Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1909, Page 13

THE OM DANCERS THE SEALERS FACE!™: An Industry that Employs Four Thousand Newfoundland Men, WORK LASTS ONLY TWO MONTHS |°f conducing the scal Tho' m:- .-h\x;. Adventure is a powerful steamers, which are not ort until the morning of M allowed by law rch strongly-bullt steel freighter. costing nearly | Thousands of People Are Out of £00,00, Its lines being somewhat like those W, . of the Canadian ice breakers. From the Work and Near Starvation. very outset It was a success hunt s that the EFFORTS AT RELIEF ARE WEAK Modern Steamers Have Replaced the | 10 014 Woeden Sailing Vessels, but | 'O the Perfls of the loe thr » Floe Re; seal herds are. ! Locating and Killing. —_— | This 1s by no means an ecasy task 8T. JOHN'S, N. F., April 10.-On March |the whole ocean I3 strewn with 10 there began the annual hunt for the | Masses of crystal and every wind hair seal off the Grand Banks of New- | the which | keenest patch, and when It foundland. This is an industry lasts only two months, but employs about twenty-five stout steamers and 4,000 me 10 leave #0 that the young seals may have attain a falr growth, mak m to and fro, Judgment to This Is the c e found &0 that it cx whose home is the rockribbed coast of |Mmen out over the |¢ to Newfoundland. This seal hunt has been |Pinnipeds. This is done 1y prosecuted for hundreds of years. It yields | ® long iron tlppcd pole A harvest of from $00,000 to §750,000 annu- 18 then cut open and ally, and like the cod fish in the same | from the carcass, the latic waters, the seal has defied all attempts at | the lce extermination. This 1s all the more re- | Pel markable when we find that to a mere skeleton of its former import- | It ance. In this scaling venture, and his views with | set Tegard to it are llustrated by the story ©f the sealing skipper, who hearing once of the appointment of & prominent lawyer to the judictal bench ‘Was an outrage to give such a fine job to a | Cur. man who had never brought a trip of seals | he Into the country.” The seal folk for some | Men frozen to death and sixty-three frostbitten out of a total of 1% Daily, except on Sundays, the work means to carry It; hence we can imagine | kept then reason describe their prey a; in the same fashion, to ‘swoll pell” an object | L the amagement of the young cleric, who on one occasion asked a burly hunter how he #pelt “swoils,” and was answered: “We | In don’t spell ‘em, we hauls 'em." then. tle Known of Seal “ice-riding pinniped,” as scientists describe It, Httle 1s known. All that is certain re- specting thelr habits and movements is that they appear on the coast of Labrador in the early winter and drift south on the ice floes, where their young are whelped on the nakeéd crystal plains, They are born about the énd of February and are suckled there | P! by thelr mothers, the father keeping guara | Until the ship dafly while she dives Into the sea in search of food. The herds are absolutely countless in number. On occasions as many | the as 20000 have been seen In a single “pateh,” and yet each mother will return at nightfall to her own the particular hole In the fce by which | busy shortly after the fleet salls with | the day with the sleeping forms of the un- she went down, even though the floe | Stories of steamers being reported, and | mployed, among them, no doubt, a cer- has shifted many miles and changed its |the “sealing sweerer,” supplies glib but | taln proportion of deserving poor and un- position entirely. Young seals are termod | UNCORVINCIng testimony in the cross suits | :;-rmm;h' people. Wh'-nhlh" days e cold sale. “white coats,” belng fat, downy a | which follow every season’s fishery. Some | there does not seem to be a street in Lon- § TR Rat bl T EALer Wit otuotos | TAts K80 & VIStorioNs: akippar, (n' obs of | G0n hAt Tak not &t evefy yatd s Hkwed floors. Anatolian, Hamaden, appetities growing with such amazing | these actions, apostrophized his gallant | and hungry looking beggar to open the repidity that within a fortnight their pelt |50 with fat attached weight from forty to |¥® fifty pounds. It is at this time the sca) hunt begins. A century ago It was prosecuted in small boats by means of nets set along | the coast, then larger smacks were em- |'°C ployed and went further afleld among the | F floes. Later stout schooners were built, and then square rigged vessels and fifty years ago a fleet of 40 safls put out from the various ports of Newfoundiand In quest of the greasy spoll. In 1881 as many as|in 374,000 seals were brought in, while in 184 the smallest catch on record was caught, 121,000, All Steam Sealers Now. The modern era {n the seal fishery began | Seaward, its crew gangs or watches A Newfoundlander takes no small pride |8 convenient “pan,” or flat mass of ana | lously log of an unu Of the natural history of the hair seal, or | W8 published on his return to St when this nalve confession was exposed Sunday, March day no meals were tuken Ing seals aboard and shifting coal in the burkers. One of the peculiarities of the industry 1s the fact that so many thousands of s Inant and fina [ The It s cent actions, seals were sued for, the verdict for two peits, valued at $3, as they alone could be positively and dentified. The Industry 1s one where men When a man g ts he mdkes them into today the | them back to the shin 1 1 1 famous Bering seal fishery Is now reduced | IONg rope he carries for P it too far wio away the m make plles ting a pole with the siip's flag over them to establish ownership. men go from eight to ten miles from the s bliz declared that “it | 2ards break on them direful tragedies oc The worst of these was fn 158, when | forty-¢ p In thelr dally hunt, and when steamship Greenland had the colony A few years ago a se: sally inte This ng killed every day and left on ere are two current phrases the peculiarity has given rise “Men, Ye Swore Nobl p's company swore noble! thus: “I thank ye, sealing cases, and in one of the wherein some daily and hourly danger of being | The method | | i | time thelr way | ough the lce to where they suppose the | for mighty in | the of them on ice. | serfous part of the ser- ing skipper's ting voyage John's. ing the Lord's w busy holst- pans | an reach them there Is an | irresistible temptation to appropriate these under cover of night, and in Newfoundland | Starving and to which | thrust upon the attention even of the cas- ‘sealing llar"" is the gossip who gets men; | door of a cab, and beg, scarcely an exaggeration to that very little rellance is given by New- foundland juries to the testimony adduced most thousands say | nearest indisputably in- | pathetic walk death. Within the last two years five ships were lost, the Leopard was driven ashore and 120 men narrowly escaped death; in 133, when a wooden ‘steamer, the Biood- | last hound, was buflt In Bcotland and brought across for the express purpose of engaging The introduction of steam marked the downfall of the sail, and today there is not a salling vessel remaining at work. The whole enterprise has heen monopolized by a small steam fleet salling | that and only 4,00 men are in this pursuit from 8t. John's, taken on board these. Until three years ago It was thought that a steel ship was unsuitable for this work It is a seeming paradox that iron should less strong than wood for ice naviga- | thic enterprising and seelng St. John's ship owner resolv of a speclally steel steamer for the sealing business and which should also be avallable as a cargo carrier during the rest of the was the chlef drawback of 1 upon construetion designed This old style whaler and for that busine ing busines indeed sometimes used | seal When the Dundee whal- proved a fallure were bought in for the Newfoundland seal but for ten months the ships of the yi extremity; the Grand Lake was crushed and went down, its crew being thirty-six hours on the floe before rescue came: the Panther and the Walrus had a similar experlence. Every ship that returned last year was more or less seri- ously wrecked, some of them so badly they could scarcely limp Into port The loss of s0 many of the old style boats enables the owners to replace them with ships of the modern type, and this year wees four of them in commission—the Bonaventure, the Bellaventure, the Boe- and the Florizel he first three are Zar | designed to .serve aa ordi treighters | Vided more work for communities than | during the year. The Florizel 1s a still | Unemployed. more ambitious departure; it is a ship| A recent article in The Bee on the poor of 2,000 tons, with passenger accommoda- tions for 100 saloon and as many steerage passengers, and intended to be run as a tourist craft between St. John's, Hallfax, the [and New York, when not employed In the fishery It is fitted with wireless telegraphy, and for the first time on re- cord the Newfoundlanders hope to be apprised this year of the daily movements of the sealing fleet. which the expectant mother must pass usually is so full Is to love childrer, and no home can be happy without them, yet the ordeal through of suffering and dread that Unemployment n Far More Pressing Evil in England Than is Ge Renlized, as Indieated r- by Storles of Misery. LONDON, April 10.—Unemployment and the resiiting poverty, bringing thonsands— how many it is Impossible to compute—to tie starvation line, is a far more pressing evil, even a more immediate ta | this country than s probably either here or abroad by the general pub- lie Early last autumn It is not too much A to say that the British government lonked | forward to the coming winter in a spirit n | almost of panic ar | Unemployment and distress wore reported 2% | on such a scale frmo all parts of the king- dom even then that alarm, and very se- was felt as to what might be result when the r pincli of winter happened the most year went by without It | anvthine more alarming coming to pass 1t | rious alarm. | should come. As it The | than previous years have witnessed. But the widespread unemplcyment, poverty and | distress remain, and with them the ques- tion of what they are to lead to. So far the have inspired in [ # weak Kneed government has led to a cer- tain amount of while alarm they panic leaving the root of the evil un- [ up until the ship has got its load, it makes for home. So strong the feeling for Sabbath day and organizations, which 18] ened trouble vaguely observance employed. which now, have been the work of a panlc stricken government too anxlous to pacify In need of assistance . | economic principles. Fearful Poverty Known of All Nowhere more than in need so evident. In no city is ragged poverty based squalid, 8o forcibly ual passerby. In the warm weather the turf of every public park is thickly strewn throughout articulately or mutely, according to the distance of the policeman, for a copper. Thousands of these are wastrels, unem- ploved because they are unemployable. Excluding them and the ever increasing number of youths who have learned to do was [ no sort, of work, and the pitiful army of broken women, 500 of whom made a spectacle shuffling through the streets of the West End on the day of the opening of Parllament. there must, It is calculated, be at least 2,00 unemployed men In London who have the will and the ability to be hard working citizens, but are the [ vet near enough to starvation, thousands Greenland broke its shaft and was carried | of them, to take advantage of the several rescued in the | Schemes, public and private, who provide them with their little food once In the twenty-four hours. That may seem a strange, perhaps an ungracious way fn which to refer to charity offered and In many. cases accepted In a proper spirit, but it connotes a truth which will be apparent from what is to follow. Efforts at Rellef a Failure. Municipal attempts at providing relief work have, generally speaking, been a | faflure in Tondon. TLabor colonies have proved a costly fallure. Street cleaning and other sanitary work, with very oc- | casional snow cleaning, seem to have pro- law as it now exists shows that it pro. vided no remedy. The food d shelter of the workhouse, to which every destitute man has a right, only prevent the recipient, if he s a bona fide worker. from looking for employment, while for the loafer they provide the attractions of a free hotel which he enters and quits at his own sweet will But there arc attempts made to provide the hungry man with one meal a day in order to give him some measure of physi- cal strength to prosecute his search for employment. I after day and night after night the Church Army feeds thou- sands of these derelicts. The Thames Jmbankment assembling place. Here are some impres- sions gathered personally for the purpose of this letter not many nights ago What is true of one night is true of every legislation which, ® | touched, has served as a sop to the leaders threat- The Il considered and worse applied old age pension act and other leg- that seal killing is forbldden |y 4100 gtfecting the legal status of trades unfons and the relations of employers and have been too fully de- scribed to need more than a bare mentlon the mob they fear to consider the welfare of the masses, who, beyond question, are on proper London is this near Charing Cross is the | she looks forward to the hour with apprehension. by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that she passes through the event with but little suffering, as ’ numbers have testified and RIEN said, “itis .;vortbtl‘ i}s \lfiighl in gold.” £.3% 'E:un:.“w able a: THE BRADFIELD RREGULATOR CO. avianta, On Mother's Friend, other; the people and the weather change, but the picture Is otherwise always the same. It was an hour before midnight, & cold winter night with the snow lylng on the street and a bitter east wind blowing that driven Into shelter all that had a shelter to seck. But already a long shiv- er of men and youths are wait- Ing. y moment adds to their num- quet Starving, but Orderly. Policem in charge, but their services are wanted. The hungry crowd walits in silent, orderly misery, and n are thei never / / Hay (ROO print it / Extravagance is not necessary to good printing. The best work depends upon the good taste and capability of your printer A. L Root, lncorporated, 1210-1212 Howard Street Spring Announcement 1909 We are now displaying a most com- lUne of forelgn uovelties for and summer wea Your early inspection is Invited. as ord an opportunity of ahece- ® large number of exclustve tmport in “Single sult aad & sult cannot be duplicated An order placed now may be deliv- eved at your convenience. Guckert McDonald, Tailors 317 South Fifteenth Street ESTABLISHED 1887 no late comer tries to filch the place of one who has arrived before him. Take them all round, these men do not give the im- | pression of being useless wastrels, neither drunkards nor criminals. The marks of pain, hunger and sickness some of them may be taken as giving the measure of the rest. Thelr talk is free from pose or hypocrisy, for their inter- | viewer Is there In the guise of one who, | ike themselves, is waiting for his meal ket e first man spoken to still showed | considerable traces of better days. in short, was bis story am 48 years old and since my seven- {teenth year I worked as a boller riveter. This, My wages rose to an average of 5 shil- lings a week: with a family of six I put little by for a rainy day | “Ten months agc I was dismissed, with nany more, from the firm with which I |Lad been working for eleven years—the cason was simply slackness of trade. For | cight months we kept the home together. Ithen it went | “You can guess the rest. The parish guardians are looking after the children |my wife is in the workhouse infirmary, and ‘full up' or ‘trade's scarce' is the an- swer when one asks for any kind of work I walked about looking for work two days and two nights without any food or shei- ter before I could buck up any courage to fall into these ranks, but I'm glad I've done it; it has helped to keep body and soul together, and I'll manage to regain my feet somehow this summer." Lay OF Middle-Aged. Here, no doubt, one saw one of the re- sults of the employers' liability act. When luumu-nl- are necessitated by slackncss of e stamped on ncarly all. A talk with | AHA SUNDAY BEE: APRII 1i, 1909, ! KITCHEN CABIN $31.30 to 87.50. | Stewart @ Beaton ; Sale of | one simmer burner. sixteen inches. ing a substantial solld stove. THE PRINCEESS It is a high grade, lght welght, strongly con- structed Go-Cart, ~ab- solutely draft proof. as shown ...... ...$12.00 Without storm cur- tain, for .$10.00 We have others up from -81.50 nts for R Oarpet Sweeper, price is $3.50. ETS—We agents for the celebrated McDougal Kitchen Cabinet, prices range from Lace Curtains are about 1,200 pair of Lace Curtains of which we have only two to s We are exclusive agents for the Vulcan Gas Ranges. Oven in this range is eighteen inches instead of All corners and base are made of malleable iron, mak- and prevents the escape of All trays and burners can be removed for cleaning, price connected in room .o Sess Other ranges from $10.00, $13.75, $15.75, $17.50, $19 and $28.00, these pfices are for stoves connected in your kitchen. 10 66 cisit e Oriental Rug Sale are 413-15-17 South Sixteenth Street. We have a pleasant surprise in store for this week’s shoppers in connection with This We have gone through the entire stock and have marked each pattern at reductions from 20 to 50 per cent and in many cases even lower. These prices will undoubtedly induce rapid clearance and the early buyer will secure the best values. We list a few of the values this sale offers: ———————————————————————————— $7.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $8.00 Brussels Lace Curtains, sale price $25.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price....... $30.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price . $35.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price .. $21.50 Saxony Brussels, sale price ........... $24.00 Saxony Brussels, sale price ........ $15.26 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price ... $20.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price .. $11.756 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $8.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price $3.00 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price . $5.25 Novelty Lace Curtains, sale price .. $3.25 Battenberg Lace Curtains, sale price . $11.76 Cluny Lace Curtains, sale price Gas range like illustration with four burners, three small, one glant burner and Re! rators. $17.50 75, $21.50 order. The stock of Oriental Rugs for spring have arrived and are now placed on ivery district in Persia, Turkey and the Caucasus is represented on our Shirvan, Beloochistan, Kazak, Kelim Guenji, Cashmere, Tabrez, Sultana, Irans Bergamus, Shiraz, Khiva Rugs, and many others included in this stock. To force rapid selling we have marked every piece in the entire collection on a very small margin of profit. We suggest an early visit to our Oriental Rug department where expert salesmen are in attenda}lcc w!\o will take pleasure is assisting anyone who may require their good judgment and knowledge in making selections. : Everyone is invited to inspect this grand collection wheth- er they wish to purchase or not. Miller, the many good values always to be found in our Drapery Department. week we are offering special inducements in LACE CURTAINS. X pairs of a pattern, that must be closed out at once. Many other Lace Curtains at similar reductions. We are exclusive Thes Wood work 1s of selected oak and the har The latches have patent | manufacturers would call extravagant, but th Syphon that divides the provision chamber from heavy galvanized iron porcelain, and cannot break, We have these refrigerators on our floor, invite criticism, prices ranging from $38.50, $38.00, $31.76, CRAFTSMAN FURNITURE—We are Omaha and vicinity agents for the Original Gustav Stickley Craftsman Furniture. There ... 84.75 $17.25 $12.75 ... 817.50 ....... $13.50 . 814,25 $12.50 - -$7.25 <8475 - $2.10 --$3.75 . - -$2.50 8.50 ohn Dry Air Syphon Porcelain-lined ed on scientific principles, ware of solid brass polished. raws the door absolutely tight, struction {& such that other do not pay the ice bill. The he ice chamber is lined with ar out or out of ready for insp n, and $28.50, $2 down “re $19.00 ches that alr. ‘The Dachestan, Bokhara, ‘We make a special- ty of made-to-ordér window hangings, we furnish estimates and original designs which are adapted for special purposes. trade, out goes the steady man of 48, for in splte of figures to the contrary given by some large employers of labor, the no- { tion holds that the man over 4 s a greater liability risk to his employer than the younger man. The next spoken to was a man who | 1ooked in poor health. His wife and two children were being cared for by an aunt | poor enough herself, while he searched for work. A brass founder by trade, he had been six years in his last employ when dis- missed “They told me thay were sorry to part with me and some others, but they had to I am a trades union that's been my as orders were slack man,” he added, “and curse. “It's like this. Tt T try to get some work at my trade I must not take a job unless they glve me £2 a week. If I worked for less I should lose all the benefits of my club, which I have pald these sixteen years. For the first twelve months I was out | the club allowed me four shillings a week: row I get nothing, and I have been out | seventeen months. It it wasn't for the {lnsurnmw- on my life T should have broken | with the union before this and probably been at work now at my trade, though on a smaller wage. I know others just in the same fix." This man's story is a very common one. Unable to get work at his trade union wage, he must remain idle or lose the benefit of years of insurance. Specimen Plece of Flotsam. One of the most dilapidated looking men In the whole crowd, his clothes a mere amorphous bundle of rags held to- gether with pins and string and his foot- gear nothing but wrappings of sackeloth, was certainly a hopeless case. Nelther drunkard nor unwilling to work, he con- fessed that, to judge from what possible employers had told him, he was “nothing more pr less than an encumbranc Four years ago he was In possession of an inherited income of £2,50 a year. Find- ing it sufficient, he got Into debt, tried to recoup himself by ulating on the Siock exchange and now found himself destitute and helpless. At midnight an officer pf the Church | army arrived and gave every man a slip of paper which was good for a bowl of soup, with the proviso that he should do a certain amount of work. A quarter of an ! hour's walk brought the whole contigent to the Church army tents. As this lot ar- rived about 100 men were departing. Throughout the twenty-four hours the tents are filled with shifts of men, each | shift remalning three hours. On enter- | ing each man receives a pint and a halt of thick soup and a thick slice of bread. | After eating this, they are put to sawing and chopping and tying up the small bundles of kindling wood that are uni- versally used in London At the end of the three hours each man | again recelves the same quantity of food | be had on entering, and on going out gets a ticket entitling him to a bed for that night In some lodging house In the number of unemployed whose lot was followed on this particular night were several Americans. They were men who had either come over on & single ticket with little or no money to go on with on their ‘arrival or had crossed as cattlemen and found themselves entirely without re- sources and unable to get a passage back Two Rellef Armles. The Church Army, which is, of course, entirely supported by voluntary contribu- tions, feeds about 60 men In this fashion twice or three times a day. The work done by the men helps to pay expenses, but the deficit on each man alded amounts to | 6 pence a day, the weekly loss since No- haps more immediately noticeable than any in thy last six or seven weeks jt ) vember averaging about £70. thing else. First, the desperate hunger of | Vided over 42,00 meals, bty Ths, Salyation Aty 18 (hel othat BM=Emany, " aéwnt by woltlatis waythay, | Tere are Alimarous setiss suolbtises ahict) relief crganization. From 1 a. m. 10 8 & |09 upon their food. Second, the utter | fi18t aim at the one meal in (wenty-four m. Salvation Army officers distribute 80UD | pyyaica) weariness of those who had been [ BOUTS for men whi would otherwise go tickets to the crowds of starving and semi- | {rivine "ay agter day in 8 vain quest | f06dlons the whole duy. o resmurncs e starving men that assemble on the em- | for'work: no more cloquent proot of this | *YETY one of them are s(retehed 1o the we. bankment and elsowhere. This ticket 18|o,u1q bo necded than to sec a man in the [ MOst, but all combined they hardly do mors good at one or other its halls for a bowl | of soup, a slice of bread and an hour's prime of life fall fast « bench in the warm room before his lips than just touch th sturving poor 1 sitting on the surface of London's rest in a warm well-lighted room. | had touched the food he held in his hands. | The Salvation Army muk scrlous ate No applicant Is refused, and as in the | g the almost complete silence of them | tempt to find regular om iotdeirio ot case of the Church Army no questions are | .y oy they med to hug their brief spell | likely men wh they collect on - the asked. It s assumed that no man Will| oo ghoreo"ona warmeh Thames Embankment and clsewhere, It stay out in the open till midnight in "‘:'" Before touching upon the other London | has a labor burcaun which keeps In tough winter weather for a basin of soup unl ;::HN"'"J work of the Balvation army there | WIth employers to whom sclected men are he be in desperate need. On some "I": :(nru two or three other charities which | Sent as vacancies oceur. 1t has five works over 1,000 men are fed at the hall vis :lw | may be mentioned, the sole object of which | shops of 1ts own, in which they start mom by the writer in the same week that the is to glve a meal to a desperately hungry | Al paper sorting finding for as many ay Cl\\:rch A'm“'(“"‘i’""“""’;":"{:“'M" only | man. Scattered over London are a number | there s room work which covers the eost The same kind of men wel en, 0 in the bright electric lighted hall of the Salavtion Army the desperate misery of the crowd was more plainly to be seen It was easy to pick out a great number whose looks and bearing showed they were still trylng hard to keep themselves from out of utter depths. Old men, young men and mere boys were there. Condition is Desperate. There were three things that were, per- Salvation armies. this fund is of soup kitchens the prganizers of which | of board and lodging and sell books of tickets at the r | halMpence each to the public, who in their | turn distribute them among the poor. ustace Miles, the tennis player, and his wife have also started tickets on the Thames Embankment, on| others from similar lines to those of the church and| Beginning in teadlly increasing, and| 4177 in its own factorie an average of about 4 shillings weekly in mone To these men the way is always open for promotion in the Salvation Army organiza- o of th tion itself, and outside employmient is also distributing meal| found for many, thus making room for streets, Last year the Salvation Army In London a small| fou 1 employment for 2,49 persons, and rin Is marked by loss of ap ebilit petite, by weak, tired, languid feelings, and if the blood is very impure, by pimples, boils, eczema and other eruptions. It is a condition in which it is espeeially bhard to overcome the germs of infeotious and contagious diseases, which invade the system, bere, there and everywhere. The white blood corpuseles, sometimes called Little Soldiers in the Blood because they fight the germs of disease, are too weak to do good service. It is a condition, therefore, that not only makes you feel sick and miserable, but also ex- poses you to danger. The extraordinary efficacy of Hood’s Sarsa- parilla in Spring Debility has been proved by the largest volume of voluntary testimony in the world. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures all spring troubles, restores appetite, gives strength and animation, cleanses the blood, clears the complexion, and builds up the whole system. And it is no trouble to take it—only three small doses daily. Boils and That Tired Feeling. ‘Tt is from a sense of duty that I recommend flood’s Sarsaparilla and write you this letter. Every spring 1 would have boils break out on my body and as the season became warmer, would have that tired feeling. This weakness and ner- vousness unfitted me for labor, so I began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine, weigh- ing only 132 pounds. I am glad to say it did me a wonderful amount of good, purified my blood, overcame that tired feeling, made my nerves quiet and steady, and my weight has inereased to 198 pounds. T was constable in my little town for many years, able to handle the best of them, all owing to the benefit I derived from Hood’s Sar- saparilla.”’ Robert H. Despreaux, Middletown, N. J., Jan. 23, 1909. Pimples and Poor Appetite. “‘T amn well satisfied with my experience with Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and if ever I need a blood medicine again, I shall certainly take it. In the spring I had pimples and boils all over my baeck, with poor appetite, and general run down ‘springy’ condition. One course of treatment for my blood had done me no good, then T turned to Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which did the business just right. It gave me a good appetite, and drove all the impurities out of my blood. Every oppor- tunity I have to recommend this medicine, I glad- ly do so.”” H. P. Boyce, Battle Creek, Mich,, Jan. 11, 1909, Bay~Hood's Sarsaparilla effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it eontains sarsaparilla, but because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingredients, each greatly strengthened and enriched by this peeu- liar combination. These ingredients are the very remedies that suceessful physicians presoribe for the same diseases and ailments. There is no real substitute for Hood'’s Sarsaparilla. If urged to buy any preparation said to be ‘‘just as good,’ you may be sure it is inferior, costs less to make, and yields the dealer a larger profit, Get Hood's Barsaparilla today, in the usual liquid form or in the chocolated tablets knowa as 8arsatabs, 100 Doses One Dollar,