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Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment, high colored, excessive, pain in pass
ing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting.
Doan's Kidney Pills dissolve and remove
calculi and gravel Relieve heart palpita
ton, sleeplessness, headache, nervousness.
SALEM, IND, Feb. 8, 19O3.-"I received
the trial package of Doan's Kidney Pills
and must confess they did me wonderful
good. It seems strange to say that had
tried several kinds of kidney medicines
without doing me any good. had back
ache, pain in my bladder and scalding
urine, and the sample package sent me
stopped it all in few days, and with the
package am now using from our drug
store expect to be cured permanently. 1t
is wonderful, but sure and certain the med
icine does it's work. I was in constant
misery until I commenced the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills "-CHAs r. Cook,
P. o. Box 80, Salem, Washington Co., Ill.
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PROVE DOAN'S FREE HELP.

Those doubt think other Kidney do them
Trial
Pills wondrous results stamp Doan merit
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Phllanthrerist,a Peculiar VIII.

A Bruges, Belgium, philanthropist
has just made an original will. He
has left the town $4,000, which is to
be divided in the following manner:
The sum is to be divided into
seven parts, that being the number
of parishes in Bruges. Each of these
portions must be again subdivided
into sums Of $500. for which the poor
on the books Of the charitable society
are to draw lots. The amount is to be
spent in setting the winners up in a
small business or trade
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-28
LADY ON EDITORIAL
STAFF OF LEADING
REL|GIOUS1WEEKLY
Sends the Following Grand Testimonial to
the Merits of Cuticura Remedies in the
Treatment Of Humours of the
Blood, Skin and Scalp.

ST wish to give my testimony to
the efficiency of the Cuticura Rene
dies in what seems to me two some
what remarkable cases. I had
number of skin tumours - small
ones ON my arms which had never
given me serious trouble but about
two years ago one came on my
throat. At first it was only about as
large as pinhead, but, as it was in
a position where my collar, if not
just right, would irritate it, it soon
became very sensitive and began to
grow rapidly. Last spring it was
as large, if not larger, than a bean.
A little unusual Irritation of my
collar started it to swelling, and in
a day or two it was as large as
half an orange. I was very much
alarmed, and was at loss to de-
termine whether it was a carbuncle
or a malignant tumor.
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tended down into my chest was ali
gone, and my neck now seems to be
perfectly well.
About five or six years ago my
sister had similar experience. She
had two large Jumps come un6or
her right arm, the result of a srrain.
They grew rapidly, and our physi-
clan wanted TO cut them out. I
would not listen to it, and che tried
the Cuticura Remedies (as did .
few months ago) with magical effect
In six weeks time the Jumps had
entirely disappeared and have never
returned
81 have great faith in the Cuticura
Remedies, and I believe they might
be as efficacious in similar cases
with other people, and thus save
much suffering, and perhaps life. I
have derived so much benefit from
the use of them myself that / am
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constantly Wis in e
others to use them. Re-
Gently l recommended
them to an Office boy for
his father, who was dis
abled with salt rheum.
The mans feet were
swollen to an enormous
size, and he had not
worked for six weeks.
Two bottles of Cuticura
Resolvent and two boxes
of Cuticura Ointment
worked a perfect cure.
You never saw a moro
grateful manln yourIife.
3" l am very much in
terested in another case
where l have recon-
mended Cuticura just
now. My housemaid'S
mother has a goitre
which had reached q
very dangerous point
The doctors told her
that nothing could De
done that she could live
only two or three weeks.
and that she would die
of strangulation. She
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and was unable to speak, when hes
daughter, at my suggestion, tried
the effect of the Cuticura Ointment
and Cuticura Resolvent. Strange 90
say, she was very shortly relieved OF
the most distressing symptoms The
swelling seemed TO be exteriorized.
and she is now able to be around
her house, and can talk as well az
ever.
It seems to me that have pretty
good grounds for believing that
Cuticura Remedies will prove sue
cessful in the most distressing forms
of blood and skin humours, and II
you wish to use my testimonial as
herein indicated, am willing that
you should do so, with the further
privilege of re vealing my name and
address to such persons as may wish
to substantiate the above state
ments by personal letter to me-"
Chicago, Nov. IL, 1902.
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Cold ENGLISH Homes.

An American woman in London
writes: Il have said that 1 am at a
loss to know whether the lack of heat
in English homes and business build
ings is caused by hardness or stingi-
ness. 1 used to think it the latter till
l found numerous delightful English
friends objected to my own heated
home. Actually some of them cut
me every winter so far as calling on
me is concerned, because they say my
rooms are too 'stuffy and hot"
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Using Iron as a Medicine.

Iron is a strengthening medicine
when given in an assimilated form.
But many stomachs refuse it, however
it may be manipulated by the drug
gist or mingled in the mineral spring
by the hand of nature. A new means
has been found for rendering it gener-
ally assimilable, namely, by mixing
citrate of iron in the food Of hens.
After this has Teen done for about a
month the yolk of the eggs becomes
rich in iron, and the most delicate
stomach can digest it.
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dug
s6ruoC
Soaps the ue
nDpOLR
6l ePrcp1ac oacu US A.
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Saved Els Pennies.

For several years J. F. Zalusky, the
Chicago baseball player, has been de-
posting all the pennies he received
in change for his various purchases,
in a strong wooden box b, had con-
structed for the purpose. The other
DAY he turned his safe and its con-
tents over to a Minneapolis piano
dealer as the first payment on an in
strument he desired to purchase.
When the coppers were counted they
were found to number over $500.
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In Greater Gotham.

These professional gambling house
keepers are bringing suit against OIL
GERS OF the law for trying to break up
their nefarious business. Ye godsi
What is this world coming to? Next
thing you know common thief,
caught in the act of thieving, will sue
the policeman for arresting him. There
are lawyers here who will scramble
for the honor of defending him.-New
York Press
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PunctuaIity a Thief of Time.

Mr. Max Hecht writes: ION Thurs
day of last week, at $3.50, the hour for
the rehearsal of Trial by Jury met
Mr.. Gilbert at the stage door Of the
Lyric, and congratulated him on his
punctuality. Don't he replied, I have
lost more time through being punctual
than through anything else Lon
don an p"
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SOUTH BARToNvnLE., Ill, Feb. 8,
1907 received the trial package Of
Doan's Kidneys Pills and have bought
several boxes of my druggist They have
done me much good. was hardly able
to do any work until began taking them;
now can work all day and my back does
not get the least bit tired BIRD GRAY.
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Or a malignant tumor.

Ny friends tried to persuade me
to consult my physician; but dread
ing that he would insist on using
the knife, I would not consent ia
go. Instead I got small bottle or
Cuticura Reso1vent and box of Gu
ticura Ointment took the former
according to directions, and spread
a thick layer of the Ointment on
linen cloth and placed it on the
swelling. On renewing it would
battle my neck in very warm water
and Cuticura Soap In a few days
the Cuticura Ointment had drawn
the swelling to a head, when it
broke. Every morning it was opened
with a large sterilized needle,
squeezed and bathed, and fresh
Ointment put on. Pus and blood,
and a yellow, cheesy, humorous
matter came out. In about three or
four weeks time this treatment
completely eliminated boil and
tumor. The soreness that had ex-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-05-15

"She was very anxious to know
said !, whom you had nursed last. "
ssWhom had nursed?'
eyes, the dead man, don't you
know? She'll ask me again as soon
as go up
'The dead man?'' she repeated,
looking at me nervously.
''Why, the man you told me you
came from, through the mud"
az never told you anything of the
oh yes! know now what you
mean. The man who was taken sud
denly. Yes. Oh, no, he had nothing
Notwithstanding catching, I as
sure you. He just died, tell your
poor aunt, from want of breath,
nothing else. Tell your aunt so,
but tell her also, please, that I can
not stand sudden noises. have
been worn out with my profession,
and no one needs rest more than I
do"
She went to the window giving on
the side piazza and opened it, and
stood there leaning out and drink
ing in the fresh April air.
"Shan I close the door," I asked.
There was no answer. I approach
ed her softly and laid my hand on
her shoulder. "Shall I?''
Glow dare you?" She turned furi-
ously, shaking all over. Her face
and lips were colorless. Glow dare
you; or-or at least, you made me
start. Don't do that again. I am
very, very nervous. Can't you see
how nervous I am?-on the very
verge of nervous prostration. We
must have an understanding" Here
Aunt Jane Mary thumped again.
run! run quickly and tell her to stop
it. At once, do you hear?"
"You little know my Aunt Jane
Mary" began I.
"And I hope shall know her less, :"
said she. "There is just this much
about it. Even if the man does not
prove disagreeable when I see him, I
shall not remain a moment if that
racket overhead is to continue. Tell
her so, if you please" And I ran up
the stairs wondering what I should
do about the fve-dollar bill which
Badly Towner was probably chang
ing at that moment over the counter
of the country store, not to mention
the other five which was in his
pocket in the letter on the way to
my dear boy Tom.
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HIS COURSE in (LETTERs.


fhe first year of his college course
He won the letters B. B. c.
70 wear upon his saucy cap
The baseball club right-fielder, he.
Assophomore, he next secured
AS tribute to his growing knowledge.
Two crossed CARA and the letter N
g The navy symbols of his college.
Srhe third year he obtained A. u
Athletic Union; this relates
To skill upon the cinder track,
To vaulting and to throwing weights.
rhe fourth year, faithful to his aim,
He boosted still another letter,
Presented to him, with eclat,
Upon aoheavy football sweater.
q course In letters he pursued,
LAS college records guarantee
And who can blame him If, at last,
He somehow failed to get.A. B.?
Edwin L. Sabin, in Brooklyn Life.
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your breakfast is eaten. I shan be

your breakfast is eaten, I shall be
glad to see you in the parlor."
.You are very kind" returned Miss
Dacres, in the tone one uses when
accepting an agreeable invitation. .fI
will come with pleasure. 1 never
sew, you know, am only here for a
rest"
"You need not sew" said I, land
you need not remain long"
"What?" said she. 81 don't under
stand your tone. T."
ran down the steps and round in
to the back yard.
! "Baldy Towner,' said I, wishing to
make sure before I went any fur
Their, though I certainly did hear her
come into the house, have you and
Glorianna made up?"
"Nor never will in this blessed
world" said Badly Towner.
"Is the fire nader" said I. running
towards the hen-roost.
"It be-" called Badly Towner after
me, as he went to the well for
water.
I found three or four fine eggs,
went back into the kitchen, prepared
Miss DacYes' breakfast. and called
her into the dining room.
waited on her In silence, and then
left the room, asking her to ring
when she wanted anything else.
She did not seem blessed with a
large appetite. Indeed, in looking at
her, it seemed to me that she must
be very delicate. There were large
black circles round her blue eyes,
and her face appeared more sallow
than it had on the last evening.
Now that she had discarded her felt
hat. I saw that all her hair was short,
thick, and curly.
81 see you are looking at my hair, %
said she to me when I came in, bring
ing her glass of cold water, which
Badly Towner had just drawn from
the well. 81 wear it so because it is
easier for me, and much neater in my
profession. I am always dressed. ]
just run comb through it and shake
I it out. First though, I stick it in
bucket of water"
cit looks just like boys" said L
eyes, that's what they all say. I've
often wished that I had been born a
man. They have the dead wood on
Ius, don't you think so?''
'The-' My tone was interrog-
ative.
dead wood, the dead wood. Oh
you don't understand I catch al
sorts of slang from my brothers;
you can't help it when you're the
only girl. You see when a patient
calls me, my hair is always neat and
| tidy, or I can make it SO in the jerk
| space of minute, and then I don't
| waste any time with curl papers
and
eff you have finished your break
fast" said I, sI should like to see you
in the parlor."
| ITO Be Continued
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siekne.. z.aesTaen Geaersrs,

coming home from Cuba, carrying Secretzry
of War Moody, Senator Hale, of the naval
committee, and Speaker-elect Cannon, SEINE
rough weather was encountered just pre-
vious to the coming of the storm the STATES
men named had been discussing the Efo-
posed building Of six battleships- Mesers.
Hale and Cannon succumbed to seasickness.
When his suffering had become too intense
to be borne any longer In silence Uncle
Joe" called out to Secretary Moody: Say,
Moody, if you viii get us to shore quickly
I'll give you six battleships next winter"
Il viii make better bill than that, ex-
claimed Senator Hale. tsIll favor 20 bat
tleships If the secretary will only keep this
chip still for half an hour. kansas City
Journal .
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NEWLY RICH ON PARADE.
People Not Accustomed to Wealth Try
to Put on a Great "Front"
in Public.

Two men, an elderly one and a
dapper-looking young fellow, stood
TN front of one of the big hotels
on Michigan avenue the other after
noon watching the continuous parade
Of turnouts, the racing automobiles
and the stream OF pedestrians, re
Iates the Chicago Inter Ocean.
81 never get tired looking at 'em,.
the elderly man finally said to his
companion. 'I've been at it for ter
years, and still 1 am standing here
watching the crowd go by. I have
become an expert in separating the
genuinely prosperous from the seem
ingly prosperous, and the staid, old,
wealthy people from the horde OF
newly rich.
snow, just wait a minute. There
goes a fellow I've seen 10000 times.
That auto is new one. He's not
the least bit stuck up over it, how
ever, for he has been rich all his
life, and the new playthings never
turn his head. He's like a child that
is given a new toy every day. He is
glad to get the machine, but it is onl V
one of "a thousand novelties, and he
thinks little of it.
but, look at the man and woman
in that carriage. I've seen him a
few times of late. I don't know
what his name is, nor his busin ess,
nor where he lives, but he hash t
been used to money very long. See
what front he is trying to put
on. He is sure everybody is watch
ing him. See that. I4new the wom-
an would turn and look when she
passed those large plate-glass mir
rors, and she can see just how swell
the whole outfit looks. They all do
it, that is, all the newly rich. Tse
seen them countless times turn and
look at their own images in that
very row of windows.
81 sometimes wish I were poor
again, so that 1 could feel my i'm
portance after becoming rich. It's
great feeling, and I suppose there
was a day whea I also craned my
neck to peep in at the windows
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hear what they were saying, for I
could not understand why anyone
should choose the shelter of our old
elm as a meeting place. Could it be
Badly Towner? Perhaps his wife,
Glorianna, had come over from Wau-
kekan Town to try and persuade him
to return. Badly was very stub
born, and GIorianna had not behaved
any too well, and Badly Towner had
said to me only the day before, ST
wunt, I wunt, I wunt G. back. She
can write, and she can send, and
even come. I know when I'm well
off. I shouldn't be well offer there,
and though I'm kinder poor off here
in some ways, I'd be poor offer eff rs
to G. back and let her lick me ag'in.' IS
Badly TowHer stood fully six feet
two in his stockings, and Glorianna
was slim little creature. l. despised
his weak resolve! What Glor-
lama really needed was what Aunt
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Her brand.

A correspondent writes: Give
women were strong supporters of a
local cooperative store; but one day.
as one of them was passing down the
street, she was surprised to see hel
friend coming out of a licensed gro
GERS shop. 4 thocht, Mrs. Broom, ye
wis member o. the Cop was her re
mark. I am; but, dae We ken this
there's ma shop in Glesca I get sic
nice beef ham as in here Some
days later Mrs. Broon's friend went
into this shop to buy sample OF
the beef ham. On entering the shop
she asked the man If he would give
her "a pun O. the beef ham Mrs
Broom gets here A quiet smile stole
over the shopman's face. oh, yes
he said; Il can obleege you. Have you
brocht abottle wi you? -Glasgov
Evening Times.
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PAGANS IN SCOTLAND.
Nails Driven Into an Ancient Oak
Tree as Offerings by Invalid
Pilgrims.

Nearly all travellers in central
Africa have referred to the curious
customs prevalent among almost all
pagan native tribes, of driving guam.
titles of nails into sacred trees and
other objects that have been ad.
judged worthy of veneration; and
this not in malice, but as a religious
rite, the nails in question being in.
tended as votive offerings, says Stray
Stories.
Exactly the same thing may be
witnessed to-day at the sacred well
of ST. Maebrubha, in 1och Maree
Ross shire, where is an ancient OAK
tree studded with countless nails Oh
all sizes, the offerings of invalid pill
grims. who came to worship and be
cured.
Pennies and ha1f-pennies also are
to be seen in enormous quantities
driven edgewise in the tough bark;
and a friend of the writer's who Wis.
tied the spot some little time bacl
discovered in a cleft high up in the
trunk what he took to be shilling.
On being extracted, however, Ii
proved to be counterfeit. Probably
the donor, finding that he could gel
no value for his coin in the natura
world, concluded he might as wei
try, as last resource, what effec;
it might have. in the spiritual.
Of course, the poor cottars and
others who flock to ST. Maebrubh:
with their nails and their pence d,
not for moment admit that they
are assisting at a pagan ceremony
But they most undoubtedly are.
Well worship has always occupied
an important place in paganism; ami
the sacred oak, before which eacl
pilgrim must thrice knee1 ere humblJ
presenting his offering is l.
but an obvious survival of the sacred
groves of druidical times?
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WORDS OF THE BIBLE COUNTED
Spanish Prisoner Conaned forThirty-
Three Years Performed the
Remarkable Task

1T is well known that the number
of letters, words, verses, ETC., con-
tanned in the Bible have been count
ed, but by whom, when, or where,
is not generally known. Treats pub
hcation, entitled s'Curiosities of the
Bible" speaks of the occurrence as
being of Spanish origin, and that the
prince of Granada, fearing usurpa-
ton, caused the arrest of the sup
posed would-be usurper, and by or
der of the Spanish crown he was
thrown into an old prison called the
place of skulls, situated in Madrid,
where he was confined for 80 years,
rats, mice and other vermin that
frequented his dismal cell, says the
Boston Herald.
the letters, etc.. contained in the BIZ
BILE, and scratched the several num-
bers on the stone walls with a nail.
When his work was discovered he
was furnished with writing utensils
and ordered to make a copy of the
results of his long and tedious task,
and, on its being completed, he final
~ received his liberty.
THE following is a correct copy OF
his great work:
The Bible contains 1866, 4so letters.
773, TAG words, 31,173 verses, 1,195
chapters and &c books.
The word and occurs 1864 times,
the word Lord 1883 times the word
Jehovah $685. times, and the word
reverend but once, which is in the
ninth verse of the One Hundred and
Eleventh psalm.
The middle verse is the eight verse
of the One Hundred and Eighteenth
psalm. The twenty-frst verse of the
seventh chapter of Ezra contains all
the letters of the. alphabet except
the letter j.
The finest chapter to read is the
twenty-sixth chapter of the Acts of
the Apostles. The most beautiful
chapter is the Twenty-Third psalm.
The nineteenth chapter of II. Kings
and the thirty-seventh chapter of
Isaiah are alike.
The four most inspiring promises
are to be found in the sixth chapter
of ST. John, thirty-seyenth verse, and
fourteenth chapter, second verse;
also eleventh chapter of ST. Matthew,
CWonUy-01Snln verse. anu Tie LII y
Seventh psalm, fourth verse.
The longest verse is the ninth verse,
eighth chapter of Esther The short
est verse is the thirty-ffth verse, elev-
enth chapter of ST. John.
There are ten chapters in the book
of Esther in which the words Lord and
God do not occur. The eighth, fiji
tenth, twenty-frst and thirty-frst
verses of the One Hundred and Seventh
psalm are alike. Each verse of the One
Hundred and Thirty-siXth psalm end
alike. The One Hundred and Seven
teenth plasm contains but two verses
the One Hundred and Nineteenth psalm
contains 176 verses. There are nc
wordseo or names of more than six sylla-
bles.
1t has also been discovered by some
person unknown that in Joel, third
chapter, third verse, the word girl &C.
ours, and in the eighth chapter of Zach
ariah, fifth verse, the word girls is
mentioned for the only time in the
whole Book.
The eighth chapter of Esther, ninth
verse, contains SO It's. The word snow
appears "a times in the Old Testament
and three times in the New
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ATfEht Suueeze

BrazIls, Ark, May llth.-To be snatched
from the very brink of the grave is some
what thrilling experience and one which
Mrs. NJ. o. Garrett of this place has Just
passed through
Mrs. Garrett suffered with Cerebro-
Spinal affection, and had been treated by
the best physicians, but without the slight
est Improvement.
For the last twelve months two doctors
were In constant attendance, but she only
grew worse and worse, till she could not
walk, and did not haveany power to move at
all.
She was so low that for the greater part
of the time she was perfectly unconscious
OF what was going on about her, and her
heart-broken husband and friends were
hourly expecting her death.
The doctors had given up al hope and
no one thought she could possibly live.
In this extremity Mr. Garrett sent for a
box OF Dodd's Kidney Pills. It was last
hope, but happily it did not fail.
Mrs. Garrett used IN all six boxes OF the
remedy, and is completely cured. She says:
al am doing my own work now and feel
as well as ever / did. Dodd's Kidney Pills
certainly saved me from death"