MM. FSA CAftTK
MarriU Street, A mtir)r, tliM,
T7;a lottoi ahaulti ourry faith
ontfOonvlotion to thoftoartj
of olSSlok Women,
"1 suffered with Inflammation and
falling of tho womb anil other diw
agreeable femalo weaknesses, I had
bad apetla every two werk tlikt would
last f rum eight to leu days and would
have to iro to bed. 1 ilw) had head
ache and backache moat of the time
and auch bearing down palna t rould
hardly walk acroa tho room at tiroes,
1 doctored nearly all the time for
built two years and seemed to grow
worms all thn time until laat September
1 wan obliged to take ray bed, and tha
doctor thought an operation waa tha
only thing that would help me, but
tbla I rcfuaed to hare done,
"Then a friend advlned me to try tha
Plnkham medicine, which I did, and
afUir oalng tho flrt bottle I prgan to
Improve. I took In all fire bottle of
Lydla 11 Ilnkham'a Wood purifier,
four boxes of Lydla K. I'lnkham'a Dry
Form Compound, threa boiea of Liver
Pill and used three package of Sana
lira Wattband I am aa well now aa 1
a?er waa I am mora than thankful
every day for my cure." Mm, Fa ask
CaktcR, s Merrill Ht. Amesbury, Maaa,
La Jim I, frnkhmm MefawJpftj
Wtlih Unjuajc.
Tho poll taken of Cardiff, Wale,
n tha question of whether children
in the lxMtrd schools should be taught
tho Welsh langitHgo ha resulted in a
majority of C7 vote agaimt it,
Tha IUI IrMripMa for Malaria
Chill at4 Perm tea botUe of Grove's Taateleat
thill TouIp. It 1 imply Iron and quinine la
a Ualaleea form. No Cure. Ha 1'ay. f rle 60o.
Interurban Badinijc,
"Your town," tho Ghic.agon,
called tho City of Strait, I be
lieve." - '
"Yea," replied the Dctroiter, "and
your, 1 suppose, might be known M
tha City of Crooks."
If ton haven't rtilar, balihf movement of lh
bool. every dap, Tim re or will be, Kit four
powei tin, and I nrll Kurcfl ln tbhan(
tlolotit plifile or ltl (Htiann. I dnrou Tit
lli-.l VHnlt'tl. tuuH irfpot Hf of asplnf lb
nmut elnar feud sleaa l to Uki
Ploaaaiit. Palntabi. l'iirnt.Tii0(od. DnOonrt,
Mvror Hlckttii. Wikii, ei Url. 0o. Eft Writ
for f reo mpl. ami lKnUlrt on hnaltn. At)dru
atwltat Ufwr4f iMFMf, CktM BMlTMl, Trt. X
KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN
It Wat Up (o Nlm.
MiUHine If I should fall out of tins
watjon, w hat would you do?
Dick I'd catch you in my arms.
Maiaio (Jet ready.
Btapm thm Cough mnd
Work Of f Void.
Laxative Uroiuo-yiilnlno Tablet euro a cold In
one day. .No cure, Ho far. 1'rlc ita cent.
Activity.
First Tramp Do dog chased you,
did her
Second Tramp You bet! For a
few minutes I had to lead a purely
Htrcnuous life!
iWEATHERWISE
' AND
AifiLfa: WMT PONT YOU WEAR
town's
CLOTHING
IWWARB Of IMITATIONS 100. POR A50Ve TRADE MARK.
. . , CATALOCUCJ nil
,3howiro Pull Line of 6arment J and Hat
UA.W.TOttLR CO.. BOSTON, MAIS.
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ROUEN'S AIR FERRY
ODDEST OF BRIDGES.
.Tha 'Tout TrHlrdeur," or over
head ferry, whU h lia been built and
It now In NU(-(-erul oporatlon, over the
Ulver Heine, at Hoiien, Frnuce, repre
ncni the aolutloii In a novel way of one
of Hie tiuiHt Interesting problem In eit
KltieerlliK, Thertf I nothing like thl
overhead ferry lit uuy other country lit
the world, '
Among tho luciin which the engineer
ha hitherto employed to mm river
niul fliannel ore boat or ordinary fer
ric, tvvltig, draw, baculo mid ordinary
bridged, tunnel under the bed of chan
nel and traveling carrier.
The Mwltig, draw and bn ul; bridge
tan only b afely ut d over lock, In
land cuualH or river, whero a veel
cnu bv under pd-fect control In all
kind of weather. Ordinary bridge are
tnoro HatUfui'tory than tho other, but
If they are to cro a river lending to
an ImiHjrtunt harbor they, ahould b of
a height to permit a whip with tho tall
et miiNt to pttM under, Homo mat
ore 2t feet alwvo the water. Incline
or elevator luuxt Ins lined to reach tho
bridge level, and tho leaaoit that there,
are no few bridge llk tho Forth
lirldgu lit jN-otluid and tho Krooklyn
15rldg I their great coat. Tho objec
tion to tunnel I tho great coat and
rlxk In building. Many largo tunnel
under water lutvo been abandoned, and
oveu when built are uot greatly appre
ciated by tho general public.
Tho overhead ferry ayatein reinedle
all tneite drawback. The advantage
of .he ytein are:
Tho channel to bo croed I left en
tirely clear at all hour, without requir
ing veeU to make any Npoclal algnala
or modify their rato of apeed any moro
than they would In the cane of a croas
chauuel ferry.
No lucrenMo of dlntance or aocent or
dentvnt la forctd on the traffic In or-
V T?t 4"BaaBaaaV , 'T1 i0tm . 4inlhJ
r.-rtia
Koutx't Aia rannr.
dor to crox from one ahore to the
other.
The eaaeutlal part of the aystcm may
lx decrltMd as a horizontal railway
vupportcd by a brldgv fpnnnlng the
chnnuel and built up at Much a height
aa will allow the tallest mnated vcmud
frequenting the channel to pa be
neath. The plat form of the bridge carries
two line of rails, over which a car
riage on small wheel roll, the hum
of wheels varying with the weight to
le -carried.
The rollers are connected with a
movable frame under the line of rails,
which may freely move In a longitudi
nal direction quite clone to the plat
form and from one end to the other of
same. Thus Is provided a rudimentary
vehicle which can cross the channel
without Interfering In any way with
the oHnliig, which Is to remain clear.
In order to obvlafe any swinging
motion which might lemilt from the
pressure of the wind or the forward
motlou of the carrier Itself, the rods by
which the latter Is suspended are ar
ranged In triangles, both In the longltu
dlnnl mid transversal directions. There
Is thus a little railway for crossing the
river, with this difference, that the
Imdy of the vehicle, Instead of being
above the rails and wheels as usual, is
some 140 or ICO feet below these.
COULD NOT ESCAPE BLAME.
Slanderer Did Not tihit't KeponlbUlty
on the I'bonotfrupti,
A sewing machjne agent In Germany
wanted to slander an employe whom
he had quarreled with and discharged.
He did not call it slander, but he knew
that his eucuiy would, and possibly the
courts nlso, and as the penalties for
thut offense ore likely to be heavy In
tho kaiser's realm he sought out a way
In which he could gain the desired end
without endangering his own safety,
An Inspiration came to him and pur
chasing a phonograph roll he went to
the vlllnge inn, placed It Into the In
strument which was In thd taproom and
talked It, full of things about his some
time friend.
Later in the day the patrons of the
Inn came In to have their beer, and, as
was their custom, some of them dropped
coins Into the phonograph and set it a
talking. Tho result was appalling to
them. The phonograph told tho most
shocking tales about one whom they
considered a hitherto much respected
and altogether to bo praised If not
admired fellow citizen, tales they knew
not to bo true. They hurried to tho
slandered man, and In the course of
time he brought an action against his
sag
former employer. Tb failrr W!d
that he had not Innult'd the plaintiff,
but that the phonograph wa the guilty
one. The phonograph ws brought Into
court and turned on to give It testi
mony, but It refused to work. How.
ever, the Judge decided that the de
fendant wn at least, an active accom
plice In the slanders nnd lined him 60
mark. New l'ork Commercial Adver
tiser. . : ' I
SUCinTVS PAIR (1 MBltIRS
PLAY BRIDdC WHIST.
''. ... U.II I I f"
Hoclety in New York hn been indict
ed by I is me Humor for gambling.
ISrldge whist 1a the game of chance
now most popular with the fashion
ables, and It is clal0n-d that In the
course of an evening of bridge some
time as much us 10.000 change
SKI. MICIIASD UVIX.
bands, and such atnall suras as $500
frequently. Mrs. Itlchard Irrln has
denied the story that (be will lead a
cniHsde against the gsme. and aays
that, while she does not play bridge
herself, ahe la not opoaed to the game.
At a recent whist party In New York
one man, a guest, lost something like
$400. When the game was over he
bade his boatea good night and told
her he would send bis chink for the
amount the following morning. "It Is
our custom," she informed him, "to
settle up everything at once. "Can you
not pay It now?' He hadn't the mon
ey with hi in nor a check, but, aa his
hoMtess persisted, he managed to bor
row the amount from his friends!
LIFE SENTENCE FOR A FEUDIST.
John Rhotwell Is a famous Kentucky
feudist, and was recently convicted at
Wllllafnulmrg of participation In the
(,'orl.ln riots, during which the restau
rant belonging to the Whites, the oppos
ing faction; was blown up with dyna
mic, and two persons were killed.
4 :
At,
I-
JOHN SHOTWELL,
Shotwell was sentenced to the peniten
tiary for life, but a motion for a hew
trial will tie made. '
Kky Mountains.
The highest of all tho clouds are those
delicate, white, fibrous, detached mass
es of frozen vapor always seem h!gh
against the blue sky. The topmost
point of the highest of these may be
ten miles above the earth. They are
called'tirrhus clouds. Altogether there
are ten principal types of clouds. The
lowest, known as the stratus, are really
horizontal sheets of lifted fog, seen
on damp days or In very damp local
Hies. These clouds are only u few hun
dred feet above the earth.
Some of the vast bodies of vapor are
higher than the tallest of the Alps.
They are undoubtedly snow-capped-
veritable mountains of ice and snow.
It has been discovered that the tem
perature on one such summit was 75
degrees below zero.
Were it possible for us to ascend in
a balloon and penetrate one of these
enow-eapped peaks from base to sum
mit, we ahould travel first through a
layer of dry air and vapor, then through
another of dry air, vapor and water, a
third of freezing vapor, water and Ice;
aud, finally, through the summit, com
posed of dry air, vapor and ice, but no
water.
A Fisherman's Luck.
The Drlze of $'-'0,000 In a French lot
tery haa been won by an old fisherman,
ho Is over CO years of ago. and has not
missed a day from fishing for over fifty
vears. He can neither read nor write,
and allowed his little niece to choose
the number of the ticket for hint.
2'rV
vat; l
DUE TO LOSS OF NERVE.
'ntrcoantfc.b Fright Which Fro
ueittljr m Trick frr rmra.
"Joe Ktark, the trick cyclist who was
killed during a high dive In New York,
traveled for a season with Davis' cir
cus," said a young man, "I was, with
the ehow at the same time, on the
buMlncM staff, and 1 got to know Joe
very well. I see by the paper that;
hi death was due to a mlwalculatlon
of over forty feet In the dive, and the i
report era are wondering bow in the
world he could have made such a blun
der. To any one acquainted with per
formers of his clafs, however, the thing
I no mystery. They are all subject
to queer Hpell of panic, that come
without any particular reason and un
fit tbeut temporarily for business. If a
man persist In doing hi act at such
a time, the consequence are alto
gether a matter of chance, and the ma
jority of the accident within my recol
lection have been .attributable to that
cause.
"While I was In the show buslnesa I
witnessed several striking Instances of
this mysterious loss of nerve, perjiap
the most remarkable being that of a
little Englishman who did a very sen
sational act on the flying trapeze. He
had two bar suspended at opposite
side of the ring, about forty feet from
the ground, and finished his perform
ance with the feat that Is called
Tchelle, In the slang of the circus. I
don't know where the word cornea
from, but in doing the turn' the gym
nast awing as far as be can on the
trapeze, lets go, throws a somersault,
and catches the other, the danger de
pending on the distance be travels
through the air.
"The Englishman was a slow-spoken,
rather stupid little fellow, who had
been brought up hi the ring and was
aa nearly destitute of emotion as any
lody I ever saw. His habits were ex
cellent, like those of moat professional
athletes, and be did his work with a
mechanical precision that, almost ex
cluded the possibility of a mishap. One
night his helper got drunk, and I went
with him to the little aerial platform
from which he took his long awing,
for the purpose of holding back the bar
while he got ready to launch himself
into space. As I was busying myself
with the ropes I heard him groan and,
looking around, was thunderstruck to
see him as white as a sheet and trem
bling like a man with ' the ague,
'What's wrong, Fred?' I whispered.
'Oh. Lord,' he said letween his teeth,
'I'm Just In a funk, an awful funk ?
I waa so astonished I could hardly
credit my senses, but I realized that
something would have to be done to
prevent a fiasco that would ruin him
In tlie business. 'Pretend you've
sprained your arm.' I said, 'and leave
the rest to me. Now, let's get down
quick.' He was so unnerved he could
hardly descend the rope ladder, and the
audience began to buzz with surprise.
I sent him to the dressing-tent and
said a few words to the ringmaster,
who made a little speech, explaining
that Mr. had Injured his arm
obliged to omit his usual finale. Later
on I found the poor fellow lyln? on
hi costume trunk sobbing like a child,
but next morning he was all right, and
I never knew him to have another seiz
ure. Tou may rest assured Joe Stark
met his death through Just such an un
accountable collapse. It probably took
ldm ns he started to make his dive, and
pride forbade him to hold back." New
Orleans Times-Democrat
A Holiday that Will Last a Week.
There Is a movement afoot In New
England to establish a new holiday
VOld Home Week." Our great country
has grown wondrously since the Civil
War, aud in the rush to people the wil
derness families have been broken up
and scattered. Sons, daughters, sisters
and brothers have left their native
towns nnd gone thousands of miles
away to legln life for themselves.
Hardly a family in the older States but
has given loved ones to the ravenous
West, and New England has given
more than all So now It is thought
that one week In each year should be
set apart for family reunions a week
in autumn, perhaps when harvest Is
done and the children of New England
can come together under the old roofs,
meet their old playmates and live their
old Uvea. All through the Western
States people are becoming Interested
In the new holiday, and last year one of
the New England governors Issued a
proclamation setting aside an "Old
Home Week." The home-coming was
general enough to warrant the belief
that the holiday can be made a perma
nent one. '. ' ;
Counted Against Him.
Ta Did I understand you to say that
the gentleman who called on you last
evening and to whom you Introduced
me was a professjonal chess player?
Daughter Yes, pa; he has the repu
tation of belug a great expert at the
game. . ' .
Ta Then I must positively forbid his
coming to see you any more; I cannot
encourage you receiving attention from
one of a class of men who take so long
to make a move. Hoston Courier.
Emulation may be all right In Its
way, but has a peculiar way of getting
In the way of other people.
, 1 ' Drilled ta Slay,
"My!" exclaimed the young man,
who had called to take her out in hi
cutter. "Fur cap and jacket! You're
dressed to kill."
"Not exactly," she replied.
"Merelyto sleigh."
TO CCBB A COLD IX OSK DAT
Tako L.ib'It Hmmo Quinine Tablet. All
Srogglat ref'i'"! the mnoejr it It falla to cure.
C. W.arore'i altrnatore iaoneach boa. 2ie.
Peanut King Employs 600 Men.
F. W. Mills as a "peanut king" has
had an interesting career. II began
life as a peanut vender on a train.
When only 12 years old he liad con
tracts with several railroad running
out of Chicago for the exclusive right
to sell peanuts on the trains.
Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Booth
In Syrup the best remedy to use tor their
children daring the teething period.
Epworth League Rates,
A cool, delightful tripcan be made
to San Francisco and return by
steamer for only $20 by taking advant
age of the O. li. & K. offer. That
rate includes meals and berth. Dur
ing July and August the ocean is
smooth and the trip is very beneficial,
to health, as it give perfect reat
under the most pleasant conditions.
Agents of the O. K. & N. anywhere
will tell all about how to make the
trip, or write A. L. Craig, general,
passenger agent, Portland.
America Beating Germany.
The lead pencil industry in Germany
is at present suffering from American
competition. It is alleged that our
success in this branch of industry "is
mostly due to the perfection of the
machinery. .
"The A. B. C. of Photography" by
Fayette J. Clute ia one of the best text
books for amateurs ever published.
Price 25 cents by mail. Camera Craft
Pub. Co., 330 Sutter St.,San Francisco.
New Jercyi Densest Population.
raterson has the most populous
city ward in the state of New Jersey
It is the Third ward, with 23,780 peo
ple. Newark has the next largest,
with 23,359. Elizabeth haa a ward
with only 6,378 population.
CASTOR I A
Tot Infanta and Children.
The Kind Yen Kara Alwajs Esujtt
Bears the
Signature of
The great rise in value of . late waa
that sheet of 100 two cent Pan-American
stamps, in which the accidental
inversion of the picture in the center
increased the market value of each
stamp from two cents to $20.
SOLUTE
SECURITY.
Genuine
Carte r;s
Little Livep Pills.
Mutt Bear Signature of
' 5ee Fac-Simlla Wrapper Bciow.
Tarr aaall and easy
to take aa aaga&
FOR HEADACHE.
FOR CIZZIXESS.
FOR EIU8USKES.
FOR TCr.PID LIVER.
FOR CGXSTIFATIOH. '
FOR SALLOW SKIM.
FCRTilECCKPLEXlCl
ICARTES
ITTLE
PILLS.
tSOmtj I Purely TeetaldevCw
JJ3UWMI
I B&ffU"1
CURE SICK HEADACHE.
JOHN POOLE, Portland, Oregon,
foot of Morrison Strb
Can give you the beat bargains in
Buggies, Flows. Boilers and Engines,
Windmills and Pntnps and General
Machinery. See as before buying
is best time to er Catarrh,
Bronchitis and Consumption.
uor remeoj is guaranietia, i
P.O. Box 973.
W. H. SMITH I GO., Buffalo, N. Y.
Springtime Resolutions
TAKE
TUK
Iteeloy Giipo
Eura relief fiora liquor, opium and tobaooo
hablo. Bend lor particular to
Keelsy
InfMhdo Moved to 420 Wllltama
lilSlllUlB, Ave., East Kid.
h. P. X. C.
a, xa-iaoi.
WHEN writing ta. adverttiara pUaaa
mentl an this paper.
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