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Tito Way of (lie Almanac.
‘‘Pa! Oh, pa! I know how t’ make a
aim’nac.”
“How, Tommy?”
“Wh’ y’ jes’ get up n lot of eclipse*
*u’ make ’em come off somewheroa
♦here-Abey ain’t visible.”
What Will Bmnn of China?
None can foreneethe outcome of the quar
rel between foreign powers over the divis
ion of China. It is interesting to watch the
going to pieces of this ancient but unpro
gressive race. Many people in America nru,
also going to pieces because of dyspepsia,
constipation, blood, liver and stomach dis
eases. We an* living too fast, but streng.h,
vigor and good health can be retained if wv
keep off and cure the above diseases with
Uostctter’s Stomach hitters.
Inf !** Intci lor.
First Citizen What do they mean by a pro
tected cruiser?
hocond Citizen 1 dunno. exactly. Maybe
It’s one that ain't built by foreign pauper
labor. Fuck.
To Cure 11 Cold in One lliiv.
Take Laxative Bkomo (Jcininr Tablets. All
drmrglsta refund the money it it falls t * cure.
K, W. (>kovk h signature is on each box. ->c.
Heversed Now.
Jasper—One Is never too old to learn. *
Jutnptpps—O. that Idea is mt 01 date. The
present I lea is that one Is never too young to
teach. Life.
Indig stion is a lad companion. Oct
rid of it by chewing a bar of Adams’ Foj -
sin Tutti Fruttl after each meal.
Th' IlMsliing Mxplorcr.
Fulfil* Explorer—What shell I call uiy new
book? **A bash for the Foie?' 1
Ftihlishcr No. Call it "A Dash for the Lec
ture Platform.”—Haiti more American.
Wiinfetl.
A traveling salesman in <*/< h Southern Htat*;
SSO to SOO per month and traveling expenses;
experience not absolutely necessary. Address ■
Pknicxh Tobacco YVoukh co . Fenlcks, Va.
Down on Chinese Faklon.
“What is Bessie shrieking about?'*
“Oh.nurse pl#i‘ted her hair in a pigtail ami
ehe wrurthHve it.” llidlanapofis .Journal.
StHch to Save my Lite. |
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A gorgeous costumo flashed beneath the brilliant lights
of a ball room. The queen of society is radiant to-night.
Tho nervous bands ofra weak woman have toiled day
and night, the weary form and aching head have known no
rest, for the dress must be finished in time.
To that queen of society and her dressmaker we would
say a word. One through hothouse culture, luxury and
social excitement, and the other through tho toil of necessity,
may some day find their ailments a common cause.
Nervous prostration, excitability, fainting spells, dizzi
ness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and strength, all indicate
serious trouble, which has been promoted by an over-taxed
system.
For the society queen and tho dressmaker alike, there is
nothing so reliable as Lydia E. Plnkhnm’s Vegetable
Compound to restore strength, vigor, and happiness.
Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, 49 Union SL, Salem, N. J., writes :
“ Pkxb Mas. Pineham I feel it is my duty to write and tell you how
grnteful I am to you for what your medicine haa dona for me. At one
time I suffered everythin* a woman could. I had inflammation of the
ovaries, fallin* of the womb, and leucorrtuea. At times could not hold a
needle to sew. The first dose of your Vegetable Compound helped me so
much that I kept on 08111* it. 1 have now taken si* bottles and am well
and able to do my work. 1 also ride a wheel and feel no bad effects from
It. lam thankful to the Giver of all good for giving you tho wisdom of
curia* sufferin* women. I recommend your med
" ■ icine to every woman troubled with any of these
.wSSjftpvMk. Mrs. sarah Swoder, 103 West St..
La Porte, Ind., write*:
1R y "Peak Mbs. lhN’KnAM:—lt gives mo great
RE dSj pleasure to tell you how much good Lydia E.
4Sy Plnkham’* Vegetable Compound has done for me.
■ y b V I "I had been h sufferer for years with female
. / trouble. I could not sew but a few minutes nt a
/ time without sufferin* terribly with my- head.
mi My back and kidneys also troubled luo all tho
time. 1 wus advised by n friend to toko your mod
ieine. 1 had no faith in it, but decided to try it.
After tnUin* one bottle I felt so much better that
1 continued its use, and by the time I had taken
IMftS SARAH iwoonn six bottles 1 was cured. There Is no other medicine
—*l for me. I recommend it to all my friends.”
$m SB will a ffß SV Owing to the fact that acme akeptical
* ■ MS M V U h bSs rL fi I pe.'j,lu have iron, timet.' time qnctioncd
Itt, II the genuineness uf the teatimoaia! letters
I B | I I | we are constant!? publishing, we have
a 11 I I deposited with the National City Bank, o! town. Mass., fe,sx\
m I I I I II I which will be paid to any person who will show ttiat the above
li IB K. B HIM testimonial. are not genuine, or w-ere published liefore obtaining
ww ww WW the writers special permission —Lvoia 1. Pin k ham Milucini Cos.
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Yff SPORTING GOOUtfM
Ml RAWLIKSSS. MI
American Corn.
Rye Is the characteristic food crop
of Germany and Russia, millet of In
| dla, and wheat of France, while corn
lis pre-eminently an American crop,
over three-fourths of the world's con
sumption lielng produced In this coun
try. TliA Crop Reporter for August
contains good news in regard to the
outMok for com; namely, that the de
mand for It abroad Is rapidly increas
jflg. T'ntil within recent years, Eu
rope f dto recognize the Biqierlor
lty ai < eon omy of corn as a cheap
food for animals, but they are now
awakening to that fact. Indeed the
increase in the export of corn observed
In the last five years has been the
most stirlng feature of our foreign
commerce, the increase observed dar
ing that period being equal to about
254 per cent. The maximum was
reached in the last fiscal year when
the exports attained the unprecedent
ed total of 209,348,273 bushels, valued
at $85,20(1.380. This figure It should
lx* carefully noted represfmts but one
tenth of the total value of our corn
crop.
To Clean Delicate Fabrics,
The English Society cf Arts recent
ly offered a prize of SIOO for the best
met laal of cleaning silk, woollen and
cotton fabrics, and tills Is the recipe
that won: Into a pint of clear, soft
water grate two potatoes of goodly
size, strain through a coarse sieve into
a gallon of water and let the liquid
settle. Four the starchy fluid from
tin* sediment, and in It rub the arti
cles to be cleaned, rinse thoroughly
in clear water, dry and press.
m
§censs in (Jalyeston
After the great Storm
Galveston has experienced storms be
fore, and on several occasions severe
damage has been done. Rut the peo
ple have grown used tj the danger
from inundation, and even when the
storm broke on that fateful Saturday
morning they were not unusually dis
turbed, writes John Gilmer Speed, in
Harper’s Weekly. They went about
JJieir business in ordinary fashion,
confident that the storm would soon
blow over. At ten o’clock a gale was
blowing. By noon this gale had in
creased to hurricane proportions, and
those dwelling near beach began
to realize that this was something
more than an ordinary summer gust
of wind. Great waves were dashed
over the beach, and the summer re-
MOBNING AFTER THE FLOOD NEAR EASE EALL PARK, FOOT OF TREMONT STREET.
sorts were no longer habitable. Even
then the people in Galveston were
not apprehensive. Rut, shortly past
three in the afternoon it was appar
ent that something unusual was iii the
wind, which was blowing at forty-four
miles an hour, while the barometer
read 20.22 Inches. llu si ness men
closed up their places and started for
their homes to look after their fam
ilies. But before these tardily awak
ened people could realize what was
happening tho full fury of tin' tropical
liurricar- was upon them, and com
munication was cut off not only with
the outside world, but it was impossi
ble to get from one part of the city to
another. T.vo great forces were fierce
ly at Worn. The Gulf waves drove
high upon the beach, and tlie gale
fiiiiis
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eTv 'Y? 1 THE WRECKS
// \ OF t TWO
from the northeast pitched the waters
against the wharves and abutments,
choking the sewers and flooding the
city from mat quarter. The _wind,
which lmd been some fifty miles an
hour, quickened to eighfy-four, when
tho measuring apparatus of the
Weather Bureau was wrecked, and the
rest can only be guessed at. The
streets we-e rapidly filling wl y i water,
and each person had to stay where he
was caught, as It was nigh impossible
to move from place to place.
In times such as this, however, the
Impossible is done, and many men did
succeed in getting their families into
the more sui.stantial buildings, such
as the public senools, the court house
and the hotels. From three o'clock in
the afternoon the wind Increased
steadily until it was at its highest, and
certainly not less than 100 miles an
hour. IT • barometer also continued
to fall, reaching its lowest, 28.04 V,
an iron roof rolled up and was hurled
across the street as though It had been
paper; timbers were carried in the air
as though the solid oak and pine .were
only grass or straw, while wires, tele
grapa, telephone, electric light and
trolley, were everywhere, for the poles
had snapped like pipe-steins and let
their' burdens loose. The force seemed
irresistible, as mighty as it was mer
ciless. All this was in unrelieved dark
ness, which prevented even the most
rcsourcefv' from averting the dan
gers that were on every hand. There
was little if any change for two hours
and a half. Then the barometer be
gan slowly to rise and the worst of
the storm was over. In two hours
more the wind had subsided, and by
midnight there was quiet in stricken
Galveston—the quiet of death.
The water, which in some streets
had been eight feet deep, began quick
ly to run out, and by daylight the
pavements were again exposed. But
what a scene of devastation this day
light revealed! Wreckage on every
side, wreckage and death. A battle
field has its dread story to tell, tint a
city suddenly stricken as this was is a
more pathetic spectacle. When men
fight men the strong are killed alone,
for all are strong, but here It .was the
weak, who suffered most severely, it
was the women an children who died
iu the greatest number. They could
not reach places of security for lack of
strength, and the brav. and willing
men were powerless t> help them.
Those pinned down by solid wreckage
lay where they had fallen, those
drowned while fleeing for safety were
carried out by the ebbing waters,
while the fallen houses each held the
secret of tnosc who had been crushed
iu file downfall. A more pathetically
wretched condition never met the eyes
of men.
As the day get older, however, there
was other work than grieving.
There was no drinking water in
the town, and the uninjured food
supply was short, while comnyi
nioation was cut off from the
world that was willing to help. But
above all was the necessity to get rid
of the dead, which in so hot a climate
began quickly to decay. In very many,
indeed in most, instances the dead
could not be recognized, and therefore
could not be claimed 'ey relatives.
The bodies were burled in trenches,
and boat loads were taken to deep
water and there sunk, yielding up to
the sea the victims it had come ashore
to claim.
But the vicious in the community,
many of them negroes, were as dili
gent in evil work as the rescuers were
-od. Hundreds robbed the dead bod
ies of what valuables they could find,
even cutting off fingers and ears to
get finger rings and ear rings. The
few United States soldiers stationed
In Galveston were called upon to do
police ’uty, and State militiamen were
sent to help ns soon as possible. Every
man caught robbing the dead was
shot, and some twenty-five more were
tried by drum-head court-martial and
shot immediately. The summary ex
ecution of these wretches put an end
to this phase of the awful situation.
One of the most thrilling tales of the
Texas disaster is told by Miss Sadie
Hlrsbfeld, of New York, who has just
returned from Galveston.
She was with her family in their
home on Seeley avenue when the
stortn came, and until she was rescued
twenty-four hours later battled with
dentil upon the roof of a cottage
which had become enmeshed with de
bris bound seaward.
bolted and the shukfrrs that were not
carried away by the wind fastened.
“Suddenly the bouse gave a lurch,
creaked mournfully and then began to
swing to and fro. Our home was lift
ed from its foundations and set adrift.
The waters rose higher and higher
until thej- reached tiie second story.
“dp the garret stairs we rushed,
and soon the nine of us were clinging
on the coped roof.
“Hundreds of families were in the
same plight. We had gone about a
block when the house struck against
something, which we discovered later
was an oid hut.
”We remained there all night, while
our clothes were being torn from our
backs by the wind, and house after
house floated by us, telling its story
of misery.
“On one coped roof, when Sunday
dawned, I saw a mother with a babe,
which I judged to be some two months
old, clinging ns best she could. The
wind had taken every stitch of cloth
ing she had had on her back, and the
expression on her face was almost
heartrending.
“All eyes were turned in her direc
tion waiting to see her disappear be
neath the water. We had not long to
wait. The babe slipped from her
arms, and in her effort to save it she
also was lost.
“On the floating house tops men,
women and children knelt in prayer
and sang hymns. Our family was
half starved and on the verge of drop
ping into the sea and about to utter a
last prayer when I fired a pistol which
brought about our rescue.
“Two men from the convent for ne
gro women a short distance away put
pgij®!i{ fiis!
conscslipYjKjs *
•LABOR.ER.S TOBIT.V
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out in a raft and carried us to that
building.”
Miss Ilershfeld said that she saw at
least fifty persons lose their lives un
der the most trying circumstances.
No Heads on Chinese Coins.
Numismatics who may in the dim
and distant future investigate the
coinage of China in order to find some
authentic record of the lineaments of
its sovereigns will be doomed to dis
appointment. A representation of the
human head separate from the figure
is there an object of horror; hence
there is never an effigy of the emperor
on his coin. Further, the hermit-like
seclusion in which the Son of Heaven
traditionally lives is intended to stim
ulate veneration; and there are very
few of the subjects apart from the
officials of the palace, who ever see Ills
face. A missionary recently returned
from the celestial land observes that
were it known that in Europe portraits
of kings were suspended before inns,
exposed to dust, wind and rain, and
to the witticisms and perhaps the sar
casms of the populace, we should be
held in even greater derision than we
are.—London Dally Chronicle.
Power of Modern Gun?.
The power of the modern gun is a
tiling that cannot lie grasped. The
100-ton projectile strikes with a force
equal to 40.1,000 eleven-stohe men
jumping from a height of one foot.
When, the eighty-one-tou gun fires a
it Is fired at such
sin
JS . ' " -Jji IBMBkM,
DEMOCRATS ?OTE A
FULL STATp TICKET
Contest Was Devoid of Interest and
Unusual Quiet Prevailed.
MAJORITY IS 0V^60,000
la Several Popu
lists Secure Local ®Sices.
Georgia’s state election Wednesday
passed off quietly, notwithstanding
here and there a bitter contest for
county control was envolved.
Returns show that the state is Dem
ocratic by a majority exceeding 60,000.
The incomplete estimate Thursday
morning of the votes, cast in the state
election was accurate enough for the
conclusion that the Populist nominee
for governor dra not receive more than
half the votes cast for his predecessor
in defeat two years ago.
In 1898 Hogan’s total ran up to 50,-
000. Estimate of the most conserva
tive character places the number of
votes received by Traylor in Tuesday’s
contest at less than 25,000. In the
county of his life-long residence,
Troup, where he was admired by all
alike for his worth as a man, the Pop
ulist nominee was literally buried un
der the weight of Democratic ballots.
Such a majority as that which ushers
Governor Allen D. Candler in upon
his second administration was unex
pected, not only by that official him
self, but by the state committee. The
election was looked on in every section
of the state as one in which the Dem
ocracy had no opposition, but from all
indication? the force of habit carried
enough Democrats to the polls to work
a 60,000 majority result.
One of the most significant returns
sent in by any county was that from
Irwin, whore a majority of 3,000 votes
was accorded for Governor Candler
and the state ticket. Bibb, with a
population entitling her to three mem
bers in the legislature, comes to the
front with a majority of 900, while
Irwin, with a scant population that
barely gives her one member of the
house, is credited with a majority of
3,000.
The general falling off from the
Populist fold is fairly shown iu Clinch,
where 50 per cent of the men who
voted for Hogan two years ago are
reported to have gone over to the sup
port of the Democratic ticket.
The early indications were that the
counties of Haralson, Glascock, Frank
lin, Forsyth,Chattahoochee, McDuffie,
Oeont3 and Lincoln had gone Popu
list or partly so. Iu these communi
ties as well as iu scores of others, the
real battle for party supremacy was
fought and for every one carried by
the Populists where the issue was in
donbt, the Democrats captured two.
Perhaps the bitterest campaign in
the state closed with the election in
Floyd. A hard and determined fight
was made by independents backed by
Populists against the
nominees for tax and
member of the legit!atur^HS
In Fulton the
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success nnHHJj
confederatlM .
light it propds
a quarter of a
annual pension
state. Very few
the amendment
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