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YEARS OF AGONY,
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Had to Use Clutches - "Cuticura
- Remedies Best on Earth"

"ln the year 1895 the side of my right
foot was cut off from the little toe down
60 the heel, and the physician who had
charge of me was trying TO sew up the
side of my foot, but with no success. At
last my whole foot and way up above my
calf was nothing but proud flesh. l sui.
fered untold agonies for four years, and
tried different physicians and all kinds Of
ointments. l could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards l saw
. change in my limb. Then l began using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment often during
the day, and kept it up for seven months,
vben my limb was healed up just the
san,e as if l never had trouble. 1t IS
eight months now since l stopped using
Cuticura Remedies, the best on Gods
earth. l am working at the present day,
otter five years of suffering. The cost Of
Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only Sc,
but the doctors bills were more like $500.
John M. Lloyd, 7lS S. Arch Ave, Al
lance, Ohio, June q. 1905"
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To Launder Lace Curtains.

Shake the dust from the curtains, and
soak over night in,cold water. In the morn
ing rinse through several cold waters before
putting them into the suds. Then wash
through hot Ivory Soap suds by sopping and
squeezing. Use a second suds and leave for
an hour In boiling water. Rinse, dry and
then starch. Stretch in frames or by pinning
tn sheets.-ELRANoR R. PARKER.
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Giant ~ubmarines.

The Matin asserts that the French
Government is preparing designs for
submarines Of about 800 tons dis
placement. They will be able to oper-
ate at a considerable distance from
their base.
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Sullivan, Blun ana
Third Sts.. Marquette.
Mich, who says: 81
had backache and
b~earing-down pain.
and at times my
limbs would swell to
twice natural size. |
could hardly get up
or down stairs, and
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To Rnw Arnnnd the Horn.

Captain William II. Gillen has
planned to row and sail from New
York City around Capt Horn TO San
Francisco in an open boat.
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souandered $500, 900; Ends Life.

Dependency, the result Of having
squandered a fortune Of 100000, left
to him by his father, caused the sui
eide Of Henry H. Alderman, forty
eight years old, a retired broker, at
his home, South Brooklyn, n. Y.
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Davitt Oreration Successful.

Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot,
who is suffering from blood poisoning,
was successfully operated on in Dublin
by Sir William Thornley, Stoker, presi-
dent of the Royal Academy Of Medi-
cine in Ireland.
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Strikers Wives Riot.

French strikers wives at Lens en-
gagged in Il serious riot, attacking Wom-
en- whose husbands refused to join in
the strike and stoning gendarmes ana
cavalry.
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The coal supply of Canada is re-
ported by Consul Shank at Winnipeg
as %, 0 900. 900 tons. The Dominion
Is now producing yearly about $780,
600 tons of coal and $4,000 tons Of
coke, worth altogether nearly $1,000
GOO.
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He Won't Do 1t Again.

A boy Of fourteen who fell from the
gallery in an English music hall and
was uninjured, said, when taken BE-
fore tie manager: please, sir, I'm
sorry; l won't do it again"
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sInnnua1l;er Drowned in Pond.

Mrs. Hormidas st. Almond fell into a
small pond near her home at Harris
willie, R. l., while walking in her sleep,
and was drowned. Mrs. st. Amond
was thirty years old.
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Ayalanches Of Ashes

A new terror is added to the erup-
ton of Vesuvius by %avalanches of
ashes rolling down from the cone.
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San Francisco's Main Streets.

Market street, the principal business
street, Of San Francisco, extends south
westerly from the bay and divides the
city into two sections. Kearney and
portions Of Market street constitute
the fashionable p~romenades.
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Women Buried Alive.

Two aged women were dug out alive
AT Ottaiano, Italy, after having been
buried six days under ashes and stones
thrown out by VeSuviuS.
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New York Prohibition Convention.
The New York State Prohibition Con-
vention will be held in Binghamton
during the first week in September.
Efforts were made to have the conven-
ton held in Rochester, Elmira, SYRIA
cuSe and other cities.
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FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous-
ness after first days use Of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer, 81 Observation-Disclosures
DR.. B. h. KLINE, Ltd. ,931 Arch st ,Phila, Pa.
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Dead From Manicuring Wound.

AS the result of a slight wound made
OH a toe by a manicuring instrument,
George G. Stevens, a prominent bust
ness man of Danbury, Conn.,, died in a
private hospital in New York City.
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CITY Built Over q Cavern.

Wy VII
Charlestown. W. Va, was greatly eX-
cited by the discovery Of a gigantic
cave directly beneath the town, the top
of which is near enough the surface
to make the situation appear precari-
Gus.
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The inhabitants Of the United King
dom post Az 900" letters every
week. N.Y.-l6.
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A PREcARloUs CONDITION..

Many Women Suffer Daily Miseries aud
Don't Know the Reason.
Women who are languid. suffer back
ache and dizzy spells, should read care
fully the experience Of Mrs. Laura
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, ~softens thegums reducesinfamma-
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Probably no famous bird has a smaller
habitat than the bird Of paradise.
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The Press., 1906-08-29
CAUSE OF THE DEUCE.
Queer Tradition OF the Aboriginal
Rlaclxa 0f Auatral1a.

Queer Tradition OF the Aboriginal
Blacks of Australia.
The aboriginal blacks of Australia
have a queer tradition about the food.
They say that at one time there was no
water on the earth at all, except In the
body of an immense frog, where men
and women could not get 1t, There
was great council on the subject, and
1t was found out that IL the frog could
be made to laugh the waters would
run out of his mouth and the drought
be ended.
SO several animals were made to
dance and caper before the frog to in
duce him to laugh, but he did not even
smile, and so the waters remained In
his body. Then some one happened to
think Of the queer contortions into
which the eel could twist Itself, and 1t
was straightaway brought before the
frog. And when the frog saw the
wriggling he laughed so loud that the
whole earth trembled, and the waters
poured out of his mouth In a great
food, In which many people were
drowned.
The black people were saved from
drowning by the pelican. This thought
full bird made a big canoe and went
with 1T all among the islands that ap-
peared here and there above the sur
face of the water and gathered In the
black people and saved them.
The Press., 1906-08-29

A Kentucky congressman tells an In
teresting tale of the execution of a
noted desperate in that state some
years ago. Just before the sheriff adj
justed the moose he asked the usual
question whether the man had any
thing to say.
''No, think not" began the con.
victed one, when he was interrupted
by cheerful voice shouting:
"Say, Bill, If you amt got anything
special to say would you mind giving
me fifteen minutes of your time just
to let these good people know that 1
am a candidate for their suffrages,
and'-
"Hold on, therer' shouted the sheriff.
"Who's thatY
"John Blank" volunteered some one,
naming a rising young politician, who
has since represented his state for n
number of years In the house of repre-
sentatives at Washington.
"Who did he say 1t VASE" whispered
the condemned man to the sheriff.
''They say it's John Blank"
II thought recognized Johns voice, !"
the desperate calmly remarked. "Well,
he can have my time, all of 1t, but go
ahead and hang me first and let him
talk afterward."-Lipp
The Press., 1906-08-29
BOOK ILLUMINATION.

Am EARLY Example of the Artistic
Culture of the Ancients.
The underlying thought which has in
spired illumination from Its very be-
ginning is more interesting even than
the gorgeous pages which pass beyond
our power of appreciation and defy
our comprehension. To the anclents
the rarest gems In all the world were
the gems of thought The book was
the tangible and visible expression of
mans intellect worthy of the noblest
setting Its covers might be made Of
tables of beaten gold inlaid with pre-
cious jewels, it's words might be writ
ten in minimum of rare brilliancy
brought from India or Spain or in
Byzantine ink made from pure orien-
tai gold upon parchment soft as velvet
made from the skins of still born kids,
while upon the ample margins could
be displayed miniatures and decora-
tons portraying the highest skill Of the
great artists of the day.
The earliest example of illumination
is papyrus in the Louvre in Paris,
which contains paintings representing
funeral ceremonies executed in bright
colors, touched in its high lights with
penciled gold. Although we find fire.
quent mention of some poem written
in gold, of some magnificent volume or
codex of colored vellum or some col
lection of miniatures or of some mag
nif1cent gift book decorated for prince
or church, yet this simple, imperfect
fragment at the Louvre Is the sole
tangible evidence we have that so
obvious a form of artistic culture as
the art of illumination was known to
the long period of classical antiquity
or to the later Injuries of the life of
Athens and Corinth, of Pergamum and
Ephesus, of Cyzicuus or Rhodes, SYRIA
cuse or Tarentum, of Sybaris, of Pom
peii and of Rome.
With the invention of printing the
demand for the illumination and the
scribe became gradually less, and final
" by the end of the sixteenth century
Illumination ceased to be an art The
book as the developer of the people in
science and literature and in learning
generally had crowded out the book as
an object of art. 1t need not have
done this, perhaps, but as matter of
fact it did-Boston Transcript.
The Press., 1906-08-29

I think he is all right anyway" He
wished he might comfort the girl
A half hour later Phil lay on couch
in an inner Office. Mary's fingers
wandered lovingly through his singed
hair. His eyebrows were burned, and
he looked pale and worn, but he was
rallying rapidly.
''You see, Mary" he said softly,
''your face was before me all the time
1t was really you who saved the train"
AS Mary was about to protest the rail-
road official interrupted, looking at
Phil ..4
"You are the man I've been looking
for I've had my eyes on you for some
time, and I've seen now what you can
do In an emergency. When saw you
look toward the coaches few minutes
ago. then rush into the flames, also
saw that young woman" The official
faltered. ''Though she never wavered,
she was white, her lips moved, and
knew that she prayed for the man in
the cab" The mans voice was husky.
"And you're the man I want-wlth a
wife," he added, smiling, Ito superin-
tend that work in the Redding district.
You understand 1t. VIII you take it
to begin within"
Phil looked at Mary with question,
then responded, 81 will-with wife"
The Press., 1906-08-29
EAGLES IN BATTLE.
The Daring and Skill of These Fierce
Birds of Prey.

The Daring and Skill of These Fierce
Birds of Prey.
Ornithologists are inclined to dis
courage the idea that eagles are in the
habit Of attacking large animals, but
contest witnessed by an observer dis
pels such a theory. The battle was
between an eagle and stag.
The bird singled out from herd one
particular buck, which it succeeded in
driving from the rest. 1t struck the
animal with it's powerful wings, knock
ed it down and finally killed it. A still
more remarkable spectacle is we'll au-
thenticated. An eagle attacked q
fawn in the highlands of Scotland.
The cries of the little one were an
swered by it's dam, which sprang upon
the eagle and struck it repeatedly with
its forefeet. Fawn, deer and eagle
rolled down a declivity, the bird was
dislodged from it's hold and the fawn
rescued
Many traditions are eXtant as to the
carrying off Of children by eagles. The
most recent case bearing close scru-
tiny is one which happened in South
Africa. A Boer farmer whose stock
had been harried by eagles lay in am
bush for the robbers and saw one of
them descend and carry off the five
year-old child of one of the Kaffir serv-
ants. He shot the bird, which, with
the child still clutched in it's grip, fell
into thorn bush. The bird was dead
but the child was little hurt.
Two eagles will stalk a covert in
concert While one conceals itself the
other beats about the bushes with
great screaming, driving out it's quarry
for the hidden eagle to swoop down
upon. An even more insidious method
has been observed. An eagle seeing q
sheep on the edge Of a precipice few
at 1t, screaming shrilly and with force
full beat of wing hurled it into the val.
ley below, where it could devour it al
Its leisure. In the light of such rec
ords there is good reason for believing
the legend of the eagle dropping tor
toise on the bald head of Eschylus
the Greek poet, and SO causing bis
death
The Press., 1906-08-29
Fully Armed.
Tribune.

A good story is told of a young re-
cruit who enlisted in a regiment sta
toned at Aldershot. One day he was
on guard duty and was slowly stepping
up and down when an officer approach
ed. After the usual salute the officer
said: &
"Let me see your rife" 3
The raw recruit handed over his rifle,
and a pleased expression stole over his
face. AS the officer received the weap-
on he said in a tone Of deepest disgust:
you're a fine soldier! You've given
up your rife, and now what are you
going to doY
The young fellow turned pale and
putting his hand in his pocket drew
out big knife and, preparing for bust
ness, said in voice that could not be
misunderstood:
scr me that rifle or I'll bore hole
through you in minute"
The officer instantly decided not to
play any further with the raw. recruit,
and the rifle was promptly surrender
ed.-Pearson's Weekly.
The Press., 1906-08-29
THE WIND BELL.
How 1t Is Constructed In Japan, Tts
Original Home.

Original Home.
The wind bell, as it's name implies,
is made to ring by the action of the
wind-in fact, the wind bell Is not a
bell at all, strictly speaking, but con-
trivance composed of number Of
pendants suspended in circle from a
ring and hung close together so that
they will come into contact and pro-
duce sounds when swayed by the
winds.
Some wind bells produce sounds that
are pleasing and musical. Some are
made with glass pendants, some with
pendants Of metal; some are very
small and simple in construction, 9th
ers are large and massive and elabo-
rate.
The original home of the wind bell is
Japan. In it's simplest form it is COM
posed of a number of narrow strips of
glass, perhaps six inches in length,
suspended lengthwise from a wire
ring about two inches in diameter.
Within the circle formed by the strips
thus suspended is hung by one corner
little s,suare piece of glass halfway
down the length of the long strips, the
strips and the square piece ornament
ed with various Japanese characters
and designs. This wind bell may be
hung up wherever a breeze will strike
it and blow the strips into contact with
one another and with the square sus-
pended among them.-DetrOit News
Tribune
The Press., 1906-08-29
Qualified to Practice.

When John Hay was crossing the
Atlantic in 1865 on his way to Paris
to serve as secretary of legation he
told the following anecdote to one of
his fellow travellers: On applying for
admission to the bar of Illinois he was
summoned to appear before commit
tee Of prominent Chicago lawyers to be
examined as to his qualifications
He went to the place appointed and
found the committee assembled, but
for a long time they took no notice Of
the young candidate, but continued
talking vigorously together on various
subjects. At last one of the lawyers,
turning to him, said: .s..- ..-- ..
Mr.. Hay, what would you do IL
client should come to you with such
case as this?' and proceeded to de-
scribe very deliberately, complicated
legal case.
81 should ask for a retaining fee of
$50" promptly replied Mr.. Hay, land
tell him to call tomorrow"
''Mr. Hay, you are admitted" said
the gentleman, and with a hearty
laugh from all present the proceedings
closed, go f#
The Press., 1906-08-29
FINEST BANK NOTE PAPER.
where the Material For Our Green
backs lis Made,

where the Material For Our Greene
backs LIS Made.
The national flag flies over the "gov-
ernment MILL" owned by the Crane
family at Dalton, Mass, because all
the paper for the United States green
backs Is made there. 1t is one of a
group OF mills in which the Cranes
have made paper for more than a CEN
tury. The founder was Zenas Crane.
Before he could get the first mill start
ed he had to have large quantity of
rags. But rags were Scarcer In those
days than now. The italian had not
then arrived, the junk shop was I'M
known, and, although the rag buyer
passed through the streets of Boston
once a week, he had not yet appeared
in the western part of the state. This
resulted in an appeal to the people,
based on high economic and patriotic
grounds. Handbills appeared with the
headlines in large type: Americans,
encourage your own manufactures,
and they will improve! Ladies, save
your rags!'
They were carried to all the homes
and shops in Berkshire and adjoining
counties, urging every woman who
has the good of her country and the
interests of her family at heart'' to
save her rags and send them to the
new factory or to the nearest store
keeper, land a generous price will be
paid" When the mill was ready the
rags were there in abundance, and op-
erations at once commenced. The
working force consisted of four men,
two girls and small boy, with Zenas
Crane as superintendent and chief pro-
prietor. The paper was made in hand
molds, and the output was 100 pounds
a day. Today the output is many
tons of the finest bank note paper
Worlds Work.
The Press., 1906-08-29
M P2a mt Sixteen.

It does not seem very clear at what
period the legal age for members Of
parliament was fixed at twenty one.
It is, however, certain that in the
reigns Of Elizabeth and James I. boys
Of sixteen and seventeen occupied seats
in the house of commons. The poet
Waller took his seat as an M. p. before
he was seventeen. Charles James Fox
took his seat at eighteen and Chester
field before he came of age. This. how
ever, was clearly. irregular, because It
is recorded that Chesterfield was
threatened with penalty of $500 for
sitting and voting in parliament while
under the legal age If he did not cease
his attacks upon the government Lord
John Russell also sat before he was
twenty -one, and he seems to have! been
the last Of the parliamentary minors.
An act Of William III, pissed I'M 1893.
made the election of a person under
twenty one void, but the act was not
very stringently enforced. = London
Standard
The Press., 1906-08-29

So-called wandering pains" may
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Dear Mrs. Pinkham-
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The Press., 1906-08-29

The great Duke of Wellington was
noted for his rigid integrity. Here is
an instance which occurred in refer
ence to his large estate. Some farm adj
joining his lands was for sale, and his
agent negotiated for him for the pur-
chase. Having concluded the business,
he went to the duke and told him he
had made capital bargain. What do
you mean?" asked the duke. "Why,
your grace, l have got the farm for so
much, and l know it to be worth at
least so much more" Are you quite
sure Of that?" "Quite sure, your grace,
for I have carefully surveyed It"
Every well, then, pay the gentleman
from me the balance between what you
have already given and the real value
of the estate. "--Argonaut.