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6 A TEXAS WONDER. Hnll'a Great Discovery. One small boltle of Hail e Great Die* covery cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes gravel, cures diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and lame backs, rheumatism and ail irregularities of the kldney.% and bladder in both men and women, regulates bladder troubles in chil dren. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mall on receipt of sl. One small bottle Is two months' treatment, and will cure any case above mentioned. Dr. E. W. Hall, sole manufacturer, P. O. Box 629, St. Louis. Mo. Send for testi monials. Sold by all druggiets and Solo mons C<\, Savannah. Ga. Bend Tills. Covington. Ga , July 23, 1898. This Is to certify that I have used Dr. Hall's Great Discovery for Rheumatism. Kldne-y and Bladder Troubles, and will say It is far superior to anything I have ever used for the above complaint. Very respectfullv, H. I HORTON. Ex-Marshal. WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. DLN & CO. HE FONT TUB GENERAL BUSINESS SITUATION. How Increase in Fnllnres Was Drought About—Disasters Resulted From \inaringly High Friers and the Effort to Get Down to Normal Conditions Once More Report Upon the Iron, t euton anil Wheat Situation. New York. July 13.—R G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade to-morrow will say: If the great increase in failures to SIOO,- 570,134 in the first half of 1900, against $19,- 664,661 lost year, and especially to $43,893,- 079 in the second quarter, against $21,695,- 635 last year, gave no occasion for dili gent search, failure returns would be worth nothing. But to-day It is shown that thirty banking failures for $25,822,652. against thirty-one last year for $7,601,728, accounted for much of the difference; that 265 brokerage and real estate failures for $22,122,346. against 145 last year for only $2,328,215, accounted for another part, and that in building and lumber working and trade, other large failures distinctly con nected with those in real estate, explain much more of the difference between man ufacturing and trading failures luet year and this. In these and much less Important changes In few other lines, are seen sub stantially all the commercial disasters as yet resulting from on amazing rise in prices last year, followed by weary, but largely successful, efforts during the past few months to get back to a normal state of business. When this is seen and the remarkable steadiness in number and size of the great majority of failures for not exceptional amounts, there appears ground for especial satisfaction that business has been on the whole, so soundly conducted under conditions of unequal danger. The Iren Age makes the output of pig 233,413 tons weekly, July 1, but the de crease of 16,000 tons has by this time been exceeded, other furnaces having stopped this month, and repairs of works and of wage scales may yet occupy some weeks. The increase of 56,9">8 tons in stocks un sold implies decrease in manufacture more than double the decrease in output, and works of five'of the great corpora tions ate waiting for decline in wages just when the workers have looked for in crease. Open markets are now admitted at Pittsburg, where quotations have been for some time nominal, and Bessemer pig Is offered there at sl6. Cotton speculation has held the price too high for the comfort of foreign spin ners who have not provided for all their wants, but the arrangement by the Pall River committee to dose for a m nth or more a large pait of the New England mills will clear away dispute about the market for goeds. The end of the crop year has brought the usual estimates, which command no more confidence than usual. If the coun try can get out of a crop, officially called 647,000,000 bushels of wheat, all it wants for food and seed and 5J0.000.000 bushels for export, with considerable left over in sight. It is the easy inference that anxiety is needless. There is no evidence as yet, and for some time to come cannot be, that in juries sustained have been as great as some suppose, so that alarm is not more necessary than tl was last year. Failures for the week have been 196 in tiie United States, against 169 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 24 last year. REGIMENTS IN A HOW. General Fight Hetxveen the Men nnd Several Mere Hurt Springfield, 111., July 13.—At Camp Lin coln late last night a general fight occur red between the men of the First and Second Regiments. Several men were badly wounded, and had it not been for the timely arrival of Capt. Ryan of the Seventh Regiment with a provost guard, several lives might have been sacrificed. The trouble was a sequel to the raid conducted by Junkhouser of the First Regiment on the previous night on a “blind pig," when twenty-seven of the Second Regiment, whom he found there, were arrested, A group of ihe First Regiment boys were attacked in the dead of the night by the Second Regiment nun. Bergi. Dick Carroll, Company I, First Regiment, was brutally assaulted, Ids face terribly lacerated, and ho will be disfigured for lift. Sergt. Fischer, of the First Regiment, Company D, and several others were as saulted and severely injured. Many corn par 1 s of the two commands slept on their a ms for the night. COItRIiSPOMircXTS IX BATTLE. Fired at Many Times in n Day, but Never Hit. Julian Ralph, in the London Mail. There is a place in a battle where it Is more dangerous to be than even the firing line. That is the zone where the bullets strike the earth. Soldiers al most always shoot oo high—over the heads of the foe before them—so that it Is sufer to be in the front than in the middle rear. To the middle rear ran tho correspondents, and then fell down. They fell when they found the ulr as thick with bullets a ever a pudding was with plums—nnd when, wherever they down a foot, there was a spurt of sand from a falling shot. Have you ever seen a sor ry tramp walking in the rain with water gushing from the holes In his boots? The sand fountains reminded them of that. Both fell behind an ant heap and began to laugh. "There was no other way to run," they said to one another, “it looked as If the Boers would cut us off in the other direc tion." "Put4-putt-putt-putt,” sounded the aw ful Vlckers-Maxlm quick-firer, ■ and its tornado of 1-pnund shells raked the air over their heads with seven screaming missile* at a time. Zlzz-zlt hummed the Mauser and the Martini-Henry bullets like magnified bees in swarms. The air was thick with (lying lead. Bits of he friendly ant hill were ehlpped off. Spray from the dust Jets thrown up by bullets fell softly on the hands of the corre spondents Thicker and thicker came the hail, for the Boer shuruhocker* bad seen the two men run and drop, and were sending a crossfire where they lay. They buried their noses in the red sand and talked and thought. They talked and thought—about what? They have told me and I have made nc*e of it. “Say something funny," said the young- I er man. "I wish young B. were here. He'd keep us laughing. Wow! but that was close. It fanned my ear." , “I wonder what’s become of our horses." "Hang the horses! What I wonder la how that mule can stand there 100 yards j ahead of us, where the bullets are like | drops in a slanting rain. I’ll bet the brute is full of holes and doesn’t know it. Perhaps we are, too." 'Hello! here’s that Guards doctor. Doc : tor! Doctor! Come and tell us what's go | !ng on.” The Guards doc;or is nothing I loath He dashes over to the rprresnond j err . and in doing so awakens anew fury of rifle and machine gun fire "1 can’t stay long." he says;, "we’ve g. t a great many wounded up there, end | 1 must If ok after them. How's the tight going? It's simply going on. forever, and i neither side Is budging You chink the ! bullets are thick here Watch mo go for ward, and when you see me drop you may know it's a bit thick. There’s one place ahead where the shot come in solid streaks like telegraph wires. Well, ta-ta! I must make a dash for it." As he runs the correspondents see the tiny sand fountains spurt up in front of, beside and behind him. At last he drops and for half an hour lies still. For an hour and a half the eorresprnd ents keep their noses pinned in the veldt behind their anthill. Every now and again there comes a lull, and they think they wid make a bolt for safety, and one rds s his head or lifts an arm, whereupon the bullet factory opens again for busi ness, and Laden s reaks rake the aT like a fine toothed comb. They resign them selves and watch other men in like posi tions. They see a Col fist Tinmy run to | n tiny sage brush that wouldn’t stop a j pea-shooter and gratefully take its shel | ter. ; They see another Tommy lying flat as a flapjack and reaching stealthily, blir.d -j ly over the ground to gather little stones -none bigger than a hen's egg. He gets five or six of these and builds a whimsi al shelter four inch< s wide and three, inches high. He press* s his face in the sand with this ridiculous, microscopic wall In front of his crown. It is best that he can do. and he is content. He is content until—ten minutes later an explosive bul let hits his fcot and smashes it as if a heavy sledge hammer bad crushed it. DintrpßS of the Wounded. He calls to the corresi>ondont9 to bring the stretcher bearers to him. 'Two of them have been hiding behind an anthill for a very long while. To them the cor respondents yell, and the bearers are un able to A Tommy looms up ahead dragging a shatterel leg, hopping along before a pursuing blizzard of bullets. He too, calls to the correspondents. “For Heaven’s sake, gentlemen, get me to an ambulance. I’ve been wounded like this for ten hours.” The correspondents forget themselves and their danger, and, telling him with the shattered leg to go and lie by him with the crushed foot, they start through the rain of bullets to rouse the two bearers. They forget themselevs and their danger, though there is death at every ste*—Just as every man, who is any good forgets self and danger on the battlefted if only he has something to do. Kven if he has the jumps, give him a rifle and see how in terested he will become. S(Mid him gal loping into the fire on an errand and his funk will drop as if the bullets had shot It away. Ills Company Not Wanted. A word of comamml to those stretcher bearers brought them quickly to their fret. Then the correspondents had nothing to do again, and then the bulelts “ping'ed ” beside them and buzzed about them, and they dropped flat on the veldt—with r.o shelter this time. Again they lay a long time. A bullet touched the hair of one; another flew between their heads, not eighteen inches apart. Three Tommies in full flight saw them, and ran toward them, bringing a cloud of shot with them. “Keep away! Keep away! You fools!” the correspondents shouted. “Get your selves killed as much as you like, but don’t direct the fire on us. Lie down by yourselves, you idiots!” Their frenzy and profanity revealed to the correspondents how great had been the tension on their nerveti. “It’s telling on me.” said the young end handsome one, “yet I am not conscious of being afraid.” “There's no room for fear,” said the other. "We know our danger. We can’t help ourselves, and that’s all there is about it. I'm sick of my lime juice and water. Give me a drink of your plain essence of microbes.” Next a bullet-headed Tommy darted up from behind and dropped beside the younger eorrespondent. Just heaven! how he was sworn at and abused as anew hail of bullets showered around the three —loosened by his dash across the veldt. "If you would pull in that blooming tin pail, and put it under your stomach, you wouldn't git so much o’ the blooming bul lets. It shoines loike a heliograph.” He was right. Ho referred to a two-quart, bright, new’ tin water bottle w’hlch the elder man had left beside him on the ground. Of all the sublimated fools in any army this Tommy was the worst. He next ask ed for a drink, and. taking a covered bottle, raised himself on his elbows, put up his head, lifted the bottle high, and began to quaff. A thousand rifle balls and ten minutes' play of the "putt putt” showed that this had been accepted as a chalenge. Again Tommy was sworn at for an idiot—and what was his reply? “I know it. When 1 was loying hover there be’ind a hant 'ill, I 'eld up me blooming 'elmet am' got a 'ole put through it before 1 eould’git it down again.” He was quieted by the impressive as surance that be would get a pistol ball through his skull at the next provoca tion, and for another half hour he lay Then, suddenly, he said: "Gens, I'm blamed tired of planting me nose in the sand and waiting for It to sprout. What 1 say is, let's run for It, each one In a different riirec ksliln, so the bloom ing Boers won't know which to peg at.” "You're a general. Tommy," Said the correspondents. “We're with you." He gave the word. All three ran like mad In different ways, and the Boers directed all their fire on the young and handsome correspondent. It was dusk, and Jets of flame sprang out of the veldt all around him. But he was not hit. —There is a plan now before the Ital ian Parliament for providing the three southeastern provinces of Foggla, Bari and Lecce with water from Caposele In the Apennine, by building an aqueduct 163 miles long, with branches that will bring up the total length to 860 miles. —Just In tlmt for the hot weather, a Maryland man has patented a shirt hav ing a detachable bosom, which can lie easily removed when soiled, giving place to a fresh one. Tried Friends Best. For thirty ycarsTutt’s Pills have proven ablessingtothe invalid. Are truly the sick man’s friend. A Known Fact For bilious headache, dyspepsia sour stomach, malaria,constipa tion and all kindred diseases: TUTT’S Liver PILLS AN ABSOLUTE CURE. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JULY 14, 1900. THOMSON’S “Glove=Fitting"Corset Hjt sJ&T comfortable the first time you put them on. They are scien gaHK i ‘irally rorrect, ~nd are absolutely different from all others, as you will see if you V ' Turn them over and see how they're made efiftfrSl All seams run around the body. ' IwSTW ifi This Is a picture of ui' lilf our Ventilating Corset, ’j f (Trade-Mark Registered) made of im ■" i iVfij: i *[ |> rted netting, stripped with coutil, and I fflj' ;r1 '| trimmed with lace and baby ribbon. $1 W in - VA^fllf /TTVy / ** pair at all dealers. -ifijpdiijifisj- •/ Eight as a feather, y* t strong as the *• jj|;i II I strong-st. Handsome illustrated cata- Geo.C.Batcheller &C0.,345 Broad way, N.Y. For sale bv all leading dry goods stores. REMOVAL NOTICE. We move back to Broughton street Oct. 1. Our lo cation will be 112 west. We don’t want to spend much money on drayage. Therefore have decided to sell entire stock at ZERO PRICES FOR CASH, and will make accommodating terms to time purchasers. Our summer specialties are Awnings, Mosquito Nets, Odorless Refrigerators, the only kind; the Puritan Wickless, Oil Stoves (Blue Flame) for cool cooking. You know where to find us. % WMLmdsay&llokM ODD POKER HANDS. One Combination Couldn't De lleaten In 4,5G0,000.000 Times. From the Chicago Chronicle. An exclusive little poker organization the members of which are mainly Board of Trade men, and which has its head quarters in a buffet in the shadows of the Rialto building, had two remarkable set tings recently. That is to say, each ses sion was made memorable by a deal of unique kind. The central figure in the first incident was a young trader whom every one in the wheat pit calls "Doc." because he never was ;i physician or even a medical student. There were seven player* in the game, which usually is confined to five or six. The pots always are Mg enough to be interesting, not only because ton dollar limit invariably rules and SIOO worth of chips is the least ever bought, but also because every one of the players is a plunger at the poker table as well as in hours of grain speculation. A pair of aces frequently is played up to S4O or SSO and "bluffs" of the most audacious kind are practiced continually. But this story' has nothing to do with "bluffing." It is about how "Doc" clean ed up all the money on the table on one hand last Monday. He was sitting next to the dealer in a s2l jackpot when the man after him—known to his confreres as "Shorty’’—opened it for the limit. The I next player raised the bet $lO. and every one stayed up to "Doc." He found the seven, eight, nine and ten of heart* in his hand, nnd considered it well worth spending S2O on in a pot now worth sl2l. But tho opener evidently had something pretty good in his clutch, for he raised again. That made matters exciting enough, but interest was intensified when the man who had made the first "tilt" pushed in S2O worth of checks, so that a double rulse confronted the rest of the players. Again everybody stayed up to "Doc," and It was palpable that a lot of good hands were out. Ho realized by this time that he would have to make a straight flush—that is, catch the six or jack of hearts —to stand any chance of winning, but success would pay him nearly* 30 to 1 nnd he did not hesitate about making good. The man who had opened simply followed suit. "Doe." of course, drew one card. Only two other men drew, the others standing pat. The opener, who had taken a card, must have felt well satisfied with his catch, for he bet $lO right off the reel. The next man—he who had done the per sistent raising previously—kept up the merriment by putting In S2O. Three play ers called and the dealer, who had drawn one card, raised. "Doc" looked at his catch. It was the six of hearts. All he raised the dealer was $lO, because that was all ho could raise. Not a man after him dropped out, but four of them reach ed a "show-down." The dealer raised again and "Doc" went him better. "Shor ty” went to a "show-down" and that left ihe dealer and "Doc" the only bettors. It happened that the latter had the more money on the table, and the dealer soon joined the other men in the "show down." In all there was S9BO in the pot. With a straight flush "Doc" was in a clash by himself and scooped In all the cash. He had not beaten anything bigger than two sets of four.—one held by the dealer, who had a gallery of queens, and the other by the man next to "Shorty," who had four fours. The other four hands were full houses. The game was interrupted only' long enough for the six losers to get out their pocketbooks or rolls and buy more chips. Not one of them claimed ever to have seen a deal in which one player hnd sent all the others to the "bone yard." But the very next day they all took part In an even more astonishing play. A thin, sedate player, with glasses, whom no one over accosted more famil iarly than by his Christian name, Henry', opened the usual s2l pot for $lO. Four men merely stayed, the fifth man rais ed and "Doc," who was dealing, and who found himself with pat straight, con cluded that it would profit him merely stand the raise. Tho opener did likewise, but the next man raised and three men dropped out. "1 stay," announced the original raiser, throwing In $lO in chips. "Doe" by this time had lost much of his faith in his hand nnd contented himself with making good. So did the opener and the player next to him. "Cards?" asked "Doc." picking up the deck. Every one of the four men stood pat. There was a surprising fulling off In betting. The opener bet a white chip, and it was called all around. "I’ve got a big straight,” announced the opener. "So have I," said the next player, and his answer was echoed by the other two, It was true. After a little chuffing the four hands were laid face upward and each one consisted of an ace, king, queen, jack and ten of mixed suits. There was nothing to do, of course, but to divide the pot, which gave a little profit to each man who held a straight, but which was a very tame if amazing result of the holding of four pat hands. "Doc." who is something of a mathe matician, figures that the chances of four hands like those described coming out in :i single deal are something like 1 in 4.560.000,000. —'The Minister of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua has presented to the American Minister, William L. Merry, a handsome walking stick, decorated with Nicaraguan atoM, and valued at S2OO ALWAYS ON DECK. A TOOTHBRUSH DRILL DR. GRADY SAYS IT IS AS NECES SARY AS GYMNASTIC EXERCISE. "Good Teetli; Gooil Hen It It "—Sugges tions for n Systematic Examination by Competent Dentists of the Mouths of School Children. From the Baltimore Sun, In a paper presented to the American Medical Association at its meeting in At lantic City last month Dr. Richard Grady of Baltimore, who is dentist to the United States Naval Acadmey, said: "In my office there is a motto, ‘Good teeth, good health.’ suggestive of the cen tral thought of this paper: Without good teeth there cannot be thor ough mastication. Without thorough mastication there can not be perfect digestion. Without perfect digestion there cannot be proper assimilation. Without proper assimilation there can not be nutrition. Without nutrition there cannot be health. Without health what is life? Hence the paramount importance of the teeth. "A few years ago I discovered that not one of the 500 children in one of the pub lic institutions in my city had a tooth brush. The children of that institution are now supplied w'ith toothbrushes, but I fear there are many similar Institutions in the world where the toothbrush is nev er seen and the dentist never heard of. Much Decay Preventable. "I am fully persuaded that more than 50 per cent, of dental caries is absolutely preventable by medicines internally ad ministered. which act specifically in the mouth; alike pleading and imi>erative Is the appeal to both ambition and intelli gence to prevent, rather than to repair, the ravages of decay. If the teeth are not allowed to accumulate deposits on either their exposed or protected surfaces they will, it is claimed, be exempt from caries. "Given the varying predispositions of dif ferent individuals to earies, which is gov erned by the law's of heredity and envi ronment. the growth of micro-organ isms in the mouth Is in proportion to the amount of disturbance they suffer or rest and opportunity they enjoy. "Treating diseased teeth of school chil dren at public expense seems entirely out of the question at present; yet why should it he less reasonable to have visit ing dentists than visiting music teachers, and drawing teachejs, and teachers of physical* culture? The position of visit ing dentist in our public schools would not be a sinecure. There would bo work to do every day. If bad teeth could be prevented the gain to the state and the individual would be of enormous value, as It Is wonderful how many diseases can be traced indirectly to bad teetji. "It is the noble privilege of the teachers of the country to promote in some degree tbp preservation of the teeth of those under their care, and this they can do by inculcating early nnd earnestly and with the emphasis of a high religious duty the principles of dental hygiene. "The same spirit which has led to en listing the active co-operation of the pub lic schools concerning measures for pre venting the spread of contagious diseases of childhood should be insisted upon in the care of teeth. A Toot bhrii wh Drill. "The inculcation of cleanly oral habits among children should be insisted upon. It is just os important and as necessary to keep clean teeth as It is to keep clean hands and face, because all the food we eat must come in contact with our teeth. It is essential that a child he taught how to brash the teeth properly. Brush the upper teeth downward and the lower teeth upward on their inner and outer surfaces, preventing injury to the gums , and effectively cleaning nil the crevices of the teeth. A toothbrush drill at school Is as needful as any gymnastic exercise for the preservation of health. There Is strong reason to believe that many dis eases of the nervous system, respiratory organ* and alimentary canal may be due to the fact that the masticatory organs have been neglected. "We nr now able to say to teachers and pupils that It has been proved be yond doubt that decay of the teeth is caused by two different profesnes—(l) chemical. (2) parasitical thi the pre vention of dental caries depend*, first of all, on strict cleanliness of the mouth and teeth, the Importance of which can not possibly he overestimated. Undoubt edly it can he sold that the toothbrush nnd plenty of cleen water stand at the head of all measures of this nature, mid that the next prophylactic means is the intelligent use of proper antiseptics. \ tepid salt solution has been recommend- i ed as nn inexpensive nnd effective anti- j septic for rinsing the mouth, and where there is u tendency to bleeding of the I gums powdered boric mil may be used One thing not often spoken of in refer- j enre lo cleaning teeth is the value of j rinsing. Many patients know nothing i about It and the average dentist dors not think It worth while to mention it to 1 them. The matter of closing the lips and forcing the water vigorously back nnd forth between the teeth exercise* n Im portant part In cleansing them. C lennncs* n Defense. "We want to emphasize the startling | fact that the teeth of children have been deteriorating, until now it has become a i serious matter. Of all causes of decay i*ncleanness is perhaps the most fertile. The clean tooth may decay—the neglect ed tooth mutt decay. It has loet its chance of self-defense. "We want children Instructed in the care of the mouth and teeth, In cleansing the whole mouth, including the tongue, nnd the sooner this is done the sooner will the many evils arising from the present neglect be stayed. Children must be taught some system of oral hygiene. See that tK-hool children receive thorough in struction as to the utility of good teeth. These same children will soon be the par ents of the community in their turn, and they would have the advantage not only of better mouths of their own, but of be ing in a position to care for their own children. Instead of regarding the teeth as foes children should be taught to re gard them as special friends and devote to them their best care. Systemii Susceptible to Dineanf. “We w-ant to remedy the possibilities of the propagation of disease In public schools through the present condition of children’s mouths and teeth, and lhei dentally the discomfort of parents whose children have aching teeih, sleepless nights, distorted nervous systems, bad di gestion, alveolar abscesses, foul and fetid breath. When children are in this oral condition the whole system is out of or der and they are more susceptible to disease. ‘We want periodical and systematic examinations of the teeth of children in the primary and grammar schools whose ages range from 6 to 15 years, having in view the prevention of their destruc tion. Teeth Car* Fays. "Answering the question w-hy do we want Instruction and inspection to pre vent sacrifice of children’s teeth and the accompanying effects on their health, I would say: "Take it all in all, care of the teeth pays in comfort, in beauty, in the con servation of health from youth to old age. "It has been demonstrated that 95 per cent, of children have permanent teeth decayed, ranging in number from 2 to 16 per child. When one has attained full growth it may not matter much whether the food is masticated by natural or arti ficial means, provided it is properly done; but with children it is a different mat ter, and the state of our children’s teeth is a question of national Importance. "Relatively few’ children have teeth filled, and those under 10 years of age rarely have the dentist’s care except for the extraction of loose and aching teeth. "The teeth and mouths of many chil dren are in an unhealthy and disgusting condition, which not only injures their own health, but also the health of the teachers and other children w*ho are com pelled to sit with them; it may be in overcrowded or ill-ventilated rooms. "A source of danger from decayed teeth is the possible introduction of parasites into the tissues with which the teeth are connected. It is very difficult to prevent small particles of food from lodging in the cavities of carious teeth and there un dergoing decomposition. It is not impossi ble that by such means, especially If the cavity is the root channel of the dead tooth, a parasite might enter the soft tissues. "There is also another source of danger to the younger children who exchange pencils and chewing glim, which, after being in mouths mixed with pus, are plac ed in the mouths of other innocent and unsuspecting children. These practices may be democratic, but they are vicious. "As to girls whose teeth are defective, in a few years they will be the mothers of the next generation. What about the claims of their children unless we now do our duty by the future mothers and give them a chance to grow up as healthy women? "As no portion of the human body Is of such complex structure as the mouth, and no other has such diversified functions to perform, have textbooks on physiology used in schools include a chapter or two on dental hygiene written from a dental pc4nt of view. "Have cultured dentists address teach ers’ meetings and public schools, espec ially normal schools, on the advantages and desirability of absolute cleanliness of the mouth. "In cities containing dental schools utilize the graduating classes in the ex amination of the teeth of school children under the direction of practicing dentists. “If the mouths of the children In our public schools could be examined by com latent persons, carious or diseased teeth treated or removed and instructions given or enforced with regard to the Intelligent use of brushes nnd antiseptic solutions, it is believed that the death rate of the coun try would be very materially lessened, the percentage of illness much reduced and a stronger and more vigorous race result in soneequence of the prophylactic meas ures." FISH SKIN' LEATHER. tinny Articles Mode Out of n Hither to I'mised Product. From the New' England Grocer. The United Slates Fish Commission has been making a collection of leathern made from the ekins of fish end other aquatic animals, especially of those which prom ise to be of practical utility. Several varieties of fishes have skins that make an excellent leather for some purposes. Salmon hide, for example, serves so well in this way that the Eskimos of Alaska make water-proof shirts and boots out of it. They also cut jackets out of the codfish skins, whith are said to be very serviceable garments. In the United States frog skins are coming into use for the mounting of books, where an excep tionally delicate material for fine bind ing is required. There are certain tribes of savages who make breastplates out of garfish skins, which will turn a knife or a spear. A bullet will pierce this breastplate, but it is said to be impossi ble to chop through the material with a hatchet at one blow. Together with such a breastplate, these savages wear a helmet of the skin of the porcupine fish, which is covered with formidable spines. Fastened upon the head, this helmet serves not only as n protection, but in close encounters it Is used to butt with. The Gloucester Isinglass and Glue Com pany recently manufactured some shoes of the skins of (he codfish nnd cusk. On the lower Yukon, In Alaska, overalls of tanned fish skins are commonly worn by the natives. Whip handles are made of shark skins, and instrument cases are commonly covered with the same mate rial, It being known under the name of shagreen. Whale skins are said to make admirable leather for some purposes, while porpoise leather is considered u very superior material for razor strops. Seal leather dyed In a number of differ ent colors Is included in the collection of the Fish Commission. This leather is obtained from the hair seal, nnd not from the fur-hearing species, nnd is used to a considerable extent in the manufacture of pocketbooks. The hair seals are still very plentiful in the North Atlantic ocean, and as it is not difficult to kill them, they afford a very promising source of leather supply. Wnirus leather has come into the market recently, but as the animals are being exterminated rap idly, It will hardly amount to much com mercially. Another kind of leather now seen on sale is that of the ee a elephant. Up to within n few years a species of sea elephant was found on the Pacific coast, ranging as far north as Ix>wcr California, but the animals have been I so nearly exterminated that they are now rarely seen. Another species Is to be found in the Antarctic seas, chiefly on i Kerguelan Island. _ Ecxcnin—No ( are. No Pay. Tour druggist will refund your money If Pazo Olnluwot ftu to cure you. UK I —ad. " 1 If you will buy three Old V lrgmia Cheroots and smoke them to-day you will get the greatest amount of comfort and satisfaction that 5 cents will buy in a smoke, and get it three times over! You haven’t any idea how good they are and cannot have until you try them. Try three to-day instead of a sc. cigar. Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. NOTHING LIKE IT! There is nothing on earth to equal “Infants’ Friend Powder.’’ Where it has been tried it ha taken the place of all other preparations for the face, prickly heat, and a thousand and one uses to which ladies put it. The baby needs nothing else. Try nothing else for it. READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS Rowlinski, Pharmacist, Broughton and Drayton Sts., Savannah, Ga. July 5, 1900. Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah, Ga.: Dear Sirs—Please send me half gross Infants' Friend Powder. I have sold It for some years and it has been a good seller—give satisfaction: package unique, and from personal use I can recommend it highly for chafing and prickly heat. Yours truly, ROBT. A. ROWLINSKI. This is unsolicited. FIRE PROOF SAFES. We carry the only line of Fire Proof Safes that are for sale in the State. We have a stock of all sizes and a visit to our establishment is cordially invited. To be prepared in time of peace is our motto. Get a good Fire Proof Safe and you will never regret the invest ment. Do not buy a second-hand safe unless you know it has never been in a fire. We will sell you Iron Safes as low as the factory will, with freight added. LIPPMAN BROTHERS, Wholesale Druggists and Wholesale Agents Fire Proof Safes. —lt has been suggested that pome ap propriate honor be paid to Congr seman Galusha A. Grown of Pennsylvania, at the coming celebration at St. Louis of the Louisiana Purchase. He is the author of the Homestead Law. enacted in 1854. which did so much to develop the West by making homo getting easy. "It is dif ficult," says the Washington Times, "for the present generation of Americans, sur rounded by the modern conditions, with a fierce competition in the struggle for ex istence, to realize that there is in Con gress to-day a man who is a link between the infancy cf the nation and its pres nt gant proportions-between the crude In dustrial conditions of the dawn of the century, now in is twilight and the hi li ly organized machinery of the country's commercial forces. Tn his personality and record the Hon. Galusha A. Craw is that link. If he lives until 1908—and his remark able vitality and enthusiasm indicate that he will—he will occupy a unique and con spicuous position in the celebration of the event at St. Louis in that year.” MERCfMJirS UNO MINERS TRANSPORTATION CO. STEAM BOI II* LIVES. SAVANNAH TO BALTIMORE. Tickets on 6ale at company’s offices to the following points at very low rates: ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. BALTIMORE, MD. BUFFALO, N. Y. BOSTON MASS. CHICAGO, ILL. CLEVELAND, O. ERIE, PA. HAGERSTOWN. HARRISBURG, PA. HALIFAX, N. S. NIAGARA FALLS. NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURG. PROVIDENCE. ROCHESTER. TRENTON. WILMINGTON. WASHINGTON. First-class tickets Include meals nnd state room berth, Savannah to Baltimore. Accommodations and cuisine unequaled. Freight capacity unlimited; careful han dling and quick dispatch. The steamships of this company are np polntedtko sal) from Savannah to Balti more us follow* (standard iron ITASCA, ( apt. Diggs, SATURDAY, July 14. 5 n m ALLEGHANY, Capt. Billups, TUES DAY, July 17, 6 p. m. TEXAS. Capt. Former, THURSDAY, July 19, 11 n. m. I D. H. MILLER, Capt. Peters, SATUR DAY, July 21, 12 noon. ITASCA, Capt. Diggs, TUESDAY, July 24. 2 p. m. And from Baltimore Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays at Aon p. m. Ticket Office, 39 Bull llreet. NEWCOMB COHEN, Trav. Agent. J, J. CAROLAN, Agent, Savannah, Ga. W. P. TURNER. G. P. A. A. D, STE Bill NS. ATM J. C, WHITNEY, Traffic Manager. ' General Offices. Baltimore, Md. FRENCH LINE* CMMIE GENERKIE IHfINSSTLIMTm? DIRECTUNET°HAVRE PARIS (Francor Sailing every Thursday at 10 ;; rn From Pier No. 42. North litre--. root Morton La Bretagne,. July IV La Touralnn. Aug V !'\„^!'V aitne La Bretagne.,AuS 16 L Aquitaine ...Aug, 2La Lorraine... Aug 21 *• utft 'om rn relations reserved for company s passengers upon application General Agency, 32 Broadway. New York. Messrs. Wilder & 0* I The Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. Woman’s Department, Airs. Wm. King, Editor. 480 Courtland avenue, Atlanta, Ga., April 26. 1900. Columbia Drug Cos., Savannah Ga ■ Gentlemen—lt gives me pleasure to heartily recommend Infants’ Fr,, rd Powder, and to give to you a singu lar little coincident connected with it. During the Cotton States and in ternational Exposition I was preda ted with a little box of this powder, and was so pleased with it tha- I was exceedingly anxious to get mor, but on looking at the box I T m :d noihing but Savannah, Ga., no ■ t address. 1 have often wished I kn, w where to get it. This morning's mail brought your circular with en closed sample I immediately re ferred to my box. nnd found it was the Infants’ Friend Powder. It , 9 without doubt the best powder I have ever used. Respectfully, MRS. WM. KING. Ocean Sieamsiiia Go. —FOR IMew York, Boston —AND— the east, nsur PuS'c*r<J cabin accommodations. AU to© comforts of a modern hotel. EiectrH light s. Unexcelled table. Tickets incit'd* and berths aboard ahlp. Passenger farts Hum bavaaoaiL c-f.V. ‘ Ni - U YORK-FIRST CABIN. Db £*** ST CABIN ROUND TRIP, $32; 1N ... CABIN, sl6. INTERMIX* CABIN ROUND TRIP. s*■ STEERAGE, $lO. BOSTON FIRST CABIN. *3: FJHbT CABIN ROUND TRIP, *36. IN IERMEDIATE CABIN, sl7, INTERMB ‘‘•efk CABIN ROUND TRIP, S2S-<* STEERAGE, $11.75. be express steamships of this line to 6011 from Savannah. CentrSl <9olh) meridian time. n = foiVrrvs- SA VANN Ail TO NEW YORK. NACOOCHBE, Capt. Smith, SATURDAY, July 14, at 6 p. m KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, MONDAY, July 16, at * p. m. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg, _yy®-SDAY, July 17, nt 8 p. m TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Aslilns, FRIDAY, July 20, at 11:30 a. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett. Saturday, July 21. at 12 noon. NACOOCHEE, Cant. Smith, .MONDAY, July 23, at 2:30 p. m. KANSAS cm. Capt. Fisher, TUESDAY, July 24, at 3 p. in. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Burg, FRIDAY, July 27 ,at 5 n m. TALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins, SATUR DAY, July 28 at 6 p. m. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, MONDAY. July 30, at 7 p. rn NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, TUESDAY, July 31. at 8 p m. NEW YORK TO ROSTOV CITY OF M.vCON, Copt. Savage, MONDAY, July 16, 12:00 noon. CITY OF MACON, Capl. Savage FRIDAY. July 20, 12:00 noon. CPfY OF MACON, Capt. Savage, Wednesday, July 2r>, 12:00 no> 1 CITY OF M ICON. Capl Savage MONDAY’ July 30, 12:00 noon. This company reserves the right O change Its sailings without nori'-e an.- without liability or accountability there for. Sailings New York for Savannah daII exrept Sundays, Mondays and Til day*. 6:00 p m. W. G. BREWER. City Ticket end Pas* eager Agent, 107 Bull street, Savanna#. Ga. E. W SMITH. Contracting Freight Agent. Savannah. Oa. R. G. TREZEVANT, Agent, Bavanrih. Oa WALTER HAWKINS. Genera’ *•"> Traffic Dep’t, 224 W. Bay street. lonvllle, Fla. E. H HINTON, Traffic Manager- •- vennah, Oa P K LE f>lcr . North River. New York * T