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L&X (it A/^IT^ri IOTERNATIONAfc FALLS PRESS Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription /TAKES WEAK WOJIEN STRONG, SICK WOriEN WELL. For over 40 years this celebrated remedy has been making women's lives happier—healthier—safer. Many thousands of women have testified to its wonderful effect. CBPYMC/trBr PEARJQH P&B. CO, The "Favorite Prescription "is M/JSS CREEUMAM THE ONE REMEDY that can be depended upon when there fs any derangement of the distinctly feminine organism. It purifies, heats, soothes, builds up, THE ONE REMEDY which absolutely contains neither alcohol (which to most Women is rank poison). nor injurious or HE visitor to Washington habit-forming drugs. who looks down from the gallery upon the sleepy, THE ONE REMEDY which & so perfect ih its composition green-carpeted senate Is and so good in its curative effects as to warrant its makers sure to be impressed and in printing its every ingredient, as they do, on its outside puzzled, if not actually wrapper, verifying the same under solemn oathi thrilled, by the presence of a blind man in that It is needed when baclcachea make life miserable—when a sicken» droning citadel of federalism inj» dragging, bearing-down feeling makes work a weary agony— a senator without when sick headache, nervous irritability, loss of energy and appetite power to see, the youngest member of indicate derangement of the womanly organism. It is a purely the "American house of lords," representing vegetable compound, being a glyceric extract from native medicinal the youngest state in the roots and can not injure in any condition of the female system,. Union. ,.Dr' Pierce's Pleasant Pellets If the story of Senator Gore of help the effect of Oklahoma could serve no other purpose other medicines by keeping the liver active and the bowels than to illustrate how a brave open. They regulate and strengthen Stomach, Liver and Bowels. heart and persistent ambition can sy to take as candy* At all dealers—get what you ask for. overcome even the greatest difficulties World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. in life it would be worth telling. Loyalty to a set purpose, maintained THE ROAD TO POPULARITY resolutely through 25 years of bitter struggle, raised this poor blind American Recipe Has Been in Use Many Years boy to a seat In the most distinguished But It Is Not Always Safe to law-making body in the world, I2kS TP @ORE Trust It.. although he sometimes lived on the verge of starvation. Nothing could "The way to be popular has been explained Lawton in October Gore was still in his shake his determination to be a senator. by one of the marshmallow tent. His wife fell sick and for four months He had no eyes, but he had a magazines which inflates itself with he was her only nurse, save when their tongue. He had no money, but he had the idea that it is directing modern GAL-VA-NITE baby came in January. When they moved courage. He was obscure, but he had life. "When you shake hands with into their own cottage and furnished it with a high ambition. He could not see the a man," runs the recipe* "grasp the a stove and a few articles of furniture they world about him, but he had a smile hand as though you were glad to see had only $1 left. They had to rent out to win it, a perseverance to compel the owner, look him in the eye, and three of their five rooms. its admiration and support. give him a smile from your heart." The baby was born in desperately cold This is a sure-enough recipe. It A few months after Mississippi waa weather in a room heated only by a tiny has been worked by some of the greatest readmitted to the Union in 1870 Thomas Comes In rolls ready to be cook stove. It lived only 17 days and was frauds in Christendom to subserve Pryor Gore was born on an 80-acre pat on. No hard work at all— buried on the prairie. their own ends. The man who is no skilled help needed. Anyone farm 30 miles from the nearest railway. That winter tried the man in him. For seeking popularity, posing for it, can put on a roof of months he and his fair, young wife lived on GAL-VA-NITE. angling for it, usually doesn't deserve Here the boy grew up among the scanty portions of bread, beans and beef Can be used on either steep it. Keep your admiration for men creeks and pines, a stocky, gray-eyed little fellow, struggle in his native spot and to go back to liver, with syrup made of sugar dissolved in water or flat roofs—on any kind of a who show you their real selves, who, who could outrun any of his companions. Texas. Before leaving Walthall he made a vow for dessert. building. Cheaper and easier when they are bothered or worried, When he was six years old the village of Walthall to lay than shingles. that he would never enter the village again until All through this time his wife encouraged his or mad, or glad, make it manifest by was established in the woods nearby and the Put an end to your roof he could return to his neighbors a United States political ambitions. appropriate facial expression, and troubles. Cover the old leaky Gore family went there to live. Young Tom attended senator. In April, 1902, Gore managed to go as a delegate who are not constantly standing themselves a roof with new roof of GALVA-NITE. a small school set among the trees outside to the territorial convention that was to That year in Texas was a hard one. Gore before the mirror. It won't rust, rot of the village. choose a delegate to congress from Oklahoma and threw himself into politics with passionate energy. or blow off—needs no paint. At the age of eight years the boy's left eye his speech in response to the welcome of the Use GAL-VA-NITE on your He was a delegate to the Populist convention DELAY IS DANGEROUS. was blinded by an accidental blow from a stick. mayor of Enid so struck the fancy of the delegates new building. It affords permanent at St. Louis which nominated Mr. Bryan and Three years later he was employed as a page in protection—not merely that there was a movement to make him the choice seconded the nomination. In December, 1896, he When the kidneys are sick, 'the "temporary shelter." the Mississippi senate and boarded at the house of the convention. He declined the honor in favor and his brother opened a law office. It was a whole body is weakened. Aches and Let us send you samples and of Senator J. Z. George in Jackson. One day, of others. It was a shrewd move and counterbalanced fierce struggle with the world. His father, mother pains and urinary ills book—"The Inside of An Outside while playing with a crossbow, an arrow entered the fact that he was a newcomer in Oklahoma. 'EvngPichur and brother lived v/ith him. Sometimes they come, and there is Proposition." Drop us a ITellsASbia" fiis right eye and destroyed his sight. The result was that he was elected to the Were without a single dollar. postal NOW. danger of diabetes and territorial senate. In spite of his affliction young Gore managed fatal Bright's disease. In April, 1899, Gore's fortunes had sunk so Address the Manufacturers to stand at the head of his class in school and at The fight for a seat in the United States senate Doan's Kidney Pills low that he appeared in the street with frayed UNION ROOFING & MFG. COMPANY the age of 17 years entered a normal school was now pressed systematically. Having introduced cure sick kidneys and clothing, broken shoes and a visage white with 200 Union Road St. Paul, Minnesota. which was opened. Here he gradually became a child labor bill in the legislature and declared impart strength to deprivation. One day it seemed as though he had totally blind, yet he mastered the high school his friendship for organized labor, Gore the whole system. come face to face with actual starvation, when an course. spent the year 1903 in widening his acquaintance, old negro woman paid $2 which she owed him Mrs. M. A. Jenkins, While Gore was attending the high school his attending picnics, barbecues and county fairs, lecturing and that saved the situation. Quanah, Texas, says: A Home Booster closest companion was a classmate, Charles H. for anything from $5 to $25, shaking hands "I was so badly run When Mr. Bryan was nominated at Kansas Pittman. This youth used to read to him. One with the crowds and smiling his way into their down that the doctors City in 1900 Gore found his way to the crowd that day they found an old volume of the Congressional hearts. Amongst the thousands of people who told me there was no enthusiastically praise Stub-Roo Liquid surrounded the convention. He was now a Democrat. Record. Going out to the stable, the blind Then came the presidential campaign of 1904 —Mr. J. H. Constantine, a well known hope. I was so low student would stand for hours while Pittman read harness maker in Duluth, is very prominent. and Gore got $4 or $5 a day from the Democrats my relatives were Mr. Constantine's nephew was to him the speeches of the lawmakers at Washington. It might help him on his way to the senate kicked in the face by a horse. His face for speaking in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. He had called in to see me before I died. Different was terribly lacerated, his teeth to if he could make speeches in the neighborhood had no desire to go back to the territorial legislature, parts of my body were badly be replaced. During that winter Gore and his sister taught of a national convention. knowing that his great ambition could be better swollen and I was told I had dropsy. school for a few months. All the while his mother, served by the publicity of service in the national Hurrying on to South Dakota—he had only $7 Doan's Kidney Pills saved my life, and a bedridden invalid, read to him history, biography campaign. left when he got there—Gore went to the state made it worth living." and other subjects connected with his political convention and secured an engagement to speak Gore fought hard for Oklahoma's admission to Remember the name—Doan's. For plans, and he would sit by the bed, a in the state during the presidential campaign. In the Union. No man was more active in the agitation. sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. strange smile on his blind countenance, dreaming this way he picked up $1,000. Then he went back But he would n/it go to the national capital. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. healed him in one week. Write Mr. and brooding and waiting for the day when he to Texas and married a beautiful girl. "It was Constantine about Stub-Roo. Remember "I won't go to Washington till I go with the might take part in the great battle of politics like its record— love at first sight," he said, laughingly. Newfoundland's Bad Record. right to speak and vote in the senate," he said. other men. The Newfoundland Society for the "Not One Known Failure in 8 Years." After the presidential campaign was over The statehood bill was passed by congress in His great chance came in the spring of 1891. Prevention of Tuberculosis is carrying Gore's $1,000, earned in the South Dakota tour, 1906. Then the political air of Oklahoma was As Stub-Roo is new on the market, locally, The Populist movement was spreading rapidly on a vigorous and necessary campaign your druggist may not carry it. soon melted away, and little money came in to "full of razors" as the struggle for the two new and he joined it. In the state campaign for a this year in the island. The death If so, send one dollar for a large bottle, take its place. In 1901 things went so badly with senatorships began with the primary campaign to express paid, today, to legislature to elect a United States senator he rate from the disease in Newfoundland him and his senatorial prospects seemed so dim, elect a legislature. Gore's opponents were both is very large. About one in every took up the cause of Barksdale against George, STUB-ROO MEDICAL CO., Duluth, Minn. that when an advertisement of an auction of land rich men, who spent their money freely. He five of the total population dies of it, although as a boy he had lived in George's house. lots in the newly opened Kiowa, Comanche and stayed in Guthrie, borrowing money to pay the and, what is worse, in the last six The blind orator shrank from no conflict. He Apache reservation in Oklahoma appeared in the $4.50 a week which it cost him to live. Being at years the death rate, which is stationary Constipation even debated with Senator Money, whose tongue newspapers he decided to leave Texas and pursue the capital, he met men from all over the state or decreasing elsewhere, has all Mississippi dreaded and who smiled majestically his great ambition in the new country. and was able to make shrewd combinations. increased about 50 per cent. This is Vanishes Forever when told that his opponent was "a poor, It was a tragic thing to see a blind man harassed due largely to the native horror of As a first step the elder Gore, now a whitehaired blind schoolboy." Senator Money declared that, by poverty fighting against his rich rivals, fresh air in the house. man, went to Oklahoma and became a but for his antagonist's blindness, he would hold Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure one a banker and the other a lawyer, but, however notary public in the hope of earning fees from him personally responsible for his words—a he bled Inwardly, Gore gave no sign that he saw When Rubbers Become Necessary the land-crazy crowds. In July, 1901, the blind CARTER'S LITTLE deadly thing to say in Mississippi. Gore promptly And your shoes pinch, shake into your anything pathetic in his situation. His friends LIVER PILLS never, lawyer and his brother went to the new land, replied, "Let him then blindfold himself and I •hoes Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic fail. Purely vegetable—act wanted him to abandon his ambition for a time powder for the feet. Cures tired, aching will meet him." driving 45 miles in a wagon to Fort Sill. Here surely CARTERS feet and takes the sting: out of Corns and and run for congress. Gore lived In a tent with his father and brother In September of that year he went to the law Bunions. Always use it for Breaking in but gently on "It is the senate or nothing," he replied. in the midst of an excited crowd. His father sat New shoes and for dancing parties. Sold school at Cumberland university, Tennessee, and the liver. everywhere 25c. Sample mailed FREE. In April, 1907, he began to make speeches all Inside as a notary, while he, attired in an alpaca Stop titerA studied law for ten months. He was one of the Address, Allen S. Olmsted, ,Le Roy, N. Y. over the state. PILLS. coat, colored shirt and slouch hat, walked up and dinner leading six students in a class of 42. This experience The Vested Interests. distress down before the tent, waving his hand and shouting, He spoke on street corners, from the tops of cost him $331 and he returned to his Mississippi "Yes, Mrs. Snoggs, I 'oped as 'ow cure indi-' boxes, from cart tails, anywhere, everywhere, night "Here's where you get your papers out! village with only 25 cents in his pocket, they would get tariff reform and make geirion— improve the complexion brighten Here's the right place to get your land papers!" and day. The leading newspapers ignored him, in a suit of clothes he had worn for 14 months. die eyes. Small Pill, Small Dow, Small Price the foreigner pay, as we've got one in In the daytime he entreated the crowd at night while his rivals were able to buy advertising He had almost been compelled to leave the law our top-floor back and I ain't 'ad GENUINE must bear signature he slept on the ground. space and one of them hired brass bands, opera school months before for the lack of suitable nothink of him for six weeks now."— houses and advance agents. In March he had clothing. Failing to draw a land claim, the Gores moved The Tatler. mortgaged house for $1,000, but the money was hi3 Yet his unquenchable ambition to reach the out four miles to Lawton, an encampment on the soon gone. To get his name on the primary ballot, United States senate grew more intense as the open prairie. Here 15,000 persons were living in Pettit's Eye Salve for 25c under the rules of the Democratic state convention, difficulties of his situation increased. tents where the wild blue-stem grass was waist relieves tired, overworked eyes, stops eye he had to pay $375. But on the last day allowed A Package aches, congested, inflamed or sore eyes. All Gore's father had taken up the practice of high. It was a Babylon of gamblers, fakirs, farmers for the payment he found himself with only $8. In druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. of Paxtine law in Walthall and, on returning from the law and business men, all waiting for the,opening sheer desperation he made out his check for $375 We would willingly have others school in 1892 the youth was welcomed as an of the land on August 6. There were grocery Will Be Sent and paid it in. A Mr. Young saved him by raising perfect, and yet we amend not our assistant in the office. That year, too, he was a and hardware stores in tents gambling tables Free of Charge to Every the money to meet the check. own faults.—Thomas a Kempis. presidential elector on the Populist ticket, attacked and shows in tents churches and saloons in Reader of this Paper. As the voting drew near the blind candidate's Grover Cleveland on the stump and carried tents. Even newspapers were printed in tents. circumstances became more desperate than ever. hcounty. Poor men, rich men, preachers, thieves were He was about $24 a week for traveling There is no problem spending The practice of law was not an inspiring occupation mixed up in that picturesque, dramatic hurlyburly expenses. To get out of money at that stage of in Walthall. There were actually 45 lawyers of mules, wagons, women and children. Men the fight would have been fatal. He made from of increased cost in that small, poor village. The blind advocate were killed, children were born, robberies were two to four speeches a day, although he would TOILET ANTISEPTIC tried a few cases. committed. sit up all night in hotels to save paying for a bed. of food if you eat After a two years' effort to earn a living as Three days after the lots were sold and while and ate only one meal a day. At times he would Gives one a sweet breath clean, white, a lawyer in the place of hia birth Gore decided Lawton was still a tented camp, there was another germ-free teeth—antiseptically clean go from one day to another on cheese and crackers more to go to Texas. political mass meeting, this time in the big mouth and throat—purifies the breath carried in his gripsack. So great was the physical Having saved $40, he started in April, 1894, tent of Dick Russell, a saloon keeper. Gore was after smoking—dispels all disagreeable ordeal that he lost 30 pounds weight. for Texarkana, arriving there an absolute stranger there and offered a resolution favoring the admission perspiration and body odors—much appreciated Gore won his fight in the primary election and Quaker Oats by dainty women. A quick with only $21 in his pocket. He secured a of Oklahoma and Indian territory to the was elected to the United States senate by the remedy for sore eyes and catarrh. Union as a single state. boarding house and promptly offered himself to legislature, drawing the short term. The struggle A little Paxtine powder^Sssolved the Populist leaders for service in the approaching A few days later and the men of Lawton organized cost him $1,100, exclusive of the $375 he paid to in a glass of hot state and county elections. His political water a citizens' committee to get a charter get his name on the primary ballot. One of his An ideal food delicious makes a delightful antiseptic solution, speeches brought in money enough to pay his expenses, and organize a city government. Of course Gore possessing extraordinary opponents is said to have spent $75,000. but he found no chance to practice law. was there and of course he was on the committee. appetizing strengthening. cleansing, germicidal and healing It was a grand day for Oklahoma when her In the winter he went back to Walthall and for a Then a commercial club was organized by the power, and absolutely harmless- blind man got into the United States senate. year made another desperate effort to win success tent dwellers and Gore was on the committee to Compared with other Try, a Sample. 50c. a In 1908 he went home and was re-elected. When as a lawyer. He was nominated for congress by draft by-laws. He missed no opportunity that large box at druggi&s or by igaiL he reached Lawton a cheering crowd surrounded foods Quaker Oats costs the Populists, but was defeated. Yet his speeches might lead to the senate. THE PAXTON TOILET CO., BOSTON. MASS. the carriage and took him and his wife to their in the campaign attracted much attention. almost nothing ancl yet it Presently he bought a small lot for $155 and cottage. As roar after roar broke on the air he On the last day of the year 1895 the sightless started to build a cottage through the help of a DITFHTC ft SnOwy, r«t. CMIH *M. turned to his wife and whispered, "They don't builds the best. $2 rRIUIw «nd unsuccessful lawyer decided to abandon the building and loan agency. When his wife reached VIrv Bt. Pul, Mian. Cor* KxikuM lldf.. seem to know that it's only me." uaHlai Miill IN*, WnUaitM.mrktlm whs mil