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All manner of extravagant expressions are possible when
a woman’B nerves are overwrought.
The spasm at the top of the wind pipe or bronchial tubes,
“ball rising in the throat,” violent beating of the heart,
laughing and crying by turns, muscular spasms (throwing
the arms about), frightened by the most insignificant occur
rences —are all symptoms of a hysterical condition and se
rious derangement of the female organs.
Any female complaint may produce hysterics, which
must be regarded as a symptom only. The cause, however
yields quickly to Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Com
pound, which acts at once upon the organ afflicted and the
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symptoms.
Mrs. Lewis Says: *• I Feel Like a New Person,
Physically and nentally.”
" Dear Mrs. Pinkham I wish to speak a good word for Lydia E.
Plnkham’s Vegetable Compound. For you is I had ovarian trouble
and suffered everything from nervousness, severe headache, and pain in
back and abdomen. I had consulted different physicians, but decided to
try your medicine, and I soon found it was giving me much relief. I con
tinued its use and now am feeling like anew person, physically and mentally,
and am glad to add one more testimonial to the value of vour remedy
Mrs. M. H. Lewis. 2108 Valentine Ave., Tromont. New York, N. Y.
riting to Mrs. Pinkham is the quickest and surest way
to get the right advice about all female troubles. Her ad
dress is Lynn, Mass. She advises women free. Following
is an instance:
Airs. Haven’s first Letter to Mrs. Pinkham.
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —l would like your advice in regard to my
troubles. I suffer every month at time of menstruation, and flow so much
and for so long that I become very weak, also get very dizzy. lam troubled
with a discharge liefore and after menses, have pains in ovaries so bed some
times that I can hardly get around have sore feeling in lower part of bowels,
pain in back, bearing-down feeling, a desire to pass urine frequently, with
pains in passing it; have leucorrhoea, headache, fainting spells, ana some
times have hysteria. My blood is not in good condition. Hoping to hear
from you. I am,” Mrs. Emma Haven, 2508 South Ave., Council Bluffs, lowa.
(June 8, 1809.)
Mrs. Haven’s Second Letter.
" Dear Mrs. Pinkham I wish to express my gratitude for what your
medicine has done for me. I suffered for four years with womb trouble
Every month I (lowed very badly. I got so bad that I could hardly do my
work. Was obliged to sit or lie down the most of the time. I doctored for
a long time, but obtained no relief 1 began using your remedies—Lydia
E. Pink hum's Vegetable Compound, Blood Purifier, Sanative Wash
and laver Pills—ana now feel like anew womirn ” — Mrs. Emma Haven,
2508 South Avo., Council Bluffs, lowa. (Feb. 1, 1900.)
t 4 K) P lAN A TJ Owing to the fact that some skeptical
\ K GII e 9 ■ rv V‘ Wa? pat a I people hsve from ti ne to time questioned
■1 6? SiSIII Itk V V PAUL# the genuineness of the testimonial letters
▼ ■Si lIK R 1 we are constantly publishing, we have
■ Iff *3 ■ deposited with the National City Rank, of Lynn, Mass . *5,000,
I 9 Ini ii M which will be paid to any person who will show that the above
Bsß Ml WKJ testimonials are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the
writers’ special permission.— Lydia E. Pinkham Mkoicink Cos.
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THE WEEKLY NEWS CARTERSVTLLE, GA.
MILLIONS AT STAKE
Vanderbilt and Gnnid Contest For
Railroad Supremacy.
MIGfITY STRUGGLE IS PROMISED
Union Pacific Line Is Bone of Con.
tention and Both Are Seek
ing Its Control.
A New York special says: From the
1 tremendous market movements in
| Union Pacific and Atchison stock, big
advances occurring in each Thursday,
it became clear that a fight is going
on between great money mterests
over the establishment of trans-con
tinental systems.
It now appears that this fight cen
ters around the plans of George J
Gould and E. H. Harriman to estab
lish a vast network of roads from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and Wil
liam K. Vanderbilt and the Pennsyl
vania railroad people, seeing what was
up, have made up their minds to frus
trate them.
With the Gould and Harriman peo
ple on the one hand are said to be
Kuhn, Loeb & Cos., who are identified
with the Union Pacific management,
while Mr. Morgan is believed to have
lent his influence to (he Vanderbilt
*nd Pennsylvania force.s.
The Rockefellers, who are identified
with Mr Gould in the Southwestern
deal, are said to have stood aloof from
the Union Pacific incident and to have
done nothing which could be criti
cised by Mi. Morgan, with whom they
are associated in many affairs.
Following the discovery that Messrs.
Gould and Harriman wanted to control
the Union Pacific, carrying with it the
Southern Pacific, it became plain that
the Missouri Pacific and Illinois Cen
tral might be substituted for the Chi
cago and Northwestern as the eastern
connection of ihe Union Pacific,there
by greatly injuring the Vanderbilt po
sition in the west.
In order to protect Ihe North
western and New York Central,
William K. Vanderbilt started to accu
mulate a large amount of Union Pa
cifi and Messrs. Gould and Harriman
learning this, also bought enormous
quantities of this stock.
Meanwhile the Pennsylvania, hav
ing lost the Burlington to the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern, also
had to fix up its western fences. It
bought large quantities of Atchison.
This road gives a through line to Ban
Francisco out of Chicago. Good au
thorities assert that the Pennsylvania
began buying Atchison stock many
months ago, but did not think it was
necessary to get enough stock to exer
cise control, if need be,until the Gould
and Burlington deals developed.
Now, it is asserted, both the New
York Central and Pennsylvania,which
entered into a close alliance two years
ago,never had such need to stand shoul
der to shoulder as they have at present.
If the euorrnpus buying of Union
Pacific lias secured control of that
property in the interest of the North
western, New York Central, and per
haps St. Paul, there is no necessity
for controlling the Atchison, but if
the Union Pacific has been lost to
Gould aud Harriman the heavy ac
cumulation of Atchison Thursday
would indicate that that company is
needed as an outlet to the Pacific coast
for both the Pennsylvania and Vander
bilt linos.
There is another serious side to the
fight. The Pennsylvania has been try
ing to prevent the entrance of the
Gould lines into Pittsburg. A recent
dispatch from that city stated that the
Wheeling and Lake Erie would not
be so extended, but that the Penn
sylvania would allow Mr. Gould fa
vorable trackage rights over the Bal
timore and Ohio.
It is officially stated that this offer
will not be accepted, but the Wheeling
road will be extended into Pittsburg
as rapidly as possible. This will di
rectly bring in both the Wabash and
Missouti Pacific, giving them a large
Ateel aud iron tonuage. Mr. Carnegie,
before selling out to the steel trust,
made a contract to deliver a vast
amount of his tonnage, aggregating
more than 1,000,000 tons a year, to
the Wheeling road. Mr. Carnegie was
himself to build an independent line
to tidewater, presumably at Balti
more.
He is understood to have made an
offer for the Western Maryland rail
road. Now, it is asserted, Mr. Gould
intends to carry out some such plan in
order to prepare for any fight that he
may have with the Pennsylvania and
Vanderbilt people.
Mr. Gould has further irritated Wil
| liam K. Vanderbilt by planning an ex
tension of the \\ beefing road to the
vicinity of Cleveland. When the new
i link of the Wabash in northern Indi
ana and Chicago is built, the Gould sys
tem will have a direct line from Cleve
land to Chicago, paralleling the Lake
j Shore all the way.
FAITHFUL DUU KEPT GUARD.
Two Little Master* Go Down to Water*
*ry G ave Clnsped In Death** Embrace.
Jimmy and Joseph Tucker, aged
| eleven and nine, left their home for
i Clinton, S. C., Sunday morning.
When they did not return search was
made and at 3 o’clock Monday morn
ing, a little dog, the play fellow of the
boys, was found lying upon their
clothes on the bank of Little river.
The stream was dragged and the bodies
found locked in each other’s arms.
LAYINC A CHOST.
Architect Relates His Experience (n Lo
cating _ Mysterious Noise.
“There is certainly nothing more dis
tracting than a slight monotonous
noise,” said a young architect of this city.
“I mean a noise of the drumming or tap
ping variety, repeated with mechanical
regularity. One can become accustomed
to the worst kind of a promiscuous hub
bub and learn to enjoy tranquility next
door to a barber shop, but the tap-tap
tap of a loose shingle or rickety window
frame will bore its way into the nerve
centers like dropping water eating into a
stone. What reminded me of the sub
ject was a peculiar exneriencce I had
last week. A friend of mine who w’orks
in one of the railroad offices, sent for me
in considerable distress and begged me
to come home with him and locate a noise
that he said was driving his wife almost
frantic. The couple live in a suite of
rooms over a store in an old and heavily
constructed brick building.
.“I found the noise that was bothering
them was audible only in the right-hand
front apahtment, which they used as a
parlor, and as soon as I heard it I appre
hended their desire to be rid of it. It
was a curious sound—a sort of faint me
tallic rapping, which came apparently
from nowhere in particular and was
about as loud in one place as another.
Such a solid -bidding was not likely to be
subject to vibrations, and I confess I
was considerably puzzled. I listened at
tentively at all the walls, shifted every
article of furniture in the room, and went
over the entire building above and be
low, without finding a clew to the nui
sance. The only place the noise could be
heard was in that one room and there
seemed to be absolutely nothing to ac
count for it. My friend’s wife is nat
urally a nervous woman, and she had
worked herself into such a condition that
she declared she wouldn’t remain an
other day on the premises.
“At last, just before retreating de
feated, I threw open one of the windows
and noticed an old drain pipe running
down by the casement. 'Hello!’ I said
to myself, ‘let’s see where that thing
goes to.’ I went downstairs and found
it led into an areaway and from thence
across the back yard to the rear of an
other building, where a pistern was evi
dently once located. Six inches from its
open end was a sheet of tin, covering
a hole of some kind in the wall, and as
soon 0 as I drew near the secret was out.
There was a steam engine for an electric
light plant in the building, and the loose
tin vibrated steadily whenever it was in
motion, which was practically day and
night. The drain pipe simply acted as a
speaking tube, and, returning to the room,
I found the upper end broken off in
line with a big crack in the window
casing. I jerked down the pipe and the
ghost was laid. Architects and builders
are quite frequently called in, by the way,
to locate and suppress annoying sounds.
The nuisance is much more common than
anybody would sunnose who has never
suffered from it. Not long ago a heavy
partition in a building here was torn open
simply to get out a loose lath that was
worrying the tenants on both sides.”—
A Jew Orleans Times-Dcmocrat.
HER PIECE DE RESISTANCE.
Mr. Fraidover —I don’t dare bring any
of the fellows home unexpectedy, be
cause I never know what my wife may
have for dinner.
Mr. Bravitout—Oh, I alwa-s know
what my wife will have, because in a case
of that sort she invariably has the same
thing.
Mr. Fraidover (interestedly)—And
what is that?
Mr. Bravitout— A fit.— Leslie's Weekly.
Pocketbook of Murderer's Skin.
A pocket-book made from the skin of
a murderer is in possession of the New
Jersey Historical society. A man named
Antonio Lc Blanc, in 1883. killed a man.
his wife and a servant, and tried to kill
a daughter of the same man in order to
get a gold watch which belonged to the
daughter. Le Blanc wished to present
the watch to his sweetheart. Le Blanc
was hanged in Morristown, where a pub
lic park is now located. His body was
turned over to a physician for dissection.
The pocket-book was for years the prop
erty of Sheriff Endow, who hartged him.
rt' Steam I.ooomiitivc Rnomei).
It is claimed that within a ferr vears the
electric motor will completely supplant the
steam locomotive, and trains will then rush
along at a sped of 100 miles an hour. To
travelers thia will prove a great blessing, but
no more so than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
has proved a blessing to those who wish to
regain their health quickly. The Bitters cure
dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, malaria,
fever and ague, also improves the appetite
and purifies the blood.
In a state of nature tea trees grow to a
height of forty feet; in cultivation they are
dwarfed by pruning to not more than
three.
Ilorlora, l.aivycrt. merchants,
And people in all conditions of life, who have
used Crab Orchard V. a ter. continue to me it
and recommend it. No testimonial has the
■ame effect as personal experience.
Skeletons 4000 years old have been found
near the village of Fiomborn, in Germany.
The bodies were of enormous size.
M. L. Thompson A Cos., Druggist*. Couders
port. Pa., say Hall’s Catarrh Curo is the bosi
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it, 75c.
Money talks, but a little scare causes it
to shut up tight.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
The tender b nanas grow and do fairly
well in sheltered portions of Southern Cat
ifornia.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ohildrsn
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26cabottU
Virginia had the largest population of
any of the States at tne first census in
1790.
I am suroPiso’s Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.—Mbs. Thomas Rob
nurs. Maple St., Norwioh, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1900.
Before the discovery of sugar, drinks
were sweetened with honey.
Thai Pale Woman
Yon meet evcrvwhere In nine cases out ten Is
eutitlnd to rosy cheeks n ml a strong constltu
tlon. Her 1 roubles are es ly curable. Tin
right remedy Is Hickey's Female lonic and
Regulator. It Invigorates all the delicate or
ganism of woman, and banishes every toriu of
ieinalo weakness.
Hollanders find it cheaper to import
hay from I>* Plata than to raise it on their
own meadows
CHINA UNABLE TO PAY.
Powers Will Have a Picnic In
Collecting That Enormous
Indemnity.
A cable dispatch from Pekin says:
At a meeting of the ministers Wed
nesday the report of the indemnity
committee was read. Regarding the
resources of China the report was very
voluminous. It was practically a re
petition of Jameson’s well-known
1 amphlet upon the subject. Sir Rob
ert Hart offered suggestions similar to
those already credited to him. It is
claimed that the revenues from all
available sources will not allow China
to pay the indemnity unless assistance
is rendered.
The subject of Count von YValder
see’s letter will be taken up at the
next meeting and a reply to it will be
.drafted. The ministers personally
object to the tone of the letter. They
claim that they know what they want
without being told. They particular
ly object to any of the legation guards
being under any authority except that
of the ministers themselves.
A Washington dispatch says: The
German and French ambassadors and
Mr. Rogestvensty, for the Russian
ambassador, were among Thursday’s
callers on Mr. Hill, acting secretary of
state. The discussion was almost en
tirely on Chinese affairs, the press
dispatches as to an agreement on
$273,000,000 indemnity and on a
change of custom duties having ex
cited considerable interest in official
and diplomatic circles.
None of the callers wore able to con
firm the report, but the opinion was
general that an agreement on indem
nity has been reached The prevailing
view was that $273,001,000 represent
ed a compromise between the mini
mum amount urged by the United
States and the maximum urged by the
other powers. The original total of
claims amounted to a half billion dol
lars, so lhat the present total repre
sents a scaling down of about 40 per
cent. At this rate the claim of the ;
United States, which originally was
about $25,000,000, would he cut to !
about $18,000,003.
It is believed in Washington that ;
the hitch which is said to have arisen j
at Pekin over the proposition to in- !
crease the Chinese custom duties to :
meet the indemnities demanded by the
foreign powers is caused by the i
broaching by Mr. Rockliili of his plan
for the aboluion of the Likin duties
as e condition for his acquieeence in ;
the customs increase. The United !
States government has in the past ad- j
mitted a readiness to permit the Chi- |
uese to increase the custom rates pro- j
vidiag there was no discrimination i
between the powers. Minister Wu
says that the present 5 per cent is to
tally inadequate to provide a sinking
fund for anew loan.
BRYAN FLAYS M’LAURIN.
Nvbrflitkan Take* South CiHollnH Senator
To 'lusk For Hi* "Flop.”
A dispatch from Lincoln, Nel>.,says:
In a statement made Thursday W. J.
Bryan takes Senator McLaurin, of
South Caarolina, to task for what lie
declares is his "political flop.” At the
same time 7\lr. Bryan admits Senator
McLamin’s action marks the begin
ning of a movement in the south which
will have an influence upon the poli
tics of the nation. He says:
"Tt is not likely that Mr. McLanriu
will be the leader of the movement be
cause be is handicapped by the fact
that he is using his official position to
misrepresent the views aod interests
of his constituents; but some leader
will arise to give direction and force to
the aristocratic aud plutocratic ele
ment for which Mr. McLaurin speaks.
There is such an element in every
communi’y, and now that the race
question no longer unifies the white
people of the southern states it will
doubtless manifest itself.
"Senator Tillman has already taken
up the gage of battle thrown down by
Senator McLaurin and will doubtless
be able to marshal a considerable ma
jority in that state; but the same in
fluences are at work in other states
where there is greater danger of suc
cess.
“The democratic sentiment is strong
enough to resist aud overcome the Me-
Laurin movement, but those who be
lieve that the man is more important
that the dollar will have to bestir
themselves.”
To Improve Mate Capitol.
The joint committee of the Florida
legislature on the improvemeut of the
state buildings decided to recommend
to both branches of the legislature an
appropriation of one hundred thousand
dollars for the enlargement of the Cap
itol building.
Sympathy From Boston.
Mayor Hart, of Bostou. has wired
the mayor of Jacksonville expressing
the sympathy of the citizens of Boston
over the couflagratiou and asking
"hat kind of assistance would be ac
ce 'table.
Chicago Is Ready To Aid
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, issued
a proclamation Monday asking for
contributions to the fund to relieve
suffering in Jacksonville. All money
or supplies received by the mayor will
bo forwarded to the proper authorities
in the southern city.
Galveston Doing Noble Work.
The citizens of Galveston, through
the Galveston News, contributed S4OS
additional to the Jacksonville lire suf
ferers, making a total of $1,454 con
tributed to date.
CUBANS TO CONCEDE
Most Radical Admit That Platt
Aiceadment Will Stand.
COMMISSIONERS MAKE REPORT
Document Makes a Good lmp, Kßion
on the Convention and There Will
Be But Little Opposition When
Matter Is Brought to a Test.
The special commission cf the Cu
ban constitutional convention which
returned to Havaua from Washington
May sth will not make any recoin
mendation to the convention, accord
ing to advices from the Cuban capi
tab Although a majority of the com
missioners are in favor of accepting
the Platt amendment, the report will
cover only the facts of the confer
ence at Washington.
The convention held a secret ses
sion Tuesday afternoon. The radical
clement admits that the convention
will accept the amendment. The com
missioners at the secret session pre
sented an extensive report of their
conference with President McKinley
and Secretary Root and a glowing ac
count of the banquets and receptions
tendered them. Senor Giberga ob
jected to incorporating an account, of
the social programme in the report,
but the commission insisted upon thia
point.
In reference to the third clause of
the Platt amendment, the report
stated that, the United States would
not interfere unless Cuba were at
tacked by a foreign power, or unless
there existed in Cuba a condition of
affairs similar to that which existed
under Spain at the time cf American
intervention.
Regarding coaling stations the re
port set forth that the places so de
sired by the United States were Cape
Maysi and San Antonio, and another
point commanding the entrance to the
Gulf of Mexico; these would be defin
itely determined upon when draw
ing up the treaty and that the ob
ject of these stations would be the
maintenance of the independence of
Cuba as well as the protection of tha
United States. The report also said
that the United States would in no
way interfere in the local government
and that President McKinley had
promised to appoint a committee to
meet a Cuban committee to discuss
the economic questions and to draw
up a commercial treaty as soon as the
republic is established, and that he
advised the Cubans in the meantime
to study the situation in this respect.
The report announced that Secre
tary Root had said that there was
nothing in the Platt amendment to
prevent Cuba having diplomatic rep
resentatives in foreign countries.
The report has evidently made a
good impression and only a few radi
cals will continue to oppose its accept
ance.
Senor Valluenda, in an open letter
declaring his intention to accept the
amendment, said he first thought that,
if the convention rejected the amend
ment, Wr hington might change it.3
policy, as he then believed the amend
ment was ihe work of party.
“I now believe, ’* says Senor Val
luenda, “that the amendment is the
work of the nation. There is no use
in objecting to the inevitable. It is
either annexation or a republic with
the amendment, and I prefer the lat
ter. The United States government,
by insisting upon the amendment,
shows that the Americans have
changed from their policy before the
war and that they no longer rely upon
the Monroe doctrine to protect the
interests of American republics.”
TO “PULL” FOR REUNION.
Louisville Will Attempt to Capture the
Confederate Veteran Once More.
Louisville, Ky., will send a big dele
gation of old soldiers, beaded by a
brass band and a troop of jubilee sing
ers to Memphis to root for the confed
erate veterans’ reunion of 1902. It is
confidently expected that the city will
win the honor. In an hour Tuesday
enough money was subscribed to pay
the expenses of carrying the musi
cians and the glee club to Memphis.
NEW YORK TO HELP.
Emergency Committee Will Send Sop
plies to Jacksonville,
The Jacksonville emergency com
mittee of the Merchants’ Association
of New York city, organized to send
relief to Jacksonville, Fia., received
the following telegram:
"Tallahassee, Fla., May 6.— Food
supplies needed as temporary relief-
Jacksonville association will issue a
call, which will be furnished yon, gi y '
ing class of supplies needed. The peo
ple of Florida appreciate your noble
work; iu their name I thank yon.
"W. S. Jennings, Governor.”
UNCLE HAM WATCHING GERMAN!.
Import Tlit Kaifipr Is Sppkins CoaUnff
Station Off Venezuela.
Although the matter never lias fig'
ured before the state department, the
navy department has been closely
watching the happeuings near Mar
garita island, off’ the coast of Vene
zuela, which have given rise to the
report that a German coaling station
is to be established there. The facts
have been reported to the department
by some of the United States naval
officers who commanded vessels which
have cruised in those waters recently-