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flflflUflli REPORT
OF TREASURER
United. States Treasurer Roberts
Shows Transactions and Con
ditions for Past Year.
N T REVENUES $405-321.335
x.' port Is a Complete Statement of the
financial Condition and Gives
Important Figures.
Washington, November R. —The treasurer
< li< fti : 1 St , Hon. ITltis It. ftolx-rts,
! . . übniit t< ,l to the treasury the annual
i <-rt on the transactions .nut cond'tiou
» tlic treasury for the past fiscal year. The
i ordinary rev. mite of tlo- government
’■ r< $405,321,335, an inert ase of 57,597,630 ovt r
• of th, prevloii.s y-ar. will!.- the net
■ ‘nary’ > x;w niit: ar.-.- wort- $413,368.552. an
1. as.- .q $77,:".H,1.(2. 'flic resulting <loti-
i . of T •. '7.0 . i.s that of the pre
• I‘l g yea r l.y •>i3.91)1,793.
the in
of toe - xiM iidituns on account of
war with Spain was 4.13,041.732 fur the
>• : ■■ .l. pai!incnt an-l $21,262. l‘:s for the navy
. irtment t’or the four months. .liily,
S -i ■ , th<
■ -iiTturi's of the war department were
.‘.'•.''S, being $81.613 131 grrater than for
’ same months of lsf'7. l-’or the same
:t tlii< y. it tie- navy -lepartni. nt < x-
I • ,i $27. 1.7'577. which was $16,014,926 more
■ . pent in the like period in ls?7. tip
t . <i t"l '-r 21st tie wir with Spain added
■■ disbursement of these two depurt
i. nt.- Hie sum of $164,932,228.
•i* ■■ ii-l-■: tty of the prosp' -'t of revenue
expenditure (lie treasurer regards the
-ury as having been stronger at. the
than ■ th< op< nlng of the fiscal year,
'n<!gnifi<-ant :hrinkage in the amount
- .sets having been more than compin-
■ I for by tile Improveim nt which took
in their chare ter. Against a net
. f $7.; in Hl' total holdings av.iil-
the govern
; ■ .. n- was a rain of upward of $26,-
‘tn tri e gold, compan d with an In
i ■ .. e of n .uly s_..ow.'"o i. absolutely se-
• o deposits with banks and these
y■ r < ffecte-1 at no greater cost
. h t; 1,,-< of much in silver and
tot .; avaii.ibl'- assets were $874 764.377
1897, and $837,606,736 a year later,
) (1,, iddition of the unavailable assets
t . d by the <|. pertinent their totals are
■ t to . 111...76, and $x69,202,9-11 n
. y. lively fin June 3>>. 1898. the tr.asu-
.ibility to tii. general treasury fund
>77 w Hi otin of $66.165,1(10 sus-
i. : in ins capacity as the <1- pesitary ot
..111 ■:s and orr <jf $26,986,413 for
s ;a! . nto -its li.it.d~. but not yet cov
i : : j urant into tile g' tieral account,
utitst inding noirs of the denomina
te.n.-. of ■ '.n-i iinrt' i , which decreased
m< l>y $11,522,157 from Septi mbur
■ increased
$ I : in the twelve months ending
;. • Tn, gold in circulation
i. idi.y by $19,327,263 in Hie former
~ two periods and by s9l,>. !,0.-.> in
: ■ o r. ’flie tof tl currency of all finds
n < -a a.,on shows an increase of $96,539,-
■ ormer y>.*ar. an-l one of $117,155,851
in the Litt' r, a gain of $234,2(14,103 for tile
: ■ > >'■ ar
The Gold Balances.
In a <-h .pier in waich the treasurer re
v ws Hie history of the net gold balance
In the tre.sury, lie says that prior to Sep
(• mi., r, pas, the highest point which this
>.dance had . v< r attained was $219,059,232
■i April 3. l'.W On June 6, 1.893, the
amount we $-9,589,361, the lowest in lit
vear-, or from June, 1878. J’.y Ihe
a , - no'. for gold with the hanks,
net g"i'l ba.anc.' was brought up to
: . |»y An.. Ist 10, 189'3. Another min-
muni mark was r. aehed February 1, JS'.'-l,
at $■ iip.37B. By the proceeds of a. sale
. amounting to $58,660,917, the n< t
lance was increased to $107,446,802
.M.o-i-h 6tli I'n.l'-r reaction, however,
■ again fell to $54,975,607 by the end of
July, 1894. Another sale of bonds in No-
i ■ and I>• cembi rof tha t year brought
in $.'e.71.'.71u, and Hie gold balance on I >e
. in 1, l-?t. w is again $111.142.021. Th<>
< ff< etual for only a brief pe
. f ()r <m February 11, 1895, t’he treasury
d only $41,340,181 in free gold. Again
i ,1s w. C' add, for which payments ag-
gregating $65,428,056 were received from
Feio'tiary to June.
Thus the net gold balance was carried
up to $107,591,230 by July 8, 1895. One, more,
the relief was but temporary, and by I'. li
ruary 8, 181)6, the gold balance had fallen
to $44,563.493. For the fourth time resort
was hail to a sale of bonds, wh < h pro
duce.! up to June $111,355,612, and brought
tiie gold balance up to a maximum of
$128,615,709, from which point It yank again
by July- 22. 1896, to $83,669,975. Since that
month the reserve of sloo,iioo,<i<)o has not
been trenched upon.
OUTRAGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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I JORDAN HOLCIS’iIBE, WHITE MAN, j
FLOGGED WITH A TRACE.
Then in Sight of His Pleading Wife,
His Scourgers Fire the
Residence.
Greenville, S. Octoelir 31. —(Special 1-
Saturday night Tench Styles, Bob Styles J
and (!us Styles, young white nun, uni
Mann I Brown, colored, beat Jordan II >l
- with a buggy trace and burned
down the-hou.'e Holcombe lived in.
Holcombe, a young white man. and his
ivif.' w. re living on the place of Young I’ .
Styles, the boys' father, in the Sandy Flat |
section. Saturday cv-nlng th.- StyTs boj's j
sent w >rl by Charley. Walker for Ho'ornbe i
to go with them, pre imiably to carry a |
lead of contraband whisky. I.ater Bob
Styles . line hinis if, but Iloleombe n fu-'.l
to go. About 9 o'. !o It. when Holcomb ■■' nd I
Ids wife were in bod, the four men broke I
down the door tnd ru.-lmd in the lion e ami
took Holcombe out doors and gave him
about, thirty licks with a buggy true'-.
Tei '-11 and the negro held him while Bob
applied the lash.
Mrs. 1 lojeonibe, In her night clothes,
stood by binging timm to stop, but they I
cursed ami said: ‘'Tile next I'm- «e send |
for you. you will go."
Aft.ffr beating Holcombe and firing their
weapons tiie Stylos crowd went in the |
house and Hob-ornbe. shivering not far off. 1
saw by the bright lire light Bob Stylos |
take a burning board from tile lire and j
throw it on tin- lied.
Tiie 'house w.'o soon In flames ami was I
<|uie|(ly consumed. Tiie two outcasts w, nt i
to Mrs. Holcombe's father's, a mde off, and '
spent the night. Tim woman, a. mere girl. I
is in a delicate condition and Hie excite- j
meat may be serious. Holcombe came to |
town yesterday and swore out warrants I
charging the Styles boys and Brown witli I
arson, the penalty for which is death. They I
were arrested today and Magistrate Hodges I
held a preliminary hearing and sent the I
case up to court.
A few years ago Tench Styles shot amt
killed Charley p,■ rson mar his hoim . He '
| was acquitted. Ten. h ami Bob ar.- now on I
bond for a desperate as-aiilt on FuW. rs
W ,ik. r at the Hole. Altamont They have
been implicated in numerous whisky trans
actions ami were said to be drunk Saturday I
night. Senator Dean has been engaged to j
:■ i I■■ .nt I’ ■ m and the def. n • will prob- I
a,ldv allege that a log fell out of the tire amt |
set the lions, ablaze. As yet no case for I
tile assault lias been mad.-.
Yesterday afternoon Do. Moses, colored. '
fourteen years old. was shot in the breast ,
amt killed by Walt Dav.-, a color.'i b-.y. :
Who has been tn numerous scrapes I s I
serious. Tli'-re were no witnesses and I
Davis states that Moses fired first with a
shotgun. Tiie homicide occurred in a cot
ton field on Davis’s mother’s place, near ,
the Jacobs pla :e, eight, miles below town
I I lavis’s brother heard three hot tnd a.
! shotgun belonging to another brotmr was
1 found beside the dead boy. laavis today
I .-an endered ami is in jail. No motive for
t the crone is known.
COTTON TARIFF IS ENJOINED.
All Railroads in. Texas Are Served
with a Restraining- Order.
1 Dallas, Tex.. October 31.—Upon the applt
' cai ion of tlw bondholders of the Texas and
I Pacific, Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe, St.
I Lou's Southwestern. Southern Fa.-ilfc ami
, Houston Central, Missouri, Kansas ami
i Texas and International and Great North
ern railways, United States Circuit Judge
, \ }■ McCormi. k today issued a temporary |
iniun’etlon restraining tlm railways from
I putting Into effect the cotton tariff of the ]
Tex is railroad commission recently issued, '
' and'which is effective Wednesday, and en-
I jelling tile railroad commission and the i
I attorney general from enforcing or at- j
i tempting to enforce, such cotton tariff, or |
i from enforcing or attempting to enforce I
: penalties for refusal by rhe railway com-
I panics to put such triiff in force
This afternoon E. B. Krutehnitt. repro- t
s. nting tiie bondholders of al. the roads, > ■
| announced that h<- had given notice that on
! November 10th. In the t’nited Slates dis
! trict court at Austin, tiie bondholders will I
I ask for a genetai injunction against tiie I
commission and railroads enjoining them I
I from continuing in effect or putting Into i '
effect any tariff heretofore issued or here- '
alter to be issued by the commission.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1898.
WARIiIRE RAISER |
TORRS REMGIOOS
German Eniper r Pee,sent at Con- ;
eecration of tho Church of
the Redeemer,
SULTAN PROVES FRIENDSHIP
He Pieseuts the Emperor with Abode
of the Holy Virgin, an 1 He Re
signs It to the Pope.
Jet tsalem, N m 1 Tl ■ ■ ■ ' ion ;
ceremony at t.'lie <’liurc.ii of the Redeemer ■
today was attended with tin- greatest pomp,
llarly in tin morning huge crow is began to
. oli.et to witness the imperial ••ortege. The
recto was lined with Turkish troops and
German sailors
Emperor William and the empress drove
to tin tower of Habit, from which point
they walked to the church, the emperor in
Hie white uniform of the German guard and
the empress in a gray costume, both wear
ing numerous d. corations. As their majes- i
ti. s entered tin church tho organ pealed j
forth a 11 ium; la nt mai h, amid whose '
strains they passe l to tl." altar, preceded ,
by tin ollii iating clergy bearing the sac- ■
rurr.ental insignia.
The church was tilled with uniformed of- I
fn-ials. In the course of the service, whieih I
was very impressive i-.m; tor W illiam I
read tlm constitution of the church and ex- ‘
pressed the hope that the ministrations i
there would be follow -.7 by title divine bless- ;
ii'gs.
Cardinal Kopp, prince bishop of Breslau, j
whom tiie emp.-roi- had informed of his ;
quisition of the abode of the Virgin, replied, I
saying:
"Your majesty lias add'd a new link to I
ti e chain ot reeurroii: proofs of your just |
disposition and sovereign solicitude for your |
Catholic subj.ets ami at tlhe same lime
you 'have institut'd a lasting inheritance,
which b. is giv n joy to the whole Cath
olic I’hrislianity and will always be held
and cheri:-'hed »;,■ German Catfiolics in
grateful remembrance of an emperor’s mag
nanimity.”
Emperor William went to Mount Zion
yesterday, where occurred the ceremony of
hoisting the German and Turkish flags on
a piece of ground which, n cording to tra
dition, was formerly occupied by tlm abode
of tiie Virgin Mary and which t'he sultan
presented to the German emperor. The lat
ter subsequently formally presented the !
ground to the German Catholics and tele- j
graphed to the pope, saying:
“1 am happy to be able to Inform jour
(holiness that, thanks to the benevolent in
tervention of his majesty, the sultan, who
has not hesitated to give me this proof of
his personal friendship, J have been able
to acquire at Jerusalem the abode of Lite j
Holy Virgin. 1 decid' d to place this ground, |
consecrated by so many pious memories, at I
t'he disposal of my Catholic subjects. It
rejoice- my heart to be able t'hus to prove
how dear to rm are the religious interests
of the Catholics whom divine providence
lias placed in my care.
"I beg your liolim ss to accept assurance
of my sincere attachment.”
Tho pope replied, thanking this majesty
and expressing satisfaction at the gift for '
which lie was sure tho German Catliollce
would be deeply grateful.
The . rnperor, at the termination of con
st crating tihe Church of t'ae Redeemer here,
read an address, during which he said:
"From Jerusalem came tho light in splen
dor from which the German nation be
< amo great and glorious, and what t'he
Germanic peoples have become they bee.une
under t'he banner of the cross, the emblem
of self-sacrificing charity.
“As nearly two thousand years ago, so
todaj- shall I ring out the cry, voicing my
ardent hope, to all ‘peace on earth!’ ”
His majesty then renewed the vow of his
an B . stars, saying:
"I and my house will serve the Lord.”
The emperor called upon all present to
m ike tthe s.in'e vow, ram. hiding with a
prayer that "God grant that eonlidencc in
the almighty, lirotherlj- love, resignation
in suffering and efficient work may remain
the Gorman nation's noblest ornament, and
that the spirit of peace ma.v more and more !
permeate and hallow the evangelical
church.”
Tiie Church of t tie Redeemer is a hand- '
some limestone building, surmounted by a
square gothic tow. r. designed by Emperor
William. The consecration ceremony was
deeply impressive. Their majesties, who
were seated near the steps of the altar.
Were tiie central figures in a selling of
crimson, blue, gold and silver that gleamed
and Ila."hed in the sunllg'llt, down the broad
niYve anil along the aisles between arched
I coloni.ades of white stone, upon crowds ot
I men in » vening di. .. and civil uniforms.
! and women n white, ills being tlm color
I pt es. ribeil for the oe.-asiom
| Drs. Dryander and fl -ppi) preached elo
' qm fitly f otn a tn..s.dve ami beautiful pul
pit of il l. lied linn ito , under a rich oak
I canopy.
Emperor William has abandoned his pro
posed visit to Nazar.-th and t'lm s''a of
! Galilee, owing to tlm l;<at and the great
strain upon tine horses.
KILLED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Then the Murderer Jctei to the Woods
mid Killed Himself.
Montgomery. Via.. November 2. (Spe
cial.l—A distressing tt 'm <iy in two acts
Marton < Monditj :• ts
Barnesville, a remote village in tlm north
w< t- rn portion of th ■ tat*-. •
Dan Holliday and John MeJjeond, re
spectable white farmers, were brothers-in
law. Tii y farmed t ga mr, and on la t
Friday w tv gathering their crops, when
they quarrel'-d as to the division of tlm
product. Ye.-t.rday Holliday failed to
come to the field, and McLeond secured
th. assistance of ,i neighbor, Cary Gog
gins, to iielp in tlm harvesting. While M -
1,. olid and Goggins were busy in t ie livid, i
Holliday slipped up b> ilnd them and emp- ;
tied a load of buckshot into Ab-Leond's :
back. The wounded man turned instill.- j
tiv.Jy, whereupon his enraged brot'iier-in- ,
law emptied the oilier load in his stom- j
lull amt then liamm led ins brains out ,
w:t.i i.m gum Goggins was threatened .
w.th deat'h if he interfered. Holliday :
tl,;ii went into some woods near ov. ;
iiiing his 'nut on a hush, and with a. forked .
stick pressed the ir.gger to ills gun and :
blew His own bra.ns out.
Both men left large l.imi.i s. I'niV' r.~: 1 i
distress prevails in tile county ov> r the
unfortunate affair. Hamilton was a
man < ( good impulse.: ordinarily, but pos
sessed an ungovern.ible temper.
GENERAL LEE’S MOTHER DEAD.
Injuries Sustained in a Fall Cause Her I
Death.
R|c4imond, V i.. Nov 1 ntl«r 3. -(Special.)— ,
Mrs. Anne Maria Lee, mother of Major I
Geimral Fitzhugh L'-> , died today at tlm j
«ionm of her son. Captain Don Lte, in !
Stafford county. Sin- was nearing her eigh- i
t.<-eighth birthday and had been totally .
blind for y< arg, but her death resulted j
from a fall she had last Sunday, in which
l et’ hip was broken. Her fun. r.il will occur
tomorrow afternoon in old Christ ciiurcli, ■
Alexander, in which sixty-live years ago I
she was married to Captain Sydney Smith
L.-e, L’nited States navy. Mr.. late, was a
member of the Mason family, which was
prominent in the history of the .stat, and
nation. Sim was tlm. daughter of General
John Mason, a brother of United States
Senator James M. M ison, one of tiie prin
cipals in the celebrated Mason-Slidell epi
sode of the dvil war, H at so strained tim
r'iai.mns between the Cnftvd States and
England, and granddaughter of Hon. George
Mason, another of the Virginia bill of rights
signers and one oi tlm tramerj of tlm
constitution of tiie l’nited States, though
he did not sign because ite thought it too
great ly suliwr - aov. reignty. Her
great-grandfather, Colonel George Mason,
commanded a troop of horse In the battle
of Worcester and was afterwards a great :
Indian tighter here. Her marriage to Lieu
tenant Sydney Smith L<‘e, in 1833, was a 1
great .social . vent, uniting as it did two of .
Virgini i's most distinguished families. Her!
husband w.a.s a son of the famous Light j
Horse Jl.arry Lee ami a brother of Geimral
Robert li. Lee, who was one of tile attend
ants at tin; wedding. Three other sons, be- •
(Jenvr.il Fitzhugh J>*e, survive.
GEN. LEE’S MOTHER INJURED, j
In a Fall Suu ’ay the Aged Lady Sus
tained Fracture of the Thigh.
Richmond, V.i.. Nov tuber J.—A special
from Fredericksburg tonight reports the
condition of Mrs. Anna M. Lee, mother of
General Lee, unimproved.
She fell at the home of Iter son, Captain
Daniel Lee, in Stafford county, Sunday
< vening and broke her left thigh bone just
below the hip.
Owing to her, extreme age, about ninety,
the worst is feared.
The Finest Shaving Tool.
Editor Constitution—i express with pleas
ure my opinion of the Faultless Razor No.
110 that I purchased from The Constitution.
I . an say that it is the finest shaving to. I
I . ver saw. It shaves without the slightest
sting or pull. I thing the alum.fnnm handle
razor I have is worth full $3.50. Yours
truly W.M. T. ASHFRST.
nov 7-it Blackburn, Mo.
Six Men Seriously Scalded.
Bellaire. O . October 31. An explosion a", j
II o’clock today in th< boiler room of the '
Bellaire Steel Company's furnace demol- |
ished the entire building, and fatally in
lured and scalded six men. Tlm explosion ,
'was caused by tlm explosion of natural gas ;
that escaped from a main and collected in i
the top of the boiler house. I
! The People’s Forum
The Rain GuagT.
Editor Constitution—Will you inform mo
how the fall of rain i: med. I noticed
! in one day recently that just a little over
I three in. In s had fallen in your city this
: month Some of our bo. think ten inc ■
fell Imre in one night this week, judging
from a tub sitting in t’he yard. .
R. A. FITTS.
Newborn. Ga., October 17. '3B.
The rain gauge in use In tlm l’nited States
I weather bureau may bo described as fol
i lows: A funnel-shaped top, or receiver, fit-
I ting Into a. cylindrical tube. The top cyltn
i drical portion of the receiver is < xactly
I eigtht Im Ims in diameter and is provided
: with a funnel-shaped bottom, which con-
I ducts anj- precipitation falling into the re-
■ c,iver into tlm tall cylindrical m.?asuring
! tube, the total height of which is twenty
j Itiehi'S. Tim dl.imet. r of t'he tube is much
i smaller than that '' r the receiver, being
■ only 2.53 inches. In cons.'qm nee of this a
■ small amount of rain falling into the re
ceiv r and flowing into tlm tub" fills
I the latter to a depth grater th,in
j tlm actual rainfall in proportion as
' the area of tlm rc.-lv r is great-
I er than the area of tlm measuring tube.
In tlm standard gauges of th. weather
I bureau tlm depth of 'be rainfall. In ac
, .'orihince with this principle, i magnified
, just ten times. It takes ten inch) < of rain
i (n the tube to equal an actual tall of one
I inch. A tenth of an inch m tlm tube rep-
■ resents only one-hundredth of an itc h of
: actual rainfall. Tim water in tim tube i.s
' measure.! bv means of a stick graduated
il.to incites and tenths.
Railroad Mileage.
Editor Const It at ion How many miles of
railroad are In operation in the Fn’ted
States? CROSSTIE.
In 1897 there, were 184,603 miles in opera
tion in this country. On June 30. 1.896. there
I were 826.620 employees of all .‘lasses. Almost,
ft European ■ t own and
I operate railroads to a greater or less de-
I gree. All the Spanish roads are owned by
j private- companies; ..11 the Swiss ro uis are
i owned by the government. The .meoinrnoda-
I tions afforded liy government.'! manage-
I nient in Europe probably would not suit us
I here.
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A Suggestive Question.
Editor Const it ution--Sin.-e the formation
I or beginning of our federal government we
; have added to the T’nited States by pur
| chase, cession and annexation all the coun
[ try known as the Louisiana purcitase. Flor
id... Texas and California and other largo
territory, including the Gadsden purchase,
A'.:mka. Hawaii, Porto Rico, .nd It looks
Inevitable that we. will retain Cuba and tlm
Thlllpplncs. Now tim constitution piovld-s
that no person is eligible to the presidency
of tho f iiited Stat. unless lie is a native- (
born citizen. What would Is- tn- statu of ’
a person born in any territory or conn- !
try before annexation under tlm above pro
visions of tlm constitution'.’ Would simh
person be eligible or not to tlm nr siden.•■. ? I
T am inclined to think he would b.- but 1
my answer in the affirmative is by no
means free from doubt. In view of tlm.
' large amount of foreign country that we
are about to acquire, the question, in its
importance, is by no means theoretical
C. J. 8.
The Rainfn.il.
' Editor Constitution We have had more
j 1: in tlilitv' inohus of rain from tho sth
d.iy of July to tlm 3.1 day of October. Do. s
this not b. at all p-st records of rainfall
i in this country for this length of tim,. ?
i J. A. cook,
. Fort Madison. Ga., October 13, ’9B.
1 hitty fnehe-' of rain, while abnormally
large for tlm period mentioned. not a
j record breaker. During the month of Au
gust of this year Fleming, Ga., had 28.60
inelhes and 5.18 inche.- in S’ plumber, mak
ing 33.78 incites in two months. There were
also several other points in Georgia that
had over thirty inches in the two months
above named.
Warfare of Modern Style.
General Joseph Wheeler thougf’it he knew
a great deal of war from his four years
of fighting for tho confederacy, hut the’ four
weeks at Santiago revealed new thing's to
hint.
“During the civil war," he said, in a talk
about his recent experiences, "we fought at
close range, and there was tremendous
noise and smoke. In this war tlm range
of lire was MK) yards or mere; (here was
very little noise, and the use of smokeless
powder disposed of the smoke of battle, j
It seemed .strange to me, when tlm fighting
first began, not being able to see any
•smoke, hearing none of the ordinary noise,
and seeing tthe men fall about me. 1 saw
probably the first man struck in tho fight.
He was near me, and 1 went to him just |
as ho had fallen, and could see no m irk
where Im bad been struck, though ho was
in tihe last agon.v of death and died in a
few minutes. 1 heard no noise. I had
seen nothing' and could not even see the
wound on hint, and yet be was dying. We
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undid his belt, and there was just th ' least
hole when the ball lad gon ri it through
his body. Tlm range of lire was so great
with t ■ ■'■ ni"'i'-rn gmis tltat dist tm 1
to mak little different e in tho matt. - • f
danger. Th< re is no such thing a; sc. k
itig safetv n t'he rear of tlm line tiro.
When w. got up to within 5(8) yards, prue
ticallv tlm whole army was expo, cd to tlm
fire, tlios in the rear being In danger, as
well as those forward."
Stricture and Varicocele
Cured without an on.-ratimi ■>’. jour home,
information fro... Address I >r. Hathaway
& Co.. 2-L South B.i 1 i l .■ treet. Atlanta. Ga.
The Razor Is All 0. K.
Editor Constitution- 1 have receive.! tim
No. tn. razor, and in ,-afely say that it is
all you elaim for it. I ant a hard man to
shave, and I shaved wit i It jtisl as I got
fl and itavc shaved since, and it ■ all' 1 . K.
Yours truly, T. J. I’.tiRROAV.
Kingston, Ala.
Pingree's Complaint Is Vain.
From Tlm Springimld Republi. in.
Governor Bingree's request that the pres
ident call off liis federal otiieehold.'rs who
are mixing up in Michigan local polities
is a reasonable one. Blngree saj'.s tin*
whole federal olllceltolding crowd in Mich
igan i.s working to ■' 'feat his reform pro
gramme and preserv. the stipr.'niac.v ot the
millionaire railroad clique in state affairs,
which is threa'eimd by the governor. I 'it
the rule of this administration s< ms to l>"
tihat officeholders are not it all out of
place when devoting half their time to par
tisan activities.
In a square inch of the human scalp the
hairs number about 1,000.
Primary, secondary or tertiary blood pol.
Son permanently cured in lilteen to tlm .; -
' fiV" days. You can be tt< ite.i at home for
■t j (Cinie price under same guarantee. If ju j
prefer me here, w. will . 'iitrae tp
pay railroad fare and hotel bills and n.>
; charge if we fail to cure If you bavo
t iken mercuty, iodide of po u h i:>d Hi
i have (rein 9, pains, mu. oils pa:, lies at
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j spots, ulcers on any part of body, hair or
“yebrows falling out. h is t!>i- secondary
i blood poison w ■ guarantee to cure. We .o
--( licit I’mnios' obstinate c.-aes and • hal’leago
. ■
. i disease has always batlle.l the .-kill of 'he
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