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J Besides general news, tlio * 9 Twice-a-Weck Journal has s* much agricultural matter j J ami other articles of special * 9 interest to farmer*. It has s I regular contributions by Sam % | Jones, Mrs. \V. H. Felt.on J John Temple Grayes, lion, t J C. H. Jordan and other dis- ? g tinguished writers. ' S Call at thlr afftca and laava yaur f # aabacrlptlon* far k*U Papart. Yaa can | S *at a aaaapla capy af afUiar pa par bara I Z aa application. J Our Attitude Toward China. It Ditl'eis Materially from Positions of Kuropeun Powers?The Open Door Policy. London, Juno 19?The action of the American government in China escapes public observation here, because the forces* of marines ! I sent to Pckin arc small. But America's course is keenly watched i:i diplomatic circles. TIlO i-iiill'sO inilnnnn/ln?? If - x/ - lUMVj/VUUCUlj II j not isolated. American murines may be nnuchin^ with European i or .Jupanese murines, but they are going to IVkiu for u specific pur pose?the protection of American missionaries and property?and they are not instruments of any European concert. This fact is clearly understood among diplomats here; and certain inferences are drawn from it. One is that the Cnited States government does not intend to lie entrapped into any European coalition for tlx? protection or dismemberment of China. A concert may bo formed,but America will not bo in it. The \\ u-hingt >n government will look after the interests of its own citizens in China, as it is doing hi Constantinople. Another inference is that this independent course will strengthen the resources of the Washington government for holding the European powers to their guarantees on the open-door question. It will not act jointly with England or (Jermauy, and will remain outside the concern and be in a better position for dealing with nil the power* and insisting that, whatever changes there may he in spheres of influence and territorial holdings, the principal.of equality in commercial advantage shall he maintained. Lord Salisbury began several years ago by ringing the changes on the open door policy and ended by leasing Wei IIai-\Yei on the same terms on which Germany and Russia ha 1 acquired ports and naval stations. This was practical evidence that Lngiand, whenever an emergency arose, would join the fruropcan concerns for con-1 trolling action in China and regit - j luting u scheme of partition, if there should ho u break-up of tho empire. It is already clear (hat the powers are acting togethei 111 sending marines to lVkin, and ! that, at the risk of instigating civil war, they may he called on to depose the Kmpress and grant Russia a mandate for the occupation of Northern China. ROX Kits' M( 1 K.MKN'T. ! The Boxers' movement is widespread and has heen in progress 'for a long time, and the Empress has heen forced to support it in order to protect the dynasty and the throne. The Kur. pean concern will he compelled to adopt strenuous measures for crushing tins anti reform movement, and t may he impracticable to defer will purify your blood and bring i the bloom of health back into your a cheeks. Each bottle contains a quart. Painful and Supreared Menses. Irreguli lion of tho Uterus, chanre ?( life In natron < JOHNSTON S SAKSAPARILLA. It la tide, Indigestion, palpitation of tho heart, ce muscular weakness, bearing down pnlna, ba ahortneaa of broath, abnormal discharges ' swelling of feel, soreness of the breasts, i symptoms which make the average woman' health Information. Yon want It?Ha free ^THE MICNIQAN PR Uvonttoo for Uror IW. Tho CI raw ford Broa, Lancaster,8.|<J J. V Mat'key h Co, Lancaster, 8.C jyfe n the dissolution of tho Chinese em pile. In this event, tho Atnori can government will he in u unique position? if tho worst com s to tho worst?for holding tho Kuropean powers to thoir pledges to respect the open door principle. It may be enabled to play an j important part as a peacemaker j and the champion of tho commercial interests of the world, and this it can do with greater efficacy and grace if it remains outside Kuropean concert. Mimiur jiiwl rnilivnv niiirinooru who arc familiar with China assert ^ that an enorino* s expansion of the ; world's trade will he the result of ' opening the empire under scientific i conditions of modern enterprise ' Millions arc now living there in I primitive surroundings, hut with ' the extension of railways, the Jo- i velopmeni of coal and other miner- j al resources, the introduction of electric machinery and the building of factories the market of foreign goods could bo quadrupled. One of the most important interests of modern commerce is the opening of China on conditions of j commercial equality to industrial competition by all nations, and . 1 lie I nited States has special guardian of the pinciple. The Washington government should hold its resources in reserve, especially as the British! government is caught unprepared, and is stumbling from one feeble expedient to another, with a vague 1 possibility that everything will1 come out right. But a strong] ~ I probability that tharc will be some horrible catastrophe, such as a gencal mussacru of wliito men or of the dissolution of the empire into a cluster of anarchal provin' ces. rowKltS' COMMON FKAlt. Momentarily, the European powers are held together by the } common menace of the slaughter! | of foreigners, but the concert is I not likely to prove mure eflicieut in Chin i than it lias at Constnnti- j nople in the past. Russia and L\ .1 1- 1: ? i i iiiu q iiiu iifujnjf uisuusiou, 1101 i only l>y Japan, l?nt by England unit Germany, and it is by no means clear that tbe concert can be induced to sanction the deposal of the Empress Dowager. A NIGIITOFTKItKOK 44 Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave General Burn. C \l . L! . % i itum ??i wucuias, .ue., wnon me doctors suid she could not live till morning'' writes Mrs. S II Ln colli, who attended her that fearful night. "All thought she must soon die from Pneumonia, hut she begged for Dr. King's New Discovery, saying it had more than once saved her life, and had cured I her ( f Consumption. After three small doses she slept easily all night, and its further use completely cured her." This marvelous medicine is guaranteed to euro all Throat, Chest and Lung Diseases. Only 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles freo at Crawford Pros' drug Store. aTwond Suffering $ Women. ^ No one hut yourselves know of the | uttering you go through. Why do V rou suffer? It isn't net cssary. Don't V ose your health and beauty, (for the ! or.s of one is speedily followed by the bf oss of the other.) Don't feel " wealt " X ind "worn out." Impure blood U at | he bottom of all your trouble. V Johnston's i HarsapariHa 1 QUART BOTTLES. A irtty, Ltucarrhff*. WHtn, Rterlllty, UlcifV W >r meld, *11 find relief, kelp, benefit and cure In i real panacea (or headache, pain* In the left * W d hand* and fret. aereousneee. alarpleaaaeaa, af ckacke, leg-ache, Irrrir iiar action of the heart, Jr with painful menstruation, scalding of erln, V leuralrla, uterine displacement, and all those er\ life to miserable. We luiri a book fait of UP CO." Detroit, Mich. A i famw LMUo Utk Mb. *fc. J Daniel 6 Hick* Fort Lawn. HC. DH Jordan, Fort I awo, H,C. .1 Russian Relief at Pekin Gates. AND BEGIN AT I'ACK ON TWO 81DBS OF THfi TOWN. Ate Christians Alive? Ono Story That They Withstood Attack ; Another That till Were Massacred. London .Juno 20, JJ* a in.? "The Russian relieving force arrived outside of Pekin this morning," says the .Shanghai correspondent of the Daily tCxpress, "ami immediately began to at-1 tack the city on two sides, employing numerous artillery. "The force apparently arrived in the nick of time, for the Chinese ussert that the attack upon the legation had been successfully renewed. On the night of dune 10 the Chinese troops under Gens Tung Full Siang and Tung Citing, attacked the legations and set on lire live Europeans buildings, j Nothing definite is known us to the result except that the Chinese were disappointed although ro j ports, utterly discredited by foreigners here, arc that the Chinese, infuriated by tho destruction of laku, have since massacred all the foreigners in 1'ekin." A modified version of these received nt Berlin is tbut tho French as well as the Ger nan minister has hecn killed, The Knglish at Shanghai think tlio Chinese had foreign advice in organizing the defenses at Tuku P P because of the precision with which their attack was delivered. Tl.c wires connecting with the harbor mines were cut by the boats of the warship the n'ght before the bombardment. It is now reported at Shanghai that it was on board the Russian cruiser Korietz and not tho Mandschur, that tho explosion occurred, killing and wounding more than 50. It is reported that no fewer than 700 Chinese were killed in tho forts. The Sliaru'h:ti fiirroannnilnnl tyf Daily Express say a lie is officially informed tlint Japan is mobilizing 25,000 men for immediate transport. Tlio whole lleet of tho Nippon Y a sen Kaisha ^Japanese Merchant Shipping company) has been I chartered. 500 Chinese Killed. London, June 20.?A news agency dispatch from Shanghai, > dated June 20th, says: 44After | an arduous march and frequent fighting with tho Chinese, Vice Admiral Soymonr arrived at Pekin Sunday afternoon. On five occasions the Chinese attacked the column in great force. There were many mounted men among i the Chinese, hut most of tho natives were badly armed. At i times they fought with admirable | courage and bravery. The losses of the foreigners were trifling. Missionaries at Pao Ting Fu Safe Shanghai, dune 20.?Telegrams from Tien-Tsin, dated dune 15, and forwarded by post, say that the foreign missionaries at Pao Tine Foo are safe. boin<r irimtwliwl by tho troops of (ten Nieh. Twenty live Americans, with u Catling gun have arrived. In the foreign settlement the chapels hnvo been burned and tho mission stations of the American board of foreign missions of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church, and of tho London Missionary Society are practically* in the bauds ot the Boxers. A hound was purchased in Missouri and shipped in a closed express car to a ranch in Kansas. In a day or two it was missing. In* estigation proved that it had gone hack to ita Missouri home, over a distance of 500 miles, on a road entirely unknown to the dog. The Imperial Palace Burned. THE E M PK ESS CO M M ITS ^SUICIDE THE PRICE ML'KDEKS THE EMPEUOK. Startling Humors, Sure Enough, From China, but the News is Probably Altogether as Cureliable. London, Juno 21, 3:50 a in? Thft ? < nnvlc arrival at I'ekiu and of tho safety of the foreign legations, origins* ting from Chinese sources and caliled to this city from Shanghai, are still unverified. However, the Italian consul at Shanghai lias wired to tho Italian foreign ministor, Marquis Yiscouti Veuosta, that the legations arc safe. The rebellion is spreading far and wide. There is an impression in diplomatic circles hero and on the continent that the allies have not yet grappled with the situation elTectivolv; and that even 50,000 troops would be powerless to control 4,000,000 square miles. The latest story sent out bv tho Shanghai gossips is that l'nnco loan, president of the Tsung Li Vamen, has burned tho imperial palace at 1'ekin and murdered the Emperor, anil that the Kuipress Dowager has committed suicide. Tho clTect of tho bombardment of the Taku forts, as described by the Shanghai correspondents, was gory in the extreme, nothing less than "rivers of blood'1 and "mutilated corpses piled up inside the forts.'' The Russians guarding TienTsin, according to anotaer report, fired idles and artillery, Juno 15th, at a range of fifty yards, into dense crowds of attacking Boxers and killed. 300. Japan according to The Daily Mail from Yokohoma, intends to land an expedition at Foo Chow. HOW'S THIS I We otT'r One Hundred Dollars Heward for any ea-e of < a arrh thai eminot he cur- d by Hall's Catarrh ('we. K J HK.NEY <k ' Props Toleitt, O. We the undersigne I have known F J Hhen-y f r toe la-t 15 years, and believe him inrfeetly honorable in all business transactions anil tlnam ialiy *b e '? cii ry oui any obligations made bv tin ir ftrin WEst A l hitax, Wholesale Druggi-t, t'oledo, () Wamumi, Kinnan <k. Makvim, Wholesale Dill .'gists, Toledo. O, Hall's i ami rli ( ure is taken interna ly, anting dire -tty upon the blood and mucous Stir fanes of the system. I'll e, 75c per bottle Hold by ull Druggists, restiinonials free. Hall's Family I'liia are the best The liittmore Inn. I Speciul to The Charlotte Observer. Ashcville. June 20?The latest of tho Vanderbilt structures at Ililtmore is to l>o tho Biltmoie Inn. Tho estate authorizes the report that a handsome building, to bo called by this name, is to be erected between the oflice and the church. It will have about 100 rooms. It will bo build massively of English half-timber after the stylo of the old English inns, and will oo more in the nature of un inn than u hotel, though, of course, it will have every possible improvement and will be a costly structure. It will bo quite similar to the Manor House, Albcrninrlo Park. One feature of the house wus directed by Mr. Vunderbill and this is a glass-covered dining room. Tho many colta-. gov recently built in the immediate vicinity of the inn and iu Victoria. will flirni?ti n nnmkor , ? MlliIWi W& patrons at once. It is extremely protmhle that Mr*. Charles Malconiti 1'latt will manage the house. Architect R S Smith is drawing the plans. The estate has recently racetTed direct from the island of Jersey a herd of cattle of the most famous strains. Among them are eleven daughters of the noted "(Jolden Lad." PASTOXtZA. BmtiUm te4 tw Hie Umjt