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FIRING AND RELIEF
Thre Letters from Mrs. johnson,
Sh wing that Lydia p. Pink.
b ms Vegetable Compound
cures the Ills Of Women
Wrote for r1rs. Pinkham,s Advice
November. 1907

November. 1897
"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM:-Iam q great
sufferer, have much trouble through
the lower part OF my bowels, and / am
w1 pg to youfor advice. Menses are
irr 6 and scanty. am troubled with
lea ache SO through my
bac hrough my loins. I
. 0Ating very badly,
-s6metiM be very large and other
times very much reduced."-MRs.C HAs.
3. JOHNSON, Box 80, Rumford Center,
Maine, Nov. 20, 1897.
Improvement Reported December,
1897
DEAR MRS. PNKHAM ~ wish to
tell you that I am improving in health.
/ am ever SO much better than when I
wrote before. The trouble through
the lower part of bowels is better and
I am not bloated so badly. Twas very
much swollen through the abdomen
before I took Lydia E. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound. / still have q feel
ing OF fulness GRO my chest. Ihavs
used three bottles of it and am on the
fourth."5MRs. CHAs. E. JOHNSON, Box
%, Rumford Center, Maine, Dec. 3 1887.
Enjoying Good Health June, 1899
HDEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Since ayear
ago / have been taking your medicine,
and am o strong and enjoying good
health. I have not been SO well for
three years. and feel very thankful to
you for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound has done for me. I
would advise all who suffer with f.
male troubles to try your medicine. -
Mrs. CHAs. E. JOHNSON, Box SO, Rum
ford Center, Maine, June 1, 1899.
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Loubet Decides in Colombo. P.vor.

President Loubet of France. as ar.
bitrator. has rendered a decision In IA.
vor Of Colombia in the boundary dis
pute between that country and COST
Rica. -
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Most counterfeit documents are de-
tected through some individual pecul-
iarity Of the counterfeiter of which he
himself is not aware.
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Dyeing is as simple as washing whom you
use PUTNAM FADELEss DYxs. Sold by all
druggists.
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Transporting a Big Army.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. ~softens the gums edncesinfamma-
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standard OIL 10 Control salt rr.d..

It is reported from England that the
Standard Oil Company is trying to OBJ
tain control Of the Cheshire salt trade
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ON Steel Manufacturer Abroad.
British manufacturers Of steel are
meeting sharp competition from Amer
lean trade rivals.
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The medicine which for the past so years
held the record for successfully rid.
ding children of these pests is Frey's
Vermifuge-made entirely from vege-
table products, containing no calomel. Is
cts. at druggists, country stores or by mail,
postpaid. e. b s. FREY, Baltimore, Md.
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sIeep walker Killed BY Z FAN.

Sleep Walker Killed by Q Fall.
John Muehlsein, forty-eight years old,
residing in st. Louis, Mo-. walked off
the roof of his house in his sleep ans
fell forty feet to his death.
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Each Siamese mandarin has his own
theatre.
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rmanently cured. No ltsor nervous.
first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
leyseEe4$2trial bottle and treatisefree
KLINE. Ltd. 931 Arch St, Phila.. Pa.
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The Manufacturers Of Carter's ink have had
forty years experience IN making 1t and they
certainly knowhow. Send for "Inklings, free.
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Ihs Best rrescriptisn for Chills
and Feker i : bottle Of GROWS 49,
Q taste1ess form. No cure-nnG q1inine II
Y costs Chlcago.s 3HR6~tomobilists $40 for
eacn repair OF E ppMctured tire.
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An autograph letter of Washington Irv-
ing sold in London the other day for $40.
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THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices Of Countr,
Produce Quoted in New York.

80 NIL
The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is 2Nc. per quart.
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Take LAXATIVE BRoMo QuINIsB TABLETS All
druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure.
=. W. GRovls signature Is on each box. Csc.
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is more Catarrh in this section of the
than all other diseases put together,
the last few years was supposed tobe
q. For a great many years doctors
ced it q local disease and prescribed
nedies, and by constantly failing to
b local treatment, pronounced 1t in
Science has proven catarrh to be a
ktiOnaltreatment. Halls Catarrh Cure.
anu Ectured by F. j. Cheney & Co. Toledo
bio. the only constitutional cure on tha
ark It is taken internally in doses from
=, dF e f. IA = dte mIcona It acts directly on
hey Or one hundred dollafs for any case
fails cure. Send fcr Circulars and testi-
9nials lASaFessE } .CHENEY& Co.. Toledo. o.
500 Druggists, TIC.
Rmily Pills are the heat.
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LEANS AND PEAS.
Beans-Marrow choice, 1900 @220
Medium, $780,. ..... g 90
Pea, choice, 1850. @ 2 05
Red kidney, choice, 1899. 2 90 q 2 05
White kidney choice, 1899 2 % @230
Yellow eye, 1899. 49,. o. 10
Lima, CALI. ........ 3 52A@ 8 So
Green peas, bags......... @lH
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|, want good digestion to walt mp
appetite" you should always chew
Adams Pepsin Tutti Frutti.
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: Fiso. Chile, imports yearly about
krrels of Portland cement.
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NeMsy Gleanlngs.


The Beers are losing many horses
from cold and lack of food.
A new military post in Alaska has
been called after Colonel Liscum, who
was killed at Tien-Tsin.
Australians are migrating in large
numbers to South Africa on account
Of the drouth in Western Queensland.
Barracks for immigrants with a ca
pacity for the accommodation of 1000
persons, will be built in Cabanas, Cuba.
Italy has protested against Germany's
new meat law, on the ground that it
contravenes the Italo-German CONNER
cial treaty.
Belgians have made many complaints
against the opening by British mill
tary authorities of letters sent from
South Africa.
To lessen the number OF elopements
In his parish. q Catholic Clergyman
Of st. Louis announced that he would
marry couples without charge.
aict ~ sc1 sa. e. rs g
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EectEc-power is being increasingly
on some large western farms for
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THREE IMPORTANT NAVAL BASES IN CHINA.

to their hearts content They were
driven out of the empire now and then,
with pillage and massacres in their
wake; but this was always done by the
mobs and not by the ruling classes.
1t was only when other nations in
sisted on prying open the Chinese oys-
ter, believing they had right to it's
rich contents, that the Chinaman rose
and protested. For 1000 years. more or
less, he had been sufficient unto him
self and he did not see why he should
not be allowed to continue in his chosen
status of isolation. The arguments adj
vanced by the outside barbariaEs, that
the world was in need of his products
and that vast mutual benefits would re-
suit, fell upon deaf ears. He was con-
tent to live alone, sandwiched in be-
tween his great artificial barrier on the
north and the sea on the south and
east; let the traders go elsewhere; he
would have none of them. Then, seeing
| that these arguments were without
avail, the outside nations used those Of
different characterized, diplomacy,
then force. The first English embassy
to penetrate to Peking was allowed to
leave its presents behind, but accom-
plished nothing in the way of breach
| ing the wall of exclusiveness, while the
next in the second decade of this CEN
tury, was ANONYMOUSLY repulsed. BY
means of the opium war" 60 years
ago, Great Britain succeeded in fore
ing her Indian drug upon China, in
opening few treaty ports and ac-
quiring Judgment at Hongkong. This
was the first real wedge, and by sue
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out in the character of colonizers and
supplies and re-enforcements are hur-
ried forward continually, neither the
Russian army nor the great Siberian
railroad will be equal to the occasion
when it arises.
The Manchurian mountains are full
of minerals and the valleys rich in al
luvial soil, while in the harbor of Port
Arthur the Russians have naval base
without rival in Chinese waters. This
harbor is a large inlet of oval form,
with a narrow entrance between two
high promontories, and it is never ice
closed in the winter--a most important
consideration in that latitude. Port
Arthur was selected by the Chinese
years ago as their chief military and
naval station, and they crowned its
hills with forts, building immense mag
azines and barracks for thousands of
troops. Large docks We're built here at
enormous expense ten years ago, and
vast supplies of coal We're laid up for
any possible emergency.
But all this labor of the Chinese went
for naught when the Notifications were
taken by the japanese and was render
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1t is scarcely worth while to ask if
there will be another eastern ques-
ton" for the powers to consider in Chi
ma, for it is already precipitated, and
even as the powers dealt with the
Sick Man of Europe" at the congress
of Berlin in 1878, so they will deal with
the sick Celestial of Asia in this emer-
gency. To ascertain what sort of a prec-
edent was established in 1878 we have
only to turn back few pages in Tur-
keys history. The sultan had fought
and failed, he was at the Russians
mercy and had to accept the terms i'm
posed by the treaty of San Stefano,
subject to the assent of the European
concert" He lost half his European
possessions, together with half their
total population, and from the Turkish
dependencies were carved out the inde-
pendent states of Roumania, Servia,
Bulgaria. Roumelia, Bosnia and Her.
zegovina. And he lost not only terri
tory but prestige, as it was intended he
should lose, so that he was but too
thankful to be allowed to remain in
Europe at any price.
The Turko- Chinese parallel will be
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TRAIrs OF MILL1oNAIREs.

1t does not follow because a man Is
possessed Of unlimited means that he.
spends money with a lavish hand. In
deed, in many cases observation shows
that the wealthy person is particularly
careful in his personal expenditures. A
very we'll known man who is classed as
a millionaire was observed the other
day to approach a fruit stand in the
Wall street district of New York. The
financier looked over the stock of the
vender and finally decided to purchase
some pears Then he picked up fully
a dozen pears and examined each care
fully. From the dozen he selected
three and, the selection made, he grave;
ly handed nickel to the vender. The
fnancier. perhaps, would not have ex-.
pended more care if he had been pur-
chasing team of carriage horses.
The old adage, Look out for the
pence, and the pounds will take care OF
themselves" was exemplified in that
case. DIR. Benson, late archbishop OF
Canterbury, was man who always
followed out the adagc. He. according
to the English legend, would never cut
the knot in the string wound about a
package, but would laboriously work at
it until he could unite the Irvine. After
his death, in different hiding places.
were found quantities of Irvine which
he had boarded. Yet he was a man
most liberal il. Charitable gifts.
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carried out as soon as the powers in
China have perfected the plans which
We're projected many years ago. II
there is no actual division of territory,
there will be a virtual apportionment
under the evasive term Of sphere of
influence" The latest definition of this
term, though not one acceptable to the
diplomats, is center of disturbance,
nucleus of trouble" of which doubtless
it will be prolific cause.
By sphere of influence" is meant
that the nation claiming it is supposed
to seize all the country it can control
without coming into collision with an
other power. starting out from some
given center OF hypothetical base which
at present it holds in it's grasp.
The initial bases from which these
spheres of influence are to start We're
determined after the Japanese
war, and the history of their acquisi-
ton is we'll known. They are seven or
eight in number, and may be increased
to ten.
Beginning in the north of China, we
have. first, the Russian sphere, which
is conceded to comprise all of Manchu-
ria, including the I.iao-Tung (peninsu-
la) to and inclusive of Port Arthur, and
Talien Wan, to the Korean border. If
perchance Russia can convince it's sis
ter powers that it can take and hold all
of the province of Pe-chi-li down to the
great wall. that doubtless will be the
| limit of its sphere in this century. TIC
| take and to hold are two different
things, and as the claim of Russia tc
this territory is rather shadowy it may
/ have to assert it by the might of its
armies. To do this effectually, Russia
depends upon that mighty work it has
projected and nearly finished to the Pa
cific--the Transsiberian railway.
| Russia is said to have already massed
llfrom 10000 to 100000 men along the
Russo-Chinese border and to be capa-
BILE of sending forward as many more
as may be needed. But after these are
sent they must be sustained and theil
depleted ranks filled with new recruits
for which purpose the great railroad
being but single track and very poor,
4 ly built, is wholly inadequate. In short
the boosted potential strength of Rus
STA in China is likely TO be discounted
1 by the knowledge it's possible opponent.
1 have of it's actual weakness, owing t.
the vast distance from home base o
i supplies, Unless, then, the soldiers q
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d clallh 10 sphere comprising HULL
ing less imam the entire Valley anu
drainage pasln Oh the 1ang-tse, river
nearly lhe SIZE ana Nolurle OF the Aliia-
zo!l' WIN characteristic assurance
TINS bfltlsh sphere was klnoiy os-
lneo TO the tsuns-H-yamen py Slr
Claude macdonald as not only the
iang-tse region nut the provinces ad-
Joining the 4ans-tse. Ihat was all.
John Bull would not insist upon taxing
III lhe "nole Oh Chlna--only a lttle
matter OF a region eVo.ooo miles IN
area with ABOUT lso,ooO,ooo INHABITANTS
mat was ms sphere ana II ne We're
srafted that' with the exclusive prlvl-
reyes OIL trade' etc. IN ADDITION TO what
ne already heid ana might perchance
PICK up on MS cruises along the coast,
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ed worse than nothing for China wner
Port Arthur was delivered up to Rus
STA, which has since made the place all
but impregnable. In connection with
the nearby harbor of Talien Wan Rus
STA has here a base of acknowledged
strategic value, into which, when the
railroad leading down from the north is
finished, it can pour unlimited supplies
of men and munitions, depending only
upon the capacity of the road, and from
which it can command the great gulf of
Pe-chi-li and the approaches to Tien-
tSin and Peking.
1t was charged by the British that
Russia obtained control of Port Arthur
and a foothold in Manchuria under the
false pretense of having rendered aid
to China in her dealings with Japan.
This is true enough, but the Russians
retaliated by pointing out how the Eng
lish, in 1878, acquired the island of Cy-
press in the Mediterranean in exactly
the same manner, and John Bull was
silenced.
| 1t seems indeed to be way they
have, these great powers of Europe, to
acquire territory at the expense of their
neighbors, for no sooner does one OF
them gain point, either by force OF
arms or diplomacy, than all the others
| hasten forward to put in their claims
| to just as much as the first one got.
Thus 1t was with the British acquisi.
| ton of Wei Hai-Wei, the naval strong.
hold on the Shangtung peninsula, con,
sidered to be second only in strength
anG Importance to Port Arthur will
which it divided the command of the
gulf of Pe-chi-li. The Japanese hat
captured it. as they had Port Arthur
+, but they agreed to return it to China
and the very next day after it was tax
en- over by the Chinese-May a. 1895
they delivered up the arsenal and for
tress to the British. Itswas taken un
der a nominal lease, but that lease viii
no more expire than will that of tn,
railroad the Russians are building
across Manchuria.
4 Owing to the fact that Germany
through it's occupation of the port O
4 Kiaochau, claims the right of pre-emp
4 ton in the province of Shangtung Gi
which Wei-Hai-Wei is situated), thu
British can have nothing more her,
than a military and naval base; bu
that is all they need, for in add
4 ton to Hongkong, and Kowloon on TIL
4 opposite mainland, they have put fortl
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cessive blows it was driven home, until,
by the little war of 1S5S-60, Picking was
reached by the allied French and Eng
fish, and with the virtual concurrence
of the United States (who sent the first
accredited envoy to the Chinese capt.
taD, the principle of equality was en-
forced, and China's emperor was
obliged to acknowledge other rulers as
his peers.
AT last the Chinese wall was broken
down, and innovations succeeded with
startling rapidity. Religious freedom
was guaranteed by the Burlingame
treaty of 1868, treaty ports were thrown
open the entire length of China's coast,
and all the great trading nations flock
ed thither to participate in it's COM
merce. There We're occasional out
breaks, as the massacre at Tien- tsin in
1870 only three years before the foreign
ministers We're granted a personal in
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D. .
N WELL known lecturer on interna-
~ tional law has said that the parti-
ton of China is thing impossi-
BILE, and that, the country once reused,
not all Europe could furnish men
enough to conquer the people or to hold
them in check. This is probably an ex-
IRENE view, and too much reliance is
placed on the unguided movements of
ignorant masses generally inert and
aimless SO long as allowed to pursue
the vocations of their individual MEM
bers. A chain is only as strong as its
weakest link, and the weakest link in
the Chinese chain is the man himself
an unambitious fatalist, heedful only OF
today, with no thought of the morrow
The Japanese minister In London is
credited with having said the powers
must come to a final understanding
quickly. "Riots, anarchy, bloodshed and
misery throughout China" he says
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T..
has rights which have been persistent
ly ignored by the representatives of
the powers in their dealings with him
for at least a century back. 1t was not
his fault, it is claimed, that he should
consider himself as the greatest of all
created beings and his rulers coequals
with the Most High. 1t was owing to
his environment, to his isolation and
centuries of self contemplation, that he
came to this conclusion and regarded
all the peoples beyond his great wall as
"barbarians."
The foreigners were we'll enough re-
ceived in their first visits to China.
Nothing could exceed the gracious hos
pitality of the great Kublai Khan in
his reception and entertainment of the
Venetian Marco Polo in the last quarter
of the thirteenth century, and the first
missionaries, of whatever denonlina-
ton, We're always allowed to proselyte
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will be the inevitable result of a policy
that does not Immediately disclose it
self. A government must be establish
ed. The empress dowager is the heart
and soul Of China. So long as she lives,
30 long as she remains in the country,
whether the supreme power is taken
from her or not, she will always be the
greatest force, the one above all others,
to be reckoned WITH
1t is true that the great Tsze- Hsi- AN,
empress dowager, whose masterful
mind projected the rebellion and di-
rected it's fury against the foreigners,
has been the greatest force in modern
China; but it is hardly the intention of
the invaders to pay heed to her in
shaping the future policy of that coun-
try, for that policy has been already
foreshadowed, and the breaking up of
China. it's virtual partition among the
European powers, has been freely and
frankly discussed for years. At any
rate, the Chinese toad is now under the
harrow, and the foreign agriculturists
seemed determined to scarify the coun-
try with the latest appliances of mod
ern civilization. Whether he will or
not, Mr. John Chinaman must come un-
der the benefcent rule of progress, and
no matter now strongly he. may protest,
he will be obliged to submit to the
cleansing process prescribed by the
great powers.
AS we view Mr.. Chinaman and con-
trast him and his surroundings with
other nationalities and other nations.
he really stands in need of regenera-
tton, both physical and spiritual. Ac-
cording to current reports from Chefu
\ IL ~ L.
commandment in the decalogue, and
several others which have not been
codified. 1t seems high time that he
should be taken in hand, brought to a
true appreciation of his situation and
made to keep step with the formative
influences of the century.
This is the occidental view; but there
Is another which places the subject I'M
der consideration in a different light.
1t may seem preposterous, but, accord
ing to this oriental view, the Celestial
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THIS MAN WRITES UPSIDE Down.

OF course, educated deaf mutes get to
be pretty handy with their pencils.
They have to write all their communi-
cations to speaking people and do so
very rapidly. The Rev. A. w. Mann is
a deaf mute missionary and expert PEN.
man. For 25 years he has made mis-
sionary trips to deaf mute churches,
not alone in this country, but in for
eign lands. Mr.. Mann writes wrong
side up just as we'll as the other way.
He is often interviewed. The method is
this: The reporter sits at the table OPP
posite Mann. A pad of paper lies be-
tween them. The reporter writes a
question. Mann reads it upside down
and, without moving the paper, writes
the answer, also upside down.