Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — Page 3

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Bills of Fare in Fashionable Restaurants.

The question has been mooted oTer and over again whether French and German dishes upon the bills of fare is or is not an improvement Many pretend that before their introduction cooking was coarse. No bill of fare presents attractions to the, dyspeptic, but even they can be cured by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters.

Pompeii Tumblers.

Tumblers resembling in shape and dimensions those employed to-day have been found In great number in Pompeii. They were made of gold, silver, glass, marble, agate and of precious stones.

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Nest of Spectacle Frames.

Bombay newspapers are responsible for the tale of a local crow which has built Its nest of spectacle frames stolen one by one from the stock of a Baboo optician.

What Do the Children Drink?

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A Hopeless Invalid.

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Introductions.

Do not presume that promiscuous introductions are agreeable. You should be sure that the parties to be introduced are at least willing to be made acquainted. The person of inferior rank should be presented to those of higher rank; the younger to those of superior age; and gentlemen to the ladles In every case. No extended formula Is necessary in introductions. A short, courteous presentation of one to the other is all that Is needed. Nor should excessive adulation be indulged, or gushing expressions of pleasure, etc. When a famous person Is Introduced, a reference to his fame Is not out of place. Because of an introduction, neither party should presume that the acquaintances shall be continued; that must depend on the encouragement In that direction, which either party may be pleased to give. A lady to whom you have been introduced may, at her op tion, omit to recognize you afterward. This is no discourtesy; It is her proper privilege. In introducing parties, a formula entirely proper is, “Mr. Webb, permit me to Introduce to you to my friend, Mr. Garns.” Then turning to the friend presented add, “Mr. Cams, my friend, Mr. Webb.” Gentlemen bow, and shake hands on introduction. If introduced to a lady, let her make the advance In the handshaking; and whether she extend her hand or not, the gentleman should bow. Let all handshaking be cordial, but not excessive. A mere extension of a few fingers, or a listless offering of the hand, is as far from the proper act as a grasp that splits a glove, and crushes a lady’s hand.

The changes in methods of operation and operating staff on the Chicago Great Western Railway, which have been forecasted In these columns, became effective on May 9. The official circulars issued by Mr. Raymond DuPuy, General Superintendent, announce the abolishment of the office of superintendent of transportation and the appointment of Mr. J. Berlingett, who has held that position, as superintendent of the southwest division, extending from Kansas City, Mo., to Oelwein, lowa, with headquarters at Des Moines, lowa. Mr. J. A. Kelley is appointed superintendent of the northwest division, including main line Oelwein to Minneapolis and the Lyle and Hampton branches, and is located at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. O. CorneHsen is appointed acting superintendent of the eastern division, Chicago to Oelwein, headquarters at Dubuque, lowa.

An Illusion.

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Cradle Rocked by a Mule.

A traveler going through a sparsely settled section of Canada came to a lonely cabin, and, finding the door open, went in. Nobody was in sight, but in the center of the room he saw a cradle with a baby lying in it fast asleep. The cradle was rocked back and forth with great regularity, and he was puzzled to know what kept it in motion. • On examination he found a stout cord attached to a nail driven in the side of the cradle and passed through an auger hole in the side of the house. He took up the trail, which led him into a ravine where a donkey was standing and switching his tail. The mystery was explained. The other end of the cord was attached to the donkey’s tail, and the constant switching kept the cradle in motion. It was an ingenious device on the part of the mother to keep her baby asleep while she went off for a time.—Ontario Banner.

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PAYING THE PENALTY

CHAPTER X.

When the family of the banker assembled at the breakfast table on the morning following the evening of the robbery of the express agent, Janette was unable to join them. \<. Mr. Kellogg speedily summoned Thomas, who was immediately dispatched with a note gammoning Dr. Hewft, who arrived as the family were leaving the table. Janette had directed her lister to state that she would breakfast later, that rhe was not seriously ill, and that It was needless to summon a physician. But she was not surprised when Dr. Bewit accompanied her father, sister and the widow into the room. “Why, papa, I hardly expected ” “I know, dearest, but I deemed it best to delay no longer. The patient is in your hands, doctor.” “Really, doctor,” said Janette, “I hardly think you will find me ill enough to require a prescription. And yet- ” “She has been ailing for ten days, doctor,” asserted Laura. “I think it is high time that she has medical attention.” “Now, Laura!” .. “Oh, you know it is true, Janette.” “Little girl,” said the physician, “perhaps you were afraid of some of the doctor’s nauseous medicines.” “Oh, no, doctor; but I could not bear td be classed as an invalid.” “Well, let me see.” “I will await your diagnosis of the case in the library, doctor;” and Mr. Kellogg passed from the room. “Your eyes are as bright and as blue as the sky; face a little flushed; pulse too quick. Ah, you have some fever. Your tongue is clear. I see! A little soreness there. Yon have headache, pain in region of the heart, at times, and an unusual thirst.” “Why, doctor, you have described my condition exactly.” “I thought so, my dear. Now the next thing is to dispel all of your ailments. But there is a cause for all this. Have you been eating anything not usually in your daily diet?” “I hardly think so, doctor.” “Doctor, for a week the poor girl has eaten literally nothing.” “Why, Laura, you know Aunt Elinor has prepared me toast and tea, and goodness knows what—at least a dozen times a day.” “I have brought them to you, dear, when you felt disinclined to epter the dining room. But I have sometimes been obliged to have Julia carry the greater part back again,” observed the widow. “And then, aunt, you have given me wine, three or four times daily.” “I thought it nothing serious,” said the madam, “and that the tonic effect of wine would restore you. Why, doctor, the dear girl has descended the stairs each morning until now.” “Which she should not have done,” said the doctor. “However, I trust soon to have her as lively as ever. But, my dear, you must remain very quiet for at least a week. There is some inflammation—yes, considerable inflammation. I will prescriptions and instructions as to diet with your father.” “And I must remain in bed all that time, doctor? Oh, dear!” “Until I see you again, at least, little miss. Good-bye.” “The toast and tea and wine, doctor? You would not proscribe them?” “No, no, madam. I think you-a capital nurse. But then, not much wine until the inflammation has subsided and all soreness has left the stomach.” In the library the doctor found Mr. Kellogg. “Well, doctor, what is the nature of Janette’s illness?” “Oh, nothing serious, nothing serious. She is suffering from a slight attack of gastric inflammation of the stomach*” “What caused it?” “That I am unable to say. Possibly some article of her diet. I will leave two prescriptions with directions as to what food she may partake of. She should be as well as ever in a week. She needs, however, complete rest for a few days.” “I will see that your instructions are carried out to the letter. Elinor is much attached to her, and either herself or Laura shall attend her constantly.” “With such nurses, her days of confinement will be few. Your sister-in-law I regard as a capital nurse, and in many ways as a remarkable woman.” “She is, she is! And do you know, doctor, that on the first of September next, she will become my wife?” “Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. Kellogg. But I am not altogether surprised. I had foreseen it.” “Indeed!” “Yes. What more natural? How—how faithfully she nursed your wife.” Here the doctor passed one hand before his eyes as if to shut out some vision his words had caused to rise before him. “True!” exclaimed the banker.

The physician wrote the prescriptions and the instructions, handed them to Mr. Kellogg, and a moment later had left the house. After the doctor had taken his departure Mr. Kellogg again ascended the stairs to his daughter’s room. “Daughter” he said to Laura, “here are the prescriptions and instructions as to diet. I wish you would personally step over to the drug store and have the prescriptions filled. Somehow I never did like the idea of sending a servant on an errand of that nature.” “Certainly, father.” “I do hope they will capture that highwayman and robber to-day, papa,” said Jahette, as her sister left the room. “Oh, he will, no doubt, be captured soon, daughter, and the money, or a greater part of it, recovered. Twenty thousand dollars is too large a sum for the express company to lose. The morning papers are down in the library. A full account of the robbery is there; but I was so worried over your condition that I failed to read it; I merely glanced it over and noted that the miscreant is still at large.” “Poor papa!” “Not poor papa, dear, if you are soon restored to health. Now good-bye, the carriage is waiting for me. Good-bye, Elinor.”

The banker imprinted a kiss on the lips of each and left the room. “I will sencr up the papers by Julia,” he called from the hall. “Laura!” “Yes, father, I am just going.” “Wait; Tom can drive by the drug store and I will leave you there. I have plenty of time to get to the bank.” Once at his office, Mr. Kellogg again perused the different accounts of the robbery. Two columns of one of the papers were occupied in rendering an account of it; but as the reader is familiar with the incidents we will not quote from the article;. It was predicted, however, that the robber and highwayman would soon be captured, as the full detective force of the city was working on the case. At eleven o’clock Mr. Kellogg walked through the-alley where the crime had been committed and over to the express office. Passing through the alley he met perhaps a hundred men. They were coming from all directions to view the scene of the crime. "Strange,” he thought, “how the commission of a crime in a certain location will impel citizens to visit the locality. Now the criminal himself may be one of these very men. I have heard that criminals were prone to revisit the scenes of their crimes.” Involuntarily he found himself gazing at the countenances of those he passed.

“The agent stated that Els worth said his assailant resembled Earl. Strange! No, I don’t know aa it Is—he mast resemble some one. But there are none of these, at least, that resemble EarL” Arrived at the express office, the banker found Inspector Hunt closeted with Mr. Andrews. “Anything later than that stated in the morning papers?” he asked. “Oh, the press play off of the handler’ said Hunt. “Those infernal reporters make me tired. Yon would naturally think to read their articles that they knew all about it. They don’t know a thing. And they do ns more harm than good. They don’t half know what we are doing. We try to mislead them, for they publish everything they find out and more that they don’t find out I can’t say that we have captured the robber, but we have ronnded up twenty or thirty suspects, and are looking for more. We are bound to recover the money and land that villain in Joliet. Bound to do it!” “I hope you may. What condition is Elsworth in this morning, Mr. Andrews?’ “I drove past his home this morning,” was the reply. “His physicians found it necessary to take several stitches on his scalp, but his case is not critical. I think he will be able to report for duty in a week or two. But I will tell you one thing—no agent or collector of onrs shall ever pass through an alley again with a money package, day or night, rain or shine.” “Never trust to alleys,” said the inspector; “even down town there is danger in every one of them. If Elsworth had been passing along a public street where there is more travel, he probably would not have been assaulted.” “And we would not be out twenty thousand dollars,” said the agent. “Oh, that will come back. But I must go and see how my instructions are being carried out.” “The inspector seems confident of success in the case,” said Mr. Kellogg as Hunt disappeared. “Yes, such people are always confident —almost too confident. Yet he may succeed. I thought of offering a reward—a good, big one—for the apprehension of the thief and the recovery of the money. In fact, I communicated with the president of the company by telegraph last night. He advised me not to do so at present—predicted that hundreds of innocent people would be arrested and endeavors made to fasten the crime on some one of them, guilty or not guilty. He counseled delay in the matter, and I have come to the conclusion that he was right.” “I judge he was,” observed the banker. “We will first see what Hunt and his men can do.” “I trust they may succeed in apprehending the guilty party, if they have not already done so,” Mr. Kellogg said as he took his departure. In returning to the bank he somehow found himself again scanning the countenances of those he passed and met. “Why,” he suddenly exclaimed, “here I am looking again for a man who resembles Earl. What folly!”

CHAPTER XI. For the ten days following the robbery Inspector Hunt knew little rest. Day and night that astute official might have been found in his private office, looking wise and examining suspects. Fully fifty men had been apprehended and lodged within the walls of the various station houses. Some of them were old offenders and .known criminals, otSers strangers to Chicago, or men unknown to the department. Tramps? No. In those happy days ante-dating the civil war, tramps and beggars were unknown to the great Northwest. It was particularly unsafe In the days immediately following the robbery for a man of a dark, swarthy complexion, black hair and mustache, of about five feet eight inches in height and wearing a derby hat and dark sack coat, if he was a stranger in Chicago, to be found on the streets of the city; for he was forthwith apprehended. One by one these unfortunates were brought before the doughty inspector and subjected to his routine of questioning: “Your name?” “Where were you between the hours of five and six on the evening of the twentyseventh of June?” “Where do you reside?” “What is your vocation?” “Have yon ever been apprehended before?” “Have you witnesses to establish the fact that you are telling the truth, and that you were in the location stated between the hours named?’ “Inspector,” a policeman announces, “the -outer office is full of witnesses who are waiting to prove alibis for these men.” “Was this man’s person searched when he was apprehended?” “Was his lodging place searched?” “Call in the witness summoned in the prisoner’s behalf and the officer who apprehended him.” The parties are soon before the inspector.

“Officer Murry, you apprehended this man. Did you search him? If so, what did you find on his person?” “A plug of tobacco, a pocket knife and three dollars and a half in silver.” “Does he room in the location stated, and have you searched the premises?” “I have, but found nothing but his clothing. Here is Mr. Evans of the firm of Evans & Browning, summoned for the prisoner.” “You know this man, Mr. Evans?” “Well, yes; he has been in my employ for the past six years. His detention here has caused me great inconvenience, as he is our shipping clerk.” “Read this statement. It embraces merely my questions to him and his answers.” “He has told you the truth in all particulars.” “Suspect released. Bring in the next one.” The employer and late prisoner depart in company, cursing the detective and the police force of Chicago in general and Inspector Hunt in particular. Each man detained in the station was in turn brought forward and each in turn went on his way denouncing the authorities who had held him—a man, of course, above suspicion in his own mind—a “suspect.”

Some few were not fortunate enough to gain release on their first examination, but at the expiration of ten days, the last suspect walked the streets a free man. In the case of a number of them Collector Elsworth, who had now resumed his duties, was summoned to the inspector’s office, but in each case he had said: “I do not believe that to be the man I passed on the sidewalk before entering the alley.” Inspector Hnnt was a disgusted man. “There? goes the laßt or fifty suspects that our officers have apprehended,” he said, as number fifty made his exit from the office. “That cjeans up the first batch. It appears rather discouraging. The fact is, Elsworth is unable to identify the man he passed before entering the alley. Again, if he could identify him, where is the evidence that that man committed the crime? Of course, if we had that individual, and a search of his person or lodging place revealed a large sum of nioney, we could make him account for how it came into his possession. There we are again. We have a schedule of the banks that issued the bills of which the collector was robbed, but not the number of a single bill. This is bound to be a difficult case to unravel.” And the inspector arose quickly from his chair, twirled the ends of his silken mustache, looked wise, and sat down again as he heard the voice of Mr. Andrews in the outer office. A moment later that gentleman was seated at the inspector’s elbow. “So the man we are looking for was not among your suspects, inspector?” he said. “It seems not,” observed the official. “At least none of them filled the bill to

be could identify the man if he was confronted by him. And then, it don’t folHere the inspector detailed, word for word, his musings of bat a few minutes before. “Well, what is to be your next step?” asked the agent. “Why, we will keep on gathering in suspects. In this case there is nothing else we can do. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. It is worse, for it is a question whether we can identify the needle after we have found it.” “If you could find among your suspects one having a large amount of money composed' of bills of the scheduled banks ” “There our hope lies—just there.” “Yes, but if not done soon the money may be scattered to the winds. That man may be five hundred miles from Chicago before this time.” J (To be continued.)

THE TRAMP’S REVENGE.

HoW He Evened Things Up with the Woman of Forbidding Face. The sunshine, the daffodils and the balmy air proclaimed his coming. The woman on the front stoop of the farm house was in no wise surprised when she saw Meandering Mike swinging up the road. He took off his hat and bowed with the genial confidence of one who expects to be welcomed as an old friend. But icy winter still lingered in the stare she gave him. He bowed once more and said “Good-mornin’, lady,” but she did not modify her forbidding aspect. “Excuse me, lady," he proceeded, as he' restored his hat to his head and looked at her with disfavoring intentness; “but is your husband a man with faded yellow whiskers?” “Yes,” she answered, “but you needn’t tell me that he sent you with any orders for me. He wouldn’t dare.” “I only wanted to identify him. He’s kind o’ roufid-shouldered an’ wears a little checked coat whose sleeves don’t come more’n half way up to his elbows?’ “Yes.” “An’ his hair is cut straight off behind like the bottom of a paint brush?’ “Yes.” “Then, lady, that bein’ the case, I won’t bother you no further. I did have it in my mind to ax you fur somethin’ to eat, but I’ll save meself the humiliation of a refusal. I ain’t goin’ to stand around an’ try to soften yer heart by eloquence, ’cause the fust thing I knowed I’d be workin’ so hard I’d have a breakfast earned, whether I got it or not. I’m sorry, though, fur yer husband’s sake.” • “What has my husband to do with this case?” “Nothin’, lady. He ain’t ip it. That’s why I’m sorry for ’im. When I met him he axed me was I goin’ to make application for a hand-out, an’ when I told ’im ‘yes,’ he looked at me in a way fit to bring tears, an’ says: ‘Pardner, are you very hungry? ‘Only middlin’,’ says I. ‘Well, den,’ says he, ‘l’d like to ax a favor. Es dat lady gives you anyt’ing would ye be so kind-hearted as ter come back and give me half?’ ’’

Did He See a Ghost?

The suicide of the famous demlmondaine Herlinda Martinez, alias La Popocha, wlill be remembered. The SWman in question had attained a certain notoriety above the generality of those of her class in Mexico, owing to a certain chic, dash and elegance In dress. Her house on Puente Quebrado street was the scene of nightly revels. She deprived herself of life by shooting herself, owing, it was said, to the death of a young man to whom she was sincerely attached. The furniture of the house was of considerable value and was her own property. As she died intestate, the house was closed and sealed by order of the court, to prevent any of the articles being removed, until such time as it is determined who are the unfortunate woman’s heirs.

Owing to the house having been so long closed and to the tragic manner of “La Potpocha’s” death, as well as to the wiM orgies that used to take place there nightly until dawn, the belief has spread In the neighborhood that the house is haunted. Many aver that after midnight every night a woman in deep mourning, with disheveled hair, and a ghastly wound In one of her temples, Is seen to cross the street quickly, holding a (pistol in her right hand. She glides through the wall.of the building into the interior of the house. A gendarme nightly takes up his stand in the patio, and the other morning the one who had this duty was found dead at his post. His death is attributed to fright at the sight of this midnight specter. He was, however, troubled with heart disease.—Mexicar Herald.

“I Would Rather Sing.”

An 8-year-old child with a cut In her hand was brought to a physician. It was necessary for the best results to take a few stitches with a surgeon’s needle. While the physician was making preparations the little girl swung her foot nervously against the chair, and was gentle admonished by her mother.

“That will do no harm,” said the doctor, kindly, “as long as you hold your hand still,” adding with a glance at the strained, anxious face of. the child, “you may cry as much as you like.” “I would rather sing,” replied the child. “All right, that would be better. What can you sing?” “I can sing, ‘Give, give, said the little stream.’ Do yon know that?” “I am not sure,” responded the doctor. “How does it begin?” The little patient proceeded to Illustrate. “That’s beautiful,” said the doctor. “I want to hear the whole of it. AM the while the skillful fingers were sewing up the wound the sweet, childish voice sounded bravely through fJhe room, and the only tears shed on the occasion came from the eyes of the mother. It is, I believe, a physiological fact that some expression of one’s feelings tends to lessen pain. Since weeping and groaning are distressing to one’s friends, how would it do for us all to try singing instead?

Marshal Ney’s Watch.

The army museum In Paris has just acquired a watch formerly belonging to the bravest of the brave, Marshal Ney. A history attaches to this watch, which was given to Ney by Napoleon. On the morning of AusterMtz, so says the tradition, Napoleon asked Ney the time. “By your watch,” replied the marshal, taking it out of his pocket, “it is the hour of victory.”

A. Reformer.

“Mammy, you know that penny you gave Dickie to help buy a new battleship?” “Yes, Bobby; what of it?” “Goln’ to school, be said war was wicked an’ he spent it for candy.” The Chinese dictionary, compiled by Pa-cut-she, 1100 years B. C., is the most ancient of any recorded in literary history.

Tired of Higb living.

A member of the police force came across a boy the other day who was wheeling home a load of oyster cans and bottles, and, curious to know what use the lad could put them to, he made a direct inquiry: “Going to throw them over into our back yard,” replied the boy. “I took two loads home yesterday.” “But what do you use them for?’ ‘Tt’s a trick of the family,” grinned the lad. “How trick?' “I’d just as lief tell,” continued the boy, as be spit on his hands to resume hold on the barrow. “We are going to have some relashuns come in from the country. We may not have much to eat, but If they see these cans and bottles and boxes they’ll think we’ve had Isters, champagne, figs and nuts till we’ve got tired of ’em and are living on bread and taters for a healthy change.” The officer scratched his ear like a man who had received a new idea.— New Orleans Times-Denjocrat.

War with Spain.

APnvar with Spain has broken out the officials seem to think that all that will be needed is warships, torpedo boats and other instruments of destruction. But really what will be needed more than anything else is a good supply of “5 DROPS” (manufactured by the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., 167 Dearborn street, Chicago III.), to knock out the Rheumatism which is sure to grip our soldiers and sailors in the miasmatic climate of Cuba and the surrounding islands. The truth Is that something to heal and cure is precisely what is needed right now in the desolated “Queen of the Antilles.” Those 200,000 reconcentrndos reported dying by hundreds need provisions, but they need good medicines fully as much. If Miss Barton, of the Red Cross relief work, was supplied with “5 DROPS” she could save many a sick Cuban. These miraculous “St!>ROPS" conquer many of the worst diseases, sucb as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, tlie excruciating Sciatica and the other diseases for which it is recommended. The War Department should see that there is an abundant supply of “5 DROPS” in the medicine chests.

A Kansas Rat Dance.

During the fall of 1874 rats became a serious menace to the farmers of Jackson County, Kansas, and one night at a meeting of the literary society in the Coleman school house it was proposed to organize a hunt. Sides were chosen, and it was agreed that the losers were to pay for a supper and dance. Three weeks were fixed as the limit of the hunt, but this was reduced to ten days when it was discovered that warm weather was making it impossible to preserve the tails, which were to be used in making the count. At the end of ten days both hunting teams assembled at the school house with their tails and a count was made, with the result of showing 6,350 dead rats in total. More than 1,000 of these had been killed on the farm of. G. W. Reynolds alone. After the count supper was served and a dance followed until daylight. The affair is still known in local circles as the great rat dance.—Holton (Kan.) Signal.

Leveling Clocks.

Clocks can- be accurately leveled by a new shelf, which has a fixed wall plate supporting a pivotal, adjustable shelf, with levels in the top, to be set by thumb screws on the under side.

Oldest Sailing Vessel.

The oldest sailing craft in the world is the so-called Goldstad ship, a Viking vessel, which was discovered in a sepulchral mound on the shores of Christiania fjord. It is 1,000 years old. He that is always calm is always brave.

TRIALS OF SALESWOMEN. Mrs. Plnkham Says Standing Still is One of Woman’s Most Trying Tasks. vltt r Have you ever thought why it is that so many women or girls rather walk for an hour than stand still for ten minutes ? It is because most women suffer from some derangement of their delicate organism, the liscomfort from which is less trying when they are in motion than when standing. So serious are these troubles and so dangerous to health that the laws in some states com- aiP&jIWRMSMjpk pel employers to provide resting places for But no amount of law can regulate the hard tasks of these women. Customers are exacting, and expect the Baleslady to be always cheerful and pleasant. How can a girl - ~' ~ be cheerful when her back is Vfcy"""" aching, whenshe Is assailed by lassitude and bearing- ~| | LSJ j—• down pains? No matter how sweet tempered she ie | naturally, her nerves give way under the pain after a while, Vp Employers, however, don’t want cross and snappy saleswo men. Cheerfulness is very Important capital, and no one can be j » amiable when racked with pain. If you are ill or suffering, write 1 without delay to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., and tell her all about yourself. Your story will not be new to her; she has heard it many thousand times and will know just what you need. Without doubt, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will help you, it has done such wonderful things for suffering women. Do not hesitate to write her all the little things that make you feel miserable. Your letter will not be seen by any man, and Mrs. Pinkham’s advice will cost you nothing. Read this letter from Mrs. Margaret Anderson, 403 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— For years I had suffered with painful menstruation every month. At the beginning of menstruation it was impossible for me to stand up for more than five minutes, I felt so miserable. One day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham’s was thrown into my house, and I sat right down and read it. I then got some of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. 44 1 can heartily say that to-day I feel like a new woman; my monthly suffering is a thing of the past. I shall always praise the Vegetable Compound for what it has done for me.” - Ask Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice—A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Ills

AA~M Your market iY\ Y and butcher shop ought to use Pearline, \ l 1 * < surely. There’s no place that needs to be ! ZZZ Z kept cleaner. M y . '£\ There’s no place that’s half as w Lp hard to keep clean. Soap and Vvyfuj£V water is of no use at all It ~C *JJJ) takes Pearline, and nothing L but Pearline, to keep down \\A 1 § f the general greasiness. ✓ > How many places you see, where f f —if \ the whole shop and fixtures in it j, ’-gjjyr | seems to be fairly crying out for Pearline! ki Millions Pearline

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Heart Facts and Figures.

The human heart is six inches in length, four Inches in diameter, and beats ou au average of seventy times per miuute, 4,200 times an hour, 100,800 times a day, and 36,792,000 times In the course of the year, so that the heart of an ordinary man 80 years of age has beaten 3,000,000,000 times.

Admiral Dewey.

“The American Navy Illustrated," shows pictures of Admiral Dewey, Fitzhugh Lee, the wrecked Maine, the vessels now composing the American navy, Morro Castle and many others. See adv. columns of this paper.

Elk Born in Captivity.

A baby elk was born In Tumwater Park, near Olympia, Ore. The appearance of this baby explodes the theory that elks in captivity will not breed. The three grown elks in Tumwater were reared in confinement, having been captured when quite young.

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