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Power of a Uniform. The United States urmy Is clever enough to appreciate the attractive power of a handsome uniform. The gaudy posters, printed in blue, red, white and gold, which the recruiting offices stick up in government build ings find on trees, fences and cliffs, barn doors, roofs and assembly rooms, illustrating the several branches of the service, do more to secure enlistment than all the wur talk and promises of promotion put together. The prospect of strutting around in a bright uniform causes young and old men to bury the thought o fhardshlp. The ambition to shovv off Is well-nigh universal.—New York Press. Honeymoon Finding. She—“ Yon haven’t told me you loved me onoe today.” He—“And you haven’t asked nae if I loved you since the day before yes terday.’’ The honeymoon, shuddering, saw its finish.”—lndianapolis Press. Tho Chinese Situation. The cause for the present Chinese entan glements Is not religious differences, but the abuse of the Chinese immigrants by the foreign powers. Another great revolution comes from the abuse of tho stomach. Over taxed digestion produces constipation, in digestion, dyspepsia and flatulency. Hos tetler's Stomach bitters is the "best medicine to take. It will restore a healthy tone to the entire system, and thus prevent nerv ousness, sleeplessness or despondency. Don't fall to give It a trial. . - His Nerve. He—How I envy the man who Just sang tho | solo. She Why, I thought he hod an exceptional- I ly poor voice. Ho -Oh, It Isn’t his voice I envy; it's his ' nervo.—Tlt-Blts. Motherhood \ How shall a mother who is weak and siok with some female trouble bear healthy children P How anxious women ought to be to give their children the blessing of a good constitution I Many women long for a child to bless their home, but be cause of some debility or displacement of the female organs, they are barren. Preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound more suc cessfully than by any other medicine, because it gives tone and strength to the parts, curing all displacements and in flammation. < Actual sterility in women is very rare. If any woman thinks she is sterile, let her write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., whose advioe is given free to all expectant or would be mothers. Mrs. A. D. Jarret, Belmont, Ohio, writes: " Dear Mrs. Pinkham ? —I must writ© and tell you what your Vege table Compound has done for me. Before taking your medicine I was unable to oarry babe to maturity, having lost two—one at six months and one at •even. The doctor said next time I would die, but thanks to Lydia E. Plnkhnm’s Vegetable Compound, I did not die, but am the proud mother of a six months old girl baby. She weighs nineteen pounds and has never seen a siok day in her life. She is the delight of our home.” Mrs. Whitney’s Gratitude. “ Dear Mr. Pinkham :—From, the time I was sixteen years old till I was twenty-three I was troubled with weakness of the kidneys and terrible pains when my monthly periods oarae on. I made up my mind to try yoMr ■acsap^gi' Vegetable Compound, and was soon relieved. The doctor said I never would be able to go my full time and have a living child, as I was con stitutionally weak. I had lost a baby at seven WgfeSaßriyTa months ana half. The next time I continued jj&ja ~ I'll to take your Compound ; and I said then, if I UghS went my full time and my baby lived to be as 225yi Ita three months old, I should send a letter to you. Bk A Ml *by 1® now seven months old. and is as a /ll healthy and hearty as any one could wish. I BL cannot express my gratitut© to you. I was so pYMIBh. V ' i bad that I did not aare to go away from heme Jto stay any length of time. Praise God for Pi BW* 'I i dn Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Coin- pound| and may others who are suffering r ... do as I did and find relief. Wiahfctg you suo oess m the future a in the past, and may many homes be brightened as mine has been."— Mbs. L. Z. Whitney, 4 Flint St., Somerville, Maas.” The medicine that cures the ills of women id Lydia E. Pinkhsam's Vegetable Compound. SCSI'S I Thompson’s EioWotor : Ideation this Ppsr f ' , “'‘2,'?.!^ r “” r '' A Landmark Destroyed. ; One of the landmarks in the religious history of the West Indies was de itroyed a few weeks ago by the de molition of tho ancient dwelling house of the Moravian station at New Hern hut, in I). W. I. New Hernhut was the first Trotestant settlement in tho West Indies, and was established by the Moravian pioneers In 1732. —T3fi Easily Remedied. Guest—l really don't know what I should do; If I take a whole portion It Is too much, and a half is not enough. Walter—You needn’t worry about that. Take a whole portion, and we can make it somewhat smaller Artillery Keocks Out Storm Cloud. Fighting cyclonic storms with artil lery is becoming frequent all over France. Recently a terrific shower of hail destroyed the vineyard crops in : Bordeaux, but the growers of Sainte Mi lion, having been warned by tele graph that the storm was travelling toward them, immediately appealed to | the military authorities. Five huge guns were got ready and when the towering black cloud came sufficiently near It was cannonaded into shreds, which drifted away harmlessly.—New York World. Tho Important Question. “The salary of the Czar of Russia,’’ said the leading Juvenile, “Is $12,000,- 000 a year.” "Yes,” answered the heavy man, as he sadly shoved his hands down In his pockets, “but docs he get it?”—Chi cago Times-llerald. Legislative Melange Wright’s Disfensary Bill. Mr. Wright of Floyd introduced his dispensary bill Monday morning and it was referred to the temperance com mittee. It is an amendment to the local op tion law, and gives to those counties having cities of 5,000 population and upwards the right to vote on the qnes tiou of establishing a dispensary, if they so desire. To call such an election it would re quire one-tenth of the qualified voters of the county, as now provided in the local option law, and the ordinary is to determine such qualifications. In the event “For dispensary” car ries, the mayor and council of such city, shall, within thirty clays, elect three citizens to serve as dispensary commissioners, one for one year, one for two and the other for three. Their successors are to hold for three years, and the two hold over commissioners are to nominate a suc cessor to the one retiring, their selec tion to be confirmed or rejected by the mayor and council. The dispensary shall be. maintained only in the fire limits of such city, in the central portion, and a manager is to he appointed who shall give a $2,000 bond, the commissioners to fix his compensation. All bills for liquor are to be paid by the city treasurer on vouchers from the commissioners, and-the revenue is to be turned into the city treasury daily. The stock is to be analyzed from time to time by a competent chemist and not sold in quantities less than a pint, nor to be drunk on the premises. The dispensary is to re main open from sui rise to sunset. The manager shall sell only for cash. Payment by the city shall be refused for impure or unwholesome liquors sold the dispensary commissioners. No liquor shall be sold to persons to sell again, either lawfully or unlawfully and the profits on any liquors are not to exceed 50 per cent. No loitering around the premises is allowed. The dispensary commissioners shall make an annual report to the mayor and council of such city on or before the first day of February in each year, showing the receipts and expenses of the dispensary for the calendar year preceding and the amount of the net profits, if any. Such net profits, if any, shall go to paying the expenses of the city, then to the establishment of homes for dependent children, and the remainder thereof be divided be tween the city and county in propor tion to the population of each. The part awarded to the county shall be paid over by the city treasurer to the county treasurer and may be appopri ated to any purposes that the county authorities may lawfully appropriate money for. No person holding any office or po sition of any kind under the charter or ordinances of such city or county shall he eligible to be chosen as a dis pensary commissioner or manager of dispensary during the time for which he was elected to such office or posi tion, and all persons chosen a dis pensary commissioners or as managers of dispensaries shall for the time for which they are chosen and for the term of one year thereafter be inelig ible to election to any office or posi tion under the charter or ordinances of such city or in Baid county; pro vided, that dispensary commission ers and the managers of dispensa ries may be always re-elected commis sioners or managers, respectively. The dispensary commissioners shall he paid for their services such sums as the mayor and council shall deter mine, which shall not be less than SIOO per annum each. The bill is not to operate in coun ties where prohibition now obtains either by high license or local option. * * * To Balk Pension Schemers. Mr, Harvard, of Dooly, changed his mind about introducing his pension bill until it was seen whether a consti tutional convention would be called or not, as he sent it forward when his county was called. Mr. Harvard’s measure seeks to weed out frauds in the pension lists, especially in the indigent class. He says there are instances where pen sioners have deeded their properiy to their wives and daughters in order that they might be put on the indigent pension list. His remedy is for the grarnl juries to recommend such claims from their several counties and that they be not allowed by the pension commission unless so recommended. * * * Wants Registered Bonds. Instead of the conpon bonds now deposited in the treasury by insur ance, fidelity and other companies, Senator Ellis wants registered bonds in order that the treasurer may be more completely protected from any chance of loss by theft. Of these coupon bonds there are about $90,000 worth now on deposit. | If they \jrere §tgien they could be used almost as readily as cash by the thief who stole them. Registered bonds could only be disposed of after a record of the transaction had been duly made. It. was on this account that Mr. El lis on Monday morning introduced his bill requiring the substitution. V ♦ * Will Benefit Teachers. Air. Gresham, of Burke, wants to enlarge the powers of county school commissioners in granting extensions of first grade licenses toschool teach ers, and has drawn a billfor that pur pose. Under the present law first grade teachers are licensed for three years. Mr. Gresham wants to make it discre tionary with the commissioners about extending such licenses, where the teacher has given satisfaction and shown much aptitude for his work. It is known that in some instances some of the very best of teachers have been graded low in certain branches— geography, for instance—where the teachers’ merit did not come into con sideration at all, but it was simply dependent on the memory to recall geographical names aud places. ELECTION DAY CASUALTIES. Bloody and Fatal Riots Occur In Denver, Col., and a Small Indiana Town. At Denver, Col., two men were kill ed and four wounded at the polling places at Twenty-second and Larimer streets. The polling place is in a tough section of the city. At an early hour a crowd of toughs attempted to get beyond the limit line. Officer Carpenter ordered them away, aud with other officers, began to push tho men back, whereupon John Brand ford, colored, shot Carpenter, killing him instantly. Detective Carberry, seeing his brother officer fall, shot Brandford. Immediately a fusilade began, and before the battle was over four men had been shot. Intense excitement prevailed in the neighborhood of the shooting and it was feared a general riot would follow. The riot call was sent to police head quarters and in a few minutes fifty policemen were on guard around the polling places. Judge Hallett, in the United States district court at Denver Monday, is sued an order forbidding United States Marshal Bailey to appoint dep uties to serve at the polls on election day. Judge Hallett is a Democrat aud an ardent anti-imperialist. Mar shal Bailey, a Republican, refused to obey the order of the court. Sheriff Jones swore in 200 Republi cans as deputies to serve at tire polls, and the Democratic fire aud police board appointed 500 special policemen. A race riot is reported as having oc curred at the little town of Caseyville, Ind., Monday night, between Aus trians and Americans, in which an American named Grover was shot and killed and an Austrian saloon wrecked. Several hundred shots were fired. A big political row occurred at Dia mond, Ind. Over 200 6bots were fired. One man was instantly killed and three were badly wounded. The vote in St. Louis was heavy and early. In the twelve congressional districts iu which the Republicans caused warrants to be issued for alleged fraudulent registrations, as expected, trouble came early. War rants were to be served by the Repub lican deputy sheriffs, while the Dem ocratic police guarded the polls. The first deputy sheriff who ventured in side the prescribed limits of a down town polling place was arrested by a policeman and taken to St. Louis headquarters. The city warrants he had were taken from him. At Savannah, Ga., L. M. Pleasants, James Whitman and King Callan, prominent Republican workers, were arrested and put in jail, charged with buying votes. SENATOR BACON RE-ELECTED. Georgians Give Him Another Term of Six Years In U. S. Senate, Wednesday Senator Bacon was formally declared elected United States senator by the Georgia legislature, in joint session, for the term of six years. The unanimous vote of the members present, 109 in the house of represen tatives and thirty in the senate, was cast for the re-election of Senator Ba con. Tho senator briefly addressed the assembly, thanking the people of the state for the unanimous indorsement given to his labors. FOUR POWERS IN COMBINE. United State* Joins a Combination Against An rlo- German Kntents. “The Novoc Vremmya,” says tho St. Petersburg correspondent of The London Daily Express, wiring before the election of McKinley was known at the Russiau capital, “announces, with official sanction, that an under standing has been reached between Russia, France and the United States aud Japan, by way of counterpoise to the Anglo-German agreement, adding that the results will become specifical ly apparent if McKinley i3 re-elected.” TWO STATES Rssult of Election In Kentucky And Nebraska Is Speculative. BOTH SIDES ARE MAKING CLAIMS Democrats Seem to Have Both Slates, t: a t Republicans Have Not Conceded Anti Are Hopeful. A special of Wednesday from Omaha ?ays: Election returns in Nebraska are so close as to be watched keenlv. Chairman Liadsey, for the Republi cans, claim that McKinley carried the state by 7,000 or more,the Republican state ticket wins by 5,000 to 7,000, aud that the Republicans have a majority of seventeen in the legislature. Against this the Democrats claim that Bryan carried the state, though by a narrow margin of perhaps not more than a thousand; that fusion has a safe working majority in the legisla ture, that fusion state officers are elected by three to five thousand. The legislature will be in doubt until com plete returns are iu. Indications are that it will be fusion by a small ma jority. Both parties are claiming the lead on joint ballot. Democratic National Committeeman Dahlmau states that tho Nebraska leg islature will be fusion by eleven ma jority; that the fusion state ticket is elected by about 5,000 majority, and that the Bryan electors win by 1,509. Republicans are inclined to concede the legislature on the face of the present returns, but they allege fraud in Douglass county, Omaha, and will contest. So far the returns show gains in the legislature of sixteen members for the fusionists over two years ago. OLD STORY IN KENTUCKY. A Louisville special says: At 1:30 Thursday morning, with returns from all but sixty-two out of 1,854 precincts iu Kentucky, The Courier-Journal puts Bryan’s majority at 7,784 and Beck ham’s at 4,068. The missing sixty-two precincts are about evenly divided be tween Democrats and Republicans. Governor Beckham, at Democratic headquarters, said: “I am absolutely certain that I have been elected governor by a ma jority of between 5,000 and 10,000 votes.” Leslie Combs, chairman of the Re publican state campaign committee, said: “We still believe Mr. Yerkes has been elected by a majority of 3,000 votes. Our figures show that McKin ley has run 900 votes behind Yerkes. At least 3,000 Republican ballots have not yet been counted in certain coun ties, and these will increase the Re publican vote. We also claim the election of four Republican congress men, namely, Boreing in the eleventh district, Irwin in the fifth, McKen zie Moss in the third aud Hopkins iu the tenth. We are also of the opinion that Sam J. Pugh has been elected over Kehoe iu the ninth district.’ Independent voters charge that the Republicans are holding back the re turns in the eleventh district, and that the Democrats have done likewise in the first, the Republican and Demo cratic strongholds, respectively, each waiting for the other side to make a showdown, and that is responsible for the delay in ascertaining the result. REPUBLICANS HAVE HOUSE. Indications are That They Will Have 303 Members and the Democrats 155 The control of the national house of representatives goes with the pres idency. The roster of new members of the popular branch of congress shows that the Republicans were more successful Tuesday than their highest estimates. While the returns are not complete in all the districts, the indi cations are that the Republicans n 1 l Lave 202 members, while their oppo nents will have but 155. The oflicia vote may make a difference in a few of the close districts, but it now looks as if Speaker Henderson will have a working majority of 47 —certainly no much less than that. government Receipts and Expenditures Government receipts: From revenue, $338,710; customs, $227, 3W, miscellaneous,sl6s, 203; expenditure?, $1,080,000. THE SAME IN PORTO RICO. Governor Allen Wire* McKinley How tho Klectlon Went. It is estimated that 75,000 Republi cans voted at the election in Porto Rico Wednesday for a commissioner to congress and members of the bouse of delegates. Not more than 200 Fed erals voted. The election was exceed ingly orderly. There are no reports of disturbances. Communication witn the interior is shnv. , Governor Allen, in a cablegram oi congratulation to President McKm cy savs: “I am gratified and delight* The outcome in Porto Rica is a guar antee of the island's future.