Pmkhmm The one thing that quali fies a person to give ad vice on any subject is experience experience creates knowledge, No other person has so wide an experience with female Ills nor such a record of success as Mrs, Pinkham has had. Over a hundred thou sand oases come before her each year. Some per sonally, others by mail, And this has been going on for ZO years, day after day and day after day. Twenty years of con stant success think of the knowledge thus gainedi Surely women are wise in seeking ad vloe from a woman with such an experience, es pecially when it is free, if you are Hi get a hott'o of Lydia E. Plnk.ni's Vegetable OompoL at once—then write jrc, Pinkham, Lynn, Me .j NEW WOOD FOR Tl~ • Red Cuobraoho, Found In Sout:. iiL-rica, Is Superior. A new and thoroughly suitable wood for railroad ties has been found In 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, la 15 to 20 per cent of tan nin, which keeps the wood from rot ting, no matter in what substance it is buried. 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 mado of this wood which have been buried 50 years In land furrowed and gullied by the torrential rains of summer have been found to bo 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 hoavy rains and dried by intense heat. So iron cross ties were used until It was found that the red cuebracho was undeniably the best wood that could be 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-Kwal" Is quite the fad of the hour for afternoon parties. Sir Edwin Arnold tells that the Japanese have a pretty way of entertaining, the hostess giving her guests o number of dainty bottles, containing different perfumes, and tbe lucky ladles who can guess the proper namos 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," "Breath of Spring," and "Dream of the Garden," if the names give any hint 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 guessos. When sho returns to her western home she will wear a unique brooch, sot with diamonds and inscribed with the word "Ko-Kwai." —Detroit Free Press. 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Co., Gibsonlu, l'a. DROPSY CABAS- Book of teatimoniald and 10 day*' tie*tmi. Fr e. Dr. H. H. asEEN'B SONS. Box D, Atlanta, Q. Thompson's Eye Waler CAUSE OF THE BOERS FROWNED UPON BY THE RE PUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. McKinley and His Pro-British Cabinet Files In the Face of Sacred American Sentiment Helping; to Destroy Two Sister Republics. The Boer problem is one which is causing the administration much em barrassment. The arrival of the en voys of the South African republics has brought President McKinley face to face with the situation, and while he has given the envoys their answer, yet it is evident that the matter is by no means settled. Our established policy In a general way forbids our interference in for eign affairs, and the wisdom of this policy cannot as a rule be disputed, but tbe Boer case seems so different from any other that a hasty decision on the lines heretofore marked out would not be wise nor in accord with the wishes of the American people. The Monroe doctrine, which has been accepted by all political parties in the United States as a part of our national creed, forbids the extension of the Jurisdiction of any monarchial power on the American continent, and it Is accepted as Just by our people, for the reason that such extension would prove a constant menace to our free institutions. The Monroe doc trine is founded on the principle which Americans must maintain, and so far as the effect is concerned, it may prove as necessary to maintain it when ap plied to Africa as to America. This policy lias been heretofore applied only to our own continent, but now the question arises, can the United States afford to see a grasping, monarchial power like Great Britain deliberately conquer and take possession of two weak republics, even though they be situated on another continent than our I own. The destruction of any republic by a monarchial power, no matter I where located, is dangerous to the fu j ture of any republic 011 earth, for the ! time is coming when the governments i under a monarchial form will be ar i rayed in a body against those under | the republican form. If the repub- I lies of the world do not stand by each ! other they will be destroyed piece meal, and the time will come when the United States may be called upon to face the combined powers of Europo in an attempt to maintain her free in stitutions without a single republican ally to aid her. If we stand by and allow Great Britain to add republic after republic to her string of colonies, she may grow too strong for our pro tests to be available, and the question now to be met by the American people is: Shall we allow this monster to grow, or shall wo trim its claws while conditions enable us to do so? It will require no soldiers and no j battleships. A few words from our ex ecutive, expressed firmly and earnestly, will be sufficient. We still remember the Venezuelan affair, and the attitude assumed by the administration. No threats were necessary, no prepara tions for war, nothing but that mes sage of Secretary of State Olncy which brought about a result satisfactory to the people of the United States. CUBA—OUR NATION'S SHAME. It 1b not surprising that the people liul newspapers of Cuba are protest ing energetically against the efforts of the administration at Washington to establish a "stable government" in that island according to Republican Ideals. The matter of stealing one or two millions of postofflce funds, and of otherwise draining the island of any wealth which the hawk eye of Captain General Weyler had been unable to detect; the grabbing and giving away to Republican ring politicians of franchises which may prove valuable; the seizure of every good thing in sight by syndicates representing Am erican trusts —in brief, the general process of preparing the Cuban people for a reign of monopoly and industrial slavery —is right in line with Repub lican policy in the United States, and therefore all that Cuba can expect while McKinley remains in the white house. Americans, on the other hand, are having an illustration in Cuba of the conditions that would prevail here should the American people surrender their rights to the trusts and permit them to usurp the functions of gov ernment, as they seek to do in the United States through tho agency of a Republican president and congress, and as they have already done in Cuba under the aegis of Republican military rule. The only hope for the Cubans— as for Americans —is in the election of a Democratic president, who would punish the thieves that have been loot ing the island, free the Cubans from the franchise grabbers and syndicates who want something for nothing, and establish a free government on the Democratic plan of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, and thereby re deem the pledge given by congress in the name and behalf of the American people.—New York News. Quite a Difference. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, In the senate last week said that armor manufacturers had received less than 6 per cent on their investments. You should have said holdings. Senator. There is a difference between holdings and Investment. It is the custom to multiply the stock indefinitely that the dividends may not become alarm ing. Many a man is holding a thou sand dollars in paying stocks today where only an hundred or less In cash was paid in. This is the usual way of robbing the laboring man and con iumer.—Troy (O.) Democrat. COLD STANDARD FAMINE. Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state for India, presided at a meeting in London recently, at which means for the relief of the Indian famine were considered. Lord Hamilton, in referring to the devastating effects of the famine, said that "it must not be forgotten that it is a wage famine as well as a food famine." In other words, India is suffering more from a "panic" than from a shortage of crops. The closing of the Indian mints to the coinage of silver Is having the effect that was freely pre dicted when tho move was being con sidered. The hoarded silver bullion, which in times of financial stringency, were the mints open, could be coined into money and turned into the chan nels of trade and commerce, is abso lutely useless as a medium of ex change. The American people are not unac quainted with these conditions. While starvation of thousands is unknown here, in times of monetary stringency, following contraction of tho circulat ing medium, thousands have suffered for the necessities of life, with plenty on every hand. In fact, there would be no such thing as famine were the products of labor equitably distributed, and were every man given opportunity to labor, by free access to the sofl. Undoubtedly there would be some famine in India were the Indian mints open to the coinage of silver, as the conditions existing there are also due to landlordism and other evils of a world-wide industrial system, but that the contraction of the circulating medium by the closing of the mints to the coinage of silver has greatly aggravated the situation is shown by Lord Hamilton's confession that it Is a "wage famine as well as a food fam ine" that is responsible for the appall ing conditions existing in famine stricken India. Give India 1G to 1 again and there will be no more wage famines over there. Union Is Strength. "The man who does not give the populist credit in considering what has been accomplished does not understand the forces that have been at work. For several years we have been united. Not because the platforms of the par ties were identical, not because one party stood for all the things advocat ed by the other, but because we agree on the things that we know to be di rectly in front of us. "If co-operation was wise In 189G, then it is more so today. Has the re publican party reformed since 1896, that we should be more ready to trust it now than then? It openly advo cates things today that we warned the country against then, but for which the republicans then would not accept the responsibility. We do not want anybody to misunderstand the situa tion. No one believes that the silver republicans, populists and democrats stand just together on every question for which they are contending. When they act together now it Is when the majority of each can agree on the most important questions at Issue, They can postpone action on the less important things on which they do not agree.—W. J. Bryan at Omaha, before Peter Cooper Chib. A Dud Beginning. The scandal in the Cuban postoffice is the direct result of the application of the spoils system in parceling out the offices. It Is a bad beginning. Tho revela tion of incompetency or corruption in the administration of the "colonies" at this early day is not reassuring. Amer icans had much to say before the Span ish war concerning the corruption of Spanish officials. If we cannot do bet ter than the Spaniards what will our new "subjects" think of us. It is all one to them whether they are robbed by Spaniards or Americans. They do not like to be robbed by anybody. But—lmperialism is imperialism. The proconsul is always attended by a swarm of buzzards even though ho is not a buzzard himself. If we adopt conquest and tho rule of force as a na tional policy we must expect the cor ruption that naturally flows from it.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tmpc 'lalism. "For the United States government to seize a country 10,000 miles away and try to rule its people, that is Im perialism. The Democratic party, in all its history, never added territory that it did not seal and sign an agree ment clothing tho people of that ter ritory with all of the rights oj United States citizenship, to be covered by the American flag and the American constitution. "Now, it was never intended that the flag was to go to any part of the world where our constitution does not extend. If you tell me the people of the Philippine islands are not fit for you, I answer that a people not fit for our country is not fit for our flag." —Hon. R. R. Carmack, at Tennessee State Democratic convention. All IntcrcMt. "McKlnley is a man without a prin ciple."—Dallas Gazette. This is an erroneous impression. McKinley's principle is a check signed in blank, payable in legislation and stock market tips, to every friend who turns in his check for campaign funds. —Newark (N. J.) Ledger. The principle of Mr. McKinley lies in the capitalization of trusts. It is the "interest" and not the prinoigle which troubles Mr. McKinley. flhoßt Played Piano. West Point correspondent New York Herald: Residents of Rugertorrn, a suburb of the post, are Interested in a weird concert which was given one night this week in the parlor of the homo 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 hom' of midnight, the artist was invisible, and ghostly sonatas, symphonies and the like were rendered in wonderful style. It seems that Kuhn, who is art 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. 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Vryburg Is Called Frayburg, Krugor Is Kreer. Of the four different ways of pro nouncing Krugcr's name which are current, No. 1, Kroojer, is a vulgar er ror; No. 2, Krooger, with hard g, as In "gold," is possible; No. 3, Kreegar, where the ee is an attempt at tho French vowel sound, is perhaps the most aristocratic; while No. 4, Kreer (rhyming with Frere) In which the g entirely disappears, is the one most frequently heard among the Cape Dutch themselves. The name of the other president, Steyn, is pronounced "Stain," and tho same eound is given to the diphthong el or ey, and also to the vowel y, wherever these occur in Dutch words. Exnmples are Leyds (Laids), Reltz (Rates), Hofmeyer, tho names Bloemfonteln (Bloomfontane) and Graatfreinet (accented on the last syllable), Vryburg (Frayburg) and Vryheid (Frayhade). The last two also illustnfto the sound of f, which Is always given to initial v in Dutch, other Instances of which are the fam ily names Villjers (Fill-yee or Fill-jee) and Vlljo'en (Fillyune or Flil-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, hut at the Cape there is a strong ten dency to give it tho same sound as J in English. Cronje, therefore, may bo called Cron-jay, or, preferably, Cron yay, and Joubert either Jew-bear or You-bear. Spion kop, of doubtful fame, is called Spewn kop or Spune kop.—South Africa. MUAIC'S Al restored to faded or gray hair. This is 1 always the case. y and am really astonished at tlio 1 ; J pood it has done in keening my ! i . ' hair from coming out. It is the r best tonic I liavo tried, and i I i shall continue to recommend it to i ► my friends." 4 MATTir iroi.T, I y Sept. 24,1505. liurlington, N. C. 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