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ONE OF THE LARGEST MANUFACTURING
CONCERNS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES
The Chattanooga Medicine Company, Manufacturers of Wine of Cardui and
Thedford’s Black-Draught.
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The conservative basis of the great I
business Is shown by the fact that every i
year since 1879 has shown a large increase |
In the volume of its business over any i
previous year. Now employing about 50C |
persons, occupying six great buildings ;
■with its executive, advertising and manti- j
facturing departments in Chattanooga and I
maintaining large branches at St. Louis.'
and San Francisco and sending Its prod- ;
nets to every part of the world.
Since 1882 Z. C. Fatten has owned a 1
controlling interest in the Chattanooga j
Medicine Company and with his associ- j
ntea in the management, J. T. Lupton and (
J. A. Patten, has planned broadly for !
the establishment of a great manufactur- ;
Ing business. Few men are privileged to !
see a larger realization of their hopes t
than have those who have given these j
years of patient and well directed labor j
to the development of this remarkable ]
business system, which would be a credit I
to industrial leaders anywhere.
The Chattanooga Medicine Company has ,
been frequently spoken of as the most
conservative house of Its class In tho ,
trade. When Dr. McElree came to the i
managers in 1880, asking them to under- !
take the manufacture and sale of Wine of
Cardui, he received the reply: "We will
only touch it on one condition. Bring us
7.000 to 10,000 bottles of the medicine. We
■will place them with our customers to
be paid for only In case cures are effected.
After that experiment we will talk to
you." Seven thousand bottles were furn
ished, and to the surprise of the company j
over 6,500 reported cures and voluntarily ‘
raid for the medicine. If the policies have i
been conservative the growth has been j
rapid. The little business conducted at
first In an upstairs room has year by year I
rteadily increased until it has come to i
be one of the wonders of the advertising '
■world, placing its products throughout I
<he civilized globe.
Genesis of the Business.
About tbs year 1835 there resided at a j
place known as Snow Hill, in the state of i
Georgia, situated some 14 miles from !
what was then known as Ross Landing,
on the Tennessee river (now the site of i
the city of Chattanooga), one A. Q. Sim- !
mens. As to his history before then lit- I
tie is known, but he had at that time i
considerable reputation among the resi
dents of northern Georgia on account of
a medicine that he concocted and called
"Liver Medicine by A. Q. Simmons." A
few years later we hear of him traveling
about In a covered wagon in southern
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, treat
ing the sick, selling his medicine, and de
positing it with agents duly authorized i
to prescribe and sell it. In 1856 he and •
his medicine had become widely known, 1
and In that year he removed with his
family to Texas, intending to engage !
largely in his medicine business in that
new territory. Before, going to Texas he j
transferred his business at Snow Hill
to his son-in-law, one J. 11. Thedford, i
Simmons started the business In Teaxs, I
but died there a few years later. Thed- !
ford continued at Snow Hill, but the civil
war interfered with his success.
In 1872 the business was removed to !
Chattanooga, and in a few years Dr. A. ■
Q. Simmons’ Liver Regulator was favor-|
ably known throughout the southern i
states. Its popularity invited imitators.!
find fn 1879, when the Chattanooga Medi- :
cine Company was organized and bought !
the business, they changed its name to ■
"M A. Thedford <t Co.’s Liver Medicine
or Black-Draught," retaining nothing on i
The Life and Times of
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Continued from Fourth Page
Fcomed in those days. Every savage I
has his value. No man is tested as to
his religion If he be ready to serve the
cause. Baptists can preach, now. Quak
ers are human beings, now.
The Indians come to a conference at
Easton, Fa. Congress selects a commis
sion to treat with them, and Tom Paine
Sr secretary. They carry a thousand ’
dollars’ worth of presents along, to be i
put where they will do the most good. '
The conference Is held in the German |
Reformed church. There is an organ i
In this church, which is one advantage.
V.'« will soothe the savage ear with mu- (
tic. If the rural organ, primitively play
ed, does not reduce the red man to a :
pliable state of intnd, something else ’
must be tried. Rum! So our congres
sional committee brings along a supply
of New England rum. Few are the In
dians who can resist this New England
beverage.
The organ sounds, the rum barrel is
broached—we will now shake hands and
all take a drink, while the organist plays
something appropriate. The official re
port states that "after shaking hands,
drinking rum, while the organ played, we
proceeded to business.” Wise in their
generation were our forefathers!
We have already seen how congress
first denounced Great Britain for sur
rendering Canada to the Catholics; and
then sent, influential Catholics to enlist
Canada against Great. Britain. In vain
Charles Carroll of Carrollton and the
Reverend John Carroll explain and nt
gotlate. The language congress had used j
against the Catholic church was too |
strong and too recent; the timely con
cessions England had made to the church
were too valuable; Canadian Catholics de
cided to let well enough alone. No help
could be had from the north. But in an
other part of the sky there was a rift in
the cloud. France, though bound to Eng
land by sole'mn treaty, was smarting
from the wounds Great Britain had given
her, hungered for revenge—yet was afraid
to strike.
As accomplices in * criminal enterprise
the new wrapper to connect It with the
Simmons family except a portrait of Dr.
A. Q. Simmons.
In ISSO the company purchased McEl
ree's Wine of Cardui. It was entirely
unknown to the trade, but had been sold
to some extent In a few localities, being
put up in very crude style in six-ounce
bottles to retai' at $1 <s’ich. By guaran
teeing a cure In every case the sales
amounted to about twenty gross the first
year. Gradually, day by day, month by
month, and year by year, as a result of
close study, hard work, liberal advertis
ing and tho employment of the best men
to be found and a thorough organization
in every department the business of the
Chattanooga Medicine Company has ex
tended Into new territory and grown to
its present enormous proportions. In 18.12
a branch office and warehouse was lo
cated at St. Louis and another branch
was established in San Francisco in 1900.
There has never been a month since the
organization of tho company when the
sales were not more for the same moni'
the previous year, and never a year that
they did not exceed the previous year’s
record.
The Building.
The entire plant of the Chattanooga
Medicine Company, then located near
Main street, at St. Elmo, was destroyed
by fire In November, 1890. Rebuilding
was promptly begun on the site of the
present plant. A few weeks before the
new St. Elmo building was completed
the temporary quarters of the company
were burned and it lost every dollar's
worth of its tangible property. Additions
have been made to the plant almost
yearly, the latest being tho fine pressed
brick office building completed in May.
1902. This building Is two stories, with
basement 50 by 100 feet, with an ell 25 by
75 feet, and gives 13,750 square feet of
floor space. The prismatic glass used in
the windows insures even lighting
throughout the building, and the Sturdi
vant fan system heats tho building in
winter and cools it In summer. Tho ca
pacity of the offices is fifty desks, and
that number of office n slstants are re
quired to conduct the business of the
company.
Tiie main building of the plant Is three
stories of 200 by 50 feet dimensions. Here
the medicine is made, packed and shipped
the sub station of the United States post
oillec established by the accommodation
of the Medicine Company's mail is lo
cated, also a part of tho binding ma
chinery. which cannot be accommodated
In the printing building adjoining, which
is 40 by 135 feet In size.
The printing department Is the largest
in the country used for the advertising
of one business. Nine great automatic
printing presses are in constant opera
tion. and the latest improvements in
folding, cutting and stitching machines
are constantly being installed. The en
deavors of the superintendent have been
given to the production of a modern
printing plant of an annual capacltj' of
50.000.0 W books, and they ha*e reached
complete sir cess in their undertaking.
Several valuable machines used have
been invented by the superintendents and
their employees.
In the boiler room annex are the great
100 horse-power Corliss engine, the two
100 horse-power boilers, the 100 horse
power electric generator, tho stationary
tire engine and a complete machine shop
and woodworking plant. From the gen
erator tiie current is conveyed to motors
in different parts of the buildings, all ma
chines throughout the plant being op
erated by electricity. The buildings, ex
cept. the office, are heated by steam.
Ingredients for the medical products
grown abroad are exported direct to
Chattanooga from London and Leipsig
The company’s plan is to keep a year's
did Franco and the United States first
begin to come together.
We have already had a glimpse of the
"elderly lame man” having the "ap
pearance of an old wounded French offi
cer," who mysteriously hung around Phil
adelphia in November, 1775, dropping
vague hints and dim notifications that he
had come in behalf of the king of France.
Confronted by a committee and urged
to say something one could do business
on, the elderly lame man drew his fin
ger across his throat, eloquently, and
said:
"Gentlemen, I shall take care of my
head.”
This was De Bonvouloir, a very re
spectable ztcion of the French nobility.
He had come at the instance of his gov
ernment, yet so violative of treaty was
it for him to be there that he knew full
well that his king would repudiate him
if things went wrong and that his poor
old head might pay the forfeit which
would, in that event, appease the just
wrath of Great Britain.
Writing home about his conferences
with members of the continental con
gress, Bonvouloir states;
' Each comes to the place indicated in
the dark, by different roads."
Verily one's brain evolves reflections
wl en one stands at this fountain-head of
national greatness. That was, in truth
tho commencement of tiie French alliance
upon which our success was founded.
Silas Deane goes to France, and the im
portant portions of his letters to his
home government are written in invisible
in k.
Explaining to John Jay how to read
Deane’s letters, Beaumarchais writes;
“You will use a certain liquid (that Mr.
Deane told mo you had, upon the margin
of tiie printed sheets so as to make legible
what Mr. Deane has written. Should it
not have its proper effect, which 1 am
afraid of, as the letters were put into
a tin box in a barrel of rum which has
eat through, and I am afraid lias dam
aged them, the inclosed letter is of the
same contents."
Think of the correspondence between
France and America going byway of a
tin box hid in a barrel of rum!
Vergennes, the French minister of for
eign affairs, not daring to openly show
•Mr. Pellew in his "John Ja.v” states that
Paine then became a paid writer for France.
Gerard offered him such employment, but
Mr. M. D. Conway declares that Paine never
took a cent of Gerard's money.
THE WEKKXiY ATLANTA, GA., MON PAY. AUGUST 3, 1903.
supply of herbs on hand, a part of this
supply being always kept In the reserve
warehouse on the Union railway tracks.
Newspaper Advertising.
The Chattanooga. Medicine Company
i has spent millions of dollars in advertis-
• lug its medicines in newspapers, alma
i nacs, booklets, street car cards, show
I cards, etc.
| Every important paper in the south
| and west are used with large and liberal
spaces. About 5,000 newspapers, printed
In at least eight languages, are used, and
these are the best In their localities. The
following shows the character of the pa
pers used. Birmingham. Age-Herald,
News and Ledger; San Francisco. Cal.,
: Bulletin ami Examiner; Denver, Post and
News; Washington, D. C., Tinies; At
lanta, Constitution; Chicago, News and
Record-Herald; Indianapolis, News;
Louisville, Courier-Journal; New Or
leans. Picayune and Tiines-Democrat;
St. Louis, Republic, Post-Dispatch and
Globe-Democrat; Baltimore, Amer.can;
Minneapolis, Tribune; Cincinnati, Times-
Star and Post; Salt Lake City, Tribune;
Richmond. Tlmes-Dispatch; Honolulu,
Hawaii, Evening Bulletin.
Ladies’ Birthday Almanac.
Coupled with this extensive newspaper
publicity Is the Ladies' Birthday Alma
nac. which in itself is one of the greatest
advertising mediums developed during the
past twenty-five years.
So great has the demand become for
this little almanac that now the output
for a single day of tiie great plant erect
ed to produce this publication is three
times as large as the entire circulation of
the first almanac sixteen years ago.
The almanac of 1887 had 25,000 circula
tion, while the edition for 1903 la being
printed at the rate of 75.W00 a day. It
will require ten months of steady run
ning to complete the required 18,000,00:)
copies. It takes a strip vs paper three
feet wide and 12,000 miles long to print
the edition.
Early in December. 1902, the work of
compiling tiie alqinna- for 1904 was end
ed. The "Ighteon air.' '."res have brr-n
compiled by tiie same editor. This skill
ful specialist devotes a great part of his
time during the entire year to this popu
lar publication He has brought It to
•the position that it is annually sought
for and kept in 17,500,000 homes. We do
not know of any other advertising pub
lication in the English language so wlde-
1 ly circulated.
i The publishers claim that the popular
ity of the Ladies' Birthday Almanac Is
. not an accident. The book Is accurate.
I And It supplies Information most desired
Iby tiie people. The best obtainable ina-
I terial goes into it.
! The publication Is certainly different
i from tho ordinary cheap patent medicine
I almanac. Astronomer Bradford’s calcu
: lations, showing the time the sun rises
| and sets, moon's phases, eclipses, etc..
■ DeVoc's weather forecasts for every day
j in the year. Indicated by a unique sys-
I tern of patent weather signals, practical
I garden and farm hints for each month,
| and birthdav proverbs for every day are
I among tiie best features.
i Less than ten years ago the first copy
[ of the Cardui Weather Chart and Calen
, dar were Issued and 30,000 copies were
! sold and given away as premiums. So
j popular lias this little calendar become
that the issue for 1901. now well under
I way. will lie oyer 2,000,000 copies. The
* calendar has tiie weather forecasts that
, are used in the almanac, although they
: arc present.’l in more prominent form.
; The Weather signals in colored Ink are
given for each day and can be well seen
across a room. So popular have these
; calendars I •■come that in some of the
j farming and fruit-growing sections of
j th- country the local merchants sell them
I for 25 cents apiece.
| his hand, giv s from the French treasury
j a million francs (8200,000) to the struggling
I colonies, but does it on the sly, covering
i up the transaction so that his go-between,
1 Be.ilimarehals, seems to be simply a mer
, chant selling goods to the Americans. So
: well. Indeed, is tiie matter concealed that.
; after the death of Vergennes, Beaumar
chais attempts to compel the United
, States to pay him tiie million which had
be<n donated. It was not till 1794 that
Gouvci tieur Morris, our then minister to
I'iance, was able to find tiie r.xeipt which
i Beaumarchais gave to the French treas
! ury for tiie million francs.
\\ hilo French aid was coming to us
, in their roundabout way, Tom Paine pub
lished a statement In Philadelphia which
let the si i ret out; ami the French min
: ister, Gerard, made such an outcry about
it that congress had to denounce it as
false. Baine's indiscretion was so palpa
ble that elforts were made to dismiss him
from his posi. as foreign secretary. To re
lieve congress as well as himself, he re-
i signed. *
i Dr. Franklin goes abroad to make
friends for the colonies. At first ho is a
mere private citizen, living modestly at
i’assy, on tiie outskirts of Paris. He cul
tivates everybody and waits. Agreeable
to the women as well as tiie men. to
! philosophers and politicians, to Masons
I and to Catholics, to atheists and to Cal
, vinists, to financiers and to literary men,
. all are fish for his not. Franklin soon
| becomes the fashion, the rage; and tiie
' French alliance begins to walk on its
i own feet.
' A careless man with his papers and his
accounts is tiie good Dr. Franklin. When
in returns to America and faces a con
gressional committee he is found to be
half a million dollars short.
"How about this deficit. Dix tor?" In
answer to so natural a question the good
doctor says;
"1 was (aught when a boy to read tiie
Scriptures and attend to them, and it is
there said; "Muzul’’ not the ox that
i treadeth out his master’s grain.'”
Os Franklin’s honesty c?»re could be
no reasonable doubt; tiie money had
probablj- been used in Europe as secret
service funds are generally used.
Laying Cable to Alaska.
Seattle. Washington, August 4.—Thy
United States eableship Burnside has ar
rived from Sitka, where she completed tiie
preliminary work of laying the cable be
tween this city and southeastern Alaska.
She is here to take on board 600 miles of
cable.
BRYAN HI HITS AT
CLEVELAND.
Bryan Says It Is False To Say That
the Silver Question Drove Men
Out of the Ranks of the
Party—A Bitter Ar
raignment.
Urbana, Ohio, August s.—Four leading
democrats opened the Ohio campaign hero
today, two weeks In advance of the dem
ocratic state convention. W. J. Bryan had
been engaged to address the Urbana Chau
tauqua assembly this afternoon, and the
democrats of this county held their con
vention on the Chautauqua grounds dur
ing the forenoon, at which addresses wer e
made b.v Bryan, John I. Zimmerman, of
Springfield; Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland,
and ex-Congressman Lentz, of Columbus.
Tiie assembly’s democratic day pro
gramme attracted one of the largest
crowds ever seen on the grounds.
The addresses all attracted attention be
cause of the direct reference to certain
men as well as to policies on which there
fire differences within the party. Bryan
referred to ex-President Cleveland re
peatedly.
Zimmerman, who followed Bryan, re
ferred to the fathers of democracy and
"the eternal principles" of the party.
Then came Mayor Johnson and ex-Con
gressman Lentz, in emphatic declarations
that this was no time for "dead issues."
The "key notes" of the last two speak
ers were not in accord with those of Mr
Zimmerman, whose managers had se
cured the Champaign county delegates be
fore Johnson reached tho tabernacle.
As this county Is j n the same congres
sional district as Zimmerman's home, th.’
Johnson men wore at odds, but still they
contested at the primaries. The conven
tion stood 130 to 50 for Zimmerman, but
in deference to the visitors, no ballots
were taken.
Cleveland a Bunko Steerer.
Bryan received his greatest ovation
when he said:
"The democrats In 1892 played a confi
dence game on the people and put a
bunco steerer at the head of the party.
I want to say to you, my friends, that
the disreputable man who stands on me
street curbing and leads the unwary
traveler into a game where he loses Ills
money, Is respectable compared to the
man who accepts the suffrages of five mil
lions of people and then leads them into
Wall street to be betrayed. • ♦ « Don’t
be deceived when they tell you it was the
silver question that drove people out of
the party.
"Those who left the democratic party
arc divided into two classes; those who
; left because they understood the Issue
fn the campaign, and those who left be
cause they were deceived in the issue of
the campaign. Those who undcr-t i ” p ■
I issue and left recause they elected it.
• can never retii’ to the party until they
repent and show that their hearts and
: sympathies are 'hanged. The light will
’ continue in thD country until one side or
i tho other is tr omiphant.”
I As to Auction Block Politicians.
i Then he ortmued by saying he had
i more respect for a republican than for
any one call':.’: himself a democrat "who
■ would put hiV principles on the auction
! block, or In a junk shop."
In praising Ohio as a political factor,
I he said there wore some democrats down
east who thought no leader could come
from a western state with six congress-
| men like Nebraksa, but an eastern state.
| with only four congressmen was good
! enough to produce a candidate. Ho in
sisted that, the issue was not one of
section, nor of any special issues, so
i much as that of plutocracy against de-
I mocracy, and in that contest the party
! had a millstone about its neck in the
' comparison of present conditions with
I hard times that existed under the Cleve-
I land administration.
The speech of Mayor Johnson was not
only accepted as indicating that he was
a receptive candidate for governor, but
also that ho was not a candidate for Sen
ator Hanna's place. It was also accepted
from his speech that he would run on
a platform for reduced fares on all
railway.-, 2 cents per mile for steam rail
ways, and on street cars 3 cents single
and less by tickets.
Johnson Specifies Issues.
lie specified these Issues in addition
to his well known views on taxatalon and
other Issues. While Mayor Johnson says
he Is not a candldjite for anything, his
address today on what the party should
advocate was accepted as indicating'
his expectation at the state convention,
and his friends were enthusiastic in say
ing tiie nomination for governor would
come to him without the aggressive can
vass that is being made .by tiie Zimmer
man. organization.
Ex-Congressman Lentz not only in
dorsed Johns >n's speech, but insisted on
cheaper telegraph service. While Lentz
was the only senatorial candidate pres
ent. there was some talk also of Melvillo
E. Ingalls, mill Charles \V_. Baker, of
Cincinnati; Allen W. Thurman, of Colum
bus, and others. It Is evident that there
will be quit> a at the coming
state convention for senatorial indorse
ment. The talk about Johnson for gov
ernor this year wa_j> coupled with him as
the Bryiui legatee for the presidential
nomination next year.
Tiie speaking concluded shortly after
noon, all the speakers lunched to
gether. _____
Opium, Morphine—Frea Treatment.
Rainless home cure guaranteed. Free
trial. Dr. Tucker, Atlanta. Ga.
BOSTON DIVINE ADMITS GUILT
Confesses To Defrauding- Preachers’
Society for Large Amount
Boston, August 7.—ln a letter written
last Tuesday from Montreal to the pas
tor of his church in East Boston, Rev.
Willard S. Allen, treasurer of the Preach
ers’ Aid Society of the New England con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, confessed that be was a defaulter
to the amount of more than SBO,OOO of the
society’s funds.
Mr. Allen lias been treasurer of the
society for twelve years and clerk of the
East Boston district court for twenty
nine years, and for sixteen years was a
prominent member of the school com
mittee of Boston. He left home about a
week ago, without announcing his desti
nation, and th’ first heard from him was
the letter to the East Boston clergyman.
Mr. Allen said that he lost the money m
speculation. He requests tiie min ster
to notify the members of the Allen family
and the officers of the society of ms con
fession. _____
German Ambassador Visits President
Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 7.--Saga
more Hill. President Roosevelt's country
home, was the scent; today of an in
teresting ceremony. Baron Speck von
Sternberg, who hits been minister plen
ipotentiary of Germany to the United
States since Ambassador Von Holleben
returned to Europe, and who, recently,
on the retirement of Mr. Von Holleben,
was elevated to the rank of ambassador,
presented his credentials as ambassa
dor. and was received formally in Ills
new diplomatic rank by President Roose
velt.
CONDITIONS BAD OH
STRUT,
Sufferers from Late Eruptions of La
Soufriere Dying of Hunger and
Disease, Though the Gov
ernor Holds Large Sums
for Relief.
Kingstown, St. Vincent, July 10.—(Cor
respondence of the Associated Press.) —
Tiie Sentry publishes an article today
calling public atteilTion to the miserable
condition of the many sufferers from the
late eruptions of the Soufriere.
"The condition of the stricken families,"
says The Sentry, "who are sick, starv
ing and penniless, excites the pity of the
hardest heart and fires with Indignation
the minds of those who are aware that
this unfortunate, nay disgraceful, cir
cumstance, is the direct result of the acts
of a despotic governor in chief, who
treats with contempt all opinions not in
accordance with his own.
"in spite of the advices of men whose
knowledge of the islands, physically and
otherwise, placed them In a position to
lie his excellency's advisors in such a
matter as the settlement of these people
on suitable lands. Sir Robert Llewelwyn
located sixty of the starving families
on an unhealthy spot of Arnosvale land,
without, placing at their disposal a foot
of cultivatable land, no rations and at
a time ot the year when the prospect
of there being sufficient employment for
a livelihood was the faintest.
"The result Is that many of these peo
ple. weakened by constant hunger, have
fallen easy victims of the malaria, that
lingers In the stagnant pool near which
they have been lodged. Nor are these
tiie only people deprived of the human
comforts which belong to them out of
the relief funds that were subscribed
by a sympathizing world on their behalf.
Others, though better located, are also
suffering from want of food, the employ
ment. afforded on tho estates near by be
ing inadequate to keep them, and there
are, until now. large numbers of these
half-naked laborers still living under the
temporary shelters at Colonna ire, and
under dirty, tattered tents which were
erected in the center of Barroullc for
over twelve months. These temporary
shelters are harbingers of disease and
Immorality. In the face of this misery
a sum of $125,000 to the credit of the
Soufriere relief fund was recently remit
ted from this government to England at
a cost of SI,OOO to be invested, it is said,
'for the permanent interest of the col
ony,' as though the work of relieving
immediate distress had been completed.”
The Sentry expresses the hope that Its
exposure of the situation In St. Vincent
may lead to the matter being taken up
In the British parliament.
MILLIONS FOR STEAMERS.
ureat Britain Practically Takes Over
the Cunard Line.
London, August 4.—The agreement be
tween the admiralty, the board of trade,
the postmaster general and tho Cunard
Steamship Company, dated July 30, was
Issued in a parliamentary paper this even
ing. Accompanying tiie agreement Is
the draft of a trust deed securing the
debenture stock for which the govern
ment's advance, $13,000,000, for building
tiie two steam ships is made. Tiie mail
carrying agreement substitutes for pay
me- ts hy weight n ann’inl payment
of $310,000 during tho life of the contract,
which is for twenty years dating from
the first sailing of the second of the
two steam ships. It provides that the
mall shall be carried more speedily than
at present.
All the company's s'jeam ships between
Liverpool, N>’w York. Boston, the Med
iterranean ports and Havre, including
the new boats, which will have a speed
o 24 to 25 knots, will be at tho disposal
of the admiralty for hire or purchase In
the event of war. The vessels must be
maintained under the British and
managed without any undue increase in
freight charges or undue preference
against British subjects. Tiie masters,
officers and engineers of all the vessels
must always be British subjects and
the same condition applies to at least
three-fourths of the crew on the Cam
pania, Umbria and Lucania until the
new vessels have been completed, and
thereafter on the new vessels all the
certificated officers, other than the en
gineers, and not. less than half the crews
must, belong to the royal naval reserve.
The company is not allowed to sell
any vessel whose speed is 17 knots and
upward without the consent of the gov
ernment.
For these concessions tho government
agrees to subsidize tiie new vessels at
$375.(XX) per year each.
The loan of $13,01".000, wjiich wlil bear
interest at 2 3-1 per cent, is to be repaid
in twenty annual installments, will rank
as the first charge on the whole Cunard
fleet and will be secured by the deben
tures. The agreement provides for a re
fill dlon In the subside for the new steam
ers in the ease of their failure to attain
a. minimum speed of 23 1-2 knots.
The revised articles of the Cunard
companv, which are included in tiie par
liamentary paper, contain the provisions
previously cabled, stringently excluding
foreigners from holding slums in tiie
companv directly nr in trust.
It. was stated in the lobby tonight that
tiie government agreement with the Mor
gan shipping combine is completed and
preserves tiie previously existing* British
interests for admiralty ami postoffice
purposes in the British vessels acquired
by the combine 1 . it is u/lerstovl that
the agreement will lie brought forward
in tiie house of commons at an early date
and may be debated simultaneously with
the Cunard agreement.
Morgan’s Deal with England.
London. August 6.—The agreement of
the International Mercantile llarine Com
pany with the British admiralty and the
board of trade is published in a parlia
mentary paper tonight.
It provides that the British companies
included in the combine shall remain on
a footing of equality with other British
companies in respect to any military,
or postal services, that the British
government may require from the British
Mercantile Marine Company. No British
ship In the combine shall be transferred
to a foreign registry without tiie con
sent of Hie president of tiie board of
trade. The vessels shall continue to be
officered by British subjects and carry
the same proportion of Brjtlsh sailors
as is prescribed in the case of any other
British ships engaged in tiie same line
of trade.
The vesses shall still be subject to
hire or pur.ehase by tho admiralty on
the same te.Xrf as existed prior to the
combination. At least a moiety of the
tounaey bujit or acquired during the con
tinuance of the agreement shad be reg
istered as Briitsh. Any company hereat
ter taken into the combination shall be
subject to the same terms. The British
companies included in the combine shall
continue jo be British companies quali
fied ’to own British .ships, and at least
a majority of their directors shall be
Britisij subjects. Nothing- shall be done
to jeopardize the existing British register
or thgjight of a vessel to lly the British
flag.
The agreement shall continue for twen
ty years, dating from September 22, 1902,
and shall lie terminable thereafter at
live years' noUce on cither side. It is
provided that the British government
lias the right to terminate the agreement
at any time should the combine pursue a
policy injurious to the interests of the
Brltisji mercantile marine or British
U. 8. SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommends Pe-ru-na.
For Dyspepsia and Stomach Trouble.
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If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vise gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of The
Haltman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
trade. The lord high chancellor is ap
pointed referee in any dispute arising out
of ’the agreement. Ills decision is law
and the fact shall be final.
MADE THE TRIP IN THREE DAYS
Record Breaking Run from New
York to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, August 7.—At 1:06 o'clock
this afternoon the special train bearing
Henry P. Lowe, chief engineer of the
United States Steel Corporation, drew In
at La Grande station, 'having completed
a run from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
a distance of more than 3.200 miles, in
I the fastest time on record.
i Mr. Lowe left New York on Tuesday.
' August 4. at 2:45 p. m., and arrived in
I Los Angeles ”3 hours and 21 minutes
’ later, an hour and 21 minutes more than
i three days of actual running time. The
i run from Chicago was made over the
• lines of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa
■ Fe railroad, a distance of 2.256 miles.
I This run clips five hours and- five min-
I utes off all previous records.
I The record breaking run just finished
I by Mr. Lowe was undertaken to gain the
i bedside of 'his 11-year-old daughter, who
' was dying in Los Angeles. The child
died early Tuesday morning, but. Mr.
• Lowe was not advised of her deaf., until
i well on his way. As the schedule had
been prepared by tiie railroad, the trip
was continued as originally planned, ex
cept that it was made in ten hours less
time than that scheduled from Chicago
to Los Angeles
The special reached San Bernardino
nine hours and twenty minutes ahead of
time. It then had a clear track to Los
Angeles, 63 miles. The run over this last
I stretch of track was a record-breaker,
I the speed at times being as fast as 75
j miles an hour. Mr. Lowe was hastily
j driven to the Westminster hotel, where
■ he joined his wife, who has been pros-
I trated since the deatli of her child. The
| previous record for a trans-continental
run was made by A. C. R. Peacock, a
I director of the United States Steel Cor
poration, who, on March 2, 1900. made
the run from Los Angeles to Chicago over
the San fa Fe railroad in fifty-seven hours
arid fifty-six minutes.
The record stood until today, when it
was excelled by the Lowe special by five
hours and five minutes.
SCHOLARS FLEE FROM CHINA.
' They Fear the \. rath of the Dowager
Empress.
• Pekin, August 5.--Six scholars whose
i essays at recent examinations proposing
reforms in the administration of China
were denounced by the censors, have fled
from Pekin through fear of arrest and
execution. It is supposed that they have
gone ■to Japan.
Marshal Su, who was summoned to
the capital to explain his failure to crush
■ the rebellion in southern China, has had
I an audience with the dowager empress
which Is reported to have been unsatis
factory to him. It is predicted in official
circles that Su will be included in the
autumn list of those condemned to be
executed.
BIG INCREASE FOR ROADS.
North Carolina Commission Assesses
New Valuation for Taxes.
Raleigh. N. C„ August 3.—(Special.)—
At 8 o'clock this evening the state tax
commission made public its assessment
of railway properties and those of other
common carriers.
The valuations are as follows:
Atlantic Coast Line, 947 miles, $24,454,-
014. increase $10,475,574; valuation per mile,
| S2S,B'XL
| Seaboard Air Line, 617 miles, valuation
I $12,100,000. increase $3,787,272; valuation per
I mile. $20,420.
Southern Railway owned lines 559 miles,
$14,734,250, increase $7,770,015; valuation
I per mile, $25,000. Southern railway leased
■ lines 690 miles, $11,565,339, increase $2,704,-
:J7; valuation per mile, $16,757.
Miscellaneous railways 991 miles $!f*,570.-
745, increase $2,647,331; grand total 3,834
miles, $70,012,348, increase $27,385,089.
The North Carolina railway is valued
at $29,928 per mile, the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air Line at $30,000, the Norfolk and
"Western at $20,000.
The average valuation of miscellaneous
roads is $6,793 per mile, and of all roads
$18,259 per mile.
The telegraph companies are assessed
at $990,321. telephones $505,205, express
$3,402,109. Pullman ears $179,071. refrigera
tor companies $157,082, street railways
$1,095,750, water works $374,000, electric
lights $329,340. steamboats $204,000.
Grand total of all common carriers is
$74,552,226.
Sugar Planters of Mexico. ‘
Mexico City. August 3 —The sugar
planters' organization is making rapid
progress, and it will soon formulate a
scheme for promoting the exportation of
surplus sugar to England and the con
tinent. All iinpqriant sugar planters have
joined the organization, and it has be n
agreed to export 20 per cent of the prod
uce and not to sell sugar for the local
market until a supply for export has been
manufactured.
Connecticut’s First Woman Bankrupt
New Haven, Conn., August 7.—Miss Saran
S. Platt, a young woman who has dealt
In stocks for several years, has filed a pe
tition in bankruptcy. She Is eald to be the
first woman in this state to take advantage
of that law. Miss Platt's liabilities are only
about SIO,OOO. A slump In mining stocks
U said to have caused the trouble.
Catarrh of the Stomach is Generally
Called Dyspepsia—Something to
Produce Artificial Digestion is
Generally Taken.
Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and a Host of
Other Digestive Remedies Has
Been Invented.
These Remedies Do Not Reach the Seit
of the Difficulty, Which Is
Really Catarrh.
EX-U. S. Senator M. C. Butler from
South Carolina, was Senator from
that state for two terms. In a re
cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co ,
from Washington, D. says:
“I can recommend Peruna for dys
pepsia and stomach trouble. I have
been using your medicine for a short
period and I feel very much relieved.
It is indeed a wonderful medicine
besides a good tonic.’’—M. C. Butler.
The only rational way to cure dyspep
sia is to remove the catarrh Peruna
cures catarrh. Peruna. does not produce
artificial digestion. It cures catarrh and
leaves the stomach to perform digestion
in a natural way. This is vastly better
and safer than resorting to artificial
methods.
Peruna. has cured more cases dys
pepsia than all other roiwdii'S can
bined. simply because It ures cat.nrh
wherever locat'd. If catarrh is lo'-aod
in the head, Peruna cures it. If catarrh
has fastened itself in the throat or bron
chial tubes. I’eruna cures it. When a
tarrh becomes settled in the stomaeb.
| Peruna cures it, as well in this location
I as in any other.
! Peruna is not simply a remedy for
i dyspepsia. Peruna. is a catarrh remedy.
| Peruna cures dyspepsia because it is gen
* erally dependent upon catarrh.
STRIKE SPREADING IN RUSSIA.
Quarter of a Million People Are Now-
Affected.
London, August 6.—The Daily Mail’s
Nlkolief correspondent, under date of
j August 2, fully confirms The Times’ cor
i respondent's accounts of strikes in So ;'h
I Russia. The correspondent says that a
| quarter of a million men are affected end
: that simultaneously strikes occurred over
I a vast industrial area. Ho says t :.' t the
amount of studied organization and well
concealed preparations was unprecedent
ed in the troubled anna’s of Russain
labor.
Prices for the necessities of life are
rising by leaps and bounds. The strike is,
on the whole, have preserved exemplary
order, but this, however, has not <'’•
them from savage attacks, dir c
(leneraj Arsenleff. govei
i Groups of men who assembled last S.i -
urday with tho intention • f irdfii: ■.
meeting were driven into -i kolid m i
500 Cossacks, backed by tw iU’S
fantry witli fixed bayonets. Abv • .
strikers being thus inclosed by i <i
cordon, the ('os. ■ k rod.- the :y . • •
striking right and left with hoar’, a.
I the fallen men being trampled u:u! r tli“
horses’ feet.
Cossacks Shoot To Kill Many.
Kieff, Russia, August 6—The st’ .■ ''Jr
the railway and private work s; >
tlnues. An attempt by the strik' T 3 to
' interfere with railroad traffic .1 to a
'. serious riot. The strikers refusing • '
| disperse, they were fired upon by C'os-
I sacks, who subsequently charged, killing
! and wounding many.
At Batoum all tiie strikers have resum
ed work and the town is tranquil.
SPINDLES CEASE BUSY HUM.
Additional Cotton Mills in New
England Close Down.
■ Boston, August 3.—Additional cotton
I mills in New England 'na ve de ’ :<'d to
| curtail production, or close down Th.-
| mills of the Russel! Cotton Manufactur
; Ing Company at Middletow: and Hlcga
num. Conn., have cios.’d : " an indefinite
time on account of the raw . otton situ
ation.
The Libbey and Dingier Company, of
Lewlvt a, M 1 The
Nashua and Ja< ks m ■;■ in ■
Nashua N. IL. wiii st :i their mills th
| last week of August a i ’tie flr.-t week
in September for repair . changes, etc
! The extent of the <■ irto;'.mer.t in Fail
' River this week is about It.i yOj spindles
I in ten mills. Th- y.ir:’ ni. ■ will stop
I Thursday night and pa: is •.-ther • or
| porations will also be stooped.
HE DIED IN ELECTRIC CHAIR.
j Pole Is Put To Death in New YcTK
for Murder.
Ossining. N. Y. t Augu- 3 Antonio Ttirck
owski, a Pole, was put : b ' In the
electric chair at Sing Sir < • r •
dared on his w..> t-> t?.- bar that he waa
Innocent of the murde • . J a
Brooklyn saloon keeper, wh. ’h • irred Man-h
6, and f w!
Turckowskl was- •■enieTu ■ ' 22 find thn
time elapsing been--- • unc'.ng
sentence and Its < x'vir. .•: ' > been
the shortest on the r- aP • • ’
MAKES A SILVER FROM GOLD.
New Metal Also Developed From
Slate by Chemist.
I Merlin, Oreg ' chcm-
Ist and metaliurg;.-: - l i d.’ ’* er from
gold and devd ;*"! a n ■• nu i! ft "in s'.tt*
from which he expats : • pr'd’-b'-' K h From
hia notes, which ’’• ■ : 1 ’ v tn- gov
ernment in--.’H?<'i»rs. It. '■ h.ib
ea a new metal fr-.u -i - i. s;ate, abun
dant here, which has an a:: inity !’-r atom
of gold and silv-: whiu .h< "’aUs Rixum.
The proofs consists • C a strong acid .*olu
-1 tlon combined with ■ « urr enta
j and long exposures t- :■ ■'!’ ’ n -
. GENERAL GORDON TO ATTEND,
WiTI Be Among Famous Guests of
New Hampshire Veterans.
I Boston, Mass.. August 7.-(Special.)-
I Among the famous men who are to bo
' guests of tl ' N. w H■ - -
! Association at its reunion at The M eir.-,
I Lake Winnepesaukc" in tugum are laeu
| tenant General Alil ' , a voterin
I b 7«' war and General
I United Confederate \ eterans.
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Failed To Kill with Rods.
I Pekin August 6.-Edwin T Williams,
I the Chinese secretary of the United
i States legation, has made an extensive
investigation into th. execution of Shen
Chien tin' reformist journalist, who was
put to death by orders of the empress
dowager Julv 31. and has handed Minis
ter Conger a detailed report, proving
"nut the'executioners, after beating Chien
for three or four hours, despaired of be
ing able to fulfill the dowager empress
orders ami. vie’.ding to Shen s pleadings
to end his misery, strangled him with
their hands.
Shot Husband Through Heart.
Arkansas City, Kans.. August s.—New
ton Farris while drunk today, attacked
his wilfe with a chair w-hen she shot
him through the heart. Site has not
been arrested. .... .. ,i_.
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