SwintitiM I ^i^nn
Hinftuif, China. Jan. 2S.—Km
yhanu epidemic in tkia district baa
■inl so many deaths that than is a
shortogs at caskets and tbair prica
has risen 400 per cent- in recent
Bsrsuss of this many b-vitas have
haw buried in shrouds only, a prac
eat Chinese. Another depaituis that
has been forced upon the people by
the existing situation is that Pane
Shui, or the p>ai the r.f geomancy in
connection with funerals by which
(rave sites and time* of burial and
other details are determined, is being
ignored for the first time, for no long
er can notice he taken of IncVy or un
lucky days for holding funerals. Whole
households are being wiped out by the
epidemic.
Rear Admiral Tmmry Left
Trophiee To Son
Washington, D. C.—The will of
Bear Admiral Robert E. Peary, N. 8.
N., retired, filed yesterday for pro
bate, directs that all medals, trophies
and books, and Eagle bland, aear
Sooth Harps well, Blaine, be given to
his sen, Kobert E. Peary Jr. The island
which the will'asserts was purchased
by the discoverer of tfc* North Me
with money earned while a high
school student, h to remain perman
ently in the Peary family. Mrs. Psary
receives for herself and dfrrisioe
among the children the residue ef the
aetata, including securities rained at
mjm and a group ef Ulaadi in
CnecoBay.
First, be careful to year iilictim.
De aot eheoee one who is toe yeuag,
end take only «uch varieties as here
Patrick County Oftnr Am*
Dan villa, Vs., March 14th.—J. W.
Staphs, formerly sheriff of MM
county waa indicted by the federal
(rand Jury bare rooter day far violat
ing ona at tba acta born at tlia aw.
Tba violation tranayi s—sa that law
paaaed to protect urives at otbar de
pandanta at «aldt*ra from tahf mulct
out of their allotments. Staplaa today
waa a dominant Ifira in tba Bopublt
can diatrict convention at Bocky
Mount and is not in cuatody. Hia eaaa
will ba iwaand to Boa no Ira whtra hia
conta, Judre Walter Staptaa will rep
resent him.
Tba atory aa told In tba lengthy tn
dietmant la th'a:
Whan Aba Nuna, a Patrick county
youth, waa called to tba colora ba
nadr over a monthly allotment to hi*
wife Leia Nann. Through aome error
or overcight, ha failed to pot ,tba pro
per addreaa of the woman with tba re
sult that tba funds accumulated in
Washington until |440 ware to her
credit.
Staplaa, it la aliased, learned of
this. approached toe woman and told
her that by virtue of hia office ha aod
l '*e alone could secure tba moomj, and
would do so provided always, aba
vould five him half. Mrs. Nuna anx
ious for the food, agreed and within
few weeks ahe iacel»ad check for
toft. Ska lived ay to bar word and
•rava the sheriff. It to aliened, $280.
Tba affair leaked cat aad Staplaa be
gan makine rest ' /ion. Ha has re
paid all azcept i Tba act featured
the campaign A Patrick coonty aad
it waa largety4n the issue that Frank
Maya defeated him and ia now riteriff.
b Oa Vtaw at
Mtnk M-WMkoat <
of My kiad, • rnuabar of U.
boy* who participated in th* raptor*
of Um 77 m. m. Gorman cannta, by
tha Mi of C. I. MUt infantry. Slat
tho
Hi roatkig ptaco in U>«
at a ataM. wrf plated It M
Mammy Far Pm Saada Cat Of
Washington, D. C.-Acttng on tfca
recommends tion of the iww Secretary
of ArkoHart, the Senate Afrkd
turml Committee haa Mid to elimi
-aato from the annual agricultural bffl
the $240,000 voted by the Bow* t*
tontinao die nitNl at distributing
fro* Mod* to their constitutenta by
DIDN'T HAVE WELL
DAY FOR 28 TEAKS
Sta FnociMo Wmm Hh
Cmimmi Thirty Poemda By
"I had not Men a wall day in twen
ty-five year* until I started takinc
Teniae," said Mrs. Virginia Stapp, of
IW Valencia St, San Francisco, CaL
"I «U beginning to think," the Con
tinued. "that I would have to hew my
wretched health as lea* as 1 lived. 1
had no appetite, and when I managed
to sat a few bttso 1 conM sot digest
it and as I could get no strength or
. nourishment I fell eff twenty fln
pounds in weight. I hardly knew what
I it waa to he without a headache. All
; my life I hare been so constipated
■ that every day for years 1 had to tafca
a laxative. My teagaa waa always
| coated aad I had a bad taste ia my
, mouth ail the time. My eoodltiea was
so bad that I could gut little sleep, hut
would roll sad toss about all night
"But all that Is changed now, for
sines taking Ttetiac I am aUs to sat
anything I pisass without any had
' after sffcets sad I have actually gain
| sd tkhrty pounds. I haven t had a hsad
i ache la sa km* I have almost forget
' ten about them My constipated con
dition has keen relieved aad I never
[ have that had taste or coated tongue
any mars. 1 sleep nine te tea hours
•very night, «aa do my asm houss
werk with ease and havu sa much MW
life aad energy that I last feel ftee
all the thus"
, Tanlac is aoM la Meuat Airy kf
L W. Weet Drug (X, to Mat MsaaV
ate by Pilot Drug Ofc, te Mkki by
Dkta Drug Oa.
Zetmlaa W«w, in mating Hi* fer
noatination again, atjn: 1 mow have
served aa the uprMsntaHts fraa this
I Ii»m beea mM upon ha*a bw
ilultei ae I ban felt the people whom
I raproeo nt woo Id wteh tkmi to be
ma*. I feel that I era ■; with sbss
lot* tonwiousnoe* of it* truth that f
have fat no ease considsred ether than
the f«Mt( welfare end the pahMe
honor. I run to aak for naaiiMk
tkm at the hands of my party, and U
renominated I (hall aak the people of
thin district to re-elect me to Congress
hoping that I hare, at leaat la mm*
Tinfuit, itiifl'TfiKl those duties and
met those question* to their satisfac
tion."
Bryan Says DraMcrats Should
Ratify Treaty.
Asherilie, March 16—"It ought la
j be as easy to end a war as to fascia a
war," according to a statement fay
j William J. Bryan made hare today ad
{v orating a change la the constitution
permitting a majority of the seaati
! to ratify a treaty.
His statsmsat fallow*:
"The rote yesterday ea article 10
would seam to taenia ratification with
•ut further May. I aseoaae that the
Democrat* in the senate wfl] join ia
I atiflcation now that the Majority ha*
-learly expressed Haalf.
"Oar campaign wW fa* a fare* a*
well aa a failure If. aftor the senate
has so emphatically exprseesd Ke*if In
favor of ratiicatioa with I mrtaiirai,
oar party Joins th* lrreceneOablee la
oppuehif ratification la srdw to aabi
the treaty a partltta km
"Th* **aat*% action la <mWi> with
thie treaty ha* shown tha aaed of aa
ting a msjsity h ratify a treaty. It
oagfct to b* as saay to and a wt* a* to
haafe a Mr »
to tell
at rath pritM u woo! J on
to d«ilw a profit of
to 1<4 onto a poro*
•ri h«r» dotltrt that the
of the order wiB not remit in
riao of prieoo.
for tho coloroj
vii told it MalUtkra Tfliplt
M. 1. church March U, at 8 o'clock
P. M.
Tho porpooe at the mcecinff waa to
hare a face to fant talk with tho par
ent* hi Mftrd to tho iiimln of keep
ing their children to achool oeery day
la ordor that thejr may bo ahto to