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IN MEAI SUPPLY
DECREASE OF 19,000,000 !N THE
MEAT ANIMALS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
COMPARASIONS ARE MADE
Amazing Drop Since 1910 Reported
by the Department of
Agriculture.
Washington.—Shortage of meat ani¬
mals in the United States was strik¬
ingly demonstrated by comparative
figures made public by the department
of agriculture. The report showed
that there are nine less beef cattle,
seven less sheep and three less hogs
now for each’ 100 persons in the coun¬
try than there were in 1910. This
means that it would take 18,259,000
more cattle, sheep and swine to give
the present population the same sup¬
ply that the census of 1910 showed to
exist.
While the population of the country
is estimated to have increased from
91,972,000 to 98,616,000 in the past
three years, the number of beef cattle
lias decreased 12.9 per cent., and of
sheep 5.2 per cent. The number of
swine increased slightly, 1.3 per cent.,
but It, did not keep up with the propor¬
tional growth of population.
"This increase in value, however,”
the department pointed out, “does not
necessarily mean that farmers or stock
raisers are making more, if any, profit.
On the contrary, the cost of produc¬
tion has probably increased more rap¬
idly than the increase in the selling
price of livestock. Producers of farm
products are the last to receive any
benefit from higher prices paid by con¬
sumers, yet they are among the first
to increase production if there is a
prospect of realizing better returns.
“The very fact that there is a pres¬
ent shortage of nearly 19,000,000 meat
animals in the United States since the
census of MHO, indicates clearly that
the business Is not profitable to pro¬
ducers.
"The scarcity of meat animals is at¬
tributed by department experts to the
encroachment of farms upon range ter¬
ritory, lack of a proper range leasing
laws, shortage in the corn and forage
crop in Kansas, Nebraska and Olua
homa, increase in the value of land
and higher cost of labor and stock
feed: decline in stock raising on farms
in the East and South because of poor
marketing facilities, the temptation to
sell livestock at prevailing high prices
and enormous losses from hog chol¬
era."
FREE SILVER EDICT ISSUED
Rebel Leader Decrees Free Coinage
of Silver.
Chihuahua, Mexico. — Currency is¬
sued by the Bank of Sonora, the Bank
of Minero and other hanks establish¬
ed under the Diaz regime will be
treated as counterfeit money after
February 10, under a decree issued by
the rebel government. The free and
unlimited coinage of silver will be
offered as a means of providing ample
money.
The embargo against the old bank
currency, which is frowned on as a
survival of the cientifico days, when
the Creels and Terrazases were in
power, will render worthless in the
rebel territory millions of dollars in
paper money.
The offer of free coinage will be ex¬
tended to all bullion owners, but it has
not been indicated to what extent the
offer will be accepted. The rebel gov¬
ernment already is in possession of
much bullion which will he coined to
enrich the treasury, it also was an¬
nounced that a large American smelt¬
ing interest which controls industries
in Colorado and other parts of the
United States, has entered into an ar¬
rangement for the immediate opening
of a smelter in Chihuahua, which lias
been closed for many weeks.
H. H. Rogers Left $40,000,300.
New York.—A detailed apprisal of
the estate of the late Henry H. Rog¬
ers, Standard Oil magnate, who died
nearly four years ago, shows that the
estate is worth about $40,000,000 net.
or some $6,000,000 more than the value
originally estimated, it was learned.
19 Sailors Are Lost
Falmouth, England.—Captain Lor¬
enz, the first officer, and seventeen of
the crew of the German bark Hera.
Risagua. Chile, to Falmouth, lost their
lives when the vessel struck a rock
as she had almost concluded her voy¬
age. The remaining five men were
saved. The Hera encountered a gale
at the entrance to the English chan¬
nel. She lost her course and struck
on the rocks near Port Halla Bight.
The vessel immediately filled and the
men took to the boats, which capsized.
Eight succeeded in getting back.
THE CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
MRS. C. BRACKETT BISHOP
Mrs. C. Brackett Bishop of Chicago
has a theory that if children are given
the same opportunities their minds
will develop alike. To prove this, she
will start In February on a trip around
the world to gather babies of all races
and place them on a farm in America.
M QUARANTINE RAISED
MORE TERRITORY IS FREED FROM
CATTLE TICKS THROUGOUT
THE SOUTH,
Over 17,000 Additional Square Miles
in Eight Southern States to Be
Released From Quarantine.
Washington.—The territory in the
South freed from cattle ticks and re¬
leased from quarantine has been in¬
creased by 17,106 square miles by an
order issued by the acting secretary
of agriculture, effective February 16,
1914, releasing additional portions of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia, Alabama, .Mississippi, Okla¬
homa and Texas. This action has been
taken as a result of further progress
made in the extermination of the ticks
which spread splenetic or Texas fe¬
ver of cattle. The total area released
since the beginning of the, work in
1906 now aggregates 215,908 square
miles, and amounts to about 30 per
cent, of the territory Infected at the
time the work was undertaken.
Tennessee is the first of the states
extensively infested by the ticks to
be entirely freed from this pest and
released from quarantine.
The portions of the several states
to be released from quarantine on
16 under the order mentioned
are as follows:
In Virginia: The county of Sussex
and the balance of the county of
Greenesville.
In North Carolina: The counties of
Moore, Hoke, Scotland, Robeson and
New Hanover.
In Georgia: The counties of Mor¬
gan and Franklin.
In Tennessee: The remainder of
Marion county.
In Alabama: Portions of the coun¬
ties of Jackson and Sumter.
In Mississippi: The counties of
Clay, Jasper, Smith, Scott and Le¬
flore, the remainder of the counties
of Lowndes, Holmes, Madison, Attala.
Rankin, Noxubee, Chickasaw, and por¬
tions of the counties of Claiborne, War¬
ren, Yazoo, Sharkey, Bolivar, Newton,
Grenada, Leake, Monroe, Jones and
LaFavette.
In Oklahoma: The county of Cot¬
ton and the remainder of the counties
of Tillman, Gradv, Craig and Ottawa,
and portions of the counties of Mc¬
Clain, Osage and Delaware.
Condemned Foodstuffs Fill Warehouses
Washington.—Foodstuffs seized by
the federal authorities and held as evi¬
dence of adulteration or misbranding
in violation of the pure food and drugs
acts are rapidly accumulating pending
court action, the department of agri¬
culture announces. Several warehous¬
es scattered throughout the country at
various shipping ports are practically
filled with condemned products. Re¬
lief. however, is promised, the depart¬
ment states, as the trials are shortly
to be held.
Taft Warns Against Plutocracy.
Toronto, Canada.—“I sincerely hope
our experience may give you warning
and cause you to take prompter meas¬
ures to prevent plutocracy reaching
the danger point," said former Presi¬
dent William H. Taft here in an ad¬
dress before the Literary and Scien¬
tific Society of the University of To¬
ronto. The former president had
dwelt on the industrial expansion of
Canada and the probability that its
people would come face to face with
conditions of corporate control exist¬
ing in the United States.
43 PERSONS MEET
DEATH ON B
NINETY-ONE ABE BROUGHT BACK
TO LAND BY THE M. & M.
STEAMSHIP NANTUCKET.
VESSEL IS RAMMED AT SEA
Many Unable to Leave the Staterooms.
No Time Was Given to Adjust
I'.. Life Preservers.
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+ Department of Commerce 4h
♦ Orders Probe of Wreck. +
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+ Washington. — A thorough ■*>
+ investigation of the cireum- +
+ stances resulting in the colli- +
+ sion between the Nantucket +
+ and Monroe was ordered by +
+ the department of commerce. +
+ Assistant • Secretary Sweet +
+ instructed the steamboat in- +
♦ spection seryice to make an +
+ exhaustive inquiry, +
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Norfolk, Va.—The story of how 43
souls went down'to death in the chill
waters of the Atlantic when the liner
Nantucket ram^ned and sank the
steamer Monroe, was brought to port
by 91 survivors of the sunken ship's
passengers, rescued and brought to
shore by the Nantucket.
It was a story of awful and sud¬
den death, sweeping out of the dark
and fog, and taking unawares the
doomed half hundred with the heavi¬
ness of sleep still upon them. It told
hew the stricken Monroe, with her side
gored deep by the knife-like steel prow
of the Nantucket, filled rapidly, rolled
over on her side, and in a few min¬
utes turned completely over and then
plunged to the bottom, carrying with
her the ill-fated passengers and mem¬
bers of the crew who had failed to get
clear of the wreck.
Thrilling are the stories told by
those rescued from the jaws of death
when the • Old Dominion Steamship
company’s steamer Monrol, bound
from Norfolk Ao New York, turned
turtle at sda WGj^Wdten tirtiiates after
she had been in collision with the
Merchants and Miners’ transportation
company's steamer Nantucket in a
dense fog off the Virginia coast. Re¬
vised lists put the loss of life at forty
three, of which number nieteen were
passengers and twenty-four members
of the Monroe’s crew. It was as if
they had come from the dead when
eight of tlte Monroe’s passengers,
whom wireless reports had put in the
list of the lost, walked or were borne
from the steamer Nantucket when the
latter landed the rescued at Norfolk.
There were notable deeds of heroism
by Assisting Engineer Oscar Perkins
and First Wireless Operator Ferdinand
J. Kuehn. Perkins when the inrush
of water put on the main dynamo and
left the Monroe in complete darkness,
rushed below- and put to work an
emergency dynamo. He Is among the
rescued.
Wireless Operator Kuehn gave the
first S. O. S. call and after adjusting
a life preserver which would doubt¬
less have saved his own life, removed
this from his body and put it on a
girl. Kuehn was lost. His assistant,
R. L, Etheridge, was saved, and walk¬
ed into the arms of his wife, who stood
to greet him as the Nantucket docked
with the rescued.
C. W. Poole, en route from Gray, Va.,
with his wife and two and a half-year
old bOjfc|Masit in Massachusetts, had
his child washed from his
firm**- -rail of the sinking Mon¬
roe. Poole, completely crushed, told
the story of his great loss and sor¬
row. He will return to his Virginia
home.
Ed Gorman of New York told of
harrowing scenes of women’s scream¬
ing for help in the cabin of the Monroe.
Walking upon the side of the careen¬
ed sinking ship, Gorman met a girl
whom he begged to jump with him into
the sea. The girl refused and perish¬
ed. Gorman was at the place picked
up by a passing lifeboat.
J. Gaitlev, second officer of the
Monroe, gave his life preserver up to
a lady who had none, and after being
washed into the water saved himself
by grabbing a floating ladder.
$10,000 in Bills Left on Car Seat.
Macon, Ga.—Conductor Walter Lit¬
tle picked up a package in a seat of
a Central of Georgia railway car at
Columbia, Ala., which later was found
to contain $10,000 in bills. The name
of J. C. Kountz appeared on the pack
age and it was found that the money
belonged to a Dothan bank with which
Mr. Kountz is connected. The money
was in possession of a messenger, who
left the train at Columbia. It was re
turned to the bank. The money, along
with several other packages, had been
placed in a hand grip.
That Weak Back
accompanied by pain here or there—extreme nervousness—
sleeplessness—may distress be faint spells—or spasms—all are signals of
i for a woman. She may be growing from girlhood into
suff womanhood—passing ering from womanhood to motherhood—or later
from that change into middle life which leaves so many
wrecks of women. At any or all of these periods of a womans life
«he should take a tonic and nervine prescribed for just such cases
by a physician of vast experience in the diseases of women,
DR. PIERCE’S
Favorite Prescription . ,
has successfully treated more cases in past forty years than any other known remedy. It?
can now be had in sugar-coated, tablet form as well as in the liquid. Sold by medicine
dealers or trial box by mail on receipt of 60 cents in stamps.
Mias Elizabeth Lordahl of Berkeley, Cal., in a recent letter to Dr. Pierce said: “I was completely
tXTwen down in health,! waa acb ;ng and had pains al lover my body and was so nervous that 1 could scream
Uanyone talked to me, but I had the food fortune to meet a nurse who had been cured by Dr. Pierce’s
areacnytton. I have never had an occasio n to consult a physician since—am in excellent health. 5 *
g I Pr. Evw Pierce’s and bowels Pleasant Pellets regulate stomach? 1 I
— sugar-coated, tiny granolas
Doctor’s First
Question Is. ?
"How are Your Bowels T” A Sim¬
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Good Bowel Action.
! Trace the origin of the commoner
| ills of life and almost invariably you
j will find that constipation was the
j j mass cause. of It fermented is not to food be expected remain that in a
can
| tiating the system the beyond blood and its time affecting without the vi
:
nerves and muscles. It congests the
: entire body.
The resuRs are colds, fevers, piles,
i headaches, and nervousness, with its
I accompanying indigestion and sleep¬
lessness. There is only one thing to
do, and that is to remove the trouble:
! and when nature seems unable to do
; it, outside aid is necessary. You will
And the best of all outside aids a rem
j edy that many thousands are now us
I ing for this very purpose, called Dr.
j Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. Many hun
i dreds of letters are received by Dr.
i Caldwell telling of the good results
obtained, and among the enthusiastic
I letters is one from Lieut. G. W.
| Vaughan, of 623 W. North St., Decatur,
| and 111. stomach He is 72 since and has he had a out bad of liver the
; came
army. He says he tried about every
thing, but never succeeded in getting
permanent relief until he took Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. He is never
without a bottle in the house, and he
is never without good health.
It has untold advantages over pills,
salts and the various coarse cathartics
Taking No Chances.
“Captain,” said a wealthy passen¬
ger who was about to take his first
trip across the ocean, “I understand !
this ship has got Beveral watertight j
compartments.”
’’Yes, sir” was the reply.
“Captain," the passenger went on, -
decidedly, "I want one o’ those com- I
partments—I don’t care what it J
costs.”
SOUND SLEEP
GOOD APPETITE
Lady Tells of Great Benefit Women
Would Receive by Following
Her Example.
Renfroe, Ala.—“I want to make a
statement for publication,” says Mrs.
Ollie Owens, of this place, “as it may
be the means of relieving some poor, |
suffering woman.
I suffered terribly for years with
many serious womanly troubles, and
became so weak and nervous, I could
hardly do anything. I had headaches,
pains In my back and sides, and was
always going to the doctor, but never
felt well.
Finally, my husband bought me two
bottles of Cardui, the woman’s tonic.
I commenced taking it. according to
directions, and began feelipg better.
I am now on my eighth bottle, and
feel better than I have In years. I
sleep soundly, have a good appetite,
and no more pains.
I never get tired of telling what
your medicine has done for me, and
I am sure it will help other suffering
women, as it did me.
Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and
Thedford's Black-Draught liver medi¬
cine, are the only medicines we keep j
In the house.”
If you suffer from any of the trou¬
bles so common to weak women, Try
Mrs. Owen’s advice—take Cardui.
For more than 50 years, Cardui has
been used with entire satisfaction, by
thousands of weak and ailing women.
It will surely help you, too.
N. B,~ Write to: Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chatta¬
nooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Term., for
SpeclaJInatructiont. and 64-page book,”Home Treat¬
ment for Women,” sent in plain wrapper, on
request. Adv.
When a man is afraid to think for
himself it’s time the wedding bells
were ringing.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes will last un¬
til the goods wear out. Adv. j
j
In England there are at least three |
farms devoted to the cultivation of
butterflies and moths. i
LIEUT. G. VV. VAUGHAN
and purgatives, for while these do but
temporary good, Syrup Pepsin cures
permanently. The effect of its action
is to train the stomach and bowel
muscles to do their work naturally
again, and in a short time all forms of
medicine can be dispensed with. It
can be bought without inconvenience
at any nearby drug store for fifty
cents and one dollar a bottle, the latter
size being regularly bought by those
who already know its value. Results
are always guaranteed or money will
be refunded.
Families wishing to try a free sam¬
ple bottle can obtain it postpaid by ad¬
dressing Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203 Wash¬
ington St., Monticello, 111. A postal
card with your name and address on
It will do.
An old bachelor may not believe
that life is full of contradictions, but
a married man always does.
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Girls! Try This! Makes Hair Thick,
Glossy, Fluffy, Beautiful—No
More Itching Scalp.
Within ten minutes after an appli¬
cation of Danderine you cannot find a
jingle trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a
few weeks’ use, when you see new
hair, fine and downy at first -yes—but
really new hair—growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately dou¬
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif¬
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is amaz¬
ing—your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance of
abundance: an incomparable luster,
EOftness and luxuriance.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s
Danderine from any store, and prove
that your hair is as pretty and soft
as any—that it has been neglected or
injured by careless treatment—that’s
all—you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots of it If you will just try a lit¬
tle Danderine. Adv.
Every tree needs an occasional
pruning, and even the family tree is
not exempt
RUB-MY-TISM
Will cure your Rheumatism and ail
kinds of aches and pains—Neuralgia,
Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cute,
Old Sores Burns, etc. Antiseptic
Anodyne. Price 25c.—Adv.
Every girl has her ideal, but the dif¬
ficulty is In getting him to propose.
AptonL
to lustan
85< ip any and form, receive or wonderful money cheerfully refund
Address Peak E, Tobacco remedy Wichita, by reti urn mail.
i ieaaw to., Kt acaae.—idt.
Many a chap's toes turn up while
waiting for a dead man’s shoes.
They step the tickle—Dean's Mentho
lated Cough Drops stop coughs by stop~
ping the cause—5e at Drug Stores.
The weaker a man is the easier it is
for him to break a promise.