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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
Thousands Of Women
ARE MADE WELL AND STRONG
Sucoess OF Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Rests Upon the Fact that 1t
Really Does Make Sick Women Well

Thousands upon thousands of Ameri-
can women have been restored to
health by Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. Their letters are on file
in Mrs. Pinkham's Office, and prove this
statement to be q fact and not a mere
boast.
Overshadowing indeed is the success
of this great medicine, and compared
with it all other medicines and treat
ment for women are experiments.
Why has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound accomplished it's wide
spread results for good?
Why has it lived and thrived and
done its glorious work for a quarter of
a century?
Simply and surely because of it's ster-
ling worth. The reason no other med
icine has even approached it's success
is plainly and positively because there
is no other medicine in the world so
good for women's ills.
The wonderful power of lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over
the diseases OF ~womankind is not be-
cause it is a stimulant-not because it is
a palliative, but simply because it is
the most wonderful tonic and recon-
structor ever discovered to act directly
upon the uterine system, positively
CURING disease and displacements and
restoring health and vigor.
Marvellous cures are reported from
all parts of the country by women who
have been cured, trained nurses who
have witnessed cures, and physicians
who have recognized the virtue in
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and are fair enough to give
credit where it is due. If physicians
d~red to be frank and open, hundreds
of them would acknowledge that they
constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound in severe
cases of female ills, as they know by
experience that it will effect a cure.
Women who are troubled with painful
or irregular m-enstruation, backache,
bloating Tor fatulence), leucorrhea,
falling, Inflammation or liberation of
the uterus, ovarian troubles, that
"bearing-down" feeling, dizziness,
faintness. indigestion, nervous pros
t%ration, or the blues, should take i'm
mediate action to ward off the serious
consequences snd be restored to health
and strength by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Anyway,
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass,
for advice. It's free and always helpful.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
So. 81.
The Best OF Life.

The Best OF Life.
Not till 1ffe's heat is cooled,
The headlong rush slowed to a quiet
pace,
And every pusblirG passion that has
Our noisier years. at last
Spurs US in vain, and, weary of the
race,
We care no more who loses or who wins
Ah, not till all the best of life seems
The best of life begins.
80 tell for only fame,
Handicappings, and the tickle gusts of
praise,
For place or power or gold to gid a
name
Above the grave whereto
all paths will bring us, were to lose our
We, on whose ears youths passing bell
has tolled
In blowing bubbles. even as children do,
Forgetting we grow old.
But the world widens when
Such hope of trivial gain that ruled us
lies
Broken among our childhood's toys, for
We win to s~elf-control!
And mail ourselves in manhood, and
there rise
Upon US from the vast and MINDLESS
height
Those cleaner thoughts that are unto
the soul
What stars are to the night.
THE SDpctatOr.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
Omissions of History.

Jack Sprat hid just Informed his
wife that he couldn't eat fat meat.
Il think you're just as mean as you
can be-" tearfully exclaimed Mrs.
Sprat. You know 1 can eat no lean!
Poor little Fido will get nothing but
the bones".'
But the unfeeling husband, picking
up the morning paper and becoming
absorbed in the details Of the beef
trust Investigation, paid no attention
to her indignant protest.-Chicago
Tribune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
BABY CHAnha.

There are points of similarity be
tween the baby of highly civilized
]parentage and the offspring OF the un-
tutored savage. Both of them are de
lighted with toys or play with the
rattle, finding much delight in the
sound. Nearly all peoples have dolls
for their babies. and in the museum at
Cairo there are dolls exhibited which
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
A French Touch.

There are French touches which give
a great deal of style to ones evening
gown. One of these is the tiny hand
kerchief with a flower embroidered i'm
tho corner in colors. The bit of linen
should be very fine and not much larp-
er than a woman's hand. In the corner
there should be a blue flower. a pink
of a green to match ones evening
gown.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

Brief But Eloquent.
\ small boys contribution to legis-
lative literature is as follows:
The legislature is necessary. We've
got to have. it. Paw says he's goin'
where the Legislature is. Paw amt
never had much to say at home, but
he says he's goin' to have his say in
the Legislature-if he don't see Nav
in the gallery"
Mrs. Partington said, Good health
is a great blessing, especially when
you are sick"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

The schools are our natural enemies,
the oar and the bat our hereditary
friends and allies. But. after all, one
cannot imagine an Oxford without it's
schools; if there We're nothing to make
the Stacker do an occasional hours
work and to spur the reading man on
to further efforts life up here would
be very drab.-OXford Varsity.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02
Ihe Cork Tree in Arizona.

II. U. Sowers, the mining man, mas
just come in from Pinal County anu
mas brought with him a sample OIL
cork bark taken from a tree on the
irons ranch. 1t is perhaps the onl!
cork tree in Arizona and one OF the
very few cork trees in the Chlteu
States, but the thrifty condition OF II
proves that cork can be produced
here.-Arizona Republican.
big Frank" Mccoy, touted as the
king o. bank robbers, is dead.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

are 1000 years old. Here is shown a
baby charm carried by Il childless mar
ried woman in Vechualaland. 1t is al
most similar to the baby rattle used
by that savage tribe. and as a fetch
it is believed to have peculiar potency.
New York Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

time it allows perfect freedom and ac-
tivity. In the illustration the dress is
made of dark blue serge with the col
lar and shield of white and banding of
black over white, but the model is a
favorite one for linen and similar
washable materials as well as for
serge, flannel and the like, and it is cor
rect in white as we'll as in color. so
that many varieties can be made.
White flannel and white pique are pc
culiarly charming for the real warm
weather, and while they have the
disadvantage of soiling readily, also
can be cleansed easily and success
fully.
The dress consists of the blouse and
the skirt. The blouse is drawn on
over the head, there being only a slight
opening at the front, and is finished
with a big sailor collar, beneath which
the shield is attached. It car be faced
to form the yoke or left plain as pre-
ferred. The sleeves are the favoritc
ones that are gathered at the shoulders
| and tucked at the wrists. The skirt is
cut in seven cores and IS laid i'll 4
pleat at each seam, which is stitched
for a portion OF its length, pressed into
position below.
For a girl of fourteen years will be
A Simpler.
A little simpler was a white linen
gown with Irish lace. The skirt had
pin tucks over the hips and was tight
fitting. Just above the knees We're
three hemstitched tucks, and below
was a broad stripe of lace quite twelve
inches deep. This was not an insertion
but a wide lace with an edge. Below
it were two hemstitched tucks and
hemstitched hem, giving the effect of
three tucks. The short bolero jacket
was practically a cape of lace. Be
meath was a blouse of sheerest Persian
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

required eight yards of material twen-
~ty-seven, six and one-eighth yards
thirty-two or four and a half yards
forty-four inches wide with seven
eighth yard twenty-seven inches wide
for collar and shield.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-08-02

lawn. trimmed with fine tucks and Va
lencicnneS insertion.
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OF Interest TO Manufacturers.

ERHAPS no class of people,
the farmer not excepted,
has a greater interest iii
highway improvement than
those engaged in industrial
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08

liam Harcourt, and first stood for the
royal borough OF Windsor as a Liberal.
Now he sits as a Conservative for High
Wycombe, and is an ardent believer In
Chamberlain's scheme OF tariff reform.
He has written about many things, from
the art of rowing. Of which he is a past
master. 10 the less appreciated science of
bimetallism- He is equally popular in
social, political. and athletic circles.
Mrs. Grenfell. who IS coheiress TO the
Baron OF Butler. was known as "the
beautiful Miss Fame" before her mar
rage. and is one OF the most intel
lectual members Of the world of fashion
taking al equal interest in literature and
in art. Her success as country housa
hostess has passed into proverb. ANY,
one who has 10 entertain the King for
the first time always apply to Mrs, VIII
lie for points. She and her husband ara
the most good-natured couple in soc,-
ETY.. So frequently has their handsome
mansion been loaned to newly-wedsed
folk that it has been nicilnamed Hon.
eymoon Hall
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08
because I KneW So Little"

well. sometimes / think Il was
because / knew so little. If I had
known all the proper business prin-
oiples | might not have done so
well. But simply used my common
sense, and backed it up by good
hard work l felt that the aim and
end OF store was to keep the goods
the people were going to want to
huy- So l put IN a stock OF things
that everybody had to have. AS
other things were inquired for that
l did not have. added them to my
stock. Presently the little store in
Anacostia, where l started, would
not hold all the things 1 wanted to
carry, SO ! moved into a larger shop
on Eleventh street. And there /
spread out and grew and enlarged
till my stock flied nine rooms and
my profits filled a large cash drawer.
There was only one secret-to think,
think, think-and then to go ahead
and do what / had thought. Pres
emily the cash drawer bulged, and
i had enough TO build this great
store here, and to keep all the things
that my customers were going to
going to call for. Common sense
and hard work-it is the same old
story that is always being retold, but
it is the only way that anyone really
succeeds
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Does Her DUN BUYING

you must have had a good many
hard places to get over, though
"Oh, did," said Mrs. Haines,
with little wry face. 1.-The first
few years there was SO much to do
and so little surplus that | made
no attempt to keep records or really
know how / stood. There was no
money to pay bookkeeper, and for
six years the entire family, and the
store, too, lived out of the cash
drawer. All that was made went
into IL, and whenever any one need
ed money for anything, they went
to the cash drawer for it. What
there was left-and often there was
not much-went to the bank. Final
ly, the bills became so complicated
and numerous that / had TO start
set of books, but even now | keen
very few and very simple books. as
] do no credit business whatever.
/ believe in the cash basis, not only
for myself, and the relief from ex-
pense and worry It is to me. but
also for the sake OF the people. I
think running an account leads to ex-
travagance and foolish indulgence.
while if people only buy what they
can pay for they are much better
off"
1t is quite evident that one of the
reasons for Mrs. Haines' steady sue
cess has been her remarkably judic-
ious buying She does ali the buy
ing herself. except in the depart
ments of shoes and millinery, and
seems to know almost to a single
item how many goods of each kind
will be needed. Very rarely is there
stock OF goods left on her hands.
She knows without consulting her
records just how large stock was
laid In. and how it has sold, there
fore she gives her orders without an
instant's hesita ton. During a recent
visit TO her Office, a drummer put in
an appearance, and she gave him a
definite order with surprising
promptness. When she had left the
room for moment, the drummer re-
marked:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08
Once Queen Elizateth's Prison.

AS far back as the days Of King
Harold. last of the Saxon kings, il was
the site OF a noblcman's seat. In later
days IL has been the home of the Earls
OF Orkney, of Cork, and Orrey. the
Lords Hanson and FitZmaurice. and
Viscount KirkweIl. II was from the es
tate of the latter that the property was
purchased by the present owner. The
place is rich in historic associations 1t
served as IRE prison of Elizabeth during
the reign of her sister. Bloody Queen
Mary" and in the park is a fourishing
oak which was planted by Queen Eliza
beths own hands. The house has been
reconstructed from the old manor which
was built In the sixteenth century. and
subsequent additions within and without
have brought Il thoroughly up 10 date.
Attractive as is the place itself, It Is
chiefly the de1yht he finds in the socie-
ty OF its host and hostess that takes
his majesty so frequently TO 1T. Mr.
Grenfell is one of those good fellows"
as the vague but expressive phrase
goes, whom the King likes better than
any other type of man. Though sprung
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Runs Like MACHINERY

All achievement looks easy when
1t is once accomplished. Big things
are so quietly, smoothly done that
it seems absurdly simple and as if
the merest passer-by could do it too.
When Mrs. Haines moves placidly
up and down the aisles of her great
store, or merrily meets the cease
less procession of questions and
complaints, drummers and beggars,
filing into her little private Office.
IL all looks so easily, comfortably
managed, SO without disturbance or
hurry, that it seems as If any wo-
man could drop down there and do
it without effort or worry or skill.
And yet there is a constant play
of decisive thought, of comprehen-
siye intuition, OF tact brought TO
bear upon everything that comes
under her notice, which to the
watchful accounts for her steady
rise TO prosperity
How did l DO it?" she laughed,
recently, tipping back in her revolt
wing chair and swinging her eye
glasses reflectively, well. wish l
could tell you. really don't know.
II just seems to me that ii did it
self often speak OF this business
as my youngest child, and it is by
far by most obstreperous, unman-
ageable one. 1t has grown almost
entirely out CT my power to con-
troll. The others have all grown up
and gone their ways nicely and prop
erly-my son now has store OF his
own and both my daughters are mar
ried-but this child has grown so
big and strong and lusty that / de-
clare / don't know what I'll do with
it. 1t doesn't seem possible that
this great roaring, rollicking bust
ness is the little baby venture l
tended SO carefully many years ago.
Not long ago some one asked me
Do you run this great businessT and
/ answered, No. this great business
runs mel
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49, e
kfXIYSSS who had only short
kA time before been
widowed by terrible
accident She was weak from grief
and long illness, subsequent to her
husbands death, and the closing
out of his little country store. She
vas without penny except for some
few household possessions, and she
had three little children to care for.
and whom it was the desire of her
heart to educate 1t would be hard
to imagine a more pitiable plight
for a delicate, lonely woman with
no apparent means OF securing a
livelihood. The case would seem to
have been one of total dependence
upon charity, and any ordinary wo-
man would, under the crush of cir
cumstances, have turned herself and
her little ones over to the care of
some of the charitable institutions
OF the city.
But this, was not an ordinary wo-
man. 1t was a woman who met this
swarm of difficulties with a smile
of grit and resource; it was a wo-
man who decided that the one thing
she did know very little about was
keeping store-therefore she would
keep a store, and that at once. Food
for the next few days was at the
moment an unknown quantity, but
she did not falter. She borrowed
enough to get to New York, where
she bought a small stock of goods
on credit-secured by the house
hold goods-then she came back,
put the goods in tiny shop and
began selling them. Soon she bought
more and sold more; she began put
ting her stock into larger and larger
shops, until today she is the owner
and manager of one of the largest
department stores in the city. ana
worth over one hundred thousand
dollars-a splendid example of the
ability and pluck Of the American
woman.
The history of Mrs. Elizabeth
Haines and of her work in building
up the fourishing business which
she now conducts. is already we'll
known, for the public has been glad
to pay tribute to a woman vino.
without capital advice or aid of any
sort, has been capable of making a
place for herself among the leading
INGREDIENTS OF the city. II is espec-
tally interesting, however, to hear
Mrs. Haines herself tell the story
OF her gallant charge into the bust
ness world, her struggles and mis-
takes, and her final learning of the
secret of success.
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taught the principles of trade, how
to bring their intelligence to bear
upon the work of the department
they may choose They should learn
not only the price of the goods they
sell, but where and how the goods
are made, become >expert in grades
and makes, be ready to answer the
inquiries of customers who depend
upon them for information and real
ly take their work seriously.
Have you met with any difficult
ties especially due to yodr being
woman?" Mrs. Haines was asked.
Yes, am sorry to say I have"
she answered. in many cases peo-
pie have tried to take advantage of
my inexperience and my having
to rely absolutely upon myself, with
out man to refer things to. But
what did / do when such things
came up? / thought. l thought
carefully and clearly, I used my
intelligence, my common sense, and
very few schemes made much head
way in their attempts to worst me.
/ have had great deal of trouble
with dishonest employes-this ques-
ton of help again-and until be-
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Her Pet Ambition

'She has the most astounding
memory have ever known. only
get here twice a year, but she al
ways knows exactly what she order
ed of me before. how it has sold
and suited the people. and just how
much she will need for six months
TO come"
High on the wall of Mrs. Haines'
private Office hangs printed legend:
Character is capital,
Brains are ready money,
knowledge Is power"
That was all / had to start with, -
she asserts. Il had the determina-
ton TO support and educate my chill
dren, my power to use my brains
and the intention 10 know, and
therefore to succeed. What people
need is not more brains, but to use
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London. Sept. 80.

London. Sept. 80.
" APLOW Court. the fine country
Sesidence of W. II. Grenfell. is by
all odds the most famous week
end house in Great Britain. Here
Willie GrenfelI, as the wealthy sports
man is known among his intimates, has
entertained practically all the clever and
distinguished people in sOciety-but per-
haps the residence is most notable as the
IA Forite "Saturday-to- Monday" resort Of
that connoisseur of agree able entertain
ment-fIing Edward VII.
Since the King became a convert to the
modern fashionable custom of weekend
misrations from town during the sum-
mer season he has paid more flying
visits TO 'rapIow Court than to any
other of tho legion OF country residences
that are freely placed at his disposal.
Standing in fine park on ne brow Of
an eminence at Maidenhead, command
ing fine view of the Thames. Windsor
Castle ana the picturesque country
round about. it is an ideal spot for a
royal holiday.
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gan to realize that this was going
on, / presume, lost more or less.
Men. who were sent out with c. o.
d. bundles, would pocket the money
and say nothing; clerks would give
out goods and make no checks, put
ting the money in their own pockets.
and SO on.
Then, few years ago had some
serious trouble with the union. A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-10-08
AWashinStOnW
Whose Bushes
Ability Has ~
RaiSedHerFrOnX
Poverty toWalth.

But how did you develop 1t to
such proportions%
Mrs. Haines laughed again. She
is generally laughing, for her opti-
mism and cheeriness form, in her
opinion, one OF the reasons for her
success She simply could not and
would not be downed or discouraged.
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bXJ1He5J,

OS<~<%C~Ss
the brains they have. I say frankly
that the greatest difficulty / have
had to meet has been and is thought
less, inefficient help. Any merchant
will tell you that the hardest thing
they have to cope with is the lack
of intelligent statesmen and women.
Oh, l wish / could begin to say all
| feel about the gross ignorance that
characterizes the set of girls, espec-
tally. who seek positions behind the
counter. For the most part they
have no ambition beyond earning a
few dollars a week to spend upon
cheap finery. They do not really
wish to learn the business of sales
manship, they do not use their
brains, they are not willing to study
and watch, and train themselves in
their work. The business Of selling
goods is a necessary, honorable, re-
sponsible work, and If young men
and women could be made to feel
the dignity of il, we would have
better service and they themselves
would be better paid
One of Mrs. Haines' pet ambitions
is to found a school for the train
ing of clerks, where they shall be
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A PHILOSOPHER OF Cash.

When you haven't got a dollar,
Not a single hope in sight:
But-hear the money jingle
All the
World
GIFTS
Bright
Then the silver bands are playin'-
Then the world it rolls in light.
Then yer friends, they say, GOOD
mornin'."
An you
Feel
Jest
Right,
You may preach. an you may boiler
From the m0rnin' to the night,
Rut-that Eagle on the dollar
Oh. he
Screams
Jest
Right
Frank l. Stanton. in Atlanta constitn-
ticn.
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petition was presented to me ask
ing that close the store at 9 o'clock
Saturday evenings, if other stores
in the neighborhood were also closed
at that hour and on Sunday as well.
l promptly agreed, and kept my
word. but soon discovered that a
number of shops in the vicinity were
being kept open on Sunday. 1 took
issue with this matter, as not COM