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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.