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DEBT; F. S. DAVIDSON. PE^H?-NA STRENGTHENS THE ENTIRE Sill - ft? S/TJavidson, Ex-Lieut. D. S. Army, Washington, D. C., care ?. S. Pension Office, writes: "To my mind there is no rent' edy for catarrh comparable to Peruna. lt not ' only .strikes at the root of the 'malady, but it tones and strengthens the si/s tem in a truly -wonderful way. That has been its history in ; viij case. I cheerfully and unhesi tatingly recommendrit toHhose afflicted as I have been."-F. S. Davidson. ???vx'vvw ^.?-.wx-v-vi. w-vv-vwwvvww * If you do not derive prompt and satisr'ac tory results from the use of P?rima, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state ment of your case, and lie will be pleased to give you his valuable advice pratis. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of -xhe Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus Ohio. " To better advertise the Sooth's Leading Business College, four scholarships are of fered young pcrsoni of this county at late than cost. WRITE TOD AT. ' EA-AIA BUSINESS COLEESE, Macon, Qt _So. 37._. The preacher Avho advertises his doubts would trot out a line of faith ,if he thought there was more money in it. ' U. S. SENATOR TOWNE Credit? Donn's Kidney Fills With a Grat, ifjing Cure. Hon. Charles A. Towne, Ex-TJ. fe. Senator from Minnesota, brilliant ora tor/^?ever'-busiuess man, brainy law yer, whose na tional prominence made him a for midable candi date for the j Presidential nom ! ination in 1904, I writes us the fol lowing: Gentlemen - I am glad to en dorse Doan's Kid ney Pills. The remedy was recommended to me ? Tew months ago when I was feeling miser, able; had severe pains in the back; was restless and languid; had.-a dulliiead ache and neuralgic paius iiLthe limbs and was otherwise distressed, A few boxes of tbAjaWS^ectnallv routed my aitaw^HnTl am glad to acknowledge the" benefit I derived. (Signed) CHARLES A. TOWNE. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ?. For sale hy all dealers. Price, 50 cents per box. More Girls Enrolled. More girls are enrolled every term on tie registers of the women col ?eges, says the New York Sun. They are sure to increase more and more in numbers/ and it is inconceivable that their influenoe on our society should not be stronger ard more bene ficial ?very year. It will not be their least advantage that they are abso lutely a national product, to be found in no other society in the world than our own. An increasse of S57.000.000vover thej preceding year is a gratifyhig exhibit In our export trade statistics, says the New York Sun. Takeni'.by. itself, -sam" calls for an imposing row of ciphers, oven in these days when millions are counted as thousands were a few years ago. It is particu larly gratifying to note that the In crease is represented, practically in Its entirety, by the export of wares classed as" manufactures. CHICKEN ROLLS. Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter, add a pinch of salt, a little pepper and two tablespoonfuls- of lemon juice. Mix with this one cupful of minced chicken; add s^e-third cupful of milk and thicken with a little ?t?ur; Mould into rolls or croquettes a'ud fry in hot fat. Serve with a white sauce season ed with lemon juice. STRONGER THAN MEAT. A Judge's Opinion nf Grnpe-Nnti. A gentleman who has tfequired a Ju dicial turn of mind from experience on the bepch out in the Sunflower State, writes a carefully considered .opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts as food. He says: "For the past Aye years. Grape-Nuts has bee?i a prominent feature in our bill of fare. "The crisp food with the delicious, nutty flavor has become an indispensa ble nec3ssity in my family's everyday ?fe. "It has proved to be most healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and pies from our table, for the children prefer Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and unwholesome fbod. . "Grape-Nuts keeps ns all in perfect physical condition-as a preventive of disease it is beyond value. I have been particularly impressed by the beneficial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by ladies who are troubled 1 with face blemishes, akin emptions, etc. It cteiirrs'up-fhe complexion wonderfully. "As.to its nutritive qualities, my ex peience is that one small dish of Grape Nuts Ia superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which la an. Important consideration for any one. It satisfies thevappetite and strengthens the pow* er of resisting fatigue, while Its use'in volves none of the disagreeable conse quences thatBometlmes follow a meat breakfast." Name .given by Postnra Co" Battle Creek, Mich. TheWf t reason. ?"o Clean Buggies. After washing the mud. dust, etc., from your buggies, carriages and wag ons, let them get dry; then take lin seed oil (sometimes called flaxseed oil) and saturate a sponge or cloth and go all over the ris. You can see at once the effects, it will take the mud stains and spots all away and give the rig a gloss and appearance of a new vehicle. I have practiced this for quite a while and it gives good results.-E. R. L Freeland in The Epitomist. r Watering Plants. Right here I want to tell the lover of hanging-plants how I keep mine supplied with water. Plants suspended from the ceiling are not easy to get at, ? and are frequently neglected or for gotten for days at a time. As a re suit, they are generally sorry-looking specimens. I take a tin can holding a pint or more. I make a hole in the bottom of it, just large enough to let water dribble through slowly. This 1 fill with water, and place on the soil in the center of the basket. Generally there will be foliage enough to con ceal it. If there is not, it can be made inconspicious by painting it a dull green. The slow, steady outflow of water will keep the soil evenly moist if the hole in the can is of the right size. This must be determined by ex periment. It is an easy matter to fill the can every day. or oftener if. necessary, and put it in place, but it is not an easy matter to mount a chair or the . step-ladder and apply water in the old way.-Eben E. Rexford, in Lippincott's. Foods Affecting Flavor ?of Eggs. An interesting experiment was con ducted not very long since to deter mine the effects of food fed to the hen upon the flavor of her egg by the North Carolina Experiment Station, and the results are worth recalling, since they throw a light upon the sub ject. Chopped wild onions-bulbs and tops-were given in mash to the hens. At the beginning of the trial half an ounce per head was fed daily to hens of different breeds, but no noticeable flavor of onions could be detected un til the 15th day, when a slight "onion" flavor was perceptible. Then the amount of onions fed was doubled for four days and afterwards discontinued. The eggs laid during these four days savored so strongly of onions that they could not be eaten, but the flavor be came less noticeable day by day after the feeding of onions had been stopped until a week had elapsed, when no for eign flavor was noticeable. It would sr ;m therefore that flavor can be readily imparted to eggs by feeding but that different foods which are not so strongly flavored as onions might probably be fed without impart ing any distinct flavor ;j the eggs. Inland Poultry Journal. From a Shepherd's Note Book. Wool is a product that does not take fertility from the soil like grain grow-^ ing, but actually adds to the yatee of the soil for growing grass. ?-. J Sheep to'fatten the most rapidly and on-the least grass must be kept quiet and not be allowed to run over so much ground as to run the flesh off them. Give the yearling sheep extra atten tion, as sheep generally require more care and better feed at this age than later. The growth of wool during the sea son depends very much on the condi tion of the sheep and the care and feed which are given it. Sheep require a variety of food to form flesh and fat. With sheep, rather more than with any other class of stock., care must he taken not to overfeed. No sheep should be allowed to die of old age, but all should be allowed to fatten and sent to the market before their vitality has been impaired. Shtep are naturally gregarious. When one is seen by itself'something is evidently wrong. A small, fat sheep will always bring better prices than a large, poor one. Sheep are almost essential in main taining the fertility and cleanliness of the land. . To have good-sized sheep they must be grown rapidly while young, and it is important to give them a good start.-American Cultivator. Clean Food for Hogs. The hog possesses certain habits which are apt. to create the impression that he is a lover of filth, and while-it is true that he possesses a few cleanly habits, yet after all in this matter oth er farm animals are more circumspect in their mode of living. The hog's short neck makes it al most compulsory for him to "partly climb into his trough at feeding time and if attention is not paid to keeping the feeding ground clean there will be considerable filth devoured, says the Homestead. While a hog will devour more impurities than any other farm animal, yet his system is by no means designed to handle these economically, and successful hog breeders generally take great pains to feed pure food. One common mistake in feeding hogs is to use refuse from the kitchen that is not only worthless as a food, but decidedly injurious to the diges tive system. We have observed cases where all forms of dishwater were carefully preserved for the porkers and in this semi-liquid, semi-solid con glomeration there is generally con siderable soapsuds. Now soap is an excellent thing in its proper place, but as an aid to di gestion it is a decided failure. Indeed, it is decidedly injurious and we have known many instances where hogs were thrown out of condition and stunted in their growth by its use. Next in the list of injurious substances lo soapy water, or swill as it is gen erally called, is that of supplying mud dy drinking water. We fully appre ciate the fact that where running fea ter is not available one of the most difficult tasks before the stockman is that of supplying his hogs with fresh, clean water during the summer. Their nature is such that they simply will persist in taking possession of their drinicing fountain with their dirty bodies, or if there is not room for the whole body then they will bo there with all fours. We have found that a good drinking fountain with a surface just large enough to get their noses in is about the best piece of apparatus that a hogman can own. If these are attached to barrels or tanks and a supply of cinders or ?av? RDEN el placed around .it so as to prevent a mud hole from forming, one may have reasonable success in supplying hogs with clean water. Where the old-fashioned, V-shaped trough is used the top should be well latticed so that the hogs cannot wal? low in it and even then the lattice work should be constructed so as to be easily removed in order to facili tate a thorough cleansing at least once a week. Filth in the water trough will, in our opinion, weaken the di gestive system of the hog and render him a prey to disease quicker than any other one thing. Many a person feels that he cannot afford the ex pense of fitting up proper watering places for hogs, but where any con siderable number are kept the out lay will be returned to the owner ten times over in a single season. The Young Turks. Turkey chicks are very delicate and tender for the first six weeks or two months of the existence up-until the time they began to "shoot the red," as is is termed, which is the development of the red protuberances upon the neck and throat. After this time they be come hardy and vigorous, and will stand almost any condition of climate, but up until that time care must be exercised to keep them from getting damp or chilled; they will not stand the effects of a heavy rain storm, and damp quarters are almost certain to prove fatal to them. If their quarters are dry and comfortable and they are not allowed to remain out in rain storms, they will get along very well. Their first feed should be hard boiled eggs, at least for the first day or two, and then mix in some green food, of which dandelion leaves are the best that can be given them. Also milk curd, squeezed dry, and after two or three days barley meal or bread crumbs may be added to the boiled egg feed, little at a time, but feed often. When chicks run at large they will select their own green food, but when confined, chopped onions or dandelion leaves will be good for them. (They must be kept dry, as dampness is fatal to them, until they have passed the tender age, after which time they are the most hardy of chicks and will stand any kind of weather without ap parent harm.) The most critical time is the first two months of their lives and during that time they must have the care and attention necessary to pull theni through, after which they will be able to look after themselves so far as the weather is concerned. We have found a pen sixteen feet square m?de of boards one foot wide very desirable to put the coop in con taining the young turkeys. This, If moved twice each week, gives to your flock fresh ground without too muoh traveling for your young stock, which, at the start is a very important_?iat ure toward success.-Norris Stemple, Pocopson, Pa. ' ?m^-^ THE BUYfNG OF FURNITURE. Tne^Tmportance of Not Buying More Than ls Actually Needed. The buying of furniture- ls one of the most difficult things in the equip ment of a home, and it is a singular fact that many* stores which are load ed with furniture to the roof offer little serious aid in this most impor tant task. The furniture man has, of course, to suit many tastes and meet many requirements; his wares' are apt to be most various and di- j verse. They consist, without excep^j lion, of goods of two great class?s good furniture and bad furniture; These he displays with so much ar that the good is thoroughly mixeu with the had. In his heart of "hearts he doubtless knows that the bad fur niture is not worthy to sell; but ht probably regards a bad chair sold a a piece of good business, and he calm! ly leaves the selection to his cust mer. If the buyer cannot distinguish between good furniture and bad it ii none of his business. He is there to sell goods. He very likely would no understand what was meant by the immorality of-selling a bad chair or .an evil-looking table. It is obvious that the great rule in furniture buying is excellence-excel lence of materials, excellence of style, excellence in utility. The word, in fact, sums up, in one way or another, about all the requirements that can be demanded of modern fur niture. There are, of course, various degrees of excellence in (furniture, for a single piece may be made of good materials, and well made, to boot, and yet bc thoroughly ill adapted to mod ern needs and quite useless as a household convenience. Another helpful rule in furniture buying is not to buy too much. With persons of average means this advice may seem superfluous, for even a mod erate amount of new furniture costs a considerable sum. But the happy housewife, intent on making her home attractive, is very apt to buy more than she needs, and to buy' pieces which may be quite unnecessary. It is always well to leave something to a future time. The table or chair that seems so charming today may not be found to have any real utility tomorrow. It is not the change in fashions that should be awaited, for such a method would only result in confusion and unseemly mixture; it is rather to avoid filling one's rooms and burdening oneself with more than one actually needs.-American Homes and Gardens. Fish Pond in the Garden Some fish in the small water gar den will be an attraction and prevent mosquito breeding. A few small gold fish will thrive throughout the year without care, but some crumbs of bread during the spring and summer given twice a week will tame them. In early June they will spawn, de positing the eggs on the roots of the water hyacinth. If this be lifted and placed in a separate vessel containing water from the pond, many young fish may be hatched. It may be done well in a tub of water containing water hyacinth. If left in the pond the young goldfish will be eaten by their parents. The water will not become foul even in a very small pond, and choice fish will flourish for yr.-. Garden Magazine. Grabbed Him. ivir. ?oashlist-Do you know any thing about this co-operative hous?r keeping? Miss Elderleigh-Oh: John, this ls so sudden !-rCleveland Leader. Great Growers' Gathering At Ashe ville, North Carolina 12-CENT MEN ARE IN THE MAJORITY Two Hundred Committteemen, Dele gates and Visitors Present at Open ing Session of . Southern Cotton Growers' Convention ^Fourteen Cotton-Growing States Represent ed. Asheville, Special.-The Southern Cotton Growers' Association, which convened at Kenilworth Inn Wednes day morning at 10:30 o'clock, with President Harvie Jordan in the chair, is distinctly a meeting in the interest of the grower; it is a meeting for which the manipulator has little use; it is a meeting that has little use for the manipulator; it is a meeting on which such men as Theodore H. Price may look in upon but whose voice must not be raised in its councils; it is a meeting composed of the bone and sin?w of the South, the cotton produ cer; it is a meeting of intelligent men; it is a meeting of prosperous men. In fact, it is a meeting to perpetuate the reign of "King Cotton," with the Southern Cotton Growers' Association as the power behind the throne. THE OPENING SESSION. When President. Jordan' rapped for order in the sun parlor of Kenilworth Inn he looked out upon an assembly of committeemen, delegates and visi tors to the number of fully 200. The attendance at the convention is gath ered from the 14 cotton growing States and Territories of the Union. They are here for business. They are repre sentatives of the most prosperous sec tion of the nation, the cotton beit of the South! They are all smiles and they intend to make the people on the other side" feel their power. Presi dent Jordan dispensed with a. set speech. He stabed in.terse and concise lanena?*) the purpose of the meeting; to hear discussion on conditions; to secure accurate statistics direct from the growers to fix the minimum price of cotton and to strengthen the asso ciation. At the conclusion of President Jor dan's remark J. A. Brown, of Chad burn, N. C, welcomed the convention on behalf of North Carolina. The question of fixing the minimum price of cotton was discussed at some length. It was finally agreed that each State delegation elect one mem ber to compose the minimum price committee and that this committee fix the minimum price and report to the executive committee of the asso ciation. It was also agreed that the statistical committee and the minimum committee should hold joint sessions. The representatives selected to fix the minimum price of cotton are as fol-' lows: Brooks, of Alabama; Love, of Arkansas; Miller, of Georgia; Max well, of Louisiana; Witherspoon, of Mississippi; Allison, of North Caro speech, a motion to adjourn till 10 o'clock the next morning was carried. The report of the committee on min imum price will not be made until the morning session Thursday. There are two elements contending with each other. One is holding out for 12 cents, the other wants the price fixed at 10 cents. It is believed that the 12 cent men are in the majority, and that this will be the minimum price. There is a probability, however, of a com promise on ll cents. The committee having in charge the fixing of the minimum price of the coming cotton crop is as follows: Brooks, of Alabama; Love, of Ar kansas; Miller, of Georgia; Maxwell, of Louisiana; Witherspoon, ,of Mis sissippi; Allison, of North Carolina; Smith, of South Carolina; Davis, of Tennessee (chairman); Hickey, of Texas, and Erwin, of Oklahoma. Private Car Line Bates. Washington, Special.-The Southern Railway, the Atlantic Coast Line, tho Central of Georgia, the Atchison, To peka & Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania have filed their answers to the inquiry of the inter-State commerce commis sion concerning relations between re frigerator lines and railroads. All ex cept the' last two mentioned deelare that they are in no way responsible for the changes made by the Armour Car Lines. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Good housekeepTng is surely an art, for besides seeing that every room in the house is perfection In every de tail, window curtains always fresh and clean, floors spotless, not a fleck of dust anywhere, everything at hand for the toilet-the service must be faultless, your maid in a neat hlack gown, white apron, stiff white collar and cuffs, her manner deferential when she opens the door for you or waits upon you at the table. The cooking, of course, has to be delicious, the kind that melts in your mouth, the washing must he unques tionable, and the ironing a picture in itself. All these things and many more are simply parts of good house keeping, and if a woman is able to carry on and control a house of her own in the right kind of way, her work ls inferior to no man's and she deserves just as much credit and of tentimes a great deal more.-Ameri can Cultivator. Japan has raised by exchequer bonds Pt home since the beginning of T?i?3ford's Black-Draught comes nearer regulating the entire system and keeping the body in health than any ocher medicine made. It is alway? ready in any emergency to treat ailments that are frequent in any family, such as indigestion, biliousness, colds, diarrhoea, and stomach aches. Thedfoird's Black-Draught is the standard, never-failing remedy for stomach, bowel, liver and kidney troubles. It is a cure for the domes tic ills which so frequently Bummon the dpctor. It is as good for children as it is for grown persons. A dose of this medicine every day will soon cure the most obstinate case of dys pepsia or^ constipation, and when taken as directed brings quick relief. PASTILLE, III., Dec. 23,1002. Thedford's Black-Draught bas boon our family doctor for flvo yearn and vre want no othor. When any of us feel badly wo tako c. doso and aro all right in twelve boura. We havo spent lots of money for doctor bills, but got along Just as well With Black-Draugfit. H- BADER. Ask yoiir dealer for a package of Thedford's Black-Draught and if he does not keep it send 25c. to The Chatta nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn, and a package will be mail 2d to you. lilli lil If III Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises? Fountain Inn, S. C.-The Fountain Tim Manufacturing Co., lias decided to add 4,500 spindles. Thc company has erected a two-story 75x104 ad dition to its buildings to receive tbe new spindles and preparatory ma chinen*, and this equipment is now being placed in position. It is also adding 60 72-incli Jacquard looms for weaving cotton damasks and equip ping a dychousc. J. R. Young, super intendent, made thc plans for thc im provements, and is in charge of all the work connected therewith. The cost of these betterments will amount to about $50,000. Thc company has been operating 5,064 ring spindles and 3,000 twisting spindles, manufac turing yearns. Its present enlarge ment is thc second in five years under the same management. C. E. Gra ham is president, and R. L. Graham, treasurer. Columbia, S. C.-The stockholders of the Olmpia Cotton Mills, met last week, purpsuant to a resolution adopted by the'directors at a.meeting held on July 13, and voted an in crease in the capital stock to the amount of $3,000,000. The amount md is ^ the increase is $1,800,000, a ?-lp be known as ''first preferred [qck." Practically all of this amount Ul be iJBral to thc present holders tbMffl^^morl?-;i,u'o bonds. The Jimpany is practically reorganized. ?he mill and equipment is in the best hysical condition and indications are !at the demand for the product of le 100,320 spindles and 2,250 looms jill be satisfactory. ; Textile Notes. . The Lancaster, S. C., Cotton Mills ?fis declared its urual semi-annual yidend of 3 1-2 per .cent. .The Eureaka Cotton Mills of Chcs i', S. Cs, has declared its usual semi inunl dividend of 3 1-2 per cent. 'Messrs. Sanders, Sim th & Co., of {harlolte, N.C., will install a bleach ig plant in Iheir^cotfon-batling mill, his improvement will add largely lo flic mill's cnpacily, which is nov.- 2, h00 pounds daily cotton batting and [mattress felts. The Eagle and Phoenix Mills of Columbus, Ga., announced its fall prices on rope last week and on thc same day filed orders fur 250,000 pounds of the product. The rope manufactured varie.! from three-six teenths to three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The Pomona Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Greensboro,. N. C., will roof iii mill No. 2, which is 130x200 feet tn size, and fill it with machinery later on, after the first mill of 10,000 ?spindles and 300 looms is finding a ready market for its product of ex port sheetings and drills. A stock company has been organ iized at Clafton, Gi'., to establish a $100,000 etd ton factory, and will be gin to erect its buildings next month. A third cotton mill for Newberry, S. C., is the. latest announcement along the line ot' that city's progress and spirit. Charles Iceman, the promoter of the cotton mill for Cheraw, 8. C., is looking over sites for the mill. It is said that sufficient capital has been subscribed to build the mill at once. Capital $100,000. Capitalists of Meridian, Miss., dis gusted with eastern associates fail ing to put up $200,000 promised mon ey, have assumed charge of the pro posed Beatrice Cotton Mills, costing $500,000. Half the capital is already raised, and the plaut will be bonded for the balance. It may now be counted as an es tablished fact, that Cherryville is to have her fourth cotton mill in the near future. A "Winston special says: "C. B. Watson left for Halifax county, Ya., to appear for the defense in a $30, 000 damage suit, instituted against the big cotton mill at Roanoke Rap ids, for which John Patterson, form erly of this city, is manager. The case is sci for trial this week. A Newberry, S. C., special says: A third cotton mill for Newberry is the latest announcement along the line of this-city's progress and spirit. A prominent citizen thoroughly alive to the interests of Newberry and its people, stated that tho mill will be erected, lt is probable that, it will be built at Helena, a small town ad joining this city. Newberry at, pres ent boasts of two of the finest cotton mills in the state. a LATE FEVER REPORT Conditions Alternately Worse and Better at Stricken Centers VIGOROUS WORK TO EXTERMINATE Sunday's Reports Show That New Oases Are Still Developing, Though Not So Numerous. New Orleans, Special.-Official re port to 6 p. m.: New cases, 27; total, 2,289. Deaths, 7; total, 316. New Foci, ll. Cases under treatment, 296; dis charged, 1,677. The unfavorable part of the Sunday report is the unusually large number of deaths. Another distinguished member of the Roman Catholic clergy is in the list, Father L. E. Green, of the Jesuit College. He died at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after being ill eact ly a week. He was struck with a chill last Sunday just after delivering a lec ture, but nothing was thought of it. The next day he visited a room in the i college which had been screened and made ready for emergencies in accord ance with the suggestion of Dr. White, and jokingly remarked to one of his ! colleagues that they had the room I ready now and only needed the first pa tient. A few hours later he was the occupant. He was later transferred to l.he Hotel Dieu. He suffered from other complications which caused the fatal ending. He was 38 years ol' age and a native of England. He had been here about two years and was a teacher in thc branch schcol conducted by the Jesuits on St. Philip street. There was not a single Italian name among the other deaths. One occurr ed in the Emergency Hospital, one in Algiers and one in the French Asylum, on St. Ann street. Since the Marine Hospital Service has been in charge, the officers have discovered 57 foci infections, which has been of some standing and were unknwon except through the second ary infection. The district officers have been especially diligent in thus trac ing up infection and this has been the means of checking what threatened to be serious nests in different neigh borhoods. 19 MEN BLOWN TO SHREDS. Terrible Destruction Wrought by Powder Mill Explosion. Connelsville, Pa., Special.-The Rand Powder Mills r.. Fairchance, six miles south at Uniontown, were entirely wip ed out by an explosion at 9.05 o'clock 'Saturday. Of the 32 men who went to work in the mill, 19 are known to be dead. Of these 13 have been identified. Nine men, including C. M. Rand, man ager of the plant, were seriously injur ed. Scores of people in the town of Fair f.'hance, within half a mile of the pow der mills; were more or less painfully injured. The shock of the explosion was dis tinctly felt in Connelsville, 20 miles away, building being rocked on their foundations. At Uniontown hundreds of panes of glass were broken. In the town of Fairchance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. The sides were battered as though axes had been used. Haystacks were toppled over in the fields and live stock ??/?ere stunned. The rails of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and the West Pennsyll vania Traction Railway Company were rooted from the road bed and traffic was delayed from four to six hours, transfers being made over the Penn sylvania- Thain No. 52 on the Balti more and Ohio had a narrow escape from annihilation. It had just passed the Rand Mills when the explosion oc coaches were shattered and passengers coaches were shattered in passengers thrown into a panic. Had the train been a few seconnds late it would have been'blown up, as the mills were in a few rods off the track. A street car on the West Pennsylvania road had also passed just a few seconds before the explosion and was far away enough to escape damage, though it was derailed. Notchez Has Two New Cases. Natchez, Miss., Special.-Two new cases in one family, making one new focus of infection, were reported Sun da}'. The patients, Ruby and Joe Ziegler, white, live on a street adja cent to the block where the first infec tion was discovered. There are now five cases under treatment.. A re sume of the local fever record shows 19 cases for the last two weeks; no deaths. Monday was fumigation day. Purchased Terminals. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-The Bir mingham Belt Railroad Company has purchased two hundred acres of land, at Village Creek, near Birmingham, which will be utilized for terminals for tral roads. The property extends from tral roads. The property ?tends from North Birmingham to a point near the Thomas furnaces, a distance of about two miles. The Belt Line Is owned by the Frisco and the Illinois Central, and bas just completed arrangements for entering Birmingham over the tracks of the Frisco. Cotton Address Not Ready. Asheville, Special.-The public ad dress of the Southern Cotton Associa tion will not be issued for a week or ten days. The framing of the address is in the hands of a committee com posed of Brown, of North Carolina; Smith, of South Carolina; Moody, of Alabama; and McMartin, of Mississip pi. The actual wording and writing of the document will be done by Mr. Mc Martin. Admits Wrecking Train, aged 14, and John McDowell, aged 10, aged 14, and John McDowell, age:'. both colored, were arrested by Atlan tic Coast Line Detective L. B. Bryan and City Detective J. T. Durst. The boys confessed that they wrecked the Atlantic Coast Line freight train in the city limits Thursday night ny plac ing spikes on the tracks. They want ed to see how far the engine would jump. In the wreck Engineer Rad ford received serious injuries, and the track was blocked for many hours. More Dispensary Rottenness. Sumter, S. C., Special.-Wednesday's two sessions of the dispensary investi gating commission were productive of evidence tending to show that L. J. Williams, recently defeated for Con gress, used his influence while chair man of the State board, to get county dispensers to get their friends to the polls in the interest of the gubernato rial candidacy of ex-Congressman J. W. Talbert, now chief political gladiator against the dispensary, and threatening to mn for Governor on the prohibition FK?TFPUL I'DfiNACES; INTENSE HEAT PRODUCIS FREClCU' STONES* Scientists llave Succeeded lil IMncfciii J?cnl lUnmoncTn and KuWe* From th Crucible oT tho Furnace. Recent Advices from France state that Professor Moissafi, the eminent scientist and inventor, lias actually succeeded in making genuine dia monds and rubles. Ho employs for this purpose the electric furnace, which has been so improved that a degree of heat cnn be proddced ap proaching the extreme temp?ratures which were undoubtedly a factor in the formation of minerals and gem? in the interior of the earth. The rubies obtained are of large size, weighing ten or fifteen carats, and In quality aud color equal and even surpass those found in the earth. The natural forces attending the for mation of diamonds seem to have been more complicated, and so far the diamonds resulting from the efforts of the scientists have been very small, but still they are positively identified as the carbon crystal-the diamond. They are remarkably clear and bright, and on a small scale as tine specimens as nature's own product. The electric furnace has enriched chemistry with a whole series of new compounds. Probably the one of most value to mankind at large is Calcium Carbide. The simple application of water to Calcium Carbide generates the gas Acetylene, which is now being commonly used for lighting. The peculiar merits of Acetylene light are its brilliance and high candle power, ease of installation, economy and its adaptability for lighting build ings of every description, regardless of their location. Pointed Paragraphs. A dangerous thing about an heiress losing all her money is that all her good looks go with it. 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