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It RIGHT BITS.
Telescopes were first made by Jan
sen in 1590.
Rochester has a company of deaf
mute soldiers.
Europe now imports every year
360,000 tons of meat.
Ceylon has cinnamon plantations
covering 36,000 acres.
In th 9 rock of Gibraltar there are
70 miles of tunnels.
The Union Pacific railroad crosses
nine mountain ranges.
The Chinese live longer than people
nny other nation.
The anchors of the steamship Cam
pania weigh 8 1-2 tons each.
Rembrandt’s father is said to have
been a miller and farmer.
A teaspoonful of microbes contains
over 4,000,000 individuals.
In all countries more marriages
take place in June than any other
month.
The queen of Corea has a lady phy
sician who gets a salary of $15,000
yearly.
The most prolific of opera composers
was Piceini. He wrote over two hun
dred operas.
Unbearable boorishuess can be
changed to bearable eccentricity by
the acquisition of wealth.
Marshal Bessieres was a farmer’s
boy, and after enlisting as a private
rose from the ranks.
Southern Pacific locomotives will
soon use for fuel bricks made of coal
dust and asplmltum.
Celluloid is paper chemically treated,
reduced again to pulp and then molded
into its final form.
Some characters are like the black
billiard ball—not black, but called so
because of one black spot.
We are haunted by an ideal life,
and it is because we have within us
the beginning and the possibility of
it. —Phillips Jiroolcs.
A man going shopping with his wife
is usually a most woe-begone looking
object. His face always bears upon it
the marks of despair.
Perhaps you have heard of “Spar
tacus to the Gladiators. ” Its author,
the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, still preaches
at Harpswell, Me., although over 80.
A Beverly (3l*isb.) man was fined $5
for slapping his wife in the face and
sls for assaulting the policeman who
arrested him. There seems to be
something wrong with the Beverly po
lice court’s tariff.
Electric Wires and Rain.
Professor Wiggins believes that tel
egraph wires cause drought; that the
atmosphere cannot absorb moisture
unless it is charged with electricity
and that upon an oblate spheroid like
the earth the electricity will inevitably
collect at the equator. In this way he
explains the frequency of the rains at
the equator. “If, however,” he says,
“there be elevated spots on a sphexe,
electricity will collect on them. Should
these spots or continents be connected
by wires, it might accumulate on each
alternately. This has happened, and
America has all of the electric energy,
and Europe has lost it, so that our
continent is flooded, and Europe is
burned up with drought.” His con
clusion from all this is that electric
wires should be buried.— Chicago
Tribune .
Why Picnics are so Called.
Everybody knows what a picnic is,
but most of folks would find it hard to
say how it got that name, and yet it is
simple enough when you come to learn
it. When a picnic was being arranged
for, the custom originally was that
those who intended to be present
should supply the eatables and drink
ables. A list of those necessities hav
ing been drawn up, it was passed
round, and each person picked out the
article of food or drink that he or she
was willing to furnish, and the name
of the article was nicked, or ticked off
the list. The open air entertainment
thus became known as “pick and
nick.” The custom is said to have
dated from 1802, so that the picnic is
wholly an institution of the nineteenth
century. Exchange.
A Mitigating Circumstance.
Pastor—ls it a fact that you throw
your boots at your wife, and that she
pounds you with the broom-stick?
Husband—\es; but sometimes we
change about, and I pound her with
the broom-handle, and she bounces
the boots on me. Texas Siftings.
Half the wDrk washing dishes is
keeping the dishcloths and towels
clean. Washing out once a week in
ammonia water should never be neg
lected.
If You Had a Friend
Tormented with dyspepsia, you could not give
him better advice than to adopt and stick to
a course of H os tetter's Stomach Bitters,
finest and safest of tonics and regulators.
This is no barren as-ertion. Experience has
proved, physicians and the public certify to it.
No lcs emphatic i- their indorsement of it as
* remedy for malarial di-ea-e, constipation,
rheumatism, kid ey disease, gout and neu
ralgia.
If you want to know what your friends
really think of you, get into a quarrel with
them.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala
ria, Biliousness and General Debilit-'. Gives
strength, aids Divestioa, tones the >rves—
creates appetite. The best tonic for .sursiag
Mothers, w eak women aud children.
A pool sermon will always outlive the
preacher.
It is a gx-eat thing for a young man to get out
a little and come in contact with other people
and see how they live. B. F. Johnson & Cos.,
Richmond. Va., are giving man young men a
chance to do this, and at The same time to put
money in bank r ■ pidly. lry them and see.
We Cere Rapture.
No matter of how long standing. Write
tor free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hollensworth & Cos., Owego, Tioga Cos., N. Y.
Price $1; by mail, $1.15.
THE TESTIMONIALS
We publish are not pur
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FOUR HUNDRED ARE DEAD!
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Appalling Fatalities of the storm AH
Beanlort and Pori RovaL
Scenes of Death and Desolation On All
Sldes--400 Dead Bodies Recovered.
A special of Thursday night from
Beaufort, 8. C., is to the effect that
over three hundred and ninety dead
bodies have been found on the islands
about Beaufort and Port Royal. Over
two million dollars of property has
been wrecked near the same points.
And both of these are the direct re
sult of the severe storm which swept
along the Atlantic coast on the night
of August 27th.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Royal and
Beaufort is steeped iu sorrow. Oil
every door knob there is a bunch of
crape, and upon every hillside there
are fresh-made graves, some already
filled, while others are awaiting the
bodies that will be deposited in them
just as soon as someone can be found
to do the kind Christian act of shovel
ing the dirt upon the coffin.
The beeches, the undergrowth,
trees and shubbery, the marshes and
the inlets are turning up new dead
bodies every time an investigation is
made. Already more than two hund
red bodies have been found, and many
people of that section are confident
in their predictions that the death roll
will run as high as five hundred. Some
of the people, and they are among the
best people of that section of the state,
even place the loss at more than one
thousand.
There has not been an hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body has not
been found at some point ou one of
the many islands. As the waters re
cede and the people move deeper into
the wreckage gathered by the storm
the ghastly pictures are uncovered. So
frequent are the discoveries that the
finding of a single body attracts no
attention at all. It takes the discov
ery of at least a clump of a half-dozen
or more to induce the people to show
any feelings whatever,
It is around Beaufort and Port Roy
al that the death rate was the greatest,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only three
coffins were brought to supply the
local demand, while Port Royal got
off even lighter. Around the two
towns there is a chain of islands, and
it was upon these that the black angel
of death hovered for hours Sunday
night, leaving in his path sorrow and
desolation greater than has ever visi
ted the state before, even in the bloody
days of reconstruction.
The storm was one of the most se
vere the people of the coast have ever
knowm. This section of the Atlantic
coast has been prolific iu storms that
scattered death and destruction of
property in their wake, but the weath
er wise man, the oldest inhabitant, or
the coast pilot cannot recall anything
approaching it. It was a storm of
wind, rain and hail, and the elements
seemed combined in their greatest fury.
The seas ran high, and salt-w r ater
waves were driven by the heavy winds
as much as twenty miles inland.
House were blown away; trees were
torn from the earth, leaving holes big
enough to hide a freight train, vessels
were dashed against the breakers and
thrown upon the earth as much as five
miles from the water edge.
The storm began, really, Sunday
morning. The day came on with
heavy black clouds hanging over the
ports. An ugly wind started up about
10 o’clock Sunday morning, blowing
from the northeast. It increased us
the day grew on, and about noon a
cold, chilly rain started. Long before
dark the people living along the coast
knew that a storm was inevitable but
none dreamed of the great extent it
assumed. Late iu the evening the
wind took on a great velocity-, and as
the night advanced the great volocity
of the wind increased until it attained
a speed of 130 miles an hour at 3
o'clock. And this is about the time
the City of Savannah went ashore.
But it was not until the next morning
that the people knew of the great and
terrible danger through which they
had passed.
A glance at the map w ill show that
arouud the place of greatest disaster
there is a group of some tweuty
islands. Some of these are very small,
with only one or two families living
thereon, while others are larger and
accommodate as many inhabitants as
4,500. St. Helena has a population of
4,500; Lady’s island, 1,500; Dawtha’s
island, 75 ; Coosaw island, 600 ; Beau
fort, town, has a population of 3,600.
Port Royal island, embracing the
towns of Beaufort and Royal, has a
population of about 8,000.
FOUR HUNDRED ARE DEAD.
As far as reliable information which
has reached the officers goes, the dead
will number 400, and they are located
as follows: At the Paeilic works sev
enty-nine bodies have been found and
buried. On Lady’s island twenty-four
bodies were buried on Tuesday and
others hav • been found since. On Paris
island nineteen bodies had been recov
ered and buried up to Tuesday noon.
On Beaufort island twelve bodies
have been buried. At the Coosaw
mines five bodies have been buried.
At Cain’s Neck twenty-two bodies have
been recovered and buried, and re
ports are that seventy-nine lives were
lost there. On the Eustis place, one
of the richest plantations of Lady’s
island, forty-seven new made graves
were filled Wednesday morning. At
the other end of Lady’s island seven
other dead bodies have been found. At
Dawtha’s island, a place of about
1,200 acres, eighty lives are reported
lost and nearly half that many bodies
have been recovered. In addition to
the list of those given elsewhere from
St. Helena it is estimated that 150 lives
have been lost. On Warsaw island
reliable information has placed forty
five in the grave. On hunting island,
the island off which the steamship
City of Savaunah was wrecked, forty
six are dead.
LOSS TO SHIPPING.
The to shipping around the im
portant islands is fearful. There are
eight dredges which were employed in
getting out phosphate rock by the
several companies engaged in this in
dustry. The largest one, the Kennedy,
cost $350,000. The others were not
so valuable, but all are beached high
! and dry, or are bottom up and hope
-1 less wrecks. Connected with these
dredges were washboats and lighters.
There were something like three hun
dred of these, the average value being
about $2,000, and which are scattered
all over the marshes. Many of these
can be recovered,but there are at least
fifty that are total wrecks.
The damage to the phosphate indus
try, to shipping, warehouses, com
merce, merchandise, dwellings and
crops around Reaufost and Port Royal
will go to $2,000,000. Add $1,000,000
for Charleston, another for Savannah
and the damage to railroads and
steamship lines and there is a grand
, total of something like $5,000,000 loss
! and 600 dead bodies as the fruit of
Sunday night’s blow in a stretch of
100 miles on the Oeorgia and Carolina
coast. It is equal to the devastation
of war, and yet these are the figures
given by conservative men.
THE GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION.
Governor Tillman issued the fol
lowing proclamation at 11 o’clock
Thursday night: “Having received
the following telegram from J. 11.
Averill, receiver of the Port Royal
and Augusta Railroad company con
veying the startling intelligence of an
appalling loss of life and a terrible
state of destitution upon the islands
upon the coast of this state resulting
from the terrible hurricane which the
Almighty in His judgment has visited
upon the people of the south Atlantic
states, causing universal suffering:
“ ‘Yi-.massee,N. C.,August3l.—To Hon. B.' K.
Tillman, Governor of North Carolina: The loss
of life by the recent cyclone on the islands ad
jacent to B aufort and Port Royal will numb r
not less than six hundred people. There are
seven thousand on the islands entirely destitute
of provisions. All they had lias been washed
away and iheir crops are entirely lost. Great
destitution will prevail among them unless they
havespeeJy relief. I am working night and
day to open up communication and hope to
have trams into Beaufort not later than Mon
day next. Please address any reply you have
to me at Yemassee, from which point it will be
forwarded by railroad, J. H. Averill
Governor Tillman then goes on to
call on the people of South Carolina
to come to the aid of their suffering
fellow citizens. He calls for con
tributions of money, food, clothing
and other necessaries of life sufficient
to meet the present emergency.
THE CREW SAVED.
Tlie Steams!® Sayamiali is ¥kcM
Olf Hnattng Island
After a Seven Days’ Battle With An.
gry Waves.
Dispatches of Wednesday night
state that the passengers and crew of
the City of Savannah have been res
cued and are safe, though the gallant
steamship is a total wreck.
After a seven days’ encounter with
the ocean at its angriest, and after
shipwreck on a storm-beaten coast the
passengers of the ill-fated ship were
rescued bjr the gallant steamer City of
Birmingham off Hunting Island, on
the South Carolina coast.
Heartily and sincerely did Savan
nah rejoice when the news reached
the city, whose name the fated steam
ship bore, and a nation rejoiced with
her. A day of doubt and anxiety and
sorrow had the happiest possible
ending. As the gallant City of Bir
mingham steamed up to her dock,
bearing aloft the pennant of her
stricken sister and below that most
precious burden, her human freight,
cheer after cheer rang out from the
assembled throng to give her noble
welcome.
The rescue of the Savannah was the
feature of the day's netv& from the
Storm-swept coast region. In Savan
nah, in Atlanta, throughout the entire
country, the deepest interest was felt
all day in the fate of the long-past
due steamships. They had been given
tip for lost; and j ust when everybody
began to give up iu despair, the Bir
mingham, with the Savannah’s people
on board, reached her home.
The City of Savannah was the oldest
ship of the Ocean steamship fleet.
She was built iu Chester, Pa., in 1877,
by John Rorch & Son. She was of
2,029 gross tons and 1,358 net. Her
engines were compound and were built
in 1877. She carried forty-six officers
and men. The steamer is a total loss.
No information yet about the cargo.
A STAY LAW WANTED.
Sou’ll CitrolinA Farthers Request an
Extrr. Session of the legislature.
The farmers are becoming alarmed
at the likelihood of having to market
their cotton at present prices and
the Mechanicville Alliance unani
mously adopted the following:
Whereas, The money sharks and
goldbugs have contracted the volume
of money so that there is practically
no money in the country to move the
cotton crop; and,
Whereas, Congress does not seem to
intend to give the necessary relief in
time to save us from bankruptcy;
therefore, be it
“Resolved, That we earnestly appeal
to the governor of South Carolina to
call an extra session of the legislature,
uot later than September 15th, to pass
a stay law on all debts falling due on
or before November 15th, so that we
may be enabled to pay onr debts with
out bankrupting ourselves and starv
ing our wives and children.
“Resolved, That under the present
conditions there is no way whereby we
can meet our debts without sacrificing
our homes and property, which we do
not propose to do. Takes our lives,
but do not starve our wives and chil
dren.”
THE INJUNCTION DISSOLVED
And the World’s Fair Rates Will be
Closed on Sundays.
A Chicago dispatch says: The in
junction restraining the directors
from closing the World’s fair gates to
the public on Sundays, has been dis
solved. Judges Dunne and Brantano
united in a decision to this effect
Thursday morning. Judge Goggin
dissented and upheld the decision of
Judge Stein. With the injunction
dissolved, the directors are at liberty
to use their discretion in opening the
gates on Sunday, and the rule adopted
by them against a fair on the first day
of the week will, therefore, be in force,
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Tbs Daily Mine of Both Honsei
BrieSy Epitomize!
What is Being Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Relief.
Nineteenth Day. —ln the Senate
Tuesday. Mr. Voorhees, chairman of
the finance committee, reported back
to the house the bill repealing a part
of the Sherman act with an amend
ment in the nature of the substitute.
He asked that the bill be placed on the
calendar and gave notice that he should
ask the senate to take it up immedi
ately after the morning business from
this time on until final action is taken.
■When he called it up, Mr. Teller ob
jected to its immediate consideration
and it went over until ’Wednesday.
Mr. Stewart’s resolution, inquiring in
to the condition of the treasury, was
then taken up. Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, had the floor an hour on the
silver question. He spoke in favor of
unconditional repeal. He also declared
himself in favor of free coinage. If
the friends of bimetallism, said he,
were strong enough in the senate to
attach free coinage to the pending
bill they would be strong enough to
enact it afterwards. He was opposed
to delay the repeal by a contest over
free coinage. During the delivery of
his speech Senator Gordon was given
close attention by well-filled and
crowded galleries. He explained his
position by stating that the Sherman
law was not the friend but the insidi
ous foe of bimetallism.
Twentieth Day.— ln the senate,
Wednesday, after the routine morning
business the bill for the repeal of the
Sherman act was taken up, and Mr.
Sherman proceeded to address the
senate. He said that if the repeal of
the purchasing clause of the act of Ju
ly, 1890, were the only reason for the
extraordinary session it would seem
to him insufficient. It was, how
ever, justified by the existing
financial stringency. On one thing,
he said, congress and the
people were agreed, and that was that
both gold and silver should be contin
ued in use as money. Monometallism,
pure and simple, had never gained a
fbothoid in the United States. If the
senators wanted cheap money and an
advance in prices the free coinage of
silver was the way to do it, but they
should not credit bimetallism.
Twenty-First Day —After some un
important proceedings in the senate
Thursday Mr. Cockrell introduced a
concurrent resolution directed the sec
retary of the treasury to issue
certificates, not to exceed 20
per cent of the amount of gold
coin and bullion in the -treasury and
to use and expend the same in payment
of interest on the public debt, or any
other demand, liability or obligation
of the United States. It was read and
laid on the table for the present.
The house bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
was then taken up and Mr. Wolcott, of
Colorado, opened the debate with a
prepared speech against the bill, de
livered in the presence of almost all
the senators, and of a large audience
in the galleries,
Twenty-Second Day. —After some
twenty minutes spent in the routine
morning business of the senate, none
of which was of public importance, the
house bill to repeal a part of the Sher
man act, was taken up and Mr. Yance,
one of the minority members of the
finance committee, addressed the sen
ate in ojoposition to the bill.
Twenty-Third Day. —Notice was
given in the senate Saturday morning
by Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the fi
iffince committee; that he on
next Monday move that the hour of
meeting of the senate should be 11 a.
m; instead of 12 m., and from that
on He expected the consideration
of the bill to repeal the Sher
man act to proceed from hour to hour.
The repeal bill was, at Mr. Voorhees’
suggestion, laid aside informally for
the day as no senator desired to speak
on it. The house urgency deficiency
bill was then reported and passed with
some small amendments. Mr. Dolph
proceeded to address the senate in fa
vor of the bill introduced by him ap
propriating $500,000 to enable the
secretary of the treasury to enforce
the Chinese exclusion act.
THE HOUSE.
Nineteenth DAy— iu the hotise*
Tuesday, after a little routine business*
Mr. Catchings called up the report of
the committee on rules reporting rules
to govern the house of the Fifty-third
congress. Mr. Reed twitted the demo
crats upon their partial approval of
the rules of the fifty-first congress, but,
in a humorous vein, contended that
they had not gone far enough. He
then, in a more serious manner, argued
in favor of the rights of the majority,
which rights had been firmly maintied
in the fifty-first congress. Then for
the first time this session the speaker
took the floor, having called Mr. Rich
ardson of Tennessee, to the chair, and
replied to the criticisms of the gentle
in&U from Maine. The debate was
continued by Messrs. Springer, Boat
ner and Hooker of Mississippi, who
contended that the membership of the
committee on rules should be increas
ed. Mr. Pickier, republican, of South
Dakota, agreed with Mr. Hooker on
this point. Messrs. Cumming, Hep
burn, of lowa, and Bryan also joined
in the discussion. Then the subject
was dropped and Mr. Springer intro
duced a bill to provide for the coin
age of the seigniorage silver in the
treasury. Referred. The house at
5:15 o’clock adjourned.
Twentieth Day.— The session of the
house Wednesday was devoid of inter
est. Mr. Talbot asked unanimous con
sent to introduce a bill repealing tUe
statutes authorizing the appointment
of marshals and supervisors of elec
tion. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported the urgent deficiency appro
priation bill, and it was passed. The
items are 825,000 for bank note paper,
$200,000 for the coinage of subsidiary
coins and $75,000 for clerks to repre
sentatives. The house then resumed
the consideration of the new code of
rules with the understanding that the
general debate should close at 2 o’clock.
This understanding was disregarded
and the time arranged so as to include
the entire day’s geggion. The proposed
code of rules was debated, both under
the hour rule and the five minutes
rule. Without disposing of the rules
the house at 5 :05 o’clock adjourned.
Twenty-First Day.— After the very
little and very unimportant routine
morning business had been transacted
in the house Thursday, the considera
tion of the new code of rules was
taken up. Mr. Hooker attacked the
proposition in the rules which confers
upon the committee on rules jurisdic
tion over all proposed action touching
the order of business. He contended
that such a course would mean the
surrender of the powers of the great
committees of tne house to a commit
tee consisting of five men.
Twenty-Second Day. —After the
reading of the journal in the house
Friday, Mr. Weadock, democrat, of
Michigan, offered a resolution post
poning from Saturday until Septem
ber 15th the delivery of eulogies upon
the late J. Logan Chipman, of Michi
gan. Mr. Eeed said that the resolu
tion pre-supposed that the house would
be in session at that date. He had
hoped that “the country would have
been relieved of us before that time.”
The resolution was adopted. The
consideration of the ruleß was then re
sumed. The vote was taken on the
Boatner cloture amendment, and it
was rejected, 90 to 131. Mr. Morse,
republican, of Massachusetts, offered
an amendment prohibiting the smok
ing of tobacco upon the floor of the
house at any time. This was adopted
—55 to 51. Some of the most invet
erate smokers in the house were sit
ting around Mr. Morse, clouding him
tip while he was advocating his'amend
ments Several amendments looking
to cloture in some shape or degree, and
to the prevention of filibustering, were
rejected. Mr. Morse’s amendment was
the only one that was successful. The
house at 5 o’clock adjourned until Sat
urday,
Twenty-Third Day —After the trans
action of some routine business, in the
house, Saturday morning, the consid
eration of the rules was resumed. The
first amendment presented was one
cutting off the poiver of a single mem
ber to object to a request for unani
mous consent. It was defeated by a
bare quorum. Yeas 52, nays 127.
THE HEWS IN GENERAL.
CoMeiisel Iroi Bur Most Important
Telegraphic Airaes
And Presented in Pointed and Reada*
ble Paragraphs.
Three deaths from cholera were re
corded in Naples Wednesday. No
new cases. Three fresh cases and
three deaths were reported in Casino.
A cable dispatch states that more
than sixty thousand miners resumed
work in South Wales Thursday. This
means practically the collape of the
strike in South Waleß and Monmouth
shire;
The Atlantic Coast Line announced
Wednesday morning that the breaks
on that line south of Charleston by
the recent storm are repaired and that
the line is now open from Wash
ington to Florida points.
Two fresh cases of Asiatic cholera
were reported in Berlin, Wednesday.
Both were caused by the drinking of
city water. The newspapers demand
that the city waterworks at Strau, on
the Spree, be closed, as they are gen
erally believed to be infected.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention assembled at Harrisburg
Wednesday and nominated Judge
Newlen D. Fell, of Philadelphia, as
candidate for supreme court judge,
and Samtiel M; Jackson, of Arm
strong coiintyj ft>t state treasurer.
, The immense building occupied by
the Gtay’s Ferry Foundry and Boiler
Company, at Philadelphia was almost
totally destroyed by fire Thursday
night The loss is estimated at $150,-
000; insurance not known. About one
hundred men are thrown out of em
ployment.
Surgeon-General Wyman, Wednes
day, received a telegram from James
Y. Porter, state health officer at Port
Tampa, Fla., stating that there is one
case of yellow fever there in the per
son of a clerk employed on the dock.
It developed ten days after possible
exposure to the disease.
A terrible accident to the Western
express No. 16, Boston and Albany
railroad, diie at Springfield at 1:15
o’clock, happened at the second rail
road bridge east of Chester Thurs
day. The bridge Collapsed, iettifig
the train through into the river flelow.
Five cars went through. Fifteen dead
bodies were taken from the wreck.
About fifteen -were seriously injured
and five or six may die.
A Washington special says: The
commissioner of patents rendered a
decision Wednesday in the matter of
the appeal to him of the state of South
Carolina from the refusal of the exam
iner to register a trade mark applied
for in the name of the state, consisting
of the word “Palmetto” to be printed
on the liquor labels, together with the
arms of the state and the name of the
liquor. The examiner refused regis
tration.
The steamship Decatur H. Miller
arrived at port in Baltimore Thurs
day with the shipwrecked crew of the
British ship Astoria. Tuesday morn
ing, twenty-five miles north of Hunt
ing island, the Astoria was sighted
with distress signals flying. The ves
sel was en route from Pensacola to
Antwerp, loaded with yellow pine.
Captain Faulkner, his wife and crew
of twenty persons were taken off and
the Astoria abandoned.
The United States warships Kear
sarge and Nantucket arrived at Nor
folk, Va., Wednesday, from New York.
The officers report that the trip was
the roughest they have ever experi
enced. During the storm Sunday
night the seas washed over the moni
tor, and with great difficulty she was
kept from going to the bottom. The
pumps would not free the vessel of
water, and officers and men worked
for thirty-six hours without ceasing.
Monday night, off the Virginia coast,
the vessels parted and each thought
the other had been lost.
Lowry City, Mo., has a 3740 pound
steer,
A Musical Canine Critic-
A wonderful story of a French musi
cal critic is related by persons who
profess to have been acquainted with
him and to have seen him in attend
ance on musical performances. He
was a dog, and his name in public was
Parade. Whether he had a different
name at home was never known. At
the beginning of the French revolution
he went every day to the military
parade in front of the Tuileries palace.
He marched with the musicians, halt
ed with them, listened knowingly to
their performances, and after the pa
rade disappeared, to return promptly
at parade time the next day.
Gradually the musicians became at
tached to this devoted listener. They
named him Parade, and one or another
of them always invited him to dinner.
He accepted the invitations and was a
pleasant guest. It was discovered
that after dinner he always attended
the theatre, where he seated himself
calmy in a corner of the orchestra and
listened critically to the music.
If anew piece was played, he notic
ed it instantly and paid the strictest
attention. If the piece had fine,
melodious passages, he showed his
joy to the best of his doggish ability,
but if the piece was ordinary and un
interesting he yawned, stared about
the theatre and unmistakably express
ed his disapproval.— Youth's Com
panion.
Spanish Courtesy.
In Spain a person who seats himself
at a table where there are others seat
ed salutes them on sitting down and
rising. Even when seating himself in
a park or garden, near to others, he
lifts his hat and repeats the courtesy
when he leaves.
Don’t Blame the Cook
If a baking powder is not uniform in strength,
so that the same quantity will always do the same
work, no one can know how to use it, and uni
formly good, light food cannot be produced with it.
All baking powders except Royal, because
improperly compounded and made from inferior
materials, lose their strength quickly when the can
is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there
will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food
is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted.
It is always the case that the consumer suffers
in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub
stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal
is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is
possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder.
It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more
economical because of its greater strength, but
will retain its full leavening power, which no
other powder will, until used, and make more
wholesome food.
“German
Syrup”
Mr. Albert Hartley of Hudson,
N. C., was taken with Pneumonia.
His brother had just died from it.
When he found his doctor could not
tally him he took one bottle of Ger
man Syrup and came out sound and
weli. Mr. S. B. Gardiner, Clerk
with Druggist J. ij. Barr, Aurora,
Texas, prevented a bad attack of
pneumonia by taking German Syrup
in time. He was in the business
and knew the danger. He used the
great remedy—Boschee’s German
Syrup —for lung diseases. ®
Unlike the Dutch Process
Qh No Alkalies
Other Chemicals
are use< * in the
preparation of
w. BAKER & CO.’S
I ItßreakfastCocoa
|h I • jil which is absolutely
I'M 'Il& A; jul pure and soluble,
am 1 j| It has more than three times
the strength of Cocoa mixed
glgL * ir l * Ii || with Starch, Arrowroot or
Sugar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easily
DIGESTED.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
pRGURiALg^
“About ten yeafs ago I con
tracted a severe case of blood poi
son. Leading physicians prescribed medicine
after medicine, which I took without any relief.
I also tried mercurial and potash remedies,
with unsuccessful results, but which brought
on an attack of mercurial rheumatism that
“HS KHEUB4TISM
four years I gave up all remedies and began
using 8. 8. 8. After taking several bottles I
was entirely cured and able to resume work.
Is the greatest medicine for blood
poisoning to-day on the market.”
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. Swift Specific Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
Spil
Stove: p QLISH
Do Not Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and paints which stain the
bands, injure the iron and burn red.
The Rising Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor
less, Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin
or glass package with every purchase.
Xngleside E^etreat.
For Diseases of Women. Scientific treatment and
cures guaranteed. Elegant apartments for ladies be
fore and during confinement. Address The Resi
dent Physician, 71-72 Baxter Court, Nashville, Tena.
■ “
CANCER Cured Permaueutly
NO KNIFE, NO POISON, NJ> PLASTER.
JNO. B. HARRIS, Fori Pjyae, Ala.
PnSTSC tf* 38 S C SEND for FREE Circular.
BUI | ifC UVafiMJ.S.KleUhbeficvUle.N. J.
Eren Machines Must Rest, |
To the town council of Southport
England, belongs the honor of hav
reduced Sabbatarianism to an absur/
ty. Not content with decreeing t],',.
all shop-keepers shall rest from tipi'
labors on Sunday, this delightful bo/
has decided that the same rule shall
apply to automatic machines. Sj x
days these overworked automatons mar
labor, but on the seventh day tfi e ‘ v
must disregard the pennies introduce!}
into their interior on pain of fine o r
imprisonment.— Exchange.
Th True Laxative Principle
Of the plants used in manufacturing the ple as
ant remedy. Syrup of Figs, has a permanently
beneficial effect on the human system, u-V
the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral So i a #
tions, usually sold as medicines, are iiera*
nently injurious. Being well informed, y O ,
will use the true remedy only. Manufactured
by the California Fig syrup Cos.
You can’t tel! much about a man’s relHor
by the noise he makes at t amp meeting. ’
m
Many persons are broken down from over
work or household car s. Brown’s Ir ut Bit"
ters rebuilds the sy-tem, aids digestion
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria \
splendid tonic for women and cliil Iren.
When you talk to a man about liis sins don't
stand ovtr him w.tli a club.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.
as mercury wid surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange t lie whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used eycem. on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to t he good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh
( uro manufactured by F. J. Chen >v & Cos
Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blond rn l
mucous surfaces of the system. In buying
Hull’s Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine
Jt is taken internally, and is made in Toledo
J< Cheney* Cos. Testimonials tree!
bold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Beecbam’s Pills cure indi gestion and con-t:-
pation. Beecham’s— no others. 25 cents a box.
r Do You Sleep Peacefully? ?
H “ Sleep, thou repose of *ll things; sleep, thou§
[zgentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mlndc
□ from w hich care flies; who dost 3
g SOOTHE?
H THE HEARTS?
E of men 2
H Wearied with toils of the day, and reflttest themH
jfor labor.” 3
riTHE HIGHLY TEMPERED STEEL WIRES
3F*ilgrim 3
aSpring P
§ Heel |
gb'ecures “ inviting sleep and Its soft forgetful-"!
Jzness.” £
p 0c not be deceived by cheap, common wrc3
limitations,- for “they are not what they appear.
H Exhibited at No. 31 Warren Street, New Vork;L
E| So. 2 Hamilton Place, Boston. C
3 For sale by all reliable JJealers. 3
E> See Brass Tag Hegistered Trademark on allCj
[■Genuine Pilgrims. r*
3 Send for Money Saving Primer, Free.
P Atlas Tack Corporation, Bositnt. J
3 Warehouses— Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 3
C Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Lvnn. t
(■Factories —Taunton, Mass.; Fairhaveu, Mass.; g
3 Whitman, Mass.; Duxbury, Mass.; t-.ymouth, 3
□TLrmxmjxixnjTJXJXixrLrTJTixr?
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
I THOMSON’S llSli
SLOTTED '
CLINCH RIVETS.
No tool* required. Onlv a hammer needed to drlv*
anc c inch th in easily and quickly, leaving the clinch
absolutely smooth. Requiring no ho e to be made In
lh<- leather nor burr lor the Blveta. They arc atreng,
tonicti and durable. Millions now in use. Ah
lengths, uniform or assorted, put up In boxes.
Ask your dealer for them, or eend 40c. In
etampt tor a box of lUO, assorted size*. Man'fd by
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.,
WALTHAM, 91 ASS.
[an ?DEA L FA M |"IY MEDICI NEI
■ For Indigestion, Biliousness,
= Headache, Constipation, Bad -
IComplexlon, Offensive Breath, jgSwijWgfe t
! and all disorders of the Stomach. f
I Liver and Bowels, !•’*?*') *
I RIPANS TABULES (jjgggi*
: act gently yet promptly. Perfect USaagWil yy i
■ digestion follows their use. Bold C
iby druggists or sent by mail. Box NfegasSr
lf6 vials), 76c. Package (4 boxes), $2. ,BJ ’
iForfreesamples-address „ , |
BIPANb
CANCER
CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE
Or use of painful, burning, poisonous plas
ters. Cancers exclusively traced. Dr.
p. B. Green’s Sanatorium, Fort Payne, Ala.
: °
a*||b To 825 5) can be made monthly
jR g I if I working for B. F. Johnson & Cos.,
* WVW No.3SouthllthSt.,Richmond, V*
jga who have weak lungs or Asth- BE
ma. should use Piso’s Cure tot g
■M Consumption. It has cured
jgl ttona‘nJ. ft has noUnjur- g*
Sold everywhere. 5J5c.
4. N. u ...... Thirty-aix, ’93-