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the western coasts of Europe and the great transatlantic lines. The Mediterranean is crossed and recrossed in its entire length and breadth by numerous cable lines, and "the Mediterranean of American" the gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea, is tra- versed in all directions by lines which bring its islands and colonies into speaking rela- tions with each other and with South America Central America, the United States and thence to Europe, Africa and Asia. Along the eastern coast of Asia cable lines loop from port to port and island to island, receiving messages overland from eastern Europe by way of Russia-Siberian land lines, and forwarding them to Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong and the Philip pines, and sending others in return. South America Is skirted with cable lines along its entire border, save the extreme south, where they are brought into intercommuni- cation by land lines. Along the entire coast of Africa cables loop from place to place and colony to colony, stretching along the entire circumference and penetrating the interior at various points.
 Every body of water lying between the inhabited portions of the earth. with the single exception of the Pacific ocean, has been crossed and recrossed by submarine telegraph lines. Even that vast expanse of water has been invaded along its margin, submarine wires stretching along It's west eTn DOTueT lTOu tO huSlioiie, "AiAiS it's eastern borders are skrted with lines which stretch along the western coasts of the two Americas. Several adventurous pioneers in Pacific telegraphy have ven- tured to considerable distances and depths in that great ocean cable line running from Australia to New Zealand. distance Of over 1000 miles, and in another extending from Australia to the French colony of New Caledonia, 800 miles seaward. The chief obstacle in the past to the construc- ton of grand trans-Pacifc cable was found in the fact that mid-ocean resting places could not be satisfactorily obtained or arranged for no single government con- trolling a sufficient number of suitable landing places to make this seem practica- ble, in view of the belief that the distances from which messages could be sent and cables controlled were limited With land- ing places at Hawai-. Wake island, Guam and the Philippines, however, no section of cable stretching from the United States to Asia and touching ct these points would have a length equal to that now in daily operation between France and the United States. The length of the French
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THRILLING STORY
Of Pere Henry's Captivity Related By
 Himself.

Tacoma, Wash, March 9.-Oriental ad- vices just received state The Chung kiang correspondent of the North China Daily News sends the following thrilling story of Pere Henry's captivity as related by himself:
 on the 17th of January Yu Mantsee iound himself completely surrounded by the Fantafs troops. His escape was im- possible, so he came to me and told me to get away to the imperial troops. as the Fantai had promised him and his followers their lives if they delivered me up safely, started away Immediately, Yu Mantsee accompanying me. We had not gone far before we were overtaken by about 200 of fus men who wished to kill me. and would nave done so but for the earnest exhortations of Yu. He explained how the Fantai had promised them their lives and liberty if they delivered me up so that if they killed me they would be destroyed ana hnaliy the country would be invaded by foreign army and they would be ex- terminated. Yu's counsels prevailed and the would-be murderers lined themselves into my body guards and escorted me to the outposts of the imperial troops. Yus men month ago numbered 5000. but he mas only about 2,OO0 now, the Fantai hay- ing struck fear into their hearts; 300 were killed in the big fight a short while ago. was treated kindly during the whole of II captlVlty-any who complained he knock d down. Yu was quite afraid to kill me, al- though invited him to do so. He carried me around from city to city and made me witness the murder of many Christians. one old man who was 65 years old was Killed before my eyes. Yu is backed up by the local of this and the gentry, the latter helping him with money and the former by shutting their eyes"
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several glasses of 1t. No, I did not get tight, but I was slightly exhlarated. At any rate, when game of poker was sug- gested I readily consented. I knew better than to get into game with such bold and reckless players as Cameron and Quay, to say nothing of Brice, but under the ex- citement of the occasion I joined in. It was a small game, a $5 limit, I believe. Tho game ran on with varying luck for several hours: I think that I was perhaps $500 the loser when l got hand that look ed favorable. We were playing all jack pots then. Finally all the others dropped out except Cameron and myself. In easy, off-hand way Cameron said, I will raise you $5,000.'
 Now $5,0O0 meant a great deal to me. It is more money than l have ever had in bank at any one time, but being still under the influence of the wine. l said, I call you l won and went home about $6,00O richer than I was the day previous How ever, 1t taught me a lesson. It made me tremble the next day to think of the pre- dcament I would have been in if l had lost. I have never played a game of poker since"
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INITIATING ACTRESSES.
New York Girls Newest Fad is Looking
 and Acting Like Footlight Favorites.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 There Is no more popular pose among girls nowadays than that based on a real or faneied resemblance to some favorite actress. Very little ground is needed for the pose; a tip-tilted nose and a slender figure, and she is "the very image" of Maude Adams; with strawberry blond hair and she Is the counterpart of Mrs Leslie Carter; appealing eyes and delicate feat ures are sufficient warrant for her calling herself a second edition of Mary Manner Ing; while brown hair and piquantly irreg
 ular features stamp her 0o her own sat
 lsfaetion at leasD as being like Julia Mar lowe. The resemblance once detected Cor decided upon), Ire girl proceeds to initiate the actress in every way So far as pos- slele she dresses like her, she endeavors .o laik like her, and, more than all, does she carry hesrelf In the same way Any iks tricks of voice or manner such as piayef-Women are apt to have and quick 10 exploit, are studiousy followed by the iay understudy. If the latter hears of any special perfume or color and habit to ,',a,e m.,ien 'he original is much given, she makes point of appropriating if Rut most Of all does the girl expatiote at all .itnes and at all seasons upon the fact of ner resemblance to the actress selected. No ] ohe "no comes within her conversatio ian6e Is likely to lose sight of it.
 iou khoW 1t Is really annoying the way peopie take me nowadays for Maud> Adams, she of the tip-tilted nose will ex. eiaim Why, can't go down the street mithout having them say: There she eoes. .hal she; that's Miss Adams One nigbt u. tne theater not long ago I heard some one pack of me whisper: Yes. I know ft's Mauue Adams; but what in the world Ia she aolng here? l thought she was playinr III Fniiadeiphia this week. Really. I felt Just like turning around and telling inc poor man that he had made a mistake and that 1t wasn't Maude Adams, but simnlv one who is always being taken for her ; !. IS hard to find a girl with strawberry
 blonde hair in New York today who viii not assure you that folks follow her upon
 the streets under the impression that she IS Mfs Aaza. Not the least interesting thing soout all these resemblances is that they are In most cases so far-fetched as hardly
 10 De seen with the naked eye. It would take microscope of extraordinary power
 10 magnify them to the extent assumed by the lay understudies. Another point is that
 II doesn't seem to matter whether tie actress chosen for model is pretty or not
 f1er being before the public is all suffi-
 cient, and her imitator copies her very
 ugliness. Final proof of the popularity of the pose is found in the form that fattery
 usually takes nowadays. When anybody wants to 1atter you to the utmost he tells you now much you look like some favorite E ohough not necessarily favored) actress
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Do Not Give Up in De- spair-There is HOpel

For ages it has been thought that Cancer is incurable, and those SC unfortunate as to have this dreadful affiiction have con- sidered themselves beyond hope of recovery. The doctors are ab- solutely unable to afford any re- lief, and the poor sufferer might w.ll consider himself on the way to an early grave.
 It is now easy to see why the doctors havo failed to cure Cancer Their theories have been all wrong, and hence their treatment mis- directed. They have made the mistake of thinking that by cut ting out the sore or ulcer, known as Cancer, the disease would be gotten rid of, and the patient re- stored to health. But the cruel knife accomplishes nothing, for the Cancer promptly returns, and is always more virulent than before.
 It has been demonstrated, beyond doubt, that Cancer is n blood disease, and can not be cured by the surgeons knife because he blood can not be cut aUdy.
 Several years ago my wife had an ulcer on her tongue, which, though an- moving, was not regarded seriously at first. It refused to heal and began to grow, giving her much pain. The doc tors treated it for quite while but
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GIBRAL TAR IN THE UNITED STATES
York Clearing HOuS6 Is More S6GuP6IU Pro- t6Ct6d Than th6 Bank Of England.

gold that was offered. But even this tenn porary means of relief will in a little while no longer avail the clearing house associa- ton.
 As soon as fifteen millions more of gold are received by the managers 1t will be im- possible to store any more in that vault. It will become practically solid parallelo- gram of gold. There are now one hundred and fifty-fve millions there, and it seems to be certain that during the spring the amount placed there for storage, where it Is also utilized as basis for currency and for commercial transactions (for the banks which deposit gold receive clearing house certificates for it will be much greater than one hundred and seventy millions.
 This state of affairs-as portrayed by the correspondent-became known in New York the next day and some inquiries were made of the president of the clearing house association as to the truth of the state
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OCEAN CABLES
 IN ALL SEAS

Washington Correspondence of the New
 York Tribune.
 The submarine telegraphs of the world and especially the practicibility of sub marine telegraph across the Pacific are dis uary number of the Summary of Com merce and Finance," just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The state ment shows that the submarine telegraphs of the world number 1.5OO. Their aggregate length is 170,000 mles; their total cost Is estimated at s250, ,000,0 ,0O0 and the number of messages annually transmitted over them 5000, ,000 All the grand divisions of the earth are now connected by their wires Adding to the submarine lines the land tele- graph systems by which they are connected and through which they bring interior points of the various continents into in- stantaneous communication, the total length of telegraph lines of the world is B35 000 miles, the length of their single wires, or conductors, 3,5O0,0 900 miles, and the total number of messages annually sent over them 365, ,000 or an average of 100000 each day. Of the 170,000 miles of subma- rine telegraphs, about 15O,000 belong to thir- ty-five companies operating the commercial cables, which number about 320; the re- mainder are mostly short lines controlled by governments, and connecting forts. bat teries, signal stations, lighthouses, etc., the aggregate of government lines being about 1,15O, and their total length about 10000 miles. In addition to this, the governments of the world will hold about SOOOO miles of cable in stock for war purposes, ready to be laid at a moments notice.
 In the short half century since the practi- cobility of submarine telegraphy was dem- onstrated the electric wires have invaded every ocean except the Pacific. Nearly a score of wires have been laid across the Atlantic, of which no less than thirteen now successfully operate between the United States and Europe. while three tancs between South America and the Af- T, ,rican and South European coast lines fssThroughout the Indian ocean lines connect the far east with Europe and America by hay of the Red sea. the Mediterranean.
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cable from Brest, France. to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is 3,250 miles, while the great distance from land to land on the proposed Pacific route would be that from San Francisco to Hawaii, 2OS9 miles, that from Hawaii to Wake island being 2,04O miles, from Wake island to Guam, 1290 miles, from Guam to Manila, 1520 miles, and from Manila to the Asiatic coast, $50 miles. While the depth of the Pacific is somewhat greater than that at which any cables have been laid, the difference be- tween its depth and the greatest reached by cables in the Atlantic would be slight, the cable recently laid from Hayti to the Wind ward islands being in 1S.OO0 feet of water while the greatest depth between Hawaii and Manila Is estimated at 19,600 feet, though this estimate is yet to be verified by detailed soundings
 With this evidence of the advantage of prompt communication between commer- cial centers desiring an interchange of their products, 1t may not be improper to call attention to the fact that the United States now obtains only a small proportion of the commerce of Asia, which 1t is at present only able to reach through the long and devious submarine and land telegraph lines across the Atlantic, the continent of Eu- rope, the Mediterranean, the Red sea or the Persian gluf, the Indian ocean, the land lines across India, the cable lines again by the Straits Settlements, and thence along the Asiatic coast and among the islands of Oceanica. The commerce of the countries of Asia and Oceanica lying commercially adjacent to the Philippine islands amounts to more than S2, 900 0O0, 900 annually, their imports alone averaging ,O00 a month, or $1,200,000 900 a year. Of this enormous market the United States at present obtains less than per cent, despite the fact that the imports into the countries in question are largely com posed of the classes of articles produced in the United States and offered for sale by her manufacturers and merchants. With direct cable communication across the Pacific, direct water communication through Nicaraguan canal, and an in- crease in the number and capacity of American steamships, 1t seems not im- proper to suppose that a material addition might be made to the share obtained by the United States in the trade of that part of the world.
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ments It is one of the unwritten rules of that body not to be too communicative over its affairs It was true, the president ad- mitted, however, that when constructed the clearing house vaults were only for ca pacity to hold s105, 100000 Floor space for practically unlimited vault capacity was re- served in the basement, however, with the expectation that 1t would be needed. With in year an additional vault capacity of $50 900 900 has been put in and 1t would be possible to put in additional vaults to hold over s2OO, ,OO0, 900 more gold. So no anxiety over the correspondents story need be felt as to the ability of the clearing house to accommodate all the gold that is entrust- ed to its keeping.
 Of course the keeping of this vast sum of money Is an important matter. But the guarding of it is equally important. The clearing house association-like all great financial institutions of the world-has
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An enterprsing, but in this case not very reliable, newspaper correspondent threw large number of people into an extraordin- ary state of excitement the other day by sending a thrilling account to his home paper of the sad state the New York clear ing house found itself in, in not being able to find room in it's vaults for the tremend- ous amount of gold that was pouring Into them In the course of business.
 According to this story, the influx of gold from Europe and the increase of the output of our own gold mines made 1t become a serious mechanical question for the clearing house to care for this vast sum of money which is doing so much to stimulate indus trial and investment activity.
 The managers of the clearing house, speaking of this matter to the correspon-
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A BrIce Poker Story
yrom the Washington Times.

q used to enjoy game of poker on a small scale," remarked senator at the capitol yesterday, although am a poor man and have practically no income out side of my senatorial salary to live upon. But have not sat in game for several years, and doubt very much If will ever do so again. What brought me to this state of mind regarding poker was an ex- perience had at the house of the late Call win s, Brice. was one of c party at private dinner given by Brice. Don Came Ton, Matt Quay and others who like to play for nigh stakes were present. As . rule drink very little. although am not tee- totaler by any means Brice's champagne was, of course. nrst-ciasA and I imbibed
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taken extraordinary precautions to guard its treasure. The guard is very large one in itself and together with the outside as sistance from private detective bureaus and the nearby police stations, which are con nected with the clearing house by electrlcl- ty, would make formidable body for any gang of safe burglars to run across.
 In the true spirit of democracy there IS very little of the ornamental about this guard, which is a marked contrast to the guard, for example, which nightly patrols the vicinity of the Bank of England in London.
 This guard, which Is detailed nightly to perform this duty, comes from a nearby barracks. and is one of those unusual spec tacles-common in London streets-which make that city so interesting to Americans. But no such attempt as was made few weeks ago to break into the Bank of Eng land could ever have succeeded in the New
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York clearing house, notwithstanding the lack of the picturesque squad of Tommy Atkinses.
 The three steel vaults in the clearing house are of the most perfect construction and locked with time locks. Granting that a bank thief could gain admittance to the basement and had set to work at the steel walls that he would encounter there 1t would do him little good after all. For af- ter boring through that obstruction he would still find eight feet of space be- tween that wall and the vaults, to cross which, even to the finest burglars kit. would hardly be possible.
 But for anyone other than those having business there, to enter the basement, is a practical impossibility even in business hours After that the finest system of electric alarms and signals and large force of watchmen make the place a very Gibraltar.
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dent said that they were convinced that 1t will be necessary in little while to enlarge the great vault in the clearing house build ing.
 It is only three years since the new clear ing house building was finished. The man. agers of the association gave when the building was being planned no little thought to the vault and the most liberal estimate of the greatest demand that would be likely to be made for storage facilities in that vault was for s10OOO0 900 in gold. In order to make a good margin over that liberal estimate, however, the decision was reached that the vaults should be built so as to be able to contain as much as s105,- 900 900.
 Within little over a year after that vault was opened to receive its precious burden the capacity had been reached and 1t became necessary to make use of the aisles or passage ways in order to store the
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forcing out the poison and riddinb the system of it forever.
 s. S. s. never fails to cure the worst cases of Cancer, Scrofule. Catarrhs Eczema Contagious Blood Poison ,Rheu- matism. old sores, ulcers, etc., 1t mat ters not what other remedies have been used in vain. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed
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Believed Premature

Liverpool. March 1o.-The reported arrival of the Cunard steamship Pavonia, off Holy Head this morning in tow of two tugs Is be- lieved to have been premat ature as no fur ther tidings have been received upto mid night.
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Deadly Cancer
 Cured at Last!

were, unable to do her any good, and
 malignant type. We were greatly alarmed and gave her every femedy recommended, but they did not seem to reach the disease, and it continued
 to spread and grow. Upon tho advice of friend she began to take s. s. s. i, and after few bottles had been used a decided improvement wns noticed, and continuing the remedy she was cured completely and the permanence of the cure has been proved, as no sign
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Purely Vegetable

and contains not particle of potash, mercury, arsenic or other minerals.
 Valuable books on Cancer and Blood Diseases will be mailed free to any ad- dress by Swift Specific O.. Atlanta, Ga.
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of the disease has. returned, though ten. years have elapsed , H. L. MTDDLEBRooKs.
 Sparta, Gin. "
 The cures made by 8. 8. 8. are perma- nent. It Is the only blood remedy which can cure obstinate deep-seated blood diseases, because it. Is the only one which acts on the oorract nripcipl. of
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Hoods sarsaparilla cures catarrh by sci- the blood.
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after 25 years In constant practice has achieved an almost national distinction as the most reliable expert and successful Specialist in his line of work, which in- cludes all forms of Skin, Blood. Nervous and Private Diseases. He positively guar antees to cure Syphilis and Gonorrhoea of every stage and to restore vigor, stop losses and make strong again those who have made themselves prematurely weak, and cures Structure without cutting or pain.
 His treatment for women who suffer from diseases peculiar to their sex is wonderful fin It's potency for speedy relief and perfect cures.
 Treatment by mail to those who cannot come to office in person. Question List and Book sent on request. Consultations free.
 Confidential matters held forever invio- late.
 Best of bank and professional endorse ments furnished on demand.
 PRESS CLIPPINGS. Birmingham Daily News: Dr. DoZier Is i A physician and surgeon of education skill and experience, a man of culture and high literary attachments, and a gentleman. re- ! snected by all who know him. He can be relied on in all matters pertaining to his profession.
 Age-Herald: His Or. Dozier's) long ex- nerience and approved abilities entitle him to stand at the head of the medical pro- fession. Alabama Christian Advocate: His Dr. Dozier's) professional standing is unim- peachable and his character as a gentle man and citizen is above reproach.
 Address, DIR. o. T. DOZIER, Cor. Sd Ave. and 18th St.. Birmingham. Ala
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Dr.. |. I, Dozier
 SPECIALIST,

Cutaneous, ve- nereal, Nervous, Genite Urinary and all Chronic Diseases.
 Dr. Dozer is a graduate in every department d of tho medical and sur- pfcal aciencea ana