Lt INCURAPLE DISEASES. THE LIST DEPCREASES AS THE KNOWL. EDCE Q% SCIENCE INCREASES. Story of a Man Who Was Given Up DB by Seven "hysiclans—He Fol- Jews the Advice of a Friend and ia Now an Well Man —A Wonderful Story, From the Leader, Movriaville, N. Y. “Yonder is a man,” sald the farmer to a reporter, ‘who is the talk of this commu mity.” “He is Mr. William "0 Woodman, of South Hamilton, Madison Co, N.Y." a well-to do farmer, who is well known and stands high for honesty and thrift in this neigh boerhood On the following day the newspaper man eallad on Mr. Woodman in his py eho old-fashioned farm house, “I have had serious thoughts of writing an ageount for the newspapers myself’ said Mr. Woodman, ‘but A) am not ac custemed to such work, I have never at tempted it. Sit down and I will tell you all about it. g “I am fifty-nine years old. rheumatism when only age, then a severe cold from over exertion and from becoming over heated. My father was a farmer and insisted that thes only way to make me strong was to do plenty of hard work. When, however, he saw we halpless in bed for six long months without being able $0 move except with help, he changed his mind, and forover after believed that children should mot be mado td do men's work. My growth was stopped by suTer ing. and I do not think I am an inch taller than that day, forty-five years ago. Dur ing the forty years ensuing after my mls fortune, I was attended by seven dootors 1 recelved temporary relief at times, from new forms of treatment, but always ro lapsed into a worse and more aggravated condition The conclusion of ail these gentlemen was that I was incurable, and all they could do was to aase my condition After grew to manhood I married and Lave been blessed with a family. My dear wife has had all the drudgery of nursing and waiting upon me, and the burden has bean tadeed hard to bear, “Without hope [rom physicians I began to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, which was highly recommended by my frisads. [ took them end within one week began to feel better than I had sineo I was first afflicted 1took these pills according to directions and when the box was nearly gono I went over to Brookfield t an old friend who was in the drug business, named Dr. Aure las Fitch, who likewise was a groat sufler or from r! intisn The doctor and 1 or- dered several boxes of Pluk Pills in part nership time keeplng thew on sale tinued to take th ns for the next thre nproved, galaing Sesh two vears ago | was able to diseo hem, and now am ns able bd w mun my yoars as you wil find ought t ell yo that alter I or first X pilis the physicia: I contracted fourteen years of dered who was then attend me came in and | told j v He sald 1 was very ft h, th they vald surely injur mao, and i told the to drag notwit! to take th iS not ax They Come High. All the books published are by vo means to be fonud in the book stores. The most beantiful and costly never find their way it the shops at all, are not sent out review, and are known to a number of people spent on the makiog « f whieh bring from one 4 very limited Ye arly books, dol - These es are not sold 1a the by are sch hundred lars to one sand dollara expensive volum ordinary way. but entirely soription, and the business of se Hing them in the United iz in bands of abont half a dozen men, who neither sell nor attempt to sell any- thing else. Their season is short, bat the profits are large, and they live at the most expensise hotels and drive gbout luxuriomely in broughams to SarTy the books. stl h States the I himself jnst as if &e were a piece of paper when he is hungry, getting his food, and then wrapping himself about it. The star-fish, om the contrary, turns himself inside out and wraps his food eronnd him, and stays that way nuutil ke has had enongh. a ———— —— Honeycombed With Deceptions. Practical joking was carried on by all classes in the Middle Ages, the well-to-do employing mechanical in- struments to assist them in their pastime. The Chateau d’Hesdin, the favorite residence of Philip of Bur- gundy, was honeycombed with decep- tions of all kinds. Some of the machinery he worked with his own hands, but the rest was worked by a guest stepping on a hidden spring or tonching a certain panel in the wall. For instance, a stranger, on reaching the middle of the room, would be in- stantly covered with soot or flour, the result of a trap-door overhead having opened. In one room there was fixed beside the door the mechanical figure | of & knight armed with a short stick. | This figure. so placed, seized all in- | truders and gave them a sound thrash- ing. It is related that once Philip was | himself caught by it, and that before | he could free himself he received a | severe beating. In the great gallery | there was fixed to the wall a figure | known as the ‘‘Prophesying Hermit,” | and at the feet of this figure there was | a trap-door. While the fortune-telling { was going on, a part of the ceiling opened, and flour aud water poured | down, appropriate thunder aud light ning following in quick succession. The trap in the floor then opened, and | the guest fell into a sack of feathers. | But the most elaborate trick of all was that in which all the guests were duped. Adjoining the great gallery | there was a large room filled with | armed figures. While the guests were dining, cries would be heard proceed- | ing from this room, and the company would naturally rush up-stairs to as- certain the The mechanical | figures in armor then moved from their places, and drove the victims of the joke out of the room into a passage, { the floor of which opened, and they | were precipitated into a cellar three feet deep with water. Philip eldom | received a second visit at Hesdin from the same party. cause, How Wrinkles are Mad “Laugh and grow wrinkled | pleasant reading of an ] it ? Nevertheless, it is a { The wrinkles of scend from the nostrils ad of the mouth, are created in laughing imple smile 1s suf old al logical the nose, which JWI enc al i and mastication; a 8 ficient to produce them, soit 1s not surprising that the repetition of the commonest acts should soon be graven oa the face. the with the face itly covered pro- duces wrinkles prematurely; but they Are in every forty, or even be men The , found Croing In sun insuflio case normal at Verti tween the eves come Iv to earlier, wrinkles who study arched wrink above the roe mental torture, srtieth r furrows the passing of year, and are diverge from the the in a bird, from v y . writ clharacteria which erie: aD 2 3 eyes ail directi claws of fhe kles of follow the oval © : 1 minutl ander the skin, wi olds I'he aman 1 & network in the I Od per eye Lid age, metimes in the eves an air of results of hard liviog, A Queer Fact About Vision. in the eye itself certain things £0 on hich giv which, althoug Are very much Ke May ns wrong sensation 3 ur heads or against something in the dark, we sce or bright parks, which we know are not real lights, though they are quite as bright and sparkling as if they were, one and look straight ahead at some word or letter in the middle of this page, for example, we seem to see not ouly the thing we are looking at, but everything else immediately about it | and for a long way on each side. Dut | the trath ju, there is a large round | spot, somewhere near {il point a¥ we sunddeniy strike « "slars, When we close eve the which we are looking, in which we see nothing. Curiously enough, the ex- | istenee of this blind spot was pot dis- | eovered by accident, and nobody ever | suspected it until Mariotte reasoned | from the construction of the eyeball that it must exist and proceeded to find it. It's They have no business whitening the head of down the slope of life. As a matter of fact, life's seasons ; The normal color 100 pages, at. Mnrk was dragged to death through the streets, Bt, James the Less was besten to } death with a fuller's club, Bt, Thomas wis struck through with a spear. They did not find following Christ smooth sailing, Ob, | how they were all tossed in the ternpost! | John Huss in the fire, Hugh MoKall in the | hour of martyrdom, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Heoteh Covenanters did they find it smooth salling? But why go to history when I ean find all around me a score of illustrations of the truth of this subject—that young man in the store trying to serve God while his em. ffs at Christianity, theyvoung men store antagonistic to the ‘hristian religion, teasing him, tormenting im about his religion, trying to get him nnd? They succeed in getting him mad, paving, “You're a pretty Christian!’ Does this voung man find it smooth saliing when he tries to follow Christ? Here is a Chris. | tinn girl, Her father despises the Christian yn: her mother despises the ( hristian thers and sisters she ean hardly find her prayers, hen she REY. DR TALMAGE. Sunday Sermon. A Rough What Christ's Followers Must Expect—A Sermon of Sen Voyage Is Soluce to People Who Are in Trouble | The Storm, the Calm and the Harbor. Text: “And there were also with Him other little ships, and thers arose a great | | storm of wind, And the wind ceased and || there was a great oalm.” Mark {v., 36, B I t TiBerias, Galilee, Gennesaret three names for the same lake No other gom ever had so beautiful a setting, Itlavina goons of great luxuriance-—the surround ing hills high, terraced, sloped, groved, so many hanging of beauty; the wa- ter rambling down rocks of gray | and red limestone, flashing from the hills | and bounding into the sen, On the shore were of armed towers, Roms avervthing attractive and bes ployer n the same gardens betwann her br poof at 1a Christian religion; n quist place in which to say Did she find it ith salling w tyl ¢ } tried to follow Christ? Oh, no; all “ eR Of “ HN sirtor 0Hnen f } ty y in shorter space than | w ws 1ife of the Christian fn ¢ t y other space {in all the wor n must suffer persecution If you fron he palm tree o hs forest h brea of a rigor 3 ) It seemed WATE hung and & i } 4 MOK and oleander, nan gentiomen in pleas spon tr ure b ta thing ¢ 1" Fran i in Ba) . original in fish smi1 ' nets, | and laughter or ings, Oh, what a v tiful Inke! a loa tl istios getation n to rou will get it ix another v The quest nearest the These s HTL on LH8 ench Ok perish? hey ned, for Christ was h affright asked the t wi around you t and the spad t a eding heart. . and your heart has oy Perhaps tr aps it was an aged m Mr ways weni to her with you : hog : Herm | was in your home to wel it hurt ¥ Pron snv0 | into life, and when th is an starts out in | Pity You. . rs worldly enterprise, and he depends LP OT pant a to i the casket the uncertainties of this life, He has aT n a on Reh 4 Fn After awhile the stor ial a re i algo 8 tosses off the masts of the ship oT hn e puts out his jifeboat, ahoert and a the auctioneer try to help him Ew ; untry ohureh. Or, your ean't help him off, He must go down-—-no | { said, “1 have so Christ in the ship. Here are young men just starting out in life. Your life will be made up of sunshine and shadow. There | may be in it arctic blasts or tropical torna- | does, ! know not what fs before you, but 1 know if you have Christ with you all shall be well, : You may seem to get along without the religion of Christ while everything goes smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers the soul, when the waves of y ' : h yrs trial dash elear over the hurricana deck | ean, oh, bereaved mothe and the bowsaprit is shivered and the hal. | 1s pest! Jrnen yous pro yards are swept into the sea and the gang- in “ev Ant IC IY res way is crowded with piratioal disasters— | qu orn ts one tOFn into which ws will all gh, what would you then do without | 1,0 to run the moment when we let go of hirist in the ship? Young man, take God | (14 life and try to take hold of ti o next for your potion, God for your guide, God when we wil want all the Co 3 y for your help, then all is well-all is well | pave. we will want it all. Sender I a for time, all shall be well forever, Blessed | G1 rstian soul rocking on the surges of " Haat ow who puts ia the Lord his trust. | 1.00 All the powers of dg ioe Seem e shall never be confounded, tat Da of y 34 the fact that when people start to folfow | ing wind all seem to unite t the a Christ they must not expest smooth sailing. | that soul ia ne + troubl 1 ob or in Those disciples got into the small_boats, i stehing share Th suis oe ne wae have no doubt they said: “Whata | oo 0’ on hai beautiful day this ia! What a smooth sea! | Ssuzy in yy Foam " the Separears, but be Whata bright sky this ist How delighttul | 090%. BO tears: Gali. aati, porns fs sailing in this boat! And as for the | fue flash of the storm you ses the harbor waves under the keel of the Loat, why, | ust ahead. and you 2 aki yer they only make the motion of our litte | §. har Strike elght Ms ID aor ¢ at Soat the more deligetiul.”’ But when the | yinds swept down and the soa was Sossed Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; Wa're home at last, home at last, into wrath, then they found that following | Christ was not smooth sailing. 8¢ you Softly we drift on its bright, silv'ry tide have found it; so I have found jt, a Wo're homo at last, home at last, Glory to God, all our dangers are o'er, you ever notice the ond of the life of the | iposties of Jesus Christ? You would se We stand secure on the giorifled shore, Glory to God, we will shout evermore, hat if evermen ought to have had a smoot id A lite, a smooth departures, then those men, We're home at inst, home at last, the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have ——————— bad such a departure and such a life, Lamber Exports Greater, ft, James lost his head, St, Philip was | Thelumber exports from the United States tung to death on a pillar, St. Matthew | for the last year were twenty-four per cent. had Lis life dashed out with a halberd. greaterthan for the previoustwelve months orms migh nana That white | Faen away from he property gone, much bank stock, I have so many government securities, [ have so many houses, I have so many farms” all gone, all gone, with their thunders, all the shipwrecks, have not been worse than this to you. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? Christ hushed the tempest. Your Httle one was taken away. Christ says: “1 have that little one, I oan over him as well as vou ean, batter than yon erty went Away, ires in heaven A Coast Down Hill circumvented the round them, not by coming We have mountains the summit of the pass four thousand feet toward heaven and six or seven terrestrial miles away. But no man faltered. At the foot of the pass we had a vision of angels who should bear us up toward heaven, say two-score pullers of jnrikisha., all eager fora job. One glance was enough. The bargain was soon made, two coolies long line was off at once. Feet up-hill. vehicle snd ng¢ver before wagons of such fairy weight. Cheap labor makes life easy for the man who rides. the top we had a magnificent view of like villages. not stop long. Waiting is not his virtue. The coolies are paid; we ex- amine brakes and find them all right. 80 feet on coasters, brake well in hand, and away! For miles and miles we const down the curving mountain side. resting from their labors. They see us far above, ard line their village streets all dressed in their best, silent, respectful, hesitant, as the strange procession of visitants from the clouas glides past. Down we go for miles, and then one brief stretch of land bringe us to our nooning place. Our welcome over, we are lead to a suit of white-matted rooms in the story, overlooking the tiny clean, second Barefooted, deft-handed maidens bring lacquer trays with dainty dishes full of soup, rice, fish, and eggs, with chop- sticks, best of implements for such fare, and bountiful supply of fragrant straw-colored tea. Bo we rest an hour content, at the foot of Fuji Ban, before the wheels go on again, — cent sree Danger From Lightning. Are you afraid of lightning? comforted; y« ot lie in that direction. Be ur greatest danger does There is an oi and five the whole while in New hundred peo deaths, ie 8 suc roop Ave AR Of 1.000 persons niv ¢ readhes the of 100 vears, and not md y Six £5 years, { that AN OPEN LETTER | From Mise SBachner, of Columbus, 0., to Alling Women. i i af- you of To all women who are ill It | fords me great pleasure to tell the benefit 1 have derived from tak- ing Lydia E Compound. I can hardly express my gratitude for the to suffer that ex- v remedy Before Pinkham's Vegetable words io boon ng | given volnen in taking the | cellent | Compougd I wak thin, sallow, and | pervous. 1 was trou- | bled with leucor- rhosa, and my men- strual pe- riods were very irreg- ular. 1 tried three phy- sicians and gradually About a was friend Wash and I did After us " the V 10 irs rier § Me ble Componr Was) age of vy aah ar i press what a Godsend 10 me. 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