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Great Salt Lake Drying Up..
Within fifty years from the pres
ent time the" Great Salt Lake of
Utah—the most remarkable body of
water of its kind ii^ the world, says
the Saturday Evening Post—will
have ceased to exist. It will have
dried up, and its place will be occu
pied by an unattractive desert, save
perhaps for a few irrigated, farms.
Suob, at all events, is the opinion of
geologists.
Prof. W. J. McGee, of .Washing
ton, remarked in a conversation the
other day that half a century was an
outside estimate for tho survival of
the lake. He was inclined to think
that it wolild be dried up twenty-
five years from now. Already its
waters show signs of receding from'
the shores, and causes are in opera
tion which lessen t,o a great extent
the supplies furnished this curious
inland sea by streams. The lake is
about 75 miles long by half that in
greatest breadth, being in shape
somewhat irregular, and is rather
shallow.
There may be-places where it has
a depth of as much as 100 feet, but
over most of its area it is less than
50 feet deep. The reason why it is
so salty is simply that it has no out
let save through evaporation, and
the streams through ag6S past have
been carrying into it. The contrib
uting streams are now beginning to
be utilized on a. large scale for irri
gation purposes, and thus the cus
tomary water supply is being with
held to some extent from the lake.
Before long immense reservoirs will
be constructed in the mountains to
hold the storm waters during the
rainy season, in order that they may
be conserved and poured out over
the fields in the dry time. Opera
tions of this kind, conducted so ex
tensively, must lower the level of the
lake quite fast.
Leads Them All.
The Story of The Locomotive.
“One Minute Cough Cure beats
all other medicine I ever tried for
coughs, colds, croup and throat
and lung troubles,” says D. Scott
Currin of Loganton, Pa. One
minute Cough Cure is the only ab
solutely safe cough remedy which
acts immediately. Mothers every
where testify t" the good it has
done their little ones. Croup is
so sudden in its attacks that the
doctor often arrives too late. It
yields at once to One Minute
Cough Cure. Pleasant to take.
Children like it. Sure cure for
grip, bronchitis, coughs. Holfcz-
claw’s drugstore.
The latest theory in connection
with drowning is that no water en
ters the lungs, and that, properly
applied, with artificial respiration,
will resuscitate persons who have
been under water an hour. This feat
has been accomplished by. the doc
tor who advances the theory. \
For biliousness use Chamber
lain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets.
They cleanse the stomach and
regulate the liver and bowels, ef
fecting a quick and permanent
cure. For sale by all, dealers in
Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
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guests. It is specially suitable for ladies
or others visiting Macon for a day or
longer.
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Albany Herald,
In the Philadelphia Record re
cently Mr. John H. Converse tellB
the story of the Baldwin Locomo
tive Works, and, incidentallythe
story of “The Development of the
Iron horse” is told. The story is
an interesting one. :
The history of the locomotive
in the United States practically
covers the history of railroad
achievements throughout the
world. Without the locomotive
there would have been no rail
ways, Mr. Converse’s recital is a
plaiii and unadorned marshalling
of facts, covering a period of sev
enty years, beginning.with the la-
borous building of Mr.. Baldwin’s
first locomotive in 1882, which
cost a year’s toil, and traversing
the vicessitudes and triumphs
which end in the magnificent ac
complishment of the present time,
when with a plant covering thir
ty-three acres of ground and em
ploying 11,500 men and 7,000
horse power there is a constructive
capacity of five locomotives per
day for every work day in the
year.
It easily outruns the limit of
the human imagination* when
any one undertakes to compass
and set forth the part the loco
motive flayed in the advance of
civilization in the latter years of
the nineteenth century. It has
compacted states by tying them
together and making the surplus
of ofie the supply of the other. It
has bridged the continents. It
has so cheapened the movement
of men and of material as to
bring all products to all markets.
It has uplifted the masses by
lowering the cost of living and
facilitating the spread of intelli
gence. Perhaps the Surest test of
its benificent contribution to the
sum of- human comfort an$ hap
piness would be realized 'if we
should undertake the conception
of how we should get along with
out it.
Items^of Interest.
The Consumption Of Liquor.
The consumption of spirituous
liquors for drink in the United
States is gradually diminishing,
whSn considered in comparison
with the increase of population.
The official reports show that the
average production and importa
tion of distilled spirits for the
entire country do not amount to
, \and
90,000,000 gallons .a year
from this not less than ten per
cent must be deducted for spirits
used in manufactures and the
arts. This would leave a little
over a gallon for drink to each
head of the population in a year,
which is far below the average in
Great Britain, France and Ger
many. The fact is apparent that
the consumption | of spirits for
drink in the United States is far
from keeping pace with the in
crease of population. While some
drink more than their share of
liquor, a temperance reform is
silently but steadily in progress
among the masses of 'the Ameri
can people.—Ex.
Don’t Fail To Try This.
Whenever an honest trial is giv
en'to Eleqtrict Bitters , for any
trouble it is recommended for a
per mane lit cure will surely be ef
fected. It never fails to tone the
stomach, regulate the kidneys and
bowels, stimulate the liver, invig
orate the nerves and purify the
blood, It’s a wonderful tonic for
run-down systems, j Electrict Bit
ters positively cures Kidney and
Liver Troubles, Stomach Disor
ders, Nervousness, Sleeplesness,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and ex
pels Malaria. Satisfaction guar
anteed. Holtzclaw’s drugstore.
Only 50 cents.
The Atlanta Journal says:
“We are reliably informed that
Hon. E. L. Rainey, of The Daw
son News, proposes to introduce
a bill in the next house to pre
vent the drinking of "liquor jpn the
capital premises. He holds to
the opinion that a man who does
not like. liquor well enough _ to
walk down town for a drink
oughtn’t to have it.”
fill REST UADRWADC M “
Fire escapes were first made in
Paris in 1761.
Dog lovers in Berlin have to pay
a tax of $5 a year on each of their
pets.
Stamps are first mentioned by Sy-
nesius, Bishop of Oyrene, about 300
A. D.
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Hardware, - Harness, - Saddlery.
Full line Agricultural Implements.
Great Britain now produces scarce
ly enough anthraoite coal for home
consumption.
Gold prospectors in Alaska say
they can go farther and accomplish
more hard work on rice and* bacon
than on any other ration.
People usually live longer in isl
ands and: small peninsulas than on
continents. Barbadoes, Greece, Ma
deira and the Shetlands are all fa
vorable to long life.
Arabic is the sacred language of
200.000. 000 people who dwell in all
quarters of the globe, and at least
2.000. 000 are now under the care of
the United States in the Philippines
The wasp is an insect highway
man. Wasps have often been ob
served to rob bees while those in
dustrious workers, laden with the
fruits of an expedition, are return
ing to the hive.
In the Gulf of Mexico there is an
island where the beache's change
color twice daily with the tides.
Wheu uncovered the sands are pur
ple, but the inflowivg tide speedily
transforms them to gold.
Typhoid fever in South Africa has
been spread largely by means which
sanitation could not cope with, the
germs being conveyed into food and
water by flies and by the dust which
pervades everything.
Owing to the tax on cocoa being
but a penny a pound, while that on
tea is sixpence, the former beverage
is rapidly gaining in popularity in
England. A further tax on cocoa is
now suggested.
The government of the Malay Pe
ninsula is planting gutta percha
trees on a large scale and it will not
be necessary to cut them down, as
gutta-percha can now be extracted
from the leaves and twigs without
injury to the trees.
Of Kentuckians but 2.4 per cent
are wage earners. The largest num
ber of these are employed in railway
shops. The number occupied in the
production of liquor, spirituous and
malt, is but 1,703—a falling ofi of
800 from a year ago.
Ex-soldiers will in future be em
ployed as clerks in all departments
of the British war office. Preference
will be given to such as possess first-
class certificates of education, or
have been invalided from active ser
vice by wounds or sickness.
The Bank of Netherlands is n'6w
lending $5,000,000 less than it did
one year ago, the Bank of Italy $5,-'
660,000 less, the Austro-Hungarian
Bank $17,450,000 less, the Imperial
German Bank $16,450,000 less, and
the Bank of Spain $26,000,000 less.
The 2,500 inmates of the New
York almshouse last year were fed
at a per capita of. about 10 cents a
dfty. Thos& persons lived on bread
and coffee for breakfast, bread and
stew for dinner and bread and tea
for supper, without sugar, butter or
vegetation.
Of what does a had taste in
your mouth remind you? It in
dicates that your stomach is in
bad condition and ’ will remind
you that there is nothing so gopd
for'such a disorder as Chamber
lain’s Stomach & Liver Tablets
after having once used them.They
cleanse and invigorate the stom
ach and regulate the bov/els. For
sale at 25 cents per box by all
dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe,
Byron.
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SPORTING GOODS.:
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Bicycles, Baseball Goods, Fishing Taoklej Guns, Pistols, etc. Hand
some Spfecialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools.
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In ordej.’ to prevent suicides on
the Central London Railway the
company has removed the planking
at its various stations between the
central rail and the line next the
platform. Any one who jumps in
front of a train must, it is stated,
fall into the recess thus formed.
Roa Jtliy Kidneys Mean Long Life.
If you want to restore, ypur kidneys,
to their former healthy state,' take
Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. 50 cents
at Cater’s Drugstore.
Subscribe for The Home Joprnal.
If You Suffer from Kidney Troubles
Use Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Noth
ing like it for diseased kidneys. 50
cents, at Oater’s Drugstore,
The trouble with the man who
knows it all is he can’t prove it.
This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative Brom(HQuiiiine , r»biet» j
the remedy that emrea a cold in one day.
toy Infants and Children
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AVfegetablePrepQrfltM"' !hr As
similating Ihe Food hi 1 .. ula-
ling the Stomachs anclll
Promotes Digeslion.CheerfuL
ness and Rest.Contains neither
Opium,Morphine nor Mineral.
NOT NAI*C OTIC.
Jhtye of OlH Hr SAMUEL PITCHER
Pump/sin SauL'
Rochelle
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Aperfecl Remedyfor Constipa
tion , Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ness and LOSS OF SLEEP.
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