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0 At Reflex Ufh! from Africa as Seen by a B1ST0N OB STL? M VN, Wb* Ptracii) Held t« View that the * «£« : --r 3- Z' m fcnrw*i«i Nefro Wm theNitiiral Equd of* 4 • . the White Mae Bet Who. Hat New Modified Hla Viewa. Tha following extr are fron a ramarkable article to tbe Ontury Magaaloe (or M ly by Q^arlei Francla Adama, Mr. Adama la well and favor ably known aa bolding omaervitlre Ttewa on many queetiona affecting the Sooth. Ilia oplnlona of tbe negro and of the future of tbe negro race which have been, perforce, read lusted after a cloeer contact with tbe black man In hla home and at bla brat, are sign! Scant aa abowing tbe tendency' tow- ard a fuller knowledge of tbe race and a truer appreciation of fti posaibili- tlea. Tbe article ahould be widely read, marked, and digested. It LACK AFRICA. As to Omdurman (thla name la pro. nounoed with tbe aooeat on tbe hut ay liable: the town la only air miles from K >artnm) tba morning (F bru- ary Uti) spent there prove! moat In teraatlng and ilngulary auggestive. F.r tbe Srat time 1 aaw Africa—not Sgypt, but black Afrlo.—Ita atraeta Ita Inhabitants, Ita maria, Ita psoplc Aa an American, it then came direct ly borne to me what tbooe people were and bow they lived. I looked on tbe largest native city of a riatlonary barbarous continent—the chief o >m marclal centre of an “Irfeiiomoe”— and, oimpartog It with Lmdon, Parla or New Yolk, these material outcome of the two species Indicated th” differ enuc of tbalr oapac ties For, of course, raoaa ilka individuals of the ■ame race, must be measured and olaeaed by tbelr visible output: ahd a- Omdurman la to London, so it ms A rload to the Anglo Saxon, D e.licjy y, the difference If tOTgTdat lo acfm t of measurment And the n a mes tl e awful corollary: What Is the duty and wbait tbe function of abe super lor to tbe inferior race under existing condition, snd In the pres nt advan ced stage of civil zitloLV (Jen we, have we a right to wrap ouMdves in oar eomewbat Pnarlaale individuality and taking care of ourselves, leave tbe leas developed, or wholly undevel oped, to work out through force and (rand a destiny which is no destiny at ah? UnleM Min tbe former Sue an an uarendlrg talc cf vlolene and wrong be termed a destiny. But If we haTcngU.oob a right, and arc un der an obligation, wbat I asked my calf, bceomea of all my pM otopbloi 1 theorise heretofore so ooqtldently ad eaaoel? I eenetss toa faHertnr. My morning at Omdnrmao, and m> sub squent days In equatorial Africa, were In thla respect pointedly luggeatlv#— Indlaputablv educational. Wnen thus face to fjic^ with such a problem one poodeia a good deal In hla dc erlptlon of tbe dreary rt- glon known m Sud—tbe region be tween Ltke No and Qundokoro—Bi ker refen to tbe natives—and be wrote le 1864 wbat tbcae who follow In tba traoa he biased migbt write today—“they are eometblng superla tive In tbe way of savage*; tbe men M naked u they came Into tbe world tbelr bodies subbed with ubee and tbalr hair stained red by a plaster of ashes and oowa urine." And again ha addi—'‘tbe weather today (Jan borne problem—tb# 4fricaa In Aaer lea. It gave much food for thought Arriot; eeoond AFRICA'S TIM* !■ AT HAND. Plainly, no matter what la eomlng So far m I am advieed, tbe Baden see axe tbe Ineet race of the whole i frtoan apecke. Pbvaloally, they cerea itral J to the African, Africa’s time Is com log. The Nile problem is In prt of speed/ eoluth n; that of oen and Interior Africa will certainly fol low hard uoon It Of tbe ownt^T be yond the White Nile, whether Abyea* msa or that about the Nraosts, I know nothing; of tbe Nllebaflnl know srmetbii g—rot much, I admit but a little; and tbe country b*vond la a corollary to it. Siuth of Khar tum—that la up the Nila—there le a very considerable, not as such things go, * vMt region, which if drained and then Irrigated, would produce largely of cotton, sugar, rlos and to- baooo. It la a mare question of wit er In abountry of unevenly distribu ted rainfall—where t> e-e Is any rain fall at all—Tying under a tropical tun. But It la not a country au table for tbe (JaurMian—It Is e country to be exploited and developed, not one occupied and poop el. That It will now^be developed, admits of little question The oo a ruction of the Assuan barrige, following hsrd on tbe scientific occupation of the Sud an, aetUee tbe question. Tuere is money in it —and big moory I Si tb|. work will baod forth go right along the witera of tbe Nile will be econo mlzod at thetr. M>urooe. whether In Abyssinia or at the ou let of the Ny- antes. The gradual reclaiming and systematic Irrigation of a very consid erable part of the N ile basin north of Lake N o will follow and even the Sud —that wretched, heart-rending mor- rau—may, not-lmpi aetbly be drained by degrees, sod made habitable- N iw a vast papyrus wilderness, it would then nroveagAtt rloe swamp and sugar field. So far as tbe native*' ire oot c rned—wbat will follow? Clearly, this: The African wil< at last flod bis place in c vlltzitlon, what ever that place miy prove to be. • Id tbe (Ju lan and nils basin,' he wiU not be brought, M in our Southern SUtes into Indust lal contllot wUbitbe white man, If he meets with any competi tion It will be the imported Asiatic— tbe AslaMo purposely Imported to do what the'African will not do or can not to w<lldo7 Tbe native African of tbe Nile basin Is now a savage—he herds catt e and cultivates tbe loll to s limited txtent. He Is distinguish ed from tbe b'ute creation only by the fact of articulate speech, tbe uae of too 1 * and weapons of the moat primitive kind, and a knowledge of ths proprttles of five. In euch mat •ers m cl Jthes, food or sanitation he i* In no essential reepjote better than nnr nnmhrr. i VAili ui kinds ie kelma'a A-life ^ In their savagj way, they are India pntably eourageout. Yet In them not tba allgbaet inherent power of development hu ea jet some to tbe surfiov._ Baker, after living mmoogat them for years, calls attention to the striking elementary fact that, since the beginning of time to the day that now le, they have neither domeetloat ed tbe elephant nor Invented pottery. Aaraspeoti pottery tbe Chinese, for Instance, were “u civilised u they an at the present day when the Eig- liah were barberlana;" the Hindoo' domes tloa ted the elephant alNapsrlod now beyond tbe memory of mah. To day the Africans uses the gourd, and kllla the elephant for hla Ivon 1 Baker waa>a rough, typical John Bu 1; nnd u an authority on the ajib- Qi of the negro wbat he wrotJe hr very open to qneetloo. A aporteman mon even than an explonr, be lo^k ed with contempt and dislike on the natlvM; yet be got along with them, and dominated them. He wm tru’h- fui end jut In hit dealings with Mem. even if he did, when tbe emergency cam e laah out wltb a at oog left arm It would be well to offset ble evidence and Inference wltb those of Llvli gatone But, when all allow Aifbes are made, there is for Ameri cans much food for thought in Baker’s conclusions. Hls verdict on tbe Sudanese wm at any rati explicit — “I believe that 10 years residence In Sudan and this country would spoil an angel, and would turn tbe belt heart to stone. ’ * And again—“the apathy, indolence dleboneatly com bined wltb dirtneM, are beyond des cription; and tbelr abhorrence of anything like order IncreMe* tbelr natural dlalike to Europeans." Tbe fohpwing we also have observed In America—"In childhood I believe tbe negro to bo io advance in intellec tual quickness, of tbe white child of a similar age, but tbe mind does not expand—It promises fruit, but does not ripen; and the negro hM gtpwn in body, but not advanced In Intel lect." In thla respect, as the In dividual, so la tbe race, llln no In stance hM be. evinced other than a retrogression, when onoe, freed from restraint .... and bla - natural la stlnots being a love of Idtonraa and savagedem, he will assuredly relapse Into an idle or ravage state, unless specially governed and forced by In dustry.” Tbe "restraint" in this case le not nroeaserlly physical; it may be moral; but contact wrth the White man Is oeoesMry to keep the negro from retrogression. He has never InveuUd anything—not letters, mri~- ^ ^ RHtUMACIDg. 2L5 1 *, Mnd pofsons out of tho blood, oldans up all the plaMu spots in ths body and sots an ths organsto work again in Nature s way. Rursiy vegotabia, non-alcoholic, it is yst the most powsrfuT of cleansing medicines, and at the same time regufates the liver, tones up the stomach and builds up the entire system. RHEUM ACIDE is the only remedy that cures rheumatism to stay curedi MOST POWERFUL BLOOD PURIFIER WORLD. 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AH Blood Plsoaada. like; and '4 political system which works admirably when applied to homoganeona fqial re»n!ta nr.ly in chaos when generalized into. be Moalts, like nearly a 1 known ne J, gro savages, of an InclUtlvd domeatl- oatioo. ..That, In Afiicz. thi simple question la bow far he can be d ivelop ed by external It Unanrea, and under alter* d oondltlnn*; for M yet tie has evinced nu self elevating capacity. I Africa propar Is now to be developed an 1 if tbe laboring white man will not, because ha cad not, mike a homa In it, tbe field la open tn tie nitlva Can he on upy that field, sni fill k; ar must be, free from forced, regulat ed labor, languish and. die out like the American and tba Australian. A lug* question, it la M intereat- Kg as ita answer la abacura—as yeti t -rtunately, Ha solution la tn tbe b'st of bands—those of the British arohllecture^noMias m tiYheVditXteJed iSivcm^ he vulnntartly adopted anything, ex- ffUirWpfeaarvely:" and" * an dl see very now Md* fairly n7trSri,"MnntttIll at the very *— * root of our American polity-the I («r»V4SW •iwi'TW'-rci dead calm. Aa utual eddleas marshes 4nd ncoaqultoc* 1 never either saw, or bend of ao disgusting a country as tbat bordering the White Nile frt m Khartum to thla point." A finer moiqultc-braedlng locality could not be Imagined; yet they did not annon ne to any notlceble extent, They ware indisputably then; and tbay bother ed, aeaklng a mosquito nattlng at nigh tea necessity, and mosquito-boots lb the evenings very desirablf; but they wen neither more numerous nor more venomous than, In their Beeson, liare on tbe banka of Boston's Oharlet; and tbe stories baard coo eerafeg -teem etveek -m- good moa qallo proof Americans as greatly ax- agganted. They were mere mere babes and 'si ckllngs compared with the get utne Jersey bieed. _ 7 Bat to retafn to Baker’s narrative fo* one last extract; be winds up by sty ing—"it la a fcexrt bxeakii g rlvei without a si ng le redeeming point* 1 do not wonder at tbe failure of all ex pedltlons In this wretched ojuntry. I could not believe that so miserable a country existed m tbe whole ot this land. There la no game to be seen, few birds, and not even crocodiles Ahow theasaelvearail the water animal are hidden In the high grav; thus- there Is absolutely nothing living to be seen, but day after day la patsx) in winding slowly through- tho lab,- rinth of endless marsh ” Then re feering again to the natives at the now abandoned Austrian missionary station of Konlea, he aayi —“twenty or thirty of these disgusting, ash- smeared, stark-naked b utes, armed with clubs of bard wood brought to a point, were lying Idly about." It wm Jnet eo at the same landing p'aoe on the 27th of February. 42 yean later. of those Baker saw toltsrlrg about the wooding sts tion one ot them a man, old looking over mvep feet In it—stark-naked with a long rin htahand—jlad all In Inno- 7 £*,•••••' « e ••«#>••••• t • Finally, as to oooolniloos. During I* Africa, the only ‘ suggestive experience wm that ‘ Junction of the two M.lsa Astrai ’ reflected Ugh' perpkxing AsHtlc-azperlcnc^ thus tbrnwa light poiioncus tnsret of the mu quite sp« cles, to whose attacks the negro is peculiarly exposed from the fact that, unlike tbe Hindu, for example, he bM not yet got so far m to Invent garments, and cover bU nakedness. And tbe worst of It is that, bell g thus, he is stationary. * Tha Instinct M well m the deslre for*devrlopaieot Is lacking. S-icb bjlog the Indtsrut able fact, baker, writing In 18tS5 oh sea hls long enumeratiun of oondt^ tlons with a startling corollary—“S'i 1 Fin lx n ■ i I. arAnAra.ll v nrmni i.haf IVniK ee® Jt?tl®xw*ix aJwtiai'ltJi VKt olitk 4 the neg-o and the white man are to be governed by tbe Mme laws rod guided by tba same management, so leng will the former remain a thorn on. tbe African problem; and again, the problem working out In Africa is full of suggestion M respects America One thing seems clear, without be ing reduced to servitude, tbe Inferior race must be recogn zid as such, and, in some way, so dealt wltb.jFaots are facts; and only confusion results when things e^s-ntlally not iq isl are dealt with on tbe bMls of natural rqialtty. Tbe world bM now fur some time been p mdsrlng tba Afri can pr blem,—pondering-it In Amerl ci as welLasdn the place of Its ortgk ; —It hM been laying up-a-store of tx- parlenoes bearing upon it,—experi ences stretching Mnough at leMt 2,- 000 yaars. The discovery c f the Nile •quroe wm delayed to our Mine; in its Involve tbe future of tbe'negro. Tbe wild animals of Africa are to gv, will tbe negro go,with them? The alter native Is domestication. 'That be will not go with tbe wild animal our experience shows. That be Is imlta- ftfva has been proven Tbat be can aver become, or be made, self-elevat ing In the mam remains to be shown. TUB AFRICAN IN AMKRICA. Finally, m to tbe African in Ameri ca. Wbat gleam of xuppot able light does a brief visit to tbe White Nile throw on our borne problem? A good deal—perhaps 1 In-fche first . place, looking ab ub me among Africans In Africa--far removed from tbat A marl been accustomed, -tbe scale feU-from my eyes. 1 found myself nnit Im p-eased by a rea"z ng sense of the appalling amount of error snd cant In which we of tbe Halted States have indulged on this topic. We have ao tually wallowed In a bog of self suffl dent Ignorance—especially we phil anthropists and theorists of New England. We do ao still. Havng eyas, we will not see. Even now we not Infrequently hear tbe successor to the abolitionist and humanitarian of the ante Otvh-war “Uco'e Tom!’ period —announce that tbe difference between white man and tbe black man la muob^less consider able than la ordinary supposed,’snd j tbat tbe only real obstacle ip the negro’s.way tfctbat—“He bM never been given a fihano V Fir myself, after visiting tbe black mtc in. bis own bouse. I come back with a de elded impression tbat this Is the sheerest of delusions, due to pure igooranoe of rudimentary facts; yet we built upon It in Reconstruction days m upon a foundation-stone—a self-evident truth! Let those who Indulge In snob theories go to tbe Sudan, and paM a week at Omdur- man. That place marks In commerce, io letters and In art, In science and archlteo ure, the highest point of de velopment yet rescued by any Afri can race. As already suggested, the difference between Omdurman and L ndop about m am urea the difference between tbe black and white. In dtsputably gnat, that it admits of measurement Is questionable. oeptrum - antTfitBr arms.* '"H-iTaught himself to handle Implements and weapons, both of tbe rudest and moat elemen ary kind; and be can talk. There hla davelopment stops. In archlteo n e, be hM not progress ed beyond tbe cave, the hovel and tbe nest. la letters be has not devised a symbol lira aound. la te'e: ce, bis digits represent the sum total of bla capacity for computation. Art, poetry, muafo,—!t is tbe same old story! Religion, law, ipedioine—to day the nattvea of Uganda are per ishing by thousands from a strange epidemic known M tbe "sireplug siokneta " The prevailing selantlfic o) vlotloii la Miet 4v ls caused by a Tbe letter wm written In Italian and was translated by Italian Consul Oaflero, a oertlfi d cupv thereof being sent to Senator Mallory for transmis sion to the state, department. The lat- er states that the vessel was captur ed near Hand R*ef Island, th" cause of theaelzare beimr me v asel had no license to fish In Mexican warers.^ wm towed to PrdgreNao. where the crew wm thrown into j HI without an opportunity to communicate with either the American or It&Raa con- la The, schooner ‘’was placed In charge of soiaiers ana ms men treated like pirates. Tar letter further says: "Monday when a strong northeast wind blew, we left off fishing and pro in tbe aide of every oo impunity to- cecdedto- tha-islaa i d/-Jtr~uiilej dUtAnt, which be may unhappily belong. ’’ our tq isllty of man before tba law. We cannot conform to It. If tbe fact must be conceded—aa much the worse St leMt, the theory will none the le-w be maintained, the principle fronted by a oondliloa. Tbe exlst- enoa of an uneradiCAble and insur mountable vaoe-dlfference is indisput able. Tbe white man and the black man cannot flourish together, tbe latter being considerable In number, under the game system of government. Drawlrg apvt, they will esniredly b come antagonistic. Ao opposite can environment to which I have theory can be maintained, and' will work wltb more or less friction where tbe white greatly doobinatea, and tba black i lament la a negligible qu unity; when, however, the blaok predomtn atea, the theory breaks down, and some prao .leal solution Is retched oot in onfjrmity with it. As Hamlet wm led to observe lu a quite different oonntctlon—“This wm sometime a paradox, but now the time gives It proof.’’• Wbat, then, la to be our American outoomi?j^The negro equate at our parlod—tbe hearthstone we can aeltner aisimllate nor expdl him. The situation In E jjpt Is oompafatively simple. The country will be developed by Europe anrnonftyAnd braid; and the African will find bla natural place in tbe out come. Facts will be recognized, and a polity adopted In harmony wltb tbem. Will the resulta reached there react on ua In America?—Who now oan aa> ? The problem Is Intricate Meanwhile one thing la dear—the work done by tbose woo iwere In poll tleal control at tbe c one of our Civil war wM work done in utter Ignorano of ethnologic law and total dlarega d of unalterable fact Starting Mu movement wrong, It will be yet pre- rtactive of Incaoutable injury to U'. Tbe negro, after emancipation, shoo d have been dealt wltb, not m a politi cal equal, much leas forced Into a pool lion of superiority; he ehr uld have been treated as a ward and depend ent- -firmly, but in a ipirlt of kind- nera and absolute justice. Practical ly impossible m a policy then, tills is not less ao now. * At belt. It la some thing whbh cai only be Slowly and tentatively approximated. Neverthe less, It Is not easy f. r bne at all ob servant to oome back from Egypt and tbe Sudan without strong tuiplclon tbat we will in America make small progress towards a solution of our race problem until wa appro ch it ln4~ less of a theoretic ana humanitarian, and more of a scientific;* spirit. Equality results not from law, but SPOTTED FEVER It hM bean ui. markedly ao of late wltb TJ R1IBL1 PLIGHT Of tbe Crew ot a Piabln* Siuaok Mrx'osn P.iiton. tu Languishing in a ^ x can prison half dead for lack of food and with their bedies ret king vermin, Is the condition of the captain and crew of the Pensacola fishing smack Silas P. Stearns, which was captured by a Mexican war vessel off tbe ooMt of Yucatan on April 10 acoord ng to a letter Just received from Capt. Malfl- mo™ “up for shelter. la toe mesa Lima we went to tbe light bouse keeper to get some value whatever bread and a little dour. He gave u~ about 10 pound! of sea blpcuk- Alter tbe second day we went buTin order to proceed to tbe same place. We left for thi* facU-By all good Americans- ofl fishing and about 8 jx 9 o cloak we were token In charge by the Hexfcah war about lO miles distant. dantly asserted! We are thui bon-" ® , ° r ^ un stely we had no fish on deck gnd were not fishing, or they would have sent us to the penitentiary for jpie. The commandant of tbe man of wai told ui be %a? g -lag to take us to Progresao to mike declaration. We dcc ared that we had been fishing 50 miles distant. This hM been oar Mi ration and that of our boat. We de dared that we went into the island ^or a little flour." — The owners of the vssmI, Waren & Oo , are cor fl lent that the matter will eventually be amicably adju tel but are unable to understand why the United States representatives at the City of Mrxloo have amt no message regarding tbe seizure. Cotton la King. Id the Horse ’a t wetk Mr. Barllett, of Georgia, called at ention to tbe wonderful tff ct tbe export of the cot ton cop of tbe S >uth bad on produc Ing tbe general pruiperltv of tbe en- tl e country and showed from statis tics that while tbe United States bad expo ted In 1905 over 6400,000,000 more than bad tee a imported, of this sum tbe cotton of the South amount ed to 6380.000 000 from which he made the deduct! ju that the general pro-perity of the country wai doe more largely to the cotton errp than to any other commodity. He showed that Me value of the eotfcn crop of tbe South for the pMt five years ex ceeded by nearly 6100 000,000 the en tire product! n or gold and si'ver la ths world during that time. Blind 8tnd«nt Kxoelied. One of tbe most interesting figures li higher mathematics, in gclogy, wm a blind student wh * hails from a small country town in N orth Carolina. H bM mute red the most dl (Boult oJunes In higher mathematic*, In geo logy, won a degree from tbe Universi ty of N jrth Carolina, and la now work ing toe a degree of M. A. at Harvard. This Dreaded Disease Appears Again in the West DOCTORS BIFFL V D The Medical Fraternity is Entirely st Sea Coocereinc Cansei, 0 igia and .er Ns ure ol the Disease. Nstives DR. HATHAWAY Recognized an the Oideet Kstabliiihed andr| • . _Mv* 1 Meltable SpecialixL "7 BSlMu Generally 'Atiribnle It in tbe Wood TLk. < PAised Assistant Surgeon King, of the i ublio health and muioe hospit al service hM just been sent from Wsahlngto^ to Missoula, Mbnt., to 1 veatlgite a new outbreak of "spot t d fever” and tha medical world la Blood Poison Can Be Cured. At Your Own Horn:. If You H«ve Hathaway of Atlanta, Ga. He Can' «L iuie lt In Any “Stage and Withonf Great Expense. A Quarter Century ■ of Experience. Send for Valuable Other Diseases Cured. -' Dr. J. NeH-ton Hathaway of Atlanta, Ga^ the South’a most expert, reliable and success ful specialist in bis line of treatment, says most positively that he has a method that will cure miy case of Specific fDood P.ii.im ihilis whether in Primary, Secondary or ansi Tertiary stage, and be gives every alflicted per son opportunity to investigate this method, if, yon have any symptoms of this dissave, that in recognised as tne most treacherous sad Mar- reaching disease that^stflicta mankind, such an pimples, sores, ulcers in the mouth sad throat r sh or copper colored spots on Iks body, boils, failing out of hoi- and syebrows; etc, writs him a letter. He will send val ntr&ngeand deadlydiseavc. Wuatoaua It? - Wbat will cu e ll? And whi will prevent it are q lest! ns that th physicians have been vainly trying t< answer for thirty-five years, atfd-toda: with tbe history of bn id reds or case- to guide them, the learned f rateroit ts m much in tbe dark as It wap In M early '70's, when the cattlemen of th Bitter R >ob valley fell viotlm-t of Mr malady. Under the various names c~ "black measle*,” blue disease," "blac fever,’’ “tick fever," and “sp>ttcd fe ver,” sc >res of doctors havs lavMtigz ted eabhliew outbreak and generally have now oome to Abe conclusion tha all tbe former Investigations mad j by tbelr brethren were conducted upo» •TfonebuH premises and therefore wen j ist a little lees valuable than of nearly all tha scientist agreed tba the oommon wood tick wm respjnaible for the disease. »■ In 1903 Dr. John F. Anderson, of the marlnA hospital ser vice, wfote a 30 page pamphlet on th< subjeoft and said the‘tick wm tbe cause Two years later Dr. Cbarle* Wardell Stiles, of the same b'uroa wrote a booklet of 120 pages upon the disease and de lared that then w'as mthing to support the theory the tick is to ...blame either for the fever’s start orflnlsh. After ex amlnlng tbe rtordsqf several hun dreds of oases and personally watch ing a score of it here.'Dr. Stiles reaob- jd the carclua'-on that “no satiafac- tery sp o fie tn a mjnt is known 11 for the spotted f .ver, and added: ' I bav no new- theories to present regarding the cause, transmission, and origin of the dlseaie." In spite of the fact that Dr. Stiles d >ett not believe that spotted fever i caused by the tick, t r ugbout tin Western ocuatry where It Is most pre valent, tbe tick Is more than the rat tlesnake. Many of tbe pi’grlms and dwellers in tbe valleys nearly die from fright when they find a trick upon their person and often when they are bitten by the pestiferous insects, take to their beds, declaring that death tuu marked them, when they are really In perfect health. In the Bitter Root Valley, which many phys'c ans regard as the home of spotted fever, nearly alj the oases occur on the western side of the river In the months of April, May and June. B Jth sexes and all ages Me subject to the d'sease, and, according to the rec ords, about 70 per cent of the oases (ermine In death. A boot five or six days after being bitten by tbe tick, which is given credit for the start ol the disease, the patient takes to hi. bed with a .heavy obill, head ache an< nausea, goon afar the spots begin V appear upon the wrists aud ankle and later upon tbe arms, legs am about the waist. Nosebleed, sor throat, a fever rising to 1C 6 it times and swelling of the joints them fol low in succession or slmultene usly, and often ahaok'ng cough serves ,o sake tbe patient more misers ble. Oiten the symp oms oloeely resembl i typhus (ever and spinal me ingltii. l yog » book on tho disoaae and hia export opinion of yonr cnao fry of ohnryv. . _* .Best Obtainable. This treatment assures you of a cure and no NerwAa* Deb'IDw V—i. matter whejre or u tthum y^Hwyvm w ill c<>c*r«>, Strleturr, Jttdnej and 8l»<t- itment that will (five you aa surd re- der f»a maev. Catarrh. Bkln Itlaenaea. wrtU IMkbl# Ind no treatment tbat will give you aa sun alia, and too, the cost is very moderate. Dr. Hathaway is not a “men only" “cure all” loctor, but an honest, upright physician and : <pecialiat, and you can consult him wjjLb per fect confidence. His specialty also includes other private and chronic diseases of men and women, such aa Diaenaeianf the Heart, Lir.er and Stem- no»», dtaeaoea p->onllar tn w tmen, e«o. arid if you are. alflicted yon can ocnault Ua without charge. Hia home treat meat plan it perfect. Kvery thing strictly ooaAdratiaL Adrtlesa Dr, Hathaway X Co, 8« Inman Bldg, Alanta, Ga Wd Hive ToTSak One 2/> home power Talbott, second hand engine in stock which hM reoent- rjj been overhauled. ' Ttf^ hhiginer is id^first-class condition anftViil be v^jreat bargain for anyone who is in the market for such a size engine. -We are headquarters for anything in the way of machinery supplies, end prompt at ention will be given to all inquiries and orders entrusted tq our care. Write us when you are iu the market for anything, and be sure to get our prices before placing your orders elsewhere. 1 , ^ ColemWa Supply Co.. ... . Columbia. S. 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Meet of tee doctors who hsve given study to tbe disease agree tbat it Is lot contagious and tbat It occur* call fir in CEe months of April, May aid June J*' Toe spots that oome wiih spotted feve/ first appear about the ankles d waist and by/the end of the fira. they extend over - the entire ody. There is ho regn'arlty about tbelr appearing on the feet first, an some times tbe first spots appear on tbe hands The spits are a bright red rod are bslf m big as an adult’s fingei aall. Tbe spote fade m the fever aub- 4ldM r but if tbe patient is exposed tr oold or becomes obil'y the spots oan be seen for several mo b a afteniHLlk otaough not m red m at flrat. Tuere Is much Irregularity regarding th< ilMppearance. ARE YOU GOING TO PaIVT? If So Write Us, For Color Card and Price an ■■Hp me AAABANKOEPOsh far*M4. Ilotm Itim ^ 7 »oo prbb corn BoardatCo«. Writ* ifORttULALABABA BUSINESS COUIM,« “MuCurdvs sued fftr another mil- ion'’ is the headlinein a New York lewspaper. 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