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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. | P msssmmm 1111111111 SSm ßii 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. jJfFR E e! “of 106 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 OJ "-fir 5* - HiV) <L. 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 TfK E- DEJAD. 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 tieki tent l,y tho iifl| countered IHH ] V moor a tie fl| given .‘uiliicießw tition in lo.'rniTulS||| by the an.-ndnteiitMM large nunih^H|| luelit a us spite of thMfi|| success nnHHJj confederatlM . light it propds a quarter of a annual pension state. Very few the amendment SAILED 01 Two Armored Troops an A cable dispa prsvinoe of'Shal ber 1, says: ‘ cruiser Terribh ond-class cruis transports kavi brigade of Briti ed for Takn tod POSTOFFCE Expenses Wer celpts, The balance s department jaat following coldi l Expenditutes of xp abut