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tently, and you will soon ha<ve a cure.
This medicine has cured thousands of
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A RenmrkabU Ring.
Mrs. William Astor ha 6 discovered a
wonderful Egyptian snake ring, which
literally writhes in constant movement
on her finger. The ring is constructed
of flexible gold wire, in which a ruby
an emerald or an amethyst is firmly
aet. The slightest movement of the
Angers sets the wires quivering, and
the ring scintillates and seems to go
round and round the finger with a
weird, serpentine movement.
Liko Finding Hloncy.
The use of the Endless Chain Starok
Book In the purchase of "Red Cross" and
''Hubinger's Best" starch, makes it just
like finding money. Why, for only 5c you
are enabled to get one large 10c package
of "Red Cross" staroh, one large 10c pack
age of "Hubinger's Best" starch, with the
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gold. Ask your grocer for this starch and
obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free
Small Sinn.
There are three crimes which, no
matter what may be the degree of their
venality, are regarded by the world as
venal. They are lyjng at poker, smug
gling, and understating the age of a
4-year-old child. Where breathes the
mother who will not fudge a little
when it comes to the question of pay
ing 5 cents for her boy or stealing
for him a free ride? If the boy be
large for his years, her period of men
dacity lasts but a short time, but if he
be undersized her equivocation ex
tends far into the seventh year. Such
a mother never hands more thun a
nickel to the conductor when she and
Tommy travel together; he might
teep a dime for the two, or take change
out of a quarter. The railroad com
panies are beaten out of many thou
sands of dollars by the darling mothers
who cannot see more than four years
when paying fares.—New York Press.
Aultl Lang; syae.
Who can say, after reading the fol
lowing. taken from the Baltimore
News, that man's memory for feminine
wear is not discriminating and ac
curate. A southern family, not over
burdened with wealth, was blessed
with six daughters. They were all in
genious—the kind of girls to make a
dress in the midst of fun and chaff, and
dance in it at night. The cleverest
daughter recently made a beautiful
shade for the piano lamp from a pink
evening dress, and trimmed it with
roses from her last summer's hat. The
same evening a young man called on
her, and to low-tuned music they
chatted. "How do you like our new
lamp-shade?" she asked, demurely.
The young man studied it for a mo
ment. "The last time I saw it," he re
plied. "I was dancing with it!"
Sick Women Advised to Seek
Advice of Mrs. Pinkham.
[LBTTKR TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 94,863]
14 1 had inflammation and fulling
of the womb, and inflammation of
ovaries, and was in great pain. I took
medicine prescribed by a physician,
but it did me no good. At last I heard
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and after using it faithfully I
arn thankful to say I am a well women.
I would advise all suffering women to
seek advice of Mrs. Pinkham."—Mas.
G. H. CHAPPELL, GRANT PARK, 111.
44 For several years my health was
miserable. 1 suffered the most dread
ful pains, and was almost 011 the verge
of insanity. I consulted one of the
best physicians in New York, and he
pronounced my disease a fibroid tumor,
advising an operation without delay,
saying that it was my only chance for
life. Other doctors prescribed strong
and violent medicine, and one said I
was incurable, another told me my
only salvation was galvanic batteries,
which I tried, but nothiug relieved me.
One day a friend called and begged me
to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. I began its use and took
several bottles. From the very first
bottle there was a wonderful change
for the better. The tumor has disap
peared entirely and my old spirits have
returned. I heartily recommend your
medicine to all suffering women."—
MRS. VAN CLEFT, 410 MAUNDERS AVE.,
JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, N. J.
What do the
Children
Drink ? \
Don't give thom tea or coffee.
Have you tried the new food drink
called GRAIN-0 ? It is delicious
and nourishing and takes the place
of coffee. '
The more Grain-0 you give the
children the more health you distrib
ute through their systems. .
Grain-0 i 9 made of pure grains,
and when properly prepared tuetes
like the choice grades of coffee but
costs übout \as much. All grocers
sell it. 15c. and 25c.
Try Crain-O!
Inaiat that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O
Accept no imitation. ;
MR. BRYAN ON PAPER.
NATIONAL BANKERS' CON
SPIRACY LAID BARE.
Tli Gold Standard Knables Them to
Ketaln Tholr Issue of "National Cur
rency" Shall Government or llank
Directors Issue Our Moucy?
The advocates of the gold standard
have a double purpose. First —they
desire to make gold the only legal ten
der for the payment of debts, public
and private. I have discussed this
question on former occasions and
pointed out that the necessary effect
of such a law would be to create a
greater demand for gold, which would
then be the only money legally avail
able for the payment of debts, and
thus aid the money-owning class and
injure the wealth-producing class.
The second purpose of the advocates
of the gold standard is to make bank
notes the only credit money.
In response to your invitation I beg
to submit a few arguments in support
of the greenback as against the bank
note. The greenback is issued by the
government, and the volume of such
money is determined by the people,
acting through their representatives.
The Supreme court has held that such
a money can be made a legal tender.
When a man has greenbacks in his
pocket he has money which is avail
able for the payment of his debts; if
he has bank notes, his money is only
good when the creditor is willing to
accept the money.
During the war, when gold and sil
ver were at a premium, bank notes
circulated on a level with greenbacks,
and were never worth any more; the
reason being that national bank notes
are payable in lawful money, and the
greenback being lawful money (and
at that time the cheapest money) was
used by the banks for the redemption
of bank notes. .It is interesting now
to hear these same bankers, who re
deemed bank notes in paper when gold
and silver were at a premium of over
100 per cent, talk about the dishonesty
of a debtor, whether the debtor be an
individual or the government, who
would redeem his obligations in any
thing but the dearest money.
The bank note has been good be
cause it had behind it the bonds and
the greenbacks issued by the govern
ment. If the greenback is good enough
to stand behind the bank note, it is
good enough to stand alone without
any bank note in front of it.
A national bank currency is objec
tionable because it is gross favoritism
extended to a few. A bill reported by
the house committee on coinage,
weights and measures in the last con
gress provided: First—That the
treasurer of the United States pay out
gold coin in redemption of greenbacks
and treasury notes; second, that the
secretary of the treasury have author
ity to issue gold bonds, drawing not
more than 3 per cent, to secure the
gold to maintain gold redemption;
third, that national banks be allowed
to deposit bonds and receive bank
notes up to the par value of the bonds
so deposited; fourth, that the tax on
national banks be reduced. If this
plan goes into operation, the difference
in its effect upon the individual and
the national bank may be stated as
follows: The greenbacks are to be re
tired and bonds issued. This will mean
an increase in taxes to pay the inter
est upon the bonds. The individual
who enjoys no special privileges will
find his taxes increased, while the na
tional bank, that enjoys special privi
leges, will find its tax diminished. Sec
ond—lf the individual buys a bond at
par, he will lose the use of his money
and must content himself with the
3 per cent interest. If a national
bank invests its capital in bonds at
par it can deposit the bonds and secure
bank notes to the face value of the
tymds, thus securing a return of its
investment and in addition to that it
can draw 3 per cent interest upon
the bonds. In other words, the indi
vidual parts with his money and draws
interest while the national bank gets
its money back and draws interest be
sides. The individual must eat his cake
or keep it. The national bank both
eats its cake and keeps it. This is fa
voritism that ought not to be tolerated
in a government which recognizes the
doctrine of equality before the law.
The moment the government begins
to confer special privileges, those in a
position to profit by favoritism begin
to clamor for legislation immediately
in their interest, and as a result the
instrumentalities of government are
used for private gain and the true pur
pose of government forgotten.
There u another objection to na
tional bank currency, namely: That
the national banks are given control
over the volume of credit money.
Power to issue money should never be
entrusted to private individuals or
private corporations. Jefferson was
an opponent of banks of issue, and in
one of his letters declared that his
opposition was so persistent that he
had been denounced as a maniac by
those bankers who desired to secure
this privilege from the government.
Benton, in summing up the work of
Jackson, gave emphasis to his fight
with the national bank, and compared
his work with the work of Cicero,
saying that, when he destroyed the
bank conspiracy, he saved America, as
Cicero had saved Rome by overthrow
ing the conspiracy of Cataline.
Wendell Phillips has so well de
scribed the danger of allowing private
Individuals to control the volume of
money that I quote fron a speech
made by him a few years before his
death:
"In other words, it was the currency
which, rightly arranged, opened a na
tion's well springs, found work for
willing hands to do, and filled them
with a Just return, while honest cap
ltal, dally larger and more secure,
ministered to a glad prosperity. Or It
was currency, wickedly and selfishly
juggled, that made merchants bank
rupt and starved labor into discontent
and slavery, while capital added house
to house and field to field; and gath
ered into its miserly hands all the
wealth left in a ruined land.
"The first question, therefore, in an
industrial nation is, Where ought con
trol of the currency to rest? In whose
hands can this almost omnipotent
power be trusted? Every writer of
political economy from Aristotle to
Adam Smith, allows that a change in
the currency alters the price of every
foot of land. Whom can we trust with
this despotism? At present the banks
and the money kings wield this power.
They own the yardstick, and can
make it longer or shorter, as they
please. They own every pound
weight, and can make it heavier or
lighter, as they choose. This ex
plains the riddle, so mysterious to
common people, that those who trade
In money always grow rich, even while
those who trade iu other things go
into bankruptcy."
Tl]e third objection to national
banks of issue is. that the moment the
national bank is permitted to issue
money, that moment it becomes, for
pecuniary reasons, the enemy of any
government paper.
The banks are now urging that the
issue of paper money is a function of
the banks, and that the government
ought to go out of the banking busi
ness. Our answer is that the issue of
money is a function of government,
and that the banks ought to go out of
the governing business. The govern
ment cannot afford to build up a
strong financial interest hostile to the
exercise, by the government, of the
right to issue and, control both the
metallic and paper money of the fla
tion.—W. J. Bryan.
Monstrous Perversion of the Taxing
Power of the Government.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Re
publican): When the government
lends the taxing power to, individuals
to permit them to make money at the
expense of the consumer it expects
them to use this great privilege Judi
ciously and to refrain from stifling
competition, the only means left to
protect the consumer against oppres
sive exactions. But when the manu
facturers destroy competition by buy
ing in plants or forcing them out of
business, the consumer becomes the
helpless victim of commercial high
waymen before whom he must "stand
and deliver." The St. Louis platform
of the Republican party declared in
favor of a protective tariff equally op
posed to foreign control and to domes
tic monopoly. The Tin Plate Trust i 9
an absolute monopoly which employes
its opportunity to satiate its greed at
the expense of the community. The
tariff under which it practices its ex
tortion is un-Republican, because it
violates a corollary of the protective
principle, namely, unrestricted home
competition. Honest protection af
fords the American manufacturer a
margin equivalent to the higher wage
rate of the American workman that be
may meet the competition of Europe.
It also implies that men desirous of
engaging in such industries shall have
an opportunity to do so. But while
fattening on the profits of protection
the trusts crush out competition, thus
denying the consumer his natural
rights. The most radical protection
ist cannot justify the use of the tariff
to sustain a rapacious monopoly.
Proper and reasonable protection for
American industry is right, but a tariff
which enables a selfish combination to
impose an outrageous tribute upon the
whole American people is a mo'nstrous
perversion of the taxing power.
Labor ami Finance.
The money that labor earns Is not
the property of labor, but a mere loan
granted him to sustain life. If the
money is his, why can he not keep it?
He must pay it all over to a common
fund or starve. If he has a small sur
plus, and keeps what he earns, his
wages are reduced by the amount he
withdraws from circulation. How
could labor exist without returning to
capital the money earned in wages?
If labor kept all it earned, there would
be none in circulation to pay more
wages. This is true and It always will
be true until labor Is permitted to pro
duce money, which will become an ac
cretion to the circulating medium, and
an increase of wages by the amount of
the increase. This is the whole finan
cial question in a nutshell so far as la
bor is concerned.
Specimen of Henna f.oglc.
Front the Kansas City Star: Doubt
less Mark Hanna is a skillful political
manager and organizer, but his great
ness does not go to the extent of show
ing to himself what his limitations
are. He Is not a good speechmaker.
He probably never delivered an ad
dress that did not harm the cause he
advocated. He made some foolish re
marks on trusts at Cleveland, the pur
port of which were: "Trusts are all
right; they are good things and need
to he fostered rather than restrained.
But even if they are bad. the Repub
lican party is the best one to give the
country relief from them." That is
genuine Hanna logic.
Changing the ICxecutlve Mltul.
From the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal:
Before McKiniey went on that stump
ing trip he went out of h'/ way to say
that he intended to leave the future of
the Philippines to the judgment of
congress: now he says that he intends
to tell congress in his annual message
that the Philippines must be ours for
keeps. As it is only about six weeks to
the opening of congress he will proba
bly not have time to change his opin
ion again, although he has been known
to do the trick in loss than six hours.
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When They drew I'p.
Bobby—"l think Tommy Jones Is
the meanest boy I ever knew." Mam
ma—"What has Tommy been doing
now?" Bobby—"l said I was going to
be a poet when I grew up, and he said
iie'd be an editor, and wouldn't print
any of my poems unless I'd be his
horse every time."—Harper's Bazar.
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SIBERIA
Destined to Become a Great Agricul
tural and Mining Country.
The hope of Russia in developing Si
beria is that the harvests of the gi
gantic province will supply Russian
grain needs. The efforts, therefore, re
cently put forth toward attracting Si
berian immigrants have been great, but
it appears that the province is worthy
of such inducements. Its five million
square miles have at present a popula
tion of four million people, but, owing
to Russian energy, last year's addition
amounted to no less than four hundred
thousand persona. Mr. Monaghan,
United States consul at Chemnitz, Ger
many, reports to the state deparemexit
at Washington, that this movement is
unequaled anywhere except in the rec
ords of past immigration into the
United States. He says that Siberia,
long looked upon as a'barren waste. Is
destined to be one of the world's rich
est and most productive sections. "In
northern France wheat ripens in 137
days; in Siberia, in 107 days. Even
strong night frosts do not injure the
young seed. I may add that oats re
quire in Siberia and the Amur country
only 76 days, and in the regions of the
Yenisei only 107. The frost period lasts
only 97 days in the Irkutsk country.
Speaking of the Yenisei, it may not be
known that ten steamers carry the mall
regularly on that river. The Obi has
already a hundred steamers and two
hundred tugs in service. As to the
other Important development in Si
beria, namely, mining. Mr. Monaghan
reports that between Tomask and Kuz
neslc there lie over twenty-three thou
sand square miles of coal lands which
have never been touched. The iron
mines are particularly good in quality,
yielding as high as 60 per cent. In
eastern Siberia alone there are over
four hundred places yielding gold.
Homos for mo Fngiisii Army.
The purchase of a large number of
horses in the United States for the use
of the English army in south Africa is
made necessary by the fact that even
with the elaborate horse registration
system in force in Great Britain it is
impossible to secure all the animals
needed for immediate service at home.
In time of peace the military estab
lishment of England requires for its
use a total of 13,599 horses. In time
of war this total Jumps at once to 28,-
749. Horse buyers for the army are
now at work, not only in this country
but also in Canada, in Australia, and
in Austria. Under the present arrange
ment in Great Britain a sort of horse
militia is kept always at the disposal
of the government in time of war. Per
sons having a number of horses at
their disposal apply to the war depart
ment, which sends an officer to exam
ine them. Such horses as are found
suitable are registered and a price set
upon them. Their owners agree to
hold their, always ready at the call
of the government and receive In re
turn an annual subsidy of $2.50 a
horse. Under this provision 14,000
horses are registered, but even with
this large supply upon which they may
draw it has been found necessary to go
abroad for a majority of the heavy
draft and artillerv horses
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THE PARSON'S LIMIT.
He'd been preaching and exhorting
For a score of years or so
In a portion of the Vineyard
Where the harvesting was slow;
Where the temporal inducement
For his ceaseless diligence
Was a promise of four hundred
For his yearly recompense.
Unrelenting was the ardor
He devoted to the cause.
And though slowly came the dollars
Still ho labored without pause,
Till one day they came and told him,
As ho kicked against the pricks
That they'd raised their ottered stipend
From four hundred up to six.
Then the good man sank exhausted
As he feebly made reply.
"Don't, I pray you, men and brethren,
Thus my patience ovet-try,
For to glean the four you've promised
Hath so warped my vital store,
That 'twould kill me if you taxed me
To collect two hundred more."
—Boston Courier.
HUMOROUS.
A note of great interest—L O. U.
SIOO at 8 per cent.
"Don't you admire football, Clara?"
"I detest it. Percy's got his collar
bone broken, and 1 can't put my head
on his shoulder for a month.
Hicks—There is one thing you can
say with truth about Pinchker. He
always keeps his word. Wicks—And
anything else he gets hold of.
Ethel (studying grammar) Say,
Reggie, if a man druggist is a phar
macist, what would you call a woman
druggist? Reggie—A pliarmacister,
of course.
"What we need," said the editor,
"is higher criticism." Thereupon he
issued orders to have the book re
viewer aud the dramatic critic given
offices on the top tioor.
"I bought a poor tramp some coffee
aud doughnuts this afternoon," .said
the shoe-clerk 1 oarder, proudly. "Very
good idea. Buying sinker for a float
er," said the Cheerful Idiot,
Life is but a little story,
Punotuaced in the main,
With commas of our happiness
An.l periods of our pain.
He (telling a hair-breadth adven
ture) —Aud, iu the bright moonlight,
we could see the dark muzzles of the
wolves. She breathlessly—Oh, how
glad you must have been that they
had the muzzles on !
"Do you," said the notary, "swear
that you will tell the truth, the whole
truth, and—" "Oh, hew lovely!" the
fair witness interrupted. "Shall I
really be allowed to talk all the after
noon if I want to?"
Grimes—See here, Smith, why didn't
you call last night? 1 told you my
daughter was going to sing some of
her new songs, and you seemed de
lighted. Smith—l was delighted—to
know she was going to sing.
"These dialect stories make me
tired," remarked Noorich. "What's
the matter now?" asked his wife.
"Why, when a man writes 'sicli' or
'seeh' for 'such' that's all right, but I
druw the line at 'Psyche.' "
Air. Bragg—l got a wireless mes
sage from Sau Francisco this morning.
Mr. Wiso—But T didn't know Mar
coni's system would carry jo far. Mr.
Bragg—Marconi didn't have anything
to do with it. It came by mail.
"What do you charge to wash a
shirt?" inquired the man at the coun
ter in the laundry. "What kind of a
shirt?" asked the clerk, with his mind
on outing shirts, dress shirts, negli
gees, and the various other possibili
ties in that line. "A dirty shirt," re
plied the man.
The FeniininnOlervor.
A woman's club is made up of
"don'ts" and dues.
Which is worse the bicycle face or
the football bail ?
A woman is always lending the
fashion hints and then giving her
husband a few.
We often wonder what other sort of
trouble would trouble Us as much as
the sort we have.
A widower always argues that the
reason he marries a second time is
out of compliment to his first wife.
Fashionable sleeves are so small
that it would be an utter impossibility
for women to wear their hearts iu
them.
A man never feels that lie is really
getting old until he has lost his desire
to rim to every tire iu the neighbor
hood.
No matter bow loudly a man snores,
be never acknowledges that he is
sleeping; he is only thinking with his
eyes shut
Small eyes are said to indicate cun
ning, particularly when they are in
needles aud must be threaded with
ooarse cotton.
With the coining of winter a man
has the joyous satisfaction of knowing
where his neckties are to be found, as
his shirtwaist wife and sister have no
special use for them at this season.—
Philadelphia Times.
Clilne*e I> not Want Opium.
The Chinese on the west coast of
New Zealand have united with Eng
lish colonists to hold meetings, form
a committee and petition parliament
to suppress the import of opium into
tbe country. The Chinese are fewer
in number there than they formerly
were, almost all tbe opium used is
consumed by them for smoking pur
poses, aud this degrading habit is in
creasing not only among themselves,
but among the European youths of
the colony, They, therefore, beg tbe
government to limit and control the
import of the drug. Almost nil right
thinking men aud women feel sym
pathy with these people in their en
deavor to check the use of the vile
drug. We do not want to have upon
our conscience any of the reproach
that still clings to the mother country
concerning the forced introduction of
opium into China,—Correspondence
in Chicago Record.
Some grocers are so short sighted as to decline to
keep the Ivory Soap, claiming it does not pay as much
profit as inferior qualities do, so if your regular grocer
refuses to get it for you, there are undoubtedly others
who recognize the fact that the increased volume of
business done by reason of keeping the best articles
more than compensates for the smaller profit, and will
take pleasure in getting it for you.
A Pathetic Experience.
John W. Page, of Stokes, Pitt county,
who was in town on Friday to consultj
Congressman John H. Small, has had
quite a romantic and pathetic experi- j
ence with his son, Alphonso C. Page, j
Alphonso ran away from home six
years ago and enlisted in the navy un
der the assumed name of George W.
Pollard, and gave John W. Pollard as
his father's name. He served in the j
Spanish war, and later was ordered to !
the Philippines, where he was promot
ed to chief master-at-arms in the
marine service. And although the
father has not heard from his son for
over a year, since May there has been
an unclaimed letter lying in the Green
ville postofllee, addressed to John W.
Pollard, and stamped upon it the name
of U. S. steamship Monadnock and the
government frank. By some means it
was supposed to be intended for Mr.
Page, and he was notiiled to call and
open it. This he did, and it proved
to be a letter from Commander Nich
ols, of the Monadnock, dated April 1,
1899, informing him of the death of his
son in the hospital. Tho letter was
complimentary to the young man, and j
stated there was $l5O to his credit on j
the ship's books. Mr. Page came to
town to see J. H. Small, to whom he
made the above statement, and Mr.
Small at once took steps to procure the i
money and If possible to have the body ;
returned to Page's old home.—Wash- !
ington (N. C.) Gazette.
For a Censu* of the World.
The present estimates of the total 1
population of the world vary from
1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000, and the i
Royal Geographical Society of England
thinks it is high time that the people
are counted. It believes a count, or at
least an accurate estimate, possible
even in savage and uncivilized coun
tries, Russia having completed a suc
cessful census in Siberia and England
one in India. It proposes the forma
tion of an international organization
to take in charge the work of a world
census.
The Russian Minister of Railways
has prepared a time table showing
thai when the Trans-Siberian Railway
is finished the journey around the
world can be made in '.)?> days.
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We ofTer One Hundred Dollr* Reward fnt
any ca-e of Catarrh thatoannot b.* cured bj
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: \% e. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cb.
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tectlv honorable in all business t an actions
and linHnclally able to carry out any obliga
tion m de by their firm.
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i Ins: directly upon the blood HTKI mucous sur
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ill a OVELY stoo
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Fold at manufacturer'*
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alogue of haml-palnted
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W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 & 3.50 SHOES N A '° E N
JBk Worth $4 to $6 compared/
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Cures < ought* and ( olds 9JT c | a ■* as
Prevents Consumption. i u H I ¥* K
All Druggists. 25c. t H
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