Newspaper Page Text
HOW THE CHINESE GET RAIN
Peculiar Practices In Vogue la tbe
> Celestial Kingdom.
It is one of the peculiarities of the
Chinese that, while they fiave develop
ed elaborate philosophies, none of them
has Jed to any confidence *in the uni
formity of nature. Neither the people
nor their rulers have any fixed opinion
es to the causes of rainfall. The plan
In some provinces when the heed of
rain is felt is to borrow a god from a
neighboring district and petition him
for, the , desired rain. If his answer is
satisfactory, he is returned to his home
with every mark of honor; otherwise
he may be put out in the sun as a hint
to wake up and do his duty. A bunch
of willow is usually thrust into his
hand, as willow is sensitive to mois
ture. .
Another plan In extensive use is the
building of special temples, in which
are wells containing several iron tab
lets. When there Is a scarcity of rain,
a messenger starts out with a tablet
marked with the date of the journey
and the name of the district making
the petition. Arriving at another city,
he pays a sum of money and is allow
ed to draw a new tablet from the well,
throwing in his own by way of ex
change. On the return journey he is
supposed to eat only bran and travel
at top speed day and night. Some
times he passes through districts as
greatly in need of rain as his own.
•Then the people in these places way
lay him and, temporarily borrowing his
tablet, get the rain intended for anoth
er place.
Prayers are usually made in the fifth
and sixth months when the rainfall is
always due, and a limit of ten days
| is set for their effective operation. Un
der such conditions rain usually falls
during tlie prescribed time. When the
prayers are in progress, the umbrella,
among other objects, comes under the
ban. In some provinces foreigners
have been mobbed for carrying this
harmless article at that time.
t‘l wsanyenwe j
publish my fetter j
stating the grand effeoi 1
LfDiA E. PlNKffAlVFS *
VEGETABLE OOMPOUNO' \
has had on my health.
if MP5. ANNA ASTON
J “I wassufferingto such an extent from ovarian troubl e *
that my physician thought an operation would be necessary.
Yoiir medicine having been recommended to me, I "decided to
try it. After using several bottles I foupd that I was cured. My
system was toned up and I suffered no more with my ovaries.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the greatest boon on
earth to suffering women.”—Mbs. Anna Aston, Box 13; Troy, Mo.
Ovarian trouble is serious trouble. Every woman knows this. Frequently
she has ovarian trouble when she thinks she has only a “paifi in the-side” All
at once she finds herself unable to walk. She is a sick woman. An operation,
dangerous and expensive, is the usual procedure, and. at best, she can expect
merely to gather together the shattered remnants of health Rafter a tedious
struggle.
Many times this is necessary and many times it is not. It is wise for every
woman to be convinced that every backache . and sideache, every abdominal
pain, indicates something wrong, and something which will not go away itself or
be driven away by hard work. It is also right for every woman to know that
for every disorder of the feminine organs Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound is the perfect treatment, that it is the medicine
always safe to use and always certain to help.
When your health and perhaps your life is at stake. Is it wise to pass by a
remedy whioh holds the record for the greatest number of absolute cures of
female ills and which is recognized by the profession to be the greatest medicine
for women in the world, and aocept something else which you know little or
nothing about?
Read the records of cure in the letters like Mrs. Aston’s printed regularly
in this paper, and if you are sick, do not he satisfied to take a substitute for
Lydia Em Plnkhagn*s VegstsbSs Q^mptttmdn
THE COlfflffiON ENEMY
Kidney disease is the enemy we have most to fear as a result of the
feverish.restlessness of our modern civilization; It is a treacherous
enemy, working out its deadly effect under cover of the most trifling
symptoms. The first indication of changes in the urine, frequent head*
aches, digestive troubles, should be the signal for prompt remedial
measures. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS is a kidney remedy of great
merit. It is soothing, healing and strengthening, quickly relieves the
aching or soreness that always appears In the advanced stage, checks the
progress of the disease, and through its excellent cleansing and regulating
effect in the liver and bowels, it brings back the strength and ruddy
glow of vigorous health.
Price, $1.00 Per Bottle,
SPECIAL AGENTS, E. E. DIXON & CO
The engravers at the bureau of
engraving and printing have Corn-
President
Ladies of the Lexington, ' Ky.,
Chapter, Daughters pf the Con
federacy, have asked the mana
ger of the opera house there tb re
fuse in future to give dates to
“Uncle Tom’8 Cabin-” shows.
B B” 1ft S SBB We have deposited with
PhK* lH s|n| the National City Bank,
BB Esa a _ of x,ynn, $5,000, which
— be paid to any per
son who can find that the above testimonial
letter is not genuine, or was published before
obtaining the writer’s special permission.
Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co.
pie ted a vignette of
Roosevelt that will always be used
as the official picture of the Presi
dent. After his death it may be
used on government money or se
curities, but not until then. This
vignette was made from what was
decided to be the best photograph,
of the President after every phot
ograph be has had taken in the
last ten years had been examined.
Don’t Live Together*
Constipation and health never go to
gether. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers
promote easy action of the bowels
without distress. “I have been troub
led with eostiveness nine years,” says
J. O. Greene, Depauw, Ind. “I have
tried many remedies but Little Early
Risers give best results.” ROBERT
SON & LAW. \
FLOWER AND TREE
ncate Your Howela Witts. CaseaKets.
dy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
FOREIGN BANK METHODS
Palms and ferns should never be al
lowed to stand in a draft.
When moss is seen on fruit trees, it
may be taken as evidence of lack of
thrift in the trees. .
The ideal soil in which to set a plant
is one that is moist, without being' wa
ter soaked, neither too dry nor too wet.
Dust is a great enemy of window
plants in connection with dry heat.
Care must be taken to keep the air
moist.
In India the tea plant is naturally a
tree, but by means of pruning it is kept
so small that It seems to be only a
bush. • ' *■
For setting in a dry soil the plant
should be well rooted and stocky, as it
must depend on the roots it already
has to make a start.
Vines of all kinds flower and fruit
freely.only after they have reached the
top of their support. When they have
“arrived,” they set about blooming.
Peonies should be planted in October.
Once planted they should not be dis
turbed, but should be allowed to form
strong clumps. Thus treated the flow
ers increase in size and beauty with
each succeeding season.
I The Undeveloped System In Use In
Continental Europe.
A bank check is looked upon with
suspicion in Italy. Practically no small
tradesman would take a check, and
none of them keeps a bank account. It
was still more surprising to me to find
that such a statement would be almost
literally, true of Paris itself. I was
studying the mechanism of the Bank
of France under the guidance of one
of the officers. We went into one great
room in the old building in which there
were 200 desks inclosed in wire cages,
all empty at the moment. I asked what
these were for.
“These cages are for our city col
lectors,”' I was told. “When a small
merchant borrows from the Bank of
France, he does not, as with you in
America, borrow a bank credit and
have his loan merely added to his bal
ance on the books of the bank. With
us the merchant, when he makes a
loan, gets the actual money and takes
it away. He probably has no bank ac
count with us. He writes no checks.
When the loan is due, he does not, as
would be the case in your banks, come
in and pay his Indebtedness with _a
check; Instead of that we send a col
lector to him, and that collector Is re
paid the loan in actual currency. Two
hundred men start out from the Bank
of France every morning to collect ma
tured loans. Several days each month
it is necessary to send out 400 men,
and on the 1st and the 15th of each
month 600 collectors go out.”
These collectors were uniformed
men, carrying leather pouches, in
which they have the matured notes
and which are later filled with curren
cy as the collections are made from the
bank’s borrowers.’
I stood at the paying teller’s desk as
I went farther along Jn my tour of the
Bank of France. AsT halted there the
man who happened to be at the win
dow at the moment presented a check
for 50,000 francs. The money was
counted out and handed over to him,
stored away in a big wallet, and 3 he
passed on. I asked if it were not un
usual for a man to draw out so much
currency and was told that it was not.
It was but another illustration of how
undeveloped Is the banking system of
continental Europe In Its uses by the
general public.—Scribner’s Magazine.
iMallary Bros., Machinery Co..
GINE BUILDERS,
IW MILLS, COTTON
IS and PRESSES.
Child Worth Millions.
“My child is worth millions to me,”
says Mrs. Mary Bird of Harrisburg,
Pa.; “yeti would have lost her by
croup had I not purchased a bottle of
One Minute Cough Cure.” One Min
ute Cough Cure is sure cure for coughs,
croup* and throat and lung troubles.
An absolutely safe cough cure which
acts immediately. The youngest child
can take it with entire safety. The
little ones like the taste and remember
how often it helped them. Every lam-
Income tax returns show that
Herr Krupp, the famous German
gunmaker, is the richest man m
the German Empire. His income
is given as between 20,000, 000
and 21, 000,000 marks a year.
MACON, GA
R. DEXTER
Twentieth Century Medicine.
Cascarets Gandy Cathartic are as
far ahead of ancient pill poisons and
liquid physic as the electric light of
the tallow candle. Genuine stamped
C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. All
druggists, ioc.
Inhabitants pf the Danish is
land, St. Croix, have another
petition to King Christian, ad
vancing reasons against tho sale
of the islands to the United
States.
Mrs. Hannah M. McPherson,
who died inKBaltimore the other
day, is to be buried with a portion
of the old ' flag which inspired
Francis Scott Key to write “The
Star Spangled Banner. ” Her hus
band, the late William W. Mc
Pherson, was given the flag, which
had floated over Fort McHenry,
for his bravery in defending it in
1812. Most of the historic em
blem was wrapped around Mr. Mc
Pherson’s casket when he died,
but a small piece was cut from it
and preserved.
SAP RATES TO THIS WEST,
i Western & Atlantic R. R.
AIMDTHE
shyile Chattanooga & St.
Louis Ry.
ill sell round trip homeseekers
pts to all points m Oklahoma and
p Territory on the following
October 12th, November 5th and
A Profitable Investment.,
“I was troubled for about seven years
with my stomach and in bed half my
time,” says E. Demick, Somerville,
Ind. “I spent about $1,000 and never
could get anything to help. me until I
tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. I have 1
taken a few bottles and am entirely
well.” You don’t live by what you-
eat, but by what you digest and assim-~
ilate. If your stomach doesn’t digest
your food you are really starving. .Ko
dol Dyspepsia Gure does the stomach’s 4
wqrk by digesting the food. * You
don’t have to diet”. Eat all you wanb
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures all stom-
ash troubles. ROBERTSON & LAW.
: December 3rd and 17th. Tickets
l twenty one days from date of
Stopover privileges will be al-
® fifteen days going at any point
tkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and In-
Territory. 0.
,r rates and full information call
r write to
John L. Edmondson,
S. E. P. A„ Atlanta, Ga
Irregular bowel movements lead to
chronic constipation. Prickly * Ash
Bitters is a reliable system regulator;
cures permanently. DR. E. E. DIX
ON &CO. „
kills, not necessarily, suddenly,
but SURELY. It preys upon the
intellectual powers more than
we realize. It consumes the
vitality faster than nature can
replenish it, and we cannot tell
just what moment a temporary
or complete aberration of the
mind wi& result. Headache and
pain should be promptly re
moved—but properly. Many
pain cures are more harmful
than the pain. Beware. If
you would be safe, take
w&sPainPiHs.
“As a result of neuralgia I lost tnj
sight of my right eye, and the pain 1
have suffered is incomprehensible, be
ing obliged to take opiates almost con
tinually. A friend gave me one of Dr.
Miles’Pain Pills and it promptly re
lieved me. I then purchased a box and
now my trouble is gone.. They have
also cured my daughter of nervous
headache, and I heartily recommend
them to others.”—W. 'J. CORLKY. Bre-
mond, Texas. '
Sold by Druggists. 25 Doses, 25c.
Dr. Miles Madlonl Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Arkansas Republicans protest
to the President against allowing
Powell Clayton to control the pa
tronage of the State.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. - Tastes Good.
In time. Sold by^rnpgists.
Under Cover ©f Darkness.
The minister of a Scotch parish was
going from home and procured the
clergyman of a neighboring parish to
officiate on Sunday. His servant who
was also the beadle, was sent over to
the station to drive the reverend gen
tleman to the manse.
When the train arrived, the beadle
asked him to wait awhile, as he had
some messages to do before he went.
It was two^ hours before he returned.
The good man was furious and threat
ened to report him to his master.
“Weel, sir. ^ ye can dae that if ye
like,” said the beadle, “but be tell’t
me himsel* to wait till it was dark
afore I drove ye ower, for if the folk
o’ the village saw wba was to preach
Henry C. Payne, the new post
master General, has started to
Washington with his family.
Strengthens and stimulates the liver,
kidneys, stomach and bowels. Prickly
Ash Bitters is a superior system regu
lator. It drives but all unhealth con
ditions, promotes activity of body and
Prickly-Ash Bitters cures the kid
neys, regulates the liver and purifies
the bowels. A Valuable system tonic;
DR. E. E. DIXON & CO.
Estate & 3
Uaiye8vtl:
brain, restores good appetite, sound
sleep and cheerful spirits. ‘DR. E. E.
DIXON & CO. *
The German budget estimates
shows a deficit of 70, 000, 000
marks.
TOBACCO SMT
and SMOKE
Chicago Record-Herald: “Cap
tain Hobson is now preparing to
lecture. If he will take the Schley
case for a subject he may succeed
m attracting some attention.”
p 1 * niaclewpi? n3 l form of tob a«» using
te ,and vio-nlv’ ? tro “& magnetic, full of
® b y taking m-TO-BAC,
^ in t«j ? en str 9 n gf. Many gain
i ° Ver BOO,0OO
Cure guaranteed. Book-
°*CQ r£r^- Address STERLING
** Ch *cago or New York/ 437
PiSCCS-vBtfR : E ; RPR