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? ??I Hi if ABOUT 40 MILLION PACKAGES. ' Parcel Post Business Ihiring January?Still Increasing. Washington, Feb. 6.?Ap'proxi mately 40,000,000 parcel post pack-,; ages were handled during January; 1 At the fifty largest postoffices 19,365,433 parcels were handled in the i first month of the operation of the new system and the business ofj ; the last two weeks exceeded that ofj the first two weeks by more than five ! < million packages. j 1 > * Chicago exceeded all other cities |1 in the number of parcels handled, its j total being 4,163,153. New York j handled 3,519,788; Atlanta, 183,-j ? 000; St. Paul, 1*81,056; New Or-h leans, 166,391; Dallas,- 130,200; i Louisville, 114,076; Richmond, 100,-; 000; Nashville, 69,270; Jacksonville, j < 42,963. The present season is the dull one in postoffice business, but even if there should be no increase in the j . parcel post work about 500,000,000 j would be handled during the first j . year. Some postmasters estimate the j first year's total will be one billion !, packages. ; From the more remote sections of! i the country, postmasters report mer-,! . chants are preparing to extend: ^ their fields to the rural districts j ( ; through the new system, and farmers j are preparing to send products to j : cities and towns upon the opening . of the spring season. j , i i The preliminary appropriation for; the establishment of the parcel post j , has been exhausted and Postmaster |! General Hitchcock to-day asked for. ? an additional appropriation of $750,000. Here is a Good Move. \ The greatest chain of drug stores in America is called Liggetts. Its president, Louis K. Liggett, celebrated new year's day by issuing this order to its store in Boston and 21 other cities in the United States and Canada: "From this date no intoxicating liquors of any kind will be sold in any ' Liggett store in the United States or i Canada." This is a wholly voluntary step toward high-business ideals, for the j law quite generally sanctions the sale ; of liquor by drug stores in quantities \ of a half pint or more. Liggetts had ! already discontinued throughout its chain of retail stores the sale of habit-forming drugs, or anything to be used for questionable purposes, not' waiting for-these things to be for-1 bidden by law.?Colliers Weekly. There are some graft germs in almost any man's make-up. Thp bald headed man can't under spect gray hairs. * The seeker after truth has a lifetime job. The greatest bai - 1 .1 taKe piace in oui urda i Remember we a sold by that da; doing every min o'clock a. m. C "want. You will Be on hand at tl article you want there will positi\ tipi TWO BABIES AND A WOODEN LEG | By Parcel Post?Mail Carrier Battles j with Wildcat. Barnwell, Feb. 6.?The story of \ an exciting trip with the mail is told ; by Edgar F. Phillips, mail carrier on i Cinder Route, No. 6. Phillips, in an j interview here to-day, says last Saturday, among his parcel post packages were two babies and a wooden leg, and that before the completion f his trip he was attacked by a wild :at, finding it necessary to employ the use of the wooden leg to protect his live mail. The babies gave him no trouble, U* Vvair? cr SlinnllPd with lie OCLlKXy VV VAA ^ ? nourishment before being consigned to the mails. Postage on one infant was 16 cents, while the other required 17 cents. Patting Him in the Face. The two colored brothers were apparently about to come to blows. Rhetorical threats had been flying fast. "Niggah, don't mess wid me," warned one, " 'cause when yo' do yo' sure is flirtin' wid a hearse." "Don't pesticate wid me, niggah," J replied the other, showing a great: bony flst; "don't fo'ce me fo' to press ! dis upon yo', 'cause if yo' do, Ah'll j hit yo' so lia'd Ah'll separate yo'! Ideas from yo' habits! Ah'll just ! nacherallv knock yo' from amazin' grace into a'fioatin' opportunity." "If you mess wid me, niggah." replied the other, "Ah'll jest make one I pass and dere'll be a man pattin' yo' \ in de face wid a spade tomorrow j mornin'."?Cotton Oil News. Negroes Opposing Stewart Bill. Madison, Wis., Feb. 6.?The Stew-1 art bill prohibiting the marriage of j negroes and whites is meeting with | sharp disapproval from the negro: contingent of Wisconsin. The Book- j er Washington Men's Forum of Mil- | waukee has petitioned the legislature | against the proposed law, branding i it as a "vicious attempt at class legis-! lation" contrary to the political and ; civil economy of our republican in- j stitutions." Assemblvman T. E. ! i Stewart declared he introduced the i measure to prevent marriages "like j that of Jack Johnson and the Cam- . eron girl/" "The legal barrier cannot effectually check amalgamation," wrote J. W. Wood, of St. Mark A. M. E. ] church, of Milwaukee, to the legisla- j ture. "There will be amalgamation i I ! */* r?oeoc in nf pnv law ?? ! CllUWilt, IHC I UW.O * A A. KS A. ^*?v- *W4. T? r Before a girl can make up her mind what man to have for her best beau she has to make up his. The trouble with having money is j it takes more than you've got to live i up to it. I t :ati 'gain giving event ev r store on our last da y, he re going to auction c y. Come and see t ute of the sale, whi ome in and see whai be surprised at the le commencement a : may be the first on< ely be nothing reserv STRIKE MOB USES BOMB. Two Officers Hurt when Infernal Machine Explodes. New York, Feb. 6.?A mob demonstrating in the interest of garment makers, on strike from shops in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, employed a bomb as a weapon in their warfare to-day. Edward Hartman and John Hopp, two special officers guarding a shop affected by the strike, were seriously hurt by glass and scrap iron from the infernal machine. The explosion wrecked the front of the building and precipitated a panic among the operatives. A police sergeant and five patrol men were beaten by the mob. Reserves dispersed the strikers after a struggle in which five men and two girls were made prisoners. A thousand operatives returned to" work in a number of shops throughout the city to-day. after remaining on strike for more than a month. All their demands, including better pay and shorter hours were granted, their leaders said. Thoipas Rickert, of Chicago, president of the United Male Garment Workers of America, declared that by Sunday a vote will be completed among the strikers regarding the peace proposals of employers. TOP OF HE A J) BLOWN OFF. Distressing Accident Reported from J Lower Florence County. Florence, Feb. 5.?News was received in the city of a distressing accident, which occurred near Hannah, in the lower part of the county, Monday. The report is to the effect that a 13-year-old son of a Mr. Wise attempted to remove a shotgun from its rack at the Wise home, when it fired and the load took effect in the head of a little eight-year-old brother of the boy, blowing off the entire top of the skull of the child. The boy who removed the gun stated that he was unaware of the gun being loaded, as he thought his father always removed the shell from the gun before placing it in the rack. Modern Hi fie Wounds. Wounding an enemy in war is better than killing him, for unless he is i captured it imposes on his side the j burden of taking care of him, says i Popular Mechanics. The Balkan' war has again proved that the bullet j of the modern high-power rifle with j its terrific speed will go straight; through a man, penetrating the most! vital organs, without killing him; and it has even been found to go through from four to six men, one behind the other. This puts them cut of the fight, but at the same time it is a good thing for the fighter, for it gives him a better chance for his ! life. 2* # inpri Lift v 11 er held in the city c iy here, which will b< 1 _ sorua >ff everything in our he crowd. There v ich will commence : we have and bid 01 great bargains evei ? ? jmm nd stay until the ti s sold. We are mc ed. Remember the \ ^ NEX1 FJXDS HORSES IX HER PARLOR. Housewife Surprised at "Nerve" of Runaway Beer Team. Chicago, Feb. 5.?"Well, the | nerve of some people's horses," exclaimed Mrs. John McCarron to-day when'she rushed from the kitchen to investigate a crash in the front part of her home and found a team of draught horses tramping on the parlor carpet. The team had run away and the front of the frame dwelling of the McCarrons had offered but slight resistance to their maddened impact. All that kept the horses from continuing j through the place was the beer wag- . on to which they were attached and , which caught in the wreckage of the hrpaohprl wall Lynched for Killing Woman. Houston, Miss., Feb. 7.?Andrew Williams, aged 35, a negro, was lynched by a mob here early to-day. Williams is suspected of having murdered Mrs. John C. Williams, wife of the deputy chancery clerk of this county, who was found dead in her home here yesterday. Her body was fpund in an abandoned pit under the house. Robbery is believed to have been the motive for the crime as a diamond riricr which Mrs Williams wore was missing. When the mob attempted to take Williams from the jail, where he was confined, he offered desperate resistance, but was finally dragged from the building and lynched to a tree m HPl-iy-v -r-? /-% rrr+r\ in mJlV P * UCai . J. lie llCftl U 1 VxJL uovu VV uuv?i>?v a confession. The lynching came after admissions by two negro women who told a number of citizens in the presence of the local authorities they had seen him enter the Williams home. < The Drunkard's Cloak. t 1 One of the quaint instruments of ] torture in England in olden time was a device known as the drunkard's cloak. It was made of wood and in shape resembled a huge inverted i flowerpot. Through the small cir- i cular aperture in the top was thrust! the neck of the imprisoned inebriate. | The weight of this ancient counter- ! part of the. ^traitjacket fell on the victim's shoulders and was sufficient to make every bone in his body ache. j With his hands practically pinned j to his sides and the garment reaching almost to the. ground the only motion allowed him was slow shuffle of his ' weary feet as he dragged his way j painfully along. 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