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The Florida star., 1901-11-08
Thousands Have Kidne- Trouble
and Don't Know it.
How To Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
The Florida star., 1901-11-08
convincing proof that the kidneys and bad-
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knowledge so


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MILITARY HOSPITAL AT FORT LEAVES-
WORTH.
holes for muskets. Inside the square
We're officers quarters built of black
walnut logs. The old fOrtitications have
disappeared and only few of the vet
Grams who were familiar with them
are now living.
LeavenwOrth is full of historic mem-
ories. Many of our greatest soldiers
have spent some part Of their terms o.
service there. General Persifer Smith
died there In 1853 while on his way to
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COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD-J. NJ Dixon.
Tltusville; r. n. Andrews. Cocoa; G. p.
Platts Fort Pierce
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.-J R. Walker,
Titusville, chairman; John r. Mot. Indian
ola; R. A. Conkling. Tillman; Jno. G. Jones,
Woodley; ]. Frank Bell. White City. Reg
lar sessions are held first Monday in each
month.
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Balsams from the Northern Wood
are in Pyny-Balsam, the certain cure for coughs
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GEORGE VI. ROBBINS
ATTORNEY IND ,OTN~ELIE s.. L.E
Will practice in state and JIr..
Courts.
Ofiice al TitusviIIc F.u....
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
NOTINGS.

DENTON of Josiah Quircy's meme
in connection with the party nomira-
tion for governor at the Worcester
Democratic gathering Wednesday has
been received 10 Boston with much
favor, and quite Quincy boom has
already sprung ". The man hiu self
Is now abroad, but is expected home
next month. When he vent away he
was consulted in the matter OF the
domination and declared positively
that he would not bs candidate.
The story TOW is that MI CASTOR is to
withdraw in favor of Quincy, and that
the latter's consent to tie considered
for the nomination has been obtained
by cable.
A florist in Connecticut who has
made a fortune cultivating carnations
to a high point of perfection, has
written an actress that the announce
ments be has read that she is going to
appear in new play called Sweet
Clover" have given him an inspirs-
tion. II is the possibility of cultivat-
ing the beautiful purplish- pink blooms
of clover even row, h. they grow wild
ln the tiel1s, make no mean bouquet
when tastsfully arranged. He AYERS
that the clover blossoms can he devel-
oped until tEev grow to the size of
large tulip, and if so, would take
their place amorg choice cut flowers.
Miss Thurston's correspondent also
says that with culture the scent of
clover will increase four fold
The new actuarial tables prepared
in eight years. work will result in
some reduction OF insurance rates, it
is believed, as they add about two
ears TO the average expectation of
life.
The Republicans of Senator Hanna's
nome ward in Cleveland have organ
zed club to boom him for the
presidency.
Reports from China as to the atti
ude of the native population continue
% be disquieting. The Shanghai
v ercury reports unrest 10 the dis.
riots Of Pinchou and Ii Chin, with a
evival of the Boxer movement aud
pen threats that the Christians will
's eXterminated. There are also
minous reports from the south,
'hers the recent imposition of a
ouse tax is made the pretext for a
element movement against foreign
rs, on the ground that their extor-
ions cccasioned the tax.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
Cured of Chronic Uinrrhoea After Thirty
Years Of Suffering.

al suffered for thirty years with diar.
rhoea and thought | was past being
cured" saws John Holloway of French
Camp, Miss. Il had spent so much
time and mcnev and suffered so much
that had given up all hopes of recov-
cry. | was so feeble from the effects of
the diarrhoea that could do no kind of
labor. could not even travel. but by &C.
cident | was permitted to find bottle
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and after taking
several bottles am entirely cured of
that trouble. ! am so pleased with the
result that 4 am anxious that it be in
reach of all who suffer as have For
sale by Brooks House Pharmacy.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
OUT OF The WINDOW.
The Temptations which Assailcd IA Good
Moman-A Morbid ImpuIse.

The Temptations which Assaulted II Good
Noman-A Morbid Impulse.
In a recent letter to a friend, a woman
saws she has been troubled from her child
hood with an affection of the liver. Her
skin was sallow and the whites of her eyes
of yellowsh color. II was always Ian
guild and weary and had no appetite. As
my complaint grew worse I was so low in
spirits and so intensely exctable and ner-
vous that felt as though / could jump
Out of the window.
SIN March, 1899, an old friend said l
ought to try a new medicine named Calcura
Solvent, which had the reputation of being
the best thing in the world for liver,
stomach and kidney complaints. She said
it was new discovery by DR.. David
Kennedy.
After taking the Calcura Solvent only
ten days l was greatly improved, and in
two or three months | was well and strong
for the first time in my life. My spirits
are natural now. enjoy myself like other
healthy woman, and you wouldn't think I
had nerve in my body"
If your druggist is out of Calcura Sol
vent, send S1.00 to DR.. David Kennedy.
Kennedy Row, Kingston, N. Y. express
prepaid. Write for free sample bottle.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
CHANGE IN CAMPAIGN.
British Not to Try to Hold Country EI-
cept About the Gold Mines, Which
" ere the Real Objects OF the War.

The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune hints at a decisive
change in the campaign when be
says:
The var will mot end under the
lin itatio1s of Lurd kitci ener's proc
lamatinn in the middle of September,
but the pacfication OF the most
important districts will be undertaken
in earnest around Johannesburg,
Pretoria and Bloemfoptein through a
revival of mining ana agricultural
industries.
The plan as esrlv projected was to
send home about 40 900 Of tue staleSt
troops. and restrict operations within
the comparatively small area of the
gold fields ana the districts around
Bloemfoutea aud Pretoria, while
protecting the railroads to the COST
by chains Of block houses. An effort
xoul1 be made to start up tbs mining
Industry and revive agriculture in the
vicinity of the three important towns
in the TrarsrHal and the Free State,
but the rest Of the country would be
practically abandoned. What such n
policy would mean ought nat to be
tard to determine. \ military writer
in ore of the Lonuon weekly journals
says frankly
I'VE are to commit ourselves of the
defensive, and we are to advertise TO
the enemy in South Africa, and t. Our
rivals IN Europe, that our original
attempt will no longer be prosecuted.
The new plan means, If any thing,
that the long and tiresome attempt to
run uoEn the Rosr commanders
through the vast length and breadth
of the Botr country has been failure
Lord Kitchener has been at the job
full year
With the British army reduced in
size, and its activities contined largely
to certain specified districts, the
Beers would ce able to arrange at
will over an enormous stretch of
country, crops and recess the Orange
river into Cape Colouy, where the
is extremely serious, ana,
their time, attack various
weak points in the British cumnuni.
cation TO the sea Thus the war,
instead of being brought TO a speedy
end, would Contipue Indefinitely and
become a kind of open sore. The
British colonies, Natal ana Cape
Colony, would be kept 10 perpetual
unrest by Ouch disatiecti,n and Boer
ralds, ami the moss that could he
for British prestige
would tie the resumption of gold
mining on a small scale. 1t has been
,ur surmise for some time that the
British were not makirg real headwsy
q the suhiugation of Dutch South |
Africa, and the latest developments
eem to confirm that view. While the |
British have been gathering in pris-
'ners all the time, it is apparently
orgotten that the Dutch population
# Cape Colony and Natal nave come
0 be source from which the com.
nandoes can &c recruited III tits
,ast winter IN South Africa there has
een more steady warfare south of the
orange river than Forth of it.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
A MonotOnous story.

Lord Kitchener has over 200, coo
British troops in the field. The Beers,
he sa;s, number loco. Yet there is
a somewhat tiresome mcnutony 10 his
complaints that the British are so
frequently 'surrounde1 on unfavor-
able ground" In bis latest despatch
we nod that, after the usual heroic
resistance, in which lone mRn was
killed ard four wour ded, ''th rec
British officers ard % men surren-
dered. Lord Kitchener also COM
plglGs that in some cases the Bners
murder the wounded British soldiers;
but there is something very suspicious
in his own figures. which put the
plumber of Beers killed far ahead of
the numter wounded. at the battle
of Ondurmap the killed amounted to
some thousands; there were no
wounded.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

| Says so-Thsref0re Emnity with Samp-
son.
Admiral John e Watson is quoted
10 the New York World as having
said in the course of Il private
conve rsatior in Washington:
"If any naval officer asserts that
Admiral Schley is a coward and the
fact comes TO my knoHladee ] will see
that the the man who makes the
statement is given an opportunity 10
vindicate his opinion before court
martial | will prefer charges agair st
such an ofTen1er himself. 1t is an
absurd tn charge an officer Of Schley 5
record uith cowardice, ard the mere
implication is reflection on the
service.
The remarks, Bccordiug to the
Worlds correspondent, were brought
out as thu result Of the retailing Of
some charges brought against Schley,
This remark flew like ~iljtre
throughout naval circles, and since its
utterancn Admiral Sampson's family
have broken eff cordial relation with
that Of Admiral Watson.
For years the wives and children Of
tie two officers have been Oh the
adjacent to each other on CorcoraI
street and the children were as broth
ers aid sisters.
Two years ago, when Miss Olive
Sampson married young Scott, Miss
Ann Mary Watson wbs her brides.
maid. [ster she was godmother to
the Scott Sampson baby.
Mr. and Mrs Scott are temporarily
in Washington. 4 few days after
admiral Watson 8 utterance his
daughter went to spend the day with |
her old friend. Much to Miss Wat
son g surprise, Mrs Scott sent word |
by servant that she begged to be |
excused and could not see her.
The feud was extended to the wives |
of both officers, ard will make serious |
in the social gayeties OF
Xt winter.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

Washinpton, d G, Aug Pa recent
| decision Of the ravy department leads
TO hopes that CrawiEshiFld, the / etc
noir of the department., is losing his
! influence. Through the mallgn pow
ers erertci by him as chief OF nari-
CATION for the past four years, the
Interest of the navy personnel bill has
been set aside and many vessels OF our
modern fleets sero lsly injured. Now
at last, bis policy has been to some
extent overturned, and there are hopes
that better care will henceforth be
taken of the costly machinery Of the
war ships.
The Lavy personnel bill as will be
remembered provided for the merging
of the engineer corps in the line, and
that officers belonging to each shout
discharge the duties of both branct 81
of the service. As administered by
Admiral CrowninshielG, who makes
ell assignments of station, it came to
mean that al engineer officers should
become line officers, and that 10 line
oMcer-nor any engineer officer, for
that matter should lie called upon
to perform engine room duties unless
re happened to have fallen under the
uiSl Ic'SuIt VI 1ttD raj 1EUWHlI~nl+ 10.
As result, the costly engines Of
our modern vessels were left entirely
in charge of warrant machinists, while
the trained officers who had charge Of
them before the bill was adopted,
performed duties on deck -uuless they
mad irritatei Crowninshield in some
ws>, when they were punished by
ssisnments to the engine room.
This trouble was predicted by AG-
miral Melville two years ago, but bis
circumstances were uuheeded. Mum
tiers of Instances have occurred in tn
mast year to demonstrate that the
failure to provide vessels Of war with
naval engineers has lean great
mistake, and if the situation coutin-
ues without relief there was every
chance it would he compelled to
resort to the legislation re-estBblish-
ing tho engineer corps. In view Of
this fact and of the reports of serious
Of the machinery, |
Ctowninshield has been forced to yield |
in part. BY rev order from the |
aavigation bureau, two line officers |
are to be detailed on hoard each ship |
As assistants to the chief engineer
where there had been one previously.
officers so serving will have their
attachments occur alternately, once
N six months. The ORDER IS to be
,nme effective January l rsxt, after
Viii N, for instance, one officer will
erye one year from that time and tt e
,tber will serve year from July ].
{ has also been determined that line
Ulcers shall tie detailed TO dUty with
hief engineers, especially during the
and repairing of warshlps,
nd it is probable that there will be- =
etail Of officers in the bureau Ct
team c>gineeting, where the infor-
nation and experience gained will re
+ i.calc tl4hle advantage to lire Off
ers assigned to engice room duty.
his feature of the new order is sure
D he most objection able to lire Off
ers, as will, in fact, all of that part
aquripg 81 much duty in the
lachinery department of war vessels.
G. NJ
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, blacder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease. which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp. Root Is not rec
commended for everything but it. you have kid
ncy, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedyyo neee. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have
sample bottle sent free by mail. also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how TO
find out fyou have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
s Ss5sI y o this sd Phssr @9 I'd
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dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

The wreck of the south hourd pas
sepger train on the Sodus Bay
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
Northern Central Thursday night
of which our telegraphic news told,
has resulted Friday in the d. ath of Il
persons.
The train vas made up at Sodus
Point and consisted Of four coaches, a
baggage car and eneile with William
Meagher at the throttle. Chester
Merriman of Sodus Point was in
charge of the train.
The train was running at rearly 40
miles an hour Approaching the sta.
ton at Fairsille there is a curve ard
gravel pit For some unknown reason
the ergire jumped the track while
passing the gravel pit The force Of
the accident turned the engire com
plstely around, throsirg the five cars
on their sides.
The train lead of some $50 passen.
gers was thrown into tire ditch ard it
is a wonder that the number of fatal
ties is not greater The engine ard
all the cars we're badly broken up and
the steam pipes running under the
cars were broken 10 seversl places.
This accounts for the large number of
people scaldeC.
The death Of Miss Anna kare was
most pathetic. She was nurse girl
employed by Mrs Edwin Stancliffe Of
Elmira ard was sent from Sodus
FriGay in charge OF Mrs Stancliffe's
two little daughters who were comirg
to Elnira after spending the season at
Sodus Point. When the wr.ck
occurred Miss Kane threw her skirts
around the children to protect them
while she received steam in conse-
quence. AS a result one of the chill.
dren WIS uninjured while the other,
though severely burned, was saved
from death.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

Prof c G Bennett made another thrill
ing balloon ascension and parachute
drop at the street railway park at ST
Adams Bay. Tuesday night, before a
balloon scared away to height of neat
ly 5000 feet, and hung directly over the
lake, so that. when the bold aeronaut cut
loose with his parachute, he fell into
the cold waters of old Champlain, about
a quarter of mile from the dock. But
this had been anticipated from observa-
ton of the light wind blowing. and boats
had been sent out which quickly picked
him up and brought him to the dock.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

AERoNaNT FLUNG FROM HIS CAR.
Crowd Let Hts Balloon Ascend At Nahant.
Before He Was Rsady-He's Dying.


Robert S Jeuett, an aeronaut, whose
home is at Cleveland, is dying in the
Lynn, Mass, city hospital because a
crowd of men allowed his balloon to
ascend at Nahant Friday evening
before he gave the word. The ascen-
sion was to take place at Bass Point.
While Mr. JeWett WAS experimenting
tbs filling of the balloon it began to
sway. 1hs crowd holding it down
became frightened and let 60
Tee aeronaut was drawn quickly up
with the huge bag as it swavad
through tho air. There was not enough
gas in the balloon to carry it up
properly, and to the horror of the
spectators it crashed sides Use against
a tree, dragging Mr. Jewett through
the limbs. he clung to his car, how
ever, and tue balloon managed to
clear the trees. Once free of the tree,
the Interchangeable balloon struck
against a hagpole in front of one of
the cottages in the rear of the Relay
house. The aeronaut's head was
thrown against the pole and be
pitched out of the car to the ground,
80 feet below. TIE balloon collapsed
ard fell. Jewett was unconscious
when he was picked up.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
BURIED GLACIER FOUND.
Oldest Known Body OF Ice Under Lava
Bed IN Colorado.

Prof w Il Lee announced to the Acad-
envy Of Science Saturday afternoon at
Denver, Col, that he had discovered
within 200 miles Of Denver the oldest
sea of ice in the know ledge OF man. The
find WAS made in an extinct volcano
which the Colorado & Southern Roll
road had been using for a supply of
ballast, taking out thousands Of cars of
lava for distribution along the line down
through Texas. At a depth OF 200 feet
the men ran into a stream of water that
could not be overcome without eXpen-
sive pumping. The beds were abandon.
ed. Investigating the trouble, Prof Lee
found perfect glacier Undecided.
which be says antedates anything of
the kind 10 the world. He applied for
permission to delve through the cepos-
its with the hope Of unearthng valuable
data concerning the glacial era.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
OLD WORLD.
SULTAN HU .h8LE.

Sends Urgent Message TO Francs-Asks
for resumption of ksiations-N" Com
crete Plan Formulated.
Councillor of the French Embassy
has received from the Porte copy of Il
telegram sent to the Ottoman Embassy
at Paris for communication to NJ Del
casse, the French Foreign Minister.
This telegram, while giving vague
assurances, formulates nothing concrete.
1t requests resumption of diplomatic
relations between the two countries
with view to reaching satisfactory
settlement of the matters in dispute.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
PRISONERS sUBDUED by HOSE.
Piucky Jailer's Daughter Prevents n
wholesale Jail Delivery.

A daring attempt to deliver IS prs-
oners from the Madison county jail at
Edwarusvillc. III, was made Saturday
night by James Johnston, who is under
indictment for the murder last summer
of James Rvburn, citizen of Alton,
and but for katherine liotz. daughter
of the jAiler, the attempt would have
proved snccs>ful As it is II Of the %
prisoners, among them i've alleged mur
derers, managed to escape from their
cells into the main corridor of the jail
and there kept the sheriff and his depu-
ties, Turnkey Threadley and large
number of citizens at bay for three
hours. The city fire department was
called in, and after turning on halt
dozen streams of water the prisoners
cried for mercy. They were handcutfed
and returned to their cells.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

my name" writes lady well known in
New York, "anv letters you may re.
ceive, from what here say. may be
sent TO me privately. Your new med
cine, Cacura Solvent. wholly cured me
of chronic dyspepsia, and also an ailment
peculiar TO my sex that has troubled me
ever since | was eighteen For free
trial bottle write to Dr. David Kennedy,
Kennedy Row. Kingston. y Y.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
What KipIing Needs 10 Pie.
From the Fitcbburg Sentinel. }

The marked deterioration 10 the
quality of Rudyard Kipling's recent
literary work is the subject Of general
comment. The reviewers are slashing
him right and lief. and are glvirg
many subtle explanations Of the cause
Of the decline. The truth Of il ap
pears to be that the fire # kitlinp's
genius has burned less brightly since
be left Brattleboro, Vt, ard ceased to
reside within the New England pie
belt His genius neecs to he fed on
ME
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03
BOsra Blow In HriIIsh Trsi In.

A despatch from Lord Kitchener to
Lon1on, dated Pretoria Saturday,
says: "A train was blown up today
between Waterfall aud Hsman's kraal
by $50 Beers, who at once fired on
the train, setting it on fire. Lieut. Col
Of the Irish guards, u most
promising officer, was killed. The
other casualties have not yet been
-
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

Many physicians are now prescribing kodol
Dyspepsia Cure regularly having found that
1t is the best prescription they can write
because it i the only preparation which con-
tain- the elements Necessary TO digest not
only some kinds of food but all Kind and it
therefore cures indigestion and dyspepsia no
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-03

There has been a movement in New
York to make VIM c Whitney the
Democratic candidate fer governor
but he puts quietus on it with the
declaration that he is out of politics
for good.