peddling trade on the Pa-
clfic has been shorn of much of its
profit since the Inter-island passenger
traffic in natives, who too often were
carried as passengers much against
their will, to dive for pearls on the
great Australian bank, has been effec
tually suppressed. Still, a consider
able trade is carried on In small arti
cles in hardware, old clothes, personal
trinsets and an occasional case of "dry
goods," which if seized would turn out
to be remarkably wet. New York Sun.
well all through the summer.
Tired Feeling "I had that tired
feeling and did not have life or ambition to
accomplish my usual amount of household
work. Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me relief
io cured a scrofula tendency."
Mrs. R. Mekbiit, Dowagiac, Mich.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Best Medicine Monev Can Buv.
A new collar-button has the shank
made telescopic, with an internal
spring, which prevents the shank from
extending too far, and also locks it in
a contracted position after the collar is
fastened. j
On some of the Japanese railroads
terra cotta sleepers are used. They
are far more desirable than those of
wood and thus amply repay for increase
in cost.
For the benefit of those who intend
visiting Paris during the exposition,
the Rio Grande Western railway has
gotten out an attractive folder illustra
tive and descriptive of the main features
of the exposition. It contains some
valuable hints for intending visitors
and descriptive articles upon Place de
La Concorde, Aro de Triumphs, the
Madeleine, the Column of July, the
Trooadero, Hotel de Ville, Column
Vendome, the Louvre, the Grand opera
house, the Bourse and the tomb of Na
poleon, in addition to a bird's eye view
of the exposition grounds. The folder,
or pamphlet, is gotten out in handy
form, and is written in a pleasant and
attractive style. It, in fact, gives in
little space everything one going to the
exposition would like to know before
starting on his journey.
For copies of the Paris exposition
folder and other advertising matter
descriptive 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 Automobile In South America.
In the enterprising cities of Buenos
Ayres automobile carriages are no un
common sight, in the form both of pri
vate vehicles and of delivery wagons.
Cycle roads now radiate from Buenos
Ayres to distances of 60 and 70 miles
in the surrounding country, and under
the care of the Argentine Touring Club
these roads are reserved for the use of
bicycles and automobiles. Youth's
Companion..
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago. Mrs. Tuns.
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.,
Feb. 17, 1900.
Vncom promising.
Small Boy Wanter buy a dog, mis
ter? Mr. Dignefide 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 fer wun t'ing."
"And what's that?"
"He don't like 'em." Ohio State
Journal .
Mothers will find airs. Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their
children during the teething period.
The Acme of Bliss.
Cholly My bwotber is in luck.
He's got a place as floor walkah in a
dry goods store. He is there 16 hours
a day.
Awther I cawn't see the luck.
Cholly You cawn't? Why, his
pwants can nevah bag at the knees.
N. Y. Weekly.
Food for the Caribs.
Cassava and fish form the chief arti
cles of food of the Caribs, of Guate
mala, and the former is cultivated only
in sufficient quantities for their daily
needs, as a vegetable to eat with their
fish and to make their strange bread.
DR. UlTUn HVICE.
Is Sought by Female Su
ferers Prom Ocean
to Ocean..
1306 Fourth
ave., Rock
Island, 111.,
writes:
"I was
afflicted for
five or six
years with
cat a r r h a 1
difficul ties
and was
growing
worse all
the time. I
began tak
ing your
Peruna with
a marked
from
the first.
Indep end
ent of cur
ing that, the
Peruna has
greatly im
proved my
g e n e r a 1
health."
"Every bottle of Peruna is worth its
weight in gold; especially to me, for I
owe my prseentgood health to Peruna."
All over 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. Hartman's free advice! So
famous has his skill made him
that hardly a hamlet or 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 he prescribes can be
obtained at any drug store, and the
cost is within the reach of any woman.
He describes minutely and carefully
just what she shall do and get to make
a healthy, robust woman of herself.
The doctor has written a book espec
ially for this class of women, entitled
"Health and Beauty." This book con
tains many facts of interest to women,
and will be sent free to any address by
Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O.
Immediately after the outbreak of
the war in South Africa, 231 French
officers resigned their commissions and
enlisted with the Boers.
la luwiw i mo, . mi iiuaiai hw
Japanese school boys are taken into
the forests by their teachers, one day
in the autumn, to engage in rabbit
hunting.
Spring Body (leaning
Nothing Wasted.
Until one realizes how carefullv the
business is conducted, it is a mysterv 1
how any profit is made by the 5-cent
restaurants which are so great a boon '
to working men. In the first place, I
jthey feed a good many people, ranging !
all the way from three hundred to five 1
Hundred a day, and thus buy their pro
visions in bulk, oatmeal by the barrel,
jveal by the carcass, beans almost by
the carload, and as to hash, they make
that by the bushel. Moreover, they
save expense by using the latest appli
ances, steam tables to keep the food
warm, choppers to cut up the hash, and
dish-washers that save wear and tear
of muscle and towel. So economical la
the business that they even strain the
dish-washer, collecting the grease for
the soap kettle. Their economy, how
ever, does not lead them to the extreme
of saving food from the plate and serv
ing it again. Even the hash is brand-new.
Am Aristocrat.
Broncho Bill Since Pistol Pete dug
up that tree the boys hung his father on
and planted It in his front yard, he's
got awful proud.
Tenderfoot Proud? What la there
about that to make him proud?
Broncho Bill Why, he's now the only
man In town with an authentic family
tree. New York Journal.
ijabor Saving.
It is estimated that the productive
capacity of the labor-saving machinery
in the United States is now equal to a
hard-working population of 400,000,000.
A doctor is the first person you see on
entering the world, and often the last
you see on leaving it You begin with
a doctor's bill, and end with one.
LIsley's "The Flood," which was sold
by the artist In 1876 for $8, was re
cently sold in Paris for $8,600.
Nature begins fools, and women ii
A girl can claim all her life that she
made cakes and clothes which her
mother really made, and the mother
will never dispute her.
Often a woman wishes she were a
man, but a man thinks of corsets and
never desires to change bis condition.
Every spring you clean the house you
live in, to get rid of the dust and dirt which
collected in the winter. Your body, the
house your soul lives in, also becomes filled
up during the winter with all manner of
filth, which should have been removed from
day to day, but was not. Your body needs
cleaning inside. If your bowels, your liver,
your kidneys are full of putrid filth, and
you don't clean them out in the spring,
youTI be in bad odor with yourself and
everybody else all summer.
DON'T USE A HOSRAo clean your
body inside, but sweet, fragrant, mild but
positive and forceful CASCARETS, that
work while you sleep, prepare all the filth
collected in your body for removal, and
drive it off softly, gently, but none the less
surely, leaving your blood pure and nourishing, your stomach and bowels clean and
lively, and your liver and kidneys healthy and active. Try a 10-cent box today, and if
not satisfied get your money back but you'll see how the cleaning of your body is
WADE EASY BY
CANDY CATHARTIC
JOc.
25c. 50c.
ALL
DRUGGISTS
To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free
Sterling Remedy Company. Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper.
Address
To full? introduce our Famous "SOUTHERN
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a box of 50 cigars for $2.50 and express charges, an etegant
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American make, which with proper care should last
for years ; also a plated watch chain and charm. Send us
your name and full address no money. We will send
cigars, watcb, chain and charm. If, after examination, you
are satisfied, pay your agent $2.50 and express charges.
These goods seat anywhere m the U. 8. at these terms. The
"Sou them Belle' is as good as many 10c cigars now offered.
Address National Cigar Co., 8t Louis Jlo.
Vhenordering plesse give the name of thin psper without fail
Will Bet You $100
That If yon write us yon r name and address, we
will send you a photograph and fall description of
what yon will perceive to be the finest, most eco
iKHtiicai and pleasitntly serviceable fire grate ever
known. It is entirety new, has a new system of
draughts, harms a pure white flume, no smoke in
the room, bttt all the heat In the room Instead of
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von'll be glud of It. THI JOHN KAKXKTT
., Oi Klrat Mlritv Portland, Ore on,
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tioa, Prevent LIHousaeas. Do notarise or Slekea. To
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tfOSANKO O., wilisilsaH, fa. SjUbrDrontota.
Portland directory. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.
zzzzzl Building or remodeling residences and
Mac .r; 8u..ll.a. Jtores. We carry a complete line of Mantels.
1 ' Grates and Tiling, Tile Flooring, Tile Wain-
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clunery, supplies. 48-50 KirstSt.. Portlaud. Or.. s WSStte'S?,&Swi"
J 1 1 ' plies pertaining to tlectric and Gas Lighting.
We also carry all kinds of Batteries, Bells aud
JOHN POOIjR PnnTTAwn nsrmv Indicators. Photographs cheerfully sent on
VkTsL . UEEGCI'l application. FRANK HOLCOMB & CO.
can give yon the best bargains in general vv 345 Washington st., Portland, Or.
machinery, engines, boilers, tanks, pumps, ,
plows, belts and windmills. The new .
SLXLwi"dmiii'soidbyhim'-"- COOK BOOK FREE.
X I I UV I B M P" BV I A postal addressed to P. O. Box 41, Portland.
IT III I fl I m Iwl pas TJ 1 Oregon, will bring you a handsome Ko-Nut
I I 1 Wi I I I 1 Cook Book. Ko-Nut is the latest lard substi-
Kor Gonorrhoea and Gleet get Pabst's Okar Specific. It tute; and purer, cheaper and more economical.
Is the ONLY medicine which will cure eash and erery ' , , , ,
ease. NO CASE known It has ever tailed to core, no Lnr Volo hi all hrncprc
matter how serious or of how long standing. Results lUI OdlC UV all Ol UlCI Oi
from Its use will astonish you. It is absolutely safe, J
prevents st-'.Hure, and can be taken without Inconre-
Dicnre nd d-ntlon from business. PRICE. $3.00. For , . - -- -
ale by all reliable drugfrisM, or eenc prepaid bj expreaa ifaBBBBBBBBCt SI CURE YOURSELF 1
plainly wrapped, on receipt of price, by SBBBBPBMBji J, . "wn""r
PABST CHEMICAL CO., Chicago, IU. MTr r I! KSSBji Use Big O for unnatural
Circular mailed on reaueat mmw id ! to 6 Sy discharges, Inflammations,
S Qwuteed irritations or ulcerations
set suletste. of mucous membranes.
P"J mreau Contagion. Painless, and not aatrin-
SPRING'S CHANGING WEATHER lfiiia- ITlSSa
LbbbbV n. B. a. BsT?r ont in P''0 wrapper.
Very often creates havoc with woman's sPaPa-PPoPl tr express, prepaid, for
nervous system. 'SsBsl -W5.
Moore's Revealed Remedy N. P. N. v.
Cures quickly and Is pleasant to take.
It neror falls. 1 per battle at roar TKJUMTS writing to advertisers pl.asa
druggist's. f I aaontlon this paper.