i Sleeplessness Is akir to insanity. Many a woman re alizes this as she lies awake hour by hour, I peopling' the darkness wit a i Mi phantoms, fj ing of the bed or the rustle ot Uic 3 bedclothes. Such symptoms in general point to disease of the delicate womanly organs, and a constant drain of Uir vital and nervous forces. This condition cannot be over come by sleeping powders. The diseased condi tion must be cured before the consequences of disease are re moved. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures the womanly diseases which cause nerv ousness and sleeplessness. It is the best of tonics and invigorants, nourishing the nerves, encouraging the appetite and in ducing refreshing sleep. $500 Reward for Women Who Cannot bo Cured. Proprietors and makers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel fully var ranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States for any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they cannot cure. All they ask is a fair and reasonable trial of their means of cure. Mv wife was sick for over eight years," write Albert H. Fulte, Esq., of Altamont, Grundy Co.. Tenn. "She had uterine disease and was treated by two physicians and got no relief. At last f read about Dr. Pierce's medicines and we de cided to trv his 'Favorite Prescription,' I sent to the drugstore and got one bottle and the first Cose gave ease and sleep. She had not slept any for three nights. Being sure that it would ci r her I sent for five more bottles and when silt had taken the sixth bottle she was sound and well." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should b used with "Favorite Prescription" when ever a laxative is required. Night Was Her Terror. "I would coutfh nearly nil nitjbt long,' writes Mrs. CuiiB. Applegate, of Alex Budria, Ind.', ''and could hardly gei any sleep. I bad consumption bo bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and epit blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three 8100 bottles of Dr. Kinis's New Discovery wholly cured me and I gaiued 58 pounde. It's absolutely guaranteed to cure doughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Bronchitis, Bod all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50o and !fl. Trial bottles free at Slocum's drug store. Over 25 per ceut of the foreign immigration to the United States in the year just ended, came from Italy. During the past 10 years more than 1,000,000 Italians have come to the United States and the ratio is constantly increasing. Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for per sistent and unmeroiful torture has per haps never been equaled. Joe G dobiok of Colusa, Calif., writea. "For 15 years I endured insufferable paiu from libeu matism and nothing relieved me though I tried everything known. I oame across Electric Bitters and it's the greatest medicine on e.irtli for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me." Just as good for Liver and Kidney troubles and gen eral debility. Only 50o. Satisfaction guaranteed by Slocum Drug Co. M. Loiciq Lobet, member of the Geographical society of Paris, is in San Francisco. Ho is promot ing a scheme to build a railroad beneath liehring Sea, to be parti' in a tunnel and partly enclosed in a cyliuder. Working Nightand Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's New L.ife Pills. These pills change weakness into strength, listlespness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're woudtrfnl in b;iilding up the health. Cnly 2oo per box. Hold by Slocum Drug C;i. Judge Bell, of Seattle, has de cided that the anti-gambliDg law of Washington does not apply to blot machines which pay cigars aLd candy, instead of money, and that they cannot be suppressed by the present statute. A Surgical Operation. la always dangerous do not Hubmit to the surgeon's knife until you Lave tried DeWitt'a Witch Fletel Salve. It will cure when everything else fails it baa done this in th uiRands of cases Here is one of them: I suffered from bleeding and protruding piles for twenty years. Was treated by different spec ialists and used many remedies, but ob tained no relief until I osed DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Two boxes of this salve cured me eighteen montbB ago and I have not bad a touch of the piles since. H. A. Tisdale, Hammerton, S. C. For Blind, Bleeding, Itching and Protruding Piles no remedy equals De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Slocum Drug Co. and lone Drag Co.. mm VI VV UUU fV AT, A Sir A 1 UJ IJIUi VA' .AAJAMA1..1. Prospect of Its Becoming a Great Farming District. It In llelle-ved the Country Will Be llapuble of SmpportliiK lO.OOU, OOO l'eriou in SomiNthiuK like Comfort. Some idea of the future of Alaska nml itt almost boundless resources is given by Harrington Emerson in the Kng ir.i er'.ng Miig;i-:nie. Mr. Kif.ersuii believes that Alaska can t- iqipurt a pnpukit ion (1 i 10,000, ;i.'!) pv '.-'' in-- i-i com fort, and that at 110 distant day It will lie one of the world's richest min ing and fanning districts. The ideas uf this explorer are expressed in part as follows: - "The Yukon, the fourth largest river in the world, navigable for more than 2,000 inilt'.s above its mouth and run ning in a great semi-circle from south eastern to northwestern Alaska, forms 1 natural highway. All this was tiiiown long ago; but it was not known that the interior contained 100 000 square miles of farming lands and al most limitless areas of the richest ninernl lands in the world. It is in this unsubdued country that thou sands of miles of railroad must be juilt, that great areas will open for et t lenient, absorbing and keeping jnsy 2,000, 000 workers as fast as they hoose to go. "It i?, however, not the agricultural resources that will immerli i;-fK- tract the largest influx of 1 ' piilation ind capital. About 140 mile.-; from Valde in the Chittyna valie;. are very jreat copper deposits, which during the last season have been visited by many experts. Rome of the ores run 5 per cent, copper, and there are many thousand tons in sight assaying 16 per cent. "A great mountain slide has occurred in this region revealing, it is claimed, as much as 40.000,000 tons of high grade copper ores. Valde hay a ltd the low pass north of it are the American gateways to the Yukon valley, and al ready a railroad has been s tirvcvod and partly grr.d.-d to the interior. f;.r the t?opper. though it can be quarried like the iron 1 s of Lake Fnpo-ior. with out n railroad will rent:; in worthless. The !; ::-( .-.(! itself is assured p.n un limited t ::n; ge. It is i'ie shortest line to Dawson and the Yukon valley, uid what is of more importance, it can carry supplies delivered at- Vnl .iez from sailing vessels or deep draft ocean steamers in all the months A the year, with only one break of bullr ax aioez, ana also reaen tne ci c ep navigable Yukon and the Koyuki month earlier than by the Yifkor mouth, which is closed by llehring sea ice until July 1. ' As shown in the historv of the White Pass railroad, the ingoing traf fie would in itself be siitTu'ient to war rant a railroad, but from Dawson the only export, is gold, about 70 tons a year, while this road will not only car ry all the United State.; government troops and supplies, for which ninny hundred tliousfind dollars are spent, but it will have the unlimited out nounu tonnage or f.ign-grnrio copper ores, which, with a freight rate of two dollars n ton from Valdez to the smel ters of T'nget sound will scarcely be treated in the interior. "It i not too much to expect that improvement in transportation facili ties .alone will convert central Alaska into as closely a populated and pros perous region as ('(dor;- do, as the Ihack Mills, of South I) kctn, as the rich mining region of Iiritish Colum bia." MR. JOBSON'S ECONOMY. GimiiIi !Wr. Jobmn l'nt: Trjlnc the Saving .cheiue In (onklnK tvitb. L'awit lafaetory lie-suit. "Mrs. Jobson," inquired Mr. Jobs on one evening a coup.e of weeks ago. sitting straight up in his chair and g;i..ng ill her intenm, "do you vei reau ihe woman" column of i!a- S;iir, or of any of the other newspapers that you get'hohi of?" "Why, certainly I do," quickly re plied Mrs. Jobsou. "It's the first part of the paper I turn to." "it is. hey.'" said Mr. Jolson, with a victorious gleam in his eye. "Well, will you be good enough to inform me. then why it is that we waste in this about 20 or 5 pounds of good house meat a Mrs. week, at a rough calculation ?" Jobs-on's mystification was plain, says the Washington Star. "Woman's column? Meat wasted?" she said, in a puzzled tone. "I'm sure I wish I knew what in the wide, w orld you meant." "Well, J'll just tell you what in the wid- world I mean," said Mr. Jobson, oracularly. "Once in a great while I accidentally take a peek at this stuff in the woman's column myself, and I ieer do this that I don't rind all sorts of mighty practical and worth-while suggt-.-tior:s for household economy. Among these suggestions there are constantly published wise little tips as to scores, not to say hundred, of methods whereby the big meat bills of households may be cut down. And let me- tell you that these tips read in a pretty appetizing way, too. In stead of reading- them, and profiting and giving your husband a li,tl Hf,. ,.,.:,,., nv ln the matter of expenses, you go right on chuck ing pounds and pounds of first-class left-over meat into the-refme can You wouldn't think of going to the trouble of framing up one of these I nice little dishes comoosea of the meat leit from a previous meal, because you might have to devote 15 or l.'O minutes study to it. and that would be too much of a drain upon your vitality.' Whereupon Mr. Jobson sat back in his chair in his regular "that will be about all" manner, and resumed his riewspn ;r, When Mr Jobson arrived home from the office on the following afteriToon he was hungry. "Maybe that spring tonic I'm taking is not phenomenal stuff," he said to Mrs. Jobson, with a greedy look in his eyes. "Why, I ate a bigger luncheon to-dav than I've sat down in front of for "0 years, and yet I've bren so hun gry at the oiTice nearly all the after noon that several times I was tempted to go out somewhere and buy $18 worth of ham and eggs. Kight now I wouldn't do a thing to a steak as big as a bath mat. smothered in onions or mushrooms or any old thing Whatchoo got for dinner, anyhow?" "Oh, something nice something that will just suit you," replied Mrs jobson, cheerily, as she led the way down to the basement dining-room. Out of the bowl iu the center of the table she served out to Mr. Jobson a rather savory mess, flavored with bay leaves and spices, saying to him: "That is a beef saute, you know- Mrs. Kaytreet was telling me how to make it the other day. Doesn't it smell delightf ul? And it is so eco nomical, too it is made from what remained of the roast beef we had for dinner yesterday." "lieef sought-who?" said Mr. Job son, looking rather crestfallen as "he took a mouthful of the savory mess "Well, that's a pretty good name for it. but it tastes to mC a heap like the plain, old-fashioned beef stew of years ago. (lot any other kind of meat to go with it?" "No," said Mrs. Jobson, amiably. "There is plenty of the saute, you know, and the potatoes, and nice fresh bread and butter, and, just think, I didn't have to send out for a single, solitary thing for to-day's dinner." "Uii-h.uh," said Mr. Jobson, gloomily. "Do you enjoy the saute?" inquired Mrs. Jobson after a little pause. "Oh, it's not such a bad beef stew uncompromisingly replied Mr. Jobson; out tor tne remainder ot the evening he was unusually grumpy and quiet, and a little before bedtime he went out, saying that he wtis going to the cafe around the corner to get a sand wich and a bottle of beer. On the following morning, when Mr Jobson sat (town to his breakfast. Mrs. Jobson placed on his plate a cou ple of dark-brown, obloid-looking things, reposing in tomato sauce. "Another surprise for you." said Mrs. Jobson, in her sweetest tone "beef croquettes, and made from the same roast beef that we had day be fore veRtenlay, out of which I made the saute for last evening's dinner, you know." "Yes, I ;now," said Mr. Jobson he had already gulped down a cup of cof fee rising from the table. "And I know a!o that I am going out scine- wheie and get something to eat for breakfast. And 1 also know, again, that if there's any more left of that roast beef under this roof I'll send a hurry call to the board f health within ten minutes nfter 1 get home this evening. There's nothing mean about me in i he mutter of grocery bills or meat bill'-, or any other kind of bills sir. n , n .-' you to fi'm: . ; ? had pretty good ocea ut for a good many years i u got the idea absorbed : please to call your mind roing to work oil" back on me ns a .steady iTung, . let me tell you that I past, 3 into v, ha : y 1 that yon'ii' : number food then, mar!. a 1:1 am not taking hand-outs yet, here or any place eNe, and don't you fail to remember ill" During the present year 643 prosecu tions for insults to royalty have been tried in I'.erlin. of which only 186 were thrown out by th court. Iloor AYnr forrennrlpnti. The movement to honor by a suitable memorial the Knglish newspaper cor- sponr t w t! live in the South A;'r:-Tin war revives the refl ection r.f sen ice performed under try i;g ai:r! pel i!"is eotiditiors. The tom- mittee of the Institute of Journiftists ,ns liwn compilinir a list of the corre- pol: !H'; ts wh re killerf or died of ise ise wh'b- in the discharge of duty. Killed at VpL'on Hill." "Killed at S iiiLf"i oiiti'in. "Ki led at .MareKinir, Died of fever at Simons Town" so runs Ihe rrroru. 1 ne cohi 01 wnr in money talis into insignincance wnen compared with its cost in men. Try how they ninv, no class of men con cerned in wnr can escape the fatal toll of the battlefield. Youths Compan ion. Old Atff nt Americana. The 1'iiittrl State has 3.435 inhabit ants who are nx.re than 100 years old. Anion? these art- two men, an Indian and a nero, who are past 150. These two ar the Chronicle. most aged. 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