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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
THREE HAPPY WOMEN
Relieyed Of Periodic Pain and Backache,

80 ASS@@% S~AAA @~AAN@ ~~~S@@s~~@@ON
"Before using Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, my health was
being gradually undermined. l suf-
fered untold agony from painful mem
situation, backache, pain on top of my
head, and ovarian trouble. The COM
pound entirely cured me.-MRs.
GEoReIE WAss, 923 Bank St., Cincin-
natl, o.
"For years had suffered with pain
full menstruation every month. One
day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham's
was thrown into my house, and 1
sat right down and read it. / then
got some of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and Liver Pills. l
can heartily say that to-day feel like
new woman; my monthly suffering
is a thing of the past. / shall always
praise the Vegetable Compound for
what it has done for me.-MRs. MAR
aAREr ANDERSON, 363 Lisbon St.,
Lewiston, Me.
"Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has cured me of painful men
situation and backache. The agony
1 suffered during menstruation nearly
drove me wild. Now this is all over,
thanks to Mrs. Pinkham's medicine and
advice. "-MRs. CARRIE V. WILLIAMS,
South Mills, N. G.
The great volume of testimony
proves conclusively that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a
safe, sure, and almost infallible rem
edy in cases of irregularity, suppressed,
excessive, or painful monthly periods
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
The Teacher.

One cause of the low standing of the
teachers calling is lack of extended
professional training. Professions easily
entered are not usually highly respect
ed. The medical profession has been
cited as an illustration. Not long ago,
when one could be physician without
special training, the profession was not
very highly esteemed. Now, when ex-
tended training is demanded both by
public opinion aud by law, the profes.
sion is respected as one of the highest.
In like manner the teaching profession
would undoubtedly increase in favor
were training of high order demand.
ed. In fact, we find the respect for the
profession varying in different countries
and in different grades of the school
system almost in direct ratio to the
education and professional training re
quired of candidates Forum.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
RAcHRAY ISLAND.

Och, what was 1t got me at all that time
To promise Ia marry a Rachray man2
An now he'll not listen to rason or rhyme
He strivin to hurry me all that he can.
"Come on, an ye be to come on, !" says he;
"Ye're bound for the island, to live wi me"
See Rachray island beyant in the bayi
The dear knows what they be dom out there
But fishin an hghtin tearin away,
An who's to hindher, an what do they carer
The goodness can tell what'd happen to me
When Rachray d have me, anee, aneel
might have took Pether from over the hill,
A dacent poacher, the kind, poor boy;
Could keep the ould places about me still
I'd never set foot out o sweet Ballyvoy.
MY sorra on Rachray, the could sea caves,
An black neck divers weary ould wayesl
I'll never win back now, whatever may fall.
oh, give me good luck, for you'll see me no
morel
Sure an island man is the mischief an all
An me that never was married beforel
Oh, think O. my fate when ye dance at a fairi
In Rachray there's no Christianity there
MORA O'Neill in London Spectator.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

The nnysteficSss case of Miss T. E.
OSborne puzzled not only her friends, bot
likewise every one OF the doctors who
attempted to cure her.
For six years she was not able to walk.
Host Of the time she was entirely helpless.
No one knew what allied her.
Miss Osborne lives at 126 North Seven
tenth Street, Richmond, Ind. Her father,
William Osborne, Is one OF the best known
horsemen In eastern Indiana.
The young woman, when called upon
recently to tell her story, was picture OF
good health. She saids
at came after an attack of pneumonia,
this mysterious ma1ady of mine. Some
of the doctors said at first 1t was rheuma-
tisrn, bot ali of them gave up In despair
finally, and confessed they were all in the
dark.
zone foot panied me first. The trouble
spread through my entire body, and be-
came totally helpless. Isoffered great pain.
ave changed doctors time after time.
was taken away to the baths. his was
ave aft lost hope, myself, my family,
and friends. Twas given up to die. no
longer had faith In doctors or remedies.
For six years was burden on my family,
a puzzle to the doctors.
Twas unwilling to make final effort,
and only the strongest coaxing OF friends
persuaded me to try Dr.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People.
The FIST box or two seemed to do no
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
y doctors Were
In the Dark.
II 1og nOOmaus mysterious affection puzzled SOe'1-
body sOaO sG0V her, For SIR years she suffered lining
death and Ter czsye created a sensation

good. would have stopped the treatment
then, bot my friends insisted on fair trial
for i. .s
any good resulted we could trace it to
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
Imagine my JOY when change came
about. My muscles relaxed and my sut-
fering was 1eSsened.
+" At the end Of three months could sit
up, could lift myself up, and was no
"FAfter one years treatment ] began to
walk, something the doctors had said
would never do again.
~ took the pills for two years In all.
When began was helpless as new
born baby. Now / enjoy good heaRh."
The cure of Miss Osborne created mcch
talk in Richmond. Great quantities Of
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for PaIe People
were sold there, and the druggists had ire
quent inquiries for the medicine that
cured Miss Osborne"
Such cures by DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People in cases where the local
physicians have exhausted their skill, are OF
daily occurrence in aft parts of the country.
The wonderful power this vegetable rem
edy possesses over the blood and the ner-
vous system makes It a perfect cure tor a
long list of diseases, some Of them among
the most terrible that aff1ict humanity.
All druggists sell Dr.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. One box for SO cents, OF
SIX boxes for $780,
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
ouestioning I. Not Conversation.

The man who imagines that the art
of conversation consists in asking ques-
tions spoils conversation as much as the
man who never asks any. People of this
description will interrupt speaker as
frequently as they do in the French
chamber, and run anxiously from sub
ject to subject with their Undergraduates,
like cackling hen that is going to lay
an egg Horace Walpole, when exiled
at Houghton, bemoans the existence of
such pest in the person of an aunt
Writing to his friend Sir Horace Mann,
he says: II have an aunt here, family
piece of goods, an old remnant of in.
quisitive hospitality and economy. She
wore me SO down by day and night
with interrogations that dreamed all
night she was at my ear with who's,
why's, when's and what's, till at last
in my very sleep cried out, For
heavens sake, madam. ask me no more
questions. -
DIR. Johnson's dislike of being ques-
toned is we'll known, and he gives the
classic REPUTATION of the habit in his
own inimitable style: "Sir, questioning
is not the mode of conversation among
gentlemen. 1t is assuming a superiority
and it is particularly wrong to question
man concerning himself Cham.
bers' Journal
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
GRAVE OF PATRICK HENRY.
Not In Richmond, but In Charlotte,
Where He Lived.

Where He Lived.
Every now and then we see in some
newspaper the query, "Where is Pat
rick Henry buried?' and tourists in
Richmond constantly ask to be shown
his grave, with the mistaken idea that
it is in that city, where much of his
public career was passed. Few people
comparatively know that the man who
acquired the title of 1.-THE Tongue of
the Revolution" lies i'll quiet grave
on the estate in Charlotte county where
he formerly lived. Over it is marble
slab inscribed with one line, Ellis fame
his best epitaph. =
The estate lies on Staunton river, SO
miles from the town of Lynchburg, near
the border line which separates Char
lotte and Campbell counties 1t derived
it's name of Red Hill from the peculiar
color of the soil in that vicinity. When
Patrick Henry bought the place, it COM
prised about B, 800 acres. The land is
rich-there was saying in the neigh
borhood that poor land and Henry could
never be mentioned together-corn
grows there as high as man on horse
back; there is general air of smiling
fields and abundant prosperity. Its sit
uation i'll early times was very remote.
| Neighbors were few, one of the nearest
| being the celebrated John Randolph of
Roanoke, who lived in his chosen soli-
tude 10 miles away.
Red Hill is now owned by Henry g
grandson, William Writ Henry, a
clever, cultivated gentleman of the
"old school. F" He has i'll his possession
some most interesting. relics of his cele-
brated grandfather, including the desk
he always used, which still contains his
letters from Lafayette Washington,
Madison and other great men of early
days; the large, round backed chair in
which Patrick Henry died and portrait
of him by the elder Sully, under which
hangs a yellowed slip of paper, signed
by Chief Justice John Marshall and
several others of his friends, testifying
to the faithfulness of the likeness. -
Philadelphia Press.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
READING SEALED LETTERS
A German Scientist Shows How This Ma!
Be Accomplished.

A German Scientist Shows How This May
BE Accomplished.
1t is not generally known that sealed
letters may in many cases be read with
out opening the envelopes or doing them
the least injury. It was discovered by a
German Psychologist by the use Of an
embry oscope, or egg glass, that the
shells of eggs were of very unequal
thickness.
1t occurred to him to make expert
ments in order to ascertain how many
leaves of ordinary letter or official pa
per must be laid above and below
written leaf in order to make it illegible
to highly sensitive eye in the direct
sunlight. He found that after he had
rested his eye in dark room for 10 or
10 minutes he cold read piece of writ
ing over the mirror of the embryoscope
that had been covered with eight layers
of paper.
He called in other observers to con-
firm this The letters, however, that
could thus be deciphered were written
in dark ink on one side of the paper
only. If four written sides were folded
together, and especially if there had
been crossing, it was hard to make out
the drift of the writing, and there are
some kinds of writing which, when
folded twice or thrice, admit too little
light for the purpose of decipherment.
In this way possibly many of the per-
formances of "clairvoyants" may be ex-
planned. By means of the egg glass it
is, as rule, easier to make out the con-
tents of letter or telegram without the
slightest tampering with the envelope
than it is to detect the movements Of
the embryo in the egg.
Suppose the writer of billet, the
contents of which are known only to
himself, let's it out of his hand and loses
sight of it for five minutes. 1t may be
readily carried either into the direct
sunlight or into electric or magnesium
light and be read by the aid of the egg
glass The placing of piece of car
fridge paper in the envelope or the col
oring of it black is means Of defense
at hand.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
MARRIAGE OF OFFICERS.


Regulating It.
The restrictive conditions at present in
force with regard to the marriage of
officers in the Russian army forbid this
privilege under any circumstance in the
case of officers under the age of 23. Be-
tween the ages of 80 and 30 years the
dot of an officers wife must amount to
sum representing the minimum in
come of $50 rubles yearly.
On comparison of these conditions
with those regulating the same question
in other European armies 1t may be
noted that in the Austria Hungarian
army the number of officers authorized
to contract marriage is limited by fix.
ed proportion assigned to each grade,
and, these totals being reached, all fur.
ther marriages must be deferred pend.
ing the occurrence of vacancies in the
married establishments.
The Italian army regulations, which
fix the income of the fiancee at a mini.
mum Of from 1900 to 2, 900 lire, would
appear to be more rational in their
operation. Italian officers, however, ap.
ply a somewhat liberal Interpretation to
this law, with the result that the mum.
Der of marriages occurring under actual
provisions does not exceed more than an
eighth of the total number, seven.
eighths of the officers being united un.
der the conditions of the religious cere.
mony only, and thus exposing them.
selves to all the Inconvenience which
attend marriage not recognized by
civil law.
Similar disabilities would now ap.
pear to be incurred by Russian officers,
and suggestions have been made by the
press in Russia that general revision
of the law is becoming necessary. The
question is assuming some importance
from the fact that Russian officers,
reaching a total number of nearly 40,
600, represent one of the most impor
tant classes in the state. Brooklyn Cit
izen.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

A CURE FOR NERVOUS HEADAoHE.-
For eight years suffered from constipa-
ton and severe nervous headache, the
headache usually lasting three days at a
time. Headache powders relieved me
temporarily, but left too bad an effect.
Since ! began taking Celery King have
greatly improved In health, seldom or
never have headache, have gained in
flesh, and feel decidedly week.-Mrs.. E.
S. Hatch, Temple. N. H. Celery King
for the Nerves, Liver and Kidneys Is sold
in SOC and 25c packages by E. X. Taft,
Stafford Springs, and w. P. Fuller, Son.
ers
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

A YOU'VE GIRL's EXPERIENCE. My
daughters nerves were terribly out of or.
der. She was thin and weak; the least
noise startled her, and she was wakeful
at night. Before she had taken one pack
age of Celery King the change in her was
for the same girl. She is rapidly grow
ing we'll and strong, and her complexion
is perfect, and she sleeps we'll every night
-Mrs. Lucy McNult, Brush Valley, Pa
Celery King for the Nerves, Stomach
Liver and Kidneys Is sold In Soc and 25C
packages by e. K. Taft, Stafford Springs
and w. p. Fuller, Somers. 2
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
He Had Changed.

A widow once called upon an artist
and asked him to paint portrait of her
husband. when can he sit?" inquired
the artist. she can't sit at all, )" said
the widow, "he's dead. " "Then you
will have TO furnish me with his photo
graph, - said the artist. "He never had
his picture taken" said the widow.
Nevertheless the artist undertook the
job, and when he had finished the work
he asked the widow to come and see it..
Its fine picture, F" said she, land
you'll please send it to my home-but
how the old man has changed. ''-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
RY AhsOrntiOn.

Catarrhal sufferers should remember
that Ely's Cream Balm is the only catarrh
remedy which is quickly and Mor0ughiy
absorbed by the diseased member 1t does
not dry up the secretG0ns, but changes them
to limpid and odorless condition, and
finally to natural and healthy character
The balm can be found at any drug
store, or by sending 80 cents to Ely Broth
ers, Sc Warren ST., New York, 1t will be
mailed
Full directions with each package.
Cream Balm opens and cleanses the
nasal passages. allays Inflammation,
thereby stopping pain in she head, heals
and protects the membrane and restores
the senses Of taste and smell. The Balm
Is applied directly into the nostrlls.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
A New Means of Sterilization.

One of the simplest and most thor.
ough methods of sterilizing when it can
be used is by means of heat. One of the
difficulties in the use of this means is
that the articles may be spoiled, espe-
cially where the heat is long continued.
Baking or placing articles in dry heat
for any length of time is not only an
unreliable method, but attended with
the danger of fire if degree of heat is
sufficiently thorough to sterilize them.
Boiling or steaming is Objectionable
because most things would be rendered
useless from the contact with moisture.
Experiments have proved that hot oil is
one of the best sterilizers known, espe-
cially for instruments.
One of our most eminent surgeons
has demonstrated the fact that the most
complete sterilizing follows the dipping
of surgical instruments into boiling
olive oil. One may determine the tenn
perature of the oil by a very simple
process of dropping bread crumbs into
the oil When they turn brown and
crisp, the oil is hot enough for the sur
geon use. This is much more con-
venient than using the thermometer,
which may not always be at hand. The
oil may be heated over spirit lamp,
and few spoonfuls will be sufficient
for sterilizing the instruments used in
some of the more simple operations. -
Exchange
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
The Successful Remedy for
NASAL CATARRH.
Special vinol REPRESENTATIVE.

must be non-irritatlng, easy OF appllca-
ton, and one that will by It's own action
reach the inflamed and diseased surfaces.
ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the
important requisites OF quick action and
specific curative powers with perfect safe
ty to the patient. This agreeable remedy
has mastered catarrh as nothing else has,
and both physicians and patients freely
concede this fact. All druggists cheer
fully acknowledge that in IL the acme OF
Pharmaceutical skill has been reached.
The most distressing symptoms quickly
yield to 1t. In acute cases the Balm inn
parts almost instant relief.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

1t is said that the native servants in
Hawaii used to call their mistresses by
their first names. An English woman
of strong will determined ON her arrival
in Honolulu that her servants should
never call her Mary and instructed
them carefully in the presence of hel
husband. One day, when she had visit
ors, her cook put his head in at the
drawing room door and politely in.
quired:
"What vegetables for dinner today
my lover
He had heard her called that and
seemed proud of remembering not to say
Mary. New York Tribune.
Beware of the man who smiles when
he's angry; he's dangerous. And be-
ware also of the man who looks glum
when he's glad; he's probably humor.
ist.-Exchange.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

In Picking, China, SO runneth the tale
mandarin of wealth and taste present.
ed luminary of the stage with pack
of cards made of human skin, 400 years
old, and originally captured from pi-
rate of the most blood curdling sort
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
Home Came to Him.

A number of persons were talking
about condolences, when a Clergyman
gave an instance in his own experience.
"When was very young man, before
I entered the ministry said he, II met
with series of misfortunes and was
nearly discouraged. One day was seat
ed on bench in the park of foreign
city. My head was sunk upon my hands
and black despair covered me like a
cloud had about concluded to strug-
gle no longer when a slight noise at
tracted my attention, and glanced up
to see standing before me and contem-
plating me with big, solemn eyes the
most beautiful little girl have ever be-
held. What is your name, my pretty
child?' was my natural inquiry. Hope,
she answered in clear, sweet voice.
Then she turned and ran away, and the
little earthly form whose lips lad
brought me message of comfort disap-
peared forever, but the white spirit OF
her name she had left in my heart, and
from that day | prospered My eldest
daughter is called Hope. Exchange
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
Not uninna.

Madam, said the smooth spoken
tramp, IT am not an ordinary hobo"
"Oh, l don't know, said the lynx
eyed housekeeper, as she leisurely took
down her husbands gun from the wall,
you're about the same as the rest of
'em. You can work, but you won't
Git" And he gat.-Vim.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

BEATS THE KLoNDIKE.- A. @. Thorn
as, of Marysville, Tex, has found more
valuable discovery than has yet been
made in the Klondike. For years he
suffered untold agony from consumption,
accompanied by hemorrhages; and was
absolutely cured by DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. He declares that gold is of little
value in comparison with this marvellous
cure; would have 1t, even If it cost a
hundred dollars bottle. Asthma, Bron-
chitis and all throat and lung affections
are positively cured by DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. Trial bot
ties free at E. K. Taft's Drug Store.
Regular size so cts. and 81. Guaranteed
to cure or price refunded 2
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

and other forms of wasting disease, we
have found remedy more efficient in
its action, and from a scientific point of
view one that gives greater hopes of
effecting complete cure than anything
that has ever come to our notice.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

The most offensive thing you can say
to Tuscan is that he is ignorante, or
i'll bred. You may call him fool, or
thief, or a liar. and he will only grin
at you, but every peasant considers him
self gentleman and desires to run a
knife into any one who questions his
manners
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01

The street decoration which takes
place SO often in st. Petersburg is never
completed and frequently not even be-
gun until the night preceding the event
to be celebrated.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-09-01
! y 0

as a tonic reconstructor, has all the
advantages of cod liver oil. 1t is deli
cious to the taste. Those with consump-
tive tendencies should have a reconstruc-
tor with cod liver oils medicinal qualities
which can be taken in warm weather, as
Il ey drop back when they leave off talk
ing medicine until fall.
n. G. EATON.
EDenfal Vinol ranraSe-ntottvo
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1898-06-13

Cor tarfa : IL sumo On l. sctualidad unos
- !, ilos \ edad mas de Is llevaba On el
ostl aoismo con algnnas alternatives, pues
acogiendose s indnltos estpvo on Il patria
de donde siempIe tuvo que salir olandestina.
meDte. Sc le eefialaba en- Santo Domingo
como aspirsnte Ia presidenoia de ID repu.
blica hombre de eDergfa POGO oomun. Ja-
mas dej6 de coDspirar ca el extranjero con.
ira 81 gobiernc de Heureaux, y habla forma.
do parte de diferentes expediciones armadas
cue invadieron ell territorio dominicano en-
fracasadas revoluciones Morales era hoy
al enemigo mas audaz del gobierno de Hsu'
rsaux. Tai vex ell 1nioo entire los emigrados
que 20 hallaba en- disposition de ponerse al
frente de una revoluoi6n. Era hombre de
trato fino, de ilustraci6n POGO com6n, psrio.
dista de fuste incanssble propsgandi.ta.
Reside varias vecel en- esta isla (Mayagiiez
= Ponce), donde contaba con muohos amigos
y admiradores. Habfa visjado mucho
posefa COZ perfeoci6n LOS idiomas frances
angles.
-. Els general el clamoreo en- Santuree
contra 10 que allf se llama u',a libra de pan,
que 10 mismo ds sea media que tres cuartas.
Tambi3n contra ell precio de Ia oarne que
segtn 90 asegura no 90 ajueta al pliego de
condolences. Cuando en- Ia capital &c anun
cia 1 1s centavos el kilo, en- Santuree SO
vende 4 80. Y 10 peor es que todo se hace
impunemente pesar de las q1ejas del ve
cindario. Bueno serfa que los peri6dioos
publiossen diariamente el precio que debe
venderse Ia csrne en- la capital Santurce.
-. Anteayer entraron en- el puerto de
Pence los siguientes buques: goleta inglesa
<Narks> do Lunemburgo, con surtido de
sa'azones; berg.ntfn danes <Astrea> de
Christiandet, en- lastre; Ia go)eta ''Julia" de
Humaoso y Ia "Dolores'' de Maysguez.