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ansas, 26 in Texas and 10 in Indian Territory.
 The serious decline in condition is the result in the maip of long-con- tinued drouth. Nhefe local rains have fallen they were generally so heavy as 10 further agravate the situation.
 The averages of the States on Sept. l were as follows:
 Virginia, S7; North Canolina, B; South Carolina. 66; Geosgia. 69; Florida, Il, Alabama, 76. Mississippi, 7S, Louisiana, If. Texas, Gl; Arkan- sas- 62; Tennessee, 76. Missouri, s5; oklahoma 50; Indian Territory 5S
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COTTON REPORT AS ISSUED FOR AUGUST BY THE AGRICULTURAL
 DEPARTMENT
GENERAL IMPAIRMENT
Of Conditions the Result of Dry Weather, in Some Instances
 Too Much Rain.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The month lY report of the statistician oF the Department of Agriculture shows the average condition of cotton on Sept. l to have been 6S.5 as com pared with $40 last month, 79.S on Sept. 1. 1898, 7S 3 at the correspond ing date in 1897, and 7S.4 the mean of the September averages for the last ten years.
 The condition of the first of the present month was, with the ex- ception of the year 1896. the lowest September condition in twenty five years.
 There was a general impairment of condition during August amount ing to points in Alabama, in Mississippi and Tennessee. 10 in South Carolina and Louisiana, 16 in Florida. 20 in Oklahoma, q in Ark
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4 GOOD TIME AHEAD

At Lee Springs on Friday, Sep tember l5, there will be a grand bar becue, at which time, everything will be free. Good dancing and music special feature. We are in formed that County judge Jones will deliver an address on the gold and silver question. Hon. Creed Caldwell will also deliver a disserta- tion but on what is unknown. 1t is rumored Mir. SorreIls. the Prosecut- ing Attorney will also officiate in an unofficial way.
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FOUR MEN DESCEND INTO A WELL AND TWO ARE
 TAKEN OUT DEAD
SAD FATE FATHER AND SON
James [. and Weakly Morris Were suhocated by Foul
 Air in a We'll.

PARIS. Sept. H. James L. Nor rls and his son Weakly, lad Is years of age, were suffocated by foul air in his well three miles northeast of Paris tbis morning. Two brothers Morgan and Dow Green, at work nearby, hurried to the rescue of their friends. Morgan arriving first on the scene, bravely descended to the bottom of the thirty -four foot well in vain et fort to save the Morrises. He soon succumbed to the deadly gas and dropped unconscious beside the bodies of the Morrisses. Dow Green arrlvlng at this time tied a rope about his waist ard went down into the death trap. He managed to fasten a rope to his brother and old man Morris when he LOO lost consciousness. The Green boys and old man Morris were drawn to the surface and doctor summoned at once. The Green boys were finally restored to consciousness, but old man Morris and his son were dead. Mr. Morris leaves q wife and sever al small ehildren.
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,EBEN OR LEBEN, DOCTOR LOSES s2, HIS HEAD, HIS GLASSES AND
 HIS GUN.
A GAME OF CRAPS.
|andles His Gun Like Canary Bird Would Boxing Gloves
 Backwards.

EDr. L. E. Rasehbaum apparently
 professional of more kinds than ,be. The Fire Department had just .oneluded a run on West 2nd avenue Aondav evening when the Doctor nade one on West Rarraque.
 Shortly after 2 o'clock he was ar sested and charged with an assault si tn deadly weapon. The story, ske the Doctor, is 8 hot one, and is sere given as witnessed by a Graphic reporter.
 < Peace reigned supreme ca Bar Esgue street but the bystanders We're suddenly aroused from their 'sverie by hearing five pistol shots he Graphic reporter having arrived
 n time to see man playing game sf tfootn half with the stairway
 Fading to s. A. LevY's club rooms. 4 large number of people soon ar Hived on the scene of battle. The Exporter, among others, saw a man Banding in his shirt sleeves, laugh
 ag heartily, and asking if anyone Rad seen Dr. Raschbaum. The per- sonage was no other than Mr. W. J. Burdell, the poor unfortunate vic sim of the Doctors rash act. Ht Mas fired upon four times by the Doctor, who is no doubt sharp sh0oter but not Q hitter" for be Bit the wall every time, notwith- Handing facing an open door. The Doctor had been rolling de bones" and losing alternately. Burdell the dealer makes the follow |pg statement:
 i've, the Doctor and myself, had 7een playing two dollars shot, for few minutes; the Doctor won the Grst throw, and the second lost. lbis caused him to dispute my Rord that ] did not win as dealer. told the Doctor that l had treated bim right more than once tonight, put that money he had lost. Where npon the Doctor called me a G-d 2-n s-n b-h. l then jumped rom behind the table, and slapped the Doctor slightly, knocking his Rlasses off," The glasses were pot seen on the Doctor the remaining pnrt of the night which no doubt accounts for the fact that he could aot see things in their right light. ! The Doctor like Aguinoldo, re-
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A stranger walked into MitchelPs confectionery in this city Monday and inquired of the proprietor as to whether he kept fine French candies, No, sir, and that isn't all. saiG Mr. Mitchell, do not intend to carry fine French candies, have the finest American candies.
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NoTE.-These Government inquiries also de- veloped the fact that there are many mix lures upon the market made in imitation of baking powder but containing alum or other caustic acid whose use in food is dangerous.
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A Government
 lnquiry

is being made by the United States Senate Food Commission into the matter of food adulteration, prevalent
 Twice before the United States Government has made inquiries to the ingredients and quality of the baking powders of the market. Each time the government report has shown Dr. Prices Cream Baking Pow der of highest leavening strength, grape cream of tartar powder of sterling worth, and absolutely pure and wholesome. This is very gratifying, for Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder is de- pended upon by millions of people to raise their daily bread.
 All tests, official and practical, prove Dr. Prices Cream Baking Pow der to be an economical, healthful and dependable article.
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PRICE BAKING POWDER CO,
 CHICAGO.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
ALPHABETICAL CONUNDRUMS.

What letter gives lover the mitten?
An o.
What letter is above your ankle? An
E.
What letters remind you of a flower?
Your O's.
What three letters are your foes Your
NME's
What size of letter promotes good
health? X r size.
What letters should physicians use
In their practice? @ QR.
What two letters can you make 60
of? L X, to be sure.
What letters should be used in pep
pering sentences? K N.
What one must you get to visit Eu-
rope? U must cross the c.
What letters must one select to en-
joy repose? He must take his Els.
What letter ought you to bestow on
your blind grandmother? Letter G.
What color must E be to always be
prompt? Red; for then it will always
be red-E.
What letter must friend bid you
search for when he praises the wealth
er? Find A. G
What gender will render B god
dess? Masculine, for it will then be-
come he B (Hebe).
What letter of Caesars name, multi
piled by four, assisted him in his con-
quests? His four Cs.
What very great depth in two letters
wall give the name of country where
foreigners live? Abyss in I A (Abys-
sinia).-Youth's Companion.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

During the past fiscal year 1,429 yes
sells of 320,s76 tons, gross were Duil1
in the United States.
The total displacement OF ships now
under construction for the British navy
amounts to no less than 4ss,0OO tons.
A seH-acting electric switch for troll
lev roads, which is operated by the
motorman simply touching smaA
lever on his car, has been invented by
Phladelphian.
The machinist employs dog on his
lathe; he takes hog cut, II the TOOL
will stand it; the castings are made
of pigs of iron, which in turn were feo
from a sow.
A curious story comes from Turkey.
A German firm sent some textile goods
wrapped in old newspapers. The Gus
toms house officers noticed this fact
and informed the censor, who prompt
ly decreed that the articles had to be
unpacked and repacked without the
newspapers, and this was done.
The first elevator was built.in 1850,
using worm gears. Owing to the low
heights of buildings, there was little
demand for elevators until the localiza-
ton of commerce flied the great CEN
ters of distribution with merchants and
merchandise, SO that story after story
was added to buildings, necessitating
the rapid development of the elevator.
It was on the 22d of June, 1899, that
the meter, the basis of the metric sys-
tenn, was decided upon by the corps
legislatif, upon the report OF French
scientists. Consequently, the meter is
100 years old, and we must admit it has
made a remarkable progress in that
period. At the same time, says the
Scientific American, there is great
room for improvement in this respect,
and it is to be hoped that by the time
another century passes away it will be
in universal use by every civilized coun-
try on the globe.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
THE SUBTLE CURRENT.

The Bois de Bologne, at Paris, win
soon be lighted by electricity. This is
important news, as it is high time that
this park was well lighted, as a num-
ber of crimes have been committed In
it under cover of the night
Electric cars were introduced into
Cleveland, O., in 1882, by Bentley G.
Knight; into New York, upon Sixth
avenue, in 1884, and between Boston
and Cambridge in 1885. The automo-
bile carriage was introduced, in Boston
in 1898.
The electric storage battery system
Ia talked of as substitute for steam
on a line of ferryboats at Philadelphia.
While the storage battery has been ap-
piled slowly, for temporary economic
reasons, it's progress indicates certain
future.
The magnetic observations at the VI
emma observatory have had to be en-
tirely discontinued on account of the
bad effects of the electric tramways
and electric light wires. The director
of the observatory has submitted a plan
to the government for a new observa-
tory, to be situated some distance from
Vienna
The Diatto system, which is in use
upon the tramways ia Tours, France,
belongs to the class in which the cur
rent generated in the central station
is conducted TO the cars along the line
by means of contacts placed between
the rails level with the ground. The
first application of the system was
made in Paris, the second at Monaco,
and the third in Tours.
At Cripple Creek, writes correspond
ent of the London Mining Journal, g
miner can go to his work in an cleo
trio street car, descend the mine in an
electric hoist, such mines being kept
dry by an electric pump, do his work
by an electric light, run drills operated
by electric air compressors (soon to
be superseded by electric driils} and
fire his shots by electricity from a
switchboard remote from the point of
explosion.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
MEN AND THEIR WORK.

In the south within the last five
months s17,oOo,ooO of new capital has
been invested In cotton mills.
The average weekly wages of the men
employed in the cotton mills of Maine
are S7.ss, of the women $500, and of the
children $2.73.
This years production of beet sugar
in the United States is estimated at
$4,000 tons from LA, 100 acres, four
fold increase in one year.
Prof. Poulton's gift of statue of
Charles Darwin has been set up in the
University of Oxford museum, next to
that of Sir Isaac Newton.
Gov. Roosevelt is one of probably a
very few public men who have kept up
their knowledge of other languages
since leaving college. He reads eer-
tain amount of French, German, Greek
and Latin every week.
Rev. Arthur L. Williams, the new
Episcopal bishop coadjutor of Ne
braska, entered the ministry late in life.
The son of Presbyterian clergyman
and native of Canada, he took up rail-
road work when a lad and IN 1880 be-
came general superintendent of road
running out of Denver. Not until 1887
did he begin his studies for the min
istry.
German East Africa is improving, as
is shown by the fact that the govern
ment has constructed oyer 800 miles OF
railway and the exports for 1S979S are
almost three times as large as those OF
the previous year. Tobacco, coffee and
sugar make up the greater part of these
exports. The railroad, telegraph and
telephone are invading Africa with re-
markable speed and it will shortly be
possible to reach the heart of the dark
continent by all these methods.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
WINE SPOILED BY AGE.
Champagne Becomes Unht 10
If stored Away In Cellars
Too Long.

"There is such thing as wine De,
t.p too old" said member OF the ooaro
of trade, reports the New orleans
Tiues-Democrat 81 had that illustrat-
cd at nv house the other day under
rather interesting circumstances. BACK
in 1s4s Gen. John NJ. Lewis, who was
then sheriff and afterward mayor OF
New Orleans, gave my uncle oasket
of four-year-old champagne. MY uncle
afterward moved north, taking that
and other wines with him, and on MS
death. in the early COS, the basket was
still intact. There had possibly been
some agreement about opening 1t al
certain time, and, at any rate, the cham
pagne remained in the family cellar un-
touched and only last month my cousin,
now in New York, broke the lot and
sent me down four bottles. was natu-
rally curious to know how the old wine
would look and taste, and few days
ago. on the occasion of little anniver-
sary at our house, opened one of the
bottles. 1 had considerable difficulty
in removing the cork without breaking
il, but it finally gave way. There was
not a vestige of pop and the wine ran
out perfectly dead and limpid. 1t was
pale amber in color and had faint,
pleasant bouquet, but the imprisoned
gas that had once given 1t life and
sparkle was gone forever. 1t was inter-
esting as relic, but not fit to drink, and
some friends who are connoisseurs said
that it had evidently been deteriorating
since 1870. It's great pity my north
ern relatives held it in too much venera~
ton to sample it about that time"
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09

blinds and screens for doors and win
dows. The gable ends of this house,
under the roof, are shingled; the side
walls are of matched pine, as is also the
floor, which is made in two sections.
This house can be put up and taken
down IN few minutes.
\ All sorts of furniture in suitable
small sizes can be bought for the fur
nishing of these houses, including
chairs and tables and settees and vari-
Gus other articles in wood and in wick
erwork, handsome little desks, and
everything needed for parlor or library
or dining-room, and there can be
bought for kitchen and other uses the
most complete outfits, including stoves
of the most modern description and
equipped with every sort of cooking
utensil, and there can be had also little
washing machines and ironing boards,
and so on.
The playhouse, in fact, whether it be
of one room or more, can be furnished
as completely as house of ordinary
size.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
TO STOP BLEEDING.
Electricity Now Declared to Be the
Most Emcacious Measure
Employed.

The arresting of bleeding in surgical
operations has always been one of the
difficulties in certain cases, and the cleo
trio current has been used before this
with view to bringing about that con-
dition of heat which is necessary in or
der to cause the blood to clot and so
act as block to the mouth of bleeding
vessels, arresting hemorrhage.
This, indeed, has resulted in the utili-
zation of the electric cautery, as it is
called, in certain operations, the plat
mum wire at red or almost white heat
even supplanting the knife, because it
burns through the tissues and at the
same time prevents therwound bleeding
to any great extent. This effect of
heat was, indeed, known to our ances-
tors, who used red-hot irons or boiling
pitch to scar the surface of the flesh
after their operations, thus causing an
immense amount of suffering to the pa
tient, before the days of chloroform.
A new adaptation of this use of cleo
tricity for the purpose of stopping
bleeding has been devised by inclos-
ing platinum wire in pair of forceps
or other instrument, the wire being in
sulated in bed of burnt pipe clay, and
as soon as the bleeding vessel is seized
by the forceps and compressed in the
ordinary way an electric current is
turned on, whose effect is so great that
the tissues and the walls of the blood
vessels are all applutinated So that tho
blood is no longer able to pass.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
How 1t Was First Raised on Cap
tured Spanish Fertilization at
DaiQuiri, Cuba

DR.. Henry La Motto, formerly major
and surgeon to the regiment, continues
in the st. Nicholas his story of the
rough riders and describes the first
raising of the American flag above
captured Spanish fortifacation.
At eigh3 o'clock on the morning OF
June %, 1898, the United States trans
port Yucatan found herself lying of
the little cove and village of Daiquiri,
Cuba. She was loaded with two squad
rons (eight troops) of the First United
States volunteer cavalry, of which regi-
ment 1 was the surgeon; four compa-
nies of regular infantry; and baggage,
rations and ammunition for these
troops.
We were all eagerly watching the ac-
tions of half dozen men-of-war that,
scattered along few hundred yards
from shore, were pounding away with
rapid-fire guns at every object on the
beach that might be suspected of har-
boring soldier of Spain.
Two hours of this work satisfied the
naval officers that no very obstinate op-
position would be made to the landing
of the troops, and then we began to
disembark.
Coils. Wood and Roosevelt and 1 were,
through the help of the commanding
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.

It is not the work man does that
tires him; it is getting rid of bores.
Start to fix over an old house, and it
will cost you just twice the original es-
innate.
When man is missing, everyone's
first impulse is to count the women left
in town, to see if one is short.
If anything is done in the name of
love, it's Stiffness becomes romance to
the women.
When man refuses to have his teeth
cared for, saying that he can't afford 1t,
it means that he lacks the necessary
nerve.
The man who throws coal into hot
furnace for living has one advantage
over his employer; his wife doesn't
throw it up to him that he sits in
cool Office all day.
Be properly surprised when a gossip
tells you that Mr.. A is flirting. If
you are not, the gossip will add that Mr..
A has run off with another woman,
and beat his wife before he went. The
ambition of q gossip is to abtound and
star2e, and he Will keep on talking till
he 6oes.-Atchison Globe.
Now that the young roosters are run
ming at large they will grow rapidly if
properly fed, but should the weather
become damp they may suddenly show
weakness in the legs. If they eat and
seem well otherwise they will soon
come in proper condition. as the weak
ness is caused by the birds growing in
height rather than in breadth, the legs
seeming to grow longer. Such birds
show the effects more on a sudden
change of the weather than at any other
time, as if rheumatic. Keep them in a
dry place, feed plenty of bonemeal,
and they will not only easily get over
it, but will eventually be the largest
ones in the Aock.--Farm and Fireside.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
WOOD EMITS SWEET TONES.
South American Tree from Which
the Natives Make In
struments.

Chicagoan recently returned from
protracted visit to South America
relates that the Indians in Ecuador.
Peru and Bolivia make an excellent mu-
slcal instrument out of the wood of
the hormaguilla, tree that grows abun-
dainty in those countries. The instru-
ment is on the principle of the we'll
known xylophone, only that under
meath each piece they construct a
sounding box of the same wood, varying
in size TO the note to be augmented
and sustained. Some of these instru-
ments are mounted on stands and have
as many as As tones. These large in
struments are played by four and five
operators. The tones are quite unlike
those OF the xylophone, as they are not
short and sharp, but are sustained by
the sounding boxes, so that at short
distance they give the impression more
OF an organ than even piano. Expert
operators play opera pieces and the
latest music upon the large instruments
with most remarkable effect. This in
strument is said to be very old one,
tradition dating it back to the days
OF the incas, being one OF the few
remaining evidences of the old prehis-
toric civilizations. A party of Peru
VANS lately travelled through Mexico
with one of these large instruments and
created quite sensation among the
music-loving Mexicans,
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
ARMY AND NAVY.

The Austrian army, active and re-
serve, includes over 1000 Jewish Off
GERS.
Paymasters and commissariat Off
cials of the German army receive spe-
cial training in examining the quality
OF food supplied to the army.
The British governments now manu-
featuring new bullet which is even
more deadly than the dum-dum. The
new projectile has soft metal point
which expands with the friction caused
by flight. 1t is said that 200, ,000,0 600
rounds of the bullet are already in
stock.
In Frances navy there are As adj
mirals to 1,760 officers and Al 1886 men.
In the army there are $50 generals to
21,4ss officers and $4,000 men, while
the marines have II generals to 2, ,105 Of
ficers and 5a,3o5 men. The marines
complain Of the inequality in proper
tlon of generals, they having but one to
about 124 officers, while the army has
one to 65.
The illiteracy Of new recruits for the
English army is commented upon in the
report just published in London. Only
Al in 1000 are well educated, and 18 are
utterly nliterate. Thirty-five per cent.
OF the applicants are rejected for physi-.
cal disability, and this proportion is
said to show slight improvement over
former reports.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09

was the signal for a great demonstra-
ton on the part of the feet. hearly
every ship blew her whistle, and the
cheers of the men were heard even
above this vast footing.
Ordering Platt-who had stolen my
thunder by first showing the fiag-to
come help me, by means of pole
placed against the building l now
climbed up to the roof of the fortin.
Platt, from the inside, with a crow
bar broke hole through the very apex
of the roof, and Sergt. Wright passing
me the ensign, hoisted the United
States flag over the first Spanish forti-
fication we had captured.
The Jamesburg record., 1899-09-09
CHILD'S PLAYHOUSE.
1t Is Built in Sections and Can BE
Put Up In Entirely Different
Ways.

There is really no reason nowadays
why children should not have play
houses of their own, for portable struc-
lures for lawn and garden use are
manufactured.
One house of this sort is six feet four
inches wide, nine feet six inches long
and eight feet nine inches tall from the
floor to the point of the gable. This
house has one door and one window.
The window is divided vertically in the
middle, the two halves opening back on
hinges at the side edges. The door has
a glazed sash in its upper part, and it
has also lock and key.
These houses are built in sections,
and they can be put up in different
ways; that is, they can be set up with
the door in the front and the window
in one end of the house, or they can be
set up with both the door and the win
dow in front; the sections are inter-
changeable.
There is provided for use with the
house veranda roof, which is made in
sections of the same width as the Sec
tions of the house itself, so that these
veranda sections can be put up to-
gether, making a continuous veranda
along one side of the house, or they can
be put up one over door and one over
a window.
There are made also, for use with
these playhouses if desired, outside