Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 29, 1906, Page 10

> WORST FORM OF ECZEMA. Black Splotches All Over Face—Af- fected Parts Now Clear as Ever— Cured by the Cuticura Remedies. “About four years ago I was afflict- ed with black splotches all over my face and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irri- tation, and which caused me a great deal of annoyance and suffering, to such an extent that I was forced to call in two of the leading physicians of my town. After a thorough exami- nation of the dreaded complaint they announced it to be skin eczema in its worst form. They treated me for the same for the length of one year, but the treatment did me no good. Fin- ally my husband purchased a set of the Cuticura remedies, and after using th2 conterts of the first bottle of Cuticura Resolvent in connestion with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the breaking out entirely stopped. I continued the use of the Cuticura Remedies for six months, and after that every splotch was entirely gone and the affected parts were left as clear as ever. The Cuticura Reme- dies not only cured me of that dread- ful disease, eczema, but other compli- cated troubles as well. Lizzie E. Sledge, 549 Jones Ave., Selma, Ala., Oct. 28, 1905.” More Fortunate. “Hello!” said the farmer, “what you swearin’ about?” “Why,” snapped the disgusted au- toist, “this machine’s broke down and I can’t get it to go.” “Cricky! you're in luck. The last fellow like you that I seen round here got all broke up ’cause he couldn't git his to stop.” PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors, Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Christian Anderson, Wilkesbarre, Pa., bitumin- ous coal fuei; Henry C. Daley, Hot Springs, S. D., boiler cleaner; William Forster, Winona, Minn., cement; John A. Holton, Winsor, Minn., wrench; Lawrence J. Muehr, Duluth, Minn., car mover; Levi Westgaard, Velva, N. D., animal trap; Charles D. Whiting, Minneapolis, Minn., car coupling. Cottagers’ Saturday Night. New Guest (at summer resort)— “You had a dance here last night. didn’t you? How many couples weré on the floor?” Landlord—‘“One regular couple and the halves of twenty-eight others.” The Office Bay’s Excuse. “How is it you get back so late from your grandmother’s funeral?” “It was a ten-inning game.” Safe All Around. He—Aren’t you ever afraid to be in the hou alone? She—Not at all. volve He—Buat aren't you afraid of that? She—Mercy, no! I keep it locked in a trunk where it can’t possibly go off! I own a loaded re- A Champion, “Talking of acto. said the com- edian, “Stormer certainly is the cham- pion of the century. “Nonsense!” exclaimed the trage- “He is a ham!” “Yes, but he has walked 100 miles home in faster time than any other actor.” The Boy and the Shoes. Binks—I see that a pair of shoes can be made by machinery in sixteen minutes Jinks—And I've got a boy who can kick to pieced’ a pair of shoes in eleven minutes and twenty seconds. Chinese Girls in a Japanese School. Thirty Chinese young ladies have recently graduated from a Japanese girls’ school, which was specially or- ganized for the education of Chinese women in Japan.—Shanghai Mercury. Send for Our Free Harness Booklet If you are about to buy a harness, don't fail to write us to-day, or ask your dealer to show you our line. SCHEFFER & ROSSUM CO., St. Paui, Mina. THE BEST COUGH CURE Many a lonesome and expensive trip to Florida, California or the Adirondacks has been \saved by the use of Kemp’s Balsam If this great remedy will not cure the cough, no medicine will, and then all hope rests in a change of climate—but try Kemp's Balsam first. Sold by all dealers at 25c, and soc. the best cough cure. | | A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Burning Off Paint. Makes Insurance i Void. It seems that considerable danger to Property exists in the practice of burning off old paint before re-paint- ing. The question has long been a subject of debate in the technical journals, and now householders and the newspapers have begun to discuss it. Those of us who, with trembling, have watched the painters blow a fiery blast from their lamps against our houses, anid have looked sadly at the size of our painting bill because of the time wasted on this prelimin- ary work, are interested in the in- vestigation by the Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette and Courier, which gives con- siderable space to the reasons for the practice, questions its necessity and suggests ways to prevent the risk of burning down one’s house in order to get the old paint off. It says: “There is a good deal of discussion among householders as to the desir- ability, in painting houses, of burning off the old paint, a practice that has grown very common of late in Green- field and elsewhere. Insurance men are strongly opposed to this method. It makes void insurance policies for fires, caused in this manner. Several houses in Greenfield have gotten afire as the result of this method, and in some places houses have burned as @ result. “It is undoubtedly true that when @ house has been painted over and over again there comes to be an ac- cumulation of paint in bunches. If new paint is put on top of these ac- cumulations it is almost sure to blis- ter. To burn it off is the quickest and cheapest and perhaps the surest method of getting rid of this old paint.” The Gazette and Courier quotes cer- tain old patrons to the effect that ac- cumulations of paint are unnecessary. These old-timers lay the blame partly on the painter who fails to brush his paint in well, partly on the custom of painting in damp weather or not allow- ing sufficient time for drying between coats, and partly to the use of adulter- ated paints instead of old-fashioned linseed oil and pure white lead. The paper says: “Many of the old householders say that if care is taken at all these points it is absolutely unnecessary to have paint burned off. They advise that people who have houses painted should buy their own materials, and to have them put on by the day, so as to be sure to get good lead and oil. Of course the burning off of paint greatly increases the cost of the job.” The trouble householders everywhere have with paint is pretty well summed up by our contemporary, and the causes are about the same everywhere. By far the mos¢ frequent cause of the necessity for the dangerous practice of burning old paint is the use of poor material. The oil should be pure lin- seed and the white lead should be real white lead. The latter is more often tampered with than the oil. Earthy substances, and pulverized rock and quartz, are frequently used as cheap- eners, to the great detriment of the paint. ‘. Painters rarely adulterate white lead themselves and they very seldom use ready prepared paints—the most frequent causes of paint trouble. But they do often buy adulterated white lead because the property owner in- sists on a low price and the painter has to economize somewhere. The suggestion is therefore a good one that the property owner investigate the subject a little, find out the name of some reliable brand of white lead, and see that the keg is marked with that brand. The linseed oil is more difficult to be sure of, as it is usually sold in bulk when the quantity is small; but reliable makers of linseed oil can be learned on inquiry, and, if your dealer is reliable, you will get what you want. Pure white lead and linseed oil are so necessary to good paint that the little trouble necessary to get them | well repays the house owner in dollars and cents saved. Paganini’s Proposal. One night Paganini was going to the Paris opera house, where he was to astonish every one by playing on one string. Being late, he took a cab, and when he arrived at his destination the cabby wanted 10 frances. ° “What!” he exclaimed; “you are crazy. I have only had you five min- ute: “I know it is much,” said the other, “but for you, who makes a fortune by playing on one string, it must be 10 francs.” “Well,” said Paganini, handing him the right fare, “when you can make your cab go on one wheel come to me and I will give you 10 frances.” Whack, Whack! “I have crossed the Atlantic twenty times,” said Mrs. Gottalot. Somehow I seem to have fallen into the habit of making about one year.” “How lovely it is to be able to dc so,” replied Mrs. Snippleigh. “Let me see, you must have been about thirty- five when you crossed the first time, wasn't you?” trip over every Lucky at That. “During the first year of our mar- ried life my husband would call me up on long distance ’phone every day when he had to be away from home.” “Doesn’t ne do so any more?” “Mercy, no! The only means I have of hearing from him is through the picture postal cards he sends the children,”—Judge. The Chocolate Palm. ' She—Did you notice the beautiful! palms in the new restaurant? , He—The only palms I saw were the, waiters’. s {tually decides the price at which ICATALOGUE HOUS The following letter written by ex- Mayor William D. Sweet of Fargo, N. D., to the Forum was published by that paper some time since, and al- though it may be a little old, it is well worth reprinting: To the Forum: You touched the heart of the subject the other day when you recounted the iricident of how Sunhagen, the jeweler, promptly subscribed to lift a local church debt as follows: ‘ Sunhagen, the jeweler.....-- - $25.00 Chicago catalogue house.. . 00.00 It is a mistaken idea.with many con- sumers that the catalogue house sys- tem of trade is a benefit to the com- munity at large. The catalogue house is a modern de- vice of, trade, the motto of which might aptly be “heads, I win; tails, you lose.” And the process of opera- tion, a sort of cat-in-the-bag trade, or a “swap unseen” so far as the consuml- er is concerned. The catalogue house occupies a cit- adel of security from which radiates a system of tenticles reaching into the heart of every community; and a counter system of well greased skids along which glides to their coffers the wealth of the land. There is a deft in- genuity in the system, which retains every advantage for the house, and gives nothing in return, until the last penny is yielded up by the farmer. The accumulation of prepayment, thus art- fully exacted, looks like the inception of another Tortine insurance scheme, which, if developed unchecked, may some day invite another uprising of the people, and at least furnish fame for a Moses, a Roosevelt or a Lawson, The theory of the catalogue’s sys- tem, if carried to its logical conclu- sion, means a stop to commercial de- velopment, a centralization, and mo- nopoly, compared with which the beef trust is a roadside peanut stand. It means the extinction of the country merchant, and the obliteration of in- land distributing centers. With the country merchant and kindred indus- tries, the villages and towns disap- pear and the country at large finally resolves itself into a system consist- ing of one great center of supply on the one hand,'and an unbroken ex- panse of agriculture on the other. With the innumerable small commer- cial centers must also go the ready fa- cilities that make suburban life en- durable—the doctor, the lawyer, and all of the professions that cater to the convenience and happiness of com- munities—all drawn to the one con- gested vortex of strenuous life, and leaving the balance of the country to the loneliness of toil to enrich the one great octopus of city life. This con- dition attained, and monopoly is ripe for its final stroke that makes all com- merce the servitor of the great trust, for which peoples and governments must exist only as feeders. Thus in theory the catologue house commences a long stride toward universal trustifi- cation, a condition which some politi- cal economists say is ideal, but against which all intelligent humanity struggle aghast, knowing that the price is the extinction of the last atom of individuality,-reducing all men to a single unit as cohesive and indis- tinguishable as a inass of dough. This view, even if drawn with broad strokes, is yet the finality of the alogue house theory. There is no who rebel against monopoly, central- ized power. nd trustification more than the farmer; and yet their re- sponse to the sap-sucking tenticles of the catalogue house does much to transfer the wealth of the country to the great centers—unwittingly they are sending abroad wealth, which, in the channels, of trade at home, would replenish and multiply. They are sapping the life of home commerce which is the basis of social and indus- trial development; the first of which makes life worth living, as the second provides the abundant means of it. They are destroying that touchstone of progress, credit—without which the great West would be yet a wilderness. | Under the cataloguers’ would require ten times regime it procurement, to that exient retard the development of the couniry. \ and all he} The country merchant stands for represents a theory directly opposite to that of the catalogue house ; —he represents the greatest axioms of political economy, in bringing the consumer and producer in closes touch. completeness of commercial organiza: tion and thus, the ideal society with the most varied happiness of life. The country merchant by the benefi- cence of widespread credit furnishes millions of capital that have turned the desert to a garden and many a poor man from poverty to opulence. He gives the choice of selection on the spot, the advantage of which in ecou- omy and effective results, few consid- er. He stands as the visible guarantee of his goods which is an everlasting incentive to the highest standard of quality. And finally when the quality ARR nee eeeeewereevv0vDOOk OC OCO4OM”DOD Eee Regulating Bakers. Bakers in France are subjected to certain unusual rules and regulations. Im large fortified towns, for instance, ; they must always have a_ certain; stock on hand in case of war. Not pnly this, but everywhere they have to deposit a sum of money in the Wands of the municipal authorities as | an old woman for $1.50 and used it <4 a surety of good conduct; and the law, not content with merely looking after their weights and measures, ac- the money |} now in use to carry the exchanges of | commerc@ and by the difficulty of its ; i the clockmakers’ art. He represents the idea of the | } HOUSES PREVENT DEVELOPMENT OF TOWNS | kick about the palaces they are erect- of the goods, the variety presented to view, the choice of selection, the quickness of delivery and the inesti- mable value of credit when needed, the saving of freight, are all consid- ered, he lays the goods in the farmers’ hands at less cost than any catalogue house ever can do. North Dakota alone probably purchases in supplies each year $20,000,000 and pays there- for later on, after the crops are har- vested, sold and the money secured. Wipe out the country store and this $20,000,000 would go out of the state before a dollar came from the crops and would require a mortgage on near- ly every farm in the state to raise the money. The popularity of the catalogue house is based on prestige not war- ranted by facts. A voluminous cata- logue, profusely illustrated,. glowingly worded and presenting baits for cash in advance, conveys the impression of bed-rock prices, but making no ac- count of freight, expressage, exchange, cash discount, loss of time, misfits and poor quality. It’s a myth; but the danger comes in the credulity of the people’ who continue to bunco them- selves, and impoverish their communi- ty, to fatten the deluder, To send their stocking-hoarded savings East, and then lean on their country mer- chants for necessities, until another crop puts them on their feet again. I say the advantage of the catalogue purchase is a myth, which allures the farmer and ghosts the merchant; and which will disappear when the mer- chant boldly unmasks a given case of competition, totes up the cost and ad- vantage on both sides and puts them side by side. In the language of John Burns, “for the welfare of the people give us big- ger villages and smaller cities,” and long may it be ere the sinister cloud of the C. O. D. extinguishes the benign sun of the I. O. U. —Wn. D. Sweet. Can Hold His Own, Here’s a business man who can hold his own with catalogue houses. A merchant of Humboldt, Iowa, has a two-page advertisement in his paper and says he can outsell, out-bid and out-do any catalogue house in Chicago, and he is doing it, too. Why not? His rent is less, insurance less, clerk hire far less, goods come in large quantities with less freight. A man who goes into his store and buys, knows what he is getting and the ad tells just what he has to sell. Cata- logue houses can’t compete with the live country merchant. Merchants Must Study. There is only one salvation for the local merchant. He must study the methods of the mail order house and make them his own. He must fight them with their own weapons. He must face the fact that the mail order house is a competitor and that if it can persuade the people that it can sell better and cheaper goods that the home merchant, it will remain a fea- ture of modern business life and will grow greater, all the man-made laws to the contrary, notwithstanding, and that it will in the end strip the home merchant of the larger part of the patronage which he now enjoys.—Ex. Why Not? A writer in a weekly paper not long ago accused the local merchants of making enough money out of the farmers to erect fine dwellings, We would ask the farmers why they don’t ing for Chicago's merchant princes, and which are taxed to pay the ex- penses of Cook county, lll.—Ex. BEAUTIFUL MARINE CLOCK. Bronze Timepiece Weighs 50 Pounds - and Has Dial of Burnished Steel. Ex-Commodore B. P. Cheney of the Boston Yacht club has installed in his summer home on Calf island, near Boston, light, the massive bronze ma- rine clock presented to him by the club members at a dinner given him at the B. A. on May 4. The clock is a beautiful specimen of It stands nearly two feet high and s fully fifty pounds. The dial is hed steel and the bronze case is finished in a dull luster. On the base is this inscription: May 4, 1906.—Presented to B. F. Cheney by the members of the Boston a token of their appreciation his zeal, generosity and loyal services to the club. Of all good things that e’er can be, May yours be best on land and sea; With fairest skies and weather fine, And still a thought for “Auld Lang Syne.” In receiving this gift Mr. Cheney made a droll speech, saying that he had suspected the gift was to be a walking stick, and that he had pre- pared a speech for a walking stick. Thereafter when mentioning the gift in his speech, he referred to it with mock gravity as “this handsome walk- ing stick.” Every Shot Missed. Gen. Funston was praising in San Francisco the marksmanship of the American voluateers. “Thank goodness,” he said, “our boys are not like those foreign volun- teers of whom it is said ‘that a com- pany of them bought a washtub from the afternoon. for a target. “When they had finished the old woman went out into the field and brought back her washtub as good as bread is sold. (new. 4 Both Husband and Children—How ‘Thousands of Mothers Have Been Saved From Nervous A nervous, irritable mother, often on the of hysterics, is unfit to care for Shilliren ; it ruins a child’s disposi- tion and reacts upon herself, The trouble between children and their mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some female weak- ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that govern- ing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. The ills of women act like a firebrand upon the nerves, consequently nine- tenths of the nervous prostration, ner- vous despondency, ‘* the blues,” ‘sleep- lessness, and nervous irritability of ‘women arise from some derangement of the female organism. De you experience fits of depression with restlessness, alternating ith extreme irritability? Are your spirits easily affected, so that one minute you laugh, and the next minute you feel like erying ? Do you feel something like a ball ris- ing in your throat and threatening to choke you; all the senses perverted, morbidly sensitive to light and sound ; pain in the abdominal region, and between the shoulders; bearing-down pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost continually cross and snappy ? If so, your nerves are in a shattered condition, and you are threatened with nervous prostration. Proof is monumental that nothing in the world is better for nervous prostra- tion than Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound; thousands and thou- sands of women can testify to this fact. ‘Prostration and Made Strong and Well. Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the Ladies’ Symphony Orchestra, 42 Sara- toga Street,“ East Boston, Mass., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “For eight years I was troubled with ex- treme nervousness and hysteria, brought or by irregularities. Icould neither enjoy life nor sleep nights; I was very irritable, nervous and despon “Ty E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was clear stray and proved to be the only pereoy, that helped me, Ihave daily im- proved in health until I am now strong and ‘well, and all nervousness has disappeared.” | Mrs. Charles F. Brown, Vice-Presi- dent of the Mothers’ Club, 21 Cedar Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark., writes: Dear Mrs, Pinkham:— “T dragged through nine years of miser- able existence, worn out with pain and ner- vousness, until it seemed as though I should fly. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, and the wonderful results she derived from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound, Idecided to try it. I did so, and at the end of three months I was a differ- ent woman. My nervousness was all gone, I was no longer irritable, and my husband fell in love with me all over again.” Women should remember that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the medicine that holds the record for the greatest number of actual cures of female ills, and take no substitute. Free Advice to Women. Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., invites all sick women to write to her for advice. Mrs. Pinkham’s vast experience with female troubles enables her to ad- vise you wisely, and she will charge you nothing for her advice. Ask Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice—A Woman Best Understands a Woman’s Ills. CREAM and POULTRY ASK FOR INFORMATION, R. E. COBB, St. Paul, Minn. CONSIGN VEAL Poultry, Eggs. Apples, Etc. To H. A ERTZ, 2% East 3d St . st. Paul, Minn. W. L. DOUCLAS 53.50 &*3.00 Shoes BEST IN T WORLD W.L.Douglas $4 Gilt Edge line cannotbe equalled atany price To Shoe Dealers: W. I. Douglas’ Job- bing House is the most complete in this country Send for Catalog aN BHOES FOR EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES. ‘Men's Shoes, $5 to $1.50. Boys’ Shoe: $3 10$1.25, Women’s Shoes, $4.00 to . Misses’ & Children’s Sh 25 to $1.00. Try, W. L. Douglas Women’s, Misses and Ghildren’s es; for style, fit and wear iid. If I could take xcel other makes. u into my large factories at Brockton, Mass.,and show you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, | wear longer, and are of greater value than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L: Douglas shoes. His name and price ss stamped on the bottom, v syitich protects you against high prices and inferior shoes. Take no substi: tute, Ask you for W. L. Douglas and insist u them. Fast Color Eyelets Write for Mlustrated Catalog of Fall Styles. W. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. 41, Brockton, Mass. > they will not wear brassy, | Oh! What a Cold | HAVE. You can quickly get rid of it by taking Johnson's Anodynefiniment DROPPED ON SUGAR. It’s as much for Internal as External use, and for 96 years has been curing colds, coughs, croup, cramps and colic. Try it. 25 and 50’ cents. At all dealers. I. 8S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass. 90,000,000 BUSHELS THAT'S THE WHEAT A CROP IN WESTERN E CANADA THIS YEAR This with nearly 80, 000,000 bushels of oats and 17,000,000 bushels of barley means a con- tinuation of good times for the farmers of West- ern Canada. Free farms, big crops, low taxes, healthy climate, good churches and schools, splendid railway service. ‘The Canadian Government offers 160 acres of Jand free to every settler willing and able to comply with the Homestead Regulations, Advice and information may be obtained free from W. D. Scott intendent of Immi- gration, Ottawa, Canada; or from authorized Canadian Government Agent: '. Holmes 325 Jackson Street. St. Paul, Minuesota You Cannor CURE | | N W N U —NO. 39— all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal com ditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh,uterinecatarrh caused by feminine ills, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubbora affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs,checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the ammation and soreness, Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box - THE R. PAXTON CO.. Boston, Masts JOHN Ww. MORRIS Successfully Prosecutes Claime. ‘Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau, VIRGINIA FARMS (ice scses 2: tt acronp. Stamps. Southern Timber & Land Co., Ine.. Petersburg, Va. When Answertng Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 1906. ESTABLISHED 1873. WOODWARD @; % CO. Tized, Necvous Mothecs Make Unhappy Homes—Their Condition Irritates