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DISPATCHING.
bosses many a body and bur-
j fnS many a mind. You can’t enjoy
the b eci you like because yon are
bilious- You take all sorts of pre
cautions, and yet the bilious attack
j^p S ( ,n you like a tiger from ambush.
y 0 u know the feeling ! The blood
?ee niing on fire ^ith a dull heat; the
J^rjng pains in the eyes: the head
seeming to open and shut; the hor
rible nausea. You know the irrita-
bility which precedes and the languor
t^: follows the attack. It’s miser-
a lle, isn’t it ? Why not cure the
trouble ? There’s a pill that will cure
biliousness. Dr. J. C. AYER’S PILLS
acknowledged specific for this
derangemen t.
er, Texarkana, Tex., writes:
years I have used Ayer’s Pills,
" vary effective in bilious com-
.1; .. i i.ave yet to see the case where
Ibev have failed to cure.”
0fousr>e Ssiiaup
pam s siiip ci
inanciai 'straits.
now in
of a Span-
has been
the fourth of July
opened up a
Evidently the speed
h wars! ip on the run
raresti mated.
In honor ol
dmiral Sampson
uttle at Santiago.
“Our soldiers tire very quickly
a the Southern and extreme lat
itudes/' said the Incroyable
Idiot.
The number of romantic ruins
Spain will be greatly increased
;ar Commodore Watson reaches
/ chore.
[in inquirer asks whether Admi-
knipsen. has Irish blood in
.ri'J;
If he
a as
urth
eon uo
>f Jnlv.
God
the Irish
is cer-
on the
An Explanation.
The reason for the great popularity
Hood's Sarsa/ arilla lies in tlie fact
:t this medicine positively cures. It
(America’s greatest medicine, and the
leriean people have an abiding coli
enee in its merits. They buy and
ie it for simple as well as serious a li
ds, confident that it will do them
>d,
IflOOD'S PILLS cure all liver ills,
ixled for -25c. by C. I. Hood & Co.
rell, Mass.
Did you have any fireworks at
Hr home?” asked Binks. In
|bv. I stayed out to celebrate
Epson’s victory and when I get
wne the 'blowing up I got was
fmethiug lurid.”
(The Devil
IS THE AUTHOR OF
'ISEASE.
SUFFERING.
DEATH.
VER
Brown’s Ml
Rills the
’HYSICAL
all Dis-
V' a three-fold absorption of mois-
e ’ accorf
' 0r Rnns
'ding to God’s plan, through
Lu Xu-
3, Un-
^ f f the .can. (eyes, ear* a/n-u i
e "'urm Drains and Sewers from I
soie: restoring health pro- j
F nfc. Three preparations form j
|L'Ii'? VC:r .y—No. 1, Celebrated “Poor 1
■ n Q Eye Water.” No. 2
; f’reparation..” No.
j. ‘‘^ealp Renovator.”
kprit I° r - ir - M ‘ Drouods
r 1 • >. iC * f. p i\ \f Pii f p r y f nf T . .C
, ^ v of olds the laws anti princi
“A MCTAPilYSICAL DlBCOVEi”. ,
Lei'' 1 ? 1 ’ 5e ^ an God for protect-
m ^staining the human body and
yoi the Monster Diseases. It is
an d
or of the
nil from t
’•It’s about 11 years now since I handled
trains by-wire, and I would not go back
to it for $100 a day. You have really no
Idea of how it wears on a man. Some
stand it better than others, but it wrecks
j every one’s nerves sooner or later,
j “When I was appointed night dispatcher
j on this road, I thought I was the biggest
man in Missouri. I tool; to smoking 15
; cent cigars and wearing $8 hats. I had a
well developed case of swelled head and
showed it all over me. A few months’ ex
perience with faithless operators, tricky
trainmen and arrogant superiors, however,
took the conceit out of me, and I began to
realize just how big a job it was to handle
I a heavy train wire and give satisfaction,
i The fact is, the man who can please all
I hands has yet to be born. There are times
i when some train must be delayed, and it’s
| often a case of Hobson’s choice. The train
men who wait curse the dispatcher into
the middle of purgatory and back again,
nnd those who get advantage brag abotrt
the run they made.
“One night the road was fairly hGfc with
trains when I came on duty. I wondered
how in thunder I should ever get the pas
senger train through without delay. There
seemed to be a train on every side track
over the whole length of the road and
more between stations. I worked like a
beaver. It was in the old days of what are
known as ‘single’ orders, when each train
received a separate order, which must be
sent to each one concerned singly. You
will easily see how in the rush of business
a single order might be incorrectly trans
mitted and trains leave stations under
conflicting orders, which would certainly
bring them together unless corrected
Nowadays the most progressive roads all
use orders so worded that two trains or
more receive them at the same time, and
thus the risk of error is lessened. That
system was hardly known in my time, and
wo worked on the perilous single order
plan.
“A double header left the foot of the
mountain about midnight, holding an or
der giving it the right to Summit. About
85 minutes ahead of it was a fast freight.
The latter had an engine numbered 427,
and the double train had engines 842 and
827. You must remember I was working
every minute trying to keep tbo freights
out of the way of .the night passenger
trains.
“Along toward morning a train was
ready to go down the mountain, and I
gave the order to ‘run wild’ and wait for
engine 427 at Summit. In some way cr
other the double train following slipped
my memory completely. I have thought
since I must have got mixed on the two
numbers, 427 and 327. At any rate, when
the operator at Summit reported the two
trains leaving, it cair.o over me with the
suddenness and pain of a galvanic shock
that I had gi von what we call a ‘lap’ order.
“The horrible feeling that seized me of
ten makes me shudder when I think of it
row. My hand fell from the key, limp
and nerveless. Something seemed to cast
a blur before my eyes so I could not read
the orders before mo. The blood rushed
to my head, and my temples beat liko trip
hammers. But only for a second. Like a
flash I seized the key and asked the oper
ator to stop tbo down train. It was too
late. It bad gone. Then I tried to reach
th ! double train, but it. too, had passed
the last telegraph offlee, and I knew no
'earthly power could prevent those trains
from striking hard, for the grade is nearly
20 feet to Gw mile, up there.
“I sent for the chief dispatcher immedi
ately and told him the situation. He was
an old hand at the business, and an affair
cf this kind fretted his nerves almost xo
the point c-f insanity. He added nearly 100
per cent to my agony of mind. He would
sit down and look the train shoot over and
seem to devour* the fatal orders with his
pyes, then jump up with a gesture of de
spair and say, ‘By gosh, that’s too had!’
Then he would pace up and down the floor,
repeating to hirnsA±: ‘That's too bad, too
bad. They’ll strike os sure as the world,'
returning always to pore over the train
sheet and order book. I could have
screamed with the awful strain of nervous
s-.i.-t.use. I confidently believe that noth
ing biit lack of courage and the curious
fascination kept me from rushing out and
jumping into the river, 75 feet below.
“I felt absolutely certain that some of
those men would be killed. Had both
trains been single the drivers might possi
bly see each other’s headlights in time to
jump, hut I was sure the men on the sec
ond engine of the double header would go
into the wreck all over and die as sure as
fate. It has become fashionable nowadays
to disbelieve in a physical hereafter. I
don’t know anything about that, but I do
know that if mental torture be the lot of
those who sin in this life, after our ac
counts are audited, I should prefer to take
my chances with tho old fashioned stylo cf
•punishment.
“Suddenly both relays opened with a
snap. The chief looked* at me with a per
fectly indescribable expression nnd went
to the switchboard without a word. We
both knew without telling what it meant.
'”he irains bad struck, and the piled up
wreckage had broken the wires down. We
tested for the break and soon located it
half way up the mountain. I gave up the
last particle of hope at this, and only wait
ed in a kind of dull wonder to learn the
extent of the casualty.
“The 30 or 40 minutes that elapsed aftei
the wire failed until we got the official re
port of the accident seem to me now as
misty as a dream. I worked away at the
wire mechanically, guided only by the
force of habit and using the circuits as
they were made up by the chief. He kept
fussing at tho switchboard in a perfect
misery of norvousness.
“At length the Summit operator called,
and my heart beat almost audibly as I an
swered him, for I knew from his tremu
lous sending that lie had received tho re
port. I think he must have understood
my feelings, for the first words he tele
graphed almost crazed mo with gratifica
tion. Before sending a line of the formal
report ho told me, ‘There’s nobody hurt!'
I gave up right then nnd there and said.
‘Mr. H., you'll Lave to take the rest oi
this report; I can’t,’and got up and went
borne. ’
“It scenic tho engineer had seen the
headlight and jumped, and the men on th*
first engine of the double header, after giv
ing a sharp whistle for brakes, shrieked t<
the following crew to jump and kept to.
shrieking after they'struck tho ground and
until th-i engine passed them. The warn
•a..? wa.- h-vau in time, a.-a oil hands got
oil with nothing worse than a few bruises,
bu#that finished my train dispatch*og.*
—Excbi.'jge
Catarrh is
Not Incurable
/
But it can not be cured by sprays,
washes and inhaling mixtures which
reach only the surface. The disease is
in the blood, and can only be reached
through the blood. S. tt. S. is the only
remedy which can have any effect upon
Catarrh; it cures the disease perma
nently and forever rids the system of
every trace of the vile complaint.
Miss Josie Owen, of Montpelier, Ohio,
writes: “I* was af
flicted from infancy
with Catarrh, and no
one can know the
suffering it produces
better than I. The
sprays and washes
prescribed by the doc
tors relieved me only
temporarily, and
though I used them
constantly' for ten years, the disease had a
firmer hold than ever. I tried a number of
blood remedies, but their mineral ingredients
settled in my bones and gave me rheumatism.
I was in a lamentable condition, and after ex
hausting all treatment, was declared incurable.
Seeing S. S. S. advertised as a cure for blood
diseases, I decided to try it. As soon as my
system was under the effect of the medicine,
21.3 Sskta Tho J
m
1
10
will prove it to be the right remedy
for Catarrh. It will cure the most ob
stinate case.
$ Books mailed free to any address by
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Trolley and the Fly.
Has anybody missed any flies in
Charleston this summer, asked the
News and Courier of that city. If
so their absence is accounted for
in the most surprising .way. The
Boston Journal of Commerce says :
“The relation between electric
power and the house fly nuisance
does not seem apparent, but it is
HELPS MATRIMONY.
Relation of Exports, Imports and
Price of Wheat to Marriage.
From the report of the Registrar
General of Births, Deaths and
Marriages in England, the London
Mail gathers some points bearing
on many phases of life.
The marriage rate rose in quite
a marked manner in 1896, and as
compared with that in the imme
diately preceding year was, we
learn, “accompanied by a rise of 5
percent in the value of British ex
ports, a rise of 5 per cent, in*the
value of imports, and a rise of 13
per cent in the average price of
wheat per quarter. ” Of course, if
the latter unaccompanied were any
criterian the rate ought simply to
bound up this year. Further, the
amount of money per head of the
population which we cleared at
I began to Improve, and after taking it for the Bankers’ Clearing House was
two months *1 was cured completely, the
dreadful disease was eradicated from my sys
tem, and I have had no return of it.”
Many have been taking local treat
ment for years, and find themselves
worse now than ever. A trial of
higher than any year of the pre
ceding quinquennium, save 1896,
which furnished a slightly better
figure.
The number of marriages regis
tered m the twelve months was
242,764, The civil ceremony
shows no sign of increased popu
larity; rather the reverse.
Plunging into the details, the
report sets forth that the propor
tions both of widowers and widows
who remarried in 1896 were the
lowest on record, this apparently
indicating a slump in the usually
accepted remarriageability of the
widow.
There was, however, little, if
any increased tendency to marry
young; indeed, the proportion of
marriages under age have shown a
steady decline in both sexes for
claimed, nevertheless, that the
most hopeful sign of the abate- j several years past.* 1 The registra-
ment of flies in cities is to be lion counties, which in the year
found in the substitution of elec
tricity" for horses on the street
railway, Practically all flies are
bred in stables, it is said, and
therefore the fewer stables the
fewer flies.” As a matter-of-fact
we belie ye there are much fewer
Hies hereabout than there were last
year, before the electric cars
came.
1896 showed the highest propor
tions of under-age marriages
among men were Northampton
shire, Bedfordshire, Staffordshire,
Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
and Derbyshire. All these coun
ties except Derbyshire had also
been similarly distinguished in
the preceding year. The registra
tion counties which show the high-
; est proportions, of under-age mar-
| riages among women during 1898
] .’ere Staffordshire, Nottingham
shire, Derbyshire, the West and
East Ridings cf Yorkshire, Bur-
grm and Monmouthshire. All
these counties had shown big!
. > C jLIKj
for any pains and bruises.” Sal
Oil is sold for only 25 cents. No other
remedy will do the work as promptly.
^Weyler’s Satisfaction.
Weyler is not saying much just
now for publication, but he is
probably congratulating himself
that he got out of the island wuth
his bank acount in a condition of
safety.—Baltimore American.
Without A Rival.
As a positive cure for sprains,bruises,
and pains of all kinds, Salvation Oil
has.no cgunb Mrs. Frank Juif. 518
Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich., writes :
4 T used Salvation Oil in my family
and can say it has no rival as a lini- , .
ment; it certainly cnre3 pains, I j proportions m tue picViOUs y e.u,
sprained my ankle and it cured me { and likewise in the ten years, 1886-
and since then I have always used it
Few’ would expect all remarrying
widowers to own up to their years,
but why should there be a greater
tendency to non-statement of age
in marriages between widowers and
spinsters than between bachelors
and widows.
r Both men and women are now,
judging from the statistics, mar
rying later in life than hitherto.
The chances of the unmarried
women over 25 are distinctly
better.
In the more gloomy figures re
lating to the death rate, one or tw T o
facts should not be overlooked.
One is that the measles death rate
in 1896 was, with the 9ingle ex
ception of 1887, the highest on
record, and it & very doubtful
whether, judging from published
medical reports, the figures for the
current year will be much more
favorable.
Entesic fever, as usual, has been
specially prevalent in the group of
registration districts comprising
nearly the whole of the county of
Derham, together with the adja
cent parts of Northumberland and
Yorkshire—it is always the case,
but no reason is assigned for it.
Finally, it is noteworthy that
cancer is rapidly increasing, par
ticularly among males. Last year
supplied the highest death rate on
record.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians
as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To
ledo, O., contains do mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys
tem. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure
be sure yen get the genuine. It is
taken internally, and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimo
nials free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c. per
bottle.
Hail’s Family Pills are the best.
j.s Tnis e Oiso?
“Wh ere is your mother, John-
li v
,9»
‘Playing golf.”
‘And your aunt?”
‘She
is out on her
keel.
people,
ic* rut.-,
Tree
*' ft: \ L U XIV UK 3IT Y.
- vv York
nearly Forty Y’ears.
Mrs.
again.
Peir
mum,;
W,
rive
War Term.
Around
ace-
*>
begging
TV
•aluting—No,
foraging.
, Ana vo .
T ‘She is training for the foot-ball
game.’ *
“Then I’ll see your father
please.”
“He can’t come down now. He’s
upstair? giving the baby a bath.”
—Life.
If your bicycle becomes frightened,
and relieves itself of your avoirdupois,
apply Dr Ticneuor’s Antiseptic imme
diately—not to the bicycle—but to that
part of your anatomy most feelingly
affected by the law of gravitation.
You’ll be delighted with the result of
the application. Keep a bottle in your
“kit” for personal repairs. Only 50
et.s., at druggests and at Country
stores.
Elections this Year.
In no “off year” election, mid
way between presidential contests,
since 1882, has the list of state
officers to be elected been as large
as it is this } T ear.
With practically very few ex
ceptions elections will be held in
all the important states except
Maryland, Delaware, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky and Missouri,
though Delaware votes for a state
treasurer, auditor and insurance
commissioner, and Missouri for a
chief justice, some minor officers,
and for members of a legislature
to participate in the choice of a
successor to Francis M. Cockrell,
whose term of offire expires on the
4th of March, 1899.
In all the states, except where
such elections have already been
held, members of congress are to
be voted for; and,* the choice of
United States senators is depend
ent on the results in some of them,
or in those in which the terms of
thirty senators expire on the 4th
of March, 1899, thus classified
politically; Republicans 12, Dem
ocrats 12, Silver Republicans 3,
Gold Democrats 2, Populists
(Allen ol Nebraska), 1. Some of
them have already been re-elected
more particually Mr. Aldrich, ot
Rhode Island, and Mr. Hanna, of
Ohio. New Y r ork is to elect a suc
cessor to Edward Murphy: Penn
sylvania to Mr. Quay; the post of
Mr* Gorman in Maryland pas been
filled already by the selection of
Mr. McComas, and a senator is to
be chosen from New Jersey. <■
The three middle states, New
York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, elect governors simulta
neously—a very unusual circum
stance. In Pennsylvania the term
of the governor is four years; in
New Jersey, three; in New York
it is now two. Hence the coinci
dence of elections for governor in
these three states are rare.
Both branches of the New York
Legislature will be elected, and
for the first time simultaneously
with the election of a full con
gressional delegation during half a
century.
Alabama will vote in August for
a governor and all state officers;
Arkansas on Sep. 5 for a governor
and state officers. Maine, no
longer one of the New England
states holds an annual election,
will vote for governor on Sep. 12,
and Vermont for governor on Sep.
6. and in both other state officers
will be chosen. The states elect
ing a governor are Kansas, Mich
igan, Nebraska, Minnesota, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Conneticut,
Georgia (in October), Idaho, Ne
vada, New Hamshire, North Da
kota, South' Carolina, South’ Da
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming,
and Wisconsin. Massachu tts
will hoid its customary annual
election. Iowa will chose some
state officers, but not a governor;
North Carolina a chief justice,
and Connecticut a governor and
other state officers.—Macon Mews.
Cf
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a,
o a woman when
( your private
* ” s. a man does
7 because he is a
And consider that in addressing Mrs.
Pinkhamyou arc ecuR.kxg ycrar private
ills to a woman—a w : a. whose ex
perience in treating woman’s diseases
is greater than that of any livjig‘ phy
sician, male Or feme! _•
You can talk freely
it is revolting to r '
troubles to a man; b
not understand, skny
man.
MRS. PINK HAM’S STANDING
INVITATION.
Women suffering from any form of
female weakness are invi ted to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. All le Ters are re
ceived, opened, read, and answered by
women only. A w can freely
talk of her private 11'.. ss to a woman.
Thus has been established the eternal
confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and
the women of America which has never
been broken. Out of the vast volume
of experience which site has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge that
will help your case. She asks nothing
in return except your good will, and
her advice has relieved thousands.
Surely any woman, iff ’ or poor, is very
foolish if she does do ; la 3 advantage
of this generous offer of assistance.
Don’s Complete Pile Cure
The great, quick and sure cm for
Pointed For?/-:.- - --lis-
Some folks never expect to get
Whi\ t thtrY c VT•?'.
A fish in the -nu is worth a
dozen in the angh.rM ‘.G am-
All things come with the waiter
who serves_an order off hash.
With a Loiter purse, Hour by
any other name would smell as
wheat.
It’s always easie** to love an
enemy after you get the best of
him.
'Drop a secret in the average k
woman’s ear, and her tongue be
gins to work.
It’s a poor obesity remedy that
is unable to make a pat‘ o nf’g purse
thinner.
Kissing may not bo dangerous
but it often causes palpitation of
the heart.
No matter wli a t a wcm • • n’s age
may be she never thinks she looks
at it.
The shoemaker who rff a wo
man’s feet to her w.t
forms a heroic feat.
a p>
Homeopathists teli us teat like
cures like, but they faff to suggest
a cure for dislike.
A Clever
It certainly looks like-* but ^bere is
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has Lame Back and Weak
Kidneys, Malaria or nervous R oubles.
We mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric. Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulant to Liver and Kid
neys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic.
It cures Consumption, Headache,
Fainting Spells, Sleeplessnees and Mel
ancholy. It is purely vegetable, a
mild laxatiye, and restores the system
to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bit
ters and be convinced that toey are a
miracle worker. Every bottle guaran
teed. Only 50c a bottle at M. C. Brown
& Co’s Drug Store.
piles, without cutting cr pain. Guar- I j g j) enn i 8
anteed the best on the market. For thftt for a> that _
sale by all druggists. 1
The News and Courier thinks
that one of Oervera’s many names
Cervera’s a man for a’
&
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Special Notice
Have you taken a bad Cough, Cold or LaGrippe?
Do you suffer from Habitual Constipation?
Have you Disordered Liver or Heart Trouble?
Have you a languid, lazy feeling, with Headache?
Do you have Fever of any kind?
T T v I ^
' JL r/s .A J *7 *
Lamar’s Lemon Laxative
Is the best suited to your case of any remedy you can find. Wiijle
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Aking
If you hr v
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fully eend you ONE sample bottle FREE No family eyeeffjly
with children, should be witnout tnis valuable remetiy.
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Macon, Georgia.