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
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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
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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
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1
Women as Wei! as Men Are ffladi
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Kidney trouble liaa
\] become so prevalent
j/nYmSWi .that it is not uncom//
ulon ^or a child to be"
W Br~ born afflicted with
~ n. ? weak kidneys. If the
child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be'able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting,
depend upon it, thecause of thedifficulty
is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards tlii treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miserable
with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy. 1
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