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BOLL WEEVIL
PLAYS HAVOC
Pest Does Frightful Damage West
of the Mississippi,
INVESTIGATION IS MADE
Chemist, in Employ of the Government,
Reports Distressing State of Affairs
and Tells Gloomy Story,
Charles P. McLane, a chemist in tlie
employ of the agricultural department
of the United States government, ar
rived at Knoxville, Term., Saturday
Ircm Texas and Arkansas, where he
had been sent by the government to
investigate the damage done in the
cotton belt by weevil.
Ke has spent two months studying
the insects, and admits that the
future of the cotton-growing section
west of the Mississippi is exceeding
ly gloomy.
Mr. McLane says that the cotton
crop in ninety-six Texas counties will
he almost a total failure, and that the
western part of Arsansas, especially
Hempstead county, presents a desolate
appearance. He predicts that cotton
growing in the southwest will decline
in the future.
All efforts to destroy the weevil
have proved futile, and the people are
discouraged. Arkansas has not been
as hard hit this year as Texas, but
he predicts that the devastating weav.il
will spread rapidly over the entire cot
ton lands of .the southwest within two
years. Few:, if any, evidences of the
appearance of the weevil have been
seen east of the Mississippi.
SMALL HOPE FOR CURBS JETT.
Witnesses Swear to Seeing the Prisoner
Shooting at Cockrih.
In the trial of Curtis Jett for the al
leged assassination of James CockrilL
at Jackson. Ky., the commonwealth
Saturday introduced William Cope and
James Jllanton, who corroborated oth
ers as .to Jett being in front of the
court house immediately after the
shooting and to the shots coming from
the court house.
The feature was the testimony ©f
Charles Green, the witness who es
caped, and said he was afraid of being
killed if he testified. Green was
trough back under arrest from Lex
ington, Ky. He testified that he was
about ten feet from Cockrill when the
shooting began. He and Cockrill both
ran. He saw the shots coming in two
volleys from the court house window’,
and saw Curtis' Jett firing from tho
court house at Cockrill. He testified
that two other men were in the court
house whom he didn’t recognize, and
that but little smoke was visible,
which corroborates other witnesses in
saying that they believed smokeless
powder was used by Jett.
COWARD’S CABINET DWINDLES.
Another Member Goes Out, Also Financial
Secretary of the Treasury.
A Lcmfian special says: Lord Bal
four, of Burleigh, secretary for Scot
land, and Arthur Ralph Douglas Eliot,
financial secretary to the treasury,
have resigned and their resignations
have heen accepted by the king. Mr.
Elliott was not in the cabinet.
These two resignations make a total
o£ four vacant cabinet posts and one
secretaryship at Premier Balfour’s dis
position.
With the resignation of Lord Balfour
and Financial Secretary Elliott, both
strong free traders', it is understood
that, the ministerial resignations are
completed.
It is practically certain that Austen
Chamberlain. Lord Milner and Mr.
Erodrick will take the exchequer, colo
nies and Indian portfolios, respective
ly. and the only surprise 7n the new
appointments is likely to be the nomi
nation of a strong man to the war of
fice to determine how far the recoui
mendations of the South African war
commission can be carried out. <
EVANGELIST JONES GOES FREE j
While Postmaster Ackerman V*'ho Tecklad
Him is Fined Ten Dollars.
When arraigned in mayor’s court/ at
Cartersville, Postmaster Akerntrm
pleaded guilty to the charge of jdis
crderly conduct, with which he land
Rev. Sam Jones were charged, I and
was fined $lO and costs. I
Rev. Jones entered a plea of I not
guilty and brought forward pJomi
cent citizens as witnesses to provL his
statement. All of the witnesses sMwo-e
that the evangelist was on th® de
fensive in the difficulty and hJ was
discharged. I
Trtnl by Time.
Eugene E. Lario, of 751 Twentieth
avenue, ticket seller in tue Union Sta- j
tion, Denver, Col., says: “You ai - e at i
liberty to repeat what 1
first stated through our
Denver papers about Doan’s
Kidney Pills in the sum
mer of IS9O. for I have had
no reason in the interim to
change my opinion of the
remedy. I said when first |s|||f|i
interviewed that if I had a
friend and acquaintance
suffering from back ache figs™
or kidney trouble 1 would
unhesitatingly advise them
to take Doan’s Kidney |Wj|s§
Pills. I was subject to
severe attacks of back £s «aS»*
ache, always aggravated if T sat long
at a desk. It struck me that if Doan’s
Kidney Pills performed half what they
promised they might at least help. This
induced me to try the remedy. It abso
lutely stopped the back ache. I have
never had a pain or a twinge since.”
A Free Trial of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr. Lario will
be mailed to any part' of the United
States on application. Address Fos
ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For
sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per
box.
ONLY WAY TO DO IT.
The fair young thing is telling
about how happy she was when she
saw her brother’s baseball team win
the intercollegiate game.
“Oh,” she gurgles. “I was so de
lighted that I just hugged myself for
joy! ”
Here the grave professor of psychol
ogy looks up with an air of interest.
“Hugged yourself?" he asks. “In
deed, you must nave been quite b&side
yourself to do that.” —Judge.
How She Knew.
Two little girls were playing in front
of a city dwelling -when a strange man
went by.
“That ni3| is an undertaker,” said
one of the little girls.
,J How deA you know?” asked her
companion.
“Oh, because he is the man who un
dertook my grandmother.”—Septem
ber Lippincott’s..
Colombia Ims in circulation $003,000,-
000 of -paper money,from which nearly
all value has departed. The paper
money per capita is $lO3, and it takes
over SIOO of the stuff to pay a hotel
bill for one day.
There is nothing like a wet blanket
to distinguish ,the fire of enthusiasm.
There is more Catarrh in this section of tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it su local disease and proscribed
local remedies and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven Catarrh to bo a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured bv F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market.; It is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. Itacts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case it fails t® cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Drulggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
The investment in pleasure yachts
in Americsi is about $50,(L0,000 and
the annual cost of their maintenance
is about $6,000,000 a season. When a
steam yacht is chartered the price
usually is $lO a month per yacht ton.
In Saxofny there is an industrial
school fori every 14,041 inhabitants.
IgBtg"STUARTS
rEFICtC Gift and buchu
J
To 8.11 who suffer.or to the friends of those
who strfferjwlth Kidney, I.iver, Heart, Bladder
or Blood i»ise*se, a sample bottle of Stuart's
Gin and Buchu, the great southern Kidney and
rill be sent absolutely free of
lis paper. Address STUART
28 Wall St.. Atlanta, Ga.
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icient Cause.
why do you think they
are do certain to fall in love?
Ann —In the first place, their p?.-
hate each other; and, in the
se-ccfod, neither of them has a penny
in the world. —October Smart Set.
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Planfalmn Chill Cure is Guaran
To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price fl
Reeding in Groups.
Isn’t too little attention paid by you
young readers to the Order in which i
you read books? It is not difficult to |
obtain lists of books so arranged that
each helps in the understanding and
appreciation of the following one. In
the reading for example,
v.ouldn’tfit be wise to take them or
tuoso you prefer —in the order of their
time? vFirst comes “Count Robert of
Paris,” then “The Betrothed." Next
“The Talisman,” and “Ivanhoe,” then
“Castle* Dangerous,” “The Fair Maid
of Perth,” “Quentin Durward,” and
“Anne of Geirestein" —all of which are
cf times before the discovery ot Amer
ica by Columbus. Reading them m
their order, one has a better idea of
tr.e early times, and appreciates each
the more because of those before. If
you are just beginning to read Scott,
tiy taking them chronologically, in
this way.—From Books and Reading
in the September St. Nicholas.
No American Horse Type.
Notwithstanding the importance cf
horse-breeding as an industry in this
country, there is at this time no dis
tinctly American horse type. The rac
ing thoroughbred is English, the heavy
cl raft-horse is. French, the hackney is
English, and the trotting horse, as
bred at present for ‘rack and toad ser
vice, is not a type at all. An animal
type cannot be said to be established
until it reproduces itself with reason
td/le certainty.—From John Gilmer
Speed’s “The Horse in America” in
September Century.
Gross Carelessness.
Miss Ellicott —Why did you dis-'
charge your chauffeur? He made such
a fine appearance.
Mrs. Lippincott—But the man had
no tact. Why, once when I was doz
ing, he ran over a fat woman and al
most jostled me out of my s,eat! —Oc-
tober Smart Set.
Poorly?
“ For two years I suffered ter
ribly from dyspepsia, with great
depression, and was always feeling
poorly. I then tried Ayer’s Sarsa
parilla, and in one week I was a
new man.” —John McDonald,
Philadelphia, Pa.
wiax—ini wtiii'~i IDl> 11 ■nil'll ■ ' 1 ‘I. ————■
Don’t forget that it’s
“Ayer’s” Sarsaparilla
that will make you strong
and hopeful. Don’t waste
your time and money by
trying some other kind.
Use the old, tested, tried
and true Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla. SI.OO 1 bottle. All druggists.
Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. Ho knows nil about this grand
old family medicine. Follow his advico and
we will b'o satisfied.
J. C. A YBit Co., Lowell, Mass.
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They equal those "v.
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mense sale of \V. L. Ws Jggj
Douglas shoes proves ngSflkf' gET. s§£•
their superiority over Mjphy *£*•}
Sold by retail shoe
dealers everywhere.
price on bottom.
That Douglas uses for* J«,.;,? L
nn.-iColt proves (here is /bv.
value In Pouirlas shoes.
Corona is the highest /JuTSjSpSfr
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Fust I'nlor iixrrt. £
Our $4 Gilt L(i je Line cannot be equalled at ana price.
Shoes by mail, 25 <-enls extra, illustrated
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insures against
Smoasaess
I’AJW Has been regulating
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more than 58 years.
TuSwSfcO. .
Chemists. New York. At druggists or by za&lL
CpriipsjS
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COMMODORE NICBOLSON
Recommends IPc-ru-na—Other Promine*
Men Testify. *4
Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of the
United States Navy, in a letter from 1837
R Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., says:
“Your Peruna has been and is
note used by so tit any of my friends
and acquaintances as a sure cure for
catarrh that J am convinced of its
curative qualities and I unhestitat
tngly recommend it to all persons
suffering from that complaint. ”—
S. Nicholson.
United States Minister to Guatemala
Endorses P»*ru-na.
Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, U. S. Minister
to Guatemala, ex-member of Congress from
Kentucky, in a letter from Washington,
D.-C., writes: ->
“I am fully satisfied that your Peruna
is an efficacious remedy for catarrh, as 1
and many of my friends have been bene
fited by its use.”—W. G. Hunter, M. 1).
Member of Congress From Virginia
Writes.
Hon. G. R. Brown. Martinville, Va., ex
member of Congress Fifth District, 50th
Congress, writes:
“I cheerfully give my endorsement to
vour Peruna as a cure for catarrh. Its
beneficial results have been so fully dem
onstrated that its use is essential to all
persons suffering from that disease.”—
lion. G. R. Brown.
The day was when men of prominence
hesitated to give their testimonials to
proprietory medicines for publication. This
remains True to-day of most proprietary
medicines. But Peruna has become so
justly famous, its merits arc known to so
many people of high and low stations,
j Ulat no one hesitates to see his name in
! print recommending Peruna.
The highest men in our nation have
given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men
representing all classes and stations are
equally represented.
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Carpenter’s OX HARROW POMADE
(nftWARE OP 1 IMITATIONS >
Rub it Into the scalp thoroughly once a wocli
and it will work wonders. Keeps th<* hair from
fulling out and cures dandruff, too. Hotter tiian
any liair oil or tonic.
PRICE, 25 CENTS.
At your druggist’s, or by mall.
Address, CARPENTER & CO.,
Louisville, Ky.
Ripans Tubules are
the best dyspepsia
medicine ever made.
A hundred millions
kflggfouvv of them have been
v -sold in the United
States in a slnglJ
year. Every
arising from a disordered
relieved or cured by tl.'ir ujflHH
common is il Ilia; diseases
from the stoi.iaeli it may he
sorted then- is no e<e.d::
lieultli that will not be
emed by the oei-asi.mal use
Tabules. i’hysieiatis know
speak highly of them. A !|
sell them. 'The flve-cent
enough for an ordinary
the Family Bottle, sixty’ceuts, eopiH
a household supply for a year. 1 offe
generally gives relief within twenty
minutes.
Give the name of this paper when
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If you do not derive prompt and satis-,
factory results from the use of Perunw
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a*
full statement of your ease, and tie will bet
pleased to give you las valuable advice 4
gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of Thai
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
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