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COLOMBIA'S HARD FIGHT FOR BARE EXISTENCE How Her People Have Struggled Against Misfor tune-Indignation of an American Against United States. By CLIFFOK'D SMYTH, the Special Correspondent of The Constitution, and the Only Representative in Colombia of an Ameriran Newspaper. Barranqullla, December 4.—When I last t visited Colombia, four years ago, the ountry was in the first throes of one of I Its worst revolutions. Ever since that , ome the republic has been confronted with one disaster after another, that has brought about a condition of political un rest and commercial-stagnation thorough ly disheartening to those whose lives and fortunes are involved here. During this disastrous period there have been months i when all river and railroad traffic have been suspended; the wealth-producing par. of the country, the interior, has been, at times, shut off font the rest of tlie world; crops have lx> >n either abandoned nr wantonly destroyed: and, worst of all. the national enrr. rioy lias depreciated in value to a degree that has never before been known in th- llnanvial history of a long-established government. Today, in I the. coast cities of Colombia, an American dollar is worth one hundred and fifty dollars of Colombian money; in Bogota, ■md all through the interior, the same V J,,”.tr is w'ortii two hundred Colombian dollars. “And that is the inn- r cause of all the • rrible calamities that an? besetting us >!ay," say some of the more astute of lie Colombian politicians. “We virtually avc- no mom y. We arc laboring under a .’rancid policy that has sapped th'- ti-ngih of the republic, ever since it was inaugurated, eighteen years ago, by IT - hl- nt Ntm--z. This internal wenknc.-s I mad-- possible the continuous revolt:- I ions that have inrniii a .1 our existence as ■ i miijnn. and that .-■ontemplatcs our ter •itoial dismemberment today. It is bo fl at: We pra.-tieally have no money tiiat ; fl the republic of Panama is becoming an - fl a -U,dished 1 ■: -that our appeals to I fl the United States in this great crisis are ' i a: lie and inef’e ■: ire.” / : .11.- is th vi< w of the average Colom fl hi-sn as regards the causes of the pres- ; fl downfall of the republic. But. not- I 3 standing ’.‘m p- ■ -imistn and despond- I fl which mark this expression of opin- I fl ion. it is singular to note the patriotic j r.thusinsm. the abandonment of party j 'fl trilc. the unanimity of public sent!- | I t has been created throughout I fl Colombia by the secession movement on 'fl ;he isthmus. Liberals, conservatives. I .fl foreigners, even Americans doing busl- I i -s in this country, have expressed T. . iv- ■■ i> in • ■ way that is in , , • o t:-W' with what I found to be fl Co ’s-uir- i t opinion on the same subject ■ a mighout the West Indies. Indignation of an American. 3 ,\ an example .-f tile prevailing sent!- | n . :it among An ricans, the following | .If’ itement has been made to me by E. i’- » p.-iiet. a. citizen of the United States, i v t..ts : \ d > ! v* - ■lt lour y* n s as -fl msul in this city, where until i t- . years go h.- i. j Adishcd a weekly I •'?. i-ap in English, “The Shipping List, | ’ <1- voted to American interests in the re- public of Colombia. Although Mr. Pellet wl resigned from the consular sei vice mo ■-rs ago, ids An • ncu.iism is as fervent '■* ever, and he is generally regarded as tne “doyen’’ of the American coiony in 1,%,’. Colombia by his fellow-, tlzens resident in i 5 this country. In regard to the secession .flB of Panama. Mr. I’el.et says: “When news was received that the de — .?*-■ pu.rtment of Panama had issued it pro *.V i.u.r i.i.m'-:::' ■■ <’ -ring ttsc , I rec trom lombia, as lit- . .epubi; ade Panama,’ ■ fIR ;ni 3 act was said to have been accoin flfl plished with the ' mnfvance of the gov %fl eminent of the I i ited States. At the time I tried to refute the latter part oi ; jK this statement, declaring that it was im- P sable that the American nation snouid Lfe. . lay the part of a filibusterer and Intrigue 9fl with th-,, i. tlimus in aid of a separation. I lelt m e.: y, but could not bring myseit ■ ■■ t at. our government would so I A by such an act. But mv ] .-t hopes were dissipated on reading ; i letnr by the agent of the Harrison I st'-'.mers to thy an nt- of the i nne line In tlm city. To quote from i i- - 3 - -mory, he said: T have been advised the genera! sup-rintendent of the rall- ,d that no troops will be allowed to M end in Colon. The steamship Nashville fl ommanls the situation.’ There could be , ' I ited fl S' -ti's shin of war prevents a recognized ■ fl ,:ov‘ m-nt. .. f: .emlly power, from semi- I fl rlty of its fl i territory. What would have been | f. when Sumter was tired op_. and I I’nitid States government sent the j ntSAGREEABLEWSH REFLEGTIONjCXpf z ’ ■V" i The mirror never flatters; it tells the W .•_•• ■ M ( B ■ r v J;, no matter 1 c.’much it may hurt the k/ "A K ■ ie or how humiliating and disagreeable \ M reflections. A red, rough skin is fatal to —W’g I v, and blackheads, blotches and pimples : Ts 8 ■ ruinous to the complexion, and no wonder such y i 0 I ; ate efforts arc made to hide these blemishes, and \ 7 ■ "-p ■ r over the defects, and some never stop to consider V J-/// a I danger in skin foods, face lotions, soaps, salves V/ ' ij ■ • ’ powders, but apply them vigorously and often with- U • regard to consequences, and many complexions “ ? ruined by the chemicals and poisons contained in these cosmetics, f Skin diseases arc due to internal causes, to humors and poisons in the ■ I od. and to attempt a cure by exter- _ 1 2 ■.« . i Cartersville, Ga., K. K. Lo. 2. ■ nd; treatment is an endless, Hopeless y suffered fox* a number cf years I < Some simple wash or ointment with a Nettle-rash. t , 11 4i.„ About twelve years azo I started g. often beneficial when t.ic skin is using* b. s S., and after taking? three a ’ h inflamed or itches, but you can’t bottles I felt myself cured and have | 3 - since taken a bottle occasionally, I Tid upon local rente des for perma- and had little or no trouble alonpr I t relief, for the blood is continually that line. My g-ener&l health has i rr * • t, been better since. I recommend | -wing oil impurities Which irritate S. S. 3. ns a good blood medicine and I -1 the glands and pores of all round tonic. Yours truly, I .... skimand as long as the blood re- Mrß - M ’ J * I v ' ; unhealthy, just so long will the I-• itionS last. To effectually and per- Somn two years ago I suffered a f. , . . , - . . / .. Rroat deal, caused on account of bad ■ ivntlv cure SK’H troubles the blooa blood. Small rash or pimples broke I t be nitrified and the system out over my body surf kept, getting | , J , i , ... , worse da;/ by uay for over a year, ■ ' uglily cleansed and hunt up, and Seeing? 8. s. 8. advertised in the pa- I - b S the well known blood purifier pers and having heard, also, it had I , ’ . , , , , - 4. cured several peoplo m this city, ■ i tonic, is acknowledged superior to concluded to give it a fail' trial. I ■ other remedies for this purpose. It After using the medicine for so mo ■ * , time, taking in all six bottles, I was ■ . the only guaranteed strictly vegeta- entirely cured. ■ ’ n i nrx’v It never deranges EDWARD C. LOKG, I .r l>lo<><! rem-uy. ncy. uoa.ys 1020 Clay Street, Paducah, Ky. ■ • system or impairs the digestion 1 : I' dash and Arsenic and drugs of this character, but aids in the digestion I r j assimilation of food and improves the appetite. Being a blood purifier 1 and tonic combined, the humors and poi I sons are counteracted and the blood made ■ C g rich and pure, and at the same time the ■ general health and system is rapidly built I ’ A ’<■. tv ""'T. T k. 1 up and good health is established, and IF’*•^o/'J this, after all, is the secret of a smooth, ■ 'A«fs*=' g o ft skin and beautiful complexion. I If you have any skin trouble send for our free book, “The Skin and Its ■in .eases. ’ ’ No charge tor medical advice. Write us about your case. I SWIFT SPECIFIC CO,, ATLANTA, GA, I Harriet l.ane with aid and supplies, had she been met in Charleston narbor by a British man of war with orders that no I troops would be allowed to disembark? There would have been such an explosion in the land that the echoes would still be in the air. Hables would leap out of their cradles roaring with indignation against the insolent brutality of England. .Vnd this act is a parallel. We search history from the Pentateuch to the pres ent, and we timl no act so dastardly, so cowardly and unjust on record. Had the great McKinley been in the presidential chair, the I’nited States would have escaped this ignominy. The strenuous gentleman in th- white ‘house seems to have outgrown decency. ‘I pen what moat doth, tills our Caesar feed that he is grown so great’? Since David stole the pour man’s lamb for slaughter, I x-emein ber no equal atrocity. Roast for Roosevelt. •T cannot express to you how thi sttol.e has crushed me. In a week I have aged a year A few evenings ago. a meeting was laid in the plaza, offering support to the government in repelling th’ s ‘ outra-m. The meeting was orderly and not a word of insult was offered the great offender. “Standing on the roof of my house, and looking down on the mass ot these poor aggrieved ft-ople, listening to their ora tors and their national anti:ent, my sym pathies v. ■ nt. out to them even to tears, i instinctively. 1 remembered how-, just | forty-two years ago. I stand with my j fellow tow'nsmen on the village green, i 1..--tetiing t<’ the b-irning ilmptem-- of your I distinguished orators, launching forth ; words inviting all to spring forward in ■ d-'-fi-ncc of our country and our flag. Ami I now. that same country comes forward 1 In aid of a friendly country's illstnem bert -nt 1 w i> d Colombia hid a nav tl force sufheient to have embarked her j troops and moved on Colon, s. mling every ' impeulmi nt in her way. to Davy Jones ! locl-cr. I see that the Interior d- partnu nt jis pre ceding criminally aaatnst the j •■u;nd thieves” of Hie northwest. “Char i ity begins at home," an i at'ention should i oe tinned to the grand p.ist master of I th.H ait in the white house. “1 thiA't no one who knows me, will , doubt my Americanism, in 1 361 I drew the first enlistment paper of the gr- at. uprising anil one day previous to the preside nt’s proclamation had thirty names on that paper pledged to go “in de.- use of the union. Ami with my life in my hand. I stood four years ligitl i Ing for th-it flag. And I think no one i will question my republicanism. From l Lincoln to the present time, it lias been my abiding faith as the conservator of our great country. Wli- n toe great Amer ican—tha brilliant Hlaii-c—was beaten. 1 am not ashamed to say. 1 wept aloud. : But we have- falien on darker lines. What a step from the presld -nt of a great na tion to a filibust- r stealing a land Plot. The republican party should disavow this li.f: moils act. It can not afford io go be fore the people as an abettor of larceny I was quite of the opinion of Senator Hanna that no convention of this year si on Id on-iorse Roosevlt for next. Many thing - van happen In a year. And surely a thing has happened. If the con'.ention next June should be comuosid of men ro I lest to honor and justice as to put his I “strenueiis’’ majesty forward, and this ! Don Quixote should accept, he should be swept by a whirlwind ot indignation into I an abyss of political infamy so deep, t-iat the angel Gabriel wo’il-l have to call I r reinforcements to “toot” him up to the irsurrcction. Fiat justitia ruat coelum.” Feeling of Antagonism. ■ In Barranquilla, Col mtbia's principal | commercial port, on the coast, foreign j Interests are almost entbely German, ! there being few Americans here. This German element, the controlling power in : Colombia’s export and import trade. Is united in its disipprovnl of the action of th, states on the Isthmus, It. balng f- ared that the strong opposition to Americans aroused thereby In C ilombla. will ext- nd to al! foreigners. Outside Bat ranquill-i, i American interests in Colombia are con ■ fined alm-. entirely to the la: m>'d i tnlred of Antioquia and to the Carta gt na railroad In the department of 801 l I var. Although a wldispreal anti-Amer i Iran sentiment has n ar.lfe-■(--I it. If j thioughout the republic during the past THE SVEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1903. three weeks, it has jj->t as yet found ex piession in outward act< of violence, with the exception of the stoning of the Amer kai consulate in Barramittilla by a few boys and peons. But this antagonistic feeling, however, is so intense that many Americans wishing to do business in the inteilor, whore opposition is strongest, have abandoned their plans -and are awaiting further developments on the Isthmus toefore trusting themselves or their affairs to the mercy of a not Im probable Colombian tfitrising Ordinarily the Colombian temperament is peculiarly carefree an* finds expression in a happy indifference to the frequently grave conditions brought about by the unfortunate political eomplti ations that lave characterized the republic for years past. Now, however, this is all changed an, it is with wonder that the chance traveller, familiar with the Colombia of hi prior hays, views the preups of people on the street corners and in the cases dis cussing “los Yarik-cs." ami P.-ir- ima with a seriousness and earnestness so foreign to the national nature—nothing else is talked of. no other subject fills the col umns of the newspapers; nor are the latter found sufficient to give expression to all tlie views and comments of people whose opinions are therefore spread broadc.a.-t through the streets In the form of. posters, circulars, “fix ing leaves,” as they are called. Among (he latter I have noticed i number of r.-prims of articles from certain New York papers denoun cing the policy of tlie administration as tegards Panama—a fact that Is signifi cant of the underlying popular sentiment ht'te, hitler and uncompromising in its cmdomnatlon of Presidon; Roosevelt, wltlle cherishing the belief that the at titude of th" hitter ?■- I cing disapproved by the majority of the American people ami secretly hoping that a revision of the whole I’an-ima affair wol be demanded by th,- present congress, in fact, this is the main relianc-? of the 'Colombians to day, and all news from the United States bearing on the subject is watched with the deepest anxiety. It Is to bring about this American intervention in bc li:-lt of <'nlombla that G-neral Reyes has ■ n sent to Washington, while Gcm-.ils lielquin and Ospino h.-lve been s, nt re spectively to Europe .?nd the Central :-.:id South Am -iican ''epiiblt s. A Thing- Worth Knowing-. No need of cutting off a. woman's bt- ist or a. man's cheek or nose in a vain at tempt to cure cancer. No use of apply ing burning plasters to the flesh ami torturing those already weak from stiff- - lug. Soothing, balmy, aromatic oils give sale, speedy and certain cure. The most horrible forms of cancel of the f-’te ’. breast, womb, mouth, stomaeh, large tumors, ugly ulcers, listula, catarrh; ter rible skin diseases, etc., are .ill success fully tn ited. by the application -if va rious forms of simple oils. Send, lor a book mailed free. Finest snnitorium in t) : country Adtlr,v-s, DR. B. F. BYE. Indianapolis. Ind (Cut this out and semi it to some suf sering one.) “Twixt Hell and the Iron Works.” ("Henry Watterson in Th' Courier-Journal.) The long- and the short of the canal business is that the administration, bav ins-; taken the bit in its mouth, has also the whip in its hand, ami means to buck it through, willy nilly, and that, those of us who want both to get the canal and to be honest, can either stand aside am ter’ - s . . on cause with the transcontinental railway ring ’n opposition, and, in the event of beating the treaty, lose the canal. Thus, literally, we find ourselves betwixt bell and the iron work.-. It is,a case of be-dantntd if we do, ami ba-danmed if we don't, the moral accountabilities, how ever. upon tlie- bronco-buster, wh-i can be relied upon to keep the Pen Command ments lighted in the x i stibule of the white lions,- whilst rifling (' >lonibia across the way in the back office of the state de partment. In the face of such a dilemma, what is a poor girl to do? She might take to tlie woods. But, soon or late, she would have to come out lor meat or drink. The most virtuous damsel must live. In the old-n time, wh-n con vents wire provided for the distressed and tin devout, Virtue was able tn ,<-..n lur riTuge within moated grange and gabled wall, bill who shall rescue her from this terrible Teddy, xvho, with honeyed words and pious phras- s, easts conscience to the winds and would de bauch tlie very Grandmother Superior even of his own beloved order of the Holy Zebra! Al l-.a.-t xve need be in no hurry. \\ 4 are not. bound to say our catechism ac cording to the Quay-Addieks reform ritual, nor to cry ‘’amen’’ every time the president opens a jackpot with prayer. We are not bound to accept B. Bean Vanilia even as a second Elijah Dowie. We may still question the Gray Wolves oi' the senate. We may still look those Forty Millions in the mouth, and cry “wo" to the Mule. In short ami in line, fan administration having gone in to make a. spoon or spoil a horn, must come out with hands, if not clean, yet not reeking with loot and blood—with skirls not redolent of tray, dy and scandal-- which it deliberately invited when ignor ing the alternative Nii aragua clause of the Spooner net, it. undertook to confirm t1,.. -w-iil ola.tss of that act to tlie skunks in Washington ami the bucket shops of Baris r- pmlia.ting Lite while the Monroe doctrine, which It had voluntarily sworn t > support, and. foully gobbling Panama In defiance of all our boasted trade pros pects with Latin America, to mv nothing about the moral sentiment of mankind. democrats, we are answerable for none of these things. Nothing seem: more certain than that the wav before the administration will be. and every step of It, brsoi by obstacles surmountable only by sheer force. VAGRANCY LAvUS HELP SOUTH Idle Negroes B»insr Eliminated. Says Piesident. Williams. Richmond, Va., Deci mb- " 16.- President John Skelton Williams, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, returned to the city totlav after a two we-’ks’ inspec tion trip over the company’s lines In Vir ginia, North and South Carolin t. Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Mr. Williams was accompanied on the inspection trip by Directors James A. Blair, of New York, and T. Jefferson Coolidge. Jr., of Boston, ami part of the time by Thomas F. Ryan, of New York. This afternoon Mr. Williams gave out an Interview in which, after speaking most enthusiastically of tlie business, bank ing, industrial and agricultural conditions In the south, he said the vagrancy laws of Georgia and Alabama “are rapidly eliminating the Mie negro and converting him into a useful member of society. They ti.ix,- helped the Seaboard Air Line rail w,v in its construction work ami our contractors have been able to keep them selves pretty well suppli d with labor. "Everywhere in the south the opening of the isthmian canal Is looked earnestly forward to ami it should nzt be long after the opening of this canal when the southern states, with their magnificent ports, must attract the commerce of the world.” ROUGH VOYAGE FOE? UMBRIA. Great Liner Was Continually Buf feted by Great Waves. New York. December 15.—The steamer Umbria, which arrived today, encoun tered a gale on the voyage which the ship’s officers declare was one of the most severe they ever experienced. A large section of the forward starboard rail was smashed and a lifeboat, stove in. Third Officer Moulton was severely hurt, while ■< ptssengri. Mrs Car dine B:.idfo’’d. was bruised by being thrown to the saloon floor. A sailor had his hip dislocated and several others of the crew were more or less Injured. I TEXANS FEARFUL OF BOLL WEEVIL ‘ L»n«, Texas. Dseemeber 10,—(Special I Correspondence.)—Never in Ute history I of central and northern Texas have the j cotton planters experitncod so nearly a i total failure in growing cotton, their chief | marketable- product, and tlie only one i which commands spot cash any and all times, ami consequently th'-ir chief means of support. The destruction of the cotton crop over a greater part of one-half of the counties in the best cotton growing belt of Texas was wroug.it this year by the Mexican boll weevil, which were so numerous and ravageotts that thousands of acres pro duced absolutely no cotton, and this upon land which had for years never failed to produce average crops with lair sea sons. The farmers of this infest' d district are face to face with the most serious problem of their lives as to the method of exterminating the boll weevil, or at least to check the beetle in its work until the cotton maturing season passes, j The boll weevil has proven a far i greater destroyer of cotton this y ar tmin • all oilier evils and enemies of cotton ! combined. I What to do and when to begin to save ' the crop of 1904 is the all absorbing ques i tion of the cotton grower at present. He , realizes the grave situation lie is placed ■in and with deep regret turns to the I merchant, who has supplied him with the I necessaries o f life and the two exchange ‘sympathies and Indulge in spe,.-illations !as to tne next crop. The cotton in the ; Infested district has all been picked, ginned and sold, hence the stubborn facts com rout tne plant rs, both landlord and tenant alike. There can be no question but that the boli weevil has caused a loss of many millions of dollars to the farmers of Texas. in many sections the yield this year on j account of lite weevil has been only from | 5 to 7 per cent of the average yield of I ordinary s asons, undisturbed by any pest. In 1902 this (Freestone) county pro duced 35,000 bales ot cotton. 1. his year 0903) the total pt "duction of tile county was 1,750 bales, or 5 per cent of last year's ( top. Hence the loss to the farm ers of this county alony at the present prices of cotton amounts to over a mil lion of dollars. To give a more adequate Met of the complete distruction by tne Poll weevil in this immediate section Iter- are the I tacts: Os 100 cotton planters with a total I m 2.000 acres in eoitun only lilty bales | were produced on tlie combined farms [ representing the work of 150 hands, thus ; making an average of one-half bale to j the farm, whereas hi an ordinary crop I season, unmolested by the weevil, the i average would have be-m ten bales to tlie i planter, or a net gain of nearly SSOO to j ea.eh planter, over the boll weevil crop ! of this year. i Tlie figures of the early crop calcu lators were not realized and will fall tar short of foreign expectations. Had it nut been for the incr-ased average of over a million .i"i- s nmr t hist y- ■r, falling principally tn the districts yet not In fected with the weevil, this year’s crop i would have provii the shortest in the history of th j state. The situation of the cotton grower of Texas is extremely critical and perplex ing. and the future a my t-..ry difficult to unravel. The state has offered a re ward of $50,000 for a means of exter minating ’lie wt'-vil. C -tn;'riss has boon petitioned to appropriate a large sum to be disbiirsr-d, > -h u ::gt :■ -nitai-al i ' th r image pos- ribl, <'onrentier • -n held all over the state, a-;- 1 >i>tl’ij- ,■ possible is b In- don •’ . ’../i, ' ,? z ,-m .;n i numbers. Us staying qualities are good. There is a battle royal on-, and the peo ple of Texas have decider! that it must be fought to a finish, and the enemy forever laid to or no cotton in 1904. History of Mexican 801 l Weevil. The Mexican boll weevil was first dis covered, according to best authoritirs. in Central America, but it was scarcely known and attracted but little attention until it was first described from Mexico, j'n 1878. Hence ti e name Mexican boll I weevil. Cotton raising was abandoned i In Mexico in 1862, on account of tlie : boll weevil i The weivil first appeared In Texas In ! great numbers abort 1892, and was re ported first operating near Brownsville. 1 The insect was evidently transported I across the Rio Grande in the shipment i of unginned cotton or carried through I gales of wind, as they cannot ply any • great distance without lighting. In 1895 the boll weevil had spread to a great distance., until now in 1903 it has reached (he northern boundary and very nearly the eastern boundary of the state, being very close to the Louisiana line. The Mexican boll weevil Is of a grayisn GIVE YOUR STOMACH A NICE VACATION. Don’t Do It by Starving- It Either. Let a Substitute Do the Work. The old adage. “Abwork and no play makes Jack a dull b >y,” applies just as well to the stomach, one of the most Im portant organs of the human system, as it does to the man himself. If your stomach is worn out and rebels against being further taxed beyond Its limit, the only sensible thing you can do is to give It a rest. Employ a substitute for a short time and see if It will not more than repay yuu in results. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are a willing ami most efficient substitute. They them selves digest every bit of food in the stomach in just the same way that the stomach itself would, were ft well. They contain all the essential elements that the gastric juice and other digestive fluids of the stomach contain and actually act just the same and do Just the same work as the natural fluids would do, were the stomach well and sound. They, therefore, relieve the stomach, just as one workman I relieves another, and permits it to rest I and recuperate and regain its normal i health and strength. i This ‘'vacation” idea was suggested by i the letter of a prominent lawyer In C'hicaz i go. Read what he says: "I was engaged I in the most momentous undertaking of ■ my life In bringing about the coalition of I certain great interests that, meant much i to me as well .is my clients. It was not I the work of days, but of months. I was ! working rfight and day almost, when at a very critical time my stomach went clear ' back on me The undue mental strain ■brought It about and hurried up wl>it i would have happened later on. “What I att I had to literally force | down and that was a source of misery ■as I had a sour stomach much of the ! time. My head ached, I was sluggish and i began to lose my ambition to carry out J my undertaking. It looked pretty gloomy -for me ami I confided my plight to one 'of my clients. He had been cured bj- I Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets and at once i went down to a drug store and brought I a box up to the office. I "1 had not taken a quarter of that box before 1 found (hat they would do all the I work my stomach e v er did; and as a rest lor vacation was out of the question for i me, 1 determined to give my stomach a I vacation* 1 kept right on taking the j tablets and braced up and went ahead with my work with renewed vigor, ate I just as much as I ever did and carried ! nut that undertaking to a successful issue, i I feel that. 1 have Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab- Mis to thank for saving me the hand : somest fe- I ever received as well as I my reputation and last but not least my I stomach.’’ Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for sale |,by ail druggists at 50 et.s. a box- HEALTH is the ' Most Important I In buying food-products several things are to be thought of —i. e., Economy, Results, Easy Handling, Reliability, ' but the most important is Health. Health means everything. In buying clothes, shoes, hats, furniture, etc., if the buyer is deceived and gets an imitation the only harm is loss of money. In buying food products, if imitations are supplied, there is not only a loss of money but perhaps an injury to health—which is beyond price. Remember these facts xuhen buying baking pozvder. ROYAL POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE i color, about ono-fourth inch long, and I while it resembles to some extent the pea weevil, It is in no way related to this or the acorn weevil, and is easily distinguished from any ot the various kinds of weevils, and the one great pecu liarity about it .-is It never has been known to puncture any other plant ex cept cotton, and really only feeds while < in the worm stage. How the Weevil Operates. When winter sets In and there are no squares on the cotton stalks to punc ture the weevil hibernates, or in other words goes to sleep and remains dor mant, until early In the spring when the cotton begins to put on squares, when the Insect emerges from its winter quar ters. from under bark, and decayed vege tation. etc., and Immediately begins its destru-five work, the female depositing from 100 to 150 eggs in the squares dur ing its working life, which Is about fif teen days, when it dies. The eggs are i sometimes laid in very young an ! ten der bolls, but never In the stalks or foliage. From tlie egg a smail white grub is hatched, which feeds entirely in the square or boll, until it Is full grown, which requires about two we-ks from the laying of the egg. When (his worm is fully grown it transforms into the pupa, remaining in a partially dor mant stage during this most wonderful development of the adult weevil. When the transformation Is complete the in sect eats a hole In the square or boll and emerges from it ready for punctur ing. From the time the egg Is laid until the adult weevil appears is from 25 to 30 days. The life of the weevil is only fifteen days during which time they do not eat any ' thing, but simply devote their entire i life to puncturing ami depositing eggs : in squares and bolls, making a con- I tlnuous and enormous increase every thirty days. One humlnd weevils will ; produce from 100,000 to 150.000 weevils ' in thirty days, hence the rapid increase , can readily be understood during the cot- I ton maturing season of three or four I months. Methods of Destroying Weevil. I So far the methods and means of de i stroying the weevils, or even checking ft I in its work of devastation, are so numer- I ous that It is almost an utter intpossi- I bility for planters to agree upon any I particular method of fighting the pest. I However, the plan which appears the ■ most logical, so far suggested by those ‘ who have experienced the terrible rav i ages of the weevil, is that cotton must be ■ allowed further distance apart both in the row and drill, which will allow the rays of the sun to strike with greater force among the foliage ami to admit of more intense cultivation than usual Also to permit the picking of iho fallen squa.re-s by hand. The greatest objection to this most leas able plan is that it will necessarily de crease the, acreage per hand at least one half and at the same time require double the usual amount of work, as the weevil will have to be continually fought from the plant until the bolls have so hard ened until they cannot be punctured by them. It is claimed mid confidently be lieved by many farmers, some of whom have experimented with it, that the 1 burning of sulphur In the cotton fields at night will effectually drive the weevil from the cotton. This plan is to place tin cans containing a quarter of a pound of sulphur each on every thirteenth row l ami about 30 feet apart on th,? row. The ' sulphur to be lighted only at night, so i that the fumes will settle in the folliage i and squares where the insect is at work, i It is not claimed that tlie burning of ■ sulphur will kill the weevil, but that It I will cause them to fly for fresher air ami i hence will return after a short time and ! consequently the burning should be ro j peated every two weeks. I The weevil does not feed upon the fol , lage. hence it cannot bo poisoned, and ' neither is it attracted by lights, as in the ' case of pea weevils, moth flies, etc. Now this crisis, which must be met by ; the cotton plant- r, is not a question of j passing fancy, but a serious problem, and ! one in which the interest of every citl- I zen not only of Texas but of every col -1 ton growing state Is at. stake as to the general welfare of the whole country. It is of vital Importance to every state In the south that the boll weevil be ex terminated, oi - checked in its ravageous course, as the time is not far distant when the weevil will cover the whole cotton-growing region and the planters ii- every state will find themselves in the : same distressed condition of Texas far mers. That the boll weevil travels there is no question, but how and the various ways in which they travel Is a mooted question further than that they can bo transported in anything shipped 1-y rail, or water. They have even been found alive in cotton bales. having passed ' through the gin saws and pressed into i the cotton bale, from whence they have i been taken out alive and uninjured. In I this way the whole ot’ Europe could eas ily be stocked with them. Although they are short lived, they are hard to kill. V. T. I’. ( ! DOWIE IS COMING SOUTH. Prophet Thinks He Can Do Well Down in Dixie. i Chicago, December 16.—(Special.)—"I i shall establish a branch of Zion City i somewhere in the south, although I have not yet selected the spot,” said John I Alexander Dowie. | “I have come to see clearly that we 1 shall have to build more cities in order to give our tollers work the year round.” I owing to the severe weather the in ; habitants of Zion, pitifully short of pro ■ visions, clothing and funds, are in sorry I plight and “Elijah” proposes to estab ! lish a southern colony ami send his foi i lowers back and forth with the seasons, i One result of the Zion receivership is the closing and removal of Dowie's branch back at 1200 Michigan avenue, ’ Chicago, to Zion City. This was done the first of the week. The closing of tlie Chicago branch bank was on instructions ' Trom the general overseer himself and its ! discontinuance Is permanent. Its entire | equipment and staff of employees is re ‘ moved to Zion City and absorbed by the ' head bank recently started there. Zion i bank in Chicago was opened March I, ' 1899. Charier. .1. Barnard, Dowie’s pt" sent i financial manager, was the first cashier land only bank employee. In August, 1899, ' Dowie's enemies attempted to wreck It by | a run, but did not succeed, in !9CO the > main bank was removed to Zion City and I the Chicago bank became Only a bram.h. ' What business it does is unknown to out , riders, but Dowie claims ,it to foot up I 51,000,000 a week now. i Dr. Dowie has completed arrangements for his trip around the world, lie will hold a fai-.-wel 1 reception on New Years ’ day. In his party, which Is to sail from (Vancouver for Australia January 8, will i br Overseer J. G. Excell, Deacons Ar j thur W. Newcomb, Carl F. Stern and Ernest Williams. Overseer Spelcht r is to be in charge of Zion’s affairs In Dowie's absence. SAVE TRAYLOR. SPENCER & CO. S TAGS. i Subscriptions for Tobacco Tags. ' Subscriptions to Weekly Constitution j will be accepted paid by tobacco tags I from tlie following brands: Plumb Good, : Gold Basis, High Life, Right of Way, , Bob White, Spencer’s Special, Good Will, • Natural Leaf. Jewel and Patrick Henry, j manufactured by Traylor, Spencer & Co., of Danville, Va. 50 tags for a six months’ subscription to The Atlanta Weekly Constitution. 100 tags for one year’s subs- ription to The Atlanta Weekly Constitution This makes these tags practically worth 1 cent each. 100 of them pays for The Constitution one year, which costs SI.OO. The biggest, brightest and -est weekly newspaper in the I niled States. Send your tags fully prepaid and use none but the brands named above. The offer is good from January 10. 1903, to July 10, 1904. Address them plainly Tlie Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. BOSTON GOEo DEMOCRATIC. Overwhelming Victory Is Won iu the City Election. Boston, December 15.—The democrats won an overwhelming victory in the muni cipal election today, Mayor Patrick Col lins being reelected by 27.000 plurality, the largest ever given a mayoralty candi date in the history of the city. The board of aidermen next year will be solidly democratic and that party will hav-e a large majority in the common council. The city, as usual, favored licensed liquor selling by a large majority. Baby Killed in Its Crib. St. Louis. December, 14—Ellsworth Tendick. the 7 months-old child of Mr. ami Mrs. Louisa Tendick, died today from a wound in the head from an ac cidentally fired revolver in his father's hands. The father had taken umbrage at a remark made by Harry Sterling, a young man, to his wife, and made an attempt to shoot him. although Sterling said no offence was meant. A scuffle for the revolver resulted in its discharge and the shooting of the child, which lay In its crib. The father and several others arc under arrest awaiting the action of I the coroner's jury. ' ~~ WHA T f S IX A FACE I* a face everybody ’n the Suut.h knows at a r’ance. Z<c '•* b; the Uce of a man, hatel and dcspis d .. special- i6ts i n ?eib til] and AUVEIITISING. QI \< KS IN P\K \ ’Fieri. Mi, became by his 20th C n:u.; {..* *. • ;.• -s ■ tr? an * "hive an l Let Live” meth > is. he has t’.'.- i. :■> the <ds —»l working man the most export treatment n moy t-.r.i buy, UuS I eU! flt alb ' ut -'no-tenth tho rate usuaily charged bv "'‘'ire 1 AH E;ikir: ” HONEST MEiil-. INE ONLY K"- ojt rom bi.- laboratory ami the rate is .vithin bm r>aeh of vCv* // Homo treatment Its sent nt $3 50 per mon. 1; or e /z * v, ° months’ course for S 6. cash with order. Stricture, Varicocele, Hydrocele, Piles, Lost sfan x£—£x hood, Ixis- I .’s. Gonorrhea, Gh <:. N. rvoua Pohi :v, Ca- tairh, Dyspepsia, Kidney, Bla ]*ier and Li-• i T nTI 1 H-e ordinary dLwases pr -uliar to Worn* ... c aio un- Special cases of Cancer, Chronic Ulcers or any ca?»e ' requiring office treatment or surgical interfcrem-b will l>e treated a* n ininal rates un -1 der a Bank Deposit Contract or otherwise t j suit the patient. Sen 1 for Literature and ■ Symptom Blanks. ; DR- REYNOLDS & CO., SlO’/j Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga. DEATH BARES OLD ROMANCE. Secrets of Professor Dubois Revealed in His Will. New York. December 16.—A romance, burled nearly half a. century, has been disclosed by the filing for probate of the will made by Alpheus Dußois, who has presided over a public school of this city as m-lncipal for fifty-three years. Ha retired three years ago and died Sun day. The will astonished even his most ! Intimate friends, fur it showed that ha , had a massed a fortune valued at one- I quarter to half million dollars. ’ The romanti. Interest in th" will arises . from the fact that a bequest is made to Professor Dußois’ daughter. Not. even I the old schoolmasters’ intimate friends, j and his confidants were few, knew ha : had been married, and the testator, in ■ naming the daughter, used .mly her given ; name because ixe did not know to whom i she hud been married. Investigation [ shows tiiat the proicssor separated from | his wife nearly fifty years ago. She went ; away, taking their little girl, ami neither t the husband nor hi- rMativrever heard 1 from them again. They -re supposed to i be still alive and in th'.- country, but where no one know.--. The professor's relatives refuse to give any information regarding the affair long buried in past, but it is said the wife was a member of a well known family here. Professor Dußois was the son of a minister. His wealth is supposed to have accumulated through shrewd Investment and through savings as a teacher. For more than twelve years Im lived in a small room, preparing part of his own meals, and declared he spent only a dollar or so daily, while bis Income grew until it reached the sum of $30,000 a j year. Free Booklet On Blood Poison, written by the leading specialist of this country. Address Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, 42 Inman building, Atlanta, Ga. i ADAM AND EVE STYLED MYTH. i Rev. Minot Savaye Gives Credit to Herbert Spencer. I Now York, D<<embe:’ 14 In a sermon : op the life of the late Herbert Spencer ' ilcv. I*r. J. in Unitarian church of 1!;. Messiah, dis | uussed the theory of evolution giving it ' credit for having "forever dcstroj’ed in- ! the fall of man.” j removed thn?e stories, and kindred ones, to the land of myth, where they belong ’ ! In concluding his remarks. Dr. Sa vage said: ! “Humanity has boon on this earth two i or ;thre ’ hundred thousand years at least. I ginning there has never been any fall. ■ Evolution lias wrought out not the fall oi man but the ascent of man. That i means the complete r- < onstruct!on of the | .“iitire theoiouy of Christendom. It ; coming: it has got to come. There ar-* ! tlie Eden story is quietly referred to as though it were noeirv or alleg-nrr. There arc thousands‘of others where It j, is quicil;. laid b. cm side.” 1 WALTHOUR GOING TO EUROPE. | Atlanta Rider and Munroe Sign a. Contract. j Now York, Do-ember 14. (Special )-- ' Bobby Wclthour, of Atlanta, “The Dixie ' Flyer." winner, with Benny Munroe, of ! the six-day cycle race, has just signed n ' contract with Roose Bros, for an ex i tended European cycling tour and he is j anxious for the plucky Munroe to go with I him. In speaking of next year’s six-day race, I Walthour Invariably includes Munroe In j hl.= plans. Ilf expresses the greatest ad ! miration for the pluck and determination of the Tennessean who so ably assisted in ’ winning last week’s race. Waithoar will I leave, it is understood, about March 1. j and will spend three months in racing at | Paris. Berlin and Vienna. I While abroad Walthour will make a d” - I termined effort to eclipse the or.-? Lour | record of 54%. 7