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Show Ill SUCH PAIN - WOMAN TORE EL Lydia E. PinkComjwund has 'certainly done me a lot of good. I first heard of it when I was a girl and I always said that if I ever had female trouble I would - Installment 20 Washingtons Political Creed My political creed " he said be vise hj the choice of doiexitj is to sup port them like genilehletTw hile thev are our representatn es ' give them competent powers for all federal pur take it I suffered from , P8es- support them in the due exer thereof, and Jastlj, to compel organic inflamma- ,cise close attendance in congress tion and would have them their during delegation , : when I would spells But his thoughts took wider be in such pain that scope I would tear my as the months passed; and nothing them more than his western clothes. .One day got tha quickened trip. see what the to in matter was neighbors He sahow much of the Mure but they coaid not help me. My first traveled with those slow wagon trains E. was for Pinkhams Lydia thought of realized Vegetable Compound and I sent my hus- howImmigrants into they were leaving behind them band out for it and took it until I was enthe rHers that ran to the old ports tirely cured. I am a woman of perfect at the sea and going down into the and health and health happiness my valleys whose outlet was the great came from Lydia E. Pinkhams medicine.' You may rest assured that I do hlghwat of the Mississippi' and the ports of the gulf; how the great ridge j I can to recommend your wonderful Mrs, Fred Of the Allegfianies- - lay piled between medicine to my fr.ends. them and. the older seats of settle- Stone, Route No. 3, Malone. N. Y. ment, with only here and there a gap The succ? of Lydia E. Pinkhams to let a road through, only here and roots from made Vegetable Compound, there two rivers llng close enough and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be at their sources to link the east with women confidence by used with perfect the west; and the likelihood of a sepawho suffer from displacements, ration between the two populations irregulari ti es, to him as obvious as the tilt of seemed n bearing-dowperiodic pe ins, backache, the mountains upon either slope feelir.g.flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, Words of Wisdom. . or nervous prostration. Lydia E. PinkThere la nothing which blndsKone hams Vegetable Compound is the stancountry or one state to another but dard remedy for female ills. Interest. he said Withotft this ceThe New Zealand hen is an expert ment the western inhabitants, . who tnore than rat killer. probablyill be composed In a great degree of. foreigners, can Vr. Winslow Soothing Syrup for Chlldrea have no prdilectiort for us, and a t teething. aoftAD tii gam, relnee commercial connection fs the only tie psin.cufes wind eo ie.Zio bottle. we cqjYnave upon them terP ?et,lefs. Jip declared, woman' The of fashion considers it s ' ,.e feat be to able to wear small'' as it were resb from (he Ohio, sfand i great upon a pivot. The touch tboes. of a feather would turn them any way down the Mississippi to join their Young America Getting'wise. interests with those of the Spaniard, Procrastination the thief or back to the mountain roads. and the time." X, fat the eastern streams, to is he the fellow, pa, who takes headwaters make for a new allegiance themselves away the years from a woman's " in the east. Hr was glad to see the Spaniard so Some Girls Do, as to close the Mississippi Impolitic Vonder why all the girls in our agatnht .the commerce offered him, and t titter whenever they see me. I think your fiancee passes your hoped that Things might stand so until there shouldhave been a little time love letters around, my boy. allowed to open and make easy the ways "between the' Atlantic states and Worlds Saddest Sight, the western territory. The saddest sight in all the world Is To Open the Potomac. not a grave of the dead, grievous as The opening of the upper reaches that might be, but is a grave of the liv- of the Potomac to navigation had long ing humanity sepulchred while yet been a favorite with Washingobject alive. Frances E. Willard. ton; now it seemed nothing less than a necessity. Not the Way. It had been part of the original An advanced wpman tells the scheme of the old Ohio company to New York Tribune that "women are use this means of winning a way for headed straight for trousers. We commerce through the mountains. beg to inform the dear girl that the had been taken more than twenSteps manner of approach must be reversed ty years ago to act in the matter before the effort can be successful. through private subscription; and acLouisville Courier-Journative measures for securing the necessary legislation from the Assemblies of Virginia and Maryland were still Interesting Beginning. A fair graduate was conversing with In coarse when Washington was calla young gentleman who . had - been ed to Cambridge and revolution drew presented to her after the commencemens minds Imperatively off from the ment exercises. business,-- "Well, she sighed happily, I am For an Empires Trade. an A.-aown Of course you have a In 1770 Washington had written to , degree? Jefferson of the project as a means' of Yes, he replied, but 1 am only 'opening a channel for the extensive a B. trade of a rising empire;" now the The fair grad pondered. The empire of which he had had a vision " gree was puzzling. was no longer Britains, but America's Why, what la that? she asked. own, and it was become a matter of Bachelor, he said. exigent political necessity to keep that western country against estrangement, winning It by commerce and BRAIN CLOUDED Clears Up on Chang to Proper Food. close sympathy to Join itself with the old ertonlee In building up la free comThe brain- cannot work with clear- pany of united states upon the great ness and accuracy, it the food taken la continent. Already the west was astir lor the hot fully digested, but is retained In of new states. formation tiie stomach to ferment and form had taken the broad and Virginia poisonous gases, etc. A dull, clouded of her duty that Washview national brain is likely to be the result. himself held, and had ceded to A Mich, lady relates her experience ington all her ancient in changing her food habits, and re- the confederation lands that to lay northwest the claims sults are very interesting: for' her'riverT ttre reserving Ohio of !A steady diet of rich; greasy foods stretched that such as sausage, buckwheat cakes and self only the fair region her so on, finally broke down a stomach south of that great stream, from to the Mississippi. mountains own and nerves that, by inheritance, were North Carolinas Settlors Defiant. sound and strong, and medicine did North Carolina" would have ceded no apparent good In the way of relief. th beyond western lands her My brain was clouded and dull and been ' bad they mountains, also, I wkg suffering from a case of constiIlk unclaimed. and empty pation that defied all remedies used. that lay vast j territory The Road to Wellville, in some the belond the Ohio. But for many a year providential way, fell Into my hands, had been crossing the mounand may Heavens richest blessings settlers those fertile valleys, and Into fall on the man who was inspired to tains both thii region and that which Virrite it. still kept showed many a clear I followed directions carefully, the ginia and many a rude hamlet now lug Physical culture and all, using Grape-Nut- s where frontiersmen were makhardy r.'ittj aagar and cream, leaving ing a new home tor civilization. 05 cat, pastry and hot biscuit entirely Rather than be handed over to conut of my bill of fare. The result gress, to be disposed of by an authorI am in perfect health once more. which n one else was bound to I never realize I have nerves, and ity North Carolinas western setobey. stomach and bowels are in fine tlers declared they would form a condition. My brain Is perfectly clear state of their own, and North Carolina ajuLlam enjoying that state of health had to recall her gift of their lands to hirh God' Intended his creature the confederation before their plans chould of' defiance could he checked and dekave, by giving proper attention to feated. food. Name given by Poets: Virginia found her own frontiersn tattle Creek. Mich. Read "Th. men no less ready to take the toitla- Read to Yellvllie in pkga. "There's a reason T interest, " A Wrt W1-Closes Lower MississippL Ep3ia v inifii Tke fram (lure States 4 till 1 kuul Spain offered the United inw, trade at 'her ports, but refised to - - the-w-e- st; Hiflnrni-lion.aliay- -- X' " Nx . l. ' - fc-- y .gnjoy-niidwh- all-mi- kb ght cir - r--oS v-Bl- e, i, !. then th probWift ti to gf a tuiuhle Wsnts General Conference. solve jirrarnt Out Storp m the placr It was evident that two states w ers uth q oration We do mrtv not t noush to decide the questions u and look through. dy rue u or Bubmitted to them leins ivania, at Thief or (our dollars upward. least must be consulted before the full line of trade thev sought could be drawn from the bead waters of the Ohio tt the headwaters of the Poto-hw- i 7 and if three states w bra to con suit upon questions of trade which eotict rued the whole continent why not iuore be invited, and the eopfercnce be made generalIf we had tyo trials wo could rot jRuch was the tram of suggestlo at und then fore we prove ran in certainly,-thWashington 1 Mnind. and which the com miss ion era could Jtot Bland for any thing. ealritsT home w nhtliem A Tour of Inspection. Every sign of the time served to deepen Its significance for S ashing-toU Pizdchaxns V egetabls Compound. 7 They will get married A Testifies She Wat Restored to Health by Lydia ! AnJ HER CLOTHES Malone, N.Y., hams Vegetable 1 of the commission; hut conference was not confined to their formal bpssions, and hts counsel entered into rf - grant them the use of the loer courses oMhe Mississippi, JesterrU tonal aggression should be pushed too shrewdly in that quarter; . and news reached the settlers hesond the mountains, in the far counties of North Carolina and Virginia, that Mr, Jay, the Confederations secretary for, foreign affairs, had proposed to- the congress to jield the navigation of the Mississippi for a generation in exchange for trade on the- seas They flath declared they would givb themselves, and iheir lands too,' Into the hands of England again rather than submit to be so robbed, cramped and deserted The New England States, on their part, threatened to withdraw from the Confederation if treaties were to be made to wait upon the assent .of. frontiersmen on the far Mississippi The situation wus full of menace of no ordinary sort. It could protit the Confederation little that great stales like Virginia and New York had grown magnanimous, and were endowing thGonfederatlou with vast gifts or tepsftory ijn the west, if such gifts wert1 but to iooBen silll further the ajTOady slackened bonds of the comnpcm government, leaving settlers pa' the unclaimed lands no allegiance they could respect. Without a national government spirited and strong .enough to frame poliwe cies and command obedience, shall never establish a national character or be considered as on a respectable footing by the powers of Europe," Washington had said frnjn the first Washington Urge vinion. He had made a TnosJ: Solemn appeal to the states in his Iasi circula? to them, ere he resigned his commission, urging thetp to strengthen tjje pqwers of congress,, put faction and jealousy away, and make sure of 'an indissoluble union under one federal head. An option is still left to the United States of America, he had told them, with all his plalft and stately 'elo quence; it Is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct." whether they will be respectable and prosper- ouR.orcontenipUbleand miserable, as a nation- .- This is the time of Iheir political probation. The hazards of that probation had been a burden upon his heart through all the toll of the Revolution, and now it seemed as if the states must needs make every evil choice In meeting them. Congress could not so much as carry out the provisions of the treaty of peace, for its commissioners had made promises in the name of the states which the states would not redeem. England Breaks Her Agreement, England consequently refused to keep her part of the agreement and She relinquish the western posts. levied commercial war against the country, besides, without fear of reprisal; for congress had no poster to regulate trade, and the states were too Jealous of each other to In this or any other matter, English statesmen had consented to give up the colonies, and recognize their Independence as a nation, rather than face any longer the world'-Iarms; hut they now looked to aee them presently drop back into tbelr hands again, out of sheer helplessness and hopeless division In counsel; and there were observant men in America who deemed, the thing possible, though it brought an Intolerable fire Into tbelr blood to think of 1L In Financial Straits. Other nations, too, were fast conceiving a like oontempt tor the Con" federation. It was making no provision tor the payment of the vast sums of money It had borrowed abroad. In France and Holland and Spain and it could not make any. It could only ask the states for money, and must count Itself fortunate to get enough to pay even the Interest on its debt. It was this that foreign outs were flndingout, that the Confederation was a mere government of supplication. as Randolph had dubbed 11; and Its credit broke ntterly down. Frenchman and Spaniard alike .would only have laughed ta contemptuous . derision to see the whole fabric go to pieces, and were beginning to interest themselves with surmises as to what plunder it wduld afford. Resort to Irredeemable Paper. The states which lay neighbors to each other were embroiled In boundary disputes, and were fallen to levying duties on each other's commerce. They were individually hi debt, besides, and were many of them resorting to issues of irredeemable paper monVy to relieve themselves of the in evitable taxation that mast sooner or r pay their reckonings. Ve are either a united people, or we are not so. cried Washington. If the former, let us in all matters Of general concern act as a nation which has a national character to support; If we are not, let us no longer act a As the farce by pretending to it. months passed it began to look as If the farce might be turned into a trag- - n 1 edy. Washington The troubles of the country, though he filled his letters with them and wrung his heart for phrases of protest and persuasion that would tell effect ually in ilu tha dctfriabor of working out nf a roused amt united opinion, though he doomed thorn j!ts-iato himwlf, and know his own f,iuie in xl anger' to bo undone b them ,iul not break the Mtmdv self possession of ashingtons law at Mount Yt rnou Us the pnikets of letters that daily come for him, from all pal 8 of the world," exclaimed ail Engll8h Mior, but it was not till ho had trutrh (lJn keep. par with his correspondence unassisted for a ear and a hdf that he employed a secretary to- - help him "IeUi:tH of -- friendship require no study, lie wrote to General" Knot; "the coiniuunications are easi, und allow am s.are ex;ected and made This is not the case with those that require researches, consideration, recollection and the d knows what to pretent error, and to answer the ends for which they are written" He grew almost docile, nevertheless, under the gratuitous task of courtesy thrust ii(in him His gallantry, bred in him since a boy.rthe sense of duty to wh'ch lie was born. Ills feeling that what he had done had in some sort committed him to serve his countrymen and his friends everywhere, though it were only In answering questions disposed him to sacrifice his comfort and his privacy to every one who had the slightest claim upon his attention. Submlta to the Painters. even his por found & l our'-cUc- s al last By Just before quitting the army he had ridden upon a tour of Inspection into the valley of the Mohawk. .where , a natural wav, like this of the ran from the ""northern settlements into the west He knew that the question of joining the Potomac with the Ohio wHajnit one item of h policy which ail the states must consider and settle nothing less than the policy. which must make them an empire or doom them to remain a weak and petty confederacy. The comtiiissloners did not put all that they had heard at Mdunt Vernon Into their reports to their respective assemblies Trade Movement Spreads.. They recommended only that, besides cooperating with each other and with Pennsylvania In opening a wav to the western waters, Virginia and Maryland should adopt a uniform system of duttes and of bommei'ctal regulations, and should establish rnlee regarding their currency. Itsel! But the Maryland, assembly went further. It presently Informed thq Virginia legislature thkt it bad not only adopted the measures recommended by the commissioners, but thought Ij, wise htore. Delaware iu'gft! lo be eAmqlt-ed- , w 1th a view to carrying a rtralghi enter course,. by canal, from Chesapeake bay to the Delaware river; and. rince conference could do no harm and bind nobody, it would be as well to invite all the states to cotfes with them, for the questions Involved seemed far reaching enough to Justify Gov It, if not to make It necessary erfior Bowdoln of Massachuse'ti had that very year urged hla legislature to invite a general convention of th states in the lnterest of trade. The whole country waa in a tangle of disagreement about granting to congress tba power to lay Imposts; Gardoqul, it was rumored, was Insisting, foe Rpaln, upon closing the Mississippi;. twas evident enough conference was needed. Every thoughtful man might well pray that It would bring peace and accommodation. When Maryland's suggestion was read in the Virginian assembly, tbere' was prompt acquiescence. Virginia asked all the states of the Union (January, 1786) to send delegates to a general conference to b held at Annapolis on tte first Monday In September, to consider and recommend such additions to the powers of congress aa might conduce to a better regulation Poto-hike- 1 drinking Good Tea. II owlet I n This fine Tew is th first picking of Japan's best Tea and has that rich, delic fotis flavor which critical Tea drinkers so much enoy. Coupons for Rogers Fine Silverware tn every package. 1 There tiro but two classes In tlio aw'd tfie horn gettei and the born -- Rivers. PARCEL POST ORDERS SOLICITED a a - i unl-tu- y, he laugheg, writing to Francis "1 am so hackneyed to th; touches of the palnterTs pencil that 1 am now altogether at tbelr beck; and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. . . . At first I was as impatient at the request, and as restlve under the operation, us a colt is of the saddle. The next time I submitted very reluctantly, but with less flouncing. Now no dray horse moves llop-kinso- - - more. readily-t- o to the painters chair.' Besides the failure of the public credit, R concerned Washington to note the fact that, though he kept a hundred cows, he was obliged to buy butter for his innumerable guests. He saw to it that there should be at least a very definite and efficient government upon his own estkta, and. when there was need, put his own hand to the work. He often works with his men himself strips off his coat and labors like a common man, measures with his own hands every bit of building or construction that Is shows a great going forward,-an- d turn for mechanics, one of his guests noted, amidst comments on his great-nesf- i and hla gracious dignity. Unchanged by War. It was such constancy and candor and spirit in living that took the admiration of aU men alike upon the Instant; and his neighbors every day aw here the same strenuous and simple gentleman they had knowa before ever the war begaa. It was through Ibe opening of the Potomac, After all, the thing nearest his hand (hat a way was found to cure the country of Its mslsdy of weakness sod disorder. Washington had been chosen president of the Potomac company, that It might have the advantage both of hla name and of hit capacity In affairs; and he hjd gone upon a tour of Inspection, with the directors of the company, to the falls of the river in the summer of 1785, keeping steadily to the business be had come upon and tnslatlng upon being In. act s' private gesUemaa busy with his own affairs, despite the efforts made everywhere, he went to aee and to entertain him; and It presently, became evident even to the least sanguine Work was real that the ly to be carried through. Plan Ridiculed by Baltimore. , A visitor at Mount Vernon In the summer of 1785 found Washington quite pleased at the Ide of the Baltimore merchants laughing at him. and saying It was a ridiculous plan, and would never succeed. They begin now, says the general, to look a little serious about the matter, as they know It must hart their commerce amazingly. The scheme had shown its real consequence In the spring of that very year, when it brought commissioners from the two states that lay upon the river together in conference to devise plans of Commission at Mount Vernon Both Virginia and Maryland had appointed commissioners, and a meeting had been set for March, 1785, at Alexandria. For some reason the" Virginian Commissioners were not properly notified of the place and time of conThe meeting was held, ference. nevertheless, a minority of the 'Virginian commissioners being present and, as if to give it more the air of a cordial conference of neighbors, Washington Invited the .represents-liveof both states to adjourn from Alexandria to Mount Vernon. There they sat, hla guests, from Friday to Monday. Ha was not formally - of trade. Washington's Grave Charge. -- s - Send Postal Qgrd for Prise list KODAKS:: DEVELOPING AND FINISHING HpI equipped plant in llir viral. (Julrk work Pull line of Write mipplie expert lor caUloKiies uud drvolnplnit price ALT LAKK PHOTO SUPPLY CO Pi Mln ftiri-c- l Holt I akc Cltr bjr 11 THE FIVE SENSES. Johnny Grsiped the Idea After Delng Given a Hint by Teacher I A teacher was trying tohave hla pupils form some conception of the five senses, but one little chap failed, to grasp any Idea' of the lecture sayi the YoungstoSn .Telegram. "You know I am here, don't yout Johnnie?" Johnnie nodded assent Weil, bow do you know? I can see you y BxWtly ; there you haYa tba fltft Of the aenses.-seeinNow, you should close your eyes would yoS still - g.' know j am here! 1 "Yea, air. "And how would you know? With his face beaming with intelligence, Johnnie quickly responded! I know, teacher; I can smell, loo. There la more wickedness than igWhy Ha Complained. norance in the conduct of (he states, Farmer Hiram sold .butter to th or. In other words. In the 'conduct of those who have too much Intaence In village grocer aud took sugar In exthe government of them, Washington change. It seemed to Farmer . Hiram wrote hetly to Henry Lee, upon hear- after a while that th sugar he was ing to what lengths contempt of th getting .was abort weight So he went authority of congress bad been car- over to the grocery store to make a ried ; and until the curtain is complaint and the private views and aelf-laLook here, Mr. Jones, he said, principles upon which these men It teems to m you're giving me act are exposed to public notice, I hort weight sugar. have little hope of amendment without No," said Jones, in a dry voice, another convulsion. no, that cai't be, for la measuring Perhaps the conference at Annapo- out that sugar of yours I always use lis would withdraw tha curtain and a pound of your batter as a weight T' give the light leafe to work a puri-- with-draw- n, h ' fication; and tha Issue. He waited anxiously for x (TO BE CONTINUED.) - long-talked-- of . Womans Self-Contro- l. AnEnglistynan traveling through Ceylon describes In tbs London Tsl graph a startling experience that be fell hla- - hoetess at a dinner In Trim comaiee. The dthfier was excellent?, but whea It was about half over I was startled by hearing my hostess tell the native servant to place a bowl of milk on a deerskin near her chair. Although she spoke aa calmly as ! giving an ordinary order, I knew at one that there waa a snake some where In the room, for those eree turee prefer milk to anything else Aa a hasty movement might have meant certain death, we all sat like statues;, hut for all that, our eyw wero Inspecting every nook and cor ner of the room. However, It waa not until the milk waa placed on the deermldn that the snake appeared. And then, to our amazement, a large cobra uncoiled itself from my hostess ankle,' and glided toward th howl, where, of course, it Was immediately killed. Imagine the nerve of the woman, although she fainted when the snak) lay dead on the floor. How many could have' remained motionless un der the circumstances? " mmmt His Honor 8afs, - Chief Jastlce Isaac Rusell, of the court of special sessions, tells how he went-tth city ball to call on - the mayor on a rainy day, and ns he waa leaving the building he slipped and bumped all tha way down the aton steps. A man rushed up, helped him to hls feet and. naked. . "Is your hou-o- r hurt? No, replied the judge; my honor remains intact, hut my spine seems to be jarred. Kansas City Journal. Cow Swallow Dynamite. Four cows owned by Leon J. Myers of Carthage, N. Y., ate ten sticks of dynamite left in a pastuih by employees on highway work nearby. The cows apparently enjoyed the meal, as ail they left was a pile of c rumba The cow are still intact. Explained. Is that your ladder? "Sure! . It doesnt look Ilk yours. "Well, you aee. Its my stepladder.' -- Wllliama Purple Cow. Circumstantial Evidence. "Has Freddie . come home Bridget? Yes, mum. I , haven't seen him, hut the dog la' shivering and the cat hiding under the sofa." Chicago Ro , Ord-Ueral- Sign of Broadening .Mind. Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, at one of Sibyls All Right a her brilliant dinners in New York, Whom, do you consider the noct made an epigram upon eld maids fin de slecle girl in our set? s lYben an unmarried young woman, by all c SIbyr"Swnmergirl, said Mrs.- Guinneaa, Broiling, gets ta She gets oat of a hammock tI'JL : be twenty-five- . Ive often noticed tltt first directing the attention f ti she begins to tall old maids bachelor men to some otjsct la the -- - . 211." C J V Lit not a -- In forT peA-nIn for a pound, Is an old adRge," trait grdw ea E ii ,iy Life n f |
