Show J rFDUCHT'HB'Vfflr ’The TO FREEDOM Emperor of Rome Admired vCourege and Pluck of Caractacua the1 'One'tif the most 'unique captives over brought home to Rome by Julius ‘Caesar was Caractacua of the early Britons 'This great 'chief lost everything in fighting to drive out the ’Romans and was taken prisoner with his wife and children When brought before the Roman emperor the proud never j ruler of the primitive people showed the least fear H1b arms were Chained and the emperor roared to try to frighten Caractacus but the brave chief never so much as quaked 'Instead he looked the monarch in the eye and said "You fight to gain the whole world and to make everybody your slaves I fought' to keep my own land and for freedom" The great courage the chief showed finally touched the heart of the 'emperor and the ruler of the Romans resolved to see if Caractacus would be as brave when facing warriors On 'one Of the great holidays in Rome 'Caractacus was 'taken to the great r amphitheater where the popu-- ' lace gathered ‘He was told that if he could defeat the bold knight that would be sent against him he could go back to his home Caractacus fought as he never had before somefqr thing sweeter than his 'life was at of 'his wife and children Justice seemed to have tempered the 'metal of 'hJs 'weapons and when he struck the strong armor of his antagonist gave way before his fearful blows' The result was that Caractacus and his family returned to Britain and to happiness ‘They Saved His Life Does it pay to stop your motor car an accident and go back to see what has happened? Two young motorists on the south side believe it does With a green chauffeur these two boys were trying out a new model touring car They were sitting in the back seat when the greenhorn at the steering wheel gave it a twist and came within an ace of hitting an old man at a crossing The victim was so shocked that ‘he fell to the pavement and a crowd gathered in an inafter stant back the motorists decided that things looked bad but that they bad better go back and see whether the old party was killed Finding him all right but winded they took him for a nice ride around the parks So pleasant did they make it for him that when they took him home to his wife Looking he Introduced them as "The two young men who saved my’life” They are now thinking of applying tor Carnegie medals Garfield Tea liver in condition insuring a clear bead and good general health Drink before retiring The woman who doesn’t care who knows her age is never over twenty-fivWfnelow'e Soothing Byrap for Children teething softens the fruma reduces tnflamma lion allays pain cures wind colic 26c a bottle Mrs Some people are such sticklers for form that they expect Dame Fortune to remember their “at home’’ days Unsightly eruptions disappear after a course of tiartield Tea The man who steals our naturally under a cloud thunder The dyspeptic should choose fully what he chews carefully is care- QUARTER CENTURY BEFORE THE PUBUC J A Over Five Million Free Sample a Given Away Each Year Constant and Increasing Salem From Samplee Proves ths Genuine Merit o 4 The ALLEN’S FOOT-EA- Shake Into Your Shoes Allen’s the antiseptic powder lor ths leet Are yon a trifle sensitive about the also of your oboes Many people wear shoes a sizs smaller by shaking Allen's into them H swollen tired hat yon have tender feet Allen's gives IT Instant relief eta Do net 'Sold everywhere accept any snbsUtute pass TKIAI PAOtMOf sent by mall slA OMUK Powders Gray’s Sweet 5 ths medicine for FeTerUhilckljr Children by Dmnrlste everywhere Trinl 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SUCCESS 'y v '$ 5 creation of a Interesting tbe ernment to breed a The VI v ways new type U effort of the gov- or so since a is particularly suct’ey already appear measurably cessful The animal breeders of the were of agriculture department with tbe ago pressed some years splendid conformation Iqrge size and great oeauty of tbe big Orevy zebra which was presented to President Roosevelt by King Menellk of Abyssinia and whlcb found a borne at tbe National Zoological park at Washington The zebra was bred to donkeys and tbe resulting hybrids are apparently great successes a half dozen tbelr eolts and fillies now poking noses over tbe fences at visitors to tbe zoo So far as markings are concerned they show somewhat faint re mafked of the strongly At Magadl In ths East African iprotectorats Is wonderful deposit of productions black and stripes of tbe zebra soda a great commercial asset which will materially advance the prosperity stallion butwhite their parentage is evident of the British colony Magadi Is situated between the Monster extinct volas are however hardy appar cano Kilimanjaro and the escarpment which forma the boundary of the mali They ently and endure tbe climate of plateau The lake Is like a mirror and the great stretch ef alkali beda glistena Washington as well as tbe donkeys like an loch of the northern regions Tbe striking feature of tbe cross breeding la that tbe hybrids show a to the location being tbe proper one decided Improvement In otber respects OF SKYE QUEER although at one time no less than six over both parents In action conformattowns near Boston and one In Maine ion and disposition Tbe Orevy stall800 pounds end is 13V4 were claiming the honor of baring pos ion weighs sessed the original Baldwin tree Aa Lands high and while be Is a beauty It Is the surviving members of the be Is not particularly affectionateaver-on tbs Butters family believe tbey should not contrary be Is vicious The be Ignored as it was a Butters who age weight of tbe donkey dams is 650 first domesticated this variety and the twelve hands high Tbe weight of tbe boo Thompsons naturally think that tbe hybrids when only a year old was and they stood twelve bands high apple should really bear their name as a Thompson was first to start it on They have good action a neat clean cut are as and its road to fame appearance gentle as The whole question as to tbe origin horses' foals of the sam age Tbe hybrids ought to be tough for of the apple had become such an In volved one that the state legislature the zebra in Africa ie about the toughest in tbe horse line took a hand in the fifties and appoint- worldthingandin hethe loses none ed a committee to investigate the matapparently ter This committee determined wnat of these qualities by change of rest it believed to be tbe exact location of dence Tbe hybrids then should dethe original tree on the Butters farm velop Into animals with much greater and marked it on the state map of endurance than tbe mule and should be almost as large Wilmington to Tbe zebra in Africa is Immune many diseases and pests which kill oil DEATH HARVEST OF JUNGLE horses and mules and it Is expected — fbat the new hybrids will prove themDeaths from attacks by wild ant selves more hardy and disease resist mats in India are increasing In numant than even tbe famous Missouri ber Rising waters have driven serarmy mule pents from the lowland jungles up to tbe villages and have diminished the natural lood DEVIL’S ORGANS OF ICE through drowning supply of the larger wild beasts Over Peat cutting for fuel Is in the spring 2000 persons were killed In 1910 by tbe staple industry of the natives In elephants tigers hyenas bears leoand to pards wolvet many parts of tbe Highlands wild pigs ana other or animals Skye tbe ancient form of Over 22000 were killed by Tbls implement Bpade is still In use snakes The grand total of mortality seeme like a clumsy Invention but it is was nearly 24000 persons At tbe admirably adapted for tbe condition in same time 93000 cattle were killed by which it is employed Tbe long handle snakes and wild beasts Tbe Inbabl affords a powerful lever to dislodge tants of the jungle also suffered by retbe frequent large stones and tbe sods prisals on tbe part of tbelr buman eneare cut with surprising speed mies Ninety-onthousand snakes and 19000 wild beasts were killed MEMORIAL TO APPLE TREE a tgSQgpt (his?? "yif a £jki tbe Baldwin apple Is tbe Probably For best known variety in existence over a century it has been widely eaten and In spite of the (act that scores of other sorts have come lntr the market to dispute Its popularity It is still the favorite among a great GLASS EGG DIET KILLS DOG Amazon Corps Vegetable Compound restored her health HERE IS HER OWN STATEMENT Paw Paw Mich— “ Two years ago I suffered very severel with a displacement — I could not be on my feet for a long time My physician treated me for several months without much relief and at last sent me to Ann Arbor for an operation I waa there four weeks and came home suffering worse than before My mother advised me to try Lydia E linkham’s Vegetable ComI am well and strong pound and I did I owe my health and do all my own housework to Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and advise every woman who is afflicted with any female complaint to try it” — Mrs Orville Rock It It No 5 l’aw Paw Mich “THERE NEVER WAS A WORSE CASE “ There never was a worse case of women’s ills Ind— Rockport than mine and I cannot begin o tell you what I suffered For over I was in bed for a month two years I was not able to do anything and the doctor said nothing but an operation would cure me My father suggested Lydia E l’inkham’s Vegetable Compound so to please him I took it and I improved wonderfully so I am able to travel ride horseback take long rides and never feel any ill effects from it I can only ask other suffering women to give Lydia E Vegetable Compound a trial before submitting tp an operation” —Mrs Margaret Meredith R F D No 3 Rockport Ind We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful— or that either of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials or that the original letteY from each did not come tp us entirely unsolicited For 30 years Lydia E Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills No one sick with woman’s ailments does justice to herself who will not try this famous medicine made from roots and herbs it so many suffering women to health ' has restored MEWCINECO P5— Write to LYDIA EPINKHAM LYNN MANS for advice (C0SFU£NT1AL) Your letter will le opened lead and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence Safer Plan “I let my house furnished and Of course they’ve had measles there wo’ve had the place disinfected so i suppose it’s quite safe What do you think?” “I fancy It would be all right dear but I think perhaps it would be sater to lend it to a friend first”— Punch A Candid Man you looking for work?" "No sir I’m looking for money but I’in willing to work because that's the only way I can get It” “Are "That horrible weather” —how pleasant It really Is when you are well! tiartield Tea helps always Tbe man who wears shouldn’t butt ii a hat silk NO ONE STRONGER JtUltson Axby of Lawrenceburg Ind Wtfs firm in the belief that bis thoroughbred English bloodhound bad been Veterinarians confirmed his poisoned After tbe bound died its suspicions body was cut open and four uest eggs were found In tbe (if tbe glass variety stomach Axby had put the eggs In nests to encourage his hens to lay He noticed recently the supply of eggs bad fallen off although the hens apIt peared to be In laying condition Is believed the dog bad been sucking tbe eggs and falling with tbe glass swallowed them variety In tbe valley of the Great St Bernard in Switzerland are a number of formations growers and consumers of Ice known there as “Devil’s There has long been a dispute about Organs" They get their name from the weird whistles the discovery of the original tree and the wind causes them to utter The icicles are the controversy has not yet been settled to the satisfaction often 100 to 150 feet long of all concerned The fact seems to be however that a certain Williams Butters WONDERFUL FUR COATS Living in the town of Wilmington Mass about fourteen miles north of New Lady Ashburton the former Boston found a prolific tree growing caused 5000 moles to York beauty in the woods and transplanted It to be trapped on her English estate and his farm That was long before tbe FIVE DOLLAR CIGARS tbelr skins made into coats and muffs war Years atterward Revolutionary Tbe for her three American sisters Samuel a revolutionary It was not so long ago that dollar Thompson eaofa and tbe veteran came across the tree while on cigars were a luxury Now the demand coatB contain 800 skins muffs eacb between 80 and 90 skins a surveying expedition At that time for cigars gelling at five dollars each it had been made the home of a family is so gre&t that Havana manufacturof woodpeckers CATHEDRALS IN AFRICA had ers cannot fill it Mosf of this demand and the birds pecked a row of holes around it For Is to supply banquets of the ultratiat reason Colonel Thompson often rich A considerable part of It Is trom Christianity is slowly spreading over referred to It as the pecker tree He Heidelberg Africa There are 15 Episcopal catheuniversity Uermany carried some of the fruit home and where tbe students never seem to get drals and 12 Roman Catholic on tbe the members of bis family were so enough to Battery their appetite in addition to numerA dark continent ous churches of all denominations pleased with the apples that he visited favorite method they have of smoking the tree again and cat a number of scions which were grafted onto trees in his orchard When these trees began to bear fruit some of the apples were given to Cot Loamml Baldwin a neighbor who was so much impressed with the quality and flavor that he cut many scions from the old tree and began propagating new stock on a large scale This stock was spread broadcast In Massachusetts and as a compliment to Colonel Baldwin his friends gave bis name to this apple The Butters farm house still stands and a depression In the ground not far away is pointed out as tbe place where tbe father of all Baldwin apple trees formerly stood the original tree Itself having been blown down in a terrific gale early In the last century asIn 1895 tbe Rumford Historical sociation erected a monument to mark tbe 6lte of the old tree Tbe square granite shaft Is surmounted by a great stone apple to represent a perfect specimen of tbe Baldwin variety The date of the discovery of the “pecker” as tree Is given on the monument The Chinese Amazon Corps styled In their Chinese name “The Heroines 1793 but there Is considerable doubt of the Red Powder" took an active part In the revolution which has resulted of tbls date In the establishment of the republic as to the correctness These Amazons are ladies mostly stuaa little is however There dents of good family question many Please Read These Two Letters The following letter from Mrs Orville Rock will prove how unwise it is for women to submit to the dangers of a surgical operation when it Kaybe avoided by taking Lydia E llnkham’s Vegetable Compound She was four weeks In tlie hospital and came home suffering-worsThen after all that suffering Lydia E than before of China HOUSEHOLD EXTRACT Every home should make rootbeer in springtime for its deliciousness and its fine tonic properties Os fallout Ifyoar freest pMkat makes Isn’t supplied we will mail yon a paukafa Fioas giro hit an me a reoeipt of Writs for premium pus E HIRES CO THE CHARLES N Broad SU Philadelphia 255 Pn Rsadfif? 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