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Show If a man would know himself thoroughly he hasn't much time to waste in trying to find out things about bis neighbor. People with real troubles never NERVOUS DEBILITY Ghastly Foreign Pun. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the noted American clubwoman, has been received abroad by royalty, and some of the foreign papers have the te merity to declare that she has a proverbial right to look at a king ad-larlis- e them. WHO SHE WAS SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PiNKHAAl A Ilis Authority Will tc Equal to That Exercised Formerly by General Wood. Cuba Will Have the Semblance of an Autonomous Government, and Will Be Represented in Washington By a Minister Con- And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the Panic of 73 Caused It to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. This remarkable woman, whoso maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February Uth, 1819, coming from a pood old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert ,A AVJ VUj VW m W- V - V,,. restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighljors was equally good for the women of the whole world. The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots ami herbs were steeped on the stove, .gradually filling a gross of bottles. Thcn camo the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine, now ealled Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured, until today Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annually in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself. During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice and there were thousands received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and y these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of womans ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the j I I self-advertisin- g, QS&AL and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkhara, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, natures own remedies calling in a physician only in specially nrgent cases. By tradition and experience many of them gained a wonderful knowledge of the curative properties of the various roots and herbs. Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over disease She maintained that just as nature so bountifully provides in the harvest-field- s and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds ; so, if we but take the pains to find them, in the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies ex pressly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body, and world. it was her pleasure to search these out, With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her and prepare simple and effective medithe present Mrs. cines for her own family and friends, daughter-in-lawas carefully instructed Chief of these was a rare combina- Pinkham. She hard-woknowledge, and tion of the choicest medicinal roots in all her she assisted for her in her vast years and herbs found best adapted for the correspondence. cure of the ills and weaknesses pecuTo her hands naturally fell the s liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. friends and neighbors learned direction of the work when its originathat her compound relieved and cured tor passed away. For nearly twenty-fiv- e and it became quite popular among years she has continued it, and them. nothing in the work shows when the All this so far was done freely, with- first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, out money and without price, as a now the mother of a large family, took labor of love. some as With women it up. But in 1873 the financial crisis struck capable as herself, assistants, Mrs. the present Lynn. Its length and severity were too Pinkham continues this great work, and much for the large real estate interests from the office of no other of the Pinkham family, as this class probably have so many women been adperson of business suffered most from vised how to regain health. Sick wofearful depression, so when the Centen- men, this advice is Yours for Health-freelnial year dawned it found their propgiven if you only write to ask erty swept away. Some other source for it. of income had to be found. s Such is the history of Lydia E. At this point Lydia E. Pinkhams ; made Vegetable Compound Vegetable Compound was made known from simple roots and herbs ; the one to the world. great medicine for womens ailments, The three sons and the daughter, and the fitting monument to the noble with their mother, combined force to woman whose name it bears. to-da- w, n Pink-ham- y Pink-ham- suls Will Remain. Washington.' Charles Governor E. Magoon will exercise in Oulu all the power which was vested in General Leonard Wood when lie ruled Cuba under the till of military governor. Governor .Magoon will be known as the provisional governor, but his authority will be plenary and lie will be subject only to the orders of the president and secretary of war. Cuba will have the semblance of an autonomous government and the United States will continue to be represented In Havana by an American minister and the consuls will continue at their posts. It is officially stated that there has been and will be no subversion of the Cuban constitution. By incorporating the Platt amendment into the constitution. Cuba provided for just such an emergency as lias arisen and for the United States to intervene and restore order, consequently, it is said, Cuba is still to be governed by constitutional means and by machinery such as is provided in any comma nity where martial law is necessary, During the occupancy of Cuba it is not expected that the Cuban congress In fact, will exercise a ay power.there is no method by which it can be assembled, unless Governor Magoon shall deem such action necessary to prepare the way for another election. Such a meeting is not necessary, for the provisional governor by decree may perform all functions looking to of the civil govthe ernment of Cuba. - Scranton Woman Telia How Dr. William' Pink PiLs Made Her Well and Strong. Nervous debility is tho common n.imo for vvhat the doctors term tirutuMheiiia, It is chameteri.ed by mental dtq.n fits of tho blues," or Iom of energy and spirits. The imtieut M.yei become dull, tln pink fades from the cheeks, the memory lecoines defective m) that it is difiicult to recall dates and names at will. &unc of these symptoms ouly may be present or all of them. The remedy lies iu toning up the nervous system aud there i no medicine la tter adapted for (his puruiMj than Dr. Williams Pink Fills. Mrs. Jane J. Davies, of No. 311 War-re- u street, Scranton, Fa., say: Some been mo I ago reduced iu years greatly health und strength and my nervous system became so debilitated that I felt wretched. I could not tcf-- t or sleep well at night and woke up ns weary and languid in the morning ns I was when I went to bed. My head ached iu the morning and often there was a pain in my right side which was worse when I sat down. My nerves were on edge nil the time, every little iuum lathered me and I was generally mi.M table. Then I decided to try DrWilliams Fink Fills for Pale People, as my husband bad taken them with good results, and tliev did wonders for me. Now I have no'tnoro pain iu my side, no more headaches, I sleep well and feel strong and able to do my work." Dr. Williams Fink Fills cured Mrs. Davies and they can do just as much for other weak, juile, ailing men or women who are slipping info a luqteless decline. They strike straight at the root of all common diseases caused by poor and impoverished blond. Dr. Williams Fink Fills are sold by nil druggists, or will be sent M.tni, on receipt, of price, 30 cents per mix, six iHixe.s for by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. New Use for Gramophone. Drilling native Malay levies by word of command emitted from a gramophone is the latest instance of modern Even the Zulu can now ingenuity. hear his own native songs and war dances from records made by a London company, who have sold more than 20 machines to swarthy warrior of chiefs in South Africa. Folk-songthe Pygmies were recently procured, and a machine has been dispatched to Lapland for the purpose, if possible, of procuring Eskimo s folk-song- There is an altar society in Brooklyn composed of eight policemen. The members contribute a certain amount every month which pays for lights and flowers on an altar of perpetual . PLANNING FOR ANNEXATION. W. L. DOUGLAS Efforts Being Made to Organize Good Government League of Cuba. w BEST IN THE WORLD of an The Havana. tf.L.Doug!as $4 Gilt Edge line preliminaries organization called the Good Govern- csnnotbsequalledatanyprica f: To Shoe Dealert : ment League of Cuba were begun on W. L. Douglas Jobof bing House Is tbe most Sunday afternoon at a meeting complete in this country Send for Catalog Americans, Cubans and others, at which resolutions were passed to the effect that the purpose of the association should be the promoting by all 3.50 &3.00 Shoe legitimate means the establishment and maintenance of a permanent, stable and lawful government, competent to administer justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and insure the blessings of liberty to all the inhabitants of the FAITH IN CUBAN PEOPLE. -- General Ruiz Rivera Believes All Will Yet Be Well. To me it has yet to be New York. proved that the Cubans are incapable of is the manner in which General Ruiz Rivera has expressed his confidence in the ability of his people to administer successfully the affairs of the island republic self-governme- when the American government has completed the restoration of peace. He hopes to assist the provisional government in its work. 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