Women, Remember This Fact That In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are communicating with a woman —a woman whose experience in treat ing woman's ills is greater that- that of any living person- male or female. A woman can talk freely to a wo man when it is revolting to relate her private troubles to a man. Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, know ing full well that they should have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions and probable examination of eveu their family physician. It is unneces sary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, whose knowledge from actual experience is unequaled. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to freely communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn. Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. This is a positive fact—not a mere statement. It is certified to by the mayor and postmaster of Lynn and others whose letters, all in a little book, Mrs. Pinkham has just published. Write for a copy, it is free. Thus has been established the eternal con fidence between Mrs. Pinkhamand the women of America which has never been broken and ’ has induced more than 100,000 sufferers to write her for advice during the last few months. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in re turn except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Here are some of the cases we refer to: Mrs. Pinkham Helps Two Women Through Change of Life and Cures Another of Sterility. Read Their Letters. “ D esk M bs . P inkham —1 feel that it is owing to Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege table Compound that I am alive to day. It has taken me out of a sick bed where I had lain for six weeks with a good doctor to tend me twice a day. My trouble was change of life, had frequent hemorrhages. Your medi cine checked the flow right away. I am now. aile to do all my work' and backache is unknown. I am forty- three years of age and enjoying good health.”—M hs . A nnie F oster , Cascade Locks, Oregon. “ D ear M rs . P inkham —When I first wrote to you, I was in a very bad con dition. I was passing through the change of life, and the doctors said I had bladder and liver trouble. I had suffered for nine years. Doctors failed to do me any good. Since I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound my health has improved very much. I will gladly recommend your medicine to others and am sure that it will prove as great a blessing to them as it has to me.”—M rs . G eo . H. J une , #01 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. “D ear M rs . P inkham —It was my ardent desire to have a child. I hail been married three years and could not become a mother, so wrote to you to find out the reason. After follow ingyour kind advice and taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I became the mother of a beautiful baby boy. the joy of our home. He is a fat, healthy baby, thanks to your medi cine.”—M bs . M ln da F inkle , Ros coe, N. Y. TRUMPET CALL& We cannot go through the world without impressing others. We cast Bawl’s Hora Sounds a Warniag Not« to the Unredeemed. deep shadows or bright sunbeams into their lives, for influence is the law of it just law harms life from which there is no escajie. the law-abiding. I Influence is the dogma of life as pene Only those who trating as the atmosphere, and your touch God can , consciousness of it has nothing to do teach men. with the case. — llev. Dr. Adam. True patriot ism always be England's Armored Trains. gins at home. The magnii.cent armored trains used bv England in her war with the Boers will Regeneration Is transport her troops, protect bridges and tbe only cure tor telegraphic conimtinications in about the degeneration. same way that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters drives dyspepsia from the human stomach Manly work and then mounts guard that it does not re grows out of turn. The bitters has won in everv case child-like faith. of indigestion, biliousness, liver and kid ney trouble for <he past fitly years. It i^ Constant confession is tbe secret ot 1 invaluable at all times. constancy. There are Rome women who always Restraint Is the secret of happli'ess use the same kind of judgment in al In pleasure. lowing a poor steak to be passed off on If the world owus you Christ must them that they exercised years ago in disown you. selecting a husband. — Atohinson God will fulfill His promises without Globe. our prompting. Will Cure you. Dr. Plunder’s The worldly Christian is content with [jREGDNffLqODpwiFiiR' the swine-husks. Too many Christian soldiers are of a Tests of oil as fuel, made in the Brit retiring disposition. ish navy, have not proved satisfactory. The man who does not know Is al Patent fuel, made of coal dust and tar, ways readiest to tell. was found to yield nearly as good re Men may save money, but money sults as coal. will never save them. Pure Blood, Beautiful Complexion. The time you spend with your chil i Go band in hand, one impossible without ths dren is never wasted. other, and the best, quickest, easiest blood purifier is Cascarets Candy Cathartic. All The church must be an organism be druggists, 10c, 25c, 50c. fore it Is an organization. When blocks of ied are laid flat they Prayer secures tbe divine indorse melt quicker than if permitted to rest ment to the checks of faith. on their ends. There Is no possession of Christ ! I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump without confession of Him. tion has any equal for coughs and colds.— The furrows of affliction become J ohn F. B oyer , Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. flumes for the flow of mercy. The most important work for tlie Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to use for their present is that for the future. children during the teething period. The silent Christian does not exist, An ice company in New Haven pro for, being dead, he yet speaketh. poses to use automoblies for the deliv The knowledge of sin does not al ery of ice next summer. ways lead to Its acknowledgment. HOW'S THIS. The man who is but ail echo in the V/e offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any city may be a voice in the wilderness. case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s The advantages of good habits are Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.. Toledo, 0. as great as the disadvantages of bad We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the past 15 vears, and believe him perfectly ones. honorable in ail busin ss transaction: and fin He who buys popularity at the price ancial’’’ able to carry out any obligations made of character is robbing the world ot by their firm. W ist & T rit ax . manhood. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, W alding , K innan & M acvin , The modern “sword of the Lord and Vv'nolesale Druggists, Toledo, O. " Hall's Catarrh Cure is t ken.n' rnally.ac’in^ of Gideon" is the word of God on tbe | directly on the blood and m.cous surfaces of lips of men. the syst m. Pri 75c per bo de. fco.d by al. drug; ists. Testimoni Is free. If the stars went out of business be Hall’s Family Pill r th * beat. cause they were not suns the night A Texas jury recently rendeied this would be drear. verdict: “We find the man that stole The fact that God has no pleasure In the horse not guilty ” the death of the wicked’does not infer that He is satisfied with their line. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES I’eter found trouble because he was Alleifs Hint-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nerv more anxious about standing near the ous feet. an<l instantly takes the sting out fire in the court than standing by bls . of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen V Foot- i Lord. I Ease makes tight or new’ shocks feel easy. It is a certain cure for ingrowing Nails, AMONG MOST DEADLY POISONS. , sweating, callous and hot. tired, aching ' ! feet. We have over 30.000 testimonials. Terrible Fate of Tlio.e Who Partake of ’ Try it today. Sold by all druggists and Mushroom Pliallin. shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. ‘!One of the most terrible poisons of Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 8. | Olmsted, Le Roy, N. V. which I have any knowledge,” said a chemist, "is pliallin, of which but few persons have more than the most rudi mentary knowledge, though the veg etable from which the deadly stuff comes is to be found in almost every Bathed and Barbered field and swamp in the country. For Are luxuries that all can enjoy on phallin Is the poisonous element in tlie the observation car of the North Coast deadly mushroom, the 'death cup,’ as Limited, in operation on and after it has been appropriately called. Not April 29th on the Northern Pacific. only that. When pliallin was first dis This obsei vation car will be a dandy. covered it was found that it was al Get a leaflet. most identical with the poison of the ------------------------ -- rattlesnake, so that death from mush Cremation is expanding in London. room poisoning is very similnr to death In 1885, In that city, only three bodies from a serpent's bite. But still more were disposed of in that way. In 1899, wonderful, it is n<Av known that vari 240 bodies were cremated. ous bacteria produce nearly tbe same poison—the bacteria, for instance, of A Twl.t nf th« Wrl.t the night will turn on tbe electric diphtheria and typhoid fever. It seems Two More Women Who In berth light in the Pullman standard odd enough that death from the poison Acknowledge the Help sleeping cars on the Northern Pacific’s ous mushroom, from a rattlesnake bite they Have Received from North Coast Limited. Two lights in and from diphtheria should result from each section. Send for a North Coast practically the same cause. Mrs. Pinkham. “It Is said that twenty-five people Limited leaflet. " D ear M rs . P inkham —The doctor are killed every year in the United •ays I have congestion of the womb, Oui new possession, Costa Rica, sup States by eating the death cup. mistak •nd cannot help me. There is aching plies the best and largest bananas that ing it for the edible mushroom. It re in the right side of abdomen, hip, leg, ; come to the United States. quires only a bit of tbe death cup to and back. If you can do me any good, kill—a piece the size of a pea will do It. please write.” — M rs . N ina C hase . Too Great a Strain. Fulton, N. Y., December 20, 1897. Muggins—Poor Wigwag has gone in One case Is cited in which a boy ute only a third of a small uncooked cup of "D ear M rs . P inkham —I followed sane. the deadly mushroom, but It was your instructions, and now I want Buggins—You don’t mean it I every woman suffering from female "Yes, he started to calculate how ; enough to cause Ills death. Indeed, so trouble to know how good your advice much alimony Solomon would have to baneful Is the pliallin poison that even and medieine is. The doctor advised the Handling of the death cup and the an operation. I could not bear to pay if hp hail lived in Chicago. ”—Phil breathing of the spores may produce think of that, so followed your advice. ; adelphia Record. serious illness. I got better ripli t off. I took six bottle« No marriage license is required to “The death cup looks very pretty as of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and used three packages of marry in New York city. A marriage I It grows In the fields, and when eaten Sanative Wash ; also took your Liver contracted under the age of consent It has not the slightest ill taste, either Pills, and am cured.”—M rs . N ina may be annulled in nearly any state. when raw or when cooked. Nor Is C hase , Fulton, N. Y., December 12, there any uneasiness felt from nine to 1898. fourteen hours afterward. Then come “D ear M rs . P inkham —Have been terrlblq ¡tains In the abdomen, nausea suffering for over a year and had three and vomiting, followed by almost cer Are Cured by doctors At time of menstruation I tain death, with many of the symptoms suffer terrible pains in back and of Asiatic cholera. The effect of phal ovaries. I have headache nearly every li is to dissolve the red corpuscles in and feel tired all the time. The doctor said my womb was out of place. the blood, permitting then« to escape Would be so glad if you could help me.” through the alimentary canal. The —M bs . C abi . V oss , Sac City, Iowa, greatest care is necessary, therefore. In August 1, 1898. gathering mushrooms not to pick any " Please accept my sincere thanks for of the death cups. They are easily rec the rood your advice and Lydia E. ognized from tlie others, and there nev Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has er is any need of making mistakes.” dona me, I did everything you told “I always tak« me to do, and used only three bottles, female Kuffrage. Hood's Sarsaparilla and feel better in every respect.”— ' In the Spring and it is “Of course. I'm in favor of suffrage It Purifiej M bs . C abl Voss, Sac City, Iowa, March the best blood puriuer for women. Henrietta.” sahl Mr: Meek- the Blood. »8, IN«. I kbow of.’’ M' m ton. "But 1 don’t think they ought to Punt Gairrta, Mrs» Pinkham has Fifty Baldwin, Mich. go to the polls themselves.” ‘'Eruptions that "What do you mean?” Thousand Such Letters as came on my fare have "They ought to be able to send their all disspi>e«red since Above on Filo at Her Of- Cures I began taking Hood's husbands to «vote for lioth. If they go flop She Makes no State Sarsaparilla. I ten red to the polls themselves It will confuse father ofcatarrh '* matters. A perfect gentleman who ments She Cannot Prove. All Eruptions. my Ai. sha H amilton .! saw a lady at the polls looking a little Bloomington, Ind. “I had • e rof u la1 worried would feel compelled to lift his The grip has no terrors for a certain •ores all over my back I hat politely and say. ‘Madam, take my gentleman in Holton. Kan. He be and face I began tak vote.' ’’—Washington Star. longs to 15 different societies, end in ing Hood's Sarsapar Eradicates them has taken 72 degrte*. illa aiwi in a few weeks A man has n-ached the age of discre I court not see ant . tion when he is old enough to know Scrofula. There are in the United States 80' sicn ot ths »or»« ' I Berlins, 21 Hamburgs, 28 towns bear O tto R Moot«. I that he doesn't know some things be Mount Iiopa. Wls. , will know when he get« older. ing tbe name Paris and 13 London. There are at the present moment be tween 800 and 900 commissioned ofti- 1 cers id the United States army who have risen from the ranks. Blood Humors Hood’s Sarsaparilla PERUN A PROTECTS OUR HOMES The Roberts Family, of Falls City, Neb., Are Healthy and Happy—A Rare Sig-lit in These Days. They Say, “We Think Penina Is The Greatest Medicine On Earth.” No man is better known in the State I of Nebraska than Mr. Carl T. Roberts, contractor and mason. A typical Amer ican—active, shrewd, and full of busi ness sagacity. He is not only a pro vider for his family, but a protector. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman he writes, among other things, as follows: “Our boy James, had the membran ous cronp, and repeated attacks of lung fever. Our boy, Charlie, was also subject to attacks of pnuemonia and pleurisy. Our third boy, John, wa« subject to fever and ague (malarial) and liver trouble. Your remedy, Peruna. cured my boys entirely, and now I have three of the healthiest hoys in the State of Nebraska, which I at tribute to your medieine. My wife had a stomach trouble which Peruna i also cured. Altogether for my whole family we have used nineteen bottles of Peruun. and have thus saved $500 in doctors’ bills. 1 am a contractor and mason by trade, and am known all over Nebraska. I have had a stomach trouble which lias been greatly relieved by your remedy, Peruna, for which I i am still taking it. We think it is the I port that I atn better than I have been greatest medicine on earth.”—C. T. . for many years. 1 believe Peruna is i without a doubt the best medicine that Roberta, Falls City, Nebraska. Hon. William Youngblood, Auditor ever was used in a family. It has for the Interior, ' cured my nervousness, with which I writes from Wash had been afflicted for a great number ington, D. 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