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Cap~tal Punishnent In Japan. To those wh6 ao ujot tully apec'ate the revolution in .apanese manners *nd customs. It may well seem strange that the sentence ot the murderer of Boshi 'oru. the ex-minister, should be impriEonment for life with hard la bor. They might have expected ."someh m g with boiling oil in it." .Sir Ruthrtord Alcock, the first British aiin>"er to Japan. writing some forty years ago. dwelt upon the severity of the .L'-anese laws. "The code is prob ably 1.e bloodiest in the world. for death is the penalty of most offense3. The Japanese seems to proceed on the principle that he who violates one law will violate any other, and that a will Tul violator is unworthy of life." Un der this regime it was considered a $pecl::1 privilege to be allowed to exe cuto oneself and commit hari-k-ai. but this was reserved for people of rank. Whe common people had to be content kith the executioner's sword. Under the criminal code which came into force in 1882. and which is found - ed on the code of Napoleon, death by hangintg is provided as a penalty for tertain, offenses, but of recent years It has become rarer and may now be considered obsolete. Probably the Japanese, with their traditional con tempt for death regard penal servitude for life as a greater punishment. For nerly no conviction was made except on conission by the prisoner, and there was an abundant use of torture. That. of course, was officially abolish ed many years ago, but it was prac ficed occasionally at a much later date, and a case is known in which to'tura was undoubtedly applied by the police at one of the treaty ports in 1S9. Chicago News. "Woman are so inconsistent," say: the Idanayunk Philosopher. "A woman will maarry her Idol and then proceed tc brealk z'n." MISS BONNE DLANO Chicago Society Lady, in a Letter to Mrs. Pinkham says: "DEAR Ms. PnRixAX:-Of all the grateful danghters to whom you have ven health and life, none are more ad than 1. My home and my life was happy lar San havinf vey aiidulan scanty menstruation; gra~Iually my -general health failed ; I cohld not en'. Soy my meals ; I became languid and ~ervons, with griping an frequently hegrEolns. - " I advised with our family phys kcian who prescribed without any im .rovenent. One day he said.-' Try Lydia Pinkhami's Remedies.' I 6id, thank God ; the next month I was better, and. it gradually built me up '1ntil in four months I was cured. This ts nearly a year ago and I have not had a pain or ache since."-BoNNm~ )ELANO, 32-3 Indiana Ave., Chicago, 11. -5009 forf'elt I' aboae testimonial Ia not guensine. Trustwvorthy p-'oof is abundant that Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound stives thousands o f young women from dangers resulting r*om organic irregularity, suppression ~or retention of the menses, ovarian or womb troub es. Refuse substitutes. Corn remnoves from the seil large quantities of ~jPotash. The fertilizer ap Splied, must furnish enoug'h Potash, or the land will lose its pro ducing power. Read carefelly or books on crops-sent fre. GERMAN KALI WORKS, * Nassau St., New York. 150 kinds for I16cs 31 is a fart tbat saizer's vegetable and flower sewi i r' f~u~ int1 r ar' wn ~ e ain h aowng Rthi -edented otter: - Frye 1G Cents~ Post paid f 5 ed. er rawest lueeom radishes, 12 magatfest earliest mas, 2ots an lts lof~s chicae egeabe -oat and Bremaand speltsiodo fe' 6e, instam . WrIte tda. ROHN A. SAL.ZER SEED CO.. I tLa erosse, Wis. A New Solution. HE world may become indebt ed :o Rtussialora new method cf overland transportation. The :e' n !~e~ C; of Prhce KhIka, the Czar's Minister of Ways and Communication, and i3 so simple that one is inclined to won der that it was not thought of before. The plan contemplates the employment of automobiles of from three to six horse power for hauling ordinary carts over tranways made of boards. sheet iron, cement or any material that may be found readily at band. Stone, iron and wooden tramways have been used for transportation from time Immemo rial; traction road engines are not new. nor can the idea of drawing farmers' or carters' wagons in trains from farm to factory to the nearby market towns or railway centres be regarded as a novelty. The traction engines hith ert& thought of In -this connection, however, are comppmratively slow, ex pensive and so heavy that a consider able portion of the power generated by them would be required to haul their own weight. Joreover, a pre requisite for their successful employ ment is a hard, smooth andYcostly ro:d. PrInCe Khilkoff's initial experiments; were conducted in the park surrotnd-1 ing his home. Ordinary sleepers were laid down, and upon these two lines of planks were nailed, instead of rails, at a distance apart correspondin~ to that of the automobile wheels. Wood en combings were placed on the outer sides of the planks as guard. to pre vent the maebine from leaving the track. With an ordinary three and one-half horse power carriage a cart laden with bricks, and weighing with Its contents nearly two tons, was easily hauled over the wooden tram way at a speed of twelve versts an hour. The estimated cost of a tram way constructed like the foregoin~ is less than 2000 ibles per verst, while tue cheapest macadamized road would cost five times as much. The first prac tical experiment of the new system is to be made between Tsarkoe-Selo and the new water works, which are being built a few versts from that city. The line will be laid over swampy ground, where an ordinary road could not be, built. Various substances will be tr"' for the new automobile rails, such as iron, cement and different kinds of wood. In the event of the success of this experiment, of which there Is no rea sonable doubt, the system Is to be ex tended throughout the empire as a sup-j leda asu>* Didi;;portation I Ne oints not reached .D"Nfil rs. Another consideratIon moving the htussian Miinister to extend the sys ern is the Impracticability of ordinary ussan roads for carriages and carts n the spring and autumn, when the wheels are apt to sink hub deep Into mire. The considerations are as valid n the greater part of this country as they are in Ruhssia, and it is quite jpos sible that the general adoption of rince Khilkoft's plan would be the solution of the haulage problem in the rural districts of the United States. An automobile can be bought at a price but little exceedin~ that of a tearn of horses, and costs incomparably less to eep. Th~e cheapness of the timber tramway would lay the road tax bogy, which fills farmers with apprehension henever lm'roved roadways are mentioned. The point which would ount most heavily in favor of the tramway principle is its ndaptability to all locations- On any sort of soil the sleepers and board rails could be aid with equal celerity and ease- No clay would be too soft, nor sand too deep for It; the road could be made to follow the rubble stone bank of dry river, and it would not be necessary to ae long d~etours aror~nd marsh lands. - On grounds of economy and enerl utility, the plan appeals to one so strongly that It would be surprising if some of the freeholders or supervis ors of our progressive rural communi a~ should not give it an early trial. New Method of Road Building A novel system of road construction has been successfully resorted to In M~onmouth, IlL The ground was pre pared for it by grading and being al lowed to remain so for two months. It was trcated to an occasional scrap ing,so that It would pack evenly, be ing thus rendered hard and even for the laying cf a surface ofl brick, the chief constructive feature. The first thing was the setting of a curbing, made of two by six inch planks seven feet apart, held( by oak stakes eighten inchs long and p)ut down every fourc feet. Inside of this was a live-nneil bed of sand, all evened up. and a sing-e. ourse ofl No. 1 paving brick then put lown, a fine roadbed being thus ob tained. Outs'de the curl) two feet of rushed roek wvere laid, graded up to make an easy approach, this plau in suring a way of eleven feet in widib, and, as the earth on eac2 side was raded and worked, there was alto gethier a width of some forty feet, af fording tracks on each side for use in dry weather. Such a brick road cos bout ninety cents a running foot. The industrial Discoverer. It is not the boy -who is surrounded by the best implements and tools that ingenuity can manufacture, but an Eli Whitney making a cotton gin in a cel lar In the South with the simplest tols, or a Cunard whittling the model of a ship with a jackknife, that makes ....t 4.nds-tr1al daeveries.-uccess. sI _Ts Worth its Weight in Gold." "Had Ecsema for three years: tried three dotors and every advertised remedy,without . ef'est, till ItriedTettcrine. Half aborofTet terin-- removed all signs of the dis.ase.' H. Adams. Columbia, s. C. W0c. a bo: by rnail from J. T. Stptrinc. Savanah, Ga., il your druggi, don't keeu it. e There is quite a diHf-.rence between hav ing a beavealy roice and having a a earthly or" t Garfield auseiie 1'owders are especially adapted to the needs of nervous women. Chin music must be the result of the wind whistling through a man's whiskers. Best For the Bowels. S No matter what ails you, headaebe to a d cancer, you will never get well until your . bowels are put right. CAsCAR.TS help nature, curo you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start got ting your health back. CAS- 6 CARTS Candy Cathartic, the genuine. put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on It. Bewaro of Imitations. V The New York Chamber of Commerce was incorporated by George III. on March 13, 1770. Garfield Headache Powders! 4 Powders aro sold for I0k. One Powder cures a headache. The poor we have always with us, but' that is better than having them against us. FITSrermanefl d.Nofltsornervous Dess after first e of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveilestorer. ottle andtreatise free Dr. F. H. KL1U. d.. 931Arch St. Phila.,Pa. Taking everything into consideration the suspension bridge is without a pier. UTrs. Winslow'sSoothing Syrup for childre" tCthinz, soften the gums, reduces inflamina ion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c abottle. The total length of occan ca:es is 160, 842 milC. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump tion hrs an equal for coughs a d cold-Jonsr F. 1;oyxn, Trini"y Springs. Ind., Feb. 15, 1VO0. The w-oman who marrics a crank discov cra that life is a grind. . iGaz'cld Tea cures constipation. Some peoplc are so la:y that cren t'eir livErs won't work. Tyner's Dysnersia Remedy Crres Irreg La:- IHeart Action. At Druggists, to cents. It must be the aristoc-atic shoemaker who considers himself too good to last. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you Uso PUTNAx FALELss Dxzs. Sold by all druggists. There are on the Swiss lakes sixty-fi steamers, of which the largest can 1200 passengers. Send to Garfneld Tea Co., Brooklyn; N. l. for samples Garfield Tea and Headaohe rowdejs-two invaluable remedies. The Chinese have twice sacked Moscow, once ;n 1237 and again in 1293. STATz or Oxio, Cray or ToLILDn, LucAs CousTr. FRANK J. CHXZE, make oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CjHEiEY &_ Co., doing business In the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ocz HUNDRED LOL rtns for each and every case of CATABBE that cannot be cured by the use of HALL's CATARU CURS. Fn&NK J. CGzzT. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my ....presence, this 6th day of Decembe~ szz.A. D., 1836. A. W. Gzzisos. t ..,~ ota rif2ub lic. of the system. Send for testimoales . F. 3. CHEzNET b Co., Toledo, 0. e d yDruggists,75e. So "s Family Pilsare the best. There -othing so uncertain as a sue hig. -__ _ _ _ _ _ _ Garfld Tea, the orb medicine, cures con stipatIon, sick headach and liver disorders. . woman does not havd to be A rav'ng beauty all her days, - hena gone are youth and freshntess, a she Makes up for it In other ways. Seaboard special Rates. 23.00 Cl arlot'e to New Orleans, u-8fd etur:: S$8 75 to, Mobie', Alai., an in,. wtn' $1$.25 to Pe~r.5taco'la, Fia., a?,nr. ic~unit of 3MAR a GnAs at ab,e 'T ined point-. Tickets '.n -ai'tFebruary.4 th~. iei-v"., good to re.urn util at E6 "10 Chairotte to Wll ington. N. C'a return account of the -Vo. outry and Li e tiek $how Feirury 4th to 7th. Tickets saie February 8rd. 4th. 5:h. 6th. 7th. W th "~ un i mit F,-bruary 8th. For fuirther ni ornaion.-catll on or addre~'s A. V. Har . TA, 23Souh Tr.,n St.,Char~Otte. u My Lung " An attack of la grippe tef mne with a bad cough. My friends said1 I had consumption. I thenl tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral a d it cured me promptly." A. K. Randles, Noko s n Il. You forgot to buy bot tie of Ayer's Gherr pec. - toral when your c d first came on, so youi1 t it rn along. Even no ,with all your hard co -ghing, it . vwill not disappc int you. There's a recor of sixty years to fall ba k on. -rhree sires: 25c.,fc.,I S .Aldtrtsts. the '1t as oc ra. If he says take it. eae it. with hun , kei.Hkns. - .,. Lowenl, Mass. W rF.T---Two -rr e'ln:- S-ieemen Ia each .t t . PermiannftV- ,q'tm. $U ad e-Xpens'' 35 rif,,- t..-e-nl Tub -c oraC. ncsv. McILH BN Y'S TABASQO, W NCII .22 to .50 loaded wiNih aIl7ys give entire satisfaction.. m r manner, by exact machmi THE SHOOT WHERE YOU HOL) wo Women and a Deer In a Kitchen. A deer weit into the tohvn of Micb amme and entered the kitchen of eter Malway's house through an open oor. The animal upset a table, smash d the disbes and nearly trampled up a Mrs. Malway and another woman ho was in the kitchen with her. A1 ! making a few pliunes about the Dom the deer got out and started for ie lake, a short distance away. It ntered a boat house through the front oor and then leape1 into the water. 'he deer was shot by Frank Goodroe nd Frank Muck. The animal was a oe and weighed 125 pounds dressed. -Chicago Record-Herald. Cupid and the burglar both laugh at lock niths. So. 6. A mild-tempered person may be all ie rage. THE C Life out of doo -nent which they greater part of tha happiness when gr - - given to them to cl on which it acts, sh component parts ar every objectionable well-informed, app because of its pleas Syrup of Figs-ant be used by fathers. Syrup of Figs naturally without g system effectually, from the use of the .. N which the children; grow to manhood 2 them medicines, w assistancein the w, gentle-Syrup of F Its quality is d laxative principies also to our original the little ones, do n ers sometimes offel bought anywhere o -v* CAPUDIE @ Nervan: !Jeadache. Neuralgia, and SICK HEAD)ACilE. It is abso hutely harmless. No effect on the beatt. For sale nt all Druit Stores. g M4ACrnN OA. Thorouh in al appointments. Eand~asa en re <Fgnize (.i e ipl'n-as ne a testimo ala of guilty :est w. rth.- All bryn Les taught. Fule n ioermnni, cheefullr furnies.e r. ANTED-' ".d who w nt to make money and have money toe e eve, to sell Dr. Oxiey's MYEagnetic co(mb. It r-a' ces htr 'nd ma'ke' hair igrow. It enables agent.. t,> get r-ch. Send 50e. rt one. ED. B. DIMOCK, Gen. Mgr.. EATUR, IL. U. SA. ~J NTED!YOU1NG PEOPLE~ Blookkeepinlg. Pennanaip, . ,hoa thuand, Arithine tte. etc., AT HOYJE undr the guidance of KPEILENCED)TEAHE.kR.. Drake- Bridge School, Room 550, 150 Fi t h Avenue, NEiW YORK ClTV. SADDLE en o nrs or 31ale quickly -urod with 1r. Daniela ,'Ea j ii ra D. 1 1:ea era, or sent by e-ts ot' Ilorses. e attle. .'-heep id swine at di II..w~ to TreatI Themn." .fn cet ot 2.5 cnt. A. C. DANE L Stanifrord St., flOaTON. l1A ES ) R 0 un'ek re- IAf and once, wrst -S. o .a (ttecri e mlmi eADe [Q dnys t..estment -re-e. Ir. 1. 1. 0l.EN- e~SOME. Sod B. Alan3ta, Ga. - S - 00iHltS WHERE ALL ELSE FALS. Best Cough Syrup. Tatees Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. A LL' C A L B ER S 'r Black or Smokeless Powder Chey are made and loaded is a ry operated by skilled experts. ) * AL WAYS ASK FOR T HEM N.. A4: 'HILDREN El rs and out of the ag whjch they pla: receive and the efforts whicir..they- e2 ,healthful development which is so e ,wn. When a laxative is needed the r eanse and sweeten and sttengthen the ouid be suich as physicians would spr ct eknown to be wholesome and the remedy :iquality. The one remedy wVhidh *|ty-ciz rove and recommend and which the 1i unt flavor, its gentle action and its benef for the same reason it is the cnly laxati nd mothers. is the only remedy which acts gently, riping, irritating, or nauseating and wh without producing that constipated hab old-timie cathar-.ics and modern imitati ;hould be so carefully guarded. If you N md womianhood, strosig, healthy and hal hen medicines are not needed, and whe LY of a laxative, give them only the~sim;: -s. - ue not only to the excellence of the com Df plants with pleasant aromatic syrups method of manufacture and as youa val Dt accept any of the substitu'tes which un to increase their profits. The genuin( fall reliable druggists at fifty cents per to remember, the full name of 1 CALIFORNIA FIG SYR.UP CO. the front of every pack age. In order to get its beneficial effects it is al rs ad o T husa of chtilde pa, receie an te efor s arc' tey sedo ow.Whna atvs ne ededx toheu chiedseeen and upoyhn the tnLoe knnoewoesome adop the seina q Dait . oreeYKwIN'S Ni~c rov an rcomenda e whichten.1 for he sme rasonit i teuly t lt i witoutproucn tha ostiatredsa a.. oldtie-cthr hy, ad goder i.itiatye Lndwoanhod stodd, ealthyand ham iyofa axti Q giehe onl thosm of lats it peasa~t aroatiarf uP method f manu atu and as you va toinreseter prof,00. padodThe paen in1 r al reiabl drggists at fft nerwnts pe CALIFRNIA FSP Co-G~ thefrntof vey a crose endia fortsi is t a ric ~. the gediitionl. E'DW. O.M- S A Good Figure c:n be attained by any woman if she traits A pr6perly. The -4 correct corset is the foundation o a symmetrical figure. The Straight Front Royal Worcester Bon Ton Corsets L=t becutse they are uiade right. Ask your de:,er :o show t rnto you. - Worccstcr mas. E:31 ~ ~ 4 Warie Ce04Co ~J~oY KJOY and the enjoy- - , ake, comes the sential to their emedy which is internal organs < 0 ion, because its itself free from - ins and parents, ttle ones enjoy, - iial effects, is e which should pleasantly and ... ich cleanses the it which results ns, and against ould have them 'py, do not give - nature needs - il pensant and biuaticn of the - - and ju' es, but - e the-health of scrupulods deal article may be bottle.' Please he Company - is printed on -f r F~ACTSI being gnawed to distraction by reliable. They depend upon the ety of worms present in the intes-j od sure course by ,sing ORM KILlER. ROYER OFTHESE MONSTERS. PT NONE BUT DR. BOYK iN'S. N' OLDEVERYWHERE.3J LLZEMUES AS . enWe.ath e ......bSUU cand io and toeofuti' a n snen IUB ase -0 fornt ead . yo ts* ste. the hti enttt s - mak s.ree ans . e an'cta afor ha nto gra -nier' hu ES AND FURS.M~p' List on 1P4rs. January Just Out. c., Atlanta, Ga.