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SATURDAY, February 19, 1910.
IRIAn ana {n^llviArl
Women are Inclined to fall Into a
mistaken idea that any pain about the
ntps or in the small of the back Is
remale weakness," and must be en
sured as a trouble peculiar to the sex.
Such patience is noble, but too often
[Unnecessary and unwise.
Kidney weakness, In man or woman,
•will cause backache, sharp twinges
when stooping or lifting, bearing-down
pains, fits of "blues," nervousness, dlz-
ey
spells, headaches, urinary disorders
aid swelling of the ankles or limbs.
This Is the point: Do not worry over
supposed female weakness until you are
Vary sure it Is not kidney disease that
Is causing your troubles. The nature
i.a
woman's
Iftteftln
Itt%ar
'if© and work makes her
JJUI an easy victim of kidney sickness.
The bending and stooping of house
work. the tight olothing worn, the
Btrain of childbirth and worry of rear
ing children, the Indoor life, colds, fe
vers and constipation, all wear and
Weaken the kidneys.
Backache, or any such irregularity
18 the too frequent desire to urinate,
painful or scalding passages or sedi
Inent in the urine is good cause to
Then begin using Doan's Kidney
Pills which have brought new life and
strength to thousands of women. It is
F°ur duty to self and family not to
leglect nor overlook the first symptom.
Don't wait for a serious case of dia-
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THE ILLINOIS DECISION.
A great many people who favor the
parole system will applaud the de
cision of the Illinois supreme court in
declaring the parole lftw o£ that state
Invalid. The Illinois law placed to®
much power in the hands of a few
men, and from the regularity with
which the prison doors were thrown
open to give freedom to convicts, and
especially convicts with a "pull," this
power was not always wisely exerted.
The paroling of Stensland and Her
ing, the wreckers of the Milwaukee
Avenue State bank, of John A. Cooke,
the circuit court clerk who was sent
to prison after a legal fight of yeats,
of Spaulding and Dreyer, both con
victed of misappropriating bank funds,
and other convicts whose friends on
the outside had influence, were ex
amples of this board's activity. The
ease with which these men secured
their liberty could not but breed dis
trust for the law among the less fortu
nate convicts, who had no friends on
the outside, and on other criminals
who had been able to keep out of the
penitentiary.
It is a mistake to give any small
group of men the power to set aside
the acts of judges and juries, who
passed on cases only after 3 full re
view of the evidence. It can be made
a menace when a parole board can be
moved by sentimentality to the extent
of granting wholesale and indiscrimi
nate clemency.
WEALTH IN RIVErJS.
Some one wrote to the Chicago
Journal asking the name of the largest
river in the world. Answering the
question, the Journal admitted that it
must give the palm for mere size to
the Amazon, with its length of 4,000
miles, its width at the mouth of 150
miles, and the drainage area of
2.000,000 square miles of the Amazon
end its 200 tributaries. But the
Journal calls attention to a small
stream in the mill district of New
England, called the Blackstone, at its
source in Worcester county, Mass., and
the Pawtucket, or Seekonk further
down in Rhode Island, where it falls
Into the Providence river near the
city of Providence. This little stream,
it says, is but seventy-five miles in
length and has a drainage area of
but 458 square miles, which puts the
mighty Amazon to shame by the prac
tical work it accomplishes. Of this
modest New England stream the
Journal says:
This little giant of a river produces
no less than 23,000 horsepower, 50 for
every square mile of its drainage area.
This is more than sufficient power to
drive a fast ocean steamship of the
tonnage, for instance, of the Cunarder
Carmania or the French transat'.an
tique La Savoie.
But the Blackstone's specialty is
turning mill wheels. If you figure out
what 23,000 horsepower means when
expressed in terms of coal cost, you
will find that this strenuotis Yankee
stream represents a capitalization of
some $25,000,000. Just fancy what the
Amazon would 'represent at such a
rate of calculation!
A hundred mills and factories along
the banks -of the busy Blackstone
catch its rushing waters with their
whirling turbines, almost from the
very source, in the city of Worcester.
These castles of industry, as numer
ous as those of romance perched on
the crags of the old world Rhine, grow
in size and importance as the river
wends seaward until in Woonsocket
and Pawtucket are to be found some
AN ODD MISTAKE THAT WOMEN MAKE
Overlook the Real Cause of
Common, but Mysterious
Aches and Ills
Evaty Picture
Tells A Story.
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS
of the largest of their kind in .the
United States.
If any other river of the Black
stone's size can come anywhere near
equaling this stream's power-produc
ing rectyd, it is yet to be exploited.
There is work ahead for the Des
Moines river of the kind that the
Blackstone is doing.
CONSUMPTION'S HEAVY TOLL.
The report of the state board of
health shows that. 1.515 lowans died
from tuberculosis last year. This was
the number reported to the board, but
it is believed the total number is
twice that many. Emphasis is laid on
the necessity of restrictive measures
to reduce this heavy death loss in a
statement sent out by the press bu
reau of the board of control, from
which the following is quoted:
"There were 1,515 persons reported
to have died from tuberculosis last
year. If 1,515 were the wholp number
it would be bad enough, but it is be
lieved by those in a position to know
that this number can be multiplied by
two, thus making more than 3,000
persons who died in Iowa last year
from a preventable disease. And it
would be interesting, indeed, were it
possible to make an analysis of these
deatns. We would find no age or con
dition had been spared, and that while
tuberculosis is a disease of the .poor,
yet. the rich had not escaped. We
'•would find young mothers smitten in
the midst of cooing babyhood and
playing child the wage earner, the
man who does the heavy work has
been destroyed the minister, lawyer,
doctor, banker, farmer, editor, in fact
every profession and trade has been
compelled to walk the grtat white
way to death. What awful havoc!
What needless waste of human life!
What tragedy of sorrow! What cause
of crime! What problems for char
ity! What financial loss!
"If the economic aspect alone were
to be urged as a reason for the aboli
tion of tuberculosis it would be
sufficient as the loss to Iowa last year
approximated more than $5,000,000.00.
The large number of these persons
who died were young, just at the high-'
est point of efficiency and greatest
value to the state, and the financial
loss involved is appalling indeed.
This disease reaps the largest harvest
of all contagious and infectious
diseases put together with possibly
the exception of pneumonia and we
have com* to the time when the peo
ple must act.
"It is worse than folly f5r intelli
gent people, such as compose the
citizenship of Iowa, to permit tubercu
losis to destroy untimely this vast
number.
"Let the people read the startling
figures given here. Let them think of
what the future must hold for many
children, then let the children be
taken care of and society protected by
restrictive measures."
In a protest against the costly fire
losses in -this country, due largely to
faulty construction of property and
carelessness. Dr. W. H. Tolman, a di
rector of the American Museum of
Safety and Sanitation, lecturing before
the Society of Western Engineers in
Chicago, said: "Buildings burned in
the United States in 1907, if placed on
lots of sixty-five feet frontage, would
line both sides of a street from
Chicago to New York. A per
son journeying along this street
of desolation would pass
ery thousand feet a" ruin from
an injured person was taken,
every three-ouarters of a-mile
see the charred remains of a
being and when burned out at the end
of a ypar the fire would begin all over
again."
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FOSTER-MUBURN CO., Buffalo, N.Y., Proprietors. If thefetnis
ts Tour Kiln
in ev
which
and at
would
human
The worst of it is that the heavy an
nual loss goes on unchecked. Improve
ment in the way of more effective fire
proof construction seems to be offset
by greater carelessness.
Dr. George M. Chappel, section di
rector of the weather bureau at Des
Moines, has organized the "Iowa
State Weather Boosters' association."
He says there is "altogether too much
knocking on Iowa weather conditions"
and the only requirement for member
ship in the new club is that the- pros
pective candidate will lay aside his
hammer and quit rapping." The doc
tor waited too long before launching
his organization. Early in the week
with the temperature around 50 de
grees, it would have been easy to
promise to lay aside the hammer, but
1 today, after a drop of 45 degrees, a dis
position to keep the hammer within
reach will be felt. 1
"Representative Hull," says the
Sioux City Journal, "figures that
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betes, dropay, Brlght's dlieaie or grav
el to develop.
Doan's Kidney Pills is a simple veg
etable remedy, yet very quick in its
healing and strengthening action on
the kidneys. It contains nothing of a
narcotic, poisonous nor habit-forming
nature and can be taken by any man.
woman or child, of even the most deli
cate state of health.
OTTUMWA PROOF.
Mrs. E. Harry, Riverview Addition,
Ottamwa, la., says: "I used Doan's
Kidney Pills several years ago and
was so pleased with the prompt relief
they brought me that I gave a public
statement, setting forth their merit. I
suffered from pains in my back and
loins, accompanied by headaches and a
feeling of languor. Doan's Kidney Pills
were so highly recommended that I
procured a box and after using them a
short time, my trouble disappeared. It
has never returned and I consequently
give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for
effecting a permanent cure."
for $4,000,000—or $6,000,000 at the out
side—the Des Moines river can be put
in shape for navigatimi. The amount
mentioned might place the channel in
pretty good condition, but how about
the continuous fixed charge for sprink
ling to keep down the dust?".
The Journal paragrapher should take
a day off and have a look at the Des
Moines river. He would find the great
est problem is to prevent the river
from going over its banks and soak
ing the corn crops a quarter of a mile
nack from the river bed.
Congressman .Tamieson, the Demo
cratic editor sent to congress from the
eighth district to succeed Hepburn is
declared to be disgusted with his job
and with the "hopelessness of getting
results." If his constituents share this
disgust at the failure to get results it
would seem there are bright prospects
of electing a Republican to congress
this year from the eighth. Results
count.
The annual report of the state rail
way commission shows that only two
passengers on trains in Iowa met
death as the result of wrecks last
year. The total number of persons
injured was 212.
They should go the limit with that
Bloomfield acid thrower if they catch
him.
PEOPLE'S PULPIT
The Courier Wiil Publish Signed
or Unsigned Expressions From
Its Readers Upon Receipt Name
of Writer Must Be Known to
the Publisher, However. 4
Mr. Jamieson on High Prices.
Mr. Editor of the Courier:
Please give space to the following
remarks in reference to high prices on
food and all other commodities, which
are necessary to sustain comfortable
and healthful life. I am rather sur
prised to see so very little protest from
organized labor, especially the U. M.
W. of A., as we have had no advance
in wages for three years, while coal
has been steadily soaring skyward in
the market a'l through this three year
period. The same can be said on all
food stuffs until the present time, and
yet it seems as though it has not
reached the limit. For instance coal
is selling in Ottumwa right now at al
most. double the price it was selling
when we made the agreement on the
present scale of wages. Take it further
north and west, it has over doubled,
and in the face of all this the operators
in national convention want to claim a
ten cent reduction. Pretty good for
the operators. A ten cent reduction on
wages, while we are suffering a ten
per cent advance on almost everything
we have to buy daily. Now you fellows
had better call a halt advancing those
commodities or they will get. you be
cause the Washington government has
ordered an investigation as to whom is
to blame for high prices and when
they take a hand in those things it's
a sure pop somebody will lose their
job, and you can take it for granted
that the party or parties on that, in
vestigating committee who is man
enough to speak the truth will be the
one to go. The real thief will be left
at large. But just let us quote the
cause of high prices from some people
of good standing who ought to know.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
the retailers of meat get thirty-eight
consumer purchases and on many
other articles still a higher per cent
of profit.
There is generally at least two mid
dle men between the producer and the
consumer who get their pull, and by
the tim# it gets through their hands
into the hands of the consumers,
which it has to. he certainly has to
pay the top notch price. The secre
tary's figures can scarcely be disputed.
Then there is the authority of Edith G.
Charlton of the state college, who says
a family can be fed on eighteen cents
per day for each person. I weighed a
piece of porter house steak the other
day for a neighbor and according to
the price she payed and the .weight of
meat received, It cost her thirty-five
cents per pound. At the above rate
Miss Charleton would get one
half pound of steak for her eighteen
cents that had to feed one person all
day. Then again we have the
authority of Archbishop Ireland,
who makes the claim that high prices
are largely due to the extravagance of
the housewife. Well that does not
look reasonable coming from such an
eminent authority as the archbishop,
that a woman would continually want
OTTP&IWA. OOURlHSBt
higher priced goods knowing perfectly
well that her husband's wages were
not advancing one cent. We also
heard from ex-Governor Boies on the
high price subject and I will say in re
turn to him and pass him up, it is
lucky ior him that he is not a candi
date for governor of Iowa at the next
election or he would surely be elected
last in the race. Now, Mr. Editor, I
Want to give you my idea on who is to
a large extent responsible for the ex
orbitant prices. I think the business
men's association is the root of a
goodly share of the evil and has been
ever since its formation around this
part of the country.
They hold their meetings and select
one or two articles to advance the
price on. Then when they get the ad
vanced price established on those
articles, they meet again, select one or
two more and so it goes right along,
skinning the toiler out of his earnings.
Of course we have not much kick com
ing up in this jungle because it is a
farming couiflry and we can get al
most any very small article for a dol
lar. If you cannot get the article that
you need into your pocket, why just
hold your breath until you hear the
price of it.
Respectfully yours,
S. B. Jamieson, Box 137, Hiteraan, la.
MARTIAL DISCIPLINE.
Manchester Press: The housewife
who does a lot of the heavy work
around the house which a lazy hus
band loads onto her ought to beat a
few ounces of industry into him with
an ax helve. The trouble is that
few women start out right in their
married life. If the young wife would
reach over and sink a bed slat into
the prostrate form of her spouse when
he tells her to get up and build the fire
one important question would be set
tled in that home for time and eternity.
After a man has had his ribs jammed
together with a rub board and his
lower unhooked with a mop handle he
Will chase pails out to the sink so fast
that the handles will melt off. It does
not pay to be mealy mouthed with the
man who smokes Track Walker's De
light tobacco in the parlor and goes
around the house singing "Let the Wo
men Do the Work." If n»re women
would pass aroynd the reverse end of a
potato masher as a gentle reminder to
their husbands to take their feet off
the center table and get busy there
would be more dual purpose' bride
grooms floating around with cloves on
their breaths. We saw a great, hulk
ing husband of six happy weeks come
loping into a doctor's office with a face
on his like a cross section of beef
sausage, received in an argument with
his ninety-pound wife over who should
fill the wood box, ,nnd that pleasing re
ceptacle has never been empty since.
Moral suasion and the power of love
are all right when you are dealing with
a stiff legged calf, but the only treat
ment that counts for anything with an
unruly husband is to plant a mellow
5wat in his side whiskers with a flat
iron.
A Safeguard to Children.
'Our two children of six and eight
years have been since infancy subject
to colds and croup. About three years
ago I started to use Foley's Honey and
Tar. and it has never failed to prevent
and cure these troubles. It is the only
medicine I can get the children to
take without a row." The above from
W. C. Ornsteln, Green Bay, Wis.,
duplicates the experience of thousands
of other users of Foley's Honey and
Tar. Swenson's Drug Store. Clark's
Drug Store.
ONCE MORE THE RIVER.
Des Moines Capital: The improve
ment of the Des Moines river would be
worth millions to Iowa, especially to
the central part of the state. When we
say improvement, we allude to the
navigability of the stream and the
power it might afford by turning the
wheels of factories and interurban
cars. When a stream has plenty of wa
ter with which to carry vessels pro
vided the water Is guided into one
channel, the work is simple. There
would be. nothing to do to the Des
Moines river except to dredge out the
channel, which would reoulre the wa
ter to all run In one place. Then there
would be plenty of water. A river like
the Des Moines would not have the
difficulties to contend against which
are found in the Mississippi and the
Missouri. These big rivers have a pow
erful current, .which is useful in going
down stream, but not useful going the
other way. The smaller river would
have the advantage of not bein- con
siderably changed by floods and fresh
ets. With the dredging out of the riv
er and the creation of a good system
of docks, the river would be available
for all heavy freights. The reader may
say that the river is too slow. Business
men know that it would be easily
possible for the river to carry freight,
with all the speed of the present rail
road system and facilities. Heavy
freight is now on the road three weeks.
When the railroads are crowded, it is
almost -impossible to get the freight
through. The river could not be slow
er than the railroads are at times.
There is a fall in the river of 28r
feet between Des Moines and Keokuk.
This fall would indicate the existence
of many prospective power sites along
the river. The river has more water on
the average than was afforded years
ago. A majority of the drainage ditches
in northern Iowa empty into either the
Des Moines or the Raccoon rivers,
which come together at this city.. These
matters being true, the business men
and farmers of central Iowa should
lend all encouragement possible to the
Des Moines river improvement project.
Hoarse Coughs, Stuffy Colds,
pain In chest and sore lungs, are
symptoms that quickly develop into a
dangerous illness if the cold is not
cured. Foley's IToney and Tar stops
the cough, heals and eases the con
Swenson's Drug Stire Clark's Drug
Store.
THE EVENING STORY
A
TO THE LAND OF CONTENT.
By RICHARD BARKER SHELTON.
(Copyright, 1910, by Associated Liter
ary Press.)
The winter twilight was falling.
Outside it was dull and gray and som
ber, but within the big, luxurious
room, where Robert Waid paced rest
lessly to and fro, the soft lights and
the flickering fire on the hearth and
the familiar backs of the many vol
umes on the well-filled shelves made a
warmth and eoziness all the more
pronounced because of the dreary day
without..
But for all the evidences of creature
comfort about him, Waid was strange
ly distraught. On the open desk in
He paused in front of the flickering
fire for a moment, and with his hands
behind his back stood staring fixedly
at the leaping flames, his brows fur
rowed in deep and evidently unpleas
ant thought. Then, with a shrug of
his shoulders, indicative, seemingly, of
his determination to begin the most
unpleasant task, he caught up a half
burned cigar from an ash-tray on the
table, flicked the ashes from it, lighted
it. and turned slowly to that open desk
in the corner and its waiting con
tents.
But even as he took up the pen a
whir of wheels sounded on the pave
ments without. He stepped to the
window just as a carriage drew up to
the curb and a smart footman, spring
ing from the box, held open the door,
while a trim, fur-clad figure stepped
from within, crossed the curb and ran
lightly up the steps.
Waid followed that, figure with
hungry eyes. Then a door opened and
closed light footsteps pattered up the
stairs in the hall the carriage rattled
off through the gray dusk of the .win
ter twilight, and Waid, with set teeth
and nan-owed eyes, turned again to
the desk.
He drew up a chair, picked up the
pen again arid dipped it into thqf
bronze ink well but. after that he sat
for a long time irresolute, staring fix
edly at the desk.
Then, upstairs, he heard a voice, a
low, pleasant, modulated voice, talk
ing to one of the maids. He shut his
teeth and resolutely pulled one of the
blank sheets of paper toward him.
"My dear Ruth," he wrote.
"The crash has com«. They have
wiped me out. Norcross and the crowd
he has with him has been too much
for me. Everything is gone.
"I don't care so much for myself. I
am not yet an old man, and I have my
two hands, as clear a head and as
much energy and enthusiasm as ever.
Indeed I believe in some ways I shall
welcome the struggle. They can em
barrass me temporarily, but they can't,
down me.
"But I am frightfully sorry for you.
I know what position and power have
meant, to you—that they were as the
very breath of life to you. I realized
how much happier you have been since
wealth and a certain amount of pres
tige have come to us. I dread to think
what the curtailing of these must
mean to you.
"I have managed to save out of the
ruin and leave to you in your name
the house here, the place at Cedar
hurst and what will be, I fear, a piti
fully inadequate income for you. It
was the best I could do. You are to
keep up what semblance of your hap
py days you can with it. By the time
you read this I shall be on my way
west to start afresh. I can't live here
011 this money I have managed to hold
back from the wreck, for that is not
my way. it. would cause endless com
ment.. I should feel I was sheltering
behind your skirts. With you it will
be different. I owe you this much at
least,. Yours always,
"Bob."
He read the brief note through, was
rather inclined to add to it a few
things of a bit more personal nature,
but .upon second thought decided to
let it stand as it was.
He folded the note, placed it in an
envelope, addressed it to his wife and
rang a bell on the table.
"Edward," he said, when the butler
answered his summons, "give this
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one corner of the room lay pens and
paper and ink, and in the waste bas
ket, beside it were several crumpled
little balls—notes he had begun and
then irritably destroyed, to begin all
over again.
Zephyr Flour is ground by the latest and most expen
sive milling machine^, run by the Kaw River.
This water power effects a big saving in fuel, power
machinery, etc.
And what the makers of Zephyr Flour save in this
way all goes into making the flour better.
The consumer thus gets the benefit.
That's one reason why Zephyr Flour is so widely
known as the water power flour.
It is also known as the only guaranteed flour.
You'll find the guaranty printed on every sack in the
form shown in this advertisement.
Zephyr Flour
The Zephyr Flour Guaranty means that we return your money in
full if the flour fails to please you in every way. We ask you to make
the test with a 48-pound sack.
Use the flour down to the middle of the sack. If it hasn't proved to
you that it is everything you require of a flour—that it makes the finest
bread and pastry, why just tell the grocer to take the rest of the sack. He
will do so and will refund the full price of the sack, charging you nothing
for the 24 pounds you have used.
Begin your test today. Zephyr Flour is handled by the following:
Stuber & Waugaman, Eddyville, la.: Henry Fritz, Blakesburg. la. J. F.
Dings,. Ottumwa, la.,: W. X. Peck, Ottumwa, la. Qlthens Bros.,
Ottumwa. Ia. A. J. Reynolds, Agency, Iowa E. E. Hillos, Eldon, Iowa.
Ruth Waid, standing at the head of
the stairs, had heard those brief in
structions to Edward. No sooner had
the front door closed behind her hus
band than she summoned Edward to
her.
"Mr. Waid left a note for me?" she
asked. Somehow she felt some vague
premonition that trouble impended.
"It was to be delivered at half-past,
seven, ma'am," said the imperturbable
Edward.
"Bring it to me now," she com
manded.
Alone in her room above the stairs
she read it, gasped and read it again.
Then she called for the carriage and
her wraps.
Ten minutes later she was bowling
along the cheerless streets, covered
now with fine, powdery snow which
was sifting down, toward the station.
Arrived there, she sent back the
carriage, looked up on the time table
the schedule of western trains and
took up her vigil at the gates a half
hour before the departure of each and
waited there until the gates were clos
ed as the train started.
It was not until nine o'clock thai
she saw her husband coming through
the wide center arch to the train shed.
She hurried away from the gate, and
from a distance watched him show
his ticket, pass through the gate and
down the platform. Then she, too,
passed down the platform and board
ed one of the ordinary coaches.
The train pulled out into the cold
night. The city was behind, and in
the white open country, where lights
were growing more and more infre
quent, the train was gathering speed.
Robert Waid sat stolidly in his sec
tion of one of the sleepers, his face
close to the frosty window pane,
watching the white landscape slip
past.
Ruth had read his note by this time,
he reflected. She had probably wept
over it perfunctorily, and then called
up Hastings, the attorney, to see what
provision had been made for her. He
smiled to himself as he fancied her re
lief when she found it so ample.
Some one had sat. down beside him
without so much as asking leave.
Waid turned, stared in unbelief, and
then sat up very straight.
"Ruth," ne cried.
Silently, her hand was slipped into
his own, just as it had been wont to do
in those old, old days—the days of the
first, struggles, when they had sat to
gether in the shadows of evening
building air castles together and
dreaming great dreams.
"Where are you going?" he stam
mered at length, inanely.
"Where are you going?" she asked
very quietly.
"Me? I don't know. West some
where. I'm going to start over
I'm
She smiled and her fingers tighten
ed about his own.
"Then that is where I am going.
West somewhere, to start all over
with you."
"You can't," he said almost harshly.
"It means
"Don't I know what it means?" she
asked. "Work, work, fight and strug
gle, just, as it was in those glorious
days before. And in the evenings we'll
dream our dreams and build our air
castles all over again. Oh, Robert,
you silly, silly boy, you thought it was
what we got that I cared for but you
were wrong, it was the struggle that,
was the real fun—the fight against
odds, close together, oh, so very close
together in those days, Bob, dear, you
and I."
In the back of the car two grinning
porters watched a couple in a certain
section and nudged each other delight
edly.
"One o' dem yere spoony middle
aged honeymoons," said the first.
"TJh-huh,"- assented Number Two,
"Oughter fall fer good fat tips, de ole
boy had." ...
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note to Mrs. Waid at half past seven.
Not. before—understand?"
Then, as the man slipped noiselessly
out of the room, Waid donned his coat
and hat and went stolidly down the
front stepB to the wintery street.
Dr.Shallenberger
The Regular and Reliable* Chicago
Specialist, who has visited Ottumwa
since 1903, wil be at
Ottumwa, Ballingall Hotel,
Tuesday, March 8, 1910
(One day only) and return every 28
days.
Fairfield, Court Hotel, Wednesday.
March 2.
Bloomfield, Hotel Sax, Thursday.
March 3.
Albia, Friday, March 4.
Sigourney, Merchants Hotel, Wed«
nesday, March 9.
Office Hours, 8 a. m. to 4 p.m.
Cures permanently the cases he un
dertakes and sends the incurable
home without taking a fee from them.
This is why he continues his visits
from year to year, while other doctorB
have made a few visits and stopped.
Dr. Shallenberger Is an eminently suc
cessful specialist in all chronic dis
eases, proven by the many cures ef
fected in chronic cases which have
baffled the skill cf all other physi
cians. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made him so
proficient that be can name and locate
a disease In a few minutes.
Treats all cases of Catarrh, Nose,
Throat and Lung Diseases, Eye and
Ear, Stomach, Liver end KidneyH,
Gravsl, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu
ralgia, Nervous and Heart Diseases,
Blood and Skin Diseases, Epilepsy.
Bright's Disease and Consumption in
early stage, diseases of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To
bacco habit. Stammering cured and
sure methods to prevent its recur
rence given. A never failing remedy
for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULA and RXJPTURH
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to all Surgical cases and all disease
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
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Are you nervous and despondent,
weak and debilitated tired mornings
no ambition—lifeless memory poor
easily fatigued excitable and irrit
able eyes sunken, red and blurred
pimples on face dreams, restless
haggard looking weak back deposit
In urine and drains at stool distrust
ful want of confidence, lack of ener
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DISEASES A SPECIALTY.
Blood Poison, Spermatorrhea, Vari
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tivelv cured.
WONDERFUL CURES.
Perfected in old cases which have
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No experiments or failures.! He un
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thousands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential
Address
Dr. W. E. Shallenberger,
766 Oakland Blvd, Chicago.
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