f
ABSOLUTE
SECURITY.
Genuine
C U R IO S IT Y OF 8 K Y-S R A P E R .
Advance of Science.
“ My fee for the surgical operation
which is a dangerous one,’ * said the
eminent expert, “ will be $5,000.“
“ Five thousand dollars?
W hew!“
exclaimed the prospective
victim.
“ Why, four centuries ago the royal ex
ecutioners hadn’t the nerve to charge
over $10 for their work.“ — Baltimore
American.
Corn on the Coh.
Carter's
Little Liver Pills.
M u s t B e a r S ig n a tu r e o f
5ce Fac-Simile Wrapper Below.
Not many people have ever had the
chance io eat an ear of roasted corn on
the cob in the middle of winter. How
ever, Wadhame & Kerr Bros., wholesale
grocers of Portland, had a small quan
tity put up under their Monopole brand
and bad it shipped to tnem trom the
state of Maine. The corn is put up six
or seven ears in a gallon can and while
it is much higher in price than their
regular Monopole canned corn, there
are many who are willing to pay extra
for such an unusual dainty*
I V « 7 e m a il a n d
The Stuart Carnation.
to tako as sugar.
FOR HEADACHE,
FOR
FOR
FOR
FOR
FOR
FOR
DIZZINESS.
BILIOUSNESS.
TORPID LIVER.
CONSTIPATION.
SALLOW SKIN.
THE COMPLEXION
O B N U N n must wav » MPMATuwc,
P u rely Vegetal)! e
CURE SIC K HEADACHE.
The W eight of Crowds.
The bright r*nl Passionate carnation
was the flower of the royal house of
Stuart.
Platinum.
Platinum rarely occurs in nuggets,
though once in a while a lump of it is
found; the biggest on record, about the
size of a tumbler, being now preserved
in the Dresden museum.
Some time
ago John M. Davidson of Rochester, N.
Y., found the metal in two Meteroites
— an interesting discovery, inasmuch
as it proved that platinum exists in
other worlds than ours.
The load which is produced by a
¿«M.se crowd of persons
person« is generally
general!*!
Eccentricities of Blue Blood.
taken at 80 to 100 pounds per square . Mr8- HiRhnp— Do you believe that
foot and is considered to be ttie greatest; ' ^ ’ H tfde that the Emperor W illiam is
uniformily distributed load for which a having the milk from his farm at Pots
dam retailed in Berlin from wagons
floor need be proportioned.
with his name printed on them?
Mrs. Wayupp— I shouldn't wonder.
Humiliated.
I t ’ s nothing. Why, even my grand
"W hat’s the trouble, Henry?” asked father did the same thing.— New York
tpe wife. "W asn’t the majority as Weekly.
Ikrge as you expected?”
H ‘T m not thinking about the elec
Adapted to Flats.
tion, Jess,” gloomily replied the
statesman, whose admiring constit
“ I see that you have taken up the
uents had returned him to congress vertical system of penmanship. Why
for another term. "You remember did you do that?”
there is a brand of a 5-cent cigars
"Oh, haven’t you heard? Why, we
named for me? Well, they’re selling are living in a flat now.”
them two for 5 cents now.”— Chicago
Tribune.
A Plain Warning.
Brought Their Seats.
In the good old times 500 years ago
there were no seats in the Parisian
schools except stools for the teachers.
The pupils sat on bundles of straw
which they brought along.
There is a passenger steamer on the
Elbe where the warning against speak
ing to the man at the wheel is dis
played in four different languages.
This is the English version: “ To the
helm marine gentleman try conversa
tion not.“
C h r o n ic S o r e s
E a tin g
U lc e r s ,
Upon the System
And a source of worry, an xiety and endless trouble to those who are afflicted
With them, particularly so when located upon the low er extrem ities where
the circulation is weak and sluggish. A gangrenous eatin g ulcer upon the
leg is a frightfu l sight, and as the poison burrows deeper and deeper into the
tissue beneath and the sore continues to spread, one can almost see the flesh
m elting away and feel the strength g o in g out w ith the sickening discharges.
Great running sores and deep offensive ulcers often develup from a sim ple
boil, swollen gland, bruise or pim ple and are a threatening danger always,
39cau.se wrhile all such sores are not cancerous, a great m any are, and th is
should make you suspicious of all chronic slow-healing ulcers and sores, par-
:icularly i f cancer runs in your fam ily. Face sores are common and cause the
^ ^ t e s t annoyance because they are
V a ld o sta , G-a., Septem ber, 1000.
ersistent aud unsightly and de-
S w ift Specific Co., A t la n t a , Qa.
from one's appearance.
D e a r S ir s :—S o m eth in g like a ris in g
M iddle aged and old people and
came on m y instep, v e ry sm a ll at
bote whose blood is contaminated
firs t, not at a ll p a in fu l, b u t aa It
mdtninted with the germ s and poison
g r e w la rg e r an d b e g a n to p a in m e t
consulted a dootor, b u t in spite of
if malaria or some previous sickness,
a ll he could do the sore got w orse
>r excessive use o f mercury', are the
and b e g a n to d isc h a rg e ; th en other
hief sufferers from chronic sores and
sores
came u n til th e w h ole top of
deers. W h ile the blood remains in
m y foot w a s one la r g e m ass of sores
his unhealthy, polluted condition
and I could not w a lk . T h en m y hus
lealing is sim p ly impossible and the
band , w h o h ad been cured o f S crof
ore w ill continue to gro w and spread
u la b y the use o f S. S. 8-, said he
Q Spite o f washes and salves or any
b e lie v e d it w o u ld cure me. 1 be ga n
uperficial or surface treatment, for
ta k in g It an d e ig h t b ottles cured
me; m y foot healed u p nicely. I be
he ¡sore is but tl*e outward sign of
lieve
I w o u ld h ave been a cripple
om< constitutional disorder, a bad
fo
r life b u t f o r S. S. S.
on lition o f the blood and system,
th ' local remdies cannot cun .
M R S . O. H . K I N G .
rhich
S. S. S. reaches these old chronic sores through the blood. I t goes to the
ery root o f the trouble and counteracts and removes from the blood all the
npnrities and poisons, and gradually builds up the entire system and
-lengthens the slu ggish circulation, and when the blood has been purified
and the system purged of all morbid,
unhealthy matter the healing process
begins, and the eating ulcer or chronic
sore is soon entirely gonfe.
S. S. S. contains n o mineral or poison
ous drugs o f any description, but is guar
anteed a purely vegetable remedy, a
|d purifier and tonic combined and a safe and permanent cure for chronic
uts and ulcers. I f you have a slow-healing sore o f any kind, large or
nail, w rite us about it, and our physicians w ill advise you without charge.
Jgk on Blood and Skin Diseases free.
F iftee u -b to rjr B u ifla g .
One of the curiosities «f the sky
scraper is the fact that th law which
requires fire escapes on i flve-story
building dispenses with than on a tlf-
teeu-story building. Perhay It realizes
that in case of tire no out would ever
be able to climb down twe-.ty or twen
ty-live flights o f giddy lit|c iron lad
ders without losing his insd. At any
rate, It depends eutirely fr safety In
the sky-scraper on flreprox construc
tion. There must be not bag about it
that can burn. And there i not. Stair
ways are of marble and Am. There
is little, a very little wood ’Tim” about
the offices, but even if it ¿aught tire
it would not feed the tiaiiys for long
aud would leave the buihliig practical
ly uninjured.
j .
Of course, wood does go Mto the con
struction o f the building, ¿it all such
wood must, in buildings ¿per twelve
stories high, according to aw, be tire-
proofed, chemically treatel so that It
will not burn. The sky-Kiraper says
to its tenants: "There isu’ going to be
a tire and, if there Is, you can get out
by the elevators.” Elevitor shafts
are constructed absolutely unburuable,
with not a thing about tern to feed
the flames. The lesson if the New
York Life Building a fev years ago
was thoroughly learned aid to-day the
fireproof sky-scraper mud be really
fireproof.
When one realizes that le w York Is
at present investing some seven mil
lions In these castles in the air, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, that are even now
building they are enlarging the city
by a.u acreage of one-seventh of its
original area and that they are daily
shooting fur& er and further into the
air one cannot but wonder what the
sky-scraper of the next quarter of a
century w ill be. There seems to be
no chance o f a return to first princi
ples. Such buildings as the Herald j
building, uptown, aud the new Stock
Exchange and the new Chamber of
Commerce, downtown, may be very
fine, architecturally, and beautiful in
themselves. But, unfortunately, they
are not by, themselves. To be appre
ciated they would have to be seen and
to be seen they would have to be set
on a plain somewhere, not crowded, as
they are, into the shadow of the twen
ty-five story air castles which New
York’s millions are rearing over New
York’s infinitely precious soil.
CASTOR IA
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Variant Estimates.
as a single eartmnn can push a heavy
box over the rollers with ease, and the
new device makes the operation prac
tically noiseless. There is no elianee of
the box sliding down the incline, as the
rollers have automatic locks which pre
vent them from revolving backward.
The skid can be reversed for unload
ing goods from the wagon, or may be
used as a truck for moving burdens on
level ground by using it with the roll
ers face down. With the time saved in
both loading and unloading, the neces
sity for fewer men and the great de
crease of danger to both the truckman
and the goods, it would seem that this
new’ skid has much to recommend its
use by express companies, glass, porce
lain and piano factories and all con
cerns shipping heavy freight.
A S im p le S u g g e s tio n .
» A I M
L E S S
D
E N
T I S T R
T h e d is c o v e r y o f n e w Agen ts an d n e w
methods of administering the old agents
used in dentistry for eliminating pain,
has revolutionized practice. PAINLESS
DENTISTRY with us is not an experi
ment. hut an absolute certainty, ss
hundreds can testify. Don’ t you take
any risks. We guarantee “ NO PAIN.”
Both phones: Oregon South 2291;
Columbia .T6H. Open evenings till 9.
Sundays from 9 to 12.
V IS E
B R O S . , D entists.
P O R T L A N D . O il BO 0 9 .
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A PASTOR : A ! IPEROR
SAVED BY PE-RU-NA
Rev. II. Stubenvoll, of Elkhorn, W is.,is pa-tor of the Evangelical Lutheran
St. John’ s church of that place. Rev. Stubenvoll ia the possessor of two bibles
presented to him by Emperor William of Germany. Upon the fly leaf of one of
the bibles the emperor has written in his own handwriting a text.
This honored pastor, in a recent letter to the Peruna Medicine Co., of
Colubmus, Ohio, says concerning their famous catarrh remedy, Peruna:
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen: “ I had hemorrhages of the lungs for a long time, and all de
spaired of me. I took Peruna and was cured. It gave me strength and cour
age, and made healthy, pure blood.
It increased my weight, gave me s
healthy color, and I feel well. It is the best medicine in the world. If e v e ry
one kept Peruna i i the house It would save many from death every y ea r.” —
h. STUBENVOLL.
I f yon do not derive prompt and sat
Thousands of people have Catarrh
who would be surprised to know it, be isfactory results from the use of Peron»
cause it has been called some other write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
name than catarrh. The fact is catarrh full statement of vour ease and he w ill
is catarrh wherever located ;
and be pleased to give you hie valuable ad-
another fact which is of equally great ' vice gratis.
WHEELED SKIDS FOR TRUCKING.
importance, is thatlPeruna cures catarrli
Address Dr. Hartman, president of
' The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O-
Our illustration shows a new roller wiici .ver located.
skid, u Luc........ - >— -11 designed by
Kdtlaril Scharrer, of Stuttgart, Ger
A Laudable Ambition.
An Unlucky Number, Sure.
many, for the purpose of loading and
Aunt— Have you no serious purpose
Jack— Conrgatulate me! Mabel baa
unloading heavy boxes from wagons.
accepted me.
With its use all necessity for turning in life?
Edith— Really? I hope you’re d o »
Niece— Oh, yes. I want to find a
the boxes over and over as they are
f m e ced
e
up the incline to the wagon Is real wicked man and marry him to re superstitious.
Jack— No. Why?
ne away with, and there is conse form him.— New York Journal.
done
Edith— Because you’ re the thirteenth
quently considerably less danger of
she has accepted this season, I believe.
Tommy Won.
damaging the contents of the package.
Two brothers went to the same
Fewer men are required to handle
school.
They were absent about a
heavy freight where tills skid Is used.
fortnight, and then one returned alone. j
“ Where is your brother Thomas?“
F o r In fa n ts an d Children.
asked the master.
“ Please, sir, he’ s laid up with a
sprained arm. W’ e were trying to see
! which could lean out of the window | Bears the
fartherest, and Tommy won.“
Signature o f
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THE S W IF T S P E C IF IC C O .. ATLANTA. OA.
JEFRIENDED
Fire Eacapea Dispensed ith on the
"Yes. he built a cannon In accord
ance with the principles of his Inven
tion snd It cost a great deal o f money.”
“ I want to know.”
“ It did. And when It was all done
he didn’t have money enough to tire
It.”
“ Money to fire It. Gee whiz, but that
seems awful extravagant! W hy didn't
he touch it oir with a match?” —Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Some w om en g ro w weary trying to
look young, hut they do not tire them
selves half as much as they tire
other«.
Had Seen Better Days.
“ TTow did that poem of yours turn
Kind Lady— I suppose you h a v e
seen better days?
out?“
Tramp— Yes’m. One day last week
* Oh,“ anewered the author, “ there
was the difference of opinion that usu I got three dinners and ten beers.—
ally attends the production of a master Detroit Free Press.
piece. The postmaster insisted that it
Short of Bedclothes.
was first-class matter and the editor in
In some of the smaller Russian hotel*
sisted that it was not.“
visitors are obliged tc find their own
bedclothes.
Couldn’t Be Otherwise.
Miss Slim— “ Who wrote ‘Man Pro
poses?* ”
Mothers will find Mrs. VWnslow’s Sooth
Miss Antique— "Probably some in ing Svrup the best remedy to use for their
experienced
young
author.”— New ahilaren during the teething period.
York Tribune.
Might Regret It.
Mistress— Poor, darling little Top-
FITS
sy! I’m afraid she will never recover.
Do you know, Bridget, I think the
kindest thing would be to have her
shot and put out of her misery.
Tough Leather.
Bridget— ’Deed ma’am I wouldn’t
A sign on an East Side shop win
do that. She might get better, after
dow reads:
“ Fried Shoes.”
The merchants all. an’ then ye’d he sorry ye’d had
name is Fried, but he forgot to put a her killed.— Punch.
comma after it.”— New York Times.
PennancnOy Curea
S o fits or nervousnos;
after first iay> iiseof Dr. Klin « ’s Great Nerv*
Restorer. Send tor F R E E $*¿.0 0 trial bottle and treat
is*. Da. R.H. K l in *. L td -V31 Arch St.. Philadelphia. Pa
lO O R E W A R D
Hadn't Tried It.
Mrs. Weddle— Was that gevtleman
who gave you the cigar a frie\d of
yours ?
Weddle— 1 don’t know: I haven’t
smoked it yet.— New York Times.
When Does the Season Open.
9100.
The readers of this pai*er w ill be pleased to
team that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all iu>
iiages, and that iscatarrh. Hall's Cat v r b Cure
it. the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis
ease, requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting:
directly upon the blood and mucous surface»
of the system, thereby destroying the founda
tion of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. Tho pro
prietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollar»
tor any case that it fails to cure. Bend for li*t
of testimonials. Address
Clarence
Minzesheimer, of the
Stock exchange, who was bemoaning
the exactions imposed upon the time
of an active broker, said that he bad
F J. C H E N E Y A CO ., T o le d o , O .
hoped before this to have been in the
8old by druggists, 76c.
Adirondacks shooting.
Hall’s Family Pills are the beat-
“ It Is so long since I have had an
outing." remarked Dick Halsted, “ I
Too Realistic Altogether.
fear that I am very rusty In my
Footlight— And was the lighthouse
knowledge of the game laws. When
does the game season open, Clarry?” scene realistic?
Hue Brette— Oh, yee.
They had 9
real light bouse at la*t night’s perfona-
She Made Him.
ance.— Yonkers Mates man.
Mrs. Tower— Frankly, John Tower, I
think you are the meanest man I ever j
saw,
,
íp P I S O S
CO RE FOR
Mr. Tower— I wouldn’ t say that.
Ct'NES WHERE A ll ELSE FAILS. ,
Gusty; vou know you’ ve said hundreds j
it C o u g h Csyrnp. T a s te * G o o d . 1
in tim e. Sold by d ru g g ists.
of times that you have heeQ the making
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