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LIVE NEWS OF THE PIP DOMINION. Latest Happenings Gleaned From Al Over the State. LIST OF NEW PENSIONS GRANTED. Convention Completed its Work?Governor Issues His Proclamation?Calls Upon the People to Render Loyal Support?An Old -Time Elopement?Mr. Carter's Option oj (be Virginia and Southwestern. Pensions granted Virginians: Robert Bivens. Kanona! Soldiers' Home, Elizabeth City. $8; James Custis. Birdsnest, $8; Isaac Riddick. Lamberts Point, $12; Patrick McGinniss, Nation? al Soldiers' Home. Elizabeth City, $12; John McArdle, Newport News. $8; Edmund Nelson. National Soldiers' Home, Elizsbeth City. $12: George A. Clapp, National Soldiers' Home, Eliz? abeth City, $12; Nancy Bailey, Nor t'olk. $8; Philip Cavanatigh. Na? tional Soldiers' Home. Elizabeth City, $8; Charles P. Goidrich. dead. Den? dron. $12; Stephen Davis. NewporJ News, $6; John W. Chrismore. Win? chester. $30: James D. Ham. National Military Home, Elizabeth City, $6; 1 homas W. Gannan. National Military Home. Elizabeth City. $8; Gabriel T. Morris, National Military Home Elizabeth City, $10: John H. Epperson. Friends' Mission, $17; Louise A. Sun? day, Varinagrove. $8; Arthur Johnson, Tappahannock. $6: Emma Lewis. Chris tiansburg, $8; William C. McConnell, National Soldiers' Home, Elizabeth City. $12. The Virginia Constitutional Conven? tion, after more than a year's session, has completed its work and adjourned sine die. Thc effort of Mr. C. V. Mere? dith, of Richmond, to continue the body in existence until January. 1003. failed by a vote of 54 to 20. The debate on this proposition was the most interest? ing heard in the closing hours of the convention. Messrs. Dunnaway, Green. Wise. Westcott and Wysor opposed the resolution with great vigor. Mr. Mere? dith defended it on the ground thal it was a prudent and wise precaution to take in the event that the court.' should declare that any of the pro? visions of the new' instrument, or, in? deed, that the whole of it was invalid. The convention, however, did not take, that view of it. though it was supported by some of the most prominent mern hers of the body. Mr. Moore .ol Mont? gomery, frankly declared that he oppos? ed the suggestion because he did not wish the convention to be in existence in the event that the Federal courts should declare any part of the new Con? stitution inoperative. Mr. Moore's speech was rigidly partisan, and he fre? quently indulged in the hope that the work of the convention would be made of no avail by future action of the Fed? eral Supreme Court. In accordance with the provisions ol the schedule of the new Constitution, Governor Montague issued his procla? mation promulgating the new instru? ment. He calls upon the people of the Commonwealth to render "true and loyal support" to the same alter July ic at neon, when it goes into effect. In accordance with the Constitution the Governor also issues a proclamation assembling the Legislature in extra ses? sion on July 15. Nearly all of the mem? bers of the convention have left for their homes. Before doing so a meeting was held at which a permanent organization of members was perfected. Henry Stu? art di Russell, was made president ol this organization. It is to hold meet? ings annually. The Virginia and Southwestern Rail? way, which runs from Big Stone Gap to Maymcad. Tenn., failed to pass into new hands. I he option of George L. Carter and his associates to purchase thc prop? erty for $2,500,000 expired, but it is un? derstood that negotiations have not ended. The plan is to make the road a part of a trunk line to thc coast at Wil? mington. N. C. Mr. Carter and his as? sociates have purchased the Ohio River and Charleston Railway, and it will bs known hereafter as the Virginia and Southern Railway. F. L. Dunn, chief telegraph operator in Petersburg for the Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk & Western Railway, left there on the southbound train for Weldon, N. C.. acompanicd by Miss An? nie Delvaux, the 16-year-old daughter of Dr. Frank Delvaux, of that city. Dr. Delvaux received a telegram announc? ing the marriage of Mr. Dunn and his daughter. The telegram was a great surprise to Dr. Delvaux, as he did not know that his daughter had left the city until she was called for breakfast. Then it was found that her room had not been occupied during the night. Thc Harrisonburg Town Council, in pursuance of a general plan of street improvement, has taken steps to close up an arch over the big spring in the public square, one of the landmarks ol Harrisonburg. A petition was forward? ed to Judge Leteher, at Lexington, ask? ing for an injunction to restrain the Council from carrying out its plans. In order to forestall the injunction, il granted, the street force demolished the dome which rested on pillars over the spring. This precipitate action aroused some feeling. The congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Falling Waters, Berkeley county, has called Rev. J. J. Fix to the pastorate of that church. Mr. Fix has been pastor of the Round Hill Church, Frederick county, for several years. All of the employees of the Chesa? peake and Ohio coal offices at Newport News, except two officials, have been laid off owing to the shortage of coal ai a result of the strike in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Brownsburg and its vicinity, 12 miles from Lexington, was the centre of a ter? rific wind and rain storm. Trees were uprooted and houses and barns consid? erably damaged. One house was car? ried from its foundation, but thc inmates escaped injury. W. H. Plyborn, an employee of the Richmond Locomotive Works, and Miss Julia G. Lambert, of. Roanoke, were married at the residence of W. F. Allison in Roanoke by Rev. W. L. Rich? ardson. Charles B. Steigle. of New Hope, Au? gusta county, died, aged 72 years. The Town Council of Lexington has given A. H. Burroughs, of Lynchburg, an option at $10 a share for 30 days on the 300 shares of Valley Railroad stock held by Lexington in that company. He will receive a commission of io per cent, for disposing of the stock. Rock? bridge county has $400,000 of the stock and it ia probable that the same offer has been made them also, as it is said Mr. Burroughs has secured options on the holdings of several counties j through which the Valley Railroad passes. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions, R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of rade says:? "Trade at the East is more quiet owing o the advancing season and the bad :ffect of prolonged labor controversies >cing felt in certain lines. Reports from he interior and the far West are more :ncouraging, bountiful harvests being xpected, while the light stocks carried >ver from the previous season assure irofitable prices. "The best indication of continued irosperity is the fact that quotations do lot recede, even in the lines where at ?resent there is only a moderate degree ?f activity. "Uncertainty regarding their ability o secure pig iron at reasonable pries s making producers of steel cautious n accepting contracts that call for dc ivcry at even remote dates. "Lack of rain in the southwest is thc 'lily seriously unfavorable crop indica ion of the week. Domestic grain makes ;ood progress, but bad news has Ix tn cceived from abroad. "Failures for the week numbered 191 j n the United States as against 193 last car and nineteen in Canada, again-1 ourtecn a year ago. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour?Spring clear, $3.1533.35; best ^atent, $4.80; choice Family, $4.05. Wheat?New York No. 2, f&yic; 1hiladelphia No. 2, 82,182^0; Baltimore s'o. 2, 81 YzC Corn?New York No. 2, 6q^c; Phila lelphia No. 2, 65^<a6C>; Baltimore No. :, 67J4a68c. Oats?New York No. 2, 46^; Phil lelphia No. 2, 51c; Baltimore No. 2. \0V1C. Hay?No. 1 timothy, $i4.5oai5.oo; No. ! timothy, $13.00314.00; No. 3 timothy. I11.50a12.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables.?Aspar igus?Eastern Shore, Maryland, per lozen prime, $1.25.11.80. Beets?Nor oik, per bunch 3.14c. Blackberries \Torth Carolina, per quat, oaiic. Cab >age?North Carolina, per crate $1,901 :.oo; do, Norfolk, per bri $1.0082.00. Cantaloupes?Florida, per crate $1x0.1 :.oo. Cherries?Maryland and Virginia. icr bri. Red, $3.00.14.00. Cucumbers rharleston, per basket $1.25.11.50; do, N'orth Carolina, per basket tl.OOal.50 ".ggplants?Florida, per crate $3.0033.50 jireen peas?Anne Arundel, per bo, -ugar. 00165; do, small, 6sa8o. Goose merries?Maryland Virginia per lb 4'.a ic Huckleberries?North Carolina, per niart 8aioc. Lettuce?Native, per bush tl box 25335c. Onions?Bermuda, per iox $1.70*1.75; do, Egyptian, per sack ?2.7533.00. Peaches?Elorida, per car? rier $1.5032.50. Pineapples?Florida, per :rate $2.7533.50. Radishes?Native, per 100 bunches, white, 75ca$i.oo. Rhubarb ?Native, per bunch 2Ali%C. Spinach? Native, per bushel box 20a25c. Spring anions, per 100 bunches 50300c. Straw? berries?Eastern Shore, Virginia, per quart 6aoc; do, Maryland, per quart 6r, io. String beans?Charleston, per basket, green. 75ca$i.oo do, wax, 503750 Tomatoes?Florida, per six-basket car? rier, fancy, $2.0032.50; do, fair to good. $i.75a2.oo. Potatoes?Old- -White?Maryland and Pennsylvania, per bu. No. 1, 65370c; do. seconds, 50360; do. New York, per bu. best stock, 65370; do, seconds, 50360; do, Western per bu, nrime, 65370. New Po? tatoes?White?Charleston, per bri. No. 1. $3.0033.25: do, seconds, $1.5032.00; do, culls, 75ca$i.oo; do, North Carolina, per bri. No. 1, $2.5oa3.oo. Seed Potatoes.?Mine Honiton, Early' Rose, $3.25 to $3 35 ; Maine grown Beau? ty of Hebron, $3.25 to $3.35; Maine grown Green Mountain, $3.24 to $3.30. Provision and Hog Products.?Bulk clear rib sides, io-^c; bulk shoulders. ox/\: bulk bellies, 11J4: bacon clear rib sides, n)4: bacon shoulders, 9*4; sugar cured shoulders, extra broad, \2; sugar cured Cslifornia hams. 0^4; hams, can? vased or ttneanvased, 12 lbs and over, 13; refined lard, tierces, brls and 50-lb cans gross nc. Butter?Separator, 23324c; G.ithered Cresm, 22323c; imitation, 19320: Prints, 1-lb, 24325: Rolls, 2-lb, 23324; D.iiry pts. Md., Pa., Va., ? 323. Eggs.?Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen, tlaloc. Cheese.?Large, 60-lb, io}83io.}^c; ?nedium. 36-lb, lo^aio-^; picnics, 22-lb, to^aiofl Live Poultry.?Hens, I3^ai4c; old roosters, each 25330c; spring chickens, ?ia24c; young stags, 13314c. Ducks, 1 oa nc. Hides?Heavy steers, association and salters, bte kill, 60 lbs and up, close se lection, nai2c; cows and light steers, ?Z/~ tgc. Live Stock. Chicago.?Cattle?Mostly ioai5c low ;r; good to prime steers $7.3037.00; poor to medium $5a7; stockers and feeders 5J2.50a5.25; cows, $1.4037.50; heifers $2.5036.45; canners $1.4012.40; bulls, ^?"535.75. Texas-fed steers S5.ooa6.70. Hog*?Mixed and butchers $7.1037.55; good to choice, heavy $7.4537.62^; rough, heavy. $7.1037.40; light $6,953 7.35; bulk of sales $7.1537.45. Sheep Sheep snd lambs slow to lower; good to choice wethers $5.0035.50; Western sheep $5.0035.50; nstive. tombs, clipped, $5.00.16.75. East Liberty.?Cattle steady; choice f7.15a7.50; prime $6.7537.25; good $6.00 C6.50. Hogs higher; prime heavy $7,503 7.60; mediums $7.20; heavy yorkers f7.IOa7.i5; light do $7.00.17.05; pigs $6.80 16.85; roughs $5.00.17.00. .Sheep steady. Be^t wethers $4.6534.80 culls .ind com? mon $i.50a2.oo; choice lambs S6.25a6.50; veal calves $7.0037.50. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Deca'.ur (111.) leather workers have organized. Montreal is the best organized city in Canada. Sioux City (Iowa) has elected a union printer Mayor. A strike has occurred in the Govcr.i ment arsemil at Taranto, Italy. Kansas has passed a State law for the enforcement of an eight-hour work? day. There are 244 establishments, employ? ing 9,889 glovemakers, in the United Slate's. The situation of the machinists' strikc at Palestine, Texas, remains unchanged. Only union men will bc employed on >'ork for public buildings at West Su? perior, Wis. The Austrian Zinc and Lead Ore Coin pany, in Czartowitz, Austria, has re? duced operations 3nd 3 large number oi men have been dismissed. At Guayaquil. Ecuador, there is Seri o-'.s trouble brewing between thc railway company and the contractors who are building the linc. Striking coopers at Nashua, N. H, re? quest an increase in wages, and also demand that the employers recognize ile Coopers' Union. Six hundred iron workers of Brook 'vi, N. Y., went on strike because six o' the men were suspended for organ izing a union in the shops. THE SURVIVOR OF ST. PIERR rttable^W rtctlun Supplies Nothing 80 Keinarftable as His Kxpertence. The sole survivor of the cataclysm at St. Pierre was a brutish negro, a felon, Isolated in a cell beneath the sidewalk which might fittingly be called a dun? geon, for only refractory prisoners were confined there. Raoul Sartout was the name of this jailbird. Fiction supplies nothing so remarkable as his experiences. Thirty thousand people, many living blameless lives with the love of niau and tbe fear of God in their hearts, were reduced to calcined corpses by one blast from the furnace of Mont Pelee, and this dreg of hu? manity, this sink of depravity, this utterly worthless outcast was per? mitted to live. The best is often taken and the worst left, but here was a whole city full extinguished with mor? tal terror in their eyes?a swift judg? ment as of the destruction of the in? iquitous?and the very refuse of that community left to enjoy the life of his senses. Priest, philanthropist, sis? ter of charity, mother and child, un? touched of evil stricken into hideous shapes of death, and a wretch whoso presence was a pollution is spared to continue nu ignoble existence! fanout could not have escaped if he had been a well-behaved prisoner. Ile was insubordinate and vicious; and a short time before the eruption it had become necessary to put him in the dungeon under the 'street. We can imagine that his food was thrown into liini as if ho were au animal, with a pious wish that he would beat his brains out against the walls of his cell. He has told the story of that terrible day in his rude patois. Prob? ably it wa.J drawn from him in broken syllables while hu stared vacantly at his questioner. Sartout heard the rumble of Pelee; the thick walls of his hole in tho earth shook violently, and lie Celt the scorching breath of the volcano invading his refuge. In the awful silence that followed he knew that death had como upon people in St. Pierre, and like one forgotten he beat upon the bars of his cage. An iron grating yielded to his blows and he stumbled into a larger cell. Hot cinders were sifting down from the street. The heat was so Intense he was glad to run back and cower in the furthest corner of the cell he had left, and there he remained stupitied with fear. Four days later tile shrieks of the crazed negro were heard by a rescue party from the French cruiser Suchet, and, almost dead from hunger, 1 hirst and burns, he was released. His injuries are not mortal, and being young aud robust, he will live many years, no doubt, to tell the story of tho ordeal he survived. A Voltaire would find the case of Raoul Sartout an inspiring subject for his philosophy. In fiction only a Victor Hugo could do it justice.?New York Eveuiug Sun. Japanese Hods. I had anticipated serious inconve? nience in regard to sleeping, but I dis? covered that Japanese beds are not so bad, after all. Of course, this is a very nice hotel, and, on account of my friend, Mme. Sugimoto, whose family name is highly honored in Japan, wc receive the best of attention, but my ideas of Japanese living are undergoing rapid changes. Three mat-size (that is, four by six feet) cushions, each about six inches thick, were piled on the floor, the top one covered with coarse-woven but beautifully clean white linen. The cov? ering is the same, only the cushion is lighter in weight. The pillow? A lit? tle white wooden rocking stool, four inches wide and eight inches long, holding in its hollow top a small silk roll, covered with soft, tough paper, also white. This paper is the pillow case, and is removed each morning. As you stand and look at the bed, With its tinted silk and white, every? thing looks inviting and comfortable, but, however enthusiastic one may be to adopt Japanese customs, after the first half hour of experience he will east aside that pretty, dainty, little rocking-chair pillow. The wooden screens have been rolled ont, converting the porches into long halls; the watchman whirls his rod of iron rings as he passes each houy; the street cries are growing fainter aud mingling with dreams of home, and I sleepily murmur a "God bless all the dear ones" and "Oyasumi asobase" ((good night).?Florence M. Wilson, in New York Mail and Express. Wrl.-li Indians in America. Though public attention has lately beeu oirected to Welsh settlers iu America, the question lacks tho great interest caused in tho eighteenth cen? tury by the statement that a tribe of Welsh Indians had been discovered. In the seventeenth century John Joss lyu, in his "Voyages to New England," mentioned that the customs of thc in? habitants resembled those of ancient Britons, and Sir Thomas Herbert, an? other traveler of tho same date, in bia "Travels" gave Welsh ivords in usd among these Indians. A century lateii reports from several traders and other! were received of an Indian tribe thai possessed manuscript, spoke Welsh and retained ceremonies of Christian wor? ship. Anions other information then published was the report of Captain Abraham Chaplain, of Kentucky, that his garrison near the Missouri had been visited by Indians who conversed in Welsh with some Welshmen in his company. Those Indians were thought to be descendants of a colony said to have been formed by Mndoc,' son of Owen Gwynedd, on his discovery of America in 1170.?Loudon Chronicle. Cordite. It has been shown that the erosive action of cordite was seriously affect ing the value of this explosive, and that the British admiralty appointed a committee to make a series of tests and to report upon the subject, and to in? vestigate whether some other explosive could not be substituted for military and naval use. One of the results has been the adoption of a new smoke? less powder, to be known as "Cordite M. I)." The new explosive is said to have nitro-cellulose as its base, and it is believed to contain a certain per? centage of nitro-gylceriue, but not so much as is used In cordite itself. It lg claimed that it does not generate so much heat as cordite, heuce the longer life to a gun.?New York Tribune. al ?____ ion, with cob^, m\-i? __ tales, to iseue against the manufacturei loot powder called "Dr. Clark s Foot 1 oi ler," and also against a retail dealer, re? fraining from making or selling the same, ,vhich is declared, In the decision of tho Jourt, an imitation and infringement of ?Foot-Eask," the powder to shake into your (hoes. Allen H. Olmsted, of Le Roy, N. I., s the ownerof the trade-mark "Eoot-Ease. rhe decision in this case upholds bis trade nark and renders all parties HaSie who :raudulently attempt to place upon the narket a spurious and similar appearing preparation, labeled and put up in envelopes ind boxes like Foot-Ease._ The two tunnels most needed in Europe now are for the Caucasus and the Pyre Wliat About Toni- School Hons-,*.? You may not this season be able to build a sew one, or make the radical changes in tho 5hl ene that von had in contemplation, put ;here is no school district in the United .tates that cannot alford to tint with Ala ;MStllM the Interior of their buildings, thus Daking them more attractive, getting colors sade with soecial reterenco to their effects mi tho eves of tho pupils, g^ttiug a sanitary ind rock base cement coating that will not tarbor disease germ?. The closelv crowded school rooms need all :he safeguards to tho health of the pupil that ltelligent officials eau surround them with, ind all sanitarians nullo in saying that ala , asiine is the oniy proper material to be used on such walls. _ Oak lumber loses twenty per cent, of its weight In process of softening, and over 'hirty per cent, when perfectly dry. Tf-ttoilno In Tenn.*. "I oncloso 5(K ta stamps. Mall me one or two boxes of Tetterlne, whatever the price; les all right -does tho work." -- Wm. SehwatS, Gainesville, Texas. 60c. a box by mail from J. T. Shu pt ri ne, Savannah, Ga., ii your druggist don't keep it. Thc flatterer often gets the reputation oi being a delightful conversationalist. Cii: AluWd .T.'ol-tvame. It ls the only euro for Swollen. S'mrtiv;. fired, Aching. Hot, Sweating Font, Corns and -unions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, :i powder o beihakea into tho shoes. Cures while you ?-?ik. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, wc. Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent i'nzr.. Address, Allon S. Olmsted, LeKoy.X.Y. Kansas has 600 more miles of railroad than thc State of New York. &aca?b> gp ?MMMejMB*WMBe^jP?Ta jj " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor ; for a gi eat many years, and al { though I am past eighty years of i age, yet I have not a gray hair in ij my head." Geo. Yeliott, lowson, Md. jj Wc mean all that rich, j dark color your hair used j j to have. If it's gray now, J no matter; for Ayer's j! Hair Vigor always re? stores color to gray hair. Sometimes it makes the hair grow very heavy and long; and it stops falling of the hair, too. $1:00 a bottle. All drngflits. If your druggist cannot supply you, ?emf us ono dollar and v.o will express you a bottle. Be sure and elvo tho name of your nearest rou ism oflTre. Addreas, j. c. ayia: CO , L??*eU, Mass. Ills Vlpw rf n S(!i( mn ?n. At thc time when John G. Carlisle vas senator from Kentucy his speeches :ere widely printed and attracted a grea: leal of attention. One day when the renate was in session a mountaineer rom thc wildest wilds of Kentucy prc ented himself at the door and asked to ec Senator Carlisle. The visitor wore lomespun and 'leather boots and was ravel-stained and dusty. Ile explain :d that he had read Mr. Carlisle's rpeeches and considered them great, md had walked more than loo mile= in :rder to see the Senator from his State. Mr. Carlisle was busy at the time, and he clerk informed the visitor that he ;ould not be disturbed. The farmer ooked disappointed and seemed rcluc ant to depart. Finally he asked if he night be taken where lie could just ratch a glimpse of thc groat man he lad walked so far to sec. The request vas granted and Mr. Carlisle was point? ed out to him. After a brief scrutiny the farmer turned to thc attendant: "Reads a heap better than he looks," he remarked, sententiously, and prepar lection for thirTgstnt^ri cially for railroads, Mr. Ma ns hem" br tight the lcd a toy railroad with a train of cars which ran about on a cir? cular track. Like all boys, young George was of an inquisitive mind, and wanted to see what made the train move. So it was but a short time be? fore his nurse took it, all smashed and broken, to the garbage can. One day Mr. Mansfield went into the nursery to play with the boy, and, look? ing around, asked: "George, where is that railroad I gave you?" George hesitated a while, says the actor, and then replied: "Papa I guess it has gone into the hands of a leceiver." Death*, hy lightning From 1890 t) 1900 the United States Weather Bureau printed statistics of losses of life by lightning. The work is now discontinued. During thc year 1900 713 persons were killed by light? ning; of this number 291 persons were killed in the open, 158 in houses, 57 under trees and 56 in barns. The circumstances of 151 deaths ire not known. During the same year )73 persons were more or less injured by lightning strokes. On the average, it is probable that from 700 to 800 lives are annually lost through injuries from lightning in the United States. The greatest number of injuries occur in thc Middle Atlantic States, the fewest in the Pacific States. Their Opinion*. In introducing Judge Sulzberger, of Philadelphia, at a recent banquet, after several rabbis had spoken, Dr. Henry M. Leipziger told this story: "Two ladies once had a dispute as to which was the most influential, thc clergy or thc bench. " T think the bench is the most influ mitial,' said one, 'because the judge can jay, "You shall be hanged." ' " 'But,' said the other, 'the clergyman .an say, "You shall be damned." ' " 'Ali, yes,' said the first, 'but when :he judge says "You shall be hanged," 1011 are hanged.' "?New York Times. Tic Stern I'nront. "Johnny," said his father, "you have lisobeyed your mother again. Come jut with me to the barn." Johnny complied. There was a wood died on the premi? ses, but the stern parent preferred the barn. He laid the disobedient boy across his knee and proceeded to punish him n the ordinary method. "Oh, that hurts!" screamed Johnny. "I know it. my son." replied the ather. "It hurts you (whack!) a great leal worse (whack!) than it hurts me [whack! whack!) and I'm glad it does!" (whack! whack! whack!) Vti Took tim Hint. A Euclid avenue woman was much unused the other day at the conversa ion she chanced to overhear between lier cook and the latter's "steady com? pany." The couple stood just beneath an jpen parlor window, and the young man was taking leave of his sweetheart. "Sure, you'll kiss me before I go?" pleaded the lover. The answer came direct and with fine ;corn: "If ye were a babe I'd kiss ye, but if re were a man ye wouldn't stop to ask." The bashful young man took the hint. T'ifiir Ynini" Man ?n<l UanTirr. "Mr. Awlkash," said the trembling young man in the threadbare suit of clothes. "I have come to ask you for the hand of your daughter." The rich banker wheeled around in his chair and looked at the presump? tuous youth. "Henry," he said, kindly, "you can have her, and I will see that she sup? ports you in better style than you have been accustomed to." Tho Point of View. "Education is certainly a good thing." remarked the clerical looking passenger as he folded up his paper. "There's where we differ," rejoined the man with the noisy tie, at whom the remark had been aimed. "It has put my business on the pork train." "Indeed!" said the c. 1. p. "What is your business, may I ask?" "Selling gold bricks." was the curt Cl LU \\.Ut\ i'.iv r Mrs. D. Arnold, President German Woman's Club, Grand Pacific Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal., Relievded of a Tumor by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham :?I suffered four years ago with a tumor in my womb, and the doctors declared I must go to the hospital and un? dergo an operation, which I dreaded very much and hesitated to submit. " My husband consulted an old friend who had studied medicine, although he was not a practising physician, and he said he believed that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound would cure me. That same day I took my first dose, and I kept it up faithfully until twelve bottles had been used, and not only did the tumor dis? appear, but my general health was very much improved and I had not felt so well since I was a young woman. " As I have suffered no relapse since, and as I took no other med? icine, I am sure that your Compound restored my health and I believe saved my life."?Mrs. D. Arnold. $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhcea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros? tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone," and " want-to-be-left-alone feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there Ls one tried and tme remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles, Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. \ TheWomen Also Recom? mend Pe-ru-na. Miss Blanch Grey, 174 Alabama street, Memphis, Tenn., a society woman of Mem? phis, writes: "To a society woman whose nervous force is often taxed to the utmost from lack of rest and irregular meals 1 know of nothing which is of so much benefit as Pe? runa. I took i' -\ few months ago when I felt my strength giving away, and it soon made itself manifest in giving me new strength and health."?Miss Blanch Grey. Mrs. X. Schneider, 2409 Thirty-seventh Place, Chicago, 111., writes: "After taking several remedies without result I began last year to take your valu? able remedy, Peruna. I was a complete wreck Had palpitation of the heart, cold hands and feet, female weakness, no appe? tite, trembling, sinking feeling nearly all the time. You said I wa.s suffering with systemic catarrh, and I believe that I re? ceived your help in the nick of time. I fol? lowed vour directions carefully, and can say to-day that I am well again. I cannot thank you enough for my cure." Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna is not a guess nor an experiment it is an absolute scientific certainty. Pe? runa has no substitutes?no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. A free book written by Dr. Hart? man, on thc subject of catarrh In its different phases and stages, will br sent free to any address by The Pe? runa. Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Catarrh is a systemic disease curable only hy systemic treatment. A remedy that cures catarrh must aim directly at the depressed nerve centres. This is what Pe? runa does. If you do not derive prompt and satis? factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. MADE LIVING BY CRACKING WHIPS Curious TratU Discovered by the Police of France. The Paris police have recently been Informed by one af the fraternity of whip-crackers that such a calling ex? ists and claims recognition as one of the "professions" by the exercise ef which men carn their livelihood In France. Whip-crackers, it appears, are men who possess strong wrists and aro willing to crack whips aJJ, day long, if required, on receipt of a suitable fee. At the commencement of the shooting season, when the proprietors of neigh? boring demesnes arc not good friends, the one who bears ill-will to the other engages a whip cracker, whose duty it ls to crack a whip so as to frighten away all the birds at the approach of the disliked sportsman and his friends. The whlpcrackers are also found useful by farmers afflicted with dis? eased cattle which they cannot sell. Having engaged a whip^cracker, they turn out the sick beasts on the most frequented highway they can find. The cracker follows with his whip, osten? sibly to guide the cattle, really to drive them under the wheels of a car? riage, a motor car or a tram. This he does by cracking his whip at the critical moment so as to frighten the beasts and drive them to destruction. Roids Miltie of Gold. The people of the two counties south of Lacrosse, Wig., especially near Prairie du Chlen, have been for years using gold-bearing quartz for road making and house building, thinking it was common stone. The finding of a heavy, paying vein of gold on a farm of Mrs. N. S. Dousman set them right. By following up the vein lt was traced for many miles around, touching, In some places, quarries where rock has been taken for yea?. Lightning striking in the same place during successive storms led Mis? Violet Dousman to think that metal in tome form existed there. Her in? vestigations led to the discovery of the gold. Merril)'* VemO. Powder. Ah absolute cure for oil foot trouble*. Guaranteed to stop all odor aud exeessive perspiration. Brings red. burning, {?marting, tired and tender feet to a perfectly normal condition. A superior toilet artiele for ladies. ! This powder does away with the use of dross j shields. Druggists, or sent direct iu hand? some sprinkle top tin package for 25c. Edwim F. Mx^bill. Maker. Woodstock. Vt. EMBARRASSED THE CLERGYMAN Ulntster'i Makeshift All Right Until the Maid Appeared. A distinguished Episcopal clergy? man was once called on to officiate at a fashionable summer resort church, and, finding only a short surplice and no cassock in the vestry, was very much disturbed at tho thought of hav? ing to appear in a vesture that to the frivolous would look like a white shirt and trousers. But a happy inspiration came to him. Why not wear one of his wife's black petticoats? The por? tion that would show below the sur? plice would look exactly like the regu? lation cassock, and no one would ever be tho wiser. So he hurriedly sent one of the ushers with an explanatory note to his wife in the hotel, and in the nick of time the petticoat arrived. The makeshift turned out to be a per? fect success, and no one at a distance could tell that he was not wearing a cassock. After the close of the ser? vice he decided to go out to the body of the church without taking off his robes, in order to greet some friends. And he was soon the center of a group of fashionable women, when a green Irish maid from the hotel came up, and in a loud voice said to him: "Yer Riverence, the missus sint me afther her petticoat that ye do be wearin', an' I wuz to wait till ye take it off."?New York Tribune. For (hs Itleh Only. Uncle and Aunt Melcher went to town to buy a new clock. "Now," said the dealer, "here ls something very attractive In the way of clocks. When the hour begins, a bird comes out of the top and sings 'Cuckoo!' For instance, I turn this hand to 3 o'clock, and the bird comes out and sings 'Cuckoo!' three times." "Don't that beat all?" cried Uncle Melcher, enthusiastically. "Mother, let's have one." "No, no!" said his wife hastily. "That sort of a clock might do for folka that have got lots of time, but it'd take me half the forenoon every day to take care of that bird."? Youth's Companion. 1/%**VW%W' Dr. Llewellyn Jordan. DR LLEWELLYN JORDAN, Medical Examiner of the U. S. Treasury De? partment, graduate of Columbia College, ind who served three years at West Point, has the following to say of Peruna: '?Allow me to express my gratitude \oyou for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change, and I now consider myself n well man after months of suffer? ing. Fellow sufferers, Peruna will cure you." Peruna immediately invigorates the nerve-eenties which give vitality to the mucous membranes. Then catarrh disap? pears. Then catarrh is permanently cured. Thc man who is a failure is apt to think that success is accidental. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and ls taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for testimonials, free. Manufactured bv F. J. Chunky & Co., Toledo, 0. Falling in love ia much more pleasant than to nave a falling out. FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous? ness after first day s use of Dr. Kline's Great NorveRostorer. ferial bottle and treatisefree Dr. K.H. Elise, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. The milk of human kindness isn't put up in bottles. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reducesinflamma tion, allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle People ought to air their opinions to keep them from getting musty. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.?Mas. Thomas Rob? bins, Maple St., Norwich, N, Y., Feb. 17,1900. 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