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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

Going through the hospitals in our large cities one is surprised to find such large proportion of the patientslying on those snow-white beds women and girls, who are either awaiting or recovering from serions operations.
 Why should this be the case? Sim ply because they have neglected them selves. Female troubles are certainly on the increase among the women of this country-they creep upon them unawares, but every one of those patients in the hospital beds had plenty of warning in that bearing-down feel ing, pain at leftor right of the abdomen, nervous exhaustion, pain in the small of the back. dizziness, f1atulency, dis placements of the organs or irregular ities All of these symptoms are indi- cations of an unhealthy condition of the female organs, and if not needed the penalty has to be paid by danger ous operation. When these symptoms manifest themselves, do not drag along until you are obliged to go to the hos pital and submit to an operation but remember that Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound has saved thousands of women from surgical operations.
 When women are troubled with ir- regular. suppressed or painful periods. weakness. displacement or ulceratlon of the organs, that bearing-down feel Ing, inflammation, backache, bloating for fatulency), general debility, indi- gestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, ner- vousness, sleeplessness. melancholy, "all-gone" and want-to-be-left- alone feelings, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy.
 Lydia E. PInkham's Neseta9le Com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
RUSSIA

scriptures in the vernacular, and it's prae- tce regarding marriage of the clergy. Every aspirant for the position of pope must be married; but pope" who be- comes a widower may not marry The Czar, Of course, is at the head of the church and he appoints to every office in it.
 In 1902 the national debt was g. 4l4,O6L : 734, but since the war with Japan this has greatly increassd.
 The total peace establishment of the Russian army consists of 1036,000 men. 16O,00O horses, 2GOO guns. Russas war strength is placed at i,600,O00 men and 562, ,OO0 horses.
 Although ranking seventh in naval strength she has more men employed in her navy than any other country except Great Britain; SOl2 officers and 56, ITO men.
 Peter l, was the first Czar to assume the title of Emperor. which he did in l721
 Russias national wealth is placed at $35, coo 0O0, ,000.
 In ancient times the Russian plains were practically unknown to the civilized world. It was called 5eythia and it's peoples were spoken of wild Scythlan or Sarrathian tribes.
 Historians date the beginning of the Russian Empire from about the middle of the ninth century. when Rurik, Scandinavian leader, came to Novgorod. The Scandlnavians were soon absorbed by the SlaVonc inhabitants. Klev was made the capital of this ancient empire. The House of Rurik came to end in i613 when an assembly or representatives chose Michael Romanoff for their Czar
 Peter I. of the House of Romanof who ruled from 1909 to 1725 was Russas greatest Czar. He found Russia Asiatic and he made 1t European. He created d navy and gave the country an army clothed and disciplined like the armies of other European countries. He gave Russia libraries and museums, and from an obscure and uneivilized country ere ated a powerful empire fit to rank with the foremost nations of Europe. But al- though he knew how 10 civilize his country. he remained barbarism. He immured his first wife in q convent and murdered his son Alexis. He called him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
The following letters cannot fail to bring hope to despairing women.

bring nope to uespdirluB WVHeH'
 Miss Ruby Mushrush, of East Chicago, Ind, writes
 Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
 1T have been a great sufferer with irregular periods and female trouble, and about three months ago the doctor, after using the A-Ray on me, said l had an abeess and would have to have an operation. My mother wanted me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a last resort, and 1t not only saved me from an operation but made me en- tirely well.n
 Mrs. Alice Berryhill, of 313 Boyce Street, Chattanooga, Tenn, writes: Dear Mrs Pinkham:--
 ssThree years ago life looked dark to me- I had alteration and Inflammation of the female organs and was in a serious condition
 My health was completely broken down and the doctor told me that if was not op- erated upon l would die within six months I told him I would have no operation but would try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound He tried to influence me against it but sent for the medicine that same day and began to use it faithfully Within five days felt relief but was not entirely cured until used it for some time.
 Your medicine is certainly fine. I have induced several friends and neighbors to take it and l know more than dozen who had female troubles and who to-day are as we'll and strong as I am from using your Vege- table Compound.
 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best.
 Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, invites all sick wo- men to write her for advice, Her advice and medicine have restored thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. 'Ound Succeeds Where Others Fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

of colorings, the new styles thus pro duced numbering hundreds annually
 And when our styles are all ready and we have begun to print we make up our sample books for the trade; we get these out for the next season along about January l. Like great atlases these books are, only bigger, each book containing hundreds of pages, each page wall paper sample of the full width of the paper and in length of page a little long CT than the width, enough to show the paper amply.
 "Of these great sample books we send out thousands, tons in weight of them, annually and with these books at hand the dealer begins ordering his wall pa pers of the new styles in readiness for the new season."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
All He Needed.
From Harper's WeekIy.

From Harpers Weekly.
 A number of Wall street men at lunch con one day were discussing the remark able ability of certain operator in the street to weather any financial storm.
 Why said one of the financiers, that chaps wonder I don't know how many times they've had him against the wall, yet he always contrives to get. away
 q have heard it said" observed another. that Blank is resourceful enough to make a living on a desert island"
 "Yes, he could do that. too" affirmed the first speaker, If there were another man on the island"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
TELEPHONE CREWS ARE HARDAT WORK Season for Outdoor Operations
 is Now Begun SOME PROBLEMS TO BE MET The Jersey "skeeter" Is Hard to En- dure. But the Soil Is Favora-
 bIe-lneenious Scheme
 Tried Out West.
SOME PROBLEMS TO BE MET

Na,, York. April 4--(Special)-EVer see
 .a,anhonA construction crew at worN! You probably have, for thls is "".ie there's already telephone to eNe'y twenty or thirty people in the lailo anu tba orders for extensions are pouiine in unon the companies so fast that 'heii .,,s,,v men who put up the poles sirihs ., ,,,ras and install the instruments aro working overtime. Crews Of them
 in sipht about everywhere as the
 .o,, in which a man can work out doors without fear of pneumonia or lio9' bite returns .h4
 you,ve perhaps noticed some or the difficult problems they have to soiVe ln o,,der to make the useful wires reacn thair destined stations. The telephone men particularly those employed III line construction work, don't nsea to s,o out of their way to find trouble. It ie always waiting for them around inc corner and it is up to them 10 over come it on the spot. What makes u worse is that each locality has It's own peculiar perplexities.
 Sometimes these are technical, some times they relate to the conditions ol working out of doors and living m tents. as the construction fellows are frequently required to do. Thus the Bell men who are busy along the New Jersey coast have from early spring to late autumn some peeulir trials and trihulations The Jersey 'skeeter IS no myth Pennyroyal is a standing item Of expense among the gangs at work in the sandy country. That, together with strong tobacco and thick stockings, are things that the clerk in charge of the supply department of the construction force must not be without. Pennyroyal would hardly do for the horses, so these four-footed friends and assistants are wrapped up in burlap, as protection against the Jersey pest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15

The Gawk makes best adve rtising 5uiIdinn-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
Scheme Worked at New Orleans.


 At New Orleans the Rocky mountain arrangement was reversed. Instead of using submarine cable in the ground. they employed underground cable above the surface. The Bell engineers early discovered that with the oozy soil of the Crescent City to contend with they must use, instead of subways, elevated duets of concrete.
 Again, through the white sandstone which underlies the streets of St. Paul Minn, the telephone men, instead of lay ing ducts. simply dug tunnels, and to the sides of the tunnels they attached the telephone cables. These borings are reminiscent of the Roman catacombs. Here and there the grated doors that furnish light and air may be seen in the face of the bluff upon which the city stands
 In more ordinary circumstances the work of spreading the copper meshes of the national talking system proceeds according to an orderly routine. Into a carefully dug hole the big stick of timber is swung by means of derrick or. in the more primitive way piked into position by small army of men each equipped with a spiked pole. Along fol- low stout fellows. who tamp the earth about the base of the pole, others who nail on the cross arms, and finally those who string the wires and aerial cables. which are unwound from ingenuiously contrived reel wagons.
 Where the soil is soft the telephone men use artificial foundations. In some cases they fill the hole around a pole with rubble consisting of one part ce- ment, two parts sand and i've parts stone. In other instances they brace the poles in various ways. Where a cor ner is to be turned. or where the lines are specially exposed to violent weather, they are steaded with guys which are generally attached to nearby trees or an- chored In rocky ground. Sometimes a pole is simply braced by means of an- other pole sunk diagonally to an equal depth in the ground.
 An odd form of construction, where the earth is especially soft and where guying or bracing is difficult is that of two poles set in the form of a letter A, or two poles set at a less acute angle. so that when the crossarms are in posi- tion they take on something like the appearance of capital IT. The anchors employed are generally ereosoted blocks or logs buried at various depths in the ground and attached to the telephone poies with guy strands. Preferably the guy IS Fastened to a tree trunk. the tree Deing protected from injury by covering the circumference used with a sort of ire belt made of strips of hard wood
 Set 13o Feet Apart.
 As rule telephone poles are set 1SO feet apart. and this distance is measured on regardless of obstacles. Where it is necessary to have loup sna, of ool,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
cOmpensatlons Found.

 particular locality. The work is easier in some ways than in most sections. The sandy New Jersey soil does not trouble the telephone men. When they come to the spot where pole Is to be set they simply elevate the big stick and set a water-pack at work at the foot of it. This water-pack is a de- vice that causes a powerful stream to play upon the sand at the foot of the pole, and in this way ten feet of pole can be lowered in a few minutes. the shaft sinking of it's own weight. When 1t is set, it's set to stay, for the sand flows back around the base and makes foundation that is just as good as solid rock.
 That's simple enough. When pole ! line is run over a stretch of bare ledge, involving blasts of dynamite every body in the gang has to work hard. So too, in most exceptional localities. When the engineers have occasion to stretch the long distance lines across the swamps which along the Gulf of Mexico assume the shape of shallow but extensive lakes, they resort to the ingenious arrangement of erecting the poles upon rafts, building special foundations for them and then sailing out across the water and dropping pole after pole overheard foundation and all in the exact spots mapped out for them.
 Equal ingenuity has been displayed in the first instance by men engaged in the construction of long distance lines through Rocky mountain passes in Colorado. Here it was found that on account of the wind and sleet the poles wouldn't stay up. After many setbacks the construction men hit upon the plan of using submarine Bell cable which is so strongly armored that the wear and tear resulting from the ebb and flow of tides has compara- lively little effect upon it. This cable was laid at high attitudes in trenches dug just deep enough to preclude disturb ence from traffic or trouble above ground The result has been that distant mining towns have had excellent service though often the wires that connect them with the outer world are buried under 30 feet
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
IRELAND A MYSTERY.

Sydney Brooks of Harper's Weekly has visited Ireland. and Is a wiser man. He found Cork liar more Irish- than Dublin, but even Cork surprised him: it was ''too busy and prosperous" to fit into his preconcep- tions. Ireland is the most written about and the least understood. the most travestied and the least known, of all European countries" he says .sThere are in Ireland SO many Ire lands. and each seems % abnormal. so wholly beyond the range of ones ordinary experience. that the most coek-sure tourist is obliged to pause before saying that this or that is a hit of yeritable Ireland When you hear priests of forty years standing. peasant-born themselves and spend ing their whole life in the innermost confidence of the people. confesstng that the Irish are es much mystery ,o them as ever. 1t makes you ab- steunious of ready Eeneralirations and rushing differences
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15

No suggestion has been received with more interest in political circles in Washington than the plan credited to Senator Tillman for the inaugura- tion of q negro passport law in the south. says a Washington correspond ent. The question Is one which will effect northern communities only in- directly in that it may give them some Of the ct present exceedingly surplus negro population of the southern states. Politicians in Wash inston of all shades of opinion have evfnced the deepest interest in the suggestion. but few of them are will ing to talk for publication. Some of them effect not to take 1t seriously. and class 1t along with Senator Hoar's famous proposal to set aside an isl and to which anarchists couh be transported and allowed tO live in en- Joynent of their own creed It Is quietly admitted. hovever. that the passporr proposal cannot be disposed of in the same Iisht way. If k likely that 1t viii form sn ir Portsnt issue in the coming elections al it Is ehsr.e- terfred as one of the " practical proposals looking 10 s ution sf the rzce problem One of hestures of the situation which Daks prscticsl politicians believe ths pssnPrt syr
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15

tenn can be put into effect Is the fact that 1t will not require national legis- 'lation. Were federal bill on the subject to be introduced In congress 1t would be beaten as a moral cer- tainty; It would not even put up the
 fight that was created over the force bill, but the fact that the passport system can be enacted as state law, makes it more than probable in the eyes of veteran politicians that 1t will be grasped with greater avidlty even than was the Jim Crow Car Law" which has now spread over the whole region south of the Potomac and the Ohio. As national issue, the ques- tion will never have chance 10 be raised; but as burning local neces- sity, it is sure to have it's effect on the national campaign. In the states of the union where the negro is prac- tically an unknown quantity, there will be criticism and reviling of the south, but through the black belt and the other sections where such restric- tive legislation is known by dire ex- perience to be an absolute necessity, the proposal is apt to be welcomed as an exceedingly moderate and hu- mane way out of an almost inextri- cable socio-political tangle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
HEARD IN PASSING.

The season for shipping eggs and poultry to Cuba has opened. Cuba has never been able to raise enough to supply her own wants. Better raise more poultry and less cane.-- Boston Transcript.
 We decline to fool ourselves about the 16 new indictments brought against the sugar trust and the New York Central Railroad company for rebates. They are worthless. So they would be unless there were six teen thousand of them permitting fine of $25,OOO on each count. That would make the punishment real and yet it would not be severe enough New York Press.
 Connecticut has passed the million mark. The Catholic population is about .350,00O, or a good round third of the entire mass. We do not, for reasons which would be unprofitable to enumerate, wield one-third in fluence, but we are growing morally as well as numerically. It were wis dom on the part of those who create our legislature not to treat us as a body apart. We do not want favors, we do not look for that which belongs to others We look for and We ax- pect a square deal, nothing more.- Catholic Transcript.
 At Parkhurst prison, Isle of Wight there is convict who is the terror of his guardians and the despair of tire medical staff. For two years he has consistently refused to eat or drink. in accordance with VOW he Is said to have made in temper on en- tering the prison. That he has been prevented from starving is due to the watchful care of the medical stan, under whose direction he has been regularly fed by artificial means, not withstandIng his frequent exhibitions of uncomfortable temper. He is show ing no sign of wavering in his deter mination to starye rimself.-London Daily Mail.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15

Considerable comment and amuse- ment has been caused by the fact that General Funston is to return to the United States in company with Secretary Taft, says one writer. There was every reason to suppose when he was first ordered to Cuba that he was just the man to fit the emergency. There is no question that General Funston is good officer. and that he has a way of doing things re- gardless of red tape delays, but 1t was found after he reached Cuba that he was not persona grata to many of the politicians there. and as the recon struction movement is beyond all things q benevolent movement. he has had to be shipped back home. This recalls the days of the last Gu ban rebellion when General Funston, then a hard working correspondent. went Into the brush with the Cuban rebels and was finally made com missioned officer in the insurgent army. He did not altogether approve of the way that things were managed, and ultimately wanted to return to the the United States. The Cubans did not want to let go ot good thing and objected strongly, 90 General Funston cut the AGordian knot by go- ing in and surrendering to the near est Spanish patrol He got himself very cordially disliked for this, but it answered his purpose. and the incl dent has never stood fin his way until the present abortive attempt to as- sign him to Cuban duty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
COLD FOR CONSERVATIVES.
Why Frigid Climate Helps Cure Tu'
 berculosis.

Tn the past we overestimated the value of special climates in the treat ment of consumptives. There is still reason to give the climates of some places preference over those of other places. Places some distance inland are better than those immediately upon the sea coast; nevertheless, the curative results in some sanatoriums near the coast have been exceedingly good.
 A good percentage of sunshine is an advantage, nevertheless. At some of the sanatoriums in Great Britain. at Nordrack. in the Black forest of Germany, and in the Adirondacks. where the results have been of the best, there is much or considerable cloudy weather. Mildness of tenn perature is a convenience, but our consumptives in our northern climes race right away from those in south- ern latitudes in their progress toward health. In fact in Sanitorium treat ment the cure is much more rapid in winter than in summer, whether in Maine, Canada or the Adirondacks.
 The correct explanation is prob ably two-fold-the inhibitory action of the cold air upon the development of the tubercle bacilli. and the tonic effect of cold. pure air upon the or ganisms of the patients. and their en- ormously increased capacity for talk Ing. digesting and assimilating food supplies. Farther south altitude is of importance as tending to lower temperatures: in the north. sites el- evated only enough to escape the fogs or mists from sea. lake or river which lesson the available total of atmosphere for the region. are what is required-From Bulletin of Maine State Board of Health.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15

Many a man of humane fmpulses
 uho would not willingly harm . kit- ten. fs guilty of cruelty where his own stomach is concerned 0Ter- driven overvorked. when what it needs Is something that will dfxss< the food eaten and keip the s<ona<h to reeuperzfe- Something Iike Ko6ol For Dyspepsia that is sold by H " Lake Drug Co and Jossph A snftA- szf Bznk Etraef. DrookIyn DlgfY1el
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15

The bank depositors do not agree with that doctor's statement, that President Stensland ought to have taken long vacation atyear ago They think they would have been better off if he had taken 1t ten years ago.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
For Representative,
 JOHN MORIARTY. AMBROSE H. WELLS.
For Judge of Probate, ROBERT A. LOVE-

Winston Churchill says that he won moral victory in New Hampshire. If he Is satisfied, doubtless the other side will try to put up with the sort of victory they got out of 1t.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
MONDAY, OCT 15, 1906.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.


 DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
 Governor,
 CHARLES F. THAYER.
 Lieutenant-Governor,
 JOHN M. NEY.
 Secretary,
 GEORGE FORSTER.
 Treasurer,
 EDWARD s. ROBERTS.
 Comptroller,
 EUGENE B. PECK.
 Attorney-General,
 WILLIAM B. STODDARD.
 Congressman-at-Large, CHARLES J. DONAHUE. Representatives in Congress, 1st Dist-BENEDICT M. HOLDEN. Ed District GEORGE M. WALLACE. 4th District--HOMER s. BEERS.
 Senators, Sd District-THOMAS J. SPELLACY 4th District-OLCOTT F. KING. 9th District-MINTON A. NORTON. 9th District-JOHN M. BRADY. 7th District BENJ V. KEEVERSA 9th District F. ALCORN. 10th District-JAMES N. STATES. 11th District-JOHN F. SHANLEY. 18th District-FRANCIS ATWATER 18th District-JOHN O'NEILL. 18th District-JOHN HURLEY. 21st District MNEIL. 22d District-JOHN NJ. DONNELLY. 23d District-LYNN w. WILSON. 29th District-FRANK P. FENTON. S3d District-BERKLEY c. STONE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
AMONG OTHER MONUMENTS.

.5o erected last year in the old ana new St Joseph's and Calvary are those for Timothy Brennan. Daniel Cassidy, Roger Connor. Marcus He'll mann. John F. Hackett, Terrence Downey, Mary Phelan, Michael Shea. William Duncan, Thomas Butler. Patrick Butler, Patrick Boyle, Chris Dunphy, Maurice Healey, Lucien Pratte, William Stafford. We are making a number to be set next spring. Place your order now, while prices are low.
 c. A. JACKSON & CO
 17O-274 Bank Street.
 Manufacturers and Importers
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-15
sHAKEsPEAREs OPINION oI
 OTTO COKE.

let. s4
 Good men will yield thee praise Loves Labor Lost.
 Here chose I, joy be the conse- uuence.- of Venice.
 The why Is plain as way to parish church-As You Like It.
 Such news as you never heard of.- Tanning of the Shrew.
 The very ping of perfection. .-Sne Stoops to Conquer. tsa