"Do Not Barn the Candle At Both Ends." Don't think yoa can go on drawing vi tality from the blood for nerves, stomach, brain and muscles, without doing some thing to replace it. Hood's SarsapariHa gives nerve, mental and digestive strength by enriching and vitalizing the blood. Thus it helps overworked and tired people, tHccdlS SaUafmlitta /DrßuirsN Corel all Throat and Lung Affections. COUGH SYRUR Qt the genuine. Refuse Kiibotitutea. A Vis SURE/ Dr. BulTi Kilt curt Dyspcpiia. Trial, toJOrje. The Earmarka. "Tour son Is devoted to art, Isn't he?" asked Reynolds. "I suppose so," replied Easel. "He's continually draw ing on me." First-class passengers In England have Increased only 10 per cent In 10 years, while the number of the third class passengers has Increased 41 per cent. Beauty la Blood Dee*. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, snd that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 20c, 60a. Why It Was Red, Slmkins —What makes your nose red? Tlmklnß—lt glows with pride, ■lr, at not poking itself Into other people's business. Den't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr Lire iwiy. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic:. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To* Bac, tbe wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, COo or gl. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Fisher Girls Travel In Style- So prosperous has been tbe herring season at Yarmouth that the Scotch fishing girls who have been cleaning, preparing, curing and packing the fish were able to accomplish their 500-mile journey home to Peterhead in a special train, which stopped only twice for changes of engines. The train con sisted of two fine corridor coacheß and three comfortable saloons, and at the rear were four luggage vans, all full of personal belongings of the girls. The ordinary garb of the lasses when pursuing their vocation comprises short top boots reaching to the knee and short skirts, with oily frocks over them. They wear no hats or bonnets even In the pelting rain.—London Mall. Nearly every member of the Russian Imperial family rides a bicycle. THE NERVES OF WOMEN Lydia B. Plnkham'ti Vegetable Compound Relieves tbe Suffering from Over wrought Nerves. 41 DEAR MRS. PINKHAM : I am so grateful for the benefit derived from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound that I wish you to publish this testimonial that others may know the value of your medicine. 1 was sufferiug such tortures from nervous prostration that life was a burden. I could not sleep at all and ■Jr was too weak to _/ - W\ walk across the floor \ without aid. The reached a condition where my heart was affected by it, so often lie down without almost suffocating. I Pinkham's Vego ~ table Compound and it worked like magic. I feel that your medicine has been of inestimable benefit to me."—Miss ADELE WILLIAM SON, 100 N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Thin, Sallow and Nervous 41 DEAR MRS. PINKHAM 1 was thin, sallow and nervous. I had not had my menses for over a year and a half. Doctored with several physicians in town and one specialist, hut did not get any better. I finally decided to try your medicine, and wrote to you. After I had taken three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and three of Blood Purifier, my menses returned, and I feel as well and strong as I ever did, and am gain ing flesh."—Miss LENA GAINES, Visali* Tulare Co., Cal. TAPE WORMS ,L A tape worm eighteen feet long at least came on the 6ceue after my taking two CASCARETS. This lam sure has caused my bad health for the past three years. lam still taking Cascarets, the only cathartic worthy of notico by sensible people. " GEO. W. BOWLES, Baird, Mass. M CATHARTIC TRADE MARK OIOISTERID Pleasant. Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe, 10c. 25c. 6Uc ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sttrlißf Remedy l ompnnj. ChleifO, Montreal, New York. 913 W-TILRIP 8OI(1 and guaranteed by all drug - I U-DAU gists to CXJKK Tobacco Habit. CARTERS INK It is made to give satisfaction— I und it does. Have ycru used It} $300,000,000 IN GOLD. LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM OUR SHORES. Another Chapter In Oar Financial Hit lory That Show* Futility of Main taining General Prosperity and the Gold Standard at the Same Time. The Louisville Courier-Journal, In Its Issue of Dec. 22, ult., brushes aside as a mere bagatelle our shipments of gold to England. "The gold reserve In the treasury," It says, "was $241,- 423,427 yesterday, and the total amount of coin and bullion was but a little un der $400,000,000." This, with $141,000,- 000 in the banks and about $600,000,- 000 in the country, in circulation, is as sumed to be a splendid showing, and to elevate the United States to the front rank as a gold country. But now comes a circular from the directors of the mint to the manufacturers of jew elry, gold leaf supply houses, and all dealers and manufacturers who use the precious metal In their work. The Chicago Tribune gives the substance of the circular in the following succinct language: "Lost or strayed—s3oo,ooo,ooo In American gold coin. Any person who has Information of Its whereabouts will please communicate with the director of the mint." The truth is cropping out that we are short of our gold cir culating medium the enormous sum of $300,000,000; it is lost. Not from the treasury, but from the circulation among the people. This means that there are $300,000,000 short in our mon ey, and when we add to this shortage the sum of $241,423,427 in coin In the treasury, and the bullion to make up $400,000,000, we have a shortage of $700,000,000 of gold coin on our total stock of gold coin. It appears that Prof. Faulkner doubted whether the stock of coin outside the treasury was what It was assumed to be, and the director of the mint has been so Im pressed by the professor's statements that he 1b going to try to find out. The treasury department knows how much money the treasury contains, and the banks certainly know how much money they hold, but all our officials have been going upon the theory that our gold coin in general circulation is exactly the difference between the amounts in the treasury and in the banks, and the public have been fed with that idea until they have been al most made to believe that we have plenty of gold coin. Even the Courier- Journal, usually so careful in its cal culations, has been deceived by offi cial reports. Under these circum stances, therefore, it does not make a vast difference to the public welfare whether we ship gold coin to England or not. It may transpire that we are not so heavily laden with cir culating medium as we have been as suming; Indeed, the recent stringency appears to demonstrate the fact that we are short, and short $300,000,000. From this may be deduced the actual fact of the necessity of using billions of make-shift money, usually termed "industrials," but all speculative, and the further fact of the positive recur rence of panics accompanied by the demands upon the United States treas ury to rush to the aid of the market. We do not believe that Director Rob erts can ascertain the whereabouts of this lost money, for it does not exist, except in imagination, unless it be in old stockings and teapots. THEY WILL NOT FORGET. "The voters of this country will not forget the multitudinous scandals and violations of platform pledges, the In credible increase in public expenses, and the peril In the tendency of af fairs," says the Helena Independent. "They will keep their wits about them from this time forth. There never was a time when so many voters knew so much about the history of their coun try, and so much of the science of political economy; every year the number grows. These voters will know, most of them know already, that "booms" are ephemeral afTairs, and that over-capitalization of trusts and monopolies must react upon somebody, and they know full well that the work- Ingmen will be the "somebody" upon whom the reaction will fall. "Not a voter will go to the polls next November without having studied the question of the menace of militar ism In a free country, the deception and treachery practiced by the admin istration toward silver, the violation of the pledge to improve the civil service, the departure from the teachings of Washington and the fathers on the subject of foreign entanglements, the operations of Gage and the United States treasury at the demand of stock gamblers and a favorite money clique. "Panics have been coming so fast as a result of Republican legislation that temporary conditions of boom will not convince the Intelligent voter that reaction will never come. They will not forget." FALSE PRETENCES. It Is beginning to be made clear that William McKinley owed his election to his pledge of international bimetallism, which held enough silver Republicans in line to insure his election. In his recent annual message he comes out for the absolute gold standard, thus manifesting his deceit and duplicity In 1896. Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, in the debate on the currency bill, said: "He-not only recommends It, but he urgently recommends. The chances are a thousand to one that had he uttered that sentiment in the campaign of 1896 he would not now be in position to send a message to congress and there Would be no gold standard congress to receive It It was the pledge in the St Louis platform to secure bimetallism by International agreement that landed him In the White house. So says Hon. John M. Thurston. Republican senator from Nebraska. The pledge of an Inter national bimetallism held enough sil ver Republicans In line to give the election to Mr. McKinley." By what subterfuge Mr. McKinley expects to be re-elected in 1900 nobody seems to know, but oven the devil has a persuasive way of quoting scripture which deceives the children of light, and it Is presumable that some great fraud, or fake, will be dressed up In attractive colors like circus posters to draw the crowd. Forestalling an evil is better than repenting for Its exist ence, and a political evil must be fore stalled. This Is an occasion when the personnel of Mr. McKinley is involved, and he is too much mixed up with grievances that go to the destruction of the public welfare to make him a desirable candidate on any platform. He would betray every plank if he were told to do so, and his entourage Is of that suspicious character that com pels one to hold his npso while In his presence. It Is corrupt, and could not be Its owh master if it -fished to, for It is In the power of British finan ciers. STATISTICAL LIES. The ordinary weapons formerly used by the father of lies to entrap mankind are effete and childish. He has, how ever, Invented a new device, which op erates upon men like fly-paper on flies —lt catches them every time. In "sta tistics" modern man will find his down fall, particularly in that branch of sta tistics known as "financial." The dev il scatters them In our midst, and we struggle and grasp after them like drowning men at straws, and every man seizes upon the wrong fact, and, of course, makes a wrong application of It. Anent this new disposition to get wrong and then stick to it in spite of the truth, the Louisville Courier- Journal is a living example and a warning. "During the past twenty-nine months there has been an international trade balance In our favor upon the mer chandise and gold movement of sl,- I 190,000,000 Vor about $492,000,000. To this must be added silver exports of $25,000,000 yearly. This produces a net apparent value of considerably over $1,200,000,000, but this is subject to the invisible movement of exchange in i volved in the payment of interest abroad, freight charges, travelers' ex penses, and so on. "How much of this has been settled by the return of our securities from abroad we cannot say. The amount is large, but it cannot be figured out with precision. Beyond question the debt to us is large, and as we are in creasing our merchandise exports and only moderately adding to our ira i ports, there is no chance that we shall become embarrassed even by the loss of $40,000,000 or $50,000,000 on this movement." The vinegar in the molasses, the trap, the pitfall and death blow to the statistics is labeled with "How much of this has been settled by the return of our securities from abroad we can not say." The truth is, our tremen i dous balance of trade has been wiped out by the return of "our securities," and instead of being a creditor nation, we are a debtor, and paying our debts in gold. Moreover, our debts are al ways increasing. We are worse off than the little Argentine republic, which actually receives its balance of trade in cash and not wind, and what Is paid her in gold Is recouped by drawing on us. We are the scape goats, the holders of the sack which the whole world draws from and gives us back "our securities." Senator Aldrlch, In drscusslng the gold standard bill from the Republican standpoint, uttered the following re markable thought: "No sane man believed for an In stant that the opening of our mints to the free coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1 would raise the value of sil ver bullion from Its current commer cial price to Its mint price." When It comes to "value," there Is no Intrinsic value of any kind of bul lion converted jnto money, not even gold. In trust circles the "value" of a thing is the price that can be ob tained for it. So the w .ole of the senator's argument amounts to the cu rious supposition that, with silver bul lion raised to $1.29 per ounce at the mint, people would still sell their silver bullion at 60 cents. This Is what the silver producer is now uoing, and It is what the Democratic party protests against. If it be Insanity to desire an advance in the price of our most val uable product, then the sooner we all become Insane the better for the coun try. The profcrs ons and practices of the president have become so mixed that the average citizen can hardly tell whether he is speaking politically, morally, or just for effect. 11l his an nual message he proclaims the fact that wo are at peace with the whole world, and then he wants a large standing army. At the last session or congress Senator Coekreil stood up like a true American citizen and declared that no such undemocratic statute should be engrafted upon our legis lature to shame our institutions, bur den our taxpayers and menace the perpetuity of our form of government, if he could prevent it by the exercise of every legitimate resource* of opposi tion within his power. The senator has again declared his determination to set his face against the schemes of the imperialists, and, with his strong personnel and dogged determination, something will have to yield. Cheap washing soaps and powders, too, With alkali are strong; The dire destruction which they do Is sure to show ere long. But Ivory Soap will never hurt The fabric, howe'er tender; It makes short work of stain and dirt, But no work for the mender. COPYRIGHT ISSI BY TMI PROCTER h GAMBLE CO. CINCINMMi Try Vrain-O! Try Grain-O ! I Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place 6t coffee. Children may drink It without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but is made from pure grains; the I most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % the price of coffee. 15c. and Mo. per package, bold by all grocers. Tarantulas are being raised in Aus- I tralia for the sake oi their webs, the filaments of which are made into thread for balloons. They are lighter than silk and, when woven, lighter than canvas. Each tarantula yields from twenty to forty yards of filament, of which eight twisted together form a single thread. Household Uinta. If there Is one thing on which the house wife prides herself, it is that of having her laundering done nicely, so that the wear ing apparel may be the admiration of all. The washing Is a small matter, anyone al most can do that, but to have the linens present that flexible and glossy appear ance after being ironec'. requires a flno j quality o' starch. j J. C. ITubinger's new laundry starch, I "Red Cross" and "Hublnger's Best" brands are his latest inventions and the finest starch ever place 1 on the market; not a now staroh made by a new manufac i turer, but a new starch by the leading and only manufacturer of flue laundry starch In the United Spates. His new method of Introducing this starch with the Endless Chain Starch Book enables you to get one large 10c. paokage of "Red Cross" starch, one large 10c. pack age of "Hublnger's Best" starch, with the premiums, two beautiful Shakespeare panels, or one Twentieth Century Girl cal endar, all for sc. Ask your grocer. The costliest thimble in the world is that which the King of Siam has pre sented to his wife. It cost $75,000, is of gold set with diamonds and other pre cious stones, and resembles a half-open ed lotus flower in shape. There arc five official reporters of the House, and they draw $5,000 a year each, in addition to what they can make by reporting the proceedings of House committee hearings. • 100 Reward. SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that scienre has been able to cure in all Its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh (hire is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure, bend for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & Co~ Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. It is estimated that greater quantities of gold and silver have been sunk in th„- sea than are now in circulation on earth. To Cure Constipation Forever* Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 100 or 25c If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Two-thirds of the world's sugar is produced from beets. M rs. Window's Soothing Fy rap for child ran teething, soften* the gums, reduces inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic.3Bc a bottle. In Chicago there is a woman in :hargc of one of the street cleaning dis ".ricts, and at \ onkcrs, N. V., a woman las just been appointed sanitary inspect or. Plao's Curo for Consumption has no equal as a Cough medicine.—F. M. AHIIOTT, 888 Sen eca St., Buffalo, N. Y., May 9, 180 L An accommodating tradesman in Car narvon, Wales, announces that he sells wines and spirits of all classes, supplies j patent medicines for headache and has j in his stock Bibles and common prayer books. How Arc Tour Kidneys 9 Dr. Hobbs'flpnracuß Pills cure all kidney Ills. Sam ple rice. Add. Sterling iiiuiuuy Co., Chicago or N. Y The Congregational churches of South Carolina, composed of colored people, have formed a State association. I Fits permanently cured. No flt. or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.RH.KMNE.Ltd.9BI Arch Bt.Pliila.Pa. There was less poultry buying in Lon don at Christmas than for many years. Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. | 10c.260- If C.C.C. fall* druggists refund money. > REASONS FOR SOME WARS. Apparently Doesn't Take Maeh to Lead John Ball to Fight. An English paper has the following to say on the reasons for some British wars: "From all appearances it does not take much provocation to set John Bull at war. William the Conqueror made war on France because King Philip had made a slighting allusion to his embonpoint. More recent wars have been brought about by trivial in cidents. In 1840 a large trade in opium was done by British traders in China, and the Chinese government at length forbade the Importation of the per nicious drug by our sailors. The edict, however, had little or no effect, and the trade continued, till at length the Chinese imprisoned a number of Brit ish subjects and we promptly declared war. Our second war, in 1856, ought never to have come about if its origin is taken into account. A Chinese pi rate hoisted the British flag at his mainmast, and was afterward seized by his government as a bloodthirsty ad venturer. Had he failed to run up our flag his capture would have been re garded as a good thing here, but as it was, it was taken as an insult, and we made war on the Chinese for refusing to apologize. The horrors of the In dian mutiny will still be remembered by a minority of our readers, and the cause which led to it is a matter of history. Cartridges greased with cow's fat were served out to the Sepoys, who refused to use them on the ground that the cow was a sacred animal. We In sisted, and almost without any warn ing, the terrible massacres followed, which were only avenged at an enor mous expenditure of lives nnd money." Half |i a Bottle Cured Me "About thirty years ago I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop my hair from falling out. One-half a bottle cured me. A few days ago my hair began to fall out again. I went to the medicine shelf and found the old bottle of Hair Vigor just as good as when I bought it." —J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111., Sept. 27, 1899. Keeps Thirty Years Ayer's Hair Vigor is cer tainly the most economical prep aration of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. And then, what you don't need now you can use some other time just as well. It doesn't take much of it to stop falling of the hair, restore color to gray hair, cure dandruff, and keep the hair soft and glossy. There's a great deal of good and an immense amount of satisfac tion in every bottle of it. SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. ' Write the Doctor If you do not obtain all the benefits you desire from tlie use of tho Vigor, write the Doctor about it. Address, j Dr. J. C. AY KR, Lowell, Mass. [ j I IIIIMIIIHI I MILLIONS OF "WOMEN USE CUTICURA SOAP exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying tlie skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, and sore hands, in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and chafings, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes, for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medicated or toilet soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it com bines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, viz., TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, the BEST skin and complexion soap, the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap in the world. COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HUMOR 51.25 consisting of CUTICURA SOAR (20c.), to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales ninl soften the thickened cuttcIe, CUTICUBA OINTMENT (am.), to Instantly allay itching, Inflammation and IndtaUon, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT (00c.), to cool ami cleanse the A HINUI.E SET Is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, dlsligneing skin scale and blood humors, with loss of hale when all else falls. Sold throughout the world CUT! tee drug Ail) cwtM. COAT., Sole Props., Boston. •• All about Skin, Scalp, andUair." friii Definition of Brlo-a-Brac. Little Dlclt—Uncle Richard, what Is bric-a-brac? Uncle Richard—Bric-a brac is anything you knock over and break when you are feeling foi matches in the dark.—Puck |"Y/"FOR " 4*OENTS I ■ Wa W u ' *Y 1 ni * *'" Vi d" h ° X X i " 5 ,t " Wl 'y ( rr] j IV J ) t '' OI1 ' 0t^QOe X fl " Flower Seeda, 1: a * * l >k°* '° r l X et oarllotttTomato iliant on earth' C™" A Z ions a. iiuiK hksiicu., i.ai nosst, ms. Z —6 r. N. u. s oo iON ip I>A VS ' GIBSOMIA^SPA.*' g CUBES WHERE ALL E in tlrao. 5 Sold by driiKKiste. C I qpHai BEBEMMMSEMj I Learn telegraphy ... for Railroad anrl Cojnmer* clal Service. Young Men Wanted lm. mediately. Positions gns ran teed- En • k i.r °i lße st ?mp 'or full pirticularn. <. W. Dotvell, Manager, fliek.vllle. Ohio. HOW TO GET OFFICE the (4overawe it Office Training School, \\ ashing ton, D. C. Women Eligible. Positions IVnnanent. 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