\
What we know to a certainty about
the situation at Port Arthur is now , as
.has beeu the case ever since the siege
t > egan , just nothing at all. What we
are able to guess with .H fair degree
of probability is very little. When a
general assault is being made by the
Japanese we soon know the bare fact
by the thick crop of rumors that come
to Chefoo. Also the latest rumors
usually suffice to show that earlier ru
mors were false. But what positions
the Japanese are now holding , and
more especially whether they have
driven the Russians permanently out
of any one of the chain of great inner
forts of Port Arthur , cannot be told.
Nevertheless it is worth while to
cast a glance over the progress of the
siege and make the best guesses about
It that we can. The first landing of
Japanese on the Liaotung Peninsula
was made May 5 , Immediately after
the battle of the Yalu. May 27 was
fought the battle of Kinchau , with
the storming of Nanshan , and ther e-
ypon the effective investment of Port
'Arthur by land began. Dalny was at
once occupied by General Nogi and
made his base.
i About the last of June or the first
of July , concurrently with the occupa
tion of the three passes in the Man-
churian mountains by Generals Kuro-
ki , Oku and Nodzu , the first bombard
ment of Port Arthur was made. This
was at long range , and it resulted in
enabling the Japanese to occupy an
advanced line across the peninsula at
a distance of some ten or twelve miles
from the main defenses of the fortress.
The Japanese seem then to have di
vided their armies into three sections.
At any rate , three general lines of
attack on the fortress can be marked
out. Their left came along the east
coast of the peninsula against Mount
Takushan and Siao-hou-shan. Their
center advanced on the village Suei-
sze-ying , about five miles north of the
harbor , close to Wolf Hill. Their right
sought to work around to Pigeon Bay ,
on the west coast of the peninsula , di
rectly west of the City of Port Arthur.
Between Aug. 1 and Aug. 15 we can
locate with a none too certain guess
the Japenese occupation of Takushan
Mountain , of Wolf Hill and of a vil
lage and minor fort on Pigeon Bay.
With this the besieging army was in
direct opposition to the line of ex
ceedingly strong forts which make up
the inner defenses. Rumor after ru
mor at that time told of the capture
of Etse-shan and Antszshan , two of
the strongest of these forts , and the
* sortie of the Russian fleet Aug. 10
gave grounds for the belief that these
rumors were true and that the fall of
the fortress was impending.
These rumors proved all wrong , and
If the Japanese actually succeeded in
forcing the Russians out of Etse-shan
they were unable to hold it them
V selves. A month of comparative quiet
a time of bombardments , but not of
assaults followed. Then , as it would
seem , about two weeks ago most of
, ± he stories say Sept. 19 a new series
Z assaults began. We were told that
the Japanese had captured nine minor
forts , part of them lying close in to
Etse-shan and Antszshan and part
south of Wolf Hill. These latter con
trolled the waterworks of Port Arthur
and gave the Japanese a new point
from which to make attacks either
upon Antszhan to the west or upon the
strong Keekwan forts to the east. We
are still in ignorance whether these
positions , if actually taken , were held ,
and also as to whether they are now
"being used as aids for further as
saults , or whether assaults have now
ceased for the present. We have little
reason to think that any one of the
main chain of forts is now in Japanese
occupation. The fact that both sides
are losing confidence is a striking evi
dence of the desperate fighting around
the place. The Russians feel that
they cannot much longer resist the
desperate attack. The Japanese fear
they cannot batter down the indomit
able defense.
There have been outpost skirmishes
between the armies of Oyama and
Kuropatkin , but no serious fighting.
The Japs took Da Pass , about forty-
five miles southeast of Mukden. But
its defense was not seriously attempt
ed , and it is not a place of great im
portance. Oyama's troops were still
concentrated , at last reports , just north
of Liaoyang and at Yentai. This be
ing so another big battle is not soon
imminent , for two armies cannot fight
-when they are twenty-five miles apart.
Liaoyang is being fortified by the
Japs on its north side. When these
works are completed the town will be
a perfect stronghold , for Kuropatkin
already had fortified it on its southern
and eastern sides. The plan of the
Japanese is evidently to push the Rus
sians back as far as practical , and
then relying on their fortifications to
liang on like death to the territory
POSITIOX OF THE AltttlES.
they occupy , defying the Russians to
push them back again.
The railroad around Lake Baikil has
finally been completed. Prince Khil-
koff , director of railways , has done
himself proud. Communications be
tween European Russia and the far
east have been better sustained than
was thought possible at the outbreak
of the war by either military experts
or railway men. But hereafter the
railway must transport not only com
munications , clothing , re-enforcements
and hospital supplies , but also food.
The Manchurian territory south of
Mukden is fertile and generally culti
vated. North of that town little food
is produced. So long as the Russian
army occupied southern Manchuria It
could live on the country. Now it
must get its provisions from central
and western Siberia.
SLAUGHTER AT PORT ARTHUR.
StocBsacl Recounts Slaying : 1OOOO Japs
Before Fortress.
Emperor Nicholas has received Gen.
Stoessel's official report of the desperate
four clays' assault of tho besiegers upon
Port Arthur from Sept. 19 to Sept. 23 ,
from which it appears that the unoffi
cial report from Chefoo was by no means
exaggerated. The Japanese displayed
frenzied bravery , but they lost 10,000
men and their only success was the cap
ture of two redoubts guarding the water
works.
The Jauanese prepared for the assault
by a general bombardment and then
launched their attacks simultaneously
from tho north and west. Night and day
they fought under cover of a continual
bombardment from tfieir siege guns and
finally reached the redoubts on the north
side , but onty aCter the defense there
had been completely demolished by shell
fire from the west.
The Japanese efforts were directed
chiefly against the commanding position
011 High mountain , which faces Pigeon
bay , slightly south of Fort Etseshau. The
mountain is 500 feet high and if it 'had
fallen its possession would have given
the Japanese a tremendous lever against
the chain of inner defenses. The car
nage there was terrible and culminated
Sept. 22 , when the Japanese succeeded
in reaching and occupying the Russian
armored shelter trenches , whence they
expected about the next day to storm the
summit.
During the night Lieut. Poggorsky of
the navy , at the head of a detachment of
volunteers , descended on the trenches
; uid blew them up with pyroxylin bombs ,
producing a panic among the besciegers ,
who fled , leaving the mountain side
strewn with dead.
The loss of the water works was not
considered vital , as there is a fresh
water lake and numerous wells as well
as a condensing apparatus within the
defenses.
BOTH REPULSED IN ATTACKS.
Japs Fill in Masses and Russians Suf
fer Later at Port Arthur.
The London Daily Telegraph's Chefoo
correspondent says that Sept. 24 and 25
the Japanese made repeated and reckless
ly brave attempts to capture High hill at
Port Arthur. Giving to the destruction
of earthworks their advance was com
pletely unprotected and under the rays
of the searchlight the Russian machine
guns swept them down in masses.
"More troops , however , came on with
fanatical bravery , " the correspondent
adds , "leaping over the bodies of their
dead comrades. Then the Russians , em
boldened by their success , made a sortie.
The Japanese replied with machine guns.
It was the first time the Japanese had
been able to entice the Russians from
their shelters , and they worked terrible
havoc among them.
"The scene the next morning was ap-
Valling. The hillside was strewn with
mingled Russian and Japanese bodies ,
some of them gripped with ghastly real
ism.
ism."A
"A brief message was received on torn
paper , in Chinese , and signed by Gen.
Stbessel. It states that all had been
quiet since Sept. 25 , and that the Jap
anese again had asked for and were re
fused a truce to bury their dead.
"An official Japanese statement admits
the repulse and confesses the necessity
of a resort to a passive siege. Enteric
fever has broken out in the garrison at
Port Arthur. "
RUSSIA'S UNDERGROUND QUARTERS AT HARBIN.
War News in Brief.
Japan has decided on another loan of
. $40,000,000.
Russia has ordered eleven torpedo
3x > ats in France.
The Japanese have about 150,000 men
round Mukden.
The new Japanese conscription will
furnish 200,000 men.
Russian papers say that country Is
fighting two wars one with Japan and a
diplomatic one with the European pow-
- rs.
Conditions at Port Arthur have be
come unbearable , but Gen. Stoessel raves
when surrender is suggested.
Japanese claim that Russians fire on
their burial parties at Port Arthur in
order that the dead may cause disease.
In a three-day battle the Japanese
seized Fort Kuropatkin and thus got
control of Port Arthur's water supply.
Russians at Vladivostok mistook the
planet Jupiter for a Japanese war bal
loon and were preparing to fire at it
when tho mistake was discovered ,
MARKS A CHURCH EPOCH.
Convention of the Protestant lipiaco-
paliaiib in Boston.
Leading churchmen from all over the
world assembled in the general conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal church
of the United States in Boston. The im
portant problems solved in this notable
gathering , the far-reaching actions taken ,
will no doubt serve to mark this event
as an epoch in church history. An in
teresting international character was
given to the gathering owing to the pres
ence of the Archbishop of Canterbury ,
it being the first time that a primate of
all EnglaJid has attended a conclave of
the American church.
The opening service was held in Trin
ity church , made famous by the late
Bishop Phillips Brooks , the sermon be
ing preached by the Archbishop of Can
terbury. In the provisional program was
included a plan for business and other
important meetings for every day of tho
triennial session. Fully 15,000 Episco
palians made this convention a memora
ble one , and a fund of $20,000 was raised
for the entertainment of the visitors.
Bishop Lawrence gave a great reception
at his home on Commonwealth avenue ,
and the usual visits to the historic spots
about the city were made.
The matter of changing the name of
the church was reopened by the report of
a committee , headed by Bishop Tuttle of
St. Louis , which reported that it is in
expedient to change the name at this
time , the diocesan conventions having de
clared against it by a vote of 3,101 to
GOG. Some of the delegates , however ,
urged a consideration of the proposition
on the floor of the convention. Appeals
and legislation for the good of the church
iu general developed numerous sugges
tions and much argument.
The social functions in connection with
the convention were numerous and bril
liant.the leading society women of Bos
ton having planned a number of recep
tions and other gatherings , at which the
visitors were the special guests.
SAYS GIRL KILLED HERSELF.
Brother Declares Minnie Harmening
Committed Suicide by Hanging.
From the confession of John Harmen-
ing , brother of Minnie Harmening , a
17-year-old girl , who was believed to
have been murdered in the barn at her
father's farm near Palatine , III. , it
would seem that the girl had ended her
own life by hanging from a beam in the
barn.
barn.The
The boy , Avho is 20 years old , told his
father that when he and the two younger
children returned to the barn from the
field they found the girl hanging from a
beam by a rope , dead. Fearing the
fatherould "feel bad" if he knew his
daughter had committed suicide , they
took the body down , he said , hid the rope
and told the story which led to the the
ory that she had ifeen murdered. To
substantiate the story the boy went to
the loft of the barn and produced the
rope with which he asserted his sister
killed herself.
The story of the boy surprised the
villagers and neighboring farmers. The
father would not believe that the girl
had hanged herself. Several did not
hesitate to say they believed the girl was
murdered and then hanged to the rafter
in the position in which her brother said
he found her.
On Thursday the coroner's jury ren
dered a verdict to the effect that the
girl had committed suicide. The father ,
however , persists in his belief that she
was murdered.
'
Women will cast the heaviest vote
known in history this year in Colorado ,
Uta'h ' and Wyoming.
Timothy Sullivan of New Haven has
been nominated for Governor by-the Con
necticut Socialist Labor party.
Carl Schurz devotes the greater part
of a long campaign letter to a detrac
tion of Roosevelt , whom he deems
gerous as President.
The rulings of the Supreme Court for
the La Follette faction , it is claimed by
some , raises new doubts as to the out
come of the election in November.
Senator Spoouer of Wisconsin replies
to recent charges contained in a maga
zine article , defending the purity of the
Legislature and calling on his accuser
for proof.
David B. Hill , in a speech in Albany ,
attacked President Roosevelt's course in
the Panama treaty as "lawless , " and de
clared that the Chicago convention did
not uphold it.
United States Senator-elect Isidor Ray-
ner of Maryland , in a speech in a Demo
cratic rally in Baltimore , called Presi
dent Roosevelt a man of war and Alton
B. Parker a man of peace.
Norman E. Mack , member of the Dem
ocratic national committee for New
York , predicts a majority of from 75,000
to 100,000 in that State for the Demo
cratic national and State tickets.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin , in an
address in Milwaukee , attacked Gov. La
Follette for alleged interference iu nom
inations and said the court decision in
the factional fight does not beat the
"stalwarts. "
Walter Wellman relates an interview
with Senator Bacon of Georgia , who
says the people of the South consider
themselves under a political ostracism be
cause their solid Democratic strength is
overcome constantly by the Republicans
of the North.
Political candidates in America are th
property of their constituents , and they
have to submit to close scrutiny. A can
didate for Governor in a Western State ,
where the real political issues this year
are important and engrossing , has re
ceived from a voter a "quiz" as to his
soundness on the question of infant bap
tism. A more particular voter sent the
candidate a list of thirty-six questions ,
not only concerning his past life , but in
regard to his future career. The white
light that blazes round a throne is not so
disconcerting as the searchlight which
seeks a man out in his back parlor.
The pointed shoe is due for a return
engagement. MemphisCommercial -
Appeal.
Haa your butcher discovered that
tlie beef strike is declared off ? New
ark News.
Divorce has become a luxury that
even the poorest can enjoy. Birming
ham Age-Herald. *
A corset trust is one of the latest de
vices for squeezinpoorpeople. { Mont
gomery Advertiser.
Most men are unable to ride in the
head carriage of the procession until
they die Atchison Globe , . .
The hardest work on the Panama
canal is being done on the typewriter.
Newport News Times-Herald.
J. Plerpont Morgan's money is go
ing to the dogs at the rate of $10,000
for four collies. Rochester Post Ex
press.
A Chicago woman can whistle like a
fife and her husband cackles about it
like a speckled hen. Macon Tele
graph.
Naturally enough , Admiral Schley is
being criticised for telling some more
truth about the naval battle. The
Commoner.
It seems the only really safe place
for the poor , persecuted automobilists
is in the British diplomatic service.
Atlanta Journal.
Five telephone girls resigned in
Pittsburg in order to marry. The rush
for their places was terrific. Birming
ham Age-Herald.
Carnegie is writing a book , but his
greatest fame arises from what he has
written in his checkbook. Newport
News Times-Herald.
Joaquin Miller has drowned his muse
with $1,000,000 worth of oil. His re
tirement comes high , but may be it is
worth it. Washington Times.
"New York has a boy who is not
happy unless he is whipped every
day. " He ought to Join the Russian
army. Richmond News-Leader.
Dr. Dowie will have a hard time to
find 11 fakirs as adroit as himself to
complete the roster of his new apos
tles. Birmingham A.ge-Herald.
Dowager Queen Margherita , of Italy ,
has a lace handkerchief worth $10-
000. Very few ladies can afford to
blow in that much. Nyack Star.
An accordion player in New York
complains that a woman beat him
with a broomstick. She should have
taken an ax. Augusta Chronicle.
"Why do the Japanese win ? " asks
the London Times. Well , one reason
is because the Russians lose ; but there
may be .others. Washington Post.
There is a school in Philadelphia
which teaches brides the chafing dish
habit. And still we wonder at the
increase of divorces. Chicago Jour
nal.
There are so many new fashions this
fall that it will take three or four
meetings of the missionary society to
try out all of them. Bristol ( Va. ) Cou
rier.
Dowie may claim to be an apostle ,
but he will have to offer better secu
rity than that at a bank if he wants
to borrow money. New York Com
mercial.
Mme. President Dressmakers urge
all ladies to make their belts dippy ,
"the dippier the better. " At last we
have heard the worst. Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
A Mexican worth $300,000,000 is vis
iting the United States , and it never
occurs to any of us to think that the
Mexican dollar is below par. Atlanta
Constitution.
A contemporary asks , "Does spell
binding pay ? " There is quite a preva
lent impression that in a good many
cases it pays the spellbinder. Rich
mond News-Leader.
The missionaries have been killed by
the natives in German New Guinea ,
and with this sacrifice civilization will
probably take another step forward.
Indianapolis News.
.It is astonishing how much time
some people have to spare for the su
pervision of other people's business ,
and how well they do it in their
minds. Binghampton Press.
A new use for trading stamps has
been found in Philadelphia. A Sunday
school in that city gives them out for
regularity of attendance. This is put
ting a premium on godliness. Provi
dence Journal.
The Mayor of Baltimore complains
because he has to sign about 300
checks a day. How much worse it
would be , though , if they were all
igainst his private bank account Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Can it be that this General Corbin
who speaks out against the marriage
of young officers is the same General
Corbiu whom the country a short time
ago felicitated as a bridegroom ? If so ,
why ? Philadelphia Press.
The packers estimate that the meat
strike has cost them $7,000,000 , but
they look upon this simply as a loan
to the consumers , to be paid back on
the Installment plan , with Interest.
Washington. Post.
May Irwin has two new songs
"Nothing But Talk , " and ' "Taint No
Use in Lovin' That Way" either one
of which seems to'be a sufficient an
swer to the story that she is going to
marry David B. Hill. Kansas City
Star.
A FLOATING EXPOSITION.
Unique Expedition to Leave This
Country in November for the Orient.
A big ocean steamship will sail from
Seattle , Wash. , Nov. 15 , carrying a di
minutive exposition which the merchants
and merchant princes of the Orient are
to be urged to visit while it lingers at
their doors.
This ship will carry no passengers but
exhibitors and no cargo but exhibits. It
will anchor oaly at ports of commercial
importance , and from 8 a. m. to 11 p. m.
of every day that it is so anchored it will
be given over entirely to visitors. No
admission will be charged , but on the
contrary every effort will be made to get
as many as possible to come aboard , with
preferences , of course , for those who
have business interests.
History appears to record no precedent
for such an undertaking. Maritime com
merce is older than Damascus , and the
orientals have been trading with foreign
peoples for centuries. But the Occident
has been slighted. Uncle Sam has beeu
a buyer since his first birthday , but a
seller only during the last decade. Re
cently European countries and Russia , to
someextent , have embraced the oppor
tunities held out to them by the Yankees ,
but the Orient has held aloof. It has
seemed , almost obstinately , to remain ig
norant of our Uncle Sam's ability to pro
duce and sell , as well as collect and buy.
Under such circumstances it has be
come apparent that something must be
done. And something is to be done.
The products of the United States are
to be placed so directly iu line with the
Orientals' range of vision that the Ori
entals simply cannot help seeing them.
The old world having declined to come
and find out what the new world has to
offer , the new world has packed a huge
sample case and will go over to show the
old world , right at the old world's front
doors.
Tihe exposition ship will visit Yoko
hama , Kobe , Nagasaki ( Port Arthur and
Vladivostok , war conditions permitting ) .
Shanghai , Hongkong , Manila , Singapore ,
Colombo , Mauritius , Delagoa bay ( Jo
hannesburg and Pretoria ) , Cape Town.
Adelaide , Melbourne , Sidney , Honolulu
and on the return , Santiago , Valparaiso
and Callao , South America.
At each of these ports it will remain
from two days to ten days , a total of
about six months having been assigned
for the voyage. American consuls in all
of the cities will be informed in advance
of the arrival of the floating exhibition ,
announcements will be made in the news
papers of the ports of the names of the
firms represented on board the vessel ,
their lines of business and the consuls
will be requested to see that importing
and exporting merchants in the interior
find adjacent cities are fully advised. In
short , every possible effort will be made
to create a keen and general interest.
All exhibits will be arranged on board
the vessel before sailing from Seattle and
will remain in position throughout the
voyage , obviating the necessity of pack-
Ing and unpacking.
FAIR RECEIPTS $3,950,836.
* -
First Statement of Financial Standing :
of Admission Department.
The first statement of the financial
standing of the department of admissions
at the world's fair has beeu issued. It
shows that the total receipts up to Oct. 1
in. this department were $3,950GS5.GG ,
as follows :
Five million three hundred and twen
ty-four thousand and seven hundred and
eighty-two adults , at 50 cents , $2GG2-
Three hundred and twenty-nine thou
sand seven hundred and ninety-four chil
dren , at 25 cents , $81,448.50.
Total , $2,744,839.50.
The above represents coin admissions.
Total number of tickets sold to Oct.
1 , 7,707,938.
Total tickets received at gates , 2,051-
110.
110.Total
Total coin admissions , ns above. 5.
o54,57G. Total paid admissions , 7,705-
GS6.
GS6.Free
Free admissions , 4,692,507.
There is on deposit with treasurer Oct.
1 , $3,950S3G.GG.
Winston Churchill will not stand for
re-election to Parliament.
John Jacob Astor has ordered a thirty
horse power automobile in Paris.
Tamagno , the noted Italian tenor , is
Iii poatics. He wants to go to Parlia
ment.
E. Komolsky , a Hungarian artist , is
painting two portraits of John D. Rocke
feller.
The wife of the Archbishop of Cai&er-
bury 13 the daughter of her husband's
predecessor.
Sir John Usher , who died at Cairo the
other day , was a great Edinburgh phi
lanthropist.
The Sultan has sent a valuable collec
tion of Assyrian weapons as a gift to the
King of Italy.
The wedding presents of Emperor Wil
liam , or some of them , will be on exhi
bition at St. Louis.
Herr Schabelitz , a well-known Zurich
publisher , who died recently , did all hia
correspondence with postal cards.
Dr. Robert Koch has secured leave of
absence until January next in order to
continue his work in Buluwayo.
G. S. Batcheller , a member of the in
ternational court of appeals at Alexan
dria , Egypt , has sailed for his post.
Camille Pelletan , French minister of
marine , and M. Tissier , president of the
cabinet , were chums at college and are
close friends now.
Charles Chabosseau , an old school
teacher of St. Zazeille , France , died re
cently and left his entire fortune to Paul
Kruger , former president of the Trans
vaal.
Emperor William has presented 'his
autographed picture to the officers of the
royal garrison artillery at Gibraltar.
Marmaduke Pickthall , one of the
youngest and most picturesque English
writers , is deeply interested in Arabic
literature.
A duplicate of the memorial to Sir
Walter Besant in St. Paul's cathedral
ia to be erected on the Thames embank
ment , London.
Lord Edward Cecil , fourth son of the
late Lord Salisbury , has been appointed
director of intelligence and agent for the
siadar at Cairo.
Nothing ? "White There.
'Albert , the young man of the fam
ilywas undeniably ill. The doctor
. was sent for. He pronounced it a case
of jaundice , as indeed the parents had
Buspected , from the patient's yellow
ish appearance.
Albert's little sister was explaining
to a caller.
"He's got the yaller janders , " she
said. "The doctor says so. "
"But how could the doctor tell , Bes
sie ? " asked tho caller.
" " Bessie.
"Easy enough , replied
"Anybody could tell It by jes' Jookin'
into the the yelks of his eyes. "
Cure to Stay Cared.
Wapello , IowaOct. . 10. ( Special. )
One of the most remarkable cures ever
recorded in Louisa County Is that oC
Mrs. Minnie Hart of this place. Mrs.
Hart was in bed for eight months and
when she was able to sit up she was
all drawn up on one side and could
not walk across the room. Dodd's
Kidaey Pills cured her. Speaking oC
her cure , Mrs. Hart says :
"Yes , Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me
after I was in bed for eight months
and I know the cure was complete for
that was three years ago and I have
not been down since. In four weeks
from the time I started taking them I
was able to make my garden. Nobody-
can know how thankful I am to bo
cured or how much I feel I owe to
Dodd's Kidney Pills. " *
This case again points out how ;
much the general health depends on
the Kidneys. Cure the Kidneys with
Dodd's Kidney Pills and nine-tenths
of the suffering the human family is
heir to will disappear.
Queer Place for a Magazine.
An American traveler who explored
the northern part of Siberia states that
he found in the hut of a Korak peas
ant a picture of Mayor Dix cut out of
a copy of Harper's Magazine. The
Mayor's picture was enthroned on a
wooden shrine , and adored by the
Korak and his family as their house
hold deity.
This is probably the most extreme
case on record of veneration for a mag
azine page. But fifty years ago in this
country it was not uncommon to find
a single copy of a magazine being read
by fifteen or twenty families every
month , and regarded by all as an in
fallible authority.
It is said thatwhen the Shah of
Persia visited England several years
ago it was one of jiis chief delights to
buy a dozen magazines and "read the
pictures. " As there are only about
3,000 'people in Persia who can read
and write , his amazement at the num
ber of magazines is not surprising.
Woman's Home Companion.
WHAT ONE OF THE SEXDISOOVEBED
TO EEE GEEAT JOT ,
Mrs. De T.ongrPimls that the Indescribable
Pains of Rheumatism Can be Cured
Through tho Blood. >
Mrs. E. 3M. DeLong , of No. 160 "West
Broadway , Council Bluffs , Iowa , found
herself suddenly attacked by rheuma
tism in the winter of 1896. She gave
the doctor a chance to help her , which
he failed to improve , and then she did ,
some thinking and experimenting of her
own. She was so successful that she
deems it her duty to tell the story of her
escape from suffering :
"My "brother-in-law , " she says"was
enthusiastic on the subject of Dr. "Wil
liams' Pink Pills as a purifier of the
blood , and when I "was suffering extreme
pains in the joints of my ankles , knees ,
hips , wrists and elbows , and the doctor
was giving me no relief , 1 began to re
flect that rheumatism , is a disease of
the blood and that , if Dr. Williams'Pink
Pills are so good for the blood , they
must be good for rheumatismtaud worth
a trial.
" Iwas in bed half the time , suffering
with pain that cannot be described to
one who has never had the disease. It
would concentrate sometimes in one set
of joints. When it was in my feet I
could not walk , when it was in my el
bows and wrists I could not "even draw
the coverlets over my body. I had suf
fered in this way for weeks before I be
gan using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Two weeks after I began with them I
experienced relief and after I had taken
six boxes I was entirely well. To make
sure I continued to use them about two
weeks longer and then stopped alto
gether. For-several years I have had no a
reason to use them for myself , but I
have recommended them to others as an 1,1el
excellent remedy. " el
ill
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills furnish the
blood with all the elements that are
needed to build np healthy tissue , strong
muscles and nerves , capable of bearing Jdl
the strain that nature puts upon them. h-l
They really make nevr blood and cure o |
all diseases arising from disorders of the -1
blood or nerves , suchas sciatica , neural nrl
gia , partial paralysis , locomotor ataxia , $1-1
St. Vitus' dance , nervous/prostration , he
aujemia and all forms of weakness in he
either male or female. They are sold by
all druggists.
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"Works Both Ways. 'it '
"I have frequently observed , " said the
vegetarian , "that when a man lives on
beef he becomes something like an ox ;
if he eats mutton he becomes sheepish ;
and if he eats pork the chances are he
ten
will become swinish. " v
"Perhaps you are right , " rejoined the
obese epicure , "and I have also observed
that a man who lives on nothing but
vegetables is apt to be a pretty small lot. .
potato. " ral
Proud of His Marksmanship. i\VO > |
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has
Magistrate The evidence clearly
shows that you threw a stone at this
-ber
man.Prisoner cto-l
Prisoner An' the looks of the man
shows more than that , your honor ; it
shows that I hit him. Scraps. jberl
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Tho barbers in Cuba lather their pat
rons with their hands , from a. bowl made
to fit under the chin. A brush , is not
used.
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