Bluebirds, "the flharbiuger of spring, have already been noticed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hidden Places. Why a weasel should hate a rat is strange, as ho is only an elongated rat himself, ltats aud mice love hiddcD places, and a weasel is about the only living thing that can find them out. Aches and puinS are like rats and mice. 1 hey seek out the hidden places of the human syslom an I gnaw and ravage the muscles hud nerves. Ht. Jacobs Oil, like a weasel, knows how to go for them, it will penetrate to the secret recesses of the pain, aud breaks up Its habitation and drives it out. Bats and mice shun the corners where s weasel has beeu, aud [mills ami aches once tutrly driven out by St. Jacobs Oil are per manently cured and seldom come back to i ' haunts - There must be patience with the treatment; some chronic forms are stubborn an 1 resist, but the great remedy will finally conquer and give health and strength to the afflicted parts. WHEN bilious or costive, eat a Cacaret, candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c.,26c, CTATE or unto, CITV or TOLEDO, ? LUCAS COUNTY. J u - FRANK J. Cheney makes oath that he is the Minor partner of tbe firm of F. J. ( HENEY & CO., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and .Stale aforesaid, end that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eaeo end every case or CATARRH thai cannot be eured by the use HALL'S CATARRH CURE. A ... FRANK J. CHENEY. oworn to before ine and subscribed in my ( presence, this (II.U day of December, j HEAL JA. 1). 1886. A. W. GLBASON, 0 „ Hotary Public. Hall s Catarrh Cnre is taken internally, and Acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces ol the system. Send for testimonials, free. „ ... _ F. J. CHENEY <fc Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist*, 75c. Hall'a Family Pills are the best John P. Cuddy, u farmer of Baltimore County, Maryland, died on March 10th, in his 88th year. Mr. Cuddy made the first trip on Peter Cooper's locomotive over the B. A (). on August 28th. 1830. He was also present when Professor Morse sent the first telegraphic message over the B. A O. wires between Balti more and Washington. Each salmon produces about 20,000,000 eggs. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bur regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Buves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 60 cents and 11.00, at ail druggists. Bet toads are sold at 8 pence apiece in Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A. No 1 Asthma medicine. W. R.WILLIAMS, Antioch, Ills., April 11. 1804. CASCARVTS stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Eaxe, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and in stantly takes tbe sting out of corns and bun ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery o.' the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fit ting or new shoes feel easy. It. is a curtain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach ing feet. Try it to-.ly. Sold by all druggists and shoe store?. Bv mail for 25c. in stamps. I rial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm sted, Le Roy, N. Y. Life and Health Happiness and usefulness depend upon pure blood. Hood's Sarsapnrilla make* pure blood. This is the time to take Hood's Sarsaparillo. because the blood is now loaded with impu rities wh'ch must be promptly expelled or health will be in danger. Remember, Hood's parilla Is the best—ln fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hold by all druggists. sl, six for $5. Dalle* act harmoninuHlv with nOOu S ■HIS Hood's .Sarsaparillo. f i opened (hot vv"# " bottle of HIRES M Root beer ? The popping of a IP cork from a bottle of *Jy Hires is a signal of \ good health and sure. A sound the old folks like to hear I —the children can't p HIRES M Rootbeer ? Is composed of the very Ingredients the Fw system requires. Aiding * the digestion,soothing - tho nerves, purifying ' blood. A temper a nee drink for temper ■nee people. r> Made only by I The rharlea E. Hilea Co.. Phi la. [ AMP PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. JO HNW MORRIS, WASHINGTON. 0. C. Late Principal Eunmir C B. Pension Bureau. 3yr. tu last war, 1 3 adjudicating olaime, atty. Bin... GKT KICH quickly: tend for M sou inventions Wau'.ed ' KHOAK Ta re 4c Co. U'way, N. Y. S Pistols and Pestles. J The duelling pistol now occupies its proper 'JsF place, in the museum of the collector of relics of barbarism. The pistol ought to have besido |f||4 it the pestle that turned out pills like bullets, ]|f|[ to be shot like bullets at the target of the fHH 2SL liver. But the pestle is still in evidence, and t|P will be, probably, until everybody has tested (iMh the virtue of Ayer's sugar coated pills. They treat the liver as a friend, not as an enemy. Vipl? Instead of driving it, they coax it. They are compounded on the theory that the liver does R|| its work thoroughly and faithfully under (|S| 2K obstructing conditions, and if the obstructions Ijgf IIP are removed, the liver will do its daily duty. (Bp jJSjL When your liver wants help, get "the pill JK W that will," V|P j| Ayer's Cathartic Pills. © THE CUBE OF DIABETES. A Cane Successfully Treated in Madlnoa County, N. Y. From the Press, UHca, A'. T OD the recommendation of Mr. William Woodman, of South Hamilton, New York, that Mr. Amos Jaquays, a resident of Colum bus Centre. New York, be interviewed re garding his extraordinary recovery from ad vanced kidney trouble, embracing diabetes in its worst form, Mr. Jaquays was visited aud willingly made the accompanying state* ment: "I am fifty years of age, and five years ago begtn to suffer with pains in the buck and weakness in the region of the kidneys, and I had a tremendous flow of urine. Strange to j say, my appetite increased to an extraordin ! ary degree, but instead of giving inestrength my food seemed to make me weaker ano • thinner, and I was terribly coustipated. My mouth was pasty, 1 had continuous heart burn aud pain across the lower part of my stomach and frequent vomiting. Indeed, : all, or nearly all, my functions became , impaired, my sight was dim, memory de ! sorted me, and life became irksome. 1 con sulted the best medical talent in the county, and they all diagnosed my Ooso as sugar dia betes in its most aggravated form, but gave me no relief whatever. At last I was in such a desperate condition that a council of phy sicians was called, but their good offices did mo no good, and I looked forward Vo death with satisfaction as the only relief I could expect. "My old friend, William Woodman, about this time came to visit me. and from him I first heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which he declared had cured him of rheumatism, . with which he had suffered all his life, and he believed they would do me good, as he had read of u *ase of diabetes being cured by their use. I believe it was next day after Mr. Woodman's visit that Mr. F. Hydo, of South Hamilton. New York, called on me, and I was told by him that Pink Pills had saved his life aud he advised me by all means to try them. ••This settled the question, and I at once began a course of home treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Within a week tho medicine began to do its work, the constipa tion was relieved, my skin, which had been dry and hard, assumed its normal feel and appearance, 1 no longer had that insuffer ably bad taste in my mouth, and though still weak and almost helpless, the palu in my back and kidneys began to abate and tbe flow of urine decreased. But I was far from health, and built very few hopes on perman ent cure, though I continued to take the pills constantly for the next year and a half, growing slowly but surely during that time better and better. Then I began to reduce the daily dose, and kept mending until six months ago. when 1 discontinued them, and I was entirely cured. "I am still subject to cold, which is apt to : settle in my kidneys, aud always keep Pink I Pills by me, as they bring me round very quickly. In all, I have, I believe, taken fifty boxes of Dr. Williams' Fink Pills, and shall never bo without them as long as I have half a foliar. I have recommended them to nil my suffering friends, and they seem to be good for nnv disorder of the system, as they have never failed to do their work in any case that I know of, and some were pretty low. "I certify the above statement to be true in every particular, and if I commanded stronger language, I would use it in praising Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "AMOS JAQUAYS." Mr. Jaquays is a highly respectable ami well-to-do furmer and builder, and highly ; connected in Madison Couuty. The proprietors ol Dr. Williams' Pink Pills state t hat t hey are not a patent modioine, but a prescription used lor many years by an em j iuent practitioner, who produced the most j wonderful results with them, curingall forms j of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful j causes of almost every ill to which flesh is heir. The pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as suppres sions, ull forms of weakness, chronic consti pation. beariug-down pains, etc., and in the case of men will give speedy relief and effect a permanent cure in ull cases arising from mental worry, overwork, orexcesses of what | ever nature. Tliev are entirely harmless and cau be given to wenk and sickly children with the greatest good and without the ! slightest danger. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents u IKIX. or six boxes for | $2.50 (tbey are never sold in bulk or by the I 100). by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. Schenectady. N. Y. I Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O'. I Ask your grocer to-day to show you a o\ck* 1 age of Grain-O. the new .ood drink that i *kes the place of coffee. The childrenm%y drink it without injury HS well as th• adult. All who try it like it. Grain-O hvs that rich seal browa of Mo?ha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach re ceives it. without distress. One-quarter the price ot coffee. IB cts. and JSf> cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. The bait imore Chamber of Commerce has decided to charge an inspection fee of cents per lUI bushel- for the inspection of grain arriving at Baltimore. This charge heretofore has been 5 rents per 100 bushels. FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after firstday'S use ot Pit. Ki, INK'S Gut AT NBK vK H EOT on EH. Free s2l rial hott le and t re t ise. Send to Dr. Kline,93l Arch St., Phila., Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduce*inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. SSc.a bottle. JUST try a 10c. box of Cascsrnts. the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. Best Fire-Proof Doors. Numerous experiments to determine the best fire-resisting materials for the construction of doors have proved that wood covered with tin resists flre better than an iron door. It Is no affair of ours. But is It not? Does not the man or woman who fails j to speak the needed word at the right | moment, to give the inspiration of nym | pathy or of counsel, become morally I accountable for the failure? FASHION FORECAST. WHAT THE DRESSY NEW YORK WOMEN WILL WEAR. Stvllsh Gowns for Street Wear- Several Complete Costumes iic | scribed—Jaunty and Fash ionable Headgear. (Special New York Fashion Letter. OH, soon will come the time. Husband or lather, dear. When alt your womankind will most Solicitous appear. They'll cook your favorite dishes, Fine compliments they'll pay; And all your foudest wishes Will carefully obey! An 1 kuow you not the reason? * Why, really now, you ought: Fiue dresses lor thu springtime Must speedily bo bought! T wouder why it in that, realizing as wo do that summer is inevitable, wo invariably leave the ordering of our new teason's gowns till the very last moment, and then because we all want them made at once, and in the short est possible space of time, we have to exercise a considerable amount of patience. When once the new Jußhious ! are settled on, there is nothing to gain by waiting, aud yet T Hud myself, : in spite of all this moralizing, one of I these same procrastinating sinners who never by any chance awake to a full sense of their responsibilities, till it is forced upon them that they have not a gown which is fit to wear. However, I am sure, we all mean to improve so I'll help by describing the several very chic gowns illustrated on this page. I That becoming Eton suit, the per - fection of what a spring costume should be, is made of canvas weave novelty material in a combination of green and tan. The skirt hangs ex ceedingly well and is lined with a rich tan glace silk. The little jacket is smart enough to witch the heart out of any woman and then an appliqued L ,-, a BECOMING ETON SDIT. EVER TOPUEVI; BEtZEK SUIT. trimming of light tan clotb adds con ' siderably to its effective appearance. It is worn over a two-tone taffeta silk blouse confined at the waist uuder a i pointed girdlo made of the material edged with a fold of the tan cloth. The hat that makes such a fitting - SMART" JACKET • son. crown for this dainty frock is ot tan lioveltv braid and the trimming COE vists of loops of green Telyet and gauze ribbon anil a wealth of American beauty roses. The ever-popular blazer i a feature in the next uit. The cloth used is a AX AT TH ACTIVE SUIT. dark stone gray closely woven cheviot, marked in tiny square blocks by threads of the same color. The novelty of the jacket is in the way the revers widen at the bust line, for generally they crow narrow at the bottom and extend in points at the | shoulders. These revers are faced with | a heavy gray twill silk in a lighter i shade than the cloth and they are fin | ished with a da inly cording of black I silk in a fancy design. ; The bottom of the jacket is smartly ! cut and edged with braid while the jaunty little side pockets have patch | covers, iu cut and finish similar to the edge of the jacket. The sleeves are ! especially well shaded and are trimmed with a neat cording. This "study in gray" is completed by a gray straw hat adorned with exquisitely shaded plumes. Paradise aigrettes of black droop over each side of the brim ami an immense bunch of velvet pausies re-ting upon hair at the back com plete this fascinating bit of headgear. The jacket suit next shown is an ideal of smartness from the edge of its corduroy bound skirt lo the tip of tho tastefully stitched collar. The materi al of which it is fashioned is an open weave novelty of deep brown cross liar red with two heavy threads of white, and over tho entire surface is powdered tinv spots of green that make tho combination most fascinat ing. The pretty strapped front and seams aud the smart stitching on the collar and edges of the jacket all aid in making the costume as swell r.s one j could imagine. The hat that accompanies this suit has a large crown ot geranium red novelty straw to which is fastened a finely shirred brim of red liberty satin finished at the edge with a double ruche. A wealth of black plumes droop over tho left side while the right is adorned with a bunch of ger aniums surrounded with the beautiful foliage provided by nature. Equally attractive in design and fin ish is the fourth suit depicted. The cloth used is one of the new Napoleon blues and its tritrmiug consists oT straps of the material exquisitely stitched and showing the unmistakable handiwork of an expert tnilor. The gracefully hanging skirt is gar nitured with a stitched strap down each side and the tight fitting waist iG similar)) finished, The beautiful hat is of fine black Milan braid trimmed with chonx of blue and of yellow melme and with four immense black ostrich feathers. The costumes illustrated herewith were designed by The National Cloak ! Co., of New York. baud Telegraph and Cable Rates. Telegraph rates vary greatly in this country owing to the immense dis tances. In many of the smaller coun tries of the old world a uniform rate is made for any point within the given country, but it would bo manifestly unfair to the American telegraph cora pnnies if they were compelled to send a message from New York to San Francisco for the same rate that Ihey charge tor a message from New York |to Jersey City or from Chicago to | Evanstcu. j As a rule, the minimum rate for n I day message of ten words IU this coun try is 23 cents. A message from Chi | cago to Boston costs 30 cents, while New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore hove a 40-cent rate. The highest rates from Chicago are those lor points in I Southern Florida—B3 cents. It costs only 73 cents to telegraph to any point i in California or Oregon, aud the rti for New Orleans is 30 cents. Cab e rates are so much per word, instead of per message of ten words, and the figures are very much higher. Messages to England, France and Ger many cost 01 cents per word from Chicago. Belgium's rate is 00 cents; Hollaud and Italy, OS cents; Austria. 10 cents; Greece, 41 cents; Egypt, 62 cents; Switzerland, 06 cents; Sweden, 13 cents; Turkey, 43 cents and 30 cents; Russia, 40 cents. The Cuban war hasgreatlv iucroaspo the volume of telegraphic business iu tho West Indies. The lowest rate is 40 cents per word for messages in Havana. Other Cuban points are higher, aud no town iu the West In dies outside of Cuba cau bo reached lor less t'nau 51.03 per word. Messages to Tor to Rico cost $1.83 per word. Central Amerioau rates rango from 30 cents (Gaulema'a) to 73 cents (Costa Rica and Nicaragua). South American rates take a big jump upward. Bra zilian messages cost from $1.35 to $1.87 per word; British Guiwna points cost $2.17. Communication with Australia is expensive. Queensland reaches the highest figure, $2.62 per word, while South and West Australia rates are $1.47. Messages to China co9t $2.02 per word, and the same figures apply to Corea. Japanese rates are $2.27 per word ; Java,sl.s3 ; Formosa,s2.27 ; India, $1.20; Madagascar,sl.7o; Now Zealand, $1.58; Philippine Islands, $2.51 ; Siam, $1.41. Algeria can be reached for 38 cents per word, tho minimum rato lor the Dark Continent. East Africa rates are $1.54 to $1.61, while South African poilits raugo betweer $1.58 and $1.70. vVest African points, as 'a rule, range above $2, while it cos's $3.02 to send a word to Mossame les from Chicago more than to reach any other tele graph station in the world direct. However, a message to Bassidore or Lingua costs tiie Chicago sender sl.lO per word tc Jask, Persia, aud $11.76 extra lor special dispatch boat line from that point. - -Chicago Times- Herald. Oyster Shell Mountain*. The waters of Maryland produce one third of the oyster supply of the | world. It yields twice as many of the luscious bivalves as are grown in all foreign countries combined, says the Philadelphia Times. During the pres ent, century it has put on the market 400,000,000 bushels of the toothsome mollusk*. These have sold for the enormous sum of $250,000,000. Al most all of this country is dependent for the abundance aud cheapness oi this edible on the supply of the Chesa peake. From hero come also nearly all of tho oysters used for canning. In fact, the output of this industry iu Maryland is equal to one sixth of all I the fisheries oi the United Stutcs pat J together. The quantity of oyster shells landed upon the shores of Marylaud during the last century his boon reckoned at 12,000,000 tons. Until very lately the cauning firms ha I much trouble iu getting rid of the shells, having to pay, I in fact, for the removal of all that they could not givo away. Recently, however, they have been able to sell thera. They are now shipped to all parts of the country and are utilized vari ously for roads, for lime and employed in making coal gas. They have been lound also to servo almost as well as stone iu the manufacture of special grades of iron for railroad beds. Cul tivators of oysters also employ Ihem, having found that they afford suitable surfaces lor young oysters to attach them-elves to. They are likewise used to some extent as chicken food. They are very good for hens, the shells of eggs being largely made of them. The trade received $25,000 in a single year for the empty shells. Starfishes are tho oysters' worst enemy. Other animals the youog bi valves have to guard against are crabs and boring snails. They arc also in danger of being stilled by tho mud. In Pacific waters sting rays arc their most dreaded foes. The little crab that lives in tho shell of the oyster has always excited much interest. It is fouud on about five per cent, of the bivalves. Jt is a sort of parasite of tbo oyster, whose shell protects it, and whose feed supports it. Long-Armed Visitor. A firm of Chicago fish dealers TO ceived an octupus in a box of halibut from.PugetSound, it was sent to the firm lor a Lenten display as represent ing the devil in his banishment. It nieaßuros nine feet from tip to tip of its tentacles aud weighs forty pounds. It will tie mounted aud provcitu great advertising card, . ,.<i p."* ' THREE H/lI'PY WOMEN. W*) Each Relieved of Periodic Pain and B&ck mp' ache. A Trio of Fervent Letters. Before using Lvdia B. Pinkham's Vegetable s' Compound, .my health was gradually being under mined. I suffered untold agony from painful menstruation, backache, pain on top of my K head and ovarian trouble. 1 concluded to /• try Mrs. Pinkham's Compound, and found . w ith painful monthly periods. It entirely MKgUBj . r ' cured me. MRS. GKORGHE WASH, 623 Hank St., (. Cincinnati, O. .-For years I had suffered with painful mcn- struation every month. At the beginning of /o / menstruation it was impossible for me to stand up £ formore than five minutes, I felt so mis erable. One day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham's was thrown into my \ y house, and 1 sat right down and reed it. I then got some of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and Liver Pills. I can heartily say that to-day I feel like a woman; my monthly suffering is a thing of the past. 1 J shall always praise the Vegetable Compound for what it has / - done for me. MRS. MARGARET ANDERSON, 3G3 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me of painful men struation and backache. The pain in my back was dreadful, and the agony I suffered during menstruation nearly drove me wild. Now this is all over, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham's medicine and advice.—MßS. CARRIE V. WILLIAMS, South Mills. N. C. The great volume of testimony proves conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a safe, sure and almost infallible remedy in cases of irregularity, suppressed, excessive or painful monthly periods. L 1 U LI Ijl f direct special ntten- F iXJCiJCi I ' the following re inMi Uable statements: a Yours to hand. I rocom mend the* Monro treatment because t have tried it, and to ho Just what ho eight years; have known ol tie very worst cases* written by the late He v. W. list, to Mrs. W. H. Watson. New Albion, N. Y. Restored His Hearing in S Minutes. years. Had intense head ache. <:ontinuai roaring tlfr A cold easily. My hearing m began to lail. and for W Rver>'thing 1 tried Medication in 1888, nud 43 the effect of the tlrst application WAS simply wonderful. In Jess than tlvo minutes my hearing was lully re stored, and has been perfect ever sine, arid in Q few months was entirely cured of Catarrh. EM BKOWN. Jacksboro, Tenn. "Whereas i was deaf, now I hear." S At the age of 69, after hav ing suffored from Catarrhal truly thankful to stute that I am entirely cured by Aerial Medication: ray hearing, which had beoome so bad that I could not bear a watch tick, stored. I will verify this Dor by Center, Vt. Medicine for 3 Months' Treatment Free To introduce this treatment and prove be yond doubt that Aerial Medication will cure Deafness, Catarrh. Throat und Lung Diseases, I will, for a shirt time, seud Medicines for three months' treatment free. Address, J. H. Moore. M. D„ Dept. K. 7, Cincinnati, 0, JONES SCALE GUARANTEED Accuracy-Durability, LOWEST PRICES. JONES-BINCHAMTON, N. Y. Bp,t ( ouffh Ssmp Ta.tr, (lot HI. Cm Mi the STANDARD PAINT FOR structural purposes. run,,*].". ••SngßMlions for Eiterior Decoration," Sample Card and Desrriptive Prioe Lint free by mail. A.beeto. Itnofin,. Itelldln, Eell. Stenm Parkin,,, Boiler C'nverin.., Firr-IVnol I'ain.*, Etc. Nnn-< inducting and Plerin.nl Insulating JHnierlal*. H. W. JOHNS MANUFACTURING CO., 87 Maiden Lane. New York. CHICAGO: 240 ft 242 Randolph St. PHILADELPHIA: 170 ft 172 North 4tli Bt. BOSTON: 77 ft 7P Tear] Ht. CATHARTIC cudp fOHsnmioii^^ 25 ♦ 50 * DRUGGISTS j^l!!lS^sgSaag^ in^^ALABAStTNETI t ,T WON'T RUB OFF. 4 ! riffi T K^:^Tf l L , TTa , ffioEf 4 AWivii; I ; H ? f milln [£*&- A C ADA CTIIIC ta pure, permanent and artistic a ) H#R ALADAO I INt piz&t. C R IM. LUE J 4 TneUocroa "Oue i.Jer Kor Sale ''E Eaiat Denlrfu Every where. \ TnaperiiiEuienonßh.youhaTp CDH A Tint Card showing 12 desirable tints, also Alabastln© ¥ "A Fair Face Cannot Atone for an Untidy House." Use SAPOLIO STANDARD OF THE WORLD. *IOO to all alike. I POPE MFC. CO., Hartford, Conn. Catalogue free from dealers or by mail for one 2-cent stamp. [wfObUGUSj |;]o Idollar® j&il SHOE Jfjl ■BEST IN THE WORLD T FOR 14 YEARS this shoe, by merit alone* I T has distanced all competitors. I J INDORSED BY OVER 1,000,000 WEARERS J , as THE BEST in style, fit and durability of t • any shoe ever offered at $3.00. t J IT IS MADE IK ALL THE LATEST SHAPES ! i and STYLES and of every variety of leather. ♦ 1 OHE DEALER IN A TOWN given exclusive T j sale and advertised in local paper on receipt! •of reasonable order. Write lor catalogue to 2 |W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. P N II 14
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