PSnkfa&m Tha one titling (hat 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. Plnkhsun has had. Over a hundred thou sand cases coma before her each year. Some per sonally,, others by snail. And this has bean going on for 20 years, day after day and day after day. Twenty years of con stant success think of the knowledge thus gained! Surely women aro wiso in seeking ad vice from a woman with such an experience, es pecially when St is free. If ycu aro ill get a hotilo of Lydia E. Pink .-.rs'ii Vegetable Gontpon. * once—(hen write irca Pinkhant, Lynn, SWs. , ' NEW WOOD FOR TP '. Bed Cucbracho. Found In South .V ii.-rico. Id Superior. A new and thoroughly suitable wood for railroad ties has been found in the forests In the northern part of tho 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 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 bo discov ered and appreciated. Poets made of this wood which have been buried 50 years in land furrowed and gullied by tho torrential rains of summer have been found to be in as good condition as if they had been felled recently. In f? 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 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 holts can be driven into it, but it is unusually heavy. It docs not split or become compressed with blows. —Pittsburg Dispatch. A Fad From Far Japan. "Ivo-Kwai" 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 a number of dainty bottles, containing different perfumes, and the lucky ladles who can guess the proper Dames 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 k sailed "Dew From the Mountain," * "Breath of Spring," and "Dream of the Garden," if the names givo any hint of tho 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 homo •he will wear a unique brooch, set with diamonds and inscribed with the word "Ko-Kwai." —Detroit Free Press. Llttlo Dewla of Klndoean. Little deeds of kindness are, after all, what makes lifo lovely, and de velop the flowers of nffection 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. . wt For your family'y comfort It % HIRES Rootbeer jg toua of lr and u gross of faun. Jm CIIAin.KS E. 11l ItES CO. DON'T STOP TOBACCO SUDDENLY bago-oubo and notifies you when to stop. Sold with a guarantee that three boxes will cure any case BACO-CURO Soman ,K U Taf"c>,r"you. At all druggists or by mail prepaid. SI.OO a box; 3 boxes, s2.so.'booklet fre. Write EUIiEKA CHEMICAL CO.. La Crosse, Wis. T. k U. 2;, 'OO. §YOUR COW'S PRODUCTION will e increased 20 per cent, by uslnpt our aluminum Cream Separators and up-to-date churns. $4 up. 10 days trial. Catalogue free. Audress, Uli>- bou-Stowurt Allg. Co., -Oiosuulu, l'. DROPSY WE T DIS f co y * RY; * lve s . enres- Bo .k of testimonial* and 10 tluy' treatment Jm Free. Sr. H. 11. GREEN'S SONd. Box D. Atlanta, Ga. "•SEwS? 1 ! Thompson's Eye Water CAUSE OF TIIE BOERS FROWNED UPON BY THE RE PUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. McKinley nod 111, Pro-British Cabinet Flies In tile Faee 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 the 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 has 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 own. The destruction of any republic by a monarchial power, no matter where located, is dangerous to the fu ture of any republic on earth, for the time is coming when the governments under a monarchial form will be ar rayed in a body against those under tho republican form. If the repub lics 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 Europe 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 we trim its claws while conditions enable us to do so? It will require no soldiers and no 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 Olney which brought about a result satisfactory to the people of the United States. CUBA—OUR NATION'S SHAME. It is not surprising that the people and 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 postofflee funds, and of otherwise draining the island of any wealth which the hawk eye of Captain Geneifc Weyler had been unable to detect; the grabbing and giving away to 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 preparitfg 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 tho United States through the 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 tho 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. Quito a Difference. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, in the senate last week said that armor manufacturers had received less than G 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 sumer—Troy (0.) 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 the 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 the 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 sotL Undoubtedly there would be some famine in India were the Indian mint 3 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 16 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, hut because we agree on the things that we know to be di rectly in front of us. "If co-operaticn was wise in 1896, 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 aud 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 Bad Beginning. The scandal in the Cuban postoffice is the direct result of the application of tho spoils system in parceling out the offices. It is a bad beginning. The revela tion of incompetency or corruption in the administration of tho "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 —imperialism is imperialism. The proconsul is always attended by a swarm of buzzards even though he 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 (lows from it.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Imperialism. "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 of 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 Interest. "McKinley 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 priuoipie which troubles Mr. McKinley. Ohxist riaycd Flano. West Point correspondent New York Herald: Residents of Rugertovrn, a Buburb d 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 style. It seems that Kuhn, who is art old resident of the post, had retired with bis 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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