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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21
SUFFERING AND RELIEF
Three Letters from Mrs. Johnson +,
Showing that Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Cures the Ills of Women
Wrote for rIrs. Pinkham's Advice
November, 1897

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Il am great
sufferer, have much trouble through
the lower part of my bowels, and am
writing to you for advice. Menses are
irregular and scanty, am troubled with
leucorrhea, and ache SO through my
back and down through my loins. /
have spells of bloating very badly,
sometimes will be very large and other
times very much reduced. Mrs. CHAs.
q. JOHNSON, Box SO, Rumford Center,
Maine, Nov. 20, 1897.
Improvement Reported December,
1897
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM wish to
tell you that L am improving in health.
/ am ever so much better than when
wrote before. The trouble through
the lower part of bowels is better and
am not bloated so badly. was very
much swollen through the abdomen
before took Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. 1 still have feel
ing of fulness across my chest. l have
used three bottles of it and am on the
fourth. ."-MRs. CHAs. e. JOHNSON, Box
33, Rumford Center, Maine, Dec. 13, 1897.
Enjoying Good Health June, 1899
"DEAR Mas. PINKHAM:-Sincea year
ago have been taking your medicine,
and am now strong and enjoying good
health. l have not been so we'll for
three years, and feel very thankful to
you for what Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for ME. /
1rs f..
male troubles to try your medicine. -
MRS. CHAs. E. JOHNSON, Box 33, Rum
ford Center, Maine, June 1, 1899.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

Tears are the diamonds OF the fairies
Chicago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

To Cure n Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets AL
druggists refund money If itfails to cure 25c
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

"De Ruyter sent his daughter abroad to be
polished" We'll, can see her finish."-
Town Topics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

Halls Catnrrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-09-21

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

dian on the board seemed branded
with the accusatory legend 'Ah Sim
THAT night / had q dream. I
thought | had been cast among many
tribes, whose manners and religions
were alike perplexing and diverse, but
none were so vile as the Christian.
He it was who had revilsd me without
cause and robbed me of my earnings.
And when had returned to my own
land and found that the Christian was
seeking to SOW the seeds of his relig.
ion among my people was wroth in
my heart, and made a vow that while
i lived my hand should be raised
against him and my voice against his
teachings.
Early the next day communicated
with a foreign missionary association
and pledged myself to pay each quar-.
ter throughout the remainder OF my
life an interest of ten per cent. pei
month on that $40 deficit, the amount
to be applied solely to Chinese mis-
sions. Therein lies my one hope OF
some day reaching my unintentional
victim and of convincing him that all
Christians are not like the one he may
have mistaken for an example of the
creed. st Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

Never admit defeat or poverty,
though you seem to he down and
have not cent. Stoutly assert your
divine right to be n man, to hold your
head up and look the world iu the
face; step bravely to the front, what
ever opposes, and the world will make
way for you. No one will insist on
your rights, while you yourself doubt
that you possess the qualities requis-
ite for success. Never allow yourself
to be a traitor to your own cause by
undermining your self-conddence.
There never was time before
when persistent, original force was so
much in demand as now. The nam
by-pamby, nerveless man has little
show in the hustling world today. In
the twentieth century a man must
either push or be push ed.
Every one admires the man who can
assert his rights, and has the power
to demand and take them if denied
him. No one can respect the man
who sinks in the rear aud apologies
for being in the world. Negative
virtues are Of no use in winning ones
way. 1t is the positive man, the man
with original energy and push that
FORCES to the front. Success.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
SUED FOR A SHOCK.
An Amusing Case That Has Just Made
WAahIngtOn laugh

Washington Laugh.
There was funny case tried in the
Washington courts recently. A
butcher of the name of Nealon had an
electric fan in his stall at the mark OF
to cool the atmosphere and drive away
the flies. 1t was manipulated by o
small .thImbscrew beneath the coun.
ter, and 'ghen Nealon discovered that
he could charge his body with elec.
tricity by placing his hand or his foot
against the thumbscrew he indulged
in practical jokes upon such of his
customers as he thought were amiable
enough to endure them. When some
handsome young girl or jolly house.
wife would pick up a leg of lamb or
roast of beef to examine it Nealon
would place his hands upon it, close
The circuit. and she would receive an
electric shock. Nobody was hurt OIL
badly frightened and Nealon made q
good deal of fun for his customers.
One day, however, u man OF the name
OF William Schultz, who has no sense
of humor and hates practical jokes,
picked up pieco OF corned beef from
the counter of Nicholas Auth, who
had the adjoining stall. Mr.. Auth
had left his place iu charge of Neigh
bor Nealon for a few moments while
he went to do an errand When he
returned Mr.. Schultz, who was one of
his regular customers, was dancing
around like wild man and crying for
vengeance. II seems that Nealon,
with his hunger for fun, had taken
hold of the chunk OF corned beef
which Schultz had picked off Mr..
Auth's counter and had given the
nervous man a shock from which he
claims to have suffered both in body
and mind. The butcher tried to
soothe him, but he would not be con.
soled, and went straightway to a law
yer aud brought suit for $40, 900 dam
ages against Mr.. Auth. The case was
tried this week, but the jury found
for the defendant on the ground that
Mr.. Auth had nothing whatever to do
with the case. While it was his corned
beef it was Nealon's electricity, and
the latter was responsible tfor what.
ever damage Mr.. Schultz had suffered.
Schultz had sued the wrong man. -
Chicago Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
The Size of the waist.

II will be relief to some girls with
athletic proclivities to know the ex.
treme limit which they may attain in
waist size without being considered
"out of fashion," For there is q
'fashion in waists" as in everything
else.
Years ago, before girls were allowed
to engage in opeu-air recreations, a
tiny, slim waist was considered correct
and children at an early age began
to wear corsets which we're laced
tightly.
A girl of seventeen or eighteen
would endure agonies in order to re-
duce her waist. II is now considered
very bourgeois to lace tightly. and
the waist of a full-growA girl should
not be smaller than twenty -four
inches. The proper measurement
for the chest of girl whose waist is
of that size is thirty eight inches.
Thus it will be seen that the modern
beauty must be solid and nearly APP
proach the proportions of the heroic
age.
The present age is an athletic one,
and as long as girls continue healthful
exercises--lawn tennis, rowing, rid
ing, bicycling, fencing and vaulting-
bright eyes, good complexion and
firm, well-knit and muscular figures
will be found.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
G%5TIs3A
M'*NWOrJANKIND
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WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.
Their Opportunity in tho Postage Stamp
Business.

hheiE opportunity III tno FO6taga stamp
Business.
Women appear as particularly
adapted to the Identification and
classification of postage stamps, nec-
essary in the stamp dealers business,
and are to be found in the employ of
leading dealers. They also some
times do business as philatelists on
their own account. Girls are largely
preferred as clerks by dealers of ex-
pcrience, as they are said to be more
trustworthy than boys, who will
sometimes steal stamps when nothing
else would tempt them. Possibly
the collecting mania or instinct is
stronger with boys than with girls.
For most boys collect stamps as they
have the mumps or the measles, but
the girl collector is more rare, al
though not by any means entirely un-
known.
The girl who enters upon employ
ment with stamp dealer without any
knowledge of stamps is first instructed
by her employer in the Identification
of the more common varieties, but
when stamps are purchased by him in
bulk, as is often the case, the first
thing to be done is to sort them and
to gather together all of those belong
ing to the Argentine Republic, Aus
tria, the Azores, and the other A
countries. Those of B countries are
placed by themselves, and SO on
through the rest of the alphabet, un.
til this classification is finished. With
experience the girls knowledge, of
course, increases, and from the iden-
tification Of such stamps as those of
Baden, Canada, Cape of Good Hope,
and others, upon which the name of
the country Of issuance appears in
English, she passes at last to famili-
arity with and comprehension of such
stamps as those of Afghanistan, AL
wur, Bulgaria, Cashmere, Corea,
Russia, Turkey and others printed in
strange characters. When once the
certain knowledge of the stamps
point of origin has become fixed in
the girls mind, there then arises the
perplexing questions of roulettes and
their variations, perforates or imper-
forates, water marks, grills, inverts.
surcharges, errors, essays, trial or
experimental stamps, measurements
in millimetres, the perforation gauge
and host of other items that are
dear to the hearts of collectors.
The stamp business is we'll adapted
for women. There is always a chance
of finding overlooked rare stamps in
purchased collections, or among old
and castaway letters, frequently
offered to dealers. Several stamps
among the United States issues are
individually worth a thousand dol
lars, while a certain one of the British
Guiana stamps of the face value of
one cent has catalogue price of 81,
500.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
Flend-Like AtrocIty.

On July 20, 17G4, there was per.
petrated about ten miles from Cham
bersburg, Penn, what Parkman, the
great historian Of Colonial times,
pronounces IAN outrage unmatched
in iend-like atrocity, through all the
annals OF the war" 1t was the mas
sacre of Enoch Brown, kind-hearted
exemplary Christian schoolmaster,
and ten pupils, eight boys and two
girls. There were eleven children
in the school, but one boy escaped
death, although horribly butchered.
On the above date, during the
Pontiac war, the children. under the
care OF the teacher, were pursuing
their studies IN the little log cabin,
when suddenly from the pine forest,
emerged a number of Indians, who
fell upon the master aud his pupils
The teacher offered his life and scalp
in spirit of self-sacrifcing devotion
if the savages would only spare the
lives of the little ones under his charge
and care.
The school house was located on a
ravine, near spring. Down this
ravine the sayages fed, after having
committed their fiendish work and,
coming to the Conococheague Greek,
they travelled along its bed to conceal
their tracks as far as the mountain,
and made their escape eastward to
their village in Ohio. Philadelphia
Press
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
Free Roads For Baltimore.


With view to keeping the public
roads leading out of Baltimore free
from tolls the United Railways Com
pany has made a free deed of gift to
Baltimore City and Baltimore County
of those portions OF the Baltimore and
York turnpike, the Baltimore and
Hartford turnpike, and the Belair
turnpike which lie within the limits of
the city and county.
The company officials say they arc
in the railway, not the turnpike busi-
meas, and that their object is to build
up and develop the city and surround
ing country, acting upon the theory
that such development is certain to
benefit the railway company. To Sc.
cure proper development, they claim
all roads entering the city should be
free.
The York Road turnpike is thirty
miles long, the Hartford eighteen
miles, and the Belair Road nine miles.
Two miles of each of the former roads
and one mile of the latter lie within
the city limits. On the York Road in
the city limits the company has spent
$40, 900 grading aud macadamizing.
The Hartford Road cost the company
originally $50, 900, aud on it the com
pany has spent $4,000 in improvements.
The Belair Road cost the company
sol. 600.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
Home-Made windmilIs.

Farmers in many dry districts are
now getting very good service from
homemade windmills. A good mill
of this type can be built for 80, and
many of such mills will irrigate ten
acres of orchard. A smaller form Of
the same mill is made for mounting
on abandoned towers or upon build
ings, the larger mills being set upon
the ground and securely anchored
there. Wind guards or cut-offs, of
boards or planking are built all around
the sails, which are raised and low
cred by pulley and rope. The sails
are made of old coffee sacks or any
tough texture that happens to be
available. A mill in Nebraska, the
sails OF which are thirteen feet long
aud nine feet wide, successfully irri-
gates five.acre garden. The reser-
voir supplied by this mill is 100 feet
long by four feet wide and two or
three feet deep. The speed OF the
mill is regulated by its being raised
or lowered within the wind guards.
On some farms these windmills are
built one north and south and the
other east and west, 30 as to insure
service whatever the direction of the
wind may be. In Nebraska, where
the mills are very numerous, the pre-
vailing wind is north and south. -
Chicago Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
HEa'Nss HTsma 5 s.
TO WEAR ~ W.

Sleeves are larger at the top, and
are trimmed with tucks or lace inser-
tions.
Organdies on which the design is
painted on the under side are the
prettiest examples of pastel colorings.
Black net, we'll covered with appli-
cations of black taffeta, makes very
pretty short cape, finished with frills
of lace and chiffon. This sort of gar
ment is made in cream tints as well,
and also in gray AID beige.
Fancy lace neckwear is receiving
some new development every day. A
long lace scarf to carry several times
around the neck and tie in large
bow in front is one of the popular
styles.
Long wraps of lace are the proper
summer covering for dress occasions
These are made long in the back and
sloping up to the waist, or little be-
low in front, and there coming to-
gether all the way to the throat.
Embroidery in chiffon and other
hhih 10 iChb VI VIC
new trimmings. Open embroidery,
lace beads, gold and silver thread and
silk are all employed and variously
combined in these pretty novelties.
An entirely new idea is the use of
voluminous scarfs of tulle, carried
twice around the neck and tied in Il
large bow at the back. This undoubt-
edly may be accepted as a precursor
of the ribbon tied at the back, so
popular few years ago.
The silky effect added to the great
variety of mulls, batistes, canvas fab
RIGS, zephyrs, organdies, aud other
summer fabrics renders them more
than ever desirable and attractive.
Many of the cotton materials thus
treated, either in plain or fancy pat.
terms, have all the lustrous and dainty
effect of an India silk or satin foulard.
Some effective new waists that are
just in are of heavy coarse linen,
though in delicate shades, and ara
trimmed with heavy embroidered linen
in colors. II is evidently Russian
peasant work, it is very similar at any
rate, is stylish, aud will be durable.
The embroidery is in tho form of in
sertions that are put in lengthwise in
the bodice, around the sleeves, and to
outline yokes
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS.
And Men Must Wear shirts to He Re-
spoctod In China

hhu Deu hhat wear AhlrtN TO b0 R0-
spectod In China
There is everything in the point OF
view, says Youths Companion. In
China it is considered very unwoman-
ly for woman not to wear trousers.
and highly indecorous for a man not
to have skirts to his coat. II is no
wonder that the Chinese look askance
at the ordinary American or European
who comes among them. To the Chi
nese, says the author of Intimate Chi
ma" it seems very uniting for lady
to go out unattended by woman. and
for woman TO stand firmly on her
feet and walk on them like a man is
shocking. Thus there are great diff
culties for the traveller to get over.
The garment that seems most essential
to the Chinese woman is pair OF
trousers, and she thinks it highly i'm
proper for woman to indicate by
belt that she possesses a waist. do
you really eat with your waist girt in
like that?" she asks of foreign wom-
an. A mans dress, as we know it. is
a still greater scandal in China; and
to the Chinese the only explanation OF
1t is that the poor fellow has not cloth
enough to cover himself properly.
Nevertheless, nearly every foreigner
after spending much time among Ori-
entails. admits that the dress he has
grown accustomed to at home is lack
Ing in grace and elegance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
AN IMMENSE SPAN.
The Largest Arched Bridges in chs
World.

World.
The largest arched bridges on the
continent OF Europe, which span the
Rhine, represent a type of bridge
which, although very popular on tho
continent for large spans, has not
found much application in Great Brit
ain, although It originated In the cast
iron arch OF the Coalbrookedale bridgs
OF 1879, over the Severn. which has
span of 102 feet. Up to 1898 the
Dom Luiz bridge over the Douro with
its arched span of Sos feet, was the
largest bridge OF the kind In the
world. The Bonn mild steel bridge.
with its one arch of s16 feet span. and
the Dusseldorf bridge with two arches
OF 5S4 feet inches span, now rank
frst in Europe. But the Niagara and
Clifton bridge OF 1898 surpssses them
all with its span of $40 feet The
Rhine. according to Engineering, has
but, few bridges. considering its great
length. At Bonn the river is $50 yards
wide. and although the town has 50.-
900 inhabitants. and Poppelsdorf. ad-
Joining. $4,000 inhabitants, there is no
bridge. Railway lines run along both
banks; but up till recently there was
no bridge on the reach between Co
blentz and Cologne. a distance of s.
miles, and the cross trafhc depended
upon ferries, and further upon a rail-
way traject, two miles above Bonn, con
sisting Of three ferryboats, each carry
ing 200 tons, worked by engines and
cables. Caesars much disputed woods
en- bridge is now supposed to havs
been. not at Bonn. but considerably
higher up the river. near Weissen-
thurm. where important Roman foru-
fications have recently been discover
ed. The ferryboats and the pontoon
bridges of the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries. when Bonn was stilr
the residence OF the sovereign arch
bishops of Cologne. suffered much dur
ing the recent wars. The French rev.
olutionary army OF 1895 requisitioned
all the ships of the district and placed
bridge over them. over which the
army crossed the Rhlne-to return
few days later and to destroy their
work.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
Highway Work by Conyict..

According to the report of the In.
dustrial Commission, the State OF
New York leads the Union in the en-.
lightened recognition OF the moral as
we'll as the economic value of high.
way work by convicts. California
and North Carolina are also doing
well. Roadmaking does not interfere
with conducting other forms of labor
ON State account also. There are
some months of every year when work
on the highways is impracticable in 9
Northern climate, aud days here aud
there even in the mild season when
rain prevents. This leaves con.
siderable aggregate of time to be de,
voted to indoor labor, such as making
clothing and other prison supplies-a
line in which overproduction, followed
by long periods of enforced idleness,
is the rule when indoor labor is the
only dependence.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
.Summer Hats.

Pink and blue hats with short chif-
fon capes to match are among the lat
est novelties. They are shown in
different shades of color, of tulle,
chiffon, and even fancy straw, and
are all on the picturesque order, and
suitable only for midsummer. Many
of the hats are without trimming OF
flowers or feathers, while others
again are heavily trimmed with arti.
fetal fruit--a late and very popular
fashion. A pale green hat of this sort
is in the toque shape trimmed with
lunches OF purple and green grapes,
and the cape designed to be worn
With it is an absurd affair in green
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

chiffon tied with purple ribbons.
These fashions are decidedly con-
spicuous, and bound TO be Short
lived, but as they are among the novel.
ties of the season call for comment.
In contrast to them are the hats made
Of light fancy straw and chiffon com.
bined, and three or four small buds
While on the subject of hats there
must be included the poke bonnet OF
small size in fine straw that has white
ribbon around the crown, and white
ribbon strings. The brim inside is
faced with chiffon caught down with
one small bunch Of flowers. .-Harper's
RaZnr
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
Enrliah az 1. saln.I,.

In the opinion .of one Frenchman,
English orthography furnishes clue
to "the superiority of the Anglo
Saxon" He is successful, the French
man says, because he is selfish, and q
proof of his selfishness is that he
writes of himself with capital 1.
Frenehmen and Germans are content
with the small letter. The Spaniard
uses small y in yo, but honors the
person he addresses with capital
The japanese have no word for l at
all.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31
For the Little Coat of Tweed.

The jaunty little tweed and frieze
coats worn by the athletic woman,
who walks and drives great deal
in the country at this season, are con-
sidered smartest when they have re-
vers faced with pique woven in family
colored lines. A coat of blue tweed
has a simulated bolero carried out in
stitchings and held with old silver
buttons. A short coat of scarlet
beg pardon-huntin' pink-has the
revers faced with striped pique, the
ground of which is creamy white, the
stripes pale pink, blue and amber.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

That for women women surgeons
are the best, and that nature has
especially adapted them for the work
by bestowing on them peculiar gifts
and qualities, is the opinion of Sir
Thomas Smith. "Their small hands,
deftness and dextrous use of the
needle and thread" he says, "are no
small advantages, now that surgery is
becoming more constructive. I"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

When Government official, in
structed to Investigate the economical
side of the question, reports there is
an annual loss OF $500, 900, 900 to tn,
country because OF bad roads, it Ger
tainly appears the matter is worthy oi
the serious attention Of the political
parties aud Congress.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

Ii there is any person whom you
dislike, that is the one OF whom yop
should never speak.