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No amount of argument can convince the ^
honest grocer that any other soap will give his customers <S>
such general satisfaction as Ivory Soap. He knows that ^
they prefer Ivory Soap to new kinds, of unknown quality. :
Ivory Soap will sell because the people want it, the 1
other soaps may iook like Ivory, but his customers want t
the real thing—they buy a new soap once to try it, o<
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but they come back again and again for Ivory Soap, and
they insist on having it.
Copyist. 1898, by Tbs Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati.
DEALERS
should carry a complete
line of
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Trade IVSark
Athletic
Always a demand for them.
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Cost of Government Per Hour.
An ingenious Englishman has figured
out the cost of an liour of government
since the beginning of the century. In
Prance the figures show an alarming
tendency to increase. Under Napoleon
an hour of government cost 823,000;
under Louis Phillippe, $30,000; under
the Second Republic, $20,000; under
Napoleon III., $62,000; from 1S70 to
1880, $61,500, on account of the raising
of the average by the cost of the war
with Germany, but from 3880 to 1890
the cost was $86,000 an hour. A
French paper remarks that this seems
to prove the undesirability of paying
a government by the hour or by the
day; payment by the piece, according
to the work done, is the only way, it
thinks.
Rushed.
The Poet’s Wife—Algernon, I wish
you would—
The Poet—Please don’t break my
train of thoughts. I am writing a poem
for the midsummer number of the Fid-
dlesticks magazine, and the editor says
unless I have it ready by 11 o’clock to-
morrow he will have to close the forms
without it.—Chicago Daily News.
o NE reason Mrs. Pinkham’s treatment helps women so
promptly is that they have confidence in her.
Through some of the many thousands of Mrs. Pink-
ham’s friends an ailing woman will be led to write to Mrs.
Pinkham at her home in Lynn,
Mass., and will tell her symptoms.
The reply, made without charge of
any kind, will bear such evidence
of knowledge of the trouble that
belief in her advice at once inspires
This of itself is a great help.
Then the knowledge that women only see the letters asking
for advice and women only assist Mrs. Pinkham in replying
makes it easy to be explicit about the little things that define
the disease.
Mrs. Eliza Thomas, of 634 Pine St., Easton, Pa., writes:
“Df.ar Mrs. Pinkham—I doctored with two of the best
the womb. I suffered
ru something terrible, could
IN-' 1 not thought sleep sometimes nights that and
death would be such a
relief. To-day lama well
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HI woman, able to do my
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hadbackacheallof thetime, no appetite, pains in stomach, faint¬
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I also had falling of womb so bad that I could scarcely walk
across the floor. After taking two bottles of your Vegetable
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IASJSS3S ft GENTS
“Thrilling Stories
“of the Spanish American War
by Returned Heroes,
Uehed. For terms and territory, address
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One Family Owns a Bank.
There is a bank in Tokio, Japan, with
a capital of $5,000,000 and a reserve
fund of $3,230,000, which advertises
the following Board of Directors: Bar-
on H. Mitsui, Gennosuke Mitsui, Geny-
emon Mitsui, Takayasu Mitsui, Hachi-
rojiro Mitsui, Saburosuke Mitsui, Fa-
kutaro Mitsui, Morinosuke Mitsui, Tak-
enosuke Mitsui, Yonosuke Mitsui, and
Tokuyemon Mitsui. The first-named is
the father, and the others are his sons.
Every share of stock belongs to the
family, and it is announced that they
assume an unlimited responsibility for
all the liabilities of the bank.
The Death and Burial ol Columbus.
Columbus died at Valladolid, May 20,
1508, and was buried in the Cathedral
0 f Seville, within a short time; he was
QO t burled at Valladolid at all. Be-
tween 1530 and 1549 his bones were
carried across the sea and buried in
the Cathedral at San Domingo, “on
the right side of the altar.” In 1795 the
remains were carried to the Cathedral
of Havana, whence ia December last
they were taken back to Spain,
N’ot in a Trifling Mood.
Mrs. Tilford of Sorosis—It must
have taken Daniel Webster a long
time to compile the dictionary; don’t
you think so?
Tilford—Daniel? You mean Noah,
don’t you?
Mrs. Tilford (tartly)—Now, don’t be
HUy. Noal1 built the ark.—Brooklyn
Life.
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“That was a hoi rible trick Algy play-
ed on Edith.”
“Yes?”
“Yes. He sent her one of her own
photographs as a comic valentine.”
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TOWN FOUNDED FOE SMELT )
KING OF MAINE FISH.
Folk Live on the Ice of the Winding Bogaduce,
Sheltered in Their Shanties.
Brooksville, Me., Correspondence: As
soon as ice forms on the tortuous Bog¬
aduce everybody—men, women and
children, the lame and lazy, the rich
and poor—pushes a little 5x8 board
shanty onto the new ice and goes to
catching smelts. It is the one occu-
pation which everybody follows, and,
incidentally, it is the one calling which
yields more money than all the oth¬
ers combined.
The modern smelthouse, as it is, is
a marvel. It is placed upon wide run-
ners, which are made longer than the
house, so that the weight may be
distributed over as wide an area of
ice as possible which proves of great
advantage early in the season when
the ice is thin, and none hut the
wealthy can afford to buy smelts. The
house, which is put on top of. this sled,
is made of thin matched boards and is
four feet high at the eaves and six
feet in the peak. In front end is a
door. At the opposite end is a small
stove. The floor is double hoarded
and sheathed to keep out the cold, ex-
cept one board midway between the
ends, which is left unnailed, so it may
be lifted up to allow the lines to , drop
through to the water.
in the shoal places along shore are
depressions in the mud that form
miniature bays of brackish water when
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(THE QUEER SETTLEMENT ON THE ICE.
the tide goes out. These spots are
] marked by tall stakes before the river
1 freezes, the fisherfolk knowing that
when the tide recedes the minnows
and mummy chubs, which are used for
j[ Ve will seek out these pools
t0 a wait the coming flood. But cutting
holes in the broken ice near the stakes
the fishermen can run down small nets
and dip up their bait by the pailful.
Having secured his bait, the fisher¬
man cuts a long, narrow hole through
the ice near the channel of the stream,
IN THE BERMUDAS.
There I* a Plague of Cats and
Sparrows.
New York Journal: People arriv-
ing in New York from Bermuda say
that the island is overrun by cats and
sparrows. The nuisance of the plague
has even been discussed in the Colonial
legislature at Hamilton. Visitors
from the United States seeking the
balmy climate of Bermuda are corn-
plaining especially of the “cat gangs
which nightly disturb their sleep.
When the dog tax bill came up be¬
fore the legislature last week, Dr. T.
A. Outerbridge, one of the members of
the council, proposed an amendment.
In doing so he said:
“I should like to see the bill recast
and a heavier tax put upon (logs, be¬
cause we have too many worthless curs
in Bermuda. I should also like to see
a tax put upon cats. You may laugh,
but if there is any useless animal in
this world it is a cat. Cats may be
of use in some countries, but they are
of no use here. They do not kill rats.
They do destroy our native birds.
“I have not seen a bluebird in six
weeks, and there ought to be plenty
of them here now from America. I
have not seen one this year, and be¬
fore long all our native birds will be
exterminated—between the cats and
the sparrows.”
Truly Horrible.
Whether it illustrates fertility of re¬
source or force of habit—or both—
there is humor in the Cleveland Lead¬
er’s story of "an old man who sells
newspapers in the square.” He has
learned from handling the sensational
sheets that in order to dispose of his
stock he must always have something
“horrible” on hand; so it is “All about
the horrible suicide;” “All about the
horrible murder;” “All about the hor¬
rible accident,” or all about something
else that is horrible, day after day.
One evening last autumn he stood at
his accustomed place when the late
“extras” were brought around. After
shoves his sled along until the hole
in the ice is under the loose floor
board of the smelthouse, and then,
baiting two lines, each armed with
two hooks, he drops them into the
stream and sits down to await what
the tides may bring.
When smelts are bringing from 10
or 12 cents a pound in the New York
markets and the fish are running well
and biting greedily, the scene on the
frozen Bogaduce is Animated. From
Walker’s Mill to the bridge which
crosses into the town of Penobscot the
river is dotted with tent-like houses,
giving one the impression that a vast
army has come along and camped on
the ice. If the surface is free from
snow and no wind is blowing, the
houses are ranged face to face, with
street between, along which the
children romp and the young people
skate from daylight until long after
dark. At intervals along the main
street are clusters of houses, which
mark the place where some family has
founded a colony. Many of these con¬
tain no more than five or six houses,
while others have fifteen or twenty.
Jn the course of a few days these
knots of buildings are called Walker-
ville, or Billingstown, or Bickfordshire,
according to the name of the' family
■which lives there. When a storm or
wind comes up all the houses that face
the blast must be shifted hindside be¬
fore to protect the occupants.
As fast as the smelts are caught they
are laid out straight upon a board and
exposed to the cold to freeze, and no
sooner are they congealed clear
through than they are nailed up in
small wooden boxes and sent to mar¬
ket. Brookville people take great
pride in preparing their fish for sale,
and have no patience with the New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia folk, who
securing a bundle he scrambled to his
corner, saw half a dozen men ap-
proaching, and cried out: “I-Iere’s
your extra paper, just out, all about
the horrible—horrible—” Then he
stopped. He had forgotten to look a£
the headlines and find out what hor¬
rible thing had happened. Hastily
turning over one of the papers, he
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caught a glimpse of the account of
the Harvard-Pennsylvania football
game. The troubled look faded from
his face, a glad light came into liis
jeyes, and he continued, “All about the
horrible football game.”
I Arcliery tn the Heart of the City.
The military students at Tung-
Chou (China) are a conspicuous nuis-
ance. They have a v/ay of using one
of the main streets in the city as a
convenient spot for practicing archery,
and we have been repeatedly obliged
to edge up to the extreme edge of the
footpath to avoid possible eccentric
flights of arrows. Characteristically,
it never occurs to them to suspend op¬
erations for others’ safety or conven¬
ience, and minor accidents must be
not uncommon, a lad was brought to
the hospital the other day who had
been struck by an arrow just belov;
the eye, as he was edging along the
highway. He was not badly hurt, and
pijobably regarded ordinary his injury risks of as travel inci¬
dental to the
on city streets.—North China Herald.
Elephant* In Siam.
Siamese women intrust their chil¬
dren to the care of elephants, and it
is said that the trust is never betray¬
ed: The babies play about the huge
feet of the elephants, who are ever
careful never to hurt the little crea¬
tures. And if danger threatens, the
sagacious animal will curl the child
gerjtly up in his trunk and swing his broad it up
ou of harm’s way upon
bai
Many a youth who aspires to become
an M. is in after years glad to
sett! down as the village P. M.
allow their smelts to freeze in distort¬
ed shapes, and who dump them into
the hold of vessels with forks and
take them to the cities as if they were
offal. The true Brookville smelt has
its remains decently composed before
it freezes, and every fish is packed by
heads and points, crossways in the
box, so as to make good stowage be¬
fore the cover is nailed on. It 13 a
local tradition that a crooked smelt
from the Provinces is no better than
a Yankee tomcod, and while this state-
ment may not be actually true, the
man who should come here and dis-
pute its accuracy would get himself
disliked.
Living within a mile of their work
—for the Bagaduce almost girdles
Brookville—the men folk in the fam¬
ilies asjse before daylight and go to
work without breakfast. As soon as
the morning meal is eaten at home the
wife or some member of the family,
relieves the fisherman, who breaks his
fast at his own table, after which
he attends to his barn work before re¬
turning to the ice. He is relieved in
a similar manner at dinner and sup-
per. Meantime, some of his family
drops in at odd spells, allowing him to
go from camp to camp and exchange
gossip. After supper great heaps of
driftwood that have floated down from
the sawmill are lighted on the ice, and
the whole town comes out for an ev-
ening party, The older people sit
around on shingle blocks in the camps
talking and laughing, while the men
fish and the women knit mittens for
the market. The young people either
go skating in pairs, gliding far up the
stream among the dark woods, or if
the ice is rough or snowy they get
up little dances in the lee of the smelt-
houses, to a fiddle or an accordion.
Suspended from poles, the Chinese
lanterns cast ghastly lights upon the
gay scene, while overhead the torches
of the aurora borealis flash across* the
sky, and the fixed stars look at one
another and wink with a meaning that
is too deep for words.
A COSTLY DINNER.
First of Expensive Entertainments In
New York City.
Writing c£ the lavish expenditures
of New Yorkers, Euretta Van Vorst
recalls, in the Ladies’ Home Journal, a
dinner given in 183 i by a man of
wealth which cost $30,000, and which
astonished his mo3t extravagant as¬
sociates, as it was the most expensive
feast given up to that- time. ‘Delmon-
ico, the helpful resource of both those
who know and those who do not know
how to spend their money, was at a
loss to know how to dispose of this
then fabulous amount upon a single
meal. There were seventy-two guests,
and they were entertained in the
large ballroom which in Delmonico's
Fourteenth street establishment has
seen so many social triumphs. The
house had been Moses Grinnell’s and
ever bore the imprint of a gentleman’s
residence even when transformed into
a public place of entertainment. The
table occupied the whole length and
breadth of the room; the waiters had
barely space to move about it. It was
a long, oval table, round which a mas¬
sive wreath of exquisite flowers was
laid guarding a miniature lake thirty
feet long. The water, by mechanical,
contrivance, undulated gently, and on
its breast floated four living swans, a
golden network keeping them in
place.”
A Bridso 1800 Years Old.
Eighteen hundred years ago, or
thereabouts, the Roman emperor, Tra¬
jan, built a bridge across the Danube,
1 the piers of which are found by the
Roumanian engineers solid enough to
sustain a new structure, which will
unite the towns of Turnu Severin in
Roumania and Gladova in Servia. In
the middle of the structure the statue
of Trajan will stand, four square, to all
the winds that blow, as it well deserves
to do, perpetuating,the memory of that
great conqueror and bridge-builder for
perhaps another score of centuries.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS,
Lieutenant Frank Z. Curry, charged
with the murder of Private Leo Heed,
appeared before Judge Bobert Falli-
gant in ilie superior court at Savannah
Saturday for bail. After hearing all
the statements mado by the defend¬
ant’s counsel, Judge Falligant decided
to permit the defendant to give bond
in the sum of $2,500.
The Kincaid Manufacturing Compa¬
ny at Griffin has just completed their
magnificent annex, which rnalies it
not only the largest towel factory in
the country, but ono of the completest,
mills, the machinery being the largest
ever brought south, and in the lan¬
guage of Superintendent A. G. Mar¬
tin, ns complete as can be made. The
Griffin Mills Company has just begun
work on a new $ 100,000 annex that
will be completed by September, and
it will nearly double the capacity of
that mill.
Saturday evening about 7 o’clock
Sheriff C. H. Talley, of DeKalb coun-
ty, was overpowered at the jail in De-
tur by four prisoners who, after as¬
saulting him and taking away his pis¬
tol, mado their escape. An attempt
was made to murder the sheriff, but
be managed to keep behind an iron
door, and the desperate criminals de¬
cided to let him alone while they got
away. Flanagnn, the noted double
murderer, was in the prison at the
time and might have escaped, but did
not do so.
After being out twenty-one hours,
the jury at Dalton in the case of the
state vs. Will and Guilford Cannon,
charged with assault with intent to
murder on the person of JohnL. Tapp,
rendered a verdict of guilty of shoot¬
ing at another, with a recommenda¬
tion to the mercy of the court. Sent¬
ence was passed by Judge Fite Satur¬
day afternoon. The penalty imposed
is a fine of $300 and three months in
the county jail in each case. The de¬
fendants will make a motion for a new
trial and there is much excitement
over the sentence.
Fitzgerald’s water and light carni¬
val was in every way a grand success.
More than forty floats were in line,
representing the various business in¬
terests of the city, and Col. Hay’s im¬
mune regiment band from Macon was
in attendance, and together with the
military band, furnished music for the
carnival. The streets were crowded
with thousands of visitors and special
excursions bringing many people.
Everything was done by the carnival
committee to make the visitors feel at
home and enjoy themselves. The
grand banquet, tendered by the Busi¬
ness League was held at the opera
house building, and the entire city
was in attendance.
The Coweta county prohibition elec¬
tion contest case, which was decided
adversely to the wet side at the last
term of the superior court, will be
carried to the supreme court for re¬
view. The questions whether or not
persons are qualified to vote who re¬
side in towns and districts where
liquor could not be sold under then
existing laws, and whether persons
were legally registered and qualified
to vote, who had not signed the oath
with the tax collector, or his author¬
ized clerk, will be decided by that
court. The disposition of the case
is of some concern to the taxpayers of
Newnan, inasmuch as they have been
cut off the $5,000 revenue derived
from the licensing of saloons. The
decision of the supreme court will be
awaited with interest by the people of
the county generally.
The Georgia monument commemor¬
ative of the Georgia officers and men
who took part in the historic battle of
Chiekamauga, December 19th and 20,
18G3, will bo unveiled at Chiekamauga
National ]iark on May 4th. The at¬
tendant ceremonies will be extremely
interesting and large crowds from kll
parts of the state are expected to be
present at the unveiling. The state¬
ment has been made that the monu¬
ment had been erected in memory of
the Confederate dead, and that the
cost of the shaft has been raised by
the members of the memorial board.
This statement is incorrect. In 1897
the general assembly passed an act
creating a state memorial board, to be
composed of five members, including
Adjutant General McIntosh Kell, who
is ex-offfcio chairman of the board.
With the passage of this act $25,000
was appropriated for the purpose of
erecting a monument or monuments
commemorative of the Georgians who
took part in the battle of Chiekamauga.
The business details of the session
of the Epworth Leaguers of Georgia
were wound up at Columbus Satur¬
day. Sunday the exercises were de¬
votional in their character. Saturday
night the Leaguers selected the fol¬
lowing officers for the new year: Pres¬
ident, W. P. Wallis, of Americas; first
vice president, J. Bailey Gordon, of
Borne; second vice president, Miss
Elmyro Taylor, of Macon; third vice
president, Miss Minnie L. Parker, of
Brunswick; secretary, Hatton Love-
joy, of LaGrange; treasurer, J. Ber¬
rien, of Waynesboro; editor, Rev. Joel
T. Davis, of Atlanta. The conference
adopted u strong temperance and pro¬
hibition resolution unanimously, with
great enthusiasm. It was decided to
create a new office of fourth vice pres¬
ident, this officer to have special
charge of the Junior League work of
the state. A set of resolutions were
adopted thanking the people of (Co¬
lumbus for their hospitality, and the
state press and railroads fer their
kindness.