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.
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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. It might have been
a cat, but the piano was closed, or it
might have been rats nibbling the
strings, but the strings have been
found to be uninjured.
Corporal Indolence.
Warren —Why was Corclegg'p pen
sion for general disability stopped?
Pease—They found that it was only a
cas of corporal indolence^
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Six ct9. for postage. Write to-day for
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vigor, success and happiness.
Laborers in Puerto Rico get 3 cents
per hour.
Are You Using Allen's Foot. Ease.
It is the only euro for Bwollon, Smarting,
Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
aD<i Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease,
u powder to bo shaken into the shoes. Cures
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Silk culture employs 80,000 families
in Hungary.
What Shall Wo Have For Dessert?
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
bollingl no baking 1 Simply add a little hot
wator A sot to cool. Flavors; Lemon, Orange,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
North Carolina has 33,000 cotton op
eratives.
To Cure * Cold In One Dsy.
Take LAXITIVB BROMO QUININB TABLHTI. All
druggets refund the money If It falls to cure.
3. W. Uaova s signature Is on each box. 85a,
Charcoal is almost the only fuel uied
in Havana.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds—JOllS F.
LOVER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900.
In South Africa the Canadians are
called "the Royal Dare Devils."
Vienna's municipal railway is in oper
ation.
Pev. J. R. Bridges, Columbln, Mo., says:
Please send mo one bottle of Fioy's Vermi
fuge. None to bo had here.
Minister, Germany, has a high school
which has been in existence 1,100 years.
The stomach has to work hard, grinding
the food wo crowd into It. Make its work
Basy by chewing Loeman's Tepsln Gum.
The Russian people are only begin
ning to realize the advantages of life
insurance.
RICH, BUT WRETCHED
l\ ((I'M V " ) Fight on for wealth, old "Money Bags,"
J . .. J your liver is drying up and bowels wear
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VV fIWWHto iHI I not *> et ecausc y° u neglected Nature
in your mac * to get matf er
what you do, or what ails you, to-day is
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1 *P Nature help you. Neglect means bile
y' i n the blood, foul breath, and awful pains
JW i n the back of the head with a loathing
an d bad feeling lor all that is good in life.
V aWWL Don't care how rich or poor you are, you
/~\ nST I f i |rlT can 't be well if you have bowel trouble,
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Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. f ,
Inoculations for the plague arc made
in Bombay at the rate of about 5,000
a week.
Joll-W, Use New Df-Mrrt,
Pleases all tho family. Four flavors:—
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry.
At your grocers. 10 cta.
In 1899 no fewer than 6,0c0 books
were published in this country.
The Best Prescription for Chills
and Ferer Is a bottlo of Gnovi's TABTXLBBS
CHILL TOKIO. It Is slinply iron aud quinine In
a tasteless form. No cure—no nay. Price 000.
There are to-day in all countries
more than 3,000,000 Italian emigrants.
s ; & £? b " rn ' M F r - clftrse Scott, write*: 4 T
find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy."
Druggists sell it. Too.
Every square mile of sea is estimated
to contain some 120,000,000 fish.
Mrs.Winslow'sSoothingHyrap forrhildren
teething, softens the gums, reduces inllHmma
tiou. allays junn,cures wind c0Hc.250 a buttle.
New York State has 225,000 union-;
ists.
Fits permanently cured. No fit* or nervous- '
ness after first day's use of I)r. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise
free. Dr.H.II.KLiNE.LULU3I Arch St.Pliila.Pa. !
PRONOUNCING BOER NAMES. 1
Vryburg Is Called Frayburg, Krugor Is
Kreer.
01 the four different ways of pro- ,
nouncing Kruger'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, Kreogar.
where the ee is an attempt at the
French vowel sound, is perhaps the
most aristocratic; while No. 4, Kreer
(rhyming with Frere) in which the g !
entirely disappears, is tho one most
frequently heard among the Cape !
Dutch themselves. The namo of tho
other president, Steyn, is pronounced j
"Stain," and tho same sound is given !
to the diphthong el or ey, and also to
tho vowel y, wherever these occur in
Dutch words. Examples are Leyds
(Laids), Reitz (Rates), Hofmeyer, the
names Bloemfontein (Bloomfontane)
and Oraaffrelnet (accented on the last
syllable), Vryburg (Frayburg) and
Vryheid (Frayhade). The last two
also lliustrifte the sound of f, which is
always given to initial v in Dutch, j
other Instances of which are tho fam
ily names Villlers (Fill-yee or Fill-Jee)
and Viljoen (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, i
but at the Cape there is a strong ten- I
dency to give it the same sound as j
in English. Cronjo, therefore, may be
called Cron-jay, or, preferably, Cron- j
yay, and Joubert either Jew-bear or i
You-bear. Spion kop, of doubtful
fame, is called Spcwn kop or Spune
kop.—South^Africa.
Music's Aid to Marring*.
New Haven special New York
World: Miss Lillian C. Morris, 22
years old, has obtained damages from
tho Winchester Repeating Arms Com- !
pany for injuries resulting In the loss
of the second and third fingers of her
left hand. A cartridge machine on
which she worked was responsible for
tho accident. Miss Morris held that
her skill as a pianist was of no value !
to her, as the loss of the fingers pre- j
vented her performing. Her attorneys [
in arguing the case declared that her I
chances for marriage were hampered
by the injury and consequent inability
to exercise her powers as a musician. !
The machine on which Miss Morris j
worked has a history of misfortune, I
being one of those that exploded and
Injured many persons two years ago. I
M the reason? Hair ►
M needs help just as ,
K anything else does at
+4 times. The roots re
► quire feeding. When y
y hair stops growing it f
Hair
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acts almost instantly ►J
< on such hair. It ►
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l Your hair grows, be- y i
< comes thicker, and all
< dandruff is removed. b
> i And the original ► .
► color of early life is ,
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4 14 1 have used Ayer's Hair Vigor, ►.
and am really astonished at the •
a good it has done in keening my L .
hair from coming out. It is the 2
r hest tonic I have tried, and I
4 shall continue to recommend it to
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A MATTin lIoi.T, PJ
Sept. 24,1598. lluvliugton, N. C.
W If you lo not obtain nil thn benefits T
j you expected from tlio use of the liair k ,
. " Vigor, write the Doctor about it. A
DA. J. C. AYKK, LoweH,Mass.
What do the
; Children
Prink ?
Don't give them tea or coffee.
Have you tried the new food drink
called GItALN-0 ? It is delicious
mul nourishing and takes the place
of coffee.
The 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 hut
costs about as much. All grocers
sell it. Inc. and 25c.
Try Grain-O!
Insist that yoor grocer glV"s you GRAIIY-O
Accept no imitation.
W Best rough Syrup. Tastes Good. Übo gi