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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 ? NpvertysappdJnJT Till* euro ha non -Irritating and an ly rat -hw* tip Uood’fl SarsaiwurlTlft. 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. _ 1 fm i m ’M V m – ! a V w» mm M 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. BVEBOR OF WIRELESS TEIMPE (T ft i I L 7 I ■? *2 /> 'ft ft / I] !■» mk\'v !uttili wmm Ps H \\ M m A/ m v Professor Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, who will 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. -s css 3=|g' V» T al X A SN (jflrw t 'il i 8 A © BRIGADIER-GENERAL FREDERICK FUNSTON. 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 <■[ ,1 mi i .. -- -j k :i . Stow V W 1 ' is r s/jf m V .v ^ MRS. EDNA BLANEARD FUNSTON. 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.