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TH m X T ASAv-i -4 TRIBUNE -4« ■4»5. - mi € VOL. IV 5 Teething j t 1 Then the baby is most like- S f | ly nervous, and fretful, and \ * doesn’t gain in weight. \ j j Scott’s is the best food Emulsion and medicine 4 S for teething babies. They ^ * t gain from the start. * i t SCOTT Send & tor JIOWNE, a free sample. Chemists, 0 a d 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. P Iiw 50c. aud $1.00; all druggists. mmvl 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 NO 37. iC £ i m * teat.-; m } m 3», ■lS*S»)k 5 jJv' i iiLt WOMEN I Wine of Onrdui is the guardian g ! of woman’s health and happi- a g ness from youth to old age. It j helps her safely into womanhood. j§ It sustains her during the trials a I of pregnancy, childbirth and if motherhood, making labor easy a and preventing Hooding and mis- E carriage. It gently leads her E through the dangerous period F known as the change of life. wiise”Cardui F | cures leucorrlicra, falling of the I womb, and menstrual irregularity cj | in every form. It is valuable in K I every trying period of a woman’s gf i l system, life. It acts reinforces directly the on the nervous geni- I B tal organs and is the finest tonic ) for women known. Ask your S [ l druggist for a $1.00 bottle of n 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. For advice “The and li Ladies’ fcerature, Advisory Address, Depart- giving £ symptoms, The Chattanooga Medicine Company* JN ment”, Tenn. Chattanooga, m 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.” r Situations Secured for graduates or tuition refunded. Write at once lor catalogue and special offers. iassey Business Colleges Louisville, Ky. Montgomery. Ala. Houston, Tex. CfiJumbv* r ’i 1 kiclimomi, Va. Birmingham, Ala. lackse.. ••la.