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The Evolution of Household Remedies The modem patent medicine busi ness is the natural outgrowth of the old-time household remedies. In the early history of this country, EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME MADE MEDlfclXES. Herb teas, bit ters, laxatives and tonics, were to be found in almost every house, com pounded Dy the housewife, sometimes assisted by the apothecary or the fam ily doctor. Such remedies as picra, which was aloes and quassia, dissolved in apple brandy. Sometimes a hop tonic, made of whiskey, hops and bit ter barks. ": A score or more of popular, home-made remedies' were thus com pounded, the formulae for which were passed along from house to house, sometimes written, sometimes verbally communicated. The patent medicine business is a natural outgrowth from this whole some, old time custom. In the begin ning, some enterprising doctor, im pressed by the usefulness of one of these home-made remedies, would take It up, improve it in many ways, manu lacture it on a large scale, advertise it mainly through almanacs for the home, ana thus it would become used over a large area. LATTERLY THE HOUSE HOLD REMEDY BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT AND SCIENTIFIC FORM. eruna was originally one of these old time remedies. It was used by the Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, before it was offered to the public for sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL COM POUNDER OF PERUNA, is of Men nonite origin. First, he prescribed it for his neighbors and his patients. The sale of it increased, and at last he es tablished a manufactory and furnished it to the general drug trade. Peruna is useful in a great many cli matic ailments, such as coughs, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, and catarrhal diseases generally. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE LEARNED THE USE OF PERNUA and its value in the treatment of these ailments. They have learned to trust and believe in Dr. Hartman's judgment, and to rely on his remedy, Peruna. . Seventeen persons In a hundred in the State of New York lira to be over sev enty years of age. A MISSOURI WOMAN Tells a Story of Awful Suffering and Wonderful Relief. Mrs. J. D. Johnson, of A 603 West Hickman St., Columbia; Mo., says: ' 'Following an operation two years ago, dropsy set in, and my left side was so swollen the doctor said he would have to tap out the water. There was constant pain and a gurgling uensation around my heart, and 1 couia net raise my arm above my head The kidney action was disordered and passag es of the secretions too frequent On the advice ol my husband I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Since using two boxes my trouble has not reappeared. This is wonderful, after suffering two years." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. poster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. SKIN' HUMORS IN THE, BLOOD ' When the blood is pure, fresh and healthy, the skin will be soft, smooth and free from blemishes, but when some acid humor takes root in the circu lation its presence is manifested by a skin eruption or disease. These humors get into the blood, generally because of an inactive or sluggish condition of the members of the body whose duty it i3 to collect and carry off the waste and refuse matter of the system. This unhealthy matter is left to sour and ferment and soon the circulation becomes charged with the acid poison. The blood begins to throw off the humors and acids through the pores and glands of the skin, producing Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually with a slight redness of the skin followed by pustules from which there flows a sticky fluid that dries and forms a crust, and the itching is intense. It is generally on the back, breast, face, arms and legs, though other parts of the body may be affected. In Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds ; the acid in the blood dries up the natural oils of the skin, which are intended to keep it soft and pliant, causing a dry, feverish condition and giving it a hard, leathery appearance. Acne makes its appearance on the face in the . ... form of pimples and black heads, while yL? Pches on differ- enre ma until I tried s. S. s. I ent parts of the body One of the worst ttnlfpus" would forms, of skin trouble is Salt Rheum; form from which there flowed a its favorite point of attack is the scalp, "VhSnSStSSSAt sometimes causing baldness. Poison Oak the skin was Wt ea raw e.s apieco and Ivy are also disagreeable types of skin, 8Jra Ial aaficU? disease. The humor producing the trouble when I used s. s. 8. 1 found a per- lies dormant in the blood through the lShfStSfvorbeea Winter to break out and torment the Stockman, ITeb. VEGETABE while PURELY , j, l t. t. T 000 j .if V because they do not reach the bloody S. S. S. goes down into the emulation end forces out every particle of foreign matter and restores the blood to it3 aonpal, pure condition, thereby permanently curing every form of skin to all who write. S. S. S. is for sale THE SWIFT L. DOUGLAS . Bk. m m x nntlfiUS $4.00 GILT CGE SHOES CANNOT BE 0O AND aSHQUS vTmSij t--- FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES s . 5tol.SO. Boys' Shoes, 3 to SI. 25. Women's - 1.50. M isaes' Children's fehoes, .35 to S1.0O. Vas shoes are recognized by expert judges of footwear t n stvle. fit and wear produced . . 1 -1 1 5 a and every oeiau 01 me maJunR u wuim ii f ver by skilled shoemakers, without regard to ; If I could take you luto my laree factories at nl show yon how carefully W. L. Donelas lwwi4Wiii)'' i, you would then understand why they hold their snape, fit bet to f nd are of srreater rains than any ether makes. i 5 i vmr and prW it itmpl on tJw bottom, which protno th www anfmt hlrt 1 . kahttltuiit. Sold r th h.t hj flsalPm .errwbr. J SMS tSCHOWti,, tils flest Aaawa. The meekest kind of a little boy Joined a Sunday school class j,n a West Philadelphia church. He did not know the other scholars and appeared ner- vous, half-scared and ready, to cry at any 6econd. The teacher: However, treated him kindly and the essons pro- ceeded without any outburst After a short reading from the Bible the teach er began to question the fiupils on their last lesson and asked : "Who led the childrc n of Israel Into Canaan?" As no one answere I she looked from boy to boy. At last aer gaze rested on the new boy. Hfstarted guiltily and said, between bom: "It wasn't ne, honest, teacher. Just moved neie last week from Ohio, Philadelphia Ledger. Oldest Honse tm STew York. The eldest house In. New York State is situated at the lower end of Staten Island. In Tottenville. It Is known as the "Billopp house," and was built In 1GG8. The Duke of York presented Captain Christopher Blllopp with a tract of land on Staten Island, where on he built this stone mansion, which still overlooks the waters of Rarltan. That it was well built Its survival dur ing 238 years attests. In It have been many notable gatherings, and hei' was held the peace conference. During the revolution Billopp's descendants were loyalists, and the famous generals of the British were entertained at the old house. riTP St. Vitas' Canre ana all Nervous Diseases HI J permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Bend for FREE 2 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. it. H. Kline, lid., ail Arch St., FhUjk.Fa, Mexican Church Leg-ends. Queretaro was a town before the Spanish conquest and was made a city In 1655. A legend of Queretaro Is that an Otomlte chief, Fernando de Tapla by name, undertook to convert the city to Christianity In a way that seems novel to us, but was common enough to his day. He came from Tula with a challenge to the people of Queretaro to a fair stand up fight If he won, the people surviving were to be bap tized. The challenge was accepted, but while the fight was in progress a dark cloud came up and the blessed San tiago was seen In the heavens with a fiery cross, whereupon the people of Queretaro gave up and were baptized. They set up a stone cross to commem orate the event on the site of the pres ent church of Santa Cruz. There Is scarcely a church in Mexico which has not a legent of this kind attached to it Mothers will find Mrs. Wimlow's Soothlni Syrup the best remedy to use (or their chlldrei luring the teething period. Accounted For. "Your wife doesn't worry about you when you are sick nearly so much now as she did when you were first mar ried." "Nope." "Hard to account for woman's vaga ries, Isn't It?" "Not in this case; I have my lift insured now and I did not then." Houston Post A "Guild of Tubalines" has been form' ed in an English Episcopal church. Its especial business is to keep bright tin brass (as fixtures of the church. At the government station Lulea, in Sweden, experiments are being made to secure varieties of plants not likely to ba injured by frost. DISEASES sufferer with the return of Spring. The best treatment for all skin diseases is S. S. S. It neutralizes the acid3 and removes the humors so that the skin instead of being ... irritated and diseased, is nourished by a supply of fresh, healthy blood. External , applications of salves, -washes, lotions, etc., they soothe the itching caused by . . V.1. at all first class drug stores. SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, CAm Bk aw -nvaf TKT W TrM EQUALLED AT ANT PRICE. m wis country, iacn : ! 1 1 1 f Cataue wunMiJrM. W. a. HO C ULJLM, iirckl. M al Portnaraeae Hove to Restore to Cnl tlvatioa 10,000,000 Acres. Portugal, according to Vice and Dep- nty consul R. U. Kinchant of Lisbon, nas started In on a system of land reo lamatlon which. If as successful as it promts to be, must result in similar movements in various parts of Europe. He writes: ' "In the south of Portugal a serious attempt Is being made, with dome chance of success, to bring back Into cultivation a large tract of land. This country being essentially agricultural, j any steps to reclaim laud that has gone . ; out of cultivation, estimated at 4,314,- fTf i r., ...... n , . lAUVtAArt 44 per cent of the total area of Portu gal, are a move In the right direction. "Some energetic members of society In the district of Serpa, in combination with the municipal authorities, have set to work upon 100,000 acres, divid ing it up Into allotments of fifteen acres each and letting It at a nominal rent, calculated according to the estimated value of the land, which has, as it were, four classifications, the highest quit rent being placed at $3.20 and the low est at 40 cents an allotment, free of total rates and taxes for ten years. 'Quite a heterogeneous mixture of settlers has already taken possession of their tenements. Carpenters, ma sons, doctors, chemists, barbers, seam stresses, tailors, and even beggars, fig ure in the list. 'One of the chief difficulties to be overcome before making the allotments was to deal with the proprietary right of beekeepers, who centuries a?o had certain privileges conferred upon then whereby they did a thriving trade in honey and wax. This trade has in later times diminished, owing to the destruc tion of the floral produce of the land, chiefly by firing when portions thereof were cleared for wheat and other cere als. Matters have been amicably set tled for the beekeepers and the em bryo agriculturists. The success of the. scheme as far as It has gonu has stirred the ambition of the residents In a large part of the north of Portugal, where a project on slmlar lines Is being set on foot to bring back into cultiva tion something like half a million acres." Physical Inheritance. When people use the word "hered lty" they are very likely to mean some dreadful bugaboo of a supposed natural law. which they have invited for them selves, through which the poor human race comes In for all the ailments and weaknesses of its forbears, with none of the compensations. One hears constantly such phrases as "her'mother had consumption," or his uncle drank himself to death," but there is much less frankness In return ing thanks for the physical benefits that also come down so abundantly from the past It must not be forgotten that dis eases are not directly inherited, but only the tendency to them. Ihls is a very comfortable fact for It constant ly offers a reward for well-directed effort If one knows from the start which are the avenues open to danger one Is forewarned and forearmed. Those who have that knowledge will not take the children In whose families there have been many Instances of tuberculosis and shut them up in stuffy places or give them ( a diet containing too little fat They would be too wise to let the excitable child of nervous parentage lend a life of overstimulation or be pushed In Its studies, or to offer sips of wine at the table to the small boy whose father Is a heavy drinker. Just as a predisposition to a disease may be Inherited, so also may an ab solute inability to have It. One sees this proved by persons who. pass un scathed through epidemic niter epl deraic This shows that their inherit ed tendenc ytovvard the disease. If they have any, is so much weaker than their inherited resistance to it that they are virtually unable to catch It , Nature herself shows constant pref erence for the normal, and Is always working to that end; therefore a ten dency to disease is the punishment for disobeying her. Neither Is she implac able, so that if one will only work long enough and hard enough to correct one's mistakes there. comes a time when nature gives a clean bill of health, ft 1 would be a tragic world Indeed If only glng the B wpre v ... ;Pn the chlldren.-Youth s Compan- Wasting Hli Time. "Teh," said Tommp Tuft, "our Sun day school teacher's got sense. She's smarter than morn Is." "Indeed?" remarked Aunt Janes. "So you believe In her, eh?" "Sure. Me an' her thinks alike. She sez Sunday school don't do me no good at alL" Philadelphia Tress. There are so many useles things In the world that we sometimes think the Lord made some things just to be mis-' chlevous. - I About the only thing people borrow. which they are not expected to V&ff U trouble. f RilEULlATISn AND NEURALGIA ST. i JACOBS OIL 1 The Proved Remedy Cor Over SO Years. i Priea 25c and 50a The number of cattle in Argentina is estimated at 25,000,000. Ninety-eight per cent of the 50,000 blind of Japan support themselves by practicing massage. L jSBSQNfVL Personal knowledge competitive age and when the front ranks of ' ........ Th Well Informed of the World. A vast fund of personal knowledge is really essential to the achievement of the highest excellence in any field of human effort. A Knowledge of Forms. Knowledge of Function and Knowledge of Product are all of the utmost value and in questions of life and health when a true and wholesome remedy is desired it should bo remem bered that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co, is an ethical product which has met with the approval of the most em. Inent physicians and gives universal satisfaction, because it is a remedy of Known. Quality. Known Excellence and Known Com ponent Parte and has won the valuable patronage of millions of the Well Informed of the world, who know of their own personal knowledge and from actual use that it is the first and best of family laxatives, for which no extra vagant or unreasonable claims are made, Thi valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of Syrup of Figs and has attained te world-wide acceptance as the most excellent family laxative. A its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well known to physicians and the Well Informed of the world to be the best we have adopted the Fig and Elixir of Senna as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtlessly it will always be called for by the shortet name of Syrup of Figs and to get its beneficial effects, always note, when purchasing. the full name Syrup Co. ?'f.?ts. ...U-.U LOUISVILLE. KYi. PUTNAM FA D E LEI S S DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and la guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer, or we will send post paid at 10c a package. Writ for free booklet how to dye, bleach and mix colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. FREE tion of the "Chicago- New York Air Line Hail- , road" will be found in the ' Air Line News," i wbicn can be bad free of any expense by writ ing the SOUTHWESTERN SECURITIES CO. Portland, Oregon. ENGRAVING Write Us PLATES FOR PRINTING HICKS-CHATTEN Portland Oregon P AX N LESS TENTISTRY Ut Ui ieibit JL YoafaEUcwact EXAMINATIONS fREC Oold Crown, (3; Brldw Work, pn tooth, Piati-MS: bUver filling, Mc; Gold rulings, (1. YALE DENTISTS 167X First Street tOUl LASU, OREGON MAKE NO MISTAKE OILED I! CLOTHING wui give you com , plete protection wtd long service You cant edford to buy any other Every garment guaranteed The best dealer sell H IK; S B ft M V I r 9 MX . V Compensation ef Healtk. Miss Harriet Curtis, the golf cham pion, at a dinner in Boston praised golfs effect on the health. "Many persons," she said, "especial ly women, have ill health because they never take any exercise, and the'r nerves weaken, and half their com plaints are nervous, Imaginary ones, that hard work would cure. I know a doctor who has a patient of this type a big, robust woman, who Is never without a list of ailments as long as her arm. "The last time she sent for the doc tor he lost patience with her. As she was telling him bow she was suffering from rheumatism, sore throat, nervous Indigestion, heartburn, pains In the back of the head aud what not, ha in terrupted her. " 'Ah,' he said, In an admiring tone, 'what splendid health you must have In order to be able to stand all these complaints.' " The Washington Star. Mow the Hna-asement Was Broken. She (having uotbmg else to say) It's funny how we vver came to think so much of each other. He Funny? Ifg positively ridicu lous ! The Place to Learn. "Do you know much about mental disturbances?" "Yes," answered the expert, "by per sonal experience on the witness stand." Washington Star. is the winning factor in the culminating contests of this of ample character it places its fortunate more elaborate nam or syrup or of the Company California Fig printed on the front of every package. ,.11 (n,!U,niIFIn- or by the full name Syrup of Fig and Elixir of Senna. cam trbAMricrnrii Vri e 1 itnnuiwwwiwcisf . ondon englan PRUSSIAN i-M C ffaMUtskassa-l & i-JKisS A sruttrantned cure for Heave. Con Kht Oistem uer. I ndl mention .Wind Trouble rut- jj,ler 60 fntii, JUli oocent. WANTED A Ko(t salesman, (one with horse and bngKy preferred) for good le gitimate xcinnir article in nig Uumanu Will jiay from $1&0 to (JoO per month. Permanent. Address SPECIALTY SELLING COMPANY 321 Hawthorne Ave., Portland, Oregon IN THE LAUNDRY ia wonderful in removing dirt and grease spots. It fixes colors, bleaches, and pre vents cloth from turning; yellow. I All dealers. Psmple Borax, Souvenir Picture in 10 color and bMk let 6c. and dealer'! tiatni), PACIFIC COAST 110 KAX CO., Oakland, Cal. 1 Are always reported when Seeds are planisd. Why ? best on this Coast. Our Annual tens an about fertilizers, Incubators. Art fur Book N. ( Tmi, iAnibs. P O RTLAN D SEED CO. VprMmnd. Oregon ., - Spoliarts), Wash. Sanking hi Hail WE PAY INTEREST On savings deposits of a dollar or more, compounded twice -every year. It is just as easy to open a Savings Account with us by Mail as if you lived next door. Send for onr free book let, "Banking by Mail," and . learn full particulars. Address " Oregon Trust & Savings Bank Portland, Oregon Sixth and Washington Sts. possessor ia NEW YORK.N.Y " ' 6 Is t I'mmt attrtitsi nrrr.T. nr?TT.T 4 Mads In all ntylcs ni a'l Get water and oil anywhrro Jleut DrilUuf Touli ii ado, Oet oala loui and prices. . EALL & CO. 321 Hawthorne Ave. Portland, Or. P. N. U. No. 17 -or WHEN writing to adTertisats plMM I montlon this papar. 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