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,
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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.
Little Deeds of Kindness
Little deeds of kindness are, after
all, what makes life lovely, and de
velop the flowers of affection and sym
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.
<&iuTn
r family's comfort
Rootbeer k
a groHH of fans. Jgmj
. 111 It ES CO.
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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. 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 was Corelegg's pen
sion for general disability stopped?
Pease—They found that It waa only n
cas* of corporal Indolences
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Laborers in Puerto Rico get 3 cents
per hour.
Aro You Using Allen's Foot-Fuse.
It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting,
Tired, Aohing, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease,
a powdor to bo shaken into the shoeß. Cures
while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoo
Stores, 25c, Snmpio sent FREE* Address
Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. i".
Silk culture employs Bo,coo families
in Hungary.
What Shall We Hare For Desscrtl
This question arises in the family dally. Let
us answer It to-day. Try Jell-O, a delicious
and healthful dessert. Prepared In 2 rnln. No
boiling! no baking! Simply add u little hot
water A set to cool. Flavors: Lemon, Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 100.
North Carolina has 33,000 cotton op
eratives.
To Cur© H Cold In One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BKOMO QUIKINI TABLBTO. All
druggists refund the money If It fnlls to cura.
J£. W. UUOVB'S signature U on each box. 26a.
Charcoal is almost the only fuel u ted
in Havana.
I do not believe Plso's Cure for consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F.
BOYEB, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 19U0.
In South Africa the Canadians are
called "the Royal Dare Devils."
Vienna's municipal railway is in oper
ation.
Rev. J. It. Bridges, Columbia, Mo., says:
Please send me one bottle of Fioy's Vermi
fuge. None to bo had here.
Munster, Germany, has a high school
which has been in existence 1,100 years.
Tho stomach has to work hard, grinding
tho food we crowd into it. Make Its work
easy by chewing Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
The Russian people are only begin
ning to realize the advantages of life
insurance.
RICH, BUT WRETCHED
V \ Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags,"'
J r V your liver is drying up and bowels wear
/V S\ FfhiTTR f I 111 LI 1111'hn-. 11 i Wri ( j n g out, some day you will cry aloud for
|MY IJ; vj' ' I health, offering all your wealth, but you
V~7 Ii I 1 not gct ecause you neglected Nature
in V° ur mac * f ush to get gold. No matter
sTv\ K what you do, or what ails you, to-day is
Y the day—every day is the day—to keep
sSV watch of Nature's wants —and help your
V / rffrrT" LJfl bowels act reguIarIy— CASCARETS will
>. \ \SL~jjl Nature help you. Neglect means bile
io the blood, foul breath, and awful pains
m c head with a loathing
ii and bad feeling for all that is good in life.
V r Don't care how rich or poor you are, you
nBT I. I /ivCrSP" can't be well if you have bowel trouble,
) f\FW \ ifr 7 \W\ y° u will be regular if you take CASCA
\
|\_ j/ / / in metal box; cost 10 cents; take one, eat
V. /hrm it like candy and it will work gently while
' 1 ■ l ' you sleep. It cures; that means it strength
. .<•,, . , ens 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—
CATHARTIC
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To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 4-3
Inoculations for the plague arc made
in Bombay at the rate of about 5,000
a week.
Jcll-O, tho Now Dessert,
Ploasea nil tho family. Four flavors:— 1
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry, I
At your grocers. 10 cts.
In 1899 no fewer than 6,000 books
were published in this country.
Th Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever la a bottle of Gxovc's TABTBLRM
CHILL TONIC. It LA simply iron and quinine lu
a tAStslssa form. No cure—no pay. Pries 60c.
There are to-day in all countries'
more than 3,000,000 Italian emigrants. 1
8. K. Ooburn, Mgr. Clnrio Scott, wrttoa: *'l
find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy "
Druggists sell It, 75c.
Every square mile of sea is estimated
to contain some 120,000,000 fish.
Mrs. Window's Soothing Hyiap forchildrsn
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion. allays pain, cures wind colie.2sc a bottle.
New York State has 225,000 union
ists.
Fits permanently cured. No fit" or nervons
ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise
tree. Dr.R.H.KL.iNE.LULU3I Arch St.Phila.Pa
PRONOUNCING BOER NAMES.
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<l to Marrlaga.
New Haven special New York
World: Miss Lillian C. Morris, 22
years old, has obtalped damages from
the Winchester Repeating Arms Com
pany for injuries resulting In the loss
of the second and third Angers of her
left hand. A cartridge machine on
which she worked was responsible for
the accident. Miss Morris held that
her skill as a pianist was of no value
to her, as the loss of tho Angers pre
vented her performing. Her attorneys
in arguing the case declared that her
chances for marriage were hampered
by the injury and consequent inability
to exercise her powers as a musician.
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.
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persons
M the reason? Hair /
Im needs help just as
K anything else does at 4
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the hair bulbs. The
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, Your hair grows, be
< comes thicker, and all
< dandruff is removed.
And the original
► color of early life is
; > 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
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4 MATTir iroi.T,
I y Sept. 24,1505. liurlington, N. C.
S If yon do not obtain nil the benefits
j you expected from tho use or the Hair
. Vigor, write the Doctor about it.
r Du. J. C. AYEK, Lowol 1 , Mas 3.
I What do the
Children
Drink ?
Don't give them tea or coffee.
Have you tried tho now food drink
called GRAIN-O ? It is delicious
and nourishing and takes the place
| of coffee.
Tho more Grain-O you give the
children tho more health you distrib
j uto through their systems.
Grain-O is made of pur© grains,
nnd when properly prepared tastes
like tho choice grades of coffee but
cota about as much. All grocers
sell it. 15c. and 25c.
Try Grain-O!
Insist that yonr grocer yoa GRAIIf-0
, Accept no imitation.
i ———-——J
■ Rest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. UsePS
__IS in time. Sold by druggists. IH
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