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GREAT SHOBE ~
IN MEAT SUPPLY
DECREASE OF 19,000,000 IN THE
MEAT ANIMALS IN THE
UNITED STATES.
COMPARASIONS ARE MADE
Amazing Drop Since 1910 Reported
by the Department of
Agriculture.
Washington.—Shortage of me^t 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 98,646,000 in the past
three years, the number of beef cattle
has 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 1910, 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
prop in Kansas, Nebraska and Okla
homa, increase in the value of land
and higher cost of labor and stock
feed; decline In stock raising dh 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 Hank of Sonora, the Hank
of Minero and other banks 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 be 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 has
been closed for many weeks.
H. H. Rogers Left $40,000,000.
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,
Rlsagua, 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
in the rocks near Port Halla Bight.
The vessel immediately filled and the
men took to the boats, which capsized.
Eight succeeded in getting back. j
MRS. C. BRACKETT BISHOP
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Mrs. C. Bracket^ Bishop or 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.
TICK 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 :
February 16 under the order mentioned
are as follows:
In Virginia: The county of Sussex
and the balance of the county of i
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
LaFayette.
In Oklahoma: The county of Cot
ton and the remainder of the counties
of Tillman, Grady, 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
j ing in the United States.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
43 PERSONS MEET
OEMS ON OCEAN
NINETY-ONE ARE BROUGHT BACK
TO LAND BY THE M, & M.
STEAMSHIP NANTUCKET.
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--VESSEL IS RAMMED AT SEA
Many Unable to Leave the Staterooms.
No Time Was Given to Adjust
.. Life Preservers.
♦ + + «J’ + + + + + + + + »+ +
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+ Department of Commerce ♦
♦ Orders Probe of Wreck. ♦
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+ Washington. — A thorough ♦
+ investigation of the circum- +
+ 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 service to make an + i
+ 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 w’hen the liner
Nantucket rammed 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
how 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 Monroe, bound
from Norfolk to New York, turned
turtle at sea within ten minutes 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 the 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 tn 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 liis wife and two and a half-year
old boy to visit in Massachusetts, had
his wife and child washed from his
arms over the 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. Gaitley, 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.
SIO,OOO 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 SIO,OOO 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.
A Doctor's First
Question Is ?
“How are Your Bowelst” A Sim
ple Remedy that Guarantees
Good Bowel Action.
Trace the origin of the commoner
Ills of life and almost invariably you
will find that constipation was the
cause. It is not to be expected that a
! mass of fermented food can remain in
: the system beyond its time without vl
| tiating the blood and affecting the
i nerves and muscles. It congests the
; entire body.
; The results are colds, fevers, piles,
i headaches, and nervousness, with its
I accompanying indigestion-and sleep
| iessness. There is only one thing to
; do, and that is to remove tile trouble;
i and when nature seems unable to do
it, outside aid is necessary. You will
find the best of all outside aids a rem
edy that many thousands are now us
ing for this very purpose, called Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. Many hun
dreds of letters lire received by Dr.
Caldwell telling of the good results
obtained, and among the enthusiastic
letters is one from Lieut. G. W.
Vaughan, of 623 W r . North St., Decatur,
i 111. He is 72 and has had a bad liver
and stomach since he came out of the
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 several watertight
compartments.”
"Yes, sir” was the reply.
“Captain,” the passenger went on,
decidedly, "I want one o’ those com
partmerits —I don't care what it
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 Mrt. |
Ollie Owens, of this place, "as it may
be the means of relieving some poor, |
suffering woman.
I suffered terribly tor 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 feeling 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
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.— H'rikta Ladies' Advisory Dept . Chatta- j
nooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, Tenn., for ;
Special Ineruelhnt, and 64-page book.*'Home Treat- I
ment for Women,” sent m 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.
In England there are at least three
farms devoted to the cultivation of
butterflies and moths.
(That Weak Bock t "
accompanied by pain here or there—extreme nervousness— zV*'
sleeplessness—may be faint spells—or spasms—altars signals of Z, h J
distress foM woman. She may be growing from girlhood into f \
womanhood—passing from womanhood to motherhood—er later jA~^\ /I Ail
suffering from that change into middle life which leaves somsny^^ZJ^T 1 / / /7|
wrecks of women. At any or all of these periods of a woman's lifeS. U / f// ]
ahe should take a tonic and nervine prescribed for just such cases A A
by a physician of vast experience in the diseases of women.
DR. PIERCE’S WWV
Favorite Prescription r M
has successfully treated more eases in past forty years than any other known remedy. 16
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.
Him Elizabeth Lordahi of Berkeley, CaL in a recent letter to Dr. Pierce said: "I was completely
broken down in health,lwas aching and had pains allover my body and was bo nervous thatlcouki scream
if anyone talked to me but I had the good fortune to meet a nurse who had been cured by Dr. Pierce's
Prescription. 1 have never had an occasion to consult a physician since—am in excellent health."
I Dr. Pleree’s pleasant Pellets regulate stomach, 1
I Brer and beweto - sugar-coated, tiny granules |
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LIEUT. G. W. 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 Danderlne 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
f really new hair —growing all over the
, scalp.
A little Danderlne Immediately dou
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with
I Danderlne 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,
softness and luxuriance.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s
Dauderine 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 Danderlne. Adv.
j Every tree needs an occasional
i pruning, and even the family tree is
: not exempt.
RUB-MY-TISM
Will cure your Rheumatism and all
kinds of aches and pains—Neuralgia,
Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cute.
Old Sores. Burns, eter Antiseptic
Anodyne. Price 25c.—Adv.
Every girl has her ideal, but the dis-
I Acuity is in getting him to propose.
Astonishing Tobacco Remedy — Guarant4*ed
to instantly remove taste for cigarettes or tobacco
in any form, or money cheerfully refunded, bend
35c and receive wonderful remedy by return mail.
Address l>eU k. Tobsceo (ku* €•., WlebiU, Kmum —
Many a chap’s toes turn up while
waiting for a dead man s shoes.
They stop the tickle —Dean's Mentho
lated Cough Drops stop coughs by stop
ping the cause —5c at Drug Stores.
The weaker a man is the easier it is
for him to break a promise.