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January 30, 1902.
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REGULAR and
PAINLESS
monthly periods mean more to a
woman than all the wealth of the
? This case is but a single instance
3 out of many thousands of women
( who are using G. F. P. and being
) cured of their complaints.
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A GOOD CHANGE.
A Change of Food Works Wonders.
The wrong food and drink cause a
lot of trouble in this world. To change
the food is the first duty of every per-
son that is ill. particularly from stom-
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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
world, for such a condition means 3
4, , , health. Irregular and painful peri-
ods-are unnatural; they mean that the regulating forces of the sys-
tem are out of order, and they are warnings of still more serious
troubles which are sure to result unless Nature is given the aid she
needs to set things right. G. F. P. gives this aid because it furnishes
pure, rich blood to every part; it is more than medicine—it is con-
centrated health.
METHEGLIN AS A BEAR TRAP aominnainumnentact with Buck’s heels
By Rev. Wm A. Bowen. Then began a triangular race: Sandy
wanted his gun, or to keep the horse
Christmas was the only day looked every sapling to a common trail lead- between him and the bear until help
forward to with as much delight as ing to the cow-lot and then through a would come, or he could jump over the
was the “Old Settlers’ Day” in Pine gap left open to the shed, and up to fence, which he now wished had not
Malley, for it was then that Uncle Hez. the tub of metheglin. Then he hung been built so high; the bear raced to
told the youngsters the best stories the bear-hide up behind the smoke- set at his two-legged foe and to keep
they ever heard. On this occasion he house, and his trap was ready, out of reach of the heels of his four-
had promised them an unusually good For a day of two he had no results legged antagonist, the thump of which
one. As the young folks saw their old from his scheme. But the third morn- he still felt tingling between his ears
bachelor uncle settle down in his easy ing he found a good-sized mamma beat and which helped to sober him—for
chair in the chimney-corner and put and cub rolling and tumbling in any- he, too, had been on a drunk from
his specs on the mantel-shelf, they thing but a loving embrace near the over-indulgence in metheglin; and
crowded around, for Uncle Hez. always tub—both drunk from the liquor. In Poor old Buck had no other desire
told them stories of what befell him a few minutes they Were killed. Hear- than to keep clear of those extended
and their papa and neighbors in the ing a noise out among the dry pea- paws and to get out of that too small
early days of Texas, when Indians and vines in the corn-field, he took his gun pen and try a race for life with his FOUND PERMANENT RE,Ie
wild animals made it dangerous for and went down to investigate. The shaggy-haired pursuer in an open and MRS. M. J. HARTNESS, Armfield N C tells her atenc,
those who were redeeming an empire sight that met his gaze made him fair field. Round and round the pen with G. F. P. in a few brief sentences. Shesavs- her experience
from savage beasts an still more sav- laugh so he could not aim his gun to they ran, the bear alternately doubling «Afterthreevearsrg,Ferncin, + i , . ,,
age men for the peaceful and happy shoot. A large bear and two half- himself on all-fours and standing erect and manyuhseessrsiotsufertingfrom menstrualand womb troubles
abode of their children and grand- grown cubs were having a regular and trotting in a shambling, waltzing I felt relieved within a week. P have taken efI begansusingG.EP
children., drunken row. They would try to rear gait, trying at the same time to reach quence the tired feeling has left my limbs, the heaviness is ^one from
Bears had never been what you up on their hind-legs and reach for Sandy and to keep as much distance my stomach, my appetite is good, I sleep and rest well and°am better
would call scarce, said Uncle Hez.; but each other with their fore-paws; then as possible between him and those everyway. G. P. P. is peculiarly adapted to the ailments of wom~n ”
-this fall there had been an extra large they would reel and come down on all- ready heels. Sandy dodged first across -—------—-----------—
mast—haws, acorns and berries—and fours and slap at each other and roll the pen and behind the horse and back I " riteto th eLadies' Health Club, care
I never knew so many bee-trees to be over among the pea-vines, snapping of and at the side of the bear; Buck for free medical advice■ concerning aSy
found. This made the bears fat and at each other in a lazy, stupid manner now sidled, now jumped and kicked, features connected with your trouble
frolicsome, and so plentiful that we showing their red tongues. Then they now reared and plunged first to the about whlch you wxsh information.
had trouble keeping our pigs and would all manage to get into a center of the pen and then to the cor- esaengggagunganana
shoats; for a bear will leave even a general embrace, and bite, scratch, ner farthest from bruin. --=2256
haw or berry thicket or bee-tree for growl and hug, and turn somer- Sandy’s strength was almost gone
a fat, juicy pig any day. Old Jim Bur- saults in the most comical way, when the boys came running out to
k.tt — your grandfather, John — our Then they would break themselves see what all the hallooing, and snort- _________________________________
greatest bear-hunter, and versed in apart and scramble up, eyeing each ing, and trampling of feet, and, growl- —
bear habits, said: other in a sad kind of disappoint- ing, was about—for it all had happened we can. saving our money if possible, cent. He’s the man who says whether
“I never saw b’ars so plenteous, and ment. They were as frolicsome as a in less time than it takes to tell it. and being cut by every man round we shall celebrate the Fourth of July
unscary, and festiverous, as they are squad of ward politicians on parade Sandy yelled for Dick to get the rake here, or we fall into the ways of our or not, and he runs the schools and
this fall.” day—and as drunk, Sandy watched and pull the gun to a crack of the fence neighbors, and drink and gamble our- the police and firemen. You don’t
The saplings all over the woods were them for awhile, and then shot them and shoot the bear. Dick soon had selves into perdition. I am not going mean to say you never heard of him?”
scratched and clawed as high as a before they could escape the gun, but shooting the bear without to break your mother’s heart, and I “Never in my life.”
man’s head, or higher. These scratch- Next morning Sandy went to the lot hitting either his father or faithful say "No, even if they burn us down.” “Well, well! They didn’t say any-
ings on trees are signs looked for by and bridled his horse before daylight old Buck was another matter, for bruin . -t Was the critical moment of our thing to him about beginning the war,
bear-hunters, and are always found to go to a neighbor’s and tried to lead insisted in moving in such lively fash- liVes. 1 could have fallen at my fath- but after it had been going on for a
where bruin promenades. But the old- Buck—that was the horse’s name to ion that he had first Sandy and then er'S feet and worshiped him when he few months he wanted to be a Gener-
est hunters had never before seen so the crib, where he kept his sadle and Buck between him and the gun. made that decision. He looked like al. They told him they had all the
many trees scarred and scratched, blanket but the horse reared and "Pa, run ’round right quick, then a God—-determined and invincible. Generals they wanted, and he bowed
Even the cubs had left their baby chai- plunged when he got near the crib- stop suddenly, so’s old Buck’ll be ahead SQ it came about that my brother and said:
lenges on scores of young trees—for door, and refused to go close to it. of you and the bear behind!” shouted and 1 divided the circuit between us, “‘Gentlemen, I’ll either be a General
bears generally selected young trees Sandy, tried to pull him, but old Buck Dick; “then before the bear catches and 1 rode to the north and he to the or stop the war.’ He waited three days,
for their messages to other bears. It only reared and snorted and pulled up I'll Pepper him with buckshot.” south. To every ranchman this mes- and as they didn’t make him a General, e$
was evident that the bears, old and back the harder. Sandy hitched the The favorable opportunity soon came, Sage went: ‘Father invites you for he put his foot down and stopped the gr
young, felt particularly good that fall, animal on the other side of the lot and the bear lay stretched out, literally Saturday and Sunday as usual. There war. So you never heard of Juds ©Sad
These scratchings are the way one where he stood trembling and snorting riddled with large shot—and old Buck will be no cards or liquor—only quiet Booker?” anda
bear challenges another bear. He while his master went to see what the had jumped the fence and was gallop- talk about old England and the wel- “Never.” ey ad .
stands up on his hind legs and reaches trouble was. He expected to see some ing at full speed across the corn-field, fareof the. colony: „ * , "And you didn't know that evestJB
as high as he can with his paws and one hiding inside_mavbe an Indian— He did not stop until he reached the . We waited that Saturday afternoon neral processions turn out forme
gives five or six rakes into the tender tot waslstonishedt seantndanr far side; ‘hen he raised his head, with tremhling,not expecting a single "I did not. rwlM
bark of the young tree. This says, as outlines of a black-looting'beast poked his ears forward, looked towards guestBut suddenly one rode up and “Well, well! I used to b,
plain and emphatic as a bear can write stretched on a pije of corn near the the cow-lot, gave a snort, and began then another, ana anothei, until the you. I used to run all torhA
it- eeu5u on a pile or com near tne nibbling • +h at all.k heryn1s whole section was represented. There NaDlen As nrh-haa
door, which was partly open. Hasten- —DD- 108 8rasS 111 tnat quick, nervous ptnerin napoleon, as you pi obabi3y."12
“I am the tallest bear in these woods, ing to the house, he soon returned way horses have when excited. That mey m, nSpihem8 thH8 er seeing Judge Booker ju,Po
and my claws can dig into bear-meat with his shotgun, both barrels loaded morning's experience ruined Buck as s e "5- 8ak, "I " 5 hearing him call his dog, wik'ni
as well as into tree-bark, if any bear with buckshot—having taken care to a bear -hunting horse. . “With mother oonosite him father Nero and Napoleon were knocked into
dare to dispute it.” close and lock the crib-door before he . Sandy poured out the remainder of said grace at table and we boys saw cocked hats, and old Alexander the
Another bear comes along, smells went. But the noise made in fastening the metheglin, and said he would never tears flow down rugged cheeks " Great could have rested in the shadow
bear-tracks at the root of the tree, the door must have aroused the beast, make even a bear drunk again, as he mhat nient the men talked jong of his coat-tails.”
looks up and sees this cartel of brag- for Sandy got back and to the door had never known anything buttrouble about bushmen and rabbits and fences e
gadocio and defiance raked in deep just in time to see a huge bear come to come om drinking or causing oth- and drought and how to stand by Little Prince Edward of Wales has
lines, and then he gets mad. He rears crashing through, breaking the door ers o dunk anything intoxicating, each other ’ a profound distaste for arithmetic,
up and tries to reach as high as, or even from its fastenings, bear and door turn- but his neighbors were not of the he next morning as he did every Many times the future King of Eng-
higher than, the other bear reached, bling together on the ground at the game mind—at least as regards bears— Sunday morning father conducted land has been put in a corner for evi-
and gives a few rakes, as much as to feet of the astonished Sandy. Before ,r many of them adopted Sandy’s oravers this ti ’ before fiftv of the dencing his dislike. Recently when
say: he could fire, the beast was on his feet plan and used metheglin as a bear- rm-he‛ me j bad ever seen assem- he saw book and slates made ready to
“I’ll never take a dare from any and making for him furiously. Sandy trap, and never before nor since was bled- and there was singing of hvmns start the day’s lessons he arose from
shaggy-haired, monkey-footed, small- ran backward, trying to get his gun S0 much bear-meat smoked and dried broken here and there bi sobs and hv the table at whicn he had been sitting
eyed bear that wobbles through the to his shoulder, and soon found he was in the settlement. To this day stories teams When thev 5 mv father and said quietly to his tutor: “I don’t
woods, and if I catch you I’ll prove in as much danger from the heels of of that great bear year are told by the although a recent "comer was acknowl- think I ‘11 do ’rithmetic to-day; think
that there is one bear left that can his frightened horse as from the bear. O d settlers at their annual meetings, edged leader of the community I 11 80 in the corner again, if you don’t
scratch and hug as well as the next.” Buck was too terror-stricken to pay But your Uncle Hez. never tried me- “That section became the most nrns- mind, and marched away like a sol-
Then he goes off on the trail of his much attention to his master’s repeat- theglin after that winter either on peros section in all the country dier. leaving the much-bewildered tu-
foe. If he overtakes him—and he usu- ed “Whoas!” But the rearing and bears or folks. round And I thought if Christian tor in the rear,
ally does, for bears are good at scent- plunging and snorting of the horse * courage could accomplish that it was
mg a track—there is a big fight. And seemed to cause the bear to stop to HE SAID “NO.” good enough for me to live and die by
woe to the bear that has not been able think for a moment, evidently regard- TLe great y M chri^^n My father’s ‘No’ was the one thing
° scratch above his antagonist’s ing the heels of the horse as more Association Convention held in Bos needed to save the community, and it
reach! for the results of these con- dangerous than the gun. Sandy tried 4 -1a. --ent f d in BOS saved it.”
flicts are generally discouraging to to move cautiously towards the fence t ought + legateS from all parts ta
bears with a short reach. After a few where Buck was hitched, but the horse otheW‛orldsotestify_tothevalue of ’ p at momp
sad experiences they pay no attention kept him from this by his frantic kick- C, ristian.religion as the highest rule BE AT HOME.
to a challenge above their reach. ing and rearing. Buck broke his halter nat 1 .4 Poetical lite. It was In everything study to bring out ach and nervous troubles. As an fl-
it was because of the unprecedented and made a tremendous jump away 4— a as the delegates met each character and individuality in con- lustration: A lady in Hickmon Mills,
number of these scratchings that the from Sandy, in avoiding whom he came odtn‛them to exchange vital ex- versation. Have your new "books and Mo-> has, with her husband, been
settlement was on guard against bears, slap onto the bear. Over bruin he Meencs, he following was told by magazines on the drawing-room ta- brought around to health again by
and because of the great number of jumped, kicking as he went over his on " 40 4 traveled eight thousand hie, banishing altogether the usual leaving off coffee and some articles of
missing pigs and shoats. And Sandy heels landing a sound whack on the 1 to attend the meetings. lumber of that piece of furniture, food that did not agree witn them.
Murks, a shrewd and thrifty man just bear’s head, back of the ears, and roll- , -ather Was a rancher on a your friends will find subjects for They began using Postum Food Cof-
out from North Carolina, thought of a ing him over and over on the ground , J Scale in Australia. He had on- talk on every hand if your parlor fee and Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food,
way to turn the fighting propensities and close to Sandy before he could get y athousand sheep or,So anda couple shows that you live and think and She Says,. "For a number of years I
of these bears to good account, and, away. As bruin rolled he pawed at his o.sdua remie 80 frurnfor pasture He work there among your books, pic- suffered with stomach and bowel trou-
while saving his and his neighbors’ head with both paws, raking them wasan Eng 1S h emigrant of sturdy tures and plants. Make your prepa- b e which .kept getting worse until I
pigs, to have an abundance of fine across Sandy’s shins in his frantic ef- yeoman sto k, and while the free life of rations for company as perfectly as was very ill most of the time. About
bear-meat. torts to ease his head ot the pain a shepherd had taught him tolerance you can berore your guests come and four years ago J eft of coffee and be-
He put a lot of-honey, comb and all, caused by Buck’s heels, and leaving ' - kindness, he. remained true in then try to forget all about the details gan taking Postum. My stomach and
into a large tub and covered it with some scratches on Sandy’s tegs as deep" peart the strict lessons of his of your entertalning inattending “t bo "e limprnyedsr ahtalong butrwas
water and added some newly-dried if not as high, as the challenge he had Irhe nearest neighbor or tgtn your guests. Don’t be thinking about he ]east thi hian overcome usthat
peaches. This he set under a shed be- probably gouged on the trees in the was ten miles awavlu^ oysters and coffee, or of the flowers thfhenstans.u°ercomeme.
tween the cow-lot and pig-pen. In a woods. This sent poor Sandy sprawl- "sa to mi nothing of^-ri - t and fruit on your luncheon-tables usinl Grape Nge Yefopda ndbegan
few daysit was what the settlers ing; but he fell rolling away from that tv or fortv miles to a centwhile Mabel is tellingyou how she uddomoPppisagoastFoodin
called "methigolum"-meaning me- bear but towards his equally danger- farm on Saturday to spend the °ntght passed her school examinations, or on these two prnncspamy or about fom-
theglin. Sandy vhen went bear-hunt- ous horse. in carousal, and ride back on Sunday Tom is explaining his last game of months. Day by day I gained in flesh
ini8.andwas long in.finding a He was up in a moment, and tried ‘-The isolation was so depressing foot-ball. Be "at home" to your and strength until now the nervous
good-sized black bear whmh he killed to get at his gun. which was knocked and the heat so exhausting that when friends.— Ada C. Sweet, in Woman’s trouble has entirely disappeared and
and then skinned carefully, leaving the from his hands in the fall, but this the men cametogetheronce ahathen Home Companion. I feel that I owe my life and health to
claws on the hide. He then took half bruin prevented by scrambling to his this way, drinking and gambling seem- se Postum and Grape-Nuts.
of an old pair of nail-claws —the feet and galloping after him. Sandy ed inevitable. ‘In the kindled passion A GREAT MAN AT HOME. Husband is 73 years old and he was
kind used for taking rails out of a keg saw that his only safety now was in and excitement of these m5d AS810 an T 20 ■ , a troubled, for a long time, with occa-
-and with the sharp points he raked getting Buck between him and the ures they thought they might forget ica^War ” L^the man from Connie- sional cramps, and slept badly. Finai.
the bark of a lot of saplings just as a bear until he could manage to recover for a few hours the sufferings and nri san. "4 ’ , aid the T. , -on ly I prevailed upon him to leave off
bear would, taking care not to seratch his gun, or his cries for help should vations Of their 1ot. was tre"andstdon‛tt butwehad ?hl coffee and take Postum. He stood out
so high up as to discourage bears with arouse the boys; for the bear would “At last it was mv father’s turn tn "asr ep e5 • • ata ’ We i th, for a long time, but after he tried'
an ordinary or a short reach Then surely catch him if he attempted to entertain. He must Invite h herders honprwofabringingethe,wartoaclose. Postum for a few days he found that
he carried the bear-skin out and- climb the fence. But old Buck had no of the kraal within a radius ngcjd of eHyw.Co You mean, wasasked. he could sleep and that his cramps dis-
dragged it about the rocks and arohnd notion of remaining still and serve as fifty mins ’ ’ f , Did you ever hear of Judge Booker appeared. He was satisfied and has
every sapling he had scratched, going a barricade even for his master. He “ ‘Bovs’ he said to his two sons mv o", ' never had coffee since.
over each place with the fore-paws and would trot off sideways whenever ap- brother and mvself it’s the n3n19‛, of • .. , , 1 have a brotner in California who
digging the hind-claws in the ground proached,’keeping his distended ees the ways. ‘ We either live as we have know” the justice ° peace, you has been using Postum for several
just as a bear would do. After this he on bruin as the later shuffled after lived simply in the fear of God mind “That, n e -i m ” years, his whole family use it also be-
dragged the hide around and across sangy, at the same trying to avoid ing our business, payingourdentsdit "Tat worth “l? he’s worth a irom they have had such good resulti
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