INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS THE WONDERBERJIY— OR SUNBERRY •Mi* Proved a Great Sucasss* FROM AN sands Say It's the Best Thing They Ever Grew. The Wonderberry or Sunberry, tl*s marvelous garden fruit originated by OPERATION Luther Burbank, and introduced by John Lewis Childs, the well-kndwn WALDON FAWCETT Seedsman of Floral Park, N. Y., has E O E WASHINGton's proved a great success all over the home and tomb country. Thousands of people say it at Mount Vernon have is the best thing they ever grew. become a Mecca for Mr. John Burroughs,-the well-known continual pilgrimages 's author, Naturalist and bosom-friend of by the people of a Theodore Roosevelt, says it is the grateful nation, to say Vegetable Compound most delicious pie berry he ever tasted, nothing of the frequent and a marvelous cropper. visits of distinguished A Director of the New York Agricultural J)e poreg^ foreigners ''After an operation Experiment Station says it fruits but, oaaiy enough, the birthplace of four years ago abundantly even in pure sand. In the the Father of His Country, located I had. pains downward short season of North-westera Canada in both sides, some miles nearer the mouth of the, it is a godsend,, and fruits long after backache, and a Potomac, is neglected and to a considerable frost has killed most garden truck. weakness. The doctor extent unknown. Fortunately D. S. Hall, Wichita, Kan., says thirty wanted me to a movement has been recently people grew it there last season with have another operation. inaugurated to restore and preserve took Lydia E. perfect satisfaction. I Wakefield plantation, where Pinkham's Vegetable K. S. Enochs, Hammond, La., says Compound and Washington was bora and where he St yields $250 worth of fruit per I am entirely cured spent his boyhood. This project is acre with him. Mrs. J. H. Powers, _—of my troubles."— coincident with the plan for the restoration ATTGUSTE VESPERMASTN, 4732 Kenwood avenue, Chicago, raised Mrs. De For­ of Stratford, the birthplace of est, Wisconsin. enough berries on a space 4x10 feet Robert E. Lee. to supply herself and friends. Another Operation Avoided. 1 cy of? OAVP- The opportunities for a memorial Kew Orleans, La.—"For years I suffered J. P. Swallow, Kenton, Ohio, says its from severe female troubles. shrine to the military leader of the equal for all purposes does not exist. Finally I was confined to my bed and confederacy are, however, somewhat Rev. H. B. Sheldon, Pacific Grove, the doctor said an operation was necessary- superior to those at Wakefield, for Cal., says he likes the berries served I gave Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable whereas the ancestral home of the in any and every way. Compound a trial first, and Lees is yet standing in a fair state was saved from an operation."—Mrs W. T. Davis, Enon, Va., says it is LILY PEYROUX, nil Kew of preservation there are no remnants Kerlerec St., true to description in every way, and jSlST Orleans, La. of the old buildings at Wakefield fruits in three months from seed. of Thirty years of unparalleled success save some tumble-down log Judge Morrow, of U. S. Circuit confirms the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's structures of uncertain origin which Court, says the Wonderberry is simply tion "Washington's Birthplace," and Vegetable Compound to cure are reputed to have once served as delicious raw or cooked. female diseases. The great volume of in small letters at the base the words: slave quarters, but which are now Mr. Childs exhibited one plant five unsolicited testimony constantly pouring "Erected by the United States, A. D. utilized as corn cribs. months old bearing 10,375 berries in proves conclusively that Lydia 1895." Latterly plans have been projected The old manor house in which E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is which measured about eight quarts. for rebuilding the old mansion, George Washington opened his eyes a remarkable remedy for those distressing Mrs. Hattie Vincent, Hayden, New placing in a conspicuous portion of feminine ills from which so upon the world was burned' in the Mexico, says it stands the long, hard the structure the few bricks remaining many women suffer. last Century, but the brick chimney, droughts of that climate and fruits from the old house and using the If you want special advice about within the arch of which four people abundantly all summer. original cornerstone. your case write to Mrs. Pink ham, could sit, and the cornerstone with a It is certainly the most satisfactory la In the old family burying ground at Lynn, Mass. Her advice portion of the foundation were saved. garden fruit and the greatest Novelty free, and always helpful* at Wakefield there has recently been -ever introduced. Shortly before the civil war the historic put in place a granite slab in memory farm passed into the hands of a of Augustine Washington, father of HE MEANT EVENING GOWNS SCANDAL IN BIRDLAND. family which at the outset showed George Washington. This stone was provided by the Society of the Colonial Well-Meant Compliment to American Dames of America. In this graveyard, Woman Somewhat Marred by c-. "V" also, is a marble slab bearing Unfortunate Error. an inscription that indicates that it was placed in its present position in Mons. Pruger, who from his triumph 1729. at the Savoy hotel in London has Probably the principal reason for come to New York to conduct a very the neglect of Wakefield by the tour­ fashionable restaurant, was complimented ist throng that visits Mount Vernon is found in mother of Washington, by a reporter on his perfect the isolation of Washington's birthplace. In conjunction it was broken and its English. with the erection of the governmental fragments lie there today, "Well," said Mons. Pruger, smiling, monument at Wakefield a substantial pier was moss-grown and "my English is, perhaps, better than built extending some distance out into the Potomac, vine-covered. Later on that of the Marquis X., who supped but this pier Is now in shoal water and picnic parties landed here after the opera the other evening. Mother Bird—Yes, your father has none of the larger steamers plying on the Potomac on the sandy beach "Our fine supper rooms looked very deserted us! Eloped with one of those can reach it. In consequence the only available and made such a practice gay and fine, diamonds flashed, pale •stew flying things! means of reaching Wakefield is to take passage of carrying away fabrics shimmered, and everywhere, on one of the steamers bound for Colonial the bricks as souvenirs turn where it would, the eye rested on LEG A MASS OF HUMOR Beach, the leading summer resort of the lower that John W. Wilson, dimpled, snowy shoulders shining like Potomac, and upon arrival at the beach to either the owner of the farm, satin above decollete bodices of Paris "About seven years ago a small charter a launch for the trip to Wakefield or else took steps to prevent gowns. abrasion appeared on my right leg reach the same goal by a considerable drive over further trespassing. "These decollete bodices impressed just above my ankle. It irritated me roads that are none too good. Even this timeconsuming Only a few of the old the Marquis X. He waved his hand so that I began to scratch it and it method of making a pilgrimage to bricks, together with and said: began to spread until my leg from my Wakefield is impracticable in winter. the cornerstones, are 'I 'ave knowed parfaitement that ankle to the knee was one solid scale *327355=25 now left. These bricks, OF GFO. the American young ladies was beautiful, Washington is the mightiest name of the Uke a scab. The irritation was always by the way, were but ah—I cannot say how far earth—long since mightiest in moral reformation. "worse at night and would not allow brought over from England more beautiful they seem in their On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot me to sleep, or my wife either, and it nearly two centu­ night dresses."—N. Y. Press. some appreciation for its associations. A succeeding be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the •was completely undermining our ries ago, serving as ballast for the vessels, which generation, however, demolished the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let health. I lost fifty pounds in weight also brought all the woodwork and other furnishings. Put a Shirt on Greeley. chimney and the remnants of the walls in order The excellent cut of Horace Greeley's none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the and was almost out of my mind with The broad portico of the old house to secure the bricks. name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave birthplace at Amherst, N. H., in faced the Potomac, which is here miles in width, pain and chagrin as no matter where A marble slab, bearing an inscription giving the Sunday Herald of recent date suggests it shining on.—Abraham Lincoln. and in the estimation of many persons the view the irritation came, at work, on the the date of Washington's birth and other information, this anecdote which may be ol street or in the presence of company, at this point surpasses that at either Arlington which had been set into the great arch interest: or Mount Vernon. America has furnished to the world the character I would have to scratch it until I had of the fireplace above mentioned was removed to The room in which he was born ia In the year 1895 the national government of Washington. And if our American institutions the blood running down into my shoe. the old family burying ground, but in placing it now occupied as a sitting room. A erected at Wakefield a miniature copy of the had done nothing else that alone would I simply cannot describe my suffering beneath two ancient fig-trees, planted by the visitor some years ago asked a lady .Washington national monument with the inscrip- have entitled them to the respect of mankind. during those seven years. The living near by if she remembered ever pain, mortification, loss of sleep, both seeing Horace Greeley, and she replied: to myself and wife is simply indescribable I "Well, yes have a very early on paper and one has to experience the President!" On these occasions the president sumptuous provision was enjoyed with much STARTED IN VIRGINIA I remembrance of him. put the first it to know what it is. and Mrs. Washington were conducted to a hilarity, tempered, however, with moderation." shirt on him."—Boston Herald. "I tried all kinds of doctors and remedies sofa placed under a canopy. The president did Besides the birthnight balls there was another but I might as well have thrown not stay there much, but moved about among the Well—Yes. feature of the early celebrations in Alexandria other guests with the dignified courtesy which my money down a sewer. They would "If you want a thing well done—" which was peculiar to that town. Washington -dry up for a little while and fill me always marked him in society. "Get an expert to do it for you. Come, boys, close the window and make a good fire. had founded an orphan asylum there and when with hope only to break out again just On his birthday in 1797 he and Mrs. Washington Wife, children, sit snug all around Ain't that more sense than what you on his birthday there would be a meeting, with Tis the day that gave birth to our country's bless'd were in Philadelphia. The ships in the harbor its bad if not worse. I had given up were going to say?" an orator, in one of the churches, the orphans sire, were dressed with flags and the houses were bope of ever being cured when I was Then let It with pleasure be crowned. were conspicuously present and came in for a HATE YOU A COUGH, OR COLD? decorated. Every half hour the church bells rang. Induced by my wife to give the Cuti-cura Dear wife, bring your wine, and in spite of hard special piece of oration. The account of the If so, take at once Aliens Litng Balsam and watch PobUlar times Government officials and foreign diplomats Remedies a trial. After taking results. Simple, safe, effective. All dealers. meeting in 1840 says that after the oration a collection prices—25c, 50c, and $1.00 bottles. On this day at least we'll be merry caUed to congratulate him. The ball at night was the Cuticura Remedies for a little was taken up for the benefit of the asylum. Come, fill every glass till it pours o'er the brim, And the more a woman knows about in the amphitheater, specially floored and decorated. while I began to see a change, and If not with madeira—then sherry. men the less she has to say on the subject. There were about 500 guests and according after taking a dozen bottles of Cuticura —Old Song. The Alexandria celebrations were often addressed to an eye witness "every countenance bespoke Resolvent, in conjunction with by G. W. P. Custis. In 1811 Richard B. HE foregoing verse is from one of the pleasure and approbation even Democrats the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, Mrs. Win glow's Soothing Syrup. old birthday songs in honor of George Lee was the orator. Some idea of newspaper forgot for-a moment their enmity." the trouble had entirely disappeared For children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammatlon, methods of that day may be had from the fact Washington. These songs were sung allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The next year, 1798, Washington attended the and my leg was as fine as the that although the celebration that time was mentioned even during the lifetime of the first celebration given by his friends and neighbors •day I was born. Now after a lapse of And a lot of good resolutions are in the Gazette of February 23, it was not president. For Washington was alone at Alexandria and some accounts declare that it manufactured the morning after. six months with no signs of a recurrence among Americans in having his birthday until February 25 that a real account appeared. was the last time he did so. He was at Mount I feel perfectly safe in extending regularly and publicly celebrated ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE." Vernon in 1799 on his birthday, it being the occasion During the civil war the celebration of the to you my heartfelt thanks for the That is LAXATIVE BROMO Look for QUININE. during his lifetime. the signature of E. W. GKOVK. Used the World of one of the greatest festivities in the history birthday ceased. Alexandria was ardently southern good the Cuticura Remedies have done over to Cure a Cold in One Lay. 25c. The honor of having originated the public observance of the mansion, the marriage of Nelly Custis." in its sympathies and was, moreover, too for me. I shall always recommend of February 22 is one of which the town Generally the man or woman who The ceremony was performed at early them to my friends. W. H. White, much in the track of war to take notice of even of Alexandria, V*., is jealously proud. Alexandria says "I don't care" is a liar. candlelight in the banquet room and was attended 312 E. Cabot St., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. its own pet anniversary. It was not until 1870 was Washington's county town. He attended by the gentlefolk from all the country around. -4 and Apr. 13, 1909." that it began a feeble revival of the old festival. church there he voted and paid taxes there In spite of the wedding, however, Washington That time there was merely a presentation of a his physician lived there he bought of its tradesmen, Worth Keeping. seems to have slipped away for a look in on the stand of colors to the cadets of St. John's academy contributed to its charities, was head of its ^'John, do you recognize this hat?" doings at Alexandria for there is an account of by the young ladies of Mount Vernon Institute. iium Masonic lodge, organized its fire brigade. "No, I can't say that I do. It looks that celebration In an old copy of the Alexandria Washington and Alexandria either contradict father dilapidated." Gazette in which his presence is mentioned. The In 1872 the cadets paraded and there was a the theory that a prophet is not appreciated at "Yes. I have been keeping it as a great event of that particular day was a sort of birthnight ball once more. In 1876 a real celebration home or they are an exception to prove the rule. -dear memento. I was wearing it when sham attack on the town by three companies of was arranged, to which "thousands of strangers" Right after the close of the revolution Alexandria you and I first met. That was 11 years local infantry. They were embarked on the came and upon which occasion "the houses ago." began to celebrate the birthday of her hero. armed schooners Neptune, Trial and Mercury and that were mourning at Lee's death"—Robert E. Perhaps the old town had acquired the habit, "I hope you'll keep it always. It succeeded in making twso landings, but after "a Lee—"all displayed the American flag." Many for the birthnight balls In honor of King George ought to convince you that you must heavy and continuous street fighting" were finally houses displayed pictures of Lee and Washington had been the climax of socia* functions under the Jiave been mighty good looking once, compelled to surrender. side by side. But there was no birthnight ball, old regime. At any rate never was allegiance seeing that even with that thing on The general had arrived soon after the affair there and on the platform of the speaker's stand your head you caused me to fall in more ardently transferred and the new birthnight began and when the evolutions were closed he was a vacant chair placed to honor the memory love with you." balls became even more elaborate than the old. "presented his highest respects to all the parties of G. W. P. Custis. "the old man eloquent." Alexandria having set the fashion, other engaged in them." Apparently being due for the Since 1876 the celebrations have been father Important to Mothers. places took up the custom. In 1784 the French wedding eight miles distant, he did not remain irregular in the town which originated them. But of Examine carefully every bottle officers who had served under Washington celebrated for any of the dinners which followed and at of late years a society has been formed which CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for February 22 in Paris that is to say, it Guar®1* which so extreme a number of toasts were drunk infants and children, and see that it arranges and carries out an elaborate programme was not then February 22, but, according to the that one trembles at the thought of how the every alternate year. Whereas the orphans used Bears the reckoning of that day. February 11. youthful soldiers acquitted themselves at the ball to be a center of birthday attention, the interest ^Signature of While he was president the birthday was always BROWN'S in the evening. is divided now between the firemen and the soldiers. celebrated at the city which was the capital BRONCHIAL TROCHES Jn Use For Over 30 Years. That was, the last of his birthdays which for the time being. At night there were gala The Kind You Have Always Bought An absolutely ^harmless remedy for Sore Throat. Washington himself lived to celebrate, but his Last year there were detachments of federal performances at the theaters and a ball which Hoarseness and Coughs. Give immediate relief in home town faithfully continued the custom. in Bronchial and Lung Atfectionfc^^ troops and of United States sailors addition to the president and his wife attended. Unkind Husband. Fifty years' reputation. G. W. P. Custis, the grandson of Mrs. Washington, the District militia. Washington has a permanent Mrs. Myler.—You say your husband cents, cents and It is recorded that one of these balls in Philadelphia Price, 25 50 $1.00 per box. spoke at the public dinner in 1849 and said Sample sent on request. ,w* claim to pose as Alexandria's "favorite son" Is unkind to your pet dog? was enlivened by the fact that many of it was the sixtieth celebration of February 22 —JOH£LLBRggWLfe SOW. Boston. M„. and these biennial affairs are the biggest thingof Mrs. Styles.—Indeed he is! Why, he the young ladies wore twined among their curls which he had attended in Alexandria. The account in is their sort the country. February 22 t&e Fido bit* absolutely refuses to let with the live bandeaux embroidered words. "Long the that "the of that dinner, by way. says PATENT ££££&&& Alexandrian's glorious Fo\vt*h. Jbim!—Yonkers Statesman. Jc V- s. *$•