Newspaper Page Text
CRISIS OF
WOMAN’S LIFE
Change Safely Passed by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
Wagoner, Okla.—“l never get tired
of praising Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-
1 table Compound
because during
was in bed two
years and had two
operations, but all
tne doctors and op
erations did me no
and I would
etable Compound
which brought me out of it all rignt, so
I am now well and do all my housework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors have got well by tak
ing Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound.”— Mrs. Viola Finical, Wagon
er, Okla.
, Such warning symptoms as sense of
suffocation, hotfiashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
a) MICE
Paste
guagea
id SI.OO
HJYS IT
None to Waste.
“How Is the supply of guinea pigs
at your clinic?” asked the first vivl
aectionlst.
“There’s an alarming shortage,” an
swered the second vivisectionist. “Why,
recently I had to perform two differ
ent operations on the same pig.”
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties ot QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. SO cents.
A girl Imagines she’s in love with a
man when she doesn't enjoy liirting
with other men as much as site
thought she would.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
is her hair. If yours Is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gruy hairs, use “La Cre
ole" Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Try your own advice before you
pass it on to others.
Keep Younfl
Just as well be
SSVSSy y°ung at seventy
IB 1 as old at fifty.
if ?( Many people
‘f |\gf' STL past middle age
C XiJisAjT suffer lame, bent,
£j Y aching backs,and
/’lf distressing uri
( * ; nary disorders,
r-, iuV \ when a little
I J s —Ail help for thekid -
II \ \ neys would fix
I ' >1 it all up. Don't
I 1 V wait for gravel,
/|| % C"" dropsy or
111 n \ Bright’s disease
LI A Jr "\v to ge* a start,
is* i m Use Doan's Kid-
s- ••.• ney Pills. They
—< helped
thousands, young and old. They are the
most widely used remedy for bad backs
and weak kidneys in the whole world.
DOAN'S™'!"
at alt Stores
Foster-Milburn Co.Prop*. Buffalo.N.Y.
Have you
RHEUMATISM
Lumbago or Gout?
Take RHEUM ACI I)K to remo\ ©the cans©
anil drive the poison from the system.
“UHkl IK IDK OS THK IXBIOK
ITTb EIIKI HITIM OX THK OITKIDI’’
At All Druggist*
Jas. Bail? Ml Sod, Wholesale Distributors
Baltimore, Md.
DON’T FAY RETAIL PRICES for stand
aid drugs. toilet specialties and all known
proprietary remedies. I supply thefn fresh
at SENSATIONAL CUT PRICES prepaid
by parcel post Write for our Cut-Price
Hargain Catalog of Standard Drugs It's
free ARTHI K P. RINK. IHwle City,
Florida.
Cabbage, Tomato and Pepper Plants
El -50 per 1,000, by expreas.
OAKLIN f ARM
stock plants. Leading ORL A N DO v FLA.
varieties. SALISBURY. N. C.
GIGANTIC NEW GUINEA BEANS ! I
Rfr '—, Unique Hdible Vegetable Nortity Pods. 3
** to 6 feet lona, weighs 10 to 16 lbs. Full In
structions, photo circular. 30 seeds, SI.OO money order.
ALLAS UtUXAI. Awrlej, Brtabaa*, queeuCsa.l, Aa*lraiU
The
“Bear Cat”
By*
GEORGE ELMER COBB
(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
“I’m the Bear Cat!”
“Hip! hip!”
“From VVellsvllle!”
“Hooray!”
“I own the place!”
“Whoop!”
“I own the whole town!”
“You're a daisy 1"
“Line up—the best in the house for
everybody!”
Thus Dan Wolsey, and thus, in re
sponse, a motley ravenous crowd of
miners, speculators, gamblers and
hangers-on in the “Horn of Plenty,” at
Oreville. Dan was a new bird to be
plucked readily. lie fancied he was a
king amid the shallow, hypocritical
worship of his present following.
Nothing, indeed, was too good for
the scapegrace group and Dan was
spending his money like water. And
who had a better right! Had he not
struck tin* biggest gusher of the year
at VVellsvllle! And this was the first
“genuine blowout” of his artless, un
sophisticated life. He had sold his
birthright for a mess of pottage —
twenty thousand dollars —all in crisp
new hundred-dollar bank notes. Wells
vllle was only a station, Oreville had
some reul style, quite a metropolis to
Dan, who had spent most of his life
on a farm.
When he emne to Oreville Dun had
purchased the most expensive and
loudest suit money could buy. Then
lie had taken the best room at the one
second-rate hotel In the town. Then
lie was sober enough to exert some
prudence. This was how: He took a
thousand dollars out of his belt and
stowed the residue under the carpet
in a corner of the room.
“For I may get overseas and some
mean greaser grab the pile,” reflected
Dan. Each night he came home, hut
not until he hud spent his last cent.
Next morning he extracted another in
stallment from his reserve fund and
repeated the program.
The gambling sharks had got hold
of Dan. They jollied him as a hail fel
low well met, slapped him on the
shoulder, called him “The Daisy” and
acquiesced in his tumultuous declara
tion that he was the “Bear Cat of
Wellsville.” Then they proceeded to
extract the claws and the dollars of
the Bear Cat.
One morning after an unusually fes
tive night Dan woke up shattered to
pieces. There were no call buttons nt
the Dewdrop luu, and lie had to hum
mer on the floor with his heavy-heeled
boot to advise the “office” on the floor
below that a guest wanted attention.
Therefrom appeared a slim, graceful
young girl arrayed in a faded calico
dress, shoes down at the heels, liuir
awry, but pretty as a wild rose.
“Drink, water, anything!” called out
Dan huskily. “My throat’s on fire!”
“There will be no ‘anything,’ ” terse
ly advised Nell Ward, chambermaid.
"It’s tea you want and it’s tea you’ll
get. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself,
a healthy, decent-looking young man,
playing the fool to a lot of vultures?”
Dan wretchedly turned over in his
bed and groaned. He was helpless, till
the tea had warmed him up sufficiently
to give him the nerve to get down
stairs and steady his criss-cross nerves
at the hotel bar.
“Daughter of your’s?” he incidental
ly questioned the landlord.
“Oh, no,” was the indifferent re
sponse. "She’s only Nell—looking for
a steady home. Good as gold as a
worker, but don’t lit in here.”
Twice Nell was called by bootheel
and twice Nell ministered to the wants
of downhill-headed Dan Wosley. Al
ways she mixed in a lecture, advice,
deprecation and undisguised coutenipt
for his. lack of will and recklessness.
Dun sheepishly avoided the maiden
with tlie sharp tongue when sober.
When otherwise, in a maudlin way,
and weeping, lie would tell his boon
companion pathetically of “the good
little friend up at the hotel who made
him ashamed of himself !”
“Cleaned out!” almost shouted Dan
one morning, when he got ready to
start on a new day of his blowout.
He stared dumbly at the belt he had
removed from under the carpet. It
was empty. Dan rubbed his head
grewsomely. He had a dim memory of
a wild bout at cards the night before,
of coming staggeringly to his room in
the evening for a new supply of ready
cash.
“Must have taken It all. and I’m
stranded !” he muttered. -Then lie went
down to the Dewdrop Inn and told its
sordid proprietor of the situation and
asked for the loan of ten dollars to
get back to Oreville. The man
laughed at him.
“Don’t know you," lie growled. “Get
out!”
“Don’t know me?" echoed Dan.
“Don’t know ‘The Daisy?’ ”
“You may have been one yesterday,”
remarked the giu-mill man cruelly,
“but you’re a faded flower today,” and
there were some words and the poor
wreck of Dan Wolsey was thrown out
into the street into a mud puddle.
That afternoon lute, very sober, very
penitent, Dan sat on a log by tlie road
side at the limits of the town. He
hud found no friends hi his distress.
He had started to walk to Wellsville,
b’jt was stiff, sore, trembling, half ill.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
A girl driving a light wagon came
down the road. “Whoa!” and she
jumped out and approached Dan.
“Know me?” she asked curtly, and
he looked up, shook his head dismally
and groaned out: “Yes, you’re Nell.”
“And I’m driving over to WellsviKe
where you live,” she observed, “and if
you’re minded to go back there, and
drop your wretched antics, and sign
the pledge and be respectable again,
I’ll give you a lift.”
“Say—try me!” voiced Dan, with
eager unction. “Oh, I’ve had my les
son! You good little fairy! I want
to cry when I think of the good advice
you gave me, never heeded.”
“You lie down there,” directed Nell,
with the severity of some chiding
mother, and she pointed to a nest of
blankets in the bos of the wagon, “and
here's a bottle of spruce beer with
some quieting medicine in it. Take a
sip only now and then and when you
get home forget Oreville forever.”
“You bet! you bet!” muttered Dun,
and wondered how it was that the
good little fairy had come along so
fully prepared to tender comfort
and peace for his shattered nerves,
for after a sip or two from the bottle
he fell into a peaceful sleep like a
tired little child.
He was meek and obedient when
they reached VVellsville. He was sub
missive and unresisting when Nell
took him into the office of the local
justice of the peace and witnessed his
signature to a temperance pledge.
“You’re not the man I believe in. if
you ever break that pledge,” she told
him. “Now then,” as they wont down
the street together, “let me tell you
“I’m the Bear Cat!"
something. I’ve got over ten thousand
dollars of your money. I took it from
under the carpet when I saw that you
would soon throw it uway. There it
Is.”
Dan Wolsey stared at money and
girl. Tears came into his. eyes. His
voice broke.
“I’m going to give you half of it,”
lie began.
“No!” definitely dissented Nell.
“I’ve used a few dollars of it to get
you here. Good-by, be a man.”
She started to spring up into the
wagon. Dan caught her arm.
“Nell, dear kind Nell,” he faltered,
“your boss at the hotel said you were
looking for a home.”
“Well?” she challenged in her pretty,
definite way.
“I’ll give you one. Nell, I’ll treat
you right, always. I’ll make you a
happy wife, if you’ll let me.”
Her earnest eyes searched his to
their very depths.
“I believe in you,” she said, and she
put her little brown hand confidingly
into his rugged own.
Postage Stamps as Currency.
“Necessity money” was the name
given to a sort of improvised paper cur
rency that circulated during the early
years of our Civil war when the sus
pension of specie payments and the
scarcity of subsidiary silver coins
caused much inconvenience. The gov
ernment did not begin to issue paper
fractional currency, or as it was some
times called postal currency, until Au
gust, 1802, and that soon gave relief
in the way of small change. Before
that, however, an enterprising individ
ual of New York, John Gault by name,
devised a plan for using postage
stamps as currency. The stamps then
issued were for 1, 2. 3,5, up to 30 cents
in different colors. Gault invented a
little metallic frame for the stamps of
different denominations and by cover
ing the face of the stamp with a thin
layer of mica made it fit fer circulation
without being injured or soiled. Of
course the stamps had to be purchased
from the government at their face
value, but when framed in this way
they made a very good substitute for
small notes or change. For a year or
two Gault did a large business filling
orders for framed postage stamps or
selling the right to use his device all
over the country. The purchaser had
a right to place his name and adver
tisement on the device, and as the
stamp was always worth its face value
the holder who took it at par could not
lose anything.
Super-Energy.
Little Janes and .Josephine were
busily engaged in helping mother to
dry the dinner dishes.
“But. Jane, you didn’t get that plate
dry,” objected her sister.
"Yes. I did!” exclaimed Jane eager
ly. “I dried it so hard that it per
[ spired I”
fancies' :
§
Just where, and how far the design
ers of women’s clothes are going in
their strivings for something new, no
one knows, hut they are on their way.
To prove it, here is a new coat-dress
which we can easily forgive for keep
ing us guessing as to whether it is a
dress or not, because it is so pretty
and so full of style. There is provo
cation for a quarrel as to whether it is
rightly called a dress or hot, but its
designers have so named it and we
will take their word for it.
It is made of one of the new weaves
in silk in a heavy crepe effect and
hangs straight from shoulder to hem.
There is no definition of the waist
line, hut lest its Hues depart from
their straight and narrow way, a belt
of the material holds them so that
they cannot flow outward. The belt
crosses at the front and fastens to the
body of the dress at each side. All
the way down the front pearl buttons
attend strictly to the business of mak
ing the straightness of the frock
emphatic.
Everything has real pockets this
spring, and tills dress is provided with
one at each side in the style of a coat.
BORROWING HAT STYLES FROM CHINA.
They are square and are buttoned
down with a single button to the dress.
A cape collar among many cape col
lars, becomes immediately interesting
when its designer thinks of making
slashes in it. This one is of soft
pique and black velvet ribbon is run
through the slashes, forming ties that
hold the collar up about the neck.
This idea is so good that it bears rep
e’titiou in tlie turn-back cuffs also laced
through slushes with ribbon.
It takes just these touches to make
us concede that this new model is en
titled to be called a dress. Taking it
all in all it will prove very useful for
wear instead of a suit.
Fashion is eliminating distances and
the Chinese seem not remote since we
have been borrowing hat styles from
them. The war in Europe has brought
the art of China and Japan, in rugs
and furniture, in chinaware and in ap
parel more forcibly to our notice than
it has ever been before.
Two lovely models, inspired by tlie
coolie hat, and a turban, shown in the
group above are replicas of originals
NEW ARRIVAL IN COAT-DRESS.
in shapes. They prove how much we
owe to artists who transform the
simplest and humblest headwear by
interpretations of their own into hats
of irresistible charm.
At the right the summery and flow
ery hat is made of fine bluck hair
braid, set over a cap made also of a
narrow black braid. The top crown
is covered with tiny forget-me-nots in
Several colors and the brim edge is
softened by little black silk balls, set
close together about it. Narrow black
velvet ribbon in two long ends have
no particular reason for joining forces
with the hat, except that the designer
chose to put them where they are.
At the left a fascinating coolie shape
is made of silk in deep orange color
pud black, set on a turban of black
satin. Silk cords anil twin tassels, orig
inal and splendid products of China,
find themselves very much at home as
a decoration for this model. About
the edge small orange-colored sticks,
make a finish that Is unique.
The little turban Is of black lisere
and against its shiny surface Chinese
characters In apple green are applied
by means of black stitches. Each
character must represent a sentence
for each is followed by a period. We
are left to wonder whether these char
acters might be translated into a
maidens prayer or not, and might go
on speculating if it were not for an
other pair of splendid Chinese tas
sels. These are in green silk, with ex
quisitely made colored heads, and they
lure the mind away from all else.
New Neckwear.
On ultra-fashionable gowns, collars
do not stand up or turn over; they
simply do not exist. While every
woman may not accept this verdict, it
is well that she should know' about it.
If she wears collars she must re
member that the neck line is always
flat. The square cape collar is out of
fashion. Whenever a collar is boned
at the back today it must be pulled
down snugly to the front, so that the
material never leaves th-j neck.
■s&&
106 Fly Poison Cases
| Reported in 3 Years
A Large Percentage Fatal •'
l Appalling as this record seems, it is
l only a fraction of the real number. The j
\ symptoms of cholera infantum and ar* \
I senical poisoning are almost identical.
: Diagnosis is extremely difficult. Many \
\ actual fly poison cases are unrecognized |
; and unreported.
The Government recognizes this danger
to childhood and issues this warning, iu j
supplement No. 29 to the Public Health \
Report: \
‘Of other fly poisons mentioned, mention I
: should be made, merely for the purpose of con- e
: demnatton. of those composed or arsenic. Fatal i
cases of poisoning of children through the use :
\ of such compounds are far too frequent and
= owing to the resemblance of arsenical poison- I
: lng to summer diarrhea and cholera Infantum, j
e it Vs believed that the cases reported do not. by \
\ any means, comprise the total. Arsenical fly- :
destroying devices must t*e rated as extremely
l dangerous, and should never be used, even if j
other measures are not at hand.”
| TANGLEFOOT j
catches flies and embalms their disease* \
] bearing bodies with a disinfecting var- !
nish. It is safe, efficient, non-poisonous, \
\ and your protector from both fly and i
F fly poisons.
THE O. & W. THUM CQMPANY j
Grand Rapids, Mich.
[UMii'mmimmnnnnimiimmminitit inmmium mmiiimi Minimi iii tnmiii
Sweet Potato Plants!
Shipment April 15th and thereafter. Varieties:
Porto Rico and Pumpkin Yam, Nancy Hails
and Triumph. Prices by express: 1,000 and
over $1.75 per 1,000; 10,000 and over $1.60 per
1,000. Order today. Write for prices on
tomato, pepper and col lard plants.
JENKINS PLANT CO., Box 6, Sumner, Ga.
FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS
Harlv Jersey and Charleston Wakefield, Succession
and Flat Dutch, 600 f0r11.26; 1.000 for 12.00; 6,000 at $1.60,
f. o. b. here; postpaid .'l6c per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SWBBT POTATO PLANTS—immediate shipment.
Nancy Hall and Porto Rico, 1,000 to 9,000 at $2 00;
10.000 up at 11.50, f. o. b. here. Tomato plants 600 76c;
1,000 for $1.36; and Pepper plants 600 for $1 00;
1,000, for $1.60; 5.U00 and up at $1.26, f. o. b. here.
Postpaid 40c per 100. l>. F. j aslson, hi bkkhvillk, g. c.
Rats and Fires.
At a time when everyone is com
plaining of the high cost of living it
might be well to see if we cannot elim
inate two great sources of waste —fires
and rats.
Most fires are needless. All rats
are so. Some years ago a study of the
rat problem in Philadelphia arrived at
the conclusion that the rodents of that
city ate more than a million dollars’
worth of food each year. At that rate,
the disgusting creatures can hardly
cost less than $100,000,000 per year
to the whole country. This is a pret
ty high price to pay for the compan
ionship of impish pests which, besides
their other bad habits, undermine
floors and carry the most dreaded of
all diseases, bubonic plague.
Yet fires are more expensive than
rats. In 1915—the last year for which
figures are at hand —the American
people paid out in premiums for fire
insurance $419,361,346. Of this vast
sum at least three-fourths could be
saved by reducing our fire record to
the rate prevailing in England, France
or Germany; and even in our time and
nation $300,000,000 per year is a sav
ing worth noting, and one which
would have a perceptible effect on the
cost of living.
Marvels cf Mechanics.
“Science has devised a machine that
will measure a millionth of an inch,”
said the man who is always trying to
surprise you.
“I know it. I believe my restau
rant uses one in cutting the meat for
ham sandwiches.”
Grape-Nuts
contains the rich
supplies of
phosphate of
potash grown
in wheat and
barley.
Its mission is
therefore clear
and plain—it
supplies what
ordinary food
lacks.
And it does its
work in a
sturdy,
straightforward,
dependable
way, as tens
of thousands
of its users
can testify.
“There’* a Reason’'