"Do Not Barn the C&nt/te At Both Ends." Don't think you con go on drawing vi tality from the blood for nerves, storruch. brain and muscles, without doing some thing to replace it. Hood's SarsapariSa gives nerve, mental and digestive strength by enriching and vitalizing the blood. Thus tt helps overworked and tired people. SaUatxmffq /Drßull'sN Caret all Throat and Lung; Affection*. COUGH SYRUP W Get the genuine. Refoae mibetitwtaa. A Vis sure/ XV. Bull, fail cure Dyspepiia. Tried. The Earmark*. "Tour son Is devoted to art. lsnt ha?" asked Reynolds. "I suppose so," replied Basel. "He's continually draw* Id on me." First-class passengers In England hare Increased only 10 per cent In 10 years, while the number of the third class passengers has Increased 41 par cent. Beauty la Blood Deo*. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascsrets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lasy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackhead* and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascsrets,—beouty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 26c, 60a. Why It WM Had. Slmklns—What makes your nose red? Tlmklns—lt glows with pride, I ■lr, at not poking itself Into other people's business. Pes't Tobacco Spit sal Saoke Tosr Ufa Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag. actio, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To ll so, the wnnder-worher, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, COo or SI. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or Hew York. Fisher Girls Travel In Style. So prosperous bas beer the herring season at Yarmouth that the Scotch fishing girls who have been cleaning, preparing, curing and packing the fish were able to accomplish thtlr 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 conches 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 j Lydiib E. rinkham'H Vegetable Compound Relieve* the Suffering from Over wrought Nerve*. "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 wjw nervous prostration that life was a burden. I could not sleep at all and , was to ° weak to j _/ - walk across the floor ' \ without The' reached a condition where my heart was affected by it, so that often 1 down almost suffocating. I took Pinkham's Vege- table Compound and it worked like magic. I feel that your medic in# has been of inestimable benefit to me."—Miss ADELE WILLIAM- j T SON, 106 N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. Thin, sallow and Nervous •' DEAR MRS. PINKHAM I 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, but 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, VisalUt Tulare Co., Cal. TAPE WORMS "A tape worm eighteen feet long at least came on the scene after my taking two CASCARETS. This lam sure has caused my bud health for the past threo years. lam still taking Casearets, the only cathartic worthy of uotico by sensible people." GEO. W. BOWLES, Balrd, Mass. M CATHARTIC TRAOe MARK REOISTIRED Pleasant, Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe, 10c. 25c. 50c ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Stcrllai Remedy Compun), Ckleago, Moatrrnl, New Yerk. 913 MTA Dlf l Sold and guaranteed by all drug ■ s U"DAI# gists to CUKE Tobacco Habit. | CARTERS INK It is made to give satisfaction— ►- and it does. Have you used It? $300,000,000 IN GOLD. ! i LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN 1 FROM OUR SHORES. I : Another Chapter la Oar Financial His tory That Shows Futility of Mala- , tmlnlng General Prosperity and the Gold Standard at the Saaee 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 tbe banks and about $500,000,- 000 in the country, In circulation, 1b 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 tbe precious metal In their work. The Chicago Tribune gives the subßtance of tbe circular In tbe following succinct language: "Lost or strayed—s3oo,ooo,ooo In American gold coin. Any person who baa 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 tbe enormous sum of $300,000,000; It Is lost. Not from the treasury, but from the circulation among tbe 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 is 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 i plenty of gold coin. Even the Courier- | Journal, usually so careful tn 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 clr iulatlng medium as we have been as suming; Indeed, the recent stringency ! 1 appears to demonstrate the fact that j we are short, and short $300,000,000. i From this may be deduced the actual 1 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. I 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 hißtory 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 affairs, and | that over-capitalization of trusts and monopolies must react upon somebody, I and they know full well that the work ' ingmen will be the "somebody" upon | whom the reaction wIH fall. I "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 1596. 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 bo 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 SL 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 I 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 tor 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 1b 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 80, and his entourage Is of that suspicious character that com pels one to hold his nose while In his presence. It Is corrupt, and could not be Its own master If It "Wished to, for it Is In the power of British finan ciers. STATISTICAL LIES. The ordinary weapons formerly used by the father of lleß to entrap mankind are effete and childish. He has. how ever. Invented a new device, which op erates upon men like fly-paper on fllea —it 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,- | 190,000,000, or about $402,000,000. 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 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 croaslng our merchandise exports and only moderately adding to our im 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 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 ue. We are the scape goats, the holders of the sack which the whole world draws from and gives us back "our securities." Senator Aldrich, in discussing the gold standard bill from the Republican standpoint, uttered the following re markable thought: "No Bane 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 into 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..01e 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. Tbo professions 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. In his an nual message he proclaims the fact that we are at peace with the whole world, and then he wants a large standing army. At the last session of congress Senator Cockrell 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 tho perpetuity of our form of government, i if he could prevent it by the exercise , of every legitimise resource cf oppo3i ] tlon within his power. The senator i has again declared his determination to set his face against tlffi schemes ot the imperialists, and, with his strong personnel and dogged determination, something will have to yield. 1 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. 1 COPYRIGHT I 808 BY TMI PBOGTIR B GAMBLE CO. CINCIWt—> Try f-rain-O I Try Graln-O ! I Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of 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 2io. per package, bold by all grocers. Tarantulas are being raised in Aus ' tralia for the sake of 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 Hints* If there is one thing on which the house wife prides herself, it is that of having her Inundoring 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 arter being ironec'. requires a fine quality o' staroh. j J. C. Hubtnger'4 laundry starch, "Red Cross" and "Hublnger's Best" brands are his latest inventions and the finest starch ever placed or* the market; not a now staroh made by a new manufac turer, but a new starch by the leading and only manufacturer of fine laundry starch In the United S'ates. His new method of introducing this starch with the Endless Chain Rtarch Book enables you to get one large 10c. package of "Rod 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. i The costliest thimble in the world is that which the King of Siain has pre sented to his wife. It cost $75,000, is of gold set with diamonds and other prc ■ cious stones, and resembles a half-open ed lotus flower in shape. I There are 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. 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has been able to cure in all lte stages, and that is Catarrh. H&U's Catarrh Cure Ts 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 I giving the patient strength by building up the I constitution and assisting nature in doing its 1 work. The proprietors have so much faitn in its curative powers that they offer Ohe Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials- Address. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. It is estimated that greater quantities of gold and silver have been stink in the sea than are now in circulation on earth. To Care Constipation Forever* Take Cascarets Cund.v Cathartic. 100 or 06. UGC.C. fall to cure, druggista refund mooey. Two-thirds of the world's sugar is produced from beets. M rs. Wlnsl ow's Soothing By rap for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion. allays pain, cures wind colic.3sc a bottle. In Chicago there is a woman in :harge of one of the street cleaning dis ;ricts, and at Yonkers, N. Y., a woman aas just been appointed sanitary inspcc or. PI no's Cure for Consumption has no equal as a Cough medicine.— F. M. A HHOTT, 383 Sen eca St., Buffalo, N. Y., May i. 18M. An accommodating tradesman in Car narvon, Wales, announces that he sells wines and spirits of all clashes, supplies patent medicines for headache ai\d lias in his stock Bibles and common prayer books. How Are Yonr Kldneyi t Dr. TTobbs' Spnraeus PI lis cure all kidney ills. Sam pie free. Add. bterliug Itemedy Co., Chicago or N. V The Congregational churches of South Carolina, composed of colored people, have formed a State association. Fits permanently cured. No fits OT nervous ness alter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, if- trial bottle and treatise Ixoo. Dr.RH.KLiNB.Ltd.93I Arch St.riilla.Pa. There was less poultry buying ill Lou don at Christmas than for many years. Educate Tour Bowels With Ca,caret.. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 100, 260- II G C.O. fall, druggists refund money. REASONS FOR SOME WARS, t Apparently Doesn't Take Mnah to Lwd ' John Bnll to right. 1 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 I to his embonpoint. More recent wars ; have been brought about by trivial ln . cidents. In 1840 a large trade In opium > was done by British traders In China, t and the Chinese government at length forbade the Importation of the per- Diclous 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 Sag his capture would have been re garded as a good thing here, but as It wan, 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 Bacred 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 and money." \Half a Bottle Cured Me "About thirty yesfs igo 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 wav. And then, what you don't need now you can use some other time just is 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 druggista. Write the Doctor If you do uotobtainall the benefit* vou desire from tlio use of ttao Vigor, write the Doctor about it. Address, Dr. J. C. AY EB, Lowell, Mass. MILLIONS OF WOMEN USE CUTICURA SOAP exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the 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 olfensive 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 I 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 th© 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 SI.2S. consisting of CUTICUBA SOAP (26C.), to detinue the akin of crusts and scales and soften tha Ihickonod cuticle, CUTICUBA OINTMENT (Sue.), to Instantly allay Itohlny. Inflammation and I irritation, and nonthe anil hoal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT (60C.), to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE MET la often sufficient to cure the moat torturing, illsllcurlng akin scale | And blood humors, with loss of hair, when ail else fails. Sold throughout llie world POT! cut XJUUU AMD CUEM.COILP.. 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