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ed desire to use a bat only about three
inches wide, he was considered an up
start trying to show off
Then again, we didn't have one Of these
hostile, curving twirling demons to pitch
The pitching was done by a friend, one
of our own side, and he was expected to
deliver the ball at the spot indicated by
the man at the bat, and throw 1t as
slowly as 1t could be made to pass
through the air.
We do not remember about the catcher
If we had any-but we know it was not
necessary for him to decorate his counte-
nance with false face and he never
put his nose in the way of the bat
There was plenty of time for the catcher
to do his work after the bat was out of
the way.
Contrast with this play that was play
the strenuous baseball business of today.
The latter is made to resemble work so
closely that many of us are excluded.
They give you ball that is as hard as
wood. You are given a round stick and
told that 1t is a bat Then your most
formidable adversary is given the task
of pitching the ball in such way as to
make it impossible for you to strike it.
Then they put another enemy in behind
you for catcher, and if he catches the
ball, which of course you miss, they say
you are out. If you happen to make a
base or accomplish any other object, they
have a fellow they call an umpire to
say you didn't. There is no sport In ball
now
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CROWD SAW AWFUL FALL.
Aeronaut Falls Four Hundred Feet at
County Fair.

Taunton. Mass, September 27.-The
thirty thousand persons who attended
the fair Of the County Agricultural
society saw Louis Girard, one of the
aeronauts, who attempted a balloon
ascension, fall to death.
One ascension was made safely by
Professor" Stafford alone. Later a
triple ascension by Professor and Mile.
Stafford and Girard, their assistant,
was planned. No sooner had the bal
loon been freed than it was seen that
something was wrong. The woman
cut loose at once and did not leave
the ground. The balloon shot up rap
-~ly to a height of about four hundred
feet, when Staffords parachute was
seen to drop. It spread and Stafford
alighted safely. His parachute had
barely left the balloon, when the lat
ter tore in halves and collapsed like a
paper bag. There was frantic mo-
tion by Girard to cut his parachute
loose, but the lines refused to part
He fell to the earth like a shot, strils-
ing with awful force. He was uncon-
scious when picked up, but died at the
hospital His spine was broken in
two places.
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Progress of the Indians.

From the Washington Post.
Mr. ]. E. Edwards, of Billings, Mont,
a government Indian inspector, who has
had an extended experience with the
various tribes on reservations in Montana
and South Dakota, chatted with the Post
man at the Ebbitt last evening touching
these wards OF Uncle Sam.
IA great many people," said Mr.. Ed
wards, have an idea that the Indians
are a vanishing race, and that ere long
none of them will be left This is a very
erroneous conclusion. Taking the red men
as a whole there is shown to be an in
crease in their population. Some of the
tribes, like the northern Cheyennes
show a considerable gain. 1t is true that
tuberculosis is reducing their numbers
on some of the reservations, and as yet
there has been no effectual remedy found
for its ravages The chief cause Of the
disease is supposed to be the change in
the habits of the people, and 1t is prob
ably due in great measure to the fact
that many of them fail to take proper
care of themselves.
There can be little or nothing done
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Tt is clearly apparent from the wise
conservative action of the majority OF
democratic state and congressional con-
ventions thus far held this year, that a
very great change for the better has ia
ken place in the inner councils of the
party which draws Its inspiration from
the teachings of jefferson, Jackson and
Tilden- In the main. exploded issues,
condemned Of the people in two success
sive national campaigns, have cast into
the political lumber room; questionable
theories of government, that, until with
In the last six or seven years, Were never
advanced in democratic platforms have
been eliminated, and the traditional
tenets of democratic faith have been re-
affirmed and sententious declarations Of
principles, and in the eloquent speeches
of eminent democratic leaders and ora
tors. This return to common sense has
animated the democratic masses every
where with renewed hope in the future
of the party to which they have so stead
lily adhered, even when they knew 1t to
be unwisely led along new lines of policy
utterly at variance with the record Of
the party in the past. To describe the
situation fairly and frankly, the party
in all the great centres of population
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Receivers Are Short.

New York, September 27.-Considerable
uneasiness is felt among jobbing grocers
of this city over this seasons corn pack,
according to the Journal of Commerce.
The situation, owing to the almost unpre-
cented shortage in the Maine pack. and
to a very marked falling off In the New
York state pack. is declared to be the
worst In years. While corn shows the
greatest shortage, there also is one in
other canned goods. The salmon pack
Is 1000 900 cases less than last year and
there is also a shortage in the sardine
pack. 1t is feared IN some quarters that
there may be a shortage. too. in toma-
toes.
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OF Irl-State Medical society,"
"Purulent Ophthalmia," Frank Trester
Smith, Chattanooga
"Gun-shot Wounds of the Liver" w.
Harper Selma, Ala
Compound Fracture of the Skull" w.
II. Wilder, Birmingham
"Localization in Fracture of the Skull"
G. Manning Ellis, Chattanooga.
"Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen with
Report of Cases." r. e. Fort. Nashville.
"Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
of Hip Diseases w. f. Berry, Birming-
ham.
"Gastropaxy" II. Berlin, Chattanooga
"Anesthesia," J. w. Peters, Birming-
ham.
Hernia" C. Hotzclaw, Chattanooga
Treatment of Hernia" German p
Haymore, Chattanooga
"A Case of Septicemia, Laparotomy,
Described by the Patient Himself ]. c.
Newman, Helenwood, Tenn.
Report of a Case of Meningitis" D.
S. Middleton, Rising Fawn, Ga.
Treatment of Peritonitis," w. E. B.
Davis, Birmingham.
Appendicitis: Responsibility for De
layed Operation" W. f. Rochelle, jack
son, Tenn.
Conservatism in Pelvic Work." w. L.
Nolen. Chattanooga.
Appendicitis" w. A. Sellars, Birming-
ham.
''Leucocyte Count in Appendicitis
James Brew, Nashville.
"Puerperal Infection T. A. Sassy,
North Birmingham.
'sPuerperal Sepsis," ]. C. Alternately,
Birmingham and e. B. Ward. Selma.
"Placenta Previa, with Report Of
Cases." C. w. billiard, Elba, Ala
"Obesity and Senility in Relation to
aharr
New York.
'~rhe Heroin Habit: Another Curse"
George e. Pettey, Memphis.
1.-The Value of State Sociological Socie-
ties in the Education and Development
of the Race" R. R. Kline, Atlanta
dynamic Sociology" Prof. Joel G.
DuBose, Birmingham.
"Physiology of Education" ]. W. Mac
uuillan, Chattanooga.
some Further Remarks on the Med-
cal Supervision of the Education of Boys
and Girls" w. 1. Wilkinson, Montevallo,
Ala.
1.-THE Negro as Criminal and His
Influence on the White Rack" Louis
Edelman, Huntsville, Ala
"Crime and Its Causes" H. L. Apple
ton, Centre, Ala
saThe Lawyer and the Doctor Oscar
Floyd, Birmingham.
THE DOCTOR ana Inc l1dWyttb L he W.
Professions as Factors in Shaping Events
to Higher and Better Attainment" Hon.
John Tomlinson, Birmingham.
Relation Between Physician and Apo
thecary." II. N Rosser, Birmingham.
Treatment Of Gonorrhea," J. w. john
son, Chattanooga.
"A New Method Of Skin Grating" s.
T. Rucker, Chattanooga.
'eVeratrum Viride and Its Indications,
w. A. Barrett East Lake. Ala.
"Gelsemium," Leroy Burdeshaw, Head
land, Ala.
Case of Brights Disease with Valvu-
lar Heart Lesions-Benefitedly Apocynum
| Cannablnum," r. Is. Paine, Vaudeville
| La
'Unilateral Sweating" E. Bates Block
| Atlanta.
| Some Thoughts on the Treatment OF
Fever" Frank b. Reagor. Shelbyville,
| Tenn.
| Medical Discoveries" w. L. Nolen,
| Chattanooga
.sruberculosis," Y. L. Abernathy, Chat
| tanooga-
| Papers have been promised by George
| s. Brown, E. NJ Robinson. Frank A.
| Lupton. B. L. Wyman. Wyatt Helm, r.
| C. Bankston, ]. III. Mason, l.. G. Wood
| son. 3. G. Copeland. J. Il. Dedman. u.
| G. Peters, C. Lull of Birmingham. r. M.
| Cunningham. Ensley; L. L. Hill, Mont
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&c Roor 81 THE MATTER.
ss Cured Himself Of Serious Stomach
Trouble, BY Getting Down to
First Principles.

A man Of large affairs IN one Of our
prominent eastern cities by too close at
IGNITION to business. too little exercise
nd too many club dinners finally began
10 pay natures tax. levied IN the form On
chronic stomach troubieg the failure OF
sis digestion brought about a nervous
rribility making It impossible TO apply
himself to his daily business and finally
1eranging the kidneys and heart
IN his own words he says: II consult
ID one physician after another and each
one seemed to understand my case but
I'll the same they each failed to bring
about the return Of my former digestion.
appetite and vigor. Tor two years went
from pillar to post. from one sanitarium
to another, I gave up smoking, I quit cof-
lee and even renowned my daily glass or
two OF beer. but without any marked i'm
provement
Friends had often advised me to try a
ReIl-known proprietary medicine, Stuart 3
Dyspepsia Tablets and I had often pc
rused the newspaper advertisements Of
the remedy but never took any stock in
advertised medicines nor could believe a
fffty-cent patent medicine would touch
my case.
ITO make a long story short 1 finally
bought a couple of packages at the near
est drug store and took two or three tab
lets after each meal and occasionally a
tablet between meals, when l felt any
feeling of nausea or discomfort.
7 was surprised at the end Of the first
week to.note a marked Improvement in
my appetite and general health. and be-
fore the two packages were gone 1 was
certain that Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets
was going to cure completely, and they
did not disappoint me. can eat and
sleep and enjoy my coffee and cigar and
no one would suppose I had ever known
the horrors of dyspepsia
sOut Of friendly curiosity I wrote to
the proprietors of the remedy asking for
information as to what the tablets con-
tanned and they replied that the principal
ingredients were aseptic pepsin govern
ment test, malt diastase and other nat
ural digestives, which digest food regard
less Of the condition OF the stomach"
The root of the matter is this, tho
digestive elements contained in Stuart 8
Dyspepsia Tablets will digest the food.
give the over-worked stomach a chance
TO recuperate and the nerves and whole
system receive the nourishment Which
can only come from food; stimulants
and nerve tonics never give real strength
they give a fictitious strength, invariably
followed by reaction. Every drop of blood,
every nerve and tissue is manufactured
from our daily food and If you can in
sure us pEOLiBl dCOOn d10 COidpittt Ill
gestion by the regular use of so good and
wholesome a remedy as Stuarts Dyspep-
STA Tablets, you will have no need of
nerve tonics and sanitariums.
Although Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
have been in the market only a few
years, yet probably every druggist in the
United States, Canada and Great Britain
now sells them and considers them the
most popular and successful of any prepa-
rations for stomach trouble.
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THE PRESIDENT ON HORSEBACK,
Gen. 6oynton Derides Comment on
His Reckless Riding"

Washington Correspondence of New
York Evening Post.
president Roosevelt, is never safer
than when on horseback" said Gen.
Henry V. Boynton, president of the
Chickamauga park commission. General
Boynton accomo anied the President on
his tour of the south, and rode beside
him through Chickamauga park last Sum
day morning In fact this veteran of the
civil war, who fought at Mission Ridge
forty years ago, was the only member
of the Presidents party who made the
tour of the field on horseback General
Boynton laughs at the fears expressed
by some newspapers and their warn
ings to the President.
ITO an experienced horeeman who has
lived in the saddle for months at time
out on the plains there is no place where
he feels safer. President Roosevelt is
one of the best riders I ever saw. He
knows a horse and when he is in the
saddle 1 have no doubt he feels safer
than he would in a trolley car or In a
carriage driven by somebody else. In
the saddle he is master of his own horse,
and not subject to the mistakes of 9TH
ers. A man would be laughed at in Ger
many for suggesting that Emperor Will
liam is exposing himself to danger by
reviewing the army ndneuVeTS on DOrSe-
back because the emperor is a good
rider But 1 doubt If any army officer
accompanying the emperor is as good
a horseman as President Roosevelt"
Ibid the President ride recklessly at
Chickamauga p
'Well as I said before, the man who
knows nothing about riding would have
probably thought So but to those who
were with him there was no thought Of
danger He had good horse, and he
rode at a stiff gallop 1t probably look
ed reckless to see 800 cavalrymen rid
ing at full gallop. but the President
was in the lead and on a good road
safer than the asphalt streets of Wash
ington, because there was no danger
from his horse slipping. The men who
were dsmounted lost their seats, not
from the rapid pace but because in
their surprise they started off too fast
without considering that there were 800
of them in column. They crowded each
other, and some were unseated. My horse
was at one place crowded from the
road, but skirted the fnak of the col
umn and regained his place near the
President. 1t was an eXhilarating ride,
and the President enjoyed 1t. He was at
no time safer while away from his cot
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DOCTORS or THREE
STATES MEET HERE
Fourteenth Annual Convention
on October 7.8and 9
MANY PAPERS TO BE READ
Many Prominent Physicians of Ala
bama, Georgia and Tennessee VIII
Be Present-Elegant Ban
quet Will Be Given.

The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Tri-state Medical association of Ala
bama, Georgia and Tennessee will be
held in Birmingham October 7, and 8.
A large number of delegates are expected
and the officers of the association in
Birmingham are busy arranging for the
programme and the banquet which will
be given at one of the hotels.
Reduced rates have been made. on the
railroads leading to Birmingham. The
officers of the association are:
Dr. ]. c. LeGrande, president, Biz
mingham; Dr.. Pugh J. Brown, viee-pres-
ident Troy. Ala; Dr. w. P. Hardin, vice.
president. Rome; DIR. ]. c. Wilson, vice.
president lockwood, Tenn; DR.. Frank
Tenn; DR.. George r. West, treasurer,
Chattanooga
The chairmen of the various commit
tees are: Arrangements, R. C. Kankston
Birmingham; sociology, r. r. Kline, At.
lanta: credentials. DR.. Scale Harris, Tn.
ion Springs, Ala; auditing, J. B. Cowan
Tullahoma Tenn.
THE PROGRAMME
The list of the papers to be read is
as follows:
Presidents address, J. c. LeGrande,
Birmingham.
"Adenoids.e S L. Ledbetter, Birming-
ham.
"Trachema in Our Asylums and Hos
pitals,n W. Cheatham, Louisville
An Analysis of One Hundred Cases or
Refraction with Special Reference TO
Headache" A. w. Sterling, Atlanta
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The Evolution Of Baseball.
From the Chester L.anters

pIOiu lils (ICSCOl iScNilhCiS
In Fridays Lantern we copied from the
Boston Transcript some remarks about
Taking Sport too Seriously" which fell
in with our own feelings. Enemies to re-
creation are lying awake nights studying
how they can make good old plays so
scientific that there will not longer be
any fun in them, and when new game
is invented these same fellows go to work
to eliminate the recreation feature.
Take, for example the evolution of bat
ball, from three-hole cat through two
ball, up TO the present development of
baseball. We used to have real fun. We
had-usually-good, spongy, soothing
balls, which the girls made of rawlings
from their superannuated wooden stock
ings. Any chips or strings of rubber that
could be found were used as a core to
wind yarn around, under the halucina-
ton that 1t would make the ball bounce
better.
We have said that the balls were usu-
ally made in this way. We remember
one that was an exception. It was cut
from a solid chunk of rubber. 1t was not
in common use, but sometimes, when u
reckless spirit possessed the more daring
leaders, 1t was passed to the bat. Its ac-
tivity was thrilling when contrasted with
the phelgmatic movements of the thread
ball. This ball owes its present fame to
the fact that 1t was impressed upon our
memory by impact with the receptacle
of our mental apparatus. It came from a
heavy bat, In the hands of a romping
muscular girl. directly to our temple.
The expression of our feelings was con-
fined to those inarticulate sounds used
by human beings before they learn base
ball language. So much for the balls.
Then we had sure-enough bats. We
took a board an inch and quarter thick
and five or six inches wide, and trimmed
down one end to convenient size for a
handle. With this implement we could
right frequently strike the ball, as balls
were pitched then. When player affect
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Its own Reward.

From the Chicago Tribune.
George" said Mrs. Ferguson Il want
you to oil the hinges of the bedroom door.
I'm awfully tired of hearing them
ereak."
Laura" replied Mr.. Ferguson, Il
would do almost anything to obige you,
but I'll be everlastingly rib roasted if
I'm going to take the trouble to oil any
door hinges at this time of night!'
Mark now the result of his procrastin-
alton.
In the dead of nlght-that same night
a burglar who had gained entrance to
the house through a basement window.
crept softly up the stairway, approach
ed that bedroom door and pushed it
open.
1t gave loud creak like the wailng
of lost soul.
The historian hopes it is not really nee
essary to add that the burglar went down
that stairway in two jumps was out a
the house before George Ferguson had
succeeded in finding his revolver, and
that the hinges of that bedroom door
are still unoileu.
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FIGHT ON IN NEW YORK.
Five Hundred Cigar Dealers and To-
bacconists Lock Horns.

Chicago, September 27.-Five hundred
cigar dealers and tobacconists, among
whom are many manufacturers. showed
their intrest In the fight against the al
legged tobacco trust by attending the first
meeting of the Cigar Dealers Association
of America last night. Some Of the speak
ers counseled legislation, some advised
an appeal to organized labor, some de-
clared for recourse to the courts and
others, less radical, made fervid argu-
ments in behalf of thorough organization.
The organization was completed by the
election of the following officers:
President, Thaddeus II. Howe; secre-
tary, William F. Crowley; treasurer,
Hiram l.. Wiltze.
Lengthy resolutions were adopted de-
precating the Offering of prizes by deal
ers, the use of billboard advertising and
the use of inferior material by manufac-
turers who found their profits cut down
by the so-called trust
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M. q o. is PROSPEROUS.
Annual Report Shows Surplus of
$124,o5o.

New York. September 27.-The annual
report of the Mobile and Ohio railroad
company for the fiscal year ended June
30, just issued, shows a surplus after all
charges and deductions of s124O5o, against
deficit in the previous year of s22,71A
The road is now operated by the South
ern railway, under a guarantee of divi-
dends According to the statement the
gross earnings were $500. 4SS. an Increase
of $685. 54s. net earnings 202O, 800, increase
S213,200
Seventy-five new industries, represent
ing an investment of 81, $4,000, were COM
pleted and put In operation upon the line
of the Mobile and Ohio railroad during
the year. Twenty-Five existing plants
were added TO 1t at cost of $500 100. and
at the close of the year twenty-four
factories of various kinds were under
construction, the investment in which
ultimately will aggregate $9,312.500.
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to improve the status of these Indians
who have reached middle life. The old
ones-men and women-will not adopt
the white mans ways; the hope of the
race is in the young people Among the
tribes In Montana-the Crows, Blackfeet,
Flatheads, Upper Grossventre, Fort Peck
Indians and the Cioux in South Dakota
the young folks are showing a salts
factory rate of progress. Nearly all Of
them speak English, and in the govern
ment schools the children are not allow
ed to speak anything but English.
1.-THE reservation schools are doing
splendid work, and their efficiency Is
really remarkable. The young girls are
taught to cook, to sew, to keep house,
after tidy methods, and in fact, are
trained as thoroughly as possible in do
nestle economics. Thus the leaven OF
civilization is getting in its work ana
those who want to see the Indians pros
per and rise in the scale of humanity
have much reason to feel encouraged"
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THE DOCTORS EXTEND THEIR TINE
Owing to the Large Number Who Have
Been Unable to See the British Doc
tors, These Eminent Gentlemen
Have Extended the Time for Giving
Their Services Free for Three
Months to All Who Call Upon Them
Before October 18th.

Owing to the large number of invalids
who have called upon the British Doc
tors at their office, corner Twenty-second
street and Third avenue, and who have
been unable to see them, these eminent
gentlemen have, by request, consented to
continue giving their services entirely
free for three months medicines ex-
cepted) to all inyalids who call upon
them for treatment between now and
October 10.
These services consist not only of con-
sutation examination and advice, but
also of all minor surgical operations
The object in pursuing this course is to
become rapidly and personally acQuaint-
ed with the sick and afflicted, and under
no conditions will any charge whatever
be made for any services rendered for
three months to all VINO call before Oc-
tober Is.
The doctors treat all forms Of disease
and deformities, and guarantee to cure
in evary case they undertake.
Male and female weakness, catarrh. and
catarrhal deafness, also var.cocele, rup-
ture, goitre, cancer. and all diseases of
the rectum are positively cured by their
new treatment.
Hours, to 5. Sundays. 10 to L
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gomery; " +. westmoreland ". s.
Ellin. Atlanta; ]. L. Hires. Savannah, g.
H. Peete, Macon; Q. a Baxter, chatta-
nooga-
"Disbetes Meilitus." George R. West.
Chattanooga.
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Miss TayIops Attorney at Work.

Washington. September 81 Counsel
for Miss Rebecca J. Taylor, who was dis
missed recently from the war department
as a result of her published criticisms of
the administrations policy In the Philip
pines today filed a demurrer to Secretary
Roots answer to her petition for man
damus to compel the secretary to restore
her to a clerkship.
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Mrs, wInsIow's Soothing Syrup.

the best remedy for DIARRHoEA. Sold
by druggists in every part OF the world.
Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wlnslow's
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Las been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS of MOTHERS fer their
CHILDREN WHILE TEErHING. with
PERFECT SUCCESS. 1t SOL rs the
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all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC. and 10
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