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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
A PECULIAR CASE.
Physicians Puzzled by the Expert
ence OF Mrs. Bowen.
The Episcopal Hospital Said she Had
Consumption.

!
(From the Record, Philadelphia, Pay
Last July the Episcopal hospital admitted
\ woman whose pale and emaciated face and
racking cough proclaimed her the vic
tim of consumption. She gave her name as
Mrs. Sallie G.. Bowen wife Of VIM. q.
Bowen, residence, IS4y Meighan st., Phila'
delphia. The case was diagnosed and she
was told plainly that she was in an adj
yanced stage Of consumption. The examin-
ing physician even showed her the sunken
place in her breast where the cavity In her
flung was supposed to exist. She went home
to her family broken, disheartened woman
with death staring her in the face. That was
the beginning Of the story, the end was told
by Mrs. Bowen, who no longer expects to
die, to reporter who visited her home.
seThe first symptoms of consumption came
In the form OF terrible sweats, both night
and day. From April until September
was constantly cold and kept wrapped up
In blankets through the hottest weather. A
terrible cough took possession Of me, my
breast was sore to the slightest touch, and
my limbs were like cold clay. The hardest
rubbing with the coarsest towel would not
create the slightest flush, and the least ex-
ertion would so exhaust me that could
barely gasp for water.
II went to the hospital in July and they
diagnosed my case as above stated. 1t
was when the clouds were the darkest
that the first CLINT of sunshine came. Mr.
Bhelmerdine friend, who lives around at
1874 Clementine ST., said to me one day:
Mrs. Bowen, did you ever try DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People2 had never
heard Of the medicine, but in my condition
could not turn deaf ear to anything that
offered relief 1t was after considerable
thought and investigation that concluded
to discontinue all the medicine I was taking,
including cod liver oil, and depend entirely
upon Pink Pills. began to take the Pills,
at first with but little encouragement. The
first sign of improvement was warmth
and tingling sensation in my limbs.
Finally the cough disappeared, my chest
lost its soreness and I began to gain flesh
until was fifteen pounds heavier. AL this
I owe to DR.. Williams Pink Pills, and !
cannot praise them too highly"
Mrs Bowen is kindly faced lady OF
middle age, church member well-knoWn
and highly esteemed. She looks to-day
well and strong, and 1t seems almost i'm
possible that she was ever given up by |
eminent physicians as an incurable con
sumptive. Yet such is the case beyond all
dispute
Dir. Williams Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and
to the blood and restore shattered |
nerves. They are for sale by all druggists,
or may be had by mail from DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, for SOC
per box, or six boxes for $3.50.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
A Pet LOhsfer.

A few days before Gerard de Nerval
was found dead in narrow, dirty
street of Paris he was seen walking in
the Palais Royal, dragging after him,
by means of blue ribbon, alive lob
ster. To a friend who accused him OF
madness he replied: why is lobster
any more ridiculous that a cat, or a
dog, or a gazelle, or any other beast
that will follow man? Besides, enjoy
the company Of Holsters. They are
serious, they knew the secrets of the
sea, they do not bark. - Boston Jour
nal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
Selecting a Hat.

Attention to few simple rules will
assist anyone TO select from the vari-
Gus hats of the season one distinctly
suited to her peculiar needs People
with thin, delicately modelled faces,
whose chins are inclined to be pointed,
should avoid the bonnets with broad
frontal trimmings or hats with wide
straight brims, as they have tendency
TO emphasize the 'pointedness" of the
face, giving IL the lock Of fiatiron or
q wedge. Such faces should be sur
mounted by hats rolling with brims
and bonnets Of high oval shape or
trimmiDG- boston Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
ALWAYS THINKING or OTHERS.
The Self-Denying Mothers who Have
Never Thought That Is Selfish.

4 Inc SelI-DenylnK MOInGrG VINO Hay
Never a Thought That Is Selfish.
Every woman who at heart is reall,
| genteel is most particular about he
gloves and her shoes, so says an old an,
highly cherished feminine tradition
and one thinks of it with smile in ;
morning downtown, with all sorts ant
| conditions of womankind hurryine
past There are the serene and dainty
| patricians, who have been perfect
| ly booted and gloved since their in
fancy, to whom these details are mere
matters of course There are we'll
fed, well-dressed women, whose
clothes, including the boots and
gloves, are matters of pride to them,
and there are rather carelessly-
dressed girls, who yet are neat about
boots and gloves merely because they
take dainty sort of pleasure in the
prettiness of their little hands and
feet. But, in contrast to all these, is
the eager woman, with perhaps mar
ket basket or an armful of bundles,
hurrying home to get luncheon ready.
Her black cloak is warm and prob
ably new, for big matters of this sort
the man of the house is likely to see
to. Her hat is perhaps presentable,
for her daughters would think
of that. But one glove is probably off
or only half on and there are holes in
the other, while the shoes are likely to
be quite shockingly shabby, down at
the heel and all out of shape. And
you look up at the mother face and
see that it is no innate carelessness
that is the cause of it. She despises
old clothes and the shoes that betray
an insufficient income, but she can not
overcome that irresistible instinct that
makes her go without things she ought
to have in order that there may be
just a little more left to supply the
needs OF the children or to buy some
thing for the house. Those mothers
always will practice shutting little de-
,eits to try to keep themselves out of
The problem of expenses, and their
aces grow lined and careworn in the |
struggle to bring pretty things and
comfort into the lives they watch over. |
They forget themselves and ignore the
warm shoes; the eager look in their
yes is only for some one else. They
ire spending themselves, thoughts
ceilings and strength in the service of
'thers, and in the presence, of such a
ictory over the worlds besetting sin
# selfishness the question of gentility,
S expressed by neat shoes, seems
ather without significance. Kansas
ity Star
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
PLEASING TWO PROUD PAPAs.
The Bachelor Forced to Lie to Each In
Order to Save Trouble.

Order to Save Trouble.
am getting to be the most barefaced
and versatile liar on earth, said New
York bachelor recently, and it's all on
account of two little innocent babies.
Two of my friends at the office have
recently been invested with the honor
of paternity-both boys. Prouder papas
you never saw. One of them, Jones, is
an amateur photographer, and the
other day he took picture of his baby
and brought it to the Office Of course,
you know how intelligent any child of
one month looks, continued the bach
elor stroking his bald head with the
air of connoisseur in infancy, but
the boys in the Office We're loyal. They
swore it was the Notwithstanding kid
they had ever seen, and that it was the
image of Jones. If it had been anyone
else's child Jones would have knocked
some body down for the insult, but he
took it as great compliment, and
stuck the picture up in a frame on his
desk.
This was too much for Smith-tbe
other papa. He hasn't any camera of
MS own, SO he got young man who
lives next door to come in and take his
baby's picture, and he brought it down
to the office as an opposition to Jones'.
Really, I'm sorry for Smith if his baby
looks like that picture, but l rather
think the amateur artist libeled the
child and made it the monster it APP
poars. The picture was nst focused
1t represents Smith in the
background holding on his knee mann
moth infant nearly as big as he is. The
baby's hands were outstretched toward |
the camera and look as though they
might belong to Mr.. Fitzsimmons or
Mr.. Corbett Smith thought it was
beautiful, and when some one sug-
gested that the boy looked just exact
~ like him he ordered drinks all round
and put the picture up on his desk as
a further opposition to Jones' Every
time / come into the office 1 have to
stop and admire those pictures, and I
am acquiring great self-control by
keeping straight face whenever Jones
,r Smith says: And still you will re-
main bachelor, will you?"-N Y.
Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

''I'm sorry Bill got beat" said the
constituent THAT ther bill he was
intending to get passed will never git
through, / suppose"
What was it?" asked the other con-
stituent.
"W'y, you know what is called a
derelict-one of them abandoned ships
that is SIGH danger to navigation"
YES
swell. Bill he allowed to git bill
through requirin' them all to carry red
lights at night. It would. "a been
big thing for navigation, and for Bill,
too. indianapolis Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
MARKET GARDENERS GROW RICH

There is lots of money made in early
vegetables Everybody admits that the
very earliest vegetables are produced
from Salzer's Northern Grown seeds.
Think of having radishes in fourteen
days; lettuce in twenty days; potatoes
in forty days; peas in forty-six days,
and splendid cabbage in fifty-five days
from day of sowing seed!
IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT
with 81 money order to the John A.
Salzer Seed company, Lacrosse, Wis,
you will get free thirty-five packages
earliest vegetable seeds and their great
seed catalogue. or for six cents postage
a package of FOURTEEN DAY PARIS RAD
ISL seed and their seed catalogue. XXI
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
How's Thisl

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward 70,
Halls Catarrh Cure. -
+. j: CHENEY q Co., Props, Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known r T
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
west q Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To.
Ieao, y; Walding, Kinnan u Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
ue. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills. BIC.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
col b BED ROOMS.


They Are Said 70 He Conducive to Pull
monary Troubles.
/ When doctors disagree, it is time fol
| the intelligent laymen to give little
thought to their own conditions and
! ascertain if possible by careful and
prudent experiments just what is best
for them. One class of physicians will
advocate cold rooms, abundance of out
of-door air and what would seem to be
almost fatal exposure, and will insist
that this is conducive to health and
that the patient will thrive under
such heroic treatment. A medical man
claims to be able to cure consumption
and all pulmonary troubles by keeping
the patient for goodly portion of the
day in an atmosphere of intense cold.
| In mid-winter the sufferer is put by
an open window and inhales the sharp
outside air for hours at time. This
is all very well and no doubt a good
thing, but from this state of affairs
people who have neither the expert
ence nor the facilities take their cue
imagine that extreme cold, if applica-
BILE in this way, must necessarily be
SO in others. They seem to lose sight
Of the fact that these invalids are put
upon wheel carriages, tucked up as
snugly as baby in cradle and
wheeled in by these open windows.
They may sleep there or sit there as
long as they are comfortable, some
times perhaps longer than the sick one
desires, but, under no circumstances,
are these people even for an instant,
exposed to the atmosphere in any dan
gerous way.
But, on the theory, somebody thinks
that sleeping in cold room, or sitting
in one, has its point of grace, conse-
quently we find extremely delicate
people going into cold rooms and get
ting into beds that are just about as
comfortable and safe as an ice house. |
To inhale prodigious quantities of cold |
air is one thing, and may be beneficial,
but to retire in aroom with tempera-
ture at zero. in a cold bed with the
blankets and wraps in an absolutely |
condition, is quite an
other. With an abundance of hot
water bags and warm blankets, it is pos
sible to get into cold bed and finally
become comfortable; but when, after a
nights rest, one rises in the morning
and comes suddenly in contact with.
the freezing air of such an apartment,
even though one goes Immediately into
. warm room, it is little short of sui
tide. Under ordinary circumstances,
t is better to sleep in a room as nearly
Is possible of the temperature of the
me occupied during the day. Chill
lren should not be permitted to sleep
n very cold rooms. They are restless,
md almost always get more or less un-
covered, and get colds that start a
ong train of ills. All things being
quail, the use of a moderately warm
DOM with fresh air brought in by a
ube from out of doors is much the
afer and wiser method of procedure. |
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
Split the Century i'm Three Parts,

And about one and third of the last Of
these represents the term of popularity of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the most high
ly sanctioned and widely known remedy in
existence for dyspepsia, lack of stamina,
liver complaint, constipation, nervousness,
incipient rheumatism and inactivity of the
kidneys. Neither spurious imitation nor
underhand competition has affected the sale
of this genuine remedy.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

II really heard" said the major.
"of man who sold his vote for a gal
lon of whisky" ''Shocking!" 'Yes.
If the suffrage Of a free-bcen American
citizen is not worth barrel smash INV
beaverfr-Atlanta Constitution.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards.
II you send Is cents in stamps or coin to
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Gent Pass. Agent, c., r.
]. 81 p. R'y, Chicago, you will receive post
paid the. slickest pack of playing cards
you ever handled. Beautiful steel engraved
Whist Rules accompany them free.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
The True laxative Pr,nc,p,.

or the plants used In manufacturing the
pleasant remedy, Syrup of Figs. has a per
manently beneficial effect on the human sys-
tenn, while the cheap vegetable extracts and
mineral solutions, usually sold as medicines.
are permanently injurious. Being well in
formed, you VIII use the true remedy only.
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

WISDOM OF THE AZTECs.--An Aztec maxim
reads: "Woe to the man who finds himself
the giddy peoples idol"-Yonkers Gazette.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

he lat II p m.l-"I must be going.n
She lin pain)-"Would it were over" He
(rapturously)-"And are you so sorry to see
me gop She-"Oh, no. Would that you
were gone."-Exchange
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

A PLEAsANTRY.-He-"I never smoke a
cigarette without thinking what a fool
am" She-T didn't know before that there
was any virtue in cigarettes, at all."-De-
troit Free Press,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

.sDoEs he know anything about artp,
mot thing. Why, he doesn't even know
enough about 1t TO lecture on it."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

A BAD ArrAcK.-Bell-"Was Jones sea-
sick coming overt" Pell-"Terribly We
were three hours ahead of the record at one
est in it."-Puck.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

sumptuously fitted up?" eyes, indeed. He
has everything you can think of that is
costly. Why, his fire-extinguisher is kept
full of champagne all the time. "-Harper's
Bazaar,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18

"SKNyER says be has scarcely slept q
wink since the day he sold his vote. I"
.'Thoroughly ashamed Of himself, chr
"Yep; he's learned somehow that sno ther
man got q more than he did,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-12
Mr.. VOLTS Address on Cuba,

The announcement that Mr. Simon Wolf
would speak on the Cuban question attract
ed a large audience of representative colored
people to the building of the Colored Young
Mems Christian Association last evening.
The address was made under the auspices of
the literary society of the association. and
the president. Mr.. C. c. Warning, introduced
Mr.. Wolf with few appropriate remarks.
In his eloquent dissertation. which was
frequently interrupted by applause. Mr..
Wolf stated that it would be strange if an
audience of colored persons did not express
sympathy with a people striving for eman-
cipation and liberty, and added that it was
natural for the colored people to ask that
Hebrew address them in regard to freedom
for the oppressed. AS both the Hebrew and
the negro had experienced the oppression OF
tyranny, he said. common bond of SYM
pathy related them to one another.
Mr.. Wolf referred to Cuba as a God
blessed. but a man cursed country" and told
of the prosecutions inflicted on the Cubans.
In closing, the speaker stated that in his
opinion the day is near at hand when Cuba
will be recognized as a republic: perhaps as
a bright star in the American states. and he
asked the sympathy of the colored people OF
the United States in behalf of Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-12
THE ROAD BLOCKADED.

Travel on the AnacOstia Line stopped
Last Night.
There was considerable excitement last
night between Z and 8 o'clock in Anacostia
over the non-arrival IN the town for nearly
half an hour Of any Of the cars of the An
acostia Railway Company. and an investi-
cation resulted in the discovery that a
number Of the ex-drivers of the company
had thrown car No. IS. William Chinn.
driver. from the track at Missouri avenue
and Az street northwest.
A statement of the affair made by Chinn
was to the effect that three of the locked
cut men boarded his car near the point
named, and one of them asked him to
make change for a note which he offered
to Chinn. AS the latter turned to comply
one of the other two. it is alleged.
struck Chinn in the face and knocked him
from the car. The others, it is charged
with the help of men who had meanwhile
kept themselves concealed threw the car
across both tracks, thereby stopping travel
in both directions for some time, and dur
ing the delay the windows of car No. 20
were smashed with stones.
Word was telephoned to police head
quarters, and detail of officers was sent
from the fourth and sixth precincts to re-
store ordsr. On their approach the rioters
fed. The policemen Were, however. kept
en- duty in the ne;ghborhood until the cars
ceased running for the night. Steps were
today taken to prevent a repetition CT the
trouble.
Shortly after the attack on Chinn several
men boarded car No. 10. Joseph Newton,
driver, while the car was passing along
Canal street One of the men went to the
front platform and asked permission to
smoke there. which was granted. The rest
of the crowd went to the rear platform,
and by jumping up and down upon 1t en-
deavored to throw the car from the track,
but did not succeed in doing it. There were
a number of passengers in the car at the
time, and they we're greatly annoyed by
these proceedings.
At about the same time several men got
on car ID, William Stewart, driver, while
the car v as descending the Z street hill.
The actions of the men were so suspicious
that Stewart feared trouble. and proceeded
down the grade very carefully.
Upon reaching the curve which turns in
to Canal street Stewart found the track
filed with cks any one of which was
large enough to have thrown the car from
the track.
In each instance the police, who were no.
titled responded with promptness, but the
persons who caused the trouble had made
their escape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-12
General Assembly Begins Its Work
Today.
DELEGATES FROM STATESAND CANADA
Proposed amendments to the Laws
of the Order.
SOME OF THE OFFICERS

The nineteenth annual convention Of the
General Assembly Of Knights of Labor,
embracing assemblies in the United States
and Canada, was called to order this morn
ing at 10 o'clock at Mechanics Hall. corner
of Pennsylvania avenue and IL street.
There were about seventy delegates or
alternates present delegates from Mon
tana, Texas and a few other points in the
west not having arrived. They are ex
Dected to report during the day or by to-
morrow, when the entire convention will
number, it is thought, about seventy-five
or eighty delegates.
The work of the convention today con-
sisted of passing upon the credentials of
delegates, the chief point involved in this
work being the determination of the right
of delegates, not declared entitled to seats
in the convention, to take part in proceed
ings during consideration of appeals be-
fore the committee appointed to hear them.
The convention fixed the hours for hold
ing session from 9 am. to 1870 pm. and
from to 5 pm. The various committees
Will meet during the evenings.
Most of the business to be transacted by
the delegates relates to the government of
the order. Anie ng other propositions is one
providing that the Per capita tax amount
ing to , cents per month shall be paid to
the central body through district assem-
biies rather than by having the local as
semblies forward this assessment directly
to the central body. 1t is thought the con-
venticn Will provide a way for members of
the order to remain in 1t when residing in
loo alitfes in which there are no local bodies
In the past when member has moved
away from locality where there has been
a subcrdil ate body of the knights he has
been Obliged TO give up his membership
alter the expiration of about one month.
General Foreman Bishop.
Michael j. Bishop. general worthy fore
man, was born at Brooklyn. n. " May IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-12
Low WATER AT NIAGARA.
Rocks Showing Now That Were Never
Before Seen.

Before Seen.
From the New York World
The water in the Niagara river is lower
than it has ever been within the memory
of the Oldest inhabitant 1t has been stead
lily going down for some time. until now
rocks which have never before been seen
are plainly visible.
The most noticeable evidence is in the
Gorge. The docks both sides Of the
river stand up on the banks several feet
from the present margin. The water pou-s
out very slowly from the rocks beneath the
American falls. At the Horseshoe Falls
the volume is SO diminished that the deep
laundering tone has changed to lighter.
Table Rock is entirely dry, and no water
tumbles down the cascades between the
Three Sister Islands.
The Welland river. which is the largest
contribUtory stream to the Niagara river
hereabouts. has row no percepdole flow.
Fear is expressed that should eastern
gales spring up the river may run nearly
dry, as the water would be forced up the
lakes.
The present state Of affairs is caused by
general low water in the lakes, whose lev
els ere never before so low.