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WANTED.
Ono Million each all grades, 4xlß
Cypress and Pine Shingles, Laths, Kiln
Dried Boards and Framing. Quote
anything you have.
E. E. LOWE CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Britain’s Heavy Income Tax.
The British income tax is not only
the heaviest but the hardest, most
inquisitorial in the world. The three
year average having been done
away, a man now is assessed on his
profits or gains during the year of
assessment. The death duties are a
fearful burden on all classes. Since
they were imposed in 1894 they have
yielded over 220 millions of pounds.
Many landed estates have paid twice
or throe times within five or six
years, with the result that they are
utterly crippled. Pine houses have
one to ruin, and hundreds of agri
cultural laborers have been thrown
out of employment. For a so-oallcd
free trade country the duties are very
high.—‘Cassell's Saturday Journal.
Houses Built of Meerschaum.
The town of Vallecas, in Spain, is
almost entirely built of meerschaum.
VaWecas has on Its outskirt great
quarries of a meerschaum too coarse
for pipe making, and a meerschaum
built town is the result—an ivory
white town that shines in the Span
ish sun. In Morocco meerschaum is
bo plentiful that they use it, when
sort and fresh, for soap. It gives
a plentiful and cleansing lather,
Ekdischehr, in Asia Minor, supplies
the world’s meerschaum. There are
2,000 mines, large and small there,
and 8,000 Kurd and Persian meer
schaum miners work day and night
In them. The meerschaum comes
from the earth yellow, and turns
White after ten days’ bleaching in
tlhe sun.—New York Herald.
DIDN’T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.
Many persons go on drinking coffee
year after year without realizing that
it is the cause of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The drug- -caffeine —in coffee and
tea, is very l.e uric acid, and is of
ten the cause of rheumatic attacks
■which, when coffee is used habitually,
become chronic.
A Washington lady said recently:
“I am sixty-five and have had a good
deal of experience with coffee. I
consider it very injurious and the
cause of many diseases. lam sure it
causes decay of teeth in children.
“When I drank coffee I had sick
spells and still did not realize that
coffee could be so harmful, till about
a year ago I had rheumatism in my
arms and fingers, got so nervous I
could not sleep and was all run down.
“At last, after finding that medi
cines did mo no good, I decided to
quit coffee entirely and try Postum.
After using it six months I fully re
covered my health beyond all expec
tations, can sleep sound and my rheu
matism is all gone.” “There’s a Rea
son.”
Name given by Postum Cos., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville,” in
pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, mid lull of human
interest.
REPUBLICS ARE AT WAR
Gunboats cf Nicaragua and
Salvador Fight at Sea.
SALVADOR WON FIRST BATTLE
United States and Mexico May Intervene
in Central American Affair* to
Stop War.
Mexico, City, Mexico. —A private
dispatch received here absolutely
confirms the reported naval engage
mom between the ships of Nicaragua
and Salvador.
Three Nicaraguan gunboats, led by
the Momotombo, attacked the Salva
dorean gunboat Presidente. The lat
ter, by a lucky shot, put the Momo
tombo out of action almost at the be
ginning of the engagement. The three
Nicaraguans then withdrew. Later
the Momotombo was repaired and
went in pursuit of the Presidente.
The gunboat Presidente left the
port of Acatjutla under sealed orders
and proceeded to cruise along the
Nicaraguan coast. President Zelaya
of Nicaragua .getting wind of this,
ordered the Momotombo and two oth
er ships to intercept the Salvadorean
vessel and engage her in battle.
The presidente was encountered
off the harbor of Corinto, but succeed
ed in getting in action first and dis
abling the Momotombo. The latter
was compelled to withdraw, and then
limped hack to tlie port of Corinto.
The two vessels accompanying her
also withdrew. Hasty repairs were
made on the Momotombo, and with
in a few hours she was ready to put
to sea agoin.
It is said here that a second en
gagement was fought. According to
reports the Momotombo carries among
its crew American officers and gun
ners. it is thought the cable com
munication between Mexico and Nic
aragua has been cut.
Secretary Gamboa declared that no
instructions had been sent to Minis
ter de la Barra at Washington rela
tive to joint intervention in Central
American affairs by Mexico and the
United States.
Unofficially it is declared that a
protectorate is being considered and
intervention similar to that which
was in force in Cuba
In unofficial hut well-informed cir
cles it is declared that Central Amer
ican affairs are on the eve of epoch
making happenings.
Mexico City.— ’Conditions in Cen
tral America are becoming so intol
erable as to be a menace to civiliza
tion. It is a question of but a few
weeks at the most when Mexico and
the United Slates will be compelled
to intervene in the affairs of at least
three of the republics and bring them
to a realization of the pledge signed
by them at the recent peace confer
ence.
it is generally reported here that
Mexico and the United States have
arrived at full accord as to the pro
ceedings to be taken within the next
few months. Intervention being ap
parently inevitable, it is understood
that the United States will take the
initiative, Mexico hacking up that
country with moral support alone.
CARD FLAYIMO CONTEST.
Between Two War Veterans Lasts
for Twenty Years.
Traverse City, Mich. Two civil
war veterans, John W. Wallace and D.
W. Lazelle, have just completed in
their home village at Mancelona, a
card playing contest that has lasted
for twenty years. Two decades ago
an agreement was made that the
tillage championship should be ac
corded to that one of the two soldiers
who could win ten consecutive games.
Night after night, alternating be
tween the two homes of the contest
ants, and, opiitting Sundays, the con
test has gone on for a score of years.
Several times Wallace had nine
games to his credit, only to lose the
tenth to Lazelle. But, patiently and
carefully the score was kept, and it
is said that in all the twenty years
of playing not an angry word was
spoken by either.
When Wallace won liis tenth con
secutive game recently, Lazelle very
promptly challeneged for another se
ries, but Wallace declined, on the
ground that neither he nor his op
ponent would live long enough to
complete another contest.
UNUSUAL PRIVILEGE GRANTED.
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison
May Mail Matter Free of Cost.
Washington, D. C—One of the last
official acts of George Von L. Meyer,
as postmaster general, was the issu
ance of an order directing that all
mail matter sent by Francis F. Cleve
land, widow of the late President
Cleveland, and by Mary Harrison,
idow of the late President Harrison,
under their written autograph signa
tures, shall hereafter be conveyed
free of postage, during their natural
lives.
S4O TO EAT HORSE RADISH.
Man Sends Cablegram Asking Permis
sion to Eat Vegetables.
San Francisco, Cal—For the privi
lege of eating horse raddish, Albert
PultLzer raid forty dollars. He did
not buy a garden where the torrid
vegetable is grown, hut invested the
money in a cablegram to his physi
cian in Vienna. Pulitzer, has retired
from newspaper work and is herjg
writing his memoirs. The message Xo
Vienna read as follows: “May 1/eat
horse raddish?” and back ove/ the
Atlanta cable a laconic "Yes/ from
the doctor who regulates the diet of
the former editor. -
The charges were S4O, but Pulitzer
seemed to think the money well spent.
THE
BEST
REMEDY
For Womcn-Lydia E. Pink=
ham’s Vegetable Compound
Noah, Ky. “ I was passing through
the Change of Life and suffered from
B headaches, nervous
well and. 1 strong, so
that Icandoall my
IfeeFmuchvounger
than I really am.
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ham’s Vegetable Compound is the most
successful remedy for all kinds of
female troubles, and I feel that I can
never praise it enough.” — Mbs. Lizzie
Holland, Noah, Ky.
The Changeof Life is themostcritical
period of a woman’s existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Women everywhere shouldremember
that there is no other remedy known to
medicine that will so successfully carry
women through this trying period as
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs.
For 30 years it has been curing
women from the worst forms of female
ills inflammation, ulceration, dis
placements, fibroid tumors, irregulari
ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a confiden
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkbam, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is tree,
and always helpfu*.
Sam Houston's Widow.
Left alone to die cf hunger and
sliunnod by her tribesmen is the sad
story of Me lisa Houston, the onco
•handsome Indian wife of Gen. Sam
Houston, the first President of Texas.
This woman is, according to th best
authority, 114 years old.
It has long been the custom of the
Comanches, Kiowa3 and other blan
ket Indian tribes to abandon their
old men and old women to their fate
and permit them to die by slow de
grees. This old woman lives in her
tepee on the banks of the Washita
River, three miles from the agency.
Her nearest neighbor is a white fam
ily, about a mile distant. As the
white settlers know it would offend
the members of her tribe should they
render assistance they refrain from
doing so. The old woman is blind
and partially paralyzed. .
Gen. Houston lived among the
Cherokee tribe when he was quite
young, but later came Southwest and
cast his lot -with the Kiowas. Then
he met and married Meiisa. it is said,
when she was the belle of the tribe.
Her friends and relatives often tried
to induce her to go to Texas while
Gen. Houston was prominent, but sho
refused to go. She said if her hus
band would not return to the Indiana
and live with them he would not
treat her right if she were to go to
him. /
Aunt Meiisa owns a line tract ol
land and many head of horses and
cattle, but she is too old to under
stand the meaning of wealth. —Ana-
darko correspondence Kansas City
Times.
A Trilby Character.
At Hawarden on -Saturday the fun
eral took ,pla/ce of Joseph Rowley,
age 77. of Dee Bank, Queensferry,
Flintshire. When a young man learn
ing French in Paris he was brought
into comradeship with several nota
ble English artists, including Leigh
ton, Whistler, Pcynter and Du Mau
rier. Among the students of the Lat
in quarter he was noted for his prodig
ious strengtn, and be was the orig
inal of Du Maurier’s character of Taf
ty in “Trilby.” A grand specimen of
English manhood, Mr. Rowley was a
great athlete in his day, and for
wrestling, boxing, throwing the ham
mer and putting the weight won nu
merous trophies. He was a fine crick
eter, a good shot and one of the best
amateur billiard players in the king
dom. He did not begin golf until
sixty, but he became a “scratch” play
er. He was a magistrate for Flint
shire and one of Mr. Gladstone s old
est neighbors. —London Standard.
In/at the Finish.
The pr/hcher was eloquent, the
congregation' patient and the dls
courseyfcry long. A stranger entered
a seat in a back pew. Pres
side, evidently one of the old mem
bers :
“How long has he been preaching?’’
“Thirty or forty years, I think,” an
swered the elderly man. “I don’t
know exactly.”
•Til stay then," said the stranger.
“He must be neary done.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Llscomb, the
first white child born in Chicago after
its incorporation as a city, is dead in ,
Bloomington, I!!. Sho was born on
March 3, 1836, and was surrounded at
her birth by squaws. Her first bath
was taken in a tub made from a hol
low log. She was rocked to sleep in
a cradle of bark.
Alaska salmon packers are prepar
ing to reduce the pack of pink sal
mon about three hundred thousand
cases the coming season, as
the result of which reduction a num
ber of canneries in the north will
not be operated. The run of salmon
on Puget Sound will start July 10.
Because he twisted the tail of a
mule, a youth named Blackman is in
jail at Tallulah, La., with the charge
of manslaughter hanging over him.
An aged negro was riding the mule
when its tail was twisted. He was
thrown from the rearing animal, and
sustained injuries from which he
died.
The Rev. Father Erasin Ansion, rec
tor of the Polish church af St. Stanis
saw at Newark, N. J., was shot and
almost instantly killed by three mask
ed men in his rectory. Miss Antonia
Sewrztska, housekeeper for the rec
tor, who attempted to prevent the as
sassination, was slightly wounded in
the abdomen. As there has been a
dispute among the leaders of the
church over its affairs, the shooting
is believed to have been the outcome
of that disagreement.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, eldest daughter
of William Jennings Bryan, has been
granted a divorce from William Lea
vitt. She alleged non support. There
was no defense. Mrs. Leavitt was
granted the custody of the two chil
dren.
John W. W’ilcox, Jr., ensign attach
ed to the American gunboat Scorpion,
and ten men from that vessel have
left Naples, Italy, for Reggio to assist
in unloading lumber from the United
States to be used in the construction
of huts for the earthquake sufferers.
“Jimmy” Sloan, formerly President
Roosevelt’s closest friend and body
guard for the last five years, has been
rewarded, and will resign from the
United States secret service to be
come United States marshal for the
southern district of Illinois.
Emperor Nicholson of Russia has
signed an order abolishing the use of
drums in the army in time of war.
Drummers in the future" will be train
ed in markmanship and in war time
will become combatants.
The engagement has been announc
ed in Paris, France, of Muriel White,
daughter of Henry White, the Ameri
can ambassador, to Count Herman
Scherr Thcss, an officer of the royal
Prussian cuirassiers.
A nurse at St. Elizabeth’s hospital
at Danville, 111., felt something like
paper in the lining of a shabby coat of
Daniel Sherridan, a coal miner who
died, supposedly a pauper, in that in
stitution. Investigation resulted in
the discovery of more than $20,000 in
faded bills in the coat and vest lining
and deeds to an eight hundred-acre
farm, and a two hundred' acre farm
near Worthington, Ind. Other papers
were found disclosing that he possess
ed an estate worth $300,000.
The British delegates to the Inter
national Tuberculosis congress held in
Washington last fall has issued a re
port paying a high tribute to Ameri
can preventive methods. They lay
stress upon completeness with which
compulsory notification is carried out
in New York and elsewhere and form
ed a high opinion of the value of the
various day and night consumption
camps in America.
That the growing scarcity of oak
timber suitable for barrels threatens
the whiskey trade was the pronounce
ment by ‘W. Palmer Clarkson, of St.
Louis, president of the Nationad
Cooper’s association, when that body
assembled for its annual convention
in St. Louis, Mo. He declared that
owing to waste and other causes the
price of oak had increased to 70 per
cent, and as no other wood was equal
to it in its effect upon ageing whis
key, the distillers of the country were
facing a grave problem.
Washington.
Secretary of State Philander C.
Knox is one cabinet officer who, it is
understood, does not appreciate the
title “Mr. Secretary.” He much pre
fers being called “Mr. Knox.” Among
other democratic tendencies of the
new premier is his habit of early ris
ing. Six o'clock is rather a late time
for him to get up, so that before the
usual office hours he has performed
a large amount of work. Since as
suming the state portfolio he has ar
rived at his desk daily at 9 o’clock or
earlier. He will very likely contin
ue this practice of taking papers home
with him to be studied and acted on
in the early morning before he goes
to his office.
President Roosevelt took away with
him from Washington a painting of
his mother’s old home in Georgia. It
was presented to him by Mrs. Ella D.
Longstreet, widow of the late General
James Longstreet, postmistress at
Gainesville, Ga- as representative of
the donors, thirty-eight women post
masters throughout the country.
Vladivostok, Siberia, heretofore a
free port, will be a closed port be
ginning March 19. This action by the
Russian government, information of
which was received at the state de
partment, will result in the applica
tion of the tariff duties to imports at
Vladivostok that apply to other ports
of entry in Russia. It will affect a
large traffic in American goods now
sold there.
Eczema on Face.
Edgar Springs. Mo., J u b ‘rjjT
Bhuptrine Company, J 3 *™ "o Ur ’ Tetterina
race r
? same. Th. eczenm on youp
ually appears tf \® ? find no other
salve always helps It / a n d flnd , t gu .
preparation cut levveiii .
perior to any on the . j u( jevine.
Respectfully, Elsie - T “ Uer> pj n g
Tetterina cure f f /™hi'ng Plica. Jn '
Worm, Ground * tc p ’ imDles Bolls, Rough
fant's Sore Head, tf o,d’itching
Scaly Patches on the Face, R ,
Sores, Dandruff, Can every form of
Skin & Ch ‘pterlne 50c; rotter^
t S he aP m 2 anuft°cturer r , Shuptrine Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
Man dirLgT to his weaknesses and
woman clings to the man.
CUTICURA CURED HIS ECZEMA.
Humor Came on Legs and Anklt ■■
Could Not Wear Shoes Because
of Bad Scaling and Itching.
“I have been successfully cured of dry
eczema. I inspecting the removal of
noxious weeds from the edge of a river and
was constantly in the dust from the weeds.
At night I cleansed my limbs but telt a
prickly sensation. I paid no attention to it
for two years but I noticed a scum on my
legs like fish scales. I did not attend to it
until it came to be too itchy and sore .and
began getting two running sores. My
ankles were all sore and scabby and I could
not wear shoes. I had to use carpet and
felt slippers for weeks. I got a cake of the
Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura Oint
ment. In less than ten days I could put
on my boots and in less than three weeks
I was free from the confounded itching.
Capt. G. P. Bliss, Chief of Police, Morris,
Manitoba, Mar. 20, 07, and Sept. 24, 08.
Potter Drug & Chein. Corp., Sole Props,
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
A mint julep isn’t really~so cool,
but it looks shady.
Only One “Bromo Quinine’’
t hat is Laxative Promo Look
lor the signature of E. W. Grove. Leed
World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. z&c.
Don’t do it today. It. may be the
wrong thing to do at any time.
For COLDS and GRIP.
Hick's Capudinb is the best rem-’dy—
relieves the a. hing feverishness-cure
the Cold and restores normal conditions, ns
liquid-effects immediately. 10c., ZjC. anu
&oc., atdru.ii stores.
The buying of a loud vest is a
genuine investment.
Pneumonia and Consumption are always
preceded by an ordinary cold. Hamlins
Wizard Oil rubbed into the chest draws
out the inflammation, breaks up the cold
and prevents all serious trouble.
A fresh kid usually has very little
cash to salt down.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
The man behind the gun is the
man who wins life’s battles.
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat, re
quires immediate attention. Brown 9
Bronchial Troches always give relief.
In boxes 25 cents. Samples mailed free.
John I. Brown & Son, Boston, Mass.
Tt does seem queer that most “good
fellows” have a lot of bad habits.
To Break in New Shoes.
Always shake in Allen’s Foot-Ease, a
powder. It cures hot, sweating, aching,
swollen feet, corns, ingrowing nails ana
bunions. All druggists and shoe stores 25c.
Don’t accept any substitute. Sample mailed
free. Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y.
By standing up for others may be
prevented from sitting down on you.
A Domestic Eye Remedy
Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
gists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine.
Disguised blessings are not appre
ciated.
A Marvelous Eye Remedy.
Those who know what intense
pains come with some diseases of the
eye can hardly believe Mitchell’s Eye
Salve is able to do all that is claimed
for it, but a trial soon convinces one
of the extraordinary curative powers
of this little remedy. Sold all over
the United States. Price 25c.
Find lingerie and you’ll find lingerers.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25e a bottle
Men take flattery as a compliment.
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