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ihi ii uiiihip n\ ni .I— -~l |lH<> ot Trrnir—Thf j , .|, n i ii ml ahll. imil Hu ll. |rn.r-l lilin >f T?rh , nffrrlas ® ••*■ hll , | i,, n .•<--. .. lions from (hf !<•®r ~m by H'V. C. H. F*nn, of , i'a to frlond* ( home. , iiom the New York Bun n who l a nephew of lion . on. Jud*f in Philadelphia I- Court No. I. lmi I i.ge with his familv. and : valuable tervlc* In the ile v .j<fn muler Ivkin date of I ,|VII an inteieatln*: account ,i i.i-i- After dotalllnii the eud- j 1.1 the Hoxer movement and ihe fori-Utnere to pla-'rs ol , r bring* the rlory down to Him continues at follow*, ihe IMh. came the n'-w* •r un ships having attacked mlnlsiera und their families 1 -o leave Pekin In twenty -1( no wished to live we musl . this meant. Urst. leaving all to certain inaaaacre, and. eec. •jy being onra>|\ea massacre 1 j v\.. had left the gates of Pekin . i the open ■ oumry. If wo ecay i lea-, than 400 marines, the -i oi civilians, nhout W> Pro . r * and 1 .KUO or more Homan *..mist Imperial armies Next , V. < were told that the min . tn -i-ded several hundred carls . „ v we could simply gainer i p:ay lhai the Lord would in. tn- ins by which we ,-ould i diinese, rthd also escafv the • .iiiswered most wondyfulty. • tme 111 Herman Interpreter err to our compound seriously „ , V. uli 'he Herman minister hr ~ . -i- tor the Ttting-11-Yamen t*tte ■ tin Invited like the other (nlnls i. ill over their departure ftom Both were shot by Chinese sol tne ttreei. the minister killed dv earned - ff. while the wound . nr es-aped to our 4-lace. This - the minis ers and marine not r ir - fi journey to Tien Tstn would iiost -eilJlo eeieaih. hut that -Id soon l>* an attack bv the viler- en our luatters in Pekin ■ cl.-io, decide | very hastily thai . I all move at cnee to the unt il end make our defense therr Ihe Horrors Ib-gun. • at night ihe horrors of war be will not attempl to follow It dav IU fair meena nr foul thei. the were bouial to get In to murder - N..t content with title and rannor.. •„ tiled over and over again to ~ ■ . our building* from the autslde rul ex. lili.g experiences of this w anting i tiro behind which were aidr os -d -oldieir and Boxers ready to •... rv man who showed his head to > water, we put s stop to It by htirn j - 1 tearing down all buildings loc i' o our north end west sides We it ■ ■-> ih- ourselves safe on the north ■on; I'C as we auljuurned there the linn ir, Yuan, where reposed the Empire's i iluable books. Including the i .n encyclopaedia, all In writing, not ■net -f which there are not more than |t-r.s r four roplee In the world, thou- Ir-i. < blocks for printing the winning e< ~f -igr-s or examinations for high One morning th> lit nds set It- - ■ tul dlngs in that compound, and If-rater.. 1 thereby everything In the le. [snc.-i We fought Ihe fire and Ihe fiends, s : nen destroyed a number of the build. ' iree rourths of the blocks and t euppose. are destroyed by Are or ,nd the pride of China's scholars b- idly wounded Wter Ihe di-stru-llon by the Chm-ee of tv Austrian Italian. Belgian and Put h the customs, postofhee ar.d sther p -res, there stilt remained wllhln l- i-i t- several grain shops and Ihree f—l xc >iors Thes- hove thus far ftir i --la -umlant fowl for our almost is.nno |- The rite supfdy xas not as ahund in ,ic the wheat, one shop haying Just i. -hisl thou-atsls of bushels of new • (■at from Honan. Had H bssn two or t - weeks earth r we should have hod t y li. this shop there were elctao l’■in-., mills for grtmling wheat. Aft. r wry i g away son*- of the wheat to the I * t-ica, leai wo lose It all. we sat ihe i • cohig, ~nl day after dav. worked by > they ground out for ua tar more wr could use at the elm-- of graham and -racked wheat lvtr on. as l quarters seemed dangeious, we .way seven of the mills and at I up In safe places. Prom the to f u as a member of the Fool Bup mmlller I have had chief rhaige work. We alioull hava been in t- ■ bread by now had II not bn lor true mills. Protection b> Kniulhnus. t r of the nos’ irmarkable |wov in -rinnevlion with Ihl* wege Is • r - ii.ll iixc supply of material for -ts. These bags have saver] many • on the top* of barricades*. There • rv little to make them of at Arst. w- hid was used We "looted I- of r Chinese tailor and got two w-er -ewlug machines, and Mis* l one with a treadle The for furnished c*nstd-.'able cloth •- number of small native shops. - - , temple, etc . within our hor i!■ hie,i tloxena of rolls of cloth, td( emmoldcrles tworth scvervl vard some of themi; the lega '**l curtains, table linen, etc., so after lay’ ladle i have heevi in out hundred* and ihousandc -g- which. Alltel with dirt, have r tiie best possible barricade* isrlonunes have been leaders In 1 -ry dcp.irimem. yet have not ' <n This matter of losses is a is thin* The Chinese buve made al’a-ks, sometimes of hours In yyrth tome firing all day and -i have Aresl about n million tu-illy, as well a* almost 3.000 r spnel and Av* 10 seven pound ' yet mu a comparatively few i-een disabled, and though the and shell have broken through •i i->fs. they have raueerl but sr-d two or three wound* It happy thing for uw that the • not know how to use their ****" - rfiectlrely. e I’nrr Played by "Betas.” o nothing larger than the Italian "•1(1. until one day In overhauling " l ink shop some of our native* •V union. -Inte l I*M. of ,r <rtn. We mounted It ond tried ~ 1 '• a thrfe pound shot through , _ ■ k walls so tve turned It on the t-d scared them by the unex *'• of I' a* well as by Its effec t h.is been dubbod ‘'Betsy.*' • {,_ t’-tn- had shells but no gun, so ; h * A red the shells. In lieu of b*ster, she will take nail* or i atW carry terror among fhe ho*" men also found matry out of which we have - halls and shot for the one —‘j’ l lor riAe* of bricks and llm- Horsford's Acid Phosphate _ ® ,e ** Good Digestion. removes of distress, oppression sad , Rf (--vim* of the stomach. " “■* Hrmwm'i on .n^.. ■ Ta- ' ..... - ■ ■ J ' Ht ultt Don’t t.ikr tS- y-tak walrry Hircicntcd t ■ b* -the yarn,- a- ' IMS!) S Bttr.um " wo-aj oho 1 " whwh irritates $ Hy .ii s dradc pouor ® * 1.1 "<• r ap f* r - b<*r> we h.tve lia 1 no lack, up hrt' k walkx ami riomohahtnar f'hln#*.**** bml'linis’ Th foi m r!y propprroua hu* 4 !- nefH H#’ Mon about ua l a wh(| of rulna, ihr ChiiUfM* having lr*roy#*<l of tlolhir* worth of properly In their rfforl to re.it h an-1 exterminate u* • • • The on m<nicer *ho hae aue'e*<le<! in making his ) toTlan Ttn aad i- k bring?* ue won) thtt troopc • on certainly on the way to our relief. ntl the j rumora of their u<'torious ar* now coming ro ue from the outride Ciii ! n**M* who are on ino*t pemiliur terms with u. Ten day* ago there came ba< k to u* a j mereenger who h*d tried to &o to Tien ' T?in. h 1 been ipttired b> th*' fhinere. In iten almoet to death, taken to the | '•elate department.** Riven a m*e ar t jein Iwit k to iiv Th* etatie department ejld It Wae ml.id it* hear the foieign inii - frtere were Will, and -Orry the Hoxera h. 1 treated them eo badly. They wrie anxlotie to prote* t ue, and requested that we ftop flrinir They et.xxee ted that all the niinteter* and their famiius k*> i amah companies, unrreorted, to the .t e depart ment for protection. The reply w mad • that w* were willing o cea>. firing when the ceaae<i. but couid no? crept the invitation to the Yam* n. The next day cam* another graoloue ni**e#oxe. ac com parried by i cipher telegram from tba •tote d* partmer.t at Waehingtoti. * ?*om municat** Tldir.ge Hear#; On queatton ing: ae to the eouree of ihi* telegram it had no signature or date), a copy of u tele gram from Wu Tlnx Kara, the Chlneea Minister in Washington, wa** ?ent. and the ion of Minister C.’ *ngra r*ply wui prorr*iee*i t hinrae lUo-ontlna Wrarlsi*. The next day tiring pnctlcgliy ceased, and there has been but little of It alftce. Thtre aieo t ime, in the name of the Km |M*rnr. a large number of watermelons, bquuMhfi*, 4 Kg plants and ucuitibers. I am very eorry that th> ininietera a*-cept *d the pr-ent. for it will mak- the tinai punishment of the Chinese digntfbd To have men try to kill you. and then, while still keeping you besieged, to send In watermelon 1 * and pquashe*. is about as ludicrous a performance as I have heard of Surely it will stand unique in the world's history The purpo-c i* manifest Tnku and Tien Tern have been taken, and ihe foreign troop.-* are well on their way to Pekin The state department flret tried to coax the ministers to a place where they could be held a* host igcs Now it i* trying to placate them with present*, so as to keep the foreign troops from enter ing Pekin More recently, they have been again urging the ministers to go to Tien Tsln. and again to-day ithe 27th) they have >-enl in melons ond eggs, and flour, and rice! "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.** there Is r dpi/■* about the pre-eminence of the Chinese. July 2&-And now our henna go down again, ns a youngster who w* ru out as a b'ggar boy bearing a message to Tien Tain comes k with n single letter of about a half doxen sentence* from the British consul, tne quintessence of ambig uous uncertainty, dated July 22. and lead ing us to think (While not saving so) that no troop* have yet left Tien Tsin for our relief lie writes ‘There nre plenty of troops on the way. If you can keep your reives in food," but the rest of the letter IndW'ate* that "on the way" m.y mean anywhere on the fact of the earth. • • • Native Treachery. August 2- Will the rain hold* off but our rrlief doe* not .om For the pas* week \>® have lived on new* purchased dallv from a Chinese soldier nn.l other otitsklerc which. th'-ugh accepted with much suspicion. . amt to he somewhat h* - llr vcd. These * \ eral men w ere evidently tu .olluHion. They told un step by step of the victorious progress of our iroo| until they had brought them >u near th.it we should heln to hear the cannon, when they reported a r treat. This aroused more eu'spn ton, which was confirmed last ev< nlni; by a letter of July 3t. from Tien Tsln. atattnic that the. trooiMt were to start In two nr three days. • * * The extracts from the l*clcn Oazefo for the past two months afford very In teresting reading, testifying to the Itisin rerlty of the Chinese protest.rllous friend ship. Before things eame lo n head and iv* were hcelegrd here, the edicts com msnded the putting down of the Boxers, hut as soon a they got us where we could not recur- the Gazette the whole tone rhsngcd Ministers and firln. es wer appointed to romnund the Boxers wtv> wer- given hundrerl* of rhoosonds of taels as a reward for ihelr patriotic services." After the capture of Tien Tsln they be gan to lie scared and wished to placate foreign Powers, eo that they actually publish a m-mortal of Chare Shun, laying (he whole trouble on the Boxer* Hardship* of tbr t hlldrew. The lime of quiet la over and we, are tired at more or less during the day and heavily at night. Yet the "state depart ment" still sends peaceful messages. Th milk I* gone, save a little for the babies; the nutter and sugar are already gone the white rice (a small r<malnderi. l krp: for Invalids and wounded. nd our usual bill Of fare I* horse meal, old musty rl . roars* btowr bread without butter We still have lea smi coffee, and for break fast have either cointneal or cracked wheat Ilv etill further culling we ran keep on until dept 1. I Hunk, hut some of us will be hungry. It I* very hard •o find anything for the bsbie*. os we cannot get eggs or any nroth except the rjihrr utrmwr broth Fort a ■lately we had many horses and mules here, bul they are fast going Of course, we ore all losing weight, some o* much as thlriy pounds Th other day we look possession of th* buildings next u* on ih southw. si. find ing mu. h good furniture clothing, food and four rtead bodies, dead for five or six week*. With a tin of opium lyb s by three of them indicating relf-poL-onlng at the Him of th. legrful diet alia k on us. They were fearful sights. Another for eign baby has died, two mor< seem un likely lo live, while in the last two weeks at bast iweni'-flv* Protestant Chines i limest all Of them .hlldrenl and many mor- Roman Catholics have been laid away. The sanltnv condition* are awful, especially, of courtf. among the Chins so August 15. —We are fgv.nl! Yesterday morning at 2 o'clock we lx gan to hear ih sound of cannon and machine guns, at and our soldier* go. In In the •*” roon J'" write all about It. but must send this A price. God ha* been g*d. -Yu Keng. the Chinese minister to France, lives In a luxurloua house near ,be Arc de Trtomphe le has traveled a great deal In this country, and mar ried an American woman *Je Is *lxiy year* old now and has served his coUP frv sin e his youth, lie fought with dis tinction unde. <len Gorilon In being descended from wn old Manchu family, rose rapidly at court He ha* greatly mprrs-ed by the rapid rise of Japan, ansi hi. view I* that Hie pres ent trial* in ►><• East Is merely a de velopment Of the struggle no we... lie clvitlx.itlon of the Old Word and . t it. o( the New- The only way for th in ,o save herself, h* argues, is for thing to follow in the steps of Japan, and adapt herself to Waateru ctvlligaiK**- THE MORNING NEWS: THI KSDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1900. Till DEMAND FOB II OH AKA. tulomiibllr. Ilnir Not Mnlrrlnlly Btrrlnl 11. Ftom Ih. N.-w York Ttlhuns In tho lost Itiivo yror* tho automohilv tratio assumed su- h dimensions lhat ! nor- of Him horse Unclt-tl hi# reign - •Itawing to a close. Wllh every month mo o of tho mschlr.es |'|> r In Ihe street:- in-1 greslvr eiuhu.-tmsom I# manlfestcil in Ih- s|-orl Now lhat their enlliv sa eli ha* been detlK-natrstw]. It I* naiurnl to i>eunir ihst thilr romiMiratlve i lu-aidies will bring shout an even more marked In. rln Ihdr numlwr While thK I* golrg on w hat I* hrcomlng of the horse ’ The itiipr.- slcti -imong the tirtlnltlate.l Is that he stiou -I he faring rather hlly i'.l that the prl"es of Root! trotters or Mrought hors- i snoultl be conshlerahly lower thsn formerly. Bnoh Is not the cae however. There h* been a steady In crease In tho |rlre of horses for the Ittl yeir or Iwo, and the climax has now been r. a he.l A dealer who hs b-cn in the trade for forty >ear* sal-l of the present state of affair# that he had never seen rrlce* so high, or horse In such demand. In Europe as well at In this country. The inAux o: buyers ftom a-roas the water is ur.psralle ed. end the .ear* h for good I o ses U earned on with more 'lgor than for many years. This Slate of affairs Is more easilv ac counted for than would he supposed Three years ago. when the automobile In dustry began to e- me Into prominence, h.rse hr east err h.-eame alarmed They -aw thorns- -vs tyith farms full of horses fo which tliero would he no sale, while the world whlszed hy In the new < arr|jge Bo they piomptly Stopped breeding As It haa happened, they were grievousl> mistaken in their estimate of the future Automobiles have. Indeed, Increased In number, bu* the horse has not found his oe upatlon gore. Wealthy persons keep one or two machines, hut do not sell their trottera Brewers and other* who ned heavy draught horses have not yet adapt ed the automobile to Ihetr purpose, an.l still tall for Pereheron and Normandv horse* Po that, had there been nothing el-e to create a demand, the trade would sti l have ptospered But there ha been an unusual reason for the pi earn: rail for horses. Ths Brit ish haV" shipped, since the war In the Transvaal begin, over one hundred and fifty thousand hor-es to South Africa. Few of these will be of much use when the war Is over. The army needs. In time of peace, alxty thousand horses The horn supply 1a exhausted—ln fact. It was long go exhausted—and that sends buyers to this country In such numbers that dealsr.* who have spent years In the business open heir eyes In amas-ment. One dealer ha been feeding from Ave hundred lo Afteen hundred hrss every w-.-k In his export stables. All through the West, from Ohto ago to the raelllc. and nearer home * will, the buyers are looking for horses, and wf\l iwy almost any r*'*'' * or *' h *' they want A draught horse Is not really mature until lie Is Ave year* old—that I*, he Is not At for a brewer's wagon or ihe like until that age. Since the breeding of such horses received a check three years ago. and Is only now becoming normal. It fol low* that the present state of nffalrs will • on tin ue for two or three years, anyway The usual Increase in the demand for hotaes every year Is * per cent, and that Increase Is now considerably exceeded Prices are from to 7S per cent higher than three years ngo, snd even at that the supply does not equal the demand It Is quite possible tha' the lark of good horse* for heavv work will force the attention of manufa- turers to the using of auto mobile*. and thus give an additional boom to that alr-ady growing trade. But It has been shown pretty conclusively that the horse will not he displaced by Ihe new !n --i eritlon. great as that Industry will event ual y tHcrm** perhaps one Mason for the present de mand may be found In the growth of the trotting horse fsd among men of wealth All over the country speedways are being q-manded by enthus’astle owners of fast horses. The Road Drlvera' Assooistton numbers Afteen hundred members and is constantly growing At state fairs more and more attention Is paid to wagon ra-es. and this Is encourag.d by the farmers, who foresees Increasing pi ices as the pop ularity of sport grows Alieady, It Is clairrud the ptaollee of amaleut wagon racing has hsen re-ponslble for the re vival of horse breeding In many parts of the country. At anv rate, this growing port connot fall to do much toward keep ing up the price- for good carriage horse* Taking everything into ron.-lderatlon. horse lovers may feel assured that their favorites will nni he dethroned as long as the sporting instinct lives CITB THROUGH IRON. Ease With Which a Currant la lard for This Purpose. From th* Philadelphia Record Th* application of the. electric arc to welding purposes, by which large, heavy liars of Iron or .upper may he Joined al most instantly, has made familiar the re m ukabllltv of It* heating power. It wan not lone after this Invention before the possibility of "jraeklng" safety vault* by mean* of an electric arc. was widely dis cussed. There la no doubt that this is perfectly feasible, provided, of course, a sufficiently powerful electric current l* available. Something on the same line. In which, however, th* electric, arc la applied to moic lawful purposes, ha* recently been turd on several occasion* This Is the cutting of I-leam*. In repair work. In place of the tediously slow method of cut ting ihem with a met*! eaw The Illus tration, reproduced from the Western Flecirltlan. show* such an operation In IHogr.es Th- I-beams In thla Instance tvere lt-lneh girders, having a web one inch thick The work *w in connection wp h some repairs to the Corn Exchange Tank In fhi ago. There were six of these twarns to be cut through, and the work Was actually accomplished in about three and a half hour*. Th* method consist* In springing a pow erful arc between the beam to be melted through and a large solid carbon ele.v trode Th* arc Is nothing but a huge electric spark caused by the current Jump log from the carbon pencil, which Is con nected to one terminal of a suitable dy r amo bv means of copper wire*. In con tact with the girder, which Is similarly ,-onnecded o th* other dynamo terminal. tha point where It Is to tie melted, through and then gradually withdrawing tt- carbon The hand* end body of the operator are protected from the Intense hTii by an asbestoa shield Blue glass*# are atari necessary to prevent Injury to th ,. sye* from th dassllng glare It Is e-tlmated that the temperature thus pro d ir- I is ahiut ll.b degrees (Vntlgrid*. li. this method it require# less than half a minute to burn a hole through th# solid inch Of wrought uon forming the web of Ahc girder. LOBSTER INDUSTRY WANES. UK. DKMIMI HA94K* M f*l*l 1 ft< %\l AMI TUB I * IfM*IV. Itrmaf liolraiilr I'rlrr In crrnarrf Over MN) l*er C ent In 2<t )rnn • ktraily llrerenae In ibr Number of l*ounl* t nun lit—ll o I olikirr* Nre ( auahl nml From th* N'* Y>rk Sun If the yrople alcuuc the Ailnntlr * tK*ar<l continue to *at lobatera with Incrra-lnR foniiiiean which ha* ch.ir.i t <*rlx<rl thrm for the k*n• twenty you *ih dell lAu* crurnenn wMll h* vmi *o rare that only |he rich Will l* Able to .tnluik" their fondmv* for |t. Sftt c* th*' avcraJtp win'liMlf price i **r (bjuiiii (*t ioiirr.* ha tn< reared over M) ier cent The numb* of pound* caught ha Jeor**n *l largrly and dcipltc th •ftort* made icgaliy to protect thin flrhery then in*- evidence that ii i* In danger of exilncucm The iiome of tho Jointer Ih in Maine Kver **incr tho ni l Puritan* ‘’ame over to New Kr.jrtand'* rock-hound coast the lob trr has been a *Tnnl.ir<l irticle of New l.nßlav.n diet At as the -ettlement wer** all fdtung along the xOt. each faml lv oc-ir*d It* own '*Ply. but a* the ven turesome settler** moved inland there de veloped the beginning of the lobster in dustry Pertain person* begun to tnak* their living by ca’rhlhft -'•* 1 sellins lob ster- and the lnlu> r ha* grow*, until now thousand* of men ore emplove I an I hundreds of thouarndw of doT.tr lave it id In It. Owinp to the formation of the roast of Maine lob*, i ers are to be found I her-* tn gieater a bundin'* • than in any other p’a In the T’nlted Rtates The lobster love* a rocky bottom, such as found alone th* more easterly coast liu of Maine There ■ne numerous hays an I rivers dotted with large and small Island which form ox er Tent breeding ground?- In the early days of the fishery It was ustomary to flsh only during the sprint and fall In the spring. ?* the waters ir. the bay nt.d the tivrr* waim up. the lob ster* came into shallow water, and lcfore their numbers had been so greatly depleted they could be l iken frequently at ow water in dip nets, but they are now founl in the summer in depth* from thre to fifteen fathoms in the numerous passages between the is lands anti the mainland and in the lower teaches of the l*a>> and rivets. When winter time comes the lobs er hustles* ou* to som at depths of from fifteen to flft> fathoms in the old '’ays this used to pro tect him. hut not i-o now He ha* become so valuable that the fishermen keep if n after him oil winter long Ix?hsters are caught in whit the fl.'her m*'n call |otr A pot Is a franv- work mad* of lath* It Is iitualb about 4 feet long. 2 feet wide and 1* inches high Ther are opening* Into the p**’ ut each nml The ends ar- made of course twine -nd nre funnel shaped The >m*ller and inne? ends measure about six Inches in diameter and are held open bv means of w ire rings Tl e*r funnel* ar* fa*tened by the larger rnds to the end fr.tm* of the pot. with the shorter side uppermost, so that when they ere In place they lead obliquely up w.ird Into the pot instead of horizontally The funnel* are abut !2 Inches deep and tai er rapidly, f irmln* an Inclined plene up which the lobster* must climb. Inside the pot, fastened to a *|ear head on the bottom. I* the bait This Is usually halibut, herring or cod head, usually salted slight ly liuwtver, almost any kind of will do These |n>t* are |#*t down to the bot tom of the water and arc held It* place by stone* Irslde The lobster ha* a ver\ kc* n scent and. rmelllng the halt, he pr<* ..Mb to Investigate The result Is that he :imb* into the funr.el through the in ner opening and drop** down Into the pot Then he I* done for. and the next thing wo hear of him he I* being served In some restaurant after the thea*re. Other kinds of traps have been tried hut none has proved a* successful as the n* Just described. The lobiter has great hanlt of climbing al! over the po*s before he sticks his nose Into the funnel Seme genius conceived a trap with a trap dorr on the top. When a lobster scrambled over the top the door gave way and In he fell While this idea seemed excel lent it has never found favor with th* Maine lobster chasers. In the w.irrn season the pot* are fre quently set on trnwls. is tha lobsters ar* quite thick then on the rocky bottom near shore In the trawl method, the pots nre usually set about thirty feet apart, de pending on the depth of th? water so that when on" pot is in the boat the nex# will be on the boti*m In the old days the trawl avstem was very much more in favor than now because ihe lobster* v ere more plentiful. Nowaday*, th" pot* aro generally set singlv and shifted after each catch, as it has been found that bet ter results are thus obtained. The pots are g* nera ly hauled once .* day. but fometlm* * twice a iay In good w rat her Tne number of pots used hy a rt.-herman varies greatly on the different parts of the coast. When conditions are favorable the fl*lterman does not use as tunny pMs a* when he Aids that lobster-* are scarce The regular lobster fisher man has steadily incrt-as and the number of hi* pot* for several years. He has found this an absolute necessity in order to catch as many lobsters now as he caught twenty years ago. It Is not unusual new to find m fisherman handling a* high as 100 pots and *om*ttmes even 125. when a few years ago twenty-flv* or fifty pota was a large number. Lobsters ate brought to the market tn Scrofula THE OFFSPRING OF HEREDITARY BLOOD TAINT. Scrofula is but a modified form of Riood Poison and Cousumption. The parent who is tainted by cither will ace m the child the muuc disease / manifesting itself in the form of swollen JL glsndsof the neck and throat, catarrh, weak r. jt eyes, offensive sorcsluA •nd absecssrs and "J*- AQ tentimes white swell- Fa V- , ing sure signs of \ / Scrofula. There may ' benoextcrnslsignafor r s long time, for the disease develops slowly in some cases, but the poison is in the blood and will break out at the first favor sble opportunity. S. S- S. cures this wast ing. destructive disease by first purifying and building up the blnod and stimulating •nd invigorating the whole system. J M Bests, 115 public fkiuare. NxthvillrTerm . lays "Ten years**o my dsnghter fell and cut her forehead. From this wound the glands on the side of her face became swollen ana bnrsted Some of the liest doctors here and elsewhere attended her sett ho* t any benefit We decided to try 8 S. I. sad s few bottles eared her en tirely •• dikM MpM makes new and pure E 7 blocvl to nouruh’and strengthen the InKly, and I. n positive and aU safe cure for Scrofula, sit overcomes all form- • 1 *-! poison, whether inherited or acquired, and no remedy so thoroughly and effectively Cleanses the blood. If you have any blood trouble, or your child has inherited •omc blood taint, take S S 8 and gel the blood in good condition and prevent the disease doing further damage. Send for our tree book and write our physicians about vour case We make no Charge whatever for medical advice, ini iwift smiric co„ Atlanta, sa. LETTER FROM OHIO. Here is what the largest drug house of Ohio thinks of Graybeard: jrc ** .RKspessiDrygsCO,. b©apASir9:r *3'Ore*harlngj^a-remarkable dorhand for,Gray ■bdardywlUiCUtjLtlaetovidouceiofjiexten.,iveladvertlGL ij.' Till 3^ certainly which wo a congr atul at e -/(JuTan and 3 hgr 3s. Ycurs'Vcry^truly, y . ‘ rTr Letter from texas. Here is the way tin. largest house of Texas talks about our Graybeard: WM Poßllfil i 1 CenTloicen:? __ . m 7n vlow rr tne - f33tUhat*you]h3VO*aip6lnteJt , .T. - .laol J|Ag9at,/cr,tht9 .territory, wftfoffer *ertl3lns pupioses 1 . Orayboardll3ia , .EJJd*SJlior.iud?.U.e.iiCißaiiauO kroyHag,' afour3irfi?pjtotnili7>, iding or fleam sma ks In the early *y> of the fishery rmacks from New ht gland s atiort. lagan collecting the lob ie.‘ catch,from the little villug. * nd Inh aler camp* i<ng th*- main coaat Former •y rl'ey eomeifm* > rrri I pot* and • aught their own lobsters, but this ha?* h*-*n dls- Olitlnued, an l nowaday* the sm* k men enh buy of thf Hgtiiar ttshermer ’•macks make r*-vut<r trips up and clown tin* coast, landing ihtlr rarg elthei af Ito kiand Fori land or at one of the lob ster pounds scatteied aioi g the coast Lobsters are bong tit of the tidier men by mnt. and cash Is pal I for them They are genet ally sold, however, by the pound to toe wholesale dealers. In older to prevent the market hoing flooded when the catch was plentiful lob ster pounds were devised where the sur plus catch could he k*pi alive until such • in# ms the market needed them The firs ore of these pound* ws made In 1*75 near Ylniil Haven, on one of the Fox Island*. \ se-’tlon of about nine aere> in a five imndred acre cove with an average depth f ..iiout ninety feet was sole? t*d. and a v ire fence was built aiound it to prevent the lobster* f>tn escaping The expert metit was so successful that ‘n !*HN eight more imunds had been built along the Maine coast. The business of canning lobster no long er exist* in Maine. It began In JMI ** Fast port, .and for many years consumed large part of the annual catch At the time the facilities for getting the lobster to market alive were had. and thlw natur aHv led to ihelr use tn the fa (fortes Ho great was the consumption of loleters hy the factories that the supply wa* badly depleted and a sentiment *rew tip in the Mate ..gainst (oimltflng the factories to rt n Lows wrre enacted permitting their per*tlon for only a few months In'the year, and p ohil ltlng the * annlng of any lobster le>* than nine Inches In length. Fr m time to lime these laws were chang ed. always h*coming more stringent, until in iwo a law was pasred forlld<iina the us< of inv l bster l"?*s thsn ten and one half inches lor.g As the rannertes could not afford to pay the high p ice demand ed for this size they wiera compelled to give up the busine*s. The rcult of this has been that *r*e .at efforts have iwen made to devis# methods of packing the lohstats In ord r that they might be shipped to distant point* alive They are usually shipped now in hansls About one-third of a hundrert-pound cake of ice la put into the barrel lengthwise The live lobster* are then packed all a round it. When the harr* I is nearly full the lobsters are coveted with a little sea weed and the rest of the space la filled with cracked Ice. The top It then cover ed wi.h a piece of *a king which is se cured under the upper hoop of the bar rel Packed in this way lobster* have rosily survived a trip as far west as Ht Louis When lobsters are, rent to Kurope they are placed tn large tank full of s*m water on and if the water is k pf fre*h tne .obs er. make the Journey very well. Lobster fishermen Ilk* all fishermen, have most remarkable funds of aiort®:. about wonderful catches wtvrh they have made Btortes of the rapture of lohstera weighing 30 and 40 *rwl even sa pounds linv* been common, hu they hake rarely been well authenticated A loh.ler II In ches long weighs 2 pounds 12 ln> he* long. 2tj pound*, snd IS Inches long. Pi pound A IS-ln-h lobst*’ ! ••■ ry good-file I s|H-clmen Notwithstanding this ther# are some pretty wot! authenticated yarns a bout the ■ ap ur of lobsters of very much greater weight John N. Cobh, sgsnt of tho United (Pales Fish Fommlsslon. In * pamidilet oil the subject of lobsters glv*. a number of cases which h* considers authentic. In Ml John fondon c.iught a male Inhaler in Feaobrot Bay weighing ■ 22 pounds The lobster hud tried to back Info tn* trap, but getting hie tall ihrough th* finmel he waa unable to get either In or out. Peter Mitchell while fishing In 00 fathoms of water, two miles off Matlnteus Ro.-k Light Ft*tlon In September. !***. caught a male Inhaler weighing 2i pounds and tdeasurl-ig 21 Inches from the end of tlie nose to the tip of the tall, and 45 |p. he* Including the claws In August. UP. Mr Cobb saw a male lobster at F-ak Island which measured 44 Inches In tenth sod weighed ii pounds, according to the statement of it* owner Th* owner *•* carrying It from town to town In n small car and was charging a email fee for people to Icok at it % BILLION IF NT*. %a*t Demand for the* llronn* (ola. Ihout Other f alas. From She New York Commercial Adver tiser. The demand for 1-cent pieces is so great that tha Fhliadalphla Mint la compelled to turn out nearly per month to ke*p ftp the supply There nfe at present somettdng like 1,- pennies in circulaflon. If you want to exchange m $10) hill for pennies you would get lo good, large bags full of xp|>ers. Nickel and copper coins have no mint marks; neither have coin* Issued at th** Philadelphia Mint. Collectors of tan pay high prices for coins hearing certain mint marks which otherwise would not have been worth more than the r face value. Thr first Lulled Btate* rants struck for circulation hear the date 17W They nr of six varieties nml are valued ut S.VSI) to pi ;* Of CM ted Rtates Silver coin* the mm* valuable Is the dollar of !M)I Its value tn collectors la 11,000. No other dollars are worth more than about X2V Fourteen of the*** I*o4 dollars arc known to exist More rare *re the New York doubloon" coined In 17f7. of which only five are known to exlM On one dde of this rare and curious coin Is a picture of the sun rising over a mountain, surrounded hy the legend "Nova Eborar* Columbia Excel sior ” Below I* the name of the designer. "Brasher M Th# other side hws the origi nal form of the national motto. "Unum K Plurlhua." There Is a heraldic eagle on one wing of which ar* #he letters K It . the designer's Initials These coins are worth about sisn The last one sold brought $527 It had belonged to an old Maryland familv ever since It was coined The t& goldpiSce of 1*22 Is a rare coin At ono time only two were said o he in existence-am# In the Phdsdslpht* Mint, the other In Boston but a third was pi kd up In a New York money changer s shop a few veara ago “I was sfraid at first it might he a counterfeit." said the collector of colna. who happened to spy It. ’ The man wns so delighted to secure it that before leav ing the shop he houghs several other coin* w hich he didn't want He paid only $* for It. The same day he was offered s2flh later MV w**s ‘offered hy another gentle man; tdhrt hy another one. hut the gentle man at last accounts was holding It for $1 ontv* Ore of the most sought after colonial coins Is the Highly copper They were ssru k In 1727 hv Samuel Highly, who was * physician and blacksmith at Granby, Conti tie rot th* copper from * mtne near by and shaped fh# coins *t hi* forge About nine rears ago a allver *h*k*l was found in Texas which dates bark to 113 B C l> intrinsic value i- ai.ci -> rents; It* value to collectors IS,Oil One of the esrlles' known coin* Is a di drachm of ancient Aecina coined abort -700 B C. Its Intrinsic value Is ID cents. H* mark#* value 17 Toe coins spoken of tn the Hlhl* are shekel*, which were of silver; th* widow's mile, the tribute pennv and th# "Jlsk't ■apt* “ the hrons* coin struck by the Em pepor Titus to commemorate the d#truc tion of Jerusalem snd ths dispersion of Ih* Jews In Japan coins are generally of Iron, and in Slam Ihev sre rhleflv of poreelaln Whale* t##th form the coinage of the FIJI Island* They *r* painted whke and red th* red tSeth being worth about iwen ty times s much as 'he svhlte. The** teeth nre worn a * necklace Instead of carried In a po kcibook Th* entire colle'-slon of coins ami m-ls j In the Rrltlsh Museum consists of about 250/00 specimens, and Is one of the finest rollecUon* In the world At the Philadel phia Mint I* aoi*l collect km of Amer ican coins, but the government only al lows 14 1200 a year lo buy coir* with. The British government spend* 15,000 year for coins Austra'la's blgge*t offenorv w e t*k en up a' the consecration ot ihe Bishop of Carpentaria In Sydney •'* he P*|. it amounted tn MI KO and I* perhaps tha larguat on record. till Of HOPt II MD 0 If l R'f sIMhUUk for Ist* of Hope. Montgomery, Thunder bolt. Cattle Park and Wsat had Ually except Mundaya. Uubjecl to changa without notice. IHI-KliP HOPE * ’ l.v my tor I of H Uv. Isle of Hone <MI atn from Tetuh | •uu am for Bolton TSO am from Tenth , 100 am for Tenth 110 am from Tenth 1 7ou am for Tenth • IS am from Holton | I 00 am for Tenth Wam from Tenth 10 ao am for Tenth UOO n n from Tenth 111 01 am for Bolton I IS pm from Holton fll SO am for Tenth ISO pm from Tenth | 300 pm for Tenth I SO pm from Tenth j 2 40 pm for Hollow SO pm from tenth j 1o pm far Tenth ISO pm from Tenth It •pm for Tenth t so pm from Tenth f tOO pm for Tenth 710 pm from Tenln j 70# pm for Tenth •30 pm from Tenth | soo pm for Tenth 10 pm from Tenth j >OO pm for Tenth 10 *0 pm from Tenth lioon pm for Tenth |ll 00 pm for Tenth MONTGOMERY l.v ciry for Muns ry l.v Montgomery 0 10 am from Tenth | 7 IS am for Tenth” 2 >i pm from Tenth I 1 II pm for Tenth (*0 pm from Tenth 1 00 pm for Tenlh lATTIKI'AUK ~” i ■ n> tor ■ ii Pari hi i a.Tla Park to am from Bolton 700 am fof Bolton 7SO am from Bolton •00 am for Hollow 100 pm from Bolton lID pm for Bolton SlO pm from Bolton 100 pm for Bolton 700 pm from Bolton 710 pm for Bolton •on pm from Rollon oOn pm for Bolton TH i; N DEtfbuL t Car leaves Bolton street Junction IW a. m and avory thirty mlnutoa thereafter until II 10 p. m. Car leavae Thunderbolt at o<> a m and every thirty mlnutea thereafter until 72:00 midnight, for Bolton street junc tion FREIGHT AND PARCEL, CAR. This car carrlee trailer for passenger* on all trip* and leaves west side of city market for lal* of Hop*. Thunderbolt and all Intermediate points at 0 OO a. m.. imp m . 100 p. m Leave, lal* of Hop* for Thunderbolt. Ctty Mrrke. and all Intermediate points at 000 a in . 11 00 a. m.. 2 k* p. I*. Wfcdi END CAR. • Oar leaves west aide of city market for Wot End 40 a. m and every to minutes thereafter during th* day until 11 10 p m Leaves West End at 0 ® a m. and av ary tli minutes thereafter during th* day until 12 00 o'clock midnight. H M T-OFTOV Gen Mgr. SEED RYE. GEORGIA SEED RYE. SOUTHERN SEED RYE TEXAS RED R. P. OATS. HAY. GRAIN. FLOUR, FEED. FRUITB AND VEGETABLES. CIiEEBE. MEANS. PEAS. W. D. SIMKINS & CO r.iIRZ YOURSELF! 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