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UNCLESAM’SCHARITY
Going Into Ibo Relief Business On a
Large Scale,
EXPEDITIOS TO THE KLONDIKE
Walter Wellman Questions the Wisdom
of the Governments Plans For the Re
lief of the Icebound Whalers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—[Special.]—Un
cle Sain is going into the relief expedition
business on a large scale. He has already
dispatched the revenue cutter Bear to west
Alaska under orders to send a party of
men with reindeer northward toward
Point Barrow for the purpose of affording
relief to 200 or 800 whalers imprisoned in
the ice there. As I have already pointed
out in this correspondence, experts think
this relief expedition is going to have a
very hard time of it. Instead of sending
a party with supplies northward, it is
thought it would be better to see that sup
plies are placed where the whalers can get
them on thoir way south.
It is my opinion, based on reports
brought back from the arctic whaling wa
ters, that the crews still up there are in
no danger of starvation. While it is true
that owing to the niggardliness of the
pwners of the vessels they have not a suffi
cient supply of food to last them through
the long arctic winter, there is game to be
had in the waters and perhaps upon the
land, and if worst comes to worst they can
subsist upon the whale flesh and blubber
and oil which they have in the holds of
their ships. It is not a very Inviting fare,
but anything is preferable to starvation.
Good Arctic Game.
It has frequently happened in the his
tory of the Spitsbergen and other whaling
grounds that crews caught in the ice and
compelled to winter have been forced to
resort to whale meat. It is not nearly as
good as seal, however. The chances are
the whalers up at Point Barrow will kill
a good many seal, and they should take
quite a number of ice bear, too, and the
ice bear is right good eating when well
boiled In the pot.
It is considered certain by those who
have studied the situation that if these
whalers are in any danger of starvation
they will march south during the autumn
or winter. Unless they see that they have
at or near Point Barrow enough food to
last them with such game as they can take
through the winter, they will pack up
their kits and set out along the coast.
They will not dream that an effort is to be
made to send supplies up to them, since it
is so much easier for them to come down
empty handed than it is for a relief party
to march to their aid with heavy loads.
Moreover, the men know that ample sup
plies may be had farther south at the mis
sion and reindeer stations.
For these reasons, while every one ad
mires tbs pluck with which the revenue
marine service of our government has gone
at the herculean task of advancing sup
plies across country in the dead of the arc
tic winter, there is a conviction that it may
be love's labor lost, and that perhaps the
greatest suffering will be that endured by
the relief party.
The Klondike Expedition.
This is not the largest relief enterprise
in which our government is now engaged.
Secretary Alger, with characteristic energy
and business acumen, is pushing the proj
ect to send large quantities of food into
the Klondike country for relief of the gold
miners there. According to reports, the
miners will starve, or at least many ol
them will, unless supplies are sent in to
them or they induced to come out to
points where food may be had. Secretary
Alger has sent for reindeer from Lapland
with native drivers, and he believes that
with the aid of these animals large quan
tities of provisions can be transported over
the long trail in time to be of much help
to the miners. Here again the experts
come forward and advise the secretary to
adopt the expedient of trying to get the
starving men to come out where the food
is instead of sending it in to them.
The distance from Dyea or Skagguay to
Dawson, the center of the mining district,
is about 360 miles in a direct line, but
much farther by the train. It is a most
difficult road. Not only are the passes to
be crossed with their rugged, almost Im
possible ascents, but the surface of the
rivers is very rough and hummocky. In
freezing the currents caused the ice to roll
up in waves, and the drifting snow has
made the path anything but a good one to
travel. Men who have recently come out
over this train speak of the difficulties
which they encountered while struggling
along with but light loads. What, then, are
we to expect of the relief parties which go
with all they can haul?
A Herculean Task.
Secretary Alger would like to send to
Dawson something like 400 or 500 tons of
supplies. But this is obviously an impos
sible task. Admitting that reindeer can
be employed to advantage, and that moss
or other food for them can be found on
the way, each reindeer will draw only 800
pounds, and that means seven deer to the
ton of supplies, not counting the amount
of food consumed by the men en route.
The experts tell Set rotary Alger that in
stead of sending a large number of mon
Into the Klondike with supplies, every one
to be fed as long as he stays there, it
would be much better to dispatch a few
officers to Dawson and Circle as fast as
they can travel to tell the miners that
there.is r,ot cnlv.'ood fpr them pt Dyea.
SKINS
ONFIRE
Skins on fire with torturing, disfiguring,
itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, and pimply
humors, instantly relieved by a warm bath
with Cutioura Soap, a single application of
Cuticura (ointment), the great skin cure,
and a full dose of Cvtiovra Resolvent,
(uticura
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Rheumatism
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and debilitated.- It cures acute or muscular rheuma
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In any part of the body stopped in a few doses. A
prompt, complete and permanent cure for lameness,
soreness, stiff back and all pains in hips and loins.
Chronic rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago or pain In
the bank are speedily cured. It seldom falls to give
relief from one to two doses, and almost Invariably
cures before one bottle has been used. The Munyon
Remedy Company prepare a separate cure for each
disease. At all druggists—2s cents a vial. If you need
but tTat'fhe ~ail*has L'llm provision Ca ana
supplied - with shelter houses. By this
means the miners might be induced to
leave their claims and start for the head
of navigation. Many of them would cer
tainly do so if they were assured of find
ing food and help along the way. As for
shelter houses, it would only be necessary
to take out a few tents, and a large num
ber of reindeer skin sleeping bags.
Men who have been over the trails be
tween Dawson and the head of the Lynn
canal give it as their opinion that no large
amount of supplies can by any means be
sent in to the Yukon country during the
winter. The country is not only rough
and the trail in places almost impassable,
but the cold is even greater than that
which prevails about the north pole. It is
colder than at the pole because it is upon
high, mountainous land, while the north
pole, as far as any one knows, is at the
level of the sea. Besides the storms in
Alaska in winter are worse than the
storms in the real arctics, on account of
the land masses in proximity to the sea
and the presence of the glaciated moun
tains. Altogether the effort to send sup
plies to the Yukon, while praiseworthy
and calculated to make every American
proud of his countrymen, is almost as
difficult as going to the north pole itself.
Walter Wellman.
There is more Catarrh in this sectio
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failng to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there
fore, requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio,-is the
only constitutional enre on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to enre. Send for
circnlars and testimonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
RgTSold by Druggists, 75.
• His Reason.'
“Why is it,” they asked him, “that
you prefer gas to electric light?"
"In the case of electric light," he
said, looking at them in astonishment,
“it can übuuily be controlled by means
of a button or a spring on the wall with
in easy reach. ’ ’
They admitted that he spoke truly.
‘‘That being so,” he went on, “if
you had ever stood over a small but
pretty young woman who with upturn
ed and anxious face was striving to
reach the chandelier to light the gas
you never would have to ask me the
question you have seen fit to put.”—
Chicago Posh
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There is no need of little children
being tortued by scald head, eczema
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Hazel Salve gives instant relief and
cures permanently. For sale by Cur
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The'Place'VeuGome In Paris.
The Paris correspondent of a London
paper says that, though always stately
and imposing, the Place Vendome is by
no means a lively part of Paris. It has
retained through long years the char
acteristics for which it was noted in the
reign of the grand monarque, Louis
XIV, for whom it was planned and laid
out Os late a few good shops have ap
peared here and there among the houses
on the place, and it is proposed td add
to the number of these business estab
lishments. Hence in a comparatively
brief space of time the buildings around
Napoleon’s column will be brilliantly
diversified, and stately monotony will
disappear. The Place Vendome may in
a few years, or even less, be able to dis
tance the Rue de la Paix as a locality
for afternoon shopping, tea drinking
and flirtation.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is prepared by ex
perienced pharmacists who know pre
cisely tbe nature and quality of ingre
dients used.
The Ground Is" Alive.
We are so used to thinking of the soil
as mere mineral matter that it comes
quite as a shock to find this is a mistake.
As a matter of fact, the layer of soft
mold which clothes the ground in all
cultivable districts and from which
vegetation springs is actually in great
part a living layer of tiny plants and
animals.
Interlacing threads of molds and
fungi, worms and grubs, creeping in
sects, tiny root parasites, decaying
leaves and the millions of bacteria
which spring from them—all these are
mixed and mingled together for many
inches down below our feet in a con
fused mass of life. Germs of all sorts
swarm in countless millions.
Indeed, all the plants that grow and
life that exists on the face of the earth
owe their being to the fact that the
ground is alive. You take a shovelful of
the finest soil in the world and sterilize
it—that is, beat it till all the life in it
is destroyed—and then plant seeds in it.
No amount of care or watering will
make those seeds grow. Their life de
pends on the life in the soil around them
—London Answers
When bilous or costive, eat a Cascaret
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10, 25c
THE. BOMB TRXBLKE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1897
DALY OWNSft HAMBURG. ’
Moutaaa Maa Will Kao. th. Froml.lmt
Colt la Thi. Country.
New York, Dec. 23.—1 n an inter
view, Marcus Daily said:
“I bought Hamburg and I never
meant that a secret should have been I
made of the purchase. I paid the pff.ee j
asked for him and as far as I can see I
that was all that was necessary.
. “Hamburg will race next season in ;
my name and my colors, just- as every
other race horse I have ever owned has
raced. I have no fellow feeling with
the fellow who goes into racing trying
to hide his identity and it is no differ
enoe to me what others have done in
in this direction. lam able and will
ing to pay for a good horse when I want
one and the price I paid for Hamburg
has not broken me.
“I have not even the remotest idea of
racing abroad. That I am willing to
leave to the people who are hunting for
notoriety.
“The moment that I became aware
that the ownership of the colt was a se
cret after my arrival in New York, I
instructed my purchasing agent to semi
out the information that the colt had
been boughi for me. I wanted no se
cret made of the matter.”
The Greatest Discovery Yet.
W, M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111.,
“Chief.” says: “We won’t keep bouse
without Dr, King’s New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Ex
penmented with many others, but never
got the true remedy until we used Dr
King’s New Discovery. No other remedy
can take its place in our home, as in it
we have a certain and sure cure for
Coughs. Colds, Whooping Cough, etc.”
It is idle to experiment with other rem
edies, even if they are urged on you as
just as good as Dr King’s New Dis
covery. They are not as good, because
this remedy has a ricord of cures and
besides is guaranteed. It never fails to
satisfy. Trial bottles free at Curry-Ar
rington Company’s Drug Store.
Told Friends Goodby is»id
Colvmbu, S 0., Dec. 23 J M.
Cooper, private secretary of the gover
nor died at the Columbia hospital under
peculiarly paftietic circumstances. He
was engaged to be married, but having
periodical attacks of appendicitis, post
poned tiie w-<i<iiug until he should be
cured. He mad-- !is will, leaving his
proot-r'y to ins in.reimed wife, then, af
ter m»riuciting his assistant and toiling
hi- iriends gqodby, he walked to the
m-spital. w iere an operation was per
formed Hen-t failure sot in and re
atuteu in his ueath.
Mrs. M. B. Ford, Ruddll’s, 111., suf
fered eight years from dyspepsia and
chronic constipation and was flnaly
cured by using DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers, tbe famous little pills for all
stomach and liver troubles.—Curry-
Arrington Co.
CHEAP HOLIDAY RATES.
The Western & Atlantic R. R., Offers
Many Advantages.
During the holidays the Western
& Atlantic R. p.., offers exceedingly
low rates to all points in this territory.
Tickets on sale for all trains Dec 22,
23, 24. 25, also Dee. 30, 31 1897 and
January 4th 1898. This is your op
portunity to visit your relatives and
friends at a very small cost.
Special Rate Schools and Colleges.
For students of schools and colleges
the Western & Atlantic R. R., will sell
round trip tickets at very low rates
upon presentation of certificates
signed by the superintendents, prin
cipals or presidents, thereof, on
on Dec. 16tb to 25th 1897 Inclusive
limited until January 4th 1898. For
any other information telephone No.
20 or call or write to C. K, Ayer, P.
and T. A. C. E. Harman, G. P. R.
Rome, Ga.
Incontinence of water during sh<p
stopped immediately by Dr. E. Detchon’
Anti Diueretic, Cures children and
adults alike. Price sl. Sold by Curry-
Arrngton Co., druggist. Rome, Ga.
CiirrleU PowufS’r < arirldges.
San Jose. Cal., Dec. 23—Amazon
Hernandez, a Mexican woodchopper,
was in the habit of carrying giaut pow
der cartridges in his pocket, as he fre
quently used them for blasting tre 1
stumps. He tripped and fell, a knife in
his pocket struck a cap and nine explo
sions followed in quick succession Her
nandez was terribly mangled and will
die.
Kidnaper Plead. Gailey.
Albany, Deo. 28.—Albert 8. Warner
has pleaded guilty to an indictment
found against him for assisting in thi
kidnaping of Johnny Conway.
Available.
Many good remedies are
unavailable because they
need the direction of a
physician.
Allcock’s
Porous Plaster
can be used by anybody,
and it is always effective
for sprains, strains, weak
back and- soreness in the
chest or muscles.
Do Not B. Duped into taking an Imitation,
Insist upon having th* ponuine “ ALLCOCK**."
Allcock's Corn Shields,
Allcock’s Bunion Shields,
Have ao equal as * relief and cure for corns
and
onaaimaMßHMaaaiMHaamM-* -'xv . vwiwu -■■mmmm
Pills
renovate the ey.-<>«m oy purifying
the blood. The*’’ n, o not weaken.
=
Children ;
Who would prescribe only ;
tonics and bitters for a weak, < *
’ puny child ? Its muscles and ' !
I nerves are so thoroughly ex- I!
; hausted that they cannot be ]'
; •whipped into activity* The ] [
' child needs food; a blood- ; [
making, nerve-strengthening < »
:«dm«sde-Mta,lood.
: Scott’s Emulsion i;
i of Cod-Liver Oil is all of this, J '
' and you still have a tonic in ; J
[ the hypophosphites of lime '
; and soda to act with the food. ; ;
i For thin and delicate children ■ »
! there is no remedy superior I ’
; to it in the world. It means I !
[ growth, strength; plumpness ] [
; and comfort to them. Be sure ] [
; you get SCOTT’S Emulsion. ; j
50c. and SI.OO, all druggists.
I SCOTT &BOWNE, Chemists, New York. J •
HAVANA GREATLY EXCITED.
People Thnnght Hie City Being Bom
b.r.i.d by au American Warship.
Havana, Dec. 23.—Much excitement
was caused on Sunday morning when a
small white warship, bearing a strong
resemblance to the United States gun
boat Annapolis, was seen slowly ap
proaching the harbor. A rumor spread
that an American warship was coming
in and the people became frenzied when
the stranger’s gun. opened in a salute
to tbe forts, many believing that the
city Was being bombarded. It was soon
apparent that the vessel was the Ger
man schoolship Stein, but several hours
elapsed before quiet was restored in the
city. A welcome was extended to the
Stein by the Spanish naval and military
authorities.
All night raging fires were visibl
southwest of Havana, only 10 miles dis
tant. Standing panes on the Toledo
and the Portugalete estates, which were
about to commence grinding, were set
on fire by the rebels and was completely
destroyed. The fire caused great ex
citement and indignation in Havana.
No estates are grinding now, except
those paying a tax of 40 cents a bag to
the rebels.
To Cure A Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B.
Q on each tablet.
A Hank Wrecker Paruoneil.
St. Louis, Deo. 23. William E. Burr.
Jr., ex-cashier of the St. Louis National
bank, now serving a sentence of five
years at tbe Jefferson C»ty state peni
tentiary for the embezzlement of $31).-
000, has been pardoned by President
McKinley. The pardon, it is said, was
issued 011 the recommendation of At
to in-v General McKenna, whoreceived
petitions of clemency from National Re
publican Committeeman Koerms, the
two Democratic senators and other iu>
flaeutial people of the state.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Yvur Life Away
If you want to quit tobacco using casil;
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac
Che wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in teu days
Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bao of your
druggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c 01
JI .00. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Kem aiy Co. .Chicago 01 New York.
New Track I* Chaugad.
New York, Dec. 23. —The track at
Madison Square Garden will not be
short when Michael and Chase meet
Saturday night. It will be 10 laps to
the mile, instead of 9 officially, or
in reality. The track has been com
pletely changed in construction. It is
now banked 10 feet from the base, or at
an angle of nearly 50 degrees. During
the six-day race the track was banked
7 feet. It now seems likely that the L
A. W. investigation of the shortage of
the track in the six-day race will result
in the censure of the builder.
'salve.
The best solve in the world for outs or
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain
corns and all skin eruptions and post
tvely cures piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect Batla, motion
or money refunded. Prk e 25 cents per
box. For sale by Curry Arrington Co.,
druggists, Rome Ga.
Doti dnew '< 7a 1 med b/ Death.
Montgomery. Ala., Dec. 23.—1 n the
death of Mr. Don Snow Montgomery
has lost a valuable citizqu. He was
about 56 years old and has been in the
hardware business here for many years,
having started with nothing and
amassed a considerable fortune for a
southern Jfflsiuess man. He was a bach
elor andMßs understood he left his en
tire estat®, amounting to some *200,000,
to his partner and nephew, Mr. Harry
Holt. .
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the “New
Great South American Kidney Cure.”
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidney, t
back and every part of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. It relieves re
rentton of water and pain in passing is
almost immediately. If you want quick
relief and cure thU is your remedy,
-old hy Curry-Arri gtou Co., druggists,
Rome, Ga. th-fr-aat & w.
AT COST SALES
Retiring from Business cr another kind of sa’es are not
in it when compared to the sale" we will make in 7. \
THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS!
Suits, Overcoats and Trousers
Ch< ice of any snit in our house for .sl2 50.
They are worth frem $16.00 to $20.00,
150 Good RAII-Woolen Suits,
3ZZS new and stj iish patterns, for
$6.50, worth $10,00!
Our Entire Line of Trousers
at prices that have never been matched in Rome,
Ve don’t intend to carry ever any winter clothing tnd are determined
to Hake this the biggest sale of big bargains ever seen
in Rome. Come and see us,
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New Stock of Short Pant Suits just Received,
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TELEPHONE No. 108.
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