All Woman Know That ordinary treatment falls to relieve painful periods. They know Lydla E. Pink ham's Vegetable Com pound will and does and has, more than any other medicine. Every woman knows about Mrs. Plnkham's medicine. Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Pink ham has ourod. But nine women out of ton put off getting this re liable remedy until their health Is nearly wrecked by experiments or neg lect! Then they write to Mrs. Pinkham and she cures them, but of course It takes longer to do so. Don't dolay getting help if you are sick. She has helped a million women. Why not you ? HERMITS AMONG THE COMMONERS. The Eritish M. P.'s Aro Not a Sociable Set—Twenty Years of Silence. There is probably no assembly in the world where so little social and per sonal intercourse takes place. I was for five years in the House of Com mons without knowing half a dozen men outside the small body of 35 to 40 members with whom 1 acted. These were, of course, stormy times, and it was difficult to say whether an Irishman in the epoch between 1880 and 1885 had a fiercer hatred tor Liberals or Tories. Things, of course, have greatly changed, but even now I see every day members of the House of Commons who must have been there for the same 20 years as myself, and not only have I never spoken to them, but I do not know some of them by name. Amid all its grogariousness the House of Commons has its isolation. Members retain there the eccentricity or the love of solitude which are char acteristic of certain temperaments. Mr. Charrington, the member for Mile-End, for instance, who is one of the most universally generous men in the House, and who is never deaf to a true tale of undeserved suffering, has rarely been seev to talk to a single human being. The same instinct, perhaps, which made him refuse both a baronetcy and peer age. keeps him apart from his fellows, lie dines alone, lie takes his single cigar in the smokcroom .alone, he sits on a back bench in the House, still and ever alone.—T. P. O'Connor, in London Mail. Deafness Cannot Re Cured by local applications, as they ennnot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to ouro deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. 1) afness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous liningoftlie Eustachian Tuba. When ti 1i- tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness in the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Uure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. In 1898 the tobacco monopoly yielded Prance an income of 329.000,000 francs. To Cure a Cold in On# Day. Sake Laxative Uromo Quinine Tablets. All rugglhts refund the money If it falls to cure. ■ W . (Jitovx'u signature is on each box. 260. More than half the population of the t*rth has direct access to the Pacific. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the anarchist, threatens to throw the entire police DOUGLAS 9 3 t_® limn any other! 9 g# Ms g g W•1••I>o 11 k1 n . r>ofc9 0 o other make is becauselgH ? £** nHf'l'lx 'yurcthrfScßi.fSg 1 w "ill £ EVrport I'd and AnicnmiraPL \ g* f leathers. The wm kmun-AA • b eunal to 81 and ffi shoes orTtV M Th** flt llke ''j ''' P wl - tru! |E ry ' The Real Worth of Our $3 and $3.50 Shoes ff compared with ether makes is $4 to $5. g ■ ll ffi thenar treat 83 and 83.50 shoe bnsi- B manufacturing, 'enables us to produced . higher (mule Sft.oo and 83.80 shoes than ff can to had elsewhere. Your dealer B should keep them ; we give one dealer B H Take no •iibatlti'ite*! Insist Won hnvlngW.L.Douglas shoes with B ■ nameand prlrentampedon tiottoni.9 M If your dealer will not get them for g Jiyott, send direct to factory, en -M H closing prico and 2fie. extra B for carriage. State kind of M leather, sire, and width, M 9 plain or cap ton. Our /y shoes will reach you JSr CUTTING MAHOCANY TREES. Experienced Woodsmen Alone Can Find Suitable Timber For Market. The mahogany hunter Is the most Important and best pakl laborer in the service, for upon his skill and ac tivity largely depends the success of the season. Mahogany trees do not grow in clusters, hut are scattered pro miscuously through the forests and hidden in the dense growth of under brush, vines and creepers, and it re quires an experienced and skilful woodsman to find tlieih. No progress can be made in a tropical forest with out the aid of a machete, for the way must be cut step l>y step. The mahogany is one of the largest and tallest of trees, and the hunter, seeking the highest ground, climbs to the top of the tallest tree and surveys the surrounding country. liis prac ticed eye soon detects the mahogany by its peculiar foliage and he counts the trees within range of his vision, notes the directions and distances and then, descending, cuts a narrow trail to each tree, which he carefully blazes and marks, especially if there bo a rival hunter in the vicinity. The nx lncn follow the hunter, and after them come the sawyers and hewers. To fell a large mahogany tree is one day's task for two men. On account of the wide spurs which project from the trunk at the base scaffolds must he erected and the tree cut off above the spurs, which leaves a stump from ten to fifteen feet in height—a sheer waste of the very best part of the tree and one which American inge nuity should certainly devise some means to prevent. While the work of foiling and hewing is in progress other gangs are busy making roads and bridges over which the logs may be hauled to the river. One wide "truck pass." as it is called, is made through the centre of the district oo cupied by the works, and branch roads are opened from this main avenue tc each tree. Most of the trucking is done at night by torchlights of pitch pine. The oxen are fed on the leaves and the twigs of the breadnut tree, which gives then? more strength and power of endurance than any other obtainable food. The trucking being done in the dry sea son, the logs are collected on the bank of the river and made ready for the floods. On the longest rivers these begin in June and July, and on others in October and November. The logs are turned adrift and when they reach tide water are caught by means of booms* Indian loggers, usually Car ibs, follow the logs down the river in order to release those which arc caught by obstacles. No little judgment and experience is required "■ determine at what ox act stages of the flood the logs should be sot adrift. Should the water rise to what is called "topagallant flood" before the logs reach the boom many of them would he carried over the banks and left high and dry in cane breaks and thickets or covered up by sand and rubbish. From the boom the logs are rafted to the embarcadero and "manufactured" for shipment.—Self Culture. City Men and Country Pupers. The homing instinct in the blood Is felt by hard-headed, shrewd and prac tical men, engaged in business in great towns, and apparently free from in convenient sentiment. Yet, though they scan their newspapers with keen and eager relish, they throw them aside when read, while some little sheet, not particularly well printed and put together as if jumbled in a scrap-basket, is slipped into the pocket and carried home. This is the coun ty paper published up-country, and filled with intimate personal details, the pleasant and kindly neighborhood gossip which goes on at the postottice and around the station when the train comes in. Here are familiar names: the story of life in a farmiug commun ity related with minute care; the go ings and comings of kindred and ac quaintances; the sales, the purchases, the casualties, the changes, all chron Icled without much art or skill, but with closest and most satisfactory realism. The man may he a million aire several times over, but he was once a boy on the farm, and he will be a subscriber to the little country pppcr as long as he lives.—Margaret E. Sangster, in Collier's Weekly. A3. =•- XT**. Hygiene For the Seaside. Once upon a time we were taught that a bather should always become well cooled off before he went into ♦he water. Now he comes to the shore after a tennis match or a game of golf or a spin on his wheel and plunges at once Into the waves. The old conser vative is shocked, but the modern phy sician approves, and gives his reasons for it. After active exercise the blood is in full circulation, the heart is doing its best, and the shock of the cold dip has only a tonic effect that strengthens the walls of the blood ves sels by the quick contraction that fol lows the previous expansion. Some doctors even depart so far from re ceived traditions as to advise a course like this to persons suffering from heart weakness, assorting that the shock acts on the heart like the spur upon a horse, and stimulates ir to fresh effort. Such treatment should hardly be adopted, however, without a physician's specific advice.—Harper's Bazar. A Willi Five l'umiels. The Russian cruiser Aslcold, that was launched some two mouths ago at Kiel, Germany, presents a very unique appearance. She Is an ar mored cruiser, and is exceedingly long —ll3 feet—and sets very low in the water. She is the only vessel In ex istence that has five funnels. She will be armed with thirty rapid-fire guns of different calibre, and can Btcatn twenty-one knots an hour. Where to Locate? WHY, IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE Louisville A " Nashville Railroad, —THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, KENTLCKY, TENNESSEE. ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA. •—WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stork Raisers. Manufacturers, investors. Speculators and Money Lenders will find tho greatest chances/In the United States to make '"big money" by reason of tho abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms, Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Everything. Free sites, financial assistance, and free, doni from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farm* at SI.OO nor acre and up. wards, and stX>,ooo acres in West Florida that can be taken gratia under the U- S. Home- Head laws. Stock raising in tho Gulf Coast Distriot will make enormous profits. Half fare excurslona the flret and third TueKdayK of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you whero and how to get it—but don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all information free. Address R. J WEMYSS. Scncral Immigration and Industrial Agent Low sville. Kv. MILITARY NOTES. Franco Preparing a Surprise Japanese Army Organized Upon German Lines—Pen sioners' Widows Long Lived. It is not an uncommon sight to see a Chinese soldier with a fan and an um brella strapped across his back. The British government is the owner of over 25.000 camels. Several thou sands are used in India to carry stores and equipments when the regiments are changing quarters. Field Marshal yon Waldcrsec's flag for the campaign in China is a Uhlan's flag, divided into four squares, two black and two white, witl: a red border, and a bar running transversely across the de sign. The flag is attached to a Uhlan's lar.ee. A large number of the new French field pieces, with quick-firing action, arc being manufactured as quietly as possi ble. so as to spring a surprise upon an enemy in the event of war. as in the case of the new rifled field gun in 1859 and the mitrailleuses in 1870. The mor al effect of such surprises is the chief ele ment of their value. At the present time the United States has more warship tonnage under con struction than ever before in the history of the country in time of peace. The new vessels building or authorized in clude seventy of all classes. 12 of which are battleships, 6 armored cruisers, 9 protected torpedo boat destroyers, 15 torpedo boats. 7 submarine gunboats and one lake gunboat. The Japanese army is organized upon German lines, which supplanted the French system fti 1872. Since 1880 the Jap lias ceased to seek for instructors. He does not think the British training a thorough one for service in the field. Common sense chose them the German system, but they love the British na tion. They arc natural allies of Tommy Atkins, because they look upon his his tory as a record of bravery and cour age and honor. No pensioner of the Revolutionary war survives. The last one died in iB6O, at the age of 109, hut last year there were, and doubtless still arc, four Rev olutionary widows 011 the pension rolls, none of them older than 66. Pension ers' widows make little of the lapse of centuries. Judging by precedent it is not improbable that 150 years from now there will stiff he widows drawing pen sions 011 account of the services of their husbands in our late war with Spain. M. Marcel Monnicr, a French literary gentleman, spent a considerable portion of 1899 in an extended journey through China. On his way from Peking to Tien Tsin lie passed through the village of Yo-shi-Wo. Here a garrison of Chi nese imperial troops had been station ed since the outbreak of the war with China. The troops had been forgotten by the imperial military authorities at Peking. Since they were dumped down there not an order had reached them and not a cent of pay had been distrib uted among them. THE EIGNESS OF THt OCEAN. Its Waters Contain Many ol tho Important Elements o' the Earth. Some people gratefully reflect that we owe the clouds and the tides and the winds to the "Mother and Maker of men," but these arc less numerous than the folks who "would like to know" what wc should do for soles and cod and mackerel if there were no ocean. Yet think only how big it is! If you divide the whole gitibe's area into eleven parts the sea covers eight of those, with an average depth of 2.000 fathopis. Try to imagine 12.030 feet of solid, perpen dicular sea water lying upon eight elevenths cf the entire planet! A patient mathematician has been at the nains to inform us that this hulk of brine would weigh one and a half I>il uon millions of tons. For the most part this vast body of water—thus set down in figures as 1,530.000.000.000. coo.ooo tons— is of the same composition everywhere, and, as everybody knows, carries great quantities of ocean salt. But that same salt is itself singularly Not only are there in it the chlorides and sulphates of sodium, pot ash. magnesium and liruc, which arc fh miliar to many, hut it contains also silica, boron, bromine, iodine, fluoric acid and the oxides of nickel, cobalt, manganese, zinc, silver, lead, copper, aluminum, barium and strontium. Ar senic and gold are also found in it. along with those rare metals lithium, rubidium and coesivct.—London Telegraph. Rotary flight can be given to an ar row like that of a rifle bullet by using feathers of one wing for the same set of arrows, the curve of the wing giving the rotary motion. OUR CONSULS NEED MORE PAY. Present Compensation is Inadequate to Prop erly Meet Requirements. The meager pay of our consuls is a matter of whose importance congress men who are themselves essentially provincial can never be convinced. Knowing little of any world but that in which they have moved and had their being, entirely ignorant of the establish ed usage of diplomacy and the cosmo politan society in which the consular representative must dwell, they forget | that a proper consideration for appear ances is an absolute necessity; and pet- j' tiness and meanness and certain sorts' of small economy bring us into con tempt and minimize our influence with European powers, which in their long j experience have acquired a very salu tary worldly wisdom. There is hardly ■ a consulate in the world where the American representative is not the most' shabbily housed, poorly served and! poorly paid man among his consular I associates. Frequently his means are 1 so inadequate that he is unable to return in any proper degree, the social favors I that have been shown him. Through' parsimony that curtails expense here i that the Government may be wantonly lavish with certain species of bold and notorious jobbery, its representatives' abroad are often placed in the humiliat ing attitude of mere hangers-on—men tolerated, but not respected. It also explains why so many entirely objee- j tionablc persons arc appointed to con-' sular posts, aside from the confessed reward for purely political service, in which fitness, intelligence and ordinary good breeding cut 110 figure. Men of refinement, of culture and experience re fuse to be so abased.—The Chautau- j quan. Europo Docs Not Combat Trusts. The European public maintains a 1 complacent attitude toward trusts, but if i these trusts had done evil instead ofj good they would not have been toler- j ated. for governments and the leading political economists, as well as trade rivals, have c/0.-rlv scrutinized their daily walk and their average tendency. There arc pirates among trusts, com binations with more water than blood in j their make-up, and reckless gamblers. The world has uothinir to fear from the proper use of the power of combination. It is the abuse or that" power that should exer cise th; vigilance of the citizen and the strong arm of the law.—Ainslce's Maga zine. Not Typewritten. Play Rejected. Struggling authors who feel that their work waits long tor appreciation may take sonic comfort from the history of a play which has been the one real suc cess of the past year in London, a time when almost nothing lias succeeded, not even war dramas. This summer one of the most prominent and successful of American actors sat in a box and saw the performance and suddenly realized that 14 years ago the play had been submitted to him. It was not typewrit ten, and the author's handwriting was so illegible that the actor never man aged to get into the play.—-Saturday Evening Post. No Taste Better Than a Bad Taste. The Germans and the Austrians have for many years drawn their teas from unknown sources, neither Indian nor Chinese. Hence the present complica tions in China will not affect them. When George Eliot and George Henry Lewes arrived for the first time in Ber lin the latter craved for a cup of tea. "It tastes like nothing at all," he saitl when it was brought to him. "Then thank your stars." remarked his com panion, "for it might taste bad."—Lon don Illustrated News. 30 FEET OF BOWELS c\% M 1 o f re Packed away in your insides and must be kept clean, \ J / cd order and doing' business. V? , It' s a long way, with many turns and pitfalls to catch v*v y refuse and clog the channel if not most carefully -v.cleaned out every day. When this long canal is blockaded, look out for trouble—furred tongue, bad breath, belching of gases, yellow spots, pimples and boils, headaches, spitting up of Q J food after eating—an all-around disgusting nuisance. /^/)(^ Violent pill poisons or griping salts are danger -ICjp^ll ous to use for cleaning out the bowels. They /Nlriw/*^klTri'V''force out the obstruction by causing violent . ' spasms of the bowels, but they leave the in testines weak and even less able to keep up / Ml- Vx V * regular movements than before, and make a 7 )M 2 fa/yer dose necessary next time. xIsSP Then you have the pill habit, which kills more people than the morphine and whiskey habits combined. i wf-, The only safe, gentle but certain lx>wel cleansers are K§Bpf sweet, fragrant CASCARETS, because they don't force out the foecal matter with violence, but act as a tonic on the whole 30 feet of bowel wall, strengthen the muscles TnitALiHENTAKT cikal. 1. low., md „i restore healthy, natural action. Buy and try them! (Look out for imitations and substitutes or you can't get u^ h fci£s^rv^f. o rm;~SdK:•"'Awin'Tni'ciiSr reso . lts * Cascarcts are never sold in bulk. Look for the *^T l i^ii?^mi o i4. n >inu,. D trh , duosnii 1 m o ii wftii trade-mark, the long-tailed "C" on the box.) You will ,7.'^'^"%%TrF"". 'iSSii: hnd that in an entirely natural way your bov.els will ba Sili^tSSS.lku!i i. promptly and permanently Get the genuine If you want results! Tablet Is marked "CCC " Cascarets are never old in bulk, but only and always In the light blue metal box with the long-tailed " C." Look for the trade-mark—the C with a long tail—on the lidl nrmtT? g *^ff^^ 25c. y " v. -ft* I £E£] ° needy rnor tal, who can't afford to buy, we will mail a box free. jy l?bsi£. ol