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A WAY to Live q Hundred Years.

How shall one reach the century Mr..
Sidney Cooper will attain if he lives
till September 26, 1903? Some ten
years ago Mr.. Cooper, then close upon
80, gave an account of his daily life
He breakfasted at 8, after having done
in the summer an hour, in the winter
half an hour, in his painting room.
His breakfast consisted of oatmeal
porridge and bread and about half q
pint of milk just warm from his OWL
COW. He had not then tasted a cup Of
tea or coffee for nearly forty yearE
After breakfast he worked till lunch
time, his lunch consisting Of a mutton
chop and glass of that ale which, as
he himself always says, taken in mod
Grafton gives stamina and power In
those days-they were the early eos
he went for a walk before his dinner
at O'Clock, beer again being his only
drink. After that he read his news
paper; at 9 o'clock he took his one
cigar and at 10 o'clock he was in bed.
This was the everyday tenor OF his
life, and he remarked that regularity
is the secret of longevity.-London
Chronicle.
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Cnnldn.t Wear Shoes.

Sumpter, Ill, Sept. 9th.-Mrs. J. B.
Flanagan, OF this place. had suffered
with dropsy for fifteen years. She was
so very bad that for the last three
years she has not been able to wear
her shoes. She had doctored all the
time, but was gradually getting worse.
Last winter Mr.. Flanagan, who was
very much discouraged, called for
some medicine at Mr.. J. J. Dale's drug
store in Carmi. Mr.. Dale persuaded
him to have his wife try Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. and he bought six boxes. His
wife used i've out Of the six, before
she was entirely cured. She is now as
sound and well as ever she was, com
pletely restored to health, and free
from any symptom whatever Of
dropsy.
To say that Mrs. Flanagan is pleased
at her wonderful deIiverance does not
half express her feelings, and she and
Mr.. Flanagan are loud in their praises
Of -Dodd's Kidney Pills, and Of Mr.
Dale for recommending this wonderful
remedy to them.
The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills
cured Mrs Flanagan of such a severe
case Of dropsy, after the doctors had
given her up, has made them the most
talked of remedy ever known in White
county
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Easy Come. Easy Go.

The man who creeps along beEt
over, with his spinal column feeling in
a condition to snap like a pipestem at
any minute, would readily give a great
deal to get out of his dilemma, and yet
this is only the commonest form by
which lumbago seizes on and twists
out of shape the muscles of the back
This is commonly known as backache,
q crick in the back. but by whatever
name it may be known, and however
bad 1t may be, 10 minutes vigorous
rubbing with st. Jacobs Oil on the af-
ficted part will drive out the trouble
and completely restore. It is a thing
so easily caught, it may be wondered
Rt why there is not more Of it, but
because it is so easily cured by st. ia
cobs Oil may be the very reason that
We hear so little of it.
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Fourteen Cbuaren in Mn. -.

Wilkes county, Ga, comes forward
with the most prolific mother Of the
new century Her name is Peggy Wat
kins, negress, who lives about four
teen miles west OF Washington on the
plantation of D. c. Hill She was mar
ried when II years OF age and Is now
26 years old. and during the nine years
that she has been married has given
birth to fourteen children The ne
gress has had twins only twice, but on
Thursday she gave birth to five chill
dren- They were all dead when born.
but the mother is doing well.
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How ciothes Are B1i.tered.

Many Of the starches now being used
In washable fabrics contain ingredf-
ents that break and blister the goods
so that after few Washings they are
Of little service. Defiance starch (made
In Nebraska) is manufactured with
special view to obyiating the difficulty.
II contains solution that can in no
way injure the linen-but instead
gives It q smooth, glossy finish that
makes goods look new after each iron
ing. Sold by leading grocers. Made
5y Magnetic Starch Co, Omaha. Neb.
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IN the presence of thousands Of peo-
pie President Mckinley was shot down
by an assassin a few minutes after
o'clock Friday afternoon in the Tenn
pie of Music at the Pan-American ex-
position grounds, Buffalo, N Y. One
bullet struck the breastbone, glanced
aside into the flesh and was easily
removed by surgeons. The other en-
tered the abdomen, pierced the front
and rear walls of the stomach and
buried itself in some spot in the presi-
dents body not reached at the time
of this writing by the probes of the
surgeons. This more serious wound
was dressed and closed with several
stitches and the physicians are now
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Curiona nsan.

4 curious deed is on file in Northum-
berland county, Pennsylvania. accord
ing to the Sunbury Republican. It
bears date OF October 9. 1898. In q Sc
ries OF whereases it traces the own
ership of the land conveyed from the
Creator of the earth, who "by parole
and iverey Of seizin did enfeoh the
parents of mankind, to-wit, Adam and
Eve, Of all that certain tract of land
called and known in the planetary sys-
tenn as the earth," down through the
ages to the maker Of the deed.
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Great BrftafU.s PoruIet1oz.

Great Britain and Ireland. accordins
TO the compiled census returns, has
population Of about z2yG00, GOO. The
exact figures are: England, 80 sos. .466s
Wales. 1.72o. sos: Scotland, z.47I, ,s57-.ss
Ireland 4.456, ,546: The Isle OF Man, 81
1885, and the Channel Islands, s5 81,
making total Of Al SOS. III To this
Is added an estimate OF 900 .0oe for the
men IN the army, navy and merehsnt
service abroad and for the troops ssrF-
ing ia South Africa.
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der surveillance, and are confident that
CzoIgosz has no association with these
people Three secret service opera
tiYes were in Buffalo about the Presi-
dent at the time of the shooting, and
another was on the way to Cleveland
While the theory Of the secret service
here is as stated. at the same time no
facts concerning the matter are at this
time known to the secret service bu-
reau, SO it is conceded to be only a
surmise at present that he belonged
to the Haymarket gang
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when it reached Washington caused a
tremendous sensation. So frequent
have been rumors Of this sort. often
put af1oat in recent years for stock
jobbing purposes, that the general dis
position at first was to withhold full
acceptance Of the truth OF the news.
1t was some time before the full
force OF the blow was appreciated; the
people we're stunned and they could
not respond at once and fully compre-
mend the extent Of the great disaster
that had fallen upon the country and
themselves
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Ar7arcbiCfic Assassin Shoots
CbieE MQ9iSfrafe.

had not felt the impact of the bullets.
While he was speaking the oficer and
Secretary Cortelyou had been leading
him backward to a chair and had torn
open his vest. Blood was on his shirt
front and Detective Gerry, answering
his question, said:
81 fear you are, Mr.. President"
Secretary Cortelyou sank on one
knee beside the presidents chair and
gazed anxiously into his face.
Tells Friends Not to Fear.
s.Do not be alarmed" said the presi-
dent, cit is nothing"
His head sank forward into his
hands q moment and then he raised it
briskly, while the stream of crimson
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The Imitation "Reuben.-

The imitation Reuben" clad In q
linen duster and carrying a carpet
bag, no longer fools the people in New
York streets. Time was when such
man, if he had a guilelezs express
sion, and concealed his advertising
dodge long enough, could collect
crowd anywhere; nowadays, people
who are much in the streets have be-
come too wise New York Press.
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nIarkinr Rornl suan.

Recently every fuzzy little cygnet on
the Thames and its tributaries be-
tween London and Henley had to suf-
fer the fndig-lity OF being caught and
marked upon the bill with the siga Of
its owner. As is well known, the
swans belong to King Edward and to
the Dyers' and Winners companies Of
London
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Ornamental nesIrn,n-

The trades in which the ornamental
designer is chiefly employed are the
various branches OF the textile indus
try, as the manufacture of cotton
prints, carpets, curtain materials, dress
goods, etc, and also wall paper and
oil-cloth. The salary OF a designer OF
course varies according to his capa-
bilities, but one with artistic taste and
originality is always well paid.
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nate os shaEes.ear.,. I,lrt,,-

Considerable uncertainty prevails re-
garding the date Of shakespesre's
birth Tradition points to April %.
old style, corresponding to our Nay
9Th. as the date. This is in accord with
the statement made by the late Sir
Wazter Besant in his maeazins article.
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Mex INLED SHOT *
* AT BUFFALO|

land fell upon him and he was helpless.
bruised and bleeding. His face was
cut when he was thrown to the floor
and dozen eager, vicious hands had
struck at him and reached him oveA
the shoulders of the officers. Slowly,
very slowly, the little force Of police
made their way through the crowd.
dragging the prisoner between them
They were determined there should be
no lynehing Things were bad enough
as it was and lynching would have
been the crowning horror of the day.
From outside the building, where the
news had spread from lip to lip, more
thousands pushed and jostled and
shouted in their eagerness to enter the
building. Those inside were strug-
Cling in two directions-the more
timorous to escape from the place be-
fore stampede should crush out their
lives and the hot-headed to reach CZ~l-
gosz-onIy to reach Czolgosz was their
one idea.
On the stretcher of an ambulance
which had come changing to the door
the president was tenderly carried
from the building and borne in the
oAAOuAdACC IO lAO nOSpEId1,
near the service building, within the
exposition grounds. Though this takes
long in the telling, probably it was not
more than five minutes from the time
the shots were fired until the president
was in the hospital and hasty exami-
nation was begun by the surgeons.
In Critical Condition.
The first official bulletin regarding
the condition of President Mckinley
was issued by Private Secretary Cor
telyou at o'clock in the evening He
prefaced it with the statement that it
had been prepared by the doctors. 1t
reads thus:
THE President was shot about
o'clock. One bullet struck him on the
upper portion of the breastbone, glanc-
ing and not penetrating. The second
bullet penetrated the abdomen five
inches below the left nipple and one
and one-haIf inches to the left of the
median line.
''The abdomen was opened through
the line of the bullet wound. 1t was
found that the bullet had penetrated
the stomach. The opening in the front
wall VI the SIOIudCn was Cdl S1u1J
closed with silk stitches, after which
a search was made for a hole in the
back wall of the stomach. This was
found and also closed in the same way.
"The further course of the bullet
could not be discovered, although care
full search was made. The abdominal
wound was closed without drainage
No injury to the intestines or other
abdominal organ was discovered.
'"The patient stood the operation
well. Pulse of good quality, rate of
13O. Condition at the conclusion of
the operation was gratifying. The re-
suit cannot be foretold. His condition
at present justif1es hope of recovery.
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU.
Secretary to the President
Grief of Distinguished Persons.
Among distinguished persons who
telegraphed expressions of their grief
| at the national calamity were Vice
President Roosevelt. who started at
once from Burlington. VT, for Buffalo;
Senator M. A Hanna of Cleveland,
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Kind to the Nerroe..

R. B. Weddington, q Union county,
North Carolina, farmer who died re-
Gently, lived in the kindliest relations
with the negroes, and In his will he
gave three tracts of land to three OF
his faithful colored servants, leaving
money to others The remainder Of
his estate. amounting to 1850 acres.
he bequeethed to the Methodist church.
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Gain of Some Cities.

In the ten years between 1890 and
1900, Passaic, n. J., gained 113 per
cent in population; Butte, Mont, 1S4:
Superior, Wis, 160; Newcastle, Pa.
1S5; Seattle, Wash. IS; Waterbury,
Conn.,, so; st. Joseph, Mo, SO; East
st. Louis. Ill; 95; Jacksonville. Fla,
65, and South Omaha, Neb., 222 per
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Awaiting results, declaring the presi-
dent has a fair chance of recovery.


dent has a fair chance of recovery.
Assassin is Arrested,
The assailant, who says he is Leon
CzolgosZ, was arrested Immediately
and the police of the entire country
at once begun the search to establish
his identity. 1t was soon learned he
came from Cleveland and subsequently
he confessed he was an anarchist and
q disciple of Emma Goldman. The
startling attack on the president took
place while the president was ex-
changing pleasant greetings with visit
ors to the exposition. Many hundred
people had shaken hands with the
president, one of the last being burly
colored man. He murmured his ac-
acknowledgements of the honor and
moved on to make way for heavily
built young fellow about % years old
who was slowly following him in the
long line. There was nothing to mark
him from the thousands around him,
except that he carried handkerchief
in his hand and even that, perhaps,
was scarce worthy of note, for the
building was small and crowded, the
handkerehiefs were in constant reQui-
sition. The young man moved rapidly
to a position Immediately in front of
the president, SO close that he could
have shaken his hand. AS he had
done so many hundreds of times in the
preceding half hour, Mr.. Mckinley
bowed, smiled genially and extended
| his hand. But the young man did not
grasp it. So quickly that the watch
full eyes OF the presidents bodyguard
had no hint of the menace in his
movement, he raised the hand in
which the handkerchief was held and
fired two shots at the president. The
handkerchief had covered a revolver,
| which he had carried thus openly
through the crowd.
Assailant Quickly Seized.
At the sound of the shots Detective
Ireland of the secret service force
leaped upon the man like a tiger and
close behind him came the colored
man who had just shaken hands with
the president. While they struggled
with him on the floor President Nc
Kinley took a step backward and was
instantly clasped in the arms of De
tectiye Gerry, another member of his
bodyguard. The president did not fall
nor did he reel, although both bullet.
had struck him. Half turning his heaC
to the officer. he asked:
"Am I shot?" Evidently he had
been so stunned with surprise that h,
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Crime Predicted I'm March.

Wichita, Kas., Sept Fritz Hutt-
mann, a reporter for local paper,
while singing with the Andrews Opera
company last March, was confidential
ly told by Antonio Maggie. a eornet
player with the same company, that
President Mckinley would be assassi-
mated before October. and intimated
that orders to that effect had been re-
ceived from an anarchist society in
Rome, Italy.
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Objected to Being In Mover.

Dan Godfrey. the famous British
band-leader, has recently obtained
damages for libel from a publisher and
q woman author for putting him into
a novel. also an Injunction against
the further publication of the book.
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the nation. In the last case, that of
Chester A. Arthur succeeding to the
presidency upon the death of James A.
Garfield, the demise o. the latter was
announced to the vice president by the
late presidents cabinet.
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In 1866 the farm value of wheat was
a little more than dollar and a half
a bushe1 INFLATED currency. In 1881
it was $L19- The loE-water mark was
- cents. in 1894.
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Marriage between first cousins IS not
prohibited under the Law Of the prov
ince OF Quebec AS far as We know It
is not contrary to the laws of any OF
the provinces.
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Recorder Gon-s I.nncbes.

Recorder Con, of New York, is par
tial 20 crackers and milk for his Iunch-
con- This combination be has served
to him in his chambers at the Grim
inal courts by his Personal attendant.
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captain. Previous to this his regiment
had taken part in engagements al
Cloyds Mountain, New River Bridge.
Lexington, Buffalo Gap. Buchanan, OF
ter Creek, LynchbuTg and Bunordk
Gap. At Berryville, Sept 3, 1864, his
horse was shot under him. On Marcel
Il, 1865, he received his commission
as major by breEet for gallant and
meritorious services at the battles O.
Opequan, Cedar Creek aad Fishers
Hill.
Elected Governor IN 1891.
In 1891 he was elected Governor o
ONO by a majority of a-out $1,000
over Ex-Governor James E. Campbell
Democrat
Election to the Presidency.
In the November election following
the total popular vote was II, ,S3O, ,942.
of which the Mckinley electors re-
ceived 7.1O4.77s. being a plurality of
COL ,S54 over those cast for William
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, AMI a
majority over all candidates of 311. 742
The vote IN the electoral college was
271 for Mckinley and 176 for Bryan
| The issues on which the campaign was
fought were chiefly on the free coin
age Of silver and the restoration of 2
protective tariff
He was nominated for President g
second time at St Louis in 1900, there
! being no other candidate, and he was
reelected in the following November
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In R1ble nmea

your daughter is very III. ~Bu,
you must save her. doctor; she is the
baby Of the family. and We can't lose
her: she is only 81 years Old. smart
Set
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welled from the wound in his breast
and spread in an overwhelming circle
on his white shirt front.
But you are wounded exclaimed
Mr.. Cortelyou, '1et me examine
mo, no. insisted the president, 81
am not badly injured, I assure you
With bullet in his breast and an
other through his stomach, he did not
lose consciousness. He sat almost as
stanch and straight in his chair as
though his assailant's shots had
missed and he seemed the calmest and
least perturbed of the immense gath
ering. President Milburn and Secre-
tary Cortelyou were almost frantic
with alarm, but the wounded man con-
tinued to assure them that his injuries
were trifing. This dramatic scene
upon the little platform was enacted in
the midst of a terrible tumult, which
continued uninterruptedIy for many
minutes.
When the secret service men and the
colored man first threw themselves
upon Czolgosz, the assailant OF the
president, and pinned him to the floor
lest he should try to use the revolver
again, twenty more men hurled them
selves upon the scrambling quartet and
buried Czolgosz from sight, Every
man in that struggling, crazy throng
was striving to get hold of Czolgosz,
to strike him, to rend him, to wreak
upon him in any way the mad fury
which possessed them instantly they
realized what he had done.
The greater part of the crowd was
! stunned for an instant by the enormity
of the crime they witnessed, but when
| the reaction came they surged forward
lik. wild beasts the strongest tearing
| the weakest back out of the way and
forcing themselves forward to where
| the prisoner was held by his captors.
All the time a tumult of sound filed
the place, a hollow roar at first, pune
tuated by the shrieks of women, swell
ing into medley of yells and curses.
Men said unintelligible things as they
pushed and crowded toward the center
| OF the swaying mob. Tzey wanted to
| lynch CZolgosz, whoever he was They
wanted to see him and they shouted
vainIy at the police officers in front to
drag him out.
Mad Effort to Get Revenge.
A little force of exposition guards,
| in f1x1 he oIo
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Cleveland. Sept NY God, it can't
be possible" cried Senator Hanna
when the dispatch was read to him
saying that President Mckinley had
been shot
It is terrible, and I am too shocked
to express my feelings" he added
The senator was prostrated by the
news and begged that all dispatches
relating to the condition o. the Presi-
dent. be teiephoned to him as fast as
they arrived
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eastern Anarehlsss watched.

Washington, Sept THE secret
service bureau had the Paterson IN.
j. greup Of anarchists thoroughly IN
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WaaaInxton Greasly Excited.

Washington, Sept THE news OF
the shooting of Pressdszt Mckinley
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Mad Enort to Get Revenge.

a little Iorco OF exposition guards,
penned in by the clamoring mob,
fought desperately to hold their pris-
oner from the bloodthirsty crowd.
They had Czolgosz safe and fast His
revolver had been wrenched from his
hand in the instant that Detective Ire
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Kaiser declined to intervene In quar-
rel between Turkey and France.
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Grief of Distinguished Persons.

VFIeI OF AOIstIiIB BuIshea Il tfsolls'
Among distinguished persons who
telegraphed expressions of their grief
at the national calamity were Vice
President Roosevelt. who started at
once from Burlington. VT, for Buffalo;
Senator M. A. Hanna of Cleveland,
who was greatly shocked: Sir Thomas
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On the Field

Feb. z, 1863, while at Camp Piatt. he
was promoted to first lieutenant, and
July % Of the following year, when
he was 81 years of age, he was made
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-28

lnal WHICH Uta pass bHS COAAihitNtSC mot be printed7 Do I understand that to be the effect of 1t?
 The President--The effect will be that the report of the Committee as made by It's chairman will lay upon the table and be printed as the report of the Committee.
 Mir. s-Notwithstanding the statement of the chairman himself that my proposition should be printed along with it. Is 1t not competent for him 10 make that request?
 The Presidsnt-1t is competent and if the gentleman adds that to his mo- ton, the Chair will submit 1t as q part of his motion.
 Mir, Oates-I request to satisfy the gentleman, to let it be printed, follow ing the report of the Committee. \ The President request of the gentleman will not be motion betore this Convention. It is for the Conyen, zen ton to say whether this report shall be printed. Does the gentleman make d motion that 1t be printed?
 Mfr, Oates-1 move that 1t be printed.
 The Presideht--1t is added to fhe mo- ton that this ordinance introduced by the gentleman from Mobile &A printed with the report of the Committee.
 MT. weatherly-I make no objection to that, provided the Committees re- bort shall show the statement of the fact that that was the ordinance in- troduced by Mir. Brooks.
 MT. Macdonald-Wit the gentleman hermit inc to ask him question be- fore he sits down? You advocate let ting this report go to this Convention as d report Of a majority of the Com mittee, when in point of fact 1t vas not not the majority. and put us In the iix of making a minority report hereY
 MT. Weatheriy-1 am not the proper tribunal to settle questions of fact oc- curing between the members of com nittee. ...
 The President-That question can enlv properly be raised when it comes before the Convention for eonstdere-