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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
HIS LIFE SAVED BY CHAMBER LA1Ns COL1C, CHOLERA AND
 DtARRHOEA REMEDY.

.'B. L. Eyer, a well known cooper of this town, says he believes Chamber lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his life last summer. He had been sick for a month with what the doctors call bilious dysentery and could get nothing to do him any good until he tried this remedy. It gave him immediate relief, z says R.. IT Little, merchant, Hancock. Md For sale bY all drll Sgists
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
stage1ssen tiss1Fit as a Padd1e.,,

FRANKLIN, Pa. Sept. 1.-Major c. J. s. Miller of this city, an intimate friend of Vice Consul Magelssen, who was his guest on trip through Pales- tine this summer, cabled the vice con sul as to his condition after his escape from assassination and received the following cablegram from Beirut: ''Fit as a fiddle. Magelssen.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
Murder of yincenno Tia1a

PH1LADHLPH1A, Sept l. -vincen- go Tilt, an Italian banker, was mur- dered in his bank, 822 South Eighth street, by countryman, who after ward shot Thomas Conly, a policeman, when the latter endeavored to arrest him. The policeman will die Tilli's friends say that the murderer was an agent of the Mafia.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
Condition and Theory

You have bad back It bothers you nearly all the time; Days of misery and nights of restless tossing
 The back is lame, is weak aching a That's the condition. ~ rss#a There's reason for it. Perhaps you have theory Ja< .,,. r ..- Think 1t may be overWork You take something for "that tired feeling "f You plaster the back rub it with lininent. . This is where you're wrong.
 You not tired, but the Kidneys are -s-.e -. That's why the back aches. BacSache is Kidney ache nine times out of ten.
 Start the Kidneys working rightly,
 The back will quickly right itself. <f@ a'--@ All backaehe pains and Kidney Ills --s@-9--@@ Are quickly cured by Deans Kidney Pills nt@s% @ We say this and back it by Waterbury testimony.
 suffered kidney blame the hardhips endured When the busy back could not could without hurting loins and that unfit for anything it Kidney Pills advertised who had cured trouble mine went to H. Lakes drug store and procured box They helped almost from the stand finally the pain eft'
 < All druggists sell DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. Price go cents per box. Don't take substitute of similar Foster iburn Co., Buffalo N Y sole agents the U.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
-. Our Combination Orders Are Better Ina Eve -.

Free, $1O worth, 1O0 green trading stamps with the following order at $1:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
Medicines


 
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  stamps
 
 
  Pnkhams Paines
  Little Liver Pills 25c with Fr Johns Med
  wthb Free swith
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  Frees 1worh1 pswith syvhb Frees with trading bot pswitb1 1botN Food
  with Ext Frees
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01

Free, $10 worth, 100, green trading stamps with the above order at S1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
Butter, Cheese, Eggs

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   Free 1b Cheese
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
IMPORTANT AN NOUNCEMENT

NJ. Specialist nearly
cured socaed ncurabe has met
his offices
appliances known to
aIlede his heretofore
THE FINEST AND LARGEST STATIC AND MRAY MACHINES
treat
without
and EIaboratey Equipped Offices in the State
women and children Eye
and
Chronic Rheumatism and Stiff joints
followed relief
This treatment is much super
Springs and attended by loss o.
Medical College, Philadelphia lie
leading hospitals IN the
Diseases twenty years
disease which mas
consult Dr. Cohen He will
thoroughly not
Consultation Strictly Co nfdental
Scientifically Fitted
2o2 Simon Co.'S Store
evenings
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

1t is folly to tell butcher to live
and let live
True Christianity consists of deeds
rather than words
Beware of the man who offers you
advice at the expense OF a mutual
friend.
1t seems to be a chronic pastime
with some people to come late.
woman is often blind to a mans s
faults because he throws gold dust in
her eyes.
When a girl goes away for a two
weeks visit she always comes home
with her hair arranged in a new way.
All contractors do not live within
their income. but most people who
live within their income are contract
ors.-Chicago News
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
Ways Of A Woman Drummer

heretofore kept in stock, he is forced
thereafter to keep it whether he wants
to or not, at the risk of driving his
customers to some other dealer who
will.
While this is called introducing
goods, it is by no means confined to
that but is steadily pursued as push
ing goods.
The push is kept up indefatigably
by manufacturers of every variety.
My firm employs sixteen women
drummers, said bright little woman,
pushing a brand of western flour.
Some houses have hundreds of can
vassers out-all women. Women,
you know, can get at the kitchen the
best, and understand women better
How do | do it? Oh, by hard work
first Of all. For it is the hardest
work woman can do | think.
Still. we get at least 50 day.
which is as much as many hard work
ing men can make. Well I'll tell you.
Each of us is assigned by the house
to certain section.
Finding my assignment. begin
at the beginning Systematically.
Il start in after breakfast, when the
men are away from home
Some begin al the first fiat and
work up. passing up through the sky
| light and down through the trap OF
the adjoining house and through that
house to the street
That method saves steps and can
he used in row of tenament-houses
10 advantage where the traps are usu
ally open during the day.
The people of the tenament houses
are not SO apt to kick"
But where there is janitor you
have to arrange that with him Then
there is the trouble of getting over
the wall between houses.
You see m not built for climbing
over walls, although I've done it at a
pinch-the pinch of foiling an obdur-
ate janitor.
The plump figure was certainly con
firmatory Of this statement, and the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature sssss the essfZHzZzzzzI
Let me say have used EIy's Cream

Let me say have used Eiy's Cream
Balm for catarrh and can thoroughly
recommend it for what it claims Very
truly. (RevO II. w. Hathaway, Eliza.
beth, N. ].
tried Ely's Cream Balm and to all
appearances am cured of catarrh. The
terrible headaches from which I long
suffered are gone-W. J. Hithcock,
late major L, S. ", and A. A. Gen.
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezing. Sold by druggists at so
cents or mailed by Ely Brothers, sc
Warrent street. N. Y.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21

pretty brown eyes danced merrily as
she displayed it by standing up.
My general method is to begin at
the top and work down.
You see, I'm then not out of breath
at every place | stop.
And one does need breath. | man
age to get in always in the forenoon,
| for then the mistress of the household
| is doing her work.
Il introduce myself according to the
woman l meet, and each one differs
from any other woman | have met.
But as a rule am treated with con-
sideration
If the woman has a lot of children
around her l show an immediate inter.
est in the little ones
IF there are sick people | sympa-
thiZe with them. The woman her
self almost invariably furnishes the
cue. l have often booked a respect
able order by simply dropping my bust
ness and giving the woman an oppor-
tunity to relate her grievances to a
sympathetic listener.
After having shut me off abruptly
in the start she would briaG up the
matter herself, and an ORDER natural
y follows.
This takes some of my time but
must be able to judge whether it is
worth while
Ia fact, two of the most Formidable
Obstacles l have to deal with are griev-
ances and family affairs of no possible
interest to me and my sympathy.
Deer me. the things SOC ana hear
20 eno0sP to wiring tie heart
And when your heart is not being
wrung you feel as if you could wiring
somebody's neck. This is exhaalsting.
The tradgedy OF it is relieved how
ever by The comedy of life thar inter
yenes.
Fer see the funniest things
Il couldn't tell you = asen = iittle
Iii without a page. TIE Contrasts
from floor to floor as go through the
house are always interesting. These
people don't know each Other as l
/ row them
One place is absolutely filthy. the
neNt a model of tidiness
Il can tell Just the kind of people
| have to deal with the moment I get
inside.
But the stairs one has to climb
gracious! One day | kept a sort Of an
account
II went through sixteen houses of
five flights, and flight in that type
of house contains sixteen steps.
THAT was 1880 steps going and as
many coming
add to this six houses Of four fights
each, the flights being of fourteen
steps, and we have 1856 more, or a to-
tai Of 104 fights of stairs and 1916
steps for single day.
IL also walked twenty blocks that
cay looking up the place. having made
M stake in the streets
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21

Washington. Jan 2l- Senator No
Lauria has heard nothing from his
letter Of saturday t0 the postmaster
general answering the departments S
objections to Hcathman as q rccciv-
.ng Icint for the mail to Indianola
The remarkable attitude Of the ad-
ininistration to this writing has moth
Ing Ii it to encourage expectation
Of reply. and it is hardly necessary
to say that Senator McLaurin looks
for no sort of action responsive to the
wishes Of the people of Indianoa He
felt it his duty to do all he could to
preserve their interests, and can only
awant the outcome, hopeful for the
Intervention of other influences toward
q recognition by the administration
of the peoples local rights and inter.
ests.
The country, through the senate, is
ator Spooner, of Wisconsin, has been
importuned to that end, and is now
preparing a defense of the administra.
ton at an early date in the senate.
Senator McLaurin will make reply, and
it is more than likely that other sena-
tors will speak, and that lively and
possibly acrimonious debate will fol
low, especially as it is understood that
the Wisconsin senator will deny the
right of the patrons of the postoffice
to say who shall be postmaster or to
have any voice in cffectng the remov.
al of one who is objectionable
The Washington Post under
the head of, why not Investigate
Indianola ?" has an editorial as follows,
which is warmly approved here by
Mississippians and southerners gen.
orally:
We quite agree that the Indianola
affair should be investigated This
was our opinion when the scandal first |
transpired, and subsequent events |
have served only to confirm and |
strengthen it. The country has heard |
all sorts of conflicting stories, but no
body can be sure of anything. At the
outset we We're told that condition of
lawlessness prevailed and that violence
might be expected at any moment AS /
the story went, the colored postmis-
tress, Mrs Minnie Cox, had resigned I
under threats and intimidation and T
had fled for safety; then it was given
out that the administration nobly re.'
solved 10 uphold civilization and eradi
cate barbarism, had closed the little I
Mississippi postoFce and left the In
danola outlaws to look out for them
selves. \ few days afterward Mrs
Cox Wa reported as saving that she .
had not been menaced at all. but had /
resigned ont Of defegenee to public
sentiment-a very different thing
Next Mr. Co.'s husband. also a post
Office official notwithstanding the Do,
raamcm's orders to the conrtry gaze
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
Congress Will Investigate
!ndianOIa POstoffiCe Affair

ont statement to the effect that his
wife vas in 10 danger Of Violence;
tfat t't". owned some $4,000 worth
property around Indianola and they
| haG ucHCr been molcsted in the en-
J2Sm"nt thereof. 1t became known.
further, that Mrs. Cox had held the
place nearly ten years; that the most
substantial white men in the neiebb0r-
hood We're on her bond and that any
talk OF peril 10 her life or property
was the mcrest fol de rol.
Now, certainly there is Justification
foi' immediate and searching inquiry.
There is at least no DISPUTE. as ia tbe
closing OF the Indianola postoffice. and
one needs very little experience to tell
him what serious Inconvenience. loss
disturbance of business and personal
hardship that entails upon the com.
munity. At this point, however. our
information stops. 1t is denied that
condition OF anarchy prevails or has
at any time prevailed, either in Indian.
Ola or the surrounding country. 1t
IS positively asserted, and by RESPONSE
bic persons, that there has been no
laWlessness or violence of any kind
We kns y, OF course, that Mrs. Cox
has resigned, but until it shall have
been shown that she did this under
duress and through a well-founded
sense OF danger, against which the au-
thorities were unwilling and unable to
protect her, surely there is nothing in
the circumstance of her retirement to
warrant the administrations hypothes.
Is that lndlanola is a barbarous COM
munity and deserves to be treated as
such. All that has been said against
the town may be true, though we do
not believe it, but nothing has been
proven SO far-the worst and most
sinister features of the whole case
no attempt has been made to prove
Why, then, not investigate and give
the country the benefit if the informa-
tion 50 obtained? This is not a mere
question of remote and obscure Mis- |
sissippi village. 1t is a question of |
the integrity of American citizenship :
in every part of the country. If this
can happen in Indianola, it can hap
oen to Des Moines or Waterbury. The |
people have right to know the facts |
II is the intention of the house mem.
5ers who are the friends of the India
nOla people to have the Crumpacker T
resolution amended when it gets to an
open house. 50 as to require the trans I
mission to congress of all the papers
IN tie ease in the hands CT the presi- +
dent This should bring about some I
entertaining epiates from United Sta
te5 Marshal Wilson in behalf Of the
Cox woman The Mississippians re
gard the Crumpaeker resolution as a
which would get out but a
part of the story.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21

In the good old times" business
men sat=down ana waited for trade.
If it came they survived, perhaps
grew rien-if it did not, they went
TO the wall
In those days all out.of-toWn mer-
chants either purchased by sample or
came direct to some large city to buy
goods sEHa
The commercial drummer was com.
paratiyely unknown
Now the wholesaler sends his my
Rad of saesmen throughout the
country. and nothing is left to chance.
The retailer is fast following in his
footsteps
He gets up and hustles for trade.
The big city teens with new sort
Of commercial traveller"
This agent is sometimes a man, but
it is usually a woman.
The life and experiences of the wo-
man drummer about town would make
interesting reading
Her knowledge OF human nature is
something marvellous. On that her
success largely depends
She comes into Immediate contact
with the family purchaser She rep
resents a brand of soap. or baking
powder. or paint bluing, or some
kind Of -four, Or other household nee
essity ~
She insinuates herself into the fam
lily presence by some plausible system
of her own and brings her persuasive
talents to bear directly upon the pur-
chaser.
She books the smallest orders. even
sample for trial if nothing else.
She takes the name and number
and the name of the grocer or other
merchant With whom the family deals
Her report is turned in at her en-
ployer's store every day Then the
latter sends his men with the neighbor
hood orders to such local retailer. and
these statesmen sell at least enough
of the goods to fill the orders Of his
customers 50 represented
r. it be a line Of goods he has not
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21

It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague OF the night. itching piles.
Doan's Ointment cures, quickly and
permanently. AT any drug store 80
cents.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-21
BUSINE SIS HOUSE

Are judged ~ their sta
tionery Then Why not get
the best, when it costs no
more than inferior work? II
you place your order with us
you know you IRE getting
the best, together with
prompt service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
A Curious lnclda

a curious incident in the siege OF
Wepener is related The siege. 1t will
be remembered. lasted all through
Holy Week, ana the casualties III the
trenches were very numerous. But
on Good Friday only one NAV was
killed, and as this single victim OF
the Holy Day was being laid to rest
at night soldier pointed out to the
chaplain the wonderful markings on
the dead mans breast. There was
tattooed q rsally beautiful picture Of
the Crucihxion. and the buhet that
had reached the heart Of the soldier
had pierced the heart of the figure Of
The 8AYtor.-London Globe,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
Like Silly 6heep.A

n takes rancher to appreciate
chat expression Like silly Sheep"
declared Western cattleman at the
Grand Union Hotel the other evening
Il had several thousand sheep on mo
ranch at one time, but I was cured Of
'aising them by their own eternal
lumbness. One time We were driving
4 flock to market, when one Of the
leaders leaped into the air, and aftef
the habit of sheep, syery one made
similar leap when it came to that
SPOT. This is such common trick
with sheep that we thought nothing Of
It, until we noticed that the sheep dis
appeared after leaping. BY quick
york we stopped tha performance, and
<0und that the trail had been broken
oy cavein, and tie sheep When they
came to the brink simply leaped fran
tically and went down into hole th:r,
" feet deep. Before we could get
them out nineteen we're srnl.th cred to
death. "---New l'rrS Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
Wit on the 60ceh,

Justice Dickey Of the Supreme
court, Brooklyn, sometimes lightens
the tedium os trial with remarks
Arimful of good natured wit.
The other day suit was brought
before him for damages for assault
Tho plaintiff had been knocked down
hy the defendant and severely POM
neled while b. was prostrate One Of
toe witnesses was reluctant to answer
the questions put to him and the court
upheld him.
"Your honor does not seem to see
the underlying principle in this case. "
expostulateo the attorney for the plain
tiff.
sit seems tc me" replied the JUS
tice. that the underlying principal in
this cass is vou- clioHt, conpsHAas."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
4 Marvellous Police OFFICER.

An offender against Russian laws
was photographed in six different po-
sitions and the pictures were circulate
ed among the pollce departments
The chief of one department wrote "a
headquarters few days after the IS
sue of the portraits: Sir have duly
received the portraits of the six mas'
ereants whose capture is desirable.
( have arrested five OF them and the
sixth is under observation and WEI
Je secured shorty"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
No Brains to Bother About.

The best tale that has reached me
of the eccentricities of bullets in tho
late war is most succinctly told by
James Milne In The Epistles Of It
Hns.' though it is not precisely in
accordance with the story which
speedily reached army headquarters
A doctor, looking toward the door Of
hospital marquee while attending .
patien. during one of Methu~n's ear.
lier muddles, saw private leaning on
bis rifle. Mr.. Milne must be RESPONSE.
Die for the Scoto- -Hibernian dialect:
"Dochtir l jist want q to take from
my jaw mere bullet that's knocked
out two of my teeth" sit downs
Is that the only place where you feel
pain-w'tere the bullet is?" That's
all, and that's plint, mo pain else
where?" ''Sorra bit; only I'm con-
fuaed like mo wonder; the bullet
60, into your jaw through th9 top oa
your head
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
Charity Eicnly Rewarded.

Henry Douglas an ice wagon driver
If Paducah, Ky, cast his bread upon
the waters, to some purpose. He learnd
fCently that man he befriended two
Gears ago has left him the snug sum
Of s. coo In 1900 a boy tramp known
as Greasy Jim struck Paducah sick.
oenniless and hungry. Douglas gave
The Lad clothing and food and a place
10 sleep. Ia a few weeks the youth
was we'll again and left town, A few
aays ago Douglas received news that
Iamas Holman, soldier in the PnA
ippines, who died in Manila hospital.
3ad named him as his next friend.
fhis recalled to Douglas mind that
'v9reasy Jims" last name was Holman.
He later received a formal notice from
All insurance company that the soldier
Golman had left e. life insurance pol
icy to the amount of $4,000, Douglas
being named il the policy as bena
aciary
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
japanese Had q Grievance.

4 new reading has been given Il
he term free wboel" in Japan. Ac.
cording to the Kobe Chronicle, a
young gent man was brought up at
the Ku S .nsho th other day
charged with stealing bicycle. Asked
why he had done the thing, he said he
was a student of English, and seeing
the bicycle standing idle near door.
way, an English friend told him that It
was a free wheel, whereupon he has
taken it out for ride, when police
man interfered and deprived both
himself and the wheel OF their free
dom. "The English" as he told the
Judge, lis an atrocity language
PearsOn'c T,ekly
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08

Nnssians Effectuaily Conceal Move
mcnts on Afghan Frontier.

mcnts on Afghan Frontier.
The Russians evidently intend that
70 prying shall follow the military
Afghan frontier The official organ Of
She government of Turke-tan put
fishes the following extraordinary pres
eFipticns with regard to foreigners
visiting kussia's possessions in Cen,
SraI Asia:
These possessions E7ay be visited
- any foreigner -gainst whom no
o1der OF arrest has been issued by
the Russian admin stratj e or legal
auth critics. N, eLer is, under
any circumstal mitted to visit
Kugchk ION an frontieri
Termes, Kerki. itary stations
extending from r place along
the AmOO-DarJl, II TcN ikichlar
Tchalta, and the military pt.ts along
the kuschkAkka at IL ], 1he same
prohibition applies to the branch rail.
say lie TO Kuschk
Foreigners who are arrested will be
xt once forwarded to the authorities
which have issued the order for ar
rest, or to the nearest town.
For~,gne-N caught spying out the
faan.ry, or engaged in other practices
regarded by the l., IS as criminal in
Iurkestan 0ncludi' the Khanatea
eaf suchara and khiN Will be arrest.
sd aud handed ovet the authorities
. qualified to dea' hem.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-08
1ER jOJNn "EiZ" ALL RIGHT.
The Embarrassing Experience Of .
kind-Heerted Woman.


A medicine bottle mirror and {
bunch of keys, ell sticking to chunk
OF dough as large as your head was
,he sight that met SkowhegaD
woman's view when she opened her
-atchel in the SKowhegan car en-
vu"-e to Lewiston.
She had wondered for some time
vhat it was that was swelling out
The sides of her satchel in such ar
unproportionate manner, and she
opened the satchel to find out. ShA
struggled to close it, but she could
not. The man in the rear seat looked
over her back to see what the matter
was. The conductor stopped to look
at her IN her helpless state.
Whats the matter, madam" he
inquired.
Oh, nothing Broad is rising, cant
yon see? Oh, get away"
She got her fingers in The dough
ru, them. She tried to close the
satcnet, bG. 1t would not close.
"Confouno thai thing" she said,
and the satchel, comb mirror and
dough disappeared out through a
window.
When sl4o tells her friends about
The case now size laughs at the horrlc
fellow passenger and csnductor, but
sne did not feej like it then.
She was comiag to visit a friene II
Lewiston. This friend admired hef
bread very much and aid it was the
best in the world. So not having any
bread ready to bring Hith her, sh<
seized upon large piece of dough
which was ris'ag in a par before the
fire and wrapping it in napkin shA
psaced it in her grip with the above
result. - Lewiston Evening sorrna'-