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and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
ell, possessed of a wonderfully sympa-
thctic 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 u
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common fer mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in physician only in specially
urgent cases BY tradition and ex-
perience many OF them gained won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkharn took great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just rs nature so
beautifully 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
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
IL was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi-
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was n 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 T. Pink.
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this SO far was done freely, with
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But Ia o. the financial crisis strucl,
Lynn Its length and severity were too
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen.
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
TO the world.
The three sons and the daughter
with their mother, combined forces tc
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may be caught between the loops. Tie
sides of each loop frame are connected
by intermediate bars, the trigger swing
ing from these bars when the loop
frames are distrnded. The trigger wiz
thus hold the trap in set position, and b
slight pressure applied 10 ia" trigger
from either side will spring the trap and
catch the animal between the loop
frames. In setting the trap il is prefer
ably concealed, except the line Of access
to the trigger. SO that an Animal ap.
preaching the trap viii Do certain 10
spring the same, and by reason of the
form Of the loop frames and the location
OF the trigger, the animal will be caught
by the neck or around the body aud thus
either instantly killed or so badly iu-
iured as to die very quickly. Chains or
other means of fastening tire trap to
stakes or clogs can bc employed when
required. In catching some forms oi
animals bait cam be attached 10 the trI2
ger. The trap can also be- cpuetructr"
Of any size for trapping animals pr DIFF
fcrcnt sizes or species,
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restore tie family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighhors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The PinlShams had no money. and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filling a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a lob
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia +. 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 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
lily had saved enough money to com
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia II Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house
hold words evervw here, and many
tons of roots aud herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia f. PinlSham 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 ms she could have done it
herself
During her long aud eventful expe-
ricnce she was ever methodical in her
worl, and she was always careful to pre-
serve n record of every case that came to
her attention. The case Of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were received
careful study. and the details includ-
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 IA vast collabora-
tion of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
| w 1Ah&tNh III avn AL
world.
With Lydia r. Pinkham worked her
daughter in law. the present Mrs.
| Pinliham. She was carefully instructed
! in all her hard won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence
70 her hands naturally fell the
! direction of the work when It's origina-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty
| five years she has continued II, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia Il. Pinkham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of large family, took
IL up With women assistants, some as
capable as herself, the present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this great work and
probably from the office OF no other
person have so many women been ad-
viscd how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is Yours for Health"
freely given If you only write to ask
| for 1t.
Such is the history of Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Comround made
from simple roots and herbs the one
great medicine for womens ailments,
and the fitting monument TO the noble
J woman whose name 1t bears.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20
THE GENTLE CYNIC.

He who loves applause must pay for it,.
Many a girl has tried 70 II, ou a fell
low. only to find that he was. 700 sharp
for her
4 womans adjectves are always
larger than bier IDEAS.
The future has little in store for those
who neglect the present.
The trouble with the dead beat is dat
he is 50 very much alive.
Quarrelsorue people are always salts
fed with fighting chance.
TO please q woman you must FIRST
make her decide what She wants. and
that is why it is 50 hard 70 please Il
woman.-New York Times.
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Robbed In Church.

Just think what an outrage 1t is to
be robbed of all the benefits of the
services by continuous coughing
throughout the congregation, when
Anti-Gripine is guaranteed TO cure.
Sold everywhere, % cents. f. w. Die
mer. NJ. D., Manufacturer, Spring.
field Mo.
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Lightning Acts Freaku

FRANK Meats was struck by lightning
while sixty feet underground at Connells-
vile, ia. He is digger in the Whar-
ton mines, and was standing with one
hana touching a seam of slate in the
TOOL T. ana the other resting ON his pick.
over his head, penetrated sixty feet Of
earth. and knocked Moats senseless
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20
ANIMAL TRAP.
For Catching Animals of Different Size.
or Species.

or Species.
In the Illustration below will be found
an exceedingly simple animal trap. the
invention of ii Maryland man. which wlll
he of interest to many boys in the com.
Try. The natural desire of boys to catch
animals has never diminished, although
the boy i'll the country has greater al.
rantages to fulfil this desire dian the how
m the city. The best the latter can do
IS to trap stable rats aud mice. bat this
~ only tame sport, whereas the country
10y can place traps for quite n number
If small animals. This trap comprisrs
Two frames in the form of oblong loops.
with spring coil connecting the loops lt
one end for maintaining them com
pressed against each other face To face.
and thus produce the requisite grip II
the trap ami compress any object which
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

smyrna, violet and myrrh. and Homer i
aid TO nave been born in one aud to has,
lied in the other, plutarch, Life OF Ser
oriuS.
Born In los, dead IN Smyrna,
NiOletS for his dawn of being
Myrrh 10 watt his soul outpassingi
tMatterS not If ia those cities
lie but knew a beggar's portion.
breaking bread Of scorn or pityg
Thus of Homer runs the legend
Legend true today. ANA ever
OF each poet since great Homer
Such the lot for him comNinEled:
Born in los, dead in Smyrna;
Purplc-cradlcd with the violet
Unto him the light is ushered
And Tor him the light declineth
Tapped in myrrh and incense waited
Such the Splcndor he inhcrits
Earth for him holds naught OF common,
Though between his morn and even
He I. an door To door should wander,
Breaking bread of SCorn or pity,
Lake the blind MaeOnian Father
Like our Sire of song Immortal
Every poet since great Homer
Hath a heaVCn-greetcd entrance
Aud Il royal proud outpassing:
Myrrt ana violet FOR his birthrlght,
Costly bittcI-sweet his portlou.-
Born in los, dead ia smyrna,
Edith NJ Thomas in The Reader.
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WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable COMPOUND
had Its Birth and How the "Panic of 70" 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, 1879, COM
ing from good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as woman of an alert
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

The official report of the French
minister Of commerce sets forth that the
excess OF births over deaths reported in
France for the year 1904 is & .OSe a.
against an excess in 1903 of IS, 1O6.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

-England's only humming bird died
at the London Zoo recently two weeks
after its much-heralded arrival from
venezuela, in spite of diet of honey
and beef tea.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

Every line of Mrs. and Mr.. William
sons novel, MY Friend, the Chauffeur -
was written out of doors at their delight.
tul home in the south of France.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP 70,
children teething; softens the gums reduces in.
hammaton, allays pain, cures wind collie. :,
cents bottle. ~
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There were 1900 guests at mar
rage feast at Sevignac, near NIorlaix.
Brittany, and 800 servants waited on
them in an open field.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money II It fails to cure
e. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
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find Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION rho
best medicine for croupy children.~Mrs
+. Callahan, ia Hall street. Parkers.
burg. w. Va, April Is. 1901.
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went TO work to get up 4 large meeting
and they succeeded.
The speech was rnuser. When the
colonel mad spoken an hour and half
the crowd demanded that he 90 on, and
ne did 90 on for another hour, and when
he sat down cheer after cheer was given
the Young speaker; cheers that We're as
loud and as enthusiastic as those given
the presidential candidate
\ grea. many Democrats kept their
promise to 20 to the meeting, but a good
share of them Joined in cheering Gen
Grant and Col. Spooner. and ceased, from
that time to be Democrats.
From that day to this that boy pas
scnger of 1868 has been one of the great
est men in Wisconsin, in the ewes of the
people Of b.
Ia intellectual strength and moral ana
physical courage Senator Spooner has
rot, now, and never has had. any SUI
pericrs among Wisconsin's public men
It may he doubted if he has any in the
nation. There has not been session Of
Congress during his terms in tile Senate
when he has not we'll demonstrated the
truth of the statement, so far as intel
lcctual strength goes. His moral courage
is unquestioued by those who know him
best.
In Il city where Col. Spoomcr went to
Iattcnd court there lived brutal bulIN
who was deemed Il dangerous character
When in liquor, and he was sure to be
drunk on all unusual occa sons. such as
Ea term of the circlit court. On his way
20 the courthouse, in company with two
or three other lawyers, Spooucr and his
friends were advised to take another
street. as "BruiseY Bill" would soon meet
them and rs he was blind drunk there
would likely be trouble
Thank YOU" said Col. Spooner, hut
"e Will stick to this street"
3rliscr Bill' was talking to 81 lady
when the lawyers came along. lie had
made an insulting remark to her, which
Spuoner heard.
Come On, colonel; that fellow viii
chew You up in minute" said one of
Itae lawyers. as he saw Spooncr throw
on his coat AVID face "Buaiscr Bill"
u can thrash any cowardly dog that
Insults a woman
The brutal bully made q savage pass
~ i'''ih'is thb NitttO 2t'tlt-AsliAN ESCAPED
The blow, and before the terror al the
town could gather himself for a new Mt
tack the lawyers chubby fist hit him in
the right spot, and "Buiscr BIZ" fcn
BIKE shot bullock, and he didn't need
hitting again that, or any other. day.
lhe lesson made a sober, decent man of
him
Wisconsin has had a reasonable share
OF able, strong, successful men in the
Senate during the past lifty--pvcu wears
bat it is no dispara gement to say that
none OF them ever held the warm place
IN the hearts of the people that Senator
Spooner has and does He is great in
character, intellect and deeds. Three
Presidents would have been glad to have
him la their cabinets. hut Wisconsin
would have rebelled had he shown a dis
position to accept They knew, and now
the nation bTows, that John c. Spooncr
+ worth more to the country in the
United States Senate than he would he
IN the cabinet The Evening Wisconsin
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Early in the first Grant campaign i'm
1865 am ambitions county Republican
chairman in the northwestern part OF the
state sent to the state chairman for a
fiT-t-cla-~ speaker the best he had The
speaker was to arrive at / O'Clock D. IN.
ON the stage. from Sparta. A fife and
drum had drawn large company to the
village hotel TO welcome the great
speaker. The stage brought only one
passenger a boy. There was glee among
The village Democrats and gloom in the
Republican ranks The meeting would
have to be given up. The one passenger
finally made himself known as the
speaker Chairman Rublee had sent to
address that evenings meeting.
When the Democrats heard that they
were hilarious. The idea of that boy
making a speech But they would %
aud see him fall, and laugh at the Re
pubieans in their gloom
In the mail was a letter from Chair
man Rubee, afterwards minister to
Switzerland. and for years editor of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, saying that Judge
Blank could not 90 to B., but that Col.
John C. SpOoner was a fine speaker and
would surely please ,ne audience. On the
strength Of that letter the Republicans
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

The present population of Paris is
100000.
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In 1881, the first time Jerry Rusk was
elected governor of Wisconsin. Col.
~pooner was 30 busy a man in his pro-
fcssion that the minutes counted and it
happened twice during the campaign that
he ,ui~-ed train and was obliged 10 hire
an engine in order to keep his speaking
engagements. He lived at Hudson then.
He was to make a speech at New Rich
mond The last Train had gone There
was need of rousing Republican shake
up at New Richmond 1t would not do
to disappoint the committee.
Il must be at New Richmond tonight
1t is too far to drive. Bring around an
engine" said the busy man. The engine
came and the young lawyer made one Of
the best campaign speeches ever heard
at New Richmond. On the way back the
colonel sat at the side of the engineer.
After watching that skiIlful gentleman
for some minutes, he asked for the priv
iieoc of running the engine. They ex-
changed seats. The future senator pro-
cecded to double the speed. The engine
Jumped along Mt Il mile a minute until
short turn in the track was reached,
when the new engineer was thrown to
the fremans side Of the cab, and the
regular engineer resumed charge. As the
colonel rcgaincd his seat behind the en-
ginecr lac said Your COMPOUNDED old
horse does not stand the spur worth men
tioning'
That was the Wisconsin senator's first
AND last experience as railroad en-
rjuecr
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

Seventeen years later there was a
three cornercd contest for the United
States senatorship in Wisconsin Gen.
Fairchild, who had been secretary Of
state, governor three terms, consul to
Liverpool, consul general to Paris and
minister to Spain, desired to round up
his career in the Senate Col, SpOoner
gave three months or more of his time
to cauvassing for Blaine in 1884. and had
done it 50 well that from all parts of the
state there came a demand for his cleo
ton 10 the Senate The third candidate
was the hate Judge William T. Price,
then in Congress. When Prices lieuten-
ants found that he could not win they
wired for a request to help Spooner with
his strength. lie complied and all but
one of his supporters cast their votes
with the Spoorer forces. and he was nom
mated on the first ballot, and the first
man to congratulate him was Gov. Fair
child. who had told old Sentaor Starks
that wisconsin is likely to send that
boy to the United States Senate one OF
these times
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SOME PERSONAL HISTORY

BY Iicut-Col ]. A. Watrous, L. s Army.
Col. John C.. Spooncr. serving his third
term in the United States Senate, was
private secretary to the late Coy Lueius
Fairchild during his first term.
The venerable Senator Starks OF Sank
county called upon the governor to dis
cuss a bill within he had helped through
the Legislature He was afraid Cow
Fairchild contemplated yctoing it, and
was prepared to do some plain talking
in its behalf.
The discussion had begun when the old
senator caught sight of the private Sec
.rotary. Col. Spoouer was a young man,
then, about 81, and had the appearance
lot one much younger, and was Also much
smaller than he is now.
"Goycrnor,' sand Starks. II wish YOU
would send that boy ont of the ROOM"
CHANGING about GOV. Fairohiid said; II
see no boy. senator
In Il half petulaut manner the senator
pointed to Spoouer and asked. WHAT'S
that but a boy?"
step this way. John" said the gov
Iernor. Senator $tarks. allow me to
introduce my new private secretary. Col.
John Z. Spooner.@
That hoy at that time. was grad
uatc of the Wisconsin university and had
served as soldier in the civil war, vim
ming two commissions, one as captain
and the other as major, and was even
then a good lawyer, as he is today one of
the first in the nation.
Coy Fairchild, who was much given to
saying pretty things to and about people.
SAID 80 Mr.. Stark~: Take Il good look
lat him. senator; Wisconsin is likely to
send that boy to the United States SEN
ate one Of these times
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VIOLET AND MYRRH.

There are two cities that bear the names
of the most odoriferouS plants, los and
said 10 nave been born in one aud to have
died in the other, "-plutarch, Life OF Ser
forms
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

Quarrelsome people are always salts
fed with a fighting chance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

The trouble with the dead beat is tha
he is 80 very much alive.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-01-20

He who loves applause must pay for it,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-07

turned with torch and gun, and as those fiery
eyes were about rushing at the intruder he
sent swift, true ball toward them. Then
there was silence in the dark, smoky cavern.
Putnam's friends pulled hard on the rope,
and hunter and wolf came out together
The years went by. 1755 had come. How
the drums did beat in the towns, on the
green common of little villages, and along the
roads leading through the forests to Lake
George!
The French and Indian War had broken
out the year before. On one side were the
French forces, pressing down from Canada on
the, British colonies in America, and these,
under the British flag backed by British
tween France and England for America, and
the sturdy wolf-hunter was in the fight. He
went as captain OF company of Connecticut
soldiers.
The country between albany and Canada
was region soon to be sweat by hostile ar
mics, and as the French we've in force at
Crown Point, New York, and near Lake
George, New England troops mo- Sd that way
Here the wof-hunter gained new laurels
There was the same decision, there was the
same fearlessness, and in any danger he was
as cool to plan as he was prompt to act.
Various stories are told of him.
In that war the English army came to
lake that they must pass, and yet French
vessel OF twelve guns was upon it. Amherst
the English general, was distressed.
General" said Putnam, that ship must
be taken"
aye. 1 would give the world if she was
taken!" was the reply:
"I'll take her." affirmed Putnam.
"How?" said Amherst.
Putnam then asked for beetles and wedges,
and few men of his own choice.
When it was dark. Putnam went out to
the vessel, Just as he had crept into the
gloomy wolf den, and going under the vessels
stern, in an instant drove his wedges between
the rudder and the ship. Then he stole
away.
In the morning, with Tapping sails, the
vessel was out in the middle of the lake, and
could not help herself, She was blown ashore
and quickly taken.
At another time Putnam was, with bateau
and five men, on the Hudson shore. below
him were rapids, stretching out quarter OF
mile. Behind him he was informed that
there was large body of savages ready to
pounce on him any moment He could not
90 back. To cross the river would be to re
ceive n fatal bullet. To go down the rapids
might be to find a grave in the Hudson. And
vet the latter seemed to be the only course
open to him.
The Indian bullets were flying about him
] before the bateau was under way even. Es