DOCTOR ENSOR SUPT. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE INSTITUTION indorses the Catarrhal Tonie Pe-ru-na A Congressman's better. i Dr. J. F. Ensor, Postmaster of Columbia, S. C., late Superintendent and Physician in charge of State Insane Asylum at Columbia, S. C., writes: ••A tier using your Peruna myself for a short period, and my family having used and are now using the same with good results, and upon the Information ofotlrers who have been benefited by it as a cure for catarrh and an Invigor ating tonic, I can cheerfully recommend it to all persons requiring so effective a remedy.”—Dr. J. F. Ensor. Hon. C. W. Eutts, ex-Member of Con gress from North Dakota, in a letter from Washington, D. C., says: "That Peruna is not only a vigorous, as well as an effective tonic, but also a cure of catarrh is beyond contro\«rsy. It is already established by its use by the thousands who have been lienefited by it. I cannot too highly express my appreciation of its ex cellence."—C. W. Butts. Dr. It. Robbins, Muskogee, I. T., writes: "Peruna is the best medicine I know of for coughs and to strengthen a weak stomach and to give appetite. Beside prescribing it for catarrh, I have ordcrod it for weak and debilitated people, and have not had a patient but said it hel|ied him. It is an ex cellent medicine and it fits so many cases. "I have a large practice and have a chance to prescribe your Peruna. I hope you may live long to do good to the sick and suffering." Only the weak need a tonic. People are never weak except from some good cause. One of the obscure causes of weakness and the one oftenest overlooked is catarrh. Catarrh inflames the mucous membrane and causes the blood plasma to escape through the mucous membrane in the form of mucous. This discharge of mucous is the same as the loss of blood. It produces weakness. Peruna stops the catarrh and prevents the discharge cf mucous. This is why 1 oruna is called a tonic. Peruna does not give strength by stimulating the nervous system a little. It gives strength by preserving the mucous membranes against leakage. It gives strength by converting the blood fluids and preventing their draining away in mueons discharges. Constant spitting, and blowing the nose will finally produce extreme weakness from the loss of mucous. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of I’eruna, write at once to I>r. 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 Sanitaiium, Columbus, Ohio. incii Miperioriiy over an oiuer manes. Hold by retail shoe dealers everywhere. The genuine have name and price iped on the bottom. Take no substitute. 1'ant Color Eyelet* used, L. Dougin* Gilt Kdge I.in** cannot be equalled at any price* (Established 1876. The Donclaa »»rrfl proreaa of Iaiming the bottom mV® produrr« more flexible and toapr nearlntr ieallter than ant el her lannaif. The aale® ham more than dou bled Iba paM four veari, whieh prove® Ua periorUj. lMfr Sales: §tt,*03,**3.21 lima .sales: *3.034.340.00 W. L. Douglas makes and sells mere mm’s Goodyear welt (hand-sewed process shoes than any o* her manufacturer In the world. nnn RcunH w1» Md to anyone wh JiUUU ntwalu can disprove thinstuteinet Made of the hem imported and American leathern. *o ► DWIS' ^^■nie BIST QUALITY STBAJ6Hl5*CI6AR SINGLE BINDER ALWAYS RELIABLE HONESTY in making our line is what we rely on to bring us your patronage and friendship. »~$IOO REWARD will be paid for any Maple axle. Kim or poor birch hub found in any “ NEW TIFFIN " wagon that has ever been sent from our factory. INSIST upon your dealer handling this great wagon. They run easiest and last the longest. If he will not handle them write to THE TIFFIN WAGON CO., TIFFIN. OHIO, and they will refer you to a dealer who will sell yon one. Put a variety into Summer living—it’s not the time of year to live near the kitchen range. Libby’s Veal Loaf Potted Turkey Deviled Ham Ox Tongue, &c. quickly made ready to serve Send to-day for the little booklet, “How to Make Good Things to Eat,” full of ideas on quick, de licious lunch serving. Libby’s Atlas of the World mailed free for 5 two-cent stamps. Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago, U. S. A, W. N. U.—Omaha. No. 20—1903. Statesman Baseball Rooters. David Bennett Hill used to be a con firmed baseball “rooter” when he was in the United States senate. Senator Speoner of Wisconsin is similarly af flicted—or gifted. He and Mrs. Spoon er attended a game in Washington re cently, and when the home nine won in the tenth inning the Wisconsin statesman discarded all senatorial dig nity and yelled with the best of them. He acknowledges with pride that he is fond of the national game, and he likes a horse race, too, but he never bets. Milburn Overcame Many Difficulties. It was of the late William H. Mil burn, the blind preacher, chaplain ol the house and afterward of the senate, that William R. Morrison once said: “Mr. Milburn is a man who fears God, hates the devil and votes the straight Democratic ticket.” Mr. Milburn’? life illustrates what one can do in the face of hardships. He was totally' blind before becoming of age, but be came a Methodist clergyman, success ful lecturer and author, keeping at his work until a few months before his death at the age of 80. The news papers were read to him every day and he kept fully posted on passing events. Chinese Reformer in America. Kang Yu Wai, a rich and powerful Chinese reformer, has come to this country in the interest of a movement to have nis countrymen, both at home and abroad take up Western customs of life and civilization. He also wants Emperor Kwang Hsu to be ruler in fact as well as in name. Accordingly he is safe only outside the Flowery Kingdom, for the dowager empress would seek nothing better than to have the silken cord tightened around his throat. At one time he was a member of the tsun-li-yamen, China's ruling board, but his revolutionary views got him fnto disfavor and he left China. This ardent reformer, the first rich man of bis race to advocate radical reform. Is now on the Pacific coast or ganizing his countrymen as sharers in the movement he has at heart. Do Your Clothes Look YellowT Then ure Defiance Htarrh. It trill keep them white—16 oe. for 10 cents. UnleBs they are made at you, or you are the one who is making them, goo-goo eyes are the top notch of silli ness. Prides goes before a fall—and It goes much quicker after one. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES COBt but 10 cents per package. Speaking of very young bab'es a woman said: "One’s enough, two’s too many, and three, great goodness.’’ Hard work leaves lit!* ume for one to rail against fats. Atl Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch. t*cau*e It la better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. The majority of men w'ho rob Petei to pay Paul neglect to pay Paul. Stops the Cough and Works OfT the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25e. Some people find it easier to please others than to please themselves. Put Life in the Capitalist Schemer's Guarantee That He Could Infuse Energy Into the Most Languid Certainly Borne Out by the Results of the One Experiment. ‘‘Greatest scheme in the world!” he exclaimed when he at last got the ear of the capitalist. “All I need is sufficient money to develop it.” “Yes,” returned the capitalist, dis interestedly. "I’ve heard something to that effect from many, many peo ple.” “But I can prove it,” urged the schemer. “I’ve got the real thing; all others are imitation. 1 can put en ergy into the languid man; I can wake up the fellow’ who baa the cus tomary listlessness of early spring, and that means everybody.” "O, there are lots of these spring medicines,” asserted the capitalist. “But they don't do the business,” persisted the schemer, “and mine will. You know how it is in the spring; we all know. Are you languid? Are you listless? Are you tired? Of course you are. You can hardly get up enough energy to attend to your regu lar business. You long for something that will rouse yen, that will make you quick, energetic and sprightly, and I have it. I don’t ask you to take my word for it; I am prepared to offer proof. You are now listening to me wearily, but one of my capsules will put life into you. It will make you spring lightly from your cha.r; it will lead you to caper like a boy on the first day of vacation; It will dispel your lassitude and induce yeti to do things. Haven't you at this very minute the usual spring languor?” ‘‘I have ” admitted the capitalist "I am, I confess, enervated.” "Then take this,” said the schemer, producing a capsule. "If it does not give you an interest in life I will re tire without another word. I am o stranger to you, and I do not expect you to accept my unsupported state ment; I wish you to he convinced, to know that I speak the truth and really have something that will do ail I claim for it. Take it and swallow it. Wash it down with a little water if you wish, and then note the result.” The capitalist took the capsule, and immediately thereafter he got up and Jumped over his chair. "Didn't 1 tell you?” cried the schemer cxulfantiy. "No languor now, is there? You are moved to action, you are lively—" “Water! Water!" yelled the capi talist, as he cleared the top of his desk and made a rush for the wash room. "look how sprightly he is!" com mented tne schemer, hacking toward the deer. "But 1 don't believe I'd better wait; 1 don't think '.a s in the humor to invent just r.nw." “What is ItV’ reared the capitalist. "Red pepner, y< a darned oh! skin flint!” answered the schemer, as he disappeared, satisfied that an old grudge had been wiped cut at last.— Brooklyn Eagle. Tip Was a Wrong One, Relumed Spirit Made Trouble hr Unfortunate Bad'Debt Cob lector—Ghostly Visitor Very Badly Mixed in His Dates—Find Was Not Welcome. They had been talking abqut spir- | its. “As far as ghosts are concerned,'' said the bad debt collector, '1 had an experience in that line once myself. 1 was lying in bed wide awake. 1 al ways insist that 1 was wide awake. 1 didn't dream it. 1 was wide awake when somebody or something tapped me os the shoulder. 1 was frighten ed, to be sure, and turned my head. Then I was scared almost to death, fcr there I saw the figure cf a man clothed in knickerbockers—no cycling outfit, but the old-fashioned line© breeches, with the long waistcoat, the longskirted coat and the three-cor nered hat. My hair stood on end and I was speechless. He told me about a man named Moore—some one I had never heard of, who lived up in Al bany. This Moore, it seems, was the ghost’s great-grand sc n, and the shade wanted me to straighten out some legal snarl. “The long and short cf it was the great-grandson was about to lose his property that formerly belonged to the ghost because the original will j could not be found. The ghost told me just how I could find Moore's house, and said the will was in an eld j chest in the garret. So the next day Took Him for a Woman, Idyllic Beauty of John Randolph ci Roanoke Led Guest oJ Prominent Southern Club In o Deplorable Error—At the Grave ol the Great Southern Statesman, 1 started for Albany. I arrived at Moore's ail right, anti knocking a; the door, asked: " is this Mr. Moore?’ “ ‘Yes,’ said lie. “ 'I saw your great-grandfather last night,’ said I. “ 'You’re a-' began Moor?. " Now. never mind,' raid I, and then 1 told him about the gaost. And sure enough there was a lawsuit. We went up to the garret, and sure enough we found the old chest, just like they do in those yellow-covered books we used to read, and there was a false bottom all right. I was so excited 1 could hardly move as Moore pulled it out and displayed a paper musty and dusty with age.” "Um-um," murmured the man who traveled for a soap house. The collector remained perfectly quiet, and finally the man who travels for a scap house said cautiously: “The will, eh?’ “No,” said the collector. “It was an old bill for a pair of knee pants, and Moore, to whom 1 had given my business card, kicked me clear out to the front gate, saying I couldn't come any bad debt collecting games on him.” “When I was in Richmond a few days since,’’ said Mr. Ridgely How ard of Baltimore to a representative of the Washington Star at the New Willard, "I made one of those bad breaks which prove so embarrassing. I was a guest of a member of the crack Westmoreland club, and after a slight repast I was escorted through the building for the purpose of view ing the pictures, relics of the civil war. etc. During the tour mentioned my attention was particularly attracted to the portrait of what 1 took to be a very handsome brunette. I inciden tally remarked to my host that the young lady was quite pretty, when, with a low chuckle, he replied, ‘Yes, ^uite pretty, but as a matter of fact the picture represents John Randolph of Roanoke at 18.' You also smile, but let me explain how 1 was caught. The hair was parted in the middle and neatly combed back of the ears; the features were of a purely feminine mold, and the expression of the eyes and face was so shy and bashful that you will readily understand how I was deceived. One can hardly oon reive, looking at the portrait of Ran dolph at the age represented, that he could ever grow Into the cynical and disagreeable creature he is reported to have been in his later years. If he ever had love affairs which went wrong I have never heard of them. As near as I can learn he never had any real ardent affection for any wom an except his mother, who, it is said, was beautiful, and whom it is also said he closely resembled in beauty as a child. “Later in the day I paid a visit to Hollywood cemetery, a beautiful spot, and sought the grave of Randolph. I found it on a gentle slope overlook ing the James. It appears that some twenty years ago, or more, the re mains of Randolph were moved from the lonely spot in the forest at Roan oke to their present resting place by the state authorities. A marble slab now covers his last resting places on which is the foliowing inscription: Here lies John Randolph of Roanoke.’ The only other words on the slab are those giving the date of birth and death.” Number Nine on Wall Street. Seven has long been considered a talismanic number, but, so far as Wail street is concerned, it would seem as \f the number 9 is of more import ance. It was on May 9, 1901, that Wall /street saw a great corner and panic, Northern Pacific stock on that day rushing up to fl,000 a share and prices of other stocks smashing down 30 or 40 points, bringing wreck and ruin to thousands. That was a great bear day. Sept. 9. 1902, was a great bull day, for on that date, which marked the apogee of the so-called Gates boom in stocks, the highest level of prices for railroad securities that Wall street has ever seen was touched. So far this year the heaviest day of trading in stocks was on Jan. 9. which was also a big null day, marking the culmination of fhe upturn in the market following the lash in prices brought about by j stringent money conditions late last year. And on April 9 the decision ad verse to the merger of the railroads in the Northern Securities cempany was announced.—New York Sun. Town Given as a Pledge. Wismar, a town on the Baltic, now possessed by Germany, was given as a pledge by Sweden to Mecklenburg Schwerin June 26, 1803, in exchange for the sum of 1,268,000 thaler (about $915,000), on condition that Sweden, after the lapse of 100 years, should be entitled to take back the town on re payment of the sura advanced, togeth er with 3 per cent interest per annum. The date for closing this bargain is approaching. The Swedish govern ment will waive its right to redeem the town. The man who admits his own humil ity soon begins to boast of it. A’ld then where ic his humility? Odd English Land Tenure. At Broughton, near Hrigg, in IJn colnshire. England, some lands are held by the following tenure: Every year on Palm Sunday a person from Broughton enters the church porch at Caister having a green silk purse con taining two shillings and a penny, tied tip at the end of a cart whip, which he cracks three times on the porch, and stays there until the second lesaon begins. Then he enters the church and cracks the whip again, finally deposit ing the purse and contents. American "Centenarian*." The United States census for 1900 finds 3,536 persons in the United States who are 100 or more years of age. The value of these figures may be ques tioned, and perhaps may he best esti mated by the fact that 72.8 per cent of the whole number are negroes, many of whom have no reliable evi dence as to the date of their birth. They are but 11 per cent of the total population, it seems improbable, too, that this country should have over 3, 500 when Germany, with a population of nearly 35,000,000, has only 778, and England, with 32,000,000, only 146, and France, with 40,000,000, has only 213. i Fencing for Parish Shop Girls. j The latest development of the scheme for providing rational ami healthy exercise for Paris working girls—dressmakers, milliners and oth ers—is a class for fencing. After sing ing, dancing and declamation, "Mimi Pinson" is now being taught to handle the foils, and a few nights ago, at an exhibition at the Conservatorie l’opu laire, the young women showed that they could thrust and parry in quite remarkable fashion. The one thing that annoys them id that they are com pelled to hide their pretty faces be hind unprepossessing masks, but this. In tile opinion of the fencing mistress, is a small drawback compared with the splendid results of the vigorous exercise upon girls who are imprisoned all day in stuffy shops and ill-venti lated workrooms. Those versed in Woodcraft can tell a dogwood tree by its bark. Sometimes when a man gets rich, his wife's extravagance runs to health resorts and operations instead of flue clothes. Laundering the Baby's Clothes. Many mothers are Ignorant of thp seri ous Injury that may result from washing the clothing of an Infant with strong washing powders and Impure soap. For this reason It should be laundered at home under the mother’s directions and only Ivory soap used. To throw the little garments Into the ordlnury wash •hows great carelessness —E. R. Parker. Many a spinster is sorry she learned to say "no.” Car Magnate Can’t Stand Cars. P. A. Ft Wldener, who owns and op erates thousands of miles of street railways in a score of American cities, never rides In a trolley car when he can avoid It. For some reason the motion of an electric car nauseatets him and produces the same disastrous effect as a sea-voyage on the average trans-Atlantic liner. Catholic Priests Become Elks. What is thought to have been the first initiation of Catholic priestB into he order of Elks has taken place in New York. Rev. William H. J. Reany, chaplain, U. S. N., and Rev. James Byrne, who has a Staten island parish, have Joined the secret society which is favored especially by theatrical people. There has never been any opposition on the part of the church to the laity joining the Elks, which is regarded in the light of a fraternal society, and It is well known that thousands of Catholic throughout the country are members of the order, but this Is the first Instance, as far as known, where priests have become members. Curious Productions of Nature. There are to be seen at present in the Selkirk mountains, in British Co lumbia, some curious natural produc tions of the winter season, in the form of gigantic snow muehrooms nine feet in diameter, and consequently twenty seven feet around. They have quite the appearance of the ordinary mush room, and are formed by the wind driv ing the sticky or half-melted snow round in a circle, until it assumes this form. The mushrooms do not often attain a greater size than that men tioned; they melt or break under the weight of the overhanging tattle and the shape iB spoilt. A LAST RESORT. 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