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HONEST MEDICINE
WILLIAMS PINK PILLS
by IA yns STOMACH TROUBLE.
ia, Evidence Supported b. q
tsnsinc."nsss That Must Convince
Gus'SThe Most Skeptlcal.

.ylnclng eVIo0 Na.,,i.
Gu'':The Most SkepticaI.
,r,,l,ams' Pink Pills are a DOCTORS
D., . " used by an eminent prac-
I rSoer, and for nearly a generation
pow !" the United States. Need.
rOus .sy no advertised medicine could
y, ~ 0oDular favor for so long a period
euuI + having great merit and it is the
l ,,, curative properties of the pills
W have made them a standard remedy
~ n~ civilized country in the world.
s vi q this is the absolute guarantee
/ aa !. .b J. Mills contain no harmful drug,
/ :, narcotic or stiinulant. A recent
lps'e i. ~ Of their efficacy is found in the
|'i t,opt of Mrs. N. B. Whitley, of
EsvIav Ark, who says:
Pc ~ tnd suffered for "a good many years
l ,,s,omach trouble. For a long time
FOnl subiect to bad spells of faintness
s ,i.ct Of breath accompanied by an
~ sa.in"r;bable feeling that seemed to
- NV stomach. Whenever was
~ r.,i Ia down or over-tired, these
~ NV would come on. They occurred
ts,n S but did not last very long.
i " vas confined to my bed for ten
:, one time and the doctor pro-
esn no nv trouble chronic inflamma-
y ~ the stomach and bowels. Since
y fine have been subject to the
f;nt;ng spells and at other times to fut-
Ins If the heart and a feeling as
f"-sb I was smothering. My general
|s,lt f was very bad and l was weak and
|smbliTg. r.,,.,nn mn
lsntioned in the newspapers and de-
4 ssd to try them. When 1 began taking
|. nils I was so rundown in strength
IN I could hardly do any homework.
Fnr could walk ten miles if necessary.
I'm nv husband and myself think DR..
Eilams' Pink Pills the best medicine
Iade and we always recommend the
In to our friends"
|Dr Williams Pink Pills actually make
kw blood and give strength and tone to
Esy part of the body. They have
ina serious disorders Of the blood and
Ires, such as rheumatism, sciatica,
bamia, nervousness, headaches, partial
knlysis, locomotor ataxia, st. Vitus'
kuce and many forms of weakness in
Eher sex. They are sold by all drug
Es or will be sent, postpaid, ON receipt
price, 80 cents per box, six boxes for
liO, by the Dr. Williams Medicine
kmpany, Schenectady, N. Y.
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Partisan Champions Rarmaids.

The Paris Matin says, apropos OF
the proposal to abolish the British
barmaid: One must have lived
through a duh winters night on the
shores of the Thames; one must have
looked in the laughing eyes of some
waitress for reflection of the absent
blue sky, in order to understand all
the horror of the proposal to replace
charming barmaids by men,"
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Misfortune Followed Him.

One man, teacher who was in San
Francisco at the time of the disaster
in that city, went to jamaica and en-
tered into partnership at good priv
ate school at Kingston, which was
destroyed by the earthquake on the
first day of his new enterprise.
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they get out of order
1t causes backache.
headaches, dizziness.
languor and distress.
ing urinary troubles.
Keep tn @ kidney $
well and all these suf-
ferings will be saved
you. Mrs. s. A. Moore.
proprietor of a res
taurant at Waterville.
MO, saws. "RefOrp
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Great City's Derelicts.

A prominent clergyman at the head
OF an East Side and Bowery mission
is authority for the statement that
the men who line up for free bread at
the distributing places around one
O'Clock every morning-men who have
no place to lay their heads for a sim
gle nights lodging-are nearly all
from the interior of the United States.
Van Norden's Magazine.
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In Pinch, Use ALIENS Foor.EAsE.

A powder. 1t cures painful, smart
ing, 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 all Druggists, Csc. Accept no sub
stitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad-
dress A. s. Olmsted. lie Roy N Y.
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Potato rowinu County.

During the month of February, l.
l25,l13 bushels of potatoes were ship
ped from Aroostook county, Maine,
making total crop of 1906 and up to
February rs, 1907, of 7,67S,S73 bush
els.
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Garfield Tea, the Mild Laxative, is a
pure, practical household remedy; good for
Young and old. TO be taken for constipa-
ton, Indigestion, ck-headache, colds and
diseases arising from impure blood. 1t
clears the complexion.
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It's so much easier to tell a lie
than 1t is to make people believe 1t.

=, Garfield rea-the indispensable laxative!
lake 1t in the Spring. it purifes the blood,
cleanses the system, eradicates disease. II
is made wholly of snnplc Herbs. Guaran.
teed under the Pure Food and Drugs Law.
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Fruit acids will not stain goods dyed
with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, and
the colors are bright and fast.
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New York Births and Deaths.

There is n birth in New York city
each five minutes in the day and
death each seven minutes.
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Increase in SAVINGS Deposits.

In 1906 the resources of the savings
banks of the state of New York
reached s1,465, 100000. an increase Of
100000 in only one year.
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Important 60 Mothers.

Examine carefully every bottle OF CASToR1A,
asafc aud sure remedy for infants and children,
and see that 1t
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TIRED BACKS.

IhV kidneys have a great work to
10 IN Keeping the blood pure Whom
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Every truth that comes home to US
is a moral call, bidding Us rise to
new position.-Goethe.
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idea came to him that If the farmer
would sell him the timber rights he
could fell the hard wood and cut It up
into firewood to sell to the neighboring
villages. The boy went home after a
tape measure, paper and pencil, and
then back to the woods "timber-look-
ing" Going about the woods, select
Ing small areas, counting the hard
woods and measuring them, he got an
idea of the density Of the forest. He
sat down on stump, and by dint Of
figuring he made rough estimate Of
the number of cords of firewood an
acre would yield Then he went to
the owner to make bargain. He
made an offer for all the timber,
agreeing to pay for it as money came
in from his sales Of firewood.
Il haven't any money" the boy told
the farmer, "but you can have my
threshing machine as security"
60 ahead, Johnny; your word is as
good as government bond"
Gates as a Woodcutter.
All through the winter the lad was
out in the wood lot before daybreak,
working with woodchopper he hired
to help him. The great trees were
felled, sawed into short lengths, and
split into firewood. Young Gates de-
livered two loads Of wood a day by
sled to the neighboring villages. Be-
fore the snow was off the ground the
woods had been cleared, the owner
had been paid in full, and the boy had
$1,000 in the bank. He took this
money and opened hardware shop
at the neighboring railway junction.
He sold the farmers their implements
and machinery. One commodity that
had large sale was the newly in
vented barbed wire. The little hard
ware shop at the junction prospered,
but Gates wanted to do something big
ger He saw that there was money
in barbed wire, and so he sold out his
business and went to see the man, in
an Illinois town, from whom he had
been buying his wire.
This was Col. Isaac Elwood, pion-
eer in the business. He was not look
ing for partners, but he gave the
bright young country shopkeeper a
job as a travelling man for the con-
Germ. Gates travelled back and forth
through the wheat belt selling barbed
wire, and made reputation as one Of
the best "drummers" on the road.
But he wasn't content with his drum
mer's" commissions. He wanted to
divide the manufacturing profits with
Col. Ellwood. The manufacturer
couldn't see 1t that way, and so Gates
put up barbed wire mill Of his own.
His knowledge of the trade was an
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JOHN w. GATES In
MANY WAYS TRUE
TYPE OF AMERICAN
Few Of the Striking Episodes in the Life Of the Great
Plunger Who Has Raked In Some of the Biggest Jack
pots known to the World of High Finance e-Has Had
Many Years of Unvarying Success

New York.-John w. Gates. the
most picturesque plunger who ever
rose to fame and fortune in Wall
street, has leased a great hunting pre-
serve in France, and is winding up the
business Of his House of Twelve
Partners" He is through with Wall
street, writes Frank Fayrant in the
Times. When market operator Of
his prominence quits the speculative
game Immediately after a disastrous
panic in the market it is but natural
for the gossips of the street to say.
They've got him at last" Ever since
Gates began swinging big lines of
stock In bull markets and running
afoul of men of great power In Wall
street the denizens of the street have
shook their heads wisely and said:
They'll get him some day." During
the panicky days of March, when the
rumor mongers were telling of the
huge losses piling up against wealthy
operators, they were sure that the
House Of Twelve Partners" was in
deep water. And now that the famous
house. that in big markets has carried
at times s125.0OO,0O0 worth of stock
on margin, is going out of business,
the rumor mongers are saying: II
told you So"
But John w. only smiles and says:
IT wish they were all as comfortably
fixed as / am" His friends say that
he began trimming his sails last win
ter, when stocks were selling at sky
prices, and that when the storm broke
in March he had all his reefs in.
They say that he actually bought
stocks during the panicky days Of
March, and that banks were carrying
millions of dollars of free cash for
him when some very wealthy men
were lying awake nights wondering
how they would make their bank bal
ances good the next day. His friends
think that he is worth at least $25 ,000.-
900, and perhaps good deal more.
So John w. isn't exactly broke.
Barbed Wire the Beginning.
1t was in barbed wire that Gates be-
gan to build his fortune. Gates was
a poor farmers boy out west. His
first business venture was contracting
to husk a neighbors corn. From the
money he saved out of this work he
made his first speculation. He bought
q third interest in threshing ma
chine that came rafting across the
prairie after the harvest. The old
farmers shook their heads at this, for
1t was tradition that the threshing
machine man usually came to finan-
cial grief. But 1t was year Of bump
er crops, and threshing proved so
profitable that before the winter came
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Street ever organized a more elabor-
ate system of getting advance infor-
nation of things that would affect
Wall street When the street was
waiting anxiously for the final decis-
ion in the Northern Securities case,
and the Union Pacific party believed
that 1t had defeated James J. Hill, Mr..
Gates one day sent word to Mr.. Hills
office that he had something to tell
him. The railroad president walked
down Nassau street and across Wall
street to the plungers Office. There
he learned from Gates that the Su-
preme court decision would be against
the Union Pacific. Gates didn't tell
how he knew 1t, but he assured Mr..
Hill that he knew what he was talk
ing about. Northern Securities began
to soar that day, and never stopped
until it had advanced $40 a share.
Some days later the Supreme court
decision was made public. 1t was just
what Gates said it would be.
Gates is born bull. He has never
taken any part In bear campaigns,
because he's too much OF an optimist
to bet on stocks going down. Every
time during the past six or seven
years when the market has had bad
break, the story has gone around that
Gates was hurt, The bull market of
the fall of 1902 was almost entirely a
Gates market. Gates and his follow
ing put st. Paul nearly to 5000, and
were loaded up with stocks when 1t
was discovered that the Standard Oil
crowd had been selling stocks all the
way up. The market collapsed and
the Gates crowd took heavy losses.
It Is Gates peculiar fame that he
owns, so far as Is known, the most
singular pleasure craft possessed by
millionaire. 1t Is sidewheel yacht
OF uncertain age, but steady as the
proverbial church, and fitted out in
manner that puts to shame its more
variety. With his wife he has spent
much time on this distinctly family
seagoing craft, which pleases him to
the point where he tolerates good
naturedly the quips Of his friends on
its packingcase proportions.
Small wonder Is 1t that his liking
for pictures has taken him into the
school called Photographic" by the
critics. His favorite IL Messonier and
OF the red and blue clad soldiers,
courtiers and ladies who troop
through that artists canvasses he has
a goodly company in his Waldorf
rooms. And he finds unending de-
light In the bright colors and clear
cut figures.
OF the hordes Of newly created mill
ionaires borne into Wall street on the
wave Of industrial combinations which
overwhelmed the country from 1898
to 1901. Gates was the most pictur-
esque. He has added to that distinc-
ton the further honor Of lasting the
| longest and Of retiring not without
| laurels. One may not wonder if 4
might not be said. Of him, now what
| he once said /. on hlmsslf on another
| ssss53;t'l ss.s ssSall 'ss' s''1'' =
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in New York to close a deal for the
purchase of another mill.
The Steel Merger.
They picked up everything in sight,
hurried to Chicago, and, within a
week after the opening of their cam
paign, they had the whole company
organized. This is the way that Gates
likes to do things. Gates and all his
followers cleaned up fortunes in this
fiotation. The public appetite was
keen for Industrial stocks, especially
for steel stocks, and the conversion Of
millions of dollars worth of newly
manufactured stock certificates into
the coin Of the realm was accom-
plished in a short time. Two years
later the big trust was formed In the
steel trade, and the Gates companies
were turned into the merger. Gates
wanted to go on the steel board,
but the chief promoter, Mr.. Morgan,
wouldn't have it. The banker said he
didn't think that Gates was a safe man
to have in a great corporation direc-
torate.
Mr. Morgan's coldness toward him
didn't seem to worry him at all. Not
many months later Gates began to
plunge heavily in Louisville & Nash.
vile: He told his friends that 1t was
a great property and that 1t ought to
go higher. He and his following In
New York and Chicago, which by that
time had grown to large proportions
because of the money he had made for
them in his steel stocks, put the stock
from around par to above $3.50. The
street woke up one morning to dis
cover that Gates had "cornered" Lou.
isville. The Northern Pacific corner
panic was still fresh in the mind OF
Wall street and there was momen-
tary scare. But Gates said he didn't
want to hurt anybody. The road
looked good to him and he had bought
some of the stock. In fact, he had
bought the control Gates didn't have
any special use for railroad with
1900 miles of track, and he looked
around for purchaser. He went to
Mr.. Morgan's Office one morning, and
said: Morgan, I own the control OF
the Louisville. II you want 1t or have
buyer for 1t, you can take 1t OF my
hands" Mr.. Morgan found buyer
and Gates cleaned up fortune.
Gates is born gambler. When he
was country shopkeeper out in iii
nois he spent many night In box
car on the siding, playing the great
American game" by the light Of q
trainman's lantern. Great financier
that man Gates" exclaimed . railway
fireman one day, as he saw by the
newspaper headline that Gates had
made big coup in Wall street. 1--WE
knew that before Wall street eveI
heard Of him, when he raked In the
jackpots out at Turner Junction wai
the engineers reply. Gates believes
that gambling is what makes the
world go. Life IL gamble" said h<
the. other day. Everything b {
gamble. When the fakner plants hil
corn he ID gambling. He bets that th<
weather col1ditfons wjil enable him x
raise s6od crop Sometimes h
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and formed q barbed wire trust. This.
was the nucleus Of the $4,000 900
American Steel & Wire company. now
a part Of the Steel corporation. The
first big fotation engineered by Gates
was the Federal Steel, a 500. 10000
corporation. That was in September,
1898, at the beginning of the great
steel boom following the Spanish
American war. He followed that with
the American Steel & Wire, with $780,
100000 capital, four months later. The
manner in which Gates and Ellwood
brought out this company is character
istic Of the man. On telephone call
from Pittsburg they jumped across
Pennsylvania and bought a wire mill
at Sharon; then they went to Cleve-
land and bought $5.000,000 rolling
mill, and the next day they were back
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. ..
loses. Sometimes he wins. Every
man who goes into business CANDLES.
or course. the element Of judgment en-
ters in, but the element Of chance can
not be ruled out. Whenever man
starts out on railway Journey it's
gamble whether he ever reaches his
destination. All life Is . gamble you
see."
In active markets 1t has not been
unusual for Gates to carry line Of
$25, ,000. 900 or $30,000,000 worth Of
stocks on margin. Some of the older
men In the street have tried again
and again to tie him up. but they
have never succeeded. Gates has
always had his eyes open. Where he
couldn't see far enough with his own
eyes, he paid somebody else to look
out for him. No operator in Wall
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THE STORY.

n OAZ was absent from Bethlehem
D at the time of the return of Naomi
and her daughter-in-law, Ruth. but on
his reaching home this bit of news
was among the first to reach his ears,
for the townspeople had not yet ceased
TO gossip concerning the event, In fact
he had scarcely gained the gate Of his
village before he was surrounded by a
group of neighbors who poured into
his interested ear all the story Of
Naomi's life and misfortunes in the
land of Moab, and Of her having lost
husband and sons there, and of her re-
turn in sorrow and poverty to the old
home she had left over ten years be-
FORE
"Elimelech might better have taken
your advice and stayed in Bethlehem"
calculated one, as the story was I'm
ished.
"Yes." responded Bosz. sadly; Il
have often wished that he had listened
to me and been content to remain.
From what you tell me, he could not
have Jared worse had he done 30.
Elimelech and his two sons dead and
only Naomi left" he repeated, half to
himself, medftatively. "And what Of
Naomi7" he added. after Q few min
utes pause. as his thoughts turned
from the dead to the living. .."You say
she has brought . Mcabitish woman
with her."
"Yea, her daughterin-law, Ruth.
wife Of Mahlon. "And they do say she
il devoted to the old lady, but some
strange motive must have brought her
nom her country and her people. for
Naomi hath nothing to Offer her. In
fact II does sesm that her coming
MAKES Naomi's lot u harder. ~
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asset, and he soon became danger
GUS rival of Col Ellwood. The colonel
brought an action for infringement OF
patent rights and a bitter fight was
the result. But Gates hung right on.
Col. Ellwood finally had to make peace
with him. The two became business
partners. and have been closely asso-
ciated In big enterprises ever aimee.
!, Other barbed wire mills began. to
spring up, and Gates saw that there
would Be disastrous trade war ~
tho rivals were not oorralied. He went
around the country buying them up
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young Gates had made eaough money
to buy out his two partners. At one
Of the farms where the lad had
threshed wheat he fell In love with
farmers rosy-cheeked daughter.
This gave him an incentive to go
ahead and make q fortune.
A farming community away from
the rail|Ways does not present many
golden 4oQortunities to an 1s-year-old
boy. .lNeSf the farm was . strip OF
woodland where Gates shot par
tridges ana squirrels. Tramping along
. 1ootpath In tho woods one day the
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sERMoNETTE.

"Whom not having seen, ye
Iove."-These words Of Peter to
Christians refer to the Christ,
and are strlklnsly pertinent In
connection with this story Of
the romance of Ruth and. Boax.
This noble and hlgh-minded
man, Boaz, had heard Of the
self-sacrifice and devotion Of
Ruth, the. Moabltish woman, and
his appreciation Of true goodness
and worth had aroused In his
heart an admiration, yea, a love,
which could have had no other
sequel than that which this beau
tifui love story unfolds.
It ls a splendid thing to have
a heart which Is sensitive to the
qualities Of real goodness. Our
perceptions Of worthy qualities
In others are so modified and
tempered by the external and su-
perficial conditions Of wealth
and social position, that many
human flower Of the rarest pur-
ity and grace and beauty Is born
to blush unseen and unknown In
the busy, occupied world about.
Il is easy to see the virtues Of
those to whom we may look for
favors, but we have little thought
or time to spend upon the one
who In his humble, narrow
sphere Is living nobIy, heroical-
Iy, subIimeIy.
To most Of the people In
Bethlehem NoamI and Ruth were
but poor, needy unfortunates. To
the former the surprised word
Of greeting on her return was
spoken, and sympathy express
ed, and then she was forgotten.
For the latter there was the
curious, wondering gaze Of the
neighbors and friends and towns
people Of Naomi, and the un-
spoken query az to why she had
come and what she had hope OF
gaining.
But to one person at least In
Bethlehem there came an appre-
citation Of the purity and
strength Of character Of Ruth.
He heard Of Naomi's return, and
being a klnsman Of her dead
husband he might have felt an
noyed at tho thought that here
was a poverty-strlcken relative
who would make drafts on his
bounty. He heard Of the coming
of the daughter-in-Iaw, and he
might have listened to the un-
kindly criticism which must
have been dropped as the
strange woman from a strange
land came into their midst. What
scheme had she In coming7
What selfish purpose had she
to server Suspicion Of her mo-
tives and contempt for her ma
tionality and her poverty might
have so prejudlced his mind ~
to blind him to the rare woman
iy virtues which she possessed.
But his love for real goodness
was so keen and genuine, and
his hlgh-mInded judgments 90
free from bias and impure mo-
tives that he was able to under
stand fully "aIl that Ruth had
done," and though he had not
seen her, he loved her. His was
not a sentimental, supe rfIcIaI
love. II was such love as only
a good, pure, strong heart can
feel az II finds those qualities In
another, for purity loves purity;
goodness loves goodness.
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copyrighI, lS07, by ths Author. w. 3. Edson.l

Scripture Authority:-"And Boaz said
me. all that thou hast done unto thy
mother-in-law since the death of thine
husband: and how thou hast left thy ia
ther and thy mother. and the land of thy
nativity, and art come unto a people
which thou knewest not heretofore."-
Ruth 2:11; read all the chapter.
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swInbur1s Writing Z Tragedy.
Algernon Charles swinburne. the
post, u engaged In writing . new
tragsdys the subject a which d O.