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,J .The Commoner. May P 1 90a 9 p THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. '"""" ' yw ,, IIIHMMI It is announced that the exposition that was to be held at St. Louis next year will be postponed till 1904. It is reported from London that William Waldorf Asor will receive a title from King Edward next month. The anniversary of General Grant's biri' day was celebrated in various cities of the United States on April 26. The United Copper company, with an authorized capital of $80,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., on April 28. During a trip of the submarine boat Fulton at Lewes, Del., on April 29, an explosion took place, injuring five of her crew. A cablegram from London asserts that J. Pierpont Morgan's fee for or ganising the recent shipping combine was $12,000,000. On April 26 Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri was renominated by the democrats of the Ninth district without opposition. United States Consul Osborne died in London April 29. He was appointed consul general by President McKin ley March 18, 1897. Mr. Osborne was 60 years of age. It is .reported that a general meet ing of the Boer leaders will take place at Vereeniglng, Transvaal, May 15, to reach a decision on. the subject of peace negotiations. Pour nundred employes in the Big Four shops at Belfontaine, O., have signed an. agreement to fight the beef trust by refusing- to eat any meat for thirty days, beginning with May 2. The second biennial of the general federation of woman's clubs is in ses sion at Los Angeles, CaL, beginning May Xu Ijt is estimated that 5,000 or more women from all parts of the country are in attendance. Governor Dockery. of Missouri has given notice that he will at once take measures to prosecute the beef trust in that state. Attorney General Crow expects to begin suit and is securing evidence at St Joseph, Kansas City, and St Louis. May 1 witnessed a great number of strikes in almost every department of labqr and seemed to be general over the United States. Most of the trou ble arose over disagreements as to wages, and an amicable settlement is hoped for in most cases. A cablegram from Calcutta, under date of May 1, reports that a tornado has devasted the historic city of Dac ca, which is Bituated about 150 miles east .of Calcutta. Crops were Tulned throughout the district, and it is feared that over four hundred people have been killed. It is reported from Venezuela that the government troops suffered a se vere defeat. The government general, Castro, was killed, and the second In command was captured by the insur gents. The entire eastern half of Venezuela is now In the possession of the revolutionary soldiers. It is rumored that Hayti and Ger many have reached a secret under standing, whereby Hayti agrees to give to Germany the exclusive use of Mole St Nicholas or some other Hay tian jport for a naval coaling station. It is reported that the shipping trust recently organized comprises several branches. The White Star line will exchange Its shares for those of the new company. The two great Ger man companies will enter Into an agreement binding them for ten years at least, by which their co-operation is secured. The action of the com bine Is being closely watched in Eng lish shipping circles. It is also an nounced that this trust has shown Its power by forcing the Canadian Pacific railroad to boycott the Beaver line of steamers by the threat that unless they do so, no emigrants carried on any ship under the trust's control would be allowed to travel over that railroad. On April 27, Rev. Herman Broek huyzen, late chaplain of the Transvaal congress, made an impassioned appeal for the Boer cause at Milwaukee. Ho declared that the talk of peace in South Africa is idle, and that the Boers will fight on till they obtain their liberty. A dispatch from St Petersburg, un der date of April 26, announces that 18,000 peasants have risen in revolt against the government, especially in the Poltava and Kharkoff provinces. The agitation has spread widely, and fears are entertained that a general rebellion will ensue. As a result ot these demonstrations, it is reported that the czar will shortly give Russia a constitution similar to the one sanc tioned by the late czar, Alexander II. THE WEEK IN WASHINGTON. Congressman Amos J. Cummings ot New York died on May 2 at Baltimore, Md. On April 28 the senate concurred in the house amendments to the oleo margarine bill, and the measure was sent to the president. A committee of postal and treasury experts investigating the question of establishing a new postal currency, are holding sessions at Washington, beginning with April 28. On April 28, Mr. Harris of Kansa9 presented a telegram he had received from the Kansas millers' association asldng for reciprocal concessions to place the American millers on equal footing with foreign mills. On April 30 Senator Penrose intro duced a bill providing for back pay to be given to all federal employes, for all the time they have been employed in excess of the eight hours per day limit. ' According to a report filed in con nection with the naval appropriation bill, two new battleships, two cruisers, and two gunboats are to be built this year. It is also proposed that the ships be built in the government ship yard. The legislative appropriation 1)111 has been signed by the president By the terms of this act 1,000 or more clerks who were temporarily appointed during the war with Spain are given permanent employment, and placed within the operations of the civil ser vice law. The public building bill was passed by the house on April 29. This will distribute $17,405,450 among 174 cities. In spite of protests, Representative Mercer, chairman of the committee, would not permit any amendments. The agricultural appropriation bill was also passed on April 30. On April 28 Senator Piatt of Con necticut presented the conference re port on the Chinese exclusion bill. The conferees have decided that no limit be placed on the operation of the present Geary act, as re-enacted, and providing for its remaining in force as a law. This report was agreed to. On April 26 Senator Jones of Ne vada, chairman of the committee on contingent expenses, reported favor ably the resolution providing for an investigation of the alleged control of the Cuban sugar crop and sugar lands in Cuba, and the resolution was adopted. On May 2, the. house passed the, anti conspiracy bill reported from the ju diciary committee, without debate. This bill aims to restrain the power of the courts, and provides that acts in furtherance of labor disputes shall not be deemed criminal. Amendments were adopted so that the existing con- GUESSWORK It is Responsible for the Prolonged Suffering of Many Women When a woman "doctors" for years for a complication of ailments, and gets no better she is generally set down by the local practitioner as incurable. Ho has reached tho limit of his skill and knowl edge, and ho does not think more can be done than ho has done. But when this sick woman is curod by tho use of Dr. Piorco's Favorite Prescription, it proves that the doctor was certainly wrong in his statement of incurableness. It also groves that he must havo been wrong in is troatment; probably treating his pa rent for the wrong disease. His treat ment was more guess work. The conso quencos of womnnly disease are far reach ing. In chronic cases every organ of tho body suffers. There is perhaps pain around tho heart, and headache, back ache, and sideache among other aches. But the real cause of all the aches and pains is disease of tho delicate womanly organs. This is provod by the fact that when womanly diseares are cured by the use of Dr.Piorco's Favorite Prescription, the other aches and pains are cured also. "At the time I began taking your medicines I was very weak," writes Mrs. Bettie Payne, of Inlet, Va. "I had a tired feeling all the time, could scarcely walk across my room, pains in heart, head and stomach and very- bad taste in mouth on getting up in tho morning and also bad uterine trouble. Pour different physicians attended mo but only gave me temporary relief. I nad almost given up in despair when one of your pamphlets was handed to me. I sat down and read it carefully, and then wrote to you de scribing my ailments. You replied, ad vising a course of treatment with Dr. Pierce's medicines. I sent and got six bottles each of 'Favorite Prescription' and 'Golden Medical Discovery I took each alternately, as advised. Before I had taken two doses of each I com menced feeling bettter. My heart and stomach felt relieved of that burden some feeling. By the time I had fin ished with the two bottles I felt young as a girl of sixteen. I took fire bottles of 'Prescription' and three of 'Discovery," and nearly two vials of 'Pleasant Pellet' for constipation. In conclusion will say I had taken three or four kinds of patent medicine before trying yours, which made me feel worse instead of better. I think your 'Favorite Prescription' 1 the beat medicine on earth for women." NO WOMAN CAN liK WRONG in the following example of the thou sands of other women who have been cured of womanly ills by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. These1 cures cover every form of disease peculiar to women which is curable by medicine. No matter what the condition of any sick woman may be "Favorite Prescription" claims her confidence and invites a trial of its healing powers because of its many remarkable cures of other women who had found no help in other medicines and who at the best found only temporary renei irom tne treatment of local physicians. The very fact that "Fa vorito Prescription"cures forty-nine out of every fifty women who give it a fair and faithful trial is the best guarantee of its success. In the ono rare case where a perfect cure is not possible, tho use of this medicine will lessen pain and increase the strength. If it does not altogether remove tho burdon of sickness it will so lighten it that to bear it becomes easy. "It is with the greatest pleasure I write to tell you what your medicine did for mo," says Mrs. Lizzie Qroes, of Laurel Bloomery, Tonn. "About eighteen months ago I first wrote to you for ad vice; you wroto mo a kind letter aad told mo what to do. At that time I was very sick and had been for nino months. Had ulcers and misplace ment of uterus and such a stomach trouble I could not eat anything without suffering afterward. Had pains around my heart, arud such smothering spells could hardly get my breath. I took six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, six of 'Gold en Medical Discovery' and two vials of Doctor Pierce's Pellets. I began to Cet bettor thn firsf.rinv i" w WII , , . & fn0D3s all gay, 'How well you look.' I am woll and do all my work, and it was Doctor Piorco's medi cinos that cured mo." WHAT IT DOES. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription es tablishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulcera tion and cures female weakness. It is the best tonic and nervine for weak run down women, 'curing nervousness, back ache, sideache, headache, and other womanly ailments, encouraging the ap petite and giving refreshing sleep to the sleepless. Special attention is called to Doctor Pierce's invitatien to weak and sick women to consult him by letter free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Ad dress Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Sometimes a dealer, tempted by the little more profit paid on the salo of loss meritorious preparations, will offer a sub stitute for "Favorite Prescription" as "just as good." Judged by its record of cures of womanly ills, there is no other medicine just as good as "Favorite Pre scription." A GREAT OPFEB. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, a book containing 1,006 pages, is given away. Send 21 one-sent stamps for expense of mailing only, for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for tho vol ume bound in cloth. Address Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. r-