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The Job department of the PKESS is complete ■ nrl afford,-, facilities for doing th" best class of » rU. PAKTICUI.AR ATTENTION PAIDTO .LAW PKINTINO. No paper will be discontinued until arrear fg./s aie paid, except at tho option of the pub .sher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. CURRENT TOPICS. The best house coal costt $0.50 a tot in England. About 4,475,000 persons are em ployed in the world's mines. Texas has a permanent school func amounting to nearly $8,000,000. 1 he weekly mail to the English armj in South Africa is 204,000 letters. Dogs are being trained for ambit lance service in the Prussian army. The final census returns show that the population of India is 294,266,701 Pueblo Indians have proved good la borers on Colorado beet sugar fields. Switzerland nas 1,700 hotels—seven times as many for its size as England. About 400,000 larks a year are sent from the continent to the London mar kets. It is estimated that 767.63 C.200 tons cf coal were mined the world over in 11)00. A cow's hide produces 35 pounds of leather, and that of a horse about 18 pounds. Three-fourths of the people of Cuba depend tor a livelihood upon the su gar crop. Advices from Mexico state that scar city of labor is retarding railroad con tt ruction. Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chica go, recently completed his forty-sec ond year. Ihe manufacture of sugar in Italy now suffices for two-thirds of the nat ural consumption. Mails were first sent by railway in 1830 between Liverpool and Man chester, in England. England is going to coin 2 pound pieces in gold. They will be about the size of our $lO coins. A man, walking day and night with out resting, would take 428 days to journey round the world. London's fashion papers predict that bell-crowned hats of straw will be worn there next summer. One hundred and twenty-one women are employed in English tobacco lac tones to every hundred men. Before becoming a policeman in Vi enna a man must he able to swim, row and send a telegraphic message. In some of the cantons of Switzer land all the dead, rich as well as poor, are buried at the public expense. Destruction of germ-bearing mos quitoes is said to have largely rel'eved Havana from yellow fever visita:to.;s. The hardest wood in the world is not ebony, but cocus, which is much used for making flutes and other sim ilar instruments. A tomb has been discovered in tho Forum at Rome that is supposed to be older than the traditional date of the foundation of the city. The Pacific cable steamer Anglia has reached Doubtless bay, New Zea land, thus completing the Australia- New Zealand link of the cable. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, now SS years of age, intends to look at King Edward Vll.'s coronation procession out of the same windows from which she looked on Queen Victoria's 64 years ago. The Vatican is not a single build ing, but an accumulation of buildings, stretching over an area of thirteen and one-half acres. They were begun about the year 300 and have grown gradually. In the Gulf of Mexico there is an island where the beaches change color twice daily with the tides. When un covered the sands are purple, but the inflowing tide speedily transforms them to gold. The cable steamer Faraday has finished laying a cable between the Azore islands and Ireland for the Com mercial Cable company, completing fourth line of cable of that company between the United States and Eng land. The pay of the British soldier, which was formerly less than 25 cents a day in time of peace and but 30 cents in time of war, has recently been ad vanced in order to get volunteers for the Transvaal to $1.25 a day, with keep. In the neighborhood of the recent subway explosion in New York there are more physicians than in any other part of the city, and hundreds of them were available for emergency duty within three minutes after the dyna mite went off. The late Empress Frederick, of Ger many, in her will bequeathed to the German associations in England and elsewhere a gold inkstand, studded with precious stones. Each of the German associations has recently re ceived this bequest. ERUPTION OF VOLCAXO WROUGHT AWFUL HAYOC 40,000 Lives Reported Lost in the City of St. Pierre 011 the Island of Martinique—Ships Were Humeri in the Harbor —The Lava Flowed Four Days. St. Thomas. D. 1.. May 10.—It is now estimated that. 40,000 persons perished as a result of I lie voleanic eruption in the island of Martinique. The British schooner Ocean Travel eler arrived at the island of Dominica. Friday afternoon. She reports being obliged to flee from the island of St. Vincent, during 1 the afternoon of "Wednesday. May 7, in consequence of a heavy fall of sand from a volcano, which was erupting there. She tried to reach the island of St. Lucia, but adverse currents prevented her from so doing. The schooner arrived op posite St. Pierre, Martinique, Thurs day morning. May S. While about a mile off the volcano (Montpelee) ex ploded and fire from it swept the whole town of St. l'ierre, destroying the town and the shipping there. San Juan, Porto Rico, May 10.—The cable officials here have received ad vices from the island of Dominica that a schooner which has arrived there from the island of Martinique reports that over 40,000 people are supposed to have perished during the volcanic disturbance in Martin ique. The cable repair steamer (irap pler. belonging 1 to the West India & Panama Telegraph Co., of London, was lost with all hands during the eruption of Montpelee at St. Pierre. The grappler was one of the first ships to disappear. New York, May 10. —The New York agents of the Quebec Steamship Co. received a cablegram this afternoon from St. Lucia, saying: "Roraima lost in earthquake eruption last night." Portland, Me., May 10.— J. IT. Ham lin & Son this morning received the following cablegram from Pointe-a- Pitre in reply to one sent to a corre spondent: Horrible calamity. St. l'ierre completely destroyed. All the country ruined. All the shipping de stroyed. Guudaloupe safe. Organiz ing assistance. Host on. May 10. —fMueli anxiety is felt by relatives of Thomas F. Pren tiss, consul at St. Pierre, in Melrose, his native place. He is married and has two daughters, May and Chris tine. Miss Alice Fry, his sister-in-law. yesterday morning received a letter from hiin in which lie mentioned the signs of activity on Montpeleeand the appreciation all had of danger. The letter was written April :>3, and men tion was made of the schooner Anna K. ,T. Morse, of Portland, which had just arrived, and on which he was planning to have his family leave if things looked threatening. Miss Fry believes that the Prentiss family may have gone to Fort De France ere tjiis, and she expects a cablegram. Washington, May 10.—The follow ing cablegram has just been received at the state department, from Consul Ame, from Pointe-a-Pitrc: "Secre tary of State. Washington: At T o'clock n. m., on the Sth instant, a storm of steam, mud and lire envel oped the city and community. Not more than 20 persons escaped with their lives. Eighteen vessels were burned and sunk with all on board, including four American vessels and a steamer from Quebec named Rorai ma. The United States consul and family are reported among the vic tims. OUTLOOK OF TRADE. It. I»UII A Co, Says llcinanil Sur- PAKNCM All IM'CVIOIIK ItcioriU. New York, May in.— I!. G. Dun v ered an inch thick. The town of Bridget on is over 100 miles from t lie island of St. Vincent. AT REST. ■Ceniaiiiv of Hear Ailitiiral Sampnuii llui-iettr«t»r« Award OIIIIIHSCK .4 nit tint Salvador lo American ConrekNlon arlen. Washington,< May 9.—The United States has won a sweeping victory in the matter of the arbitration of the dispute with the republic of Salvador over the claim of the Salvador Com mercial Co. and other citizens of the United States, stockholders in the corporation El Triumfo Co.. limited, created under the laws of Salvador, .sir Ilenry Strong and Don M. Dick inson, a majority of the arbitration committee, have rendered an opinion against Salvador for $.>7.1,178. The Salvador Commercial Co. was incorporated in Salvador, but the majority of the stockholders were citizens of the United States. It had concessions authorizing it to con struct and equip a port and conduct an importing and exporting business there. The concessions were signed by the president, and approved by the iSalvadorian congress. Afterwards, by sheer decrees, the president an nulled these concessions and be stowed them upon third parties and Salvadorians. The opinion sets forth the indefensible character of arbi trary decrees and was framed on the lines of the original report on the case prepared by Solicitor Penfield, of the department of state. A STRIKE IS ORDERED. Oprratorn In tlic Anthracite ICCKIOU ICeliike to Arbitrate IHll'erenccN. Seranton, Pa., May 10. —A general strike of the miners of the anthracite region has been ordered for Monday next, but the order has a reserve qualification attached. The question as to whether the strike is to be made permanent is left to the deci sion of a convention of delegates of all tin' local organizations of the mine workers to be held at Hazleton next Wednesday. This was decided yester day. There is not a particle of question but that the miners will religiously obey the order and that on Monday next not so much as a shovel full of coal will be mined in the Lackawanna valley. £200,000 Fire Lout, Bloomington, 111., May 9. —The northeast cell block of the state re formatory at Pontine, was destroyed by fire last night, entailing a loss of $200,000. The progress of the flames through the supposedly fire proof structure was so rapid that the city and reformatory departments were unable to control the flames. Three hundred inmates were locked in the cell block, but were quickly trans ferred to the south cell block and no lives were lost. The origin of the tire is charged to inmates of the re formatory. Over SO,OHO on the Lint. Washington, May 10.—The civil serv ice commission Friday transmitted to the house of representatives an answer to a recent resolution ask ing for certain information regarding the eligible list of the commission. The statement of the commission shows that there are now 30,584 clim bics on the register of the commis sion. From July 1, 1901, to April 15, 1902, 7,972 persons were appointed to office from this register. Three Firemen Killed. Dubuque, la.. Ma} - 9.—Three fire men were crushed to death, and an other man was badly injured, in a lire at the lowa iron works last night. The dead are: Frank (ianalil, aged 35; John Fitzpatriek. aged 38; Charles Wise, aged 25. .John McPol and, was seriously injuricd, both leg being crushed. I'rcpnrlnif to iWoaqiiiton. New York. May 9.- Dr. A. 11. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, who made such a vigorous cru sade last summer against the mos quito on Staten Island, is preparing for another campaign during the coming summer months. He pur poses carrying on experiments at the quarantine laboratory. "Various agents v\ill be investigated," he add ed. "with the idea of ascertaining what power they have in the destruc tion of the larvae, etc. This will call forth propagation of the mosquito in the laboratory and the careful study of this insect." j || How Truly the Great •; sJj|| I Fame of Lydia E. Pink- I Gain's Vegetable Com )ound Justifies Her Orig 1L _ _ li| inal Signature. Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegeiahßo Compound. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ova rian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacement of the Womb, and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. It has cured more cases of Backache and Leucorrhoea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development, and checks any tendency to cancerous humors. Irregular, Suppressed or Painful Menstruation, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration, Head ache, General Debility quickly yields to it. Womb troubles, causing pain, weight, and backache, instantly re lieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the laws that govern the female system, and is as harmless as water. It quickly removes that Bearing-down Feeling, extreme lassi tude, "don't care" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, Dizziness, Faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the " blues," and backache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, or some derangement of the Uterus, which this medicine always cures. Kidney Complaints and Backache of either sex the Vegetable Compound always cures. No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. Those women who refuse to accept anything else are re warded a hundred thousand times, for they get what they want —a cure. Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. A Happy Pnnßfice. "Young man," said the resident physician at the hospital, "you have only an houi to live." The white-robed nurses moved silently to ami fro as the patient nervously clutched the bed covering. "Yes, it is my sad duty to inform you that you are going to that bourne from which no traveler returns; but all is hap piness there, the days know no night, and there is rest eternal—sweet rest." The patient's eyes flashed for a moment, and then he exclaimed joyfully: "Ah! and I will not have to chase the— lost —ping-pong ball?" Then they understood. He was one of the army of ping-pong plebes.—Baltimore News. Snow-Applet, There is said to be a large tract of rich farming land in Alaska. Doubtless many people will go there to raise winter apples. —-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In life's email things be resolute and great. —Success. City Tourist—"ls this tiie road tn Sunny Dale?" Old Inhabitant —"It has been for the last .V) years, and I guess it is yet."—ln dianapolis News. The Dad—"l trust you haven't contract ed debts at college, my son." The Son— "They are scarcely contracted, father."— Harvard Lampoon. She —"Why, I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth." lie —"Quite so. I could get a handsome wife then." — Philadelplra Press. * New Question. —C'obwigger—"When you send a person a telegiam you say you wired him." Freddie —"What do you say, dad, when you send ham a wireless one?" —N. V. Sun. A Fair Average.—Visitor—"Ladv Evelyn tells me, Dan'l, that you have had four wives." Dan'l (proudly)—" 'Est, zur, 1 ave —an' what's more, two of 'em was good 1 'uns!" —Punch. Beth —"Kate says she is awfully sensitive ' about her weight." Edith--"Good! Now we shall know what to say about her when we want to say something that she won't like."—Boston Transcript. The Last- —"Yes, sir," said the builder, gleefully, "every house in that operation is rented now but one." "Ah! And that one," remarked his friend, "is last, but not leased." —Philadelphia Press. Hard Luck. — Blowhard —"My ancestors had blue blood in then' voins." Bifi'er —"'l oo : bad! I suppose ttiere weren't so many blood purifiers on the market in those days as there are now."-—Ohio State Journal. Andrew Carnegie has composed his own epitaph. It read's: "Here lies a man who know how to get around him men much cleverer than himself." Many a rich man could copy this epitaph, leaving out the "him." —Philadelphia L"dger. I ' NATURE'S WAY IS GOB'S WAY" DR. 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A POSITIVE and PER- Vmanekt cure for L29feaJCorpulency and Superfluous Flesh. It. is a purely vegetable componnd as harmless as fresh air. Thoiuandu of pitHetita have used this treatment. Physicians indorse It. Write to us for p-pcrCT TPF ATR/ICMT Correspondence Ktrictly confi 3ene. T ; . li r <»okfMass, K JO MH! TTVTf'y?'. v farmer his OWE & Jl inorettßlnK year by year, J . IV;,"TC'V, ft land value increasing. V2«tiN2MB3Sfl io» .tf~r.il i* rr-» -«"-« vrU y ra te». arid every possible comfort. This is the condition of the farmer in Western Canada Province t»f Manitoba and districts of Assinibota. Saskatchewan and Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled there. Reduced rates on all railways for hume seekers and settlers. New districts are being otieiu d UP this v. ir. Tl.e n»*w 1->i • • ; .ik«- A U.VS ol WRg rlilf V C'.V VI I»A anil all other inf-rmu tion sent free to all applicants. F. I'HDLKT, Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa. Canada. ■ ,i toJOHKl'll VOl Ntt, fdu. State St.. Llast Columbus. Ohio: 11. M WILLIAMS, 20 Law IMug., Toledo, O.; Canadian tiorei nment Agents