The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, December 21, 1905, Image 4
HIS COMPLAINT.
“I s’pose,” growled the old farmer,
“them air autymobeels Iz entitled t'
half th’ road, ain’t they?”
"Of course they are. Uncle Hiram,"
replied the village equire.
“Yaas, I s’pose so,” continued the
old man, “but I don’t know ez they’ve
got enny right t’ take their half out
uv th’ middle, by gras-s!”—Chicago
News.
ONLY .ONE.
“I’ve, received ten proposals this
fall.”
“The persistent fellow! What’s his
name?’*—Cleveland Leader.
FirSnermanAnOyrturad. Vo fit* or neprous-
PMsnfter first day’s nse of T)r. Kline's Great
VerreRe«torer,l’2trUlbottleand treatise free
rr.R. H. Fi-isf, Ltd.. !8J Aroh f ; t..Phlla.,Pa
Tbomaa Price is the new Premier of
South Australia.
To Care m Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to care. E.
W. Grove's signature on each box. 25c.
Valuable dogs are often vaccinated nowa
days.
F. IT. Gbekk’b 8oxs, of Atlanta. G*., are
theonly successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertise-
went in another column of this paper.
A children’s branch of the North India
Bible Society has been formed.
Pleo’s Cure for Consumption is an infallible
mediflno for coughs and colds.—N. W,
StMUK.i,, OcemGrove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
The railway companies of England and
Wales employ 312.000 men.
Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s
Sanitary Lotion; never fails. Sold by
Druggists. Mail orders promptly filled
by Dr. Dctcbon, Crawfordsville, Ind. tl.
Two street peddlers in Bradford, Eng
land, bought a horse for $11.25.
Mrs. Wins'ow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
tcething.Foftensthegums.' '■dneesinflamma-
iion.sllavfl pain,cures wlrd colic,25c.a bottle
Dr. Clennon, of St. Louis, is Ihe young
est archbishop in the world.
A <Ju»r»iitee'l Cur» t'o.' Flteg,
Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles.
Druggists are authorized to refund money if
Pazo Ointment fails to cure in f>to 14 days. 50c.
Celery is the cultivated variety of the
English weed, smallage.
Taylor’s CheroKee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Slullen Is Nature’s great remedy—Cures
Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption^
and all throat and lung troubles. At drug
gists, 26c., 60c. and $1.00 per bottle.
FAIRLY ROLLED IN IT.
“Our office boy dropped into poetry
yesterday.”
“How was that?”
“The literary editor kicked him In
to the waste basket.”—Cleveland
Leader.
tllMORS eONQUERED
SERIOUS OPERATIONS AVOIDED
Unqualified Success of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound In the
Case of Mrs. Fannie D. Fox.
One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is
the conquering of woman’s dread en
emy, Tumor.
The growth of a tumor is so sly that
frequently its presence is not suspected
until it is far advanced.
So-called “wandering pains” may
come from its early stages, or the
presence of danger may he made mani
fest by profuse menstruation, accom
panied by unusual pain, from the
ovaries down the groin and thighs.
If you have mysterious pains, if there
are indications of inflammation or dis
placement, don’t wait for time to con
firm your fears and go through the
horrors of a hospital operation; secure
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound right a way and begin its use.
Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., will
give you her advice free of all charge
if you will write her about yourself.
Your letter will be seen by women only.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham;—
“ I take the liberty to congratulate you on
the success I have had with your wonderful
medicine. Eighteen months ago my month-
lie* stopped. Shortly after I felt so badly that
I submitted to a thorough examination by a
physician and was told that I had a tumor
on the uterus and would have to undergo an
operation.
“ Soon after I read one of vour advertise
ments and decided to give Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable (Compound a trial. After
trying five bottles as directed the tumor is
entirely gone. I have been examined by a
physician and ho says I have no signs of a
tuinor now. It has also brought my month
lies around once more, and I am entirely
well.”—Fannie D. Fox, 7 Chestnut Street,
Bradford, Pa.
THE MAN
BEHIND THE SAW
Has easy work if it's an Atkins.
The keen, clean cutting edge
and perfect taper of the
blade make it run easly
without buckling.
No •• humping ” to
do with the Perfec
tion Handle.
But there are other men behind
the Atkins Saw. The originator of
silver stbel, the fiuest crucible
steel made, was a gixxl deal of a
man. The dlscovererof the Atkins
secret tempering process was likewise a man of
brains am! genius.
And there are high-class workmen behind
this saw, masters of their craft, whose skill and
pride of workmanship have helped to make the
Atkins Trade Mark an assurance of quality as
reliable as the Goverment assay stamp.
We make all types and sizes of Saws, but
only one grade—the best.
Atkins Saws, Corn Knives, Perfection Floor
Scrapers, etc., are sold by all good hardware
dealers. Catalogue on request.
E.. C. ATKINS (EL CO.. Inc.
Largest Saw Manufacturers in the World.
Factory and Executive Office.. Indian.polo, Indians-
BRANCHES Now York, Chlengo, Minneapolis,
Portland, (Oregon), Seattle, San Francisco,
Memphis, Atlanta and Toronto, (Canada).
Accept no Subatitute—Inaiat on the Atkins Brand
SOLD BY GOOD DEALERS EVERYWHERE.
FOR WOMEN
troubled with ills peculiar to jm^r
then sex, used as a douche is marvelously suc
cessful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs
ctops discharges, heals inflammation and local
soreness, cures leucorrhcea and nasal catarrh.
Paxtine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure
water, and is far more cleansing, healing, germicidal
and economical than liquid antiseptics for air
TOILET /jND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES
For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box.
Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free.
Ymc R. Paxton Company Boston. Masc,
CURED
Gives
Quick
Relief.
Removes all swelling in 8 to 20
days ; effects a permanent cure
in 50 to 60 days. Trial treatment
given free. Nothingcan be fairer
Write Dr. H. H. Green’s Sons,
Specialists, Box b Atlanta, Qa.
DESERT EXPLORERS’ PERILS
FATE OF A PARTY THAT UNDER
TOOK TO SURVEY SEISTAN.
A Hazardous Enterprise in a Remote,
Inhospitable and Unfrequented Part
of India—Conspicuous Instance of
Bravery in a Native Surveyor.
The Sei'stan boundary ccraimission,
whidh has now returned to India, was
one of those hazardous enterpriser
that the survey officers of the Gov
ernment of India are every now and
then called upon to undertake In re
mote, unfrequented and inhospitable
regions, to penetrate into which,
even with such supplies and escort as
are feasible, is practically to carry
one’s life in one’s hand.
For many months the beat in Seis-
tan is overpowering, while a wind
known as the “120 days wind” blows
from the northwest with the force of
a hurricane, its pace varying up to
seventy miles an hour. In the win
ter there are violent snowstorms and
blizzards, while the thermometer falls
almost to zero. In a great blizzard
which raged for five days in March,
1903, during tb? progress of the mis
sion, the wind actually rose to 120
miles an hour.
One conspicuous piece of devotion
on the part of a native surveyor nam
ed Mohi-ud-din deserves mention. He
was a man cf some distinction who
had won the title of K'tan Bahadur
by previous notable surveys on the
frontier. While in Seistan he was
particularly desirous of exploring the
Da:sht-:-Margu, a very forbidding des
ert. between the Helmund and Kasb
rivers, and in June, 1903, in spite of
the extreme heat, he struck out from
a point west of Rudbar on the Hel
mund. on a course nearly due north,
his party consisting of four survey
assistants, four Afghan guides and
two camel men.
They marched all night, called a
halt in the early morning and contin
ued the march during the day. At
nightfall the water carried by tbe
camel had given out, and the guides
urged that either the return journey
should be begun at once or a route
taken due west, so as to strike the
northern bend of the Helmund. Mohi-
ud-din, however, was determined to
push on and a guide was sent off on
a camel to find water. He returned
with a leather skin full, but it was so
brackish that IJhose who drank it fell
ill and could not eat their food. The
party had then to march on, and they
were fortunate enough to reach an
other well where a 'small supply of
drinking water wa.s obtained.
At midnight on the 14th day the>
started again, still steer.ng north
ward, and at daybreak they baited
on a high desert plain. There was
no sign of water, and, the position be
ing critical, Mohi-ud-din reluctantly
recognized the futility of further ex
ploration. He agreed to return, but
by night, afl^r great 'sufferings from
thirst, two of the guides became in-
semsube. A third guilde, Sultan Ma
homed, tied each cf them upon a rid
ing camel and himself on a third cam
el. The animals were tfnen linked to
gether and left to go whither their
instinct would lead them. Sultan
Mahomed fell unconscious during the
night and remembered nothing till
he came to through water being pour
ed down his throat. He and bis
friends had been rescued by a hunt-
, r -r wandered into rfte-flesert
in quest d? ..wild^jjfiSSSs—'The party
were within an a^e of death, iFut
were taken to Chakansur, an Afghan
village on the Kash River, and under
careful treatment recovered.
The rest of the party under Mohi-
ud-din met with a melancholy fate.
They were too weak to march, and
the first to die was a camel man,
who wandered into the desert and
never returned. The otlhors remain
ed all night with Mohi-ud-din, and
in the early morning, seeing he was
nearly dying, they crawled to a ra
vine close by and dug for water. No
spring was found and their only re
lief was to throw the damp earth
over their bodies. In the evening
some of these men succeeded in
struggling back to camp. Where the>
found Mohi-ud-din dead alongside *>f
his Ihorse.
His faithful attendant, strong m
his fen.se of duty, cut the map off the
surveyor’s plane table and wrapped
it round his body in liis waistband.
He afterwards explained that he was
afraid to carry it in his hand, for
fear he might become insensible and
lose it. They then wandered from
the camp and, finally, all but Saidu
lay down in the shade of a thigh
mound to die. Saidu struggled on
the whole day, but must have be
come de’irkms, for he remembered
nothing till he regained conscious
ness for a time by stumbling into a
pool of water. On coming to again
he found himself being carried on a
man’s hack to Chakansur. He had
been discovered by some villagers,
and, as in the case of the three
guides, his life was saved with dif
ficulty.
The Afglhan authorit’es sent out
search parties with water, and event
ually recovered the bodies of Mohi-
ud-din, and the three sub-surveyors,
together with the camp kit. The
bodies were reverently interred by
the Afghans at the shrine of Amiran,
a place of peculiar sanctity, as Ami-
rah is said to have been a first cous
ing of the Proplhet. Mohi-ud-din s
death, although brought on perhaps
by too venturesome a disregard of
danger, was a cosnpicuous instance
of the devotion met with in the na
tive ranks of the Indian Survey De
partment. and It is gratifying to
learn that a fitting reward has been
accorded to the faithful Saidu. Lon
don Times.
STANLEY’S TRIP EASY NOW.
Just Saved Bank Roil.
The veteran telegraph operator at
length took part in the general re
counting of incidents and adventures
by h\s fellow craftsmen.
“Out in California several years
ago,” he said, “I was at the key in
the only telegraph office in a rapidly
rising town. Early one morning I
received a message addressed to the
cashier of the local bank from its
president, to the effect that his plan
had failed and to close the banks
dcors and suspend payments until
further notice. I had $2,200 in that
bank—the savings of eleven years.
It was my duty to send the message
and see my saving vanish.
Then an idea occured to me. It
was not my duty to forward tthe mes
sage personally. And the only boy
I had was delivering a dispatch and
wouldn’t be back for at least an hour.
“So, with a clear conscience, I
slipped on my ccat, rushed to the
bank and withdrew my deposit. An
hour later the crash came, but I was
not underneath,”—Js’ew York/Press.
German Does in Seventeen Days
What Explorer Did in Nine Months.
Count von Gotzen, the Governor of
German E)ast Africa, has madei a jour
ney to Victoria Nyanza and around
the great lake, which in distance cov
ered and the circumnavigation o* the
lake much resembles Stanley’s jour
ney in 1875. But the two journeys are
In other respects wonderfully differ
ent.
It took Stanley nine months and
six days from the time he left the
Indian Ocean to reach the lake cir
cumnavigate it, and to reach the lake,
cumnavigate it and attain the chief
town of the King of UJganda, on the
norrh shore. The time required by
Count von Gotzen, however, to reach
the lake, entirely circumnavigate it
and arrive in Uganda within a few
miles of the point where Stanley en
tered it, was seventeen days, six of
which were spent at three German
stations on the shores. He was back
in Mombass on the Indian Ocean,
just three weeks after he ha<j left
Zanzibar for his inland journey.
Stanley made the journey through
the jungles, scores of porters carry
ing his baggage on their heads, and
6 or 7 miles a day was good work.
Sometimes he was delayed for weeks
while parleying with chiefs for per
mission to cro:-s their territory. Von
Gotzen on the contrary, made his com
fortable journey In a well appointed
train and was rnly two days in reach
ing the lake. The actual time of trav
el, in fact, was only twenty-four
hours, for trains on the Uganda rail
road do not yet travel in the night
time.
Stanley made his way around the
shores of the lake in small boats row
ed by his black men. Several times
the lives of the whole party were im
perilled by storms that came near
swamping the boats. But the German
Governor stepped from the train at
Port Florence to the deck of a fine
and swift little steamer that carried
him clear around the lake. He des
cribes tthc steam voyage as one of
his pleasantest experiences in Afri
ca.
Now and then Stanley was attacked
by islanders in the lake who '-iad
never heard of white men before and
were bent on the destruction of the
explorer’s party. Many persons still
remember the hue and cry that was
raised in England when the news
came of Stanley’s fight with the na
tives of one of the inlands. The
fact Is, not a man of his party would
have escaped if he had not used his
guns.
The German Governor, the other
hand, was received at the three Ger
man stations which he visited and at
the capital of British Uganda with
cannon salutes, speeches, banquets
and fireworks. Those were festival
day at Srhirati, Muansa, Bukola and
Entebbe, for it was the first time that
a Governor of Germaan East Africa
had visited the 700 miles of German
coast line around the southern half
of the lake.
Thirty years have wrought this
wonderful transformation and it is
only forty-five years since Speke, the
discoverer of Victoria’s Nyanza, grop
ing his way through unknown coun
tries and unfriendly tribes, was one
year and four and a half months in
reaching the lake from the lea.
MINIATURE FURNITURE.
Not Toys, 'Sut~~Drnam&ntS-~For- The
Drawing Room and High in Cost.
f "Toys for grownups.” That’s the
way one woman put It as she peered
down Into a brightly lighty showcase
at a set of miniature furniture in
French gilt—sofa, table and two
chairs. The oval top of the table and
the seats of sofa and chairs were en
amelled in white relieved with flow
er decoration of the dainty Empire
style.
“The price? I declare! This is a
season for luxury, when one is ex
pected to give so much for trinkets!
But they are charming little orna
ments, and have a set of them I will.
“Miniature furniture for ornaments
is decidedly the rage this' fall,” ex
plained the salesman. “These are
the most elaborate ones we have,
but they come also in old Dutch sil
ver and filagree silver. Here is the
old Dutch.
He showed a tray laden with an
assortment of artistic looking little
objects that caused the customer to
utter delightful exclamations.
A Seian chair of daintiest outline
and ornamentation first engaged th*}
attention. It was not more than an
inch and a quarter in height. A lit
tle bathing house on wheels that
went round next called for examina
tion. A watering pot perhaps three-
quarters of an inch high, and a pitch
er of the same dimensions next at
tracted notice, which was quickly dis
tracted by a slipper that must havo
been dropped on the tray by a tiny
fairy Cinderella.
A cart driven by a sprightly Cu
pid lashing an inch of goat made a
spirited ornament. Another design
showed a dovecote covered with tiny
birds, whoso little heads were turned
down to look at a Cupid holding high
a litter for one of them to carry.
The filagree silver devices compris
ed chairs, sofas, dressing tables, beds,
goblets pitchers, as beautifully de
signed a coach a-s one ’could dream
of and an exceedingly taking automo 1
bile.
“Before you go I’d like to show you |
some other French gilt ornaments,” ,
continue! the salesman. “These are I
just as new as the furniture trink
ets,”
He drew from his showcase several
jewel boxes in gilt set with a minia
ture or with several miniatures on the
cover.
“They are in the Louis XVI. style
you see. This is such a season for
jewelry that it Is natural that some
thing new in jewel cases should ap
pear in tihe market.”—New \ork
§un.
“HOT-AIR" COFFIN FACTORIES
Lead Many Unwary Investors into
Quicksands of Financial Ruin.
In these days of frenzied finance,
and the limelight of investigation on
Insurance corporations, the ordinary
public is amazed over the disclosure
of how millions are carelessly handled
by the heads of large Institutions, sup
posed to be safe and conservative.
One fact revealed by these disclos
ures, is that the men connected with
such institutions, have gotten beyond
the days of small capital, and deal
with such which rival Uncle Sam's
treasury, through which, if successfuL
they will realize large profits.
How sadly in comparison do the "in
vestors” In many manufacturing en
terprises eppear, when judged from
the standpoint of “knowing what you
do,” and nowhere is this more patent
than with the investor that is con
stantly sinking funds In the many
mushroom coffin factories that Appear,
and then after a spasm “disappear,'
either through a “shut down” or
through the sheriff.
Did the loss but extend only to these
“investors” it would be but the usual re
sult, of not “looking before you leap
ed,” but what of the creditors, and
frequently the amounts advanced by
“localities” paid to stimulate the new
town industries, and often the wages
due to workmen.
The prevailing opinion in the public
mind that the manufacturing of un
dertakers’ goods returns tremendous
profits, is no doubt stimulated by ex
perience had with the undertaker, but
in the manufacturing of funeral sup
plies, the question becomes quite a
different proposition, for supply and
demand, pure and simple, regulates
the price, as it does in all other busi
ness, with the exception that “the
demands cannot be stimulated, by
either style, product, or price, “Fa
ther Time,” alone controls.
Here is where the over zealous cap
italist or community allow promoters,
or patriotism to Impose upon their
credulity, in accepting statements
which will not bear the “light of in
vestigation,” but through ignorance of
conditions, subscribe and put up their
cash, only to get wise after it is too
late.
Statistics show that there are one
hundred and ninety-five casket man
ufacturing and jobbing plants In the
United,States, of which 163 are man-
facturers of varying capacities, while
19 manufacture approximately 375,000
coffns and caskets annually, 30 manu
facture 360,000, 114 manufacture 612,-
000, or a total of 1,347,000 coffins and
caskets, manufactured annually In the
United States, all of which must be
consumed through the ordinary de
mand of mortality, but what is the
demand? In the mortality abstract of
the twelfth census, table number 94,
we find that the total deaths from
all causes in the registration area of
the United States was 512,669 for
twelve months, but this registration
area was only 38 per cent of the con
tinental territory of the United
States. In part I. of the final report
cn vital statistics, page VII. the final
computation shows a death rate in
the United States of 16.3 per 1,000-,
and while this is considered excessive:
but assuming it to be correct, it will
—approximately —-l^&oon
deaths per year in this country includ
ing paupers.
Now what of the 109,000 coffins and
caskets produced annually in excess
of the demand which the public can
not be induced to purchase by the
use of any of the ordinary mediums
used to stimulate trade as practiced
in other lines of business? Unques
tionably it is a case of over-supply,
which can not be ‘disposed of, and
the surplus is more than double the
quantity stated, for there is no pro
vision in the estimate for pauper cof
fins, which are not made in the regular
coffin factories, whereas the number
of deaths Include paupers, and thus
Ihe fate of nine out of every ten new
coffin plants is clearly written, even
before the stock is subscribed, to say
notnlug of the failure of the old
ones.
It sometimes happens that a new
plant of this kind, after a hard strug
gle, succeeds In surviving some of the
older ones, but the same amount of
capital and energy invested in some
other line of business would not run
such great risk of failure, while prof
its in the event of success have prov
en to be less than any other class of
business.
The records show that the average
per cent of profit in the casket man
ufacturing business by houses which
have been in business for a number
of years, and equipped with the best
facilities for turning out their work
at the smallest per cent, runs from
5 to 8 per cent, while several, if not
the majority of them can do no bet
ter than break even, and in a number
of instances close down, or are clos
ed out in a few years.
The government statistics of 1900
shows that in that year $13,585,162.00
of capital was invested in the casket
manufacturing business, and the value
of the product was $13,952,308.00 at
a cost of $10,022,829.00 for material
and wages, or a gain of only 28 per
cent over the amount expended. Now
deduct from this the 20 to 25 per cent
necessary for the cost of selling, in
cidental and sundry expenses and it
can be readily seen that the profits
will be small if any.
Since these figures were tabulated
raw material and labor have both ad
vanced considerably with no advance
in the finished product, which makes
the small margin between the cost of
production and the amount realized
for the finished goods likely to disap
pear altogether.
II
SCIENCE NOTES.
Training in Obedience.
A fault of many cf our young men
and growing boys is their disregaid
for authority, whether parental or civ
il, and, accompanying this a seeming
lack of respect toward their elders.
Anything that will tend to remedy
these characteristics without lessen
ing a proper independence and in
dividuality is a wholesome and use
ful influence. The essential of al!
things military is prompt and unques
tioning obedience and when this obed
ience is required of students it cannot
fail to inspire in them a certain de
gree of respect for authority and re
gard for discipline; results beneficial
both to the Individual and to the state.
Such results are, in par, the object
cf the military training.—St. Nicho
las.
The clock in Exeter Cathedra),
England 700 years old.
A Teetotaler.
A woman who not long ago was In
troduced to the venerable Susan B.
Anthony, asked Miss Anthony if she
was not a believer in total abstinence.
“Well,” said Miss Anthony, with a
pleasant smile, “I am a worker for the
cause of temperance; but I am no
bigot. Your question reminds me of
a story that I once heard about Robert
Bonner the publisher.
“It appears that when some cne
asked him if he was a teetotaler, he
replied: ‘I should not call myself one.
I had a glass of sherry when I caiao
to New York in 1844.’ ”—The Sunday
Magazine.
Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin,
Thomas H. Huxley and Louis Pasteur
at various times ia their lives thought
that they had discovered the seepet
of life-
( The best results yet attained in the
“arious attempts that have been made ;
to produce a wearable cloth from pa
per are said to be those produced by ■
a patented process employed in Sax- |
lony.
OD LI
( One century has elapsed since
Theodore de Saussure published his
remarkable investigations relating to
the nutrition of plants and to the in
fluences upon plants of certain well-
known physical forces.
Hypnotism as a cure for rheumatism
has been brought to the attention of
the University of Chicago medical
professors by the discoveries and
demonstrations of Otto W. Greenberg,
a young medical student. He claims
to'be able to cure the most chronic
case by hypnotic power.
Some of the peculiar appearances of
lightning flashes have been made the
subject’ of a communication to the
French Academy of Sciences. Ob
servers frequently notice that a light
ning flash has a flickering appear
ance. This is ascribed to several suc
cessive flashes following the same
route at very brief intervals.
A French scientist thinks the fu
ture man will be noseless and legless.
The nose has already lost the keen
scent by which the early man was
warned of danger and by which he
tracked his prey, and in time the or
gan must cease to be useful, when it
will disappear. He foresees an in
creasing dependence on artificial
means of locomotion, and a conse
quent shrinkage and loss of the legs.
At the Eutaw entrance to Druid
Hill park stands one of the most re
markable sun dials in the world. The
time in many parts of the world is
shown whenever the sun is shining.
It is easily possible almost at first
glance to read the time within two
or three minutes, while closer ac
quaintance with the dial enables the
correct time to be read to the minute.
The base is of carved stone. The dial
is also of stone covered v/ith bronze.
The instrument was presented to the
park by Mr. Peter Hamilton, who de
signed and made it entirely of stone
—Baltimore Sun.
WELSH COAL.
Great Demand for It in Home and
Foreign Markets.
According to the London Times,
Welsh steam coal is in great demand
beth at home and abroad. The Times
s*ys:
Welsh coal is used principally for
Eflval and manufacturing purposes. Its
superior calorific power, combined
with its weathering capabilities, have
given it a peculiar advantage over oth
er coals for the use of mercantile
steamships, and it is mainly in virtue
of this advantage that the steam coal
of South Wales has now for about
twenty-five years occupied its unique
position at the various coaling depots
along the trade routes of the world.
Last year the quantity of coal ex
ported from Cardiff was 14,920,610 tons,
and from all the South Wales ports
over 21,000,000 tons, or just half the
total coal export trade of the whole
country. In France and Italy the rail
ways as well as the steamship lines
are large consumers, but the following
figures ^vill give an idea of the extent
to which Cardiff coaT~j.s shipped to
ti e depots -where mercantile steam
ships and warships call in order to re-
fiU-4beir bunkers.
The nearest and by far the greatest
market is in the Mediterranean, and
the following were the exports from
Cardiff in 1904 to some of the ports on
the French, Italian and Egyptian
coasts: Alexandria, 503,000 tons, Bor
deaux, 285,000 tons; Constantinople,
136,000 tons; Genoa, 910,000 tons; Gib
raltar, 189,826 tons; Marseilles, 331,157
tons; Malta, 342,106 tons; and Port
Said, 1,114,086 tons. To Madeira and
the Canary Islands the exports amount
ed to over 600,000 tons; to Aden, 167,-
000 tons; to Cape Town, 317,000 tons;
to Colombo, 280,000 tons; to the Phil
ippines, 57,000 tons; to Hongkong,
582,596 tons; to Singapore, 113,000
tons; to Shanghai, 141,000 tons; and
over 1,200,000 tons went to Uruguay
and the Argentine Republic.
Other depots might have been men
tioned, but these figures, though in a
few cases of an exceptional character,
suffice to show how largely supplied is
the world’s mercantile marine with
the “black diamonds” of the South
Wales coal field, and incidentally to
explain how it is that Cardiff clears
more tonnage for foreign trade than
any other port in the world.
The question of how long Wales will
be able to continue in her present po
sition as the main source of the world’s
supply of this peculiarly valuable kind
of coal is agitating the minds of Welsh
colliers. India, Japan, Australia, the
United States, and other countries are
not only securing sufficient coal for
their own fires at home, but are be
ginning to export to places hitherto en
tirely or almost entirely supplied by
Wales.
Had Never Seen an Electric Fan.
A man who lived ’way back where
people are asked to go and sit down
was in town last week for the first |
time in his natural life, and he cer
tainly saw some sights that were j
strange; but lie kept his astonishment
to himself. Happening in a drug 1
store, the first thing that caught his
attention was an electric fan buzzing
on the counter. He regarded it with
deep interest, then said to the clerk: j
“That’s a pretty slick squirrel you’ve
got doing stunts in that cage. What’ll
you take for him?”—Lippincott’s
Magazine.
About the Limit.
“Do you keep postage stamps?”
“Yes’m,” said the polite druggist. '
“How many?” J
“Five, please.”
The transaction was concluded, but
the woman lingered.
“Is there anything else, ma’am?” in
quired the vender of medicines.
“My trading stamps. Don’t you ad
vertise trading stamps with every pur
chase?” ]
And the druggist was so rattled that
he passed over a couple.
• J
Film-Negative Portal Cards.
Perhaps the latest development of j
the souvenir postal card fad—though 1
it is always hard to say, at any given
time, just what is the latest—is the
sending of a film photographic nega
tive from which the receiver may
print the picture himself on sensitiz- '
ed paper. Of course the recipient i
must be up in photography or the ne
gative cannot be used.—Philadelphia |
Record.
Good Luck
Knocking at
Your Oven Door
You’re bound to have good luck on baking day if you use
Good Luck Baking Powder. There is always just so much
‘Viz” to a spoonful, because it never varies in strength. You
know that’s what makes reliable baking. A good cook who
once tries Good Luck will never go back to the uncertain kinds.
IN CUTTING OUT COUPON FOLLOW THI* UNS
J^Ud^rboTGOODUJCJ^^INGPOW^R^j
fcU^U^m^A^AN^sJwt IT. THEY ARE I
OOOO TOR VALUABLE ARTICLES. SEE LIST IN I
| EACH CAN. Addrets: The Department Store or I
THE SOUTHERN MX nS CO. Drawer 851 Richmond Va U.S A. f
aking Powder
also makes a big difference in the family pooketbook
the day the grocer’s bill is paid. OnlyTO cents
for a pound can—we couldn’t improve the
purity and quality of Good Luck if we
charged three times as much.
Don’t ovorloolc the beautiful premiums we give with
Good Luck Baking Powder. This Is our method of
sharing with you the saving we make by shipping in
carload lota to grocers. Cutout coupon from hack of
each can. The little girt book inside of can illus
trates and describes the articles you may obtain.
THE SOUTHERN MFG. CO.,
1, Va.
STILL HAD A LITTLE PRIDE.
“What is this man charged with?”
asked the police justice.
“Stealing a dog, your honor,” said
the officer.
“Well, sir, what have you got to say
for yourself?”
“Your honor,’ answered the prison
er, drawing a grimy coat sleeve across
his nose, “if you’ll make it embezzle
ment I’ll plead guilty. I may he »
thief, but I’ve got feelln’s.”—Chicago
Tribune.
AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR
Covereil Head, Neck and Stir alders—Suf
fered Agony JTor Twenty-Vivo Years
UnlU Cared by Calicurn.
‘Tor twenty-five years I suffered agony
from a terrible humor, completely covering
my head, neck and shoulders, discharging
matter of such offensiveness to sight and
smell that I became an object of dread. 1
consulted the most able doctors far and
near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura,
and in a surprisingly short time 1 was com
pletely cured. I advise all those suffering
from skin humors to get Cuticura and end
their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149
Congress Street, Boston, Mass.”
OTTON fields need never “wear out.”
A complete fertilizer, with the right
amount of Potash, feeds to the soil the
nourishment that cotton must have, and
which the cotton removes from year to year.
“Cotton Culture,” our interesting 90-page
book, contains valuable pointers on cotton
raising, and shows, fiom comparative photo
graphs, what enormous cotton yields Potash
has produced in different states. This book
will be sent you free of any cost or obligation
if you will just write us for it.
Address, GERMAN KALI WORKS.
New York—93 Nassau Street, or Atlanta, Ga.—2214 So. Broad Street.
DEFINED.
“Ho has a bad habit of calling
every one ‘a dub.’ ”
“Yes, he’s a New Yorker, you
know.”
“Well?”
“Well, a New YorktVs idea of a
'dub’ is any one who doesn’t live in
New York.” ,
“^AMTI-CRIPIHE
/WRME
HAS NO
“ IS GUARANTEED TO CURE
r & GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA.
i w „n’t sell Antl-Orlplne to a dealer who noA** Oa»r»nte* Ifc
Call tor your MONEY HACK IF IT DOMJf'T CVKB.
MT. IF. Dietner, SI.It., Manufacturer
J.S.SCHOFIELD’S SONS CO.
Cares Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood
Poison. Greatest Blood Puri Her Free.
If your blood is impure, thin, diseased,
hot or full of humors, if you have blood
poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores,
scrofula, eczema, Itching, risings and lumps,
scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh,
rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease,
take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) accord
ing to directions. Soon all sores heal,
aches and pairs stop, the blood is made
pure and rich, 1< aving the skin free from
every eruption, and giving the rich glow of
perfect health to the skin. At the same
time B. B. B. improves the digestion, cures
dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just
the medicine for old people, ns it gives
them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, SI
per large bottle, with directions for homo
cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe
trouble and special free medical advice
also sent in sealed letter. B. B. B. is es
pecially advised for chronic, deep-seated
cases of impure blood and skin disease,
and cures after all else fails.
ENGINES
BOILERS
TANKS
TOWERS
STACKS
flanufacturers of and Dealers in
HIGH GRADE HACHINERY
Prices and Specifications upon request.
No Wooden Indians.
Baltimore board of e^tiTrmtes has
refused to permit a wooden Indian
to be placed in front of a cigar store.
The inference is that a wooden Indian
is too combustible.
IFotv's Tills ?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Beward for
any ease of Catarrh th .t cannot In- cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chknf.v <1- Co., Toledo, O.
Wc, tho undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations male by tln-dr firm.
West A Truax. Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, O.
Walding, Kixnax ,V Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucuous sur
faces of tbe system. Testimonials sent free.
Brice, 75e. per bottle. Sold by ail Druggists.
Take Hall's Barm y Bills for constipation.
A COLOR CONFLAGRATION.
Like an ancient Nero
Nature’s fires are spread.
And the north wind fiddles
While the woods burn rod.
—New York Times.
Dyspepsia,
DON’T MISS THIS.
NOT THE BEST.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Do you remem
ber what I said before I married you?
Mr. Crimsonbeak—That you would
not marry the best man on earth.
“Well, I’ve kept my word, haven't
I?”—Yonkers Statesman.
A Caro For Stomach Tronhlo—A New
Method, by Absorption—No Drugs.
Do You Belch ?
It means a diseased Stomach. Arc you
afflicted with Short Breath, Gas, Sour
Eructations, Heart Pains, Indigestion, Dys
pepsia, Burning Bains a.nd Lead Weight
in Pit of Stomach, Acid Stomach, Dis
tended Abdomen, Dizziness, Colic?
Bad Breath or Any Other Stomach Tor
ture?
Let us send you a box of Mull’s Anti-
Belch Wafers free to convince you that it
euros.
Nothing else like it known. It’s sure
and very pleasant. Cures by absorption.
Harmless. No drugs. Stomach Trouble
can’t be cured otherwise—so says Medical
Science. Drugs won’t do—they cat up the
Stomach and make you worse.
Wc know Mull’s Anti-Belch Wafers cure
and wc want you to know it, hence this
offer.
Special Offer.—The regular price of
Mull’s Anti-Belch Wafers is. 50c. a box, but
I to introduce it to thousands of sufferers
| we will send two (2) boxes upon receipt
j of 75c. and (his advertisement, or we will
send you a free sample for this coupon.
12235 ' A FREE BOX. 114
Send this coupon with your name
and address and druggist’s name who
does not .sell it for a free box of Muil’s
Anti-Belch Wafers to
Mcll’s Grai-e Tonic Co., 328 Third
SICK HEADACHE,
CONSTIPATION
Promptly and Permanently Cured with
Crab
Orchard
Water
A century’s experience with suooessful
results is the best testimonial. Sold by all
druggists.
Crab Orchard Water Co.,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
SEVEN YEARS AGO
Ave., Rock 1
sinnu.
!. 111.
Give Full A <l<lre s and Writ? Plainly.
A llochcstcr Chemist Fonml a Singularly
Ffleetive Medicine.
William A. Franklin, of the Franklin
& Palmer Chemical Co., Rochester, N.
Y., writes:
“Seven years ago
I was suffering very
much through the
failure of the kid
neys lo eliminate
the uric acid from
my system. My
back was very lame
and ached if 1 over
exerted myself in the least degree. At
times I was weighed down with a feel
ing of languor and depression anel suf
fered continually from annoying irreg
ularities of the kid icy secretions. 1
procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills
and began using them. I found prompt
relief from the aching and lameness
in my back, and by the time I had
taken three boxes I was cured of all
irregularities.”
Sold by all dealers; 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Sold at all dru'
ns l
50c. per box.
Germany leads all the continental
countries in Europe in the number of
Christian Endeavor societies.
LESS LABOR INVOLVED.
“How’d youse bke to have de job
of keepin’ de streets of Havana free j —
from snow?” jocularly inquired Tired
Tiffins.
“I’d rather be a dummy insurance
director,” promptly replied Weary
Wraggs.
An ordinary headache may general-
j ly be cured by applying water as hot
| as it can be b~rne to the feet and
l back of the neck..
WHY TAB€Z
CALOMEL?
When Mozley’s Lemon
Elixir, a purely vegetable
compound, with a pleas
ant taste, will relieve you
of Biliousness, and all
kindred diseases without
griping or nausea, and
leave no bad effects.
50c. and $1;00 per bottle
at all Drug Stores.
MOSLEY’S
LEMON ELIXIR.
“Cne Dose Convinces.”
Brighter
Prospects!
if Yields Per;
Wo have V9 many actual
photographs of cotton
fields on which no fertilizers ware
used and pictures of fieldH on which
"other makes” of fertilizers were
used. Results of these crops were
dismal failures There are much
"brighter prospects” ahead for tho
progressive farmew of the South.
Two and three halee to the acre are
only ordinary yields where
Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer!
are used with proper cultivation.
Make your cotton mature early, and
thus escape the boll weevils and other
damaging insects. YeU uaa e&nily do
this, ns well as Increase the number
of j3olls(and their size) on your plants
Inr plentifully using Virginia-Caro-
lina Ferffiizers. This method will
tremendously “Increase your yields
per acre.” Don’t be footed into buy
ing a substitute.
Vlrginla-Carolina CbsaitcaJ Ca.
Richmond, Va,
Norfolk, Va.
Durham, N. C.
Charleston, 8.0.
Baltimore, Md.
Atlanta, Ga.
Savannah, Ga. >
Montgomery. Ala, /
Memphis. Tenn.
Shreveport. La.
CURLS *HlkE All USE FAILS.
t Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, use
In time. Bold by druggists.
skKtUL
$3 an ACRE
i kuit-Lahd ColoEt, Swann SU, Moors Co.. N. C.
(At51-’05)