A prominent club woman, Mrs. Daj> forth, of St .Joseph, Mich., tells how she .jras cured of falling of the wotrjb and its accompaiwi ng pains and . ngfeery by ? Lyctta E. Pinkham's Vegetabk Compound. ? Msi Phocham; ? lite looks, dark indeed, "when a woman her strength is fading away and aha has no fcapes of aver <1 CiiaK ? ? ? * ?'<< ? ? ? * W abb The "words sounded like a knell to me, f felt that my gun had ? bat Iffdte & Pfnkhaart Vegetable Compoimd oameto me as an elixir of life; it restoxed the lost foroes and built me up until my food heslth returned to me. For. four. months I took the medicine as&j tod each dose added health and sttangth. ' I am so thankful for f1 tSL obtained throng its upc."--liBa. FLoaajros DahTobth, b^Iw many women to health and ceapcpdoee proof of the fact tereparded with respect. This * Iijdla E. PiiddtottV Vefetable Compound* which ' other tnedlcine the world haa ever pro "IhuLa Mrs. PnnnLtx: ? For years I was troubled with, falling of the womb, irregular and painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, bearing down -pains, backache, headache, dizzy and i fainting spells, and stomach trouble*. \ "I doctored for about five years but did [ not seem to improve. I began the use of your medicine, and nave taken seven bottles of Lydia ?. Pinkham'i Vegetable Compound, tnree of Blood Purifier, and also used the Sanative Wash and liver Pills, and am now enjoying good health, and have gained in flesh. 1 thank you very much for what you haTO done for me, and heartily recom mend your medicine to all raftering women." ? Miss Emma Sahrnxa, 218 East r Qgnty gt, Ma.rinn) l)hlf\ ?TOE VBDIOAI ADVICE TO WOMEN." Women would Save time and much rirlmca if thej would mini to Mn. frlnkhmm for advice mm soon ManydlstrcaslBf iymp ir. It Is free, end bee pat thousands of women on the tO IQCOTfV^t Plnttfni never violates the confidence that entrusted to ftlthoiffh i^e publishes thousands of testimonials from who have been benefited by ber advice and medicine, never In all ^dr experience has she published auch a letter without and often by special request of the writer. tsnnn " ?VUU*^ IjrdU n. Finkkui SmUoIm Co., I^jiui, lira is no BUOtKUlf ' ynra Ago and After nw ynra on the etdUm coast Towel's roof OtledG*U were Mrodtacd Mfest and were caflcd 36dcra By phmcr* end Thb frc^Nc m Km omt Into ?uch fleaereJ use that >W foQmthr tM wwaflfully affled pyiiwab Youmrtt the gent* tfokfcr the of the rtotund tk? BflrtcTowfr?n the button. TRAM MOTHER GRAYS SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN Cost of WlrelOM Telegrams. The charge of transmitting wireless n^ps sages from ship to ship at sea Is sixpence a word, with the address and signature free. From ship to shore the rate on the American side Is $2 for ten words and twelve cents for each additional word, wit no charge for address and signature. On the English side the charge for a "mar conlgram' from a liner Is six shillings for twelve words and sixpence for each additional word, the signature and address being charged for. The New Philadelphia Clearing House is nearly ready for occupancy. A Papalar Lmi. The American Orapbophone Company, ot which tbe Columbia Phonograph Company Is tbe sole agent, recently offered to Ita stockholder* 1600.000 ot 8 per cent, coupon notes running from one to five years. This offer wm pot only subscribed for in fall, bat s?t?t-so?!sl'y over subscribed. If anything were needed to demonstrate the faith of tbe stockholder! in tbe Integ rity of the management of tbe business, the avidity with which them notes have been taken would be quite sufficient. Tbe business *nas Increased so tremen dously of late. tbat more capital was need ed, despite the fact that the earnings it tbe Company are largely in exoess of one half million dollars per annum, with a pros pect of tbelr reaching the on? million mark In tbe courts of anothef year or two. In tbe meantime the number of salss depots Is In creasing every month and tbe plant at Bridgeport Is being extended by additional construction and new machinery added as rapidly as space can be provided for It. Any man who buys a blind horse should also consult an oculist. CURED AFTER 20 YEARS. No natter of bow long Mending t k# cue, RHEUM ACIDE cares ItJ ^ Bun t? on* i High Point, N. C., JoJt 19. After raffering fot 20 Tear* with lnfl?mmato*TWeume tlsm, I ?u induced to try ? bottle of RHEXJMA C1DE. After taking one bottle, I have felt firei J*"1 3W?f?r. I am new 79 jmh of u?, that X b?lf*T? RHEV MACIDE ig the best nmtdf to* rbcvtnstina. ? MRS. MARY E. WXLBORK. . Mil. R. Fladell, bout fi^pg up or down stream, but aa it was- fti phorter cut to the head of the bijook. J usually commenced there, the brook a^that point being scarcely a yard wide^.running through meadow land. ' * . I was always pretty sure of gettitig i fair number of trout in this meadow, as it was not fished sO much as lower down stream, end a good start always gave me encouragement ? for the rest of the brook. The day was overcast, and early I was on my way totlie brook, striking in, as I usually did. at the source. My success was beyond expectation until I reached a small strip of woods, a mile or more down the brook, which termin ated in a mass of brush and under growth. It was not until I discovered fresh boot prints along the soft bank, that it dawned upon me that, early as I was, there was some one ahead of me on the brook. However. I fished on ontil I came to the open meadow. There was conviction enough of my Indifferent success? a man ahead, as 1 bad thought, very carefully fishing tbat strip of meadow brook. Disappointed, I seated myself on a large stone, under cover, to watch him for the time being and to think how I could get ahead. Yet I disliked to give up that strip of meadow brook, as there were always large trout there. I could plainly see that the man ahead was having fair success, as trout after trout found its way to his creel. Suddenly he stopped. I guessed ^he cause, knowing almost every pool in the brook, and judged he was near a deep hole where dwelt n trout that bad fooled me once or twice that season. To make a long story short, that roan fished for that trout a full half hour at intervals, but gave it up, proceeded down stream and was soon lost to view. In turn I took up the ground he had fished over, picking up several good sized fish on my way to the scene of the fisherman's defeat. I got near enough to the pool to see a large trout sunning himself in the shallow water, and be saw me, I am quite sure. I was in no hurry to try conclusions, so, seat ing myself in the grass some distance from the brook, I baited my hook with fresh worms, winding the line lightly on the end of my alder until only a cou ple of feet bung from the end of my pole. Even then I waited some fifteen minutes before approaching the brook, finally doing so on hands and knees, until within casting distance, when I lay flat on my belly in the grass. An overhand cast, the bait strikes the cen tre of the pool. Is seized almost Imme diately by a monster trout; a dextrous movement of the boy at the other end of the pole, and the biggest trout I ever took from that stream was writh ing on the bank before me. It was a thrilling moment in more ways than one, and I was about the happiest youngster Imaginable. There were some twenty odd trout on that birch string, and with this beauty to top out my catch, the day's fishing .was over for me. i Curious to know how my rival on the brook was getting on. I took a cross cut to head him off, coming upon him Just emerging from a clump of .alders. Scarcely had we passed the time of day, before his eyes were riveted on the string of fish I carried, a volley of questions assailing me as to where I caught them, and particularly the big one at the top of my string. Boylike, to his seeming chagrin, I related what I saw him try to do and what I had accomplished. My story being told, the fish was put on the smallest scales I had ever seen at that time, produced by my chance acquaintance from one of the numer ous pockets of a queer coat, and touched the fourteen ounce nqfeb. Be it to the man's credit there was no money ofTers for my big trout, but in lieu of a ride, to the city, which, in our conversation, I had learned was his destination, and to a hungry boy the nice luncheon he gave me, the fish found its way to his creel without the asking. Now comes the fairy part of the story, assuming that you have no rea son to doubt the truth of wbal I have related. It was not long after this eventful dny that a fine three-Joint trout rod was delivered by express at my home, so doubt from my apprecia tive fisherman, but I never knew, as no card or letter accompanied It \&m' Tf _ ?f.tbiM n It vhi iMiai 9ltn. ?trolls I in Nni Tor* ul tknUf ?rem a*MK flahlag for pstslco and hav 1?S f*k mcco?%. Q* Mcb occasion* my palms always Itrtiort, to set bold of one of t^ooo llaca the boys wcr< nslns. but I mt?t betrayed my feel less to then In the saatter. Next came tho flsblns bank excur sions, bat the bbnts were' so crowded on Sundsy. any only day. that Shot one or twb successful 'trips. I gave 1* uj*. 4 j ? ' "4 ?' ? Time drew on apse*. - 1 bad more lib erty and money. 1 vacation of two weeks wss also Aloirad mV. which J &ivl?ed up' lltd" dsy Mtlngt weekly, extending my TacaOon over (be montbr of June. July and August. From aome companions I learned that Cliffords, situated about midway of 8taten Island, on that part* of Bar itsn'Bay known aa the Great Kills, was a good place to JOcateiif I wai looking for salt water flablng* Ac ceptlog* their- advice, rods, -reels and the necessary outfit was provided, a few lessons given me by the veteran, Mr. Fitzgerald, more popular as "Un cle Mike" among th^flshermep. /md 1 wss fslrly started .on ,jmy .salt, water career. . . . i%tt Weakfl8b, bass and tylueflsh were tie only game fish considered worth tak ing by "Uncle Mike." but, I was satis fied at . first , to take ^almost anything that took my bait, ( and delighted If I caught a dozen weakflsb. Later on I went In for number more than pleas are, for there was most always an emp ty basket waiting to be filled on my re- ?| turn. * V . . ' ./ ? ?? ? Fish were plenty ' In those dsys and even dp to 'the middle eighties. It was considered nb great feat- to take thir ty or forty wcakfisb weighing? from two and 4 half to' four * pounds each during a tide; but I honestly believe thfcre were some ' men who -either did not fish, or did -not know how; for not withstanding"- the fact above > stated, they invariably came ashore "skunked. V ? ?The first stripped bass I ever took ~Xve)gbed about three pounds and was a disappointment, from, the fact that I was so intent uppn catching. weakflsb. and weakfish only, th*t I am quite of the mind that I should' have thrown It overboard had pot a fishing companion prevailed upon me to. keep it. Later on, when I used lighter tackle and fished more for the sport than number, I could not hook on to a bass often enough. It was in September, 1888. I think, that I surprised the natives and myself in taking from the Kills an eighteen pound bass after a half hour's strug gle. This was an unheard of catch in those days, it having been some ten years previous that a bass of that weight had been taken in the Kills, so I went to the New York Sun office for a mention only of my catch, but the column article which the reporter de- < voted to it was so graphically written that it was widely copied by the news papers and other publications like the Angler, and Forest and Stream. Bight here allow me to tell you that Brother Harris, of the Angler, questioned the weight of the fish, or the claim made for me by the Sun, ,but I did not mind that. The fish weighed eighteen pounds then, and when I tell the story of its capture, etc,; etc., to-day, that Is what it weighed, never more or less". . Keeping everlastingly at it brings success, we are told. Well, I have been persevering enough in my efforts each four months of evelry season, but from a score of some 000 odd fish taken dur ing the season of 1890. 1, have, with just as constant application and more hours, only been able to produce a scorc of 117 In 1003. Seven years - ago I fished from a Whitehall boat; since that time from a gasoline launch. Possibly It may make a difference, but I think not. I have become so infatuated with salt water fishing that I do not think I could ever return to the now posted brooks of New England, seek of the owner a permit to catch a two-ounce trout, or do I think the streams of Nova Scotia, that held me captive for so many seasons, would to-day induce me to give up the prospect even of catch ing a few large weakflsb, bass or blue fish. Korean Sbowmn'i Trained TortoUea. Japanese and Korean showmen, in addition to their skill as jugglers and acrobats, display a truly marvellous skill In teaching animals tricks. They not only exhibit educated bears, span iels, monkeys and goats, but also trained birds and, what is the most as tonishing of all, trick flsb. One of the most curious examples of training Is an exhibit by an old Korean boatman of a dozen drilled tortoises. . Directed by bis songs, and a small metal drum, they march In line, exe cute evolutions and conclude by climb ing upon a low tnble, the larger ones forming, of their own accord, a bridge for the smaller, to which the feat would otherwise be impossible. When they have all mouuted they dispose themsdves in three or four piles, like so many plates.? Philadelphia Record. ^ ^ He Wm Both. Once upon a time there were in Paris two papers, the Razor and the Scor pion, which were Always going for each other with great ferocity. Every week people bought the Razor to read how it cut at the Scorpion,' and tho Scorpion to learn how It stung the Razor. A certain philanthropist felt pained to see such violence, so he in vited the two editors to dine, in the hope that over good fare he could make peace between them. At the appointed time one lean, melancholy man pre* sented himself, and was ushered In. After, an interval, as no other guest appeared, the host demanded: "May I ask, are you the editor of the Razor or Scorpion?" "Both," said the sad-eyed man. and the peacemaker was dls ?u*ted Plaekjr Baltimore Bdlton. The editors and reporters of the Bal timore Snn are said to have stuck to their desks until the "copy" paper under their noses smoked and charred. And there isn't the slightest streak of yellow about the venerable and e?? teemed Sun^ either. 41 _ theeter after 4 ?tint* _ ?b? tt? Hfte we.e a . ? wit* mtom loasl pttdM tf kM? om from slipping, ud u, tu btovtaf keenly. At tlie oorner oC BotMm aid Ti ?mill streets a au ahead of him miscalculated the quality of tfca Artful of send that had bee* pot over the loo and came to the sidewalk with a crash, and fcta h^t Saw off Into the. gutter. As he legate ed hla shattered . equilibrium aad his Jolted dignity. evidently not betas a Boetonlaa, he esciaftmed: . "This la the.blsahety-bSaak-blaaksst ?pot on' thla blanket j-blanh town, blankety-blank it" Two women jutffroip. the theater were ahead, jifr. Sheehan, aad he was undecided Whether to remonatrate with the profane men or chuckle at the ludtcrobanen of the affair, when one[of the ladles, reaching the Mito spot, nearly came to grlot ? wild clutch at her companion being the only ihlnj^ to save her frokn a bad toea. Then. the spi^, slowly: ' "I don't know but what that man la right." ? Boston Journal. American . Known by Hie French. When Judge Ashman of Philadel phia was laat in Paris, he determined to try life in. a pension. He had been told of a nice houae, but had also been told that y the hostess spoke very lit tie English. ' Consequently, as he walked there from ' the hotel where he was temporarily stopping the judge carefully prepared a neat little speech of Introduction, composed In what he presumed waa dasaic French. He ar rived. he rang the bell, the hoatess appeared, and the Judge began. "Je quia un American" (I am an Ameri can). and ao down to a graceful close. ' The lady had llatened . politely to every syllable, and then she said In the purest English, "Pardon me, air, but will you pleaae tell me agala Just what sort of lodgings you are look ing for?" "My own opinion Is," adds the Jutige. as be tells the story, "that aha doubted, from that ambitious effort of mine, whether I oould talk any lan guage so as 'to make myaelf undei atood." ? Philadelphia Press. ? *> ?? ?????? ' Scotchman's Ready AWswer. The Rev. Donald Sage Mackay, st the dinner of the Silk Association of America the other night, told a story of a Scotch couple who lived in a con stant state of bickering. One night the minister called and found them quarreling ' ss usual. In front of the fireplace lay a cat and a dog peace fully sleeping. "You should be aahamed of your selves." he cried, indignantly; "even the dumb animals rebuke you." "Ocb," replied the Scotchman, "tie the cat and the dog together like me and my wife and see how you'll find them." ? New York Times. Statu* Pope Leo. Bondl, the Italian sculptor, has com menced to work on the great marble atatue of the late pontiff, which will crown a hill that overlooks Carpineto. Italy, Tope Leo's birthplace. State or Ohio, Citt or Toledo. ) Lucas Count*. J Frank J. Chbnbt make oath that ho Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chbnbt A Co., doing business In the City of Toledo. County and Btato aforesaid, and that said Ann will pay tho sum of one hundbbd pol uaa for woh and every case of catabbk that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catabbh Curk. Fbane J. Chbnbt. Sworn to before me und subscribed in my ^ . prcsenco, thin 6th day of Dscem )skal. J bcr,A.D.,1886. A.W.Glbason. ? ? , ? ) Xotary 1'ublu. Hall's Caturrh r two yeors I bad kidney trouble, and tbere was such a severe pain through my loins and limbs that I could not stoop or straighten up without great pain, had difficulty In getting about and was unable to rest at night, aris ing In the morning tired and worn out. The kidney secre tion! were Irregu ular and deposited ? Heavy sediment Doctor* treated me for rheumatism, but failed to help me. 1 lost all confidence in medicine, and began to feel aa If life were not worth living. Doan'a-Kidney Pillf, however, relieved me so quickly and so thorough, ly that I gladly made a atatement to that effect for publication. This was In 1808, and durlhg the six years which have elapsed I have never known Poan'a $idney Pill* to fall. They cured my wife of a severe case of back, ache In the same thorough manner." ? fiye trial of this great kidney med. Iclne which cured Mr. Bierbach will be mailed op application to any part of the United States. Address Foster* Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. T. For agio by all druggists; price BO centa per box. A girl 'With a dimple will laugh at tny fool thing a man says. PiriRi It a Catarrhal Tonic especially Adapted to tbe Declining Powers of Old Age ?Id *ge the nncona Bntbrue be i thickened and partly loae their func Thia Itadt to partial lea* of bearing, smell and taate, aa well aa digeetive du tarbanccs. l'aruna corracta all tlua by ita speci&c operation on all tba uucoua. Mnbnnn o i tbe bode. One bottle win convince any one. One* naed- and Parana becomes a lifelong stand by with old and young. ,v\ Jfo r.sMmctte: Strong and Vigorous at the Ago of 3ighty-eighL JJVrker. Utie*. 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