Could Not Walk Rheumatism in Hips & Back Eyesight Affoctod but Hood's Sar saparlllo Cures All. " I wus troubled with pain, t n mT bark nnrt hips. My eyes swollod so that I could §not seo for two or time. IbecnmoßO I could not walk at times. Tho rheumatism had such a bold on me I never expected Inst I decided to try Ilood's Ranm parfllß. Tbo first Mrs. Marlon A. Bums foro Ihc West Onr.lner, Mass. wns ftU RODO my tack WHB a great deal better and the.pains hftd left my hips. I have now tnkon over five bottles and I am ns well and as Free From Rheumatism ns If I had nover boon n fillet off wlth.it. I shall continue to use Hood's tiursapndlla Hood's s s>Cures lor I believe I owo my life to its use." Mas. M. A. BURNS, West Gardner, Mass. llood'N I'lllif cure all l.ver Ilia, biliousness. Jaun dice. Indigestion, nick hca-luche. 25 cents. The Greatest ("Led leal Discovery of the Age. , KENNEDY'S Medical JJiscovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Has discovered In ono of our common pasture weedy a remedy that cures every kind el Humor, from tho worst bcrofula down to a common pimplo. Ho has tried it in over eiovon hundred cases, and nover fulled e/.oept in two coses (both thundor humor). lie has now in his possession over two iiundred cortili cntns of its value, all within twenty inilos of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from tho first bottle, and a perfect euro is warrantod when tho right quantity is taken. When tho lungs are affected it causes j shooting pains, liko needles passiug , through thorn ; tho same with tho Livor ! or Bowels. This is causod by tho ducts being stopped, and always disappears In a week after taking it. Bead tho label. II tho stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet over necossary. Eat the best you can got, and enough of it. Dose, ono tabiespoonful in water at bed time. Bold by ull Druggists. SICK People j JTTST SICK ENOUGH TO FUEL \ TIRED AND LISTLESS, TO HAVE NO APPETITE, TO SLEEP HAD- !| LY. TO HAVE WHAT YOU EAT FEEL LIKE LEAD IN YOU It STOMACU. NOT SICK ENOUGH TO GO TO BED, Olt HAVE A DOCTOR. BUT REALLY, LIFE IS , HARDLY WORTH LIVING. Ripans Tabules w | WILL MAKE IT SO. THEY ARE j GOOD FOR INDIGESTION. HEARTBURN. NAUSEA, DYS PEPSIA. CONSTIPATION, SICK Olt BILIOUS HEADACHE. One Gives Relief ; W.L. DOUGLAS 1 tJOST IS THE BEST. WtJ Orl WIH, riT FOB A KINO, ft a, cordovan; k FRCNCH&EMAMEILED CALF. jt4.-3. -o FINE CALF &Kanoaroq. M *3.°P POLlCE,ssot.es. %;£rssMi W32.s| 73 DQYSSCKOOLSHQFS, ■ DRGCICVOitMASS* Over One Million People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes ere equally satisfactory They give the best value for the money. They equal custom ahoee In style end fit. Their wearing qualities are unsurpassed. The prices are uniform,—stamped on sole.! Prom $i to $3 saved over other makes. If your dealer cannot supply you wo can. 1 frßgf : U Beet Cough Syrup. Tastoa Good. Use El In time. Bold by dmggtßta |j| For Twenty Years Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by physicians of the whole world. There is no secret about its ingredients. Physicians prescribe • Scott's Emulsion because they know what great nourishing and curativo prop erties it contains. They know it is what it is represented to bo ; namely, a perfect emulsion of tho best Norway Cod liver Oil with tho hypophogphites of limo and soda. For Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Consump tion, Scrofula, Anmmia, Weak Babies, Thin Children, Biokets, Mar asmus, Loss of Flesh, General Debility, and all conditions of Wasting. Tho only genuine Scott's Emulsion is put in salmon colored wrapper. Refuse inferior substitutes 1 Send for pamphlet on Scott's Emulsion. FREE. Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All Druggists. SO cents and SI. Repressing a Nuisance. Street bands are Dot permitted In Germany unless they accompany pro cessions. Congress Can't I)o It. Thoro is a general hopo and belief through out tho country that Congress will do some thing finally for tho distress and suffering of so many hapless people. It is to be hoped business will start up nnd give employment to thousands. But there are certain kinds of suffering which Congress can do nothing to relieve. There is pain nnd misery alwuys which no legislation can euro. Just think of men crippled for life with tho tortures ol sciatica. And such should know that St. Jacobs Oil is a certain cure, which can bo brought about promptly without any aid from Congress. Fourteen hothouso strawberries cost $3 In New York. 9100 Reward. 9100. The readers of this paper will be pleased' U loam that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been ablo to chre in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional : treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In ternally, acting diroctly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby de stroying the foundation of tho disease, and giving tne patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Chkney & Co., Toledo. OL Sold by Druggists, 75c. An Important Difference. To make it apparent to thousands, who think themselves ill, that they ure not affected with any disease, but that the system simply needs cleansing, is to bring comfort homo to their hearts, as a costive condition iseusily cured by using Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by tho California Fig Syrup Co. Europe Is loss than ono-fourth tho sizo of Asia. Olack Kings I m l }? 01, " lc e y < S, H . nd u callow complexion show biliousness. This la one of the most disagree ables of stomach disorders and if allowed to have its own way will result In greut harm. Cure biliousness at once by using ltipans Tub ules. One tubule gives relief. Cnnudu is u little lnrger than tho United States. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-ROOT cures all Kidney nnd Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and consultation free. Laboratory Binghuiupton, N.Y. Asia is tho largost continent, 16,000,000 square miles. Hurl's Clover Root, the great blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 25 cts. 50 cts. sl. Portuguese Africa is as lurgo as Moxico und Texas. If ufflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thotnp son's Lye-wuter. Druggists sell uto per bottle Evory city of anv sizo in this country has soiuu sort-of rapid transit. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teetliing, softens the gums, reduces iuflamu tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. Sic. a bottle Plho'b Cure is a wonderful Cough medicine. —MHM. W. PICK BUT. Van Melon and Blake Aves., Brooklyn, New York. October 20,1HD4. It Pays. I The writing of "popular songs" Is moro profitable In this country than In any other. fON THE ROAD to recovery, the young woman who is taking Doctor Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. In maidenhood, wo q manhood, wife -1 , hood ana moth •? erhood the " Pre } supporting tonic \\ and nervine u that's peculiarly adapted to her needs, regulating, trengthening and cur / ejL i n K the derangements f /of the sex. why is it so many women owe their beauty to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because beauty of form and face radiate from the common center—health. The best bodily ccfadition results from good food, fresh air aud exercise coupled with the judicious use of the " Prescription." If there be headache, pain in the back, bearing-down sensations, or general de bility, or if there be nervous disturbance, nervous prostration, and sleeplessness, the "Prescription" reaches the origin of the trouble and corrects it. It dispels aches and pains, corrects displacements and cures catarrhal inflammation of the lining mem branes, falling of the womb, ulceration, ir regularities and kindred maladies. "FALLING OF WOMB." Mrs. Frank Cam- . ■■ y_ FIELD, of East Dickin- V., writes : " I deem it my duty to express my deep, heart-felt grati- n tude to you for having jSSu been the means, under A®) Providence, of restor- \ 7yMJ ing me to health, for I \i jOj, have been by spells un- \ Jky troubles were of the / womb inflammatory sations and the doctors all said, they could not cure me. __ _ Twelve bottles of Dr. Cam FIEZJD. Pierce's wonderful Favorite Prescription has cured me." PNU6 A DEAD LETTER AUCTION. CURIOSITIES OF UNCLE SAM'S POSTAL MORGUE. Sold After Two Years—Contraband of the Malls—Queen Bees the Only Live Mail. THE annual auction salo of the Dead Letter Office has occurred. It is an annual source of amusement to a certain number of people in Washing ton. It is even more amusing than the sales of dead matter by the ex press companies or the storage ware houses in large cities, because the goods which come under the hammer from those institutions usually have flomo value, while the "dead horse" from the Postofflce Department is com posed very largoly of the most trifling and valueless articles. Still tho sale brings to the department nearly S3OOO ft year, which helps to pay tho ex penses of the Dead Letter Office. The articles just sold have been in the hands of the Dead Letter Office for two years or more. This is m ac cordance with the postal regulations, which requiro that parcels matter shall be held so long a time if its owner cannot be found. It must bo remembered that all diligence is ex ercised by tho postal authorities to find first tho sender and then the ad dressee of a package, and that it goes to tho auction room only after effort has been exhausted and after it has remainod unclaimed by the owner for two years. Under these regulations it would not seompossiblo thutagreat quantity of matter of any value would accumulate during a year. Yet of soven million letters and parools sent to tho Dead Letter Office during a year as insufficiently or incorrectly addressed, only three reachod their destination after investigation. Doubtless a great number of thoso were in the list of unstamped letters or parcels. Ono of tho most remarkabjo things about the Doatl Letter Office records is the number of people who send money by mail in badly addrossod en velopes. Tho umount thus sent indi cates that thero aro enormous sums in transit in tho Unitod States mails during tho yoar. Last year $38,000 in loose money was found in "dead" letters which it wasnocossary to open, And of this $28,000 was restored to its owners. Moro than a million dollars in drafts, money orders, chocks, etc., was found in undelivered letters; and $967,000 this was restored. Postal notes of tho value of $5900 wero found ; And $5600 worth of these found their owners in time. Letters containing money which come to the Dead Letter Office and are not delivered to their owners aro held subject to reclamation for three months. Boforo tho expiration of (hat time, inquiries concerning miss ing remittances aro likely to bo made, ind perhaps thoy get to the Postofflce Department and tho owner of tho money on file is thus identified. At ihe end of throe months tho monoy is iurned over to tho Third Assistant Postmaster-General, aud ho turns it into tho Treasury. But the sender or iddressco can recover this money at ny time within four years by making jlaim and proving property. Letters lontaining drafts, money orders checks and valuable papers are filed for reclamation. They can be of no ealuo to Undo Sam. An unendorsed draft would not bring much at an auc tion. All letters containing salable valuables (and all packages as well) are held for two years for reclamation. At tho end of that timo the articles are catalogued and sold; but a record of their selling price is kept, and the owner by making application within four years can obtain tho amount from the Postofflce funds. Postage stamps in a letter, exceeding two cents in value, are filed away for reclamation for a reasonable time and aro then de stroyed. Tho Postofflce Department destroyed last year $676 worth of stamps found in dead letters. Uncle 3am has a pretty big revenue alto gether from the stamps which are de stroyed in various ways and aro never used to pay postage. Ho also makes a pretty fair income from money sent by mail which falls into the hands of tho Postofflce Department. Tho amount turned into the Treasury last year on this account was $12,000. Tho Postoflice Department destroys in a year four million letters contain ing no enclosures, which cannot bo re turned to writers. It destroys also a great quantity of lotters and parcels containing mattor classed as unmailn ble. Before tho passago of tho anti lottery law a groat many of the lottors oponed contained lottery tickets. Now there are not so many of these, but thoro aro many hundreds of sealed onvolopes under letter postage which aro found to contain lottery circulars, and those, of course, aro destroyed im mediately. Green goods circnlars aro found in some envelopes, and theso, if they cannot bo of value to tho polico in tracing the swindlers, are dostroyed also. Then there aio animals and bugs and bottles ot liquid and all sorts of things which come under tho postal regulations are not to bo curriod in tbo mails. There is ouo living thing that is mailable, nnd that is a queen bee. But there aro alligators and snakeß nnd bntterflies nnd bugs of all kinds constantly coming nnd going through tho mails. At the timo thero was such a craze for cameleonß, thou sands of theso littlo lizards were mailed in tho South to addresses ull over tho United Stutcs; and since they wcro comparatively harmless, alive or dead, no great effort was made to stop the business. But it happens not in frequently that in the Dead Letter Of fice an exceedingly lively snake or an offonsivoly dead animal comes to light. Anything which is likely to injure tho mail matter with which it comes in con tact is contraband of tho mail and is destroyed as soon as discovered, what ever its value. But there is nn official exception to tho snake rule. The professors at tho Smithsonian often receive reptiles in paokagos which come by mail frnnked to them. The postal authorities per mit this, but tho clerks are not in sympathy with tho exception to tho rulo. It is not at nil comfortable to hear tho warning sound of a "rattler" from a perforated packnge, none too strong porhaps, which you aro possi bly pounding with a cancelling stamp. What people will put in the mails was illustrated at the World's Fair by a heavy nx, which camo to tho Dead Letter Office ono day wrapped in a simple piece of paper with the address missing. Its owner was never fouiid. It was unmailable matter anyway, for edged tools not cased aro forbidden tho mails. Nevertheless, the Dead Letter sale always includes quantities of knives. People who want to mail small articles are utterly ignorant of tho postal regulations or elso are will ing to take chances of evading them. The Christmas soason is always har vest time for tho Dead Letter Office. In the first place there is alwnys the crop of gifts sent to foreign addresses which do not comply with the postal regulations. Aside from printed mat ter, articles sent as gifts cannot bo forwardod to sorno foreign countries unless tho postage is fully prepaid at tho letter rate; and where a paroels post hus been established and special rutes are mado for merchandise, it is necessary to comply with certain reg ulations concerning prepayment of postage, observance of customs regu lations, etc. It is not safo to ship paroels matter abroad without consult ing the local postal authorities. A frequent cause of tho non-dolivory of mail matter is tho failuro of tho sender to wrap it carefully. Nearly 20,000 parcels without wrappors go to tho Dead Letter Office every year. Many of those, of course, are maga zines. No attempt is made to find the owners of these, and they are not sold. Under tho regulations, all mag azines, pamphlets, illustrated papers, picture cards, otc., among the "dead" parcols are sent to Washington hos pitals, etc.,and 17,000 oftheso articles go to thorn every year.—Boston Truu script. WISE WORDS. Application brings success. Meddlers ore always annoying. It oft saves woo to pay us you go. All judges aro not what they seem. Innocence raroly seuks concealment. Every misery missed is a new mercy. Old age should never bo ridiculed. Those con conquer who think they can. Wur is promoditatod murder by Na tions. Art is tho sublimation of tho arti ficial. Truth to bo effectivo ueols no orna ment. What breaks ono heart mukoß nu othor. Expoct tho best, but get reudy for the worst. A woman's brain doesn't empty into her hoart. Man, if you will 801 l out, don't sell for a song. An impulse should bo kept on ice fur a time. Repeated effort is gonorully finally rewarded. Don't trust a man who is too ready to trust you. The early bird is bagg*l by tho early hunter. The truest wisdom is a resolute do termination. Shoot folly flying, sitting, standing or swimming. Ingratitude is, unfortunately, not a penal offense. Violent argumont is ncvor a match for cool reason. Advertisements aro tho legs that business walks on. Credit has led many a man into financial perdition. A man is the most critical with tho woman he best likes. Truth dawns, but should nover be permitted to become dußk. A Notable Polar Bear. Tho largo polar bear which for twenty-three years had livod in tho monagerio of tho Zoological Society, Loudon, died recently after a fort night's illness. Tho bear was pre sented to tho society by B. L. Smith, who brought it home from an Arotic voyage in 1871. Frank Bucklnnd then described it as "about thu size of a Newfoundland dog, but more short and stumpy, with a splendid shaggy I coat of long, yollow hair." In its long life at the gardens, under the same careful management by which another spocimon of tho samo species wus kept for thirty-six years in tho menagerie, it grew to a sizo raroly cqualod, even by tho largost polar bears killed in tho Arctio regions, nud its weight was esti mated at throo-quarters of a ton, though during its illuoss it refused food und bcoamo much emuciutod.— Scientific American. Comfort Affected by Color ot Clothing. Tho color of ono's clothing has con siderable to do with his comfort in summer or winter. When exposed to tho sunlight white, it is said, receives 100 dogrees Fahrenheit, pale straw color 102, dark yellow 140, light green 155, dnrk green 108, Turkey rud 105, bluo 108 and black 208. Assuming that this table is correot, the person who drosses in light colors during tho summer has about double tho protec tion from tho heat that tho man or WOIUUD in black has.—Homeopathic Envoy. WORKED TO THE LIMIT. How the ltoys Got Aheud of If 1m on a Ten-Cent IPlnd. A man walking along Wrlghtwood avenue, Chicago, saw a bright dime ly ing on tho sidewalk. lie picked It up. Only a short distance ahead of him wero two boys. lie called to them: "Boys, did you lose anything?" They turned around, and after look ing at each other and then at the friend ly man they shook their heads. "Have you any money?" he asked them. "I've got 05 cents," said ono of them. "What kind of money Is It?" "1 got a half dollar and three nicks." "No dimes, eh?" "No, sir." "I Just picked up a dime there, and I thought perhaps ono of you might hnvo dropped it." He walked on to the corner. As he 6tood thero waiting for a car he felt a pull at his coat-tall, and a small boy with a streaked face said: "Mister, d|d you find a ten-cent piece?" "Yes, I found one." "Well, I lost it, honest Ma sent mo for bread, and now she'll lick me." "Well, here's your dime." The boy grabbed It and ran. That evening when the man alighted from the car at the same corner a boy with a derby hat too large for him halt ed him and usked: "Say, mister, did you find a dime? Cause I lost ono on the way to the butcher's and I'll catch It when tho old man henrft about It" "Look here, I gave that dime to an other boy. He said ho was going to buy bread with It." "He was strlngln' you." "I don't know what that means, but maybe tho money belonged to you. Here's 10 cents." Next morning another boy, with the proud evidence of a hole In his pocket to back up his claim, met the honest man at tho front gate and asked for the dime. Tho man knew that some one must have lost the money, and as ho didn't, want to overlook tho right boy, ho gave up another dime. That even ing two more were lying In wait. He handed them 10 cents apiece on condi tion that they should notify all tho boys in tho neighborhood that he hud been "worked" to tho limit JivwiY man who workß schemes finally pulls bis own log. Speaking from her Experience, : After years of practical use and a trial of many brands of baking pow der (some of which she recommended before becoming acquainted with the great qualities of the Royal), Marion Harland finds the Royal Baking Powder to be greatly superior to all similar prepara tions, and states that she uses it exclusively, and deems it an act of justice and a pleasure to recommend it unqualifiedly to American Housewives. The testimony of this gifted authority upon Household Economy coincides with that of millions of housekeepers, many of whom speak from knowledge obtained from a continuous use of Royal Baking Powder for a third of a century. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. When You Want to Look on the Bright Side of Things, Use SAPOLIO Tho Turning ot the Worm. There are some excellent people who make it a point to submit to annoy ances, but when they finally resist some imposition, they sometimes make spirited work of it. A mild-mannered man of this class came excitedly to the proprietor of the hotel where he was staying, and said: "Look hero, landlord, I want my bill; I'm going away." "Why, what's the matter? Don't wi treat you well?" "You treat me all right, but I can'l stand that German musician in tin next room." "Why, he plays the clarionet very well, they say." "Maybe he docs. I guess ho plays too well. He played so well last night, and so much, that I couldn't get a wink of sleepnintll ufter 1 o'clock Then I dropped oil from sheer weari ncss; and it seemed as if I hadn't more than got to sleep before I heard a loud pounding on the door. "Who's that?" says I. " 'Dot's me, de man vot leef in dt nacht room. I play dot clarionet.' " 'Oh yes, you do!' " 'Und 1 like dot you schnore, off you blease, all de time on dot same koy You vos sometimes from B to G, und dot dishcort schpiles my moosicl" "I tell you," said the mild-mannered man. "1 can't stand that!" Full of Glory. "O, mamma," cried 5-year-old Doro thy, "I'm Just as full of glory as I can be!" "What do you mean?" Inquired her mother, with naturnl surprise. "Why-ee," suhl Dorothy, "there was a sunbeam right on my B|>oon, and 1 swallowed It with my oatmeal, mam ma!" In a cubic motor or limestone, Or blftuy found 8.000.000.000 sea shells. Secretary Thurbcr's Story- Mr. Cleveland trusts more to Ills pri vate secretary tbau be ever did, and more than any of bis predecessors did. It Is tbe common thin# to bear one of ficial telling another what Mr. Thurber has Informed htm as to the President's probable action, and the forecast Is accepted as entitled to as much weight OS If the words of the President wero being quoted. As to what Mr. Thurber thinks of his enlarged re sponsibilities, his own way of answer ing Is very good. A Detroit friend wanted to know how he was getting alone, nnd whether he had been as successful In the office as he antici pated. "Well," said Mr. Thurber, "I think [ may say, as old Captain Terwilllger of Detroit, that I have been 'ln a meas ure' successful. Old Captain Terwilll ger was a well-known character In Detroit He was missed from his ac customed haunts for a time. When ho turned up again somo one asked him where he had been. He replied that ho had engaged In the manufacture of 'Bassldge' In the upper part of the city, but was now out of the business. " 'What was the matter?' asked the other. 'Weren't you successful?' " 'ln a measure I may say I was suc cessful,' said the Captain. " 'What do you mean by that?' In sisted the other. " 'Well,' said Captain Terwilllger, 'I put $1,200 Into that sassidge factory. At the end of six weeks I didn't have a dern cent, but I know the sassldgo business.' " —St. I /Oil I c Olnha rtemnernt. Oregon's Bold Bandits. John W. Schute, President of the First National Bank ofHlllaboro, Ore., was held up on a country road recently by four masked men. They took him to a clump of brush by tho roadside, and huving bound him, secured the keys to the bank and compelled him to give them the combination to the vault. Two of tho men started for tho bank while tho others remained on guard over Mr. Schute. The two men re turned and said they could not get into tho vault and that Mr. Schute had given them tho wrong combination. After 3onsiderable parleying and many threats they started with Mr. Schute for town, but when the outskirts of the town were reached they turned blm loose and disappeared. There is evidence that the robbers had been to the bank, but got nothing. /Til AAA ly selling only i| books a day of the I Kill I best book for bualnes* men, property 1 tj/ 1 UVv owners, farmers, Ac., ever publish* i avIT A D o. JOHNSTON, NEWPORT, Khmlo IHIHIKI. j PN U 0 'OS BEECHAM'S FILLS 1 (Vegetable) What They Are For Biliousness indigestion sallow skin dyspepsia bad taste in the mouth pimples sick headache foul breath torpid liver 1 bilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits when these conditions are caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. One of the most important things for everybody to learn is that constipation causes more than half the sickness in the world, especially of women; and it can | all be prevented. Go by the book, free at your drug gist's, or write B. F. Allen Co., 365 Canal Street, New York. Pills, 10c. and ssc. a box. Annual sales more than 6.000.000 boxes. A BRIGHT STAR. A SKETCH OF TIIK MAN Wno LED MARY ANDERSON TO FAME. Also Played I,entiles Roles With llootti, Hnrrett nnd Thome. (From the SL I a mis Chronicle.) One of tho most conspicuous figures In tho Btageland of America to-day is John \V. Nor ton. Born in tho seventh ward of New York City forty-six years ago, tho frionds of his yonth wero Thomas W. Keeno and Frnnk Chnnfrau. Wo find Keeno a star at tho age of 25 and Norton in tho flowor of early man hood the loading man for Edwin Booth at the famous Winter Garden Theatre. Ho was starred with Lawrenoe Barrett early in the 70s, and alternated tho lending roles with Charles Thorno at the Variety Theatre in New Orleans. Early in tho Centennial year, in Louisville, Norton mot our Mary Anderson, then a fair young girl who aspired for stage fame, took hor under his guidance and, as everybody knows, led her to fame. Mr. Norton is now tho proprietor of tho Grand Opera llouso in St. Louis, tho Du Quesno Thoatre, Pittsburg, and one of tho stockholders in tho American Extravaganza Company. Ono afternoon early in Juno he hobbled into his New York Ofllce on Broadway and encountered his business manager, George McMauns, who bad also been a rheumatic suf ferer for two years. Norton was surprised that McManus had discarded his cane. Who cured you? ho asked. "I cured myself," re plied McManii9, "with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." "I was encouraged by Mr. McMnnus' cure nnd ns u last resort tried tho Pink Pills my self," said Mr. Norton to a Chronicle re porter. "You have known mo lor ttveyonra and know how I have sufTerod. Why, dur ing the summer of 1893 I was on my back at the Mullanphy Hospital, in this city, four weeks. I was put on tho old systom of diet ing, with a view to cleuring those acidulous properties in my blood that medical theorists say is tho cause of my rheumatism. I left tho Hospitnl feeling stronger, hut the first damp weather brought with it those excru ciating pains In the legs and back. It was the same old trouble. After sitting down for a stretch of five rofuuies tho pains serewod rny legs into a leuot when I arose, and I hobbled as painfully as ever. After I had taken my first box of Pink Pills it struck me that tbe pains wtro less troublesome. I tried nuotber box, and I begun almost un consciously to have faith in the Pink Pills. I improved so rapidly that I could rise after sitting at my desk for an hour and tho twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my rising were so mild that 1 scarcely noticed them. During the post two weeks we have had much rainy weuther In St. Louis. But tho dampness has not had tho slightest efTect in bringing hnck tho rheuaiatlsm, which i consider u sufficient and reliable test of the efllcncy of Pink Pills. I may also say that tho Pink Pliis have acted as a tonic on my stomach, which I thought wus well nigh de stroyed by tho thousand and ono alleged remedies I consumed in tho past live years." WALTER BAKER&CO. Tho Larpost Manufacturers of UA PURE, HIGH CRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES eajtet'' ri Lf^i.^ n , ' l '* Continent, have received W^ 3 HIGHEST AWARDS from th% great I m Indusirial and Food I f' m EXPOSITIONS I Q||ln Europe and America. I Hfl 1 ffßfli'Kci Unlike the Dutch Process, no Alka | sMB or other (hemicuU or lyci uro Their delirious BREAKF COCOA /a'Vh/'utciy pure and aoluble, and coett lett than one cent a cup. SOLD EY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTEr BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. CAW MILL FOR BALK g ias now,withal Qneeess ary tools for miinufncturiiu; lumbut and lath. Address 11. 11. Cusslcr, Holsopple, Pa