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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25
Eczema b. Sample

Have Thing, burning. scaly
cfusted Spnnpay skin, blisters con-
tanning Pig or watery fluid, skin red,
and an iching heat, with or without
sores, On legs, arms, hands. face or
neck? Then take B, B. 3. which will
cure, leAing the flesh freefrom blem-
ishesi sores, eczema or itching Of any
kind.
Any form Of eczema is due to diseas-
ed blood. Get the diseased blood out
with B. B. B., and you. are cured.
B. b. B. is perfectly safe to take by old
or young, and acts as q fine tonic, and
cures when salves, washes and other
remedies fail. Children are very FREE
quently afflicted with eczema. Sores
discharge and yellow crust forms.
upon the skin. Give the child mild
doses Of b. B. b., and the sores will
soon heal.
B. b. B. for sale by druggists at 81
per bottle, address Blood Balm Co., $50
Mitchell street, Atlanta, Ca, and. SAM
pie bottle Of B. B. B, will be sent by re-
turn mail
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is ten
fold to the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by I. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. 1t is
taken internally, and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F j. Cheney & Go. Testimo-
malls free. Sold by Druggists, price 70
cents per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25
An Arkansas nr;nter IN maxi,

An Arkansas printer in making
up the forms il a hurry the other
day got marriage notice and a
.grocer's advertisement mixed up
so that it read as follows: "John
Brown and Ida Gray were united
i'll the holy sauer kraut by the
quart or barrel. Mr.. Brown is a
well-known young Goldfish at 10
cents per pound, while the bride,
Miss Gray, has some nice pigs
feet which will be sold cheaper
than at any store in town."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25
NICKAJACK.

A heavy transform visited this
section Sunday evening, with con-
siderable wind and hail No
harm, however, was done, but
much good to all crops of all
kinds.
Messrs. E. G. Murrah and E.
D. l. Mobley, of Atlanta, were
the guests Of Jno. w. Ruff last
week. The former was to preach
at the chapel here on Sunday
night, but the rain prevented.
During the electric display Sum
day evening, lightning struck and
literally riddled a walnut tree
near ]. w. Rufus house, and also
struck a telephone wire, some 80
feet or more distant, which was
partly on the ground and melted
about 200 feet of it into from one
to three inch sections. ~ .9 8
MI. John Rice has placed a
little painted bark" in the pond
here, to the delight of the young
people. KoN.
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Three or four months ago DR..
Miller, of Richland, attended a
negro woman who gaTe birth to
three living infants ,ne boy and
two girls. He saw&he father in
his office last saturday, who
stated that all 6three were alive
and in fine cond xtion. They COM
bined weight 4 t birth way 224
pounds. TheiI mother haapre-
I Iren given birth to ten Sil.
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DODGEN.

We had fine shower Sunday,
just enough to refresh the foliage.
Mark Reeves who has been sick
for some time, we learn, is i'm
proving.
r l. and B n Moon, of Dodgen,
visited their sister, Mrs. w r
Priest, of Acworth Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Morgan filled his reg
ular appointment at New Provi-
dence Sunday.
R G Qualls' daughter, Annie,
met with very painful accident
on last Friday morning. While
her. mother was going from the
stove to the table with a pan of
grease, she ran against and turned
the hot grease out Oh her head and
neck, making very bad burn and
causing her great pain. DR.. G L
Ezzard was called and gave medi-
cal attention.
Some thought Aunt Poll was
dead but they are mistaken, for
the old lady is still breathing. "A
Miss Aroy Haney is on the 81
list.
Miss Leila Jolley visited u 4
Gle, G Dodgen last week.
Mrs. C o McClains
been sick for thu
/ 4 |. 4. ]. !:
are glad to say,
There will bel
at Bethlehem til IAN
In June. Ihe y |ony
and Sacred Ha( ksed.
All are invited5 lall
who lead in sin Ioll.
Eczema s 7, Sample
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"a - III @ IL x A.
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The man who knows but one
thing is capable of giving advice
on all subjects.
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New York city proposes tospend
$4,000 on welcoming Admiral
Dewey home, and wants every
state in the union to send a regi-
ment. n
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25

A man who lives on hope will
spend his old age at somebody
else's expense.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25

Gossip is cartridge fred from
she gun of idle curiosity.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-05-25
Don't Tobacco Spit and spe..s Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full OF life nerve and vigor, takesNo-To-
BAG, the wonder-worker. that makes weak men
strong All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling RemedysCo, Chicago or New York
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. a 81 TO II = A.
Boar. tb. sThs Kind You Rsys Always Bought
''', :; lZzHAzzw

A man with an elastic magma
ton is apt to mistake it for his
conscience.
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No-To-Fac for Fifty Cents
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong. blood pure. SOC. d. All d9ggists
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Short Waist. Paris model, sateen body, satin
strips, has the appearance of an all-satin Corset
Heavy silk embroidered edge top and bottom
bust ornamented in new and pretty way, bones
in front heavily Tossed inside strengthening zone
Four hook clasp III inches long White black,
pink and blue. Sizes Is to 26
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Continued ON Page 81
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ST. PAUL BANK CLOSES.
The ReOrganixed Germania Fails tO
Make Things Go.

The ReOrganized Germania Fails to
Make Things Go.
The Germania bank, at st. Paul, vol.
UNFAIRLY closed it's doors today. The
brief notice on the door stated that the
bank was in the hands of the superin-
tendent of banks. But the officers of
the bank had decided before the time TO
opening up for the Monday business
that they would not continue opera
tions President Willius sent notice to
this effect to Bank Examiner Pope, and
the latter sent Assistant Examiner
Davis down to count the cash. Nc
statement of the banks condition ac-
companied the notice that it was to be
closed.
The closing of the bank was due to
the fact that large batch of long time
certificates, taken out at the time the
bank was reorganized, were coming due,
and the bank was not in a position to
meet them. The former certificates have
been taken up and paid in full, but the
last installment will come due Aug. 26.
and the bank was not in a position to
realize on it's assets within the short
time remaining, so the directors decided
to close and go into liquidation.
The deposits were $4,000 July l,
when the last statement was issued.
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Mckinley campaign fund, who was also
dicate, was entirely amenable to it's di-
rections. Under his control, the war
department of the government speedily
acquired, by purchase or charter, all the
available vessels On the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. There were employed on
both coasts in the later days of the war
fleet of 80 vessels Of all classes, for the
exclusive use of the war department.
Some of them were needed; many were
entirely useless. The top price was
paid in every instance where the owner
of the vessel could show the proper in
dorsement of the directing members Of
the syndicate. The army feet cost the
government to acquire outright, through
~ptrchase or charter, round $4,000, ,OO0
OF this sum, nearly $7,0D0,O 900 were paid
to vessel owners who sold outright,
while $2,5000O0 were given to owners
for the temporary use of their craft.
There never was any contention outside
the ring that all these vessels were
needed by the army.l Many of them
were useless for the purpose intended to
be made of them until they had been
converted from their ordinary uses as
freight vessels by the expensive process
of Transforming their interiors; This
cost approximately half-million dol
lars, so that this one item of ring direc-
tion cost the government nearly SILL
100000
HOW THE TRICK: WAS TURNED.
Senator Hanna sold 9 yacht to the
government which had putlived it's USE
fulness. He patriotically fixed the price
at only few thousand dollars more
than it had cost years before. There
were other vessels sold to the govern
ment in which Senator Hanna took in
terest, where like considerations influ-
enced the. deal. 1t is p. reasonable esti-
mate to place the profits of the war ring
in the ship transactions of the war de-
partment alone at $4,000, 900. When the
bug under this chip is fully uncovered,
it will be shown in a way to convince
the nation that the administration ring
directed all it's efforts to mulcting it's
own government. Fortunes were made
out of the war by those who were on
the staff of the syndicate It's demands
upon outsiders for its influence were,
however so Onerous and burdensome
that few except It's members made
money through their contracts. The
Hanna combination took the cream and
left only a small profit to the men who
sought it's powerful o. K. Secretary
Alger paid large prices for many of his
ships. He knew, perhaps that all the
money was not to go into the pockets of
the owner. And SO the tax for the mid
dleman, the syndicate's. "rake-off," fig
ured in the sum to be paid.
SOME OF HE PRICES PAID.
Bernard N. Baker, OF Baltimore. sod
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PERQUISlTES OF WAR
WAS ADVANCE AGENT,
NOT OF PROSPERITY, BUT OF A
BAND OF ROBBERS.
OfHcia1 Steals OvershadOwing the Gil.
gantfc Proportions of Credit
MObelier.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 23.-When
the national calcium light is turned
upon that chapter of the war with Spain
which treats of contracts made by the
war department for the purchase and
charter of vessels, the worst scandal of
the 1OO-days' conflict will come out.
Publicity in it's fullest details has been
and now is impossible, because no power
with competent authority to demand the
proof has put its hand to the probe.
Safeguarded from any attempt at inves-
tigation which does not come direct
from congress, the co-partners in the
grand larceny of countless thousands
from the treasury thus far have Tended
off annoying publicity. But the proof
is still in existence. It will be possible
for the coming congress, by simple reso-
luton of inquiry, to place before the ma
tion comprehensive statement of the
cost of the war, which will show the
jobbery and the collusion between ad-
ministration spokesmen and the mid
dlemen," who made the war exigency
source of fabulous profit. Let congress
demand of the administration that it be
furnished with authenticated copies of
the contracts entered into by the gov
ernment from the declaration of war to
the signing of the peace protocol, and
the truth will be known.
THE SHIP-PURCHAsING CONsPIR-
ACY.
The wayfaring taxpayer, who is mere
ly a voter without pull, can receive
gratuitous insults from the secretary of
war to the humblest understrapper
within the influence, by voicing a re-
quest for information as to the cost of
ships purchased by the war department
and comparison of the purchase price
with the original cost. When war with
Spain was declared, the group of White
House favorites saw way to recoup it's
expenditures for the purchase of the
presidency and prior investments in
bankrupt's notes-of-hand. combina-
tion was formed to control the letting of
contracts, to place them only in the
hands of their friends, and to mulct the
government for profit on every trans
action. 1t was part of the same con-
spiracy, not only to control contract-let-
ting, but to force the administration,
while the war fever was at it's height, to
buy that which it did not need. Patri-
Otism was made cloak to cover acts
which looked suspicious, and, under in
vestigation, developed an exorbitant
robbery of the government In the early
stages of the war, the White House syn
dicate planned to control both the army
and the navy, and to make every turn
of the war wheel bring it profit. The
secretary of the navy-to his lasting
credit-refused to Join the despoilers or
to permit the movements of the navy.
the letting of it's contracts, to be direct
ed by the contractors ring.
WHERE THE DOODLE WENT.
Russell A. Alger, purchaser of the war
portfolio by direct contributions to the
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Minnesota Farmers Hail Insurance Company, Minneapolis sMs
s1,O ,OOOyC o0 IN FORCE.

r for 1898, and you will find this company is the
in the Northwest. They rebated over e16, 000.00
nent Of any company in the Northwest. The best
business. Strictly a FARMERS management.
!6 Boston Block. MINNEAPOLIS. MINI.
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at least $150,OOO of the Peter Jebsen pur-

at least $15O,0OO of the Peter Jebsen pur-
chase price was clear profit. The Aba
renda brought j. Graham $175, 900. He
must have cleared at least $4,000. Nc
Condway & Co. sold to the administra-
ton for $215,000 the ship Whitgift now
owners more than 100000, then he
failed to drive as good a bargain with
the syndicate as he should have done.
Thomas S. Hopkins sold the Lucilene,
now named the Aresthura, for s218,992.
She is in the Vulcans class, and it fol-
lows, therefore, that the owners profit
should have been beyond the 100000.
PROFITS MADE BY THE SYNDICATE
SHARKS.
The General Russell cost the govern
ment $71 900. All that is asked for this
ship, now that it is for sale, is $35, 900.
showing that at least $36, ,OOO clear profit,
or 81 900 more than double her cost, was
paid by the administration. These in
stances show clearly that in every case
the ship-owners and the contract syndi-
cate added not less than 100 per cent to
first cost, and then sold to the nation.
Therefore, if the purchase price of ves-
sells bought by both war and navy de-
partments be divided by two, a fairly
correct approximate of speculators'
profits may be secured Edward Luck
enbach sold the Southey for 100000:
profit, $4,000. Mrs. Mary A. Lewis part
ed with the Stranger for 5000; the ac-
QUESTION to her bank account by the
deal ought to have been $4,000, unless
the chivalrous administration took ad-
vantage of her sex to scale down the
price. The Yorktown, now the Res0-
lutte, was sold by the Old Dominion
Steamship company for $475 200; at
least 100000 Of this was velvet" ].
D. Spreckles, Bros. & Co. let the admin
istration have the Fearless, now known
as the Iroquois, for $15O,OOO; put one
half of this sum to the profit account OF
the Spreckles, and you get fair esti-
mate of the cost. Thlrty-three days
after war was declared, H. M. Hanna,
Senator Hanna's brother, closed a con-
tract with the government whereby he
transferred to it his brothers yacht, the
Comanche, appropriately rechristened
the Frolic, and received a government
draft for $115,OO0. Nautical sharps
avoV that the Comanche never cost
$57 800
HOW THE NATIONS MONEY WAS
BURNED UP.
The Thomas Mexican estate was in
such high favor with the war gang that
it had no trouble in disposing of the
Dorothea to the government for $751;
500. According to the scale of division
between the actual cost and war prices,
as shown by the navy departments fig
ures, the estate surely netted $95, 900 ON
the trade. Richard Stevens sold the
Aileen for $3.50 His profit was more
modest in size, but comparatively al
great as that of others who had more
expensive vessels. T. A. B. Widener, at
the outbreak of hostilities, was the
owner of the Josephine. The govern
ment bought it from him for $15O,OOO
1t was rechristened the Vixen, and
would bring today, no doubt, SEQ, 900 or
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to the secretary Of war the transports
Mohawk, Mobile, Massachusetts, Mani
toba and Minnewaska for $660000 each,
and, after receiving the $4,OO0,O00 in
volved in this one DEAL rendered the use
of steamship free Of charge to the
government. And Bernard N. Baker is
not philanthropist! The International
Navigation company sold to the govern
ment the transport Berlin for 100000.
and the transport Chester for 100000.
No gift packages went with this deal.
but the company's profits were large
enough to justify conscience contribu-
tions. Frederick A. Verdon named his
tug Major Mckinley" and sold it to
Alger for $4,000. He did not clear
more than $4,000 on the transaction.
Austin, Baldwin & Co. divorced them
selves from the transport Roumania
upon receipt of a check for $240,0O0,
while the Northern Pacific railway sold
to the secretary of war the steamship
Arizona for 100000. Samuel D. Coyken-
dali parted with the Obdam for $780,
900, and made no effort to rue the bar
gain. The Maine Steamship company
sold the hospital ship Relief to the war
department for $45O,00O..
FAT PROFITS FROM CHARTERS.
1t was through the charter of vessels
especially that the syndicate reaped it's
richest profits. The charter pay of yes
sells aggregated thousands of dollars
daily. For nine vessels of the New
York and Cuba Mail Steamship company
Secretary Alger paid daily $4,000, which
made monthly aggregate Of $129,OOO.
The Plant Investment company, owned
by the water-craft monopolist of Flor
ida, had only four boats to charter to
Alger, but it made these four produce
daily income of $2,75O, monthly aggre-
gate of $72,5OO. The Southern Pacific
company, with only five small trans
ports to it's credit, drew $57, 900 month
from the Alger war fund The Stand
ard company had no transports, lighters
IL,
it was the possessor of two craft listed
as water boats, which added $500 day
to it's "unearned increment
The New York and Texas Steamship
company drew from the treasury every
month $4,000, as charter payment for
seven of it's transports. For the use
of two of it's steamers, the Oceanic
Steamship company was paid $4,000
month, while for seven of it's vessels,
the Pacific Mail Steamship company
was paid $217,500 per month-$7, ,25O
each day. The Alaska Commercial
company had but one vessel to charter
to the nation. 1t closed a contract for
$1,000 day, independent of the White
House syndicate, because two members
of the company are high in official sta
ton, and insisted upon a deal without
largesse to the other spoilsmen. Con-
gress could revel in collection of facts
showing useless waste of the nations
millions by the administration war
chiefs and spoilsmen if it dared to take
the lid off-The Verdict
THE ADMINISTRATION IS DUMB.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July IA
The administration has been offered
the opportunity to vindicate itself, and
to prove that no contractors ring ex-
listed during the war with Spain. Wide
publicity has been assured any showing
it would make to prove untrue the state
ment that the war and navy depart
ments were ring-ruled and made to pay
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Dash of Gaiett.

The doomed man feared the people who
waited along the way to the scaffold
See how they stare at mel" he cried,
agonizedly.
Eyes, that's what you might call rubber
ing it I'M" observed the executioner play
fully, deeming it not amiss to inject an
element of gaiety into this otherwise sombre
affair-Detroit Journal
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Aono enoI ouIAI udmcu ABOVE, the ag-
gregate of whose personal property you
put at $2,50O,0OO. Do you know what
they are really worth? Take the word
of Rumor and their own as we'll, and
here you have it:
Andrew Carnegie .......... 500, ,OOO, 900
William c. Whitney ........ 10000, 900
John D. Rockefeller ........ 200, 900, 900
William Rockefeller ........ $4,000, 900
Russell Sage ............... 6O,OOO,OOO
J. Pierpont Morgan ......... 5O,OO0,OOO
Z. vanderbilt .............. 100000, 900
There you see is an aggregate of $780,
100000! And, for taxes, you call it
$4,000, 900! And for every dollar you've
fiinched and failed on, you've piled a
dollars tax On some poor devil of a
renter and his tribe, who get wage of
dollar day and up.
And then, prithee! come to the cor
porations. Here is a table to show
some specimen of your work, whereof
the rich get the fat, and the poor get
the bones. This recount displays what
these companies were said by you to be
worth, by leanest estimate; and then
what you put them down for, following
their "swear-offs:"
Erie Railway Co. :. .$172, ,OOO, 900 $25, 900
Manhattan Railway
Co. .."..... -. 3O,O0O,00O $4,000
N. Y, Ontario &
Western R. r. %. $4,000, 900 199, 200
Third Avenue rail-
road ...... ...... 10000, 900 100000
Atlantic Mutual In
surance Co. ...... 100000 100000
Central Trust Co.,. 100000 428,670
American Bank Note
Co. ...... ...... 10000 900 100000
New Amsterdam
Gas Co. .......... 25,OOO,OOO 250,OOO
U. S. Trust Co.,. 2O,OOO,OOO $4,000
Western Union Tel
egraph Co. $500. 1O0,000,00O 100000
There's fat for the Vanderbilts, the
Whitneys, the Sages and the Goulds-
fat cut slab and thick and unctuous!
You start in with an aggregate of $482,-
100000, and emerge-after you read the
companies aff1davits-with a "belief"
that they're only worth an aggregate of
$3,102,670! The Verdict wants to ask
you the plain question: Dc you be-
lieve that a list carrying such names as
Erie, Manhattan, Third Avenue and
Western Union, isn't in the total worth
more than mere hantle over $3,OOO,-
900? And mind you! for every dollar
you knock off for Gould-who has fled
the state, fugitive from taxes person
sweat? You say they "swore off, the
sums you fixed? You weren't bound by
their oaths. Do they fix the taxes, or
do you? They lied, didn't they? Why,
then, didn't you invoke Gardiner, the
district attorney? What are you here
for? What is he there for? One doesn't
wonder in the face of your labors, that
Roosevelt thought the assessment" of
franchises, provided for by the Ford
bill, might better be made in Albany!
The Verdict has asked you many ques-
t1ons. 1t will ask one more and close
the book: In view of your record, don't
you think you'd better resign? Whit
ney, $4,000! Carnegie, $15000O! Third
Avenue road, 5000, 900! Rockefeller, $780,
900! An assessor who can fix those
valuations" and believe" them, ought |
to be retired on pension! The city
would make money by 1.-THE Verdict.
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NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

The New Treatme MT is by Inhalation and In
the tubercule bacilli in the lAngs and blood and
will positively cure II tho lungs are not destroy
ed. Cases at distance treated at home. Free
consultation. St. Paul Medical and Surgical
Institute, Merrill building, corner 6th and St.
Peter streets, St. Paul. Alnn.
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Read the INSURANCE CoMM1ssIoNER's1
CHEAPEsT, SAFEST and most RELIABLE CO
to members in 1898, and made the lowest
OF TERRITORY and COOP MEMBERS only
Iowa and Minnesota only. Agents want
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Destiny.

We do hope Destiny will not feel COM
PEELED to use money corruptly in this matter
of expansi0n.-Detroit Journal.