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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

The most eminent and leading med lcal teachers and writers of all the several schools of practice have endorsed each of the ingredients entering into Dr. Pierce's medicines in the strongest pos- sibleterms. The makers of Or. Pierce's medicines believet that intelligent people do hot wish to opAn their mouths like ' iotNQf young birNs and gulp down whateseki s.p1setted to them. either in the way offo0d, GriAk or medicine, without knowing sApAkh of &he properties and harmlesA character Of lhe agents employed. They belieye that healsh ie too sacSed a hsEitage to be experInented with. and that peopas sh0NI6 not fake asaicanes QE khs cgnss l. aosiEIQI Ql lQhlch fhEN orc kept iss sQnor. sscS. Ur. Fierce's medicines are madS wholly from the roots of plants found growing in the depths of our American forests. They are 90 compounded that ehsy cassssot do harm ss assy case, sOess Co the most degicats sucsnas ey chsld. By npeu publicity Dr. Fierce has taken his medicines out of che list of secret nos krums, of dcubtful merit, and made them REMEprKs or KNOWN CoMPo- SETON. They are therefore, in class all by themselves, being absolutely and In every sense ss0ss-secyst.
 By this bold step Dr. Pierce has shown that his formulas are of such excellence that be is not afraid to subject them to the fullest scrutiny.
 There is badge Of AeNesty on every bottle of Dg. Pisrce's medicines in the full list of it's ingredients duly attested as corrnct under solemn oath.
 No other medicines pet up for general uss through druggists can make claim Co any such distinction, and none ether than Dr. Pierce's medicines have any such professional endorsement of their ingredients. Such professional endorse ment should have far more weight with the afflicted than any amount of lay or non-professional, endorsement, or testi- monials.
 Of course, the exact proportion of each ingredient used in Dr.. Feree's medicines as well as the working formula or manner of. preparing the same, and the specially devised apparatus and App piiances employed in their manufacture, are withheld from publicity that Dr. Pierce's proprietary rights may be fully protected from such unprincipled iEni- tators as might be piraticaIly inclined.
 The preparation of these medicines without the use of drop of alcohol, SO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

on anyone in society or in business. if is the way of civilization to send in s card, or at least to have your self an- nounced, 90 that there is an opportun- fly to decide whether the reception of tho caller will be agreeable or even possible at that particular moment The telephone ruthlessly breaks down the telephone rthiessly breaks down this suitable safeguard to personal conven- fence and intrudes unfnvited and often on the most inconvenient occasions.
 There is reason to fear also that 1t Is undermining the habits of kindly and polite consideration for the com fort of others. Often when you per- haps have suddenly broken off very important and pressing negotiation of piece of work at the peremtoTy call of the telephone. you take down tho receiver only to hear the words. wait a minute" and you find that someone has been saving his time at the ex- pense of your own by having a clerk call you up, and you are obliged to wait with the receiver at your ear until he finds it convenient to talk with you. A thing like this in ordinary inter- course would be resented decisively; and 1t would be safe when you hear the words, Wait moment" to hang up the receiver at once, were 1t not for the long-distance telephone, which requires little time to make connec- tfons for messages. If if were not for the possibility of the message you are waiting for coming from a distance, these" wait-a-mfnute" people,s so econ- omical of their own time and go waste ful of the time of others. would find when at their leisure they found it con- venient to call.
 It is said on lines where there are several users. the despicabIe custom of eavesdropping has become a habit with some. This and the way of fix ing the telephone so that when any one calls they are met with only a con- fusing buzzing or the reply rom a machine, "Line Is busy!" are such plain violations of the most ordinary rules of good manners or even decent cour- tesy that any arrangement which makes such incivilities possible ought not to be tolerated in civilized com munity.
 We are quite we'll aware that the telephone has come to stay, but that need not prevent an occasional pro- test from the bleeding victims of It's tyranny. We are even ready to allow that in business it is such a great con- venience that one can bring himself to condone its sins for the sake of It's time-saving qualities. But telephone in private house is an outrage on every idea of a home It destroys gall privacy and all possibility of complete rest. It keeps the attention always alert, and makes real repose and com fort impossible
 It may indeed be shut off and tenn porarily put out of service; but that Is a discourtesy of which many will hesitate to be guilty. If you do not have a telephone in your home your friends do not expect to "call you up." but if you have one you are bound in common politeness to keep 1t in ser- vice. "A mans house is his castle" no longer when the telephone is once ad- mitted. All the inmates become its slaves, and the only way to escape from the tyranny of the telephone bell is to take to the deep and quiet woods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
The RIainr GnIA raa.

St. Louis Globe Democrat
 <. January's report of the production Of the Rand district of the Transvaal in- ,dicates that the gold output of 1907 ig nkely 10 exceed that of 1908. The tEanGs production for January was with good deal of steadiness, month by month, the prospect is that the out put put, of that field for the calendar year may go higher than that. The Rand Is the most productive of the worlds Sn. gSodd helds .1 ooo ono dt contributed in 1906, gate. The United States stood second with an output of 96,00O,00O. As the worlds total gold production for 1908 was about $4oO,0oO.0OO and as the Uni put this, year the chances are that the above s425. .6Oo. .0Oo There has been a eyer since the close of the Boer war, which permitted the mines of the Rand to reopen. The average increase of each year over its predecessor has been s4CO, ,OOO, ,OoO for 1906 the gold produe- tion has doubled since 1S96, when Bry- dency,, and 1t has practically quadru- pied since 1884, the year of Cleveland's first election. This immense expan- sion has had two important consequen- ces. It has permitted several countries to adopt the gold standard in the past dozen years, Mexico being the latest of them tO make tHls CiduSS- 4I mas nelp- ed to quicken all sorts of industries and to send prices and wages up. These effects have been felt in all the great countries of the world, but par ticularly in the United States. There is a fear in some quarters that the production may continue until gold gets a basis for currency and a general stan dard of values. This apprehension, however. Is likely to turn out to be illusory The tremendous expansion in enterprise all over the world, which is partly a cause and partly a conse- quence of the. gold expansion will prob to hand, and prevent it from dropping to thA GilveT level.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

suuuONAy n5 uOeS not belong to her any longer. I feel particularly sorry for the wife who has no time to cultivate her intellect It is no unusual sight to behold a man ad- vance with rapid strides in the world, become parsonage and be invited to the homes of prominent people. On these occasions he meets their wives. and the contrast between them and his own becomes only too apparent even to him. They are. well read, clever and self possessed. The woman he married as A youth is stili exactly whore she was then, raw and uniformed in mind as well as in person. Her principal gift, youth, has departed. and she has not been wise enough to supply herself with other att fractions in it's place.
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 Nor are these cases confined to farni- lies who rise from obscurity to millions In hundreds of plain American homes today the tragedy of the wife who falls behind her husband and children is very grim one.
 If you doubt me read the correspond ence column of any womans magazine Half the contributors are either very young girls without the proper match nal guidance or middle aged women who feel hopelessly sout of it."
 T find myself unable to follow my children in their studies How shall |
 
 agef" writes one mother who evidently realizes her lack of mental attainments. T am very awkward and seIf-con- scious," writes another unfortunate "and as my husband wishes me to go out a great deal with him. this makes me very uncomfortable. What shall I do to overcome thisT
 And so forth and so on.
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 The woman of AS who has not opened book for years will find it mighty hard to begin course of heavy reading all at once.
 As for the timid woman who is self conscious, that is no doubt because she Is not on intimate terms with her own self. She has not taken herself fin hand from the first week of her married life, making herself her most severe critic and counting every week lost that did not improve her physically and men, tally.
 The woman who is eager and ambi- tious need never fear being awkward
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

generally employed and yet so harmful, in the long run, to most invalids when it's use Is long continued, even in small doses, cost Dr. Pierce several years of careful study and labor, with the aid of skilled pharmacists and chemists to assist him. Naturally, he does not care to give away his scientific and exact processes for preparing these medicines, but he does want to deal in the most open manner with all his patrons and patients, and under this frank, open and honest way of dealing, they may know exactly what they are taking when using his medicines.
 What Do They Curep This ques- ton is often asked concerning Dr. Pierce 's two leading medicines, Golden Medical Discovery" and uFavorite Pre- scription.n
 The answer is that cGolden Medical Discoverys is a most potent alternative or blood purifier, and tone or invigor- ator and acts especially favorably in curative and healing way upon all tho passages, throat, bronchial tubes, stom- .ach, bowels and bladder, curing large per cent. of catarrhal cases whether the QlSE8EU 8upSt9 tuC M%z1HA Rka1SA&01s NAfc throat, larynx, sbronchia, stomach (as catarrhal dyspepsial, bowels (as mucous diarrhea), bladder, uterrs or other pelvic organs. Even in the chronic or ulcerative stages of these affections, it Is often successful in effecting cures.
 Tho ~Favorite Prescription is advised for the cure of one class of diseases only --those peculiar weaknesses, derange- ments and irregularities incident to women. It Is a powerful yet gem tly acting invigoFating tonic and strengthening nervine. Forweak, worm out, over-worked women--no matter what has caused the breakdown, W Fla vorite Prescription will be found most effective ih building up the strength, regulating the womAnly functions, sub duing pain, and bringing about healthy vigorous condition of the whole system.
 Womensuffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consuls Doctor Pierce by letter. free, All coExespond- ence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. F. .ba
 Dr. PisFce's Medical Adviser llO0a pages) is sent free on receipt of 2l ones cent stamps for paper-eogened, CT 8k stamps for cloth-boupd copy. Address as above. zs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
Concerning the Cam-
 araderie Of Married Life.

I think one of the most pitiful sights ia that of a wife who Is no longer companion to her husband. One sees that sort of thing every day and won- ders at the cause.
 Of course often the husband. Is to blame. He likes to go out with men friends who are not always ultra re- fined in their tastes and amusements. and his wife is left to nope at home.
 But. you will excuse my saying so, thing the fault is the woman's in nine cases out of ten. While some men are arunkards and others have bad quali- ties which no marriage on earth could couuteract, the average man means well enough and thinks everything his wife does is perfect and fascinating at first, That he does not continue to do so is because any one tires Of the same old thing over and over again Most women care very little for originality. They are creatures of routine, enduring fine same plan of life over and over again without perhaps desiring change for years Men are different.
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 The American man works harder than any other man In the world. He comes home too tired to plan anything In the nature of amusement, but if after dull dinner he finds a~duller evening before him he feels something is missing which he ought to have and he goes out with the half formed idea of trying to find IL.
 The wise woman realizes that 1t IS up to her to provide the social element By ssociap' I don't mean those ghastly af- fairs at which every one Is over dressed and bored to death, but jolly little evenings where dress suits are not necessary and there are plenty of congenial people. laughter and gen
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
HYsTEisrA ON THE WAIVE.
Outdoor Lffe thak Girls ok Today Lea
 Asxnxrmfm f0r If.

Outdoor Life that Girls of Today Lead
 Accounts for It.
 Medical Brief.
 Here Is a tribute to the wisdom of the modern ideas on the upbringing or girls.
 to some of the most bafiiing as well as most interesting eases with which physicians have to deal; oases which produce what might be called phenom. ena of the nervous system, morbid and abnormal manifestations which have been and are being studied by medical
 A nation whose women are inclined to develop hysteria is to be .pitied, whose women are consptculously free f5Sm as s sSovo sS ser ing the fact that hysteria Is less com mon in England than 1t was q genera tion ago. declares that much stress ton and upbringing of English girss twenty five or thirty-hve years ago. They were allowed but little freedom closely tied to their mothers' apron strings. The mother was a well-mean- ing person, but she had but little ini- tiative and was hidebound by conven-
 She was orthodox, but her orthodoxy was that of her mother, supplemented hy the teaching of the village Parsson.; Pson. point in the cathedral towns of Great Britain.
 A quarter of a century has marked a great change in this respect, and has been concurrent with an increased ro- business of health of cur girls. They are stronger now physically, mentally and morally.
 The advent of bicycling and motor ing, and especially of greater facilities for travelling in foreign countries, has had much to do with this, chiefly by permitting a more vigorous and in~ innate social intercourse between young men and women.
 The girl of today dictates the pol icy of her mother, and with 0 health fer outdoor existence there are fewer of the factors which tend to make for hysteria and it's attendant evils. It Is comparatively rare nowadays to meer with a neurotic English girl, and the most typical must be sought among the Latin races.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
Do YOu Like Honest
 Square Dealing ]?

Dr. wordamed under the belief that publicity best possible guaranty merit and that the most intel
 gent people generally what they take intother sto drink medicine Although was bold step to take quite practice of makers of cpe tary medicines Dr. Pierce time decided to publish boa all his all the ingredients entering into the composition makeup celebrated family medicines square deal therefore every using his medicines for kncwf she paying for when purchasing them since every ingredient published m s agsh the snd a
 ee e Hpdey sokn oaM These several ngred among the best known to medical sncs of the various diseases for which these medicines arc recommended
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

eral lack of for-
 mallty. It is up to the woman to encourage the right sort of peo- pie to drop in of an evening and to cultivate mar ried couples who are jolly, clever and willing to give a good time to their friends.
 The woman who takes her hus- band around and gives him a good time stands little chance of losing him. It is the wife who keeps that discovers
 him shut up"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

of lies CD than one of these informal mothers meetings. The children are made to do everything but walk at from two to four months, according to their fond parents recital of 1t.
 The subject of children brings me naturally to that of Teddy bears. Have you ever seen anything like the vogue of these little beasties. particularly the polar Teddies7
 Even the dolls must have their Ted dies nowadays, and you see small girls wheeling fat dollies that clasp lovingly tiny bear.
 The latest. however. are Teddy bear fur sets for children made of the same
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

cream plush ma terial which con- stitutes the bears skin.
 The guimpe dress is here to stay, and there Is a reason for 1t. It is ideal for travelling pur- poses and ordi- nary wear. con bining as 1t does the cooiness of the shirt waist with a much more dressy ap- pearance.
 Fhen, too, it does not require the c o n [ In u a l laundering that a blouse does, for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
TYRANNY OF THE TELEPHoNn.
Some True Words said Only Partly in
 Jest.

Boston watchman.
 We impeach the telephone of high crimes and misdemeanors. It Is guilty of a deadly conspiracy to overthrow the usages of polite society and to de- stroy the well established customs Of course 1t is the height of rudeness to interrupt people when they are engaE- ed in conversation with others or busily employed in something very important. But the telephone breaks relentlessly into the most critical moments of a business transaction or interrupts the pleasant flow of an agreeable conver- sation, and imperiously demands in- stant attention on itself. In calling up-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

l or self-conscious. She will always be l appreciated and in demand. If I were l a mother (by the way, how do you know l that I am not2) would give my daugh- ter on her marriage day this motto to hang over her dressing table q say dressing table for, fancy, she would run more chance of seeing 1t often there):
 Remember. she who stands still goes baekwardw
 have any worries about her happiness or anything else about her.
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 It is a grand thing to keep we'll bal- anced in this world, Is 1t not? So now for something else a trifle more frivo- lous.
 Are you in doubt about what to do after dinner? Have a fortune teller up to read the palms of your guests
 stupid2 Not a bit of itl The secret of the charm is that we all love so to hear things about ourselves that we consider conversation on that subject the most interesting in the world. We don't even mind if our faults are told to us or death by hanging predicted. It only makes us more interesting in our own eyes.
 That is the reason fortune tellers rarely die poor People will pay almost anything for half an hours fiattery.
 I think it is positively duty for a woman to keep up on card games and current forms of amusement.
 & E.
 If there is anything exasperating. 1t is to give a dinner and afterward pro- pose bridge (which everybody plays to the exclusion of everything else) only to find that one of your women guests doesn't play.
 Well, why doesn't she? is the angry question you ask yourself The even ing is broken up. No one seems to play what she plays, and she plays what no one else docs. So you make up your mind you just won't ask her again.
 It Is not necessary to excel in any one thing, but 1t is a great scheme to be able to hold your own at several forms of amusement or at least to know the rules. It helps you vastly toward being popular.
 The trouble with most married wo- men is that they talk too much about their children. Next to making the mis- take of being slave to the nursery comes the still worse mistake of giving evidence of it.
 People don't go into society of an evening to hear about Geraldine's first tooth or how much little Tommy weigh ed when he was six months old.
 Anyway. there Is no worse congress
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

a muslin waist can sometimes only be worn once in warm weather.
 These dresses are not hard to make, and advise every one to have a couple of them this summer. Now Is the time, Get out your sewing materials and a good pattern.
 And be sure you cut your skirt wide enough. It can't be too full.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

Two mines. A coal company. A flour mill.
 cloth factory, A brewery.
 Tn addition to these and other enter- prises which received his attention he was
 Governor of O State President of a temperance society, A member cf nasrie1io soaiataea
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
vernatilitx of AmbaasadOr CreeI.

Modern Mexico.
 The new Mexican Ambassador to the United States. Enrique c, Crsei, is a man who plays many parts in the Ac- tive life of the country.
 At the time of his appointment he was interested in the direction or 1nan- cial success of
 Six banks,
 ThraA EAuNzAEA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
The Business

The Erepex Way to rndorse a Chectt-- Banks Bear the Less of Money Paid on . Forged ChecIx--ssDishcnored shonesty--CoIIectfng Money from cut-of-Town Debtors--Drafts, Bank Drafts, and BfIis of Exchange.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03

wise head has close mouth to 1t.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-01-03
Doctor Struck Il Rich.

A wealthy New York banker, while
visiting his parents in small town,
was stricken with fever. For th1s
months he was confined in the ola
homestead, dutifully attended by a
fond mother and very jealous doc
tor. -
The banker recovered slowly. One
morning he decided that fresh
would do more for him than nledis
environment, and in short time NJ
was enabled to dismiss his physician
When the doctors bill arrived the
banker studied it very closely. A few
moments later the mother saw her sorI
go to the woodshed, procure an az
and begin hewing at the hitchinf
post, which had stood in front of the
house for SO years.
Frank" she shouted Historically
believing her son in another delirium
what are you doing?"
You'll have no further use for it, {
chuckled the perspiring banker, here
after the doctor will come in an au
tomobile."
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-01-03
Talk 1t Over with Your Wife.

There are thousands of families
homeless or living in poverty and
wretchedness to-day, who could have
been living in comfort, in good homes,
If the husbands had conf1ded their
business affairs to their wives, says
Success.
Women are very much better judges
of human nature than men. They can
detect rascality, deception and insin-
certify more quickly.
1 know business men who would
never think of employing a manager
or superintendent, or man for any
other important position, or if choos-
ing a partner, without managing in
some way to have their wives meets
the man and get chance to estimate
him, to read him. They invite the man
whom they are considering for an
important position to their home for
dinner, or to spend Sunday, before
deciding. They want the advantage
of that marvellous feminine instinct
which goes SO directly and unerringly
to it's mark.
have known of several instances
where wife had cautioned her hus-
band against having anything to do
with man with whom he was think
ing of going into business, but tho
husband ignored the wife's opinion as
silly and disregarded her advice to hisl
great sorrow later, as the man turnedE
out exactly as the wife had predicted. 1