Nervous Prostration. A Noted Boston Woman Describes its Symptoms and Terrors.—Two Severe Cases Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " I am so nervous! no one ever suffered as I do! There Isn't a well inch in my body. I honestly believe my lungs are diseased, my chest pains me so, but I have no cough. I am so weak at my stomach, and have indigestion terribly, and palpitation of the heart; am losing flesh; and this headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I had hysterics. " There is a weight in the lower part of my bowels, bearing down all the time, with pains in my groins and thighs I can't sleep, walk, or sit, and blue —oh goodness! lam simply the most miserable of women." This is a most vivid description of a woman suffering with nervous prostration, caused by iullamination or some other diseased condition of the womb. No woman should allow herself to reach such a perfection of misery when there is no need of it. Read about Miss Williamson's case and how she was cured. Two SSzd Gases of Marvous Prostration Cured. '•DEAR MRS. PINKHAM ; I was suffering such tortures from nervous prostration that life was a burden. I could not sleep at all, and was too weak to walk across the flopr. My heart was affected so that often I could not lie down at all without almost suffocating. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it worked like magic. I feel that your medicine has been of in estimable benefit to me." Miss A DELE WILLIAMSON, l'.'fl N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. P" ft RR WARD. —We have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn. $!S000, nL which will he paid to any person who can And that the above testimonial letters ■Tft. II Bl 18 a ar ' : " ot tfcmduo, or were published before obtaining the writer's special per mission. LYDIA E. PINKIIAM MEDICINE CO. London's' eight gas companies pos sess 3.700 miles of mains. 00.540 pub lic lights and rrS,C.SI eorisurners. Deafnfn ( aunot ae> Cured by local applications aa they cannot reach the diseased portion of the oar. Thoro is only one way to euro (leufnesß, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear ing. and when it in entirely closed Deafness in < the result, and unless tho inflammation can bo I taken out and thin tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will bo destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. ' which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the raucoun surfaces. Wo will givo Ono Hundred Dollars for any i case of Deafness (caused by catarrh), that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars sent free. P. J. Chf.ney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7oc. Hall's Family Pills are tho oont. Even the fellow who rides a hobby j stands a chance of being thrown. D r. Bu I I's ,V ' troubles. People praise Cough Syrup |y3^E"s23& Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. hull's Cough Syi ua. " "Sa My neighbor's child wa irtvon S . up, til" family concluded It / VrV v \ would beuseless to make furthei ( \ efforts to save it, but on Iteinc |j w I persuaded, they administered I 1 A FREY'S VERMIFUGE, - \ and over 100 worms were or- | x, MHno'iS'&SSraSJs: | Jp. '/ villi*, ohi... lit "rujj- [ A porfe t tonic for 'ltllilri'ii. ii. jl s. lui.v, rsiiiiiuiuii*, ji.l. sea^aMng~mek / iSXT" KNOW THE VALUE OF %// BP.# %I3LJA n OILED CLOTHING 1 A IV' / IV IT WILL A 'i A mKEEP YOU DRY -\ /4W\TTN rv IN THE )\ / / jlj n WETTEST WEATHER ' zLftsH jy/LtvLOOH FOR ABOVE TBADE HASH "0 ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES TREE ■ SHOWING PULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS; A.J.TOWERCO..BOSTON.MA3S. J: E Be®t Conuh Syrup. Toatea Good.' Uso^l §|| "?3!'ifS?l£l I Thompson's Eye Water "I had nervous prostration terribly, caused by female weakness. I suffered every thing ; was unable to eat, sleep, or work. After a while I was induced to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and I really began to improve on taking the first bottle. I continued to take the medicine, and am now better in every way, and feel like a different person. J a£„ simply a well woman." MHO. DELI.A REISER, Marienville, Pa. A curious plant Is the "life tree" of Jamaica. It continues to prow for years after It has been ilup up ami Its roots exposed to tile sun. Leaves sev ered from tlie limbs will remain preen for weeks. The tree can only be de stroyed by lire. PtiTNAM's FAnp.i-F.ss DYE produces the fast est and brightest colors or any known Uyu Bluff. Sold by nil druggists. Kansas City, Mo., is to have a big banana warehouse, large enough to hold twenty-five car loads. Love may laugh at the locksmith, but never at the goldsmith. Onrfield Headacho Powders are scientific ally composed of herbs and other products known to bo effoctivo in curing headaches, mental weariness, and most of tho "every day" ills from which peoplo suffer. The city of lioston, Mass., gained inhabitants in ten years. Be* Herring In Lake Ontario. The deepening of the St. Lawrence canal system has had other results than to allow the passage of ocean going freightage. Following in the wake of the vessels sea herrings have made their appearance in Lake Ontario and are being eagerly captured by tho flfdiermen. I Marriageable women in Servia have I a queer way of announcing that they I are in the matrimonial market. A i dressed doll haging in the principal • window of a house Indicates that there is living there a woman who is anx ious to become a bride. j ( fliigliiiifr I ra lo ('oniiimplioni | Kemp's Balsam will stop tho cough at once. ; Go to your druggist to-day and got a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles Go at once, delays are ilangorous. Of all the natural phenomena peculiar to the ltocky Mountain region none is more strange or terrible than the myste rious storm known to the Indians as "the white death." Scientific -men have never vet had an opportunity of investigating it because it'comes at the most unexpected times, and may keep away from a certavn locality for years. Well-read men who have been through it say that it is really a frozen fog. l.anr'M Family IHedicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on tha liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache* Prico 25 and 50 cents. 1 The claim is made for South Dakota that is has lor tho third consecutive year pro duced more wealth than any other State in the Union, the total for last year being $100,500,000. Of this sum $27,000,000 conio3 from live stock, $18,000,000 from corn, $15,000,000 from .wheat and $l2,'K)O j 000 froi . minerals. A WASTED WAFININC. "I hoar," said the poet, "There's a new counterfeit. And tho people are cautioned To look out for it. "But I'm not a bit worried. And I'm not looking out, As if I had nothing To do but to scout. "It's the five-dollar size That is crooked, they say, And that kind of money Ain't coming my way." , —Detroit Free Press. HUMOROUS. Blobbs —I've been sold again. Slobbs —1 thought you looked rather cheap. Nell —Jack has proposed to me. Here is the ring. Belle—Yes; I had a finger in that. Wlgg—He's an experienced book keeper, isn't he? Wagg—Lend him a few and see. Sillicus—Everything is machine made nowadays. Cynicus—Yes; even office-holders. Tramp—Kind lady, can you oblige me with a bite? Kind lady—No; but perhaps my dog can. "Any bones broken?" asked the cy clist, who had run down the old man. "Confound it, yes!" responded the lat ter; "my collar button is broken." Ned —I don't see why you jilted Miss Gotrox for Miss Bluegore. They tell me Miss Bluegore's fortune is very small. Jack —Yes; it's small, but se lect. Wife —It was very nice of you to bring me this candy. Husband—Yes; it reminds me of you. Wife—How gallant! So sweet, eh? Husband— No; so expensive. "This parrot," said the dealer, "can speak two languages." "Really?" re marked the prospective purchaser; "what are they?" "Why-er-English and his-er-native tongue." "My darling," he gurgled, "I cannot understand what you see in me to make you love me so." "Well, Jack," she replied, "that's what pa and ma and all the rest of the folks say." Mrs. Mulligan—Poor Pat has had a leg ampitated. 'Twas an explosion. Mrs. O'Rourke —Dear, dear! An' is he resigned to his fate? Mrs. Mulligan— His fate, is it? Sure, he only has one. "I should think a date pie would be popular," remarked the patron. "What? A pie made of dates?" replied the pro prietor of the quick lunch place. "Oh! no. A pie that would have tho date of its manufacture printed on it." "Why don't you go to work?" asked the good lady, handing out the victuals. "It's dis way, lady," explained the tramp. "W'en I'm hungry, I'm too weak to work an' w'en I'm full dey ain't no necessity fer me to work." NicarauUnn Custom*. Among the many odd customs of Nicaragua, those relating to the dead are the weirdest to the stranger. Some of these have been handed down by tradition from the Indians, others were'brought over by the Con querors—and the two are so blended that it is difficult to toll which pre dominates. As soon as the medico pronounces one's illness fatal, word is sent to the village padre, who pre pares to administer the last sacra ments of the church to the dying per son. Placing the consecrated wafer in the custodia—a vessel of solid gold or silver, often resplendent with rare jewels—a procession is formed and marches through the street. A small boy, ringing a bell, rushes ahead to announce the approach of the sacred presence, and after him follows a band of music, often a single violin, playing a dirge. If it be possible to secure any soldiers, they surround the padre, who, dressed in brilliant vest ments, is generally carried in a chair, over which four men hold a purplo canopy. As the little cortege moves down the silent streets, every one hares his head and kneels, making the sign of the cross until the last soldier has passed. Woe to the sacrilegious stranger who fails to show tills mark of respect, and many have been the In stances where foreigners were pulled from their horses and even stoned for neglecting to follow this time honored custom.—W. Nephew King ; in Harper's Weekly. A Woman an,l tile Telephone. What a wonderful thing the tele phone is, and what a comfort to women it may be made, is illustrated in an in cident of a few days ago, brought ahou(| by the kind act of a thoughtful and in dulgent husband, who is a well-known business man of this city. He decided to give his wife a birthday surprise, so he arranged that at a certain mo ment her mother, who lives in New York, and whom she had not seen for months, should ring up her daughter in this city. When tho telephone bell sounded in the business man's house at the time agreed upon he answe-ed the ring and then, turning from the telephone, he said to his wife; "Dearie, here's your mother on the wire In New York." The wife bustled to the telephone and heard the familiar voice of her mother in the utterance of one word, "Daughter." The answer of the business man's wife was: "Oh, moth er." Next came the sound of a sob from the mother over the wire, which was answered with a sob from this ond. These women then proceeded to cry to each other In the most accepted feminine style until the telephone tolls amounted to $5, which announce ment from "central" caused an abrupt breaking off of communication. The business man's wife declared, however, that it was the loveliest experience sha over had. —Philadelphia Record. MINNESOTA'S SEPARABLE SPEAKER. Bow lie Secured nn Interview with the Sultan of Sulti. Michael Bowling, speaker of the house of representatives of the Minne sota legislature, is a remarkable man. He is the product of a Minnesota bliz zard. December 14, 1880, he was lost in a roaring blizzard in Yellow Medi cine county and so badly frozen that it was necessary to amputate one leg above the knee, the other above the ankle, one arm at the elbow and all the fingers of the right hand. Twenty years later to a day he had won a victory in a hard contest for speaker, a victory so overwhelming that when the legislature met not a single opponent was left. When the blizzard had done its work and left him a mere physical reminder of his former self he was so poor that he became a public charge. But Dowling was determined and am bitious, and that tells the rest of his life story in brief. He got a good education, became an adept on arti ficial legs, returned to Renville, a county adjoining the one from which he had been so ignoiminiously exclud ed, got a small local public office; worked into the ownership of a weekly newspaper; then appeared in the ses sions of the state legislature as a clerk; next became secretary of tho National League of Republican clubs, being nominated to that position as the "frozen son of Minnesota." Ho secured recognition as a man of execu tive ability and a good campaigner. Next he turned up as a newspaper correspondent in the Philippines, where he visited all the principal i lands from Luzon to the Sulus. Dowling's success in obtaining a* interview with the Sulu Sultan was characteristic. He was admitted to the barbaric presence, but not a word could he extract from the taciturn po tentate. Dowling promptly proceeded to take himself to pieces. Off came a leg. The Sultan evinced signs of interest. Off came an arm. The Sul tan leaned forward to look. Off came another leg. The Sultan was now alert with interest and satisfactorily voluble. Dowling got his interview as he proceeded to replace his artifi cial anatomy. Returning from the Philippines Dowling reached the United States in time to attend the Republican National Convention. His peaked Filipino hat was one of the sights of Minnesota headquarters at Philadelphia. Later he became a candidate for the legisla ture on the Republican ticket, won easily and immediately announced himself as a candidate for speaker.— Boston Daily Advertiser. Qupen Victoria's Tartan. Early in her reign Queen Victoria adopted a tartan, or, to be exact, she resumed one, for byway of James I. of England she is entitled to use one. Accordingly, the royal household dis ports itself in the dress plaid of the Stuarts when it holds forth at Bal moral, and it has now become so thor oughly identified with the present English sovereign that it is called tho Victoria tartan. This is the well known 'due, green, white and yellow plaid mounted on a white ground, in stead of the vivid red that is usually seen. To complicate the matter of.tartans further, each clan was likely to have a hunting plaid, a dress plaid, a mourning plaid, and the plaid that was worn exclusively by the chief and his immediate family. Then, too, if you happen to be a Cameron, for ex ample, and think it an easy matter to betake yourself to a shop and demand the Cameron plaid, you had better be certain whether you are a Cameron of Lochiel or a Cameron of Erraclit. Similarly, you may be a Mac Donald of Clanranald, of Sleat, or of Staffa, It will make an immense difference in the kind of tartan you get, and it is not to be expected that a Campbell of Argyll would be seen in the tartan of the Campbells of Cawdor, or in that of the Campbells of Loudoun. There is, by tho way, at least one of the large shops in New York that always has the correct tartans imported from Scotland in stock. As the demand for them increases it is probable that it will be easy to obtain the genuine ar ticle here will all the accuracy that distinguishes the Edinburgh shops. Tho Baltimore Orlnlo. The Baltimore oriole is one of the most ingenious of bird architects, and employs any material that is accessi ble. String, hair, grasses and plant fibres are often used, and one bird lov er tells of a nest made completely of silk thrown from the windows of a neighboring siik factory. In the bright piumaged birds of the temperate region the brilliant coloring is usually localized. The common bluebird has head, back, wings and ta.il of the brightest, purest blue, but the breast is russet and the under parts white. The all blue birds are the indigo bird and the grosbeak. Yellow Ih a common color on parts of the plumage, but only one yellow bird even approximates freedom from other colors. That is the little yellow warbler, which has but slight mark ings of russet and olive. The cardinal grosbeak, the summer redbird and the scarlet tanager are almost wholly red. Tho first ha 3 a ring of black around the bill, the second lias wings shading to brown, and the third has black wings and tail, while the rest of his plumage is of the most brilliant scar let. In the Sea. Tho salt and other solid matter con tained in the ocean would be sufficient to entirely cover the dry land witli a Jayer 200 yards deep. Plfgilgi The Mum Family. There is a funny family, Of which I often hear. In which the difference in size To me seems very queer. The family, I judge, is small— Two seems to be the sum— And Minnie Mum the one is called; The other, Max I. Mum. Now Minnie Mum is always shown To be exceeding small, While Max I. Mum a giant is, So very large and tall. But hand in hand they march about As fond as fond can be, And proud they are to let the world Their striking contrast see. This thought I might have given you In one short rhyming verse, And that would be the minimum. Or, what would be much woise, Through stanzas something like a score. My muse I might let hum To tell the same, and that, you see, Would be the maximum. —Arthur J. Burdiclc. 110110 and Red I'effgy. Rollo was a puppy—a big mastiff puppy. He lived in the city with Mr. and Mrs. James and their little daugh ter Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. James thought a great deal of Rollo, or they could never have had patience with him, for puppies are capable of much mischief and young Rollo was no exception; ho seemed determined to try his teeth on everything, but just when Mrs. James began to feel as if she could not much longer have every valuable article in the house chewed up, she hit upon a funny plan for managing him. It hap pened that a new doll for little Bessio had just arrived, which so pleased her that tho old favorite —a doll made of red flannel, and named "Red reggy"— generally lay neglected in a corner. As Rollo was settling himself one day to chew a little stocking, Mrs. James tossed. Red Peggy toward him, telling him to bite that if he must bite some thing! From that hour Red Peggy was adopted by the young mastiff. He carried her with him about the house, even took her sometimes to call on the neighbors, and would carry her down street if not watched. Rollo's treatment of her did not greatly im prove Red Peggy's looks, but that made no difference to him. He seemed to like to play with his doll as if he were a little girl instead of a dog. One day when he had been biting his little com panion a long time, Mrs. James said to him reproachfully, "Why, Rollo.how you do abuse poor Red Peggy!' Rollo raised his head and looked at his mis tress a minute or two, as if he were thinking over what she had said. Then in a very repentant way, he began to lick his doll; nor did he stop until he had licked her all over. That is a dog's way of kissing. Another time Rollo trotted over to visit a neighbor across the street. Of course Red Peggy went too. The man to whom he was paying the visit wished to send a paper over to Mr. James, and thought he would have Rollo carry it. So he took Red Peggy away from the mastiff, laid her on the step, putting the paper instead in Rollo's mouth, then told him to carry it home. Rollo gave a dignified wag to the end of his tail and trotted to the gate, where he stopped and thought a minute; then he laid down the paper and went straight back for Red Peggy. Several attempts ended in the same way. At last the doll was carefully rolled in the paper, which was then given to Rollo with a sharp order, "Go home!" Rollo trotted away quickly; but when he reached the mid dle of the road he deliberately laid down his bundle, poked his nose into it till he found his beloved Red Peg gy, lifted her out, and then ran tri umphantly home with her, leaving the paper in the road. In fact, so long as I knew Rollo, he never would obey any command which forced him to lay his dear Red Peggy down, nor go to any place where ho must ieave her behind, in his way quite outdoing little girls in his love for his doll. —Rose Thorn in Little Folks. rruhicm for tho Yoniignterft. Half a dozen members of the house were busy with pencil and paper in the cloak room yesterday. Their brows were knitted and they were as earnest in their figuring as if they had been candidates for clerkships in a civil service examination. Near them sat Representative Loudenslager of New Jersey, who had given them a problem in arithmetic. Here is what Loudens lager had given them, says the Wash ington Post: "A man with three sons called them together and told them that he pro posed to make disposition of his prop erty. He said he had 150 apples, of which he would give fifteen to his youngest son, fifty to his second son, and eighty-five to his eldest eon. 'Now,' he said, 'I want you to go out and sell these apples at the same price per apple and yet each of you bring in the same amount. And the eldest son must fix the price.' When the congressmen heard his problem they laughed, as if they were being imposed upon. "It cannot be done," said Hopkins of Illinois. "is there a sell in this?" asked Gam ble of South Dakota. "Nothing but the sell of the apples," replied Mr. Loudenslager. With this assurance the statesmen began to work. For a quarter of an hour they figured and figured, and then they gave It up, as tho children say. "Weil," said Mr. Ixmdenslager, "the boys went out on the street and the youngest son met a man who asked him what he would sell his apples for. 'You must go to my eldest said the boy, and the man did as he was told. 'I will sell you my apples for one cent a dozen,' said the eldest brother, so he sold eighty-four of his apples for four cents and had two left over, while the youngest boy sold twelve of his apples for one cent and had three remaining. It was then very easy to comply with their father's re quirements. The eldest son fixed a price of three cents apiece for each of the apples left over. He sold his re maining one for three cents and had ten cents; the second boy sold his two for six cents and also had ten cents, while the yougest brother sold his re maining three for nine cents, which, added to the one he already had, gavo him ten cents. Then all three boys went to their father with an equal amount for their apples, which had sold for the same price. An Author nnd a I>oc. "I was at Elk Kapids, Mich., one summer," said the bookman, "and as I was strolling around one day I met an Indian with a dog. It was a real In dian dog, long bodied, short legged, and the homeliest canine I ever looked at. I had no sooner set my eyes on him than I felt like throwing clubs and running him into Lake Michigan. The Indian saw my feelings in my fac< and said: " 'Tie dog up. You throw. One cent a throw.' "The idea tickled me, and I told him to go ahead. While he was tying the dog to a bush I collected a hatful of stones from the beach and got ready for business. The Indian drew a line within thirty feet of his canine and told me to go ahead, while he picked up a stick to tally as I threw. I didn't want to knock that dog's head off or break one of his legs, but I did want to plunk him once or twice for his looks. I thought it would be the easi est thing in the world, but that was where I made a great mistake. As true as you live, I threw exactly 100 stones at that dog and never grazed him. He was tied by a long rope and he was lightning on the dodge. At the 100 th stone I gave up in disgust, but next day I made up my mind to hit that dog or die. On that day it cost me $1.70 for throws and still no hits. On the third day it cost me $2 and at the end of a week I was out $7 and hadn't a tally. I was getting lop shouldered, nearsighted and ugly tempered and my wife coaxed me to give up throwing and go fishing. The Indian and his dog were on tap, as usual, and when I turned them down the crafty old buck smiled blandly and said: All right. You come back next year and throw more—throw thousand times and I make wholesale and meb be you hit dog!" She Whipped Seven Hoys, Seven of the largest boys in the "White Grocery" school whipped in one day is the record established by Miss Minnie Roff, a pretty brown-hair ed young lady, declares an' Akron, 0., dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer! When she accepted the position as teacher she found the classes sadly dis organized and discipline was at a low ebb. First she tried to bring the hoys to her way of thinking by treating them kindly. This did not have the effect she anticipated. The boys took the favors extended as an indication that they could do as they pleased. Re cently they discovered the error of their ways. Miss Hoff opened the school with a direct notice to the bad boys in the front row that she would trounce the first that violated any of the rules and regulations governing the institution. It was only a few minutes before she was called upon to make good her warning. She per formed tlie task in away that left no doubt in the minds of those who wit nessed the episode that she was ejual to the occasion. During the day six others were called forward and trim med in the most approved fashion. 1 The parents of Rufus Wright, one of the boys, had Miss Hoff arrested on a charge of assault and battery. Sho was in the police court recently to an swer to the charge. Practically all of Springfield township was with her. After hearing the story of the trdubio the court, attorneys for the prosecu tion and spectators agreed that Miss Hoff was justified and that she was the right woman in the right place. "The only thing she is to be censured for is that she did not lick more of them and offener," said the court, in dismissing the case. One Way to Tell Talent. One good way, I think, to judge whether we have a talent for anything or not is to watch the motive that draws us toward doing a thing. If wo do it because it is the fashion, or be cause other girls are doing it, or be cause we have to do it for some use ful purpose, it is not probable that we have a real talent for it; but if we find ourselves doing it just because wo really love it and would rather do it than not; if it is doing the thing itself that attracts us. and not the eclat It is going to give us in the eyes of oth ers—why, then I think we may reason ably conclude that God has given us a real talent for that particular sort of thing. Fourteen women received the doc tor's degree last year at the University of Zurich.