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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A Ko(t salesman, (one
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preferred) for good le
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Will
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Address
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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),
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Are always reported when
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VprMmnd. Oregon ., - Spoliarts), Wash.
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On savings deposits of a dollar
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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 "
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Portland, Oregon
Sixth and Washington Sts.
possessor ia
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