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HIS STRONG POINT.
"You seem to like Wagner.”
“la one respect I prefer him to
•11 other composers.”
"Why se?"
“His music is most effective in
drowning the conversation in the
boxes.”
PROGRESS.
Briggs—lt’s getting so that our Am
erican cities are more and more cor
rupt.
Griggs—l know it. Why, it won’t
be iong before ail the honest moD
will be in jail.—Life.
Don't attempt to build a new repu
tation on the ruins of an old one.
Cures Enema, Itching Humors, Pimples
and Carbuncles--Costs Nothing to Try,
S. B. Si. (Botanic Blood Balm) is a certain
«n 4 sure ears for eczema, itching skin, hu
mors, scabs, scales, watery blisters, pim
ples, aching bones or joints, boils, carbun
cles, pri-ekiing pain in the skin, old eating
sores, ui-’crs. etc. Botanic Blood Balm
can’s the worst and most deop-seated cases
by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the
blood, thereby giving a healthy blood sup
ply to the skin. Heals every sore and
gives the rich glow of health to the skin.
Batlds tip the broken down body and makes
the Mood red and nourishing. Especially
advised for chronic, old cases that doctors,
patent medicines and hot springs fail to
cere. Druggists, sl, with complete direc
tions for home cure. To prove B. B. B.
cores, sample sent free and prepaid by
tinting Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. De
fasribs trouble, and free medical advice sent
K> sealed letter.
London's first Turkish bath under mu
nicipal control was recently opened.
s ßackache , “The Blues’
Both Symptoms of Organic Derangement in
Women—Thousands of Sufferers Find Relief.
How often do we hear women say: “It
leeras as though my back would break,”
or “Don’t speak to me, I am all out of
sorts ? Thesssignificant remarks prove
that the system requires attention.
Baekache and “ the blues” are direct
•ymptoms of an inward trouble which
-will sooner or later declare itself. It
ma.y be caused by diseased kidneys or
■ome derangement of the organs.
Nature requires assistance and at once,
and Lydia E. Pink-hams Vegetable Com
pound instantly asserts its curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments of
women. It has been the standby of
intelligent American women for twenty
f-eaj-s. and the best judges agree that
to is the most universally success
ful remedy for woman's ills known to
medicine.
Bead the convincing testimonials of
Mrs. Ho!mes and Mrs. Cotrely.
Mrs. J.C. Holmes, of Larimore, North
Dakota, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —
“ I have suffered everything with backache
and female trouble—l let the trouble run on
troth my system was in such a condition that
I was unable to be about, and then it was I
eomssesced to use Lydia Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound. If I had only known how
touch suffering I would have saved I should
have taken it months sooner—for a few
weeks’ treatment made me well and strong.
My backaches and headaches are all gone and
I miff nr no pain at my monthly periods,
whereas before I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vega-fable Compound I suffered intense pain. ”
Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 109 East 12th
Street, New York City, writes :
Sear Mrs. Pinkham
-* 1 £ feel it mv duty to tell all suffering women
at the relief 1 have found in Lydia E. Pink
Ask Mrs, Plnkhans's Advice—A Woman Best Understands a Woman’s liis.
sow PEAS draw nitrogen from the
IU air in large amounts, if sufficient
Potash and phosphoric acid are supplied
to the plant®
The multitude of purposes served by the
remarkable cow pea, are told in the 65-page
illustrated book, “The Cow Pea,” which also
tells of the splendid results obtained from
fertilizing cow peas with Potash. The book
is iree to farmers for the asking.
Address. CJERMAN KALI WORKS, „
jy tw York—93 Nassau Street. or Atlanta. Ga.— 22>| So. Broad Street.
UNAVOIDABLY DETAINED.
Judge—You are sentenced to twen
ty years in state prison. Have you
anything to say?
Prisoner —Yes, Your Honor. Will
you please send word to my wife not
to wait dinner for me? —(Fliegende
Biaetter.
SOFT SOAP.
Rufus Jackson —Huh! Yer mudder
takes in washin’.
Esmeralda Tinlcham —'Cose she
takes it in! She wouldn’t leab it
out wif yo’ an’ vo’ ladder loafii’
roun’ heah. —Philadelphia Bulletin.
Big Policies in New York
New York naturally has more
heavily insured men than any other
city. Among those with large policies
are: James C. Colgate, $1,500,000;
George W. Vanderbilt-, $1,000,000;
August Belmont, $600,000; Richard
A. iMcCurdy, $300,000; General Frau
ds V. Greene, $500,000; John D. Crim
mlns, $300,000; Pliny Fisk, $100,000;
(the total on the Fisk family is
$2-,000,000); Chauncey M. Depew,
$500,000; P. F. Collier, $350,000; Ed
ward Lauterbach, $300,000; George
W. Perkins-, $300,000; Gags E. Tar
bell, $500,000; E. E. Smathers, $335,*
000.
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS.
Agnes—Algy is making sheep’s ej »
at me.
Pandora —I always thought him a
mutton head. —Judge.
ham’s Vegetable Compound. When I com
menced taking the Compound I suffered
everything with backaches, headaches, and
female troubles. lam completely cured and
enjoy the best of health, and I owe it all
to you.”
When women are troubled with irreg
ular, suppressed or painful periods,
weakness, displacements or ulceration,
that bearing-down feeling, inflamma
tion of the female organs, backache,
bloating (or flatulence), general de
bility, indigestion and nervous prostra
tion, or are beset with such symptom*
as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excit
ability, irritability-, nervousness, sleep
lessness, melancholy, “all gone” and
“ want-to-be-left-alone” feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remem
ber there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles.
No other medicine has such a record
of cures of female troubles. No other
medicine in the world has received this
widespread and unqualified endorse*
; ment. Refuse to buy any substitute.
FREE ADVICE TO WOMEN.
Remember, every woman is cordially
invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if
there is anything about her symptoms
she does not understand. Mrs. Pink
ham is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E.
1 Pinkham, her assistant before her de
' cease, and for twenty-five years since
! her advice has been freely and cheer
fully given to every ailing woman who
asks for it. Her advice and medicine
! have restored to health innumerable
- women. Address, Lynn, Mass.
KING OF STAMP FIENDS
M. RENOTIERE AND HiS $3,000,000
COLLECTION.
it Includes a Specimen of Almost
Every Stamp Issued—Unique Vari
eties Whose Value Runs in the
Thousands—The Owner a Man
With an Unusual History.
The king of stamp collectors, Philip
ia Renotiere of Paris, France, lias
added another stamp rarity to his
vast collection, which takes in almost
every bit of engraved or stamped pa
per ever issued by any country
throughout the world for postal pur
poses since the use cf stamps first
began in England, in IS4O, and which
is now estimated to be worth at least
$3,000,000.
The unique variety which has just
come to light is a Lombardy stamp,
which was discovered by a dealer of
Cologne, Germany. It seems that the
stamp dealer had bought a large quan
tity of Lombardy five cent stamps, all
printed in yellow ini:.
The common specimens were print
ed on plain paper, while the rarer
ones were printed on paper with per
pendicular ribs. The great find dif
fered from these two issues by reason
of the ribs being horizontal, and was
the only one of the kind in a mass
of a hundred thousand stamps.
The dealer at once telegraphed to
M. Renotiere that he had happened
upon a variety previously unknown.
The collector telegraphed in return
that he would come in jierson and
have a look at the oddity and at once
took a train for Cologne. After ex
amining the stamp M. Renotiere paid
several hundred dollars for it.
This leader of a hobby which is
world-wide, embracing millions of fol
lowers in every walk of life and in
cluding many of the world’s most fa
mous men, is known to the stamp
world as Herr von Ferrari, and it is
said that his personality is as remark
able as the great collection that has
made his name familiar wherever
stamp collecting is followed. He has
devoted most of his life to the collec
tion of postage stamps upon which he
is credited with having expended
more than $1,250,000.
He is thought to be past 60, and
although generally supposed to be a
Frenchman, because of his long resi
dence in Paris, is in reality an Aus
trian. His father was an Austrian no
bleman, bearing the title of the Duke
of Galleria.
Upon his father’s death M. Reno
tiere refused to accept this title, and
furthermore declined to touch a cent
of the fortune bequeathed to him by
the duke, giving" as his reason the
fact that the wealth had been gained
by means of which he did not ap
prove.
For many years after he arrived in
Paris he was in straitened circum
stances, and earned a scant liveli
hood as a private tutor. In the early
60s by his mother’s death he fell heir
to a fortune, and it was at this time
that he is supposed to have acquired
his taste for the collection of stamps,
which he pursued with such energy
that even in 1868 he.was credited with
being the owner of the most complete
collection of that time, a reputation
that he has constantly maintained to
the present day.
The nucleus of his collection he
formed by purchasing outright sever
all large collections, for two of which
he paid sums around $15,000, but
these two collections now form only a
small proportion of his enormous ac
cumulation of stamps.
Many of the world’s greatest stamp
rarities are in his collection. In many
cases in which there is only one
known specimen that one stamp’will
be found among his holdings. The
unique British Guiana one cent stamp,
which was printed on ordinary wrap
ping paper, is owned by him.
No one knows what this stamp is
worth, but experts say that it is as
valuable if not more valuable than the
rarest of the Mauritius stamps, a two
penny specimen of which not long ago
sold for more than S9OOO. Some idea
of what it is worth may be gained
from the statement that the two cent
Guiana stamps, of which there are as
many as 11 known, are valued each
at S3OOO.
A Swedish stamp, of which there is
also only one known, is likewise in M.
Renotiere’s album. This stamp is the
3 skilling banco denomination of 1855,
which was printed in yellow ink in
stead of green. As there was only
this single stamp of the wrong color
collectors were suspicious of its gen
uineness, but after exhaustive inquiry
it was found to be authentic. It would
be simply a waste of time to try to set
a value upon this stamp.
Columns would be necessary to de
scribe in detail the gems of this great
collection, but it can be said that the
majority of the unique stamp varie
ties are contained in it.
M. Renotiere is said always to be
ready to pay almost any sum in order
to secure a rare stamp, and es this
readiness every European dealer is
well aware.
When a unique issue is found the
dealer always sends it first to Paris,
marked at the highest figure that his
aonscience will permit. It is said that
he has been the proverbial gold mine
for stamp dealers, and that a London
dealer, upon hearing an unfounded
rumor of his death, at once fell into
a faint.
He regularly visits London and all
the principal European cities in his
search for specimens and hag gone
over the stock of every dealer of im
portance. He has practically made
every prominent dealer his special
agent, with authority to buy for him
any unique variety which he may
find.
If M. Renotiere returns a specimen
a reduction is made in the price first
asked and it is then sent to less
wealthy collectors. When l;e is sat
isfied with a stamp he unhesitatingly
pays the price demanded.
In a large degree it is due to his un
tiring efforts in search of rarities that
the prices are now so high. Dealers
say that if his immense collection
were broken up and thrown on the
market it would undoubtedly have the
effect of lowering the existing prices,
and that this collection is the only
one in the world the sale of which
would produce such a result. But of
such an event there is no likelihood,
as provision has already been made
to keep the collection intact.
No one, not even M. Renotiere him
self, accurately knows the number of
specimens contained in his collection.
A whole vault in a safe deposit com
pany in Paris is taken up with it.
Many of the extreme rarities are
exhibited in showcases placed around
the vault, and the privilege of looking
at them is sometimes given by the
owner to his friends. It is said that
he has but little to do with other Pari
sian philatelists, and has never public
ly exhibited any part of his collection.
In addition to owning a specimen
of every stamp, he also buys blocks
of stamps of one kind, and the entire
time of two secretaries is taken up
with the work of keeping the collec
tion in shape and of buying new is
sues of the common varieties.
There is no way of accurately esti
mating the present value of the col
lection. While M. Renotiere has been
extremely lavish and liberal in the
prices paid, still many thousands of
the rare varieties were bought 35 or
40 years ago at prices far below the
sums they would bring now.
A good illustration of the way their
value has advanced is shown in his
purchase of a rare United States
stamp. This is what is known as the
New Haven stamp, and was issued by
the postmaster of that city in 1840.
It is printed in red ink, with the
figure “5” in the centre” and “Post
Office” at the top. The postmaster’s
signature, “E. A. Mitchell,” is at the.
bottom.
A specimen of this stamp was founts
in a small collection in 1871; up to
that time it had been unknown. M.
Renotiere paid S4O for it. Now the
stamp is valued at SI2OO, and the price
is advancing yeariy.
While it is estimated that in the
last 35 years he has spent more than
$1,250,000 for stamps, and during this
long period has bought on a scale that
has astonished everybody, yet there
is not a recorded instance in which
he has disposed of a single specimen.
There is little chance of any of the
stamps ever being offered for sale,
as he has provided in his will that
the entire collection shall become the
property of the Austrian government
upon his death. —New York Sun.
On the Wings of the Wind.
Lieutenant Julian De Court, Philip
pine Scouts, stationed at Cagpili,
Island of Samar, Philippine Division,
while in the town of Oras, on the rives
of the same name, some eighteen mile*
below his station, shortly after the
great typhoon of September 25, 1905,
swept over the Philippines, found in
the streets of the town a letter inclos
ing a voucher for mileage payment,
dated May 3, 1890, and signed, Philip
Reade, Third United States Infantry.
Thinking it might be of interest to the
gentleman who wrote it he forwarded
the letter to Col. Philip Reade,
Twenty-Third United States Infantry,
Madison Barracks, New York. Now
what puzzled Colonel Reade is how
that letter ever reached the remote
and inhospitable island of Samar. He
says in a note: “I was never nearer
to Samar than the Straits of San
Bernardino. In Bay, 1890, I was on
duty with the Wisconsin National
Guard. In October, 1900, I was earth
quaked in Manila after a carabao
meeting, and in 1903-4-5 I was wholly
zephyrized by mistrals in Mindanao,
but did not carry my retained records
with me on my tours. How my letter
ever reached Oras, Samar, passes my
understanding.” It appears to have
been surreptitiously apprporiated by
a tropical wind and carried on its
long journey over sea and land.—Thf
Army and Navy Journal.
Met Often.
“Why are you bowing to that man?
Do you know him?” asked Madge, in
surprise.
“Yes,” said her chum, “he walked
over me so many times getting out
between acts at the theatre last night
that we got real well acquainted.”—
Detroit Free Press.
More than 90,000 women are en
gaged in the lace industry in Russia
MERE LOVE OF COUNTRY.
“Washington correspondents havo
good jobs, have they not?”
“Oh, fine jobs.”
“Then I suppose it’s patriotism that
induces them to accept consulates at
places like Auckland, New Zealand,
at salaries at $1,500 per year, and
not found.” i
**
THE SITUATION.
"One-half the world doesn’t know
how the other half lives,” remarked
the man who i 3 fond of moral re
flections.
’ “Nor is it apt to find out,” respond
ed the native New Yorker, “so long
as the other half is willing to shell
out liberally to the society papers.”
SEVEN YEARS OF SUFFERING
rnde.l at East Through IT s'rig Doan’s
Kidney Dills.
Mrs. Selina Jones, of 200 Main St.,
Ansouia, Conn., says: “If it had not
been for Doan’s Kidney Pills I would
not be alive to-day.
Seven years ago I
was so bad with pain
iu the back, and so
weal* that I had to
keep to my room, and
was in bed some
times six weeks at a
spell. Beginning with
Doan’s Kidney Pills,
the kidney weakness
was soon corrected.
fears'?
jfet
■KM
and inside a week all the pain was
gone. I was also relieved of all head
aches, dizzy spells, soreness and feel
ings of languor. I strongly recommend
Doan’s Kidney rills.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box,
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
However, the less a man talks the
more he doesn’t have to apologize.
r.. .t M.! r„ A M.! L. & M.!
Buy L. & M. Paint and get a full gallon.
Wears 10 to 15 years, because L. &. M.
Zinc hardens L. A. M. White Lead and
makes L. <t M. Paint wear like iron.
4 gallons of L. & M. mixed with 3 gallons
oil will paint a moderate sized nouse.
C.S. Andrews, Ex-Mayor, Danbury,Conn.,
j writes: “Painted my house 1!) years ago
; with L. &M. Looks well to-day."
PAINT YOUR HOUSE.
15 per cent, commission allowed to any
resident where we have no agent, on sale
of L. & M. to property-owners, at our re
tail price.
Apply to LONGMAN & MARTINEZ,
Paint Makers. New ¥ork.
Electricity Aids Plant Growth.
Professor Guerini, a Belgian sci
entist-, has given a number of lectures
1 under government auspices at the
Agricultural Institute at Gembloux
and his views are startling to Ameri
cans. Electricity passing through a
plant from air :o earth or vice versa
decomposes carbonic acid gas in the
j chlorcphyl, which is essential to plant
growth. Soil chemicals are likewise
decomposed by passing currents and
nourshing elements are readily assim
ilated. Circulation of the sap is in
creased by electro capillary effect by
which water and other nourishing
materials are drawn up into the plant,
tree or vine. In some of the experi
ments conducted abroad galvanized
rods were set about a growing field
of grain, vegetables or berries as
distributors of current. The galva
nized iron conductors were connected
'by wires with the source of current
and the supply regulated by the con
ditions of the atmosphere, the soil
and amount of water in the ground.
Field experiments in electrifying
grain have shown as high as eighty
five per cent, increase In growth over
grain not so treated. Other experi
ments frequently showed forty-five
and fifty-five per cent, increase for
grain and ninety-five per cent, for
raspberries. Peas freely watered in
creased seventy-five per cent, with
electric aid, while peas not watered
did better without electric current.
This is explained by saying that the
; accelerated digestive powers of the
plants “require more food and drink.”
j
FOUvD OUT.
A T a n cl Nurse D.'acovered irs Kflfect
No one is in better position to know
the value of food and drink than a
trained nurse.
Speaking of coffee a nurse of Wilkes
Bat-re, Pa., -writes: “I used to drink
strong coffee myself and suffered great
ly from headaches and indigestion.
AVhile on a visit to my brothers I had
a good chance to try Postum Food Cof
fee. for they drank it altogether in
plac-e of ordinary coffee. In two weeks,
j after using Postum, I found I was
j much benefited and finally my head
j aches disappeared and also the iudiges
| tion.
“Naturally I have since used Postum
among my patients, and have noticed a
marked benefit where coffee has been
left off and Postum used.
“I observe a curious fact about Pos
tum used among mothers. It greatly
helps the flow of milk in cases -where
coffee is inclined to dry it up, and
Where tea causes nervousness.
“I find trouble in getting servants te
make Postum properly. They most al
ways serve it before it has been boiled
long enough. It should be boiled 15 ox
j 20 minutes and served with cream,
i when it is certainly a delicious bever
! age.”
j “There's a reason” for Postum.