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PAGE TWELVE
The effect of malaria lasts a long time.
You catch cold easily or become run
down because of the after effects of malaria.
o~ Strengthen yourself with Scor#’s
Emulsion.
it buiids new blood and tones up your nervous
system.
ALL DRUGGISTS; sOc. AND $l.OO.
The Principal Streets of Augusta
Several Feet Under Water.
Thrilling Experience and Awful Hor
rors Reported From Inundated
City. Million Dollars of Property
and Many Lives Were Lost. Great
Suffering by the People.
AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 28.—For
twenty-four hours Augusta has been
at the mercy of a mighty flood.
About noon Wednesday the dam
across the river at the canal locks
gave way and in less than three
hours the city was submerged. |
Up to that time no grave appre
hension was felt, and hundreds of
people had made no effort to get
their effects beyond the reach of the
water.
At 3 p. m. Wednesday the water
was six fert deep in many parts of
the city, and the flood continued to
rise until midnight, at which time
the water reached a maximum
height of ten feet in the principal
streets of the city.
More than two-thirds of the city
is covered, and the submerged por
ticn includes all the principle busi
ness and residence districts. |
Rain has ceased in the upper val
ley and there is no danger of further
loss. The damage is approximated
at $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. Great:
loss of live stock in city and suburbs
lowlands. Damage to city property
$150,000; damage to railroads and
railroad property $100,000; damage
to .telephone and telegraph compa
nies $25,000; damage to merchants
and local industries $200,000; dam
age to residences $50,000; probable
loss to mill operatives in loss ot"
wages $100,000; loss by fire between
$50,000 and $lOO,OOO. |
The flood expanse covers an im
mense territory, miles and miles
of water extending from the foot of
the Carolina hills to the south into
Georgia. The loss to farms, farm
lands, crops and live stock in tho
valley iz not included ir the figures
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, LYDIA E. PINKHAM
Nature and a woman’s work com
bined bave produced the grandest
remedy for woman’s ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the field to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that baffle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years in
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of theworld a remedy for their pe
culiar itls, more potent and effica
clous tham any combination of drugs,
Lydia K Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman'’s ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muft, of 5156 N.C. St.,
Louisiana, Mo., writes:
** Complete restoration to health
gieans 80 much to me that for the sake
@f other syffering women I am willing
#0 malke my troubles public.
““For twelve years I had been suffer
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time I had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what | suffered, and at times 1
could hardly walk. About two years
ago I wrote Mrs, Pinkham for advice,
I followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs, Pinkham’s advice re
stored health and strength. It is
worth mountains of gold to suffering
women.” ®
What Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound did for Mrs. Muff,
it will do for other suffering women.
given ahove. The bottom cotton and
swamp corn, an immense annual
proudct, is ruined.
i Looke Like a New Venice.
~ Augusta looks like a new Venice.
Thousands have been shut in upper
floors since yesterday at noon, and
‘many have been without food and
with but scant water supply except
the muddy stream at the doors. Many
were rescued today from trees into
which they climbed yesterday and
where they spent the cold night, ty
ing themselves to branches to pre
vent falling from cold and exhaus
tion.
Hundreds of persons were caught
in down-town office buildings and on
the streets when the river broke
through the canal. All that could
sought second stories and higher
places, many clinging to trees.
There is no person to be seen ex
cept a man occasionally swiming
along; not many boats.
The only means of transportation
is by boats, the owners of which are
charging exhorbitant prices.
Men with skiffs charge $5 to $lO
10 row passengers to Broad street or
return. They reaped a harvest yes
terday.
Many were left all night in the
upper stories of business houses
without food.
Loss of Life Reported Heavy.
The loss of life is reported to be
heavy, the number being estimated
at no less than 60,
Mr. Harry Carr, one of the most
prominent young men in Augusta,
was bookkeeper for the Nixon Gro
cery Company. The flood caught him
and a dozen others in ihe building.
The building caught fire and was de
stroyed. All left in safety except
Harry Carr, Sweet Windard and
three mnegroes. These five were
drowned. A well-defined story has
it that two women in a buggy
were drowned in a street when the
vehicle turned over last night. Tt
is also reported that a woman and
two children and a negro cabman
were drowned near the union depot.
No bodies have been recovered.
The bodies of a woman and a baby
were seen floating down Telfair
street. It is reported that the wife
and little son of Harry Jones, a fur
niture dealer, were drowned.
Fathers and weeping mothers are
haunting the banks of the flood wait
ing for missing children.
In the lowlands the people heeded
the warning, gathered bedding and
other articles they could carry, the
women with children in arms and
the men driving live stock, and
sougth safety in the hills. Much
suffering is reported among the poor
er class.
Five Fires Broke Out.
While the flood was at its height
five fires broke out, adding terror to
a night of horror. The McDanie!
builders’ material establishment in
North Augusta burned. A train of
forty cars belonging to the Southern
Railway burned in Hamburg, just
across the river. Mixon’'s lime, ce
ment and hay warehouse: a huge
quantity of lumber belonging to the
Georgia Railroad, at the Georgia
Railroad yards, in the city, burned.
There were several other small fires.
The flames from the burning struct
ures illuminated the skies and sent
horror to the hearts of the people.
| Great Suffering by People.
The people are suffering a great
deal from hunger, thirst and cold.
There is no light and those homes
which were not provident enough to
secure either lamps or candles are
in total darkness. There ig nothing
more dreary than flood times in the
darkness of the night. The writer
can remember the flood of 1888,
when the city was in darkness.
There is a ghostly, unreal, helpless
sort of a feeling pervading the entire
community. The sounds that reach
one are rendered most doleful by the
darkness and whence they come is
a problem. Even well nerved people
startle at the slightest sound from
the outside and think things that
are ridiculous in the after considera
tions of the flood, but serious enough
at the time. The lowing of cows. the
howling of dogs and the terrified
cries of other beasts being swept
along in the current or painfully
lodged in trees make sleep a matter
of impossibility and render the night
hours hideous.
Ten Thousand Out of Work.
All chance of supplyving Augusta’s
big mills with power in the immedi
ate future was swept away with the
big canal dam.
By the most conservative estimate
this means the throwing of at least
10,000 hands out of employment.
More than this, cotton mill men in
a position to know and familiar with
the conditions existing state that
the damage to the dam and that fol
lowing directly in its wake will re
quire at least a year in the making
of repairs such as will again permit
the opening up of these great textile
mills.
Some of the very largest cotton
mills in the country are among those
for which the city has become just
ly famous in the past few yvears,
These great mills include the King,
with 1,000,000 spindles: the Sibley,
with 1,000,000 spindles: the Enter
prise, 1,000,000 spindles, and three
or four others of almost equal size
and importance.
FLORIDA RIVER POISONOUS.
ITS WATER HAS KILLED EIGHT
THOUSAND CATTLE.
Phosphate Plants on Withlacoochee
Use Bad Chemicals. J. J. Smith
Files Suit for $lOO,OOO.
A suit that will be watched with
a great deal of interest has been
filed in the clerk’s office at Inverness,
Fla., it being that of J. J. Smith, one
of the most substantial citizens of
Citronelle, who sues the Dunnellon
Phosphate Company, the Camp Phos
phate Company, J. Buttgenbach &
Company and the Shilman & DBene
Company for $lOO,OOO damages.
The cause of the action, as stated
in Mr. Smith’s declaration, is briefly
as follows:
That each of the defendants own
and operate phosphate plants on the
banks of the Withlacoochee river
several miles above Smith's farm,
which is located on the banks of the
river.
That the current of the river
brings the refused, muddy, filthy and
poisoned matter down the stream
and deposits matter down the stream
and deposits the same along the
banks of the stream, ard that the
accumulations of this mud and other
filthy substances have rendered the
banks of the river dangerous, the
mud being deposited several feet
deep in his pasture.
That plaintiff’'s cattle feed in this
pasture, and in going to the river
for water they bog down and mire
up in the mud and die, and in this
way Mr. Smith charges that he has
lost 8,000 head of cattle within the
last six years.
Mr. Smith further charges that the
filthy and poisonous matter so de
posited by the defendants in the riv
er has killed the fish, or driven them
out of the river to his damage. and
that it gives off obnoxious and poi
sonous odors, which are very offen
sive, and that they have rendered his
premises undesirable and unfit for
habitation. He charges that he has
often requested the defendants to de
sist from their practices of using
the river as a slush pond for their
phosphate mines; that they have not
heeded this notice, and hence the
suit.
GAVE IT BACK.
Rich Man'’s Example That Should
Be Followed.
From the Chicago Tribune.
William Barr, for many years a
leading merchant in St. Louis, died
recently in the east. He made a
large fortune, and made it all in
that city. By his will he returns
nearly all of it to St. Louis, the
largest part to the Washington Uni
versity, with handsome gifts to vari
ous charities. Benjamin Ross, one
of the richest merchants of Cleve
land, died recently. He, too, made
a large fortune, and made it all in
that city. By his will he leaves $5,-
000,000 of that fortune to help
crippled persons and to better the
condition of those who have been un
fortunate in that city.
The example set by these men
ought to be followed by other rich
men. This munificent disposition eof
their fortunes shows that they were
possessed of strong local pride, and
that they felt their careers were part
of the history of the cities where
they were passed. They recognized
that the people of the cities helped
them to amass their great wealth,
and that it was their duty, and a
grateful duty, to return a handsome
share of that wealth for the general
good.
Mr. Barr and Mr. Ross did not
look upon St. Louis and Cleveland
merely as places in which to do busi
ness, but as communities which had
given them the opportunities ana
had done a large part of the work
in piling up their possessions. They
'oroved themselves loyal and devoted
\cit!zens, and acknowledged what
their cities had done for them by do
ing something in return. They had
helped to make their cities, but the
cities had helped to make them—a
view of municipal obligations not
often taken by wealthy men.
| A Paying Investment.
Mr. John White of 38 Highlatd
avenue, Houlton, Maine, says:
“"Have been troubled with a cough
every winter and spring. Last win
ter I tried many advertised reme
dies, but the cough continued until
I bought a 50c¢ bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery: before that was half
gone the cough was all gone. This
winter the same happy result has
followed; a few doses once more ban
ished the annual cough. I am now
convinced that Dr. King’'s New ‘Dis
covery is the best of all cough and
lung remedies.” Sold under guaran
tee at Dawson Drug Co’s. 50c¢ and
$l.OO. Trial bottle free.
Farmer Contributes Calf.
Saying he is short of cash A, R.
Conroy, a farmer of near Mansfield,
Texas, has given a calf to the demo
cratic executive committee with in
structions to sell the animal and ap
ply the proceeds to the democratic
national campaign fund.
Said He'd Never Been Sick, and Died.
Henry Scott of Philadelphia, in
celebrating his thirty-sixth birthday,
said: ‘“Never had a sick day in my
life.” He had hardly uttered the
words before he was seized ‘with
lockjaw. Although rushed to the
hospital he died in three days.
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Now She Can't Talk.
Because his wife wouldn't talk
often enough to him William Lush
of Lincoln, Neb., fired four shots at
her and then attempted suicide.
They had been married thirty years.
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Lowrey avidson
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that we are now ready to store and handle the cotton crop of the coming
season. We congratulate ourselves upon being better prepared to serve our
customers than we have ever been. We have 20,000 feet of floor space, which
enables us to care for all cotton under roof, thereby protecting it from coun
try damages.. We have more experience in this line of business thap any
firm in the city,and with the advantages and facilities we offer feel that you will
be justified in giving us your business. Messrs. Glenn Crowell and Ernest
Jennings will be with us this season, and they wish to say to their
friends that their interests will be carefully looked after at all times.
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We have more room and convenience to accommodate our customers in feeding
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Dawson, 5 4 Georgia
No appetite, ioss of strength, nervouss
ness, headache, constipation, bad breath,
general debility, sour risings, and catarrh
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TO AUGUSTA, GA.. and return from
Savannah, Macon, Dublin and in
termediate points, account Geor
gia-Carolina Fair, to be held No
vember 2-7, 1908.
‘TO CORDELE, GA., and return from
Atlanta, Augusta, Bremen, Cedar
- town, Columbus, Griffin, Macon,
~ Milledgeville, Rome and Thomass
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nien’s Association, to be held Sep
temiber 9-11, 1908.
TO NEW ORLEANS, LA., and re
turn from all points, account An
nual International Missionary Con
ventions of the Churches of Christ
in America, to be held October
9<16, 1908.
For dates of sale, limits, through
rates, tickets and other information
apply to nearest ticket agent.
J. C. HAILE, Gen. Pass, Agt.
Plenty of Money.
I represent two loan companies,
interest six and seven per cent. No
trouble or delay. Those who wish
to borrow this fall should see me
now. JNO. R. IRWIN. ‘
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everyone in need of my services can
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at Dawson, Ga. I am a ditcher of
29 years experience, and thoroug.hl,\'i
understand the work. I can get all
the labor I need at any time. |
CHARLEY CARTER.
Notice,
Do not forget that I am yet here
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female complaints. Come and see
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