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HAS THE PAPAL BEE. Cardinal Rampolla Would Like to Succeed Leo XIII. la Said to lie About to Secure HI* Own OinuilMtl from Hln Prevent Ulvh OtUe* to Improve Hla Proaitecta. From Home comes a seemingly well-authenticated story to the1 New York Times that Cardinal llampolla, in view of the fact that a papal sec retary so rarely succeeds to the ti ara, is about to cause his own dis missal from his high office in order to strengthen his eligibility. Rampolla is the most powerful member of the college of cardinals, and it is said that one of his own adherents will take his place as sec retary of state. Some of Pope Leote most significant acts are credited by persons professing an insight into the politics of the Vatican to the pow erful Sicilian cardinal's influence. Dealing with the rumors of Car dinal Rampolla's retirement from the office of secretary of state, the cor respondent says he is aiming for the tiara, and that if the pontiff died to day the struggle would be between Cardinals Rampolla and Vannutelli. The correspondent adds: "The Gottis, Svampas and Pa rocchis would be there to watch the weaknesses and profit by them. One of these last might even come out on top." The correspondent calculates that Cardinal Rampolla is sure of 33 votes, but needs 36. He concludes a two column dispatch by saying: "There remains but one obstacle for Cardinal Rampolla to. overcome— an obstacle that is immense in an af fair where traditions are everything. It is contrary to custom for a secre tary of state to succeed his master. This is why it is not improbable that Cardinal Rampolla will strive to ap pear to have been disgraced in or:ler not to preserve responsibility for an authority in tlie throes of death. In CARDINAL RAMPOLLA. (Vatican Secretary of State Who Wants to Ba Pope.) quitting the office of secretary of state before the promulgation of the associations bill he would avoid quarreling with the French govern ment. He would assure himself of the sympathy of America, which has two cardinals of England, which has two, and of Russia, which has none, but is powerful." For several years Cardinal Ram polla has been accused of laying his plans to secure the succession as the sovereign pontiff. Even when be cause of his lack of age (he was born in 1843) he could scarcely hope to present himself as a candidate he was accused, principally by German and Austrian cardinals, for he is an open enemy of the triple alliance, of attempting to induce the Italians in the sacred college to favor one of his colleagues. When, however, at a se cret consistory two years ago 11 new cardinals were created, only two of whom were not Italians, thus mak ing the Italians number 35, as against 30 foreigners, there was little doubi in the Catholic world that Rampolla had himself in view for the succes sion. In certain quarters, it is true, he was declared to be still too young, and it was said that he would not have himself proposed, but that the estimable and somewhat unimpor tant Cardinad li Pietro would be the "papabile" of the group of ministe rialists, while, in the event of this selection, Rampolla would still con tinue in his office of secretary of state. Rampolla is not only said to be fa vored by a majority of Italian prel ates those of the romance countries are also believed to favor him, espe cially tlie French, because of his at titude toward the natural enemy of France. He is also thought to have the support of the American car dinals. Persons who have had to deal with Vatican diplomacy have declared that in the art of statecraft Rampolla was not even surpassed by the famous secretary of state of Pius IX., al though his field of visible action is much smaller. Patience, tenacity and a genius for quick execution are said to be hi3 chief characteristics. As is stated in the foregoing dispatch, he is a Sicilian by birth, and, like many Sicilians, he is a philosopher and a deep thinker. As state secretary Cardinal Ram pol lives in the Vatican. His person ality is said to be charming his voice is particularly sott and insinuating. In Rome, when he appears in public, he exerts a curious influence upon those near by no Roman crowd lias ever been known to insult him to his face, and he has the reputation of never denying an audience to anyone. It is a somewhat curious fact that of the many descriptions that have been written of his manner, discourse and general expression, hardly any two •\re alike. JOHN KELVEY RICHARDS* Ohio Lawyer Who Han Ileen tfollcttai General of the United States Since 1807. John Kelvey Richards, solicitor general of the United States, whose name was prominently mentioned in connection with the appointmet of attorney general, is an Ohio man. born March 15, 1856. He graduated from Harvard college in 1877, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1879. His legal abilities were recognized at the outset. From 1880 to 1882 he was prosecuting attorney of Law rence county, senator in the Ohio state legislature from 1890 to 1892 JOHN KELVEY RICMAJlDS. (Solicitor General of the U<ed States Government.) and attorney general of Ohi«* during Gov. McKinley's administration, from 1892 to 1896. In 1897 he was appoint ed solicitor general of the United States. Mr. Richards is an ardent republic an and from his youth has taken an active interest in politics. Ilis public services have been many and valua ble. While state senator he drafted laws which enabled the state to in crease its revenues by taxes upon for eign corporations, telegraph, tele phone and express companies, and upon street railroads, electric light, gas, water, pipe line and similar cor porations of a quasi-public nature. This was a distinct departure in Ohio's tax laws, and Mr. Richards suc cessfully defended it in the highest courts, state and federal. He also defended and sustained the compul sory education law of Ohio in the su preme court. He has argued most of the impor tant cases submitted to the courts during the present administration, in cluding that of the so-called Porte Rican cases in the supreme court. In some of these battles he has met ex Senator Edmunds, ex-Secretary Car lisle and many others, and all the honors halve not been with these great leg-al luminaries. Mr. Richards was married in 1890 tc Anna Willard Steece, and has two children, a boy and a girl. ADELAIDE RIST0RI. Famous Italian Tragedienne, Now SC Year* of Acre, Ahont to Marry the Mayor of Turin. Adelaide Ristori, the Italian tra gedienne of the second and third quarter of the last century, who is about to marry the mayor of Turin, Sign or Casana, is now SO years old and has been living in retirement since 1873. Her farewell perform ance was given in Manchester, Eng land, on November 8 of that year. In 1882 she reappeared on a few oc casions as Lady Macbeth with all her old distinction if not her fire. Ristori was born in Fruill of parents who were themselves actors. Her first triumph was in 1855 at Paris, Wr^ "l"'' •sV" mm ADELAIDE RISTORI. (Famous Italian Tragedienne to Becom4 a Bride at Eighty.) when Rachel was at the zenith of her fame. She flung down the gage of battle for supremacy to that great actress and triumphed. Her recep tion in England was enthusiastic. In 1857 she appeared in Spain and in 1860 in Holland, in 1861 in Russia, in 1864 at Constantinople and afterward in the United States and other parts of the world. In 1862 the medal of honor in the sciences and arts was conferred upon her by King William I, of Prussia. Her favorite charac ters were Medea, Lady Macbeth, Fazio, Phaedra, Deborah, Judith, Francesca de Riviera and Camilla. Ristori was married to Marquis del Grillo. She was a clever writer, and her "Reminiscences," published In 1887, is a book replete with accounts of the intimate characters of the great people of her time. Ancient Egyptian Bonnet. The oldest bonnet in the world is the one which was found on the mummy of an Egyptian princess who lived about 2,000 years before Christ. MINNESOTA NEWS. Woman Suffrage. The most important woman's cott» vention in the history of Minneapolis will be held from May 30 to June 5, being the annual meeting of the Na tional Woman's Suffrage. The conven tion will be attended by about 400 women, every state in the union being represented, most of the number boing delegates. The list of officers, dele gates and speakers includes the names of a lar^e number of the most distin guished women of the country. Miss Susan B. Anthony, who retired last year from active services as president, will be present, and, although 81 years of age, will take an active part in the proceedings, giving her address of greeting and making two imporant re ports. Each afternoon there will be work conferences, in which the problem of doing effectual work will be discussed in a very practical way, under the guidance of experienced leaders. Groups of fine addresses will be given in the evening by speakers like the president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt the vice president, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw Laura A. Gregg, Nebraska Laura Clay, Kentucky Frances Griffin, Ala bama Gail Loughlin, New York Louis F. Post, editor of The Public Rev. Celia Parker Wooiey and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Chicago Elizabeth U. Yates, Maine Mrs. Lydia Phillips Will iams and Rev. W. B. Riley, Minneapo lis. The sessions will be held in the First Baptist church. The Fionecra. The territorial pioneers of Minne sota must have been strong-souled, cheerful, lusty men and women if the humor and good cheer which 500 of the members of the association showed at the Log Cabin at the state fair grounds can be taken as a measure of their spirit. The weather was quite against them, but the meeting has never been so large and the day has never passed off with so much satisfaction to every one concerncd as did the annual meet ing of 1901. The afternoon was given over to jollity and merry-making. Dancing was a feature of the afternoon, not by the young people assembled, but by the real pioneers. The officers elected for the coming year are: President, John S. Pillsbury, Minneapolis: first vice president, E. W. Durant, Stillwater second vice presi dent, William Pitt Murray, St. Paul secretary, M. G. O'Connor, St. Paul. An old-fashioned stage coach took a party of the members early in the day to the grounds, and plied to and from the Log Cabin during the day. Postponed. A very important meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the State Editorial association tVas held at the Windsor hotel, at St. Paul, for the purpose of making changes and fixing dates in connection with the dedication of the Minnesota building at the Pan-Ameri can exposition and the trip of the as sociation to Buffalo. The day upon which the editors are to leave Minne apolis was changed from June 1 to June 15. Appointed. The state grain and warehouse com mission has announced the following appointments: Chief grain inspector, L. D. Marshall, of Minneapolis chief deputy at Minneapolis, J. N. Barnard, of Duluth chief deputy at Duluth, F. W. Eve. Mews In Brief. The state game and fish commission secured 25,000 brook trout fry at Os ceola, Wis., which will be raised at Willow Brook hatchery for breeding purposes. Postoffices have been established at Dock, Roseau county, and at Grace land, Chippewa county. June 18 will be Minnesota day at the Buffalo exposition. It has been for mally designated by Gov. Van Sant. According to the present plans, there will be such a demonstration that day at the state building that the exposi tion will be forcibly notified of the ex istence of Minnesota. Gov. Van Sant has appointed the fol lowing board of optomotry: Alexander Sweningsen, Moorhead J. W. Grain ger, Rochester F. A. Upliam, St. Paul H. M. Hitchcock, Redwood Falls C. A. Sncll, Minneapolis. The state board of arbitration and conciliation met in the office of Nor man Fetter, St. Paul. J. W. Drcger, Minneapolis, was elected president, and Henry W. Goetzinger, of St. Paul, sec retary. The question of establishing a milk condensing factory at Rochester is be ing considered. In a quarrel between two 11-year-old pupils of the Crookston central school, Eddie Millcttc was stabbed in the shoulder by Joseph Prudhomme. Acting in accordance with a law passed by the last legislature, State Auditor Dunn is taking the prelimi nary steps to selling the 6,400 acres of public building lands in Kandiyohi, deeded the state by an act of congress Feb. 26, 1857. The lands are better known as the "state capitol lands," there being a belief at one time that the lands were given the state for the purpose of erecting a capitol thereon. The passenger elevators in 20 build ings in Minneapolis carry about 70,000 persons in a single day. The Norwegian Trinity Lutheran church, St. Paul, was destroyed by fire. Henry B. Whitmore, prominent in milling circles in Minneapolis, is dead. J. C. Sncller, of Winona, a brakeman on the Chicago & Northwestern rail road, was decapitated near Mankato, and George Page, another brakeman, was injured. Henry Daw, of St. Paul, was mur dered by a band of outlaws near Ma nila. P. I. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For tlie Week Endlnvr May SO. The villnge of Stoutsvllle, Mo., was de stroyed by tire. Andrew Carnegie gave $500,000 for dis trict libraries at Glasgow. J. D. Rockefeller will give Oberlln college $200,000 If others contribute $300,000. Nearly the entire business portion of Lily Lake, III., was destroyed by fire. The customs authorities have prohibited the entry of typewriters Into Turkey. *A government line of transports between New York and Manila is to be established. James Hillman and John Fletcher, rival lovers, killed each other In Sprlngvllle, Ky. The Pennsylvania road has acquired con trol of the Baltimore & Ohio by purchase of stock. .The proposed Root-Carter prize fight at Oshkosh, Wis., was prevented by the gov ernor. The Ohio prohibitionists have nomi nated E. J. Plnney, of Cleveland, for gov ernor. The Shaw Piano company at Erie, Pa., went Into bankruptcy with liabilities of $350,000. Fire destroyed 652 houses and shops in Brest, Russia, causing a loss of 11,000,000 roubles. Robbers entered the Hart county deposit bank In Munfordville, Ky., and stole $3,000 in money. Every gambling house in Montana has been closed by an order of Attorney Gener al Donovan. Four railway workmen were killed and one fatally injured In a tunnel near Roanoke, Va. Robert D. WagstalT. marine editor of the Free Press for 12 years, died in Detroit, aged 34 years. The Wisconsin legislature, after the long est session en record, 126 days, has ad journed sine die. Joseph Bizkowskl, 102 years old, died in Chicago from injuries received from a horse in a street. Two men were killed and three fatally injured in an accident at the steel works in Youngstown, O. Howard Gould is to build a mansion on Long Island to cost $1,000,000 and be known as "Castle Gould." At Wills Point, Tex.. T. C. Ellzey, of Ma comb City, Miss., shot a woman companion and then killed himself. The encampment of the Illinois veterans at Peoria elected Capt. N. B. Thistlewood, of Cairo, commander. Capt. Milton Garrigus, of Kokomo, was elected commander of the Indiana depart ment of the G. A. R. Weston Howland, the discoverer of the method of refining petroleum, died at Fair haven, Mass., aged 86 years. The Alaskan, the largest merchant steamship ever built on the Pacific coast, was launched at San Francisco. The Mexican government is breaking up communities of monks and nuns main tained in violation of reform laws. The war department is seeking to have the national guard reorganized to permit their use by the national government. The duke of York thanked President Mc Kinley for sending the cruiser Brooklyn to Australia to help welcome him there. Judge Baker, of Chicago, virtually up held blacklisting by deciding employers may agree to refuse to hire certain per sons. The country home of Thomas B. Wana .maker at Meadow Brook, Pa., was struck by lightning and burned, the loss being $500,000. Incoming steamers report dangerous der elicts in the path of ocean liners. The gov ernment is asked to ser.d a gunboat to re move them. The recent purchase of a Mexican Cen tral railroad is part of a scheme to estab lish a new route from Mississippi valley points to Asiatic ports. Speculators and investors have rallied from the recent flurry in Wall street and are quietly buying railroad and other stocks at current levels. Thomas Lawson's yacht Independence has been barred by the New York Yacht club from competing in the trial races to select the defender for the America's cup. Explorer Baldwin has returned to New York from Europe, where he made final ar rangements for his arctic trip, and soon will leave with the last of his party for the north. A Kentucky judge issued an injunction forbidding collection of union funds to aid strikers, the distribution of food to them, and forbidding the asking of others to strike. Samuel R. Callaway resigned the presi dency of the New York Central to take the management of the American Locomotive company, the new $50,000,000 consolidation of big concerns. The Kate Shelley bridge, which spans the Des Moines river near Boone, la., has been formally opened. It was named after a young woman whose heroic act several years ago saved a passenger train. Secret service men discovered a counter feiting plant in the Moyamensing peniten tiary, In Pennsylvania, where spurious $20 bills were being printed and passed out to confederates who put them into circula tion. Great Britain is likely to demand full ex planation of the Ewo accident at Peking, where Germans fired upon a British tug, killing two men and afterward Hogged members of the crew for colliding with a bridge. Edwin H. Conger, minister to China, speaking at a New York banquet, dilated upon the tremendous opportunities for American commerce in the orient, and urged congressional aid for ships and cable service. THE MARKETS. New York, May 20. LIVE STOCK—Steers $4 75 5 70 Hogs 6 65 ftl1 li la Sheep 3 25 4 50 FLOUR—Winter Straights.. 3 4s (it Minnesota Patents 3 jto rii 4 2" WHEAT—No. 2 Red 7!)M .N."/4 July 7S & 8% CORN-No. 2 oO July 49W& 4»r,» OATS-No. 2 BUTTER—Creamery lo Factory CHEESE 8 8* EGGS Oats, No. 2 White.. Rye. No. 1 11 13 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Prime Beeves $5 75 5 95 Texas Steers 35 (a} 4 6o Stockers 2 60 4 10 Feeders &' 22 Bulls 2 4ft & 4 o0 HOGS-Light SI Heavy Mixed 5 85 05 SHEEP 45 4 75 BUTTER—Creamery 14 18 E S 9 O S ^M 7 GRAIN—Wheat. July 71 H@ 2% Corn. July Oats, July Iiii Rye, July Barley. Fair to Good 48 fit j MILWAUKEE. GRAIN—Wheat. No. 1 Nor $ 74 Ctt 74V4 r" Barley. No. 2 67 ffr KANSAS CITY. GRAIN—Wheat. July $ KW 67% Corn, May 4P4a «41 Vj Oats, No. 2 White 31 "J'4 Rye, No. 1 5ak ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 »t 75 Texas Steers "6" HOGS—Packers' MWf -j »,, Butchers' so ft Oi'/a SHEEP—Native Muttons ... 4 25 4 70 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 4n r,v 5 55 Cows and Heifers 50 (a 1 70 Stockers ar.d Feeders 3 25 10 HOGS—Mixed 5 V.V/it S 7a SIIEEP-Wethers 3 SO 4 PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Jack—"What is your idea of true happiness?" Dick—"Money, and a place, to spend it."—Syracuse Ilerald. If it's true that children get their growth while asleep, it's no wonder some babies are of such slow growth. —Chicago Daily News. Carrie (in her new bonnet)—"Hot? do you like my hat, Bertha?" Bertha —"Why, I think it is splendid. No one v/ould know it wasn't brand new."—Boston Transcript. "Willie, have you been fighting with that little colored boy again?" said a Park avenue mother. "Naw we just begun to-day 'where we was when you stopped us yesterday."— Indianapolis News. "I am almost discouraged," said the reformer. "About what?" "The future of this world. Every time I devise some new idea for suppress ing iniquity the sinners sharpen their wits and invent a new swindle." —Washington Star. The artist painted with feverish assiduity. "I shall at least keep the wolf from the door!" quoth he. At the threshold the wolf paused. "If I go in here," mused the dread beast, "folks may think I am buying pictures of him!" And with that he fled away.—Detroit Journal. A Detroit street railway magnate has neglected to provide his street cars with a certain safety appliance, and for this neglect is liable to im prisonment for 3,039 years. This seems like quite a period, but, of course, he could cut it down some by good behavior.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Entre nous," said Miss Ayres, who delights in talking dictionary French, "are you very fond of Mr. Good heart?" "Well," replied May Bright ley, "he's a very good friend of mine." "Ah! your bon ami?" "Bet ter than that. He's my bonbon ami. He brings me a box every time he calls."—Catholic Standard and Times. BIG "VARMINT" ROUND-UP. Greatest Slangliter of Wild Bensti Ever Known In Arizona Lately Pat Tliroafflt. For a long time mountain lions, bears and wolves have been raiding the stock on the big cattle ranch of Colin Campbell in Cochise county, Ariz. With 10,000 cattle on the range, the heavy losses in calves and yearlings by the ravages of the wild animals have cut down the dividends of the stock company which owns the range. "Charley" Montgomery, fa mous all over Arizona as a hunter, and who was chief of scouts under Gen. Crook during the trouble with the Apaches, was engaged to exterminate the animals which have been raiding the herds. Montgomery engaged 100 men of the Pina tribe, and held a big round-up of the "varmints," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Early in the morning his Indians and a score of cowboys surrounded a dis trict five miles square in the foot hills of the Chirieahua range and gradually closed in toward the center with 200 dogs in the rodeo. As they reached the center of the circle cata mounts, black bears, coyotes and an occasional grizzly bear tried to break through the line, but were met by a shower of bullets. Dozens of animals perished in the attempt to escape, but 200 others were finally cornered in a box canyon, while redskins and cow punchers picked them off from the rocks above. There were scores of close conflicts with the enraged and frightened brutes, and in one melee four Indians were fearfully mangled by a grizzly before their shots finally finished the bear. One of the reds, Antonio Hermo, a former chief of the tribe, received fa tal wounds from the claws of a big fel low. The dogs closcd in on the vic tims, and dozens of them were killed before the slaughter was complete. The final count showed 19 dead moun tain lions, five grizzlies, two lynxes, and over 100 coyotes—doubtless the biggest round-up of wild animals that has ever occurred in Arizona. Sniclde Rodmi. In one of the local asylums for the insane there are certain apartments known as "suicide-rooms." These are set aside as harbors of refuge for those patients who manifest a strong desire to end their lives. Everything in these rooms is round. There are no knobs or posts to the beds, for the maniac would tie a sheet around any. such projection and hang him self. For the same reason there are no gas fixtures and no inside shutters. There are not even door knobs, while the doors themselves are made to open outward. When the men undress their clothes are carefully removed from the room, so that they may not be used for strangling their owners. All the edges of bureaus, the backs of chairs, etc., are carefully rounded, so that there may be no points upon which "the inmates mig^it beat their heads. No canes or sticks are al lowed in the rooms. The doors are left open at night, and a keeper pa rades incessantly up and down be fore them.—Philadelphia Record. Professional. A lady who has made a study of lullabies and similar folk-song, Countess Martinengo, remarks upon the peculiar forms under which pa rental pride displays itself in differ ent countries and to prove that even professional habits will be carried in to the nursery, she tells the follow ing: The other day a young and suc cessful English artist was heard to exclaim with profound conviction, while he was contemplating his son and heir, 24 hours old: "There is a great deal of tone about that baby!"—Youth's Compan ion. WESTERN CANADA'S DECEX* BER WEATHER EQUAL TO THAT OF HAY IN MIN NESOTA. To the Editor: Thomas Began and C. Collins, of Eden Valley, Minnesota, went out to Western Canada last December as dele gates, to look over the grazing and grain lands that are being offered at such low prices and reasonable terms. This is what they say: "We arrived in Calgary about the 20th December and although we had left winter in Minnesota and Manitoba, we were surprised to find beautiful warm weather at this point,quite equal to what we have in May in Minnesota. There was no snow nor trace of winter to be seen, and the climate was really splendid. Horses, cattle and sheep were running out, in prime condition, with plenty of feed on the prairie, and really better than that of ours stabled in the south. We are impressed with this country as one of the finest mixed farming countries we have ever seen. The immense tracts of fertile lands, well sheltered and abundantly wa tered, leave nothing to be desired. Leaving Alberta we returned east and visited the Yorkton district in Assiniboia. We dTove out about ten miles at this point and were highly pleased with the splendid samples of grain we were able to see, wheat yield ing 25 bushels, oats GO bushels. Boots were also good specimens. Froftn what we have seen, we have decided to throw in our lot with the Yorktoners —satisfied that this part of the coun try will furnish good opportunities for anyone anxious to make the best of a really good country. Any agent of the Canadian Government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper will give you full particulars of the new dis tricts being opened out this year in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Yours truly. OLD READER. CURRENT TOPICS. Mt. Vesuvius is again in a stats of active eruption. A needle machine turns out 1.500, 000 needled a week. As a rul?, single wonn'n live long er than single men. Riding astride is the fad among horsewonien«jn Boston society. Thirteen new beet sugar factories are contemplated in nine states. The veteran singing master, Manuel Garcia, has attained the age of 90. A horse eats nine times its weight in food in a year. A sheep six times. There were twenty-two administra tions during the reign of the late Queen Victoria. No picture is hung on the walls of the Louvre, in Paris, until the artist lias been dead ten years. Henceforth soldiers in the Greek nrmy will be 'taught to grow and cure tobacco for their own use. In the Vatican there are 11,000 rooms. Of these Pope Leo reserves lor his own use only three. St. Louis is furnishing the mail carriers of the United States with shirt waists and summer hats. Senator Pettigrew lias found that lie can make more in Wall street in a day than he can in polities in a year. A twentieth of Scotland's area is forest land, seven-tenths is mountain, heath and lake and only one-ijuarter cultivated land. The total cost of the Transsiberian railroad is estimated at $500,000,000, of which amount three-lifths already has been expended. The supreme court of New York has decided that a married woman must turn her wages over to her hus band if he so wills. The infancy of British manv-Tactur 1ng was nursed by engineers from Holland, who superintended the erec tion of wind and water mills. According to a New York newspa per, which professes to have made a diligent and thorough inquiry, there arc 3,628 millionaires in the United States. Russia kills 3,000,000 ermines, 15, 000,000 marmots, and 25,000,000 squir rels in a year. AN »M. D.'S" OPEN LETTER. Benton, 111., May 20th.—R. H. Duna way, M. D. of this place, in an open letter, makes the following startling statement: "I had Diabetes with all its worst symptoms. I applied every remedy known to the profession, as well as every prescription suggested in our books. In spite of all, I was dying, and I knew it. "As a last resort, and with scarcely any faith whatever, I commenced tak ing Dodd's Kidney Pills. In one week 1 saw a great improvement. After I had taken five boxes, I was sound and well. This is ten months ago, and 1 have not taken any medicine of any kind since, and am convinced that my cure is a permanent one. "As a practicing physician yvith years of experience, I most positively assert that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medicine in the world todaj', for Diabetes or any other Kidney Disease. Since using them myself, I have used them in many cases in my practice, and they have never failed. "I am making this statement as a professional man, after having made a most thorough test of Dodd's Kid ney Pills, and because I fe'el It my duty to the public and to my profes sional brethren. The truth can never hurt anyone, and what I have said is the absolute truth." R. H. DUNAWAY, M. D. It is no wonder that the public are cnthr.sinstic over this new medicine, when our leading physicians tj)eni" clvei!. arc being won over to its use.