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F FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C., WTSDNKSDAY.'NOVEMBER 22,190.r>. NO. 35. COSTUME OF P08TAGE STAMPS. Remarkable Garment Worn by American Lady at a Ball. Over 30,000 postage stamps were tised In the making of a dress for an American lady, which she wore at a bail at Bermuda a short time ago. Years had been spent in collecting the stamps, and three weeks In making the dress, which was of the finest muslin. The lady appealed to her friends to help her, and the dress was completely covered with stamps of all nations. Suspended from the talons was a globe made of very old blue revenue stamps. On either sldb of the globe was an American flag, the stripes of blue and red stamps. A collection of foreign stamps was pasted on the back of the bodice in the form of a shield, the center of which was made tip of a portrait of the brave Sir George Summers, cut from old revenue stamps. A large picture hat covered with red and blue stamps was worn with the costume; a mask and very pretty fan were covered entirely with pink.? I^ondon Tit-Bits. Cur** ltlirumatinm and Catarrh-MHIrln* H?nt Free. These two diseases are the result of an awful poisoned condition of the blood. If yon have aching joints and back, shoulder blades, bone pains, crippled hands, legs or feet, swollen muscles, shifting, sharp, biting pains, and that tired, discouraged feeling of rheumatism, or the hawking, spitting, blurred eyesight, deafness, sick stomach, headache, noises in the head, mucous throat discharges, decaying teeth, bad breath, !>e]<-hlug gas of catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. R. B.) It kills the poison iu the blood which oiuses these awful symptoms, giving a pure, healthy blood supply to the joints and mucous membranes, and makes a perfect cure of the worst rheumatism or foulest catarrh. < hi res where all else falls. Blood Balm (B. B. B.) is composed of pure Botanic ingredients. good for weak kidneys. Im? proves the digestion, eures dyspepsia. A perfect tonic for old folks by giving them new, rich, pure blood. Thoroughly tested for thirty yenrs. Druggists, 61 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Gu. Describe trouble and special free medical advice aeut in sealed letter. Never judge a woman's beauty by her make-up. So. 47. Meat Is Unpopular. "I never knew meat to be so unpopular as it has been this summer," said a prosperous butcher. "Of course I nl ways expect the meat sales to fall ofi in the warm weather, but this year 1 < have sold only one-half as much as 1 did last summer. One customer?a landlady, who has twenty-five board ers?tells me that she can hardly get her boarders to touch the meat dishes aDd she is rejoicing. Even ham. the old standby, which is generally in good demand even in the most scorching weather, is frowned upon, and the heel trust would soon go to pieces if its produce were no more popular the year round than it has been this sum mer. HOSPITALS CROWDED MAJORITY OF PATIENTS WOMEN Mrs. Plnkham's Advice Saves Many From this Sad and Costly Experienceoahcnis < >u those snow white beds are women and girls who I are awaiting or recovering from opera, tions made necessary by neglect. Every one of these patients had plenty of warning in that hearing down feeling, pain at. the left or right of the womb, nervous exhaustion, pain in the small of the back, leucorrhma, dizziness, flatulency, displacements of the I womb or irregularities. All of these symptoms are indications of an unhealthy condition of the ovaries or woinb, and if not heeded the trouble will make headway until the penalty lias to he paid by a dangerous operation, and a lifetime of impaired usefulness at best, while in many cases the results are fatal. The following letter should bring hope to suffering women. Miss Luella Adams.of the Colonnade Hotel, Seattle, Wash., writes: Dear Mrs. 1'inkham:? " Almut two years ago I was a great sufferer from a severe female trouble, pains and he&tlkches. The doctor proscribed for me and Anally told me that 1 had a tumor on the womb and must undergo an op-ration if I wanted to get well, i felt that this was my death warrant, but I sj>ent hundreds of dollars for jiKslieal help, but the tumor kept growing Fortunately I corresponded wirh an aunt in the New England States, and sho advised mo to lake Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Conu>ou?d, as it was said to euro tumors I <llil S't an,I I- " - w...? i? 1?| improve in hoalth, an<l I wnn entirely cured, the tumor disapjjeartng entirely, without nn operation. I wish every suffering woman would try this great preparation." Iust as surely as Miss Adams was cured of the troubles enumerated in her letter, just so surely will Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure every woman in the land who .suffers from womb troubles, intiamiuation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability and nervous prostration. Mrs. Pinkham invites all young women who are ill to write her for free advice. Address, Lynn, Muse. > _ - FIVE DIE IN FLAMES Pitiful Scenes in a Tenement house Fire ROASTED LIKE RATS IN HOLES Sleeping Tenants on Five Upper Floors of New York Italian House Were Cut Off While the Ground Floor Became a Roaring Furnace Beneath Them New York, Special.?At least five persons were burned to death in an Italian tenement house tire at L'Jl E Seventy-third street. The house was six Moors high and tlie sleeping tenants on the five upper Moors were made prisoners by Matnes, with the ground Moor a roaring furnace beneath them. Three of those who lost their lives were kneeling in prayer when the lire reached them. The police believe that the fire was 1 .1 started by an incendiary. It began in a heap of rubbish at the bottom of an air shaft and spread through the interior of a grocery store on the ground floor. A policeman was the first person to see the fire, just as it had begun to creep up the air shaft. ' He ran into the building pounding on the hall doors all the way up to the 1 sixth floor to waken the tenants. The fire followed him so swiftly that when 1 lie reached the top floor he was obliged to send the tenants there out to 1 the lire escapes to save them from 1 suffocation. When the fire department arrived ' with its ladders, nearly every one on the lire esea]>es \Cas kneeling in prayer. Adding to the pathos of tiie scene was the action of the men, who stofld with their arms full of personal |*>s- ' sessions while their wives fought un- ' aided to protect the children from be- ^ ing trampled by the crowd or suffocated by smoke. Every one on the < I ?1 ? ?1 -? - ' urc citapw was suveu uv me lire men. ? The lessee of tlie house told the police that the Black Hand Society had .recently sent him letters demanding $2,000. Although the demands did not state what the penalty was to be for refusing to pay tlie money, the police have begun an investigation, on the belief that the fire was started by the writer of the letters. Odell Hotly Denies All. New York, Special.?Former Governor Benjamin B. Odell, dr., and United States Senator Chauneey M. Depew, as witnesses before the Armstrong legislative insurance investigation committee, denied parts of the testimony of James Hazen Hyde iu which their names were used. Mr. Odell in the course of his testimony called Mr. llyde's statement "base , calumny" and when he was asked whether he directly or indirectly had made threats to have the charter of the Mercantile Trust Company revoked, his face flushed, and striking the arm of the witness chair with his tist, he exclaimed. "There is 110 truth in that statement, so help me God." School Dormitorv Burned. Moultrie, On., Special.?Fire swept < away the boys' dormitory of Norman t Institute at Norman Park. It was a * wooden structure and, with tlie 1'ur- t nishings, was valued at $S,0()0. The i trustees decided to replace the build- "? in?: with a brick dormitory to cost I $12,000. The boarding students have been received into the homes of Nor- r man Park until the new buildings c can be completed. e t News in Brief. t The old Richmond and Tidewater t Railroad is to be completed bv a new a company and called the Richmond, s Rappahannock and Eastern. The Virginia Conference of the 1 Methodist Episcopal Church decided to meet next year in Portsmouth. The Woman's Pnion annual meet- j ing at Eredcn icksburg adjourned after electing ollicers. Petersburg is raising n fund for the s Russian massacreo victims. v The Russian Government finds the v Polish situation growing hourily 3 worse. 1 King Alfonso of Spain arrived in * Vienna. n Republicans made some gains in the ^ Spanish municipal elections. The German Foreign Office states s there is no present purpose of vaeat- ( ing Germany's lease of Kiaochau, v China. ? Japan is to issue a $250,000,000 4 per cent, loan to convert outstanding f debts. b CLIMAX IS REACHED Startling Testimony in Equitable Investigation YOUNG HYDE GOES ON THE STAND Former Vice President of the Equitable Life Oives Sensational TestiMony and Clears Up Many Points They Have Hitherto Remained Darh, More Than Meeting the Expectations of the Crowd That Thronged to Hear Him. New York, Sj>eoinI.?James lla7.cn Hyde, former vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, whose resignation followed the sensational disclosures in thatli company last spring which led to the invest i gat ion of insurants company methods by the Armstrong committee of the Legislature, the man whose presence as a witness before this committee has been looked forward to in the expectation thut it would produce the greatest sensation of the investigalion, appeared before the committee Tuesday. Mr. Hyde's manner on the stand was one of composure and deliberation and his replies to questions from counsel were calm a.id deliberate and at times studied. He was fortitied with statements and data and was very frank in bis explanations, frequently he would become bitter in bis reference to some of his associates, and while his entire testimony was of deep interest and cleared tip many points that have heretofore remained in the dark, it was not until late in tlio day that tho sensational features of his testimony were developed. Mr. Hyde cleared up the matter of the $(>&"),000 loan of the Mercantile Trust Company, which appeared 011 the books of the Kquitable Life under the caption of the "\Y. .! .Alexander Number t? Account." Mr. llvde tiist beard of this account in the fall of 1902. when it was culled to his attention by 1'resile nt Alexander, who said that lie and Mr. .Jordan hr.d incurred the loan to .ake lip stock that, was being bid tip to Ictitious values, to the deteriment of .he company, to settle suits that were tampering tho business of the so ity, and lor campaign contributions. riii? ?>r>n l?i. ?- -I- ? VUUIIIMUIIUII n U9 II1C uur UL IUU ast. campaign and was asked l'or by VIr. Eriek, who suggested it for the ienetit or the society. To procure :his money, Mr. Alexander had Mr. Hyde write a letter to the president >f the Mercantile Trust Company and his letter practically placed him in he position of a guarantor. Later when the settlemen ?f the oan was forced, Mr. Alexander and Mr. Jordan raised all they could toivard it. The stock purchased with iurt of the loan was sold to Thomas h\ Ryan for $21*2,000 and the balance, &212.500, Mr. llvde paid personally. He did this because he understood hat Mr. Alexander was tinaneially Jinharrassed, and in a hitter tone laid:' 4'Notwithstandintr the strained rent ions with these two gentlemen [Alexander and Jordan), I felt bound ;o see that the debt was liquidated by eason of the letter Mr. Alexander exacted from me." Mr. Hyde said that he first recoiv d a salary of $20,000. seven years igo. In 1902, when he became ( hairnan of the finance committee, this vas advanced to $75,000, and in 1903 t was advanced to $100,000, at which t remained until he resigned as vice iresident of the society. Eclipsing all this sensational testi nonv, however, were the statements >{ Mr. Hyde concern ins: former CJov rnor Odell and Mr. Ilarrimau relaivc to tHo settlement of the Shipmilding Company. Mr. Hyde said hat Mr. llarriman came to him and idvised the settlement of the Udell's nit, and he feared that powerful in-* luvncc at Albany would be invoked u? retaliatory measures. Charges of conspiracy to get him >ut of the country were made by Mr. lyde against Henry <'. Frick and K. I. llarriman, in connection with the eported aspirations of Mr. llyde to lecome ambassador to France. He aid Mr. Frick inspired the idea and I'itncss too it as a joke at tirst, but l'Iii.ii Ml' IWi,.!. Iirnniilit it 1ii> l'lti'1' ,m ?' "I Jr. ll\de was fluttered and l?uth Mr. frick and MY. Ilarrinnm promisel o use their inlluenee to secure the ppoint men t. Aj^ain Mr. Hyde waxed hitter in his xplunat ion of tlie extraordinary inerest tlies. gentlemen had in his abcnee from the country, lie said he lionyht their idea was "that they rnnld neuuit themselves of their riendlv stewardship with ^rcat proit to themselves" and added that he nature of their interest hid since teeonie very obvious. ISLE OFPINES REBELS ? ? Effort to Set Up Independent Government WASHINGTON FIGHTS SHY OF lT Territorial Government is Said to Have Been EYected and - ?? ? vuiviiUD Selected to Administer Its Affairs by American Residents, Who Own Five-Sixths of the Soil. Washington, Special.? It has been known for several months that American residents in the Isle of Pines were becoming restive under Cuban control, but surprise was created at the reported erection of a territorial government on the island and the selection of important otlicials to administer the affairs of that government. No advices indicating such action have been received officially. It can be said that the would-be seceders will receive no encouragement from the administration. Secretary of State Root, when he was Secretary of War, was very clear and emphatic "that the Isle of Pines belonged to Cuba as a matter of right, as a matter of justice;" furthermore, that in procuring naval stations in Cuba for the Cnited States there was a general understanding that the Isle of Pines was to bo ceded to Cuba, although its title had been in doubt. The reported secession of the residents from Cuba control is deprecated, hut action regarding it, if any should he contemplated, would be taken only after the government had been advised officially ami fully as to the situation. Senator Quesuda, the Cuban minister here, called at the State L)e part men t and seemed to be considcrable agitated over the news ot' the movement in the Isle of Pines. He had nil interview on the subject with Secretary Hind, but declined to make any statement concerning it. The Cuban legation has no advices concerning the reported secession. The contention of the American residents of the isle is that as they own in fee simple five sixths of the ground and as the remaining one-sixth is in the hands of one or two Spanish families, the 1,200 native residents being non-property owners, they have a right to be heard by this government. New $250,000,000 Jap Loan. London, By Cable.?The Associated Press is informed that the Japanese government has decided to immediately issue a new foreign loan of $250,000,000 at four |>er cent., which will be used partly for converting the external 0 per cent, loan and partly for the redemption of the international loans. It is understood that France will participate to a considerable amount, the Rothschild's Paris house being the issuing bouse there. The exact date of the issue lias ot yet been decided upon. New Move For Mrs. Chadwick. Cleveland, O., Special.? Kx-Judge F. J. Wing, counsel for Mrs. Cassie I,. Chadwick. announced that an an plication for a writ of r-wtiorari is now being prepared and will be submitted lo the Supreme Court of the United States with a view of obtaining a review of Mrs. Cliadwiek's ease before that tribunal. The Supreme Court will be asked to consider Mrs. Cliadwiek's ease on the general ground that errors were made in her trial here before the U. S. District Court and also in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in her case. Killed by Water Fixture. Bethlehem, Pa., Special. Wliil# Mrs. 11. A. Foering, wife of Ilead Master Foering, of the Bethlehem Preparitory School, was in the kitchen of her home the water back of the stove exploded and a large piece of flying iron struck her on the head, crushing her skull and instantly killing her. Bessie Miller, a servant, was thrown the length of the room and injured i?y coniiiur in c uuaei wmi Uii' furniture. The room \va? badly wrecked mill set on lire, hut the ilnnics were extinguished by painters who were employed on tie' premises. By Wire and Cable. Willia il. Andrews denied tluit any of his transactions with tin* Knterprise National I tank in Allegheny City, 1'e., were otherwise than regular. Call money reached -"> per rent, iri New York, and Secretary Shaw said he eonld not relieve the situation while speculation exists. I THE "DODGI H' of a woman's life, is the nam of life." Your menses come a scantier until they stop. Some entire change .lasts three or f H much pain and discomfort, wl by taking I TCAI I Woman's Refu< It quickly relieves the p: nruserableness, forgetful ness, cold flashes, weakness, tired bring you safely through tl build up your strength for th At all druggists, in $1.00 WRITE US A LETTER Put aslds nil timidity and write n< freely and fr&nkiy, in strictest confidence, tell!o| us'all your symptoms juid troubles. We will send free advice (in plain, sealed envelope), how to cure them. Address: Ladies'Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Uu., Chattanooga, Tenn. NEWSY CJLEANINGS. Mediterranean moths have closed two Minneapolis flour mills. Vegetarianism is becoming a cult among the British aristocracy. The British Peace Society is protesting against the formation of rifle clubs. A convention of pipe smokers was held in Belgium to combat the abuse of tobacco. Missionaries of the American Methodist Church now speak 110 fewer than thirty-seven languages. Cross-aisle" seats in trolley ears are now demanded by the laws of some cities, notably Chicago. According to the latest figures front tile registrar there are now -MSI students at Columbia and Barnard. People still speak and write of the "Romanovs," and there lias not been u Romanov in Russia for 1-13 years. The Swiss village of Zoflngen, in the Canton of Anrgau, was decorated with flags recently in honor of a hen which had laid her thousandth egg. Armed briguuds opened a fusillade of rifle shots on a train thnt refused to halt at their summons, near Alora, In thft nmvlnco nf \i .I.a? ? r. V ? #..w V* *1114111^(1, oj'lllil. | The Kaiser has decided to ornament the terrace of the I.ustgarten side of his sciiloss by the erection of four statues of the house of Orange. At the conference of naphtha producers at St. Petersburg, the loss of property at Baku durig the recent revolution was estimated at $22,000,000. Italian prisons got so full this year that the Government had to resort to royal clemency to some of the occupants In order to make room for delinquents crowded out. The inhabitants of the village of Oastlemartyr, In County Cork, have bought the l'ee-siniple interest in their dwellings ami premises from the Karl of Shannon on favorable terms. Shooting in Atlanta Hotel. Atlanta, Cla., Special.? As a result of a quarrel between J''rank l?. Meador, a well-konwu young business man, and Minder Rnwik. clerk at the cigar stand of llie Kimball 'louse, the latter was shot and .-crioii-lv wounded l>y Meador. Meador let's the hotel immediately after the shoot ing and has not been found by the police. Unwak was removed to the (Jraily Hospital. Tlie quarrel is reported to have originated over the price of a nackage id cigarettes. Caught Mari-Kating Shark. A big man-eating shark was brought to shore ..t Cos Coli. Conn., recently by Judge George \V. Brush. It was towed behind his cafboat. Tin. a>in was nino foot lort? and had a doublo row of tooth. It weighed Urn pounds. mmrnm**?u&wr. rmnwi ?> -- ? -j| We Never Disappt \\ We Fulfill Every Promise and IB MIC plIDC Strlotiiro Without the k WW C UcInC pitln or detention from 9 cured never to rtturu, wlthoit mercury S . ,.w. TltorPutltlw Tho l?r Klnti V 24 /#agr,?4^J lawn of t he state >a . tiorroinandchrot Ill ' $ V-JjJjjf \ by u ?ta(T of m!n Ah"5vK; - *"irflr Our auccov* In t fij Kj3rI*V "*\ *ci1; w < u-e both ,? \3flE ,* "* \ Our 'III. ps lire I I . ,!+A^ lea. X-ray, violet MKT ^ ^ , coti'rieance Icnnar " ( modern In every ) trained and efllol -*"2^ *i"> lloonaed pfcys yJtt ^We employ no y"> \ . rW&L~~y paironaKo -noC. ' ' \ m \Jawljra>^ (o 910.00 per mont > ^ ancoof a care wl I1Y BEST REFERENCE IS. CHRONIC Di! r(\ ^0\]AR ft//) HuptuVo. n'v'di ^ UNTILCUKD. 'W J|X?AS?|SJ N. K. KINO, M O. Chronic IMaet* c?i?e Consul'ino Phvuoian. Unnatural diachai T.i^f n* 4<v u? to-day regarding year coaditle V vJ I I H3 nctid yoa far literature, Including ' CONSULTATION, KXAMINAT SB. KING MEDICIL GO., & ! NG PERIOD" | e often given to the "change H it longer intervals, and grow H ; women stop suddenly. The H our years, and is the cause of H lich can, however, be cured, H RDUI I in Distress. g tin, nervousness, irritability, Hj fainting, dizziness, hot and H feeling, etc. Cardui will iflj us "dodging period," and K le rest of your life. Try it. M "EVERYTHING BUT DEATH S I suffered," writes Virginia Kobnon, SjS of K&ston, Md., "until 1 took Cardui, 5K5 which cured mo so quickly it surprised 5J?j my doctor, who didn't know I was fflP taking it. I wish I had known of RTj Cardui earlier in life." Ppq PERSONAL GOSSIP. The real nnme of Ihe fatuous operatic tenor, Max Alvnry, was Aeheubuch. Sir Ilenry Irving s family name of Broadrihb is of pure Saxon derivation. Professor Ornori, the Japanese seismologist, has concluded his visit to India. The Karl of Cranbrook, the oldest surviving British ox-Oabiuet Minister, is ninety-one. The Karl of Aberdeen belongs to perhaps the longest lived family, in tho British peerage. The late Adolf llcdin was known as "the father of the Uiksdug." Sweden'# National Assembly. Thomns F. Ryan is the lirst of America's rich men to have a chaplain attaehed to his family. Archbishop Albin Francis Simon. Papal delegate to investigate the Polish, churches in America, bus been visiting the parishes in Michigan. Andrew McConnell. a practical philanthropist. of Washington, I). O:, will attempt to place libraries in all tho small towns of the South. Sir Alfred Harmsworth, the I/ondon newspaper man, has added another to his Ion? list of publications, iu purchasing the I.ondou World. The King Humbert. [>/lzi> of $250 for the most important contribution**-to orthopedic surgery has been awnrdodi to Dr. Oscar Pulpitis, of Heidelberg. % j, I)r. Henry Morse Stephens, lecturer, on history at the University of California. has refused an offer to go back, to his nltnu mater, the English Oxford." Sir Wymlliam Spencer Portal, who died the other day, was the head*of the family that since 1724 1ms hud the privilege of making banknote paper for the Hunk of England. Nathan H. Scott. United States Senator from West Virginia, is said to be seriously contemplating taking up a residence in Southern California after retirement from the Senate. Barge "Wrecked. Norfolk, Va., Special. ?The ocean barge, Frank IVndlclon, of New York, loaded with over two thousand tons of coal, was rammed ami sunk by Merchants and Miners steamer, Kershaw, coming from Huston, oft Lamberts coal dock. The barge struck a rock amid ship and was almost cut ill half. The crew was saved. Wreck is in the channel and will have to he moved. Calves Come in Triplets. A cow owned by W. H. Taylor ?f (loughs Neck has presented Mr. Taylor with three perfectly formed calves of fairly good size. One of the eo!. ?.? lived only a liltlo over a day. but the otluu' iwo are lively and well. The mother >s four years old and one of a ouintet. lint Our Patients. 1 Never Hold Out False Hopes. Sj nlfe or hougl? anil Varicocele wit hout H bu.lnr.a; CnnlaKlinu ItloOft FOImin H r or mineral mixture; l.oan of Manlr K If ?Br?d; no ntluitilaul hut ptrmanent. Iftlr il Co la an liiatltutii.n orttanlteil under thn K nf Opnrtfla fur tbo trnutuirnt ana cum of all E ilr diioa.ra. I>r. N. K Ktrnt. th* fyuntlor of E i tli~ olilef c instiltlnn aprrlaiUt, Oeinii unlisted K lit pbfaK'lanaand "urjooux. 5"i umniiriivui innmie nn'nm H unturpas modlcal ?n<l electrical attendee. Cj Willi >:l the galvanic, faradle. better- flj ray. h d Klnten ray: In fact. every electrical H n l > t ho medical profoxsloa. Our-enltarlum I* Iri-apect, and we employ nono hut the liott mj "lit attendant*. regularly iiualltlod graduate* V Ici iu* being in charge. K uilaleadlui; mean* tn (crura patient* anil H (>. I).'A of unankcd for literature are sept out K Our term* for treatment nvcrntro from 15 IW H I:, i medicine* includodr and tvdfclve the mr- Ij thin a *j>ec!0pd time. 9J (CICCC Wo noomafolly-treat andperm? B JfcAoLO* nently cure all chronic df.toa.tc* H e y and Hlutltler trouble*. ItheuuiatUin. B rucclit, Drain*. I.o**c*. etc.. and all Private I and malignant trouble*. Catarrh of the B ad and I?ang*. Dlaease* of Kye nn<t Rar, B *o* of Woinen, such a* nl%j>Ia< etcim. B get. and *uoh weaknoMca of women. A m If you are *tck or *9lioted. On reriuoat 9 : symptom blank* for bomA treatment. K "ION ANI) AUVICKrrKRB I ' MtrltHt Ot, Comr lllaaia Am u