UNTENANT BOWMAN. 19 F0HTT-E1GHT IIS PE-BU-IJI1! HIM. Cold Affected Head 2nd Throat Attack Was Severs. Chaa. W. Bowman, 1st ; Lieut.' and Ad jt. 4th M. S. M. Cav. V ols., writes from Lan liam, Md., as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more averee 5 to be coming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present ia stance to add my experience to the col umns already written concerning the cura tive powers of Peruna. ' IJiave been part tenia rlii Itenflted hy Its use for colds in the heiil and throa t. I have been able tofuily cu re myself of a most severe attack. In forty-eight hours by its use according . to direction s, Iuse it as a preventive vchettever threatened tctth an attack. "Members of. my family also use it for like ailments. We are recommending it to our friends." ( Chas, W. Bowman. Ask Tour Jrugglst for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. Peruna is sold by 'your local drug gist. Buy a bottle today. . " So. 3-'07: MUST WORK TOGETHER. No town will become a good busi ness center so long as its business men rely on a few merchants to make the effort to bring trade to town. Too often, the men in a few lines of trad? are about the only ones that reach out after custom. Other merchants Trait until these men induce the peo ple to come to town and; content them selves with trade that naturally drifts to their place. A public spirited man should ask himself if he is doing his part to attract people to come to town , to trade in helping the . entire business community, and no town is a success unless all lines are working to extend the trade as far as possible and trying to bring a' larger terri tory in the circles in which. the town is the business center. Tommy' ' Pa, what is a limited monarchy ?" Pa "Anything less kings., New .'York Sun; than four THE DISCOVERER Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the Great Woman's Remedy for Woman's Ills. LYDIA E. PINKHAM No other medicine for Woman's ills in the,world has received such wide spmwi and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female illnesses or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For more than 30 years it has been curing all forms of Female Complaints, Inflammation and Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness. It has cured more cases of Backache and Local Weaknesses than any other one remedy. It dissolves and expels tumors in an early stage of development. Irregularities and periodical pains, Weakness of the Stomach. Indigestion, Bloating, Nervous Prostration. Headache, General Debility quickly yield to it; also deranged organs, causing pain, dragging" sensations and backache. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the female system. It removes that wearing feeling, extreme lassitude, "don't care" and wantrto-be-left-alone' feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, diz ziness, faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues". These are indications of -Female Weakness or some derangement of the organs, which this medicine cures as well as Chronic Kidney (Complaints and Backache, of either sex. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are rewarded a hundred thousand times, for they gt what they want a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. THE DUTIES OF MERCHANTS TO THE HOME PAPERS. In an address before the Corn Belt Editorial Association, at Storm Lake, Iowa, Mr. A. M. Foster, a local mer chant delivered a thoughtful address on the. duties of merchants to homo papers. He said many. things that it will be profitable to call to the at tention of the business men of their respective cities. Duty and advan tage go together, and it is part of the work, of the press to educate its pat rons as to both. He placed good will at the first abligation of the mer chants to the local press and said: If you will pardon me for a person al illustration, this is what I mean, partially at lest, by good will.- Last fall for the first time we devoted our store basement exclusively to Christ mas toys and novelties. We adver tised the fact generallv, in the local papers, but one day I saw one of our regular customers coming in with a lot of toys. I asked her if she could not find what she wanted in our toy department. "Why," she said, "have you a toy department? Where is it?" I asked her if she did not see our ad. in the papers, and she said she did not take any papers., I said to her: "My good lady, if I were you the first thing I would do would be to go over and subscribe for one and then read theads. You will save your subscription many times over." And the best of it is sha subscribed. 'Another duty the merchant owes the local paper is his patronage. It has been said "by those who have watched the order of events that no merchant can succeed without adver tising in one way or another, and up to this day and age of the world no medium has been found so satisfac tory as the newspaper to convey in formation to the public. And what is advertising but infor- Smiii:? the people what you have to sell 1 I say it is the duty of the mer i chant, and I would also-include the professional men and mechanics, who have business of their own, to pat ronize the local paper not only by their subscriptions, but by advertis ing as well. If wa help to build up the papers they will help to build up tie town and bring to us increased trade, and greater opportunities. I firmly believe that if a place is good enough for a man to live in and to make his. money in it is good enough for him to spend his money in, be he an-editor, merchant, farmer or anybody else. Some merchants have told me they don't believe peo ple read their ads., for they don't see that they get any benefit. Well, suppose for the sake of argument people don 't read some ads. Whose fault is it the newspaper's? Not much. It is the man behind the ad. It is a rare exception for the pub lic not to read anything that is inter esting. Perhaps we ought to dress up our ads a little. For example, fifty men can go down our streets on a hot day in their shirt sleeves and 'you would hardly notice them, but let just cne man go down dressed in the height of fashion, and I'll tell you everybody will sit up and take notice. Why? Because there is something about him that attracts. That is what we ought to do dress up our ads. and make them attractive. Mowing the President's Lawn. Automobile lawn mower used on White House grounds at Washington. A Fighting Auto. Armored trains are no novelty, or at least they are a new thing of yes terday, not to-day. But the armored motor car. Just furnished by Bronirtz to the Russian War Department, is still in its early stages. From wheels to roof this offensive and defensive monster of the highway is designed to be invulnerable. The whole cal ls covered with steel thick enough to resist rifle bullets, and when in action shutters slide up to close all the open ings now seen in the picture. The car carries a large supply of gasolene and ammunition, giving it a wide radius of action and a deadly advan tage over any mob of revolting peas ants against which it may, be sent. The rapid fire gun, mounted on the roof, can be turned in any direction. Rough country, as well as smooth, can be traversed by this new engine of death, which i& likely to bring ter ror to many a hapless dweller In rural Russia in the next few months. The wheels themselves are protect ed by thin nickel steel bullet proof The New Bronirtz War Motor Just Supplied to the Russian Army. plating, while the tires have non puncture proof bands. The car can seat fire persons com fortably, and has an average speed of about thirty miles an hour. Hitherto the difficulty in the use of motors on service nas been that they are liable to get out of order when worked over rougn ground. Here,however, they have solved the difficulty by fixing mbtor engines to both the front and back axles, and by this means the car can more easily extricate itself by its own motive power out of a ditch or any small de pression. The Sphere. Load Freight by Gravity. ' The ordinary box freight car does not appear to be very large from the outside. A close, examination will show that from the door to either end is fully twenty feet, which means that men employed in loading a car travel quite a distance. The time thus consumed in loading a box car is considerable, and to reduce the time and labor more than half two Minnesota men have designed the freight carrier shown here. A glance at the illustration will convince the reader that by such a method a great deal of time and labor could be saved. This freight carrier is op erated by gravity. It is composed of two parallel rails, the ends of which are curved to reach the back of the car. On each track are small wheels, spaced equal distances apart. In loading the car the end of the track on the platform is raised by supports above the remainder of the carrier. VIEW OF THE FAMOUS CHEESE HOLLAND, SHOWING HOW THE BY WAXED CLOTH FROM wmMf W 'iDTSTiT'-inTriivFin "t r"ii,rniT innn niiim aUntj , I -v , , , t ' It is necessary only to start the bun dle on its journey, the wheels carry- Car Loaded-by Gravity. ing it to the other end of the track and into the car. Philadelphia Record. f An Incomplete Prescription. A prominent Southern phjsician, upon reaching his office one morning, found an old negro who had been a servant in his family 'standing in the waiting room. The old negro, after mentioning several painful symptoms, related his usual hard-luck story, and begged the doctor to prescribe. The physician filled a small bottle and said, "Take a teaspoonful of this, Mose, after each meal, and come back in a day eft- two if you do not feel better." "Mars' John, I can't take dat med'eine," answered Mose. "You will have to take it if you want to get well." "How'm I gwlne take it? Whar'm I gwine get de meals?" Woman's Home Companion. , YUAN SHIH kAI. Viceroy of the Province of Chili, and now Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army. He announces that he will intro duce constitutional government in his own province. Luxury in Games. In every way golf has become more expensive subscriptions, clubs, balls, caddies and Munches, especially the two latter items. One might moral ize to any extent on the luxury of the present age, even in games. London Mail. Asphalt is found in dried-up pe troleum beds. MARKET AT. HOORN, NORTH CHEESES ARE PROTECTED DAMAGE BY THE SUN. rG ' - " O' HOW V-Tji-E. Their Homes and GamesThe t Greiaation of , the Dzzd, em The westbound train arrives at Yuma early in the morning. ' Every where, are Indians in gay garments, and with blankets around them de spite the heat. Some of the men wear straw hats and jeans; the wornsn have their heads covered by black shawls which fall over their shoulders. All! of them have blankets. All of them braid their black hair, so that from behind one cannot distinguish sex. Crossing the great iron bridge ever the Colorado, saj-s a writer in the Southern' Workman, you are on the Ytfnia Reservation. The stages leave hero ffor Lagana, where the Government i3 building the largesj dam in the world, except that of the Nile. The horse corrals near the stage station interest the stranger. They are mere stalls of poles, for in Yuma they need provide neither for rain nor for cold. There are signs everywhere warn ing people against being on the re servation without a permit, and also against trading with jthe Indians.. No sign is seen, however, prohibiting photography, and so we level the kodak at a woman. In an instant she has -hidden her facs under her blanket and has scurried away. A little further away on the reser vation, where the arrow weed and the pigweed rise to the height of pampas grass and hide vast coveys of quail, are scattered the adobe huts of the Indians. Here, there, anywhere they choose, they build their shacks, some cf them miles from the nearest nsighbor and hidden from sight in the arrow weed bushes.. The huts are square, and in front the rcof overhangs a mass of dried brush fastened to two poles at either corner. At the sides open the cage like corrals for the horses, mere" poles set fence fashion. Dogs are everywhere, as numerous as in Tur key, and they and the men and the women slink by absolutely noiseless. Even Jthe innumerable children are quiet. - There is a small church on the reservation, and at its side, ' in a frame, an iron bell that the Catholic priest is ringing. It takes me back to the days of the missions. In contrast, across the railway on the bluffs, is the modern Indian school. The jant to it is alwaj's in teresting to the visitor. Across the bridge you go in company with sad faced Indian squaws, very dark, and the darker for their gay-colored gar ments of many hued borders. On their heads the long black , hair lies uncombed, and they sometimes wear bags bound on the forehead and hanging down the back; these serve as a kind of ornamental top comb, and in them the supplies are carried from town to reservation. Among the Yumas there is held a corn feast every September, when all the tribe gathers for a three days' meeting. Then there are games and dancing and singing and a feast of corn and watermelon and anything elsa that can be purchased. The principal game of the aoults on the reservation here is hoop the pole, the hoop being rolled on the flat desert and the pole then thrown through it. This the bucks will play on the hottest daj', no matter how freely the perspiration falls from them. Shinny is another favorite game. Some of the Yumas have married according to the rites of the Catholic Church, but, for the most part, nup tials are according to the Indian cus tom. . Burning the dead, as observed among the Yumas, is interesting. The body is first thoroughly wrapped and then placed on logs and brush over a hole in the ground. A bed of logs is built up at each side and at the head of the, bier, which is next covered and surrounded by dry fag gots. The fames are applied and while tney Dura the clothing, blankets, etc., of the deceased are added to the fire. The horsa of the dead man, however, is not burned among the Yumas as is the custom with some Indians. A day or two after death the wig wam of the deceased, if an adult, is burned, the rest of the family then going to live with some relative. The Yumas make a great show of sorrow over their dead. Later they are never mentioned at all. The medicine men are still largely In control among the Yumas and the Government makes no attempt to in terfere. Usually their patients grow sicker, s3 that they proclaim them doomed to die and their prophecy will almost always come true. The Government allows its 800 Yumas-, 4500 acres of land an ir regular tract extending fourteen miles up the river and ten down. Of this 1800 acres will be irrgable when the Laguna dam is done. Inasmuch as the Indians may set tle where they choose on the lands, it Is probable that the widely scat tered houses will then be drawn closer together. As it is now, Yuma itself is really the only village among them. Other Indian tribes receive food and clothing, but the Yumas receive only he land. When not hunting or mending their houses or attending wedding festivities, groups of Yu mas, living in one long wickiup, will take work on the railroad, or on .farms, or else cut and sell wood from the timber on the reservation. The Indian women are the laun dresses of Yuma, .'receiving a .dollar a day: for-their ;70rk." Gambling la tho cardinal vice of the! Yumas, but as this is never done outside of the tribe, the money remains in the fam ily, so to speak. There is no saving, however; everything goes fori food, and only when that is gone will they work out to get more'. .Fortune cool-ore mnroniror eow nror r tribe receives no money from the Government. , - : 4 DEARTH OF CATCH PHRASES. 1 . Old Ones Hackneyed oixd No Ncv7 Cues to Take Their Places.. "Song writers .are- becoming alarmed at the continued absence of a catch phrase," said Mr. .Charles. Wilmott, the well-known musical au thor. "Are we . downhearted?" has had a good , innings, but nothing new, I'm afraid, is likely to turn up Until fllfl n n n n A VTl phrases have been invented since the holidays without striking popular fancy. We had hoped that some. of the seaside pierrot3 would have de vised a fresh phrase Take, for -example, 'Are we downhearted?' There are many stories as. to the origin of that phrase, the most authentic, i be lieve, being that it was an impromptu wheeze from the brain of a seaside pierrot. But the holiday season crop has failed, and for the first time for a good many years London is without its catch phrase. Go to any music hall, which you must bear in mind Is the quickest reflex of any street phrase struggling for popularity, and there" Is no effective substitute for 'Now we sha'n't be long,' 'Where did you get that hat?' 'Knocked 'em in the Old Kent road,' or 'They're all very fine and large.' Whether the creators of these phrases-f each of them famous in their -day have lost their originality, or whether the pubT lie taste is becoming more refined, I do not know." The art of winning the public fancy , with a catch phrase depends on the skill of the man who seeks 'to do so. A politician may unconsciously coin a phrase that will cling to Ihini for ever, such as Mr. Balfour's!"! am a child in these matters;" Mr. Winston Churchill's "terminological jinexacti tude," and Lord Rosebery's Vplowing the lonely furrow." But with a, pro fessional Yorick it is different. ; The way Harry Randall popularized "Get your, hair cut" at the Grand! Theatre some years ago was a masterpiece. At his , entry in every scene,Jfi the pciiiLuiiiAiiie iae irozaDone piayea ine' opening bar of the song. As scene roiiowed scene his hair gradually got shorter, till at last he was ' perfectly bald, and when the trombone played the notes again he brought down the house with the remark, "YouS're just too late." Years ago, at the' Stand ard Theatre, Cyrus Bell, a well-known comedian, leaped into fame i as the originator of "I never expected tljat" a phrase uttered by him eaiftf "time a property brick or cat greeted ihim as-he took the stage. v The .following A year he won more popularity by twisting the phrase into "Thai's; just what I expected." i ! mere is. a iamt nope mat tne open Ing words of the song "Put a little bit away for a rainy day" may soon! be transformed into a catch phrasej It is very popular just now bn ac?i count of its homely melody alid the' catchy rendering: of the old Droverb. ft is sung by one of the sisters Levy. "Waiting at the Church" is; ahother popular song, which has met with great success in America, where car toonists have seised upon a certain line in it and are booming it for all they are worth. One of the most popular airs in London at present is, according to Messrs. Francis)' Day. and Hunter, Whit Cunliffe's "lello, hello; it's a different girl again." London News. I - Tricks of the Types. : An amusing column in ; the New York Sun, entitled "Humors of Newts-' paper Type," reminds me of a modest collection in my scrapbook that might add a little to the" happiness of man kind. : ' A kinsman of mine, a man of most . correct method, was rewarded forihis pains with the printing of his mar riage ncftice in the death column Investigation of the official conduct of a postmaster occasioned the report that he was acquitted of any '.'inter national" wrongdoing.- : ' Mr. Eostock's return was chron icled as the homecoming cf an. "an nual trainer with new features to show." !; ' A coroner( was "killed" in Erooklyn when he should have been called. On the financial side "wheat" "was depressed one day by weakness in the steel shares and a certain "cufb" stock recovered iu the "subsequent deluge" (dealings),' j An account of equestrianism in bui park related that morning was the time when the "horseless" riders were out in greatest force. Shortly afterward the preparations for the nuptials of a j-oung lady of the greater city were described I zs arrangements for her "murder." - P. A case of marital infelicity , under the headlinef "She is 18 He Is 78," was detailed in the body of the arti cle with a revision of her age as X)3 and his as 15$. . ! L Last, but not least, the protrait of a gentleman said to be engaged to marry a famous prima donna was published as "Calve's Finance." -J. W. E. . ' Among other treasures, the Czar keeps in a glass case in a villa in the grounds of the palace at Peterhof the first sod of the great Siberian rail way, which he turned, as Czarevitch, about thirteen years ago. t- : W . ,r sgagj' i ii inn 1 1 iwiiii i

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