BREAKING IT GENTLY.
Tkouttht Mir Might at Wall Hrinjf
(he Indortakft Along title
•It (he Way.
Thta ie a tme account of one person'*
<*( "kra* Ir >*ir» (kg
S-n»!y.
1 n.
cook, whose home wa* off in the country,
appeared before the “powers above" with
• letter in her hand, relates the New
York Times.
"I'll have to go home for a couple of days,
tnum," she said. "My cousin's just written
to me," and she handed over the crumpled
bn of paper with an audible stuff.
“Dear Mary,” it ran, “you had better
tome home at once, lour father is very
an k." and it continued with many parlicu*
lars of the illness.
At the end was a postscript, which, Uk«
the ola joke of a woman s V. S., had the
pith of tne matter.
“So long as you'll be driving up from
the village, you may as well bring the uas
dertaker along with you in the wagon."
Get What Von Ask For.
When you see an article well-ndvertised in
the newspapers, you may be sure it’s a good
article, for advertising only pays if the good*
are honest and possess merit. The people
who make a specialty of one advertised ar
-
ample, stake their whole busine-* existence
on its doing what they say it will. They
must “make good,” as the saying is. Read
ers of this paper are urged to be sore that
they get yvhat they ask for, when they ask
for an advertised article, for it’s the good
thing that is imitated and counterfeited.
Don t accept substitutes! Insist on getting
mk the genu bn!
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VSV -r.tildn,l l,Ike to ttonat,
* • }K'iv are you getting on with your music,
f dear?” inquired a lady of her niece.
-Well, of course,” replied the niece, d if
ientlv, “it wouldn’t be proper for me to
Compliment myself, but some of the neigli
•ors have told me they have staid awake
a night for hours, listening to my playing. ’
—Stray Stories.
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Striking Coincidence.
"I don’t suppose he meant anything un
kind.” said the young woman, “but it waa
• very startling coincidence.’
“What do you mean?”
“Just before Harold and I got married,
his friends persuaded him to join a ‘don’t
Worry’ club, ”—London Tit-Bits.
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Quinine Tablets. Price 25 cent*
The reason some men seem to have such
ready answers is because they are wrong.—
Washington (la.) Democrat.
Do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
tion has an equal for coughs and colds.- ,1.
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, ind., Feb. 15,1900.
A page digested is better than a volume
hurnetily read. Macaulay.
Opium and Liquor Habit* Cared.
Book froo. B. M.Woolley, M. D , Atlanta,On.
Life's little frets call for its largest faith.
•-Ram's Horn.
• Carpets can be colored on the floor with
Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
Keep out of the ruts of prejudice.—Farm
end Home.
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When Lydia E. Pinkham’s Ucmc
dies were first introduced skeptics
all over the country frowned upon
their curative claims, hut as year
after year has rolled by and tho
little group of women who hud Km
cured by the new discovery has
since grown into a vast army of
hundreds of thousands, doubts and
skepticisms have beeu swept-“away
as by a mighty flood, until to-day
the great good that Lydia !'•
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and her other medicines are doing
among the women of America is
' attracting the attention of many of
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ISLANDS IN DISPUTE
The Tiny Specks That Both Amer
ica and England Now Claim.
Why Thour on the < <>n«t of HrltUh
North Borneo HcIoiik to I »—
Ulirrr They Are nn«i W lint
They Art—The I'eojile.
When the sultan of Sulu (or .loin)
first saw an American, he asked:
"Why did you come here to get more
land?”—having heard that Americans
were very rich and possessed Immeas
urable lands. And if he now knows, or
ever happens to hear, that our govern
ment has taken the trouble to put tur
seal on those tiny specks of land lying
off the northeast coast of Borneo, the
wee isles of Bagnau, Taganac. Bak
kungnau, Lihiman. Boaani. Siebeung.
and Itankkayan. he may, indeed, doubt
the tales of boundless wealth and wide
domains belonging to the I'nitrd
States. But these wee Islands have
strategical value, and therefore we
THE DISPUTED ISLANDS.
They Are Shown in the Circle oil the Eorneo
Cc»et
want them. And, anyway, they belong
to U8.
These seven Islands lying so close
to British North Borneo, came to us
along with the sultan of Sulu. But we
lay claim to them, not because this
Sulu sultan has spiritual power over
the Mohammedans in some islands
without the Sulu group, and even over
Mohammedans residing in British
North Borneo, but because of two trea
ties; the first, a treaty between Great
Britain, Germany and Spain, wherein
Spain was gtven title to all the islands
"outside a marine league's distance c**
the Borneo coast"; the second treaty
referred to the one between the Unitet
States government and the sultan o'
Jolo, in which agreement was mad
that all the Islands ceded to Spain by
the treaty of 1885 should belong to the
United States.
The seven islands recently visited by
the United States gunboat are unques
tionably out of the marine league limit
of this treaiy, and authorities declare
the British have not a shadow of claim
to them. They are uninhabited and
reputed uninhabitable; all lie close to
gether and are spread over an area of
about 40 miles. The largest of the
seven, Boaant and Tagenae, command
the harbor of Sandakam. the capital
of British North Borneo. Rear Ad
miral Evans, recognizing their value
from a strategic point of view, sent
one of the Philippine gunboats to the
islands to survey them, hoist the
American flag and erect American tab
lets.
The island of Borneo is the largest
of the East India islands. The Dutch
possessions comprise by far the major
part of the territory, the British terri
tory (31,106 square miles) occupying
the extreme northern portion of the
island. British North Borneo has a
coast line of about 000 miles, a moun
tainous interior, and much Jungle
land; the population is 200.000; on the
coast are Mohammedan settlers, some
Chinese traders and artisans, and in
land dwell the aboriginal tribes. Bru
nei and Sarawak, neighboring terri
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A NATIVE DWELLING.
tories, were placed under British pro
tection in 1888. British North Bornet
is under the Jurisdiction of the Brit
ish North Borneo company, held unde:
grants from the sultans of Suin'and o
Brunei. The territory is admlnistere<
by* a governor (English) in Bornei
and a court of directors in London
Our friend, the sultan of Sulu, seem:
to have been considerable of a person
age in the past—and may yet be, fo
all we know; both Great Britain an(
Spain treating him with consideration
Spain used to pay him an annual trib
ute. and the North Borneo Tradlnj
company still hands over to him i
yearly tribute of 5,000 Mexican dol
lars. And yet in his own land the po
tentRte has wielded but an uncertah
authority; where “each man is moo
or less of a free lance, and his author
ity Is measured largely by the nmnbe
of rifles he possesses."
Following the word of out puttln:
hand to the seven tlnv islands off th
coast of Borneo comes the report tha
France is going to turn over to us he
insular possessions in the eastern Pa
cifle. A cynical writer, eommentln
on the reported transfer, says; “Th
correspondent, fails to tell whethc
we are to pay for them, nr lie paid fo
taking them." Certainly their rev<
nues are not such as to make us cage:
The local budgets of all for last yea
amounted to not more than $300,000
the islands altogether have an area c
about 1,520 square miles, and a pbpu
lation of 29,000.
2JANIEL CLfiVBJUTOX.
Ha) nmkrr'i Picnic a Xfir Form of
Festivity for the Country
Outinff.
For the girls and boys spending
their summer vacation in the "real
counrty," there is no form of amuse
ment more enjoyaDle than a hay
makers picnic. The big hay -wagon
is pressed into service, the girls mak
ing it very attractive with festoons of
wild flowers and green leaves. Noth
ing but the seating portion of the ve
hicle is left tindecorated. If the horses
or oxen are sufficiently gentle they,
too, can be decked out In floral finery.
In this festive looking cart the girls
and boys, arrayed In genuine country
fashion, are conveyed to the hayfield.
The girls go in for sunbonnets and
gingham aprons, tne boys wearing
broad-brimmed straw' headgear, sim
ilar to that adopted by the real farm
ers. and with overalls tucked into
high boots, as the haymaker is always
pictured.
Once in the field the frolic begins,
with which is combined some real help
to the farmer, as the heaped up hay
wagon soon shows. The luneheon.
which has come later in a less fantas
tic, wagon than the haymakers’ char
iot, is eaten In some shady spot, the
seats being fragrant mounds of hay.
No table is spread, the sandwiehes and
fruit being eaten from the hands. A
big can of cool milk or buttermilk is
the only beverage, and this Is served
in a tin dipper by an obliging farm
hand. When it comes time for home
going all ride on top of the load, which
is not as easy a feat as it looks, for
the hay has a curious way of slipping
from under, suggesting a trip on a
camel's back more than the ease of a
cushioned seat.
If at night a dance in the barn can
follbw the picnic, the day will be com
plete. For this lanterns furnish the
lights, those which the farmers carry
when they go to do the chores being
preferred to the pretty Japanese ones,
when the inflammable nature of the
surroundings is considered. The stalls
of the horses should be decorated with
flowers. The orchestra for the occa
sion. to be quite in keeping,' need be
only an accordion, a fiddle or a
mouth organ, played hv some young
countryman who has done so before
at dances of the real haymakers.
FOR THE FEMININE EYE.
The Englishwoman's Year Hook for
1903 states that there are In the t’nited
Kingdom 297 doctors, of whom 82 are
in London aud its suburbs alone. In
India there are 124 English medical
graduates, in China 29, and they are
also practicing in Sydney, Perth. Cape
Colony, Cairo, Ceylon, Jamaica and Per
sia.
The dowager duchess of Newcastle,
mother of Lord Francis Hope, and one
of the richest heiresses of the realm,
makes her home by choice in a dingy
tenement in the Whitechapel slums of
London. She says it does her good to
be reminded of the sad side of life, and
she continually labors to relieve the sor
rows of the poor around her.
Eugene McCarthy, who Is only 23
years of age, ran for the assembly In
New York last fall and was elected. This
was largely due to the efforts of Miss
S. M. Goodwine, a school teacher, who
rtade a personal canvas of the district
In support of Mr. McCarthy and went
with him on his speaking tours. Such
devotion has its reward. Miss Goodwine
will spend the coming winter at Al
bany, the wife of Eugene McCarthy.
She Didn't Care,
Maplehill, la.. Aug. 10th.—“I felt a*
though 1 didn’t care whether 1 lived or died,
i was so miserable all the tune."
In these words does M>~ Nellie Barfoot,
»f this place, describe her condition. Every
woman who is, or 1ms been, sick and suf
fering will understand and appreciate just
how Mis® Barfoot felt, and therearenodoubt
many thousands of similar eases.
It is truly an awful thing when a woman
gets so low that she can say "i don't care
whether 1 live or die.”
Hut Miss Harfoot tells a different story to
day. and her words should guide every suf
fering woman to the path of health and hap
piness.
"1 used Dodd's Kidney Pills, and I am
cured. I feel like a new person, and 1 would
say to every woman suffering as I did, give
Dodd’s Kidney Pills a trial, and you will
not be disappointed. They are worthy of
the highest praise.”
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The 1 nun! TillnK.
"I would like to know." asked the parent,
who had a son in need of tome further educ a
tion. "what I-- the course at your college?1’
"The usual half mile course of cinders and
ill that sort of thing, you know." absent
mindedly replied the president of the great
.usutulson. — Philadelphia Pres*.
The quiei thoughts nt great men make the
oudest report N. V Herald.
The sweetest pie contains patience, indue
trdy, energy. Farm and Home.
A dull man occasionally makes a cutting
remark. -Chicago Daily News,
l’eople who get it: irried i t* a juke deserve
their finish.—Chicago Daily New s.
Misfortune i* oftentimi' the stepping
stone to fortune.—United Presbyterian.
When a man admits t mt he is a crank,
he really thinks tie is entitled, to some credit
for it. Washington (la.) Democrat.
"Do you believe,” said the lady with the
sere and yellow . "that the gitoei die young? ’
"How could 1?" exclaimed the tkittererj
“how could I. and you - good—er that is—
"Sir!"—Baltimore News
(lushing Young Woman (to famous actor)
—"On, del you know, Mr. Starleigh, I'm sim
ply mad to go on the stage!” hmoiis Act
or—" Ves, I s iould think you would be, my
dear young lady!”— Punch.
“Ah,” he said to her over their ice cream
“it is very sweet, but not so sweet as you.’
"it issoft," she returned, promptly, “but nol
so soft a» you.” "And it is cold." he con
cluded. "but not sei cold as y os. Pniiadel
phia Press.
--
Manager l think, Mr. Ore' ves. that
there is a future for you if you will only live
up to your ow n judgment. Mr Hm ves -
"1 ho fie to do better than that. 1 an; going
to try to live up to my pies* notices. — Bo*
ton Transcript. _
■she "Mrs. Boreton called to day and
thought siie'ei nevergo He "But you are as
amiable, 1 suppose you never gave her the
slightest hint that you wanted her to go.’
She—"Indeed. I siiu not. If l had, ahe'd bi
here cow.”—Town and Country.
“What shade do you wish now?" said th<
medium, reaching behind the black cabinet
“Can 1 really have any 1 call for?” asked th<
woman who had never been to a seance be
fore. "Most assuredly.” "Then, if it'* a!
the same to you. I'll take a pair of window
ihades.”—Pniladelphla Kecord.
U. S. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA I
Recommends Pe-ru-na
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
If you do not derive prompt ami satis
factory results from the use of I’oruua.
write at once to Dr. Hart mat:, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
lie pleased to give you his valuable ad
vise gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President o1
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus
Ohio.
Catarrh of the Stomach i» Generally
Called Dyspepsia-"Somcthing to
Produce Artificial Digestion
is Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and a Host
if Other Digestive Remedies
Has Been Invented.
These Remedies Do Not Reach the Seat
of the Difficulty, Which is
Really Catarrh.
—
EX. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler from !
South Carolina, was Senator from
that state for two terms. In a re-I
1 cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., j
I from Washington, l). C'., says:
“ I can recommend Peruna for dys
pepsia and stomach trouble, f have
been using your medicine for a short
period and I feel very much relieved.
It Is indeed a wonderful medicine be
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Tlie only rational way to cure dyspep
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eurescatarrh. Peruna does not produce
artificial digestion. It cures catarrh and
leaves tlie stomach to perform digestion j
in a natural way. This is vastly better
and safer than resorting to artificial j
j methods.
Peruna has cured more cases of dys
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Peruna cures it, as well in this location
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Peruna is not simply a remedy for
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I Peruna cures dyspepsia because it is
i generally dependent upon catarrh.
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female malady, when upon examination the fact was revealed that obstructed
physiology of the stomach or bowels was the whole cause of the trouble.
The physician, however, who has not had experience may fall into the
error of diagnosing grave diseases of the female system when they do not
exist, because disorders of the bowels may be neglected until they give many
of the appearances of female disease. The bowels have been known to become
so clogged with hardened contents as to produce a condition closely resembling
uterine displacement, uterine prolapse (falling of the womb), and the sick
headache which is often attributed to female diseases is most often actually
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bowels or the great “Solar Plexus,” which is the central telegraph station
from which nervous messages are transmitted to and from all the organs
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