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The leader., 1899-12-13
AUBURN DOTS.

Mr. Hugh Calender, of Cobb's p. O.,
was visitor here the past week.
Mr.. ]. f. Carruth. made a trip to
Meadville last week to attend Chancery
Court.
Prof McAlpin is expecting to have a
concert on the night of the 22nd of this
month if nothing prevents.
DR.. Teunisson, of Monticello, the Ma
sonic lecturer, spent three days with
the Masons of this place last week.
Miss Made, visited friends in Tyler
town last week and report nice time.
Sam Bowling, one of the best colOred
men III this community, died recently
from eating too many parched pinders.
We are sorry to note that Brother
Morse has been confined to his bed
since Monday with typhoid fever, but
we hope he will soon recover.
The Masonic lodge building here has
recently been recovered. The work
was done by Messrs. Tommy and
Joseph King. The lodge now has a
very neat and substantial roof.
Mrs. Alice Barron, wife of James 7.
Barron, has been badly afflicted with
something that at first seemed to be a
felon on her thumb, but afterwards af-
fected her whole arm very severely.
She is now much better than it was
thought she would be, owing to the
severity with which she was first taken.
Dr. Henry Flowers has been her phys
ician and he has given her close atten-
ton.
4 CLUB MEMBER.
The leader., 1899-12-13

On or about the first day of January,
1900, we will want in the Democrat
Star office GOOD, SOBER, industrious,
quick, correct type setter, an expert in
manipulating the faithful "old Wash
ington." In fact he must be thorough
printer in the broadest sense of the
word. He must be good thinker, but
not much talker. He must not be over
35 years old and unmarried, and must
not marry while in our employ. To
such an one that will fill the bill in its
entirety, we will give him a perma-
nent situation at wages sufficient to
support himself decently. If he
should die while with us, we promise
to see that he is decently buried along
side of those who have gone before
from this office to the cemetery by the
sounding sea. Apply at once to
p. X. MAYERS,
Scranton, Miss.
The leader., 1899-12-13
Our Special Offer.
The Leader One Year for SI.OO-The
Leader and Home and Farm
for SI.2S.

Until Jan /, 1900, all subscribers in
debted to THE LEADER can settle what
they owe at the rate of S1.OO year, in
stead of the regular price of $50. All
subscribers, old and new, who pay a
year in advance from Jan. l, 1900, will
get the paper for S1.00; all who pay
S1.O0 for a year in advance and % cents
additional, will get THE LEADER and
The Home and Farm both one year
which is two good papers for % cents
less than. the regular price of THE
LEADER.
Every body who wants the best local
paper in Lincoln county and one of the
best family and agricultural periodicals
in the country, should take advantage
of this splendid offer.
The leader., 1899-12-13

Chancery Clerk May has received
from the Auditor the list of Confeder-
ate pensioners of Lincoln county enti-
tied to draw State pension and is now
ready to issue his warrants on the
county treasurer when the pensioners
apply for their pro rata share of the
fund. The amount received by the
county treasury for this purpose is
sll6220
The leader., 1899-12-13
Called Meeting Of the. Board Of Su-
-. pervisons..

A special meeting offhe Board of Supervisors
of Lincoln County. Miss. is hereby called to
meet at the once OF. the clerk of the Chaneery
Court OF Lincoln .cQunty. Mississippi, at 10
O'Clock a. M, on TacSday, the 18th day Of De
eember, A. ID. 1899. TO take final action on secur-
the working of said farm ON shares by convict
labor and to consider the adyisabffity of allow
ing the Stonewall Guards $4,000 Tor the year A.
oficers Of % are re- hereby y Inclined to be present.
WI PARSONS, Pres.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
Captured a Stranelinc Bug.

One of the so-called strangling buos was captured in the county iail yard at Media, Pa, by Jail Warden Thomas $. Fields. MT. Fields did not know of the bloodthirsty and dangerous char. aeter of his captive, but, judging bv tba looks of the insect that it was daneers ous, handled it carefully. He sue- ceeded in brushing it into glass far and few minutes afterward dronned live mouse into the jar to watch inc result. The bug in minute made . sudden dash upon the neck of tba mouse, and stung or bit it in such a way as to cause it to keel over dead the bug hanging on to it and sucking Its blood. MT. Fields, mortified at bav- ing such an insect in his possession and without knowing that it was one of the aliens from Africa, closed the far tightly and smothered it to death. 1t is of dark brown color, about two and a half inches long, has a strong pair of wings, and is armed with a sharn- pointed sucker" or sword, and two erab-like claws.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
 MORE ENGLISH IRON.
Timely Discovery at Kent in the Dover
 CoaIfeId.

When the coal boring was put down at Dover about six or eight yecrs ago, by MT E. Brady, on the site of the old Channel tunnel works, there were indi- cations in the cores of the presence of iron ore in the strata between 300 and 600 feet from the surface The indica- tlons have now proved correct, says the London Chronicle. In the course of sinking the No. shaft a bed of yalu- able oolitie iron ore has just been struck at a depth of rather less than 600 feet. The seam proves to be no less than twelve feet thick and probably ex- tends over great area, the quantity being practically unlimited. The diam eter of the shaft is twenty feet and the quantity brought to the surface in passing through the twelve feet amounted to about $50 tons. Samples of the ore have been submitted to anal ysis, with highly satisfactory results, washed sample of the ore yielding 45.S per cent of iron. On visiting the eol- fiery works today I inspected a consid- erable bulk of the ore and the mana
  ger informed me that a washed sample tested at the works yielded between 90 and 60 per cent of iron. The analysis shows that the ore is free from sul- phur and phosphorus. The ore is stat ed to be of much richer quality than the Wealden ironstone, worked in Kent and Sussex century ago Prof. Boyd Dawkins, in a paper read before the British association in 1894, described a sample obtained from the original boring. From this it appears that this bed of iron ore is identical with that described by Blake and Hudleston at Abbotsbury, in Dorset, where it occurs between the Kimmeridge clay above and the Corallian rocks below. It is also practically identical with the val uable iron ore worked for many years in Westbury, Wiltshire The ironstone presents very singular physical char aeteristies. It is composed of dark brown, shining grains of hydrated OK lde of iron, like millet seed, imbedded Tn crystalline base, partly of cal- cum and partly of iron carbonate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27

Thousands have tried from time imme- Dorial to discover some cfficacious remedy for wrinkles and other imperfectons of the complexion. but none had yet suc- eeeded until the Misses Bell, the now fam Dus Complexion Specialists, of 78 Fifth Avenue, New York City, offered the pub 6c tit.eir wonderful Complexion Tonic. The reason oe many failed to make this discovery before is plain, because they have not followed the right principle. Balms, Creams, Lotions, etc, never have tonic effect upon the skin, hence the failures.
 The Misses Bells Complexion Tonic has amost exhilarating effect upon the cuticle, absorbing and carrying off all impurities which the blood by it's natural action is constantly forcing to the surface of the skin.S Is is to the skin what yitalizing sonic Is to the blood and nerves, kind of new life that immediately exhilarates and strengthens wherever applied. its tonic effect is felt almost immediately. and it speedily banishes forever from the skin, freckles, pimples, blackh,a ads, moth patches, wrinkles, liver spoys, roughness, oiliness, eruptions, and discolorations of any kind.
 In order sbat all may be benefited by their Great Discovery. the Misses Bell will, turing the present month, give to all call. 4a sTsryr nHVrrr~ rAr7v
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
Christian Scientists Increase Most Rapidly

Christian Scientists Increase Most Rapidly
 Late statistics showing the strength of the Christian science movement are now available The mother church in Boston has a membership of about 15,000. It has BOA chartered branches in this country and abroad, and the total church membership is placed at 70,000. The regular church attendance is upward of 300,000 In 1897 the in- crease in number of churches was A, and in 1898, 75 This church is grow ing more rapidly than any church in the world. It's percentage of gain is very large.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
Chief Justice of New Zealand an Atheist

Chief Justice of New Zealand an Atheist
 Sir Robert Stout, the new chief jus tiee of New Zealand, is singular among occupants of high judicial office in be- ing an ayowed atheist. He was for merly known as the "Bradlaugh of the Antipodes.' and he once presided over a secularist congress in Melbourne He was born in the Shetland islands ffty- nYe years ago, emigrated to New Zea- land in his nineteenth year, became a schoolmaster, studied law after school hours, and secured the right to wear a wig and gown at 27. At 31 he was an M. P. and at A attorney general in the government of Sir George Grey. In lSS4 he became premier of a coalition government in association with Sir Julius Vogel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
MORE GLACIERS THAN GOLD.
I Scientists Found Many Natural Wonders
 Up in Alaska.

Two members of E. H. Hartman 2 scientific party that has been explor- ing the Alaskan coast for some months past have returned to Vancouver and bring accounts of their cruise on the steamer Elder, which indicate that MT. Hartman and the scientists will return laden with many 1aurels They seem to have developed mania for glaciers, having visited and explored more than thirty, some of which were unknown except to natives. In one bay. not shown on the maps or charts, they discovered an immense glacier, not as large as the giant Muir, but much more grand and picturesque The bay extends inland more than twenty miles and at point near the glacier a sounding line of forty fathoms did not touch bottom. This inlet they named Unknown bay. It was here that the Elder maneuvering among the cakes of ice broke from the glacier, broke a propeller blade, making it necessary to return to 0rca. where repairs were made. At the head of Disenehantment bay they found four glaciers which had never been seen before by white men. In Icy bay, twenty miles across, op- posite Carroll's glacier, the party dis covered new glacier with a front of three-fourths Of mile. This was named Harriman's glacier. 0bserva- tions taken in the vicinity of Grand Pacific glacier showed that it's ice wall had receded three miles during the 20 years that have elapsed since Muir and Reed visited the place and established their survey. The different scientists are having gratifying success in all lines. The botanists have found sev- eral new plant species and collection Of marine species made by the party, it is said, will be superior to any other in existence. Ornithologists have had phenomenal success and are able to show new bird specimens
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27

CTS at their parlors one trial bottle of their Complexion Tonic absolutely free; and in order that those who cannot call or who live away from New York may be bene- fited, they will send one bottle to any ad dress, all charges prepaid, on the receipt Of i p cents Stamps or silyer) to cover cost ot packing and delivering. The price of this wonderful tonic is $1o0 per bottle, and this liberal offer should be embraced by all.
 The Misses Bell have just published their new book, "Secrets of Beauty. This valuable work is free to all desiring it. The book treats exhaustively of the importance of good complexion; tells how woman may acquire beauty and keepit. Special chapters on the care of the hair; how to have luxuriant growth harmless methods of making the hair pre- serve it's natural beauty and color. even to advanced age. Also instructions how to l,anisE superfuous hair from the face. lIvs.A and arms without injury to tbe skin. This book will be mailed tc any address on request.
 FREE Trial Bottles of Wonderful Com- plexion Tonic free at parlors, or 9 cents lcost of packing and mailing) to those ata distance.
 Correspondence cordially solicited. Ad. dress .
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
,,,us,,iy Inueed.

client-That little house you sent me to see is in most seandalous conai- ton. It is so damp that moss posi- lively grows on the walis-House Agent-Well, isn't moss gooa ehousn for you? What do you expect at the rent-orchids Tlt-bi's.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
 SICK ROOM GOODS.

We have about everything that has been invented to lessen the suffer ing of the sick.
 Invalid cushions, Hot Water Bot ties. Bandages, Lints, Fountain Syringes and all sorts of hospital and sick-room supplies. If you can not get what you want come to the Anderson Meyer Drug Co.,, though you would save yourself time, money and be better service il you would get in the habit of coming to Anderson-Meyer Drug Co.,, first.
 Remember, If you get it at An derson-Meyer Drug Co, it's good.'' Prices for sick room goods are usu- ally extortionately nigh, but ours are always reasonable and low be- cause Vt sell so many, buying in large quantities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-27
Cotton Belt B. lletin. PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
 Via cotton Belt Route
Via cotton Belt Rout'

Leave Pine Bluff f;10 D. m, arrive Chicago Il ;45 next day. Only one change through eleepers.
 soathern Educational Assoeiati9a,, Mem phis, Tent essee, December 21th to 29th, lo99. Rate:-One fare plus S200 for " round trip. Dates of sale: Dec. 18th and 2th ls99. Re- turn l init Jan. 2nd 1900.
 Eational Live Stock Association, Fort Worth, Texas, January 16th to 18th 1900: Rate one fair for the round trip. Dates of sale: Jan. 14th and 18th Return limit Tick cts will be good fer return leaving Fort Worth any day from Jan F to 27th inclusive 1900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14
OUR GERMAN TRADE.

Many American consuls in their re-
ports to the State department lay stress
upon the fact that American manufact-
urers neglect the whims and oddities
of foreign markets to the serious detri-
ment and handicap of their trade.
Consul Diedrich to Madgeburg, Ger
many, lays stress on this point and also
upon the folly of flooding foreign mar
kets with printed, illustrated and de-
scriptive catalogues and circulars in the
English language. Naturally, the peo-
pie abroad pay no attention to these
just as no American would give Sec
ond glance at circular that came to
his notice printed in language he did
not know.
Money spent thus is wasted. Doubt
less much good could be accomplished
by commercial agents ard travelling
men who understood the language and
customs of the people to whom they
were sent.
Consul Diedrich suggests that an ex-
cellent way to sell American tools. i'm
Elements, wagons and machinery Of
all kinds would be to exhibit them in
public, for it is generally conceded that
American goods will sell themselves
wherever they are actually introduced.
This suggests the efforts now being
made in the United States by the Ma
tional Business League to establish in
foreign countries American EXPOSE
tons with a view of charging our
trade facilities and acquiring a def
mite and more systematic knowledge of
the needs of such countries and the
dissemination of such knowledge
among the American people. Such ex-
positions would be worth thousands
of tons of literature which is never
read by. those for whom it is intended
Such expositionS as these in cOnnec-
tion with similar exDOsitions estab-
lished in this country in it's leading
cities of foreign products raw and man.
ufactured in which expositions our
manufacturers and merchants might
learn in an easy and practical way what
the world has to offer us. would go
farther than anything else to bring us
in close touch with the people of for
eign countries and the needs of foreign
markets.
1t is the lack Of this knowledge that
is now the sole handicap to American
trade abroad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.
A Collection of the Small Events OF Each
Passing Day.

n COl1CCtAOA VI Gh~ onAHtA s~sS~AsS = $500
Passing Day.
The mercury went to 80 in the
shade yesterday.
No business was transacted in the
Courts yesterday.
The police force have received their
new summer helmets.
There were no cases in Police
Court yesterday morning.
One deed of trust was admitted to
record at Clerk Robertson's office yes
terday.
The work of repairing alley IL. be-
tween Market and Chapline streets, has
been almost completed.
"A bill of exceptions in the Board
of Commissioners fight is being pre-
pared by w. P. Robinson, of counsel
for the regular Republicans and Demo-
Gratis.
The enterprising firm of House &
Hermann will run a hack line free for
the patrons of their store, on Satur-
day, from both Bridgeport and Ben
wood.
Last evening the ladies OF the con-
gregation of the Second Presbyterian
Church served supper in the lecture
room from to 8 o'clock and were lib
orally patroniZed.
The Wellsburg election, Tuesday,
resulted in the selection of Jones, R.,
for Mayor, by a majority of 26, and
Myers, D., for Marshal, by majority Of
1852. License carried by A.
The second silver medal contest of
the series held under the auspices OF
the Epworth League will take place
Friday evening in the Zane Street M.
E. Church. 1t will be conducted by w.
j. Hamilton.
Last evening the city ambulance
received two calls One was to take a
sick lady from North Wheeling to a
train, and the other to take sick lady
from a Market street residence to the
City Hospital.
The biograph pictures of Pope Leo
XIII. were presented to a good sized
and very appreciative audience in the
Auditorium of the Carroll Club last
night The views have afforded a great
deal of satisfaction to all who have
witnessed them.
Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
the funeral of the late Mrs Malinda
Powell will take pace from the resi-
dence of her niece, Mrs. Lizzie Gross,
No. 2412 Market street, the interment
being at Greenwood. Mrs. Powell was
in her seventy-ninth year, and was
widely known and esteemed.
Tickets have been issued by Gen.
trail Temple, No. 4, and Central Castle,
No. /, l.. of G. E., for their festival to
be held at the Phythian Castle, June
1st to 9Th. The ladies have been very
successful in the sale of them and up
to the present time between sixteen and
seventeen hundred have been disposed
Of
The biograph company which filled
an engagement in this city at the Car
roll Club, under the auspices of Lafay-
cite Commandery and st. AIMS Aux
iliary of the r. G. U. Knights of ST.
John, will leave this morning for a
short tour of this State Matthew H.
McNabb, of this city, will be out with
the company during its six weeks
spring tour, and will rejoin the COM
pany at the opening of the fall season.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14
DIED.

NJ NAMARA-Thursd April 18th 1899.
at II o'clock m, Katherine. wife of the
late John Mcnamara, in the nth year of
her age.
Funeral from the residence of her SON.
in-law. Edward Allen. No. 1926 Jacob
street, Saturday morning at $50 o'clock.
Requiem mass at church of the Immacu-
late Conception at o'clock Friends of
the family invited TO attend. Interment
Mt Calvary cemetery
THOMPSON-On Tuesday, April H. 1899
at LILO o clock D. m, James w. son of Ir-
win and Della Z. Thompson, in his 4th
year.
Funeral services at residence of parents
No. 126 Alley 16. on Friday afternoon at 2
O'Clock Friends of family respectfully in
vited to attend Interment at Peninsula
cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14

the government of the islands might
easily lead US into most costly and
terrible war with sister nation close
" related to us by ties of blood.
OF course, being involved, it is now
too late to think of withdrawing from
the alliance as a means of settling the
present controversy. Thus it is usual
ly; our most serious mistakes are al
ways made too late to rectify, although
we had been warned against the blum
der of entangling alliances from the
very inception of our national life, a
warning that has been repeatedly din
ned into our ears for two centuries.
At best, is the game in this case
worth the candle? AS we have said,
but twenty-six Americans are resi-
dents of Samoa, and its other features
and commerce are thus summarized:
Including the Chinese, the foreign popu-
lation numbers, all together, aee. Of this
number about half are subjects of Great
Britain Territorially and commercially,
the entire Samoan Kingdom furnishes but
tiny base for the storm of diplomatic
controversy that has arisen. Its total
area is less than LOO square miles Its
entire population is about 5000 people.
The maximum of its foreign export and
import trade has never exceeded saN,eiO
in any one year, and $500 tons of fore,sa
shipping annually is the record of its i'm
ports.
The commercial value of its imports IS
expressed by the latter figure. 1t includes,
as a matter of fact, the Australian mail
ships, which ply only a comparatively
short distance, two of which, of 5000 tens
each, enter the port of Apia every month.
discharg.ng and taking on little mail,
some fresh provisions, and handling few
packages of freight.
BY this single line fully 72,0O0 tons Of
shipping are accounted for.
Thus it will be seen that the COM
mercial Importance of Samoa is out of
all proportion to the size of>the trouble
we are having over them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14
RAILROAD ANNIVERSARY.

Yesterday was tn 1ifty-third ami
versary of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, it having been incorporated
by an act of legislature on April ID,
1916. The company was organized in
Philadelphia in March, 1S47. when Sam
uel Vaughan Merrick was chosen as its
first President. The first contract for
the construction of the road was let
in July, lS47, for the grading of twenty
miles west of Harrisburg. From this
small beginning, which led up to the
running of the first train through from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg in December,
1852, has grown one of the mightiest
railroad systems in the world. The
company now has over 5000 miles of
actual railroad and $1,000 miles of
twentieth of all the railroad mileage in
the United States. 1t has in service
160, 900 freight cars, over 1000 passen-
ger cars and 1000 locomotives. The
annual report for 1898 showed that the
company carried 71,202,6 passengers
during the year and hauled 173, 791, 239
tons of freight, its passenger traffic
being IL per cent and its freight tom
mage Is per cent. of the entire traffic
in the country. The company has
about 100. 600 employees, or Is per cent.
of the total number of railroad en-
plOyes in the country.
The Pennsylvania railroad and its
allied organizations, leased lines, ETC.,
Of which there are no fewer than 182,
represented an invested capital Of near
~ $500, 900 600
The gross revenues of the system for