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given me, and / am recommending it
to all my friends Mrs. w. S. FORD,
1888 Lansdowne ST., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t has
stood the test of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. 1t has cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, inaam-
nation, liberation, fibroid tumors, ir-
,regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling. fiatulency,
indigestion, and nervous prostration.
after all other means had failed.
IF you are suffering from any of these
ailments, don't give up hope until you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health, free OF
charge.
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HOME TESTING
A Sure and Easy Test on Coffee.

To decide the all important ques-
ton of coffee, whether or not 1t Is
really the hidden cause of physical
ails and approaching fixed diseases.
one should make test of ten days by
leaving off coffee entirely and using
wellmade Postum.
II relief follows you may know to
d certainty that coffee has been
your vicious enemy. OF course you
can take it back to your heart again.
IL you like to keep sick.
A lady says: Il had suffered with
stomach trouble, nervousness and ter
rible sick headaches ever since I was
q little child, for my people were al
ways great coffee drinkers and let us
children have all we wanted. l got
so / thought / could not live without
coffee. but / would not acknowledge
that it caused my suffering.
Then l read so many articles about
Postum that I decided to give it fair
trial. / had not used it two weeks in
place of coffee until / began to feel
like different person. The headache
and nervousness disappeared and
whereas l used to be sick two or three
DAYS out Of week while drinking cof-
fee / am now we'll and strong and
sturdy seven days week, thanks to
Postum.
Il had been using Postum three
months and had never been sick a
day when / thought would expert
ment and see If it really was coffee
that caused the trouble, so / began
to drink coffee again and inside of a
week / had a sick spell. was so Ill
/ was soon convinced that coffee was
the cause of all my misery and went
back to Postum with the result that
was soon well and strong again and
determined to stick to Postum and
leave coffee alone in the future"
Read the little book, The Road to
wellville. !" in pkgs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine true, and full Of humas
interest.
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exchanaIna solemn THOUGHTS.

~Ah, says the man with the parted
whiskers, when one stands alone In
the night and contemplates the won
ders of creation, how futile. how puny
man seems! How vain, how puerile
his hopes and longings, when he is
surrounded by the eternal silence OF
the universe! Has this ever occurred
TO your"
You bet." answers the man with
the big scarf pin. He feels just as
punk as he does when he misses the
owl car and has to stand on the cor
ner an hour for another one."-Chi
-cago Post.
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NOT THE BUTCHERS FAULT.

Mrs. Customer-That lamb you
sent me, Mr.. Stintwaite, was the
largest and toughest ever saw.
Mr.. Stintwaite-Tut. tut. It's that
boy been lettering again. / assure you.
when that joint left the shop it was
the sweetest little leg of lamb you
could set eyes on, and I gave him
strict orders to deliver it at once be-
cause you wanted it young.
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Position Had prawbacks.

Poet Ito his practical friend)-Is
there anything more beautiful than to
see those magnificent swans float
upon the lakes silver surface? How
would love to be like them."
What! Go around with ones
stomach on that cold water all the
day? Not for me, thank you.'
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from irregulari-
ties, terrible drag
ging sensations,
extreme nervous
ness, and that all
gone feeling in my
stomach. / had
given up hope Of
ever being well
when ] began to
take Lydia E.Pink-
hams Vegetable
Compound. Then
/ felt IS though
naxy 1sfo bod hoon
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-14

at 40 yards. The
beast was charging
him in dangerous
fashion.
Not long ago Mr..
Roosevelt captured
two baby antetlopes
and sent them to
his daughter, Mrs.
Mic h o. las Long
worth, who by this
time doubtless has
received them. More
than $500 speci-
mems had been cap
tured by the Roose-
welt party up to the
time of this writ
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THAT FR0ZE HIM.

II suppose" he said, ingratiatingly.
you often get spoken to by men?"
''Yes," she replied. "and by monk
eys. But tonight there don't seem to
be any men about"
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asehoods obtained by of brbng Ignorant ser
wants and that for the sake OF BRIDE one
of evil intentions nventing asehoods for the
purpose obtaining the bribes"
Be that as may in the month OF August MT Roose
Welt will mpart some select gathering OF East
Africans at can't keep reporters from ban
ouet time of writing there is no reason 10
that the the former American exec
tive's remarks in full. sasf
Mr. Roosevelt tell his hunting experiences his views
on world notifies and lots things which will asonish
his staid British will set them to thinking
The world at large getting little Roosevelt stuff"
the editors call it. The said to be the hunters
desire to pursue nmrod undurbed by
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-14
AFTER
FOURYEARS
OF MISERY
Cured by Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, Md. For four years
my life was misery to me. Isuffered
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New ENGLAND EnaIish.

Complaint was made to local man
by one of his employees that boys who
were swimming in pond were caus.
ing quite a nuisance. The owner OF
the property gave the man the privi-
lege of putting up sign, as he had
asked permission to do it. The mo-
tice reads as follows:
NO Loffing or Swimming on Theas
Growns-Order by -. II Catched
Law VIII be Forced."-Berkshire
Courier.
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one cause of. Neck eoIIs.

One Cause Of Neck 6oiIs.
Neck boils come with the sweaty
season. Many people have large hair
pores on the back of the neck. The
sweaty, starched collar rim ie good
culture soil for boil and carbdncle
germs, which get rubbed into the
large hair follicles or sacks, producing
painful, sometimes dangerous
spreading crop.
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States This, the British seemed to think, was a
first class invitation to treat him like king,
which they did.
With his encourage riding in the passenger
compartments of primitive Uganda railway
coach, Mr.. Roosevelt gave real strenuosty ex
hibition by daring Acting Governor Jackson to
ride with him the cowcatcher. He said there
was more breeze on the front of the train any
way Mr.. jackson and Mr.. Roosevelt then stopped
the outfit and took positions of vantage ahead of
the fireman and engineer.
This tickled the Britishers Nobody had ever
thought of riding on the front of an engine be-
fore in East Africa. They had always done the
most commonplace thing by seating themselves
on the cushions" So because he was different
from their kind they liked the American from
the start.
The ride that day lasted so miles, when the en-
CINE. being union engine, refused to work over
eight hours and gave out. The next day the ride
was repeated and to-day half the British East
African highbrows ride the front of the en-
CINE when they want to make an impression
Once on Sir George MacMillans ranch the
real sport of the expedition commenced.
MacMillan's ranch is notorious hangout for
maneatiDg lions. They around the ranch
at night and tear up things generally. Colorado
mountain lions were easily beneath the hunting
prowess of Mr. Roosevelt and he proved that At
rican lions are also-rans alongside of the Amer
can brand by depicting the kingdom of Leo by
six in two days, thereby setting new record for
huntsmen in this section of Africa.
big, hungry hippopotamus chased Mr..
Roosevelt one day. Formulating his plans as he
sped along through the jungle, the expresident
led the enraged animal to the open and set two
steel bullets crashing between his eyes when the
hippo was only 100 feet away. Kermit had a
similar experience with rhinoceros and, display
ing the family traits of his father. stood his
ground and succeeded in dispatching ME-. Rhino
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uSO0
can army OFF,
GERS, provided
the x-pr e S l.
dents sleeping
quarters and his
patriotism was
fully shown by
the fact that the
American stars
and stripes float
ed from the flag
pole b e I or 9
Roosevelt's tent.
The colors were
dipped at sun
rise and sunset
in accordance
with the United
States army Gus
tom.
The Roosevelt
camp presented
a unique scene.
Situated in the
enter was Mr.. Roose-
elt's adobe, which
llso housed Kermit.
Before it floated the
american flag and
'rouped around 1t
llong m inia t u r e
streets" were the
pup tents" of the
,orters, gunbearers.
lush heaters, cooks
md other servants.
Kermit Roosevelt's
PERSONAL servant, Jul
ma by name, became
IS devoted to his
! ng master as
.hough the latter
we're of regal heri-
age. He followed
him everywhere and
vas at his side dur.
ng the rhinoceros in
.ident in which Ker.
nit's life was per
led.
Juma's gaudy tur'
ban. khaki half-hose
and American-made
.alfskin shoes, which
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every word OF copy ne Writes TOT
certain New York publication. There
fore the business of bagging the gnus
in this lonely spot on the worlds
map has a double meaning.
Spell it gnus or news-suit your
self-they are pronounced alike. The
only difference is that you get one
with a rife of heavy bore and the
other by means of mental ingenuity.
Mr.. Roosevelt, i have disco
makes his own news. And h
his own news. Hence his decl
that because there are no jol, -....-
lists with this expedition all appar-
emily authentic reports are barren
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paper men. They are on his tran
every day, but they keep out OF
sight.
Entering the port of Mombasa,
Theodore Roosevelt and his big
stick made an instantaneous hit.
He was strenuous. Britishers are
slow of movement and thought;
they are deliberate. Not SO with
the American hero. He thought
quickly, spoke quickly and said
things which made the inhabitants
stand up and shout.
He talked about the great country
which the British had built and al
most civilized in Africa. He made
other points which tickled his hosts
and he was solid with them from
the minute he put foot on the gang
plank of the steamer which brought
him from Naples, Italy. He told
his East African friends that he
wanted to be treated like regula-
ton American citizen, not like a
former president of the United
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Post
Toasties
and Cream

The golden-brown bits are sub
stantial enough to take up the
cream; crisp enough to make
crushing them in the mouth an
exquisite pleasure; and the fla
vor-that belongs ony to Post
Toasties-
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1.-THE Taste Lingers"

This dainty, tempting food is
made of pearly white corn, cooked,
rolled and toasted into "Toasties. /"
Popularpkg; Ioc; Large Family size rse
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AIROBI, British, East At
rica.-I guess everybody in
the civilized world knows
that ex-President Theo-
dore Roosevelt Of the
United States is getting
two American dollars for
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09

There is funny old custom in the
City of Mexico which entities the JAM
or, or portero, of lodging houses 10
collect a few cents from any tenant
Who stays out after 10 o'clock at
night said P. II. Dugan, a mining en-
yineer. of that capital, at the Hotel
Herman, according to the Baltimore
American.
"Some of the porteros put out signs
which, translated into English, read
about this way: If you want me TO
open the door, you will have to pay
ne, else l shall keep it closed Many
time I've seen young gallants stand
ng in the yestibule Of their apart
nents in the wee, sma' hours. lurch-
ng like a ship in a gale as they tished
n their pockets for the needful coin
hat would cause the heart of the do
nestle to relent and let them in
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
THE CALL OF CALIFORNIA.
American Settlement of the Region Of
the Old Spanish Dons.

For a quarter of century, or since
1884 or 1885, there has been an extra
ordinary movement from all over the
country to the southwestern portion of
the United States, the sleepy region of
the old Spanish dons who for centuries
lived and owned principalities on the
shores of the Pacific literally between
the desert and the deep sea. This move
ment has taken the shape of tourists
excursions very similar to the througs
who yearly migrate to the south of
France and Italy but with this eXcep-
ton; in Europe they are tourists pure
and simple; they rarely remain. While
the men and women, generally rich or
well to do, who have braved the terrors
of the great american Desert" have
i'll so many instances succumbed to the
climatic, scenic and other charms of
southern California that in Il quarter of
century they have taken possession of
the region, planted it with countless
Grange groves, built large towns and
villages, and made of the pueblo of Los
Angeles, an adobe town of few thousand
MeXicans and Americana, Il city of near
~ 800 000-Outing.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
Twice as Many Folks Carried In FL.
Vatcrs as on Lateral Lines.

Twice as Many Folks Carried in Eli
waters as on Lateral Lines.
Vertical transportation in New Yorl.
has reached enormous proportions. and
according TO a paper recently read no.
fore the Electrical Engineering Socie.v
Of Columbia University, twice as MANY
people are carried vertically as are car.
ried horizontally every twenty-four
hours, says the New York Sun.
Taking twenty-six of the large Office
buildings in the lower part Of the Dor.
ough of Manhattan, all of eighteen
floors or over, this authority states. we
find a total of 572 floors in all aggre
eating a height of approximately one
and one-third miles. In these twenty-slv
buildings there are 116 express eleva-
tors travelling an aggregate distance Of
275 miles an hour and averaging 242
900 passengers a day. These same
twenty-six buildings have 115 local ele
vators running approximately the same
number of car miles an hour. but car
rying about $4,000 passengers a day.
This makes total of 231 elevators
running 4,400 miles. carrying total of
$4,000 passengers a day.
Taking the 5000 elevators used ey-
clusively to carry passengers in the
borough of Manhattan and dividing
them into groups. allowing for the mum
Der of persons carried, we find that
they transport approximately 100000
passengers day. From the last report
Of the public service commission we
learn that only 100000 are carried
a day by surface, elevated and subway
cars in the entire city of Greater New
York.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09

Helsingfors before this here balloon Of
ours would sink
The life buoy is a device spherical in
shape. about nine feet in diameter. and
will comfortably accommodate fifteen
men. who are admitted one at a time
through a manhoIe near the top. A cir
cuiar bench would enable entombed sail
or men to sit comfortably and rest after
fashion until seine vessel picked them
ND. Under the floor are compartments
for food and fresh water sufficient to
keep shiDwrecked men alive for more
than a week if they ate sparingly.
When the last man has entered the buoy
the hatch is battened down, and the
floating ball with its occupants. is ready
to take its chances with the sea. Fresh
air is admitted from a SOFT of telescope
tube, which may be hoisted to various
heights, according to the size of the
seas.
The inventor of the sphere left no
stone unturned. and provided for the
propulsion of the ball when opportunitv
permitted. a sail and rudder are fitted
to it, so that favorable winds NAV carry
it to the steamship lanes or land it
high and dry ON a friendly coast. Small
matches are provided just above the wa
ter line through which oars may be
thrust in moderate weather. and an odd
~ fashioned rudder is adjusted to direct
the coarse. a large rope fender is woven
around the sphere to protect it from
rocks or wreckage. In smooth weather
the device has worked well. but there IS
a diversity of opinion among the Eager
tuns crew as to what il would do in
real northwester.-New York Tribune.
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Americans as Book-buyers.

The writer Of Casual Comment" in
the Dial. stimulated thereto by Prof.
Muensterberg's article i'll the Atlantic.
deplores the Reorganization of the Amer
lean book trade.
In every German city of one hundred
thousand inhabitants, he says, there are
from twelve to twenty well-appointed
bookstores. and there Is at least one such
store iii any but the very smallest of
German towns. whereas in this country
even large cities are frequently content
to make books Il side line in connection
with a department store or stationery
shop. Germany, he goes on, with sixty
millions of inhabitants, issued last year
2S703 new books, while the United
States. with eighty millions, put forth
only SIP.
There are differing conditions to be
taken into consideration, and some of
these the writer of Casual Comment"
notes He speaks of the devotion of
Americans to newspapers and maya
zines. and suggests the absorption of
Americans IN business-their neglect Of
the art of leisure" and their addiction to
the motor car and bridge whist. As to
the last item. it might be cancelled in
consideration of the German penchant
for skat and sechs-und-sechzig. As for
the motor-car, do not Germans spend
time in gardens which may be cited as
finds another partially explanatory diff
ference in the greater development of
the public library in the United States
than i the country of the Kaiser. Cir
culating libraries are certainly inimical
TO a large extent to the purchase of
books by the public. As Nudes. in
England, grew. the purchase of books
by the English reading public dimin-
ished
There < 4 DEVELOPMENT of recent wears
in America to which the Casual Com
mentator does not refer, but which I'M
doubtedly has initiated against the pur-
chase of books. and that is the rage for
living in flats. Flat-dwallers have little
room for babies. They have little room
for family portraits. They have no
room for Newfoundland dogs or large
collections of books
There still are book lovers and book
collectors IN Amerca, But old books
compete with new books for their pat
ronage, and so many old books have
been thrown upon the market within the
past twenty years-especially within
the past ten years-that the sale of new
books must have been disadvantageous-
~ affected thereby to very consider
able extent. The general reader who
reads for the love of reading very often
prefers an old book 10 a new one. When
he can procure good old book for a
tritiing outlay. he is unlikely 10 make
sacrifice to purchase a contemporaries
Gus publication at many times its cost.
for those who are most enthusiasts in
quest Of books are not always million
aires
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09

white coat has spread across the eyes,
and to all appearances he is a blind
man.
He was received at the hospital sew
eral months ago to be treated for
water feet" due, he says, to working
for hours i'll water. The doctors are
treating him for rheumatism. Ander-
son is a fisherman. and has been mar
ried twice Both his wives arc dead.
He says he has a son, but does not
know where he is. The fact that An
1erson does not close his eyes when at
sleep was discovered by the physicians
at the hospital.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
A LIFESAVING SPHERE.
Fruit Steamer Carries Odd Device on
Deck for Use in Shipwreck.

The little $50 ton Norwegian steamer
Fagertun, which carries fruit to this
port from Port Antonio. Jamaica, has
encountered some stiff gales and pound
ed her way through high seas on her
many runs to and from the Caribbean
sea, but never has she been forced to
use the odd lifesaving buoy which she
carries aft ON her deckhouse. The big
buoy, which attracted attention in every
port the Fagertun visited before she
went into the fruit trade, has given her
a publicity N marine circles that ships
three times her tonnage might envy
When the steamer was built, some six
years ago, she was equipped with the
regular complement of lifeboats. but the
owner and skipper had their own ideas
about hfe-saving apparatus. and the
Fagertun took on later the big steel
buoy which is dashed on the deckhouse.
When the vessels name is mentioned it
is bound to bring out such remarks as
"Oh, yes; | remember her; she is that
little fruiter with the steel channel buoy
aft; or shes that freak craft with two
parallel maSts fore and aft and the big
balloon on the deckhouse.f
There are men on the steamer who
would most likely take to the small boats
il the Fagertun decided 10 quit the sea
in mid-Atlantic. but the skipper and a
dozen of the crew have an unbounded
faith in the life buoy as a means of
keeping them afloat after their vessel
had plunged to the oceans bottom
If this here craft got rammed and we
knew she was booked for the locker of
Mr.. Jones" said one of the crew re-
Gently. we'd simply cut the lashinEs.
crawl into that steel bali aft. and let the
deckhouSe drop from under us. Float:
l should say SO; we'd drift from here to
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Not Included.

After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig. Centerville's one storekeeper, he
asked what was going on in the town
Had any entertainments this season.
he inquired,
NO. said Mr.. Craig. Not one. Sa-
lone Howe's pupils have given two
concerts, piano and organ. and the
principal of the 'cademy has lectured
twice. once on Our National Forests
and once on Stones as 1 Know Them
out as far as entertainments are con
>erned Centeryille hasn't got round to
EN- yet this season. Youths Com
0anion.
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Figures of Speech.

y certain young lady away ut school
sent the following unique message ia
an uncertain young man in this city last
week:
IN ia 1oder mood 2day,
And feel poetic =;
Thought Id take my pen in hand
And send line you.
| m sorry you've been & SO long
Don't feel diScOnsoS
But bea% your Ills with 42dC,
And they won't seem SO grS.
Gainesville tGal Herald
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
HOSPITAL PATIENT HASN'T
CLOSED EYES IN SO YEARS

John Anderson, patient at the st.
Louis City Hospital, told q reporter
for the Star that for fifty-two years he.
had not closed his eyes, although he
sleeps at night and moves about as any
ordinary man. Anderson is now 60
years Old When he was years old,
he says, he had measles. The disease
affected his eyes leaving him without
power to move his eyeids. Anderson
can see, but his sight is becoming dim
mer each day although he is positive
he will never become blind. A thin