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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. 1 ■ ■ ■: ■ ? • ■' • ...... ? • T-' ■ • *• ■ , / o • .• ■■ ' I ; *• ‘ t i y--sn..-y- > : ... ! ■ i 4 '•*■***«■■ :, teMySE /■ ■■ I* '"T-/J * • 'r * pM* i : ■ • ? wMW* 4 • • V',. -'.’Ji.;.. m®»2 ♦ • jO&T.Mi ? w«Mw!I..A m. , v x Tr? • ? • Home of The Chattanooga Medicine Company. 4 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. al j *• •b P * f t iBMfW I i • Saw 1 + I B • *i* * Ex-Senator M. C. Butler. • v ® •i* • *J* • *l'• ® 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. i ■ 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_. 5
