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UUGUSTA
\ SAVINGS
W. B. YOUNG,
President,. |
J. G. WEIGLE, |
Cashier, jj
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS §
THE
CITIZEN.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, March 17, 1900.
Number 48,
THE
PLANTERS
LOAN AND
SAVINGS
BANK,
Augusta. Ga.
ORGANIZED 18 0
I Pays interest
i L.C. Hayne,
President.
W. C. Wardlaw
Cashier.
Ui
ISLAND’S ANSWER
m OOlGKLY MADE
Revived Late Tuesday Night
by Secretary Hay,
T£XT NOT MADS PUBLIC
THE WAR IN
SOUTH AFRICA
British Have Reached BIoemfoi\=
tein and Boers Want Peace,
j j0r ,i Salisbury Kirmly Declined With
Tli'jsihs — Cur reap, i tide nee Passing
Tliroiigh State D piruneut Differ
ent From Direct Appeal.
W asiiinuton, March 14 —The answer
of L rd Salisbury to the message from
p r e ; , aits Kruger and Steyu, which
•jva- rausmitted throughout our gov
ern:!: nt, was received at a late hour
]»,: night by Secretary Hay through
Mr. White, our charge de affaires at
London.
A- indicated in the London dispatches,
the answer was a declination of the ap
peal. It ha? been transmitted to Adel-
berr Hay, United States consul at Pre
toria, who will suomit it to the two
juvs.deats. This marks the e.nd of the
first overture towards peace. It is be
lt vii here, however, that another
effort will soon be made by the .Boers to
a;: a in peace, though recourse may be
lain to some other agency than the
.United States.
I ho president has decided that it is
not proper at this time to make public
the test of the communications which
have passed between Pretoria, London
an i Washington relative ro the peace
negotiations. It is stated, however,
that the press dispatches have indicated
iiv valient features of the correspon*
deuc9 with sufficient accuracy and about
tui only omission, so far as can bs learned,
was the iaiiuro to develop the fact
that ttie appeal of the Boer government
that the United States might be al
lowed to intervene was accompanied by
an earnest expression by the president
(it nis willingness to do any thing within
his power to bring about the termina
tion of the war, which he hoped might
be attained. Lord Salisbury’s reply,
while iirmly declining the request of
tii-* 15 i-r govern men r, conveyed his ap
preciation of the commendable senti
ments which inspired the president’s
'utterances.
Inasmuch as there appears to be some
. coni'u-,ion in the public mind respecting
the various efforts made by the Boers
to end the war, it may be stated that
this particular correspondence, passing
through the state department, was sep
arate and apart from the not9 addres-ed
by Presidents Kruger and Steyn to
nearly all the continental powers be
lt ved to be in sympathy with their
cause, and was also distinct from the
appeal addressed direct to Lord Salis
bury by the two presidents, which with
his lordship’s answer toruied the sub-
j ' t of the communications made yes
terday by the pariiament.
DR. JAMESON HAD FEVER.
He Was Critically 111 When Lady
smith Was Relieved.
New York, March 14.—A dispatch
to The Tribune from London says:
Dr. Jameson was down with enteric
fever and critically ill when Ladysmith
was relieved. A private dispatch re
ceived here by a prominent South Afri
can states that ho has rallied and is
likely to recover.
Dr Jameson was anxious to have a
military command in the campaign,
but as the leader of the raid he was ex
cluded irom the service for political
reasons, and was not welcomed when
be arrived at Ladysmith a few days be
fore the investment of the town. His
opportunity came. When the garrison
was fever stricken he reverted to medi
cal practice and did ten men’s work in
cariu s for the fever patients and the
wounded soldiers.
TO CONVENE ON MARCH 27.
J u <i E
Tift Has Called Sleeting of
I’liilippiuo Commission.
Washington, March 14.—Judge Taft,
president of the new Philippine com
mission, has notified his fellow com
missioners that the commission will
convene March 27.
Judge Taft’s resignation of his judi
cial office takes effect tomorrow. It had
teen supposed that the new commission
w uid be brought together immediately
thereafter, but it is probable that the
task of closing up bis affairs prepara
tory to a long absence from the United
Suites has made it necessary for Judge
Taft to defer the first meeting until the
twenty-seventh inst. Meanwhile the
old commission is winding upitsaffairs.
GOVERNOR TANNER IS ILL.
He Hus Stopped In New Orleans En-
route to Florida.
New Orleans, March 14.—Governor.
Tanner of Illinois, accompanied by his
wife ana secretary, arrived here in a
private car today. The governor was
taken at once to the St. Charles hotel
and word was given out that he was
quite ill. Mrs. Tanner said hi9 condi-
tion was such that he could not leave
his room.
Tue party expects to leave for Florida
tonight if the governor is able to travel.
Wampler S«*nt«iiced to Hmijr.
Knoxville, March 14.—A special to
The Sentinel from Mlddlesboro says
John M. Wampler was sentenced to
hang at Oladeville, Va., for killing
William Jenkins at Norton, Va., three
weeks ago. Wampler-is a leading bus
iness man of that section and Jenkins
Was a prominent attorney.
First Stilk»* In Carolina Mill.
Columbia, S. C., March 14.—The first
strike in a South Carolina cotton mill
occurred this afternoon, the operatives
of tli6 Warrenville mill, about 500,
walking out after demanding and be-
Lg refused higher pay. They made no
demonstration.
Coai Miner Killed.
Knoxville, March 14—Frank Tar-
^ater, a coal miner, was killed last
pight by a heavy ledge of slate falling
>R tho Cross Mountain mine at Coal
Creek. No other casualties are reported.
The mine is owned by the Knoxville
Iron company.
London, March 13.—Lord Robers tele
graphs from V uters Vlei at 5 o’clock
this morning as follows:
“Our march was again unopposed.
We are now about lb miles from Bloem
fontein. The cavalry division is astride
the railway 6 miles south of Bioemion-
leiu. There are about 321 men. Aboui
60 or 70 were kilied or are missing.
“I directed General French if there
was time before dark to seize the rail
way station at Bloemfontein and thus
secure the rolling stock.. Ac midnight
I received a report from him that after
considerable opposition he had been able
to ociupy two hills close to the rail
way station which commanded Bloem
fontein.
“A brother of President Steyn has
been made a prisoner.
“The telegraph line leading north
ward has been cut and the railway
brokon up.
“I am now starting with the Third
cavalry brigade, which I called up from
the Seventh division near Petrusbnrg
yesterday, and the mounted infantry to
reinforce the cavalry division. The rest
of the force will follow as quickly as
possible.”
Lord Roberts’ actual entry into the
Orange Free State capital seems likely
to be delayed until .tomorrow or iate to
day,"as his statement that he is going
to reinforce General French implies
that opposition is being encountered on
the outskirts of the town,though the defi
nue statement that the British cavalry
leader has positions which command
the situation leaves no doubt that the
occupation will speedily be effected,
and with it, so the London critics think,
will accrue to the British important
captures of supplies, if not of prisoners.
However, it may be that the Boers may
make a strenuous resistance, which will
not be overcome until Lord Roberts'
main army catches up with the cavalry
DeWitt’s Witch Haze! Salve
Cures Piles, Scalds, Burns.
Salisbury Di-clinrs Mediation.
London, March 13. — The United
States government, at the request ol
President Kruger and President Steyn,
has offered to the British government
its services as mediator, with a view o’
bringing about peaC9 in South Africa.
The United States charg9 d’affaires.
Henry White, saw Lord Salisbury at
the foreign office this evening and re
ceivea a formal reply from the British
government declining the good offices
of the United States in regard to peace.
It is understood that the reasons of the
premier are identical with ihose already
cabled to the Associated Press.
Tne interview between Mr. White
and Lord Salisbury was very brief, the
premier confining himself to a court
eous verbal declination, without enter
ing into details.
SCROFULA AND ITS AWFUL HORRORS
CURED BY
Johnston’s Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLES.
A. MOST 'WO’VI)IilR UL CURE.
A Grand Old Lady Gives Her Experience.
Mrs. Thankful Orilla Hurd lives in the beautiful village of Brighton,
Livingston Co., Mich. This venerable and highly respected lady was born in
the year 1S12, the year of the great war, in Hebron, Washington Co., New
York. She came to Michigan in 1840. the year of “Tippecanoe and Tyler
too. ’ All her faculties are excellently preserved, and possessing a very re
tentive memory, her mind is full of interesting reminiscences of her early
life, of the early days of the State of Michigan and the interesting and re
markable people she has met, and the stirring events of which she was a wit
ness. But nothing in her varied and manifold recollections are more mar
velous and worthy of attention than are her experiences in the use of
JOHNSTON S SARSAPARILLA. Mrs. Hurd inherited a tendency and pre
disposition to scrofula, that terribly destructive blood taint which has cursed
and is cursing the lives or thousands and marking thousands more as vic
tims of the death angel. Transmitted from generation to generation, It is
found in neary every family in one form or another. It may’ make its ap
pearance in dreadful running sores, in unsightly swellings in the neck or
goitre, or in eruptions of varied forms. Attacking the mucous membrane, it
may be known as catarrh in the head, or developing in flio lungs It may be,
and often is, the prime cause of consumption.
Speaking of her ease, Mrs, Hurd says: “I was troubled for many years
with a bad skin disease. My arms an^ limbs would break out in a mass of
sores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very
unsightly in appearance. My body was covered with scrofulous eruptions..
My eyes were also greatly inflamed and weakeped, and they pained me very
much. My blood was in a very bad condition and my head ached severely
at frequent intervals, and I had no appetite. I had sores also in my ears. I
was in a miserable condition, I had tried every remedy that had been recom
mended, and doctor after doctor had failed. One of the best physicians in
the state told me I must die of scrofulous consumption, as internal abcesses
were beginning to form. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and
his famous Sarsaparilla. I tried a bottle, more as an experiment than any
thing else, as I had no faith in it, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I
began to grow better. You can be sure I kept on taking it. I took a great
many bottles. But I steadily improved until I became entirely well. All the
sores healed up, all the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health.
a ?o ^ never been troubled with scrofula since. Of course an old lady
of 83 years is not a young woman, but I have had remarkably good health
since then, and I firmly believe that JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA Is the
greatest blood purifier and the best medicine in the wide world, both for
scrofula and as a spring medicine.” This remarkably interesting old lady did
not iok to be more than sixty, and she repeated several times, “I believe my
life was saved by JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA.”
COMtPAJSTX, DETROIT, MICH.
REV. MR. SHELDON'S PAPER.
The First Issue Will Amount to 360,.
OOO Copies.
Topeka, March 13.—The first issue ol
the Sheldon edition of th9 Topeka Capi
tal went to press at 2:57 ibis morning,
23 minnies earlier than the usual time.
Mr. Sheldon stayed in the effiee until
the press started and curried home with
him the first copy of the paper.
All the mails were caugnt and the
press was kept running nntil about noon
today, printing something over 100,000
copies. The rest of the edition will be
printed in Chicago and New York, for
which matrices will be sent daily. The
MICIIIGrAW drug
H. B. McMASTKR, Waynesbors, Ga.
DANIEL, SONS & PALMER, Millen, Ga.
S.F, OOOPER, Rocky Ford, Ga.
I \V, H. PARKER, Rocky Ford, Ga.
E.S. LANE & CO , Dover, Ga
M M, PERKINS, Perkins, Ga,
WILLIAMS AGAIN ARRESTED.
Independence Will Not B ■ Granted.
London, March 13.—In the house of
lords today the premier, Lord Salis
bury, read the British government’s
reply to President Kruger and Presi
dent Steyn. The concluding sentence
is as follows: “Her majesty’s govern
ment can only answer your honor’s tel
egram by saying it is not prepared to
assent to the independence of either the
South African republic or the Orange
Free State.”
Mafeking’s Sore Distress.
London, March 13.—A dispatch to
The Times from Mafeking, a^ted Mon
day, March 5, says the garrison at that
place were then feeling acutely the
stress of the siege. They were reduced
to the use of horseflesh and bread made
from horse forage, white the water was
parasitically contaminated.
Typhoid, dy.-entery and diphtheria
were epidemic, but it was impossible to
isolate the victims. The sufferings of
the women and children were terrible
and there were deaths in th9 women’s
laager daily. The native population
was starving.
Fieron Fighting Saturday.
A dispatch from Driefontein, Orange
Free State, dated March 11, says Broad-
wooi’s cavairy brigade, advancing on
Bloemfontein, unexpectedly found the
Boers in a strong position in the Drie
fontein kopjes yesterday. General
Kolly-Kenuy’s division arriving, severe
fighting ensued. The Boers resisted
stubbornly, but were driven from their
center position, leaving, a number of
dead and 40 prisoners. The Brutish
force is moving forward today.
During the fighting, in Which five
regiments took part with artillery, the
Boer3, though forced from their center
position, clung tenaciously to the other
kopjes, shelling the British freely with
three guns and two Victor-Maxims.
The British cavalry began to turn the
Boer position, but night fell before the
movement was completed. The Boers
retired during the night.
’ All of the. day was occupied in fight
ing. The Boers maintained a stubborn
rear guard action aiong a running front
of la miles on very difficult ground.
The British were advancing in three
columns. General Tucker, to the south
ward, occupied Petrusberg unopposed;
General Kelly-Kenny, after following
the river bank, moved in the direction
of Abraham’s kraaL
Rumors of relief of Mafeking con
tinue to circulate, but fail of any con
firmation. From Natal, which Gen
eral Buffer so erroneously declared was
free of Boers, and Cape Colony where
General Kitchener’s stern hand is upon
tho rebellion, there is no news of any
importance.
Commenting on tho fact that Lord.
Roberts found the Boers holding posi
tions in a part of the country supposed
to have been left open, the St. James
Gazette says:
•No more damning indictment was
ever preferred against any cavalry.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
The lamous little pills.
The Well Known Labor Agent. Wanted :
In Two States.
Atlanta, March 12.—R. A. Williams, |
batter known as “Pegleg” Williams, !
the mail who has been in so much !
trouble about sending negro emigrants
westward, has been again arrested by 1
Patrolman Hill on the same old charge ;
of hiring negro labor for emigration i
without a siate license.
There is also a warrant for Williams i
from South Carolina, and still another
warrant which is in the hands of the
sheriff of Fuiton county.
Chief Manly received a warrant for
Wiluams several days ago from South j
Carolina, but Williams was not in the |
city and the warrant was temporarily
pigeonholed. j
Saturday a warrant came to the po- {
lice authorities from Atbens, Ga. Yes
terday morning Qtiieer Hul found Wil
liams just as he stepped from a train at
the depot, and the alleged labor agent
was arrested and locked up at the police
barracks.
Yesterday afternoon the prisoner was
turned over to the county officials, the
sheriff having a warrant foi*him.
A Powder Mill Explosion
Removes eyerything ia sight; so
do drastic mineral piiis, but both
are mighty dangerous. Don’t dy
namite the delicate machinery of
your body with calomel, croten oii
or aloes piiis, when Dr. King’s New
Life Pills, wdiieh are gentle as a
summer breeze, do the work per-
pectiy. Cures headache, constipa
tion. Only 25 cents at ir. b. MCMas-
ter’s drug store.
LONDON AWAITING
IMPORTANT NEWS
Occupation of Bloemfontein
Is Hourly Expected.
MAFEKING HARD PRESSED
SUICIDE
Sought a
OF P. B.
WALKER.
Shot
Secluded Spot uud
Himself With Pistol.
Wakrenton, Ga., March 9.—In a
secluded spot just below the Sallie Hill
cemetery was found the body of Mr. P.
Brooks Walker, one of our town’s most
prominent citizens
By his side lay a Smith & Wesson
32-caliber pistol, and in his temple a
terrible wound, which served to tell the
tale.
For several days his most intimate
friends have known that he was under
a terrible mental strain and apt to do
himself bodily harm, yet it was not
deemed necessary to place a watch over
him. Just after his noon meal he left
his home apparently much better. His
wife supposed he had gone to his busi
ness and was not uneasy, but as night
drew on he did not return and the
neighbors were asked for assistance and
a search was began.
Aif Prater Gets Two Years.
Calhoun, Ga., March 10.—The jury
in the Alf Prater case returned a ver
dict of guilty with a recommendation
of mercy. Before the judge passed
sentence Prater’s attorneys had a con
sultation with the prisoner and agreed
to a verdict of guilty, for sentence,
against Prater on the remaining three
cases. Judge Fite sentenced Prater to
serve two years’ sentence, the allot
ment of time being as follows: For
stealing horse, one year; buggy, six
months; harness, three months, and
bridle, three mouths. All the above
articles were stolen from different par
ties, making separate biffs necessary.
Now Cars For Central.
Savannah, March 12.—The Central
railroad has bought three handsome
new sleepers that have just arrived
from the builders, Barney & Smith of
Dayton. O. The cars are now in the
Central’s passenger yards. They are
being cleaned up and put in thorough
order for their runs, which will be on
the line between Savannah and Macon
and Savannah and Atlanta. The first
of them left Savannah for Atlanta to
night. The cars they will supplant on
these runs will be put on the line be
tween Savannah and Birmingham.
Mrs. Harriet Evans, Hinsdale,111,
writes, “I never fail to relieve my
children from croup at once by us
ing One minute Cough Cure. I
would not feel safe without it.”
Quickly cures coughs, colds, grippe
and all throat and lung diseases.
Cronje to Sail For St. Helena 3Iarch
17—Cecil Rhodes 111 —Salisbury’s
Reply to Kruger Gives Satisfaction
to Natal.
London, March 14—A few hours
should bring important dispatches from
Lora Roberts. No word has come from
Bloemfontein today, although sharp
fighting is believed to have occurred
since the commander-in-chief was last
heard of. London confidently expect?
the occupation of the Orange Free
State capital will occur tod^y, as pre
viously forecasted.
In the meanwhile attention turns to
Mafeking. A dispatch from Lobatsi
March 8 says:
Colonel Plamer’s force reached here
Tuesday, March 6. It is believed that
only a single bridge southward has been
destroyed and that otherwise the rail
road is intact within 5 miles of Mafe-
king. Colonel Plumer has already dis
persed several Boer police posts in the
neighbornood and is actively pushing
his advance southward.
Mafeking can scarcely hold out much
longer. The news of Colonel Planters’
approach has given substance to the ru
mor of its relief, but those best informed
are inclined to think the relief is more
likely to become accomplished by Colo
nel Peakman’s column from Kimberley.
Private advices have set forth that
Colonel Piumer had almost given up
hope of accomplishing anything more
than harrassing the Boers, though since
these were written it is possible thai
the diminished numbers of the invest
ing force may have rendered Piumer’s
task more feasible. Judging from the
lack of news everything is quiet in
Natal, while from Herschel comes the
statement (fiat the total collapse of
the insurgent colonists is imminent:
General Cronje, according to a Cap6
Town special, sails for St. Helena on
March 17.
Cecil Rhodes is suffering from catarrh
of the stomach and is unable to sail for
England.
Natal dispatches recount that great
est satisfaction is felt there at Lord
Salisbury’s reply to the Boer president’6
peace overtures.
A dispatch from Pietermaritzberg,
published in the second edition of The
Times, says:
“The reply, especially the last para
graph, relating to independence, has
been received in Natal with a feeling of
great relief and is dispelling all doubts.”
A private dispath from Johannesburg
has been received in London, dated Sat
urday, March 10, contradicting reports
that the mines are flooded and the ma
chinery broken, and asserting that all
is welL _____
Deafness Cannot be Lured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused
by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube, hen this tube
gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed deafness is the result, and-unless this
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroj-ed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused bv catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of ihe mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
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REV. CHARLES M. SIIEI.DON.
management of the paper says the mail
ing list and city circulation now contain
360,000 copies, and that fresh orders are
coming by every mail, 25,000 yesterday.
Mr. Sheldon was at his desk again at
8:25 this morning.
The paper was not entirely satisfac
tory to the regular subscribers and out
side papers have been bought freely to
day.
Contents of the Paper.
The first item on the first page was a
prayer written by Bishop John A. Vin
cent of the Methodist Episcopal church.
It is as follows:
“A morning prayer and resolution:
‘I will try this day to live a simple,
sincere, serene life, repelling every
thought of discontent, S3lf-seeking and
anxiety; cultivating magnanimity, self-
control and the habit of silence; prac
ticing economy, cheerfulness and help
fulness.
“ ‘And as I cannot in my own strength
do this, or even with a hope of success
attempt it, I look to Thee, oh Lord, my
Father, in Jesns Christ, my Savior, and
ask for the gift of the Hoiy Spirit.”
A page was devoted to local news,
and the leading features of today’s issue
were reports of a temperance revival
and an anticigarette meeting. Mr. Shel
don instructed the police reporter that
in case of a murder or other crime to
write a bare statement of the facts. If
he had the space to spare, instead of
filiing it up with the usual details, he
would go into a discussion of the causes
leading np to the crime.
One page was given to telegraph
news, which ordinarily occupies about
three times that space. The Associated
Press report was necessarily blue pen
ciled with a vengeance.
The market reports were cut from
four columns to one. All quotations on
stocks and bonds, giving options and
other matter, involving transactions in
you didn’t write hasn’t come.
You meant to write it.
You meant to write and ask us
more about our goods.
You certainly owe it to yourself
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For all we claim, we only claim
.the truth.
We will send you circulars and
catalogues any time.
Write tor them,
We make this a safe place toiu you
to buy at.
We cheeriully give your money
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We want you to try our goods.
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Question Answered.
Well Known Lawyer Dead.
Gainesville, Ga., March 12.—Jasper
N. Dorsey, a well known young man
and lawyer of Gainesville, son of the
late J. N. Dorsey, died here Sunday
afternoon after a lingering illness of
consumption. He was 25 years of age,
an alumnus of the state university and
was highly esteemed everywhere he
was known. The funeral services were
held today.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is wbat it was made lor.
Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of us
ing anything else for indigestion or
biliousness. Doctors were scarce,
and they seldom heard ol appendi
citis, nervous prostration, or heart
failure, etc. They used August
Flower to clean out the system and
stop fermentation of indigesteo
food, regulate the action of the liver,
stimulate the nervous and organic
action of the system, and that is all
they took when feeling dull and bad
with headaches and other aches
You only need a few doses of
Green’s August Flower, in liquid
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“With this understanding of the con
duct of the paper this week, 1 will state
in part its general purpose and politics:
“It will be a newspaper. The word
mews’ will be defined as anything in
the way of daily events that the pub
lic ought to know for its development
and power in a life of righteousness.
“On the liquor question- the paper
will advocate the prohibition of the
whole liquor business from Maine to
California and all aronnd the globe. By
prohibition I mean the total extinction
oP the enrse of making, selling, baying
and drinking intoxicating iiqnors, its
extinction by legal enactment, by per
sonal total abstinence and by ever/
form of state, home, church and school
education that Christiana can devise.
“The great social question of the age
will be given prominence- The selfish
ness of mankind in every form of greed,
commercially and politically, will be
considered as of more serious conse
quence to us as a people than many
other matters which too often engage
the time and attention of mankind.
“The paper will declare its abhorrence
of war as it is being waged today, not
in Africa, bnt in the Philippines and
everywhere else.
“The main purpose of the paper will
be to influence its readers to seek first
the kingdom of God. A nation seeking
the kingdom of God first of all will in
time find right answers to all disputed
questions and become a powerful and
useful nation.
"May God bless the use of this paper
to the glory of his kingdom on earth.
“Charles M. Sheldon.”
SHREWD DIPLOMATIC MOVE.
No Right to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely in face
form and temper will always have
friends, bnt one who would be at-
ractiye must keep her health. If
she is weak, sickly and all tud
down, she will be neryous and irri
table. If she has constipation or
kidney trouble, her impure blood
will cause pimples, blotches, skin
eruptions and a wretched complex
ion. Electric Bitters is the best
medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to
purify the blood. It gives strong
nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety
skin, rich complexion. It will
make a good-looking, charming
woman of a run down invalid. On
ly 50 cents a bottle at H. b. mcmas-
ter’s drug store.
A GREAT INTERSTATE FAIR.
futures, have Been consigned to tne
waste basket, and only the actual cash
prices of grain, products, etc., will be
quoted.
A notable feature of the paper will
be the method of handling advertise
ments. The familiar corset advertise
ments of the magazines, accompanied
by cuts, have sought in vain for space.
No retail advertisements from Kansas
City or out-of-town tradesmen wili be
accepted, Mr. Sheldon holding that this
would be an injustice to home mer
chants.
The twenty-dollar-suit-of-clothes-for-
$14 75 style of advertising is also barred.
Sheldon’s Policy Announced.
The leading editorial was an out
line of the paper’s policy during the
week and in part is as follows:
“Last December the owners of the
Topeka Daily Capital asked me to as-
gnme entire charge of the paper for one
week and edit it as a distinctively
Christian daily.
“I accepted the invitation on condi
tion that I receive no financial compen
sation and that a share of the profits be
used for some benevolent work and
named the week beginning Tuesday,
March 13, 1900, as the week for the ex-
navimnn fc
M. B. Smith, Butternut, Mioh.,
says, “DeWitt’s Little Early risers
are the very best pills I ever used
for constiveness, liver and bowell
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Atlanta’s Business .Men Decide to
Hold It Next October.
Atlanta, March 10.—At a mass meet
ing of Atlanta’s business men it has
been decided to hold a southern inter
state fair here next fall.
The big fa 5 r will open Oct. 10 and
close Oct. 27. This will give 15 open
days for the fair, and the fixing of the
exact date at this time, it is thought,
will forestall any possible conflict with
the dates that may be made by other
fairs
The guarantee fund of the southern
interstate fair will be $15,000, $5,000
mo.e than that of the fnnd raised last
year. With this amonnt in hand it is
thought that the size of the fair can be
made fully double that heid last year,
as of the $10,000 guarantee fnnd raised
by popular subscription for the state
fair, fully one-half was expended on the
repair of the buildings and in other
ways that will not be necssary this
year.
Every indication points to the south
ern interstate fair being one of the big
gest and best that has ever been held in
the south.
Changes In Office.
Montgomery, Ala., March 14—Judge
A. Stratton of Troy, who was recently
appointed census supervisor for tha
Third Alabama district, has resigned
hie position as United States commis
sioner, and Circnit Judge Bruce has ap
pointed in his stead W. C. Stark, who
has been a deputy United States mar
shal. Marshal Bryan has appointed
Andrew Collier to sncced Starke as dep
uty marshal.
Big Packing Plant.
Fort Worth, Tex., March 14—The
JDcld Packing company has sent repre
sentatives here for the purpose of clos
ing a deal to erect a plant in Fort
Worth to cost- over $1,000,000. The
prospects are fair that it will be bnilt.
Job Printing promptly executed.
Kruger and Steyn Force Salisbury to
Show His Hand.
New York, March 14—The Journal
and Advertiser says:
Presidents Kruger and Steyn have
apparently made a shrewd diplomatic
move, for it cannot be supposed that
they expected Lord Salisbury to consent
ro peace on any such terms as they pro
posed.
iney have, however, obtained from
the British premier a tangible state
ment of the intention of England, and
her determination to take from the two
republics their independence.
This gives them something on which
they may appeal to the powers, asking
if the latter will stand by and see them
crushed and turned into integral parts
of the British empire.
The strengthening of England’s fleet
in Chinese waters is a part of her an
swer to the peace proposition of the
Boer republics. Lord Salisbury realizes
that England’s enemies have never had
so good an excuse for making trouble
for her as they have now. Should the
Boer presidents appeal to the powers
against the premier’s ultimatum and
ask them to interfere to prevent the po
litical annihilation of the republics the
opportunity of Russia and France would
have come.
These powers would, very likely, no
tify England they would not consent to
the taking away of the Boers’ inde
pendence. And that would mean war.
For England would allow no such in
terference in what she regards as her
private affairs.
OUR OFFER OF MEDIATION.
Excites Unfavorable Comment of the
London Globe.
London, March 9.—Regarding the
United States’ offer of mediation, Tne
Globe says:
“The incident is of interest only in
th9 light it throws on American poli
tics. Republicans and Democrats alike
are always prepared to risk the friend
ship of England in the party game.
“We may preserve amicable relations
with the United States and it is to be
hoped we always shall do so, but an al
liance is impossible. We were brought
to the verge of war four years ago, for
the sake of Mr. Cleveland’s re-election,
and a pretext for a diplomatic quarrel
will never be wanting when the anti-
English elements of the republic have
to be consolidated. ”
Duly One of the Defendants Appears
In Court Today.
Savannah,' March 12.—This morning
in the United States district court the
case of B. D. Greene, E. H., J. F. and
W. T. Gaynor, Michael A. Connally
and Oberlin M. Carter was called.
These are the men charged with enter
ing into a conspiracy and cheating the
government ont of something like $1,-
000,000. Only one of the defendants'
was in court. Michael A. Connally was
present with his counsel, Mr. George
A. Mercer, Jr.
There was no one present to represent
the other defendants, bnt Distriot At
torney Erwin had a letter from Mr. A.
J. Rose of New York representing B.D.
Greene and the Gaynors in the hear
ings before the government authorities
in New York to keep from being
brought to Georgia, which he read. Mr.
Rose contended that he did not repre
sent the defendants before the United
States court in Georgia, but that his
clients were under bond to appear be
fore Judge Addison Brown in New
York and could not be in Savannh
today.
Bis Life Was Saved.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citi
zen of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a
wonderful deliverance from a fright
ful death. In telling of It be says:
“I was taken with typhoid fever
that ran into pneumonia. My lungs
became hardened. I was so week I
couldn’t even sit up in bed. Noth
ing helped me. I expected to soon
die of consumption, when I heard of
Dr King’s New Discovery. One
bottle gave great relief. I continu
ed to use it, and now am well and
strong. I can’t say too much in its
praise.” This marvelous medicine
is the surest and quickest cure in
the world for all throat and lung
trouble. Regular sizes 50 cents and
$1.00. Trial bottles free at H. B.
mcmaster’s Drug Store: every bot-U|
guaranteed.