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CITY OFFERED A PERCENTAGE Atlanta Street Car Company Makes Sensational Proposition. INCLUDES OPTION TO PURCHASE. Offer Was Totally Unexpected, flay Result In flunicipal Ownership. An Atlanta dispatch says: The fol lowing proposition from Joel Hurt, to give Atlanta a percent age of the earnings of the Atlanta Railway and Power company and places the city where it may become at will the purchaser of the street rail way system, was made to the electric railway committee at a meeting Wed nesday afternoon. The offer was the crystallizing point of the day’s sensa tions and threw into the background every other feature of the long debat ing and wrangling over the franchise fight: Ga., July 26, 1899.—T0 the Committee on Electric and Other Railways of the City of Atlanta. Gen tlemen: I herewith suggest the fol lowing propositions to the city gov ernment which, if acceptable, I will recommend and endeavor to have promptly accepted by the Atlanta Railway and Power Company and the Atlanta Railway Company. The recent financing of these com panies provides for a bonded stock is sue of $2,000,000 and a bonded in bebtedness of $5,000,000, of which there is reserved for future extensions and improvements $750,000. The bonds in reserve will build a new power and lighting station of suffi cient capacity to light the city’s streets and to supply power and lights for domestic and manufacturing pur poses. It is estimated that after building a lighting station there will be left in reserve a large amount of bonds, which will be used for future extensions of the lines. A proper sinking fund 4s to bo provided for the bond issue. The bonds will all bear 5 per cent, except $225,000 of the bonds of the old Atlanta Street Rail road company, which will bear 6 per cent. I propose that out of the annual earnings, commencing January, 1900, the dividends on the capital stock will be the first year 4 per cent; for the year 1901, 5 per cent and thereafter 6 per cent. All dividends above 6 per cent will be divided one-fourth to the stockholders and three-fourths to the city for improving the streets and for public schools. The companies, acting with the city, to lay out and build all extensions of lines which may be needed, and in the event of any disagreement, the same to be determined by a commission to be established by the state legislature. I am moved to suggest this propo sition by a consideration of the fact that the franchises which have been granted and have for years proven un profitable to the owners of the street railway companies, have now grown to a value on account of the increased population of the city, which merits a consideration of the advisability of the city’s securing, if possible, a fair in terest in the future growth of the property, and the further considera tion that the owners of a large major ity of the stock of the companies are Atlanta citizens, who will be satisfied with a reasonable return for their in vestment, and who, it is believed, would be willing to so adjust these public utilities as to secure to the city great benefits in the future, which might otherwise be enjoyed by foreign investors in the stocks of the com panies, and which could not be re claimed until the expiration of the present franchises, running from forty to fifty years. It is believed further that by this method the city of Atlanta can now secure and hold in reserve the right to own the properties which may in the near future be deemed advisab'e. Re spectfully, Joel Hurt. Italian Papers Wrought Up. According to the Rome correspond ent of The Loudon Daily Mail, the United States government has inform ed the Italian authorities that it is im possible to discover the TaV'dah lynchers. The newspapers, the cor respondent adds, are indignant, and vigorously denounce what they call “sham American civilization.” Fatal Cyclone In Indiana. A cyclone struck the eastern portion of Laporte, Ind., Monday night and wrecked several buildings. It is feared that, the families of Jacob Morton and William Steele, who live on the Kankakee marsh, have been killed. "A Good Name At Home Is a of Strength Abroad.” In Lcrwell, SMass., 'where Hood"s Sarsapa rilla is made, it still has a larger sale than all other blood purifiers. Its fame and cures and sates have spread abroad, and it is universally recognized as the best blood medicine money can buy. Remember Sour Stomach •• After I was Induced to try CABCA* RET®, I will never be without them in tho house. My liver was in a very bad shape, and my head ached and I had stomach trouble. Now. since tak ing Cascarets. 1 feel fine. My wife has also used them with beneficial results for sour stomach.” JO3. Knehling, 1921 Congress Bt., St. Louis, Mo. CANDY « CATHARTIC TRADf MARK RfOIITSRIO Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, VVcaken. or Gripe. 10c, 25c, 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling liew.dy Company, l'hlc><n, Montreal, Xew York. 818 VA TA nifi Sold and guaranteed by all drug ilU" I U‘**RW gists to CI’RE Tobacco Habit. GOLDEN CROWN LAMP CHIMNEYS Are the best. A*k for them. Cost no more than common chimneys. All dealers. PITTSBURG GLASS CO., Allegheny, Pa. Malsby & Company, 39 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. Engines and Boilers Steam Water Heaters, Steam Pumps ami Penberthy Injectors. Manufacturers and Dealers In MILLS, Corn Mills, Feed Mills, Cotton Gin Machin ery and Grain Separators. SOLID and INSERTED Saws, Saw Teeth and Locks, Knight's Patent Dojis, Birdsall Saw Mill and F.ngfine Repairs, Governors. Grat** Bars and a full line of Mill Supplies. Price and quality of goods guaranteed. Catalogue free by mentioning thia paper. BOTTLE OF MORPHINE. J. M. Warren, Ordinary Wilcox Co., Abbeville, says: “I used daily one bottle morphine and quart of whisky 7 years ago; Dr. Syms cured me in 16 days without losing a night’s sleep or suf fering a single day, and I have never wanted any morphine or whisky since. Will answer any questions.” Patients given a written guarantee No suffering or loss of sleep. Habit cured in 2*) days;no pay till absolutely cured. For terms, etc.. write Dr. B. A. Sy ms, 51 Williams St., Atlanta, Ga sbs 9 fl H & fl and Whiskey Habits W ■J* n u 9 cured at home with- ■ H EE IS out ? aiu - Book of P ar ’ BR " EWaWfl tlculars sent FREE, ag 1 Li 'LIMBIi WII B.M.WOOLLEY, M.D. Allauta, Oa. Oflice 104 N. Pryor St. ff^D/>DQV NEW DISCOVERY; riven I / I quick relief and cures worst cases- Book of testimonial* and 10 days' treatms: t Free. Dr. H. H. GREEK'3 80MB, Box D, Atlanta, Ga TXT ANTED—Case of bad health that R I P A N 3 VI will not benefit. Send 5 cts. to Bipans Chemical Co., New York, for 10 samples and loou testimonials. Suicide in New York City. According to the annual police report there were in 1898, 673 cases of suicide In New York City. These were divid ed up in this way: By burning, 1; by drowning. 21; by suffocation by means ’of gas, 137; by hanging, 70; by jump fug from balconies, 1; by jumping from buildings, 2; by jumping from roof, 1; iby jumping from windows, 3; by knife, f>4; by poison, 270; by razor 1, and by shooting, 142, The police gave aid in 526 cases of attempted suicide, but that was not the total number of such cases, as 606 persons were arrested for trying to kill themselves, of whom 255, or nearly half, were women.—New York Press. Are You Itchy? If so, something is wrong with your skin. Ask your druggist for Tetterlne, and you can cure yourself without a doctor for 50 cents. Any skin disease, ringworm, eczema, salt rheum, etc. Or send 50 cents in stamps for box prepaid to J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. Try a box. Brooklyn. N. Y.. pays 34 cents per night for each 1,21)0 c. p. lamp. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets C andy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. The Sahara desert is three times as large as the Mediterranean. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children feethinix.softens The gums, reduces inflamma tion.allays pain. cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. After phvgician* had given me up. I was saved by Piso’s Cure —Ralph Erieg, Wil liamsport. Pa., Nov. 22. 1803. The failings of good men are more pub lished than their virtues. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed ' —-—————ws——— To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price oOc. OLD-TIME KLONDIKE DAYS. Life of White Tiappere Before Gold Woe Discovered. One of the pioneer gold seekers, Dr. Sweeney, was fortpnate in meeting with Geo. W. Carmack, the discover er of the Klondike, and from him he gathered much interesting informa tion concerning the habits of the In dian tribes on the Yukon and the white men who long before the discovery of the treasure hidden beneath the froz en moss and gravel of the Klondike Valley lived with them and shared the hardships of their dally life. ‘‘Some of the things that Carmack told me.” said Dr. Sweeney, “were en tirely new to me, and all very Interest ing. One of the things I have always been anxious to know was how the white men lived who hunted and trapped along I !the Yukon In the days when It was thousands of miles to the trading posts and civilization. Car- | mack explained to me. “ ‘We were compelled,’ he said, ‘to do just as the Indians did. In the sum- | mer time, besides game and fish, we ate berries, for Alaska is the home of | all sorts of berries. And besides these we obtained other substitutes for tho j vegetables of civilization. The princi- ■ pal of these were grass roots, certain small bulbs or tubers, and the inside bark of vaNous trees. “Tn the winter we ate fish, meat, and berries, which the squaws dried in the summer, and stored away. Then also tie little bulbs I have mentioned came in very handily. I have forgot ten now what they were called, but they, as all old Alaska men know, form the principal food of the timber squirrels of that country during the winter. It was by rifling the hoards of these little animals that we obtained onr supply of the bulbs in the winter. Their hoards are always to be found in a solitary spruce tree in a thicket of stunted pines. That was the way in which we located them. The reason for this I never knew. As a substitute for bread —of course, the Indians then had no flour —we ate a species of pud ding made of the blood of the game we killed, boiled with dried berries and sometimes with the little bulbs from the squirrel hoards.’ ‘I asked Carmack how the Indians in those days obtained salt for their meat Every one knows that to a white man at least salt Is a necessity, and not a mere flavoring matter. In answer Carmack told me something that was entirely new to me. He said that the Indians made it a practice not to throw away the water in which they boiled their meat, but allowed it to remain in the kettle. In course of a short time, fe told me, the water or broth would Peconic extremely salty and could then be maintained at what ever degree of saltiness deemed de sirable by the addition of fresh water to replace some of the salt broth dipped out and thrown away.” The Trained Narie’r Baby. This has become an experimental age for babies. The writer of this recently | saw the ten-months-old baby of a doc tor whose wife was a trained nurse. The baby had never worn a thread of flannel or shoes and stockings a min ute in its life, and very seldom wore anything on its head. It was very sturdy-looking and had never known a moment’s Illness. Its clothing on a hot day consists of two pieces only, and the women can tell what they are. It Is never tortured with starched em broideries and trimmed clothes—At chison Globe. The report of the Fire Department of New York City for 1898 showed that 4,720 alarms were turned in, with 4,239 actual fires. Do Your Feet Ache 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, Bun ions, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Aching and Sweating Feet. Sold by all Druggists, Grocers and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. New Zealand farmers send frozen cream to London, where it is churned for butter. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Cles-n blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, lOe, 25c, 50e. Brooklyn has 474 miles of paved streets, exclusive of these made of macadam. Fits permanently cured. Nc fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. 42 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. K. 11. Klin?, Ltd.. 981 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Water is the hardest of all substances to heat, except hydrogen gas. No.To.|lac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, bleed pure. COc, sl. AU druggists. Paper is now made in Holland from potato stems and leaves. W. H. Griffin. Jackson. Michigan, writes: “Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years. Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me.” Sold by Drug gists. 75c. A Chance. Husband—l’m going to join another club tonight. Wife—l don’t suppose I’ll see you at all after this. Husband—Oh, yes! They have la dies’ day.—Puck. Still More Counterfeiting. The Secret Service has just unearthed an other band of counterfeiters, and secured a large quantity of bogus bills, which are so cleverly executed that the average person would never suspect them of being spurious. Things of great value are always selected for imitation, notably Hostetter's Stomach Bit ters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia, con stipation, nervousness and general debility. Always go to reliable druggists who have the reputation of giving what you ask for. There were 2.150.000 acres planted in wheat last year In Victoria. ron‘l Tobacco Spit end Jmoke YcurLite Away To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or «1. Cure guaran teed. Booklet aUA sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Scientistshave discovered that the memory is stronger in summer than in winter. “Mulberry Pills” (Wlntersir.lth’s) cure constipation, headache, liver trouble. Even onr grandmothers know the mulberry was nature’s laxative. Such are “Mulberry Pills." To prove tbeir value we will sends sample size box to any address on receipt of a 2c Stamp to nay postage. Address. Arthur Peter * Co.. Louisville, Ky. The champion lady golfer of Ireland Is but 17 years old. Kducnte Tour Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever, 10c, 25c. It C.C. C. fall, druggists refund money. We hate some persons because wo do not know them. secasww I Storm in i Summer? | We never did; but we have g I seen the clothing at this time Bp , of the year so covered with 9k dandruff that it looked as if it Er I had been out in a regular snow storm. m No need of this snowstorm, As the summer sun would g* . melt the falling snow so will M Ayer’s Hair Vigor melt these flakes of dandruff in J the scalp. It goes further than » this: itprevents their formation. & " It has still other properties: it will restore color to gray hair > in just ten times out of every ’ ten cases. i And it does even more :it , feeds and nourishes the roots ’ of the hair. Thin hair becomes ( thick hair; and short hair be- , comes long hair. ’ We have a book on the Hair and Scalp, it is yours, for the , asking. * If you do not obtain all the benefit, yoa expected from the me of the Vigor, I write the doctor about it. Probably * there is eome difficulty with your gen- < oral sratetn which may bo easily re- I moved. Address. DR. J. C. AYER. Lowell, Mass. ,-r T THE ATLANTA - Offers thorough practical courses in Bookkeep ing, and Shorthand and Typewriting. Students placedia positions without extra charge Re duced rates to all entering school this month. Call on or address, THE ATLANTA BUSINESS COLLEGE, 128, 130 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. College of Dentistry. DENTAL DEPARTMENT Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons Oldest College in State. Thirteenth An nual Session opens Oct. 3; closes April 30th. Those contemplating the study of Dentistry should write for catalogue. Address 8. W. FOSTER, Dean. 62 63 Inman Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. frTfi MOFFETT’S B \ ~ PlaßO"■■ vll ■■ I Heikes Teathing Easy, V ig rrTil gal g® TEETHINA Relieves tin bao smc-/ S Fl I 111 HI Bowel Troubles of BL ■■■■■“■■ ■■ Children of Any Age. ™ TEETHING POWDERS Aak°Yoi2 n rn-uJtjist for W If not kept by druggists mail 25 cents to C. J. MOFFETT, 81. ST. LOUIS, MO. (irnia to iu TIKKWIM » 0 . y«.4«51 “I was a sufferer from female weatc* ness. Every month regularly as the menses came, I suffered dreadful pain* in uterus, ovaries pFffIQIJS OF were affected and leucorrhoea. SUFFERING I had my children GIVE PLACE very fast and ib TO PERIODS me very weak - A year ago I was OF JO r taken with flood- ing and almost died. The doctor even gave me up and wonders how I ever lived. “ I wrote for Mrs. Pinkham’s adviea at Lynn, Mass., and took her medicina and began to get well. I took several bottles of the Compound and used the Sanative Wash, and can truly say that I am cured. You would hardly know me, I am feeling and looking so well. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound made me what I am.”—Mrs. J. F. Stretch, 401 Mechanic St., Camden, N. J. How Mrs. Brown Was Helped. “ I must tell you that Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound has done more for me than any doctor. “ I was troubled with irregular menstruation. Last summer I began the use of your Vegetable Compound, and after taking two bottles, I have been regular every month since. I recommend your medicine to all.”— Mrs. Maggie A. Brown, West Pt. Pleasant, N. J. 1 S Send your name and address on a® gj postal, ar)d fte will send you our 156- ® ® page illustrated catalogue free. I WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 1 ® 176 Winchsitsr Avenus, New Haven, Conn. ® j Doesn’t your boy write well 7 Perhaps j, 1 he hasn't good ink. f. I CARTER’S INK E 4 IB THS BEST INK. £ j More used than any other. Don’t cost J, * you any more than poor ink. Ask for it. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Tulane University of Ijouisiana. Its advantages for practical instruction, both fn ample laboratories and abundant hospital materials, are unequalled. Free access Is given to the great Charity Hospital with 9<X) bedt and 30,000 patient* p.njHially.. S.nngtpl. tnsttJW tlon Is given dally at the bedside of the sick. The next session begins October 19th, 1899. For catalogue and information address Prof. S. E. CUAILLE, M. D., Dean, P. O. Drawer 261. NEW ORLEANS, LA. [LETTER TO MBS. PINKHAM NO. 48,970] “I had female com plaints so bad that it caused me to have hysterical fits; have had as many as nine in one day.- “Five bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured me and it has been a year since I had an attack. Hr*. Edna Jackaon, Pearl, La. If Mrs. Pinkham's Compound will cure such severe cases as this surely it must be a great medicine —is there any sufferer foolish enough not to give it a trial ? _____ CUfitS WHfKE ALL ELSE FAILS. Eg Bost Cough Syrup. Tastee Good. Use I Fri in time. Sold by druggists. Fl uselertain chYllcurl ! MENTION THIS PiIPER^ n «5