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FOR WOMANS HEALTH Earnest Letters from Women Re lieved of Pain by Mrs. Pinkham. boy’s feelings were evidently hue CHILDREN’S COLUMN.! The but be said nothing until be reached th A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE "Dm Mi». P inkham : — Before I BOYS AND GIRLS •ommenced to take your medicine I wan in a terrible state, wishing myself dead a good many times. Every part •omethlns that Will Interest the J«- vealle Members of Every Heneeheld of my body seemed to pain in some —Quaint Action« and Bright Bayinge way. At time of menstruation my suffering was something terrible. I •f Manx Cute and Cunalnn Children* thought there was no cure for me. but after taking several bottles of Lydia Everything seemed out of Its place E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all In mamma's room. The twius had been my bad feelings were gone. I am now playing "ladles,” and bad left all their well and enjoying good health. I shall toys in the middle of the floor. always praise your medicine.”—M rs . What a sight It made! Mamma felt A mos F kschi . kk . B ox 220, Romeo. Mich. dizzy as she stood in the door and con Female Troubles Overcome templated the disorder. •• D kak M rs . P inkham :—I had female The twins had tired of play, and were trouble, painful menses, and kidney looking at pictures in the corner; each complaint, alsostomaeh trouble. About had dragged a pillow from the sofa to a year ago I happened to pick up a sit on. paper that contained an advertisement Mamma picked up Antoinette, the of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com one-armed doll, but on second thought pound, and when 1 read how it had helped others, 1 thought it might help put her again on the floor. "Who wants to laaru a fine new me, and decided to give it a trial. I did so, and as a result am now feeling game?” she asked. “1 do!” cried Maggie, while Mary perfectly well. 1 wish to thank you for the benefit your medicine has been to clamored. “Tell it. tell it!” “First,” began mamma, “put the pil me.”—M bs . C i . aka S tikbkr . Diller, Neb. lows up. Mamie, and you. Maggie, lay No flore Pain the book on the shelf, where It belongs. “ D ear M rs . P inkham :—Your Vege table Compound has been of much Now,” she said, after she had obeyed benefit to me. When my menses first her, “come and learn the new game.” So she sat down In the midst of con appeared they were very irregular. They occurred too often and did not fusion and took up her afghan work. ”1'11 be umpire and decide who leave for a week or more. I always suffered at these times with terrible beats,” she added, as the eager faces re pains in my back and abdomen. Would garded her expectantly. “The name of this game is ‘Tidy be in bed for several days and would not be exactly rational at times. I Game.’ You both look about to see took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable what you can find out of its place, and Compound, and menses became regular put It carefully away, for every article and pains left me entirely.”—M bs . E. that Is not put in its proper place counts a point on the other side. The one who F. C ubtkb , Brule, Wis. puts away the most things wins the game. Equine I,osie* in War. "I’ll put up the piano!" cried Maggie, In all protracted wars the loss in horses from disease is terribly heavy. seizing it and hurrying off while Mary In Napoleon’s campaign across the Nie gathered up the dollies. For several man, out of 60,000 horses, no fewer minutes they both ran to and fro busily than 45,000 succumbed in six months. opening and shutting doors and draw At the siege of Plevna the Russians ers, and occasionally laughing when lost 30 per cent of their draught ani their hands leached for the same ar mals, and in the Egyptian wars of 1882 ticle. or heads bumped from their the English horses were disabled, of great haste. Mamma meanwhile calm which 600 died from sickness and only ly worked on, while the twins did the 60 on the field of battle.—Pearson’s tidying she usually (and unwisely) did for them. Magazine. Maggie was hurrying off with the A new regulation cog introduced in dolls’ bathtub, when Mamie shouted: fiwiss watches, works so accurately "Every single thing’s put up!” that the time pieces do not vary 10 sec “No,” mamma replied, “1 see a very onds in a month. tiny thing not ’tidied.’ ” The twins began to search. Every saloon at Tullahoma, Tenn., “Maggie Is warm; Mary is cold. Now has been placed under the legal bag Mary is getting warmer,” said mamma. charged with Sunday liquor selling. Both were very much excited, and Try Allen*, root Eane, flew around lookinng frantically In cor A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At ners and behind the sofa. this season your feet feel swollen, nervous "Both are. warm, warmer, hot. Oh. and hot. and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Mamie, almost burning up!" exclaimed Font-Ease. It cools the feet and makes mamma. walking easy. Cures ingrowing nails, Then they moved away, and she said «woolen and sweating feet, blister« and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions they were cooling off. Finally. Maggie's foot struck some efall pain and gives rest and comfort. We have 30,000 testimonials. Trv it today. thing. and Mary, looking eagerly aud Sold hv all druggists and shoe dealers for 25c. Trial package FREE. Address Allen very much puzzled (for mamma bad just called that she was actually smok 6. Olmstead, LeRoy, N. Y. ing from the heat) saw tier sister pounce Crime Prevalent In Berlin. Crimes of violence, whose perpetra down on Marie, the tiny china "nigger” tors have remained undiscovered, have doll, lying under the rug all but one become so common in Berlin and its band. The successful little searcher ran off, neighborhood that the Prussian min ister of the interior has given notice crying triumphantly. “I beat! I put away nineteen things, that all violent deaths shall be report ed at once to a special bureau, which and Mamie only eighteen.” "Can't you see anything else?” asked ■hall decide whether the local or Ber lin police shall take up the case, and Mary of her mamma. Mother smiled; usually it was very in certain instances shall set its own hard to persuade the twins to tidy up, detectives to work.—N. Y. Sun. cheerfully, after a game. “We will play It every day,” she an Phy Rician and Morphine. Tn a recent address before a graduat swered! and after that she had only to ing class of medical students occurs call, "Tidy Game," when away would the following most sensible advice: run the twins with every naughty thing •‘While fewer physicians become in that was out of place.—Weekly Bou Kane than members of other profes quet. sions, a larger proportion become ad The Honeymoon Couple. dicted to the use of morphia. Opium Mr. Frog and Mrs. Mouse In any form is exceedingly dangerous Were wed in sunny weather. when self-administered. No physician And started out to find a home should attempt to treat himsell, but Where they could live together. always take the advice and follow the direction of another physician.” The frog picked out a lily leaf That spread upon a pool, NO REMEDY EQUALS PERUNA, SO THE WOMEN ALL SAY. Miss Hu«.n Wymsr. Miss Susan Wymar. teacher in the Richmond school, Chicago. Ill., writes the following letter to Dr. Hartman regarding Pe-rn-na. She says: "Only those who have suffered as I have, can know what a blessing it is to be able to find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my experience. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and every tattle of Pe- ru-na I ever bought proved a good friend to me.”—Susan Wymar. Mrs. Merga ret ha Dau ben, 1214 North Superior street, Racine City, Wit., writes: ‘‘I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot de scribe it. Pe-ru-na io everything to me. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na foi female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good.” Pe-ru-na has no equal in all of the irregularities and emergencies peculiar to women caused by pelvic aatarrh. Address Dr. Hartman. Columbus, C., for a free book for women only. SIGNAL TOWERS ON THE LAKES Will Be Placed at Point« Along Michi • a« T mb M. I Whoever so named New York’s /loomy prison chose an apt and signifi cant phrase. Many a wretched crim inal has found indeed therein that the , path of sin is the path of death, and has mourned at the burial of his owu you haven't» regular, healthy movement of the blighted hopes aud ruined resolutions. If bowel» every day, you're »lek, or will be Keep you« open, and be well. Force, In therhapeof But "stone walls do not a prison bowel» violent physic or pill poison. 1» dangerous. The make.” There are those who sit im smoothest, easiest, most perfect way of keeping tbs mured in "the tombs’’ of a dead iiast bowels clear and clean is to take and woeful present. Themselves, as CANDY Milton would have it, are their own • CATHARTIC ' dungeons. Let them lift up their heads to the dawn aud freedom. God is not far from any one of us.—Baptist Union. door, then giving the teacher a re gan, Superior and Huron* proachful look, with a pitying glance In the near future the national toward the dog. he said slowly, "And weather bureau will begin the erection he's named for you.” of a large number of signal towers at various points In the country for the The Little Ke<l Apple Tree. benefit of shipping Interests. From The Little-Red-Apple Tree! these towers will be displayed fiag, Oh, the Little-Red-Apple Tree! pennant and light signals to warn ves When I was the little-est bit of a boy. sels of predicted storms nnd tell them And you were a boy with me! The bluebird's flight from the topmost the directions from which the storms boughs. will come. And the boys up there—so high Twenty-one towers will be erected That we rocked" over the roof of the within the jurisdiction of the Chicago house. weather otflee. Lakes Michigan, Supe And whooped as the winds went by! rior nnd Huron are under the Chicago office and at the various ports on these IIo! the Little Red-Apple Tree! i lakes steel aud Iron structures are to With the garden beds below. be built. They will first be placed at And the old grape-artar so welcomely Hiding the rake and boe— those points where the signal staffs Hiding, too, as the sun dripped through heretofore in use have been blown In spatters of wasted gold, down or have about reached the end of Frank and Amy away from yon their usefulness. The total height of And me, in the days of old. the towers, Includiug topmasts, will be seventy-five feet. At the base the Ab! the Little-Red-Apple Tree! structure will be ten feet square. The Tn the edge of the garden-spot. four standards or corner posts will Where the apples fell so lavishly Into the neighbor’s lot— slant Inward and come together nt a So do I think of you. point fifty feet above the ground. This Brother of mine, as the tree— will be the top of the tower proper. Giving the ripest wealth of your love From this point a mast or flag pole To the world as well as me. will rise twenty-flve feet. From the top of this mast will be dismayed the Oh, the Little-Red-Apple Tree! flag and storm pennants. Forty-five Sweet as its juiciest fruit feet above the ground will be placed Spanged on the palate spicily. the red light and ten feet above this And rolled o’er the tongue to boot. Is the memory still and the joy the white light. These will be the Of the Little-Red-Apple Tree, only light signals. Wherever It Is pos When I was the little-est bit of a boy, sible Incandescent electric lights will And you were a boy with me! be used for the lanterns. In case no —James Whitcomb Riley. electric lights are available the finest oil lamps will be utilized. Where elec Just Held His Breath, Boys are odd conglomerations, and tricity is employed the white lantern few there are who understand the emo will be supplied with two lights of fifty candle power each and the red tions that prompt their actions. A certain little fellow had his pic lamp will have four lights of fifty can- ture taken, and when the family got Jle power each. When the red light Is displayed alone the negative of it they were horrified to see the face of the boy all puffed out and the eyes bulging, and exclaimed in a body: “Why, what on earth did you do to make your face look like that?” "Didn’t do a thing,’ said the innocent little fellow, “but just see If I could hold my breath until the man got through takin' my picture.’ Knew Arithmetic Anyhow, A teacher of music in one of the pub lic schools in the South desired to im press the pupils with the meaning of the signs "f” aud “ff” In a song they were about to sing. After explaining that “f” meant forte, be said: “Now, children, if T means forte, what does •ff’ mean?’ Silence reigned for a moment, and then he was astonished to hear a bright little fellow shout: "Eighty!” Couldn't Be Do«e. Do not omit the late cuoumbers for pickling. The seed may be planted in June or July. The White Spine is an excellent variety, as it is uniform, round and of good length. It is also tender and very crisp, having a long stem, aud they keep well as pickles. They must be picked off daily or they will grow too large. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 60c Writ? for free sample, and booklet on health. Address •terllag Bamedy Ceatpaay, Ibleage, ■entreat, Nsw Tert. S2U KEEP YOUR 8L000 CLEAN 1................ ....... '1 An Kasey Job, ‘‘What is Smith doing now?” What Will B.euui. of China? None can torsee the outcome of the ‘‘He is traveling with a circus.” quarrel between foreign powers over the "Pretty hard work, isn’t it,” division of China It is interesting to "No; he has nothing to do bnt to watch the going to pieces of this race. stick his head into the lion’s mouth Many )>eople arc also going to pieces be cause of dyspepsia, constipation and stom twice a day.”—Tit-Bite. ach diseases. Good health can be retained Silence Is Golden. if we use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Mrs. Stubb—John, would you refei The Chicago Tribune thinks a cycle path for wheelmen may be considered to a gun as feminine? | Mr. Stubb—I should think not Ma- a good thing on the side. i rial Poet’s Trouble. ‘‘And why not?” "The gas bill is twice what it was "Because guns oan be silenced.”— last month,” said the poet’s wife. Chicago Evening News. 1 ‘There must be something wrong with HOITT’S SCHOOL. the meter,” "I wish I were a gas company,” Menlo Park. San Mateo County, Cal., sighed the poet. "Every time my i with its new buildings, newly furnished and complete laboratories, beautiful sur meter goes wrong I lose money.”—In roundings and home influences, is one ol dianapolis Press. j the best equipped schools lor the trebling boys and young men on the coast. Il Black cotton hose should be dried | of is in charge of Dr. Ira <1. Hoitt and is ac and inmed on the wrong side to pre credited at the universities. Send forest- ■ alog. Tenth year begins August 6, 1900 vent fading. Eyesight is frequently impaired by Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That the use of tobacco, due to the paralyz Contain Mercury, A« mercury will surely destroy the sense of ing of the neives controlling the iris, smell and completely derange the whole sys or paralysis of the optic nerve, some tem when entering it through the mucous sur faces. Such articles should never be used ex times resulting in absolute loss of sight. cept on prescriptions from reputable physi cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to Mothers will liixl Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth the good you can possibly derive from them. ing Syrup the best remedy to use for then HalPs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. j children during the teething period. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon The towns of Eddy and Moody. Tex., the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buy Lng Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get have each voted ‘‘no license,” ths the genuine. It is taken internally, and made iu Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co. Testi former by a big majority. monials free. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infal Hall’s Family Pilis are the best. lible medicine for cOuglis and colds —N. Woulii Not Change Metooda. The intense conservatism of the Brit ish character is illustrated in the story of a young Englishman who came to America to seek bls fortune aud found It in a new process for manufacturing lamp black. The principal market for his product was Germany, but he found that the German buyers, In turn, sold It In England. So he conceived the log ical idea of going to England and sell ing the lamp black direct, which ap peared to be certain of success, for ba was able to say to the English firms: "Instead of buying my lamp black through Germany and paying for un necessary transportation, to say noth ing of the middleman’s profit, let me send you the product dlreet. You can then buy even cheaper than the Ger mans, to whom you now pay a profit” The bead of one of the largest bouses replied: "Really, Mr. Smith, our house has al ways found the goods bought In Ger many satisfactory. This house has been in existence 200 years, and we can see no reason for changing satisfactory methods, you know.” Toor Mr. Smith got this reply on all sides and his trip was a failure.—Kan sas City Star. BESTFORTHE BOWELS I NEW SIGNAL TOWKB. The income of John D. Rockefeller, W. S asitl , Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, ___________________ of the Standard Oil Company, increases 1900. at the rate of $684 an hour, night and In Prussia habitual drunkards may day. be legally put in charge of guardiaus. Thermometer h Nursery Requisite. City Clerk Donovan, of Boston, has A thermometer is almost iudespensi- chosen for his messenger a 17 year old girl, Miss Annie G. Riley, the first of ble in the nursery. It should, it possi her sex to hold such a ¡»osition in Bos ble, hang in the middle of the room, ton. The civil service com miss io nets away from the door, window, wall aud being unable to supply a girl in re i fireplace, where the mercury may be sponse to Mr. Donovan’s request, he affected by the draught. It the room where the baby is obliged to sleep is chose his own messenger. very hot in the middle of the day, or a Confusion in the head, vertigo, stu at night, bang a wet sheet over the por, faintness, nausea, vomiting, gen window and leave the door open. eral depression of the nervous and cir Sprinkle the sheet as it dries with a culatory functions, follow the ingestion whisk broom that has been dipped iu of large quantities of tobacco. cold water.—Ladies’ Home Journal. it will indicate that there Is a storm coming from an easterly direction and when the red and white are both turn ed on the storm Is approaching from a westerly point. Prof. Cox says that although the two lights are placed ten We Are Direct Importers of feet apart they will appear to occupy almost the same point when seen from a distance beyond five miles. Conse quently the light signals can be of no value when observed so far away. (The Famous German Wood Preserver) The Government recently issued an WHICH IKKM/t NKNTI.Y DESTROY* Interesting document on the subject of the tower to the public in general and CHICKEIN LICE AND VERMIIN to intending bidders on the construc tion of the signal stations. In this It One application is all that is required. It lasts for years. Price, 50 cents Is stated that the tower Is to be con per quart. Write for circulars and information structed of galvanized structural steel, “the design being similar to that of the ordinary steel towers used for wind FISHER, THORSEN & CO., Portland, Oregon mills, except that the tower Is extend (PACIFIC COAST AGKNTS.) ed upward iu the form of a staff.” ..AVENARIUS CHAMPION A SINGING MOUSE. At one of the gatherings In an elec toral campaign Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett was frequently Interrupted by a man in the body of the ball who re sented bis uncompromising remarks upon political opponents. The knight bore bls trial with admirable good hu mor, till, seeing an opening for scoring a point, he said: "Now, 1 am going to tell you some thing about the late Liberal Govern ment that will make my friend's hair Btand on end,” indicating, with a smil ing nod, the vigorous critic In the body of the hall. And thought that they could settle there "Wrong again!” shouted the Irrepres And always keep quite cool. sible one. removing his cap and display The fieldmouse, though, preferred a nest ing a head as smooth as a billiard ball. “It can't be done.” Secure from every storm. Dowa in the long, dry prairie grass. Dewey's Discipline. Where they could keep quite warm. Admiral Dewey was always a strict disciplinarian, and occasionally Inflicts O’er this they quarreled long and loud. punishment In curious ways. Once With many a croak and squeak. Till each one rushed back home in rage, while In a foreign port he suddenly or And now they never apeak. . dered the heaviest tackle to be got out of the hold without delay. After two Joe and Hie Little I>og. 1 ,ie teacher of a district school In hours' hard work Ills order was carried Maine tells a story that reminds one of out. and he then directed that a large Mary and her little lamb, only It is of chew of tobacco which had been thrown under one of the guns be hoist Joe and bls little dog. ed overboard. Never again on that Joe was a boy about 8 years old, and was devoted to a small, lank puppy, | cruise was snch an unpardonable of Out of school hours boy and dog were fense committed.—Chicago Chronicle. Inseparable, and Joe apparently could Tempting Fate. not reconcile himself to the necessity "I have come,” said the young man. of leaving the dog at home. For sev to ask you to let me have your daugh eral mornings the teacher allowed the ter. ” puppy to remain at Joe's feet under the “Never!” shouted the millionaire. desk. “Thanks," answered the other, as be Then there came a day when the hurried away. “Up to this time ahe has small dog could not be kept quiet, but refused to smile upon my suit When I Newfoantllaad t'adfl.h. frisked ataut to the delight of the I tell her that you object to me ahe will The annual export of codfish from icbool and the dismay of the teacher. be miner*—The Columbian. Newfoundland la about 1,350,000 bun "Joe.' she said, firmly, “you must dredwelgbt. ake that dog out.” See the Words. Joe looked at her mournfully, bnt According to an eminent professor, Unfortunately a willing person la picked up the pup. and with its bead «ome persona are mentally tn prtnt nearly alwaya a stupid person. igalnat bls cheek started for the door. J every word they bear uttered. BINDER .. Best On Earth... Little Ro<lent that Warble. Ja.t Like a Canary. Mrs. M. E. Marshall, of Brownwood, Texas, has iu her possession a singing mouse. This wonderful little animal was captured In a trap Iu Mrs. Mar shall's home several mouths ago. Pre vious to Its capture the inmates of the house frequently heard loud and most beautiful sluglug which seemed to come from the walls of the building. The notes of the music were almost Identical with that of the canary bird, except the volume of music was much louder. Many long aud fruitless searches were made for the supposed bidden canary, and finally some of the people who knew of (lie remarkable musical phenomena had their supersti tion aroused and the report was circu lated that the bouse was liauuted. Mrs. Marshall, however, was willing to live with such a musical ghost. One morn ing a taautlful dove-colored mouse was found In a trap in the pantry. Tbs color and general appearance of the lit tle animal attracted Immediate atten tion, ami while the household were gathered about the trap Inspecting the captive it began to sing like a canary. The notes were strong and clear. The news that a musical mouse had taen captured at Mrs. Marshall's home soon spread throughout the town, and him dreds of people called at the place and saw the little animal and heard it sing. A handsome cage was provided for It and It soon liecame completely domesti cated. It slugs hour after hour and seems to enjoy the distinction which It has attained. The house has been vis ited by people from far aud Dear, and no one la ab:e to explain the remark able gift which It possesses.—Austin (Texas) Correspondence Chicago Rec ord. CARBOUNEUM.. Eccentric Sprocket Wheel, chain pul la on the long; spokes when doing the hardest work, which is compressing the bundle, ty ing the knot and discharging the bundle. 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