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HIS START IN LIFE.
“DOC” HARTMAN AND HIS WONDER-
FUL GREASE ERADICATOR.
With. Soap Candles and Bottles of
Rainwater He Fooled the Public
and Laid the Foundations of a
Substantial Fortune.
“Talk about your self made men,”
said an old timer among a party of
horsemen gathered in one of the speed¬
way inns, "I don’t think any of ’em
can equal the early experiences of Tim
Hartman, who died in St. Louis many
years ago, leaving nearly a million dol¬
lars to be fought over by his heirs. He
made his first good sized pile on pat¬
ent medicines, then he picked up a
grea^ deal more on real estate, and at
last he rounded out with speculation in
Montana copper, but be was known as
‘Doc’ Hartman to the time of his death
by his few intimate friends.
“Rut the story that I’m going to tell,
and the one which he often told him¬
self, concerns his very earliest experi¬
ences in the accumulation of money.
Tim Hartman started life with $1. He
kicked around as a barefooted boy—
and a pretty mean one, too—in a little
town iu Connecticut until he was 1.8
years old, and at that time he had be-
come so fresh and so full of wind and
general cusstxlncss that his father one
day told him he was no good, never
bad been and never would amount to
a picayune. The old gentleman, just
to carry out the bluff, told Tim that he
bad a good mind to cut him off with a
dollar and make him earn his own liv¬
ing. Tim straightened up and called
the bluff. He told the old man that be
would take the dollar and get out then
and there and hustle for himself. The
old man handed him a crisp $1 bill and
told him that he’d he glad to see him
make a fortune with it.
“The first thing that cuss did was to
go about in a few back yards that he
knew of and gather together a lot of
empty bottles which were of no use to
anybody. Then, for 10 cents, he bought
a large cake of a kind of white soap
that was then, and still is, on the mar¬
ket. He melted this soap and, after
borrowing an ancient pair of candle
molds from an old granny In the neigh¬
borhood, made two beautiful looking
candles of soap. He next filled his bot¬
tles full of choice rainwater. Then he
made for himself one of those little
three legged tables like the chuck-a-
luck and shell game «ien use outside
the circus, and struck out on foot for a
county fair that was being held about
40 miles away.
“When he got there, he put up his lit¬
tle table outside the grounds, where
the crowd was pretty thick, lighted one
of his soap candles and began to extol
the virtues of ‘Dr. Hartman’s Famous
Grease Eradicator,’ contained in the
bottles set before him.
“ ‘Now, ladies and gentlemen,’ he
would shout In a stentorian but plausi¬
ble voice, ‘this marvelous liquid, so
harmless that it can be drunk with im-
punlty by the smallest infant and yet
so penetrating that it will seek out and
destroy stains and discolorations from
the most refractory substance, was dis¬
covered by accident by the famous sci¬
entist, Dr. Hartman, the eminent schol¬
ar, while he was wandering o’er the
wilds of Patagonia. It Is colorless, you
see, as the waters from heaven, and
yet observe the effects of its startling
properties!’
“At this point Tim would reach for
his soap candle and, Inverting it. would
smear a lot of the grease over the
sleeve of his coat.
*4 4 Now, every one of you knows, la¬
dies and gentlemen,’ he would continue,
reaching over and uncorking a bottle
of his rainwater, ‘that there is nothing
so penetrating and ineffaceable as the
grease from a candle, and yet it Is a
stain that we are all likely to suffer al¬
most every evening of our lives while
toying with that common article of the
household, the candle. You will ob¬
serve that my sleeve is smeared with
the annoying substance. Behold’—
“Here that country bred fakir would
spill a couple of drops of bis rainwater
on the soap and with a rub or two
9 VQUld produce a beautiful lather. An-
"Don't Grivo Up tlio Slxip. 1
HUCIIANAN, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1901.
other swipe and the soap would have
entirely disappeared from the sleeve,
leaving not a trace.
“•Now, we make this famous eradi-
cator in such enormous quantities,' Tim
would continue, ‘that in order to intro-
I duce it into every home in this broad
land we will dispeuse with it at the
I absurdly low 7 price of 5 cents, a nickel
a bottle. Step right up! Step right
up!’
“Then, when the public was surging
forward to purchase the rainwater,
Tim would pause occasionally to driuk
a bottle of it, just to show that It was
absolutely barmless. stuft
“Well, the weut like hot cakes.
When Tim’s bottles were all exhausted,
he bought more, and when the fair was
over he went to another and another
until he had traveled all over the eouu-
try. Then, in some way or other, 1
don’t know how, he got hold of some
old patent medicine, and, being a gen¬
ius, of course he made a big go of it.
So that’s the way Tim Hartman almost
became a millionaire.” — New York
Times.
Evarti and the Author.
When a popular young author came
to see William M. Evarts while he was
secretary of state in behalf of a consul¬
ship for which be was an applicant,
Mr. Evarts congratulated him on the
fame which he had acquired, but has¬
tened to add, “Although you have lau¬
rels on your brows, I suppose you can’t
browse on your laurels.”
A More Vital Matter.
“Did you ever think what you would
do if you had the Duke of Westmin¬
ster’s Income?”
Village Pastor—No, but I have some¬
times wondered what the duke would
do if he had mine.—London Baptist.
HAD NEVER BEEN ABROAD.
B,,t Lor Ail Thai tie I!a«l Traveled
“Fnr and Wide.”
“Have you spent all of your life right
here in this one place?” asked u strau-
S‘‘ r of au <>ld fellow he came across
seated on a rail fence whittling in front
il au< l slab cabin in one of the
hack counties of Arkansas,
"Not liy a darned sight!" was the
terse reply. "I been hyar the better
part o' the time; but. la, I hev traveled
t'ur an wide!”
“Ever been abroad?”
“Well, not eggsackly to say abroad,
onless you call it goin abroad to go
from here way over to I’etersville. 1
been over thar twice in the last 40
year. It's fitfi/j miles to Petervilie, au I
been furder than that, fur my ole wom¬
an an me went clean to Hogback ridge
on our weddin tower, an that’s 41 mile
from here. Then I been over in Pettis
county to see my wife’s folks twice, an
that’s twenty odd mile from here. Then
I been over to Rocky Hill ez menny ez
four times, an that’s IS mile. Ez 1 say,
I been here most o’ the time, but then
I’ve traveled fur au wide all the same,
I’ve seen the big four story mill over to
Petersville an the engine kyars over to
Peaville. 1 rid three miles on ’em, an
it’s all I want o’ the pesky things. I’ve
seen a calf with two heads au a feller
that could cat fire and dance on broken
glass in his bare feet. I see a man
hung once ana hoss race fur a purse o’
$05. Yes, sir; 1 been fur au wide, an I
reckon I’ve seen the biggest part o’
what there is to see in this world, an 1
don’t lot on doin no more gaddin
about.”—Lippincott’s.
The Giraffe’s Timidity.
A giraffe is very timid on hearing
slight sounds, but is indifferent to loud
ones. A writer in The Leisure Hour
says: “Noisy souuds, like a man walk¬
ing by with hobnail boots, it does not
notice, but a lady coming iu with hard¬
ly more sound than the rustling of her
dress makes it start, with pricked ears
and eyes distended. We remember
well, after a terrible explosion of gun¬
powder on a barge on the canal, ask¬
ing the keeper of the giraffes of that
day how they had taken it and he said
he was surprised how very little notice
they took. They jumped to their feet,
but almost at once lay down again
when they found nothing happened.
“But,” he added, “if I were at night¬
time to creep along that gallery In my
socks they would be so scared that I
believe they would dash themselves to
bits.” They fear the lurking l'oe, and
a bing bang scares them less than a
faint, rustling sound. They are In that
respect very deerlike.”
The Bloodstone.
Bloodstone, which is really green
chalcedony spotted with jasper, is ac¬
counted for by the following legend;
At the crucifixion a piece of chalcedony
lay at the foot of the cross, aud on It
dropped the Saviour’s blood, from which
time the stone is said to have borne
red spots, which are supposed to^ in
crease and to deepen ii7 color when
danger is near. It is also said to revive
the s l'i>’its and to inspire to great
deeds, to check excessive bleeding and
last, but nut least, to render its wearer
invisible at will.
Power VVIthon* Heat.
As we watch the world famous plunge
of Niagara we are offered an imprcs-
s *' e * esson as t0 small value in
h ea t much motive power. In so tar
as tlie descent is perpendicular, so that
l * le water leaves the foot of the falls
with comparatively little current, tlie
effect of the concussion is simply to
warm the water through but one-sixth
of a degree I-'. To heat the water as
much as one degree the falls would
have to be 777 feet in height.—George
lies iu Everybody's Magazine.
When a man is going up hill, people
dig ditches in front of him; wlieu he
starts down, they get out of bis way
and give him the whole road.—Denver
Times.
We refuse to let any one question
the good sense of a woman who stili
spanks her children when they are 15.
—Atchison Globe.
New Mrciiiiig Far Line to Texas?
via Iron .Vloiinlain IConte.
The Iron Mountain route is now op¬
erating a through sleeping oar line be
t ween Memphis and Texarkana, leav¬
ing Memphis at 7:45 p. m. daily, mak¬
ing direct connections at Texarkana
for all principal points in Texas. Ele
gant reclining chair cars and comfort¬
able day coaches are also operated on
this train. The morning train out of
Memphis, leaving at 9:00 a. m. daily,
carries reclining chair cars arid coach¬
es to Texas points. For tickets, berth
and further information; apply to
1. E, Rehladder, Chattanooga, T. P. Tenn, A.,
BIG PRICES FOR ANIMALS.
A Small Sized Fortune Seeded to
Day a Giraffe.
Because of the difficulty of getting d
to America and of keeping it alive aft¬
er it arrives a good giraffe is quoted at
$i,000.
Next to the giraffe in the aristocracy
cosl come the rhinoceros and the
Uppopotamus, worth from $4,000 tc
$.>.000 each. 11 a dealer could breed
these animals, he could get rich, but
the big mammals rarely breed in cap-
tivity. About the only place in America
where hippopotami have been known
to raise their young is in tlie meuag-
erie in Central pgrk, New York,
A chimpanzee of size is worth $5,000,
and when one reaches the intelligence
of the late Mr. Crowley. Chico or Jo-
hanna he is beyond a fixed price. The
monkey kind are most uncertain prop-
erty. The animal man says they are
certain to die. But the ordinary ones
can he bought very cheaply.
One can buy a nice young baby ele-
pliant for $1,000 at times, but a really
good animal is worth from $1,800 to
$3,000. An elephant does not command
the maximum price because of the
beauty of his countenance, the ele-
gance of his figure, his intellectual en-
dowinents or his size, but because o(
a sweet, sunny disposition. A mean
elephant is about the most evil of 11 v-
ing things. Sooner or later lie has to
be killed, usually after he has slain
two or three keepers and done more
damage than he is worth. Of two ani¬
mals of equally good disposition the
larger and finer commands the higher
price, of course, hut the most magnifi¬
cent beast with an inclination for mur¬
der isn’t worth as much as a very com¬
mon one that is trustworthy—that is,
ordinarily so, for the sweetest tem¬
pered have days when they seem in¬
spired of satan.—Junior Munsey.
NATURAL HISTORY.
The pouch of a pelican is large
enough to contain seven quarts of wa¬
ter.
For mountain climbing camels are
very inefficient aud seldom used iu
Abyssinia and other mountainous coun¬
tries.
Sparrows begin housekeeping very
expeditiously. A pair of them will
build a nest and furnish it with an egg
inside of 24 hours from the time when
the site was selected.
The female red grouse is said to vary
its dress according to surroundings. It
is a fact worth remembering that the
red grouse occurs in no other part of
the world but the British isles.
No one has been able to give a satis¬
factory reason for the formation adopt¬
ed by the wild duck or mallard in
flight. The birds arrange themselves
In two converging lines, like a huge V.
the leader occupying the point.
The ostrich is a descendant of a
jenus,of bird which in prehistoric times
attained an enormous size, lu the al-
1)1 Madagascar evidence
has recently been found to show that
ostriches 14 and 15 feet iu height ouee
lived on the island.
Stevenson's Cap of Misery.
R. I.. Stevenson, writing in 1803 to
George Meredith, in an epistle quoted
in a new edition of his “Letters,” says,
with heart touching pathos:
“For 14 years 1 have not had a day’s
real health. 1 have wakened sick and
gone to bed weary, and I have done tny
work untlinehiugly. 1 have written in
bed and written out of it. written in
hemorrhages, written in sickness, writ-
ten torn h - v coughing, written when my
head swam for weakness, and for so
* ong ’ soolns t0 u ' e - * have won my
wager and recovered my glove. I am
better now—have been, rightly speak-
lng. since first 1 came to the Pacific—
and still few are the days when I am
not in some physical distress. And the
battle goes on—ill or well is a trifle so
that it goes. I was made for a contest,
and the powers have so willed that my
battlefield should be this dingy, ingiori-
ous one of the bed and the physic bot¬
tle. At least. 1 have not failed, but l
would have preferred a place of trum-
petings and the open air over my
bead.”
The Life Line In One’s Ilniid.
There are three prominent lines in
the palm—the line of life, that of the
head and the heart line.
The line of life begins on the inner
boundary of the palm, about midway
between the thumb and the forefinger,
If we imagine the left hand to be a
map, with the fingers pointing north,
this line runs toward the southeast,
then curves toward the south and in
some hands curves finally toward the
southwest. It thus skirts the base or
“uprise” of tLie thumb, known ss the
uprise of Venus. If it is deep, broad.
of good color and extends nearly or
quite to the wrist and if the rest of the
hand indicates vitality and cheerful¬
ness. the subject maybe expected to live
to a green old age: lie has a good dispo-
sition and the qualities which good
health and good temper usually create.
Crane Island.
In Lake Minnetonka. Minnesota, there
| S a picturesque island which takes Its
name from the fact that it is unin-
habited b.v man and given over to the
cranes. Generations back these birds
decided upou this spot for a summer
resort. As times went on and the sur-
rounding islands populated no man
had the heart to disturb them, until
now Crane island is pointed out from
passing boats as one of the curiosities
of the northwest,
Shoves mid Colds.
It is not generally known among men
that close shaving is apt to bring on a
cold. Barbers, however, are acquaint-
ed with this fact, and it is rather on
account of it than through any desire
to bring their patrons hack soon again
that they do not. unless ordered to, ad-
minister close shaves.
ITawk nnd harlridge.
In “Reminiscences of a Falconer”
Major Fisher describes the tactics of a
partridge when pursued by a tame
falcon,
The falcon was descending upon the
partridge when the partridge stopped
short aud fell to the ground as if dead.
He seemed to be lest in the short stub¬
ble of the field. He was far too know¬
ing to trust himself again on rlie wing,
and the hawk had no alternative but
to take him on the ground, which he
speedily attempted to do.
But on the ground the partridge was
far more agile than lie, running this
way and that with great speed. The
hawk would jump awkwardly up aud
dart after the scudding partridge, who
just at the right moment jumped from
the ground and over his back, descend¬
ed on the other side and commenced
running harder than before.
Time after time this was done. At
every attempt the partridge met the
hawk with outstretched neck and rais¬
ed hackles, in the attitude of a fighting
bantam cock, jumping up to avoid be¬
ing clutched whenever the hawk struck
at him. In fact, his whole action was
that of a plucky little game bantam.
This went on for some time, until, as
1 regret to say, I ended the unequal
strife by putting the partridge once
more fairly on the wing, when, of
course, the hawk readily overtook and
captured it. not overmuch to his credit
and still less to mine.
A Fish and Lizard Story,
Oue afternoon 1 thought 1 would go
down the river and troll. 1 had on my
hook a live minnow and iu a little
while had a strike, and I hocked my
first fish, which seemed to be quite a
large oue. 1 reeled hjin where 1 could
se_e him and found it was a large pike
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Wine of Car uni.
Batesville, Ala., July 71 , 1000 .1
I am using Wine of Cnrdui and Tfced-
ford's Black-Draught and 1 icel like a
different woman already. Several la¬
dies here keep the medicines in their
homes all the time. I have three girls
ami they are using it with me.
Mrs. KATE BROWDER.
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ment”, Tenn.
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2 5 or 30 inches long. I pulled him up
t0 lny lmat . l)llt , vhen i ufted him
from the water he was t,s light as a
feather I measured him and found he
wns just 30 Inches long and should
[ iilve weighed eight or nine pounds,
while he only weighed two. He was
just skin and bones. 1 killed him, took
my knife and cut him open and found
a live lizard, five inches long, in bis
stomach. The reptile was as black as
coal and very lively, living 24 hours
after 1 took him from his prison.—
Field and Stream.
Without a Ring?.
wedding without a ring seems in-
congruous, but in Cadiz. Spain, no ring
jg used. After the ceremony the bride-
groom moves the (lower in* his bride’s
hair from left to right, for in various
parts of Spain to wear a rose above
your right ear is to proclaim yourself a
wife. Thus the rose takes the place of
the ring.
A boy is like a fountain pen. You
can’t tell from what he costs whether
he will make his mark or not.—Detroit
Journal,
Atnong the Burmese a newly mar¬
ried couple, to insure a happy life, ex¬
change a mixture of tea leaves steeped
in oil.
The Result of FTJs Stmly.
“I suppose you have made a study of
human nature,” remarked the friend.
”1 attribute my success in life to tnat
fact.” answered Senator Sorghum.
“Were you ever tempted ;o give the
world the bei*efit of your observations,
to put them into book form as a human
comedy or something of that sort?”
“My dear sir. it wouldn’t take a book
to do it. 1 liavp figured on flip problem
of human nature until I know the an¬
swer. I should just say, ‘Human na¬
ture loves money,’ and let It go at
that.”—Exchange.
Button*.
Towne— For goodness’ sake, what are
you so cranky about?
Browne—Oh, I asked my wife to sew
a button on my coat.
Towne—And wouldn’t she do it?
Browne—Yes, but I’ve just discover¬
ed that the button she sewed on my
coat she cut from my vest.—Exchange.
Wtant Wm Needed.
Henry Ward Beecher used to tell a
story about a priest in the olden time
who was called to bless the field of a
poor farmer prior to the planting. He
came and after surveying the soil re¬
marked to the agriculturist. “Praying
won’t do here; what you vvaut is ma¬
nure.”
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