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The news & observer., 1900-11-11

how thankful am for your advice. must
confess that for the length of time
have been using your medicine have
found it to be the most wonderful and
best remedy for female troubles that |
ever have tried. Sorry l did not know
of your 'Favorite Prescription years ago,
but will gladly tell my friends who are
suffering, of your wonderful medicine.
cannot speak too highly of it."
There is no alcohol in "Favorite Pre-
scription' and it is entirely free from
opium, cocaine and all other narcotics.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All
correspondence held as sacred and wo-
manly condolences guarded by the same
strict Erofo ssiCnal privacy which is OBJ
served in the personal consultation of Dr.
Pierce ard his staff Numbering nearly
a score Of physicians) at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. n.
Y. Address Dr.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo,
N. Y.
1t sometimes happens that the dealer
tempted by the little more profit paid
by less successful preparations, will try
to press a substitute upon the customer
claiming that 1T is just as good as
Pierce's." 1t is well to remember at such
a time, that the claims of superiority
made for DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion do not rest on mere words, but upon
cures. Thousands of weak women made
strong and sick women made well testify
to its superiority over other put-up med
icines for women.
THE BIBLE OF THE BODY.
is title which has been aptly applied
to DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser. In plain English it points the
way to womanly health and happiness,
and fully discusses and illuminates those
great and grave questions which involve
the we'll being of women. This great
work, containing 1,00S large pages, and
over seven hundred illustrations, is sent
free on receipt of stamps to pay expense
of mailing only. For the volume bound
in durable cloth send 81 one-cent stamps.
or only 21 stamps for the book in paper
covers. Address DR.. r. V. Pierce. Buffalo,
N. Y.
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
d.faShiOned Training
It's Strong And Weak Points.

The strong point of the old fashioned
training was the stress laid upon moral
ity and virtue. BE good and you'll be
happy, was the common precept set pc
fore the growing child. But as the girl
grew up to maidenhood she was often
sorely puzzled to reconcile those past
teachings with her present condition. She
was good. Her soul was pure as the
lilies Of her garden. Her heart was un-
defled. And yet she was desperately un-
happy by reason of physical ailments
common TO women.
This was the weak side Of old-fashion-
ed training: 1t ignored the needs and
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
HEALTH FOR WOMEN

in every hundred have
failed of a perfect and
permanent cure. And
even these two in every
hundred have been bene-
fited, their pains eased,
their burdens lightened,
their lives made happier.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription establishes
regularity, dries enfee-
bling and unhealthy
drains, heals infiamma-
tion and liberation and
cures female weakness.
From the first change of
life when the girl be-
comes a woman to the
last change of life it is a
"Godsend to women" as
a preservative of health
and a cure for womanly
ills.
"Your letter just re-
ceived," writes Miss Rose
Kilfether, of 43 West
Sharpneck ST., German
town, Philadelphia, Pa.
Words fail TO express
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
NoTE.-+ Daily except Sunday.

Dining Cars between New York and Richmond,
and Hamlet and Savannah on Trains Nos. 81 and
L.
tCentral time. SEastern time.
Dining Cars between New York and
Richmond, and Hamlet and Savannah on
Trains Nos. 81 and A.
Central time. Eastern time.
For tickets, rates and sleeper reservG-
tions, apply to:
H. S. LEARD, T. p. A., Hamlet, N. O.
CHAS. GATTIS, G. T. A., Raleigh, N. @.
e. ST. JOHN, v.-P. AND @. M.
". f. McBEE, General Superintendent.
L. S. ALLEN, Gen. Pas. Agent.
Ceraral Offices: Portsmouth. Va
The news & observer., 1900-11-11

April to July. l took five bottles of Doc
tor Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and
four of Golden Medical Discovery and
five vials OF Pellets Have not had a
single symptom of my old trouble so
far. Can sleep good nights, work hard,
and ca neat solid and substantial food
without distress. There are several of
my friends taking your medicines with
the best results since they have seen
how they help me.
IF any one wishes to know more of
my case and will enclose a stamp / will
answer any question they wish to ask"
HEALTH FOR WOMEN.
The use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription has brought health to thou
sands of hopeless women. If you are
sic, it will almost surely bring health
to you In all the hundreds of thou
sands who have used "Favorite Pre-
scription" for womanly ills, only two
The news & observer., 1900-11-11
william l.. Wilson.

William H. Wilson was the well be-
loved indeed the best beloyed-man in
the Fifty-third congress. If he had an
enemy on the whole face of the earth.
| have never heard of it. | don't see
how he could have. Brave as IL lion,
he was gentle as woman. In his
youth a gallant soldier of the COnfed-
eracy, he never alluded to that bloody
and unhappy chapter in our annals.
He was knight sans peur ct sans re-
proche, and he quit fighting at Apo
mattox. Most emphatically he did not
belong to that large aggregation Of
men invisible in war and invincible in
peace.
With fame worldwide. he was as I'M
assuming as the plainest citizen of the
remctest bachwoods. With opportuni
ties for growing rich beyond the
dreams of avarice by prostituting his
high position TO personal gain, he died
poor. AS an orator he had few equals.
His closing speech on the Wilson tariff
bill was marvel Of eloquence and
aroused his Democratic associates to
the highest pitch of enthusiasm. One
Of the most dramatic scenes ever wit
MESSED in the house was at its close.
when Harry St George Tucker, the
young Virginia Hotspur. and William
]. Bryan. the great Nebraskan, placed
the brilliant West Virginian upon their
shoulders, much against his will, and
carried him in triumph to the cloak
room amid the shouts of members and
the wild applause Of the galleries.
Considering the fact that large por-
tion Of his life was devoted to law and
politics, Mr.. Wilson had a remarkable
career in the scholastic world. He en-
joyed the unusual distinction of having
been a graduate from the University OF
Virginia, professor in Columbia col
lege, president of the University OF
West Virginia. president of Washing
ton-Lee university and of having de
clined the presidency of the University
of Missouri. To few men who devoted
their whole lives to letters have, so
many collegiate donors come, and few
er still have deserved such high and
multifarious honors.
The news & observer., 1900-11-11

Former Should he Elected by Direct
Vote and Latter Have Three Year
Term-Bad Features of Present
System--SOme Peculiar Features OF
sound and Eury-Campafgns Com
trasted - John sherman's Career.
William l.. Wilson's Fame.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
TIE T HAZEL.
Romantic Fancies Regarding the
Shrub and Its Real Medf-
cinaI Value.

A glamour of beauty and sentiment
surrounds the last blossom of h
fall. On sunny hillsides, amid b
glory of autumn foliage and the des-
olation of the seal and withcred
leaves, the witch hazel lifts its forked
branches, clothed in a mist of golden
stars, to the blue sky. The leaves.
which closely resemble the elm leaf
in form, have turned yellow and
brown and fallen to the ground, and
the ripe brown fruit alone remains
among the yellow flowers. The shrub
holds at once the fruition of the year
past and the promise of the year to
come. It will take full II months of
snow, sunshine and shower before
the flowers will ripen into fruit, says
the New York Tribune.
The mists of enchantment that have
been thrown about the witch hazel
caused it's branches to be taken for
divining rods, and an infusion of its
gray bark and yellow flowers for a
magic medicine or cure for all ills.
The pretty story of the divining rod
which located wells. gold and secret
treasure of any kind buried in the
cdIll, - SI1h OCAlCNCO III many pats
of the country, and there are man.
old well diggers who never locate a
well without a divining rod of witch
hazel, and old miners, who relate
marvellous tales of the mines located
by the same simple means. b tales
of the medicinal powers of the shrub,
however, have some foundation in
fact. Though the hamamelis Virgin
lea, or witch naZel, is not recognized
in official medicine, it is known to
possess considerable medicinal powers
as a sedative or soothing remedy
in cases of bruises and any extreme
Inflammation. The name of witch
hazel does not rest on its reputa-
ton as a magic shrub, but merely
upon its resemblance in leaf and
branches to the witch or wych elm
tree-the tree from which wooden
chests or wyches were formerly made
to hold household linen.
The late bee hovers around the flow
ers of the hamamelis, which is the
last thing to yield honey, and the
white-throated sparrow welcomes its
oily. edible nut, and seems to delight
in the hedges, redolent with the faint.
%springlike perfume of its pale vel
low blossoms. Wherever the white
throated sparrow lives it seems to
| be beloved. The Canadian farmer
hears it sing Sweet Canada" and
calls it the Canadian bird. The Maine
woodchopper interprets its song as
"All Day Whiting, Whiting" and
the man in Massachusetts, hears it as
distinctly name three or four times
in succession the famous family of
Peabody" thence there it is known
as the Peabody bird. This active,
nervous little creature is sometimes
heard on its perch at midnight, above
the witch hazel. drowsily singing over
in its dreams the songs of the day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
THEY HAVE HARD SERVICE.
Soldiers in the French Foreign Lee
gion Have Anything Bat an
Easy Time

The French foreign legion, which IL
again the sabiect Of Partisan political
gossip. offers about he hardest mill
itary service in the world. and no one
who knows enters it until he has ex-
hausted al other means OF support or
wishes to bury himself, says a London
paper. Men of all nations are in its
ranks, many of them hard characters,
criminals and %jailbirds, and it is al
ways sem by France to do the dirty
work which that country naturally
does not choose to impose upoa its OWE
children.
Thus it has held t,e frontiers Of the
African colonies, whe-e every now and
then a post is cut to bits by a wild Arab
tribe. The fever-infested portions OF
Cambodia and Indo-China, which Lodi
has described. have also been the scene
of its exploits. The discipline, too. is
most sever Flogging is a daily occur
renee and capital punishment is the
result Of the most trivial offenses.
Thus the cases of insanity in the legion
are of a much larger number than in
any other branch of the French service.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
INVENTED BY A WOMAN.
The Spindle and Loom Were Origf-
nally Designed by n Chinese
Worker.

All women are not degraded IN China.
Witness the dowager empress, who
rose. by the force of her own will, from
the position of a slave to hat of ruler
over the most populous nation on the
globe. Notwithstanding the prejudice
against the sex among the Mongols
women occasionally break through the
barriers and achieve distinction.
In Shanghai, the metropolis of the
most coveted section of hat vast en-
Hre, is a temple erected in honor of
Huang, a woman deified for her great
service TO her people, and Chinese men
do not disdain to worship before her
image.
Centuries ago an elderly lady of good
family and condition, who had hitherto
lived in the region of Kwan-Tung, re-
moved to Wu-Ni-Ching, near Shang-
hal. where she spent the remainder of
her life. Since the lady happened to
be Huang, this simple event revolution
lied the province in which she made
her home. 1t was a great revolution.
yet the most conservative will not ac-
cuse her of having left "woman's
sphere since her instruments vera
those associated with countless wom-
en-, from Penelope, the terrible Fates.
and the "virtuous woman of Solomon's
praise, down to our own grandmothers
the spindle and the loom.
Cotton fabrics have been used to
some extent in China for 1000 years.
but the cotton interest. now so i'm
portant, received its first real impetus
about SEQ years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
HISTORIC ~COAT-OF-ARMS.
For Fifty-Seven Years 1t Hung Over
the Oldest Market In
Havana.

Alderman ii. j. Zayas, of Helena,
Mont. was recently the recipient at
the hands of Cuban friends, in recogni-
ton OF his services in behalf of that is
land. of a large number of relics, n
of which, a Spanish coat-of-arms, pos
sesses a very interesting history This
coat-of-arms, say the Chicago Times
Herald, hung for 81 years over h
Oldest market in Havana, known as h
Plaza Vieja. It was secured through
the courtesy of Mayor Perfecto Lacoste,
Alfredo Zayas and Onofre Gomez, the
latter two councilmen.
On March 81, 1895, at the beginning
of the last revolution, it was taken
down and thrown into the street by a
Cuban named Jose Gonzalez. He was
captured after a hard chase and shot
the next morning, at Cabanas, for the
crime of insulting the Spanish crown.
Seventeen years previous a Spanish
colonel was detailed by the captain
general to inspect all the Spanish
property within the city limits. On
entering the Plaza Vieja the colonel o b
served that the crown was ~entangled in
cobwebs and ordered the porter of the
market TO clear it. A ladder was I'M
mediately secured, while the colonel
stood under watching that the work
should be thoroughly done. and while
so directing the copper wire parted
which held the crown in position and
struck Colonel Ramon Perez Noyas
over the temple. breaking his skull and
killing him instantly. The porter was
sent TO the carcel CaiD and died there
about a year ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
SUN WARDS I'M HOSPITALS.
IA Curing Many Patients
OF Disease.

The theory that sunlight exerts q
powerfully healing influence upon dis
S processes has now become SO well
established that the unroo is re-
garded as a necessity in a well-ap-
pointed hospital. In the plans of new
hospitals that aspire to be up to date
the solar1um finds a prominent place,
and to keep up with the advances of
medical science many of the old hos
pitfalls are attaching solaria to their
buildings, says the Trained Nurse.
The sur ward is easily built. 1t
must be, of course, on the south side
of the building, having it's eastern,
southern and western walls largely
constructed of glass. \ good plan is
to build a large bay window, with
metal frame work, and, if the hos
pital building is to be three or four
7storie high, this bay window may ex-
tend to the full height of the main
structure. With this arrangement
each floor will have the advantages
of a sun ward.
The means of ventilation should be
perfect and the heating arrangements
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
wheat from Egyptian Tombs.

The statement has frequently been
made that it is possible to cause grains
IF wheat found in ancient Egyptian
sepulchers to terminate and grow.
This statement has been disputed, and
the question was discussed at n re-
cent meeting of the French Academy
Of Science. 1t was shown that while
the aIbumeR OF wheat foS@d in a
tomb 5000 years old had undergone
no alteration, the embryo was changed
and could not be caused 10 germi-
nate. But a fresh embryo placed IN
the ancient albumen would grow, and
this fact, it was said, probably ac-
counted for the statement that the
old Egyptian wheat rescued from its
long entombment would sprout and
GROW
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
WHITE HOUSE TREASURES.
Description of Artistic Furniture and
Bric-a-Brac Collected by
the PRESIDENT.

THE Art Treasures of the White
House is the title Of an article in Won
ans Home Companion dealing with the
bric-a-brac that has been accumulated
n the executive mansion by the presi-
dents. In the beginning of his article
Mr.. Fawcett says:
There are doubtless in every large
city in the country larger and more
valuable collections of bric-a-brac and
art furniture than hat to be found in
the private apartments of the executive
mansion, but it is a question whether
there is in the length and breadth of
the land any other half so interesting.
Rarity is, of course, 4 univeral charac-
t~eristic of the artistic gems scattered
through the home of the presidents,
but better than that is the fact that al
most every piece is fraught with mem
cries and associations that make 1t a
priced possession. OF the whole num-
Der. probably half are the gift of kings
and rulers-tokens of appreciation
from friendly nations-ar6 the re-
mainder having been fashioned espe-
cially for the white house, have no du-
plicates anywhere else in the world.
This accumulation is not the prod
uct of any particular administration.
President Arthur had, perhaps, more
of the collectors spirit than has been
inherent in any other man who has
been master of the white house, and
certainly he made more additions to
it's furnishings than any other OF its
occupants.
"Any expenditure which the presi-
dent himself makes for pictures or
statuary or bric-a-brac or furniture,
unless specially provided for, must
come out of the fixed appropriation
which congress makes each year for
the maintenance of the white house.
Mr.. Arthur chose to spend the major
part of his allowance in the manner
which has been outlined. Mrs. McKin-
lev. on the other hand, has preferred
to devote the rather modest sum TO
identifying her temporary home in
other WAYS, and thus we find all about
the house new mirrors, freshened dec
orations and other evidences of re-
furnishing. Mrs. Cleveland added more
new flowers than bric-a-brac, and Mrs.
Hayes found her hobby in pretty table
china rather than in the treasures that
are purely ornamental"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
INTERSTATE PATHS.
They Are n Good Thing and VIII
Eventually Become Great Ma
tiOnal Highways.

In relation to his active interest in
path from Boston and New York to
Chicago, Director Dodge, of the office
of public road inquiries, at Washing
ton. informs us that he is confident
that the completion of such a wheel
way would be but the first step toward
the construction of an interstate ma
tional highway along the same route.
Having brought this part of the
plan to a successful conclusion. the
next step would be to interest the auto
mobile people. Judging from the ra-
pidity with which the automobile is
becoming popular, and the success
lance runs, the horseless vehicle is des-
tined to spread beyond the metropol-
itan districts. As good roads are es-
sential for the rubber tired carriage,
Mr.. Dodge hopes, by the aid of manu-
facturers, automobile clubs and prop
erty owners along the proposed route.
to widen the cycle path into a road
sufficiently broad for the automobile.
Having obtained a smooth and serv-
iceable road, 90 feet wide. and running
in as nearly a straight line as possible
from Boston to Chicago, the further
task of widening it for a universal
quence As soon as the states west of
Chicago evince a willingness to fall in
line. as some have already done. the
work will be extended westward in the
same manner.-L. A. W. Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20

would eXtricate themselves from
their present expenditure for a worth
less article is also to be found in
than formerly 10 have the state build
good roads, and in the further fact
that every proposition toward a per-
manent system of such roads is close
ly scrutinized by them in their gem
eral gatherings and at their fire.
sides.
The Inquirer has not the slightest
hesitation in saying that when the
~inances of the state warrant it Gov.
Stone will be found lending all the
aid in his power to the good-road
movement, but. pending that time,
the work should not halt. Unless the
to townships, counties and towns nov
in the matter it must be many years
before there will be anything like a
system of roads adequate to the needs
or greatness of the commonwealth.
Montgomery began the work of i'm
provement some year ago, and quite
recently Northampton also took it up,
their notion being that the roads
hereafter to be built ought TO be per-
manent. The usual repairs will be
pat upon the unimproved roads in
both these counties. but as fast as the
authorities there are able they will
replace the mudpaths by the rock
bed roads. which, once being proper
~ laid, viii ever after prove smooth,
economic and profitable.
It is with this thought of perma-
- 80 - l.
approach this question. The first cost
may be a little large, but. in the end,
it will surely prove profitable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
Cows Need Lots of salt.

We notice that Prof. Robertson, of
Canada, says that a cow requires
about o%ne-fourth pound of salt per
day to do her best. This is something
OF a surprise. but the professor is
doubtless correct. Re declares that
milk given by a cow that has all the
salt she wants will keep longer than
milk from a cow that has not had
salt. and he says he has demonstrated
the truth of this. 1t is absolutely
safe to let the cows have all the salt
they crave. and if the milk is improved
the consumer is so much ahead. 1t
is a fact known to about every farm
er that when cows do not have salt
their milk soon becomes fat in taste.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20

naNNSOD ~
Nh 55llNIT&
A
Feeling That Permanent Highways
Are Necessary Is with
Gratifying Steadiness.

1t would be useless to deny that
the people of h interior of the state
want good roads, says the Philadei-
phia Inquirer. Their newspapers are
advocates of such improve
ment, and they hold few conventions
in which that advance is not recon-
mended. They know themselves the
folly of the system now prevailing in
a majority of the counties. 1t has
been demonstrated to them in the
short lives of their horses, the re-
pairs to their wagons and in their
road tax bills for the roads which
brought about those combined costs.
Proofs of the theory that they
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
.rt-weartng fn Italy.

Lombardy. once unrivaled in Europe
for its textile fabrics in silk and linen
has just made the pope a unique pres
emf as the gift of the province fer
the holy year.. 1t is an altar cloth
for the private altar of his holiness
ed it's design and texture are elabo-
rate TO a degree which, it is contend
ed. has no parallel even in the long
~acords of Italian art weaving. In no
previous composition ever woven IN
italy has the number either OF Welt
reels or warp cards exceeded 5000,
while in the pope's new altar ciotn
the numbers are. respectively. 17.7OO
and $4,000. The style is Gothic We
netian and the composition repre-
sents. with a ARE wealth OF symbol
ism. the principal Gospel truths.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
rhe untitIed NohIesse of England.

There are many families in the
United Kingdom that. generation
after generation, have refused titles
offered them. In the south of Eng
land live a family, the possessors of
an estate the records of which ante
date by some generations the Domes-
day Book. At any time during the
past $50 years the head of this family
could have had a title for the asking
rather, for the accepting-but for
generation after generation the head
has held that no one who has occupied
the throne of England has been pos
sessed of a pedigree that enabled him
Or her to confer any honor upon the
head of the Oldest English family of
which records bear testimony.-Sat-
urdav Evening Post.