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STORIES OF
THE FAKIRS
By
J. P. JOHNSTON
Author of “Twenty Years of
Hus’ling,” “ What Happened
to Johnston,” Etc.
THE GIVE-AWAY GRAFT.
Corn-Salve Agent Gives Away Money
—Lines Up His Customers and
Deals Out Dimes and Quarters —
Electric Belts at S2O Apiece—His
Clever Escape from His Dupes—
JjJugar Sold at Cost Price—Sugar
Grafter Caught by Angry Farmers
and Landed in Jail.
BY J. P. JOHNSTON.
(Author of “Twenty Years of Hus’ling,”
“What Happened to Johnston.’’)
(Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The day of the old-time give-away
graft apparently will never end.
The first time I ever saw this game
played I was eight years of age, and
the last time 1 was 52. I found it to
be the same a year ago as it was 45
years ago, except that in the latter
instance the suckers were more plen
tiful. Perhaps the modern grafter
was the more clever of the two; at
any rate, he was clever enough.
He would go out upcn the streets
in a livery carriage on a circus or
county fair day, after having “fixed”
the chief of police. While the dZver
jogged the team along the main street,
the grafter would stand up in the car
riage, throw silver pieces and dollar
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bills right and left and shout at the
top of his voice that hs intended to
distribute $50,000 on the streets that
afternoon.
As soon as a large crowd had gath
ered at the corner at which he stopped,
he began extolling the wonderful
curative properties of a corn salve
which was put up in wooden loxes.
Had he been actually selling the rem
edy on its merits, he couldn’t have
made a stronger or more effective
talk.
Finally, bringing forth his big roll
of money, he said: “I have a system
of advertising this salve that will
make every man who deals with me
remember it as long as he lives. Now,
gentlemen, the more liberal you are
with me, the more generous 1 can be
with you. My purpose to-day is. first
to sell one dozen boxes of this salve,
and I want every man w makes a
purchase to remain right here, ready
to hold up the box in plain view when
I ask him to do so. Now, then, who
will give me ten cents for this box?
Remember, the more liberal you are
with me, the more generous I can be
with you. and I shall sell but one
dozen boxes now. Who will give me
ten cents for this one?”
In an instant, four dozen hands
were up, each holding a ten-cent piece.
After handing out 12 boxes, he re
fused to sell any more for the time
being.
When the 12 boxes had been deliv
ered and paid for, he lined up the 12
buyers in a row and said:
“You have been liberal with me,
now I’ll be generous with you.”
Then, turning to the first man. he
asked him if he would be satisfied to
receive back twice the amount he had
paid, and keep the remedy, too.
When the man said he would, the
grafter handed him 20 cents, saying:
“Now, sir, will you promise me, eith
er to use this salve yourself, or give
it to some one who will, and not for
get the name of it?”
The man agreed and the grafter
did the same thing and demanded the
same promise in the case of each of
the others.
“Now\ gentlemen.” he went on, “I
am going to make up another pool for
advertising purposes; but remember,
none of the 12 w’ho were in this pool
can come in with the next. Don’t
forget, gentlemen, the more liberal
you are with me, the more generous
I can be w'ith you. Now. then, here
are two dozen boxes. Who will give
me 25 cents for this box? Who is
the first man to show me that he has
confidence in me?”
In a jiffy, a hundred hands were up.
sack holding a quarter.
Wh«n tw’o dozen had been passed
out and the cash received for them,
he lined up two rows of 12 men each,
and, exacting from each the same
promise as before, he gave back to
every buyer his 25 cents and 25 addi
tional, and allowed each to keep his
box of salve.
By this time the crowd h(Td in
creased and the excitement was in
tense.
“Now,” said the grafter, “I am go
ing to drive over there on the other
corner, and I don’t want you men
who have been in the last two pools
to follow me.”
He then ordered his driver to take
him to the opposite corner, and, of
course, the whole crowd, including his
pool members, followed him. Again
addressing the crowd, he said:
“Gentlemen, a few moments ago I
formed a pool of 36 men across the
street for the purpose of advertising!
my firm’s famous corn salve, and al
though it cost me a little money, yet
the amount given away is a mere
bagatelle compared with what we will
get as a result of this advertising.”
Then, opening a large valise, he pro
duced some electric belts, and ex
plained that he wanted to do a little
advertising for them as well.
“Now, gentlemen,” he continued, “I
am going to form one or two, or pos
sibly three pools on these belts for
the purpose of advertising them.”
He then gave an excellent and con
vincing talk on electric belts, and im
mediately proceeded as follows:
“Now, friends, I want to impress
upon your minds that the moie liberal
you are with me the more generous I
can be with you. Who will give me
S2O for this belt? Remember, I am
going to leave it with each one of»you,
to pass up any amount, from one to
twenty dollars — no less than one, no
more than twenty, and the more lib
eral yo’u are with me, the more gen
erous I can be with you.” And look
ing straight at a well dressed business
man, he said:
“Haven’t you confidence enough in
me to pay me S2O for this belt?”
“Yes, sir, I have,” said the man,
passing up « $2. bill and receiving a
belt.
“Now,” said the grafter, “I wish you
would stand right over on this side
of the carriage until I ask you to hold
up your belt. Now,” he continued,
“who will give me $lO for this one?”
and turning to one of three colored
men who stood near, he said: “Have
you got $lO, sir?”
“Yes. sah, I has,” came the reply.
“Well, then, give it to me and take
this belt,” shouted the gra r ter. and
the darky meekly did as requested.
“Now,” said the grafter, “you i tand
ou this other side of the carriage.’*
Then he asked'for a $5 investor, at
the same time announcing that one
or two dollars -would be accepted, and
immediately a flood of one and two
dollai- ifllls came pouring in.
Those who paid one dollar he lined
up in one row, and the two dollar men
in another, admonishing all that none
should leave until he was through
with them.
After the one and two dollar rush,
he called for ano her five dollar in
vestor, still repeating: “The more
liberal you are with me, the more gen
erous I can be with you.” Two men
came forward, each with a $5 bill,
and then four more followed, all of
whom were lined up by themselves.
At this juncture he began another
talk on the wonderful curative proper
ties of the belts, and then called for
four more S2O investors, whom he
soon found, together with still five
others, making altogether ten S2O
dupes.
Turning to the two colored men who
stood looking on. he said: “Why
haven’t you men bought?”
“Because we hain’t got no money,”
came the reply.
Addressing their colored comrade in
the $lO row, the grafter said:
“Here, loan these men two dollars
apiece,” which he instant.y did, and
before they had time to get into line,
he once more turned to the old col
ored man and said:
“Here, loan your friends each an
other two dollars, and hurry up be
fore I close these pools.”
As if completely under his control
the old darky handed it over and the
grafter handed each another electric
belt.
By this time he was ready for more
$lO investors, and soon had at least
a dozen of them. Then he wanted a
larger pool of $5 investors, and as if
in duty bound to contribute their
share, several who had stood out to
the last came forward.
As it now’ began to look as if he
were closing up at least 20 men came
forward with from one to two dol
lars, and were lined up where they
belonged.
Suddenly the grafter, as if hearing
some one in the crowd making re
marks, said:
“What’s that? Was that meant for
me?”
And looking intently in one direc
tion, as though grenly wrought up:
“So you are going to cut out my heart,
are you? Well, now, we’ll see about
that.”
Reaching in his valise, he brought
out an ugly looking corn cutter, with
a blade fully 18 inches long, and care-
fully feeling its edge, he recited the
Razor poem, as follows:
“You know a gun shoots fast and
loud,
But a razor is the real thing in a
crowd.
I could have used it better than a 44,
If they had only fought with razors
in the war.”
Then, corn cutter in hand, he coolly
crawled down from the buggy, and be
gan walking slowly through the
crowd, carefully scrutinizing every
face as if trying to locate the man
who had threatened to take his heart’s
blood. The glitter of the corn cutter,
and the terrible look of vengeance
on his face had the desired effect, and
when he climbed back into the car
riage, every man stood as if paralyzed.
They seemed to have forgotten what
had happened, or what was expected
to happen.
Immediately the grafter signaled
the driver to start, he himself remaining
standing in the carriage as if terribly
agitated and repeating:
“I would like to see some man cut
my heart out; would just like to have
him try it,” at the same time feeling
the edge of the big knife, as if to see
that it was sufficiently sharp.
The team went off at a trot. The
grafter’s hotel and livery bills had
been paid in advance, and no stop
was made until they had reached a
small town 20 miles away.
The grafter was S4OO or SSOO to the
good. As the carriage moved away
the dupes still stood in line, staring
sheepishly at one another, with ten
cent belts dangling from their hands.
The old darky who had been so obe
dient was the only man who had the
courage to protest.
“See yher,” he yelled, “you gener
ous white man, what my fambiy gwine
to do fer sumpin to eat? Gim me
back ma ten dollars, or I top you
buggy over, you schoundrel!”
So saying, he and his two colored
companions rushed toward the car
riage, when an officer who stood con
veniently near said:
“What you niggers loitering around
here for? Go on home, or I’ll run
you in.”
Eventually, of course, this clever
grafter landed in state’s prison.
A Chicago man once made a great
deal of money out of the sugar graft.
With an old horse and a covered
peddler's wagon, he started out with
a load of sugar, put up in tin cans,
each holding SI.BO worth at retail.
The wholesale price was about $1.25.
After remaining in some county
seat long enough to “get a line on the
town,” he would start out and call
upon the farmers of that county, with
a proposition to sell one of his 30
pound cans of white sugar for $1.25
in cash. He would represent that ho
had recently moved to their county
seat, where he expected to reside in
the future, and would make regular
30 day trips, enabling them to re
plenish their supply of sugar at the
lowest possible price.
Sugar, being a staple article, and
there being an actual saving of 50
cents on every purchase, he had no
difficulty whatever in making a sale
at the house of almost every thrifty
well-to-do farmer. Many a farmer,
who wondered how this man could af
ford to sell sugar so much cheaper
than the cheapest grocers in many in
stances paid for it several times over.
The graft was more like thieving
than grafting. When selling a can,
of sugar for $1.25, the grafter would
almost invariably be handed a five,
ten, v or even a twenty dollar bill.
Having become very skillful in
palming, he would always keep
palmed in one hand a one dollar bill,
nicely folded in such a way that the
figures would not show on either side.
Should a farmer hand him a larger
bill, he would begin folding it as he
had the one dollar bill, and then
would suddenly say:
“Well, here I am, short of change,
so just let this go, and pay me on my
next trip, in 30 days.”
He would then shift the large bill
for the one dollar bill, and, handing
the latter to the farmer, would say:
“Put it in your pocket and pay me
next time.”
There was not one chance in a
thousand that the farmer would un
fold the bill, but he would lay it care
fully away in his purse, just as it had
been banded him.
This was a graft of some magnitude.
To make 15 or 20 sales per day was
not an uncommon thing, and where
the proper change was given the
grafter received the first cost of the
goods at least, and if only a half
dozen farmers were grafted in a day,
his ill gotten wealth accumulated rap
idly. He was very careful not to go
into the county seat again during his
stay in that county and never to
travel any road the second time. To
replenish his stock, he would have
several barrels of sugar shipped to
small near-by towns.
This grafter’s success through Illi
nois was something marvelous for a
business operated without capital.
After a few months he decided to try
Kansas, and the second day out he
was overtaken by a party of six or
seven men on horseback whom he had
victimized the day before, and who
immediately took him from the wagon,
forced him to pay back their money,
and enough more to defray their ex
penses. Then they took him back to
the county seat and landed him in
jail.
Picture on a Man.
A deserter from the British army
was identified recently by the follow
ing tattoo marks upon him: A crws
on the left forearm, with the words
“In loving memory;’ a jockey with two
flags, Buffalo Bill, a heart on the back
of the left hand, a horseshoe with
crossed whips, a cross with the figure
of a soldier leaning on it, a pierced
heart, a heart on the right forearm, a
heart with clasped hands, a soldier and
a girl.
European Armies.
The armies of continental countries
are the first branch of the service.
The cost of the French army is sl3s*-
000,000 per annum. Germany can put
into the field a vast, well-equipped
army for $160,000,000 a year. The Rue
sian army, another tremendous ma
chine, costs $200,000,000 a year. In
cluding India, England is paying
$265,000,000 a year.
On Fashions in General
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OF SOFT WOOL.
All through the winter white will
continue to be worn, of course for
house dresses. Until very late in the
fall, however, white is seen on the
city streets, people clinging lovingly
to this almost universally becoming
color, or lack of color. White serges
abound, usually with a long coat, and
all the winter long the lingerie waist
will exhibit its daintiness and snowi
ness. For the chilly person little un
derslips of silk will have to be pro
vided, but with a very warm outside
wrap the thin waist without a lining
will answer for many a woman.
Colored underslips advance in favor,
and when of a color harmonizing with
the suit, or of a shale that contrasts
prettily, they are charming. With a
mahogany sirt and coat the slip worn
under the sheer waist may be of pink
silk, which will be toned down suffi
ceutly to appear but a suggestion of
rose, carrying out a color scheme ac
cording to latest fashion.
White tailored waists in the new
fail styles are on display, and my lady
is eagerly studying patterns. They are
as a rule trim and tailory, although
we believe we shall have some frilled
shirtw’aists over here before the mid
dle of the season. And we remember
It was a very pretty shirtwaist they
wore years ago—when the shirtwaist
made its bow —with a frill down each
side of the front band. The stock was
net at all fussy and the waist in gen
eral neat and plain, the only trimming
the frills. They looked very pretty
peeping from an open jacket, and gave
a graceful fulness if the wearer had a
figure a little too slender.
Recently we studied a waist designed
to be worn with a three-piece suit of
brown, and liked it perhaps the best
of any of the new models. The back fit
ted easily, but did not blouse, the front
was rather loose, the sleeves had a
puff to the elbow, and the long cuff,
which fitted perfectly, was fastened
with small gilt buttons. The hat worn
with this might well be one of the
pretty new beavers, soft yet somewhat
on a stiff tricorne order, the only trim
ming a plume extending from one side
Some Pretty Fall Millinery
The exaggerations predicted earlier
in hats are not to be inflicted upon us
this year after all. Of course there
will be a few of the grand tall ladies
that will appear in crowns of awesome
height, and look very well in them,
too; but the small woman and the av
erage woman need not feel it incum
bent to go about under a chimney-pot
affair. Hats are to be of medium size
and medium height. The fall milli
nery, we are delighted to say, is ex
tremely attractive rather than odd.
To be sure we borrow a great deal
from old fashions in this season’s mil-
A GRACEFUL HAT.
linery, but from old fashions that were
charming. What could be better with
the dressy costume than a hat like the
one in our illustration? It is simple
and yet its full, graceful lines give it
the air of belonging to the wardrobe
of a dame of high decree. And we may
pronounce this typical; the roll at one
side, the fluffy plume enlarging the
cutline. Plumes of medium length are
seen quite often ( much better than the
very long, ragged affairs that adorned
(?) the so-called picture hat —which,
as worn by those that could afford only
cheap imitations of grandeur, was the
sorriest thing ever seen on the streets
In the way of woman’s costuming; we
lejoteo its day is
Yesterday we saw a hat that looked
as though it had been taken bodily
from an old French picture book, and
we stared at it through its glass case
to make sure it was real. It was flat,
but with a monstrous bandeau that
would elevate it high above the coif
fure; a black felt or silky beaver, and
flat about the brim, close up to the
crown, was a wrea+h of flowers of deep
pink shade, so constructed and placed
they looked as though painted on the
down over the back of hat and hair.
The simply trimmed hat has reached
perfection this year, and is much more
attractive for utility wear than any
fussy headgear.
Beavers come in pastel shades, and
one of a Gobelin-blue is very pretty, 1
trimmed with one plume or with a soft |
scarf. The soft scarf and draping veil ■
is again in esteem, and we shall have
the be-voiled lady once more. The bil
lowing veil is generally becoming
when the veil is fresh and new, but
when dampness has worn it to a rag it
should at once be discarded. There is
a liking for the real lace veil, and
Chantilly, the dear old-fashioned
thing, is very stylish. It reminds of
genteel days and lavendar; is charm
ingly new-old.
There will be Short sleeves and long
sleeves, perhaps the latter will appeal
a little more to the exclusive ciass, the
former having become so common.
Yet it is a fashion that may well be af
fected by both rich and poor, serving
as economy for the one and allowing
of display by the other; the poor girl
saves on frayed and soiled dress cuffs,
can give a dressy touch to the plainest
waist by addition of lineegrie cuffs and
stock, the rich girl can throw away
her money on expensive long gloves.
Everyone seems satisfied with the
short sleeve.
We offer a design for a soft wool
waist, a white ground dotted with pale
blue. It has the low neck which those
that can stand a collarless blouse will
affect this season, and the bit of hand
work that everyone will go in for. The
stitchings may be worked in a darker
shade of blue.
Soft wools are to the fore, and come
in all shades, softest pastels as well as
the standard colors. The graceful
gown here illustrated is of pale rose
cashmere, the skirt long and full, the
bodice has fichu folds bordered with
narrow frills of silk and fastening with
rosettes of silk. The chemisette should
be of cream or white flufflness of some
sort, lace or net or chiffon. The sleeves
are just the thing to give the finishing
touch to this design.
black, a very part of it. Then a white
plume started on one side and tell
down over the bandeau of the back.
The monstrous bandeau was veiled
with —what do you think? Some brown
maline. It may sound not at all pret
ty, but in reality it was a picture,
would be most effective with one of
the black broadcloth suits new so
much in favor. It gave the fashiona
ble magpie, the black and white com
bination; and also the painted-trim
ming look that is the novelty of the
day.
We find adorable printed velvets, the
latest thing in belts; they come in
many shades, the decorations are small
bunches of tiny flowers, or of smallish
single flowers. Beautiful ribbons on
this order are on display, in use for
string ties to wear with lay-down col
lars, or to wind about e be-ruched
band. We have had the ribbon vogue
heralded for long, and now we believe
in it at last.
Felt hats are to be very fashionable,
and there will be some painted brims
in contrasting colors, some embroid
ered ones. Flowers will be worn as
we do not remember them to have
been any winter since we began “to
take notice.” Here is an importation
from Paris —a plum-colored felt; one
side of the crown, resting on the brim,
a mixed bouquet, consisting of wild
roses, honeysuckles, daffodils, and pur
ple thistles, each accompanied by some
of its own foliage. This may seem ex
treme, but when presented to the eye
is very pleasing indeed.
ELLEN OSMONDE.
The Mosquito Theory.
Almost all competent students of the
subject believe that the mosquito is
practically the sole propagator of yel
low fever. We must add, says the New
York Medical Journal, that there are a
few who still, while admitting the pre
ponderating part played by the insect,
entertain a lingering doubt as to its be
ing the only vehicle for the spread of
the infection. This doubt ought to be
either greatly strengthened or utterly
dissipated by the great experiment—for
such it is—that is now going on in
Louisiana and is likely to be extended to
the neighboring states. The disease has
gained such headway and we are yet so
far away from frost, that Its suppression
within a moderate length of time can
not reasonably be imputed to gny other
agency than the measures taken by the
public health and marine hospital
service—that is to say, measures for
putting an end to the mosquito’s activ
ity in conveying it. For our own part,
we are confident that the mosquito the
ory will be incontrovertibly confirmed
and the epidemic promptly suppressed;
if .however, in company with the great
mass of careful observers we are mis
taken, the sooner we discover our error
the better.
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WAYS OF HANDLING MANURE
One Farmer Who Has ±'roved to His
Own Satisfaction That the
Spreader Pays.
I am able to give correct figures in
regard to manure spreaders, as I hire
all my work done on my frams and
keep very close account of labor-saving
devices. I have investigated this ma
nure business for the past two years
carefully, and have corresponded with
nearly all the experiment stations on
this one subject of keeping manure and
applying it. I believe my way of han
dling manure is about right.
I wheel to the shed during the five
months I cannot use the spreader to
spread it on the fields direbt from sta
ble. I can load, draw to field half a
a mile distant, unload and return to
barn at manure shed in 30 minutes, one
man doing all the work. It would take
30 minutes longer to do the same work
11HW i’lWbli f MAHURE I
STALLS AND MANURE SHED.
without the spreader. For this reason
a man will and can w’ork harder in
putting on the load if he knows he can
sit down on a good seat and ride for
ten minutes, and rest while unloading.
I had rather have one load of manure
(so far as results are concerned) un
loaded with the spreader than three
loads unloaded by hand, on grass stub
ble or meadows. It is more evenly
distributed to the grass roots and cov
ers as much ground, if not more. My
spreader carries about 50 bushels at a
load, drawn by three horses. Thirty
acres of meadows are covered each
year with my dairy and horses’ output
of manure. I use the fine manure from
the horses for an absorbent back of the
cows, wheel it into the shed and let
it lie there and decay until October. It
is then spread just before the fall rains
come, so that the manure will not dry
up on the ground by the hot sun. Be
ing put under a good shed with tight
sides, without a cement cellar, the ma
nure does not leach any to speak of.
I cannot speak or write enough about
the manure spreader, this farmer con
cludes in his letter to the Orange Judd
Farmer. Every farmer that has ten
cows should have one.
DAIRYING WITH SILAGE.
It Is the Only Successful Method—
Getting the Best Results from
the Silo.
The dairy farmer who undertakes to
earry his operations through the win
ter without silage has uphill work all
the time. The prosperous dairy far
er seeds down 20 or 25 acres every year,
keeps his straw under cover and grows
a good field of corn for silage every
year. The solution of the question of
making cheap milk lies in the silo, for,
in the opinion of the Farmers’ Review,
good corn silage is undoubtedly the best
and cheapest milk-producing food that
has yet been grown. To get best results
it must be made from well-matured
corn, and intelligently fed. The cutting
is very important, more so than
most people imagine. In the first
place good, well-built cutters must be
employed, for after the corn is cut in
the field, it should be put through the
cutter and into the silo as rapidly as
possible. The shorter the lengths are
cut the closer they pack in the silo;
hence use a machine which has ample
capacity to do the cutting in short
lengths and do it fast. Just keep in
mind that you are handling green
stuff, with the object of putting it up
green. It is no trick to make good
silage—hefe is the recipe: Cut the
corn when the kernels are well glazed;
fill the silo as rapidly as possible; cut
the stalks into pieces, say an inch long
—shorter would be better; tramp down
the corners well; see that the silo is
perfectly air-tight—then you have it.
A NEW PEACH INSECT.
Found Inside of the Ripened Fruit
and No Trace Outside to Show
How It Got In.
It is gratifying to learn that the
“little peach” disease, which has been
troubling some of the Michigan or
chards recently, is now under intelli
gent investigation and that there is
good ground to hope that it will be not
only kept from spreading, but will be
entirely rooted out. What the cause of
this may be cannot be said yet. But,
says the National Stockman, there is
little doubt that more than one of the
diseases which affect the peach come
from gathering up peach seeds pro
miscuously to plant for young trees to
be budded.
Just now word comes from northern
Ohio principally of a new insect inside
the ripening peaches. There is said to
be no trace of it on the outside; no
marks as to where or how it got in,
but there it is inside, getting its suste
nance from the fruit. This would look
as though the egg had been laid at
or very near the time of blossoming.
’Jsually spraying is wholly omitted
when the trees are in bloom, but fur
ther understanding of the matter may
necessitate a change in this respect.
DAIRY WISDOM.
When calves are kept in the stable,
they should be given, now and then, a
piece of sod with the earth attached.
Why calves should crave this sort
of thing is hard to explain, but they do
and it should be supplied.
What is the use of weighing the milk
of each cow? Simply to find out which
cow is the thief, carrying the bag, with
nothing in it—for you.
A dairyman with a small herd of cows
can well afford to build a silo —and in
crease his herd and his profits.—Farm
Journal
If any cows are about to calve dur
ing the hot days of July, they should
be kept in the stable during the heat of
the day, at- least, and some dry food
given to them.
Mothers An Helped
THEIR HEALTH RESTORED
Happiness of Thousands of Homes Duo
to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice.
A devoted mother seems to listen to
every call of duty excepting the su
preme one that tells her to guard her
health, and before she realizes it some
derangement of the female organs has
manifested itself, and nervousness and
Irritability take the place of happi
ness and amiability.
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Tired, nervous and irritable, the
mother is unfit to care for her chil
dren, andhercondition ruins the child's
disposition and reacts upon herself.
The mother should not be blamed, as
she no doubt is suffering with back
ache, headache, bearing-down pains or
displacement, making life a burden.
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound is the unfailing cure for this
condition. It strengthens the female
organs and permanently cures all dis
placements and irregularities
Such testimony as the following
should convince women of its value:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham •
“ I want to tell you how much good Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done me.
I suffered for eight years with ovarian
troubles. I was nervous, tii-ed and ir
ritable, and it did not seem as t hough I could
stand it any longer, as I had five children to
care for. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound was recommended and it has en
tirely cured me. I cannot thank you’ enough
for your letter of advice and for what Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done
for me.—Mrs. Pn. Hoffman, 100 Himrod
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.”
Mrs. Pinkham advises s’ok women
tree. Address, Lynn, Mass.
INVENTION AND INDUSTRY.
America makes more barrels than
any other country. The annual pro
duction is 300,000,000 barrels and cir
cular packages.
The production of anthracite coal in
August was 5,041,838 tons, as com
pared with 4,325,734 tons last year, an
increase of 716,104 tons.
The woman’s cooperative guild of
England has a membership of 18,600
women. It was organized in 1883 and
has been very successful.
There is still another new high ex
plosive—“vigorite”—which has been
invented* and tested in Bavaria. It 13
said to be ten times more active than
any of the other high explosives.
A French chemist is said to have
discovered a method of rendering cel
luloid incombustible. His method con
sists in adding perchloride of iron to
an ether-alcohol solution of celluloid.*
The imports of cotton into the Unit
ed Kingdom for June, 1905, surpass in
value those of June, 1904, by $8,540,-
717.22, and the value of expoits of yarn
and textile fabrics for the same period
exceeds that of June, 1904, by $25,127.-
802.89.
Statistics are now brought forward
to show that America has supplanted
France as the leader in the motor car
industry. Not only does the United
States supply 95 .per cent, of the curs
now' in this country, but American
manufacturers are now shipping cars
all over the world.
It has been shown that small crys
tals having the luster, hardness, grav
ity and index of refraction of dia
mond can be obtained by heating in
the electric arc pulverized carbon on
a spiral iron wire, the heating taking
place is hydrogen and under great
pressure—3,loo atmospheres.
Capt. Edward Mollueux, of the East
Indian service, has perfected a device
for laying a very fine cable from
horseback, and in practice marches it
has been found possible to keep in tel
egraphic communication with other
divisions even while on the move. Tho
wire cun be paid out while tho mount
proceeds at a hard gallop, and may be
reeled in again as rapidly as it was
paid out.
AWFUL NEURALGIA
Mr. Porter Thought He Should Go Mad
But Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
Cured Him.
“It seems like a miracle that Dr.
Williams* Pink Pills should have cured
my neuralgia, ’ ’ said Mr. Porter. ‘ They
are certainly a marvelous medicine and
I am always glad to recommend them.
“For two years,” he continued, “Ihad
Buffered al most unendurable pains in my
head. They would start over my eyes
and shoot upward most frequently, but
they often spread over my face, and at
times every part of my head and face
would be full of agony. Sometimes the
pains were so intense that I actually
feared they would drive me mad.
“ My eyes ached constantly and there
was always a burning sensation over my
forehead, but the other pains varied,
sometimes they were acute, and again
they were dull and lingering. I could
not sleep. My temper was irritable and
I got no pleasure out of life.
“ I tried remedy after remedy, but
finding no help in any of them, I be
came a despairing man. Even when I
began to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills I
had no great hope of a cure.
“ That was in, December of 1903. To
my surprise, a change in my condition
took place right away. The pains grew
less intense and the acute attacks were
further apart, as I kept on using Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills. The improvement be
gan with the first box, and when I had
used six boxes I stopped. My cure was
complete and has lasted ever since.”
Mr. Charles H. Porter lives at Ray
mond, N. H. He is one of many grateful
people who have f oun d that Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills will cure diseases of the nerves
that have stubbornly resisted every other
remedy tried. Not only neuralgia, but
sciatica, partial paralysis and locomotor
ataxia yield to them. They are sold by
all druggists, or may be obtained directly
from the Dr Williams Medicine Co.,
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