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(i He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last . ”
A hearty lauah indicates a
degree of good health obtain
able through pure blood. As
but one person in ten has
pure blood, the other nine
should purify the blood •with
Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then
they all the can laugh for first, perfect last hap and
time, -
piness comes wit h good health
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Rich Baronet Who Died in an Old Darrel
Sir Henry Delves Broughton lias just
died, in England, ninety-one years old.
He was one of the most eccentric
members of the baronetage. For years
he never crossed the threshold of the
bouse in which he elected to live the
life of a recluse. He passed Ills time
almost exclusively In the room in
which eventually lie w’as found dead.
The cause of ids death was senile de
cay. There was no one with him when
he died.
One of the tilings which seemed to
afford 1dm especial delight was to pa
per the walls of his garret over and
over again with pictures cut from the
various Illustrated papers. A dressing
gown was his cldef article of attire.
His meals were placed outside ids
room at stated Intervals, lie liad a
strong aversion to medical men, and
any business had to be transacted with
the baronet on one side and Ids interro
gator on the other side of the partly
opened door.
The rent roll of (Ids eccentric baronet
amounted to .$150,000 a year, and he
has left personality to the amount of
$750,000. Xow Vork Press.
Try ‘‘TIi-a-Kurc” for Dyspepsia.
Tills Is it gram] new remedy for all stomach
troubles. Many people suitor all the time,
when they can easily bo relieved and cured.
This remedy Is in tablet form in a small box
easily carried In the vest pocket, ready at a mo
ment’s notice to betaken when olstress Is felt.
If your druggist does not have It send U5o, or if
you prefer to try It first, send for free sample.
Tizakure Co., Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Discretion Is the salt, and fancy the sugar
of life; the one preserves, the other sweet
ens It.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 60c, $1. All druggists.
The Pews of Shakespeare’s Church.
“I hear from an American corre
epondent,” says Truth, of London,
“that a number of chairs with carved
backs, purporting to be made from the
wood of pews in the parish church at
Stratford-on-Avon, are notv offered for
sale at’ Boston, Mass. The backs of
the chairs are elaborately carved, and
fire surmounted by a reproduction of
the Prince of Wales’ crest, and the
character of the construction and’earv- j
ing has suggested some doubt about
the authenticity of these relics. I
should be sorry to express an opinion
on the subject one way or another, but
the parish church of Stratford has
been restored and restored to such an
extent of late years that there can be
very little left of the original fabric
left on the spot by this time, and frag
meuts of it are no doubt scattered
all over the face of the earth. It may
be that some one who knows more on
the subject than 1 do can throw some
light on the fate of the old pews.”
H OME duties to many women seem more important than
health.
No matter how ill they feel, they drag .themselves
through the daily tasks and pile up trouble.
This is heroic but a penalty has to be -i
paid. Ohio, WOMAN'S
A woman in New Matamoras,
Mrs. Isabell Bradfield, tells in the DEVOTION
following letter how she fought with
disease of the feminine organs until TO HOME
finally forced to take to her bed. She
says:
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham —I feel it my duty to write to you to
tell you that I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound and think there is no medicine in the world like it. I
suffered for nine years, and sometimes for twelve weeks at a
time I could not stand on my feet. .1 had female troubles of
all kinds; backache, and headache all the time.
Seven different doctors treated me. Some said
I would have to go to the hospital and
have an operation performed. But oh!
how thankful I am that I did not, that
Yil 1 \r I tried Vegetable Com
your
-ip pound instead. I cannot say
too much in its praise, nor
thank you enough for what it
has done for me. I want you
to publish this in all the papers
for the good of other
hp sufferers,"
The wives and
% mothers of America
are given to over
work. Let them be
wise in time and at
the first indication
of female trouble
write to Mrs. Pink
ham at Lynn, Mass.,
forheradvire. This
advice is promptly given without charge.
The present Mrs. Pinkham’s experience in treating female
ills is unparalleled; for years she worked side by side with
Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole
charge of the correspondence department of her great busi
ness, advising and helping by letter as many as a hundred
thousand ailing women during a single year.
GOLDEN CROWN
LAMP CHIMNEYS
Are the best. Ask for them. Cost no more
than eoutmon chimneys. All dealers.
PITTSBURG GLASS CO., Allegheny. Fa.
USE CERTAIN CORN CURE.
Sharks Afraid of Noise.
The cowardlncHS of sharks Is well
known among men who have been
much to sea in southern waters in
fested by man eaters. The fiercest
shark will get out of the seaway in a
very great hurry if the swimmer,
noticing its npproaeh, sets up a nois^
splashing. A shark is in deadly fear
of any sort of living thing that
splashes in the water. Among the
South Sea Islands the natives never go
to sea bathing alone, but always in
parties of half a dozen or so, In order
that they may make the greatest hub
bub in the water, and thus scare the
sharks away. Once in a while a too
ventureonie swimmer among the na
tives foolishly detaches lilmse»- from
his swimming party and momentarily
forgets to keep up ids splashing. Then
there Is a swish, and the mnn eater
comes up beneath him like a flush and
gobbles him.
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An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Via Sirup Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
tive principles of plants known to be
them medicinally in the form laxative most refreshing and presenting to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening effectually, laxa
tive, cleansing the system
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation freedom from per
manently. objectionable Its perfect and sub
every quality the kidneys,
stance, and its acting on
liver and bowels, without weakening ideal
or irritating them, make it the
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal from qualities of and the
remedy are obtained senna
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.— Price 50c. per bottle.
Prices Paid far Msnuscripts.
Thehighest price ever paid for apiece
of manuscript was $8,000 for Homer’s
Iliad, written on vellum, probably in
the eighth century. It is now iu the
British Museum. A manuscript blble
which was presented to the Emperor
Charlemagne upon the occasion of his
coronation in the year 800 was sold at
auction some years ago for $7,500.
That is also in the British Museum,
The original manuscript of Scott’s
“Lady of the Lake” brought $0,-150 at
auction. The autobiography of Lord
Nelson in his own handwriting, as pre
pared for the press, brought $5,250.
The manuscript of Keats’ “Endymion”
was once sold for $3,475, and the nianu
script of Scott’s “Old Mortality” for $3,-
100. Sir John Thorrelt paid $3,000 for
a manuscript bible of the seventh cen
tury, and Lord Crawford paid $2,800
for a handsomely illuminated manu
script of the New Testament.
| The Royal Academy of Science, compli- of
Amsterdam, has paid a delicate
ment to the English-speaking world by
I ordering that Its transactions shall in
! future be printed in English, Instead
| of the native Dutch, in order that scienti- they
i may be more available to the
; fie world at large.
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Visit America next fall, is only twenty-five years old, but his work has already
won him fame and fortune. He began experiments in Italy, and the Italian
Government gladly paid him a high price for the use of his invention on war
ships. Then he removed to England. He is admittedly the foremost in
ventor in his line, and has been the most successful of the numerous scientific
men who are working upon wireless telegraphy. His recent experiments in
England, in which he sent a message without wires for a distance of thirty
miles, were perfectly successful. Marconi proposed to send a message from
the French to the English coast, but the French Government at first re
fused. Learning, however, that the German Emperor was investigating the
matter, the French Government agreed to permit Marconi to build his sta
tion on its soil. He says the system could be operated across the Atlantic.
SFUNSTON’S STIRRING CAREER| £
^ Ha3 Sought Has Adventure Never in Many Danger. Places ^
and Shirked
A red-headed man with a low, sweet
voice, is making the Twentieth Kan
sas the most famous American regi
ment now fighting the Filipinos. He
only weighs 115 pounds, but—he can
fight. More than that, he will fight.
Tb.e story of Brigadier-General Fred
Funston, late Colonel of the Twenti
eth Kansas, reads more like a taie
from the exploits of the “White Com
pany,” a romance of knightly ..tiafes,
than a matter-of-fact relation of what
a nineteenth century jayhawker ha3
done.
Funston’s character as a soldier and
combatant is summed up in the terse
expression of one of his own men—
“bottled vitriol.”
The Twentieth Kansas is not a regi
ment composed of handsome men. As
a beauty show it would go iuto bank
ruptcy. So far as possible every man
in it was selected for his ability to en
dure and fight and not with a view to
his good looks. The selection of the
men was largely left to Funston, and
that his judgment was exceptionally
good is proved by the terrible deeds
his men are performing on the island
of Luzon.
The men are Kansas farmers, of the
horny-handed type, bullwhackers from
the plains, blaoksmiths, city laborers,
descendants not only of the old Free
Soil settlers, but of the early Confed
erate rangers; men who can shoot,
swim, live on air, and sing a hymn.
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Fanston fought in Cuba with the
Cuban army until the destruction of
the Maine brought him back to his
own country. He is but thirty-threo
years old, yet he has engaged iu
twenty-three battles in Cuba and six
or more in Luzon. His left arm has
been mutilated for life by a shell, his
lungs pierced by a Mauser bullet, his
thigh crushed by a horse plunging
during battle, his system racked by
Cuban fever. He was captured by the
Spaniards in Cuba and sentenced to
death, but escaped While on an ex
pedition to Alaska he was pitched into
the Yukon Eiver and narrowly escaped
drowning. Within the circumference
of the arctic circle he was nearly frozen
to death, and then fought pneumonia
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to the very door of death. Of practi
cally no physique, hut five feet four
inches in height, his endurance and
escape make him one of the most re
markable personages connected with
the American army.
Love-making and fighting are all one
to the brave General Funston. He
wooed and won his pretty wife with
the same vim he showed iu battle. He
met Miss Edna Blankard, of Oakland,
Cal., a music teacher, while in camp
in San Francisco, and married her in
three weeks’ time. She is with him
in the Philippines, having been
smuggled on board a transport by her
husband in the disguise of a soldier
boy.
To suffer is the lot of all those who
press forward, ahead of the world. •
FES10N PLAN
NOT APPROVED
Address Issued To Populists of
the United States.
MEETING HELD IN KANSAS CITY
Populists Are Urged To Stand By
the niddle-of-the-Road Faction.
Butler Idea Denounced.
At the joint meeting of the populist
national organization committee and
National Reform Press association at
Kansas City the past week, an address
to populists of the United States was
formulated and issued.
The address urges a thorough or
ganization of the middle-of-the-road
ers in every section of the country,
with the understanding that they shall
enter the next national campaign with
the present populist organization, but
that wherever fusion shall gain the
day, whether in county, state or na
tional convention, the middle-of-the
roaders shall bolt and begin an active
campaign to carry out their princi
ples.
The alleged fnsionist tendencies of
Marion Butler, chairman of the popu
list national committee, are provided
against in a clause which authorizes
the national organization committee
to call a convention if they shall be
convinced that the national chairman
or the national committee is playing
into the hands of the fusionists. The
address of the committee, in substance,
is as follows:
“That the voters of the nation may
feel assured that the people’s party
shall not again be betrayed in nation
al convention or its working forces
passed into the bands of the enemy,
and to inspire confidence among the
masses in the integrity of onr acts and
sincerity of our demands for inde
pendent action as a party, we respect
fully submit to the populists of the
nation the following plan of action:
“1. That the national organization
committee hereby instructs its chair
man to proceed with the formation of
people’s party precinct clubs in all the
states on the plan recommended by
the Cincinnati convention of Septem
ber, 1898, or some relative plan, and
to appoint in each state not having
members already selected three mem
bers of the national organization com
mittee, and with the assistance and
advice of these committeemen to select
a state organization committee of the
same number of members as the then
existing state committee, and through
these committeemen to organize as far
as possible oiganization committees in
congressional districts, counties and
voting precincts. Wherever it is posi
tively known that those members of
national, state and other committees
nsw existing are unqualifiedly opposed
to fusion with either of the old parties
and for independent, straightforward
action by the people’s party, they are
to be selected as members of the sev
eral organization committees.
“2. It shall be the duty of the sev
eral committees to use all honorable
means to secure the selection of dele
gates to the various conventions lead
ing up to the nomination of the presi
dential convention in 1900, who are
opposed to fusion and, failing in this,
to provide for and send contesting
delegates to the several conventions.
That is to say, if those who are oppos
ed to fusion are unfairly or dishonor
ably treated in the county convention
they shall send a delegation to con
test the seats of the fusion delegation
in the stjite convention.
“If the state convention is controll
ed in the interest of the fusion and
against an honorable and straightfor
ward people’s party policy, as soon as
this is determined the middle-of-the
road delegations shall leave the con
vention and send a contesting delega
tion from the state to the national
convention. Should the national con
vention be controlled by straight
populists, all delegates sent under this
plan shall feel themselves in honor
bound to nominate those candidates
for president and vice-president by the
referendum vote, provided in the
judgment of the national organization
committee there shall have been suffi
cient organization to make such a vote
both practicable and representative of
the will of the party.
“Should the national convention of
1900 be controlled in the interest of
‘fusion,’ the straight delegation shall
leave said convention and join (he con
testing delegations sent under this
plan in a straight convention, and
then carry out the will of the popul
ists of the nation without regard to
the ‘fusion’ convention.
“In this case the national organiza
tion committee and the several state,
district and country precinct commit
tees organized under this plan shall
be recognized as the only committee
having authority in the affairs of the
people’s party.
WATERWORKS MEN ADJOURN.
The Association Will Meet In Richmond,
Yn., Next Year.
The American Waterworks Associa
tion in session at Columbus, O., ad
journed Friday to meet next year in
Richmond, Va.
Papers were read by H. C. Hodg
kins, of Syracuse, on “Economic Ar
rangements and Construction of Sub
Structures and Streets,” and by Pro
fessor A. M. Bleile, on “Practical
Value of Bacteriological Examina
tions.”
j AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Delegates Are Welcomed and Tel
egram of Congratulation Sent
to the Czar.
The sessions of the peace conference
at The Hague called by czar of Russia
began Thursday afternoon in the hall
of Huis Ten Bosch, or the “house in
the wood,” two milos from The Hague.
M. DeBeaufort, president of the coun
cil and minister of foreign affairs of
the government of the Netherlands,
delivered the iuaugural address and
welcomed the delegates.
The delegates decided to send the
following telegram to the czar:
“The peace conference lays at the feet of
your majesty its respectful congratulations
upon the occasion of your birthday, and ex
presses its sincere desire to co-operate in
the great and noble work In which your
majesty has takon a generous initiative and
for which it begs you to accept its humble
and profound gratitude.”
M. De Staal, the Russian ambassa
dor to Great Britain and head of the
Russian delegation, informally assum
ing the presidency of the conference,
said his first duty was to express to
M. DeBeaufort his sincere gratitude
for the noble terms in which he re
ferred to his august master, adding
his majesty -would be deeply touched
as well as by the spontaneity by which
the high assemblage has associated
itself therewith.
After making his address, M. De
Staal, in behalf of the conference, tel
egraphed to the queen of the Nether
lands as follows:
“The members of this conference assem
bled for the first time In the beautiful Huis
Ten Bosch, hasten to lay at the feet of your
majesty their best wishes, praying you to
accept their homage and gratitude for the
hospitality you have so graciously deigned
to offer them.”
The reading of the message was
warmly applauded. Mr. DeBeaufort
was appointed temporary president,
and the leading Dutch delegate, A. P.
C. Vanekarnobeck, former minister of
foreign affairs and deputy, was ap
pointed vice president.
After the appointment of nine secre
taries, M. De Staal’s proposal that the
sessions be secret was adopted.
SEEKING TERMS OF PEACE.
Rebel Representative* Will Once More
Make Overtures.
General Otis cables the war depart
ment that the representatives of Agnin
aldo are seeking terms of peace and
that the forces of insurgents are scat
tering in the mountains. Following
is General Otis’s cablegram:
“Manila, May i 18.— Adjutant General,
Washington: Representatives of insurgent
cabinet and Aguinaldo in mountains, twelve
miles north of San Isidro, which was aban
doned on the loth, will send in commission
tomorrow to seek terms of peace. Majority
of force confronting MacArthur at San Fer
nando ha? retired to Tariae, tearing up two
miles railway; this force has decreased to
about twenty-five hundred. Scouting par
ties and detachments moving today in va
rious directions. Kobbe with column at
Candava, on Bio Grande. Great majority
of inhabitants of provinces over which
troops have moved anxious for peace, sup
ported by members of insurgent cabinet.
Aspect of affairs at present favorable.
“Otis.”
The dispatch of General Otis was
immediately sent to the president at
Hot Springs. Secretary Alger said
that the situation was most encour
aging and that it was apparent that
I the Filipinos realized the strength of
the United States and saw that resist
ance would mean extermination for
^ em “ they persisted in defying
au War i]i 0r ^' department officials are firmly
convinced that the end of the insurrec
tion * n * be 'Philippines is at hand, and
that the representatives of the insur-
8 ent cabinet and of Aguinaldo who are
to meet General Otis will succumb to
the inevitable and surrender. Their
forces .. . said at tbe department, ,
» 18 are
evidently so utterly demoralized by
the persistent advances of the Ameri
cans that they are ready to accept
peace on the best terms they can ob
tain.
McKinley and Diaz Invited.
The officers of the trans-Mississippi
commercial congress, which is to meet
in Wichita, Kas., May 31, have invited
President McKinley and President
Diaz, of Mexico, to be present.
INTERVAL OF SILENCE.
Nothing: Heard From Generals Otis and
Brooke During Sunday.
There was a lack of news in official
quarters at Washington Sunday General from
General Otis at Manila or
Brooke at Havana.
The president and war department
officials were awaiting with much in
terest advices expected from General
Otis regarding the outcome of the
meeting between the commissions rep
resenting the United States and Aguin
aldo, though the belief expressed by
the American commander at Manila,
that the insurgents want an armistice
as a condition precedent to treating
for peace.
SLEW THE BROTHERS.
Fatal Quarrel Between Young Men at
Wanamaker, S. C.
There is considerable excitement at
Wanamaker, S. C., occasioned by the
killing, Saturday night, of Brogdon
and Von Ewington, brothers, eighteen
and twenty years, respectively, by
Walter Rowell, eighteen years of age.
The young men were returning home
from a eampmeeting when a quarrel promi
arose. Both parties belong to
neat families in the neighborhood.