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The Job department of the PKESS Is complete (Mi . rr rd- facilities for doing the best ria>s of yr rl! PAitHCULAU ATTENUON PAIDID LAW >"KJ.STINIi. No paper will be discontinued until arrear »k'' " are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher- Papers sent out of the county must he paid *■ r in advance. It is not a little amazing to note a sentiment at Plymouth, Mass., opposed ... ~ . to the carrying off I*l > in oiil li Hock of Plymouth rock anil the l-'alr. . «. , ... to St. Louis during the world's fair. Plans are now being made to bring this much desired project to success and millionsof thrilled Amer icans may vibrate between Liberty bell and Plymouth rock, if old Plymouth, guardian ofthis sacred granite relic, will consent. Plymouth, observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, should pause to reflect that the "rock" is an inheritance of every one of the 80,000,000 Ameri cans that now throng this great land, and that each one of them feels as pro found a sense of ownership in it as the people of Plymouth. Upon it, in the person of Mary Chilton, that vigorous Puritanism that has marked its im print on our laws and customs from one ocean to the other, first set foot, it is the rock of our liberties. Though it weighs but five tons, all Europe cannot outbalance it; it was the stumbling block on which Great Britain stubbed her toe in 1770. It represents to us the birthplace of liberty as the liberty bell does its cradle. Pennsylvania is gener ous. Why cannot Massachusetts em ulate her? Give us the "Rock." Press advices from Washington state that Dr. Wiley, chemist in the agricui- Or w ilev's To- lura ' department, is about to begin an- Ixiceo Tests. . , , other interesting t«*st. This time the effect of tobacco upon the human system will be investi gated. As described in a dispatch, a certain number of young men will be se lected for '.he experiment. These per sons will be given certain allowances of tobacco of various grades and qualities and designed for varying uses. Exam inations and conditions will be made and enforced, intended to make there suits as reliable as possible. Work along this line of investigation follows the idea embodied in the tests recently con cluded with 12 young men to determine the effects of certain food adulterants. The idea of the experiment is intensely practicable. 11 only remains to see if it is possible to secure reliable results. In a considerable measure any reliable in formation that will develop from the data will be valuable to the government in promoting its work in developing and growing the tobacco plant. Added to this there will be a certain amount of in formation forthcoming to the general public that will be interesting, to say the least, and possibly facts that will be pro ductive of some notable results. Alfred Mosely, of England, who re cently investigated industrial condi tions in America, made this prediction: "Labor and capital must be partners in the best sense. They ought to be at peace with each other. In this regard the work of your Civic Federation is ex cellent, bringing together, as it does the reasonable elements of the two great active factors in production. I think that profit sharing in some form must finally come. There must be a minimum wage for labor, with old age pensions, interest on capital, a fund for expansion, another for depreciation, and a division of the balance between capital and labor. This is an ideal, but it is possible to attain it, in the course of time, peaceably." They don't do now as they used 1o do, says Mark Twain, international joker and burden lifter. Time was when a lec turer appeared in a place to fulfill an engagement he was taken out in a wagon or a sleigh and driven around the town, to the courthouse, the cemetery, and the jail, and to a number of other places that he didn't feel as though he was quite ready for iust yet. But nowadays a lecturer goes into a plae:e and oul again without much stopping to sec things. Baron von Echt, an Austrian who has been traveling in this country, is in rap tures over his treatment here. "I do not believe," he says, "that such hospitable treatment would be accorded a stranger in any other country in the world. 1 have sojourned in many lands, but in nc other have I been received with such marked courtesy and open-hearted hos pitality. My tour of the United States convinces me that the American people .in many respects are superior to the inhabitants of ail other lands." THINGS ARE DIFFERENT. Comlif ions I ruler Cleveland Xot \\ ha' Tbey Are t ii<lt k r Iloo*evelt A <1 mill i*t ration. At this time ten years ago an extra session of congress had been called by President Cleveland and that body was soon to assemble. In April, 1893, for the first time after the republicans' specie resumption law took effect in 1879, the gold in the treasury available for green back redemption dropped below the $100,000,000 mark. This was a month after Cleveland's second term began. The decline continued, and at one time the free gold in the treasury was down as far as $41,000,000. Alarm seized the people; "runs" were made on the banks in many cities; many banks suspended and others collapsed; great business houses went down in some of the big centers and carried many smaller con cerns down with them; mills and fac tories shortened their*hours of work or closed altogether; wages were reduced on all hands, and a panic was"on." This condition of things impelled Mr. Cleve land to call congress in extra session, and it met on August 7,1893. A widely different condition prevails today all over the country, ? the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Insi of the declining gold reserve and the runs on the treasury, we have a larger hoard of gold in that depository than was ever in it at any time in the past. In addition to the regular reserve fund of gold, which was fixed at $150,000,000 by the law of 1900, over $72,000,000 of gold coin and bullion is in the treasury vaults now. President Cleveland was obliged to sell bonds four times during that fateful sec ond administration of his in order to pro tect the gold reserve. He increased the interest bearing debt of the government to the extent of $202,000,000 in this way, but he was unable to keep the gold fund up to the $100,000,000 line. Greenbacks were rushed into the treasury and gold was forced out by them almost as fast as the gold could be gathered fhere by bond sales. A general feeling of de pression prevailed all over the land. There was a fear that the country would have to drop to the silver basis. For a time there was alarm lest the republi cans' gold resumption law, which went into effect in 1879, under which Cleve land made his bond sales, would be in adequate to protect the country against the assaults which were being made on the treasury's gold fund. The situation in 1903 is strikingly dif ferent in all respects from that which prevailed in 1893. Not only is the gold hoard in the treasury the largest which has ever been known, but the general tendency is upward. Instead of buying gold to-day, the treasury officials would be glad to sell some of it or t» get rid of it in some other legitimate way. The "endless chain" which Mr. Cleveland talked about —by which the greenbacks after displacing gold in the treasury, were used to force more gold out—has been abolished. Nobody is going to the treasury these days with greenbacks to exchange for gold. The current to-day is in tlie reverse direction. It gives gold in exchange for greenbacks. The "finan cial distrust and fear" which Cleveland mentioned in his "message to congress when it met in called session ten years ago has been succeeded by prosperity and confidence. Everybody in the coun try to-day who wants work has it. All the great interests and activities are busy. The country is happy, prosperous and hopeful. Where President Cleve land found calamity President Roosevelt sees good times in a higher degree than the country has ever before known. Here is a tale of two administrations which carries its own moral to the minds of the American people. CONSENTS OF THE PRESS. K3"Mr. Bryan is going to travel in Eu rope. but he need not be disappointed if half the people over there never heard of him. —Chicago Daily News (Ind.) tt^W'hat! Mr. Bryan to stay in Europe four months making a study of condi tions there? Well, things will goto the dogs down here, that's all.—lndianapo lis News < T nd.) t£?"lt did not require the result in lowa to make it entirely plain that neither the Kansas City platform, nor anything like it, can receive the indorsement of the national democratic party next year. That has been evident for some time. But what shape will the party's next de liverance take? Avoiding ground that has proved unsafe is not half so diffi cult as choosing new ground which may be relied upon to bear the weight of a great contest and enable a great host to march to victory. The lowa democrats have solved one phase of their party's diffiuclty.—Washington Star. rrit was shortly after his second elec tion. with his party in possession of all departments of the government, that Mr. Cleveland wrote: "After a hard struggle, tariff reform is directly before us. A reduction of tariff charges upon the necessities of life will bring benefits palpable and substantial, seen and felt by thousands who will be better fed and better clothed and better sheltered." Those results came several years later than Cleveland expected. They followed the democratic nightmare and republi can success in 189 C.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. CTlie hunt for a democratic Moses continues. So far the various booms laboriously and cunningly manipulated have not materialized to an extent at all satisfactory to the different boomers. The latest movement is reported to be in favor of Judge Gray, of Delaware, who came into prominence as the chair man of the anthracite strike commis sion. Judge Gray is a very excellent and worthy gentleman, but if his boomers think the democratic party "reorgan izes" are going to be hysterically happy over a candidate from the little state of Delaware with only three electoral votes, they are not very familiar with political arithmetic.—-Troy Times. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1903. THE NATIONAL PLATFORM. That of lohji Itepulillrnn Convention IV ft VI in All I'roliitbilif 7 lie Adopted. The Boston Herald's Washington cor respondent sums up the prevailing sen timent at the national capital, and says the lowa platform will be adopted by the national convention nextyear. This is the disinterested opinion of a non partisan observer. The Herald is in dependently democratic, and like other democratic papers, rather inclined to disparage the tariff revision sentiment in lowa. The democrats intend to make the campaign next year on this issue, and will monopolize it if they can. To this end they agree with substantial unanimity that the lowa idea is now dead and buried. But the Herald with more fairness than the democratic press in general, says: "The lowa tariff and trust planks, writ ten by Senator Allison and accepted by all factions in the republican state convention, may he adopted a? part of the republican platform at the national convention next year. They were read with the greatest in terest by public men here In view of the fierce fisht in the past between the tariff revisionists and the 'stand patters' in tho re. blii an party of low a. The masterly hanu of Senator Allison, prince of concil iators and gifted in compromise, had wrought out planks which were as satis factory to the radicals as to the conserva tives, and acceptable as well to President Roosevelt. Gov rnor Cummins, as the leader of the radicals, and the lowa mem bers of the cabinet, Secretary Shaw and Secretary Wilson, with other conserva tives, agreed that Senator Allison w as the man to draft the declaration that would harmonize the differences and he has suc ceeded In doing so. The lowa republicans have taken, through his guidance, what is President Roosevelt's position, and what will undoubtedly be the position of the republican national convention int. If the committee on resolutions in that con vention, of which Senator I/odge may he chairman, does not adopt the lowa tariff and tr'jst declarations in phrase, it will do so in fact and the convention will adopt Its report. Tariff revision is promised. The fact remains, however, that tariff revision will not be begun during the life of the present congress. It has been set aside for the time beir.g at least. In the minds and plans of the high protectionists it has been set aside until after the presidential elec tion, and this means until after the next presidential inauguration and until the next congress conven< sin December, IWS, unless earlier called ir. extra session.'' This is not au unfair statement of the the situation, says the DPS Moines Re gister and Leader. The lowa platform promises revision, but not until the first congress of the new administration aS I sembles, unless an extra session should be called after the presidential election There is no reason to believe the Her ald's correspondent is not right in his guess that the lowa idea will be the na tional idea next year. It is known to be the Roosevelt idea. It is incorporated in planks that have been carefully drawn and that have been indorsed by the re publican leaders. The nalional conven tion cannot do better if it tries, and it will have little disposition to try. FINDS HIS LEVEL AT LAST. Hryar. l»/is Fimtlly Come Down to Illn I*roper I'iaee In Public Life. Intelligent readers who had curiosity enough to read th'.Teport of Mr. Bryan's speech at Greenfield must have been struck by its low tone. Mr. Bryan has occupied a large space in the public eye and in recent political history. He is far from being a great man, but a man who has been twice nominated for pres ident and has been the principal orator in both campaigns ought to have some knowledge and grasp of public questions and some ideas above those of a cross roads politician. Mr. Bryan's speech did not show anything of the kind, says the Indianapolis Journal. It was not merely a partisan speech, but a parti san speech from a low and narrow point of view. In the campaigns of 189(5 and 1900 he was often eloquent, as political oratory goes, and stirred his audiences to high enthusiasm because he was ad vocating a policy which, however dis honest and vicious it was, he thoroughly believed in. He was not master of his subject because he was on the wrong side of the question, hut he was thoroughly imbued with it, and in both campaigns he held pretty well up to the standard of his "crown-of-thorns-and-eross-of gold speech" which nominated him. But with the death and burial of free silver and 1(i-to-l Mr. Bryan's eloquence has departed. Samson's strength departed with his hair. As long as Mr. Bryan was advoeating a financial heresy which he believed in and was full of he was eloquent in a way, and effective, but that gone he has lapsed into vulgar eommon placeness. He deals with small politics and personalities, lie berates the re publican party in a sort of country news paper style, compliments or abuses prominent Democrats by nam* accord ing as they are Bryan or ant,i -Bryan men, wishes "we had more Tom Johnsons in the country to whip bad men out of office," congratulates the democrats of Indiana on having "a man like John TV. Kern, who is not afraid to stand tip for principles that he believes are right," de clares that the policies of the republican party are "determined by less than one hundred men. who rule the party with a rod of iron," and so on for quantity. This is very different from the Bryan oratory of 189(1 and 1900. when he was imbued with an idea, bad as it was, and felt that he was riding on the top of a wave that might carry him into the White House, and did come dangerously near it. Mr. Bryan is like a balloon after the gas that floated it hap escaped. He has shrunk to the dimensions of a ranting partisan and ordinary political slangwhanger. He has found his level. experts in the east admit the complete collapse of the Cleveland boom, and, by the same token, of the alleged Wall street opposition to the renomination of President Roosevelt, As these discoveries were coincident with the president'" return from his western tour, it shows the experts can read a handwriting on the wall when it is large and plain.—lndianapolis Jour nal. CONTEMPT OF COURT. Por Violating an Injunction Itkiird nl Kyraru*e. IV. Y., Judge Andreni Krn. teucc* I nlon 'lolilcr* lo Jail. Syracuse, X. V., July 25.—Hiram Powers, John Lillis and Otto Ben/, striking molders from the Stearns Co., were found guilty of contempt •if court yesterday by Judge Andrews by his confirmation of the report of William <;. Tracy, who heard the motion for contempt in reference. Powers was fined $75 and sentenced to serve 110 days; Lilli* SSO and 110 days and lienz was fined SSO. Justice Andrews in bis report says: "As to the merits of the original dispute between the parties I have no knowledge. Certain truths, how ever, we all hold to be self-evident. With or without reason, alone or to gether, workmen may leave their em ployers. My argument, or persuasion, by appeals to sympathy or prejudice, they may lead others not to take their vacant places. But here they must stop. Every man may work upon the terms that suit him best. If he cannot bis personal liberty is abridged. It is liis right as n free man. To protect liim in this right governments and courts may use their full powers. If they fail to do so they fail in their duties. "It was to force these every day rule® that the injunction in this ac tion was granted. It permitted the use of all peaceful methods. It. sim ply prohibited the use of terror or violence. Tt sought to prevent riot or disorder, acts made criminal by our penal code. "I find that the three men deliber ately disobeyed the order of the court. This makes it a ease of crim inal contempt. The only question left is its to the proper punishment to lie inflicted upon them for what they have done." DUN'S TRADE REVIEW. Fewer IteporlN of t| Id mi mine r llllll lic** are Heard. New York, July 25. It.(1. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: The tenor of dispatches from near ly every section of the country in dicates that there is less than the customary midsummer dullness in business and collections are more prompt than usual. A large propor tion of the unions have signed it working agreement with the employ ers in the building trades of this city and fully half the men have return ed to work. Farm work still retards retail distribution of merchandise in western sections. Footwear factories have much work in sight, buyers having placed orders freely, and there are still many rep resentatives in the Boston region, from which shipments continue to eclipse all earlier records. Quota lions are fully sustained and new business is well distributed. The unexpected happened in the market for woolens. It was believed that new lines of staple goods would be opened at fully maintained, ov,sta tions, but the American Woolen Co. reduced prices to about the same level as existed a year ago, despite the ma terial increase in raw wool and sev eral other items in the cost of pro duction. PROMINENT BROKERS FAIL. Great lCxelteiiient on the Stock !•:*- change tainted by Hie Huwpeunloii ol Taylor A Co. un<l Stone Xt o. Xew York, July 25. —The announce ment 011 the stock exchange late Fri day of the suspension of the firms of Talbot J. Taylor & Co. and of W. L. St owe & Co. was the sequel to a period of excited selling of stocks and wide cuts in prices which has not been equalled before since the pres ent movement to liquidation. There is nothing in either failure that can be traced to business or industrials or outside the exchange, the ease lying close to a diagnosis of specu lative collapse. Both firms have been largely concerned in speculative mar ket pools, formed for the purpose of taking 011 a line of stock, sustaining their price by supporting orders real or manipulative and seeking to real ize profits by selling out to outsiders at high prices. So statement of Taylor <&• Co.'s as sets and liabilities has been made, but from the president of a leading national bank it is learned that the liabilities may be well onto $6,000,000. Estimates of the Stowe company's liabilities range lrom $1,250,000 to $2,500,000. FAILED TO INDICT. Scksloiih ol" Breathitt County'* Grand Jury 110 Not Produce ItcKiitln. Jackson, Ky., July 25.—Charles Green, who testified that lie saw the men wKli Curtis .left when the latter is alleged to have shot Cockrill, and that lie could identify them if lie saw them, was taken again before the grand jury yesterday. Spicer and Brit ton were presented to him. lie stiitl they were not the men he saw with Jett. It is stated that threats have been made against Green and that lie was intimidated so that he failed to iden tify the alleged assassins of Cockrill. It is charged tlisit the pending inves tigation of the grand jury has been so interrupted by intimidating some witnesses and preventing the appear ance of others that it is deemed use less to continue the investigation. By a vote of s to 4 the grand jury refused to indict Deputy Sheriff Will iam Britton on the charge of being an accessory to the murder of Cock rill. The l.nnt of 12 Iteroe*. Amsterdam, X. Y.. July 25. —Zaeh- ariah C. Xeahr, who was buried at Camijoharie yesterday, was the last to die of the three survivors of 12 men who. volunteered to destroy the j Confederate stockade during the bat- J tie of Fort Fisher, afid whose accom- | plishment of the deed in the face of a rain of sharpshooters* bullets, j which killed nine of their number, was one of the most heroic acts of ! the civil war. Xeahr died of con sumption at the age of 72. Congress had remembered nun with a medal for heroism THE DETROIf PACES. John Taylor W lim the .Tlereliaiitn nii< ItlnnufacMircrtt Slake-Twi Ilriverw t'liiol. Detroit, Mich., July 23. —Sunset last evening found tiie Merchants and | Manufacturers' SIO,OOO stake for 2:24 | class trotters, the feature of the blue ribbon meeting 1 of the Detroit Driv ing club at the (irosse I'ointe track, still unfinished, with two heats each to the credit of Wainscott, the decid ed favorite, and John Taylor. .lohn Taylor's victory over Wainscott in the I fourth heat, after an accident in the : third heat in which Taylor collided with two other horses, then kicked loose from the sulky and ran for three-quarters of a mile, was the sur prise of the afternoon, and one of the most sensational heats in the history of the stake. King Direct was favorite for the 2:21 pace, but Dick Wilson had the speed and won in straight heats. Judge Oullen, the favorite in the Et 14 trot, also won in straight heats. In the 2:00 pace Elderone won the first heat after a splendid drive in the stretch with William Me, and the second heat and race without trouble. llal t haHin broke badly In the first heat of the 2;27 pace and lost it to Five Points, but took the next two and the race. Detroit, July 24. —John Taylor, the gray adding that ran away after an accident in the third heat of the Mer chants' and Manufacturers' SIO,OOO stake Wednesday at Grosse I'ointe and then won the fourth in impres i sive fashion, on Thursday afternoon won the fifth heat and the race from Wainscott. the heavily played favor ite. There were only the two horses in the heat, the others having gone to the barn 111 accordance with the rules of tin- stake. In the unfinished 2:10 trot Dan T. won the deciding heat and gave Monte Carlo a decided beating. Hilly "Ruck was favorite for the 8:13 trot and he justified his choice by winning both heats without trouble. 111 the 2: IS trot Dillon Boy was the favorite, but Fanforan had the speed and won in straight heats. Dr. Madara won the 2:17 pace in straight heats. In the 2:09 pace Win field Stratton won as he pleased. Sadie llaron was never in danger in either heat of the 2:0!> pace, which was the last on the card. Detroit, Mich., July 25.—As tlie re sult of very queer driving in the 2:13 pace, the Inst event on Friday's card at the meeting of the Detroit Driv ing club at (irosse I'ointe track, Driver A 1 Proctor, of Aurora, Ont., who was behind Darky, was fined S2OO and suspended for 30 days; Driver Vance Nuckols, yho was behind Thereon Powers was fined S2OO and all-bets and pools on the race were declared off. James Butler's Eastview farm had two winners in Monroe in the 2:20 trot and Trilby Direct in the Cliam- VjCi . v'ointnerce consolation stake. In t'Te 2:OS pacing event Carthage ("jirl and Xonamie pac?d the first dead heat seen here in years. Xo namie had 110 trouble disposing of the black mare 111 the next two heats. Billy Buck was an almost prohibitive favorite for the 2:10 trot, which he took in straight heats. A PECULIAR PLEA. It lx itlnite in Ilel'eiiMe of a .Tlan on Trial lor (>run<l Larceny. Xew York, July 23. —Before Judge Xewburger in general sessions yester day the taking (f[ testimony began in the trial of Lawrence Murphy, former treasurer of the Journeymen Stone Cutters' association, for grand larceny in the theft of all the funds of the, association, amounting to sl2,- ! 704. The Evening Post says:"lt devel oped in the trial of the former treas urer of the Journeymen Stone Cut ters' association for grand larceny that his counsel will putin the de fense that the funds he is charged with stealing were not legitimate j dues and fines of the organization, but extortion money wrung from builders and contractors under threats. Counsel made the opeil as- ' ;ertion that one builder in Brooklyn had been forced to pay the union j SIO,OOO. Questions were put by dei "endnnt's counsel to make it appear i chat counsel was in possession of in- i formation that, in the last year, over #200,000 had been paid to unions 111 | this city by bosses and employers for fines, assessments and 'expenses.'" At 011 c time in the course of his j questioning, defendant's counsel ask- I ?<l a witness if it was not tru,e that j one builder in Xew York had paid M 5.000 to settle some difficulty with 1 union. The witness, who was a union man. answered that he would i not tell if lie knew. Paper :tfill Burned—Fireman Killed, Hartford, Conn., July 23.—The Woodland paper mill, situated be tween Hartford and Manchester, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday , ind the loss is estimated at about 1 F150,000. One employe, William Hask- ! 11s, a fireman, lost bis life. A por- ; Hon of the brick wall of the struc- ; hire fell upon him while he was at- j tempting to draw the tires in the building. (>en. Clay IHcn. Lexington. Ky., July 2.1. Oen. Cas- I ■Jus Marcellus Clay, ambassador to Russia under president Lincoln, noted j ibolitionist and author, died at his j home. Whitehall, in Madison county, last night. Death was due to gen eral exhaustion. A Threat to Strike. Washington, July 33.—President Barrett, of the local organization of j bookbinders, announced yesterday | that every bookbinder in the govern- j ment printing office and the members of the allied unions will quit work if \Y. A. Miller, assistant foreman in the | Government printing office, whose dis- I missal from that office the president recently revoked, is permitted tore- j -umc work. The local union officials i have sent a communication to Secre- I tnrv Cortelyou. of the department of ; ominerce and labor, strongly ex- i pressing their position against Mil- j !er's reinstatement. RUINING COUNTRY STORES. Utira! I'rco Delivery .tlatitiiK Farmer* Too Lazy lot alt at tlic Grocery. j There comes a plaintive wail from the keepers of country :tores in ; small bergs and crossroad hamlets of Livingston county, .New York, against the rural free delivery of mails. The storekeepers say that the free delivery system is making the farmer* la/ier every day, while it is doing much to drive the country store out of existence. They say that under the influence of the free-delivery system the farm er no longer hitches up his horses to come down to the post office; that he gets his mail dumped at his door, and as a consequence of this "in iquitous system" the grangers no longer goto their former gathering places nor spend their spare cash with the storekeeper, as they were wont to do in the "good old times'* befoi-,» the gaudy mail wagon made its daily rounds. The storekeepers have also con ceived a special grievance over a re cent order promulgated by the post, office department instructing post masters throughout the country lo prepare lists of the rural free-deliv ery routes and pott them in conspicu ous places in their offices. HAZING ENDED. Hoard of Visitor- to Went Point Mili tary Academy .tlaken an IntercMlngr Keport to Secretary of li ar. The board of visitors to the West- Point military academy has made its report to the secretary of war. The report is interesting chiefly because of the very general commendation of the conditions of the academy. Jt is especially noted tluit the discipline is excellent, and that hazing lias disap peared, save in one or two cases of a. very mild character. The board made a very thorough examination of the plans and speeifi H'.ions, which have been prepared under the direction of the secretary of war, for new build ings and other improvements at the academy, and they are approved with ; out reservation. The total expendi ture for these improvements will be $5,500,000. Killed by Snake'* iilnnee. From Rio Grande, 112)., comes the , story of the strange death of Mrs. Celia Randy, a widow of that village,, who is said to have died from snake charming. Mrs.Randy's cat was trans fixed by the glance of a black snake six feet long. Snatching a club, the woman rushed to the garden to res cue her cat, and after dealing the snake a blow, fell to the ground, anil, despite medical aid, died in a short time without regaining conscious ness. The snake was killed, and many believe that Mrs. Handy was channel! by the snake, her death resulting. Prote«t« a* Insult*. That South Side lady who indig nantly refused to silence or dispose of her yelping dogs because her* neighbors had requested her to do so is an individual illustration of a certain logic unfortunately too com mon. To wrong your neighbor and then deny him redress on the ground that his protests are insulting, says the Chicago Chronicle, is a policy that is pursued not only by men and wo men, but by nations. POP Died Too Soon. A Philadelphia man paid $2,100 for the original manuscript of Poe's poem "The Hells." If. says the Chi cago Record-Herald, Poe could have got that much money for all the poems he wrote he would doubtless have considered himself the luckiest bard extant. A I'oHMlbility, England has just seized three isl ands in the Pacific ocean. It is re markable, says the Chicago Record- Herald, that England doesn't now and then lose track of them and sei/e a few islands which were already hers. BACKACHE. Backache is a forerunner and one of the most common symp toms of kidney trouble and womb displacement. READ MISS BOLLMAN'S EXPERIENCE. " Some time ago I was in a very weak condition, my work made me nervous and my back ached frightfully all the time, and 1 had terrible head aches. " My mother got a bottle of Liydia E. IMnkhani's Vegetable Com pound for me, and it seemed to strengthen my back and help me at once, and 1 did not get so tired as before. I continued to take it, and it brought health and l trength to me, and 1 want to thank you for the good it has done me." Miss Kate Bw.lmas, 142 nd St. & Wales Ave., New York City. — ssoooforfeit If original of above Jotter proving'genuineness cw. not be produced. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures because it is the greatest known remedy for kidney and womb troubles. Every woman who is puzzled about her condition should write to Mrs. I'inkham at Lynn, Mass.*, and tell her all.
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