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That the Boers Don't rss It Doesn't
 Prove They're Dirty.

f0FS Ahe4 re biiA4s
 Surely too much importance is at taened 10 the scarcity Of soap in the Boers' farm houses, says the Lo-don Truth. People may be very clean and use very little soap. The Russians and Japanese cleanse themselves with va DOT baths, rarely using soap when they do so. 4 really healthy skin claansas Itself. Rough inside clothing, which. ] presume, the Boers wear, is a great skin cleanser. have known of doctors curing skin diseases by insisting on lingerie de luxe being cas- aside and coarse undergarments worn instead. The late emperor of the French hard- ly ever soaped his hands until he went to England. l have come across a pa per found in his desk at the Tuileries. t contained the instructions of the king of Holland to the governor of his two elder sons. Among the things for bidden was for the young princes hands to be washed with soap. They were to use bran and a slice of lemon. The lemon was to remove ink stains. and in summer to keep off gnats and mosquitoes. Napoleon, whose hands were good to model and beautifully white, also used bran and no soap. unless to shave. l never use soap Of any kind without a sense of skin dis comfort which not even a deluge oT quite pure water will wholly remove. h England. on account Of coal smoke, soap is more needed than in countries with clear air. The Boersz enjoy, per haps. the purest atmosphere in the world, except when there. are dust storms. I know French ladies who have discarded soap for vaseline. They smear themselves with the latter and then rub it off well with a soft cotton towel. A doctor tells me that nothing is more cleansing, but that be pre- IS. as more tonic. plain cold water, fol- lowed by the same sort of rubbing. pr Ieyds really should not take to heart what Sir Henry Stanley said abcat the Boers being badly off for soap.
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You Ought to M2ke Up
your mind right

your mlnd ri8nl now what you are going to have in your home this summer, then you ought 10 come right along this way, and look over this stock of ours. Are you going to enter tain your friends in the same old chairs. at the same old table, and on the same cid carpets? Why not have things fresh and =new7 Needn't buy all at once. Get a piece now and a piece a little lat CT. If you buy here, the first piece will be as good as the last piece.
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..reat Honor For German crs rn Prince.

tsreat Honor For German Cro Hn Prince.
 It is a great honor which the queen of Spain is paying to the young crowr prince of Germany by investing him with the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The order is one of the oldest in Europe It was founded in 1426 by Philip the Good, Duke Of Burgundy, to commemorate his good fortune in cleaning up large sum Of money in a deal in wool. The uni form Of the order is a cloak of scarlet, lined with ermine, and open at the throat to display the golden fleece and the motto of the order. which orna- ments the collar. The order belongs If right to all the princes of Spain and Istria
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The Boer.. Battlefield Newspaper.

According to Cape paper, the Boers have a newspaper at the front, says a telegram in the paper in question: Last night the Railway Volkstem car left the station for Gen. Joubert's laager It consisted of a large, well-ftted-up goods van, arranged as a printing of- fee, with special arrang gements for typesetting and printing, as well as plenty of space for paper and desk for the editor. fixed up with type writer-EoEaon Globe.
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 \ Curious Lawsuit

curious lawsuit is in progress at Kansas City. Kan, brought by s. K. Howe against the Armour Packing company, to recover fourteen acres Of river front occupied by the packing houses. The old man tells veritable Robinson Crusoe story. Many years ago he took up his abode on a little island in the Missouri river, living in hut with dog and few fowls for his only companions. He was lord Of the domain, and no one questioned the fact. Finally the stream changed it's course, and what was an island became valuable river front, and the Armour company forced him off
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RHEuMATISM oATARRH ARE BLooF
EIsEaE EE.s-.FRE

It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B, E B. botanic biUud haimt cures. 1t mat terg nor what other treatments, doe tors, sprays, iuiments. medicated air blood purifiers. have faile3 to do, B. 5. 3. always promptly reaches the req saHse and roots ant and drives iron he bones, joints, mucous membrane. Ind entire system the specific polsot | tha blood that causes rheumatism and eatarrh. E. 5. 5. is the cnlv rem sy streng = 70 this ard eHrs go there aaT usv17 se gE ssuGn of the sV m ptcnzs. 0on't give up hope but ask your drug zist for E. 5. B.-botanie blood balm e } hs.-LarEe bottles one dollar, sis bottles {fuli traafmen3 five dollars, ! 3 B- ls an honest remedy that makes reaI tHres of al blood diseases aftef every thing else fails. Ne have abso. lufe confidence in Bntanic blood balm. sse4.ce, -Ci 91a may oreJ Y. Ne @lti sehe 2 tFzai bottle fee on reQneEt. Persona medical advice free. Address,
 BTUJI BALM J6.
 20 Micfheli St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Conrad Elskan and Mrs Margaret Kramer were married September x at Paris, Logan county. The bride is a sister of Rev. Fenton Kraemer. Of Lltt'e Rock.
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Ed Gordon. brother of Hon. O. 5. Gordon. lost an arm in a gin aeci- dent near Prescott.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-21

Emory Walton and Miss Ella Wilcox were married at Conway septemb T IS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-21

Rev. F..N. Tolleson and Miss Stella Jennings were married Sep. tember k at Ozark. They will reside at Bonneville.
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NERVOUS troubles are cured by
 " Hoods sarsapariila, which en- riches and purities the blood. Ii is the best medicine for nervous PEOPLE.
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President Golden. of Galloway College, reports the largest attend anee at the opening Of the college this year that he has ever had.
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Uncle Wes Daughty, of England, wants to bet g 800 that Bryan will be elected.
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Robert ". Harper camp |. c E. held their annual reunion at Morril- ton September l9 Hon. carroll Armstrong was elected commander.
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Rev. W F Wilson. pressing elder of Fayetteville district, has gone to Muskogee. 1. T IS county principal Of the Methodist school t Musk ogee
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Charles L. O'Daniel and Miss Artie Martin. ef Conway were married September 19 at the residence of Jesse E. Martin, father of the bride.
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Teresa Lfpe and Ton Morrow have been indicted at Mena for the murder of Elmer Jordan.
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TEIEGRAPHlc BRIEF S..

U Cook was killed by the Can nenball near Corning.
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lodge of Knights Of Pythias has been organized in Harrison. and it's first set of officers will be installed on the 26tb inst. u banquet follow ing the installation.
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CLEANLINESS WITHOUT SOAP.

232 MicfheIl st.. Atlanta, 6
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
Minister Cured.

Dear Friends--I suffered more or less
all the time for ten years with rheuma-
tisn. trying many remedies. but failing to
perfect a permanent cure. So l expected
to live the balance of my days in pain.
But 1 began taking Graybeard. not ex-
pecting 10 be cured of rheuma tism. but
hope to be cured of letter on hands and
neck. And when had only taken bottles
oil my rheuma tism was gone. That was
nearly a year ago and I have not had a
pain from that cause since. The letter on
my neck and ears disappeared, my geneI
al health has been better, and 1 weigh 20
pounds more than did before taking 1t.
No doubt Graybeard Will do all that is
claimed for 1t.
s. H wHATLEY. Atlanta, Ga.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
Foreign Population of China.
From the New York Sun


Though there aTe no exact statistics of
the foreign popu la ton of China outside
the treaty ports, where an enumeration
is made every year, all the missionaries
in the consular districts, at least are be-
lieved to be included in The annual fig
ures. Great Britain requires all her Eu-
ropean, though not her Asiatic, subjects
living in China to register in the consular
districts where they reside. This regis
tration is optional with Americans, and
In the statistics of the foreign population
which Mr.. Fowler, our consul at Che Foo.
sent to Washington last month, he ex-
pressed the belief that the number of
American residents is greatly underesti-
mated.
Comparing the figures of last year sup
piled by Mr.. Fowler with those of the
enumeradons of 1894 and 1883 il is seen
that there has been large expansion of
foreign business and an important increase
in foreign population. For convenient ref
erence the information given is here pre-
sented in tabular form. This table sum
marizes the statistics of foreign popula-
ton in 1894, 1898 and 1899
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20

was ahead of the Legion of Honor and
the poppy was her favorite flower.
Fatal significance of a fatal flower!
Maximilian's and Louis Napoleon's EN-
pires are alike in the dust and to the bit
terest end did they dree their weird
Burns lines were for them most fittngly
appropriate. On happy. light hearted
Carlotta such oblivion, sadder than DEATH
mas fallen as makes all who pity her pray
that ere long the poppies of sleep may
bind her brows, and her weary eyes close
to open only on new world. where con-
querors and tyrants have become the
CONQUERED.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
Dyspepsia.

Bloating after eating and feeling OF
weight in the stomach are dyspepsia s
sympt o1ns-eructations of gas-stck stom-
ach, heartburn. vertigo all come along.
Sour stomach. headache. general depres-
sion and great nervous condition follow
We hear women say that they cannot
sleep. and that they feel light headed as
If at times they must fall. We hear men
say that they cannot work. The stoma en-
is out of gear. they are restless and ner-
vous and form the habit of drinking.
This is dyspepsia -.
1t can be cured.
Graybeard Is a safe remedy for this
ailment. 1t makes food nutritious and
strengthens and invigorates the digestive
organs by purifying the blood
Don't hesitate to take it,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
atism.

Rheumatic Swelling in the legs is cured
by Graybeard.
Mrs. Joseph Brown of Butler, Ca, was
afflicted with rheumatism. II caused her
great pain. Her statement is that r er legs
swelled to unusual size. She was not able
TO relieve the ailment until she procured
Graybe She is now sound and well.
Acid in the blood produces Rheumatism.
Nothing is half so good as Graybeard Tor
rheumatism.
MY wife was afflicted four years with
rheumatism, and 1 was not able TO find
anything to relieve her. She took Gray
beard about a month and seemed to be as
we'll as ever. 1t cured our little son Of tae
ailment. We cannot praise Grayoeard
too much. GEO. BOOTH
Jacksonville, Ga"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
CAPT. McCALLA's FIRMNEss.
His Speech TO the Commander az
Tien Tsin During the First Confer

From the New York sun.

From the New York sun.
Victoria, B. c., July IA Tisn Tsin cor
respondent of the Shanghai Ner1ury,
copy of v oh was received by the steam
er Empress of India this afternoon, says:
Some interesting facts have leaked out
regarding the midnight meeting of con-
suls ard officers on June 10, which led to
the sending of troops to Pekin on Sun
day.
1T seems that during the conference
the Russian and Fr nch representatives
frequently drew apart for private confer
ence which was anything but polite or
frank and he Russian colonel KEEP draw
ing attention to the fact hat no INVASION
OF Pekin ought to be made with less thjn
10000 men Russia being the only coun ~
that could land so many at short notice.
and 1t became evi6ent that he was ping
the others would say: Well, YOU have the
men, get them and go on. OF course, the
others would consent TO no such thing,
and so Russia and France finally refused
10 Join the others in sending men-albeit
they had troops at the alton promptly
IN the morning At last Can't. McCalla
said.
Wei, gentlemen, you have talked this
matter over pretty thoroughly and have
come to no decision; but I'll tell you what
/ am going to do. My minister is in dan
ger, and am going to Pekin'
There was nothing left for the others
to do bur to follow, which the British
were only too glad to do Capt McCalla
has earned the praise Of all British and
Americans here by his clear INSIGHT.
prompt action and thoughtfulness He has
been on the go day and night and all
that has been accomplished has teen
mainly cue to his steady perseverance.
Capt. Bailey, the British commander,
is man of the same stamp, both men
that we may be proud of and in whose
care we are sure of every attention and
positive safetY."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20

Do you know when you have eczema?
Do you itch? Is your skin rough? In
warm weather does this singing sensation
increase3 When you scratch do large bis
ters and sores form? Do they torment you
when you work?
Eczema is an outbreak of bad blood. A
person afflicted with eczema cannot take
undue exercise without aggravatlng the
itching, or get warm in bed without feel
ing on FIRE. The blood Is aname with the
peculiar poison that creates the disease
and calls for a powerful Alternative to re-
move It, Nothing short of BLOOD NED
ICINE will accomplish a cure.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
SAVED BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN.
Story of an Attack Near Pelzin In
june Told In ~ Letter From Prof.
Won Braen.

Won Braen.
From the New York Sun.
Berlin, July 1.-THE Tagliche Rund-
schau to-day publishes a letter written
by Prof Won Braen of the Pekin Univer-
sity on June 6. After describing the
growth of the Boxer trouble he tells of the
barricading of the Hotel Pekin by the
| foreigners on May %, they then being of
the belief that an attack would be made
on the place. The wall surrounding the
compound of the French legation was
broken in one or two places in order to
afford means for the women and chill
dren 10 reach a refuge in the event of the
expected attack being made Notwith-
standing the threatening outlook at the
time the members of the German embassy
continued in their belief that there was
no danger
Finally. number of engineers who had
been wounded in an attack by the Box
ers outside the city brought news to Pc
kin of the danger threatening the French
railway officials. The wives of the latter
and the intrepid wife of the keeper of
the Hotel Pekin an American woman.
took matters into their own hands and
organized relief expedition consisting
or nine persons. NJ. Pichon the French
minister, secured for the little band a
military escort from the Chinese govern
ment and the expedition started for the
relief of the railway officials
Bad news continued to be received and
Prof. Won Braen describes the anguish
OF the defenders of the hotel when their
information led them to believe that the
expedition had been annihilated. and that
this would give the signal for general
attack on the town of Chang Hsin- Tien
for which place the expedition was bound
Chang Hsin-Tien is three hours distant
from Pekin. The expedition started at g
O'Clock in the morning and had not re-
turned al o'clock in the afternoon Nh
merous rumors were heard and the worst
was feared. The defenders at the hotel
kept their guns in their hands, determined
to fight to the bitter end should thew be
attacked.
Finally, at O'clock in the evening the
expedition returned, having successfully
accomplished the object of its mission
The women at the hotel were exhausted
by their long and anxious vigil but thew
and their children gleefully welcomed the
return of the expedition.
The forty Europeans who had been al
Chang Hsin-Tien had fought 500 Boxers
for two days and two nights The expe-
dition, whose moving spirit was the lion
hearted American woman, saved all OF
them except five, who were killed
Prof Won Braen closes his letter nv do
clarlng that he fears thas the safety ~
the Europeans was only temporary an
attack by Boxers and imperial troops he
ing feared hourly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20

The foreign population and the number
OF foreign firms doing business in China
nave thus nearly doubled since 1893 The
growth of foreign population. business. en-
terprise and missionary effort was m
doubtedly the largest factor in insnirinp
the present revolt. II is therefore inter.
esting to observe how this growth has
been distributed among the nations. 1t is
seen that Russia. Great Britain and the
United States have had the largest in
crease in number of residents. and japan.
whose participation in Chinese enterprises
oates almost wholly from the end of her
war with China. has had the lorgeet g.
crease in number of firms.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20

Sir Norman Robert Stewart, COM
mander of the first brigade of the British
achievements dispatched TO China from
India. is the eldest son of the late Field
Marshal Sir Donald Martin Stewart. He
was a captain when he was transferred to
the indian STAFF Corps In 1879. Before
this, however, he was employed on stan
services as aide-de-camp 10 his father
and for some months in 1850 was brigade
major in Afghanistan. He became a colo
rel In the army early in 1890, and on Jan.
A. 1893, was appointed to command the
Hyderabad contingent, with the rank OF
,hrlgadier general
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
You Get Strong.

Everybody who takes Graybeard tells US
they get stronger. They eat more and 1t
does not make them sick. This is the Sc
cret of the curative powers of Graybeard.
The first thing ii does is to make you go
to eating. You Will eat more than you
have eaten In months and you win find 1t
will not hurt you as it used to when you
ate heartily. BY making you eat II makes
you stronger. 1t makes you stronger as
the new blood and bone and tissue begin
to become part and parcel of you, and If
you are afflicted with eczema you will find
IL gradually disappear. The same way with
rheuma tism. catarrh, dyspepsia. cancer,
In short, Graybeard makes you stronger
than your disease and brushes out your
disease
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
THE POPPIES OF SLEEP
THE INDIAN LEGEND OF THE
WHITE POPPY AND OPIUM,

California Poppy-Ceres's Flower to
SOothe GrIef-POppy An Art-Legend
of Opium - Empress CarIOtta's
Choice.
From the Philadelphia Ledger
Pleasures are like peoples spread
You seize the flower. the bloom is shed"
How many and great are the seeming
contradictions of nature! Somehow we
associate the poppy with the lotus eaters
and their "drowsy land of dreams, and
naturally so, because its rich consciousness
Of coloring and the soothing effects OF its
product-opium-ar distinctly Oriental
attributes.
Therefore, at first sight, Burns, singing
as he plows the breezy upland lea, seems
TO have overstepped his own limits and to
have called to vivid poetic fancy the ex-
otto scenes and sights of unknown East
ern lands
Not so, however; for though bleak and
rugged Scotland may not compare with
the tropical overgrowth of India we We,
ma the glorious poppy in every home and
strath and when fields are ripening TO
gold around Thrums or in the Lothians
ana Ayrshire, the scarlet poppies and pim-
pernels o'ertop the grain. Thus the story
of the goddess Ceres crowned with beard
ed barley and wheat intermingled with
peoples is made visible to every Senti-
mental Tommy and village schoolboy.
California Poppy.
Here in America, in spite of varied
cline, fertile soil and vast acreage. the
poppy does not flourish Nature. who
has blessed and carpeted our fields and
woods with such beauteous gifts-from
the pure classic morning glory of the
North TO the sensuously suggestive Pas
sion flower of the South-wlthholds the
poppy from our Eastern eyes
Only when we reach California and the
Western states do we find indigenous va
riety of the plant.
1t grows freely in our gardens, and per-
haps like the sparrow. might make itself
rapidly at home, were some farmer Of
aesthetic taste to sow its seeds amidst
his grain
The crop of peoples that sprang up af-
ter the slaughter of Waterloo excited the
wonder of Europe. and we think of Per
STA, where the tulip is born from the wine
cup emptied IN lent thought Of tie dead
and where guests come back II hospit-
able scenes as flowers, star tcattered
midst the grass" If the blood of heroes
produced new Waterloo, what of our
own sacred Gettysburg? Surely, of the
Blue and the Gray such flowers might be
Dor
But the story of the poppy is soothing
rather than exciting, a story Of days and
years when the terms rush and hustle
and hurry were not entered in the die
tionaries, because unknown ia life
Pleasant a well as profitable for us.
when in hammock under the trees on a
hot summer day, to watch the flaming
poppy bed, as It seems to lull us into
temporary oblivion OF all discomforts
Sorrow and sadness are common TO all.
but the luxury of grief belongs to the
limited number. Work and duty are i'm
perative tyrants of our modern civillza-
ton, and TO forget grief we may not have
recourse to the poppy seed OF Grecian
days
SOother of Grief.
Ceres, the goddess mother, created this
fi9wer. so that she might obtain sleep and
forget her woe when Pluto carried off her
daughter Proserpine
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
Picture of Health.

"Graybeard did me more good than any
thing l ever took in my life. was troubled
with indigestion, shortness of breath, and
was given a great deal Of medicine by my
doctor, but 1t did me no good. saw Gray
beard advertised and bought it, and it
cured me. began to gain flesh and weigh
twenty pounds more than l did short
time ago MRS. ]. C. BROWN,
"127 Lee street, Montgomery, Ala"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
DOG TRAINED TO STEAL.
Blind Beggars' Novel Method for
Robbing Those Who Befriend Them.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
Norfolk, Va, July IA dog entered the
jewelry store of r. w Woodley this even
ing and stole two dozen silver spoons,
worth $50 The spoons, rolled in a fexi-
bic case, were taken from the jewelers.
safe.
The dog accompanied two blind mendi-
cants man and woman, who had with
them another dog, which piloted them
about. He led the blind people by chain
into the stores, while the loose dog, evil
IDENTIFY trained to steal, roamed about in
search of booty, which, once secured, ne
fled with and secreted. The dog was de-
tected stealing the spoons, and a salesman
and a crowd pursued him. but the two dogs
and the beggars escaped.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-20
Ugly Ulcers.

Dear Friends-I have been suffering
years with an ulcer on my ankle. Some.
times in bed, sometimes on crutches.
used remedies of my own and failing ia
make cure, 1 called in different phys.
clans. They all said that they could curs
me- but found it to be of a stubborn ma.
ture and failed.
saw Graybeard advertised and bough,
four bottles of it, two boxes of the pills,
one box of the ointment.
1t cured me we'll And have one bottle
left.
l say that 1 am welI-not nearly we'll
but entirely well. 1t has been over twelve
months and no symptoms have returned
l hope the suffering will do a. l have
use it, have faith in 1t and be cured.
Mrs. JANE GEORGE. Rockville, Tenn.