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PERIODS OF PAIN. How Time While no woman is entirely free from periodical suffering, it does not seem to have been the plan of nature that woman should suffer so severely. Lydia E. I’inkliam’s Vegetable Compound is the most thorough female regu lator known to medical science. It relieves the condition which produces so ■inch discomfort and robs menstruation of its terrors. The three letters here published should encourage every woman who suffers : A up. 0, 1808. “Dear Mrs Pin’kham: I have Buffered since the ape of sixteen with painful menstruation. I have been treated for months, and was told that the womb had fallen a little. The doctor says that is now in place again, but I still have the same pain. Please tell me what to do."— Mrs. Emma Kukri,, 112 Trautman St., Brooklyn, E D., N.Y. Jan. 10, 1899. ‘‘Dear Mrs. Pixkiiam : After re ceiving your reply to my letter of Aug. fl f followed your kind advice, and am glad to tell you that 1 have been cured of the severe pain at time of menstruation through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound. I have taken six bottles of it, felt better after the first bottle, and after a while had no more pain or womb trouble. “ I had doctored from the age of six teen to twenty-six, and had lost all hope, but your medicine has made me well. “ I would like to have you use my testimonial, bo that others may see, and be inspired with hope, and take your medicine.” Mrs. Emma Kuehl, 112 Trautman St.,Brooklyn,E. D.,N. Y. Feb. 20, 1900. “ I saw your medicine so highly recommended 1 thought 1 would write to you for advice. My menstruation occurs every two weeks, lasts a week, and is painful. I have been troubled in this way for •ome time. I suiter from sick head ache and backache all the time, appe If there is anything about your ease about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. No man will see your letter. She can surely help you, for no person in America has such a wide experience in treat ing female ills as she has had She has helped hundreds of thousands of women back to health. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is free. You are very foolish if you do not accept her kind invitation. A J** Te deposited with the National City Hank of Lynn. *SOOO, *hlch will be ['aid to any person wliocan find that the above testimonial letters are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the writer’* special per- mission. LYDIA R. FINKHAM MEDICINE CO. . ■ 11J A Safest, surest cure ft> UrHl S* tlrroat sud lun* troubles. People praise Cough Syrup Sell sc substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, “Tbs Base* that Bails West Point famous.” McILHENNY S TABASCO. Reslion this Paper *"2!3£lfSS Huglas o SHOES mss. H & 1 f. 1.. Don *£ stmt 4 * I*l to $?. My >c cannot be equallcU AEjJ It is not alone the lv?st that makes first •t the foot, and the eonitmutu-n of the shoe. It is me- Lantral skill and knowledge that have made \s. 1.. Dougina shoes the the "< rid for men. : * Ilk Take •• Mbstltste. name Aak and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them, if he does uot, \v.v / jflk w for catalog ginug full instructions bow to order by mail. . 1.. IM)1 t; I. %s, llrocktou. Hass. f Starts M i/e & ''k tite poor, side at P stomach every ! morning, every thing I eat hurts \ x&fiu - Isml me ’ am ver y weak, W? j an( * sallow. -’<* fiF h “ I have tried a J q?I doctor, but he did 1/ /( not scem t° do me / i> -~jr any good.” Miss H ago ik Pollard, p l.o. . 0 . So - , 4l l\ St ” =—■— Richmond, Va. April 23, 1900. “ Since receiving your answer to my letter I have been taking your Vegetable Compound, and it has done me more good than any medicine I have ever taken. My menses are all right now, and appear once a month, and 1 feel so much stronger. 1 shall always praise your medicine.”—Miss Maggie Pollard, 319 So. 4th St., Richmond, Va. “ I was troubled with female weak ness,irregular and r painful menstrua at ion, and leu- (f '■y c o rrhoc a. The / doctor’s medicine \ $ did me no good. |4 feU#. toT \ 1 have taken one ni l Jy ]L bottle and a half J \ ““j* R w of your Vegetable I Com pou n and, and thanks to your medicine,my pains are gone. 1 advise aa-11 women suffering as I have to use your Vegetable Compound.” Emma J. PniBBLK, Indianola, 111. A Mean Man. “There’s the meanest man I ever met,” said the shoe dealer, as the cus tomer passed out of his store. “A number seven boot fits him nicely, but he buys number elevens, because he gets them for the same price.”—New York Commercial Advertiser. THE WEEKLY NEWS, GARTERSYILLE, GA. A NEW TRANSPORT WACOM. Can Carry Ration* for Forty Man on Cut* post Duty or Serve With a Battery. I The old Idea of taking few measure! ! for the comfort of the troops In th field, because they are usually com pelled by the force of circumstances tc do without any comforts, was explode* long ago and to-day every good office* tries to bring his men to the field of battle In as fresh a condition aa possible. One of the most arduous dutlef (other than actual fighting on the fir ing line) is outpost duty, and any means that will lighten this service In the field will be welcomed by the army. Wagon transportation will not always be available far to the front, and yet the South African campaign has shown that even at the outposts it can ofteD come Into play, and would be of ines timable value in sparing the men un necessary labor. Anew military transport and shelteT wagon Is the direct outcome of the late experience in the Transvaal. It was designed by a volunteer artillery colo nel of Sheffield, England. The wagon is built of wood and Is mounted on springs and four wheels. The tiros are eight Inches wide, to facilitate travel over soft ground, and the rear wheels are on a broader gauge than those in front. It is arranged for horse or traction engine draft. The top of the wagon box is sur rounded by stout wire netting, inside of which Is the platform. Under the platform floor is a water cistern of 40 gallons capacity. One each side of the wagon are hinged doors, closing re cesses in which a canvas shelter is kept rolled up. This canvas can be run out In a very few minutes, and when held up by the wagon at one end and by posts planted out at the side of the wagon at the other, will form a rectangular tent for fifty men. Seats are also provided at the sides of the wagon in the form of hanging steps, so that the men can be carried on them when necessary. When not in use these seats can be folded up out of the way. Rifle or carbine racks are also part of the equipment. The wagon can carry four tons of stores and would thus provide a detachment of forty men with rations for 100 days! It is designed either for the supply ol a detachment on outpost duty or as part of the equipment of a field bat tery, and with its tent shelter, will prove far more valuable, under cir cumstances where horse or traction engine draft is available at all, than the transport wagons now in use.— New York Sun. Spain’s kingdom of Asturias boasts of twenty-eight centenarians in a population j of oooiouo. I All goods are alike to Putnam FADF.j.F.sa j Dyes, as they color all fibers at ona boiling, j Sold by all druggists. | Only one colored soldier wears the Vic ; toria cross—Lance-Sergeant Cordon, of the i West Indian regiment. Mr*. Winlow’ Soothing Syrup for ehildrsn teething, *oftn ths gams, reduces inflaiama | tier, alley* pain, cure* wind colic. 25cabottU Only three weeks are required to de- I velop a perfect mosquito from the egg. Piso’g Cure for Consumption is an in fallible | medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17, 1900. j About 10,000,000 cattle are now to be found in tlit* Argentine Republic. J. r. Simpson. Marquess, W. Va., ays: | “Hull’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c. Cape Colony has 30,000 acres of vine yards. with 90,000,000 vines. Happiness cannot be bought, but one of the great hindrances to ita attainment can bo re moved by Adams’ Pepsin Xutti Frutti. Even the tall cashier may be short in his accounts. Are Your Eyes Sore? If yur eyes are weak or sore Jno. It Dickey’s Old " ltoltable Eyewater will cure them at once. Pon t burn or hurt. Snots. Dickey Drug Cos., itrlstol, Tsitti. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kl.Vte’s Great Nerve Restorer. 42 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 ArehSt., Phila., Pa. An oil well and an orator are neither of I them much good unless they spout. About fifteen of the capitals of the States in Mexico have an altitude of 5000 feet or more. STEAMER GOES DOWN City of Paducah Strike a Snag In Mississippi River. ONLY SEVEN ON BOARD ESCAPE At Least Twenty-five of the Crew, the Majority of Whom Were Negro Roustabouts, Went Down to Watery Graves. A special from Carbondale, 111., says: The steamer City of Fadueah was sunk near Brunkhorst landing, about four miles north of Grand Tow er, at 12 o’clock Sunday night. Be tween twenty-five and fifty people were drowned, only seven escaping with their lives. The City of Paducah left St. Louis Sunday morning on a downward trip and stopped at most of the landings and loaded freight. Between 11 and 12 o’clock Miss Fannie Block, who, in company with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Block, was going from St. Louis to Evansville, Ind., was aroused from sleep by a sudden jar. She asked her mother if her berth had broken down, and no sooner had the words passed her lips than water rushed into the apartments and they were compelled to act quickly to save their lives. With four others they escaped to the Ilinois shore by holding on to drift wood and swimming. The seven saved are Hebrews. Rev. Mr. Block is a Jewish rabbi. The sev en survivors of the catastrophe made their way down the river bank to Grand Tower and aroused Mrs. Baron owsky, at the Tremont hotel, where they were given lodging until Monday morning. They lost all their clothes and valuables and had nothing but their underwear and blankets about them. Among the drowned were about twenty-five negro roustaboats. Frank White, whose home Is in Kansas City, told the following story of the disaster: “I got on fhe boat at Landing 7G to go to Cairo. The boat stopped at Lake Ditch landing and took on sev eral sacks of corn. We landed again at Brunkhorst, which is only a few miles from Lake Ditch, and took on corn. At both places about seventeen sacks were loaded. After the corn at ! Brunkhorst had been placed on board i the boat started down stream and just i as she put off struck a snag, tearing a big hole in her. “The crew then tried to place the stern of the boat toward the river and while turning her around she sank. She is about thirty feet from shore and her cabin and pilot house are above water. I jumped into a skiff and made to shore. “I don’t know how many were aboard, but I think there were about twenty-five drowned. Among them were two engineers, one white woman and about fifteen negroes. “There was great confusion, and it may be that more were drowned.” The bodies of the two passengers have been recovered. First Mate To bias Royal, of St. Louis, says only about twelve passengers were on board and all were saved except two. The body of Dr. .J. W. Bell, of Bell’s landing, Tennessee, was taken out of his stateroom. The remains of a young woman, on which was a visiting card reading: “Mrs. Mary L. Allen, St. Louis, Mo.„ were recovered from her stateroom. Two friends traveling with the drowned woman, who started back to St. Louis on the steamer City of Clifton, said that the young lady was engaged to marry Dr. C. A. Mere dith, of St. Louis. Several hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry was found on her body. It is supposed that most of the miss ing deck hands, who were on the lower deck, were washed down the river. The boat lies down about 100 feet from the Illinois shore, the forepart of the hurricane deck being under water. She appears to he a total wreck. Threaten to Shut Down. The New York Builders’ Association issued a statement Monday regarding its decision to shut down operations on Thursday unless the blicklayers’ union call off all strikes in the mean time. COMBINE GETS COTTON MILLS. New Company Will Acquire Cotton Duck Manufacturing Concerns. Official announcement is made of the formation of a company which will acquire the larger cotton duck manufacturing concerns of the coun try. The new company will be known as the United States Cotton Duck Cor poration and will be organized under the laws of New Jersey. It will ha ■■ an authorized capital of $25,000,000 of 6 per cent cumulative preferred stoc, and $25,000,000 of common stock. Conger Visits Minister Wu. Minister Wu and Minister Conger have had an agreeable exchange of vis' its since the arrival in Washington of the American representative to China. There was no discussion of the politi cal aspect of the present situation in China. Carnegie's Offer Accepted. Richmond, Va., will soon have a first class public library. Mayor Tay lor has approved the ordinance under which the city accepts the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give SIOO,OOO for this purpose. DEAD CALM ALTER THE STORM Smoke of Battle Clears and Quiet Once More Reigns Within Con fines of Wall Street. A New York special says: Wall street emerged from its gloom Friday morning, and, with growing confidence in the day, manifested something like buoyant elation. Prices of stock went up with a rush at the last, closing at about the top, and with the net losses left after Thursday’s session pretty largely recovered. There were some clouds remaining on the situation and some natural tre pidation lest the violent collapse should have left some casualties which w'ould not be disclosed until the clearing house sheets of the stock exchange had been made up. Early in the day the official announcement was made that the sheets of all the mem bers of the exchange had been cleared perfectly, and that all their checks had been honored. This relieved the last feeling of apprehension and things qaited down into a steady con dition of business such as has not been witnessed in Wall street for many w’eeks. There is no doubt that among those who were heavy losers in ’inursday’s slump were many of ample resources who view r ed the situation with a sport ing instinct and a determination to re coup losses by following the market. It was the popular belief that some of the western potentates who were ad mittedly forced “to w T alk sideways” during a portion of the day’s events were again in the market in a bold ! attempt to retrieve their losses. One commercial paper places the t losses in the bucket shops throughout j the country Thursday at $30,000,000. j LIVELY RIOT IN DETROIT. Police Interfere With Vendor of “Free Speech” and Trouble Foiiows. For more than three hours Friday night fully 10,000 men and boys ran riot in the main streets of Detroit Mich., and kept a continual running fight with the police, both mounted and and foot The net result so far as known is twelve citizens and five policemen injured. The names of but two of the citizens are known at pres ent. They are Mike Waldin and Louis Caplin. Both men had their heads crushed by being trampled on by horses ridden by the mounted police in a charge on the crowd. The officers injured are: James Tourney, scalp cut by brick; Henry Scott, hit on head with cobblestone; Thomas Murphy, cheek cut open with brick; George Moore, badly cut about the head by brick and taken home in ambulance; Barney Roonan, hit with a brick. The beginning of the riot was Thursday night when Director of the Police Frank T. Andrews, who recent ly superseded the old police board through the passage of the Ripper bill by the legislature, issued an order to the police to allow no one to stand about the wagon of one “Tom” Raw don, a local single tax exhorter who had Incurred the ill will of the police director by the extraordinary nature of his remarks on so-called wealthy tax dodgers. When Rawdon began his exhorta tions a crowd quickly gathered. Di rector Andrews supervised the work of the police in keeping the people moving. ’ine crowd good naturedly hooted at the police and no violence was done. Friday night, however, the temper of the crowd changed when it was an nounced that Director Andrews had called on reserve officers to assist in keeping the Campus Martins clear. The single tax ezhorter came with his wagon and found the campus jammed with people. The police refused to al lo\ him to locate at any particular point, and he drove from one street to another, the crowd following. The mob frequently blocked traffic and the police attempted to disperse them. It was but a moment before stones be gan to fly through the air and a gen eral mix up followed in which the foot police used their clubs and the mount ed men charged. The result was the casualties above enumerated. At 11 o clock the mob had gradually dwindled to a mere handful and the city is quiet. EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR. Boiler of a Freight Engine Mlows Up With Fatal Results. The boiler of an engine on the Hunt ington and Broad Top railroad at Mount Dallas, W. Va.. the southern terminus-of the Broad Top railroad, exploded Friday morning, instantly lulling four members of the local freight crew. The dead are: s Berkstresses. engineer; Charles Hol lingshead, conductor; John Richie Thomas Edwards, fireman. The bodies of Conductor head and Engineer Berkstresser were blown four hundred yards across the river. BAPTISTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Ths Preliminary Session of Southern Convention Is Heid. The opening session of the conven tion of the Southern Baptists was held Thursday In the First Presbyterian church in New Orleans, a fair attend ance being present. The Baptist Young People’s Union was In charge of the programme. The meetings will last until next Monday. Fully 2,000 dele gates are in the city. WALL STREET WILD Battle of Money Kings Creates Tremendous Stock Flurry. FIGHT FOR NORTHERN PACIFIC Fortunes of Many Unlucky Speculators Were Swept Away In the Crash. Sixty Per Cent Was Bid for Money. A New' York special says: Bitter stress developed in Wall street by the second hour of trading on the stock exchange Thursday. The violence of the commotion had spent much of its force, at least for the time being, W hen the chairman’s gavel fell announcing the close of the day’s proceedings. The casualties were great and the field of battle was strewn with the wounded and maybe with the dying. But of actual fatalities none was re corded of importance during the day. During the height of the panic rumors of insolvencies were handed about more quickly than they could be re ported. But no confirmations could be had of the intimations of financial wreck. Those against whom the ru mors pointed refused even to show any signs of distress and professed themselves ready to meet all obliga tions. In more than one instance the answer to these rumors was for a rep resentative of the house to go upon the stock exchange and place loans to a large amount, as indicating the abundance of resources at hand. The banks have been so well pro tected by recent extensions of the margins exacted in the market value of collateral over the amount of loans placed that they had little to fear short of an absolute .wiping out of market values. The shrinkage of col lateral made it necessary for the banks in many cases to exact addi tional collateral during the day and this addd much to the distress for a time. But in the late dealings the principal banks in the financial dis- trict agreed to form a pool and raise a fund to loan the money rate down to 6 per cent on the stock exchange. The bid for money had been run up to 60 per cent and was threatening to keep alive the panic. Tho dozen banks quickly came to an agreement to raise $16,000,000, with implied willingness to increase the sum if necessary. There were heavy loans placed also by the individual banks, ranging in some cases to $25,000,000 and $30,000,- 000. Through the early part of the day hankers exacted the market rate for loans. But with the growing need to suppress the panic they offered the rate down to 6 per cent. The stock which caused the collapse was the Northern Pacific corner, with out dispute. The importance attached to the Northern Pacific episode was made clear by the eagerness of all classes to learn all developments concerning it and the immediate effect of any an nouncement regarding it upon the stock market. The upward shoot to SI,OOO a share was the effective cause of the greatest demoralization in the market. The announcement later in the day of he measures for the re lief of the shortage and the relapse in the price of the stock to 300 allayed the demoralization almost immedi ately. The struggle of the financial giants, which broke the most remarkable movement that Amarican stocks ever had, dates back but a fortnight. E. H. Harriman and his associates, so they relate the stoiy in the street, dis covered that broksrs representing J. P. Morgan & Cos. were buying Union Pacific. Harriman at once began in creasing his own holdings, buying on a market that rapidly advanced, and when sure of control submitted a prop osition for some basis of agreement as to the control of the Burlington, just acquired by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. That offer was re jected. On Monday last there began a sen sational movement in Northern Pa cific and the public got the first inti mation of the battle for supremacy. Street & Norton took all of the stock they could get, seemingly without re gard to price. Much of the stock sold to them was for short account and could not be delivered. It developed finally that there were three largo in terests in the property, two seeking its management and the third a specula tive profit. A statistiefd reviw r of the transac tions in the stock market Thursday shows that at low water mark of prices forty-one principal stocks had shrunk the tremendous figures of $698,388,407. This shrinkage, how ever, is largely offset by the recovery of the market toward the close. Next Meeting in Columbia. The next meeting of the Southern Educational Association will be held in Columbia, S. C., during the coming Cfristmas holidays. REBELS MADE A FAILURE. Revolt in Santo Domingo Was Quickly Crushed Out. The revolt in the province of Moca and La Vega, in Santo Domingo, has proved a failure. The operations of the government troops led by Vice President Vasquez have been success ful and the rebel leaders have been made prisoners. The position of the government is strong and business is improving.