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J. BULL’S VIGILANCE.
ESTABLISHES A SENTINEL AT THE
GATEWAY TO THE PACIFIC.
Take* Forcible Possession of the Falk
land Islands and Plants a Naval Sta
tion There—Argentina Protest* In Vain.
Uncle Sam’s Part In the Matter.
England is about to build a fortress
and establish a naval station on the
Falklands. These islands lie a little to
the northeast of Cape Horn and are just
on the edge of the track of the rich
traffic which finds its way around the
most southerly point of South America.
England has in this part of the world
no colonies which need the protecting
presence of warships. John Bull real
izes, however, the growing importance
of the trade with the Argentine Repub
lic and Chile, and he has concluded
that in this faroff spot it would be a
good idea to have a sentinel to keep
•watch over this commercial gateway.
In time of peace a sentry paces se
renely up and down his narrow beat,
casting only a careless eye on those who
go and come. When the drums beat for
war, his conduct is different He pre
sents his compliments to the passerby
on the end of a fixed bayonet and wants
io know who goes there and why. This
is the kind of a warder England has
placed at the gateway to the Pacific.
It is by right of might alone that
Great Britain holds the Falklands to
day. They were originally the property
of Spain, and in 1770 the Spanish drove
ont some English settlers who had lo
cated on one of the islands. Then for
many years the islands were abandoned
until in 1820 the Buenos Ayres govern
ment sent a colony to reoccupy the is
lands. The Argentines might have been
there yet had they not confiscated sev
eral Yankee whalers. Uncle Sam re
sented this by sending a Yankee war
ship down there and driving them back
to the mainland. This left the islands
again unoccupied, and England seized
the opportunity to plant a colony there.
The Argentine Republic has frequently
protested against this seizure and makes
a demand every once in awhile that the
islands shall be surrendered. With the
calm contempt of the big bully for the
little boy England has paid no attention
to these demands and now proceeds to
make use of the group in her own pe
culiar way.
There are over 200 islands in the
group, but only two of them, which are
separated only by a narrow channel,
are large enough to be of any impor-
vX jour** 1
MAP SHOWING THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.
tance. The rest are mere dots on the
map. The principal islands comprise an
area of about 5,000 square miles and
are sparsely inhabited. The principal
settlement is on East Falkland, and the
town is called Port Stanley. It is there
that the fortress is being built. There
is a fine harbor in which a big fleet of
warships could ride in safety, and not
far away, on the mainland, is Punta
Arenas where the Chileans sell coal to
all comers. Modern fortifications in
which will be mounted high power
modem guns will be constructed, and a
drydock for making repairs to war
ships will be part of the equipment of
the station. 'After it is completed it
will be a southern Gibraltar and will
be made the headquarters of England’s
south Atlantic fleet.
The importance .of this station can
Win»i
has demonstrated ten thousand
times that it is almost infallible
FOR WOMAN’S
PECULIAR
WEAKNESSES,
Irregnlarities and derangements.
It has become the leading remedy
for this class of troubles. It exerts
a wonderfully healing, strengthen
ing and soothing influence upon
the menstrual organs. It cures
“whites” and falling of the womb.
It stops flooding and relieves sup
pressed and painfnl menstruation.
For Change of Life it is the best
medicine made. It is beneficial
during pregnancy, and helps to
bring children into homes barren
for years. It invigorates, stimu
lates, strengthens the whole sys
tem. This great remedy is offered
to all afflicted women. Why will
any woman suffer another minute
with certain relief within reach?
Wine of Cardui only costs SI.OO per
bottle at your drug store.
For advice, in eases requiring special direc-
Uons, address, giving s-ymptettns. the “Ladies'
Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Med
icine Co,, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Rev. J. W. SMITH, Camden, S. C., says:
“My wife used Wine of Cardui at home
for falling of the womb and It entirely
cured her.”
be estimated is understood that
the heights above Port Stanley’command
not only the entrance to the strait of
Magellan, through which the steamers
of no less than five regular lines ply,
but the track of the sailing ships which
pass to the eastward as they go back and
forth around Cape Hora. Shipping and
cargoes to the value of $1,000,000 pass
the Falklands every day in the year.
This great stream of commerce England,
from her purloined and strongly forti
fied islands, could stop at any time.
The principal industry of the islands
is sheep raising, and although there
are only about 1,900 inhabitants on the
islands it is estimated that they own
750,000 sheep. In 1894 they exported
3,800,000 pounds of wool besides sheep
skins worth more than SBO,OOO. The
governor, Sir Roger Tuckary, draws a
salary of $6,000 a year and has a lot of
fees besides. His residence is at Port
Stanley, where there are two hotels,
several churches and a large number of
saloons.
In spite of the fact that these islands
are located in such an out of the way
corner of the world there is no room
there for newcomers. About every acre
of land fit for grazing—and there is
none that is good for anything else—is
occupied by English colonists, who hold
it under lease from the English govern
ment. Several of the islands are held by
men whfMive in Robinson Crusoe fash
ion, while a number of the islands are
occupied by one family each. Commu
nication with the settlements is accom
plished by means of boats and all travel
over the islands is on horseback. There
is not a wheeled vehicle in the Falk
lands outside of Port Stanley, there be
ing no roads. The climate is rigorous
but healthful
John F. Willoughby.
WARNING:—Persons zho suffer
from coughs and colds should heed
the warnings of danger and save
themselves suffering and fatal results
by using One Minute Cough Cure.
It is an infallible remedy for coughs,
colds, croup and all throat and lung
troubles. For sale by Curry-Arring
ton Co.
THE NAVAL CHAPLAIN.
His Official Station and Duties In Time of
Battle.
The chaplain’s official station in most
ship ceremonies and in time of battle is
at the sick bay, where lie the sick. Dis
cipline and fresh air are wonderful pre
servatives of health, and a chaplain’s
duties to the sick fn times of peace are
very light. At naval hospitals, however,
whither are brought from the ships the
very sick and the seriously wounded, a
chaplain finds ample field for the exer
cise of that tender sympathy which
wins souls to God and for the minister
ing of the consolations of religion. It is
also the duty of the chaplain to assist
at naval burials. The regulations re
quire that Christian burial be provided
for all men who die in the service. If
possible, the body is interred with the
rites of the church to which the deceas
ed had belonged. When this sad duty is
required at sea, the ship is hove to, the
flag displayed at half mast and the offi
cers and men are mustered on deck to
pay their last tribute to the departed.
The funeral services follow, and the
body is then consigned to the deep. A
guard of honor fires three volleys over
the watery grave and the bugler sounds
the last “taps”—sad, mournful notes of
the bugle which tell of the hour of
sleep. If the death occur at a hospital,
an escort and a guard of honor from the
ship to which the deceased had been at
tached accompany the funeral cortege
to the grave. As the procession enters
the cemetery the bugler precedes, fol
lowed by the chaplain. This spectacle
is always impressive. It naturally sug
gests the prayer that angels, led by the
angel guardian, may bear the soul of
the deceased before the throne of God
as friends bear the body to the grave;
that the angel at the judgment seat
may proclaim welcome, joy and glad
ness as the bugler at the grave recalls
loss, sadness and regret.—Donahoe’s
Magazine.
SLATE PENCILS.
What They Are Composed of and How
They Are Made.
Slate pencils undergo a number of
processes before they are ready for use,
and in making them nearly all of the
manual labor is done by boys. First
broken pieces of slate are put into a
mortar run by steam and are crushed to
a powder, which is then bolted in a ma
chine such as is used in flouring mills.
A fine slate flour results, which is thor
oughly mixed in a large tub with stea
tite flour and other materials, the whole
making a stiff dough. The dough is
kneaded by being passed between iron
rollers a number of times, and it is then
taken to a table, where it is made into
short cylinders four or five inches in
thickness and containing from eight tc
ten pounds of material each.
Four of these cylinders are placed in
a strong iron resort which has a change
able nozzle so that the size of the pen
cils may be regulated. In the retort the
material is subjected to great hydraulic
pressure and is thus pushed through the
nozzle in the shape of a long cord. As
the cord comes through the nozzle it
passes over a knife and is cut into the
desired lengths. The lengths are laid
on boards to dry and are then placed on
sheets of corrugated zinc, the corrugation
preventing the pencils from warping
during the baking process. The baking
is done in a kiln into which superheat
ed steam is introduced through pipes.
The pencils go from the kiln to the
finishing and packing room, where the
ends are held for an instant under a
rapidly revolving emery wheel, which
neatly points them.
Finally they are packed in pasteboard
boxes, 100 pencils in each box, then ICO
of the pasteboard boxes are packed in a
wooden box, and they are ready for
shipment.—Philadelphia Timos,
TJUE SUNDAY, OUTOMuB ‘*M,
OLD TIME FLYCATCHING.
Primitive Method of Getting Rid of the
Troublesome Peste.
Newton M. Wilson, living one mile
east of town, stt/s a Scottsburg (Ind. )
communication, Las hanging in his barn
an interesting keepsake in the shape of
a flycatcher. It is not so curious in it
self as it is in showing the primitive
methods resorted to by the farmers in
early days to rid themselves of flies. It
is simply two smooth walnut boards,
perhaps 30 by 12 inches, beveled at one
end and fastened together by two whang
cords strung through matched holes.
In the antebellum days people never
thought of keeping flies out of the
house; the problem was to dispose of
them as they swarmed through the
rooms, making life miserable generally.
In fact, the use of netting to prevent
their ingress is of comparatively recent
origin, the invention of this much need
ed article dating back only 15 or 20
years.
As everybody knows, flies are excep
tionally thick in farmhouses, even
where screens are used, and when they
are not they are almost intolerable. In
the olden days the method most com
monly employed in the country to de
stroy the troublesome fly was the use of
such instruments as the one described
above. The boards were beveled and
hung in such manner that by their
weight they separated at the bottom,
and thus hung in an inverted V shape.
To attract the flies they were smeared
with molasses on the inner surface.
Thus prepared, they were suspended
in convenient places about the house—
in kitchen, hallway, porch, which gen
erally served as the summer dining
place, and especially in passageways.
It -was a common duty of every member
of the household when passing one of
those catchers to clap the boards togeth
er, thus mashing the flies which had
collected thereon. The cook clapped
them in the kitchen, the hands as they
passed to and from the house at meal
times did likewise, the whole household
clapped them together hundreds of times
a day, and thousands of pestiferous flies
met their doom.—St. Louis Republic.
Will A. Logan, of Chattanooga, is at
the Armstrong.
Free From
Rheumatism.
If the people generally knew the true
cause of Rheumatism, there would be
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for this painful and disabling disease.
The fact is, Rheumatism is a disordered
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all blood remedies cannot cure Rheuma
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which requires a real blood remedy—
something more than a mere tonic.
Swift's Specific is the only real blood
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Like all other blood diseases, the
doctors are totally unable to cure Rheu
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which they prescribe are potash and
mercury, and though temporary relief
may result, these remedies produce a
Stiffness of joints and only intensify the
disease. Those who have bed experience
with Rheumatism know that it becomes
more severe each year.
The case of Mrs. James Kell, of 6n
Ninth Street, S. E., Washington, D. C„
should convince everyone that it is
useless to expect doctors to cure Rheu
matism. Under recent date she writes :
“A few months ago I had an attack of
Sciatic Rheumatism in its worst form.
The pain was so intense that my ner
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for a long time perfectly helpless. The
attack was an unusually severe one,
and my condition was regarded as
being very dangerous.
“I was attended by one of the most
able doctors of Washington City, who is
also a member of the faculty of the
leading college here. He told me to
continue his prescription and I would
get well. After having it refilled twelve
times and receiving not the least bene
fit, I declined to take it longer.
“Having heard S.S.S. (Swift’s Spe
cific) recommended for Rheumatism,
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Application for Letters of Dis
mission-
GEORGIA, Floyd County,
Whereas Jamea t.. Garlirgton, executor of
Mrs. Harriet D. Jones deceaaed. represents to
tie court in his t ettlon duly filed, that he has
...ministered Haniet I>.,Jones’ e,ta e. This is
;o cite all perso, a concerned, Kindred and crea
tor . to -bow cause, 11 any they can, why said
dml is rarer should not be dL charted from
ds administration and receive letters of dis
id-sion ontbe flrst Monday in December, 1887.
Lais September 6, 1897.
JOHN P DAVIS.
Ordinary Floyd County, Georgia,