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6 E3i S" 14 Since >' our blo(xi is >' our life 11 behooves you to keep it pure. That person who goes through the world without re?u --f 1 Hi iarly purifying his blood gets an affliction. Nine ailments out of ten have their origin in thin, impoverished blood. And to ——— m i i ——ll attempt to remedy them by preparations recommended especially for them is to lose sight of their cause, and the relief is not permanent. For instance, an ointment may be prepared that will relieve eczema, but this ailment will have another outbreak. Dyspepsia may find temporary relief in certain rem edies—so may rheumatism—so may scrofula, cancer, erysipelas and women troubles, but the final cure only comes when the blood is purified. Pure blood builds up the constitution Pure blood strengthens your digestive organs so that food becomes nutritious and dyspepsia will disappear. Pure blood is dear of all acid from which rheumatism gets its start. Pure blood contains no poisons that gives rise to cancer, eczema and scrofula. Pure blood disposes of the causes of a thousand petty diseases that render you uncomfortable and unhapp Graybeard Is the PUREST BLOOD PURIFIER Made. It ha® cured Cancer. u u It has cured Eczema. _ It has cured Rheumatism, It has cured Catarrh. It has cured Dyspepsia. Mind you, these were not trifling: ail ments, but every one an ailment which doctors had failed to cure. Graybeard Is made of fresh herbs, blos soms end berries. It contains no mercury or FV*r eradicating old and deep eeated ailments os Cancer, Catarrh, Eeae ma. Rheumatism, Dyspepsia. It has no equal on earth. You want nothing else to take Try nothing else. Nothing else Is necessary. In Graybeard you have every thing to build you up and make you stron ger than your disease. It will rtush out your disease. It will leave you as you were before tho ailmer.t seised you. There is nothing a hundredth part as good as Graybeard to do this. There is nothing made like Graybeard—none ever will be. It Is one of the great inventions of the world. Catarrh of Stomach “I take Graybeard and know it helps me more than anything I can get. I have ca tarrh of the stomach and oao’t find any thing to relieve me but Graybeard. “EUNICE FOUNT’ ’N, “Loewi***, Ind.” A Drummer Ctired. Mr. J. M. Brown, many years a drum mer In Batesvllle, Ark , writes: "I have been troubled tor a lor? time with rheuma tnattem In my feet and Joints When I sat down I could not get up without exper iencing great pain. When I stood on my feet any length of time I was compelled to alt down and oven even got no relief. "In spring this ailment increased "I began the use of Greybeard a few weeks since and am pleased to say that , now I am all right. Nothing ever gave mo relief but Graybeard A Conductor Cured. I contracted cold a few years ago work ing oft the bridge gang over in Alabama and was laid up with rheumatism. I tried a great many remedies ail of which seemed to relieve- me some, but none cured me. All did some good as far as they went, but they did not go far enough. Graybeard cured me before I had taken one-third aa much as of other remedies. Wm. w. McDaniel,. C. R. R. Conduo'tor. Get GRAYBEARD at THE POPPIES OF SLEEP THE INDIAN LEGEND OF THE WHITE POPPY AND OPH'M, California Poppy—Ceres'* Flower to Soothe Grief—Poppy iu Art—Legend of Oplnm Enipretm Carlottn** Choice. From the Philadelphia Ledger. "Pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, the bloom is shed." How many and great are the seeming contradictions of nature! Somehow we associate the poppy with the lotus eaters end their "drowsy land of dreams,’ and naturally so, because its rich sensuousness of coloring and the soothing effects of its product—opium—are distinctly Oriental attributes. Therefore, at first sight. Burns, singing as he plows the breezy upland lea. seems to have overstepped his own limits and to have called to vivid poetic fancy the ex otic scenes and sights of unknown East ern lands. Not so, however; for though bleak and rugged Scotland may not compare with the tropical overgrowth of India, we yet find the glorious poppy in every home and strath, and when fields ore ripening to gold around Thrums, or in the Lothians and Ayrshire, the scarlet poppies and pim pernels o'ertop the grain. Thus the story of the goddess Ceres crowned with beard ed barley and wheat intermingled with poppies is made visible to every Senti mental Tommy and village schoolboy. California Poppy. Here in America, in spite of varied clime, fertile soil and vast acreage, the poppy does not flourish. Nature, who has blessed and carpeted our fields and woods with such beauteous gifts—from the pure classic morning glory of the North to the sensuously suggestive Pas sion flower of the South—withholds the poppy from our Eastern eyes. Only when we reach California and the Western states do we find Indigenous va riety of the plant. It grows freely in our gardens, and per. haps like the sparrow, might make Itself rapidly at home, were some farmer of aesthetic taste to sow Its seeds amidst his grain. The crop of poppies that sprang up af ter the slaughter of Waterloo excited the ■wonder of Europe, and we think of Per sia, where the tulip is born from the wine cup emptied In s lent thought of tie dead, and where guests come hack 1 1 hospit able scenes as flowers, "star Scattered ■midst the grass.’ If the blood of heroes produced anew Waterloo, what of our own sacred Gettysburg? Surely, of the Blue and the Gray such flowers might be bor ! But the story of the poppy Is soothing rather than exciting, a story of days and years when the terms rush and bustle and hurry wire not entered In the dic tionaries, because unknown Iu life. Pleasant as well as profitable for us, when in hammock under the trees on a hot summer day, to watch the flaming poppy bed as it seems to lull us into temporary oblivion of all discomforts. Sorrow and sadness are common to all but the luxury of grief belongs to the limited number. Work and duty are im perative tyrants of our modern civiliza tion, and to forget grief we may not have recourse to the poppy seed of Grecian daya. Soother o, Grief. Ceres, the goddess moth r, created this fl wer so that she might obtain sleep and forget her woe when Pluto carried off her daughter rroctrplna Letter from Texas. Ballinger, Tex., Jarx 29th **l thought I would write you what your wonderful Graybeard has done for me. I had catarrh of the head about 35 years, and suffered a great deal. I have tried many kinds of medicines and have been treated by doctors, though all of them fail ed to cure me. And I being so old and my disease so chronic, I didn’t think there was any medicine that would cure me But more than 2 years ago I had very plain symptoms of cancer on my nose and face and decided to try Graybeard not thinking that it would cure my catarrh as well as ctonoer. I bought 8 bottles from Mr. Pierce, and less than 6 cured me. This has been more than 2 year® ago now and no symptoms of the old diseases have appeared I can praise Graybeard for what It has done for me Persons n*d never think they are too old for Gray beard to cure them. lam now 75. "MRS RHODA DEAN.” Graybeard Cured H<m. ”1 would here say for the benefit of the publk', that I was troubled with rheuma tism In my hips for three months, and as I handled Graybeard I concluded to give It a trial I took two bottle® and a half and was cured. I do believe it to be a great medicine. "Also Slater DeLoach took it for paraly sis and it helped her surprisingly. ‘ Rev. A. R. STRICKLAND, ‘‘Easterling, Ga.“ Eczema. Do you know when you have eczema? Do you itch? Is your skin rough? In warm weather does this stinging eensetlon increase? When you scratch do large blis ters and sores form? Do they torment you when you work? Boaema is an outbreak of bad blood. A person afflicted with eczema cannot take undue exercise without aggravating the Itching, or get warm In bed without feel ing on Are. The blood is aflame with the peculiar poison that creates the disease and calls for a powerful alterative to re move it. Nothing short of a BLOOD MED ICINE will accomplish a cure. Eczema. Lafayette, Ala., May 16. I have fried your Graybeard and know for a truth that it is effectual. It c-ured me of eczema and a severe at tack of indigestion. 1 do not hesitate to recommend It. All who try It here will not be without It. B A. JARRELL. "Sleep bringing poppy, by the plough man late, Not without causes to Ceres consecrate. *•*••* • Fairest Proserpine was rapt away, And she in plain s the night, in tears the days, Had long time spent when no high power could give her Any redress, the poppy did relieve her. For eating of the seeds, they sleep pro cured, And so beguiled those griefs she long en dured." Such was Grecian recipe for sorrows. What to her was counted as righteous ness is not even mildest virtue now. Rather as vice does it rank, so great is the gulf between the then and the now. An opium eater Is distinctly a term of reproach, and only P>e Quincev’s Confes sions are accepted because of their ex quisite lightness of style, combined with fantast c conception. The vacarles of an opium-laden brain are therein exposed to the world, and the world in natural curiosity loves and admires the occasion si eccentric. But to the Greeks, steeped In artistic' sense and supreme in the "fitness of things," poppy sleep was right, and so Hyprtos (sleep), Thanatos (death) and Nyx (night) were apparently crowned with poppies. The Poppy In .Art. The pro-Raphaellte School of Art has revived for us many conceptions of ear lier days, and so the poppy has come back again into a pride of place on can vas and stained glass window. In "Dante's Dream," painted by Ros setti, and to be seen in the Walker Gla lery, Liverpool, the floor seems carpeted with popples. In the same spirit a fine bronze tablet was recently erected in Glasgow Cathedral to the memory of brave Highlanders killed in the Soudanese campaigns. Not heather, but poppies in low relief cover the bronze plate which Is again en closed as if in a frame by a border of the flowers chased and engraved. Amidst the leaves and blossoms one reads the names of heroes who have crossed the portals of oblivion. Their loy al service is ended; life's task is done; the burden and heat of their day was bravely borne, whilst one more tent peg of the empire was securely driven home. The poppies of sleep droop over weary, aching heads forever at rest, and, like soothing halm, such thoughts bring peace to the mourners left behind. The Grecian mother found comfort In oblivion; our women find solace In rem iniscences of the strength of purpose and nobility of those who have passed away. Thus we blend Hebraism with our new ly restored Hellenism, and, whilst cleav ing to the one, can also find sentiment and romfort in the beauteous conceptions of the other, and thereby comes "sweetness und light" Into our daily lives. But we do not yet send wreaths of pop pies to garland the brows of our dead, as did the Romans. The Opium Poppy, Even the fragile white popy Is too close ly associated with worldly things to he brought Into touch with ought concern ing spirit land. The curious blending of the exuberant Joyousness of life with the minor plaint of death which we find in Greek and Roman custom is most interesting to who would be at all times consistent. Ix>ve, as well as deuth, claimed the pop py, and youths and maidens, in test of eaeh other's sincerity and fidelity, clap ped the popy petals, much as we clap tea leaves In jest. When the petal snapped with a sharp sound then love was true, as well as kind: otherwise false would prove Hero or Leander, though cows might sound most fair Italy and Switzerland Inherit and still THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JULY 20. 190a *•• OVW WAT-OUIOK SALAS A0 SAOMST CFTtIMA - - **—| ~ ©y&wußß <& emblem WHOLESALE • ....... Fruits, Produce, Groceries, Jobfrors, COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 13 WEST MITCHELL STREST. j X „ v rriMi i -i* F-espess Drug Cos., Dsar Slrs:- For threo years I suffered great pain and annoyance froa Catarrh and Blood Poison and found no reaedy that would relieve ase. GRAYBEARD was recommended to me and three bottles made a now sian of me I actually weigh 20 pound*more, and my health la mora vigorous than for years. I think it Is the greatest remedy that X ever saw. Yojr. ,*ruly, Minister Cured. Dear Friends—l suffered more or less &U the time for ten- years with rheuma tism, trying many remedies, but falling to perfect a permanent cure. So I expected to live the balance of my days in pain. But I began taking Graybeard. not ex pecting to be cured of rheumatism, but hope to be cured of tetter on hands and reck. And when I had only taken 3 bottles oil my rheumatism was gone. That was nearly a year ago and I have not had a pain from, that cause since. The tetter on my neck and ears disappeared, my genei al health has been better, and I weigh 20 pounds more than I did before taking it. No doubt Graybeard will do all that is claimed for it. S H. WHATLEY, Atlanta, Ga. Drugstores" Or write practice this custom of Greek and Roman life. When considered so important in social life, we need not wonder that the "corn rose" (papaver rhaea) occupies consider able place in the works of classic writers, Theocritus. Virgil and many another tell us of love's test and of death’s offering, and ths literature triumphs over the dead and buried material past, in that It lives on to tell its tales of simple joys .and sor rows to the countless Christian millions who have lived and loved and died since pagan Greece and Home tottered to de cay. Legend of (lie Opium. In Bengal we find a wonderful legion as to the birth of the opium. On the hanks of the Holy Ganga lived a Rishl or Sage, in his hut of palm leaves. A little mouse, timid, yet bold, was his only companion; her lot, a happy one, un til a cat disturbed its daily peace. See ing her fright, the kind Rishl grants to her the power of speech to tell her fears, and so she begs to be changed into the form of a cat like her cruei enemy. Then a dog pursues the cat, and per force she must become a dog; the chain of persecution is only lightened, not broken. An ape worries the dog, and as an ape she is tossed by the boar. Change of sex may bring strength, but cruelty dwells not in sex, for the elephant, in brute force, tramples the boar. Peace and contentment have not yet come; mayhap it will, when to ihe im age of a beautiful maiden the sage trans forms the mouse, and thereby expends his powers. Postomani or Poppye seed lady he calls her. and she cares ror hts wants and ministers to his needs, and is happy. But a King conies that way and Covets Postomani, and then pride rises in her heart, She tells the King that Rishl found her in ihe woods—a deserted Prin cess—and Rishi wisely does not gainsay her. They are married. She Is made chief Queen, but. alas' when standing by a well she becomes giddy, falls in and is drowned. The King's grief is inconsolable, and, at last, in order to soothe him somewhat, the sage confesses that Postomani, the great and beautiful, was once n tiny mouse and royalty may not fret over the insignlttcants in life. He advises the King to fill up the well with earth and prophe sies (hat from Postomanl's hones will spring a wondrous plant, whose seeds will bririg new power Into the earth. Whoso smokes or swallows them will combine Postomanl’s reincarnated na tures. Mischievous as a mouse, fond of milk as the cat, quarrelsome as the dog, filthy as the ape. savage as the hoar! mighty os the elephant, high tempered as a queen—all these will be the opium slave, whether of China far off or our nearer Chinatown, with its recent trage dy And so the white poppy was horn. Its legend points many morals for those who love to moralize. Coming l*ck from Eastern lands and imageries to our own country and our own time, we have a story of the red pop py more pathetic than death in Its asso. clarions. Emiire** Carlottn’* Flower. When the Archduke Maximilian of Aus tria, with his beautiful wife, Carlotta, accepted the Empire of Mexico, both made elaborate preparations, In order lo lend dignity to their new life In the New World. Carlotta decided that some order of knighthood must be Instituted, so that those who served (hem well and fai.n fully might be rewarded. She decided that the color of the ribbon of (he order must la red. But Napoleon objected, say ing (hat the ribbon of the Legion of Hon or was red, and must not be copied. The light hearted Carlottn enclosed a poppy petal 1n a letter to Louis Napoleon, re minding him that the Order el Mature Picture of Health. “Graybeard did me more good than any thing I ever took in my life. I was troubled with indigestion, shortness of breath, and war given a great deal of medicine by my doctor, but it did me no good. I caw Gray beard advertised and bought it, and it cured me. I began to gain flesh and weigh twenty pounds more than I did a, short time ago. MRS. J. G. BROWN, “127 Dee street, Montgomery, Ala.” Sound and Well. “I had congestion of the stomach—acute indigestion. Last August when I was so bad off, I heard of Greybeard- and got my daughter and son-in-law to send for the medicine for me. It did mo more good than all the doctors .and I continued its use until now. I am sound and well; I ara truly thankful for the discovery of 00 great and wonderful a medicine. “MRS. MARGARET A. OLIVE, Mt. Pella, Teni*. ■Si a Bottle--6 Bottles, ss* to Respess Drug Cos., Props., Savannah, Cal was ahead of the Legion of Honor, and the poppy was her favorite flower. Fatal significance of a fatal flower! Maximilian’s and Louis Napoleon's Em pires are alike in the dust, and to the bit terest end did they dree their weird. Burns’ lines were for (hem most fittingly appropriate. On happy, light hearted Carioiia such oblivion, sadder than death, has fallen as makes all who pity her pray that ere long the poppies of sleep may bind her brows, and her weary eyes close to open only on anew world, where con querors and tyrants have become the conquered. SAVED BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN. Story of nil Attnpk Near Pekin in June Told In a Letter From Prof. Von Ilraen. From the New York Sun. Berlin, July 17.—The Tagliche Rund schau to-day publishes a letter written by Prof, von Braen of the Pekin Univer sity on June 6. After describing the growth of the Boxer trouble he tells of the barricading of the Hotel Pekin by the foreigners on May 28, they then being of the belief that an attack would be made on the place. The wall surrounding the compound of the French legation was broken in one or two places in order to afford a means for the women and chil dren lo reach a refuge in the event of the expected attack being made. Notwith standing (he threatening outlook at the time the members of the German embassy continued in their belief that there was no danger. Finally, a number of engineers who had been wounded in an attack by the Box ers outside the city brought news to Pe kin of the danger threatening the French railway officials. The wives of the latter and ihe Intrepid wife of the keeper of the Hotel Pekin, an American woman, took matters into their own hands anil organized a relief expedition consisting of nine persons. M. Pichon, (he French minister, secured for the little band a military escort from the Chinese govern ment, and Ihe expedition started for the relief of the railway officials. Bad news continnue.l to be received, and Prof. Von Ilraen describes the anguish of Ihe defenders of the hotel when their information led them to believe that the expedition had been annihilated, and that this would give (he signal for a general attack on the town of Chung-Hsin-Tien, for which place the expedition was bound Chang-Hsin-Tten Is three hours’ dlstani from Pekin. The expedition started at 8 o'clock in the morning and had not re turned al 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Nu merous rumors were heard and the worst was feared. The defenders at the hotel kept their guns In their hands, determined to fight to the hitter end should they be attacked. Finally, at 7 o'clock in the evening the expedition returned, having successfully accomplished the object of its mission. The women at the hotel were exhausted by their long and anxious vigil, but they and their children gleefully welcomed the return of the expedition. The forty -Europeans who had been at Chang-Hsin-Tlen had fought 3CO Boxers for two days and two nights. The expe dition, whose moving spirit was the lion hearted American woman, saved all of them except five, who were killed. Prof, von Braen clones his letter by de claring that he fears that the safety of the Europeans was only temporary, an attack by Boxers and imperial troops be ing feared hourly. —Prof. E. C. Hills of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., who has in charge the general teaching of English to the Cuban teachers In Cambridge, has an extensive knowledge of Spanish, Dyspepsia. Bloating after eating and a feeling of weight In the stomach are dyspepsia's symptoms—eructations of gas—etok stom ach, heartburn, vertigo, all come along. Sour stomach, headache, general depres sion and great nervous condition follow. We hear women say that they cannot sleep, and that they feel light-headed as if at times they must fail. We hear men eay that they cannot work. The stomach is out of gear, they are restless and ner vous and form the habit of drinking. This is dyspepsia— It can be cured. Graybeard la a safe remedy for this ailment. It makes food nutritious and strengthens and invigorates the digestive organs by purifying the blood. Don't hesitate to take it. STOLEN BANKNOTES. Incident* Following n Tlieft From the Bnreau of Engraving and Printing. From the New York Evening Post. Washington, July 17.—The statement from secret service headquarters that ac tive search for the thief who stole eight blank banknotes from the Bureau of En graving and Printing has been abandoned calls to mind ona or two interesting inci dents in this case. The loss of the notes was discovered the morning after It oc curred, when the package of sheets from which they had been abstracted was sub jected to a recount. Warning was at once sent out to the national banks to look out for eight notes lacking seal, check num bers and signatures. In some quarters this warning was deemed superfluous on the ground that no well-regulated bank would accept such imperfect notes over its counter; but the response was that some expert forger might make clever representations of the seal, numbers and signatures, and that in the haste of handling large packages of money the trick might pass muster. Only six of the notes have since come to hand, but every one of these had found its way Into a well-regulated bank. Indeed, one of the first was sent to the treasury by a lead ing bank in this city, with a letter ex plaining in a tone of premature exulta tion that the note had been found in the midst of a package of good ones sent to this bank by a bank in Georgetown in settlement of an outstanding balance. Hardly had this letter had time to go upon the file, however, before a second bank in good standing in Washington turned in another of the notes, which it had received from bank number one, on which the laugh now centered. The treas ury authorities are beginning to wonder how much good is done by notification, after all. Inquiries have been many, ever since the loss of the imperfect notes, as to where the loss falls in such cases. In this in stance it would fall upon the govern ment, ns the notes had not passed out of its custody at the time of their abstrac tion. The fact that there was no seal, check number or signature counts for nothing. The government had printed upon the notes the insignia of value, and innocent holders had been deceived there by. The redemption division of the treas ury department is required to redeem all genuine notes, perfect or Imperfect, which come into it through the regular channels. It happens once in a while, though rare ly, that after the government has turned over to a bank a parcel of notes ordered by it, some of these notes are stolen be fore signature, or overlooked In the pro cess of signing a large number. In all eases where notes have actually passed into the custody of a hank and afterward get Into the hands of Innocent holders, the bank Is responsible, and Its bonds on de posit with the treasurer are held liable as security for the redemption of the notes. The theory of the law is thal. if a bank docs not wish to be held respon sible for Its notes srill in on Imperfect stage, it should take better care of <hem. Another point In connection with the ease under consideration, on which some of the newspapers seem to have been led astray. Is the character of the ofTense which would be charged against the thief, or any other persons knowing of the theft, who should pass Imperfect notes. There has been talk about their punish! ment under the counterfeiting laws. The broadest definition of counterfeiting, or of uttering counterfeit money, does not em brace such a ease as this. All that the thief could be prosecuted for would be larceny, and his “pals" could be held and £.ualsb£cl a* °t bi.l&iss Rheumatism. Rheumatism originates from exuosa o! acla in the blood. Impoverished and impure blood. It attack® different parts of tho body. It is sometime® seated in the muse lee, some times in the part® surrounding the joints, and sometimes in the Joints —hence the name muscular and articular rheumatism. When in the hips. It is called sciatic rheu matism; when in. the muscles of the beefc, lumbago. Often when one goes to rise from sitting or stooping the sudden ‘‘catching" is so se ver® that they some time® cry out in pain. The feet and joints are sometimes swollen without at first, causing any particular pain. This symptom is sufficient. The ail ment is getting a start on you. This is the time to take Graybeard. The safest euro for rheumatism is a thorough blood cleansing. Graybeard is a known specific for rheu matism. It checks the formation of acid, dissolves the acid deposit and produces a normal and rich flow of blood. Don't hesi tate to ask for it. A Boy Cured. Mrs. Hill, residing at 10y 2 w. Mitchell street, Atlanta, gave Graybeard to her son who was forced to stop work on account of a severe attack of rheumatism, and it cured him sound and well. Lost Use of His Arm •'Since taking Graybeard I hove regained ue of 'ray arm which was hfelplcss by rheumatism. W. C. FLENNIKBN, “Kingston, Tex. You Get Strong. Everybody who takes Graybeard tells us they get stronger. They eet more and it does not make them sick. This is the se cret of the curative powers of Graybeard. Th© first thing it does is to make you go to eating. You will eat more than you have eaten in months, and you will find It will not hurt you as it used to whe-n you ate heartily. By making you eat it makes you stronger. It makes you stronger as the new blc*od and bone and tissue begin to become part and parcel of you, and if you are afflicted with eczema you will find it gradually disappear. The same way wdth rheumatism, catarrh, dyspepsia, cancer, In short. Graybeard makes you stronger than your disease and crushes out your disease. Graybeard Did It. “Like all others who are so unfortunate as to become a prey to indigestion and bowel troubles. I tried various medicines and e number of tire best doctors to treat my case, but found only temporary relief until Graybeard was discovered. The mock- , Foreign Population of C hinn. From the New York Sun. Though there are no exact statistics of the foreign population of China outside the treaty ports, where an enumeration is made every year, all the missionaries in the consular districts, at least, are be lieved to bo included in the annual fig ures. Great Britain requires all her Eu ropean, though not her Asiatic, subjects living in China to register in the consular districts where they reside. This regis tration is optional with Americans, and In the statistics of the foreign population which Mr. Fowler, our consul at Che Foo, sent to Washington last month, he ex pressed the belief that the number of American residents is greatly underesti mated. Comparing the figures of last year sup plied by Mr. Fowler with those of the enumerations of 1894 and 1898 it is seen that there has been a large expansion of foreign business and an important increase in foreign population. For convenient ref erence the information given is here pre sented in tabular form. This table sum marizes the statistics of foreign popula tion in 1894, 1898 and 1899: 18£4. 1898. 1899. American 1,29 t 2,146 2.880 British 3,989 SJ4S 6^562 German 766 1,083 1 134 French 807 920 1183 Dutch 87 106 Danish 117 12S Spanish 3SO 395 449 Scandinavian 200 244 Russian 163 1,621 Austrian 92 90 Belgian 169 234 Italian 107 124 Japanese 853 1,587 2 440 Portuguese 780 1,084 1,423 Total 8,870 13,250 37,072 Some idea of the increase in foreign bus- Iness is given, by the following enumera tion of the American and European ilrms represented in China. 1894. 1898. 1899. American 31 43 70 British 363 369 401 German 7g m n3 French 29 37 76 Russian 13 ]6 ]9 Danish | 3 j Spanish j 6 9 Norwegian and Swedish.| Dutch j... 27 g 9 Belgium I 9 9 Italian j 9 9 Austrian | 5 - Portuguese | 3, 19 Japanese 104 , gr> Total 543 736 923 The foreign population and the number of foreign firms doing business in China have thus nearly doubled since 1893, The growth of foreign population, business en terprise and missionary effort was un doubtedly the largest factor tn inspiring the present revolt. It is therefore inter esting to observe how this growth has been distributed among the nations It is seen that Russia. Great Britain and the T'nited States have had the largest in crease In nttmlter of residents, and Japan whose participation In Chinese enterprises dates almost wholly from the end of her war with China, has had the largest In crease in number of firms. -The excellent style of the resolutions adopted by the Democratic National Con vention betrays tile hand of an experienced Journalist. We learn, says Ihe New York Evening Post, that, with the cxeeption of the three unimportant planks on a labor department, Irrigation of arid hands cm] Chinese exclusion, the paragraph declar ing imperialism the paramount issue, and a few verbal amendments by Mr. Bryan the pallform was the work of Mr. Charles H. Jones, formerly editor of the Florida Tlmes-Fnlon, and latar of the Bt. Louis .ZUnubllu. Catarrh. Tho mouth, throat, post-nasal cavity bronchial tubes and air cells of the limp are lined with a network of delicate 61ooa vessels. When the blood Is pure th.-a blood vessels are healthy and vigorous and exude mucus which lubricates the ail passages and protects them from the of. fects of cold, dust, etc. When the blood is impure, these vessel* by reason of their delicate structure, ar, unable to carry it. They become clogged, end hence results catarrh. Graybeard purifies the blood. Invigorate, these small blood vessels, and enoblei them to discharge the foul blood and rt stores health. Catarrh will not exist when the blood tt pure. Ugly Ulcers. Dear Friends—l have been suffering a years with an ulcer on my ankle. Borne, times in bed, sometimes on crutches. 1 used remedies of my own and falling t, make a cure, I edited in different physi cians. They all said that they could cur, me, but found it to be of a stubborn na. ture and failed. I saw Graybeard advertised and r bought four bottles of it, two boxes of the pills, one box of the ointment. It cured me well. And I have one bottl. left. I say that I am well—not nearly well but entirely well. It has been over twelvA months and no symptoms hove returned I hope the suffering will do as I have use It, have fattli in It and be cured. Mrs. JANO GEORGE. Rockvale, Term. iclne being manufactured by friends oi mine and knowing it to be made from pure material of the forest, was induced to glvt It a trial. I used it six weeks according ta directions, and at th© end of the time I felt as well as I ever did. “O. A. CLTETT, Ex-Alderman, Butler, Ga.” Rheumatism. Rheumatic Swelling in the legs is cure! by Gnaybeard. Mrs. Joseph Brown of Butler. Ga.. was afflicted with rheumatism. It caused her great pain. Her statement is that her le** swelled to unusual size. She was not able to relieve the ailment until she procured Graybeard. She is now' sound and well. Acid in the blood produces rehumutism. Nothing is half so good as Graybeard tor rheumatism. "My wife was afflicted four years with rheumatism, and I was not able to fin i anything to relieve her. She took Gray beard about a month and seemed to be as well as ever. It cured our lift e :on of t;ia ailment. We cannot praise Graybeard too much. GEO. BOOTH. , •‘Carsonville* G**.” <%PT. McCALLA'S FIHIIM^S. Ills Speech to the Commander at Tien Twin Daring the First Confer \ cnce. From he New York Sun. Victoria, B. C., July 17.—A Ti n T in c:r --i respondent of tlie Shanghai Mercury, a copy of wh ch w as rere'ved by the strain. : er Empress of India this aft rnoon, .-ays: 1 “Seme interesting facts have leaked out regarding the midnght meeting of coa suls and officers on June 13, which led to ihe sending of troops to Pekin on Sun day. j “It seems that during the conference the Russian and Fr nch re: resentativei frequently dr w apart for* private confer | enoe. which was anything but polite or frark, and he Russian colonel kep: draw- I ing attention to the fact <hat no nva-i n of P kin ought to be m ide with less th n 10,000 men (Russia being th > only coun r i ti l **' could lard so many at short t.oilce) and it b-cime fvk’ent that be was h ping the others would say: ‘Well, you have the i mer>. get them and go on.’ Of course, the | others w’ou'd c< nsent to no such fhirg. and so Russia and France tinally re'u-ei • o join the oth rs in s tiding men—albeit the-.- had troons at the s ation pronuv.lv in the morning. At last Cant. McCalls said: W< 11. gentlemen, you have talkfd this matter over pretiy thoroughly and have come to no decision: but I’ll tell you what I am going to do. My minist r is in dan ger. and r am going to Pekin.’ “There was nothing left for the others to do but to follow, which the British were only too glad to do. Capt. McCaha has e >med fhe praise rf al! British and Americans here by his el ar insight, prompt action and thoughtfulness. He his been on the go day and night, and all that, has hem accomplished has been mainly due to his steady persevere. nev “Capt. Bailey, the British commander, is a man of the same stamp, both men that wm may be proud of and in whose care we are sure of every attention and positive safety." DOC TRAINED TO gTEAI.. Illind ileggars' Novel Method for Robbing; Those Who Befriend Them. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Norfolk. Va., July 17.—A dog entered the jewelry store of R. W. Woodley this even ing and stole two dozen silver spoons, worth $39. The spoons, rolled in n flexi ble case, were taken from the jewelers safe. The dog accompanied Iwo blind mendi cants, a man and woman, who had with them another dog, which piloted them about. He led the blind people by a chain Into the’ stores, while the loose dog, evi dently trained to steal, roamed about in search of booty, which, once secured, h* fled with and secreted. The dog was de tected stealing the spoons, and a salesman and a crowd pursued him, but the two n gs and the beggars escaped. —Sir Norman Robert Stewart, com mander of the tirst brigade of the British reinforcements dispatched to China from India, Is the eldesi son of the late Field Marshal Sir Donald Martin Stewart. He was a captain w'hen he was transferred to the Indian Staff Corps In 1879. Before this, .however, he was employed on staff sor\ices as aide-de-camp 10 his father, and for some months in 1880 was brigade major in Afghanistan. Ho became a colo nel in the army early in 1890, and on Jan. 14, 1H99, was appointed to command the Hyderabad contingent, with the rank of .ferlgadier gepera^l.