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The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
KEEP BABY's SKIN CLEAR

Few parents realize how many es-
timable lives have been embittered
and social and business success pre-
vented by serious skin affections
which so often result from the neglect
of minor eruptions in infancy and
childhood. With but little care and
the use of the proper emollients, baby's
skin and hair may be preserved, puri-
fed and beautified, minor eruptions
prevented from becoming chronic and
torturing, disfiguring raskes, itchings.
irritations and chafings dispelled.
To this end, nothing is so pure, SO
sweet, SO speedily effective as the con-
stant use of Cuticura Soap, assisted,
when necessary, by Cuticura Ointment.
Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp,
sole proprietors, Boston, for their free
S2-page Cuticura Book telling all about
the care and treatment Of the skin.
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pn,mer Of E~annnIe

"It amt pretty kind world for a
poor old Swede woman like me-" said
Christine. "But sometimes ids pretty
good world anyways. vas at place
yesterday we're de lady always make
me iron all afternoon und den send me
home mitout my supper. So yesterday
tolt her how kind you vas to me, und
how you tell me set down and rest till
supper get ready, und gif me money
for de street car so don't have to
walk home ven been so, tired, und all
about you. So ven put away de irons
yesterday dot lady she say to me, Set
down und have something to eat pretty
soon, Christine; you not be in de way
Dots because tell her about you,
ma'am. l tink lots of peoples be gooder
If dey know about somebody else bein'
good. d."-Newark News.
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new ENJOYS WIFE
Nine. Chang Yin Tang Greatly
Interested in America.
Has Always Lived In PakIng, But Aaa
Studied the United states and
IT, LanguaDe--Wo
Work Ia China.

Washington From social stand.
point no minister from the orient has
come to the United States under more
pleasant auspices than Chang-Yin-
Tang, the new Chinese envoy to Wash
ington. The capital always is inter
ested in the minister from China and
his family DR.. WI Ting Fang gave
the Americans much to talk about and
always aroused their interest DR.. WI
always was asking questions, and it is
probable that when he went back to
China several weeks ago he knew
more about the government of the
United States than some Of the men
who are sitting in congress.
Mr.. Chang Yin-T Tang Is not human
interrogation point, as was WI, but he
Is one of China's greatest statesman
While much notice has been given
him Washington has shown lively In
terest in his wife and young daugh-
ters, who are attractive and full Of
sympathy for America and full of Curl
osity to learn the philosophy Of fem
ininity, which appeals so alluringIy
from their side of the world
7 have lived always in Picking, said
the affable chatelaine of the Chinese
legation, "and except to travel in my
own country and the neighboring
lands am experiencing my first sensa-
tion in great journey. Certainly this
one can be considered an ambitious
attempt for a beginner.
Il anticipated my first winter in
Washington much as a young girl who
has learned everything from books
and who wants to see things for her
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Fatal Course

A matron who was visiting her for
mer home city, and was under full
headway with the seemingly endless
string of questions usual in such a
case.
"And your sisters daughter violet?"
she asked
Violet is married" the friend re-,
Piled
Indeed! Ny! How time does fly.
Happily married, trust?"
"Oh, dear, no! My sister always hui
mored her, you know" was the re-
sponse, ''and the poor child was per-
mitted to marry the man she was in
love With Sunday Magazine of the
Cleveland Leader
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The Joys Of OTHER DAYS
Writer'S Memory Goes Back TO De-
lights Of Which the Present Gem
Grafton Knows Little.

We cheerfully admit that the fur
mace and the hard coal base burner
add q whole lot to modern comfort,
but after all they have their draw
backs For instance, you cant very
well pop corn Ia either a furnace or
base burner. 1t took those old
fashioned stoves. in which we used to
burn two-foot length Of hickory
wood, for that sort Of thing. When
the wood had burned down to glow
ing Goals, we'd open the front door,
rake the Goals down in front and pro
ceed to pop corn. When we get rich
we are going to have one Of those old
fashioned stoves put up in our room,
with lot of twofoot seasoned hickory
in the basement, and every now and
then we are going to start fire in
that stove, get a good bed Of Goals,
and then pop dishpan full of corn,
just as reminder Of old days. OF
course wen eat the popcorn, not as
reminder Of old days, but because we
are awfully fond of popcorn. Yill M,
Maupin, In The CCmmoner.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
Unexpected Recommendation.

One day, when Lord Thurlow was
very busy at his house in Ormond
street, a poor curate applied to him
for living then vacant.
Don't trouble me-" said the chan
cellor, turning upon him with frown-
ing brow. Don't you see am busy
and can't listen to you?-what duke or
lord recommended you?"
The poor curate lifted up his eyes
and, with detection, said he had no
lord to recommend him but the Lord
of Hosts.
THE Lord of Hosts!" replied the
chancellor, "the Lord of Hosts!-I be-
lieve have had recommendations
from most lords, but do not recollect
one from him before; so, do you hear,
young man, you shall have the living. :"
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coffroth Wins Race, london 10 ,Friaeo.

coffroth Wins Race, London TO Frisco.
James w. Coffroth, fight promoter.
won his bet Of $4,000 made with a
member of the National Sporting club
OF London that he could reach San
Francisco in ten days from London.
Cofroth had margin of two hours
and forty minutes.
Coffroth, according to agreement,
sent telegram to Eugene Corri, With
whom he had the wager. When he ar
rived at the Oakland pier he was vel
coined by large delegation that
cheered him as he stepped from his car.
The time made by Coffroth is the
fastest ever made from London to San
Francisco over the Atlantic and across
the continent. He made the trip in
nine days, five hours and five minutes.
The journey from Omaha to San
Francisco was made on the famous San
Francisco Overland Limited" of the
Union Pacifc-Southern Pacific, and is
simply another victory for Safety,
Service, Speed via the old Overland
Route.
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given me, and I am recommending it
to all my friends. Mrs. w. S. FORD,
22O7 w. Franklin 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. It has cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, ibroid tumors, ir-
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling, flatulency,
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 trial
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health free of
charge
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The first time / ran for the general
assembly one of the prominent citi-
zens of my community told me that he
was going to vote against me because
when was shaver threw rotten
apple at his horse. Another prominent
citizen told me that he was going to
vote for me because when / was a
shaver put a rotten egg IN a buggy
cushion belonging to the woman he
worked for and he had never liked the
woman. Think of it! And yet such
stuff has thrown the scales where
thrones have been at stake From a
speech at Norwich by former Gov.
George p. Mclean of Connecticut
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Nor On a HaIf-plme. Either.

Simon Hardcastle believed with sim
cere faith that any wife who had, or
asked, more than a quarter of a year
for her own amusement or enjoyment
was being too horrible to contem-
plate. He came from the village store
for dinner and told what he had
heard
Miranda, would you believe that
the Lords prayer could be engraved
in space no larger than a dime?"
''Well, yes, Simon" she hazared, eff
a dime is as large in the engraver's
eye as it IS in yours, i should think
that he would have no difficulty at
all."-The Housekeeper.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

self. have read much about thiA
country, and met many of its people.
and, of course, have studied the lam
guage, especially after it was deter
mined that we should come to Wash
1ngton.
Il find that my visitors are as in
terested in my country as am in
theirs, and that they have read as
much about it. So many American
women have travelled in China, and
each year brings travellers from the
east to see the wonders of the west.
We have a woman's question, but not
in the acute form which it has taken
here. To begin with, the Chinese ped
pie have ideas founded on many CEN
turtles of noting results: We prefer to
keep our women at home, and every
girl is reared with the idea that her
place is at home and that there she
is safer, happier and more useful. In
poor families the girls work, of course,
but at home.
THAT vast source of income to
China, embroidery, ivory, wood and
metal carving, tapestry and feather
work, are done by women at home.
Some factories are coming into prom
inence, and the way women work in
these, compared to the population Of
the empire and the way factory sys-
TENS prevail in other lands, they are
scarce indeed. We never employ
women in stores or commercially at all
There are fewer still employed as
servants and the whole of our way of
disposing of the question which is caus-
ing such unrest in the other parts OF
the world is to permit women to en-
large their horizon if they will but
keep the national idea always fore
most in all that is done for them"
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
she QUIT
But II Was a Hard Pull.

It is hare to believe that coffee will
nut person in such condition as it
ala an Ohio woman. She tells her own.
story:
st did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said | liked
it SO well would not, and could not
quit drinking it, but was a miserable
sufferer from heart trouble and nerv-
GUS prostration for four years.
Il was scarcely able to be around.
had no energy and did not care for any
thing. Was emaciated and had con-
stant pain around my heart until /
thought / could not endure it. For
months never went to bed excepting
to get up in the morning. felt as
though was liable to die any time.
Frequently had nervous chills and
the least excitement would drive sleep
away, and any little noise would upset
me terri Jly. | was gradually getting
worse until finally one time it came
over me and asked myself what's the
use Of being sick all the time and
buying medicine so that / could in
dulge myself in coffeeg
$50 / thought would see If could
quit drinking coffee and got some
Postum to help me quit. / made it
strictly according to directions and
want to tell you, that change was the
greatest step ID my life. 1t was easy
to quit coffee because had the Postum
which now like better than the old
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
Not ActuaIIY NeeessarY

The lawyer proceeded to examine
the witness.
Pardon the question, Mrs. Chucks-
lay he said, but your answer consti-
yltes part Of the record. How old
are your
"Why, you ought to know, Mr..
Sharpe" she answered; my birthday
Is the same as yours, only was born
ten years later than you were"
"Ah, yes, remember. Well. it isn't
important, anyhow. Go ahead, Mrs.
Chucksley, and tell the jury what you
know about this case"
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

with duu pain be-
cause there Is In
hammation within.
You can't be rid Of
the ache until you
cure the cause the
kidneys.
Doan's Kidney y
pills cure sick kid
neys. g. s. Warren,
1917 No. 7th ST,
Boise, Idaho, says:
''An injury to my
back years ago left
me lame. ! had to
use a cane, anli It
hurt me terribly to
stoop or lift. The
kidn ey secretions
nnnnns,sa Anl. arnra,,e.,A
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
Meddinn limitations

Announcements, calling cards and
all copper and steel plate engravings
for social and business purposes in
correct styles are made at S. g. Toof
& Co, 1922 North Second Street,
Memphis. Tenn. Write for style sheet
and mention this paper.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
Relniunl Has No Maxx.

Belgium is, perhaps the most pros
porous state in Europe, al well as the
most thickly settled. The late kings
reign was at least marked by an enor-
nous advance in wealth and social re-
form. One of the country's special ad-
vantages is that its international neu-
tralization permits it to dispense with
a navy, while the Belgian army is main
tanned on very small and inexpensive
basis.
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Free fo our Readera.

Write Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chica-
go, for 4S-page illustrated Eye Book Free.
Write all about Your Eye Trouble and
they will advise as to the Proper Appli-
cation of the Murine Eye Remedies in
Your Special Case. Your Druggist will
tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes,
Strengthens Weak Eyes, Doesn't Smart,
Soothes Eye Pain, and sells for Soc. Try
1t in Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes for
Scaly Eye1ida and Granulation.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
Books Worth HAVING.

Supplementing their factory for the ma
king Of specially ruled and printed blank
books and loose leaf devices, S. C. Toof
& Co, Memphis, Tenn, row carry in stock
standard blank books in variety of bind
ings and in papers from the cheapest that
is good to the very best. Write for price
list and mention this paper.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach
the seat OF the disease Catarrh is blood or const
tutiona disease and in order cure 1t you must take
internal remedies Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken In
ternaly. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure Is not Quack medi-
cine. It prescribed by Of the best physicians
in this country for years and is regular prescription
1t Is composed OF the best tonics known. combined
with the best blood purifiers. acting directly the
mucous surfaces The perfect combination OF the
two ingredients IS what produces such wonderful
suits IN curing catarr Send for testimonials free.
F. ]. CHENEY Il CO., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

". For ave years since was cured
By Doan's Kidney Pills, have had no
return Of the trouble Z
Remember the name Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-MiIburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
These KNOWING Children.

"Come here, Mamie, dear. Look at
this beautiful Misty girl Isn't she
lovely? don't think Misty ever drew
a more charming figure!'
do you think, papa. that this is
the model that used to sit on
Mr. Misty's knee 2" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
pistenper

In all its forms, among all ages of horses
and dogs, cured and others in the same
stable prevented from having the disease
with Spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bot
tie guaranteed. Over 100000 bottles sold
last year $50 and Sl.OO. Good druggists,
or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted.
Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co.,
S2ec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
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a Thouuht Reader.

80 you are studying telepathy?''
'Yes, answered Senator Sorghum;
my object in life has been to find
what people are thinking and then
say it first. Any reliable system
would simplify my labors immensely"
Exchange.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Papa, what is meant BY placing
witness under the rule p
why do you wish to know
Il was wondering if it is anything
like placing school boy under the
ruler
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NC GraveIed Geonneter.

Euclid was boasting of his abilities.
But" cried his wife, @can you find
why our gas bills are just as big as
when they charged dollar a thousand
cubic feet?"
With a moan he sped into the night.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
The Peryerse sex.

"Hinkiey's got wonderful head. All
his woman readers are simply wild
over that serial love story he is ruls-
ming in the Daily Stunt"
How did he clinch 'em?"
"Why he printed the last chapter
firstn
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
The lJnterrified lmnrover

First Angel What is the rumpus in
the seventh heaven?
Second Angel A moral uplifter has
broken through the roof trying to find
an eighth heaven.
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from lrr0gularl-
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
I felt as though
~oxx, 1sea hol haoy1
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Dewitt Does your wife follow the
fashions closely
levitt i should say SO; she has one
5f those standing room only dresses.
Smart Set
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
An idIe Threat.

Son No, sir. father, absolutely re-
fuse to go to work.
Father Careful, boy; don't ycu
make such idle threats to me.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Mrs. VVlns1ow'o Soothing SYRUP
For nhildren teething softens the gums, reduces IL
nllay0 pain, wind cQliu 2seA bottle
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

No man can pass into eternity, for
be is already IN II. Farrar
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
AFTER
FOLJRYEARS
OF MISERY
Cured BY Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, Md. = g For four years
my life was a misery to me. / suffered
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The family tree of bunk0 man
must be slippery elm
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26
WHEN YOUR BACK ACHES sus.
PEcT THE KIDNEYS.

Backache Is kidney ache, In most
cases. The kidneys ache and throb
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

When common sense takes a vaca
tion it is time to stand from under
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Landlords and tenants can never see
through the same spectacIes.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

When doctor gets sick he knocks
his own game.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

It IS easy to offend people who have
no use for you.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

no CURE A COLD N one DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROM0 Quinine Tablets
DruRgi istsfefund money Ii it fails 70 cure. e. w.
GROVES signature is on each box. 25c
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1s the ola reliable cough remedy. Found z every
drug s5ofo and IN practi cal every nQWe For sale
~ al druggists, &C. SOC and 81 hottles
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In Use For Over 80 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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lnoportanf fo Mothers.

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that II
Bears the xIavs
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A CHEERFUL PROSPECT.

We'll, young man, what do you
think of my daughter?"
Rather thin"
''That will improve; at her age I
was like that" ,..
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The man behind the times breaks
the colt; the wise man trains It.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

By skillful pruning peach trees may
be forced to spread out and to have
a succession of bearing wood from
close to the ground up.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

It is admitted that growing pigs
placed on rape at about 25 to the acre
will for two or three months require
only half as much grain as styled
animals.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The cows udder should be well
washed and dried with coarse cloth
before milking, and the mixers hands
should be washed after every cow.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

It's too bad to allow 1--WE cent dog
chase and worry q $50 COW.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Butter made from pasteurized sweet
cream has better keeping qualities
and remains free from Objectionable
fiavors a longer time than butter made
from sour cream.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

TO permit horse. after being heat
ed, to stand III the cold until he is
chilled frequently causes cerebro7mens
ingitis and heaves. It always pays to
put on blankets even if the horse IS
only to stand few minutes.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Marketing the farm products right
Is as essential as raising them right
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The Chilean government has sew
eral engineering corps in the field
studying different methods and sys-
TENS of irrigation.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

It is of Importance that the brood
SOW be kept in vigorous, thrifty con-
dition, not too fat but full of vitality.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Where decayed portions appear in
trees the punky wood can be removed
and the aperture filled with concrete
mixture which will prevent water
from further entering and decaying
away entirely that portion.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

The method of feeding and kind
and quality of the food determines
the flavor and nutritive value of the
eggs.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

DR. Wiley, the chemist Of the de-
partment Of agriculture, is making
some interesting experiments at Wash
ington In turning farm waste into
wood alcohol, to be used as fuel and.
for manufacturing purposes. His ex-
periments so far have been confined
to corn and potatoes, but fodder Is to-
be tried.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

It is said there is only enough
broom-corn to furnish one broom to
each housewife in America this year.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

There are far too many milch COWS
that are forced to take long ramble
IN the cold during winter to get a
drink at the good spring. Some of the
shy underlings are ill-treated and re-
turn to the barn without drink rath.
er than run the risk Of being butted
or gored by the masters Of the herd.
A good well and surety of all Of Tho
herd getting drink is more htl-
name way of taking care Of stock.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Young trees may require stalking If
planted in windy; exposed places; but
see that the ties cannot chafe the
trunks. Bands of cloth or leather can
be arranged to prevent this.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

Examine your trees from the nur-
sery this coming spring and see that
they are free from crown gall.
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reed the farm through the covs.

Barley and wheat should be ground
before feeding to pigs.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1910-02-26

City poultrymen find 1t pays to buy
bones Ut the meat market in order to
feed their hens green cut bone. But
the farmers usually slaughter enough
meat in winter to make the purchase
of bones unnecessary. A good bone
cutter will chop up bones. gristles and
waste parts of an animal and be clear
gain.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-23
BY ellison Gardner.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. %.
in connection with the efforts
to Feduce the deficit in the postal
service, the unnecessary and OK
cessive rentals paid to the rail-
roads for postal cars will receive
early congressional attention.
This is probably the greatest
waste in the postal service. Every
two years the government pays in
car rentals a sum which would
buy these cars outright.
This fact has been we'll known
many years. No less than $4,-
500, 900 is paid out every year for
postal car rentals, and the rail-
roads draw in addition SAG, 000,-
600 for the actual carrying of the
mails. There is no doubt that
this enormous sum contributes the
largest items of unwarranted ex-
pense entering into the annual
deficit of the postoffice depart
ment.
The railroads are charging an
eXorbitant rate for hauling the
mails. For instance, the average
distance of haul of newspapers is
estimated at 291 miles, for which
the. railroads charge an average OF
9 cents a pound. The firstclass
passenger fare from New York to
Chicago is $500. A 200-pound
passenger is thus carried 1000
miles at a rate of cents for every