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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
( Mrs%Xfarme~ X7Mrs. Ella Lee

Mrs. Ella Lee, Frankfort, Ind. writcss
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
~ want to thank you for what your medi.
cine has done for me.
"Three years ago had inflammation of the
ovaries and ulcers on my womb. was under
the doctors care for about three months, and
the only time l. was not in pain was when
under the influence of morphine. The doctor
finally said | never would be better, and
would be an invalid the rest of nv life, I had
given up in despair, but one evening came
across one of your advertisements and decided
to write you for advice. did so and COM
menced to take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege-
table Compound. began to improve at once,
and to-day am we'll woman, and know
it is all due to your advice and medicine.
Mrs. j. H. Farmer of 28O9 Elliott
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo-, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
advice and medicines have done for mo.
They have done me more good than all the
doctors l ever had
"For the last eight years have suffered
with female troubles; was very weak; had
nervous prostration, and could not do my
hams Vegetable Compound has made a
different woman OF me. I am in perfect
health and have gained in weight from %
pounds to 122 pounds"
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such a record for actual cures Of
female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health. Address,
Lynn, Mass.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
There are in the United States at

There are in the United States at
the present time four and one-half
times the number of murders per mil
lion Of the population that there were
in 1881. In three years there have
been 1896 homicides in the United
States; in 1903 there were S,976 muir.
ders. Since 1881 murders and homi-
cides have increased from 1886 to
1876, and suicides from COS to S,597
within twenty-five years, while the
population has not doubled. The ratio
per million people has increased,
therefore, from 24.7 in 1881 to 112 in
1908. But in 1904 the ratio was
1447; in 1895, 1852; in 1896, 1913
and in 1897, 1928. In 1899 there
were 5,34O suicides, as against 1872
in 1902.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
An Extensive Laboratory.

An Extensive Laboratory.
To supply this remedy to the whole
world taxes to the utmost one of the
best laboratories in the United States.
A Word From Australia.
Walter H. Woodward, Bomadier
Royal Australian Artillery, Hobart,
Tasmania, writes:
III suffered for several years with a
distressing condition of the head and
throat, caused by continual colds.
"My head and nostrils were stopped
up most of the time and there was a
discharge, and my sense of smell was
affected badly.
"After two weeks use of Peruna I
found this condition quite changed, and
so continued to use this remarkable
medicine for over a month.
II am very glad to say that at the end
Of that time I was cured and felt in
fine health generally, and am pleased
to give Peruna my honest endorse
ment."
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
THE SIMPLE LIFE,
Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths
That Are Peace,

Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths
That Are Peace.
It is the simple life that gives
length of days, serenity of mind and
body and tranquility of soul.
Simple hopes and ambitions, bound.
ed by the desire to do good to ones
neighbors, simple pleasures, habits.
food and drink.
Men die long before their time be-
cause they try to crowd too much into
their experiences-they climb too
high and fall too hard. A wise woman
writes of the good that a simple diet
has done her:
Il have been using Grape-Nuts for
about six months. I began rather SPAR
ingly, until I acquired such a liking
for it that for the last three months
have depended upon it almost en-
tirely for my diet, eating nothing else
whatever, but Grape-Nuts for break
fast and supper, and 1 believe I could
eat it for dinner with fruit and be sat
isfied without other food, and feel
much better and have more strength
to do my housework.
"When I began the use of Grape
Nuts was thin and weak, my muscles
we're so soft that I was not able to do
any work. weighed only 108 pounds
Nothin; that ate did me- any good.
was going down hill rapidly, was
nervous and miserable, with no ambi.
ton for anything. My condition I'm.
proved rapidly after began to cut
Grape-Nuts food. It made me feel
like a new woman; my muscles got
solid, my figure rounded out, ny
weight increased to 126 pounds in b
few weeks, my nerves grew steady
and my mind better and clearer. MY
friends tell me they haven't seen me
look so we'll for years.
Il consider Grape-Nuts the best
food on the market, and shall never go
back to !neatF and white bread again."
Name given ~ Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's g resssctl.
Look In esafi pkg. for the little
book, "The NSeM to Wellvills."
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

From Hawaii
Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, delegate
in Congress from Hawaii, writes from
Washington, D. c., as follows:
II can cheerfully recommend your
Peruna as very effective remedy for
coughs, colds and catarrhal trouble"
A Cuban Minister.
Senior Quesada, Cuban Minister to the
United States, writes from Washing ton,
D. c., as follows:
"Peruna can recommend as very
good medicine. 1t Is an excellent
Strengthening tonic, and is also an
efficacious cure for the almost universe!
complaint of catarrh. "-Gonzalo De
Quesada.
From All Quarters of the Globe.
We have on file thousands of testi-
monials like those given above. We can
give our readers only slight glimpse
Of the vast number Of grateful letters
DR.. Hartman is constantly receiving
from all quarters of the globe in behalf
Of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
FACE LIKE RAW BEEF.
Burning Up With Terrible Itching
Eczema-SpeediIy Cured by
Cuticura.

"Cuticura cured me of terrible
agony and pain for eight years, being
unable to obtain any help from the
best doctors. My scalp was covered
with scabs and my face was like a
piece of raw beef, my eyebrows and
lashes were falling out. and felt as
if burning up from the terrible itching
and pain. Cuticura gave me relief the
very first day, and made complete
cure in short time. My head and
face are now clear and well. (SigneD
Miss Mary M. Fay, Is West Main St.,
Westboro, Mass"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at least dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all It's stages, and that Is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
being constitutional disease, requires a constitu.
tional treatment. Halls CatarIh Cure Is taken in.
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease. and giving the pctient
siren tn by building up the constitution and assist.
ing nature In doing its work. The propr eors have
SO much faith in its curative powers that they offer
One hundred Dollars for any case that 1t falls "
cure. Send for list OF testimonials,
Address +. J. CHENEY s. CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 15c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders. move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 80. 600
testimonials. At all druggists, Csc. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. NY.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

An eminent physician says that
"Women are not truthful; they will lie
to their physician" This statement
should be qualified; women do tell the
truth, but not the whole truth, to a
male physician, but this is only in re-
gard to those painful and troublesome
disorders peculiar to their Sex.
There can be no more terrible ordeal
to delicate, sensitive, refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
questions when those questions are
asked, even by her family physician.
This is especially the case with un-
married women.
Is 1t any wonder, then, that womT2
continue to suffer and that doctors
fail to cure female diseases when they
cannot get the proper information to
work on?
This is the reason why thousands and
thousands of women are now CORE
spending with Mrs. Pinlsham. To her
they can and do give every symptom,
SO that she really knows more about
the true condition of her patients,
through her correspondence with them
than the physician who personally
questions them.
Ifyou suffer from any form of trouble
peculiar to women, write at once to
Mrs. Pinlham, Lynn, Mass, and she
will advise you free of charge.
The fact that this great boon, which
is extended freely to women by Mrs.
Pinkham, is appreciated, the thou
sands of letters received by her prove.
Many such grateful letters as the fol-
lowing are constantly pouring in.
Ask Mrs. Pinkham's AdviCc-A WON
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

The Boss-"I'm afraid you are not
qualified for the position; you don't
know anything about my business
The Applicant-"Don't I, though? !
keep company with your typewriter
Chicago Journal.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
II is best to settle quarrel without
any outside interference.

Catarrh of the Bladder and Kidney Trouble
absolutely cured by DR.. David Kennedy's Favorits
Remedy. World famous for over 80 years d bottle
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Shake IN our ShOeSs
Allen Foot-Ease. a powder, cures pain.
full smarting. nervous feet and ingrowing
nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A
certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by ali
druggists, Csc. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Smokers find Lewis "Single Binder"
straight SC cigar better quality than most
loo brands. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

A single man anticipates; a mar
ried man reflects.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Piso's Cure cannot be tee highly spoken OF as
, cough cure-J. w. O BRIEN, 80: Third Ave.
r., Minneapolis, Min Jan. 6. 1900
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

knowledge learned is power earned.
Franklin.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
Orders pisoheYed.

The orders of General Health have
been disobeyed, when you feel under
the weather, weak, tired, irritable, and
suffer from headache, constipation,
biliousness, etc. The only sure, safe
and permanent cure for this condition
is DR.. Caldwell's Qaxative) syrup
Pepsin. 1t has a gentle action all its
own, superior to that of PILLS, powders,
and cathartic waters. Try it. Solo
by all druggists at soc and sl'0o.
Money back if it fails.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
Shake in YOur Shoes.

For the afternoon gown broadcloth
Is most seen.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

To err is human; not to air others
errors Is divine.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

"A GUARANTEED IURE RON PILES.
Nnhing, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your
druggist will refund money II PAZO OINTMENT
SaiA 70 euro you In 9 to IL days. Soc.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces IN
Summation, aays pain. cures wind collie. sc bottle
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Some men get married because they
are tired of being in love.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24
Sion Reward XtOO

On coats of moderate cost great
many braids are used.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Each position has it's corresponding
duties.-George Eliot.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Braid is used upon all materials and
in combination with other trimmings.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

Grayce-"Maude asked George to
kiss her." Gladys-"Well, like her
cheek" Grayce-"So did George
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

The man who has no enemies may
also have no friends
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

The chances are that the man who
looks before he leaps won't leap.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-03-24

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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16

The "Compagnia della Misericordia"
brotherhood Of Mercy Of Florence
includes men of all ranks, who attend
by day or night in cases of accident, to
carry the wounded to the hospital, or
the dead to their burial, to nurse the
sick in their homes or to assist at fires,
receiving no money or food in any
house they visit. The great bell Of the
tower tolls to call the brothers on duty
at the time, and even the grand duke
has been seen to withdraw from table
and silently respond to the summons.
They repair quickly to their chapel by
Santa Maria Novella, where their black
glazed cotton robes are kept in locked
and numbered drawers. BLACK stoled,
black hooded, like a DREAM" you may
meet the procession at night. masked
and Of unknown Identities, passing
along by torchlight with a strange,
wild chant, bearing the bier.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16

Tipstaves, otherwise known as "old
Charlies," "Bow street runners" and
'"Tom tits" were formerly used in
England by officers Of the law, or po-
lice in private clothes, to show their
authority. They were generally car
ried up the sleeve or in a pocket con-
veniently at hand. and the officer would
draw his tipstaff and touch the person
to be arrested on the shoulder and say,
II arrest you In the name Of the king"
Just as now a policeman produces his
warrant. They were generally made Of
wood. mounted with brass or silver
and tipped with a brass, ivory or cary
ed wooden crown, whence the name
tipstaf was derived. They varied in
size from five to nine inches in length.
The men who carried them were also
called Bow street runners" The last
survivor died in 1904 at the age of
eighty-five.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Would Settle Tax:Dispute.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1.-THE Elk.
amtner says today: Since the arrival
OF President Hartman of the South.
ern Pacific company in this city it has
become known that be has offered the
Kentucky authorities s4s. 900 to settle
the tax dispute of the company with
that state and with Jefferson county,
In which the company maintains an
Office. The claim of the state and
county is for unpaid taxes during the
years from 1900 to 1905 inclusively,
and amount to Oil, 49,, 9O2.
Mr.. Hartman claims that all taxes
up to two years ago we're paid to the
then state auditor and that the present
auditor, A. j. Blot, is demanding
taxes dating back into a previous re.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
A Skin Game.

"Things are not always what they
seem," said an officer Of one Of the big
leather companies the other day at a
gathering of leather men. "Once upon
a time there We're six good little goats
In a field. They died young, like all
good little goats with good skins, and
the fellow who was responsible for
their death shipped those skins to a
tannery. When they came out the
skin Of one little goat was an elephants
hide, that of the second little goat was
a monkey skin, that of the third was a
sealskin, the fourth a sea lion, the fifth
a green frog skin and the skin Of the
sixth came out a beautiful walrus
hfde."-New York Times.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
WONDERFUL CURE
OF SORE HANDS
0y cuticura After the
Most Awful Suffering
Ever Experienced
EIGHT DOCTORS
And Many Remedies Failed
to do q Cents Worth
Of Good

81 was troubled with sore hands, so
sore that when I would put them in
water the pain would nearly set me
crazy, the skin would peel off aud the
flesh would get hard and break. There
would be blood flowing from at least
fifty places on each hand. Words could
never tell the suffering I endured for
three years. I tried everything, but
could get no relief. l tried at least
eight different doctors, but none did
me any good, as my hands were as bad
when l got through ~doctoring as when
l began. I also tried many remedies,
but none of them ever did me one
cents worth of good. I was discour-
aged and heart-sore. I would feel so
bad mornings, to think I had to go to
work and stand the pain for ten hours,
l often felt like giving up my position.
Before I started to work I would
have to wrap every finger up sep
arately, so as to try and keep them
soft, and then wear gloves over the
rags to keep the grease. from getting
on my work. At night I would have
to wear gloves; in fact, I had to wear
gloves all the time. But thanks to
Cuticura, that is all over now.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Treasure Box Returned.

SOUTH BRIDGE, Mass, Aug. A.
The treasure box, owned by Herman
S. Cheney, with contents intact, which
had been missing since February, has
been returned, rs mysteriously as it
disappeared. The now famous box,
containing $3.50, 600 in negotiable and
non.negotiable securities, is once
again in the custody of Herman s..
Cheney, at his residence on Chestnut
street in South Bridge. The box con.
tanning $50, 900 10 cash, and securities
to the value of about $3.50, 600, was
stolen from his home in February last.
He had taken the box from his securi.
ty vault in Boston and hidden it in
his house while preparing a schedule
of his property.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Meals In the Dark Ages.

Few references can be found as to
the manner in which a meal was served
and eaten during the dark ages. AS
near as we can learn, the soup was put
In a big bowl with ears. called a "por-
ringer" There was seldom a spoon
for each person. Those who had spoons
dipped them into the porringer, and the
liquid was carried directly to each
mouth. Those who We're without
spoons drank their soup from the por-
ringer, holding it by II of the ears,
or else borrowed a spoon of their neigh
Dor. The meats were placed in a large
vessel in the center of the table. Each
person present at the meal picked out
with his fingers such bits as he desired.
One or two knives answered for half a
dozen guests. Those who were with
out knives borrowed from those who
had them. AS a rule, the guests at
table used their own knives. There is
no evidence that napkins were supplied
to guests at this period. At any rate,
no mention is made Of them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Do We Compare Favorably
With Our Ancestors ?

BY Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE of Ensand. Author of sherlock Holmes"
DO not think that our life, so far as have any opportunity of
observing it, is PARTICULAR y frivolous, nor do think that it
compares INTENTIONALLY with our records of the past.
To take a few points, the enormously heavy dinner of olden
times has been refined to a more delicate repast, and the tendency APP
pears to be to shorten this. The wine bibbing arstocrat has disap-
peared, and the gin soaked plebcan is at least very different from
what he was even a century ago. Within my own lifetime have seen
a great amclio1ation in the drinking habits of the middle and lower
classes. Statistic, show beyond all doubt that the drink bill is dccreas.
ing. Where, then, is the evidence of any DEGENERATION
In the matter of dress the ladies fashions may be extravagant,
but when have they been otherwise? Mans dress has erred on the
other side. 1T HAS BECOME TOO SIMPLE AND PLAIN.
In the matter of books, lectures, charities, learned societies and
all other tests by which the sober thought and discipline of a people
can be gaugcd, / think that we show AN ADVANCE UPON OUR
ANCESTORS. AS to the ethics of the private lives Of some circles of
our richer classes, I do not pretend to know anything about it, but I
imagine that the preachers and writer's who have acclaimed against
them arc not much better informed. In my limited opportunities of
observing the manners and customs of the highest classes I have in
varably found THE SAME STANDARD of honor and dcccncv
which is recognized by their fellow countrymen. Scandals occur &c.
casionally, but in what age has this not been SOL
Therefore l repeat that I cannot admit that we are in any way dc
ton.
IT Is ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO HOLD THE SCALES EVEN az.
TWEEN THE OPPOSITE EXTREMES OF BRUTALITY AND EFFEml.
MACY, BUT OF THE TWO, WE TEND, THINK, RATHER TOWARD
THE LATTER.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
A Touching Q

Is the saving from death Of the baby
girl of Geo. A. Eyler, Cumber' and,
Md. He writes: "At the age of IL
months Dur little girl was in declining
health with serious throat trouble, and
two physicians gave her up. We were
almost in despair, when we resolved
try DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. The
first bottle gave relief; after taking
four bottles she was cured, and is now
in perfect health" Never fails to re-
fieve and cure a cough or cold. AT
w. J. Minar's drug store: SOC. and 81
guaranteed. Trial bottle free.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16

The world is only beginning. We
have done nothing, said nothing, sung
nothing. The history of the past is the
history Of n empire ut a time. Now
several empires must compete together
among them, that miracle of con-
quest and greater miracle of slow be-
coming, set ~dispersedly about the
world, but linked together, grasped
and held by the embracing sea, our
WI ocean state, Imperial Britain,
mighty and aware" The world will
yet know greater men than Caesar and
Napoleon, deeper passion and wider
humanity than Sh~akespeare's, a music
still more elemental than Wagner's, q
sadder soul than Schopenhauer's, a
more triumphant intellect than Metz
sche's, beauty more enthralling than
Helen's. John Davidson in London
Outlook,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16
Browning and nm Umbrella.

A correspondent writes to the Lon
don Chronicle that he once came upon
Robert Browning in Piccadilly in live
" dispute with a stranger who had
carried his closed umbrella over his
shoulder or under his arm, with the
end sticking out. Browning, walking
behind, struck down the dangerous
point with an energetic stick. II al
ways do it," said the poet with Just
indignation and in no measured tones.
The man protested aloud, but Brown
ing explained to the gathering crowd
and justified himself fully. No one
seemed to know how Industrious was
the brawler.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-16

DAoAA
One Of the Elton and Harrow school
cricket matches recalls an amusing
Incident. Elton had a m%onotonous Sc
ries Of wins for some years, and one
day the Harrow captain received the
following:
Oh. ye boys Of Harrow school.
OF cricket We have no knowledge;
It is not cricket. but the fool,
You play against Elton college.
The Harrow school poet was hunted
out and commanded to send a fitting
reply. This clever response made him
famous:
II. as you say, we play the fool,
No wonder we We're beaten,
For at that game no other school
Could Ger compete with Elton.