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Many of those ‘‘gratifying conditions"
Which are cabled from Manila turn out to
be mere theories.
Jones of Toledo protests too much. The
country has not yet been kept awake of
nights by delegations with brass bands
trying to chase him into the gubernatorial
runways.
Havana newspapers sometimes print
queer "news." One of them the other day
had an item saying the late Mr. Plant had
left Gen. Fitzhugh Lee a comfortable for
tune by his will.
No one can blame the germs in telephone
transmitters for being tough and wicked
creatures, in view of some of the breaths
they have to inhale and some of the con
versations they must perforce overhear.
One cannot correctly forecast the possi
ble penalties of greatness. Mr. Bryan him
self probably never dreamed that he would
be called upon to direct a carload of wa
termelons into a channel where they would
fetch good prices.
It has been decided by Judge Traux, of
the Supreme Court of New York, that it is
unlawful for the members of a trade or
ganization to prevent those outside the
pale of such organization from procuring
and retaining employment.
Friends of popular education in New
Y'ork are advocating the propriety of
naming the schools of the city for Ameri
can soldiers, sailors, authors and states
men. The custom has been iong in prac
tice in Philadelphia. In Savannah we
have the schools named after the county,
streets, .churches and persons.
The Birmingham newspapers are fairly
confident that a government armor plate
plant will he authorized by the next Con
gress, and they are moving to secure the
plant for Birmingham. Should the plant
Vie ordered we would he pleased to see the
enterprising Alabama city secure it. We
have no doubt that armor plate of the best
quality could be made in Alabama more
cheaply than in any other iron district of
the country.
The Englishmen—or ii Sir Thomas I.ipion
would prefer it, the Irishmen—have un
doubtedly got a fine and fast yacht In ihe
Shamrock, and one that will probably keep
the sporting public guessing untit the in
ternal ional race shall have been conclud
ed. Bui ii pusses understanding why Sir
Thomas should persist in hedging his yacht
about w;!h so much secrecy, ll is now al
together too late for the Americans lo pro
fit by any knowledge of the Shamrock's
lines and sails which might come to them.
Our naval monitors are notoriously un
onifortah.e vessels. They have only about
two feet of freeboard, hence when they
go to sea their decks are constantly swept
by water, and all hatches must be bat
tened down and made secure. Even the
ventilators must be closed, to keep the
water out. The only opening to the out
side oir is through the turrets. Asa
consequence, they ai" veritable roasting
boxes. Last summer Ihe men on -the
monitors doing blockade duty off Cuba
'Uffeted horribly from heat, and during
the present summer the crews of the
monitors at Manila are going through the
same sort of thing. There Isn't much
chance for improving the vessels by means
of ventilation, but H Is said that liquid
air bold, out the promise making the craft
more habitual*. if (; can i )e manufac
tured aaoard, the temperature of the liv
ing quarters may he reduced and the at
mosphere freshened with the liquid air.
THE TARIFF WALL >ll ST COMB
now N.
In the course of an interview with the
newspaper reporters on his return from
Europe last Saturday Senator I.)epew
said: “The competition of our products in
European markets proves that the time
is coming when a great many protected
articles must be put on the frte list. If
they cun l* sold cheaper and better than
foreign manufactures, our tariff wall must
be gradually taken down to meet the
changed conditions.”
That was a remarkable admission for
Senator Depew to make. He is one of the
Republicans who always contended for
the protective principle. He is beginning
to see, however, what lead
ers have asserted to be a fact for many
years, namely, that the tariff is used by
certain of our manufacturers to compel
domestic consumers of their products to
pay more for them than the same articles
are sold for in foreign markets. For in
stance, Mr. Carlisle pointed out years ago
in his speeches in the Senate, that agri
cultural implements and machinery' of
American manufacture were sold in South
America and other foreign markets at
lower prices than those for which farmers,
living within a few’ miles of the factories
in which they were made, could get them.
It is a fact that we are selling to Eu
ropeans many articles on which there is a
high protective duty, thus showing that
we can beat the rest of the world in man
ufacturing them, and that the manufac
turers of them have no need of a protect
ive tariff. Why is it then that they con
tinue to insist on having a protective tar
iff? The reason is that they can combine
and make the home consumer pay higher
prices for their products.
There is no doubt that a demand for tar
iff reform will be one of the issues of the
national campaign next year. Evidently
Senator Depew thmks it will, or he
wouldn’t have said what he did relative
to the time coming soon when our tariff
wall would be crumbling. He heard enough
while in Europe about tlie successful com
petition of our manufacturers with those
of England and other European
countries to convince him that our ad
vancement in manufacturing has been so
great that wo have nothing to fear from
the manufacturers of any other country.
The chief reason of our superiority in
manufacturing is that our workmen are
better. They are more; skillful, and can
turn out a great deal more work in a day*.
They get about 26 per cent, higher wages
than the workmen of England, hut they
turn out 33Vs per cent more product, which
is of a better quality than the product of
English skilled labor. With such an ad
vantage there is no need for protection In
this country. The work of taking down
the protective tar.ff wall ought to be be
gun as soon as xx>ssible.
THE IH Ll. STREET PAVKMRXT
The city authorities ought not to hesi
tate about the kind of pavement they will
use on the north end of BuU street. There
i9 only a small part of the street to be
paved, and the wiser plan would be to
have the pavement of that part of the
street south of New Houston street uni
form. It would be a mistake, it seems to
us, to pave a couple of squares with eith
er brick or asphalt.
If we understand the situation correctly
there is no fault to he fount! with that
part of the gravel pavement which is com
posed wholly of Augusta gravel. Complaint
is made of that part on*which gravel from
Liberty county was laid. If there is no
fault found with the Augusta gravel the
proposition of the Augusta Gravel Com
pany should be accepted by all means. The
proposition is an extremely liberal one, al
though it is practically a business one. If
it should be accepted the entire street
from New Houston street to the govern
ment hospital would have an extra coat
ing of gravel furnished free at the
pits by the gravel company. Such an ad
dition ought to be sufficient to keep the
street in first class condition for several
yea-s.
In order to insure the permanency of the
pavement it is probable that the street,
instead of having shallow brick gutters
at the sides, should have pretty deep
drains. The drains would permit the water
which soaks into the road bed during
heavy rains to pass off quickly. A water
soaked road of gravel yields easily' to
heavy traffic. The reason probably why the
county roads have stood the traffic on them
so well is that they have ditches of con
siderable depth on either side of them, so
that the road bed becomes dry very quick
ly after a heavy' rain. On Bull street the
surface water runs off promptly, but that
which soaks into the gravel, and into the
soil beneath stays there untif it gradually
dries out or is absorbed by the surrounding
soil. With proper care in putting down
Augusta gravel it is pretty certain that it
would make an admirable paving material
for this, city.
In a recent bulletin of the Department of
Agricuture, Prof. Haecker states that the
farmers of tne cotton licit are undergoing
an experience which comet? sooner or later
to every section of our country. Wheat
was grown almost exclusively in the
North until the soil refused to respond. No
one seemed to know why, but when the
wheal failed the farmers began to depend
upon live stock. As the live stock in
creased, the land brought better crops, end
it gradually dawned upon them that the
failure of crops was due to lack of fertil
ity. and that by diversified farming they
could restore it and secure as good if not
better returns than they had received from
the virgin soil. In the same way the roll
of the cotton belt has been Impoverished
by constant cropping and inadequate fer
tilizing. It is not in the cotton nor in the
oil extracted from the seeds that the fer
tility is lost, but it is in the parting with
the cotton seed cake or meal that the loss
occurs. If the cake and meal be fed to
dairy cows all the fertility will remain on
the plantation. Tne professor’s advice to
cotton growers is. therefore: “Go into
dairying with the dairy cow.''
There will be a session of Congress be
fore the next national platforms are made
by the great parties. The Republicans
will have a clear working majority in that
session. If tlie Republicans are in earn
est in their anti-trust protestations, they
need not wait until the time of their con
vention to inaugurate an anti-trust cru
sade; they can start the bull a-roiling in
Congress.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. JULY 11. 1803.
THE ALE OF FALSEHOOD (
Is this the age of falsehood? Bishop
Morrison of th* j Southern M hodi-t
Church, in a sermon delivered in Atlanta
on Sunday, said it was. He declared tha:
thousands of men would not tell the trutn
unless they could make money by doing
so. Among the statement he made v. is
the following: “Lies are put up in pa k
agf-s. sent out in barrels, and hung up on
hooks.”
And there is some reason for thinking
that what he said true. It is a noto
rious fact that the adulteration of articles
of food is carried on to such an extent that
a very large percentage of everything that
is eaten is impure. A few days ago we
published an article showing the extent of
the adulteration of flour. The statements
made by persons in positions to speak au
thoritatively were startling. And what
is true of flour is true of many other ar
ticles.
Bishop Morrison said that the lives of
persons, in his opinion, were materially
shortened by* the consumption of adult r
ated articles of food. There is no doubt
that the opinion is a correct one. Why is
it then that the laws against tne aduter
alion of articles of food are not made
more stringent, and why is it that such
laws, already in existence, are not en
forced? These are questions in which ev
ery human being is interested. Wo have
laws to punish those who are guilty of
fraud and ihos who commit murder. But
are not those who adulterate articles of
food and sell them for what they are not
practically guilty f fraud and of murder?
They represent an impure article as pure,
and sell it at the price asked for a pure
article, and the adulterated articles they* ,
sell shorten the lives of those who con
sume them.
Those who put the adulterated articles
on the market as pure articles deceive the
public and therefore are guilty of false
hood. They not only defraud and kill
people, hut they are guilty, in their greed
for money, of lying on a most stupendous
scale. As the Bishop said, lies are put up
in packages and sent out in barrels. Must
not the condition of society which permits
such a state of affairs be very bad?
Yet those w ho make money by adulterat
ing articles of food, by' defrauding and
killing people, are regarded as among the
best citizens. Asa rule they have riches,
and riches cover a multitude of sins in the
estimation of the public. It is time that
the Jaw took hold, with a strongh hand, of
those who adulterate foods, and it will, it
public sentiment become aroused on this
subject of food adulteration. The pulpit
and the press ought to join hands and
wage a relentless war on those who pros
per by fraud and send misery and death
into every home.
THE Al TOMOBILE BUSINESS.
The growth of American interest in the
automobile carriage, which may be said
to have begun less than a year ago, has
not been short of marvelous, and the in
terest continue? to become greater day by
day. We began to develop the automo
bile three or four years behind France,
but according io Mr. Thomas A. Edison
we are now making )*“tter machine* than
France and in the next six months we
shall be a long way ahead of the rest of
the world.
Since last winter, or say, within six
months, there have been corporations
formed for manufacturing or using auto
mobiles the aggregate capital stock of
which is estimated to be more than $250.-
000,000, and during the past few weeks new
corporations have been chartered at the
rate of four iier week. Meanwhile the
patent office in Washington is flooded with
new inventions calculated to cheapen the
cost of the carriages or their motive
]K>wer, or otherwise increase their popu
larity. There are said to be at the time
not less than seventy manufacturing con
cerns in the United States engaged in
building automobiles. Many of the bi
cycle, sewing machine and carriage man
ufactories have established departments in
which automobiles are being manufac
tured. It is estimated that in actual cash
value, not less than $50,000,000 is at present
devoted to the production of horseless ve
hicles. This does not include, of course,
corporations the purpose of which is to
operate or sell the vehicles, but merely
those concerns which ore at present or
will shortly bo engaged in building them.
With so much money represented in the
business, it is surb that the general intro
duction of the automobiles will be pushed
vigorously.
It is a matter of much interest to know
that Mr. Edison, <he wizard of invention,
has recently’ perfected anew automobile
which lie says wi.l considerably cheapen
the price of the carriages. His vehicle, he
says, is light, compact, simple and safe,
and so easily managed -that a child can
run ir. ‘.‘lt is as safe as a church,” says
Mr. Edison, to which he adds that
“keep” w’iil cost less than one-fifth that
of a horse, while the price will be no
more than S3OO or $400; about what a fair
ly good pair of horses and buggy now
cost. During the course of his interview
Mr. Edison made this rather startling pre
diction: “From present indications 90 per
cent, of the horses now in use (in the
cities) will be replaced by this late inven
tion (the automobile) in the next year and
a half.”
Dr. Chauncey M. Dopew, who returned
front Europe the other day, does not think
the new French Cabinet will last long.
To appreciate W a ldeek-Rousseau’s ef
fort. he says, “we must suppose that our
own institutions were in peril, and that
as a supreme effort President McKinley
had made up his cabinet thus:
Secretory of State—Thornes B. Reed.
Secretary of the Treasury—William J.
Bryan.
Secretary of War—'Theodore Roosevelt.
Secretary of the Navy—Edward Atkin
son.
Secretary of Agriculture—Jerry Simpson.
Secretary of the Interior—Gov. Pingree.
Attorney General—Simon Buckner.
It is not risking anything to say that
such a cabinet w’ould not hold together
much beyond the passing of the national
crisis.
New' England cotton mills are once more
paying their owners. The Wool and Cot
ton Reporter gives a list of eighteen of
the largest of those mills, all of which
have lately paid dvi.lends. One year ago
one-third of the number of these mills
passed their dividends, while the others
t hr> nni/l umciller dividends than now.
! The* remove! of M. Denit 1, administrator
of the Die du Diable, where Dreyfus was
.mpiironed, apparently give? confirmation
j o the stories ihat the unfortunate pri-on
• r was tortured by his jailers. Our cable
<1 ?patch* s of yesterday said the prisoner
hud “be* n punished In the hope of com-
I him io deciar. him-. If guil’y.” Is
| France si/J living in thr- age of the Inqui
sition, when men were forced lo purjure
ih< ir souls to escape the horrors of bodily
torture? It is true that Deni* 1 did not
use the rack and scivw upon poor Dn y
fus, nor dkl he puli out his nails, nor sear
hi? eyes with hot iron?, nor cut off hi?
lingers and ears; but with devilish ingen
uity he invented torments and tortures for
his helpless prisoner that were less se
veie .n degree merely, being prompted by
precisely the spirit of intolerance and cru
elty that made possible the horrors'of the
execrated Inquisition. - *
PERSON 11.
—Sir William Crookes, the English scien
tist. took up photography early in life. nd
for some time intended to devote his ca
reer to that work.
—Mataafa, the Samoan claimant to roy
al honors, has some u* for music and a
remarkable memory. He knows by heart
all the old Moody and Sanksy hymns.
—ln a recent letter to a friend in New
York Admiral Dewey says of the Philip
pines: “It is a good climate for work, but
the worst for sleep on the face of the
globe.”
—Admiral Schley has never forgotten
the lessons he learned as a boy on his fa
ther’s farm and said the other day that
hi? hand is as skilful at the plow a? it had
ever ln?en.
—ln Berlin they have the news that Ad
miral Dewey has written a very kind lot -
t-r to Admiral Diedil hs, regretting the
“false reports” regaiding their relations
at Manila.
—The Princess Chimay is about to begin
the publication of a journal, and a society
journal at that, in Cairo. Ii is expected
that she will make it warm for many peo
ple w ho have criticised her.
—Col. Albert A. Pope, the millionaire bi
cycle manufacturer, first saw* a bicycle in
Philadelphia at the Centennial Exposition
of IX7*>. He was fascinated by the ma
chine and spent severa clays in studying
iis mechanism and unconsciously laying
the foundations of his groat fortune.
—William Sodds, the greatest cattle own
er in the United States, attends to all the
detail? of his work, intrusting as little as
possible to subordinates, although he could
well afford to retire from the active man
agement of his business. “If I want to be
sure a thing is well done I just do it my
self.” he says. Twice a year he accom
panies his shipment of cattle from North
ern Arizona into Kansas City.
BltlL II I HITS.
—A Kansas paper, under the head of
local jottings, says: “Three or four cy
clones ripped through the village since
our last issue.”—Detroit Free Press.
—Coroner—Were there any marks about
the deceased by which you would be able
to identify him?
Witness-*YIs, sor. He stuttered.—Chicago
Tribune.
—Customer—l don’t think that is a gen
uine oM edition. Too many of the words
are spelled in modern style.
Dealer—Well—er—that may be a typo
graphical error.—Puck.
—Partisan Prejudice—First Republican—
There’s nothing worse than a Democrat.
Second Republican—Oh, 1 don’t know'.
There’s a Kentucky Democrat.—Chicago
Reeord.
Dick—lsn’t it good to have a close
friend ? i
Jack—Not always. Suppose you want a
loan for a few days. Do you think a close
friend would be the one to approach?—Chi
cago News.
—lmproperly Stated—And how did you
come to marry him?” “1 didn’t come to
marry him,” answered the womanly iitile
woman indignantly; “ho came to marry
me.”—Chicago Evening Post.
—Briggs—l thought your doctor forbade
you to smoke?
Griggs—Yes; but I suspected he had ul
terior motives. I have an idea that he
wanted me to save money so that I should
be able to pay his bill.—Boston Transcript.
—“Haven’t you and your friend gotten
through that argument yet?” “It isn’t any
argument,” answered the opinionated man
resentfully. “I am merely telling him the
facts in the case, and lie is so obtuse that
he can’t understand.”—Washington Star.
Ct HR ENT COMMENT.
The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dcm.)
thinks these are not good days for trust
makers. It enumerates a list of thirty
eight proposed consolidations, many of
which have lately been abandoned or are
likely to fall through, and says: “The
chances are that nearly all these schemes
will have to be abandoned. The bad suc
cess of ihe oldest and most skillfully or
ganized of all the combinations, in keep
ing up the price of their securities have
made the market for new securities an
exceedingly hazardous undertaking. The
promoters can no longer raise enough cash
to induce manufacturers to give up con
trol of their plants, and only in rare cases
are they willing to accept shares. The ex
perience of the month of June indicates
that the trust movement is about to be
launched on a toboggan.”
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.) says:
“It is reported that the Czar of Russia is
very much disappointed nt. the evident fail
ure of the peace conference, and that, as
a result, the position of Count Mouravieff,
his foreign minister, has been much shak
en. Disarmament has proven entirely unac
ceptable to all of the Powers, and arbitra
tion has been about the only subject upon
which there has developed a remote pros
pect o fagreement. It is now evident that
pect of agreement. It is now' evident that
promising, and that at best but negative
results are to be looked for.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.)
which is favorably disposed towards ex
pansion, says: “It is well enough to theo
rize and strive after ideals, but the reali
ties and practical affairs must not be
neglected. While other nations are arm
ing we must arm. While other nations
are seeking terriiorial and commercial ad
vantages we must do likewise. The peace
conference admonishes us. by its failure,
that human nature is as it used to be, and
that the struggle is still on.”
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
(Dem.) says: Some of our contempora
ries are advocating Bryan and Morgan as
the next national ticket, but that would
be as incongruous as was Bryan and Sew
ell. Bryan is dead against expansion,
while Morgan wants everything in sight.
It would be interesting to hear them from
am*> Ktltmn.”
Took Senator Clark at Hi* Word.
In the tierce rivalry for the I'nited
States senatorship in Mon tana. between
the Clark and Marcus Da.'y faction?, many
amusing stori ?. true and false, were ioid
by heated |)artisans ?avs the Philadelphia
Evening Post. The point in most cases
consisted by the contrast afforded by the
early careers of the two men. Marcus
Daly rose from a poor miner to be one
of the copixr kings of the West, while
Clark began his .western career as a col
lege-bred man. The speeches and letters
of the latter were models or good English,
but on one occasion his fastidousness in
expression worked unexpected results.
He had laid out a handsome lawn in front
of his house, and to prevent the towns
people from walking on the grass he built
a board walk over it and put up the fol
lowing sign:
•TAKE THE BOARDWALK."
This sign instantly caught the public
eye, and next morning the sign and board
walk had both vanished, and in place of
the former was i rudely lettered placard
bearing this inscription:
"WE HAVE.”
Hon* Paris Cabmen Fight,
Guy Duval, recently returned from Paris,
tells the following story, according to the
New York Tribune, as an illustration of
the irresponsibility of the average French
man: "1 was riding one afternoon in the
Bols de Boulogne.” he said, "when I no
ticed a tremendous disturbance Just ahead
of my carriage. Two thoroughly angry
tourists were standing in the street, rub.
blng their heads, and swearing with an
ease and force which convinced me at
once that they were Americans. Two
empty cabs, which had evidently been oc
cupied by the tourists, were standing
near by, and the drivers were hurling in
distinguishable Jargon at each other, to
the delectation of a crowd of on.ookers. My
driver immediately stopped to Join in the
excitement. With some difficulty I per
suaded him to proceed, ami when we were
out of sound of the unroar, I asked him
what the trouble was.
‘Why, Monsieur,' he said, ‘Jaspard ran
into Pierre’s cab and scraped some of the
paint from the wheel. Pierre was nat
urally very angry and swore at Jaspard,
whereupon Jaspard said: "If you don't
shut up I’ll hit your customer on the head
with my whip!” and and Pierre retorted:
''it you hit my customer I’ll hit your cus
tomer! Then Jaspard struck Pierre's cus
tomer and Pierre resented the insult by
hitting Jaspard's customer. That man
Jaspard is always getting into fights.' ”
Lends Without Yrgnment.
There was a finest ion of importance be
fore the local lodge of a leading fraternal
order, says the Detroit Free Press, The
membership is large and the attendance
comprised about all those whose names ap
pear on the roster. A statesman, a min
ister, a lawyer and a leading business
man s|x>ke in favor of the proposed men
ure. They were eloquent, impressive ;ml
logical, the audience approving with
rounds of applause. A vote when they
were through would have assured a sweep
ing triumph for their cause and they con
gratulated themselves.
But a little man rose up in the back part
of the hall. He had done more than any
other man living to strengthen the order
and promote its best objects. lie had
helped the poor, waited on the sick and
cheered the despondent. The hundreds as
sembled had faith in him and after half a
dozen sentences from him in opposition to
the measure, it was rejected by an over
whelming majority. The defeated orators
were noisily indignant and insisted that
neither reason nor judgment had been ex
ercised by the crowd.
“I’ll tell you how it is,” snapped the
statesman, after adjournment, “You take
a blackboard and set it up on the platform
there. To make sure that it is black, give
it a couple of extra black coats and then
paint a white border around it to empha
size the black. A dozen of the ablest
speakers you can find may get up and tell
that the board is black, why it is black
and how it was made black. Then that
same little man may take the floor for a
minute and simply say: 'Boys’ that board
is white and the border is black,' and 93
per cent, of the membership will swear he
is right.” And it's not far from the truth.
The Cry of the Little Peoples.
Richard LeGallienhe In London Chronicle.
I.
The Cry of the Little Peoples went up lo
God in vain:
The Czech, and the Pole, and the Firm,and
the Schleswig Dane.
We ask but a little portion of the green
and ancient earth:
Only to sow and sing and reap in the land
of our birth.
I
We ask not coaling stations, nor ports in
the China seas,
We leave to the big child-nations such
rivalries as these.
We have learned the lesson of lime, and
we know three things of worth:
Only to sow and sing and reap in the land
of our birth.
11. ■
O leave us our little margins, waste ends
of land and sea,
A little grass and a hill or two, and a
shadowing- tree;
O leave us our little rivers that sweetly
catch the sky,
To drive our mills, and to carry our wood,
and to ripple by.
One Tong ago, like you, with hollow pur
suit of fame.
We tilled all the shaking world with the
sound of our name;
But now we are glad to rest, our battles
and boasting done.
Glad just to sow and sing and reap in our
share of the sun.
in.
And what shall you gain if you take us
and bind us and boat us with thongs,
And drive us to sing underground in a
whisper our sad little songs?
Forbid us the very use of our heart's own
nursery tongue—
Is this to be strong, you nations, is this to
be strong?
Your vulgar battles to fight. and your
shopman conquests to keep,
For this-shall we break our hearts, for
this shall our old men weep?
What gain tn the day of battle—to the
Russ, to the German, what gain.
The Czech, and the Pole, and the Finn,
and the Schleswig Dane?
rv.
The Cry of the Little Peoples goes up to
God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel
sons of Cain;
The hand that would bless us Is weak, and
the hand that would break us is
strong,
And the power of pity is naught but the
power of song.
The dreams that our fathers dreamed to
day are laughter and dust,
And nothing at all in the world Is left for
a man to trust.
Let us hope no more, or dream, or proph
esy, or pray.
For the Iron world no less will crash on
Its iron way;
And nothing is left but to watch, with a
helpless, pitying eye,
The kind old aims for the world, and the
Wind old fashions die.
An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Cos., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
tive principles of plants known to he
medicinally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa
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dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet.promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per
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every objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the California Fio Syrup
Cos. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
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SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK. N. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.—Price 50c. per bottle*
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One of the most beautiful FIRE
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The station of the 6th and 9th Ave
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fection in cooking and efficient ser
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North, South, East and West. Famous
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HARRINGTON MILLS, Manager.
THE GLEN LAKE HOUSE,”
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Among the spurs of the Adirondack*. A
family hotel at moderate rates.Opeii9 June
15 under new management. Fishing, row
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STOCKTON HOTEL,
CAt'L MAY, N. J.
Directly facing the ocean. Largest and
most spacious on the coast. Elegantly
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mile long. Morgan’s Orchestra of 16
pieces. Convenient to golf links. H. M.
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CHmale delightful, scenery superb, beauti
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electric bells, elevator, telephone, hot and
cold baths on each floor. Special rates to
families. Further information given by
D. L. Dettor.
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINsT THYON,
Western North Carolina. Famous for its
health-giving climate, and verv beautiful
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Health foods. Moderate terms. Circulars
furnished. Miss Edith Smith.
SEED PEAS.
Unknown Clay, Black, White and
Mixed Peas.
Lemons, Oranges,
Peanuts, Vegetables, Etc.
Hay, Grain, Flour and Feed.
\V. D. SIMKINS& CO.
JOHN G. BUTLER
-dealer in-
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and Builders buypues, Fiam and Decora
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Cements. Line. Plaster and Hair. oi.
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street, weal.
flTim DENTAL COLLEGE,
U School of its kind in the South.
f ATALOi.UE free to parties
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Choicest importations
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FINEST WHISKIES.
Ad in original cases direct from
the distilleries.
The Kirker-Greer Scotch Whisky,
Glennvatted of Glasgow. Scotland
William Greer Ir.sh Whisky, Bel
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Rutherford & Cos,. Scotch Whisky,
Leith, Scotland.
Antediluvian Rye Whisky. John
Osborne Sons & Cos.. New York
Tuxedo Rye Whisky, Delafleld-
McGovern & Cos.
Hunter Rye Whisky. Lanahan &
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Mammoth Cave (Bourbon) Whis
ky, IC-year-oid , Aug. Coldewev
Louisville.
Peerless Whisky, Worsham, Hen.
derson, Ky.
HAVANA CIGARS.
Bold only by <ne box from the
most celebrated factory, La Eseep
cion, Havana, Cuba. The sole
agency of this large factory Is plac
ed with us in this city.
Only well known brands sold, and
we are receiving elegant Havana
cigars every other week from Ha
vana.
BEST IMPORTED
GINGER ALE
The "Wheel tsiaud of Wheeler
& Cos., Belfast, Ireland, is the o.d
est Ginger Ale manufactured in Ire
land. Be sure and see that the
"Wheel” is biown in the bottle.
The Wheeler Ginger Aie i 3 ' lhe
most delicious, wnoiesome and ex
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We also carry in stock Irish Soda
Fine French Brandies, Sherry Wine
Clarets, Rhine and Moselle Wines,
Jamaica Rum.
Also the finest imported Olive Oil
Imported in glass.
Rochester Lager Beer, Liberty
brand.
For sole by druggists: H. H. Liv
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Perry sts.; Solomns & Cos., Reid &
Cos. Grocers: John Lynch, C. A.
Munster, A. J. Dierks, John Kuck.
Restaurants and bars: R. M. Hicks.
J. J. Sullivan, Est. Gus Fox, Geo.
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HERE
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Double and single-breasted.
SEE THEM.
Elit^llinfirUßMir
in all the artistic period styles in Antique
Oak, Mahogany finish, and fine Bedroom
Furniture is one of specialties. aiM
there is a profusion of handsome
In Chiffoniers, Dressers, Toilet Table
end Bedroom Suits that will please th OSO
who are seeking either the quaint, i '
artistic or the beautiful. The prices if o
small, the values weighty.
j. w. TEEPLE,
315-319 Broughton, West.
Fone 183.
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SAVANNAH, GA.
Leather Belting. Steam Packing & Bose.
Agent, New York BeMios “" 4
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FOR SALE,
1,400 tons 40-lb. relayer steel rail’. 94
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200 tons 20-lb. and 25-lb. relayer steel rail -
600 tons 60-lb. new steel rails.
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