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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

and Investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1913 she married Isaac Pinkham.
a builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
argent cases. By tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest
in the study of DOT and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that Just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, IN the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
I HIS ana u the OOuNr anu
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends
Chief of these was a rare combina
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E Pink
hams friends and neighbors learnes
that her compound relieved and cures
and it became quite popular amoni
them.
All this so far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis strue
Lynn. Its length and severity were to
much for the large real estate interest
of the Pinkham family, as this elias
of business suffered most froE
fearful depression, so when the Center
NAL year dawned it found their prof.
erty swept away. Some other SQUIRE
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham
Vegetable Compound was made know
to the world
The three sons and the daughte
with their mother, combined forces
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
good for their woman friends and
was equally good for the
women of the whole world
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were STEPPED on the stove,
gradually filing a gross of bottles
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a Job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons In
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn
The wonderful curative properties of
the medicine were, TO a great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
iIy had saved enough money to COM
menee newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth ard success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture
lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical In her
work and she was always careful topre-
serve a record of every case thatcame to
her attention The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousandsEreceived
careful study. and the details, mcfud-
ing symptoms. treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since. are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent a vast eollab0Ea-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library IN the
world
II VIII LN4l6 L. II WOA6L4 IL
daughter : in law, the present Mrs
lPinkham. She was carefully instructed
in all her hard-won knowledge, and
! for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its origins-
4 tor passed away. For nearly twenty.
five years she has continued 1T, and
> nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E Pinkham dropped hei
pen. and the present Mrs. Pnkham
now the mother of a large family, tool
it MP. With women assistants, some a.
< capable as herself, the present Mrs
o Pinkham continues this great work AND
s probably from the Office of nc othel
5 person have so many women been ad
vised how to regain health. Sick wo
L men. this advice Is yours for Health
treely given if you only write to asl
e for it.
Such is the history Of Lydia E Pink
s hams Vegetable Compound mad
n from simple roots and herbs; the on
great medicine for women's ailments
and the fitting monument to he nobl
10 woman whose name it bears
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Minister'S Riqhteous Wrath.

o. H. Kuhn of the great banking
firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, is a lover
of fresh air, and when he crossed the
Atlantic on La Provence during her
recent record-breaking westward trip
he insisted on having all the public
rooms well ventilated.
To a Frenchman who complained
that there were too many open win
dows and portfolios, Mr.. Kuhn said:
You remind me, sir, of an old min
lister who used to preach, though he
loved fresh air, in a small, crowded
and ilLventilated church
TT happened that one Sunday,
through some oversight or other, a
window in the CHURCH was left partly
open. The old minister actually began
to preach in a fairly decent at
mosphere. But in a minute or two
an aged deacon arose, dumped sol
emily to the window and closed it.
The minister paused in his sermon
to say bitterly:
Deacon Jones. if I were preaching
in a bottle l verify believe you'd put
the cork in"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

taurant at Waterville, Mo, says:
Before using Doan's Kidney Pills 1
suffered everything from kidney trou.
Dles for a year and a half. / had pain
In the back and head, and almost O n
tinous in the loins and felt weary
all the time. A few doses of Doan's
Kidney Pills brought great relief. and
Kept on taking them until in a short
time was cured. I think Deans Kid.
ney Pills are wonderful"
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo.
N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
s,O0 Reward, 500.

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ternany, ~ he system, thereby destroying the
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strengtn ~ a. aaInz its work. The proprtetors have
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
Not Afraid.

"Chippers is an odd Dick. I've never
yet asked him a question that he didn't
give some sort of an answer"
He's schooled to it; you know he
was seven years with the weather bu-
reau."-Detroit Free Press.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

UruSo~ reduced her national debt
UTugeS. 40 during 1905. The total
by lamar /, 1906, was s12l.455'-
debt on Shicb about so per cent was
14i, o. Uruguay is a prosperous
external .nd in her prosperity is a
country, of the United States.
good - merchandise from this
Exports ~ Uruguay for the nine
country nding March 81, 1905,
months 70 81, i72, 276. against $1,2oo.-
noun IN the same period of the pre-
vjoua wear.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
ebastIy Foreign Pun

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait the
noted American clubwoman, has been
receiyed abroad by royalty, and some
of the foreign papers have the te-
merity to declare that she has a
uroverbial right to look at a king.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

they get out of or
der it causes back
ache, h e a C h e s,
dizziness. languor
and distressing URN
airy troubles. Keep
the kidneys well
and all these suf-
ferings will be
saved you. Mrs.
s. A. Moore, pro-
prietor of a res
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had It's Birth and How the "Panic of '73'' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, com
ing from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as a woman of an alert
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04

If a nan would know himself thor
oughly he hasn't much time to waste
in trying to find out things about his
neighbor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-04
TIRED BACKS.

The kidneys have a great work to
do in keeping the blood pure. When
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
THE NEW
THEATRE
PLANS

After several meetings of the COM
mittee of the New theater in New
York, which Is intended TO be the ma
tional home of dramatic art, the de-
tails of the building have been settled
upon. says the New York World. The
building committee has been selected
as follows: Charles Il. Barney, Otto
II. Kahn. Harry Payne Whitney. Eliot
Gregory and H. II. Winthrop. Charles
L. Barney, Otto Ii. Kahn. ii. X. Win
throp. Heinrich Conried. Stanford
White, Dom Barber and Edgar V
Seeler have been chosen as jury to
select the best one of the plans sub
mitted by architects 4 stipu!a ted
amount is guaranteed to each firm OF
architects TO cover the approximate
cost OF its plans.
The specifications stipulate the audi
forum is to have Il seating capacity
of not fewer than 1900, exclusive of
the boxes. The interior plan provides
for Il parquet, two tiers of boxes and
either two deep balconies or three shall
low ones There are to he foyers back
of the box tiers, permitting of prone
nades and visiting among the various
box holders.
The big stage is to be So feet deep
and 100 feet wide, with proscenium
opening 40 feet high and 40 feet wide.
There are to be 40 dressing rooms, one
half devoted to women and the other
half to men. Two dressing rooms will
be for the chorus. and there are to be
three rehearsal rooms. one of which is
to be very large. In addition, there is
to be large room for ballet practice.
One remarkable feature of the plans
is that this theater is to have Il green
room, a provision that has almost be-
come extinct in the theatrical world of
this country. A library. suits for the
founders and the general manager,
rooms for school of dramatic and mu-
steal art, with a miniature concert
room containing stage. and dozen
study rooms are also among the specifi-
cations. The orchestra is to be seated
in tiers below the level of the stage.
The founders intend that not only
boxes but single seats may be pur-
chased. The wealthy founders have
purchased entire boxes. but those of
more moderate means hive contented
themselves with parts of boxes. 1t is
that single seats may also be
purchased outright. These seats and
boxes are to be at the disposal of the
owners three nights in the week. The
remaining time they are to be offered
for sale to the public
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
Glf,npses of Bailey

Now that James \ Bailey, late head
OF the Barnum & Bailey show and
king of the circus men," is dead a
thousand anecdotes showing the kind
ness. the thoughtfulness, the big heart
ed charity, of the man are being told
about him, says the New York World.
Secrecy was his rule in making gifts.
He regarded us as his children"
said Richard f. (Tody) Hamilton, the
well known press agent, who has been
in Mr. Bailey's service for more than
a quarter of century. There are a
thousand of us with the show, and
Mr. Bailey had an actual paternal in
terest in every one of lis. <Ie was al
ways making a present to one man or
another in his employ-today TO Il can
vasman who needed money because of
sickness at home, tomorrow to one of
his biggest employees who was in
straits. The present always came in
the same form, Mr.. Bailey's personal
check in an envelope addressed and
marked, Strictly Confidential
a few years ago he congratulated
one of his old employees won't men
ton the name-on the fact that his
wife had bought a house in New York.
He found out that there was q mort
gage on the property for $500. Six
weeks later the man found on his desk
an envelope in Mr.. Bailey's handwrit-
ing addressed to his wife. On the up
per left hand corner was written in
lead pencil, Strictly confidential The
man took the envelope home to his
wife. She opened it and found Mr. Bal
ley's check for $1,000. When any one
thanked him he would talk about some
thing else.
when a man in Mr.. Bailey'S en-
ploy was sick his pay was never dock
ed for the time he was absent. If
there was sickness in the family or
any other distress Mr.. Bailey always
knew about it, and the man would get
a check from him in an envelope mark
ed Strictly confidential
mfr. Bailey had so many pensioners
that 1 don't see how he could keep
track of them. He gave old Dan Rice
$50 a week regularly up to the time of
his death. Old circus men all over the
world were his beneficiaries. One day
Mr.. Bailey handed $4,000 in twenty
dollar bills to one Of his men. Give
this to needy people, was all he said.
When the man brought him back ST.
600 some weeks later he was offended.
II remember once that he sent from
Vienna a check for $1,000 to man
whom he had not seen for five years
and who, he casually heard, was down
on his luck
"Mr Bailey was very fond Of jokes
and funny stories. He never used an
oath nor a harsh word. He never gave
an order-always made request.
He was fond Of animals, and they
loved him. Once, thirty years ago,
the man who rode in an open chariot
with a tiger was laid up sick. Mr.. |
Bailey took his place. Mr.. Bailey him
self selected all the horses and other
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27

every morning. Please let me know
whether it is part of my Immediate du-
ties to carry the Stops from the station
masters Kitchen
The statement has gone the rounds
of the press that Gorky once fed pigs.
and it was probably at the very time
that he was carrying those Stops. What
more natural than that he should have
fed them TO the station masters grunt-
ing porkers? No wonder he inquired if
this was a part of his duties For a
member of melancholy race the
quaint humor by which the question Is
introduced is rather delicious, is it
not? Fortunately the slop carrying,
pig feeding episode was about at the
end of Gorkys hard times His pen
was growing busy, and that should
soon bring him fame and mans part
in the worlds work. He was coming
into his own. Happy is that man who
finds himself, for then all men may
find him. Misery comes from being out
of place, from doing that which is not
for us; happiness results from reach
ing our own niche and doing that
which is for us. When one can express
the highest and best that is in him lie
is Oh the true path to the kingdom.
he must travel through the
"sludge and murk" to find this true
path. but it is worth all the hardship
and suffering. When Gorky began his
stories he had found his niche, had
cached his path. He knew himself
then and hence was to be known of all
men. He felt the fierce JOY of doing
battle for the cause his soul loved. He
was to be a force in the social and POI
litical upheaval of mankind
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
PAGES 9 TO IL.

regarded as dangerous character.
Gorky was thrown into Jail a half
dozen times. the last time being for his
participation in the revolution.
In Love With Our Freedom.
His coming TO this country was for
the purpose of raising funds to help
his brother Socialists in their struggle
against the bureaucracy. He fell I'm
love with the freedom lie beheld here,
for II was revelation. lie was espe-
cially surprised and delighted by the
fact that he saw no soldiers and but
few policemen, and. wonder of won
ders. the cops he did encounter were
civil. He was gratified in his very
soul to behold OH the peoples faces a
look of hope and self reliance, not the
cringng and sullenness to which lie
was accustomed at home. Here lie
Deheld the democracy of which he had
dreamed in his own land. He has
spoken of his indescribable emotions as
he first saw the Statue Of Liberty in
New York harbor. 1t was the symbol
of his aspirations. the goal TO which
he would lead enslaved and detected
Russia.
But one untOward incident has at
tended his visit TO America. That was
the discovery Of the fact that he had
not been formally divorced from his
first wife or formally married TO the
woman he now calls his wife. His
friends have explained that it Is al
most impossible TO secure "A divorce in
Russia. but that ii is the custom for
people TO separate by mutual consent
and to enter into new alliances which
are universally recognized as binding.
GOrky had done this. and the first Mrs.
Gorky had formed Il new alliance as
well as himself If it be true il would
seem that there are other things need
ed by Russia as well as liberty.
j. 4. EDGERTON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
Lively Appreciation of Our Writers.

1t seems that this peasant author has
lively appreciation of some of our
own writer's.
Il have adored Shakespeare" he
says, ever since the age of fifteen
when as a cabin boy on Nolga steail-
er | first read The Tempest and y
Midsummer Nights Dream ] dislike
the gloomy morals and asceticism Of
Dante and Milton. Longfellow's 'Hid-
watha' is my favorite American poem.
1t is fresh, naive. strong and beauti-
full. failed to understand Walt Whit
man. l love Byron and Shelley. / have
always compared Shelley to the Alps
and Byron to the Caucasus"
1t is somewhat surprising that GOrky
does not appreciate Whitman, for the
two men are alike in many ways-in
their social and democratic ideals, in
their lack Of the conventional, in the
fact that both tramped the open
road in their elemental manhood and
in their complete identification of
themselves with the masses.
Ciorky's most famous lOnG book is
"Foma GOrdyeef." tragedy filled
with more than the authors usual
gloom, but powerful in its character
delineatiOn and masterful in its pro-
test against tyranny and ariStocratic
Shams. His short stories are more adj
mired by the general public than his
more ambitious efforts. They are orig
inal and individual TO the highest de-
gree and almost savage in their truth
fulnesS one feels while reading them
that this is Il new voice telling of a
world different from that which most
Of us knOw-a chaotic world just
emerging into self consciousness, a
primal and naked world. brutal,
strong, cropping. but terribly real. The
atmosphere into which he leads us is
strange, but tonic.
From the appearance of Gorky's first
story, "Makar Chudra," he was watch
ed by the Russian spies of the govern
ment as a possible revOlutiOniSt and
dangerous character. Anybody that
tells the truth in Russia seems to be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27
Voice OF the Sums.

Who can measure the impulse in the
heart of Il man? Who can describe the
processes by which soul gropes its
way into the sunlight? Who can IN
ravel the mystery that wells the mind
of genius even from itself? Who can
determine the exact quality of soul
tone that makes the voice of an i'm
mortal? Who can tell the sources of
the divine urge by which the great
ones of the race are driven? We hear
the word and see the deed, but know
not tile prompting that sent them
forth. We recognize the genius and
hail him with gladness, but cannot tell
whence he came. Poverty and want
did not make Gorky, else they would
make millions more like him. They
modified and colored, but did not cause
him. They We're the avenues through
which he Errived, but not the force
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-27

the windows OF ears passing the site
Oh the Iron Mountain railroad. While
TO some extent the earthwork has crum-
bled, the walls remain practically ia
tact rising about twelve feet above
the meadow. Overgrown with grass
and with few trees inside the fort.
this old ruin OF wartime stronghold
presents an appearance decidedly pic
turesque. Outside the fort one may
still observe the bitches which In 1861
surrounded the earthwork at depth
of nearly twenty feet, with precipitouS
sides, thus providing against the seal
ing prOpensities of the enemy.
In wartime long rifle pits extended
from the fort east and west. but these.
like the burial trenches. have been Ut
teTly Obliterated through continued cul-
tiYation Of the ground. Inside the fort
is a large deep pool of water, marking
the location OF the powder magazine,
which was blown up 10y order of Gen
eral Ewing on the night Of Sept. %.
1864, when he evacuated the place and
retreated through the mountah pass to
the Frisco railroad at Leasburg.
BY the expenditure of comparatively
little money this battlefield could be
restored TO something like its original
appearance. Upon the slopes Of Shep-
herd mountain and Pilot Knob. where
the Confederate batteries were plant
ed, the southern states interested may
erect monuments that wonld he clearly
visible from many points I'm the valley
other than the main battlefield itself
Scarcely mile away is a big oak tree
under which Ulysses =. Grant, then
colonel of the Twenty first Illinois reg
iment. stood when he received his com
mission as brigadler general I'm tie
of 1861. Already a monument
marks this spot An excellent road
leads from the battlefield through the
town of IrOnton TO the Grant oak. and
in the event of the creation OF a battle
field park this spot naturally would be-
come one OF great interest to tourists.
DIR. Cyrus A. Peterson OF st. Louis.
president of the Missouri Historical
society, who spent twenty years In his
early life at FrederlckstOwn. not TWEEN
~ miles from Pilot Knob, has taken a
deep interest in the preservation OF the
Several months ago he, I'm
with two or three others, pur-
chased the twenty acres including the
fort, having learned that the tract was
TO be cut up into small lots and sold to
immigrants for gardening
purposes. 1t was through DIR. Peter
sons efforts that the bill TO appropriate
money for the creation of a national
park at Pilot Knob was introduced.