kWrSe Pinkkam The one thing that quali fies a person to give ad vice on any subject is experience experience creates knowlodgom No other person has so wide an experience with female Ills nor suoh a reoord of success as Mrsm Plnkham has hadm fOver a hundred thou sand cases oonse before her each year. Some per sonally, others by mail, And this has been going on for 20 years, day after -, day and day after day. Twenty years of con stant success think of the knowledge thus galnedl Surely women are wise In seeking ad vice from a woman with such an experience, es pecially when It Is free. If you are US get a bottle \ of Lydia E. PSnkham's Vegetablo Compound at once—then write Mrs. Plnkham, Lynn, Mass. NEW WOOD FOR TIES. . Red Cuebracho, Found in South America, Is Superior. A new and thoroughly suitable wood tor railroad ties has been found tn the forests in the northern part of the Ar gentine Republic. It is the red cue bracho. It is an exceedingly hard wood wod and in its interior, not alone in the bark, is 15 to 20 per cent of tan nin, which keeps the wood from rot ting, no matter in what substance it Is burled. The wood has been used in Europe for tanning, but outside of the Argentine Republic its utility to rail roads, it seems, is yet to be discov ered and appreciated. Posts made of this wood which have been buried 50 years in land furrowed and gullied by the torrential rains of summer have been found to be in as good condition as if they had been felled recently. In the Argentine Republic ballasts for railroad beds is unknown, and the ties . are laid in the ground, which frequent ly is sandy and exposed to heavy rains and dried by intense heat. So iron cros3 ties were used until it was found that the red cuebracho was undeniably the best wood that could bo used for the purpose. It not only is so hard a wood that it has to bo bored before spokes and bolts can be driven into it, but it is unusually heavy. It does not split or become compressed with blows. —Pittsburg Dispatch. A Fad From Far Japan. "Ko-Kwai" Is quite the fad of the hour for afternoon parties. Sir Edwin Arnold tells that the Japaneso have a pretty way of entertaining, tho hostess giving her guests a number of dainty ' bottles, containing different perfumes, and the lucky ladies who can guess the proper names of the scents receive prizes. All that comes to us from the Orient has a charm of its own. What | could be more lovely than perfumes called "Dew From the Mountain," I "Breath of Spring," and "Dream of the . Garden," if the names give any hint W of the odors. At a party given Thurs day only standard perfumes were given to the guests, and a young American lady from the Pacific slope made the greatest number of correct guesses. When she returns to her western home she will wear a unique brooch, set with diamonds and inscribed with the word "Ko-Kwai."—Detroit Free Press. Little Deeds of Klndnewn. Little deeds of kindness are, after all, what makes life lovely, and de velop the flowers of affection and sym j pathy. It would bo a dreary world with nothing but mountains in it, and a dreary life with nothing but heroic action springing from it.—Edward Wheeler. OUT!) r family's comfort J Rootbeer m more to It than JjBB a groM of fana. JKnH 'or V> rents. £. KI KES CO. DON'T STO? TOBACCO SUDDENLY 2 <' ! U, ~ BACO-CURO and notifies you when to stop. Sold with a guarantee that three boxes will euro any rase Dipn niton veeetnble and harmless. It has DAuU-uUnU cured thousand*, it will enro you. At all druggists or by mail prepaid. I .<K> a box; a boxes, 82.50. booklet free. Write EUREKA CHEMICAL Uu.. I- Crosse, Wis. P. N. U. 95* 'OO. §YOUR COWS PRODUCTION w ill 1 e increased 20 per cent, by using our aluminum Cream Separators ana up-to-date churns. $4 up. 10 days trial. Catalogue free. Address, tilb. tbU'StewartMfg. Co., Ulbsoulit, l'n. DROPS'YJ!SrS?K2IH2 ; iSs once*. 80-k of testimonials and Khlnvi' treatment Free. Dr. H. H. OREEM 8 SOHB, Dox B. Atlanta, fla. 'isS&U ™. th {Thompson's Eye Water I FOR WOMAN'S BENEFIT. | ♦eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee^e A "Photograph Tea." At the high school a "photograph tea" was recently given in connection with the "Olil Girls' Association." j Some to members attended, each of whom had previously sent in one of her earliest photographs, which was duly numbered and placed on view for others to name. The idea proved a j very agreeable variety in place of the rather overdone "book tea."—Loudon Lady. Successful Woman Architect. 'a'bo plans for two building* to be erected at Marshall for the State Aaj- j lum for the Feeble Minded will be drawn, aud the specifications fur- i nised, by a talented Missouri girl, I Miss Mamie Hale of Columbia, Miss Hale has beeu selected by the board of managers, and she will have entire charge of the important work from its beginning to its completion. She will visit similar institutions in Pennsyl vania, New York and other states with the purpose of arrangement and construction of the Missouri build ings. Miss Halo is already qnite widely known in a professional way in her part of the state, the handsome 850,000 Christian college building at j Columbia having beeu built from her i designs and un ler her supervision.— j Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. Blue Crepo and Russian Lace. A tea gowu of unusual beauty and originality is of pale blue crepe veiled j in black mousseline de soie. The muslin is shirred at tho waistline and I again at the knees, so that the blue shows dimly through the thick gath- | ers of tho hlaok. Over this robe is 1 fitted a princess of russian lace, very | widely opeu in the front and at the back, ending at the waistline like an Eton, the long broad sides in direc toire redingote style. This is cut low necked and is bordered all around with an application of black chantilly, aud a pale blue velvet bow on the bust is on effective finishing touch. The sleeves arc loose, bell-ska; od and made of irish lace, showing tight un dersleeves of shirred black muslin over the bare arms. A bracelet of \ black velvet at the wrist and a frill of I chantilly over the hand are effective touches. The Tulip Ron. Some of the new boas or neck ruches of liberty silk are extremely long, measuring three yards aud even more. The ruche is in reality much longer belore being shortened by groups of tucks, which interrupt tho expanse of shining satiny gauze tis sue. The "tulip boa" is so-called be cause the portion which encircles the throat is enhanced by additions of these flower-like pompons of the same material. One largo one is placed di rectly at tho back of the neck, another at each side to meet beneath the chin. These pompons are called tulips be cause they a' e in fact a floral imita tion composed of many petals of silk tissue. These are softly waved about the centre, to which they are firmly | fastened. The tulip boa gives a be coming flulfinoss to the chiffon ar- i raugement. Boucath tho chin pom- j pons tho scarf ends bang, tacked at 1 intervals, and terminating low down with a many-petaled arrangement of . 'tulips" used as a border. Tlio Servant Girl Is Htunnn. "In looking nftor your servant do ! not overlook the fact that she is a woman, and very human, with nil tho likes and dislikes, the love of pleas ure, rest aud recreation possessed by other human beings," writes Mrs. S. T. Borer in the Ladies' Homo Jour nal. "If sho has not had the advan tages of an education, and knows but little of the world, remember that sho is so much the more to be pitied. Women, as a class, from lack of proper training, are not busiuess like. Tho housewife retains tho responsibility of the detail work rather than give it over to her servant; henco the lack of interest aud responsibility on the part of the average maid. If the house wife would but allow her servant to become responsible for tho great hulk of the detail work much confusion would be avoided. Persons become responsible only by having responsi bility placed upon them, and servants, lisa rule, feel the importance of their \vork according to the trust which is reposed in them and the responsibil ity which is placed on them." New Fle!<l for Women. Whou the woman said she wanted a pair of shoes, tho hollow-eyed clerk did not ask: "What size, madam?" but said, instead, "New or second hand?" The woman hesitated, not quite graspia.g the significance of the ques tion. "Why, new, of course," sho said at length. "The reason I asked," said the clerk, "was that we have several pairs of shoes of different sizes that have been worn a little, just enough to stretch theui, and I didn't know but that yon Mould like a pair that your feet would Blip right into and that you'd never have any trouble with." The woman's interest had plainly got started by that time. "Have you got any suchr" she asked. "A few pairs, as I just said," re plied the clerk. They have been worn long enough by professional shoe- Btretchers to take the stiffness and newness away. We are thinking seriously of making those stretched shoes a permanent and prominent feature of our stock. Why, do you know," he continued, with increased earnestness, "if I bad a foot that I could expand or contract at will, ac cording to circumstances, I could make a pile of money by just trying on shoos. Anybody who has evor endured the torment incident to stretching a new pair of shoes would be willing to pay 50 cents more a pair in order to be relieved of the discom fort of getting them set to the foot. The custom of offering stretched shoes to patrons has already been in troduced iuto several stores in town, and it certainly ought to become very popular. Judging by present indica tions, it will not bo long before every shoe store of any pretensions will em ploy people with feet of the standard sizes to wear new shoes for a day or so to break them in. It will certainly be a good investment, for patrons will buy shoes oftener when the horror of setting them has been removed, and thus more money will accrue to the dealer. Shoe stretching is a calling that will not permit its followers to tread on flowery paths of ease, but tho possibility of bnying shoes that are comfortable from the start opens up a view of elysinm for the wearer." —New York Sun. I Worry Destroys Beauty. Nobody who goes about the world with open eyes can fail to observe bow many women, beyond the beau tiful realm of youth, wear a look of strain, of anxious solicitude, as if tbev were expecting or enduring a vexation. This look is not akin to that of sorrow, in which there is a cer tain dignity; rather it is the expres sion wrought in tho countenance and fixed there by attention to a multitude of petty details, and focused in a sel dom-forgotten though perhaps unac knowledged irritation. When you meet a middle aged or elderly woman whois serene and uuworried, on whose face the care lines are only added beauties, the Bense of repose and refreshment in such gentle coinpauy is most un usual and delightful. We should bear iu mind, as the days pass, that our thoughts and our temper of taking up tho day's burdens, whether fretful or oheery, ore molding our faces, as the sciilpt-or molds the plastic clay. A woman who never worries, who ao cepts inevitable ills with philosophy, and who habitually seeks to make those around her hapjiy, may be plain in her girlhood,but she will be charm ing iu her maturity, iu person as well as iu character. —Collier's Weekly. To Meet Life's Wear and Tear. Tho paramount necessity for the preservation of the teeth is that tliey be kept clean to a point that few either ilreum of or accomplish. If this wore done, the teeth themselves would last through the time during which they are required. The dentist of today, after he has removed tho tartar and accumulations that, in spite of their vigilance, liavo been deposited, and brushed each tooth equally ou tho la bial and lingual side with his tiny brush, which can go into all tho cracks and crevices, as it is propelled by a machine that makes it revolve quite rapidly, gives au object lesson as to what is necessary in this re spect It would be a saving of money and tooth structure to visit the den tist at least once a mouth for this purpose. In the meantime the tooth brush that one wields himself should be sott, not too largo, and it should ; be kept thoroughly disinfected, and renewed at least once a mouth, pre ferably oftener. Tho points of the bristles become worn and in a short time wound the gums. The matter of tooth powders, tooth pastes and mouth washes is very important. Needs vary with the individual, and each should learn from the dentist that which is best adapted to the con ditions of his or her mouth and teeth. —Harper's Bazar. Fashion'* Fniln and Fancies* Bolero shirtwaists are a distinct novelty. . Solt, sheer barege is a favored fab ric for smart summer gowns. A dash of black is considered smart ou hats, gowns and corsages. The latest fancy for corsages and shirtwaists is the lingerie tuck. Exquisite silk warp summer ere pons in novel and stylish arrange meuts. Embroidered batiste is very much employed for extra collars on plain taffeta Etons. Eton jackets of black tucked tnffeta with levers and coat collars of white corded taffeta. Pretty dresses of dotted small, with fau plaiting of plmu liberty satin, are considered chic. Hovers of hemstitched lawn, orna mented with open work embroidery in the corners. Surplice bodice fronts, with long scarf ends, are among the attractions of the snuimer season. White vicuna skirts, as well as skirts of soft, fleecy woolens, are worn with black taffeta Etons, Oue of the newest things in neck wear is the Terry batwing tie, made of silk in pastel colorings. Dainty revers of plain or corded taffeta, bordered nt the edge with ecru Russian guipure insertion. Leghorn hats trimmed with maple or ivy leaves, crepe lisse and black velvet ribbon, are very chic. Taffeta siik all overs showing many new arrangements of cluster tnckiug and cords, as well as lace stripes. Lierre, cluny, renaissance, venire and rnssian lace robeH exquisitely patterned, with corsages to match. All black turbans of tucked luous seliue de soie are very cbie and are worn with organdie aud lawn gowns. The newest French lions lie flat around the neck, and are made of lace or of chiffon edged with chantiliy frills. The most attractive neckwear seen is black and white dotted chiffon, which is always becoming to old and young. Ghost I'lfiyril piano. West Point correspondent New York Herald: Residents of Rugertown, a suburb of the post, are interested in a weird concert which was given one night this week in the parlor of the home of Andrew Kuhn. a private of the army service detachment The performance did not begin until Just as the old clock in the tower of the academic building had struck the hour of midnight, the artist was Invisible, and ghostly sonatas, symphonies and the like were rendered in wonderful stylo. It seems that Kuhn, who is an old resident of the post, had retired with his family for the night, when they were aroused by very loud and thrilling piano playing. The sound seemed to be coming from the parlor. Upon their entering the room they found it quite deserted. The piano lid was closed, but some invisible agency was sounding the keys. They were badly frightened. . It might have been a cat, but the piano was closed, or it might have been rats nibbling tho strings, but- the strings have been found to be uninjured. Corporal Indolence. Warren —Why waa Corclegg'? pen sion for general disability stopped? Pease—They found that it was only a cas* of corporal indolence. Gold Medal l'rlzo Treatise, 25 Cts. The Sciencs of Life, or Self-Preservation, 865 pages, with engravings, 25 cts., paper cover; cloth, full gilt, sl. by mail. A book for every man, young, middle-aged or old. A million copies sold. Address the Peabody Medical Institute, No. 4 Bulflnch Bt., Bos ton, Mass., the oldest and best Institute In America. Prospectus Vade Mecum free. Six cts. for postage. Write to-day for these books. They are the keys to health, vigor, success and happiness. Laborers in Puerto Rico get 3 cents per hour. Are You Using Allen's Foot.Ease. It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder lo be shaken into the shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25a Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. i". Silk culture employs 80,000 families in Hungary. Wlaat Shall We Have For Dcnertl This question arises In the family dally. Let us answer It to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious and healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 min. No boiling! no baking 1 Simply add a little hot water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Struwberry. At grocers. 10c. North Carolina has 33,000 cotton op eratives. To Cnre n Cold In One Day. Take Laxativi Bromo Quininb Tablrtb. All drugglete refund the money If It fails to cure. K. W. (Jbovb'b signature Is on each box. 86a. Charcoal is almost the only fuel used in Havana. I do not bellovo Piso's Cure for consumption has an equal for coughs and colds— JOHN F. BOYEB, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1000. In South Africa the Canadians arc called "the Royal Dare Devils." Vienna's municipal railway is in oper ation. itev. J. It. Bridges, Columbia, Mo., fays: Please send mo one bottle of Fiey's Vermi fuge. None to bo had here. Minister, Germany, has a high school which has been in existence 1,100 years. Tho stomach has to work hard, grinding the food we crowd Into It. Make its work easy by chewing Beem&n's Pepsin Gum. The Russian people are only begin ning to realize the advantages of life insurance. A "P Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags," I \ V your liver is drying up and bowels wear /V Vi fiWlUtt 111 1111 fl-m-' 11 t > some day you will cry aloud for (DM* 111 fl 1111 f- 11 health, offering all your wealth, but you Vo yj FTT Tn f> 1 will not get it because you neglected Nature in your mad rush to get gold. No matter CCVi\ v*7.v i/U what you do, or what ails you, to-day is c {(,t Ae day—every day is the day —to keep TIJ'C-X. a V' watch of Nature's wants —and help your r~ T/kE- %A (t'ffj bowels act reguIarIy— CASCARETS will " NL\ [tyjy help Nature help you. Neglect means bile in the blood, foul breath, and awful pains wfjw in the back of the head with a loathing an d bad feeling for all that is good in life. r ! Don't care how rich or poor you are, you L_JSv I I can '* we " y° u have bowel trouble, ") fk X /ll t \'\ you will be regular if you take CASCA \ / —\ /J I IW \ RETS- -get them tcnday— CASCARETS— rifl I ! I v ' 73 % it like candy and it will work gently while II l ' 11 I' x you sleep. It cures; that means it strength ens the muscular walls of the bowels and gives them new life; then they act regularly and naturally; that is what you want — it is guaranteed to be found in— I DEAL CATHARTIC^^^^^^ 25c. iißl gl'^'f^r^^RUGGisTS To any needy morlal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address Sterling Rcmeay Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. <; Inoculations for the plague arc made in Bombay at the rate of about 5,000 a week. Jcll-O, tho New Dessert, Pleases all the family. Four flavors:— Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Struwberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. In 1899 no fewer than 6,000 books were published in this country. The Best Prescription for Chills '• and Fever Is a bottle of GhOVE'B Tastit.RßS CHII.L TONIO. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure—no nay. Pries fiOo. There are to-day in all countries more than 3,000,000 Italian emigrants. S. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarie Scott, writes: "I find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remody." Druggists sell it, 75c. Every square mile of sea is estimated to contain some 120,000,000 fish. 1 Mrs.Wlnslow'sSoothingPyrap forchildren teething, softens the gums, reduces inllaimnrv* tion. allays pa in. cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. New York State has 225,000 union ists. Fits permanently cured. No flt* or nervous, ness after lirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great i Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise tree. Dr.R.H.KLJNB.Ltd.O3I Arch St.l'liila.Pa. 1 PRONOUNCING BOER NAMES. Trj-l>urj I. Called Frayburp, Krugcr I. Erew> Of the four different ways of pro nouncing Kruger's name which are | current, No. 1, Kroojer, is a vulgar er- I Tor; No. 2, Krooger, with hard g, as j in "gold." Is possible; No. 3. Kreegar, i : where the ee is an attempt at the , ; French vowel sound, is perhaps the most aristocratic; while No. 4, Kreer i ' (rhyming with Frere) in which the g j , entirely disappears, is tho one most j frequently heard among the Cape Dutch themselves. The namo of the other president, Steyn, Is pronounced "Stain," and tho same sound is given ' , to the diphthong el or ey, and also to : the vowel y, wherever these occur in Dutch words. Examples arc Leyfl3 (Lalda), Reitz (Rates), Hofmeyer, the i names Bloemfonteln (Bloomfontane) and Graaffrelnet (accented on the last | syllable), Vryburg (Frayburg) and i Vryheld (Frayhade). The last two also illustrate the sound of f, which is always given to Initial v In Dutch, ■ other instances of which are the fam ily names Vllliers (Fill-yee or Fill-Jee) i and Vlljoen (Fillyune or Fill-June). It will be observed that alternative pro nunciations are allowed of the J in both these names. In literary Dutch , this consonant Is like the English y, but at the Cape there is a strong ten dency to give it the same sound as J in English. Cronje, therefore, may be called Cron-jay, or, preferably, Cron yay, and Joubert either Jew-bear or You-bear. Bpion kop, of doubtful fame, is called Spewn kop or Spune I kop.—South Music's Aid to Marriage. New Haven special New York I ' World: Miss Lillian C. Morris, 22 j years old, has obtained damages from the Winchester Repeating Arms Com- I pany for Injuries resulting in the loss j of the second and third fingers of her ' left hand. A cartridge machine on which she worked was responsible for j . the accident. Miss Morris held that - her skill as a pianist was of no value } to her, as the loss of the fingers pre- I vented her performing. Her attorneys j in arguing the case declared that her chances for marriage were hampered : by the injury and consequent inability 1 to exercise her powers as a musician. 1 The machine on which Miss Morris . worked has a history of misfortune, • being one of those that exploded and | injured many persons two years ago. iffT^ It won't u 8 row. ► . What's / M the reason? Hair / m needs help just as K anything else does at b,, times. The roots re- < ► quire feeding. When '< ► hair stops growing it f. s: pn N looks m w* N dead. I ►: visor ► r- acts almost instantly ►, <i on such hair. It ► awakens new life in the hair bulbs. The y ► efFect is astonishing. y Your hair grows, be- • < comes thicker, and all dandruff is removed. ►. \ And the original ► ► color of early life is y ► restored to faded or y y* gray hair. This is always the case. ' 4 SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. ' a " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor, ► l and am really astonished at the a good It has done in keening iny l . hair from coining out. It is the ► best tonic I have tried, and I 4 shall continue to recommend it to " b my friends." . „ . A MATTIK ITot.T, . ►, y Sept. 24,1898. liurlington, N. C. If you do not obtain all the benefits a you expected from tlio use of the liuir b * Vigor, writo the Doctor abuut it. Dll. J. C. AYEIt, Lowell, Mass. | What do the ' 1 13 Children Drink ? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried tlio new food drink called GRAIN-0 'i It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. Tlio more Grain-0 you give the children the more health you distrib ute through their systems. Grain-0 is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about \ as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. Try Crain-O! Insist that your grocer gives you QRAIH-O Accept no imitation. 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