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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
Many of Our Boys and Girls Are
Suffering This Month From
the After Effects of
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A busy city physician, enjoying large
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that host of young people-boys and
girls-were suffering this month from
the after effects of winter grip.
Dear parents, have any of your children
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health faded from the cheeks? If any of
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If your children are not blithesome,
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
The Most Common AiIment.

More people suffer from rheumatism
than from any other ailment. This is
wholly unnecessary, too, for a cure may
be effected at a very small cost G. W.
Wescott, of Meadowdale, N. Y, says. II
have been afflicted with rheumatism for
some time and 1t has caused me much
suffering. / concluded to try Chamber
lain's Pain Balm and am pleased to say
that 1t has cured me-" For sale by Brown
Bros
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
Sciatic Rheumatism Cured After Fourtee
Years of Suffering.

IT have been afflicted with sciatic rheu-
matism for fourteen years." says Josh
Edgar. of Germantown. Cal. II was able
to be around but constantly suffered. I
tried everything I could hear of and at
last was told to try Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, which I did and was Immediately
relieved and in short time cured, and
am happy to say 1t has not since return
ed? 1t is for sale by Brown Bros.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
State of Ohio. City Of Toledo. Lucas

State of Ohio. City Of Toledo. Lucas
County So.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner of the firm Of F. j.
Cheney & Co., doing business In the
city Of Toledo, County and State afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use Of
Halls Catarrh Cure
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9Th day of De-
cember, A. d. 1886.
A. w. GLEASON,
[Seal1 Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
THIRTY THOUSAND PERISH.
Further Details OF the Awful Martinique Ca
tastrOphe.


81 A Washington dispatch of yesterday
bays:
President Roosevelt sent a message to
Congress today recommending that five
Ehundred thousand dollars be appropri-
ated for the relief of the victims of the
St. Pierre disatser, to be Immediately
available.
Secretary Hay received the following
cablegram, dated May 18th, from U. s.
Consul Aymee at Guadeloupe. who went
to Fort De France. Martinique. by in
structions from this government:
lis and his family are dead. Governor
Says 10000 have perished, $4,000 are home
ess and hungry. He suggests that the
Ned Cross be asked to send Goldfish, -four,
beans, rice, salt meats and biscuits as
valuable"
A cablegram from Fort De France
HPierre as reported by government offic-
#ials who visited the scene of the catas-
#trophe last Saturday. 1t says:
81 The sea for miles around was covered
with the wreckage of vessels. The heat
from thes moking lava-covered ruins at
st Pierre was uffcating. and the stencil
from the corpse strewn streets was aw-
IA The report that the hospital clock was
found intact, with Its hands stopped at
ESQ, was confirmed as was the statement
that the offices of the cable company had
Eentirely disappeared.
# on all sides were found portions of
corpses, which were gathered up by the
Soldiers and gendarmes and burned on
one side Of the public squares.
Not drop of water was procurable
ashore. The darkness caused by the
clouds of volcanic dust shrouded the town
and continued subterranean rumbling ad-
! ded to the horror of the scene.
& The fort and central quarters of the
pwn were razed to the ground and were
replaced by beds of hot cinders. There
was no trace of the streets. Huge heaps
OF smoking ashes were to be seen on all
sides.
q AS a result of this inspection the com
mander of the Suchet reports that crew
#ices and valleys are constantly forming
#1n the northern part of the island. where
Tthe land is in a state of perpetual change.
Fortunately that part of the country was
Evacuated in good time by the inhabi-
Rants, who fled to Fort De France.
Lava continues to stream down the
mountain side, accompanied by terrific
thunder and lightning.
81 Communication is practically cut off
from all the surrounding islands, except
BY stray vessels, which are seized upon
by the inhabitants to flee from Mar
finique.
# -
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-05-13
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

that term" or inning, and thus this
number of "withins'' gradually de-
creases until there is only one with
in" left OF course, there is no hope
for him unless he can make what we
would call a home run and what they
call round" This is not often done.
Every American boy has in his
youth thrown a ball up against a
black wall to catch it on the rebound.
The English boy has made a game of
this which he calls Cry Out" In
front of a dead" or blank" wall
three sides of a square are marked on
the ground by drawing a line with a
stick or otherwise. The wall itself
forms the fourth side of the square.
The "crier'' is chosen by the method
which every boy knows-that is. by
hand over hand on a stick. Most
American boys call this Choosing
up" The one who is chosen takes
his place in the middle of the square.
The others line up on the outside
edge.
The crier then numbers them lone,
two, three" etc. the number of boys
on the line being unlimited. The
'crier" then throws the ball against
the wall, sometimes on a slant and
sometimes straight-quite as it pIeases
him. He may throw it hard or easy"
as he pleases. At the instant it strikes
he must call out the number of some
one of the boys on the line. 1t does
not matter which one, so long as no
member is called twice in succession
and so long as all the numbers are
called in one round. The one who is
called must try to catch the ball If
ne does, then he becomes "crier''-
the best place in the game-and re-
mains "crier" until someone catches
ball thrown by him.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

mares" said the King in a manner at
once condescending and indignant
You must be a delightfully."- ignor-
ant little dog" said the Princess, full
OF sympathy and sarcasm. Where do
you suppose the Thanksgiving turkeys
come from? Did you think that they
grow on trees?"
"Trees!" shrieked the King, taking
another immense bite out of his cookie.
Trees! l wish they did grow on
trees. Here we are rushed to death
with orders for turkeys and things.
and half the turkey and pie factories
in Thanksgiving Land on strikei | do
declare that il takes away most all the
pleasure of being King. Where's our
royal wife,"
she is out shopping. Sire" said a
small voice that came from nowhere.
where, as Fido soon learned bounds
Thanksgiving Land everywhere.
"Shopping!" screamed the King full
of humor and rage. with 1894
mince pies TO deliver,"
Bring us 10000 pounds of seeded
raisins at oncei" commanded the
Princess. Immediately the persons in
No-W Where hurled a whole April show
er OF raisins upon the table and the
Princess rolled dough until the table
got 50 hot that Il began 20 smoke.
No smoking. pleased" shouted the
King, taking another bite out OF the
cookie. And Of course the table stop
ped al once.
Fldo observed that. although the
King ate from the cookie 10 constantly
that his mouth was Derpetually fun OF
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
BRINGING In THE THANKSGIVING DINNER.

The gobble makes the turkeys much
more life-like, we think, don't you
Then they go to another factory where
they are Drowned and carving knives
and forks are stuck in. Then they are
finished and we slide them down the
chutes to World Land, where all the
children and men and women and dogs
are waiting for their Thanksgiving
feast"
Fido stored away all this important
and ridiculous information in his head
to tell the little girls in World-Land
all about it. For the same reason he
also impressed himself with the fact
that the Princess was elegantly dress
ed in skY-blue gown with bright
yellow bows around the bottom. Her
sleeves were dark blue and her apron
was bright red. She used a solid gold
rolling pin, and the dough was de-
liciously and amiably yellow. The
King was dressed tastefully and plain
ly in a bright green mantle with pink
shoes. He had blonde chin whisker
and his eyes were black His hair
was snow white and his crown was
blue and gold.
Fido had scarcely had time to notice
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

II, yet it never grew smaller. AS soon
as he thought this, the King said sad
ly:
Yes, know. This cookie is my great
est invention patented in Thanks
giving Land and the neighboring King
doms of Buxtehude, Wow Wow and
Bluesky; patents applied for in Ger
many, Great Britain and the Fiji ISL
ands. 1t is my great always-eat and
never-ate indestructible cookie. But
none of my workmen has been able to
initiate the pattern, so maybe / Will
never be able to introduce it. Alas!
alasi alas alas.
The King began to weep daintily and
profusely into the dough.
DO you make your turkeys with n
rolling pin, too" asked Fido. after he
had watched the Princess ron out four
hundred and fifty-seven thousand
cakes, cookies. pies and biscuits in one
minute and one-half
Hearing this, the King Of Thanks
giving Land roared aloud in anguish
and enjoyment. But the Princess kent
on rolling dough like mad. and an
swered so sweetly that F'ido could taste
the sugar in the air:
No. foolish Fido. The turkeys. arc
made In moulds. The FIRST thing they
do IN the factories OF Thanksgiving
Land IL 70 mix the turkey meat. Hav-
Ing meat on turkeys is the very latest
style. The meat all cores from Goody
Island that lies IN the ,lravy Sea near
mere. When the meat Is all finished
the gobbie machines 10 10 work and
turn out gobbles 10 put IN the turkeys
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

Ffdo scarcely had been thrown vio-
.iently from the Wind and Air Limited
Express before he fell into another
strange land.
How do you do?" said the King of
the land politely.
"Oh, i just dropped in," said Fido
airily. 1t was easy for him to be airy
because he had Travelled through SO
much air that he had a great deal to
spare.
Where am II" inquired Fido, like a
lady recovering from a faint.
You are not in a where" said the
King. you are in an II. You are in
Thanksgiving Land"
At these solemn and mysterious
WORDS the little Princess began to roll
ner rolling pin like anything and the
hlhs at once proceeded TO read noisily
and inharmoniously from a cook book.
f1do no doubt would have at once
learned great deal about cooking II
the hing mad not insisted greedily on
taking large bite out OF a cookie
sFety TIME ne reached the name OF any
ming. Consequently his reading was
more mumbly than Instructive.
why do you call n Thanksgi,,tn,
Land7" inquired Fido respectfully ana
sardonically. after patiently waitin9
Tor almost three minutes.
Because Thanksgiving grows her.
end ell the things that are cooked ana
AL tha minos pies and an The night
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

So he sent a delegation to witness the
raising of the Star Spangled Banner
at PagO-Pago, the coaling station in
Tutuila, and he has been loyal to the
His Afioga," the President. ever since.
OF all the possessions of the United
States the Tutuila Afoup alone lies
south of the Equator. Children there,
looking into the heaven at night. be-
hold some of the consultations which
you see, but they also see many which
you can never see-the Southern Cross
and all the starry groups of the skies
of the Southern Hemisphere. while they
miss many which yon see every night,
such as the Great Bear and the Plei-
AIDES.
The children OF Tutuila and Manua
are fond of singing and reading aloud.
The entrance of the Americans have
given them a stimulus to acquire all
sorts of information about the outside
world from which they have been shut
off heretofore. occasional copra traders
and the missionaries being the only
white men whom they met before the
Americans came.
AS soon as a child of these islands is
old enough to work it leaves school
and goes to help the father collect CO.
coanuts. the white meat of which is
dried and sold to traders under the
name Of copra. The children also work
at farming on the. small plantations
where tropical fruits and vegetables
are raised for domestic use.
Their homes mostly are mere huts,
set in the clearings of the dense for
ests or stuck away among the trees OF
a grove of tropical trees.
All the boys are good sailors. They
begin to go out on the water with
their fathers when they are very
young, and by the time they are 10
years old, they can handle the native
boats with great skill and dexterity.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

Almost exactly in the middle of those
islands which are sprinkled over the
South Pacific ocean to the eastward of
Australia, lies the Samoan group, four
tg:ands of which Uncle Sam recently
has taken under his care.
On the largest of these. Tutuila, he
has built a naval station where mem
of-war can get coal and other supplies
and where. in a sheltered harbor, they
can take refuge from the fierce storms
which sometimes sweep over that part
of the ocean. Here flies the American
flag. and here American laws and
American civilization are gradually
winning the natives from their old
savage ways of life.
About sixty miles east of Tutuila lies
the next largest island. Manua. and
near II are the two smaller islands that
also belong to Uncle Sam.
There are about 5000 people on these
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
WHERE THE SUN JUMPS A DAY.

For many years wise men were con-
stantly asking the question: where
does the sun skip a day?" It took a
long time and great deal of discus
sion to settle the question, but at last
it was decided.
Chatham Island, lying just off the
coast of New Zealand, in the South
Pacific ocean, is the one habitable point
OF the globe where the day of the week
changes. 1t is just in the line of de-
narration between dates.
There, at high r. Sunday noon ceases
and Monday noon begins. Sunday
comes into mans house on the east
side and becomes Monday by the time
it passes out of the western door.
man sits down to his MONDAY dinner
on Sunday and it is Monday noon be-
fore he finishes it. There Saturday is
Sunday, and Sunday is Monday, and
Monday becomes suddenly changed into
Tuesday.
Some witty observer has said that
people who have lost much time
ought to go to Chatham Island for by
taking an early start, there they can
always be one day ahead.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

all this before the King suddenly took
another long bite out of his cookie,
and in that instant it broke into one
hundred and forty-three pieces.
Thereupon the King abolished the
smile from his face like lightning and
began to gobble and gobble. AS he
gobbled, his face grew redder and red
der and his chin whisker became all
colors, and his. mantel began to sprout
feathers, and before Fido knew what
had happened the King of Thanksgiv-
ing Land was a great big turkey COB
bier.
The little Princess laughed with
sorrow at the doleful and improving
spectacle. All the persons in No
Where began to peer and giggle in
an utterly respectful and humble
fashion. Fido jumped on the King
turkeys back and the royal bird flap
ped his wings and at once flew out
of Thanksgiving Land with a pleasant
groan of dismay. They flew and flew
until they flew slap! bang! into a solid
blue wall. The sudden shock threw
Fido over it and he found himself at
once in the queer land which will be
described next Sunday.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

tionary War and the War of 1912 were
not subjects on which they cared to
dwell.
The children are intensely curious
about the United States and ask
strangers all sorts of questions con-
corning the great country of which
they are part now. They call the Gov
ernor. who is a naval officer sent out
by the United States. Your Susuga."
and they speak of the President as
His Afoga."
When Capt. Tilley, whom the United
States sent out as Governor of the ISL
ands. first visited Manua, he found a
native king named Moa reigning there.
Moa journeyed to the principal village
to see the Governor. He was preceded
by two tall natives blowing conch
shells and two talking men," whose
business it was to make speeches for
the king,
All the children of the island had a
holiday and gathered in great numbers
to see the conference between the king
and His susuga" the Governor
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

The people of Manua never before
acknowledged themselves as subject to
any government other than their own
Samoan Island rule. They claim to
be of an older race than the inhab-
itants of the other islands, and old
King Moa told the Governor that he
saw no reason why he should come in
under the government of the United
States. But Capt. Tilley told him what
great and powerful nation the United
States was, and pointed out to him
that If he did not accept its government
some other nation would be sure to
come along and gobble him up.
The King thought it over and finally
concluded that 1t would be a fine thing
for the children of the island to grow
up under the American flag and have
the advantages which would come to
them from being citizens Of the do
mains of the United States.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

islands, and about 1000 of them are
children.
The people are not black. but they
are of a light brown and yellow COM
pleXion. AS it is warm there all the
time they do not bother themselves
with much clothing. When the Ameri-
cans came to the islands they found
that, while the children were apparent
ly running wild in the thick tropical
woods, they knew what an education
meant and many of them were attend
ing school.
Missionaries had dwelled there and
converted the natives to Christianity,
and wherever the missionaries had
built church they had opened a
school.
But the missionaries. being mostly
English people, had not taught the
children much about the history of the
United States. Probably the Revolu-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
SOME BALL GAMES
OF BRITISH BOYS.
They Know Nothing of Baseball but Football Is All the
Rage with Them, and They Have Town Ball.
and "Cry. Out"

In the main the games of the boys
OF England are much the same as
those of the boys of the United States,
but there are some notable exceptions
Most of the ball games which Ameri-
can boys play-baseball, one two-and-
three-old-cat, etc.-are practically not
played by England's youngsters.
Cricket and variations of it take the
place of all of them. TO the average
American boy cricket would seem like
a very slow game, which probably ac-
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

counts for the fact that it has never
gained much of foothold in the Unit
ed States.
Football is even more popular among
English boys than it is among Ameri-
can boys, however, and the matches
between the elevens of the big Eng
lish public schools create almost as
much interest and excitement as do
the games between the great college
teams on this side of the Atlantic
ocean. Still, games played with balls
and bats are by no means unknown in
Great Britain, and some OF them are
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

The natives have long been noted
for their skill in handling boats, and
for this reason the first man who dis
covered the Group called it the "Navi-
gators Islands" 1t will be extreme
ly interesting to see what the boys and
girls of Tutuila and Manua grow up
to be under the influence of the new
conditions which the American occu-
patton has introduced into the islands,
Seated in your well-appointed school,
houses, think sometimes of those 9TH
er children of Uncle Sam, studying the
same lessons that you do, far away on
the islands of the South Pacific, lifting
their eyes from their books to look out
upon shining seas or groves of coca
nut palms, while you looked from the
schoolhouse windows perhaps upon
streets or fields covered deep with
Shining snow
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23
UNCLE SANS
ISLAND CHILDREN.

His Samoan Wards are Light Brown and Yellow and Call
the President of the United States His Afioga"-They
Find Their Best Sport the Giant Rollers Of the Great
Ocean South of the Equator
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1902-01-10
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With two faces one face bright with
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Behind this change In form and fea-
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ease which affects the womanly organ
ism The backache and bearing-down
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Ter. a can't describe the misery il to be
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