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^^^^ L'::'^:'*: vS<\JHKBK \jH vHv This woman says she was saved i from an operation ?>y Lydia E. P inkham's Vege t a 5>! e Compou nd. Lena V. Henry, of NorrLsto wn, Ga., * ? ** IV- !,L v . writes to Mrs. nuiuiam; " I suffered untold misery from female troubles. My doctor said an operation was the only chance I had, and [ dreaded it almost as much as death. "One day I read how other women had been cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, and I decided to try it. Before I had taken the first bottle I was better, and now I am entirely cured. "Every woman suffering with any female trouble should take Lydia BL Piukham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands o t' women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness or nervous prostration. YVhy don't you try it ? r Mrs. Pink ham invites all sick women, w wnw uci iui aunw She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Flames Front Water. Natural gas is a wonderful thing and the tricks it can play seem to upset many of the laws of nature. Up Deer Creek in Allen County, Missouri, the well drillers have a pumping plant to supply the boiler of the drill rig with water. Among the pipes that are run down to the creek i3 one carrying the gas which leaks from the casing of the big well. This pipe has been run out into midstream and the escaping gas causes the water to boil violently. The escaping gas has been ignited, and so this boiling-fountain in the middle of the creek burns with a hot, boiling flame, each bubble being filled with gas. The sight at night is weird, as the water seems a bubbling mass of flame, and tha pipe being invisible, the fire seems to come directly from the water. New Smoke Density Meter. Edmund J. Kunze has devised a smoke density meter, consisting of a short piece of brass tube about an inch in diameter, to one end of which is nivoted a revolving disk of transparent celluloid. This carries four different tints of gray, corresponding with the different densities of smoke between no smoke and jet black. In the centre of each tinted section there is a small hole. Wheu the instrument, is used the observer looks through the tube toward the smoke, turning the disk until the^tint nearest the color of the smoke has been determined. Not That Kind of a Talker. "On one occasion when in Congress," said James F. Banks, of Boston, "Gen. Benjamin Butler arose fn his place and intimated that the member who occupied the floor was transgressing the limits of debate. " "Why, General,' said the member reproachfully, 'you divided your time with me.' " 'I know I did,' rejoined Butler. ;rimly, 'but I didn't divide eternity with you.' "?Washington Herald. Picture Made by Lightning. A log of mahogany which has been sawn through at Belfast was found to contain right through a^very clearly defih^d "photograph" of a small deer and a larger animal running. Tho "nhrtfrn^rranh" was nrobablV transmitted by lightning during a storm and the pictures must have f?een taken a long time ago. as the tree, being four feet in diameter, is an exceedingly old one. Every plauk on the log right through shows the images clearly.? London Standard. LOST $300 buying Medicine when Right Food was Needed. Money spent for "tonics" and "bracers" to relieve indigestion, while the poor old stomach is loaded with pastry and pork, is worse than losing a pocketbook containing the money. If the money only is lost it's bad enough, but with lost health from wrong eating, it is hard to make the money back. A Michigan young lady lost money on drugs but i3 thankful she found a way to get back her health by proper food. She writes: "I had been a victim ot nervoua dyspepsia for six years'and spent three hundred dollars for treatment in the attempt to get well. None of it did me any good. "Finally I trted Grape-Nuts food, and the results were such that, if it cost a dollar a package, I would not he without it. My trouble had beeu caused by eating rich food such as pastry and pork. "The most wonderful thing that ever happened to ui<\ I an: sure, was the change in my condition after 1 began to eat Grape-Nuts. [ hfgan to improve at once aud the firs- week gained four pounas. "I feel that I cannot express myself in terms that are worthy o\* tfce r benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to m*. and you are perfectly free to publish this letter if It will send 3ome poor sufferer relief, sucii as has come to me." Name given by Postum Co., Battle /Creels, Mich. Read, "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. "There's a R&v 8011." ,X . a .. r i <' / . -v ! $10,000,000 ME i I CHELSEA, MASS.,MADE 12,000 HOMELESS i Boston Suburb Loses 13 Churches, 5 i Banks, the lily Hall, Many Factories and Hundreds of Tenements. FLAMES CUT PATH TWO MILES THROUGH TOWN llartial law Proclakned-BIaze Began at II A., M? and Burned For Twelve Hours Despite j Firemen and Soldiers?Fire Started in a Rubbish Dump and Fanned by a 40 Mile j Gale Soon Spread to Factories and Thence to the Heart of the Town. THE DAMAGE AT CHELSEA. More than u square mile burned. | Property loss estimated at [ $10,000,000. Three women and one man I killed, and more than fifty persons injured. The main street, including the City Hall, wiped out. Two hospitals, the public library, thirteen churches, five school houses, twenty business blocks, twenty factories and more than 300 other buildings destroyed. The flames leaped across Chelsea Creek and caused the big tanks of the Standard Oil Company in East Boston to blow up. More than 1500 families are homeless. The smoke was seen as far as Portsmouth, N. H. . Boston, Mass.?Swept through the city by a forty-t.ve-mile gale. Are which started at the west boundary of Chelsea burned almost the entire city, being stopped only by the ocean on the east. Twelve thousand persons are homeless and $10,000,000 worth of property is in ruins. Five bodies have been taken from the debris and at least seventy-five people are known to have been injured. Wnen not permitted by militiamen to enter her burning home on Chestnut street, a woman drew a revolver and shot herself dead. Her name is unknown. ' The distress and the confusion of cnousanas 01 innaDjtanis neemg uetore the, onrushicte conflagration'1s rarely equalled." Few American aittes/ are more thickly settled, to which cirstance was added the high wind fanning two blocks of fire front over a city of inflammable buildings closely placed. While people were burning up in efforts to save property babies were born in the streets. The fire started among a lot of old rags scattered about the dump in the rear of No. 265 Second street, near the Everett line, occupied by many dealers in old rags. The district is New England's clearing house for junk. Firemen Were Powerless. The fire area, which was in the lurui ul nu. ellipse, a. unit? uuu a ucwl \ long and half a mile wide at its broadest part, extended diagonally across the city from a point near the boundary between Everett and Chelsea to . the waters of Chelsea Creek. It'was useless for the firemen to attempt to check the ionrush of the flames before the gale, and their main efforts were to prevfent a spread of the blaze upon either side. Their last stand was taken at Chelsea Square late in the afternoon, and for hours a doubtful battle was waged. At 9 o'clock word was passed that the firemen * were winning and, with renewed energy, the contest was pressed. At 11 o'clock p. m. official announcement was made by Chief H. A. Spencer that the fire was under control. The great majority of the buildings were of wood and were completely destroyed, but structures of other material were almost as quickly and thoroughly incinerated by the fierceness of the blaze. All the banks, more than threequarters of the churches, half of the business blocks and nearly all the schoolhouses were wiped out. One hospital-and a dayuursery were destroyed. In the turmoil many of the sick and4hfijfm found difficulty in obtaining assistance and several of them had narrow escapes. Late in the afternoon the gale carried burning embers across Chelsea Creek and buildings in East Boston caught fire, but extensive damage there was prevented by prompt and energetic work by the firemen. Two men are said to have been shot by militiamen when discovered looting property. Their identity is unknown. An unknown man, who had lost all of his property, committed suicide in Union Park. The military guard of the district was by the First and Fifth regiments, M. V. M., and one company of the Eighth Regiment, and by a company of marines from theCharlestown Navy Yard. Driven by a northwest gale, which attained sucn a velocity tnat it carried embers down Boston Harbor as far as Nantasket and Cohasset and set fires/to roof tops in'^hpse towns, the fire had gained a headway against which the Efforts of Chelsea firemen and companies that had been called from Boston, Everett, Maiden, Lynn, Saugus and all the towns surrounding Chelsea were powerless. The flames forced their way toBig German Cruiser Launched. The German armored cruiser Blusher. coating $6,915,000 and having a . displacement of 15,000 tons, was ' launcnea at Kiel. Mules in Demand. The markets for mules still show . a jood demand, for fifteen hands , high $100 to $150. and those a half , a hand higher $150 to $175. By a decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee the Standard Oil Company was barred from further business in the State. Prominent People. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of , Boston, chaplain of the United States Senate is eierhtv-siv vearn r?1H Chancellor Day said there was no ' danger of the rich getting all the j : money, as their "fool" sons would i put it ia circulation. j Governor Fletcher D. Proctnr, of I Vermont, announced at Rutland that I he would not be a candidate for UniI ted States Senator next fall. William Nelms, aged ninety years. ! who claimed to be the last survivor of .' the "Noble Six Hundred" at Bala! lclava, died near La Jara, Col. V / " - V ' ward the northeast and then worked south a few blocks. By afternoon they had crossed Broadway, the main thoroughfare of the city, and reached Marginal street, which runs along Chelsea Creek, a mile from the starting place of the fire Rnirinc Huron. Ud. ?? - I Early in the evening embers carried across Chelsea Creek ignited the Standard Oil Company's tanks on the East Boston side of the creek, and .several of them exploded with a roar that could be heard ten miles out to sea and in all parts of Boston. No one was injured by the explosions, and the tanks were so isolated that, the fire did not spread to the rows of wooden tenement houses which run from this point in East Boston to the water front on the opposite side of Noodle Island, on.which East Boston is built. So great was the heat that trolley cars had to be abandoned in the streets and many of them were burned. Engine 15, of Boston, one of the lnrctiat in this cltv. was destroyed | while flghttng theflames that followed the explosion of the East Boston oil tanks. This is the most disastrous Are that has occurred in the metropolitan district (Greater Boston) since 1872. when sixty acres of the business district of Boston were burned, with a loss of $60,000,000. That conflagration started at the corner of Summer and. Kingston streets, and was not put under control for several days. Militia Ordered Out. When it became apparent that the fire would probably havo to burn itself out companies of militia, assisted by sailors and marines from the Charlestown Navy Yard, took charge of the Are lines and prevented looting by thieves, hundreds of whom had gathered from all sections of the metropolitan district. The miiltia was given orders to shoot persons caught | stealing. Lieutenant-Governor Eben S. Dra- j per, whp is at the head of the State during the illness of Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., was within the Are lines aH day directing the'work of:the-militia and aiding in the removal of the homeless to places of shelter. Mayor George A. Hibbard, of Boston. at 8 o'clock p. m., called a meet irg, at which it was votea to receive subscriptions for the homeless. The Intertrust Company, of Boston, told Mayor Hibbard to draw on it for 51000, and it is expected that a fund of $50,000 will be raised. The Suburban Gas and Electric Company, of the town of Revere, which adjoins Chelsea, housed 200 fire sufferers and provided them with food. Acting Governor Draper requested that a number of prominent citizens meet him at the "State House for the purpose of forming a relief committee tcr.take charge of the funds and donations for Chelsea. " ''lie has'appointed Lee, Higginson & Co. to act as treasurer. John F. Moors, who was sent to the San Francisco earthquake to attend to the distribution of Massachusetts funds ror tne siricKen peopie mere, is in charge of the relief funds for Chelsea. At midnight he reported that all of the homeless had been housed for the night. Prominent Buildings Destroyed in Chelsea Only three churches, a chapel and two schools are left in the burned district of Chelsea. Prominent buildings destroyed are: Rufus Frost General Hospital, Shawmut street. St. Rose's Roman Catholic Church, parochial residence, school and convent, Broadway. Chelsea Voung Men's Christian Association building, Hawthorn street St. Lujffr's Episcopal Ch\i?ch,sHawthorn street. People's A. M. E. Church, Fourth street. Central Congregational Church Chestnut and Fifth streets. Mount Belllngton Methodist Episcopal Church, Horace Memorial Free Baptist Church, Webster and Spencer avenues. St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholi( Church. Chestnut and Third streets Elm Street Synagogue. Jewish Synagogue, Winnisimmel street. First Church of Christ, Scientist Shurtleff street. First Unitarian Church, Hawthors street. Church of the Redeemer, Fourtt and Chestnut streets. First Baptist Churcb, Central av& nue. ,, f Chester Avenue Chapel. Epi&copal Church. Shurtleff street The Chelsea Trust Company The Chelsea Savings Bank. The Postoffice. The Park Hotel. The Chelsea Hotel. The Savoy Hotef. City Hall. Armory, Broadway. Central Fire Station. Public Library, Broadway. County Savings Bank, No. 425 Broadway. Odd Fellows' Block, Chelsea square. Frank B. Fay School, Evevet" avenue. Bellingham School. Broadway School. St. Rose Parochial School. Shurtleff School. Sanation Army Building. Chelsea Day Nursery. First MgtJwdfef'Sfpiscppal Church. i ' ? yt Br^ce Sigfoi Treaty. Treaties for determining the Canadian boundary and regulating the fisheries) of the great lakes were signed at the State Department at Washington, D. C.. by Secretary Root and Ambassador Bryce. AUSTRIAN GOVERNOR SLAIN. Ruthenian Student Shoots Count Potoclti in Lemberg. Lemberg, Austria.?Count Andreas Potocki, Governor of Galicia, was shot in his palace here by a Ruthenian student of the name of Siczynski, who obtained admission to the Governor r\ n f V? ?> nrotovt tVio f lia HocivoH t r? natl. tuuw uvo.mi iv |yoution him for appointment as a school teacher. Siczynski was Arrested. He expressed the hope that the Governor's death would stop the Government's oppression of the Ruthenians. The National Game. It ig settled that Paskert will be Cincinnati's regular centre fielder. Infielder TI?rzog is playing a great game with the New York Nationals ritcners lozer ana upp are regarded already as fixtures on Cincinnati's pitching staff. Fordham defeated Yalo in. a baseball game at ihe Polo Grounds, New York, by a score of 4 to 1. ' Hugh Jennings says the boys who have been raiser! on a farm are the ones for baseball. ' They make the city lads take the back seat every time." he declares. I SiERE Tti ! W ~ u , I k ' v .-o ,mc i m r\ K-AWVvSv V? w OVN.\ x* v / H?ri / \jifrC?w n ( 1 ; Tie? seem a little queer at first, ?Timely c art KNEW 1 MAN TILL 29, T Miss Pratt, of "Women's Comi Belle! It Was a Sin to Marry Founded by a Woman H and Formed a Colons Philadelphia.?Back of the marriage of Miss Adah Pratt, of 3 437 Irving street, Washington, to B. Franklin Hoover, of Philadelphia, lies a story of unusual romance. Miss Pratt lived until she was twenty-nine years .old without forming the acquaintance of a man. She was horn and raised in a commuuity of women taught to-believe that marriage wa3 a sin. She was bound by teaching and belief always to remain single. Then she married the first man to whom she ever had been introduced. She did more than half the courting herself. Nearly thirty years ago. in Texas, where Mrs. Hoover's mother lived at r\ KJf r*a M'nnfHa M^Whift'Or I LUC tlLUC| a irno. uiui bUu Ai&v rr ut* ww> , of Waco, announced that she had had a visitation from the Almighty, and had been told that it was sinful to live with man. Accordingly, she left her husband and, gathering about her a small party of women followers, I went to the little town of Belton and there established headquarters pf the new creed. It was called the Woman's Commonwealth. Its members were all well to do and self-supporting. Some were spinsters, some had been married and some had children. Mrs. Pratt was one of the conv? ts of the religion, and, leaving her husband, she joined the colony wh^re, two months afterward, the present Mrs. Hoover was born. There were ten children in the colony, all girls. Ten years ago the "commonwealth" moved to wasmngton, taicing up a farm of 172 acres in Mbntgomery County, Maryland, and a large house in the city. The children were taught to beware of meu. They never were permitted to have acquaintances with any of them. Of course they saw men. Mrs. Hoover says she often had noticed them. But she never paid attention to any of them until she met Hoover. This is the way she told her story: "Five of the girls grew up," she said, "and then slipped away to be married. Of course they were regarded as sinners. I thought them MEN TO BE ABOARD M0N1T I irtey Wiim fr-erera m a lowei Danger From Norfolk, Va.?The iffdicatious are that men will b<? aboard the monitor Florida when that vessel is made a target for the test of twelve-inch gun fire, two or three weeks hence. An observation tower, sixty or seventy feet above the main deck, id being constructed from the stern of the vessel. There could be no use for such a tower, but to observe the effects of the fire. The tower will be large enough to contain several men. Their height from the deck will niiuimize BARS SISSY CHRISTIANS Building Boss Discharges Do Much ft Los Angeles.?General Superintendent C. B. Weaver, who has charge of the construction work of the now Y. M. C. -A. building nere. nas ctscnargea all the Christians. He declares that non-Christians do 2!> per cent, more work than the church members. "There's not a Christian on the job as far as I know." said Weaver. Lancashire Spinners Abandon t!i?' {'[an to Have American S-Ntate*. Manchester. ? The Lancashire cotton spinners have abandoned the scheme to purchase cotton growing estates in the Mississippi Delta, owing to legal impediments against I* I J I ? I iiutjua umuiut^ icai <roi.u<.7. The Cotton Spinners' Association had already appointed a committee to take preliminary steps to form a company to take control of a cotton plantation in the United States, this being one of the results of the visit of the British delegation to t'.iar country. FcnnnJne Notes. A royal decree ha3 been issued in Holland abolishing the rule promulgated three years ago which forbade women employed in tin- postal rolegraph offices to marry. Miss Helen Canacu. daughter of the Speaker, has been eiw*hou *.r-1 ary president, of a n-*w p-.ifrior.ii* .* -1 ciel.y to lis known as Daunlif'?rs of J CJ/in _ %??,! T> wi'lhTK L?titi.i M. Snow, a uril-nt ? )f 'It* Woman's Callage of Baltimore, in if I ! the hea<l of the department of l-i-| ology in (lie S^al ? N.irrua! School of j i Parmvill?. Va I i 8EV ARE J mk-Mj ) , ; K- ji \\ v ' I y fTCOVROJ*'"/J .kfcWCE. but we'll soon get used to 'em. ooa by Triggs, 11 thu New York Press. HEN SHE WED THE RDST nonwealth," Was Reared in the ?belonged to Strange Sect Vho Left Her Husband r Who Saw No Men. bad. But about a year ago I went down town with a girl friend and she introduced me to Mr. Hoover. "Somehow or other f could not get him out of my mind. I found myself wishing I might see him all the time. -I-knew it wasn't right; at least, I thought it wasn't. Later I met him down town again, and several times after that. Then he told me he was going to leave the city and a3ked me to write. . I told him I would." From tier story it seeni3 that Hoover, who is a hotel clerk, went to Chicago, then came to Philadelphia, and wrote his intention to Miss Pratt,in Washington. "I was crazy to see him." she admitted, "and decided to risk the fear of my mother's displeasure. So I slipped quietly out of the house in Washington and came here. When I found Mr. Hoover he was greatly surprised. " 'Why, Adah, have you come up here to marry me?' he asked. " 'I don't know that I thought much about that,' I replied, 'I just felt I had to see you again.' " 'Well, will you marry me?' he asked. It took me by surprise, although I was not wholly unprepared for it. " 'I'm willing,' I said finally. " 'Right away?" he asked. Thia was 30 ' sudden it took ' my- breath away. " 'Can't you wait until to-morrow night?' [ asked him, and he said he would." The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. B. G. Pidge, pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church, at the parsonage. The same evening the bride wrote to her mother, but has not received an answer as yet. "I'm afraid she never will forgive me," she said. "She always was very strict with me. There are still three unmarried girls atthecommonwealth. They are twenty-three, twenty-eight and thirty-three years old." Mrs. Hoover is tall, of a striking '? ' i-i? - Li., j 3 CI I Figure auu siynsiuy nresseu. one ua= a wealth of chestnut hair, brown eye; and au expressive smile. OR FIREO AT BY BIG GUNS. r High Enough to Minimize Cannon. 'Balls. the dauger which they will run. II is possible that volunteer officers and men will man the tower. One of th twelve-inch guns ha3 been taken from the turret of the monitor and a stub installed in its place. The stub will be fired at. A heavy plate of armor has been installed between the other gun and the stub to prevent injury to the gun and a bullet head has been constructed in the forward part of the vessel sc that should it be struck at or below n/i fr^r* lino t ha irrvacsal WlH tint sink" FROM Y. M. C. A. JOB. Them?S-ays INon-Believers Aore Work. "When [ began, f had some Christiau.s, out; they, did not deiiveT the good*. [ fired 'em. They were-a sissy lot. aad thought !>ecause they belonged to rh? church they should get the soft end of everything. I've hired fellow* who make no profession aud rm getting twicv aa much work out of them." $7,000,000 ;?f Obscure V'Hin^ AniiittTt to !{?* Realized. Loudon. ? The London County Council has derided to proceed with the building of the proposed Count? Hal! on the site selected on the banks of the Thames ac Westminster. It. i.-. estimated that it will cost S7.000.00C aud fake seven years to build. The architect h Ralph Knott, who fill he wou that position by competition was an obscure assistant in the city architect's offico. He is twentynine years old. His fees as. architect ? k win iUil'JUUi lo f-vv,vw. TCie Field of Sports. Adam ttyaa, the Chicago light' weight, is being sivi ?-stepped l">y all the light?ightr< in Philadelphia Ryan can tuak" J 5) r-,-tt:ad.s. Pif'7-ftv? rrotters have ! .<?<??; eat<.'r?d f> c at. ISartford on Labor Day t >r SI ).) ) ) Charter OaI< ?-irs" for hors-M >:" 'I;1 class. .i>' that. Eagii.ihmet; think ti" gam.? develops r.tijjljaess of purpose au-.l l:ror'nen.i ii" ai.it.hoii so nitj.-'i is orick 'f." aav s 'h? baseball *nthi:.iia.it That, may be. but it iw riiir -.vliat it Jove.( mostly *.n rii vt armiciue ciaoh i OEMOQRflTIG CONVENTION" l * ?# ij. a* NSW Torxs UtJiegdlCo UU lu Denver Uninstmctsd. e The MeCarren Men From T*n Districts, With MeCarren at Head, Ousted After a Fight. New York City.?Charles P. Murphy and his ally, William J. Comiers, leaders of the Democratic party in the State, weeded Patrick H.. MeCarren out of the organization after one of the most sensational aassions of a State convention ever held in this State. It followed a dramatic appearancg of Senator MeCarren before the convention, in which he i hurled defiauce at Tammany .and <, threatened its disruption. One of the most exciting episodes occurred at midnight, when more than two score delegates rushed to the platform of Carnegie Hall, and, with shoults of "Gag rule!" and "Outrage!" demanded their rights. They declared substitution had i iip<?n made in the list of the new State Committee and that the Murphy-Conne'rs combination had seized absolute control of the organization. 'i The chairman announced that the , convention, instead of the Senate dis? tricts, would choose the delegates. This precipitated a riot. Delegates rushed toward the p.'atform to assault the chairman. Mr. Carmody, of Yates, who was presiding, broke his gavel. The sergeant-at-arms and his assistants were knocked down. The reporters and their tables were overturned. Half the policemen seemed fo be afraid to molest anybody or to take sides. In the middle of all the disorder the chairman announced the resplution carried that the convention should name the State Commitfee^ \ men from .the Twenty-severtTh, Thirty-sixth, Fortieth and Fiftieth Senate,- ? Districts. More than 100 delegates were on their feet protesting. The secretary called the roll while the crowd clamored and Carmody declared that the resolution was carried through, 254 to 128. Then he said the convention was adjourned. It was the most sensational Democratic State Convention held since Van Wyck was nominated for Governor against Theodore Roosevelt, in 1893. After .much trouble and many declinations from prominent Democrats, these four delegates-at-large were selected : Alton B. Parker, Lewis Nixon, Charles F. Murphy and Charles | p rutju. | Alternates-at-large, James E.' Sch^^tzenbach, Steuben; Francis K. Pendleton, New York; George H. Thacher, Albany; William F. Rafferty, Syracuse. Nathan Straus, of this city, and W. I H. Fitzpatrick, were selected as elecI tors-at-large. District delegates from the thirty-seven Congress districts were selected by their delegates. Under the instructions of the con- i vention the seventy-eight delegates I from New York to the Denver convention will vote as a jnitand as directed by Murphy and Coanors. The State Convention's resolutions committee flatly refused even so much as to consider a Bryan resolution. Harry W. Walker, one of Bryan's most enthusiastic supporters in New York, declared he would issue a call for another State convention to send a contesting delegation to Denver. ! SHOOTS OBSTINATE DAUGHTER As Sbe Sits at Piano, Then Kills Himself in Ashcvillc School For Girls. 1 Asheville, N. C.?Dr. C. O. Swinney, formerly of New York, who came > here from Marion, N. C., about two weeks ago to visit hia daughter, Nellie, a sixteen-year-old student at the ! Normal and Collegiate Institute, I ' called on his daughter at the college. While the two were alone in a re' ception room and Nellie was at the piano playing. Swinney fired three ' shots at her and '.hen fired a fourth shot through his own head, killing himself instantly. Miss Swinney wa3 picked up un' I conscious and is believed to he fatally 1 injured, two of the shots having taken 1 affect in her head. Miss Swiuney, who is considered the prettiest girl the college, had been receiving attentions f:om young men contrary to her t-father'sV^ishes. remonstrated with her, but : to no purpose. During their Calk in | the afternoon Ne!lie grew impatient I and commenced piaying the piano. j < t "COL." WARD SENTENCED AGAIN. i ' ) At Age of Seventy-four He Begins | ' ! Another Prison Term in Boston. Boston. Mass. ? "Colonel" Daniel , S. Ward, who for fifty years has been one of the most picturesque and in-. [ teresting characters in the criminal > history of the United States, was sen tenced iu the Superior Court to two and a half years in the State prison I for forgery, and at the age of seventyi frmr will commence his eighth or I ninth prison term. The "Colonel" commenced his pri- 1 j ; son career in I3fi3, when he was arrested iu New York during the draft i | riots with two other men for plotting I . i to, burn the city. His confederates j > j w^re executed, but Ward was j^art I doried by President Lincoln. ' ' [ I Iron and Steel Dull. Manufacturing conditions are little L J altered, about fifty per cent, of the : ! iron and steel producing capacity ; being in operation. - ri??r%rrirrAV ! BARS BKTTlJltr ir? ' I I Senate Passes Bill That Also Klim( I iiiatos Pokrr Playing. i j Washington. D. C.?The Senate I j rushed through a bill aimed to put | an end to betting at a local ra?e track. ? ! It is broad and it eliminates the Con ! gressional poker party, and prohibits > | bridge whist, of which the Congres | sioual women are L'orid. : j The Hoa.se had already passed the ; measure. HAltl'KK KSCAPE8 JAIL TEItM. i [ Despite President Washington Court , | Fines Pun* Food Violator. Washington. D. C.?President Roosevelt failed to get a jail sentence ri^r.Vf Wii'imi' rirvvqlrliMif of Wl IV#U<?1 - i??. tiMl (/(.I I' . -T- - ; the Washington Chamber of Com: til?'.':--, til-? first person convicted un: i der ?Iij pure food aud drills law. 1 : T!i-? E'reslJ-'n' desired Harper should ! suffer rii* -iTem^ penalty, but Judge j Kiailia'! .sent^nr* i Harper to pay a , tin-' >! t'ri-) ->:i om* count and $200 ' ! un :'.) .selling an alleged mis! ::t: i: rn.i-."lUcal compound. . I- - , & i | HnVitnnl ^ t. Constipation May bepermanetiily wercomeljy proper personal efforts wiitMHe assistance of the one truly bencj?nal laxative retnedy, Syrup of Kg* am! EUxir ofScw*# wKich enables onetojrorm regular Habits daily 50 that assistance to nature may be gradeaDj' dispensedwilH * wKcn no longer nceded astkebestof remedies, wKen required, areto assist nature and not to supjJant the natron, al junctions, vrhicb must depend ulti* matefy upon proper* nourishment, proper efforts,and rifcKt livinggenerally. To get its beneficial ej^ecl^, always uuy ine genuine syrup^figs^elutirfsenmi manufacturedtyfee ,".,' J California. ; fio syhup cot oniy SOLp GYALL LEADINCJDRUCblSTSt one stze only, rtguiar price 50$ |*r Bottle Could Take Her Choice. As the railroad train was stopping, * an old lady not accustomed to traveling, bailed the passing conductor and a3ked: "Conductor, what door shall I get out by?" "Either door, ma'am," graciously answered the conductor. "The car stops at both ends." Deafness Cannot Be Cared ' bylocal applications aa theycannot reach tb? diseased portion of the ear.' There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness in caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of ,. t the Eustachian Tu be. When this tube is inflamed youhave a rumbling sonnd or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Pndfness is the teault, and uuleag thejtoflammotion can b& taken out and this tube restored to, its normal condition, bearing will bede&trdyed forever. Nine cases out of tea are caused bycatarrh, which is notbingbutaa inflamed condition of the mucoos mrfaces. We will rive One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bycatarrh) tha t cannot be curedby Ball's (Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J.CHrwitv & Co.,Toledo,0. Sold by Drugrgista, "Sc. Take Hall's Family Tills for constipation. Woman's Inhumanity. " When you read about the way they are killing those beautiful birds down in Florida," said Mrs. Lapsllng, "you wonder ho^w any woman can be bo heartless as to wear a vinaigrette on her hat! * Ladlea Can Wear Shoe* One size smaller after using J?oofcEaae, a powder. It malws tignt or new shoe* sasv. Cures swollen, hot, sweatihg,' aching fdet^ingrowing nails, corns and buntdtts. At ; ill druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Don't a? cept any substitute. Trial package Fbbb b4 . . mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy,N.Y< Only Good Breeds Good. | Let m^ assure you once for all thai as you grow older If you enable yourselves to distinguish, by the truth ol x your own lives, what is true in thoM of other men, you will gradually pfcr* i ceive that all good baa its origin in i good, never in evlL?Ruskin. I SPRING KIDNEY TROUBLE. i Vividly Described by One Who Has Suffered Prom It. Mrs. H. Mutzabaugh, of Duncan* non, Pa., says: "I was sick and mis-: ferable all last Spring, and as I did not-knon T what',was. the 'iqatter, I kept goiqg down y and down until I wad B a physical wreck. I had smothering spells, flashes of heat over V the kidneys, and pain v * in passing the kidney secretions, which con talned sediment. My husband urged me to try Doan's Kidney Pills, and at last I did so. Tbey did me much good, and 1 used in all eight boxes, which restored me to perfect health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. \ Making the World Better. We did not make the worjd, and are not responsible .for its taste; but we can make life a fine art, and, taking thiagsjas we 'Snd them, like wise men moid them 'tfs may best serve own ends.?Johi? Inglesant. ? . . A Town Without Taxes. Orson, in Sweden, has no taxes. During the last thirty years the authorities of this place have sold over ?1,000,-000 worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting hare provided for a similar income every i-?r fnrtv vpars. In conseouence tUik K/J V4 ??? ?V ? _ _ of this source of commercial jvealth there are no taxes, and locatorailways and telephones are free, as are education and many other things.?From Tit-Bits. The Rent-Payer's Reasons. "Why." asked the real estate man, "do you pay rent instead of owning v a home?'' "I suppose," answered the mildmaunered man, "it's just habit." So long as I'm only paying rent I fool ! myself along with the idea that 9pe of these days I'm going to move Into a fine, roomy abode. But when I buy I know I've got to stick. -Besides, there would be no pleasure at all in talking about yourself because you didn't make repairs."?Washington Star. It jcm suffer from Fit*. Fallinc fHclrneai ot MfflH tiparfma, or bam Children that do no, mjr mh New Diacov*ry and Treatment IB will Rive them,Immedlato rtIM, and J3 all you nro inked tc do in to vend tor HH a Free bottle of Or. May's EPILEPTiCiDE CURE implieawith Food andDrugxActofCoiurMM jiih 30th 1906. Complete directions, also tea. raouiala of CURES, etc., FItEK by mall. ^rprtu Prepaid Give AGE and full addreM W. H. MY, M. 0., 548 Pearl Street, New York. ?AAA Money-Making Farms OUUU for Sale in 14 States Ap. endless variety in site, H price and purpose ; stock |H T\ in^ tools included with HB ,]W-feCTT many. "Stroat't Citilogoe ^8 T No-2t" our new i io-jiage book of 9H 'tWT* ^ bargains, profusely illustrated, containing Sute Man, reliable in- K| fonii.iii.in .if firming localities and traveling in- 9H siriK'tiiiiii f.) see proi>erties, mailed FREE, it you mcntiiiti ln-? paper. H Vpay railroad/arts. U E. A. iTROUT CO.. 150 Nassau St.. N.Y.CIty. Hi Thompson's Eye Wafer I 1