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THE ATHENS BANNER: FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1898
Pitts' Carminative
Saved My Baby's Life."
Johnson Station, Ga., September 16, 1898.
LAMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO., Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen: 1 can not recommend your Pitts’ Carminative too
strongly, as I owe my baby’s life to it. She had Cholera Infantum
when five months old, and I could get no relief until I began using Pitt’s
Carminative. The fever left her when I had given her but two bottles,
and she had fattened so she did not look like the same child. I advise all
mothers who have sickly or delicate children to give this remedy a trial.
Respectfully, Mrs. LIZZIE MURRAY.
LEG SMITH
TIRED OF LIFE,
He Wanted to Die and Took Lauda-
num to Accomplish His Desire.
it Saved Her Baby—Wiii Save Yours. £
- . . .TRY IT.... I
After Drinking What He Thought Was the Fatal |
Draught and Begged to Be Spared “Jekt” i
Few Days Longer—His Prayers Were
Answered and He is Still Living.
MM) OFFICERS
The Adjutant-General and Chief
Quartermaster Came Yesterday.
ALSO THE CHIEF OF THE
Commissary Department—The Chief Engineer
and Major Galrdncr in Charge of the Divi
sion Hospital, Will Reach the City
This Afternoon.
THE ELOPEMENT.
General Randall’s forces were in
creased yesterday by the arrival of Gen.
H. Liggett, adjutant of the third divi
sion, Second army corps, Major Rou-
diez, chief quartermaster, and Major
Heathwohl, chief of the commissary de
partment. Major Roudiez is accompa
nied by his charming wife, who will
spend the winter with him in Athens.
Major Lucas, chief engineer, and
Major Gairdner, who will be in charge
of the division hospital, will arrive to
day. Lieutenant Jones and Lieutenant
McDonald are here also, and the re
mainder of General Randall’s staff is
expected by the latter part of this week.
The regimental camps were selected
yesterday and will be laid out as soon as
Chief Engineer Lucas arrives. The di
vision hospital will be built immediate
ly and when finished will accommodate
four hundred people or more. The
work of constructing the building will
begin as soon as Major Gairdner arrives.
General Randall don’t know just yet
when the soldiers will begin to arrive.
All the Second corps now at Camp
Meade, Middleton, Penn., are attending
the Philadelphia jubilee today, and will
return to camp tomorrow, when prepar
ations will begin for moving south.
Will Name the Camp at Once.
When asked about naming the camp
yesterday General Randall stated that
he had Hot thought much about it, but
that he would select the name in a day
or two. The five regiments quartered
here will be designated as the Athens
division
General order No. 128 was received
from headquarters of the Second army
corps yesterday. The order assigned
General William C. Oates to command
the First Brigade of the First Division,
which will be located here.
“Come in»mm»” Said the Child, “Hush” Said
the Father.
A reporter was standing in the door
way of the waiting room waiting to see
the manager of Coopers circus, when a
stranger beckoned him out and said:
want you to do me a favor. See if there
is a woman about forty years old in
there, wearing a black silk dress, a brown
wrap and a hat with two white feathers
in it.”
The newsgather sauntered in, looked
around and reported her there.
"Anybody with her?” he asked.
“Yes; a man and a little child.”
His face was pale and betrayed great
emotion, and his voice had a queer
sound as he considered fora moment,
"Take this pistol. I am her husband
and she has eloped. I was going to kill
the man but I have thought better of it.’
He entered the room and the guilty
pair rose up and turned pale as he ap
proached. He did not look at either of
them, but walked straight up to the
child, took her in his arms and went
out saying: “We haven’t any home
now, darling, but we will go away and
make one.”
"Come, mamma!” called the child.
“Hush!” he whispered.
A tragedy had been averted. Such
are the disappointments of life.
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TWO NEGROES LYYNCHED
Success comes to those who persevere.
If you take Hood’s Sarsaparilla faith
fully and persistently, you will surely
be benefited.
They Shot to Death a White Woman in Cold
Blood.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26.—After a coro
ner’s inquest, during which Jim Mackie
and Luther Sullivan, implicated each
other in the murder of Mrs. J. O. Ad
kinson, at Republican church, Edgefield
county, about fourteen miles across the
river from here in South Carolina, both
men were shot to death tonight by the
enraged people of the neighborhood in
which the murdered woman lived.
The assassin fired at her from the
roadside late at night while she and her
husband were returning home from
Augusta. The crime was committed
just one week ago.
It seems that there was a conspiracy
against the life of Mr. Adkinson, who
the only white man in a wide radius
that is inhabited by negroes.
insect
THORNTON-JACKSON.
Beautiful
CHANGED HIS MIND
"Peg Leg” Smith became possessed of
an ardent desire to emigrate yesterday.
He didn’t have a cent, and there was
but two places he could go without hav
ing a ticket. Heaven was one of them,
and the other is supposed to be located
seventeen miles beyond purgatory.
“Peg” made up his mind to cross the
iver. If he went over to East Athens
he knew he’d come back and he resolved
to cross the river of Jordan instead of
the Oconee. “Peg” secured a bottle of
laudanum and in the solitude of his
chamber placed the vial to his ebony
lips and gulped down the contents.
I’se gwine to leave this town for
ever,” mumbled “Peg” as he sank into
chair. “I has been treated mean and
there will be no more trouble in this
world for me.”
Then the dope began to work and
‘Peg” became frightened. Like magic
his mind changed and he concluded that
Athens was good enough for him. He
put up a howl that was heard three
blocks, and the neighbors rushed in to
see what on earth was the matter with
‘Peggy.” His wife was among the first
to reach the scene where death was
lurking and “Peg” began telling bis
troubles so fast that he got completely
out of breath and sank from exhaustion
This act was misconstrued to mean that
“Peg’s” moments were numbered and
in less time than it takes to tell it
dozen willing hands, a pair of them be
longing to a white woman, were at
work, and after considerable praying on
the part of “Peg” and much work on
the part of his friends, the would-be
suicide was saved.
Love that Altera.
‘Love is not love that alters when it alteration
finds.”
That is one of the sublimest lines in all
literature. It is the final definition of love
by the world’s greatest reader of the human
mind,— Shakespeare. Nearly all women
who truly love, love in this sublime way.
Men seldom do.
Woman’s most glorious endowment is
the power to awaken and hold the pure
and honest love of a worthy man. When
she loses it and still loves on, no one in
the wide world can know the heart agony
she endures. The woman who suffers
from weakness and derangement of her
special womanly organism soon loses the
power to sway the heart of a man. Her
general health suffers and she loses her
looks, her attractiveness, her amia-
lility and her power and prestige as a
woman. Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. N.Y.,
with the assistance of his staff of able phy
sicians, has prescribed for many thousands
of women. He has devised a perfect and
scientific remedy for women’s ailments. It
is known as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip
tion. It is a positive specific for fill weak
nesses, diseases, disorders, displacements,
irregularities, and debilitating drains pe
culiar to women. It purifies, regulates,
strengthens and heals. Medicine dealers
sell it, and no honest dealer will advise
you to accept a substitute that he may
make a little larger profit.
“I was afflicted with kidney trouble and I
have always had a torpid liver,’’ writes Mrs. E.
Crosswhite, of Duffau, Erath Co., Texas. “ When
I commenced your medicine I was not able to
stand on my feet. I used one bottle of Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and five vials of
his ‘ Pleasant Pellets.’ I am now well. I had
not walked in four months when I commenced
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walk everywhere."
THE U, S,
AS A CITIZEN
H. A. Brown, Chaplain of the Rough
Riders, Writes On this Subject.
FEW OF MANY INCIDENTS.
How Does War Affect the Soldiers’ Personal
Character—The United States Volunteers
Are Composed of all Classes of Civilized
Society
Rev. H. A. Brown, chaplain of the
Rongh Riders, has contributed the fol-
I lowing article to the Philadelphia Sun-
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OASTORIA.
Bear* the ThB Kind YottHaraAlvrays Bought
Signature
of
isnniinu in Typhoid Fever.
After a long experience with typhoid
patients. Dr. Ussery of St. Louis main
tains that the best food for them is the
banana. Ho explains by stating that in
this disease the lining membrane of the
small intestines becomes intensely in
flamed and engorged, eventually begin
ning to slough away in spots, leaving
well defined ulcers, at which places the
intestinal walls become dangerously
thin.
Now, a solid food, if taken into the
stomach, is likely to produce perforation
of the intestines, dire results naturally
to go into camps for the winter in this
| city. Mr. Brown says:
‘One of the effects of war so frequent-
| ly pointed out is the baneful effect upon
the character of the soldier. Many
thoughtful people consider it as an un
mixed evil, tending only to destroy the
good, and to foster only that which is
bad, in the human heart. This idea
has so taken hold of anxious parents
that they seem to shudder more at the
danger to the character of their sous than
| at those dangers arising from actual
| combat.
‘The writer believes this view to be a
j mistaken one. He has for a number of
years made a special study of men, hav-
following, and, this being the case,
solid foods or those containing^ large | ing had opportunities to associate with
amount of innutritions substances are | them under all possible conditions, not
Home Wedding ol Two Popular
Young People.
Last evening at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Washington B. Jackson, on
Thomas street, occurred the marriage of
their charming young daughter, Lottie,
to Mr. George H. Thornton.
The wedding was a home affmr, be
ing witnessed by a number of invited
guests. The wedding ceremony was per
formed most impressively by Rev. W.
H. Yonng, pastor of the First Baptist
church, after which the heartiest con
gratulations were extended the happy
young couple by all present.
For broken surfaces, sores,
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NEGROES WANT TO STAY IN.
One Minute Cough Cure surprises
people by its quick cures, and children
may take it in large quantities without
the least danger. It has won for itself
the best reputation of any preparation
used today for colds, cronp, tickling in
the throat or obstinate coughs.
TROOPS FOR GRIFFIN.
Ask the President to Hold the Black Virginia
Regiment,
Washington, Oct. 26.—A committee
of Richmond negro citizens, headed by
James H. Hayes, called at the war de
partment today to urge the retention in
the military service of the Virginia
colored regiments and the substitution
of white officers for those now
place.
Secretary Alger pointed ont that these
were matters entirely in the hands of
the governor of the state, but promised
to consult the attorney-general to learn
if the department had any authority in
the matter.
A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat yields to One Minute Cough Cure.
Harmless in effect, touches the right
spot, reliable and just what is wanted.
It acts at once
to be avoided as dangerous.
But the banana, though it may be
classed as a solid food, containing as it
does some 95 per cent nutrition, does
not possess sufficient waste to irritate
the sore spots. Nearly the whole amount
taken into the stomach is absorbed, giv
ing tbe patient more strength than can
be obtained from other food.—Ameri
can Druggist.
Do Not Read In tbe Cara.
A London publisher whose eyesight
has become so impaired that he finds
himself able to do scarcely any reading
warns readers against working their
eyes when traveling in the cars. He
says-.
"For many years past I have been in
the habit of reading and writing for
some hours in the train almost daily,
and my present trouble is undoubtedly
traceable to this cause.”
Oculists are now nnlnimons in the
statement that after a certain time,
which varies in different individuals,
reading in the cars i9 a positive danger
to eyesight. The page is in constant vi
bration, and the eyes are strained in
trying to follow automatically the rapid
movements. Too much light is almost
as bad as too little. Reading by a pow-
Committee Returns from Washington ilucb
Encouraged.
Griffin, Ga., Oct. 26.—Today Hon. C..
L. Bartlett, Hon. D. J. Bailey, Hon. B.
R. Blakely and Hou. Robert T. Daniel
returned from Washington, where
they have been for several days look
ing ont for troops for Georgia, and inci
dentally presenting the claims of
Camp Nor then as a healthful place at
all times, and a particularly desirable
one daring the winter for United'States
troops. Col. Daniel was tbe only one
of the party seen and he said in reply to
inquiry: "We are very hopeful. Our
reception was more than we conld have
More than this, I cannot say,
ORDERED TO GEORGIA.
Division and Brigade Commanders Wilt Soon
Leave Lexington.
Lexington, Ky., Oct. 26—Orders were
issued from corps headquarters at
Camp Hamilton today directing the di
vision and brigade commanders of the
first army corps to proceed at once to
Georgia to select sites for the proposed
camps in that state.
Gen. Sanger, with several members
of his staff, will leave for Columbus to
morrow night. Tbe brigade comman
ders will follow in the next few ddys
A pioneer oorps in each regiment will
be formed to proceed south in advance
of the main body of troops to arrange
lay off the various regimental
only in our large cities and small villa
ges, but in mining-camps and sparsely
settled country districts, both East and
West. It has been his privilege to serve
as chaplain of the now celebrated Rongh
Riders, to march with them by night
and day, to share their privations,
minister to their necessities, and be
present under fire at every battle in the
province of Santiago de Cuba.
'If there ever was a regiment com
bining all classes of civilized society,
that regiment is the Rongh Riders
Here we find the professional gambler
from Arizona marching beside the
Yonng Men’s Christian Association man
from Boston; the reckless cowpnncher
of the plains seated at mess with the
society swell of the East; the Pawnee
Indian from Oklahoma sleeping beside
the Harvard graduate of Massachusetts;
the hard-handed miner of New Mexico,
and the lilly-fingered broker of New
erfnl electrio light invariably brings on I York; in short, representatives of every
eye troubles. People would make their | profession, trade, and calling are found
eyes remain serviceable much longer if
knew how mnch I had to be thankful
for‘If I get out of this alive, I’ll do
less complaining.’ These expressions
and kindred others, taken from all classes,
reveal the fact that war often sets men
thinking along right lines, and that it
does not make them thoughtless and
reckless.
"Again the question arises as to camp
morality, drunkenness, vicious habits,
evil associations and commnnications.
Are the dangers arising from these
things more serious than at home ? These
vices, of course, are ever present in the
army as elsewhere. Spanish ram was
always obtainable. Intemperate men
came into the army, and intemperate
men will he mustered out. Abnndant
ipportunities for doing wrong were ever
present in the regiment. Yet army
vices have either been greatly magnified
in the past, or there is a different class
of men in the army today than former
ly. The writer, dressed in common
soldier uniform, often moved incognito
among the men at night, sat with them
in their circles, listened to their jokes
and stories, and joined in their camp
songs; yet, up to the present day, he has
yet to see a single case of intoxication,
to hear a single vulgar story or song, or
note a single disrespectful remark
directed against the Christian religion
Never has he spent one-tenth of the
time spent in the army anywhere
private life with like experience.
"Attendance at Sunday services has
ever been good. It is a perfectly safe
statement to say the percentage is above
that in any city in the United States.
The services have ever been inspiring
owing to the hearty manner in which
the men joined in the good old songs
and hymns of their childhood and home.
"Two incidents illustrative of army
life are well worth relating here. After
the battle of Sas Guasimas, and the
wounded had been tenderly borne away
to the hospital, tbe regiment gathered
sadly and lovingly, with uncovered
heads, aronnd the new-made trench
where eight of their brave com
rades lay cold in death. As the
chaplain repeated the words “Let
pray,” every man of the regiment rever
ently knelt, with bowed head, while
prayer was being offered to God. As
the service closed, another incident oc
curred, never to be forgotten. A ser
geant of Troop E came forward, and
said, “Chaplain, I’ve never been bap
tized. I love God^ and I wish too
him before men. I shall try henceforth
to do bis will. Yesterday I received my
baptism of fire. May I not today re
ceive, at your hands, the baptism of
water?” And kneeling there, when but
the day before he stood bravely in the
thickest of the fight, he received the
sacred rite of baptism. After the bloody
charge up the hill of San Jnau, when he
was ever seen in the front of the battle
though hungry, and exhausted by the
dreadful heat and conflict, when others
lay down to rest, this sergeant bound
the rest cross upon his arm, and went
oat to minister to his wounded comrades,
It proved too much for his exhausted
frame : his love was greater than his
strength. The dreaded fever seized
him, and, though he lived to reach Mon
tank, he was carried in a casket,
by weepiug comrades, to his parents in
New York City. He can never die. He
is grafted on to the infinite. His influ
ence will ever be felt in succeeding gen
8rations. These are but few of the
many incidents and observations which,
in time of war, such as the one just end'
ed, convince the observer that war,
though terrible, is not an nnrnixed evil
SOME WAR FIGURES.
STATISTICS REGARDING THE ARMY
AND THE SUPPLIES USED.
the instant the printed letter becomes
blurry or the reading matter gets out
of focus they would seek the best pro
fessional skill and prepare to use glasses.
This may be at any age between 18 and
40.
here. Surely, no better opportunity for
study of the moral effects of war upon
the individual could possibly be affor
ded
Nor has this opportunity been neg
lected by the writer. He has not only
personally observed, but bas discussed
the matter with officers, and carefully
questioned the men. Strange as it may
seem to some, there 6eems to be practi
cally hat one opinion: The Rongh
Riders is a better regiment morally to
day than when mustered into service.
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Embraced by a Devil Fish.
A diver engaged in Moyne river h»
Australia had a terrible experienot
with a sea devil. Having fired off
charge of dynamite and displaced
large quantity of stones he went to the
bottom of the river and while engaged
in rolling over a large stone he saw
something moving abont in front of
him. This object quickly came in con
tact with him and coiled about his arm.
The diver walked slowly and painfully
along with tbe sea devil’s feelers twined
about his body and legs. He made tracks
for the ladder and gained the boat,
curious looking object indeed, with this
huge ugly thing entangled about his
body. With the help of the sailors he
was in time fieed from his submarine
companion. The body of the octopus
was only abont tbe size of a large soup
plate, with eyes like a sheep’s, but it
possessed nine arms, each four feet in
length, at the butt as thick as a man’i
wrist and tapering off at the end like
penknita All along the under part of
the feelers of this strange sea creature
are suckers every quarter of an inch,
giving it immense power.
Tbe Transformed Pythagorean.
Borne undergraduates once wished to
play a practical joke upon a man who
was a disciple of Pythagoras, so one day
when he was a little sleepy by reason
of the amount of brandy and soda that
he bad imbibed his friends smeared him
with honey and rolled him in the in'
side of a feather bed. When the disciple
of PythagoraB got up in the morning,
he looked in the looking glass at him-
eelf and said slowly, with a whistle,
"Bird, by Jove l”—London Ficaro.
Goats the Government 800,010 a Day to
Feed the Army — Loss to the Spaniards
by the Destruction of Their Vessels Was
•24,600,000.
Now that -the war is over some per
sons would like to know how many bul
lets were fired during the conflict, bnt
since that cannot be ascertained it is
striking enough to consider that the
277.000 men now composing the army
of the United States carry in their car
tridge belts more than 27,000,000 rifle
balls. At all events they would carry
that many if all of them were armed
with the new magazine rifle, common
ly known as the Krag-Jorgensen, 100
cartridges being allowed to each man.
Before long all of Uncle Sam’s soldiers
will be provided with this weapon in
stead ot the “archaic” Springfield.
Thus equipped the 277,000 men now
enlisted would carry 372 tons of bullets
at their waists, and this makes reckon
ing of only the leaden balls and not of
the cartridges containing them. Each
of the cartridges is a bit over three
inches long, and if all of those contain-
in the belts of the soldiers were
placed end to end they would stretch
,866 miles. Just think of the destruc
tive power represented by that line of
cartridges!
The barrel of one of these regulation
rifles is 80 inches long. If all of them—
the 277,000—were placed end to end,
so as to make a continuous tube, the
latter would extend 131 miles, or just
about the distance from Washington to
Philadelphia. Bnt, to render the thing
more striking, consider the fact that
the new rifle will kill a man at 4,400
yards. This makes a total effective
range of 692,600 miles for 277,000
rifles. Accordingly if tbe velocities of
all the ballets could be combined three
sharpshooters on the earth would be
able to shoot far enough to kill three
men on the moon.
Each soldier’s uniform, with cape
overcoat, requires square yards of
material. Hence it appears that the
cloth nsed for making war costumes for
the 277,000 men in the army, if spread
ont, would cover just about 644 acres,
or a little over a square mile. At $18.65
a suit an outfit of uniforms for all the
troops of the United States costs the
government $5,166,050, enough to
bnild, furnish and arm the biggest and
finest kind of a battleship, snch as the
Oregon.
Most of the volunteers in the war
have received only one blanket apiece
from Uncle Sam, though the usual al
lowance is two. These blankets are of
exceptionally fine material, costing
$3.33 apiece. To provide every man in
the army with one means an expense of
$922,410, and these 277,000 blankets
would cover 244 acres of ground. They
are 7 feet long by 5)^ feet wide, and
it is agreed by both officers and men in
the service that better poker can be
played on them than on any other kinc
of a cloth.
To make an army shirt of flannel re
quires three square yards of stuff, and
the government pays $1.95 for the fin
ished garment. Thns it is easily cal
culated that such shirts for all the
troops wonld come to a total of $540,-
000 anG the material for them wonld
spread over 172 acres. More interesting
is the fact that 34,625 calves wonld be
required to‘.furnish leather for the shoes
of all the regiments, and this wonld
take no account of the soles and heels,
which would have to be supplied by
00,233 cows. The rubber cloaks for the
army, called “ponchos,” would cost
$390,570 and would cover 143 acres.
G”a acre of good land yields 875
pounds of cotton, which can be woven
into 147 half tents of the "shelter’
kind nsed in the field. Each two sol
diers have a tent between them, one
carrying the right half and the other
the left half. Snch a \tent costs $3.97
complete, with jointed pole, eto., the
total expense of sheltering the entire
army under canvas being $549,845.
Spread out the canvas needed wonld
DOrne cover 272 acres, each half tent having
4% yards of material. To produce the
ootton for making all this tentage wonld
need 1,889 acres, or nearly three square
mileB.
An ordinary canteen holds two quarts.
With all these receptacles filled the
present army of 277,000 men carries
3,644 hogsheads of water. This in fact
is about equivalent to the daily require
ment of water for the troops. The quan
tity would last one man more than 760
years. Each man has a tin cup that
holds a pint and a half. If all of them
were filled, they would contain 2,733
hogsheads. Bnt soldiers are thirsty peo
ple and their belt capacity is wonder
ful. Forty-nine inches long, by the
way, is the average cartridge belt, and
277,000 of them put end to end wonld
stretch 214 miles.
The war department says that it costs
18 cents a day to maintain a soldier.
This, of course, means simply the regu
lar rations. Transportation of provisions
means an extra expense, and so it is
reckoned that a fighting man requires
22 cents a day for his maintenance.
Now, at' this rate, the government is
obliged to pay $60,940 . a day for food
for the 277,000 men enlisted. Each man
is entitled to an allowance of 20 ounces
of fresh meat a day, which means a
total of 346,250 pounds for the entire
army. Of flour the allowance is 18
ounces, amounting to 1,589 barrels a
day for the whole army. Reckoning
things on the same basis, the army as
at present constituted requires 1,731
barrels of potatoes daily, and for the
same period 27,700 pounds of coffee,
41,550 pounds of sugar, 11,279 pounds
of salt, 5,639 pounds of soap, 4,324
pounds of candles, 692 pounds of pepper
and 44 hogsheads of vinegar.
Daring the war the loss to the Span
iards by riiips destroyed has been $24,-
'600,000. The cost to the United States
tnay reach $1,000,000,000.
When
HUNG
Securing f rcc ,
dom from the grip
of catarrh makes
loyal friends f or
the liberator.
Pe-ru-na has
been making
friends of this
kind for many
years. It cares
catarrh wher
ever located.
Mrs. R. Eades,
A' °f 35 T wen tv-
eighth St., De
troit, Mich., is one of the many thou
sand of Pe-ru-nas friends. This is what
she says to Dr. Hartman:
“ We have used your Pe-ru-na with
the most remarkable results and would
not be without it. We have always
recommended it to our friends. A few
years ago I purchased a bottle of your
Pe-ru-na and after seeing its results
recommended it to my grocer who was
troubled with dyspepsia, the curing 0 f
which induced her to sell it in “her
store. She has sold large amounts of
it My daughter has just been cured
of jaundice with Pe-ru-na. My pen
would grow weary were I to begin to
tell you of the numerous cures Pe-ru-na
has effected in our immediate vicinity
within the last couple of years.”
Dr. Hartman, President of the Surgi-
cal Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, will counsel
and prescribe for fifty thousand women
this year free of charge. Every suffer
ing woman should write for special
question blank for women, and have
Dr. Hartman's book, “Health and
Beauty." All druggists sell Pe-ru-na.
Ask any druggist for a free Pe-ru-na
Almanac for the year 1899.
Inopportune- Deaths.
Julius Caesar was assassinated when
he had almost completed the task of
consolidating the administration and
dominion of the Roman empire, and his
death opened the way to that despotism
and corruption which ultimately undid
his work. Henry of Navarre was killed
when he had almost healed the differ
ences between Catholic and Protestant,
which subsequently rent not only
France, but Europe, and William the
Silent also fell when he was on the
point of uniting the Netherland prov
inces into p compact barrier against the
encroachments of Spam.
In English history Lord Clive died at
the moment when he was the one man
who could have saved the American
colonies and kept tho Anglo-Saxon race
united, bnt there is tho case of Mira-
beau. He was literally the one man in
France who could have averted the hor
rors of the revolution, saved and re
formed the monarchy and so spared Eu
rope the murderous career of Napoleon
and all the devastation it brought. If
he had lived ten or even five years
longer, the history not only of France,
bnt of Europe and the world, would
have been different. It is in fact suffi
cient to say that he would have mado
both Robespierre and Napoleon impos
sible.—Strand Magazine.
Be Got the Bastard.
It was in the army. The boys had a
meal of beef that had been corned by a
bath in a salt horse barrel. It was quite
a treat. They all thought so until one
of the party remarked, “A little mus
tard wouldn’t go bad. ”
“That reminds me,” said another
“You just wait a few minutes. ” A
quarter of an hour later he returned
and, producing a screw of paper, ho
said: "Oh, yes. Here’s that mustard. ”
“Where did you get it?” said the
others in chorus.
“Up at the surgeon’s. The sick call,
yon remember, sounded as we were
talking about tho mustard. It occurred
to me that a little mustard for my lamo
back w’ould be just the thing. ”
“But you haven’t got any lame
back.”
“Bnt I have got the mustard.”
Philadelphia Press.
you call for DeWitt’s Witch
Haxel Salve, the great pile cure, don’t
accept anything else. Don’t be talked
into accepting a substitute, for piles, for
sores, for barns.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind Yqd Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles. Scalds. Burns.
ON A BIKE BUILT FOR TWO.
And the Startling News Was Not Known
Until Afterward.
A cyclist whom we will call Baxter
was strolling along the avenue when be
noticed a pretty girl in a neat cycling
costume standing by a tandem. She had
her back turned to bun, but he saw she
wore a trim costume, had a neat ankle
and a nicely arranged lot of hair. Bax
ter is very particular abont a girl’ 6
hair. This girl looked so attractive that
he paused. There was something pa
thetic in her attitude, he thought. Vvas
she waiting for a cavalier to join her
on the tandem? A wild idea entered
Baxter’s head. He wonld do a daring
thing. He walked up to the girl, the
turned a frank, merry face on him as
he approached.
“Pardon me,” he laughingly said,
“but are yon looking for an accompa
nist?” and he pointed to the tandem.
“Well,” she smilingly answered,
“now that yon mention it, I guess
am.” • „
A moment later they were whirling
UP the street. When it began to gro>v
dark, they turned back.
‘ * My tandem?’ ’ cried the girl ‘ ‘ ^
it isn’t my tandem.”
“Not your tandem?” shouted Baxter
•Whose is it, then?”
“Why,” said the girl, “I thought i
was yours.”
“Heavens, no!” groaned Baxter. ^
“Bui yon acted as if it was yours,
■aid the girl.
“What shall we do?” moaned tn-
girl.
“Take it back,” said Baxter.
So they rode back in silence,
and
when they were abont a block away 1
girl said:
“ J guess I’ll stop here. ”
Leaving the tandem as near to tJi
place where he saw it as he could, *>
scuttled away in the darkness. —Cycling
Gazette. _____
Life of Clerks In Manila.
Clerks in Manila earn from $2,500 to
$5,000 a year, besides having lodging
found, a mess allowance, medical aj
the
tendanoe and traveling expenses,
many cases their rooms are over
officea They work from daylight
noon, rest for two or three hours »“ ■
then work till 5 o’clock, bnt they ha
mnch freedom in choosing their h°u^
and are harried only on mail day*
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