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flood of Playgrounds. The St, Iiouis Globe Democrat says: PTay grounds greatly lessen the juvenile mischief that often runs into crifcae.'A noted lecturer says permanent play grounds In cities are Important moral helps and that the police department in London reported many team ago that crime was largely reprresed by giving children a chance to wort off their surplus energy in play. Ner York city made the same discovery, uud not only provides sufficient play ajround-s for the schools, but is rapidly adding to the number of small parka and open spaces in crowded places. IMay for children presents itself to sociologists in these times as a natural right, the disregard of which run* op a heavy score against a community.** A curious custom obtains among the peasantry of the Isle of Man. The 3nn.tl&y following the funeral of a relative fc? called "mourning Sunday," and as many of the dead person's relatives as are available meet together and go t<? church. Throughout the entire serVH c they retnAin seated, and do not enter at all iirto any outward partlctpa turn ia me worunip. /?V T?ar D??l?r For Allen's Foot-Faie. A powSfiT. It rests the feet. Cures Coras, {tonkins. Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous,Aching, SwmttaK Foot and Ingrowing Nails. Alien e Fool-taw* makes new or tight shoes easy. At alt DyisRglsts on<l Shoo stores, 25 cents. Ao*i>? tv> Substitute. Sample mailed Pbek. AUrsm Allen S. Olmsted. Leltoy, N. Y. WJmti marriage is a failure it isn't al cvrtr. * tliue to financial stringency. IB. I*. Thompson ?Y Co., Druggists, Coulersport. Pa., say Hall's Catarrh Cure lsth? 9?9*t .-vn>l only sure euro for catarrh thoy ovoi mkL JDruxgi-sts sell it, 75c. The dead beat can always be distm gairhcd by the sense of touch. Wrs*. Witislow's Soothing Syrup for children i?retl\i?x, ooften the gums, reducesinflammae xJmjkihkys pain.cures wind colic. 25c. u bottlYoa old turn a crank down, but he a'.xsatys turns up again. "FITS permanently cured. No llts or nervous;ifter first day's use of I)r. Kline's Croat Jt?rrv<eJle?itorer.i2*trial bottle and treatlsefree Itr. It. H. Kline, Ltd.. <J31 Arch St., l'hila., Pa. There arc few tilings more brittle than rrpatntions. 7*fso ? Chi re for Consumption is an infalliblo oitMlidno for coughs and colds.?N. W. liUacsLyOccan Orovo, N. J., Fob. 17, 1900. A /nurse can earn- a pound on bis back to an ounce on his foot. Street sprinkling carts arc just coming Into- use in the City of Mexico Ohio Known Tet ferine. W. C. MeOall, Granville,O., writes: "Iflnd your Tettorlno to bo a marvelously good j luog for skin diseases." 50c. a box from -I.T. Mfcuptrlne, Savannah, Ga.,lf your druggjat <ton't koop It. The IJog of Allen, the biggest in Ireland, la? i-a places seventeen feet deep. Tftt? Christian who borrows religion will never have any to return. Mrs. Annie McK Temperance, 326 Sj Cured of Severe Ferr IL Pinkham's Vegel ** Dear Mrs. Pinkham : ? "Hare had experience with the g lacrratcd when one of my childi date all my afflictions. I found t was impaired, I had female weak frequent flooding. I became we; dragging through my work will who had been helped by taking Ij Compound insisted that I take felt so much better that I kept on I used the Compound faithfully ; strength are mine once more. I 1 was so nearly lost, and I apprec The few dollars I spent for the m was worth to me. Yours very tr Sons of Temperance." g^OOO FORFEIT IF THE ABO No other female medicine 'vidrsprt'ail and unqualified end .Mrs. IMnkham invite* all sicl fi&u has guided thousands to lion I Jets and Flashes. When Christ shines others are not seen, like the stars in the daytime. The diamond in the rough is worth more than the best polished paste. It is safer to throw back the switch than to pray God to save the train. Before starting for Europe the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst tired a parting epigram at the Dow administration generally and its police commissioner in particular. "A healthy devil." he said, "'.s more impressive than an angel down with nervous prostration." David Belasco's Republic Theatre in | New York is to extend underground as | deep as it is high above ground. The hole is to be used for stage scenery and the handling of it by a new method Mr. Belasco claims to have invented. Two pews in a fashionable and wealthy Washington church were recently sold for $2,750 and $1,600 respectively. Comparing these figures with the $75,000 paid for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, the Boston Transcript thinks the contrast shows "where most people are looking for their treasure." The Rand mines are gradually recovering from the effects of the South African war. East December the gold production of the district amounted to 52,897 ounces. In March it reached 104,100 ounces. In April the total product aggregated 110.500 ounces. This is. however, less than one-half the total I'l vuuviiuii ui lac illiili a 111(3 ) t"Ul U*-"" fore the war began. Thursday afternoon. In New YorK Annie Meyers was making a disturbance at the reading rooms of the "First Church of Christ. Scientist." A policeman gathered her in. She told the magistrate that she had paid $78 for treatment, and wanted her health back or her money back. He told Annie that she'd better see what the Civil Courts could do for her. Then he let her go. Mme Sehirmacher, a doctor, writing on woman's work in a French magazine, says that over 6.300.000 French women work for their living, well on for 3,000,000 of whom are married. Most of these outside workers (over 2,700,000) are employed in factory or agriculture, including women land owners. Industrial occupations claim nearly 2,000,000 more, the cloister 120,000, the theatre about 12,000 and the liberal profession 138,460. The strike in Sweden for sufTrago reform in the way of universal suffrage has been a success. Only last week the Industrial classes in Sweden began a siriKe in support of free voting. On Friday the ministry surrendered and promised compliance In 1904. The next day everybody was at work. There had been no disturbance, but the strikers succeeded in accomplishing their political reforms, and have been equally successful in Belgium. It brings the country face to face with the suspension of industries and a political cause had to be very strong to withstand ' that issue. Hitnyiwi? im mnmw mi am Him mm III 11?11 l?lllllll'"? J ay, Chaplain Sons of >adina Ave., Toronto, tale Troubles by Lydia :able Compound. Being a mother of five children T encral troubles of my sex. I was ren was born and from that hour I :hat within a few months my health ness and serious inflammation and ak and dizzy but kept on my feet, lout life or pleasure. A neighbor ydia E. Pinklium'a Vegotablo at least one bottle. I did so and i the treatment. For seven months and gladly do I say it, health and know how to value it now when it date how great a debt I owe you. edicine cannot begin to pay what it uly, Mrs. Anna McKay, Chaplain VK LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. in the world lias received such orsemont. Refuse all substitutes, k women to write her for advice, dtli. Address, Lynn, Mass. i. tisfic Creations in Stylish Shapes! ? \t/ A 9 * )5 AL WUKLLMtR / )RSETS STRASX fe \re the embodiment of perfection ? n STYLE, FIT, and FINISH. / your dealer. Accept no (ubstltuta. ft V V > 1 pal Worcester Corset Co. \ WORCESTER, MASS. ^ HINDU EVENTSOF THEWEEt WASHINGTON ITEMS. Secretary Root, replying to a query, transmitted to the Senate a statement showing the Government to date uns expenaea *'.?,uai>,OOi for repairs to army transports. The Department of Justice will defend General Hrooke in the suit for $250,000 brought against him by the Countess of Buena Vista. President Roosevelt unveiled a monument in memory of those who fell in the Spanish-American War erected In Arlington Cemetery by the National Society of Colonial Dames. Internal revenue collections in April for the whole country were $21,937,689, a decrease over 1901 of $5,003,SS0. Representative Bartholdt introduced a bill for a $.">0,000 equestrian statue to Baron Steuben to be erected In this city as a recognition of Steuben's friendship for the United States. The Omnibus Public Buildings bill passed the Senate after being amended so that the amount carried is increased to $21,235,150. Otllt ADOPTKD ISLANDS. Captain Baker of the constabulary reported that the Province of Cavite, P. I., was no longer a hotbed of insurrection. The ladrones were reduced to three insignificant bands of ten or twenty encli. The cholera epidemic In the Philippines was running n normal course. There were 88(5 deaths in Manila and 2(51)4 in the provinces. Courts of the First Instnnee. in Manila. were empowered to puuisli crimes committed at sea. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Anna Knops, at New York City, killed herself because the steward on a steamship had kissed her. A wife shot her husband dead at Pittsburg, Pa., as he was about to brain her with an axe. While being lowered into a coal mine shaft at Jewett City. Kan., Former State Mine Inspector John Iveegnn was killed by falling 100 feet. A 000 foot steel span bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad at New Brunswick. N. J., was moved fourteen and a half feet in oue minute and fortyfive seconds. Strikers at the Brown Manufacturing Company's plant, Zanesvllle, Ohio, won a victory in Court when an order was refused restraining them from assembling around the place. Accused of setting lire to a barge on which was a saloon Louise Ilolmnn and Myrtle Allen were arrested at Blcncoe. Iowa. President Jordan, of Stanford University, Cal.. dismissed Professor K_ \f Pease, who was tlio head of the Latin department of the university for several years, because the latter would not resign upon request without a statement of charges against hint. Congressman Curtis, of Kansas, announced his candidacy to succeed United States Senator Harris. Three more deaths at Uoliad. Texas, brought the list of cyclone victims up to 114. President Itooscvclt took luncheon on hoard the French cruiser Haulois, at Annapolis, Md.,tlie guest of the French Ambassador, M. Cam bun. The Coroner's Jury declared Malcolm \V. Ford insane when he killed his brother, Paul, in Xew York City recently. Many steamers were tied up at Charlotte Harbor, X. Y., on Lake Ontario, awaiting coal, but the supply was exhausted. With the gas turned on full, the dead bodies of Mrs. Annie Stetzel and Jennie Btetzel, her niece, were found in a lodging house in Brooklyn, X. Y. Excluded from ids home by his wife, A. E_ Justice of Wlivuflv fonn '"I'1 I ? 4J , ^ VIIU., IU1U in wait for lior, killed her and then himself. A monument was unveiled at Charlotte. N. C., to Lieutenant William E. Schipp, killed in the charge of San Juan. Hurginrs killed Joseph Barone In his saloon at Chicago when he interfered with their looting. The African Methodist Episcopal (Jeueral Conference decided to begin mission work in Cuba, the Philippines and Africa. FOREIGN. Cerniany niul Austria asked Italy to disarm, but promised to renew the triple alliartce. The l'ope received in audience Car-, dltinl Martlnelli, who described the condition of the Catholic Church in America. At Naples a thief threw stones at a train 011 which were the King and tjueen of Italy; 110 harm was done, and the assailant was arrested. At l*edroso, near Oporto, Portugal, fissures in the earth emitted lire and smoke and simultaneously there came u tornado. IMsturhanccs occurred at the IVre la Chaise Cemetery, at Paris, France, as the result of the annual placing of wreaths upon the tombs of the Com inunists. Wreaths hearing seditious inscriptions ami red flags were seized and sixty arrests were made. Great secrecy was maintained regarding the proceedings of the inquiry on tlie Chicago at Naples into the Venice a flair. The Most Rev. Hubert Theophil Sitnar, 1). !>., Archbishop of Cologne, is dead. lie was consecrated February *-io. 1802. The offer of a German firm for a monopoly of the opium trullle in China was rejected. An attempt was made to assassinate Frince Obolensky, Governor of KharIs off, Russia. President I'alma said he had heard of no objections on the part of the inhabitants of the Isle of l'iues to becoming Cuban citizens. Condon was largely preoccupied with coronation preparations; Lewanlka, King of Harotseland, in Rhodesia, the only King who will be present at the ceremony, arrived In the city. Note and Comment. At a Berlin club there la a unique pair of curtalna. This portiere is formid of hundreds of champagne corks. :aken from every known brand of champagne, each of which bears the .hi iv>i; tt 11 iv,ii nuunieu 11 w 11*11 lilt; 'ork was In Its parent bottle. The :orks are made Into strings, there being sixty of them to each string. Between eavy cork there are three big Chinese beads of turquoise blue. Altogether there are twenty-four strings. The portiere represents a total expenditure of $5,000. The corks are tied to a white, enamelled pole with fancy ends, and big sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass knobs. The total effect is distinctly pretty. The Woterbury American says: "Little or no lava is found in St. Pierre and the so-called ashes or volcanic dust which has fallen there is not deemed sufficient to have done much injury. The destruction of everything is attributed to a hurricane or tornado of gas which strangled everything living and prostrated everything erect, burning, however, with such discrimination us to puzzle even the scientists. Of two things, side by side, one was burned and another not. and even two sides of a person or thing were treated differently." The New York Independent asked the Princetou professor of Old Testament criticism, the Rev. R. D. Wilson, a straight question and it gets a straight answer. "I have never known," he writes, "nor do I now know, a professor in any Presbyterian theological seminary who has claimed or thought that the story of Adam and Eve in the two first chapters of tlenesis was not i Vl-A ukviui msiory. vou are at liberty to make any use of this answer that you may think best." CANCER. CURE BY B. B. B. All Clironlc. Dncp-Sutcil Skin an<l Itlood Dlmifi Cured. To l'rorii It ll.B.H. Free. Mrs. M. L. Adains, Fredonia, Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) which effectually cured an eattng cancer of the nose and face. The sores healed tip perfectly. Many doctors had given up her case as hopeless. Hundreds of cases of cancer of the face, hp, breast, eating, offensive, festering sores, persistent pimples, carbuncles, suppurating swellings have been cured by the B. B. B.; all the sores healed up perfectly. B. B. B. also cures eczema, itching humors, scabs and scales, bone pains, ulcers, offensive pimples, blood poison, carbuncle, scrofula, risings and bunips on the skin and all blood troubles. Druggists, $1 per large bottle. To prove it, B. B. B., free and prepaid by writing Botahio Ri.ood Bai.m Co., 12 Mitchell 8t., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice sent in scaled letter. The nationnl debt of France is $0,000,000,000. An iceberg in the pulpit cannot kindle a fire in the pews. mi cents, contains a ai ( Iy for a year. Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." not tough Syrup. Tentos uoud. Ceo In time. Fold tiy CruagUt*. m .KPfWK I * A JUDGE'S V ^ ''' Wc would c nut ion all jicopi** against accepting substitutes (or Peruoa. in/'at Upon huxuig Peruni t. There is no other inter-1 nnl i-emod.v for .-atarrh that will take the place of Perun Allow no one to perauauc you to the coi itrary. If you do n0t derive prompt and satisfactory result j from the use of l'erunn. Write at once to Dr. Ilartmnn, giving a full statement! of your ca.se and he will be pleased to gi\-e you his valuable advice gratis. I Address I)r. Hartman, President of The I Hartmon Sam tarium, Columbus, (). s And every Distr of Skin and 5 Relieved by And a isingle anointing with cure an\d purest of emollients lowed ^in severe cases by r RESOLVENT PILLS, to c the mqjst speedy, permaner torturin\g, disfiguring, itchir crusted j, and pimply skin ar of hairl ever compounded* Millions i T TSE (CUTICURA SOAP, as ^ prfeserving, purifying, and ing the scalp of crusts, scales, t falling mair, for softening, whit and sordj hands, for baby rashc form of baths for annoying irrit free or Ojffensive perspiration, in weaknt-liscs, and many sanative, suggest 'themselves to women ar poses of t the toilet, bath, and nut I bines dejli^te emollient propertie: great sktin core, with the purest most refreshing of flower odou; ONE P.RICE, the BEST skin BEST toilet and baby soap in th COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERN/ . _ ConBlBllnjj of CtTTIC Pnl?l'/)11V*A MMiIca, ami sof U B B lllsill /? m est, 50r... to liirttniil |^^^^^^ttnd Boothe ami heal ?. j? , cool and elcaiiHC the ' *!*?*? ?*? cure the most tortui skin, scalp , nnd b'ood humours, with loss o the world. Itntlsh Depot: -27 ?*, Charterhot l'alx, Pni s. Pom it Dhi'o asi> Ciikm. C< Ci'Ticraik, Hrboi.vk vt Pi 1,18 (Chocolate Cot siiliftltute f or the celebrated liquid CtytointA li and hnmoulr cures. K.n h pill is equivalent to o acrew-cap pocket vlels, containing 60 doses antiseptic,' ,onic, and dipcatlvc, nnd beyond qu economical blood and skin puriiicis, burnout cu 9 Enclose . j-cent stamp for particulars. B Address SCOTT REMEDY CO.. Louisville, Ky. M WHKV WS'ITIBO HSS'TH'N THIS VAVVK. B 1 he count.Vy's talkin' politics from Gtyobervllle to (irover, Red Seal Shoes they meet its views And helff) the country over. t'Wk TC3I'" Oil ? of ererrdescription. 8av i RtB' V dUlHw Isfartlnn <lu?r*nteeu. I / iWB r\ Write for prices. JKmsE maKIK.1 U i i ' Bllllwt lot k Charles Bt.. IIaltimoui. Mi>. nr\Annu ciirrd IN . >.? TO oo i> \\s I I I LM I IJ V wrltc for particulars and 10 days' I I n t I I fl I treatment free O. K. Col I u in | UllUI U I Dropsy Mad. Co., Atlanta, (Ja. [hrU-. ITT 1717 CORED OF V IX1 Ei PELVIC CATARRH She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hopeless?Cured bv Pe-ru-na. Mrs. Judge McAllister writes from 121? West 33d bt., Minneapolis, Minn., as follows: "i suffered for t/ear* with a poln in the small of. my back and right ntde. It interfered often with my domestic amd a octal dutiem and I never supposed that I would be cured, an ths doctor'a medicine did not seem to help me any. "Fortunately a member of our Order atlvlsed me to try l'eruna and pare it such high praise that I decided t*> try it. Although A started tn with little faith, 1 felt so much better in a week that 1 felt encouraged. "J took it faithfully for sovcn ireeks and ??m happy indeed to bo able to say that 1 am entirely cured. Words fail to express my gratitude. Ferfeci health once more Is the best thlnf/ / covhi %c4mh for, anil lhankn to /'rrutta I enjoy that nuu\''? Minnie E. McAlHstrr. The great popularity of Peruna as n catarrh remedy has tempted many people to imitate l'eruna. A great many so-called catarrti remedies and catarrhal tonics are to lie found in many drug stores. Theae remedies can be procured l>y the druggist much cheaper thun Peruna. l'eruna can only be obtained at a uniform price, and no druggist can get it a cent cheaper. Thus it is that druggists are tempted to substitute the cheap imitations of l'eruna tor Peruna. It ? done every duy without a doubt. essing Irritation calp Instantly _ r* _ ? a a a a a Datn witn CUTICURA, the great skin . This treatment, when fol- > nild doses of CUTICURA ' :ooi and cleanse the blood, is ' it, and economical cure for lg, burning, bleeding, scaly, id scalp humours, with loss if Women iisted byCoticura Ointment, foi beautify ng the akin, for cleansind dand uff, and the stopping of cning, and soothing red, rough, s, itchinps, and chafings, in the at ions ard inflammations, or too the form of washes for ulcerative antisept c purposes which readily id mothers, and for all the purse ry. CJ l lCURA SOAP com5 derived from CUTICURA, the of cleaming ingredients and the rs. It unites in ONE SOAP at and complexion soap, and the ie world, IL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HUMOUR. UKA Soir, J6c., to cleanse the sklu of rrueta ten the tlilckened cuticle: Cuticcra (>INT Iv nil-.. ? - ... ? nun, n.ii.'iinniMiioii, nu'i Irritation, I; ami Cuticura Kkaolvknt I'ills, 25c., to blood. a m.solf Skt Is often sufficient to rln^r, dleflgiring, Itching, burning, and ncaly f hair, when all else falls. Sold throughout isc Sip, Loi <lon. French Depot: r> Hue ilc la up., Solo Props., lk>nton, I". S. A. ilcd) are oU'W, tasteless, odourless, economical Iksolvent, i ? well as for .ill other hlood purifiers ne ti'nspoonf tl of liquid Resolvent. I'm up in , price, 2&c Cuticura Pili.s are alterative, estlon the p trest. sweetest, roost succermlul iilo res, and tun o-digustives jet compounded. SVrlPT CREEK Stock and Dairy Farm. ? t- ?2% lias for snlea Inrge lino herof " fyv Iil< e.voting r. gl-tereit A.J.I t\ 11 W? ' I 1,'g*!s.lrr?"l Hull, niol Heifers. D/lr*V^ 'aLi jir Nolle tidier lireil III the Si.tUb. L/ t'oiiihlulng close y the mosi 1'/^' IjJ noleil mid up 1" "late tilood Kl \\ /'1 III Amerle.i. Hull* 111 to '.2 -sa ajssas. months old. S'i'i.Mi. Ilelfers. 'ante age, &ir. tn. r?>I.\NI? CIHS \ I'lt.s,$.~>.UD each. Send eheclt and get what you want. r. I*. HKASWn.l. Prop . Ilolt ehoro \ V. Medical coi ligf of Virginia! KST % III.IM1HM ls3S. UtePlxty-Fl'th Sea-ion will eotiimenc.e SeDtornher '*> It llNKJ. Departmonts of Medicine, Dentistry an i I'hnrinacy, Well equipped Laboratories sji'.e1 iliil Ho-pltal facilities ahtl nhitndanee of Cl nienl Material afford unexcelled opportunlt es for practical work. For Announcement und furthor Information, address, rl?rlatopher Tompkins, n, U., Dean. lltcHMOM). V a. so. sa wJj* Vc?a72iei Thompson's Eye Water Gray //g/rl *' i have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for over thirty years. It has kept my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turning gray."?Mrs. F. A. Soule, Billings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer's Hair | Vigor ? it is a hair food, I not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. But gradually the old color comes back,?all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hairstops falling,too. SI.00 a bottle. All druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, Anil us one dollar anil we will express you a liottle. Bo sure and give the naino of your nearest express office. Address, J. A YKit CO., Lowell, Mass. I (APlIDINEfpS I m W Cold*, c?C. tff ? X. y Sold at all Drug Stores, & ? <* ************** *V **** I was troubled with pains in my hack, dizziness and burning in my stomach. I had no appetite, could not sleep. A sister of mine advised me to try Ripans Tabulcs. They have entirely cured me. I take one every night and morning and they just keep me right and regular. At dnifrclsta. The Fivn-Cont packet is anoncrh for an ordinary occasion. Tho family bottle.