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,onr medicines to all suffering women. !"
Mrs MARY HALsTEAD, Platea, Pa,
KS.
Here is the report of another genuine
..se. which still further shows that Ly-
Ala E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
may be relied upon.
Walcott, N. Dakota. 81 had infam-
nation which caused pain in my side,
.,d nv back ached all the time. was
. blue that l felt like crying if any one
wen spoke to me. took Lydia E.
ppkham's Vegetable Compound, and |
Ssran to gain right away. l continued
M use and now | am a well woman. "
Mrs AMELIA DAHL, Walcott, N.
Dakota.
II Won want special advice write to
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IptlAb Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
h 6penad, read and answered by a
woman and held In strict confidence.
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Says lie Has Found Purpose OF Appen,
dix.

Or. Israel Feiubere. president Of 'ha
Board OF Coroners SAYS the New York
Herald. that he has arrived at new
conclusion with regard TO the history
of the vermitorm appendix il the hu-
man being and its utility Or Fe.u-
berg has spent T. wears in The stud
of the appendix. seeking a cure OF APP
pendieitis and TO discover the purpose
of the organ in the human structure.
The conclusion which he has reached
are novel in medical annals.
Briefly. Or Feinbetg believes that
the appendix is of vital Importance in
the unborn child After birth of thu
child Or Feinbers declares the utility
of the appendix is at an end and the
organ gradually atrophies, until in ma.
ure life it Stimulates rudimentary
mass of tissue
AS is commonly known. the child
at that period possesses several organs
;hat differ greatly from those which
are found Immediately after birth
when he begins to breathe and take
nourishment-fo instance the heart.
the lungs and the intestinal tract In
my opinion the appendix has some
particular action in relation to Nh
,estnal canal until the time OF birth
From various opportunities for OBJ
serratiou and experiment have dis
covered thai the appendix has a valve
like action upon the intestines which
prevents the entrance Of foreign sub
stances into the body of the unborn
child After the birth Of the child the
appendix gradually grows smaller UNI
Til, at last it contracts so that only
a small opening is len in place of the
wide mouth which formerly opened
into the intestinal tract
THAT the appendix is a rndimentarv
organ. due to the fact that there is
no use for it after the child is born
and that il. therefore, becomes afro
phied. ! admit, but that the appendix
of the unborn child is a rudimen'ary
organ deny. After the birth of
child, whom TIE appendix ceases to
function. another valve known as the
deocaocal takes up IT'S work. so thst
the same results are achieved by u.-
ure through another organ
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SkOWHEGAN MARKET.

Wool-Unwashed, 23c to 25c per 10.
Hides and skins-Hides, s IL to
Ne per Id; calf skins, 15c to 1Sc per
d. lamb skins, % to 40.
Beans-Hand picked; yellow eyes,
w to $500; pea beans, $500 to
e25.
Beef-Ox beef, &c to 12c.
Poultry-Fowls, IL to lac per lb.;
thicker, IA to Ice.
Round Hog-10c per Id.
Iallow-Rough, &c. per ID.
Eggs-27c per dozen, fresh.
potatoes-75c per bushel.
Butter-25c per lb.
eheese-16c. to 18e per lb.
Retail Market
Flour-Spring Wheat Patent. $500;
slnter wheat patent. $500.
0ats-55c.
Timothy Grass Seed-$4.50 per bu.
Aeal-$1.S0 per bag.
Clorn-$1.95 per bag.
aiddlings-$1.75 per bag.
spring bran-$1.55 per bag.
winter bran-s1.60 per bag.
Mixed feed-$1.60 per bag.
ga Salt Pork-1Sc by the Dbl, 200 lbs,
sheese-20c to &c per Id.
55utter-2Sc to &c per pound.
leas-25c. to Coo. per Id.
I,ofiee-20c to CSC per pound.
tLard-Domestic lac, compound 10c.
aoasses-Pure Ponce, 40c to soc.
sugar-Granulated sugar, best
SSuailty, Is lbs. for s1.00; brown 16
US for s1.00.
ppolatoes-s110 per bushel.
oonlons-6c per Id.
roultry-Fowls, lac to iSc per Id;
'ancken, Ice to &c per ID.
hgss-30c per dozen, fresh.
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NEGLECTED. CONSTIPATION
The Cause of Trouble

ii many cases of sickness, says an eX-
Nrienced Nurse. She tells of the
proper remedy in the same letter. 1t
has been successfully used by thou
sands in the past sixty years. You
have no reason to doubt its value in
|!our case.
q think the 81. F." Atwood's Med
kine is an excellent tonic and is very
good for Constipation, which is the
cause of more sickness than anything
|tse that know of. .
A Nurse, Mrs. L. A Halves,
Bucksport, Me
Lor-e bottle 50 cents. All dealers.
A sample free. by addressing
IT, F. MEDICINE CO., Portland, Me.
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lhrIstian Endea,or Elects.

Officers were chosen at the closing
Nssion of the Maine Christian En-
teayor union biennial convention at
Houlton, &c follows: President, Frank
Dunn, Houlton; vice presidents, W.
B Tuthill, Woodfords, and Rev. &c.
Heves, Calais; corresponding secre-
nFy and treasurer, Miss Harriet H.
Cole. Sedgwick.
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farming that one sees n the We.
whore they know ho# Haa,9a 1re =
up his land and prepared il for plan
Ing With horses. Baf he sad It co..
him eleven dollars a. asra 20 d5 F.
Ia thai way and he could have 4ot
the same with q traction engine a..
gang pIews for hge Their is r9oa
enough in these great IeseI stretches
for the same sort Of wholesale GUS
alton that is seen ii fhe uako,##
and ne wheat they have Al TIC demo e
stration farm would seen 70 sh54
that il might De grown ii Maine iH =.
equally large way and With eaaas
profit Whether this is SO or ~
there Is no doubt about tho oars ana
/ barley Tic climate O Maine is jus.
right 10 produce these crops iu Pc
lection. and the state would Do weH
10 buy oats from her own fields rataet
than from The West as she does nos
TO the extent Of thousands Of dollars.
As for the potatoes, there can t- ~
question 50 long as tae supply Of a.
+ senate of zinc for tn bi8e-b-o-.sz
holds out.
Another use which has been Pre-
posed for tins big treeless region Is
stock raising. or nor definitely, ta-
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Fire and Explosions.

Sparks set fire to the plant of the
Monroe county oil plant near Roches-
ter. y. Y, Thursday morning and a
series of explosions followed. blowing
the dome from an 5000 gallon tank
of ben2ine ant destroying other
tanks. Firemen are fighting the
blaze About $4,000 gallons of ben
zine are burning and The loss already
is $4,000
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THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR
AWARDS
Given the Exhibits in the Different De
partments.

At the recent fair given under the
auspices of the Somerset Central Agri-
cultural Society, awards in the var,-
Gus departments were made as fol-
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Declined to Take Further Action.

The executive council at Augusta,
Thursday, declined to take any fur
Their action in the Heald-Payson prim-
airy contest in Knox county. This
gives the Democratic nomination for
register of probate to Clarence d.
Payson of Thomaston.
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ness ana DAckacne,
and was 80 nervous
that l would cry at
the least noise, it
would startle me so.
/ began to take Ly-
dia E. Pink h a M
remedies, and l don't
have any more cry
ing spells. l sleep
sound and my ner-
vousness Is better.
| will recomm end
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REPORT ON THE APPLE
CROP
Interesting Statistics Issued From the
Department Of Agriculture.

After communicating with different
States and different sections of this
State, the department wishes to make
the following estimates:
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NERVOUS
DEsPONOENT
WOMEN
-
rod Relief in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Their Own Statements
So Testify.

plstea. Pa. -" When l wrote to you
A., was troubled with female weak
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Variety may be the spice c life, but
industry is the meat and potatoes.
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Average in United States, - per-
cent; percent increase over last
year Great Britain, average crop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
CHARLES HAMILTON GRAFT.

Charles Hamilton Gran. Commissioner
OF Records In Kings County and the
Democratic leader OF the 18th Assembly
District Of Brooklyn, died yesterday from
apoplexy. at his home. No. NcDonough
street. he was forty-two years old.
Mr.. Graf was to have been the guest
at q beefsteak party next Monday night
at the clubhouse OF the Democratic or
ganization Of the 18th Assembly District.
He leaves a wife, who was Miss Anne j..
Mouquin, and two daughters.
Mr.. Graf never held public office
until his appointment as Commissioners
of Records, which was made tWo years
ago, when he also became the Democratic
leader Of his district He was born In
New York City In March. 1859, and as a
boy worked for Granbury & Co. lie be-
came a teller OF the Sixth National Bank.
and when IL was absorbed by the Aston
Trust Company he was made the general
manager OF the American Newspaper
Supply Company. Manhattan. He was a
member OF Bravura Council, No. 8. Royal
Arcanum. The funeral will be held In the
Central Congregational Church tomorrow
afternoon. The burial will be In Green
wood Cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
GALSTON RECITAL PLEASING
Young Pianist Shows Skill in
Classical Selections.

Gottfried Galston gave his second piano.
forte recital yesterday afternoon in
Aeolian Hall before a large audience.
Mr.. Galston> at his previous appearance
proved himself to be a pianist Of sincere
'musicianship and fine technical powers.
and that impression he deepened yester-
day.
There were times when his tone seemed
a little dry. and In the Chopin numbers
especially In the Prelude in d fiat major.
No. Is, and In the Balade In d minor. his
force surpassed his delicacy Of treatment.
but on the whole. and especially In the
Bach Chaconne arranged by Busoni. and
the Schumann Sonata in minor. Op. %.
his reading was broad In style and album
dant in poetic feeling.
There was delicacy. too. in his playing
OF the Brahms Valse. Op. 80, though the
Cbopin numbers were less satisfactorily
tnterpfeted. II was. IN short, In the more
classic selections that Mr.. Galston was
AZ his. best, a virtue not usually shared
bv the younger pianists OF to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
THEATRICAL NOTES.

ValI Valli is the most recent acquisi-
ton TO the cast supporting Weber and
Fields in "Roly Poly" and without the
Law" Contracts were signed yesterday
nv which the actress was engaged to
make her appearance in part now being
written into the plays for her. She VIII
play I'm scenes opposite Clifton Crawford,
the two new players making their ap-
pearanccs with the company during
Christmas week.
r. C. Knowles will give his travel lect-
ure on the subject of Austria, instead Of
Turkey, as previously announced, at the
Lyric Theatre Sunday evening.
THE Glassblowers," John Philip Sousas
new light opera, which John Cort will
produce, will 10 into rehearsal Monday
morning.
Alice Yorke. Charlotte Greenwood and
Sydney Grant have been added to the
cast OF 1.-THE Man with Three Wives,
the new Franz Lehar opera. which the
Shuberts will produce shortly
A professional matinee of The Yellow
Jacket" will be given at the Fulton The
atre this afternoon.
Lillian Lorraine, who will appear at
Hammerste!n's Victoria next week. has
been selected by the officials OF the pub
licity committee OF the Panama-Pacifc
Exposition Of 1914 to pose for the official
poster used to advertise the exposition.
She will pose for George Romans, who
will execute the design.
George Barnum and Frank Weston have
been engaged for tho presentation Of Ills
Wife by His Side" which will be pro-
duced on Monday evening, December q.
under the auspices OF the National Fed
Grafton OF Theatre Clubs.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. author
of "Racketty-Packetty House," the play
which will open the new Childrens The
atre, and Mrs James Speyer attended re-
hearsals OF the new play yesterday. An
invitation view OF the playhouse will be
given on Saturday afternoon, December
q.
Edmund Breese has been engaged by
Werba & Leuscher for appearance in the
leading part In Tho Master Mind" a
modern play by Daniel ID. Carter, which
the managers will produce after the holt
days.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has accepted
an invitation to speak before the League
for Political Education at tho Hudson
Theatre on Monday afternoon at
o'clock. His subject will be Our Bet
ters"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
CATHOLICS FOR CLEAN PLAYS
Cardinal Farley Heads Movement for
Uplift of Stage.

Cardinal Farley will preside at a meet
ing OF Catholics to be held wednesday
for the purpose OF forming an organiza-
ton that will demand and support plays
q, clean morality upon the American
stage. The committees appointed at the
meeting will include representatives from
associations of men az well as women,
and this nucleus will extend It's influence
later into all parish circles. calling at
tention TO the necessity OF discrimination
with regard to popular amusements. The
national committee will grow by the con-
solidation of circles in various cities.
Catholics in st. Louis, New Orleans and
Chicago have sanctioned the movement.
All associations desiring representation
at next Wednesdays meeting. which will
be held at Cardinal Farey's home, No.
I52 Madison avenue. at p. m. should
address the chairman, Catholic Theatre
Movement, Metropolitan Life Building,
No. Madison avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
APH|LHARMON|CCONCERT|
A Novelty by Dvorak and CIar,
met Music by DebuSsy.

There were two novelties. so far as
New York's concert patrons are con-
cerned, on the programme of the concert
given by the Philharmonic Society at
Carnegie Hall last night, which will be
repeated at the afternoon concert to-day
The second. a rhapsody for orchestra
and clarinet. was announced as a frst
performance In America, an error due
TO an oversight for which 1t would be
churlish to hold anybody in particular
responsible. least of all Mr.. Stransky,
who. like most European musicians
whose so1ourn in this country has been
brief. lives In blissful ignorance of what
has been going on in what the German
critics speak of generally as the land
Of dollars" when they speak Of it at all.
the production of the compositions of all
the orchestral composers beginning with
List, except the priests who preach
once at the annual German festival at
Schaffhausen or some other great centre
of art-preach once and then lapse into
inoccuous desuetude-men like Nihsch
and Gericke might tell their countrymen.
No doubt they have; but there Is no
evidence yet that their words have
been needed However. the question
OF primacy, so far as Debussys
Rhapsody Is concerned, In not OF large i'm
portance 1t was played about year
ago at a Longy concert in Boston, where
Debussy's music is become a cult 1t was
played last night because the Philhar-
monte Society possesses clarinetlst or
excellent technical attachments In the
person OF Mr.. Henri Leon lie Roy, who
like the best OF woodward Instrumental
lists OF recent years, came out or the
French school. II the purpose OF Mr.. lie
Roy and Mr. Stransky had been 10 dis
close the individual qualities OF the IN
strument, one Of the old-fashioned works
by Won Weber, who, encouraged by the
father OF the pianist BaerInann the lat
ter stu an active figure in Boston'o mu-
steal life) lifted the instrument into prom
inence. would have served his purposes
better. The music would have sounded
old fashioned, but It would have been
at least nearer the appreciation or the
audience than that OF Debussy. which
was wholly In the Frenchman's sublimlt7
ed vein in which most things which those
who are still neophytes so far as the
modern Gaelic mysteries are concerned
long for. such as straightforward melody
and emotional harmony. are absent. There
was little opportunity TO learn anything
about the clarinet's marvellous capacity
for song.
The other novelty was serenade Tor
strings by Dvorak, an extremely naive
composition, filled with the mere pretu-
nesses which the most Ingenious mu-
stefan Of the last generation dropped into
often because the faculty OF self
criticism was left out OF his mental
makeup. Dainty music. this serenade.
which. so far as We can recall was never
put on a programme before by New
York conductor. Orchestra and conductor
reappeared In their real dignity and
puissance with the familiar music-the
first Of Bizet's "E'Aresienne" suites and
Tschaikowsky's symphony in f minor.
H T.. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
WHAT is GOING ON TO-DAY.

Free admission 20 the American Museum Of
Natural History. the New YORK HooIoslcal
Park and the Van Cortlandt PARK Museum'
six-day bicycle race. Madison Square Gar
den.
Luncheon for Baroness Bertha Won suttner,
OF Austria, Sherry's afternoon.
Meeting OF the woman's Democratic Club
Waldorf Astoria, ,. m
Performance Of Cinderella under the au,
snices of the Department OF Physical
Tducation OF Teachers College, OF Co
mmbla University for the benent OF tne
seaside Home for Crippled Children at
Arverne, Long Island Hudson Iheatre'
80 p. m.
Nearing OF the New York Probation Asso-
citation No. 105 East 22d street p m
Public lecture under the auspices OF the
New York University Forum, by arthur
Woods. ex-Deputy Commissioner OF 10,
lice on '.The control OF Vice and crime.
Jndson Memorial Building. Washing ton
Square South, p m.
Reception and dinner OF the America COM
uittee for the Celebration OF the one
Hundredth Anniversary Of Peace Among
English Speaking People. for James Bryce
retiring British Ambassador. Hotel Aston
D. M. 49,
Dinner Of the North western University
Alumni, Waldorf Astoria, I .. m.
Dinper Of the Representatives Club OF New
York. Louis Martins, y. m.
Address by Alexander 7. Van Laer, ~, a;
IN "An,efIcan Painters" al meeting OF
p. m.
Meeting OF the New York section of the
American Chemical Society, Rumforo man.
No 80 East 4Ist street $40 =. m.
way Engineer OF Illinois, on "SoncTele
uighway Bridges" Engineering Building
Broadway and 11sth street, $3.50 p. m
Celebration OF the surviving veterans OF
sary OF the battle Of Frederckburg. 1852.
e9th regiment armory, No 6S Lexing-
ton avenue, $50 p. m.
Dinner OF the Rochester College Alumni
association. Park Avenue Hotel. evening
r,,sh nIays for the benefit Of the Home
III rift Association, Colony Club, p IN.
,,a.s meeting of the Housewives League,
" sssembly room. OF the Metropolitan LIE
Building. 2;SO p. m.
Public lectures OF the Board OF Edueaton,
High school 59th street and Tenth ave-
nue.. beautiful Ireland, Miss Kathleen
Mathew Wadleigh hign s sGaIowor inv.
.Strtfe 'rhe silver Box Justice" j. O.
Csrter Troop; Public school IA. No. 225
East 9th street, fsrh SanaSo a. Edts.yS
pnrritt. Public School II. attn street, west
Of Eighth avenue. Travels IN PATAGONIA.
Barnum Brown; Public ,, sem nTSa o" sps D
american and Philippine Wars Henry II;
Constantine. Public school 49, NO SzV
East goth street. care OF the SICK az az
SStb street east OF first avenue, ks
3ieskinder." Mrs. Caroline X. Goldberg;
Public school 80. l41th street, west Of
Con. public school 90. Avenue \ and East
SD street, 'Argentina Our I,, Sister s6rd re.
public of the southS c: Lofins 13 MaSs;
worth avenue. THE Currency and SOUND
BANKING system" Dr. Eugene F. Agser;
public School I67, ST. Nicholas avenue ana
ioTth street "Constantinople. DR.. Ha-
nbsei Constantin: Public School 100. SUI
foIk and Rlvington streets. Aoraham
lincoln" DR., Jacob Z: Price. T. M, =, a,
Hall No All East Broadway. Welfare
Work in Stores and Factories Dr. Ed
ward Ewing Pratt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
McKim. Mead & White. The formal

McKim. Mead e. White. The formal
presentation will be made to-day in the
assembly hall Of the New York Hlstori-
cal Society, Central Park West and nth
street. where the National Institute and
the American Academy Of Arts and Let
tiers will have annual joint public sessions
this morning and afternoon.
The medal is awarded i'm a different
branch each year. and on its first presen-
taticn. four years ago. went to the late
Augustus St Gaudens for sculpture. Tho
other medals went to James Ford Rhodes
for history and James Whitcomb Riley
for poetry. Next years award will be for
drama.
The following officers were elected last
night for the ensuing year: Brander Mat
thews, president: Arthur Whiting. Hamlin
Garland, Robert Underwood Johnson.
Hamilton Wright Mabie, Harrison S. Nor
ris and Jesse Lynch Williams, vice-presi-
dents; Henry Dwight Sedgwick secre-
tary, and Samuel Isham. treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
MANY SEE "MAGIC FLUTE"
Mozart's Opera Sung at the
METROPOLITAN.

The continued popularity OF Mr.. Gatti-
Casazza's production OF Mozsrt's DIE
Zauberf0te," as evinced by the size OF
last nights audience at the Metropolitan
Opera House. must be OF good omen TO
encouragement TO Mr. Gatu himself in
the presentation OF works other than
those OF mere popular appeal.
II is true that the reclame given 10
the setting of the work. the statement
that neither the Century Theatre nor the
Hippodrome has seen mise-en-scene
more sumptuous or stage management
more skilfully managed. the unusual cast
gathered together for its performance,
must all have had their effect with the
public, but the fact remains that the
music has been enjoyed for It's own sake,
and the interest OF the audiences has been
sustained and constant.
1t is true that not all of the present
production is what might be wished for;
another singer than Miss Parks might
well be chosen for the Queen Of the
Night: probably Miss Hempel will be upon
her arrival: two Of the Three Ladies are
wofully ignorant OF the importance Of
legato In Nozart's music; and last night
Mr.. Lankow was AFFLICTED with bad cold
But Miss Destinn's Pamins. Mr.. Steaks
Sarastro, Mr.. Griswod's Sprecher. Mr..
Gorltz's Papageno, Mr. Reisss Mono
stratos. and Miss Aliens Papagena are
all representations OF extraordinary merit,
while Mr.. Hertz shows in the orchestral
reading an unwonted delicacy OF interpre-
ia ton. High praise, too, should go TO
Mr.. Siedel, for the smoothness and ra-
pidity with which the scenic changes
were made.
Truly, In a world of Puccini, Mascagni
and Leoncavallo, Die Zauberfi0te" IS q
spring Of Tefreshment indebted!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-13
GRACIE'S WILL INVALID
Bore Only One Signature
Widow Made Administrative.
[Trom dc TrIhune Bureau. ]

Washington. Dec. 1.-THE will OF Colo
mel Archibald Oracle, survivor OF the
Titanic disaster, who died In New YORK
recently, dated December Is. 1903. was
flied I'm the Probate Court to-day. but
owing to the fact that it bore the sig
nature OF only one witness It was de-
clared invalid under the laws of the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
Because the will was invaldated by an
oversight on Colonel Gracies part the ad-
minlstration of his estate will be CON
Quoted as though he had died intestate
Letters OF administration on the estate
were issued 10 his widow. Mrs. Constance
Setback Oracle. and II was announced by
the court that she will also be appointed
guardian Of Miss Edith Temple Oracle.
the only child