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after tme fourth. ' ' Shade of King George 111. —“I Always Get Some Satisfaction Out of It.” —Cartoon by De Mar, in the Philadelphia Record. FRIGE OF MEAT FORCED UP FOR PROFIT ONLY ml Trust is Really Reaching Out to Control the Retail Trade of Entire Caiiitry, Dealers Declare—High frice of Corn Not Accepted as Excuse-Advance of From 25 to 35 Per Cent, in Meat Forces Fish Dealers to Raise Prices. X w York City.—Without even the justification that the demand has in creased or the supply fallen short, the advance in the price of meat by the powerful combination now reach ing out to control the retail trade of the country has reached a point where hundreds of small butchers must be driven into bankruptcy be cause they are unable to sell at the exorbitant rate forced upon them, with the added burden of the exac tions of the railroads in freight rates. In Washington Market, the most famous mart of its kind in the coun try, trade has been cut almost fifty per cent, in a year. Butchers who needed six or seven big ice boxes last year get along now with two or three. The stalls that handled thirty or forty car-cases now handle from ten to twelve. Veterans in the business like Peter J. Hickey suddenly find them selves confronted with agents of the Beef Trust as rivals in attempting to gain hotel and steamship trade, offer ing the product at a lower price than it is sold to the butchers themselves. Deaf Ear Turned to Pleas. Pleas and demands for fair play are futile. No notice of an advance in price is given to any retail dealer not controlled by the Meat Trust. He must pay up once a week or go on the black list, and if unable to meet his obligations on the dot he locks up his ice box and goes out of business. The only explanation that the trust makes as to why the price of beef should be increased at a season when the demand is smaller than at any other time of the year is that the high price of corn has made it necessary. It has been asserted that in the fat tening of what is known in the trade as “finished beef" large quantities of corn are required as fodder, and that when the price of corn goes up the price of beef must advance corre spondingly. It is asserted without qualification by old-time butchers in the Washing ton Market that there lias not been a carcass of a corn-fed bullock in the market for twenty years or more and TEXAS PRICES ARE HIGHEST IN YEARS. Influx of Population and Occupation of Land Cliiefly Res po risible. Fort Worth, Texas. —The present prices of cattle on the hoof in Texas —the highest in twenty years—are due principally to the influx of a mill -1011 settlers in the past two years, the occupation of ranch lands and the sale of cattle to clear off the big pas tures. best meal and grass fed steers now e A? n Hie hoof at Fort Worth from '’•<s to $6 a hundred pounds; corn ed steers sold last week at $7.25 and grass-fed steers have sold here this spring at $6.75, the highest price e , Ver paid in the history of Texas cat be raising. A year ago the best steers brought 7 4 •' 0, and two years ago to-day noth was offered that would bring as as $3 a hundred. In two years price of cows on the hoof here has HARD TIMES PRODUCE MALE CHILDREN. Dr frank Kraft Says Sex of Infants is Based on Law of Survival of Fittest. Cleveland, Ohio.—Control of the ex of infants is a practical proposi according to Dr. Frank Kraft, /fetary of the American Institute v Homeopathy. Dr. Kraft says he l s discovered noMiew principle, but js shown the practical application tha° n , e , ori Sinating with the evolution • X)ry. The p r i nc jpi e> he says, is tho r on Hie * aw the survival of rh.i test Dr. Kraft makes these in a book just off the olna,la brinks Mud—Con sumes Thirty-one Tons Each Day. (w ol ? aha .. Neb. That citizens of daih a r *nk thirty-one tons of mud k h - ln the water from the Missouri train Vvas .^ e testimony in the Feel er V ourt inOmaha in a water works T h by , tlle City Chemist. Watr ■ Clty m akes the charge that the adult COmpaD y oes n °t tTirnish un dent water and refuses pay- A g f]r ° the city bill on that account. Bisson riV- rom a Hydrant, a glass of tiionru Klver water cannot be seen until it jetties. that the meat of corn-fed cattle is not sold for general consumption, foi the reason that when the price of corn is high the owner can make a greater profit by selling it in the grain mar ket instead of feeding it to stock. There is not a retail butcher who is able to explain why he has had to pay more for his beef and mutton and pork and charge his customers more. All he knows is that the price is increased. The meat is ready for his inspection and purchase, and ho can take it or leave it. The nearest to an explanation of the increase baa been the price of corn, and next to that the shortage in supply. Increase Instead of Shortage. The organ of the Meat Trust m New York does not bear out the shortage theory. In its last issue the receipts of live stock in Chicago were recorded as “33 6,18 0 head for the week, of 60,573. Deliv eries of cattle were 8 911 in excess of the receipts of the previous week, end 11,372 head greater than the same week last year.’’ As the demand for the choicest cuts of beef falls off the price of the cheaper parts is increased by the butcher so that he can come some where near getting even with the wholesaler. In the populous east side, where a half cent in the price of meat means much, the cut for which there is the greatest demand is the brisket, which is divested of its bone before it is sold to the customer. One year ago the brisket was sold at from thirteen to fourteen cents a pound. This week the lowest price was twen ty cents. Corned beef that sold for sixteen and fifteen cents a pound in June, 1 907, now sells for twenty cents. Soup meat has gone up to twelve cents a pound on the east side and fourteen and fifteen cents a pound in Jefferson Market, an in crease greater in proportion than for any other meat. Last January the price of soup meat was from ten to twelve cents a pound, and a year ago the highest price for the best quality was ten cents. advanced practically two cents a pound. Last year's receipts of cattle at Fort “Worth exceeded 1,000,000, the majority calves and heifers, which presages a shortage for probably two years to come. Yearlings and two year-olds sold this spring to feeders have been bringing from $3 to $5 a head more than last year, and it is be lieved they will go higher. The past two seasons have been un usually favorable, the open range sea son much longer than usual. The loss from storms last winter was in significant and the calf crop this spring unusually large. This may improve conditions within two years, but neither packers nor cattlemen an ticipate much change in conditions before that time. It is well known to scientists, as serts the author, that savage races and races which exist where the con ditions of life are hardest produce a preponderance of malechildreu. From this fact he deduces that nature rec ognizes in the female the weaker sex. Thus, he says, in times of plenty fe males are likely to predominate. Some thinkers on the subject even go so far as to assert that hard times produce male children because the struggle for life is harder. Market Price of Fingers Fixed at S3OO Each. Columbus, Ohio. —Four Columbus men have offered a finger each for S3OO to A. C. Balloux, of Wheeling, W. Va., who lost his fingers in an ice cream freezer recently. * s . in hospital at East Liverpool, Ohio, and his brother, Joseph Balloux, made the offer of S3OO a finger on the sugges tion of the surgeons. The men who have offered to have their fingers cut off are Robert E. Robbins. W. E. Thompson, O. E. Mansperger and a man signing himself __ BRIDAL FADS AND FANCIES, * 4 You haven’t half smoked that cig ar. A newly-married man should not be so wasteful.’’ “I leave the butts long to please tny wife. She likes to loop ’em with ribbons and hang ’em about the flat.” *■—Washington Herald. FITS,St. \ itus Dance :Nervous Diseases per manently cured bv Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr - H - R - Kline, Ld.,931 ArcbSt,, Phila., Pa. How it jolts a man’s self-conceit in after years when he happens to come across a love letter he once wrote to his wife! TWO CURES OF ECZEMA. Baby Had Severe Attack—Grand father Suffered Torments with the Disease—Owe Recovery to Cutieura. In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an eltack of eczema, and after trying the doc tors to the extent of heavy bills and an in crease of the disease and suffering, I rec ommended Cutieura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and absolutely free from the disease. A few j r cars ago I contracted eczema, and became an intense sufferer. A whole win ter passed without once having on shoes, nearly from the knees to the .toes being covered with virulent sores. I tried many doctors to no purpose. Then 1 procured the Cutieura Remedies and found immedi ate improvement and final cure. M. W. Laßue, 845 Seventh St., Louisville, Ky., April 23 and May 14, 1907.” Never judge a man by the talk he lets out in his own behalf. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums,reducesinflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle A dollar in your hand is better than two in another's pocket. To Drive Out Malaria and Build Up the System Take the Old Standard Grove’s Taste less Chill Tonic. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. A train of thought should not be allowed to run wild. John R. Dickey’s old reliable eye water cures sore eyes or granulated lids. Don’t hurt, feels good; get the genuine in red box. About a vacation the most enjoya ble thing is the planning thereof. Do Your Feet Aclie and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for The feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample 3ent Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. SPOILING THE FUN. “But, Michael, can’t you possibly manage to live with your wife with out fighting?” “Well, no, mum. I can’t—not 'nppily.”—London. Opinion. WANTED Several small business and manufact uring enterprises—new town—inducements, financial assistance, etc. L. Edmusdsox, Raymond, Ga. You can learn more about a people's ideas of what constitutes the virtues by studying their epitaphs rat Her than their lies. 13. H. Green’s Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. * AXD NO CHARGE, EITHER. “What business is Miss Gad die “Oh, she’s in everybody’s business.' - ' “Wholesale, efi?” “Yes, except when it comes to a bit of scandal; she retails that”— The Catholic Standard and Times. PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. If You Suffer With Your Kidneys and Back Write to This Man. G. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y., in vites kidney sufferers to write to him. To all who enclose § postage he will re ply, telling how Doan’s Kidney Pill3 cured him after he had doctored and had been in two dif ferent hospitals for eighteen months, suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or lifting, languor, dizzyspells and rheu matism. “Before I used Doan’s Kid ney Pills,” says Mr. Winney, “I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was com pletely cured.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y. DON’T STARCH TABLE LINEN. A well known authority says that table linen should never be starched. It is a common mistake that many housekeepers 'make and nothing so detracts from the appearance and life of handsome linen as starch. “Elbow grease” is all that one needs to make the proper kind of linen stiff. It should be ironed damp, to get the fine ssieen so characteristic of well laundered linen. If it is ironed when it is dry, or nearly so, it gets fuzzy. ; Cultivator. American Cotton College, MILLEDGEYILLE, GA. For the education of Farmers, Clerks, Merchants, Warehousemen, Cotton Buyers, Manufacturers, and all others, young or old, who are unable to classify and put the correct valuation on 18 GRADES OF COTTON. Thirty Day Scholarships in our Sample Rooms, or six weeks’ Correspondence Course under expert cotton men will complete you. Big demand for cotton graders and cotton buyers. SESSION OPENS SEPT. Ist. Correspond ence Course year round. Write at once for further particulars. MENDING BROKEN CHINA. , Buy 5“ cents’' worth of thick white shellac and apply a coat to the brok en parts. Let dry 15 minutes, then apply a second coat and press brok en parts together. While shellac is moist wipe over mended parts with piece of cloth wet with wood or pure alcohol to remove surplus shellac. I have mended a valuable oriental globe, a hand painted cracker jar, a Bohemian glass bonbon dish, be sides several pieces of a dinner set and after years of use all are in ex cellent condition. —Boston Post. I AM A MOTHER How many American women in lonely homes to-day long for this blessing to come into their lives, and to be able to utter these words, but because of some organic derange ment this happiness is denied them. Every woman interested in this subject should know that prepara tion for healthy maternity is accomplished by the use of LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Maggie Gilmer, of West Union, S. C.,writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “I was greatly run-down in health from a weakness peculiar to my sex, when Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was recommended to me. It not only restored me to perfect health, but to my delight I am a mother.” Mrs. Josephine Hall, of Bardstown, Ky., writes: “I was a very great sufferer from female troubles, and my physician failed to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound not only restored me to perfect health, but I am now a proud mother.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don’t you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She lias guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Some men walk as If they needed glasses and some others walk as if they had taken too many. SOFT CORNS BETWEEN THE TOES Are often more painful than the hard ones on top. Abbott’s east Indian corn paint will cure either kind,as well as bunions,sore, callous, spots and indurations of the skin. “It cures to stay cured.” 25c. at druggists or by mail. The Abbott Cos., Savannah, Ga. Never borrow a crowbar for the purpose of prying into the affairs of others. What a Poultry Man Says About 20- Mnle Team Borax. As 1 am in the poultry business,.l had ten white chicks to wash and prepare for a show. I used “20-Mule Team” Soap for washing the birds, and I can say from years of exper ience washing white birds, never be fore have I found a soap or Borax that cleaned my birds so fine and easy. I had a great deal of comment on my birds being so white. J. A. Dinwiddie, New Market, Tenn. \ All dealers—*4, 1 and 5 lb. cartons. Sample and booklet, sc. Pacific Coast Borax Cos., New York. RESORTS. (Mrs. Knicker —'Wherewill you ©pond the summer.’’ 'Mrs. Rocker —Jack ©ays it depends on Chicago and Denver. —New York Sun. i ! Kcelcv • finv Malaria Causes Loss of Appetite The Old Standard GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children, 50c. A SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT FOR Whiskey, Drugs, Cigarette and Tobacco Habits. Also NEURASTHENIA or NERVE EXHAUSTION. Administered by Specialists for thirty years. Correspondence confidential. The Only Keeley Institute in Georgia. 229 Woodward Ave., ATLANTA, GA. X RECIPE FOR HOMEOPATHIC COFFEE <5 nUANG a stale coffee bean In the sunshine, let liner its shadow fall on a tub of water; then serve the water in cups. Or, make in the usual way, using cheap, low-grade, bulk or brand coffee. The result will be practically the same. Bnt if you are a person of discriminating taste with rich, red blood in r° nrTeinß * onl J r LUZIANNE COFFEE oau sat pwSH SOLD EVERYWHERE The Rally-Taylor Cos. • CTO. 1-LB. NEW oBLI^XR. iiiiiifi ii ii ii r Greater New York. It is growing more and more ap* parent that New’ York is destined to be the greatest city in the w’orld, and we might as w’ell admit it. The only question is now’, v*on’t it be a chore for "the greatest city in the world” to stay so? The American climate conduces to fickleness, and incon stancy. Having once reached the goal nobody wants anything more to da with if. Therefore, let Manhattan go a bit slow’. It is getting to be "beau tiful” in the new sense, and its squal or and "early New’ York” look are being pushed further and further out of sight. That is a physical point to its credit. —Boston-Herald. Getting rich quick is as difficult as it is dangerous and exciting. Take the Place of Calomel Constipation sends poisonous matter hounding through the body. Dull headache, Sour Stomach, Feted Breath, Bleared Eyas, Loss of Energy and Ap petite are the surest signs of he affliction. Young s Liver Pills postively care constipation. They awaken the sluggish liver to better action, cleanse the bowels, strengthen the weakened parts, induce appe tite and aid digestion. They do not Salivate, no mat ter what you eat, drink or do. Priee2s cents from your dealer or direct from J. M. YOUNG, JR., WAYCROSS. GA. boilers iftSJii Pumps, Heaters, Injectors, Engine Supplies and Repairs for M’lls, Hotels, Public Works. Try LOMBARD IRON WORKS,Augusta,Ga. S Dropsy II Removes all swelling in 8 to 20 days ; effects a permanent cure in 30 to 60 days. Trial treatment given free. Nothingcan be fairer Write Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons, Specialists, Box b Atlanta. G? BIRMINGHAM SEMINARY BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA. Ideal school for Girls and Young Ladies. Boarding pupils limited to fifty. Refined Christian home; every household comfort. Perfect health, out of door recreations, unex celled city advantages. Standards high; faculty superior. Next session begins September sixteenth. For catalog and full particulars address MISS LOULIE COMPTON, Principal, 1722 Fifth Ave., Birmingham, Ala. CKREEMED 3 SHOE It ¥’ The top of a shoe determines its style. It’s the part foot rest3 upon that demands the proper lines to assure ease and comfort. The difference between SKREEMER shoes and gßfl others lies in the fact that they are made on a special, natural foot-form H model. They fit exactly, and for that reason are absolutely comfortable. Look for the label. If you do not find these shoes - =5 readily, write us for directions how to secure them. IF-o*s MAK FRED. F. FIELD CO., Brockton, Hass. JlsftpjfK FRERFFIBLJ)£t I prconmHwj Of good health is a well ordered liver. NUBIAN TEA brings immediate N \! relief. Cures tendency to constipation ¥ 1 and restores normal conditions. 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You are not a canvasser or agent, lie want you just to give our samples ifWay to your friends to have them test the merits of the article and for doing this we pay you liberally. Write to us at once. PERSPIROtiOR CO., Fifth Ave nue and Thirty-fourth Street, New York.