Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — Page 3

A CRY FOR HELP. Result of a Prompt Reply.—Two Letters from Mrs. Watson, Published by Special Permission.— For Women’s Eyes Only. March 15,1899. To MRS. PINKHAM, Lynn, Mass.: -*~ “ Dear Madam :—I am suffering from inflammation of the ovaries and womb, and have been for eighteen months. I hare a continual pain and soreness in my back and side. lam only free from pain when lying down, or sitting in an easy chair. When I stand I suffer with severe pain in my side and back. I believe my troubles were caused by over work and lifting some years ago. “Life is a drag to me, an'd I sometimes feel like giving up ever being a well woman; have become careless and unconcerned about everything. lam in bed now. I have had several doctors, but they did me but little good. “ Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been recommended to me by a friend, and I have made up my mind to give it a fair trial. “I write this letter with the hope of hearing from you in regard to my case.” Mbs. S. J. Watson, Hampton, Va. November 27, 1899. “Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I feel it my duty to acknowledge to you the benefit that your advice and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound have done for me. “ I had been suffering with female troubles for some time, could walk but a short distance, had terrible bearing down pains in. lower part of my bowels, backache, and pain in ovary. I used your • medicine for four months and was so much better that I could walk three times the distance that I could before. “I am to-day in better health than I have been for more than two years, and I know it is all due to Lydia E. Piilkham’s Vegetable Compound. “ I recommend your advice and medicine to all women who suffer.” Mrs. S. J. Watson, Hampton, Va. This is positive proof that Mrs. Pinkham is more competent to advise sick women than any other person-. Write her. It costs you nothing. » REWARD. —We have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, SSOOO, Which wili be paid to any person who can find that the above testimonial letters are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the writer’s special permission. LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO.

A Scotch Dialogue.

The British Weekly prints a story told by lan Maclaren in a brilliant address on Scotch humor, delivered when be was entertained by the Whitefriars’ Club. It illustrates the national character. In a dull Scotch village, on a dull moi'ning, one neighbor called upon another. He was met at the door by his friend’s wife, and the dialogue went thus: “Cauld?” “Aye. Gaen to be weety (rainy), I think.” “Aye. Is John in?” “Oh, aye, he’s in.” “Can I see him?” "No.” “But 1 wanted to see him.” “Aye, but you canna see him—John’s deid.” “Deid?” “Aye.” “Sudden ?” "Aye.” “Very sudden?” “Very sudden.” “Did he say onything about a pot of green paint before he deid?”

What a Wonder!

Bird Dealer—What do you mean by returning that parrot after keeping him for four months? What’s the matter with him. Customer—W-w-well, the b-to-b-blame b-b-b-bird st-st-st-utters!

If Coffee Poisons You.

mins your digestion, make* you nervous and sallow complexioued, keeps you awake nights and acts against your system generally, try Grain-O, the new food drink. It is mud'e of pure selected grain and ia healthful, nourishing and uppetlsing. It has none of the bad effects of coffee, yet it is just as pleasant to the taste, and when properly prepared can’t be told from the finest coffee*. Costs about % as much, ft is a healthful table drink for the children and adults. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. IB and 25e. Mr. Portly—You’re rather a small boy to be working this elevator, aren’t you? The Boy—Yea; but, you see, the rope was always breaking with the bigger boys. That’s why they got me. Mr. Portly walked. The Portuguese firat brought tea from China and the Bast in the alxteenth century. Mr*. Wlaalow** Soot*:*# error lor Child!**

Comfortable Hermitage.

Near Marquette, according to a Wisconsin paper, an old man has lived for several years in a tree. He is a flrstclass cabinet-maker, and when he came to Marquette from Detroit, he took up his residence in the liollow trunk of a tree near the town. The tree is a huge linden, sawed off about fifteen feet from the ground, and in it the occupant has brought to bear his accomplishments as a workman. He lias cut a door and window. The inner walls of his home are ceiled and papered. A circular seat extends round the room from door to window, .and' there is a comfortable pile of furs that makes a luxurious bed. The place is warmed, when warmth is needed, with an oil-stove. The man ‘plays fifteen different musical Instruments, and with these and books entertains himself and his visitors. Some people will perhaps be ready to say that a man who plays fifteen instruments ought to live in a hermitage.

His Preference.

Having extended to the Chinese prince the official invitation to commit suicide, we asked him, tentatively, what method he funded. “A lingering one," he replied. We pressed him for details. “I think I shall commit suicide by alow poison,” he said at length. “Say by drinking two cups of coffee per diem.’’—. J udge.

Well Named.

Cora —Why is that artist called an impressionist? , Merritt —Because a picture of his looks as if he laid the canvas on a palette full of colors and took an impression.—Judge.

Hall’s Catarrh Cura,

Is taken Internally. Price 75 cents.

Activity.

First Tramp—De dog chased you, did he? Second Tramp—You bet! For a few minutes I had to lead a purely strenuous life!—Puck. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for conghs and colds.— N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1900. The tea plant grows best on hill slopes, where the s*” is not too retentive of moisture.

Soliloquy of the Boarding-House Man

To move or not to move, that is the question. Whether ’tis wiser in the paunch to suffer The dyspeptic fodder of a villainous acullion, - " - Or to pack trunks and fly to other cooking, And by moving mend it? To pack, to flee, To go, and by a move to say we end The maw ache and the thousadd frightful things . That hash Is heir to; ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To go, to more. To move we know not where, Aye, there’s the rub, For in that change of room what cooks might come, Red armed and grimy handed, to serve the table, 'Must give us pause; there’s'the respect That makes calamity of boarding life; For who would bear the hash and soups and prunes. The leathery meats and aged fowls and eggs, The rooms unswept, the groaning harshness of the squeaky bed, The insolence of chambermaids and things That patient merit of the landlady takes, When he himself might his quick rescue make By a change of room? Who would dyspepsia call To rack his stomach and to weary life. Butr that the dread of other rooms and .cooks Sickens the stomach, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those cooks we have Than fly to others we know notlof? Thus boarding doth make cowards of us all, - And thus resolution halts and falters, While we grow pale and thin and weazen featured, Ready to drop into untimely graves. —New York Herald.

A Pike County Miracle.

Velpln.lnd., June 17.—Wm. O. B. Sullivan, farmer of this place, and who is a brother Of ex-Representative Sullivan of Pike and Dubois Counties, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mr. Sullivan is 49 years of age, and has been a citizen of Pike County for thirty years. For two years he has suffered much with Kidney Trouble and Rheumatism. His shoulders and side were very sore and stiff, and his back was so bad be could hardly straighten up at all. He had palpitation of the heart, and a smothering which was very distressing. He used three boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and Is as strong and well as ever he was. He pronounces his cure a miracle. Mr. Sullivan’s statement of his case is startling: “A month ago I was a cripple. Today I can do a hard day’s work every day, and have not a single ache or pain.” Dodd’s Kidney Pills have done some wonderful cures in .jdlana, but none more miraculous than that in the case of Mr. Sullivan.

Deficient in Geography.

Orders have been given by Captain Knipe to pick up all suspicious-looking characters in Flatbush, and this morning Magistrate Steers had one of them before him. He gave the name of Henry. “Haven’t any home?” inquired the magistrate. “Naw.” “Where’d you come from?” “Indiana.” “What town?” “Chicago.” “Twenty-nine days in jail.”—Brooklyn Eagle.

Would Be the Result.

Passenger—Won’t you take my seat, madam? Lady—l beg of you not to rise, sir. Passenger—l should feel very much embarrassed to have you sitting on my lap before all these people.

It Was Up to Him.

Maisie —If I should fall out of this wagon, what would you do? Dick—l’d catch you in my arms. Masie —Get ready.

i Dyspepsia § Most people eat more than !s good for them. The stomach tries to digest all that’s put into It, but If repeatedly overloaded, it goes on A a strike. That’s indigestion. Rich, over-sweet, indigestible food weakens the stomach and makes it unable to take care of the material pul Q Into ft. More food taken Into a weakened stomach than the stomach can digest, stays there, forms gases and rots, bringing on all the horrors at Q dyspepsia. The only way to cure dyspepsia is to clean out the digestive canal with CASCARETS. Keep it clean wish Cascarets, eat light A Q food sparingly, and give the stomach a chance to rest up and get strong again. Q §S Be sure you get the genuine GARGARETS! fc wj when be upr osing to » heiress, do yon? U 1 u /to —lndianapolis „oarnal. hav n A **For six years I wsss vtettsa ef4j»- 5c M X pepela In Its wont form I oouid an* nothing f 5 bat mUk toast. ss4 at times my stomach you. 5C M . would not retain sad dlgwai even that. Last «r» A -»Maroh I began taak .. a. ■‘a K>:TO and since y SC lof thon I have Bteadll; improved, until lam aa bet n O jj. a X Sc M The discovery by the •‘-'thbors : v tt a HUH D I tadcafcgfo O BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. R Booocxxxsoooooosxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooexxxxaocxsooocxxxxsexx

SINKING INTO A SALT LAKE.

English Town Is Being Engulfed in a Subterranean Abyss. The Pennsylvania coal region Is not the ofcly part of the world in which towns are being undermined and where houses topple from their and disappear from sight as if swallowed up by an earthquake. England has at least one parallel, for Northwich, the center of the salt industry of the country, is slowly, but surely, sinking beneath the surface of the earth. The product of the salt mines of Nortbwich Is obtained by two methods —quarrying and brine-pumping. In the former case which is the method generally adopted, a shaft is sunk about 300 feet and the salt rock blasted and excavated in the usual manner. The brine-pumping, although it is still continued upon a large scale, is gradually falling into disuse. When the industry was started It was considered that only one stratum of salt existed, and that was only a few feet below the surface. Fresh-water found its way to this extensive salt deposit, with the result that the salt dissolved like snow. A huge subterranean lake of water, charged with 26 per cent of salt, was thus formed. Pumping engines were then Installed to convey this brine to the surface to large? evaporating pans, in which a heavy deposit of salt was left after the water had evaporated. The result of this extensive pumping is that Northwich now rests, as it were, upon a shell of earth, which at times proves insufficient to support the weight of the houses, with the inevitable consequence that the buildings are constantly sliding and collapsing in every direction. As the result of a subsidence one building fell over upon Its back in the course of a single night, and it is noteworthy that the house, owing to the care observed in its construction, fell over intact, not a crack being produced in the walls nor even a pane of glass being broken. There Is scarcely a perpendicular wall to be seen in the town; in numerous cases the doors and window frames of the houses are awry; the roads are extremely uneven, and are often closed, owing to the falling in of portions. Houses are being continually condemned as unsafe for human habitation and demolished. In some cases the sinking is very gradual, while in others it is unexpected and instantaneous. One of the principal thoroughfares took forty years to sink fifteen feet, while another grew appreciably wider every day. Examination proved that one side of the street was slipping completely away. The shop of a dry goods merchant sank one-fifth of its height In ten years, and in the subsequent seven years subsided another fifth. Several houses may be seen, the windows of the ground floor of which are level with the roadway.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-0 you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about Vi as mneh. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c.

His Parcel.

Mrs. Lots —Hasn’t that man next door got a mortgage on his place? Mr. Lots—Yes, indeed, he has. “Why does he refer to the property as a parcel?” “Because it’s tied up, I suppose.”— Yonkers Statesman.

Not Very Ancient.

“Is Miss Primrose a Daughter of the Revolution?” “Mercy, no; she wasn’t born until after the war of 1812.”—Atlanta Constitution.

A Woman a Way.

In the conservatory nook, With lovely Constance tete-a-tete, I told her, as her hand I took, I loved her—left to her my fate. She scarcely seemed to hear {I own Emotion made avowal faint),. . When, as if consciousness had grown, She said in answer to my plaint: “Tell me again you love me true, Above all others think me fair; Have never loved another; do Not hesitate to even swear’” I made oath in crescendo tone She was the one beyond compare— She truly was my only own, My benediction after prayer. A shock was her reply—sharp string; "After you first spoke, I espied Nell, hiding near us horrid thing— I hope that now she’s satisfied 1” —C. S. Pearson*.

Do your Feet Ache and Burn?

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Pure Romance.

Mrs. Henpeck—l saw a book to-day I thought of getting yon. It was “How to Be Happy Though Married.” Henpeck—Why, my dear, you know I never read fiction. —Judge.

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