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Efuture Ofmlkfion THE GREENVILLE JOURNAL WORKMEN OBSERVE THE RULE Women!' Regulations of Foremen, However, Do Weak Not Prevent The'm Getting Their m Some women are weak because of lilt Oat an oommoa FUTURE Accustomed Beverage. e ofMlKFION In Girlhood Womanhood ' In the lower section of Manhattan a and Motherhood ' new office building Is in the course of uses most successfully years The prescription which Dr. R. V. Pierce la EN ago, among the erection. Hundredt of men, ironwork- diseases of women which has stood the test of nearly half a century is fret and dunes of North Car- ers, carpenters, plasterers, etc., are olina, a slim, gaunt, in- employed. The majority of these tense Obloan stretched workmen drink beer. Recently the Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription himself downward on a foremen of the different gangs com- -- narrow ledge surmount- v bined and agreed to issue the follow- Take this in liquid or tablet form as a tonic and regulator! ed by yards of out- ing order: stretched muslin, com- Mr. Kate D. Richardson, of Beaztey. Eura Co., Va., gays, "I esteem tt a pleasure to a f?"ifiii5 "Beer will be allowed only once a testify to the wonderful curative Qualities of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For pact, powerful little en- day, and that Is at noon time, and one some years I suffered greatly with weakness peculiar to my sex. I was treated by AT) gine several physicians but gradually grew worse. One of my friends told me of the good purred at his heels, man is to go for it." iiltft a! wuir "Kavrmm ' I went to the drud store and flota bottle. and a giant, inanimate iJY r5. re- .- Now, persons who happen to in and after taking It, with the "Pleasant Pellets," I commenced to get better. I never be thing of spruce knew what happiness was, for I was always sick and complaining and made others as and cloth the vicinity of the building around well as myself unhappy- - So you see what a debt 1 owe youT' swept like a falcon out 11:45 o'clock see a very curious sight, I over that silent, sea coast desert. A lit- it is this: A man emerges from the 1 Dr.Pierce't Pleasant Pellet regulate $tomach,liver, bowels tle telegraph office at Kitty Hawk, N. C, nearly finished building with an about hour later Btartles a world with the HIS four beer cans oa one arm a larg laconism: and "The Wright brothers have butter tub embraced on the other. He flown." It was the word civilization had W , MLe RYMM &QilZZ'--;'ltsi- starts in the direction of Church awaited hundreds of years. For the I'M street. In about fifteen minutes he dream of flying is as old as civilization. can be seen on his return trip with Pain Cannot Live A decade has pajfced r II since man the four cans overflowing on one arm In same house with Turtle's Family Elixir. j. .nil "sprouted his wings." The world the has and the butter tub still firmly em- and soreness resulting from hard work, watched him from his first weak, fitful The lameness braced and filled to the top. exercise often pave the way for bounds ,from mother earth for brief sec- exposure, or violent onds aloft to his hours and even day serious trouble and should always be avoided by a ii im Jr. ECZEMA BODY in steady sustained flight. It has ceased SPREAD OVER rubbing the limbs and body with to marvel, and It expectantly has come to look to the future to Wonder "what Roxbury, Ohio. "When my little boy next." Ten years ago Wilbur Wright was two weeks eld he began breaking Tuttle's flew at Kitty Hawk for 69 seconds. To- out on his cheeks. The eczema began day n just with pimples and they seemed to Family Elixir the record for sustained flight Is 14 itch so badly he would scratch his You are the third generation which has known and IP hours and 1,300 miles. as most reliable and sure for In ten years the aeroplane face and cause a matter to run. used Tuttle's Family Elixir the remedy has made rheumatism, lumbago, backache;" toothache, cramps, chills, sprains, more rapid strides than did automo- Wherever that matter would touch it the bruises, and the other common ills of humanity. bile. More than a thousand men, with would cause another pimple until it a fair percentage of women, today aro spread all over his body. It caused Compounded purely of Qrn, essential yon send ns OOe. In stamps torether with driving disfigurement while it lasted. He had oil, and vegetable extracts lieuce per- Lis name, and we will send you promptly, aeroplanes in ail parts of the fectly adapted for both internal and ex. prepaid, a large sixe bottle. Your money world. The first successful flight of the fifteen places on one arm and his ternal use. Guaranteed under the pure back if It does not do what wo claim. W'rights bead had several. The deepest places food aw of the V ni ted S tates Uorern ment. Sample bottle sent for Co. in stamps to has almost been forgotten so Ask your druggist. If he cannot supply cover postage. on sil- great has been the progress of the aero- his cheeks were as large as a ver TUTTLE'S ELIXIR CO., 17 Beverly Street, Boston, Mass. plane and the Increase In' the number of dollar on each side. He was so aviators. restless at night we had to put mit- tens on keep fromscratch-in- g The English channel has been crossed him to him them with his finger nails'. If and recrossed by one, two and three per- he sons in an got a little too warm at night it COLT DISTEMPER aeroplane, aviators have On be handlMl verr out It. The lck tu oared, and at! otbam In swept up and over the seemed to hurt badly. unetble. no matter bow " nagMil " kot fmni hstvlrur thuriiai fearsome peaks Jww.br tuuiff MMHNU LIQUllJ DXSThMKEK CI Kfc. Ol-- e oa and abysses of the Alps; "We tried a treatment and he didn't NrUt tonga, or Id feed. Acta oa the blood and expel trerma of whole conti- all formi of dLetemper. Best remedy ever know a for nitres In foej. get any He bad the eczema fioo nents have been crossed in aviation better. boi Ue ijrurftnteed to cure on c&ee. an d ti s bottle; eft and about we began (One of tlrugfflHt and hArnmsdeelera.or eent express paid by ,races; the United States has three weeks when Cat shows how to poattlc Uiroets. Our free been trtvAseraTTthlnar. Locm.1 rrot wavatvi. rgir felling using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I UkjJilsteisos--twa4T- spanned by an American, who lost his . borM reneOj y tiara. bathed him night ClassiistssMBaftsriiisftitt. life in a comparatively trivial exhibition at with the Cuticura SPOHN MEDICAL CO.. Coaheiw Ind U.S. JU Soap and spread the Cuticura Oint- feat. But the present asks: "Well, what of the future? What will ment on and the eczema left." these birdmen (Signed) be doing ten years from now?" Mrs. John White, Mar. 19, From the stage of pure 1913. amusement, the Cuticura Soap period when aviation was alone for' the and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each daring, those who were counted foolhardy and the show people of the air, Increase Is being made in aeroplane equipment of the world's armies every free.with 32-- Skin Book. Address post- Lying is working toward a commercial men who cling to week. France leads in the number of aeroplanes. more 26.", Cofii stabilization. The These total than Carolina ' card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." Adv. aviation today are those with ideas of making it a recognized asset of com- and the French have one aeroplane for the navy. merce. The era of aerial transportation upon Russia has 116 army aeroplanes 46. 10, is us. and Germany has Japan has Great Catch Sea Cow on Coast. They will have crossed Britain has 30, 25 the Atlantic ocean, penetrated the dismal jungles about Italy has and the United States about 25. England Whether the skill shown by William of Africa, fever-ridde- n six Country scanned the tropical has for navy, areas of the Amazon, brought the and the United States, Japan and Italy have four each. Steamer, negro fisherman, in lasso- back the word .from the remote regions of ice and snow? Perhaps. But. Russia has one and Germany two. ing large The greater still, aeroplanes Crosscountry a shark at the Breakers GulfStreamLand ofMild Winters will be a proven adjunct of commerce. Our mails flights in 1912 and 1913 show conclusively aeroplanes can Hotel pier, the appearance will be shot to almost be relied upon caused inaccessible points through the air. The trackwalker to cover great distances at high speed. The greatest flight in there of a sea cow has stumped even Thousands of Acres of the great railroad system will give way man-bir- d 1912 was that of Andreadi, who, in Nieuport to trie critical eyes of a a machine, flew from Sebastopol the old time yarn spinning fishermen Rich, Black, Sandy Loam. Eastern state level Coast Lands sweeping swiftly along the ribbons of steel. Through tangled wood and over to St. Petersburg, 1,670 miles. He took 25 days for the trip. who pride as TJp-lan- ds swollen Great themselves solvers of or rolling of Middle State.
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