A Good Time t*o buy a Good Timepiece I have just received aloi of new Wutclii s which re worth your seeing? prob ii'ly Hie ? n.osi interest ng as- I snrttiicni that e or came to tinciistor. I iji vor saw handsomer ' st v les and as 1 bought tl.om at a discount, or cash, I moan to sell Hi in at pleasing prices If you tp-ed a Watch I can tit your taste and y ur purse, rlcht now. Como in una talk it over. B. C. HOUGH, Jeweler and Stationer. India Itich in Cotton. \V. E. Curtis in ( hlcugo Record-H t ruld. Bomba\ , Feb. 2.? The docks ol Ib>mbay are the finest in Asia, and when the extensions now in progress are carried out tew cities in Europe can surpass them. They are planned lor a century in advance. The people ol Bombay ar^ not boastful, but tliev are confident ol the growth of their ci'v and its commerce. Attached to I he docks is a story Ol integrity and fidelity worth telling. In 1735 the municipal authorities of the young city an ticipating commercial prosperity, decided to improve their harbor and build piers tor ihe accommodation of vessels, but nobody around the place had experience in such matters, and a coinmis sion was sent off to other cities ol India to find a man to lake charge. The commission was very much pleased with the appearance and ability of Lowji Naushirwanji, the Parsee foreman of the harbor at the neighboring town of Surat, and tried to coax him away by making a very lucrative offor, in advance of the pay he was then receiving lie was too loyal and honest to accept it, and read the commission a lecture on business integrity which greatly impressed them. When they returned to Bombay and related their expe rience, the municipal authorities communicated with those of Surat and inclosed an invitation to Naushirwanji to come down and build a dock for Bombay. The offer was so advantageous that his employers advised him to accept it. lie did so. and from that dav to tliis a man of his name, and one of his descendants, has been superintendent of the docks of this city. Ti?e office has practically become hereditary in the family. The largest export from Bombay is cotton. Next lothe United States, India is the largest cotton producing country ol the world, and, with the exception of Galveston and New Orleans,the Bombayers claim to have tin* largest cotton market in the world. The shipments have never reached $50,000,000 a year, hut have got very near that point. Every large state in southern India produces cotton, hut Bom hay and Berar are the principal producers. The area for the whole of India in 1902-3 was 14,250,000 acres, but this has been often ex ceeded. Iu 1893?4 the area olant ed was nearly 15,000.000. The average is about 14,000,000 acres. Cotton, is usually grown in con junction with some other crop, and in certain portions of India two crops a year are grown on the same soil. The Name Witch Hazel. The name Witch Hazel is much abused. E. C. DeWitt /*/\?v?rv pi will pilj I v? ?T muvu lllO I/UIII}/ troller general at Columbia, and an additional report made of each investigation, where incendiarism is suspected. Where a fire occurswithin an incorporated city or town, the chief of fire department or police, or where there is no chief fire departments or chief of police, must make the investi gation and report, and where outside of an incorporated city or town it must be done by the sheriff of the county. The blanks used require the date of the fire, its location, owuer of property, occupants, origin, amount of insurance, whether covered by mortgage or not, etc. The law also requires that investigation be begun within three days not including the Lord's day,of occurrence of such fire and the comptroller generl or his deputy shall have the right to supervise and direct such investigation whenever he deems it ex pedient or necessary. The officer making investigation shall further notify said comptroller general or his deputy, and shall within one week of the occurrence of fire furnish to the said comptroller general or - :*.?? - -? ? inn uc^uij n wntteu Hinioumut of all the facts to the cause and origin of the lire, value and ownership of the property destroyed and such other information as may be called for by the blanks provided by the said comptroller general. The comptroller general shall keep in his office statistics and circumstances, including the origin of the fire which may be determined by the investigation, provided for by the act. Such record shall at all times be open to public inspection. Any officer who neglects or refuses to comply with any of the requirements of this act, shall be nun ished by a fine of not leap than $25 00 uor more than $100.00. The comptroller is also sending out blank reports for the 700 insurance companies doing business in this state.?Columbia Record. A free ljottle of I)r. Thaclier's Diver and Blood Syrup will be sent to any reader of this paper who will write to the Thacher Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Russians licave Their Country. NeW York, March 11.?Of the 2,065 steerage passengers brought here by the steamship Graf Waldersee and landed at Ellis island today fully one thousand and eight hundred are Russians, many of them it is said, being refugees who fled to escape possible army service against Japan. An imperial edict issued several weeks ago suspended the issuing of passports to any male between the ages of 14 and 45, the prescribed period for army service, the result being, according to some of those on the Graft Waldersee, a large exodus from all villages within reach of the frontier. Every possible ruse, it is said, is being resorted to in order to get across the frontier and escape to this country. CAliVOItXA. Bantk. AhranBpgl THE 8MOOT CANE. Admissions of Mormon President Were Damaging to Defense. Washington, March 8.?After live days' examination and cross examination on the witness stand, President Joseph North, the head of the Mormon church, has at last concluded his testimony in the Smoot case. lie was the first witness called by the senate committee on privileges, and lie has been an interesting one from the stand* point of the devout Mormon. President. Smith's testimony as to the beliefs and practices of the church has been missionary work of a high order, and calculated to spread betore the world in the most public way the tenets of the laith. But it has been demonstrated that the head of the Mormon church can make revelations, as well as derive them, and some of those he has given the committee have not been of a character to help Iieed Smoot in his fight to hold his seat in the senate. Smith's admission that he and his associates have been cohabit ing wun piurai wives since the law of 1890, which made such actions unlawful, makes the majority of Smoot's immediate associates in the church crimiuals. Smith also testified that Smoot, before he became a candidate for the senate, had to pet the consent of these "criminals." This is taken by the prosecution to indicate that the politics of Utah is under the Mormon church to a great extent. Mrs. Kennedy's evidence. The committee yesterday after noon heard the testimony of Mrs Clara Mabel Kennedy. She made several statements which, if substantiated, will prove as important as the statements of ['resident Joseph Smith that he and other officials of the Mormon church |have been practicing polygamy in violation of the law. Mrs. Kennedy said she was 27 years old and was a native of Albany, N. Y. With her parents who were Mormons, she went to Utah when she was 2 years old. At the age of 17 years, Mrs. Kennedy said, she was married to James Francis Johnson, who al ready had one wife. Mrs. Kennedy said she had a brief interview with the original Mrs. John son shortly before the marriage, and the first wife gave her consent. The marriage ceremony, Mrs. Kennedy said, was performed at Jaurez, Mexico, by Brigham Young. She lived with Johnson about five years, bearing him two a i x ? uiiiiureu, ivuuui a year alter separating from Johnson, she married a Mr. Kennedy, who is an Episcopalian, although Mrs. Kennedy is still a Mormon. Ask ! ed why she had separated from Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Kennedy said she was not treated right. Mrs.l Kennedy said she had received no form of marriage certificate. She did not know whether or not her first husband was living. If It's a billons attack, taka Chamberlain's Htomaeh and Lira* Tablets and a quick recovery is certain. For sale Djr J. K. Maokey A Co., druggists. PORT ARTHUR Got Its Name From a Young Officer of British Navy. Asheville Gazette News. The greatest stronghold in the far east, originally a Chinese port, afterwards captured by Japan, wit held from her by the powers and finally seized by Iiussia, bears an English name, and thereby hangs a tale. The port was or iginally Lu Shun lvow, and was iip till I860, a retuge of pirates, from which they sallied forth to hara s the Chinese coast. In that year Lieutenant William Arthur, ot the British navy, in command of the Algerine, did what was considered a risky thing. He ran his vessel into the chau 1 nel, then unknown to and unap ] preciated by modern navigation , He louud the harbor to be one ol the finest in the east, and made , a chart ol it which came into un , iversal use. China, with the 1 aid of French engineers, eventu- , ally built a great fortress there, 1 which was considered impregna ble, but which the Japanese captured in 1892. But ever since 1800, Lu Shun lvow has borne the name of the young English naval officer who first navigated and charted its harbors, and we know it today as Port Arthur. Women find auick relief in T)r Thnrher'n Liver and Blood Syrup. DO ONE OR THE OTHER. If the concern where you are employed is all wrong, and the Old Man a curmudgeon,it may be well for you to go to the Old Man and confidentially, quietly and kindly tell him that he is a curmudgeon. Explain to him that his policy is absurd and prepos terous. Then show him how to reform his ways, and you might ofTer to take charge of the con cern and cleanse it of all its secret faults. Do this, or if for any reason you should prefer not, then take your choice of these : Get out or get in line. You have to do one or the other?now make your choice. If you work for a man, in heaven'a name work for him ! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him?speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. 1 think if I worked for a man 1 would work for him. I would not work lor him a part o! the time, and Lheu the rest of the time against him. I would give an undivided service or none. It put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound ot cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your I linovf 'a 4 Y ? -? uvai t a buutcui, X> Ul| i pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution?not that?hot wher you disparage the concern of which you are a part, yon disparage yourself.?Elbert Hubhard, in the Cosmopolitan. The family medicine in thousands of homes for fifl years?l>r. 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